Well here we go people. the last CHAPTER of Return From The Abyss's main story, there is a little sequel in the works dont worry laughs Well i hope you enjoy it
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"Captain, we are reading enemy untis as X#s 102, 103, DOM, Impulse…and an unknown unit" explained Meyrin.
"X#s? You mean Duel and Buster…no way" Alexia looked at the main viewer in shock.
"X102, X103…The Silver Duellist and The Golden Gunner" Charlotte was awestruck as well. The two units they would have to face were aces in a league of their own.
"Damn them" Alexia gritted her teeth and slammed her fist into the side of her chair "No use complaining, relay that command to the fleet" ordered Alexia.
"Roger" replied Meyrin.
"Charlotte, I want you to punch a whole threw the ORB fleet, tell the Matagu and the Herikawa to fire as well" ordered Alexia. "After we have fired go to maximum thrust"
"Roger" replied the two officers.
"Activate Positron Chamber, prepare to fire on my mark" ordered Charlotte.
"Matagu, Herikawa, please activate your Lohengrin Blaster Cannons and fire injunction with ours to pierce a whole threw the main ZAFT line" explained Meyrin.
"Lohengrin, FIRE!" the three ships fired their cannons simultaneously; the streams of energy ripped through 4 ZAFT vessels easily and damaged 12 others.
"Luna will go and attack the enemy Gundams along with Yzak and Dearka, Heine, you will hang back and defend the ship" ordered Talia as her unit moved into battle
"Roger that" the officers all moved to carry out their orders.
"LET'S GO!" Auel went to full power on his units engines and charged in a triangle with Sting and Stellar towards the ZAFT base.
"Not so fast!" twin positron streams forced the three units to break and scatter.
"Who's that?" Sting spun around and fired the forward lasers on his Funnels. Sting looked up and saw X102 coming down at him with its sabre drawn.
"Eat THIS!" Buster fired its Gun launcher at Stellar's unit
"What?" Stellar quickly twirled away and fired back with her laser rifle.
"Who are these guys?" Auel turned to engage the two units that were attacking his comrades. But before he could provide any help another unit came into the battle. "Is that Heine?" Auel saw the blue, red and black unit fly past and fire its beam rifle at him.
"Come on, you may look strong but are you really?" asked Luna as she grabbed her Excalibur.
"Hmph I will just have to cut that thing open and find out" smirked Auel as he drew his beam sabres. The two units flew at each other and their swords clashed.
"Not bad" smirked Luna as she flipped her beam cannons around and down. The cannons had previously been mounted in her manoeuvring thrusters. The twin cannons locked onto the enemy unit.
"Crap" Auel activated his rail guns and fired them into Luna's chest. The two positron beams fired and just missed the unit's chest. "Phew that was close" smiled Auel as he activated his units Wing mounted cannons. The twin positron beams fired at Luna's Destiny Impulse.
"Wow" Luna activated her beam shield and blocked the attack.
"Not bad at all" smirked Auel. "Try this on for size" Auel's Console flipped up and began to lock onto the different limbs of Impulse. Auel executed the signature attack of the Freedom series, The Premiere attack fired and blew off Luna's left thigh thruster.
"Grr" Luna fired both her positron cannons in conjunction with her beam rifle. Auel flew up above the shot and then fired his rail guns, the beam hit Luna's beam rifle and blew it apart. "Damn!" Luna activated her beam shield and deflected the blast.
"Lunamaria withdraw, I will handle this!" Duel flew in firing its rail gun at Sovereign.
"Tsh" Auel blocked the attack with his shield "That's X102 Duel, to think he would use such an outdated unit" thought Auel as he grabbed his beam sabre. "If there is one thing this unit is famous for…it's that its pilot is a Duellist!" Auel flew at Duel with its beam sabre out wide "YZAK!" Duel brought up its shield and blocked the attack.
"Hmph, it is worthy of the title Freedom" Yzak broke away and then kicked Sovereign in the shield with its foot. Sovereign flipped over and fired its wing mounted positron lasers at Duel. Yzak blocked the attack with his shield, when he took the shield away he came face to face with Sovereigns Rail Guns, the two solid yellow volts hit his unit in the chest and sent it spiralling into Impulse.
"How you like those apples" smirked Auel.
"Don't be too cocky!" Auel was kneed in the back by a new unit.
"What?" Auel spun around and fired his laser rifle, he was shocked when the blast came back at him. "EH!" Auel activated his Panzers and deflected the attack off on a random angle. The unit Auel saw looked like 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. One of the most striking features about this unit was, that its head looked more or less identical to that of Strike's (Bar the GOUF horn in its forehead)
"So we meet again Auel" Smirked Heine as his unit landed.
"Heine?" Auel looked at the golden unit and then gritted his teeth. "Traitor"
"Not really" smiled Heine. Sovereign readied for battle, but Golden Saint just floated there.
"What? You think I'm just going to not attack you because you are not taking up your weapon?" Barked Auel as he took up a fighting stance. "See you in hell then!" Auel slashed at Heine, the golden unit evaded every slash.
"I'm not here to fight you Auel!" Heine continued to evade the attacks.
"Heine what are you waiting for, attack back!" ordered Talia. The captain used to like Heine when he was first stationed aboard her ship, but ever since he had returned, she had become cold towards him…she saw him as another one of Gilbert's puppets.
"No!" replied Heine.
"Huh?" Auel stopped attacking for a moment.
"What did you say?" Talia looked shocked. "You are under my command, now carry out the orders, attack that unit and defend Requiem!" ordered Talia "Otherwise the PLANTs will be destroyed!
"I'm sorry Talia, all I did it for was the mobile suit" Smirked Heine
"Nani?" Talia and the bridge crew were completely shocked by his actions and words.
"What?" Auel leaned forward and looked at Golden Saint.
"What do you mean?" Talia clenched her fists.
"I knew when I woke up on the Minerva, you would use the technology from my Bokuro, I then went around convincing you that I was still loyal to the Chairman's Destiny…I never thought it would work this well, but now I'm back and ready to defend the PLANTs once again, against a REAL enemy this time" explained Heine
"You bastard" smiled Auel as he looked at Heine.
"Alexia, where do you want me?" asked Heine as he turned back to the Seraphim.
"Go with Tolle and take on Duel and Buster" smiled Alexia. As she was talking, all the ORB units classification of the Golden Saint changed from 'Unknown ZAFT' to 'Golden Saint'
"Grrr, all units target and destroy Golden Saint!" ordered Talia.
"Roger that" Yzak and Dearka flew towards Heine with their weapons ready. "HEEYYA!" Yzak slashed across Golden Saint with its twin beam sabres. Once the attack was over Yzak flew off and let Dearka have the room he needed to use his large Gun Launcher.
"Crap!" Heine spun away to avoid the attack and fired back with his wrist mounted laser barrels.
"Don't take me lightly!" Dearka fired his Gun Launcher at Golden Saint. Heine evaded the attack again, as he was about to re-attack, Yzak came in and fired his rail gun, G.Saint blocked the attack with its shield.
"HEINE!" Aminus came in with its Broad Sword and slashed at Buster. Dearka managed to dodge the attack.
"You bastard! Just like that guy that got Nicol back then!" Dearka remembered the time when Nicol's Blitz Gundam was glanced by one of the two Sky Graspers in the battle out side ORB. Heine used that moment to get his balance back; he drew out his Tempest Beam sword and flew at Yzak.
"Come on Yzak, the silver Duelist!" Heine locked swords with Duel and pushed it back.
"Grrr, Traitor!" Yzak flipped his Rail at Heine's head and fired. Heine quickly slid across Duel's chest and evaded the attack.
"I was never truly with you guys! My heart has always been with the PLANTS!" G.Saint let its grappling rod out and whacked it against Duel's chest, the cord wrapped itself around the units waist and linked back up.
"What? Trying old tricks are we Heine?" Yzak let a missile volley out from his units missile pods. The hordes of missiles screamed towards Heine. Heine began to spin around and dragged Duel into a spinning motion and managed to evade the missiles that would have proven deadly to his Beam Reflective unit.
"Take this!" Heine disconnected the cord and sent duel towards a Laurasia class vessel spinning a spinning top. "Auel hurry! Go and destroy the requiem!" ordered Heine as he flew towards Duel.
"Oh yeah, Sting, Stellar!" Auel flew off toward the Requiem with his two Wingmen.
"Oh no you don't!" Dearka connected his rifles to form the Scatter cannon.
"No way Buster!" chuckled Tolle. Aminus flew past and he slashed the end off of the cannon with his broad Sword. "Me and my Masamune here won't let you touch either of them!" smirked Tolle as his unit stopped and fluffed up its Cape. Tolle had named his units primary weapon after the Masamune, their old ship.
"Cocky BASTARD!" Buster let a volley of missile fly out at Aminus.
"Uh oh" Tolle flew away in the opposite direction and dragged the missiles behind him. As he put some distance between Buster and himself, he let a grenade drop from his thigh guards and let them explode in the horde of missiles, taking them out.
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"Okay guys be on your guard, they must have some kind of ace unit here! They wouldn't let this thing be an easy target" explained Sting as they closed in on the Requiem.
"Agreed" nodded Stellar.
"Now here's our welcoming party!" explained Auel as three Zaku Phantoms units flew at them. They were armed each with a different Wizard pack, Gunner, Blaze and Wizard. Each unit al;so had a custom colour scheme; The Red unit was armed with the Blaze pack, the Yellow unit was armed with the Slash pack and the Blue unit was armed with the Gunner pack.
"These must be those elite guards" explained Sting.
"Yeah, well let's show them the power of the Extended!" smiled Auel as his unit spread its wings. As they moved into attack, a large shot from the Orthos of one Zaku forced them to scatter.
"Grrr" Stellar's temper was starting to flare; the sound of an incoming missile siren didn't help it. The three units were forced to dance in and out of missile fire while Sting deployed his funnels and took out the missiles. Once the missiles were gone, and then came a torrent of laser pellets directed at Auel.
"These guys are good…but WHY are they ONLY targeting ME!" complained Auel as he drew his beam sabre. He spiralled in and came up close to the blue unit and dug his beam sabre into the heart of the unit. Auel then brought the sword down and cut the pilot in half. The gunner module exploded. The slash unit drew out his glaive and flew in at Auel. Auel expanded his wings to form a star, the units began to emit a purple glow and then a purple shock wave shot out from around the unit and vaporised the Yellow unit's arms. Auel then fired his positron wing cannon threw its chest and wiped out the pilot. The unit then began to float off. The last Zaku came in firing its missiles and laser rifle at Auel. "BACK OFF!" Auel kicked the old Zaku into the new one. As the red Zaku struggled out of the yellow limbs it was entangled, Auel set up and fired all the weapons on Sovereign. Sting and Stellar were taken back the ruthless was Auel fought, he had managed to take down three units which even the top guns of OMNI has struggled them.
"Auel…" Stellar was scared by the way the unit had managed to rip his enemy apart. Stellar's moments of contemplation were shattered by the bleeping of her sensors. "Auel, Sting, we have an enemy unit heading for us!" barked Stellar as she transformed and hit the ground in her MA form. Stellar ran along the ground while Sting and Auel flew up to intercept the unit.
"That's Impulse!" Auel flew up activated all his weapons. Impulse rolled away and began to skim along the ground to evade the attacks from Sovereign and Harpy. As Impulse flew past Stellar unit knocked Cerberus over.
"STELLAR!" Sting flew down to help his girl. Sting deployed this four funnels and sent them on a course for the black unit.
"Darn that Impulse" Auel then swung around and activated all of Sovereigns' weapons at Impulse "DIE!" Auel fired the barrage and was able to force the unit off its mark, even with the help of Sting's Funnels they were unable to destroy the unit.
"Stellar are you okay?" Sting landed in front of the girl's unit and helped it up.
"Yeah" Stellar made it to her feet and shook her head. "Grrr, he's going to pay" roared Stellar as her unit began to gallop away. The twin bazookas fired their missiles at Impulse. She then fired her laser cannons and shot down her own missiles.
"What is that black unit playing at!" Luna grabbed her positron rifle and fired it, the beam pierced the smoke and created a tunnel threw it. All Luna could see on the other side was Sting's unit in a defensive position. "WHAT?" she looked around and then saw the black unit coming down from the sky (1)
"WHAT?" Luna went to move her unit's rifle up to shoot Stellar.
"No!" Stellar's beam claws activated and they slashed the rifle in half. The explosion forced Luna away.
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Heine and Tolle were fairing just as badly. The two ORB units had been able to damage the ZAFT veterans pretty well. Buster had lost its two cannons and was forced to use twin laser rifles that had been mounted on its back. Duel had lost parts of its assault shroud like the leg jets, chest sections, lower arm sections and missile pod. The two teams took a pause and looked at each other.
"Not bad for a natural, don't u think" smirked Tolle as he twirled his sword around.
"You did get better" smiled Heine as his unit twirled its whip around in its hand.
"You think we can beat them?" asked Tolle.
"Not at all. They are the best" replied Heine with a smile.
"Shall we try anyway?" asked Tolle with an arrogant smirk
"Of course" laughed Heine. The two units boosted off toward each other and came into close quarters, Duel and Aminus slashed at each other with their swords, Golden Saint and Buster fired their weapons as well.
"-Signal Lost-" read Meyrin's screen for Amunis. "-Signal Lost-" read Meyrin's screen. Golden Saint.
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At relay one, Freedom and Justice had cleared a path towards the colony, they were now preoccupied with disabling the enemy ships so that they would not tie up the Archangel while she was carrying out her mission.
"Lohengrin stand by, prepare to fire" ordered Murrue.
"Ma'am, we are getting a message from the Daedalus team, they are making slow progress and require assistance, they have been dead ended by the Minerva, Impulse…Duel and Buster" explained Miriallia.
"Damn, tell the Eternal to head there now, we will catch her up, take Hilda and them" ordered Murrue.
"Roger that" ordered nodded Andrew to the image of Murrue's head on the main screen. "Recall Hilda and the others, we have to go bail out the OMNI and ORB Fleets. They must have gotten cocky and bitten off more than they can chew" Andrew turned to Lacus and sighed.
"We have no choice but to go and help them, for they wish for the same future we do, one where they are free to live their lives as they wish" smiled Lacus "Remember the Earth Alliance and Blue Cosmos are different entities, nor are they Sacred Earth or Gaia's Angels" explained Lacus to the bridge crew.
"Your right, 140 to port and engines to maximum when Hilda's crew and the Meteors are aboard" ordered Andrew as he turned back to the front of the ship. Within moments the Eternal turned around and began to retreat.
"Ma'am the eternal has left the combat zone" Miriallia relayed the news to Murrue
"Excellent, Lohengrin #1, TAE!" The deadly positron blast tore a whole in the side of the Colony. "Target the top section of the colony with Korinthos missiles, Smart Spear missiles target the back of the colony" ordered Murrue. The Smart Spears fired from the back missile tubes and then quickly changed course and flew around the back of the colony and hit the side of the colony. When the Korinthos hit as well, the colony was put under great structural stress.
"Ma'am, we are detecting the integrity of the Relay Points hull is now 30. One more shot from the Lohengrin should do it" explained Dalida.
"Okay, Lohengrin two, TAE!" the positron blast tore the colony apart at the seams as the energy flowed threw the panzer units. Within seconds the Relay Point was no more than a bunch of floating metal and sparkling pieces of debris charged with Positron energy.
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"You guys okay?" asked Auel as he floated down to the ground next to Sting and Stellar's units.
"Yeah" nodded Sting, Harpy was the most damaged out of the three, one of its legs was damaged, three of its four funnels had been shot down and one of its shields was sliced in half.
"Since when did he get so good?" asked Stellar as she struggled to transform back to her Mobile Suit Mode.
"I don't know, but we have to get rid of her" Auel spread his units wings and flew at Luna. The two units locked their beam sabres together and sped up from the lunar surface.
"Sting we need to help him" Stellar began to ignite her booster.
"No, this is his battle, his world, we cannot enter it" explained Sting.
"What do you mean?" Rachel's Strike Warp fired a swarm of missiles into a group of on coming Goufs, the metal giants were torn apart by the missile's explosions.
"Auel needs to fight with out having to worry about our safety" explained Sting as he flew back up towards the battle being waged above the laser.
"He is right" Miguel shot threw a charging Zaku with his beam rifle. "To fully commit yourself to a battle you need to have a clear mind, you can't do that when you are worrying about your wingmen"
"Stellar, baby just let him be" smiled Aisha as her DOM tore apart a squad of Jinns with her laser chain gun.
"Okay" nodded Stellar as her unit ascended up to Sting's.
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"HYYAA!" Auel slashed at Luna with his beam sabre. The magenta haired girl blocked the attack with her reflector.
"Don't think you can win!" yelled Luna as she managed to kick Auel in the leg.
"Like hell I'm going to let you mock me!" barked Auel as he flipped over while firing his wing mounted lasers.
"DIE!" yelled Luna as she slashed at Auel's head.
"HA" he blocked it with his own Sabre.
"Why are you fighting against me? Why do not support the Destiny Plan? If it is put into affect children like you won't be needed, there will be no more war!" Luna tried to distract Auel with her speech as she attack him
"True, the war will be gone, but so will the light!" With these words Auel snapped, he entered the legendary SEED MODE. Auel quickly unfolded all his weapons. "The light of man kind! The light of ambition!" Auel fired all the lasers. Luna flipped in and out of them but was heavily damaged. "And that light burns the brightest!" Auel flew in and slashed right across Impulse. The beam did not cut into the cockpit or the reactor.
"But why?" Luna looked at Auel awestruck. "Why don't you KILL ME!" Luna pulled on her controls and tried to fight back, but all that attacked Auel was a stumpy arm. "Ah" Luna gasped as she saw the stump.
"Go back" ordered Auel.
"GGGAAHHH!" Luna punched her screen so hard it shattered, streams of tears escaped from her eyes and filled the cockpit. "WHY! I can never win! I cannot beat a natural, I cannot even beat that girl! Why Shinn!" Luna screamed as she pounded her cockpit. In the process the girl hit the communication switch and sent to all the units in the battle.
"Huh?" Stellar stopped battling for a moment and then flew down to Impulse.
"Stellar?" Sting and Auel traced the unit as it moved towards Impulse.
"Stellar?...That girl" The tears slowly stopped as Luna looked up and saw Cerberus looking down at her.
"Luna…maria" Stellar whispered as she looked at the girl.
"Stellar" Luna looked at the unit that housed the person she despised the most, the girl whose memory filled the deepest section of Shinn's heart, a place Luna herself could never enter.
"You…love…Shinn?" Asked Stellar as she continued to float with Auel above Impulse.
"Yes" Whimpered Luna.
"Then go to him…" Smiled Stellar as her face appeared on one of Luna's minor screens. "You two should be together, I am with Sting now"
"I…uh…" Luna didn't know what was going on, she was suddenly confronted by the girl that filled Shinn's heart, the one she could never replace…she found herself unable to hate this girl.
"I hate to break up this lovely heart felt moment, but they are about ready to fire Requiem" explained Meyrin.
"Damn" Auel set a course for Requiem with all his weapons now folded back in.
"Auel, what are you going to do?" Harpy, Cerberus and Strike Warp began to fly along side the unit.
"I will break through the shield and destroy the laser anyway possible" replied Auel as he flew off ahead of them. The only unit that could match the speed of Sovereign was Rachel's Strike.
"How do you plan on doing that? Your unit doesn't have a positron Reflector to counter it, and the Neo Phase Shift Armour doesn't work like that" explained Rachel.
"I will find a way" explained Auel.
"Bro, you'll get yourself KILLED!" barked Rachel.
"No he wont" a very damaged Impulse flew along side them.
"It can still move?" Rachel and Auel were both shocked beyond belief.
"Yeah, you guys didn't hit my engines…I will disable the shield…hurry up and get into position!" ordered Luna as she rammed into Strike Warp.
"Ok" Auel flew off ahead of them.
"What, why are your ramming me?" screamed Rachel
"I need to make it look like I'm trying to take you down" barked Luna.
"Oh…" Rachel then began to play along and started to jolt Strike Warp back and forth as if she had lost partial control.
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As Auel reached the shield Luna sent the codes to shut it down. Auel had free entrance into the heart of Requiem. He slowed down as he saw it, the main cannon charging up.
"Well lets she how much of a boom this can make" Auel spread Sovereign's wings and began to charge the Impact Initiator. "Expanding field…All unit withdraw at once, when this thing goes off it will explode like no other" ordered Auel with a cocky smile.
"Au-" Meyrin began to protest
"Don't worry Mey…it sound like you don't have faith in me, HA I will show you all" smirked Auel as the purple particles began to form a bubble around his unit. The bubble grew and grew until it forced against the walls of the cannon. "Activate advanced targeting system, target Gondawana, Minerva, Messiah" ordered Auel as he pressed the keys to carry out his commands.
"Grr you fouls, fire the cannon and sweep it away!" ordered the ZAFT commander in charge of the Requiem. The large thick green beam fired and hit Auel's shield.
"Got ya…GOOD BYE!" he smirked as the main blast was forced backward. The green energy flowed through out the base and made it explode in a flower like shape. Three thin green beams shot up from the main cannon they had been let threw Auel's shield. One beam tore straight through the Gondawana's 4 main catapults, another blasted away the Tanhausser and the last hit Neo Genesis.
"We have lost the signal for Sovereign" Meyrin could barely read the words
"Auel!" Every cried at the flaming debris of the Requiem laser.
"Please be okay" Meer put her hands together and began to pray.
"Come on boy" Miguel clenched his fist as he looked on.
"Live" Aisha leaned forward and looked at Requiem.
"Where are ya Auel" Tolle stopped his Duel Yzak to watch.
"Make it out" Heine raised his hand to his head and saluted the requiem
"Boy" sting gritted his teeth in frustration, how dare he make him wait
"Auel?" Rachel, Alexia and Meyrin all screamed in desperation.
"Let's go" Yzak turned his unit around and flew off.
"This battles over" Dearka flew off as well, the duo was meet by Shiho and they returned to their old ship.
"Please…live" Luna clasped her hands together and prayed with the others. Though she had known him for only a few moments, she could feel something special about Auel.
As if all their prayers were answered a purple bubble floated out of the green and red storm and burst. Flying out the bubble was none other than Sovereign.
"Well what are you all standing around for? We have a war to win people!" smiled Auel as cocky as ever. With those words he flew along with Tolle and Heine towards Messiah.
"ROGER!" the entire OMNI fleet rebuilt their lines and headed for the final fortress
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There we go people. The RFTA journey is over. Its been great this last year! I know there have been some times when it looked like the story wasnt going anywhere CoughHeinesdefectionCough but it turned out great in the end...In My Bias Opinion :P I would like to thank EVERYONE that reviewed it. You guys were GREAT! I am yet figure out how the Sequel is going to posted :P Oh well I am new at sequel fics so leave the instructions on what you normally do in the review if ya like or you can message it to me. THANKS GUYS!
UNTILL NEXT TIME!
(1) Relative term, I mean the way above her.
