Chapter 6 – Showdown in Indonesia and the Land of Peace
Disclaimer: As I've said before I do not own GS/GSD and some characters in this Fic belong to Gundam Seed Dark Destiny as I've said before (I hate disclaimers), in this story other than Krane and a few members of the Dark Celestials including their Mobile Suite designs nothing belongs to me.
10th March, 12:45pm; Victoria, Space Port
"I will be sending you to Carpentaria when we meet up with Yzak and Dearka, there you will go after the Legged Ship as you desired, ah…here they are" smirked Rau when he saw Yzak in handcuffs "my, my, Yzak. What have you done to piss him off now? You're lucky Krane didn't castrate you for disobeying orders!"
"And my mother would…" started Yzak but Krane sighed before smiling as Rau answered the idiot boy about something that he couldn't get into his head.
"I will tell you officially Yzak since you don't believe him, Krane and his Dark Celestials are outside the effects of the PLANT Supreme Council and even the present Chairman, if he says he'll kill you then he will and due to his connections he'll get away with it" smiled Rau coldly and almost grinned when Yzak's eyes widened and the Silverette went pale, the truth was sometimes the most painful.
"I hand this bag of meat over to you Rau, Dearka was…more bearable than his counterpart, also…you do know that Dearka is underage drinker don't you" smirked Krane and Dearka growled while Yzak gasped, Rau nodded showing he knew and both Athrun and Nicol showed disbelief.
"I assume you'd want to talk to me?" asked Rau and Krane nodded before the two walked off "now what is it you wanted to talk to me about!?"
"I'm going after the Archangel!" announced Krane as he led his father through the spaceport with obvious speed "that means that we have to finish the Neutron Jammer Cancellers so that our piloting based Mobile Suites can be completed, the Providence designs, when they are completed a number of issues will be concluded including this war!!"
"Very well, if your scientists work better under pressure, however expect the future Zala team to also be hunting after the Archangel!" announced Rau and Krane scowled in the worst way Rau though he could scowl.
"Fine, but if they get in my way, I'll kill them!" announced Krane before he headed off until a body glomped him.
"Krane!" chuckled the one who glomped him and Krane smirked as he looked up at his Protégé.
"So you made it, Antony Ephrata, how have you been 'Ant'?" smiled Krane as he set the two of them to sitting on the floor.
"I have tested the first Nuclear Reactor with the Prototype N-Jammer Canceller, I'm bringing it back to the Head Scientist, however the NJC isn't officially successful therefore the Noir Benevolence is equipped with two extra normal batteries to compensate should the NJC give out!" announced Antony with a smile as he followed Krane after standing "so, what is our next target!?"
"An Assault Ship of the Earth Forces, worth an Order of the Nebula actually, codenamed: the Archangel!" announced Krane with a smirk, the Noir Benevolence was generations ahead of its time due to its pilot's designing.
29th March, 5:00pm; Archangel-Class Assault Ship: Archangel, Bridge
"We haven't been attacked by that ship in awhile!" announced Murrue as she looked between Mu and Kira "it's odd, that man seemed obsessed, why isn't he following!?"
"He is, he's just been waiting for the right opportunity and we are entering the Strait of Malacca, with all the land and Islands he isn't going to wait for a reason to attack!" announced Mu as he thought "I'm sure he has a completely new replacement Mobile Suites, mostly based for aerial attacks, knowing that man, he's probably got all his Dark Celestial forces in Indonesia waiting for us!!"
"He is obsessed with something, I wonder what…" started Murrue except Kira cut in immediately.
"I think he's after me!" announced Kira and Mu sighed with a smile.
"And there I thought he'd be after me, was it that obvious, of course he's after you!" announced Mu with a tap on the brunette's shoulder "but that is why you've got to fight harder, you have to find a way to counter him and all his power, I should know considering I've been beaten by him more times than I can count!!"
"Captain, we're halfway through the Strait of Malacca now and…we're picking up, enemy signals in the area!" announced Miriallia as she looked at CIC "also, we're detecting a surfacing signal, it that black Ship! Distance 5000, it's behind us!!"
"Take the ship to Level 1 Battle Stations, what are the enemy's numbers!?" questioned Murrue as she turned to face Miriallia.
"One enemy ship and four teams of five Black ZuOOT Units, the enemy ship is launching Mobile Suites: Forty-One DINNs, Two CGUE DEEP Arms and…Two Flight enabled Gundam-Class Mobile Suites!" announced Miriallia and Murrue sighed as they went to Level One battle stations.
5:30pm; Outside Archangel-Class Assault Ship: Archangel, Battlefield
"Sink the Archangel, but leave the Strike!" announced Krane as he flew down towards the Archangel ignoring the pitiful missiles that were shot down in his wake.
"Yes, my Lord!" announced his Soldiers before they jetted off ahead of him to attack the Archangel's defences.
"So this is the mighty Archangel, I must admit that it is superior to the designs of the Agamemnon-Classes and is even stronger than the Izumo-Classes, however one must consider those who are in control!" announced Antony as he glared at the ship from within his Noir Benevolence before smirking "I'll test the Strike!"
"Very well, damn you, Mu!!" growled Krane as he dodged an Agni shot from the passing Skygrasper "no matter how many times I sink you, you keep coming back, but that is what I'd expect of a Newtype!"
"So this is the Strike, unimpressive, you all need to die!" roared Antony as he launched the "Corruption" DRAGOONs which zoomed around the ship, the DRAGOONs fired down on the Archangel damaging the armour at points however at the same time the Remote Weapons were shot down by CIWS as they lacked Phase Shift, the Strike began to fire at the flying Gundam while Krane watched from the rear and scowled when his DINNs were being shot down after the wings had been 'clipped' by the Skygrasper as it flew by.
"Damn it Mu, stay still so I can shoot you down!" yelled Krane as he fired the Reverse-Engineered "Scylla" 580mm multi-phase beam cannon which the Skygrasper countered with the Agni Cannon.
"The Strike is truly an impressive piece of equipment, if only it were in more capable hands" laughed Antony as he dodged the Noir Benevolence from a shot launched at him from the Strike's Beam Rifle, drawing a "Rosiel" Beam Sabre the Noir Benevolence attacked suddenly and cut the beam rifle in two which exploded as the Strike threw it away, the Strike drew its beam sabre and jumped up to attack however Antony drew the second "Rosiel" Beam Sabre and slashed down towards the Strike's Shield while firing a shot from a "Corruption" DRAGOON to knock the Strike's Shield on the right angle so that Antony's blade could knock it aside from the Strike's grip.
"That's enough, we're withdrawing!" announced Krane and everyone looked back at him in surprise "we are reaching the point where the 'Zala Team' will be kindly taking over for us, all teams are to meet up at Carpentaria, any questions!!?"
"No, My Lord!" announced the Dark Celestial Pilots as they began breaking off attack measures and a few downed DINNs used what little engine power they had left to glide over to the Varda as it made preparations to submerge into the sea.
5th April, 8:00pm; Onogoro Island: Morgenroete Dock, Entrance Way
"I am glad that you could join us here at Orb, Krane" smiled Uzumi as he led the ZAFT Supreme Commander as he stepped off the large black ship that waited in dock.
"I came because you offered me a deal, you said that you needed some issues ironed out with the designs of your Mobile Suites, know that the O.S. is out of my capabilities however a pilot from the Atlantic Federation aboard the Archangel is on route to this location an knowing those following it should be forced in Orb's Territorial Waters due to damages!" announced Krane with a smirk as he followed Uzumi into a office like room.
"Take off your mask, you need not wear it here, I saw your real face less than thirteen years ago" announced Uzumi and Krane did so slowly forcing Uzumi to hold in a gasp.
Krane's eyes while adjusting to the light were emotional and it was rare to sit within the presence of a Newtype Royal yet see the emotions they were feeling, that ended the moment Krane closed off his emotions again in his eyes after the pupil had registered to the light change, since Newtype Royals had to gain control over their emotions and turn them into energy or their powers would burn them out even with Krane's immunity to the Newtype Curse he would instead gain stress. Krane's face looked a lot like Le Creuset's own and also looked as though it were chiselled out of limestone in twilight as he looked tanned outside of the building but inside it was a dull greyish tan, Krane eyes with or without emotion were powerful and the darkest of amethyst, his hair was a dark brown tone and lightly curly when it reached full length.
"You are very grateful Krane, also, what was the payment you wanted?" questioned Uzumi and Krane smirked as he handed out two disks.
"One disk is the Mobile Suite design I want you to build before transferring it to Frostfang before Operation Spitbreak, I will be sending the equipment via Space Drop however know that the final piece of equipment that needs to be added is on the other disk and you can use that whenever you please however it must be kept out of reach of the Atlantic Federation and all data needs to be transferred to a safe location if your defences are breached!" announced Krane with a growl as he nodded for Uzumi to look at the disks causing the Uzumi to freeze at what he saw.
"This Mobile Suite design is amazing, but this next file…what! The Neutron Jammer Canceller!!" gasped Uzumi and Krane smirked "I always believed that the NJC existed considering the Nazca-Classes and the PLANTs ran on backup Nuclear Engines but I never believed that you would hand it over willingly to another country…"
"Ah, but the Mobile Weapon I want you to build is very important and has enough weaponry to need demands of a Nuclear Powerplant, therefore this weapon being built by Orb will counter the data we have on the G-Weapons being built at Heliopolis which you partially paid for that" nodded Krane as he pointed out the obvious "also the effect of lack of Nuclear energy has caused an economic fall that isn't as bad in this area but still a problem, therefore I am giving you this technology and helping you for reasons other than my own, there are things going on that only Newtypes like ourselves know about and I have a feeling that you hate the Newtype Council about as much as me!"
"Very well" sighed Uzumi as he looked towards the black ship on the opposite side of the dock "when will you begin work on the Astray Mobile Suite designs that you brought with you last time, I am sorry, but the Gundam-Class Astray designs slipped into the Sahaku Family's hands and things got…sticky from there on"
"It is fine, I will rest for now" nodded Krane as he stood before leaving the room to get to work.
Info – And so Krane's purposes when it comes to Orb are tied in even more with the true story line and his attempts at helping Orb complete their form of Mobile Suites, if anything I bet you can't guess what Gundam design he is building in Orb, sadly his Neo-CGUE is going to get trashed next. Review!!
Dark Celestial Gundam-Class Mobile Suite data:
Code: ZGMF-L08A/ZRMS-X01
Name:Noir Benevolence
Producers: Prototype Design by Meteor City
Powerplant: 1x Ultra compact nuclear fission reactor
Operating system: Godly United Nuclear Deity Adaption Module
Weapons:
1x "Uriel" Anti-Matter Cannon, located in chest
2x "Alexiel" Beam Rifles
2x "Rosiel" Beam Sabres
1x "Michael" Anti-Ship Sword
16x "Corruption" DRAGOONs (1x Beam Rifle each), DRAGOONs are small, located on back
Other Equipment:
Trans-Phase Armour (later Variable Trans-Phase Armour)
Atmospheric Flight
First Mobile Suite to use a basic small DRAGOON and DRAGOONs with atmospheric Flight
"Armure Lumiere" mono-phase Lightwave shield
Neutron Jammer Canceller
Information: A Gundam designed and built by Krane's protégé confirmed before the Operation Spitbreak, it is a Gundam-Class that is designed to test the N-Jammer Canceller
Pilot(s): Antony 'Ant' Ephrata