"This is Doctor Stone again calling for all personnel to wipe out all enemy targets in the vicinity capture if possible but I doubt it. Reports in from the city the enemy personnel there killed themselves with cyanide or a well placed gun shot to the brain. A suicide bomber destroyed an entire floor of a building everyone on it is assumed dead. There aren't many more enemy troops left on the island. Thanks to our overwhelming numbers we are securing a swift and well placed defensive victory...but that isn't clear yet we've already confirmed the loss of Raider and the mobile suit Buster is also nearly out of the vicinity. Forbidden is confirmed to be captured by the enemy. Strike, Aegis, Buster, Calamity, and for some odd reason Blue Prototype Astray are all accounted for. Red and Gold Prototype astrays are in the unknown zone as of the moment. Coutinue to push them out of the port and victory will be ours. Unfortunately....they sabotaged our boats we won't be able to pursue in numbers and we need most of our suits here to cover up and remaining damages." Stan Stone said to the crews of the mobile suit divisions and anyone out there who would be able to hear him. It wasn't the best but he had managed to circumvent the enemy's jamming because it seemed, minus the GINNs, that they were using faulty black market technology most likely captured in a raid on some ZAFT base or maybe ZAFT are simply trying to make it look like the Somali....who knew at this point. Where was Richard though? He didn't feel like explaining to his family that he had lost his ward and worse his friend. Though they did not spend much time together he loved the boy like anyone would in a family.
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The plane took off and despite his best efforts Richard felt, for the first time in a long time, helpless against a foe. Here he was in this big advanced suit that he was barely able to control with a giant laser cannon in it's chest and he was unable to actually stop the plane as it flew away. It was a short work but the enemy pilots were easily dispatched by the girl in the strange looking Dagger Class along with the help of her allies, another group of normal looking daggers, However just when everything was about settled a RPG shot from a nearby half dead soldier sent the strange looking dagger fumbling to the ground worse yet....it hit where the cockpit should have been. Richard looked at the figure and then watched as the daggers ripped a part the enemy with CIWs fire from their heads. "Calamity is confirmed safe and sound captain orders sir? Understood returning to the ship with the mobile suit and it's pilot...." the man in the first dagger to his left said as his suit looked towards Calamity, "Richard Stone. I'm an soldier with the ORB Union. You should get that suit pilot to the medical bay quickly." Richard said as he pointed towards the wreckage of the dagger. "Yeah good point I'm just doubting that little bitch survived that. While the loss of Forbidden is regrettable and so is that Astray unit in that plane we want to get all the suits we DO have together and KEEP them safe got a problem with that kid?" said the pilot as Richard glared as him through the giant wall of 'Trans-Phase Shift Armor' that was his mobile suit GUNDAM it was called if he remembered it right.
He wasn't some kid he may be a teenager by some standards but he was one of ORB's best by far. "No I don't I'll get this thing back to where it needs to do." Richard complied with the daggers as the dragged up the dagger and hauled it towards a giant looking ship in the runway down at the very end of the airport. "So how did you even manage to pilot that thing kid? You a good reader or something?" asked the second pilot as Richard wondered if they were trying to get at something, "No I didn't read a thing about it I just used previous experience and judged how to work this thing but using methods that I've learned to move this thing. Most suits should have the same layout even advanced ones like this." He stated as one of the pilots whistled, "Damn kid you're something else you barely fumbled out there from what I saw." Richard Stone took that praise with a grain of salt because anything at this point wouldn't surprise him. He didn't even bother asking about the disabled systems on this thing. "Hey kid this is the Captain of the Lucifer you're clear to dock on the ship as soon as you can. Stay on the ship for now but once the battle is over you'll be transported back to the nearest ORB Base. We have some questions for you but those can wait until tomorrow." He stated to Richard over the communicator as Richard nodded, "I'm not a kid but it is nice to meet you captain. Regardless I see that you're using that new Archangel Class I heard my uncle talking about." Richard confessed to the captain who told him he wasn't surprised. Judging by the fact that his uncle was a head scientist of ORB he expected similar things from his family.
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Satsuki watched with blood on her face and legs covering up bullet wounds that she had received after fighting and killing one of the few last squads of enemy soldiers. Pirates....that's what they looked like but they had to be mercenaries otherwise they were ZAFT. There was NO WAY IN HELL that these 'pirates' were so damn organized. OMNI wouldn't be stupid to attack ORB because they had way to many spies on their end and if this was a planned attack by Earth they'd know about it. And besides this island was nothing more than a small port city with a mobile suit detachment or two thanks to the endless wealth of ORB's noble families. She thought about all this as she breathed in the coppery and metal smell that was mixed with sea salty air and cursed whoever did this. She was unable to stop the Buster unit from fleeing....but on one hand she'd managed to stop them from completely destroying the fleet stationed here but it seemed that one thing was certain....They had only got a draw out of this battle. Soldiers who were shot committed suicide rather than rat out their allies.
Those who were too cowardly to do so jumped into the water and were either pulled down by the weight of their clothes or taken down by oil filled waters. She spit some blood on a nearby corpse and kicked it hard. "So much needless death and violence." Satsuki said to one of her soldiers under her temporary command. "Yes madam sir but those GINN-" one of the soldiers said as Satsuki growled, "Have you no confidence in our astray detachments soldier? And those prototype suits Stone is talking about over the communicator....they are helping us if they aren't being taken away to some island somewhere off in the distance. We haven't been able to call for reinforcements but I can tell they won't get far....once word gets out that this has happened someone will find them...they can't go that far on planes...." She stated as she watched one of the last few skirmishes take place on the island as a enemy GINN was overwhelmed massively by rifle fire from allied astray units. "War has come to ORB but...whom are the culprits?" Satstuki muttered as she heard Stone once more speak. "This is a call to any of the pilots whom are still fighting on our side and are in the prototypes. I am sending coordinates on which hanger you are to place the suits in. Once secured they will be moved to an OMNI Enforcer air warship nearby for safe keeping. We can't let any stragglers get away....kill all of them or capture them either one just get rid of them!" Stone stated over the communicator as she sighed, "You got orders follow them." Satsuki stated as she walked away.
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Meanwhile....
Selena had gotten out of Forbidden and stood there breathing in heavily as she felt the plane rumble beneath her. This specific plane was to be used to capture the astrays but it turned out that only Forbidden was capable of flight so Commander Tyber had to hijack and ORB plane. She heard massive casualties were being reported not many people made it out alive. She wanted to puke and to cry but in the end she couldn't. She wanted to puke for the fact that they killed a bunch of innocent men today....possibly women and children too. She wanted to cry because....because she had met her long lost friend and almost shot him in the face....his face was different slightly but it was definitely Richard....of all the people...."Of all the people it had to be you didn't it?" she asked no one as she stood there on the plane face in her hands breathing heavily. The soldiers nearby had secured Forbidden and removed any possible methods of tracking it physically that OMNI had made and prevented signals from being sent out by mobile suits by way of advanced technology. ZAFT had gone far in this endeavor but it wasn't her place to question her leaders. She was a soldier for the colonies....the PLANTS. Her home....her friends lived there and she had sacrificed many years of her life training to be one of ZAFT's best hence the red coat she wore around her shoulders right now. She clutched at it...."Captain Carson....why....why did you have to die to protect me...." She said wanting to cry but only got her eyes watery before rubbing them away angrily. She wasn't setting a good example and besides people were looking at her. One soldier walked up to her and handed her a hand held tablet in which she looked at it intently. In it was the face of Lyon but not Kai...."I've captured Raider...the fuckers made me work for it but I'm better than them, Glad to see you're alive Selena but then again you ARE Selena Oliver one of our best and brightest I expect nothing less from you." Lyon said smiling at her through the screen. She couldn't smile back but she did nod, "Let's just hope that it meant something." Selena said as suddenly Commander Tyber appeared on the screen. But it was only after a moment as his face was away from the screen and had has put on his normal trademark mask once more. "Selena dear you're display back there was impressive....was there any reason you spared Calamity?" Tyber asked her as he looked at her as she swallowed quietly, "No sir of course not. It's just that....there's been so much death and destruction out there...I didn't want to cause anymore." She stated as Commander Tyber nodded his head, "Fair enough you followed your orders so it's not like you did anything wrong but that WILL come back to bite us in the ass." Tyber told her as Lyon agreed but didn't say much. She'd just lied to her commanding officer to his face....a complete lie it wasn't but it still was a lie....she just couldn't....wouldn't.....kill Richard Stone. "And about your missing Captain....he died well but there will be a need for another Captain among your men....think it through Lyon AND Miss Selena Oliver because I'll tell Kai about this as well since he's going to get on the ship and dock at that island meet up and is unable to talk to us. Regardless good work and remember that sacrifices made today gentleman and lady. Because of them this war will change in ZAFT's favor all suits or few we have gained an advantage and best yet....if all goes according to plan....ORB won't be able to do a thing." Tyber commented with a smile as his face vanished and Selena turned off her camera as well as she put the tablet down and once more buried her hands in her face. "Why....why....." she stated to herself as she leaned back against the hard metal wall behind her. "So much death...." she stated simply.
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End of Prologue
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Chapter 1 - What Remains After That Cold Fateful Day
Timeskip - A Day and a Half later
Sunny Day - Time 3:00 PM
ORB has been alerted to the capture of the mobile suit cores from the OMNI division whom had stopped there. Commander Sendo has been nearly killed in the attack and had been replaced with Senior Commander Tsubasa Suzimiya whom had been on another island during the assault. There had been little civilian casualties but there were indeed casulties. The city had been bombed in multiple locations and it has not been confirmed whom bombed them nor if there were any survivors of the suicide bomber inside the Kawaii Superstar the previous day. ORB Soldiers had no managed to capture any living enemy soldiers but all of them were confirmed to be either mercenaries, known pirates, or ex-ZAFT soldiers whom had been noted as deserters by the PLANTs. However word of this has not managed to get out to the ORB soldiers and the fleet nearby was already been dispatched to wipe out and re-capture the stolen technology. However the fleet at Onogo Island was unable to be dispatched immediately due to difficulties caused by the pirate fleet. Where they had received GINNs is also at question. However the Captain of the Lucifer mulls over the loss of life and prepares to meet with the pilots whom had seen the most and more specifically those whom had survived the attack and piloted the Mobile Suit GUNDAM suits.
