Gundam Wing UN war. The long awaited sequel to chapter 6
Chapter 7
Note – earth 1, Gundam earth, earth 2 our earth 100 years in the future.
Italics thought
I managed to loose my I-pod in my room. It's just in my room it has to be. And my room ain't that big. I've checked everything at least once, some places 3 times and I can't find it, WTF? And then when I get in bed to go to sleep guess what, the instant I put my hand under the cover I find it. I checked there at least twice, if not three times, WTF?
Murphy's Law I suppose.
Also this is a random change in perspective from UN and Preventer allied forces to the Army of sentarius in a minor independence conflict.
Also I develop the history of our earth with a mobile suit like technology that is similar but still distinctly different.
-Begin
Four weeks after Reynolds duel with quatre he stood in a small isolated military base in the North West corner of the former nation of china in earth 2. He was looking towards the North West at a small conflict. The front in the area had a small sphere where sentarius did not tread, but the preventer/un forces did. That small sphere was a group of people who wished to have their own independent identities. There were about 3 million people who had migrated to the area, as well as the local population of about three hundred thousand. The majority of the emigrants were from earth 1 Asia and a second largest amount from the Middle East and Eastern Europe but there were representatives from independent minded people from just about everywhere. A moderately sized group of about 8 countries, a hair larger than the former nation of Kazakhstan, and it took up part of their land too. The territory included the whole furthest northwest corner of china, just under about half of Mongolia, and a good portion of Russia in that area of the world.
The nations had various armaments. These were primarily used to fend of the UN forces hell-bent on retaking the area into the world nation. More so than wanting to deal with the sentarius forces on the other side of the group of countries.
The primary military production of the nation alliance, called the independent alliance (named with intent to have an oxymoron) was a predecessor to the mobile suit developed in earth two and the lead in military technology before the portal called 'cyber'. The cyber was very similar to the mobile suit, it was smaller however and more skeletal. That was true with traditional ones, more contemporary ones were a hair larger, usually a little more than half the size of a mobile suit, and had some more armor. The smaller traditional models had smaller power units, but they were very powerful for their size and the traditional units were very mobile. The contemporary ones were very well armed; many had large missile pods that contained any number of missiles and could be ejected when used up to increase mobility. Some cyber models lacked hands and in their place had some sort of weapon. Sometimes they had Gatling guns, a close range weapon. A laser, or a set of multiple tubes that held missiles, called, "the salt shaker from hell" was used. Weapons in place of hands were actually especially common due to their ease if use and actual decent effectiveness. Especially the non-explosive types because they could be very effective in close range combat. However cybers lacked the level of amphibiousness that mobile suits had. Most cybers could do little more than a half decent boosted jump. And those that could fly specialized solely in a hover like flight. There were a few more amphibious versions that had been developed in this conflict alone, but they were expensive and hard to make and not really as good as mobile suits.
Reynolds had been invited to the military base of one nation caught in the midst of an assault deep into it's territory by a group of Taurus two's to see if the plight of a group of weak independent minded people could get support from their foe's worst foe. Reynolds was watching the battle with some interest. Since the independent alliance had the inability to produce superior technology on their own with any numbers more than one or two they had to work with weapons dealers who sold to the highest bidder. They had some pull being in a region rich in titani-bolvox, an alloy key to the production of the countries one secret, neo-titanium two, lighter than the original but just as durable.
Reynolds watched as he saw that the few mobile suits that the alliance had, all with the same weight as their foes, but more armor, could survive more attacks however there were too few of them to make a difference. Also there were a number of cybers skating or hovering or something like that through the underbrush and those were ripping random massive holes in the enemy line due to their skating around so rapidly. However when they faced off with a Taurus two in the air they usually lost. But due to numbers and a defense system that destroyed many full or near full planes in the air, and the fact that there were more like it shooting from the mountains. In about an hour the battle was over with heavy losses on both sides, but the UN suffered heavier.
"So you see sir," a diplomatic leader with a suit on and a British accent who was named Caspian said, "We can win this war, we just need your help to make it certain."
Reynolds looked at a map of the area to his right; he got up from his seat and looked at it. "What territory do you desire for your nation?"
"The alliance wants three of our nations to border the Caspian Sea directly, other than that nothing more than what we will take from the UN and that can be arranged to dole out to whomever. We all already agreed that we were willing to turn it over to whomever."
Reynolds looked at the map, their alliance was already at the base of the mountains nearest the Caspian sea, the plains and the foot hills were too heavily defended for them to take on their own however. Reynolds had come with the ability the authoritative group and the backing within the sentarius army to make the alliance a reality. The region was useful for it was the only known area with a concentration of titani-bolvox this high. It would be a deadly blow to the UN if they lost the region. And a valuable trading ally for the Sentarius empire market. The emigrants had plenty of money and the economy was doing swell for a nation under constant attack. Also there were other various assorted natural resource deposits that were of value to any economy.
And of course he personally was sucker for a good cause.
"Well sir I believe we can make a deal. It may take a while but I'm sure the teams will be favorable."
"Thank you. We value any ally in our fight." The man said with a bow.
In the end the treaty came out, more or less, like so.
The independent alliance got the expanded territory to the Caspian Sea, and a small navy provided by the sentarius forces. In exchange sentarius got 1 base in the mountains for each country that got Caspian Sea territory and 1 on the shore per country, as well as a permanent sentarius empire base dock for citizens of the empire. Also the sentarius forces had bases established on the UN territory border while it was still on the border with the independent alliance, once they were gone half of the bases, along with the mobile suits inside, were turned over to the independent alliance.
The sentarius forces got one titani-bolvox mine in each country, as well as a direct trade agreement to be the number one trade member not directly in the alliance with government owned business. Number one meant 12.5 of international trade outside of the alliance. And there was a flat fee in money for all the support they were getting, as well as the massive number of mobile suits.
But it was still as far as everyone figured it was reasonable. Even if relations with sentarius went downhill sentarius was providing them with enough stuff the alliance could call their own the alliance could fight them off.
Once the treaty was done, which took about three weeks, the first force arrived. It was mostly a derelict force made up of older mobile suits but all of it was going to the alliance to use to whatever end they wished. The good suits were going to be the first to try and stave of the UN forces in the most key entryway, the ulan-daban pass. In a battle that would become remembered, approprieatly as the battle of ulan-daban pass.
Located in the Altay Mountains the ulan-daban pass is the easiest pass to cross in the mountain system, and one of two which is capable of being a successful mobile suit pass. With the other secure in alliance hands the sentarius forces had the obligation of at least forming a border with the UN forces that they could maintain. But because General Reynolds felt the need to show his allies that he was more than capable he himself deployed in his now pristine Gundam Heolster.
The forces under his command amounted to 80 Virgo three's. Forty manned Virgo two's thirty alliance cybers, and ten alliance Taurus's. Also there was a large engineering corp. ready and waiting to move in and establish some sort of permanent defenses about midway down the pass, the current goal for the month. Reynolds said that the whole pass was the goal for the month; he needed the base at a useable point by week three. He would take the midway point by week one, if not earlier.
He was wrong; he took it in half a day. Apparently the UN forces only had token guards actually in the official alliance territory. They thought it was more dangerous than it was. But Reynolds wasn't complaining when his squad arrived at the point. They simply took up a plateau where the first fort would be developed and called in the building crew.
Once the place was taken however the challenge began, even though the engineer corp. came with combat ready and trained cybers by the boatload the UN still was going to send a small army to keep the enemy from getting any further. But the alliance had one thing, the Gundam. And the first attack force learned that quickly.
When the group of planes and Taurus's in fighter mode came barreling down the pass the radar on the gun-pod battle ship and the one on the engineering corp. ship both picked it up very early. The estimated force came to about 15 planes capable of carrying 8 mobile suits and 30 Taurus's in mobile armor mode. Reynolds said he would single handedly take care of it. He did.
As he came up the pass the enemy detected him pretty quickly. Coming around the bend that marked the point where the alliance territory ended and UN territory began Reynolds had to deal with 15 Taurus two's. "Is this all they have?" He said with a chuckle as he activated his three pronged sword with the prongs all at 90 degree angles. "Piece of cake." Quickly charging into battle he sliced through two almost instantly. Then as the other 13 transformed he struck out with three of his active heat whips. "Why are you guys so damn focused on controlling these people so closely!" He shouted as he pierced the head of one suit, the cockpit of another and the leg of a third. A twitch of his arm and the suits broke into pretty even pieces and exploded.
A transmission to the lead plane from the commander of the first attacking unit came, "We've encountered an enemy!"
"An enemy." The leader said as he checked the radar. "Our radar confirms just one enemy, but only 10 of you. What happened?"
"Sir –" the man was momentarily cut off as an explosion was heard and the radar blips reduced by one more Taurus two. "It's the Gundam Heolster, the sentarius forces have deployed the Gundam Heolster, AAAH!"
Two shots were heard from his mobile suit, then the line went dead as two more Taurus two blips disappeared. "Damn they brought a Gundam here?" The commander pondered for a moment. "Deploy all the mobile suits and tell command that sentarius has given the alliance a higher rating than we thought it would. Gundam Heolster is present at the war front!" Both of his commands were executed simultaneously, but a missile barrage made his first less effective than he hoped. He looked at the radar as two of his planes went down, and three guards joined them. All of the 15 Taurus two blips that had been sent out were gone. And there was one unfriendly blip headed right towards the group. The commander heard his message simultaneously being broadcasted from each ship as the Gundam began raking the entire fleet with laser fire from where he was. Then in a flash he was among them all, only 15 Taurus two's able to deploy from their craft and ready to do battle. Two more planes were down in a heartbeat. "Damn them!" The commander shouted, "That Gundam is a monster from hell!" Then the monster looked at their plane. Darting over to it the Gundam sliced the ship in half without a moments delay.
"You bastards!" Reynolds shouted as he blew up the lead plane. "All these people want is independence and you give them oppression!" He shouted as all five heat whips sliced through both a Taurus two and a plane each. The remaining planes had all deployed their mobile suits, making for a total of 80 Taurus two's and 10 armed planes for the Gundam to face. It was just a little in Heolster's favor. Then Reynolds had Heolster open up its shoulder missile storage area and fire off the remaining missiles, which had 7 out of 8 full racks with 80 micro missiles each on them. The attacking force was utterly and totally destroyed. At a request from the front line troops Reynolds also collected some mobile suit remains for the engineering corp. and the repair men to work with as they needed it.
For two days a small force scavenged the battlefield and brought back scrap constantly. The UN forces were known to have been massing a little ways out from the pass but another troop shipment meant that the little force now had increased by 45 Virgo three's and 15 Virgo two's. Of course there were about 500 older model mobile suits that arrived. None of which were immediately deployed to the front lines. All forces given to the alliance were sent to the re-armoring stations where they received a 2 and a half inch layer of neo-titanium two and an anti beam coat. The old metal was used to make more neo-titanium two or became steel for civilian purposes. While it was not the initial intent of the sentarius army to allow the alliance army to become powerful enough to become not even one half as dependent on the sentarius army as it originally was that was what shipping any military technology did. As neo-titanium two was just that useful. Also it was plentiful as you only needed to add a small amount of titani-bolvox to the titanium while creating it in order to make the ideal neo-titanium two.
At the plateau the two ships had become three and various mobile suit carrying planes. There was a primitive runway and some hangars complete. But no living structures and just a large ditch and a dirt wall about 15 feet thick was the base's defense, of course that and the fact that they were on a plateau a hundred feet above the valley below.
On the third day as the barrack construction began UN forces were reported to be moving on the attack. Reynolds and a force of some 30 suits armed with special anti carrier weaponry took off to the other prospective base location to try and damage the enemy fleet as much as possible before they came around the bend in the pass.
Taking up positions with extra rocket launchers and various anti-air weapons and plenty of ammunition assigned to each mobile suit the group of 31 prepared a strong all natural defenses in an area they deemed suitable. Then about two hours later when the enemy fleet came into range they opened fire. The barrage was merciless. With cries of. "Stop the oppression." And, "The UN has no right to do this." Over 230 missiles were fired, as well 82 beam shots from a mere six beam sniper rifle weapons. The entire fleet was decimated by the ferocity of the assault, but still some were able to retreat. The fleet had been truly massive beyond what Reynolds had imagined the UN would send to deal with this problem. Perhaps they saw the value of the titani-bolvox. Perhaps there was some other reason they were trying so hard. Maybe he was the reason. Reynolds chuckled when he thought of that. If he was the reason then their little force could expect a Gundam some time in the future. If that was true and they sent any of the original Gundam pilots he would have to get better, sure he was good but Heero Yuy and Chang Wufei especially could beat him in combat. Duo Maxwell and Trowa Barton, were not as likely but they could do it.
Leaving the temporary location behind the small group returned to base to find that the sleeping quarters and what not were not done yet. However there was little they could do so they simply followed the standard of it all and went back to sleeping in their carrier ship while the work continued the whole night as engineer's raced to get as much of the defensive structures and quartering structures done as possible.
The third day of holding the fort brought a decent equipment shipment to accompany the 1,200 workers on the project. Also there were another 200 workers brought as well as massive amounts of building material and neo-titanium two. There were more specialized machines for building and some for repairing mobile suits as well.
As after the previous assault attempt some units went to gather scrap for whatever purposes it may be needed. Except that Reynolds in Heolster and about fifteen other mobile suits stood guards just in case of another attack.
As the sun set on the third day the first barracks had been completed, as well as a small portion of the wall facing the direction that the enemy was most likely to approach from, layer one of three layers of regular neo-titanium which would then be covered in reinforced concrete at a later stage.
Day four simply had more of the same. The first barracks became closer to useable as piping was set up and word of pipes from a nearby reservoir to be inside the fortress in eight days brought good news. Also such a large reserve of scrap had been built up inside the fort that new scrap was added to the temporary defense line. Ammunition to replace that used in the previous defense and then some was brought in. And the actual air control tower was completed, and temporarily wired to the engineering ship core. But no other power was to be had, that wouldn't be for a while.
Day five brought a satellite image of the enemy force. It looked to be about two hundred mobile suits and three siege ships designed for long range bombardments, longer than what the force could do from where they were. So in a new strategy for the on coming assault a new defensive position was taken immediately around the edge of the mountain along with the one that had been held for the last assault. The new position was held by the last major shipment of 80 Virgo three's only. However these were all armored with neo-titanium two and thus were much stronger in defensive capabilities. It brought all those mobile suits to defend but there none that went on the offensive. It was somewhat surprising, since they were luck enough not to be under attack at the moment the defenders simply increased their natural defenses in order to make it as hard as possible to take the positions.
Day six continued with the defense building. The pipes to bring water actually hit a soft area of rock and thus were able to do two and a half days worth of tunneling in one day.
Day seven, the day when Reynolds was supposed to have taken the pass by the official schedule had the entire operation seven days ahead of schedule by some miracle. A constant supply of building supplies as well as the actual arrival of the water pipes made the base that much more habitable. Also the entire base was now surrounded by the first layer of the three layers of neo-titanium. It had been beam coated and was getting cement poured over it to a height of eight feet and a thickness of six feet.
Day eight brought the massive UN assault. Two hundred fifty mobile suits and heavy siege craft that began bombarding the primary defenders shortly after entering the pass. The defenders had dug out a large cave which while far from complex had two completely sheltered openings. However the defenders had to sit for an hour before they could fire anything other that shots to try and stop the siege shells from making direct impacts.
Once a fair fire had begun on the enemy Reynolds got his Gundam into mobile armor mode and took off intending to destroy the siege craft and a few mobile suit carriers. Upon entering the range of the general fleet he began evasive maneuvers to the extreme as he dodged fire at a rate he never would have expected. Transforming the instant after entering the enemy attack force he used his forward momentum to strike out and destroy massive amounts of enemy things of unknown and un-specified type. He simply struck in order to kill them all. After a few moments of continuing with his mad dash forwards he came upon one siege machine, this was the one beam gun of the bunch. It took Reynolds naught but a moment to hit the machine and watch it go 'kaboom'. But then he realized there were more. Normal people would question going further into the already hectic fray. But not someone whose name was john Reynolds was an excellent mobile suit pilot and had a Gundam. Transforming yet again he dashed along the line and then ran back along the mountains. Sure he was no coward but he also wanted to finish this mission alive. Evading enemy fire with ease Reynolds reached the point where he had taken up a defense for the previous assault. Then he sent out a radio transmission. "I know how to keep them from coming back for a very long time. We simply need to push them away from us actively and try something offensive rather than sit here all day and do nothing."
"But sir we would be destroyed!" Someone shouted.
"Not if we bring forwards both battleships! If we concentrate all of our forces into one attack we can push them back to the valley opening and perhaps ravage the base there. That way they won't want to return."
"And you're saying leave the base with just cybers?"
"And anything else that can't move fast enough. But if we're going to retreat then we'll be back at the base long before it comes under fire."
"Sir!" The man said as he fired more aggressively taking out large assault craft. "Ready when we get at least a half assed force ready to attack sir!"
"Right, who's with us?" After a moment mobile suits could be seen taking off and battleships could be seen moving towards the enemy line. "CHARGE!" And in the very napoleon esque maneuver that it was Reynolds led a full frontal rapid pace charge into a massive enemy force that greatly eclipsed his own with almost nothing held in reserve. It was what he would consider to be the true soldier's choice in the future.
And then they were upon the line who never saw anything like this before, their charges were much slower and focused on setting up a perimeter to bombard the fortress to death. It was just rather inconvenient that they had to set up the bombardment point almost halfway down the pass.
In thirty minutes the enemy force was dead and they were pushing their charge down to the base where, when it was destroyed, the UN would stop trying to attack the ulan-daban pass.
-End-
Well I hope I made the bad guys look not all evil. Trying to help out the little guy with the challenge and being noble and all that.
I just wish I had the stamina to fully write out that battle. Ah well.
