Chapter 6 guys! Thank you for your patience over the past few months of me writing this story.
0500. Island in the Pacific ocean.
Laura fires her railgun at the Gospel, which proceeds to dodge. Gritting her teeth she quickly reloads. She is not quick enough and she is blasted by the Gospels wide range attack.
"Laura!" Shouts Charlotte. Houki had been knocked away from the fight moments earlier. Without her, the fights odds were against the five girls. Charlotte tries to move in to protect Laura but is intercepted by their foe. She raises her shield and the Gospel begins to punch it. The French girl tries to open fire but she can't get an opening. As she watches helplessly, her shield begins to lose power, leaving her completely vulnerable. Where are the others??
The shield, after about five hits, finally drops, and the Gospel gets ready for the final attack. The metallic fist barrels toward her and Charlotte closes her eyes, preparing to take the hit. One metallic bang later, nothing happens. Slowly the French girl opens her eyes and sees an unknown IS, protecting her with a shield. The Gospel shoves the shield with as much force as it can muster, but the shield doesn't budge. The IS reaches to its side, and pulls out a purple blade. Laura, Rin, and Cecilia, who managed to recover, saw what was happening.
"A beam saber?" Cecilia questions.
"Then that means-?" Rin starts.
"Yes, he's here." Laura finishes.
(Begin TM Revolution Meteor)
The sun finally peaks over the horizon, revealing the IS, the light reflecting off the metallic surface of the IS.
Dane. Thought Charlotte.
(A/N: I decided to keep the gundam seed designs for the ISs, so this IS is the Freedom.)
The machine had square-like appendages with a few sharp angles here and there. It was white, with a black chest and torso, and red accents with vents on both of its pectorals. On its back were a pair of wings that held the same geometric shape after they folded up, on the side it read in big letters:
Freedom
On each side of its waist were a grey rectangular part, and on the circle where the parts connected to the waist, were where the beam sabers were stored. As for the head, it was similar to that of the Strikes, orange lenses for the eyes, vented face covering, and 4 "horns" on the helmet's forehead, two yellow on the inside, two white on the outside.
The Gospel fell back, the Freedoms thrusters roar to life as it begins its pursuit of the rogue IS. As the enemy ran it fired multiple beams from its wings at the IS, which proceeded to dodge the beams with ease. As the beams turned to engage the Freedom, Dane turns, still maintaining his speed and distance from the Gospel, and with his beam rifle fires a long burst. Each of the beams fired by his enemy exploded in air, leaving only smoke. The girls and Ichika (who had arrived to help Houki after she was shot down) watch as the Freedom managed to keep up with Gospel without putting much effort in.
"I'm sorry, it took us some time to recover." Laura tells Ichika.
"Right, now it's time for us to stage our counter attack!" Declared Cecilia.
"Laura, Cecilia." Ichika says relived.
Rin and Charlotte fly in joining the group.
"Alright Ichika, let's finish this up in short order." Rin orders.
"We have enough energy, so you don't have to worry about us!" States Charlotte.
"Rin, Charl." Ichika says.
Their reunion is cut short when their ISs start to warn them of the Gospel. They all look and see that it fired a massive wave of beams. They raise their shields towards the attack. Houki arrives. "Ichika! There's no way we can block all these!"
"Leave it to me" Dane says over comms.
The Freedom flies infront of the group.
Two large black cannons rise out from the Freedoms wings and point towards the Gospel. As this is happening, the rail guns on his sides fold out and do the same thing, and he points his rifle at the beams. On his HUD, the CPU begins to target everything in his way. With one squeeze of the trigger, the guns fired a barrage of beams and projectiles, his shoulder cannons fired red beams, the rail guns fired yellow projectiles, his rifle fired green beams. The beams explode in front of them, leaving nothing but the Freedom and dust. The thrusters fire up in the wings and the IS shoots towards their foe. The others look at the boy and the machine as they zoom through the air, each attempting to get the upper hand over the other. Ichika readys his one off ability.
"Dane has the right idea. Let's go!" He says.
"Right!" The girls agree.
Charlotte fires her machine gun as Laura fires her rail gun. The Gospel dodges only to receive a hit from Rins blades. The enemy retreats close to the water, to meet Cecilias drones. The flying bits fire blue projectiles and hit the Gospel. It flinches and finds Houki attempting to attack it. As she tries to strike the enemy, Houki is blasted by the Gospels beams at close range. She flies backwards as Ichika begins his one off ability. The Gospel sees this and prepares to counter the attack, but gets one and final surprise.
Dane flies in next to the other male pilot and fires all of his guns, severing all of its limbs. Ichikas blade glows blue as he impaled the IS, bringing it to the ground. The Gospel struggles on the ground before shutting down.
(End song)
As Ichika pulls out his sword from his slain enemy on the island, Dane contacts Warrant officer Shaw.
"Jaeger 4 to Jaeger 1. Target is down. Repeat, target 1 is down. Requesting new orders."
Silence came over the comms for a few moments until Jake responds.
"Roger that Jaeger 4. Dispose of the remains. Copy?"
"Acknowledged."
Dane lands next to Ichika and the girls.
The group of teens are silent.
"Is it over?" Asks Houki.
"Only one way to find out." Says Dane almost immediately. He raises his beam rifle and blasts four holes into the chest of the downed IS. After a minute of silence and no movement, he lowers his weapon. "Yes, it is." Dane says.
The group stands silently as the wires and electronic components of the IS buzz and go silent.
1931 the next day.
Dane walks down a sidewalk to a black van, Jake leans against the drivers side door.
"So, you beat it?" He asks.
"Yes. And EOD managed to retrieve all the components and pieces of the IS and dispose of them." Dane responds.
"Tight. Then that's out of the way."
The two stand there as Jake smokes a cigarette. He blows out a puff of smoke and sighs.
"What now? Your mission is still active, but what do you think of this?"
Dane stands quietly. He knows his mission, nothing more, nothing less.
"It's nothing. My mission is what it is."
"Are you sure? Is there more to it?"
"No."
"I don't mean 'do you think of this as a mission?'. Do you think there is more to it? More to your existence?"
"No. I was made for mission accomplishment."
"Yeah right. You can't just keep thinking that way." Jake states.
Off in the distance, a beam weapon fires. The duo look toward the rocky shore, and see that Ichika and Houki are being chased by the other girls.
"Well, duty calls." Jake says.
"Roger that."
Dane sprints over to where the shots came from. Jake laughs to himself.
"Will that boy ever learn?" He asks as he takes another puff. Little did he know, this was only the beginning.
Thank you for your patience. I've joined the military and I've had trouble having time to write this story, but, I'm coming up with time to finish this. Review and merry Christmas.
