Chapter: "Lunamaria, The city of lights."

*There time up the group headed back to the Archangel. When the group got back to the ship, the archangel was facing the other direction with 4 yellow ships heading into its lower decks. One of them was lagging behind the others; and the group got a good look at it. It was striped yellow and black, with an open top. Inside they were something that looked like the mobile suits they saw when they first got on the archangel. But different, somehow, maybe it was the gold 'V' on its forehead. The closest thing they could think of to it, was the RX-78[G] Ground Gundam. But even that was nowhere near that. The group turned around to ask what it was, but Ray was just as confused as them. It was Shiro who said what it was.*

Shiro: *Stuttering and whispering under his breath.* "G...G…Gudnam…"

*The Gundam, still lagging behind, was then looked at more clearly by the group, its container was opening in the space between the archangel and the transport. It was grey before, but now it seemed to be white, with a blue torso and a few details in red. A gold 'V' covering its forehead. 2 chevrons on its face plate, painted black. On its right shoulder was a silver crossbones and a skull above it, with a bright red 1 behind it.*

Ray: "skull 1?"

*Skull 1 as Ray called it, was now moving to the front of the archangel and maneuvering his unit to match up with the archangels bridge. The unit had the model number GAT-X203B Blitz etched into its shield. It was here that Ray recognized what the unit was, from a portion of the dark history explained during training.*

Ray: "I know that unit. One of the 5 prototypes of earth, captured by the coordinators well before it was deployed. It fought against the earth alliance, and was later destroyed by the GAT-X105A+AQM/E-X02 Sword Strike Gundam. Gundam is an acronym for something to those units, but I can't remember it right now…"

Shiro: "General Unilateral Nero-link Dispersive Autonomous Maneuvering weapons system. The Duel was the prototype unit for the deployment of Mirage colloid. Though in today's standards its mirage colloid system was outdated its weapons are not. It is extremely maneuverable, and had a High Energy Beam Rifle. Its only drawback is that it can only operate for a maximum of 160 minutes, or 80 minutes with mirage colloid active. It was also mass-produced as the N-J Blitz Dagger, the last unit created by the earth alliance to run on nuclear power, in the form of a mark 82, 500 megaton thermo-nuclear reactor. All N-J Daggers where destroyed during the 1 year war, it was also assumed though not confirmed that all the blitz's where also destroyed."

Ray: "But I Thought Skull 1 was supposed to be going with us. At least that's what the report said…"

Shiro: "Skull team is a BLACK OPPS unit, do you really think you can believe the official report about them?"

Ray: "I never knew you might have any knowledge of… wait you know this for another reason right, let me guess either skull 2, or 4."

Shiro: *blushing as red as Root on his worst day* "I have no further comments on this subject matter!"

Ray: "Ohh, looks like I hit the nail on the head, common now which one is it?"

Shiro: "Shut up will you, I'm not answering that!"

*the Blitz, then proceeded out of the docking bay, and to another ship. This ship was large, almost 3 times the size of the archangel. Its front end looked like the archangel doubled, and placed on top of each other. It was painted blue and silver with a red light flashing on each corner. Across the bow was the name "Girty Lue". The ship was however lightly armored. As the gundam began to disappear into its hanger, the Girty lue disappeared.*

(A/N: Picture and specs of the Girty Lue . I couldn't figure out a better ship then this, for its purpose. Unlike the archangel the Girty Lue is a stealth carrier, the archangel is an assault carrier. While it has less armaments then the archangel the Girty lue can carry 50 more mobile suits and 75 more mobile armors, essentially it's a fleet in itself, as such it is the home to the 81st Autonomous Mobile Battalion 'Phantom Pain')

*The door to the airlock opened up and the group headed back to the archangel. As they got back on they noticed a sudden scramble from the crew, the entire crew was in a rush for something. They headed up to the bridge.*

Lt. Romius: "Ready all ships to move out. Head for course 21, straight to Carpentaria. Place all units on Def.-Con 2, all mobile suits to your catapults. Activate linier catapults 1 and 2, disconnect conduits. Synch time for launch with the other ships."

Ray: "captain what's going on? Why the rush."

Lt. Romius: "We lost the 6th fleet, All 400 ships of it. The fleet that was spotted by the Jupitris earlier showed up at mars base and took out the fleet. The colony shut its lightwave barriers, and had is turrets, but the fleet was lost defending it until they could close the umbrella of Artemis. Luckily there were no civilian casualties, but there was a symbol that shocked us all, it's better for you to see it yourself."

*a screen popped up, and on it came the video feed playback form one of the GM's defending mars base. On it was a mobile suit, but not a earth mobile suit. It had a golden symbol. A circle, with a line coming from it, with chevrons on both top and bottom.*

Shiro: "Neo-Zeon! But the sleeves were supposed to have been wiped out during the 1st restart. How can they be here?

Lt. Romius: "If the records are correct, then those suits are the ones sent on the mission to the inside of a black hole by the Zeeks, just before the end of the war. The only difference is they have neo-Zeon instead of the principality of Zeon's symbols."

*there was another symbol to the bottom left of that one. A small symbol, but one that would be remembered by any fairy.

Artemis, Holly, and Root: "Koboi industry's…"

Artemis: "It would seem as though our paths are soon to intertwine. The symbol below the one you're talking about is the symbol for the convict we were tracing before you… um… I guess really there is no other way to put it then abducted us."

Private fowl: "I guess she went further back then we had thought."

Lt. Romius: "Or the mission to the rise went further along than we thought. We aren't equipped to deal with nuclear powered units, that why those Gundams were being deployed. We might even have to open the doors to the Mk82's…"

Shiro: *Raising his eye* "Mk82 thermo-Nukes? We still have them?"

Lt. Romius: "locked away in Australia there is a bunker, it holds the original Pegasus, 24 'Duke' class carriers, and 1,000 Mk82 500 Megaton Thermo-Nukes. Codenamed the "Peacemaker force" it is the last nuclear force ever made."

Merialia: "Ma'm All ships are ready for launch, there awaiting further orders."

Lt. Romius: "Alright, All ships advance at minimum combat speed."

Merialia: "Aye Ma'm!"

*all 50 ships of the 8th fleet advanced in 1 great line. From the 360 degree window, the group got a good look at just how big the 8th fleet really was. As they proceeded out of port, they all maneuvered into a 6 line formation, with the archangel at the lead they all changed course and headed towards the moon. Slowly all the ships went into their own mirage colloid fields, disappearing one by one, until the entire fleet was gone. The only contact was a single line of communications going to the archangel that prevented them from crashing into each other. *

*as they approached the base at Carpentaria, they had entered the mirage colloid field of the entire 3 city complex. This complex consists of luna-1 the capital city, Lunamaria the city of lights, and Carpentaria- a military base that is also a city.

(A/N: The three cities of the "capital Complex"

-Luna-1, the first city ever placed on the moon, built by 'OMNI Enforcer' (Oppose Militia Neutralize Invasion) in CE 45 it serves as the capital city for the Earth Federation now.

-Lunamaria, the city of lights. Finished just 100 years ago, Lunamaria was built in the restoration project. It is the newest city in the federation. It is now the home of both Anaheim Electronics and the strategic naval research institute. It is also considered the cultural capital of the federation, a prominent vacation spot and one of the few locations with a theme park and a stadium for football and soccer, which is played in space using the 'Hobby Hi-Zack' mobile suits.

-Carpentaria, created in CE 68 by OMNI it is the largest military facility the federation has on any planet. Consisting of Armory 1, the Strategic arms Academy, and battleship row. This is also a city, because of its civilian center surrounding the strategic arms academy, used as the housing for pilots and there family's. Because of this there is also a recently develop permanent residence for family of military personnel from earth who have been sent up to the colonies.)

*As they got closer they saw the lights form lunamaria, and were rather amazed at it. Skyscrapers rising off the moon's surface, surrounded by a clear bubble, inside that bubble was a atmosphere much like the earth. The city was much like Seattle, a port with high mountains sounding it. Forests spanning miles around the city, with 2 massive stadiums just outside the city's dome. A large recreation of the Seattle space needle was in the center of the city. Most of the city was still being built, despite being over 100 years old now. The landscape of the moon had been changed to make it more like earth inside the dome. Mountains were added, fields of grass and evergreen trees. A river spanning the length of the city ran straight through the center with the needle replica in the center of the river, with bridges going to both sides. Everything was bright, with lights going out in all directions.*

*Carpentaria was more spread out, and each ship got its own individual landing bay. The entire facility was low to the ground, except for the academy. The group was told they would be here for a few days. Artemis and the rest of the group were given keys to room in a hotel in Lunamaria, Ray and Shiro went to their respective temporary housing in Carpentaria, and the rest of the crew went their own ways. They were able to be here like this because the facility had a 'Umbrella of Artemis' Light wave barrier.*

Artemis: "Well we know how Koboi went at least.

Holly: for now why don't we get some rest, the accommodations on that ship are… different from what I'm used to."

Artemis: "I think I know what you mean… now that I think about it, we left butler back in Heaven alone didn't we…"

Root: "I'm sure he'll be fine. This is butler were talking about."