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"Enter the Newtype"
The C.E.Earth
3 days later
The Sojourner Truth is orbiting the Earth with caution, despite under cloak and completely undetectable, Captain Bright Noa doesn't want to take any chances of being detected by ZAFT or EA Radar. Captain Noa looks at one of his monitors that shows the image of the Earth and marvels how beautiful it looks from space. It made him appreciative of how important their mission is right now.
At that moment, one of his bridge officers spoke up
"Captain Noa we have Priority one Situation"
"What is it?"
At the Hanger Bay, Ace Pilot, Lt. Judah Ashta, Ranma godchild, is double-checking one of the newly installed beam saber added to his VF-17, replacing one of the missile launchers when the call to all the pilot to gather at the briefing room
When they are all gathered, Captain Noa showed them the ruins of Junius 7 moving towards Earth
"The UNS California sent a couple of VF-17 to investigate as to why Junius 7 is moving, and they found these guys"
The Images showed ZAFT GINNs and alot Flare Motors connected to the Ruins, which is making the colony move. Everyone started to murmur thinking that this was ZAFTs doing.
The Captain gesture them to be quiet "Now calm down everyone," he said, "We don't know if this ZAFT doing, yet we cannot rule out the possibility either, but for as of now we are in a war footing with them, for we cannot allow this happen"
He then told the mission "Operation Comet Blaster is a go, and we will use 3 x 300 megaton Trident bombs to do the job, Judah" he called him and he stood up from his seat
"Sir!"
"Your team will take point and take out those GINNs, while Hayato's Team will plant the bombs"
"Yes Sir"
The Stargazer Frigate immediately set an intercept course towards Junius 7, at that same time at the opposite direction. The ZAFT Ship Minerva is also on an intercept course to Junius 7, and being shadowed by another UNS Stealth Frigate the Sioux.
The Sioux have been monitoring their communication, and discovered that they too are confused as to why Junius 7 was moving as well, and they have plans for a demolition operation to break up the ruin colony before it hits Earth. What they have gathered was transferred to the others and the Fleet at Saturn.
Saturn
SDF-2 Prometheus
Admirals Mansion
Ranma and his staff look thru the intelligence they just gathered for three days and it would seems that things would get ugly very soon enough.
"Oh this is just Great!" Ranma said infuriatingly at the situation they are in now
"Were only been here three days and some Jerk do this, this stupidity!" he exclaimed he gets irritated when things like this happens
"Well its looks like Plan A is a bust, we have to wait and see what will happen next"
He opens a holoscreen that connects to the communication center a female officer with long green hair and green eyes faces him
"What's the Status on the link up with Earth's communication grid?"
"We're ready now Admiral" she replied "The Tachyon Transceiver Satellite is now connected to Earth's Communication Web"
"That's good"
Ranma opens up more screens, each from different channels coming from Earth
"I have no doubt those LOGOS rats are planning something major once this crisis has past" he focused on one 'wiretap' channel, a private channel from LOGOS leader, Lord Djibril
"Before we start 'First Contact' we need to isolate them as much as we could, especially this piece of trash" he refers to Djibril.
Somewhere near Junius 7
The Minerva Just received word from the Jule Team that they are under attack by unknown GINNs and are now engaging them.
At that time Judah Ashta Team, cautiously approach the area of battle brewing in Fighter Mode, they watch the battle, and what's ZAFT is planning to do
"Looks like ZAFT is planning to split this rock" Judah observed
"A lot of good that would do" remark by one of his wing man "The Pieces will still fall on Earth and it will still cause massive damage"
"I think they know that Kai, but they had to do something to minimize the damage done on Earth if this thing falls" his screens shows those high performance GINN attacking the ZAFT soldiers
"Those Idiots are not helping" he reconfigures to Soldier Mode and pulled out a Phased beam laser rifle in sniper mode "We'll help them out, but stay in the shadows"
"Roger!"
Judah went into a sniper position at 10 km distance; they aimed their rifles, lock on to target, and fired.
First 3 shots took out 2 of three of the GINNs that are bothering ZAFTs Breaker team
"What the…" the 3rd GINN pilot never saw that 4rth shot slammed into his chest blowing him out of his GINN
Yzak Jule and the others look around to find out where those shots came from but see nothing.
"See anything?" Ask the others
"Nothing, not a thing" Replied by Dearka as he look thru their radar
Soon enough the fight intensified between ZAFT and more Rogue GINNs, the VF-17 was running interference for the breaker team as the VF remained undetected. Even in visual, they are able to see them but a silhouette, and what they are seeing are an unknown Mobile Suits keeping their distance.
The Rogue were retreating and Just then they were alerted by a fellow VF in surveillance
"Heads up, we got 3 unknown incoming"
Judah looks at his scanners and sees them "Looks like they are new models from the Alliance maybe? Uh oh"
Three Unknowns, ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam, ZGMF-X24S Chaos Gundam and ZGMF-X31S Abyss Gundam, the Mobile Suits stolen several days ago is attacking breaker team. The Earth Forces attack them not knowing or not caring what they were doing there, they just came to pick a fight and kill as many as they want.
"Those Idiots!" Judah screams as one of the breaker team was destroyed. Judah immediately went on the offensive mano a mano with one of them he chased away is called 'the Chaos' in a furious assault.
Auel Neider pilot of the Chaos, is fighting an unknown that he's having a very hard time fighting against, an MS with stealth, that his MS can't target and worst of all, lasers coming from its arms have kept hitting him so many times his Phase Shift Armor was slowly loosing power.
"Who the Hell is this Guy!" he aimed his beam rifles manually and by visual targeting, yet it was still useless as the pilot seems to know what he was going to do before he does it.
Judah Ashta is no mere pilot, as he belongs to a long line of Martial Arts Warriors, whose skills and talents exceeded any Natural or Coordinator, but for Judah and many like him especially, he is a new generation that evolves just slightly different from their parents. They become a Newtype of human and like his famed godfather, he is a warrior never to be trifled with.
"Gottcha! You Shit head!" Judah gotten very close to the Chaos, close enough to use his combat blade that extended outward from his arms, and with Martial Arts style fighting, Judah cut off Chaos both arms, and then blasted Chaos head, with his arm laser cannon.
Fearing of being destroyed the Chaos escape by firing flash bombs at the VF in order to escape. It was on that time that a signal order of retreat from their mothership the Girty Lue was sent out.
Just as the colony is breaking up so they retreated. Judah was about to leave the area as well when a ZAFT Mobile Suit, the Impulse blocks his path with a beam gun aimed at him.
"Who are you?" the Impulse pilot asks, the unknown did not answer but instead the unknown disarmed him.
The Impulse pilot did not see the unknown move at all, until he sees the nozzle of his own rifle pointed back at him and he was wide eyes when he sees it.
"What the?" this was the first time Impulse pilot Shinn Asuka, felt real fear, the unknown step back and quickly left and throwing away his Impulse beam rifle.
The Colony has shattered into pieces, but it was still a threat to earth.
On the UNS Sojourner Truth, Captain Noa watches the colony shatter in smaller pieces and ZAFT were signaled to return immediately. Then Capt. Noa receives a signal from the Comet Blaster, they have completed their mission.
"Captain Noa, the Bombs are in place," reports by a female crewmember
He nodded "Alright then," he then orders "Send out a full band Broadcast to explain what will happen in the next 5 minutes if they stay too close to Junius 7 and turn us about towards Earth and get behind it, full impulse speed"
"Yes Sir,"
On the Minerva, Meyrin Hawke who monitoring the communication band, when every frequency of the bandwith is showing one message, she's reading and listening to the warning sent from somewhere and quickly brought it into notice to her Captain
Captain Gladys, were receiving a warning broadcast"
"Warning? What kind of warning" Gladys ask Meyrin put it on screen
"EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! THERMAL NUCLEAR DETONATION AT 3 x 300 MEGATON DESTRUCTIVE YEILD WILL OCCUR AT JUNIUS 7 AT THE END OF THE CLOCK PLEASE LEAVE THE EFFECTED AREA IMMEDIATELY"
It shows the maximum effective range of detonation which was big.
"Thre-THREE BY THREE HUNDRED MEGATONS! What on Earth? is this real?" Gladys ask about that dubious message they are receiving
"I can't find where its being broadcasted Captain," Meyrin reported
Gilbert Dullindal thought that someone wants to demolish Junius 7. 'But with such a weapon at that high a yield was possible?' he thought 'no one not even EA or ZAFT has that kind of a weapon.' He spoke to Rep. Cagalli Yula Attha about that message
"Who could've sent that warning? Any Idea princ…what on Earth is that?" he stop at mid sentence, and he pointed at the mainscreen a ship that he just noticed is approaching them at incredible speed. He and everyone else is looking at a ship that doesn't look like any EA or ZAFT ship, and its moving at tremendous speed, and passing just above them, and feeling a strange gravitational wake as it heads towards Earth.
Everyone is stunned seeing that thing just pass above the Minerva undetected.
The clock was ticking at 2:45 seconds before doomsday, Gladys don't know what it was but she had a feeling that bomb is real and quickly she snap everyone out of their trance, by shouting at her helmsman
"Helm! Turn the ship about and go to full speed Now!" she shouted her order
The Minerva turns 180 and put every power it has on the engines, and in front of them is that ship they still can't detect, is outpacing them at incredible speed and heading towards the back of the Earth.
"Are we recording this?" Dullindal ask but everyone is abit pre occupied at watching the clock as it hits 0:00
No one was able to answer him, as 3 x 300-megaton trident bombs that are actually demolition type tri-cobalt warheads. The remains of Junius 7 were engulfed by the powerful blast of three bombs detonated all at once at 3 locations.
15 seconds later, whatever remains of the colony is falling down unto the earth that is no bigger than a baseball.
The Minerva found itself buffeted by the shockwave as they headed behind the Earth but got thrown off course, and is falling towards Earth. They got their ship under control, unfortunately however, Earth's gravity have gotten hold of them, so they had no choice but to land on Earth's Pacific Ocean as the gravity pulls them down.
SDF-2
Admirals Mansion, communication room
Ranma watches the fireworks display on Earth and can only say that,
"Noa did it, this time" he remark shaking his head and sigh, "He used 3 x 300 megaton trident bombs, where two, would have been sufficient to do Job to vaporize that ruin colony" he turns off the screen
"At least the Earth is safe sir" Scott seeing the bright side
"For now, Yes" He said,
"But if I know LOGOS, they will try to raise hell about this by their Atlantic Federation Puppets" Ranma steps out into the room and out the garden with Scott behind him.
'Those Death Merchants will no doubt try to profit on this situation' he thought
"We will head up to Mars and set up shop there," he told Scott
"It maybe a while for everyone to calm down after this, if we initiate first contact now, it will be very difficult for us to fulfill our mission"
Walking towards a landing pad stood the YF-19 AVF Prototype in Gerwalk Mode.
Every VF Prototypes that comes out the Drawing boards is tested by Ranma personally first before it goes into the production stage, YF-19 AVF or Assault Variable Fighter is the most advance weapons system Robotechnology has ever developed.
Then about two years ago, when he showed the specs of the Mobile Suits of this Earth, some changes were made to outperform the Mobile Suits even further and perhaps out perform one Mobile Suit called the Freedom.
RDF Scientist concluded that the current VF has the high performance level to outfight the Current MS in a high-speed space battle and ground combat, with the firepower to match up against theirs despite their MS heavy armor.
In comparison, the VF shell is lightweight but far more durable than those on the MS are on C.E. Earth, and they have the pinpoint barrier system for the VF
Putting Mechas aside, the RDF has over 3 decades of experience in Space warfare with far better ships with technological superiority than those of EA or ZAFT currently possess.
For Ranma, he's very cautious and would never take things for granted even if they have an advantage against their opponent. His motto, it is better to be prepared or be sorry later, and as always, he came prepared.
The New YF-19AVF has one more added feature Ranma requested to put into the fighter. In the 6 Hard Points of the body wing that once hold 6 medium-range high-maneuverability missiles (MRHM), has now 6 DRAGOON Units (Disconnected Rapid Armament Group Overlook Operation Network) an Idea copied from the Mobile Suit called the Providence.
RDF collected samples during the First Cosmic War and one of the DRAGOON units that survived was retrieved; Robotech Scientist reversed engineered the system and developed their own DRAGOON.
Upgraded and Enhanced with Robotechnology, this new unit can be deployed in an atmospheric environment, and unlike their predecessor, VF-19AVF has the E.S.A.S or Enhanced Sensory Awareness System, something that scientist on C.E.Earth have unable to achieve.
"Everyone will be asking questions, and LOGOS will give a twisted answer for the people to sink their teeth into, we must not let that happen"
Ranma circles around the VF-19 as they continued their conversation
"We will take away their control of the situation, a bit of Information and Economic Warfare against LOGOS only. Hopefully we can make the people think before they act stupidly, like LOGOS wants them to act, and hopefully we can find out who will be our friend or foe among the Atlantic Federation if there are any good people left in that organization"
"The Nevada is Equip to do the Job of wrecking havoc with LOGOS Profit margin, and at the same time we need to find some contacts with the three factions, but only those with an open mind and low profile"
Bernard then remembered someone they can trust
"Admiral, we do have one contact at the Earth Alliance Forces, Captain John Sheridan of the EAS Lexington," Bernard suggested
"John Sheridan? From the DSSD" Ranma remembers
D.S.S.D. Deep Space Surveyor Division is the space exploration division of the EAF. The Division numbering only less than 20 ships mostly, modified Agamemnon ships designed for prolonged space travel as they explore and map the deepspace around them.
These days their operations is focused on identifying possible resources for mining mineral deposits in asteroids, and they have never been involved in any military operations like the rest of the fleet.
In the first mission Captain John Sheridan of the Lexington, was traveling at the sector between Earth and Mars when they suffered a massive power failure, and were stranded with a failing life support and no communication to call for help.
Sheridan and his crew of only 12 people were rescued by the Yamato 3 days later. On that day, they established a friendship between them, and as a show of friendship, Ranma left him with Tachyon communication unit if ever the RDF needed to make contact with him again.
Unofficially, it was a 'First Contact' situation but Sheridan never reported it to his superiors.
"Captain Sheridan can be a great help to us," Bernard added
"His father is an ambassador to ORB Union, and this could solve our problem of looking for contacts easily"
Ranma like the Idea, he told Bernard "I know we can trust John, but can we trust his father?" he wonders
"Let's contact John anyway, but only after we background check his father and see if we can trust him enough to make contact"
"Yes Sir,"
Just then, a communications officer opens a line to Ranma her voice sounded urgent
"Admiral Saotome, we have a Priority message from Captain Noa, Sir its Lt. Judah Ashta, he just crashed on Earth"
"Judah is what!"
Several minutes later, the RDF Fleet move on to Mars while one ship, a Gloria class Battleship with three Destroyers and six Stargazer class frigates, separated from the rest to the fleet and heads towards Earth by Space Fold.
Back on Earth
The Minerva landed safely on Earth and is now heading to ORB to deliver Rep. Attha to her country since it's quite near from where they landed.
At the Briefing Room Chairman Dullindal, Captain Gladys, Rep. Attha and her bodyguard Alex Dino (a.k.a Athrun Zala) is reviewing the battle footages of an unknown Mobile Suit battling the Chaos.
The Unknown they designated as the Blackbird went toe to toe with the Chaos using high-speed aerial combat and the fast reconfiguration of its MS into three types or three modes in order suit the pilot's needs at a moments notice to evade, to attack, to counterattack, it was an amazing machine that look like an F-117 USAF Stealth Fighter
'The pilot, whoever he\she is, is quite good' Athrun thought but as he watch it carefully, he could swear that MS was just dancing as it dodge every shot the Chaos made.
When the Blackbird went hand to hand with the Chaos, it decapitated both of the Chaos's Arms, then blows up the head with an arm laser. Blackbird fought in a Martial Arts type of fashion and that tells them that this MS can move as near a human Gymnast would move with fluidity, flexibility and gracefulness, and not the robot movement like theirs.
"It's almost human in movement, don't you think so Athrun?" Dullindal ask he didn't answers as Dullindal continues to speak
"Whoever they belong to, they must have some serious technology and Weaponry in their possession" he changes the image to the UFO they recorded but never detected on their radar.
The ship they designated as the Sparrow, the ship is as nothing any Human would build is in everyone's thoughts, and both the MS and the Ship has the same inverted diamond shape emblem.
"We have a mystery in our hands" he remark
Outside the Minerva,
Meyrin Hawke came out to enjoy the sea breeze even as the sky was still filled with falling debris from Junius 7. Thankfully, they were small enough to be burned off from the air friction.
Meyrin and the others had no doubt that if those fragments have been much bigger and fallen to Earth, it could have caused massive damages, and no doubt that the Natural will be blaming every Coordinators at the end of the day, and they, would be at War in the next day.
Those unknown mobile suits, whoever they are, did them a favor though, but that weapon they used was frighteningly powerful, she wonders who could they be? But for now she needed to relax a bit.
With a binocular on hand, she looks at the Seagulls flying close to the ocean when she spotted something floating nearby in what looks like a life raft.
"What is that" she adjust her sight and can see a hand, and on the raft is an inverted red diamond she recognized it.
"Sis! Shinn! Come quick!" she cried out to get their attention as they were nearby
Several minutes later, a rescue team recovered the raft and its lone passenger. He was brought to the Infirmary for treatment, of heat stroke and exhaustion, his flightsuit was taken and examined, and a few personal effects one of which is a dogtag and a hand pistol of some sort.
Later on, Dullindal examines some of the personal effects with Cagalli and Gladys, he read the dogtag inscriptions they found on him "Lt. Judah Ashta, No. 12571 ROBOTECH DEFENSE FORCES, U.N. SPACY"
"UN? As in United Nations?" Cagalli inquire
"I don't know Miss Cagalli? A deception perhaps?"
"What for, and why?" she ask back
At one corner of the table, Captain Gladys is examining a necklace with a small glass cylinder and inside it. Inside it is what looks like sand. She also holds a picture of him and two people no doubt his parents, and on the background is a planet.
'Is that Earth? No its not, I wonder'
No one noticed her pocketed the necklace and the picture.
Judah slept soundly, in his dreams he remembers those three GINNs that ambushed him on his way out. They fought him, with so much anger and hate in their heart they drove to commit something so cruel they say it is Justice for their loss. Yet they would use this memorial to commit Mass Murder, and if they had succeeded, the families, friends and love ones of those they have killed, they will vent out their anger their hate to their kind.
He remembers what one of them told him when he got him on a leg embrace.
"This is my daughter's tomb! If we don't let it fall, the world will never change!" he shouted angrily
"For us, Coordinators, the path of Patrick Zala took was the only right way!"
Judah couldn't believe how arrogantly self righteous of a fool he was if he thinks that killing millions of innocent people would mean justice for her daughter.
"You're a Fool," he said back and that stunned the man for a moment
Judah said told him a phrase from a greater man than the first Coordinator George Glenn.
"Forgive, and you will be forgiven, Condemned not, and you will not be condemned" Judah blasted the man's GINN on the legs
"You Condemned the People of this Earth then you have also condemned the People of the PLANTs as well"
Judah slammed him down on colony, disabling his Vernier thrusters
"This time, you murdered your own daughter and her memories along with millions of Coordinators by your hands alone!"
Judah left him there, before the bomb detonated his thoughts was in Judah word's
"You Condemned the People of this Earth then you have also condemned the People of the PLANTs as well"
Naturals if any of them survived will most likely take their revenge on the PLANTs no matter what. He sees in his mind, he sees a Mobile Armor firing nukes on the PLANTs. Millions of his countrymen, dead, floating in space with his daughter, and he, his hands on the trigger that fired that dreadful weapon and that dawn on him on what he has done.
"What… have I done" he started to cry he look at his hands trembling and then covered his face in shame.
"Forgive me…"
Junius 7 was engulf with the destructive power of the Trident Bombs. Judah was thrown off balance, and was now falling into Earth's Atmosphere, as he was not far away enough from the shockwave.
He was able to reenter Earth's atmosphere, however most of the system from reconfiguration mode was damage and crash-landed in the Pacific Ocean. Judah had to abandon his VF but not before, he activated its self-destruct button.
A day later, the Minerva picks him up unexpectedly, as he play possum for a while, until he figures something out.
'How the Heck am I going to get out of here?" He thought
TBC