LN: Ironically I started writting this as soon as I posted the second chapter, I'll be really interested to see when I get it done by.
Chibi-Athrun: Sometime next year?
LN: I shudder to think about it.
Chibi-Athrun: Well whatever, but honestly, my counterpart should get more air time.
LN: Well technically you're the counterpart.
Chibi-Athrun: The point is, more air time.
LN: Don't worry, you'll get your air time, we'll stuff Athrun in some cheap ass grunt suit and have him shot down eventually.
Chibi-Athrun: NOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Remeber those who lived
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Palevillia was a nation that had declared its independence from the Atlantic Federation from even back before the war had begun. However, the reason the Federation had let go of such a vast and potent country was because Palevillia carried too many problems on its own to be assilmilated.
The country resided amongst the other middle-east countries, many of which were powerful and wealthy countries, as such trade was a common tool of income for the people of Palevillia. However, as time passed by, a consequence that had never been previously thought of arose. The interaction with various cultures had stimulated the need for cultural development in their own country, this brought about the beginning of chaos to the country, as only those who had been born after the beginning of trade held this view, while those who stood at the peak of the government with control and power felt that the country would need greater economical and technological support in order to maintain their standard.
The issue brought conflict to the country in a furious and fast sweep, the topic burned across the minds of everyone in Palevillia, which was more important, cultural or technological development. The government was unable to act fast enough to make some degree of compromise with these two views, as such the youths of the country quickly arose to bring up the PDOC(Palevillia Development of Cultural influences).
At first the organization held on tightly to its views of encouraging government changes through rallies, protests and things of such nature. However as the war began people, it was almost as if a psycological disease had began to spread, soon protests and rallies lead to violet campaigns as the youth found that they could not endure their mental isolation having been confined in their country.
A report later argued that PDOC had been continously supplied with weapondary from handguns to mobile armor by the organization known as Blue Cosmos, in hopes that certain government members who were coordinators could be killed within the conflict.
After the war the situation had not changed, the country was still at war with itself, however due to the assasination of various heads of the government, the structure of the country had begun to collapse, public services, transportation, repairs, trade...
People began to find ways to other countries as they felt that Palevillia was doomed to collapse very soon, the people had lost their trust and basic necessities were beginning to become harder to find.
The departure of the common people left two major groups to struggle within the confines of the country, one was what had become an extremist version of PDOC, the AMCO(Armed Military Coup d'etat Organization), the other was a faction that existed purely to resist against AMCO, calling themselves "AMCO Down". The struggle between these two factions had left the country desolate, despite no longer being supplied by Blue Cosmos, the previous technological expertise of the people of the country had allowed them to prolong and even advance this war to the next level. The earth had now been tainted with various forms of trial explosives and chemical containmination.
"War..." Kira gazed out from the cockpit window of Murasume as he flew past on more desolate looking piece of land. Having entered a good distance into Palevillia, he was somewhat surprised that a country in such turmoil could still provide enough resources for a anti-government organization.
His visual screen indicated the prescense of two jets as they steered right pass his mobile armor, catching him slightly by surprise. The system had reacted slower than what would be safe under battle situation, but then again, the jets seemed to move strangely fast for looking like some really old model.
"This is the national security defense of the nation of Palevillia, you have intruded upon our air space, return outside territory within 5 minutes all we will see this as an act of agression."
"What?" There was absolutely no way that he could exit Palevillia territory now that he was this far in within 5 minutes, they should have been fully aware of the circumstances, and at the same time, it was becoming suspicious to Kira that national security let him in this far before calling themselves in and that this country still had a national security with the state it was in.
"This is Yula Yamato of the foreign affairs division of ORB, I have been sent officialy to investigate matters in Palevillia."
"Palevillia has received no such notice from the nation of ORB, if you do not remove yourself within 3 minutes, this will be seen as an act of agression to our country under the name of ORB."
"What the hell are you talking about? Since when does Palevillia even have national security defense division?"
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The pilot on the jet read the incoming data on his screen, his eyes seemed to glow in anticipation as he read on, by the time he finished, it had become bluntly obvious that he had become very excited.
"Com Link On, this is Wrath 3, can you hear me HQ?"
"This is HQ, has the identity of the craft and personnel been identified?"
"The craft has been identified as a new model mobile armor capable of reversing into a mobile suit, as for the personnel known as Yula Yamato...he is the legendary pilot from the last war, Kira Yamato of the Archangel."
"...You are positive?"
"He was able to react, even if slightly to our new model J-5s, if even the computer says its him, than thats already too much to be a coincidence."
"This is HQ, signaling all Wrath units in the area DQ2. The yellow unit in the skies above you is a new transformable mobile suit/armor. Your orders are to destroy it, take caution in your procedures as the pilot is that of Freedom from the last war, however, now that he no longer has Freedom this will be our perfect opportunity to declare our Military Establishment of Palevillia to the entire world. Mission Commence."
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"5 minutes have ended, as you are unable to clear from the airspace of Palevillia, we shall declare you an enemy of our country."
"Damn it!"
The J-5s came around once again, this time Kira knew they weren't going to be just flying by him.
"Weapons manual open."
2x .45mm low output cannons
Connect for .45mm Vulcan laser cannon(Anti-Fortress Class)
2x beam sabers
.20mm beam rifle with scope
Standardized Murasume projectile artilery
Kira shifted his speed panel and skidded past the two J-5s whom shot by him without doing anything this time.
"Wheres the transformation control...ahh here."
The Murasume automatically began transforming into a mobile suit, surprisingly to Kira, the process was relatively smooth considering how fast he was going.
The Murasume's aiming system was superior enough to lock onto the J-5s despite their speed with help from Kira, however, out of the 3 shots only one came close to hitting the mark while the latter two fell quite wide.
Immediately following, Kira felt the vibrating shock from the impact from multiple missles, the barrage of explosions reminded Kira that this suit was not equipped with phase shift, he couldn't do this like the way he had with Strike or Freedom.
Kira concentrated deeply, he was going to have to make up for the difference in mobility and numbers with his skills, thankfully being the ultimate coordinator and all kinda helped with that.
Configure standardized energy transfer to beam + saber -40 TJQ/nanounit, reconstruct cooling structure of beam riffle, adjust ratio down, transfer spare energy to engine thrusters, retain thrust level at CQQ 200.
Murasume shut down its engines allowing it to avoid several shots that had come its way, once it had attained height below the J-5s the thrusters came back to life. As the two J-5s took time to circle around to Murasume again, it raised its beam rifle.
Booster thrust, transitional energy apply, time - 50 seconds.
The thrusters exploded in a fury of energy as Murasume raised its height at a significantly faster rate than before, meanwhile one of the J-5 made a spin cycle and as it made ready to head back down realized that the Murasume was right underneath it and the two were facing each other.
The J-5 fired off two missles and performed a nose dive right into the Murasume assuming it would get out of the way. However, the Murasume came up faster than the pilot had expected, just as the missles ejaculated, Murasume was already right in front of the J-5.
Feeling desperate, the J-5 made a sharp turn past the left side of the Murasume making the missles come out off course.
Kira spun the Murasume 180 degrees and fired off three shots that came out almost consecutively this time, the adjustion to the cooling system and power of the beam now allowed for rapid fire, despite the drop in power emission. Considering that Kira wasn't aiming to kill, it was probably better that way.
Two shots managed to skid off the wings of the J-5 while the last created an implosion in the engine sending the jet plummeting down with the pilot evacuating from his craft.
Meanwhile the other J-5 pilot watched in astonishment, "Impossible, in just a few minutes his performance shaped up so well he could already adapt to the gap in mobility?"
"This is Wrath 3, HQ. Wrath 2 has just been shot down."
"This is HQ, stand by Wrath 3, Test dummy Wraith is in your vicinity."
"Wraith? That new mobile armor? If what they say about it is true, then I doubt even Kira Yamato would stand a chance against that suit."
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Kira focused the screen on the downed J-5, he managed to confirm that the pilot was still alive and that he could still pull out enough efficiency at this point with the Murasume.
"At this point I can either find some way to stealthly enter Palevillia without detection, or I can leave the country and find more diplomatic means of re-entering. However, seeing how Palevillia has reacted so far, I highly doubt diploma is going to do much work."
A beacon interrupted Kira's thoughts, being afraid that it was the remaining J-5, Kira steered his mobile suit a bit further away.
Glimpsing past a mountain top just a bit to the right of him, he managed to notice a relatively large machine heading his way, from its structure, it appeared to be a mobile armor. The mobile armor was a large green coated spiral, much like a spinning top. On the surface it seemed to be equipped with multiple small beam weapons while what looked like a control pod was held at the top of the spiral covered by a glass-like barrier. The only other visible weapon were two scorpion like tails that extended out near the bottom of the spiral and seemed to have beam weapons attached.
"Computer, Scan."
No Matching Data Found For Unit.
One remaining jet and now an unknown unit, seems like they want to take me down pretty badly.
Kira rotated and moved the Murasume so that it could now view both of the two units, surprisingly to Kira, the J-5 had not moved its position in order to get around to his blind spot again.
He's staying out of this? It would certainly be more beneficial for me, but that would mean that this new mobile armor would carry mass amounts of devastating power if the jet is staying out of our way.
"Maybe retreating is a better option at this point. I should still be able to get away clean like this."
Just as the thought was slipping through his mind, the new unit, wraith, opened up the lower section of its main body, the top of the spiral split in 4 directions as if being peeled away and in turn, revealed a large thrusters surrounded by mini versions at the sides.
Kira could hardly describe the sudden boost of speed performed from what was a turtle like mobile armor that he had taken it for moments ago. Before he had much time to react, wraith had already slipped right past him and positioned itself behind the Murasume.
Kira the Murasume forward and into a spiral 180 degrees at the same time, as the Murasume's camera caught the new unit, Kira fired his beam rifle at the two long tail like objects which he supposed would be the second most deadly, but would be the easiest weapon to disarm.
He was more worried about the multiple beam weapons attached to the surface of the unit as there was an enormous amount of them, if they were all beam cannons, he could very well die after shooting off his shot. Something in his instincts told him they weren't, but then again, those were getting rusty.
As the beam reached closer though, Kira found his answer. The beam did not hit its target, instead at about 10m away from the mobile armor, the beam curved around what seemed to be an invisible sphere and ended up completely off track.
Beam shield? Some kind of reflector, seems to be like the one used in the Forbidden, in that case...
Kira performed a quick flip forwards and shifted his mobile suit to the back of wraith past the dome at the top. He was rather certain that wraith hadn't flipped sides along with him, but considering he looked the same from all angles, it was kind of hard to tell.
This time he aimed three shots at seperate places on the main body. The same thing happened, the beam was reflected and curved around a spherical shield.
Ok well...not Forbidden, more like Artemis...unfortunately I'm no Blitz and the size proportion is way off.
At least now Kira no longer had to worry about the mini beam devices on the surface of the unit, obviously they were there to project the beam shield.
However if this unit was designed like Artemis, at least Kira would not have to worry about a combination of attack and defense, since beams should not be able to penetrate from the inside. All he had to make sure of now was that the unit doesn't try to ram him using superior boosts speed, and he could probably manage to put some physical hits on the unit.
To Kira's utter astonishment, wraith's two tail cannons pointed towards the Murasume, and without the shields disenganging themselves, a thousand green beams exploded in front of Murasume.
Kira managed to put the Murasume's arms in front of the cockpit before the beams made contact with him.The barrage of beams pierced and exploded in and around the Murasume. Kira felt a tinge of despair brush him as the thrusters failed to respond to him when he attempted to pull the Murasume back, that one attack by wraith had managed to cripple the Murasume, even should the barrage cease all of a sudden, Murasume would go down without any help. Relization dawned upon him and was backed upon by sparks that began to twirl in an insulting manner announcing his defeat.
Attache .45mm Vulcan beam cannon, full energy conversion to cannon.
In a last pitted effort, Kira was betting his all in the hands of the beam cannon that Ramius had assured him as, very lethal, of course even should it work, chances are he would still fall and the impact would kill him, however, Kira's ego needed a good boost and should he survive the fall, it would give him more chances of survival.
The door to Kira's cockpit sprung open to his will, now that his main cameras had ceased to work, it became the only way he could still operate his unit. However, without the cameras, he would no longer have an aiming system to rely on, in truth it was almost like shooting blind.
Increase angle of elevation by 10 degrees, elevate Murasume's elbow to compensate for structural failure, reposition body position to receive recoil, change gravity point to zero axis, use the base engine as the pivot point...
Kira's mind began to slip further, but he was conscious enough to feel that the thrusters on the Murasume had died out and the mobile suit was already plummetting towards its ultimate fate. The blood that had streamed onto of his right eye distracted his vision, but his other remaining senses told him that he was still on target, plus even if he wasn't there was no time to adjust anything now, once Murasume begins to lose the applied force from the thrusters, gravity would tear apart the structure of the unit.
Fire...
The familiar tazer sound of the beam made him jump a little from his seat, the sensation was quite different when listening to it from an open cockpit. The blazing beam streaked right towards wraith, which hovered there motionlessly, which meant either the pilot had absolute confidence towards the power of his shields, or this was some kind of weakless of wraith's.
As the .45mm beam reached precisely 10m within wraith's radius, a small distortion could have been seen under electromagnetic guidance , that the invisible spherical shield bent inwards as if a ripple had been created. But Kira's ultimate efforts failed in the end as the beam curved around the ripple it had created and shot towards the ground, leaving wraith completely unscarred.
The recoil effect shot Murasume's arm apart from its main body and shattered it in the process. The plummet was now clearly noticeable, Kira stared out the open cockpit while parts of Murasume began to become undone all around him. In an almost undramatic way,it was kind of sad that he couldn't see the ground as he fell, but it was nice he could see the sky, to Kira, the sky was calm, peaceful, and it was where his freedom lay.
September 12, C.E 87, 12:45a.m
ORB Murasume - Destroyed
Pilot, Kira Yamato - MIA
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LN: Phew that actually took a while, but its kind of weird, I mean, is it just me or are the chapters getting longer. O and btw, MIA is missing in action for those of you who might not have heard of it or forgotten.
Chibi-Athrun: Maybe it just feels that way cause you spread your work on them over such a long period of time.
LN: I can't help it, its my last year of highschool.
Chibi-Athrun: SO? Its my...uhhh...10th passage in this whole fanfic, whats your point?
LN: It's no use talking to animated character in a fanfiction who says what I want.
Chibi-Athrun: O please, I so have self will.
LN: Well whatever, I've left you all with a cliff hanger, enjoy it, cause its gonna be another long while before the next chapter comes out.
Chibi-Athrun: In the next chapter we'll be getting Meer Campbell making her guest star appearance, unless LN changes his mind of course, then you'd all get hyped up, if you are, over nothing. Personally I hate that girl.
LN: Sayonara.