Chapter 6 now. Thank you to everyone who has reviewed and/or favourite this story so far, if you think I might need to change something then just say. (Just don't be too harsh please)
Ryan woke up to see he had landed on Earth but in a desert. I was hoping for the sea or a garden at the least but a desert, welcome to Africa. Ryan's expression then turned to one of rage and anger That pilot of the Duel if I ever see it again I'll destroy it and the pilot till there is nothing left! Ryan calmed himself down a little and turned on the main systems and started to move Better not fly with it being the middle of the day. Hydra walked through the desert the Earth terrain and combat OS active so it didn't lose balance. After moving for 15 minutes Ryan spotted 3 BuCUEs heading in the same direction, one of them spotted Hydra.
"Commander look over there." The soldier in the BuCUE that had noticed Hydra told the BuCUE up front.
"Well what do we have here, looks like one of them G-weapons, lets capture it for Commander Waltfeld, he should more pleased since we just finished our mission."
"You are not taking my mobile suit." Ryan communicated to the soldiers. "Besides what was this mission?"
"Well we just had to take care of some insurgents that's all although we were able to take down a few naturals along the way." The leader replied the other two laughing at his comment.
"Were they part of the insurgence or innocent?"
"Of course they were innocent but a natural is a natural so we got rid of them." He replied smirking and his BuCUE and the others having turned to look at Hydra.
"You monsters, you'll regret that!" Ryan cried out trying to turn on the phase shift but it had used up too much power in the descent. Shit.
"Oh so a fight, lets get him boys." The three BuCUEs charged at Hydra who wasn't moving. No choice then. H.Y.D.R.A appeared on the screen Hyper weaponrY Destroyer Nuclear A??, Hyper then turned from black to red, Ryan entered a combination and Hydra colour changed from the dull grey to a blood red colour for the parts that were normally black, and crimson red for the parts normally white, and now had bright red markings and it's eyes were now blood red, it's hyper form.
"Now DIE!" Ryan screamed out as Hydra charged at increased speed and tackled the lead BuCUE and quickly stopped leaving it toppling into the sand, the other BuCUEs turned and fired missiles at it, only for Hydra to dodge easily at each one, a whip came out of Hydra's wrist as the last missile missed (similar to Epyon's) and extended to wrap around the head of one of the BuCUE's and swung it around and crashed into the other both slamming onto the sand, one part of the leg armour opened up and a buster rifle came out and Hydra grabbed it and shot at the BuCUEs destroying them both.
"No, you'll pay wait till the desert tiger hears about this!" The leader cried out as his BuCUE started to retreat.
"I don't think so." Ryan coldly and evilly said as a second rifle came out from the left side and without turning, Hydra grabbed the rifle put it over it's shoulder and fired hitting the BuCUE in the centre of the torso and exploding, a scream coming a second before the explosion. The rifles were put back into the armour and the whip retracted back into the wrist.
"Where is the next target." Ryan said as Hydra turned and dashed at high speed on it's previous course the armour gleaming in the sun. Before sunset Hydra stopped as Ryan noticed the Archangel on the desert sand. Hydra's shoulder cannons rose and started firing at the ship hitting in random spots, the hatch quickly opened and the Combat flew out and landed on it's feet without falling. So she updated it that won't help against me. Hydra drew one of it's beam swords now red and it's length had increased, he charged at the Combat and slashed it, Combat barely dodged the attack and tried to counter with it's own strike from it's beam sabre but Hydra quickly slashed again and the two were locked in a beam clash.
"Give up you won't win against me." Ryan coldly said to Arli
"Ryan why are you attacking us?" Arli pleaded to Ryan as she appeared on one of his screens. "Ryan your eyes they're completely blank."
"Just shut up!" Hydra pushed back Combat knocking it off balance and prepared to finish it when Hydra got shot in the back. "Who the?"
"Arli get out of there I'll deal with Ryan." Kira said as the Strike landed from it's launch.
"Took your time Kira." Ryan said humorously
"He had a fever from the descent but he's better now and he has updated the Strike for ground combat so you are the one who should give up." Arli explained the Combat jumping to the Strike's side. Unlikely. Hydra drew it's second beam sword and positioned itself to attack, as did the Combat and Strike, the sun no longer in view as darkness fell over the desert. The three suits charged at the same time, but before they clashed Hydra jumped and kicked both suits in the head and landed, the Strike first to recover and dashed towards Hydra swinging it's sabre. Hydra blocked with it's swords and kicked the Strike back, the shoulder cannons, Gatling guns and the chest beam cannons positioned themselves to shoot them down from a barrage of fire.
"And just to be sure." Ryan said as Hydra placed the beam swords back on it's hips and took out both buster rifles and pointed them at the G-weapons. "Once you two..are…done…I'll…finish that ship." Ryan struggled to say as he was breathing heavily Damn must have caught a fever myself, of all times, cooling systems mustn't have worked properly.
"Arli I think Ryan has caught a fever." Kira stated
"Yeah, but have you seen his eyes they are completely white and all I could see was rage and hatred there was nothing else." Arli said back concerned about Ryan, just then missiles struck Hydra and it fell to the ground as combat helicopters and 5 BuCUEs entered the battle attacking Strike and Combat. Ryan's eyes turned back to being Blue and Green as Hydra was knocked down.
"What happened, must've gone berserker when I activated Hyper, can't believe I let myself get out of control." Ryan then noticed Combat and Strike struggling to fight the BuCUEs and helicopters. "I hope you two aren't thinking of giving up to BuCUEs." Ryan said as Hydra stood back up.
"Ryan…are you ok?" Arli asked suspiciously the Combat fending off a BuCUE.
"No my head hurts and I got a damn fever, and I went and attacked you, sorry I lost control of myself so let me make it up to you." Ryan replied Hydra jumped above the helicopters and fired both rifles destroying most of the copters, the rest retreated. Now for…Ryan saw that 3 BuCUEs had been destroyed and the other two were firing rail guns at Strike and Combat stopping them from attacking. Hydra landed then fired it's Gatling guns, shoulder cannons and beam cannons from behind finishing off the other two, the weapons went back to their positions and the rifles went back into the armour.
"Ryan you do realise that we were about to helped by resistance fighters." Kira said as Hydra walked up to the other two, Ryan just noticed some jeeps below.
"Oh well you had my help, besides what could they do to destroy BuCUEs." Ryan stated confidently.
"They had traps." Kira said back surprising Ryan a little. The sun was starting to rise over the desert signifying a new day the rays sparkling off the three suits.
"I…should get going now." Ryan said as Hydra turned to leave changing back to a dull grey colour.
"Wait Ryan please don't leave we could use your help, besides your not well are you?" Arli burst out.
"…Alright…I'll stay." Ryan said reluctantly the fever starting to take it's toll, from the battle.
"So your joining the Earth forces?" Kira spoke up
"Why… do you people… insist that I join?" asked Ryan irritated
"Well you are getting a good rank by joining and you do know everyone on the ship." Arli pointed out happily.
"Ok fine I will…I'll speak to Murrue about it later." Ryan said back "Kira what made you stay on the ship?" he asked quickly, changing the subject.
"Well because everyone else was staying so I couldn't abandon them, besides Flay had convinced them to stay." Kira replied nervously.
"Yeah you should've heard her speech, coming from her it wasn't that bad." Arli added in.
"I don't like that girl she disgusts me." Ryan calmly said mainly to Kira
"You shouldn't talk about her in that way." Kira protested quickly.
"Oh come on Kira she is completely anti-coordinator and thinks I'm a freak how can I not talk about her like that?" Ryan asked rhetorically a bit surprised that Kira was defending her.
"Um don't you think we should get out of our mobile suits?" Arli asked, Ryan noticed what she meant as the resistance had gathered near the ship.
"Yeah we should don't want to cause a commotion." Ryan agreed turning off the main power, and exiting the cockpit, Arli and Kira following suit. Ryan saw that Murrue and Mwu were with the group talking. Ryan took off his helmet as did Kira and Arli and as they did the resistance started murmuring to each other. A girl with blonde hair broke form the crowd and started walking to Kira, Ryan took no noticed and kept walking until.
"Let go of me you jerk!" Ryan turned quick enough to see the girl had slapped Kira in the face, Ryan barely managed to hold back a laugh, the girl then walked off and rejoined the group. Ryan approached Murrue and Mwu.
"I think we will need to talk while we follow the 'desert dawn'." Murrue firmly said, Ryan nodded and quickly went back to Hydra to put it in the Archangels hangar, Ryan then made his way to the bridge without looking at anyone. He entered the bridge and stood before the captain, as before the rest of the crew were not on the bridge.
"Do you know why I called you here?" Murrue asked firmly, Ryan nodded "So you must know what I am going to ask, why did you attack the ship, then help us?"
"And why was your mobile suit different while your at it." Mwu cut in.
"…When I landed I encountered BuCUEs and my phase shift had no power so I activated it's more powerful form the Hyper form which use Hydra's sixty-five percent of Hydra's power compared to the thirty-two percent to the one you have seen, this can also change me depending on my emotions since my current ones were negative I went into a berserker as it is called, guess I couldn't determine who my allies or enemies were, although once that other group attacked I came back under control, I'm sorry if I had killed anyone or have damaged the ship badly." Ryan explained trying not to breathe heavily.
"Well it does make sense, although I am a little surprised you're a berserker." Mwu said
"What exactly is a berserker?" Natarle asked which surprised Ryan a little.
"A berserker is someone who is normally calm but when they go into battle they change into a ruthless fighting machine." Mwu answered
"Alright then I'll let you off Ryan now you may-" Murrue started
"Actually I was wondering if I could join the Earth forces, under your command captain." Ryan quickly said, surprising all three
"Alright then I think it would be in our best interests, I do believe Admiral Halberton offered you the rank of Lieutenant junior grade." Murrue stated to which Ryan nodded "Very well welcome aboard Lieutenant." Murrue saluted as did Ryan
"Well this makes things more interesting." Mwu said happily.
"But remember that you are now under military law so please behave appropriately." Natarle said to Ryan
"Don't worry besides I may need your advice on how to do my duty as Lieutenant since we are of the same rank." Ryan said back seeing the surprise on Natarle's face as he said it.
"That might have to wait by the looks of it we're at their base." Mwu cut in looking at the main screen.
"Well guess I'll go, so the crew can come in I guess, Captain." Ryan said saluting before leaving the bridge, as he left he breathed heavily and could fell his body heating up. guess trying to hide a fever isn't good for health but I really can't afford to rest. Ryan went to the hangar to take his mind of the fever.
"Hey kid we just got word your our latest soldier, anyway we need you to use your mobile suit to cover the ship." Murdoch said as Ryan entered.
"Fine but chief Murdoch I believe it is an offence to call an officer who is higher rank then you 'kid'." Ryan replied with a smirk walking over to Hydra.
"So you're an ensign as well?" Murdoch asked.
"No I'm a junior grade Lieutenant." Ryan said over his shoulder, leaving a stunned Murdoch and any other crew who had heard it. Hydra launched off the ship and saw Strike and Combat already putting the cover on.
"Came to help then, but shouldn't you be resting?" Arli said as Hydra grabbed a piece of the cover.
"I'll be fine I don't need rest it's just a small fever." Ryan replied
"You need to rest or it'll get worse."
"I said I'll be fine." Ryan snapped back ending the conversation and finishing their task in silence. Once done the 3 Gundams stood near each other on a hill overlooking the resistances encampment and the Archangel, Kira and Arli were sitting on a boulder, Ryan leaning on a rock with his eyes looking up into the sky, he looked down to see the girl who had slapped Kira earlier was walking towards them.
"I'm sorry for hitting you, I didn't mean to…well I guess I did but it was just spur of the moment." The girl said to Kira once she had stopped.
"Hey its ok." Kira said back kindly
"So you mind telling us who you are?" Ryan asked walking towards the others
"Why would you need to know?" the girl said back
"If I'm going to help I would like to know who I'm helping."
"Fine my name is Cagalli."
"Cagalli?"
"Cagalli Yula that good enough for you?" Cagalli snapped
"…Guess it'll suffice for now, I'm Ryan and the other two can introduce themselves." Ryan finished walking away to put Hydra back in the hangar, once Hydra was in Ryan didn't rush to get out as he was holding his head in his hand and could feel the heat had risen, he leant back in his chair This isn't good but I can't afford to rest, if we are up against the Desert Tiger then they could attack anytime. Ryan saw the Strike and Combat enter the hangar, Ryan got out of the cockpit and waited for Arli to get out of Combat.
"Did you do your mind reading?" Ryan asked
"Sure did and we can trust her, and she sure is hiding something." Arli replied
"Care to tell what that is?"
"Now that would spoil the surprise." Arli teased walking off
"I don't like surprises." Ryan said back quickly.
"Oh well you'll have to wait, and can you please rest." Arli ended with concern in her voice.
"Don't worry I'll be fine." Ryan lied having made the mistake of looking Arli in the eyes.
"Ok then if you say so." Arli said and walked out of the hangar. Guess I got lucky and didn't see if I was lying, maybe now would be a good time to finish that job on Hydra I was doing, hopefully it will come in handy and there's that other thing…His thought trailed off as he re-entered Hydra and began typing quickly on the keyboard as numerous images appeared on screen, mainly a stored blue print of Hydra. Once he had worked for a while he left the cockpit once again and walked along the corridors of the ship and could feel the fever getting worse, he cringed then heard raised voices from outside he ran to the noise and opened a door leading outside to see Sai on the sand staring at Kira who had his back to him Flay was next to him and Arli had a shocked and anger look on her face.
"Flays been kind to me she held me in her arms, no one else ever stops to think how I'm feeling, what's going through my mind during a battle!" Kira shouted out to Sai who kept staring, before anyone could do anything Ryan punched Kira square in the cheek sending him in the sand.
"How dare you say no one knows what your going through, Arli and I know exactly what your going through, in fact I know a lot more about it then you would ever know so don't you dare go shouting off about how you think no one cares about you because people do, a lot more then they care about me!" Ryan shouted at the stunned Kira who even for a co-ordinator had no time to react; an awkward silence passed before an alarm sounded off, Ryan cursed and quickly ran off back to the hangar Looks like I get to try it out earlier then I thought. he quickly changed in to his pilots uniform and entered Hydra, the hatch was still open so he launched out.
"Lets see if it works." Ryan quickly pressed a few buttons and before Hydra landed its legs folded into the leg armour and a burst of blue flame shot out lifting Hydra into the night sky and onwards to the rising black smoke Alright it worked Hydra can now fly in the atmosphere. It took mere minutes for Hydra to reach the burning town, the legs folded back out and landed easily.
"Lieutenant Ryan are there any survivors?" Murrue spoke out to Ryan
"Well I think that the entire lot of villagers survived." Ryan replied stunned by the crowd of people outside the village
"Commander La Flaga will be there in a few minutes do what you can to help." Murrue ordered.
"Okay Captain." Ryan then turned off communications. He stepped out of Hydra and looked around, to see most of the villagers were looking at him.
"Are there any…serious casualties?" Ryan asked
"Not one life has been lost, only some of the people have been injured." The chief replied stepping forward.
"Can you explain to me what happened?" Jeeps then pulled up and the men arrived, reuniting with their families, Cagalli also turned up.
"Well we were warned about the attack by the Desert Tiger's attack then fifth teen minutes later they attacked and burned down the buildings and supplies." The chief replied grimly.
"Well that was nice of him." Ryan said out-loud which caught the attention of everyone.
"Hey whats going on here?" Mwu suddenly appeared from the crowd and was beside Ryan.
"Your subordinate here thinks it's nice of the Desert Tiger to burn dwon the village and all the supplies!" Cagalli shouted although Ryan was unfazed.
"You missed my point I meant he was nice because he didn't kill anyone during the attack." Ryan calmly spoke back.
"That does sound generous of him." Mwu agreed only to receive death glares from Cagalli and some of the villagers.
"How can you say that the town is gone how do you think they'll survive!" Cagalli shouted again.
"You're an idiot aren't you, would you rather have the Tiger kill everyone in the village as well as burning it down, at least they have a chance of surviving because they are alive!" Ryan shouted back glaring at Cagalli who stepped back.
"Well we're not going to be the Tiger's lapdogs." One of the resistance fighters shouted out and started running to the jeep, followed by most of the others although Sahib tried to stop them to no avail, who ended up joining the pursuit, as well as Cagalli.
"They are all idiots, do they want to die and just leave more sorrow?" Ryan whispered, walking back to Hydra, knowing he would have to save them.
"Captain Ramias where are Kira and Arli?" Ryan asked as he put his helmet on and started up main systems.
"They are on their way to Tasel and there are some vehicles carrying supplies for the villagers." Murrue replied
"Tell them two to hurry and get to the resistance fighters they've gone after the Tiger."
"What?!"
"Can't explain I'm gonna try to stop them." Ryan closed the link and Hydra flew in the direction of the resistance. When he caught up it was morning and the battle had already begun, the BuCUE's were thrashing the resitance, Hydra folded it's legs back out and landed on one shooting it with it's beam rifle then jumped up as it exploded, 2 more turned and fired missiles rapidly at Hydra who dodged most of them and had to block the rest, one came up form behind and tackled it, Hydra losing it's balance Argh come on why am I having so much trouble, is it the fever? the BuCUEs continued firing missiles at Hydra who could only block and dodge until the Combat tackled one then shot it in the leg losing balance, the Strike then shot the other one in the torso, exploding.
"Thanks…for the save." Ryan struggled to say.
"We came as quick as we could." Kira said as the Strike narrowly missed a BuCUE with its beam sabre, where as Combat was facing two at once. Hydra rushed in and sliced with it's beam sword missing the BuCUE with it countering by ramming into it, knocking Hydra to the ground.
"Ryan are you ok?" Arli said as she saw Hydra fall.
"No I'm not." Ryan said back, the 3 BuCUE's then went into a formation and homed in on Hydra and Combat. I've had enough they've killed enough now it's there turn. Hydra then changed from black and white to blood red and crimson red, it then charged head on ignoring Stike and Combat, firing the shoulder cannons, the wolf like machimes split up, Hydra quickly brought out a buster rifle, turned round and shot one in the torso then shot another which dodged it and countered with missiles which Hydra easily dodged in Hyper form. The BuCUE's then turned and retreated Hydra turned grey shortly afterwards the buster rifle back in the armour.
"Ryan are you ok…Ryan?!" Arli shouted worriedly as there was no reply.
"…I'm ok just need…to…rest." Ryan replied before passing out.
Just a quick note the buster rifles are the ones that Wing Zero Custom use but are no where near as powerful (they can't blow up a colony) but can do serious damage to mobile suits.That's it so R&R please.