Gundam Wing UN war. The long awaited sequel to chapter 3
Chapter 4
Note – earth 1, Gundam earth, earth 2 our earth 100 years in the future.
As an aside I plan to go through 10-11 (or so) chapters each focusing in on one important character. This chapter has Zechs/Milliardo, in his first appearance and a major one at the same time. Also other characters will refer to him as Zechs, and narration that doesn't have him as direct focus will generally refer to him as Zechs. Narration with him as the focus will call him Milliardo in general and he will always think of himself as Milliardo. Any variants from this system are error on my part entirely.
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-Begin-
It had been three days since the assault on the invading force. Most of the Gundam original Gundam pilots had left on their own missions. Wufei remained with Thomas to continue practicing both their sword skills. Bekah and Devin also remained on a base immediately north of the Himalayas with the two. It was a large base, the third largest UN base in Asia. Thus it was always busy always ready to do things.
Wufei and Thomas had been able to justify the sword training by referring to beam sabers and the returned use of the sword in the modern age. Thus if they were both proficient with the sword outside the mobile suit they would be better when using a beam saber. So far it had proven true, wufei already was amazing and Tom was close to him in skill. True wufei was better than tom by a league as far as the regular sword went, but tom never seemed to be without a trick or off kilter attack style to use that would confound any opponent once. But if he held any more they weren't any good in the same battle. Or so his luck ran.
Devin and Bekah were performing near constant maintenance on their mobile suits. Or they were training for whatever would be ahead. The two pairs conversed minimally while inside the training room; sometimes they sent sarcastic remarks back and forth, sometimes compliments or encouragement. All depending on the situation.
As far as the Gundam pilots were concerned for deployment they were all spread out. Quatre was back in the L4 colonies on his home planet. Stuck in a duty of managerial affairs, still managing to keep the people in the dark about his being a Gundam pilot. But also defending the colony with the Maguanac corp. and other groups help.
Duo had been deployed to North America, west coast. There he was performing typical Gundam tactics against enemy bases and manufacturing plants in the northern areas. As they enemy held Northwest North America.
Trowa was deployed into the hectic battlefield of Western Europe. It was in the worst state as far as divisions went. Each and every city block seemed to have a different allegiance in places. The only good thing was the Luxembourg, and Sweden, Denmark and a few sparse other nations were left out of the mix. The war was not so chaotic that basic neutrality was violated, yet.
Heero, his assignment had been to earth 1, his home earth where he was assigned to the space territories. Perhaps he was serving as backup, but things were at their most turbulent there as far as the space picture went. And besides someone else was handling the earth 2 space front.
Zechs marquise after the terraforming project on mars he had been relatively quiet. However something like the portal was hard to ignore when earthlings began popping out with no knowledge of the earthlings before them. They had avoided both respective Mars's simply out of the fact that the portals opened just slightly beyond the orbit of each earth's moon. And for a while it seemed to cast a scary shadow that no-one wished to peer into for explorers not native to the earth 1 system. The earth 2 system had no mars settlements, and it wouldn't get one until more permanent space colonies were formed. So there was good reason for the explorers fearing to go there. Zechs had been ok with most everything that had been going on. That was until the various war mongers began a war, initially just on Earth 2, but it spread to his home within weeks. It was times like this Zechs wished to take up the name Milliardo and try to eliminate the earth again. Save that the colonies were just as militant as any planet and doing that would make nobody happy. Most certainly not his little sister. So when the main war faction other than the UN and preventers, sentarius minor, approached Zechs for a position as symbol of their attempt to 'purify the world' or so they said, Zechs politely declined, the first through third times, fourth through fifth he slammed the door in their face and the sixth and final time he threatened to shoot them. That stopped them from bothering him, but zechs knew it would be a miracle if they didn't try to kill him sometime in the future. So he signed up for the preventers service using the mobile suit tallgeese 3.
Well his luck put him o so very far away from the mars colony that loathed him. He ended up in Earth 2's space operations. It wasn't that bad really. The colony/base he was stationed in, while still under construction, was far from inhospitable. Actually it had been complete; when it was completed three years before the portal opened it was earth 2's most technologically advanced colony. By Earth 1 standards the living units of the machine were very excellent. The manner in which they were accomplished was bad however. So the revisions taking place were not those that would greatly affect the way life in the colony was, although it would improve undoubtedly, but it would affect how those things were done.
Today, three days after the first major Gundam deployment for the UN-preventer alliance, zechs was finally being recognized as an official member of the space force by his small troop squadron. All of which were Earth 2 born. The space project there was only 42 years old, there had been few space born children, almost all in the past 15 years. They had all been cyber experts, and thus the transition from cyber to mobile suit had proven only a slight difficulty. Now they were expert pilots, some even on a level that zechs would recognize on his level of skill, true it was a lower level but it was a high level none-the-less. They were all members of the UN preventative joint military, the equivalent to the early Earth sphere United Nation (ESUN from now on). Zechs recognized this and thus hoped to prevent another ESUN from rising up on this earth. So far it seemed successful, after a mere 6 months. Well he hoped it wasn't just him being optimistic and was the truth. But today that would be un-important.
The colony radar had detected a decent sized enemy force. Decent sized meant about 30 to 50 mobile suits, this one was on the smaller size, only about 35. 15 more suits than zechs had under his command. True the colony also had missile defense systems that would be able to eliminate most forces going after them, but after the mass unveiling of the Virgo 3's with 6 planet defensors in all they could resist most of the missiles in the barrage, but still the colony opened fire, most wasn't all.
Almost all the missiles impacted on the new stronger planet defensor shields. Zechs sighed as he received the current known enemy count, 32. All Virgo 3's, and one unknown enemy mobile suit. "One unknown enemy?" Zechs asked the command center. "Who could that be?"
"We're not certain, but we do know that sentarius forces have recently completed their Gundam mobile suit, perhaps they would consider doing battle against the lightning count a good test run?" The intelligence guy muttered to himself in the main bridge. He had been forced to share the command of the base with Zechs. Equal but opposite authority. Also his second had been forced to share authority with a woman named Lucrezia Noin. She, like zechs, was a soldier who fought on the front of battles. She had used a white Taurus, until the Taurus two then she had a customized Taurus two. Originally the commander had not desired for this sharing of command authority, but then he had seen that Zechs rarely interfered, and when he did he tended to make better decisions that what he was planning on making. Now the commander had to wonder, what decision to make. This colony, being a military colony, had some armaments other than missiles, should he use them with his own troops ready to deploy into the midst of the enemy. In the end was to have the cannons ready at a moments notice and not to fire.
Meanwhile zechs and Noin took battle command of the Taurus squad. "All suits, prepare the beam cannons to fire on the enemy while were still out of their range." Noin said preparing her own cannon while her Taurus remained in fighter mode like the others. "After we fire one volley we will advance firing at will then engage in close range combat. Beam sabers are the best way to defeat Virgo model mobile suits." Preparing a wide line formation Noin opened up a private channel just to Zechs. "What do you think of this battle?"
"Reminds me of Napoleonic era tactics, line to line battles of enemies facing each other down. Followed by a charge into close range combat. Still given the situation we should have the advantage, as long as the un-identified unit isn't a Gundam."
"Of course." Noin sighed, "That one new unit, why couldn't there be a bunch of the same ones so we would know it isn't a Gundam." She switched off the private channel and went back to a group channel. "Everyone, fire!" She commanded as a barrage of laser fire went into the enemy lines doing more damage than the missile barrage did. Good, Noin thought to herself as the numbers that radar said they were decreased to 20. It's now down to 1 to 1 odds. We can make it, these guys are good enough to win the fight with even odds, maybe if we capture a few we can use them in the future too. Noin, along with zechs and the entire defense force charged forwards into the enemy line firing as they went removing three enemy units from the equation. Then the one un-identified enemy dashed at zechs, zechs fired of his mega cannon at about half power. The mysterious enemy evaded it and forced zechs into close range combat. Not that it was a bad thing, but he seemed to be very willing to go into hand to hand combat with the 'lightning count'.
Noin and her troop charged into the enemy line, transforming either at the moment of getting into the middle of it or right after passing the enemy line. Dealing with the enemy attacking at close range most of the soldiers could not handle the enemy right in front of them at all. A few were able to actually fight back with beam sabers but in large they were destroyed without effort. In twelve minutes the battle was over. "Status report." Noin asked.
"No friendlies dead. One man replied, myself and two others received significant damage. Some units had light damage. But little of note."
"Right." Noin opened up a channel to Zechs, who was dueling the unknown enemy. "Zechs do you want our help?"
"No. I can handle this guy on my own." Milliardo said as he deflected each attack from the enemy beam saber. What's up with this mobile suit? Milliardo thought to himself. I understand that the pilot is of a top notch level, but what he's doing is far surpassing the model that thing is based off of. That mobile suit is far superior to epyon. Milliardo aimed his heat whip at the mobile suit, who deflected it with one of his own and then used shot others at the tallgeese. Five heat rods in total. Damn, he's got five of those things! Milliardo evaded the rods for a few minutes eventually getting completely out of range. That pilot is really good. The epyon like suit transformed into it's similar looking two headed dragon-esque fighter mode. It chased after the tallgeese. Milliardo charged at it with both beam sabers ready for use. Making a dash while still thinking that it could not fire at him in Mobile armor mode Milliardo was surprised when a small stream of laser fire was shot at him from the Gundam.
"What that guy has long range weapons?" Zechs said very confused. He evaded the attack with ease, but his evasion threw his attack off and thus epyon passed zechs by and made a slight turn towards earth. "Why is that guy headed towards earth?" Milliardo asked no-one in particular. Then as he looked at the mobile suit he was blinded by a sudden glare of light. "Crap, now he'll have the sun at his back!" Milliardo swore as the glare reducer built into most mobile suits began to slowly turn on. Well at least his laser weapons aren't that powerful, most a distraction than anything. Then the radar monitor showed several missile projectiles headed his way. "Missiles?" Milliardo said completely caught off guard. "Evasive action everyone!"
The troop did it's best but with over 320 decently destructive missiles headed their way they really had little chance. 8 units were destroyed and all but one pilot died. Three other Taurus two's were damaged to much for further combat use. Noin and zechs both escaped un-harmed. As well as the 6 other Taurus troops. They had survived because they used their own missile reserves as a counter measure. "Damn!" One soldier shouted, "That bastard killed off all those guys!" He didn't make a move to face him though. The enemy was headed towards them.
The Gundam rushed at the small squadron getting closer and closer, but at the last minute he veered of his path and went back to whence he came. "Thank god he left, right zechs."
"Yes." Milliardo said, I'm not sure if anyone here besides me could even try to hold their own against that pilot.
-Meanwhile, in the direction of 'whence he came'-
"So how was the test sir?" A man in a white lab coat asked.
"It went well enough. The lightning count is still alive, but a better portion of his soldiers are incapable of participating in combat."
"And how did the Gundam perform?"
"Oh it performed much, much better."
"That's what we hoped for, from just like the epyon in nearly every way to something much better. I hope you enjoy the new armor and thrusters, cause command has another mission for you to undertake in the next few days."
"What is it?"
"Another test, this time though you'll be fighting a Gundam."
"Good I hope to find better challenge, someone who I can fight all out." General Jonathan Reynolds grinned as he read the data. 'Gundam 04 eh, I hope he provides a challenge."
-End-
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