Gundam Seed: Killer's Realm
Phase 14: Samyaza Unveiled
Indian Ocean, Grigori, 1st Hanger Deck
February 2nd, 71 C.E., 12:45 A.M. Local, 9:45 A.M. Orb
"Come on Lena, let us go!" growled a blond teen, fists clenched at his side as a green-haired teen with headphones and a redhead playing a handheld game flanked him.
"Like hell Orga! We don't want to kill them yet, just get them to move faster wherever they're going." Lena hissed at the BCPU, her own hands itching to punch the Extended.
"Ha! You just don't want us to hurt your new boyfriend!" The redhead, Clotho Buer, laughed, pausing his game. This time, Lena hit him, punching him in the upper right of his head and sending him flying back into a Constantine's foot.
"Anyone else wanna make a comment?!" She snarled. Neither Orga Sabnak nor Shani Andras said anything. "Good!" Muttering under her breath, Lena climbed up to the catwalk, throwing glares at the trio still below. On the catwalk, she strode in front of a gray colored Gundam with black highlights. Unlike most Gundams, which seemed fairly blocky, this one was similar in physical build to the Kiba, with curved surfaces prevailing, although it seemed somewhat thinner. The shoulder plates flared up and out, ending in spheres that looked vaguely similar to some kind of camera. The feet were built similar to high heels, and the fronts of the lower legs had vents about a third as wide as the legs. The elbows jutted out from the arm like a spike, the forearms had small gun barrels protruding from them, and each of the fingers ended in a long claw. The head was, again, similar to the Kiba's, except it had a normal 'grill' faceplate, and instead of the sensor spines, it had a single bar that extended from the back of the head before splitting into two, with the two separate pieces flowing back towards the front of the head to rejoin, forming a 'halo'.
"Well then, let's see how the Augury holds up to this." Lena said to herself, jumping into the cockpit. Sitting in the command chair, she put her helmet on, attaching it to the neck of her pilot jumpsuit, making absolutely sure it was airtight. Done with that, she started flipping switches, running checkup programs and anti-viral software. With that finished, she reached behind her, grabbing a spike that was in turn attached to a robot arm protruding from the ceiling. For a moment, Lena just sat there, shuddering. Then, she stabbed the spike into a slot on the helmet, almost exactly on the spot where her neck became the spine. Arching her back, Lena clenched her teeth, forcing herself not to scream. After about five seconds, she relaxed, and hit one last switch.
Outside, the Gundam's eyes flared, a brief red flash. The mechanics scrambled, along with the other BCPUs, all heading for the halls. At the back of the hanger, in the control room on the 'ceiling', Edward and David watched as Lena stepped her Gundam onto the catapult.
"Doesn't it bring a tear to your eye David? My girl, on her first combat sortie..." Edward said, sounding wistful.
"More like a chill to my spine. She was bad enough in hand-to-hand combat training. Now she's got her own Gundam." David shuddered. "Actually, I'm wondering why you're letting her go."
"She can handle herself."
"No, I mean, aren't you afraid she'll elope with that Jack guy?" For about ten seconds, both of them were quiet.
Then they started laughing, Edward clutching the console in front of him while David just collapsed on the floor.
"HEY! I heard that!" That stopped David cold, although Edward continued to chuckle.
"Well dear, I'm afraid I must tell you to fly at least five hundred meters above the water, so that Jack can't just leap out of the sea and embrace you." That started David chuckling again. A muted squeal from the radio announced Lena's turning hers off.
In her Gundam, the BCPU muttered to herself as the Angelos Constantines launched, all fourteen of them. These were piloted by fellow Watchers, each ruthlessly trained in the use of mobile weapons, having worked together in simulators for the past year.
Lena smirked. It only fit that the Watchers followed their leader. As the last of the Constantines launched, Lena transformed her Gundam. The shoulders collapsed backwards, folding in on the back as the arms pivoted and folded forward, so that the claws pointed straight up, and a part of the torso flipped forward, covering the head and becoming an aircraft nose. The legs revolved 180 degrees before bending so that the knees touched the elbow spikes of the arms. The 'high heel' feet closed, looking more like jet engines. The plasma thrusters flared, accelerating the Gundam-turned-fighter until it broke the sound barrier, where the jets ensconced in the feet activated, propelling the Gundam upwards and forwards.
In his Constantine, Tom sighed. It was almost like God hated him. First, he got conscripted. Then he got assigned to the Watchers. And now he was working with the boss' daughter. Recipe for disaster. Still, orders were orders, and one perk of this new position was that he was the one giving orders. Most of the time.
"Alright guys. You got your wills written?" A chorus of yes answered him. "Prayed to the deity of your choice?" This time it was a smattering of prayers, religious quotes, and Allahu akbars. "Good. It was nice knowing you then." As the Constantines followed Lena, some of the pilots started sobbing.
About a kilometer ahead of them, slowing down, the Samyaza burned towards the Barachiel's position.
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Barachiel, 2nd Hanger Deck
"Finally! Now I won't have to sit around while you idiots take all the fun!" Yzak said, standing in front of a Guul subflight flier. The Guul was mostly used by ZAMS, ZONGS, and SCAUs used in atmospheric combat. But, Liene was modifying these ones they got from the Ulysses, Baryx's submarine carrier.
"Don't get excited Yzak. I've only finished one, and that's for Le Creuset." Leaving Yzak muttering, Liene walked around one of the Guuls, opening access panels and rearranging a few wires, occasionally hooking up his computer up to the machine.
Up on the catwalks, Kira, Athrun and Cagalli watched Jack, who was doing some maintenance on the Kiba. Or so it seemed. In reality, Jack was just listening to several different radio frequencies to find the one Lena used.
"Think he'll find it?" Cagalli asked, leaning on the rail next to Athrun. Kira glanced back at the schizophrenic, who was 'subtly' cursing as he flipped through more frequencies.
"Maybe." Kira said.
"Contacts detected at twenty kilometers, three hundred fifty meters above sea level. Pilots, to your units." The computer called, intercom blaring.
"Well, there's the call. Get move on Kira." Cagalli ordered, poking her brother in the shoulder. Rubbing said shoulder, Kira sprinted for the Augury, leaping into the cockpit and placing his helmet on his head, quickly running through the start-up process.
In the Kiba's cockpit, Jack was having a minor crisis.
Shit! She's gonna be out there......I can't fight her! A sharp pain in the left side of his head announced Chimamare's presence as the combat-made alter laughed.
"Oh don't worry about that! I'll be fighting her!" Jack couldn't say anything back, as Chimamare took over, forcing his other into unconsciousness. Cackling, Chimamare started the Kiba up, sliding the right manipulator into a Chilong while the other gripped the Beam Rifle.
"Damn I love this thing."
"That wasn't very nice you know."
"Shut it Haji! I can't very well let the idiot get us killed!"
"I don't argue that point. Jack is acting very illogically."
"I have to agree with the idiot though, she is hot. SMOKING hot!"
"Ugh."
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Above the clouds, Lena grinned as the Samyaza's sensors detected the launch of both the Augury and the Kiba. Now she'd get back at that idiot for embarrassing her... and she'd take down that pain-in-the-ass Kira Yamato. A second later, the Shadowfax launched, along with.....
Le Creuset! Baring her teeth, Lena snarled at the sensor image of the Charcharius SCAU, standing on a Guul. Practically growling at the mobile suit, Lena turned her attention back to the Augury, which was heading straight for the Constantines along with the others.....as far as she could tell. The Kiba was pretty much undetectable by the current sensor set, and the Shadowfax was one stealthy little bastard.
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Raising the Kamikaze, the Augury fired off one shot, another of the C15 projectiles like the one used in the last battle. However, it seemed that these Constantines were more aware than their brethren, and actually managed to dodge the shell. Well, almost. One Constantine in the back of the group was slower than the rest, and got its shield arm ripped off.
Before Kira could do anything else, an alert popped up on his HUD. Without further ado, Kira fired the thrusters, rocketing the Gundam up. Before the Augury hit the five hundred meter mark, a gray and black blur slammed into it, spiraling downward. Through the Augury's cameras, Kira caught glimpses of a haloed Gundam face, with V-fins shorter than normal. Then the radio squealed.
"Hello Kira." Lena said. "It was nice to meet you. Goodbye!" Outside, the Gundam, Samyaza, pulled an enormous sword from a sheath integrated into its back and sliced at the Augury, red-white plasma beam leading. Just barely, the Excalibur intercepted it, knocking the blade away while Kira disentangled the Augury from the Samyaza. A kick to the torso, and a swipe of the shield did admirably, knocking the Watcher Gundam away.
"Aren't you that girl that Jack has a crush on?" Kira said weakly, dodging the Augury down. Good thing he did to, as the Samyaza sliced through the air where the black Gundam had just been.
"GAH! I hate that idiot! Asking me out when I'm threatening the lot of you!" Lena growled, the Samyaza's left manipulator pulling its Beam Rifle from the hip holster.
"He's done worse." Kira commented, throwing the Augury to the side as it's Beam Carbine fired. A retaliating burst of beams from the Samyaza singed the Augury's wing, although it was mostly cosmetic damage. The Samyaza darted in, the Anti-Ship Sword hacking for the Augury's cockpit. The Augury's shield swept in, deflecting the deadly blade before the Excalibur stabbed at the gray Gundam.
"You really need to work on your speed." Lena commented, the Samyaza easily swerving around the blade as the left arm swung the Beam Rifle to aim right at the Augury's head.
Or, at least, where its head was.
Instead of firing a beam through the winged Gundam's head, the Samyaza was kicked – hard – in the back as the Excalibur sliced the left shoulder flange off. Even as Lena righted the Watcher suit, the Augury's Kamikaze fired off a KP round. The arrow-like projectile impacted directly on the cockpit, flattening itself on the Phase-Shifted alloy and causing a tremendous shudder in the Samyaza's frame.
"And you shouldn't take your eyes off your opponent." Kira retorted. "Hmm. That KP round should have drained all of your power. Even with extra batteries, the new motive systems that Gundam uses should have accounted for that."
"New Phase Shift, asshole!" Lena bit off, raising the Samyaza's rifle. The secondary barrel mounted under the main one spit out a burst of at least five dozen rounds, some smashing into the Augury's shield, others the torso. Inside the Augury, Kira had to shake off the shock before the Samyaza stabbed him.
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"Well, this isn't at all good." Chimamare though/spoke grumpily. "All the action's happening in the air, and unlike last time, no one sending me any toys."
"Well Chimamare, I have to say that the Kiba is rather superfluous in this fight. About the only thing we can do is jump out of the water like a demented dolphin." Haji replied snidely, actually relieved that Chimamare didn't have any victims this time. Defeating ones enemies was all well and good, but mutilating their corpses after ward was just wrong.
"Whoa! Hold up. Is that Kira? Fighting some new Gundam?"
"It would appear so."
"Seeing as the hottie is Abaddon's daughter, it would make sense that she would get the only Gundam out of the lot, eh?"i
"I....suppose."
"Well, we can't have Kira killing her. If he does, we won't get any!"
"I can't tell what you're actually referring to, and I'm not sure I want to." At that, Chimamare cackled as he jetted the Chimamare over to where the two aerial Gundams were fighting.
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A/N: Alright, I'm hurt guys. Only two of you? (Thank you, G. Wagers and Infinite Freedom.) Seriously, that cuts deep.
(" Ah, what would you know, your just a teen. That, and I think your crazy and somewhat inconsiderate author notes are driving them off.")
What are you getting at?
("Sane people don't want to spend too much time around crazies. Look at Jack.")
I'm not nuts.
(" You're talking – typing, actually, - to a figment of your imagination that you are also talking – er, typing – for.")
…..You have a point.
Knightmare Gundam of Ni.