Tale Two: Timothy Darl – RGM-79 GM – Operation Cembalo
Timothy Darl was not having a very good day. That could be considered something of an understatement it was 24th December. Christmas Eve and here he was stuck in a mobile suit fighting for his life while assaulting a dirty great big rock. It wasn't exactly how he had planned on spending Christmas this year but now that he was here he planned on staying alive so that he could celebrate Christmas properly next year.
It had only been a few minutes since the launch order had been given by Admiral Tianem. Somehow Timothy had managed to lose the other two members of his team; another GM piloted by Scott Frost and a Ball piloted by Derek Gold. Without them Timothy was feeling a lot more vulnerable, a lone GM would defiantly be a tempting target for any Zeon pilot. He could remember the advice his squadron leader had given all the pilots before the battle. 'If you get lost.' he'd said. 'Head for Solomon, you'll find someone sooner or later and do try to kill a few Zeeks along the way. That'll make our job easier later on.' Timothy thought that it was pretty crappy advice but at the moment it was better than nothing. He swung the GM around and put it on a rough heading towards Solomon. The big ships of the 3rd Fleet had been hammering at the asteroid for some time now; as Timothy got closer to them he could see that they too had taken a beating from Solomon's defenders. He carefully adjusted his course to keep a fair distance from the warships main guns. The space between the asteroid and the fleet was already a mass of missiles, beams and mobile suits. As the rest of the 2nd Combined Fleet closed in to join with the 3rd Fleet the chaos was getting steadily worse.
Timothy was forced to send his GM in a sharp dodge to the left as a pair of Zeon Gattle spacefighters zoomed in towards him firing off a barrage of missiles. As they swung around he brought up his shield for defence while rather hurriedly returning fire with the head mounted Vulcan guns. Cursing his inaccuracy Timothy pulled out the targeting scope and let the mobile suits' computer lock onto the target. When the crosshairs were aligned he pressed the trigger twice in quick succession. The GMs beam spray gun fired the two shot both of which hit. The first burned its way through one of the Gattle's wings while the other smashed its way through the main body of the fighter. It spun out of control for a few moments before exploding. Timothy let out a victory grunt as the Gattle exploded his first kill of the war. However as he was celebrating the other Gattle escaped into the unfolding battle. Deciding not to risk giving chase Timothy once again set his sights on Solomon. The closer he got to the asteroid the greater the intensity of the fighting around him.
Off to his left Timothy could see a GM shepherding a pack Balls towards Solomon. See it as an opportunity to get a bit of company Timothy adjusted his direction so he could get closer. Suddenly the GM exploded taking out one of the Balls as well. Timothy looked around desperately trying to find the cause of the explosion. Then he saw the trio of Rick Doms closing in with great speed and then began to circle around Timothy and the remaining Balls. Timothy shuddered with fear; he'd heard stories about Doms, from some of the veteran pilots who'd fought on Earth, about how powerful and fast they were. Timothy began swearing loudly as the Doms closed in and blasted another Ball. He cursed Zeon, the Federation and the Doms pilots. He knew that his life was surely coming to an end. He was stuck in a cannon- fodder mech, accompanying a bunch of spherical coffins and surrounded by three lethal killing machines. Closing his eyes and screaming for all he was worth Timothy kept his finger on the trigger and fired wildly hoping to hit something.
After a few moments Timothy realised that he was still alive. Taking his finger off the trigger he slowly opened his eyes to see what was happening. Once his eyes had fully opened he saw a very sprightly GM ramming its beam sabre into the torso of one of the Rick Doms before it kicked away from the Rick Dom and spun on the spot placing a beam shot through the back of another Rick Dom. The two Rick Doms exploded as the GM darted off to chase the remaining Rick Dom. The Rick Dom came around and fired its giant bazooka but the GM deftly avoided it. Getting in real close the GM cut upwards with its beam sabre slicing the giant bazooka in half before ramming the beam sabre downwards through the Rick Dom's head right to the hilt. Withdrawing the sabre it placed the sabre back in its recharge socket and then kicked the lifeless Dom away. It turned then slowly drifted over to where Timothy's GM was. As the new GM came up alongside Timothy he could see that it wasn't a standard GM, it lacked the shield and some armour plating it also carried a different style beam gun. Painted on the GMs shoulder armour was a stylised white Panther head on a hexagonal black background.
When the new GM placed its hand onto Timothy's GMs shoulder Timothy could hear the pilot speaking. 'Hey kid, don't lose it. We've still got a long way to go.'
'Yes sir.' stammered Timothy. 'Thank you for saving me Sir.'
'Just doing my job kid.' said the GM Light Armour's pilot. 'I dunno what outfit you and those Balls are from but you'd better get your arse over to the left flank, the Zeeks are putting up quite the fight over there and our GMs need more support.'
'Yes sir, right away sir.' said Timothy regaining his composure. Before he could even say anything else the GM Light Armour darted off towards a group of Zakus harassing another pack of Balls.
From his central location on the battlefield Timothy could see where the GM Light Armour's pilot wanted him to head. The left flank of the Federations battle line was suffering a counterattack by Zeon mobile suits. He checked his radio and found that minovsky particles weren't jamming him at the moment so he keyed in a channel to the remaining Balls. 'Okay we've got orders to reinforce the left flank, I'm not so pleased about it but lets make the most of it shall we?'
As they closed in on the area where the Zeons were counterattacking Timothy managed to get a good look at the attackers. There were five Zaku II Fs and a pair of Rick Doms led by a Zaku II F2. Timothy could tell the F2 was the leader because of its custom paint job, a yellow and black check pattern. The beleaguered GM unit that were bearing the brunt of the Zeon counterattack had already lost two GMs by the time Timothy and the Balls arrived. He didn't have to give the Balls any orders they simply opened up on the Zeon mobile suits while trying not to make themselves to easy a target, two of the Zakus were cut down in the opening barrage.
Timothy goaded his GM to move faster as he charged in towards the Zaku IIs. He singled out the Zaku II furthest along the line, after pulling round his targeting scope he fired off a couple of shots from his beam spray gun but failed to hit the Zaku II. In return the Zaku II fired off a hail of bullets from its machine gun. The GMs shield was automatically brought up to block the shots. While not the most powerful weapon in the world the bullets from the 120mm machine gun carved some fairly hefty gouges in the armoured shield. The two mobile suits raced past each other they both started to turn in an attempt to get behind each other. Timothy's GM finished the turn moments before the Zaku II and his first shot burned through the Zaku IIs head. Timothy adjusted his aim and fired again, this time he hit the Zaku II in the centre of its chest. As the stream of mega particles breached the Zakus reactor the whole suit exploded.
Timothy didn't have long to celebrate his first mobile suit kill because the yellow and black Zaku II F2 was already closing in on him. This machine was armed with the far more deadly MMP-80 90mm machine gun. 90mm bullets raked the GMs shield penetrating its already weakened surface and wrecked the arm carrying it; the deadly swarm of bullets smashed into the shoulder joint ripping the damaged arm from the GM. The Zaku II F2 shifted its line of attack to carry on into the torso of the GM but was foiled at the last moment by Timothy's desperate struggling with his controls. Timothy desperately tried to beat back the Zeon suit by holding his finger on his trigger. The beam spray gun lived up to its name as it sprayed mega particle beams out into space. One beam did manage to hit the Zaku II F2 but only sheered off one of the spike on its shoulder armour.
With skill far exceeding anything Timothy could muster the Zaku pilot sent his machine into a sweeping roll that brought him round behind the GM, as he went into the roll his fired his machinegun sending 90mm bullets into the GM. The hail of bullets only stopped when the MMP-80s clip was empty. With a dispassionate click with empty clip slid from the machinegun and was quickly replaced. The GM was dead and with that the Zaku II F2 jetted off to rejoin its comrades.
End of the Tale
Timothy Darl was not having a very good day. That could be considered something of an understatement it was 24th December. Christmas Eve and here he was stuck in a mobile suit fighting for his life while assaulting a dirty great big rock. It wasn't exactly how he had planned on spending Christmas this year but now that he was here he planned on staying alive so that he could celebrate Christmas properly next year.
It had only been a few minutes since the launch order had been given by Admiral Tianem. Somehow Timothy had managed to lose the other two members of his team; another GM piloted by Scott Frost and a Ball piloted by Derek Gold. Without them Timothy was feeling a lot more vulnerable, a lone GM would defiantly be a tempting target for any Zeon pilot. He could remember the advice his squadron leader had given all the pilots before the battle. 'If you get lost.' he'd said. 'Head for Solomon, you'll find someone sooner or later and do try to kill a few Zeeks along the way. That'll make our job easier later on.' Timothy thought that it was pretty crappy advice but at the moment it was better than nothing. He swung the GM around and put it on a rough heading towards Solomon. The big ships of the 3rd Fleet had been hammering at the asteroid for some time now; as Timothy got closer to them he could see that they too had taken a beating from Solomon's defenders. He carefully adjusted his course to keep a fair distance from the warships main guns. The space between the asteroid and the fleet was already a mass of missiles, beams and mobile suits. As the rest of the 2nd Combined Fleet closed in to join with the 3rd Fleet the chaos was getting steadily worse.
Timothy was forced to send his GM in a sharp dodge to the left as a pair of Zeon Gattle spacefighters zoomed in towards him firing off a barrage of missiles. As they swung around he brought up his shield for defence while rather hurriedly returning fire with the head mounted Vulcan guns. Cursing his inaccuracy Timothy pulled out the targeting scope and let the mobile suits' computer lock onto the target. When the crosshairs were aligned he pressed the trigger twice in quick succession. The GMs beam spray gun fired the two shot both of which hit. The first burned its way through one of the Gattle's wings while the other smashed its way through the main body of the fighter. It spun out of control for a few moments before exploding. Timothy let out a victory grunt as the Gattle exploded his first kill of the war. However as he was celebrating the other Gattle escaped into the unfolding battle. Deciding not to risk giving chase Timothy once again set his sights on Solomon. The closer he got to the asteroid the greater the intensity of the fighting around him.
Off to his left Timothy could see a GM shepherding a pack Balls towards Solomon. See it as an opportunity to get a bit of company Timothy adjusted his direction so he could get closer. Suddenly the GM exploded taking out one of the Balls as well. Timothy looked around desperately trying to find the cause of the explosion. Then he saw the trio of Rick Doms closing in with great speed and then began to circle around Timothy and the remaining Balls. Timothy shuddered with fear; he'd heard stories about Doms, from some of the veteran pilots who'd fought on Earth, about how powerful and fast they were. Timothy began swearing loudly as the Doms closed in and blasted another Ball. He cursed Zeon, the Federation and the Doms pilots. He knew that his life was surely coming to an end. He was stuck in a cannon- fodder mech, accompanying a bunch of spherical coffins and surrounded by three lethal killing machines. Closing his eyes and screaming for all he was worth Timothy kept his finger on the trigger and fired wildly hoping to hit something.
After a few moments Timothy realised that he was still alive. Taking his finger off the trigger he slowly opened his eyes to see what was happening. Once his eyes had fully opened he saw a very sprightly GM ramming its beam sabre into the torso of one of the Rick Doms before it kicked away from the Rick Dom and spun on the spot placing a beam shot through the back of another Rick Dom. The two Rick Doms exploded as the GM darted off to chase the remaining Rick Dom. The Rick Dom came around and fired its giant bazooka but the GM deftly avoided it. Getting in real close the GM cut upwards with its beam sabre slicing the giant bazooka in half before ramming the beam sabre downwards through the Rick Dom's head right to the hilt. Withdrawing the sabre it placed the sabre back in its recharge socket and then kicked the lifeless Dom away. It turned then slowly drifted over to where Timothy's GM was. As the new GM came up alongside Timothy he could see that it wasn't a standard GM, it lacked the shield and some armour plating it also carried a different style beam gun. Painted on the GMs shoulder armour was a stylised white Panther head on a hexagonal black background.
When the new GM placed its hand onto Timothy's GMs shoulder Timothy could hear the pilot speaking. 'Hey kid, don't lose it. We've still got a long way to go.'
'Yes sir.' stammered Timothy. 'Thank you for saving me Sir.'
'Just doing my job kid.' said the GM Light Armour's pilot. 'I dunno what outfit you and those Balls are from but you'd better get your arse over to the left flank, the Zeeks are putting up quite the fight over there and our GMs need more support.'
'Yes sir, right away sir.' said Timothy regaining his composure. Before he could even say anything else the GM Light Armour darted off towards a group of Zakus harassing another pack of Balls.
From his central location on the battlefield Timothy could see where the GM Light Armour's pilot wanted him to head. The left flank of the Federations battle line was suffering a counterattack by Zeon mobile suits. He checked his radio and found that minovsky particles weren't jamming him at the moment so he keyed in a channel to the remaining Balls. 'Okay we've got orders to reinforce the left flank, I'm not so pleased about it but lets make the most of it shall we?'
As they closed in on the area where the Zeons were counterattacking Timothy managed to get a good look at the attackers. There were five Zaku II Fs and a pair of Rick Doms led by a Zaku II F2. Timothy could tell the F2 was the leader because of its custom paint job, a yellow and black check pattern. The beleaguered GM unit that were bearing the brunt of the Zeon counterattack had already lost two GMs by the time Timothy and the Balls arrived. He didn't have to give the Balls any orders they simply opened up on the Zeon mobile suits while trying not to make themselves to easy a target, two of the Zakus were cut down in the opening barrage.
Timothy goaded his GM to move faster as he charged in towards the Zaku IIs. He singled out the Zaku II furthest along the line, after pulling round his targeting scope he fired off a couple of shots from his beam spray gun but failed to hit the Zaku II. In return the Zaku II fired off a hail of bullets from its machine gun. The GMs shield was automatically brought up to block the shots. While not the most powerful weapon in the world the bullets from the 120mm machine gun carved some fairly hefty gouges in the armoured shield. The two mobile suits raced past each other they both started to turn in an attempt to get behind each other. Timothy's GM finished the turn moments before the Zaku II and his first shot burned through the Zaku IIs head. Timothy adjusted his aim and fired again, this time he hit the Zaku II in the centre of its chest. As the stream of mega particles breached the Zakus reactor the whole suit exploded.
Timothy didn't have long to celebrate his first mobile suit kill because the yellow and black Zaku II F2 was already closing in on him. This machine was armed with the far more deadly MMP-80 90mm machine gun. 90mm bullets raked the GMs shield penetrating its already weakened surface and wrecked the arm carrying it; the deadly swarm of bullets smashed into the shoulder joint ripping the damaged arm from the GM. The Zaku II F2 shifted its line of attack to carry on into the torso of the GM but was foiled at the last moment by Timothy's desperate struggling with his controls. Timothy desperately tried to beat back the Zeon suit by holding his finger on his trigger. The beam spray gun lived up to its name as it sprayed mega particle beams out into space. One beam did manage to hit the Zaku II F2 but only sheered off one of the spike on its shoulder armour.
With skill far exceeding anything Timothy could muster the Zaku pilot sent his machine into a sweeping roll that brought him round behind the GM, as he went into the roll his fired his machinegun sending 90mm bullets into the GM. The hail of bullets only stopped when the MMP-80s clip was empty. With a dispassionate click with empty clip slid from the machinegun and was quickly replaced. The GM was dead and with that the Zaku II F2 jetted off to rejoin its comrades.
End of the Tale