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"Gintoki! We will clear up a path for you! That's why, don't do this for the future or the past! Do this for the time we live in! Open up a path to the 'present!"-Katsura Kotarou, Gintama The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya
Chapter 14
We Go for Broke part 1
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Eternal
After almost an hour of fierce battle, the allied fleet was able to push Ba'al forces away from the Plants but at a cost of nearly half of the fleet sent was lost and as many mobile suits and fighters. What survive returned to their ships to rearm quickly as possible and get some rest if possible. For now comes the defending the Plants.
Lacus and the crew of the Eternal watch this approaching armada of Ha'tak-class motherships, Al'kesh bombers, mobile suits and death gliders that are bypassing the Debris Belt and then forming up into a huge metal wall approaching them and more than likely, going to encircle them.
Colonel Waltfeld kept his cool as he start barking on orders to the crew so that they can focus on their duties "recall every suits we have left to rearmed, now!" he said as he kept on looking towards the alien armada approaching them
"How the hell are we going to stop that?" asks by one of the crew to no one in particular
"We don't" Lacus muttered answer calmly and a feeling of acceptance of what their fate will be in a few minutes
'I hope that… SG-1 got thru' she thought wishfully and hopefully
"So, what do we do now princess?" Colonel Waltfeld asks
"Now, we will make our last stand here Colonel Waltfeld" Lacus said "we must hold them off… as long as we can…with our last breath"
"Lacus" Lacus look at Waltfeld and calmly said
"We all know that, saving the Plants was never the mission…but to distract that armada from bombing the Earth. And now that's over, Terminal final mission begins now"
Everyone knows that coming to the rescue of the Plants was just a distraction for Anubis fleet; to get their undivided attention so that team SG-1 could pass by unnoticed. They knew this but said nothing nor complained. And so, they allowed themselves to use as a pawn in a chess piece.
"We are going to throw everything we have into this last fight," Lacus declared "We will hold off the enemy fleet as long as we can… and not let them have one inch of space between us and the Plants" she said with determination
"We will make these … snakeheads regret of ever showing their faces to us" Lacus declared in a most un-Lacus like response
Colonel couldn't help but smile at the courage Lacus is showing, and it is good boost for the moral of the crew
"We are with you princess" Waltfeld declared
As their suits and fighters return to their ships to rearm for another battle, one of the first BC-304 Daedalus class ship, the Daedalus a battered and bruised ship with a gaping hole at number 2 hanger bay, and its commanded by Colonel Steven Caldwell.
The Daedalus move pass the Eternal with several of what remains of the Star Forces fleet now forming above the Eternal.
A communication line was open to show Colonel Caldwell who's is being tended by a medic giving him first aid to a head injury and a swollen left eye and in the background behind him is a scene of controlled chaos, as damage control teams is doing whatever they can to keep the ship from falling apart.
"Ms. Clyne" he greeted her very weakly
"Colonel Caldwell… thank you for your assistance in saving the Plants" she said
"We haven't saved the Plants or the Earth yet Ms. Clyne" he replied "All we did is expend every ordinance we have to delay the inevitable…we have nothing left"
"That maybe, however… I am hopeful that the sacrifice of so many today is enough to buy our friends time"
"As do I" he answered with honesty and no he was a bit reluctant to tell her his latest orders from Artemis but told it anyway "Ms. Clyne, I just got new orders from General Maynard which came directly from the President"
"What are your orders then Colonel?" Lacus asks worried of what those orders might be, yet she knew what they are
"Ma'am… by order of the President, all ships that are hyperdrive capable, are to abandon Sol immediately," he said grimly
"Artemis is unable to make it to hyperspace, it's holding own but may not be for long" with that, an eerie silence that Lacus breaks
"And what of your president?"
"…most of the people of Artemis have already been evacuated, but president refused to evacuate with the others. He said that 'should Earth fall, he falls with it' he said"
"I understand Colonel Caldwell" Lacus stood up
"Ma'am, the president also ordered me tow the Eternal and the rest of the surviving members of Terminal with us" he added meanwhile calls from other ships from Terminal express their desire to stay as other ships were giving them the offer.
"I would have to decline on that colonel, and the rest of Terminal express their appreciation but reluctantly decline as well" Caldwell knew what's on her mind as do the rest of Eternal crew and tries to sway her against it
"Ma'am, this is a fight you cannot hope to win" he said "you should leave with us and fight for another day"
"I appreciate it Colonel, but Terminal will not leave the Plants undefended" Lacus said with no hint of fear in her voice and Caldwell know what's in her heart
"Protecting the Plants is Terminal final mission now" she took a deep breath and slowly release and then she look around her bridge crew and Colonel Waltfeld and see on their face, a sense of acceptance to their fate and that they are with her.
"If it is the fate of Terminal to end here…then so be it. However, you must live if there is any chance for the human race to survive out there"
For Caldwell, he can't help but admire that kind of courage, so he stood and stand ram rod straight as do all the crew
"You are an extraordinary lady Ms. Clyne. It has been an honor fighting by your side" Caldwell remark "… I wish you and your crew good luck and good hunting Ma'am" the Colonel and his crew stood up and saluted her
"Good luck to you and your crew in the days to come Colonel Caldwell. God speed" and after that, she saluted him and the crew of the Eternal as well a sign of mutual respect.
From the long range fire of the Artemis and lunar base, it distracted Anubis armada by making them cautious in approaching the Plants while what remains of the Star Forces made their way into hyperspace jump towards deep space without being followed, leaving only ships that are members of Terminal to stand alone.
Archangel
Ron watch a TV screen on the wall that shows the Star Forces fleet leave the vicinity after retrieving all of their mobile suits and fighters in the field. He however, opted to stay behind rather than going with the others… which is making the crew and deckhands a bit nervous having the infamous Grimm Reaper onboard the Archangel instead of going back to the Eternal to rearm his suit.
He finish eating some sandwiches and a mug of coffee to replenish his strength, while he waits for the rearming of the Strike Noir to be finished in this final, do or die battle with Anubis forces.
"You could have left with them if you wanted to, Ron" said by Mwu La Flaga thru the comm. link on their ears as Mwu is floating towards his MS unit the Akatsuki which stood at opposite side of hanger facing the Strike Noir.
The well-known Earth Alliance ace pilot in the first war 'Hawk if Endymion' and what's not known by most is that he is Ron protégé during his days in the Military Academy.
Ron just shrug as Mwu approach him "I go where I am needed, Mwu. As a member of Blue Earth Corps I still have a duty to perform." Ron answered
"You mean you're with us to defend the Plants? Well that's not like you since you hate the Plants and coordinators in general" Ron snorted then laugh at Mwu question
"Oh, yeah right! 'Snorts' like I'm staying just to protect the Plants and for those sterile bastards in their floating coffins? Of course I will Mwu. NOT" Ron said mocking
"I did not stay here to defend the Plants Mwu. I stayed to keep up the decoy for those damn snakeheads to stay away from the Earth and I don't give a damned if the Plants burn and everyone burn up with it" he said back with words laced with anger and hate.
"I stay behind to fight for Earth as long as I can until I die, because for one less Jaffa, one less Kull, Death Glider, Mobile Suits, Al'kesh and Ha'tak is one less enemy threatening the Earth. And that is my job!" Ron said just as the Noir have just been completed rearming.
Mwu just heave a sigh at the man who was once his instructor, who turns out to be the infamous 'Grimm Reaper' nicknamed by Zaft which he heard so much about.
Ron is considered one of the best MA pilot in the Earth Alliance Fleet and as an instructor in the academy, he demands his students to give him 100+ percent, a demanding task master where if you give up so much of a complaint about his treatment of you, he would either threw you out immediately or shoot you on the head… mostly the latter and it's no different when he encourage you to do better.
He also knows that Ron has issues with coordinators even back then. How deep an issue is something he can't quite tell, but it never cross his mind that he would join Blue Cosmos infamous 'Phantom Pain' division or create his own group known as the 'Blue Earth Corps' during the Second Valentine War
"Why do you hate Coordinators so much?" Mwu asks "what happened to you that made you this way that GAKK!?"
Without warning, Mwu felt a heavy hand grabbed his throat choking him and a pressing thing on his forehead, which turns out to be a hand gun that look like a Glock except there is this strange sound coming from it, like the one you hear from a camera flasher when it starts charging up for flash.
Mwu look ahead and was surprised to see Ron in front of him 'he was at the opposite side of the hanger bay, how the hell he got this close to me without me noticing him moving?' And looking at Ron, Mwu could've swear that Ron eyes were glowing red for just a moment.
"What made me this way? Like I should explain myself to you so that you can what? Berate me of what a bigot I am lecture me so that you can act so self-righteous? Is that it, Mwu?!"
Mwu felt like a deer that just been caught by the headlights of an incoming car and he's now trying to avoid getting hit
"Easy now Ron, calm down. I never meant anything like that" Mwu said gently
"Yeah, right" he said unconvinced but he secured his gun and let go of Mwu neck "I have no obligation to explain myself to you Mwu or anyone else for that matter, do you got that?" Ron warned
"I got it. I got it!" he answered hurriedly
"Good"
Ron look at the screen showing the incoming enemy fleet started moving again and the alert to deploy was wailing on their ears.
"Tell your captain to belay that order and tell the others to fall back to the Plants. Advise them to be ready with their flash shield visor for imminent detonation"
"Flash shield visors for imminent detonation?" Mwu paled as he knows what Ron is talking about "Wait what are you going to do?"
"We won't last out there if we go head on, so we might as well go out with a bang instead" he said Ron threw a flash drive to Mwu as he floats back towards the Noir "explanations are inside and keep the other suits inside their ships and wait for my signal"
"Since we are all going to die here…we might as well go for broke and take as many of them to hell with us"
Before Ron close his mobile suit cockpit, he gives Mwu a warning "Also a word of advice Mwu, next time, don't ever try to compare me or members of Blue Earth to the rest of those Blue Cosmos loser and I guarantee you, that you will probably live longer. Maybe"
Mwu felt like he just sweatdrop at Ron odd advise to him
'One do not put the word Guarantee, Probably and Maybe in the same sentence' Mwu thought
"I'll take that under advisement." He replied back with sarcasm
"Still, I am asking about why you joined Blue Cosmos and then created Blue Earth, and"
Ron groans at Mwu persistence as he quickly interrupted Mwu while he's focus on adjusting his suit "I never target civilians or defenseless people during my stay with Blue Cosmos and nor does Blue Earth Corps" he said
"All of my missions and operations have only been targeting criminals, organized crime and terrorists groups threatening the safety of the people of the Atlantic Federation. Plus, a few snakeheads on the side"
"…Does that include Zaft and Coordinators?" Mwu inquires cautiously
"Only members of Zaft and Coordinator individuals who acts like an asshole and think of themselves superior to Naturals, and demonstrates it with acts deemed as criminal according to the law" Ron replied and gave Mwu a chilling look
"We take great enormous pleasure in ripping them up limb from limb"
'You really hate coordinators Ron, but when did that start?' Mwu thought as he's not about to say it out loud but Ron replied like heard him say it
"I won't tell you how it started, so if you want to know you figure it out for yourself Mwu"
'O-okay, that's just creepy' Mwu thought like Ron had just read his mind for a moment
Ron read his reaction however, and thought of having one last bit of fun in Mwu expense
He smiled and said, "Oh, by the way Mwu… I agree with your choice"
"What choice?"
"That the number 7 (erotic sky blue see thru lace negligee) you bought in the Penthouse catalog you bought for her last month. I can see it now" Ron said as his hands expressively gestures of what he's seeing
"Ohhh Yeahhhh, very, very nice there La Flaga. Murrue really do look good in it. Good choice" the last part was just to psyche Mwu
In truth, Ron notice of all things that shouldn't be inside an MS cockpit, 'eyeballs rolling' is a Penthouse magazine which Ron saw floating inside the Akatsuki cockpit showing a page with red ink marker circled on a certain…lady. So he decided to mess with him.
Which it works because Mwu just drop his jaw on the floor, and then Ron closed the cockpit of his Strike Noir mobile suit smiling as it walks towards the catapult.
Now talking thru the comm. has some disadvantages, one of which is, it's relayed to the ship communications systems, which a certain female radio operator decided to put Mwu and Ron conversation thru the ships PA systems except at the hanger bay.
Like Mwu, the others wants to know how the infamous 'Grimm Reaper' thinks so the radio operator named Mirillia Haw committed an obstruction of privacy by opening the line and relay the conversation to the Eternal as well.
They didn't get much but it did cause one very stack female captain to blush deep red and cursing Mwu for being an idiot. A bridge crew trying to look busy and the rest of the crew mostly the are men is having…inappropriate fantasies of their captain and tries not to nosebleed.
And if you listen long enough, one could hear a certain pink hair princess on board the Eternal innocently inquiring
"What's the number 7 in the Penthouse catalog?"
Strike Noir
The Strike Noir was catapulted into the battlefield and unbeknownst to everyone, 12 Tel'tak cargo ships using Tok'ra cloaking field and who are members of Blue Earth Corps is forming up from above and behind Ron in a wedge formation.
'The trap is set and ready to spring it' said the coded text message in the Noir screen, sent by one of the Tel'tak and Ron text back
'Will the others help?'
'Yes' was the reply 'they said that they prefer to die fighting than to be run down like dogs'
Ron nodded texts again 'we go for broke, so be ready to bring down the rain' and the 12 Tel'tak break formation and left the field
Ron is just outside of the engagement point when a Girty Lue-class battleship codename 'Shinigami' also under a Tok'ra cloaking field is approaching the Noir for a pick up.
As Ron makes a few adjustments to his mobile suit, he stole a glimpse of the Plants colonies at his aft screen. His face shows not of a hardened professional soldier, but a gentle and sad look of a man who yearns… for home.
He look away and at that moment a woman's voice started talking to him "Are you homesick?" said someone from out of nowhere. Ron thought it was just his imagination or his conscience (which was a surprise to him as he never thought he has one nor does it sounds like a woman) the first time around but soon it kept on happening when he least expect it.
'Sigh, this is what I get in spending far too much time around O'Neill Ron thought
"Nostalgia, to a place where I once called home… but no more" he replied to no one but that voice from somewhere "Every time I see that place, it kept reminding me not of the good times, but of the people who kick me and my family out of our house and home. Today, nothing stood there but a dumpsite to recycle the colonies waste and refuse. Those damned coordinators"
"You shouldn't hold on to such grudges my friend, I know you didn't mean what you said of letting them die. Otherwise, that would break your promise to your sensei"
"I know, I know, it is a Martial Arts duty to defend the weak"
"But why shouldn't I let them die? My family were one of the first people supported George Glenn to help build the Plants, we gave him our support, our wealth, we encourage others to support him, my family reputation was put on the line for him because we believe in him. We welcome coordinators to build a home and life there when Earth push them out and even when George Glenn was murdered, we were still supportive of them" Ron felt his blood boil of came afterwards.
"And what did we get for our reward after years of support!? THEY THREW US OUT!" Ron yelled
"They threw us out of our home, shove us into a shuttle heading for Earth with only the clothes in our back. My family reputation ruined, my parents died living in the gutters in destitute and leaving me and my siblings to fend for ourselves" Ron rage in anger and wept a tear when he remember those days of hardships his family suffered.
"If it hadn't been for my sensei, the one who found us and welcome us to his home and taught me the way of the warrior…we would have died in the gutters"
"It is still wrong to hold a grudge against your own kin. It is causing you pain so let it go"
"They are not my kin and my pain is to remind me to not forget to forgive…until they ask for my forgiveness" Ron answered
"Yes, not to forget of what they did to me and my family. And just because my genes weren't modified like every other coordinator doesn't make me inferior" He look back to his aft screens
"They can have that damnable place" he said and look away and then took deep breath in order to focus before continuing
"It once name Productive Location Ally on Nexus Technology and it was built for the purpose to help humanity take its place among the stars… then afterwards they change it to People Liberation Acting Nationof Technology" Ron snorted at the "…its true purpose have died with George Glenn and it won't be ever again"
On his screens it shows Anubis fleet approach at a slow pace, avoiding large debris and not hurrying to attack them for some reason. One would guess that they were being cautious but others believe that they were waiting for Anubis to give the order to sweep in and burn everything.
Ron however knows that like all things Goa'uld, this was meant to instill fear and terror to its enemies.
Unfortunately for the Goa'uld, the Tau'ri are neither fearful nor terrified of them…they are at the moment…very, very angry. And they are about to introduce the Goa'uld to that anger.