Hey rocket time update people! RFTA is NEARLY OVER! i know its been so long, i am totaly on edge waiting to see how it will end!
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Auel
had spent the last two days sitting in Sovereigns cockpit going over
the unit's features. In terms of weapons with was pretty much a
carbon copy of X10a Freedom, Twin Positron Blasters in its wing
Cannons, twin Rail guns mounted on its hips, two beam sabers, a beam
rifle…that is where the similarities ended. Sovereign Wings were
mounted with Panzer units and also inside the wings was the 'Impact
Initiator' using positrons discharged from the cannons, along with
the Phase Shift Particles and Geschmeidig Panzers,
they created a field capable of destroying everything around
Sovereign.
"Hey Blue" Rachel floated up to the cockpit of X0.
"Oh hey Rachel" smiled Auel as he pressed a few more keys on his key pad.
"How are ya?" asked Rachel as she sat her self down on the sliding section of Sovereigns head.
"Right now I'm pretty good…considering one of my best friends has just stabbed me in the back and the fact in less than 2 days we go up against a force far larger than ourselves where the odds of us surviving are 50/50…Yeah I'm pretty good" smiled Auel.
"Still got your sense of humour I see" smiled Rachel.
"Yeah" Auel looked up out of the cockpit at his sister. "Hey Sis…you think we can win this?" asked Auel.
"Win what?" asked Rachel "The War?"
"No, life…Can we actually WIN it?" sighed Auel as he looked at his display, Auel had spent the last hour analysing Heine's battle moves.
"I don't know…depends on what you class as winning I suppose…Andrew Waldfeld once said" Rachel began to quote
"How do we decide when we have won, is it when all enemies are destroyed?" finished Auel "But who is the Enemy…If with a simple word I can become the enemy…do I really know who the enemy is anymore?" asked Auel with a sigh.
"I don't think we ever knew who the enemy was really…of if there is an 'enemy'" Tolle came floating up from behind Sovereign.
"Hey T…Hey you were good friends with Kira Yamato…you know how the Freedom works" smiled Auel as he looked up at Tolle's shaggy mope.
"Sorry I was dead for that" smiled Tolle.
"Oh great" sighed Auel.
"Hey Babe" smiled Meyrin as she poked her head over the edge of Sovereigns cockpit.
"Meyrin!" Auel pressed a button and slowly raised the chair up out of the cockpit. "How are you doing?" asked Auel as he patted the girls head.
"Oh I'm fine…but I came to talk to you about Miguel and Meer…they are like…dead" explained Meyrin "I tried talking to them but nothing…" sighed the girl.
"It must be the shock" Mayura floated past and over to her Neo Astray.
"What you mean?" asked Tolle.
"Think of it…Miguel lost his brother…Meer lost her lover…that is pretty heavy stuff you know" sighed Mayura as she opened the cockpit.
"Yeah but…we're going to get Heine back, aren't we Auel" smiled Meyrin.
"Yeah, we are going to get him back" smiled Auel as he gave his girl friend a high five.
Sting and Stellar floated around in their room, knowing this would be the last time they would get to be like that for a long time.
"Sting" Stellar floated in Sting's arms and looked up as she said his name.
"Hm?" Sting looked down at Stellar "What is it Stellar?" asked Sting.
"I'm scared" replied Stellar.
"Scared of what?" asked Sting.
"Scared that we will have to fight Auel again…fight our friends" Stellar buried her face into Sting's Red shirt.
"Why would we have to do that?" asked Sting.
"I don't know…I am just scared…I don't know why" sighed Stellar.
"Its okay, Sting wont let anything hurt Stellar…just stay back…I will protect you with all my power Stellar" smiled Sting as he held the girl closer.
"Sting" Stellar slimed and hugged Sting as hard as she could.
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On the Minerva, Heine floated back into the lounge after he had just finished alterations on his new unit. The orange haired boy scanned over the room and found Lunamaria talking with Vino and Abby in a corner.
"Hey Heine" Vino raised his hand and waved over Heine.
"Hey gals" Heine walked over to the group and sat down next to Abby who was gossiping with Luna over a cup of hot chocolate.
"Fancy those ORB dogs killing Lacus Clyne when she goes to try and make piece with them" gasped Abby as she talked to Luna who was sitting in one of the chairs opposite Abby.
"Yeah, Athrun to, I can't believe that jerk, he was engaged to the pour girl, and then he lets them kill her! I knew he was bad news" sighed Luna.
"Is that why you clung to him?" asked Vino, who was sitting on the table Luna had her arms resting on.
"Shut it Dupre, What do you think Heine, wasn't it a little over the top?" asked Luna.
"What was?" asked Heine, pretending he wasn't ease dropping before.
"That the ORB people killed Lacus, in fact I heard it was the Archangel that did it" nodded Abby.
"Lacus? Oh you mean Mee-" Heine quickly shut up as the three were giving him odd gazes.
"What did you say?" asked Luna.
"Nothing…I'm just glad to be back on ZAFT's side. I was waiting for an opportunity to get back here, but if I had run out on a battle that Leviathan would have cooked my goose" smiled Heine as he remembered back to immediately after he was captured by Shinn.
-Flash back Start-
Impulse landed on the deck of the Minerva and quickly ran into the recompression Chamber, the unit placed the shattered remains of Bokuro on the floor. A squad of guardsman were ready for when the cockpit was opened. The golden panel slid away and revealed a shattered cockpit with Heine inside, unconscious but alive.
"Take him to the medical bay!" ordered Shinn.
"What?" One of the Officers looked stunned when Shinn jumped from Impulse's cockpit and over to Heine.
"Do it" ordered Shinn as he clambered into the golden Gundam and unbuckled Heine.
"I cant do that with out the consent of another faith officer or a member of the command staff" explained the officer.
"Do it" Legend walked out of the chamber and into the cockpit.
"Sir" the officer nodded and took Heine from Shinn, the officer ran from the hanger and over to the med labs situated not far from it.
Heine was taken into the surgery room to try and bring him around.
-Time skip-
"Ah Mr Westenfluss, it's been a while" smiled Talia as Heine was brought into her office by Shinn and Rey. "Thank you Mr Auska, Mr Burrel, you can go now" ordered Talia.
"Yes Ma'am" the two saluted Talia and then left.
"Gladys-Kanchou" Heine raised a ZAFT salute to the woman.
"Heine, you are aware what will happen to you, even though you were declared Killed In Action by the Military, you still fought on the side of one of ZAFT's enemy states" explained Talia.
"I would like to say in my defence, that in none of these battles did I engage any ZAFT vessels, though yes I did operate as part of the ORB military forces, I did so with the idea of protecting the PLANTs" explained Heine.
"And how does siding with an enemy nation help PLANT?" asked Arthur.
"I am able to brief you on ORB battle tactics the power of most of their units and even supply you with up to date ORB signal codes and command lines" explained Heine.
"So what are you saying?" asked Talia.
"I want in" explained Heine.
"Into what?" asked Talia as she looked at the boy.
"I want back into ZAFT" smiled Heine.
"I will have the clear it with the chairman" explained Talia. "Until then you are confined to the ships brig" ordered Talia as she pressed a switch on her desk. Shinn and Rey were called in by it.
"As expected, till then Captain" smiled Heine as he saluted and left with Rey and Shinn. Dullindal took this as high priority and after some contemplation allowed Heine back into ZAFT, as a test, Heine would pilot a remote controlled unit against an ORB force, to see how fiercely he was ready to fight them. Heine passed the test with fling colours.
-End flashback- (1)
"Well its good to have ya back Heine, and I'm also surprised we got them to boot" Vino looked over his shoulder as three officers walked in, one wearing a white Officers uniform, the other two wearing Red Ace uniforms, they were Yzak Jule, Shiho Hahnenfuss and Dearka Elsman respectively, three of the top pilots in ZAFT, of course due to their actions in the last war they were under constant observation.
"Why you surprised?" Asked Luna.
"Because, they are like UP there with Shinn and Rey" replied Vino.
"What about me?" asked Luna.
"And me" Sighed Heine.
"Well um…I uh" Vino began to blush
"Well think of it, they survived the last war, and even survived the war up till now, they are pro's" smiled Abby.
"Yeah, but why aren't they in FAITH?" asked Luna as she looked at Yzak's shirt.
"Because they DID switch sides in the war…and there have been murmurs that why might do it again" Explained Heine.
"Well you haven't even been back for a day and you are already in on all the goss" smiled Abby.
"Oh no, I got wind they had made contact with the Archangel after the war broke out…all hush hush of course"
"Where did you head that?" asked Luna.
"Oh the Masamune" replied Heine.
"Masamune?" the three ZAFTs were all confused.
"OH, that's right, you don't know, it's the remodelled ORB cruiser I was on before" smiled Heine.
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Luna Orbit aboard Messiah, Dullindal sat in a video conference with the Minerva, his ZAFT general's on Messiah and Gondawana.
"We have detected a fleet of ORB Izumo Warships, Nazca and Laurasia classes, along with multiple OMNI Vessels, including a super carrier and an Archangel Class vessel on approach to Daedalus" explained one of the Officers next to Dullindal.
"Hmm, Talia, I want you to take the Minerva and go the Daedalus base, take half the Lunar defence fleet as well" ordered Dullindal.
"Understood" nodded Talia, when she had finished the com channel was cut. "Malik, please bring us around and set course for the ORB Defence Fleet" ordered Talia.
"Roger" the Helmsman replied and then slowly began to change the ships heading.
"Abby, please have all our mobile suit pilots gone to stand by" ordered Talia. As she spoke Talia remembered every change that had been made to her ships Mobile Suit Crew. When the Minerva first was built, she was to hold Impulse, Saviour, Chaos, Gaia, Abyss, Luna and Rey's Zaku's as well as two Gauiz R units. They lost Chaos Gaia and Abyss in the start of the war. The two Gauiz's were shot down soon after…but Athrun's Zaku also arrived…Saviour and the GOUF blustered their ranks for a time, then both fell in combat against Freedom…Destiny and Legend had been removed and added to Messiah's defence force…it seemed all the Minerva had left was the Impulse…but in reality she had much more. Dullindal had commissioned a new unit for Heine to pilot is battle, it was a hybrid of a GOUF and Destiny Impulse. The Minerva also had two more units added, these units were antiques given a second lease on life by Home Guard, X numbers 102 and 104 had been shipped up to Messiah and installed with longer lasting batteries and a D-beam system, these two had been assigned to Yzak and Dearka. One of the only DOM units in ZAFT had been assigned to the Minerva, piloted by Yzak's fiancée Shiho. The Minerva slowly pulled away from the rest of the fleet and headed straight for its target.
"All hands level one battle stations!" Alexia yelled over the intercom of the Seraphim. Her crew scrambled to their posts. Meer jumped into the forward section of the bridge and landed in the co pilot's seat of the Seraphim.
"Crap I gotta go" Meyrin gave Auel a quick hug and then pushed off and floated towards the lift.
"See ya" Auel blew a kiss to his girl friend and smiled. He knew very well he may never see her again.
"All Pilots assemble in the briefing room, all other personal to their posts" repeated Alexia as she placed the head set back on Meyrin's chair "Lucky this thing was short staffed, or we Masamune people would be out of a job" smiled Alexia as she walked off the bridge and waved to Charlotte who was now floating over to the captains seat. Alexia rode the lift down to the main corridor of the Seraphim where she was greeted by Meyrin, who was now dressed in full ORB military attire, "Wow" Alexia looked a little shocked when she saw Meyrin.
"I thought it would be inappropriate for me to walk around in a ZAFT uniform when we are going to fight against them" smiled Meyrin.
"Yeah…well I will see you in a few" smiled Alexia as she floated past Meyrin and off down the hall. "OH Miss Hawke, if we don't make it threw this…I just want to say thank you…thank you for manning the com…and thank you…Auel seems a lot happier since he met you" smiled Alexia. Meyrin was about to reply after she went bright red, but the doors closed her off. Alexia continued to float down the hall and into the conference room.
"Captain on deck" Rachel barked as they all stood to attention.
"At ease" nodded Alexia as she saluted them. "As you all know, we are less than 2 hours from a ZAFT base, they have sent an assault fleet to intercept us, and this is going to be a long and hard battle. I want to divide you into three groups. Auel, Sting and Stellar will form the assault group, you guys will push threw their lines and try to clear a path for us to get in. Rachel and Mayura will form the Ranger team, your job is to hunt down the Minerva's mobile suits and take them down. Tolle, back them up when ever you can, but I want you to focus mainly on supporting Auel and them…that leaves Aisha and Miguel…I want you two to defend the ship and also assist both teams if need be" Explained Alexia.
"What? Rachel is launching?" Auel looked a little confused at the fact that his baby sister would be going into battle with him.
"Yes, as you know her Strike EZ is an accomplished Unit, and with the overhaul to its Warp Pack, it will be able to accomplish more" explained Alexia. "Now suit up, you hit space in 10" ordered Alexia.
The pilots all left the room and headed for the docking bay. Alexia returned to the bridge where she took her seat from Charlotte, who manned the CIC once more.
"Meyrin, put me on with all the units in the fleet" ordered Alexia.
"Ok…You're on" nodded Meyrin.
"Attention battle group, this is Alexia Keys captain of the flagship Seraphim, we are nearly at the Daedalus base, but we are being challenged by a ZAFT fleet, we need to push the fleet aside and hit the Requiem with everything we have if we are to destroy it" explained Alexia "I know these past few years have been hard on you all, but they are nearly at a close, another battle fleet is heading to Station One as I speak, they will attempt to destroy the Relay point, but we need to destroy this laser, Station One's destruction will only buy us some time…Please, I ask you all to forget about you own lives, please think of all those lives on Earth, we need to protect them…Thank you" Alexia pressed the kill switch on her console, she then breathed out a long drawn sigh. She looked around her bridge crew, their eyes were all fixed on her… "Are you ready?" asked Alexia as she looked at Meyrin
"As ready as I will ever be" smiled the girl.
"What about you…are you okay?" Alexia looked at Meer.
"I think so…I have butterflies in my stomach" smiled Meer. The smiled spread throughout the whole bridge crew, but was cut off by the beeping of the CIC's proximity sensors.
"Ma'am, we have the enemy fleet on radar…reading Minerva Class 1, Gondowana 1, Nazca 21, Laurasia 30, Nelson 9, Agamemnon 3, Drake 12" explained one CIC officer.
"That is over 70 ships…damn it. Ok, people this is it. Charlotte activate the Weapons Grid" ordered alexia.
"Rodger, activate CIWS Navel Guns (2), ready the Gottfrieds, Valiants and Lohengrin, load all rear missile tubes with Sledgehammers, forward missile tubes with Falcons (3)" ordered Charlotte.
"All mobile suits please launch!" ordered Alexia.
"Miguel Ayman, Stardust Ikuzo!" the EFT flew down the catapult and spread its wings, the unit had been coined 'stardust' by Miguel after the sparks it emitted from its engines when in full power flight.
"Aisha Raul, Raea, hashin!" the pink and red DOM took off and folded over its Slash pack.
"Mayura Lambat, Neo Deru!" the Neo Astray tore off down the catapult and went into full flight.
"Tolle Koeing, Aminus, taking off!" Tolles unit was flung down the catapult wrapped in its cape with its large Mega Sword attached like Abyss stored its Pike.
The main doors of the hanger opened and Rachel's Strike Ez moved to launch "Rachel Keys, Strike Ez LETS GO!" the unit took off and moved close to Mayura's
"Sting Oakley, Harpy hashinsuru!" the green unit took off down the catapult and transformed into its bird mode.
"Stellar Lousier, Cerberus deru!" the black unit took off from the catapult and flew along side Sting.
"Auel Neider, Sovereign DERUZOU!" the Freedom like unit flew down the catapult and took point, overtaking all the other units.
"Kanchou, Archangel class craft has deployed its mobile suits" explained Bart.
"Ok, Mey-Abby have out units launch" Talia looked up at Abby and then looked forward as she corrected her mistake
"All pilots please launch" ordered Abby over the intercom.
"Yzak Jule, Duel deruzou!" the old unit took off and actiaved its armour.
"Dearka Elseman, Buster hashinsuru!" Buster followed Yzak's lead and headed for the enemy battle group.
"Lunamaria Hawke, core Splendour Ikuzei!" (4) the Core Splendour took off and combined to form the new Storm Silhouette, the force back pack was doubled in power, by adding an extra set of thrusters on top, this also increased the agility of Impulse exponentially, on the thigh guards were stored either an Excalibur Beam sword or a positron rifle.
"Shiho Hahenfuss, DOM deru!" the dark blue unit took off and joined with Yzak and Dearka.
"Heine Westenfluss, Golden Saint Ikuzei!" the golden unit took off and explanded its wings. Golden Saint was a hybrid of a GOUF unit, the Impulse and the remains of the Bokuro. The Gouf's pack was mounted on the back of an Impulse unit, extra boosters were placed on its legs, as well as wrist laser barrels, Tempest Beam Swords and heat rods.
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(1) there you go, that's how Heine got back into ZAFT,I had it planned out for a while ok :P
(2) I always thought this should be said CIWS Sounding like you are saying SWISS
(3) Falcons are a new Missile I created, they are a heavy missile with a small beam sabre on the top so it can penetrate Phase Shift Armour and most ship armour.
(4) I don't know how to spell what Luna says so yeah ;p
