Gundam SEED Fan Fiction ❯ Gundam Seed Shadow ❯ Episode 13 ( Chapter 14 )
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By: Hcps 
Anime/Manga: Gundam SEED Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 02.12.2012 | Pages: 6 | Words: 8.3K | Visits: 140 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Gundam SEED Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 02.12.2012 | Pages: 6 | Words: 8.3K | Visits: 140 | Status: Work In Progress
Episode 13
The episode opens up with two raiders with machineguns walking down the housing district. They look pretty relax, like they own this city. They come to a fork in the road
Raider A: Alright I'm going left.
Raider B looks at him surprise
Raider B: But base is to the right?
Raider A smirks
Raider A: I know that, but I haven't got a good enough hall yet, so I'm going to go ransack some more houses before I head back to the base.
Raider A start to walk down the left road, Raider B sighs then shouts
Raider B: Fine, but don't expect me to bail you out if you're late.
Raider A waves his hand at him to show he understands. He continues walking by himself down the housing district; suddenly we see Cagalli hiding in one of the shadows of the houses behind Raider A. The only movement we see her make is with her eyes which are watching Raider A who doesn't seem to notice her.
Cagalli (Alright I think I pretty much got this attack pattern down so let's try it on that guy.)
We can see her holding her Guan Dao in her right hand. She's keeping it close to the ground with the blade on its side. She slowly walks out from the shadows behind Raider A
Cagalli (First step, get behind them or attack them with the element of surprise.)
She grabs her Guan Dao with both hands then charges the Raider A. Raider A hears her and turns around surprise he raises his gun but it's too late.
Cagalli (Next do a downward strike to the right shoulder,)
Cagalli does a downward strike to his shoulder, some blood spills but it's clear that the cut isn't deep or life threatening.
Cagalli (Because of the pain from the cut the person will step back and howl in pain, he will lower his gun or even drop it so that he can grab his injured shoulder.)
Raider A howls in pain, steps back and drops his gun so that he can grab his shoulder with his uninjured hand. Cagalli takes a step forward.
Cagalli (Last, flip my Guan Dao so that the pole is facing forward and attack the head.)
Cagalli flips her Guan Dao so that the pole is facing forward then performs an upper right attack hitting Raider A in the right cheek.
Cagalli (Causing a non-lethal knockout.)
Raider A falls backwards knockout. Cagalli stares at him breathing hard and still crouching down, then she straightens up. Cagalli takes her Guan Dao in her right hand and puts the pole end on the ground with the blade pointed up. She starts rotating her left shoulder.
Cagalli (Took me a little bit to get the hang of it but I've master it to point where they don't even get a shot off at me.)
Cagalli stops relaxing, still with the Guan Dao in her right hand now holding it at an angle she starts to jog.
Cagalli (That makes 9 raiders I've token down, as long as I have the element of surprise and I continue to fight them one on one I should be fine.)
The scene cuts to Warehouse 8, we can hear gun fire coming from everywhere. Jay and a couple of other mechanics are ducking behind a broken Gundam arm from incoming fire of the Raiders. Jay and the others have guns but the rain of bullets above them is preventing them from getting a shot off.
We can see the raiders also using broken Gundam parts for cover. We can see that Jay and the other 4 mechanics next to him are hopelessly outnumber, suddenly another mechanic keeping low to the ground runs over to Jay's group. He gets a couple of shots off but doesn't hit anyone. He manages to dive behind the Gundam arm without getting shot. Jay looks over at him
Jay: You hit Pat?
Pat checks himself quickly then looks to Jay
Pat: I'm not but the situation is looking pretty bad Jay.
Jay snorts
Jay: Yea, tell me something I don't know.
Pat goes on ignoring Jay's comment
Pat: All the civilians have been evacuated out of the Warehouse with minimum casualties but the defense lines in over a dozen places have been force to move back another 20 yards, and our wounded have almost triple in ten minutes.
Jay doesn't like where he is going with this
Jay: Do you have anything useful to say?
Pat takes a deep breath then says
Pat: Jay I think we should start thinking about abandoning the Warehouse.
Everyone stops what they are doing and turn towards Pat shock and surprise. Jay is shock and angry
Jay: Absolutely not! We just need to hold out a little longer till backup from the other Warehouses come.
Jay angry and frustrated tries to lift up his gun above the Gundam arm and shoot blindly but a bullet grazes his hand forcing him to pull back.
Jay: OW!
Pat looks at Jay worry
Pat: Jay, are you alright!
Pat goes to take a look at his hand. Jay shakes him away and snaps
Jay: I'm fine, I can keep fighting!
Jay has a desperate look in his eyes he's breathing heavily. Pat looks at him sadly
Pat: Jay I know this is your home, your castle, your kingdom but it's over.
He says kindly, he tries to put a comforting hand on Jay's shoulder but Jay shakes him off
Jay: NO, we can still hold out!
It's obvious by the way he says this that he's desperate
Pat: Face it Jay it's over, your defense line is the only one that hasn't been pushed back yet!
Pat says this more forcefully, Jay is still resistant
Jay: NO, I will not abandon the Warehouse!
Pat tries a different tactic
Pat: Not abandoning but a strategic retreat, once we have more reinforcements we can come back and retake the Warehouse.
Jay listens to this for a second but then shakes his head
Jay: No, by then the raiders would have ransacked the place.
Pat goes to say something else but Jay holds up a finger
Jay: Wait a minute, why have they stop firing.
Jay signals Pat and the others to stay down. He slowly lifts his head above the Gundam arm, suddenly a raider pops right up in front of them he's already got the gun pointed at them. Time begins to slow down, Jay’s eyes open wide, he tries to move back. The others start to lift their guns to try and fire on the raider before he fires on them first; however it's obvious they won't make it in time.
Jay (They purposely kept firing high so that one of their guys could craw under the hail of bullets, then once he was right up against our defense wall they stop firing so that he could just jump up and empty his rounds right behind our defense line, damn.)
We zoom in on the raider's trigger finger; we can see him begin to pull when suddenly we hear a single gunshot. A bullet hits the raider’s right in the shoulder of the hand that was going to pull the trigger. The raider's injured arm lets go of the gun as he starts to fall backwards at an angle.
The raider lifts his gun with his uninjured arm but a second gunshot to his other shoulder prevents him from doing anything else. He drops his gun completely, falls backwards and hits his head hard on the ground. He appears to be unconscious, and time goes back to normal.
Jay, Pat, and the other mechanics surprise turn around to see Nick running at full speed towards them. He somehow is managing to stay low to the ground and run at the same time. His gun is out and in his right hand, and his left hand is on his hat holding it in place on his head.
He takes his gun and fires again. The camera switches views so we're following behind the bullet; we see it fly over Jay and the Gundam arm. It goes all the way to the enemy line and hits a raider right in the shoulder that was sticking out from his cover. We switch views back to normal view; we see the raider howl in pain as he falls backwards.
Two more raiders get hit before the first touches the ground, one was hit in the shoulder of the arm that was holding its gun out of cover, and the other was shot in the foot that was sticking out from cover. All three of them fall to the ground, the camera cuts back to Nick who does a baseball type slide into the Gundam arm Jay and the others are using for cover, right next to a startled Jay.
Nick: Sorry for being late mates.
The raiders start shooting again; we can hear the loud bang of bullets hitting the Gundam arm.
Jay: Who the hell are you!
Nick tips his hat a little
Nick: Nick Mu at your service mates.
Jay, Pat and the other mechanics are giving him blank looks, so Nick goes on to say.
Nick: I'm the Gundam Fighter Tom sent mates.
Recognition crosses their faces
Pat: Wait Tom sent you, is the backup here?
Nick shakes his head
Nick: Sorry mates but they were still getting organized when I left.
Pat turns to Jay
Pat: See, The backup party is nowhere near ready we need to retreat!
Jay snaps
Jay: We can still hold out a little longer!
Pat is getting frustrated
Pat: Damn it Jay we were almost killed less than 5 minutes ago; if we stay any longer we're going to be killed!
Jay ignores him and goes back to trying to shoot over the cover without being shot. Pat turns to Nick
Pat: Hey Gundam Fighter can you please talk some sense into him.
Nick has been quietly listening to the conversation, he turn towards Jay, and says in a calm even voice.
Nick: He's right mate, I know that this is your home and you may think it's worth dying for but it isn't worth the lives of your comrades.
Jay thinks this over for a minute then gets a resolved look in his eyes
Jay: You can give the order to retreat but I'm staying and fighting to the end!
Pat: Jay, don't be stupid this place isn't worth your life.
Jay shouts at Pat
Jay: You're wrong; hundreds of people depend on this Warehouse for work. Most of them have families they have to feed, so if this Warehouse gets destroyed or damage beyond repair how are they supposed to get money for their families. I'm not fighting for the building I'm fighting for the people who need this job!
Pat is surprise by Jay's comment
Pat: Jay
Nick smiles; he begins to move to the side of the Gundam arm
Nick: I see now, at first I thought you were just a stubborn King trying to keep his castle for the sake of his pride but I now see that it's the homes inside the castle you're trying to protect. Don't worry mate we'll hold those raiders off into backup comes.
Jay and Pat look at Nick surprise by his thoughtful nature. Nick suddenly rolls away from his cover, as he's rolling he opens fire. He gets off 7 shots and each shot hits a target. Nick quickly gets back on his feet and begins to move in a zigzag pattern towards the raiders. He gets off another 7 shots with each shot hitting an exposed limb sticking out from cover.
With one hand he releases the empty magazine and at the same time gets a new one from a pouch he's carrying on his side with his other hand. He’s reloaded in less than a second and then he begins to fire again. Nick's a little more than half way to the raider’s line when the camera cuts back over to a shock Jay and Pat.
Pat: Holy crap that guy's a monster.
Jay: Well he is a Gundam Fighter after all.
Jay suddenly shakes his head and shouts at the others
Jay: Wait a second what are we waiting for, this is our chance to push the enemy line back let's go!
Jay jumps out from the cover; he's opening fire straight ahead and is advancing. The others follow after him; they move quickly and form a V shape charge with Nick at the tip. They're almost at the raider’s line, over half of the raiders that started out have been taken down. The remaining raiders are beginning to retreat. Nick and the others have reached the cover the raiders were using, they begin to use it against the raiders now. One of the raiders shouts.
Raider: RETREAT!
The camera cuts to the mine, the carts are flipped over and being used for cover. The miners are using some kind of laser cutting tool to hold off the raiders. One of the raiders falls back to where their Unit leader is.
Raider A: It will take just a little longer to finish off the miners Sir.
The Unit leader is annoyed
Unit Leader: Tell me, why is it taking so long to defeat a bunch of unarmed miners!
The Unit leader yells at Raider A. Raider A is embarrass
Raider A: Well you see Sir the miners are using the Ulz laser that is used for cutting the metal parts as a weapon but don't worry it wasn't design for combat so it should run out of power soon.
Unit Leader nods his head
Unit Leader: Good, and besides we have them trap in a corner with no way out.
Suddenly we hear Roxas purr a little
Roxas: Purrrrrrrrr, you're wrong, this is an attack on you from both sides!
We see Roxas walking towards the Unit Leader, she has her gold claws on (I don't think I've talk about her weapon yet. Roxas uses sharp gold claws that go over top of her fingers. When not in use she often just puts them within easy reach of her pocket). The Unit Leader turns around surprised
Unit Leader: What the, who the hell are you!
4 of the closest raiders who hear the commotion turn around and point their guns at her. Roxas gives them an evil grin
Roxas: Your worst nightmare.
Roxas charges, she does a downward vertical claw slash on one of the raiders. The raider falls backward dropping his gun. Before the other raiders have time to react she jumps to the left side wall of the very narrow mine then jumps down on top of a raider that was still shooting at the miners taking him out.
The raiders with the Unit Leader start shooting at her. Roxas still moving on all fours quickly jumps to the right side wall and then jumps down on another raider. And then just as quickly jumps to the left wall.
The stupid raiders shooting at her forget that they are shooting at their own line. The raiders that were busy with the miners turn around when they hear gunfire coming at them from behind, and return fire. Unit Leader shouts at them
Unit Leader: Hold your fire you morons you're shooting each other, HOLD YOUR FIRE!
All the raiders stop firing, big mistake. The moment Roxas sees that they are no longer firing at her she increases her speed of attack. She keeps jumping on and off the walls in a zigzag fashion.
Each time she jumps to the floor she takes out two raiders with a claw slash. We cut to the miner’s defense line just as the laser they were using to hold off the raiders die. The miner that was operating the laser turns to another miner and says
Miner A: That's it Cole she's all out of power.
We can hear screaming coming from the raiders line. Cole is cautiously poking his head out from the cart.
Cole: Hey Josh got any ideas why the raiders stop firing at us?
Josh (Miner A) is also cautiously poking his head above the cart
Josh: I want to know what's up with that screaming.
Suddenly Roxas jumps to the left wall easily getting around the cart Josh and Cole are using for cover. She starts to pounce looking more like a tiger then a human, both Josh and Cole fall back startle.
Roxas eyes open wide in surprise when she sees they aren't carrying weapons and at the last second moves her hand so that her claws don't hit Josh. Her claws were less than a millimeter from touching him. Her claw hits the metal ground making a dull "clang" sound, Roxas is right in Josh's face. Josh is trembling slightly in fear
Roxas: You're a miner right?
Josh still in shock doesn't say anything, however Cole connects the dots
Cole: That's right and you must be the Gundam Fighter Tom sent.
Roxas looks over Josh's shoulder to see Cole
Roxas: Ooo, you're cute.
She pushes Josh out of the way and gets into Cole's personal space. She puts a hand on his leg and says in a seductive voice
Roxas: Hey what do you say to spending some quality time with me after I finish off the raiders?
Cole is throw off by Roxas hitting on him
Cole: Um, is this really the best time for this; we still have the raiders to deal with.
Cole is trying to back away from Roxas. Roxas stops and tilts her head slightly thinking
Roxas: Hmmm, I guess you're right, oh sorry for almost killing your friend. I must of lost track of where I was going.
She says with a smile, she gestures towards Josh who still hasn't move. Cole is unsure of what to say.
Cole: Um, it's ok he'll be fine, I think.
Roxas nods her head
Roxas: Good, well I better go take care of the raiders. I'll see you later.
Roxas gets up stretches then blinks at Cole. She then does the zigzag jump, jumping to the left wall, to the floor, to the right wall, then back to the floor and repeat, back in the direction of the raiders. Cole watches her leave, and then walks over to Josh.
Cole: Come on you're not dead yet.
Josh gets up
Josh: I think I pissed myself.
The camera cuts back to the raider’s line to show Roxas kicking ass. She's jumping from the walls to the floor to even the ceiling, attacking the raiders as she goes. Her claw slashes are fast and effective although we never see her attack the head or do a stabbing attack.
All the raiders are now trying to shoot her but Roxas is too fast and it's made even more difficult by the fact their trying not to shoot each other. The camera focuses in on the Unit Leader, who is crouching down behind the cart trying to stay hidden. He's observing Roxas
Unit Leader (She's too fast to hit and she's using the walls to maneuver better around the carts and people, she's also staying in-between the men so that they have to double check before firing at her to make sure they don't hit each other. At this rate she's going to take us all out one at a time.)
The Unit Leader looks frustrated and pissed
Unit Leader: Alright let's see how you fight in the dark!
The Unit Leader points his gun at the lights on the ceiling and opens fire. The bullets take out a light bulb and the electrical wires. All the lights go out in the mine bringing total darkness. The camera goes back into night vision mode, and one of the other raiders goes over to Unit Leader.
Raider A: It's completely black in here, how are we going aim and shoot!
Unit Leader is annoyed with the raider and snaps
Unit Leader: Calm down, we can still see the light of the exit we'll retreat outside and just empty out our ammo into the mine.
All the raiders start to slowly move back to the exit. The camera turns back to Roxas who's sitting on the floor like a cat, arms on the ground in-between her legs, thinking.
Roxas (This is annoying, well I guess I could always do that but it's been awhile; I wonder if I can still do it correctly.)
The camera cuts back to the Unit Leader and the other retreating raiders
Unit Leader: That's it we're almost to the exit.
Suddenly we hear a screeching sound like a bat, then we hear one of the raiders farther back into the cave scream this sound continues to repeat. The Unit Leader turns around his face full of fear like a hunted mouse.
Unit Leader: What the hell was that!
We hear the screeching sound again; Unit Leader suddenly realizes what it is
Unit Leader (Impossible s-she's using echolocation!)
While he's thinking this we see Roxas jump out of the dark preparing to attack but just before she attacks the Unit Leader we see the image of a bat appear over her, then her attack lands right on the Unit Leader.
The scene cuts back to the housing district, we see Cagalli once again waiting patiently in the shadows. A raider walks by, Cagalli charges, the raider turns around just in time to see Cagalli perform an upward vertical slash to his right shoulder.
The raider howls in pain, drops his gun and grabs his injured shoulder. Cagalli flips her Guan Dao around so that the pole side is facing forward and whacks the raider across the face knocking him out in one shot. The raider falls face forward to the ground having only lasted a minute against Cagalli.
Cagalli (That makes 17)
Suddenly we hear a sound from behind Cagalli like a bolt or tool of some kind being kick. Cagalli turns around just in time to see another raider raise his gun and open fire. Cagalli dives inside a window of one of the empty houses for cover.
Cagalli (Damn it, I've been spotted.)
The machine gun fire sounds almost like rain on the metal house and just as quickly as it came it ended. Cagalli looks confused
Cagalli (Huh, Why he stop firing?)
Cagalli cautiously lifts her head out the window to see the raider fiddling with his gun
Cagalli (His gun jammed, now's my chance to take him out!)
Cagalli leaps out of the window and charges the raider. The raider looks up from fiddling with his gun then drops it turns and runs.
Cagalli (He's running away, crap, if he gets away he'll tell the others about me and I'll lose the element of surprise! I can't let him get away!)
Cagalli continues to chase after him. She chases him down an alley which opens up into a clearing full of raiders, most likely their based. All of them have machine guns pointed at her.
Cagalli (It's a trap!)
Cagalli doesn't move she's frozen by fear, one of the raiders moves forward, he appears to be this groups Unit Leader.
Unit Leader: So you're the one that's been taking out my men. Hahaha, you know some of the stupider men were afraid that you were a C rank Gundam Fighter but I knew for a fact that there were no Gundam Fighters above E rank in Junk City. It was very annoying to gather the rest of my men up in order to reassure them that we could handle any Gundam Fighter that came are way but I must admit that I am surprise that it was this easily to trap you. I thought you put up a little bit more of a fight.
The Unit Leader looks around as if expecting something.
Unit Leader: Huh, I thought that a bunch of those stupid mechanics would have jump out by now in a vain attempt to save you. The fact they just left you to die is a little cold hearted even to me but oh well.
The Unit Leader raises his gun and points it at Cagalli. She starts to tremble a little in fear; the Unit Leader smiles an evil twisted smile.
Unit Leader: Do try not to piss yourself; it would be annoying if your body stank while we drag it away.
The Unit Leader starts to pull the trigger
Cagalli (Is this it, am I going to get killed again?)
A wrench comes flying out of nowhere hitting the Unit Leader right in the face causing his shots to go wild straight in the air. He falls flat on his ass blood pouring down his face, his nose is broken. He's got his hand on his noise in a poor attempt to stop the bleeding. He starts looking wildly for his attacker and spots him on the roof of a house behind Cagalli.
Van: I wouldn't try that again, us "stupid" mechanics don't like it when people try to kill our valuable customers.
All the raiders point their guns at him. The Unit Leader is beyond mad, he's enraged
Unit Leader: You arrogant bastard how dare you do this to my face, when I'm done with you you'll be wishing for death!
Van smiles the type of smile you smile when you're about to checkmate your opponent and they have no idea it's coming.
Van: I highly doubt that.
Unit Leader scowls
Unit Leader: Oh really, because where I'm standing you're out gun!
Van smile widens
Van: I think you're mistaken, because not only are "you" out gun but you're also surrounded.
Mechanics start popping up from the houses; a lot are on the roofs. Others are coming out of the houses and circling around the raiders on the street. The rest are staying in the houses but having their guns pointed out the window. The raiders are out number 2 to 1 and they know it, the raiders keep switching where they're pointing their guns they're all looking scared. The Unit Leader is looking wildly around like a corner rat.
Van: Now I'm only going to say this once, surrender now and we'll spare your lives.
The Unit Leader looks like he's going to reject instantly but Van cuts him off
Van: I also like to point out before you make a decision that you are all surrounded and out number 2 to 1 and it’s only me that's holding these mechanics back from filling you full of holes. After all you did steal our stuff, destroy our houses, and kill our comrades. Hell I want to see you're bodies rot in a mountain of corpses but I've got a lot of self-control, however if they hear a single gunshot they will empty their ammo into you, SO PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPONS!
The Unit Leader snarls
Unit Leader: Surrender to a bunch of fifthly poor mechanics like you guys I rather
One of the raiders cuts him off
Raider A: I surrender please don't shoot me!
The raider puts his gun on the ground; gets down on his knees and puts his hands behind his back. The Unit Leader turns to him surprised and pissed
Unit Leader: What! You coward pick up your
He's cut off again by another
Raider B: I surrender too!
He also gets on his knees and puts his hands behind his back, and like a domino effect all the other raiders put their guns on the ground and get on their knees and put their hands behind their backs.
Raider C: Me too
Raider D: I surrender too
Raider E: Please don't shoot
The Unit Leader is the only one that isn't surrendering.
Unit Leader: You cowards, what are you doing, pick up your weapons!
He's red in the face and waving his arms in the air
Unit Leader: I said pick up your weapons!
Suddenly a wrench comes flying and whacks him in the back of the head. The Unit Leader crumbles to the ground unconscious, and the camera turns to show Rick with his arm still up in the air.
Rick: Finally got you to shut up.
Mechanic A: Now Rick why'd you do that, I wanted to shoot him.
Before Rick can answer Van shouts out
Van: What are you guys waiting for, get the raiders guns away from them and tie them up!
The mechanics go over to the raiders and take away their weapons, then they either tie them up with rope or put handcuffs on them. Rick walks over to a still startled Cagalli; she's been watching the events unfold quietly.
Rick: Hey are you Ok?
He asks with genuine concern. Cagalli shakes her head getting over her fear
Cagalli: Y-yea I'm fine.
She takes another look around then says
Cagalli: So this was the plan from the beginning, to use me as bait.
Rick looks down ashamed
Rick: Well yes, but you see the plan was to get all the raiders in one spot and then we would surround them on the rooftops, then we'd open fire on them hopefully taking more than half of them out instantly. If we tried to confront them all individually we would have lost a lot more people and maybe even lost the battle all together because they out number us.
Cagalli is confused
Cagalli: Wait, I thought you out-number them?
Rick shakes his head
Rick: Not until 2 minutes ago when the backup from the other Warehouses finally got here, in fact they should be at the other battle sites right about now.
The camera cuts back to Warehouse 8, we see Nick running from cover to cover taking out raiders with his gun, we never see him hit the head or the chest. Suddenly a lot of mechanics come bursting in shouting
Mechanics: WEAPONS ON THE GROUND, HANDS UP!
One of the raiders goes to shoot them, big mistake, in the next second he's full of bullet holes, the other raiders realizes they've lost and surrender. Some of the mechanics surround Nick.
Mechanic: You too cowboy, put your gun on the ground and hands up!
Nick doesn't move
Nick: Listen mates, I think there's been a mistake.
The Mechanic cuts him off
Mechanic: Shut up you raider, don't think you can weasel your way out of this one, we're going to make sure you pay for all the damage you done to Junk City.
It's obvious that this Mechanic isn't going to listen to anything Nick has to say. Nick sighs then tenses his muscles preparing for combat when Jay comes in.
Jay: What the hell do you morons think you're doing!
Jay gets in-between Nick and the Mechanic from the backup squadron, several other mechanics do the same. The mechanic from the backup squadron is confused
Mechanic: I'm arresting a raider, what do you think you're doing defending him!
Jay is now angry
Jay: You idiot he's not a raider, he's a Gundam Fighter that Tom sent! He's a hero, without him we would've never been able to hold out this long, so show some god damn respect!
The mechanic realizes he's made a mistake and apologizes
Mechanic: Oh, I am so sorry sir.
He says to Nick, Nick shrugs relaxing his muscles
Nick: Don't worry about it mate.
The camera cuts again, this time back to outside the entrance to the mine. We see the backup squadron with their guns pointed at the entrance. The leader of the backup squadron shouts.
Leader: Alright, raiders come out with your hands up where we can see them! You have 5 minutes to reply before we come in!
Roxas comes out of the mine, walking on all fours like a conquering lion. All of the guns get pointed at her.
Leader: Hold it right their!
Roxas stops at first looking surprise, and then she licks her lips like a hungry tiger that's just spotted it's pray. She's about to take a step towards them when the miners come out, Cole is in the lead.
Cole: Wait she's the Gundam Fighter Tom sent!
Everyone lowers their guns, but Roxas still has that look in her eyes. She takes another step forward then spots a shiny bolt or nut. Her eyes open wide
Roxas: Shiny!
She jumps towards the bolt and begins to bat it back and forth between her hands like a cat she starts to purr. The Leader looks at her like she's nuts
Leader: Ok
The mechanics in the backup squadron start to tend to the wounded miners, Josh also comes out of the mine. The leader turns to Cole
Leader: So where are the raiders, did they retreat?
Cole shakes his head, Josh walks up to them
Cole: No she took them all out.
The leader's eyes open wide
Leader: Wait, are you telling me that, that one chick took out over 20 raiders by herself without weapons!
He points to Roxas who's still concern with the bolt. Cole nods his head
Cole: We'll she had some kind of claw thing she used for a weapon but she put that away. She took them all out 20 minutes ago.
The Leader is still shock he turns to look at Roxas with a little bit of awe and fear. Josh turns to Cole
Josh: Wait, if she defeated them all 20 minutes ago why'd you just now tell us it was ok to come out?
Cole starts to blush, he turns away
Cole: Um w-well s-she was b-b-busy with s-something.
He stutters, Josh is starting to get suspicious.
Josh: Busy? With what and where did you disappear to in the mine?
Cole gets even redder. Josh finally makes the connection
Josh: Oh my god, did you sleep with her in the mine!
Cole still isn't facing Josh
Cole: I admit to nothing!
Josh is pissed
Josh: I was in that dark hole by myself scare out of my mind and you were off screwing the girl who almost killed me!
Cole: Come on Josh it didn't happen like that.
Josh walks away
Josh: Yea, whatever.
Cole: Oh come on Josh, Josh; Josh!
The camera turns back to Roxas to see she's completely ignored the whole situation. The camera cuts back to the housing district where Cagalli and Rick are standing.
Rick: Van had decided not to change the plan since you look like you were almost done.
Cagalli's put her Guan Dao back on her back with the sheath back on the blade.
Cagalli: I guess that was the best course of action, by the time backup had arrive the raiders were already assembling. No sense letting all that work go to waste although I would have preferred being told that was the plan from the beginning.
Although Cagalli says this she doesn't seem too happy, in fact she seems really tired. Rick is looking at her with concern.
Rick: Are you sure you don't want one of the medics to look at you?
She looks like she's going to say yes when Van walks over and cuts her off
Van: She doesn't need one of the medics to look at her.
He says this in sort of a mean tone of voice, Rick looks at Van a little annoyed. Van face has an unreadable look on it.
Rick: Van don't be an ass she's obvious
Van cuts Rick off, he seems to be annoyed by Rick now. He turns to Cagalli and asks
Van: Have you been cut?
Cagalli is confused
Cagalli: Um, No.
Van: Do you have any broken bones?
Cagalli: No.
Van: Have you been shot?
Cagalli: No!
Van: Are you bleeding from anywhere on your body?
Cagalli is getting annoyed with the questions
Cagalli: NO!
Van is satisfied
Van: Then you don't need any medical help, if you're tired you can go take a nap in one of the abandon houses. The civilians won't be back for another couple of hours until we can confirmed that this area is safe.
Cagalli looks down to the ground, she's tired and a little sad. Rick is looking at Van angrily
Cagalli: Oh, Ok.
Cagalli looks miserable. Van looks at her for moment then turns away, not facing her he says
Van: Cagalli, I accept you acknowledgement that you were wrong about Junk City, I also acknowledge that I was wrong about you; only someone who can see the beauty of this city can push themselves this hard to protect it.
The moment he's done saying this he begins to walk away, both Cagalli and Rick eye's open wide as they watch him leave shock. Cagalli's shock turns to joy as a smile breaks out across her face. Van stops walking for a moment and calls out from over his shoulder
Van: I'd head back to Tom's Warehouse if I were you, last I heard that friend of yours in the Gundam wasn't doing too good in his fight.
The camera cuts back to Shadow in Nightwing fighting against the raider's ship. We see Nightwing begin to charge the raider's ship
Shadow: You're going down!
The CIW's open fire, several missiles are also release. Nightwing jumps from the Junk mountain he's on to Gerodi, the raider's ship is now directly above him. All the gunfire and missiles hit the spot he was just at.
Nightwing lands on Gerodi’s side, and begins to slide down the mountain. We see a bunch of the junk parts fall as Nightwing's feet brace themselves against the mountain and stop's Nightwing from sliding any further. We cut inside the raider's ship
Hunter: All missiles and guns have missed Sir.
The Boss expecting this to be over in seconds is shocked
Boss: What!
Another crew member operating the computer shouts
Crew Member A: The Basic Original Gundam is directly below us Sir.
The Boss is angry now
Boss: Well what are you waiting for, move the ship forward 50 meters then turn 60 degrees starboard and FIRE!
We cut outside to see the ship start to move. Nightwing is watching it as it begins to climb to the top of Gerodi. We cut back to the communication center at the Warehouse, everyone has calm down and returned to their respective positions. Tom is grinning
Tom (Not bad most rookie Gundam Pilots would of jump back instead of forward from an attacking battle ship. A common mistake, jumping backward doesn't take you out of range of the missiles or the guns so even if you dodge the first wave of missiles and bullets they'll get you with rapid fire. However most battle ships have a blind spot directly underneath them, even the greatest missiles or guns can't turn to fire directly below them. The kid’s got good instincts.)
While Tom’s been thinking Shadow has been looking for something. Tom is looking at Shadow impressed which is quickly dashed by Shadow’s next question.
Shadow: Hey where I put my shield?
Tom is extremely annoyed by the question
Tom: You left it at the other Junk Mountain YOU MORON!
Tom (Forget it, I was just imaging things. As the saying goes even a broken clock is right twice a day, even a stupid inexperienced Gundam Pilot should do a couple of things right by dumb luck.)
Shadow shrugs his shoulders and tries to pass off the loss of his shield as no big deal.
Shadow: Oh, well shields aren't my thing anyway.
Tom even more annoyed now shouts
Tom: I LIKE TO SEE YOU SAY THAT WHEN YOU'RE GETTING SHOT AT!
Nightwing has gotten to the top of Gerodi, and the raider's ship has gotten into position. We cut inside the bridge
Hunter: Weapons have locked on the Basic Original Gundam Sir.
The Boss nods his head but before he can say anything another crew member adds
Crew Member B: Sir I just got a message from all the Teams we sent out.
Boss is surprise
Boss: Oh, are they finish already, tell them we'll pick them up after we take care of this Gundam.
Crew member B face has whiten
Crew Member B: All the teams have been defeated by the mechanics.
The Boss is shocked
Boss: WHAT!
There's a moment of stun silence, then Hunter says a little bitter
Hunter: So not only did we not get a lot from the Junk Mountain we can't even relied on the stuff the Raider Teams stole, overall this raid was a complete failure.
The boss is really piss now
Boss: Thank you Hunter for finding it necessary to point that out! We'll destroy that Gundam then leave the City, so open fire with the CIW's don't use the missiles yet until I say so!
We cut back outside to see the raider's guns open fire, Shadow notices the gunfire. We see Nightwing quickly jump to the side then charge forward; we cut back inside the raider's bridge
Boss: Not this time; move back another 20 meters; don't let that Gundam get underneath us again!
We cut back outside to see the raider's ship begin to move backwards away from Nightwing
Shadow (Damn, well I guess that trick won't work again.)
Nightwing stops charging the raider's ship and start's to try and to run around it instead, however it gets hit by the CIW's before he takes three steps. We cut back inside the cockpit to see Shadow howl in pain for a second but he quickly grits his teeth to stop himself from screaming but he's obviously still in pain.
Nightwing stops moving and does the classic cross two hand guard in front of his face. The bullet's continue to hit Nightwing but it doesn't look it's doing any obvious sign of damage. We cut back inside Nightwing's cockpit to see Shadow in the same pose as Nightwing gritting his teeth in pain. We cut back to the communication center back at the Warehouse; Tom seems to be keeping his cool.
Tom: Don't worry Shadow even a Basic Original Gundam's armor is strong enough to withstand CIW's gunfire be thankful that they don't have any beam weaponry.
We see on the monitor in front of Tom Shadow's face. Shadow is still gritting his teeth
Shadow: I'll try to remember that, DAMN this hurts! It's like someone is throwing a bunch of pebbles at me.
Shadow is in pain, Tom snaps
Tom: Well don't just stand their move away or something, forget the pain and just MOVE!
Tom (The bullets won't break the armor right now, but even the greatest armor will break if you hit it long enough, and if even one of those bullets gets into the inner circuitry it will be the same as if a bullet hits a human body.)
We cut back inside Nightwing's cockpit; Shadow is still in the same position gritting his teeth
Shadow (Damn it, I need to think of way to fight back. My beam rifle is gone and the only other weapon I have is my beam saber. Should I try to throw it at the ship? No, even if I did somehow hit the ship there's no way it would cause enough damage to take it down.)
Shadow is still gritting his teeth in pain trying to think of something. Suddenly he has an Ah-Ha moment.
Shadow (Wait, that's it, yes this will defiantly work. Well either that or I'm screwed.)
We cut back outside; Nightwing suddenly turns around and starts to run away. It jumps down the other side of Gerodi. We cut inside the bridge of the raider's ship, the boss is watching the monitor closely.
Boss (ha, trying to use the mountain as a shield while you retreat how foolish.)
Boss: Quickly go around the mountain port side and lower us 15 meters.
The ship begins to move, the camera moves to the other side of Gerodi to show Nightwing sliding/running/falling down the mountain. It looks like Nightwing is going to trip and roll down the mountain like a man in a barrel any minute. We cut inside Nightwing's cockpit, Shadow has a focus look on his face
Shadow: Tom can you get me a topographic map of Junk City.
Tom is surprise by his request
Tom: Um, sure, do you have a plain?
Shadow smiles
Shadow: Yup.
We cut back outside to see the raider's ship come around the mountain side. The ship opens fire again; some of the bullets hit Nightwing but most miss. We cut back inside the cockpit; we face Shadow and can see on his helmet screen the topographic map of Junk City. The window it's on minimizes
Shadow: Alright got my route pick, let's go!
We cut back outside, Nightwing jumps to another Junk Mountain. Nightwing starts to corkscrews down the mountain. We cut inside the raider's ship
Boss (What is he trying to do? He must be trying to get us to rise the ship so he can slip under are blind spot again but I won't let that happen.)
Boss: Follow him; lower the ship another 15 meters and continue firing CIW's.
We cut back outside, the raider's ship comes right in front of Nightwing as its running/slipping down the mountain. It opens fire, Nightwing jumps to another mountain once again only taking minimum damage to the legs. Nightwing runs around to the other side of the mountain then jumps again to another Junk Mountain. We cut back to inside of the raider's bridge.
Hunter: The Basic Original has run east about 20
The Boss cuts him off
Boss: Yes, I know which way he ran, so stop wasting my time asking for directions and just follow him!
We cut back outside, Nightwing is hopping from Junk Mountain to Junk Mountain, sometimes it corkscrews down the mountain a little before jumping, other times it just goes to the other side then jumps, and the rest of the time it jumps the moment it touches the mountain.
While he's doing this he continues to slowly go lower down the raider's ship is clumsily trying to follow him but do to its size it's struggling to maneuver around the Junk Mountain. The raider’s ship is continuing to fire on Nightwing.
Nightwing is taking minimum damage but it's starting to wear down on the armor. The armor is starting to look really dented in some places. We cut inside Nightwing's cockpit, even through Shadow's helmet we can see him sweating. He's starting to get tired
Shadow: That's right keep following me.
We cut to the bridge of the raider's ship. The Boss is getting very annoyed
Boss: That's it I've had it with this rabbit’s game, prepare to fire missiles on my mark!
Nightwing jumps from the Junk Mountain it's currently on
Boss: FIRE!
While Nightwing is in midair the raider's ship fires four missiles at it. We cut to communication center in the Warehouse as the screen monitors start blinking red. Mechanic A turns to Tom
Mechanic A: Raider's ship has just release missiles targeted at Nightwing.
Tom: What! Shadow get out their!
We cut back outside, time slows down, Nightwing is still in midair. It turns around and puts up the two hand cross guard.
Shadow (Damn, I can't avoid it)
One of the missiles hits Nightwing and explodes. We cut back to the communication center; Tom is shocked and scare.
Tom: SHADOW!
The episode ends with a freeze frame of the explosion.
The episode opens up with two raiders with machineguns walking down the housing district. They look pretty relax, like they own this city. They come to a fork in the road
Raider A: Alright I'm going left.
Raider B looks at him surprise
Raider B: But base is to the right?
Raider A smirks
Raider A: I know that, but I haven't got a good enough hall yet, so I'm going to go ransack some more houses before I head back to the base.
Raider A start to walk down the left road, Raider B sighs then shouts
Raider B: Fine, but don't expect me to bail you out if you're late.
Raider A waves his hand at him to show he understands. He continues walking by himself down the housing district; suddenly we see Cagalli hiding in one of the shadows of the houses behind Raider A. The only movement we see her make is with her eyes which are watching Raider A who doesn't seem to notice her.
Cagalli (Alright I think I pretty much got this attack pattern down so let's try it on that guy.)
We can see her holding her Guan Dao in her right hand. She's keeping it close to the ground with the blade on its side. She slowly walks out from the shadows behind Raider A
Cagalli (First step, get behind them or attack them with the element of surprise.)
She grabs her Guan Dao with both hands then charges the Raider A. Raider A hears her and turns around surprise he raises his gun but it's too late.
Cagalli (Next do a downward strike to the right shoulder,)
Cagalli does a downward strike to his shoulder, some blood spills but it's clear that the cut isn't deep or life threatening.
Cagalli (Because of the pain from the cut the person will step back and howl in pain, he will lower his gun or even drop it so that he can grab his injured shoulder.)
Raider A howls in pain, steps back and drops his gun so that he can grab his shoulder with his uninjured hand. Cagalli takes a step forward.
Cagalli (Last, flip my Guan Dao so that the pole is facing forward and attack the head.)
Cagalli flips her Guan Dao so that the pole is facing forward then performs an upper right attack hitting Raider A in the right cheek.
Cagalli (Causing a non-lethal knockout.)
Raider A falls backwards knockout. Cagalli stares at him breathing hard and still crouching down, then she straightens up. Cagalli takes her Guan Dao in her right hand and puts the pole end on the ground with the blade pointed up. She starts rotating her left shoulder.
Cagalli (Took me a little bit to get the hang of it but I've master it to point where they don't even get a shot off at me.)
Cagalli stops relaxing, still with the Guan Dao in her right hand now holding it at an angle she starts to jog.
Cagalli (That makes 9 raiders I've token down, as long as I have the element of surprise and I continue to fight them one on one I should be fine.)
The scene cuts to Warehouse 8, we can hear gun fire coming from everywhere. Jay and a couple of other mechanics are ducking behind a broken Gundam arm from incoming fire of the Raiders. Jay and the others have guns but the rain of bullets above them is preventing them from getting a shot off.
We can see the raiders also using broken Gundam parts for cover. We can see that Jay and the other 4 mechanics next to him are hopelessly outnumber, suddenly another mechanic keeping low to the ground runs over to Jay's group. He gets a couple of shots off but doesn't hit anyone. He manages to dive behind the Gundam arm without getting shot. Jay looks over at him
Jay: You hit Pat?
Pat checks himself quickly then looks to Jay
Pat: I'm not but the situation is looking pretty bad Jay.
Jay snorts
Jay: Yea, tell me something I don't know.
Pat goes on ignoring Jay's comment
Pat: All the civilians have been evacuated out of the Warehouse with minimum casualties but the defense lines in over a dozen places have been force to move back another 20 yards, and our wounded have almost triple in ten minutes.
Jay doesn't like where he is going with this
Jay: Do you have anything useful to say?
Pat takes a deep breath then says
Pat: Jay I think we should start thinking about abandoning the Warehouse.
Everyone stops what they are doing and turn towards Pat shock and surprise. Jay is shock and angry
Jay: Absolutely not! We just need to hold out a little longer till backup from the other Warehouses come.
Jay angry and frustrated tries to lift up his gun above the Gundam arm and shoot blindly but a bullet grazes his hand forcing him to pull back.
Jay: OW!
Pat looks at Jay worry
Pat: Jay, are you alright!
Pat goes to take a look at his hand. Jay shakes him away and snaps
Jay: I'm fine, I can keep fighting!
Jay has a desperate look in his eyes he's breathing heavily. Pat looks at him sadly
Pat: Jay I know this is your home, your castle, your kingdom but it's over.
He says kindly, he tries to put a comforting hand on Jay's shoulder but Jay shakes him off
Jay: NO, we can still hold out!
It's obvious by the way he says this that he's desperate
Pat: Face it Jay it's over, your defense line is the only one that hasn't been pushed back yet!
Pat says this more forcefully, Jay is still resistant
Jay: NO, I will not abandon the Warehouse!
Pat tries a different tactic
Pat: Not abandoning but a strategic retreat, once we have more reinforcements we can come back and retake the Warehouse.
Jay listens to this for a second but then shakes his head
Jay: No, by then the raiders would have ransacked the place.
Pat goes to say something else but Jay holds up a finger
Jay: Wait a minute, why have they stop firing.
Jay signals Pat and the others to stay down. He slowly lifts his head above the Gundam arm, suddenly a raider pops right up in front of them he's already got the gun pointed at them. Time begins to slow down, Jay’s eyes open wide, he tries to move back. The others start to lift their guns to try and fire on the raider before he fires on them first; however it's obvious they won't make it in time.
Jay (They purposely kept firing high so that one of their guys could craw under the hail of bullets, then once he was right up against our defense wall they stop firing so that he could just jump up and empty his rounds right behind our defense line, damn.)
We zoom in on the raider's trigger finger; we can see him begin to pull when suddenly we hear a single gunshot. A bullet hits the raider’s right in the shoulder of the hand that was going to pull the trigger. The raider's injured arm lets go of the gun as he starts to fall backwards at an angle.
The raider lifts his gun with his uninjured arm but a second gunshot to his other shoulder prevents him from doing anything else. He drops his gun completely, falls backwards and hits his head hard on the ground. He appears to be unconscious, and time goes back to normal.
Jay, Pat, and the other mechanics surprise turn around to see Nick running at full speed towards them. He somehow is managing to stay low to the ground and run at the same time. His gun is out and in his right hand, and his left hand is on his hat holding it in place on his head.
He takes his gun and fires again. The camera switches views so we're following behind the bullet; we see it fly over Jay and the Gundam arm. It goes all the way to the enemy line and hits a raider right in the shoulder that was sticking out from his cover. We switch views back to normal view; we see the raider howl in pain as he falls backwards.
Two more raiders get hit before the first touches the ground, one was hit in the shoulder of the arm that was holding its gun out of cover, and the other was shot in the foot that was sticking out from cover. All three of them fall to the ground, the camera cuts back to Nick who does a baseball type slide into the Gundam arm Jay and the others are using for cover, right next to a startled Jay.
Nick: Sorry for being late mates.
The raiders start shooting again; we can hear the loud bang of bullets hitting the Gundam arm.
Jay: Who the hell are you!
Nick tips his hat a little
Nick: Nick Mu at your service mates.
Jay, Pat and the other mechanics are giving him blank looks, so Nick goes on to say.
Nick: I'm the Gundam Fighter Tom sent mates.
Recognition crosses their faces
Pat: Wait Tom sent you, is the backup here?
Nick shakes his head
Nick: Sorry mates but they were still getting organized when I left.
Pat turns to Jay
Pat: See, The backup party is nowhere near ready we need to retreat!
Jay snaps
Jay: We can still hold out a little longer!
Pat is getting frustrated
Pat: Damn it Jay we were almost killed less than 5 minutes ago; if we stay any longer we're going to be killed!
Jay ignores him and goes back to trying to shoot over the cover without being shot. Pat turns to Nick
Pat: Hey Gundam Fighter can you please talk some sense into him.
Nick has been quietly listening to the conversation, he turn towards Jay, and says in a calm even voice.
Nick: He's right mate, I know that this is your home and you may think it's worth dying for but it isn't worth the lives of your comrades.
Jay thinks this over for a minute then gets a resolved look in his eyes
Jay: You can give the order to retreat but I'm staying and fighting to the end!
Pat: Jay, don't be stupid this place isn't worth your life.
Jay shouts at Pat
Jay: You're wrong; hundreds of people depend on this Warehouse for work. Most of them have families they have to feed, so if this Warehouse gets destroyed or damage beyond repair how are they supposed to get money for their families. I'm not fighting for the building I'm fighting for the people who need this job!
Pat is surprise by Jay's comment
Pat: Jay
Nick smiles; he begins to move to the side of the Gundam arm
Nick: I see now, at first I thought you were just a stubborn King trying to keep his castle for the sake of his pride but I now see that it's the homes inside the castle you're trying to protect. Don't worry mate we'll hold those raiders off into backup comes.
Jay and Pat look at Nick surprise by his thoughtful nature. Nick suddenly rolls away from his cover, as he's rolling he opens fire. He gets off 7 shots and each shot hits a target. Nick quickly gets back on his feet and begins to move in a zigzag pattern towards the raiders. He gets off another 7 shots with each shot hitting an exposed limb sticking out from cover.
With one hand he releases the empty magazine and at the same time gets a new one from a pouch he's carrying on his side with his other hand. He’s reloaded in less than a second and then he begins to fire again. Nick's a little more than half way to the raider’s line when the camera cuts back over to a shock Jay and Pat.
Pat: Holy crap that guy's a monster.
Jay: Well he is a Gundam Fighter after all.
Jay suddenly shakes his head and shouts at the others
Jay: Wait a second what are we waiting for, this is our chance to push the enemy line back let's go!
Jay jumps out from the cover; he's opening fire straight ahead and is advancing. The others follow after him; they move quickly and form a V shape charge with Nick at the tip. They're almost at the raider’s line, over half of the raiders that started out have been taken down. The remaining raiders are beginning to retreat. Nick and the others have reached the cover the raiders were using, they begin to use it against the raiders now. One of the raiders shouts.
Raider: RETREAT!
The camera cuts to the mine, the carts are flipped over and being used for cover. The miners are using some kind of laser cutting tool to hold off the raiders. One of the raiders falls back to where their Unit leader is.
Raider A: It will take just a little longer to finish off the miners Sir.
The Unit leader is annoyed
Unit Leader: Tell me, why is it taking so long to defeat a bunch of unarmed miners!
The Unit leader yells at Raider A. Raider A is embarrass
Raider A: Well you see Sir the miners are using the Ulz laser that is used for cutting the metal parts as a weapon but don't worry it wasn't design for combat so it should run out of power soon.
Unit Leader nods his head
Unit Leader: Good, and besides we have them trap in a corner with no way out.
Suddenly we hear Roxas purr a little
Roxas: Purrrrrrrrr, you're wrong, this is an attack on you from both sides!
We see Roxas walking towards the Unit Leader, she has her gold claws on (I don't think I've talk about her weapon yet. Roxas uses sharp gold claws that go over top of her fingers. When not in use she often just puts them within easy reach of her pocket). The Unit Leader turns around surprised
Unit Leader: What the, who the hell are you!
4 of the closest raiders who hear the commotion turn around and point their guns at her. Roxas gives them an evil grin
Roxas: Your worst nightmare.
Roxas charges, she does a downward vertical claw slash on one of the raiders. The raider falls backward dropping his gun. Before the other raiders have time to react she jumps to the left side wall of the very narrow mine then jumps down on top of a raider that was still shooting at the miners taking him out.
The raiders with the Unit Leader start shooting at her. Roxas still moving on all fours quickly jumps to the right side wall and then jumps down on another raider. And then just as quickly jumps to the left wall.
The stupid raiders shooting at her forget that they are shooting at their own line. The raiders that were busy with the miners turn around when they hear gunfire coming at them from behind, and return fire. Unit Leader shouts at them
Unit Leader: Hold your fire you morons you're shooting each other, HOLD YOUR FIRE!
All the raiders stop firing, big mistake. The moment Roxas sees that they are no longer firing at her she increases her speed of attack. She keeps jumping on and off the walls in a zigzag fashion.
Each time she jumps to the floor she takes out two raiders with a claw slash. We cut to the miner’s defense line just as the laser they were using to hold off the raiders die. The miner that was operating the laser turns to another miner and says
Miner A: That's it Cole she's all out of power.
We can hear screaming coming from the raiders line. Cole is cautiously poking his head out from the cart.
Cole: Hey Josh got any ideas why the raiders stop firing at us?
Josh (Miner A) is also cautiously poking his head above the cart
Josh: I want to know what's up with that screaming.
Suddenly Roxas jumps to the left wall easily getting around the cart Josh and Cole are using for cover. She starts to pounce looking more like a tiger then a human, both Josh and Cole fall back startle.
Roxas eyes open wide in surprise when she sees they aren't carrying weapons and at the last second moves her hand so that her claws don't hit Josh. Her claws were less than a millimeter from touching him. Her claw hits the metal ground making a dull "clang" sound, Roxas is right in Josh's face. Josh is trembling slightly in fear
Roxas: You're a miner right?
Josh still in shock doesn't say anything, however Cole connects the dots
Cole: That's right and you must be the Gundam Fighter Tom sent.
Roxas looks over Josh's shoulder to see Cole
Roxas: Ooo, you're cute.
She pushes Josh out of the way and gets into Cole's personal space. She puts a hand on his leg and says in a seductive voice
Roxas: Hey what do you say to spending some quality time with me after I finish off the raiders?
Cole is throw off by Roxas hitting on him
Cole: Um, is this really the best time for this; we still have the raiders to deal with.
Cole is trying to back away from Roxas. Roxas stops and tilts her head slightly thinking
Roxas: Hmmm, I guess you're right, oh sorry for almost killing your friend. I must of lost track of where I was going.
She says with a smile, she gestures towards Josh who still hasn't move. Cole is unsure of what to say.
Cole: Um, it's ok he'll be fine, I think.
Roxas nods her head
Roxas: Good, well I better go take care of the raiders. I'll see you later.
Roxas gets up stretches then blinks at Cole. She then does the zigzag jump, jumping to the left wall, to the floor, to the right wall, then back to the floor and repeat, back in the direction of the raiders. Cole watches her leave, and then walks over to Josh.
Cole: Come on you're not dead yet.
Josh gets up
Josh: I think I pissed myself.
The camera cuts back to the raider’s line to show Roxas kicking ass. She's jumping from the walls to the floor to even the ceiling, attacking the raiders as she goes. Her claw slashes are fast and effective although we never see her attack the head or do a stabbing attack.
All the raiders are now trying to shoot her but Roxas is too fast and it's made even more difficult by the fact their trying not to shoot each other. The camera focuses in on the Unit Leader, who is crouching down behind the cart trying to stay hidden. He's observing Roxas
Unit Leader (She's too fast to hit and she's using the walls to maneuver better around the carts and people, she's also staying in-between the men so that they have to double check before firing at her to make sure they don't hit each other. At this rate she's going to take us all out one at a time.)
The Unit Leader looks frustrated and pissed
Unit Leader: Alright let's see how you fight in the dark!
The Unit Leader points his gun at the lights on the ceiling and opens fire. The bullets take out a light bulb and the electrical wires. All the lights go out in the mine bringing total darkness. The camera goes back into night vision mode, and one of the other raiders goes over to Unit Leader.
Raider A: It's completely black in here, how are we going aim and shoot!
Unit Leader is annoyed with the raider and snaps
Unit Leader: Calm down, we can still see the light of the exit we'll retreat outside and just empty out our ammo into the mine.
All the raiders start to slowly move back to the exit. The camera turns back to Roxas who's sitting on the floor like a cat, arms on the ground in-between her legs, thinking.
Roxas (This is annoying, well I guess I could always do that but it's been awhile; I wonder if I can still do it correctly.)
The camera cuts back to the Unit Leader and the other retreating raiders
Unit Leader: That's it we're almost to the exit.
Suddenly we hear a screeching sound like a bat, then we hear one of the raiders farther back into the cave scream this sound continues to repeat. The Unit Leader turns around his face full of fear like a hunted mouse.
Unit Leader: What the hell was that!
We hear the screeching sound again; Unit Leader suddenly realizes what it is
Unit Leader (Impossible s-she's using echolocation!)
While he's thinking this we see Roxas jump out of the dark preparing to attack but just before she attacks the Unit Leader we see the image of a bat appear over her, then her attack lands right on the Unit Leader.
The scene cuts back to the housing district, we see Cagalli once again waiting patiently in the shadows. A raider walks by, Cagalli charges, the raider turns around just in time to see Cagalli perform an upward vertical slash to his right shoulder.
The raider howls in pain, drops his gun and grabs his injured shoulder. Cagalli flips her Guan Dao around so that the pole side is facing forward and whacks the raider across the face knocking him out in one shot. The raider falls face forward to the ground having only lasted a minute against Cagalli.
Cagalli (That makes 17)
Suddenly we hear a sound from behind Cagalli like a bolt or tool of some kind being kick. Cagalli turns around just in time to see another raider raise his gun and open fire. Cagalli dives inside a window of one of the empty houses for cover.
Cagalli (Damn it, I've been spotted.)
The machine gun fire sounds almost like rain on the metal house and just as quickly as it came it ended. Cagalli looks confused
Cagalli (Huh, Why he stop firing?)
Cagalli cautiously lifts her head out the window to see the raider fiddling with his gun
Cagalli (His gun jammed, now's my chance to take him out!)
Cagalli leaps out of the window and charges the raider. The raider looks up from fiddling with his gun then drops it turns and runs.
Cagalli (He's running away, crap, if he gets away he'll tell the others about me and I'll lose the element of surprise! I can't let him get away!)
Cagalli continues to chase after him. She chases him down an alley which opens up into a clearing full of raiders, most likely their based. All of them have machine guns pointed at her.
Cagalli (It's a trap!)
Cagalli doesn't move she's frozen by fear, one of the raiders moves forward, he appears to be this groups Unit Leader.
Unit Leader: So you're the one that's been taking out my men. Hahaha, you know some of the stupider men were afraid that you were a C rank Gundam Fighter but I knew for a fact that there were no Gundam Fighters above E rank in Junk City. It was very annoying to gather the rest of my men up in order to reassure them that we could handle any Gundam Fighter that came are way but I must admit that I am surprise that it was this easily to trap you. I thought you put up a little bit more of a fight.
The Unit Leader looks around as if expecting something.
Unit Leader: Huh, I thought that a bunch of those stupid mechanics would have jump out by now in a vain attempt to save you. The fact they just left you to die is a little cold hearted even to me but oh well.
The Unit Leader raises his gun and points it at Cagalli. She starts to tremble a little in fear; the Unit Leader smiles an evil twisted smile.
Unit Leader: Do try not to piss yourself; it would be annoying if your body stank while we drag it away.
The Unit Leader starts to pull the trigger
Cagalli (Is this it, am I going to get killed again?)
A wrench comes flying out of nowhere hitting the Unit Leader right in the face causing his shots to go wild straight in the air. He falls flat on his ass blood pouring down his face, his nose is broken. He's got his hand on his noise in a poor attempt to stop the bleeding. He starts looking wildly for his attacker and spots him on the roof of a house behind Cagalli.
Van: I wouldn't try that again, us "stupid" mechanics don't like it when people try to kill our valuable customers.
All the raiders point their guns at him. The Unit Leader is beyond mad, he's enraged
Unit Leader: You arrogant bastard how dare you do this to my face, when I'm done with you you'll be wishing for death!
Van smiles the type of smile you smile when you're about to checkmate your opponent and they have no idea it's coming.
Van: I highly doubt that.
Unit Leader scowls
Unit Leader: Oh really, because where I'm standing you're out gun!
Van smile widens
Van: I think you're mistaken, because not only are "you" out gun but you're also surrounded.
Mechanics start popping up from the houses; a lot are on the roofs. Others are coming out of the houses and circling around the raiders on the street. The rest are staying in the houses but having their guns pointed out the window. The raiders are out number 2 to 1 and they know it, the raiders keep switching where they're pointing their guns they're all looking scared. The Unit Leader is looking wildly around like a corner rat.
Van: Now I'm only going to say this once, surrender now and we'll spare your lives.
The Unit Leader looks like he's going to reject instantly but Van cuts him off
Van: I also like to point out before you make a decision that you are all surrounded and out number 2 to 1 and it’s only me that's holding these mechanics back from filling you full of holes. After all you did steal our stuff, destroy our houses, and kill our comrades. Hell I want to see you're bodies rot in a mountain of corpses but I've got a lot of self-control, however if they hear a single gunshot they will empty their ammo into you, SO PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPONS!
The Unit Leader snarls
Unit Leader: Surrender to a bunch of fifthly poor mechanics like you guys I rather
One of the raiders cuts him off
Raider A: I surrender please don't shoot me!
The raider puts his gun on the ground; gets down on his knees and puts his hands behind his back. The Unit Leader turns to him surprised and pissed
Unit Leader: What! You coward pick up your
He's cut off again by another
Raider B: I surrender too!
He also gets on his knees and puts his hands behind his back, and like a domino effect all the other raiders put their guns on the ground and get on their knees and put their hands behind their backs.
Raider C: Me too
Raider D: I surrender too
Raider E: Please don't shoot
The Unit Leader is the only one that isn't surrendering.
Unit Leader: You cowards, what are you doing, pick up your weapons!
He's red in the face and waving his arms in the air
Unit Leader: I said pick up your weapons!
Suddenly a wrench comes flying and whacks him in the back of the head. The Unit Leader crumbles to the ground unconscious, and the camera turns to show Rick with his arm still up in the air.
Rick: Finally got you to shut up.
Mechanic A: Now Rick why'd you do that, I wanted to shoot him.
Before Rick can answer Van shouts out
Van: What are you guys waiting for, get the raiders guns away from them and tie them up!
The mechanics go over to the raiders and take away their weapons, then they either tie them up with rope or put handcuffs on them. Rick walks over to a still startled Cagalli; she's been watching the events unfold quietly.
Rick: Hey are you Ok?
He asks with genuine concern. Cagalli shakes her head getting over her fear
Cagalli: Y-yea I'm fine.
She takes another look around then says
Cagalli: So this was the plan from the beginning, to use me as bait.
Rick looks down ashamed
Rick: Well yes, but you see the plan was to get all the raiders in one spot and then we would surround them on the rooftops, then we'd open fire on them hopefully taking more than half of them out instantly. If we tried to confront them all individually we would have lost a lot more people and maybe even lost the battle all together because they out number us.
Cagalli is confused
Cagalli: Wait, I thought you out-number them?
Rick shakes his head
Rick: Not until 2 minutes ago when the backup from the other Warehouses finally got here, in fact they should be at the other battle sites right about now.
The camera cuts back to Warehouse 8, we see Nick running from cover to cover taking out raiders with his gun, we never see him hit the head or the chest. Suddenly a lot of mechanics come bursting in shouting
Mechanics: WEAPONS ON THE GROUND, HANDS UP!
One of the raiders goes to shoot them, big mistake, in the next second he's full of bullet holes, the other raiders realizes they've lost and surrender. Some of the mechanics surround Nick.
Mechanic: You too cowboy, put your gun on the ground and hands up!
Nick doesn't move
Nick: Listen mates, I think there's been a mistake.
The Mechanic cuts him off
Mechanic: Shut up you raider, don't think you can weasel your way out of this one, we're going to make sure you pay for all the damage you done to Junk City.
It's obvious that this Mechanic isn't going to listen to anything Nick has to say. Nick sighs then tenses his muscles preparing for combat when Jay comes in.
Jay: What the hell do you morons think you're doing!
Jay gets in-between Nick and the Mechanic from the backup squadron, several other mechanics do the same. The mechanic from the backup squadron is confused
Mechanic: I'm arresting a raider, what do you think you're doing defending him!
Jay is now angry
Jay: You idiot he's not a raider, he's a Gundam Fighter that Tom sent! He's a hero, without him we would've never been able to hold out this long, so show some god damn respect!
The mechanic realizes he's made a mistake and apologizes
Mechanic: Oh, I am so sorry sir.
He says to Nick, Nick shrugs relaxing his muscles
Nick: Don't worry about it mate.
The camera cuts again, this time back to outside the entrance to the mine. We see the backup squadron with their guns pointed at the entrance. The leader of the backup squadron shouts.
Leader: Alright, raiders come out with your hands up where we can see them! You have 5 minutes to reply before we come in!
Roxas comes out of the mine, walking on all fours like a conquering lion. All of the guns get pointed at her.
Leader: Hold it right their!
Roxas stops at first looking surprise, and then she licks her lips like a hungry tiger that's just spotted it's pray. She's about to take a step towards them when the miners come out, Cole is in the lead.
Cole: Wait she's the Gundam Fighter Tom sent!
Everyone lowers their guns, but Roxas still has that look in her eyes. She takes another step forward then spots a shiny bolt or nut. Her eyes open wide
Roxas: Shiny!
She jumps towards the bolt and begins to bat it back and forth between her hands like a cat she starts to purr. The Leader looks at her like she's nuts
Leader: Ok
The mechanics in the backup squadron start to tend to the wounded miners, Josh also comes out of the mine. The leader turns to Cole
Leader: So where are the raiders, did they retreat?
Cole shakes his head, Josh walks up to them
Cole: No she took them all out.
The leader's eyes open wide
Leader: Wait, are you telling me that, that one chick took out over 20 raiders by herself without weapons!
He points to Roxas who's still concern with the bolt. Cole nods his head
Cole: We'll she had some kind of claw thing she used for a weapon but she put that away. She took them all out 20 minutes ago.
The Leader is still shock he turns to look at Roxas with a little bit of awe and fear. Josh turns to Cole
Josh: Wait, if she defeated them all 20 minutes ago why'd you just now tell us it was ok to come out?
Cole starts to blush, he turns away
Cole: Um w-well s-she was b-b-busy with s-something.
He stutters, Josh is starting to get suspicious.
Josh: Busy? With what and where did you disappear to in the mine?
Cole gets even redder. Josh finally makes the connection
Josh: Oh my god, did you sleep with her in the mine!
Cole still isn't facing Josh
Cole: I admit to nothing!
Josh is pissed
Josh: I was in that dark hole by myself scare out of my mind and you were off screwing the girl who almost killed me!
Cole: Come on Josh it didn't happen like that.
Josh walks away
Josh: Yea, whatever.
Cole: Oh come on Josh, Josh; Josh!
The camera turns back to Roxas to see she's completely ignored the whole situation. The camera cuts back to the housing district where Cagalli and Rick are standing.
Rick: Van had decided not to change the plan since you look like you were almost done.
Cagalli's put her Guan Dao back on her back with the sheath back on the blade.
Cagalli: I guess that was the best course of action, by the time backup had arrive the raiders were already assembling. No sense letting all that work go to waste although I would have preferred being told that was the plan from the beginning.
Although Cagalli says this she doesn't seem too happy, in fact she seems really tired. Rick is looking at her with concern.
Rick: Are you sure you don't want one of the medics to look at you?
She looks like she's going to say yes when Van walks over and cuts her off
Van: She doesn't need one of the medics to look at her.
He says this in sort of a mean tone of voice, Rick looks at Van a little annoyed. Van face has an unreadable look on it.
Rick: Van don't be an ass she's obvious
Van cuts Rick off, he seems to be annoyed by Rick now. He turns to Cagalli and asks
Van: Have you been cut?
Cagalli is confused
Cagalli: Um, No.
Van: Do you have any broken bones?
Cagalli: No.
Van: Have you been shot?
Cagalli: No!
Van: Are you bleeding from anywhere on your body?
Cagalli is getting annoyed with the questions
Cagalli: NO!
Van is satisfied
Van: Then you don't need any medical help, if you're tired you can go take a nap in one of the abandon houses. The civilians won't be back for another couple of hours until we can confirmed that this area is safe.
Cagalli looks down to the ground, she's tired and a little sad. Rick is looking at Van angrily
Cagalli: Oh, Ok.
Cagalli looks miserable. Van looks at her for moment then turns away, not facing her he says
Van: Cagalli, I accept you acknowledgement that you were wrong about Junk City, I also acknowledge that I was wrong about you; only someone who can see the beauty of this city can push themselves this hard to protect it.
The moment he's done saying this he begins to walk away, both Cagalli and Rick eye's open wide as they watch him leave shock. Cagalli's shock turns to joy as a smile breaks out across her face. Van stops walking for a moment and calls out from over his shoulder
Van: I'd head back to Tom's Warehouse if I were you, last I heard that friend of yours in the Gundam wasn't doing too good in his fight.
The camera cuts back to Shadow in Nightwing fighting against the raider's ship. We see Nightwing begin to charge the raider's ship
Shadow: You're going down!
The CIW's open fire, several missiles are also release. Nightwing jumps from the Junk mountain he's on to Gerodi, the raider's ship is now directly above him. All the gunfire and missiles hit the spot he was just at.
Nightwing lands on Gerodi’s side, and begins to slide down the mountain. We see a bunch of the junk parts fall as Nightwing's feet brace themselves against the mountain and stop's Nightwing from sliding any further. We cut inside the raider's ship
Hunter: All missiles and guns have missed Sir.
The Boss expecting this to be over in seconds is shocked
Boss: What!
Another crew member operating the computer shouts
Crew Member A: The Basic Original Gundam is directly below us Sir.
The Boss is angry now
Boss: Well what are you waiting for, move the ship forward 50 meters then turn 60 degrees starboard and FIRE!
We cut outside to see the ship start to move. Nightwing is watching it as it begins to climb to the top of Gerodi. We cut back to the communication center at the Warehouse, everyone has calm down and returned to their respective positions. Tom is grinning
Tom (Not bad most rookie Gundam Pilots would of jump back instead of forward from an attacking battle ship. A common mistake, jumping backward doesn't take you out of range of the missiles or the guns so even if you dodge the first wave of missiles and bullets they'll get you with rapid fire. However most battle ships have a blind spot directly underneath them, even the greatest missiles or guns can't turn to fire directly below them. The kid’s got good instincts.)
While Tom’s been thinking Shadow has been looking for something. Tom is looking at Shadow impressed which is quickly dashed by Shadow’s next question.
Shadow: Hey where I put my shield?
Tom is extremely annoyed by the question
Tom: You left it at the other Junk Mountain YOU MORON!
Tom (Forget it, I was just imaging things. As the saying goes even a broken clock is right twice a day, even a stupid inexperienced Gundam Pilot should do a couple of things right by dumb luck.)
Shadow shrugs his shoulders and tries to pass off the loss of his shield as no big deal.
Shadow: Oh, well shields aren't my thing anyway.
Tom even more annoyed now shouts
Tom: I LIKE TO SEE YOU SAY THAT WHEN YOU'RE GETTING SHOT AT!
Nightwing has gotten to the top of Gerodi, and the raider's ship has gotten into position. We cut inside the bridge
Hunter: Weapons have locked on the Basic Original Gundam Sir.
The Boss nods his head but before he can say anything another crew member adds
Crew Member B: Sir I just got a message from all the Teams we sent out.
Boss is surprise
Boss: Oh, are they finish already, tell them we'll pick them up after we take care of this Gundam.
Crew member B face has whiten
Crew Member B: All the teams have been defeated by the mechanics.
The Boss is shocked
Boss: WHAT!
There's a moment of stun silence, then Hunter says a little bitter
Hunter: So not only did we not get a lot from the Junk Mountain we can't even relied on the stuff the Raider Teams stole, overall this raid was a complete failure.
The boss is really piss now
Boss: Thank you Hunter for finding it necessary to point that out! We'll destroy that Gundam then leave the City, so open fire with the CIW's don't use the missiles yet until I say so!
We cut back outside to see the raider's guns open fire, Shadow notices the gunfire. We see Nightwing quickly jump to the side then charge forward; we cut back inside the raider's bridge
Boss: Not this time; move back another 20 meters; don't let that Gundam get underneath us again!
We cut back outside to see the raider's ship begin to move backwards away from Nightwing
Shadow (Damn, well I guess that trick won't work again.)
Nightwing stops charging the raider's ship and start's to try and to run around it instead, however it gets hit by the CIW's before he takes three steps. We cut back inside the cockpit to see Shadow howl in pain for a second but he quickly grits his teeth to stop himself from screaming but he's obviously still in pain.
Nightwing stops moving and does the classic cross two hand guard in front of his face. The bullet's continue to hit Nightwing but it doesn't look it's doing any obvious sign of damage. We cut back inside Nightwing's cockpit to see Shadow in the same pose as Nightwing gritting his teeth in pain. We cut back to the communication center back at the Warehouse; Tom seems to be keeping his cool.
Tom: Don't worry Shadow even a Basic Original Gundam's armor is strong enough to withstand CIW's gunfire be thankful that they don't have any beam weaponry.
We see on the monitor in front of Tom Shadow's face. Shadow is still gritting his teeth
Shadow: I'll try to remember that, DAMN this hurts! It's like someone is throwing a bunch of pebbles at me.
Shadow is in pain, Tom snaps
Tom: Well don't just stand their move away or something, forget the pain and just MOVE!
Tom (The bullets won't break the armor right now, but even the greatest armor will break if you hit it long enough, and if even one of those bullets gets into the inner circuitry it will be the same as if a bullet hits a human body.)
We cut back inside Nightwing's cockpit; Shadow is still in the same position gritting his teeth
Shadow (Damn it, I need to think of way to fight back. My beam rifle is gone and the only other weapon I have is my beam saber. Should I try to throw it at the ship? No, even if I did somehow hit the ship there's no way it would cause enough damage to take it down.)
Shadow is still gritting his teeth in pain trying to think of something. Suddenly he has an Ah-Ha moment.
Shadow (Wait, that's it, yes this will defiantly work. Well either that or I'm screwed.)
We cut back outside; Nightwing suddenly turns around and starts to run away. It jumps down the other side of Gerodi. We cut inside the bridge of the raider's ship, the boss is watching the monitor closely.
Boss (ha, trying to use the mountain as a shield while you retreat how foolish.)
Boss: Quickly go around the mountain port side and lower us 15 meters.
The ship begins to move, the camera moves to the other side of Gerodi to show Nightwing sliding/running/falling down the mountain. It looks like Nightwing is going to trip and roll down the mountain like a man in a barrel any minute. We cut inside Nightwing's cockpit, Shadow has a focus look on his face
Shadow: Tom can you get me a topographic map of Junk City.
Tom is surprise by his request
Tom: Um, sure, do you have a plain?
Shadow smiles
Shadow: Yup.
We cut back outside to see the raider's ship come around the mountain side. The ship opens fire again; some of the bullets hit Nightwing but most miss. We cut back inside the cockpit; we face Shadow and can see on his helmet screen the topographic map of Junk City. The window it's on minimizes
Shadow: Alright got my route pick, let's go!
We cut back outside, Nightwing jumps to another Junk Mountain. Nightwing starts to corkscrews down the mountain. We cut inside the raider's ship
Boss (What is he trying to do? He must be trying to get us to rise the ship so he can slip under are blind spot again but I won't let that happen.)
Boss: Follow him; lower the ship another 15 meters and continue firing CIW's.
We cut back outside, the raider's ship comes right in front of Nightwing as its running/slipping down the mountain. It opens fire, Nightwing jumps to another mountain once again only taking minimum damage to the legs. Nightwing runs around to the other side of the mountain then jumps again to another Junk Mountain. We cut back to inside of the raider's bridge.
Hunter: The Basic Original has run east about 20
The Boss cuts him off
Boss: Yes, I know which way he ran, so stop wasting my time asking for directions and just follow him!
We cut back outside, Nightwing is hopping from Junk Mountain to Junk Mountain, sometimes it corkscrews down the mountain a little before jumping, other times it just goes to the other side then jumps, and the rest of the time it jumps the moment it touches the mountain.
While he's doing this he continues to slowly go lower down the raider's ship is clumsily trying to follow him but do to its size it's struggling to maneuver around the Junk Mountain. The raider’s ship is continuing to fire on Nightwing.
Nightwing is taking minimum damage but it's starting to wear down on the armor. The armor is starting to look really dented in some places. We cut inside Nightwing's cockpit, even through Shadow's helmet we can see him sweating. He's starting to get tired
Shadow: That's right keep following me.
We cut to the bridge of the raider's ship. The Boss is getting very annoyed
Boss: That's it I've had it with this rabbit’s game, prepare to fire missiles on my mark!
Nightwing jumps from the Junk Mountain it's currently on
Boss: FIRE!
While Nightwing is in midair the raider's ship fires four missiles at it. We cut to communication center in the Warehouse as the screen monitors start blinking red. Mechanic A turns to Tom
Mechanic A: Raider's ship has just release missiles targeted at Nightwing.
Tom: What! Shadow get out their!
We cut back outside, time slows down, Nightwing is still in midair. It turns around and puts up the two hand cross guard.
Shadow (Damn, I can't avoid it)
One of the missiles hits Nightwing and explodes. We cut back to the communication center; Tom is shocked and scare.
Tom: SHADOW!
The episode ends with a freeze frame of the explosion.