Saturday, July 16, 2005

Phase 2: Calling for a battle

Summary: It begins with a brief review from the past war of Jachin Due and recaps from the previous episode when Cagalli confronts the Chairman about have too much power and then we see the trio of Sting, Auel and Stellar stealing the new Zaft Gundams and begin their assault on the Armoury. Athrun fights in a Zaku Warrior against Chaos and Gaia to protect Cagalli and holds his own for short time. Before Athrun and Cagalli are finished, Zaft pilot Shinn Asuka and the Impulse gundam intervene to stop Sting and Stellar.
Shinn begins his attack on Gaia as Athrun and Cagalli watch. Sting wonders what gundam is this since there were no reports of it, then he calls Auel. Shinn and Stellar continue their assaults, as Arthur radios shinn reminding him that he is supposed to capture the suits not destroy them. Shinn continues his battle with Gaia and questions why were the new suits so easy to capture. Captain Talia tells them both that knock off the nonsense and radios to Zaft ships in space that since this is a raider party that has taken the new suits there must be a ship outside waiting.
Then we see an EA ship in space that has a mirage colloid commanded by a mysterious man wearing a mask name Neo. A number of Zaft Nazca and Laurasia Class ships are docked or hovering outside of plant as a pair of EA daggers approach undetected. The Neo orders the beginning of the assault. They approach a Nazca class ship from the rear undetected and fire their Gottfried canons directly through the hull destroying the ship instantly. After seeing the explosion Zaft officers in the near by Nazca Ship rush to find the attacker which to their surprise is equipped with a mirage colloid. The EA ship continues its assault firing its canons and launching missiles at the next Nazca Ship. A Zaft ship approaches returning fire and launching mobile suits.
As the battle rages the two undetected daggers begin their surprise attack on the Zaft ships that are beginning to leave the dock. The exploding ships cause tremors felt back at Amorury One. Athrun feels the tremor and wonders if it is a attack on the port. Stellar continues her flaring assault against Impulse. Auel in the Abyss Gundam approaches and warns Sting of the continuous attacks from numerous Mobile suits. As Auel lands beside Sting and they discuss the next course of action the deal with this unreported Mobile Suit. Sting decides to attack in hope to prevent any future encounters and Auel follows.
To Shinns surprise, Gaia backs off only to make room for the Chaos and Abyss to step in from the rear. Dodging the beginning attacks from Chaos and Abyss, Shinn moves his shield in time to block Gaia’s beam saber attack but the force knocks the Impulse on its back. As Auel moves in for the final blow Athrun steps and charges Abyss, knocking it to the ground and throwing his beam axe at Gaia. Frustrated Auel returns the favor with a blast from the chest cannon. Athrun moves his shield in front of the blast, but the shield is no match for the beam blast, blowing the Zaku back into the side of a building. Just as Athrun recovers from the blow he hears a streak of pain as Cagalli falls in his arms and he notices blood on his hand as Cagalli lays in his arms unconscious from a blow to the head. Athrun has no other choice but to flee from the battle to get help for Cagalli.
More Zaft mobile suits approach from the sky but Auel makes easy work of them and Shinn attacks while Auel is occupied barely missing with his beam sword. Stellar attacks again but is block by Shinn’s shield. Then we see Lunamaria and Rey waiting for mechanics and officers to remove enough rubble to move their Zakus. They finally remove the rubble over the cockpit of Rey’s Zaku and he jumps in and removes the rest of rocks and steel from Lunamaria’s Zaku. Escorted by his bodyguards, the Chairman is demanding to know the situation but he is only told that the area is too dangerous and that he needs to move to a shelter. The Chairman refuses because he doesn’t even know what is actually happening, so it is decided that he should go to the Minerva.
The EA ship continues its attack on the Nazca Class ships causing brutal damage. Back at Amorury One the battle between Impulse and the three stolen gundams continues. Auel attacks but the beam blast is block by Impulse, the stray beams fired destroy the mobile suits attacking from the ground. Before Auel can attack again his MS is hit from the side by Rey who is approaching with Lunamaria who fires a couple of shots to follow. Sting tries to get Stellar to flee but she continues to attack Impulse in unsuccessful attempt to destroy it. Sting contines to ask Stellar to back off and escape and but she refuses. Before she can land the next attack, Auel states to just let her die here. Auel’s words frighten Stellar as she freezes and Gaia stops in its tracks, Auel tells Stellar that Neo should just say goodbye now. Sting tells Auel to stop as Stellar shakes in fear that she will die. Impulse attacks with its boomerang but it is blocked by Sting. Stellar screams in fear and jets for the Sky followed by Sting and Auel. Shinn refuses to let the three get away. Rey and Lunamaria follow but Lunamaria’s engine fails and she is unable to continue the fight.
Athrun lands the damaged Zaku at a treatment area were people are being carried on stretchers. Just as he lands Cagalli awakens and he apologizes and begins to look for a safer place to land. Then we see a Nazca Class ship explode after it takes some more hits from the EA’s cannons. As more Mobile suits approach, Neo ask one of the officers were is Sting, Auel and Stellar and he tells him they haven’t made it out yet. The Co-captain ask if this mission is a failure and Neo disagrees and tells him that he will go out and buy them some time. The battle at armorury One rages on and even Shinn is surprised that these mysterious pilots are doing this well in unfamiliar Suits. As the Captain and Co-Captain of the Minerva discuss the task at hand Lunamaria lands her damaged Zaku in the ship and the Chairman heads to board the Minerva. Then we see the TS-MA4F Exass (which resembles the Mobieus Zero flown by Mwu in SEED) launch from the EA ship piloted by Neo. Some Zaft mobile suits attack the mobile armor but they were easily destroyed.
Suddenly Rey feels a tingle in his head and wonders what it was. The Chairman enters the bridge of the Minerva and surprises the whole crew as he asks what the situation is. Then we see Stellar beginning to fire at the walls of plant to make a hole. Shinn tries to stop her with his boomerangs but a shower of beam fire from the Abyss destroys them. Shinn calls the Minerva and ask them to launch the Force silhouette and the Captain approves and checks with the Chairman to make sure it isn’t classified anymore. Helping Shinn, Rey attacks Abyss while Shinn attacks Chaos and the Force silhouette launches from he Minerva. Rey takes some shots from Abyss and Stellar continues to shot at the side of Plant. Sting attacks in Chaos and Shinn breaks his beam Sword in defense. The Force silhouette approaches and Rey attacks Sting to give Shinn some room. Shinn releases the Sword silhouette and unites with the Force silhouette in midair. The trio is in awe to see the gundam change weaponry in midair as Shinn attacks with a beam saber.
Auel fires at shinn but he just blocks the beams and rams the shield into the chest of Abyss. Shinn begins to attack Stellar to try to stop her and Auel fires a flurry of beams at the side of Plant. As Shinn continues his assault Sting comes from behind fires his cannon and misses Shinn but makes an opening on the side of Plant that sucks the Mobile Suits right into space. Shinn decides to pursue and Rey follows him. The members of the Minerva see Shinn and Rey headed off into space, Meylin warns the Captain that Impulse is reaching the red zone and Captain Talia decides to launch the Minerva. Athrun lands the damaged Zaku inside the Minerva as the crew wonder who it is. Lunamaria warns them not to move and the Minerva begins to launch. Lunamaria begins asking Athrun and Cagalli about who they are, Athrun tells Lunamaria that Cagalli is the Head Representative of Orb and he is her bodyguard and they want to meet with the Chairman face to face.
Impulse floats through space as Shinn looks for the stolen mobile suits, Rey tells Shinn that they are at a disadvantage and should go back. The three gundams enter the EA ship and Neo who is hiding launches his Exass, suddenly Rey feels the tingle from earlier. We see the Minerva begin its lift down process before it launches. To the surprise of Athrun notices that the ship is going into battle and Cagalli calls Athrun by his real name on accident. Neo begins his attack on Impulse, as Rey approaches to help but he sees the mysterious EA ship in the corner of his eye just before the Minerva launches.

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