Last Time on AE Gundam:
Against Cris' wishes Gene goes into battle. In the other side, Valkylrie tests the new suit Argon. Luckily, Gene somehow manages to dodge the Argon's attack. Can he keep it up?
The Colony Called Side 2
"Captain Bryant we're receiving transmit from side 2 colony," said Jonas, the person who was in charge of communication.
"Alright, take it. I doubt there is much harm that could come from our own colony. As long as we stay at the backside and dock of the colony we should be fine," Shiroi replied.
"That's what got us in this situation," Richard whispered to himself. He was contradictory to most things the captain or his assistant would say.
However Shiroi knew that Side 2's colonies were strictly under ANT's control and so did most of the people on the ship. The colony they were nearing was the centerfold for Anti NT operations. The rest of the colonies are ANT supporters. This would mean trouble for the three approaching NY ship, two of which was Opium class, one with the lesser Ricdom class.
Nonetheless, the military leader Edmond Michelle pinged in to the ships monitor.
"I go news about what happened… Good to see you made it captain" he said.
"I'm quite happy myself," Shiroi replied.
"Come in for supplies and reinforcements," said Edmond.
"Negative. We have a group of enemy ships above us and they we've just engaged them," Shiroi said as if he expected help immediately.
"I'm going to need you to stand by in your position for later order. Stay strong until then," he said.
"But sir…we," Edmond signed off. Then Flow looked over at him.
"Captain…" Rola asked as Shiroi looked at the empty screen. Shiroi turned to look at her and she noticed deep bags around his eye. "We're going to hold the position," he stated in a low tone.
Meanwhile Rei was already upset, he had to sit out the last battle while Gene went out and got a valuable suit damaged. Also he lost quite a few limbs on the Gundam prototype. He thought he could do something in his favor by confronting Graw, who was sleeping in his shuttle.
Rei knocked on the shuttle's door. No answer.
He knocked again.
"Do you mind? I'm thinking about somethin'," Graw replied. That immediately set Rei off. He took out his army knife and stabbed at the lock and plied the door open with it. He saw Graw with a bottle of booze (yet to be opened) in his hand. Rei which out his hand, grabbed him, and pulled him in rage….forcing him to drop his bottle of "Renditions" booze.
"What the hell are you doing!" Rei scolded.
Graw smirked and looked at the broken bottle. "I'm not cleaning that up."
Rei scowled at him and gave him a shattering slap across the face ", this is the person you are now! That's a damn shame."
"So I'm supposed to fight all the time. And fail on top of it. You're the idiot, not me," Graw replied.
Rei tossed him aside towards the site of the booze.
"You're no friend of mind."
Rei turned his back disgusted and walked away. Graw's face was turning red as he pulled his P-88 pistol out of his holster. He pointed his gun at Rei's back. At the upper level of the hangar behind Graw, and injured Ho struggle to maintain balance in his right crutch as he took out his L-88 pistol. The laser scope was pointed to the back of the neck.
Then Graw's eyes filled with tears as he set down his gun.
He thought: Why? What makes you so strong Rei?.
PART B
"ENEMY DETECTED 12:00 ABOVE," said the navigator.
"Already!" said Flow surprised. She was expecting a prolong assault like the last time.
"You were assuming they were gonna wait," asked Shiroi.
"Send out the defense," answered Richard.
After the flip of a switch the whole ship was sent into Level 3 battle alert. And the regular pilots ran into there suits, Gene and Kei included.
Rei launched first with the Tomahawk pack in the Gundam during the fighter mode.
Rola radioed in ", Scout the enemy and try not to be seen."
"Rog…" before he could finish a beam bullet skimed his pack. A barrage of heat bullets fired at him and he quickly pressed the throttle to dodge. Then the Gundam cockpit flashed orange.
INCOMING HOMING MISSLES.
Rei looked to the left and touch the monitor, forcing the Gundam to switch to normal mode. Then he launched the tomahawk missiles toward the enemy missiles, all of them being destroyed. Then he hid behind a nearby asteroid.
They're out for blood this time, he thought. He noticed a sparkle near the smaller class ship. After five seconds he realized that it may be an incoming weapon. He rapidly radioed the ship.
"Captain you got incoming fire 9:00!"
"Evade!" commanded the assistant.
The beam was incoming as in became a bright light.
"I'm trying I can't avoid it," said a frantic Mr. Kelly.
"Brace for impact!" ordered Shiroi.
Then the beam hit the left side destroying the blade's edge and the left thrusters.
Cris was knocked of her bed and mad her hit her head, making her moan.
Fortunately the hangar was located on the right side. At the same time all the mobile suits launched as according to plan.
"I want all mobile suits to defend the ship until help arrives," requested Richard monitoring in on squads.
Gene went forward to Rei's position thinking that he that might be the safest spot on the field because the Gundam was their. However he was stopped half way by beams of light, coming from one lower class ship and the Argon. Rei got the Argon's attention by shooting his beam rifle at it.
This is the Gundam I've been hearing about? I swear things could get so troublesome, Valkylrie thought as she saw the Gundam's head peeking out. Out of the suit shoulder came missiles incoming at the asteroid. Rei sped away, avoiding the explosion. Rei used his thumbs to remove the covers on the triggers. The front of the Gundam opened in claw-like form.
Come on, demanded Valkylrie in her mind. A barrage of 35mm bullet came out. Valkylrie's suit sprung forward, not swerving left and right but just moving upward at high velocity. Rei, however, did manage to destroy the two Rahamuts behind the Argon.
The Argon itself was well overhead. Rei looked up as he knew his Gundam was too slow of a suit. He scrambled through his mind to find a way to block it as the Argon now took out its knife.
The suit then flung forward and stabbed its knife to the cockpit. But the Gundam closed its claws in time to catch the knife.
After Valkylrie came to the realization that he was far from being a rookie. At that time, the Gundam's cannons flipped forward and shot the missile pod sending both suits back.
Rei decided to just retreat and try to defend the Golding which was half near destruction due to constant fire. The deck was on-fire and the ship was getting more lopsided by the second.
However Valkylrie chased the Gundam, until Gene shot at it. Valkylrie turned around to his direction and noticed the scar the she left on the suit the last meeting was still there.
"Hit! Hit! Hit!" Gene yelled as he fire his beam rifle. They were all missing the target.
"Now you die," Valkylrie said to herself. She went full speed on the throttle.
Gene was panicking as he attempted to escape. But the Argon fired a grenade for the launcher, hitting the left leg joint. It completely destroyed the suit from the waist down. The upper part automatically lost power and landed in the wreckage of a colony, face up.
Everything went dark in the cockpit, "Come on…move…move…dammit," Gene whispered in a shaken voice. The fear turned into horror as the Argon appeared right in front of him aimed at the suit. Gene immediately ejected in the core fighter.
But with the Argon's gatling gun the core fighter was immediately destroy. Although, the seat was immediately ejected, Gene was unconscious. Valkylrie flew away to care of the other suits.
…and then reinforcements arrived in the form of two ships, one the same class (Tiberius) as the Golding and the other a lower class ship.
Diagonal fire came towards the fleet above destroying one ship.
"Argon pilot, come back to the base, we're retreating. We won't be able to handle the ships, we're retreating," said the NT ship fleet commander.
"WHAT…" Valkyrie ranted but was interrupted as a bullet hit the cockpit and skimmed her arm.
…she was homophobic.
As for Gene, his body was later taken by Rola's Dias.
The next plan is finalized in the visit to Side 2. Gene's is shocked in his loss. Also Graw finally decides to make his return.
Next time of AE Gundam:
Space Catapult.