Humming a little to herself, she had simply followed Victor along towards the target.

"Hey those looks li- TCH!"

Moving on impulse, Exia dodged a huge laser beam out of nowhere. It wasn't really much of a problem to dodge, but she really hated being ambushed. Cowardly humans would always use that sort of tactics. That was why she had a grudging respect for that Flag person, and that other Ali guy. Those two, while still lowly humans, have abilities even she would have to recognize.

"Is it there?!" Before she could move to intercept however, there was a familiar looking whizz and buzz as small things spewed lasers towards her. "Fangs?! Who could be..."

Those things shooting at her weren't even worth mentioning, their movements, and the way they shot was enough to convince her of that. She weaved her way towards the unit, the GUNDAM, that spewed out those Fangs.

"YOU'RE IN MY WAY!"

With two shots from the beam rifle mounted on her left, hitting one of the Daggers squarely in the chest, and barely missing the other as it dodged out of the way. Unfolding the GN blade on Exia's left arm, she swung it towards the offending Gundam.

Humming a little to herself, she had simply followed Victor along towards the target.

"Hey those looks li- TCH!"

Moving on impulse, Exia dodged a huge laser beam out of nowhere. It wasn't really much of a problem to dodge, but she really hated being ambushed. Cowardly humans would always use that sort of tactics. That was why she had a grudging respect for that Flag person, and that other Ali guy. Those two, while still lowly humans, have abilities even she would have to recognize.

"Is it there?!" Before she could move to intercept however, there was a familiar looking whizz and buzz as small things spewed lasers towards her. "Fangs?! Who could be..."

Those things shooting at her weren't even worth mentioning, their movements, and the way they shot was enough to convince her of that. She weaved her way towards the unit, the GUNDAM(Puru's unit,), that spewed out those Fangs.

"YOU'RE IN MY WAY!"

With two shots from the beam rifle mounted on her left, hitting one of the Daggers squarely in the chest, and barely missing the other as it dodged out of the way. Unfolding the GN blade on Exia's left arm, she swung it towards the offending Gundam.

nothing here, move on...

Gabriel waited until the enemies came into sight, "Here we go, everyone get ready." He said as he started his charging sequence. he used the charging time to scope out the enemy. Of course none of the suits looked familiar aside from Rowan's suit which he had seen earlier. The other suits looked mostly the same and Gabriel assumed the red one was the commanding officer. But there was a weird on in their mix it had a giant blade fixed to one of its arms and didn't seem to fit in with the group. And aside from that he could feel something like an artificial Newtypes aura coming from the machine's pilot. With the charging sequence complete Gabriel didn't waste any time and fired the Satellite Cannon. He was able to catch one of the enemy Vergo units by surprise and vaporized the machine with ease before moving the blast onto another target. But this time the Vergo was able to activate its Planet Defensors saving it from instant death. But the Suit's Defensors ran out of power before the Satellite Cannon frying a second suit before the beam ended.

"Watch it guys, one of them seems to be a heavy Melee unit and the rest have some nasty defense shield things. This is going to be a tough fight. Stay in cover and pick them off." Gabriel warned while putting away the Satellite Cannon, "Puru focus your funnels on attacking the blind spots of those suits, make openings for Alpha team, I'll hold off the Sword suit." He ordered while moving to join the battle. Seeing that the sword unit was charging Puru Gabriel quickly drew his sheath rifle and opened fire hoping to give Puru enough time to dodge. "I got this one Puru make the openings Alpha needs" he said as he continued to move forward re sheathing the rifle and drawing his beam saber. "How about taking me on instead" he taunted while getting in between Reve and Puru.

"God damn it focus fire! FOCUS FIRE!" Grant shouted as his units opened fire upon the enemy Virgo lll units that survived the attack. Grant's team took one out by surprise but then were cut back into the reality of the situation as suddenly they were charged by the enemy gundam unit. "Shit that thing has a GN Drive!" commented one of Grant's soldiers as suddenly they were slammed aside by the Gundam. "Shit!" Grant said as he opened fire on the enemy Gundam and he wished his lieutenant was here or someone else. "He's goin' for P-" Grant started before Gabriel went in and saved Puru earning him a bit more points in his eyes, "Hey keep that thing busy!" Grant grunted at his men as he sent a group order to focus on the Mobile Armor. Grant's men helped the fallen group member up and then pushed backward as they fired upon Victor.

"But Mr. Gabriel but I can help!" Puru shouted as she flew backward and raised her hand to fire at the enemy mobile suit. "You big fat jerk I won't let you hurt him! Jerks who hurt my friends aren't going to get by me!" Puru refused to break off and instead she let out a strong enough mental thought that Gabriel could feel, "Funnels! Attack that gundam! Turn it into swiss cheese!" Puru called out mentally as suddenly the funnels broke off of Victor and the enemy (Reve) was swarmed by multiple beam blasts from all sides moving fast in all directions. "I'm going to beat your butt mister! I'm not going to let you hurt anyone anymore you meanie!" Puru shouted in response using her anger towards the Gundam to further her control over her funnels. One thing was certainly clear at this moment in time, Puru wasn't just another Cyber Newtype.

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Victor couldn't believe his luck as the little multi directional weapons broke off and left him alone aside from the annoying pot shots fired from Alpha Team, "Keep those jokers busy!" Virgo lll's immediately heeded Victor's command and went to attack Alpha Team with their rifles resulting in a shoot out in the hills. In the air meanwhile it came down to a fight between Rowan and Victor whom held the upper hand. He unleashed a torrent of missiles forcing Rowan to dodge but he barely did so and his only ranged weapons being a vulcans proved futile as Victor went in to smash Rowan with his beam bayonet.

"Thank you, Ms. Baker," Saturnalia replied to the communications officer, before saying, "Ensign Noelle, Virtue Gundam, taking off."

The catapult sent her a distance away. She waited for the rest of the team to arrive before getting into her firing position. "Donna, I'm counting on you to watch my back in case any enemies manage to get that close, the Virtue's lousy at close combat.

When the group made visual contact with the enemy carrier, the Virtue opened the chest cover over its GN Drive and attached the butt end of the GN Bazooka directly into the drive. "Lieutenant Black Star, I realize that when I first joined, I probably seemed obsessed with getting power for my suit from your ship. Allow me to demonstrate the necessity and the benefit." She took her time adjusting her firing angle. Although she felt this ambush was unnecessarily aggressive, she needed to establish her place among her current allies. She also had no qualms about eliminating members of this "Zeon", a supposed space colony insurgent group. Though space colonies had not yet developed to the point where they could have their own "nations" in her world, Saturnalia felt that even if they did, they had no place in Veda's plan. Still, maybe she didn't want to eliminate the enemy ship's control tower just yet, especially if they wanted to capture the enemy leadership for interrogations. She aimed the bazooka at the hanger, hoping that her shot would prevent the deployment of enemy reinforcements.

"Activating 'Burst Mode'," Saturnalia proclaimed. The Virtue dug int's heels into the ground to maintain stability. The bazooka opened up like a jaw while a golden, inner barrel extended forward. After a short period of charging, the bazooka fired an intense, pink column of energy that traveled towards the enemy ship's hangar. Saturnalia thought about how most suits and Gundams were designed for taking out other suits and Gundams, in essence for dueling. The Virtue wasn't a duelist, it was a weapon of mass destruction, and the only other Gundam with comparable firepower in the Sundown was the X Gundam piloted by Gabriel Cross, the man who had saved her on their first encounter. Saturnalia wondered about the sort of power trip the Captain must be having, sending both of them out in a preemptive strike like this. The thought made her admire him somewhat.

It was almost too easy.

Just before she could strike the killing blow on the strange suit however, a strange feeling went through her head. Exia stopped almost immediately, jumping behind as a long beam passed just where she would be if she had continued the attack.

While there was no way to hear the pilot of that suit with things sticking out of its back without some sort of radio contact, the way it sheathed the rifle and drew out the saber was very obviously a challenge to single combat.

"Interesting..." Reve licked her lips in anticipation.

"But, it seems that wish will not be fulfilled!"

Fangs, those small automatic machines that follows the will of its controller, were whizzing about everywhere, before shooting beams at her. The pilot was good, with precise aim and movement that signaled at their skill being more than average. But by their very precision, it was easy enough to predict and dodge the shots.

Her blood was boiling from sheer excitement.

"Good, GOOD! Give me your best shot! Show me your moves!"

Twisting quickly, Exia blocked a beam from one of those Fang units, and rapidly shot down a few, before shooting a few beams at the fat Gundam with the huge shoulders and that other MS that butted in. She was already itching to use Trans Am mode just so she can feel the rush of battle again.

"No one's going to get close to you. They'll be too busy fighting with me to do anything productive. If they survive." Paul commented in return as he and his units positioned themselves where they could without having themselves discovered. He hoped that those beam rifles they recovered from the Gaza units were capable of doing something for their daggers over in the ambush point. "Paul...I want you to destroy them for attacking us. Show them the price for attacking OMNI." Jason said suddenly to Paul as he chuckled, "Do you expect anything less from me Captain." Paul asked sarcastically to him as Jason shook his head, "I want you to destroy them. But I don't want you to murder all of them. Every soul we spare today will remember the name of OMNI Enforcer and they will associate that with either revenge or fear. Hopefully it's the latter after all we're not murderers Lieutenant." Jason commented. "I know the drill why are you telling me this?" Paul asked to his captain confused on what exactly Jason was doing by saying all of this, "No reason. I just want to make sure that you work with grace Lieutenant." Jason said cryptically. Paul was confused but he didn't question his Captain on it. That wasn't his job. His job was to eliminate threats to Earth. And from what Jason had told him about Zeon from the meeting with Rowan....they were registered as threats to the state. Not that he didn't already figure that out if they were trying to force a little girl like Puru to join them.
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Angelo's friend and ally of the Sleeves Zeon Faction, Suberoa Zinnerman, was already handling the forces that were being dispatched to the ambush point. "I see so then Rowan was a traitor hm? Fool...he should have known better than to betray us. Kill all of them." the big man said with exasperation. He expected as such from some people but Rowan has struck him as the reasonable type of person. "Angelo sir I recommend launching in your suits as soon as possible they'll need back up down there. This throws out our old plan if-" Suberoa said as suddenly Angelo interrupted him, "I already knew this was coming he was too casual for narrowly escaping an ambush. I'm guess he has told the enemy of our location as well. We should expect some sort of counter-offensive. It's what Full Frontal would do I'm assuming. Then again junkers aren't smart like us so I can't say for certain. I'm launching in my Rozen Zulu. Send out a request call for that man known as Leopold to get his ass back here as soon as possible. I'm taking Stella." Angelo commented as he left the ship getting launched by the catapult out of the hanger bay. "Stella if there is anyone attacking us here they intend to kill you show no mercy." Angelo said as Stella's eyes widened as she stopped still in her suit. This whole ordeal...this whole god forsaken mess..."I...I...I understand." Stella said meekly as she put on her helmet. And activated that Gaia's boot up sequence and watched as the usual screen came on. "But I don't understand why...why am I attacking my own force? Or is it them? Neo...Auel....Sting what's happening?" Stella questioned herself as Angelo ignored her comments. Gaia launched soon afterward.

Meanwhile...

"Hm not as sneaky as you though were you?" said Rondo Gina Sahaku as he and his gold astray looked on the distance where a large suit was coming towards them. "Regardless I'm interested in seeing where this is going..." he said as suddenly Zimmerman's annoying voice came up on the radio com, "Have you seen any enemy forces nearby?" Rondo heard as he grinned to himself. "No I have no good sir if I had I would have told you." Rondo said arrogantly at which Zimmerman told him that he should watch his tone. "Oh don't worry I didn't mean to offend you. It's just that I don't like being questioned." Rondo commented back as he turned his golden Astray back and away from the sight of the enemy suit approaching. "They'll learn soon enough." Too bad for them they only focused on getting signals clear through GN particles that Reve girl was mumbling about. Otherwise they would have thought that they should extend that to radar as well. It's on the edge of their map and they just think it's interference from a storm. Sad for them...this should be fun..."Hey what are you fools doing get a move on we are done patrolling here." grunted Rondo as he moved his astray back and the Zulu units followed him. Patrol was so boring....maybe heading down to the bottom of their base would prove a bit more fun

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It had happened in a moment suddenly a giant massive beam of energy surged out from the nearby area. It had came out of nowhere...and struck the Musaka-class hanger and completely destroyed any of the reinforcement mobile suits within the giant carrier. This carrier had been specifically built for Full Frontal as a carrier and held more suits than normal and was more comparable to the Gwadan class. And it had all came to nothing as the GN bazooka shot blew up the hanger bay in a manner of moments. "What the hell!?" Zimmerman cried out as the ship rocked back and forth as he shouted for confirmation on what happened. The officers inside of the bridge called out, "Sir the entire hanger is destroyed....all the soldiers in there are likely dead and we have suffered massive damage to our vessel!" And as if this wasn't enough...."Sir enemy forces are attacking!" cried out one of the officers as Zimmerman's face cringed in anger. Angelo was right but...they hadn't expected a blitz like this!

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Sandrock and it's companion units of SIGMA team were dispatched on the lowest most southern eastern field of the battlefield and were immediately able to blitz the enemy units whom were to preoccupied trying to find out what the hell had just happened to their ship as communications were suddenly scrambled. SIGMA team's fast efforts in their specialized Marusame units were incredible as they managed to take out six Geara Doga before they had noticed a thing despite their lack of their whole team being there. "Don't fuck with OMNI!" Shouted SIGMA Leader as he blew through an enemy's cockpit with his rifle and then dodged two oncoming shots from the panicking enemy. It seemed that there was a clear path towards the enemy's main field if they could wipe out the enemy men in the way. Enemy Doga and Zulu units were already on the war path however as they quickly recognized where the enemy was and moved to intercept. Though they were demoralized as they had just moments ago seen their ship getting shot at. The other members of their group had gone to attack the enemy gundam whom was trapped over by their ship. "Hey there Donna break through them!" commented Williams calmly informing Donna on the current situation and that her only real option was to move forward, "We got your flanks!" SIGMA team's soldiers shouted as they whirled about in their suits barely dodging the onslaught of the enemy suits whom were coming to reinforce their comrades whom had been so casually thrown aside by SIGMA.

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Paul's side with Graham and Beta Team at his back proved to be more fortunate. The enemy men in the center proved to be non existent as they abandoned the posts to go and find what happened to their ship as such Paul easily killed whoever was left in the field in a quick blur of beam rifle shots. "Idiots! Who leaves the flank open!? I'll make'em pay!" Paul growled in anger and disgust as he and his men plowed right through the enemy fields towards the center most field held by the enemy on his radar. "If we can defeat them we have this battle!" Axer told Paul as he grunted indignantly, "Of course James I know my job! Just do your job and keep me in contact with Jason. But where's Williams!?" Paul asked as he usually got orders from her, "Jason has her takin' to Sigma I'm all you got!" Axer commented in annoyance. Why did the Lieutenant always just brush him aside? "Hey it looks like there's enemy aces up ahead!" Graham Aker said with a smile, "Don't you fucking dare go on ahead without me! I'm your life line Aker!" Paul shouted as he gunned down a Geara Zulu by taking out it's legs and then Beta Leader sniped an enemy from the nearby cliffs while other members of Beta focused on fire support while Paul mopped up the enemies. Not to say Graham wasn't pulling his weight. Sure the enemy suits were much more advanced...but he would overcome this technological disadvantage with his passion! Graham had launched in his fighter form and had proceeded to use his speed to his advantage dodging shots and pegging enemies with his own weapons and he even managed to catch a cockpit shot on a Doga. "I won't be shown up by any GUNDAM!"

Leo, as he liked to be called, was oblivious to the conflict at hand and enjoying a nice, relaxing drag from a real cigarillo, a short and narrow cigar, now that he was finally out of the ship. His mobile suit was safely powered down and hidden away in a natural cave, the cockpit hatch open to allow its pilot the pleasures of a good smoke. The cave would've been too small for the majority of the mobile suits in Angelo's forces but the Gundam F91, a representative of over 30 years of technological advances over the Geara Doga, only stood at about 15 meters tall and was thus well hidden from view within. He was supposed to be scouting around but screw that, he needed a puff or ten.

Leo smoked and thought about his current situation. He was in a strange world or a colony perhaps, surrounded by people who had been part of one of the many Neo Zeon movements from before he was born, if he remembered right. Their mobile suits definitely qualified as museum pieces as far as he was concerned. And then there were the stranger bits, the technologies he had never heard about, the peculiar mobile suits, the people talking about events and organizations that had never existed as far as he was concerned. The worst part was that he was pretty sure his current employer would soon try to kill him under suspicion of being a Federation spy and to take the F91.

Leo wanted answers but finding himself a new crew was his top priority. Extremist spacenoid movements, he had come to learn, had a tendency to lose their wars rather miserably. He didn't like Angelo's group to begin with, even people that might've been alright like old man Zinnerman were rabid Zeon fanatics, and he had only joined them because they were the first crew he'd stumbled upon. He felt kind of bad for that Stella chick, though. She was supposed to be some kind of superhuman pilot but she just seemed like a scared and confused little girl to Leo. Oh well, it wasn't like he could do anything for her. His whole life revolved around piloting mobile suits for money.

His thoughts were interrupted by a distress signal from Angelo's ship requesting his immediate return from his "scouting run", the ship was under enemy attack. Hm, now that was quite the opportunity for Leo. He could reach the battlefield in a short while if he flew there and still have enough juice to fight, he wasn't that far away from the ship's position. But then, why hurry. He'd just wait it out a little bit, see how the battle was going when he got there. If Angelo's forces were winning he'd just apologize for being late, his standing amongst his "allies" couldn't be worse anyway. If Angelo was having a bad day, well, he'd found his new employer. Yeah, that sounded like a plan to him.

Leo kicked back and tossed away the butt of the cigarillo, pulling out a new one from the small case he always carried around and, after smelling the tobacco, lighting it with a wooden match, which he also had a box of. After months on end of not being able to smoke a real, honest to goodness cigar, smoking was strictly forbidden in all spaceships for good reason, he just needed to have another one. He was tired of sucking on a metal cylinder, a so-called space cig, to get his fix so just being able to smoke had put him in a good mood. Yep, this was looking like a good day.

of course Puru wouldn't listen, that girl seemed to have a mind of her own and definitely needed to learn some control. "Yes, you can help Puru, but at the moment you need to focus on helping Alpha team. Gun down the rest and leave the Sword one for last." He tried to explain as he felt Puru's blast. "Be a good girl, make the captain happy and help his men. I will hold off the sword unit until you deal with the rest." He continued trying to convince her to help the others while blocking shots meant for Puru with his shield. Gabriel then switched to his exterior speakers. "Come on, I can play Defensive all day and your shots won't reach my allies. Its clear your suit is built for Melee and if you want to get to them, you will have to go through me." Gabriel taunted. He could feel a blood-lust coming from the pilot, which could be hard to handle, but was a good thing for Gabriel while he remained calm his opponent was already worked up, something that could easily lead to a mistake being made. A mistake Gabriel wouldn't hesitate to exploit

"My funnels! Dang it!" Puru growled as she was about to open fire once more with her beam gun when Puru was reprimanded by Gabriel as Puru bit her lip she wanted to fight this girl so bad! She knew if Judau were only here she'd be able to beat this bad lady! But she knew that she needed to trust her new friends just like she'd trust Judau. "I-I-Alright fine but don't you get hurt you hear me?" Puru said giving into Gabriel's words after she recognized the fact that her funnels were just going to hinder Gabriel's work. Puru recalled her funnels and flew off into the sky.

"Fuckin' A man!" Grant grunted as his shield was pummeled and dented heavily by a blast from one of those bastards in those strange lookin' suits. "I've got better things to do than risk my life and the lives of my soldiers up against fascist pricks like you!" Grant growled in anger as he noticed one of his soldiers were pinned down hard, "How the hell did this ambush go awry so quickly! And what kind of damn shield are those things using!?" Grant asked his soldiers whom all replied that they had no idea in hell about either of those two. "I was being retorical you hunch back-Ok never mind just get'em!" Grant said as he narrowly avoided a beam shot from his enemies. Slaughter Daggers like the ones they were piloting where capable of only so much against a tank like unit such as those units up there. However the pace suddenly changed as One of them took a beam rifle shot through the chest from behind. "I gotcha!" Puru shouted as the distraction allowed Grant's units to pick off another of the remaining units. "There we go! There we go!" Grant shouted happily. At first he wasn't sure that they should be allowing a little girl like Puru on the ship but hey she's saving his god forsaken behind wasn't she? "Damn you all!" shouted the enemy pilot showing panic in his voice. "Your done bub!: Puru retorted as she fired her beam gun at the shield of the enemy.

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"You're not bad kid but you lack finesse. I can see your pattern!" Victor taunted Rowan whom had recovered his main weapons, at Victor's allowance, and had tried circling around and fired at Victor's blind points but any shots that Rowan did manage to hit were at best pitiful. It was one man against a tank and Victor knew Rowan knew it. This fight was his. However with his mind fixated on Rowan, Victor had not payed attention to Puru below when she ambushed his men. "Your days are numbered Rowan. Traitors to the Perfect People don't deserve to survive another day. You sicken me." Victor continued as he fired another volley of missiles at Rowan who promptly was forced to shoot them down only to get his leg clipped by a beam bayonet slash by Victory whom charged at him moments after smashing Rowan with the power of his defender fields and the weight of his suit shocking the Zeta suit the he flew. Rowan shouted in pain as Victor grinned and grabbed at Rowan's head crushing it with tremendous force. "Like you're one to talk I've seen that girl Stella how she lacks a purpose in life! You use her like a doll! You're even pitting her against her comrades." Rowan muttered out as Victor shook his head, "All for the greater cause and who cases what Stella is really? She is nothing but a tool to me really. A child soldier with no free will placed in a war zone people like you made. People from Earth! Who else would bring people like me and Angelo to this place? The weight of gravity brings down people to their darkest pits of their souls and they seek to trap the righteous here. Besides... what's another tally on the statistic board boy! Now be silent!" Victor said as he drove his beam bayonet through the cockpit of the Zeta killing Rowan instantly as he dropped the lifeless suit onto the ground with disgust. It hit the ground with an audible and loud thud with the cranking of metal before exploding.

"Alone... you're going to....nnnggh...ha.. ha ha.. HA HA HA~"

It was an insult. She was being underestimated so hard it was as if she was piloting one of those Gear Doge. She put up a hand to her head, a wide grin still on her face.

"...how dare you...how..how dare you.." She spoke in a whisper. Almost as if it was a chant, she repeated those words again and again in a crescendo, growing louder and louder. "HOW DARE YOU! EXIA, TRANS AM!"

Her screen changed for a moment, the words Trans Am clearly shown. Exia responded, its GN Drive generating, or releasing, all of its stored particles, turning Exia red tinted as it boosted its performance. Her brain waves, already unstable, rocked off the charts, ensuring any Innovators in the area would be able to feel it, and if they had the potential, actually hear her thoughts.

With unnatural speed, Exia jetted past the impudent MS, turned in a neck breaking angle upwards, before coming down with a downwards slash using the GN Blade.

All the while, she remained muttering the same words to herself again and again.

"...how dare you... how dare you..."

Finally Puru listened, that would be a good help to Grant and the others. But Gabriel was only able to focus on that little bit of comfort for a moment as a powerful blast of Aura emanated from the suit as it started to glow pink. Although the strength of the aura was impressive it was a good thing for Gabriel seeing how with the suits burst of speed it seemed he would have to react solely on instinct. He quickly spun to the side while angling his shield to deflect the blade away from him. For the moment he withheld from launching a counter attack, he instead held his beam saber for defense biding his time waiting for an opening to take advantage of.

The GN Blade slid off the shield with a shriek, gauging a thin line through the thing, before Exia gave a burst of speed elsewhere.

Still muttering the same words over and over again, her eyes darted around her screen, before she pulled hard on the controls. With a zip Exia did the same maneuver, a pass by the right side of that MS, and zipping backwards and upwards at an acute angle. However instead of dropping down, Exia flashed to the front of the MS some distance away, before boosting straight towards the front of the MS. Instead of deploying the Blade again however, she folded them and stopped just out of reach of that MS's beam saber, firing several shots at it while circling it. In just a few heartbeats later, Exia burst to the left of that MS, the GN BLade on the left arm cutting downwards in a diagonal slice, as the right hand turned on the beam saber and slashed upwards.

"Roger!" Donna replied to Williams and SIGMA team. The cover-fire allowed her to dash straight into the fray with smaller resistance as beam shots meant for her are scattered elsewhere. She broke into the defences quickly and as the Geara Doga were bringing forth their close-combat weapons against her she make quick work of the closest unit by the shotel on her right manipulator bisecting through the cockpit. She struck her second enemy, striking it vertically to the chest and let the Minovsky reactor finish the job with the resulting explosion. The third Geara Doga got out it's beam axe to hit the Sandrock but the attempt was parried by the superior strength of the Gundam, then reposted with a slash at the cockpit. The last enemy Mobile Suit standing continued to fire shots from the beam machine gun but when it ran out of ammunition it was taken out with the heat shotel that sliced below the cockpit, resulting in an explosion. Looking at what was left, Donna confirmed the enemy in the area were routed. "Proceeding towards objective." She informed SIGMA and the Sundown as she continued to complete her task.

It was all the Paul could do from keeping Aker from charging ahead as his need to prove himself and his battle lust kept Graham pushing the enemy. The jet mode was surprisingly well made and performed as well as any mobile suit he had seen. Even the few close encounters proved Graham's abilities. He guess he shouldn't doubt Graham from now on. "What are you waiting for Lieutenant!? Break through them! Or did I misjudge your capabilities and think to much of you from our initial encounter!?" Graham questioned Paul which hit a cord with Paul. "Alright Conscript Graham Aker let me show you how a LIEUTENANT does his duty!" Paul retorted angrily as he dodged three more shots from incoming enemy fire and blocked a fourth with his shield with a quick smack reverting the blast into a nearby sandy cliff. "This is where you fanatics learn the meaning of defeat! I'll crush you here and now!" Paul growled as his newtype abilities flared up in his brain causing him to go into a blood rage as he savagely hacked apart a suit right through it's arm, Paul had charged up to a Geara Doga, and cut beneath the place where the main arm connected to the hand and went through it cutting open the cockpit as he continued and further crippled the enemy by breaking it's thrusters with CIWs fire when it was down then finished it off by smashing it's leg in half with his beam saber. Paul's suit was shot at but Beta 4 blocked the blow and one of his soldiers came through and shot it's chest up with bullets causing it to explode. After Paul got done with his opponent he dropped his beam saber down and blocked an incoming energy shot with his shield before returning fire using the downed Doga's own rifle that he had picked up quickly to kill his (the downed Geara Doga) ally. "You're lucky you get to live." Paul said ominously to the down Doga pilot as Paul could only imagine Jason back on the ship with a look of relief on his face,

"You're no threat I'll show mercy to you this time." Paul muttered as suddenly he flew up into the sky and evaded the shots of enemy fire. "Damn it what now!?" Paul grumbled as suddenly Axer's Face showed up on screen, "Sir the enemy ace Angelo and the enemy gundam labeled Gaia have arrived at your field!" James Axer shouted at Paul when all the latter could do was glare at him in anger, "No-Shit-Sher-god damn it!" Paul grumbled as he saw the enemy gundam charging towards him. It was in the shape of an animal..."That's ZAFT design but it carries an OMNI code what the hell is this!?" Paul thought out loud. "Lieutenant orders?!" shouted one of Beta Squad's units as his suit was penetrated by enemy fire,

"NO DAMN IT! You have your orders already retaliate and defeat them for their aggression against Earth's MIlitary Forces!" Paul shouted in anger. The rest of Beta Squad were luckier than the fallen soldier. "Angelo you son of-" Paul tried to say before Jason interrupted his chain of thoughts, "Don't let him get to you Paul eliminate the targets." Jason said to him calmly but firmly as all Paul could hear in his head were the outraged cries of the Beta Team. "But sir!" Paul said as Jason shook his head, "I know what you're going to say. I know this is difficult but men die in war and you're fully aware of that. Stop him before anyone else get's hurt!" Jason told Paul as Angelo suddenly came in, "You bastards think you can get away with this? You're all fools! I'll destroy you for the glory of Full Frontal! Stella these men will kill you if you dare show mercy to them don't you dare let them live!" Angelo ordered Stella who was firing at the enemies but all she could see in front of her were...slaughter daggers?!

OMNI Enforcer...but they...they were her allies!? Why where they trying to kill her!? WHY!? Stella's only response was to charge at Beta Leader whom used the terrain nearby to his advantage and dodged the blows. "You little bitch who the hell do you think you're messing with!?" Beta Leader grunted in response. Though it hurt that he had lost one of his own soldiers he had to stay strong and calm minded. "I've got this gundam handle the enemy suits!" Beta Leader shouted at his men whom responded through choked voices. "Sir yes sir!" they said as Beta Leader grabbed a nearby beam saber and pulled out his own, "Alright let's dance sister!" Beta Leader growled as suddenly he was pounced on by Stella, "Why are you betraying me!? Why are you trying to kill me! Aren't we on the same side!?" She questioned Beta Leader whom grunted in response, "I don't know much about Gundams little girl but I know about dueling new things all too well enough!" the two locked beam blades Stella still in her beast form used the beam blades on either side, "Typical ZAFT design didn't think I'd expect something like that did you!?" Beta Leader grunted as his Dagger was pushed back in the sandy dirt. However his suit held strong as the beam blades hissed in protest of the blade collision Stella suddenly tried to fire her beam rifle but all that did was push back Beta Leader further and dent his armor. "Yeah keep trying that this is reinforced beam resistant armor you dumb clod! If you're OMNI you should know this!" Beta Leader said as he kicked the enemy gundam Gaia in the face hard enough to get it into the air and the next shots went sailing over head nearly hitting Paul whom was now locked in combat with Angelo. "You know you're not half bad through..." Beta Leader grunted as he fired his leg CIWS at Stella whom took them with ease, "Shit Phase Shift almost forgot about it!" Beta Leader said as he was forced into cover once more.

"You think that you can beat me!?" Angelo said as Paul was forced to keep on the offensive blocking and returning rifle fire at the enemy suit. "My Rozen Zulu is more advanced than anything you have-" Angelo coutinued on as Paul suddenly charged forward and threw his shield at Angelo. Angelo dodged swiftly, "This is no normal dagger you son of a bitch! RAIGO IS NO PIECE OF GARBAGE!" Paul retorted in a strange state of anger and control. He was able to control himself but he was still so angry at this man. "You've been picking on us just because we happened to be near one of the sites-got you!" Paul shouted as Paul aimed his rifle at the falling Raigo shield and shot it causing the beam to reflect in the direction that Angelo was going in but he dodged it easily, "How in the!?" Paul said as he was forced to use his rely on dodging now as the enemy beam shots went either way of him. "What's wrong you can't handle an enemy ace of my caliber!? Too bad then you die today scum!" Angelo grinned as suddenly from behind Graham Aker used his sonic blade to slash through the enemy's back damaging it's thrusters and thus it's defensive abilities,

"I don't think so!" Graham said smugly as Paul had not only bought time for Graham to transform back on the ground into his flag mobile suit state but had also given him a clean arc to go up into the sky and slash Angelo. If that wasn't humiliating for the Zeon ace he had his suit's right leg nearly shot by one of the Beta Squad units. "WE GOT YOUR BACK TOO!" one of them shouted as Paul's own shot narrowly missed Angelo whom was sent flying backwards towards the ground, "You bastard how did you!?" Angelo wondered and then knew the answer to his question almost immediately, He had his sight focused on the Gundam and the Gundam alone. "Fine if you want to play games then I will destroy both of you!" He said firing his mega particle cannons at Paul whom sensing the danger dodged and headed for his shield while Graham opened fire at the Rozen Sulu once again only for the shots to be blocked by an unknown energy source, "What the heck!? He's got a shield!?" Graham stated as Angelo charged at Graham whom kept returning fire, "The I-Field is now on. I didn't think I'd need it for such shrimp like you but I've changed my mind!" Angelo growled as Paul forced his attention back to Earth as he fired three shots quickly at Angelo whom blocked with his shield, "Two on one!? You really are cowards!" Angelo muttered as Paul grunted, "Takes one to know one I suppose." He retorted as he charged at the Angelo intending to impale the bastard. Graham knew his job hopefully the idiot would keep to it.

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Sandrock and it's units were advancing quickly but came to a sudden stop as a golden mobile suit came charging up with a beam saber in hand with a shield in the other ready for combat, "It seems that things are indeed getting exciting! OMNI attacking is something I knew was going to happen but not in this place! I should have assumed a cowardly lot like you would use an ambush tactic! But none the less come and perish at my blades! Men assault them! Crush them like savages! I Rondo of ORB challenge your commander!" Rondo said eagerly as SIGMA Leader snickered, "Look at this chump..." SIGMA Leader said as he and his second in command took pot shots at the enemy units killing one of the ones charging but they missed the other shots somehow. "Not as bad as I-What the hell!?" SIGMA Leader grunted as he noticed the golden suit was running at a rather fast speed dodging the shots with ease. "I've fought in this thing for sometime now do you really think that would stop me?" Rondo said as he was suddenly and abruptly near Sandrock as he swung his beam saber overhand at Sandrock. The Zulus following Rondo attacked SIGMA Team forcing them to engage, "Well I'm sure that gundam chick has it under control." one of SIGMA's team muttered as the let Rondo and Donna fight.

With his first block successful Gabriel readied himself for the next attack. Focusing on his opponent Gabriel cleared his mind seeing through her little show he was able to raise his shield to block the Exia's shots, he then turned off his beam saber to help support his shield preparing for the next attack. A quick hop backwards got Gabriel out of the GN Dagger's range and allowed him to brace for the Swords hit. The direct hit cut into Gabriel's Shield, but at the same time locked his enemy's blade in place. It was now that he made his move pushing himself forward sliding the GN Blade deeper into the shield and into his own shoulder armor. Gabriel then reactivated his Beam Saber which easily pierced through the back of his shield in an upward slash into his opponents arm severing it from the suit. Gabriel deactivated his beam saber and watched as the Suit returned to its original colors. "Well, now that you aren't pink any more I'm going to say you won't be as fast. You aren't half bad and it would be a shame to kill you right now." He started to say through his speakers while backing away. "So how about you surrender and join us. Going by your suits power source. I'm going to say you come from the same place as that Graham guy and those other two. We already have a few of your people with us I'm sure you will fit in." He continued trying to persuade the pilot. But he remained on guard and ready to reignite his saber if the pilot came to attack again.

After firing the shot, Saturnalia immediately activated optic camouflage. A single shot of the GN Bazooka in Full Burst mode drained most of her GN Particles and the Virtue's GN Drives would require considerable time to replenish her stock. The comparison between the Virtue to a weapon of mass destruction, like a nuclear missile, was quite apt; you could only use it one. Her mission accomplished, Saturnalia made to sneak back to the Sundown, when a sudden wave of erratic thought carried across quantum brain waves assaulted her mind. Saturnalia grabbed her head in bewilderment, but after the initial shock, she quickly went through her memories of all the Innovades in existence. Who was this? Surely not one of Ribbon's group, and definitely not Tieria, the only Innovade not part of the Innovators. What did this mean? That there were Innovades that that the Innovators didn't know about, or did this further support the multiple universes/timelines theory? Or perhaps, it wasn't an Innovade at all, and just one of the Newtypes the others had been talking about. No, Saturnalia got a slightly different feeling from people like Puru, this...this was definitely another Innovade. This wasn't what she had planned, if any of the Innovators had shown up, she would have kindly excused herself from the Sundown under terms of non-aggression in order to be united with her true allegiance, but this...the worst case scenario would be if this Innovade, like Tieria, was part of Celestial Being. At any rate, standing out here with low energy, she was useless, and made her way under cover of camouflage back to the Sundown.

"Miss Saturnalia are you alright? Why are you returning to the ship? If you're hurt I'll page Doctor Wilbur immediately!" Catherine Baker asked worriedly to Saturnalia as she couldn't help but overhear the conversations near her. Paul...Graham....Donna...all of them were fighting for the safety of the crew...or at least that's what she wanted to believe. Captain Jason had made this attack brutal and it made her uneasy but it was war it seemed..even if it wasn't what she enjoyed doing she was here and she'd support everyone. If Saturnalia was hurt Baker wanted to do everything in her power to do something, "How generous of you Miss Baker to be so concerned with the well being of a stranger like Saturnalia." Jason said suddenly as Calhone turned around, "Aye I noticed th-" Calhone started before cursing as Jason told him curtly to get back to work. "It takes a person of character to jump out to a stranger." Jason continued as Baker blushed, "Well it's my job sir." Baker told Jason uneasily as Jason chuckled, "Of course I expect nothing less from a soldier girl like you." Jason said looking away from her and letting Baker return to her job.
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"Puru Puru PURU!" Elpeo 'Puru' Ple shouted as she used her funnels to aid Alpha Team in their offensive attack against the enemy machines. "I don't want you hurting anyone else you meanies! You're just like Glemy!" Puru said as Grant wondered what the hell the little lady was so worked up about. In truth THEY started this but hey whatever got her motivated. "Captain this little girl is nuts!" said one of Grant's team mates worriedly as Grant chuckled, "No problems at all! She's on our side let her get worked up!" Grant said as he fired a shot at a Virgo's blind side hitting it's thruster allowing the funnels from nearby to pierce it's head eye thing and then a clean shot through the hole in it into the cockpit of the machine.

All Victor could see was that this was clearly a battle he had no chance of winning. "Damn it!" Victor grumbled as he started to back away from the field of battle. "This has death written all over it. Better retreat back to base, "If there's anything LEFT of that damnable ship Angelo uses I'll be damned..." Victor said as he fled as fast as his mobile armor could take him. This wasn't something he needed on his mind...on top of Wing Zero most likely being around this place he now had to deal with a Gundam with a massive cannon on it's shoulder. "Just another Gundam to be fed to the cause....I hope Reve doesn't take it personally that I left her....it's all just good business." Victor said uncaring of what came next and with a annoyed expression on his withered face.

Almost as if the pilot expected it, the beam saber missed as the MS gave a preemptive jump backwards, before raising it's shield to block Exia's GN sword. The sword bit deep into the shield and into the MS' shoulder armor, as Exia's momentum pushed the MS and itself a small distance before stopping. Before she could use Exia's Vulcan mounted on its right to potentially pierce through the soft spots of the MS however, the shield brieftly turned a smoldering yellow color, before a beam burst through it, slicing off Exia's left arm.

-Trans Am ended-

The words flashed briefly on her screen before fading back to the usual display. Exia lost? Her mind was a jumble of emotion swirling in a dark pool of rage. Regardless of what he said, she wasn't going to just give up like this. Not when he hurt Exia. Not when...

"So how about you surrender and join us. Going by your suits power source. I'm going to say you come from the same place as that Graham guy and those other two. We already have a few of your people with us I'm sure you will fit in."

Her rage subsided all of a sudden, as she was wont to do; replaced by surprise.

"Gra..ham..."
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"aaaAAAKER!"

A loud screech of metal rang in her ears as she struggled to keep control of Exia. It was impossible. How can a Flag outfight a Gundam? Exia was already damaged from the fight, and she had just barely managed to take off the Flag's arm in return. Bent on making that Flag pilot suffer as much as possible, her quantum brainwaves expanded again, pure rage emanating clearly across it. There were numerous other suits in the desert they were trying to escape from, raining down a hail of bullets so thick even the Gundams would be shredded if they dared go without heavy cover.

-Reve, calm down! Your blind rage proves your ineptitude. Do you call yourself an Innovator? Stay focused, he's using your anger against you.-

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"..Ti...Tieria?"

Her bloodlust forgotten, she leaned forwards excitedly. "Is Tieria there!? Lockon? Allelujah?" Her mind was focused forwards in a cone now, ensuring the MS pilot would hear her even without the speaker on Exia she had just turned on.

But wait, the bastard did damage Exia. While she did have enough of Exia in her head to repair it, or rebuild it if there were enough materials, it was a pain in the head to think of it, and she did hate tedious stuff. She could just kill him and go to the ship, if she knew where it was. Besides.... those Zone people with the Dogi Gerah was leaving her here. The bastards. Not that she wasn't going to kill every one of them for that creepy guy's threat though. And that guy in the MS in front of her would need to be killed later for hurting Exia. So maybe she should join them for now?