70 C.E. Unknown colony.
A young boy rushed through the backyard as he climbed a fence, landing on his back. Groaning as he slowly got up, he felt a tug on his shoulder, making his adrenaline course through his body once again.
"Come on! We have to go!" A young girl grabbing his jacket as tears welled up in her eyes. Getting up, he held onto the girl's hand as another explosion went off in the distance. Around them was a firefight in the sky. A GINN shoots off rounds towards a mobile armor, hitting the engine, making it fall. The young boy took the little girl and ducked into a nearby building as shells from the firing hit the concrete ground.
"You ok?"
"mm!" The little girl nodded.
"Damn, there must be a way to get off the main streets!"
"Vince!" A voice of an older woman called to him, waving frantically. A girl around his age was running right behind her.
"Get off the street! IT ISN'T SAFE!" As Vince yelled that, more firing occurred, causing shells to rain down. The young girl looks up slightly and jumps back, screaming at the top of her lounges. The older woman, however, took a shell to the head, killing her instantly. The girl around Vince's age looks up in horror, crawling towards her dead relative.
"Liza!" Vince and
"Mother... MOM!" Liza shook as she held the older woman in her arms, crying uncontrollably.
"Let's go!" The young girl shouts at the top of her lounges, though she didn't move, instead stayed sitting in shock. Vince rushes out, holsters her by the waist, and rushes back inside as wind kicks up from a GINN flying past the house.
"We can't stay here. Let's go!" Vince grabs the younger girl's hand and runs out of the building. As another mobile armor fell towards the ground hitting the building in the nick of time, they were just in. Making their way towards another building, Vince puts Liza down as she looks shell-shocked.
"M-mom..."
"Liza, snap out of it!" Laya buried her head in the girl's back as she hugged Liza.
"Hey, come on, Liza, I need you to take Laya and get far away from here, ok? Can you handle that?"
"What?! You're leaving me too?!" Liza shouts, gaining some consciousness back.
"Get a hold of yourself! I need you to be strong ok?! Now take Laya, and get far away from here!" Vince looked over towards Laya, who only shook her head in fear. "Hey, it's going to be ok. Liza will look after you, no matter what, ok?"
"Promise me you'll be back!"
"Heh, I don't plan on dying here!" Vince got up and ran outside the building, only to stop turning back, seeing Laya take Liza's hand, forcing her into a run. "I'll do what I can," Vince runs off towards the back allies, almost getting run over by a light brown-skinned woman.
"Hey! Civilians out of the area!"
Vince got up and said nothing but continued his way towards the next street. As Vince ducks into another building, an Earth Alliance mobile armor blocked his original route. Explosions went off. Damn, it looks like I have to find another way! Rushing through the building, the young male made his way in the halls of the unknown house, busting through the back door. He saw a horn sticking up form its covered body. "I have to give thanks to the earth Alliance for keeping ZAFT busy..." Vince uncovered the unique Mobile suit from its hiding spot and got into the mobile suit. Slowly but surely, the white-horned machine started up as Vince clicked the buttons giving his monitor a clear view of his surroundings.
The machine had its sensors around the head. It was in a visor-like shape in the front, lighting up blue with its horn sticking out. Slowly getting up, the horned unit grabs the building in an attempt to holster itself up from the rubble. The noise his machine was making caused a GINN pilot to turn his monitor towards the now rising white unit, pointing a gun towards the unknown enemy. The horned enemy had small vents around the shoulders and hip area, dispersing heat as its visor-shaped sensors lit up dark blue.
"What is that? Is that an enemy's new weapon?" The pilot aims with his assault rifle as the white machine walks towards him, finally making smoke. 17.90 meters to the head, 18.50 to the horn on its head, the machine was slightly shorter than a GINN. Though the suit came prepared, built for high-speed combat and high accuracy, the unit was in a sense the first sniping machine made. Holding what's equivalent to a 50 cal sniper in its right hand, the machine took the rifle and fired, easily puncturing the hull of its armor—cleaving the GINNs arm off and puncturing the shoulder, rendering that right arm useless.
Holstering the gun on a slot in the backpack, Vince grabs the sheathed sword on the back armor of his machine's hip. Running forward, the suits engines and booster kicks in, moving side to side, making it hard for the GINN pilot to keep up taking a step back. Slashing through the hip of the coordinator's body, the machine fell to the ground motionless. Looking up, Vince puts the sword away and takes back out the rifle. Aiming at another unsuspecting target, he fires his rifle, hitting it in the middle of the chest, making the machine stop momentarily through its back. Then an explosion rips off in the colony, catching everyone's attention, even those in the shelter.
"What?!"
"We lost two units... Sir, there's an unidentified craft!" The leading Ginn turns to face the white unit, seeing the uniqueness of the machine's build and body.
"What is that thing?"
"It's what we came here to defeat after finally being able to trace it back here after so many years... Though it's been upgraded far more than I thought," The leading GINN turns his eye towards one of his soldiers. Before he could say a word, a bullet ripped through the GINNs armor, hitting the cockpit with fantastic accuracy.
"Gah!"
"Joshua! Damn! That thing is heavily equipped!" The GINN pilots start to scatter, moving around to confuse the pilot.
"Quit the chatter! Focus on dodging and surrounding the enemy." The led GINN rushes forward, bouncing from side to side, spinning as he did, though Vince fires at him, hitting the gun in the first shot. Still confident in his tactic, the older man rushes in doing the same thing. "He can't take us all down!"
"Hmph!" Vince stepped on both pedals and rose in the air, shooting his gun as the lead ginn was in the middle of his bounce, scrapping the thrusters making him lose altitude.
"Damn! He still hit me! Careful he's not an ordinary pilot!"
"What is this?!" Vince flew the next GINN shooting towards its wings, hitting them right on the target before closing the distance, kicking the suit in the chest, sending it into the ground. An alarm warned Vince of his foes locking on to him, so the young man flew up with blazing speed and then turned around on a dime within a second, easily dodging a few of the shots with his superior speed, backflipping to avoid an incoming attempt while taking out the sword throwing it towards one GINN. However, the sword was knocked down by another GINN pilot flying in and sliced the blade away, floating in front of his ally. Vince focuses in as he takes the sniper while they deal with the shield and fires. The bullet travels and hits both of them in their reactor.
"That damn monster!" One of them said.
"Ahh!" The two GINNs explode together, causing debris to fall onto the colony. Slowly descending, Vince lands on his two feet. The leading GINN was slow getting up from its crash.
"It still moves? Don't... Just stay down!"
"You don't understand... The pride of a soldiers will to fight!"
"Pride? I'm allowing you to live! Can't-"
"After you just took out my men?! No! Screw that, I'll teach you!" The GINN got on its feet shanking, slowly stepping forward towards the white-horned unit. Vince pulled the joystick to move the arm, aiming towards the enemy's cockpit. "I'll!" A gunshot rang throughout the colony. The machine stops moving as the bullet hits it, eye deactivating from the shot.
"I see," Vince looks on as he holsters his weapon, seeing the damage being done around the colony.
"Attention unidentified Craft! lower all weapons, or we will shoot at you!" A female voice called to him on the intercom. "If not! We'll find an easy way to persuade you!"
"That voice..."
"Vince!" Laya's voice hung in his ear almost clearly, making him turn towards the sound. A crying Laya reached out her hand for him to grab. His instinct was to open the hatch. However, his machine started to blare from a lock on, making Vince stop in his tracks, sweet dropping from his chin. The curly afroed woman reaches for the girl as she struggles to squirm from a soldier's grip.
"H-Hey!"
"Let me go!" Laya launches her head back, hitting the soldier in the nose. The hit was enough to make him let her go. Upon feeling this, Laya moves her body and kicks off the man launching herself into the ground. Sliding as she hit her face Laya, hands and body moved on their own. Shrugging off the fall, Laya scrambles to her feet and books it for the white machine.
"Wait, it's too dangerous!" The woman starts to jump out of the car.
"Protect the girl!"
"Laya!" Vince moves to grab her. The alarm bombs his ears the second he does, signaling a missile firing at his arm. The sound of a missile firing pierces everyone's ears as the white machine moves, and the girl leaps forward along with the curly afro woman using her body as a shield for the young girl as a hand swoops down. Stopping the missile, causing a cloud of smoke, leaving those watching uncertainly as the wind from the explosion made it hard to see. Slowly the smoke clears, revealing a white arm holding itself as a shield, covering both the girl and the officer as the latter uses herself as a shield, tackling the young girl into the ground. Both stayed still for a second before moving to look up towards the white machine that saved them.
"You ok?" The female officer lifts herself a little.
"Vince!" Laya cries out again, ignoring the woman on top of her, wiggling to get free. The white machine in front of them moves its arm and places its hand right in front of them. Then Laya elbows the officer in the face, making her jolt back a little, giving her the space she needs to be free, moving towards the hand. Getting up on her feet, the officer looked on as the MS carefully took hold of the girl in its hand, on the side in a small black feather, on the forearm.
"Hold your fire! Don't shoot! He has the girl!" The officer turned around and waved her hands up in the hope of a cease-fire. Her direction was to the man ahead of her.
"Damn the girl! Shoot that thing down!" The commanding officer orders, but the woman steps in front of them
"Sir, did you not see what that thing did?! You being stupid- Ack!" a smack to the face sent her to the ground.
"Know your place!"
"Sir?"
"Do it!"
With the order given, the military shot off all they could at the white machine, but smoke clouds their vision as the bullets hit the machine. Then suddenly, a shockwave erupts from the smoke, sending those around back and making the flying machines lose their power, falling towards the ground. The dust slowly settles with the white machine standing tall in front of the wreckage. In the middle of it, the officer from before sat in the middle, laying on top of the jeep, blood dripping down her head.
Minutes pass as the officer slowly opens her eyes, feeling her headache giving her hell.
"Ow," the officer sucks in her breath with clenched teeth, though her mood immediately changes once she sees the white machine kneeling in front of her, making her heart drop.
"Hey, I see you're awake," a male figure walks up towards her with a wet warm towel.
"W-wait! Civilians aren't supposed-" her words stopped as she saw the little girl staring at her with a glare. "Wait... If you're here then..." she gets up, seeing the damage done, then looks at the male. He leans in to tend to her wound, only for her to slap his hand away. "You monster!"
"If it weren't for you... my sister would be dead... Thank you," he looks towards her with a warming smile, the officer clenches her teeth.
"I was only doing my job... This is quite the mess you've made, Mercenary," The officer sat up and looked towards the male who took another rag and went to tend to her wound. Though at first, she flinches from his touch but sees the girl staring at her. So she toughens up, letting him clean her up.
"I had no choice. I would have preferred if they'd listen to you," the man says as he finished cleaning up her wound, turning to face his machine. "How did you find her?"
"She was crying near the rubble of a crushed building... When I asked does she have any family nearby... You were fighting the GINNs, and she pointed upwards, saying, "my brother," We didn't-"
"Was she supposed to be used against me?"
"N-No! We only did that to get you to come out and not attack us!"
"So, what now?"
"As you know, We can't let you go off freely," The woman said as she walked closer towards the two foster siblings motioning towards the damage around them.
"Yeah," the man nods his head in agreement.
"Well, to be on friendly terms, my name is Sabina. Sabina Hayes!" Sabina held out her hand for him to shake. Vince sees Laya holding tightly onto his shirt and looking over towards the officer with teary eyes.
"I guess we have no choice Laya... Vince. Vince Gray, and this is Laya, my sister."
"Right, nice to meet you, Vince, Laya."
Near the moon's base.
"How are you feeling?" Sabina asks as Vince clicks his helmet on. The machine that the earth alliance knew as Glint had been dismantled and moved to the colony where Vince's machine, named Trace, had been put into hiding. Though the reason for the shippers was unknown, they were going to use some of the parts to enhance the machine better while adding their own technology in secrete. So, for the time being, on his last mission for the contract made by the Earth Alliance, he was going to use a long dagger Fortestra.
"I'm ready whenever."
"Ok! I'll let them know... Hey, once you've done this, you'll be able to go home," Sabina spoke softly.
"Yeah," Vince tapes the activation button on the machine.
"We'll be able to take a break finally, just the three of us."
Vince smiled in agreement.
"Hey, Lieutenant Mercenary, I'll be heading out now!" The Strike Dagger pilot said as he launched off to space.
"Right, let's go!" Vince moves the white machine onto the catapult.
"Alright, I'm going over the mission one more time. The objective is to destroy a small base that holds ZAFTs transports. There is also an enemy unit that has to be destroyed. Take both the transport base and the enemy mobile suit out. Good luck! Be safe out there."
Victoria Base June 18
Deeraj rushes towards his machine, hopping into the cockpit. Around him, the earth alliance forces had begun to move out, making their way towards the base Victoria. Awaken laid waiting in the sand as Deeraj closed the hatch, pressing buttons checking on the system to make sure everything was good for launch.
"Hey, what was taking you so long?!" Maxwell yells as he stops his machine next to Awaken.
"Relax, I'm here now. Let's get going!" Deeraj steps on both pedals, making the bird-like unit lifts off the ground thanks to many small verniers underneath its belly. Then the main thrusters went into effect as he burst off into the sky, followed close behind by both Maxwell and Lanai. "Hey Lanai, how are you feeling?"
"I'm nervous..."
"That's good, don't forget to check your back and stay close to us. You can't really trust many in this war."
"Maxwell's right. Keep close to him if you can."
"Roger!" The trio moves forward, making their way to the front of the mobile suit attack team.
"What do you have to protect?" Lisa places a hand on her hip.
"This feeling of killing must be hard on you... Please hold on a little longer. You'll join us soon," Cleo turns and walks away, followed by Lisa.
"I will? What are you trying to tell me?!"
"Watch out!"
Deeraj eyes suddenly regain their rightful vision as he is hit by an incoming missile making his machine lose its altitude, spinning uncontrollably. Taking the joysticks and pressing on the pedals, his machine rose at his command. Flying in the sky, Deeraj turns and fires his beam rifle into the side of DINN.
Ahhrg! Tomas!
Shaking his head Deeraj flew past the falling machine, taking another shot at the reactor of a GINN, making it explode.
My love! Ahh!
What is this... Why am I more sensitive to their thoughts?! Deeraj turns his machine seeing a beam cannon aimed at him. Transforming into MS mode, the GINN opens fire, hitting Awaken dead in the center of its shield pushing him back. "Grr!" Taking his rifle, he shoots the head of the GINN off, making it jolt back, losing balance. Boosting forward, Deeraj weaves as DINNs shot at him with little to no avail. Spinning in mid-air, Deeraj shoots his rifle, a tingling sensation springing in his head, helping him aim. The shot hit two of them dead in the chest at the same time.
Turning back around to face forward, Awaken moves to the side, dodging a barrage of missiles heading his way. Moving back into his position, Awaken unleashes the machine guns on his shoulder, once again shredding away at the armor of the GINN. Turning to another foe, he demolishes two more suits the same way, moving forward with ease. Though his advances stop as ground units start firing on his position, having no time to aim, Deeraj had to be put on the defensive, dodging shots as he held up the shield tanking hits he couldn't avoid.
"Sir! Lieutenant commander Young is close to breaking through!"
"They're focusing on him! Take advantage of this and charge!" The leading officer says tanks, Daggers, Lanai, and Maxwell rush forward, not allowing ground support. With the ground support out of the way, the warning alarm blared, making him boost up, in the nick of time as a beam barely scraps the waist of his MS.
"The hell?" Turning around, a yellow suit rushed towards him, holding a beam rifle coming in from behind. "Enemies set up behind our main force? Then I'll just disable all of your suits!" Deeraj aims while he dodges another beam firing into the waist of the machine rendering it defenseless as it falls. Sure enough, small ZAFT units attempted to flank their large forces, rushing off towards the backline. Transforming into his bird form, he comes in from the side and fires off a giant beam cannon taking them out with one sweep, flying past those who were fighting, turning back towards the front lines, transforming once again into MS form free falling towards the ground.
Landing on top of a BuCUE, Awaken stomps on its head before turning towards the other, firing off shots into their legs as they attempt to leave. Maxwell and Lanai stuck closely next to each other, stabbing into a GINNs reactor, pulling the blade out, and thrusting away from the explosion. Now the Earth Alliance had made it inside, the base performing "clean up" acts with those still resisting. This act had sent Deeraj into a mental break, feeling and hearing all those around him his allies were killing without remorse. Staying in his machine while they did so.
With Deeraj out of commission, thanks to this, Lanai and Maxwell moved his machine away from the slaughterhouse so he could recover. However, it's never that easy as Deeraj slowly regains his control and aims at a Dagger.
"Stop it! Your killing them for- Arhhh!" Deeraj's head felt like it was gonna explode. The thoughts of those that died on the battlefield flooded into his head, letting go of the control stick to grab his head in pain.
"Deeraj!"
The pain went away within a flash as he looked up, a new resolve entering his mind. "I understand everything now," putting away his rifle, Deeraj kneels his machine to get out of the cockpit. The source of this evilness is within both parties. Neither giving in nor trying to understand. With both sides so evil, there's no telling if this war would end. There has to be an understanding between all of us. But there's no way if our leaders will allow this!
"Deeraj?!" Lanai grabs his shoulder, snapping him out of his stare. "Are you ok?"
"I understand what I must do, whoever the leader is for both sides... I must kill them before they can truly wipe us all out!" Deeraj held a face of convection as he looked up into the sky, clenching his fist.
"D-Deeraj?"
"I will become the common enemy they both share... Then they'll have no choice but to-" Maxwell attempts to slap Deeraj, only for him to react in time, dodging the slap.
"You must be crazy! Why are you talking like this all of a sudden?" Maxwell put his hand towards his side.
"You don't understand what it is I go through on that battlefield..." Deeraj grabs his head as the pain subsides for now.
"Help us understand! We'll-"
"It's not that simple. I trust ya'll I do... It's just too much to tell right now," Deeja turns back towards the base as the sun dips down below the horizon.
The battle has ended with the victory of Earth Alliance, getting something so so desperately needed. Almost immediately, Earth Alliance sent off supplies back into space. With those supplies, Deeraj, Maxwell, and Lanai head back into the sea of stars as well, hopeful of reuniting with their mercenary lieutenant.
Unknown base.
Vince's long dagger moves to the side using the verniers. The machine moves through space without using its thrusters that much.
"You're nearing the target area, commence mission, Destroy the enemy MS, be careful there might be ZAFT aces in the area," Sabina said as Vince activated his thrusters, boosting forward faster towards the objective.
"Stay back. My machine will take care of the grunts," Sam said as he rushed forward with his Gunbarrel Dagger. Vince cycled towards the linear cannon on his left shoulder and opened fire, the beam traveling in space, hitting an unknown GINN in the side. With their attention gained, Vince pushes the control sticks forward, making his machine boost ahead. With their attention on the approaching unit, Vince kept straight at high speeds bouncing form left to right with ease.
While their attention was on him, Sam detached his gun barrels and surrounded the units shooting off multiple shots hitting many GINNs that stood in Vince's way. Sam fires off his beam rifle, hitting another GINN in the reactor, making it explode, before thrusting up holding up his shield to block a beam from another foe. Before using his Gunbarrel to blindside his target in the wing, making the old mobile suit spin out of control, finishing it off by slicing the unit in half, missing the reactor but hitting the cockpit. Sam turned his suit around to see more GINNs fly towards him.
Vince makes his way into the base and opens the missile pod firing off at the soft spots of the station, making min explosions inside.
"Missile barrage coming your way!" Vince looks up and moves his left control stick forward in time to block a few of the missiles. However, some hit his right leg's knee. Slowly standing back up, his mobile suit wasn't quick to it, as three high maneuverability GINNs flew out from the smoke firing off two more rockets. Cycling to his Vulcans, he hits the two missiles before they get closer to him, boosting backward, sliding to a halt, making debris kick up as he lands, leaning forward to stop himself from tipping over. Vince then thrusts to the side to duck behind a stranded ship as they fired more rockets towards him.
Ascending from his position, he cycles towards the linear cannon and fires two shots, hitting the high mobility suit in the chest twice, making the reactor heat up before it explodes.
"He's good!"
"We can't let him get to the general!" The two remaining High motility types rush towards him. Vince boosts back and fires his missile pod into the ship below him, causing it to explode, creating a smokescreen before closing the distance.
"What?!"
"Damn it! Visibility is low! Let's head back towards the general," turning around, both Mobile suits moved away from the smoke. They traveled throughout the exploding base.
Vince sighs as he slowly stops his machine looking towards his right and left. He had managed to get away from the two GINNs thanks to the smokescreen he had created, making a detour route for himself.
"Target is estimated to be within a few more meters! Stay observant. Many GINNs are in the area!" Sabina warned as Vince moved forward again, hearing an alarm going off, making him turn his machine to see what it was only for him to be hit with a rocket into the chest, bouncing off the hit. Firing off his missile pods, they scattered towards the enemy. They spread and shot more missiles at him, a total of four GINNs. Holding up his shield to block the incoming missiles, he lets go of the protection and boosts back, allowing them to hit the shield bouncing back towards him. The smoke created gave him enough time to fire the linear cannon into the reactor of two GINNs. Boosting up as the smoke cleared, another one was fired but missed.
Turning to fly in, Vince rushes in, seeing 10 GINNs staring at him. Boosting to the side to dodge a rocket, he counters with the linear gun again as he floats to the side-firing his weapon. The pilot tried to escape though he freezes and screams as his fate was sealed, being hit by the cannon.
"There's too many of them! Your armor will slow you down with that many enemies!" Sabina yells in concern. Vince grits his teeth and fires off his missile pod before firing his last shot with his linear gun, Hitting four of the ten.
"It's only one unit! We can take him!" The six units spread out and flew around him. Vince tenses up and disperses his armor, creating a blinding effect as he does so. Grabbing hold of the beam rifle Vince made quick work of the six ms's hitting in the reactor or head of each one, destroying the suits. Turning to face the unactivated MS he's supposed to beat, Vince rushes over and aims, only for an alarm making him stop on a dime and glide backward in time for a rocket to miss him.
"Tch! He really destroyed all of them!"
"Doesn't matter! We'll have to take him out so the general can escape!" The second High mobility GINN rushes in, moving to the side aiming with his bazooka. Vince Accelerates forward, holding up his shield before discarding his rifle and moving his protection to the side, backhanding his beam saber on his right side, slicing upwards. The sword slicing through the left arm and wing, making the GINN and him float for a little while before he tried to move in position to fire his bazooka. Stopping him in his tracks, Vince held up his shield to knock the weapon away and stab into the torso. Deactivating the saber and turning around, he was hit twice in the guard by the rockets making it explode.
"Damn it! The shells didn't reach fast enough!" Tossing the bazooka away, he takes out a beam saber and boosts forward, slashing horizontally. Vince's verniers propelled him back into the motionless GINN, slowing him down slightly. Looking up, his foe was right on top of him, raising his saber to deal his first blow.
"Arraahh!" The pilot yells as he slashes downward, only for both beam sabers to collide, sparking particles from the connection. "W-what?! The beams... They connected?!"
Vince pushes off the GINN and slashes horizontally across the torso, making the suit bounce from the hit, dazing the pilot. Moving behind him, Vince stabs into the torso, almost hitting the cockpit but missing barely. Taking out the beam saber, Vince turns towards his right to see the pure red suit slowly rise, releasing heat form its vents as it activates.
"T-That's him, the enemy, MS! Careful, Zal isn't your ordinary pilot!" Sabina's voice filled with fear.
"So, you must be Earth Alliances mercenary? A Crow, huh? Let's see how determined you are to live!" Zal smirks as his machine's mono eye glows the bright purple. His machine took a step from the cradle that it was in and kicked it away, making it float. Around them, explosions were going off as the base went slowly broke apart. The two units started at each other as another explosion went off.
The red Unit rushes forward, blazing before Vince as soon as he blinks, making his unit boost to the side in time as Zal slashes downward. He's quick! Vince slicing horizontally in response, making the red unit back up with its verniers. Now with separation, Vince rushes towards his rifle, grabbing hold of it. He turns to face his foe, hearing an alarm go off behind him. Spinning his hand and activates the beam saber, making Zal boost back to gain space. Vince aimed and fired his first shot, turning around fully now, making Zal dodge to the left. Firing again, he moves to the right, avoiding two more beams while backing up near a wall. An alarm went off behind him, making Zal look to see electrocution.
An explosion rips a hole in the now-destroyed space as both Vince and Zal burst through the smoke, with Zal blocking an attack from Vince.
"Not bad... You're more skilled than I thought!" The two push off each other, boosting back, taking turns shooting at one another. Neither getting a clear shot as they both dodge the other's attempt, they close the distance and slash at each other with their beam sabers, passing right by the other. Vince twists his machine around and rushes in again, firing more two more shots. Zal easily dodges the two and fires off Vulcans in his arm. This took Vince by surprise as he stopped his machine with his verniers and used his arm as a shield to protect his primary camera, just as Zal wanted. Rushing in with superior speed, he slashes downward. Not having enough time to react, Vince pulls the control sticks back just enough for him to avoid being hit critically. The slash cuts through his left arm and slices open the cockpit, leaving Vince exposed. Taking his beams saber, he slashes vertically, taking out his enemy's left arm. The two backs away and stare at each other, Vince shooting his Vulcans as he rushes in.
Hitting his rifle's ammo parts, the explosion blinded Zal. Boosting up to get away, Zal looks back towards the smoke, aiming with his arm-mounted Vulcans. Suddenly an alarm went off from above him, making him turn to see a beam saber thrown his way. Knocking it away with ease, another alarm sounded from behind him, making Zal gasp in surprise.
"Behind me?!" Turning around, he saw Vince slash upwards, cutting off his last arm before kneeing Zal in the chest, then stabbing down on his rattled opponent. "I see... You beat me at my own game... Hahaha! I guess you aren't to be underestimated!" The beam saber stabs through the reactor, causing it to electrocute a few seconds before his MS explodes as Vince leaves the saber in and boosts away as it explodes.
"Enemy MS is destroyed, mission complete, please come home... Wait, we're picking up a reading!" Before she could continue, Vince looked over towards his right, seeing Sam's suit taking out the last GINN. Turning to see an in-coming ZAFT warship. Boosting over towards his ally, Sam turned his suit, seeing the messed-up state.
"Damn merc, looks like this foe really did a number on you... Let's go home-" Right as he says that, a beam fires through the stars hitting right in the chest of his suit, making him bounce back from the hit. Looking to see more GINNs flying out towards them.
"GET OUT OF THERE!" Sabina yells through the com.
"Damn, they caught me off guard! Vince! Hurry and go! I'll buy as much time for you!" Sam aims and fires as he detaches his gun barrels. Vince looks back at the enemy and Sam before rushing off from the combat zone one last time.
"Please hurry back! Reach the destination point if you can!" Pushing his machine to the limit, his machine blazes through the stars, its body shaking from over boosting. Vince lets loose on the thrusters as his machine floats thanks to the momentum. Reaching the rendezvous point, Vince slows his machine down. Looking around until he heard the sound of a lock on him. Turning around, he saw two GINNs rushing forward. Clenching his controls, Vince readies himself to move, the two open fires on him.
Grunting, Vince flew upwards in time to dodge the first few beams, but one of the coordinators connected with his left leg, cleaving it right off. Alarms blared as Vince struggled to balance his machine as he moved to the side to dodge another beam. Struggling, Vince barely moved to the sides, avoiding their shots, before rushing in at the two, shooting his Vulcans at their exposed mono eyes, causing one of them to go blind. Pushing past the two, he turns around, his verniers helping him stop barely. His machine was in poor fighting condition. Even Deeraj would struggle with this damaged suit. Making a turn, Vince rushes away from the two, though they gave chase, trying to hit the moving target. Vince made sure to spin and move around so they couldn't get a lock on him.
"V-" Static from the enemy GINNs made it hard to communicate, turning his machine to see that only one GINN was following him, he positions himself to be upright and ascends, making the GINN flying past him, though it turned around and aims its gun at him. Thinking quickly, Vince boosted to the side avoiding the first beam, and then ducks in time for the next to skim his Machines main camera. Having no weapons, he was a sitting duck, the Coordinator saw this and rushes towards him, making Vince freeze as he couldn't do anything. Taking out a beam saber, the GINN stabs forward aiming for the slashed open cockpit. Pulling the controls down, his machine moves down allowing the beam saber to stab through his main camera. Smiling, Vince then used his only leg to slam into the side of the GINN before pushing off with that very leg rushing away as his camera switch to backup around the body.
The GINN takes its freehand and aims with its beam rifle, a cocky attitude. Vince bounce around so that the GINN couldn't get a lock on, reaching for the beam rifle of the other GINN as it stayed still. Taking its weapon off the comatose ZAFT unit, Vince took aim and fired at the same time as GINN. Both Beams hit, with the coordinator hitting the arm, while Vince dealt a critical blow in the torso. The machine slowly started to explode as its body was heavily damaged, leaving Vince out in the open floating sighing out in relief.
"Vince! Do you copy!" Sabina yells out as the coms reconnected. Chuckling slightly, Sabina sat back down in her chair as she heard him, smiling in relief. Looking at his machine's damage and fuel, it was low thanks to the chase they gave him. His damage machine wasn't going to make it too much further if he tried to. It'll backfire and explode on him. "I'm glad your safe. Please stay there. I'm coming to help."
Vince undoes his seat and stands in the cockpit, looking out towards a glittering light coming his way. It was a small shuttle equipped with missiles on them for transport.
Back at the completed mission.
Sam blocks an incoming missile bouncing back from the hit. Looking up, he saw dozens of enemies, his machine was already poorly damaged from the multiple hits he took from behind and so forth. Panting as he looks around, his eyes getting blurry, Sam smiles as he charges forward.
"I won't let him die! He has to- Gah!" His machine was hit with beam after beam, ZAFT not allowing him the time of day to reach them. "Damn, I'm sorry Vince... It looks like I won't survive this one after all... They just outnumbered me this time!" A final beam struck through the cockpit and Reactor, causing his machine to electrocute and then explode, shattering in pieces.
Nelson-class hanger.
Vince took off his helmet as it was tapped with a hole on it, allowing him to breathe fresh air finally. Floating towards the railing, Vince stops himself and looks out towards the stars, something inside of him didn't want to believe that Sam was dead, but deep down he knew that he was, as the ship turns them around and head back towards Earth Alliance's moon base.