Chapter 18: "The Records of a lost war Part 2"

*This is what happens as holly tries her luck with the "Freedom burst" at the same time as Artemis trying his luck in the "G-Falcon"*

*Holly is about to get in to the cockpit when she selects the "Freedom Burst" selection form the screen in front of her. When she does this the controls slid open and a second set is placed directly underneath the 1st set, on a triangle like console, and 3rd setting folded up under the 1st consol.*

Holly: "Mrs. Romius… why are there different sets of controls?"

Mrs. Romius: "The Freedom Burst is a Transformable MS; it has a different set of controls for its 3 modes, Burst Rider, Freedom, and HiMAT mode. You don't really have to worry about HiMAT, because it's used in space only, but the other 2 can help in combat. Burst Rider is its mobile Armor mode; it is used for atmospheric flight, and is equipped with 2 rail cannon, and a single beam rifle. The freedom is its mobile suit mode, with 2 beam sabers, 2 rail cannons, a beam rifle, a CIWS in its head, and a beam rifle built into its shield, but you can't fly without assist, you can remain in the air for 9 minutes though.

Holly: "that's ridiculous… well try my luck here then…"

*Holly enters the simulation. Her unit starts on the carrier deck of an Aegis class cruiser, near the Archangel. When the start signal happens simulated personal come to the craft and get it onto the catapult, where the bridge informs her of the situation and weapons and simulation data just as it had Artemis.*

*Holly launches out and gets put directly into combat, unsure of the best way to use her suit; she is engaged by a GINN.*

*Holly, uses the MA's mobility to her advantage and flips back using the variable thrusters and fires the rail cannons, hitting the MS square, but it does not even slow down the oncoming GINN.*

(A/N: the Mobile suits of this time had Phase Shift armor installed and thus took next to no damage from a shell firing weapon like the Rail gun. Artemis's G-Falcon was equipped with a linier rifle which is similar to a shell firing weapon, but its shell is surrounded by a massive field of charged electrons causing its weapon to take on the properties of a beam rifle as well as a ballistic weapon. A more appropriate name for this type of rifle used in other Gundam shows is the "Beam Launcher" as it is both a rocket launcher and a beam rifle.)

Holly: "What the Hell?"

AI: "Ballistic weapons are neutralized by enemy MS's PS Armor, beam weapons are more effective against shielded targets such as this."

Holly: "Alright let's try this again!"

*She began the simulations again, and this time tried to use the beam rifles to hit the GINN's, despite doing damage this time the standard beam rifles don't do a lot of damage, barley knocking the GINN off balance in its change. At this point she decided that the MS could wait and began focusing on the ground targets.

*One by one the BuCUe's fell to the rail cannons, and but when she tried to take on the choppers she would overtake, and be unable to take them out. With this frustration she decided to change modes, to the MS configuration, codenamed Freedom. With the firepower of this mode she was a little overwhelmed by the controls and the lack of speed was making the job even harder.

But when she fired the HEBR (High Energy Beam Rifle) it was able to take out 2 of the GINN's in one shot and hit a couple of the choppers at the same time. But while she did this, another GINN appeared from behind and before she could react sliced her suit right through the cockpit, and the simulation ended.

Holly: "D'Arvit!"

Engineer nearby: "Yelling at the machine won't make you any better."

Holly: "Yeah well this isn't working out for me."

Engineer: "I've seen both of your data, why don't you ask if you can do a system link with him, maybe with you two together you'll do better."

Holly: "... we could do that…. why didn't anyone tell us sooner."

Engineer: *shrugging and smirking* "How else were we supposed to have any fun"

Holly: "… yeah well I'll go ask Artemis then…. Bye…" *she slowly gets back into the simulator while the old man watched her smirking at the amusement provided by their continuous failed simulations.*