Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Robotech Fan Fiction ❯ Achilies ❯ Achilies Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

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Achilles

By Sabersonic

Chapter 2

Preventer Agents Milliardo and Lucrezia Peacecraft, Trowa Barton, Quatre Raberba Winner, Wufei Chang, Sally Po, Hilde Schbeiker and Duo Maxwell gather at the conference room after being called by Chief Une. Both she and Heero enter the room.
"Hey Heero, how's it been?" Called Duo and received a sharp jab into his ribs.
"Thank you all for coming. As you know, the media is over this crash of this unknown ship. I have received some information about this from our former comrade, Heero Yuy. And since he has some knowledge of this unknown military force's machines, he is to be head of the investigation."
"May I ask, how much dose Yuy know about this?" Milliardo asked.
"I will get there shortly. Mister Yuy, you may begin your presentation." Heero obliged and set a projector on the conference table and inserted a CD into the projector. The lights were dimmed and the projector shown a picture of the crashed ship.
"We are all familiar with what crashed at Brussels last night, correct." Several heads nods. "Well the ship that crashed is a REF Garfish-Class HSTC-12 Destroyer starship." The projector shows a digital layout of the REF Garfish. "The REF Garfish is currently a hyperspace fold capable ship with limited range and it is a very fast, maneuverable ship in space, despite its size of 106.7m length, 34.7m height, 76.5m width and mass of 18,500 metric tons. The Main Engine is a Reflex, heat pile system and it has an internal Gravity Control System. The Garfish is capable of Vertical Take Off and Landing Capabilities, or VTOL, while positioning to land. It can fly through the atmosphere of a planet with the use of it's antigravity system and can attain the speed of about Mach 8 to breach Earth's Atmosphere and can operate underwater with the maximum of 160Kmph and it's space propulsion in its cruising speed is usually Mach two to four and can accelerate to a velocity of Mach 14 and a special drive can be engaged to push the Garfish into the sublight range of about .20 light years or 32,000 miles per second. The starship is operated by a captain, pilot, three copilots, and four communication engineers in the bridge of the Garfish which is located at the nose of the spacecraft and the total Destroyer crew is 55 personnel. It is used primarily as a combat vessel to battle other starships it's size and larger and the ship carries troops which consists of 96 Cyclone riders, 288 other military personnel including Combat Paramedics, Military Police, Combat Engineers, Veritech Fighter Pilots, Destroid Pilots, Zentraedi Warriors, Military Specialists, Bio-Maintenance Engineers, Communications Engineers and Field Scientists. The Garfish also has a compliment of vehicles such as the ARRAV Rocket Launcher, AAT-40 Assault transport, and a dozen ML-3 forklifts and has a mecha troops that consists of one or two M.A.C. II or III Destroids, Two Gladiator Destroids, one or two Excalibers, one or two TBZ-ZI Battle Pods and nine VAF-8 Alpha Fighers and VBF-2 Beta Fighters. The Alpha and Betas are stored in hangar bays suspended underneath the main body of the Garfish and are launched connected together. An additional four or five mecha or vehicles can be squeezed in with the Destroyer. The Garfish is armed with a Tri-Laser Turret, Retractable Forward Laser Turret and six Missile Launchers." Heero turns toward the group. "Are there any questions so far?" After a long silence, Duo raised his hand. "Yes Maxwell?"
"Could you explain to us again because I'm totally lost." After some hours of Heero trying to explain to the group of REF technology, they were finally freed to spend the rest of the day off to rest their minds of the information that Heero has given to them. "Man, I thought that would never end. I always knew Heero's for one in information but this is too much."
"Heero seems to know much about this 'Robotechnology' and 'Protoculture' stuff. Whatever they are." Quatre said. Milliardo was mumbling to himself about which was which that Heero had told them.
"It seems strange that Heero was able to know that much information about something like this. This sort of makes you think of where Heero obtained the information from." Trowa said.
"I just hope that information's on the mark. Though it dose make you think." Wufei stated.
"What are you two talking about? You think that Heero's a part of this 'Robotech Expeditionary Force'?"
"Truthfully, I don't know what to think anymore. This is all way to complicated for me, for all of us." Everyone agrees. Night fall upon Brussels and Heero Yuy's looking over several photographs taken by the media over the years since the crash and from all the UFO photographs taken, only 28% of them were of REF vehicles and ships. Then he spots a photograph in a supermarket tabloid and he makes a magnification of the photograph and the distorted image was familiar. He enters a disk into the laptop and runs a program and the computer shows that the object has a 45% chance of being an Invid Mollusk Troop Transport. He then picks of a phone and dials a special Preventer number.
"Why did you call us here Yuy?" Wufei asked Heero.
"Because of this." The computer screen shows a distorted image from a supermarket tabloid.
"So? We see those things all the time-" Duo was interrupted by Heero.
"But that's not it. I ran a diagnostic of the photograph to clear the image and compared it to my data and it shows that it is an Invid Mollusk Troop Transport." The screen shows technical data on the Mollusk.
"What's an Invid?" Duo asked. Heero then typed in a few commands and it showed the image of a slug-like humanoid. "Ugh, what is that?"
"An Invid life form. This species of extraterrestial life form is currently the enemy of the Robotech Expeditionary Force and it's here in the Earth Sphere. It may not have any weapons, but it carries many Invid Mecha such as the Attack Scout, the Combat Trooper, Space Troopers, Strike Units, Enforcer, Sentinel, Assault Battloid, Warlord Battloid and Inorganics."
"And how are they a threat to us?" Sally asked.
"In the universe of the REF, the Invid have conquered the entire Earth. Who knows how many Invid are in the Earth Sphere."
"Should we worry about them?" Lucrezia asked.
"The mecha of the Invid only target Protoculture sources, but they are a formidable foe. Deadlier than Mobile Dolls and three times as numerous."
"I don't think that they'll make that big of a deal." Duo said as he turned on the TV. There was a news flash.
"Today in the African Outback, we have on video an odd battle between two factions; one whom we all know from the Brussels Crash, and the other an unknown force." On the screen were REF Mecha and Vehicles firing upon air born Invid mecha. "Who are these two forces and are they a threat to the entire Earth Sphere?"
"Do you still think that the Invid won't make a big deal Maxwell?" Heero asked the braided Preventer.
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