CHAPTER THREE: MOONLIT SKY
June 1, Cosmic Era 70
Earth Alliance Battle group Dividend
On Approach towards Endymion Crater
"Watch your tail Marcus!" rang the voice of Edward Keyes. In just less than five hours on approach to Endymion, the Dividend battle group ran into what seemed to be the head of a large task force coming from the PLANT homeland. Already the battle group was entangled with the three Nazca ships behind them. Surprise, surprise
Keyes moved his Blue Moebius Zero back into the raging kill-zone. He already lost one from his command wing and had to order another back to the ship, leaving only the new pilot Jillian and him in combat. He adjusted the controls again and targeted a jet black GINN that destroyed Marcus' zero. Opening up with his Linear Gun, he shot round after round of mag-propelled slugs at the mobile suit. The GINN boosted away from the shots and started returning fire. Keyes gritted his teeth as he maneuvered away from the streams of explosive shells seeking his blue armor.
Mwu La Flaga howled in victory as he angled his zero away from the Nazca that was venting out atmosphere and bodies. Just a few minutes ago he and his wing were banking away from the high-energy blasts that tried to connect with their armors. Coming from below the warship and blazing away with all his zero's guns, he scored several hits on the engines and one near the closing launch bays. His wing added to the destruction by surrounding the embattled ship with the combined might of their released gun barrels. Score two for the big guy! Mwu said to himself as they veered back towards their carrier group.
He recalled the gun barrels with a thought and watched as they zoomed back into view. He turned his attention towards his radar and saw that the other two Nazcas seemed hesitant to follow, although their batteries still blazed away his small force. He saw his wing mates follow suit and they went back into battle.
Elsa Dupre bit her lip and cursed. The Two GINNs on her tail were still in hot pursuit. She brought her yellow zero into a barrel roll and angled downward. While doing so, she released her gun barrels in an effort to confuse her opponents. She viewed her target interlock circuits and saw that only one mobile suit was following her. Well that's more manageable. She said to herself. She then commanded two of the barrels to do a crossover in front of the pursuing GINN, which knocked into the two wired gun barrels, and spun on end. While it was still in a corkscrew, she brought her armor back at the GINN and caught it at the cockpit with her linear gun, opening it like a can of meat. With her detached barrels she disabled the mobile suit. She then only realized that the recall flares have been shot, and that Flaga and Keyes were calling her on their tactical network.
Earth Alliance Resource BaseEndymion Crater
Technician Wiles looked back at her watch. She knew that she had less than an hour to finish up with her preparations. Here deep within the bowels of the ex-Atlantic Federation base, lay what could very well be the success of the battle of Grimaldi Front. A few hours back she and several other members of her 'detachment' received special orders from one Blonde Haired, man in a blue business suit. He informed them that ultimately their goal was to cleanse what was soon to be a coordinator controlled region, by any means necessary.
Salaih Wiles smiled, while the battles raged on all fronts leading back here, there would still be a victory to look forward to. She remembered the humiliation she received back at Copernicus's high school, as she was the most promising athlete in her batch. Her dreams of the Scholarship were cut short when one of those gene-freaks beat her at what should've been her final test. She cried over that for hours. Ever since then she had moved from job to job feeling that her life should've been better. Never again she said to herself with a grin.
"Salaih, we're all set here" came the voice of her teammate some ten floors beneath her position. "I'm just about done her as well. We'll meet at the technician's shuttle bay. We're leaving this place. No one would take it against us to leave this God-forsaken graveyard anyway. For the sake of a Pure and Blue World." With that she killed her communicator; nothing will ever be the same. For the sake of a Pure and Blue World.