Declaimer: I do not own the GUNDAM series.
Gundam World: War of the Cosmic Era
Phase 2: Episode 2
The battle for Moon Part I
As the formidable ZAFT Armada was nearing the Moon Base, reports of engagement between the Earth and ZAFT had already reached the bridge of the Flagship Bismarck. Athrun, Shishio, Nicol, Yzak and Dearka sat in their mobiles suits, silently, waiting. The monitor lit up in all of their mobile suits suddenly, from it appeared the always-calm face of Raw Le Kluze behind the mask.
"The situation is worse than expected, the Earth alliance have almost broken through the first line of defense. Our MAC guns are taking out their ships, but notnearly enough to keep them from overwhelming the defense perimeters,you will all have to launch when we are within a distance of 600 from the battlefield because the Bismarck is too slow if we are to make it there in time." Le Kluze paused and looked at his watch, "we are at distance 1200, and you will launch in2 minutes." The commander stopped as an operator spoke something to him, and he turned back to the screen afterwards, a slight smile on his face. "And, no reports of the Earth prototype mobile suits have been detected yet, they are likely to appear anytime, so be careful."
"Yes sir." All five pilots said in unison as they powered up the mobile suits and headed for the launching dock where many Zakus are already going out. Yzak was excited.
"Alright! Finally some real action, no more of that training ground crap they try to teach us!" Yzak gushed his excitement and spammed every mobile suit in range, "Shit," he cursed after realizing that he had used the ZAFT general M.S. channel.
"Roger that." Dearka seconded, his voice could barely contain his glee.
"Stay calm team, don't rush into anything unprepared, I want everyone within my radar range at all times." Athrun said over their private channel, calm as always, which made him excellent leader material, "Me and Yzak will take the front and engage the enemy, Deark and Nicol, provide support firefrom the center, and I want Shishio on the rear, taking out enmy mobile suits from long range, understood?" Fours "roger"s resounded in Athrun's cockpit.
Raw Le Kluze stood in the corridor facing the large screen mounted on the wall, he took out a box filled with a curious-looking type of pills and swallowed 3 of them, he grimaced afterwards.
"I am looking forward to your performance Kluze." he turned as he heard the thin voice of Saitou Hajime behind him.
"Yes sir." Raw saluted formally.
"It would be interesting to see if the rumored prototype mobile suits are real." Saitou murmured wolfishly, "the Earth fleets far out numbers us, so we can't hope to engage in head on battle with them, I'm depending on you. And if the rumoured mobile suitsare real, then letting one escape would be unacceptable, don't you think?"
"Yes sir, I understand, I will bring back a prototype mobile suit for your inspection." Kluze paused and laughed afterwards, and Saitou seem to have caught on to it and he started laughing too.
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"Athrun Zala on Blaze Zaku, please launch immediately."
"Athrun Zala, launching Blaze Zaku!" A loud horn rang in the launch canal signaling that the flight path is clear. The thrusters on the Blue Zaku burst loudly and the unit blasted off quickly, ripping away from the cord holding it to the ship and entering into the space outside where hundreds of Zakus launched from different ships had already began engaging the enemy.
"Makoto Shishio on Gunner Zaku Warrior, please launch."
"Makoto Shishio, launching!"
"Nicol Amalfi on GOUF ignited, please launch."
"Nicol, GOUF, launching!"
"Dearka Elsman, on Zaku phantom, please launch."
"Dearka Elsman on Zaku Phantom, going out!"
"Yzak Joule on Zaku Warrior, please launch."
"Yzak Joules, Launching!"
In a matter of seconds, 5 mobile suits have entered into the battlefield where the light of battle was already seen from a distance of 500 miles. Many warriors were already outside, heading towards the battlefield.
"Alright Team, let's go!" Athrun said and sped off towards thePtolemaeusbase where he was about to meet his biggest rival. The rest of the Kluze team followed him.
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Kira Yamato sat on his Strike Gundam silently waiting for orders to go out. But so far, none had come. They had launched their attack on the ZAFT Moon base just 3 hours ago, but neither Mwu La Flaga nor himself had gotten the order from Kenshin to launch yet.
His screen lit up and the helmeted face of Commander La Flaga filled it.
"How are you feeling Kira?"
"I'm fine commander," Kira answered simply.
"Okay, I'll take your word for it, but don't get shot down out there, or you'll have to answer to me." Kira laughed at the commander's remark, surprisingly, he was neither tense nor nervous at all, he just felt calmness now that he is about to go into real battle for the first time.
The commander's face disappeared and replacing it is the operator of the Majestic, "Kira Yamato and major Mwu La Flaga, the ZAFT had sent large amounts of reinforcements, you will have to go out sooner than expected. Please launch now." As she said that, the launch gates above both units opened up. "Depressing pressure on launch pad, major Mwu La Flaga, please Launch, show the ZAFT our power and might."
"Mwu La Flaga, Burning Gundam, going out!" He said and his Gundam blasted off from the floors and headed out into battle.
"Kira Yamato on GAT- X105 Strike Gundam, please standby, installing Launcher Striker Pack."
"What is this Launcher Striker pack, is it the same with my Aile Striker pack?" Kira asked referring the red, winged armor that he used for training a day before as opposed to this green armor that is being equipped now.
"No Mr. Yamato, the Launcher Striker pack is a very powerful gun based armor unit. I am sending over the specs now." A list of weapons and their stats appeared On Kira's monitor. Kira began scanning through them.
"Two multi-barrel Igelstellung (machine guns), two Armor Schneider Assault knife (solid assault knives), combo weapon pod, 120 mm anti-ship Vulcan cannon, 320mm gun-launcher. And a 320 mm hyper impulse Cannon?" Kira ran a power consumption analysis on all of the weapons equipped and suddenly stopped. "The hyper impulse Cannon consumes so much energy it will drain my battery after a few shots with it!" he said crazed to the operator. The red haired girl smiled perkily.
"Don't worry Mr. Yamato, each armor unit is equipped with a battery of its own to extend use and your task is to go out and use up all your energy. The hyper impulse cannon alone has the power of several war ships, so you can do some serious damage to the enemyformations and come back to equip the Aile striker pack for actual combat."
"I see, that makes some sense, is the Launcher pack installed?" Kira asked and got ready to launch.
"Yes, Mr. Yamato, please launch. Show the ZAFT the might of our GUNDAMs."
"Kira Yamato, on Launcher Strike Gundam, going out!"
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Athrun was having a hard time fighting the Earth alliance mobile suits, there seemed to be endless numbers of them, attacking and counter attacking non-stop. They had arrived a little too late as the Earth Alliance forces have already broken through the first line of defense when they got to the battlefield. Now their main task was to concentrate their mobile suits and break through part of the Earth Alliance's power perimeter and relieve the moon base that had tired soldiers who were wary of fighting after a 3-hour defense.
The Kluze team was a elite mobile suit unit in the ZAFT M.S. forces commanded by Raw Le Kluze; their superior piloting skills along with their advanced ZAFT mobile suit ensured many downed units of the enemy as many more fell around them. An EAMS suddenly appeared behind Athrun and sliced horizontally, aiming its beam axe at the cockpit; Athrun dodged the initial attack, pulled out his beam saber and spun around while carving the EAMS into two. He planted the foot of his Zaku into the body of the doomed mobile suit and pushed away before it exploded.
Athrun had almost found no room to operate, energy blasts and missiles criss-crossed his path; if he had stopped for even one moment he would be shot down without a doubt.
"Be careful team! The Earth Alliance is tougher than expected!" Athrun yelled and ran a quickdamage analysis on his Zaku. Parts of his shoulder armour have been destroyed along with a busted circuit in the reactive joint in its left leg, if this went on, Athrun was going to get shot down.
Yzak was racking up major kills with his Zaku warrior, his unit was custom designed for melee combat and Yzak used it to its maximum potential. After launching a round of missiles and taking out several mobile suits, he pulled out its beam saber and pushed the blaster output to maximum and his unit sped into Earth Alliance lines, breaking its formation and defeating several units quickly. But as soon as he had injected him self, he had to retreat when a new swarm of EAMSs fell into formation and rushed towards him. Yzak barely avoided being impaled by a energy blast.
Shishio, in his Gunner Zaku, took out enemies from a distance with his huge long-range rifle. He was mostly safe from EAMSs.
"How many of them are there!" Nicol yelled in frustration over the communicator, "they keep coming!" A grunt and afterwards, an explosion was heard as Nicol defeated another enemy. "I'm not going to be able to keep up much longer if they keep coming in this number!"
"Hang in there Nicol, all we have to do is…"Athrun dodged hurriedly as the alert buzzer sounded again and he had to evade the beam aimed at his cockpit. "…Break through the Earth Alliance defense line."
"I'm going in, my ammo is out." Shishio's rough and determinedvoice was heard over the COM.
"Shishio! Go relieve Dearka, where is he?" Athrun asked when Dearka's signal didn't appear on his radar.
"I'm fine, my Zaku Phantom is more than capable of taking out this trash!" Dearka, arrogant as usual, sounded like he was okay.
"Fine then, Shishio, go back to the ship and replenish your ammo, and Dearka, come back to within my radar range ASAP!" Athrunbarked as he plunged his beam sabre into another enemy. He cursed when he realized that his beam sabre had ran out of energy.
"No, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines! I'm going in." Shishio disobeyed the order and began engaging several mobile suits on the outskirts of the defense line, while Dearka rejoined the team's perimeter.
"Shishio, I don't need this, go back to the ship now." Athrun, obviously frustrated, commanded in a harsh tone as he threw away the hilt of his useless weapon.
"Oh shut up."
The alert buzzer sounded loudly in Athrun's cockpit suddenly and he pulled back his mobile suit. For a moment, all that he could see outside was a red beam, filling his screen; it glowed so red that he could practically feel the immense heat radiating from it. After it passed, he realized that the arm of his Blaze Zaku had been obliterated.
"Damn it!" He cursed loudly.
"Athrun, are you okay?" Came Nicol's panicked voice.
"I'm fine, be careful team, I think a EA warship is in the area judging by that beam." He stopped abruptly as he zoomed in on the source of the beam, "what is that?" In his screen was a mobile suit, one that he had never seen before, that was holding a huge cannon, aimed at him. Athrun pulled his Zaku away from the line of fire, barely avoiding the huge powerful shot as the mysterious mobile suit fired again, if his Zaku's mobility weren't superior to conventional Zakus he would be dead by now. Behind him, several ZAFT mobile suits were vaporized, as they happened to be in the line of fire. Not even atrace of the remains were left after theblast hadtorn apart and disintegrated anything that ithit."That is the Earth prototype mobile suit, that is our target, let's go!" Athrun noticed the V-shaped radar that was on its forehead and sent his Zaku speeding towards it, his other beam saber drawn and ready for battle.
"Yeah! Finally the main player comes out to play!" came Dearka'sanxious voice as him and the team followed.
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Kira, after firing his second shot, and taking out another number of ZAFT mobile suits, saw the blue one that had escaped his first and second beam, speed towards him. And all of a sudden, 5 mobile suits were spotted on his radar headed right his way. His alert went off.
"What the…"
"Kira, get out of there!" he heard Commander La Flaga yell over the COM, "you are their target! Retreat!"
Kira, after firing another shot that failed to hit any of the impending mobile suits, turned and began to retreat.
"What the heck!" The mobile suits were still closing in rapidly even when his thrusters were at maximum output,"the Launcher Strike is too heavy, I can't out run them fast enough!" the enemies were almost upon him now. Kira turned around and prepared himself for battle.
To Be Continued
Author's notes: took a little break over the weekend from writing but I'm back again, hope you liked this chapter, it was my thanks to all that had endured through the rather boring introduction stage (judging by the amount offeedback thatI'm recieving… well…). But anyways, I'm still going to keep writing this until I'm finished with it and hand it in to my politics teacher. The next chapter will cover the second part of the battle for moon; keep an eye open for that.
Till next time!