Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Mobile Suit Gundam Fan Fiction / Gundam 08th MS Team Fan Fiction ❯ Amalgam Gundam ❯ Destroyer of Worlds, part 1 ( Chapter 14 )

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Narrator: Universal Colony Year 118: A time where the Endless Waltz of history continues unabated. Let us go back one year to UCY-117: The Empire of Thallos declares war upon all neighboring star systems, and the dozens of space and planetary colonies within them. The Empire's military power is at equal strength with each Government they are at war with, so they are caught in a stalemate. However, halfway into UCY-117, the Empire acquired a new weapon whose name would be heard through the future: Mobile Suits. These new devices smashed through any and all resistance, and the Empire now controls more than 95% of the area. We now return to UCY-118. The space colony MG-166 has now begun open rebellion against the Empire.






Flashes of light coming from explosions filled the night sky of MG-166. Whistles coming from explosive shells devoured the air along with the explosions they caused as tanks and defense lines blew up. Mangled, disfigured bodies covered the land and more fell upon them as the Empire's soldiers engaged in open war against the Resistance. A lone soldier was rattled with bullets and left to die on the ground as his companions retreated back into a trench line several meters away.

Reporter: These scenes coming to you are from the colony MG-166, where a group of radicals and so-called 'freedom fighters' have begun openly engaging the established government and soldiers of the Empire. The battle does not go well for the Empire, but it is said that a resupply ship is already enroute to MG-166 with fresh mobile suits, ammo, and supplies that shall force the rebels back.

Aram: HA HA! Those are my boys!

Aram Hashta, Den Ryuu, Edmond Shibumi, and Melanie Deikin all stood staring at the large screen video set that was showing the news report. They were in a rest area next to the main reconstruction bay of Clarke Axem's space station.

Den: Do you realize what kind of a big mistake they've made?! The entire point of sending out a bunch of Gundams to fight the Empire using guerilla combat was to not do what your colony is doing, Aram!

Aram: Oh spare me the lecture about tactics, Ryuu. My colony was planning this sort of open warfare since before the alliance between our colonies was even an idea in those eggheads' minds. Hell, this sort of thing could be entirely beneficial to the war cause! Think about it: other colonies could be inspired by this longing for freedom and start resistance of their own that shall ultimately topple the Empire!

Melanie: For once, Aram, I totally agree with you. We need to fight the enemy on as many fronts as possible, force them to spread their resources so thin that they'll be unable to stop us when we make the big offensive against the Empire.

Edmond: Has there been any word on either Char or Zechs?

Aram: None whatsoever. For all we know, they could still be duking it out there.

Reporter: In other colony news the space colony AX-013 was destroyed under mysterious circumstances. Unlike the recent accident that destroyed LX-014-

Melanie: Bullshit.

Reporter: -this colony destruction was deliberate. Scientific recordings released from to the press indicate that a weapon of mass destruction was used on the colony from close distance, generating an energy aftershock the likes of which has never been seen before.

Den: Do you think Marianna did it?

Edmond: There's no logic in that. AX-013 was fully in support of the Empire and one of the first colonies to surrender itself to them when the Empire began conquering colonies. It doesn't fit that she'd do it.

Voice: Nevertheless, you should investigate it!

The four turned around and saw Clarke Axem slowly approaching them.

Melanie: Shouldn't you be working on my mobile suit?

Axem: Automatic systems are taking care of it. Now, if what I think has done this has done this, then you may want to investigate it.

Edmond: Very well. Den, come with me.

Edmond stood up and began walking in the direction of the docking bay. Den rolled his eyes and followed behind him.

Melanie: What do you think it is?

Axem began walking away back towards Jubilee.

Axem: Something very dangerous.






Golem and Gallant flew along, their engines burning fuel through space. They immediately came upon the gigantic debris field that had once been the space colony AX-013. Den winced as the external camera showed the corpses of former residents of the colony floating among the debris, most with body parts missing.

Edmond: Begin a full sensor sweep; see what you can find out.

Den nodded and began scanning all the different levels for anything he could find. A weapons signature, a radiation spike, even a higher Minovsky particle count would've been something.

What Edmond detected was far more than he had expected.

Edmond: Wait a second; my scans have already uncovered a weapons signature! The only thing that's off on the signature is the level of power. My computer indicates that some sort of Mega particle cannon was used to destroy the colony, but on a scale far more powerful than anything I've ever seen before.

Den: What does it detect it as? My computers are still running a scan.

Edmond: The information reads it as similar to the mobile armor identified as the Apsalus III.

Den: Can you use that information to do a widespread scan of the area, see if anything like it is nearby?

Edmond: I believe so...

Edmond's hands flew over the scanning systems, trying to determine if the Apsalus was in the area. His thoughts, however, brought him back to the initial encounter between Zechs and Char. While Kenola had flown off to return to her mission, the two mobile suits had fought like hell, neither ever gaining the upper hand. It had become quite apparent to all of those watching the battle that they were equally matched in skill, and not even all of the five pilots working as a team could've successfully engaged even one of them in combat.

A beeping sound from the panel brought Edmond back to reality. Sensors had detected what it thought to be the Apsalus III.

Edmond: I've got it! It's headed for the New Jaburin planetary colony!

Den: Then let's go!






Gallant and Golem were once again approaching a new destination. The New Jaburin colony was located on a luscious tropical planet, another paradise in the Empire of Thallos. And hovering in orbit above it was a weapon that would make this paradise lost.

Den: What the hell is that?!

Den was looking at the Apsalus IV, in all its size and glory.

Edmond: It's a target, like any other! Engage the enemy and destroy it!

Gallant in Wave Rider form sped past Golem and charged its weapons against the Apsalus, who ignored the approaching ship.

Den: Wait, we don't know-... Erg... Deploy armor!

Golem's metallic skin lit up in a blue glow as gray armoring surrounded the glowing parts. The Apsalus finally took notice of the gnat that was Gallant soon afterwards, with the red camera eye placed on the head shifting to the side as Gallant began firing pathetically small beam lasers into the armoring of the Apsalus. In an instant, two cannon ports located on the sides of the Apsalus opened up, firing a focused concentration of positively charged Minovsky particles at the Wave Rider. The explosion rocked the entire thing, almost sending Edmond flying out of his chair. He gasped in surprise from the fact that the unknown weapon had caused so much damage so quickly.

Golem immediately sped up, not taking any chances against the Minovsky cannons by placing a shield in front of itself for extra protection as it began unloading the clips of it's own weapon against the Apsalus, doing as much effect as Gallant's had. The Apsalus turned around quickly, much to Den's surprise, because the Apsalus was so large. All of its Minovsky cannons aimed directly at Golem, whose eyes widened.

Den: Oh fu-

The cannons all fired at once, slicing through the shield and slamming into the ablative armoring. It melted within seconds, and the cannons were able to fire into the skin of Golem itself.

Den: Retreat! Retreat!

For once, Edmond did not argue. The two Gundams made a hasty retreat, what was left of their engines bringing them as far from the Apsalus as they could. The Apsalus did not pursue. It merely turned back towards the planet. The red circle sitting in the center of it had a dozen green lights that all suddenly flashed on. The lights formed into energy beams that traveled from the Apsalus all the way down to the planet, forming a ring that encompassed most of the colony. The red circle glowed briefly, and then fired one focused energy pulse down through the atmosphere and into the New Jaburin colony, leaving only a gigantic crater in its place.

And from within the Apsalus, Marianna grinned sadistically.






Axem: The damages to your mobile suits are mostly superficial; the repairs shall take an hour, tops.

Den: Thanks. Jeez, what the hell was that thing?!

Axem: My own creation, I'm afraid. You see-

Melanie: Shhh! Marianna's about to give a statement concerning the destruction of the colonies.

The entire group gathered around the video screen. A camera image of Marianna sitting in the cockpit of either a mobile suit or mobile armor appeared. She was smiling at the camera, but any ordinary person could tell her smile was evil and one designed for a maniac.

Marianna: Greetings, citizens of the Thallonian Empire. As you are aware, recently there have been terrorist attacks by colonies against the Empire in a vain attempt to overthrow it. It has finally been decided that the Empire shall not sit idly by as a bunch of spacenoid petty thugs disrupt this Empire! They had the cowardice to even destroy an entire city. And so, I have responded proportionately. The total lives they have killed from their attacks is 9,765,407. The total number of people who lived on AX-013 and the New Jaburin colonies combined is equal to that amount. For any one person killed in my Empire, I shall kill a colonial until either the Gundam pilots have stopped or I run out of colonials to kill!

Melanie narrowed her eyes, glaring at the ruler of the Empire.

Marianna: And one last note: It has come to my attention that Clarke Axem, the man who holds the monopoly on mobile suits in this sector, has been selling mobile suits to these terrorists. I have decided to end his monopoly and his supplying of terrorists by personally going to his space station and destroying it! Hail Thallos!

And with that, the image returned to the news. All eyes were now on Clarke Axem, who merely continued to stare at the video screen.

Axem: That little bitch!






To Be Continued...