I do not own the rights to Gundam Seed, Iron blooded orphans, Wing or Gundam Build Fighter/Try. All characters that are not mine or owned by their respective series creators. Please enjoy. Credit for the original plot device, the zero system, goes to Nemesis Astrea. Any custom gunpla credit also goes to their respective creators or developers unless stated otherwise.
Lily sighed as she sat in the back of a jeep. She was riding out to banadiya Kira and Cagalli, deemed the "adult" of their group to keep the kids safe. She had been issued a sidearm and had it tucked in her belt. Her current outfit was very tekkadan but in her own colors. A black tank top which hugged her breasts and showed off her toned belly while for her lower half she had combat boots and cargo combat pants on.
Antsy had opted not to come due to the Desert Tiger knowing her face well. Lily had had her helmet visor darkened when she encountered the Tiger during the trade. So she wasn't known by the Tiger.
As they drove into town she looked around at the various stalls and shops. She planned to pick up a trinket or two as she had been paid as if she was a G-weapon pilot. Thanks to that she had ALOT of back pay and while a good chunk of cash was stashed in the Demon King's cockpit she had a sizable amount in a clutch in a cargo pocket. During her service she had been to countries like this. She knew all the tips and tricks to avoid getting your things stolen. First was if someone ever asked where your wallet was…don't reach for it. Some people do that so that nearby pickpockets can see where your wallets are when you reach for them.
There were many more but that was the main thing she focused on as eventually the jeeps stopped. She got out with Kira and Cagalli who reminded the one she knew as Kisaka from gundam seed that they would reconvene in four hours.
She turned to Natarle and raised an eyebrow when the lieutenant stumbled over her words to basically tell her and Kira to stay safe. It was amusing to watch.
Lily observed the stalls, looking for a few items for her and Asny. Finding a few trinkets she bought them, as well as some supplies in private as she stepped away from the pair.
Coming back she found the two of them walking to where Lily knew Cagalli was gonna open Kira's eyes.
"It may look peaceful to you…but looks can be deceiving." stated cagalli as she showed Kira the blast site where one of the lesseps rounds had destroyed a building.
They both looked up to see the lesseps. Lily wouldn't lie, part of her wished she had access to the Demon King here and now so she could attack to lesseps…but she knew she would get her chance eventually. "That thing….thats the true ruler of this city." said Cagalli as she turned to Kira.
"Any rebellion is put down mercilessly. This city belongs to Zaft. It belongs to the damn Tiger." said Cagalli before she wheeled around on Lily. "And you say we shouldn't be fighting for our independence?" asked Cagalli.
Lily shook her head. "That's not what I said or meant. What I said was that you shouldn't be needlessly sacrificing your lives out of revenge. Revenge leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate…it leads you down a path you can rarely come back from." said Lily, quoting star wars sure but she felt it fit the moment.
Cagalli growled and grabbed Kira's arm. "Come on. We have to get this shopping done." she said as she stormed off, not noticing the tan man watching them closely. But Lily did. She knew her "whisker", the Alaya Vijnana spike in her back, would give her away in a heartbeat as the Demon King's pilot. So she waved, acting like she had just caught someone staring before following the two.
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Murdoch groaned as he started pulling trash out of the Strike's cockpit. "What the hell does this kid think this thing is? His bachelor pad?" he said, continuing to say something but Murrue couldn't hear it over asny who was nearby doing some maintenance on the torment, laughing hysterically now for whatever reason. Murrue certainly didn't hear a joke so she assumed it had something to do with the world her and Lily came from…not aware that the show the torment and Demon King had come from, while not having the cockpit full of trash, the barbatos had basically been lived in, well the lupus rex anyways. Even fucked in. So a bachelor pad was not far off from the main character's usual treatment of a gundam cockpit…kinda…
Mu was with her and sighed as they watched Flay begin to pick up the trash Murdoch was pulling out. She had been surprised when he brought this to her. But she couldn't help but wonder when it began. The girl had been so determined to join the navy she figured she must know of a few of the regulations. One of the basic ones is no fraternization. And here she was hearing of her hovering over Kira like a doting girlfriend keeping her over achieving boyfriend from working himself to death.
"So how long do you think this has been going on?" asked Murrue as they watched Flay.
"If I had to guess…shortly before whatever happened between the kid and Lily." said Mu as he looked to Murrue to see her face turn to shock.
"And just what does that mean?" she asked as she put her hands on her hips. She hadn't heard about any fraternization between the two pilots before.
Mu scratched the back of his head. "Well…I dunno what really is going on. I just heard from a crewmen he saw Kira go into Lily's room…..and not come out until the alarms were going off, fully suited up and ready to go." said Mu, deciding it was likely best not to tell the captain about the "bird and bees" conversation they had in the ready room.
"Well regardless of what happened in her quarters I thought Flay and Sai were an item…now she's with Kira? Or…is Kira with Lily?" asked Murrue as she was confused.
"I think Flay is about as confused as we are. She had been seen acting erratic lately, and several crewmen reported seeing her walking the halls nude to Lily's chamber while Kira was inside after the fight we had after the prisoner exchange. So I dunno maybe some kinda love triangle? Who knows. All I know is the kid seems less stressed than before." said Mu as he shrugged.
As Murrue sighed and turned to leave the hangar, Mu followed. "I dunno how all this happened…but I'm a little worried about the kid. He is practically living in the Strike..or was until he started going into Lily's room. Still I have caught him sleeping in there every now and then." said Mu
Murrue sighed again. "I really should have been watching him more closely. He just has such natural talent as a mobile suit pilot, I forget sometimes he is still just a kid. That's what also concerns me about Lily, I'll need to have a chat with her when they return." said Murrue.
Mu nodded. "He has done so many incredible things even though I was blinded to the fact he is just a kid. He is a kid facing the challenges of war. A kid who's new home lives under constant threat with him originally as our only protector. Honestly I kinda wish he went home with the shuttle in orbit…but instead he stayed and is prolonging the suffering he is putting himself through."
"In any case you're his senior officer. How should we handle this?" asked Murrue to which it got Mu thinking…only to find him examining her chest for a moment.
"Ya know…I think this is where I'm gonna keep my mouth shut and just suggest we let him keep going as he is. I mean ever since he started shacking up with Lily he seems to be in a way better mood." said Mu as he looked away innocently.
Murrue glared at him for a moment. "Yeah I shouldn't have asked you…" she said.
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Sai couldn't help but feel uneasy as he listened to the other bridge crew members complain about letting Kira go into the city freely. After all, he was their best defense. He was an amazing mobile suit pilot. Blah blah blah. That's all he heard these days was how amazing Kira was. Even Flay had been spending more time with Kira than him and any time he tried to talk to her about it she insisted she was working something out of her system.
Then there was all the talk of Lily and Asny. Sai remembered when he was the talk of his friends group. His money, his looks. He also remembered when him and his friends were closer in general. Before they knew Kira was a coordinator. Getting up Sai decided he had to try something. Something to win Flay back and get back on top of this friend group.
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Kira sighed as he fell into his chair. He had become the pack mule for Cagalli and Lily and it was weighing on him.
"Don't worry. Just a little more. Did you see these requests from that Flay girl? Facial toner and alsario brand moisturizer. Where does she think we are? A mall?" she asked as she sighed and set the list down.
Lily knew what was coming, they had just ordered their donor kabobs. Lily sighed and sat in her chair, still even with one bag the heat was getting to her. She could feel it specifically in her whisker, the metal from, the nanites heating up under her skin from the ambient temperature.
As the food was placed before them along with the sauces Lily prayed she actually got to eat. Please zero system, let her have made enough changes to allow this one scene to change.
Instead as Cagalli went on about the deliciousness of the spicy chili sauce a tan arm reached over Lily's shoulder and nearly startled her if she didn't expect it as Waltfeld grabbed the yogurt sauce.
As they squirted both sauces on Kira's plate they turned to Lily and she held up her hands. "Now hold on. I am NOT getting sauced by either of you. How about I try the food by itself, it's what my mom always taught me to do before I add sauce." she said as she started to roll her kebab up, making both people gasp.
It was then Lily heard the rush of wind from the launcher being fired. "Hit the deck!" shouted Waltfeld as he kicked the table into the air, once again getting Cagalli covered in sauce.
As the rocket exploded in the restaurant Lily growled. "Blue cosmos scum." whispered Lily as she hid behind another table. As the combatant shouted their rhetoric, Lily popped over her cover and drew her sidearm, taking aim and easily dispatching two of them. As she did so, Kira's infamous "throwing gun" slid towards him and Lily knew what that meant. Turning to face Waltfeld she saw the attacker and fired at him. Hitting him in the knee and the gut he went down.
With that the fighting stopped but a few people still were groaning in pain. Namely the one Lily shot to stop Kira from throwing a gun. Getting up she walked over to him. He was reaching for his gun but she kicked it away.
"Coordinator…scum…" he said as he flipped her off. Turning she showed him her whisker.
"Natural you piece of racist trash." she said before putting two rounds into his head.
As the situation settled, Lily turned back to the group and saw one of Waltfeld's men run over to him. "Sir, are you ok?" he asked.
Waltfeld nodded and looked at Lily. "Thanks to this young woman I am most certainly ok." he said as he walked over to her. "You really saved my hide there." he said with a smile as he removed the sunglasses and hat. *internal monologue of Lily…aka me…"Oh what a disguise…a hat and some sunglasses."
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Lily looked over the mansion with some…distrust. Sure Waltfeld had invited them in, but as she got out of his car she couldn't help but feel the hairs on her neck go up thanks to all the security between the BuCUE's and the GiNNs.
Following the trio in, she watched as Cagalli was led off somewhere else while her and Kira were taken into a study-like room. Both were soon handed cups of coffee and Lily looked at it.
"What…not to your liking?" asked Waltfeld as he took a sip of his own mug.
Lily shook her head. "No…I'm just not a big coffee drinker. But according to Asny you make great coffee so I figure I might as well try it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained." said Lily as she took a sip finally.
Her eyes shot open and she quickly found herself chugging the drink like she would any other. Waltfeld laughed as he reached over and poured her another cup when she finished.
"I have to say I've never seen a reaction like that. And Asny…so I was right when I saw that spike on your back. You're the Demon King's pilot…which makes you the Strikes." said Waltfeld as he looked to Kira.
Kira gulped audibly and nodded, making Waltfeld laugh. "I guess it makes sense. After all, all the Gat series pilots are kids at this point." he said as Kira sipped his coffee and went over to the whale stone. That was where Lily drowned them out while she looked into her coffee and couldn't believe she was actually drinking coffee. It wasn't until Lily heard Waltfeld mention the Demon King that she perked up.
"The way you make it move…it's like it's an extension of your body…how is that? Asny wouldn't tell me. She insisted it was some kind of model and something to do with nanites and some zero system and gunpla battle arenas…I dunno..maybe you'll tell me." he said as he sipped his coffee.
Lily sighed and turned to show her whisker. "It's this. The Alaya-Vijnana system. Where I am from this is usually done to children. Me and Asny were one of few adults that got it done. Anyways when we connect it to our machines it creates a sort of sixth brain lobe that allows my brain to process sensory data from the gundam as if it were my own body, I dare say it even tricks my brain into thinking I am the machine." said Lily as she thought back to her first launch here in the cosmic era.
Waltfeld whistled and smiled. "Wow…if it has to be done on children, with it just coming to adults I take it there are obvious side effects that can come with fucking with your spine post birth." said Waltfeld as he thought about the idea of whatever this surgery was somehow being done on coordinators when they were having their genes manipulated.
Lily nodded. "Yes there is. There is a safety limiter which causes the gundam to shut down if it begins to overload the pilot's senses…however this limiter can be turned off by the pilot at any time. Should this happen…the pilot can receive permanent neural damage including paralysis and other serious health effects. One pilot in history did it twice and ended up with his entire right side being paralyzed unless he was linked to the system, allowing him full use of his body." said Lily. This seemed to surprise Kira as he had heard about this in space and remembered it, but he had not known someone had removed the limiter, let alone done it twice.
Waltfeld nodded. "I see…well..oh here comes your friend." said Watlfeld as Aisha brought Cagalli into the room. Both Kira and Lily's jaws dropped. To actually see her in person…gods Lily hoped she had a daughter as beautiful as her when she finally got out of here.
"You're a…a girl." said Kira and Cagalli growled. "W-what I mean is it just reminded me you're a girl" said Kira.
"That's still an insult you ass." said Cagalli angrily.
"Settle down now. Let's get back to our civil discussion." stated Waltfeld and while Aisha left they all sat down.
Lily was about to excuse herself but Cagalli beat her to speaking.
"How can you have the audacity to do this!?" she nearly yelled.
It made Kira jump, that was for sure.
Andrew seemed to growl at her. "Well well…perfect little lady till you open your mouth huh? And just what am I having the audacity to do?" he asked calmly.
"Claim to have a civil conversation while you walk around town in casual dress like you're one of its citizens and incite blue cosmos attacks which get people killed! Oh and let's not forget that you have people evacuate their towns before setting the town on fire! Who the hell does that?!" she yelled at him as she stood up which Waltfeld did as well.
"So then I take it you're one of the terrorists who'd rather die for her cause than live and be able to see the fruits of your labor?!" he yelled back as he got up and walked over towards a desk. Kira and Cagalli got up and slowly began to head towards the door. Lily meanwhile sipped on her coffee. After all she knew Andrew was just blowing smoke.
"If that's the case then you tell me how this war should end? This isn't sports. There's no points, no set time limit, just a body count. So tell me young lady at what point should war end?" he asked as he pulled a gun from a drawer and aimed it at the pair.
Kira glanced at Lily and was surprised by how calm she was. Then again she had come prepared in banadiya…maybe she was more well trained than Kira believed.
Kira looked on to Waltfeld as he held the gun aimed at them. Was this gonna turn into a fight? Was Lily going to help them? Why wasn't Lily up as well…he would have to talk to her about this next time they met in her cabin.
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Asny yawned as she walked into the hangar just after taking a nap. She wanted to make sure they had reloaded the torments missile gun and try to contact Amy for a supply drop of some sort where she could get her torment's full complement of weapons, namely her 120MM rifles.
However as she walked to the torment she could hear someone in the cockpit panting and groaning in pain. Was Lily back? And even more so why would she be in the torments cockpit moaning and groaning like that.
A moment later she was answered though when the torment began to start up and before Asny could even react she had to dive off its gangplank and onto the one for the Demon King as it broke free of its bay.
Its movements were slow and uncoordinated but it moved. As people gathered in the hangar there was concern in the air as the machine stumbled but stayed standing. Finally after a few more steps it fell to its knees and the cockpit opened, depositing Sai as he fell out and cried out in pain when he not only hit the floor but had the Alaya-Vijnana system nearly torn out from his back. Thankfully it stayed connected but Asny was quick to make her way down.
"Don't touch him…don't touch him! If you disconnect him you could cause irreparable damage to his brain or spine." said Asny as she ran up and moved Murdoch and his techs out of the way.
That was when she noticed, already having seen the Alaya-Vijnana system active, but she noticed Sai was wearing her bio-weave suit. She could tell because as she touched it to detach him from the system carefully it went from a tekkadan flight suit like she usually wore back to the black bodysuit with a more refined mechanical spine section.
"Shit….how am I gonna explain this to the captain…" she said as she managed to get the suit to release off of Sai and she saw the nanite spike, that whisker, poking through his uniform where he had been stabbed like her and Lily had.
She was thankful he had his uniform on underneath. She didn't need people knowing her and Lily went into fights nude under their flight suits.
"Get him to the med bay, see if they can safely remove the whisker before it permanently attaches." she said as a couple crew members helped Sai up. She hoped to god he didn't just fuck himself up and permanently mutilate himself with that.
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Lily set her cup down finally and stood up, almost startling Waltfeld. "War is…a fickle mistress. You're right. There are no points. No time limit. Only soldiers fighting for their country. This endless waltz of peace, war, and revolution will go on as long as history continues to repeat itself. How many times in history has humanity fought a war whether it be over religion, race, sex, whatever only to end up finding peace with whatever it was they went to war over? Peace, eventually coordinators will be accepted and there will be peace between the plants and earth. War, eventually some bigot or some idiot or some leader will find some reason to start a new war, or even try to reignite this one. Revolution, when the earth sphere finally comes together and realizes we are all human, doesn't matter how we are born, then and only then will we be on a path to true peace between naturals and coordinators." said Lily as she took a breath.
Waltfeld slowly lowered his gun. "That was…quite elegantly put Miss Solace. Thank you for those words." he said before he set the gun down and walked over to Kira. Placing a hand on his shoulder he also looked to Lily.
"In the coming days we will meet again on the battlefield. Now after this long chat you may view me as a friend…but remember I'm still your enemy. So that means when we fight. Whether it's me and Lily, or me and you kid…one of us is not walking away from that battlefield." said Waltfeld as he turned Kira and then Cagalli around. "Go home kids…enjoy your time together as best you can." stated Waltfeld.
Kira and Cagalli nodded and began to leave, Lily took a moment first to walk over to Waltfeld. "Thank you for the coffee…I truly wish we didn't have to part as enemies and could instead be friends." said Lily as she turned and left with Kira and Cagalli.
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Once they had returned and found out about what happened Lily had immediately gone to the med bay to find out Sai's status. To think he had tried to pilot one of their machines. He was in immense pain from the Alaya-Vijnana implantation, and sadly…it was so instant and deep that the nanites had already fused with his spine. It would be a permanent part of him now.
Lily laid in her bed now, wondering what she could do to help Sai. She knew why he did it. It was the same as in the anime. He was trying to compete with Kira cause Kira was so popular, even taking his girl. Speaking of Kira he had stopped by but Lily had him go back to his bunk, stating she would call him when she was ready for him.
Even though Kira had stopped sleeping with Flay after the one time…she still doted on him and was ignoring Sai and his own advances.
There was a ring at her door and Lily sighed. "Fine…Kira if you really need some time.." she started but instead it was Murrue who answered.
"It's Captain Ramius. May I come in?" asked Murrue. A moment later the captain entered and walked over to Lily's bunk, standing next to her while the gundam pilot sat up and looked to the captain.
Clearing her throat, Murrue took on a serious face. "So…I hear you and Kira have been..fraternizing. You do understand he is just a child correct?" asked Murrue and Lily rolled her eyes.
"Don't worry captain..I haven't slept with him. I just..cuddle him. Coddle him of sorts. Give him a safe place he can dump his stress without turning to Flay for sexual relief. Do I let him get a little handsy…yeah…but that's cause he is a teen. What are DD breasts gonna do but beg to be touched by him." she said with a cheeky grin.
Murrue rolled her eyes. "Fine…just be careful. I need him in top fighting condition. Last thing I need to worry about is what you two might be up to." said Captain Ramius as she was about to continue but Asny burst into the room.
"Lily, we need you in the hangar…well I need you! I got a hold of Amy and I told her about what happened and just…she is sending another care package." said Asny as she panted. She then saw Captain Ramius. "Oh…Captain can you um…I dunno call the ship to level 2 battle stations or whatever to get Kira to the Strike. We are gonna need as many gundams as we can to haul in this supply drop." said Asny before she turned and bolted.
Lily got up and looked at Murrue. "Well…this is gonna take some explaining…but um…later?" she asked and Murrue simply nodded.
"Later." Said Murrue before she turned and noticed Lily's shopping bag. As Lily left Murrue couldn't help but gently tap the bag with her foot. In the bag she saw a couple tank tops, a skirt oddly, and hiding just under those, barely hiding after her tap…was a couple boxes of pregnancy tests. Either Lily had just lied to her or was lying about her plans with Kira.
Either way she went over to the intercom and reached out to the bridge, calling for a sound of alarm to level 2 battle stations.
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Kira was confused as he launched in the Strike in Aile configuration but without the shield by Lily's request. Lily and Asny had already launched and he landed by them. Opening a comm channel with Lily he looked to his senior pilot, "where is the enemy? What are we looking for?" he asked in a worried tone.
"We are looking for some kind of supply drop. All will be made clear after we haul it in. I assume my benefactor has included supplies for the Desert Dawn as well." Said Lily, which confused him more. Benefactor? Supply drop?
Suddenly there was a loud thunder clap and for a moment Kira thought the Archangel had fired its valiants. But instead he looked out and saw another black hole open up above the desert. Was this the supply drop? Had they figured out how to move supply between worlds with black holes? This whole situation confused him until out of the black hole came several massive containers. These ones were much larger than the ones they recovered in space. And there were three.
He heard Asny on the comms chatting with someone but didn't know who. Still figuring it was the same deal as last time he boosted out to grab the containers. "Kira, wait… We may have more coming, just hold on." Said Lily and Kira landed and stopped, stowing the rifle he had and waiting. A moment later he was glad he did so as a different, massive crate came out that looked like a sealed MS cage. Lastly one more massive container came out and then the black hole closed.
"Ok Kira now we can go grab them. Don't bother dragging them back. We will have to make multiple trips and open them here. The only one I wanna drag back is the MS container." Stated Lily as she boosted out to the containers.
As she did so Kira noticed a trail of Desert Dawn jeeps coming out as well. Once over at the containers Lily used the Demon King to open them.
The first one they opened was full of supplies. Immediately the Desert Dawn began to go through the nearly double wide freight car sized container. It was big enough that the Desert Dawn could walk through it and began going through boxes.
They cheered and seemed happy as some boxes contained food, others contained weapons and water. Kira figured whoever this benefactor was knew the Desert Dawn just lost all their supplies in Tassil…But they also just bought a bunch of supplies, did this not undermine that purchase if they were just gonna get plenty for free? The other 2 containers were even bigger, about the size of a small warehouse. This was likely due to them containing bigger items. Sure enough the torment walked over to one of the containers and opened it and he heard Asny sigh in relief before the torment pulled out two large rifles.
"Fuck yeah…The torment is back…and it looks like we have 6 so we can try to store them in the Strikes equipment racks or something." Said Asny as she used the Gundam to look down the gun's length, like a soldier looking over equipment.
Kira went to the MS cage looking container. "So this one needs to be dragged in?" asked Kira as he looked to the Demon King for guidance.
The Gundam nodded in response as Lily did on her screen. "Yes unless you feel like dragging the MS inside back to the Archangel. Sai is still too fresh to his Alaya-Vijnana system to pilot it in just yet." Said Lily, revealing its contents without them having to open it.
Kira had the Strike step away when he learned another Gundam was inside the container. Or at least another MS. Just how many did Lily have at her disposal that she could just summon one at this point. Getting over his concern that a new MS was inside the container he used the Strike to grab at a couple large handle bars and began dragging it back to the ship.
Lily went over to the last of the original three containers and opened it. "Archangel, send the crew down to recover the arms and ammunition we called in for you." She heard Asny say as Lily looked into the container. Sure enough the boxes had earth forces logo on them and were likely more ammunition for the Archangel.
Moving the Demon King to the last container, Lily decided it was best to open this one inside. She knew what it contained as Asny had informed her of their supply order in the ready room. But since it was equipment for the custom Flauros gundam that Kira was dragging.
Grabbing its own handles she began to drag it back to the Archangel. It would take several hours and trips but ultimately they got everything unpacked and stowed away either on the Archangel or in the camp.
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Murrue was shocked at what she was hearing. She was in her office with Lily and Asny as the two women were explaining their true origins. So Lily and Asny were still from another world…But a world where all this, the cosmic era, was supposedly just some fictional cartoon, an anime as they called it. And outside this world they had used some kind of… Zero system to break the fourth wall and come here. Amy, their friend, had developed it and was also the one who just sent them a bunch of supplies using Lily's fabricated story of the black hole stuff to try and make it seem like these stuff was just randomly appearing.
Mu was with her and listening and seemed to be understanding it…Sort of. "So what you're saying is, if we could mass produce this bio weave stuff and make suits… Even I could pilot a mobile suit?" asked Mu.
Lily and Asny looked at each other and then nodded. "Yeah theoretically. But it's hard to make. And the nanites it uses are even harder to come by." Said Asny.
"So it's not gonna happen anytime soon. That's fine. I think I'll stick to the skygrasper anyway." Said Mu as he crossed his arms.
Murrue meanwhile had her hands interlaced and under her chin as she thought. "So if the crewman…I mean Ensign Argyle had not put on your flight suit…He would not have been injected with the nanites and would be perfectly normal?" asked Murrue.
Asny sighed and nodded. "Yeah…Basically it's the only reason he could move the torment at all. Otherwise it wouldn't have reacted to him. I'm personally surprised the pain from implantation didn't knock him out. The kids a lot stronger than I thought." She said.
Murrue sighed and sat back in her chair. "While it would be nice to have another pilot, I mean hell if we could get two more we would have the original complement of this ship, I am not thrilled this was forced on him. It will be his choice if he chooses to pilot or not, but either way I expect you to keep him as safe as possible on the battlefield." Stated Murrue. The two women nodded and stood up.
"We should go help them stow the Flauros and its equipment." Said Asny but Murrue held up a hand. "First I have one question for Lily. Why did you tell me you were not having relations with Ensign Yamato…And then I found pregnancy tests in your quarters. Do I need to worry about this?" asked Murrue.
Lily reached behind her and scratched her head. "I mean…I won't lie I've been feeling that itch to need someone to give me a good night in bed…But I honestly bought those mostly cause when we reach the ocean, Flay is gonna start acting sick, showing similar symptoms to pregnancy, so I didn't know if the ship had any. That way if Kira got worried I could just have him take one to her and prove she isn't." Said Lily.
Murrue sighed. That was one less worry. "While I do not… Agree with you fraternizing with Ensign Yamato…It does seem to keep him level headed and focused on the goals ahead of him. If it means he will spend less time in the Strike so Chief Murdoch doesn't have to clean it out and it keeps him from fraternizing with crewman Allster…I'll look the other way if you do decide to do anything with the Ensign. But I better not hear about anyone getting pregnant. This is a warship, not a nursery." Stated Murrue.
Lily actually saluted at that and nodded. "Yes ma'am. I promise it won't happen." She stated before she and Asny left.
When they did, Murrue turned to Mu. "What do you think…More bullshit or do you think they are telling the truth?" She asked.
Mu sat back in his chair and whistled. "I have no idea…All I care about is who they are aiming that brute strength at. Where they came from…Couldn't matter less." Said the LT commander.
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Murrue now looked up at the green machine that had been unloaded from the MS cage into a bay by Asny once the Torment was put away. The Flauros howitzer, it was customized and had a few varying equipment packaged similar to the Strike Gundam.
While these packages did not alter its characteristics like how the Aile pack let the Strike fly to a degree, the sword Strike made the Strike nimble and agile for melee combat, and the launcher Strike was meant for anti-ship combat.
The Flauros howitzer's equipment designated its range as well as essentially its damage output and lastly its purpose on the battlefield.
Its basic equipment package was a large cannon on its back which apparently could both swivel and was meant for long range bombardment. When the Flauros transformed it became like a standard tank cannon… Just a little higher power. Designed to hit hard and hit at anywhere from long to close range it was a devastating weapon. On its hips sat a pair of assault knives for CQB combat. On its back on swinging racks were two assault machine guns. These were 120MM in caliber and were able to be removed and handheld if need be. It lastly had a pair of shields mounted on its forearms. In shelling mode these shields became part of the "legs" that the quadruped mode had and used to anchor the suit to the ground.
On to its switchable equipment currently being prepped and readied to change when needed, was a pair of railgun's. Apparently known as Danslief, they were actually banned originally where Lily and Asny were from. Anyways when the Flauros went into it's shelling mode these fired rounds at DEVASTATING speed, power and range. Lily theorized that a direct hit from one of these could cripple even a GAT series machine, though because they were so powerful they had a slow reload speed and could easily be dodged if timed properly due to the speed and "straightness" of the shots.
What's more these Danslief had come with five special rounds that Lily said were meant for a very special project. Full of nanites and some form of particles, Lily refused to say what the rounds were intended for. But normally they had their own unique round made from the same metal as the Gundam frames which if they had any, Lily had theorized a direct hit from one of them could EASILY sink the Archangel. Like tear through its hull from stem to stern if fired directly. Murrue was quietly glad that they did not have any of those rounds, less this gundam and those end up in Zafts hands.
Its next set of equipment was a pair of small cannons. These were to allow the Flauros panzer to engage in medium to close range combat. While obviously nowhere near as strong as the Danslief, these cannons could be used without being in shelling mode and made getting close to the machine a dangerous concept.
Lastly it had a pair of flak chain guns which could be mounted in place of the railguns. Usable in both shelling and MS mode, these guns were intended to turn the Flauros panzer into an AA or anti-MS platform. While they were much smaller caliber than most guns seen in Lily's world, it fired at a rate and with explosive rounds to where it could easily fill the air with shrapnel and explosions and make getting near whatever it was defending a challenge for anyone.
Murrue sighed as she thought about crewman Argyle, or as she was field promoting him, Ensign Argyle, piloting this machine she felt bad for Flay. Both boys she fawned over were MS pilots. She hoped for Flay's sake that they never fell in combat.
The Tiger meets the Demon
Ok that's chapter… What 8? 7? Yeah 8 cause I haven't posted the legion grows as of writing this. With that in mind please enjoy the multiple chapters being posted and as always read and review please!