fight for a future

Mary used her twin beam sabers to block the Strike Freedom's attacks to the Aegis's chest. "NOT IF I KILL YOU FIRST!!!!" Mary screamed back at Stephen while she launched her counterattack by swinging wildly at Stephen's chest with her beam sabers. The DRAGOON's managed to land a hit on the back of the Aegis, damaging her booster and decreasing her booster speed by 20%. But she didn't care what happened, so long as she was able to defeat Stephen Hownam....
 
"not gonna happen mary" Stephen announced as he used her weakened boosters to his advantage, Launching himself backwards far enought to put alot of space between himself and the Aegis, slotting his beam sabers back onto the hips, Stephen pulled his two beam rifles from his hips and pointed them forwards, the xiphias rail cannons flipped into position under his hips and the DRAGOON spikes took position around the SF, the targetting system flipped up infront of Stephen and all the barrels locked onto the Aegis, pulling the trigger, all 12 of the SF's barrels unleashed volley's of fire towards the Aegis, if this hit it would be over, and the Aegis would be destroyed.
 
Mary knew what she was getting herself into. She knew that she probably might die in battle, at least if she was going to go down, at least it was doing her job in an attempt to keep her promise. She was going to go down fighting. Mary screamed, charging towards the Strike Freedom's attack.

The Aegis was struck in multiple places by the SF's attack. The Aegis's entire left arm was shot completely off, a big breach in hull damage on the right shoulder and there were multiple holes and cracks in the Aegis's Armor. The Gundam was badly damaged, with most of the damage being at the core (not including the missing head and arm. Most mobile suits would have been destroyed almost instanteously by the onslaught, but for Aegis, it managed to somehow survive total vaporization by the SF attacks.

The Aegis started to walk slowly towards the Strike Freedom, with it's remaining beam saber active. For Aegis to move, was remarkable, but the fight was indeed over, even despite Mary's refusal to give in. "I....won't give up Stephen...." Mary said. She was clearly in pain over the radio. "I....won't give up.....on my promise.....not while Aegis.....still functions..."
 
the Strike Freedom landed on the floor and all the Dragoon spikes, and the Xiphias rail cannon's flipped back into place, Stephen wasn't even panting, and the Aegis was torn apart. letting out a big sigh, Stephen connected the two beam rifles together to make the large cannon "I'm sorry mary, but as long as you continue to persue this battle, the longer you remain my enemy" Stephen spoke, the tone in his voice gentle and full of anguish "Goodbye Mary" Stephen added as he pointed the beam rifle at the Aegis.

"Tribal, stop this now, can't you see you have won" boomed through the Com channel, it was from the Archangel "the Aegis is finished, don't destroy it, please, i beg of you" the CIC officer shouted down the com "I'm sorry" Stephen replied to the CIC officer as the sniper target flipped down,and covered his eye, as the Target locked on, a tear rolled down Stephen's cheek "I'm sorry" he muttered before pulling the trigger, the shot would surely blow the Aegis into dust.
 
The beam from Stephen's Beam Sniper Rifle would be the final nail in the coffin for the Aegis. The round went through the torso of the Aegis. The shock of the impact knocked Mary unconscious. The Aegis no longer functioning, wound up falling from the sky and eventually landing on it's back right next to one of the base's buildings. The Aegis then exploded, presumably killing the pilot inside.

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OOC: Where's Zeria???

IC: Inglesia saw the fight go on between Mary and Stephen. So when the fight ended, she smiled,saying, "At least she fought and died a warrior's death."

However, neither Riina, nor Fabiola saw it this way. Riina was the first to say something, "Inglesia, how could you say something like that? She just died fighting Stephen!!"

Despite all of this, the ZAFT Special Forces were able to succeed in taking the data files from the JIS mainframe and exit the facility. the Spec Ops Leader leaving the JIS HQ said, "We've got what we've came for, your mission is done here."

OOC: I need to discuss something with you, can we talk on the PM's or on like Yahoo or something?
 
OOC: Zeria was sick and stuck in bed. XP

IC:

Zeria shook her head as she watched the battle progress, and what seemed like Mary's death. A tear rolled down her cheek, but then she brushed it away.
~You're a warrior. No crying over an enemy~

She sighed, maneuvering the Blitz over to the Freedom's side, and opened a private link, both video and audio.

"Stephen...are you alright?"

She didn't know what to say. It was hard for her to try and remain calm, knowing that it would be up to her to do the same to Riina if Riina stood in her way.

"Are you...damaged at all? Riina doesn't seem to be moving at all, so maybe she'll just retreat..."
 
Stephen smiled as Zeria floated next to her "Don't worry Z, i told her to stop attaking me or i would destroy her, and she kept trying, it's a casulty of war" Stephen announced before looking to the Le cygne,he disconnected the beam cannon and looked at the Le Cygne, his Eye's still glazed over.

"I just Hope Riina doesn't try to exact revenge" Stephen announed
 
Riina regained control of her body and Le Cygne. Without a word, she boosted upwards into the air. Riina looked at Strike Freedom, then at the Aegis's burning wreck. She then headed back to the Archangel.

After Riina landed in the Archangel's hanger, and put her Gundam in the usual spot. She disembarked and ran straight to her room. She needed some quiet time, especially since she lost a close friend today.
 
Riina regained control of her body and Le Cygne. Without a word, she boosted upwards into the air. Riina looked at Strike Freedom, then at the Aegis's burning wreck. She then headed back to the Archangel.

After Riina landed in the Archangel's hanger, and put her Gundam in the usual spot. She disembarked and ran straight to her room. She needed some quiet time, especially since she lost a close friend today. Tears flowed down from her eyes, saddened from the events of her mission. She didn't know what to say to Stephen.
 
as Stephen saw the Le cygue go back to the archangel, he radioed the other Hunter pilots, "Zeria, Arika, Iarka, keiko, Z.A.F.T forces are pulling out of the region, mission acomplished, Return to the archangel" he informed them "But Tribal, myself and the twins are assigned to the eternal" Keiko informed him "yea, but you have been re-assigned, the Eternal is no longer a war ship, it is becoming a civillian transport, and there are enough suits assigned to it, they don't need three arial aces" Stephen explained.

after a few seconds, Stephen saw the Buster, the Dual, and the Strike heading back to the Archangel, he watched them down the Hangar, and then turned the freedom to the Blitz "Lets go Z" he informed her before heading towards the Archangel.

after Stephen manouvered the Freedom into it's usual spot, Stephen disembarked, as he was getting lowered from the cockpit, he noticed Arika walking towards him, Iarka was talking to him, arika actually looked angry. as Stephen touched down, Arika punched him, making Stephen glance back "SHE WAS ONE OF YOUR CO-WORKERS, A FRIEND OF YOURS AND YOU KILLED HER" Stephen gritted his teeth, grabbedArika by the throat and pinned him to the foot of the Freedom.

"YOU DON'T THINK I KNOW THAT, I TOLD HER NOT TO CONTINUE IN THE FIGHT OR I WOULD HAVE TO DESTROY HER, SO BACK THE FUCK OFF" Stephen announced before knocking the younger boy to the floor, Standing over him Stephen looked down on him "If your not ready to fight against those on-board, then leave the ship, we will find a replacement pilot for the Buster" Stephen explained as he exited the Hangar bay.
 
Zeria had stopped in the hallway just enough to see Arika and Stephen fight. She frowned, knowing that this was stressful and hurtful to more than just Stephen. She sighed, shaking her head, and followed out after him.

"Stephen..."

She put a hand on his shoulder.

"Are you alright? I mean...really alright? It wasn't your fault..."
 
Stephen shook Zeria's hand from his shoulder and glanced around at her "I'm fine, don't worry" he announced before continuing to walk, as he got to his room door, he hit the button to open it, headed inside, and locked the door closed behind him.

With nobody capable of getting inside, Stephen sat at his desk and loaded up his laptop, he noticed an E-mail from the Earth forces, it read.
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Mr Hownam,
We are pleased to inform you that we loved the work you did for us in the last battle, and we realize just how difficult it must have been for you to take the life of one of your allies, but we have a problem that require your assistance with.
your previous display of ability was enough to make us realise that you can aid our latest Mobile Suit Units return into the atmosphere, below is a list of mobile suits currently en-route to Earth, and we are affraid that the pilots for these suits are already on earth.

The Calamity
The Forbidden
The Raider
The Abyss
The Chaos
A Gaia

These suits MUST reach earth in order for us to stand a chance against Z.A.F.T and their suits, Please hurry Mr Hownam. . . the fate of earth depends on this mission's success
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Stephen shook his head in disbelief "Why are the Earth allience smuggling suits to Earth, and why would they privately E-mail me and not as the crew of the Archangel, Stephen forwarded the E-mail to the captain, and added to the bottom "we should all go" and so the captain set a course for space.

"ALL CREW MEMBERS BRACE FOR ATMOSPHERIC TERBULANCE" came over the ships internal com "All Aerial ace pilots please report to the Briefing room immidietly" Stephen jumped to his feet, got into his Space combat suit and unlocked his door, Heading towards the Briefing room.
 
Riina had gotten herself dressed in her combat suit. She had to force herself into the fray again, especially after her losing a friend.

Fabiola was the first to say something, "Come on Riina, you look sad, you want me to take over for you?"

Inglesia responded, "There's nothing to be sad about, Mary died a warrior's death, she should be praised for her accomplishments."

"Geez, you're not really sensitive are you."

Soon, Fabiola and Inglesia were bickering, and Riina decided to block them out while bickering and proceed to the briefing room.

At the briefing room she saw Stephen, but she refused to say anthing to him, she was too sad to say anything and she did not want her other personalities to praise him or bash him for what he did to Mary.
 
As riina Entered the Briefing room, Stephen got a glare fromher and smirked. The Captain entered a few moments later Stephen stood at attention as the Captain looked on "at ease Soldiers" the Captain muttered as he entered and Stephen sat down. "well Mr Hownam, you know what I'm about to say, so go ahead, give the briefing" Stephen nodded as he stood up.

"Right, this is it guys, we are now babysitters, there are six mobile suits heading to Earth as we speak, our job is to protect them, they must survive the journey, so Earth Federation stands a chance against Z.A.F.T" Stephen Explained "As for Z.A.F.T Resistance, there appears to be a ship in the area, it's class is unknown, obviously a new model, so lets avoid pissing them off shall we" Stephen explained. "Dismissed" stephen the announced abruptly "hownam?" the captain announced, Stephen strode over to him "The Buster, the Duel and the Strike are not acoumpanying us, they have gone to the Hunters HQ for 'upgrades' of sorts" Stephen nodded "yes captain" Stephen announced before heading to the Hangar bay.
 
After Riina understood her orders. She left the briefing room and immediately preceded to put on her space suit, after which she decided to head to the hanger and wait for Stephen to launch.

Fabiola and Inglesia quieted down since she left the briefing room, and were worried (or at least one them was) about Riina's well being. However, the two agreed that a mission could taking her mind off mary's death.
 
As the archangel broke Atmosphere, Stephen did his final checks on the Freedom as it was placed on the Catapault. "Stephen Hownam, strike Freedom. . . LAUNCHING" Stephen announced before the Freedom was shot out of the Archangel like a bullet from a gun.

as the Freedom exited the Archangel, Stephen activated the phase shift armour and headed towards the Earth transport vessel "Archangel, I'm going to head straight there as fast as possible, you guys get there as soon as you can" he informed the CIC officer on the archangel before blasting off into space, it took around 20 minutes for him to get there, and he flipped around and floated along next to the ship, he took note of the Z.A.F.T vessel on his radar and keapt an eye on it's movements, it wasn't a problem right now.
 
Zeria wished he wouldn't have just brushed her off like that. It almost hurt to watch him walk away. It made her wonder if he really was okay...
Before she could get much thought in, she was already being summoned back to the bay, where Stephen breifed them. She could only sigh, standing there with boredom.
~So much fighting over something so stupid...~

She glanced over at Riina, her face emotionless. She was glad Riina had chosen to back off, but still couldn't help wondering what was going on in the pilot's head after watching Mary's death by the hand of Stephen.
~It doesn't matter anymore. We can't take it back...no more than I could take back Giulio's death...~

Zeria shook her head, climbing into the Blitz. She was suited up and ready to go.

"Zeria Iiyasei in the Blitz, launching!"

After making sure the Mirage Calloid system was on, she followed off after Hownam, pulling alongside him 10 minutes later than his arrival, and immediately opened a com channel.

"Don't you think ZAFT will suddenly know something's up when they see more of us guarding the Earth Forces? I mean, sure, they can't see me, but they can see you and Riina and anyone else who comes. They're going to get suspicious..."

She sighed for what seemed like the millionth time.

"What do you suppose Earth Forces needs the suits down on Earth for anyway?"
 
Riina was doing her final checks when Stephen launched. Afterwords, Riina's Le Cygne was placed on the catapult, her final checks complete she was now ready to launch. "Einhorne, Le Cygne, Launching." The Catapult launched Le Cygne out of the Archangel, and flew in behind Stephen. They spotted the Earth Alliance vessel carrying the mobile suits. Unlike Stephen, who floated around the ship, Riina landed her Gundam on top of the ship. Riina felt that she could do this, and she probably could.

Riina said to Stephen and Zeria, partially answering her question, "Let them be suspicious, we have our job to do, if they want to engage us, then let them try."
 
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Stephen looked around his cockpit, there was sweat running down his forehead. All he could see everytime he blinked was him pulling the trigger, killing Mary. Stephen picked up two heat signatures comming from the Z.A.F.T ship, the ID was a pair of Recon Ginn's "Guys, lets try and stay out of any uneccaserry combat, leave the Ginn's their just Recon" Stephen explained,

Stephen clipped his two beam rifles together into the beam cannon, and pointed it at the Ginn's just incase. "easy now" Stephen muttered "Don't make any mistakes" he continued the Ginn's spun around and headed back to the ship. "well, Z.A.F.T now know were here" Stephen muttered, he was still worried about what was about to happening, he had a bad feeling.

another three heat sources came up on screen and the ID was unknown "ahh crap, new suits, they have made us" Stephen announced as he pointed the Beam cannon at the one leading the packand pulled the trigger, the suit didn't change course, and it let the shell hit him, "that guy is dead" Stephen announced but the blip remained unchanged "what the hell" Stephen thought, as he cought eyes on the leading suit, he didn't recognise it.

One was predominantly green with yellow Shields on it's shoulders, the second was completely Red and the third was Shaped like a Flower, that when it got close enough, it opened out, and tentacle like things flew out at the Freedom, the Freedom evaded the attack, just, and began firing with it's beam cannon, the rounds were hitting it, but having no effect.

"Guys, there is some sort of new armour on these suits, don't let them get to close to the ship" Stephen announced as he clipped the beam cannon down the Center of the Freedom's wings and pulled out the two Lancerta beam sabers. Stephen then began hacking at the tentacles "damn, these things don't run out" Stephen announced.
 
After seeing the three mobile suits come out and Strike Freedom being caught by a prototype Mobile suit, this led to Riina thinking of something, "Stephen, let me take a shot." Riina took off towards the Rafflesia, unclipping her Ballistic Pistols. From seeing Stephen falter, she knew that beam rifles and energy weapons are ineffective against that thing. But, using her Ballistic Pistols which were made of solid shell ammunition, there was probably not a chance that the weapons would not penetrate the armor of the Rafflesia.

Riina fired her pistols at the opened petal. She thought correctly, the enemy weapon was indeed vulnerable to solid shell ammo. as it managed to go through the beam shield and pierce through the titanium and ceramic armor of the weapon. It also managed to damage some of the tentacles as well. Riina then said, "Stephen, energy weapons won't work on this suit but solid shell weapons work, try making it damage itself!"
 
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