Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Seed...blah blah blah blah! (I'm starting to sound like a broken record here...)
Phase 5: Over Limit's Edge
"Launching all available units," came the operator as all of the functioning units were sent back onto the battlefield although some had yet to be repaired properly...
"I won't let them win this time..." Crot murmured.
"They'll pay...I'll make sure of it," Shani sneered, staring at all of the enemy mobile suits assembled below them.
"I'll kill him...that LaGOWE...I'll destroy it and make sure there's nothing left!" Orga growled trying to scope out the orange mobile unit in the sands below.
The Strike Daggers began their assault, but their efforts seemed to be yielding the same results as the battle before as once again the ZAFT forces were gaining the upper hand.
"What do you people think you're trying to achieve!" Andrew questioned through an open com. link, "Your units probably aren't even fully charged or repaired yet, so why bother with coming back out onto the battlefield?"
"That's none of your concern..." Shani replied.
'Damn...I see,' Andrew thought, 'If they're gonna press on, then I have no choice...'
The ZAFT forces began attacking at full force wiping out even more soldiers from the Earth Alliance.
"You can't win so why don't you go back with your lives?" Andrew reasoned, still trying to get the pilots to change their minds.
"It's not that simple dammit!" Orga replied. Calamity leapt off of Raider and landed face to face with the LaGOWE. "We don't have that option..." Orga added.
"What?" Andrew questioned, confused by the pilot's statement, but before he could question anything, the Calamity had managed to tackle the LaGOWE to the ground where Orga managed to make a direct hit with Calamity's energy cannon.
"What did he mean by 'We don't have that option'?" Aisha softly questioned.
"I wish I knew, but I guess we aren't gonna find that out very soon..." Andrew remarked, trying to fend off the Calamity's attacks.
Crot seemed to be having better luck with the DINNs this time, but he didn't seem to notice that his Gundam hadn't been charged all the way...
"Come and get me!" Shani taunted, holding up well against ZAFT's marine units. He retaliated with several shots from Forbidden's plasma cannon which managed to eliminate several of the underwater foes.
Crot had managed to take down several DINNs using Raider's short range plasma cannon, although while he had his attention focused on the DINNs before him, he failed to notice the extra squad of GINNs that showed up behind him.
All four of the GINNs had their heavy ion cannons trained on the unsuspecting Gundam as they all fired simultaneously. The resulting blast slammed into the Raider knocking its pilot unconscious and sending the uncontrolled unit pummeling towards the ocean below...
Shani and Orga were still too caught up in their situations to notice the falling Gundam, which was until some of the Strike Daggers tried assist the unit, but at the speed that the unit was plummeting, there was no way that any of the Daggers could help in time.
"Oh shit!" Orga shouted when he saw what was going on. The Calamity dashed away from the LaGOWE, trying to reach the Raider.
Shani was trying to hold back the other units while trying to reach the other Gundam, but the two pilots finally realized that they couldn't reach it in time and desperately opened the com. link in an attempt to contact the pilot...
"Pull up Crot! Dammit, pull up!" Orga shouted frantically into the link.
"Crot! You gotta wake up!" Shani hollered after realizing that Crot was unconscious.
'I hear...voices...Why is everything...so dark?' Crot pondered, trying to figure everything out, 'I don't want to...wake up...aching...but I have to...open my eyes...' Crot slowly regained consciousness only to see the ocean's surface rushing towards Raider at an alarming rate. "Fuck..." Crot murmured trying to brace himself for the impending impact.
Orga and Shani watched as the unit crashed into the water and sank below the surface.
"You can't fucking die...not now," Shani whispered, trying to look for any sign of the unit from the water's surface.
"Dammit...how could they?" Orga growled, glaring at the squad of GINNs although he knew that they couldn't see or sense his anger anyways.
"That's enough," Andrew commanded as the ZAFT forces began to head back, "We've done enough damage..."
Underneath the surface, Crot was trying to get Raider back online, but nothing seemed to be working; the unit's batteries had totally gone dead...
"I'm still alive...but I don't know how much more of this I can handle..." Crot whispered, clutching his side which was beginning to bleed profusely...
"Azrael, one of your Gundam units has just fallen beneath the ocean's surface," stated one of the operators.
"Damn...those three are useless..." Azrael growled through clenched teeth "Retrieve the unit, I'm betting that the pilot's probably already dead anyways..."
"Yes sir, we'll send out the Forbidden," stated another operator.
"Good, salvage anything you can," Azrael instructed. 'If those CPUs don't show improvement soon, then I'll have to get rid of them,' Azrael thought to himself, 'They are 'expendable'...'