Author's Note One

Usual reminder about canon scenes

"Regular speech"

'Thought'

"Soma/Hallelujah speech"

Battle Space

The four gundams flew from the Ptolemy, charging towards the enemy fleet and mobile suits, who were deploying out of the A-Laws ships in the dozens. Each of the gundams had received upgrades from the gear that was brought by the support ship, which had joined the Ptolemy for the upcoming battle. The Cheridum had received a shoulder mounted rifle, which synced up with his targeting system. The Arios had received a powerful blaster, closer in power to that of the Seravee's. The 00 Raiser was equipped with a GN Blade attached to one hand, like the Exia did. Lastly, the Seravee was equipped with more bazookas and blaster, increasing its firepower.

Feldt began to count the enemies, wanting accurate information to send out to the meisters. As she saw more and more suits come out, she realized the true scale of the enemies. 'The A-Laws must be throwing everything they have at us.' In a cool tone, she reported this to all the pilots, "I count around twenty enemy ships and over 100 enemy mobile suits. I don't see any of the innovator suits." Allelujah smiled at the comment. 'Five years ago, we faced thirty suits and got overwhelmed. Now we face three times that and it's in our favor.'

Lyle smirked as he replied, "Well that just means it's even more of a shooting gallery." Tieria rolled his eyes but didn't fully disagree. Without the innovators supporting them, the A-Laws were not as much of a threat, despite their numbers. The five gundams charged into the fray, meeting the Aheads and GN-Xs.

The gundams began to cut through them like a knife through butter. Despite their superior numbers, the enemy suits were already outstripped by the power of the upgraded gundams. Long gone were the days when an Ahead could match one of the gundams. The Arios and Gun Archer maneuvered through formations, keeping them pinned down as they worked as a team, picking them off one by one. The Seravee sent blasts that destroyed several suits at once, scattering enemy squadrons. The Cheridum kept the enemy pinned through his two long range rifles, eliminating suit after suit. Setsuna carved through enemy after enemy, some suits even pulling out beam sabers to counter him, which all resulted in failure.

Setsuna saw an image appear on display from Feldt, showing three enemy ships charging towards the Ptolemy. 'What are they doing? Are they going to ram the Ptolemy?' He then heard Sumeragi come in, "Setsuna, take out the enemy ships with the Raiser sword!"

Setsuna responded aggressively, "Roger!"

Feldt, having heard Sumeragi, called out, "Activating the Raiser system!" Setsuna, seeing that the system was active, turned on trans-am. A large pink beam shot out of the sword as he held it aloft and as he brought it down to take out the ships, a GN-X tried to charge and destroy the 00 Raiser, failing as the beam came down and engulfed it. The beam then went through the other two ships, slicing them in half.

As Setsuna began to internally cheer at that, he noticed that a large amount of sickly green particles were coming out of the wrecks of the three ships, creating a large, concentrated field of it. He deactivated trans-am, and noticed his sensors were acting static-y. 'Particle disruption?'

Bridge of the Ptolemy

The ship entered the expanding field, the sensors becoming fuzzy. Mileina called out to bridge, "It looks like they have some sort of anti-particle field."

Saji added onto her point, "Particle beam effectiveness diminished!"

Lasse spoke curiously, "Was it a trap?"

Sumeragi nodded, "We are just lucky this wasn't at point blank range." 'Damn. I should have expected they had a trick up their sleeves.' She looked at Lasse, "Get us out of this field!" Lasse began to turn the ship to get out of the field, hoping the gundams could hold off the enemy suits long enough.

With the Gundams

The pilots caught all of the info from the bridge. They did not have long to process it though, as they all saw a second wave of enemy mobile suits incoming. The gundams switched to missiles and began to fire into the horde of enemy suits approaching them, hoping it would be enough. They were on the backfoot now, but they couldn't let the enemy get to the Ptolemy. The missiles impacted the enemy, causing noticeably less impact on the A-Laws than the previous wave. Setsuna did his best to get as many suits as possible, but there were enough enemies that between him and the rest of the gundams, they couldn't destroy the enemy fast enough.

It also didn't help that the enemy came with missile launchers, which gave them the advantage in this field. They A-Laws began to score hits against the gundams, pinning them down. Tieria activated his GN barrier, but a missile passed right through it, knocking him back. Tieria grunted in pain at the impact. 'We have to do something!' He was caught by surprise as a lance in front of his cockpit, ready to strike down at him. Before he could react, an armour bit from the cheridum blocked the blow, a missile destroying the suit that was just on top of the Seravee. He looked over at the Cheridum in appreciation.

What caught all of the gundam meister's attention was the enemies advancing on the Ptolemy. They tried to turn and engage them, but another barrage of missiles interrupted them, keeping them pinned in place. Feldt looked at the event worryingly, memories of what happened to the old Ptolemy flashing through her mind. She spoke to Setsuna, desperation in her voice, "Setsuna! We have to help the ship!"

The 00 dodged another barrage of missiles, slicing through another suit. Setsuna gave her a determined look, "I'll try my best!"

Bridge of the Ptolemy

Missiles began to fly out of the Ptolemy, attempting to intercept the enemy before they could do too much damage. The enemy dodged much of the fire, the missiles they had going through the barrier and impacting the port side of the ship. Damage reports began to appear on the displays, Mileina calling them out in a worried tone. It was nothing severe, but it was only a matter of time before the numbers weighed against them. Sumeragi looked at the displays, seeing the gundams struggling against the enemy. 'Just a little longer.'

She knew she had to remain calm. Despite the chaos of the battle, she had to keep morale up and not show weakness. More missile impacts hit the ship, rocking the bridge. Lasse yelled out in frustration, "Are they going to bully us to death!?"

Just then, two mobile suits with a large missile launcher came careening in front of the bridge, missile pod opening to reveal three remaining missiles. Everyone looked to Sumeragi, who was keeping her cool, despite all that had been thrown at them. Sumeragi glared at the suits. 'We did not come all this way to lose now!'

To the two suits short lived surprise, shells began to impact them, destroying their missile launcher along with the suits. Sumeragi smirked confidently, "I was wondering when they would show up." Saji, Mileina and Lasse looked at her shocked and then they looked at the display on the front window of the bridge. On the display was several Katharon ships with a large number of mobile suits.

Saji's tone was relieved, then curious, "Thank god! It's Katharon! And are they using projectile weapons? That means…"

Mileina finished his thought, pumping her fist in the air, "That they can shoot through the field!"

With the Gundams

The gundams could feel the balance of power suddenly shift when A-Laws mobile suits began to explode or pull back from their attacks. They all noticed the appearance of the Katharon mobile suits, freeing them from the pressure they were under. Lyle called out casually, "It's about time you guys showed up!" As the older mobile suits moved in the field and engaging the steadily decreasing enemies, they all saw the order to advance on the enemy fleet appear on their display. The gundams happily complied with that, seeing the Ptolemy following them as they closed in on the end of the field.

As they cleared the field, they were caught by surprise at the appearance of another force engaging the A-Laws. It appeared to be made up of regular forces suits along with a large, heavily-armed, rectangular capital ship. Allelujah looked at the scene in confusion. 'Is there another coup? Did the Federation betray the A-Laws?' He heard Hallelujah speak in a calmer tone, "Let's not look a gift horse in the mouth. Let's destroy the A-Laws!" Allelujah nodded, agreeing completely, moving with the rest of the Gundams to defeat what remained of the A-Laws. The sooner they dealt with them, the sooner they could reclaim Veda.

Setsuna pressed the attack, the 00 Raiser activating the Raiser sword, firing it out of the blaster attached to the sword, decimating the central ship in a formation of five. He and the rest of the gundams then charged into the fray, the A-Laws fleet in complete disarray. Between the gundams and the Ptolemy, the regular forces faction and the Katharon forces following behind the Ptolemy, the A-Laws were being grinded down at a steady rate. However, they still presented a decent threat, so the fighting was still intense. Casualties began to mount on the Katharon and Regular forces mobile suits.

The gundams did their part, eliminating several capital ships along with many mobile suits. What caught them by surprise was a communication they received from an unknown voice. The female voice spoke to them in an even tone, "Go defend your mothership. I repeat, all gundams defend your mothership."

Bridge of the Ptolemy

Sumeragi smiled at hearing the voice, "It's Kati." Just then a communications screen appeared, showing the brown-haired former Colonel of the A-Laws.

Kati spoke in a professional and proud tone, "I knew it was you Kujo." The rest of the bridge crew looked on in confusion, curious how their tactical forecaster knew this woman.

Sumeragi looked at her with curiosity, "Why are you doing this?"

Kati narrowed her eyes, "We aren't doing this for you. We are only using you to defeat and punish the A-Laws. Rest assured, once this battle is over, you will have to answer for all of your crimes."

Sumeragi looked down sadly. 'Kati.' She then heard a beep from her console as a private message appeared, which read, "I will talk to you in private. It is good to see you.' Sumeragi smiled slightly before going back to a neutral face. She heard Feldt's voice come over the bridge comms, "All units take evasive action! There is an attack coming!"

The crew on the bridge saw an orange beam of energy shoot out from nowhere, expanding as it got closer to the battlefield, engulfing whatever was in its path. A-Laws, Katharon and regular forces alike were swallowed up in the blast. The A-Laws ships twisted and melted as the beam hit them, causing them to explode. Mobile suits were swallowed by the energy, instantly destroyed. The beam then moved to the right, catching more combatants, nearly catching a few of the gundams in the blast radius. The Ptolemy was forced to veer to the left to get out of the way of the beam.

The beam then dissipated, leaving only destruction is its wake. The bridge crew looked on in horror at the scene left by the weapon. Hunks of metal that used to be ships and mobile suits floated in space, no longer recognizable. The only way you could tell was by the color the metal was and that wasn't reliable.

Sumeragi yelled out in a commanding tone, "Damage report!"

Mileina spoke first, her voice subdued, "We took minor damage on the starboard side."

Saji went after her, sounding numb, "One Katharon transport and twenty of their mobile suits were destroyed. Twelve regular suits destroyed. And it looks like the A-Laws fleet is beginning to withdraw."

Taking a second to take stock of the situation, Sumeragi realized they were lucky to avoid that damage. 'It could have been worse. All of the gundams are intact and the A-Laws are clearing out. We'll leave them to Kati and Katharon.' Her thoughts were interrupted by Lasse speaking out loud with a confused tone, "Huh, what the heck is that?"

Sumeragi looked at him curiously, "What?"

"I'll bring it up on the viewscreen." As the view screen popped up, they saw what looked to be some form of static slowly begin expanding. As it opened up, what they saw was not some sort of static. It was a large concave asteroid covered in small bowl like shapes that had several yellow extrusions coming out of them. The key feature that appeared was what looked to be a large ring that went around a circular yellow dome, a large gun positioned on the ring. Coming out of the concave part was several large yellow extrusions that looked to be some sort of power sources. Sumeragi looked at this grimly. 'This must be Veda.' She could see the gundams were all beginning to congregate around the Ptolemy. 'It's time.'

Taking a deep breath, she started an open audio channel. She spoke confidently and coolly, "Attention to all ships. We members of Celestial Being are going to break into the enemy's mothership. We plan to recover the quantum processing system, Veda, which lies somewhere within the ship. I want to thank all of you that have assisted in our struggle and pay my respects to all who gave their lives in this battle."

Closing the channel, she kept her eyes on the mothership, "Lasse, set a course for the enemy ship."

Lasse nodded eagerly, "Roger. Setting a course." The Ptolemy and the support science ship moved rapidly towards the asteroid, gundams moving ahead. Sumeragi took another deep breath. 'There is no turning back now.'

With the Gundams

The gundam meisters all heard the voice of their tactical forecaster in their cockpits, her tone decisive, "Everyone, let's get going. To atone for us changing the world, we need to redeem ourselves. Let us free the world from the innovator's grip and change the world again! For the future!" The pilots saw the Ptolemy put on its GN field and Sumeragi continued, "Commencing mission!"

As the ship and the gundams approached the asteroid, they were met with a hail of lasers coming from the surface of the asteroid. Dodging out of the way, the pilots heard Sumergai's orders, "The ship will try to find a break in point. The gundams will destroy the turrets and secure the route in once we've found it." They all responded with a yes, dodging a hail of fire as they approached the surface of the innovator base.

The Cheridum and Seravee took long distance shots, using the distance from the station to reduce the chance of getting hit. The Arios, Gun Archer and 00 Raiser got closer, picking off turrets as they saw them. Between the four gundams, they steadily began to dwindle down the amount of defense turrets. Despite the fact they were progressing against the turrets, it felt to the meisters that there was an endless amount of them. For every one they destroyed, it seemed another would just pop up and keep firing at them.

On the Ptolemy

While the gundams were dealing with the turrets, the large gun on the base turned to face the Ptolemy. Saji called out to the tactical forecaster with worry in his voice, "That large gun is aiming right at us!"

Sumeragi nodded and looked to Lasse, "Lasse, evade!" The ship banked hard to starboard, barely evading the blasts. With that dodged, Saji went back to focusing on looking for a way into the base, keeping an eye on the gun for it firing again. Mileina kept watch on the gundams, seeing that they were having a significant effect on the defenses of the base. She spoke happily, "57% of the turrets defenses have been destroyed!"

Sumeragi kept a cool look. 'We don't know what tricks they have up their sleeves. They also haven't sent out any of their mobile suits or that mobile armor. We have to be careful.'

With the Gundams

As the gundams were continuing their job, Feldt saw a hit on her sensors. She saw a large wave of mobile suits that looked similar to the other innovator mobile suits they had fought against. Hundreds of them began to pour out of the base, filling up the space around the asteroid, opening fire wildly at the ship. She opened up communications to Setsuna, sounding worried, "Setsuna, they have new models! Hundreds of them!"

"Where did they…" Setsuna turned the 00 to face the oncoming mobile suits, seeing a veritable horde of them, stopping his sentence short. Suddenly they all began to glow red and charged at the Ptolemy, taking no heed to their safety. The members of Celestial Being looked on in horror. 'The enemy has trans-am!' The suits formed a steady stream of mobile suits, all rushing towards the Celestial Being ship. The gundams turned their attention away from the defense turrets, seeing they had weakened them enough that they weren't as big a threat. All the gundams began to fire into the horde, Tieria finding the most success with his large blasts that could destroy scores of enemies all at the same time. The Ptolemy even turned its weapons to engage the horde of enemies, ignoring the base. Yet despite this, the suits began to steadily progress closer and closer to the ship. The gundam pilots all realized what these suits were. 'They were suicide weapons!'

Mobile suits began to push through the GN field, some of them even exploding in the process. They began to impact the side of the ship, not punching through the hull immediately, but the armor was starting to buckle. Setsuna looked desperately at the situation, watching helplessly as the support vessel became overwhelmed by the enemy forces, exploding as the suicide units showed no inkling of stopping.

On the Ptolemy

The crew on the bridge could feel the impacts on the ship, the bridge steadily rocking due to so many impacting the hull. The gundams were doing their best, but they could not stem the tide of enemies. Mileina then called out desperately, adding to the bad news, "Another group of enemies on the port side!"

Visual sensors then showed a large horde of those same units hitting the port side of the ship, the outer hull of each side showing dull red across the board. The ship was forced to divert fire from the starboard to cover both, immediately increasing the number of suits getting in. Sumeragi grit her teeth. 'There are so many! C'mon Saji, we need that entry point!'

They were caught by surprise when the enemy contacts on the sensors began to decrease. Looking at the viewscreen, the crew saw weapon fire coming from Katharon and the regular forces. Sumeragi let out a sigh of relief. She saw a communications open up, showing Kati, "What are you doing Kujo? Get moving!" The communication quickly dropped. Sumeragi smiled. 'Thank you, Kati. Kathron.'

While Sumeragi had been focusing on the battle, Saji had been desperately trying to find an entrance. He knew they couldn't hold out for long. Yet he still couldn't find anything. 'Damnit! Where could it be? Where would I put an entrance or hanger on an asteroid base?' He thought about it and an idea came to mind. Scanning the concave part of the asteroid, he found what he was looking for. Just as the communication dropped, he spoke up, "I found it!" He put the information on display, which showed a three-level vertical hanger which looked large enough to be a warship dock.

Sumeragi yelled out a command, "Activate trans-am! We'll smash our way in!" The ship glowed red, dashing off at incredible speed for a short burst in order to get away from the enemy suicide units. Successfully pulling away, she yelled out another order, "Concentrate GN field in front of the ship!"

The ship rammed its way into the middle docking bay, the landing being very rough on everyone on the bridge. Damage reports showed parts of the hull breaking from the impact, but there was only one way in if they were attacked by the enemy mobile suits. Mileina spoke evenly, "Ptolemy has landed!"

However, Mileina then noticed units began to approach the ship. However they were quickly destroyed, pink energy coming from above. Looking at it confused, she heard Lyle's voice on the bridge, determination in his tone, "The Cheridum will defend the Ptolemy!" The visual sensors showed the Cheridum position itself at the entrance to the hanger, already opening fire at the oncoming enemy.

Saji looked at Sumeragi, "I'm scanning the interior of the base for Veda!"

Sumeragi nodded at him, "Good." She then noticed Lasse began to stand up.

He looked at her, sounding determined, "I'm going to the 0 Gundam." Sumeragi knew of his health problems, but right now Lyle would need help defending the ship. 'Please make it out of this alive.'

Sumeragi nodded reluctantly, "Go ahead. But before you go, can you please get Anew and bring her to the bridge? I get the feeling we are going to be boarded." She hoped it wouldn't happen, but there was a chance the Automatons might be used to get into the ship and she wanted to keep her safe.

Lasse gave her a confident look, "Understood."

With the Seravee

Seeing the ship disappear into the base, Tieria looked at the others, "Keep to the plan! Spread out and break into the enemy mothership!" The pilots all responded affirmative, and spread around the base, looking for a break-in point.

Tieria began to travel around the outside of the asteroid, trying to find an entrance. 'There has to be one!' While scanning the outside of the base, he saw information on the layout of the base appear on his display. The information showed several entrances the gundams could use. 'Thank you Saji!' He did not get much time to celebrate as the Garazzo and the Gadessa appeared behind him in a two-man formation.

Hilling spoke casually, "Here come the real stars of the show."

Revive was more serious as he spoke, "This is as far as you are going to go."

Tieira replied angrily, "Just try to stop me!" Both of the innovators, hearing the challenge in his voice, activated trans-am, flying past the Seravee. Tieria narrowed his eyes. 'They moved fast to put that in their machines.' Knowing he couldn't hesitate, he followed them, activating trans-am himself. He opened fire, attempting to hit the Garazzo, but the machine easily rolled past the shots. The innovator suit then turned around and charged back at the Seravee, claws extended. As it got into melee range, it sliced off the right arm of the Seravee and kicked it back, knocking the machine off balance. This was quickly taken advantage of the Gadessa, who shot the remaining bazooka out of the other hand. It then closed into melee, grabbing the head of the Seravee with one hand while the other hand began to punch the cockpit.

Tieira could see sparks coming off of the console in the cockpit. 'I need to get out of this now!' Hoping they were unprepared, Tieria activated a beam saber on the remaining hand, forcing the Gadessa to let go of the grapple. More beam sabers came out as he charged the long-ranged machine, the Gadessa barely dodging some of the strikes coming at it. Revive pulled back from the Seravee, trying to get some distance between the two of them. Tieria tried to keep him off balance by firing his shoulder blaster at Revive, but the innovator dodged out of the way, aiming his own blaster at the Seravee.

Tieria tried to get out of the way of the large energy blast coming at him, but his left arm was caught in it, destroying it. The Garazzo moved in before the Seravee could recover, slicing off the remaining arm of the Seravee. Tieira floated in space as the Gadessa took another shot at the Seravee, Revive yelling, "Die now!" Tieria put up his GN field, hoping it would help. The impact didn't get through the barrier, but it launched him into the surface of the innovator base, an indent of the path of the Seravee as is slid along the rock of the asteroid forming. The Gadessa and Garazzo looked at their handywork, seeing an explosion come from where the Seravee was. Hilling spoke in a satisfied tone, "One down, three to go!" The two suits headed out, leaving the Seravee where it was.

Tieria looked around the cockpit, seeing the suit wasn't in great shape. Looking at the damage, he saw that the parts needed for the Seraphim were all intact. 'That was lucky. I hope they don't come back to investigate.' He could feel dull pain from the impact, but otherwise felt alright. 'Looks like I have to find an entrance on foot.'

With the Arios and Gun Archer

The Gun Archer reattached itself to the Arios as they began to look for another entrance to the base. They had received the information from Saji and were headed to the closest entrance. Allelujah had an even look as he spoke to Soma, "How is your power supply?"

Soma nodded at him, her focus on the search, "It's good for now. Where are the innovators? I thought they would be out here."

Allelujah shrugged his shoulders, "I'm not sure. What I'm worried about is that mobile armor. Andrei is a good pilot and it's a large threat."

Soma's reply was interrupted by an orange energy beam coming shooting at them, bending to try to hit them. Allelujah dodged out of the way, seeing the black and red mobile armor approaching them. Both of the super soldiers had the same thought. 'I guess he found us.' Allelujah had a stern tone as he looked Soma in the eyes, "Soma remember to keep your cool and don't let him get in your head. I have your back."

Soma smiled slightly as he said that, "Don't worry, I will. It's going to take the both of us to defeat him, so don't get hit." He nodded at that and Soma separated herself from the Arios, both of the suits transforming into their mobile suit form. She smirked at Allelujah, "Let's go."

With the 00 Raiser

As the 00 Raiser progressed, Setsuna spotted a large hanger that went across the asteroid. 'These must be where the suicide units came from.' He pointed his blaster at the hangers, firing several times at them, blocking off several exits. 'That should keep more from joining the battle.' He was caught by surprise when Feldt appeared on his display, speaking evenly, "Setsuna, I spotted the Gadessa." She put the image on his display, showing the machine moving past their location.

He gave her a smile, "Good work. Let's go!" He moved to follow them, blasting at the machine when he got close enough.

Revive dodged out of the way, speaking confidently, "You are going to have to try harder than that!" The machine kept moving around the curve of the asteroid, dodging the attacks from the 00. Setsuna let out a grunt of frustration, knowing he had to save trans-am for a more dangerous fight.

As the two suits flew around a hill-like protrusion, they saw something that caught both of them by surprise. They saw the Garazzo with a red sword going through the cockpit, the Arche floating menacingly behind the machine, eyes glowing menacingly.

Author's Note Two

We are nearing the end, friends. Most of the mook fight was simplified because it's easier to show mass combat in visual media. Also if I did the mook fights any longer, I'd lose my sanity. Also I hope you guys like the new match ups. Soma and Allelujah are obvious, but with Ali, it felt like a "having your cake and eating it too" to give it to Lyle. Add onto the fact that Setsuna and Ali have a history and I found it would be a more satisfying matchup.

Hope the finale chapters make you guys happy! Please keep giving me feedback, be it likes, comments or reviews! See you guys next time!