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Chapter Twenty Nine
Desert Strike
Tassil
Along with the Doomsday Kira only brought with him two Lessep class ships, they were headed north straight for the town, this was a place Kira never expected to see again, however things had to be done.
From what Kira gathered the town was rebuilt after its destruction and the resistance base was located a little ways away. Kira's goal was to secure the town, release the virus and head towards the resistance base. If done right they should be on their way towards the resistance stronghold by the time the fighters were aware of what was going on.
"We are a few miles away from the coordinates Commander," Willard told him.
Kira was still sitting in his chair, "All stop, inform all ships to hold their position, we will go in by suits from here on," Kira said standing up.
Sarah informed the ships to stop as she once again looked at Kira, he was just about to add mass murderer to his credentials, and from the look in his eyes she could see he had no hesitation.
"Should I inform your team commander?" Willard said.
Kira looked at him, "No, have them on standby, once we have secured the town send them towards the Minerva, let her baby sit them for awhile," Kira said seriously.
"Yes commander," Willard responded.
Kira stood up as all ships prepared their invasion forces.
Kira left as he headed for his hanger; once he arrived the lights were turned on as his suit shined quickly from the light.
Kira looked up at his machine; it has been to long since he had been in this machine. Over the past year only one thing was done to the machine, sure if Kira worked on it he probably could have upgraded it further, but they were working on other things and he didn't really need to as this was the single most destructive machine to ever exist.
Not wasting time with a pilot's suit Kira went up and boarded the cockpit.
Turning the machine on Kira quickly reprogrammed the OS for earth based desert combat.
Kira then sent communications to the bottom of the Doomsday where his assault team was preparing.
Lower Hanger
The crew was now working to prepare the crew at the bottom of the hanger; they unloaded several Agile attack helicopters along with one transport chopper. Kira had specific orders for this team.
They were downstairs gearing up their tactical gear when the commander got word of Kira's communication.
"Yes commander," the leader said.
"You know your orders correct?" Kira asked seriously.
The commander opened up a small case and looked at the container with the virus, "Yes sir, once you secure the town we will land and administer the virus into the town's water supply."
"From our satellite images I pinpointed the location and marked your map, once last thing commander," Kira said.
"Yes sir," the leader said.
"If you fail, I will destroy you with my own hands," Kira said deadly.
"Understood commander," the leader said signing off as they were preparing the choppers.
The leader gathered his team as they boarded the choppers and prepared to take off.
As Kira signed off he wanted to administer it himself but his skills were better off in this suit as he could use his abilities to detect any anti air fire or anything that could bring down that chopper.
Outside
Other assault teams from the other two ships were heading in the same way but they would land outside of town to secure the perimeter, no one was getting out or Kira would have their heads and they knew that.
The two other ships also launched their mobile suits, they were mostly land types of Bacue's and Gazuoots, but a few Zaku's and Gouf's were also launched with specifications to maneuver in the desert.
Their job was to assist Kira and also when the time came they would assault the resistance base.
Kira finally decided it was time to launch as the hanger doors were opened and the Armageddon flew out spinning around as he landed straight in front of the teams.
Kira radioed one last time to Willard to hold position and prepare to make a temporary camp as when he had Sahib he would interrogate him right here.
Kira then turned to the rest, "Let's go," Kira ordered as he led the way.
All mobile suits followed as the choppers took off and stayed with the suits, they would be in this formation until Kira ordered the assault on the town.
Australia-Oceania Union
The battle was reaching straight into the night hours, Zaft made drop after drop. The alliance didn't have a very commanding powerful force in this area and as a result they were being overwhelmed. Their mobile force units were now pushing well into the land areas and had destroyed and captured most of the coastal bases around Australia. They moved in so far that they drop were now landing more land based suits and warships.
The alliance forces were doing their best, they called several times for reinforcements and assistance but their calls were never answered and communication was taken out in the early stages.
Carpentaria was starting to take attacks however the Zaft forces wanted the base intact so they were more cautious.
Basically all that could be heard were the sounds of war and the cries of the victims that fell. It was going to be a long night.
Resistance Base
The remaining scout that Kira allowed to lived quickly returned via the route he used to get there, he was out of communication range for awhile, however when he got into range he quickly radioed to Sahib.
He told them that they were spotted and that the Zaft forces destroyed the other two.
Sahib finished listening as he turned to his fighters.
"Two of our scouts were just killed, I have no more doubts that Zaft has returned to take what is ours again, I want all our people to gear up, when they move we will be ready to fight them," Sahib said as he had the support of all his fighters, they beat back invaders many times and this was going to be another to them.
He didn't order any attacks yet he just put his people on notice as he figured they would go straight for the mines and when that happened he would be there to greet them.
Sahib was briefing a few people when he was quickly approached.
"We haven't had any contact from the patrols we sent out earlier sir," the man said.
Sahib turned to him, these patrols were around the Tassil region, he always sent patrols to make sure the towns were doing ok and now they were late with checking in.
It was then a few more rushed up to him, "Sir…the town, the town is being surrounded."
Sahib and the others grew weary as they quickly rushed outside for a better view.
Tassil
Kira led his force towards the town as he knew just how Sahib operated and knew there would be a few watching the towns. As they were nearing the town Kira turned the sensors of the Armageddon to maximum infrared, their would usually be a truck patrolling around the town, he stopped the force as Kira check on long range sensors and just like he predicated their was one.
Kira then turned to his radio and contacted a few Agile's.
"Go to maximum altitude and take out that patrol," Kira ordered.
"Yes sir," a few pilots radioed as they went for altitude and were going to come in hard with a quick shot on that truck.
Kira then looked to the rest, "The shot will be our signal, as soon as it blows move for the town quickly and secure it like I said, mobile suits will surround as attack teams will land inside and outside the city, make sure no one leaves, use non lethal force if you have to, but don't let them escape to the mountains behind it."
The mobile suits teams and the few choppers that had attack teams acknowledged as if this went right it shouldn't take to much time.
"As for you commander, you will land at the point in your grid, if you encounter any force you will use lethal force, administer the virus and eliminate anyone that sees you, once you have administered the virus you will radio back to me."
"Yes commander," the leader said as now they waited.
Kira finally activated his armor as the devilish eyes could be seen in a distance with their dark reddish flash.
Patrol
The jeep patrolling was by the mountains just outside the town and they were heading back to base. The two Agiles that raised altitude saw the target as they now started lowering for the attack.
Heading straight for the jeep they locked on target as each released a payload.
The jeeps occupants heard the decent as they looked up but by the time they saw what was happening it was to late as their jeep exploded taking all with it.
Town
Kira heard the explosion as he gave the order, "Move in now," Kira ordered as the wings on the suit spread and he accelerated towards the town.
The Bacues were right behind him followed by the Zaku's and Gouf's.
The choppers moved ahead of the suits as they fired shots at the outside of the border of each side of the town as warning to those that heard the first explosion.
Inside the Town
Many people were sleeping but when the jeep blew up many woke up to see what was going on, however all woke up when the choppers fired around the towns.
As a normal reaction people likely panicked as they came out of their homes, only to be greeted by a sight they never thought they would have to see again.
Outside the Town
Kira watched the choppers out of his screen as the most important one made it for the town, so far their wasn't any anti-aircraft fire as he knew most willing to fight were likely in the resistance, however he had to be careful if some were left behind.
Kira resumed his task as the choppers were now in the inside of the town and Kira saw people trying to flee.
He maneuvered the Armageddon straight for the front entrance of the town where many were trying to escape and he landed straight in front of them as they all froze.
Kira then aimed his beam rifle straight at them making all of them freeze.
It was the same all over the town, the Bacues arrived next as they headed for the back and rear sides of the town aiming straight for the people.
The Zaku and Gouf's were next taking up the rest, peoples normal reaction was to freeze however this wasn't what would hold them in for long.
This was only to by time, as the choppers on the outside have landed and were now unloading their soldiers as they rushed up and aimed their weapons at the fleeing citizens.
This would hold them in as soldiers aimed and were ready to fire, the town was mostly filled with elderly and children along with some of the parents, Kira knew the rest were likely with the resistance.
Kira saw their fear that was what he wanted to see.
When they were calming down as it looked like they weren't going to be fired upon the soldiers on the ground told them as long as they stayed in their town and went home they and their town would not be harmed.
It seemed as if it was working with a few who were scared out of their minds.
However Kira saw something inside the city that made him power his machine back up and head inside. He left the exit to the other mobile suits and assault teams.
Inside the city
Attack choppers flew through the skies as the leaders chopper was making its way towards the target.
"Distance?" the commander asked.
"Thirty seconds sir," the pilot radioed.
The water supplies main access point was a well system that reached the entire town, their were many around the town as well as other means of getting water, but this particular one accessed the entire underground oasis system, once the virus was entered inside their mission would be complete.
From the ground it was well apparent of what was going on as people were either rushing to an exit or they were now at the exit but blocked in.
However like Kira predicted there were a few guerilla fighters still inside waiting and were arming themselves.
A few with RPG rockets were not going to take this anymore as they were taking aim at a few choppers over their city.
The pilot of this chopper quickly got an alert, "Were being painted commander," the pilot said.
A few targeted this chopper and a few others as the rockets were fired.
"Take evasive action," the commander said as their chopper missed being hit.
"Radio to the other choppers to open fire, we cannot afford to be shot down," the commander said.
The pilot got on the radio to the others, "Green light, take them out," the pilot said as Kira's orders were not to kill unless the virus was in danger and it was in danger.
The choppers switched to their guns and quickly scanned for the targets as they were spotted with infrared.
The attack Agile's targeted their guns and opened fire.
The guerilla fighters were mulled apart by the gun fire as the commanders chopper found a spot to land as it was being to descend.
The chopper quickly landed in an opening about a block away as the assault team began exiting taking their weapons in defensive measures looking around.
The commander exited with the container as they made their way towards the well, this one was inside an open building.
The attack teams were looking at ally ways, on the roof tops and windows but spotted nothing. The commander got the clear as he made it right in front of the well.
He moved in and began carefully opening the container.
However that was when a few other guerilla fighters with their assault rifles were taking action.
The assault team saw them coming and opened fire taking cover as they were now in a fire fight.
The commander quickly but carefully sped up as he was removing the locks of the container in a secured location.
The guerilla fighters were falling left and right as they had no formal training and since it was night the night vision the assault team was using was helping them.
The commander was on the final lock as he heard a click and the container opened, as he looked all of what he saw was a liquid substance but inside was a deadly natural virus that would take out ever one in this town. Following orders he started administrating it when they came under attack again as well as civilians were starting to watch what they were doing.
Kira's orders were not to allow anyone to live who saw this, however there were scared children with them as well; this was a very difficult decision.
This time however the guerilla fighters were attacking from multiple sides as the team was being pinned down.
With Kira
Kira knew something was wrong when he used his sensors to check the progress so leaving security to the other mobile and attack teams he moved inside the city and good thing he did as he saw the firefight going on.
The guerilla fighters heard a sound as a few turned around and panicked as Kira landed the Armageddon straight on top of about five of them, it was easy to saw they were a lot shorter after that.
The assault teams saw Kira land on a few fighters as the Armageddon's head moved towards the back, Kira saw a few fighters on a wall and he attacked with the suits Vulcan guns on the head. The shots tore the wall apart as the fighters fell to their demise.
Once he was finished the civilians were panicking as Kira saw the team finally start to fire at them.
Kira opened the cockpit as he started lowering himself to the ground.
The civilians were mowed down as a few children were left, and Kira saw their hesitation.
The team had their weapons pointed at the scared and confused children, but they weren't able to fire yet.
All froze as gun fire sprang out and each of the children fell one after another, they looked ahead and saw the commander with his two guns out fired and dropped each one.
Kira holstered his weapons after it was over and walked towards them.
Grabbing the first one, "Never hesitate," Kira said dropping the man to the floor.
"Yes commander," they replied.
Kira walked over towards the leader and saw the virus being poured in.
"Mission complete commander," the leader said.
Kira looked down, "Gather your men and assist with the perimeter security, all we do now is wait, but first dispose of these bodies," Kira said heading back towards his machine.
Reaching the lift Kira reached into his pocket taking another few pills, once again this was starting, throughout the past year they were more like after the first war ended, bad but now they were getting worse again.
Ingesting the new pills almost immediately cleared his head as he went back up towards his machine and flew off. Kira saw he not only landed on a few fighters but a few buildings but that didn't matter to him, this town was going to be destroyed in a day's time anyway.
Heading back towards the front of the town, Kira saw that people were starting to return to their homes, apparently they saw that they weren't being harmed as long as they stayed in town, Kira watched and smiled, the entire town wouldn't take long to be infected as another hot desert day would soon take daylight.
As soon as he returned to the front, Kira got word from a mobile suit scout.
"Commander we have incoming signatures from the North," the scout said.
Kira heard that, "They are coming…and here I thought we would have to go to them, gather the mobile suit teams to intercept, I only need about five."
"Yes sir," the man replied as Kira would have to give a few orders.
Two Bacues, two Zaku's and one Gouf approached Kira.
"We will meet the resistance head on, I will say this only once, until I determine where Sahib Ashman is, destroy no one, their weapons are meager if you have to take a few hits just protect your suits legs, now lets go," Kira said as he personally led the team towards the incoming signatures.
Resistance Forces
As soon as Sahib heard what was going on, they couldn't see the town very clearly but they saw smoke and memories returned of the last time their town was destroyed.
Sahib called for all his fighters to gather equipment and head for their trucks, Sahib and another fighter headed for the two captured Earth Daggers they captured, this was the first time they would use these but now was as good a time as any.
Powering up the machine Sahib and the other walked out as their other fighters were in their trucks with RPG's and other explosives, the missile trucks were loaded as all took off straight for their town.
Sahib led the way, all his peoples families were mostly in that town and they were once again eager to see them.
When they got away from their base all spotted something in the distance as the sun started coming up. All they saw was the reddish eyes of a devil that stood in their way.
Banadiya and other towns in the region
Like with Tassil the towns were taken and the virus was released like the others. The only thing these towns had was less resistance as many were with Sahib and the towns were pretty much defenseless. Like with Tassil they were now infected with the virus and a video link was set up, they didn't' know why all Kira's orders for them were to keep people alive until they heard from him.
Near Victoria
The warship teams Kira sent near the mass driver had finally arrived at their location, they stopped well out of range as they waited for Kira. Five Lessup class, Seven Petrie class and two Compton class land battleships were in this group with fifty mobile suit units of all land and aerial mixes.
They scanned the area as it was definitely full of Earth Alliance presence, what though they didn't know yet and would likely not know as Kira wanted to hit them straight on when he arrived.
One piece of intelligence they had just arrived as the special forces team that started this war arrived on sight and started talking to the captains and commanders.
Minerva
Inside
Talia and her crew were heading to scout out Suez like Kira had ordered however they got three mobile suit signatures from behind and all three were quickly identified as Kira's team members.
"What are they doing here?" Talia asked.
"They are radioing in ma'am," Meyrin said.
Talia patched them threw as it was Rey.
"Requesting clearance to board ma'am," Rey said.
"Why are you here?" Talia asked.
"We were given orders to join up with you ma'am, I am afraid I don't know anymore then that," Rey added.
Talia sighed, "Permission granted you can land," Talia said signing off.
"What is this about?" Arthur asked.
"That commander again, that is what," Talia replied.
"What should we do?" Arthur asked.
"Just keep them busy for now, and continue our mission," Talia said as they expected to be near Suez soon however they were about to run into a little problem.
Hanger
All three suits landed as Shinn was as annoying as ever with his attitude, and once again it was directed at Kira.
"He thinks I couldn't handle that mission which is why he sent me here," Shinn replied angry.
Luna sighed and for once ignored him.
Heine went down to greet them as Shiho watched, she was hoping they would see the Orb forces soon however they were practically stuck in Africa until they had Victoria and busted through Suez.
Desert
Sahib and his resistance saw the devil in front of them.
Kira stopped his forces when he knew they would hit them straight on, and here they came, what surprised him was the two daggers they had.
Kira scanned the area and saw that was basically all the fire power they had that was a threat, and he slightly laughed.
Sahib looked ahead as others were radioing to attack, but he held them off.
"Why are we waiting?" one fighter said.
Sahib used his radio, "I want to know why they are here and what team they belong to."
Sahib stepped forward in his machine and turned his radio to all channels.
"This is Sahib Ashman, leader of these people, who is your commanding officer and why are you attacking my people again?" Sahib said through the radio.
His response was only laughing through the enemy suit.
He was stunned, first these forces weren't at all intimidated when he walked forward in a threatening stance and now he was being laughed at.
It was then he heard a voice, "To think I had to find you, but you came straight to me, what an utter natural fool," Kira said with a slight laugh again as it was followed by a few others in other suits.
Sahib heard that voice and it was extremely familiar, he couldn't put it down yet but he heard that voice before.
"I asked you a question…" Sahib raised his voice but Kira cut him off.
"What I want is your cooperation, but knowing how you are you will not give it willingly so I will just take it," Kira said cutting off communication as he changed channels to his Zaft channel and contacted his other suits.
"Do not destroy this first dagger, all others eliminate them immediately," Kira ordered as the Armageddon moved again as the two Plasma beam cannons lifted over the shoulders and aimed straight for Sahib, Kira fired them quickly as Sahib saw them a little to late, he dodged to the right and missed one, but the right arm was blown completely off along with his beam weapon.
Sahib ordered his forces to attack as the battle was on.
The Gouf Kira had with him immediately engaged the other dagger as the rest started hitting the trucks.
Sahib's forces started attacking as they were firing their rockets and weapons first at the Armageddon, Kira quickly raised the left arm and activated the Shield Generator which was the only thing that had a upgrade as it could stop with more impact solid weapons such as missiles and rockets, it could before but it was a little stronger now.
Blocking all the attacks Kira jumped into the air and landed straight on one missile truck destroying in.
Gouf and Dagger
The Gouf attacked the other dagger activating the heat rod wrapping it straight around the mobile suits leg. The dagger fired but it was clear they still didn't have full knowledge of the suits and it was working against each them.
The leg eventually exploded as the suit fell to the ground, the pilot was injured as he looked back up only to see the Gouf staring down at it with its blade aimed straight at it, and he panicked with the beam was activated.
The Gouf drove the blade straight through the cockpit destroying the suit.
All forces
The Bacue's fired their missiles and tried running all over the trucks, they were like bugs that annoyed the heck out of you.
The Gouf soon joined in as Kira was occupied with Sahib, but more like toying with him.
The Zaku's they had fired into the sand causing sand to be thrown up and it affected them a little on both sides.
Jeeps with manned personal fired RPG's at the mobile suits but the armor was a lot different then they remember all those years ago as it was much stronger.
They drove all over the place and fired but they were dropping like flies.
Kira and Sahib
With only one arm Sahib took the beam saber and aimed it at Kira, who was mostly ignoring him and using his Vulcan guns to fire at his trucks.
Sahib charged trying to slash the more powerful machine in two, however Kira raised his mobile suits arm hitting the Daggers arm and Kira drove his machine straight into the dagger making it fall to the ground. Kira aimed his own rifle and shot the head straight off the Dagger.
Sahib was now without most of his sensors, but he saw his people being slaughtered and rose up once again.
"Persistent little flee aren't you," Kira said but expected no less.
Sahib moved again as he saw Kira grab one of the trucks off the ground that drove by firing at the Armageddon but the armor didn't even have a nick in it, from the blast.
Sahib watched as Kira crushed the jeep and threw the parts at him in insult.
Sahib lost it again charging however Kira now activated his own saber.
"Our little game must end," Kira said as he ducked and slashed both legs off in one swipe and spun the saber around in a vertical slash taking out the other arm.
Sahib fell to the ground with only the body; arms, legs and head were completely off and destroyed.
Kira then stood over him aiming the saber straight down, Sahib thought he was going to end up like his friend as he prepared for death but all Kira did was melt one small piece on the core and everything went black as he cut the power to everything Sahib couldn't even self destruct if he wanted to.
Kira returned the saber as the rest of the trucks tried escaping but the Bacue's caught up and destroyed them.
This was a worthless battle for Kira, not a challenge at all, but what could he expect from the resistance. Radioing to his other people Kira told them to get Sahib out and return him to the Doomsday where the interrogation would begin.
The suits pried the cockpit open as Sahib didn't have any other weapons with him, he would fight but the coordinators were stronger and better trained as they captured him immediately.
Sahib watched as the suit he fought stopped in front of him, the cockpit opened as Kira emerged.
Sahib then remembered, "You…"
Kira looked to his people, "Take him back, I will join you after I get back from Victoria," Kira said going back in as he immediately took off at high speed.
Kira knew the battle for the mass driver would be a little different and he wanted to be there to lead this operation so with everything secured, he should be able to take care of Victoria if their isn't any problems and be back in time just as the virus effects are taking full swing, to interrogate Sahib.
Kira headed straight for Victoria, so far the war is going their way but Africa and Australia didn't hold the most aggressive forces the alliance had, when he attacked Orb and the Americas then he expected more resistance but for now he was going to finish this as quickly as possible. Victoria however may provide more of a challenge then he thought.
To be continued…
(A\N): The next chapter is the Victoria battle, as well as action in the Plants and Orb. See you later.