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Phase-01: The Storm Alliance's Entry into the Bloody Valentine War
Year 70 of the Cosmic Era, tensions were mounting between Earth and it's colonies due the Bloody Valentine Tragedy and the Murasame Colony Massacre, these tensions escalated into a full-scale war.
It seemed a foregone conclusion that the Earth Forces, with its superior numbers, would be victorious. But these initial assessments proved false. Almost eleven months have passed with no end in sight.
Roux Louka
"After spending three months in the Ocean Kingdom of Neptune the AEUG began to work with Royal Tsunami Defense Forces as we were assigned to go the Earthsphere and examine the situation after hearing about the Bloody Valentine incident and the Murasame Colony Massacre. Neyla thought there might be something wrong and after being contacted by the ambassador of the United Republic of Antarctica, her mother, the Queen of Neptune sent us to where the ambassador asked us to go. We were asked to go a colony belonging to an ally of theirs called the Orb Union and look into the report that the Atlantic Federation was blackmailing Morgenroete into helping them create mobile suits for along with the blessings from a noble in Orb's government. What my 'little sister' and I didn't know was that we would be thrown into a conflict following two tragedies."
Lt. Commander Neyla Kaiou, Sky Girls unit, Tsunami Corps
En route to New Manhattan, United Republic of Antarctica, February 19th, C.E. 70
I certainly hope that the rumors of the Atlantic Federation secretly making mobile suits is false because I've been in too many battles and I don't want to get into any more battles. But then again, the Storm Alliance was lagging behind on its mobile suit program and had to learn through the Black Reapers about the development of new mobile suits being developed by the ISAF and ZAFT. However, Morgenroete came to us and offered to help us rejuvenate our mobile suit program Mother accepted on the condition on that they leak the data to ZAFT. Mother was very vocal about the Bloody Valentine incident and demanded the monsters that plotted this attack and the person who fired the missile at Junius Seven be arrested and tried for violating the Sol Treaty banning all nuclear weapons. The only response received from the Atlantic Federation was the massacre at the Murasame colony in L4. ZAFT and the ISAF publicly condemned attack cut off all trade and diplomatic relations as well as began contracting their military forces to protect colonies belonging to the kingdoms of the Storm Alliance. The leaders agreed and contracted ZAFT and ISAF military personnel to help protect their colonies until military forces could be put in place. Once Storm Alliance forces were put in place, most ZAFT and ISAF forces left while our own mobile suits and new anti-mobile suit/mobile armor fighters. I just hope the new prototype being developed based off Z Gundam will be worth it. The Storm Alliance needs to upgrade as soon as possible before the Atlantic Federation jumps ahead of everybody. So now, Roux and I have two assignments: Lead a delegation to New Manhattan with a final draft of the defense treaty to give the ISAF an invitation to join the Storm Alliance and to go to Heliopolis to supervise the prototype being developed for the Storm Alliance.
Captain Roux Louka, Sky Girls unit, Tsunami Corps
En Route to Orb Union Natural Resource Satellite, Heliopolis, January 22nd, C.E. 71
I'm really surprised that Neyla had time to go to Tokyo to see her friends despite the fact that the Earth and ZAFT are at war each other. Her friends are few singers that she rescued from the clutches of Blue Cosmos in Atlantic Federation territory. They were allegedly asked to perform for the troops in San Diego before they were deployed to the frontlines. Things seemed to be going smoothly for the three singers until they were drugged by Blue Cosmos thugs and were being transported to a facility in the Eurasian Federation until Neyla led a black-ops raid deep within the Atlantic Federation in an effort to disrupt a supply train going to Miami and that's when she and the joint black-ops force saw that it was a train of kidnapped children and teenagers after interrogating a driver. It was another dirty tactic that the Atlantic Federation has been using just to win this war and they've started it early on. The members of the Storm Alliance's governing council are still debating on wither or not to go to war against the Earth Forces while they have defense treaties with ZAFT and the ISAF. At any rate, Neyla's friends are packing up and joining us because they want pay back on the bastards who tried to kidnap them. The names of Neyla's friends were Neru Akita, Rin Kagamine, and Megurine Luka; hard to believe that a few singers would want to fight in a war that they had nothing to do with. Neyla told me that they were friendly with Coordinators that they met and even performed for some of the troops at Carpentaria and Gibraltar. She told me that they were called Vocaloids because they used voice synthesizers as if they were making a techno song right there on stage.
So we made our way to the Orb Union resource satellite Heliopolis in order to participate in a big operation that the ISAF and Storm Alliance were planning along with ZAFT. Black Reaper Intelligence had warned the leaders of the Storm Alliance, ISAF and ZAFT that the Atlantic Federation would move on Heliopolis within six days and they suggested that the three factions move on them as soon as humanly possible. The leaders of the ISAF were a bit hesitant at first to move sooner than planned and once Chief Representative Athha learned that Morgenroete was being blackmailed by Atlantic Federation, he asked the URA, ZAFT and the Storm Alliance remove them from the colony and sternly told the leaders that officially he had no knowledge of the G-Weapons being developed but would have to launch a worldwide protest to sell to the Earth Forces that he truly had no idea of the G-Weapons being located there and that URA, ZAFT and Storm Alliance went too far just to procure them. Neyla's mother, President Harkin and Chairman Clyne acknowledged Chief Representative Athha's instructions and began proceeding with the plan except for the Le Creuset team as they were following up on intelligence on the possibility that the Earth Forces were building a new military satellite. I just hope everything goes to plan. I even had to bring my Z Gundam with me to assist with this big extraction job. I heard that Canard Hawkins, the adopted son of President Vivian Harkin, was leading the mission to extract all the prototypes from Heliopolis; but he followed the Le Creuset team to back them up in case they had to destroy the satellite under construction. Neyla, the three singers and I made our way to Heliopolis and did recon on the factory with help from Atlantic Federation defector First Lieutenant Murrue Ramius, codenamed Chestnut.
3rd person POV
January 25th, C.E. 71
Orb Union Resource satellite, Heliopolis
Things in the colony of Heliopolis were really peaceful to the naked eye as no one could tell that three factions had come together and were planning an operation. As for the citizens of Heliopolis, life was pretty much normal. Children playing with their friends, people out shopping either by themselves or with friends and other activities were commonly seen throughout the colony despite the fact that there was a war going on outside their peaceful world.
Outside Orb Union Resource Satellite, Heliopolis
"Hey, don't any of you guys feel bad about attacking a neutral nation's colony?" asked a ZAFT Red named Rusty Mackenzie.
"What are you talking about Rusty?" demanded another ZAFT Red pilot, Yzak Joule. "If they were neutral then they wouldn't be producing new weapons for the Naturals."
"Yzak, calm down," said Athrun Zala as the strike team was settling in. "Besides if it weren't for the Naturals in the Black Reapers, then we wouldn't have learned about them."
Yzak calmed a tiny bit; he knew Athrun was right as the Black Reapers were dangerously famous for their unique style of electronic warfare. They made ZAFT's best electronic warfare specialists look like first graders and the Earth Alliance's best cyber warfare units look like toddlers. Everyone in the PLANTs and the ISAF knew better than to make the Black Reapers their enemies because of the hell they would go through.
"I guess you're right Athrun," Yzak relented but kept still had anger in his voice, "the only Naturals that are stupid are the Earth Forces. The ISAF and the Storm Alliance are smart and some of them really bright.
"Wow Yzak, you mean you're actually admitting that there are Naturals that aren't stupid," Dearka Elsman said sarcastically.
"Hey knock it off you two," Athrun said to Dearka and Yzak as an intercom came on. "Commander Harkin is coming on the intercom. And don't forget about Ilene Kinaver's son"
"Attention to all allied forces," began Canard, "we are preparing to assault Heliopolis as you know. What you don't know is that Morgenroete was being blackmailed into helping them in creating five prototype mobile suits."
"Huh, they were blackmailed?" asked Nicol and Rusty at the same time. Yzak and Dearka were interested in what Commander Harkin was telling them.
"Officially, Chief Representative Uzumi Nara Athha has no knowledge of the G-Weapons and new warship; unofficially, he has asked us to remove the G-Weapons and new warship. We will succeed on this mission. An Atlantic Federation defector code named Chestnut and her staff will provide assistance in securing the G-Weapons."
"Well, this day is getting better by the minute," Rusty told his teammates with a grin on his face. "First we learn that the Earth Forces is blackmailing Morgenroete and now we have an Earth Alliance officer and her staff willing to betray their military and hand over the weapons to us. We're really lucky to have allies in unexpected places."
Athrun smiled at Rusty's last comment and agreed that they were lucky to have help from not just the ISAF and the Storm Alliance, but traitors inside the Atlantic Federation who were willing to help Earth and the PLANTs see eye to eye.
"Let's keep this operation clean and avoid hitting civilian installations," instructed Canard. "I know it'll be difficult, but we must do what we can to avoid Orb getting pissed off at us.
"Let the operation begin," said Canard as two transports silently headed off to the colony and insert the operatives.
Orb Union Resource Satellite, Heliopolis
Young Kira Yamato sat in a gazebo doing work for his professor from the technical college while listening to news footage from ZAFT's siege on the Kaohsiung spaceport that happened last week. He was typing furiously while he was looking at the work he was currently working on. His mechanical bird, Birdie, had flown to the gazebo where Kira was at followed by two of his friends Toelle and Miriallia.
"Hey Kira!" Toelle called out to Kira as he stopped working and looked to his friends.
Toelle looked at the footage of Kaohsiung as did his girlfriend Miriallia with concern.
"That's footage from Kaohsiung," observed Toelle, "dated last week. That means they've probably taken Kaohsiung."
"Kaohsiung, that's not far from Orb," observed Miriallia. "Will the homeland be alright?"
"Sure, its close but our nation and the ISAF are neutral," Toelle answered Miriallia proudly. "Can't see Orb or any other ISAF nation turning into a war zone."
"I certainly feel sorry for the Storm Alliance," said Miriallia. "It's been almost a year since the Murasame Colony Massacre and the Storm Alliance has had a rough time here in the Earthsphere."
"I know," agreed Toelle. "If you ask me, I think the Atlantic Federation has got a problem with people who are technologically superior to them. I mean come on, ZAFT, ISAF and Storm Alliance all have mobile suits and all the Atlantic Federation and the rest of the Earth Alliance have are dinky mobile armors and with the advanced ships that the Storm Alliance has, they don't stand a chance of winning."
Toelle was unaware that a Blue Cosmos officer had heard what he had said and took a picture of him, Miriallia and Kira and labeled them as targets to kill for the preservation of a blue and pure world. To the agent, anyone who sided with ZAFT and the traitors to human race were to be slaughtered without mercy and have their corpses paraded through the streets to make an example of what happens when Naturals side with Coordinators. The ISAF were no better because they allowed the so called 'Space Monsters' to live within their borders. Kira however had spaced out looking at the artificial sky of the colony and was thinking about his best friends Athrun Zala, Kyle Matsutani and Arleen Bettany after they had parted ways at the lunar city of Copernicus.
Flashback
C.E. 69
Lunar city of Copernicus
"One day there will be no war and the Earth and PLANTs will see eye to eye," young Athrun Zala said to his three friends giving each of them a robotic bird with different colors. "You guys will join me up in the PLANTs, right Kira, Kyle, Arleen?"
End Flashback
"Kira?" asked Toelle as he looked at his friend who was spacing out. Kira became startled as Toelle snapped him out of his daze. Kira gathered up all his belongings in his backpack and headed towards a taxi terminal.
"Are you absolutely sure we should do this?" Newman asked Natarile Badgeral as they walked to the same taxi terminal that Kira and his friends were heading to.
"Yes," answered Natarile as she adjusted her sunglasses. "Besides, the Atlantic Federation is just going to use the Archangel and the five prototypes as tools of mass murder. It would be better if the prototypes fell into the hands of the ISAF and ZAFT."
"I agree," said Newman. "But Commander Kaiou's plan seems a little risky."
"Yeah, capturing Artemis will be difficult if we can't get in," agreed Natarile. "But Commander Kaiou, I hear, is known for her clever tactics in battle."
"But what's at Artemis that the ISAF and Storm Alliance that they'd want?" asked Jackie Tonomura.
"If I had to venture a guess, I'd say it would probably be the Lightwave technology that the Eurasian Federation developed," answered Natarile. "Not to mention I heard a few nasty rumors about Commandant Garcia eliminating some of his fellow officers just to get posted at Artemis."
"Yeah, I heard those rumors too," agreed Newman. "We'd be doing the Eurasians a favor and getting rid of a corrupt officer." Natarile saw six teenagers gathered together talking about the usual things that teenagers talk about: boys, shopping and crushes.
Kira and his friends arrived at Morgenroete to do some work with Professor Kato. As they arrived, Kira noticed a person sitting at a chair waiting to talk to Professor Kato. Toelle looked to his other friend Kuzzey Buskirk and asked, "Hey, who's that?"
"Professor's guest," answered Kuzzey, "apparently they were told to wait here."
Kira heard Kuzzey's answer and decided to leave it at that as there was work to be done.
ZAFT Nazca-class vessel Vesalius
Canard looked to the bridge crew and then to Fredrik Ades who gave him a slight nod signaling that he was ready to begin the operation.
"You know I'm glad that maniac Le Creuset isn't here on this operation," Canard said to Fredrik Ades.
"Normally I would disagree, but I wonder why he was made a commander when he sacrifices good soldiers," said Ades.
"Well let's get Phase One of Commander Kaiou's plan underway," Canard said to the crew of the Vesalius and Gamow.
"I'm surprised that the Storm Alliance agreed to this plan," said Ades. "Why don't they just study the mobile suits they've got and use them?"
"Because they're trying to keep up with the nations here in the Earthsphere and maybe the mobile suit technology they acquired isn't adequate enough," answered Canard. "But that's just a guess. I don't know what's going through the head of the Negotiator."
"Weigh anchor, Vesalius launch," directed Ades as the engines of the Nazca-class roared to life and headed towards Heliopolis.
Inside Orb colony Heliopolis
ZAFT, ISAF and Storm Alliance commandos weaved their way through the ducts and set charges around their targets even the control booth where the Blue Cosmos appointed officers were gathering to meet the chosen G-pilots. Neyla Kaiou and her three friends made their way to a taxi terminal. As they got in the taxi, Neyla pulled out a small computer and hacked the taxi to go an area that was not in the database of the taxi company.
"Do you think that we'll get to the prototype in time before everyone else?" asked Megurine Luka, in Japanese, as she brushed her long pink hair to the side as she sat in the front passenger seat next to Neyla.
"I hope we can," answered Neyla.
"How much time do we have before the Atlantic Federation arrives at Heliopolis?" asked Neru Akita.
"24 hours tops," answered Neyla. "The prototype is guarded by three Shiki Sabers, if you three want to pilot them."
"Yeah, we're interested," said Rin Kagamine on behalf of the other two in the car with her. Megurine and Neru each gave a nod as well in agreement as they too wanted to pilot a mobile suit.
"I'll teach you to pilot," began Neyla, "But you must promise me that you won't use them as tools for murder or for the intent of revenge."
Neru gave Neyla a gentle smile and a slight nod as she replied, "You got it."
"It'll be difficult, but you have my word," said Rin. Megurine also gave a gentle smile and a curt nod to as well. Neru looked and saw that Neyla was in a daze as she thought about the events that lead up to now.
"Hey Neyla, are you okay?" Neru asked her closest friend.
Neyla snapped out of her daze and looked back to Neru as she answered her, "I'm fine, just thinking about Bloody Valentine and the Murasame Colony Massacre."
Flashback
February 13th, C.E. 70
Junius Seven, L5 Colony Region
"What's your purpose here in the PLANTs?" asked Fredrik Ades, the recently promoted captain of the Vesalius as he saw Storm Alliance's new Argama-class ships along with their Highwind and Shera-class ships.
"We've got word that the Earth Forces is coming with a massive fleet to the PLANTs and with nukes," said Captain Cid Highwind. "We of the Storm Alliance are here to honor our agreement to protect the PLANTs from nuclear attack."
Fredrik Ades's eyes widened when Cid told him that the Earth Forces were coming with nuclear weapons.
"Get on the COM with Headquarters!" shouted Fredrik with desperation. "Tell them the Earth Forces are coming with nuclear weapons and they'll be here soon. Tell them that this not a drill. The Earth Forces are coming with damn nukes and they need to get every ship mobilized right the hell now!"
Everyone got to their tasks and the PLANT Supreme Council was in session when a ZAFT officer burst into the council room.
"What's going on?" Patrick Zala demanded to the ZAFT Green. "We're in the middle of session."
"Yes sir," acknowledged the ZAFT Green soldier, "But I got a message from ZAFT Headquarters, from Captain Fredrik Ades."
"What is it?" asked PLANTs Supreme Councilman Siegel Clyne.
"Please forgive me for what's on message," began the ZAFT Green. "These are not my words."
"Spit it out already," demanded Patrick Zala.
"As of two days ago, according to sources from the Storm Alliance," began the ZAFT Green, "an Earth Alliance fleet is heading to the PLANTs and they're packing f*n nukes! The Storm Alliance has sent Tsunami Corps from the Ocean Kingdom, Shangri-la Fleet from the Blizzard Kingdom and Mjlonir Corps from the Thunder Kingdom to aid in the defense of the PLANTs."
"Have all our ships and mobile up and running, form a defensive line," ordered Siegel Clyne. "What's the status of the ISAF?"
"President Harkin was warned by the Storm Alliance and they've already arrived in the PLANTs about two hours after the Storm Alliance entered PLANTs with new battleships," reported the ZAFT Green.
"What, the Storm Alliance has new ships?" asked Patrick Zala in surprise as the other council members were surprised as well.
"Yes sir," answered the ZAFT Green. "The Storm Alliance has new Argama-class battleships."
"Did they come with their Highwind and Shera-class ships as well?" asked Ezalia Joule.
"Yes ma'am," answered the ZAFT Green with a grin on his face. "They've even brought their Shiki Saber mobile suits along with some mobile suits they acquired through unknown means."
"Other mobile suits?" asked Yuri Amalfi in surprise.
"Yes sir," answered the ZAFT Green, "MSA-003 Nemo and RGM-89 Jegan mobile suits."
"Why didn't they deploy them earlier?" asked Ezalia Joule.
"Probably to develop their own mobile suits instead of using the ones they acquired," guessed Ilene Kinaver. Everyone in the Council gave a silent nod of agreement; the Storm Alliance successfully built and deployed their own mass production mobile suit without relying on the acquired mobile suits they got from some unknown means.
"Do you think they'll develop more mass production models or variants of the current mass production model?" Yuri Amalfi asked Patrick Zala.
"It's too soon to be asking that question," answered Patrick Zala. "If I'm the leader of the Storm Alliance, I'd wait until I got complete data on my mass production models and made sure that they performed well in any possible combat situation."
"Yeah, good thinking," agreed Ezalia.
"We can talk about this at another time," cut in Siegel Clyne. "Call up all our ships and mobile suits. Have them form a defense line and integrate the ISAF and Storm Alliance with our own forces. We can't let the Earth Forces use nukes on our homes. Put a stop on all shuttle traffic going in between the PLANTs. All shuttles going to and from Earth are to be stopped as well."
"Yes sir!" acknowledged the ZAFT Green as he ran to his task.
'Lenore why did you pick today of all times to go to Junius Seven?' wondered Patrick Zala as he thought about his wife as she was heading to Junius Seven for an inspection of food production for the PLANTS.
Aprilius One Shuttle Bay
"Excuse me Mrs. Zala but it seems that we've found some tempering done to the shuttle," an attendant said to Lenore Zala, Patrick Zala's wife. "I'm afraid you'll have to postpone your trip to Junius Seven for a couple days."
"Oh, why a couple days?" Lenore asked the attendant.
"We just got word that the Earth Forces are coming this way and they've got a nuclear attack force," answered the attendant. "Also the PLANT Supreme Council has just ordered a stop for all shuttles travelling in between the PLANTs and flights to Earth."
"I see," replied Lenore as she got up from her seat. "I'm going back home. Let me know when you've fixed the tempering problem."
"Yes ma'am," said the attendant as she slightly bowed to Lenore.
Twenty hours later, the Atlantic Federation led attack on the PLANTs began in full force as the allied effort to kick the Earth Forces out of the PLANTs airspace countered their invasion fleet. Things were going well for the three allied factions as the battle was turning into an old-fashioned turkey shoot as the Earth Forces were still using mobile armors and trying to use overwhelming force against three technologically superior forces that made their numbers look pathetic. Despite sustaining heavy losses, the Earth Forces managed to make a b-line to the PLANTS with other mobile armors carrying nuclear missiles. Some of the mobile armor pilots had butterflies in their stomach and a few were nervous that they would get shot down and set off a chain reaction.
"Why won't the ISAF and the Storm Alliance come to their senses and help us slaughter every Coordinator?" asked one mobile armor pilot.
"Who gives a crap about the ISAF and Storm Alliance?" asked another mobile armor pilot. "Anyone who sides with those damn ungodly space monsters deserves to be slaughtered savagely without remorse.
"Alright guys, let's begin the final extermination of the space monsters and those who've betrayed their species," continued the same mobile armor pilot as his finger was on the trigger. "Hope you like it in hell, you godless space monsters and traitors to the human race. For the preservation of our blue and pure world!" The mobile armor pilots then fired their nuclear missiles at the PLANTs hoping to exterminate every last Coordinator and traitorous Natural living in the PLANTs. The allied forces saw the nuclear missiles and concentrated their fire at the nuclear missiles. Most of nukes were destroyed except for eight missiles that broke through and flew straight to the PLANTs. Five of the Storm Alliance's new Argama-class battleships collided with five of the missiles and were vaporized out of existence. Two ISAF Wallace-class battleships also collided with two of nukes and got vaporized as well. A lone Shiki Saber tried chasing down and shooting at the last nuclear missile. This Shiki Saber was piloted by the recently promoted Commander Neyla Kaiou. She shot wildly trying to stop the last missile along with an ISAF Patriot mobile suit piloted by Kyle Matsutani. Unfortunately, the last nuclear missile struck Junius Seven and caused the colony to break apart slowly.
"NOOOOO!" screamed Neyla as her blood curling scream turned into a tiger's roar. Once Neyla calmed down after seeing many people flash frozen as well as their tears, her sadness turned into rage.
"All allied forces, target those barbaric monsters and show them what happens when they cross a line that should never be crossed," Neyla ordered all ZAFT, ISAF and Storm Alliance forces as her eyes turned from human to tiger-like.
None of them really needed to be told what to do after Junius Seven was destroyed and 243,721 innocent lives were taken from them. Many ZAFT mobile suit pilots were furious that the Earth Forces would stoop low and use nuclear weapons to eradicate them. ISAF and Storm Alliance mobile suit were also furious at the Earth Forces as they, like their ZAFT counterparts, charged at the Earth Forces fleet from all vectors and opened fire on them destroying many Agamemnon, Drake and Nelson class ships. The Earth Forces ships and Moebius mobile armors fled once they realized they had pissed off three factions. Only about ten Moebius mobile armors out of six thousand units survived; a vast majority of the mobile armors were slaughtered as they turned tail and ran from the battle under orders from the commanding officer Captain William Sutherland, while he was comfortably at a distance from the battle. Most notably, a corps of Moebius Zero pilots were disgusted and had left the battle once they saw Junius Seven struck and all of those innocent people were savagely murdered by their commanding officers. Much to their luck an Agamemnon-class vessel came to pick them up and they headed back to their base in the Endymion Crater.
The next day after the incident, which was known as Bloody Valentine, the Storm Alliance and ISAF leaders made a joint speech condemning the Earth Alliance's unprovoked attack on the PLANTs. It was then when the leaders of the Storm Alliance demanded that the leaders who allowed the nuclear attack and the one who fired the nuclear missile at Junius Seven be arrested and tried for murder. The president of the Atlantic Federation refused to arrest the leaders and even gave an award to the mobile armor pilot who fired the nuclear missile at Junius Seven much to the anger of ZAFT, ISAF and the Storm Alliance.
In the PLANTs, Patrick had neglected his duties as he poured over the list of people who died at Junius Seven hoping that his wife Lenore was not at Junius Seven when the colony was destroyed. As he poured over the list his secretary buzzed his office.
"What? I told you not to bother me," Patrick Zala said with a light growl.
"Um, sir your wife Lenore is on phone," the secretary said to Patrick nervously.
Patrick's eyes widened when his secretary told him that Lenore was on the phone and let out a sigh of relief. He picked up the phone and talked to his wife for an hour.
Three days after Bloody Valentine, the Atlantic Federation was at it again as they sent a fleet to a Storm Alliance trade colony called Murasame Colony. Many citizens in Murasame Colony weren't expecting to see the Atlantic Federation in the airspace of their colony. All of the citizens didn't want the Atlantic Federation in their colony.
"We are cracking down on the criminals who snuck a nuclear missile on board and we believe that they might've been based out of this colony," began Captain William Sutherland with a snicker on his face as he knew that Special Forces snuck into the colony to begin the final attack to exterminate citizens of the Storm Alliance.
"I am the governor of Murasame Colony," began Murasame Colony's governor, "and we will allow no personnel from the Earth Forces to enter Murasame Colony with intentions that are deceitful. Do you honestly think that we are stupid enough to believe the words from the Butcher of Copernicus?" The governor had referred to an unofficial attack on Storm Alliance personnel that left ten citizens from the Blizzard and Ocean kingdoms dead in Copernicus.
Captain Sutherland snickered at the governor's remark and then replied, "Now why won't you allow us at least search for nuclear weapons?"
"No colony belonging to the Storm Alliance possesses or allows anyone to bring any weapons of mass destruction inside their colonies," the governor said to Captain Sutherland coldly and with authority. "So take your ships and mobile armors and get the hell out of our airspace. Otherwise, we'll make you leave by force."
Not ten minutes later, the Atlantic Federation began its attack on Murasame Colony. Many Atlantic Federation soldiers ran wild in the colony committing many savage and barbaric forms of murder and torture on men, women and children living in the colony. Mobile armors poured into the colony and opened fire on the citizens of the colony. Screams could be heard throughout the colony as wild Atlantic Federation soldiers opened fire without remorse. However the Atlantic Federation didn't expect that a lot of the colony's citizens to fight back. Atlantic Federation soldiers were then in heap of trouble as the citizens started to drive them out. Sutherland's response was to send in more mobile armors and troops to overwhelm them. Within twelve hours all of the colony's 275,000 citizens all lay dead; most of which were gunned down by soldiers and mobile armors along with two thousand eight hundred fifty-nine Atlantic Federation soldiers, five hundred eighty three mobile armors that met their fate when the citizens of Murasame Colony fought back. After confirming every last person was dead, contact was lost with Murasame Colony after communication arrays were destroyed and the Atlantic Federation moved out of the colony.
February 18, C.E. 70
Aprilius One
Many people had gathered at Aprilius One to mourn the lives lost at Junius Seven. It took longer to get the memorial service prepared because they had to retrieve frozen bodies and move the destroyed colony into the Debris Belt. Once all of this done, a memorial service was done for the innocent people and the crews who gave their lives to protect the PLANTs.
"The sacrifice made by the crews of not only our ZAFT forces, but ISAF and Storm Alliance crews will never be forgotten," began Siegel Clyne. "The lives lost at Junius Seven will never be forgotten as well. What right do the Earth Forces have in taking away so many of our citizens in such a barbaric and cowardly attack? We shall resist the demands of the Sponsor Nations and we ask for support from the ISAF and Storm Alliance to help us in our effort to secure independence and the right to exist as a nation of the Earthsphere. Through our efforts we shall…" A ZAFT soldier ran through the crowd shouting at the top of his lungs.
"There's been a massacre! There's been a massacre! Oh god there's a been massacre!" shouted the ZAFT as he ran through the crowd to the PLANT Supreme Council gathered around a podium. Siegel Clyne looked to the ZAFT soldier and asked, "What do you mean there's been a massacre?"
"M-Murasame C-Colony was at-attacked b-by the Atl-Atlantic Federation," answered the ZAFT as he panted heavily. "No-no one survived the attack."
The leaders of the Storm Alliance, ISAF and ZAFT were shocked to hear that Murasame Colony was attacked.
"Chairman Clyne," Relena Kaiou said to Siegel Clyne, "might we ask that a Nazca-class vessel be dispatched to Murasame Colony." Siegel gave a curt nod and turned to Patrick Zala and said, "Dispatch a Nazca-class vessel to Murasame Colony and see what happened."
Patrick gave Siegel a nod of acknowledgment and made a call to Fredrik Ades, a recently promoted Captain of the Nazca-class vessel Vesalius.
Six hours later
ZAFT Nazca-class vessel, Vesalius
"Sir, we're approaching Murasame Colony," the radar operator reported to Captain Fredrik Ades. "Red 16 mark 45 Charlie, distance 1100 and decreasing."
"Open all frequencies," Ades ordered his COM officer Feldt Grace.
"Yes sir," replied Feldt as she opened all frequencies.
"This is the ZAFT Nazca-class vessel Vesalius calling Murasame Colony Control, please respond," Ades said hoping to get a response. "Murasame Colony Control, this is Captain Fredrik Ades of the ZAFT Nazca-class vessel Vesalius, please respond Murasame Colony Control."
Captain Ades got no response and then sighed.
"All hands Level 2 Battle Stations," ordered Ades. "I want a couple of mobile suit pilots to launch and head into the colony."
"But sir, won't we get in trouble with the Storm Alliance for deploying mobile suits inside the colony?" asked the radar operator.
"Right now, this is an emergency because we haven't gotten a response from Colony Control or anyone inside the colony," answered Ades. "Now let's get those mobile suits in the colony."
Within fifteen minutes a GINN and Shiki Saber had launched from the Vesalius and headed into the colony to see what was going on. What they saw left them speechless and in denial as streamed the gruesome sight inside colony.
"Oh god, there was a massacre in the colony," said the GINN pilot as he landed his mobile suit and got out of the mobile suit. "Hey, hey lady what happened?"
"At…lantic Federation attacked us," said a lady that the GINN pilot picked up as she was dying. "They lied… about wanting to… look for nuclear… weapons. They used soldiers… and mobile armors. We… fought back and…" The lady then died in his arms.
"H-hey, stay with me," the GINN pilot urged the lady to no avail as she was dead. The GINN pilot, Martin De Costa, then let out a blood curling scream before gently laying the woman's body down on the ground and then gathered more information. De Costa then got back into the GINN as Captain Ades came on his COM.
"What happened out there?" Captain Ades asked De Costa.
"The Naturals of the Atlantic Federation came and attacked this colony," De Costa answered Captain Ades bitterly. "They lied about looking for nuclear weapons in the colony and when the people of Murasame Colony refused to let them in, they got attacked, they fought back taking some of the Atlantic Federation soldiers and quite a bit of mobile armors. At least the Atlantic Federation didn't walk away from this Scot-free."
De Costa then show the images from inside the colony as the bridge crew looked in horror at the images shown to them by De Costa.
"Return to the ship," Fredrik Ades ordered De Costa and the Shiki Saber pilot.
Within ten minutes, both De Costa and the Shiki Saber pilot were back on the ship and the Vesalius turned to go back to the PLANTs. As they entered the PLANTs airspace, a broadcast was sent throughout the Sol System.
"We now go live to Washington as President Chapman is making a speech to all the Earthsphere," said a TV reporter.
"Now what pack of lies are the Naturals going to say now?" Feldt asked in disgust.
"Looks like we're going to find out," answered Fredrik Ades as the President of the Atlantic Federation walked to the podium.
Atlantic Federation capital Washington, D.C.
President Graham Chapman stood at his podium with two Teleprompters on both his left and right as they would show him his speech. He was already nervous because Blue Cosmos had 'convinced' him to authorize the nuclear attack on the PLANTs, award the mobile armor a medal for the destruction Junius Seven and also authorize the slaughtering of 275,000 people at Murasame Colony. As far as he was concerned, he was responsible for the death of 518,721 people that were killed without remorse.
"You're on Mr. President," said Graham's aide.
"My fellow citizens of the Earth Alliance," began Graham with Murata Azrael on his left, "I come before you with good news that will aid in our mission to bring the PLANTs back under submission. I have been informed that a colony belonging to the Storm Alliance suspected of housing additional nuclear weapons has been silenced and all weapons have been confiscated and the citizens have been punished."
The images of the massacred citizens and destroyed buildings were shown to everyone in Sol System. Many in the nations of Storm Alliance were horrified to see that their citizens were lying dead. The leaders of the Storm Alliance were horrified to see their own citizens slaughtered savagely. Many in the PLANT Supreme Council were also horrified to see what had happened at Murasame Colony; President Vivian Harkin of the URA and acting representative of the ISAF had tears in her eyes as she saw what had happened.
"With the operation being a great success, I personally would like to thank the brave soldiers who took part in the operation to punish the Storm Alliance," continued Graham Chapman. "What right does the Storm Alliance have to make colonies without consulting the Sponsor Nations? What right do they have to say that weapons of mass destruction are wrong but yet hide them in one of their colonies and deny our military forces the unrestricted access to the colonies?"
Many people in the PLANTs, ISAF and the Storm Alliance were outraged by President Chapman's speech; many were screaming for all out war against the Earth Forces and others wanted to return the favor to the Atlantic Federation for wiping out a colony full of innocent men, women and children. What Graham Chapman allowed was unforgivable and a lot of people would be out for his blood along with ZAFT and the ISAF. For next few days President Chapman would have to lay low for safety's sake. Relena Kaiou and the other leaders of the Storm Alliance went to their people and consulted them. 95% percent of the Storm Alliance's citizens voted to support ZAFT and increase production of mobile suits and then declare war on the Atlantic Federation.
End Flashback
Neyla then turned the cab into a hill which turned out to be cloaked entrance to the top secret facility holding one of Storm Alliance's prototypes that they would be taking possession of. Standing guard were three Shiki Saber mobile suits equipped with a different Striker pack that were based off of one of the G-Weapons, the Buster and two of the Striker Packs designed for the Strike, Sword Striker and IWSP.
At the Morgenroete facility, 17 year-old Rengi Kinaver had slipped into facility as he had heard rumors that Orb was developing its own mobile suit program and wanted to see if it was true. Using the training he got from the Blue Cosmos thugs, he snuck inside as an employee of the garbage company and ditched the uniform he 'borrowed' and revealed the Morgenroete uniform he had hidden underneath his disguise. Slipping past the guards and giving the employees an occasional curt nod and picked up a card key giving him access to the mobile hangar that was apparently in a separate hangar that an agent of Blue Cosmos had stored the mobile suit. Young Rengi found the hangar and what he saw made him look like a kid at Christmas.
To Be Continued...