Chapter 2
Aeolia worked on his laptop, "Fighting? Is it human's instinct to destroy each other?"
He stood up from his chair. "No, I believe that humans can live in peace and war does not have to exist. It is possible for people to coexist with each other!"
Aeolia opened up a folder on his laptop and looked intently…
Back to present…
Rick found the sight a bit surprising, "A gundam…."
The Gundam with a serial number O located on the forehead.
The scientists climbed down from the machine, "We found this several days back, it seemed as though Celestial Being had dumped it."
There were discussions between Kataron soldiers, "Dumped it?" "Why would they do that?" "We have a gundam now!"
One of the scientists heard the last comment, "We may have a gundam on our hands, but what's missing is a power source. We lack a GN drive to power it, as of now, it's still scrap metal until we can find one."
Rick thought back of previous experiences with his last experience with fighting the gundams. Sure, Graham did most of the work, but the squad provided support. He then remembered the red cannon beams that fried the other aces (refer to season 1 ep 16 if confused). I am lucky to be still alive.
He walked away from the hangar and went back to his room.
In space…
A small Kataron detachment was dispatched to find any lone or dumped GN drives in space that could be as a power source for the gundam. Unfortunately, they weren't as lucky. But the pilots refuse to give up as they continued patrolling even towards the asteroid belt. They saw a small blue flash far away…
Kataron spies inside the Federation were having a hard time trying to even smuggle one drive out because of strict policies.
On Earth….
A tanned youth with black hair looked at the sky, "How much longer must I wait? How much longer must I allow A-laws continue in their ways."
He donned his coat, "It's time…" he checked his ID.
"…to return to space."
The youth also brought his black space suit as well.
Back to space… (Lagrange-4)
A youth known as Saji Crossroad worked aboard the station. It had been 6 months from that day, the day he had last seen Louise Halevy. Saji still thought about her, about their promise that they would meet in space one day.
After attaching several metal plates on his last hour, he went to the locker room where he was greeted by a coworker. The man came and patted Saji on the back, "you're pretty good, Rookie."
The boy smiled, "I am working here for awhile, can you please call me by my name, Saji Crossroad?"
The man laughed, "Sure kid." 2 men in grey armour suits appeared, "Eddie Miyazaka, you are under arrest for having connections with Kataron!"
The man beside Saji tried to jump in between the guards but was quickly restrained, Saji was also apprehended much to his confusion.
A few hours later, he found himself being shipped to a colony where he, along with several other Kataron prisoners were pushing heavy blocks under a heavy gravity environment. The guards were unaffected because they were wearing modified space suits to resist the gravity.
Back to Kataron Rezols base…
Rick and several pilots were summoned to take part in the mission to rescue their comrades in the Proud colony, a mission that they know it would be difficult as Klaus pointed out that A-laws has a new model within their ranks.
The pilots were briefed quickly, one of the pilots greeted Rick.
"Raven, I hope that we all come back alive. I'll leave the new model to you then."
Rick put on a slight grin, "I sincerely hope so,"
The Flag was packed along with 5 Realdos into a Kataron ship.
After a few hours, the suits were dispatched to take care of the gattling turrets mounted on the columns. Raven strafed easily around the shots, he shot 3 cannons down. He contacted his allies, "Watch out for any enemy mobile suits!"
Back to somewhere out space…(asteroid belt)
"Jackpot!" A Realdo picked up an asteroid with "something" embedded it, but it was no doubt, he found what he came for.
"Reporting back to HQ, we found it! We'll fit it right away as soon as possible."
The Kataron scouts smiled as there was no tomorrow. It was time for retaliation.
Back to Proud
A youth in a black space suit inspected the colony, he was having flashbacks of the bodies he had encountered while journeying it. "Will this be targeted as well?" He took out a pistol and loaded a clip…
An A-laws cruiser came within range. The captain of the ship picked up the Kataron ship heading to the colony and contacted the squad leader.
"Barrack Zinin, reporting to duty!"
"Today, we will commence an anti-government sweep and eliminate them as well as test the Automatons on your Ahead. Any questions?"
"No." Barrack saluted and went into his Ahead where he witnessed his suit being prepared for combat as well as having the Automaton container attached, a transmission came up. "Note, this is Unit 3, Warrant Officer Halevy's first battle. Just give her the feeling of the battlefield."
"Roger, Ahead 1st Platoon launch!" 3 suits undocked and then launched from the mothership.
The Realdos and Raven picked up the enemy signatures and attacked immediately. The GNX-III fired off a volley of beams which 1 of the Realdos blocked with the defence rod whereas the Ahead broke off the formation and released the container of the machine killers.
The Automatons whirled to life with sinister red lights as eyes and went on a seek and destroy mission…
They broke into the massive room and opened fire on the prisoners. The black-clad youth shut off his helmet, "Anti-personnel weapons?! Must be A-laws doing" he threw a sticky grenade which blew up a machine.
Saji wasn't having much luck, a prisoner was standing beside him, all sweaty, he tried to look for the way out. As the prisoner sprinted, he danced the dance of death as bullets peppered his body. Saji can stand in shock as he can hear mechanical footsteps get louder until…
BOOM!
Saji was rescued by the black-clad pilot, who looked clearly at each other's faces, "Thank you, are you Setsuna F Seiei?" The response was instantaneous, "Saji Crossroad?"
After blowing up a few more Automatons, Setsuna led Saji to a hangar where his gundam Exia was kept. The right eye was no longer there, it was replaced with a red glowing eye and a brown cloth covering what was supposed to be his left arm.
Outside…
The Flag was already engaging against the Ahead with no relative success. Both pilots were skilled, but Raven was still in an much outdated unit. The Ahead swung the saber towards the Flag's left shoulder. The Flag kicked the red suit, getting it off balance.
Raven clearly watched the situation, his Realdo allies were being shot down, he had no choice but to retreat soon. The GN-XIII opened fire on the Flag and it evaded the shots, transformed and tried to leave the battle area. The 2 suits gave chase, but an ambush from Exia caught the 2 red suits off guard and cut off the GN-XIII's right arm holding the lance.
Once in safe enough distance, the Flag watched the battle between the GN-suits.
The Ahead charged against Exia, "Celestial Being? Why have you appeared now of all times?" Setsuna locked blades, "To destroy…" Barrack paused.
"Only to destroy…people who do such things!" and pushed the Ahead while switching modes to his gun, "I will dispatch you!" and fired pink shots which the red suit evaded and fired off orange beams at the Gundam, some of them which hit.
The GN-XIII picked up the dropped lance with the remaining arm and boosted towards the Gundam.
The Ahead drew out 2 beam sabers and with the intense heat against a broken blade, even the GN blade was cut through, followed by the gundam's arm. The GN-XIII charged towards the gundam until a massive beam destroyed the lance…
A black Gundam appeared from the distance, provided fire support for the fallen ally and even activated his GN field when the GN-XIII attacked his back.
Tieria smiled as he quickly deactivated the field and then sliced the red suit in half with it's massive beam saber.
The Ahead saw what happened and dragged the third suit away from the battle.
The Flag saw the opportunity to report this to headquarters regarding the presence of Celestial Being, Raven smiled, "This has proven to be interesting, interesting indeed…"