Amuro Quest: Interlude 1
The Soaring Dragon
South Pole. Weddel Sea
The battleship Hiryuu flew through the sky, to reach its objective. They were late, thanks to a spot of foul weather in the way. Captain Lefina Enfield fidgeted a bit in her chair. This was her first command, hell, her first posting, just out of Space Cadet School on Icarus base. She exhaled and looked to her side, where her executive officer, Sean Webley stood, looking at the bridge officers with an indulgent smile. He had been a pillar of support since she assumed command, even if he had a reputation as a bit of a pervert.
Suddenly she saw Eun Hyojin, a bridge operator in the ship, who also happened to be her best friend since they started together in the Academy, react startled to something in her control panel. She turned to face her and before she opened her mouth she read in her expression that something was wrong.
"Captain! We are detecting EM waves and light emissions indicating battle from the vicinity of Coatsland base!"
While Sean mused about how it could not be fireworks, Lefina though about the ceremony that was taking place in the base.
"Can they have attacked?" she mused, as a cold shiver ran down her back.
Her ruminations were cut short as another officer shouted from his console, whose instruments had beginning to ping menacingly.
"Unknowns in a approaching course! 15.. no, 20... and counting" he said "There is no match in the computer! They are accelerating toward us.!"
"Engaging them would be for the best..." commented Sean.
Lefina took a deep breath before starting to give orders.
"All hands to battlestations! Keep trying to hail Coatsland base! Descend until point 11100 and have Octo squad..."
"Ehmm.." said Eun, before announcing "Captain, Octo squad is already launching."
"I knew it. They don't follow my orders because I'm too inexperienced." Said Lefina, sinking in her chair.
"No, no, no." Said Sean, trying to elevate the spirits of her superior officer "Lieutenant Katina never listen to anybody."
"Captain." Said Eun, in an urgent tone. "Something has suddenly appeared in the stratosphere and it's descending toward this quadrant!"
"Can you identify it?." Asked Lefina, while Sean went to the console in the upper level to check the data.
"Silhouette similar to Mao Industries Hückebein series, but it doesn't match anything in record." Informed Eun.
Lefina looked at Sean, who shook his head.
'No Aerogator known tech either.' Thought the captain, who then gave the order. "Inform Octo Squad and try to raise...whatever it is."
"On it, captain." Eun said before she started the transmission " Earth Federation Battleship Hiryuu calling to white personal trooper in a descent course, identify yourself." She listened for a moment before starting again "I repeat. Earth Federation Battleship Hiryuu calling to white personal trooper in a descent course, identify yourself." Nothing again "I repeat. Earth Federation Battleship Hiryuu calling to..."
"This is Lieutenant Commander Amuro Ray, Earth Federation Space Forces, piloting Nu Gundam." Answered a young man with short curly brown hair and piercing blue eyes.
Eun looked at the captain, who made a hand signal to Eun signaling her to 'go on'.
"We are just about to enter in combat, leave the area or we're be forced to classify you as hostile." Said Eun, the standard warning to civilian vessels entering a combat area.
"Ma'am, this... 'personal trooper' can be of help to you in the coming fight. I'm an veteran pilot with combat experience." He quickly answered.
The slight pause before 'personal trooper' picked Lefina interest, but she sets it aside because of more pressing concerns. Octo Squad was heavily outnumbered, after all.
"Eun."
"Yes, captain?"
"I'll talk with him." After Eun had changed the view to her, she said, trying to sound like a seasoned captain "I'm Captain Lefina Enfield, Lieutenant Ray." She paused for a moment, before saying the words that would commit her one way or another "Octo Squad in is need of help, so go to help them."
After that, it was simply the matter to give him the frequencies and asking for a callsign, that to Commander Webley's amusement turned to be "Unicorn".
"I hope that it won't come to bit us in the butt." Said Lefina, in a low enough voice that only Sean was able to pick her.
"I don't think so, Captain." Said Sean "Besides, you know the regulations for Auxiliary Combatants in wartime."
"You think that we are in war?"
"The Aerogators have never attacked so openly. And something has happened in Coatsland Base." Said Sean "We need to fill a report for Military intelligence, anyway."
Mystery Man
Geneva, Earth Federation Capital. A few hours later
He should have seen it coming, but he had been lulled on inaction for the fact that Doctor Bian Zoldark seemed to have been listened this time around. Now this Earth would have both to contend with both the Divine Crusaders and the Aerogators. The only thing that he could do now was to help behind the scenes, pushing technical development in the right direction, and not to try to use his gift.
Anyway, time to work. Many reports from all over the globe, detailing the attacks from the DC, including the use of a MAPW on Sidney to subdue a garrison that was fighting too well for the local commander of the DC tastes.
'At least they didn't drop a space colony on the city.' He thought, remembering something.
'Goddamned Gih... One moment...'
He noticed that one report from the Hiryuu had been flagged by one the programs that he was supposed to not have installed in the EFA computer net. He opened it and started to read it. He already knew of the Aerogator attack on the ship, but he wondered what...
Amuro Ray
Nu Gundam
'Shit!' he thought.
He reclined back in his chair, thinking. A version of Amuro and the Nu Gundam had appeared on this universe. He wondered how many ghosts of his past were going to appear. Nonetheless, he had to talk to him, to know the circumstances of his appearance and if he was one of the alternates that he was familiar with.
But unfortunately, the orders for Hiryuu prevented this at the moment. But once that the Hiryuu returned, Gilliam Yeager would be expecting them.
