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Battle of Fates; Michael vs. Sharan
Topic Started: Apr 6 2008, 08:06 AM (541 Views)
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Battle of the Fates

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Michael Starling VII (ZGMF-X28A Nu-Liberty) - RGM-79[G] GM Ground Type (armed with beam rifle)

Sharan Musharif (British) - MS-07B Gouf (standard)

This takes place in mid-September UC 0079, so the fact that Michael is alive here before he joined the Sweepers is canon for this RPG. The location is a desolate and abandoned city near Sydney, Australia, where Operation British met its disasterous conclusion.
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As he could hear the wind blowing through the air, Michael swore he could see the souls of those who died those many months ago in the sandy storms. Deployed solo to this area to investigate reports of Zeon activity, his custom painted GM Ground Type had been lying in wait on the outskirts of the abandoned city to see if the intel reports were true.

Taking the flask back into his hands, Michael opened the cap and let some of that Mountain Dew into his mouth. The stuff helped him to calm down; it was always hard to get the deaths of your teammates out of your head. He just hoped that the reports weren't true, that he could go back to Seattle.
Wolfram Mikkel Harkness, Lieutenant, Cyclone Team XO, Irish-class battleship AUS Gibberish, 7th Lunar Detachment, Anti-Earth Union Group

Operation Heaven's Shield
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With the sweltering heat coming down on the abandoned ruins the small three-unit team of Zeon Mobile Suits had their cockpits open to the air, to cool themselves down, unfortunately for Lieutenant Kelly and Lieutenant Rodder they weren’t the one’s benefiting from the shade inside of their suits.

Instead they had the misfortune of scrambling over the remains of an abandoned EFF armoury, on foot, to get to the cockpit of the Zaku unit neatly embedded in the concrete structure, their suits kneeling inactive either side of the squat building as they clambered over twisted metal and shattered concrete, “Remind me again Captain,” muttered Kelly gruffly over the radio, “Why are we retrieving some half-rotted corpse?”

Lifting his filtered goggles off of his head and leaning out of his Gouf’s cockpit to get a look at the man, “Because, Lieutenant, the body belongs to a son of one of Zeon’s more prominent families and our dear Commander seems to think that there is some element of honour in retrieving the body to fill up the coffin instead of sending back an empty box like the rest will get.” He sighed, “If you’d just hurry up on getting hold of the body, I imagine he’s going to smell QUITE bad by now…”
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Franke Giest - Zeon Mercenary and Exile - Former Officer of the Zeon Desert Korps
"The Red Fox"
Unit: Hi-Zak Custom
Gryps Kills -
MSA-099 Rick Dias (Ens. Banska Senne, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II x2 (Unknown Pilots, Karaba)
MSR-00100S Hyaku Shiki Kai (Lt.Commander Jim Anderson, AEUG)

Captain Sharan Sharif El Musharif - Commander of Zeon forces (OYW), Captain of Axis Forces (Gryps) - Former Double-Agent in Titans Forces.
Gryps Kills -
Salamis-Kai Class Cruiser Trenton
RMS-179 GM II (Trenton Three, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II (Dale, Karaba)
Post-Mortem Kills -
Orrick Alexander's Sanity.
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Continuing his scans of the city, Michael's sensors suddenly picked up a faint heat signature near the remains of a destroyed Federation armory. The bloom had only lasted a second or two, but it was enough to pique his curiousity. Activating the recording device that had been supplied to him, Michael began speaking quietly, making sure all other communication devices were off.

"Time is 1350 hours. Minor heat bloom detected near remains of EFF armory; heading in to investigate."

Activating his combat systems, Michael knew that he had limited armaments available, but his luna titanium armor would be able to provide protection. Picking up his beam rifle, Michael began moving slowly towards the city, being careful to not try to attract attention.
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“Oh god…!” groaned Kelly as he popped the seal on the Zaku’s cockpit, the smell of a sun-baked four week old body washing over him, “You have no idea how bad this smell’s Captain.” Rodder chose a different reaction, vomiting over the side of the Zaku. Osterick Kassell, first son of the Kassell family – proud supporters of Zeon – was foul-smelling, his body wasn’t completely rotted, the fallout from Operation British had killed most life in the area, bacteria included, he was mostly shrivelled and atrophied, his insides slush.

Holding their breaths, both Zeon pilots dropped into the cockpit, wrapping up the body in a heavy-duty body bag and dragging it roughly out of the Zaku, “So Captain, you’ll be carrying this back in your suit?” Kelly looked up at Sharan who was scanning the horizon with his binoculars,

“Hah, you wish Lieutenant, load him up on your storage rack then we can get the hell out of here.” His radar chimed, picking up movement, “Hold on…I’ve got something, could be movement to the south.” He slumped back into his pilot seat,

“Its probably a wild animal or something, Sir…”

Sharan grinned and sealed his cockpit, “No…” he activated his Gouf, “Everything here is dead…so if anything’s alive…it’s trespassing on the graveyard just like we are,” he slid his suit into action, looking for the movement on his radar, shifting his shield arm and the heat-blade beneath and preparing his heat-rod. “You two go on ahead, I’ll check this out, swing round, and meet you back at the transport.”

He padded into what had once been a park, the tree’s little more than petrified skeletons, he rotated his main camera, scanning the area around him with the single cyclopean eye.
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Franke Giest - Zeon Mercenary and Exile - Former Officer of the Zeon Desert Korps
"The Red Fox"
Unit: Hi-Zak Custom
Gryps Kills -
MSA-099 Rick Dias (Ens. Banska Senne, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II x2 (Unknown Pilots, Karaba)
MSR-00100S Hyaku Shiki Kai (Lt.Commander Jim Anderson, AEUG)

Captain Sharan Sharif El Musharif - Commander of Zeon forces (OYW), Captain of Axis Forces (Gryps) - Former Double-Agent in Titans Forces.
Gryps Kills -
Salamis-Kai Class Cruiser Trenton
RMS-179 GM II (Trenton Three, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II (Dale, Karaba)
Post-Mortem Kills -
Orrick Alexander's Sanity.
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Picking up another, stronger heat bloom in the direction of the armory, Michael began to approach the heat source from the left flank. Picking up a pair of energy signals from the border of firing range, Michael aimed his beam rifle, and fired a shot blindly at the unsuspecting Kelly and Rodder. Quickly moving back into the safety that the sandstorm provided, Michael hoped that he had managed to slip back in obscurity if there were any enemies there.

"Time is 1352 hours. Intelligence reports may have validity; strong heat blooms detected within vicinity of Federation armory and inner city. Will report when I have the opportunity."

Suddenly, picking up another thermal signature just within his scanning range, Michael suddenly grew a bit more paranoid. Raising his beam rifle, Michael hoped that he could return to Seattle with the date he had intact and alive.
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Operation Heaven's Shield
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The stray beam cut through the air, ripples of heat shimmering out from the energy projectile as it soared into the opened chest of Rodder’s Zaku II, incinerating the pilot in a cloud of evaporating flesh and blood, the beam continuing through to bisect his Mobile Suit shearing the machine in two as it speared into the energy pack and detonated completely totalling the suit. Kelly fell back shielding his face from the heat of the explosion as he sealed his cockpit hatch, his own Suit falling on its back as the force of the explosion knocked it back.

“Captain!” yelled Kelly, his Zaku II spraying machine fire in the direction of the beam shot “Something just took out Rodder! Beam weapon, there’s got to be Feddies in the area!”

Sharan growled in recognition, wheeling his Gouf around to sprint back to the armoury, “RETREAT, Kelly, I’ll deal with them.” He slapped the palm of his suit on Kelly’s shoulder as he passed the retreating Zaku, mounting the ruins of the armoury and opening up with his hand-cannon in a wide spread in front of him, pushing his Mobile Suit into a sprint, cyclopean eye scanning wildly.”
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Franke Giest - Zeon Mercenary and Exile - Former Officer of the Zeon Desert Korps
"The Red Fox"
Unit: Hi-Zak Custom
Gryps Kills -
MSA-099 Rick Dias (Ens. Banska Senne, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II x2 (Unknown Pilots, Karaba)
MSR-00100S Hyaku Shiki Kai (Lt.Commander Jim Anderson, AEUG)

Captain Sharan Sharif El Musharif - Commander of Zeon forces (OYW), Captain of Axis Forces (Gryps) - Former Double-Agent in Titans Forces.
Gryps Kills -
Salamis-Kai Class Cruiser Trenton
RMS-179 GM II (Trenton Three, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II (Dale, Karaba)
Post-Mortem Kills -
Orrick Alexander's Sanity.
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Seeing that the sandstorm was serving him well, concealing him from the possible enemy forces, Michael saw that his shot had managed to strike true and an explosion erupted near the armory. Speaking into his recording device, he spoke calmly as he prepared for a possible counterattack.

"Time is 1357 hours. Confirmed presence of enemy forces in the area. If possible, will engage and destroy enemy unit before retreating."

Walking slowly, still towards the left flank of the enemy, Michael looked at his thermal sensors and radar, seeing that there were two targets remaining. One at the armory, and another retreating to a safe distance. Deciding to leave the coward to its own devices, he fired another beam rifle shot towards the armory, immediately heading towards the right flank at medium pace.
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Sharan dropped to one knee as the heat signature beam shot flashed up on his alert scanner, the blast skipping across his shoulder pad melting off the tip of a shoulder spike and throwing his Mobile Suit off-tilt. He threw his foot back to steady himself before leaping off the crumbled building, moving into the cover of a shattered tower block pressing his back to the concrete and arming his heat-rod.

At the trade for the loss of a piece of ornamental armour he’d worked out his enemies location – he wasn’t a newtype…he couldn’t predict his enemies location with a thought…but he had his own methods of detecting enemies, especially when he didn’t have long-ranged capabilities in trade for his close combat weapons, he fiddled with his sensors maximising his sensitivity to try and detect the other MS.
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Franke Giest - Zeon Mercenary and Exile - Former Officer of the Zeon Desert Korps
"The Red Fox"
Unit: Hi-Zak Custom
Gryps Kills -
MSA-099 Rick Dias (Ens. Banska Senne, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II x2 (Unknown Pilots, Karaba)
MSR-00100S Hyaku Shiki Kai (Lt.Commander Jim Anderson, AEUG)

Captain Sharan Sharif El Musharif - Commander of Zeon forces (OYW), Captain of Axis Forces (Gryps) - Former Double-Agent in Titans Forces.
Gryps Kills -
Salamis-Kai Class Cruiser Trenton
RMS-179 GM II (Trenton Three, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II (Dale, Karaba)
Post-Mortem Kills -
Orrick Alexander's Sanity.
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Switching to his sonar sensors, Michael had managed to detect a faint vibration in the ground. Quietly moving, being careful not to make use of his thrusters yet, he had moved over to the right flank. The sandstorm was beginning to subside, reducing Michael's possible cover. He quietly cursed himself for not painting over his traditional black on gray color scheme for this intel mission.

However, fading cover did have its advantages. The trace left behind from that emission on his sonar sensors managed to give Michael a good sphere of range from which he could fire. Deciding to not take any chances, he decided to go on sheer chance and fired his beam rifle twice at the largest building that could possibly hide a Zeon mobile suit.
Wolfram Mikkel Harkness, Lieutenant, Cyclone Team XO, Irish-class battleship AUS Gibberish, 7th Lunar Detachment, Anti-Earth Union Group

Operation Heaven's Shield
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Sharan felt the reverberations as the beam’s burnt into the other side of the tower block, the weakened structure gave up the ghost, collapsing in a rain of debris, with a laugh he drove through the rubble, taking the strikes as he sprinted forwards. The gouf emerging with its arm coiled back, cyclopean eye blazing red as the Mobile Suit roared forwards like an angry blue demon, rubble and dirt spilling off his armour.

Glowing eye scanning across the battlefield he saw his target, “Ohh, got a beam rifle have you…” he thrust out his palm, his electrically-charged heat-rod whipping out to wrap around the body of the enemy mobile suit, “Feel my sting Feddy! Join the rest of the flotsam of this graveyard.”


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Franke Giest - Zeon Mercenary and Exile - Former Officer of the Zeon Desert Korps
"The Red Fox"
Unit: Hi-Zak Custom
Gryps Kills -
MSA-099 Rick Dias (Ens. Banska Senne, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II x2 (Unknown Pilots, Karaba)
MSR-00100S Hyaku Shiki Kai (Lt.Commander Jim Anderson, AEUG)

Captain Sharan Sharif El Musharif - Commander of Zeon forces (OYW), Captain of Axis Forces (Gryps) - Former Double-Agent in Titans Forces.
Gryps Kills -
Salamis-Kai Class Cruiser Trenton
RMS-179 GM II (Trenton Three, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II (Dale, Karaba)
Post-Mortem Kills -
Orrick Alexander's Sanity.
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"Not today, Zeon. The Black Nova of Loum will not go quietly," Michael said in response to Sharif as the heat rod wrapped itself around his free arm. As the electrical shock began to reverberate throughout the GM Ground Type, Michael immediately dropped his beam rifle, took out his leg-mounted beam saber, and upon ignition, sliced down onto the tentacle-like weapon.
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Operation Heaven's Shield
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“Good boy,” Sharan chuckled with his comm unit off, “Just like a trained pet, go for the heat rod!” he jettisoned his shield, machinegun hand wrapping around the hilt of his heat-blade and letting it slide out of the shield-mounted sheath angling it around as it charged out, jabbing the point of his blade at the shoulder join of the GM, determined to sever the suits sword arm.

The heat-rod’s skin sparked against the energy blade, without the heat on it wasn’t easily able to resist the GM’s strike, and he let the Feddy have the weapon snapping it off at the wrist, the free hand grabbing hold of his falling shield by its top edge, driving the opposite edge into the enemy mobile suits waist.
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Franke Giest - Zeon Mercenary and Exile - Former Officer of the Zeon Desert Korps
"The Red Fox"
Unit: Hi-Zak Custom
Gryps Kills -
MSA-099 Rick Dias (Ens. Banska Senne, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II x2 (Unknown Pilots, Karaba)
MSR-00100S Hyaku Shiki Kai (Lt.Commander Jim Anderson, AEUG)

Captain Sharan Sharif El Musharif - Commander of Zeon forces (OYW), Captain of Axis Forces (Gryps) - Former Double-Agent in Titans Forces.
Gryps Kills -
Salamis-Kai Class Cruiser Trenton
RMS-179 GM II (Trenton Three, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II (Dale, Karaba)
Post-Mortem Kills -
Orrick Alexander's Sanity.
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Seeing a blue Gouf heading towards him, its heat saber outstretched towards his arm holding the beam saber, Michael now decided to use the thrusters. Side-stepping out of the way just as the blade made contact, leaving a nip in the chest armor, Michael immediately fired his thrusters again while swinging at the shield arm, boosting in reverse to gain distance.

"Sorry, Zeon, but I've had enough fun for one day. Maybe another time," Michael said to Sharif over the COM link, his mission complete. His camera having managed to record the events up to this point, he activated his heat dissipation system through the vents on his chest, attempting to create a pseudo-smokescreen to confuse Sharif enough to escape.
Wolfram Mikkel Harkness, Lieutenant, Cyclone Team XO, Irish-class battleship AUS Gibberish, 7th Lunar Detachment, Anti-Earth Union Group

Operation Heaven's Shield
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"Enough fun, he says..." roared Sharan over the com, "Hah, I could go a few more rounds Feddy, but thats not my job here...run on home, I'm sure I'll get the pleasure of hunting down the 'Black Nova of Loum' some other time..." he retracted his heat saber, without thrusters he'd never catch up with the retreating GM anyway, and there would be hell to pay if the commander had found him pursuing a non-mission target.

With a grin he backed off, keeping his gun-hand raised until he was carefully out of reach.
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Franke Giest - Zeon Mercenary and Exile - Former Officer of the Zeon Desert Korps
"The Red Fox"
Unit: Hi-Zak Custom
Gryps Kills -
MSA-099 Rick Dias (Ens. Banska Senne, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II x2 (Unknown Pilots, Karaba)
MSR-00100S Hyaku Shiki Kai (Lt.Commander Jim Anderson, AEUG)

Captain Sharan Sharif El Musharif - Commander of Zeon forces (OYW), Captain of Axis Forces (Gryps) - Former Double-Agent in Titans Forces.
Gryps Kills -
Salamis-Kai Class Cruiser Trenton
RMS-179 GM II (Trenton Three, AEUG)
RMS-179 GM II (Dale, Karaba)
Post-Mortem Kills -
Orrick Alexander's Sanity.
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"Don't worry, Zeke...if we do meet again, I'll give you your money's worth. That I promise you," Michael said as he retreated, firing a beam rifle shot into the sandy ground, creating a makeshift smokescreen to recover his retreat as he hit his thrusters at full power as he ran, making his way safely back to Federation territory.
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