Disclaimer: I do not own Evangelion or Gundam SEED. I also don't own Noir, but the name sounds good.
Brief Summary: The Archangel is now in the Common Era, smack in the middle of a war between Humans and Angels. Duty to Humanity comes first, going home comes second. Though if they fail, they will have no home.
Updated Summery: Buster and Duel get set to fight the fourteenth (14) angel, Zeruel. Zeruel is a tough opponent, but Yzak Joule and Dearka Elsman are no pushovers either. You couldn't find an odder couple than them. They're both at the same time positives and negatives.
"Evangelions and Gundams"
Chapter 4
"Duel or Bust! A suit is missing!"
Zeruel stood looking at the golden horned mobile suits. One was heavy set with two guns in both hands. Its dull tan and olive green with maroon patches at certain points on its armor stood in a slight crouch, but by no means off guard. The other just stood in a defiant gesture, shoulders raised high and ready, the eyes locked in a penetrating glare at Zeruel, its dark blue and grey-white armor slightly shrouding it in the night. Then suddenly, both mobile suits green eyes glowed and flickered for a few moments, before just glowing an eerily green in the night causing Zeruel to take a step back. That's when the Duel took the first shot.
The pinkish light missed, causing earth to explode and throw up smoke and dust, that's when the Buster combined its weapons and fired its anti-armor shotgun. An excellent choice of tactics and quite textbook as Zeruel had been caught in the sudden blast of energy buckshot and was felled, but not killed. Charging forward, Duel used a tactic straight from the book of Veterancy. In short, he just pulled it out of thin air. Yzak Joule, commander of Joule Team, ZAFT, began to weave inside and out of Dearka Elsman, Triple Ship Alliance, ZAFT, Buster's fire. Only their noted teamwork and friendship enabled such a half-baked plan to work.
Closing to with-in 10 meters, Yzak worked the Duel into grappling Zeruel and brought him up and over the Duel's head and depositing him on his own head in a classic wrestling move. Dearka then released the Buster's own version of shock and awe. He fired every single weapon he had.
As Yzak cleared he fired the Duel's rocket propelled grenade, or RPG for short. Zeruel was hit dead on by the RPG and the Buster's fire and seemingly seemed to vanish into nothingness from such an attack. The fight had lasted no more than five (5) minutes, twenty-three (23) seconds from start to end. Though the Duel and Buster remained on guard. Some enemies liked to play possum, Zeruel included.
Inside the Archangel, Shinji was rushed into surgery. He had numerous wounds from the Zeruel's attack. He had apparently seen the attack coming and tried to punch out, but he was caught inside the head during his escape. His lack of experience was shown. The chest, where the cockpit truly is in an EVA, was never touched. Still, that did not matter, his life did. Medics that had pulled him out reported that despite the amount of blood loss and damage to the entry plug, Shinji had taken few, albeit serious and life threatening, wounds. They also reported that some scars on his body had shown signs of rapid healing. For that, LCL samples had been taken, from all three units and the little they had from Unit-04.
Toji and his sister watched in horror as Shinji was rushed by with severe wounds. They wouldn't see him for several hours afterwards. The alarm then sounded, indicating incoming missiles and yet another famous cry was heard.
"IGELSTELLUNG FIRE!"
Commander Ikari was not about to let the Archangel fly away with Shinji. Though it was not out of fatherly concern or care, but merely just because Shinji was vital to NERV and especially to him, at least for now.
As he watched the missiles he launch close in on the white ship, 75mm tracer rounds, with unseen solid rounds behind them, began to fly out from the ship at seemingly impossible speeds and angles. The missiles never made it even half way to the Archangel. Then the mighty ship launched her counterattack after tracing where the missiles had originated. The two Valiant Mk.8 110cm (1100mm) guns were then brought to bear and fired. In conjunction with the 225 cm (2250mm) Gottfried Mk.71 dual main guns, the missile batteries were quickly wiped out.
Then Commander Ikari brought out unmanned 90mm heavy Vulcan gattaling auto cannons and fired them at Archangel, but the Freedom and Justice arrived with reinforcements and the auto cannons were wiped out in seconds top. The arrival of the large fleet of ships, which brought their main guns and secondary guns, as well as arming their CIWS, or close-in weapons system, to bear. Commander Ikari wisely chose not to pursue the matter any farther. Yet, he still called for the Archangel's weapon caliber. A nervous group of techs answered.
"Two (2x) 110cm magnetically propelled cannons, mounted astern, one to each side."
"225cm dual cannons mounted on the top of pontoons at the bow, both energy, most likely beam energy weapons."
"The CIWS are 75mm rapid fire auto cannons, most likely a larger variant to the 45mm Vulcans CIWS mounted on even aircraft carriers. They are located at tactical and strategic positions all over the ship."
"Possible large caliber missile tubes aft and smaller anti-air missiles amidships, caliber also unknown."
"The ship's armor is also unknown sir, as is everything else, but we can guess it can hold at least a full wing of fighters and another full wing of transports, plus at least ten 20 meter tall, umm, whatever their EVAs are, sir."
The techs reports didn't leave a good impression on anyone, especially Commander Ikari. That meant that most current fleets of combat ships would be wiped out before they even fired their weapons. Explosions reminded everyone of the battle going on between the Duel/Buster Tag Team and Zeruel.
Zeruel tried to impale the Buster again, but despite its appearance, in the hands of a gifted and experienced pilot, it was proving quite nimble. The Duel, though, was always the faster of the two, but there are always drawbacks.
Yzak Joule's POV
"Yzak, my battery is tapped. Sorry, but I'm out of here," I heard Dearka call.
"Yeah I know I wish we had NJCs as…" I stop in mid-sentence. How could we miss what was so obvious.
"Archangel, I need you to fire your N-Jammers," I called the Legged-Ship.
"What?" came Dearka's new girlfriend, Miriallia Haw's voice.
"It uses nuclear energy, duh! I can't believe we missed such an obvious tactic," I replied sarcastically over the radio.
"Oh!" I heard her. "Duel, Buster, your both bingo power return at once, the Strikes will finish the job, over."
To say I was furious was an understatement, but then my power indicator began to sound off that annoying alert.
"Duel copy. Dearka?" silence. I didn't understand it. "Dearka? Dearka!"
Her voice then pierced over the radio like a banshee, but I got the point real fast, "Dearka has been downed by a fifth EVA! Someone help him!"
"Strike Dagger number 234 on the bounce!" I heard a Natural call out. Former space infantry from the saying.
I saw him clash with the 5th EVA as I did a quick scan as I landed, no pilot. It was an unmanned EVA. My attention was then grabbed by the two Strikes going head to head with Zeruel and I could detect the raise in N-Jammer radiation. Both the Angel and EVA stopped functioning. Intel had been spotty, but it did appear that they had done it. A variable S2 Engine, now just extra scrape metal.
End Yzak's POV
The two Strikes were quick to finish off Zeruel and then just watched as Strike Dagger 234 finish off the 5th EVA real quick like taking in a normal breath of air quick. Yet, no one could see where the Buster had crashed.
A young man with Asian features, glasses, and sandy hair did though. He ran to the downed Buster and pulled an injured Dearka free of the mangled cockpit. Dearka gained conscience momentarily.
"Grabbed the data disk and the rescue kit," after saying that, Dearka passed out again.
The young boy knew what to look for and what to grab. He was done in mere seconds and was dragging Dearka and the two items with them when a man came out no whereand quickly took the injured Dearka. The trio made a hasty departure before UN troops and NERV security arrived.