A/N: As I said, ideas people. Ideas.
KnightOfZaku: He'll definitely need the RX-78-1. It'll be his mainstay mobile suit until he gets the Full Armor
So, if you've read my 'Flare Titan' story, you know how music works. But if not, here's the short guide.
1. = Start Music
1- = Start/Skip to Chorus
1x = End Music
Music:
1. Thunderbolt For Main Theme
Gwazine Class Battleship ZMAU Kongo
Ryan watched out a porthole in his personal quarters. When this war started, he was no more than a simple lieutenant in Zeon's army. Now, he's the Commander of an entire fleet.
Suddenly, a knock came on his door. He approached it, and Alma was outside.
"C-Commander!" She fumbled over her words, and Ryan sighed and patted her on the head.
Alma smiled, "Ryan-chan…"
"Jeez. What do you want?"
"O-oh!" Alma perked up, "That's right. Uh, we're approaching the Thunderbolt Sector. Lt. General Burroughs welcomes the support."
Ryan scratched his head lazily, "Tell him we appreciate the sentiment…" then looked down.
"I'm going to grab some food."
"The Thunderbolt Sector, huh?" Angelica looked out a window as a thunderbolt shot past the Kongo
"Yeah, the center of the action. It lies right between the main Federation supply lines and Zeon territory. It got its nickname for all the electrical discharges that look like thunderbolts, making the place seem perpetually stormy." Zero told her,
Angelica sighed, "Hey, what do you think of all this?"
"All what?" Zero asked,
"You know, Ryan being promoted and stuff?"
"It's…appropriate." Zero sighed, "But odd, not even Char Aznable rose up the ranks so fast."
"But Ryan is better than Char."
"We don't know that, to be honest." Zero pointed out, "They've never fought."
Char was halfway across the cafeteria. Eating his food silently, when suddenly someone sat down in front of him.
"It's been a while, hasn't it Char?" The person mentioned.
"Ryan." Char acknowledged. "Or do I call you Commander?"
"Just Ryan. We've known each other too long."
"...you're alot different." Char said to him,
"How so?" Ryan asked,
"You seem…more hopeful. In the Academy, you were quiet and cynical. Here, with the 300th you seem to be more open."
Ryan thought about it, "Maybe…I just found the right people." He shrugged,
"Or maybe you're looking for something." Char said quietly, and Ryan looked at him.
"What do you mean?" Ryan asked, his face darkening.
"Could be nothing." Char shrugged, "Up to you." Char scooped up his food, and left.
Daryl watched the Gwazine-Class ship Kongo pull up next to the Dried Fish and the rest of the fleet.
"Commander." Burroughs approached him, and shook his hand. "It's truly an honor to have you working along side us."
"I'm glad to be working alongside the 21st as well." He nodded.
"Daryl Lorenz, reporting for debriefing!" Daryl saluted.
"This is CPO. Lorenz?" Ryan asked, and Daryl nodded.
"Petty Officer Daryl, you're one of the few men who's encountered the Golden Gundam in the Thunderbolt Sector."
Daryl nodded, before proceeding to recount his experience with the Golden Valkyrie.
"Thank you, dismissed." Ryan nodded, and Daryl turned, and left.
"From what I heard, she's likely a Newtype. Like the Corps."
"And what will you do about it?"
"Newtypes are people with extra-sensory perception. However, I believe it's possible to trick or overwhelm that perception. As such, we're going to catch her in an all-range attack."
"All…range attack?" Burroughs asked,
"We draw her deep into the shoal zone, then, with a combination of Newtypes and snipers from hidden positions, we hit her from all directions, leaving her with no escape. It doesn't matter whether she can sense it coming, there's nothing she can do to dodge it."
Suddenly, a breathless ensign burst in. "General! It's them! The Ghosts of Moore are launching an attack!"
"Alright, we recently got intelligence that the flagship for the Living Dead division is linking up with reinforcements in this sector." Claudia informed them, "Don't drag this out, get in, hit hard, get out."
"You heard the lady folks! Let's kick some disabled ass!" Rosary cheered, receiving much approval from the other pilots escorting her and Io.
After a few minutes of flying, they came across the main body of the Living Dead Fleet.
"Fourteen Musai-Class Cruisers, Four Chivvay-Class, Three Chivvay-II Class, ten Papua Class…" The pilot of the FF-S3 gasped, "Gwazine Class!"
"What? No one said there was a battleship in the sector!" Kanken noted,
Suddenly, Rosary felt as if she was forced out of her own body, by a Newtype presence heavily emanating from that battleship…
Ryan gasped as he felt a powerful and yet familiar Newtype presence.
'The Valkyrie!' His instincts screamed.
"She's here!" Ryan barked, "Damn it, I thought we'd have more time!"
"Who's here?" Burroughs demanded,
"The Golden Valkyrie! She's on the battlefield and headed straight for us!" He beelined out of the bridge right as sirens began to blare.
"Ryan!" Alma approached him, "I…I sense someone powerful coming!"
"I know…it's her. The Golden Valkyrie of Loum."
"There's something else…" Alma said, and Ryan turned to her, "Ryan…she feels like you."
"What?"
"I..can't explain it. But your presences are so similar!"
Ryan thought about it, and realized that she was right. Her Newtype presence always seemed familiar to him. Like he somehow knew her.
"We'll worry about it later." Ryan said, "Right now, head for your mobile suit!"
Ryan entered the hangar, where - like the soldiers they were - most of the 300th Corps had already arrived there.
"All Mobile Suits, prepare to launch!" He ordered, "Our enemy is the Golden Valkyrie herself!"
Ryan entered his mobile suit, where Arlette floated to him.
"I checked out your mobile suit. Everything seems good, except…" Seven trailed off,
"What's wrong Seven?" Ryan asked,
"Something feels wrong…when I opened the OS to run a diagnostic, it gave me this bad feeling. It has something to with the BETA System."
'The BETA…?' Ryan wondered, "I'll take it into consideration. Thanks Seven." He patted her on the head, and sent the girl on her way.
Seven looked back at the Nezak, 'Please be careful…Ryan.' She turned away and went to check another mobile suit.
"Ryan Sahalin - Nezak, Launching!"
"Johnny Ridden - High Mobility Zaku, let's do this!"
"Miguel Gaia - High Mobility Zaku, I'm headed off!"
"Heinrich Steiner - High Mobility Zaku, Launching!"
The 300th Newtype Corps launched from the Kongo and it's escorts.
"Listen up, avoid direct combat with the Golden Gundam and any other Gundam-types. Right now, focus on eliminating the escorting fighters." Ryan ordered, "21st Division, do you hear me?"
"Daryl Lorenz, responding." Daryl replied over the comms.
"Petty Officer, have your men set up Skiure Cannons and Big Guns in the debris nearby. I'll buy time against the Golden Gundam."
"Roger." Daryl broke off with his sniper rifle.
"Seems like we're unwanted guests!" Kanken said, as mobile suits poured from the ships.
"You know the plan! Stick to it!" Rose pushed the throttle on her mobile suit. Accelerating rapidly, she extended her beam saber.
Suddenly, she felt a shock and quickly transformed into mobile suit mode. Barely in time to block a heat katana from a black mobile suit.
Ryan's Heat Katana clashed against the Gundam's beam saber.
'It's deadly. But it's reach is far too limited. Same with the beam rifle.' Ryan thought cooly. Pressing against the saber, he flipped over the Golden Gundam and slashed at it, however, it rocketted forward, dodging the strike.
It turned around and fired it's beam rifle, and Ryan easily dodged the beams, before going in for another slash. Drawing his Katana with his right manipulators and heat hawk with his left, he slashed them both down on the Gundam, which barely avoided loosing both of it's wings.
It then proceeded to lay down a barrage of vulcan fire, forcing Ryan to retreat.
"Got you!" Rosary locked on to the Nezak, and fired her missiles. The laser-guided missiles followed the Nezak through the debris.
It weaved and dodged as the missiles impacted around around it. It pointed an arm mounted machine gun, and gunned down the rest. However, this provided Rose with an opening.
"You're mine!" Laying down vulcan fire, she followed up with her beam rifle. The beams managed to pierce through its right shoulder.
Ryan was violently thrown forward by the impact as much of his equipment began to spark.
'Damn it…' He thought, 'Move…damn you…' He was vaguely aware of blood coming from his nose. Thick globs floating in his helmet, sticking to the glass.
He looked up, the Gundam had it's nose down, it's work arm moving in for the kill…
"No!" He screamed, grabbing his controls, he forced it off of him.
He suddenly saw the screen flash:
B.E.T.A System Active
Rose felt a surge of Newtype power emanate from the hands that pushed her away.
As she regained her wits, she watched the Nezaks monoeye turn from the standard light pink/purple to a bloody red.
"What the…?" Rose wondered, as the red monoeye flashed, and a sickening, hostile feeling banged against her head. The monoeye seemed to eye her with sadistic and deadly intent that made her nauseous.
'Something…isn't right about that mobile suit!' Rose realized.
She transformed into fighter mode as it drew its bazooka, and rapidly fired it with inhuman precision. She barely managed to dodge the missiles, however, it allowed it to rapidly speed up to almost three times its previous speed and gain on the Gundam. It drew its heat hawk and threw it at Rosary, cutting into her leg and leaving a large scrape.
It pulled out its machine gun, held its Katana in the other hand, and proceeded to fire its machine gun, landing several hits on the Golden Gundam before attacking with the Katana and creating a tsubazeriai between them.
The monoeye flashed again, and Rose almost threw up. It felt as if its hostility was attacking her mind directly.
"Damn you!" She pushed against the Katana, forcing it back a few paces before firing her beam rifle several times. It weaved through them with ease and fired its missiles. Six of them detonated around Rose, obscuring her vision.
Suddenly, the Nezak burst through the smoke, and kicked her right in the cockpit, jostling her violently and causing her to nosebleed. It then proceeded to punch her twice before bringing out its heat Katana.
1. Angelica tapped her comms as Jazz music began playing over them.
"Who the hell is playing that shit? Turn it off!" She yelled,
"It isn't me," Zero said,
"Hey..hey…are you calling my music shit?" A malicious and mocking voice called over the radio. And Angelica paled as the comms burst into chaos.
"It's a fucking Feddie!"
"How'd he get access?!"
"Kill the bastard!"
Angelica tch'ed, "Where are you, bastard! I'mma gut you!" She yelled,
He simply laughed, "No need to worry about finding me, I'll find you." As soon as he said that, a black and white-colored Gundam appeared in front of Angelica, and proceeded to roundhouse kick Angelica into some debris.
Gasping, she grabbed the controls and pulled out her heat hawk, barely bringing it up in time to block a beam saber.
"More! Show me more!" The pilot screamed in delight, slamming the saber on the heat hawk.
'Damn it…' Angelica would soon be overpowered by the Gundam, so she did something drastic. Dropping the hawk, she kicked out, forcing it back before it could take advantage of the opening.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a purple mobile suit spin kicked the Gundam. Then drew its heat sword.
"You okay Angelica?" Alma asked,
"Yeah." She nodded,
1- "Don't forget about me!" The pilot charged at Alma, firing his bazooka. Alma dodged it, and fired her own panzerfaust at the Gundam, which dodged it easily.
The Gundam then pulled out its beam rifle, and fired it with supporting vulcan fire.
Alma launched herself after the Gundam, "Why…why are you happy?!" She yelled at him,
"Because I can!" Io yelled back.
"What's there to smile about?!" Alma asked him, "People are dying because of you!" She brought down her heat sword, which he parried.
"You don't have the right to lecture me! After all, you're going to kill me, aren't you!?" He thrusted his beam saber, which she deflected by twisting her heat sword in a fashion that forced it out of his hands.
"Only because you're going to kill my friends!" Alma yelled, grabbing the lit beam saber, he threw it back at him. Io barely deflected it with his shield,
"That's what war is!" He yelled back, picking up the saber, he reactivated it and proceeded to rush Alma.
Alma charged at him, yelling, she fired her panzerfaust, forcing Io to stop before throwing it him. She then seized upon the opening with her heat sword.
"I'm ending this!" Alma yelled, but suddenly, she was hit from the side by a missile.
"Gah!" She screamed as a Saberfish piloted by Kanken zipped by her.
"My name is Ensign Io Fleming!" He broadcasted to all the Zeon forces, "When you hear Jazz, that's when you know I've entered the stage!"
Suddenly, before he could retreat, the red-eyed Nezak rushed him with his heat hawk. Cleaving through his shield, the Nezak spun, leaving several gashes from the heat hawk.
Suddenly, a golden streak tackled him, as the Golden Gundam used it's work arms to push the Nezak away.
Io gasped, watching as the Nezak and Golden Gundam chased each other, chasing black and gold lines across the stars.
Beams and rockets flew back and forth between them as many watched, entranced by the deadly yet beautiful sight. 1x
"Something isn't right!" Gaia said suddenly, and the other Quad-Stars nodded.
They turned to watch Ryan fight the Golden Gundam. Mash nearly gagged,
"That machine…it's doing something to him!" Alma said, "His presence…it's distorted, with unnatural hate! It hates him and is using him!"
"We need to pull him out," Gaia told them, Alma and the Quad-Stars nodded.
The Nezak rushed the Golden Gundam, and rapidly punched it in the visor, causing its armor to crack and spark with electricity.
Right as the Nezak was about to drive its Katana into its head, Mash came up behind him.
"Ryan! Snap out of it!" Gaia yelled over the comms…
The Nezak threw Mash off, then looked at him for a moment, as if contemplative. Then, over the comms, they could hear a robotic voice say:
"Newtype…detected…eliminating…"
"Oh…shit," Gaia said to himself, right as the Nezak grabbed its Katana, and charged at Mash.