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(2/18/06 10:39 pm) Reply
Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
Colony AS604, the furthest colony from the sun, had been picking up weird signs all day. What radars picked up as astroid showers had been seen all day.. but no such thing. There was actually nothing at all...
Until now. In seconds, the colony was surrounded by unidentified vehicles... ships, mecha, everything.
"What the hell is this?! A raid?!" The colony was fired upon by all angles. mechas made their way into the interior and began firing upon civillians...
The pluto colonies were in the middle of a raid, alright. A VERY nasty raid.
"Sir! What the hell happened?!" a radioman looked at his captain, who had a look of dispair plastered on his face.
"... My god, no one has stealth technology like that. Are they Orbital Frames?"
"Negative! Visual confirmation that they are NOT Orbital Frames... or MSes, hell, not even LEVs! What the hell are these things?!" Whatever they were, they had stealth techonolgy that cloaked them from radar and the naked eye. Not a good thing... not a good thing at all.
Awakening by the alarms, a young man with shaggy brown hair grumbled as he rolled quickly out of bed...his instincts and training taking over as his brain struggled to wake up. This was Matthew Lionheart, Commander and CO of the VF Squadron 103. He was also known by another name, a name that has caused this man to live in infamy for nearly half a decade. The Grim Reaper, a man who guided the souls to the afterlife...only with Matt...it was while they were still alive.
"Let's move," he called out as he pulled on his flight suit on the run...his squadron gathering they're equipment as well as the entire barracks was emptied with practiced time and efficiency. The destination of the twelve men and women was a simple one for any pilot, the hanger bay.
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Outside, a fleet of six ships raced back towards their home after a small patrol around the sector. One Destroyer surrounded by it's escorts of 5 Frigates began to launch their various mobiles suits, fighters, and a single squadron of new variable fighters (making 36 strike craft in all) rushed to aid their comrades.
What they came upon was a sight to behold. Unknown vessels were surrounding the colony in front of them, explosions and flashing of light could be seen as the battle raged.
Lionheart, who was in one of the brand new VF-2SS Valkyrie IIs, heard one of his squadmate whistle at the sight. "Whoa...never seen anything like that!"
"I have," Matt muttered with a frown as he checked his systems again. Green on ammo and power...all he could hope was that the Valkyrie and it's new SAP system worked well enough for him and his squad to survive. "Alright, form up into flight teams and head on in. Concentrate on the mecha and fighters...leave the cap. ships to the Excalibur and her escorts."
A string of affirmative rained throughout the channels as all the ships sped on. When the firing range of long-range missiles was reached, every single ship in the fleet locked on to their targets and launched their nukes in a way so that even if they missed...the missiles wouldn't hit the colony.
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Inside the colony, however, a different type of activity was going on. Deep within the bowels of a hidden shipyard, a crew numbering the four hundreds began to prepare a new weapon. On a bridge of said weapon, a woman who couldn't even be out of high school sat upon the Captain's Chair. "Navigation, Helm, please ready the ship for departure ASAP," she spoke in a calm, yet hurried tone. But it was strange to hear a tone of command in one so young.
"Aye, Aye ma'am," both officers spoke in unison.
"Weapons, bring all defenses and weapon systems online. Engineering, I want full military power. Come on people, the CDF built this ship for a situation like this...let's not disappoint." the young woman encouraged as she sat there, holding back both her fear and anticipation from her expression. A young brunette in a green and white captain's uniform, young Akihara Chiyo was the youngest Captain to ever command at the age of nineteen years old. After all, a prodegy like her would be wasted in civilian life.
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A few ten thousand miles from Pluto, the Macross defolded after its surprise departure from Earth. Inside of the refurbished alien cruiser, a frazzled crew was trying to figure out exactly where they had been flung to.
One of the three female operators working on the bridge was looking intently at her monitor while she did sensor examinations of the surrounding space. Finally, she concluded, "We are in close proximity to Pluto. Plutonian colonies have been verified by the ship's recognition databanks."
Upon hearing the news, Capt. Vess pouted like a little child, "That sucks. I was sure we'd end up closer to Neptune. What's the status on the ship's systems?"
A second operator fielded that question, "All systems appear to have resumed normal functions and the engineering team has been released. They are running a diagnostic on the main generating unit and propulsion."
The first operator soon spoke up again, "We are picking up multiple reaction weapon signatures around the Plutonian colonies! It seems somebody is attacking the colonies!"
"Can you identify the attacking force?"
"Negative. The recognition database cannot identify the attacking force!"
"Elevate the ship's status to red. Ready all weapons for fire should we come under attack."
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(2/19/06 2:06 am) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
Some of the mecha attacking the colonies saw what appeared to be a large earth vehicle. However, they recognized what that was, or had been...
One third of the current enemies headed for the Macross, as a message came in from another part of the ship.
"This is Ensign Primrose, callsign Mobius One from now on. I'm taking off to intercept enemy forces, Captain! Should give the others time to take off!" Within seconds, a small orange ship took off, blasting towards the enemy.
"Mobius One, activating TLS!" As the FALKEN engaged the enemy, a beam came from it. Ten enemies, caught offguard, were hit in the middle, exploding shortly after. Two missiles were launched, sending two more targets exploding, as the FALKEN headed for the colonies, the enemy giving chase.
Two enemy vessels were struck head on by the nukes, one being destroyed and the other being heavily crippled. The others had opened fire with phalanx, destroying the other nukes, as the mecha attacked the small force.
Behind the fighting, about fifty thousand miles away, something large appeared.... a mothership. It looked like a large meteor, but as more mecha swarmed from it, blocking out the stars behind them, it became quickly evident what it was.
"All DC forces in the area, this is Mobius One, of the GATA ship SDF-1 Macross! I'm coming to lend my assistance... we were in the neighborhood, and thought that you Enders could use some help!" flying right past Lionheart's VF, the FALKEN spun right once, before diving to the left. Warnings appeared on the radar of the VF... a large enemy force was coming up behind it. "Yeah, apparently I brought a few homewreckers with me, too. Hope you guys know what to do!" The mechas fired missiles and laser fire at the VFs and ships, as from one of the larger ships, a larger-looking machine was locking onto the destroyer... and from it fired three long missiles. What could those possibly do to a destroyer?
Lots. The equivalent of the nukes fired upon them, these three missiles broke up, releasing hundreds more from them. Great, cluster weapons. Anything else these things have?
Inside the colony, the intruders were grabbing people and firing at those that attacked them, shoving them into what appeared to be large cargo boxes strapped to their backs. Jesus, what were these things gonna` do to their captives?!
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"@#%$ kid," one of the Angels roared as Matt spun his Valkyrie to avoid stray blast.
"Two, Three, on me...brake now," the veteran commanded as all three fighters suddenly angled their engines forwards instead of the proper rear direction. The three mecha flew backwards which allowed the invader mecha to pass by them faster than they meant too. Putting propulsion fowards again, the three Angels executed a spin and launched a wave of cluster missiles at the passing mecha in a synchronized fashion.
Stopping his spin, Matt rushed after the invaders at top speed and began to line the enemy up one after another. "Cover me," he told his wingmates as he unleashed a torrent of beam fire from his Beampod.
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"Reactor ready ma'am! Soyokaze is ready for launch." the helmsman reported as the brunette smiled, her emerald green eye burning.
"Comm., tell control to open the hanger before the invaders breach this far into the complex." Chiyo ordered only to have her officer shake his head.
"No good, they're already there. Only thing keeping them from reaching us is the fact that the entrances other than the spaceward door is blocked by debris." Frowning, Chiyo looked at the door again and looked towards her weapon's officer.
"Release safeties on all laser turrets and burn that door down," she said quickly. Making her officer blink in surprise before complying. Sixteen turrets emerged from there hidden areas, four of them aimed directly at the door before unleashing incandescent beams of fury. Explosive decompression took care of the rest as the doors flew out into space with sudden ferocity.
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(2/19/06 2:53 am) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
Seeing the flury of incoming missiles, Bailey had the FALKEN dive, heading right into the colony.
"Mobius One, Fox Four!" Two missiles crashed into the backs of two assault mecha, destroying them, as the FALKEN shot multiple rounds into the legs of one of the collector mecha. spinning to avoid laser fire and a missile, the FALKEN performed a Super Cobra manuver, using the gravity that remained in the colony to turn right back down and fire at the enemies.
Following the cluster missiles, something bright came from the large mothership. A beam of light, directly at the current fleet. It took out the middle of the swarm of missiles, heading for the middle of the Destroyer... the beam's height larger than the ship, if it hit it would split the ship in half.
As more of the mechas fell to Lionheart, he recieved a lock on alert... only for a particle cannon to fly by his machine, hitting the enemy and two others. Just out of reach of most weapons, was a white ship, apparently slowing down after being launched from Earth by the Urenbeck.
"Kestrel has arrived, sir!"
"Jesus, what the hell's happening? ... Launch Idolo, Eva Unit 02 will go as backup, firing upon the enemy from the ship. Send a Positron Rifle with it!"
"Yes sir! Idolo, Evangelion Unit 02, prepare for launch! 02, you'll provide long-range support with the Positron Rifle!" Spegal shouted into his headset as the Kestrel, which had just arrived after being shot from the Catapult, move into position. "Transmitting IFF signals now, do NOT hit the DC forces, Macross, of the FALKEN with friendly fire, you two!"
"Roger! 02, launch!" A large red mech blasted out of the ship, a cord coming from its back, as it curved back around to land on the frame of its carrier, a rifle following it. "Gaining a lock on already! Hey, Idolo, get ready to launch. I'll give you covering fire!" The machine fell to a knee, as it began firing large balls of energy, the shots curving a bit, missing the enemy ship, as the Eva adjusted its shots, finally hitting the enemy ship. It shook, More shots hitting it and going up it, before exploding, sending two chunks of it flying out into space.
"Get me a line to the DC forces," the commander of the ship, Nicholas Anderson, said to Spegal, who nodded and did so. "All DC forces in the area, this is the Federation ship Kestrel. We request a sitrep. What in God's name is going on here?!"
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Matt groaned as he shook his head, having just barely dodge the beam coming from the Kestral. He reckonized the ship, hell...he had fought against that infernal contraption back during the war. He also saw a ship on his sensors close to that of the enemy...yet coming from the Earthward direction. "Gah...this will get confusing very quickly," Matt muttered only to be blinded by a flash of light. The Excalibur, the Angel's flagship, was suddenly bisected from top to keel while three of her five escorts took the brunt of the cluster missiles launched from the enemy fleet by the colony. Four-sixths of the small fleet had been wiped out in seconds. "@#%$ hell!" Matt growled as he looked at his radar again. "DC suits and fighters, form up on me," the veteran ordered, seeing he was the highest ranking pilot on the field. "Continue anti-mech operations....don't let the other frigate get vaped!" he spouted only to blink at his radar again. "What in the hell!?" he shouted, unknowingly into a open channel and allowing both Federation and DC forces to hear his outburst.
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"Why aren't we launching ma'am?" the helmsman asked his captain, only for Chiyo to remain silent in thought. Here she was, Captain of the most advanced ship in the CDF, and she was without several key resources. The Soyokaze didn't have any pilots or mecha in her hangers, since those were due after the maiden flight. The worst was the fact that she didn't have an ExO, since the brass had decided to try and find an experienced officer with a high enough security clearance. "Ma'am?"
"Wait for it, just keep the engines ready," she ordered before turning to her weapon's officer. "I want you to ready the forward Particle Cannons," she said, causing the officer to nearly have a fit right there, but he silently obeyed orders.
Slowly, the colonies rotation brought the enemy ships in front of the ships line of sight. "Ma'am," the helmsman nearly whined before the woman's brow furrowed in determination.
"Fire," she suddenly ordered, not realizing she had actually shouted it. Four beams slightly more powerful than that of the original design, leapt from their barrels and towards the fleet of enemy ships in front of them. "Full military power, now!" she then ordered as the Soyokaze began to charge forth, leaving its dock smoldering due to the intensity.
As the ship fully exited, the blue Stealth Cruiser activated its PBS and ECM to defend itself. "Ready nuclear missiles and fire a full broadside! Helm, turn Neptune-ward and head out!" A chorus of affirmatives crossed the bridge as 12 nuclear missiles from the starboard-side launchers leapt towards the enemy fleet with ferocious intensity.
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(2/19/06 10:38 pm) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
Inside of the Macross, the bridge was in utter chaos. The Macross' operators were working furiously to assess the SDF-1's status while trying to determine the scope of the situation unfolding in front of them.
"We're picking up signals from a DC fleet!" one terrified operator reported. "They seem to be targeting the unknowns!"
"Some of the unknown vessels are heading toward us! They are going to attack!"
"A large mass has been detected underneath us! It looks like it's a giant asteroid!"
However, Capt. Vess was only focused on one thing at the moment. It was the status report from the engine room that she was being briefed on.
"Captain, the fold drive is can't be engaged. A bunch of key parts have been destroyed from the first fold," an engineer spoke to Capt. Vess through the ship intercom.
"Very well. Forget trying to repair the fold drive and focus on keeping the sublight engines running. It would suck if we lose those." Capt. Vess commanded the engineer. To her crew, she ordered, "Turn our nose into the unknown ships and focus the pinpoint barriers at the bow. Launch two wings of Ghost drones and fire the rail cannons at closest unidentified ship.
Four large blasts of electromagnetic particles flew from the Macross toward the enemy and the Ghost fighters swarmed from the hangar bays.
"We just picked up another ship on radar. It's the Kessler!"
"Large reaction energy detected! It's close to the Super Dimensional Cannon's power!"
"Its not aiming for us," the captain of the SDF-1 said with great disinterest. A few seconds later, the large beam ripped through a good chunk of the DC fleet. A wicked grin found itself on Vess' face as she shouted, "It's giant robot time! Transform into Attack mode!"
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(2/19/06 11:05 pm) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
The FALKEN had been weaving through laser fire and the occasional missile, fighting back with its gatling gun, before pulling up and out of the colony. A string of curses came from the boy, as his plane quickly climbed from the colony. FOllowing him were the enemies that had gone inside, the attack versions firing at him, while the collectors were heading back towards the large ship in the back... which was charging another beam. The colony, empty for the most part, was about to be shot straight through the middle.
The enemy fleet, caught offguard, recieved major damage from the cannon blasts and nuclear missiles, as the two frigates covering the cruiser were destroyed. The cruiser itself had been struck multiple times, but was still opperational, evident by the launching of ten long missiles from its top. They broke apart, sending clusters, as now the whole area was filled with the miniature missiles.
"Captain Vess, the Kestrel is turning over to your command for now. Tell us what we can do to help," came a transmission from the Federation ship, which was heading for the Macross. Anderson switched turned over to Spegal, noticing that only one of their mecha had launched. "Where the hell is the Idolo? Where's the Suits?"
"Sir, they're still docked! One of the GMs got knocked over, it's blocking the others."
"Then have the Idolo shove it out of the way! We need to launch all our pilots NOW!"
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(2/20/06 2:53 am) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
Hunger was not to be trifled with. To Dante, the ill-fated BLT would not go unavenged. The sandwich's defilement, of which he was wholly responsible, was to him a curse wrought on by the mysterious, malevolent forces that threatened space. Gripping the controls of Idolo, the Orbital Frame was thrust into the outer space fray. Like a silver comet it cut through the emptiness of space, cutting several enemy ships in two with it's arm blade.
"Dead! You're all dead!"
Idolo suddenly reached out to grab an enemy fighter by the cockpit, forcefully ramming the thing into a group of other ships like a bowling ball.
"Incoming enemy fire," the Orbital Frame's computer chimed. Dante's brow twitched and had Idolo form a shield, negating the streak of laser fire.
"This just pisses me off! Who are these guys and who do they think they are? Don't they know who I am? Don't they know I've got needs!"
Dante suddenly opened a communications channel, hoping that the enemy would hear what he had to say.
"Hey, you spaceball f*cks! Yeah, it's me, the HERO of the galaxy! You know what you did right? Back on Earth? Well even if you don't, you're gonna have to pay, one wya or the frickin' other. I'll let you all off if --"
"Attempting to communicate with the enemy for petty threats and insults is not recommended," the computer warned.
Idolo hovered, hands on it's wide hips, as if imitating it's pilot's movements.
"You're totally ruining the mood!" Dante pouted, not even bothering to notice the swarm of enemies closing in. Idolo reacted to the threats, quickly taking them out with swift yet rigid swipes of it's sword and feet. Dante was still controlling the Orbital Frame, but didn't seem to be breaking a sweat at all. Nor did he appear to be taking this seriously.
"I'm a reasonable guy," Dante spoke to the disembodied voice in the Orbital Frame, "Instead you just want me to kill them all. I'm pissed, but I'm not unreasonable, and I think that's a good quality, y'know? I'm willing to let this all slide if they make me another BLT. ...Are there pigs in space?"
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"God damnit you Fed bastard, shut the @#%$ up," the voice of Matthew Lionheart growled on a comm. channel directed towards Idolo. "It's a wonder you ever beat us," he muttered with a sigh, being a private channel...no one else but Dante and Matt would listen to one another.
But Matt quickly flipped his transmitter to squadron frequency to give new orders. "That blue ship is flashing DC fleet signals. Protect her at all costs, Angels...CDF mecha...anti-missile and anti-mech operations commence now," the veteran ordered as the DC forces seemed to accelerate to their top speeds, the variable fighters leaving their mobile suit cousins in the dust as they rushed forward. Bullets, beams, and missiles littered the space ahead of the formation as all the mechs began to unleash hell upon anything that got in their way. The force had definitely dwindled since the start.
So far only two frigates, six mobile suits, and all tweleve variable fighters remained from the original force. But this new, more powerful, DC vessel seemed to have stirred the morale up.
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"Incoming from starboard," the radar officer yelped in a panic as the cluster of missiles came at them.
"Turrets begin anti-missile operations....PBS operators, remember your priority defense targets," Chiyo's orders came out clear and crisp. But inside, she was a nervous wreck...why couldn't she have an experienced officer in her crew...someone who could give her some advice that she may need. All she had going for her was her mind for tactics.
"Roll the ships 180-degrees and give them a port broadside!" she then ordered. Slowly, the massive ships lurched upon her side before flipping entirely upside down. Immeadiately, tweleve more nuclear missiles leap from their launchers and upon the enemy position. "Range to that mothership?"
"Ma'am!? 400,000 kilometers..."
"Close to 320,000 kilometers, full military thrust, and ready Particle Beam Cannons," Chiyo ordered as she stared at her display. They had to get that ship before it fired.
The form of the massive cruiser started to shift after Capt. Vess gave the order to go into attack mode. In a few moments, the giant ship was an equally giant robot.
Inside of the SDF-1's bridge, Capt. Vess was already starting to multitask. She saw the missles incoming and had already formed a defensive strategy. "Engage laser turrets and target incoming missle salvo!"
Hidden compartments in the Macross' hull opened up and allowed the turrets within to emit beams of deadly light that ripped through the swarm of missiles heading toward the giant robot. However, not all the missiles were destroyed.
"Captain! Missiles still inbou-"
"Pinpoint Barriers to the Daedelus!" Vess cut off the reporting operator. "Use it as a shield against the salvo!"
The three glowing green disks ran across the hull of the Macross, toward the aquatic assault carrier that it was using as its right arm. The arm shifted and covered the SDF-1's main body. The missiles collided with the disks, exploding violently but leaving the Macross' hull undamaged.
Without even waiting for a damage report, Vess commanded, "Prepare to fire the Super Dimensional Cannon.The target is the source of the largest reaction weapon."
The twin towers standing tall above the Macross' shoulders folded over said shoulders. Energy crackled between the two monoliths.
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(2/21/06 5:38 am) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
"HERO? ... Oi, Commander, can't I just shoot him once?" came the voice of Eva 02's pilot. Asuka sat in her entry plug, shaking her head, and grinning. "Well... Shinji could learn a bit from this guy... there's my chance!" A volley of blasts from the rifle were launched, as the Kestrel moved up into position. The balls hit multiple warheads, causing chain reactions, and, along with the other anti-missile attacks, cleared the space of most of the missiles, other than the ones that Macross defended against, and a dozen that had strayed off course, heading for the soyokaze. One of those impacted with one of the nukes, destroying both clusters of explosives.
"Fire the Megal Particle Guns!" Large blasts came from the Kestrel, ripping through the enemy cruiser. Along with a few blasts from the Eva and one swipe from the FALKEN's TLS, the enemy ship began trembling. the FALKEN flew past it, heading for the enemy mothership now, as the enemy's last ship exploded. Remaining now were 20-odd enemy suits, not counting the retreating ones... and the mothership.
"I found the enemies that made it off with the population. What're my orders, captain? Should I shoot down the bandits?" Bailey asked, looking up at camera feed of the bridge he had, as the FALKEN broke away from its path to the mothership, now heading for the retreating forces... a massive force of enemy MSs, with those cargo boxes on their backs. "Just say the word, 'mam, and I'll take them out in one fell swoop... though I'm pretty sure that doing so would kill all the captured people."
"Cmd. Anderson, what'll the Kestrel do? If you move up a bit more, I can probably begin bombardment on the enemy base of opperations with the Positron, and you should be able to begin firing upon them with the particle cannons," Asuka chimed in, and Anderson nodded to the video feed of her.
"That's exactly what we'll do. James, have them move the ship up about 10,000 km past the colony." James nodded, and the Kestrel's engines began to fire up. "Be sure to keep away from the colony though... it looks like it'll take the enemy attack."
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"T-20 seconds," the helmsman replied as Chiyo hid her apprehension over the battle. With the arrival of the Angels and the remainder of the mecha corp, all of the missiles from the enemy ships either were destroyed by them, the turrets, or absorbed by the PBS. But some of the enemy mecha had been taken potshots at the new Cruiser.
"Damage to port boom, no change in cannon charge," a officer reported after the ship shook a bit.
"T-15 seconds," the helmsman continued.
"All unit commanders! Continue to keep the missiles and mecha off of us," Chiyo ordered as she suddenly stared at her armrest display. "Wh..where's Commander Lionheart!?" the Captain could help but stammer in surprise, causing her crew to look at her with pale faces. Not at the fact that their captain was surprised...just because they feared not having the more experienced commander in the area.
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Having been listening to some of the Federation chatter, Matt had left his squadron in the capable hands of his second-in-command as he traveled at full burn to the mobile suits suspected of carrying off the colonies population. The enemy would be able to see him on radar clearly, but Matt was still far off...too far for conventional weaponry to get them. Anything else would probably put the citizens in danger.
Too bad, the VF-2SS had something no one really knew of but the CDF. Transforming into Battroid mode, Matt took aim and fired.
It was fast and deadly, a thin bolt of energy striking one of the mobile suits and crippling its ability to move. Yes, the VF-2SS had a high-precision beam sniper rifle.
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(2/25/06 8:02 pm) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
Capt. Vess was of half a mind to fire off the Super Dimensional Cannon at the alien capital ship and just end the fight once and for all. However, the retreating mecha were in the way and the Super Dimensional Cannon would probably annhiliate most of the captured civilians between the Macross and the enemy ship.
Capt. Vess grumbled and said, "Belay the order to fire the Dimensional Cannon. Send out all available drone fighters equipped with missile racks and have them attack the large unidentified ship. Make sure whatever it is can't escape. Ensign Bailey, start the assault."
Vess then shifted her body in the captain's seat. Her legs folded over one of her armrests while her back leaned into the armrest on the opposite side. After closing her eyes and yawning, the brown haired woman stated, "I'm going to take a nap. Tell me if anything important happens."
The bridge crew of the SDF-1 collectively let out a unified gasp of horror at the captain's unexpected announcement.
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(2/25/06 8:26 pm) Reply
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"Yes 'mam!" The FALKEN broke off from the MSs, which began pulling evasive manuvers and splitting up, and instead headed for the ship.
"Large energy readings from the enemy's remaining ship! They're firing!" The mothership opened fire with a large cannon blast, completely decimating the colony. It exploded shortly after, as the ship began its engines.
The MSes released their cargo, which opened up.. sending bodies flying.
"Jesus!" the young boy screamed, as suddenly his ship was pelted with bodies. "Oh man... oh man.." The sound of retching was heard form the boy's radio, as his ship took a small spin.
"Asuka, fire a volley at the main ship."
"Will do!" However, before she could align her shots.. the ship vanished. Simply disappeared. "... Ugh... enemy has retreated. All colonists are dead, sir. Man, what a bad way to start my first sortee..."
On the bridge of the Kestrel, Anderson was rubbing his temples, sickened at what'd happened.
"Jesus Christ... MACROSS, DC fleet, or what remains of it, report status. Idolo, 02, return to the Kestrel. The higher-ups are going to love making us martyrs for this..."
Capt. Vess stirred in her sleep while she tried to dismiss the distant voice echoing in her head. Her hand slapped down over her mouth and rubbed away some stray saliva building up at her mouth.
"Captain!"
At the shouting, the brunette shot up in her seat and started looking around, blinking rapidly. "Eh?" she grunted sleepily.
One of the bridge operators was standing over her with an annoyed look on her face. "The unidentified ships have escaped. The Plutonian colony was completely destroyed and the captured colonists... they're all floating in space, dead."
Capt. Vess swung her feet back on to the floor of the bridge and bounced to her feet with an unexpected quickness. It was quick enough to startle the ship operator and force the poor girl to stumble back as to avoid a collision. The female captain quickly made her way to the bridge's exit.
"Captain? Where are you going?" the same bridge operator inquired as Vess was leaving. "The Kestrel wants a status report and we still have fighters out."
Pausing at the door, Vess made her orders before she left, "Well, recall all craft back to the hangers and make up some excuse to give to the Kestrel. You might want to send some scouts to check out that mass that was beneath us. It's probably a chunk of the island. There might be people stranded there. I'm going down to the Engine Room. I know this ship better than anyone and they'll need me to get the fold drives back up. Otherwise, we'll have a year-long trip back home."
With that, Vess left for the Engine Room. The crew of the bridge grumbled as they were left to do work they assumed a normal captain would oversee.
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Matt watched the scene unfold in front of him, anger crossing his face as he saw innocent people spaced as the enemy ran with their tails in between their legs. But the veteran knew well, this was a loss for the Colony Defense Forces. Though the enemy retreated, they had accomplished their mission. At least...the mission that involved destroying the colony. Why they had spaced the civilians, he didn't know. They went through all the trouble of capturing them, only to dump them into the void at the first sign of trouble. "What a waste of life," he muttered as he opened his flight helmet. Pulling out a flask, the young man took a drought from it before closing it back up and shoving it back into its pouch.
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On the bridge of the Soyokaze, the faces of the crew seemed to be a mix of emotions. Some were red with anger while a few other wept over the loss of friends and family. Their Captain sat with face white with shock...how could she have miscalculated so poorly? She should have thought that such tactics would be used. But that was just it...she had never faced or seen such savagry. Swallowing her pain over the loss of life, Chiyo regained her composure and looked over at her Comm. Officer. "Order all mecha to head to the Soyokaze's bays...Sensors....search for lifepods ." she ordered calmly as one officer looked at her with such anger that it took her back before she glared back at him. "We may have seen an atrocity, but we still have a duty to uphold," she said in a commanding tone, quieting her crew down. "Now, to your duties. We'll prepare to bring in bodies we can find."
"Ma'am," the Comm. Officer croaked. "Message from the Federation forces." Listening to the message, the young Captain nodded to the officer before speaking to the Kestral.
"This is the Colony Defense Ship Soyokaze to Kestral, Captain Akihara Chiyo in command. Our current status...is ours to deal with," she replied, causing a bit of shock by her officers. "Until I get orders that we are to cooperate with you in anyway, it will stay as such. Though I personally thank you for your untimely assistance, the CDF will deal with our own. Captain Akihara, out," she finished as she personally cut transmission.
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Matt couldn't help but whistle as he had listened to the young Captain. "That woman has guts...a bit inexperienced...but gutsy." the veteran muttered.
"Yeah Boss, I think I'm in love," one of the other Angels commented with a snicker.
"Stow it Four and head back to the roost," he ordered as he looked over at the CDF forces. One unharmed Cruiser, two moderately damaged Frigates, 12 Variable Fighters, and four mobile suits were what remained of the taskforce. This meant they had lost two frigates, a destroyer, and nearly tweleve mobile suits in all. "Damnit all...off to war again..." he muttered as he saw the foreshadowing of a new conflict ahead.
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(2/28/06 7:32 pm) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
Anderson slammed a fist down on his seat's arm rest, infuriated by the young captain.
"Get a line back into those bastards! Tell them that under the Treaty of Raiden, that any DC forces away from the DC fleet that encounter a Federation Vessel are to, until otherwise noted, follow the Federation CO's direct order. Remind them that our sensors indicate that their ship is also a direct violation of the treaty's ban on their ships, and that if they do not comply, we WILL consider them a threat, and open fir-"
"Commander, that isn't nessecary." Anderson looked up, as a face had appeared on one of the screens...
"Tsh.... Admiral Elndor, to what pleasure do I owe that you grace us with your presence?" the commander said, sitting back in his seat, sighing a bit.
"We recieved transmissions from your vessel, and have been listening in since the enemy ship opened fire. Remind the captain that there are Federation fleets under my control that are spread out around colonies, and that she could very well initiate a war that could result in the destruction of quite a few major DC colonies."
"But, sir, that'd drag innocent civilians into a conflict that could spark a second coming of the war five years ago. Also, if I was that captain, I wouldn't hesitate to fire upon us in retali-"
"I'm sure your father would agree with my actions." This invoked a look of anger from the Kestrel's commander, as Elndor smiled. "And, in case of such an attack from them, we're sending Evangelion Units 01, the CC archetype, and a mercenary to accompany you. You and the MACROSS are to take the DC vessel and form into a small, Joint-Forces fleet, and return to the RAIDEN station, where we will hold a small, 'friendly' meeting with the DC about their brand new ship we've found. If they refuse, wait until the Eva Units have arrived before opening fire. They should be happy that we haven't ordered both ships to decimate them and send them to hell to catch up with their friends from the colony." Even Asuka, the pilot of Evangelion Unit 02, which had been giving support fire and shooting the phrase "Ender", who had been listening in, gasped in supprise about the Admiral's wordings.
"Keep 02 and Idolo on standby until your reinforcements arrive, Commander Anderson. Once you get the three units, tell the MACROSS to begin heading back to the RAIDEN, and, if it can by the time it occurs, that when it arrives to the Neptune outpost we have, that it may use its Fold System to return to Earth along with you. That is all." The connection cut, and Anderson gave a defeated groan.
'... You heard the Admiral. Get the word out to them..." He said, fixing his hat's position, as his radiomen began patching into the two other ship's communications.
Bailey had his helmet off, wiping his mouth, as his face had a rather sick look on it. This was his first time he'd seen such atrocities... and it was sure to not be his last. He remembered that a little girl hit his cockpit, and he saw her face... a face frozen in horror and pain. Disgusted, Bailey turned his FALKEN around and headed for the MACROSS, trying to establish a connection to the DC pilot who'd yelled at him earlier.
"... Is war always this bad?" he asked no one in particular. "I'll... I'll get those bastards. Those may've been Enders, but they looked the same as us. They must've felt the same, too... maybe dad was wrong? They don't seem like killing machines that have no problem killing their own people..." As Bailey continued on, he forgot that he had connections to the MACROSS and Matt's VF open.
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(2/28/06 10:40 pm) Reply
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
In the engine room of the Macross, Capt. Vess was staring at the damaged fold drive while engineers were busy trying to get it operating again.
The head of engineering walked up to the captain of the SDF-1 and asked, "What is wrong, ma'am? Worried about the activation of the fold drives?"
Vess nodded sternly and answered, "Yes but not because it was not a malfunction or sabotage. The over technology was working exactly the way it was supposed to."
"Ma'am?" the engineering chief said in surprise. He had been working on the Macross from the start and he had nearly thirty years of experience with spacecraft engineering. Yet, Capt. Vess always seemed to know more about the function of the Macross than he himself knew. She knew things that there was no way anyone like her could ever know. That attribute of hers creeped him out slightly but he was aware of the usefulness of her talents. At that moment, he was just as unsettled by her words. It was like she was talking with the ship itself.
"It was no coincidence that we happened to fold to the Pluto colony just as it was being attacked by an unidentified enemy," the brunette explained while folding her arms over her chest. "The Macross was originally an alien ship so it is probable it was reacting to more alien ships entering the solar system. What we engaged is related to the Macross and, in all likeliness, an enemy of the former owners of the Macross."
"Will it happen again?"
"No. The Macross was not combat ready yet and this early departure has damaged a great deal of the over technology like the fold drives. However, I think this is only the beginning of a larger set of problems we are going to have to deal with."
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Some of the Ghost fighter drones swarmed back to the Macross and return to the hangar bays after receiving amended orders via communication signals. Flight deck crews worked to return the unmanned fighters to their stations. Crews started to fill shuttles that were about to depart and scout the land mass that had been dragged along with the Macross by the fold drives.
"Ensign Bailey, please return to the SDF-1 hanger bays," One of the bridge operators broadcasted to the Falken fighter craft. "You are cleared for landing so please make haste. Debriefings will occur after you have safely returned."
Re: Detestable Visitors (Story Arc One, OPEN)
Once the transmission was opened again and the message told, Chiyo couldn't help but grit her teeth in restrained anger. "Captain..." the weapon's officer began before receiving a raised finger to halt what he was about to say.
Then, taking a deep, calming breath, the teenaged captain looked dead into Anderson's eyes...her aura of command and responsibility unwavering. "Understood...Captain," she replied in a calm tone...not letting any anger seep from its cage. "I will have to take that threat seriously...considering the history between our two nations," she replied with a subtle hint to the war five years ago. "And we will co-operate with you...for now. But let us get one thing straight, Captain Anderson...."
Suddenly, the sound of a man clearing his voice broke through the channel. A second window appeared on each side's screen as Matt took off his helmet. "What the young Captain means to say is that you Fed's can keep on dishing out...we'll just keep on taking your insults and your threats...but just remember...karma has a way of catching up to people," the pilot stated with a feral grin. This was the infamous Angel of Death speaking to a ship he had fought countless times before...so there had to be at least some weight behind those words.
Chiyo blinked in surprise at the veteran's display, but quickly regained her composure and smiled at Anderson. A smile meant to smooth out what Matt had said a bit. She'd have to have a talk with him later. "If that's all in order...we are sending you a report now. Captain Akihara, out," she finished as she cut the communications of both Valkyrie and Kestral. "Kuso," she whispered to herself.
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With squadron laughing at their commander, Matt sighed as he switched over to a private channel between him and Bailey, having heard his comments. "Hey...kid..." he muttered as he leaned back and allowed his mech to drift a bit. "War isn't this bad...it can be worse. Seeing friends and enemies die...it's hard to accept...even for the vets. But don't let your anger blind you...you'll just end up dying in vain."
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