Donna was too late to assist just as that new Gundam appeared and she was blocked into fighting more grunts, resulting in Naina losing the fight and the destruction of the Tallgeese. She lost her only friend in this forsaken world as well. The killer was in front of her after it moved a distance to avoid the explosion and from how it stands out and how it fought the pilot is no doubt an ace. The Gundam pilot heard Jason's advice on getting Blackstar for support and devised a plan. She decided that she will lure that Gundam so an experienced pilot can assist as her earlier battle with an ace didn't end well. "I will get some assistance with this ace. I will lure him to one of our own Gundam units." She declared. She took a deep breath before making her move. The Sandrock prepared it's shotels and darted forwards to get the enemy ace to notice her. "I learnt from my earlier mistakes. I won't make it again!"

Gabriel had a rough battle ahead of him. Although he was outnumbered and damaged, his suit was far superior to his opponents and his skills as a Newtype put the battle on even terms. The Zaku units tried a frontal assault at first given their numbers advantage, but soon gave up on that plan when Gabriel was able to damage three of their suits while avoiding the enemy's fire. "Right, I'll try to hurry and mop up these guys and move up to help Sigma. Don't worry about me Miss Baker, I have been through worse. These guys won't stop me, I'll make sure we get our boys home safe." He replied to Baker while he had a moment hiding behind cover. With a Frontal Assault not working the Zaku units had to try and flank the damaged Gundam. The three damaged Zakus started to lay fire down on Gabriel's position in an attempt to pin him down while the other two Zaku's tried to move to Gabriel's side. Gabriel sat calmly waiting, he didn't know exactly what side the enemy units would come from, but he knew they would come and he would be ready for them when they did.

The enemy Zakus were clumsy and Gabriel was able to pinpoint their location before they opened fire on him. Which turned out to be their bad luck as the first Zaku unit to pop into Gabriel's view received a three shot burst to the chest resulting in an explosion. The sudden attack by Gabriel and explosion of the first flanking Zaku unit caught the second unit off guard and the unit wasn't able to completely avoid the explosion of his ally. And before the unit could fall back he also received a fatal volley of shots from Gabriel's rifle. "Three down three to go..." Gabriel said to himself as he readied himself to attack the dug in Zaku units. "What I wouldn't give for a flash grenade. he thought waiting for a break in the enemy's fire.

As Saturnalia approached, she could see an intense aerial battle taking place between Captain Aker, a black suit using bits, and another Gundam against the Throne Drei. When the Raigo shot the Drei in the leg causing it to falter in mid-air, Saturnalia calculated it's trajectory and lead the shot.

"Captain Aker! I am coming in to assist, please disengage momentarily." With that warning, the Virtue fired the shot it had been charging, releasing a massive pink ball of energy from her bazooka towards the falling Throne Drei with the express intent to destroy the suit and its pilot completely.

"Any enemy suit? It looks like a gundam.. continue the assault! I will wipe this one out as well!" Gato said to his men who were now engaging the few slaughter daggers and marasames that had pilots who could pilot them which were very few due to the fact that the most elite of their men had already been dispatched to wipe out the enemy. "Hey you there with the Arabian weapons I challenge you in the name of Zeon! I am the Nightmare of Solomon Anavel Gato!" GPO2 aimed it's beam saber towards the enemy pilot as he awaited a response to the pilot. He was not stupid Gato knew that he could have just charged the pilot but the more time he forced the enemy to waste time talking the more his men would overwhelm the lone warship. The damn thing had strong plating it seemed because unlike most Feddie warships this thing didn't blow up after a couple shots. And those suits weren't normal GM's by most means. He'd waste this fool's time talking and then he'd move in for a quick kill.

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Two of the zaku units tried to dispatch SIGMA with a charge attack only to be unceremoniously gunned down by the elite dagger unit with relative ease. "You know at the end of the day daggers aren't all that bad of a suit don't you think boss?" one of them stammered jokingly as he reloaded his magazine. "We got enemies on our right!" SIGMA Leader proclaimed as he told his second in command to take out the enemy pilots and they did so with more difficulty this time as they sprayed the area with rifle fire. "Conserve ammo you fools don't just spray blindly these things are obsolete but they are still mobile suits!" SIGMA Leader told his men as his suit was hit once more by an enemy rifle fire nearly destroying the suit. "DAMN IT! I told you to watch it!" SIGMA Leader shouted angrily as his men covered him once more. "I gotcha!" one of the pilots said as they shot an enemy sniper before they could take aim at Gabriel.
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"What? Oh yeah that Celestial Being Pilot I forgot you were here! Wait what!?" Graham proclaimed as the machine unleashed a blast towards Throne Drei causing the machine to get engulfed in the blast nearly destroying the thing if it weren't for Paul quickly pulling the thing out of the way nearly half of the suit was destroyed and the Drei was nearly destroyed. However it had nearly killed Lyons as well. "You better have one fucking good explanation of why you just nearly killed ME!" Paul growled angrily. "Why the hell did you save me?" Nena questioned Paul, "So I can interrogate you sorry ass and because that tech you got there is pretty damn interesting now shut the hell up and stay down before I take a beam saber and shove it through your cockpit you incessant brat!" Paul told her off as he picked up his fallen beam saber as he entrusted Grant's men to cover him which they did in proper form destroying the remaining Bawaoos with ease due to their skillful team work. "You know I wasn't engaging the gundam that other gundam was you almost threw me off my game there pilot." Graham said offhandedly. "So our orders are to advance correct?" Graham questioned Paul as Puru similarly lamented the fact that the blast had nearly blew her funnels up. However to her it made little difference because the light the mobile suit had made was so pretty.

"Captain Aker!" Saturnalia cried out exasperated, "I'm not with Celestial Being! I'm with a secret U.N. group that commandeered the remains of Gundam Virtue for research and anti-terrorism." Of course, this wasn't the truth either, but Captain Aker didn't need to know the truth about the Innovators.

When Paul started yelling at her, Saturnalia tried to be diplomatic, "Ensign Saturnalia Noelle reporting; I'm very sorry, in the chaos I was unsure which suits were our allies and which were enemies. I thank you for supporting Captain Aker all this time, and I am glad that your skill as a pilot saved you from my attack." She noticed, with severe disappointment that, the Raigo still held the remains of the Throne Drei. "As a sign of goodwill, I would like to offer you the honors of finishing off this annoying enemy," Saturnalia said, referring to Nena, "If it's technology you're interested in, my suit is far more advanced than hers, so I can offer much more than she can," Saturnalia said, trying to sound as pleasant as possible, while simultaneously trying to suggest that she wanted Nena dead.

"I'm sorry for distracting you, Captain," Saturnalia replied to Graham's gripe, "but you're the only one I trust completely right now and I didn't want you getting caught in the collateral. As for advancing, I would advise against it, my suit is almost out of GN particles so I would like to regroup and recharge. We are also under no obligations to obey orders until our allies have identified themselves to us."

Gabriel stayed in cover for what felt like an eternity waiting for the enemy's fire to break but in reality it was only 30 seconds. the old suits ballistic weaponry soon made the distinctive clicks of an empty clip and Gabriel didn't give them a second chance. He quickly dived out from behind the rock he had been hiding behind and dashed for his beam saber, dropping his rifle in exchange for the Saber. In an instant before the Zaku units could finish reloading he was on top of the three Zaku units saber in hand. Gabriel made quick work of the three Zakus each receiving a quick fatal slash. "Enemy units eliminated moving to help Sigma." He quickly reported to the Sundown before putting away his beam saber and retrieving his rifle. "Mark this location please miss Baker, if we aren't the ones to retreat from this battle I'll need a salvage team on this location to collect some broken parts for repairs." he added before scrambling off to Sigma's location rifle in hand. He quickly rushed into the battle taking shots at any enemy units while moving into cover with Sigma team. "Sorry I'm late did I miss anything?" he said to sigma team as he hit cover.

Donna was puzzled with the sudden declaration of a duel. "Okay... I'm not sure what's Zeon or John and who he is..." She thought, noting the quality of calling to a duel similar to how her father described some members of the nobility settling feuds with duel. It was alluding to her nobility status as well to much coincidence. "but I need to stall him until reinforcements if I can't beat him..." She got her speakers out to respond. "I am Second Lieutenant Donna Lindemann of the Earth-Sphere United Nations, daughter of the Lindemann family." She answered back. "I accept your challenge!" Her Sandrock's main camera shined as she took her stance to fight Gato's Gundam. Seeing that her enemies are honourable (for total strangers) she hopefully wouldn't be attacked from the back.

"It wasn't skill kid, it was dumb luck that I managed to dodge that all my nerves screamed at me to move from something. Lieutenant Black Star Commander of this division. I hail from Earth and technology isn't what I'm plainly interested in though I'm sure the nerds back in the bay area would be glad to take a look at your suit. I'd like to know all this little turd has to knows about this place. Besides if you want her dead you can at least look her in the eye and not kill a unarmed opponent. Now don't get me wrong stranger. I'm not one for holding hands and singing but there's a time and a place for everything." Paul said angrily as he dropped off Trinity and told Alpha Team to fall back while him, Puru, and Aker advance. "Aw yeah! Time to kick some butt!" Puru said with a smile as she followed Paul off past the jungle of large stone columns that held up the rocky ceiling above them. "Damn I hate fighting in crumby ruins. It makes me feel like I'm closed in." Paul said as he looked about.

"Well I guess what happens next is up to you Saturnalia. You could disobey the big man over there in that gundam but I don't think his friends over there would enjoy you shooting their captive. Oh yeah and sorry about screwing up your name again I forgot it's a heat of the moment sort of thing." Graham said as he turned his suit around and prepared to set off after the group of two, "Yeah I'm not catching up to them anytime soon but hey I gave'em my word and I don't go back on that. So either follow me and or go with them or just leave it hardly matters to me what you do as long as you're not shooting at me. Not like a suit like this could do much against a tank." Graham said smiling as he launched and Grant's units grabbed the promptly half destroyed suit of Nena Trinity. "Yeah the boss wants her alive and while I enjoy living I'm more afraid of what he'd do to us than you if we disobeyed orders so what's it going to be you vigilante." Grant said as his men kept their guns aimed at Trintiy, at least those not carrying her, and his was aimed at her. "Ensign Grant I'm commander of this squad. Proud member of the Earth Alliance OMNI Enforcer." Grant told her politely as he kept his gun aimed. "Sir enemies are engaging the Sundown we don't have time to waste." Grant's second said as she pulled Nena up. "Well then I guess this chick better make a choice. What's it going to be?" Grant asked her as he waited impatiently with an itchy trigger finger and his only source of refuge under attack by an enemy that THEY were supposed to be surprising. Sometimes he hated his life.
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"About time 'captain' we're pinned down and these FUCKS won't give us breathing room! The second we look out the second we get loaded up on by the enemy rounds and vice versa. My guess they're running out of ammo soon so we blitz'em and we kill'em all!" SIGMA's leader said as he sat in his cockpit tapping his finger on his seat. "I'm trapped in this hunk of metal so yeah it's up to you and the men. I'm thinking about now Paul Lyons is rushing in to finish off his side about now. The kid for all he's worth is skilled. I've heard of Black Star before this the kid's reputation is well earned he's the only pilot of a gundam to survive against another gundam and the top ace of ZAFT. He's not going to let some pain in the ass enemies like this keep him waiting." The man said as suddenly the zaku units opened fire again while two charged with axes only to be gunned down immediately by SIGMA in a completely brutal fashion. "This is Baker we're experiencing our own problems sorry but I'm doing what you're asking and marking it...if I can remember how." She said as suddenly she was pushed off to the corner of the screen and in a few moments the place was marked, "There newbie now get to god damn work!" Williams told her impatiently as she went back to her own console, "I didn't even think someone could so that so fast." Baker said rather impressed and embarrassed with that whole few moments.

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"Glad to see there is at least some worth respecting here." Gato replied as he charged at her with his beam saber but with his shield out in front of him. He was planning on a wide arced slash from the upper right to the lower left. If dodged then he would pass by and if attacked from behind attempt to block with his shield and then attempt to shield bash Sandrock. If blocked he would attempt to overpower Sandrock with the bulk of GPO2.

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"What do you mean Trinity was overwhelmed!?" Glemy said worriedly as he contemplated what to do next. If he didn't retreat his likely hood of survival would go down the drain and on top of that he would lose not only the respect of Mr. Gato but also Captain Ash and abandon Nena to a fate worse than death: Captivity by the Earth's servants who were bound to it's gravity. "Damn it prepare for take off we may need to get out of here on a moment's notice. I'm sure Mr. Gato will take out the enemy's commander and then we can charge them in for the victory!" Glemy said hoping if this were to fail he could pass it off on his allies' faults. After all it would not be proper for a noble such as him to lose all he had and be captured now would it?

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"It wasn't skill kid, it was dumb luck that I managed to dodge that all my nerves screamed at me to move from something. Lieutenant Black Star Commander of this division. I hail from Earth and technology isn't what I'm plainly interested in though I'm sure the nerds back in the bay area would be glad to take a look at your suit. I'd like to know all this little turd has to knows about this place. Besides if you want her dead you can at least look her in the eye and not kill a unarmed opponent. Now don't get me wrong stranger. I'm not one for holding hands and singing but there's a time and a place for everything." Paul said angrily as he dropped off Trinity and told Alpha Team to fall back while him, Puru, and Aker advance. "Aw yeah! Time to kick some butt!" Puru said with a smile as she followed Paul off past the jungle of large stone columns that held up the rocky ceiling above them. "Damn I hate fighting in crumby ruins. It makes me feel like I'm closed in." Paul said as he looked about. "Well I guess what happens next is up to you Saturnalia. You could disobey the big man over there in that gundam but I don't think his friends over there would enjoy you shooting their captive. Oh yeah and sorry about screwing up your name again I forgot it's a heat of the moment sort of thing." Graham said as he turned his suit around and prepared to set off after the group of two, "Yeah I'm not catching up to them anytime soon but hey I gave'em my word and I don't go back on that. So either follow me and or go with them or just leave it hardly matters to me what you do as long as you're not shooting at me. Not like a suit like this could do much against a tank." Graham said smiling as he launched and Grant's units grabbed the promptly half destroyed suit of Nena Trinity. "Yeah the boss wants her alive and while I enjoy living I'm more afraid of what he'd do to us than you if we disobeyed orders so what's it going to be you vigilante." Grant said as his men kept their guns aimed at Trintiy, at least those not carrying her, and his was aimed at her. "Ensign Grant I'm commander of this squad. Proud member of the Earth Alliance OMNI Enforcer." Grant told her politely as he kept his gun aimed. "Sir enemies are engaging the Sundown we don't have time to waste." Grant's second said as she pulled Nena up. "Well then I guess this chick better make a choice. What's it going to be?" Grant asked her as he waited impatiently with an itchy trigger finger and his only source of refuge under attack by an enemy that THEY were supposed to be surprising. Sometimes he hated his life.

"Well, it takes a big man to admit that it was luck that saved him rather than his own skill," Saturnalia said, still trying to come off as nice as possible. She didn't believe that his name was actually 'Black Star', but with all these random factions like Zeon and OMNI popping up seemingly out of nowhere, maybe it was a good idea to keep one's identity hidden. Fortunately for Saturnalia, her identity hardly even existed to begin with.

"As for the enemy captive, I'm not out for blood or anything," Saturnalia said to Black Star, trying to shrug it off, "It was merely a suggestion. I'd be just as pleased watching this terrorist rotting in your brig. In my current condition, I think it best that I help escort the prisoner back to the ship and find a way to recharge the Virtue. I wish you happy hunting." This she directed to both Graham and Black Star, and maybe even to Puru, though Saturnalia wondered if Puru was even a serious pilot.

"Ensign Saturnalia Noelle, reporting," she repeated her greeting, this time to Grant as a formality. "I will be accompanying your team back to the ship to recharge and to keep an eye on the prisoner. Captain Aker seems to trust your group, and I am grateful to your commanders for sending you and your allies to come to our aid."

The Gundam of the Zeon soldier charged at the Sandrock, prompting immediate action. "I got it!" Donna said to herself. She dodged the opponent's charge and made her attempt to strike from the back but the attack was nulled by the shield. "What?!" As the shield parried the shotel she was hit with the shield, shaking her inside the cockpit and screaming at the impact. She recovered to give another attempt to gain the superiority and the beam saber and one of shotels clashed with each other, both pilots now attempting to overpower the other. "When will everyone else return..." She thought as she desperately held on.

Gabriel listened to Sigma Leader as he explained the situation "Well being pinned down is never fun, and we don't exactly have the time to play the waiting game. How about I draw the enemy fire and your men finish them off. This old Gundam is more than suited to take a few rounds and it should be hard enough for them to hit me in the first place" He said confidently. "I mean they are still using ballistic rifles we wouldn't of switched to beam weapons if those ancient things were useful." Gabriel added while taking a moment to scan the battlefield for another suitable piece of cover to use. After a bit of studying Gabriel spotted a good position. "Alright boys, give me a bit of cover while I move and cap any of those bastards who poke their heads out to much." He said to the members of Sigma Team before leaping out of the cover sending a volley of shots at the Zaku units to draw their attention before activating his boosters to avoid the incoming fire and move into his new area of cover. Although his little stunt got Gabriel hit a few times, the damage wasn't anything to bad and his little stunt should of given Sigma Team at least a little opening to move in on the enemy units.

"A big man isn't what the lieutenant is....he's a bit....frustrated with his lot in life so to speak. Whatever just let's get moving back to the Sundown...if shit breaks down we don't need to lose our ship. And you're welcome I guess I'm just doin' my job...though being transported to god knows where isn't a part of it." Grant said absent minded as he turned around and prepared to launch off towards the site where his ship was located at. "So do you have any idea on where we are?" Grant tried to ask just hoping that she didn't shoot him in the back. If she did....well he'd be fried bacon and that means Graham and that Puru girl were about to do the same to Lieutenant Paul.

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"You're greener than grass fight back!" He shouted at her as Gato swung his beam saber at the weak points of Sandrock (arms, legs, etc) in an attempt to decapitate the suit and capture it. He didn't want to outright kill the girl but this was a battle field if he didn't have a choice he'd kill her in a second. She was feddie scum after all..."For the glory of Zeon I won't lose! Especially not from some grass green newbie from Earth!" He taunted her. However he was shot from behind by a turret from the Sundown and it briefly staggered the mobile suit which was then promptly shot once more in the leg nearly crippling Gato by a Slaughter Dagger.

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"BREAK 'EM!" one of SIGMA shouted angrily as they charged forward blitzing the soldier who were focusing on the gundam one of them grabbed a grenade from the downed zaku nearby and threw it at the enemy. Before it hit the ground one of SIGMA team shot the grenade causing one of the zaku to promptly take slight damage and force itself out of cover only to be promptly gunned down. SIGMA pulled their sabers out and promptly pulled up their shields as the fight turned into a melee brawl as they got close the zaku remaining charged them.
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As Paul and his new...'companions' flew towards Glemy he couldn't help but feel an odd sensation coming from Puru but he chalked it up to something he may need to find out later. Mostly due to the fact that they were about to engage a new enemy line. "Damn it how many of these bastards does this Glemy guy have damn it!?" Paul growled as he charged forward beam saber in hand as he looked at his power battery. "Damn it not much left in the tank! I'll make it quick then damn it!" Paul said as he parried a blow deftly with his beam saber and full on bull dozed an enemy before he could so much as flinch. "It's all OR NOTHING!" Paul said with determination in his eyes. He'd not die like this not here and NOT by some worthless nobody's hands! "Seems like there's no end to these bastards but that's fine! I am not the one to complain about a good challenge anyways! Come on Puru!" Graham said passionately as he fired his rifle at the enemy who dodged but was quickly overwhelmed by Puru's shots afterward as his companion was shot from behind and then stabbed by Paul quickly and efficiently. "Mr. Black Star is so intense....I can feel his anger it's kinda scary but I'm glad he's on my side!" Puru said hesitantly but he was more worried about Glemy than her allies at that moment even if this was a slaughter they deserved it for being meanies in Puru's honest opinion.

The swing from the enemy's beam saber gave alerts that damage is becoming critical. The enemy ace proceeded with a taunt on her skills as a novice, though understandable as this is her first actual combat. An earlier battle with another ace piloting that black transforming Gundam convinced her that she is still new to fighting as she only fought on simulators previously. "But he's too strong..." She muttered to herself. Chance to strike back was given when the opposing Gundam was shaken by attacks from other directions by the Sundown and the defending Mobile Suits. "I am still an officer of the Earth Sphere!" Donna shouted back as the shotel gave a swipe that will sever the right arm of her opponent's Mobile Suit.

Gabriel grinned as Sigma started their charge. It was surprising how a simple distraction was able to change the tide of battle. Gabriel came out from behind his rock rifle ready. Although it was close quarters Gabriel was still able to place precice shots on any Zaku unit that looked as if it was actually going to land a blow on a member of Sigma team. "Lets clean them up Boys he shouted as he tossed his rifle next to Sigma Leader "Give me some cover if you can. I'll help out in the brawl just make sure I don't get a shot in the back." he shouted out while drawing his saber and joining into the fight to help Sigma team against the Zaku units.

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"A big man isn't what the lieutenant is....he's a bit....frustrated with his lot in life so to speak. Whatever just let's get moving back to the Sundown...if shit breaks down we don't need to lose our ship. And you're welcome I guess I'm just doin' my job...though being transported to god knows where isn't a part of it." Grant said absent minded as he turned around and prepared to launch off towards the site where his ship was located at. "So do you have any idea on where we are?" Grant tried to ask just hoping that she didn't shoot him in the back. If she did....well he'd be fried bacon and that means Graham and that Puru girl were about to do the same to Lieutenant Paul.

Saturnalia thought about his question about their current location. The Veda Network's coverage was global, the fact that she couldn't access it was supremely upsetting. She was just lucky that the Virtue had been equipped with a non-Veda reliant OS as a backup in case Veda ever got hacked, otherwise she wouldn't even be able to move the suit. The people here threw around terminology she wasn't familiar with, and the landscape was simply uncanny. "N-no, I don't know where we are," Saturnalia replied. She followed Grant, keeping a close eye on the Throne Drei, if it moved, she'd shoot it. If the cockpit opened, she'd shoot it.

"Well fuck." Grant said in exasperation. "Of course you don't not blaming you but it'd be nice to actually go on a mission where a guy like me isn't just told to shoot stuff and make things blow up. Now I'm trapped in god knows where with strange organizations... that make me want to choke something..." Grant said in frustration more at the lack of any real clues than anything. "Whatever I'm sure Captain Jason knows what's up and I know it's better not to second guess the bigger man. So let's just....oh god no! ALPHA MOVE MOVE MOVE!" Grant said as he charged foward and the member of Alpha not carrying Trinity's broken suit charged along side Grant. "Take out the green tangos! Protect the ship at ALL costs!" Grant said as he opened fire on a dom killing the pilot instantly before moving onto the next target and the target after that. The second held his six as he opened fire upon the enemies behind him as the two charged. "Hey are you getting in there?" a female pilot asked Saturnalia as Trinity finally opened her mouth again, "Heh don't expect she will after all she's weak enough to depend on a giant ass weapon like that." Trinity commented as the female pilot smacked Trinity's suit with her left fist. "Shut it!"
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Before Gato could react the upper most part of his arm was slashed off by Sandrock and he backpedaled hastily shooting his vulcans to little effect. "Damn it! Earth scum really is honorless! Fine then you win this round!" Gato said as he retreated from the battlefield. "Commander Gato has given the order all troops fall back!" a Zeon soldier told his remaining allies as the fled away from the damaged Sundown which due in part to it's heavy armor survived rather well. However the auxiliary pilots of the ship suffered some rather decent loses. "You bastards! I won't let you get away without paying for what you've done!" said one of the pilots as he scored a fatal killing blow on a Zaku. "Capture them if possible if not then kill them!" Jason ordered the soldiers through his communicators. "You there secure the enemy pilot!" He ordered Grant's division as they came into view.
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"They're pulling back fuck yeah!" the SIGMA team shouted as they forced back the enemy and started to retreat. "SIR ARE YOU OK SIR!?" asked SIGMA 5 as he rushed to his leader's aid. "Yeah I'm lucky they didn't get any fatal shots in on me....but....this suit is garbage now....let's get it back to base so we can disassemble the thing. No use wasting a good suit." SIGMA Leader told his subordinate who picked him up and hold him steady. "Gundam can you move? We're pulling back we're too disorganized and damaged to make a difference! I'd suggest you do the same conscript!" he said to Gabriel as he and the rest of SIGMA team made a quick escape.
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Glemy panicked as he heard the news....Gato was defeated....the counterattack failed....what the hell! "Hey Captain Ash what happened out there?!" demanded Glemy as he and the boy in the black gundam, Miguel was his name Glemy remembered, climbed back into the ship. "We need repairs we'll take whatever makeshift help you can get us." Ash said as Miguel grumbled something to himself. "We'll take care of that later for now we're pulling back." Glemy said as the rest of his Bawaoo and Zaku entered the ship. "We can find Gato later-" He said as Ash interrupted him once more, "But what about Trinity and the others?" Glemy indignantly answered the question, "They're being left behind if they don't we're all dead or captured!" Glemy turned around and told his men to prepare to retreat immediately.

Although the battle with the Zaku's was far from challenging Gabriel was glad it was over once the Zaku's started to retreat. He put away his beam saber and retrieved his rifle. Thankfully Sigma team was starting to fall back. Although he could still press on Gabriel didn't want to take the chance of running into an enemy ace with his suit in its current condition. "I'm still fine, a little bit of damage isn't all that bad, But I would agree falling back would be our best course of action. I'll serve as rear guard now lets go" He answered Sigma Leader before following the team keeping an eye out for anything that might attack on their way back to the Sundown.

Gato's retreat finally allowed Donna to get some rest. She panted from the adrenaline given in the fight, faring much better than the earlier fight with the black Gundam. From her radar the enemy forces are making their retreat, presumably from the Nightmare of Solomon's defeat. Her victory is downplayed though as the Sundown and it's defending Mobile Suits gave her a hand. She was unable to kill the ace that killed someone that could've been her best friend at this time. She briefly slanted her camera to what remained of the Tallgeese but found virtually nothing, the pilot presumably cooked to a hamburger.

Saturnalia joined the fray. Since the Virtue was low on particles, she didn't use her bazookas, instead she activated her beam shield to defend her allies, while using her dual beam sabers to attack any that got too close. She had every reason to engage since these enemy forces stood between her and the ship which could sustain her suit. When it appeared that the enemy was retreating, Saturnalia disengaged. An order came to secure the enemy pilot, but she was unsure if they meant the large Gundam with the shield that seemed to be leading the retreating forces, or Nena Trinity. In any case, they had one enemy pilot captured and the Virtue was in no shape to attempt to capture another commander.

"Don't need to tell us twice!" SIGMA team said as they pulled back quickly spraying as the group fell back to the Sundown. "This is Baker come back to base and regroup...we sustained damage but nothing vital....except we lost some good people." Baker said disappointingly as Williams jumped into the conversation, "We've capture some enemy pilots and an enemy gundam. We're pulling back now get back as fast as possible! Captain Jason wants us moving out once we got everything we can." Williams commented as one of SIGMA's pilots asked about salvaging the area, "We're sending out the auxiliaries to pick up as much as they can and they are salvaging Tallgeese." Williams mentioned briefly before having to go and talk to the auxiliaries. "You heard the woman get moving but keep safe." Baker told them as Beta Leader chimed in with a laugh, "Gundams can take of themselves greenie." he said heartily. "I know that better than you'd think." Baker said with a sigh not even taking offense to the comment.
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"Hey new girl are you ok? If you are get what you can and salvage some ammo or something we're heading back as fast as we can." said one of the auxiliaries to the pilot of Sandrock as they quickly moved about and grabbed some downed weapons and some armor from the suits. "The more we get the more we can use to repair damages or use for weapons." the man said patiently as he passed the down suit from one of his companions. The field was littered with down zaku and a couple daggers with massive holes in them from the ship's main weapons.
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"God damn it hey Saturn lady get your shit together we're boarding the Sundown, you know the big floating ship in that field over there, and we're moving out." commented Grant as he suddenly turned around and shot down an enemy zaku with only a couple of well placed shots. "Damn idiot shouldn't have made so much noise." Grant said plainly as Nena spoke up at last, "Yeah because it didn't have anything to do with luck if you missed those shots you'd be dead pal." Nena commented as the Haro unit called Grant a loser which only served to piss off Grant slightly and no returned comment was sent back to Nena.
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"We're almost there damn it!" Paul commented angrily as he dodges shots from zaku rocket troopers and shot down an enemy behind Puru before taking a shot to the leg only for it to drain part of his battery away, "God damn it!" Paul growled as he noticed his battery was running low now at this point. "Hey are you two still alive." Paul asked sarcastically as Graham cleanly cleaved through a Bawaoo. "It'd take more than these losers to take me out!" Grant said passionately, "I'm not about to lose to these people not while I have something to prove to someone!" Graham coutinued as he flew taking some minor scratches from rifle shots from the zaku. Graham was a masterful pilot to do so well in such an outdated piece of hardware. As for Puru she was like a cute little whirlwind of death and destruction. "HEY what's that suppose to mean!? Of course I'm alive I'm not about to let these bunch of jerks take me out! Not before I see Judau at least one more time! Especially not if they work for mean old Glemy!" Puru said as Graham chuckled, "That's the spirit Puru! Let's make'em bleed!" Graham said as he fought off his current enemies. However Paul noticed something...the enemies were falling back..."Now's the time break off both of you! We gotta retreat! They're pulling back and I can't fight them for much longer! We'll get them back later." Paul said as Puru said that was fine with her if Graham was ok with it and Graham reluctantly said that he had a point if they pushed them in mid retreat that means they will be by themselves and Paul would be a liability with a immobile mobile suit. Thus the three of them chose to pull back as quickly as they could.