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Gundam Seed Destiny or Liberty
Chapter 5: Mongers
Vincent couldn't help but look out of his side view screen at the Impulse. He never once thought that he would see Shinn Asuka again. Maybe some part of it was destiny, or god's sick idea of a joke. Luna and Nia kept their guard up, while the four Guaiz's flying beside them also kept alert. Joe cocked his beam shotgun and Zack kept his Newtype senses on high alert. Further away from the battlefield, under the cover of an asteroid, Neo looked out at the battle with a smirk. Beside him, General Tyrant kept his eyes closed, his body never moving as he went into a trance. Jone also kept his eyes closed, but in the seat of his machine. Lynn Crosswind kept her breathing steady and her aim true as she targeted the ZAFT mobile suits.
"NOW!" Neo yelled.
"All of you reveal yourselves" Tyrant said.
Lynn fired her sniper rifle, sending a beam hurtling through the debris and slamming into the chest of a Guaiz.
"SHAWN!" Luna yelled, watching the mobile suit explode.
"Ambush, everyone watch yourselves!" Joe said.
The Chaos, Gaia, Abyss and Fallen flew out of their hiding places. Lucifer drew his beam sabre, slamming it against Nia's shield. Auel fired all of his beam weapons, forcing Luna and Shinn to fly to separate. Switching to her quadruped form, Stella leapt between pieces of fallen ships, dodging beam fire from the Guaiz's and Anna's Neo Raptor. Stinn released his mobile pods and fired at Vincent's Jegan.
"Damn it, it was as if I couldn't sense them before but now I can" Zack said.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, it takes me a while to recover from using my trick!" Jone said.
The mercy swung its heat rods at Zack, who barely managed to dodge in time. Zack widened his eyes, keeping them fixed on the Mercy as its rods glowed a green colour.
'I'm not feeling anything from him, but I can see and hear him, I just cant sense him with my Newtype abilities' Zack thought.
Suddenly, the Dusk Aero switched into its jet form and launched a volley of missiles. The missiles slammed into the side of the Fallen, knocking it away from Nia's Zaku. A missile flew into the Gaia, causing Stella to scream as she felt the tremor of the explosion. Silver Mask then switched to mobile suit mode, firing a burst of machine gun fire into the Chaos's chest.
"What the hell, I thought this guy was a noob!" Auel said before he fired is chest cannon at the Dusk.
"I said reveal yourselves, all of you now!" Tyrant growled.
Vincent blocked a shot from the Chaos's beam rifle and widened his eyes as he saw something appeared from behind one of the meteorites. It was the arm of a mobile suit, with sharp fingers tightened around a beam gun with two barrels, one long and the other thick. Suddenly a bullet flew form the long barrel, hitting a Guaiz in the back. A few seconds passed before the round exploded, consuming the Guaiz.
"MORE MOBILE SUITS!" Joe yelled, blasting a meteorite away with his shotgun.
The shot revealed more mobile suits hiding amongst the debris. Shinn and Luna widened their eyes as they looked at the designs. The heads were round, with small grey V-fins. Parts of the armour were black including two lines and a circle across the chest, their clawed fingers and lines around their legs and shoulders. But the main colour of the armour was grey; all of them had two glowing green eyes. One was equipped with double shields, with big beam sabres built into them and beam revolvers. The second was equipped with a beam sniper cannon on its right shoulder and a bazooka on its left shoulder. The third unit had an anti ship sword on its left shoulder and two submachine guns.
"They look familiar" Nia said.
Vincent narrowed his eyes at the fourth and final unit; it was equipped with a shield and two-barrel rifle, one for shooting explosive rounds and the other for beam rounds. But then he widened his eyes as he saw the weapon attached to the units left shoulder, or rather the weapons. The four diamond like objects slid off of the machine's shoulders and split apart into eight funnels.
"Fin funnels! EVERYONE EVASIVE MANOUVRES!" Zack yelled.
Joe suddenly swerved to the right as the black funnel fired at his earlier position. The Four unknown machines moved forward, drawing their weapons as they moved on their targets. Nia fired her Gatling guns, widening her eyes as the black parts of one of the machines glowed a gold colour. The beams of her guns rebounded off the armour, destroying the debris around the machine. It ignited the beams of its antiship sword and slammed it against Nia's shield. She grinded her teeth together as her machine was sent flying backwards.
"Ma'am four new units have suddenly appeared on radar!" One of the Minerva bridge crew said.
"They seem to be generating intense energy surges ma'am, we've identified it as an unknown energy recorded from the Le Creuscet team earlier in the first war during its encounters with the Archangel" Another crewmember explained.
"Wait a minute, unknown energy signature…no that's impossible" Flay said.
"Please Chairwoman share with us your thoughts" Durandal said, turning to Flay with a reassuring smile.
"On the Archangel, the instruments that we used to analyse Gekido's Gundam couldn't class the energy that the machines generator gave off so naturally ZAFT would have had the same problem, I think those machines are using Arc Reactors!" Flay explained.
Vincent blocked another shot from the Chaos's rifle, cursing as a mobile pod shot his leg. Shinn fired his beam rifle at the Chaos, and then he bought up his missile launchers and fired a stream of missiles towards the Mercy. Jone flew between the missiles, grunting mildly as one struck his shoulder. Vincent bought his Jegan round and fired his missiles. The missiles flew towards every available target. But much to Vincent's shock, the funnels flew around the intercepted the missiles with a wall of beams. Then the funnels flew in separate directions, shooting the Efreet Nacht in the shoulder and a Guaiz in the back. The Fourth unknown mobile suit then shot the Guaiz in the chest with its beam rifle. Silver Mask turned towards the unit, his glowing eye narrowing as he drew his beam sword.
"I cant help but feel excitement, maybe its because seeing these machines reminds me of the past, and the most fun I had in years" Silver Mask said as the machine clipped its rifle to its back and drew a green beam sabre.
Anna and Zack flew across the debris belt, easily dodging beams fired by the Abyss while. A few funnels flew after the Neo Raptors, hitting Anna's nose cone. She immediately switched to mobile suit mode and bought her shield up, gasping as a beam flew into her leg.
"Anna!" Zack said, concern evident in his voice.
He switched to mobile suit mode and fired several shots from his rifle. Suddenly he felt a Newtype surge and swung around just as a beam flew past his head. He bought his rifle round and fired a blast that hit the sniping mobile suit in the shoulder. But that didn't stop the mobile suit as it fired a stream of bullets from its Vulcan's.
"The design is updated but the weapons and the main look and colour is unmistakable" Joe said, smirking as he fired his shotgun at the Chaos.
Sting bought his mobile pods around, shooting the back of the Jegan's shoulder and Joe's leg. Joe threw his shotgun aside and drew a beam katana as the Fallen drew its sabre.
"Those new machines, the way they glow is exactly how the survivors of Gekido Jaeger's rampages describe them, those new machines are Purposes!" Joe said.
"Your right, they seem to be limited production Purpose mobile suits!" Zack said.
"Everyone stop talking and just fight, concentrate!" Vincent said.
He fired another burst of missiles, just as Shinn fired his cannons. The beams and missiles flew at the Purposes. But the mobile suits managed to dodge the projectiles, returning fire with their Vulcan's. Silver Mask stood facing the leading Purpose, smirking as the mobile suit put its hands on the handle of its sabre.
"LETS GO!" Silver Mask yelled.
The Purpose flew forward, slamming its beam sabre against the Dusk's shield. Silver Mask slashed back, but the Purpose leant back and dodged the swipe. Then the suit swung its sabre horizontally at the Dusk, which ducked underneath the swing. With a roar, Silver Mask vertically swung his sword upwards. The Purpose sidestepped, swinging around and slamming its sabre into the Dusk's shield. Shinn fired his cannons at the Mercy as it swung its electric wires around.
"Impressive fire power, but you really should have gone with the speed against me" Jone said, wrapping his coils around the Impulse's chest.
Shinn yelled as electricity flowed through his suit. Vincent turned to the Mercy then flew towards it, slamming his shield into the Gundam's face. Jone widened his eyes for a moment before smirking. He smacked the Jegan with one of his coils, causing Vincent to yell in pain. But Vincent then fired his missiles at point blank range, creating an explosion that threw him and the Mercy back.
"Commander Rach!" Shinn said in shock, before moving to intercept a shot fired from the Chaos.
The Impulse blocked the beam from the Chaos's rifle, turning to the Jegan as it recovered.
"What, our men are fighting Purposes…damn how come they get all the fun?" Noah asked.
"Two of their units are missing, we might get our chance!" Kojiro said.
Nia threw aside her rifle and removed the Slash packs beam tomahawk. She spun the poleaxe around and swung it at the Abyss. Auel flew backwards, firing his chest cannon. Nia flew upwards and returned fire with her Gatling guns. The beam bubbles repeatedly hit the Abyss, but they wouldn't destroy the Gundam yet. Zack and the sniper Purpose flew past the two battling units, firing at one another with their rifles. Several funnels ganged up on Anna, shooting her legs and arms. She fired her submachine gun, cursing as the funnels darted away, leaving room for the Gaia. Luna immediately drew her beam axe and threw it at the Gaia. Stella raised her shield, cursing as the force of the axe threw her away from the Neo Raptor.
"Your welcome!" Luna said as she threw aside her beam rifle and removed the Gunner packs cannon.
"I shouldn't be getting into this situation, I should be seeing when the attacks are coming like Zack can" Anna said, lowering her head.
Zack bought his shield up, blocking a shot from a funnel and then dodging a beam from a second. He drew his beam sabre, flying between the missiles fired by the Chaos. Time seemed to slow as he utilised his Newtype senses. Two funnels came into his line of fire, and while ordinary pilots wouldn't have been able to dodge them in time Zack not only dodged them but also cut the two funnels in half. He then raised his beam sabre and slashed the Chaos's shield in half. Sting widened his eyes, drawing his beam sabre and locking blades with the Neo Raptor. The Minerva already had all of its weapons out as it followed two signals.
'They deployed a decoy but they seem to have no idea that a tracker was placed on them' Talia thought, following the signal of the tracking device.
"Ma'am, the signals changed, it seems to be heading towards us ma'am!" One of the bridge crew said.
Talia widened her eyes, outside the ship; several missiles flew towards the back of the Minerva. Neo had launched the missiles earlier, leaving them inactive as traps for the Minerva, with the tracking bullet lodged into one. The missiles slammed into the Minerva, shaking the crew on the upper levels. Captain Roanoke smirked as he launched out of the Girty Lue just as it began firing missiles and beam blasts towards the top of the Minerva.
'They were drawing us into a trap, it didn't matter whether we followed the tracer or the decoy signal we still would have fallen into their trap' Athrun thought.
The Exus broke off its Gun Barrels while the Bombard and Slaughter readied their missile launchers. Blasts from the Girty Lue slammed against the Minerva, destroying some of their guns. Darcel and Stark aimed their weapons and opened fire alongside the Exus.
"YES BURN IN A SEA OF BEAMS!" Darcel yelled, rolling his Gatling guns.
"This isn't even worthy of my skill!" Stark growled, firing his explosive rounds at the side of the Minerva.
The Minerva flew around the side of a meteor, every shot from the mobile suits pushed it towards the side of the rock.
"What the hells going on up there people?" Noah asked.
"I would judge from the sounds that we are close to being grinded against the side of a rock" Kojiro said calmly.
"DON'T SEEM SO UPSET ABOUT IT!" Branden yelled.
Darcel fired his Gatling guns above the Minerva, sending chunks of meteor rock crashing onto the hull of the ship.
"If the Minerva is in need of aid then we merely need to launch so we can draw the enemy forces away" Kojiro said.
"Rocks have landed on the catapult, they're blocking the way for our mobile suits" A mechanic said.
A sweat drop ran down the back of Kojiro's head as the others glared at him. Zack turned his back from the fighting, shooting a funnel in half with his rifle.
"Mayura!" Zack said in concern.
Vincent fired his beam rifle and unleashed a volley of missiles. The close range fighting Purpose fired its Vulcan's, intercepting the missiles and blocking the beam shots with its shields. It then ignited its beam sabres and flew straight towards the Jegan. Swinging its arms downward, the Purpose dragged its sabres against the Jegan's shield, sending the unit flying as it shield was split apart.
'These things are hitting us with so much anger, like Gekido!' Vincent thought.
Zack thrust his sabre at the Chaos, which flew back, countering with a downward slash. The Neo Raptor blocked the swipe, and then pushed the Chaos back with its foot. Silver Mask swung his sabre at the leading Purpose, which ducked underneath the slash, then delivered an upward cut towards the Dusk's shoulder. Swinging his mobile suit around, Silver Mask took out his machine gun then fired at the Purpose. The black parts of the Purpose's armour took on a gold colour as the machine gun rounds disintegrated just inches from touching the machine's armour. Silver Mask smirked, pointing his sword at the Purpose.
"If I didn't know any better I'd say that was the original pilot in that machine…but then again I do know better" Silver Mask said. "What exactly are you huh?" He asked.
The Purpose lowered its sabre and looked down for a moment.
"Haven't figured out how to talk yet huh? Your just a machine aren't you, raw power with nothing to control it but a few programs" Silver Mask said, his eye narrowed at the machine.
The machine threw aside its shield and ignited another beam sabre. It raised its head, looking at the Dusk Aero Gundam. Suddenly, the Purpose's eyes changed to an intense red colour. The Purpose suddenly dashed towards the Dusk, causing Silver Mask to widen his eyes as the machine slashed his gun in two. With its arms roaring the Purpose slammed its sabres repeatedly against the Dusk's shield and sword. The Gundam linked the beams of its sabre together and slashed the Dusk across the chest. Silver Mask smirked, looking at his opponent face to face through the slit in the cockpit. Suddenly the Purpose moved to the left, flying between the Gaia and one of the Guaiz's. It stabbed its sabre into the Guaiz's cockpit just as the machine drew a sabre.
"DALE!" Luna yelled, aiming her cannon at the rampaging machine.
The beam she fired slammed into the machine, pushing it against a chunk of a relic Earth Alliance ship. It practically roared as it pushed itself against the beam, the black parts of its armour glowing a gold colour. Shinn flew to Luna's side, readying his own rail guns and cannons.
"TAKE THIS!" Shinn yelled.
The Impulse fired its weapons, linking its beams with the Zaku's. But the two pilots widened their eyes as the Purpose's armour suddenly generated a gold pulse that cancelled out their impulse beams. It then flew forward, splitting the gunner cannon in half and punching the Impulse across the head.
Captain Lee looked at the battle between the mobile suits in astonishment. Then he looked to his side as he heard a coughing sound. General Tyrant had broken his concentration and was now clutching the sides of his helmet.
"Damn it, they were only supposed to have his skill" He said. "Protecting their allies, reacting to an insult, NONE OF THEM WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT!" He roared.
Suddenly a pair of red eyes began to glow on a machine that stood on top of the Girty Lue. Inside the Minerva, Athrun grinded his teeth together as the enemy continued their bombardment.
"We've lost Shawn and Dale's signals, Luna's Zaku has just received heavy damage from the Purpose" Meyrin explained.
Athrun looked down, taking a deep breath as several alarms ran on the ships monitors. Something needed to be done and quickly. Outside on the battlefield the Purpose punched the Impulse across the cheek, gripping the Zaku by its head. Lunamaria took deep breaths as she attempted to escape the Gundam's grip. Suddenly, an orange fist slammed into the side of the Purpose's head. Silver Mask drew his beam sword and pointing it at the Purpose as it rolled away from Luna.
"Time for round two asshole" Silver Mask said.
The Purpose Mark 2 pulled out a beam sabre and flew straight towards its opponent. They slammed their blades together, releasing sparks around them. Vincent turned to the units as they continued to throw the ZAFT mobile suits around. Silver Mask lunged his sword, but the Purpose sucked underneath the blade. Then the two machines slammed their legs together, shooting their Vulcan's at point blank range. Vincent fired his missiles, attempting to hit the stolen prototypes. But Jone easily flew between the missiles, wrapping his coils around the Jegan. Vincent yelled in pain as electricity surged through the cockpit.
"COMMANDER RACH!" Anna yelled.
The Jegan moved its arm, pulling on the electrical wire. Jone retracted the wire, firing his Vulcan's. Vincent pulled on his sticks, flying the Jegan upwards, but the bullets from the Mercy's guns shredded the left foot of the Jegan apart. Anna flew between the Jegan and the prototypes, slashing her beam sabre at the Gaia. Stella blocked the sabre and Sting jumped over the Gaia. He fired his missiles, hitting Anna's chest. She screamed as her mobile suit was thrown back. Joe locked his Katana with the Fallen's sword. He yelled, throwing the Fallen back and swinging his blade horizontally.
"Your swordsmanship ability is useless against my superior reaction time" Lucifer growled.
The Fallen slashed the Efreet across the shoulder. Then the machine spread its wings out, releasing some of its feathers.
"What have you got for us next huh?" Joe wondered.
The feathers suddenly exploded, sending shards of metal into the Efreet's hands. Joe grinded his teeth together as his katana was deactivated. The Efreet's shredded arms were useless, but that didnt stop Joe from slamming the back of his foot into the Fallen's chest.
"Ma'am, I know things seem bad right now but there's a new machine approaching from Bogey One" One of the Minerva crew said.
"Keep returning fire, get the Taunhauser ready" Talia said.
Darcel's laughing was suddenly cut short; he dropped his smile and his eyes watered as he stopped firing his guns. Stark lowered his gun as well, quivering in fear as the new mobile suit arrived. General Tyrant's eyes glowed just like this new machine as he sat beside Captain Lee from the comfort of the Girty Lue. He twitched his finger and the green and black machine raised its rifle. It fired a single blast onto the side of the Minerva, creating an explosion that knocked down the spare Zaku. Lyna Crosswind looked down the sight of her rifle, analysing the machine that bought fear to Darcel. It was a machine that stood taller than the others, with broad shoulders and grey rockets on its back. The round head had a single red eye and Nazi style helmet.
"X7O-VAR Monger, the new unit of his Lordship, the one who will bring an end to this constant repetition of war and temporary peace" Tyrant said.
The Monger had a glowing disc on the centre of its chest, surrounded by a picture of an eagle grasping a worm with its beak. Raising its rifle, the machine fired two more shots at the Minerva.
'Damn it, if this keeps up we're dead' Talia thought.
Linda put out a fire and threw the extinguisher to Youlan.
"Put out the fires and be ready for a launch, Commander Bagal we need to start moving the rocks blocking the catapults" Linda said.
"I know damn it!" Noah growled.
Again the Monger fired and again an explosion shook the Minerva. Athrun grinded his teeth together, squeezing his hand into a fist before he looked towards the captain.
"Fire all your starboard side weapons and thrusters, use the force of the shockwave to steer the ship away from the asteroid" Athrun began.
Talia turned to Athrun with a mixture of confusion and an a scowl across her face.
"Then fire your main positron cannon, also have the Murasama fire its impulse beam at the rocks blocking one of the catapults" Athrun explained.
"But we'll take damage from the explosion as well" Arthur said.
"Wait captain, do as he suggests" Durandal said.
Talia put a hand to her chin as more of the ship alarms began to blare.
"Meyrin, relay the orders to the crew, have them brace themselves and have the Murasama pilot be ready to blow away those rocks" She explained.
She narrowed her eyes as the Monger lifted up its rifle. Suddenly a beam flew from beyond space, hitting the Monger's rifle. Tyrant widened his eyes while Lyna turned her sniper scope towards where the blast had come from. She narrowed her eyes at the target, but a second shot blasted off her scope.
"Damn it" she said.
While ZAFT and the Girty Lue continued their devastating battle, further into the debris belt Mongers in both appearance and nature were bringing their plans into action. A black and purple High Manoeuvre type 2 GINN looked over the adjustments being made to a demolition charge. Beside it was a similar mobile suit to the one Tyrant controlled. Its armour was a black and grey colour, with a V-fin on the head; and massive rockets on its back. Stamped to its left shoulder was its production number the X71-GRNT Monger. It carried a shield with a cross at the tip and an assault rifle based on an old AK-74. Another Monger unit was overseeing a group of other High Manoeuvre type GINN's, strapping on demolition charges to their target.
"Almost done!" Said the leading GINN pilot, wearing an old green ZAFT suit, a scar stamped across his face.
But the Monger pilot remained silent; standing in a cockpit that had no controls. He and the other pilot wore grey suits with black wrist and shin guards. A black diamond shaped visor was on their helmets. When they turned their heads, the Mongers looked in the direction their pilot's eyes were facing. An Earth Alliance Agamemnon Class flew towards the area.
"Captain shouldn't this be ZAFT's job to check?" The communication officer asked.
"Maybe, but I don't trust ZAFT, never have never will and that whole alliance that was formed because of Gekido wouldn't have lasted past Jachin, in fact we all know it didn't" The Captain said, laughing as he sipped from his water container.
The bearded Captain got off his chair and floated to one of the radar operatives. He looked over the young man's shoulder, pointing at several blips representing heat signatures.
"Its way too hot for it to be debris, I'm thinking explosives, send the pilots out to investigate" He said.
"But sir, most of them are fresh out of the academy, what if they're attacked?" The XO asked.
"Commander Magnus is with them, he's a veteran of the last war, besides I have no interest in having Gekido Jaeger worshippers remain on my ship" The Captain growled, leaning back on his chair.
In the hanger bay, four pilots floated to their machines. The Commander of the unit mounted an old Dagger while the other three got into three Dagger L's. A black haired pilot with grey streaks in his hair flawlessly moved his Dagger towards the launch catapult.
"Damn it Hunter, what the hell are you doing?" The Commander asked.
"Getting ready to launch!"
"Oh is that a matter of fact huh? The commanding officer is always the first person onto the battlefield, when you're in charge you can go on ahead half cocked but so long as your ranked under me you'll do as I say" Magnus explained, his hairless brows twitching as he spoke.
Magnus was an intimidating man in terms of his physical appearance. He hadn't had the burns across his face healed, and in contrast to the captain he had quite a respectable reputation amongst the rookies. Beside Hunter's unit was a younger boy wearing glasses along with the standard Earth Alliance uniform.
"Come on Simon lets do what he says" The boy said.
"You know Michael if you want to be like Gekido you'll need to fight the authorities from time to time" Simon said as he stepped backwards.
Magnus got onto the launch catapult, shouldering a recoilless cannon as the mechanics prepared his suit for launch.
"Damn it, just a simple investigation I was hoping we'd get to see some action" Said another Dagger pilot.
"I hope your joking Jenkins, the last thing we need is another fight" Simon said.
"Cut the chatter and get ready for launch!" Magnus growled before he flew out of the ship.
Simon, Jenkins and Michael launched after the commander, flying behind his mobile suit as it rushed past the pieces of junk and rocks. Michael widened his eyes as he saw a body float past his suit. Simon lowered his head, feeling as if they were intruding on the dead.
"Is that an island?" Jenkins asked, stopping to look at a chunk of rotting greenery.
"Remember where we are Jenkins, remember that we were the ones that caused this" Simon said.
"Junius Seven!" Michael whispered.
Magnus narrowed his eyes as he looked through the pieces of debris. He saw the GINN's prepping the demolition charges.
"Those bastards!" He growled.
"Sir we've just detected another heat source approaching from above sir!" One of the bridge crewmembers said.
"What, why didn't we see it until now?" The Captain asked.
"He was using debris to mask his appearance"
"ALL HANDS LEVEL ONE BATTLE…"
But the captain's words were cut short as the Second Monger unit slammed into the bridge, crushing it with its knee. Michael and Jenkins widened their eyes in shock as they looked at the mobile suit continually stomping the ship. Then it turned its glowing eye towards them.
"Oh god!" Michael whimpered.
The Monger then rushed towards the two mobile suits as they wildly fired their beam rifles. It easily dodged the beams, raising its glowing fist. With a swing of his arm, the pilot crashed the Monger's fist into the Dagger L's cockpit, crushing Michael. Then it grabbed the Dagger L's foot and slammed it into Jenkin's machine. Simon turned towards the machine, widening his eyes as he watched the mobile suit grab the Dagger L's arms and feet.
"JENKINS EJECT NOW!" Simon yelled.
The Monger tore the Dagger L apart and moved forward, igniting a yellow beam dagger. Magnus widened his eyes as the second Monger unit targeted him with its assault rifle.
"Those bastards, they're planning on desecrating Junius Seven!" Magnus growled.
Simon kept his guard up as the Monger threw its sabre between its hands, then span the sword around with its fingers.
"That movement, the pilots are Cyber Psyches!" Simon said.
"What the hell are Cyber Psyches?" Magnus asked.
"Artificial life forms created to interface with a mobile suit and control it with thoughts of movements of their own body, two were created, ones dead and the other…" Simon closed his eyes for a moment before he turned to the battle. "Is someone you don't need to fear Commander…lets stop these bastards from desecrating this graveyard!"
On that day everyone fought against warmongers. The crew of the Minerva braced themselves as the Murasama moved towards the catapult.
"NOW FIRE!" Talia yelled.
The starboard side weapons fired against the meteor and the resulting explosion threw the Minerva to the side. Branden yelled as the Murasama fired its chest cannon just as the Minerva fired its Taunhauser.
"LEE HARD TO PORT NOW!" Neo yelled.
The impulse beam tore through the rocks, allowing the Kenshin and Zaku Phantom to launch. Rey threw his beam axe towards the Slaughter while Kojiro held out his staff. A pink beam was launched out of the end of the staff, cutting the Bombards head off. Rey's beam axe slashed the barrels of the Slaughter's Gatling guns apart.
"BASTARDS I LIKED THOSE GUNS!" Darcel yelled.
"I'm not so easy!" Tyrant growled.
The Monger aimed its rifle at the machines, but a third blast from space shot off its left arm. Tyrant's hands quivered before the Monger turned and flew back towards the Girty Lue. Silver Mask yelled, batting the Purpose's sabre aside. With another roar he slashed the Purpose across the head. It kicked the Dusk aside, clutching its head. Electricity sparked out of the small cut that ran diagonally between its eyes.
"Damn it, we had the ropes and now they're back in the game!" Neo said.
Rey's Zaku suddenly flew behind the Exus, firing its beam rifle. Neo flew at top speed, grinding his teeth together as the beams destroyed his gun barrels and clipped the side of his mobile armour.
"All forces retreat now!"
The Kenshin and Zaku lined up, firing Vulcan's and beam rifle respectively at the retreating enemy forces. Silver Mask deactivated his sword as the Purpose did the same with its sabre. As the other machines flew away, the leading Purpose reattached its funnels to its shoulder and pointed a finger at the Dusk. It then pointed its thumb downwards, causing Silver Mask to chuckle.
"A robot with personality, too bad you've haven't got a voice yet" he said.
Neo's Exus flew at top speed into the Girty Lue, the landing straps barely stopping it from slamming into the wall.
"LEE RETREAT NOW!" The masked man yelled.
The Girty Lue, damaged from its encounter began its retreat, with the Minerva continuing to fire blasts from the Taunnhauser. Talia sighed as she gave the command to ceasefire. Tired and damaged from the battle, the pilots returned to the Minerva just as a communication came in from outside of the battlefield.
"Unidentified ZAFT ship, we have received communications from Chairwoman Alster, per her instructions we have come to provide assistance in your pursuit of Bogey One" The Captain of a base class ship said.
"About time they got here!" Branden growled, helping Shinn to carry Vincent's Jegan back onto the Minerva.
"We've already lost four of our pilots" Shinn said.
"We welcome any assistance you can offer" Talia said.
Just then two faces appeared on the screen of the Minerva's bridge. One was a black haired man wearing a brown and black military uniform and the other was a black haired woman wearing a white Sensou uniform and an EA style hat.
"Captain First Class Bright Noa of the B class carrier White Base, we're here to provide you with assistance in repairs" The man said.
"Captain First Class Natarle Badgiruel of the B class carrier Justifier, we will continue the search for Bogey One!"
Vincent leant back in his seat, sighing as opened his visor and rubbed his eyes. He had to suppress a chuckle as he remembered Gekido's words on Natarle.
Too much military protocol floating around in her head and a military stick so far up her ass that she cant sit down without yelling out some kind of order or moaning about protocol. I can't stand sitting in the same room as he but on the battlefield I'll tell you now she's a far better captain than Murrue Ramias. Not that I'm saying I would have preferred her over Murrue, after all if Badgiruel was in charge I wouldn't have gotten away with anything. If you've got a target to catch then she's the captain to catch it!
Next Chapter 6: Hidden amongst the graveyard
Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, brownie points to anyone who can guess who Simon is. Next chapter we take a break from the ZAFT side of things and look at the EA as Simon and MAgnus not only try to prevent the fall of Junius but discover something amongst its ruins