Gundam 00: Phoenix

Retribution

Author Notes: This chapter is probably not my best, and it's one that took a considerable amount of time to do with school, life, video games, etc going on. Feedback will be appreciated. Anyways better stop rambling, and into chapter 13 we go!(note that if the title is not in the center it's not my fault, it was aligned in the center before but it keeps moving back for reasons I don't understand.)

South America, Arvineo, February 20, Rising Phoenix Fleet (Six Hours Ago)

The Rising Phoenix fleet's guns were blazing through the night sky as nearly every weapon was being concentrated at the incoming GN-Xs which were coming dangerously close to the carrier which contained the array allowing them to have a chance at hitting GN-Xs.

Enacts from the enemy were also closing in as they began to launch missiles at the fleet from a distance while remaining beneath their radar and weaponry. However these missiles were quickly intercepted by a counter-barrage from the destroyers which could not hit the GN-Xs who were far too low and close for their AA missile systems to engage.

"Enemy GN-Xs heading towards the Arc Anvil, they've split up into two groups and are attacking our flanks to try and get through."

Hiller could only scowl as he heard the news, if they lost that carrier there would be no hope in hitting the GN-Xs with gun weaponry while their missiles would remain ineffective as the GN-Xs had demonstrated their ability to shoot down missiles with uncanny ease. The only thing that would be left would be their own fighters to counter-act the threat, but they were still en-route and by the time they arrive more destruction and death would be wrought upon them if the support carrier did not make it out alive.

"Keep them away from the Arc Anvil!" Hiller then shouted raising his arm towards one group of the machines. "Have the ships maintain their formation and force the enemies up into the fleets line of fire do whatever it takes or we can all kiss the world good bye!"

Through the comm, a second later, the voice of the entire fleet resonated back through the speaker as they continued to keep up the fusillade of fire fully focused on keeping the Arc Anvil afloat.

"Sir, fighter reinforcement ETA five minutes though they can commence a long-range missile barrage on your order!" Gerald called out to the admiral

Hiller could on quickly shake his head in response. "Have them get here and engage those mobile suits at close-range, we'll use their long-range missiles when the enemy retreats."

"Aye, aye sir!" Vice Admiral Gerald nodded his head as he contacted the fighter squadrons telling them Hiller's request.

"Enemy mobile suits now within striking distance of the Arc Anvil!" one of the crew alerted Hiller as he turned to see the mobile suits now engaging the carrier while a hail of flak from the carrier began to barrage the mobile suits from vehicles near the edge of the deck. "Have the destroyers maintain their defensive position and keep the Enacts away, we don't need any more craft getting this close."

"Sir submersible mobile armour numbers are dwindling and they appear to be pulling back for now, seems their time limit is up." someone then reported.

"Doesn't matter, they distracted us enough for the GN-Xs to get in this close and have wounded the fleet enough that several vessels will be out of commission." Hiller replied back in response as he quickly brought up the status of multiple vessels, many of them having sustained heavy damage to the hull.

Hiller then turned to see if the Arc Anvil still had a chance as the fleet continued to let loose with their guns. However what he saw was something he did not like one bit as flames could be seen smouldering off the deck as the GN-Xs began their work on destroying the vessel laying waste to the parts of the deck and vehicles stationed ontop. The only satisfaction he got was occasionally see the GN-X tumble out of the sky and explode into a shower of red particles, but there were still too many for them to handle as the machines only occasionally rose up to engage before quickly lowering their position to avoid being detected.

Hiller could on reluctantly turn to Gerald. "How well are we holding off the Enacts?" he asked the Vice-Admiral in a slight exhausted voice.

"We're holding them off with the destroyers; main concern is still the GN-Xs as we just don't have enough guns capable of hitting them that low, also message for you from Yag Squadron." Gerald said back as he quickly brought the message through.

"Yag squadron to Birds Nest do you copy?" came a response through their channels.

"I copy," Hiller hailed back through the comm. "What's the word do you bring?"

"We're just entering the combat zone we can see the flames from above, just hold on a little longer, ETA one minute and counting."

"Affirmative, once you reach our location concentrate on protecting the Arc Anvil we can't afford to lose her, we've already lost enough vessels." Hiller ordered as the pilot responded with a 'yes sir' before the ceased communications.

"One minute, just one more minute." he thought to himself as he turned to look at the Arc Anvil. "Let's just hope the Arc Anvil can hold together."

"Admiral!" Gerald shouted aloud to him as he pointed through the bridge towards several dots outside coming towards their fleet with orange marker lights that could be seen from afar which were quickly closing in. "I think it's the Arvineos!"

"You think?" he said unsoundly to Gerald. "Bring it up on radar want confirmation that it is Commander Renko's men." Hiller instructed as the monitor switched to that the radar screen and immediately what came up was the designation of that of an Arvineo Flags on screen matching the ID Commander Elliot had given them previously.

The comm. then turned on once more this time coming from the Flags. "Seems like you could use abit of help." came an accented voice with slightly laid back voice.

"Damn right we could use your help!" Hiller said not fond of the pilot pointing out the obvious and the way he sounded abit laid back.

"Well then, what are our orders?" the voice then replied back this time in a professional tone.

Hiller looked at Gerald and nodded towards the man as the Vice-Admiral immediately transferred the Arc Anvil's location to the Flags before Hiller then spoke out his orders to the reinforcements.

"I want your Flags to form a perimeter around the Arc Anvil and protect that ship at all cost, our own fighters will come in to assist against the GN-Xs gunning for the ship." he then instructed to the pilots.

"Orders are to cover that carrier, got it." the squadron leader of the Flags acknowledged as now the small orange lights could be seen descending down in formation one by one before they quickly moved in towards their position to help defend.

Hiller then once more turned to Gerald after issuing his orders to the Flags. "Have the Aces and the fleet know the Flags are on our side I don't want any friendly-fire incidents wrecking our relations with our new found ally."

"Aye, aye sir." the Vice-Admiral quickly went to work on transmitting the new orders down the line as confirmations quickly began to come in understanding that the incoming Flags were their allies.

While the orders quickly were understood and being carried out the battle still raged outside as both sides exchanged fire while reinforcements quickly flew in towards the battle in hopes of saving the Arc Anvil before it was too late as the smoke and flames marked the ship beginning to enter its death throes in the darkness.

Sergei continued to fire at the carrier with his GN-Xs beam rifle, it had taken substantial amounts of damage bit it still continued to stay afloat. Although the beam rifles were effective in terms of damage and penetration power the crashing waves caused by the ship releasing depth charges as a last ditch effort to shield its hull from the deadly particle beams was proving crude but effective as the water helped cancel out some of energy.

Sergei had for a moment thought that maybe he could use a beam saber to tear a mark across the hull, but it would leave them vulnerable as they would have to get closer and the chance of getting hit by a raging column of water was too high and would be deadly even to GN-Xs.

"Colonel, we're going to need to hit its deck if we hope to sink it in time." Soma told him as her GN-X quickly moved above the carrier and fired several beams at the carrier's deck as it swerved to avoid enemy fire as it engaged before lowering back down before the enemy could retaliate with heavier weaponry from destroyers. "I've got enemy reinforcements coming up on screen, fast movers as well."

"Well I guess we had to eventually bring the killing blow to the carrier." he muttered to himself before then addressing his team. "Alright everyone time to finish this carrier off, fly up and lay waste to anything on the carrier's deck, make sure nothing will fly off its deck ever again." he said as the GN-Xs began to head up and started to shoot at the carrier's deck with everything they had.

Even after they damage the carrier had suffered from multiple strikes on the deck it refused to cease operating as more vehicles then ever could be seen spread out all across the deck intent on shooting down the GN-Xs with a hailstorm of AA fire as particle beams descended upon them.

Sergei could feel the controls rattle and his machine shake as the flak lit up the sky as all the guns had locked onto them and opened fire being guided by the system located on the ship's deck. Trying to get a lock onto the vehicle to lower the enemies accuracy was nearly impossible though as his team had to constantly move around to avoid being hit by too much flak, but they were taking out vehicles on the deck via stray shots and the carrier wouldn't last much longer as multiple burned out holes littered the deck across the entire ship.

"It won't last much longer, keep it up!" he shouted as an endless amount of shots from their machines impacted the ship's deck.

The GN-Xs then shifted their shots towards the superstructure that was the bridge as opened fired at it tearing holes throughout the bridge's superstructure. Fires could be seen raging from where their shots had made their mark as the superstructure began to collapse.

"Colonel, we've got incoming!" someone interrupted as multiple contacts could be seen coming in towards them. They were Ace fighters and there were even what appeared to be Flags incoming joining the mix as the contacts on his screen closed in on them.

"Just concentrate on the carrier, once it's down we're pulling out!" he shouted back making sure everyone was focusing on their main objective.

Sergei kept his finger on the trigger as he could see the carrier finally start to finally give away as a beam struck something sensitive inside the hull, most likely the ammunition storage, for a massive explosion exploded upwards from the tip of the deck.

"Looks like we've just hit the sensitive spot, the ship won't be operating much longer especially if a chain reaction should occur." his fellow pilot pointed out as another barrage of beams from the GN-Xs tore through the ship striking another critical spot resulting in yet another massive explosion this time through the very center of the ship.

Just when the carrier seemed about to explode once more warning signals rang through Sergei's cockpit as he saw something move in fast on his right as he quickly turned to see a fighter fly straight past him.

Surprised by the sudden appearance of the fighter he didn't notice the incoming missile before it exploded nearby rocking his machine. Someone had shot it down before it had reached him and he was grateful for that.

'Too close to comfort.' he told himself as his machine continued to rattle from the nearby explosion as he began to move away.

Soma's image then flashed on to the screen drawing his attention. "Colonel, we aren't going to last much longer there's simply too many of them, the Enacts just can't get through to reinforce. Even if the carrier still has the tracking system online it's too far gone to keep up with the rest of their fleet." she stated as Sergei turned once more to see the carrier.

Sergei took another look at the wounded carrier. She was right as the carrier was less of a carrier and more of a burning, floating, metal coffin as flames blazed from nearly every section of its hull with thick black smoke choking out everything around it.

Sergei could just nod his head back to her. "You're right," he began before he got the rest of their forces on the line. "All unit pull out we've done enough damage for now, head for the rendezvous point with the fleet." he instructed as already the GN-Xs were pulling out of the combat area with one to two machines staying abit back to cover the retreat from approaching aircraft.

The enemy aircraft, however, still continued to chase them though, the Aces being light and fast enough to catch up and then opened up with a barrage of missiles from one of the enemy squadrons.

Instinctively Sergei quickly ordered his team to form up together, but still spaced out enough to avoid bunching up, and open fired with their weaponry, while they trailed backwards to gain distance from the fleet, to intercept the massive incoming storm of missiles.

The GN-Xs let loose with every weapon as missile after missile was shot down, however there was always more as more missiles were launched from enemy planes, mobile suits further back and destroyers that had them marked.

The missiles drew closer and closer, however he still kept his team in formation, if they scattered the Aces could pick them off one by one with their speed and numbers, especially in his mobile suits condition whose armour had been whittled down by the amount of flak that had been blasted into the air.

He could only watch as a missile broke through and struck one of the GN-Xs before by another as it defenses were dropped just for a mere second by the impact causing it to explode from the next warhead which had struck the cockpit.

"Sir, were not going to hold like this! We've got to break off and book it back home!" one of his men screamed as more missiles came flying in.

"Negative, stay in formation, if we scatter they'll just pick us off." he replied back trying to assure everyone they were going to get through this if they held it together.

Multiple contacts suddenly appeared on his radar coming from behind them as several missiles collided into the incoming ones which had almost made it in range before a second wave appeared behind him striking missiles further back.

"Colonel Smirnov," then came a voice from one of the Enact pilots who called out to him. "We've got your back." the pilot stated as dozens of linear rounds were fired through the air striking missiles that had broke through their line of fire. "We also destroyed the Aces that were making their way back here so our retreat route is clear."

"Roger that, we'll need all the firepower we can get if we want to survive this barrage." Sergei responded as he went back to shooting down additional missiles.

The Colonel could not count how many missiles they had destroyed as more and more were added to the count as the sky was filled with a deadly trail of fireworks that stretched across the ocean's surface. The missiles were finally starting to dwindle as fewer and fewer were entering his screen, but he didn't once think it would be over any time soon.

He was so focused he didn't notice an Enact that had been struck for being too close to the front fall into the ocean until it exploded as it hit the surface of the ocean.

After three or four more barrages though, and several more casualties on the Enact squadrons, it finally subsided as Sergei could see the Aces instead continuing the chase with their heavy auto cannons they proceeded to return to base, most likely in fear of being dragged towards their fleet.

Sergei took a deep breath and slightly relaxed as the enemy returned back to their wounded fleet, although they had lost a considerable amount of machines they had managed to cause heavy damage on the fleet with their GN-Xs and mobile armours, hopefully they couldn't replace those ships. They could've sunk the destroyers if the mobile armours didn't have a short time limit, but it couldn't be helped for they were only armed with small mini-torpedoes, none of the heavier torpedoes move warships used.

He then heard a 'blip' as someone contacted him. "Colonel, did that all go according to plan, or atleast partially?" Soma then spoke up asking him.

"Not as much damage as we should've caused but still enough to cause them to rethink how they are going to use their warships." he told her as switched his visor up and wiped the sweat off his face. Piloting a mobile suit through a storm of AA fire and constantly shifting rapidly to evade it, as well as trying to keep up in downing every missile took a miserable toll on the body and mind.

When they got back he was going to need to rest for abit, it was something they all deserved before the next battle came up and something in the back of his head told him said the next one was going to be a hell of alot harder than this.

"Jesus Christ." Hiller said in a soft, low voice as the entire crew watched the Arc Anvil continue to burn. The ships was no longer anything other than a metal coffin with its bridge destroyed, flight deck riddled with cracks and massive gaping holes caused by explosions that had ripped through the deck and particle beams.

Hiller then sighed as he began to assess their situation. They had lost a quarter of their fleet, with the Arc Anvil as one casualty, three destroyers, and a single frigate and that wasn't even the entire enemy force coming for them. If the enemy did struck again in full force while they were like this they would not survive another day. He knew he should've moved the fleet so the enemy wouldn't know where to strike, but he was just too stubborn to do it and it had cost lives.

Seeing all of this, he got the entire fleet on the channel, clearing his throat before he spoke. "Alright," he then began catching everyone's attention around him. "We are going to reposition to the other side of the continent so we can meet with the Phoenix, no arguments people just do your job and follow your instructions if you want to survive." he spoke out before silencing the channel as he turned to Gerald. "Any news on our forces in the city?" he asked.

"They are still alive from what forward command tells us, if just barely." he replied back.

"Give full command to the COs in the field and have our forces move in, it's time to finish this before the net closes in and we lose all our people inland." he then ordered as the Vice-Admiral nodded before getting to work on sending down the message. "After that we move on." he finished.

Hiller gave another sigh as his fleet reeled in survivor from the water and then scuttled any heavily damaged vessels before moving the fleet away from the combat zone to a better position away from the dimming lights of the sinking carrier.

Atlantic Ocean, February 20, Phoenix Carrier

Wesker skimmed through the report the fleet had just sent them about their situation and it wasn't what he wanted to see as the names of the five sunken vessels were listed on the bottom of the report along with the approximate amount of crew that had died along with their ship.

"This is just depressing." Kail said as he also skimmed through the report. "Five vessels in one night, most of them destroyers, but we also lost a carrier equipped with an advanced tracking system. That's alot of money down the drain and people." he then added. "It makes me want to retire and just go back to civilian life and think nothing happened."

"Well you can think about retirement after we think of a way to quickly shuttle our men off Arvineo once we finish up." Wesker replied as he switched to another report on his screen involving Nena and her recent depression from what Daveral had told him.

Suffering from guilt over past crimes was what Daveral had taken note of and more of what it is doing to Nena then what it would do to the mission.

"Atleast he's concerned." Wesker stated after taking a couple minutes to finish reading the report.

There was no time to worry about this, they had to do it later, right now they needed to get this mission over with and move on before the UN closed in on their remaining troops, effectively trapping them on the continent. Daveral would be the one who had to look out for Nena at the moment especially since he probably knew her best compared to everyone else.

He power downed his screen as he looked at the main, which he had requested previously, to see Teller and the Death Wings preparing for take-off with another set of squadrons just finishing being armed.

"So you think sending out the Aces for a quick strike against the enemy fleet will actually help get more men out of Arvineo alive?" Kail asked not sure about sending their two most elite squadrons out leaving them with only a few rookies.

"It's risky, but we need the best if we hope to cause meaningful damage and make the UN forces know we don't appreciate them sinking our ships in the middle of the night." Wesker replied. "It is also why we upgraded so even GN-Xs will have a hard time getting near us while we're enroute."

Kail could only turn back at his screen as he shrugged as he stretched his arms before getting up. "I'm off to bed, coffee only works so long." he stated as he looked at one of the crew. "You, take my spot I'm off to take a nap." he said as the instructed person quickly took up Kail's seat.

"You're getting old relatively quick aren't you?" Wesker said back with a slight smile. "Maybe you really should retire."

"I would, but you'd bitch at me about it till my ears bleed, and I still have a job to do." Kail responded back as he left the bridge.

Meanwhile Wesker turned back to the main screen as he patiently watched the Aces depart from the carrier and towards Arvineo.

Atlantic Ocean, February 20

'So they've upgraded.' Judgment thought to himself noting how the carrier had now exchange many of its heavy flak cannons of missile launchers and CIWS systems as his mobile suit trailed behind keeping a considerable distance between him and the flying behemoth.

He made a mental note to try and keep the fight as close to the enemy mobile suits as possible, if he could get close enough to one of their own he would be clear to destroy the Gundam of his choosing as the Phoenix wouldn't possibly risk destroying their own valuable assets so he was quite prepared to charge right in, which is probably the best course, to let the enemy watch one of their precious weapons get destroyed infront of their eyes.

Judgment was still deciding when to attack though. He had seen several Ace squadrons depart three hours ago, undoubtedly heading towards Arvineo to reinforce.

There would be no other chance like this if he let it slide away from him after here on things would be much too intense to try and sneak up again. Ribbon's hired mercenary would be joining him soon as well, and Judgement wanted to be the one to kill Nena, not him. Although he was in direct orders not to interfere with the merc once he joined him, the thought of him taking the kill, the target that he was created to destroy, would be shameful in his records. A human mercenary being superior to an Innovade trained for this task, he thought not.

Bringing up a small secondary console he activated several switches on the console as the words 'Legacy's Assault Flyer' came up on the screen, showing all systems coming online for the Flyer which was mounted on his mobile suits back.

A new toy he would be using which he didn't have previously as it had run out of particles to get him to the fight last time and charge his reserves to the max, but this time he was fully prepared and the Flyer had been quickly modified to be able to carry more condensers equalling much longer operational status and could recharge his particle reserves extremely quickly.

'Now or never.' he thought to himself as he narrowed his eyes at the carrier. It was time to draw the attention of the Rising Phoenix once more, and this time kill a Gundam.

Atlantic Ocean, February 20, Phoenix Carrier

Daveral ran out of his room dressed for battle as the alarm blared throughout the ship signalling an incoming enemy. He had no idea what it was at the moment since all he had heard was the alarm going off forcing him to suit up for the upcoming battle.

He saw Nena exit her room and head toward the lift. There were also pilots running down the hallways heading for the lift as well. They weren't the elite but they were well-trained and had some experience from what he heard which was better than nothing.

As he entered the lift he turned to Nena who had zipped up the collar of her flight suit. Her arm had quickly recovered and physically she seemed good to go, although Daveral wasn't so sure about the mental part.

"Nena," he began to her as she looked at him. "Just try to focus on what you're doing. No time to regret about the past when the fighting starts."

She gave a slight nod. "Daveral," she then whispered to him. "It's the same guy from last time I swear I heard his voice and thoughts not too long ago."

"You sure?" Daveral asked as she nodded her head slowly again as Daveral rubbed his forehead and gave a sigh. "Not good." he muttered to himself as the lift door opened soon after as people piled out and headed down towards the hanger bay to their stations.

Daveral ran towards the Lancaster as he shouted for the engineers to equip the beam cannon as a rappel lowered down from the cockpit of the machine and grabbed onto it before reeling himself upwards towards the cockpit.

The Lancaster's systems soon came online as his surroundings came up on screen as he then moved the Lancaster towards the launch bay and soon afterwards quickly launched out into the air.

Just when he flew out however, not too far from the ship, a small fighter like object flew right past him surprising him as the thing soon came around and open fired with a pair of particle beams streaking past him as he evaded before the flyer went off in a random direction away from the ship as missiles and CIWS fire trailed past it. His heart pounded in his chest from the sudden surprise as he breathed heavily calming himself down.

"Holy crap," he muttered, "Where did that thing come from?"

Daveral then switched to his scopes and began to fire at the flyer with the long-ranged beam cannon as the Drei and Filvery formed up around him.

"What was that thing?" Helana asked as the flyer went out of sight range.

"Don't know but I bet it's trying to draw us away from the ship." Daveral said before his cockpit started blinking warning him of incoming fire as he dodged several particle beams that were heading towards them which dissipated off the ship's hull as they struck.

The three Phoenix Gundams then turned in the direction of the attack to see the mobile suit they had fought in the Thar Desert coming straight for them at full speed as it evaded incoming missiles and CIWS fire.

"Why the hell is he charging in, he can't be serious?" Helana noted as the machine moved towards them at full speed as here mobile suit fired off several shots at their foe.

Several Aces streaked towards the target to intercept and let loose a volley of missiles followed by auto cannon fire before they broke off as the missiles struck their mark as the white machine soon disappeared in an explosion.

"Confirmed hit on hostile." one of the pilots said out to all of them as Daveral continued to stare where the explosion occurred wondering if they truly got it.

The moment of triumph for the fighters were cut short however as one Ace was struck in the wing by a particle beam and spun violently out of control into the path of one of its own, both exploding in the air as the remaining Aces took evasive action when more particle beams could be seen trailing out of the explosion.

"Open fire force him out of the smoke cover and into the open!" Daveral ordered to his two companions as all three Gundams fired into the now dissipating smoke.

The white Gundam flew out of its smoke cover and entered into view as particle beams continued to trail up towards from the three Gundams before surging forward towards them.

It quickly drew out its beam saber as it closed and GN-Fangs could be seen breaking off from it which quickly zoomed in towards them while laying down a barrage of particle beams forcing the three Gundam to evade or in Daveral's case, raise the Lancaster's heavy shield.

He saw the white Gundam then collide into the Drei knocking it back forcing it to draw out its own beam saber as the machine closed in again. Daveral tried to get off a shot at the machine but several shots from the GN-Fangs shook the Lancaster about as he was forced to retaliate with a barrage GN-missiles.

He saw two of the Fangs get struck and exploded into a shower of particle which were struck by the barrage while to his left he saw the Filvery deploy its own GN-Fangs to engage while the machine itself constantly disappeared and reappeared through the storm of particle beams making the GN-Fangs lose focus till whenever the Filvery struck.

Even with the element of surprise, the Filvery's Fangs were still no match quickly being destroyed one after the other with the opposing GN-Fangs only being shot down when the Filvery reappeared or an Ace managed to get a lock, but the occurrence was rare.

Then, out of the explosion in front of him of the flyer came in towards him firing at him with several particle beams forcing him to raise the Lancaster's heavy shield once more as the beams dissipated off coating on the shield as the flyer quickly passed overhead, coming around for another attack.

"As if GN-Fangs weren't bad enough." Daveral muttered as he turned to face the flyer waiting for the impeding attack as he saw the ship's guns go silent as the mobile suit was just too close to them and friendly-fire would be far too great at this range.

Quickly he fired at the flyer with the beam cannon forcing the thing to evade and go off course before it soon re-routed its course and headed straight for him again.

The Drei skirted to the side as several particle beams from two GN-Fangs flew right past the machine singeing the shield pod's outer coat before the white Gundam closed in and lashed out with its beam saber. The Drei immediately flew back and fired several shots with its GN-Handgun only to have the opposing machine evade and slash once more with the beam saber, the Drei this time blocking the blow with its own saber as the current fight was more akin to a massive dogfight as particle beams could be seen trailing through the air in all direction while the Phoenix just continued to move forward to its destination unable to do much with the enemy in so close to its own machines.

Inside her cockpit Nena could only look at the machine that was gunning for her in anger and angst. Even though she could tell what he was going to do at times, he was still just too fast for her to react. She was just barely holding him back thanks to her Haro. The machine constantly backing-off as it struck before attacking from a different angle while the pair of GN-Fangs continued to distract her while she fought. One mistake and it would be all over, but she couldn't let that happen, even though she had committed terrible crimes that made her sick, her brothers had sacrificed themselves for her to live on.

The machine as usual broke off and raced into a random direction as the two GN-Fangs forced her to take evasive action and lose track of the machine.

"Incoming from below, incoming from below!" she heard her Haro unit beckoned as she turned in the direction where the mobile suit was approaching from and fired a three shots off before the two machines locked saber once more.

"Even with your traits you're simply a mere human, as well as a mistake that needs to be remedied for this world to become a better place." the whisper crawled through her head before the mobile suit raced off performing the same tactic which was wearing her out, especially since Daveral and Helana were distracted by the multiple targets the machine had deployed to help even the odds.

The Drei rattled as a particle beam struck its mark only to dissipate off the armour's coating but Nena knew if the Gundam didn't get her these GN-Fangs would as she now turned her attention to the two Fangs and opened fired at the two with everything she had as a small barrage of missile from the shield pod were launched combined with several particle shots.

The GN-Fangs attempted to evade as they moved off to the side, one managing to successfully dodge but the other one exploded just by being glanced by an incoming particle shot.

Her Haro, shortly after the Fang exploded, warned her of the mobile suit which charged her through the smoke and glinting particles of the destroyed GN-Fang beam saber ready to struck again.

Nena readied herself for the incoming blowing after having taken a shot or two in a futile attempt to hit it before she was ready to intercept, with only moments left before the Gundam made contact with her.

Just when the Gundam was about to strike it immediately pulled off from its course right infront of her to reveal right behind it was the GN-Fang that was left which fired one last particle beam which hit the chest of the Drei causing minor damage before moving straight forward and detonated itself surprising Nena.

She grunted as the cockpit rattle while she looked to see where the Gundam had gone off to after heading out of the smoke.

"Where did he go this time." she muttered to herself as she desperately searched for the Gundam, scanning in every direction.

"Below, below!" her Haro then warned as Nena immediately looked to see the machine nearly right next to her before it flew right past with its beam saber cutting a large gash through the GN-Stealth field dispersal system and the left arm of the Drei.

Part of the GN-Stealth field dispersal system exploded after the mobile suit had gone right past the Drei sending particles scattering everywhere and causing the Drei to nearly lose control as it plummeted through the air before Nena regained control.

"Still can't even react when we both use the same Quantum Brainwaves?" the voice mocked through her head before she screamed at him in anger as the Drei fired away at his machine which was coming around to finish the job.

"Enemy approaching from the behind, enemy approaching from behind!" her Haro alerted as she was forced to turn around to see the flyer it had sent out was returning back to its parent machine location to help assist.

"This is not good, this is not good!" she repeated to herself as she turned back to see the enemy mobile suit still coming in at full speed brandishing its beam saber.

It seemed like the mobile suit was going to get her as she was forced to turn around once again and shoot at the flyer to force it to change course, but the charge was interrupted before it was within reach of the Drei. In the distance she could see the Lancaster, which probably tried to chase down the flyer, firing with its main weapon.

Several missiles had forced the machine to dodge and swap out for its rifle to shoot down the fast-moving projectiles all while trying to avoid the incoming particle beams from the Lancaster.

Nena, however then noticed the machines GN-Fangs returning to it. Had they run out of energy or had they destroyed every single one of the Filverys?

Suddenly when the mobile suit took a quick pause after shooting down all the missiles, the Filvery appeared dropping its cloaking field and fired off several shots from its rifle.

The pilot seemed to be caught by surprise several shots hit it in the mobile suits right shoulder and arm. Not only that, several beams struck its rifle which it was forced to abandon as it sparked before exploding shortly after being dropped and the machine moving away from the Filvery.

"This is getting tiresome, it's time I finally killed you."

Nena looked to see the machine charge towards her, beam saber once more drawn, but this time all its remaining Fangs and the flyer all coming from the same direction diving in and out of the incoming fire getting closer and closer.

Nena could only prepare for what was about to happen as even with her teammates backing her up, the fact this pilot wanted her dead upon all else made this terrifying moment that she hoped she could live through.

Judgment could taste victory nearing as his machine closed in on the Drei while managing to control the GN-Fangs through the hailstorm of shots outside that was attempting to shoot him down. His heavy training as well as help from Veda made the Fangs as if they were just an extension of his body and he would make sure all of this would be put to good use to finish off the mistake that was before him.

He watched the Drei attempt dodge out of the way and change course to avoid him, but Judgment was just too quick, thanks to his reflexes and the quantum brainwaves which he knew how to use better.

A beam from the Drei was fired straight at him, but he immediately had a GN-Fangs take the shot for him and continued to charge in through the explosion which engulfed the weapon.

This was the moment, the Drei was right in his sights and he had every weapon at his disposal pointed right at it and even as a beam from the Lancaster in the distance vaporized a small group of Fangs, he was in close enough to strike.

Legacy's Assault Flyer then moved in ahead a fired several particle beams at the Drei's right arm and then smashed into the Drei itself sending it reeling back, the flyer however did take damage as the beam saber managed to slice through part of it, but it was still in working order, if just barely. Warning lights on the secondary console appeared about the flyer's condition but he didn't care as he prey was now vulnerable for the killing blow.

Time seemed to slow as his mobile suit raised its beam saber for the killing blow, the moment he had been waiting for, to rid the world of this girl who has caused nothing but grief and suffering for those who live in it.

He then plunged his beam saber towards the Drei as he neared his target just seconds away. Nothing was going to stop him, there just couldn't be any.

Seconds past as he watched his beam saber go through as sparks could be seen flying out where his beam saber struck and then he had his beam saber tear into the mobile suit where the cockpit was located. However, he noticed it wasn't the red Drei he had hit, instead it was the Filvery which must been cloaked as his beam saber had plunged through its shield and into the torso.

"Damn it!" he cursed, despising what had just happened as he pulled the beam saber out as an explosion came out from the Filvery's wound. The Filvery like the Lancaster had their cockpit located lower down unlike the Throne models, so it was still functioning, if on its last straw. "No one stands between me and my prey!" he raised his voice for the first time in anger for being denied what was his. "You can join the mistake in hell as well!" he shouted as he readied to strike again.

As he was went for another attack to destroy the Filvery for being in his way, a warning signal popped up before a beam from the Lancaster tore through his mobile suit's legs. He had barely pulled back enough to avoid being hit in the cockpit as his machine shook from the damage.

He could only look at the Drei, still operational, now holding onto the Filvery which was bleeding out smoke and sparks into the air as the Drei pulled back popping a distruption field while the Lancaster provided cover fire before Aces came in for an attack run firing auto cannon rounds and missiles forcing him to evade.

He gritted his hands around the control. There was no way he could win now, not in this condition as he recalled what he had left and pulled out at full speed away from the combat zone using the few Fangs he had left as shields against the Aces.

As he made his escape he punched his console in rage, he had been denied his prey when it was right infront of him, a golden opportunity taken from him in the blink of an eye. Humans were just so damn unpredictable.

Looking up he could only glance back at the Phoenix and hoped the damage he did to the Filvery had atleast killed the pilot as he went off to lick his wounds and hopefully get the Drei another day.

Author Notes: Well never expected the Helana to take the blow did you? I'll explain in the next chapter, but for now you can all be left wondering. Well see you later!