Gundam Seed: Killer's Realm

Phase 12: Crimson Breeze, Scarlet Current

Indian Ocean Airspace

12:36 P.M. Local, 9:36 P.M. Orb

Hank was happy with his position. He piloted a recon-refit Constantine with flight pack and pointed out targets for his ship, the A.F.S Wilburton (after a famous admiral in the reconstruction war), and sat back while cannon fire and swarms of flying Constantines, along with the fleet of Megalodons accompanying his ship, tore apart said target.

What made him decidedly terrified was the black winged form of the Augury soaring in his direction, followed closely by the Shadowfax. Of somewhat less immediate, but no less debilitating panic was the sight of the renegade Barachiel hovering slightly over the sea. Hank poked furiously at his communications, hoping that he could be saved by the carrier that he'd spent half an hour flying from.

Hank wasn't very smart.

Then the comms screen opened, showing the on-duty communications officer.

"What is it, Hank?"

"The Barachiel's here! God damn it! The Augury's on my tail right now! Send everyone!" Then Hank calmed down and looked behind him. The Barachiel was still there, and the Shadowfax, but the mobile armor was heading back and there was no sign of the Augury. Relieved, he turned his Constantine around. And came face-to-faceplate with the Augury. "Holy Sh-!" Hank never got to finish, the Augury's shield piercing straight through the cockpit and pulverizing most of the simple pilot's body, causing gore to cake the point of the shield.

Frowning at the smear on his shield, Kira flew the Augury into the 1st Hanger Deck's catapult, taking a moment to shake the remains of the Constantine onto the deck before walking the Augury into its berth. The mechanics swarmed over the carcass, many recoiling at the blood leaking from the torso cavity before using an industrial ion beam to slice apart armor plates, getting into the inner systems.

A window opened on the Augury's HUD just as Kira was about to open the cockpit.

"Don't get out yet. It seems that Constantine was able to signal its carrier for reinforcements." Liene stated calmly. "We've detected several Constantines on aerial approach, and the sonar is picking up a lot of Megalodons. Jack's already gone out, and Mu's heading to engage the first group of Constantines." Kira just nodded, stepping the Augury back on the catapult. For the second time that day, the catapult launched him into the sky, sending him on an intercept towards the Constantines that Mu was heading for.

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Below the surface of the ocean, the Kiba zipped through the seawater, new hydro-plasma thrusters operating perfectly within Liene's expectations, much to the engineer's satisfaction. At the moment, Chimamare was heading towards the large school of Megalodons charging straight for the Barachiel. Grinning, Chimamare cackled, charging the Kiba forward into the school's midst. The leading Megalodon, colored a deeper blue than the others and with a painting of a rank insignia decorating its' nose, surged forward to meet the Gundam, high-intensity beam saws flaring into existence. The amphibious mobile suit didn't even flinched, diving below the mobile armor before driving its' claws into the center and ripping it in two. Then, the Kiba's maw opened, the Ion Beam Cannon levering into position and firing an especially energetic and dense beam. Much of the weapon's power was deflected by the sea water, the beam being less able to punch through water than air. Still, it had the power to reach the five meters necessary to blast apart the next Megalodon's hull, exposing the pilot to the crushing pressure.

With the faceplate still open, the Kiba seemed to grin as it confronted the remaining Megalodons, who, at the moment, were still there just because they thought they could overwhelm the Gundam. Chimamare grinned. Then, he went nuts. Were he a shark, the effect would be called a 'feeding frenzy.' A group of five Megalodons saw this, and tried to turn around. Tried. Two were impaled by the newish Maser Vibration Spikes from the Chilong gauntlets, neatly skewered through the cockpit. Coaxing an extra bit of power into the thrusters, the Kiba zipped into one of the now-trailing armors, the Phase-Shifted sensor spines on the Gundam's head slicing through the laminated armor.

The last two escaped from the Kiba's claws with mild scars along their ramjets, only to crash into the rest of the Megalodons, who were heading towards the Kiba. Each of the retreating mobile armors crashed into one of their fellows, their armor crumpling and causing explosive decompressions. The rest of the Megalodons, doubtless consisting of some of the more nigh-religious fanatics, rushed towards the Kiba, causing the alter piloting it to cackle in glee as the claws rendered one of the armors into metallic confetti.

Within minutes, much of the approaching school of mobile armors was turned into the metal equivalent of fish fricassee, first by 'fishing' with the MSV, followed by a few slices with the Chilongs, and finishing with a short blast from the Ion Beam Cannon. In the Kiba, Chimamare applauded himself, calling

"Encore! Encore.....No, seriously, I want more."

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In the sky, Mu dodged beams and out-maneuvered missiles, flying circles around the Constantines, which, true to their name, were constantly in his face. Even accounting for modifications to support mobile suits, Mu doubted a single carrier could hold so many mobile suits. Apparently, the carrier had called for back-up. Even as he tailed one Constantine, Mu himself was being chased by no less than three of the mass-production units. The Hawk jinked just in time to avoid a rifle round, then fired off a micro-missile from the launchers on his rear dorsal hardpoints before peeling off. Both missiles performed admirably, punching into their target and detonating inside.

Still, that didn't help Mu's situation one bit, seeing as when he latched onto another target, five more Constantines joined the three still chasing him. Groaning, Mu ascended after the Constantine before him, the mobile suit apparently thinking to try and flip over once higher than the Shadowfax and sandwich the armor between it and Mu's pursuers. La Flaga had, however, forgotten yet another of the main advantages mobile suits had over the majority of mobile armors and the fighter jets that had preceded them.

Limbs.

Using the linear rifle's guncam, the harried Constantine fired a burst over its shoulder, the rounds skimming along the Shadowfax's nose before slamming into the forward left dorsal weapon, a beam gun. Swearing a streak, Mu swerved to avoid any more surprises like that, wishing for a mobile suit of his own.

In a sense, he got his wish, with Kira in the Augury slicing past the OMNI suits behind the Shadowfax, leaving short-lived halves of them in his wake. As the Gundam flew along, it locked onto another group of suits, unleashing fire from the beam carbine on its' right forearm.

Normally, a carbine would be somewhat decreased in power compared to a rifle, being shorter in length and thus having less muzzle velocity. Beam weapons, however, consisting mainly of magnetic coils to concentrate and accelerate a large amount of plasma, require longer barrels merely to increase coil size and thus increase beam cohesion at longer ranges. However, given time to charge, smaller coils could sufficiently concentrate a beam for power similar to that of larger coils. Thus, by limiting the carbine's fire to single-shot rate, and waiting approximately 0.23 seconds to allow charge to build, Kira was able to use the beam carbine just like the Augury's rifle.

Many of the beams found their marks, a few missing to strike a different Constantine. Appropriately, they fell from the sky like stricken pigeons, either exploding in mid-air from battery overload and ammunition reactions, or falling into the ocean like large rocks. Like hornets, the survivors grew apparently far more agitated, flying around in increasingly erratic movements. Then, an onslaught of linear rifle fire came at the Augury, forcing the Gundam to dodge this way and that, trying to avoid depleting its' energy reserves any more than necessary.

Then, the Kamikaze was raised, and a single shot fired. Rather than any of the somewhat advanced and complicated rounds usually used, this was a simple depleted uranium projectile with a core of high-grade Composition 15 plastic explosive. Also, the computerized fuse had been set to three milliseconds after impact, rather than the usual third of a millisecond. The result was that instead of exploding within the first enemy it penetrated, the round detonated near the center of the enemy formation, savaging one particularly unlucky OMNI unit and scattering the rest with the explosion. Exploiting this, the Augury swooped in, slicing, hacking and stabbing at the disoriented Constantines, slaughtering many of them. At this point, approximately fifteen of the mobile suits were left, when the Augury sheathed its sword and grabbed the closest one. With a brutal hack of its shield, the Gundam removed its' Angelos pack, tossing it into the ocean before moving on to the next one.

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Deep in the 'briny blue', as many 18th century pirates would refer to it, Chimamare was contemplating the strange targets floating down from above, as though sent by some almighty deity merely to provide a source of entertainment to the now-bored, bloodthirsty alter. Before him, one of the Constantines struggled to reach the surface, muted flashes and clouds of bubbles signaling his attempt to activate his thrusters. Unfortunately for this poor, foolish Blue Cosmos pilot, his Constantine's thrusters, not made for the corrosive effects of seawater, had been fried.

"Well, that's just what you get for OMNI engineering." Chimamare said out loud. And, again, as always, on a channel where everyone heard. The mobile suits froze, before their heads turned to see the silvery, somewhat reptilian Kiba waving at them. As they now scrambled to get away, Chimamare imagined their pilots' screams of terror, and perhaps cries of 'Mommy'. Chuckling lightly, Jack's murderous personality moved the Kiba towards the Constantines, delighting in their increasingly frantic motions.

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Grigori, 25 Kilometers East, Altitude 200m

Abaddon pinched the bridge of his nose, sighing as the screens in the briefing room showed the sheer and complete annihilation of the majority of the 5th Indian Task Group's mobile weaponry.

"Sheesh, it's like sending swarms of flies at a spider." Sariel commented, winching as the Augury tore apart another Constantine in a particularly brutal manner.

"For once, I'd have to agree with you." Lena said, studying the black Gundam carefully. "Hmmm.....shouldn't be a problem for the Samyaza."

"Don't underestimate him Lena. Yamato is quite the pilot. These Constantines probably aren't giving him anything to worry about. And despite its look the Augury is a rather robust unit, and fast as well." Abaddon warned, pointing even as the Gundam in question sawed a Constantine in half through the crotch.

"Feh, we'll see how 'robust' it is when it meets the Samyaza's HALC." Of to the side of the two, Sariel shivered, for what might have been the millionth time since he first met the two. He didn't envy Yamato when Lena confronted him. Actually, he didn't envy Lena either.

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A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, but, things happened.....horrible things. Did you guys know MP3s can carry viruses? Well, I didn't. Wiped my hard drives clean.

Velshard: Thank you very much.

Nxkris: I know, so would I. But, unfortunately, the Greeks forgot to mention how flighty muses are.

G. Wagers: You haven't even seen the 2007 movie or the Revenge of the Fallen? For shame. And no, I can't say I'm surprised. Dissapointed, cause I thought you'd get a laugh at the height differences between the Transformers and the Gundams.

(For those of you wondering, Megatron is 10.3 Meters, Prime 9.8 Meters, and the Augury is 18.2 Meters)

Aunandaun: Thank you. I'll try, but since Lacus is gone, and the slut (Flay) is gone with her, the only pair I really have to work with is Athrun and Cagalli. As for the filler, I suppose I could work something in. Well, the Barachiel moves faster than the Archangel.

Alright, so, working on next phase, hoping to get to the part where Velshard's very well designed (complete with profiles that can cause cerebral hemorrhaging) mobile suits will appear.

Warning: Do NOT let your little sister's MP3 player anywhere near your computer's USB port without assuring that it is virus-free. Blue screens are not pretty. Also, Megatron's Fusion Cannon rules (aim, fire, laugh as Bumblebee dies (yes, I got the Revenge of the Fallen game))

Knightmare Gundam of Ni