Harry Potter and the Endless Waltz Pt3
"I came to laugh at you." Char to Amuro
Warnings: Language (You could see a PG-13 movie with the language though...)
Speech Guide:
Kar-Nath.
Slowly the top of the dome shifted, a massive figure of metal rose from the facility as though it was an arrow shot from a mighty bow. A moment later Costhal and his three allies were standing in front of an unknown mobile suit.
"Analyze!" Costhal ordered as his fingers flew over his controls.
...
"Ready Hermione?" Harry asked nervously.
Hermione nodded.
"Let's do our best." Hermione agreed.
Harry quickly pulled on a switch which opened up the 'shoulders' of the Crimson Gundam and pulled out one of the several sabers nestled in it's confines from each shoulder. He then started up it's thrusters and rushed the black mobile suit.
However, to their surprise the Black suit was able to launch itself over them.
"That must be the Shadow Blade." Hermione commented as Harry sliced off the head unit of one of the deep blue mobile suits.
Harry then sliced off the arm units quickly.
"Incoming from the rear!" Hermione warned.
"Right!" Harry used the thrusters on the legs, back, and chest to launch the Havoc up and out of the way.
A missile impacted the dark blue mobile suit that Harry had just disabled.
"Damn it! I went to all that effort to not kill him and he gets killed by friendly fire!" Harry growled in frustration.
"I know Harry! But we have to try!" Hermione agreed as her fingers flew over the controls.
The Havoc landed easily on both it's feet in front of the second blue mobile suit.
The Zarlin tried to bring it's flamethrower unit to bear against Harry and Hermione. However, Harry; using his seeker reflexes managed to slice off it's arms before Hermione screamed a warning that the black suit was bringing it's sword into play.
The Calinic, or the Shadow Blade himself was confronting them.
Harry quickly forced the Havoc to roll to the side, thereby dodging the horizontal swing of the Pitch Black mobile Suit.
"That's going to be the most dangerous one to take down." Hermione noted needlessly.
"I know." Harry agreed as he forced the Havoc to sprint over to the final Blue Standing Mobile suit.
The enemy was firing missiles at him as though terrified.
"He's not even aiming Harry. If we just rush him...We'll get him." Hermione noted.
"I agree love." Harry nodded as he fired a pair of the head unit's vulcans at the Mobile Suit.
The shots ripped through the MS' armor as though it was butter and a moment later it was lying on the ground, useless.
"Wow...Those aren't standard Vulcan cannons." Hermione said.
"I know. Now all that remains is the Shadow Blade." Harry turned the Havoc to confront the Shadow Blade.
Upon turning he was kicked in the side of the head, throwing the Havoc off balance.
"What was that?" Harry demanded as he used the thrusters to boost to a safer location.
"It looks like the Calinic kicked us. Damage to the head unit...Less than one percent?" Hermione asked in awe.
"Well, if we shoot down the Shadow Blade here...It's one step closer to peace right?" Harry asked.
"I'd guess so." Hermione agreed uncertainly.
"Then he's going down! Wait...where is he?" Harry asked in a baffled voice.
Suddenly an alarm sounded.
"He's above!" Hermione yelled.
Harry dashed backwards and adjusted the camera.
The Shadow Blade had sliced at where he was just a second ago. Dirt billowed up from the impact area of the long metal sword of the Shadow Blade's attack.
"Now I know why he's called the shadow blade...He's hard to see." Harry noted as he fired his vulcan's at him. However, the Shadow Blade used a series of intricate moves to dodge the shots and he seemingly vanished again.
"We need to take this outside of the colony Harry. Otherwise odds are we'll start doing serious damage to the place." Hermione warned.
"Okay. Hermione, you'll need to plot us an exit." Harry replied.
"I won't be able to watch for you as I do that." She warned.
"That's fine. I'll just have to rely on those reflexes of mine." Harry responded.
Fifteen minutes later Harry and Hermione made it outside of the colony, just to be confronted by a large battleship.
"That's not good Harry!" Hermione moaned.
"Neither of us thought of the fact that he had to have back up..." Harry groaned.
"Scan complete...It's a Kallitin Class Battleship." Hermione said as her eyes widened.
"It's launching another set of MS's and it's firing a salvo of missiles at us!" She yelled.
"It looks like we're going to be in a running battle!" Harry began a series of movements to help doge the various missiles.
"Several Missiles have impacted against the colony's exterior shielding." Hermione shook her head in despair.
"We can't give up Hermione! We have to do this. But I can't do this without you!" Harry yelled as he was struck by a missile.
"O-okay...The Kallitin is firing it's automated cannons at us now. We need to get up there and destroy the Kallitin or withdraw." Hermione told him.
"We're starting to take some damage but...If we were to use the beam rifles..." Harry mentioned.
"We're close to X2." Hermione warned.
"I know that...but if we only fire at the Kallitin then X2 will be behind the us and safe from the line of fire." Harry mentioned.
"Do you think we can pull it off?" Hermione asked as three missiles streaked passed the Havoc, barely missing them.
"We have to." Harry replied as he put the twin sabers away, unlatched the twin beam rifles from their latches near the wing joints, and began to aim.
A moment later four beams of energy launched away from the Havoc.
The yellow beams were massive, as soon as they were away from the barrel the four merged into just two larger beams that were easily larger than the largest of mobile suits, and the two beams impacted, and ripped through the Kallitin's battleship weight armor as though it wasn't even there. A moment after the impact the Kallitin battleship had vanished in a sea of flames.
"We...did...it..." Harry sighed in relief.
"What about the Shadow Blade?" Hermione warned.
"Well...After losing his base of Operations he'll need to lie low and make his way back to another ship." Harry replied reasonably.
The two of them then quickly re-entered X2 to pick up a few of their things.
...
"The Kallitin...destroyed...just like that? What kind of weapons is that thing packing?" Costhal wondered in shock as he stared at the remains of his once proud ship.
Costhal's hands shook as he watched the debris of his former ship float uselessly.
"I will kill that pilot for this..." Costhal vowed before he contacted the Mobile Suits that had been launched from his once great ship.
Whatever that Mobile Suit was it wasn't a typical one. It's armor was far superior to anything that he had encountered, it had tremendous speed, being able to dodge his attacks with little warning, impeccable scanners for being able to detect him, and as he had just witnessed; a devastating and horrifying amount of attack power.
"Alright ladies and gentlemen, we are facing a threat far worse than anything I had anticipated. I want two of you to go into X2 and get the downed pilots there. Since the nearest Alliance Outpost isn't far they'll be fine in their space suits for the short trip. Once those two have returned we'll head on out."
"Yes Sir!" The remaining seven saluted.
Costhal supposed that not all was lost after all.
...
"That does take care of the Alliance's attack on X2. However, you're going to be pursued soon." Dr. Tallard warned.
"No thanks to you." Harry glared at the man.
"Ouch, touche. Anyway, I believe you are planning to head to your home and grab a few things?" Dr. Tallard asked.
Hermione nodded.
"David will take you. I'll warn you though, most the citizens of X2 are rather...angry with me right now."
"I can't say I blame them." Harry snorted.
Tallard winced at Harry's cold tone.
"That's true enough I suppose. Anyways, you better get going." He told them.
Hermione and Harry nodded abruptly.
Once they were in the car with David driving he spoke to the two of them.
"I'm sorry I got you both involved in all of this mess. You really didn't deserve this madness thrust upon you. If I had known..." David shook his head in shame.
Hermione patted his shoulder gently.
"It's okay David. We know you didn't know." She assured him.
"Thanks..." He said weakly.
They lasped into silence until they arrived at Harry's and Hermione's house.
Harry and Hermione quickly made their way into their beloved home and began to pick up various objects. For the next seven minutes the word 'Accio' became a common word for them once again. Once they had gathered everything they waved their wands, shrunk their items, and pocketed everything.
Harry held a small 'briefcase' (In reality it was his trunk) and Hermione held all of her things in her purse.
"That everything?" Harry asked.
Hermione nodded before they left.
"Wow, you two are fast." David noted as they slid into the back seats again.
"We prefer to travel light." Harry lied as he lifted his trunk.
Hedwig hooted her agreement.
"I see that." David laughed as they made their way back to the domed facility.
Once Harry, Hermione and Hedwig were inside the Havoc again Dr. Tallard spoke.
"Harry, Hermione you'll need to go to the colony X3."
"The new ship right?" Hermione replied.
"That's correct. David has already volunteered to work on the ship should you capture it."
"David? Why?" Harry asked in surprise.
"I want to try to make it up to you. I know I can't because I'm the one who brought you to this wacko but...I can help you anyways." David said from behind Tallard.
"Oh David..." Hermione shook her head.
"I'm going to be on that ship assisting you whether you like it or not!" David added.
Harry chuckled lightly.
"Just like Nev." Harry muttered.
"Well, you better get going." Dr. Tallard urged.
"Alright." Harry and Hermione said in unison as they buckled up and shut the hatch to the Havoc.
Hedwig hooted questioningly at Harry.
"This is going to be intense girl but I need you to stay calm alright?" Harry asked.
She bobbed her head in agreement.
"Okay, Havoc you are clear for launch." Dr. Tallard told them through the small television-like comm unit on their 'lap desks'.
"Launching now!" Harry and Hermione said in unison once again as the Havoc took off.
Once they had left X2 Harry and Hermione accelerated towards X3 in the black, crimson, and gold Havoc.
The Havoc's angular crimson and black wings stretched as the thrusters below it's wings lit.
"Hey, Tallard one question before we cut you off." Harry suddenly said to the panel that was getting ready to cut off.
"What is it?" Dr. Tallard asked.
"Why doesn't the Havoc have a shield? Most MS' do." Harry asked.
Dr. Tallard nodded.
"While the Havoc has superior armor to any model you've come across the armor isn't it's specialty. The Havoc has tremendous attack power and higher speed. However, it sacrifices a lot of AP for that."
"AP?" Harry asked.
"It stands for 'Armor Potential'. And it's the 'potential armor' that a MS' can have when made in a certain fashion."
"So if we encountered a MS' made much like this one was but didn't have the speed..." Harry frowned as he thought about it.
"It's Armor ratings would probably be far superior to yours. As a matter of fact...A MS' similar to the Havoc that instead focused on defenses would be possibly able to withstand a direct blast from those beam rifles."
Harry's and Hermione's eyes widened at that.
"You're kidding me." Hermione stated coldly.
"I'm afraid not. For every good offense there's a good defense. Just remember that. But also remember, a good defense can't attack as well so if you press the enemy hard enough you should be able to destroy them with little difficulty...Even if they manage to survive a shot from the twin beam rifles."
"Right..." Harry muttered before he cut the communications to Tallard.
"I really hate that guy." The two teens said in a disgusted voice.
Hedwig hooted an agreement.
A few hours later Harry and Hermione brought the Havoc to a stop just outside of X3's sensor range.
"You see anything?" Harry asked.
Hermione nodded from her copilot seat.
"It looks like there is a large....super battleship class ship docked in the Spaceport."
"Super battleship?" Harry wondered.
"I couldn't think of a better term. It's far larger than the next largest known battleship class ship. I guess the Federation supposed that they needed a new breed of warship to win this."
"Wouldn't it cost a lot more to make it though?" Harry wondered.
"Probably." Hermione agreed.
"But at least WE didn't have to buy it." Harry grinned as his grip tightened on the controls.
Hermione laughed lightly before she spoke.
"I suppose this makes us pirates."
"Do what you want because a pirate is free."* Harry sang in an intentionally off key tone.
"Bad Harry!" Hermione chided with a slight giggle.
"Let's go get us a ship." Harry said as he launched the Havoc towards X3.
Five minutes later they were battling several mobile armors which were of little difficulty to defeat.
Once they had disabled the entire X3 Defense squadron they made their way to the harbor and boarded the ship.
To X3's and the Federation's shock not long after the surprise attack the new ship was moving out of the harbor, without the federation crew on it.
Harry grinned at the sight as his girlfriend piloted the ship.
"You are amazing love." Harry complimented as they broke away from the colony.
Hermione blushed.
"I am the best after all." She said as her blush grew.
"Never were more true words spoken. " Harry agreed, furthering Hermione's blush before he spoke again. "I'll go get in contact with Dr. Tallard and get us a crew."
Hermione nodded.
A few moments later Harry was at the communications desk and talking to Tallard.
"Hmm? It looks like you managed to capture the Federation's new battleship." Dr. Tallard said with some surprise.
"It wasn't well defended and there wasn't even anyone on board." Harry replied lightly.
Dr. Tallard nodded.
"Alrighty X2 has a couple people that decided to join you, X3 will be sending a small 'delegations' shuttle which will be crew members, and we even have some people from the M colonies sending a shuttle that is undercover. It'll contact you in a few weeks. Until then, your crew will be understaffed and you'll have to act as both pilot of the Havoc and captain of your new ship." Dr. Tallard warned.
"I need to mention this Doctor..." Hermione called, she stopped; unsure if she could be heard.
"Yes what is it?"
"The ship is several times larger than the typical Federation Battleship. It's about seven times larger than the Alpha Class battleship."
"Can you pull up the data?" Dr. Tallard asked.
Harry nodded uncertainly.
"Hermione's piloting the ship right now but I'll take a look." He promised.
"This is...The first Omega Class Battleship. Originally it was going to be designated the Earth Federation Space Forces Ship Destiny. Or, EFSFS Destiny for short. I guess it was going to be the flagship of the Federation Fleet. Not anymore though." Hermione said with a faint grin.
"That's true enough. The Destiny is now officially a rouge ship. Right now you two should find an out of the way place and your crew will contact you once they get closer."
"Sure thing." Harry agreed before Hermione started the engines back up.
A week passed in silence as the massive ship hid within the asteroid belt. They had landed upon one of the larger asteroids and the defenses of the new ship would stealthily repel any asteroids that threatened to hit them.
They were tired as they had to stand watch constantly and stayed vigilant but finally they accepted the first two shuttles.
"David, welcome onboard."
"Wow! What a ship! Ooohhh Can I be a tech engineer?" David asked as he bounced on the balls of his feet.
Harry and Hermione blinked before they shrugged.
"Let's get everyone to their quarters and then we'll work on assignments." Hermione suggested.
Harry nodded.
"Fine..." David muttered sadly.
It was a difficult process but the two hundred were eventually assigned rooms and jobs. They employed the help of a former officer of the Earth Federation that had decided to join X3 and wanted to bring peace.
"The name's Johnathan Everstone. I was formerly an officer on the EFSFS Calamity. However, I resigned my post after an incident..." The man had introduced himself.
"An incident?" Hermione asked.
The dark haired man nodded.
"I watched as the EFSF attacked a small Martian outpost. The Empress had had it set up to act as a relief station for her people...The EFSF decided that it was too critical of an object to allow to remain in orbit...They destroyed it...I..." The lean man shook his head sadly.
"I understand Johnathan." Hermione patted the older man's arm gently.
"Anyways, I resigned my post because of that. Feel free to call me John. Everyone else does." John smiled.
"Okay John, what was your position on the Federation Ship?" Hermione asked.
"I was a pilot for the battleship. I made sure the ship was able to move during battle, and to be able to plot courses that wouldn't get everyone killed." John replied.
"Okay, I think we finally have a pilot." Harry grinned.
"You want me to pilot the ship?" John sounded only slightly surprised.
"What did you expect? You've got the experience of piloting Federation Battleships after all. We nearly ran into a wall or two on the way here." Harry replied.
"We do need your help organizing the rest of the crew though." Hermione added.
"Right. I expected something like that." John nodded his agreement.
Sometime later the next two groups of shuttles joined the ship's crew.
David became the lead technical engineer for repairing the Havoc while Sam Goodwill became the lead engineer for the ship itself.
John approached them at the end of the month.
"We've got the crew organized and all the shuttles that are coming have already come...for the time being. What are your orders Captains?" John saluted Harry and Hermione.
The two saluted back.
"We're moving out. Our first objectives are to cripple military production, get a bigger crew, and find ways to urge the three factions to find peaceful solutions."
"Having a few more mobile suits wouldn't hurt." Hermione muttered.
Harry nodded.
"That's true we'll need more pilots and suits as well."
"Understood sir. I'll have slicer start hacking into Alliance, Federation and Martian databases looking for supply depots." John saluted.
"We will be depending on everyone." Hermione added.
"Umm..." John stopped as he reached the white sliding door that led away from the bridge of the ship.
"What is it?" Harry asked.
"I think you should address the crew before we move out."
"That's a good idea Harry." Hermione agreed.
"Do you want to do so via intercom or up and personal?" John asked.
"I think in person is the better choice." Harry replied.
"Very well Sir. I can have the crew ready for a meeting within an hour of you notifying me."
"Start getting them ready then John."
The blue suited man saluted Harry and Hermione.
"Yes sir!"
...
While Harry and Hermione organized a resistance to the war of the three factions Costhal mused as his new ship was outfitted.
The leaders of the Zarltic Alliance didn't initially believe that he had been defeated by a single mobile suit in such a fashion and instead were certain that he had in fact acted reckless. That, however changed after they saw the glowing emerald eyes of the Crimson suit by watching the battle footage of the Calinic's main camera.
Their eyes widened further as they watched the Kallitin be blown apart by a single attack from the unknown mobile suit.
They had gathered on M6, and were seated in a richly decorated room. A large circular table was in the center and twenty or so figures were sitting at various locations as Costhal replayed footage from the open space at the center of the table.
"What in the hell is this?" Rear Admiral Silenski asked Costhal as she slammed a fist down and stood to glare at the masked man.
"It was the Mobile Suit's doing. Apparently it's armed with twin beam rifles that do far more damage than any conventional weapon we've encountered. Furthermore, it's armor potential is staggering." Costhal said calmly as he replayed his Calinic's successful attack on the crimson enemy.
"That was a direct hit and it's paint didn't even appear scratched. My scanners indicated that the damage to the head unit was far less than one percent. Later my ship managed to hit the mobile suit directly with an Anti-Suit Missile...Here. There was no outer appearances that the Suit had even taken damage from the missile." Costhal added.
"What kind of armor would that thing be armed with?" The Rear Admiral asked as she sat down heavily.
"Currently we are unsure. However, some of our engineers have proposed that it might be made of Gundanium Alloy."
"That extremely difficult to forge, extremely rare metal that can only be forged in null-gravity?" The Rear Admiral asked curiously.
Costhal nodded at the Black uniformed woman.
"That's correct. If that is the case then we may be facing a very serious problem."
"No kidding! We don't have the kinds of funds to be making suits out of Gundanium!" A Vice admiral protested.
"That may be, but do we want to directly face a squadron of Mobile Suits similar to this one? I believe we need to send out some elites and destroy this suit. From my calculations the MS fled from X2 and was headed in the general vicinity of X3. We should probably try to track it down and either capture or destroy it." Costhal suggested.
"Why capture it?" The dark uniformed Vice Admiral asked.
"Why not? It has tremendous power. If we could learn it's secrets....we could bring this war to a close in a few short weeks. Think about it. We send a single MS against a Federation Battleship and they laugh...until it's far too late."
"I don't see..."
"Don't be a fool!" Costhal interrupted the Vice Admiral.
"If we armed them with those beam rifles...The Federation's Vaunted Battleships would be crushed. That's not all. No, we could also threaten a planetary bombardment of Mars or the Earth. The war would be completely in our favor. They would be forced to surrender."
"You're insane-" The vice admiral tried to write off Costhal's words.
However the entire audience gasped in shock as Costhal drew a firearm and pointed the pistol at the Vice Admiral.
"What is this?!?" The Vice Admiral yelled.
"Mutiny? What are you doing Costhal?" The Rear Admiral said heavily.
"This man is not a loyal member. I've been suspicious of him ever since he set foot in these offices. It's rather surprising to find out that a member of the Empresses personal guard could have infiltrated so far into our mists isn't it?"
The figures sat there gaping.
"You're a spy and I cannot allow you to return to your beloved martian home world." Costhal said as he coolly approached the man.
"You...You can't believe that..." The man stuttered.
"There is a solution to the war and yet you are continuing to manipulate the council. You have been working for the Empress all along."
"I have not! You're lying!" The Vice Admiral screamed.
"Oh am I?" Costhal drew a disk from his crimson coat.
"What's that?" The man demanded.
"Proof." Costhal replied as he fired a shot. The Vice Admiral died instantly from the shot that struck his forehead.
"Now, before you go screaming for the guards, remember the charter. Article seventy-two Paragraph sixteen." Costhal said as he put his pistol away.
"A traitor must be shot on sight..." The Rear Admiral muttered.
The disk on Costhal's gloved hand was inserted into the center PC and a large amount of data was conveyed to them.
"So he was a traitor after all..."
Costhal sat calmly upon his chair in the center of the room as he crossed his gloved fingers across one another.
"So...he deserved this fate." The Rear Admiral nodded.
"You did quite well Captain Costhal. You brought us information on a new super weapon that someone has built, and brought the information of a traitor in our mists to light. We will see you outfitted with a new Battleship and we'll also see if we can't get you some upgrades for the Calinic so the next time you meet that Mobile Suit...you can capture or destroy it."
"That would be appreciated." Costhal smiled faintly.
The one problem with wearing a mask though was that no one there could see his true thoughts.
Each of the quotes after the title are from Gundam (The first was from Gundam Wing...the leader of the 'bad guys' from Endless waltz said it...Then Lacus said pt2's quote...while Pt3's is from Zeta Gundam.)
*I can't believe I had that in there...But it just popped into my mind when I mentioned piracy....Sorry for the evilness of adding that there.
Well, I may or may not add more parts....But If I do...I'll probably just make it a stand alone story...
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