Phase Two - "Path of the Soldiers"
Space. A endless vacuum, broken only by the stars and the planets. Meimei sighed as she stared at the screen of her GM Sniper. As usual, she was bored, and there were no ZAFT ships around to hassle. Drumming her fingers on the armrest, she sighed again, and gazed off into the blackness of space. Meimei was drifting around near Lagrange Point 1, trying to decide what to do next.
"Should I go bother one of the colonies….? Or maybe find a ZAFT ship to attack?" She muttered. Flicking a stand for red hair out of her eyes, the teen glanced up as a GINN went racing by.
"What was that? And why is it out here?" Meimei cried, turning her GM in the direction the GINN had come from. In the distance floated the colony Paleis, but something wasn't right. Putting her screen on 'zoom', Meimei saw that lasers from the Moon were heading right towards the colony. Gasping, she put the GM's thrusters on full power and started to move towards the colony.
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Shi gritted his teeth as he forced the GM Command through the damaged air lock and out into space. One of the laser beams had sideswiped the colony, damaging the air lock and most of the space port. The other had missed the colony completely, heading out into open space. Flying slowly along the side of the colony, Shi scanned the area for more laser attacks, but found none. A shield as mounted on the GM's left arm, and it carried a machine gun in it's right hand. Shi glanced down as his scanner beeped, showing two fast-moving objects approaching the area. Blinking, Shi stared. They weren't GINNs, but looked similar to what he was piloting, except they has two eyes instead of a mask. A red one was in front, with a blue and white one right behind it. Raising it's right arm, the red Mobile Suit fired at Shi with it's beam rifle. Moving quickly, the GM Command dodged the blast, and returned fire with it's machine gun. Blocking the bullets with it's shield, the red Mobile Suit fired two blasts are Shi, both witch he blocked with his shield. The fight continued in this way, both defending and returning fire.
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Meanwhile, the blue and white Mobile Suit was being attacked by something father out in space. Meimei grinned as her GM Sniper hit the opposing Mobile Suit twice in the left shoulder, causing a slight explosion. Hidden in space, Meimei could freely attack as long as she wasn't spotted.
"So these are two of the prototype Mobile Suits that were stolen from Heliopolis. They sure seem powerful." The girl muttered as she continued to blast away at the helpless Gundam. From her network of sources, Meimei knew that these Mobile Suits were called Gundams, and that they had been produced to put an end to ZAFT. The one she was fighting was the Strike Gundam, and the Red one was the Aegis Gundam. Suddenly, the Strike and the Aegis pulled away from the colony and headed away from Meimei, back to their own ship.
Wondering what happened, Meimei noticed what the Aegis had been fighting with.
"Another GM? Where did that came from?" Putting the thrusters on half power, the GM Sniper flew closer to the other GM. Opening her comm. to the other machine, she said, "You put up a good fight against that Gundam. Where did you learn how to pilot it?"
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Panting from the exertion of piloting the GM Command, Shireikan smiled as the two mystery machine flew away into deeper space. His radar flashed as another machine flew up to him, stopping about 100 feet away. Blinking, she stared at it in surprise. It was another GM! It looked like his, but was painted a light brown colour and had a long beam rifle.
"I…I just got this GM a couple of minutes ago." Shi stammered in reply to the female voice coming from his comm. He had no idea how to fight; Shi was surprised he managed to make the GM move, let alone survive combat.
"Gundam? You mean those two machines?"
"Yeah, those were two of the five Gundams stolen from Heliopolis."
"WHAT? You mean that was ZAFT?"
"Yeah…let me fill you in…"
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Rusty Mackensie whistled a random tune as he floated towards the floor of the ship's hanger. His partner, Athrun Zala was just behind him. Smoothing his red hair down, he glanced over his shoulder and said, "Well, that went pretty well. Now we know who is attacking that colony." Athrun nodded in reply, his gazed focused on their commander, Le Creuset. Touching down gently on the floor, both pilots gave the ZAFT salute to Le Creuset. Returning the salute, the commander asked, "Did you discover who was firing on that colony?"
"Yes, sir. The shots were from the Moon, and were intended to damage the colony, not destroy it. Athrun and I also ran into two machines that were protecting the colony."
"Machines? Were they Mobile Amours?"
"No sir. They were similar to the Gundams, but with some differences." Athrun replied. "I downloaded the data from both the Strike and the Aegis regarding these unknown machines." Le Creuset took the disk from Athun's hand and slipped it in his pocket.
"Good work. You can go now." The man smiled as his two pilots left, thinking about the new information. Turning, he exited the hanger and headed for the brig to check up on the prisoner.
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I think I did ok on the battle scene…I'm not sure of a GM Command's shield could take all those shots, but since I'm too lazy to re-type it, let just say it could.