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Post by Leo Cana on Nov 7, 2004 1:04:25 GMT -5
It felt good to be here again, to be in space in a battle again. For too long Leo had been restricted to fighting on the ground but no more. This was what his training was all about. He smiled as he kept pace with Gabe, dodging the shots with his thoughts alone. His fingers worked over the controls on the right side as he spoke. "Gabe I'm gonna break off, go into stealth mode and try and engage some of those battleships at point blank range. Those big guns can't hit me if they can't lock onto me. But in the meantime I prepared a little treat for our boys. A little music to set the mood if you will." With the push of a button music suddenly sounded throughout the NA fleet. It was loud enough to be heard but not so much that orders still couldn't be given and recived. ( www.shatteredskies.net/ac04music/37-Megalith-Agnus%20Dei.mp3 ) With that Leo broke away from Gabe, the moment he thought stealth the system activated. Though he could still be seen his signature on radar and all other forms of sensors had vanished. Even the Slades would have a hard time trying to manually lock onto him as he rushed toward the enemy fleet. The Caligo easily dodged the larger beam weapons that were fired blindly at him, and most moblie suits couldn't keep up with him while he was at his top speed. Leo's face became more serious and focused now as Caligo raised the beam chain gun. He'd reached the first enemy ship already, it had foolishly pushed foward farther than the others in an attempt to do more damage to the NA fleet ships. Even as far away as he was from the bridge Leo could still faintly see people waving their arms. They were pointing at him, probably shouting for their gun turrets to shoot him down or fire missles at him but failing. The barrels rotated rapidly as energy fed into the weapon, just as the foward gun closest to the bridge began to lift it's barrels to take aim, Leo fired. Though the beam rounds themselves were somewhat less powerful than a standard beam rifle, the high rate of fire more than made up for that lack as the shots ripped through the bridge. The gun turned downward and began to chew up the large gun turret that was still aiming at him. From afar it seemed as though the ship were being torn apart peice by peice as beam rounds tore though the armor bit by bit until it's engines were hit. Leo stopped firing and pulled back quickly as the ship began to explode. Other ships had had enough time at this point to manually aim and fire in his direction. With a harshly muttered curse Leo made a hasty retreat, dodging beam cannon shots as he made his way back towards Gabe.
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Post by Altron on Nov 7, 2004 13:50:51 GMT -5
Ain looked pensively into his main monitor. Leo's suit ripped off shots at the relatively defenseless ship, destroying the bridge, and slowly the ship cracked like an egg into fragments, gracefully flowering into blooms of fire and electricity.
"So it has begun."
Elisia's link to Ain's psyco-waves picked up the distaste at the first strike, and the Amatu switched into stealth mode, invisible to all who tried to read his location, and spiked the engines into action, towards him.
"Oh, you're gonna get it. Believe me."
The other ships had already laid down a blind barrage of fire in the general direction of the explosion, but Leo had already moved from that past position, and was now underneath the line of fire from the battle ships. Drawing the Beam Rifle, Elisia took aim in a fraction of a second and aquired a lock in about twice that time. She read Ain's mind loud and clear, firing several shots towards his torso, leading his suit to account for his trajectory and velocity, as well as Leos.
Of course, the three shots didn't hit Leo, as he easily dodged the volley, but it was only to test him. He was definetly a good pilot. Leo turned his suit, and altered his flight path to accommodate for Ain's inbound course, and opened fire with his beam chain gun.
His mind was well trained, and the action did not surprise him, and the Amatu shot to the left to miss the beams. Ain flew in, firing his vulcans to try to divert his attention for the instant that he needed.
It didn't work. Leo did a barrel roll to the side, stabilized himself, and shot his chain gun again. The gun missed once more, this time the beams were much too close for comfort. Ain drew the Maga-no-Ikutachi, the energy sucking sword, and activated it. As soon as the sword ignited, all other enemy suits' energy levels started to drop, and Ain's grew, feeding off of the blade's power.
The Amatu pulled off one more shot at Leo's suit, to make him change directions, and pushed his Gundam to the red line of all its thrusters and came in for a close range duel with Leo.
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Post by Gabriel Fox on Nov 8, 2004 22:08:00 GMT -5
"Attack verified, a battleship of theirs has been scuttled!"
"Good. Keep up the bombardment, send reinforcements. We are engaging the Slade threat, and we need backup to hold the rear!"
The Archangel held its sword ready as the first Slade came flying at him at tremendous speed. Preparing to dodge the charge, the suit's thrusters cut on full, sending the mech into a full backspin with its sword ready to block. Just as Gabriel had planned the Slade just missed the Archangel by inches, and he was in a perfect position to strike. Just as the Slade turned its head, it saw its death in the form of a large and glowing katana searing through its midsection like a hot knife through butter. The Slade sparked violently until it finally exploded.
"Fucker, vengeance is a bitch, ain't it?"
Pulling the katana back, Archangel prepared for the next assailant to try his best...
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Post by Enoch on Nov 9, 2004 17:35:00 GMT -5
Yamato radioed in to the fleet that the enemy threat from the rear was destroyed. Although their were many casualties of Zaku pilots, most other forces were undamaged. The Kunstliches Herz awaited their next order.
"This is Captain Alain, currently in charge of the rear. Your new orders are to join up with the main forces in the front of the fleet and engage the enemy in battle. The Slade line is holding the enemy back, but several members of the Midnight Faction have pulled through. Engage them and draw the enemy back. Yamato?"
"Yeah?"
"I believe you know a man by the name of Gabriel Fox, and of a Leo Cana. They..."
"Are they the ones who broke through? They're Mine!"
"Yamato Ishida! Keep in mind your suit was specifically meant to counter the Nocturne Alliance's new Nazarene class mobile suits from whatever data we could retreive. Your mission is to Destroy the MF forces Angel Mobile suit! From our data we can assume that is has been repaired and upgraded. Gabriel Fox has allready taken out a Slade with ease! Watch it out there!"
Yamato was anxious to attack his long time rival and enemy. They had many encounteres before, but were never able to settle the score. Now would be that chance. But something struck him as odd. 'Why was it that a captain was in charge of this section of the fleet? What happened to the orders from the Admiral?' Yamato pondered a bit and quickly realized what was about to happen.
"Bravo Team, head out to point Z. Your mission starts now. Alpha Team, follow me. Charlie Team; guard Bravo Team until it reaches its start point, then reinforces Alpha Team. Move Out!"
The entire Kunstliches Herz Space squad replied with a "Yes Sir" and set out to their objectives.
"Gabe you are mine!" Yamato yelled out as he flew past the transports and entered the area full of battleships. Two mobile suits were fighting each other, with no apparent victor. Yamato's data screen showed that one was deflecting newtype waves, making it hard to track him.
'Thats one of the suits from the Shinter Special forces' Yamato thought. 'But who is in the other one?'
Yamato saw rapid beam fire from the stealth suit, and remembered one of the transmissions his Ground team sent up before Alameda was destroyed. Something about a unidentified Gundam with a beam chain gun. It was also able to cloak itself. 'This must be that one'
"Leo! I know thats you! You remember me dont you? Hahaha!" Yamato flew within 200 meters and started firing his Head Vulcans, hitting nothing. Both Leo and Ain noticed the third Gundam in the distance.
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Post by Altron on Nov 9, 2004 17:51:50 GMT -5
"Well kid, whoever the hell you are, you can take him. If you want to, then I'm outta here."
Ain fired one last round at Leo, and high tailed it back to the unit.
"Sorry. I got a little sidetracked out there. Let's kill em! Shadow, let a volley of your hyper cannon out at their lines. The rest of you, fight until the bitter end. Don't let these Naturals destroy you. This is our mother land. We must protect it with our lives. For the Shinter!"
Loud cheers could be heard throughout his unit's speakers. Several slades moved to take on Gabe, and started to slow him down with the sheer number of them. They say quality is better than quantity, but we had both.
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Post by Gabriel Fox on Nov 9, 2004 20:17:07 GMT -5
Swarmed, surrounded, Gabriel thought up a quick solution. The Archangel's back wings spread, and jettisoned a number of beam fin funnels. The funnels levitated above the suit, then took off, blasting hundreds of rapid fire shots into the Slades nearby, while the Gundam cut its way through one by one, while also using the CIWS system equipped in its head to do some damage. Since their was no air resistance the weapons traveled at amazing speed, searing through the air. Moments later they slowed, and reattached to the Archangel's wings. The aftermath was four slades turned to swiss cheese and sliced, and another two still operational but missing parts of limbs.
"Sir, we're getting battered back here! We can't stay in one place forever!"
"Advance, with everything you've got. Blast them to hell! I want all cruisers and battleships focusing their firepower directly on the frontlines. Lorelei, I want you to start blasting away at these Slades that are coming by."
The Archangel's thrusters blasted on full, as the Gundam moved to reunite with the Caligo, when suddenly Gabriel stopped thinking. He instantly knew who was attacking his comrade-the rebel Yamato.
"Lorelei, I need you to get to my location ASAP for a quickdrop weapon exchange. Ready the Riot for my use."
"Gotcha Gabe, coming right there."
In the meantime, Gabriel got back to taking on Slades, until the Lorelei would come with his request.
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Post by Altron on Nov 10, 2004 20:10:45 GMT -5
"Nice move, but not good enough," Ain muttered under his breath. He looked at the camera, watching Gabe dice the Slades one by one, and the funnels blasting them left and right.
Just by thinking of flying towards Gabe, his engines ignited, blazing with Ain's fury. He drew his beam lance and zoomed towards his Gundam's back. Gabe would have no idea of his position, as his psyco-waves were being masked with 100% efficiency.
"Slades, attack his left and right flanks now with all that you got! Keep him routed in position!"
All of the suits swerved with chilling proscision to meet his request, and again slowed him down.
<*I'll calculate an appropriate trajectory for if he either hit or miss. We'll avoid the explosion, or swoop around for a second pass.*>
"Take this bastard!" Ain screamed throughout the cockpit, which was slightly banking to compensate for Gabe's movements.
Ain was only a few instants away from piercing his cockpit...
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Post by Gabriel Fox on Nov 11, 2004 18:32:44 GMT -5
It was as if time froze. Gabriel could see his enemy all around, and sense danger behind him-about to strike through his cockpit. Although he could not feel an entity there, he knew something was coming to kill him.
"I will not die, not here, not now, not ever."
His mind was clear. He closed his eyes. Concentrating on the energy behind him, he focused hard to manipulate it-the art of telekinesis.
"There it is!"
As other MF suits began to fire upon the Slades, blasting them to hell with tremendous firepower and in simultaneous use of the Archangel's vernian thrusters, he grasped the energy with his mind. He was able to move the blade to miss within inches of the suit. In milliseconds the Archangel whipped around and countered with a fully heated cut from the Mokushiroku into Ain's back. The attack pushed the Amatu forward enough that the funnels would lock on the general area and fire. The weapons blanketed the sensed supposed area that the suit was in with laser blasts then pulled away as the Archangel cut through the remains of the Slade force and retreated back to the MF frontline. They reconnected to the wings en route. Stopping just before the battle line, Gabriel was alert as ever as he performed a battle damage assessment.
"Minor damage to back of suit. Activating Nanopaste system...armor integrity holding. Attack studied and stored."
"The fucker's invisible! How the hell am I supposed to fight someone invisible?"
HALO immediately activated advanced image sensor capabilities, loading thermal vision up as well as ion and minovsky trace scans on a smaller screen adjacent to the main. There were heat sources all around, as well as in front where the incident between him and Ain occurred. Ion trace detection showed that something came from the Shinter frontline, and Minovsky traces clearly showed an entity in the distance ahead.
"All units, hold the battle line and focus your targeting on what just attacked me. Use ion trace and minovsky detection systems-he is cloaked from virtually everything else. You see anything, you relay your coordinates straight to my battle computer, alright?"
Loud "yes sirs" echoed on the radio.
Carefully glancing at the status screens he was readily awaiting another attack. He deployed his fin funnels and had them completely surround the Archangel, as a few Mk IIs and the Zetapluses moved into position to hold off a pack of Slades that were coming.
"Leo, how are you doing? If you need backup just let me know."
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Post by Altron on Nov 12, 2004 11:42:05 GMT -5
"Whoa. That was a counter for the record books. But they say the victors write history. Let that be me."
<*You have damage in your back, but it isn't significant enough to stop your fight.*>
"Good. Now, I know he'll try to see me somehow, but I have the upper-hand as of now."
<*I will automatically take control of your suit if he attempts to complete the same attack... Trajectory has been recorrected for a second pass. I will relay my weapon choice and course of action directly to your brain. From there, it's up to you if you want to take the course of action I've chosen.*>
"Yes... a good idea. Re-engage him at close range. We are more than a match for him there."
The Amatu's thrusters kicked him forward with startling force, but he was not seen. He came in toward his left side, not drawing any weapons until he was close enough. Gabe was suddenly aware of his presence once more as Ain ignited his beam lance at half-length and took a wide sweep at his midsection.
Only Gabe's extreme reflexes saved him from that attack. The MF Forces opened up a withering hail of fire on his previous location on Gabe's left flank, but he was already to his right taking a stab at him again. Archangel whirled and blocked the blow with his katana, and took a swipe at Ain's leg. The Amatu boosted upwards over the swipe, and landed a downward slicing blow on his right shoulder, while still floating upwards in the vacuum, he drew his rifle and took several shots at the Archangel's head.
All three missed. The Gundam had already strafed to a position to the right of Ain, and opened fire with his head vulcans. Only a few managed to pepper Ain, as he was already pulling out of the combat again, with his blade deactivated once again, in an erratic retreat. He was not seen.
"Unit, let's get back to the main forces. I think we can be more useful there. Watch out for Gabe's funnels, he'll try and pick ya'll off with them - he can't shoot manually for his life."
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Post by Leo Cana on Nov 12, 2004 20:53:10 GMT -5
After destroying the enemy ship Leo had pulled back to avoid taking the worst of the enemy fire. The exchange with Ain had happened so fast to him that he barely remembered returning fire. It was when his opponent pulled back suddenly that he began to worry, he looked around just in time to watch vulcan fire streak past him. A voice he thought he'd never heard sounded in his cockpit.
Yamato Ishida.
The man who'd tried to kill him, the one who'd tortured him and risked his friend's lives to save him. Almost before the thought fully formed in his mind the chain gun snapped up and fired in return. His thrusters came to life and pushed Caligo foward, firing and dodging any fire coming his way. He was closing to range fast, very fast.
As suddenly as he started to fire, he stopped. The beam chain gun was thrown away suddenly, the right hand grasped the hilt of the beam rapier at it's side. The blade activated as it was pulled free, sweeping it in an arc as his speed picked up. "Yamato Ishida! You tried to kill me! You tried to kill my friends and you took away the only place I had that could be called a home!" One final thing changed as Leo screamed over the radio, the color of Caligo Gundam's eyes went from it's usual green to bright red.
"EN GUARD!"
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Post by Enoch on Nov 12, 2004 21:16:40 GMT -5
Ain moved away from the midnight forces as they fired dozens of shots in his general direction. It was enough just to dodge the blasts.
Gabe turned around to retreat back to his ship. He still needed to retreive his Riot from the lorelei. Suddenly his sensors detected a shot fired inhis direction, it was big.
Gabe had no trouble dodging the shot, which was almost as large as his Gundam. The blast flew through the ranks of Zeta plus's and MKIII's, and hit one of the ships in the background, punching a hole straight through the middle.
"Ain, get back here, ill provide covere fire." Shadow yelled. Drake was still feeling bad, but was inside his Swift wind.
The midnight faction fired at the blaugeese in the distance, and it activated its shields, blocking the weakened energy beams.
"This is nothing."
One MKIII fired his last shot,a nd had to reload an E-pac. He was sliced in half from the slades heated, extend blade sword and fell apart. The slades had flanked the suits from the right and caught them by surprise.
Drake had hid behind shadow and was unhurt from the blast.
"Are we just gonna sit here?"
"Let Ain get back, we need to regroup, let the slades do their thing."
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Post by Enoch on Nov 19, 2004 22:55:43 GMT -5
Leo was within range of the wing custom variation, and swung his beam rapier down at Yamato. The Axis gundam apparently disintegrated in front of him, breaking into particles.
'What!?' Leo thought. 'Did i get him?' Leo felt yamato's continued presence in the area. 'No, he's still here somewhere.
Leo looked around, his newtype sences told him that Yamato was to his right, at about 4 o clock.
"You FOOL!" Yamato put his left hand on his beam gatling gun mounted on his hip, and fired it in an arc, not really worrying about aiming.
Leo was just outside of attacking range with his rapier, he couldn't move forward to attack because of the wall of fire Yamato put out. He activated his stealth system, deactivated the beam rapier and dodged the beams without losing any distance.
"Shit!" Yamato saw his enemy disappear in front of him, and let go of his beam gatling gun on his hip. He raised the Axis gundam's left hand and launched dummies out of it's finger tips. They inflated and produced large heat sources. "Time to fly!" Yamato flew backwards and accelerated at top speed, shedding off the outer layer of the Axis gundam's armor, leaving more illusions of itself behind.
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Post by Gabriel Fox on Nov 21, 2004 9:43:56 GMT -5
OOC: This is a notice that we will make the changeover to a new forum I have installed on the domain in a day or two. Currently all bugs are worked out, and things should run smoothly. The forum itself has a little more functionality to it, and is easier to maintain since it is hosted off of the domain and IP that DE is. darknessecho.net/phpBB2/index.phpThat is the link. Please visit the forum and register an account. Also, make only one or two more posts in this topic, then start a new topic in the new forum. Enoch, you can still continue to mine this url so we can get all actions off of it and saved, its just the active forum will be the new one.
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