Phase 2: Yaro's Decision
Meiko dogged a stream missiles and beams coming from the ship as she got in position to fire back. Trey was engaged in battle against the lone mobile suit which had issued from the ship, it was a custom version of one of ZAFTs standard military suits.
"Fools," she said out loud maneuvering her mobile suit about the pink ship and targeting one of the missile launchers. It was easily blow to pieces as she flew away from the explosion. This would be much easier than she though. Guilt stung her as she thought of the lives that she was taking through these actions, she shook it off and started another attack pattern. As she approached the ship, the strange feeling in her head returned and her focus was momentarily thrown off.
Her suit then was launched forward from a hit by a missile. She cursed herself for being distracted when she saw that it had come from the enemy mobile suit which had broken away from Trey's control.
"Watch out Meiko," she heard Trey yell to her intercom. She easily controlled her mobile suit to dodge the next wave missiles coming from the suit. She had done this so many times it should have been like clockwork to her but a feeling kept attacking her mind every time she got close to the Eternal.
"Watch your own back," Meiko replied to Trey with a slightly hostile tone. Her eyes filled with deadly anger as she launched a full blown attack at the mobile suit. She would succeed where Trey had failed. Meiko fought the feeling in her mind focusing all her will on destroying the suit. The poor mobile suit could not control itself against her onslaught and retreated behind the cannons of its mother ship. Meiko then was forced to back off and defend herself against another onslaught of blasts from the ship. These people were no amateurs at anti mobile suit battle, she was forced to momentarily retreated out of range.
Dearka cursed as he received a heavy layout of blows from the green Gundam. He flipped trying to control his suit but the pilot was just to enraged. Warning lights blinked around him and he realized he needed to retreat.
"Dearka," Kiran's voice echoed in his cockpit, "you have to fall back."
"I know," he said angrily. Suddenly an explosion from one of his weapons entered the suit and fire flashed around him. He cried out as the suit began to give way around him. He quickly moved his suit behind the protection of the ships guns. He breathed heavily. There was no way he could continue, but the Eternal could not fail!
"Commander Elsman's suit has been heavily damaged," Leyas yelled to the bridge crew, "he's preparing to re-enter." Leyas then looked down and smiled when she saw that she had accidentally broadcasted that message to the entire ship.
"Tell the damage crew to prepare to help him," Lacus replied, "then tell him to take The Visage out." Waltfeld looked at her in shock.
"The Visage has an entire new interface Lacus," he said, "it hasn't been tested yet." Everyone on the bridge was also shocked, the Visage was one of the Clyne factions new Gundam types that was built for Lacus's escape but in the rush to get it done it had not been tested. To take the suit out against two fully functional mobile suits was risky.
"Commander Elsman has been wounded," Leyas said with fear in her voice, "he can't take any thing else out." Leyas laid her hand on the button that would broadcast the message throughout the entire ship on purpose this time. She knew that Uzumi had had full mobile suit training from his father in ORG and she hoped that it would prompt him to go out. She also knew that her father Kira had secretly done some training with Yaro but she hoped he would have the sense to stay as backup for later. Lacus had wished to keep her children away from weapons so no one had told her about Yaro's ability.
Yaro stood up as he heard Leyas's voice across the intercom saying that the ships only mobile suit pilot was wounded. Uzumi looked at him Yaro shook his head at his cousin and they both left the room in a hurry in order to discuss things without Kayla listening. Kayla just ignored their leaving because she knew exactly what they were going to talk about and she also knew exactly what she had to do.
"I am going," Yaro said, "I don't know if I'm the best out of us two but I know I can't just sit here."
"Then I'm going to," Uzumi said.
"No," Yaro replied, "look after Kayla, I don't know if we will make it but its best if you stay here unless things start looking really bad." Uzumi knew better than to argue with his cousin, Yaro was stubborn and when he made his mind up there was no fighting it.
Yaro ran out of the room toward the mobile suit bay. He snuck into the uniform room for a pilots suit first. In the mobile suit bay he saw one suit in the launcher and knew that it was the only one ready for the battle.
"Mother," Lacus looked toward Kiran but was interrupted by Leyas's frantic voice.
"Kayla says that Yaro took off to the mobile suit bay," Leyas said, though Kayla was the youngest of the family she was not dumb. She knew how to get in contact with Leyas and hurried to re-route an intercom to contact her older sister as soon as Uzumi had returned without Yaro. Kayla had done it so quickly that Uzumi didn't know what she was doing.
"What!" Lacus responded.
"Its been confirmed by the ground crew who say that he is in the Visage and trying to activate the launch code! He'll get it to mother, he's very smart," Kiran said frantically. Leyas looked at her mother.
"Get him on the line," Lacus said grabbing for the communicator from her daughter.
"That kid has guts," Waltfled said, "those two gundams out there are giving us trouble. What will we do if the ship tries to come in."
"What are our changes," Kiran asked the commander.
"I don't know but we need a miracle now!" he replied.
"Yaro!," Lacus yelled into the microphone, "Yaro listen to me! Get out of that suit! Come to the bridge and do something to help here!"
"Mother," Yaro replied, "I can handle this. Now we need someone out there."
"You've never been trained," Lacus said with tears in her eyes, "and that suit has never been tested."
"Mother," he said, "I can handle this. Father trained me as much as he could a few days before he left and he said that he never had formal mobile suit training when he first fought either." Lacus looked at Commander Waltfeld.
"Let the kid try it, if Kira's told him anything he can handle it." Lacus handed the communicator back to Leyas, wiped the tears from her eyes and sat back in the Captains seat.
"Father said that Yaro had a natural ability," Kiran said looking up from his screen, "dad wouldn't just say that for no reason."
"Tell Yaro and The Visage to launch," Lacus said to Leyas, "hurry, before I change my mind."
Lacus then turned to Waltfeld, "if anything horrible looks like it is going to happen what do you suggest we do?"
"If it looks that bad, I'll go out myself. I know that I'm getting along in years but I'm a coordinator not some old grandpa."
Meiko maneuver toward the ship again. There was so much firepower coming from it that she has sure they had planned for this attack weeks before. Anger surged through her as her mind once again broke from its perfect focus.
"Meiko whats the status on that ship," her superior officer, Captain Gilligan appeared on the screen.
"I can't get past how much fire power is coming from it." she replied between maneuvers, "I mean I have destroyed some of its guns and Trey has as well. We would have had it under control by now but the ship won't turn back. They seem to want to die rather than to give up!"
"We've received new orders, now we just need to occupy it until the fleet gets here," the commander said, "once the Plant fleet arrives then we will flee." Meiko didn't want to get involved with any PLANT fleet, her superior officers had always told her that coordinators were a evil race. This had puzzled her when they had chosen to come out and help the plants in this instance.
"Trey," she said, "take the left side, I'll take the right. Force them to split their fire power then go under and finally back up through the middle." Her plan seemed bright to Trey but he knew that they wouldn't out smart this vetran ship so easily.
Meiko traveled down the right forcing the gun to change their position downward. Her thrust carried her back to the top of the ship where, along with Trey, she laid down some heavy firepower on the main guns.
Meiko sped away from the ship as it regained its further status and turned to survey its damage. The tough ship had taken significant damage yet it was still forcing its way toward space. She was about to charge the ship when Trey sent her a message.
"Watch out," he quickly said, "they're launching a mobile suit." Meiko did not turn in time to face the suit as she had to fight another familiar feeling from her mind. It out maneuvered her and shot a missile straight at her thrust.
"AHHH," She yelled trying to rebalanced herself but the back of her suit was to damaged to continue fighting. Anger swept through her; Who was this guy?
Yaro regained his composure after the shot. His main point was to do as his mother always commanded, disable them not destroy them. He turned to face the second gundam and found himself with a handful. This person had obviously been trained to handle his suit very well. Yaro went behind the cannons of the Eternal and decided to target him from there. He did not understand everything about how the biggest cannon of his Gundam worked but he hoped they would do something. He worked with the system and cameras of the mobile suit in order to make sure his targeting would end up accurate.
Yaro traced the most likely path the suit before him was going to take and shot his cannons at the jets of the suit. The firepower was way more than he had anticipated. It missed the suit, which maneuvered expertly away, and kept going until it hit the ship that was sitting in the distance waiting for the mobile suits to finish their battle.
Yaro sat stunned at what that single shot had done.
"Hey kid," he heard commander Waltfeld's voice over the intercom, "that cannon was built to take out ships not mobile suits! Only use the stuff you understand!"
"I'm sorry," Yaro replied, "but the system of this suit is all weird."
"Its a more effective system but its harder to operate." Yaro saw that the suit he had shot earlier was using a backup jet to return to its mother ship, probably for repairs. "Kid watch out," he hear the commander's voice on the line as he saw the other mobile suit was behind him on the scanners. He gripped the controls yelling not realizing how powerful they really were. He flipped away from the ship and into an empty area of space but he had avoided the other mobile suits fire.
"I'm alright," he told the ship quickly as he searched for the mobile suit. He saw it approaching him with its sword. He quickly scanned his weapon options and saw that aside from a few different guns in his pack he had one beam sword. He pulled it out and met the mobile suits attack. He dogged the suit for the most part; the pilot was obviously so much better than him.
He then saw shots coming from behind the mobile suit. It was the eternal. The other mobile suit was hit by the blast and its arm was severed off.
"Kid, get back behind our fire," Yaro heard the commander's voice over the line, "we're going to try and damage the mother ship and move past them. A ZAFT fleet is on its way! If we don't act now it will be to late." Yaro quickly obeyed and fell behind the ships line of fire and began to shoot at the mobile suit from there.
"Should I use the cannon again on the ship?" he asked quickly.
"Only aim for the engines," he heard Lacus say over the line, "we don't want any death on our part." Yaro obeyed and worked to adjust the parameters of where his blast would end up.
"Trey return to the ship," he hear his commander's voice over the line.
"But I can beat these guys!" he protested.
"Meiko's suit has been damaged heavily and the ship is making straight headway toward us," the voice continued. "We need you to get back here now for defense!" Trey obeyed as he saw the Eternal heading toward The Prejudice.
"How the heck have they already driven us back?" he asked himself. The other mobile suit pilot was really no match for them yet they were being forced to retreat. "Headquarters didn't say anything about facing other gundams," he kept mumbling to himself.
"Meiko," she got out of her gundam to be met by one of the ship's chief engineers. She rolled her eyes at him as he approached her, "the commander wants you to repair your machine; he gave us strict orders to stay away from it."
"Yeah, yeah," she said bitterly, "I know that." She began to float away from the engineer.
"You know if you get it done fast you might be able to go out and try to beat that guy," the man continued. Meiko was kinda angry about being put of a battle so quickly; she had been trained for many years to handle mobile suits and the person who had come out obviously wasn't that good.
"I get it," she said yelling at the guy and glaring. She then walked to her quarters in frustration. Blasts rocked the ship and soon Trey was running down the halls looking for her.
"Meiko," he yelled grabbing her arm, "the ship escaped."
"That guy got you to?" Meiko asked.
"No I was low on power and the ship began to bear directly on me," he said sadly, "but though we lost we can still be glad we're alive." Meiko was tempted to laugh at the irony of what he said; their lives consisted of destroying their enemies, Meiko herself felt more dead than alive.
"If this is what you call living." the remark escaped her lips before she could control it.
"Meiko..."
"Look it doesn't matter," she protested his admonishing. Trey was always a hopeful person and he believed that maybe if they kept obeying orders then a peaceful world would return. Meiko herself believed that to a certain extent but she was never as optimistic about it as him. "This world is in pieces, and I really don't think that we will survive through this new war." Meiko didn't even understand why she wanted to survive through it. What did she have to look forward to? She had nothing, no family, no past, and no future; the only thing she had was the good friend before her.
Mobile Suits:
The Pain
Class: ROW Assault Gundam
Pilot: Meiko Virea
ID: WSB-000367
Specialty: The Pain was developed to fit the close fighting style of Meiko Virea.
Appearance: Looks like the strike in in Aile mode except for the two guns attaced to the back piece. The Pain is also has a green and black color scheme fitting Meiko's sometimes dual personality.
Weapons: Two beam sabers located in the hips. Two assult guns located on the back. 1 sheild located on the right arm. The left arm can fold over revealing a third beam saber it she needs it or she can shoot beams from it.
The Hatred
Class: ROW Assault Gundam
Pilot: Trey Likra Day
ID: WSB-000271
Specialty: Was designed for all around use against ships and mobile suits.
Appearance: Standard gundam appearance but with a very large back peice, kinda like the Legend or the Providence. Color Scheme is Red and black.
Weapons: His back piece is a large cannon that he can mauever around the back of his suit. He has one beam saber located in his shield arm. His left arm holds an assault gun.
The Visage
Class: Clyne Faction Gundam series 83
Pilot: Yaro Yamato
ID: 2531LC
Specialty: Built for anti-ship fighting as well as close mobile suit fighting. The Visage was designed to go from one thing to another quickly making it very versatile.
Appearance and weapons: Looks like Impulse with sword striker except that its back pack holds a large rifle and a buster like cannon. The suit can hold two beam sabers, one in the right hip and one in the shield arm but it mostly carries one. Other arm has a few built in guns as well as a flamethrower.
Ginn Series 10 Custom
Class: ZAFT Ginn CE: 83
Pilot: Dearka Elseman
ID: ZFGN54827
Specialty: The new ginns were built for anti mobile suit combat. Dearka's custom includes a whip and a few extra guns.
Apperance: Looks like a ginn except for the new coloring and weapon design. These mobile suits are mostly red with some yellow in random places.
Weapons: 1 whip, two conversation cannon arms. Two beam laced knifes inside shield arm and a rifle located on the back.
I hope you all enjoy this chapter. Please comment and tell me what you think! There is still a Gundam to be revealed. Next chapter well include some old friends!