fight for a future

Zeria glared back defiantly.

"Just because one arm isn't working properly, doesn't mean I can't fight too!"

She was fighting back tears in her eyes.

"Besides, you do stupid shit all the time. Coming out here alone! You're letting your pride get in the way, Stephen! It doesn't hurt to have a backup once in a while!"

A tear finally trickled down her cheek, and she slammed her fist down.

"Damnit, Hownam. Pride is what got Giulio killed, because he wouldn't let me help!"

She burst forth, ramming into a suit.

"I won't let you make the same mistake! I love you too much to let it happen!"

Zeria felt the familiar wash of Seed as it activated for the first time since Giulio's death. She slipped out of mirage calloid, bringing up her phase shift armor, and firing off her beam rifle a few times at a suit trying to come towards her. The comm link had been cut now, and she was solely focusing on killing all those who would harm Stephen or herself. She did not, however, notice more suits coming after her. A group slammed into the Blitz, knocking her hard again, and damaging it further. She let out a growl of rage, firing off the lancer darts into one suit.

The group slammed into her again, trying to rip the Blitz apart. She spun, throwing 2 back away from her, ramming the fist of the Blitz through a 3rd, and then throwing the other two back off of her...
 
"Zeria" Stephen muttered as he looked around and began firing off beam rifle rounds, "Captain, Launch the Verde Buster and the Blu Duel, i will need help" Stephen announced "Zeria, head back, the Buster and Duel can help me" Stephen muttered as he connected the two beam rifles together, but before he could pull the trigger a beam passed throught thecenter of them blowing them up "Hell no" Stephen announced as he released the DRAGOON spikes, firing a volley, taking down the Second of the five suits, "three left Zeria" Stephen announced
 
Zeria didn't even comprehend what he said. Just gave kind of a grunt as a response, going after another suit. She was ready to ram the fist of the Blitz through it, but it caught her, throwing her back. The damaged arm of the Blitz was wrenched off. Zeria let out a cry, as Seed deactivated. She wasn't able to hold it with all of these cracks to her skull.

"Damnit! Go to hell, bastard! I'll make you pay for damaging the Blitz!"

She tried to fire her beam rifle at it, missed. She tried to lock on with the Gleipnir system...no luck. She was just pulled in, and the other arm was ripped off. The suit smashed the Blitz down, and Zeria's head smashed against her controls, somehow connecting a comm with the Freedom. Zeria didn't look so good. Her helmet was cracked in several places, she was breathing heavily, and her entire body was trembling.

"Gods....this thing is a monster!"

Another slam into the Blitz, and then gunfire shot through the leg of it. Zeria's head was cracked into the controls again, and she barely sat back up in her seat. Her head was swimming...it hurt...everything was blurry...
 
Stephen saw as Zeria was hammered into the ground and completely lost control of what he was doing, this power was beyond that of the Seed ability.

Stephen pulled the lancerta beam sabers from the Hips of the Freedom and threw himself towards the suit that was attacking the blitz, cutting it down with no second thought, as he spun around he noticed the fourth suit getting blown away by the Verde Buster Stephen launched towards the Z.A.F.T War ship but was stopped by one of the foe suits wrapping itself around the Freedom.

Power began building in the foe suit "oh shit, this is a suicide run" Stephen muttered before the Cockpit of the Freedom opened 'jump' appeared on the Freedom's Screen, it was the AI System of the freedom "thank you old friend" Stephen announced before jumping into the Ocean.

as he hit the water, Stephen heard the Freedom Explode with the foe suit, as he came back up from beneath the water, Stephen pulled his helmet off and looked at the burning remains of the Freedom, there was next to nothing left, the Freedom was gone. Stephen swam over to an Island and climbed on shore, he plugedin his personal com gear and opened up a channel "Captain, I'm fine, Retrieve Zeria before sending anyone to get me, I'm safe" Stephen explained before laying on the beach.
 
OOC: Okay, gonna have a small mission before the two big one.

I wanna ask something, where there other pilots in the Hunters besides you and me then? I'm very interested in what my life was like back then.

For once, Fabiola was quiet. Her eyes became pensive as it looked absentmindedly at the walls as they walked. There were many other pilots and many were friends/aquaintences. However, recent events have forced all three personalities to rethink how they were living.

...Well....the Hunters is a relatively big organisation. It would not have been very successful if it was just us two. Those that were close to us was Zeria Ieysia(?) and...Stephen Hownman.

War weariness was beginning to creep into Riina's head. the constant cycle of killing was crawling into her mind and at times, Riina felt and wondered if she should just give up and go back to the Otoris.

Life was....a ride...i guess for a lack of better word. In fact, a better word would be game. A game of mercenary deathmatch. Deep bonded friends that havve faught together through so many battles could draw the unlucky straw to go against each other in combat. I guess thats how we live...well Riina and Inglesia in any case. I don't fight.

Another pause and hesitation.

You...were one of those unfortunate cases where the straw was drawn. As i said, you faught to the death with Stephen.

By now, the hangar loomed ahead. There was more commotion than before when Riina encountered the guard. It seems the commander had called ahead for her trip. A Gunnery Seargeant spotted the duo as they entered and jogged to their side.

Ma'am.Orders from the commander. You will be taking the VTOL Hover Hornet (the area just before the engine is replaced with troop compartment, so is a clear, open space, like on a blackhawk). Gear up into winter gear and we'll have the bird ready for take off when you come out.


 
OOC: It's Zeria Iiyasei, her RP character is the same as her current username

IC:
...Well....the Hunters is a relatively big organization. It would not have been very successful if it was just us two. Those that were close to us was Zeria Iiyasei and...Stephen Hownam.

Mary heard the name Hownam before, though she cannot remember where. Now she knows that he too was a pilot for the Hunter's.

Life was....a ride...i guess for a lack of better word. In fact, a better word would be game. A game of mercenary deathmatch. Deep bonded friends that have fought together through so many battles could draw the unlucky straw to go against each other in combat. I guess that's how we live...well Riina and Inglesia in any case. I don't fight.

Mary then thought of the mercenary, She had some sort of Multiple Personality Disorder. She must have gotten used to it if they were best friends in the Hunters. The fact that some missions had to involve fighting other mercenaries, even your friends....Life must've been rough for someone like her.

You...were one of those unfortunate cases where the straw was drawn. As i said, you fought to the death with Stephen.

"So....is that why I'm here now? Well, I don't know much about him, from what I heard of the other pilots, he's amazingly skilled, and seems to prefer EA missions. Despite whatever history we had, I would like to meet him on the field someday."

The Gunney spotted the duo as they entered the hanger, he said to the two ladies, Ma'am.Orders from the commander. You will be taking the VTOL Hover Hornet. Gear up into winter gear and we'll have the bird ready for take off when you come out.

"Understood, get the bird fuelled up and ready to go as soon as we board." Mary ordered.

"Yes Ma'am" The Gunney went back to the VTOL.

"Follow me Fabiola, we're going to the fitting room to get our winter gear." Mary headed towards the fitting room, where all the gear is. Quickly putting on a Heavy jacket with a hood, snow shoes for traversing the cold plains, as well as gloves. true to her nature, she also carried with her the Accuracy International Arctic Warfare Magnum Sniper Rifle. Made by another of GR's subsidiaries, Accuracy International.

"Once you're ready, meet me at the VTOL." Mary said before heading for the Hornet.
 
Stephen was lay on the beach, his arms were outstretched so he looked kind of like a T the Ocean krept up and engulfed his feet, as he lay there, he could hear the ocean swaying, the breeze blowing in the trees behind him. Stephen sat up as he heard a russel in the trees that wasn't the wind. glancing over his shoulder, he pulled his combat knife from his boot-sheath.

he jumped to his feet and headed towards the tree's, he noticed movement in the tree's and headed around the edge of it. once he was in the bushes,he crept silently and noticed a man, rugged hair and bearded, he dove on the man from behind tackling him out of the Tree's.

Once laid on the beach, he pinned the man to the ground, Knife to his throat "you better tell me who you are, you got 3 seconds to live" Stephen announced "I am a mechanic" the man Exclaimed, "I build and maintain the Gunam in the facility under this Island" Stephen pulled the knife away from his throat and looked down at him "who do you work for?" Stephen questioned "I am. . . how do you say. . .the Z.A.F.T member" Stephen gritted his teeth and put the knife back to the man's throat, Give me one good reason i shouldn't kill you?"

the man smirked "Because if you not kill me, i give you Saviour" Stephen's gaze became confussed, the man's foreign accent was becoming harder to understand "I show you" the man added. Stephen let him up and the man lead the way into the forrest, Stephen kept his knife in his hand while they walked, just in case there was a trap.

After around 20 minutes of walking, they arrived at what looked like an old bomb shelter, "that aint big enough to house a Gundam" Stephen announced "Gundam in Island" the man announced before entering the Bunker, Stephen followed and looked around, there was next to nothing in there, the man walked over to a computer and punched in what could only be a password.

Stephen looked at the man as he strode over and Stood next to Stephen, the floor jolted and then began lowering, Stephen was now confussed "Gundam in Island" the man repeated, Stephen looked around, and after about 10 feet of solid Concrete Stephen entered a Giant hangar, Stephen looked around, there was only one suit in the Hangar "other suits Dispatched to defeat Freedom" the man Explained, and Stephen gritted his teeth, "Saviour is yours"

the man announced, Stephen saw a Mobile armour sat on a Launch pad "i wanted a Gundam, not a mobile Armour "it changes" the man explained in his strange accent "no tracker, N-jammer technology, small nuclear power pack" the man Explained "you mean an Ultracompact nuclear fission reactor" the man smiled "yes" he announced nodding, "vPS Armour, Speed of Freedom, No DRAGOON but good suit, one of best Z.A.F.T have" Stephen looked at him "and you will just give it to me?" Stephen asked "Why?" he added "you spare my life, i hate Z.A.F.T wish to leave"

Stephen heard the Captain's voice through the Radio, "Bring him with you" the captain announced "you want to join the Hunter's Organization?" Stephen asked "away from Z.A.F.T?" the man hoped as he questioned "yes" the man smiled and noded "yes yes yes" the man announced, almost jumping for joy making Stephen smile.

"Then lets go" Stephen announced as he headed to the Gundam, the cockpit was open and Stephen took his new seat, the mechanic climbed in afterwards and climbed behind the seat. "Hold on" Stephen announced as he gripped the Controls "Tribal, Saviour, Launching" Stephen announced as the Saviour Burst down the catapault and out of the Open hangar doors.
 
Zeria was in bad shape by the time they brought her in. Unconscious to be exact. And her helmet was in pieces. She was now in the infirm wing, and being tended to. They were all worried. She wasn't responding. She just lay there, motionless. They'd stabilized her breathing, but she'd taken a few really nasty knocks to the head. The captain walked in.

"How is she?"
"Not good, sir. We're doing all we can now, but the last blow to her head was bad"
"How bad?"
"She's still unresponsive to us. We're trying to find some sort of trigger to rouse her, but no good"

Zeria was lost in some kind of...dream. That's all she knew what to call it. She was just....floating. Floating in space without her helmet or anything, and Giulio was there, catching her.

~Giulio? Where am I?~
~You need to wake up. You're drifting between life and death at the moment~
~My head hurts...I just want to sleep a little longer~
~If you stay asleep too long, you'll die, Zeria. He needs you. Don't linger here~
~But what about you?~
~I'm dead, Z. Move on and be happy with Hownam. You promised you'd live, remember?~
~I remember...I'll...I'll try...~

Her eyes snapped open. She immediately shut them again. The room was too bright. Too many people crowded around her.

"Stephen..." she croaked. "Where's...Stephen?"
"We're getting him back up here, Zeria. Don't speak. Just try to keep awake"
"Hurts..."
"Just relax. He'll be here soon. He was really quite angry that you went..."
"I know......but he's...safe now..."
"He's going to be more worried about you. You pulled a stupid move out there. You won't be piloting anytime soon. The Blitz took extensive levels of damage. And so did you"
"But captain, I-!"
"There's no room for discussion, Crimson. You're grounded from piloting til the Blitz and your head are repaired completely"

She sighed, placing her hand over her eyes to cover the tears that were forming...
 
OOC:OMG Perfect! Its good that you brought a gun. You'll need it. :busta:. Also, Mary will be piloting the craft, but is it alright if i control it? reply in the next post. take us out of the base in your next post.


"Once you're ready, meet me at the VTOL."

Riina nodded and walked into the changing room. Her own suit was wrecked beyong any repair. It would have been perfect for this mission as it was, white, and that it had a temperature system for space. With no ther choices, Riina got into some heavy winter gear. It looked advanced as she has never seen this type of clothing before, with a skin tight suit underneath with some odd blue lines along its length. More odd was a small tank on her back waist that seemed to power some form of temperature control. It was good. In her current condition, if she did not have to worry about the weather, then she could concentrate on something more important in a fight. Satsified that she has put on the suit properly, Rinna stepped out and pulled a M31 rifle (model number made up XD) from the rack, pulled the skin tight suit mask up to her face and slipped on eye mask before heading off towards the Hornet before jumping into the troop compartment.

Okay. i'm good to go.
 
OOC: Fine with me. Also..is that gun from Mass Effect?

IC:
Okay. i'm good to go.

Mary smiled when Fabiola entered the troop compartment. the Gunney that was going with them each handed the two with a .45 USP2 pistol. "That's in case you need any backup weapon Ladies."

"Thank you Gunney, I'll take the controls."

"Yes Ma'am" The Gunney took a seat at the troop compartment.

Mary on the other hand walked into the cockpit compartment and started powering up the engines. The Hornet VTOL began to lift off the ground as the Hanger's ceiling doors opened up so the Hornet can get outside. Lifting slowly through the opened doors, the Hornet switched from Hover to Jet Mode and began flying in the direction to the ruined Le Cygne.
 
"Well, I suppose that won't work, but this will."
Moments later, he welds the last couple of inches down and starts painting. The armor on the shoulders of the gundam provide an amazing cover for the guns. Linking the guns to the units computer system, he sets about preparing the unit for battle again. He sets up and locks down the guns.
"Finally, I have 'em ready!" Kira heads out for the mission area he heard about while working, hoping to get in on some action. It's a relatively long run, so he attaches backbreaker to the top of the Nazca and docks his unit. Clumsily, he takes the Nazca up and flies it carefully off to the site of the supposed battle.

OOC: I would kind of like to meet somebody that is part of the story and this is the best way I know to get in. I am going to the area where Stephen was shot down.
 
OOC: Nuppers, its from Lost Colony. Does look like it though, now that you mention it. This, i wouldnt mind as a SD weapon XD. When you rach the Gunny, ill start the event.

The Hornet soared through the air. There was light snow, but that wasn't a problem. The light aircraft made great time, despite the fair distance from the base. Fabiola stared out the window, the M31 across her thighs, tapping her fingertips along its length. Through the perspex window, the flurry of snow flew by the twin VTOL engine. There was very little engine noise, which made the trip much more enjoyable.

Around another 15 minutes, Mary pulled the craft into a tight banking turn, aiming for a flat, open spot around a hundred meters from the crash site. With quick, efficient skills, the Hornet hovered for a few seconds before settling in on the ground. Fabiola ran her hands all over her suit, making sure that all was well before she slid the side door open and jumped out, slinging her rifle across her should. The Gunny hopped off the other side and the two made their way across first.

Hot damn, missy. That is an impressive looking suit you had there. Probably outstrip the Strikw Daggers and those Ginns by a mile.

Even destroyed, the upper torso and head remained relatively intact. The darkened corpse of Le Cygne loomed over the white landscape omniously.

Indeed. Wait right here. Im going into the cockpit.

Fabiola ran up the small snow dune which le Cygne perched on and scrambled up its wrecked torso. As expected, the damage was extensive, but the interior of the cockpit seemed okay. With a few sparking wires and some mechanical work, electrical energy restarted and the system from the computer rebooted. Its eyes lit back up, surprisingly as the cameras sttill worked. It flickered, but it worked. Fabiola had no false hope that Le Cygne would ever move again, but there was the next best thing. Transfering the drive completely. That was secondary, as there was one specific file that she needed, and only she knew exsisted. The other who knew on ZAFT had already died, so it was all hers. Fabiola waited quietly, gazing at the snow. It was becoming bigger, the snow fall, but she didn't register this.
 
While Fabiola and the Gunny were heading in the direction of the Le Cygne, Mary was shutting down the Hornet's systems, while keeping the vital heating systems active. After this is done, she climbed out of the cockpit and joined the Gunnery Sargent 300 meters away.

She asked, "Where's Riina?"

"Oh, the missy, she's over at the cockpit of her wrecked unit. I don't what she doing, but if her suit was that good, it must've been from a ZAFT Gundam."

"Yeah......maybe so....."
 
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OOC: Make it 250-350 meters from the Hornet.

While the data reader continued to extract and salvage the files from the onboard computer, Fabiola took her time in reminiscing the times she had on Le Cygne. To the lonely girl, it was more a friend than a piece of tool. There was a few more minutes till the transfer was complete and on a whim, she popped back out into the open at the lip of the cockpit and stretched. Her boots tapped on the black metal and by sheer luck, when she glanced by her feet, she spotted the necklace watch she got from teh Otori's. In perfect condition to boot. Just as she bent down to pick up her precious pendant, shots riccochet off the top of the open cockpit.

Fabiola stumbled backwards and fell onto her seat. In a panic, she pulled the M31 up and placed it over the rim, firing blindly at the general direction of the enemy. Glancing back at the data pad screen, there was still a bit to go, and she could not leave without the data. All she could do was stay put and return fire. Bringing her gun back in, Fabiola planted her back behind the edge of the cockpit under cover and quickly popped up, taking in as much information as possible. Her coordinator eyes scanned the white country side and spotted nothing until she saw a slight movement of brown around 80 meters from her position, running for a low bulge of snow. Fabiola returned fire, the gun jerking in her hands as the bullets spattered near the enemy as he dove behind cover. Evidently, he was not alone, as to the right of him, in another cover position, another enemy popped out and open fire. Fabiola had the upper terain advantage, but they had numbers. Not just two or three, but a whole bunch of them. In her mind, as she went back behind cover, Fabiola's mind reeled. Who were they? What business do they have here?
 
OOC: Edits made to last post.

IC: As soon as they heard gunfire, Mary and the Gunnery Sargent rushed over and took cover at the base of the Le Cygne's wreck.

"What's going on?" The Gunney asked, to which Mary said, "We're getting shot at that's what!!!"

Mary headed up the small snow dune, lying on her stomach and took up sniper position near the top of the dune. Her coordinating eyes, were accustomed to long-range sniping, and could hit targets up to a mile away with ease.

She spotted the first target and fired off a single .300-caliber shot straight to the target's eye, dropping him cold almost immediately. She quickly fired off a second shot at the guy next to him, killing him as well. But now this meant that she would be a priority target.

Mary thought, "Just who are these people that are shooting at us?"
 
Stephen was flying the Saviour without heading in a straight line, he was getting used to the controls as he was used to the Strike Freedom, he was actually enjoying the fact that the suit wasn't the Freedom, now he might be challenged. as he approached the Archangel Stephen smiled "Archangel, this is Stephen hownam in the Saviour Gundam, open the hangar bay doors" the captain smiled "okay Mr Hownam Wealcome back" he announced.

Stephen entered the Archangel and headed Straight for the Sick bay to check on Zeria, as he entered he saw her lay on one of the beds and instantly he made his way to her,. Clutching her hand in his own, he moved her fringe out of her face, tears were welling up in his eyes "I Told you to Stat at the Archangel, you would have been safe."

Stephen gritted his teeth and looked at her "are you okay huni, please talk to me, you can't leave me, not now"
 
From her perch, Fabiola could see two blood spurts shoot skywards and the heads snapping backwards from impact of the bullet. Two guns were silenced, but several other still barked. For now, Fabiola was safe...somewhat. Placing a finger to her ear, she tried to get into contact with Mary.

Mary. Shit's hit the fan. We are under fire from a big band of enemies. I don' think they're military as they can't even hit the floor with their guns, but from where i am, i think they have numbers. Thank god the don't have a snip....

The mother of all bangs rang out over the white landscape and a resounding thank of a large caliber riccochet resonated through the cockpit. Any idiot could tell that it was nothing smaller than a .50 sniper rifle. The fact that they can't aim properly was still there, but with it being accompanied by a portable machine gun, Fabiola was in a very dangerous position. Rounds after rounds hammer the cockpit as the LMG sent bullets after bullets at her, forcing Fabiola to keep her head down. The transfer was complete, but she was pinned down.

Mary. I'm done here, but they have a sniper and a LMG pinning me down inside the cockpit. This is going to be risky, but can you take out the machine gunner? The moment you pop him, ill clamber out and slid down the snow dune.

It was risky. There was no other cover for Mary to go as besides the dune, it was open expanse and any movement would draw the enemies attention. Mary would have to take the shot where she was, even with the enemies zeroed in on her position. Fabiola could only hope that the sniper went for herself while the gunner went for Mary. At the distance, more likely than not, the LMG was going to miss .

Can you do it?
 
Mary. I'm done here, but they have a sniper and a LMG pinning me down inside the cockpit. This is going to be risky, but can you take out the machine gunner? The moment you pop him, ill clamber out and slid down the snow dune.

Can you do it?

Mary took aim with her sniper rifle and quickly spotted the LMG'er. Apparently, he was focused on Fabiola and payed no attention to the sniper. "Apparently, they were not trained good enough." Mary thought as she pulled the trigger and the bullet, screaming at Supersonic Speeds, and hit the LMG'er in the forehead.

Placing a finger to her ear, Mary said, "Done, get out of there."

As soon as she said this, the other sniper tried firing at Mary, but since he probably had training in a video game, he still can't hit a thing, she decided to let him live, and come down the snow dune. Putting her sniper on safety and putting it behind her back, Mary drew out her pistol and saw the Gunney putting down supressive fire while taking cover behind the Gundam's mangled leg.

"Once Fabiola comes down, let's get back to the VTOL."

"Yes, ma'am."
 
Zeria opened her eyes to look at him. Tears were rolling down her cheeks, and she was still trembling.

"I'm so sorry..."

She sat up, her head pounding, and bowed her head.

"I wanted to be there in case you needed me......"

Zeria suddenly burst into tears again, burying her face in his chest.

"No I'm not okay....they won't let me pilot! I'm grounded til the Blitz and my head are fixed......they said that if I'd hit my head any harder I'd be in a coma...as is they have no clue what pulled me from a partial coma..."

But she knew. Giulio had encouraged her, giving her the strength to keep going.

"The Blitz is so broken...and it's all my fault...!"
 
Seeing the Archangel, I actually recognize it and open an all-band com channel, so everyone in earshot hears: "Psi Gundam online. Here to offer escort services if needed. Pilot Kira "secund" Matsuhiro speaking. If anyone is online there, please respond." I enter the Psi Gundam, link my com to the ships, and enter the launch bay. I hope this works. My thoughts echo me a minute later in a ping from Psi.
 
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