Noah took a deep breath as he pushed his chair back from his work bench. 2 months…he had done it in 3 technically as that was how long it had been since he got out of his simulation…but he had done it. On the table sat a pitch black and metallic blood red custom gundam 00 seven sword/g named "Gabriel", an angelic white custom blitz named the blitz jaeger with a custom death scythe cloak in the form of a trench coat covering its torso. It sat to the left of the Gabriel gundam. On its right was a custom buster. It was named the buster panzer, a bash between an enhanced buster gundam and the zoids model known as "liger zero panzer". The gundam was strong enough and had enough guns and missiles that by Noah's calculations, with the right pilot, hopefully that being Dearka, this could give trowa and heavy arms a run for its money.
He wiped some sweat off his brow and smiled. The first three gundams of his personal cell of celestial being. When he went back…the cosmic era would not know what hit them. He stood up and stretched. He looked to his clock and smiled. He was just in time. He grabbed the Gabriel gundam and put it in his gunpla case at his waist carefully before grabbing his travel bag. Looking back real quick though he grabbed the two special gunpla and put them in their own cases and added them to his travel bag supplies. The bag held enough spare models he would never have to repair one for his next fight.
In his living room sat the husks of now two of his simulation cockpits. He was almost ready to gear up and head there. But as he glanced to them he pictured Nina in one of them…he gripped his bag tightly and headed for his front door. Outside sat Luke, waiting patiently for him. He got in the car and Luke looked to him. He had a look of determination on his face. He was going to win the tournament. He couldn't go back till he had that trophy to prove his gunpla was worthy lf crushing zala and azreal. With that look Luke silently started the car and began to head to the world tournament….where sei would be competing as a guest of the meijin, who would also be participating. He intended to beat them both. If he could do that…then maybe he'd be strong enough to rescue her...
World tournament: 48 hours later
Noah looked around the tournament arena. So many fighters were here. They all had bested their local competition to represent their block of their respective countries….and no one was more dangerous than the meijin and sei who were discussing the fact that a couple weeks prior China had given birth and the mighty meijin was concerned his friend should be with her and not here. But Noah knew even if it meant she spent the last week of their first month as parents alone she would never hold sei back from the tournament. Hell she likely had had to Ban him from the house, throwing a travel bag together, kicking him out then throwing it at him and locking him out. Noah smiled, knowing sei's kind heart and imagining such a scene. Finally the announcer of the tournament, the new face of gunpla mirai kamiki, began to explain the rules and congratulate them on making it so far.
Noah took a deep breath and as the massive arena meant for the finals and the second stage free for all fight turned on, prompting everyone to place their gp base. He pulled his out and set it on the podium before him. He then pulled his new pride and joy. A machine he intended to keep in the best condition possible.
It was the machine he planned to use in EX-caliber's place once he went back to the cosmic era, and the machine he hoped to face each of the fighters from the 7th world championship in…
He place the Gabriel gundam on the GP base, looking it over real quick to make sure everything was in order.
On its shoulders sat its 2 GN buster swords. Each of his basic machines he had designed to fight in the one year war was like a machine from the wing series. It was based on a defining trait either in terms of its build or its capabilities, but either way they were based on this machine.
Like his zaku "phantom pain" the swords were shields, but if needed he could quickly remove them and use them as a shield or a weapon depending on the situation. The handles of the blades were a dark yet shiny metallic red, mica red was the color of paint he had chosen. The blades themselves were pitch black, flat, and a good contrast to the shiny handles.
His whole gundam was like this. Any white parts on the former gundam 00 seven swords/g was black, the rest was mica red.
On his back between the twin drive system was a unique feature. Instead of the normal backpack and thrusters, the 00[T]'s sword bit/shield system sat on his back…and inside it was a surprise. On either side of it though sat a GN buster sword 2. These were his primary weapons during heavy fighting but otherwise technically his secondary weapons.
In both his hands were the GN sword rifles of the harute gundam, remolded and up scaled to fit in the hands of the 1/100th scale gunpla. These were his primary weapons, 3 weapons in one, what was not to love for Noah's new fighting style?
The rest of its loadout was quite standard. A pair of GN katar's on its legs, at its hip's sat a GN short and long sword kai. And on its back skirt was its pair of GN beam throwing daggers/beam sabers.
All in all the gundam was a stark contrast to his original gundam. There was no custom battle damage, no fancy cloak, nothing really hidden, weapon wise at least. This was a whole new machine and Noah had yet to even test it.
Yes…every aspect of this machine was untested…and Noah was craving the challenge.
As the battle system let them launch he smiled, "Noah Carson, Gabriel gundam…LAUNCHING!" he called out and with that his gunpla was flung into the arena at an unknown location.
After the 8th years competition not getting as much…appreciation even with great fighters like sei coming back to fight once more after the catastrophe the new group funding the tournament had begun following the mad chairman's last example…which it was discovered had all been an attempt to knock reiji out of the tournament…but had added all sorts of twists to any event in the tournament, even the one vs one matches.
While most fighters hated this the company didn't exactly care…it brought up ratings, made people enjoy matches, and they made sure the twists didn't give any specific fighter an advantage.
But like now as Noah entered the survival match and found himself floating in space a timer was already up in his cockpit for the first event. Just like the seventh world tournament it would be a mega sized mobile suit that would be released into the match.
Noah planned to be there but till then he boosted out into space with a small turn towards earth. If he couldn't find anyone by the time he hit the archangel's entry point he'd go to earth and fight.
Sadly right as he made this plan he had to roll to the right to dodge a beam, then the left. Finally he stopped and climbed above another beam.
Zooming in on his opponent it was a simple zaku sniper….well…maybe not simple. It was beefed up.
The base model was obviously a converted zaku 2 not one…but the rifle was bulked up. It looked more closely in resemblance to a Barret 50. Cal then the original beam sniper rifle of a zaku sniper.
Still a fight was a fight, even if the zaku noticeably tensed as it began to turn in the zero-g of space. Clearly the fighter had won his fights on the ground and had yet to really fight in space…odd….
Either way Noah was quick to teach him the lesson of tuning his machine for all environments.
Putting the right GN sword rifle on its mount on the back of his waist, he boosted to the left to dodge another beam. They were bright and soon more fighters would be on them….good thing he had so many to go through till any real competitors showed up
As the sniper tried to match his sights onto Noah while dealing with recoil in space Noah's right hand slowly came to hover over the handle for his right GN buster sword 2 on his back. This would take precise timing as he could see the outline of a nebula blitz cloaked up and trying to sneak up on the sniper. After fighting with Nicol he had learned quick how to spot cloaked enemies even in space
"2 for one time…"he stated as his left buster sword swung forward and easily blocked the snipers last shot with a partial GN field. Afterwards Noah boosted forward.
Not expecting the sudden movement the sniper quickly boosted back and fired wildly at Noah.
the blitz was still unaware he had been seen and so just as he was about to spear the zaku sniper Noah brought his GN buster sword two up and took aim, pulled the trigger, and watched his own thin, long sniper style shot leave the custom metal barrel of his GN buster sword 2 and spear not only the zaku sniper but it caught the nebula blitz as well.
As both machines went up in flames Noah turned around and brought his left GN sword rifle's blade through what should have been nothing but black space. Instead one could have almost heard the thin tearing sound of the active camouflage cloak as he cut through it. The gouf underneath looked surprised.
Noah had to sweat drop. That explained the sniper…the gouf he was looking at was the same one he had claimed as his first kill in the one year war tournament. "You just never learn do you?" he asked as the gouf finally reacted, bringing up its new chain gun to try and get Noah first.
Instead Noah simply flicked his right wrist before bringing it swiftly to the left, turning his GN buster sword 2 to the side so the red condensed GN particle blade showed and brought it through the waist of the gouf.
The blade was so sharp and thin, so well made that the gouf stopped responding before the pilot could realize what Noah did. Instead he boosted off and away before the blue machine exploded. "Serves you right moron…"muttered Noah as his machine spun around and he turned towards the earth, placing his buster sword 2 back on its rack and replacing it with his second GN sword rifle.
He had had his fun in zero gravity, but he missed the feeling of his machines weight…he sighed. He missed them all so much…
World tournament part one:
While what obviously by previously set time lines should have already been the end of gundam seed as previous notes of Noah's activities back home state he has been gone for months…for him anyways.
But for the archangel it had only been a few hours. Nicol had gotten the buster fixed enough that he managed to drag the blitz onboard before a pair of dinns showed up. The buster was in no shape to fight but it seemed the dinn's weren't there for them.
The bridge crew had watched a zaft submarine show up, they watched them recover the two "EX-caliber level" prototypes, then left, dinn's and all.
While this did confuse natarle and the crew that was left on the bridge, murrue still locked away in her cabin, they were also relieved as the sub didn't even try to barter their lives for the return of the buster and its pilot.
Natarle assumed it was because the machines they recovered did their job and considered the gat series scrapped. After all, Nicol got captured and even turned, the aegis and strike took each other out, the blitz managed to destroy the duel and their other new prototype…meanwhile they never once beat or came close to EX-calibers combat level.
Those two did…and even finally did the impossible.
They destroyed the angel of death, the god of war…they killed Noah…they destroyed EX-caliber.
To get them back was likely their top priority.
Finally flay, who had offered to let the other tech students go grieve even though it meant she was taking over EVERYONE'S station for the moment, called out that Murdoch was clearing them for takeoff. Though it was a violation to let them leave like that, even natarle's cold, rule keeping heart had softened at the sight of that mass of red GN particles hanging in the air so she let them have a small break, but still demanded they only be 10 minutes….that was a half hour ago…
She made the call for them to get moving and listened as everyone began to make the ship ready for takeoff. They weren't far from Alaska's air defense line…if zaft REALLY wanted them dead….well…the loss they had just suffered…they`d give them hell but they all knew they were dead in the water even if just a couple dinn's attacked.
She settled into her chair and was silent as with the ships movement jarred everyone back to their senses, the tech students even coming back, apologizing like crazy but she didn't respond.
She didn't want to…because she knew they needed time off more than her.
World tournament part one
Nina looked around the island quietly. She had examined the wreckage of the aegis and the strike, though most of what was intact was gone. It had been 24 hours since that fight and orb had come and gone in an attempt to salvage the two gat series machines.
Right now she was trying to find where a certain UFO level advanced mobile suits wreckage had landed. She should have been...
*CRUNCH*
Normally a crunching sound on a rock based island where combat had taken place was obviously gonna happen...but this was different in tone and just sound.
The white haired coordinator looked down and blinked, crouching to pick up…a plastic model? She looked it over, raising the arm with the busted sword, looking at the back to see the hole in the cone that she recognized as the power and propulsion unit of EX-caliber from where Heine had shot him.
She looked up and glanced around, remembering the fight. She was standing right where the gundam would have exploded, she could see pieces of Heine's broken flight platform nearby to prove it.
She looked back at the model. Aside from the hole it was just pretty battered and bruised. But she knew the machine. It was EX- caliber. But why? Where were its remains? Was this it? But how? Had the earth alliance made some kind for shrinking technology?
She sighed and then remembered their night together in orb, holding the piece of plastic to her chest. That was right…in his eventual borderline drunken state Noah had explained his origins. He was from someplace where all this…it was fiction…and he claimed that his machine was just a plastic model scanned into a simulation of said fictional universe…so he was telling the truth.
"Why…why did you hold back? Why am I not dead?" she whispered sadly as she shed a tear for her lover, battlefield rival, and the man she loved and had never wanted to leave in orb. She sighed and stood up, carrying the model with her
After all if this was the legendary machine then the zaft higher ups would wish to see this. She headed back towards the group looking to maybe rescue zala but she doubted they would. After all the amount of parts of the aegis and strike they did find…she didn't see the purple haired boy surviving…unlike yzak.
They had only come back originally due to a distress signal sent out by the young zaft red.
It seemed he had been tossed from his machine after successfully escaping it before it exploded, only to get caught on the shockwave. He had passed out for the rest of the fight and woke up and hid when orb came to retrieve the remains of the battle.
But after hearing what all happened he had been happy to hear of EX-calibers destruction…but to be reminded of his girlfriend's death, to learn of athruns death and the fact he had died at the hands of the strike…he wasn't taking it to well.
Finally she took one more glance around the now battle scarred rocky beach and noticed a few more pieces of plastic. She walked over and picked them up. It was the shield she had cut in half. She blinked. Was there more around?
Now frantically searching every little crevice and crack for the smallest piece of the model she found the busted sword and shield set up. She picked it up and put it in her pocket. She noticed a zaft green coming to likely tell her they were leaving. "You…tell the search teams to give up on zala. If they haven't found him yet mark him MIA! This takes top priority! I want them scouring this beach for any more plastic pieces like this!" she shouted, quickly holding up the remains of EX-caliber.
While confused originally the green ultimately nodded. "Yes ma'am!" they shouted before running back to inform the search team of their temporary leader's decision.
Nina meanwhile went back to searching, not just for the higher ups who would want every piece possible...and in case they deemed it useless junk Nina wanted every piece of her lover's mobile suit to remember him by.
World tournament part one
As Noah finally finished re-entry he brought his GN buster swords back to rest at his sides, still resting on his shoulders and special "deep well" GN drives. This also caused the GN field surrounding him to dissipate.
Looking at his machines status he was happy to see the GN field had done wonderfully and he had come through the atmosphere without a scratch. The new gunpla was doing admirably for having not been tested and was operating better than he had predicted.
He checked the time for the mega size event and saw he was only a few minutes from getting to bring the huge gunpla down.
He blinked though as he touched down in the center of a Y shaped crevice amongst some ravine territory and looked around. Considering this match and the previous first round of 4 player free for all were elimination rounds it wasn't uncommon for people who had become friends over the years of competing or that met here and knew they were weak compared to other fighters, they would group up to take on stronger fighters like himself…
Or they also grouped up in the case of being in mobile suits to re-create certain teams. Like now he found himself surrounded by a remake of the 08TH MS team, with their heavy gunner gundam ground type covering his rear, the EZ-8 to his right, and the GM (g) type to his left. Within a second later he was protected by a GN field as they all opened up on him.
He took the time of them trying to drain his GN field to set up his counter as the three on one logic would mean that 2 or all three would draw beam sabers and close in while he dropped his GN field.
Putting in commands for his machine to follow he finished just as they did. The smoke around his GN field hid him from them and vice versa. So while they decided their move he turned and dropped his left GN buster sword perfectly so it made a small shield behind him without him having to dig it into the ground, the impact doing that for him.
It seemed his time in the cosmic era had boosted his tactical knowledge as right as he turned back he found himself face to face with the EZ-8 and the GM (g) who both had beam sabers drawn.
He spun his right buster sword around on his GN drive shoulder mount and blocked one beam saber with it while he brought his left GN sword rifle up to block the other. Within a moment he was able to push them both back.
Deciding to try something a bit risky as the duo jumped back and prepared another charge while their heavy support got another magazine for his cannon from the gundam ground types weapon pack, he leant forward and dug his GN sword rifle into the ground and set his other one in its holster on his back.
Then with his left hand he reached up to the handle of his right buster sword. Noticing this the two low grade gundam in front of him visibly changed stances, thinking the heavy blade would be slow and one of them at least would take out a strong opponent with a lucky strike.
Neither of them knew Noah had reinforced the joints, especially the elbows and shoulders to compensate for the GN buster sword one and 2's heavy weight so he wouldn't need to take a knee to snipe with the buster sword 2's in atmosphere and could one hand the original buster swords.
So as the two gundams charged him he stood up and in one wide swing brought the large sword off his GN drive and all the way around to even change his grip and hold it behind him to block a shot from their heavy gunner.
The two previous machines of course exploded as he turned around and blocked a second shot from the 180 MM cannon. Dropping the buster sword he got out one of his GN buster sword 2s and stepped to the side to dodge another heavy round while holding out his own modified sniper/heavy rifle to aim at the gundam ground type.
No one would notice but behind him within the 00[T]'s shield on his back the third GN "deep well" drive within closed ports on the four openings where GN particles normally poured out and seemed to shut down. Instead the GN/ plavsky particles within were now funneling rapidly to the gun in his hand and within the time it took for the 180 MM cannon to chamber another round and the fighter to aim at Noah the barrel glowed red and Noah smirked. His little upgrade to these rifles….
A second later a blast ripped forth from the single metal barrel that rivaled the wing gundams buster rifle. Filling the canyon they were fighting in the young kid that had worked so hard repairing and fine tuning the gundam ground type just so he could fight here, having thought he was truly good enough to be here even though he had come from a small town in a third world country and therefore damn near won by default in the qualifiers…the kid could only watch as his gundam was pretty much atomized.
He was surprised though when his combat simulator system still chimed with a call for him. He answered it and saw Noah. "While I can't say anything about your friends…I'm sorry you had the misfortune of being the test shot of my GN "hyper drive" system. Find me after the match here, I'll buy you a new model and help you get it all set for next year." Said Noah. The child, about 10, smiled. "Thanks mister…that's a cool gundam you have." He said before Noah smiled and hung up.
With that act of kindness out of the way Noah re-equipped all his weapons, got his buster swords back where they belonged and flexed his fingers, having his gundam take a knee and activate it's active camouflage while he went over his plans for the mega size fight. He still had a few tricks up his sleeve. Besides he had a new timer on his console which was the timer for his third "deep well" GN drive's refill. With the machine in active camo mode though the drives had a chance to wind down and focus on powering the gundam and replenishing the three "wells" along with the condenser in his torso after that shot and powering the GN field for re-entry and for blocking that teams opening salvos.
World tournament part one
As they fled the area Nicol was in the hangar watching the blitz get fixed up. Well, fixed was not exactly a good way to put it. Basically they were stripping its right shoulder connectors to the torso, tearing that side of the torso open and planning to merge it and a replacement right arm for the strike in its place. They offered to try and use shiho's severed right arm as a trophy of sorts but as…well as the leader of celestial being he felt it too barbaric to do that. Besides with the strikes arm he could mount the launcher shoulder and the sword packs shield on that arm. It wouldn't be an ideal arsenal but with Noah gone he had to plan to flee with the blitz. If the E.A. brass didn't recognize him as celestial beings leader and/or take the danger of his presence in their base as a true threat if he wasn't allowed to leave when he decided it was time he needed to be able to fight his way out.
He turned though when he heard the LT commander trying to console miriallia. He walked over and saw her fall to her knees and start crying, the commander even turned and punched the skygraspers training simulator.
He looked between the two and felt Mir…well as she had told him to refer to her as instead of "miss haw" but he felt Mir needed more comforting whereas the commander was likely mainly pissed that they lost so many people today. Then again Nicol was pretty much ready to break down himself. He was alone…well he had flay under his command technically but she…wasn't…exactly a real asset…to him anyways.
The only thing was he was fooling himself when he reached out and pout a hand on her shoulder. Before he could say anything the brunette turned and hugged him, sobbing into his shoulder. "Bring them back Nicol…they can't be M.I.A….they just can't…" she sobbed as even Nicol found tears in his eyes. He patted her back and sighed. "I…I can't…as much as I know of a hundred different cliché lines to say here…I just lost my commanding officer and 2…no four of my friends…so…"finally he broke down as well, realizing how close he obviously still was with athrun, and he had even begun to hold Kira in high regard after learning about everything between him and athrun and sharing stories of their times with him. And Noah…the young man held the coordinator teen up as obviously not just a subordinate but a friend…
So yeah…yeah he'd lost more than a few friends today. Hell Dearka probably hated his guts so he should probably include him…and yzak…yzak would never let him killing shiho go…if they ever met again and Nicol wasn't in anything more than the blitz…he was screwed.
World tournament part one
Cagalli couldn't help but grab her stomach with one hand and cover her mouth with her other as she walked onto the beach of the island the coordinates the archangel gave them lead to. She looked around and saw mechanical parts, scarred ground, even burnt out forest everywhere. Whatever happened here not only trashed the machines involved but it also trashed the island itself.
The thoughts that ran through her head…as she stood there it was all she could do to keep herself from losing her lunch. After a moment though she saw the remains of the strike, pretty well in tact if charred to all hell.
"it appears the aegis self-destructed and tried to take the strike with it..."said kisaka as he walked up next to her only to have cagalli run off and shove one of the orb rescue workers out of her way before climbing up onto the remains of the brave multi-purpose war machine. "cagalli!" he shouted, running after her, knowing she likely wasn't ready to see what likely would be inside.
He never got a look inside before cagalli's stance spoke of sadness. "Kira…"she said with sorrow in her voice. "I'm sorry…"he began to say but she stopped him. "He's not here, the cockpits empty. He must have been thrown somewhere, or maybe he ejected in time…" she stated before running off after hearing someone call HIS name, not hers…HIS…reckless girl. Before following he glanced inside and prayed she was right.
The cockpit wasn't fried or charred as it likely should have been, but still the blast had melted almost everything inside, the leather seat was even melted, not dry and crispy but melted.
Finally he jumped off the machines mainly intact leg and went after the girl. In its condition the mobile suit likely would be repaired which gave kisaka hope that Kira was in fact ok, having enjoyed seeing cagalli interact with him and the enigmatic pilot of EX-caliber….speaking of…had they not also been told that the angel of death had finally been brought down as well? Where were its remains? Or did its fight end else-ware?
He followed cagalli to the group of orb marines and was surprised to see a zaft red uniform instead of Kira's blue flight suit. He could only frown and worry for his fiery charge as she looked down at the young man. To think a group of kids her age gave the archangel hell while one…well ultimately 2 teens of the same age gave them just as much as they dished out…then EX-caliber and Noah made anyone standing against him wet their pants and surrender just from the stories.
By now most were exaggerated legends basically, myths even, of his machines and the red demonic aura that followed it in the form of its GN particles.
What would she do now though…and he still wanted to know where Noah ended up or what actually happened to him…
World Tournament part one
"Hey be gentle will ya? I`m injured ya know! You guys are as bad as they claim in training…"exclaimed Dearka as he was guided through the crew quarters towards the brig after having been stripped, searched, and given some basic clothing.
As he was lead through the ship though he noticed a brunette in the crowd of crewman watching him. Ignoring the guns jabbed into his back to get him to move he stopped. "Well I'll be damned…at least you have one cute girl onboard this flying wreck. But give me a break? What's with the tears?" he said in a mocking tone before laughing as he was forced to move. "please…if anyone should be crying it's me…after all I'm probably gonna have my execution covered up as some interrogation gone wrong accident or some shit like that…" he said and he heard them have to hold someone back from taking a swing at him…but he still found himself on the floor with his jaw hurting.
With a grunt he rolled over onto his back and looked up to see Nicol, eyes red and cheeks stained with tears.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP ELSMAN! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY`VE BEEN THROUGH AND YET YOU MOCK THEM WHEN THEY JUST LOST TWO OF THEIR CLOSEST FRIENDS!?" he yelled as he looked down at the blonde who was in shock at the usually calm green haired coordinators outburst.
"I'm glad I left zaft…the earth alliance may be infested with blue cosmos fanatics…but zafts just as bad apparently…and to think I knew you…"he said before walking away while Dearka was pulled to his feet. "And before you ask or think I'm a true traitor…check the uniform. I'm…I lead celestial being now. I won't be on this ship much longer so if you somehow make it back be sure to get your report right…"he called back to him. It was obvious elsman had done something to severely upset his friend…well…former friend.
Truth be told he had wanted to try and turn him back to zaft, get him to help him to the buster, he gets in the blitz's remains then they sink this ship and either get back to base or get shot down as heroes of zaft.
Looks like that plan is out the window….
World tournament part one
Noah groaned as he performed a spiral in the air. Behind him was the mega sized enemy. For the moment he was the only one challenging it and his plan required him to have people to use a distraction.
Unlike the seventh world championship where the mega sized enemy was an AI controlled zaku 2…this was an AI controlled RX-78-2 gundam. Still its arsenal was as simple as the zaku, easy to counter as it was not equipped with its full array of weaponry…
But as a beam flew past him that was the same size as his gunpla he could only quickly shift up and into a climb to avoid more. Every now and then he took a pot shot at it but he wasn't hitting it too heavily, especially since it had "spawned" in the desert once again.
Once more he spun around to try and fire one more pot shot from the gundam but instead found himself staring at a beam ready to end his time here early, his GN field wouldn't hold against it just due to the sheer size.
Instead he was saved as another, somewhat familiar looking gunpla flew up in front of him…
It was a custom impulse gundam, but the way it countered the beam was practically a signature of its predecessor and Noah knew right away who had saved him.
The impulse before him was a custom machine which raised its shield and made it expand to its full size only for the black under armor of the shield to absorb the massive beam. The shield collapsed once the beam was stored and it raised its custom rifle, a remake of the build strike full packages large white rifle with some new tricks to it.
The impulse gundam was painted in a new paint job more similar to the RX-78-2 that they were fighting. It shared a lot of similarities to the build strike, including the angled shoulders which held new and extra thrusters, custom side skirt armor with beam saber emplacements, four CIWS barrels on its head plus the two in its chest.
On its legs were extra armor sections similar to the star build strike with clear pieces, the custom force silhouette on its back also had some clear pieces on it but those were lit up…Noah wondered what that meant…
As usual aside from these and a few other visual differences the force impulse gundam looked similar in build to its original version, therefore Noah knew it meant its main upgrades were in its new rifle, shield, those clear parts, and the inner workings of the model.
"Sorry we're late…we had to deal with our own enemies where we launched!" called out sei over an open channel as a moment later a massive blue beam filled the sky and hit the gundam.
Noah turned to see an odd gundam but again he knew exactly who made it by key features. The large skull on its chest gave it away as the mouth closed and steam vented between the teeth while the solar panels of its double x's twin satellite cannons folded up as well. A cloak flapped around its arms and Noah smiled. Mao was here...the two finger entrance/victory pose gave that away
As the sky went back to its normal color and the gundam reeled from the powerful hit it quickly was hit from the other side from another large beam blast, its torso beginning to glow with heat. Noah took a glance past it and saw Ricardo's wing gundam fence reniscita in its usual posed entrance stance. He smirked. Of course he was here.
Now where was the meijin? Was he not taking part in the event? No matter Noah quickly moved away from their location as the gundam seemed to get angry and began to focus on him, sei and Mao, the three scattering and beginning to hit it with pot shots while they prepared another volley from their heavy weapons, well sei prepared his new heavy weapon.
Noah meanwhile had his plan but he needed to get into position first and had to hope that his new "hyper mirror" system worked. He quickly got to work setting up a data packet to send the three world champion fighters with his plan in it.
Once that was done he sent it off and dodged another beam. The presence of more fighters seemed to have irritated the gundam as it began firing more erratically. He was quickly contacted by all three fighters but sei beat them all to the punch in terms of asking, "What is this you sent? Targeting data?" asked sei as he looked it over.
This was a popular tactic amongst fanfiction writers for heero and his zero system capable suits along with various gundam animes had pilots do this. Hell in gundam seed Tolle did it for Kira. Maybe he shouldn't have dismissed Noah's claims so quickly behind his back as a sign of his introvert personality and obsession with gundam which rivaled sei's getting to him.
No one had ever thought of doing this especially during a survival match like this. It had specific times and positions for them to fire from, especially now as other fighters joined in, each trying to be the one to bring down the gundam.
"you know what it is, I can see it in your eyes, just get to those spots and try to be ready to fire your strongest shots on my mark." stated Noah as he flew off to the around the gundam. What he had planned would give away likely his biggest advantage in this tournament…but at the same time now was the best time to test it.
He watched as everyone flew to their area he needed them in, sei just flying in circles of sorts around the gundam, taking pot shots now and then at it. Fellini flew down below it and began weaving around its legs to avoid being stepped on.
Mao meanwhile hovered above it, his cannons already charging as he would take the longest to set up his sho.t
"Ok…here goes nothing!" he called out as he dropped both his GN sword rifles and drew both GN buster sword 2's. He positioned himself in front of the gundam, not disguising his plan one bit…well…sort of. He raised one arm and took aim with its GN buster sword 2.
Once more the ports on his hidden, third GN drive closed and the barrel soon let the massive crimson blast rip out of the barrel. As it raced towards the mega sized gundam he lowered the barrel and brought up his second rifle while 7 red flashes flew past him.
As the gundam raised its shield, the AI seemingly wise to Noah's plan a clear crimson barrier, a GN field blocked the beams path to the shield. But instead of just blocking it the beam traveled into the field, formed by Noah's 7 sword bits.
Like when the 00[t] traveled to the ELS' home world the swords followed the beam into the field and it disappeared.
Noah smirked at the fact it seemed to work…his hyper mirror system worked. With that he lined up his next shot and the barrel glowed as the ports on his two shoulder drives closed but his third drive opened and began spinning up, causing him to lose some altitude but he quickly recovered.
Similar to sei's discharge system. Noah's new "hyper discharge" system literally was a discharge of particles in the truest meaning of the word. Unlike sei's complicated plavsky particle based system that included the absorb shield, Noah's simply was a system that allowed his "trinity drive" to release its GN particles to its full potential and eliminate any charging times for shots like this. It also would assist his "GN EMP" system when he reached the cosmic era, which was an EMP version of the quantum burst mode.
But it had an extra feature…
Everyone, even the mega sized AI seemed to stop when nothing hit the giant shield. Noah smiled and was practically jumping with joy. His first GN/plavsky particle based ability/ weapon since watching sei let loose his discharge system back during the 7th world championship worked!
"Ok guys, let 'em rip!" he shouted and the three world championship fighters instantly knew what he meant. A moment later a massive blue beam raced towards the gundam once more from above as Mao combined his three satellite cannon blasts.
From below Fellini let loose a blast from his improved buster rifle which quickly enveloped the gundams legs though once the firing portion was done he moved away from Mao's shot.
Sei meanwhile began firing on the gundams head, clearly not exactly wanting to add to the heavy hitters even though he also hadn't be asked to do that by Noah's firing plan.
Meanwhile Noah let loose a blast from his second GN buster sword 2. Confused and overheated from so much heavy beam fire the gundam couldn't move, its shield falling to its side as it couldn't decide who was the bigger target and it began to freeze up in its programming. Noah's blast hit it square in the chest and the gundam seemed done for as its entire body glowed a bright orange…but in a testament of will for the AI to win it continued to move, deciding Noah was its target so it raised its rifle to fire on him as he hovered in front of it
Noah didn't move as with the gundam still glowing, ready for one last shot Noah knew that shot was coming…
World tournament part one
Cagalli wiped away her tears as she stepped out onto her deck outside her room. She had finally finished crying over knowing Noah and Kira were now dead. She'd never see them again…and with their outlook on the war gone…the world was doomed to repeat what caused all this in the first place…she just knew without them orb would soon see the horrors of war and it made her feel even worse.
With a gasp she jumped when the sound of something akin to a thunder clap accompanied multiple bright red flashes shooting over her head high in the sky. She looked up just in time to see six glowing red objects form a ring just over the main city of orb. Worried it was some new weapon from the E.A. or zaft she got ready to run and warn her father but instead she noticed the red particles coming off the objects and gasped.
GN particles!
Shortly after she saw an angry crimson beam fly over her home and slam into a particle field the GN powered objects formed. Just before it did she could have sworn she saw a giant mobile suit through the clear red veil. But as the beam came in contact with it seemed to swallow and absorb the beam, following it into the veil once it had taken in all that red energy.
Once the sky returned to its normal color cagalli only blinked, her mouth wide open as she tried to figure out what had just happened she heard sirens fill the air and guards rush to ensure her safety. That blast had been similar enough to the strikes Agni-cannon that she figured the city would go into a lock down till they confirmed it was all over.
As the guards came to her deck she turned and smiled, just walking past them quietly. They were all confused. "Princess! Are you ok?" they asked, concerned the fiery red head wasn't yelling for a gun and crying out to be allowed to go fight whoever may be invading.
She stopped and smiled even as a tear ran down her cheek. "He's alive…I have no idea how or where he is….but Noah Carson is alive…I can feel it."She said, practically jumping for joy as she turned back around. "Orb just became a hundred times safer…he wouldn't let us or the archangel down…"she thought as she went to go get a snack…maybe an apple? She wasn't that hungry…
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Noah smiled as the gundams rifle barrel glowed with the shot that could end him. By now a lot of smaller countries fighters and many of the fighters left had shown up and were trying to get that final shot. But most of them were using custom grunt suits, the ones with the firepower to actually make that shot were all fighting each other nearby. Except the 7th world championship fighters, they were all wondering where Noah's sanity went…till the gundam suddenly had its back covered in an angry crimson beam blast.
Any fighting stopped as with a flash that caught everyone's attention the seven sword bit's that Noah sent off with his first blast showed up out of a dark red GN field that quickly became clear. Shortly afterwards the field expanded to allow his shot to come through, the red beam coming back with a vengeance as it hit the grandfather of gundams.
The glow of its barrel quickly died and everyone backed off, the mega sized model beginning to expand with the heat till finally it exploded.
While most fighters shielded their eyes and blocked the strong winds with their gundams Noah took advantage of their defensive stances and entered trans-am, moving quickly as he used his targeting program to map out who all was there, what machines they were in and what their weaknesses were.
He then pulled off an array of shots only a professional…well…no…what a damn gundam pilot could pull off. In the time it took for the light to die down he dimmed his screen to not be blinded by the light, targeted the grunt and low grade suits that would be easy pray for the sniper rounds his buster sword two's put out and began sniping targets from above.
By the time anyone really knew what happened the holographic screen shot up in the sky and the announcer AI called out "battle ended!"
As the plavsky particles fell it was announced that they had come down to the necessary amount of fighters for the match to end it and that Noah had received an extra 2 points for landing the final blow on mega sized enemy as the person who did so got every year. All it would take now was perfect scores for the next few matches and he'd have enough points to guarantee a spot in the finals.
He looked around him though as everyone seemed to look to him.
He blinked…
"What? Do I have something on my face? "he asked knowing exactly why he had so many glares, looks of astonishment, and looks of people who now seeked to beat him just to say they could championship or not. So he had the biggest grin on his face. He broke all laws of plavsky physics with that move…helped when you found a way to make plavsky particles and GN particles mix to open gateways to other worlds…your arena suddenly became a whole lot bigger.
He collected his gundam and walked away from the arena quietly, no one following him particularly but those leaving in the same exit hall clearly tried to look at his model as he looked it over, trying to figure out how he did that.
They would all learn if he won. This tournament meant everything to him. If he won…this gundam would be strong enough to save her. If not he would have to wait a whole 'nother year plus build a new machine based on a new strategy to try.
With the battle over though he hadn't paid attention to the group that was watching him though. A new breed of thief and hustler was arising and they reared their ugly heads around the time of the world championship, looking for fighters just like Noah…but usually with skills more like the poor boy Noah demolished in the ravine but with Noah's building skills. Basically fighters who got here by pure luck with poor control skills but amazing machines.
They quickly looked at each other and nodded to their newest member, a young girl who they then nodded towards Noah. "Get his gunpla." They commanded and she nodded, walking off to follow Noah.
She had no idea what her new "employers" were getting her into….or what she'd experience afterwards….
World tournament part one
Ok…so…I don't know…I feel it was halfway between rushed and sheer fucking brilliance. That "hyper discharge" system I came up with the name on the spot but in all honesty it's not as OP as it sounds. It literally is its most OP in the fact that it can essentially hide a full power buster rifle blast and re-launch it at any given angle at any given time. Otherwise it's just a fancy way of saying "I can unleash hell on you faster than you can pull your trigger, let the round leave the barrel and cycle the next shot in." it also improves Noah's agility due to being able to fuel a rapid climb or dive or force more particles out for him to be able to do whatever he needs faster at the expense of dipping into one of three "GN wells" which are the condenser tanks hidden beneath full power GN drives.
Look it up, it makes sense if you really think about it.
Anyways btw the girl at the end isn't some real world Nina counterpart or anything, she is just a new character I came up with on the spot for some drama, but thinking of making her permanent.
Also I shall give a better description and load out of sei's new "impulse build gundam" and Mao's "double cross X gundam" otherwise Fellini is in his reniscita as usual just some upgrades to parts in the way of metal parts, the flash etch or whatever parts, ya know just little improvements. And the meijin is using his amazing red warrior though he was off watching them all fight, mainly to watch how Noah would do as his machine is the most plain out of all of them…to a normal build fighter what does that day? Anything special is hidden within!
ANYWAYS lol not sure what else to put because maybe it will prompt you people TO REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!
I HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE READ THIS STORY BUT ONLY TWO LOYAL REVIEWERS…AND EVEN THEN YOU GUYS MAINLY PUT AWESOME COMMENTS…thanks btw it helps keep me going strong BUT I NEED MORE INFO ON WHAT I`M MISSING, I KNOW I HAVE GRAMMAR ERRORS I WRITE THESE AT 2 AM DUE TO WORK AND GAMES FOR FUCKS SAKE!
But I get no feedback anymore on plot, character building, and gundam designs…no more ideas to inspire me! My music has to do that…btw I'm listening to nightcore- this little girl while I write tonight and it has nothing to do with any scene in this chapter but it will in the next chapter…gave me a great idea for some non-MS combat.
And yes I know one guy I said was getting annoying giving me ideas for random gundams…I mean gundam designs as in am I forgetting anything during fights for the blitz, or am I under using something a pilot normally spams like Kira's beams when he gets his freedom gundam, or could I make anything better or add any neat trick or gimmick to EX-caliber or now the Gabriel gundam.
Anyways I'm ranting cause I'm feeling uninspired to continue this for the moment plus no one reviewed the basis of my shinn side story, "tempering a blazing soul" with even a "good idea, keep writing" reviews keep me going folks, otherwise I get bored and lose faith in myself. Seriously…even flames are ok at this point though if I have previously made a note of don't comment on it…this is gundam, not reality, so don't confine me to real logic . people did that enough on Gaia online…
ANYWAYS…read and REVIEW…hope you enjoyed, the usual stuffs