Previously:
Ryder managed to beat the ghost gundam by severing it's arm and making it's scythe useless. Managing to use his remaining strength to lower the gundam before falling unconcious and falling from the machine. Kyo and Miho were just glad to see him alive as they were left in charge of the mech. The Nexis' newest weapon is about to launch when suddenly the Earth Force's launch their own attack in an attempt to keep the potentially deadly weapon from leaving the atmosphere-now it's up to the heavily injured Black Death and Taka to keep the Earth from achieving their goal.

Episode Eight: Assault on LoLo base.

Taka plowed through several of the Earth forces mobile suits, however, she had limited mobility as her Gundam was still unfit for combat. Ackwardly slicing through two suits she had to use her damaged scythe in the only arm her Gundam had currently. Frowning, she had to move faster to make up for what her machine lacked-making balancing a tricky thing at that as well. Along side fellow mechs, Taka was beating back the invading forces-managing to get between them and their destination at the lauch pad. Being the strongest mech in the battle, Taka had to take many burrages of bullets from the opposite forces for her side-each time she was hit it felt like she was being bombarded with missles instead. She had just sliced through a large artillery unit when she heard the crackling voices of her superiors cutting into her transmission.
'Lieutenant, what do you think your doing out there? In your condition you and your unit are not preparred for intense combat at the moment. Return to the hanger and let the others do their job, they will take care of this nuissence.'
Plainly ignoring her orders, Taka sped towards another enemy, she knew that she would get into alot of trouble for disobaying direct orders, yet she found that she didn't care.
'Lady Zetsume...Our men will take care of this, return at once!'
came the second warning, with a growl Taka flipped a switch and her Gundam took to the air. Many of the Earth's soldiers hadn't expected this, which made her grin to herself as she manuvered her Gundam to hit another mech.
'Taka...What are you thinking? You're going to get yourself killed out there.'
This time the voice belonged to none other then Lieutenant Zash.
' Can you hear us, Taka...Return before something happens to you...'
'Stop worring about me-I can handle this...'
She finally replied before switching the intercom off feeling slightly guilty, she knew she had just over stepped her bounds-at the same time she also knew that though she was damaged she would be fine. The Black Death Landed squarely on a tank which exploded upon impact, the fire rocked the Gundam, charring it's legs as well. Another tank was taking aim on her, which she spun and dug her scythe into before it hit her with it's missles. Leaping back into the air, Taka smirked slightly, Zash had probably been confused when she cut off transmission-she hated to do it but she had no other choice-if she had allowed them to continue she would have been distracted and something would have happened.
All too soon the Earth force's numbers had drastically thinned and began retreating as continuing would be suicidal for anyone. Taka was not one to rejoice yet, as her commerades did she had a feeling something was coming-that the Earth Forces had one last trick up their sleeves.
'This' far from over...'
she thought darkly. That's when a bleep on her rador screen made her look away from her control panal. High above them appeared a mech they had never seen before, it looked like a mythical dragon soaring from beyond the clouds-though on second glance it became appearant that this machine was some new sort of jet. No one knew what to do with this machine-Taka growled and punched several buttons. The Dragon jet shot some sort of missle which was aimed straight for the lunar one. The Black Death sped through the air, moving faster then it had wanted to-the gears whined loudly as sparks began to fly from it was stilll damaged.
'I'm not going to let them win...'
Taka growled as she ignored the noises and held her breath, it was going to be close-the missile was moving almost as fast as she was. With one last blast, The Black Death managed to move into the path of the missile which collided into the Gundam and exploded upon impact. The air was filled with a thick smoke as the Black Death disappeared from sight along with the dragon jet.
The shock wave of the impact shook the lunar one violently, sending most of it's crew stumbling off balance. Siro and Caldin were thrown off of their feet, nearly falling off of the cat walk where their Gundams were docked.
'What was that?'
Siro asked angerly holding his head as he climbed back to his feet. Caldin also got to his feet and looked around for answers.
'I'm not sure, but I don't believe that was us lauching.'
Several of the mechanists were running around making sure everything was still alright, one passed the two soldiers and checked on them before dashing off to tend to one of the smaller mechs. Caldin opened the cockpit of the PowerHouse and jumped into his seat, opening a communication line with the main base.
'This' Caldin of the Jindros team-are we under some sort of attack? What's going on out there?'
he glanced at Siro while he waited for a reply.
'If we were under attack why wouldn't they inform us...'
muttered Siro as he turned away and looked over the cat walk, watching as people still ran about.
'Everything's under control-there is no cause for alarm'
'Can you tell us what happened? what shook our shuttle?'
there was a pause but murmering could be heard coming from the mysterious person talking to Caldin.
'The Earth Forces attacked the base in hopes to stop the Lunar One from launching-however our men were able to stop them. What you felt was the after shock of an explosion several hundred feet above you-The Earth scum tried to directly distroy the shuttle, but Lady Zetsume intercepted the missile...'
By this time Siro lept into the cock pit with Caldin and looked down at the panals,
'Is she alright? She was using one of the other mech's right?'
another pause of silence, causing both Caldin and Siro to look at each other wondering the same thing-what had become of Taka?
'I'm sorry, your about to launch-I must terminate this transmission.'
'No Wait...Answer my Question!'
but it was no use, the tranmission ended-leaving the two pilots to listen to the soft sound of static hissing at them.
'Siro...you don't think...'
Siro quickly shook his head 'no' before Caldin could finish his sentence.
'If there's one thing I know about Lady Zetsume, it's that she won't die without a fight. She's probably being picked up as we speak.'
'I hope your right.'
The two hop out of the Gundam and make their way to the other end of the shuttle where the real Lunar One was located, they wanted to see the weapon that they were sappoused to be protecting. As they left the hanger, they felt a slight shake as the shuttle took off, neither of them looked too concerned.
'After this I'm looking foreward to some time off to go home and relax.'
'We deffinatly will have the time after we land.'
Caldin agreed as he slapped his friend on the back, getting a playful punch from Siro in return.

After being jostled around like a rag doll, Avi had been shaken from her deep coma like sleep. At first she was disoriented and confused as to why she couldn't see a thing, but quickly realized that she had been blindfolded. Remembering what had happened, she pulled the dark cloth off of her face and allowed her eyes to adjust to the dim light in the room she found herself in. Looking around, she came to the conclusion that she was in some sort of holding cell and that she wasn't alone, there were some other down traudden people sitting on the floor all lost in their own thoughts.
'Well, it seems that the last of us has finally woken from her beauty sleep.'
A man with a large brown beard boomed loudly, he looked no older then 40 yet his voice sounded much of a twenty something year olds. Avi eyed this man up suspeciously, she didn't trust any of these strangers and felt unnerved that she had been asleep around such strangers.
'Where are we? And who are you people?'
She growled, pulling herself to her feet not wanting to be sitting on the ground around these people. Upon her question a few others made dark growls or unintelligable mutters-the man only grinned wider, revealing his perfect white teeth.
'You mean you don't know? We're the lucky few that have been selected to be shipped to some space port by our dear friends...of the Nexis...'
he replied with some bitterness entering his voice at the mension of Nexis.
'Nexis? You mean, we're on a Nexis ship headed to space? But why?'
The bearded man found Avi's sudden out burst rather amusing, and chuckled slightly before answering her question.
'From what I gather, we've been so bad that they don't have a punishment cruel enough for us on Earth-they're probably going to throw us all out...'
He stopped when he saw some of the dirty looks he was getting from the other prisoners. Walking over to the door, Avi began to kick it repeatedly,this only caused the bearded man to pull her away from the door. Something Avi didn't appreciate as she pulled away from him and glared daggers into his eyes.
'What the hell?'
'Calm yourself...Kicking the door that won't open is no way to solve our problems.It will only bring unwanted attention upon the rest of us.'
the man paused as he looked around the small room, a small glint in his eyes appeared as he returned his attention to Avi.
'However, this does give me an idea...'
A few hours later the ship wsa nearing it's destination when there was a sudden disturbance in the holding cells. Four men stood around the door to the room, reading themselves to enter and bring an end to the ruckus.
'How could you give up hope so quickly! What about the rest of us!'
Yelled Avi at the bearded man who turned his back to her, no longer interested in what she had to say.
'I'm not going to let you fill these poor saps with false hope that we're going to get out of this alright! We should just accept our fate! At first I thought just like you do, but think reasonably...'
he retarted, marching to the opposite side of the room, the others watched with wide eyes.
'I refuse to lie down and die!'
Avi fumed, crossing her arms and starring at the man with such anger that it could almost bare a hole through his skull. There was a pause, which the Guards took as a good time to enter the room.Since the doorway was so small they had to enter one at a time, making their repressive presence less impressive.
'What's going on in h...'
Before the man could finish he was grabbed from behind the door-causing the other guards to flood in frantically. This was a horrible mistake, as the four guards were no match for the prisoners as they were quickly over taken by them. Though the guards hadn't called for back up, the prisoners knew it would only be a matter of time before someone came looking for them. Leaving the guards bound and locked in the cell, Avi and the bearded man stood in the small hallway as the others quickly made their escape. the two knew that this was were they would part ways, though they had barely known each other, in some small way they had become friends.
'Why don't you come with us? We could certainly use someone like you.'
the man offered, as tempting as it sounded, Avi knew she couldn't go-she had her own agenda to fill.
'Thanks, but I have unfinished business here...'
'Alright...stay safe then...'
The man replied before dashing after the others,Avi nodded once more just as she ran in the opposite direction.
Using her petite size to avoid being detected as more and more soldiers made their way to the now empty holding cells...
''DOCKING IN 10...9...8...''
came the loud mechanical voice announcing the the crew that they had finally reached their distination. Avi walked down a corridor which seemed to be empty of all Nexis soldiers, a small cool breeze rushed past her.
'The way out must be close...'
she thought as she reached the end of the hall-she had some how made her way to the hangers.withholding a satisfactory grin, she crept foreward to see people were unloading a varity of boxes and vehecles. It was the perfect chance to escape, but she knew there was no way she could in what she wore-she would be spotted almost instantly. While trying to figure out how she was going to get off, Avi spotted a flight suit that someone had carelessly discarded over the railing of one of the catwalks. Stealthfully she nabbed the suit and slipped it on over her street clothes,unfortunatly she had to take off her sweater and balled it up. Feeling more confident, she walked down the stairs to the main floor still not sure how'd she get out safely. That's when she saw a motorcycle sitting idle away from the activity of the rest of the bay-unfortunatly it was quite big and heavy looking, making it look almost impossible for Avi to drive.
'HEY YOU!'
Avi stopped cold in her tracks when she heard someone yelling at her. biting her bottom lip she turned and tried to act as calm as possible. Two boys were briskly walking towards her, both wore different suits from the other soldiers-avi didn't know why and didn't care she just hoped that they wouldn't reconize her as a civilian.
'yea, what is it?'
she replied ignoring the dark look each boy was giving her.
'can you tell us when we can unload our suits?'
Siro gestured behind him-trying to keep her composure, Avi looked up to see two massive Gundams about 100 yards from where she and the boys stood.
'You'll have to ask the head mechanic...I'm busy.'
She said simply turning to return to her excape plan but stopped when she heard one of the boys mutter something rude about her under his breath. Unable to control herself, Avi balled her fists and spun back around to face the boys-she then punched the closest of the two as she didn't know which one had made the comment.. Siro wheeled back holding his noise and yelling in both shock and pain.
'The hell's your problem!'
Caldin yelled angerly. Avi wasted no time in high-tailing it out of there. She lept onto the bike but frowned as she couldn't find the ignition key.
'Dammit!'
She growled slamming her fists down onto a control panal-suddenly the bike sprang to life, but instead of starting like a normal bike, it lifted itself six feet off of the ground-causing avi to yelp in surprise.
'The hell is this...'
'DON'T LET HER EXCAPE!'
Avi looked over to see that the two boys were racing towards her with a couple of gun totting soldiers.She didn't have time to screw around with the strange bike, she had to get out of there or be captured again and most likely killed. She pressed down on the excelleration petal and was nearly thrown off of the bike as it sped off, nearly hitting the men after her-Avi had to put all her weight in each turn to avoid crashing into people or other obsticals. As soon as she sped out of the ship, she felt even more uneasy as she had no idea where she was or where to go. Speeding over the ground, Avi knew that she now had several new problems to worry about-she was stuck on a colony no doubt controlled by Nexis and had no way of getting back to Earth. she growled as she knew how bad things were looking for her, with the whole colony soon to be on the look out for her.
'I should have just stayed in bed today...'
she muttered, slowing the bike and going down an alley to hide long enough to think things over. the landing was rough and hurt, but Avi didn't care-she just needed a good place to hide and figure out how she was going to get home...

Next Episode:
Kyo and Miho try to figure out what they're going to do with their unconcious friend and his gundam. On top of that, they soon realize that they need food and water before it gets too dark and dangerous. Meanwhile the pilot of the dragon jet is stranded on the side of a mountain in Nexis territory with no means of communication with her ship. Unfortunatly the pilot soon finds that they're not alone, and must defend themselves against the sudden new threat.
Episode Nine: In The Rubble...