Gundam Seed: Kira Reloaded c23

Chapter 23

The only remaining soldier from the North African Occupation Force was waiting for his moment to give the report to the PLANT High Council.

“Martin DaCosta, you may enter.” A man dressed in a black and purple uniform opened the doors and greeted the nervous-looking soldiers who were pacing back and forth. What he saw in the desert has pretty much traumatised him for life!

He still can’t believe that one machine could do that much damage! It’s simply absurd!

“R-Right!” Andrew Waltfeld’s second-in-command snapped out and walked towards the waiting man.

Once inside, he heard Patrick Zala ranting about the Menace under the name Kira Yamato.

‘He is not wrong… that Strike is a menace when being piloted by Kira Yamato.’

“I am saying we have to send all of the submarines! We have to hit with everything we have!” Patrick Zala slammed his fist into the table.

“As Supreme Council Chairman and Defense Committee Chairman, I approve of the utilisation of our submarines to chase him down!”

‘He is sending all of them!?’ DaCosta was surprised! To use all of the newly built submarines for this… damn!

“Supreme Chairman, Commitee members, I present you Martin DaCosta, the only survivor of the North Africa Occupation Force.”

When the soldier was brought to the middle, he was surrounded by people sitting around him. These were people elected by the people of PLANTs.

It was nerve-wracking. This stuff used to be done by his commander!

Especially when the lights were on him!

“Martin DaCosta. Tell us what happened.” Patrick Zala spoke in a sombre tone. His fingers were intertwined, and he looked quite gloomy.

“I recorded as much as I could.” The video recordings appeared on the large screen.

The first thing everyone saw was an explosion of the land battleship.

The councilmen grimaced as they just saw how millions of their money was going up in flames.

“Kira Yamato had a heavily modified linear railgun in the form of a sniper rifle. He attacked us from many miles away.

The way he did it is unclear to us.”

As Martin said, the image stopped. Showing a blown-up ZuOOT, BaCUE…

“He took us one by one, even predicting our dodging patterns.” 

“...”

Lastly…the last thing they saw was LaGOWE running towards the mountains.

“I was instructed to deliver whatever I could from this fight.” The soldier finished his explanation. Everyone was quiet except for Patrick Zala, who was clenching his fist and looking furious.

“Damn that, Brat! THIS!-” Patrick pointed at the monitor.

“-Proves my point! He is a menace we need to destroy! We can’t win this war as long as he is alive!”

The councilmen nodded at his words.

“Then we approve! Send all of the submarines at him! Make him pay!”

~~~~~~Back on Earth, Several Days Later~~~~~~

“Sir, the Legged Ship has been spotted. They are leaving the Red Sea and entering the Indian Ocean,” the navigations operative told the submarine captain.

“Good, about time. They took their sweet time. Call the pilots; it's time to discuss strategy.” The man said to his second in command.

“Understood, sir.” The man proceeded to instruct as the submarine captain went to the meeting room.

Sure enough, people started to scramble as they left the ‘eye of the storm’. The times are about to get hectic once more.

~~~

“Operation Strike Down is an operation dedicated to solely destroying Mobile Suit Strike and its pilot, Kira Yamato.

Kira’s kill tally is close to a thousand people. All of them are Coordinators. As you may have guessed, he is the most dangerous man alive right now.

Because of him, we lost several red coats as well, as did Desert Tiger, Commander Andrew Waltfeld, and the entire North Africa occupation force.”

The pilots could see pictures of Athrun Zala, Dearka Elsman, and Andrew Waltfeld. They were all declared as MIA… presumably KIA.

The pilot gulped down after seeing his kill tally. The guy was a menace! Not only that, he was like some Warlord… collecting loot and making weapons from it!

The guy was from another planet!

“We will be attacking from air and sea. Targeting both Legged Ship and the mobile suit. 

By our estimation, he has only one support: a new-design jet fighter that can use Strike’s packages.”

The captain proceeded to explain the combat strength of the Legged ship, but mostly it was about Strike.

The absurd aim, the weird weapons, and the different weapons at different battles.

The captain pointed out his sharpshooting skills, which terrified the pilots, as the data from the last fight at Atlas Mountain range was nuts. He attacked from many kilometres away. 

With such an ability, they wanted some countermeasures. Thankfully, they will use a surprise attack this time as they are aboard a submarine, and the Legged ship is a Spaceship!

Spaceships are equipped for different types of fights and environments.

Regardless, they got some confidence back!

~~~~~~Few Days Later~~~~~~

*Alarm Ringing*

[Archangel is entering Level 3 battle stations! I repeat! Archangel is entering Level 3 battle stations!]

Kira and Lieutenant rushed towards the changing rooms as they heard the alarm.

“It's about time! I started to wonder if ZAFT lost interest in us!” the Blonde Ace of Earth Alliance joked as they swiftly got into their pilot suits.

“On the contrary, they are pissed beyond reason, and now they want to extract our blood.” Kira placed his helmet before rushing towards the lift, followed by the Lieutenant.

“That some dark thoughts, kid!”

“Not really. Patrick Zala reminds me of that raging neighbour with anger issues,” the Ultimate Coordinator joked as the lift arrived at the Hangar level, and they rushed towards their machines.

“Hey… kid…are you sure?” the blonde asked as he looked at Buster. He might have spent around 20 hours in this machine, but… yeah… he was not 100% confident.

“Two Gundams are better than one.” Kira made a hand motion, basically telling him to ‘get over it.’

“...Fine.”

Mu La Flaga rushed towards Buster.

Moments later, Strike was first to get loaded into the catapult deck with an already selected loadout.

“Kira, we are beginning with Phase one. As predicted, their numbers are… concerning.” The captain’s image appeared on one of the monitors.

“What you are seeing is only half of the force. There should be around the same amount underwater.” Kira casually told her that what she was only seeing was half of the attack.

The Ultimate Coordinator is certain that Patrick is pissed with him, and he won’t stop anytime soon.

But just like they prepared, so did he.

“That is why he prepared all those electrical bombs. All those excess batteries make an impressive bomb, don’t you think?” Kira smirked while saying that.

“...”

“Kid is right. We need to think about survival. I know that such an electrical surge will be devastating for aquatic life, but we need to consider our survival.” Mu La Flaga’s face appeared on the screen.

“Besides, once we detonate it, we will find out where their submarines ship,” Kira said as he was preparing to charge the EMP variant of a bomb to blow up. He has rigged all of those excess batteries, and he has to blow them up at a specific time.

At the same time, he modified the discharge so any metals the electricity flows would be pinged for him, and he would be able to find those submarines.

The range of the underwater explosion should be enormous. And considering Geneva Treaties don’t exist anymore…

It’s not a war crime to cook your enemies alive…

“...Fine… use it… there is no other way to win this.” The Captain sighed before ending the call.

Kira nodded before looking at Lieutenant.

“I will launch first. Then you will launch. They will be surprised by Buster, and we will use it as a chance to set up the EMP bomb.”

“Roger. Let’s do it!” The blonde pumped himself as he was in the new machine.

~~~

“Strike is launching!” Leader of a group of AMF-101 DINN, the Aerial mobile suit of ZAFT announced via comms.

“Begin the Operation Strike Down.” The Commander said via comms.

“Roger!”

“Roger!”

The squadrons of DINNs rushed towards the Archangel. However, they didn’t expect Strike to have hoovering capabilities! The moment the machine launched, it ‘landed’ on the water surface and proceeded to surf!

Seconds later, a linear railgun fire took one DINN out, followed by missiles from Strike’s shoulder pods.

The missiles were strange as they split up and exploded into particle clouds, which impacted pilot visabilities.

This was, of course, part of the plan, as seconds later, Buster launched from the Archangel, and right after, a big lump of batteries was thrown into the water.

Buster’s appearance made sure for a second that no one paid attention to the thing entering the water after it.

That was all they needed. The thing is fragile. If people had seen it, they could have shot it above the water. 

But the moment it was in the water…

It was game over for underwater forces.

“Is that Buster!? Did they fix one of those machines!?” A DINN pilot panicked as he saw the GAT unit, which opened fire at the aerial units.

“Shit! They have another functioning machine!” 

The ZAFT pilots started to panic as it was more trouble now.

The pilots didn’t notice how Strike fused two weapons together and loaded an entire battery into a weapon.

“Don’t lose the sight of your opponent! That’s 101 in the battlefield!” Kira used the comms to get DINN to stop for a second. He pointed his huge barrel and then shot a huge positron beam that fried entire squads of DINNs.

Once the battery ran its course, it popped off from the weapon and dropped into the ocean below.

When the rest of the DINNs saw that, they looked petrified. This mobile suit just fried 15 machines with a single prolonged attack! What is with that firepower!?

But this was not all. The next moment, the ocean erupted in bright blue light, and a massive surge of lightning followed in the water, causing explosions one after another.

ZAFT aquatic Mobile suits started to explode one after another before they could even properly engage in combat. They only shot a couple of torpedoes, but Archangel dodged those by simply rising from the water…

So it was pointless…

“Holy…”

“No way…”

“That’s…”

“...All 32 machines exploded…”

The DINN pilots could simply watch how their comrades blew up one by one.

By this point, both Kira and Mu La Flaga ended up standing on a floating Archangel.

While the blonde was watching, Kira took his aim and started flocking wings from those DINN with his linear Railgun Sniper.

“Shit! Retreat! Retreat!”

The DINNs proceeded to fly back. Meanwhile, Kira checked the map. He got a ping indicating an electrical surge had hit the submarines.

‘I think I won’t need to do a thing. They were that close.’ Strike’s pilot pondered as that surge would have been strong enough…

*CRACK*

*BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM**BOOM*

Explosion after explosion followed as pillars of water erupted behind Archangel.

Those were the submarines.

“Damn it, kid…”

Mu La Flag contacted Kira as they watched the pillars of electrified water rise high into the air.

“To think that they were this close to us.” The Ultimate Coordinator looked with a complex look. He was both disappointed and relieved and had another array of emotions.

He never expected that his single move would destroy the entire attack force.

With submarines down, those DINNs will be strangled in the Ocean…

By all means, he has wiped them out… completely.

“Yeah, I am as surprised as you are. They were thinking of sinking us. For sure. With that close, they could surround Archangel and then just lay waste to us with torpedoes.” Mu La Flaga said with realisation.

“That makes a tenth explosion. Holy. That’s ten submarines… at least.” Kira said as he was counting the chain explosions.

“The coast is clear, Strike and Buster; you can return,” the comms officer informed them.

“Roger.”

“Roger,” Kira replied as he proceeded to move the machine back to the hangar.

Oh well, water battles are annoying. He can’t collect his loot properly. This time around, he wasted all of his excess batteries for a nicely placed explosion…

He won’t be able to pull this move again for a while.