Characters: Neo Roanoke
Pairings: None
Time frame: GSD post ep 23
Déjà vu
Being well versed in military history, Neo Roanoke, has, of course, known what the Freedom is capable of.
That said, he has still stared and not believed his eyes.
What the Freedom has done at the Battle of Suez to both Orb military and Earth Forces military was not something that should have been possible.
He still, days after the fact, has doubts of what he saw.
It is impossible.
Or rather, it has been impossible until that day. And he previously has thought himself to have a very broad horizon.
Even just thinking about it now, Neo finds it just a tad ridiculous, bordering on pathetic. The fight has been what? ZAFT's ace ship with a couple of ace pilots vs an entire highly advanced and individually capable fleet of Orb mobile suits and ships plus Phantom Pain and then some.
Discounting that only few have died, he still calls it a massacre. Point blank.
By the Freedom.
In fifteen minutes or so.
Now he is searching the archives for more. He does not want to be stuck gaping again should the Ship of Traitors choose to interfere in the future.
The battle of Alaska is the first one he comes across. How the Earth Forces, when they were supposedly annihilated to the last man, have a record of it, Neo doesn't particularly want to know.
But they have one.
Watching it, he feels a strong sense of a déjà vu.
He writes it off as seeing that Alaska and Suez happened remarkably similar.
The Freedom shooting down everything in sight, guarding the Archangel, and wanting to end the fight as is quite clear by the respective voice messages.
Never mind the Orb Representative, in Alaska, the Freedom's pilot's voice was young, familiar, and very much believable; charismatic. Neo puts the estimate around fifteen, maybe sixteen, which would make the pilot now around eighteen.
That young and such power. It is a frightening thing, he thinks, having his three charges in mind.
A difference between the battles however is, he notes, that a few days ago the Freedom happily tore the mobile suits apart and was far less occupied with protecting its mother ship.
While it is understandable and reflects well on the Archangel, it means trouble for Neo.
He searches a bit more, fast forward till the Battle of Jachin-Due; more specifically the decimating of the nuclear attacks.
Seeing that, Neo finds he is very glad that the Eternal is a space-bound ship and that Freedom and Justice's special equipment is not available on the surface. Were it different, he can almost see himself throwing his hands up in defeat and just go to drink tea. The thought almost makes him smile.
Without equipment fifteen minutes. With equipment, were it possible, maybe, very maybe, three minutes tops.
He is also very glad the Justice isn't available either.
Well.
…Well.
Now he is done with that and quite adjusted, he can focus on dealing with all of them. The Archangel, the Minerva and the Freedom.
Or better yet, focus on letting Orb deal with them.
The past is the past and he has no intentions of letting it repeat. The past cannot be changed, but the future is a different thing altogether.
And fortunately hell is the example that even angels can fall.