Tale Twenty Two: Commander Christopher Bishop - ZGMF-2000 GOUF Ignited - The Battle for Heavan's Base.
The sight of the entire Orbital Drop squad being wiped out by LOGOS' Nibelung cannon was enough to make Commander Christopher Bishop to swear most violently. It sicken him to think that the enemy had been able to use such a dirty tactic. Attacking the drop squad while they were still deploying was just cheap. However it was exactly what he expected of those damned naturals.
"Captain why the hell haven't we been given a launch order?" Christopher yelled at Captain Silvio Andreotti; master of the Vosgulov class attack submarine Etna upon which Christopher was stationed.
"Simmer down Jaygee when the Chairman gives the attack order you'll be the first to know," replied Andreotti patiently.
"I thought I told you to never call me Jaygee!" screamed Christopher hysterically. His breathing quickly became erratic and his eyes widened to unimaginable proportions. "No-one, no-one, no-one, no-one, no-one can call me that word! No-one! They died because they call me that! All of them, they all died because they were weak!" He started stroking the rather impressive network of scares that criss-crossed his face with all the subtly of someone who wasn't entirely stable.
"Shut the fuck up Bishop!" bellowed Andreotti. "If you don't calm down I'll rescind your piloting privileges. They'll never let you back in a cockpit ever again. How do you like that eh? You'll never get your revenge if you can't pilot."
"Revenge, yes, I must get me revenge," Christopher said more to himself than anyone else. "I have to avenge all those who fell before. Everyone; Franklin, Barns, Stone, Bond, Bikham, Brandreth, Lowe, Cobbett..."
"Here is your chance Bishop, the order has been given. Destroy all those LOGOS dogs!" ordered Andreotti.
"Yesss," Christopher let the word out like a long drawn out hiss before declaring: "Christopher Bishop, GOUF, launching!"
Seconds later Bishop's silver, with dark blue highlights, GOUF was screaming up the linear catapult track and out into the sky. The five massive X-1 Destroy units were causing merry hell with Earth Alliance forces that had joined ZAFT in their anti-LOGOS mission. As far as Christopher was concerned they could wipe each other out. He knew for a fact that ZAFT didn't need those natural dogs for anything other than a meat shield. Ignoring the Destroys, which would be suicide to attack, he turned his attention to the Jet Windams escorting them. The three aces off the Minerva were already weighing into the Windam squadrons but Christopher knew there were plenty to go around.
Taking his MMI-558 "Tempest" beam sword from behind the shield on his GOUF's left arm Christopher charged at a group of three Jet Windams. The OMNI machines tried to hit the GOUF with their beam rifles but the nimble silver mobile suit was too fast. With one swipe Christopher cut up through the lead Windam from the left to the right. As it disintegrated and exploded Christopher twisted his sword arm around and sliced off the Jet striker backpack of another Windam. The sudden loss of lift caused the Windam to drop like a stone to the sea below where it landed on a Euclid mobile armour. He punched the last remaining Windam in the head with the GOUFs free hand before hacking off its limbs at leisure and when plunging the Tempest beam sword through the Windam's cockpit.
"Call yourselves soldiers? This is pathetic!" yelled Christopher on an open communication channel. "You fought with more passion during the last war! Are you the best LOGOS have to offer?"
A wailing warning sound rang through the GOUFs cockpit indicating that far below the nearest X-1 Destroy fired off a barrage of missiles from its multi-launchers. Taking evasion action Christopher swung his two "Draupnir" 4-barrel beam guns into play and loosed a spray of beams that destroyed several of the missiles. Unfortunately he was only able to clear a small section of the barrage and a trio of DINNs were completely obliterated.
As the Destiny took it's "Arondight" anti-ship sword too the X-1 Destroy Christopher honed in on some more Jet Windams. The MA-M757 "Slayer Whip" heat rod was one of the things about the GOUF that Christopher really liked. It was quite different from any other weapon he had used on a mobile suit before. The possibility for fun with it were virtually endless. With a flick of the GOUF's wrist he sent the Slayer Whip out and entwined it around a Windam's M9409L beam rifle. The electrical charge within the whip caused the beam rifle to exploded and while the Windam attempted to recover Christopher sprayed it with beam shots from one of his Draupnir beam guns. The once proud OMNI Enforcer machine was torn to pieces as the beams ripped through its armour plating.
Much to Christopher's annoyance he was interrupted by another attack from nearer ground level. However instead of missiles this time it was the multi-colour blast of a hyper impulse cannon. The blast got a bit too close for comfort and while he was able to deflect it with his shield the spikes were burnt off. On the shoreline were a gaggle of Daggers sporting the Launcher Striker Pack made famous by the Strike mobile suit during the last war.
"Oh you guys want to play as well eh?" Christopher laughed to himself. "You think you can beat me? Those popguns of your couldn't kill me before and they are not going to kill me now!"
Wanting to repay the favour Christopher ignored the remaining Jet Windams and zoomed in towards the Launcher Daggers. Three of them fired again but he was more than ready for them. It was comparatively easy for him to avoid their slow moving blasts. As he swooped past the Daggers he used his Tempest beam sword to hack off the head of one of them. He landed on the ground close enough to them so that their cumbersome hyper impulse launchers would be a hindrance to them.
He flicked out the Slayer Whip again and entangled it on one of the Dagger's right arms. Christopher didn't active a electrical charge and instead yanked to hard on the whip that it tore the Dagger's arm right off. In the moment of shock that followed he impaled the Dagger on his beam sword. As he shoved the dead Dagger away he brought the beam sword around a hacked a chunk out of the headless Dagger, which was still staggering around, to put it out of it's misery.
The remaining two Daggers were caught by a hail of missiles and beams fired off by the ASSH amphibious mobile suits that had finally reached the shore. At the same time, in the hills above the main base, the combined efforts of the Impulse and Legend felled another of the X-1 Destroys. The battle was more or less over. All the enemy defence lines were breached and their soldiers were fleeing for their lives. As far as Christopher was concerned defeated enemies didn't have the right to run away. They should just die like they were supposed to. And with that in mind he levelled his Draupnir beam guns at the fleeing soldiers and fired.
End of the Tale