Chapter TWO: Episode 1-5 (The Great Gundam Hijack)
A/N: Thanks Angel of Dreams for the great review. Anyway, here is a sort of half-summary of Seed Destiny Episode 1-5 with bits added in by me of course. This chapter and the next chapter are going to basically cover the rest of the episodes till episode 16. These next two chapters will be omstly Neo POV with a bit of the others thrown in for some flavour. Anyway, I hope everyone here is keeping up with Gundam Seed Destiny cos' it is great. BTW, don't forget to read and review the chapter...
Neo sat upon the bridge of the Girty Lue, he looked down at his watch as the the Mobile Suits he had launched to take out the ZAFT section gates should arrive at their places to destroy the ZAFT docks just about now, as the timer on his watch ticked down to zero "Alright, let's go, in a calm manner," Neo ordered as the mirage colloid was about to be deactivated, "Missiles launching at the Nazca. While aiming, simultaneously target the ship's mirage colloid and destroy it. Now then let's begin a new chapter. Full speed ahead," he ordered like an experienced officer.
The Girty Lue dropped it's mirage colloid as it fired it Gottfried cannons at the Nazca class, destroying it. It went into full combat as its own mirage colloid faded. Goo, everything is running precisely on schedule, their launch tubes should be out of commission.
Meanwhile, inside Armoury One, Gaia, Chaos and Abyss were engaged in a battle with Impulse and the other ZAFT units. They were running behind schedule, but Impulse was taking up too much of their time and more ZAFT reinforcements were coming. Outside the battle continued, the Girty Lue's superior tactics kept the ZAFT fleet on the back foot. As Neo looked again at his watch he realised that the three pilots were running behind schedule. Back inside the PLANT, Auel used Stellar's block word on her and she turned and flew the Gaia up and away from the fighting, obviously too stressed to fight anymore.
Back on the bridge of the Girty Lue, Neo decided that he would have to launch in the Exus to buy his three Gundam pilots more time to fulfil their mission, and to delay ZAFT forces from catching up with them. The Exus Mobile Armour launched from the hold of the Girty Lue, and immediately engaged the nearest ZAFT mobile suits, disengaging its automated pods which fired and destroyed three mobile suits in quick succession. Neo allowed himself a little smile as he destroyed the enemy; it seemed so familiar to him.
Inside Armoury One, Rey Za Burrel, noticed something strange, he had a flash of consciousness, he felt that something was terribly wrong, there was someone outside leading the attack. What was that? But Rey had more important things to concentrate on now, to not let the Gundams escape.
The Exus rested, attached to the side of the PLANT as Neo watched, his three Gundam pilots escape towards the Girty Lue, late, I see this may be due to a miscalculation, I guess, he thought to himself as the three Gundams landed on the Girty Lue's hold. The Exus detached itself and flew away back towards the Girty Lue to make good their escape.
As the Exus detached itself, Rey had another of those flashes, something was definitely wrong here, as he looked around. The Exus detached its pods, as Neo engaged Shinn in battle, seeing Impulse, Neo thought that they would have to capture this one as well, as he swooped around for a second strafing run. Rey rushed towards the battle to rescue Shinn, who was obviously out of his element even though he was in a better machine, as he looked back he saw the Girty Lue come up behind him. Meanwhile, the Minerva prepared to launch on its maiden combat voyage.
Neo was totally outclassing Shinn, confusing him with too many fast moving targets, as the pods peppered laser fire at the Impulse. As the Blaze Zaku Phantom approached the battle, Neo felt something deep within his consciousness, a flash which caused him to worry, it had never happened before or had it. But he had more to concentrate on now, like capturing the Impulse, as he saw the White Zaku interpose itself between the lasers and the Impulse. What is this, he thought as he saw the White Zaku twist and manoeuvre expertly, taking out one and then two of his pods, and with the Minerva approaching the Girty Lue, Neo decided that it was time to withdraw.
The running firefight between the Minerva and the Girty Lue continued as the mobile suits and armours all docked back on their respective ships. Neo, back in the command chair, decided that it was time for the Girty Lue to lose the enemy ship, "Detach both side propellent tanks and then detonate them," he ordered, "Detaching them with their side arms is fine1 Let's dazzle those bastards. At the same time rise 35 degrees, portside 1 degrees, engines at maximum," as the crew complied with the orders, the side arms detached headed straight for the Minerva, a giant bomb, the Minerva however, emerged through scratched but otherwise unscathed.
Onboard the Girty Lue, Neo watched as his three pilots rested in their cradles, troubled by Auel's use of Stellar's block word. It might create some trouble later on, but now, the mission would be counted as a success, as long as they could evade the enemy ship. As they approached the debris belt, Neo instituted the second part of the plan, the anchor gambit which would lead to the enemy's destruction…hopefully, if they fell for the ambush. "Fire the anchor, at the same time, stop the engines and launch the decoy. Don't screw up on the timing," Neo ordered, as they approached the underside of a large asteroid. The Girty Lue fired its anchor, and it swung around up and over the asteroid, as the decoy continued on the previous path.
Meanwhile, on the Gunner Zaku Warrior and the Impulse launched, prepared to engage the Girty Lue and capture the three Gundams. "It's a decoy," Athrun shouted as the Minerva approached the ambush. Suddenly, the Girty Lue appeared behind the Minerva, launching mobile suits, and firing. The Minerva had no choice but to go around the asteroid and use it as a shield, as the missiles slammed into the asteroid spewing fragments of rock everywhere. The Minerva shook as it took a hammering from the enemy. They were trapped against the asteroid, unable to use half of its own weapons, they were outgunned and outmanoeuvred.
On the bridge of the Girty Lue, Neo ordered the ship to fire at the asteroid to stop the Minerva, as he decided to launch in Exus. The Minerva was taking battering from the rock fragments as the Girty Lue peppered the asteroid with missiles, dislodging chunks of the asteroid. The situation was getting direr by the minute, as chunks of asteroid interposed themselves within the Minerva's path. Rey's Zaku launched from the Minerva to engage the oncoming mobile armour and mobile suits.
It's that strange feeling again, Neo realised as he prepared for his strafing run on the Minerva. The Exus changed course, to engage the Rey's Zaku as its pods detached and began to fire. The White Zaku quickly took out on the mobile suits, what is with this kid in white, Neo thought as he ordered the second mobile suit to attack Minerva as he saw the White Zaku go after the mobile suit, he prepared to ambush the White Zaku.
Rey swerved around and fired his missiles at the mobile suit, distracting it so that he could finish it off and then he saw that the Exus was gone. AS the Minerva followed Athrun's plan to escape the asteroid, it fired its starboard weaponry to escape and then lined up a shot on the Tannhauser at the enemy ship. The Minerva cruised past the now damaged Girty Lue.
"Damn! To think that they would turn things around from that situation…" Neo cursed to himself as he prepared to fire on the Minerva, however, Rey had caught up by now and fired at shot at his starboard, and he had to disengage from the strafing run, as Neo weaved and dodged Rey's Zaku's blasts, he fired the withdrawal signal.
