I own nothing in terms of the gundam seed characters or the base model parts of the EX-caliber gundam though its personal design and name are mine. Thank Bandai though for the basics. Also thank nemesis astrea once again for letting me use his basic plot point of the ZERO system.
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Noah paused for a moment to let that declaration sink into all participants of the coming battle. "...we do not do this for our own benefit, no…we do it to better mankind, to rid the world of this scourge known as war. We do this to make those that think they are saving the world by condemning their fellow man or that they are doing god's work wake up and get their heads out of their asses." he said calmly, putting his own spin on Aeolia schenbergs declaration. This would easily reach radicals on both sides with this many participants in the battle.
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Murrue gasped. Noah was revealing celestial being to everyone. But why? Why after he clearly made an impression on halberton…why explain that he essentially intended to wipe the battlefield clean short of himself, Nicol, and this ship and crew…it would only serve to put the earth alliance on defense. She looked at the monitor and continued to hear him out. This almost sounded paraphrased…like someone else had told him what to say. Her eyes narrowed. "Noah Carson…just what did you do when you left?" she thought as she listened to him.
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Halberton glared at the screen as he listened to Noah. So he HAD been threatening the ship. Just what did he do by approving the zaft prisoners release and transfer to his custody? And how would this boy affect the battle? Would he focus on zaft more than them? Or would they be his primary target? Even the earth alliance barely had a shred of evidence as to where his machine came from or what all it could do.
"Admiral! What should we do? We know NOTHING about that machine!" called out his aid, clearly angry that he couldn't say he told him so.
Halberton looked to his bridge crew who were all looking to him for guidance. He cleared his throat. "We shall wait and see if Lt. Ramius lets him launch. If he does THEN and ONLY THEN will we worry about him. He is just one man, one machine. We have proven with zaft that numbers can win a battle. He will be no different." he stated as he took on a look of determination. In truth he had taken a look at the machine while on the archangel, wanting to also see the strike and blitz. The way it stood between them, black with blood red accents…it looked like it could come to life at a moment's notice and wreak havoc in the cosmic era worse than the nuclear missile launched on the plant colony. Unlike the gray blitz and strike who looked like statues guarding the demon machine.
But…from the images he had seen when he reviewed the archangels after action reports that involved the machine…that glow that followed the gundam seemed to carry the hopes and dreams of humanity, that this machine could change the war drastically for the better. Not in the way blue cosmos may want it to change, or the plant radicals either.
No…it could show that this war had no point to it anymore. That humans, natural or coordinator, should be able to live together in peace. It was one reason why he backed this project. Not just because he wanted mobile suits to help protect his homeland, but because it was orb that would be willing to help. That they wanted to help with this project seemed like a turning point in the war already.
With that thought having passed he took a deep breath and continued to listen to what the boy was saying. His aid was right after all. They knew nothing about him, perhaps this may help them.
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Rau had to admit the boy had balls. He was declaring war on the world, even from within the archangel. But he had to wonder…would he attack the legged ship now? Had he been a double agent this whole time?
The blonde commander couldn't help but smile as he stood up and looked to the Vesalius' captain. "Captain you have the bridge. I'm going to go prepare for a sortie in my C-GUE. "he said as he watched the captain turn around with a confused look for a moment then nodded.
"Good hunting sir." He said before turning back to focus on commanding the zaft forces as a nearby patrol began to add to their number. He had noticed the alliance forces seemed to notice them and was slowly moving to form a defensive formation around the legged ship. Today would be the day….
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Nicol looked from his comms monitor to his right side monitor and stared with his mouth open at the EX-caliber. Noah hadn't been joking. His plan was to take on the world….and the fact the legged ship had been his vessel of choice given their own prototype carrier had been destroyed was the only reason it hadn't been sunk.
But…if they planned to take on the entire world and give it a huge middle finger….the thought of EX-calibers power and the fact it was meant to have…well with who knows how many fellow machines….they very well may have been able to do it.
Noah sunk back in his seat. Suddenly he wasn't so confident about taking the field with Noah….or his decision to join celestial being. Was it too late to be a POW again? Or would Noah kill him for running away from a man hell bent on eliminating WAR? Who did that anyways?
All Nicol knew was that he needed to do something to get on captain Ramius' good side so he didn't have to spend his last days in a cell. With that thought he sat back up and gripped his controls, closing his eyes as he gathered the courage to fulfill the agreement he made with Noah. Today he'd fight his kinsmen…his friends…
And he'd kill them…
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Noah decided to continue. After all a threat was nothing without heero's favorite set of words…well…sort of. "That…was our originally intended message for the world…well the gist of it." He said, shrugging as if this was all a joke. But a moment later his eyes narrowed once more.
"Instead…I simply have this to say. This war has no point to it anymore. It's just a pissing match between two idiotic radical groups who view themselves superior and won't listen to those who still have a head on their shoulders. Innocent blood is either being spilt or corrupted by this war, with each side having racist bastards fueling it! Because of this I make both sides my target so that maybe you`ll all wake the fuck up! And the sad truth is…I will kill you all until you do so." He said before closing his open coms and just opened a channel to the blitz.
"Nicol you're launching with me. We are gonna intercept the zaft forces. We may be targeting both sides but some of those soldiers are good people." he said as EX-caliber was moved into the catapult. He was surprised it was already all set up. Seemed murrue got the idea from what he said.
He looked at a screen containing his rear view before the airlock could close. He smirked when he saw the blitz leaving its bay and following him. He looked back at his main screen and tapped it to expand it slightly while the catapult opened. He still couldn't believe he was here, and to see the 8th lunar fleet floating out in space around him…it made him grip his control balls tighter as he felt the catapult launch him from the ship. Today he'd be in his largest engagement yet and against both green and experienced pilots alike…he'd really have to bring his A game.
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Once he was clear of the ship he glanced to the right and noticed a group of ships, likely a nearby patrol that was joining zafts assault. "Likely spawned due to my presence and the zero system." He thought as he flew towards it.
The moment he moved for them their defenses flew up. They were out of range for the original three attacking ships to target him without blind firing and hitting their own ships but they had stopped dead in the water, as if the ships themselves were unsure of what to do…that was till they began to throw up a field of flak and began moving slowly so they could coordinate their fire.
As usual he began spinning, diving, jinking, everything to dodge their fire, gritting his teeth as he felt EX-caliber shake from taking a few hits. Finally he decided they were manually targeting him and were too coordinated for him to get close so he flew away for the moment. It seemed the ships thought they had actually beat him back.
They were DEAD wrong.
Instead he flew away and around to be between them and the main three ships attacking the 8th lunar fleet. He once again opened a channel with the blitz. "Nicol I want you to position yourself between the fleets. Once both sides begin launching, focus on the mobile armors and the Heavy weapon system ginns. If your former team comes after you….you remember our conversation…eliminate them." he said before closing the channel and raising ex-calibers left arm. Zaft already knew about his shield and the heat blades…so why not show off its only truly offensive system?
As the ships began to close the gap between him and them and rau le creuset's fleet began launching their mobile suits the black bars on his shield swung forward and locked into their MAC cannon configuration. He then targeted the lead ship of the patrol joining the fight right as it opened its launch bay.
Zooming in he could just barely see the GiNN in the launch bay and smirked as the bars charged with electricity. "Well…time to get this show started." He said calmly before pulling the trigger on the mac cannon. With a loud snap the now small E-carbon ball that was the cannon's ammunition rolled into the charged rails…and shot out towards the ship.
No one could tell what happened, anyone who watched would simply see a flash between the bars…and an explosion go off between the ships launching arms….
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Nicol had just launched from the archangel…and couldn't help but feel the irony. If he didn't know the raw power and speed of EX-caliber he would have spun right around and launched his gleipnir anchor into the bridge and be done with the ship. Instead he decided to follow through on his decision to follow Noah's orders and flew away from the ship towards his previous team's home fleet. He then noticed a hail from Noah and answered it.
"Nicol I want you to position yourself between the fleets. Once both sides begin launching, focus on the mobile armors and the Heavy weapon system ginns. If your former team comes after you….you remember our conversation…eliminate them." Said Noah and Nicol nodded.
"I-I understand. I`ll engage enemy forces immediately." He stated as he already saw the GiNNs launching and the mobile armors. He was curious as to why he wanted him to focus on the mobile armors in general and specific ginns. But then it made sense. Both the GiNNs he mentioned and the mobile armors had missiles, meaning they could deliver a larger payload to their targets, destroying ships for the GiNN's and it was usually what gave a Mobile armor its best chance at beating a GiNN. While it meant he may have a chance to kill more mobile armors than his fellow coordinators, he knew they still would launch more than a few of the GiNNs with the heavy weapon systems.
Still as he flew into the fray that had already begun he noticed both a GiNN and two mobile armors heading for him. It seemed they cared more about shooting him down then they did each other. As the mobile armors used their speed to get to him first he jinked to the side to come between them and ignited the beam saber in his trikeros weapon system and sliced the one to his right in half as they passed him before spinning around and firing shot from his beam rifle into the other mobile armors rear, piercing it from the back to front and causing it to explode.
He oddly smiled when he glanced to EX-caliber and saw it still focusing on the zaft patrol, now flying towards the confused ships after having apparently shot something inside one of their launch bays. He knew the mystery pilot would make quick work of the patrol ships and join him. It would certainly make it easier dealing with the other prototypes.
For now he turned back to the GiNN that was coming at him…
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Noah sped towards the three zaft ships and got closer this time before their defenses came back up just as the other two ships launched their GiNN's. He dodged and weaved between the AA fire and GiNN rifle fire. Finally as the ship who's launch system he destroyed got a GiNN to pull away the wreckage he flew in and jammed his GN sword three into the GiNN, spearing the cockpit before withdrawing the blade and kicking the machine back before it could explode, now within the hangar, destroying any chance the ship had at launching mobile suits.
With that job done he boosted up to look into the bridge. This close to the ship their manual targeting defenses were almost inoperable due to the slightest misfire meant hitting their own ship. He looked into the bridge, seeing the terrified crew and sighed as he found himself hesitating for a moment.
He was about to kill them…he'd have their blood on his hands. But did this count? He had already killed two GiNN's before, and now two more in this engagement. Did this make him a killer if he ever got home?
Banishing those thoughts from his mind he brought the EX-calibers right arm up and back, bringing the GN blade back into its stowed position and got ready to just crush the bridge with the rifle portion of the GN blade when a warning blared stating he had a missile coming his way from behind. He smirked and boosted up at the last moment, allowing the missile to hit the bridge and as he flew away and circled back to see just what person had the balls to attack him from behind.
He found himself instead being hit by a gray shoulder guard and being shoved back. He closed his eyes and grit his teeth as his cockpit shook. He opened his eyes to see a familiar gray mobile suit aiming a second missile at him. He floored it right towards the machine.
Seemingly unphased by the impending assault the CGUE fired the second missile before ditching the launcher and drawing his own sword and launching towards EX-caliber.
As EX-caliber came within seconds of being struck by the missile it rolled to the left before flying alongside the missile, coating it in electronic scrambling GN particles and causing it to lose its short range lock on him. From there Noah found himself being hit by the CGUE as he passed the missile, this time an elbow to the gut.
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"SO YOU REALLY ARE JUST A NATURAL! I KNEW YOU WERE JUST A FLUKE…NOAH CARSON!" yelled rau le creuset over an open channel as he drew his CGUES blade and raised it to strike at EX-caliber. As the sword came down he smirked as Noah's originally concealed shield was brought out to block the heavy sword.
The blade hit the shield with a bang and as they pushed off from each other he brought his CGUE's Vulcan shield up and the chain gun inside the shield began to spin up. "Time to say goodbye EX-caliber. Guess you're not all your name makes you out to be." he said calmly before opening fire on the mobile suit. At this range the suit should have been shredded without phase shift armor, and Rau wasn't locking on so he should have had no problem hitting the machine.
Instead when the smoke cleared the machine was floating there. Perfectly intact albeit frozen, as if expecting the same reaction. What had just happened? The machine before him should be in pieces yet it looked like at best it had a few nicks on it. He growled and regained his composure…sort of. "JUST WHAT ARE YOU!?" he yelled as EX-caliber brought its sword up and blocked him as he swung once, twice , three times…he kept swinging at the black and red machine. The machine's eyes seemed to have dimmed slightly and rau wondered if it meant he was doing more than just keeping the pilot dazed. He grinned and kept striking at the machine, occasionally getting a hit in on the arm or shoulder, or the tip of his blade on the main body but that just seemed to keep the pilot dazed no matter where he hit.
Finally rau ditched the sword and pushed his accelerator to hit the gundam once more, causing it to drop its guard and allow him to grab the head and stop the machine from floating away before raising his Vulcan shield to what he assumed would be the cockpit. "It's time for you to leave this world, mister Carson, for your organization to leave the stage. It's just a shame you had to involve Nicol. But him and Athrun were always too weak for my liking…and with the next line of machines being built I'm certain Nicol will no longer be needed." he said before pulling the trigger.
But right as the first round left the barrel EX-calibers blood red eye flashed…just the one eye and the machine seemed to begin to shake before turning red. The next thing rau knew it was gone and a flurry of bullets flew through empty space and GN particles. He began to grind his teeth. Just how many tricks did this machine have up its sleeve?
It was then he noticed his CGUEs right hand was missing…well that and half its forearm. Just what was this machine capable of?
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Rau le creuset was outpacing him. Out thinking him. Him...a gunpla battle world champ runner up and even at that it had been close…and the char clone was out maneuvering him. How did he not see the missile was a distraction? A way to get close without him focusing on rau. He was cursing himself so long he didn't see rau bringing his sword down till it was too late and he had to react on instinct, bringing up the left arm and its shield.
He quickly shoved the sword away again and intended to use the GN repeater now available with the GN blade stowed but again rau beat him to it as he found himself face to face with his CGUEs Vulcan.
This was it, this was the end. There was no way he could block in time as the barrels were already spinning. And he…he...he couldn't decide what to do. It was just like that world championship. He had had a custom wing gundam buster rifle pointed at him, the barrel already glowing yellow and ready to fire.
He only had a split second to decide what to do. And just like then he had been out maneuvered and was having to play catch up….then put in a situation where he either acted or he didn't….and like last time…he froze.
He closed his eyes and looked away from his main monitor, gripping his control balls to the point the plavsky particles based orbs were beginning to crack under his grip.
He felt the gunfire hit his machine, felt his cockpit shake and waited for it to pierce his machine and kill him.
But it never came.
He slowly opened his eyes as the pounding and shaking stopped and blinked. He loosened his grip on the control balls, also allowing EX-caliber arms to fall to its sides as he stared at the red hot barrel of le creuset's Vulcan.
He checked his damage monitor…and saw aside from minor stress on the e-carbon in certain places that was quickly fading it seemed EX-caliber was intact. Of course similar to phase shift armor the machine had to transfer GN particles to strengthen the armor where it was being hit. So the eyes had begun to dim as the machine focused on keeping itself intact.
He began to plan a countermeasure as rau seemed to be in a similar state of shock. He got ready to fight back but rau AGAIN beat him to it and he grit his teeth as he listened to the char clone yell at him over an open channel before beginning to simply assault him with the CGUE's heavy sword. The sword in question should have cut itself in half on the blade of the GN sword 3 after he brought it out to attack but instead blocked with it…but since the condensed GN particle edge wasn't charged with particles the blade was simply a physical blade and was only able to defend him…somewhat. He was still being beaten back slowly, his suit taking a few hits to the body.
Finally he thought rau was done when he ditched the sword to the void of space and as he got ready to fight back he found himself yelling in pain as he was once again shook and his head hit the back of his chair hard.
Rau had just elbowed him again and as he let go of the control balls the gundam simply went limp and began to float…till rau grabbed the head. Noah could only open his eyes in surprise when rau got so close to his machine and his camera was filled with the CGUE's mono-eye.
When he heard rau begin to give a small farewell speech he knew he had to act. Grabbing the control balls he took a deep breath and listened to the chain gun begin to spin up. Outside his cockpit. At that range, GN particle reinforcement or not…he would die. And he couldn't move away in time conventionally nor raise his shield or sword to bash the gun away or cut it in half. He had one option at this range.
He pressed the button on the control ball to access his arsenal and went to his SP section. His trans-am…it was reveal this to zaft or die here. And he couldn't die. Not yet…
With that he activated trans-am and a screen appeared below his main monitor with his trans-am time.
He heard the drive spin up and as it did so he brought up his left arm and used the shield's heat sabers to cut off the arm at the middle of the forearm. With that he flew away, all in the blink of an eye…with a CGUE hand covering his face.
He needed to ditch le creuset and re-join the fight. With that in mind he knocked the CGUEs hand off his face and sped off towards the firefight that was slowly moving towards earth's atmosphere. He needed to save those civilians or distract yzak before his trans-am ran out and even more so before he got caught in earth's gravity. Once trans-am ran out he'd lose the mobility needed to reach the archangel. And he wasn't sure if he'd have enough particles to form a shield in front of him so he could survive re-entry.
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Murrue was biting her lip as she watched the fighting on her monitor. She had already gotten clearance from admiral halberton to begin their descent so the entire 8th fleet had begun to move towards earth to protect them.
They were already down ten ships and the battle was hardly even 5 minutes old. Then again it didn't help that in between bringing down mobile armors and GiNNs Nicol and the blitz were a whole nother animal now. It moved efficiently, not a single motion was wasted. It even was using the lancer darts like spears, firing them from the shield and retrieving them to use later or to simply turn around and…well spear a GiNN or mobile armor with it.
It was obvious the stealth machine's new performance was beginning to irritate both sides as the few GiNNs left were either focusing on destroying ships or they were focusing on Nicol so as to let the other prototypes assault the fleet and likely get to them as an ultimate goal.
But what had caught her attention was Noah's interrupted assault on a zaft patrol that had clearly come here ASAP to back up the three ships originally attacking them specifically for Noah's presence. The whole bridge seemed surprised when rau le creuset came out of the fray with a pair of missiles and began an assault on Noah….and an assault it was.
They all watched almost in horror as EX-caliber was punished more and more.
As she watched the CGUE assault EX-caliber with its sword murrue couldn't help but silently beg Noah to fight back, to show them that the fear and terror his machine had instilled by its lethality, and awe and inspiration it gave as an ally was well placed. That they hadn't all worried over nothing.
She cringed when she saw the CGUE grab the gundams head and she was ready to write Noah off but then in what seemed like a red flash the enigmatic gundam was gone, nowhere to be seen.
She began to search for him on her personal screen in any way, radar, and the ship's various cameras. Finally she found a red streak with a black core headed into the battle. "So this is the trans-am system…"she whispered, remembering the load-out Noah had sent her just after the admiral left. It had stated how the machine glowed red and began to move 3 times faster. But it was a double edged sword.
As she watched him though her radar crewman called out, "oh shit…a GiNN broke through the fleet's defenses…I-it's got heavy assault gear…AND IT'S HEADED FOR US!" he cried out as he looked to the bridge's windows.
The GiNN was heading their way with two missiles left on a rack held in its left arm while its right held its rifle. As it flew into the barrage of AA fire it quickly let loose both its missiles, clearly hoping that they would hit. Sadly all that did was lessen the fire on his GiNN as both missiles were quickly shot down along with his left arm was shot off. But soon he was in the archangel's bubble, its rifle aimed right at the bridge.
Murrue gasped and the entire bridge crew braced themselves for the end. Instead they saw a yellow claw spear the GiNN from the back. The claw closed and retreated back through the hole it had made which also replaced the cockpit and its battery. As it exploded they looked past it and saw the blitz. It hovered there for a moment, as if still trying to decide if they were targets or not before flying off back into the fray.
Murrue opened and closed her mouth like a fish as she tried to find the words to say. Nicol…had just saved them. It was one thing to follow Noah's rules about his targets…but to pursue a GiNN and save them…she finally found the words she wanted, "I WANT A STATUS REPORT ON THE BLITZ! HOW MUCH POWER DOES IT HAVE LEFT?" She called out and her crew got back to work preparing for entry into earth's atmosphere and beginning to actually add the blitz to their friendly roster and set up a link like they had with the strike.
She then remembered Mu was waiting in the hangar. "Launch la flaga and inform him he is to reinforce Nicol!" she called out and again her crew got to work launching the orange mobile armor. She was surprised to hear miriallia asking what to launch the strike with.
She was about to ask why he was still there but realized why as she remembered who was filling her CIC. "launch Kira in the aile configuration, he is to find the other prototypes and hold them off till we are ready to begin our descent into earth's entry interface!" she said, being reminded by natarle they were only 20 minutes out from making their descent. Still…they had to make sure Noah and Nicol could come back.
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Nicol groaned as the blitz was rocked by another burst from a GiNN. After he had fired a lancer dart through his first GiNN's cockpit and caught it on the other side as he flew by like a sewing needle everything became clear. In his mind he could see a puddle of water and a glowing seed. Just as he glanced out onto the growing battlefield the seed dropped and the moment it touched the water it burst.
His mind seemed to go blank, his body reacting to oncoming GiNNs and mobile armor like the blitz was an extension of himself. One GiNN on his kill count became 3, one mobile armor became five. And as he navigated the battlefield he found himself beside or near alliance ships and began sinking them. Of course after about his third ship taking down things began to become more of a fight. GiNNs began trying to coral him so yzak or Dearka could come to him. He traded fire with them but ultimately got away. He was even somehow managing to switch between his mirage colloid cloaking and his phase shift armor well enough he could be in a fight, disappear like a phantom, then reappear and attack.
He was also focusing on GiNNs with missile sets. Finally he climbed and eventually got above the fray...sort of. He was at least out of everyone's focus. He glanced at his power gauge and was surprised to find it only half gone. But then again he had almost forgotten how much he was reusing his lancer darts.
He finally noticed one of his prey managing to slip past a pair of alliance vessels just as athrun grappled the bridge of one in the aegis' mobile armor mode and fired its hidden 308mm Scylla cannon through it while Dearka connected his two guns to form their hyper beam rifle and gutted the second vessel.
"Crap…it's gonna go for the archangel." he said as he sent the blitz into a dive. As he re-entered the fray he activated the mirage colloid, deftly dodging any and all fire as he stealthed through the battlefield and hunted down the heavy weapon system GiNN. He cursed as he caught up and found the GiNN moments from firing its rifle directly into the bridge of the archangel.
Without wasting time debating how to handle it he activated the phase shift armor again and turned before spinning back, slinging the left arm out and launching the gleipnir rocket anchor at it. Thanks to its built in rockets the claw quickly connected to its target, running it through from behind and destroying both the cockpit and the battery.
He retracted the claw just as it exploded. After it docked on his left arm again he looked at where the GiNN had been. Ever since his first GiNN kill in this fight he hadn't hesitated to destroy anything he came into contact with. Be it ZAFT or earth alliance.
The only thing to survive encountering him currently were his former teammates…and sadly that's not for a lack of trying.
After contemplating all this he decided to leave it till later and the Blitz once again climbed back into the fight, re-engaging his cloaking as he slowly began contemplating how to potentially "hunt" the other prototypes.
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Noah looked on into space as he withdrew his blade from the bridge of an earth alliance destroyer. Still in trans-am the machine was no match for anything on the field. Why he wasn't using this to potentially eliminate Yzak or capture the rest of team "council princess' " he had no idea but as he turned and flew off to bisect a GiNN he found himself noticing the EX-caliber was growing heavy, even with trans-am active. They were entering earth's atmosphere.
The blonde took a moment to examine the battlefield and noticed it was beginning to follow the path of the episode. Rau was nowhere to be seen, then again he was missing a hand, and he likely had to retreat to get repairs.
Most enemy units had retreated…well…the remaining ginns were retreating…the mobile armors were all but gone.
The Menelaus and the Gamow were trading shots and trapped in earth's gravity.
Since Nicol was fighting on their side...and nowhere to be seen it seemed the Aegis had pulled back as Rau would have ordered.
He glanced towards earth again and he saw Mu and Nicol trading fire with Dearka, it seemed more so that Nicol was trying to distract Dearka so that Mu could get a shot on the buster but sadly the stealth machine didn't have enough weapons to both distract the buster and block or dodge it's attacks. Whenever it fired its beam rifle mu would hit it with his gun barrel pods so as to throw off the shot and save Nicol while when Dearka tried to hit mu he would ram it or take a pot shot with its own beam rifle.
Good. Nicol had done something to win his favor.
As he realized he was running out of time sitting there in trans-am he looked for yzak…and found him.
"Shit…" yzak was about to fire on the civilians.
Without thinking Noah pushed his accelerator to its max and tried to intercept the shot.
Everything went into slow motion as he caught up to everything. He barely had any time to block the beam as it was seconds from hitting the shuttle. So he did the next best thing from just shoving his shield in front of it and likely failing.
He spun around and with the momentum of the spin and his trans-am just fading he put himself between the beam and the civilians.
He prayed to god it didn't hit the GN drive. But if it did, if this was the end then well…at least he went out doing something good.
He got lucky though as he also spread his arms, not entirely sure where the beam would hit. In doing so his GN shield overlapped where the beam would have hit and took the shot.
Noah watched the shuttle continue its path and he heard the GN drive slow down as his trans-am ended. He opened a com channel with Kira as the strike physically turned to watch the shuttle. "Kid…hey kid…KIRA!" he shouted as he felt his cockpit begin to heat up.
Finally Kira responded, his own face coated in sweat as his cockpit was likely beginning to heat up. "Mr. Carson…what is it?" he asked as he panted, trying to figure out how to get the strike to perform re-entry.
"Kid my suit can't handle re-entry on its own….well…it can but…I just dumped all my particles into helping finish that fight." Said Noah as he felt his body begin to become soaked in sweat.
Kira's eyes widened. He knew the strike couldn't protect them both. So…why ask him for help?
Noah moved and Kira saw his sword shift and move up on its arm, somewhat freeing up his right hand.
"If we combine our thrusting power we may be able to make it to the archangel. You use the aile pack to angle us towards them, as well as work on forward momentum, I'll put what power my GN drive can put out towards pushing us towards It." he said as he looked at the ship in question.
It was already moving to catch them. Not that he wanted to drop straight to Alaska but he had hoped to avoid landing in Africa. With the EX-caliber a full sized mech he was not sure how it would handle the sand without being tuned for it. And he only knew how to tune it in its model form…not its operating system.
As he latched onto the strike he noticed Kira already putting his plan into action. They had no choice but to simply move towards the archangel, unable to truly meet it. It was undeniable, they would still land in Africa, maybe a mile or more from where they were, but that's sadly how small the difference would be.
Nicol and Mu were waiting for them on one leg of the ship already. Slowly but surely they reached the ship, Noah releasing the fellow gundam as they made room for each other on the opposite leg.
At this point the heat was getting to Noah and he found his eyes getting heavy and his vision blurred. "No…can't black out…I refuse to die…here..." with that Noah lost the battle with his body and passed out just like Kira.
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Rau le creuset was sitting on the bridge of the Vesalius watching the archangel get away…and EX-caliber.
He had been surprised when he reached the hangar and got out to see his right hand and part of the forearm had been cut off cleanly, even the wires were singed to keep the cut clean. He had expected it to be torn off by the speed the machine showed after it began glowing red.
"Just what all can you do Noah Carson…"he said quietly. He had had the machine pinned, dead to rights after it seemed the fact he had out maneuvered the boy had stunned him. Obviously he was used to...well winning.
And at that speed…to make such a cut without simply removing the whole arm…why not kill him? If he could make such a maneuver surely he could have run his CGUE through…
The boy continued to intrigue him as he finally got out of his chair and headed for his cabin. He needed rest…and his hands were beginning to shake…he needed some of his pills.
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Murrue looked out the main monitors of her bridge. On one leg of the ship she had two mobile suits, one of unprecedented power with multiple cases of being a double edged blade, the other a child who was forced to become a soldier to protect those he loved.
On the other leg a former enemy turned ally and one of the earth alliances top ace pilots.
She smiled as she counted her blessings in the fact they started this journey worried every day that they would be jumped by zaft and it would be their last as Kira would fail and they would all fall at the hands of machines that had originally been theirs.
And now they were likely one of zafts most highly valued targets, Noah in particular. With each encounter they were sending more and more machines to face them in an attempt to wear them down and ultimately kill them. She knew it meant zaft was likely becoming scared of just how invincible this ship seemed to be.
But like with the GiNN earlier she also knew in the blink of an eye this could all end, their number would come up and they would all stare down the barrel of an enemy ship or a mobile suits rifle and no one would be there to save them.
She watched though as the Menelaus blew up and she stood and saluted. She had been so focused on keeping up with Noah and Kira she hadn't been paying attention to the fleet.
Once she gave the fallen admiral a moment of silence she sat back down and began to get status reports from her bridge crew. They would be landing in Africa, in the middle of the desert at night. And a long night it would be with recovering the mobile suits and armor as well as making sure their pilots were ok, getting any damage repaired. She sighed and began that long night by beginning to figure out how they would recover their machines.
Find your grace
Ok sorry for the wait. I just got a new roommate who apparently finds my typing to be too loud for his liking so i`ve been letting him get used to the place and tried not to do too much typing. Working on getting a different keyboard.
Anyways, I know some of that battle will seem kinda shotgunned in there and not entirely make sense. I`ll be honest…I almost lost interest in this story cause I kept looking ahead and wanting to write advanced chapters. But then I got an idea for literally the next chapter and I knew I had to finish this one in order to write that one lol. So…I powered through it and found a way to get everything to work ok.
Now…Nicol has accepted the fact he's at odds with both sides now. And yes he'd be a seed bearer or whatever that…reverend malchio or whoever called Kira that. And also yes Nicol saved the archangel. You read that right. But by then he was down to a HWS GiNN or whatever their classification is or two before he'd have to take on the more lightly armed GiNNs he also had more alliance kills under his belt than GiNNs so it kind of comes to a point where he has to choose….go against Noah, the pilot of EX-caliber and likely die…or accept his place in celestial being and fight to end this war.
Also now zaft knows about the MAC gun setting on Noah's shield as well as trans-am. So two more reasons GiNN pilots should piss their pants at the sight of his machine…like the wing pilots did to OZ.
But no after this next chapter Noah's invincibility is going to slowly going to fade as the zero system strains under the challenge of finding him a foe to challenge him…which will also be his love interest.
Next chapter: intermission…yeah I'm putting it in there…what no one wants to know Lukes reaction so far to such a BS story and get a sneak peek as to my plans for the future? Well screw you guys…I'll just take your cup of hot chocolate then…lol
OH ONE MORE THING! Check back to chapter one before I post the chapter after this. As I said before, parts of chapter one will be altered to account for things I put in which affect the build fighters universe part of the story…well didn't specify that but…yeah that's the mainly non original parts so…they need to change…