Mobile Suit Gundam/Kido Senshi Gundam: Peacekeepers
By: Ominae
Rating: T
NOTE:
All characters and machines of the various Gundam eras belong to Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate, Fumihiko Takayama, Takeyuki Kanda, Umanosuke Iida, Mitsuko Kase, Takashi Imanishi, Masashi Mukaeda, Mitsuo Fukuda, Seiji Mizushima, Susumu Yamaguchi, Satoshi Konno, Junichi Kamino, Bandai, Level 5 and Sunrise. I only own Mark Liu for now.
I'm not sure if it's alright to own mobile suits/mobile suit technology based on existing canon stuff, but I'll say it for now since the one Mu will use later on doesn't exist in any Gundam material (anime/manga/novel/video games).
Summary:
As the Archangel tries to escape from a now damaged Heliopolis, Rau Le Creuset sends in GINNs to intercept with Athrun in the Aegis Gundam as he disobeyed instructions from Le Creuset and Ades of the Vesalius. But before either the GINNs or the Aegis could reach the Archangel, unknown mobile suits were deployed to intercept them. Will they make a different in protecting OMNI's new prototype warship and secure what remains of Heliopolis? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.
Chapter 4: Interception
Bridge, ZMS Vesalius, somewhere near Heliopolis airspace, Space
"Captain Ades! Commander Le Creuset! We have a problem!"
Ades and Le Creuset were summoned to see one of the Vesalius' CIC officers, sensing urgency with him.
"Is there something up?" Ades asked the CIC officer.
"There is, Captain." The officer showed Ades and Le Creuset his console. "We've spotted five mobile suit entering Heliopolis a few minutes before our GINNs and the Aegis Gundam managed to get inside the colony."
"Hmm..." Le Creuset went to ponder on his thoughts after the officer reported. "I see. It looks like that M has decided to intervene and possibly take us on while protecting that... legged ship inside Heliopolis."
"You mean that M organization after we got a report from intelligence that our attempt to retake the Taiwanese mass driver failed?"
The masked ZAFT White officer nodded. "That's right, Ades. It wouldn't be that surprising for anyone who's familiar with that unknown organization after all. Though I wonder why they're going inside Heliopolis?"
"It may be possible that they got agents on the inside with OMNI forces inside that legged ship." Ades told Le Creuset, offering his theory.
Le Creuset had seemed to agree with Ades' theory.
"Quite possible Ades. We can go with that for now."
Ades was told from the CIC officer that they can't make contact with the GINNs and the Aegis since comms were being disrupted. He went to see Le Creuset, studying the situation on the digital map table.
"Commander." Ades spoke to Le Creuset. "I'm being told that communication with our forces inside Heliopolis are being disrupted. Right now, we can't hail Miguel or Athrun as we speak."
"So they're overriding our N-Jammers for the colony?" Le Creuset said, being a bit surprised.
Ades nodded.
"For now, we need to hope that they can handle themselves in there."
Bridge, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis
"We've got four mobile suits incoming!" Jackie told everyone on the bridge. "And it looks like they're going to engage the GINNs and the Aegis!"
"It seems that M's decided to intervene." Murrue said after she heard from Jackie's assessment of the situation. "But what for?"
"Do you think that they have a good reason for deploying their forces in neutral territory?" Natarle asked Murrue from her seat in the CIC.
"It could be possible, Ensign Badgiruel." Murrue told the ensign. "After all, they intervene to prevent certain situations from escalating to all-out wars. As least, that's what the rumors are going back in the Atlantic Federation."
"I hope that Kira and Lieutenant La Flaga can handle things there." Natarle spoke to the brown-haired woman. "It seems that we're getting a fluctuation with our comms to them to the possible point of having jamming aside from ZAFT N-Jammers." She asked Jackie. "How are the N-Jammers?"
"It seems that the N-Jammers are being disrupted." Jackie reported in. "And like the ensign had said, our communications are getting some fluctuations so I won't know if we can contact the Strike and the Flag out there."
I wonder if those fluctuations will hinder our ability to contact Kira and the Lieutenant in the field?
Cockpit, GAT-X105+AQM/E-X02 Sword Strike, somewhere in Heliopolis
"Finally. Some goddamn help."
Kira mumbled to himself after he eyed the console, especially the external camera feed on the screens, to see Exia, Dynames, Kyrios and Virtue arrive inside the semi-damaged colony. "I wonder if I'll be able to escape from the ship after I stick along with the Archangel for a little while."
He made the Strike brandish the "Schwert Gewehr" 15.78m Anti-ship Sword prior to confronting the GINNs approaching the Archangel.
"I'll try and patch through the encrypted channel Feldt told me to use prior to my undercover assignment." The teenager said, adjusting frequencies as the GINNs confronted him and Mu's Flag Gunbarrel Custom after the four mobile suits came inside Heliopolis. "Just hope those GN particles aren't going to disrupt OMNI-made comm systems as well."
I just need to drive them off so that the Archangel can make it out of here with the L.T. alongside me. Lagrange 3 is already dangerous as it is.
"Come on, guys." Kira mumbled once more as he prepared to take on the GINNs trying to approach the Archangel with D-Type weapons. At least 3 of them were making their move with M66s.
"So three more are approaching the guys, with one of them armed with a M69." The covert M agent sighed. "Miss Sumeragi better revise the extraction plan before I can get back with M."
Cockpit, SVMS-01GB Union Flag Gunbarrel Custom, somewhere in Heliopolis
Mu stood near Kira, eying the three incoming M66-armed GINNs.
"This is not good for the both of us." muttered the Hawk of Endymion, seeing one of the GINNs about to take aim with the M66s at the Archangel.
"Alright! Here goes!" Mu armed himself with the Flag's Linear Rifle, firing at the GINNs to distract them while got the four gunbarrels working.
"Fire!" The blond man yelled as he willed the gunbarrels to strike back at the three GINNs before their M66 payload was fired against the Archangel. In unison, Mu got the Linear Rifle firing at them too.
When the gunbarrels and the rifle were fired at the ZAFT-made mobile suits, they moved out of the way to avoid getting hit.
"Dammit!" Mu snarled when he saw his shots miss the GINNs. The way the gunbarrels were deployed here are too goddamn slow!
Despite the shots missing their mark, Mu kept the Linear Rifle and the gunbarrels firing to keep up a barrage while he saw the Sword Strike move in to engage the GINNs in close quarters.
"Better get ready Archangel! The GINNs could fire their M66 payload at any time now!" Mu made contact with the Archangel before he used his Linear Rifle and gunbarrels again to blast away at the GINNs.
"Understood, Lieutenant La Flaga!" Natarle replied to Mu back in her CIC console.
He saw Kira use the Schwert Gewehr at an approaching. So far, they only responded by dodging the anti-ship sword.
This is going to take a while.
Cockpit, GN-002 Gundam Dynames, somewhere in Heliopolis
"Incoming transmission! Incoming transmission!"
Lockon was alerted on an incoming transmission by his personal Haro after he told Setsuna, Allelujah and Tieria to start engaging the incoming GINNs.
"All right Haro! Patch it through!"
"Lock...! It's Ki...a! Can y...u re...d me, ov...r?"
"Looks like it's Kira." Lockon surmised from the transmission. "But it seems that OMNI radio equipment's also susceptible to GN particle jamming."
"It's Lockon! Seems that OMNI equipment's vulnerable to GN particles. How are you holding up?"
"N..t g...d L..ockon! Got t...ee inc...ing ...INNs with D-Ty...pe equipm... headi... f... t... Ar...chan...el!"
"Understood Kira! Give my regards to the others! The others and I will hold off the three GINNs here. Over and out."
Lockon replied before he ended the transmission. "Time to get into action." He reached up on the cockpit's ceiling to grab the sniper rifle module.
"Haro, assist me with targeting acquisition will ya? Those M66s are pretty wild and they can end up hitting the colony's structure instead when the Archangel will miss."
"Roger that! Roger that!"
"Here goes." Lockon went to take aim at the three GINNS as they were being intercepted by Exia and Kyrios.
Hang in there Kira. The others and I will back you up.
Bridge, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis
Murrue observed the battle that was taking place in front of her in Heliopolis. These four unknown mobile suits. Even though they were an unknown that even they were not picked up in the OMNI IFF database, it seemed that they were fighting to help them escape. But are they good guys or do they have a deeper motive in the end?
"What are those mobile suits?" The brown-haired OMNI officer watched Exia and Kyrios intercept one of the M66-armed GINNs. As the GINN was about to fire the M66 payload at the two mobile suits since it was being cornered, Exia armed itself with the GN Sword to slice off both of its arms to disarm it before Kyrios began to dive towards the falling M66 launchers in fighter mode to shoot down the missiles before they can cause much further damage to the colony. They're extraordinary. Haven't seen those kinds of mobile suits before.
She saw the disarmed GINN subsequently destroyed by Exia when it sliced the ZAFT mobile suit diagonally. The two went to confront the other two mobile suits.
"I don't believe it." Arnold murmured. "Just where did those mobile suits come from?"
As for the two GINNs being intercepted by Lockon and company, the second M66-armed GINN was destroyed by Virtue's GN Cannons after it was able to get in its range on the side when the GINN was dodging the beam shots from Dynames' GN Sniper Rifle. Thanks to the dual cannons, they destroyed the mobile suit and the M66 payload at once without damaging Heliopolis.
So that's two down and one more to go.
"So much power." Murrue was glad that the four mobile suits were not fighting against them. She had surmised that they had enough equipment necessary to destroy the Archangel, which was not something she wanted to see before the now self-appointed captain could escape Heliopolis with the refugees. Murrue also kept an eye on the three GINNs being intercepted by Kira and Mu.
Hopefully we can get out of Heliopolis without totally destroying the entire colony.
Cockpit, ZGMF-1017 GINN, somewhere in Heliopolis
Miguel gritted his teeth when he saw Olor and Matthew's GINNs wiped out of existence by the four mobile suits, which was starting to piss him outright.
"GODDAMN YOU!" The blond ZAFT Green shouted, firing the M69 at the Gundams. "YOU'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO OLOR AND MATTHEW!" He noted that the Aegis was moving in to assist Miguel instead of moving in to intercept the Archangel.
However, the green beams did not make their mark as they missed. Instead, the shots either struck the grounds of Heliopolis, the colony walls or parts of the colony's structural pillars.
Dammit! They keep dodging the beam shots! Are these guys also Coordinators?
The M69 fired green beam shot after beam shot to land a hit at the four Gundams. The shots keep missing and instead, place the entire colony at risk.
"CAN'T YOU PUNKS STAY STILL FOR JUST ONE MINUTE?"
No matter how many shots Miguel had fired from the M69, they still missed and instead, continued to contribute to damaging Heliopolis. He then saw the Exia charging in at him.
"Get back!" Miguel snarled, who was about to fire the M69 when Exia used its GN Sword to slice the offending weapon's barrel away from him. He got his sword out and drew it on the mobile suit's right arm before the mechanical limb was disabled by a beam shot from Dynames' GN Sniper Rifle.
"I'll destroy you." Miguel was shocked to see that the voice came from someone young, presumably a teenager via speakers. "I'll just destroy you for endangering this colony!"
The Exia then used its weapon to slice Miguel's GINN diagonally.
"Shit!" Miguel yelled before the GINN blew up, killing the blond man as the cockpit exploded first.
Cockpit, SVMS-01GB Union Flag Gunbarrel Custom, somewhere in Heliopolis
"Whoa. Least we got some pressure off us."
Mu murmured after he received word from the Archangel's CIC that three GINNs were destroyed by the unknown Gundams. Inspired by this, Mu went on the offensive and allowed the gunbarrels to take the lead in firing at the other three GINNs. However, he saw one of the GINNs raise his M66 launcher at him.
"Not today." The blond OMNI officer raised an eyebrow before he fired both the Linear Rifle and the gunbarrels at the lone GINN. The combined shots took him out of commission, but it made the pilot fire the M66 payload on impulse.
"Dammit!" Mu shouted, seeing the M66s heading straight for the Archangel. He went to fire his weapons at the incoming missiles, taking down two of the four missiles. The other two, on the other hand, were still coming for the warship.
Seeing that there was probably no time to intercept the missiles as the shots kept missing, Mu went to use two of his gunbarrels and fired them to strike the incoming M66s before they would be able to get near the Archangel.
It worked. Mu saw that he had time to use the gunbarrels once more to distract the second GINN before Kira can make the final kill, watching the last two missiles destroyed.
After Mu saw Kira slice the second GINN horizontally with the Schwert Gewehr, the mobile suit's pilot once again fired the second M66 payload in desperation before it was destroyed.
"Not again!" Mu shouted again, firing his Linear Rifle and the gunbarrels. However, the Aegis Gundam came charging in towards the Flag before it fired its CIWS at all of the gunbarrels when they turned to aim at the stolen OMNI-made mobile suit.
"Screw this!" The Aegis shot them! Shit, I have to remove them ASAP! The Lieutenant fired the Linear Rifle now at the Aegis while making the gunbarrels disconnect from the rear of the Flag. While doing this, he saw the Strike moving in to get the Aegis away from him.
"Thanks Kira!"
Cockpit, GN-001 Gundam Exia, somewhere in Heliopolis
"Enemy sighted."
Setsuna had said to himself after he took care of Miguel's GINN, seeing Kira's Strike engage the Aegis. He decided to approach it.
"Setsuna, wait!"
The Krugis teenager ignored Allelujah's hails as he tried to rush the Aegis from the back.
"Kira's got this handled! We need to take care of the last GINN attacking the Archangel!"
"Let him be, Allelujah. I think Kira can use the help there."
"If you say so, Lockon."
"I can take care of this..." Setsuna murmured as he had the GN Sword ready.
Cafeteria, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis
Mark led Sai, Tolle, Kuzzey and Mir towards the cafeteria after he was told that he and the others can watch the battle going on from a video screen inside.
"So it's true that we can watch the battle from the cafeteria?" Mir asked Mark as he escorted the college students.
"Yeah, that's right." Mark replied. "Or so I was told." He pointed to the nearest video screen where some of the Archangel's mechanics were watching the battle as they were not needed in the hangar.
"Over there! Look!" Kuzzey pointed to the others on the video screen, seeing the Strike and Flag engage the Aegis with the Exia about to charge in from the rear of the red mobile suit.
"Where did that blue mobile suit come from?" Mir asked the others, confused on its appearance.
Mark only stared Sai and Kuzzey when he heard Mir's question. The two college students also stared back at Mark before they went to continue watching the battle on the video screen.
"If only we got an answer for that, Mir." Said replied, shrugging his shoulders in reply.
For now, they can watch and hope that Kira and Mu can get the ZAFT mobile suits to back off from the Archangel.
Mobile Weapons Hangar, unknown base, somewhere in space
Several mechanics and technicians were busy as they were tasked to either conduct maintenance or perform tests on the mobile suits with their pilots placed on immediate 24-hour standby after news of ZAFT's attack on Heliopolis became widespread. Some of the personnel were now talking about how the attack on Heliopolis resembled Zeon's infiltration and attack on Side 7's lone colony later known as Green Noa 1.
"I guess it is true that a colony was attacked by ZAFT GINNs a few hours ago."
A Caucasian woman in her 20s with blonde hair came to the hangar wearing a white space suit and helmet on.
"I know how you feel." A dark-skinned woman with brown hair moved alongside her, who also had her white space suit and helmet on as well. "I guess we won't know on the true nature of ZAFT's attack until perhaps much later." She then frowned.
"I'm worried about Kira and the others sent to infiltrate Orb." The blonde woman told her colleague. "It's not that I question their skills, but..."
"The fact that they're young? I don't blame you. I felt the same way when the guys brought them here in cuffs and all. Heard that they were brainwashed child soldiers at first..."
"BE HAPPY! BE HAPPY!"
The two women noted an orange ball-shaped robot floating towards them.
"Haro?" The blonde woman said. "This looks like the haro of Amuro Ray. Except that it doesn't..."
"BE HAPPY NINA! BE HAPPY NINA!"
Nina Purpleton grabbed Haro and looked at it.
"Didn't see you there." Nina told Haro. She then looked at her companion. "What are you laughing about Mora?"
Mora Boscht grinned and laughed a bit before she told Nina. "Nothing Nina."
"Hey ladies." A black-haired man with glasses in his 50s greeted Nina and Mora.
"Hello, Mr. Ian." Nina greeted the veteran mobile weapon mechanic.
"Oh please." Ian Vashti chuckled at Nina. "Ian will do just fine, Nina."
"So is it true with the rumors again?" Mora asked Ian. "With regards to the attack on Heliopolis by ZAFT?"
Ian nodded. "Indeed Mora. Word out there is that it's conducted by a ZAFT team under a ZAFT White officer without any PLANT consent."
"So that will complicate things huh?" Nina said after hearing what Ian had told the ladies.
"It will." Ian told Nina after she asked him. "We're on standby case things are going to go very wrong. Hopefully, Mark and Kira can sort things out before it's too late."
"Hopefully they can be extracted out safely." Mora told Ian.
"I know, Mora. I feel the same way."
"By the way," Ian smirked at Nina. "how's your boy's carrot problems?"
Cockpit, GAT-X105+AQM/E-X02 Sword Strike, somewhere in Heliopolis
"What are you doing there, Kira Yamato?"
Kira gritted his teeth after he got the Aegis to back from the Flag after it sent a general frequency for the Strike to pick up. "What the heck are you doing in that mobile suit?"
"You're one to talk about that, Athrun Zala!" Kira angrily shouted back. "Why the heck did you sign up for ZAFT? I thought you don't want to take part in this kind of war!"
"It's different!" Athun shouted. "It's because of OMNI and what they did to the PLANTs and the Zeon Republic!"
Before Kira could respond, he saw the Exia attempting to move in and slash the Aegis. He was lucky that Athrun was quick to respond and fire the CIWS.
Dammit Setsuna! I'm trying to reason why a friend of mine who I haven't seen for years in the middle of an attack in a colony controlled by a neutral nation!
He watched as the Aegis and Exia engaged with each other via beam sabers. But he had no time to intervene as the console had indicated that the last GINN had a clear shot of the Archangel.
"Not on my watch!" Kira shouted as he moved towards the ZAFT mobile suit. His sudden movements nearly caught the third GINN by surprise, but its pilots decided to fire the anti-base missile payload before the Coordinator could use the Sword Strike to attack it.
"AAAAAHHHH!" Shouting at the top of his voice, Kira brought the Schwert Gewehr down on the GINN diagonally after it drew out its machine gun at him. He turned the Strike to face the incoming M66s and fired its CIWS at them. But luck was against them as the missiles were heading for the Archangel and some of the colony's structure, including some of the pillars.
"Dammit.." Kira gritted his teeth when he saw some of the CIWS bullets partially damage one of the M66s, making its miss its intended target. Instead, it began to make its approach towards a support pillar.
"Archangel! One of the missiles is approaching a support pillar!" Kira shouted at the Archangel after he made radio contact with them. He then saw the warship shoot down one of the missiles before it approached the pillar with the CIWS. Turning to the side, the covert agent saw the Dynames gun down another M66 with a few beam shots before it can hit the Archangel.
Two down. Two more M66s to go...
He later noticed that Aegis broke away from the Exia and tried to get near the Sword Strike.
Bridge, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis
"Fire the Igelstellungs manually again against the M66 missiles!"
Murrue shouted as she gave the order, seeing the last two M66s approach the Archangel after the Sword Strike and the Dynames were able to destroy the first two M66s.
"You know that we'll also risk destroying Heliopolis' internal structure on the way, Lieutenant?" Natarle glared at Murrue, reminding her of possible collateral damage.
"Just do it, Ensign!" Murrue glared back at Natarle. "We've got no time to debate on this!"
"Understood..." Natarle sighed before she issued the instruction to Romero to get the laser designator on the active M66 missiles and fire the CIWs at them.
Murrue watched from the command chair the battle with the Sword Strike facing the Aegis before Mu's Flag joined the young Coordinator by his side.
Getting the colony destroyed in the fight is one of the last things I want to see the moment this happened...
She hoped that the Aegis can be driven out of Heliopolis now that most of the GINNs were destroyed. For now, Murrue waited for a progress report if and when the CIWs was able to take down the last remaining M66 missiles.
Cockpit, GN-003 Gundam Kyrios, somewhere in Heliopolis
Allelujah saw the last two M66 missiles heading straight for Heliopolis' colony support pillars after Kira, Mu and the Archangel used their weapons to destroy a majority of them.
"Gotta hurry." The ex-HRL supersoldier transformed the Kyrios from mobile suit to fighter mode, pursuing the remaining M66s. "This is Kyrios! I'm heading in to destroy the last two M66 missiles heading astray for the colony's structure! Over"
"Copy Kyrios and good luck! Ptolemaios out!"
Pushing himself and his mobile suit in full force, Allelujah continued to chase the last anti-fortification missiles.
"I won't let you destroy this colony!" Allelujah gritted his teeth as he tried to get his sights on the M66s, trying to acquire a target. Since no GINNs were in the way, it seemed to be okay.
"I..." He just acquired a lock on one of the M66 missiles. That was the good thing. The bad thing is that they were going fast and at this rate, the colony's internal structure was going to get damaged by one more missile strike with the risk of making Heliopolis fall apart. "got you now!"
After getting a lock-on confirmation, Kyrios had fired the GN Submachine Gun until he saw the nearest M66 explode.
One more M66 was remaining.
Until he was fired upon by a bunch of dark blue mobile suits led by a couple of Zaku-like mobile suits armed with launcher-type weapons. Allelujah looked at his console to see his comrades with the Aegis was also being fired upon.
"Shit..." Allelujah cursed when the console indicated that the intruding mobile suits consisted of RGM-79Q GM Quels and a couple of RMS-106CS Hizack Customs.
"Titans..."
Cafeteria, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
Shit! Of all the people...
Mark cursed to himself as well when he spotted Titans mobile suits intervening in the fight, forcing the Aegis to fight. As least that was good. But now that the stolen mobile suit was gone, they now faced their attention to the M mobile suits. Their weapons were now hitting some of Heliopolis' internal structures, making the place even more damaged than what ZAFT was doing. The worse was he had to watch what they were doing with his friends.
"The Titans..." Tolle murmured. "I'm afraid their tactics can destroy the colony faster than with ZAFT."
"You think they responded to ZAFT's incursion?" Mir asked her boyfriend.
"Might be possible. At least they try to do so on paper to make the organization friendly to neutral nations like Orb."
For Mark, he didn't like what the Titans were doing. It was bad that they were known for gassing an entire colony that protested against them and now he was going to witness the colony's destruction as the agent saw the two Hizack Customs fire their beam-type launchers at Kyrios. Even though one of the beam shots missed him and struck the last M66, it struck the severely damaged colony structural pillar with a few more beam shots that missed hitting Exia, Dynames and Virtue.
And then, Heliopolis began to fall apart as it was tearing itself inside and out. History was now repeating itself.
"No..." Kuzzey was shocked to see Heliopolis destroyed. "It's gone..."
"It seems the Titans and ZAFT will now have to answer to this." Sai said, hiding his shocked expression from his friends by acting calm.
Bridge, MRS-70 Ptolemaios
"Miss Sumeragi..." Christina looked at her console, seeing Heliopolis destroyed. "Heliopolis is destroyed..."
"I forecasted that the Titans would try to be in the area after the events of Operation Stardust. Trying to expand their reach." Sumeragi said after she watched the destruction of the colony, hidden behind another asteroid where they were able to view the battle before and after the demise of Orb's only space colony.
"Not only that, but they fired on Setsuna and the others without second thought." Lichty added. "With the colony's destruction, this may get ZAFT forces to leave under confusion."
"I just hope Kira and company are doing fine there." Lasse said to himself.
"Get Lockon and the others to withdraw at once." Sumeragi gave her instructions to Christina. "We need to leave before the Titans can regroup and fight back."
"Understood." Feldt and Christina began to tell Setsuna and the others to immediately retreat back to the Ptolemaios.
This'll be a pain to handle. Not to mention that I may have to add a minor change to the plan on the way.
Bridge, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
Murrue, Natarle and the bridge crew watched in horror as Heliopolis was destroyed thanks to ZAFT and Titans intervention. It was one of the last few events they wanted to see. With the destruction of Orb's only colony, it would bring an international incident between Orb, the PLANTs, OMNI and the Titans.
"Oh my god..." Murrue whispered. "Heliopolis."
"Now what do we do?" Arnold asked. "I'm pretty sure we'll be in trouble with Orb over this predicament."
"We'll take care of that later." Murrue told Arnold after hearing his concern. She faced Natarle. "Is the Strike and the Flag safe?"
"Yes they are." Natarle replied. "Ensign Tonomura and I are getting in touch with them."
"What about the Titans mobile suits?"
"Nothing as I can tell." Jackie told Murrue. "Debris from Heliopolis is interfering with our thermal searches. They're probably having the same thing."
"Our survival's very important." The brown-haired woman reminded the crew. "For now, we need to be careful especially since the Le Creuset team is out there."
"What about the Heliopolis college students?" Dalida asked Murrue.
"As usual, we'll bring them with us. The colony's deployed the shelters as lifeboats. So I'm sure help can arrive for them..."
Cockpit, GAT-X105+AQM/E-X02 Sword Strike, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
The PLANTs and the Earth will see eye to eye.
Kira groaned when he regained consciousness, remembering a certain event. The last thing he remembered was that he was sucked into space when Heliopolis was destroyed by damage sustained by ZAFT and Titans mobile suits.
"Damn ZAFT and damn Titans..." Kira gritted in anger. "They don't give a damn about neutrality." He sighed. "This'll be a headache with the CO when I get back from undercover work."
He went to look around at the debris field made by the destruction of Heliopolis. So far, there was nothing useful to him.
"Better check on the comms..." The teenager went to check on the Sword Strike's radios. It was working.
Probably the ZAFT ships were driven away from the destruction of Heliopolis.
Kira's thoughts wondered on Athrun, piloting the stolen Aegis Gundam. He didn't understand why he joined ZAFT. Last time he saw him, he was a kind guy who would defend others from being hurt.
"Why Athrun? Why did you sign up for ZAFT?"
"Kira! Are you alright? This is Mu La Flaga! Do you copy, over?"
Kira blinked his eyes, hearing Mu's voice on the radio. He then proceeded to reply.
"I'm alright Lieutenant La Flaga. And so's the mobile suit. What about you?"
"Thank goodness. Don't make me worry, kiddo... I'm alright as well. Lieutenant Ramius told us that we need to head back to the Archangel. Can you do that?"
"Understood, Lieutenant. Over and out."
Kira ended the transmission with Mu afterwards, moving the Sword Strike to head back to the warship. For now, he needs to stick with it until OMNI sends a rescue fleet for the Heliopolis college students according to Sumeragi's initial forecasting during his time undercover as a college student.
"Guess I need to go back." Kira proceeded to move carefully towards the debris field. As he went to pilot the mobile suit back to the Archangel's location as supplied by Natarle, he noted one thing odd about the field.
There was an Orb-made lifeboat floating around on the side. And its thrusters were damaged that it couldn't go to Earth towards Orban territory.
"Must've been damaged in the fight." Kira inspected it physically and saw that it was fine. Looks like its fine.
He then noted on his radio that Natarle was asking why Kira was delaying his return back to the Archangel.
Bridge, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
"I'm not allowing that Kira! You're not authorized to bring that lifeboat back with us to the Archangel!"
Murrue heard Natarle's shouts after she instructed Arnold to safely pilot the Archangel before Mu returned back with the Flag.
"What's happening back there, Ensign?" Murrue asked Natarle after hearing her shouts.
"Kira's going to bring back an Orb lifeboat with some of the thrusters damaged." Natarle told Murrue after she ceased shouting on her headset's mike. "I told him that he shouldn't do it."
"Forget it." Murrue sighed. I wonder if I'm facing this problem later on as the ship's captain. "I'll permit Kira to bring it inside. After all, we don't have time to argue the pros and cons of doing that while ZAFT forces could pursue us."
"Very well." Natarle sighed in defeat. I just hope she's not going to get too soft.
"Now that part's over..." Murrue leaned back in her command chair. "We'll need to set a course straight for Atlantic Federation's military base on the moon. Since they're a major member of OMNI and they funded this project, I'm sure they won't mind lending us a hand."
Hmmm...
Lifting the phone cradle from her command chair after deciding to call Kojiro from the hangar, Murrue was told that the Flag and the Sword Strike had safely returned with the lifeboat.
"Ensign Badgiruel, take charge of the bridge." She began to move towards the entrance after getting up from the command chair. "I'm going to go and see Lieutenant La Flaga and Kira for a few minutes."
"Understood, Lieutenant Ramius."
Mobile Weapons Hangar, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
After Kira made the Sword Strike kneel to set down the semi-damaged lifeboat, the lone G Project mobile suit stood upright next to the Flag. Without saying anything, he angrily departed from the hangar and made his way to the direction of the infirmary.
"Wonder what's eating the kid?" Kojiro murmured as he approached Mu, standing near the Flag.
"Something wrong?" Mu asked the mechanic after he took off his helmet.
"Nothing really." Kojiro shrugged. "I think Kira may be upset about something. Probably just need to have some space and time to work it out."
"Well I hope he can work it out quicker than later." The blond man commented. "We'll need his help later." He then asked Kojiro. "There's something I need to ask about the Flag."
"What about it?"
"Do you know why it's in the Archangel and whether it's a part of the G Project?"
Infirmary, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
"Thanks for the help, doctor."
"It's not a problem at all, young man. Even though you have Coordinator genes, it's important to make sure that the dressing's changed to replace the makeshift one you had there."
"Right. It seems that it stopped bleeding."
"Well then. Don't move around alright? I'll begin to replace the dressing here on your right shoulder. You're lucky that the bullet passed through it."
Kira was in the infirmary, asking for the ship's lone doctor in helping him change the makeshift dressing Mir and Mark had applied on the right shoulder. Right now, he had taken off his black shirt in order for the doctor to begin his work.
Outskirts of Infirmary, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
Murrue went on a detour to the Archangel's infirmary after Mir and Tolle told her courtesy of Mark that Kira needed to head to the infirmary to see the doctor.
"Well I hope he's alright." Murrue murmured. Since she found out that Kira's a Coordinator, the Lieutenant had no problems on being concerned Kira's shoulder wound back in Heliopolis. But on a personal note, Murrue wanted to see how he was doing ever since he piloted the Strike to help the ship and the refugees escape from ZAFT forces. And maybe the Titans too since she overheard from the students that they didn't look at them look favorably.
"Oh, Lieutenant." Murrue saw that Mark was leaning near the door of the infirmary. He immediately stood at attention, carbine slung at his back.
"It's all right." The brown-haired woman smiled at the young auxiliary officer. "You don't have to do that."
"Sorry." Mark was as attention. "Force of habit from my time at National Service."
"So is Kira in here?" Murrue asked, looking at the sliding door.
"He is." Mark then told Murrue. "But try to be careful okay? He's angry and I think something's eating him." He shrugged. "Heck I don't even know what's bugging him right now."
"I understand." Murrue nodded after she heard what Mark had told her.
"I'm off. I need to head back to the Enlisted Quarters and sit down..." Mark went off, leaving the OMNI officer outside the infirmary before she went inside to see Kira.
Infirmary, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
"Kira!"
Murrue called out for the Coordinator.
"Oh hello Lieutenant! Give me a few minutes..."
She heard Kira's reply, who was seen seated on a cot with his back facing her. Murrue immediately noted that his back had some scars on it.
Are those scars? Just what happened to Kira before I met him on Heliopolis?
After looking at his scars, Murrue went to examine his arms as they had some muscles on it.
Was Kira some kind of supersoldier before he became a college student?
The scars and the muscles left Murrue a bit confused. Regardless, she decided to go and talk to Kira as he had worn his shirt.
"Hello, Kira." Murrue greeted Kira. "I just wanted to see if you're all right from piloting the Sword Strike."
"I am." Kira nodded. "The doctor just changed the dressing on my right shoulder. But my wound's alright now, it's not that serious."
"Well that's good to hear, Kira." Murrue approached Kira, wanting to speak with him. However, she noticed that he had clenched fists on his lap.
Is this what Mark had mentioned?
"Kira." Murrue went to sit down next to Kira. "Is there something wrong?" She softly asked.
What do I tell her?
Kira was confused if he should tell Murrue that his best friend from his childhood days had been one of those ZAFT Red soldiers responsible for hijacking the Aegis Gundam.
"It..." Kira was a bit nervous, still clenching his fists. "It may be hard to explain, Lieutenant."
Hard? Murrue nearly raised an eyebrow after hearing Kira's reply. "Try me anyway, Kira. I want to help in any way I can."
Enlisted Quarters Section, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis
As Tolle, Mir, Sai and Kuzzey were in the cafeteria, Mark had ventured to the Archangel's enlisted quarters without being seen by the ship's personnel as they were busy conducting maintenance work on both the Strike and the Flag.
After seeing that the coast was clear, Mark dug into his tac vest and fished out a rectangular device and pressed a button on the side. A holographic screen appeared over the face, showing the image of Sumeragi.
"If you're seeing me here on the screen, then it means that ZAFT N-Jammers are long gone by now." Sumeragi said when she made contact with Mark.
"Indeed. Link is good, but we're going to be on the run from ZAFT for a while." Mark greeted the ex-EF Army officer/tactical forecaster. "But Kira and I are fine. As well as SI and KZ."
Mark saw Sumeragi sigh. "Well it looks like part of the plan worked according to my forecasting."
"Well my concerns is with the pirates out there. It's possible that the Archangel can head for its base on the moon since the ship's created by the Atlantic Federation."
Sumeragi smirked at Mark. "Since the pirates don't even know the existence of the ship, I doubt that they'll go look for it unless it's really important. Besides, you got the debris field that was unfortunately created by the destruction of Heliopolis."
Mark then asked her. "About that. Will the top brass say anything about this?"
"I have a feeling that they would. Even from the ranks of OMNI and ZAFT as well with Orb in the mix. Things are going to be very unpleasant once news of Heliopolis' destruction breaks out."
"I see." The young agent mused when he heard the reply from Sumeragi. "Kira's in the infirmary right now to get the dressing done from a gunshot wound."
"What happened to him?" Sumeragi asked Mark, sounding concerned for his safety.
"Don't worry about Kira." Mark reassured her. "The guy took a bullet for Lieutenant Ramius via the right shoulder when he and I engaged some ZAFT Greens. He's lucky that the bullet went through."
"Hmmm... I see."
"Did I hear that right?" Mark heard Lichty's voice. "Kira taking a bullet for a lady?"
Oh great. Mark rolled his eyes when he heard Lichty's side comment on the other line.
"You got to give Kira some credit, Lichty." Lasse was heard next after Lichty. "But I'll have to agree that it's the first time I've heard of Kira doing that..."
"Cut it out you two." Christina scolded the two helmsmen. "Ms. Sumeragi's still talking to him."
"Apologies..." Sumeragi sighed after hearing Christina tell Lichty and Lasse to keep quiet.
"No worries really." Mark shrugged. "I just hope that the extraction plan's foolproof."
Sumeragi winked at him. "You don't have to worry on that, Mark. I've got one in the works."
Mobile Weapons Hangar, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
"From the records that I've been able to obtain, the Flag here's been sent to test on certain technologies OMNI was about to introduce on the five Gundams like Phase Shift and the ability to handle multiple weapons."
Kojiro debriefed Mu on the presence of the Flag in the Archangel. He frowned as he stared at the Atlantic Federation-made mobile suit.
"How can they introduce phase shift onto that thing?" Mu told Kojiro. "The Flag's suppose to replace the Realdo as the main mobile suit away from OMNI's own GM army. I'm pretty sure it's got problems on handling other weapons aside from its own..."
"I was thinking the same way." Kojiro replied. "The fact that we got the spare gunbarrel set working with this indicated that Morgenroete and OMNI were probably trying to think of other ways they can use the gunbarrels from the Moebius Zeros on mobile suits to make them more flexible for mobile suit warfare."
Except that they were taken out by the Aegis thanks to being slow. Probably wasn't calibrated right.
"Just keep the Zero here for now." Mu told Kojiro. "From now on, I'll use the Flag. I'm familiar with handling Realdos for a while and the controls are almost the same anyway. Besides, I can be on par with the GINNs if I use it."
"Right." Kojiro replied. "I'll just forget that the top brass wanted the Flag to be here in the first place."
"I'm with you there."
Infirmary, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
"Try me anyway, Kira. I want to help in any way I can."
Kira was a bit surprised that Murrue wanted to help him. Back in Heliopolis, she was undercover in the colony while operating under a legend. The woman could have detained him or worse, have him shot for knowing the existence of the Strike.
"Um..." Kira was confused. Back at the bases, he was usually quiet. Even when a female tried to approach Kira, the Coordinator politely told them that he needed some time alone if he had a problem to take care of.
Taking a deep breath, Kira closed his eyes and thought of Murrue's offer of just listening and hear whatever was eating Kira on the inside. He looked at Murrue and asked her.
"Promise that you won't get freaked out?"
Enlisted Quarters Section, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis
"There's one more thing I have to add." Mark told Sumeragi. "I remember seeing Flay Allster in Heliopolis. In case some of the guys on Ptolemaios don't know, she's the only kid of Atlantic Federation Vice Foreign Secretary George Allster."
Sumeragi pondered on what Mark told her. "This could be a wildcard to my upcoming extraction plan. Depending on how things can turn out."
Mark smirked. "Since when has there been wildcards on your plans anyway in the first place?"
"Well since Flay's potentially gone missing now, it'll make the Vice Foreign Secretary use his influence as an official to form up an OMNI or AF search party to locate any lifeboats to see if Flay had safely evacuated." Sumeragi told Mark, getting back into business.
Mark kept quiet while Sumeragi had told her of this possibility.
"In fact, we can use that to our advantage."
"Understood. Should I tell the others?"
"As soon as you can."
"Alright."
Cafeteria, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
Sai sneezed out loud a few minutes after he and the others sat down on a table, worried that Heliopolis was taken out in the fight.
"You alright, Sai?" Mir asked after she saw Sai sneeze. She handed him a tissue packet.
"Thanks." Sai took one of the tissues and began to blow his nose hard. "And I'm alright. Probably one of those times I had to sneeze."
Strange. I don't recall being allergic to anything. Is this the thing the Japanese say that someone's talking about you somewhere out there?
"I'm sure Sai doesn't have a cold or anything. Right, Sai?" Kuzzey said to Tolle and Mir, defending Sai on the fact that "he didn't have a cold".
Enlisted Quarters Section, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis
"By the way," Mark went to see if he can ask Sumeragi. "how's the ZAFT Red guy some of the others brought back to the Ptolemaios?"
Sumeragi frowned and pouted at him before she answered. "Sometimes I wonder why you bother to do things like that out in the field?"
"Hey, can't I do something right for a change instead of leaving him to die back in Heliopolis?" Mark said, defending his actions.
"You know that one of these days, doing things like that can have you killed in the field." Sumeragi continued to frown and pout at him.
Sometimes I don't know if she's kinda scary when she frowns or pouts. Or maybe a bit of both at the same time. Yeah... that'll do.
"Are you listening to me?"
Sumeragi called Mark out when she saw him zoning out for a few minutes.
"Oh sorry! I'm... trying to remember something right now that came to mind. I can't remember what it is though."
"As we speak, the ZAFT Red soldier you rescued in Heliopolis is doing well. Just a gunshot wound on the shoulder."
Now that's sounding like Kira, except that Ramius lady shot him first.
"Dr. Moreno's taking good care of him 'till we can get back to our main satellite base out here."
"Well that's good to hear."
"Take care of yourself. Especially Kira and company." Sumeragi told him. "Hopefully your undercover mission hasn't made things there boring."
"I'm alright. I'll speak to you later." Mark replied to Sumeragi before he ended contact with her, putting the comm device back on his vest.
Mobile Weapons Hangar, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
A red-haired girl in a pink dress emerged out of the damaged Orb-made lifeboat, being assisted by two OMNI soldiers after it was placed down on the ground by the Sword Strike.
"Excuse me." The girl politely asked. "Is this an OMNI warship?"
"Yes it is." The OMNI soldier told the girl. "We're going to have you people settled in the ship while we find a way to get most of you people evacuated back to Earth safely."
"I see." The girl nodded. "Well, thank you very much."
"My pleasure young lady." The soldier replied. "If you can follow my colleague nearby, he'll get you moved inside the ship with the other refugees."
A few minutes later, a young female teenager and a tall man of Chinese descent came out of the lifepod. As soon as they did, the murmurs began to erupt from both the refugees and the OMNI soldiers and mechanics.
"Well it seems we're making a storm here." The girl smirked after coming out of the lifepod. "Shame that I can't find a private lifepod to escape like having my own shuttle."
"I'm afraid that it's impossible to consider the former, mistress." The man told the lady.
"Forget it then. For now, our presence here may be a snag in our evacuation later on."
"Hey..." A mechanic whispered to his colleague. "Isn't that Wang Liu Mei from the HRL?"
"Indeed she is." The other colleague whispered in reply, seeing the two move out of the hangar and into the interior of the Archangel. "I wonder what she was doing in Heliopolis before it was destroyed in the attack?"
"Beats me."
Outside Cafeteria, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
Sai and Kuzzey went out of the cafeteria, telling Mir and Tolle that they need to get to the toilet.
"So you're sure you'll be fine, Sai?" Kuzzey asked Sai as he went out of the toilet.
"Yeah. Don't worry about me, Kuzzey."
"What next?"
The question made Sai think for a while before he could give an answer.
"Might I suggest that we go see Mark?" Kuzzey asked the glasses-wearing teenager.
"Good idea, Kuzzey."
Before the two can either move, Sai heard a familiar female voice calling out for him.
"Is that..." Sai slowly turned around. "Flay?"
The next thing Kuzzey saw, Flay tackled Sai with a hug and a happy face.
Infirmary, OMNIS Archangel, somewhere in Heliopolis Debris Field, Space
Murrue had heard Kira's question on whether she would not "freak out" by what he was about to tell her with the thing that was bothering Kira ever since he got into the Strike to protect the Archangel.
I do need to earn Kira's trust. After all, I want him and the other refugees to get out of this area. They shouldn't be involved in the fight with ZAFT after all.
"All right, Kira. You have my word. Whatever you tell me doesn't leave this room and stays between us."
Kira looked at Murrue's face carefully after she gave her answer to him.
It seems that she's being honest what she said. No fidgeting and she's not avoiding eye contact from me. He then look a quick gaze at her hands. Same with her hands. Perfectly calm and all. Well she is honest, but she could be used by the Titans to draw me out of hiding... Oh well, let's see how it goes. It's too early to draw conclusions.
"Okay..." Kira had noted that Murrue had seated on the cot he was on very close. But he didn't care.
Not that it was important. Unless he remembered from the previous conversation that the two had felt that they had met before.
"I'll tell you. It's about the ZAFT Red you faced in Heliopolis after he shot me on the right shoulder."
Chapter 4 END
PS - For the N-Jammers and the GN Particles, I just used the latter as being able to disrupt the former. So in the UE era, GN Particles are much better than N-Jammers to use. But otherwise, they can still jam transmissions and all.
I guess I can do this in order from what's weak and strong in terms of jamming capabilities unless someone's got a better idea from top to bottom:
Minovsky Particles
N-Jammers
GN Particles
On the gaming side, Modern Warfare 3's coming out for a Fall 2011 release. Yeah! Also, I may be thinking of getting a beta reader since I'm combining the UC/CE/AD/Maybe AC eras to make one colossal story so far.
One more thing. In case you don't know who Agent SI and KZ are, you can spot some hints in reading this chapter. For the space/pilot suits, I'm thinking of using the mainly AD-based aesthetic ones (e.g. like in Celestial Being and A-LAWs) since it looked neat next to both CE and UC. If anyone "STILL" doesn't know who those two are, I'm not gonna tell you...
For the meantime, enjoy reading this and let me know on the how I did in the reviews. Don't tolerate personal flames, but I also read flames on how to make the story work better in this Gundam crossover except for Turn A, G and X.