(IC)A Return to HQ

[Gabriel Fox]

(The Frontlines: Just Outside of Alameda)

Gunfire echoes throughout the land as the sun begins to rise. The hole-filled ground is littered with remnants of mobile suits and smoldering divots due to artillery bombardment and the fallen liquified remains of the seven cruisers. The base itself is seen as plain as day due to its uncovering, and its armored walls clearly show multiple signs of scarring damage.

Hector continues to lead all still living Midnight Faction soldiers into battle against the rebellious Osiris forces. He was put in command since Gabriel left the field to take care of Brian, but still had to do his best to defeat the enemy. The men were becoming restless; they had fought for roughly eight hours with no break. A majority had run out of ammunition, and a few of that majority retreated to a hangar at the other side of the base in order to reload. The remaining members of that majority switched to beam saber melee combat.

"All Divisions, give me a status report!"

Division 1: "Sir, we've lost a few men but are still fighting strong! MF all the way!"

Division 2: "Holding up the fort; we are currently holding off a Zaku death squad and preventing it from entering the Main Deck."

Division 3: "Sir, we're getting blasted to all hell! They just keep comin'! I dunno how long we can hold out!"

Hector was leading Division 4 ever since its commanding officer was killed. Division 4 was considered the "roughnecks" of the Midnight Faction; meaning they were the toughest and most highly trained division of them all.

"Keep pushing men! The dawn is upon us; if we hold out just a little longer I feel we can end this thing!"

The MF trademark chant echoes on all radios, showing clearly that the men still have fight left in them. Hector leads his group forward, annihilating a squad of Osiris suits with a barrage of gunfire. More and more squads begin coming at them, opening a massive amount of firepower upon them. They respond with a slightly greater wall of gunfire, but all this does is push the squads back a few feet.

Hector lets out an angry sigh.

"It's going to be a long day..."

[Gabriel Fox]

(The Command Deck)

The armored guards repel a few members of the Osiris assault team, just as Gabriel and his team file their way in through the emergency exit. Gabriel immediately assumes command.

"Guards, we need to close those doors! We have a better chance of survival if we close down that entrance!"

The leader of the MP unit acknowledges, and orders one of his men to shut the door at one of the consoles. But it is not an easy thing to do in the midst of a battle with gunfire happening all around you.

Gabriel opens fire with his M4, picking off a few of the assault team. Aimee lies by his side, opening fire with her own weapon. But both are physically drained and badly injured, and clearly begin to show signs of fatigue.

Gabriel begins having trouble aiming his weapon, then his sight begins blurring. He eventually can no longer control the precise direction of his barrel. He stops firing, and leans over to look at Aimee. She is experiencing the same conditions as him, and quickly sets down her weapon. She reaches over to grab Gabriel's hand, as they both fall unconscious.

Saydon notices the sight and begins to get frantic.

"Gabe? Aimee? The hell....?"

He ducks beside them and attempts to wake both of them up, only realizing that they are totally out cold.

"Damn, what a time to do this, man."

He assures that they are well away from the line of fire, and continues to fire upon the Osiris squad.

Thus the battle progresses...

[Enoch]

(Silas)

gabe told silas that the people underneath him were in fact the enemy forces.

"Ok, gabe, im gonna attack them, it will be a tight squeeze with my middle mobile suit. You guys meet up with me, ill hold this area for now, allright? Gabe? Gabe?"

there was no answer from the other line. something was wrong, so Silas had to act quickly. he shot up the floor underneath him with his 20 mm gun, and it collapsed. The MMS landed on top a few osiris soldiers, crushing them instantly. It only weighed a few tons, but was heavy enough.

"What the hell?! AAAHH!!" the osiris soldiers ran back and fired at the suit, the bullets bouncing off of the armor.

Silas raised the machine gun and fired down the hallway. It had been far different from what he immagined, it was going paralel with the arivent he came out of, and his sense of direction was now completely gone. The soldiers splattered into pulp, but there were more around the corner. many more. This hallway was now blocked, but there were more ways through.

"Silas, this is saydon. Do you read me? come in."

"Silas here. What happened to gabe?"

"He and aimee passed out. It's now me and Masato. And hes justs a damn rookie. Im headed your direction now. Hows it going over there?"

"Fine. they're falling back in this hallway, but i cant chase them since my suit is too big. it has to crawl on its knees. Im headed for the command center. try some alternate route. ill meet you there. As for gabe, take him with you."

"What!!! I cant do that? Damn it! Silas get over here and do it yourself! You got the damn suit!"

"Ahh damn..allright. ill be there."

Silas backtracked down teh tunnels as fast as the suit was able to go. the Osiris troops cautiously followed from behind. When he made it there he picked up Gabe and aimee with his free arm and dropped his gun.

"Ok lets go"

[Altron]

"Did you hear that? Holy crap! It sounded like a slaughter coming from the other hangar!" The frantic shouts came from all the head sets that he was hard-linked to in his Gundam.

"Yes soldiers, I heard it. Continue fighting, or you may be the next. Osiris or NA troops spare none. Fight until I say the word!" Ain commanded with a slight hint of anger and anxiousness coming on.

The unit of slades on the front - point guard blew down the shut door that led into the main base of Alameda. The hallway was too thin to let a MS through, and the cieling was low for any sort of mobile weapon.

"This is Swift Unit to unit," Ain yelled. "Get your asses out of your suits, save me, Drake, and Shadow and hop inside anything thats left from our little 'run through' and self-destruct everthing that is able to.

There was a scramble of soldiers hopping out onto the hangar floor, and sprinting across it until they got to a vehicle. From there, everyone drove their vehicle to the next sealed door, set the self-destruct sequence for five minutes, and ran back to their suits.

The number of vehicles laden with gasoline, gun powder, ammo, and other highly-explosive items were baracaded againts the strong door, and substantial damage would be done. In five minutes, the deafening explosion ripped apart and some of the hangar, but did no damage to the unit of Shinter suits. They were in the hangar, several hall ways away from the source of explosion.

The aftermath was devastating. The walls inside the base near the explosion area were aflame, and the door was blown down. There was a gaping hole in one wall, huge enough to see another whole section of the base in plain view.

[Shadow Master]

after the planned explosion from the vehicles, the room was crawling with mobile suits, but the way in was through a lift elevator that was blocking the tunnel to the lower level. it was stopped in the right spot so that mobile suits would not have the room to get through, but personnel could. the diagonal tunnel sloped downwards, and after teh explosion, no one was willing to attacking the Shinter forces. They kept their ground in a defensive position behind the cover. Beam rifles protruded from the cover, and the Slades had no choice but to back off a little to dodge the fire.

"Slade team, back off behind the gundams. Ain, ill take point. "

"Ok."

"Take this!" Shadow yelled as he fired the third round of his mega particle cannon, covering the tunnel completely, a large explosion was heard, but the force of the beam energy forced it towards the enemy as well.

The tunnel entrance was open. It was now easily large enough to accomodate any mobile suit. No sign of the enemy.

"If they were the cause of the explosion, then they were now wasted. If they are hiding, then they have an ambush. This is there fort after all."

"Ok, so what then?"

"Slade team to point. They have enough close and long range power to take out anything down there. So far all we fought was a couple of run down gundams, and a few Mark II's"

Shadow looked down at the rubble and saw a fin from some mobile suit. It was a vernian fin. He hit it with his heat rod, knocking it out onto the ground.

"Wait a minute...This doesn't belong to any Mark II. What else do they have down there? And another thing, who else is attacking this base? I know its not just the Osiris rebels. there suits didnt have what it takes to make it inside. Those explosions were from a large scale missile barrage."

(ooc: your turn Ain)

[Masato Nishikawa]

sorry i'm late. I had just finished testing my gundam and an ready for combat. I would like to get the best body armor and the FN-P90 as my gun. I am following the others

[Masato Nishikawa]

oh no gabe and aimee are have pass out said Masato. We need to go back and get them medical attention said Masato. Saydon, get Silas on the line and tell him to beat us back in the hospital were we are going to get Gabe and animee some help said Masato. Now saydon give me a hand to move gabe and aimee said Masato.

One hour later: Finally we made it back home. Now we wait for Silas to arrive.

[Altron]

OOC: Masato, post quality, please. Put some flavor and effort in the response, to enhance the story.
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IC:

"Yeah, something like a missle barage. I saw the gwazine ships plummet towards Alameda. They broke up all seven of them, but I guess this fragment is just a hunk of it," replied Ain to Shadow. They were about to charge into Alameda, as Shadow had opened up the hall to Mobile Suits of their size. "In any event, slades, you heard me, take up front-point position, zaku unit, I want you to cover them, and leave three of you to provide some sort of rear guard. Keep the eyes on the back of our head soldiers," with his command, the whole unit acted as ordered.

"And now, we fly."

The slades flew ahead, systematically kill all the NA personell within the next few corrodors. The main part of the Zaku unit went right in behind the Slades, giving cover fire when needed, and throwing the occasional grenade to clear out heavier resistance.

After about 15 to 20 minutes, much of the fighting had ceased, at the expense of slight damage done to a Zaku. Not much foot-soldiers, no matter how heavily armed, could do to a MS.

"Drake, send out a 2nd priority coded and then encrypted transmission out on the standard comm channel of Shinter forces within the base. Ask them the whereabouts of their location, and if they would like assistance. MS or otherwise," Ain told Drake. On Ain's secondary monitor, Drake gave him a quizzical look.

"Do you think we are gonna play hero or something?"

"No, just help out fellow soldiers. We don't want anybody getting killed because we neglected to provide assistance. Shadow, could you somehow get a schematics map of Alameda?" The questions flowed out of Ain, as he tried to tell everyone what to do."And, you, Zaku 4, you know hacking, right?"

"Yes, enough to get by."

"Good, I want all doors leading to our point that are able to be sealed to be done so, but don't do it if there will be some sort of alarm, got it?"

"Yes, I'm on it."

The whole of them were busy, completeing his or her own alloted task.

[Gabriel Fox]

(The Frontlines: Outside of Alameda)

The sky was lit brightly by the morning sun now. The fighting was still going fierce, both fatigued sides trying their best to kill each other.

"Let's go! Keep on shoving them back! We're almost at victory! I can almost see our triumph before us!" Hector roared over the comlink.

The men had really become weary and exhausted-fighting for so long over only a few inches of ground gain. It was as if their efforts were totally and utterly meaningless. They had to decide when to make a desperate final push to destroy the Osiris army, and that time had come.

"All Divisions! Forward on my command!"

Every last Midnight Faction soldier readied themselves for a final frantic assault.

"Division Three, spread to the right and kill every last one of them! Division One, get to the left! Four, I want you right up here with me. This is our last chance. I know you're all weary and tired, and I know that we are no closer to repelling them off than we were an hour ago. But I must ask you, would you ever live with a defeat?"

The soldiers repeated back a loud "NEVER" signifying their never-ceasing pride and fearless attitude.

"Well then, this is certainly our finest hour. Don't let anyone pass this line. All forces, CHARGE!"

All remaining MF soldiers pushed forward, unleashing with every last bit of firepower left, and when possible cutting and slicing with beam sabers. The time had come, to end the Osiris-NA battle...

[Gabriel Fox]

(Inside of Alameda.)

"Checking system status...Green. HALO reports no significant damages to weapons, nor exterior armor plating."

The pilot quickly tapped a number of keys on a console to his right. All cockpit lights and external lights cut on as the Armor's engines hummed to life.

"The Gustav is operational."

The armor began moving down the corridor of the Main Deck. Its treads clattered loudly along the floor.

"I detect a group of Shinter suits already inside of the Main Deck. Preparing to engage..."

The Gustav began to speed up, faster and faster until it any sight of it was a blur.

Zaku 1: "Sir, there's a problem...what the? AHHH!"

All that could be heard over the intercom was the blast of a number of high-explosive hover mines, as well as the sound of two metal discs slicing through the air. The attack had come so quickly that the Zaku wouldn't have noticed it anyway.

The Gustav moved on, weapons ready and at top speed, in an attempt to exterminate all Shinter suits. One by one it began to work on its objective, killing off a couple Zakus in the process.

"God damn it! What the hell is going on?!" Yelled Ain, completely and utterly confused as to what had happened to his men. "Get all Slades in here! We need to form a defensive perimeter, on me!"

The Slades did as commanded, surrounding Ain, Shadow, and Drake. The three men were not defenseless; each readied their weapons for an attack. Soon they could hear the loud sound of the Gustav's treads coming closer to them, but for one reason or another it stopped. All of a sudden, all lights inside of the complex cut off, and all windows to the sun were closed. The Main Deck had become pitch black.

A voice echoed over the intercom. "This is Hiro Katsujin, Gundam Pilot for the Order of the Osiris. I now declare our treaty with the Shinter terminated, and order all members of the Shinter to leave this compound immediately. And no, I am not the only Osiris suit in here. The Midnight Faction was so busy guarding their front gates that they didn't pay attention to other points of entry. Our comrade, Brian, led a group of our best soldiers through a rear hangar."

[Altron]

You may want to post the rest of the battle in the forum, as we did it in a chat room, so nobody else knows what happened.

[Gabriel Fox]

A large and dimly lit room.
Approximate location, L2.

(Sora) Sir, there was an unforeseen event. The Konzern never predicted a double agent working for the Osiris. We are currently adjusting the algorithm now.
(Haulpschalter) It doesn’t matter, as of now we hold all of the cards. The hour is late for an insurrection.

Alameda, east hangar.

Shadow runs around the corner out of the main area. He had been in the front blasting the MF forces, and now one of his allies was against him. He had already lost a comrade to this lunatic, and he wasn’t about to be killed himself.

“What the fuck! Who the hell are you really!?”<br>
Hiro: (To Shadow) “I am a member of Osiris, didn't you hear me?”<br>
Shadow and the others back off into the tunnel, where a little ways back there were lights on the ceiling. Most of the tunnel lights were taken out by the previous explosion.

“Everyone, swap to either night vision or thermal-this Gustav produces a lot of heat.”<br>
Shadow sends a message over to the Gustav. “The Osiris wouldn’t betray us like this, they aren’t that stupid! Where is your backup, you would have escorts if you were to fight a large group in an open area.”<br>
“Oh I have backup, they are already inside as well.”<br>
“Damn…”

“Ain, I can’t blast in this condition-the gun needs to charge. Thankfully with this amount of Minovsky energy around us it won’t take long. I’ll use the planet defensors to defend us!"

The Gustav slowly moves backward, and backs itself into a dark, unlit chamber just adjacent to the main deck.

"Roger!" Slades, back off! Defend behind Blaugeese!" The planet defensors charge up, making a shield around them, covering the tunnel entrance. There was no way in.

Miscellaneous radio chatter can be heard over the Gustav radio. Hiro had mistakenly left his intercom on.

"Hiro, Aragon is ordering us to storm the Command Center. We'll be waiting for your arrival."

"Slades, charge E-caps to full capacity. Make ready for cannon fire!" Ain yells commands at the Slades, they do as told and charge their arm cannons to full.

The Gustav slowly peeks around the corner, seeing a group of suits ahead of him. He quickly launches a barrage of hover mines that glide a few feet above the floor. Their speed has been increased due to modifications since the Gustav was first operational. But the mines explode harmlessly on the shield created by the defensors. Gustav moves back inside of the room quickly before a retaliatory strike.

Shadow was relieved that the shield had worked. "This isn’t an I-field, dumbass! Ha! You damn rookie!"

"Bring up the rear!" Commands Hiro. A small group of Gundams rush into the corridor, weapons aimed and ready.

"Gun charge at half! Ain, get ready for an assault! They know there guns wont do shit so they will rush us!"

The Osiris MS quickly rush forward towards the group, ready to attack at close range.

"Ain, I can get a shot in, the gun can fire once, and so I need cover fire." The shield falls down as the planet defensors back off. The Slades came up to the Gundam from the sides and aim their cannons directly down the tunnel.

The Gustav sees a chance to make an attack and launches a pair of its beam gatling spreader claws. They grip to the ceiling and fire a good barrage down on top of the Blaugeese and the others. Hiro then fires another barrage of hover mines that travel down the hallway at high velocity.

Ain in his swift wind dodges the ballistic assault of fire.

"Brace yourselves!" Shadow fires the mega particle gun. The Blaugeese had to go to its knees to hold the recoil. The beam fired inside the main complex, filling the room and blasting everything inside. It spread around and diminished in blue electrical sparks when the gun's charge was finally down.

"Damn! The damn tank! It took out my charger! Ain, I can’t get the gun to charge, the energy collector is damaged. Hiro! Where the hell did he come from! Ain, how did he get behind us!"

"Slades, fire at will! Zakus, I want you going in there too, give the Slades cover fire. Drake, you come with me."

"Roger, Ain, what’s your plan?" Drake asked. He was still a rookie and didn’t know what was going on. They were surrounded but the team was still remaining cool.

The Gustav rushes forward, firing another barrage of hover mines and claws-this time of the explosive type. When he gets a little closer he fires off his beam yo-yos, attempting to hit the group of Shinter men in front of him. "Taste this!"

"Drake, shoot down some of that barrage, then take the rest with your shield"

“Alright." Drake charged up the shot, setting the gun to the spread shot setting, and fired.

Many of the bombs and explosives detonate on site, and much of the wall was damaged. Then taking what was left of the onslaught on his shield, it sustains considerable damage.

"Suck This!" Drake fires what was left of the buster shield at the enemy tank.

Shadow yelled at the others, "You guys keep the Zakus! I’ll take the Slades and finish off what’s left of the other troops!"

Shadow drops his gun and pulls out his beam saber. Together with the heat rod, he now has a formidable weapon on both arms.

"Slade team: Forward assault rush!"

The Slades fire their charged cannons into the room; the beams blow chunks of the walls and ceiling down. Then they had to reload their E-caps (since they were all red lined); it only takes a few seconds to do so. The Blaugeese flies into the room, straight into the thick smoke.

The Gustav pulls back, clearly damaged by the beam fired by Drake and his buster shield. Hiro arms all remaining mines, along with explosives placed by Brian for suicide sortie purposes. He also arms the remaining explosives left in his spare claws, and views how much fuel is left inside of his tanks.

"Look, you insolent wretches, you have annoyed me for the last and final time! You wish to know the truth! Here it is! I am not an Osiris man, but a double agent from the Aragon Liberation Army!"

"What?!" Shadow is listening through the coming

"Let all who hear me listen to this declaration-the Army is now free and will forever be free! Damn the Osiris, damn the Shinter, damn the Nocturne Alliance, and damn you!!!"

A Zaku aimed with his scoping lens, zooms in on the Gustav. The explosives placed were clearly visible. "Holy Shit! He’s wired!"

“Correctamundo! And would you like to know what I am wired with? Ammonium nitrate…Heh, let’s play!”<br>Gustav compacts itself and tears forward at its top speed. The sound of its treads echo inside of the hangar. Hiro can be heard laughing insanely over the radio as the Gustav reaches to within feet of its adversaries...

“Holy shit Drake! Fall back, top speed!”<br>
Drake follows the commands, and takes aim once more at the suicidal MS body. The Swift Wind flies through the tunnel at top speed, and Drake lets a concentrated, pin pointed beam of energy discharge from his gun barrel, aimed by his extremely accurate targeting computer. After the shot, Drake folds over his wings as if he were Jesus Christ or some angel stopping some of the blast from hitting his unit.

"AAAGH!" In another part of the Main Deck, a MKII Gundam was sliced through the body, right in half from the side. The Slade had aimed perfectly for the reactor, and it exploded. The blast wasn’t intense enough to do major damage to the mech’s Gundanium armor.

Back inside of the tunnel, Hiro smiles with an insane grin, as he slams his fist into the self-destruct button inside of the cockpit. The Gustav explodes with great force, its additional explosives and mines doing so simultaneously. The explosion blinds everyone in the hangar, the intense light shrouds everything.

"Draaake!" Shadow yelled.

Ain looks up, and sees Drake’s Deathscythe Zero custom lying on the ground. Its head and lower legs are missing. The rest of the mobile suit is badly damaged, and it is still burning.

"Ain, what happened, is Drake still alive?! I'm not getting a signal!!" Shadow yelled, he almost got hit by a laser shot. "Never mind. We don’t have the time; there are other MKII's hiding behind crap in here. If you’re able to, get down here. All I got for long range is head vulcans!"

[ZackTarisamato]

OC: sry if I do this wrong
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IC:O.K. now that I've gone through training i can join the combat lets go Winged Black Death... LAUNCH!

[Altron]

OOC: I'm sorry to say, but you did do that wrong. You must specify where you are, what side you are on (so that people who don't know are informed... me for instance), and some detail about what you are about to do.

Detail + puctuation + spelling = your friend.

[Altron]

"MOVE," screamed Ain over the intercom. His whole unit seemed to be stopped in their tracks by the shock and gravity of the whole situation.

"I want a Zaku 5, to clean up Drake. That means extinguish the fire and get him in my suit. I have a cargo area, I guess he can stay there until he gets medical attention... if he's still alive."

"Shadow, get down here and charge up that cannon. I want it hot for another serving to those MkII's. The rest of the unit, maintain your point defense until further orders are issued."

The Zaku flipped the remains of the gundam over onto its back, exposing the cockpit. The door was torn open by the Zaku's strong hand and was tossed away. A bloody mess covered the inside of the cockpit.

The pilot jumped out, being covered by his teamates. He left the cockpit carrying Drake over his shoulder. The pilot was unconscious and bleeding badly.

Gun shots echoed in the pavement hall, and pocked its smooth surface. The area in which the Gundam had self destructed was burning the cement into tar, and was resembleing Hell.

"Ain, I cant charge my cannon, the collector is destroyed and i dropped them both in the tunnel. I only have my heat rod and saber left," said Shadow calmly over the com link. It seemed virtually everyone else was extremely panicked, even for soldiers. "I can't clear'em all out. I'll need your help. I can't hide here forever, Ain, Im rushing out!"

"Let's fly down the tunnel. The rest of the unit I want out. Push through all resistance, even if it's hunkered down. We need to get out!"

On his command, the whole unit when into a berserker killing spree, only fueled by the thought of a painful death at the hands of a MkII.

In the main complex, the Blaugeese's heat whip grabbed a MKII around the waist, and Shadow pulled back, sawing it in half. He fired his head cannons into a nearby Gundam's head, blinding it. The rest of the group roze over the ruins they were hiding from and aimed at the white and blue MS.

On the charge leading his unit out of the tunnel was the Swift Wind, with its dual pronged beam trident(did i spell it right?). It took the front point, and the line of slades fell behind him by 20 yards. The Zakus took the rear defense, as well as Drake. The slades kept their speed minimal, to keep their distance between the two officor MS about the same.

The MKII fired a beam round into Blaugeeses sheild, and it withstood the blast. He swung the heat rod to the left, melting the Gundam's arms off, but barely missing its cockpit. The gundam's head vulcans fired, covering the Blaugeeses legs with holes. They buckled under the suits weight, and the Blaugeese switched over to low level flight mode to keep itself up. Shadow fired his head cannons and flew backwards, away from the firefight and into the tunnel. Unable to see where he was going, Shadow slammed into a wall, and the rockets were knocked offline.

"Aaah! Ain, i cant get out, i need coverfire!"

The team of slades flew down into the tunnel and fired their automatic beam cannons into the exposed and defenceless MKII. It blew apart into peices. The swift wind ran into the room, sliding sideways to stop. Other MKII's in the distance fired at them, only to be blocked by the beam trident.

"Ain, my rockets are malfunctioning, i need to find an altenate power route and change the settings. It may take a few minutes."

"Roger, get yourself up as soon as you can. We cant last here much longer."