Chapter 7 – Battle Outside of Orb and the Black Providence
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. There will be other things in this and future chapters that also don't belong to me, quotes, can one guess what book it's from.
15th April, 12:45pm; Orb Union, Morgenroete
"And this way is the new Astray models that are still incomplete such as replicas of the Blue Frame, Red Frame and Gold Frame!" announced Erica as she led the Archangel pilot into the hangers where Krane was working with his mask on "ah, here is the genius behind the original three Astray units, Lucifel the Morningstar!"
"What?" questioned Mu with an annoyed look while the man in question stepped up behind the Newtype Noble.
"What is the matter Mu, dislike being in my presence, it is that very attitude that makes me feel the same!" snapped Krane as he spoke next the Mu's head but pulled his head away laughing as Mu spun around before his hand went to his gun belt except it lacked a gun, they were in neutral territory and therefore guns were not allowed, Krane however still had his Katanasheathedon his waist and Mu knew he was at a disadvantage.
"Yes Lucifel, this man here is the Supreme Commander of ZAFT, he is a special guest of the Representative who has requested that I don't give out his real name to anyone!" announced Erica as she smiled at the glaring pair.
"In short, he wants to remain a mystery to all those not loyal to him, the Bastard has always been like that" growled Mu and Krane shrugged before turning to face Kira.
"I am able to increase production rate of the New Astray designs as well as make models of later designs however I cannot create a high level O.S. that works for Naturals, but I have had reports that you Mr Yamato, have extensive capabilities when it comes to Mobile Suite O.S. designing as seen in North Africa and Heliopolis" smirked Krane as he looked around the hanger "I believe you have asked favours of the Orb Union and therefore it would be best to follow their requests, limping out of dock with my ship willing to follow, is not apparently pleasant!"
"Okay, meanwhile, you will not be attacking the Archangel" warned Kira and Krane looked surprised for a moment before laughing lightly.
"This is a neutral country that I have a mansion on, I don't think I'd like to be banned from its territorial waters until I have a very good reason, the Archangel is just one ship and not worth it!" announced Krane as he began to walk off with a wave in their direction.
"I really hate that man" growled Mu under his breath.
"I heard that!" announced Krane causing Mu to froth at the mouth in hatred.
16th April, Pre-Minerva-Class Heavy Battleship: Varda, Bridge
"Are you sure, my Lord!?" questioned Renaldo as he looked back at Krane who nodded without a look of doubt.
"The Archangel will leave Port tomorrow morning, we are to prepare to confront it the moment it leaves the Territorial Waters of Orb, we must be prepared!" announced Krane as he stood before quoting lines from his favourite book "when the war of the beasts brings about the world's end, the goddess descends from the sky, wings of light and dark spread afar! She guides us to bliss, her gift everlasting!!"
"Ah, yes, the gift of the Goddess!" announced Antony as he looked up at Lucifel "is it Pandora's Box left behind by Andras Casaba or maybe something else!?"
"As you know, Yahweh and Lucifel were created by Minerva thee Goddess, she was the last of the line of Divines before the rule of Hi-Angels began" muttered Krane as he led Antony off the bridge "the Gift of the Goddess is one of the Divines most sacred secrets, Yahweh and Lucifel searched it out and is reincarnated into Powerful Newtypes as they continue their search, as either God or the Devil they promised to find the Gift left by their Parents!"
"But what is it!!" growled Antony and Krane smiled as he took a book out from his coat named LOVELESS.
"Infinite in mystery is the gift of the goddess" smirked Krane as he quoted a line in the book before closing it shut "I assume that answers your question, but, it does leave one to wonder doesn't it?"
"Yes, but how are we to gain data on the 'Gift of the Goddess', is there data you have learned of that could show?" asked Antony and Krane nodded as he sat down before opening the book once again.
"When the war of the beasts brings about the world's end" smirked Krane before closing the book "I believe that is the lead were looking for!"
"Ah!" announced Antony as he understood "you mean…"
"Yes, we need a 'War of the Beasts' and a 'World's End', the rate this war is going we'll get our answers soon enough!" announced Krane with a chuckle "we just need to be patient, and…take to the sky"
17th April, 10:00am; Outside Orb, Battlefield
"Scum!" growled Antony as he launched all of the "Corruption" DRAGOONs at the Skygrasper as it flew by evading as many shots as possible while returning fire using the Agni Cannon, the DRAGOONs followed Skygrasper One higher into the air and continued to fire upon it while Skygrasper Two fired missiles down from above and destroyed two DRAGOONs, meanwhile the DINN's Wings were getting clipped a second time in a month when they came near the Archangel and it seemed that the Coordination on the ship had improved, not just the armour from being repaired.
"Annoying, damn them!" growled Krane as he aimed the Reverse-Engineered "Scylla" 580mm multi-phase beam cannon, the "Shiva" 115mm railguns and the JDP8-MSY02 directed thermal energy cannon in a full burst which was dodged by the Strike as it jumped at Krane using the "Schwert Gewehr" anti-ship sword.
"They've gotten better since Orbit, our ground based weaponry are pathetic anyway!" growled Asuzur as he dodged his DINN away from enemy fire followed by Zake and Jake aboard Subflight Lifters until one got shot down.
"This is just obnoxious!" growled Zake as he dodged the Valiant Shots as his brother grabbed onto the bottom of his Subflight Lifter after his own was destroyed.
"Antony, take the Strike, I'll deal with the Skygraspers!" announced Krane as he headed after the two Skygraspers while the Noir Benevolence drew the "Michael" Anti-Ship Sword and headed after the Strike as it used the Skygraspers as Subflight Lifter units before jumping at the Noir Benevolence, the two clashed using their Anti-Ship Swords before disengaging and heading back to the opposite side of the battle, the Strike tried to go after Krane except Antony intervened.
"I'm afraid that you aren't authorized to get near Krane on this battlefield!" announced Antony with a laugh as he pushed the Strike away with the Noir Benevolence's Booster engines but gasped when he noticed the Prototype N-Jammer Canceller had failed "damn it, this Mobile Suite is incomplete!!"
"Commander Hibiki, we're here to help!" announced Athrun as the Aegis and its team launched from a Voskolv-Class Submarine Carrier and Krane's eye twitched, someone were to see a War Hero with an annoyed eye twitch would think it hilarious but those close to Krane knew better, however Krane didn't have time to say anything as the Strike charged and Krane managed to dodge to the side and fire a shot however the "Schwert Gewehr" anti-ship sword managed to cut the side of the cockpit which caused the Powerplant to short-circuit which blew the Reverse-Engineered "Scylla" 580mm multi-phase beam cannon and knocked out all the remaining weaponry however Krane managed to fire all Missiles and launched the Subflight Lifter at the Strike which sent it back to impact the Archangel's upper deck as it turned to face the new coming threat.
"Grr, not Krane, how dare you!" growled Antony as he prepared to charge after the Strike when he noticed the Neo-CGUE fall away heavily damaged with deactivated Phase Shift, Krane meanwhile had his annoying eye twitch increase tenfold and Krane couldn't decide if it was because of the fact he was distracted by the Zala Team or the pain of having shards of shrapnel in his stomach, leg and side.
"Antony, call the withdraw…" announced Krane's distorted voice as Asuzur's DINN caught the falling remains of the Neo-CGUE "the advantage has turned against us!"
"Yes, my Lord" smiled Antony with a breath "all forces, we are withdrawing, return to the Varda before being debriefed!"
"Yes, my Lord!" announced all the Dark Celestial Pilots before they headed their units back towards the Varda.
5:00pm; Pre-Minerva-Class Heavy Battleship: Varda, Bridge
"It seems the battle is over, Nicol Amalfi is KIA however we have been able to retrieve his Corpse, we are transferring it to Meteor City for rehabilitation" announced Renaldo with a sigh as he nodded to the shuttle being escorted by the Noir Benevolence outside the viewpoint "meanwhile, we have a report from Orb, the Black Providence will be completed within five days and will take a further three days to reach Frostfang, shall we head there right now or shall we head for Carpentaria!?"
"Carpentaria for R&R, I have overextended my Mobile Suite pilots and myself which led to our confirmed defeat if we had stayed around the other day, send a message to Antony to get some R&R before joining with the Spitbreak Space Drop Operation!" announced Krane as he sat back "as soon as six days have passed we are to head to Frostfang for resupply before heading back into Space before Operation Spitbreak, we are to clean out the OMNI Fleets that are attempting to stop Space Drops, then we are to observe Spitbreak!"
"Understood, my Lord!" announced Renaldo as he headed off to make preparations.
18th April, 9:00am; Carpentaria: Command HQ, Krane's Borrowed Office
Krane sat with one leg crossed over the other as he read the data on the Strike's destruction before growling in fury at the person to cause its destruction, Athrun Zala who was the Bastard Son of that Bastard Chairman had attempted a final assault on Kira Yamato and killed him, the Zala Son better hope he stayed MIA or Krane would rip his skull and backbone clean out of his body and keep it as a trophy! But the Good news were that the Black Providence was being finished off and the final checks were soon to begin and in return, the Akatsuki prototypes and the Tsuki were also reaching completion so long as the blueprints were followed down to the last note, the Akatsuki and Tsuki were two units that would lead to complete overthrow of the natural order of the world and it was Krane who had designed them. Now he needed to simply wait…
Info – And that is the end of another Chapter and the Neo-CGUE, then again it used up too much energy anyway, I mean 3 Batteries to power it and make it operational. Well, you'll be seeing the Black Providence next Chapter as well as Operation Spitbreak from Antony's point of view and the cleaning up of OMNI Space Forces on patrol by Krane, which includes Dagger units and Cosmograspers. Review!!
Dark Celestial Pre-Minerva-Class Heavy Battleship Data (if you can't guess, I've altered it a second time):
Pre-Minerva-class Super Battleship
Ship Type: Super Battleship
Class:Pre-Minerva
Launched: November 25th CE 70
Ships of Class: LHM-BB00 Varda
Commanding Officer: Renaldo Verando
General Characteristics
Length: 1050 meters
Propulsion: 42x thermonuclear pulse thrusters
Armour: Gundanium Alloy armour, unknown thickness
Armament:
(C.E. 72) (2nd Battle of Jachin Due and after)
1x QZX-0 Prototype "Tannhäuser" positron blaster cannon
2x "Lohengrin" positron blaster cannon, stored in sides and of Izumo-Class design
3x XM46 "Tristan" retractable dual beam cannon, the two on the outside are mobile while the one on the inside is solitary
5x Retractable M09 "Isolde" triple 420 mm naval rifle
36x 40 mm mutli-barrel CIWS
16x "Wolfram" M-25 torpedo launcher, located under ship
44x "Neidhart"/"Parsifal" heavy missile launcher
32x "Dispar" intercept missile launcher
4x Anti-beam depth charge launcher
?x Gamma Radiation Shield projectors
(C.E. 73) (Extra added weapons and upgrades/downgrades)
1x QZX-2 "Super Tannhäuser" positron blaster cannon
2x "Super Lohengrin" positron blaster cannon, stored in sides and of Izumo-Class design
3x XM48 "Tristan" retractable dual beam cannon, the two on the outside are mobile while the one on the inside is solitary
5x Retractable M11 "Isolde" triple 420 mm naval rifle
40x 40 mm mutli-barrel CIWS
8x Wolfram" M-25 torpedo launcher, located under ship
11x "Neidhart"/"Parsifal" heavy missile launcher
8x "Dispar" intercept missile launcher
33x "Corisian" Anti-Ship chemical Missile launcher
24x "TRI" Anti-Mobile Suite/intercept chemical missile launchers
8x "Zoridium" heavy chemical torpedo launcher, located under ship
2x Anti-beam depth charge launcher
?x Gamma Radiation Shield projectors
(Added Equipment September CE 74 onwards)
Mirage Colloid System
Portable PLAN Computer System in Command Room
Max MS Complement = 50 Mobile Suites/Armours, by 30th December C.E. 73 it is upgraded to carry 75 Mobile Suites/Armours
Mobile Suit Complement:
(C.E. 71) (Earth Bound)
1x ZGMF-XL200ѣ Neo-CGUE
1x ZGMF-L08A/ZRMS-X01 Noir Benevolence
2x YFX-200 CGUE DEEP Arms
?x AMF-101 DINN
(C.E. 71) (Space Bound)
1x ZGMF-L13EX Black Providence Gundam Krane Yamato Custom
1x ZGMF-L08A/ZRMS-X01 Noir Benevolence
1x ZGMF-LX09T DOM Trooper Original Spec Type Asuzur Custom
1x ZGMF-L600 Black GuAIZ Zake Bonaparte Custom
1x ZGMF-L600 Black GuAIZ Jake Bonaparte Custom
?x ZGMF-L600 Black GuAIZ
(C.E. 71) (2nd Battle of Jachin Due)
15x ZGMF-L600 Black GuAIZ
5x YFX-L200 CGUE DEEP Arms
10x ZGMF-L1017AS GINN Assault Type
1x ZGMF-L999A ZAKU Trial Type Goud Vair Custom
1x ZGMF-LX09T DOM Trooper Original Spec Type Asuzur Custom
1x ZGMF-L13EX Black Providence Gundam Krane Yamato Custom
(November C.E. 73) (Space bound)
1x ZGMF-L99G (Extreme) Despair Gundam
1x ZGMF-L98C/MRF Berserker Gundam
1x ZGMF-X3000Q Providence ZAKU
?x ZGMF-X2000 Black GOUF Ignited Custom
(11th December C.E. 73 Onwards)
1x ZGMF-L99G (Extreme) Despair Gundam
1x ZGMF-L98C/MRF Hell Berserker Gundam
1x ZGMF-X777S Prophecy
?x ZGMF-2200 ZAKU II Shadow
?x ZGMF-2350 Garuda High Speed Type
?x NZMD-02-1/2 Dark Cherub (MKI and MKII)
?x NZMD-01 Dark Ophanim
(Third Bloody Valentine War)
1x ZGMF-L99G Despero
1x ZGMF-L98C/MRF Hell Berserker Gundam
1x ZGMF-X777S Prophecy
?x NZMD-02-1/2 Dark Cherub (MKI and MKII)
?x NZMD-01 Dark Ophanim
?x NZGMF-2500 ZAKU III
?x NZGMF-2700 HiZAKU
?x NZGMF-01P DOM CANNON
Linear Catapults:2
Information: Krane Yamato built the Varda as his Flagship when he became a member of the ZAFT Commanders and used it as his team's personal Mothership; it was left unfinished until Krane learned data on the Gundam Project at Heliopolis which he used the data to add beam weapons to the frame as well as hidden Positron Cannons, before the battle of Jachin Due he received a copy of the Neutron Jammer Canceller from Rau but didn't have time to finish the Varda's ultimate line of defence before Jachin Due, he managed to install the Gamma Radiation Shield Projectors however just before the Treaty of Junius was signed giving no choice but for the ship to be excepted while bypassing the conditions of the Treaty. Beforehand however the ship was fairly damaged in the Battle of Jachin Due while fighting against the Eternal, Kusanagi, three Nelson-Classes and a Nazca-Class under the command of Commander Sato who was a loyalist to Patrick Zala. By the 2nd Bloody Valentine War it becomes powerful enough to easily destroy the Fallen's Avenger Battleship except due to lack of effort the ship never intentionally tried to sink it, it is expected that with the new upgrades it could survive against the Minerva, Archangel and at least four Izumo-Class Battleships