Chapter 10 – The Battles of Mendel
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.
4th July, 12:45pm; Aprilius One: Government Building, Patrick Zala's Office
"Ah, Krane, welcome!" announced Patrick with a smile as Krane stepped into the room and nodded "I have to admit that all your movements on the military scale is awfully confusing, especially your numbers or resources, how did you get pirates to join your cause as well?"
"I have my methods" smiled Krane as he thought about his dear sister: Silvafra's high mental capabilities including the abilities to control and alter memories of anyone even weak Newtypes "but regardless, the fact remains that Athrun Zala escaped your capture and went with Lacus Clyne on the Eternal, this is unforgivable since you should have killed Athrun the moment he came through that door!"
"Then you should have…" started Patrick but Krane cut him off.
"I was on route back to the PLANTs when it happened, don't you dare push the blame on me, otherwise I will have you out of office before you can say 'Open the Office door'!" seethed Krane and Patrick sat back in his chair as Krane's glare burned into him "I am incredibly capable to lead our armies into battle but you have to understand that I can't be everywhere at once, therefore I have returned to the PLANTs upon understanding that earth based combat isn't going to be the crowning achievement of this stage of the war, I assume that my bill to reorganize the spare fleets into a fighting force has been passed?"
"Yes, they are awaiting your command on the notion!" announced Patrick and Krane nodded as he moved towards the display on the wall.
"Then I will get in touch with them before I head off to Mendel!" announced Krane who answered before Patrick could ask his question "that is where the Eternal, Kusanagi, Archangel, Freedom and Justice have fled to!"
"I see, I have already given Le Creuset the mission to hunt down the Eternal, do you think that reinforcements will be necessary!?" asked Patrick with a worried look and Krane nodded.
"I have confirmation that an Archangel-Class, two Agamemnon-Classes and four Nelson-Classes are planning to search out the Archangel and therefore Freedom as well as its sibling!" announced Krane with a look "you must know that it is unwise to allow OMNI to gain the schematics of either or the N-Jammer Canceller Data, the data from the designs could prove quite fatal to our cause, therefore I will be heading out to try and retrieve the allegiance of Athrun Zala and Kira Yamato as they are both Coordinators!!"
"I see, how many units will you need to take!?" questioned Patrick and Krane did a quick metal calculation in his head.
"I will be taking the Cuzco-Classes: Respire and the Relate with Kale and Cecile in command to go after the Eternal and the Nuclear powered Gundams, just be patient, even if I fail I will make sure that no deal is made between the Three Ships Alliance as their known and OMNI!" announced Krane with a Dark Celestial Salute and bow before moving to leave "good day Chairman!"
5th July, 4:30pm; Pre-Minerva-Class Heavy Battleship: Varda, Krane's Office
"How can we stand up to the Freedom and Justice, their nuclear powered Gundams while we are using battery powered Mobile Suites, I say that we should just hack into the their O.S. and blow them up!" growled Asuzur as he ranted and Krane sighed with Golden Eyes as he used Techno Interface.
"Impossible, it seemed the Fallen have specifically designed the Gundams that not even my hacking skills can enter their O.S. and it only becomes worse with the fact that neither the Freedom nor Justice has a active P.L.A.N wireless link activated at this moment in time!" announced Krane with a growl "what did Rau do to their O.S!?"
"They were designed to be used by Newtypes!?" asked Antony and Krane's glare silenced him.
"No, they were specifically designed for next generation Newtype Gundams that we were going to produce from the exact physical design of the Justice and Freedom, due to the simple fact they were stolen and Rau had gotten near their development area, the O.S. is not allowing my access as it is unconfirmed hacking and it has no P.L.A.N wireless ling operable in which I can use as a fast lane back door!" explained Krane as he seethed at the incompetence of his genetic father "I'm going to need good reasons why I don't just kill him!!"
"We should just enter combat with the Three Ships Alliance and hope that we get lucky, we have two nuclear Gundams of our own" smiled Cecile as she indicated towards Krane and Antony.
"The Black Providence and Noir Benevolence, both units should have the power to defeat Freedom and Justice, it all depends on the power of the pilot really" shrugged Kale as he leaned on Krane's desk with one lag crossed over the other.
"The X09A and the X10A are not connected to the P.L.A.N, they are creations of Newtype engineering and therefore are illegal, the pilots who have come into contact with that project illegally after its theft will need to be destroyed as well as anyone and anything it has come into contact with!" muttered Zake and Jake nodded "there is no other way"
"That is unimportant, the real issue is if OMNI gain the N-Jammer Canceller data within their designs and find a way to mass produce them, if they succeed in their recreation of the NJC they will once again regain their Nuclear capabilities!" announced Krane with a snarl "if they gain nukes then there is little our fortresses can do to stand in their way, Blue Cosmos will genocide every Coordinator at the PLANTs, this will jeopardize the Newtype secret as well!"
"Very well, I will set course for Mendel, we will join up with Le Creuset along the way!" announced Renaldo with a salute before heading out into the corridor to get the ship underway.
12th July, 10:00am; Within Mendel Colony: Labs, Office Area
"This place was used by Dr Hibiki to create the Ultimate Coordinator and in such a lot other projects as well as your cloned siblings were sacrificed!" announced Rau and Krane stepped out of an alcove which Rau looked in his direction "isn't that right!?"
"It is true!" announced Krane as he stepped out to stand beside Rau "many of the clones used received genes from Al Da Flaga and I was the original for the Ultimate Coordinator Project but due to differences I was constituted into the Perfect Coordinator Project which they failed to fully replicate even with the usage of my clones"
"See, I'm not the only one who has suffered from these hennas acts!" yelled Rau and Krane shook his head as he walked down the stairs off to the side.
"I wash my hands with this, Rau, don't continue this crap any long" growled Krane before he left the room in it's entirely.
2:00pm; Outside Mendel, Battlefield
Krane dodged a few shots from a group of Strike Daggers before folding his DRAGOONs forwards and opening a barrage on their ranks causing the Daggers to explode, next the Strike Daggers came from behind and Krane folded the DRAGOONs backwards so that they fired at the Strike Daggers behind him, an Agamemnon-Class fired at the Black Providence but Krane simply detached the locks on the Backpack and sent the DRAGOONs flying through Zero-G before raining green fire down upon the OMNI Mobile Weapon Carrier which swerved too late and ended up a fireball. The Forbidden dived away from Krane when it noticed that the "Geschmeidig Panzer" energy deflection armor would not protect from a shot to the rear as the DRAGOONs moved to get behind the OMNI Gundam, Krane laughed as he fired at it anyway trying to slow it down enough for a single DRAGOON Pod to get behind the Forbidden, from the corner of his eye he noticed Rau's CGUE relaxing off to the side as he observed the battle.
"Hey, Kira!" shouted Krane as he charged forwards towards the distracted Freedom and slashed with the beam saber in his composite shield causing Kira to block with both of the Freedom's Beam Sabers "want to play another game!?"
"You!" shouted Kira as he drew the Freedom's "Lupus" and opened fire which Krane dodged backwards before using the DRAGOONs to fire down on all sides of the Freedom causing it to do near impossible moves to dodge.
"Not bad, Kira, isn't that Flay Allster's voice!?" questioned Krane with a laugh as he recalled all his DRAGOONs and withdrew to let the battle carry on as it may, at the same time the Varda dropped out of Mirage Colloid and fired its cannons which destroyed the last Agamemnon-Class while the Dominion prepared its withdraw.
5:00pm; Pre-Minerva-Class Heavy Battleship: Varda, Krane's Office
"You had the chance to destroy the Freedom and the Justice, because of you the chances of the N-Jammer Canceller falling into OMNI's hands is at an all time high, do you know the consequences of OMNI regaining Nuclear capabilities!" yelled Rau but Krane grabbed his throat and lifted Rau against the wall with at least twenty centimeters off the ground.
"I know very well that it was you how gave Azrael the NJC and it was you who plans for Humanity's demise, you are a disgusting wretch Le Creuset, I will enjoy your time in repentance!" sneered Krane before throwing Rau across the room which he landed on his back on the coffee table between the two leather suites and rolled onto the floor with a groan "get out of my sight!!"
"You know, that was a little harsh, maybe you should say sorry!" announced Antony as he walked through the doorway with a smirk as Rau limped out "if you ask me, however, I believe he deserved it!"
"The man is a traitor to his blood and our ancesctors, he is nothing more than a criminal in need of repentance, I wonder if it will be a living repentance or a dying one" smirked Krane as he relaxed back "he did point a finger at the innocent Morningstar forgetting that he has God's favour"
"True, when are we launching the defence of Boaz, may I ask!?" questioned Antony and Krane nodded before answering.
"We will make the first defensive line on the 23rd September, until then we are to track down the spies working for Rau in ZAFT and terminate them under the guise of treason, I will comment that there are spies to Patrick!" announced Krane with a nod "everything will begin soon"
Info – And that is the end of that bloody chapter, if you can't guess, then the battle of Boaz is next and following that the chaos at Jachin Due however that won't be the last chapter! Review!!