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Chapter 8
"Alternate New Destiny"
Heaven's Base
Earth Alliance Headquarters
Lord Djibril have been Incensed of what going to happen to him and to Logos now that they have lost the Extended Lab and with an enemy fleet at their doorstep is waiting for the deadline before they begin the assault on the base to capture him.
Djibril have been screaming his head off at the AF President who is on the moon, and from the tone of his voice, Djibril tries to hide the fear by acting tough like a bully, but he's actually frightened like a child.
"I don't care what the public will think," he shouted angrily "They are nothing but fools, as they let themselves be deceived by those blasted coordinators!"
"But Djibril be reasonable," the president argued, "All of our bases in the AF is under constant watch by ZAFT forces, and if it's not them its one of our former allies watching us, look"
He showed it on the map where the AF forces naval fleet is unable to move beyond their territorial borders as ZAFT is camp within international water patrolling the border but not instigating any hostilities.
"So far they have not instigated any hostilities, and I don't think,"
"I did not make you president to think you damned fool!" he cut him off and cursing the president, whom suppose to be his boss and not the other way around
"Now be the obedient dog and send those reinforcements here now!"
He cut off communication, leaving one very shaken president.
Arzachel
Base
The Moon
Admiral Leftcourt Mansion Home
After the meeting, the Joint Chief of Staff whom just witnessed their Commander in Chief called a dog in front of them by the Chairman of the National Defense Committee and head of Logos.
That rather shameful experience just showed everyone who is the really in charge.
Many EA Senior Officers has started to get irritated to their president's cowardice before the Blue Cosmos/Logos leader Djibril bullying. Djibril gets away with such acts because some commanders in key offices are a member of Blue Cosmos and if Djibril orders it, he can have the president replaced with a bullet.
Some of the Joint Chiefs not Blue Cosmos, wanted to have every Logos dog and Blue Cosmos expunge from the alliance once-and-for-all but they couldn't.
They are caught between their duties to their country and oath of loyalty to the commander in chiefs, who's duty is suppose to be, the greater need of their country and people. Unfortunately, all he's thinking about now is how to serve his Logos master like the obedient dog.
One person among the Joint Chiefs is Admiral Robert Leftcourt of the Seventh Lunar Fleet.
Leftcourt like the other seniors has, had enough of the man's he calls 'his president' as the latest plan will result in lives needlessly lost for one man.
The President's plan, sending more of their country's soldiers just to defend one madman who cares less of how many lives will be sacrificed for his own interest did not go well with them, Especially, Admiral Leftcourt.
He slammed his fist on the conference table
"That coward intends to sacrifice the lives of our soldiers for that bastard!" shouting angrily. The thought of his soldiers dying for Djibril boil his blood to no end.
"Calm down Robert," said Admiral Hague of the Eight Lunar Fleet tries to calm him down but Leftcourt cant' hold it's temper anymore
"We are not that man's servants nor are the lives of our soldiers being thrown away for his sake,"
He took another drink of brandy before he continues on talking inside the secured office of his home
"In 12 hours, ZAFT will attack Heaven's Base unless we hand over Djibril and Logos, and close our base or be destroyed," he said then Hague argues
"But Robert we cannot loose the base," he said "There are over 80 thousands of our soldiers stationed there, not to mention, our primary research and manufacturing center for our mobile suits technology on earth, and if we loose that we will be severely crippled, Lewis we can't loose Heaven's Base" Hague said
"I am aware of that Hague," Leftcourt snapped at him, "It's Djibril presence is the problem, he's the one endangering Heaven's Base!"
He pause as to calm down a little
Leftcourt sigh heavily and pinch the bridge between his eyes as a headache is surfacing on him.
"The Alliance is divided" he spoke calmly
"Logos control Heaven's Base, Daedalus and three of the Lunar Fleet"
"We have Three Lunar Fleet on our side, yours, mine and Franklin with no Blue Cosmos, the Eurasian and East Asia have now, officially withdrew their forces from the alliance, no thanks to that, so called nuclear attack on the Plants"
Hague nodded depressingly in agreement
"Yes, you are right about that" Hague said
"If the alliance was still whole, our strength in both political and military and the people now on our side, we could have impeached president, arrest Djibril and every Logos and Blue Cosmos dog, Heck! We could have succeeded in doing that if it wasn't for that fake attack on the Plants that messed it all up"
"So you believe what David told us then?" he query
"You mean about suspecting the Plant chairman of faking the nuclear attack Just hours after the attempted assassination on the real Lacus Clyne living in Orb? Oh, Yeah I do," he answered
They are suspicious about the Plant Chairman's motives, as their own Intel reported. There have been an increase of ordinance shipments of parts and supplies for mobile suit have been sent to their bases all month now.
"We suspected that he's trying to provoke another war and with us pulling the trigger first and right in front of the whole world with that idiot Djibril is obliging him to do it"
"And once again, it will be our fault, just like before" Hague added grimly
Admiral Lefcourt thought of an old friend not with them.
"Times like this, I wish Lewis was still alive," he said sadly
On the table there is a photo of five people, the one on the center is Admiral Lewis Halberton, who died in the First Cosmic War. Halberton is one of the few who spoke out against Blue Cosmos. Halberton have despise them, to him, individuals like them has no right to be soldiers.
For Leftcourt as do Hague misses their friend, his wisdom especially, as one of the alliance most brilliant strategists, loosing him hit them hard.
"If he were alive right now, he would be appalled of the state the alliance is in"
Around his office table is a Laptop and on the monitor, he showed it to Hague its contents
"John sent these pictures to me four days ago, and it proves that ZAFT orchestrated the attack"
"This useless now," Hague gestured to it, "The Damage is done. Doubtful that anyone will believe this even if we do reveal this; it cannot help us to stop this… fiasco! from happening."
"Still it gave us enough, not to be baited by this man," Leftcourt told him "Dullindal want us to start the shooting first, but all we have been doing is retreating, avoiding hostilities in every way we can"
'No way are we going to let him have that satisfaction' he thought
"We won't start this war;" Leftcourt swore "There is no fighting yet, for ZAFT, wants us to shoot first and we won't let have that"
'But we have to do something to put a stop to this before the real shooting war starts, before we start loosing our soldiers to that Lunatic Djibril'
"Still, it seems inevitable that were going to loose again when this war starts" depressingly Hague said
Hague look outside the window, nighttime has just started, as illumination is tone down. Looking back at Leftcourt expression is different now, he look serious
For Leftcourt, there is only one choice. Hague could see what's he's thinking and it's something Leftcourt had in mind but Hague talk him out of it. Now it seems there is no stopping him.
"We have two Lunar Fleet stationed here, Franklins forces is on orbit, and the rest is protecting Daedalus"
"Please don't even think about it" Hague warned "Robert this is treason!"
"So as Letting Djibril runs the Atlantic Federation using that coward!" angrily he shouted
"WE ARE NOT HIS SERVANTS!" from that, he threw the bottle of Brandy on a bookshelf he breathes heavily, letting himself calm down before speaking to him again
"Hague, I need your help on this buddy, I can't do this alone"
Hague like Leftcourt does not want to see their soldiers die in such meaningless battles, not after the last war and with so many losses.
Reluctantly, Hague agreed to help him
"Alright then, I'm in" and that made Lefcourt very happy
"Good, I'll contact David and maybe he can delay the troop deployment, meanwhile we need to make a plan to get to the president and take out those Logos dogs following him, and if were lucky we can save the base if we hand over those idiot's to Zaft"
"Hand them over to Dullindal?" Hague ask
"Well he did demand say that we should hand them over didn't he? So we are handing them over," Leftcourt said
MACROSS ISLAND
SDF-2 Prometheus
Sametime
It is highly illegal for a ship of the UN to have torture chambers.
However, due to the nature to what the Logos Doctor's, Trainers and Logos members did to the children, Ranma created one section of the ship, especially made for them.
One Logos member, the director of the Lab, found himself dangling over a glass tank filled with man-eating crocodiles jumping ten feet up trying to get a bite out of him. He felt like he was in a sadistic comic strip, only it's him dangling on a rope, and he's scared stupid as he tries to pull himself from the rope he's tied on
Another member of Logos a trainer and someone who disposes the children that are useless to them, is in a nice wooden cage at the center of a pride of Lions who is also hungry for fresh meat, is now gnawing thru the wood, and to make him more edible for the Lions, they dip him in fresh cow's blood.
20 Logos and Blue Cosmos members found themselves in similar but different positions, as in, surrounded by Great White Sharks, packs of wolves, hungry bears, rats, man eating piranha's, tigers, anaconda's and many more.
All of them were screaming for help, calling out for their mothers and begging for mercy from their captors, yet no one listens, just as no one listens to the cries of the children they have abducted, tortured, trained, and experimented on
Ranma figured that, beating the crap out of them would do no good, so he resorted to this type of 'punishment' as he calls it.
'Make them go thru hell' just as they made the children go thru hell, making them cry out as the children cried for help.
When the predators got hold of them, they ate them alive slowly and painfully
Too bad that, none of it was real though.
Ranma is using the BDI system or Brain Direct Imagery.
The BDI is a new system being tested on the new AVF-19 EXCALIBUR and the AVF-22S Sturmvogel to make the pilot and machine perform beyond expectation.
Another application is in the Virtual Reality or VR, the two-system work together quite well, it looks and feels very real that the human brain can't tell the differences of what's real and what's not.
Ranma made them go thru a very long list of programs and most of it is physical torture, or violated physically and psychologically, including being dissected on an autopsy table, where they are alive and aware of their environment.
Ranma made them go thru that torture repeatedly, making them feel that they died and went to hell over and over again.
What they have done unto others is now being done unto them
At the observation room, Ranma and several others watch the Logos and Blue Cosmos cried to God for mercy, begging for death to escape their nightmares as they piss and soiled themselves while being strap down on a table.
His Guest is very much disgusted on what they are seeing
"By the time we are finish with them, they are going to wish to God, that we actually killed them" he look towards one of the officers, coldly he spoke
"Have them go thru 1,000 years of hell (12 hours on the machine), and place a punishment program on their brain," he ordered
"Yes Sir"
Looking at the others he told them "We will let them go," he said "But first, we are going to make sure that they will never harm anyone again"
The 'Punishment Program' is an highly advance Hypnosis command, if they committed any harm to anyone or think evil thoughts to anyone, the program will automatically become active and bombard the person with memories and feelings of the Evil they've committed unto others which. The program will physically hurt them, as if they are having an epilepsy seizure for 10 minutes.
"Uhmm, Admiral" Scott spoke to him cautiously, seeing Ranma with his 'Soul of Ice' aura means that he's not in a good mood right now.
Scott knows this bad mood all too well, few things that can make the Admiral very angry, and seeing children had been abused, is one of a thousand things that make him very angry.
Scott can't blame him though after seeing Char report, he was about to say something about the Geneva Convention concerning the torturing and experimenting on POWs. However, Ranma think of them as terrorist and not soldiers.
"I won't forgive them Scott," Ranma said suddenly, coldly, venomously
"Physical PAIN won't do and neither does killing them, though they will go to hell someday for what they have done, but today I'm going to make them go thru hell my way first."
He looks towards Scott with cold and foreboding eyes. Scott whole body is cringing in fear when he sees that. He wanted to run and hide from the world after seeing those eyes of death and he's not the only one though.
Kira, Ms. Murrue, Commander Waltfeld, Ms. Canaver, Captain Sheridan, Commander Ivanova, were all-silent.(Lacus is not with them thank goodness) They have seen the data Char brought back along with the children; Capt. Sheridan was aware of Logos Extended program but never expected the type of training the children went thru.
When Ranma brought him and the others to this place, none of them said a word as they can feel the cold death coming from the Admiral, which it terrified them to say the least.
"When this mess is over, I am personally going to put each and every member of Blue Cosmos and Logos thru that! I promise you." He then said
"And when I get my hands on that man Djibril, he will never leave that Virtual World until he dies at age 100," he said and ads "and as for Dullindal, well he's going to join him if he doesn't stop what he is doing," he smirked at that Idea of Djibril and Dullindal in a Virtual World together
"God have mercy on their souls, because I won't"
From that, he walk out and went somewhere to blow some steam or blow something up, whichever comes first.
Scott was the first to get his breath back as everyone is breathing again, like they were underwater for a long time.
"Never seen the Admiral that angry before, not since the Second Space Wars" Scott said as his heart calms down from the fear he felt, like the others
"Captain, are you going to continue this?" Ivanova spoke up now and pointing at torture room, Scott gave her a glare which she step back
"If you wanted to see this stop, then you should have spoken up commander Ivanova, and if you did, well maybe you want to end up joining them," he said b
"Believe me I tried to reason with the Admiral for doing this to them, but these SOB had the misfortune of pissing him off!" he shouted
"and consider the alternative…" he stops suddenly, knowing what the Admiral can do to Blue Cosmos and Logos may horrified them if they know.
He breathes heavily calming himself down before continuing, never once have he experienced the 'Face of Death' of the Black Stallion.
"The UN Council will reprimand him for this, but then, when they hear what these bastards have done, I doubt it will be too severe a punishment" he looks towards Ivanova
"Civilized people don't do those things to their own children commander, and they did is just as worst as people playing God with Genetics"
At another part of the Island, a certain petit redhead with death in her eyes is leveling an entire solidrock formation into a gravel pit.
Several ships watch their Admiral in female form, throwing his anger and frustration on inanimate objects, and if he was fighting an army of Mechas in this condition, none of them will survive a second, the moment Ranma turn on them.
Ranma threw beam blast, condense energy balls and solid stone shatter into dust with a single touch combined with godlike speed and sword skills is awesome to watch and terrifying to see if he goes thru a battlefield in this condition.
Few of the commanders who live thru the siege on Macross City by the Robotech Masters Bioroid army, have seen the bloodbath Ranma left.
Against the odds, he held the line with a few other Martial Artist of his Level that day until reinforcements arrive. As a promise to his best friend Admiral Hunter, he will not let the city and the SDF-1 fall into the hands of the enemy,
In the Aftermath, the streets of Macross city stained in blood of bioroid soldiers cut from limb to limb as well as their mechas was everywhere torn to shred.
Someone once said that, Ranma track down the Tirolian commanders that led the attack. Ranma found them, and the next thing he did, he rips their spinal cord off from behind while they were alive, and they are still alive today without a spinal cord.
Three hours after she started, Ranma have exhausted all his anger, and made enough gravel to build one hundred homes for the construction crew. Exhausted after that workout, Ranma lie-down on the sandy beach to rest, just as Scott and several officers were approaching him on a Humvee.
"Admiral! Admiral!" Scott called out to her
"Admiral, we have a Coup taking place on Arzachel Base!" Scott exclaimed
"A Coup?"
Arzachel Base
Well over 2 hours ago, a communication black out occurred the moment the Eight Fleet launched into space and took position above the base. Meanwhile, troops from the Seventh Fleet move on to take over key installations in Arzachel, isolating them from the rest of the world.
Leftcourt seize control of the Command and Control Center first, then the Communication centers after Leftcourt troops activated an N-Jammer inside the base itself; this gave them the opportunity to take over while the base is in turmoil.
On Earth, Gov. David Sheridan and hundred's of thousand AF citizens' halted the deployment of troops to reinforce Heaven's Base by entering their base went on a sitdown strike at the base runaway.
The people cried out to stop the deployment, with banters of 'We are not Djibril Servants'
All across the AF it was the same 'No Troops for Logos' common citizen's responded the call by their governor to stop their soldiers, their sons and daughters from being deployed to support Logos.
David resorted to this tactic because the military commanders refused his request to delay the deployment. He called to every citizen, not to let his or her sons and daughters die for the sake of Djibril.
David calls on to them to rally peacefully, no violence, but block all troop deployments, deny them to move freely, and they cannot deploy.
Many of the families living in military bases went to the length of chaining themselves onto their vehicles and Mobile Suits, yet some resorted to sabotage.
SDF-2 Prometheus
Ranma and his crew watch the event unfold all across the Atlantic Federation. UN Agents on the base is transmitting a live image of the Coup on Arzachel Base; N-Jammers cut the Base communication from the outside world so no one knows what was happening there except for them
Heaven's
Base
Two hours before the deadline
Their communication links to the moon have returned after hours of being cut off; all of the commanders of the base suddenly received a coded message from Arzachel, and what they received was an order from the Joint Chiefs and the Commander In Chief.
They were all stunned, and yet many of them felt overjoyed at the order, for this was a way out, a way to be free.
'Arrest all Logos and Blue Cosmos members immediately'
Those words are Gospel to the Earth Alliance Forces.
ZAFT Ship MINERVA
Communications Officer Meyrin Hawke is scanning the broadband for anything unusual and she found one that caught her attention
"Captain!" she cried out which got everyone's attention
"There is an announcement on the EA open channel" she quickly put it on speakers
"I Repeat National Defense Committee Chairman Lord Djibril Von Hitler and all members of Logos and Blue Cosmos are hereby ordered arrested, all Earth Alliance Commanders are hereby authorize with extreme prejudice if said individual and individuals refuse surrender"
"The Earth Alliance has turned on Djibril!" Athrun was overjoyed to hear that announcement as Meyrin opens a TV News Broadcast of the Atlantic Federation President announcing the arrest order of Djibril.
What people do not know is that, on that broadcast, the AF President is doing the broadcast at gunpoint. Admiral Leftcourt and his troops were successful in capturing the president and the whole cabinet. In the broadcast, the AF President resigned from office, transferred all authority. Former Governor David Sheridan is now President temporarily, with an established Provisional Government, until a new government and a new president is legally elected by the people.
All across the federation the people were cheering at the announcement
"Finally! Yess!!" Athrun cheered
"Someone over there had the common sense to doing the right thing" Athrun remark and then another broadcast came in and this time it came from the Plant Council, which is the moment Dullindal received the message from the Supreme Council.
"In Response to the Ceasefire Request of the Atlantic Federation Provisional President David Sheridan, the Plant Supreme Council has hereby approves the ceasefire.
All ZAFT forces, is to cease hostilities immediately, their compliance to handover all members of Blue Cosmos and Logos by the Earth Alliance for an International Tribunal is accepted by the Plant Supreme Council Representatives and have Inform Chairman Gilbert Dullindal of the decision"
"Cease Hostilities? But we haven't even started fighting" Said the XO Arthur Treise
"Well it looks like this went back to an internal matter of the Earth Alliance again," Gladys felt relieved, for to let the Logos problem be dealt with by the EAF is all in good, as she wanted to avoid any fighting today.
Everyone felt relieved that there will be no battle as well; the EA Fleet fired signal flares in response to the ceasefire.
They are all good soldiers that obey the orders of their commander, and this new order they happily obeyed and began arresting Blue Cosmos members on the spot.
One of Two people however, was not happy at all. Chairman Gilbert Dullindal received the council's mandate along with the order to leave alliance territory.
The Plant Council were so eager to see a quick end to this before the fighting started, they voted to accept the AF President request of a ceasefire without consulting Gilbert about it.
His plan, to utterly break up the Earth Alliance and escalate their turmoil to a full scale War was partly successful, but never completely
Heaven's Base would have been the start, but this last minute disruption stop it before the fighting actually started, and this was getting on his nerve.
Gilbert wanted to push this war in order to traumatize humanity enough that he could initiate his true plans that involve using Djibril and Logos as pawns. He plans to make them cause as much havoc across the globe and make the people be sympathetic to ZAFT by making the Earth Alliance as the aggressor to the peace of the world.
However, ever since Junius 7, nothing went as he had planned, everything he does, drops into chaos and it is irritating him to no end, thanks to a well-hidden organization called the United Nations Spacys.
His Intelligence group has been trying to track them down, and only one lead have led him to a secret meeting of three government representatives, and he believes that, it was a plan to reestablish the old organization, 'the United Nations'
In an attempt to know the truth, he sent ZAFT into AF territory along with the Impulse to investigate, and there they encountered Judah again with a very powerful machine. An Unknown Gundam
The next was in Lodonia, the UN Spacys raided the Extended Lab first before they did, Judah new machine flew straight up at escape velocity all the way to space.
No mobile suit can do that without the aid of booster rockets and from the data, they were able to retrieve from the wrecks of the Windams flight recorders. It showed a machine that practically out flew them in an aerial battle above Lodonia.
Gilbert has no knowledge of who are the UN Spacys, and to make matters worst, the commando unit he sent to have the real Ms. Clyne eliminated is gone along with the Vosgulov sub is missing as well.
Now he heard from ZAFT intelligence that, the Archangel was seen near Kaguya Island submerging.
He can only assume that Ms. Clyne is alive and on board, and he also suspected, that the Freedom is on board as well, and that means Kira Yamato is with her.
Gilbert watches the East Asia Republic Fleet starts to leave the area as orders were received by them telling them to return to base and reestablish their alliance with the Atlantic Federation again.
Meanwhile Athrun who is at the Communication station with Meyrin is listening in on the EA open channel, the EA Troops at Heaven's Base is frantically requesting Mobile Suit reinforcements
"I repeat, all EA Forces, request Mobile Suit back up, Blue Cosmos members has the Destroy,"
"The Destroy?" Meyrin ask
From the Mobile Suit docking bay, members of Blue Cosmos and their sympathizers, have commandeered 6 dozen Mobile Suits. For rather than surrendering peaceably, they intend to fight and retake the Base.
Among the Mobile Suits, 15 mobile Armors came out of their berths, six are YMAF-X6BD Zamza-Zah and YMAG-X7F Gells-Ghe with their positron deflector shield system, but three of them are different, in fact, they were huge and look armed to the teeth.
On the Minerva's main screen is seen for the first time to see, the GFAS-X1 Destroy. These three machines are bigger than the average mobile suit, heavily armed and heavily armored, this is the Alliance most powerful Gundam they have ever built.
Armaments:
2
'Aufprall Dreizehn' high-energy beam cannon mounted on
backpack, in mobile armor mode.
1 200mm 'Zorn Mk2' energy
cannon, mounted in head
20 'Nefertem 503' thermal
plasma composite cannon, a circumference beam cannon mounted across
backpack
4 'Igelstellung' 75mm automatic CIWS, mounted
in head
3 'Super Scylla' 1580mm multi-phase energy
cannon, mounted in torso
2 'Sturm Faust'
detachable arm with an MJ-1703 5-barrel hand beam cannons with an
SX1021 positron reflector shield and
4 Mark 62 6-tube
multipurpose missile launcher, mounted on main body
The Destroy lived up to its name as they start destroying everything in front of them as the Zamza-Zah and Gells-Ghe acts as shields for the Destroy and this gave EA a greater difficulty to stop them.
The Blue Cosmos look like they were on a rampage, but their movement's shows that they were carefully avoiding the factories and the research facilities.
Gilbert notices this, and believes that 'Logos must have ordered them to avoid hitting them no doubt.'
"Send out our Mobile Suits" Gilbert ordered to the commanders beside that is him, Gladys quickly spoke up disagreeing
"But Chairman, we haven't been requested and we can't," Gladys was going to argue about that order, but he is not listening to her, in fact, he's ignoring her.
"Tell the our forces to draw Blue Cosmos attention away from the EA troops and towards them, and then we will contact the Earth Forces that we are sending them our assistance"
Gladys stood up and looks at him with disapproval as this was going against the council's orders not to interfere. Gladys had had it up to her neck of ignoring her
"Gilbert!"
"I am still Chairman Captain!" Gilbert said with a loud tone of voice, like someone's temper just overflow due to impatience or someone who's not getting his own way.
"Rey! Athrun! Get out there and destroy those machines"
"Yes sir" Rey responded and was going to the hanger bay and notice that Athrun is not following.
"Athrun?"
Athrun is looking at the Chairman with hard eyes, as the screens shows that the EA forces is holding their own as they were able to take down one Destroy.
Using overwhelming force and their own Zamza-Zah and Gells-Ghe as their shield they target the Destroy with continued weapons firing as they breached the barrier protecting the mobile armor and when they got thru, they still continued firing until it exploded.
The EA Forces was taking a beating yet they stood firm with the resolve to stop Blue Cosmos and Logos once and for all. Thankfully, the Destroys pilots were still inexperience in using the MS, that was an advantage, as well as exploiting the obvious pattern attack of not firing on the EA facilities.
The Commanders of the EAF pleaded them to stop, asking not to die for Djibril or Logos and not let ZAFT have the satisfaction of us killing each other.
"Come on people, this is not helping anyone, there is no point to this but to let those bastards continue manipulating us"
There was momentary pause as they were considering it, until ZAFT intervenes.
ZAFT mobile suits appeared above the EA facilities as they started firing at the Destroy and the Destroy responded by firing back at ZAFT not caring about who gets hurt, they open fire their big guns and setting the area ablaze.
The Commander was furious at ZAFT interference he called them
"ZAFT Forces stay out of this! Get the Hell out of here! Your assistance is not wanted!" he shouted angrily
None of them listened.
The fighting in the area became much worst when ZAFT new Unit, the ZGMF-X666S Legend Gundam and the ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam joined the battle.
The EAF are trying to evacuate as many as they could, and yet still many are caught in the crossfire between ZAFT and Blue Cosmos.
The UNS Hawaii in Cloak watches the battle down below and notice what ZAFT have done.
Capt. Fa Yuiry and her crew have watch ZAFT mobile suits move just behind the EA line and near the EA facility and when they started to open fire, the Destroy responded with a vengeance.
Fa spoke up "This is a deliberate act" shaking her head in the irresponsible act of ZAFT as they know full well that Blue Cosmos would react in such extreme hatred to them is like a preprogrammed response.
"They are well aware of being warned not to interfere and yet they did it anyway," she said not sounding happy
'The EAF had everything under control and then everything would have been settled peaceably' looking at ZAFT attack pattern, she was right about their actions deliberate as they keep flying around EA facilities as the Destroy fires wildly at them. the Destroy is doing what they actually came here to do, and that's to destroy Heaven's Base.
"Those bastards!" she cursed angrily.
From across the world the Hawaii relayed the images of what has been happening at Heaven's Base.
Ranma and the other watch the loss of Heaven's Base as the unwanted help from ZAFT have destroyed everything. Loosing the base is a critical blow for the alliance and later on, they found out that Djibril have quietly slipped out of the base.
In Communication with Fa, Ranma he had to agree with her assessment.
"You are right about this being deliberate," he said and Fa reported to her
"The EA have lost more than 20 thousand people, casualties count is going up Admiral, and we've got reports that Djibril just slipped out unnoticed"
"Damn it!" he cursed
"Can we tract them?" Fa shook her head
"I'm sorry sir, there are too many ships and subs clustered around and in the area and are leaving and there's no telling which one is Djibril"
"Is that so? Well then, let the satellite trackers follow them for now, and the VF-17 will recon them when they stop for port,"
"Yes Sir,"
Ranma look towards the new president "Once Djibril location is verified we will inform you Mr. President"
"I have, every Law Enforcements informed, to have Djibril arrested immediately when he's found, thank you for your help"
"You are welcome Sir"
Looking towards another screen, David Sheridan, the new President is at a loss of what just happened, as so many lives needlessly lost thanks to ZAFT meddling and with the factories and research facilities lost, the alliance's mobile suit technology that are depended on the parts they manufacture and where some of them are exclusively made on Heaven's Base is now gone.
"I'm very sorry for this loss Mr. President," Ranma said apologetically and then made a decision
"Once ZAFT have left the area, Nightingale Corps will come down and assist with the medical assistance"
"Nightingale Corps?"
"It's a medical division Mr. President, one of the REF, MASH Units of starships," Fa said
"It's the least we can do for you sir" David look to Ranma
"But Admiral, you would be exposed if you did that?"
"Don't worry about that Mr. President, the ships will be carrying the Red Cross Flag, and even if people found out, well, it doesn't matter, for what matters is that we save lives"
"Thank you, my country thank you and the alliance as whole thank you Admiral"
ZAFT left the area as angry EA troops was in the verge of starting a shooting war, if the new president had not ordered them to stand down and attend to the wounded immediately. They avoided fighting ZAFT, as they know that they want to start a war.
Chairman Dullindal personally apologize to them and offered medical assistance.
The EA responded by telling them to 'Go to Hell!'
Knowing full well that their interference was deliberate their offers were flatly denied by angry commanders on the field.
"Damned you ZAFT, get the F#k out of here! We don't want your damn help!"
When ZAFT left, hundreds of Horizont transports with Red Cross insignia began to arrive. When they landed, armies of Search and Rescues, Doctors, Nurse's went to work immediately.
On the Minerva
Captain Gladys and her crew was silent all the way back to their base, Athrun was placed in ships brig for disobeying orders and is contemplating on what had just happened.
ZAFT had work so hard to establish a bridge of good relations with Naturals is now ruin this day
Gladys can still hear their angry response at them, she can't blame them though, Gilbert purposely involved ZAFT in the fight knowing full well that Blue Cosmos would react badly at them, worst of all, the whole world saw it and they did not like what happened.
The negative after effects, have strained their relations with their allies and other nations badly. Video footages clearly showed that the EA had it under control until ZAFT intervenes and caused so many losses of life and massive property damage.
Many nations thought it was deliberate as well, and even the Plant Council agrees with them, and find The Chairman's actions irresponsible, even the colony populace agrees that what had just happen was an irresponsible act.
Chairman Dullindal PR went overtime in using spin control to justify his actions, including using the Impersonating Lacus Clyne.
Her pleas and explanation to everyone is, that what happened on Heaven's Base was regretful, and that ZAFT had the best intentions, it helping to subdue Logos and Blue Cosmos and that they are at fault, but not everyone was convince.
Macross Island
Fourteen
days Later
SDF-2 Prometheus
Admiral Saotome is in his ready room, reading the casualty report on Heaven's Base.
The report on the deathtoll increased to twenty five thousand people from the estimated twenty, fifteen thousand were hurt and injured, and their factories and research facilities were now in ruins and 7 bomb shelters was destroyed.
IWD Commanding officer Commander Emma Sheen, gave a vocal report for Ranma as she reads the file on her PADD
"ZAFT opinions on what the Chairman did is split," she starts
"Many of the officers who are veterans of the first war thought of what he did was as one have remark stupid, they started to have doubts about his leadership, now there are rumors flying around that, the nuclear attack was staged by him"
"Did we have anything to do with that?" he asks and Emma answered
"No, not really sir," she said and told him
"About fifteen days ago, the Plant Supreme Council had just received a confession from one of the captains who stage the fake nuclear attack on the Plants"
What had happen was, the captain babbled the truth in his drunkenness to a Plant council member at a bar.
"So they now know it was all stage then?"
"Yes sir" she continues
"The council track down everyone involve and taking them into custody for questioning, and last we heard, the council is planning to press charges against the chairman unless he resigned from his office"
Ranma figured that kind of move, they plan to have him resigned voluntarily from office before the people found out about the stage attack, and if they did know, it will be a scandal, far worst than the decision he made on Heaven's Base and even bigger scandal if people knew that Gilbert Dullindal was responsible for Junius 7 fall.
"With the disaster on Heaven's Base, I doubt that the council will have a hard time convincing him to step down from office," she said Ranma nods in agreement with her.
"The council knew about the fake attack a day before the assault on Heaven's Base," he said
Ranma wonders, "Could this have influence their decision to accept the last minute request of the new president?"
"Could be sir," she agrees "The Chairman doesn't seem to be popular with the council these days"
"Humph! Serve him right, for what happened at Heaven's Base"
Looking at the IWD reports, their investigation, with the help of Ms. Clyne and her contacts, they figured out what Plant Chairman was up to and why he's trying to cause another war between the Earth and the Plants. Lacus and the others felt disgusted of what he was planning for everyone.
They solve the puzzle and it was 'The Destiny Plan'
Ranma scratch the back of his neck as trying to figure out how to deal with this 'All Know it All, but Really, Don't Know Anything at All' Chairman of the Plants.
"Emma, IWD have done a good job on their intelligence gathering," Ranma praise
"Now that we know better, I think it's time to," the sound of the chime signal that someone at the door interrupted him
"Enter," he said
Scott came in and he looks worried "Admiral, we had just received a message from Fleet Headquarters," he said and reports
"Fleet HQ? What is it?" Scott reads
"The Sixteenth UN Spacys Main Battlefleet is arriving in Delta Earth in one month from now,"
There was a long pause as Ranma is trying to comprehend what Scott just told him just now, he was in disbelief of what he just heard. When Scott said, that 'The Sixteenth UN Spacys Main Fleet'
He means that, two hundred fifty thousand warships is coming here, a fleet that has the firepower equal to the old Zentraedi Fleet that Breetai once led, that numbered one million ships.
Ranma stood up from his seat in disbelief so he ask him to make sure he heard it right for that particular fleet he knows very well
"Scott, I did not hear you right, did you jusst say THE SIXTEENTH FLEET, as in MY Old Command, is coming here?"
"Uhhh, yes sir," he replied and then read the message carefully
"According to the message from Fleet HQ, a Vorlon/Minbari combined Fleet numbering 300 ships, attack Starbase 15 at Wolf 359 fifteen days ago, the RDF repelled and destroyed them, no damage to our colonies and orbital shipyards, and then attack Earth system numbering one thousand ships"
"An attack by the Vorlon/Minbari back home"
Ranma remembers their run-in with them on their way to the Delta Quadrant and wonders if their attack was retaliation in kicking their butts in their first encounter. Scott reads on
"Message says that, sentient systems in the Alpha Quadrant came under attack as well," he read to him
Vulcan Prime, Andoria, Risa, sir the list goes on. The Galaxy Alliance have mobilize the Galaxy Army and the Jurai Fleet went on the offensive, and we are in joint forces with them"
"Good God" Emma spoke
Ranma, Emma and Scott felt like they lost their breakfast as their homeworld came under attack again.
"The attack on Starbase 15 must have a decoy" Ranma believed "It's also the Free Trade center for the United Nations of Earth"
"What happened to Earth? Did they attack Earth?"
"They did sir…well they tried sir" he showed the message they sent, Ranma read the message and sigh in relief at the contents and remark
"They are out of their mind"
From the message, it says that more than a thousand ships came to Earth and straightforwardly attack the Home Fleet.
The Home Fleet numbered over one million warships with thousands of Battlestations and satellite defenses, not to mention the Ancients planetary defense systems.
Ever since the Second Space War, UN Spacys encircled the Alpha Sol System with an array of defenses all the way to Pluto with sensors systems and scanners that can detect anything within a 20 light year distance in normal, subspace and hyperspace.
The Alpha Sol System became a fortress, daring to attack the Humanity's homeworld is suicidal, and the Vorlon/Minbari Fleet did that when they sent one thousand ships into the System, but none of them came out of the System, as they found themselves being ripped apart by warships with reflex weaponry and mecha fighters.
"Who the Hell do these people think they are, that they can just dive into our system and shoot at us" he roared angrily
"No more info other than this Scott?"
"No Sir," Scott answered
"And what the Heck is HQ is thinking? Sending one of our mainfleet here instead of protecting the UNE territory"
"They must think that we needed protection, otherwise, why send a fleet here"
Ranma read the message again and smiled on who is leading the fleet, and she's an old friend of his.
"So, Admiral Claudia Grant was the one who took over my old command and my old ship" he nods approving the choice of commander
"If anyone who is a good choice to command that ship, it's Claudia"
At a wall nearby are miniature models of Veritech Fighters and starships Ranma have commanded, one model stood up above the rest and Ranma was proud to be the first to command her.
One of two Starships in the fleet that belongs to a Hollywood Movie Icon that became a real Starship.
On the plaque it says,
UN-ECSSD 'Skywalker'
United Nations Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer
TBC