KnightOfZaku: Not here unfortunately!
Music:
1. Attack On Titan OST - "Warriors" (Apple Seed + YouSeeBIGGIRL/T:T)
Rose immediately transformed into fighter mode and pulled up, using the bottom of her craft as a wind shield so she glided downwards towards the drop-zone.
Following after them, the Semovente Corps and the rest of the 01st MS Team launched out of their Medeas. The Gundam Sky-Types repeatedly fired and killed their thrusters to slow their descent in order to descend slower, while the Ground Type Gundams and MS-06J Zaku IIs relied on their parachute packs to guide them down safely.
About 800 feet off the ground, Rose shifted her Gundam into fighter configuration but used it's high thrust to slow her descent similar to the Sky Types. Rose jolted in her seat from the sudden influx of G-Forces, but held on as her Gundam came to a smooth landing.
Around her, the mixed forces of the 01st MS Team and Semovente Corps touched down to the ground around her.
"We…pulled it off." Vanessa collapsed back in her seat, and gave out a nervous chuckle.
"Save the relieved comments until after the mission. Our luck is bad enough as is." Federico said from his Zaku, picking up a 120mm machine gun from a dropped weapons container
"Got that right." Rose muttered as Helios helped attach Hyper Bazooka's under Rose's wings.
As two Type 61s parachuted down, Federico looked up. "Mitchell, how far to the target point?"
"10 kilometers." Mitchell replied,
"Alright then, move out!" Federico ordered, and the group nodded.
As Ryan reclined in his cockpit, a jolt of electricity hit him as a short scene flashed before his eyes.
"By the way…you got 120mm rounds for this thing?" The Zaku lifted it's machine gun up as it's pilot asked this.
Ryan straightened up, and clutched his forehead. '...Another vision? But when?'
Ryan looked out the cockpit before pressing the comms button, "Seven, do me a favor and man the Weasel, would you?"
Seven nodded, clearly sensing his uneasiness. "Got it."
"Ryan?" Alma looked towards him, sensing it as well. "What's wrong?"
"It might be nothing…I just...have a feeling." Ryan said, 'Yes…after all, none of my other visions have come true yet…'
"Right. Well, you've always been reliable so…" Alma lifed up her bazooka, and Ryan nodded, feeling a little better.
"I'm picking up movement!" Seven said suddenly,
"Can you confirm IFFs?!" Ryan said quickly,
"...they seem to be friendly. 20 MS-06J Zaku IIs and two HT-01B Magella Attack." Seven said in relief,
"Strange." Lt. Colonel Bauer noted, "I wasn't told about any other units this close."
"...Neither was I." Ryan said uneasily.
"Hey…I just realized." Ensign Lou began, "Can't the Zeon detect us? What if they have radar or some type of scanner?"
Federico chuckled, "You guys really are too new to this. Do you think we haven't thought of that?"
"Well…" Lou trailed off,
"Currently, this entire group is marked as Zaku IIs for this mission. And the tanks are listed as Magellas." A tank commander named Marion explained, "They won't know who we are until they see us."
"Oh." Lou said dumbly.
"Cut the chatter." Rose raised a hand, and pointed, some distance in front of them, the bridge of a Dabude-Class was poking out over the trees. "Federico, think you can go in and scope out the area? The rest of us will hover in the treeline just out of visual range."
"Sure." Federico shrugged, "Borogonov, Stuart, on me. Our force has probably been detected, we have to sell this at least long enough to see what we're dealing with."
Still somewhat tense, the entire camp was alert as three Zaku IIs came out of the treeline.
"Yo!" A thickly-accented voice hailed them on comms,
"What unit are you apart of?" Ryan immediately stated,
"Woah, we're friendly." The Zaku put it's hands up, "Lieutenant Matt Zara, 22nd Company. And here are my fellow pilots Borstov and Reber."
Ryan relaxed slightly, but only slightly. "What are you doing so far from the frontline?"
"We're going to reinforce an area that was recently hit by the Federation. We're just passing through." Matt explained,
"Well, hurry along then."
"Yeah, yeah." Matt said dismissively,
1. "By the way…you got 120mm rounds for this thing?" Matt and Ryan finished at the same time, and Ryan's eyes widened as Matt lifted the Zaku machine gun right as he saw in his vision.
Immediately, Ryan's heart sank as he shouted: "It's a false flag!"
Right as he said that, Alma rushed forward, heat sword drawn as she spun around on one foot and slashed at 'Matt', only for him to barely block the sword with his Zaku's shield.
Rather than going back in for another cut, however, Alma instead used the momentum of her mobile suit to cut at 'Reber's' Zaku beside him. Leaving a large, but superficial slash across it's chest as he and 'Matt' rocketted backwards into the treeline right as a spread of missiles detonated in front of him.
"Napalm!" Ryan yelled, pulling Alma back with his Gouf.
"Ryan! The enemy within the treeline is moving towards us!" Arlette shouted
Alma's Zaku skidded off balance briefly as she righted herself and muttered, "Oh no…" as Ryan followed her Zaku's gaze.
1- From the treeline, a group of more MS-06J Zaku IIs, RX-78 [S] Gundam Sky Types, and RX-78 [G] Gundam Ground Types emerged behind the fire, weapons at the ready.
And at their head, was none other than the RX-78-T1 Golden Gundam.
"It's fallen through! They know we're here!" Stuart shouted, as he pulled up alongside the group.
"Shit! How'd they figure it out so quickly?!" Federico wondered,
"Maybe if you didn't sound so damn sus!" Rose yelled, reeving her thrusters, she boosted out of formation and through the fire. Using her thrust to get above the black Gouf, she dived down on it as her beam-sabered work arm extended, the saber itself activated and was about to slam down on the Gouf's head when it quickly drew it's heat sword and blocked the saber, forcing the Gundam skidding backwards.
Immediately, Rose wasted no time in regaining the offensive as she fired her Beam rifle, only for the Gouf to roll to the left and dodge.
Rose smiled, 'Just as planned,' By rolling aside to dodge the shots, he had inadvertently left the first Dabude open for attack. Rose shot forward, past the Gouf and immediately unloaded on the Dabude, firing her Bazookas, vulcans, and missile pods in conjuction, she riddled the Dabude's hull and turrets with ordinance as she boosted right over it right as she was seemingly about to crash into it.
Right as she came to a landing behind the Dabude, an entire side of the battleship burst into explosions as the rockets and missiles detonated, susquently causing a chain reaction that completely evaporated the Dabude. 1x
The 300th Newtype Corps watched in shock as the Golden Gundam swiftly destroyed the first Dabude.
"No…way…" Zero muttered,
"That fast? Just who is that ace?" Heinrich wondered,
Ryan tch'ed, "We can't worry about that right now! Quad-Stars on me, we're going to need to pin down the Valkyrie! Everyone else, coordinate with Seven and Nordit swarm the enemies hiding in the treeline!" Ryan ordered, and everyone immediately moved into position.
The combined Semovente Corps and 01st MS Team fired at the 300th Newtype Corps and Nordit's group from the treeline.
"Damn it! There are too many of them!" Helios yelled, spraying an MS-06K with his 100mm machine gun, causing it to collapse and explode.
"Vanessa! Use the 180mm!" Kayla yelled,
"Got it!" Vanessa replied, unslinging a large cannon from her back, she dropped to a kneeling aiming stance and aimed for a Dabude.
'Aligning sights…fire!' Vanessa squeezed the cannon's trigger, sending a shell zinging over the heads of the Zakus and Goufs and straight into the turret of one of the Dabude's, leading it to explode.
"Dabude-Class Aria has lost one of it's main turrets! The enemy has artillery!" Seven yelled,
"Counter with our own! Colonel Bauer, have the Zaku Cannons take positions on the flatbeds of the Dabude's and return fire!" Ryan ordered,
"Roger that Commander!" Bauer replied, clearly unperturbed by the fact that Ryan was still technically his junior.
The Zaku Cannons climbed on top of the Dabude, and began retaliating with their own 180mm cannons. Plumes of wood and dirt erupted like gyesers as shells impacted the ground. In response, the Sky-Types returned fire with Beam Cannons and their 180mm cannons.
Marion similarly climbed on top of a Dabude with her MS-06L Zaku II Sniper Type, and grabbed her sniper rifle and begun aiming for Vanessa's Sky-Type Gundam.
'Breathe…' Marion thought to herself,
Without warning, blue hair and red eyes flashed across her vision.
'Get out of my head!' Marion shook her head, and refocused, the vision disappearing as fast as it came as she once again took aim and fired.
Vanessa cocked another round right as a bullet impacted the magazine for the 180mm cannon.
"What the-?!" Vanessa quickly threw away the cannon right as it exploded.
"Vanessa! Sniper!" Kayla explained, "On the flatbed of that Dabude!"
Vanessa zoomed in with her camera, and spotted the blue MS-06L right as it took cover behind the Dabude.
"I see it! Lou! Pass me the Railcannon!" Vanessa ordered, and the ensign passed it over.
'Eat this, Zeek scum!' She thought to herself, right as the Railcannon began to charge…
'I'm being targeted?!' Marion wondered, 'But I'm under cover? Why would they be-'
She never had a chance to finish that thought as the rail cannon fired, punching right through the Dabude's armor and 'neck' to strike the head of Marion's mobile suit.
'A railgun?!' Marion realized as her suit keeled over from the impact, 'Damn! I've lost my main sensor!'
"That's one!" Vanessa swung the railgun around, and fired at an MS-06G, piercing straight through the cockpit before it exploded.
Charging up another round, she proceeded to scan for targets, before settling on an MS-06G covering behind the rear of a Dabude.
"Everyone! Be careful! The enemy has a railgun!" Seven said over the comms,
'A railgun?! These guys are stacked!' Heinrich thought to himself, peaking out of cover to fire his 120mm-
Only for his right knee to be suddenly vaporized by a railgun shell.
"Shit! It got me!" Heinrich yelled,
"Heinrich!" Zero emerged from cover to check on Heinrich,
"Zero don't!" Angelica yelled, but it was too late. The railgun pierced through it's shoulder armor and ripped through the Zaku's head. Disabling the main sensor, the Zaku creaked as it keeled to the side, before it crashed into the ground.
Rose fended off a strike from Gaia's Gouf right as Ortega tried to go in for a swing from behind, forcing her to jump up.
'Damn it! Dealing with one of them is bad enough, but the whole team?!' Rose thought to herself.
She was immediately snapped out of her thoughts as she was forced to dodge a bazooka shot from Mash's Gouf.
In retaliation, she fired both of her under-wing Bazookas simultaneously at Ryan, who dodged between them before returning fire with his gatling gun, forcing her to dodge mid-air and land.
"Switching to Super Napalm!" Rose said to herself, flipping several switches as her missile pods loaded super napalm rounds. Immediately when they were loaded, she fired a spread of missiles at the Quad-Stars, who were caught off guard by the flaming rounds.
"Shit! This thing has an endless stream of tricks!" Gaia yelled,
"Stay focused! It may be high-performing, but the pilot is beginning to feel overwhelmed! We can take her!" Ryan said encouragingly,
Federico fired his 120mm machine gun at an MS-06K Zaku Cannon on top of the Aria, who - in turn - fired it's 180mm cannon at him, forcing him to dodge it hastily.
Without warning, an MS-06G charged at him, and bashed into his side, knocking him back several steps.
'What the?! He got so close without anyone getting him!? How?!' Federico drew his Heat Hawk and charged at the pilot, but the pilot simply dodged and slashed at Federico's arm with another Heat Hawk, leaving a large scrape on it as Federico barely pulled back in time.
The Newtype pilot gave Federico no time to recover, as they launched a flurry of strikes that Federico was hard-pressed to defend against.
"Damn you! You Zeon bastard!" Federico roared, dropping down, he pumped the skirt of the Zaku full of 120mm rounds before ducking away right as it exploded.
'Shit…is every member of the Devils like this?!' Federico wondered,
"Colonel! This is bad! We're being driven further back into the forest!" Mitchell told him,
"Thanks for the obvious!" Federico snapped, 'Damn…at this rate, we'll be forced to retreat when we've only dealt with one Dabude!'
Helios rushed at a Zaku II High Mobility Ground Type, thinking he had the drop on it, he moved in to slash at it's cockpit with his beam saber, only for it to catch it on it's Heat Sword and deflect it.
'What?! He reacted that fast?!' Helios stumbled backward before holding the saber with both hands, and charging again. The Zaku II ducked around the saber, and Helios gasped as it was about to cut his head off-
Only for a beam to come from it's side and pierce through one side of it's cockpit and come out the other. Sending it careening past the side of the Gundam.
In front of him, Kayla's Gundam was holding up an R-3X Beam Sniper, and over comms, Helios could hear her heavy breathing.
"...thanks…Kayla." Helios sighed in relief,
"You owe me a drink." Was all she said before turning to rejoin the fray.
"Andy! Ricardo! On me!" Char ordered, "We need to drive the enemy away from the Dabudes!"
"Roger that Commander Char!" Both of them said, moving along side Char's Gouf with their Zaku's before throwing themselves into the enemy lines.
Char clashed with the first of the traitor Zaku's, only for the pilot to barely block the slash with the Zaku Heat Hawk, however, rather than maintian the tsubazeriai, Char jumped backwards and slashed at the Zaku's arm, cutting it off before finishing the Zaku off with a thrust through it's cockpit.
'Behind me?!' Char thought, as another Zaku came at him from behind, Heat Hawk raised, only to be gunned down by Ricardo before being finished by Andy.
"We have your back, Lieutenant Commander!" Ricardo reassured, and Char nodded. But without warning, an electromagnetic round tore through the left side of Andy's Zaku's head.
"Andy!" Ricardo called out,
"S-shit! I lost my main sensor!" Andy cried out,
"Ricardo! Get down!" Char yelled suddenly, but before he could, a railcannon round pierced his shoulder and took out Ricardo's right arm.
'Damn! That enemy railgun…we need to deal with it!' Char said, thinking quickly, he decided to rush the position. Grabbing his 120mm machine gun and Heat Hawk, Char ran towards the Gundam.
'It's going to fire at me!' Char thought as a flash of electricity shot across his forehead. Quickly spinning to the side of the gun, the electromagnetic round whizzed harmlessly past the cockpit of the Zaku, and Char managed to close the gap.
"You're mine!" Char yelled, raising his heat hawk and preparing to deal a fatal blow to the cockpit.
But in one final move of desperation, the Gundam lifted the railcannon to block the axe. Creating a brillant explosion that forced the two mobile suits back from each other.
"Kiln! Vega!" Federico cried out as Char and his wingmates brutally finished the two Mobile Suits and attacked the Gundam. He gritted his teeth but without warning, another MS-06G charged at him, heat sword drawn. Federico barely managed to jump backwards as the MS-06G slashed at him
'This pilot…they're better than the others!' Federico instantly deduced, lifting up his 120mm to fire at the Zaku II High Mobility Ground Type, it merely dodged to the side and pulled out it's bazooka and fired at him, only for Federico to once again barely get out of the way.
Without warning, an 180mm shell detonated right next to him, causing him to loose balance as he dodged it.
Taking advantage of this, the MS-06G rushed him, sword facing outwards right towards his cockpit.
Federico gasped as the heat sword closed in, '...is this it?' He wondered briefly.
Then, suddenly, a flash of pink light pierced straight through the head of the Zaku, causing it to explode and the MS-06G stumbled backwards, blinded without it's main sensor.
"Thank you." Federico said briefly to the Gundam Sky Type standing a few meters away from him,
"N-no problem Lt. Colonel." Eli breathed from the cockpit.
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter! And if you're wondering about the ridiculous amounts of plot armor...well, letś just say this is a one time thing. 'Tragedy' is one of the genres of this story for a reason.