Tuesday 27th April 2010: Edited some spelling errors, changed one or two lines I wasn't happy with and modified the details of the shoulder pack weapons a little finally I added a extra bit after the Defenders Data sheet. Don't worry those who are watching this story chapter 3 will be up as soon as Phantomx05 is done beta reading it. Been a bit bored lately as none of my not inconsiderable watch list have updated.
Come on guys this story has already had over 150 visitors but only 2 reviews and not a single suggestion of a character (I've been given permission to use mechas from another story which fixes my problem there)
January 25th CE 71
Lagrange 2, Island 3 class colony 'Heliopolis'
Matthias slowly opened his eyes and groaned. Slowly he rolled over and brought himself into a sitting position leaning against the wall of the corridor. The first thing he noticed was the substantially reduced amount of gunfire that could be heard from behind the door. He breathed a sigh of relief at what that meant. 'I haven't been out long at least.' He thought.
Reaching over his shoulder he winced as he pulled the bullet that had struck him out from his clothes before briefly examining it. 'Whoever invented carbon nanotubes was a bloody genius' he thought with a wry smile. 'And whoever fired that shot deserves a medal.' His thoughts continued.
Outside the door the sound of gunfire ceased to be replaced by the crackle of fire and the rumble of explosions.
He stood up and shook himself off. 'I'd better get out of here before the factory district goes up' He mused. Setting off down the corridor a run. He hadn't got far when and explosion shook the colony causing him to grab a handrail in order to keep his balance. 'Sounds like the G-weapons took a shortcut out of the factory district.' He surmised, continuing his run.
Ignoring the doors in the corridor he focused on the dead end that was fast approaching. Normally he would carefully open the concealed door today he didn't have the time and punched through the thin metal with a flying kick.
Now he stood inside a cavernous hangar area. Heading over to a huge from at one end. While he was running what looked like a miniature kestrel swooped down and perched on his shoulder the slight clank of its wings closing the only thing that gave away that it was a robot.
"Hi Cyrus I know you're happy to see me but can you go and get the trucks ready I'll call you when I need you." Matthias said softly to the bird as he stopped on a gantry in front of the huge silhouette of a mobile suit. The mechanical raptor gave a hiss and bobbed its head in reply before taking back to the wing and shooting off towards a set of stationary trucks and their accompanying trailers.
Matthias leapt into the cockpit ignoring the discomfort his upper back gave him.
Shutting the cockpit he activated the machine.
General.
Unilateral.
Nero-link.
Dispersive.
Autonomic.
Maneuver.
synthesis system.
G.U.N.D.A.M. ss
GAT X111 Defender
He couldn't help but smile at that. The OS was screaming for the machines to be called Gundams but only a few had noticed it.
Bringing the keyboard down he did a status check on the unit mentally noting each detail as he went along. 'Left arm is offline, OS is complete enough to allow combat, Flight pack needs manual adjustments and OS need finalising in that area, the shoulder hard point need finishing and calibrating. Finally Tachyon bolt emitter is offline till core stability can be guaranteed.'
With that done he activated the units phase shift armour and walked through the large doors (literally) on one side of the room and exited into the colony interior.
The landscape that presented itself was barely recognisable as the Heliopolis he knew. The land was now covered in craters brides had been destroyed and buildings had collapsed or had their windows blown out.
The something caught his eye not far from the factory district was the grey form of one of the G-weapons. Zooming in on the ground in front of it caused his eyes to go wide. Kira and the other teens from outside Professor Kato's office were there. Kira and Mir were tending to an unconscious woman while the others were looking at the Grey MS.
An alarm brought him back to reality alerting him to the presence of a GINN slowly approaching the group in front of the last remaining 'Official' G-weapon, which Matthias had now identified as the Strike. 'He probably came to investigate after loosing contact with his buddy' Matthias thought noting the GINN wreckage lying around the area where his friends were located.
Matthias shifted the defender forward intent on intercepting the GINN before it could do any harm.
Kira was sitting next to the unconscious brown haired woman wondering how the hell he'd got into this mess and the green eyes of a old friend he'd glimpsed earlier when a clanking sound caught his attention. He looked up in time to see a GINN leveling its rifle at him and his friends who save for Miriallia hid behind the bulky form of the Strike. 'Is this it, am I going to die here without really doing anything with my life.' He thought.
Suddenly a burst of CIWS fire shredded the GINN's rifle causing it to detonate in the machines hand. All heads turned to where the shots had come from. The sight that greeted them caused many an eye to widen in shock. Standing before them was a mobile suit that bore a remarkable resemblance to the strike except it was almost entirely black apart from a deep blue trim and gold V fin on its head. It's left arm and smaller shield hung limply by its side while the right shoulder had no armour at all. It was obviously incomplete.
The GINN automatically drew its sword and charged at the Defender which fired it's Igelstellungs at it while backing off trying to draw the GINN away from the vulnerable teens on the ground. The GINN pilot was non compliant to Matthias's wishes and avoided being drawn out.
Inside the cockpit of the Defender Matthias released a depressed sigh. He'd hoped that he could have drawn the GINN away and disabled it letting the pilot self destruct the unit and get away without risking Kira and the others. But now he only had one option left and he didn't like it.
The defender drew one of its shoulder mounted beam sabers with its right arm and charged swing the saber in a downward slash, which the GINN parried with its own sword. Knocking the saber away the GINN swung at the Defenders side only for the blow to bounce of the phase shift armour. The maneuver cost the GINN its other arm as the Matthias brought the beam saber back down for another slash. The DINN swung again this time aiming for the exposed shoulder on the Defender. Which ducked under the swing and buried the tip of the beam saber in the DINNs cockpit.
Back inside the Defender Matthias grimaced. "Idiot" he breathed hitting the cockpit wall.
Outside the teens watched a s the now pilotless GINN collapsed in a series of clangs and crunches. The Defender watched the GINN collapse before turning to face them causing them to flinch and cower deeper into their hiding places. To their surprise the machine took a few steps forward and knelt down in front of them. The machine powered down the black and blue fading to a dull grey. Now that they were closer the teens realised that despite superficially looking like the strike it was actually a vey different machine. The machines arms and legs were slightly bulkier and the chest area was flatter with a notch cut into it. The lower forearms had 3 notches on their upper surface indicating claws of some type. A fixed flight pack was attached to its back. With nothing there to replace the assault knives that the strike had and from behind the hips they could just make out the tips of two handle like protrusions which though they didn't know that they were beam boomerangs.
Matthias opened the cockpit and clambered forward. "Are you guys ok?" He yelled down to them.
All of them stopped hiding, cowering etc and stared at him as if he had no head.
Matthias swept hi gaze over the group who were now standing in the open next to the unconscious woman. He gulped when his eyes fell on Kira or rather the look Kira was giving him. It was the sort of look that felt like it would kill an elephant if it could.
'Uh oh this is gonna be awkward.' Matthias thought. Reaching behind the pilot seat and pulling out a tool case before descending on the rope lift. Walking over to the group he started to rub the back of his neck. "Right where to start." He said trying to ignore the glare that Kira was burning into him.
"Before you do that why did you kill that pilot?" Kira asked the accusing tone caused Matthias to lose his temper.
"You think I wanted to kill him then is that it." He yelled at Kira. "I'll tell you now the only fucking reason I did that was because I was out of options you hear." He finished.
"You could have just…" Kira started to say when Matthias cut him off.
"Could have just what. Disabled his unit? He would have just set the self destruct and you would be dead because you were too close." Matthias countered yelling.
"This is war and I hate it." He continued his voice somewhat calmer.
All those who were present and aware took a step back at this outburst none of them had seen Matthias like this before.
Matthias took several deep breaths before speaking again. "Sorry about that but I really don't like being accused like that." The teens nodded their acceptance.
"Ok the brief rundown is Morgenroette was building these 5 mobile suits for the Earth alliance." Gesturing to the strike as he spoke. "If you are wondering the unit behind me I built, with some assistance for me to use to protect people. Any questions?" he finished.
Kira slowly raised his hand and Matthias nodded at him. "Why would Orb build mobile suits for the Earth Alliance?" he asked.
"Good question." Matthias replied. "And it is one I don't know the true answer to though at a guess one if the members of the five noble families conspired with Morgenroette for this rather than Orb betraying its ideals." He surmised.
Seeing that they were satisfied he began to head back towards the Defender when he remembered something.
"Oh Mir, Can I have my bag back now?" he asked softly.
Mir looked confused for a second then realised what he meant. "Huh? Oh yeah sure." She replied heading over to where she had taken cover and retrieving the bag. He smiled as he accepted the bag.
"You guys look after miss EA officer here and keep out of trouble, I need to do some work on the Defender." He said before heading over to the incomplete machine. Where he leapt up on to the machines leg so he could toss his bag into the cockpit. He then clambered up the mobile suit with the tool case he had retrieved earlier.
As soon as he got up there he opened a panel in the upper part of the machines left arm grabbed a tool from the case and crawled in leaving only the lower half of his legs sticking out ad he began working on the interior mechanisms.
The others left Matthias to it. Kira and Mir went to watch over the unconscious form of Marrue Ramius. While Tolle and Kuzzey went to have a closer look at the Strike. Sai kept watch incase anything else happened.
Lieutenant Junior grade Marrue Ramius awoke to find a brunette girl wearing a orange dress looking down at her "Well I see you're finally awake." Said Mir. "Hey Kira" she added moments later as she stood up. Marrue tested her wounded arm causing her to grimace as the Brown haired violet-eyed teen in his black and red top and green jeans walked over. "You're better off just lying still for now" Sighed Kira. He looked at the woman a few seconds before speaking again. "I do owe you an apology. I guess I kinda got carried away in there." He said referring to the incident with a self destructing GINN that had knocked to woman unconscious.
Mir walked back over with some water. "You thirsty? Care for some water?" She offered.
"Thank you." Marrue answered. Kira helped her sit up to accept the offered drink.
"This so called Gundam is awesome." Came Tolles voice from the strikes cockpit.
"So does this thing move or not?" Asked kuzzey from the machines leg.
"Guys, stop playing around with it." Reprimanded Sai.
Tolle moved forward to the edge of the open cockpit while Kuzzey turned to face the machine.
"Why do you think it turned grey?" Asked a still curious Kuzzey.
"Perhaps it means the main battery is out of juice." Guessed Tolle
A gunshot rang out the bullet pinging off the Strike between Tolle and Kuzzey.
Marrue Ramius would have followed up with a reprimand if she hadn't been interrupted by a dull clang, which was followed by a stream of muffled swearing that originated from the left shoulder of the Defender. The noise caused Lt. Ramius to finally notice the second machine that was a short distance away. She went wide-eyed and gasped at the sight. Kira found it hard to stop himself from laughing when he realised what had just happened to Matthias.
Who now had extracted himself from the workings of the Defenders' left arm and was now kneeling on the machines shoulder covered in grease and oil. He was rubbing the back of his head and glaring at the gun wielding EA officer. He uttered one word directed at the woman below. "Bitch."
Lt. Ramius quickly got over her surprise leveling her gun at Matthias.
"Get away from the machines." She yelled.
"Hey." Said Kira attempting to intervene only to have the gun turned on him.
"All of you over here." Lt. Ramius commanded motioning with her gun.
The teen slowly complied though Matthias seemed rather amused as he joined the others.
"Ok to start off with, your names." Lt. Ramius commanded. The teens complied
"My name is Sai Argyle."
"I'm Kuzzey Buskirk."
"My name is Tolle Koenig."
"I'm Miriallia Haw."
There was silence till Lt. Ramius shifted her gun to get a response.
"Kira Yamato." Kira said Glaring at the lieutenant slightly.
Matthias rolled his grey eyes before adding his name. "Matthias Rynar."
"And my name is Marrue Ramius an Earth Alliance forces officer. It is my unfortunate duty to inform you that I cannot permit any of you to leave." Said Lt. Ramius. The brought a chorus of whats from the teems except for Matthias who just crossed his arms. "Despite the circumstances the fact is you kids have been exposed to a top secret military project of the Atlantic Federation. Therefore until I can contact the appropriate military authorities you have no choice but to remain with me at all times." Lt. Ramius continued. This shocked the teens even more.
"That's the biggest joke of all." Complained Tolle.
Matthias then interrupted before anything else could be said. "Quit complaining. She's right and this situation is better than the alternative." He snapped.
"The alternative?" Kuzzey asked.
Matthias just glanced at the gun the lieutenant was holding but it answered the question.
Lt. Ramius then turned her attention, and her gun, on Matthias.
"I'm assuming you want to know how I've come to have that." He said smirking and tilting his head towards the Defender.
Lt. Ramius nodded. "For starters." She said.
"I built the Defender." Matthias said bluntly.
Lt. Ramius was incredulous. "You mean you stole top secret technology to build your own unit." She said shocked.
Matthias shook his head. "I didn't steal anything. I used only what I was allowed access to and brought a few things that I wasn't." Matthias replied smiling all the time.
It took Lt. Ramius a few seconds to digest the implications of what Matthias just said. "Someone knew you wanted to build this unit and they let you!" She nearly yelled not really believing what she just heard.
"Basically yes. I agreed to work on the G-weapon project to make it up to them. Because of that some of the technology in these machines has my name on the patent." Matthias replied unphased by the woman's near outburst.
"Who did you build it for?" asked Kira out of the blue.
Matthias just shrugged "I built it for myself of course." He replied. "Any information regarding why I built it will not be provided. Yet." He continued his voice becoming deadly serious.
"Now I'd like to get back to what I was doing before I was interrupted." He said completely ignoring the Lieutenants gun and walking past her. She immediately levelled the gun at him again. "I can't allow you to do that." She warned.
Matthias slowed but didn't stop. "Why not? Its my machine." Matthias Asked over his shoulder.
"Your affiliation is unknown allowing you near that machine could endanger us and other personnel of the Earth Alliance." Lt. Ramius countered.
Matthias sighed and stopped. "If I wanted to kill you then you would already be dead." Drawing a throwing knife from his belt to emphasize his point. "And I can't really go anywhere without a ship can I. Also a second unit would be a great asset to you wouldn't it." He finished. The Lieutenant stood there for a few moments before lowering her gun. Matthias nodded his thanks before continuing over to the Defender.
The Lieutenant visibly relaxed when he once again disappeared inside the units arm.
"He has a weird affect on you doesn't he." Said Tolle. " He makes you feel so small when he talks to you but at the same time you can't help but want to trust him." He continued. The Lieutenant nodded in reply. Before turning to the remaining teens.
"Kira can you please use the Strike to try and contact any surviving EA personnel?" She asked. Kira nodded and headed over to the strike. "Mr. Argyle can you and Mr. Buskirk go and find the number 5 trailer and drive it here. She continued turning to the two in question.
"What. Why us?" Complained Sai. Lt. Ramius was about to say something in reply when another voice interrupted. "Just do as the lady says you may live longer." Yelled Matthias from the right shoulder of the Defender obviously finished with the work on the left arm. Sai shrugged and went off to find the trailer Kuzzey following behind.
'How the hell did he hear that' Lt. Ramius thought watching the grease covered teen.
"Mr. Koenig, Ms. Haw you can help me keep watch." She said shaking of the thought.
Matthias had finished all the mechanical work he could for now. Flashing a brief smile he disappeared into the machines cockpit. He emerged a few minutes later wearing a new set of clothes and somehow had managed to wash his face and hair clean of grease.
"Lt. Ramius I have several truck back at a hangar that contain spare parts and additional for the Defender. I just thought I'd notify you before I brought them over." He called down from the open cockpit.
The woman in question looked up and him and called back. "Thank you for the heads up Mr. Rynar."
Matthias shook his head. "Mr Rynar makes me sound old, please call me Matthias." He called down again. The Lieutenant waved her acknowledgement as a large truck pulled up and Sai and Kuzzey got out.
Matthias pulled up his left sleeve revealing a bracer with a communication device built into the underside. "Cyrus Bring the trucks to me. Try to avoid breaking anything." He said into the device. A series of shrieks issues from the speaker. With that dealt with he turned to watch as the Strike walked up along side the trailer he had seen earlier. The machine crouched down next to the truck and the trailer opened up to reveal several green modules.
'So this is a Striker pack.' Matthias thought.
"Which ones the power pack?" asked Kira from the machines open cockpit.
"The weapons and power pack are integrated, mount the whole unit." Was the reply from Lt. Ramius.
Above them part of the main shaft exploded. Matthias was into the Defenders cockpit before the white CGUE had flown through the explosion. Quickly he activated the machine and then hit a snag. 'Dammit activating the left arm means I have to modify the OS so that it's no longer compensating for the dead weight.' He thought. Outside the white CGUE and the orange mobius zero mobile armour continued to dance until the zero lost its gun to the CGUE's sword. Matthias cursed as the CGUE sped towards the Strike that had still not yet connected to the pack and activate its phase shift.
Then several things happened at once. The Strike connected to the Launcher pack and activated its phase shift. Matthias finished modifying the Defenders OS and a huge explosion occurred at the harbour end of the colony. Flying through the smoke was a white and red vessel, which had splashes of gold.
"The Archangel!" Cried Lt. Ramius.
That's this chapter over. I'm happy with just writing but having reviews is nice.
Thank you to the few who have alerted this story and the even fewer who have favorited it.
I'm really struggling t think of a good name for Matthias's nemesis and a additional BCPU so any suggestions for names will be considered and appropriately attributed should they be used.
I'm open to any ideas so pop a suggestion and it may lead to something in this story or another.
As long as they credit me anyone can use this mobile suit design in their story.
Model number: GAT X-111 (As originally completed)
Code name: Defender Gundam
Unit type: Prototype Multi-Role Assault Mobile Suit
Manufacturer: Matthias Rynar with assistance from Morgenroete, Inc
Operators: Independent, Earth Alliance (Atlantic federation)
First Deployment: 25 January C.E. 71
Accommodation: Pilot only, in a custom cockpit in torso
Dimensions: 18.09 meters
Weight: 49.4 metric tons
Armor materials: Unknown
Power plant: 2x Ultracompact energy battery, power output unknown
Equipment and design features: Phase Shift (PS) armor, Special mount on right shoulder for Shoulder (Defender) packs, Helmet Integrated Designation and Aiming System (HIDAS)
Fixed armaments: 2x "Igelstellung" 75mm multi-barrel CIWS, fire-linked mounted in head; Tachyon Bolt emitter mounted In upper torso (You won't see this till later it's a bit over the top); 2x beam saber stored in shoulders hand-carried in use; 2x multi-surface grapple anchors on upper inner arm; 2x "Chimera" beam claws (3 beams each) on outer wrist; 2x "Harpy" beam boomerangs stored on back of waist;
Optional fixed armaments: Shoulder packs;
Deadeye pack: "Rokh" 112mm Hybrid sniper rifle with flexible mount on right shoulder folds down behind shoulder when not in use , ammunition magazines x5 (one additional in weapon, 6 shots per magazine) and enhanced sensor package.
Devastator pack: "Manticore" 180 mm hyper impulse cannon and "Minotaur" 115mm railgun on combined flexible mount on right shoulder rotates and folds down behind shoulder when not in use.
Duelist pack: "Asrai" 12.3 meter anti ship sword stored behind right shoulder and "Arion" rocket anchor mounted on right shoulder; small Anti-beam shield mounted on Upper right arm/shoulder,
Default pack: additional energy battery.
Optional hand armaments: 57mm high-energy beam rifle storable on upper leg armor. Shield
Pilot: Matthias Rynar
Appearance: Similar to the strike in basic shape however it is heavier built with 3 notches on the back of each wrist the beam boomerangs are on the back of the waist. It has a fixed aile pack which is protected by phase shift, there is a gap behind both shoulders. The lower part of the face is more like the Aegis. The shield is also like the one that the Aegis uses just black with blue areas. There is also a small notch in the upper torso, which is the Tachyon bolt emmiter's barrel (of sorts)
Colors: Mostly Black with Dark blue in every join and as trim. Pale blue eyes and dark blue crystal at base of V-fin, which is gold. Face plate is grey.
What do you think its meant to be a multirole unit but it is probably a bit over the top in the beam blade/saber department with 8 of the things without the Duelist pack. Having 9 beam blades with the duelist pack equipped. The whole unit may look a bit overpowered but I have it covered (I think). It has 2 batteries because it need them and can fit them because Matthias did a bit of tinkering and managed to reduce the size of some components including the batteries without reducing their effectiveness. However due to the high power consumption of the unit its operation time is not much longer than that Strikes and the additional battery in the Default pack doesn't add a huge amount of extra time as the battery it contains isn't as big as the main ones.