Heaven and Hell URE

Ron the True Fan: (Walks in wearing a heavy duty jacket) FUCK, it's cold out there! In case you readers are wondering, where I am, it's minus 12 up here. Of course, it COULD be worse. Could be minus 30.

Meanwhile...

The last time we saw the Ptolemaeus II, it had been forced to dive into the atmosphere to avoid getting shot at by two Cylon Baseships. Thankfully, it had landed safely. The issue, of course, was that the FTL drive was completely useless and the only people who could fix it were not on board. Also, 00 Gundam hadn't landed, and Sumeragi was operating under the assumption that Setsuna, rather than abandon his comrades and link up with Mercury, had dived into the atmosphere after them.

Too bad they were having a hard time keeping themselves hidden, as the Cylons were actively trying to find them, with Raiders and Heavy Raiders flying anywhere that wasn't populated. And even on 24th Century Earth, that was a LOT of ground.

"You know, I seem to remember Commander Pinkerton saying that the Cylons could resurrect once." Lockon said, and Mileina looked at him in surprise.

"Really?"

"Yeah: they blew up something called the Hub." The Gundam Sniper said, "That made them pretty scared, so they didn't try to attack Earth after that last battle back in their universe."

"Then why are they attacking us so much here?!" Lasse asked, "I mean, we've been blowing apart ship after ship ever since they started attacking us!" Sumeragi, who was reading a book while sitting in her chair on the bridge, came up with the nightmare scenario.

"They could've rebuilt this resurrection system of theirs." She suggested, "Now that I think about, having pilots who can die thousands of times and come back, more experienced than they were, and try to kill the ones that killed them back..." She shuddered. "Not a pretty picture, but an angry pilot is a motivated one." Sumeragi closed her book. "Is there any way we can at least try and contact Polaris?"

Feldt shook her head. "No, ma'am." She said, "They might have subspace detection systems, but they still use conventional radio communications. There would be time-lag-"

"And the Cylons could track us if we send out a radio call." Sumeragi finished, sighing as she stood up and left the bridge. "Any luck with Setsuna?" Feldt sadly shook her head. 'Poor girl's in love.' Sumeragi though with a grim smile "Keep checking."

Battlestar Polaris - Sickbay

Major Sherman Cottle, Chief Medical Officer of the Battlestar Polaris and former CMO of the now-obliterated Battlestar Galactica (RIP, BS-75) pulled out another cigarette, then offered one to Jaden and Ron. "Sherman, you know we don't smoke." Jaden said shaking his head.

"Might as well offer." Cottle said as he shrugged "I ran your girlfriend's blood work."

"She's not my girlfriend!" Jaden shouted "Seriously, why is everyone saying that?!"

The two Colonials chuckled before saying the word Jaden was hating the most. "Yet."

"Can you get on with it, please?" Jaden muttered, and Cottle shrugged. "Sure." He said, "She's human, for the most part."

"Define most part." Ron asked.

"There's a few blood markers in here that are like those in Cylons, but they aren't." The Doctor said, "It's like someone modified an existing human's DNA, modified it, made a clone from it, then screwed around with it some more!"

"Someone took playing God to a new level." Ron muttered, "Anything else?"

"I'd need to bring her in here for an EKG and a brain scan, Commander." Cottle said, "And you've got her locked in the brig."

"She knocked me on my ass." Ron pointed out, "And we both know that is extremely hard to do."

Cottle nodded. "True." He said before he smirked a bit "You can fight one of those new Centurions to a standstill and a little girl knocks you on your ass. That's gotta be an ego bruiser."

Ron ignored the comment. "I'll ask the Marines to bring her here under restraint." He said, "Even though they've reported she's clueless as to what the hell happened on the hanger deck and she's acting like she did before, I can't take any chances. Even though I don't want to put her in chains." Ron didn't like seeing someone that seemed so...innocent, for lack of a better term, wearing heavy restraints. "Well, the sooner we find out why she pulled a Shinji on us, the better."

Battlestar Aquila - reactor core

Ian and Tyrol kicked the last buffer in place, then signalled Cally to activate the reactor from hell. Like on Polaris, lights came on, and nothing exploded in their faces. "It's alive!" Ian shouted with a grin, while Tyrol fixed him with an odd look. "Huh?"

Ian groaned as he shook his head "Never mind." He said as he climbed back up the latter, nearly falling back before Cally grabbed his hand and pulled him up. "I've got you."

"Fucking hell, can you people install a ramp or something?!" Ian demanded, "I'd like to walk back up instead of climbing!"

"Sorry, sir." Cally said, "Most people your age are officers: not many knuckledraggers stay in the Fleet when they're 50."

Ian sighed as he caught his breath. "Any word on Ptolemy?"

"They entered the atmosphere." Tyrol said, "00's with them, last I was told."

The CB engineer didn't like this. At all. "I'll head back to Polaris." He said, "Dealing with your insane engineer might keep me occupied."

Battlestar Polaris - Starboard Flight Pod - Briefing Room 3

While the briefing rooms on Polaris and Aquila were almost the same as the ones used on Mercury, they used a few features used by ships like the Minerva and Archangel: large monitors, for the most part. And that was coming in handy as Ron explained what happened to them. "The gravitic FTL drive most likely tore a hole in the fabric separating our universe from this one." Ron explained "The effect would've only sent Aquila had had you jumped alone, but since you were in formation with a fleet of ships, you were all dragged here."

The pretty pictures made it easier to understand, as even Talia and Shinn were having a hard time understanding just what the hell he was talking about. Then again, everyone HATED quantum mechanics and guess what this involved?

"How the hell are we going to get back?" Shinn asked, "I mean, are we going to spend the rest of our lives here?"

Ron hung his head. "I have no idea." He said, "I need a VERY powerful computer just to begin the calculations for a..." He cupped his chin.

"Commander?" Rear Admiral Phillips asked as Ron looked at him.

"I'm trying to think of a term to use, sir." He said before he snapped his fingers. "A trans-universal jump. I need a VERY powerful computer just to begin the calculations for a trans-universal jump!"

Everyone rolled their eyes, knowing what was to come. "And the computers in this universe aren't powerful enough to do that with!" Mid-rant, Ian Vashti walked into the room, waving at the Colonial commanders. "I'd need to spend YEARS just to BUILD a computer powerful enough to DESIGN one that could do that!"

"Well, if we had control of Veda, you could probably get home." Ian said. Ron paused, then faced the CB engineer as if the man offered him a pyramid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza made of solid gold. Yeah, THAT look. "Excuse me?" He asked.

"Veda." Ian said, "It's a pretty powerful quantum computer. The only one of its kind in existence here. Celestial Being used Veda four years ago during our Armed Interventions, help coordinating the OS's of the Gundams and Ptolemy, analyzing data, surveillance and everything else you could imagine. Its the best computer made by human hands here. If anything can do it, Veda could probably do the job."

Ron's eye twitched, and Talia looked at Ian with an incredulous look on her face. "You IDIOT." She said, "Do you realize what you've DONE?"

Ian blinked "What?" He asked, before Ron started laughing. And this wasn't a 'funny, ha ha' laugh. This was the one used by the mentally unstable. "Uh-oh." Shinn muttered before he shouted "Evacuate the room! Hell, get the hell out of the flight pod!"

Ron calmed down, ceasing his laughter. "Thank you, Mr. Vashti." He said in an overly calm voice "If you excuse me..." He walked out of the room before more, louder, insane cackling was heard.

"Uh...What was that about?" Ian asked.

"Unless you've forgotten, he's INSANE." Talia said, "He's just sane enough to control it most of the time! you just made him lose control!"

"What's the worst that could happen?"

"How about something like this ship's overpowered reactor?"

Ian paled. "Whoops."

Battlestar Polaris - Brig

Jaden had heard the laughter, but didn't think anything of it. He was going to see Nena and see how she was doing, before he was stopped by the Marines guarding the door. "Sir. Is there something you needed?" The Marine said.

"I'd like to see, uh, the prisoner." Jaden said.

"With respect, sir, you're a civilian." The Marine said. "Commander Pinkerton-"

"Practically gave me a field commission in the Colonial Corps of Engineers as a Field Marshal!" Jaden stated more firmly, gesturing to the CCE jacket he still wore that Ron gave him "Now, I'm going to ASK nicely. Please let me past. Don't make me order you to let me through."

The Marines paled. They had no intention of pissing off a CCE field marshal: people who did...well, Ron was called 'Psycho' for more reasons than his fragile state of mind.

"Yes, sir." One of the Marines said before they swiped an ID card through a card reader, which opened the door. Inside were six more Marines, all armed with UMP45 submachine guns with AG36 grenade launchers. "What the hell?" Jaden muttered.

"Sir, what are you doing-" One of the Marines began, before Jaden pointed at the jacket, not wanting to get into another shouting match with a Marine who didn't know anything. Although that was how Marines liked it: they took the orders and ran with them. "My apologies, Commander."

"Clear the room: I want to talk with her alone." He said, and the Marines left the room, but not before one handed him her FN Five-SeveN sidearm. "Can't leave you in here alone unless you're armed, sir." She said, "Standard procedure to dangerous prisoners."

"She's a young girl."

"A young girl who downed Ronald fraking Pinkerton." The Marine reinforced, and Jaden sighed as he simply took the gun to shut her up. The Marine finally left, then shut the hatch. He walked toward the glass door before swiping a card he took from one of the Marines through the card reader. "ID confirmed. Access granted."

Jaden walked in, and quickly found Nena. The first thing he noticed was that Nena was still cuffed.

"Seriously?" Jaden asked, catching Nena's attention as she looked up at him, and sighed.

"They thought I was going to kill them if they took them off!" She exclaimed, "I mean, what did I do?!"

Jaden blinked. 'She really DOESN'T remember a thing.' He thought, "Well, you knocked Ron on his ass." Jaden said, causing Nena to look at him in surprise "Apparently, that's enough to make you a clear and present danger."

"Huh?" Nena asked sounding shocked and sounding a bit panicked "Why would I attack him? I mean I don't have a REASON for doing something like that! I-"

"Calm down, Nena!" Jaden said, raising his hands to calm her down "I was there: I saw it happen. But Ron doesn't think you did it."

Once again, Nena blinked in confusion "What's that supposed to mean?" She asked.

Jaden sighed. "He thinks you were being controlled somehow." He said, "I agree with him."

Nena started shaking in fear. "I...I was used to hurt him?" She asked.

"Well, you kicked him in the balls." Jaden said with a light chuckle "That's painful. Then you hit him in the head, which hurt you more then him thanks to that skeleton of his."

It didn't seem to calm Nena down very much, as she curled up in a ball "Not again..." she whispered, "I didn't want… not again..."

Jaden rose an eyebrow at that "Wait… has this happened before?" He asked, stepping closer to her.

Nena was silent for about a minute, before speaking "Four years ago..." she said, "When Me, and my brothers began working with Celestial Being… we were flying over Spain, heading for our next target… I was getting mad, since its been the tenth mission in a row without so much as a break… I saw some wedding going on in a castle nearby..." She shook her head "I felt jealous… that they could have fun, and me and my brothers couldn't… they had everything we wanted… family, friends… at first I wanted to ignore it, but… I suddenly felt so… so angry..." Her grip to her legs tightened a bit "The next thing I knew… my Gundam was flying over the destroyed church… I couldn't see anyone alive..."

Jaden's eyes widened considerably, however Nena wasn't finished "At first, I…didn't think too much of it," she said, "I didn't want too… I just convinced myself I did it for a reason… but then..." her breath hitched a bit "Then… that… that man came… he killed Michael… and Johann… and almost killed me… my only family… dead."

"All I could think of afterwards was somehow getting vengeance…" she continued, "I contacted one of Celestial Being's benefactors, and she helped me get off earth… under one condition… she wanted me to visit the memorial that the ESF set up… at the castle I destroyed."

"So I did, and..." She stopped for a moment before she gulped "I never felt so… sick of myself… there were still craters at the castle… there was a plaque with the names of all the people I killed… all of them family and friends to one another… and when I got there… there was this one girl there… she was apparently the only survivor of what I did…" She shook her head and closed her eyes, a few tears forming "I… I'm no different..." she said, "I wasn't any different… from that bastard that killed my family! I just… I…I try to hide it, but I..."

However, she stopped as she felt a hand on her shoulder, and she looked up to see Jaden had now sat next to her, putting a hand on her shoulder "Hey, you're not the same." Jaden said firmly. "You said it yourself, you blanked out at what happened - just like with what happened in the hangar with Ron. Their blood isn't on your hands, its on whoever forced you to do it. Whoever that fucker that forced you to do that caused that to happen - you are not like him or the person that killed your brothers."

Nena looked down a bit "Still doesn't change the fact they're all dead..." she said, and Jaden sighed.

"That may be," he said, "However… the fact that you're being honest says a lot about you. It says that you want to become a better person, that you don't want to mindlessly kill people, and you want to keep what happened in Spain from happening again." He then smiled a bit "My dad once said that everyone deserves a second chance if they truly want to change for the better. You seem like that kind of person that wants to be a better person… and if you need help, once we find out what's going on with you, I'd be glad to help you out."

Nena blinked a bit in surprise, before she smiled a bit at him "Thanks… Jaden, right?" She asked, and he nodded.

"Yeah, and no problem." Jaden said, smiling a bit himself before an alarm on his wrist watch began going off "Ah crap," he muttered as he stood up "Gotta head to the hangar, gonna start the first series of upgrades on the 0 Gundam..." He glanced at Nena "I uhh, know this is bad timing..."

"Its alright," Nena said smiling a bit grimly as she raised her cuffed hands "I won't be going anywhere."

"Right," Jaden said, a small blush dusting his cheeks "Well Uh, see ya around Nena." And with that he left her cell, being sure to lock it behind him.

Battlestar Polaris - CIC

Adama KNEW there was something up with that laugh. He just didn't think anything of it until Ron rushed into CIC, literally THREW Dualla out of her chair, and began typing on the console while humming some obscure tune that was oddly catchy. "Bill, this is it." Tigh said with a sigh "He's finally lost it."

"I wouldn't be so sure." Adama said "He only does this once every few years. Someone must've said something to set him off."

"Your computer ass is MINE!" Ron ranted "Do you hear me?! MINE!" While amusing as all hell, the field marshal was actually doing something to the subspace detectors in the DRADIS array. Adama had no idea WHAT that was, however, but it was best simply to stay out of the man's way.

Less broken bones and no pissed off Cottle that way. Then the DRADIS blared a detection warning. Adama looked at it, and spotted the Ptolemaeus II's ID code. But there weren't any asteroids near it.

"Did he just boost the range on that thing?" Gaeta asked incredulously

"I think he did." Adama said as he slowly looked at the crazed CCE engineer. "Ron, may I ask what you're doing?" He asked.

"Looking for something."

"As in?"

He paused, then fell backwards. "That's a record." Adama said as he looked at his watch "Usually he doesn't even last five minutes. It's been ten."

Tigh didn't want to know HOW Adama knew that. In fact, he believed it was safer that he DIDN'T.

GN-0000+GNR-010A 00-Raiser Gundam - near former Republic of Krugis

Setsuna and Saji were STILL looking for Ptolemy. Problem was, Earth's surface was approximately 51 million square kilometers. And he couldn't search underwater for long, either.

"Setsuna, shouldn't we try and jump back to Polaris?" Saji asked, "We might have better luck with their-" A beep caught their attention. Three contacts on the E-Sensor: two fighters, one Mobile Suit. And to the best of Setsuna's knowledge, Vipers didn't have FTL drives.

He zoomed in with the optical sensors, then spotted the forms of two Cylon Raiders...and a repaired and refitted Arche Gundam. And it would be absolute fucking zero in hell before he would give up a chance to kill the son of a bitch who ruined his life.

"Saji."

"Yeah?"

"I suggest you hold on to something."

"Oh, FUCK." 00-Raiser turned sharply, following the Arche. 'Ali Al-Saachez...you destroyed what I was and molded it into a twisted version of that." Setsuna thought as he growled 'Now you reap what you sow.'

Battlestar Polaris - Starboard Flight Pod hanger bay

Jaden had begun working on the upgrades to the 0 Gundam, already beginning to give the machine a complete overhaul to make sure it can keep up with the modern mobile suits of this universe, as well as those of their own Universe. He had a very peculiar grin on his face as he typed furiously into a handheld computer he had.

"Aquila Raptor 489 is inbound. All hands, prepare to receive VIPs. Repeat, Raptor 489 inbound from Aquila: all hands, prepare to receive VIPs." Jaden glanced up at the announcement, before he went back to work on his new project. He was attempting to make his H3 reactor design work with GN Tau technology, as the Tau drives needed electrical power to actually generate GN tau particles.

The airlock hatch opened, and in came the Raptor from Polaris' younger sister. And not two seconds after the hatch opened, he heard a very familiar voice shout "JADEN!"

The sound of his sister's voice caught his attention, and he turned to face the Raptor, seeing his two siblings running out of it and toward him.

Jaden looked at them in surprise as he dropped what he was doing and approached them "Matt? Amy?" He asked, "What the hell? The Hell Vulture wasn't in that task force." He then remembered the first time he encountered the Colonials 7 months before, with the Minerva flying out of Galactica's flight pod. "How did you guys get here? I mean, the Hell Vulture doesn't have an FTL drive!"

"We caught a ride with Aquila!" Amy said, "Then we ended up here." Amy glanced around the hanger. "Wherever HERE is."

"So, little brother," Matthew said as he looked at the Gundam behind him "What are you working on?"

Jaden chuckled. "I think you should talk with Ron about that. He knows how and where we are." He said, "As for what I'm working on..." He walked back to the 0 Gundam, picking up his tablet computer in the process. "Basically, I'm trying to fit my H3 reactor to this thing. It has a particle generator that it uses for both propulsion and for its' beam weapons. It needs electricity, though, so it runs off something that's an equivalent of an Ultracompact energy battery."

"The reactor'll definitely counter THAT problem." Amy said, however was cut off when an echoing laughter was heard "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Jaden sighed. "Not again." He groaned, as Amy and Matt looked at him oddly. "Again?"

Jaden didn't have time to explain as Ron ran into the hanger, looking like he had just been given enough sugar to kill a small child. Then again... "Ron, what the fuck is WRONG with you?" He asked.

The CCE field marshal stopped, then walked toward Jaden. "Well, one, I-" He began, before he looked at Amy and Matt. "When the hell did you two get here?" He asked, "I mean, I didn't see that stealth ship of yours, and I know for a fact that the Hell Vulture doesn't have an FTL drive."

"Uh, we caught a ride on Aquila." Matthew said, "Hell Vulture's in the port pod."

"Well, that makes things easier!" Ron said clapping his hands together "We need a ship, and while I'm sure that Polaris and Aquila can fly in the atmosphere without any problems thanks to their levitators, we need something tiny."

"Why not the Minerva?" Amy asked, and Ron groaned "Shinn hates me; you just dislike me." He said, "As for why I'm laughing like a madman-"

"Which you are." Jaden said with small smirk but Ron ignored it.

"I found the Ptolemaeus!" He said, "I just need an FTL drive to give you. Good thing we've got a few Heavy Raider FTL drives thanks to that last attack they pulled! I'll grab one, then head over to your ship! Hope you don't mind, but I'm bringing the extendeds along!"

Ron ran off, presumably to the Morgan's general location. "The Extendeds?" Amy asked incredulously, "The Colonials are SERIOUSLY using Extendeds?!"

"They volunteered." Jaden said, "And the Colonials didn't make them, it was the E.A. Besides, they're nice people. Just never mention their block words and everything's ok." Jaden climbed into 0 Gundam's cockpit, then sighed. "I don't have time to get this thing ready." He muttered "I'll just use the Aka." He popped his head out of the cockpit. "The Aka IS on board the Vulture, right?"

"Yup."

"Good!"

Battlestar Aquila - CIC

Talia watched the DRADIS screen as the fleet began its' jump preparations. The task force was too big to hide at L3: they needed to leave the Earth Sphere completely. "Commander, the Hell Vulture is requesting permission to depart." Meyrin said.

The former CO of the Minerva blinked. "That ship doesn't have an FTL drive." She said, "If they don't come with us, they'll be stranded here!"

Two new contacts appeared on the DRADIS: the Morgan and Raptor 489. "Oh. So he's finally installing an FTL drive on that ship." He turned to Meyrin. "Clear them to depart."

"Yes, ma'am!"

Junk Guild Girty Lue-Class stealth cruiser Hell Vulture

"So, how is this going to work?" Jaden asked, once their Raptor landed in the Hell Vulture.

"Easy: leave the installation to me." Ron said, "Thankfully, your computers are compatible with our FTL programs, so you'll be able to do it yourselves."

Jaden snorted as Ron dragged the Cylon FTL drive out of the Raptor in zero gravity. As the man wasn't flying into a wall, the field marshal had to've been using his magnetic boots. "I don't know how to calculate a jump." Jaden said.

"I'll teach you after I'm done." Ron said, as four more Mobile Suits entered the hanger: they were the ones used by the Extendeds that had joined the Colonial Fleet. "You'll be ready in what, half an hour?" Jaden asked.

"10 minutes, actually." Ron said, "I know the Girty Lue-Class better than the Ptolemaeus II." The CCE engineer dragged the drive down a maintenance corridor, and Jaden made his way to the bridge.

Battlestar Polaris - Port Flight Pod hanger

Klaus and Shirin were loading several Mobile Suits into a Colonial heavy transport shuttle. The Colonials were nice enough to try and upgrade their Mobile Suits using Cosmic Era technology, and the result was amazing. The Enacts and Flags were armed with new beam rifles, replaced their sonic plasma blades with beam sabers, and could now more easily transform in mid-flight thanks to minor changes to the OS borrowed from the Dart. They were planning on asking the crew of the Hell Vulture to let them come on board so they could get back to Earth.

"All hands, stand by for jump. 30 minutes until FTL jump."

Klaus sighed. "Great." He muttered, "We might lose our chance if we don't hurry up."

Shirin looked at Klaus. "I'll go talk to Admiral Adama: see if he can either delay or give us some more help getting these things loaded." she said, and Shirin made her way to the tram, which took her almost all the way to CIC.

When she arrived, she heard a major argument between two people. And she knew both voices. One was Admiral Adama. The other was Marina Ismail. "Oh, you have got to be kidding me?" She muttered, as the naive former ruler of Azadistan was trying to convince Adama to contact the ESF government, but Adama knew better, as the Cylons might've had direct or indirect control of it. "Admiral, please! I have to-"

"I will not put my people at risk just because you want to contact the people who tried to have you imprisoned, then killed!" Adama shouted, "This discussion is over, Your Highness!" Adama looked at two of the Marines guarding CIC.

"Marines, get her the HELL out of here!"

"Admiral!" Adama Glared at her. Marina flinched, then let the Marines escort her out of CIC.

"Remind me never to piss you off, Admiral." Shirin said, as Adama looked at her.

"Miss Bakhtiar." He said nodding, "Is there something I can do for you?"

"Some help loading our Mobile Suits into those shuttles of yours, mostly." She said, "Or is that too much to ask, considering that-"

Adama looked at her shaking his head. "It's fine." He said, "Tell Chief Tyrol that I gave you permission to use his people for help."

Shirin nodded. "Thank you, Admiral."

Junk Guild Girty Lue-Class stealth cruiser Hull Vulture

"Bridge, this is Psycho: FTL drive is installed." Ron said as he finished installing the FTL "Status?"

"Program's installed." Matthew said, "We're just waiting on you to get up here and plot a jump."

The comm panels beeped. "Polaris to Hull Vulture: we've got a number of shuttles inbound with Katharon's Mobile Suits and personnel, including a pain in the ass."

Jaden raised an eyebrow. "Pain in the ass?" He asked.

"That princess of yours." Gaeta said "The Admiral's NOT happy with her." Ron entered the bridge less than 30 seconds later. "Gods, now what?" He asked.

"Katharon wants to join us." Jaden said, "I'm not going to stop them from docking: we could use the help and the chance to test their upgraded MSs."

Ron got into the helmsman's seat. "Plotting FTL jump." He said, "The spool-up's going to take a few minutes and this is going to be a transatmospheric jump."

"Oh, shit. Seriously?"

"I'm not wasting our time with a reentry. So strap yourselves in."

GN-0000+GNR-010A 00-Raiser Gundam - Over former Republic of Krugis

The Raiders broke off, and the Arche landed on the ground before raising its' hands in a gesture of peace. Setsuna wasn't buying it, but was too curious to just open fire on the bastard. "Saji, if that Mobile Suit tries anything, I want you to take control and fire at it." Setsuna said.

"What?! Setsuna, I can't pilot-" Saji began, but Setsuna didn't listen as he guided the Gundam down.

"He's not moving." He said, "He's an easy target." The Gundam's feet met the ground, and Setsuna opened the cockpit before pulling out a gun and climbing out. Saachez also left his cockpit, carrying a gun as well.

"Ah, you again!" Ali shouted, "How's it hanging, Krugis brat?"

"What are you doing here?" Setsuna demanded.

"Just doing a job: dragging your ass here for you to meet someone." Ali said, before A man with green hair and violet eyes came into view, circling a tower.

"Hello, Setsuna F. Seiei." The man said, "Or should that be Soran Ebrahim?"

Setsuna narrowed his eyes. "Who are you?!" He demanded "How do you know me?!"

The man smiled. "This isn't the first time we've met." He said, "Of course, you wouldn't know. It was 11 years ago."

Setsuna's eyes widened. "You-"

"I was the pilot of the 0 Gundam." He said, "The Gundam that saved you that day. I also allowed you become a Gundam Meister."

Setsuna nearly dropped the gun. "Now, I believe you owe me something." The man said, "Surrender 00. Now."

"You're the reason we lost control of Veda!" Setsuna shouted, "Why Lockon and the others are dead!"

Ribbons' smile only deepened. "Yes." He said, as the sound of whining engines caught Setsuna's attention, and he turned to his left to see five Heavy Raiders coming toward 00-Raiser. "Now that I've answered that question, surrender 00 Gundam to me." He said, "I really don't want to kill you, but I WAS supposed to get Exia, and thus 00 is rightfully mine."

Setsuna wasn't going to hand 00 over to this son of a bitch, but if he moved, those Heavies would open fire and kill him. Thankfully, life was merciful, as something jumped in overhead, the distortion destroying one Heavy outright and knocking the rest in every direction. Setsuna got back into the cockpit, then shut the hatch just as Saachez opened fire with his handgun. A comm window opened, and Jaden's face appeared in it.

"Setsuna! Are you-"

"We're fine, Commander!" Setsuna said as the Arche took off and charged at 00, but beam rifle fire cut the bastard off as a Gundam, similar to the 0 Gundam, but purple and green in color, took off from the ship, giving Setsuna cover fire. "Get on board!" Jaden shouted, "We should be able to jump as soon as you and Saji get here!"

"Not likely!" Ron said, "The Hell Vulture doesn't have a heat sink to quickly vent the excess heat from the FTL drive!"

"That's bad! Too bad you didn't tell us about that!"

"I wasn't expecting us to jump directly into a combat situation before I did just that!" Ron shouted, "I'll get in the Morgan and hold that bastard off! Setsuna, with due respect, you're suffering from fatigue: you need rest, so get your ass on board!"

Setsuna wasn't in the mood to argue, so he simply headed for the ship. "You're not getting away, Krugis brat!" Ali shouted as he moved to pursue.

"And you're not getting him!" The Gundam, which the IFF IDed as the GAT-X105E+CSP-X01PN Perfect Strike Noir, pulled out a short sword and deflected a strike from the massive GN buster sword. 00 landed on the port catapult seconds after the Morgan launched. "Shinji, get your ass back on board!" Ron shouted, "Hell Vulture, get out of here! I'll handle this motherfraker!" The Morgan drew its' anti-ship sword and rushed at the Arche Gundam. "Round two, asshole!"

"YOU again?!" Ali shouted "Seriously?! What the fuck do I have to do to get rid of you, you Colonial bastard?!" Setsuna shook his head. Nutcase versus nutcase, only one nutcase was his ally.

Guyana-class battleship Hoatzin - Commanding officer, Colonel Sergei Smirnov

The ESF Colonel tried to lay back and relax. After all the shit he went through over the past month (letting his surrogate daughter, Soma Peries, join Celestial Being to be with the man she loved, getting the living shit beaten out of him by A-Laws, and the major headache that was once Memento Mori) He just wanted one day - just one day to relax, not needing to worry about Celestial Being, the ESF, or the A-Laws. "Colonel, we're receiving a transmission. It's from Colonel Hercury."

Sergei sighed before sitting up. "Patch it through." He said, before his old friend, Pang Hercury, appeared on the screen in front of him. "Hello, Wild Bear of Russia." He said, "It's been some time."

"A VERY long time, old friend." Sergei said with a small smile "What the hell's going on?"

Hercury didn't waste time with pleasantries. "In a few hours, you'll know." He said, "But I wanted to ask you if you've heard what happened to that damned weapon A-Laws used."

"Memento Mori?" Sergei asked, "I was there when they used it on their first target! I'm glad it's gone, and I'd love to thank whoever destroyed it!"

"You just might, Sergei." Hercury said, "I'm sending you an intelligence packet. You'll find it interesting to say the least."

The screen went blank, and images of several ships, all MASSIVE in size, appeared on it. "Holy..." He wasn't going to be relaxing after all.

Junk Guild Girty Lue-Class stealth cruiser Hell Vulture - en route to Africa Orbital Elevator

Setsuna got out of 00-Raiser's cockpit before landing on the deck, nearly unconscious. A red haired girl caught him before he hit the deck plating. "Got you!" She said before Setsuna blacked out, and a pair of medics carried him out of the hanger.

"Where's Commander Pinkerton?! We need a way to cool off that FTL drive, and we need it now!"

"Still dealing with the red Gundam ripoff!"

Setsuna finally fell unconscious, and found himself on a ship. It was a lot like Polaris, but...older. A lot older.

"Action Stations! Action Stations! Set Condition One throughout the ship! Repeat: Action Stations! Action Stations! Set Condition One throughout the ship!" Setsuna watched as Admiral Adama walked past him, into what looked like an older version of Polaris' CIC.

Colonel Tigh was waiting for him. "The fleet is ready to jump, sir." He said.

Adama looked at Gaeta. "Lt. Gaeta."

"Sir?"

"Disperse to all fleet ships. Final coordinates." Setsuna looked around, seeing that some things weren't right at all. Then he looked at the ship's seal. It didn't read BS-135 Battlestar Polaris. It read BSG-75 Battlestar Galactica.

'What...is this?'

"Stand by to execute battle plan." Adama said, and Tigh nodded. "Sir."

A few moments passed before everything went black. "What was that?" He woke up in a cot, then sat up.

"Don't move too much." He looked at a man who looked like Jaden, but slightly older and different eyes. "Commander Takeo?" He asked, and the man chuckled a bit.

"You're mistaking me for my little brother." He said, "Matthew Takeo's the name."

"Setsuna F. Seiei." Setsuna replied "Tell me, where-"

"Are you?" He finished "The Hell Vulture: it's a Junk Guild ship. Why?"

"I was on a Battlestar." Setsuna said, sounding confused. "The name was Galactica..."

Matthew cocked his head to the side. "Look, Setsuna, was it?" Matt asked and the Meister nodded. "Galactica was destroyed 7 months ago. I was there during that last battle. I watched it ram into MESSIAH and explode."

Setsuna then thought about it. Adama's uniform was wrong: his rank pins were the same as Commander Pinkerton's, and he called Gaeta a Lieutenant, not a Captain. "That doesn't make any sense. What happened to me?"

"I don't know." Matt said, "But if I didn't know better, I'd say you were reliving something from the past. Problem is, you were never on board Galactica. Could you tell me what exactly what happened?"

"It was a battle." He said, "There was a mention of a fleet. They were running." Matthew could only think of one major battle like that.

"The Battle of Ragnar Anchorage?" He askeded "But that was over a year ago!" The eldest Takeo shook his head. "Well, the only experts on this are either with the guys trying to kill us or back in our universe. Maybe Commander Pinkerton knows something: he seems to be a jack-of-all-trades."

"To put it mildly." Both looked at the door to the infirmary. Jaden was walking in, carrying a bottle of water. "The FTL's cooled off, but I have no idea how to plot a jump back into orbit." He handed the bottle to Setsuna, who took it gladly. "He's probably still dealing with the nutcase that tried to kill you earlier. Who the hell was he, anyhow?"

Setsuna drank from the bottle before answering his question, albeit cryptically. "He's the man who made me what I am now."

Jaden blinked before he sighed "Ok...We're heading for the Africa Tower." He said, "Hopefully your friends have the same idea."

CBS-74 Ptolemaios II

"Miss Sumeragi, I'm picking up a contact on the E-Sensor." Milena reported.

"What is it?"

"It's a Mobile Suit." Milena said, "And it's not Colonial."

Sumeragi wasn't liking this. "A-Laws?" She asked.

"No ESF IFF codes." Milena said, "I think-" A second contact, followed by a third, appeared. "Two more! And one of them is Colonial!"

Sumeragi sighed a breath of relief. "Launch Arios and Cherudim!" She ordered, "Support the-"

"It's the Morgan! It's Commander Pinkerton!" An image appeared on the main screen. The Morgan was engaging a tall, red MS that looked a LOT like Throne Zwei before green beam rounds barely missed the Colonial Gundam. Another Cosmic Era MS, an Aile Strike E, from the look of things, came into view, firing a beam rifle at him. "Get the Gundams out there! He might be a good pilot, but he's outnumbered and outmaneuvered!"

ADF-X01 Morgan - Piloted by Commander Ronald Pinkerton, callsign Psycho

"Godsdamn it, how the hell did he follow me?!"

"Maybe I'm smarter than you, almighty Commander!"

Ron scoffed. "YOU?" He asked, "You probably couldn't use those remote weapons without help!" Low blow, Psycho.

"WHY YOU LITTLE-" Ali shouted "-I KILL YOU!" He launched the Fangs, then charged at the Morgan, swinging the GN buster sword. The Strike continued to fire at him, but the shots either impacted the lightwave shield or missed completely. "Where the hell did that Strike come from?!" Ron demanded.

"Oh, I think you know, Commander." A new voice purred, and a woman appeared on the screen, and Ron knew that this was no human. That Strike moved too fast for most humans, including him, to pilot without magnetically coated joints.

"Who, or what, are you?" Ron asked.

"An angry spirit, Commander." The woman declared, "I owe your Captain Thrace for killing me last year!" The Strike moved in close, but Ron fired a shot from the Balaena plasma cannons, making it break off.

"You're one of the Raiders Starbuck shot down?!"

"NOT ANY RAIDER!" She shouted, "She killed me over that red moon! Stole my body and took it back to Galactica!"

"Great, and it just so happened that you had to be a girl." Ron said with a groan "Only a woman could cause this much trouble."

"DIE!" The Morgan engaged the Wings of Light, dodging the Strike's attempts to kill him. Ron drew a beam saber, then tried a downward slice, managing to damage the left eye sensor. "MY EYE! I'LL FRAKING KILL YOU, PINKERTON!"

"Try it, bitch!" Ron shouted, "You're running on a battery! I'm nuclear powered!"

Pink beams shot at both the Arche and Strike. Arios, Cherudim and Seravee charged in, guns blazing. "I'll kill you later!" Saachez shouted, "This ain't worth dying for!"

"I'll get my revenge, Pinkerton!"

Ron scoffed. "Try it...Scar." The two Mobile Suits disappeared, courtesy of Cylon FTL drives.

The faces of the Gundam Meisters appeared in three comm panels. "I'm fine, kids." He said, "We found Setsuna: he's on board the Hell Vulture."

"The what?"

"Long story, but we should head for the Africa Tower." Ron said, "That was the plan should we find either of you."

Sumeragi's voice popped in. "The Africa Tower?"

"It's the closest orbital elevator."

Junk Guild Girty Lue-Class stealth cruiser Hell Vulture - 200 kilometers from African Orbital Elevator

The ship, under cloak, approached the tower. "Something's going on." Matthew said, "The sensors are picking up over 200 Mobile Suits out there!"

"That's a lot of Mobile Suits." Amy said, "But why-" 00-Raiser then took off, racing toward the tower. "What the hell?!"

Jaden said nothing, simply running off the bridge and heading for the door. 'Fucking idiot is going to get himself killed!' He thought made his way to the hanger, finding the Strike Aka waiting for him. 'Hello Beautiful,' He thought as he grinned, heading up to the cockpit "I missed you." He said as he hopped inside.

He quickly began going through the startup sequence, as the Strike Aka entered the catapult area "Jaden Takeo, Strike Aka Gundam, Let's rock and Roll!" The Gundam then launched out of the Hell Vulture, the flight systems of the Noir Strike pack attached activated as he soared up into the sky. He was soon followed by Shinji's Noir, the Rosso Aegis, the Verde Buster and the Blu Duel.

Jaden and the units following him quickly moved to catch up with Setsuna, however as they got closer they quickly identified another M.S just ahead. Jaden looked at the image, and couldn't help but appreciate the design. It was Black and Red with a very slim and agile appearance with two large antenna above its head, and in each of its hands appeared what looked like beam katana swords, and left behind a clear trail of red GN Particles.

"Holy shit." Jaden muttered, "That's...a deadly looking Mobile Suit." He then grinned "I want it."

It then flipped in midair, attacking 00-Raiser. "I see you've come, as expected, young man!"

"You?!" Setsuna asked surprised "I thought-"

"When I heard about what was happening at the Africa Tower, I knew you'd come!" The Samurai-styled MS backed off. "And you brought comrades to our battle! Who are you, Gundam pilots?!"

Jaden grinned a bit, he could already tell this guy was gonna be a challenge that he was going to enjoy "Commander Jaden Takeo, Junk Guild." He said, "Pilot of the Strike Aka Gundam… and you?"

"I am called Mr. Bushido by some." The pilot said, "Now, allow me to introduce you to my friend's greatest creation as of yet: Masurao!" At that, the MS, clearly named Masurao, turned red. And Jaden knew EXACTLY what that was. "Oh, shit." He muttered.

"But… But that's…. TRANS-AM!" Setsuna said, "How…?"

"Setsuna," Jaden said with all seriousness, "We take this guy on together, but your machine is the only one that can keep up with that things speed. You know what to do."

"Roger!" 00 engaged Trans-Am, charging at the Masurao. Of course, the two weren't alone in this fight, as the Extendeds opened fire on the Samurai Mobile Suit. "You wish to intrude?! Stay out of this!" Bushido broke off his attack on 00, attacking Asuka/Rosso Aegis.

Big mistake. "YOU WON'T TOUCH HER!" The Strike Noir intercepted just in time, with fire from both the Blu Duel and Verde Buster heading for the Masurao. Even so, the MS was too damn fast! It dodged EVERYTHING that they threw at him! "What I wouldn't give for a couple of Titanomachia!" Jaden cursed "We might be able to actually HIT the bastard!"

"Use my block word!"

"FUCK NO, Not happening!"

"Asuka, DO IT!"

Jaden waited. "You're useless!" Asuka shouted.

This turned the Strike Noir from a normal MS to a killing machine. Shinji lashed out, and to be honest, the only reason the Masurao survived was because of Trans-Am. "What did you DO to him, girl?!"

"...The only thing I could to make sure we survived you, asshole!" Shinji's assault made the Masurao's pilot blind to Setsuna, to tried to cleave the MS in two, but failed thanks to swift action by Mr. Bushido. "This is not what I had in mind!"

"Try this, fraktard!" A dark red beam was sent toward the Masurao, which broke off from both 00 and Shinji and dodged it. The source of the beam was a welcome sight: the Morgan, which was being followed by the Ptolemaeus II and the other Gundams.

"Damn it!" Mr. Bushido cursed "This battle isn't finished, boy!" The Masurao spun and ran, using the last of its' GN Tau particles to get away.

"That...fraking...sucked."

"You ok, Ron?" Jaden asked.

"I'm not as young..." He began, but the CCE field marshal never finished, as the Morgan started falling from the sky. "RON!" Cherudim and Arios quickly acted, catching the Colonial Gundam. "What the hell? Is he ok?"

They carried the MS back to the ship, while Asuka was busy dealing with Shinji. The Rosso Aegis latched onto the Noir and drained the battery dry before dragging the Strike toward the Hell Vulture. Jaden headed for the CB carrier, worried about his friend's health.

Meanwhile...

A trio of ESF GN-XII's were floating near the station of the Africa Tower, one of these units sported a black on tan paint while the others were a sky blue.

"This is Squad 2, we've secured the main lobby, now waiting for citizen collection."

"Squad 4 here, security personnel neutralized in sector B-4."

"Squad 9 reporting, evacuating citizens to main lobby."

The pilot of the Black GN-XII, wearing a black colored Federation pilot uniform, with the helmet's visor polarized. sighed a bit as he listened to the reports,

'Things are going smoothly' were his thoughts as he looked at the orbital elevator. 'But knowing A-LAWS, they'll turn this into a cluster fuck and release info that favors them and them alone."

He then looked at the control panel of his MS cockpit, his visor de-polarizing showing a man with Japanese features, with strands of dark brown hair coming from under the helmet, and tan eyes.

The pilot was looking at a picture of a smiling young woman, with the same Asian features, but was wearing a dark red chinese dress with bicep length gloves. The man could only look sadly at the photo.

'Liu Mei, I know I made a vow to be reunited with you someday. But...' he then closed his eyes. 'I'm afraid I'm not gonna make it out of this alive...'

They were completely surrounded, and A-Laws had a lot more MSs then they did.

"Huh? What's..." He spotted a battle at the very edge of his GNX-III's sensor range, involving a custom A-Laws machine and several Gundam-type Mobile Suits. "Colonel, I think I've spotted several Celestial Being Mobile Suits engaged in-"

"Captain..." He quickly shut up, allowing Hercury to speak. "I do not believe they are Celestial Being. One of them is. The others are not. Try to send a message to them that we are requesting their assistance."

He blinked in surprise, not expecting THIS. "Aye, sir." He opened up a comm channel, then recorded a message.

CBS-74 Ptolemaios II - Sickbay

Blood. That was the first thing Jaden saw when he walked into the Sickbay of the Ptolomy II. Ron was covered in it. "What the hell caused THIS?" He shouted.

"He might be highly durable, more than most people, but he is still 70 years old." Anew said as she shook her head. "He is far too old to be piloting a Mobile Suit, especially a high-performance machine like that."

"Ms. Returner-"

"Minor internal injuries, but only minor because of his reinforced skeleton." She continued, "If he didn't have that, he would be dead." She walked into the medical chamber. "We have nanomachines repairing the damage now, but he should not get in that thing's cockpit again." Jaden fixed her with a reasonable copy of the Adama Glare.

"You can't stop him from getting in." He said, "Besides, he's a pilot: you take away his wings, you're in for a fight."

Anew glared back, but it was nowhere near as strong. "I said should." She reaffirmed "His body's built like an old tank: it just won't die. He can return to duty in a few hours, as the nanomachines are helping his body's natural healing process." She left, and a groan was heard from Ron.

"Ow." He tried getting up, but he was too dizzy, and thus fell back. "I think I might've made the Morgan TOO capable. Then again, my age is catching up with me."

"I've got no doubt you'll be around for a while longer," Jaden said with a smirk "Kicking ass with the best."

Ron chuckled. "I am not the best." He said, "The only reason I win my battles is because of the Morgan. I am too fraking old to be doing this."

Jaden leaned on a wall. "Old? You once said your family is known to live until they're 250." He said, "You're middle aged, Commander!"

Ron chuckled once more. "You're right." He said, "But I shouldn't be piloting that thing for more than a few hours: my old organs can't take the strain, and we don't have any donors."

"Commander Takeo, please report to the bridge. there's something you need to see." Jaden glanced at Ron.

"Must be important." He left, not noticing the old field marshal following him. He made his way to the bridge, and was met with an odd sight: a recorded message from a ESF Regular Forces GNX-III cockpit.

"This is a message to the Celestial Being and allied forces: my name is Captain Emori Tsubame. I am a member of the force that has taken control of the Africa Tower. My commanding officer is requesting your assistance in evacuating the civilians, as we believe A-Laws will attempt to storm the tower and kill everyone inside. Please, help us."

"Well, shit." Ron said, causing everyone to look at him "This is bad."

"How the hell?" Jaden shouted, "You shouldn't even be on your feet!"

"You underestimate my sheer will not to stay on my ass." The CCE engineer said as he took a look at the encirclement, then sighed. "We're not getting past that without a fight." He smirked. "We still have a Raptor on board."

"What are you thinking?"

"Jump in, ask what the hell's going on. After that, wing it."

"Wing it? That's your big plan?!"

"Best plans are on the fly ones! I killed a Baseship like that!"

Junk Guild Girty Lue-Class stealth cruiser Hell Vulture - 15 minutes later

Amy did NOT like this plan, or the fact that she was going with the insane CCE Field Marshal.

"Why ME?!" she yelled out.

"Because someone needs to learn FTL plotting." Ron said with a smirk "Might as well be you!"

Amy narrowed her eyes at Jaden's friend. "Shouldn't you be still in bed?" She asked, "I mean, Jaden said you were covered in blood."

Ron just scoffed. "I'm good enough for light duty." he answered while the redhead's eyes widened at that.

"You call this LIGHT DUTY?!" she screamed, but Ron didn't bother answering.

"FTL drive spooled up. Watch closely." the CCE Commander said as he slowly (painfully slow for him) began typing in coordinates. "Basically, you take the planet's rotation, combine it with the rotation of the galaxy, then input-" Amy didn't bother listening and just let him talk. It took two minutes for him to be done. "And that's it. Bridge, this is Psycho: we're taking off!"

"Copy. Don't pull any stunts, Commander: you might have tougher guts than most, but you nearly died."

"This is light duty compared to the shit you've seen me pull!" The Raptor took off, heading in the general direction of the Africa Tower before pulling up. "

"Uh, what are you doing?!" Amy said with a little fear in her voice as she gripped the sides of her seat.

"This!" He pressed the button, jumping the Raptor INSIDE the tower itself, climbing upwards.

"YOU ARE BEYOND INSANE!" Jaden's sister screamed out.

"Oh, quit your complaining!" The Raptor shot past two red GNX-IIIs, who were clearly not expecting a Colonial light attacker to show up.

"We've got two of those things on our tail!"

"Not for long!" Ron spun the Raptor around, almost in place, then fired two Titanomachy missiles at the MSs. The two red machines didn't stand a chance at they were hit and destroyed. "Hang on to your butt, kid!" He spun the Raptor around once more, shooting upwards at Mach 1.89.

"THIS IS NOT LIGHT DUTY!"

"FOR YOU, MAYBE! THIS DOESN'T EVEN COUNT FOR ME!" The Raptor quickly climbed before Ron flipped it over again, using the thrust to stop their ascent. It also nearly snapped their restraints at the Raptor came to a stop.

"I am NEVER flying with you again! How Jaden puts up with this, I'll never know!" Ron sighed as a blue GNX-III pointed a beam rifle at them. 'Seems Jaden got all the crazy in the family.' He thought as he keyed the wireless. "This is Commander Ronald Pinkerton. I represent Celestial Being and her allies!" The MS lowered its' weapon.

"You...you're with Celestial Being?"

"Well, no, but I'm representing them at the moment, seeing as I was the only one who could breach the encirclement."

"Then follow me to the dock. Colonel Hercury will want to speak with you."

Battlestar Polaris - Mars orbit

Adama had ordered the fleet to jump into Mars orbit, as L3 wasn't nearly as defendable, and they needed stealth to avoid getting anyone else killed for the time being. "How long?" He asked.

"30 minutes until we send Athena to contact Commander Pinkerton." Tigh said, "Here's hoping he didn't get himself killed."

Adama shook his head. "I doubt he'll willingly walk into a death trap." He said, "Send the Raptor now, though: he's the only one who can get us home."

Africa Tower - control room

Pang Hercury didn't know what to expect when he heard that someone claiming to represent Celestial Being was coming to meet with him. When the door opened, he was greeted with the sight of a young girl with red hair and a man much older wearing a midnight blue uniform with eyes that betrayed his age. "Well, I wasn't expecting this." Pang said, "You're with Celestial Being?"

The man shook his head. "No. Commander Ronald Pinkerton, 12 Colonies of Kobol Naval Defense Force Corps of Engineers." He said.

"Amy Takeo, Junk Guild."

Pang narrowed his eyes. "Yet you speak for Celestial Being?" He asked.

"In this and this alone, Colonel." Ron said, "You have a problem with the civilians you've...kidnapped."

"Yes." Pang said with a sigh. "I know A-Laws will try to storm the tower, and they won't care who is carrying a gun and who isn't."

Amy blanched. "Oh, God. They'll just kill everyone?!"

Ron scoffed. "You haven't been here long." He said, "Believe me, they will. And they won't just send in those little robots: they'll send in Cylon Centurions."

Pang blinked. "What?"

Ron sighed. "Long story, but they're about 3 feet taller then I am with six machine guns and razor-sharp claws for fingers."

"Fingers?" Pang asked, "They're shaped like humans?"

"Yeah." Ron said with a sigh "I unfortunately designed them that way."

Before anyone could respond to that, another craft appeared outside the tower. "Another one?"

Ron walked over to the communications console. "Patch me into that Raptor."

"Uh, right." Second later, a voice piped in. "This is Colonial Raptor 354: who the hell is this?"

"Athena, Psycho: remind me what your rank is?"

"Oh, frak. Sorry, sir: I didn't know it was you!"

Ron took in a breath. "That's fine." He said, "Get back to Polaris: tell them we're going to need cover fire and room for-" He looked at Hercury. "How many civilians?"

"Just over a thousand." Pang said, "I was hoping I could simply send they down by the trains-"

"You're assuming they don't think you'll do that." He said before he keyed the mic again. "Over one thousand civilians. And I think we should be prepared for a Cylon attack, as well: a few squads of Marines would be nice."

"Copy, Commander: heading back now." The Raptor turned around, then sped off before disappearing. "You know, Commander, when those things boarded the Hell Vulture, it took almost an hour and a half just to drive them off our ship, and that was while we had handheld beam weapons! A few Marines aren't going to stop them!"

The man looked back at her. "Young lady, the Colonial Marine Corps has been dealing with the Cylons for almost 60 years." He said with a grin "Show a little faith in their abilities."

CBS-74 Ptolemaios II - bridge

"How long?"

"Soon, hopefully."

Jaden sighed, they hadn't heard from either Ron or Amy since the Raptor jumped, and he was getting worried, mostly for his sister. Ron could take care of himself, but Amy had only been in this universe for a few days at most.

"Miss Sumeragi, we're receiving a transmission from the tower!" Milena reported.

Sumeragi looked at Jaden, who shrugged. "Patch it through." He said.

Three faces appeared on screen: Amy, Ron and a man in a ESF Regular Forces uniform. "Ptolemaeus--Holy hell, this visual shit's going to take some getting used to." Ron said, and Jaden chuckled. "You'll get used to it." He said, "What's going on up there?"

"Hostage situation thanks to this jackass." Ron said as he hooked a thumb at the man in the ESF uniform. "He was trying to prove that A-Laws and the local government were manipulating information and generally screwing with the public. Problem is, he forgot who he was dealing with."

Jaden facepalmed. "Now what?" He asked.

"NOW we get those civies out of here!" Ron said, "Issue is, we've spotted a BIG problem!"

Sumeragi wasn't liking this. "What?"

"Sending data packet now." A very familiar image appeared on the screen.

"ANOTHER fucking laser cannon?!" Jaden shouted "Seriously, what the hell is it with these people and weapons of mass destruction?!"

Ron's deadpan face returned. "So says the man who accidently created a nuclear-powered FTL laser that could kill everything on the surface of a planet." He said, "Still, you've got a point: nukes are less costly and just as fear-inducing."

"Hey, GENESIS was never intended to be a WMD," Jaden said, "It didn't become one until Zala fucked it all up."

Sumeragi groaned and facepalmed.

"This isn't happening." She muttered "I am not having two people argue about WMDs and their practicalities over video chat!"

"It's not an argument, Captain: we're agreed that that thing is as practical as cutting down a tree with a fish. Still, I will admit that it CAN do a lot of damage, especially to a ship like Polaris."

Jaden summed up Ron's comment. "A Battlestar killer."

"IF it can hit one." Sumeragi said, "From what we've seen, your ships are hard to hit in the best of circumstances."

Amy pushed Ron out of the way. "HEY!" Ron protested but Amy ignored him.

"Jaden, we've got over a thousand people over here that need to be evacuated!" She said, "And we might have to deal with the Cylons if your nut of a friend is right!"

Ron pushed back, knocking Amy out of sight. "I've requested that Polaris send a few Marine fireteams, but the only way we're getting the civilians out of here is if we use one of our ships! We need a dis-HEY!"

Jaden facepalmed as his sister and friend began fighting. "Right. A distraction." He said, "Ok, so we just need to charge at about 200 A-Laws Mobile Suits with just 30 of ours. Sounds like fun!"

Africa Tower - control room

Pang and one of his men separated the two, before the larger and more experienced CCE field marshal tried to hurt Amy.

"You can fight later! The people are what's important here! Your friend is right: we need a distraction to keep Memento Mori-"

The sound of an explosion cut the Colonel off.

"Colonel! We have intruders: A-Laws automatons and-WHAT THE FUCK ARE THOSE THINGS?!"

Gunfire was heard, and both Colonial and Terran knew that sound: Centurion machine guns. "Frak me." Ron groaned "I HATE it when I'm right!" He pulled out his revolver, then checked the number of bullets he had in it. "I'll hold them off. Get those civilians to safety!"

"You can't hold off those things with just one gun!" Pang shouted.

"And didn't you nearly get yourself killed about 2 hours ago?!" Amy said as well, however Ron just looked at her and smiled.

"Light duty, kiddo."

"Fighting Cylons is NOT light duty!"

"Is for me! HAHAHAHA!" He left the control room, likely following the sounds of gunfire.

"He's insane." Amy shook her head. "How can my brother deal with that guy on a daily basis?!"

Battlestar Izanami - CIC

Cagalli Yula Athha didn't take command of warships too often nowadays, but she was regretting doing so now.

"You're saying we need to take out a giant, possibly Battlestar-killing, laser cannon?! I know Commander Pinkerton is a friend of yours, but this plan is insane!"

"Madam Representative, Izanami is the only ship that can do this. Polaris and Aquila will be needed elsewhere should this not work." Cagalli sighed. "I thought I was your superior, Admiral." "Only when it's political, Madam Representative."

The young ruler of Orb and acting commander of Izanami was highly tempted to scream, but didn't.

"Understood, Admiral. We'll be ready." She hung up the phone, still unused to impersonal Colonial communications. They hadn't installed visual communications systems, and the old CIC was still of the Mercury-Class. Hell, they hadn't even removed the Colonial seal that identified the ship as Pegasus!

"Kusaka, remind me never to take command of a ship ever again."

Her old guardian nodded.

"Noted."

CBS-74 Ptolemaeus II

"Mr. Takeo, we're picking up a transmission from the Hell Vulture," Milena reported, causing Jaden to raise an eyebrow slightly "Its coming from… who's Lucy?"

Jaden grinned a bit "Patch it through." He said. A few moments passed, and on the front screen appeared a woman who looked to be in her twenties wearing an Orb Military uniform with red hair and red eyes that glowed. However in the background of the image was streams of data. "Jaden, I'm picking up some data being transferred from the top of the Orbital Elevator." The woman said.

Jaden looked at her in surprise "What is it Lucy?" He asked.

"It appears to be camera footage from what's happening inside," Lucy continued, "Its Firewall encryptions wasn't very strong, so I could see what it is. Their copying images of ESF Coup D'etat forces protecting civilians, and A-LAW Automatons and Cylon Centurions attacking Civilians."

Jaden's eyes narrowed a that "What would they want with the footage?" He asked.

"I've traced it, and I discovered that another source has altered the images." Lucy continued, "They are trying to basically photoshop the pictures, so it will look as if the Automatons are guarding civilians, while Colonial and ESF Coup forces are killing them."

Jaden growled as the others on the bridge gasped "Can you stop them?" He asked.

Lucy smirked a bit "Already on it," she said, "Hacked through their Firewalls like a hot knife through butter, and I'm giving the news people the real scoop."

Jaden chuckled a bit "Good work Lucy," he said, "Keep your eyes open for any other hacks by them and stop them. Show them what a real A.I can do."

Lucy smirked a bit "Don't I always?" She said before her image vanished.

Africa Tower - Access corridor

Ron scoffed as the automatons tried to kill him. They were little better than Graystone's little Serge-type robots pre-Cylon War, and thus they were easily outmaneuvered and taken out without him even needing to fire even one shot from his magnum.

"Pansies." He said, "They could take a few lessons from the Cylons when it comes to-" A flash of red light caught his eye, and he rolled to dodge a volley of machine gun fire. "Ah, so my children want to meet me! Let's dance!" He knew it was a Centurion, but it was too close for him to use his M29. 'Time to see if my hand-to-hand skills aren't too rusty!'

The Centurion charged at him, but Ron jumped and kicked the Cylon in the head, knocking it off balance before circling around and putting it in a grapple and snapping its' neck like a twig.

"That took too long." He said with a groan "I really AM getting old." He pulled out the magnum, now more then ready to use it. Before he could get 10 feet further, however, he started coughing up blood. "Oh, that's fraking great! Come on, body, don't give up on me now!" He forced himself to keep going, ignoring the burning sensation in his torso.

Battlestar Izanami - Rescue Operation - 15 kilometers from low orbital ring

"Three contacts: new warbook's IDed them as Baikal-Class cruisers!"

Cagalli nodded. "Target that thing and open fire! Our guns might not be as powerful as Polaris', but we've got more firepower than Mercury!"

Izanami's upgraded main batteries opened fire, followed by a volley of beam rounds from the forward dorsal Swingfire cannons, the former hitting the weapons array IDed as Memento Mori, the latter destroying two of the Baikal-Class cruisers. The rounds didn't penetrate the armor, but it was damaged thanks to that strike.

"Damn it! Fire again, then use the Lohengrins!" Izanami's forward batteries fired again, with the last shots being as ineffective as the last, before two Lohengrin positron cannons emerged from the forward overhang and fired, the antimatter particles managing to eat away at the armor protecting Memento Mori's internal mechanisms. They didn't, however, destroy them, as a yellow beam proved seconds later.

"Damn it! We couldn't destroy it in time!" The beam struck the tower, and sections of it fell away.

"Oh my God. There's a settlement at the base of that tower! DAMN IT!"

CBS-74 Ptolemaeus II

Jaden watched as the pieces began falling, his eyes wide "We've got to do something!" He shouted.

"Like what?! We can't get the Gundams out there in time!" (Play Storming New Caprica - 4 minutes and 45 seconds in) Green beams cut into most of the fragments, destroying them.

"What-" They looked at the source of the beams, finding it to be a cloud bank...which Polaris quickly shot out of, firing beams from her many, many turrets. "I didn't know that thing could fly!" Sumeragi shouted.

"Polaris has a levitator, but knowing about it and seeing it in use are two different things!" Dozens of new contacts appeared on the E-Sensor: all had Colonial IFF. "Polaris is launching Vipers! Correction, Vipers and Mobile Suits!" Milena looked at Sumeragi. "Miss Sumeragi, Polaris is sending out a transmission! All channels!"

"Patch it through!" Milena did so.

"This is Admiral William Adama of the Battlestar Polaris to all forces under Colonel Pang Hercury's command." Adama's voice rang through the comms "As you are aware, A-Laws will attempt to kill you should you attempt to escape alone. Head for Polaris: our forces will take care of them."

Jaden's eyes widened as the Colonials began their attack on the red A-Laws forces. The GNX-IIIs and Aheads were outnumbered four to one by Vipers alone, and the Dart was a hell of a lot better then the Ahead. "I don't think the Colonials need much help," Sumeragi said, "But I don't think they'd mind, Commander. Do you?"

Jaden smirked. "I'll get to the Strike Aka!"

Nearby

Kati Mannequin could not believe it. Polaris, a massive two kilometer long warship, was in the atmosphere, shooting at anything that had A-Laws IFF!

"Holy shit!" Patrick shouted "I thought something like that would be too big and heavy to fly in the atmosphere!"

Kati looked at her (unwanted) bodyguard. For once, he was right. "Fuck this." She said, "To hell with A-Laws. I quit."

Emori Tsubame's GNX-III

"My God, I never thought I'd see something like THIS!" Emori shouted, as he watched tiny fighters, some blueish-gray, others red and white, opened fire with tiny 30mm cannons and undodgeable hypersonic missiles on anything that had A-Laws IFF, while the fighter-like Mobile Suits fired on anything that managed to survive the fighters with massive beam cannons, giant swords of normal beam rifles.

"Captain, look out!" Emori reacted too slow, as a piece of paneling that Polaris missed struck his Mobile Suit, knocking him out. Thankfully, it didn't destroy his machine.

"Shit! Take that thing-" A pair of green beams went right through it, destroying it. A small ship, similar in build to Celestial Being's carrier, was firing beam cannon rounds and missiles at anything Polaris missed, charging in at full speed. Celestial Being's ship was also there, launching Mobile Suits and firing at the A-Laws task force.

Every Coup MS landed on Polaris' port flight pod, with the fighters following suit and the Colonial Darts landing on the starboard pod. As soon as they were secured, Polaris jumped away, followed by the two carriers.

Africa Tower - airlock 12

The civilians were quickly shepherded onto Izanami, which had docked after Memento Mori was destroyed. "Keep moving! Don't panic: you'll be back with your families soon! We promise!"

A thud was heard, and several Marines rushed over to find Ron on the ground, blood leaking from his mouth and unconscious. "Frak me; get him on board and tell Ms. Takeo to get that Raptor out of there!"

"Got it, Corporal!"

CBS Celestial Being

Ribbons was a hair's breath from completely losing it. Thankfully, Cavil did it for him. "That was a complete fraking disaster! Your precious superweapon was destroyed, the Coup forces are still alive, and Adama hasn't lost a damn thing! Plus, your A-Laws were completely discredited while Celestial Being and those fraking bastards under Adama are being hailed as heroes!" Ribbons let him rant, seeing as he was right.

"What would you have me do, Cavil?" Ribbons asked.

"Send my fraking Baseships to nuke the Godforsaken planet once and for all! You don't NEED humanity!"

"Oh, but I do. And so do you, Cavil. What would you do if all the humans were dead?" Cavil didn't answer. "Exactly. You've never thought of it. And A-Laws will survive: they have the backing of the government and the majority of the citizenry, thanks to Veda's information control." Cavil glared at Ribbons.

"That FRAKING broadcast still cost us!" Cavil shouted, "Now not only do the public know about my Centurions, but they saw what Momento Mori did, and they saw your Automatons did to the civilians!"

Ribbons sat back in his seat. "We will have to make a spin on it." He said, "Make it seem like the Coup forces took control of a number of automatons and 'experimental new anti-personnel mechs'. There is always a way to salvage a situation."

Cavil wasn't so sure, but he calmed down. Mostly because Ribbons was trying to brainwash him, but hey, if it works...

Battlestar Izanami - sickbay

"This man is a fucking train wreck! What the hell did Commander Pinkerton do, blow up another Baseship with HIMSELF on it?!" ranted the Izanami's doctor while he looked over the knocked out engineer. While he had no broken bones, multiple organs were beginning to fail. If it weren't for that backup life support system in his chest, he would've been dead long before the Marines got to him.

"We're going to need to put the son of a bitch on life support." The doctor said, "We'll need to replace his organs, but we don't have any donors at hand, so this'll have to do! Get several large bore IVs into him: we'll need to do this intravenously!"

Battlestar Polaris - Brig

Two Marines finally uncuffed Nena. Of course, one of them still had a M243 SAW pointed at her, although she was a few feet away.

"What's going on?" the youngest Trinity Sibling said, with a confused childish expression on her face.

"You're being released." The marine said, "Commander Takeo's orders."

Nena looked confused, but stood up. However she then asked a question that she'd regret asking. "What happened to Commander Pinkerton?"

"Bastard's on death's doorstep." The Marine said with his own sigh "Pissing the guy off because he's not dead yet, but he's pretty close."

Nena didn't like the sound of that. He's visited her a few times along with Jaden, and Ron's grown to actually like her, although more of an elder brother/younger sister or father/daughter thing than anything else, and if he died...well, it wouldn't be pretty for her. And she wanted to see these 12 Colonies she'd heard Ron mention. And he couldn't show her if he was dead.

Battlestar Polaris - CIC

"This is bad." Adama said grimly as he looked at the report on Ron's condition.

"You think?!" Tigh shouted, "Pinkerton's the only one who can plot a jump back home! If he dies, we're fraking stuck here, Bill!"

Adama said nothing, but agreed with Tigh. While it was likely this 'Veda' computer would make the job easier, it would need Ron to get it started. And while they knew how to get him back on his feet, they had one problem: they had no replacement organs.

"Maybe we could raid a hospital on Earth or something." Shaw suggested, "I mean, it's going to a good cause." Both looked at her, both flinched. "Shutting up, sirs."

Adama looked at Gaeta. "His condition?"

"He's alive." Gaeta said, "Barely. He'll be on death's door for a while, but you know him, sir: too stubborn to die."

Adama shook his head. "His stubbornness won't keep him alive forever."

Battlestar Izanami - sickbay

Jaden was liking this less than before. Seeing Ron with tubes in his arms and mouth was just WRONG. Trying to connect the insane CCE field marshal with the picture of the man laying on that table with IVs and breathing tubes sticking into him was VERY hard. "Is there anything that can be done?" He asked.

The doctor scoffed. "Nothing short of complete organ replacement." He said, "And I mean EVERY organ, from his heart to his intestines to the kidneys!" Jaden liked that even less. That would mean ending one person's life to save Ron's.

He then thought of Cavil or whoever was controlling the ESF. 'I think I could care less if those guys coughed up a few organs to save him.' He thought.

"What's his bloodtype?" Jaden asked.

"O positive, just like most of humanity." The Doctor said, "Why?"

"Would Cylon organs work?" Jaden asked "I mean-"

"I wouldn't know!" The doctor said, "I don't have any extra skinjobs to dissect and look at!"

Jaden sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose 'We're gonna need to find some Humanoid Cylons then,' he thought, before mentally groaning 'But we don't even know where the Cylon base in this universe is… they just come and go as they please, never leaving a trace behind...'

"I can keep him alive for a while." The doctor said with a sigh "But after a few months...He's gone. And we're stuck here if he dies."

Jaden sighed, knowing that that was true. But this was out of his league.

"Jaden!" A voice said, as he looked at the hatch and saw Amy run in.

"Amy?" He asked surprised, "How-"

"I landed the Raptor on Izanami!" She said, "That thing's harder to fly then you and-" She looked at Ron, not able to finish her sentence. "Oh, my God, what happened to him?!" She might not have like him (too willing to use extreme measures and such) but THIS was something she would wish on no one!

"Massive organ failure." The doctor said sighing "He's close to death."

Jaden shook his head. "He'll come through." He said, "He's survived worse than this. Besides, he wouldn't want us hung up just because he's knocking on the Grim Reaper's door. He'll piss the bastard off by running off soon enough." He then remembered Nena's Throne Drei, and a few ideas he and Ron had been throwing around to try and upgrade it. It would be the perfect thing to take this off his mind, at least for now.

Cylon Baseship - Baseship Command

Cavil smirked, and was LOVING the news Revive Revival gave him. His genetic 'sister', Anew Returner, had reported that Ronald Pinkerton was near death. And he was going to finish the job!

"Bring!" The Innovator that Ribbons placed under Cavil's command, Bring Stabity, walked over.

"Yes?"

"Find those Colonial pests, board Izanami and kill Pinkerton! Without him, they can't get reinforcements here!" The red haired clone nodded. "Understood. It will be done."

Mars Sphere - Battlestar Polaris - Starboard Flight Pod

Jaden was busy working on Throne Drei, using parts from a Mobile Suit that tried to make GENESIS Alpha fire on Earth during the Break the World Incident and a few ideas from the Blitz. When he began working on the Drei, it was obvious that the machine was not meant for direct enemy combat since it was very lightly armed, and also could utilize the GN Stealth field which blocked out all Communications within a wide area.

Looking through some of the older mobile suits from the Cosmic Era, Jaden found two M.S which were in some cases similar to the Drei in terms of Roles. The infamous GAT-X207 Blitz Gundam, and the NMS-X07PO Gel Finieto, both of which were machines that utilized the Mirage Colloid particles.

From the Blitz, he managed to successfully recreate most of the Blitz's armaments including the Trikeros Offensive Shield with all of its weapons, and the Gleipnir Piercer lock Rocket Anchor. After a few modifications he managed to attach the Trikeros on the Drei's right forearm, and the Rocket Anchor on its left, as well as giving it the ability to use Mirage Colloid. However this was just the beginning of the upgrades he added.

Upon getting the Drei, he also discovered inside of it was a purple colored Haro, with a rather mean personality. After a little bit of reprogramming to the little machine, making it considerably nicer, he also made it so the Haro was much more useful than Lacus's, as it could assist in using the Drei's defenses, and help the pilot operate the best part of the Drei: Its Electronic Warfare systems.

He had added to the Drei a special Electro-Magnetic Countermeasure system (ECM) to give it a considerable advantage in battle, capable of assisting allies in communications, while at the same time giving hostiles one heck of a pain in the neck, jamming Comms and also forcing missiles to lose their locks. But that was just scratching the surface, he also added a special hacking system, which once active could allow the pilot to hack into pretty much anything if they had enough technical know-how. Jaden even developed a connector wire which if attached to vessels that are limited to wired connections - like say Battlestars - it could easily hack them.

However the true icing on the cake for the Drei was its most deadly weapon: Mirage Colloid Virus Spreaders. Originally from the Gel Finieto, once Junk Guild got the specs they managed to copy the specs behind them, and learned how it worked. Jaden was one of the few members of the Junk Guild who knew how to recreate the Spreaders, which he did as he added modified versions on the Drei. Now the Drei had the ability to basically hijack and take control of enemy mobile suits at will, and have them fight for him/her.

However, the spreader had limits. It could only have control of so many M.S at once, and even then its limited to what kind of Mobile Suits it could control. Mass Produced M.S with more simplistic Operating Systems could easily be hacked, however more advanced mobile units like Gundams, or custom M.S with more complex operating systems and firewalls would be much more difficult to hack while in combat.

Thankfully, this was a minor problem, and Drei the way he had made it so far was a M.S that could easily take care of itself, and is capable of dealing with most Mobile Suits that Jaden knows of without to much difficulty. It was certainly one of his more interesting M.S he's made, since its the first Mobile Suit anyone has ever made, either in Anno Domini or Cosmic Era, to specialize in viral & electronic warfare.

He called this creation of his, the GNW-003V Throne Drei Viral. He couldn't help but appreciate his work on the machine, and it wasn't his only success recently. Thanks to having the Hell Vulture and fellow Junk Guild members, he was able to push up the upgrading process of the GN-000 0 Gundam, after using data on the 3rd Generation Gundams from Celestial Being like the Exia, Dynames and such, as well as using modern Cosmic Era tech, they have managed to transform the 0 Gundam into a radically new M.S that can keep up with anything currently in service. He had decided to call the new Machine the TMSF-X000 0 Gundam Mark-II, and he had some big plans for this Mobile Suit, namely to give Katharon more of a fighting chance against the A-Laws and Cylons.

However, first, he had to upgrade the Drei and 0 Gundam. Thanks to a few notes Ron made, mainly on how both the 0 Gundam and Throne Drei seemed alike, that job was made a LOT easier. It would've interested him to know that he was right on the money: the Thrones were directly developed from the 0 Gundam.

"Jaden!" A voice said, as the Junker looked to his left, finding exactly the person that he was thinking of as Nena ran toward him, stopping just short of colliding with him. "Is it true? About Ron?"

Jaden sighed "It is." He said, "He's pissing off the Grim Reaper, though: he's not dying on our watch."

"Is there anything we can do, though?" Nena asked worriedly, "I mean-"

"The only thing we can do right now is hope for the best and keep busy." Jaden said shaking his head "He's not the type to say 'mourn me if I'm hurt!'. He'd go 'get your asses back to work! We've got asses that need kicking!'"

Nena giggled at Jaden's best attempt at mimicking Ron's voice. "I think he thinks of you like a daughter." He said, causing Nena to look at him in surprise "I mean, he treats you like my dad treats Amy, although Ron's trying to keep himself detached because he's military."

Nena still looked surprised, until she smiled at bit that. "I...never had a parent." She whispered, before she looked at Throne Drei. "What'd you do to Drei?!"

"Something Ron and I were planning on." Jaden said grinning "You wanted to redeem yourself, so we took it upon ourselves to upgrade your Gundam. Now it's on par with the Dart and most CE Gundams."

"The Dart?" Nena asked, "Isn't that the Colonial general MS?"

Jaden smiled disarmingly. "Nena, Ron designed the Dart to outperform any MS, short of a nuclear powered Gundam." He said, "I have to say, considering that none of these things have been shot down since they were commissioned, I think he succeeded. Now the Throne Drei is now the Throne Drei Viral."

Nena smiled a bit as she looked at the Drei "Great, so I can take on a Dart and probably win?" She asked.

"Depends on the pilot." Jaden said shrugging, "Everyone's different: some can pilot, some can't."

Nena thought about it, then shrugged. So long as she ran into the ones who couldn't pilot worth a damn, what did she care? "So, are the upgrades complete?" She asked.

"Almost." He said sighing "I wanted to get Ron to work on the OS, considering he's more experienced with computers than anyone, but-"

Nena nodded, cutting him off. He didn't need to say it. "I can do the work until Ron wakes up." She said, "Drei is my Gundam afterall. After that, though, I'd like to take her out for a test flight!"

Jaden smiled "THAT I can do!" he said, "Perfect timing, since I was gonna put my own new Prototype through some tests as well."

Battlestar Polaris - CIC

"Sir, Commander Takeo and Ms. Trinity are requesting permission to take off on a test flight." Dualla said.

Adama nodded. "Takeo was given a Colonial field commission by Commander Pinkerton AND was appointed as a CCE field marshal." He said, "Anything goes wrong, it's on his head. Permission granted."

Dualla relayed the order as Tigh looked to Adama. "Trinity?" He asked, "As in that little girl who knocked Ron on his ass?"

"Not the easiest thing to do, as I'm sure you're well aware." Adama said, and Tigh looked at him incredulously.

"'Not the easiest thing to do'?" He repeated, "Bill, that man could take on a squad of Centurions!"

"Before his body started shutting down from the stress he's put it under." Gaeta said, but was silenced by Tigh's own imitation of the Adama Glare "Shutting up, sir."

Adama glanced up at the DRADIS, watching Drei and the 0 Gundam Mark II's signatures appear. "Well, hopefully nothing-"

A contact appeared, and it wasn't friendly. "DRADIS contact!" Gaeta shouted, "Inbound on the two MSs!" Adama was NOT pleased with this development.

"Tell Hibu to get her ass out there!"

"Sir, the Freedom's down for maintenance!"

"Then get her in something else: a Dart, the fraking Morgan, ANYTHING!"

At the same time - with Jaden and Nena

Jaden and Nena were starting to put their respective machines through their paces: nothing too strenuous, just some basic AMBAC maneuvers. "Ok, Nena, we're clear on this part." He said, "Time to test the new-"

"Commander Takeo, you've got an inbound Mobile Suit, bearing 214 carom 000!" Dualla shouted on the comm, "Alert five are launching now, but they're 90 seconds from reaching you!"

Jaden growled. "In the middle of a test?!" He asked, "Fucking God, the Cylons have a bad sense of timing!" Jaden activated the weapons systems, although he REALLY didn't want to. "Nena, we've got a Mobile Suit incoming!"

"Seriously?!" She asked, "I haven't even tested the weapons yet!"

"We don't have much of a choice: we're the only two Mobile Suits out here!" Jaden said, "But I'm sure that we can hold our own!" He turned toward the enemy MS, then spotted it: a near copy of the Mobile Suit the Morgan nearly destroyed, sans GN mega launcher. "Great, another one."

The MS then extended its' arms, and a long beam blade extended from each finger. "Ok, that's a new one!" Jaden said as he drew a beam saber, and Nena activated the Trikeros' built-in beam saber before charging on the unknown, likely Cylon-operated, Mobile Suit.

The three Mobile Suits entered melee range, and all three attempted to get the upper hand on their enemy. The MS (which would later be identified as the GNZ-005 Garazzo) had the advantage that the weapons were part of the hand and easier to use, but the 0 Gundam Mk II and Drei Viral had the advantage of numbers and better coordination then the Garazzo's pilot did.

As the two continued fighting the unknown, Jaden continued to wonder something that was stuck in his mind. "Why the hell did this thing come here?" He asked, "Getting close to a Colonial ship is suicide, especially with this many in fleet formation!"

However, after another collision between the two, suddenly it hit him and he understood. This guy wasn't going to fight them to destroy a ship or a Mobile Suit. His MS was a sacrificial lamb. The pilot's REAL target was the man currently fighting for his life on Izanami! "Nena, this guy's going to try and bail out if we blow up his Suit!"

"Why-"

"He's after Ron!" Jaden shouted as he smirked, remembering that they had a certain CCE officer on board Polaris. And they needed intel. "And the second he jumped in, his ass was ours!" The pilot wanted Ron. And he was going to lose his mind, instead.

The Garazzo swiped at 0 Gundam, but Jaden parried with his beam saber before bashing the enemy machine with his shield. "Polaris, this is Jaden: where are those reinforcements?!" He demanded, and moments later two plasma beams passed the Garazzo, making it break off its' attack. "Right here!" The Morgan shot into view, twin rifles at the ready.

Both Nena and Jaden blinked in surprise "Huh?" He asked "But that's-"

"I know it's Commander Pinkerton's Mobile Suit..." The voice said, as Lunamaria Hawke's face appeared in a comm window. "But the Freedom was under repair, and since he's not flying it-"

"We get it!" Jaden shouted "Just make sure the bastard can't get away!" Thankfully, the Morgan's DRAGOONs didn't need someone with spacial awareness to use them, so Luna launched the remote weapons into the fray. "I'll make sure he doesn't survive this!" She said.

"Captain, we need him ALIVE!" Jaden shouted, as the DRAGOONs began to bracket the MS, two of them managing to blow off one of the arms. "I know that!" Luna said, "But killing that thing is easier than disabling it!"

"He's outnumbered and outmaneuvered!" Jaden said, "And if we can get more Mobile Suits out here, the job'll be easier!" Beam and railgun rounds shot at the enemy MS, and Nena finally scored a hit with the beam saber, scoring what seemed to be both the auto destruct system AND the FTL drive. He wasn't getting away now. "Got him!" Luna shouted as she hacked off the other arm, but the backpack detached from the MS, launching upwards.

"A fucking escape pod?!" Jaden shouted "Seriously?!"

Thankfully, it wasn't getting away, as 30mm and 50mm tracers hit the thruster assemblies, disabling it. "WOO! Take that, bitch!" A Mk VIII Viper flew past, and Jaden knew that this was the only other Colonial to be considered absolutely crazy besides Ron: Kara Thrace.

Jaden grinned "Nice shot, Starbuck!" He said, as Starbuck's Viper entered formation with the Drei Viral.

"You did most of the work, Commander!" Starbuck said, "I just kept the fraker from getting away!"

Nena grabbed the escape vehicle, then turned toward Polaris. "I think that was a good test." Nena said with a small giggle "What about you, Jaden?"

Jaden chuckled. "Yeah...That was a hell of a successful test." He said, "Let's get home and let Farron do whatever she does best."

Battlestar Polaris - Port flight pod hanger bay

Tyrol managed to pry the hatch open, and a Marine threw in a flashbang, which exploded seconds later. "Get that son of a bitch out of there!" He shouted, as three Marines grabbed the pilot, yanked off his helmet, then shot him with a taser in order to knock him out.

"What about his MS?" Tyrol asked.

"Luna's dragging it on board!" Jaden said, "Worry about it later, Chief!"

Tyrol looked at the MS pilot, then spotted most people's worst nightmare: the redheaded beauty known as Captain Yuna Farron. He knew EXACTLY what she was going to do: break the poor bastard. No one knew what she did, and no one WANTED to know, but she always got everything out of anyone had was given to her.

"Chief!" Tyrol looked at Jaden, who just got out of the 0 Gundam Mk II.

"Commander." Tyrol said nodding "Nice work out there: heard you kicked that guy's ass out there. Now his Suit's ass belongs to me."

Jaden chuckled. "Well, we'll need to wait until Ron wakes up until we can pick apart the computer." He said, "I'd rather not fry the computer by trying to brute force it."

"Man's got a way with computers, that's for sure." He said before Jaden walked off, allowing Tyrol to get back to work.

"Jaden!" He looked to his left, spotting Nena walking toward him smiling widely. "You made the Drei amazing! It feels like a totally different machine now! I mean, if I fought that thing in the old version, I would've gotten killed! But now-"

"You can fight with the best." Jaden said with a smile nodding "That's good, because as soon as we figure out how to make sure no one can hijack your body again, you're going to be on the front lines with Celestial Being and the Colonials."

Nena flinched and slightly blushed at the mention of Celestial Being. "Nena?" Jaden asked, "You ok?"

"Uh, does Celestial Being know I'm here?" She asked.

"Not that I know of." He said, "Why?"

Nena nervously chuckled. "It's a long story."

Battlestar Polaris - CIC

"Mr. Gaeta, plot a jump to the Oort Cloud and inform the rest of the Fleet!" Adama said, "The Cylons won't risk sending anyone there: it's outside the ESF's reach!"

"And they won't risk a mass attack without assistance from the ESF." Gaeta got to work, and Adama snarled in annoyance.

"Put the fleet at Condition Two at all times!" He said, "Vipers and Mobile Suits ready for launch in less then 30 seconds!"

Tigh and everyone in CIC began following the Admiral's orders, while Adama waited for something. less then a minute later, he got it: a loud, horrifying scream. "What the hell was that?" Tigh shouted.

Adama looked at him. "Farron just broke our new prisoner." He said.

Shaw and many others grimaced. "He's only been on board for less then five minutes!" She said.

"She doesn't need five minutes." Adama said, "30 seconds at least."

Tigh paled, thankful that that woman had never been given a commission in the regular Fleet. They wouldn't needed the Cylons to kill them then. She would've done it for them.

"Jump calculations complete." Gaeta said, "FTL drive spooling up!" Adama was getting tired of running. He was tired of the Cylons screwing with him. 'Gods, just let them jump in so I can shoot them! Enough hiding!'

"Spooled up, sir!"

"Jump!"

Battlestar Polaris - Brig

The CCE interrogator scoffed. "Not even a challenge." She said as she placed a digital recorder on the floor before pressing play as the pilot, who called himself Bring Stabity, began muttering everything he knew. She was angry, as she liked Ron, although he was not interested in her, and now that he was hurt, her rage knew no bounds as she unleashed her worst tortures of the mind upon her prisoner.

As soon as she was done, she left the cell, allowing him to speak his mind. Literally. "No one goes in there until I get back."

"Ma'am, Doc Cottle wanted a simple of his blood-" The marine began, before she pulled out a needle, walked back in and stabbed it into Bring's arm, then drew out a lot of blood before withdrawing it and leaving the cell again. "Here's the blood, Private." She growled "Now lock the fraking door!"

The Marine shut the door, terrified of the woman before she walked off, heading for sickbay.

CBS-74 Ptolemaeus II - Bridge

Sumeragi watched the video of the refit 0 Gundam and what appeared to be Throne Drei fighting a new model of Mobile Suit. "We're going to need to pay a visit to Polaris." She said as she got up, heading for the door. 'How the hell did they get their hands on that machine?' She thought, 'It went missing years ago!'

Battlestar Polaris - Hanger bay

Jaden continued to work on the 0 Gundam, while thinking about that prisoner of theirs. He didn't seem like a normal human, and that was saying something. He thought that the prisoner might even be one of the so-called Final Five Cylons that the Colonials mentioned, however something inside of him told him that probably wasn't the case, which was why they were taking a blood test.

"Shuttle inbound from Ptolemaeus. Repeat, shuttle inbound from Ptolemaeus." Jaden heard the loudspeakers in the hangar bay sound off, and he sighed. "They must've seen Throne Drei." He muttered. This was going to be a little difficult to explain. Nena said that CB wasn't too fond of her, thanks to her past actions. Still, they wouldn't and couldn't touch her as long as she was on board a Colonial ship.

He continued to work, even as he heard the airlock hatch open. "Commander Takeo!" A familiar voice shouted, and he paused, then looked up to see Sumeragi, Anew Returner, Lockon and Tieria.

"Miss Sumeragi." Jaden said nodding "Is there a problem?"

"I would like an explanation, Commander." Sumeragi said with her eyes narrowed, looking up at where the familiar white and red Gundam was docked "Gundam Throne Drei."

"Ron and I captured it and its' pilot during the first operation to destroy that damned weapon." Jaden said.

Sumeragi narrowed her eyes. "This pilot wouldn't happen to be-" She began.

"It is, Miss Sumeragi." A familiar voice said, as Sumeragi, Lockon, Tieria and Anew looked behind them, and saw Nena Trinity standing there, wearing an orange jumpsuit like those used by the deckhands. "It's a long story." She said.

Jaden nodded, however sensing a familiar sensation, he glanced at Anew, whose eyes flashed like Nena's did a few weeks ago. Faster than most of the others could react, Anew spun on her feet, elbowing Tieria and taking his handgun, but she never got the chance to fire as Jaden tackled her. "Get the Marines!" He shouted, before Anew bashed him in the head with her new sidearm, but Jaden did NOT let go.

Anew got out of his grip, then pointed the weapon at Nena. Thankfully, someone else noticed as Tyrol tackled the woman, knocking her to the deck. "Don't hurt her, Chief!" Jaden said, as Anew kneed the Chief in the crotch, then headbutted him and forced him off before trying to take aim at Nena once more.

This time, though, she was foiled by two 3 centimeter long spikes entering her back and an electrical shock as a Marine tased her. She convulsed and collapsed to the deck.

"What the hell was THAT about?!" Lockon shouted, his hand on his own sidearm. Jaden got on his feet. "It's a long story!" He said, "I hope you know this means we have to put her in the brig, Captain!"

Sumeragi looked at Tieria and Lockon, the latter of which looked highly distressed. "Do it, Commander." She said, "If she's harmed at all-"

"You have my word!" Jaden said before he turned back to the Marines "Take her to the brig; shock her if you have to, but don't hurt her!"

"Aye, sir!" The Marines carried her out, and Jaden saw to Nena. "You ok?" He asked.

Nena, still a bit shaken up, nodded "I'm fine." She said, "But why did she just try to-"

"The same reason you destroyed that castle in Spain." Jaden said, his eyes slightly narrowed "Someone just hijacked her body."

He glared at Sumeragi, as Anew WAS a member of her crew. "What?" She asked.

"Where did she come from?" He demanded, "Was there ANYTHING suspicious in her file?!"

"I never even saw it!" Sumeragi said, and Jaden shook his head. "When the nut has a bad feeling, he's usually right." He muttered, "Ron had a bad feeling about her the moment we met at that station! Never thought this would be the result!"

Battlestar Polaris - CIC

"He mentioned something about assassinating one of Celestial Being's main backers," Yuna Farron said, "And that the Cylons were in league with a group called the Innovators along with something about Lagrange 2, but nothing else."

Adama wasn't liking this. "What about his blood?" Adama asked.

Cottle took in a drag from his cancer stick. "Almost the same as Ms. Trinity's." He said, "He's no Cylon, but he's not exactly human, either. Good news is, though, that our DNA is compatible with theirs. No chance of bad reactions from blood transfusions, either."

"What about organ transplants?" Shaw said suddenly, and Cottle and Adama looked at her. "Sir, he's the enemy and he has something that can save Commander Pinkerton's life."

"I know that, Captain." Adama said. "My problem is that such a transplant will kill Commander Pinkerton as well."

Cottle puffed out smoke before continuing his report. "Commander Pinkerton would've been fine if those little nanomachines weren't actively trying to kill him instead of healing him."

"He said, Miss Returner tried to kill him."

Adama saw red. "Excuse me?!" He asked.

"They caused his organs to fail." Cottle. "She tried to kill him."

That was the LAST straw. "Inform Captain Noriega that I-"

"Don't bother, Admiral!" Adama looked at the hatch, and saw Jaden standing there. "I think someone took control of Miss Returner like they did Nena a few weeks ago." He said, "She is NOT responsible!"

"That's bullshit, Commander!"

"Is it?" Jaden asked with a raised eyebrow "This universe doesn't exactly run on the same rules ours does! It COULD be possible! Nena doesn't remember a damn thing after destroying a castle in Spain four years ago, and don't accuse me of being too close: Ron believes her, too!"

Adama scowled, then remembered something Ron said about the holobands when they first met. "This thing doesn't use wireless signals to communicate with other bands. I think it uses something akin to how we see."

"What? Like telepathy? That doesn't exist, uh..."

"It could: it just hasn't been proven. And call me Ron!"

Adama dragged himself out of memory lane. "You have a workable theory, Commander." He said, "And I know Commander Pinkerton uses holobands, which work like how you say."

Jaden blinked. "huh?"

"Find a way to jam the signal, Commander: until you do, they're both liabilities." Jaden nodded.

"Got it!"

Adama looked at Farron. "Is there ANYTHING else you can get out of him?" He asked.

"Nothing." Farron said before she narrowed her eyes "And I think he'd good for nothing but spare organs."

Adama looked at Cottle. "Work with the doctors on Izanami, and find someone who knows how to work those things and make them work PROPERLY!" He said, "I want him back on his feet within the month!"

Cottle nodded. "Aye, sir." He said.

Jaden blinked once more. "Sir?"

"We're saving Commander Pinkerton." Adama said, "That prisoner's given us everything he knows. And there's no way we can keep him there without him contacting the Cylons or whoever he's really working for."

Jaden nodded "As long as it helps Ron, I'm fine with it." He said, "This guy's working with the same people who ruined Nena's life, and caused both her and Anew to lose control of their bodies. He can go to hell as far as I care." He then blinked before he smirked "Speaking of… is there any way we can do the organ transplant… while the bastard is conscious? Make him watch his own organs get taken out of him, and replaced with Ron's?"

Cottle looked at Jaden incredulously. "Young man, while the name is different to Earth, the oath to do no harm is the same." He said, before he smirked a bit "In this case, though, I could care less: Commander Pinkerton has done nothing but try and help doctors. This son of a bitch, on the other hand, tried to get on this ship's sister and kill him. We'll make sure he's awake for it."

Tigh chortled. "Vindictive, are we?" He asked.

"He tried designing new surgical equipment that would make my job easier." Cottle said, "Instead, the Admiralty axed him for it, same as with that pocket carrier of his. He's a friend to every Colonial doctor."

"I don't care HOW you do it, Doctor: just get the Commander back on his feet!" Adama said.

Cottle saluted Adama, then left CIC. "You're pissed off, Commander." Adama said, turning to Jaden "I never thought you of all people would ask for something like that."

"Ron's a friend." Jaden said, shaking his head "A little crazy, sure, but he'd do anything for you. He's loyal. You and Admiral Avalonia are lucky to have him."

"Alright, but where did you think of keeping the prisoner awake during the transplant?" Tigh asked, and Jaden grinned a bit as he looked at Farron.

"From Farron," he said, "Heard her mention something similar a while back, sounded like this bastard deserves it. It was either that, or another thing I saw on a show called 24: Take a washcloth, shove it down his throat and into his stomach, and when it absorbs the stomach acids you bring it back out, trailing the acids through his esophagus which slowly burns his throat away - heard its very painful."

Farron blinked before she grinned "Ohh thats a new one!" She said, as she grabbed a pen and notepad and wrote it down. "Does it matter what kind of washcloth?"

Adama and Tigh facepalmed. "Great. You've created a monster. Besides, those little robots wreaked havoc throughout the poor bastard's body: we need EVERY organ transplanted!"

"Which is why I didn't ask Farron to do it," Jaden said.

Battlestar Polaris - Brig

Anew woke up wearing handcuffs and with five Marines pointing LMGs are her. "Uh...What happened?" She asked.

The first Marine sighed "Great, we got another one." He muttered, "Lady, you just tried to kill one of our pilots, kneed the Chief of the Deck in the balls and almost caved in the acting Field Marshal's skull. So we decided to take...extreme measures."

She glanced at her feet and noticed she had cuffs on her legs as well. "Please tell me you-"

"HELL NO!" The Marine shouted "What the hell do you think this is, Cain's Pegasus?! We're better then that!"

Anew blinked, then decided she did NOT want to know. "At least you're faring better than the last guy that was in this cell." Another Marine said, "He's undergoing surgery."

"For what?" Anew asked.

The Marine shrugged. "He's, uh...donating his organs." He said, "Since you nearly killed Commander Pinkerton-"

"WHAT?!" Anew shouted "I tried to SAVE HIM!"

"Not according to Doc Cottle." The Marine said, "But, hey, Commander Takeo says you weren't yourself, so I guess you're kind of off the hook."

Anew tried remembering, but her memory drew a blank. All she remembered was injecting him with the nanites. 'What the hell happened to me?'

Battlestar Polaris - outside sickbay

Jaden didn't hear a thing, but he KNEW the bastard was awake. Then again, sickbays on board Colonial ships had independant life support and heavy armor to protect them from boarders, and the sickbay on Polaris was no exception. That also meant that from outside, it was whisper quiet.

"Hey." Jaden looked to his left, spotting his brother and sister. "How is he?"

"The jackass that would've killed Ron had he been given the chance?" Jaden asked, "Probably in extreme pain and agony."

"I meant Ron." Matthew said.

"Oh, he's completely out of it." He said, "But he'll be fine, thanks to Celestial Being's nanomachines and someone who ISN'T trying to kill him."

Amy chuckled. "And of course, the unwilling organ donor." She said, and Jaden nodded. "Still, nothing's really certain." He said, "He could die."

The door to sickbay opened, and a loud scream was heard just before the door shut after Cottle walked out. "Gods, I hope I never have to do that again." He muttered as he took out a smoke, then lit up. "Frak!" He walked down the hall, almost passing the three by. "Oh, Commander. Kids."

All three narrowed their eyes, as all three of them were commanders in the Junk Guild. "How's Ron?" Jaden asked.

"He'll be fine: just closed him up." Cottle said "Ishay's got him covered. The other guy isn't so lucky: he'll be dead in a few days."

"You took out his heart and lungs."

"We put Ron's damaged ones in him."

Jaden chuckled. "Turnabout's fair play." He said, "Think we can send him back to the Cylons before he dies?"

Cottle shrugged. "Sure. Stuff him in one of the captured Heavy Raiders, set it on autopilot and jump it back to Earth: easy."

Battlestar Polaris - Sickbay

Emori didn't hear any screaming. He simply dreamed in his comatose state. But he kept dreaming of one thing: Wang Liu Mei and someone trying to kill her.

The place he saw her, was what appeared to be a unfinished Space Colony, and she was floating in the zero-g, wearing a normal suit, with a look of fear on her face. The person chasing her, was clad in the familiar pilot suit of the A-LAWS, but their face was hidden by the polarized visor.

The figure fired a gun at the Chinese socialite, missing her helmeted head by a hair's length. Then the young woman dodged behind a door, before closing before going down another hallway and arriving a hangar bay. She had then climbed into a small personal shuttle craft, and took off.

He was relieved to see her get away from the colony, but then his heart sank as he saw a fast moving MS heading straight for Liu Mei's shuttle.

'No...Liu Mei...somebody help her...please!'

His eyes snapped open and he quickly shot out of his bed, nearly knocking over a nurse.

"Godsdamn it! What the hell-"

He ignored the nurse, then ran toward what appeared to be the hatch leading out. It opened, and he nearly ran into four people: a man in surgical scrubs and three people who looked alike.

"Whoa, whoa! Easy! Easy!"

His training kicked in, and he rolled past the four, running down the corridor half-blindedly, as he knew nothing about the ship he was on. He ran past Marines, people in navy blue uniforms and green fatigues, making his way to the hangar bay, where there something was calling to him: he would later learn it was called a Raptor.

He ran past deckhands and pilots alike, knocking a woman who seemed to be the scout's pilot aside and sealed the hatch behind him.

'I can't let her die. No, I WON'T let her die!'

He tried to make sense of the controls, then simply hit two switches: one that caused a whining sound and one that started the engines.

"Get the hell out of there! Marines, get that hatch open!"

He eyed a red button, then pressed it. His sight warped and distorted, and suddenly he was in space.

"What the...what just happened?" He then spotted the colony from his dream. 'Hopefully I'm not too late!'

Battlestar Polaris - Hanger deck

Jaden, Matthew and Amy ran into the bay as soon as the ship started shaking.

"What the actual fuck was THAT?!" Jaden shouted as he looked down, then spotted what looked like damage to the deck plating. "What the hell caused THAT?!"

Tyrol looked at them as they climbed down. His face clearly showing he was pissed.

"The perils of jumping inside a ship: the fraking distortion nearly killed three of my people!"

Athena walked over, clearly pissed. "Son of a bitch just runs in, steals my Raptor, somehow spools up the FTL and jumps away!" She shouted "If he gets back, I'll kill him!"

"Not if Ron kills him first: you know how protective he is over this ship!" Tyrol said, while Jaden spoke up.

"Was it a guy wearing a black on tan ESF flight suit with bandages on his head?" he asked and Tyrol nodded.

"Yeah, he came down here, like a pack of Centurions were on his ass!" he said and Jaden immediately became concerned.

"Did you managed to see the coordinates?" He asked.

"No, it was a blind jump." Tyrol said shaking his head "Don't think he knew how to plot one, anyways."

Jaden sighed. "This is bad." he muttered, before a very familiar voice shouted "You think, kid?!"

Jaden looked up, seeing Ron, looking like he just ran down after waking up. "Who the HELL DID THIS TO MY SHIP!" He shouted at the top of his lungs.

Ronald Pinkerton was back and he was not happy.

Ron the True Fan: Well, that's a new one. I've never tried to off my main before. Course, he's alive and VERY angry.

117Jorn: I feel sorry for Emori… if the A-Laws don't get him, Ron'll kill him.

Patriot-112: Yup... if he succeeds in rescuing Liu Mei.

Ron the True Fan: And since that's next time...well, read on and find out! But first, Jorn, Patriot, please introduce our newest MSs to our readers, if you will?

117Jorn: Got it!

Mobile Unit: TMSF-X000 0 Gundam Mark-II

Unit Type: Prototype General Purpose Mobile Suit

Manufacturer: Celestial Being (Original M.S); Colonial Corps of Engineers; Junk Guild; Katharon

Operators: Celestial Being (Original M.S); Colonial Corps of Engineers; Junk Guild; Katharon

Height: 18.0 Meters

Standard Weight: 33.1 Metric Tons

Max Weight: 54.1 Metric Tons

Power-plant: Ultracompact Helium-3 Fusion Reactor

Pilot Accommodations: Panoramic Monitor/Linear seat Cockpit in Torso;

Armor: Reinforced Trans-Phase Shift Armor;

Fixed Armaments: 2 x Beam Sabers, stored over behind shoulders, hand-carried when in use; 2 x 60mm Vulcan CIWS Gunpods, fire-linked in head; 2 x M8F-SB1 "Shorty" beam rifles, stored on hips, hand-carried when in use;

Optional Armaments: 57mm High-Energy Beam Rifle/175mm Grenade Launcher;; 360mm Hyper Bazooka; High Density Beam Sniper Rifle; Shield; Exia Kai III Sword/Rifle;

Special Equipment & Design Features: Sensors; Hardpoints for Striker Packs;

Technical & Historical Notes: As an act of good faith between Celestial Being, and their newfound allies in the Colonial Corps of Engineers and the Junk Guild, they presented the two factions with the GN-000 0 Gundam, the prototype to all Gundam units of the Anno Domini universe. Although both C.E groups complained about how few armaments it originally had, Jaden took this as both a challenge and a blessing, since it allowed him to work on near blank slate for the M.S in terms of upgrades.

After weeks of work, and using data on both modern C.B Gundam's and technology from the Cosmic Era, Jaden's efforts showed fruition with the full overhaul of the 0 Gundam, transforming it from a simple prototype, into a highly advance war machine, rechristened as the TMSF-X000 0 Gundam Mark-II. It has a vastly increased amount of weaponry compared to the original, with two beam sabers instead of one, CIWS for Anti-aircraft and Missile duty, Shorty Beam Pistols, and can use a wide variety of other weapons including the standard 57mm Beam Rifle with Grenade Launcher, and 350mm Bazooka, as well as being capable of using a High Density Beam Sniper Rifle based on the Dynames GN Beam Sniper Rifle, and the Exia Kai III Sword/Rifle based off of the Exia's GN sword rifle. And on top of all of this, the Mark-II can utilize Striker Packs,

Armaments were not the only improvement, as the 0 Gundam Mark-II also used a new reactor, instead of using a GN Drive, the 0 Gundam Mark II utilized Jaden's Helium-3 Fusion Reactor, a new energy source that operates just as effectively as GN Drives, only far easier to produce. The 0 Gundam Mark-II proved to be a massive success, as later the data from the Mark-II lead to the development of new Katharon mass-produced M.S, the TMSF-081 Patriot, and the TMSF-082 Cavalier.

Appearance: Looks like the RX-178 Gundam Mark-II from Zeta Gundam;

Mobile Unit: GNW-003V Gundam Throne Drei Viral

Unit Type: Custom Close Quarter Assault/Stealth Support Mobile Suit

Manufacturer: Celestial Being (Original Specs); Junk Guild (Upgraded Version)

Operators: Celestial Being Team Trinity (Formerly); Junk Guild

Head Height: 19.4 Meters

Standard Weight: 67.7 Metric Tons

Power-Plant: GN Tau Drive;

Pilot Accommodations: Panoramic/Linear Core fighter Cockpit in chest;

Armor: Trans Phase-Shift Armor;

Propulsion: GN Verniers;

Fixed Armaments: 2 x GN Beam Saber/Daggers, stored behind shoulders, hand-carried when in use; 1 x GN "Trikeros II" Offensive Shield System w/ 50mm High-Energy GN Beam Rifle, GN Beam Saber, 3 x E-Carbon "Lancer Dart" Hypervelocity Kinetic Energy Penetrator, and GN Shield, mounted on right forearm; 1 x GN Handgun, mounted on left Forearm; 1 x "Gleipnir" Rocket Anchor Piercer Lock, mounted on left forearm next to GN Beam Gun/saber;

Special Equipment & Features: GN Stealth Field; Mirage Colloid Stealth System; Mirage Colloid Virus; Electronic Counter Measures (ECM); Hacking Interface; A.I Access Port;

Technical & Historical Notes: Upon Nena Trinity joining the Junk Guild, she piloted her GNW-003 Gundam Throne Drei with great effect helping the Junk Guild and Celestial Being in an effort to redeem her past actions. While Jaden had plans of replacing the Drei with a far more capable M.S, he had to develop a temporary solution to the problem, so he put the Drei though a vast series of refits and upgrades to make it into a much more capable machine.

The first upgrade he made was adding Mirage Colloid and advance ECM and Computer systems on her Mobile Suit, including the ability to deploy Mirage Colloid Viruses into standard enemy M.S, but was soon shown to be unable to take control of units with more complex and advance O.S systems like the Arche Gundam.

Next, were weapons. As he had seen, Drei was very lacking of many weapons, limited only to beam sabers, a GN hand gun, and a missile pod. The Drei could not survive against modern M.S in the state it was in armament wise, which was why Jaden turned to the designs of an infamous Bloody Valentine war M.S that was captured by ZAFT: The GAT-X207 Blitz. Using specs from the Blitz, Jaden recreated the Trikeros Offensive Shield, modified to use GN weapons, and the Blitz's Rocket Anchor. Another feature of the Drei Blitz is an A.I port, which Jaden integrated to allow his personal A.I Lucifer otherwise known as 'Lucy' to help Nena use these systems along with her Haro.

The Drei Viral became a very effective M.S during the A-LAWS conflict, and soon became the bane of the Cylons and Innovators as the Mobile Suit was one they could not hack or even detect. Even the Colonials became very wary of this mobile suit and its combat effectiveness, since it was one of the few machines that was capable of hacking into their Battlestars.

Appearance: Looks like the GNW-003 Gundam Throne Drei with the GAT-X207 Blitz's Rocket Anchor and Shield, only the shield can deploy GN Shield Particles.