Declaimers: I do not own Gundam Seed...
Author's notes: This is the second chapter in the three chapter series of the Battle on the Moon, enjoy!
Phase 2 Episode 3
Athrun, with his boosters at maximum output, sped towards his target, the prototype mobile suit.
"I don't know what you are, but you are going to be mine!" He cried as he powered up his beam saber and chucked the weapon at the enemy, point first.
The Enemy mobile suit quickly abandoned its cannon and parried the weapon with its free arm while drawing out a beam rifle that hung on its hip. He leveled the rifle at Athrun, who veered his Zaku out of the way quickly as the green beam flashed by his head.
"It's equipped with a Beam rifle too?" Athrun gritted under his breath, "just what is that thing, where does it get all that power!"
"Athrun, stay back and let me handle this!" Came Shishio's voice over the transmission, "your mobile suit is already useless here." Athrun saw Shishio's and Nicol's Zakus zoom past him followed by Dearka and Yzak, the fourteeamtes launched an attack on the enemy mobile suit almost immediately.
"Athrun," this time it was the voice of Raw Le Kluze, "go back to the Bismarck and get repairs, I will handle this."
"Commander Kluze! I can still fight!" Athrun protested quickly and prepared to join in the assault on their target.
"Go back Athrun," Kluze said again, "there is newly acquired information on this mobile suit at the ship. It'll be best if you look it over, engaging this machine blindly is dangerous."
"Yes sir," Athrun, convinced, said and headed back towards the Flagship.
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"Kira!" Kira heard Major La Flaga yell for his name over the communicator, "I'm giving you support, go back to the Majestic and equip the Aile Strike!" No sooner had the transmission cut off did Kira see, outside his cockpit, the commander, in his GUNDAM speeding towards his location, blasting away with his weapon and scattering the four Zakus that were slowly surrounding him. Kira steered the Strike Gundam and accelerated towards the Majestic. "Don't take too long." He heard Mwu say.
"Yes sir."
"Who are these people!" Major Mwu La Flaga asked irritably to no one in particular as the four Zakus surrounded him and began attacking him relentlessly. These four worked as a team and their target switched from Kira to him as soon as he came. The Zaku warrior flew towards him and swung its beam axe at the head of the Burning Gundam. Mwu evaded the slice narrowly and, with a quick slash, dislodged the arms of the Zaku after the pink beam of his saber torn through. Then, Mwu twisted his Gundam and planted his foot in the cockpit of the enemy Zaku and pushed away, sending the enemy flying backwards into another Zaku. Major La Flaga pushed the thrusters to maximum and sped away. The Zakus tried futily to catch up. "Sorry guys, I don't have time to be messing around with you."
Then why don't you try me, Mwu La Flaga?
Suddenly and without warning, a voice shot through Mwu's head and he could feel a presence. There were many things around him, fighting and dying, but there was one that he could feel, heading towards him, clearly. Mwu planted his hand over his helmet.
"What is this?" Hesearched on his radarand sure enough, there was a custom GOUF heading towards him. "If I can feel you this clearly then I expect you to feel me too," the major said cautiously, "let's see who you are." With that, Mwu La Flaga headed towards his incoming enemy.
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"Installing Aile Striker pack, please standby," Kira sat in his cockpit silently while the sounds of battle and explosions could be heard outside. "The Aile striker pack has been installed, Kira, please launch."
"Thank you," Kira said as the launch gates began to open, "Kira Yamato, going out!" And the strike shot through the opening above him and once again into the battlefield. A small inset appeared on his field screen and from it appeared the face of Captain Himura.
"Kira," he began calmly, "the first line of defense on the lunar base have been penetrated, now your mission is to attack the radar systems on the lunar base. Major Mwu La Flaga is engaging an enemy right now, so you'll have to go alone, we will give you cover from the majestic, be careful." And the inset disappeared. On his monitor, a map of the lunar base appeared and the position of the radar system was indicated.
At this time, a squad of enemy mobile suits approached quickly. Kira dispatched them easily and headed towards the moon.
"Entering Moon gravity field." The Strike began to lose control as it was sucked in by the gravity of the moon. "Radar station on lunar base, there are 5 recieversin total," Kira read out the information. He positioned his shield in front of his Gundam, "preparing for artificial atmospheric entry." A thin, see through film of gel spread over the front of the Strike as its boosters began to apply thrust towards the moon's artificial atmosphere. The Strike slowly began to heat up and turn red in colorwhen itbegan entering the atmosphere. After a few minutes, theGundam broke through the moon's barrier and entered into the interior and started to cool down.
Kira adjusted his thrusters to atmospheric flight and headed towards his targets, avoiding anti-air turrets and cannons that fired upon him. His alarm suddenly went off and his radar screen picked up 3 heat-seeking missiles approaching fast from behind. Several Ginns were also sighted a few kilometers in front of him.
The Strike's visors lit up to an amber color and its mechanical hand reached for its beam rifle around its hips. The missiles were approaching fast and due to air resistance, the strike can't outrun it. Kira twisted the strike and one missile grazed past him, leaving a thin trail behind. Kira slashed at the missile with his beam and it instantly exploded. The strike emerged from the explosion unscathed while the remaining two heat seeking ballistics exploded.
"Now I have the Ginns to deal with." Kira was about to adjust his aim when an explosion behind him shook his entire unit. "WHAT THE!"
It was a Zaku phantom, and it was heading towards him rapidly.
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I won't let you attack the lunar base Strike! Athrun thought furiously. He had sent his beaten Blaze Zaku back to the Bismarck and was briefed about the basic specifications of the Gundam known as strike. He had learned that the Strike Mobile suit was equipped with an advanced type of armorthat used phase shift technology, makingit impervious to multiple physical assaults and can only be penetrated with beam weapons. Athrun had come back in his Zaku phantom equipped with only beam weapons.
"Strike, I will shoot you down."The blue haired boymurmured as he engaged his thrusters and shot towards the Strike, which was hovering over the Moon base with his beam blade drawn, with Athrun in its sights.
Their blades clashed and the units' faces were inches apart as their emotionless visors stared into each other.
"ARGH!" Athrun was on top of the strike, giving him the advantage of gravity. They both fell into a military control tower, obliterating the building into rubble with Athrun on top. Athrun fired up his boosters to keep theGundam pinned under him while the Zaku's left elbow kept the mobile suit down on the ground. The arm holding the Beam Blade whipped out and the tip was pointed towards the cockpit. Athrun stabbed downwards, aiming to kill the pilot.
At the last possible moment, Strike Gundam engaged its thrusters at full power and pushed the Zaku Phantom off of it. Part of the blue cockpit gate of the Strike was destroyed, revealing to Athrun the young pilot inside. He had brown hair.
As Athrun regained his balance, ZAFT mobile suits appeared from all directions, ready to capture or destroy the Strike.
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Kira breathed heavily, a narrow brush with death had driven him over the edge; his pupils were not visible now. Kira's eyes were a solid shade of dark violet, revealing no emotions. He surveyed his surrounding systematically, eyes darting from one spot to the next; there were about 20 ZAFT Mobile suits around him, all of which had guns that were aimed at him. Any movement will result in his demise. And so he didn't make a move.
Two enemy Zakus began to advance slowly.
Kira began typing on the monitor keyboard rapidly with stunning precision, not missing even one key.
"Setting all power to phase shift armor, ejecting Aile striker armor and commencing armor self desturct mode," he murmured silently as the wing like armor on the back of the Strike Gundam ejected from the unit and detonated in an instant. The two ZAFT mobile suits near him were instantly obliterated.
The whole area was engulfed in a white light for a few seconds as the remaining concentrated propulsion fuel in the Aile Strike armor thrusters ignited and exploded. Athrun's Zaku raised its arm in front of itself at the last moment and was blown away by the explosion. The remaining mobile suits were either totally destroyed or disabled reyond repair, as they were right at the epicenter of the detonation.
And all was silent.
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When Athrun slowly pushed his Zaku up from the ground, he realized that he was at the edge of a large crater. In the middle was the Strike Gundam, its frame battered almost beyond recognition while it lay facing down. Athrun began heading for the unit when the unit groaned loudly, its gears grinding harshly, and the Strike pushed itself up.
"It, it can't be, half of the base was destroyed by that explosion, my own Zaku, even this far away, is severely damaged, how could that thing still be operating when it was at the epicenter?" Athrun asked incredulously to no one. Then the Strike, from down in the crater, turned its half-destroyed head up in the direction of Athrun's Zaku. "I, I'll kill you right now!" Athrun, with a sudden surge of fear and hatred, aimed his rifle at the Strike and fired. The shot hit the Gundamin the right shoulder and shattered the armor on it. Then the mobile suit changed, all of its colors disappeared slowly from its body, the blue cockpit became a dark gray color and the red waist also became dark.
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The alarm went off in the strike Gundam cockpit after it took a direct hit from the Zaku Phantom to the shoulder. Kira shook his head and looked to the monitor, the battery for the strike Gundam has run dry, the explosion had depleted the rest of his Phase Shift armor and now he had no energy left. Through his camera, he saw his enemy aiming again. Now even physical attacks can penetrate his armor.
Another shot was fired.
This time it was headed straight towards the cockpit.
"I will not die here, you will not kill me."He murmured, "I can't die here,I won't die."Kira pulled the joystick to the left at the last second and dodged the huge bullet with impossible speed. "You will not KILL ME!" He yelled and charged towards his enemy. Two compartments on either side of the Strike opened up, revealing two small, solid assault knives inside. The mechanical hands of the Strike Gundam clasped around both and pulled them out. It brandished the gleaming weapons as it closed the distance between itself and the Zaku Phantom. One knife was struck into the side of the enemy mobile suit in an instant while the other ripped open the cockpit. This time, Kira took in the face of his enemy, a blue haired boy. It was at that moment that Kira noticed the tomahawk rifle, which was aimed at him and leaped away as it fired. The beam ripped through the left arm of the Strike Gundam, melting it in an instant.
Both stopped and gasped for air, preparing for the final face-off.
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"Sir, we have lost contact with the Strike, there was a large scale explosion at the site which it disappeared at." An operator stood in front of Kenshin Himura, Captain of the Majestic and read out the latest report from the battlefield. "But the main radar station was destroyed due to the explosion in the area along with about 15 percent of the ZAFT Lunar base headquarters." She finished and awaited the captain's reply.
After a moment of thought,Kenshin spoke, "Alright, prepare our troops for atmospheric landing. And prepare a search team to find the Strike, I want the Strike to be retrieved even if its been reduced to scrap metal. Let Mwu La Flaga go with them." Kenshin finished and rubbed his sore eyes tiredly. I'm sorry Kira.
To Be Continued
Author's notes: The next chapter will be the conclusion of the Battle for the Moon. Please tell me if you see any errors in the story or you could just press that review button and tell me what you think. It's like getting a teeth pulled for you but it's like sweets to me!