Orga looked at the Barbatos in confusion and looked back at Anakin.
"What do you mean chaotic?" He demanded, Anakin raise his hands in a calming manner.
"Look, what I'm saying is that I'm sensing that feeling from that droid." Anakin muttered. Orga once again looked at the Barba- no Mikazuki, what was Mika thinking right now?
(Inside the Barbatos's cockpit)
Mikazuki stared back at Orga, the man was clearly concerned about something, but what was he concerned about? Most likely how large the Barbatos is in the hangar of the much larger ship. Leaning back on his seat, Mika continued looking at Orga. Awaiting for any kind of signal to do something. Though the expression on Orga's face was still concerning him slightly. He closed his eyes a little bit, from the looks of everything, the situation was calm enough to not be completely alert.
After a few seconds of this however, he opened his eyes and he saw Orga motioning his hands. Mika nodded despite him still being slightly concerned, though, that concern was almost undetectable. The boy toggled the panel and the hatch began to open slowly from the top.
Ahsoka wasn't the type to be uneasy during a meeting, but here, she couldn't shake this odd feeling, it wasn't malice or the dark side, if anything it was……dead, and also alive.
The chest of the white droid began to open and out emerged……a child? Her eyes widened at how small the pilot looked, granted, he was far away and on top of the droid. She then noticed something rather disturbing, his unmoving right arm.
"His right arm." She muttered, Anakin glanced at his little sister in response at her comment, then at the small figure, he had a look of guilt, but from how young Orga looked, it didn't surprise the man in the slightest with the others being just as if not younger than the yellow eyed man. Though that didn't make Anakin feel a little bit bad for the black haired boy emerging from the droid. He might as well have been looking at a different version of himself or even the clones and Ahsoka.
"Poor kid." Rex said with remorse.
"Don't say that." Orga responded without looking at the clone "if you were to say that to him, he would find that disrespectful." The tone of the man was as cold as the most frigid planets that Rex and his boys fought, it was enough for the clone captain to be silent for a little, though before he could find some kind of rebuttal, the black haired began to descend from some kind of thin pole.
When the boy started walking towards the group, Anakin sensed nothing emitting from the kid, as if he was a living corpse, though the chaotic feeling was not coming from him, it was the white droid, and it made the Jedi Knight tense slightly, he looked at the machine, and the deactivated machine looked back. Though it was turned off, Anakin still couldn't shake the feeling of being watched by some kind of demon.
"Orga." The short boy began "what's going on?" Orga glanced at the three other figures behind him.
"They wanted to know what this "chaotic being" is, nothing more, Mika" Orga said exasperated, Mika slightly tilted his head.
"And they got their answers?" Mika said with a raised eyebrow, despite the boy having a confused look, his voice didn't change in the slightest, it was still monotone, which made Ahsoka pause slightly as Anakin answered first.
"Yes and no." Anakin took a deep breath. "To put it simply, force sensitives can sense what a person is feeling and if they are lying or not, though that is one of many things we can do." Before Orga could ask what a "Force Sensitive" was, Mika of all people interrupted.
"So what you're saying is that you can sense what Barbatos is feeling?" Rex looked at the machine named Barbatos.
"So it has a name." The clone captain muttered in a way that no one aside heard.
"You're saying that…..thing is alive?!" Ahsoka question, the young Togurta has had encounters with sentient machines, obviously the B-1 and Super Battle Droids, but a more plausible case of a fully sentient droid would be General Grievous, but even then, the droid general was mostly machine and very small part of him was flesh, but to know that massive robot, Barbatos is alive sent shivers down her side as she eyed at the lumbering mechanical beast.
"Maybe." Is all Mika said, which made Ahsoka relieved, though unfortunately that did not last. "Sometimes, I hear his voice, it's rare, but I hear an old man's voice, it's distinct, not like old man Yuki or Orga." Orga's eyes widened slightly.
"What?!"
"I thought I mentioned this to you?" Anakin placed his hand on his chin,
"Let's discuss everything on the main bridge or even on our way there." The Jedi knight said as laid back as usual. Orga nodded while Mikazuki looked at the Barbatos "don't worry, Barbs won't get lonely okay?"
"Barbs?"
"Just roll with it." Ahsoka responded. Mika gave an undetectable nod.
"Ah" the group began to walk out of the hanger and making their way to the bridge
The walk was filled with silence. Defying silence, though Orga noticed the soldiers in white and blue armor were stopping to salute to Anakin, Rex and Ahsoka.
"Soldiers of yours?" Orga asked awkwardly, "now that I say that, those two we passed sound the same, twins or somthin?" Anakin looked at Rex and the clone nodded. With a bit of hesitation in Anakin's voice.
"They're all clones." He bluntly stated, Orga stopped and had a look of utter bewilderment.
"……..What?"
"Every Jedi is assigned a clone battalion." Anakin began, "I mentioned the Confederacy Of Independent Systems. they're on the other side of this war." Now it was Mika that looked slightly uneasy.
"So we are transported in the middle of a war huh." He said to himself "guess we can't escape that, eh Orga?" Orga looked at his small friend, he noticed the unfeeling, cold blue eyes of Mikazuki, and underneath it, a sense of tiredness, not physical, but mental.
"I know, Mika, I know." Orga said with guilt.
"I forgot to mention." Anakin said, to lighten the mood "this is my Pa-er student, Ahsoka and this is the captain of the 501st legion, Rex."
"Ah, as you know, I'm Orga Itsuka and this is Mikazuki Augus." Orga responded "so, every Jedi is assigned clones? obviously once they're done with training I assume?"
"Weeeeeeelllll, no, there's Kota." Ahsoka tried explaining before being interrupted by Anakin.
"He's a special case."
"What do you mean by that?" Orga asked curiously, despite the horror of knowing that every soldier around them was the same person, it was off that there was ONE Jedi that didn't have clones.
"Put it bluntly, he doesn't like them, and said that they would betray us or something." Orga raised a brow, he doesn't fault the mentality of this Kota person. What if these clones have the same personality and all hated the idea of essentially being battle slaves?
Mikazuki, however, looked blank as usual, he was completely uninterested in the conversation at hand, not because he didn't care, it was mostly due to him wanting to know if they could go home or not, potentially being thrusted into a war was something that he was not particularly fond of. Unless fighting that war meant that his friends were safe, sure he'll fight, but if it was to push someone else's ideals, he didn't care about it simply put.
"I see." Orga said, "we obviously have a lot more members of Tekkadan in the Isaribi and Hotarubi, not just those two ships but on the planet we're from, Mars."
"Mars?" Anakin asked curiously, "not familiar to us, as far as I can remember from the thousands of planets we've been to, Mars….I don't know." Anakin felt a small tap on his shoulder as Ahsoka whispered.
"Unknown Regions maybe?" Orga heard the small exchange, Unknown Regions, he can probably guess what that probably means, but the lilac haired man still asked questions.
"Unknown Regions?"
"It says it in the name." Anakin said "it's the other half of the galaxy that is unmapped and generally hostile, though." Anakin trailed off and looked to be in deep thought.
"Master?" Ahsoka asked "thinking of a stupid idea again?" She jabbed.
"No, not this time, Snips." He answered relatively quickly "I remember Palpatine being interested in a system at the edge of the unknown regions. He called the Sol System."
"Sol?"
"Yeah." Anakin began "according to him, it's a system with more than 5 planets, though only one planet intrigued him, I don't know, it was a while ago, maybe that'll help, but that's just one thing Palpatine said. I can talk to him about it later, once we sort this whole you not wanting to be a part of this." Orga took a moment to answer this possible lead, a system that had more than 5 planets, Orga closed his eyes for a bit.
"……." Anakin can feel the hopeful response that Orga wanted to say, but also the large amount of doubt emanating from the man. The doubt and fear of disappointment in discovering that the system they went to, wasn't their home. There was fear in Orga's eyes, but also a fire and drive to go home.
"Mars must mean a lot to you?" Rex asked, Orga nodded and Mikazuki nodded as well, a gesture that Ahsoka took as surprising, due to his subdued nature.
"….yes." Mika said in a quiet tone "I kinda want to grow a farm there." Anakin's face shifted slightly and Ahsoka noticed the change, the expression on Anakin's face was soft. In the end, despite the kid's extremely rough, dead exterior, he was still a kid and had desires and dreams. Dreams he wanted to fulfill.
"My hatred for your kind is great, but you…..you." Said in an almost old man-like voice, Anakin perked up slightly, was that directed towards him or Mikazuki? Before he could dwell on any other thoughts, they made it to the main bridge of the Resolute. Anakin crossed his arms as he began to ask questions about Tekkadan and Gjallarhorn.
"So, Tekkadan, how did it form?" Orga began to go into detail of the previous they were a part of.
"CGS is what we were originally called, it was run by an old geezer bastard named Maruba." Orga gritted his teeth slightly after the mention of that name. He then went into how he and the others were treated, the Alaya Vijnana System implantation, the pain he, Mika and 4 others went through to implant those demonic nano machines into their bodies just to make the machines (more like metallic coffins) they operated just that more efficient. The basically suicidal missions they went though for a mezzal pay.
Anakin balled up his fist at the torture of the kids, Ahsoka took a step back from her master, the face of the young Togurta was one of absolute fear, she never has seen Anakin look this angry except for any mentions of his past. After asking about it, she felt as if an entire blizzard threatened to kill her right then and there.
"But there was a small bright side." Mika stated, "we got rid of most of them, except one, he was nice and knew how money worked."
"…..I see." Anakin coldly responded "anything else I should know about them?" The man's anger was enough for Mikazuki to raise a brow and wonder if they pissed off the brown haired man with them telling their story.
"Atra is our lead cook, she volunteered to be in that position.." Orga muttered, trying to move the rather heavy topic to something light hearted and something that will definitely bring out a side of Mikazuki that Orga enjoyed seeing.
"I wished she didn't do that." Orga's face began to morph into a cheeky smile from Mikazuki's response "with all the stress she's likely feeling, she's gonna wrinkle her cute face." Orga gives a small chuckle as he pats Mika's shoulder. The smaller boy.
"Your overprotective boyfriend side is showing!" Mika very subtly tilted his head, confused by the statement of his friend.
"Boyfriend?" Mika said slowly. "I guess that makes sense." Orga's smile grew as he knew Mika took it the wrong way. "I'm a guy and she's my friend and I care about her." Anakin had a completely perplexed look, despite him knowing that the Alaya Vijnana worked and it made pilots use their instincts to use a machine with a part, but with saying that, it still shocked the man by how, to put it bluntly, dense Mikazuki was. Orga gave a hearty laugh as he continued to pat his smaller friend on the back as for Mika, he didn't have much of a change in expression.
"Okay." Anakin said "now for Gjallarhorn, you said they were an organization that you were against. A war I assume?" Orga shook his head after Anakin finished his question.
"Not really, we were trying to prevent that outcome by escorting a girl named Kudelia Aina Bernstein to head to earth to talk to an old man named Makanai to discuss giving Mars independence." Orga said in a fairly straightforward manner, almost like it was a simple task to complete.
"I see." Is all Anakin mutters "well I guess I should explain the CI-" before he could even think of finishing the sentence, one of the communication troopers notices something.
(Optional OST Obi-wan and Ahsoka Argue)
"Commander! Incoming object escaping hyperspace!" Anakin swore under his breath as the large object was, a sepritist warship, Anakin spun around to the holo table as it activated, Anakin, Ahsoka and Rex were greeted by a rather familiar (to Ahsoka and Rex at least) droid general, Orga raised a brow and Mika tilted his head. The robotic abomination General Grievous stared at his unexpected prey gleefully.
"Anakin Skywalker and his padawan, what a surprise!" The droid's raspy, echoey voice made Orga's spine shiver slightly. "I was going to investigate the disturbance in this area and now I see you, Skywalker, not only are we going to collect yet another mechanical titan, but kill you!" The droid laughed maniacally as Orga glanced at Mika, a gesture the black haired boy knew all too well, but mixed in with the silent order was a question "another mechanical titan?"
The holographic image of Grievous disappeared as the trio noticed that only Orga was standing, Mikazuki was gone. Orga smiled smugly.
"Don't worry, I gave him the order to attack, he was gonna do it anyway to protect Tekkadan." He said "but you best get your troops ready before he and the others steal your thunder." Rex heads out of the war room and immediately finds Mika who was unsurprisingly lost.
"This way kid!" The clone captain ordered.
"Ah" Rex led the way with Mika in tow, the clone noticed that Mika was able to keep pace with him, though, it looked like Mikazuki was deliberately trying to slow himself down to have Rex lead him.
"Just how abnormal is he?" Rex thought to himself, just as they arrived at the hanger, Mika immediately increased his speed and blitzed past Rex in an instant, Rex chuckled slightly "he definitely belongs with us." He said out loud.
Mika stood in front of the Barbatos and stepped on the small pole, he pressed on the button on the side and it began to lift him up, the boy jumped into the cockpit and connected himself with the Alaya Vijnana System of the Barbatos as the cockpit closed. Pressing on a view buttons, the Barbatos activated and Mika could've sworn he heard a faint laugh of an old man, shaking his head he grabbed the controls and began to stand the Gundam up to its full height of 19 meters, the boy then tried making a communication connection with both Hotarubi and Isaribi.
"Eugene, Chad, can you hear me?"
"Yep."
"Yeah." Mika snorted as he began to relay orders.
"Chad, tell Akhiro, Shino, Lafter and Azi to get in their Mobile suits, Eugue, you do the same with anyone available to pilot the Shidens!" Mika was able to get the Barbatos out of the Resolute and into open space, unsheathing the Barbatos's Odachi he put his thrusters at full power and immediately headed straight for the warship.
Mikazuki saw smaller flying droids coming out of the ship and heading straight towards him, the Vulture Droids immediately fired their lasers and Mika immediately dodged the admittedly slow visible projectiles, the Vulture Droids ascend up and drop down to fire once again at the Barbatos, Mika simply strafed and swung the Odachi, the hit instantly destroyed one of the droids.
"Really?" Mika muttered "they're that easy to destroy? Or is my mastery with this weapon too good?" Mika lifted the Barbatos's left arm and aimed at one of the incoming droids, locking in the the target, Mika fired the arm mortar, the large bullet hit one of the Vultures and punched a large dent on it.
"I see." Mika noted, "the sword can kill them instantly, but the Mortar Bullets can dent them." The boy was ever so slightly delighted by this small revelation, the boy aimed the Barbatos's arm once more and locked onto the same droid, the boy fired and the bullet punched through the enemy and in an instant, it was deactivated, the hollowed corpse of the droid floated slowly as Mika raised an eyebrow, disappointed by a new revelation. During this small disappointment, he didn't realize that one of his opponents fired again and hit the Barbatos on his shoulder, however, instead of a dent, burnt metal or even an explosion, the beam dispersed all over the Gundam and the affected area only had a small bit of paint chipping.
The Nanolaminate Armor the Barbatos had was rather sturdy, but to know that the armor was resistant to the weaponry of these robots made Mika rather dull, taking another swing, the Odachi destroyed another enemy droid. Then another and then another, all in one hit his enemies were destroyed.
"….."
"……"
"This….is boring." Mika said to himself, the angular droids were so easy to destroy, it sucked any kind of joy the boy would feel in a battle, at least with fighting against Mobile Suits they still put up some kind of fight even if they are gonna die. These droids died with one or two hits, "is this "republic" really in a war with these weak machines?"
"Sorry to keep you waiting Mikazuki!" Shino exclaims as multiple Vulture Driods are destroyed. Shino's STH-16/tw Shiden Ryusei Go ll came besides the Barbatos.
"So, these mobile suits?" A deep sounding man says as the frequency, ASW-G-11 Gundam Gusion Krieger was detected by the Barbatos's radar.
"No, they're much weaker than them." Mika bluntly said as he looked at the machines by his side. The Gusion Krieger was dark tan, the shoulders were smaller rectangles, with a small blade attached to the right shoulder (think of Emile's shoulder from Halo reach), the top half part of the leg was bulky and had two large 190mm rifles on the side, and the lower half was slightly less armored. The arms were equally as bulky as the legs, below it were arm cannons. The large back skirt acted as a shield if Akihiro needed to use it, which he rarely did, attached to it was a large halberd almost as big as the Gusion.
Shino's Ryusei Go ll was simply a Shiden that was painted pink, though the wrists were equipped with small homing rockets and the shoulders had smaller thrusters on the side.
"Seriously?" Shino bemoaned, "man that's no fun." Mika nodded at the comment as the three main machines of Tekkadan readied their weapons and began unloading on their many enemies.
"I'm gonna try and destroy the ship that's sending in these smaller machines." Mika said flatly.
"WHAT?!" Shino yelled "before Lafter and the others get here?! Are fucking crazy?" There was a bit of silence as Mika turned the Barbatos's head to the Ryusei Go "….don't answer that!" Mika snorted as he put his thrusters at maximum power output, more Vultures came straight towards him. Then multiple blue lasers hit the droids and destroyed them.
"You seriously think you can destroy a war ship like that?" Came the familiar voice of Ahsoka as a light red, triangular ship darted past him,
"looks like their coms matched the ones we use." Mika said under his breath. He then noticed that the warship had turrets and it aimed directly at the Barbatos. Narrowing his eyes, Mika swiftly turned his arms to his left as the turrets fired. They were also lasers, but seemed to be stronger, maybe. Even though the Barbatos's armor can deflect the lit projectiles, he didn't want to take a gamble with that, Mika was smarter than that.
"This is gonna be a little bit more difficult to destroy if I charge in blind." Mika muttered to himself, he then looked down at the Barbatos's Odachi and the gundams arm, "what if? I do that?" Pressing down on the pedal Mika darted straight towards the ships turrets, he launched the free arm of the Barbatos towards the barrel of one of the turrets and as immediately as the Barbatos's hand grasped it, he began to yank on it.
"Just a little bit more!" Mika grunted, he noticed the turret began to bend, the boy had a small smirk, with one powerful tug, one of the barrels was torn completely off, he then used the arm that had the Odachi and thrusted it into the hole he created. Sparks began to eject and Mikazuki launched upwards.
Shino witnessed the near suicidal attack Mikazuki pulled off then looked at what he assumed was the bridge of the ship.
"Zuki you crazy mad dog!" He smiled as wide as he did as he opened his coms. "Aki, target the turrets and destroy them with your ax."
"On it." The muscle headed brute said as the Gusion did the same maneuver as the Barbatos did, but instead of grasping on the barrel of the turret and yanking it off, the Guison move one of its 190mm rifles to its sub arms and pulled out its Halberd, it swung it down with all of its might and split the thing in half, a huge explosion enveloped the Gusion, but the signal didn't disappear, so Akihiro was alive.
Shino looked down at the ship and made a mad dive to a turret, but instead of using his screwdriver wrench, Shino extended the Ryusei Go's arms and activated the secondary cameras installed on its fingers to see weak points, the brown haired man saw the underside of the turret, he locked onto it and fired the homing missiles, just like that another one of the ships weaponry was destroyed.
"HELL YEAH!" Shino screamed.
(Within the Separatist warship.)
General Grievous witnessed as three mechanical titans destroyed his ships turrets with relative ease. Not just that, but he kept his eye on the white one.
"That titan looks similar to-!" Grievous felt a small shiver as he looked at the radar, he stepped back in frustration and fear as he noticed that it wasn't just the white Titan, but also the tan one, he then slammed his fist down on the radar as he yelled in frustration "if that's the case!" The skeleton-like droid noticed that even more mechanical titans were now in the battlefield. He turned to one of the B-1 battle droids.
"We must retreat!" The droids looked at Grievous in confusion.
"Why general?
"Just listen, you morons!" The droid general commanded. "If the readings are correct, we can't destroy those two….not yet." The B-1's didn't take note of Grievous's "not yet" as they punched in the commands to make a hyper jump.
The ship began to turn and Shino aimed his arm and locked onto the side of the ship, he fired the last rocket and it created a small explosion on the ship. Shino pumped up his fist as cheered.
"FUCK YEAH!!!" He began to laugh like a mad man "this was awesome!" Mika nodded at that comment.
"Yeah." Mika looked ahead of himself, "this is probably going to spiral into something worse isn't it?" Shino looked down slightly as much as he hated to say it, but Mika is most likely right, with them defending themselves from the forces of the CIS, it means they indirectly declared war.
"Whatever Orga says, we'll follow." Akihiro chimed.
"Ah, if that means going to the place where we belong, then so be it." Mika then said after a small moment of silence, the boy looked down at the controls, conflicted, he very slightly gritted his teeth.
"You didn't want this, did you?." That mysterious old man's voice spoke to Mika again, just like in Edmonton, as much as it irritated Mika that this voice was speaking to him. The boy nodded.
"Yeah, but I guess we didn't have a choice eh?" Mika spoke slowly as he lifted his head up "whatever happens next, I'll ensure that I'll fight to protect Tekkadan, and so will you, right?" The voice laughed softly.
"Yeah, let's go with that." Mika looked at the pushed a button and made a communication line with the Resolute.
"So, what should we do next Orga." There was some silence before Mika got his answer.
"Once you dock in the Isaribi." The man paused slightly, "get some rest, I'll handle everything else, don't worry alright." Mika slowly nodded at the command as he and everyone else headed to the ships of Tekkadan.
So, the end of the second chapter eh? Nothing really to say, but hope you enjoyed it, I guess? The next chapter is gonna be a fragmentation of different perspectives, hope you'll be fine with that, it won't be much, mostly Mika, Atra, Rex and Ahsoka in the immediate aftermath. Orga and Anakin, and a few more.
Anyway, replies!
KnightWolf875: here it is.
Kilo8: yeah, I thought up a drawing of this crossover (which is the cover you see) and then it kinda spiraled into this madness.
Warmachine375: welp I think the entire 2nd half of this chapter gave you an idea how powerful the Gundams and Mobile Suits in general are compared to the vultures in space combat. As for the clones, I'd say that Orga was greatly surprised and Mika didn't care, the next chapter will dive slightly more into that, the Hyperdrive for the main flagships of Tekkadan WILL happen, just not now. As for the republic using Mobile Suits and replacing walkers, all I can say is yes but actually no. As for the CIS……weeeeeellllllllll.
(Optional OST: Hunhow.)
Count Dooku was currently in a factory of sorts, but the room he was in was much much larger than where B-1's were normally created. He was currently holding a small circular device which projected General Grievous, the count was very displeased by what his subordinate had just told him.
"…so, you are saying that the republic has possessed two of them?" The droid general nodded his head at this, Dooku held in his complete disappointment at the news. "I see, master will not be pleased by this, it will detract things rather substantially." The count placed a hand on his chin.
"But we also possess something exactly like the white and tan one, if we use it, if not make versions of it, we can overwhelm the new mechanical titans!" Grievous shouts, "it will be perfect!" Dooku simply stared at Grievous and the cold stare was more than enough to tell the droid that it is impossible at the moment.
"No, before we send it out, we must continue simulations and now that you have shared with me the limited data of the white and tan one, we will have it go through simulated battles against them, then we will see if it is worth bringing to the battlefield." Dooku looked at his right and in front of him…..was a large gray droid-like machine, a narrow torso, pointed knees with an indent with a V and line in the middle of it, the shoulders were were small and on the right it should a faded marking of a what looked like a lion within an upside down pentagon, the head was heavily damaged, more so on the small v-fin, the rectangular shape head with two small holes in the top sides, in the right side of the robot was a sword and left was small rifle, whole on its flat back was shield. Dooku looked at the left side of the robot's shoulder and though there was heavy amounts of paint chipping, smaller dents and scratches. Dooku can still make out a small insignia of the robots code.
ASW-G-05
See you in the next chapter, title: Confusion