Gabriel watched as the last opponent fled and he scoffed. What kind of leader left a soldier behind and he looked back to the injured suit. A question came of names Gabriel had never heard before. "Nope none of them, sorry." He said turning his attention back to the Exia. "But I can promise you that our guys won't leave behind a wounded team member just because things got rough." He said feeling kinda sorry for the pilot. "Now how about you come on out of your suit there and Me, the leader of the Soldiers here Grant, and you can sit down and negotiate your official surrender." He said before switching back to Alpha Team's com channel. "Hey Grant, I think I got this Sword suit to surrender and possibly join us. Can your men and Puru hold the area while we talk to the pilot. Even without one arm I think that suit is quite capable of doing some damage so taking it forcibly might be a bad idea." Gabriel said trying to think of the easiest way to get this done. "And if you don't feel comfortable I can go down and talk to the pilot alone, just keep me covered alright." he added knowing enemy reinforcements could quite possibly be on the way.

"Wait a second wait a second Gabriel!" Grant said in exasperation as he turned his dagger towards the Exia and the GX, "That thing just nearly gutted you, killed Puru, and kicked one of my mates in the chest and you want to trust this person? Have you smacked that thick head of yours on a console or something?" Grant argued as he told his men to get ready to fire if they had to. He split his squad in half. Two moving to the nearby area to guard the perimeter, while Grant and the other guy prepared to pull Gabriel's butt out of the fire if he had too. Of course however Puru jumped in, "Hey that nasty person took out my funnels! She tried to hurt us! Why try to make her one of our friends if she's going to be a nasty person to us and try to hurt us!?" Puru said with childish indignation. "To be fair Puru we ambushed HER." Grant interjected wanting to play the devil's advocate, "Hey aren't you on my side in this Mr. Grant!?" Puru said as she frowned deeply and groaned, "I am don't worry I'm just stating that we did ambush her on the other hand they did the same to us so that's an eye for an eye. Still doesn't change the fact that we tried to kill her and she tried to kill us. Besides I really don't think I have the final call in this." Grant grumbled out..

Gabriel grinned at Grant's response. "Ya she tried to kill us, but now her suit is as good as disabled and her "allies" left her for dead. Personally if we can get another suit on the field for us I would prefer that to another person in the brig taking up food. And I'm pretty sure the Captain would agree to that. Anyway this suit uses one of those GN generator things so I doubt she has any real connection to our enemy. They were probably the first group she meet and they showed her no loyalty so if we do better we might gain an ally. Granted its risky, but who have you let into your ship that wasn't risky. It wasn't all that long ago your men had rifles pointed at me" Gabriel said trying to reassure Grant. "If you prefer we can just escort the suit back to the ship and leave the whole thing to the captain" he added

Of course things never go so well. It was likely the crew would be using a different name once they came here, so as to not alert enemies. And those guys.... Well considering the state of the GN Drive now, would likely be an annoyance, but still hardly a threat once she started calming down. The only threat now was the MS in front of her and that big one with the huge shoulders that shoots out small Fang units.

Once again she expanded her brainwaves in a large sphere, her grip tightening on the controls. She licked her lips once, anticipating the moment they attack her. One arm or not, she still had her beam sabers, plus the Vulcan mounted on Exia's arm. Even now the GN Drives are still working, refilling the lost particles, and working its way back to normal performance. If she could just hold out for a few minutes.....

Should she really be defeated in this battle, at the very least Exia and its GN drive won't be theirs.

-Your friends don't look too happy to see me...- her thought reverberated through to Gabriel.

"I'm fine, Miss Baker," Saturnalia replied, "The Virtue, like most of the Gundams that were built where I'm from, were designed for hit and run operations, and lack sustain on the field. After making an attack like that, I'm low on energy until my GN Drive can replenish itself, or I get energy from an external source to increase the recharge speed, which is why I'm actually quite dependent on the Sundown for continued combat effectiveness." She continued to make her way back to the ship for a bit before saying, "But I appreciate your concern, all the same." It made her wonder about normal humans, who Ribbons and the other Innovades spoke of as greedy, violent, and selfish, the cause for the world's endless state of conflict. Before she could think much more on the topic, another intense thought came to her from the source of quantum brainwaves, this time with a clearer message.

"Gra..ham..."

"aaaAAAKER!"

Saturnalia stopped. Any Innovade who could harbor this strong of a hatred for Captain Aker had to be with Celestial Being. Even though it was risky, she had to see for herself. Apparently, another enemy from her world had shown up. She veered away from her path to the Sundown and headed towards where Gabriel in the X Gundam, and Reve in the Exia had been dueling and were now engaged in tense negotiations.

The swing of the Gold Frame's beam saber was parried by one of the Sandrock's shotels. "What? Now gold?" Donna muttered to herself. "This unit has some similarities to the Murasame of the SIGMA team. It looks like it lacks the strong armour I have but better speed." She then reposted with the shotel to get Rondo to move back or risk getting slashed. "I graciously accept the challenge in the name of the Earth-Sphere United Nations." She shouted back with the speaker on. Now able to fight him with both of her shotels, she took a stance with them, ready to parry and repost any attack while calculating the best time for her own attacks. Compared to Rondo who had a few practices to use the suit she was training with this suit for a year, giving her the advantage of knowing her Gundam's features and strengths thoroughly to fight well.

"I'm afraid you underestimate the strength of this Golden Astray unit miss!" Rondo said as he blocked the shotel easily with the shield even though it did dent it. However Rondo was quickly forced back by a SIGMA squad member whom was trying to hit him. "Damn! Why is the bastard so quick!?" said the soldier angrily as he shot once more at Rondo before blocking it only for the Geara Zulu nearby to take a pot shot at Sigma tanking a shot to the arm the man pulled back before more shots could hit him, "Damn it!" he complained as SIGMA engaged the enemy, "I hope you can handle that thing alone we're busy Sandrock." grumbled SIGMA Leader's Second in Command. Thankfully for SIGMA team they were elite pilots capable of more than the average man who normally piloted the suits they were using otherwise they'd end up as cannon fodder by now. Unfortunately for them the enemy was rallying behind Rondo.

"I don't believe that you understand who you're fighting against you dog..." Rondo mocked Donna as he cast aside his shield in favor of duel wielding his beam sabers. "However to kill a dog I will need to fight like a dog. And you most certainly have no way of hitting me with that suit's weapons." Rondo said confidently as he charged forward straight at Sandrock however he feinted an attack on Sandrock's center only to use his thrusters to jump over Sandrock and try and slice it from behind.
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"Wait a second where are you going then!? The nearest battle field is near Donna!" Baker replied quickly as soon as she saw Virtue deciding to hazardously shift course. "You yourself said that you are in no condition to keep fighting what are you doing? Captain say something!" Baker pleaded as Jason laughed, "And what exactly should I say to a person whom isn't a conscript like Gabriel Cross or Graham Aker? I don't believe you understand that I have no power over this woman's actions." Jason said as Baker looked at him confused then back at the console in front of her, "Miss Saturnalia I urge you to reconsider your current objective whatever it may be! It's not safe out there!" commented keeping a calm face but it was clear from her tone she was actually concerned for the stranger.

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"This all could be some elaborate trap you never know Gabriel. Man just when I could actually use Williams's advice she isn't god damn able to...gah...You know I outrank you I could order you to just leave her to the wolves here. I don't need a crazy lady smacking apart the ship. When Lieutenant Black Star took that chance on you he did so on Captain's orders." commented Grant as Puru recalled her funnels for recharging purposes, "I don't think we should take her back. I feel....anger and ill will towards others in that person. Like that one girl who tried to kill me earlier. She's no different from Glemy I think." Puru continued. She couldn't remember Nena Trinity's name but she knew an enemy when she felt it through her cyber newtype abilities. "I want an apology at the very least for breaking my funnels!" Puru grumbled out.

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Paul and Graham kept taking pots shots at Angelo whom kept trying to hit them to little success. Graham's abilities to dodge his shots and Paul's extensive abilities heightened by his newtype abilities went a long way to making Angelo angrier. "You little pricks you may be a newtype but you lack the grace of Full Frontal!" Angelo growled out as Zimmerman appeared on his screen, "Angelo sir sorry for taking so long what is your progress?" Zimmerman asked as Angelo frowned, "I'm busy fighting two enemy ace pilots! I'm assuming the worse and that Victor is dead along with that strange bitch and her gundam suit. Send reinforcements immediately!" Angelo hated calling for aid but he had no choice in the matter at this point, "They blew up our hanger though and we can't launch units. we can still land units but we won't be able to field anymore until we have repairs done..and find more crew those bastards took out many of our own soldier using that cowardly tactic." Zimmerman informed Angelo as Angelo's anger grew even more. "I see you bastards truly are third rate soldiers! I'll be doing the world a favor by wiping you from existence you cowardly pigs!" Angelo said as he closed range on Paul only for Paul to grin happily.

He may have figured out just now that this prick had the same powers as he did but Paul was much more calmer, "Dumbass you shouldn't have closed range!" Paul said under his breath as he flicked open a switch on his console and pressed a button and unleashed Mk438 Triple "Würger" Air-to-air Missiles at Angelo whom was too close to dodge them effectively so he blocked it with his shield and the missiles imploded on the enemy suit while Graham hammered away with his XLR-04 200mm Trial Type Linear Rifle at Angelo's back further allowing Paul's missiles to hit and do some light damage to Angelo's suit. "You bastards!" screamed Angelo finally having enough of this he rammed his damaged Zulu at the Raigo as the machine impacted on Raigo sparks flew as Paul's Phase Shift Armor took effect and nulled the damage caused by the Zulu's charge but was still knocked back from Angelo giving him enough time to pull back, However Paul's attention was suddenly brought back to his fellow soldiers, "Hey are you alright down ther-No!" Paul growled as he sent a beam rifle shot towards Stella whom dodged it saving Beta Leader from nearly being slashed apart. While Paul had been focusing on the Rozen Zulu Stella had not only deactivated a member of Beta Team by cutting off one of the unit's legs and then shooting the thrusters of the machine but had managed to get around Beta Leader, surprising the hell out of Paul himself since he KNEW for a fact that Beta Leader's skills were no joke at all, and if not for Paul's intervention at that moment the man whom had helped him on so many missions would be laying dead on the ground.

Stella switched back to her mobile suit form as Paul activated his com, "Com Officer Axer I need my Caliburn Striker Pack! Sending coordinates now!" Paul said hurriedly as James Axer immediately got on it, "Sending it sir!" Axer said to Paul as the unmanned drone unit meant to deliver Paul's packs was launched, "Beta keep Angelo busy! I'll take care of these scumbags!" Paul told his men as Beta Leader turned around and quickly went to grab his sniper rifle which had had dropped some distance away in order to close combat distance and fight Stella. Beta's Sniper Rifle fired not plasma rounds but anti-mobile suit rounds which wouldn't have effected Stella. "You think you can just kill me!? I won't let you kill me! I won't die!" Stella screamed at Paul whom faintly felt her feelings which were based off of fear..."I think understand...but why can I feel these things?" Paul thought to himself. Besides the fact that this girl was OMNI she was also being used as a tool by Angelo whom likely fear mongered her into fighting them, "That explains one thing. Hey Graham this may take a bit I need you to stay alive got that!?" Paul demanded to his ally as Graham responded gleefully, "Oh don't worry about that I am going to enjoy fighting this Lieutenant! Gundam or not, I can feel thi-"

Graham's words lost to Paul as the man turned to Stella and blocked, with ease, the rapidly fired shots by Gaia. "I don't think you understand I'm on your side girl!" Paul said as he flew closed to the girl while blocking her shots with the beam shield in his hands or dodging when he could. "Then why are you attacking me!? Your allies are trying to kill me and thus you are trying to kill me! I'm not a traitor you are a murderer!" Stella's fear drove her to coutinue attacking Paul as she glided back along the fields, "Then why am I not attacking you!? I'm defending myself can't you understand I don't have any intentions of killing a fellow OMNI Soldier I fighting you because you're on the wrong side!" Paul tried to reason with her as his words only served to confuse Stella further. Instead of listening to Paul she kept attacking him, "I'm not an idiot! You were trying to kill me just moments ago I won't listen to you!" It seemed that Paul's only chance here was to disable the girl, "Fine then I'll just have to make you understand!" Paul said as he carefully aimed his shots at Stella's arms and legs but he was unable to hit her as Gaia dodged too fast for him to hit her, "Close combat range it is!" Paul knew he had made the right call for a pack change. He just needed to wait until he got it...

Graham and Angelo danced a chaotic dance neither unable to land a hit on the other and Beta Leader's men were too focused on the enemy grunts and staying alive rather than helping Graham. "You think you're so tough! I've seen tougher boxes of cardboard than you!" Angelo mocked Aker, "And your suit is so ancient looking it's an eye sore do you even understand who I am!?" Angelo continued as they two exchanged shots in the air, Graham's only response was a filled with confidence, "I live for these types of battles! To test myself against people like you! You may not be the Gundam whom gave me life again but you are pretty damn close to it! And for that purpose I will defeat you and that purple beast of yours! I will strike down my enemies and I will do so with my flag!" Graham commented returning fire with his trial rifle but Angelo dodged swiftly. "You're not even a newtype what chance do you even think you have on me!?" Angelo demanded as Graham laughed, "Why the hell are you laughing you clod!?" Angelo demanded, "Because you don't understand who I am! I am Graham Aker Ace Flag fighter! And I will be the one to strike down everyone with me flag! I don't care what powers you have all that matters is that you are my enemy in this beautiful dance of death!" Graham called out to Angelo who at this point had labelled Graham as a lunatic. Angelo's leg was pelted by machine gun fire and he fired a shot at the Beta Soldier whom fired it forcing the man to literally force his suit to jump away only for him to get his dagger's hand shot off by a Doga who was then picked off by another member of Beta. "Thanks dude!" called the soldier whom was told to watch his back and keep fighting; that they were not out of this until Angelo laid dead!

Gabriel listened to Grant's concerns as well as Reve's "Well you know that is true, but if we leave her here I am sure that she will come back to bite us in the ass some day. So how about we haul her back to the ship and the Captain can decide her fate. Anyway that suit isn't something to be left behind, at the very least we can pull that big ass sword gun off its arm and I'll take it for my suit." He said and joked before turning back to Reve "Ya they aren't very happy about the idea. But they won't fire on you unless you attack, so just cooperate. Looks like were going to take you to our ship to be questioned. I guess you can't really be accepted with open arms when we were just fighting not to long ago." Gabriel said through his speakers turning to head back to the ship but remaining ready. "And just to make them feel better you carry your own arm so you can't attack us without giving me and Puru enough time to stop you." He continued before switching back to the team's coms. "This should be fine right Grant. If she makes any aggressive move I'll put her down myself." he said getting ready to return to the Sundown

Agreeing silently, her mind stopped emanating quantum brainwaves over a large distance, as she sighed and calmed down. Priming her mind over a distance does take out quite a bit of her energy, and she had kept on the sphere of influence ever since she had disembarked from the Zeon people's ship. It was something she had learned to do from all the fighting she had done; it kept her aware of any enemy movement in it.

Now that the adrenaline and the rush of combat was gone, she slumped in the cockpit, barely registering Virtue Gundam coming up on her screen. Reve would go along with them for now; being this drained does not do well for her mind after all.

"Fine but if she causes trouble I'm throwing you underneath the bus faster than you can say 'holy cows birdman'...whatever the heck that even means." Grant said moodily as he turned around and told his men that they should all prepare to take whatever scraps of these god forsaken machines they could back to the Sundown, "Gotcha sir! Good shooting out there by the way!" said one of Grant's men whom was joined in by the various members of Beta whom cheerfully contemplated their own ego's while searching over the wreckage of these VIRGO lll's. Puru on the other hand was not very happy at all, "But-but Mr. Gabriel she destroyed my funnels and she makes me feel weird like she's supposed to be a newtype but isn't!" Puru argued vehemently as the suit landed and stomped on the ground just as moodily. Puru was not happy about what was happening. Then again was she ever in the middle with her feelings? Even on the time they knew her she had been single minded all the way through.

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Paul switched out his beam rifle for a beam saber shortly after he shot three more shots at Stella to keep her busy while he re-equipped, he then managed to barely parry a beam shot by Stella using a beam saber and blocked another with his shield. "I need to close the range if I can damage this gundam then I can bring this girl home without harming her...."For god sakes girl try and think why would I be your enemy! We're both in OMNI! This battle is because Zeon was trying to kill us! Whoever this guy is, whatever he has told you it is all lies!" Paul tried to tell her while keeping his anger from the earlier death of one of the Beta members at bay. Casualties were a part of war but that didn't make it any better in Paul's own mind. "My whole live I've lived like this! You are just another target! Those who want to kill me are my enemies! If you aren't my enemy let me kill you!" Stella roared at Paul as she transformed once more and used the rifle on her back to shoot at Paul whom dodged it once more. "This is getting really annoying now...how do I convince a mad woman that I'm not her enemy...but I don't want to kill a fellow OMNI Soldier unless I have to." Paul thought to himself as suddenly Paul noticed that he lost a good deal of power on that attack from Angelo.

"Damn it I need to be careful..." Paul grumbled as suddenly Stella suddenly jumped into the air and shot at him. Raigo was nearly clipped in the head by the shot but it went wide, "She's not to sure herself is she?" Paul thought to himself or maybe he was over thinking things and the shot just went wide however a thankful relief appeared in the form of the FX-550 Skygrasper that flew overheard. Lucky for the Sundown the machine was a prototype with an AI that helped reduced the need for pilots risking their necks to deliver Raigo's Striker Packs. The machine dropped a smoke grenade and set off a round of machine gun fire as it came in. "Hey this is Axer delivering the package switch out from your current one to the new one now!" Axer said as Paul did as Axer said with complaint and quickly switched out the Striker Package Speculum Striker for the Caliburn Striker Pack. As soon as they had gotten done the girl Stella came charging out of the smoke, "Think you can fool me with radar jamming smoke bombs you bastard!?" she demanded of Paul as suddenly it all came to an abrupt halt as Paul used his rocket anchor to pull Stella's legs out from underneath her causing her suit to smash onto the ground violently, Stella tried to recover and transformed into her mobile suit form but that was cut short as Stella's beam rifle was in half by a quickly thrown beam boomerang which cut off the whole hand of Gaia, "What the hell!?" Stella said her eyes wide in fear as she smashed into a hill and her mobile suit shook and she was unable to recover quickly enough as when she got her act together Paul had his beam boomerang back in hand with the beam tip up against the cockpit, "DO YOU GIVE UP NOW!?" Paul shouted in exasperation,

"I'm not after your life don't you understand!? You'd be dead right now if I wanted you to be dead! This anti ship sword would have been the follow up instead of this boomerang!" Paul said his patience unfortunately giving way, "I...I don't want to die...." Stella said meekly as she noticed that Paul was right, the only reason she was alive right now was simple....he'd let her live, "I'll ask you again do you yield? Please say yes or this fight will end with more blood on my hands...and I have more than enough already...." Paul said heavily as Stella turned her main camera up and was about to confirm it when suddenly she noticed a large beam rifle shot was coming directly at her, "Behind you!" she shouted but she didn't need to shout...Paul sensed it coming....Along with the inevitable shouting of Graham Aker telling him over the com frantically that he was being shot at...Paul desperately wheeled around and considered throwing something at the incoming beam but he knew it wouldn't work...."Son of a bitch! I'm not going to move and leave you to die like this!" Paul said steeling himself as he frantically grabbed at his anti-ship sword hoping that it would be enough to redirect the beam shot into the ground or at least null out the shot.

The F91, in a show of speed, dashed into the shot's path, its beam shield emitter active. The green-colored mivosky plasma formed a plane of energy that harmlessly dissipated the shot much like Angelo's own I-Field generator, though it could've also been used to safely block non-beam attacks. Leo almost wanted to laugh at the balls of the guy trying to deflect a beam shot with an oversized sword, but instead opened comm to Stella using an allied frequency. It was as good a shot as any, because if she didn't calm down from one of her fits he'd have to abandon her. "Hey Ella, it's Leo. You know, the guy who makes Angelo super mad and that makes you laugh but not to his face? I dunno what's going on but these people are our...friends now, alright? We're going to make Angelo so mad he might just blow up".

The F91's head turned around slightly, its free hand flashing a thumbs up to Stella and Paul by proximity. Leo had been surveying the scene from above the battlefield before jumping in. In the commotion of combat, with minovsky particles dispersed and whatnot, it was easy to miss the smaller mobile suit high in the sky and not being a bother to anyone. And even if some people did notice it, either they took him for an ally or decided to bother with the unknown element once they dealt with the people currently trying to kill them. Leo rather liked what he saw. He felt no remorse for the Zeon remnants being decimated as he watched and merely congratulated himself for not rushing to Angelo's aid when called. It looked like he'd found himself a new employer. He might even get Stella out of that ship to boot.

First order of business was making himself look good in the eyes of his new allies and blocking a shot like that was, in his book, a good way to start things off. Next was shooting Angelo down. Well, he kind of wanted to do that since they'd first met but it was still a good way to go. He opened a comm to the Gundam armed with the massive swords, signaling himself as a friendly. "The way I see it you owe me one now, but I'mma do you one better and put a hole or two in Angelo's MS to boot. All I want is a job in your ship. Oh and take the girl in too, she's not right in the head. Get me a clear shot at Angelo and we'll get this battle done and over with in no time, how's that sound?".

"But....what....how?" Stella asked meekly as Paul pulled himself off Stella's suit, "I suppose I should thank you for this...let's get out of this alive and then we'll get the details settled on how you just saved my-our asses. And if I wasn't planning on getting this girl back to our ship then I wouldn't be standing over her right now. Regardless-" Paul said as he threw his beam boomerang to the left slashing the cockpit of a nearby downed Doga whom was aiming for him before grabbing it on the rebound. "We have company." Paul finished as he pointed out Angelo had finally regained from his shock, "YOU SON OF A BITCH! HOW DARE YOU DEFECT TO THE ENEMY! I FED YOU AND GAVE YOU SHELTER AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY THE KINDNESS OF AN ELITE ZEON PILOT!? I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF ALL OF YOU NOW DI-" Angelo grumbled as Graham suddenly charged in mid rant and tried to decapitate Angelo whom dodged and tried to retaliate with his ICOM Mega Particle weapons again but missed as Graham dodged by twirling around in mid air with suprising ease, "Take the shot!" Paul shouted at Beta Leader as he fired a sniper shot at The Rozen Zulu which had it's arm nearly blown off by the resulting sniper shot, "There's your opening! Take it before Graham gets it in his thick head to charge him!" Paul shouted With the confusion of Stella being stolen from him, being ambushed, and his ally turning on him all Angelo could think of was to survive but the resulting triple teaming from the group.

Being a sharpshooter was different in the era of miniaturized MSes. Even with a weapon like the Variable Speed Beam Rifle the smaller size of the targets (comparatively speaking, obviously) and the ever-increasing speed and mobility shown with every subsequent generation of machines meant that a static shooter attacking from exceedingly long ranges proved inadequate for hitting anything other than powered down objectives. Sharpshooters had to match the enemy move for move and predict the enemy's positioning or force them into a misstep so as to land a killshot while avoiding the enemy's beam shield.

So, rather than simply firing from that distance the F91 Gundam burst from the ground, flying towards Angelo with its right VSBR slung under the armpit and its beam shield still active. Leo had opened a comm channel to Angelo, purely in order to taunt him and make him lose his cool. "Sorry about this Angelo, but you're kind of a terrible boss. You Zeek freaks don't get tired of losing miserably do you?". Moving in a stilted evasive pattern to make himself hard to hit, Leo fired a trio of regular beam shots in such a way as to force Angelo to use his i-field to defend himself, setting him up for a killing blow.

Normally, Angelo should be able to see through and dodge the all three, but with the damage he'd taken and his rage, Leo hoped he'd just turn on his i-field and gloat over his defenses. The fourth shot Leo fired, however, was different. It was thinner and far faster than the others, an accelerated particle beam capable of piercing straight through beam shields and mobile suit i-fields, a function of the F91 that Leo had taken great pains to keep hidden from Angelo and his crew. And it was aimed, with deadly accuracy, right where he expected the Rozen Zulu's cockpit to be.

Donna found Rondo's condenscending comment a reason to take him down other than being an enemy. "I will show who's a dog..." She muttered in frustration. As Rondo's Gold Astray charged forward to Sandrock, Donna prepared to slash from the side. When her opponent jumped behind, she knew that she can't withdraw in time. An improvised plan came where she extended her swip meant for an offense to her back with great rotation of the Gundam's torso. With no other options left she did so, bareley blocking a fatal strike and allowed her to retake her stance. "I am the daughter of the Lindemann bloodline of OZ soldiers!" She roared back at Rondo. "I am a higher breed of the dog you believe in!" She made a move to charge at the Gold Astray with the shotels, planning to make a pincer with the curved blades so he can't escape what's coming to him.

"You dare mock the Principality of Zeon!? You will pay!" Angelo dodged the first two shots but reverted to his I field for the last shot only. Graham and Paul would have engaged him as well if not for the enemy soldiers who were reinforcing Angleo with passion now seeing the commander in trouble gave the new resolve. Paul was also incapable of fighting in the sky making him a prime enemy target for Angelo if he weren't busy with the small machine. "It looks like I've been reduced to grunt clean up. Suits me just fine...but first...hey girl can you move get up and get behind me! That is an order miss as a Lieutenant of OMNI Enforcer you are to obey my orders!" Paul said as Stella meekly acknowledged his order. Paul had little time to be patient with the frightened pilot as he pulled out his larger beam saber after putting away his Anti-Ship Sword back in it's spot on his back. "Conscript Graham I'm trusti-" Paul started before he was saved by a Beta Soldier whom blocked a shot with his shield, "Thank you-" Paul said as he fired his CIWs to shoot down a missile shot from an unknown location. "Just get going back to the ship Lieutenant we got this handled! Besides they'll break soon enough if Virtue did it's job correctly." said Graham with passion as he lit up the enemy soldiers with his weapons. "This is exactly what I want!" Graham said as he noticed some where breaking through Beta's wall of defense.

As this happened Angelo stopped to take a shot at the enemy machine at the full power that his ICOM systems would allow but the 4th shot fired from the small gundam ripped through his arm destroying the lower half and damaging his upper part, "No I-I can't lose I'm the head of Full Frontal's guard!" Angelo mouthed angrily trying to comprehend his loss of momentum. It had taken so many of them to actually force him to retreat last time...but this bastard...this son of a pig whom he had known for only a few days....was beating him..."I knew I should have killed you when we first met!" growled Angelo as he was about to make a desperate attempt to fire at the smaller machine again he was interrupted by Suberoa whom with exasperation informed him of the current situation, "We are losing ground quickly...we'll have to vacate the area. Luckily the engines still work and even if they destroyed the hangers we can still dock suits for the time until we can fix them. Retreat now-" Suberoa advised him as Angelo smacked his chair, "I know but we can't retrea-" Angelo started as one of his lieutenants appeared on screen, "Sir these machines are going to overwhelm us retreat and give our regards to Full Frontal. Tell him we died like noble soldiers." the man stated as Angelo's feelings of anger were suddenly replaced with a deep sense of disgust at the situation he had forced his men into...and..."I understand die well like true sons of Zeon. I will give you a proper funeral once we get home." Angelo said as he turned around and fled with shame in his heart, "You there Leo! I will find you again one day and when I do I will kill you!" Angelo promised as Beta Leader tried to peg him with another shot but it was dodged.

"Take the bastard out he is..!" Paul started as he noticed on the radar that Angelo was fleeing. "Lieutenant the enemy is charging us!" Beta Leader commented as Paul suddenly understood what was happening, "They're letting their leader escape! Son of a bitch looks like we're not going to be pegging that ship anytime soon! Everyone get moving! Kill them or put'em down for the count! We're not taking prisoners but we aren't here to-" Paul started as Jason broke into the channel, "This is a order from the Captain to all members of Beta Squad and SIGMA Teams kill anyone they send at you, They're not going to stop until they're completely disabled. Fanatics die hard and I rather have them dead them my own soldiers! This is not murder this is self defense at this point! We came here with the intention of putting down the enemy and striking fear into their hearts but they made this a massacre not us." Jason said with authority as Paul felt a pit in his heart, "This war...war is hell. YOU HEARD THE MAN! GIVE'EM WHATEVER YOU CAN!" Paul ordered his men as the whole of Beta Team stopped looking for cripple shots and started aiming at the cockpits of the enemies for real. Before they weren't shooting for kills for the most part but now it was all they could do survive. Angelo's men charged at all of them with melee weapons and or their beam weapons or whatever they could get their hands on. Beta hid behind the cliffs of the area and or took to the air using their jet striker packs and unleashed a furious barrage of rifle shots and machine gun rounds. Graham Aker's face turned cold, "I understand there's no other way. They choose this and they'll get what they want." Graham said turning his sight towards the enemies, "Fanatics who throw away their lives aren't worthy of being my enemies!" Graham said with conviction more so trying to convince himself than actually putting down anyone. He wasn't one to endorse a kill zone area but he wasn't one to be squeamish and kill enemies who were blatantly throwing away their lives.
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The gold astray's blades glanced off the shotels but Rondo quickly pulled back barely getting away in time as the red hot shotels as the scrapped into his armor. "It seems you do have some talent! That almost got me. Almost but you gave away your move by moving the suit the way you did." Rondo commented bluntly, "But you fair rather poorly against enemies whom are faster than you!" Rondo taunted her. But he noticed that a retreat order was being given and it was clear that this battle was ending soon, "Come at me woman of 'OZ' your forces are winning it's not like you are going to lose anything by trying to take me out...but are you sure that you're soldiers don't need help. Angelo is ordering a retreat but his men seem more intent on trying to kill your men and save time for the others to get away." Sigma was having trouble keeping up as the enemies recklessly threw themselves towards SIGMA but the speed SIGMA had on the custom Marusames they had made the attempts pitiful. However in turn they couldn't keep shooting and had to dodge.

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"Wait a second where are you going then!? The nearest battle field is near Donna!" Baker replied quickly as soon as she saw Virtue deciding to hazardously shift course. "You yourself said that you are in no condition to keep fighting what are you doing? Captain say something!" Baker pleaded as Jason laughed, "And what exactly should I say to a person whom isn't a conscript like Gabriel Cross or Graham Aker? I don't believe you understand that I have no power over this woman's actions." Jason said as Baker looked at him confused then back at the console in front of her, "Miss Saturnalia I urge you to reconsider your current objective whatever it may be! It's not safe out there!" commented keeping a calm face but it was clear from her tone she was actually concerned for the stranger.

"Don't worry, Miss Baker," Saturnalia replied, "I won't put myself in harm's way, I just...need to confirm something." Saturnalia wasn't sure if she wanted to reveal what she sensed as that would give away the fact that she was an Innovade. In her world, Innovades were relatively new, very well hidden, and very few people knew of their existence. The Innovades planned to take over the world through engineered conflict and subterfuge while creating a common enemy in the form of Celestial Being to be used as a scapegoat. The baggage that came with being an Innovade made her decide to keep that bit of information to herself. However, there were people who spoke of "Newtypes", a term she wasn't familiar with, but from what she could gather, were also evolved humans with similar abilities.

"I sensed something, call it intuition...but it could be another terrorist like Trinity. I have to make sure." When Saturnalia finally made it to where Gabriel was, her fear was confirmed, she saw a Celestial Being Gundam, the melee combat suit, Exia, recorded as MIA after Operation Fallen Angels, presumed destroyed. The snippets of ally communication gave her enough information to know what Gabriel was planning. She knew she didn't have enough GN particles to do enough damage to the Exia, and even if she did, the Exia was probably too fast to guarantee a solid hit. if she couldn't destroy it with one attack, the Exia's pilot (probably Setsuna F. Seiei) would probably assume Gabriel had been trying to trick him, and would thus either turn on Gabriel or try to escape. On the one hand, she owed her life to Gabirel, who had saved her from the black, cloaking Gundam so she felt it was wrong to endanger his life by provoking the Exia. On the other hand, she didn't want to let the Exia escape either. The best option then, would be to support Gabriel's decision, and find a way to deal with Setsuna later, although with Setsuna and Nena on the ship, it was going to be very difficult to try and get rid of both of them. To help Gabriel in his recruitment of the Exia, Saturnalia decided to take a small gamble and came out of hiding, making the Virtue fully visible to the Exia, but she did not say a word, and waited to see how the pilot would respond. She hoped that the sight of a 'friendly Celestial Being Gundam" would make the pilot more likely to come along, despite the fact that the Exia's pilot already knew that Graham Aker, one the Exia's greatest rivals, was already on their side.

Reve was already starting on some canned fruit she had filched from Angelo's ship when that guy in that MS started to negotiate with his comrades. Pretty strange was his determination for her to join. Noticing the can opener was still stuck on the can being a bother, she took it out and threw it backwards, where it clattered against a pile of food and drinks from the ship. Call her whatever they want, she still had to eat and drink, though the habit of ratting away food from the larder to hide in Exia's cockpit was something she picked up after being shot down by that Ali person. The days she had spent trying to survive without backup was torture. The Ptolemy couldn't really reach her at the time due to heavy military movement in the area. It was a lucky break one of the Trinity brothers had found her in that stupid forest.

Smiling to herself at that miserable memory, she continued eating, before almost choking on a pineapple slice when Virtue Gundam showed up out of nowhere.

"Virtue?"

She jumped up in her seat, her quantum brainwaves expanding suddenly as she spoke both verbally and telepathically.

"Tieria!"

She almost blacked out from that, being drained already from the recent exertion, so she switched onto the Celestial Being's commlink band. She gave a frown upon finding that it didn't connect immediately to Virtue. Perhaps Tieria was using a different band for a reason? Shrugging, she opened up the speakers once more.

"Tieria! I see you are ok."

Gabriel listened to Puru's complaints. "And I am sure she is sorry she destroyed your funnels, or will be once she gets to know you. But she was fighting for the enemy's at the time so I can't really blame her. As for being a weird Newtype its not nice to judge someone by their race Puru you should know that. She can't help being what she is." Gabriel scolded the young girl. Before Puru responded Gabriel started to open a connection to the ship. "This is Gabriel, were done over here. Ambush was successful, and we have captured an enemy Ace who wishes to defect. But enemy leader escaped and Rowan was KIA. Things didn't go exactly as planned but our units only suffered minor damage. Unless you want us to push forward we will be heading back to the Sundown." Gabriel reported. before starting to salvage what he could from the downed suits. Then Saturnalia showed herself, and her presence was a little confusing. "Saturnalia? what are you doing over here, our operation was successful and were getting ready to move back." Gabriel said over coms just before Reve used her speakers to call out the name Tieria. "Seriously? you had outer speakers this entire time and you instead decided to barrage my brain to talk instead of using your speakers." Gabriel said to himself watching and waiting to see what would happen.

"Fine be that way Mr. Gabriel but I don't like her one BIT! As far as I care she can live in the cargo hold with the sharp pointy object sand metal for all I care!" Puru commented with indignation as she flew off towards the Sundown by herself. Grant's suit however wandered over and looked directly at Gabriel's suit, "What she was talkin'- You know what; fuck it! I'm not going to even ASK about that but Jason is going to hear about that tid bit Gabriel. If you're going to be talking with each other mentally" commented Grant with sudden annoyance. Thing just kept getting more and more complicated for the guy it seemed. "Now what does Saturnalia want with us? You're supposed to be helping Lieutenant Black Star's assault wave! Shit-Do-" Grant said as suddenly one of his soldiers stepped in, "Sir with all due respect don't be a dumbass. It's clear she's like all the freakin' weirdos we've been getting and she 'sensed' this lady or some shit. As for how she talked to Gabriel it seemed that it was one sided but it's clear that they are at least able to get a one way thing going, Besides they have that same GN Drive dinky whatever. Maybe that transmits a signal only they can get." the man said to Grant as the man acknowledged this, "Now one of these guys showing up at our door step is ONE thing but two? What the fuck man....Cap' will need to watch'em." Grant muttered to his men through private com. The whole of Alpha Team agreed on that. "I'd feel a lot better if Puru was here right now man...She clearly doesn't like'em and she ain't no little push over I think we can all agree on that." The other continued through private com. However Baker came through on the com a couple minutes after Gabriel said that, "Sorry It took a bit but I got your signal. You're clear to come back Paul's assault force, with the aid of a strange pilot, decimated the enemy force we lost a member of Beta Squad though. However I'm certain we have this battle under control...despite the fact that most of these soldiers seem to be more fanatical than we thought." Baker informed all those on the frequency about the event of the enemy soldiers' suicidal charge on Paul's team to allow their comrades to attempt a retreat. Jason had also not given an orders on the matter as of yet other than make a kill zone which Baker voiced to those listening she felt extremely uncomfortable with.

Leo ignored Angelo's enraged transmission, focusing entirely on remaining mobile and shooting down the larger machine. Since the Rozen Zulu no longer had its i-field generator, he switched the F91's VSBRs to fire larger, wider shots with less penetration but capable of wider area damage, and it was this that saved Angelo. When the Neo Zeon officer turned to flee, Leo took a shot as good as any other, aimed right at the center of his unit. It was only the timely sacrifice of a nameless Geara Doga pilot that spared Angelo. Had Leo's weapons still been set to high penetration shots, the thinner beam would've gone right through the grunt and into its intended target. Instead, the large shot landed square on the Geara Doga's chest and instantly caused it to explode, not giving the pilot time to utter a single cry.

"Well, can't land every shot I guess", Leo transmitted to his new allies as the F91 zoomed around the battlefield, picking apart the much slower and less mobile Geara Dogas with ease. What little shots managed to come close to Leo were easily diffused by his unit's beam shield, a piece of technology that had proven nightmarish to fight against on outdated miniaturized mobile suits, so the Geara Dogas' only chance was catching Leo unawares and massing fire upon the F91. Thankfully, the other ship's crew ensured that each Zeon soldier had his hands full. Unlike his allies, Leo felt no shred of remorse as he gunned the enemies down. "Zeeks are like cockroaches, you better shoot to kill or I can guarantee you'll have these people turn up with a vengeance".