OPERATION: METEOR
"Operation meteor: that's what they called the gundams descent to earth. But it was initially something completely different. The rotation of a colony is increased, then the balancing mechanism is destroyed at the La Grange point hurling the colony towards earth. As this causes chaos on earth the gundams are sent in to take over. That's the general outline of the original operation meteor." – Trowa Barton/no-name explains operation meteor in gundam wing endless waltz.
Nils wiped his brow of sweat as he stood up from his desk and personal computer to see Noah walk in with what he had learned was a legitimate cosmic era flight suit, a black and red suit apparently given to him by the archangel's captain.
When confronted with the need to use his labs computers for this endeavor he had been skeptical, mostly because it all sounded like nonsense. Crossing dimensions…well no, more accurately breaking the forth wall LITERALLY…and then to be in space, piloting a gundam, meeting the crew of the archangel…
The possibilities of this technology was as revolutionary as the plavsky particles themselves. And now he had learned Noah's ability to "capture" his own beams through a GN portal with his GN sword bits was him doing just that, but using the cosmic era as a medium to transport the beam to another area of the arena's map.
And now Noah had asked him for a large battle arena. The purpose…so Nils and the other 7th world championship fighters could join him through the arena for various battles. Now his two completed cockpit set ups were linked to an arena, one slowly powering up and readying to load a virtual version of Noah's simulation.
How this worked is wherever Noah's Gabriel gundam was the map would change too. Holographic ships, mobile suits, buildings…basically the arena's field would BE the simulation, with targets made of plavsky particles so they could watch like some sort of strategy map in a sci-fi movie.
When they launched into it though it would change for them to a standard gunpla battle field where they could fight as if it was a match against the computer AI except they would be breaking the fourth wall and each simulated target would be piloted by…well…some random nameless…well to them, nameless pilot obviously of varying skill.
Noah looked to him and reached into one of the cockpits' setting a bag down that held supplies and gifts for people in the cosmic era. He had rules in place for helping him, Nils and him agreeing that certain aspects of this needed to be treated like a time travel sci-fi show that wouldn't fuck up the timeline. After all this was an actual universe where they were killing…technically killing ACTUAL people if they destroyed the suits, and killing or saving certain characters could give one side of this war an edge that no one would want.
Noah walked over and held out his hand for Nils to shake. "Thank you…I promise when I link up with celestial being later to get Ian to fix Dearka up with a better cockpit, I'll bring back whatever data I can. After all cellular regeneration would certainly be interesting. Just…no military specs remember that." he said as Nils shook his hand.
"Of course…this technology could be both good and bad for the world. While you're in there I'll work on a program like you asked to allow this to be made into a new aspect of gunpla battles without breaking this wall anymore. Only people you allow will be able to go between universes. "he said. Noah smiled at that comment.
"If the zero system allows it…keep an eye on it also, I don't want it acting up and deciding to throw some mega sized GINN at me or something. The fact it brought shinn here…I hope to god it doesn't cause him to leave zaft or fuck up seed destiny's timeline." said Noah. Nils nodded in agreement.
"Yes…now go…you have some people to save." said Nils with a smile as he started the zero system and began to load everything for Noah and Luke's entrance back into the cosmic era.
Nearby in two new scanners sat the Gabriel gundam and blitz jaeger.
Luke would be piloting the blitz jaeger till they got through atmosphere, which wouldn't be long, with his job being to get it to Nicol ASAP.
Noah would do Kira's job and start defending the archangel till Kira actually showed up.
He smiled and nodded, heading to the cockpit. He put a hand on Lukes shoulder as his friend stared at the chair inside his cockpit. "Don't worry. Just remember to follow me, fight if you want otherwise just don't get shot down. Let the gundanium alloy do its job." he said before walking into his cockpit and taking his seat.
Flexing his hands Noah let the podium stand up and set his GP base on it. A moment later the holographic start button popped up and he pressed it, taking a deep breath as he watched his new haptic display come up.
His cockpit was still pretty much the same, just he had a few new screens that would give him readouts of his GN wells and his trinity drives synchronization. Quickly the monitors filled with all the data he expected, everything was green and his camera monitors were currently black as the arena next to the cockpits began to load in the area of space above Alaska and josh-a below it like in the world tournaments "global" survival map.
A moment later he was pinged with a comm channel and he opened it. It was Luke who still looked worried. "Before you say anything. Relax. You won't die, the system has a failsafe of killing the simulation if you got shot down. Which as long as you don't just sit in front of a zaft capital ship and take like…3 main cannon shots YOU WON'T BE!" he exclaimed. Luke jumped when he shouted and sighed.
"fine…if you say so…."he said and took the control balls in his hand before Noah turned his attention back to his main monitor, the screen slowly beginning to display the launch catapult of a Laurasia class ship the zero system had commandeered for him to launch from. Luke would launch from a Nazca class nearby.
Once the screen finished loading and was moving, showing the ships and everything outside no longer static he smiled. "Noah Carson! Gabriel gundam, LAUNCHING!" he shouted before pushing his accelerator to the max and watching once more as his gundam rocketed out of the launch tunnel.
Operation: meteor
Cosmic era 71, march 8th, moments after operation spitbreak began
Just moments ago the call to launch operation spitbreak had been sent out. The captain of the Laurasia class vessel "Gamow" was proud to be here, looking out over earth as the pods filled with mobile suits descended upon earth.
While it was shocking that the target of the operation was the earth alliances main base, josh-a, the cover up was brilliant and the not so subtly leaked into of panama being their main objective left the base with minimal defenses.
((just a heads up, might wanna play meteor by T.M. revolution while reading this next part…it's what they play during the strike freedoms entrance into gundam seed destiny and it inspired me here))
"Sir we…I have no idea how to put this but…a mobile suit has appeared in our launch tunnel and is…well…launching!" called out one of his officers from his CIC.
"What?! How can that be? We launched all our GINNs with operation spitbreak!" he yelled back as he looked to the green zaft soldier.
The young man looked up and could only shrug. "I'm not sure what happened sir…but…it…there! There it is!" he shouted as he looked up to the main monitor and they all saw a familiar flash of red particles.
"can't be…they…EX-caliber was declared shot down by our field operatives…hell I heard we recovered something from its wreckage...HOW IS IT HERE!?" he shouted as the machine they were looking at turned around to look at them. It was at a distance and clearly all mobile suits and ships in the area were aware of it as everyone seemed to be targeting it.
But no one was firing…that is until 6 red flashes shot out from its back and flew through the groups of mobile suits surrounding it, causing them all to suddenly lose their limbs, heads, arms, everything which then exploded before the mobile suits ended up as floating life pods basically.
The six flashes all came back and disappeared behind it. And with that all hell broke loose.
Missiles, bullets, beams, every weapon anyone had or any ship had available were being fired at it.
Soon even in space a cloud of smoke formed where it had been floating. The captains heart sank though when the smoke cleared and the machine was still there, unharmed while sitting within a red orb, though now a white mobile suit floated beside it, just as unharmed but missing any form of particles coming off it.
"Zoom in on the unidentified machines! Prepare another salvo!" shouted the captain.
With that his main monitor zoomed in on them and he finally saw it.
The machine that was producing the field of particles was NOT EX-caliber. No…this was something new…but similar in the sense of dread he felt, though that may just have been the signature particles it produced. The white machine next to it though resembled the machine known as the blitz that once had a bay in his ship. But it was also vastly different.
The new ex-caliber had two of those cones, or he assumed those were what was producing the particles on its shoulders while underneath…swords? The way they seemed to be being used as shields he was not sure if the large items covering its GN drives were swords or shields that perhaps could be repurposed into swords?
Either way the red and black objects certainly spoke ill will for anyone that crossed the machine. In its hands were some form of blade though he could see barrels at the end.
At its hips sat two more blades, one longer than the other though he was unsure as to the purpose of this. Lastly he could see two large handles sitting behind its shoulders and some sort of small blades further down its legs.
Then there were those red flashes. What were those? Either way this machine was hiding nothing unlike EX-caliber which in his experience meant the pilot felt no need to hide his arsenal, he was likely under the belief he was unstoppable.
Now the blitz looking machine…that was a whole nother story. To try and describe it…suffice to say it certainly had an air of death of its own.
It no longer had the trikeros weapon system on its right arm and didn't have the glepnir rocket anchor anymore, well not in the original sense. It seemed to have been modified to have it folded back and flattened on its right arm. It also looked to be wearing a trench coat of sorts which was odd for a mobile suit.
The trench coat though he felt meant it was hiding something underneath...
The oddest quality of the new machine was…it lacked a shield. In the cosmic era it was rare to find a machine outside the GINN or BuCuE that didn't have a shield.
Just as he finished his examination and was about to order another salvo to be fire the field around the new version of EX-caliber faded away and it raised its arms.
The blitz based machine also opened its trench coat, the odd feature seeming to soften as it pushed it aside on his hips like a normal coat and pulled something from both hips. Just as he thought, it was hiding a weapon….
But…he watched as it raised dual pistols. Pistols? They would likely be weak.
He was proven wrong when a moment later both machines opened up before any zaft forces could react….one of the blitz's BEAM pistol shots found its target…in his bridge…
Operation meteor
Noah smiled as he spun around to face his Laurasia class ticket into the cosmic era. The problem with all these ships here the zero system wouldn't allow him to enter a…well entrance vector for either machine like he originally had where like any arena a portal opened, they shot out, it disappeared.
No the zero system made him write a script that would allow him to have them both "materialize" within a ships launch tunnel and launch from them.
As he turn around he noticed quickly every ship and mobile suit had their guns trained on him, the "hyper trench coat" he designed for the blitz jaeger and the fact it had been remolded entirely from a melted down deathscythe to allow his new OS program to utilize its armor as being made of gundanium, it was clearly hidden from both their radars and visuals just like deathscythe hell as it slowly slipped from its Nazca class vessel.
While it maneuvered out of any of their firing lanes for the moment Noah prepared to wow the cosmic era. They all seemed to be watching him, waiting to see what he'd do…he decided to be a bit...flashy.
Looking to his right to earth's atmosphere he could see the red dots of reentry capsules dropping onto Alaska. They had likely just started operation spitbreak and his own operation meteor would be ruined if he destroyed everyone instantly, as he knew right now recordings were being made, data taken, photos as well, and reports forwarded back to the homeland of his arrival.
So he opened up his arsenal, selected his sword bits and targets which was the initial…15 mobile suits within striking distance of any of his hand held blades. He then set them to incapacitate the targets…and launched them.
He watched as with deadly precision and speed the bits sliced up the mobile suits, varying from new guaiz commander unit's to ginns all of varying…variants.
Within 30 seconds the bits came back, their job done, and he was surrounded in exploding limbs and weapons. Kira would be proud…
A second later he threw up a full strength GN field just in time to block EVERYONE around him, ships and mobile suits included opening up with whatever they had till the clips emptied, missile bays were empty, barrels were overheated and laser cannons needed to cycle.
As the smoke around his field dissipated he noticed Luke de-cloak next to him. He also noticed no one was bothering to rapidly reload and open up again. It seemed they thought that display of firepower would defeat him…again.
He opened up a com channel with Luke and smirked. "Hey Luke…remember that one assault mission tournament we joined, all those AI controlled ships and mobile suits? You had that dynames model but had forgotten its sniper rifle at home because I had been tuning it for you? I had the heavyarms cause I was in that "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" level of firepower phase?" asked Noah.
Luke nodded. He seemed to still be astounded that the effects of breaking the fourth wall were taking effect, the phone he had set on the floor of the cockpit so it didn't get crushed during the fighting floating in front of him…which he proceeded to poke and jump when it floated away towards the door.
"Well…care to repeat what we did there? I may not have some big fucking chain guns…but the repeater feature on my harute rifles will have the same effect here." He said, knowing they had a plan named for that exact kind of set up.
"You mean you wanna pull a polar opposite here? Is it safe?" he asked, concerned the plan might not work in this situation. The plan was simple. Luke, who only had small caliber weapons but was in all honesty a crack shot with them would take aim at bridges of the ships in front of them and take out the ships. Meanwhile Noah, who had the big guns, would take out the mobile suits. It was called polar opposite because in most cases the small guns would be used on the mobile suits due to lack of stopping power, while the big guns would rain hell down on the ships.
Noah nodded. "Yep…we only got another maybe 30 seconds before they come out of their shocked state. So?" he asked.
Luke smirked. "Fine…you have to repair these things anyways, no longer my problem if I get dinged a few times." Said Luke who watched Noah roll his eyes and brought his own arsenal up. It was small due to Noah wanting Nicols input before adding more weapons. Amongst that small list was custom dual beam pistols off a cherudim gundam.
A second later they both drew their weapons, took aim, and began unloading on their victims while Noah's GN buster swords swung back to covert his back and his GN sword bits launched and began a defensive setting, blocking shots from all angles for Noah and Luke.
After a minute of fire they both let off the trigger and boosted to either side, Luke to the right, Noah to the left, each having their own group of mobile suits following them.
Noah was smiling. It was just like old times with Luke, working side by side but at the same time alone. And he was back! He could feel the weight of his new machines arms in the arm rakes, he could hear his GN drives hum as they moved around him to allow him to dodge, block, parry, and target his enemies with excellent reflexive agility.
After a couple minutes an alarm went off in his cockpit. Not a serious one, it was a timer so that operation spit break could take place and he could come in and save the day. He just hoped Nicol and the archangel were still alive. There were certainly more ships here, likely due to the original potential threat placed with his existence. They probably didn't change the planned amount of forces just for good measure even after Heine shot him down.
"Luke it's time, close up your coat and follow me." He said as he turned around and gunned down two more ginns before boosting towards earth. He looked to his radar and saw that Luke had done as he said and he brought his buster swords in front of him, activating a partial GN field to put a good sized barrier between them and the heat of re-entry. He hoped he hadn't gotten cocky and would show up too late.
Operation meteor
Cosmic era 71, JOSH-A base, 20 minutes into operation spitbreak
Murrue bit her lip as ensign Neumann asked what they were to do. They had just been given orders to take off in defense of josh-a but these odds…they were suicidal. The numbers they were being sent…it's like zaft had no clue Noah had been killed and had sent enough forces to overwhelm him AND the base.
"Captain?" asked Neumann and she sighed. "Alert the crew to go to level one battle stations! The archangel will launch in defense of headquarters! Check and see if Nicol is still on board and if he is request celestial beings help in defending this ship at the least!" she called out.
Flay was no longer on the ship after the debriefing turned court martial where her and Nicol had been requested as "guests" of her command staff. the top brass had quite rudely over-ridden Nicols authority as celestial beings new leader, and after the way they spoke of him, Kira and even Noah they did not hide their clear leanings towards blue cosmos sympathizers if not members as they blatantly told Nicol even as a former zaft pilot and rightfully a POW of the E.A. he was lucky they were letting him go either to the archangel or on his own with the blitz.
They had stated the blitz, in its state especially was no EX-caliber and he posed no threat to them while they were deep in E.A. territory. Flays father demanded she return home and that was where she would be going, whether she was a member of celestial being or not.
She would not have been surprised if he left and tried to re-join zafts forces to get back at the admiralty board.
"I have Nicol on the line, he's requesting orders!" shouted miriallia
Murrue's heart jumped for joy when she heard the green haired boy was onboard and willing to help. "Inform him he is to launch and land on top of the center platform. Have him act as extra Anti-MS Defenses!" she commanded which miriallia relayed to the boy. She felt the ship jolt and they began to head out into the fray.
She prayed a miracle would occur and Noah would have pulled some stunt out of his ass to survive, with his machine, and come save them…because god knows they needed as many blessings right now as possible…not that she was a religious woman though.
Operation meteor
Cosmic era 71, JOSH-A, 1 hour into operation spitbreak
Nicol grunted as he raised his right arm and lifted the strikes shield he was using. They were barely out of the gate and as he blocked a pair of missiles on the shield before raising the rifle he was also borrowing given they had never been able to reconstruct the blitz' right arm or his trikeros weapon system, he could still count nearly 10 ginns and 3 cues surrounding the archangel.
"shit…need to get these guys to back off!" he exclaimed as he took a couple pot shots at a CGUE before using the launcher weapon system mounted on his right shoulder to shoot down a group of missiles aimed at the bridge with the help of the igelstellungs. He was barely able to go on the offensive here.
He had already shot down 3 ginns but for each one he shot down two more took their place.
He looked to his battery gauge and his eyes went wide. He radioed the bridge quickly and got miriallia. "I'm sorry but I need to come back inside to recharge, all these missiles and bullets on my phase shift armor plus the beam rifle…I'm nearly out of power!" he exclaimed as he took a step towards the still open launch tunnel which was open for this exact reason. He had only been out for maybe 20 minutes and already his battery was nearly dead.
"Ok…hurry please, I'll alert Chief Murdoch to ready a recharge system." stated the girl before she hung up. As Nicol also used the last of his shoulder chain gun ammo to shoot down a few more missiles he jumped down into the tunnel, using the last of his battery to boost back away from a string of bullets that pinged off the launch system where he had just been.
Landing in the crash safety net he quickly got the blitz out of it and moving towards a MS bay to recharge. He could see the ship shake as the ship was hit by a few missiles. He needed to get out there ASAP!
Suddenly he received a call from the bridge, "Nicol quick! The captain wants you to switch to the buster, we don't have time to wait…oh no! 3 ginns broke through the defenses!" she shouted and he quickly got out of his now docked blitz, ready to run to the buster if they somehow were saved or even just to sadly have a chance to activate the phase shift armor just to survive the explosion of the ship!
Operation meteor
Murrue's eyes were wide open in fear as she watched in horror while the three ginns who now hovered in front of her bridge all raised their rifles. This couldn't be it…they couldn't end here! Not after Noah and Kira sacrificed their lives to help them escape!
Purely out of fear miriallia closed her eyes back in the CIC and covered her head before shouting, "please Noah! Help us!" she was praying actually him or Kira made a miraculous entrance and saved them once more.
Whether it was luck or fate, or pure determination by the universe to see them live murrue watch in awe as in rapid succession three thin crimson beams came down from the sky and ran clean through each GiNN.
Finding that they had not been shot down the young man manning the radar chanced a look at the radar and gasped. "Unidentified mobile suit above us!" he called out but he took a closer look at the read out. "No way…captain the new machine is producing GN particles!" he shouted which caused everyone to gasp.
"Get a visual on that machine now!" called out murrue. She was glad now that Noah had written a program into their detection systems to not only pick up GN particle emissions on the off chance…well he was shot down and zaft got ahold of GN drive technology, but it also allowed it to stop jamming their radar and video systems.
On the main monitor, despite everything going on around them murrue was able to get a glimpse of their savior.
It was bigger, and clearly wasn't hiding any of its weapons…but…"it can't be…"she mumbled in awe.
"Captain I'm getting a hail from the unknown machine!" called out kuzzey from their comms station.
"Put it through!" shouted murrue and soon she saw a face they all thought long gone. "Noah…"she said quietly, her expression that of relief.
The boy smirked. "I see you can't go long without me saving you. I brought a friend along this time with a gift for Nicol, tell him to wait in the hangar, he's currently clearing out some dinn's that have landed in a nearby hangar so we can get some aerial backup. Then he`ll bring it to him." said Noah before cutting the comms.
"Incoming missiles aimed at the bridge…no time to intercept!" shouted their radar operator and they all saw the small masses of destruction heading for them. What surprised them was six GN particle producing objects coming to form a circle in front of the bridge. From there the missiles seemed to hit some form of particle field the objects produced and exploded before they flew away.
It seemed Noah was no longer in EX-caliber…he was on a whole new level.
This was proven when he landed on the archangel's midsection and took a knee, holding a massive rifle/blade in his right arm and bracing it with his left.
Unknown to them was the fact normally Noah didn't charge up his shots, he used the hyper discharge system to negate that. But for now he needed to save up his particles. So in turn they watched as his two GN drives spun up and produced more particles before they felt the ship get physically pushed back by the recoil of his shot, barely but they could feel their own engines fighting to hold them where they were.
When he fired they all felt their jaws drop at the massive crimson shot which was immensely similar in size and color to a lohengrin shot.
They had no clue what he was aiming at but in the process of the beam following its path, the sheer size of it caught at least 11 ginns and 2 dinns and a CGUE in its path or just on the fringes. As all these mobile suits went up in flames the beam proved it still wasn't done as it atomized the bridge of one of zafts destroyers and slammed into the deck of a carrier submarine. Both ships exploded and Noah stood the machine back up, using his GN particles to float off the ship instead of pushing off and shoving them down and flew off to join the fray, switching to his two GN sword rifles.
Murrue was in tears as they all gathered themselves and she began shouting commands again, everyone's drive to survive back and all of them working hard to stay afloat.
Operation meteor
Mu grunted as he entered the aircraft hangar only to have to jump back to avoid being vaporized by a beam shot. He glanced around the corner and noticed a dinn squad heading their way. He popped around the corner and ran to a soldier who was on the radio calling for backup.
As he tried to see who was in charge here he had to hug the wall to avoid another shot. Looking up he saw the squad leader land followed by the other dinns. The mobile suits began to make their way into the base but he was shocked when the one in the rear exploded and a green beam saber suddenly was visible.
"What the…"he muttered as the squad turned around and a seemingly custom version of the blitz faded into existence, green beam saber in its hand. It side stepped a beam from the CGUE and a dinn drew its new beam lined heavy sword. Blocking a swing from said sword everyone involved except the pilot seemed surprised when the beam saber cut clean through the new sword and continued to cleave the dinn in half.
The new threat turned to the rest of the squad while deactivating the beam saber and faded out of view just as they all opened up on his spot. They all began looking for him but the leaders suit suddenly arched its back and raised up as the green saber speared it from behind.
The new blitz faded back into view and picked up the CGUEs beam rifle, shrugging off the dinns bullets like they were spit balls.
The 3 remaining purple machines took a step back and prepared to turn and run but the blitz, with lethal efficiency pulled the trigger three times and with each shot it connected with the cockpit and cause the machines to explode.
The oddest thing happened next though. Without saying a word the blitz began kicking…literally kicking the remains of the squad out of the hangar before stepping to the side and making a motion almost specifically to mu to leave.
Not looking a gift horse in the mouth he ran over to a nearby jet, stopping only to tell the mechanic working on it to run at least 10 km away from the base. Once inside he saw the blitz was gone and two halves of a GiNN falling back out of the base before the explosion caused him to end up taking off through a cloud of smoke.
Whoever that pilot was…he hoped they were on his side….cause he had to admit…that sure as hell wasn't Nicol.
Operation meteor
Rau le creuset had to admit…he was rather annoyed with this turn of events. after escaping the complex labyrinth that was JOSH-A base he had come outside to discover an rather annoying problem had returned…and stronger now. he had watched as he left off a second one of those massive blasts and watched it decimate atleast 3 squadrons of mixed forces.
But…as he looked back into his cockpit he would also smile. He had quite the prize still passed out in his cockpit. The daughter of the man who would have been the first one noah saved and the man who essentially pulled the trigger on the nuclear attack on junius seven.
He had run into her in the base and was somewhat surprised when she saw him and seemed to faint at the sight of him. he was certain it was because of the fact he was a zaft commander and she was originally a civilian.
He climbed back into his cockpit and started his CGUE back up before flying off to go back to the submarine carrier that he was commander of. It was time they left…he had no intention of being here when the cyclops system went off.
Operation meteor
Luke wouldn't lie…after piloting this blitz jaeger…he was jealous of Nicol. The machine was certainly world class. There was no resistance to the arm rakes, and the stealth capabilities allowed him to be a phantom on the battle field, phasing in and out of view just as Noah had explained Nicol had fought in orbit. It was perfect for his new hunter-killer fighting style.
Finally he flew back to the archangel after helping clear out the hangar for mu, he had to admit seeing the hawk standing there dumbfounded at his display of fighting prowess…it left him a bit …giddy and fanboyish. He found the archangel and opened a radio signal with them. He had to blush when miriallia answered it.
"Are you the friend Noah spoke of?" she asked, raising an eyebrow like Luke must not have seemed very impressive.
He sighed. "Yes…can you let Murdoch know I'm coming in for a landing, mu should be behind me shortly with a fighter jet? And have Nicol ready to take this thing out…it won't need charged in anyway." he said as he got close and de-cloaked, slowing down to enter the now busted but still open launch bay.
Knowing mu would be making a crash landing he used a quick boost from his thrusters to land with a slight skid in the hangar. He looked at his monitors and had to take a deep breath, hoping this worked. He could see the buster sitting, deactive in one MS bay, and a jury rigged blitz sitting next to it. He frowned…Noah was right…Kira still ended up losing to athrun….he hoped athrun lost the aegis as well.
Finally he brought the machine to a crouch opened his cockpit and was pleasantly surprised when with a short ride down on the models apparent cockpit lift thing he was face to face with Nicol.
"What's it called?" asked Nicol, not caring to make pleasantries with the young man, instead looking up at the machine Noah likely deemed "celestial being caliber"
Luke looked back at it and smiled. "It's called the blitz jaeger. It isn't fully armed yet. Beam sabers hidden in the cuffs on the forearm, "glepnir kai" built into the right arm, and it has a "hyper jammer coat" that will allow you to cloak from everything, visuals, radar, heat…everything." Said Luke as he looked back to Nicol who was smiling.
"Oh and no phase shift armor. It's made of gundanium alloy, Noah will explain that but suffice to say it's a non-powered version of phase shift armor that is also on steroids…."he said and knew what Nicol was about to ask. "It's powered by a gundanium alloy shielded nuclear fission reactor…don't ask me, ask Noah…he`ll explain it all." said Luke who patted Nicol on the back…he actually TOUCHED Nicol Amalfi who nodded and took the lift back up to the cockpit.
"good luck!" he called out as Nicol got in the cockpit and clearly took a minute orienting himself with the haptic displays and a few test steps and almost accidentally frying some mechanics with the thrusters and he moved to the catapult, rocketing out at max speed, already understanding he didn't need to worry about his power supply so he didn't wait for the catapult to be ready.
Luke then turned to Murdoch and smiled. "Which way to the bridge?" He asked which had the mechanic scratching his head as he looked to the buster. "Don't you wanna go out there? If you're a pilot we could use all the help we can get." he said to which Noah laughed.
"I can pilot a gunpla…an actual gundam…not even gonna try that. Don't feel like getting killed." he said before heading off to the door he remembered from the series as the hangar exit. "I'll find my way there…or the mess hall…piloting is hard work." he said, like Noah trying his hardest not to touch everything, and leaving was all that was stopping him from going against what he said and trying to pilot the buster.
The mechanic sighed and then heard they had a jet with the let commander in it son the way with a crash landing so he ran off to help his crew with that.
Operation meteor
Noah was grinning from ear to ear as he killed the power to his accelerator and fell through the mess of airspace that belonged to JOSH-A base while avoiding a salvo of cannon fire from the zaft fleet.
He wasn't looking for anyone in particular but was just loving being back as he pushed his accelerator to the max before spinning around into a bombing run, the bombs being a hail of red death fired from his GN sword rifles as he flew over a group of ships before climbing back into the fray.
As he heard two ships explode he found a CGUE that wasn't paying attention and was happy to watch his sword cleave it in two before he turned and unloaded a flurry of beams on a pair of GINNS which went up in flames.
Of course following his words stated in orbit one aircraft carrier and 3 destroyers were laying at the bottom of the bay that belonged to the Atlantic federation. He was being careful and leaving the Eurasian forces to zaft.
He did a quick spin and a pair of E.A. jets were split in two, not even exploding as they fell. Oh how good it felt to be back here. Part of him was worried that he was so happy to be back and another part wasn't merely due to the fact he was in the middle of a war…a gundam series war…so why not enjoy it?
Either way he pulled out one of his GN buster swords 2, charged the shot, and grinned as 10 GINN pilots, 2 DINN pilots, and 7 E.A. jet pilots found out why they should be fearing him as another buster rifle sized shot cleared a good chunk of machinery from the battlefield before ending the lives of a ZAFT destroyer's crew.
With that done he put the massive gun away and once again focused on picking enemies off slowly and having fun.
Operation meteor
Everyone on the bridge looked back to the door as it opened and a young man seemed to be shoved out of the way and ended up falling head first into the CIC. While miriallia identified him as Luke, Noah's friend, the rest listened to the lieutenant commander.
"My transfer isn't important right now. What is is this fucked up plan the brass came up with. "he said before grinding his teeth and slamming his fist down onto the back on murrue's chair, she didn't say anything given what he said next.
"we should have listened to Noah…it's clear after yesterday's hoax of a court martial or debriefing or whatever it was and the fact they left you all here with that zaft pilot still onboard. The top brass has to all be in blue cosmos' pocket." He said.
"Just what are you talking about mu?" she asked, concerned by his tone. And use of words.
Luke groaned as he finally got to his feet. "You mean…the cyclops system?" everyone gasped when he mentioned the deadly weapon.
Mu blinked. "Yeah how'd you know about it? And who are you?" he asked but murrue held her hands up. "We can go over who is is and where he's from later…what's this about a cyclops system?" asked murrue, looking between the two men.
Mu motioned for Luke to continue as he wanted to know what the stranger knew.
He sighed. "It's a cyclops system the brass have built under the base. This whole plan was known about months in advance and has been one big cover up for blue cosmos to get rid of any opposition within the earth alliance and have their governing states take over. Non loyal Eurasian forces are the ones they left here along with you all due to Kira's piloting the strike and likely Nicol and Noah's presence too. They deem this ship a huge failure and glaring show of the fact they still can't stand up to the coordinators on even ground…even with the gat series." Luke stopped to take a breath.
"Their whole plan is to get as many zaft forces within the base, they end up getting I think about 80% of the forces remaining inside the blast radius. Then when zaft enters the main gate they set it off, cooking everyone here, friend and foe alike. But…"Luke smiled which caused murrue to raise an eyebrow.
"Noah has a plan to stop that…you just gotta send the SOS to him about it, that's his signal to go use his secret weapon." Said Luke which confused everyone, especially when he motioned to miriallia to make the call.
The brown haired girl nodded and did so. "Noah…yes it's good to see you too…Noah we have a problem…oh you know…oh…ok…I'm not sure exactly how much time is left but your friend says you have a way to stop it…please do…you just saved us…not exactly ready to die yet…"she stated before hanging up and everyone watched the main window as Noah flew overhead and they all waited to see what he had planned.
In the meantime murrue stood up. "If this whole farce was to lure zaft closer into the base then I think we have accomplished that objective. Make a note that I, captain murrue Ramius of the vessel known as the archangel make this decision alone and…"Luke walked up and put his hand on her shoulder and shook his head.
She blinked. "w-what? You want us to stay here and fight?" she asked, surprised by his actions.
"Hell no I wanna live. We just don't need a big speech. The brass deems you all a lost cause, a failed project. The moment you leave you`ll be deemed AWOL and traitors. Why bother leaving something for the records?" he asked before turning to Neumann.
"Take us to port, you can break through the left side, let Nicol know and have him help make a path. Signal the other ships, tell them what's going on, tell them they can follow if they want otherwise good luck and god speed." he said before turning to captain Ramius and blushing. "Sorry got um…I knew what your plan was obviously and just felt we didn't need a long speech that was ultimately pointless. Sorry." said Luke before shrinking away from the angry captain's gaze.
Ultimately though she sighed. "Do what he said. And keep me informed of Noah's status." She ordered as she sat back down.
Operation meteor
Noah weaved back and forth amongst the buildings that made up the main base. He was amazed at how much had fit into this place. He had done his calculations before coming back and knew exactly where to land to perform his stunt…and got he hoped it worked.
By now the archangel would be making its way out the left of the battlefield, and soon Kira would show up. He needed to work fast if he wanted to save the day.
Finally he found his spot dead center in the city. It turned out to be a little park surrounded by natural waterfalls within the caves. He took one last look around and dislodged his buster swords from his GN drives, letting them fall to the ground though he "officially" dislodged them, not just disengaging them so as they fell they broke down into small plavsky particles, disappearing from the simulation. He had spares in his bag and with his new toy he'd bring his model to him.
Putting in the commands for a full GN particle purge he took a deep breath and brought up his second SP slot on his gundam arsenal. "Nothing ventured…nothing gained." he said before hitting the command to use the ability.
With that his GN drives spun up rapidly and began spewing out GN particles like mad. Ports all over his body along with certain sections of armor either opened up or fell off the model.
While this meant losing parts of the Gabriel gundam for the moment, again he had spares.
Soon the small city that made up the base was being filled with particles as his 00[T] shield system opened up and he performed essentially a quantum burst, GN particles rushing out to fill the base, saturating it rapidly with high amounts of particles.
As the particles passed a wave of ZHooTs the machines were forced to shut down, the massive amount of particles turning into an EMP.
"Gabriel gundam GN EMP system is a success…"he said proudly as his sword bits activated and his nearly naked model, stripped of armor in the purge down to its inner skeleton, turned and barely lifted off the ground, running on bare minimum particles to even be turned on. It flew into the portal the bits made and disappeared, Noah siting back in his chair as the model went into auto-pilot mode, a setting he made just for this event. It would take the model to the archangel and have it land in the hangar where Noah could get out, use his invention, and use a new model to fight with till he got back. He was thinking of using his custom gouf. It was a UC version base so he wouldn't be breaking his own rules, just sit on the archangel, and take it easy by using his chain guns?
After the fight he could fix Gabriel and get it back to normal.
Operation meteor
Nicol grunted as his gundam brought up its arms to block a group of missiles that hit him. This machine was amazing…but needed work. At least to him in terms of its armaments. The gundanium armor, the nuclear reactor…the lack of having to worry about a battery! That was his biggest joy of all for this machine.
As he lowered his arms he aimed his two pistols at the HWS GINN and opened up on it, watching as he put 5 shots into its torso before he turned and did the same for a second GINN. As they exploded he closed his cloak and disappeared.
If there was one feature he liked most about this gundam it was his new cloak. The fact he could cloak up and not have to worry about how vulnerable he might be…it made a world of difference for his fighting style.
He'd find a group of zaft mobile suits or land on a submarine carrier, de-cloak and attack, and while the sub sunk or the machines exploded he'd re-cloak and fly off.
The other thing on his mind even as he fought was the fact Noah was back. While his time as celestial beings leader was short he was more than happy to relinquish the power back to Noah. He wasn't a leader. He wouldn't be able to recruit Dearka, or somehow rescue flay, or do anything as celestial beings leader. Not with his old blitz anyway.
But with Noah back and this new blitz he didn't have to worry about being the leader or how to go about recruiting Dearka. But there was one thing that was concerning to him about how exactly Noah came back and now had that other guy with him…
How did he survive EX-calibers destruction?
As he began to ponder that he finally found yzak and watched as he made his way toward the archangel. He looked back and noticed Noah wasn't there to defend the ship! Where had he gone?
But just as he was about to attack him from behind he watched the duel raise its rifle at the ships bridge, their defenses unable to intercept him for some reason. He had been planning to capture him but how was he going to get around and block the shot in time? It was either destroy him or capture him but lose the archangel…
Before he could make that choice though he watched a beam come out of the sky like how Noah's had on the GINN's but instead of running the duel through he watched it pierce yzaks rifle.
Yzak backed up as the rifle exploded before Nicol looked up and watched another new machine swoop down and nearly behead the duel while drawing a beam saber. Instead yzak backed up further and watched as the new machine began hovering in front of the archangel's bridge.
Nicol de-cloaked as yzak flew away, likely to re-supply, and moved towards the machine as it seemed to take a moment and cool likely from the heat of re-entry as all its vents released steam.
As he did so he was pinged with a comm request. Answering it he saw a familiar face on the screen.
"This is Kira yamato…Nicol is that you?" asked Kira, clearly surprised to see Nicol inside the new machine.
The green haired coordinator nodded. "Yeah it's me Kira. You're not the only one who's back from the dead. Noah came back, and with not only a new machine, but a friend and a new machine for myself." He stated with a smile. This news also brought a look of joy to Kira's face but as three GINN's showed up to try and cover yzaks escape Kira's face turned to determination.
"Nicol please move." He said simply and Nicol nodded, moving forward and to the side to hover next to Kira. He watched as the new machine revealed its full arsenal. Nicol couldn't wait to see what the...
"Oh…" stated Nicol quietly as he watched a new screen pop-up within his haptic display cockpit. It quickly gave him a list of this new machine…the ZGMF-X20A freedom's loadout along with a breakdown of its strengths and weakness'.
He'd have to ask Noah where that screen came from as he hadn't noticed it before.
As he re-focused on Kira's new arsenal he watched Kira unleash his signature "beam spam" barrage and accurately take out all three ginns' head's, rifles, and firing arms. The accuracy!
It was then he got pinged by the archangel for a comm channel. He opened it and listened to what miriallia had to say.
"This is a linked message for you and Kira. There is a cyclops system underneath the base which apparently has been evacuated. This was all a trap, with us as bait to draw as many of the zaft forces in as possible. Noah has already gone in to disarm it supposedly but the captain wants us to move out. We are going to head starboard and exit to the left of the bay. Please cover us as best as possible while we move out." Stated miriallia before cutting the channel.
Nicol looked to Kira and they nodded, ending their own chat before they began to move with the ship and work together again to defend it. Oh…it was certainly nice to have Noah and Kira back. Now Nicol wasn't so worried about their chances of survival…and with new machines each as well.
Things were looking very good.
Operation: meteor
Noah grunted as the Gabriel gundam hit the crash net. It was a crude landing for such an advanced gundam but then again when you had no feet…you kinda were limited on how you landed….he'd need to fix that if he ever fired another EMP on that scale.
The fact the cyclops system had yet to go off was a sign but it also was making it so zaft was pressing harder than ever.
Five minutes earlier…
Noah gripped his control balls as he dropped out of his small quantum leap right into the thick of battle. His GN drives barely producing enough particles to keep him in the air he maneuvered through the fighting, dodging ginns and cues and ships and just all manner of fire and flak. He gasped as at one point a quick jig to the left caused his drives to cut out on him at one point.
That was when Kira decided to make his presence known as the freedom defended the archangel.
"This is a message to all earth alliance and zaft forces! Please stop this fighting! A man you all know as Noah Carson just stopped the earth alliance from firing a cyclops system! I`m not sure how but surely you can see if the alliance was giving this base up like that then it isn't worth fighting over anymore! Please stop and get away, go home! Go see your families…something!" cried out Kira from the cockpit of the freedom as clearly either the zero system was taking over once again while integrating his version of this universe and couldn't compensate for the lack of a cyclops system for him to warn of…Orr Kira was just as surprised he was alive as Noah was.
So Noah decided if zaft though Kira was lying…why not prove him right?
Opening a communication with the battlefield via the emergency communications signal he cleared his throat. "This is Noah Carson, leader of celestial being and former pilot of the dreaded EX-caliber mobile suit. Well that mobile suit is gone so you can all start pissing your panties over my new suits name. Celestial being has a history of naming its own original designs after well…celestial beings. And given the fact that my new mobile suit can produce enough GN particles to cause an EMP like…"he stopped when he finally saw a rush of particles burst out of every hangar like a multitude of GN drives had just exploded within but the blasts stopped just outside them and died out quickly as they were the last remaining GN particles from the EMP.
"Like that and therefore is vastly superior to EX-caliber…I have dubbed this machine Gabriel! For I have a message for both the earth forces and zaft just as Gabriel is the messenger of god!" Noah called out as he went into a dive to try and get to the archangel faster.
"The message is this! I have just spared you all the agony of that cyclops system! All those GN particles could have been used to make a GN field big enough to guide my temporary home out of here safely! So my suggestion to you all is to look deep into your hearts and think…do you really wish to face the wrath of god? Or do you want to live? If you wanna live then get the fuck out of here, do as the kid said, and run, flee, gather your loved ones and make your peace. because the battlefields will be covered with blood the moment I step back on them. Or better look to your leaders and see the evil genocidal freaks they are! Join us, join our cause and live to see a day where this war is actually over!" he called out before he finally made a run to the archangel.
End flashback
The message he just put out felt wrong and like he needed to go take a bath or shower and scrub the Ali al saacheez off him but if it worked then he'd stick to it for now.
Until he found out if it did though he was quick to get out of his machine with his GP base and while the techs tried to move the massive machine he threw a small disc device under it before bringing up a program on his GP base. The moment he did so he hit activate and the machines eyes lit up. "Battle ended!" called out a random voice from its speakers, which startled the mechanics as Murdoch ran over and watched as the machine slowly broke down into a uncountable number of small blue and green particles like what he had seen fill Noah's cockpit. Shortly after the mass of particles shrunk and reformed to make a small object laying on the device.
Noah ran up and picked up the object and decide before turning to Murdoch and offering the object to him. "Please find someplace safe to store that." He stated before handing Murdoch a…plastic model? While Noah ran to the middle of the hangar he examined the toy. It looked exactly like the mobile suit he had just been flying, damage and all…but it was a plastic model.
He heard his men gasp and turned around when he heard. "Combat mode start up! Damage lev-lev-lev!" Came the loud announcement from something…no…from the small black model that Noah placed on the same device. A moment later he watched as the small model broke down into those same particles, the small mass became large, and the process reversed as what he assumed was a life sized version of said model formed atop the small device that now sat between its feet. He watched Noah run to it and ride a personal lift up to a cockpit in its gut but his entire crew gasped as the mobile suit turned to head for the catapult.
The reason everyone now was backing away was the bright red eye that shown where eyes should have been on one of the few machines he'd worked on in his life.
Murdoch watched as Noah walked the model to the catapult and maneuvered it up the launch tunnel with the broken doorway. From there the machine walked to the end and boosted out and up like Nicol did in the blitz.
God rest their souls whoever got in the way of that machine…
Operation: meteor
Noah sighed as he landed on the middle section of the archangel's bow. And he did so just in time as his cockpit alerted him to an inbound CGUE. This one was a custom coloring but the pilot who clearly fought enough to earn such distinction had no clue as to just who may be piloting a custom gouf, a machine never seen in the cosmic era just like the Gabriel gundam and EX-caliber.
The custom machine maneuvered around Kira easily as it timed one of his barrages then full throttled it past him. Clearly the pilot had no interest in Kira or the freedom. No he came to a landing on the bow and brought out the cues heavy sword, making an upward angled swing trying to outpace Noah's gouf and slice through its torso. A killing blow to be sure…till it was blocked by one of Noah's two chain gun shields.
For the pilot seed's standard time slowing effects started as his machine visibly tensed, for the first time in his career he was on the receiving end of a mono-eyed mobile suits angled glares as the eye of Noah's gouf turned and looked at him, his cgue's eye meeting his as the clang from his sword hitting the shield rang though his ears.
The pilot received a random communication request and answered it, blinking when he saw an unknown pilot suits with a dimmed visor staring at him. "So…you wanna dance huh? And here I thought only the char clones had high mobility custom suits…" stated the pilot before closing the communication.
It was then he learned the true mistake behind his choice as he was shoved back and boosted up and back, bringing his own machine gun shield up and beginning to spin up the gun. Before he could though he found a glowing red blade flying at him and he had too boost to the side. Deciding the brute before him wasn't worth the bullets he flew in for another slash attack.
As he did so he was startled to watch as the machine moved its right arm, which had released its chain gun shield but instead of dropping it the shield had merely shifted away from the hand and up the arm. Plus the handle that had been in a holster on its right leg was missing. So that was where the blade came from.
But what startled him was he watched and listened to the shield disengage from the black giant and crash to the floor of the ship, but not before the pilot managed to grab a handle from the top of the shield and draw another blade.
As the two physical blades met though he noticed this one wasn't glowing and so he raised his shield, managing to fire a small salvo of rounds, a couple spins of the barrel at almost point blank range. To his dismay the mobile suit boosted up just in time to break their duel of strength and boosted back to land away from him, raise his shield, and block his salvo even though he landed back in its path. The zaft pilot eagerly began opening fire on him more but as he did so the machine just closed the gap, step by step, not missing a single bullet with its shield.
Once it was in range Noah's "gouf elite" took a swing with its blade. The coordinator was quick to laugh and bring his blade up to block the originally black and standard physical blade…but soon his world went black as the blade began to glow a bright red, cut through his sword and after that through his cockpit like it was butter.
Just as this happened a squad of dinn's seemed to get around Kira…Noah swore the boy was letting them past now on purpose, but watched as he kicked the exploding remains of the bow of the ship and scooped his second chain gun shield.
Stunned by the fact his sword could apparently heat up enough to rival a beam saber the group was stunned long enough for a group of wombat missiles to catch the surprised pilots and destroy all four dinn's.
Noah just smirked and raised both shields and began imitating trowa and heavyarms, shooting down what missiles and mobile suits he could with his chain guns. Finally the archangel got some breathing room and soon they found themselves leaving the battlefield, oddly enough a zaft submarine carrier and 3 earth alliance ships, a frigate and 2 destroyers, having sent an SOS signal and now tailing them as potential friendlies though Kira was keeping an eye on them as Noah headed back inside with his gouf to get to work on repairing the Gabriel. He hoped that Erica built what he requested.
Operation: meteor
Cosmic era 71, orb, same time as operation spitbreak
Speaking of Erica Simmons, she and Nina were enjoying a small break, Nina working on the new cockpit Erica had built for the EX-caliber and Erica obviously putting the finishing touches on Noah's secondary project for her.
Neither of them knew who was on his way or how he would be getting their…they both were just trying to prepare for the inevitable day when orb would need defending.
Operation: meteor
Ok sorry for the rushed ending but I wanted to get this out there. It's still up for revision but I figured I'd made you all wait long enough plus with the holidays over I needed to finally finish this chapter. Either way expect this chapter to likely get at least one update before the next chapter gets posted as I feel like some parts may have come out as confusing.
I wanted to write a chapter where I went along with Noah's idea to bring one of them with him after the nataku incident but I'm trying to figure out how to write it without having the character that comes with Noah seem to fanboyish when he sees his own machine in 1/1 scale or shakes hands with one of the gundam characters.
Let me know what you all think, as always read and review.
By the way if you wish to know what the blitz jaeger is based on, heres the custom machine that gave me the idea.
Ok update: the link did not work,trying to post them on my profile. Either way if you look up the blitz gundam on gundam kits collections and look for the white ones with what looks like a golden shenlong fang thing on it's right arm and lightning boltz on it's legs.
i`ll say it now, I don't own that specific custom machine but suffice to say that's what it's based on…hope it helps you all picture MY design.