2011-02-05 - It's all fun and games...

It's All Fun And Games...

MARTIAN ORBIT MINERVA 14:53 HOURS

Sitting in her quiet, Spartan quarters, Sarah spent most of her day pouring over the self-drafted plans for attack. BAHRAM has been a particular threat to the A-LAWS' Martian campaign--particularly Frames. The fast, Metatron-powered units are too much of a thorn in the proverbial side. They should be dealt with. And what better way than to cut things off at the source..?

LUNAE PLANUM UNMANNED FRAME PRODUCTION FACILITY 18:00 HOURS

It's quiet. Nothing has happened, beyond typical production in the unmanned Orbital Frame facility. Monitored from afar at BAHRAM HQ, nothing appears out of the ordinary. It's another typical Martian evening.

Until--

19:13 HOURS

The first signs of trouble come by way of jarring explosions on the heavily-reinforced production facility. BAHRAM fears are confirmed when a second, then third explosion rocked the massive facility on Lunae Planum. It's an attack.

Further confirmation comes with it is determined the IFF flags are marked as primarily A-LAWS.

19:25 HOURS

Several units from the Minerva advance upon Lunae Planum, coupled with several units from other various A-LAWS and Alpha Numbers' allied ships. At the lead of the Minvera mobile units is the large, lilac-hued Titania trailed by several bits. At its helm is one Sarah Zabiarov.

"This is Lance-1. Our objective here is to take out this unmanned facility. Complete disarmament preferred," the young Newtype notes in flat tones. "Leave nothing standing. We are to cripple production of Orbital Frames. Mission--begin!"

 Divada Kirador transmits, "Somehow this doesn't surprise me...."

 Erika Keese growls, "I am getting sick of the EFA on my homeworld!

 Ascian Luddite groans. "It will be a while before I am ready. Amenthes is undergoing serious repairs."

 Hera transmits, "Why don't we give them a nice 'hello' present. Right up into their brains."

 Divada Kirador transmits, "I'm sending the Defenders for information retrieval. That way, even if the factory goes down we'll still be able to make Orbital frames."

 Ascian Luddite transmits, "Go get them Hera, I'll catch up with you soon!"

 Norris Packard transmits, "I apologise I'm looking into the region where those aliens dropped yesterday."

 Norris Packard transmits, "I'm too far away to be of use."

 Bernie Wiseman transmits, "We'll be fine, Sir."

UNTIL RECENTLY Shinn Asuka had been temporarily reassigned to the Yingzi in order to 'look after' recent recruit Arian-16. He didn't like it, mostly because the only thing he hates more than change is Belgium. Them and their chocolate!! NOW Shinn Asuka is back at 'home', in the comfortable and familiar confines of the LHM-BB01 Minerva, former ZAFT experimental battleship turned A-LAWS carrier, and home of the Minerva's Lance squadron - mostly made up of people Shinn has only vaguely gotten used to having around. At least, he's in these familiar confines in the context of launching out of them, his own mobile suit following not far behind the Titania: A short tail of burnt orange GN particles trails behind the GNX-609TS GN-XIII Shinn Asuka Custom, which given the nature of its current assignment carries a heavier loadout than usual, extra containers loaded onto the red and black coloured machine's frame, along with a pretty big gun resting over its right shoulder, held in place with that arm. "This is Lance-2," Shinn replies, his voice rife with his usual respect for those arbitrarily (at least in his mind) placed above him. "Roger."

Diary of Mars - Day 4:

It seems like every day here I'm called on by Alpha Numbers, The point of coming here was to see things with my own eyes, but it just seems like it's even less likely to escape the propaganda and call of duty here. Today we have to attack an automated factory...

It had /better/ be automated and unmmaned. I'm not as forgiving as I used to be.

NOW

A large trailer comes to a stop out past the BAHRAM sensor lines. The all terrain vehicles engine shudders to a stop as the back of the trailer splits open and a pneumatic piton raises a Mobile Suit into standing position. The white and blue GAT-04 Windam steps off the trailer and spreads the wings of it's flight pack, engines whining until lift off thrust is achieved and hte Windam takes up into the air.

Meiya Mitsurugi is not /especially/ pleased to be piloting today, but the target is BAHRAM, who she counts as some of the craziest people she has ever encountered or fought.

TWELVE MINUTES AGO

"Why is it that no matter where I go, it seems that we fall under attack?!"

A very irate Gates declares, hands held up to the heavens, fingers crooked, demanding to know just why it is that wherever he ends up on this red and blue planet that there's an attack on the facility he's standing in. It's a fair question, truly. It's also the kind of question that draws eyes, and the mutter of 'spy.'

Gates' eyes widen.

ALMOST NOW

Still holding onto a smoking pistol, the Amalgam Killer prances down a hallway within the facility, holding the weapon out as if it both smelled and was going to burn him. "Ahh, I killed that man a good ten minutes ago, why is my gun still smoking?!" he demands to know, for today is a very demanding day.

Prancing out into the hangar bay, he passes by all of those fancy metatron-based mechs and towards the red one he happens to own and love. Lifting a vial out of his coat, he knocks back the contents, following it with a howl -- and by smashing the vial down into the ground. "Ha! That hits the spot! Let's see what they're bringing against us today!"

NOW

Standing atop the facility is a red Arm Slave, with a white ponytail that moves about in the unnatural Martian winds. It holds a massive blade, and seems to have a massive cannon under the other arm. It stands poised with four other units, all Codarl-i's. The Amalgam Execution Squad stand ready to defend this BAHRAM facility. Sure, it was unmanned; so why were they there? "I hope nobody asks why we were here," Gates comments to his men, idly fiddling with a few loose strands of his long blonde hair.

A return to Mars she knew it would happen one way or another just not quite in this fashion. Still she's got a job to do one way or another. She wasn't deploying in Ardjet that would draw too much attention, this unit would as well but it wouldn't be so bad at the very least, right?

The old variable fighter would seem a bit odd launching from an A-laws ship but there it goes, it's even bearing A-laws markings. Also a red and black paint job as well, but nothing more than that.

the SV-51 speeds through the martian skies and Ken starts looking for contacts. This was about to get messy she knew how much BAHRAM would fight against something like this...

To say Elena was 'hired' would possibly be exaggerating slightly. At the prospect of helping hit the DC hard in the face, Elena nearly /leapt/ at the opportunity to tear off the faces of the DC, with her utter dislike of them and their tendancies to do underhanded things... such as fight in cities, or drop colonies. As such, there was an Elemental among the units deploying from the Minerva.

Not that many would likely know that, with the stealth systems on the Elemental causing it to be invisible and it was a small target, possibly not even showing up on most radar because most don't look for human-sized targets. It isn't exactly perfect though, because as the elemental moves, one /could/ hear large thuds...and when her jump jets go off they're visible. But right now she's just running.

BEFORE

Alex Dino looks up wonderingly at the imposing form of the Saviour Gundam. Mechanics work periodically around it, the flash of soldering guns illuminating the Coordinator's face intermittantly.

Blue brows furrow as the ZAFT soldier leans forward, pressing fingertips against the steel gray surface of the Saviour's right arm, where a long burn stretches outward from the impact point of Tekkaman Evil's Psi-Voltekka.

"... What in the world were those things...?"

LESS BEFORE

Orders come out for A-LAWS units to deploy as Alex Dino rushes toward the hangar bays of the Ural transport he has been temporarily assigned to. Already in his flight suit, he is in the midst of securing his helmet as he kicks off toward his Saviour.

"Hey, wait! We're not finished with that!" shouts the mechanic. Seeing Dino apparently not pausing in his floating trek, the mechanic's left brow twitches. "The shield's still bein' fixed, and without it the mobile armor mode'll be vulnerable and awkward to control! And the right arm isn't at full operational cap--"

"If that's it, I'll be fine," Alex Dino assures as he vaults over into the open cockpit hatch. "Thank you for your concern, but..." The lights of the Saviour's control terminal flash on as Dino looks over it, frowning. The right arm--

"... I can take care of myself."

Roughly five minutes later, the Saviour launches off into space as the chief mechanic slowly rubs the bridge of his nose.

NOW

The sleek crimson mobile armor mode of the Saviour falls into place amongst the encroaching Federation forces as Alex Dino impassively checks the controls. The slight unsteadiness in its flight is so subtle it easily goes unnoticed -- but for the Coordinator, it causes the slightest furrowing of his brows.

"... This'll be a bit difficult," he notes to himself. "Maybe the engineer was right." Seconds pass.

"... Maybe it's just as well. Lieutenant Alex Dino, ZGMF-X23S Saviour, initiating the mission!"

The Saviour's motors and gears rotate around at its center a full one hundred eighty degrees as legs, arms and a head emerge from what was once a simple jet. Green eyes flash as the Saviour's wing binders open, sending it launching off towards the Martian base, firing off several bolts of bright emerald beam fire towards the outskirts of the base.

EARLIER THIS WEEK

Count Brocken smiled as he handed over Dr. Hell's orders to Duke Brazen. It was rather unsettling to be smiled at by a headless Nazi but then again Duke Brazen was used to this smirk by now. "You are to report to the Mars front and provide assistance to BAHRAM."

Brazen cringed at the request, knowing the other general was playing with him. He was going to try to gain Dr. Hell's favor while he was away. Brazen nodded slowly, narrowing his red eyes. "Sure thing, Brocken. However, I don't expect this order to be long term..." He started to move past Brocken, suddenly slamming into the other General so his precious head hit the floor. "Sorry." He cackled as he started for the exit.

NOW

The Warrior Beast stretches out it's wings as it moves toward the strike zone. Why did a machine beast/gunmen/eva husk need wings to fly in space? Well... Uh... It looked good I guess? The Warrior Beast shrieks as it reaches the attack point, undocking it's chain sword and giving the ripcord one decisive pull to start the engine. "Tch. Lets make this whole exercise worth it!"

Hera was one person here at the unmanned facuilty, mostly cause her hungry Orbital frame needed to feed off the very life fuel they ran on, and she herself needed some rest. They got there last night so at the current time of the attack, Hera had just left.

That is when the call comes in about the attack, "What?" She said raising a brow, "Anca.."

"This is a confirmed attack on the facility we just left."

"Then lets turn ourselves around and go give them a hello present." The girl said with a grin.

"Hello Present?" The orbital frame's AI questioned back, "I'm afraid that doesn't seem like a proper answer to an enemy attack."

"Heeelllooo," Hera said with a huff to her Frame. "It was sarcasm."

"Was it?"

"Duh!"

The massive dark purple near black draconic frame comes about and then with its massive pylons outstretching from its holder, creating a plasmatic webbing between the pylons it started to turn around. Then with a single strong flap, the Orbital frame was on its way back to intercept the attacking force.

Off in the distance, a single unit approaches, skimming across the martian Terrain at high speeds and kicking up a dust cloud in it's wake. At first, it looks like possible Federation reinforcements, since the unit in question is a Gespenst Mk-II, one of the staple machines of the EFA military. But it's anything but Earth Fed, as the origins of this Gespenst are of another world, in another reality far different than our own. It's standard blue and white frame speeds forth, rifle held in it's hands. At the helm, Erika glares out at the attack far in the distance, anger welling up in her heart, "Damn Feds... why can't they understand that they're not /welcome/ here!"

When Adam Steiner was assigned to the Alpha Numbers, he was given pretty simple orders: Report to a ship repair facility on Mars to have the Sundered Heart's mechbays refitted to better handle Earth mobile suits, and then report to General Shi for assignment. As it turned out though, Mars was far more of a warzone than anyone predicted, and Adam has been caught up in near constant fighting. He's barely had time to repair damage to his new machine before he's gotten another call to action.

The convoy escort was what broke it, though. A simple escort of food, supplies and personnel was ambushed and destroyed by DC forces led by Orbital Frames. While Adam was involved in the battle, and went though it almost undamaged, he was unable to stop the destruction of the transports, due to an attack by space bugs.

So Adam looked into the issue, and found an attack hitting the production center for the very people that ambushed the convoy. An hour later, he and his mech were on a transport to meet up with the strikeforce. This was no transport of personnel, it was an unmanned production facility developing the same weapons that are used in these kinds of ambushes. This is the sort of mission Adam likes.

The Berseker isn't as shining as it used to be, but while the armor isn't too pretty, it's still up to spec as the Berserker keeps pace with the others, holding its formation with the group. Adam isn't sure how EFA group tactics work, and this will be an interesting learning experience. Every other battle was an emergency response, but this one is organized and coordinated. "This is Striker 1. I'm ready op, lead."

Recently, Ascian 'lead', or at least, tried to lead an attack against the A-LAWS' supply route. And whilst the attack succeeded, and Goodman is now without a new supply of ammo, units, weaponry and food supplies - things were so chaotical that it all has left a bad taste in Ascian's mouth. Of course, BAHRAM had proceeded to reprimand the young man, not just for losing command during the battle, but also for having gotten his Orbital Frame so heavily damaged.

So now, left with no other option other than piloting a /mobile suit/, he's decided to risk pilotting The Beast once more. For transporting the unit to the location in question though, would require some time. A series of Narita units however make his life easier. A foursome, two on each arm of the Spiral powered unit, lift the hulking sin to God from the hangar of the NUT facility that felt... empty to Ascian, due to the lack of a certain Orbital Frame.

And now, at high speed, the Narita units are flying through the landscape of Mars. Ascian within, settled in the seat of the unit and well locked into place, holding those metal braces that somehow make up for the control scheme of this unit. Unlike mister Brazen however, he hasn't expanded the unit to fly by itself. Besides, this way is FASTER.

In the meanwhile, the BAHRAM facility's alarms are going off, and always... a series of Raptors and Cylopses activate within, rapidly launching from it to defend. There is only a limited control program running at the center however, so their numbers are limited.

But with a facility that can CREATE Orbital Frames... surely, it can control them. Even if it was just for testing purposes. Responding immediately, they launch towards the assaulting units and spread out. The noodly appendaged units sweeping their beamsabers at their enemies, whilst the Cyclopses attempt to /punch/ the incoming units. Luckily, thanks to the fact that Meiya is simply in a transport, she is safe from their retaliation.

A couple of hours ago. Despite being in another part of Mars, Divada was still mulling in thought over the battle from yesterday. "I'm pretty certain the A-laws will be a little ticked over the loss of their transports the other day Miranda." A brunette close by walks with Divada as she talk. "But, what can we do about it my lady?" Divada crosses her arms and seems to chew her lip in thought. "Prep the Defender teams. Prepare them to move out." NOW As if the A-law forces were anticipated when they blow the orbital frame factory, a pair of decent sized gunships appear above the factory and fly low over it. When they near the ground, both of them transform into robot mode, both of them seem to be carrying rather large weapons....

A single, crimson eye blazes to life inside the helm of a Zaku II Kai. It's systems groan to life, shaking off a long period of rest and maybe even a bit of negligence due to it's age. Shaking it off, the Zaku raises up from it's kneel and lumbers forward, out of whatever structure served as it's hanger. The base already roused it's automated minions to defend itself, more still streamed in to aid.

Inside the heart of the Zaku sat a young man, the confines of the unit's pilot block familier and welcoming to him. He guided the unit out to face their attackers, forming up with the defensive line and urging the machine to bring it';s machine gun to bear. His targeting computer ticked off the various hostiles... There appeared to be no soft targets.

Advancing with the Minerva fleet, the Titania and Lance squad are met with other A-LAWS and Alpha Numbers units in route to the unmanned Lunae Planum facility. Nodding her head once in response to Shinn Asuka's confirmation, the young Newtype replies simply with, "Lance-2, let's stick together. I trust you've brought the firepower for this mission?" Which likely is keyword for 'something like nukes.'

Their advance is, however, cut short by response from the facility, which launches several AI units out and at the encroaching forces. Frowning thinly, Sarah and her seemingly bulky and unwieldy Titania... don't move. Instead, several Funnels advance ahead, taking out several incoming Cyclops units. "I wasn't aware they had active units on site," she notes aloud with a frown before narrowing her eyes.

"Well, whatever. Lance-1--advancing."

And she does so. The Titania banks to the right and descends toward the facility, to cut off the Warrior Beast amalgamation half-way to its destination. She attempts to get its attention--by shooting at its face with a beam rifle.

The Titania does get Brazen's attention with the critical strike on the machine's face. The machine's face is blown clear off, charred meat peeling from the machine's metal skeleton. The Warrior Beast roars loudly in pain as the sensors feed back the burning sensation back into Duke Brazen who begins laughing. Within moments the flesh begins to repair itself as spiraling green energy pulls everything back together.

"So you are the fool who I will be facing today. Hmph. Very well. On your guard."

The Warrior beast banks right and then left, swinging the chain sword in a large arc. The blades engine hits full force just before the intended impact, hopefully cleaving the machine in two nice chunks. "I will not ask you to stand down. Unlike those here, I have no military objective. I aim to kill you."

Unmanned Orbital Frames; Alex Dino has had limited experience with them from his time in the Divine Crusaders, but something about unmanned units never sat right with him.

It's not something he can dwell on for long before the Metatron-powered machines launch off. The Saviour responds automatically, wing binders and verniers opening to deliver simultaneous thrust to the left. The Gundam strafes past the thrust of a crackling energy blade, bringing down its own beam saber in the same turn to behead the enemy Raptor neatly. Alex's eyes narrow.

"War is already too terrible without using heartless dolls to kill people...!" The glow from the Saviour's optics intensifies as it /spirals/ past several Cyclopses, whirling blades slicing through them and wreathing the Saviour in a halo of explosions.

"Commencing the destruction of-- hm?"

And that's when Alex sees the group of ARM Slaves. The small mechs, lined up on the production facility, stand menacingly like a pack of guard dogs. Alex frowns.

"... Unidentified...?" Alex shakes his head. "Whatever. You all--" The wing binders of the Saviour swing up to its sides and open fire on Gates' Venom troop, machine cannons riddling the skies to punish them with a warning shot.

"--need to get out of the way!"

A critical hit, Sarah thinks. If its face just melted off, surely some form of sensory or the like has been impeded or permanently damaged. Good--that means she just gained the high ground. The young woman begins to smile, when--

The thing's face fixes itself with green energy. This is like the Balmarian Zehirut..??

"D-damn it," Sarah softly grouses, giving her bottom lip a light biting at before she clenches tightly to her controls. "No military objective??" the Newtype wonders with the faintest hint of surprise in her tone. "But--no, it doesn't matter. I /won't/ stand down, because I /have/ an objective here. I refuse to die! So, you can try--"

The Warrior Beast attacks, the chain sword swung heavily at the Titania. It sharply pulls to the side, evading the assault as several funnels dart forward, firing off several GN-T powered shots at the Beast before withdrawing.

Moving in, the Titania takes hold of its beam saber arsenal, attempting to catch the Duke off his guard and swing each in a wide, inward-bound arc. "But you're going to fail! That I /assure/ you!"

With the nature of the mission, Adam is cut off from his usual tacOps supplied by Rachel Specter, so he's forced to rely on EFA forces for his intel here. Still, he doesn't let that stop him from charging right in, the local defenders smashing shots into his mech's heavy armor, doing noticeable, though not very significant damage. He returns fire with ER Medium lasers, though doesn't commit his big guns, nor does he veer off his course straight towards the enemy base. He's best when he can get right in his target's face.

Speaking of faces, a particular unit catches his attention: A Zaku II. He doesn't really know the difference between a Zaku and a Zaku II by sight, but he recognizes the profile as one of the two. "Huh, a Zaku? That's a One Year War machine, isn't it? I didn't know anyone still fielded those. Kind of like running into a Mackie on the battlefield." Well, it might be the only chance to see what one of these things can do in a real fight.

Adam's Berserker turns to charge the Zaku, barreling along at the highest speed it can handle at its current heat level. As it runs, the mech levels its right arm at the Zaku, bringing the heavy ER PPC to bear on the machine, before unleashing a single, powerful blast of lightning, focused into a tight beam, aimed straight at the center torso of the enemy machine.

"Ahhhhh! Did you see that one transform?" Gates calls out to his squadron, pointing a finger up at the red Saviour as it transforms right before his very eyes. He leans forward in his seat, pushing against the restraints that keep him in place. "I want to play with that! I wonder if it's like the Neo Transformers toys I had as a kid!"

And so, with the Codarl-i following his motion and pointing up at the Gundam, that the Gundam turns its attention to the group standing there on top of the facility. The gleeful expression fades from the faceo of the Amalgam Killer. "I think he noticed us! Was I too obvious with my pointing? Guys? Handle him!"

The Amalgam Execution Squad disappear one by one, optical camouflage engaging. As it turns out, one of their members is late; he reappears in front of the swooping Gundam, elongated kukri drawn to strike -- only for the Arm Slave to be reduced to swiss cheese. It explodes right in front of the Saviour. KABOOM!

"Ahhhhhhhhh! I'm losing men already! This is what we get for oursourcing to China!" Gates roars, raging about in his chair. As a result of him still holding the controls, the red Venom performs an intricate, awkward, awful dance routine!

Snapping out of it, the lead Venom -- the one with the ponytail -- brandishes its sizeable machine cannon. The fin at the rear of the unit extends, as if aroused. "Well, I'll show this guy! If he wants to treat us like toys, I'll show him what I did to all of my toys! I crushed them, that's what!" Nobody asked, but it was kind of obvious. Leaping into the air, the machine cannon begins firing high caliber munitions at the Gundam!

Targets, targets, targets... Elena begins to look over the targets, searching for a good one to attack... and then she gets an IFF ping of somehting large, but not too large and... it looks kind of slow. And thus, the elemental gets it's prey! Regardless of if it's really that good of prey. The Ghost Wolf does a quick scan, before it begins to take off running for Erika's Gespenst.

This time, however, the Elemental does not flicker into visibility. The DC did not deserve that 'honorable' show of herself, though as the Elemental runs closer, Erika's radar may ping the incredibly small unit's approach. And if that doesn't tip her off to the Elemental's presence, then the elemental's next action will.

Suddenly, the Elemental's jump jets flare into life, sending it flying a good 30 meters into the air, the flames visible... and if /that/ does not tip hero ff to the Elemental's presence, the fact that something heavy just attempted to land on the Gespenst's shoulder would almost definitely tip her off to the stealthed elemental. Right before it aims it's micro-pulse laser at the shoulder joint of the Gespenst, attempting to shoot at the armor there. The Ghost Wolf is not playing around with this, attempting to immediately disable the arm. Not that it's likely to be successful, mind you.

She would find an orbital frame she knew coming into her sights even as the Raptors come her way, the old variable fighter. She evades and pauses as she realises which frame it is. Well it seems Hera's about to get some training, not that she realises it. The strange thing would be the SV-51 was normally a DC design where did an A-law get one? Clearly a captured machine but it was a bit odd to see it in use due to it's age, the machine swoops in towards the orbital frame, and fires off a barrage of fire from it's belly mounted gunpod.

.oO(Looks like it's time for some training Hera.)

"Unmanned units?" Meiya looks at her identify friend or foe read out showing the Raptors and Cyclopses as they launch from the production facility. At least so far the facility does seem unmanned as promised.

The flying Windam curve through the air and gets target lock on some of the Raptors. The missiles under it's wings drop from their hard points and streak off through the air to detonate in the swarms of machines.

The Warrior Beast snarls as it misses its mark. "Well well. Very good." Brazen eyes narrow as he maneuvers to try to keep up with the Titania. However, it is not quick enough. The bits blow holes through the Warrior Beast, spilling more gore into zero gravity. Brazen roars out in pain before laughing again, still holding his sides as the pain comes through his body. The Warrior Beast begins to patch itself together again. "COME AGAIN!"

And Sarah seems to, igniting beam sabers and flaying off more meaty goodness. The Warrior Beast attempts to block but is stopped when the beam cleaves through the chain sword. "Hahaha."

It is very faint but the machine's healing factor seems to be every so slightly slower each time. The machine glows green as the flesh replaces itself.

"You are a very determined woman. However, it takes more than determination to win! You will lose!" The Warrior Beast powers up it's rail gun, pulling stray bits of metal into the field before blasting them at the Titania. "Rail Gun Blaster!"

"OUTTA MY WAY!" Shinn shouts in annoyance as the AI-controlled machines assail his custom GN-XIII, although the heavier armor of its current equipment pack is enough to shrug off much of the damage; the red and black machine powers on past those unmanned defenders, its GN Tau spinning up to produce additional particles, giving the machine further thrust and hurtling it forward despite its general lack of aerodynamics, and about ten seconds later its targeting computer singles out the transforming Defender gunships. "Ugh... More guys, huh?" The red-eyed Coordinator's attention focuses directly on those targets, and canisters mounted on the GNX-609TS' armor pop open, before launching a deluge of cylindrical-shaped projectiles, missiles trailing their own burnt orange GN particles as they race towards the Defender gunships, seeking to strike the other machines and, on impact, release a spray of armor-warping particles /into/ the targets before then exploding!

Bernie didn't have to wait long for his target to present itself... Now if it only wasn't in the form of a battlemech! Not wanting to trust the fortitude of his Zaku's armor against a bolt of lightning, Bernie quickly leaned into the controls, the apogee motors in the Zak's legs and feet erupting with a burst of blue flame that lifted the unit several feet off the ground and allowed it to veer nearly entirely out of the lightning's path! The bolt caught the machine's shielded shoulder, scorching the protective guard and causing the Zaku to lurch into what would have almost been a unbalanced fall. Rattled, Bernie managed to keep his Kai on her feet, feet working aqt the pedels to turn what could have been a costly fall into a recoverable stumble.

It looked like the machine had him outgunned, but Bernie had taken down bigger machines. The Mook That Lived soldiered on, cutting the boost thrust, the machine's feet hitting the earth, scraping to a halt as Bernie leveled the machinegun of his trusty Zaku towards the berserker and opened fire straight from the hip. His finger squeezed around the trigger, the machine's lone gun speaking quickly and loudly as it flung ballistics towards the Berserker, the not-so novice pilot spurring his machine into motion, the Zaku picking up with a hastened jog to try and see if maybe he could work agility against the formidable looking machine!

Sarah's Funnels fire through the Orbital Frames like as if they were nothing. That is, the raptors. It seems the cyclopses are armored well enough that the shots merely damaged them. But, they are slow, and have a hard time keeping up with the units that just sped past them. Luckily however, Ascian's unit has now arrived. The Naritas let go and quickly dart towards the facility and land in front of the main hangar bays to guard it.

After the fiasco at Calisto, which had lead to the theft of Metatron, the BAHRAM facilities like these had upped their defenses. And the group was quite fond of their secrets, not wanting to share them with anyone. If Meiya was going to infiltrate, she'd need to figure out how to somehow get rid of these speedy machines.

And she finds a way! Or at least, she finds a way to assault the raptors that are still in the air, shooting them down with finely guided blasts! However, that's when she gets into trouble.

The Machine Beast, activated already, lands onto the grasslands of the Luna Planum. It takes a few steps forwards to stabalize itself, its arms kind of hanging there, before it begins to run forwards and turns its head up - spotting the Wingam and immediately sways one of the arms upwards - aiming the laser cannon settled underneath up. The other arm comes up and supports the first.

The jaw of the unit opens, and it begins to rumble. Ascian's breath becomes slightly louder within the cockpit, which gets somehow distorted and enhanced outside of the unit. "Gnn..." He makes a sound, concentrating on firing. And this just comes out as a loud roar as a green twisting beam flashes from the weapon and goes straight for Meiya's unit.

The massive draconic frame flew in right for the SV-51. It was going to allow the plasma from the wings to ash over the craft, however the shot was dead on, slamming int one of the wing pylons and destabilizing the flow of plasma. The wing shortly went out and the massive frame went down into the mars surface below.

It slid along the ground with Hera letting out a yelp in surprise.

However Ancalagon, even for its size knew how to handle such a problem and made sure to roll itself back up, even asthe pylons dragged into the ground and the magnet pulleys attempted to recall the pylons from the red sand. Those massive claws dug into the earth, along with its thing pointed teeth.

Then there crouched with the lines of its body slowly pulsing, the draconic head with the face hidden under the helm slowly rised to look at its attacker.

"Enemy confirmed. Are you alright, Hera?"

"F-fine.." The young girl said a bit wide eyed, "That was a bit scary. You ok Anca?"

"We took minimal damage, however a strike like that again could cut off our full flight controls."

"So we can still fly?"

"Affirmative. Just Hera,"

"Yes?"

"Not so rash next time."

Hera then gave a nervous laugh, "..sorry?"

The Massive frame then almost seemed to leap into the air with the red sand blooming out from under the massive speed, the pylons going back into their place as the plasma once more activates. This time the Orbital frame attempted to come from behind the SV-51. Its massive clawed hand opened up, before it then attempted to slam into the unit with the claws ignited with what look like plasmatic flame.

the Defender mechs seems to be just standing there for guard duty when Asuka fires his (her? might have her confused with the EVA Pilot, feel free to correct) missiles at the defender team. However, there's a lot more activity going on than anyone realizes. Both Defenders are relaying information to the Ark Hammer by way of Wifi relay, until they're shot at. "This is Defender 1, Going loud!" They transmit before their chaingun opens fire upon the GNX custom with the second defender doing the same a second or two later....

Flinching in response to the Duke's roaring laugh, Sarah's immediate response is to frown. One of these kinds, she thinks. She can feel the pain resonating from his psyche, and the madness contained. It's very unnerving--coupled with the fact that this machine is ugly and monstrous. Sarah shakes her head, shrugging off the uneasiness as best she can.

"Healing units," the young woman softly complains. "What a hassle." But they can be dealt with.

His chiding remarks are met initially with silence. Focusing less on his taunts and more on action, the Newtype observes the unit closely. When the Warrior Beast ignites the rail gun, Sarah's expression darkens a bit. "I won't lose!" she cries back with an ever-so determined tone. "With this machine...I can't!" He gave it to her! He entrusted her with his chariot!

The Titania's response is to again evade the incoming blow. Banking sharply, the unit just barely avoids the full blast of the rail gun, armored husk sheared by the facemelting levels of heat the machine outputs. It doesn't break its stride, though; twisting its bulky body, the lilac-colored unit swings an arm up and aims the rifle once more, concentrating for several seconds before firing off a shot at the proverbial 'heart' of the Warrior Beast.

The Berzerker keeps on charging forward, even as machine gun fire pelts it, the heavy anti-armor slugs slamming into the armor all across the Battlemech, plinging off like BBs, but still managing to damage the armor noticeably with each hit. Nothing breaks though, but the general damage across Adam's mech isn't insubstantial. Adam tries to think of what he remembers of Zakus. They're a balanced build of speed and armor, favor ammo-based guns, and tend to work in groups.

However, it isn't the enemy Zaku that really catches Adam's attention. It's something much more familiar. While Adam doesn't stop his charge, he is forced to turn his head in surprise as he catches a glimpse of an Elemental's jumpjets firing! "Was that a toad over there?" Adam calls out over the radio, before switching to an open channel and broadcasting, "Elemental pilot: Identify yourself and your clan."

Yeah, Adam isn't happy to see a Clanner here.

Back to the fight at hand. Bernie has speed on Adam, but Adam has the advantage of position. He holds his fire as he charges in, ignoring the suppressing fire and trusting in his armor as he closes rapidly, raising the long, anti-armor sword held in the Berzerker's left hand. Not standard issue equipment for a Berzerker, but a gift from ComStar before he left for Earth. The blade is raised to the mech's side as Adam charges recklessly, and Adam doesn't even slow down as he goes right for Bernie's Zaku, swinging the blade down in a diagonal slash from top to bottom, left to right, Adam hoping that the Zaku will either pull backwards to avoid the charge and get hit by the edge of the sword, or jump up to try hopping over the charge, and get its legs cut off.

BLAM! The shot rings out, the photon cannon's bullet shooting the elemental RIGHT as it tries to jet off of the larger mech's shoulder, causing it to spin wildly. After a few moments it manages to right itself, the suit already screaming warnings about damage to the legs. However, they're both still active. And Elena is still more or less fine, if a bit uh... warm.

"I do not think that you have the right to tell me such." Replies the Elemental simply, as the Elemental drops to the ground, the invisibility coming back into play quickly to help the elemental attempt to maneuver around the gespenst. Hmm, standing on the shoulder was a bad idea. As such, the Elemental decides to do something completely different from standing on the shoulder!

The Elemental darts around, attempting to use it's mobility to get behind the much larger Gespenst, where it shifts slightly, the missile rack on it's shoulder opening to fire out a pair of missiles. However, these missiles don't simply fly for the back of the Gespenst... it's aimed to attempt to blast the 'elbow' of the gespenst's arm. Specifically the arm that has the massive gun that just shot the elemental.

THe beam gun slices right through one of Meiya's wings, disecting half of the surface right off the jet striker pack. THe cockpit squeals in Meiya's ear as the Windam is is thrown into a downward spiral, G forces throwing her against the side of her seat as she clenches her teeth "Nhhgg!"

The Windam hits the grassland with both feet, digging ouwt deep furrows in the ground as it skids and throws up a combination of top soil and red martian regolith, right towards the warrior beast EVA. "One of /those/ things?!"

THe Windam grasps the beam saber from it's charging rack and activates it, and using what momentum it still has from it's hard landing, leaps towards the warrior beast and ignites the saber, intent on severing that beam gun from hte main body "HAAA!"

Brazen laughs as his Rail Gun hits its mark. He smiles as the Titania evades the Rail Gun Blaster, keeping his eyes on the machine. Brazen can almost feel the fear from her quick movements. She was attempting to try to dodge his attacks in order to strike just after his attacks. It was a very good strategy.

However...

Brazen suddenly seizes a large piece of Space debris, using it as a makeshift shield to stop her Beam Rifle's concentrated fire. "Hmph." It was time to change the game up. He immediately launches his makeshift shield at Sarah, using the rail gun to rocket it toward the Titania.

While she is dealing with that, The Warrior Beast opens up several compartments on itself, each ripping through the flesh around it's metal skeleton. From each of these compartments, a drill fires toward the Titania, each attempt to hit and explode on impact. "You are slipping little lamb."

"Don't have the /right/?" Erika's eyes flash with anger as she quickly sweeps the battlefield for her diminuitive opponent, "The Federation dumps it's disgraced soldiers onto us and does nothing as they stumble around drunkenly abusing my home to vent their frustrations. They ignore our needs and only pay us any attention when they /want/ something from us. I think we have every right to throw them off our world when all they do is abuse our hospitality, cause a ruckus, and ignore our strife." Tch, invisible... thankfully, there are other ways Erika has to sense her foe. with a deep breath she calms herself and focuses, trying to reach out with her Newtype powers.. Then, *FLASH!* Awareness leaps through Erika's mind as she launches her machine sideways and spins, the missiles streaking past harmlessly. A loud *kachunk* sounds from the back of the Gespenst as a pod detahces and launches into the air, then arcs-- before suddenly breaking apart and launching a full swarm of micromissiles to bombard the area Elena is in. She might not be able to see the Power Armor, but she doesn't need to when she can just flatten the area with explosives.

The EVA/Gunmen unit steps back as the Windam suddenly stands up - Ascian having figured that he'd downed the unit permanently after having taken out its wing and the unit having crashed into the ground. The monster even opens its jaws just to make a confused growling sound - showing its pilot's surprise at the unit coming back up and going for its right arm with its saber.

And she succeeds! The beamweapon falls straight off of the arm and clanks onto the ground - paired with a sickly squelching sound and the flow of green goo as the flesh that had kept it attached gets burned and lets go of some of the internal liquids of the unit.

It continues to stumble back for a moment, before it stabalizes again and growls furiously. "HOW DARE YOU!" The thing growls, as Ascian calls out loudly in the cockpit. It then suddenly raises its right arm and... a gigantic old-type cannon appears in its palm... pursing through. "TAKE THIS!" Everything that Ascian calls out gets turned into roaring shouts of the unit.

A green flow of energy suddenly appears within, and the cannon suddenly spews forth... a cannonball made out of green energy!? No! Wait! It turned into a missile! No! Wait! It turned into a drill! No... wait... IS THAT A MISSILE WITH A DRILL FOR A HEAD!?

'Close quarters combat? They do that?!' wonders Bernie to himself as the Berserker surges towards him, his brows lofting upwards in minor surprise. 'Well... It's not like that sword of his shoots lasers... At least not that I know of.' he minds himself, ending his circling stride and doing something that Adam might not have expected, charge right back at him! One of the Zaku's hands draws away from the rifle, leaving it to rest freely in the trigger hand while the free hand draws back and balls into a metal fist! It seems that Adam is not intimidated by the size of Bernie's big green fist however, the reach of the sword forcing him to cut short his counter-assault as it crashes into his machine, hacking deep into the boulbus, spiked armor of the unit's other shoulder. The sound blow jars Bernie in the cockpit, his harness keeping him seated but leaving bruises for it's efforts.

Grunting, the green horn shakes it off. They're in close now, a arena where Bernie excells! He's got to make it count. With a lurch, the Zaku seems to shrug away the sword that was lodged into it's shoulder a moment ago and leveles the spiked pauldron towards the Berserker. "Haaaah!" cries the pilot before surging forward, the three nozzles of it back thrusters erupting to life for a quick burst of thrust as Bernie flings his Zaku against the battlemech!

Despite the luck that Sarah's maintained so far, she cannot help but feel she's flying on borrowed time, so to speak. Biting absently at her lip, the young Newtype continues to focus steadily on the Warrior Beast under Duke's control. The shot fires, but misses its target; instead, it hits a piece of space debris, the makeshift shield employed by the pilot within. Not bad.

The Beast unsheathes several compartments, which are rather gruesome in nature and certainly unnerve the young pilot of Titania even further. Still, she shakes her head lightly and swallows, brow beaded with sweat as she continues to pour all her focus into this fight. She cannot disappoint her superior officers--this was her operation, and they're counting on her. Especially her Master--

With a guttural yell the young Newtype and her bulky machine out-maneuver the impact drills, employing evasive action to avoid direct damage. Lucky again, she notes, as the drills /do/ seem to miss. "I would say it's the other way around--you're the one slipping!" Sarah exclaims as the Titania seeks to employ CQC by moving /really damn fast/ (despite being as large as it is) and attempting to kick the Warrior Beast in the center of its chest.

They're... disappearing?

Alex furrows his brows as shimmers of distorting light obscure and ultimately hide the Codarls from plain view. Green eyes snap back and forth behind that visor. They're likely fanning out, forming a perimeter. Which means the one to attack next--

--is the one that's still visible. The machine cannons of the Venom ignite in a round of high-speed artillery rounds. Many of them ricochet harmlessly off the Saviour with the minor surge of electricity from the Phase Shift Armor diffusing much of the force. The rest dent armor inward brutally even as Alex snaps off several rounds from the Saviour's beam rifle upon the Codarl.

"Tch -- dammit," spits out the Coordinator. "I've gotta draw these ones away from the base...!" The Saviour suddenly /launches/ through the air; as it does, it spins around, wing binders once more rotating into place between the Saviour's arms and waist. "Target locked-on... firing!"

The bolts of emerald plasma from the Super Fortis Beam Cannons are both searingly bright and undoubtedly powerful as they ripple in bright pulses through the skies. The aim is for the Codarl -- but if it should miss, that production facility is just behind the ARM Slave, too.

Alex could live with missing.

Ken Marinaris Would have a problem as Hera is comming in at her, the frame's a lot larger and she's in a far older unit. She's going to have to be careful. When all things are considered. Still the unit's got speed. She knows what she's got to do but lets see how Hera has improved. the SV-51 barrel rolles and transforms into a humanoid mode, but the wings still jut out the back as it remains airborn and the gunpod once again is used to ppen fire on theo ther machine, it will move to the left, then right, up down and she's just not holding still. The pilot whomever it is does seem to know how to use Martian gravity for their own purposes. Then it's dropping towards the Martian surface if daring Hera to chase them.

 Ascian Luddite transmits, "Hera! How are you holding up?"

 Hera transmits, "Not well."

 Ascian Luddite transmits, "Hey... be careful, okay?"

 Ascian Luddite transmits, "If you need help... ask."

 Anca transmits, "I will promptly ask faster then she will." "Hey!"

Meiya does not perticularly care what is being shot at her, she just knows she's being shot at with /something/. She ducks the Windam down and brings the beam saber up, it's magnetic field contacts the arm as she tries to cut it off, but this time the contact is too brief, and she only manages to land a scorching hit, but it forces that spiral drill missile off it's target.

"I dare a lot of things." Meiya responds and activates the Windam's remaining boosters to jump backwards as it's free hand to takes hold of it's beam rifle and lines up a shot with the Wariorbeast EVA Gunman (WEG for short).

"I dare to destroy monsters like you!" The trigger for the beam rifle is pressed and held down, the rifle issuing a torrent of blasts for the monsterous creation.

 Ascian Luddite transmits, "Tssk, come on... stupid thing... MOVE!"

The Gun pod slams into the Orbital frame. The bullets rip up the armor of the body as the machine attempts to evade and yet follow.

"Hera, we need to change our tactical plan. The unit is faster then us."

"Great, so what do we do? We have to stay in close."

"Give me control over combat procedures."

"You want control?"

"Yes. I will request that if you do, please make sure that all seat fastens are firmly connected."

Hera checks, "Right." She then gives over command, "Lets see what you are going to do big guy."

"Hold On."

The Orbital Frame's pylons suddenly shut off and reconnect in the back shoulder area as suddenly the frame starts to speed downward, the body almost seems to tuck itself in as the Orbital Frame starts to plummet down at great speeds, whatever armor was loose, quickly shreds off.

The Frame then goes past SV-51, before the pylons suddenly snap out, sending the frame back up and with the sword ready to slice right into one of the wings.

No, Shinn Asuka is in fact a dude, although he's a bit on the short side. The Coordinator pilot works the controls of his customised mobile suit carefully, the machine's limiters set higher than spec to compensate for his genetically modified physiology; his reaction times, his resistance to G-forces. The red and black machine jukes to the side, leading the fire from the two Defender gunships, keeping just out of reach as their attacks fill the Martian sky. "Too slow!!" Shinn roars, letting go of the enormous cannon on his suit's shoulder - it settles back into a 'locked' position, pointing up - as ports on both shoulders open up, producing the hilts of the Jinx's beam sabers... Which are quickly taken in hand, the orange blades igniting as, recklessly, the red-eyed young man dives directly at the nearest of the Defender machines, deciding to go toe to toe with them rather than sensibly keep his distance. Both blades slash, the red and black mobile suit twisting to bring them both to bear in quick succession, as Shinn tries to take one of the Defenders out of the fight quickly! "RAAAAAAGH!!"

"Well so much for them staying at range," Adam mutters as the Zaku suddenly charges in and starts attacking. While the Berzerker is a powerful melee striking machine, it's still a Battlemech, and not the most agile creation ever made. The blows from the Zaku cause the massive Battlemech to stumble back, punches and kicks wrecking the armor across the arms and torso, before the mech looses its footing and falls over entirely.

Adam Steiner, strapped in the cockpit, glares coldly. upwards at the Zaku. "Alright, no more playing around."

The Battlemech pushes itself up with the PPC arm, while the other one swings forward, hooking the sword around to try and sweep the Zaku's feet out from under it, and pull it to the ground with him. Following that, Adam staggers the Berzerker to its feet and charges forward, leading with a punch from the PPC arm, then coming around with another slash from the sword to open the Zaku's guard up, and finally another brutal kick, aimed to either stomp the central gyro of the machine if it's still on the ground, or to kick it backwards and knock it back down again if it managed to stand.

Erika grits her teeth as the laser lances out, scattering across the Gespenst's thin armor and piecing it, "You speak like the Crusaders are the ONLY ones guilty of that! You ever hear of the Titans? They were another 'Special Task Force' just like the A-Laws, and they gassed dozens of colonies and even went so far as to redifrect a falling one onto a city and blame us just so they could more easily sway the populace." The Gespenst skims right as it switches out it's photon rifle for the heavier Mega Beam Rifle, "Even after the Federation 'purged' them, things didn't change. They still work their propoganda, demonizing everyone around them, seeding lies and coloring truths because it's easier to fearmonger than to admit that their handling of things is wrong! The A-Laws are just their latest attempt to do that!" The Mega Beam rifle snaps up and unleashes a crimson ray of energy. Then again, and again, and again. "An outsider like you shouldn't make such quick judgements on who is right and who isn't!"

The beams slice into the shoulders of the unit, and the torso near the right leg as it suddenly begins running straight for the Wingam. "I AM JUST AS HUMAN AS YOU ARE!" Ascian replies. But of course, with a machine like this, it is hard to make a good case against such calls.

The Beast - as Ascian refers to it - continues its movement towards Meiya's unit. Almost like it were unstopable. Its mouth then suddenly opens, and a giant cannon appears there. It then tries to GRAB onto Meiya's unit with its arms, and aims that jaw up towards the head of her unit.

Apparently, Ascian is hoping that there are sensors within that head, and that by shooting it to smithereens, it will make this battle a lot easier. The cannon in its head quickly pumps out a volley of tiny little bullets. Its mouth opens further, particles flowing into it...

Then FWOOOOOOOOOOOOM! A gigantic green beam blasts up into the air - and hopefully at the Windam's top unit.

 Tightbeam to Meiya Mitsurugi: Ascian Luddite says, "Get out of here! This isn't your planet! What are you here for anyhow!?"

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Hera transmits, "Weee!!"

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Ascian Luddite transmits, "Hera, focus!"

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Hera transmits, "Anca has control~"

Even though the plan may seem obvious, it's the unknown that still makes it so deadly; the Arm Slaves are likely forming a net with which to catch the Saviour, but from what angle will it close in on the Gundam? That's the sticky situation. "That's a sticky situation," Gates voices his thoughts with a firm nod, still firing off shots from the cannon held beneath the arm of the Codarl-i. He watches as the heavy slugs simply make dents against the chassis of the enemy. "What a break-resistant toy! We should sell those, the marketing sells itself--oh--"

Retaliation was inevitable; the Saviour unleashes with those green beams of energy, and the red Venom leaps up in a lambda-assisted movement. Only, with the pilot having been talking at the time, one of the beams sears through the left leg of the Venom, tearing away armor -- but somehow, remaining intact enough to continue operations. It's eerie.

The other beam slams into the facility, tearing through the exterior, rupturing through several levels. It seems this pilot does not care for the fate of the BAHRAM base. "It's not my fault!" Gates argues with the thoughts in his head. "I was making a point and he just attacked! Why are you guys just standing around? Make yourselves known and hit him! Don't be shy!"

And so the air shimmers about the Saviour. The Arm Slaves reappear as, one after the other, they leap up at the Transformer and seek to slam into it with fists, feet, and finally a headbutt! The lead Codarl-i lands on a different part of the facility, balancing atop a thin antenna.

The Two Defender keep up the chaingun fire on Shinn Asuka, even as /HE/ closes with them. The Defenders are slow and not really meant to fight against faster units, but they COULD fill the air with so many projectiles that it'd be hard as hell to dodge! "Defender 1, the data is away." "All right, Defender 2. Let's see if we can keep this guy distracted enough so he doesn't go after any of the other Crusaders!" "Right!" That's when both defenders back up a bit and opening fire on the GNX....

Brazen growls as the drills miss their mark. This girl was really proving to be more trouble than she was worth. The Titania moves quickly toward the Warrior Beast, out maneuvering everything that was thrown at it. The Warrior Beast fires impact drill after impact drill, each missing their mark and probably propelling Sarah forward until she raises her leg and slams into the Warrior Beast.

The force dents the chest of the weird Dr. Hell creation, squealing as the metal skeleton bends under the pressure. Brazen gasps as the pain responses knock the wind out of his chest. He narrows his eyes and screams back. "I WILL NOT BE DONE IN BY SOME LITTLE GIRL!" The Warrior Beast flares bright green, bringing spiraling energy around the impact point and forming a drill like spike that attempts to cleave through her cockpit.

Adam has no such luck. Close enough to almost hear the Battlemech's engine the lightly seasoned pilot is a different creature. The blade sweeps low and the thrusters fire once more, maneuvering jets and primary thrusters rocketing Bernie up and over the hooking blade. He arcs high into the air, the powerful main thrusters of the Kai doing their job and doing it well.

Even on mars however, Gravity will not let a Zaku soar for long, as surely as Bernie did go up, he came down! This was part of the plan of course. He had his landing zone all picked out! Right on top of the Berserker!

"The Titans were purged. They were cut from the EFA like the cyst they were. But the Divine Crusaders have not done the same." Replies Elena, the jump jets of the Elemental flare into life, sending it out of range of the shots, the lasers skimming just along the edge of the Elemental, heating some of it's armor. Her eyes narrow. She was not a happy Elemental Pilot. At all. She extends her scanners after a few moments, attempting to detect the 'heart' of the gespenst. In this case, not Erika.

"Outsiders are the ones that tend to decide the tide of battle. Prove your worth." Elena says, the Elemental's jump jets flaring into life in mid-air, sending it flying around to land again, before the legs immediately begin to move, running at full tilt around the Gespenst, attempting to buy a few moment's time while she double-checks to attempt to take stock of the Gespenst.

And then the Elemental darts in, the jump jets flaring to life and sending the invisible elemental flying towards the Gespenst's back, attempting to latch on... this is followed immediately by the micro pulse laser sparking into life, beginning to attempt to cut into the back of the Gespenst. There was a simple reason for this. To cut out the heart. Attempting to cut through the armor and cut connections between the Gespenst's systems. If possible, cut power lines, or if the cockpit is in the chest on the Gespenst, to cut the command lines and cause it to stop functioning.

When the Fortis' shots blast open an impromptu entrance into the BAHRAM facilities, Alex Dino's mind swiftly begins running through the variables as his plan changes. There are multiple opponents he's dealing with, all of which seem to have unusual abilities -- the fact that what seems to be the lead unit is still moving despite the shot to its leg is mildly disconcerting -- means if he takes this fight away from the factory, he might not be able to make it back. Then--

The Coordinator's eyes widen only briefly as the Arm Slaves make their appearance around his Saviour in rapid succession. The Codarls swarm upon the Gundam, yet despite its substantially larger size, the crimson machine is nothing if not swift. It launches /backward/, just past the fist of one Codarl and below the kick of another. It yanks free its beam sabers--

--and then when that headbutt comes down, it harmlessly meets the Phase Shift-reinforced armor of the Saviour's forehead full force.

"... Fine. I'm changing plans," Alex announces to no one but himself. "Let's bring the fight to you!"

The Saviour pushes its forehead /forward/, as if to headpush the headbutting Codarl away with the sudden yanking of its face forward. It's all very awkward. Less awkward is the ignition of the Saviour's thrusters as it /swings/ its beam sabers out wide, intent to slice through two of those Codarl's at the waist before /stabbing/ them into the headbutting Arm Slave's waist -- intent to drive both it and the Saviour /straight/ into and /through/ the roof of the Orbital Frame production facility.

The lower gravity of Mars comes back to haunt Bernie at this point though, as the Zaku fall is just a little slower than expected, giving Adam Steiner just that extra second to react. Plus, the so-called 'Death From Above' tactic is one that's well known to most experienced Mechwarriors. Even if you've never seen it used, you've heard all about it, and that one time a lancemate of yours knew a guy who saw a Flea crushed flat by a DFA from a Marauder. Adam immediately kicks his mech backwards just before the Zaku slams into the ground where he was, and while Adam's Berserker isn't hit directly by the attack, it is knocked over by the sudden dodge, taking some falling damage, and once again looking at Zaku from the ground.

"Alright buddy. Allow me to show you how we do things back where I'm from!"

The Berzerker pushes itself up into a kneeling position with its PPC arm again, and once more attacks with its sword. However, with a little more distance, Adam doesn't go for a sweep, but instead stabs the sword forward, the powerful TSM system fully engaged now as the mech's blade launches out, aimed right at the Zaku's leg, right below the knee! If Adam manages to impale the leg as he's aiming to, he'll stand his mech up as he rends the blade to the side, his goal nothing short of completely decapitating the limb from the mech in one brutal move.

Melee plus a varaible fighter isn't a good thing, the blade sinks into the machine pretty deeply too the SCV-51 pulls away before it can get emebeded barely saving the wings. The machine's still dropping towards the surface, even as it falls however the Gubpod again swings into postion and the pilot pulls the trigger emptrying the entire clip, the wings swing back into place, but there's a delay from the damage Hera has done, it rolls with the impact comming up and then leaping up into the air again.

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Divada Kirador transmits, "Data received, Defenders. Good work."

"The Titans were purged, but the corruption that allowed them to thrive was /NOT/! All the politicians who empowered them and turned a blind eye to their crimes remained! The federation even let the reminance of their task force back into their ranks!" Elena leaps and latches on, but before she can deal more than a glancing blow, the Gespenst /whirls/ violently and throws her off. "My world is /tired/ of being abused! We have cried out, but the only answer the Federation can give us is one of /violence/ and /conquest/! Just because we are /martians/! Now you can take your bullshit--" Another set of kathunks from the back of the Gespenst, only this time what launches out is not a missile, but a pair of bladed discs they whirl through the air, running down the Elemental with dogged perserverence.

"I can do this," Sarah tells herself in quiet tones, green eyes intense. "I will complete my mission!" Arms tense as the Titania impacts the Warrior Beast with its large metal foot, causing the other machine to recoil and dent beneath the force of the blow.

"The fact that you've underestimated me will be your downfall!" Sarah barks in response to his bellow. The Warrior Beast flares again, drawing up considerable power that reads rather dangerously on the console of the Titania. Its response is to cocoon itself in a sphere of orange GN-T energy and shield its body. While it proves relatively useful in preventing the cockpit bloc from being run through and the pilot KILLED, it still wounds the lilac-colored unit heavily, armor flaking off and groaning beneath the impact, exposing wiring and causing several points to spark heavily.

"D-damn it," the Newtype growls before she leans forward in her seat and cries, "I've had enough of this! Time to END it!"

Every funnel on hand ERUPTS from the large, ornate shoulder pauldrons of the Titania, swarming around and toward the Warrior Beast. They'll attempt to surround it at all conceivable angles and fire in unison, creating a lethal and potentially inescapable --

Though outnumbered, the high-spec GN-XIII seems to be up to the task of handling multiple opponents; juking and maneuvering in sudden, unexpected ways keeps the red-eyed Coordinator one step ahead of the Defender mecha's chaingun fire, and the black and red machine puts some more distance between itself and the two Crusaders, re-stowing one of its beam sabers long enough for the mobile suit's right hand to lift, pulling the enormous gun on its back down to a firing position. Inside the cockpit, a targeting reticule reflects on the faceplate of Shinn's ZAFT Red-style flightsuit helmet, tracking the Defender machines as he decides, it seems, to get a little more serious. "GN particle compression ready... Let's see how you handle it!" The GN Buster Cannon finishes charging, unleashing a sudden torrent of burnt-orange energy, compressed and focused particules streaming from the cannon's barrel as Shinn traverses the weapon, aiming to drag it /across/ the two Defender mecha. "...EAT THIS!!"

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Ascian Luddite transmits, "Yeah! Way to go, Anca, Hera!"

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Defender 1 transmits, "My Lady, I think this factory is lost. and this GNX Unit is too fast for us to hit."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Ascian Luddite transmits, "I rather blow this thing to hell than let them take it."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Divada Kirador transmits, "Understood. Withdraw immediately, Defenders. We have what we came for..."

The Orbital Frame watches as the SV-51 continues to fall, now having trouble from the damage it has caused. It wasn't soon till the Orbital Frame once more goes down to follow the falling machine. Its lines glowing brightly as it pulls more power, even the plasmatic wings start to glow brighter.

As the shots come, it spins around them with Hera giggling the whole time. It was like a crazy ride and only thing Anca did was emit a gentle sigh.

Why couldn't his pilot learn? Maybe she was--

The Draconic Frame snatched ahold of the falling SV-51 by attempting to drive its claws right through it like a blade, then with a spin of its body, and the tip of the blade of the tail glowing, it attempts to drive and cut the mecha right in half.

"Game over!" Hera yells loudly to the other pilot.

"Hera." Anca quickly states, "Do not get ahead of yourself."

"But you are doing so well." Hera says gently.

"... when will you learn...."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Divada Kirador transmits, "Does it have charges planted on it, Ascian?"

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Hera transmits, "Wait what?"

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Ascian Luddite transmits, "Hardly."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Ascian Luddite transmits, "I don't know why they are here, but if they are A-LAWS..."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Gates transmits, "Isn't it obvious? They want to cornhole us!"

Ascian would be right that there are sensors in the Windam's head.

There are also guns in it.

When Ascian's warrior Beast Gunman attempts to grab the head of the Windam to fire at it, Meiya swings the beam rifle up, the barrel smashing under the Warriorbeast's chin, forcing it up and the beam to go blasting off into the sky, and the head vulcans in the head Ascian was so eager to destroy spin up, unloading lead right into the head and neck of the Warriorbeast.

Meiya wrestles with the Warrior beast until she's able to turn it aside and steps back. She activates the switch to eject the Jet Striker packs, as it's starting to become dead weight (not to mention on fire from where the wing was severed). She tchs at something on the radio and takes out the Windam second beams saber.

For some reason this pair of beam sabers has connectors on the hilts, allowing meiya to put both of them together and ignite them in a double beam blade. "The worst kind of monster..." the windam begins spinning the double ended beam blade in both hands and launches itself at the Warrior beast, coming down on the bio-monstrocity with the spinning blade, slashign forward with the whirlwind of death to cut at the very center of the Warriorbeast, and then brings the beamsabers turnd buzzsaws back around to slash through again and again. "HAAAAAAAAA!!!"

The Windam jumps up on it's thrusters and pivots around, spinning on it's axis, bringing the spinning blades down with every time it completes a turn.

Then with a final blast of it's thrusters, the Windam dives past the Warrior beast, giving it one final great slash wth the twin bladed weapon.

"..is human."

Brazen listens to Sarah scream at him. He can feel the tension in this battle. It seems they will have to end this with one last decisive stroke. As the bits come out to imprison the Warrior Beast, the impact drills starts to load and prepare to be fired. "YOU WILL ONLY DELAY ME, GIRL!" Brazen roars, letting everything go at the same moment as the bits begin firing.

The bits tear through the Warrior Beast, sending gore everywhere as they tear down the metal skeleton. The Warrior Beast lets out one last roar as Brazen feels everything come at him at once. He no longer can keep this battle going.

Brazen just laughs as the Warrior Beast descends down to the surface below, disappearing from sight as the dust settles. Where did he go? No one knows.*

The Shadow Knows...

Biting out a curse, Bernie chides himself for the oversight. The failed ploy wasn't entirely fruitless however, Adam's unit was on it's back once more, ripe for the sla- Oh hey, there's that sword again! The sword dives into the unit's upper shin with a shriek of metal rending metal. For a second, it effectively roots Bernie to the spot, the crimson eye swiveling to regard it's run through extrimity with a brightend optic. Then comes the stroke of the sword the rips the weapon free and seperates the Zaku from it's limb. It is Bernard's chance to take the fall this time, the Zaku toppeling to the side that the leg once supported, sparks sputtering from the jagged stump that was once the rest of it's leg, the knee mechanisim working at the scant few feet that was left of the leg.

Bernie's head whipped at the end of his neck, snapping violently when the Zaku crashed down to the earth. A control panel erupted in sparks and minor bits of shrapnel as it exploded, some needling at Bernie through his pilotsuit, others just generaly making the cockpit a unpleasent place to be!He shook it off though, he had to, he couldn't let himself die here! Missing only a leg, the Zaku still seemed intent on fighting, it's rifle leveling towards the Berserker while the other hand pushed the machine into a somewhat less then completely vulnerable position. Thise close, bullets that bounced off the Berserker's thick hide might be something a bit more formidable. Near point blank, Bernie pulled the trigger and let the gun thunder.

The whirling does indeed manage to throw off the Elemental, stopping the massive damage it would no doubt manage if it hadn't been thrown off. Leaving the Elemental flying to the ground and hitting rather hard. "Bullshit. No. Bullshit is sending colonies falling to the ground, that much resources and people lost is simply unacceptable." The Elemental shifts slightly, lifting it's anti-personnel cannon and unleashing several shots of it on the approaching blades, several bursts of it's jump jets eventually taking the Elemental out of danger.

And flying towards Erika's Gespenst again, the Elemental beginning to fly quickly towards the Gespenst again. "But then maybe I am not seeing the full picture. You sound as if you are a person who upholds the law and is honorable. To some extent." The Elemental increases speed as it flies in towards Erika's gespenst. Heading for the 'stomach' of the gespenst. "However, you fight for the wrong group of people."

The Elemental's grappling claw is extended, attempting to dive deep into the stomach of the Gespenst, while the other arm reaches in to attempt to tear the first hole open wider. This is immediately followed by even more ripping and tearing at anything the Elemental can get it's hands on... digging, attempting to chase down the elusive power core of the gespenst. Not to attack it. That would be stupid. But this would be followed immediately by the Elemental's anti-personnel gun being fired at the power lines. "I hold no specific grudge against you anymore." The Elemental would then ignite it's jump jets in an attempt to get away before there's any major retaliation.

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Ascian Luddite transmits, "GRAAAAAAH!"

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Hera transmits, "Ascian?"

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Ascian Luddite transmits, "I'm... I'm fine."

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Ascian Luddite obviously is not.

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Hera transmits, "Liar."

The Berserker pulls itself to its feet as the Zaku falls, Adam taking a deep breath. Now where he's from, pilots will usually eject when they lose a leg. Sometimes they'll stay in their mechs because they're reasonably safe there, and worried about being caught by a stray shot out of it. However, it's very rare to get an enemy that /continues to shoot/ after they've lost a limb. Mostly because they're completely unable to avoid fire in that situation. These Earth machines are different, though. Adam hears that the fatality rate among mobile suit pilots is crushingly high compared to mechwarriors, who very often manage to eject before getting blown up.

The machine gun rounds once again pling off the armor all along the Berzerker's torso, shots slamming into the armor and breaking it like BBs shot at reinforced glass windows, not quite breaking it but messing the armor up pretty good as Adam stalks towards the enemy. This guy has gusto, Adam will give him that. Adam isn't the kind to kill a downed enemy, but he can't have this 'shooting him in the back' thing.

Instead, the hatchet-turned-longsword is raised again, and brought down in a single, powerful strike. This one isn't aimed at the Zaku itself though, but rather aimed to skewer the machine gun it fires, hopefully destroying the weapon without doing any unnecessary, and potentially deadly damage to the enemy machine. "Pilot, /stand down and eject/. If I wanted you dead, I'd have cored you by now. Take the hint and ease off."

"Delay THIS!" Sarah cries as the bits fire without hesitation, encasing the Warrior Beast in their beam-y tomb and tearing and rending the machine several which ways. Gore and blood fly from the metal machine, causing Sarah to one again flinch and recoil from the image. It's disgusting. How can people make such abominations for combat?

When the Beast falls, Sarah lets out a heavy sigh, settling with ease into her cockpit seat. "That's over," she assures herself, urging her heart to stop pounding relentlessly in her chest. "N-now then..."

With little warning the Titania makes advance upon the Codarl, raising its rifle and squeezing the trigger... unleashing a large orange gout of energy at the Amalgam Killer's unit.

"/I'M FIGHTING FOR THE ONLY GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTUALLY ANYTHING FOR MARS!/" comes Erika's angry, distraught response. Her neo Plasma Cutter ignites as it sweeps out to swat Elena away, but the tiny little machine is simply too small her to hit before she manages to board. Worse yet, at the angle she's clinging to, Erika can't see her. The Gespenst swings around, trying to spot the tiny little suit. "The Federation won't help Mars! Katharon /can't/ help Mars! There is no one else for us to turn to! So what choice to we /HAVE/?! ANSWER ME THAT!!" There uis a loud ripping sound from somewhere below Erika's cockpit, but before she can react, the machinery controlling the lower have of the Personal trooper is shot out and the legs buckle, having been deprived of their power and control, "No!" Eruika frantically works the controls, but the Gespenst doesn't respond. Instead it simply pitches backwards and slams into the ground, paralyzed below the waist, "No no no! MOOOOVE!"

The Defenders are being overwhelmed by the custom GNZ piloted by Shinn Asuka. However, the Defender pilots know when it's a good idea to withdraw. After transmitting the signal to their captain, both of them transform, and start to fly up into the sky, off in a particular direction.....

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Ascian Luddite transmits, "Tssk, don't bother Erika. Those bastards are too warped with their own federation's propaganda."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Divada Kirador transmits, "I take it the battle is going badly?"

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Ascian Luddite transmits, "Quite."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Divada Kirador transmits, "Withdraw then. the factory will be listed as a loss and the Ark Hammer will come back in a few hours to glass it."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Ascian Luddite transmits, "I am disabled..."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Divada Kirador transmits, "I'm sending dropships."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Hera transmits, "I will retreat from battle then soon."

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Hera transmits, "After all, being a one man army isn't what Ancalagon is designed for."

The rampage of bladestrikes start lashing against the Machine Beast. Ascian gets the unit to cross its arms before its chest - covering the cockpit. However, the hot sabers simply splice into the flesh. The smell of burned flesh quickly becomes apparent to any unit that's not entirely airtight. The machine then begins to roar as the arms literally /fall off/ as Meiya slices through them, and continues to break her blades into the center of the unit... the cockpit.

Inside, Ascian yells out as he notices the screens on the sides of himself breaking, and the area around him suddenly turning extremely hot. "Shit... shit... no no no no..." Those attacks were getting too close. And when Meiya finally prepares her blade to strike and finish him off...

He breaks out of the buckles of his unit and dives behind the chair of his unit and ducks. The hot beamblade comes slicing through the unit, taking half of its torso out and cutting straight through the cockpit, springing its heat even over Ascian's normalsuit.

He was nothing short of lucky that the weapon had not run himself through. And that the machine was even still half working. The hatch isn't even needed to be opened... half of the unit is just looking into the nature outside. The young man scrawls up and quickly looks outside - back behind him - seeing the Windam. "My god..." He mutters and looks at the seat which had been severed mostly. Now what should he do?

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Ascian Luddite transmits, "Too close for comfort. BASTARD A-LAWS... aiming for the cockpit."

"The choice to fight. You have made that choice. You are doing what you have to." The Elemental lands again, this time on the now-prone Gespenst. It does not do anything beyond that however. "Just as everyone else does." The elemental crosses it's arms, waiting silently. Watching the Gespenst. Waiting for backup power to come on, and the escape pod to eject, or for the gespenst to start moving again. She doesn't necessarily expect the Gespenst's pilot to respond, however. "Activate your escape pod. Flee to fight another day." Elena says, before leaping off of the gespenst to get back into the fray.

The Elemental would immediately begin to fly towards the main factory, She would not destroy the buildings. However, destroying several of the machines inside and attempting to claim the wreckage as salvage was fair game. She had to make some money off of this mission, after all. Being a mercenary did not come without it's costs.

<Radio: D - BAHRAM> Ascian Luddite transmits, "Hera! Show them what you're made of!"

The machine's airborn again at this point but the attack as it gets in the other machine's face once more. The old Anti-UN machine isn't looking so good. She sees that Hera has improved but they got to keep pushing ans so she fires all the missiles, hidden mini missile launchers fire, the missiles on the machine's wings detach and she even opens up with the gunpod on Hera as she tries to dance away and lure her father from the intended target. Oh ya even the head guns open up!

The target is completely open. Alex's swing is clean. He knows it should be a direct hit. And yet--

--and yet, those beam sabers are both frozen in place, as if by some invisible force.

"What--?!"

Alex doesn't get much time to question it before the retaliatory strike from seemingly nowhere knocks the Saviour out into the skies. Alex's mind is already racing even as he struggles to activate counterthrust from the Saviour's verniers, suspending it in air in mid-flight with such an abrupt output of thrust that it rattles him within the cockpit. A warp-field? Perhaps miniaturized GraviCon systems? But he didn't record any gravitic fluctuations. T-Link--?

And then, the Codarl-i's pilot poses a question.

"... What."

And proceeds to STAB the Saviour right in the back.

"Gnugh!"

An explosion RIPS across the rear of the Saviour, fire and smoke belching from the mobile suit as it temporarily loses flight control. It crashes straight through its previously-made opening, SMASHING into one of the mechanical construction arms of the factory and crushing a half-made Mummyhead shell beneath it. Electricity sparks as Alex groans, lifting his head up. He squints... and then, sees in the distance--

"... Sarah?" Alex questions, blinking blearily. It is. Then-- "Lieutenant Zabiarov," Alex quickly patches in even as the Saviour's wing binders lift up. From within the facility, Alex begins computing targetting algorithms, eyes narrowing.

"Be careful! Those units aren't normal -- they have some sort of strange field protecting them!"

A second later, the two upper cannons of the wing binders unload -- machine cannon bullets and fortis lasers intermingling and weaving together in a hail of ammunition and energy, aiming to assail the lead unit -- that Codarl-i -- within a furious combination of firepower even as it remains nestled deep within that factory.

Metal sings against metal as the Berserker brandishes it's blade. Bernie would be a lier if he ever said he did not flinch, eyes screwing shut for fear of his list sight being the point of a blade diving past the modest armor of the Zaku's pilot block. But that blade never came, and if it did, he was certain that death would have hurt so much more. Opening his eyes, Bernie looked back to his main screen.

The Zaku was just as it was a moment ago, the gun still leveled at the Berzerker's breast, it's finger, just like Bernie's still coiled tightly around the trigger. The gun was not firing however, it did not even issue the hollow clicking that announced a dry magazine. It simply did nothing! The reason became apparent when a fine line that crossed from the top of the gun to just before the trigger guard. The gun shifted, becoming misaligned for a second before the line proved to be the cut left gfrom Adam's sword!

With a heavy crash the rifle fell to the ground, clattering off of the Zaku's thigh befor smashing to the ground. The handle still clasped in the Zaku's hand.

The bitter taste of defeat layered itself heavily over Bernie's tonghue... He could still fight! A burst of thrusters, a last ditch attempt with his ax! That would surely end wityh him driving the sword through his unit because of the reckless tactic.

The Zaku's crimson eye panned left and right, sweeping the battlefiled... Was noone left standing?

"Alright." answered Bernie at last, the remains of the gun lowering at the end of the arm. "I surrender."

With the final strike against the Warriorbeast landed, Meiya's Windam lands, and shuts off the beam sabers, this thing is battery powered after all. "Too see this world I have to see all the ugly sides as well as the bright ones."

The Windam takes off at a run instead of thrusters to conserve power, but it advances to the orbital frame facility.

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Bernie Wiseman transmits, "This is Wiseman, my unit's out of the fight too."

A Pair of Dropships land outside of the facility a few minutes later, obviously to pick up the wounded and their mobile suits or Orbital Frames. Priority going to the people first, then if they can salvage the suits....

Ancalagon doesn't follow, instead the wings start to glow even brighter. The shoots down the pylons start to glow in all those small holes. It hovers there even as the missiles come in. They move in closer and closer.

"Anca." Hera says softly.

"Yes?"

"Missiles?"

"Are you me now?"

"Well, you know.."

"Observe."

As the orbital frame hovers there, the power continues to pull into the wings, and suddenly with a movement back, the wings come around, the pylons all point forward and it that single powerful flap of the wings, twelve lasers fire out, cutting through the missiles in a mass explosion before heading all right for the SV-51...

<Radio: B - DC Tactical> Divada Kirador transmits, "All Crusader Forces, head for the dropships... don't argue."

Things just go from bad to worse for the Amalgam Killer. "Here's what happened," Gates will later tell his cohorts at Amalgam, as he nurses a bottle of Nyquil and adjusts his bath robe. "The first problem was that this other unit with funnels decided to just attack me out of no where! Kablammo! The beam rifle shot went right through the head of the Codarl, and burned up the ponytail! Ahhhh~ it was so sad!" He will take a tissue then, and weep into it for a short time.

And indeed, that's precisely what happens, a massive explosion rocking the Codarl-i as it floats there, still enjoying the feel of having penetrated the Saviour, staring down at it until the cameras go dark. "Did someone just shoot my head off?!"

"And then," Gates will later tearfully tell his friends, "that unit I had just taken the time to cornhole shot me with everything it had! It was awful! Before I knew it, the Codarl had suffered just enough damage -- maybe two-twenty damage tops -- to explode! What choice did I have then but to use the backup plan?"

And indeed, that's precisely what happens, the red Venom performing an eerie dance as it is peppered with bullets, and then blasted apart by heavy beam fire. It sizzles for a moment, electricity running across the frame, before it EXPLODES in a shower of parts.

Amidst the debris is a base-jumping Gates, his slightly fat cheeks wobbling as he freefalls to the Plateau, his thin mane of blonde hair whistling behind him, the thin air causing the perspiration atop his bald spot to be flung far and wide!

"Of course, I didn't know I'd be spending the next week surviving on the local wildlife, but here we are today, and I want a brontosaurus burger."

The remaining Codarl-i's shimmer out of existence, dispersing like the wind.

MEANWHILE UP IN THE SKY Shinn Asuka's custom GN-XIII is pretty well unmolested, since the Defender machines bugged out; in the minutes since, the red and black mobile suit has been charging its GN Buster Cannon, the enormous weapon drawing directly from the suit's false solar furnace, from the GN condensers laced throughout its frame, including the extra particle condensers supplied specifically for the cannon's operation. "Target... Locked!" Shinn says, largely for his own benefit, as he toggles controls and taps buttons and flips switches. The remaining GN Missile tubes open, opening the attack on the Frame production facility with a rain of exploding ordnance, before the particle charging procedure is, finally, complete. "Lance-2! Razing the target!" The beam of brilliant burnt orange particle light that erupts from the barrel of the GN Buster Cannon this time is incredible; the force of the assault is such that it actually pushes the GNX-609TS slowly /back/ as it fires, dragging the deadly GN particle beam across the target site, cutting through it like a lance of deadly fire.

"It's me," the girl replies to Dino, her tone level and firm. At his warning, however, the young Newtype turns her attention on the Codarl, focusing fire and letting loose a massive gout of beam from the rifle in Titania's hand.

It doesn't take long for the duo to make short work of the Codarl, and quickly enough they retreat. Exhaling once more, the young woman shakes her head slightly before she squares her shoulders and clears her throat. "Let's advance upon the facility, Lieutenant Dino. We need to destroy the place, per the mission objective. ...thank you for your help." She adds the last with a tone of genuine appreciation in her voice.

The Titania advances on the facility with other Alpha Numbers and A-LAWS allied unites there-after, unleashing its arsenal and funnels to completely ruin the place. Shinn does well enough to cut it like a hot knife through butter, because of his ludicrously massive and overpowered gunfire.

"Good work, everyone. This mission was a success."

When Divada calls for the retreat, the Warrior Beast somehow manages to... come alive again? Its arms are completely slack though, and most of its armor is barely there. It /staggers/ towards the landed dropships... retreating.

As the mission was deemed successful, the Elemental's jump jets can be seen flaring into life again, the stealth systems fading as it's weapon systems power down. The Elemental makes several jumps as it makes it's way for it's intended target, a few trailer salvage suits beginning to make their way for the attacked base to strip what they can from the remains of the unmanned base. Anything that looks like it could be sold.

However, the Elemental pilot had other things she was interested in. Like one captain Adam Steiner. The Elemental attempts to land in front of Steiner's Berserker, slightly to the side to avoid accidentally being stepped on. The elemental's pilot looks up at the man, and a tightbeam frequency opens again. "Are you the same Adam Steiner that worked with our clan in the past?"

Hera's still not running as her comrades are fleeing at this point. She tries to give Hera a good reasont to flee, the machine shifts back into it's fighter mode and does a loop. Ken once again abusing the gravity of the planet to pull off a stunt that couldn't work on Earth it self. She pulls away then comes back at Hera to strafing run at the more advanced machine!

Hera gets the orders and she pokes at the control panel. "You heard the orders, Anca."

"Yes. One moment to process move."

"What mo-- WHOA!"

The Large orbital frame quickly bolts from side to side, then quickly up to avoid the spray of bullets.

"Moving to retreat vector."

"..uugghh.." Hera says softly, before slumping in the chair. "..don't do that again.."

"I am sorry. I forget you are not use to such maneuvers."

"... yeah... sure you are..."

The Orbital Frame stares at the SV-51 once more before it darts up to meet up with the others out of the area.