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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Feb 12, 2020 21:14:33 GMT -6
Sonia made a finger pyramid as soon as Lucius left, a smirk crept onto her face as she took one of her cookies and took a bite of it. Though this was short lived, as suddenly the station began to shake, and alarms went off. She picked up her phone connecting through to operations."This is Commander Lortie. Status report!" she demanded as she got up. She was quickly told that the base was under fire from a currently unknown source."Scramble mobile suits! I want what ever is firing on us found and killed!" she said before hanging up the phone. She began to rush her way down to the hanger.
The Supply Officer was rather busy directing things around while the attack was occurring."Huh? Sure thing kid. Just get going! We are under attack." he said barely paying attention.
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Post by Knightcalibur on Feb 12, 2020 21:26:45 GMT -6
Lucius smiled as he nods as he quickly climbs into the red mobile suit during the mess. "I'll try to get away from the attack and radio in for the recovery ship! Godspeed!" He said to the officer as he ran in a hurry before finally climbing into the nuclear-armed RGM-96X Jesta before activating the start-up system, once the hatch is finally closed. The engines roar to life, as the mobile suit flies out of the hanger to join the battle before he does a short-ranged transmission to the unknown unit.
"Nice work Fumiko... I will return with the prize, you'll cover my exit then return when you are ready! You'll be getting a special surprise later, once you get back." His pleased tone echoed through his voice, finally choosing to drop the fake accent as he pulled off some of the false make-up and cosmetic changes that he used to change his appearance before finally sliding the helmet on fully. The scarlet Jesta flies off, as it goes to flee the area through the Zeon lines.
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Post by Oberst on Feb 13, 2020 7:01:26 GMT -6
The Zodiac's beam cannon required the entire machine to be maneuvered in order to get it in a correct firing position. The massive mobile weapon had all the room to maneuver it needed in the cold, endless vacuum of deep space. It was a time consuming process but one Fumiko had grown accustomed to by now. For something of it's size it could be maneuverable if she adjusted the right power settings.
That first shot had gone wide, naturally. The flash of light dissipating but in the human eyes that witnessed it would leave an incandescent trail in the darkness. The Zodiac had for all intents and purposes given it's position away so Fumiko needed to hurry up and relocated.
" Give me 30 seconds to line up another shot!" She would try her hardest to move to a sensible position first to ensure the Jesta didn't get obliterated once she did so.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Feb 13, 2020 7:46:33 GMT -6
Sonia was strapping into her MSK-008R Rick Dijeh when she got a transmission from Operations."Ma'am, We have located the attacker. A massive mobile armor. Orders?" they requested."Lock on and fire anti ship ballistic missiles." she would say as she activated her mobile suit. The base after acquiring lock would begin to fire a barrage of anti ship missiles, which trailed out with a red glow into the depth of space racing towards the mobile armor. Sonia would grab her Hyper Mega Launcher before walking her mobile suit over to the catapult. Then, she was catapulted forward and launched from the station engaging thrusters to maximum she began to race out to go and engage the mobile armor.
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Post by Knightcalibur on Feb 13, 2020 9:31:33 GMT -6
Lucius finally managed to disengage back into the ship. After transmitting his personal clearance codes before finally landing his stolen mobile suit, he slowly slides down the cable before barking orders.
"I want this suit to be stripped of it's nuclear payload and placed into the container and I want the Gundam Hephaestus prepared for lift off." He demanded of his crew upon removing his mask before getting changed while taking a moment to transmit a Singal to Rozengarten's blockage saying "Stage 1 has been completed and moving to flee".
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Post by Oberst on Feb 13, 2020 21:38:08 GMT -6
Thanks to it's size, the Zodiac could carry a ton of countermeasures in the shape of dummy ballons. Since there had been no time to design unique ones, each ballon launched resembled Musaka and Endra class cruisers but they would still be large enough to mess with the anti ship missiles guidance since they had been rigged with jammers and explosive charges. Due to the extreme distance involved these missiles would take a few minutes to arrive in her vicinity.
Fumiko would deploy three of such ballons along the way, keeping herself out of the base defensive batteries. With the Jesta now making a run for it and visible in her HUD she was able to line up a shot, engaging all the thrusters in the aft to bring the behemoth mobile weapon to a sudden stop when the main cannon was done recharging. The gaping mouth of the Zodiac would emit this incandescent glow as the energy concentrated prior to it's second shot, now aimed at the fortress properly.
The Zodiac fire control system was more than capable of switching targets, thus allowing her to direct the destructive stream of energy across the fortress as if it were a blade that moved diagonally. There wasn't anything subtle or accurate about it, she was merely trying to inflict as much blind damage as possible from this extreme range.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Feb 13, 2020 21:58:26 GMT -6
Sonia dodged and weaved between the decoys as they shot forth and deployed. She hadn't left too soon after Lucius, and thus by now was pretty close. Though her eyes went wide as she watched the Z'od-iacok fire upon her base. The glow of the power beam illuminating her mobile suit. She could practically feel the heat from the attack. She followed the beam visually, watching it impact. Exploding on impact and then melting into the base. She grit her teeth and then looked forward, and burst forward sinking back into her seat. She had her MSK-008R Rick Dijeh raise and lock the Hyper Mega Launcher into place. Visually locking onto the massive mobile armor. Scanning along it, she aimed for the open maw wanting to hit something internal and vital. The 8.3 MW Hyper Mega Launcher began to charge up, energy ripping down into it as it began to glow. Then, with a press of a trigger, she fired the powerful shot!
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Post by Knightcalibur on Feb 14, 2020 14:28:22 GMT -6
Lucius sips onto a glass of water from a container before floating up as he climbs into the cockpit of the Hephaestus. With a emerald shine of its eyes, its engines roars to life as his hatch finally closes before launching out of the warships hanger with one of his "Special Cargo" placed inside of the missile launcher.
As it flies into view, he opens a hailing Singal to the commander with a polite smile. "Sonia of Lando bell, this is Lucius Alexander Smith. Do you copy? You are to suspend your counterattack at once." His words were unaltered by any accent and no longer carried the same friendly tone as before as the massive scarlet red and white mobile suit flies into sensor range.
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Post by Oberst on Feb 14, 2020 18:38:36 GMT -6
The Zodiac's lower portion was blown a sizable hole which would no doubt ruin the beam's accuracy over long range. Fumiko had to run an entire damage control protocol, quick on her fingers to try and contain the damage caused by that mega launcher. The Zodiac was such a large target dodging was impossible. It took a ton of fuel to just get the thing to move into a suitable firing position. Against a small target like a mobile suit she was better off relaying on their escort.
" Damn! they're on to move now." She would detach the lower half, not seeing any reason on holding onto it anymore. Now fully in control of the top half, the Zodiac's massive head would slide into position along with it's four limbs, giving it an extra degree of mass to fling around in order to change directions in this weightless void.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Feb 15, 2020 15:03:20 GMT -6
Sonia watched as the Zodiac detached the lower half of itself with a satisfied grin. Though she began to line up another shot, and charged the Hyper Mega Launcher. She could punch through it's defenses. Wihch was good, as otherwise it would be a useless gesture. However, just as she was ready to go at it again at the retreating mobile armor a voice caught her attention."I see my suspicions were correct." she would reply as she turned to face Lucius in his mobile suit."I offer you one chance at surrender. You and your forces are hopelessly out numbered, and now out gunned. Spare many lives, and stop this foolishness." she began in a serious tone."Lucius. This conflict, it has gone on long enough. I have been here since the one year war." she took her support hand off of the launcher, and put it open palmed out towards him."This old conflict has hurt you no doubt, and tainted you. Let it end. You are fighting a war for a bunch of old men, a bunch of old men who throw the young at one another. I don't know what you planned to do with those nukes but know this, all it will do is perpetuate this war." she was sincere."It needs to end. Now. Let it die."
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Post by Knightcalibur on Feb 15, 2020 23:06:00 GMT -6
Marcus simply replied with a neutral pitch in his voice. "Sorry to disappoint you but as much as I aspire to secure peace between us. Believe me, I do which is why I was going to make a ceasefire after recovering my forces. However... there are 'others' on both sides who don't want the war to end and until my quest is complete until they are rooted out on both sides. Sadly... I can't simply surrender for now. I want to end the old men's war since it will only get bloodier from here if I don't act soon." He responded in a sincere way but then shakes his head.
"It's not complete destruction of Earth Forces or even Zeon itself... but a wave of true peace past the 100-year war that will make a world without the need of hate-groups like 'TITANS' from ever returning again. I'll be willing to talk someday for real. But for now, I need to go if you resist i will fight back." His tone carried a bitterness in its resolve as the large Gundam unit flies into range before wielding a massive sledgehammer in one hand, while the other had the infamous launcher before it fires a single missile directly at the station.
The missile when launched flew through space at high-speed before impact into the hanger, but oddly when it crashed into the hanger it sprayed a red liquid all over the hanger as the decoy container breaks apar open. The leaking cargo was a shipment of strawberry jam seeping out of the broken glass container inside of the missile shell. The results were nothing special until suddenly a loud high-pitch screech that rigged out from the warhead itself carried a damping device that spreads a high-pitch screech cutting off their coms effectively "Jamming" them all aside from short-distance communications so they can speak privately.
The Bayern getting the signal started to move-in with a detachment of reinforcements moved to extract Fumiko and the rest of her team but noticeably not firing upon her forces yet instead of keeping a battle-ready stance.
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Post by Oberst on Feb 16, 2020 11:08:16 GMT -6
Fumiko was certainly not in the mood to engage in a verbal argument with their enemy, not when she had her hands full keeping the Rick Dijeh at bay. The Zodiac's left hand would emit a long beam blade, taking an AMBAC assisted swing at the elusive Rick Dijeh but it was more of an attempt at keeping it away.
The Zodiac was for all intents and purposes designed to attack fortress and war ships. It was too unwieldy for anything less and this was painful obvious to anyone.
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Post by HeadlessSeeker on Feb 16, 2020 11:32:59 GMT -6
Sonia quickly aimed her Hyper Mega Launcher at Lucius as soon as he fired the launcher, but did not fire herself for some reason."You are not sorry. But you do disappoint." she said. "Your words have been spoken a hundred times before. You will be the one to bring peace? Zeon said the same thing, while threatening to drive an asteroid into the Earth. Your words are hollow, and weighed down by gravity. Your soul is not yet free." she said the monoeye fixated onto him."if you try and use those weapons, you will simply go against what you have stated. Use those nukes, and resentment will boil up and you will become the very thing you hate. You will continue this cycle that has lasted since 0079. You are being used, whether you realize it or not. Old men, old ways, and the past will control you so long as you work within their system. Within their ideals. If you want peace, it is right here. No one else has to die by your action. If you want peace, then Zeon must be left in the past. Peace through destruction will not happen. " she said pausing."You must think the Federation is Corrupt and Horrible. Mentioning the Titans like that. Let me tell you something. I was in AEUG. And there are good people here who want things to be better. But constantly, those people are killed. Zeon at the start of the one year killed half of the worlds population. During operation star dust they starved the rest. The Titans rose from that hatred. Don't let it happen again. If you try to leave, then you leave me no choice then to stop you. TO stop this madness myself." she would say just at the Zodiac came in for a swipe.
The monoeye swung around and stared at it as she then burst upwards, sinking into her seat. One of the beam claws nearly nicking her leg as she used ambac and controls to swivel herself around. She pointed her Hyper Mega Launcher down and at the hull of the Zodiac. She squeezed the trigger, and then it fired as her left foot detached, molten metal bubbling out into the void of space from the beam claw.
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Post by Knightcalibur on Feb 16, 2020 12:05:27 GMT -6
Lucius returned the launcher onto it's back, as the Gundam after rendering the area effective, with the shoulders of the Gundam opening up releasing a pair of ICCOM disks to release from each other of the crimson monster, before releasing a spray of beam lasers in the path of the Mega Launcher attempting to shield the Zodiac from harm while motioning to her. "Fumiko. Leave the area and disengage your suit is too damaged." He coldly stared at her via a video call as his eyes were hollow and cold, unlike his usual state almost attempting to hide his rage.
His attention shifted back to Sonia as the large heavily armoured Gundam Hephaestus instead of going after the allies, charges the enemy forces with its right hand holding a massive maul in its hand and gripping one of its hyper beam sabres in the other. "You say that the AEUG was right... let me ask you? Did the Earth forces cared when the Titans sacked ROME! DID THE EARTH FORCES CARED WHEN THEY USED MOBILE SUITS TO OPEN FIRE ON BOTH UNARMED CIVILIANS AND THE RIOTERS...?..." At that his rage hit a peak as his spiritually his aura felt like a raging thunderstorm unleashed out in the galaxy as his white hot fury was echoed by a primal roar as his Gundam stared at her.
"Both sides... hence why groups like that existed both 'Neo Zeon' and 'Titans' were ruled by evil people. RIGHT Now... If you attempt to stop me then you will leave me no choice but to take you down..." The Gundam's emerald green eyes ignite with a glow with a glowing trail of energy like emerald lightning dancing out of the eyes of the scarlet mobile suit. It dashes at the Rick Dijeh swinging it's massive maul with the roaring engines on the other end boosting the very speed of the strike as it swings down.
(To set the tone of the attack)
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Post by Oberst on Feb 16, 2020 12:22:58 GMT -6
" Easy for you to say! if I give this woman a chance to shot me in the back I'm done for." Fumiko's risk was a calculated one. Even with his precautions the truth was Sonia's Dijeh had gotten way too close for comfort and giving the veteran pilot the rear end would result in the Zodiac being very much obliterated in one shot. At least with him more directly involved she could actually attempt and barreling the Zoan's lumbering ass around, burning a sizeable amount of the fuel reserves in the process.
For the sake of safety, the head section would detach after it had gone far back enough, allowing this escape pod to be recovered by one of their Zaku IIIs while the rest of the body was left to be recovered later.
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