Lockon Stratos was in a bit of a perplexed situation as he had no decent intel to work with. All he got to work with was that the Union is running peacekeeping operations and mass arresting conservative forces that desire to wage Civil War.
'I suppose I can make sure there is no massive amount of fighting going on.
Or that those Mercenaries return.'
This is going to be boring.'
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Midway Lockon ended up snoozing off in his Gundam as he was waiting for something to happen, but these forces led by Marcus Anaheim are keeping people away from the uprising, which in turn makes him feel useless.
In the end, after a couple of days, he contacted Sumeragi, the captain of Ptolemaios.
"I haven't done anything, Miss Sumeragi. I think it's a waste of time for me to stay here."
"I see. You should return then, we can call this operation a success." She agreed to return. However, part of her is weirded out by the oddness of this whole sequence.
Something happened that she is not aware of.
"Understood."
And just like that, Celestial Being has pulled out of Azadistan, as a major operation was upcoming.
It was part of the Veda calculation, after all, Marcus can use the same computer against Celestial Being as well.
Besides, the Gundams will only appear when something gets out of control. And the Commander has just enough manpower to keep it from escalating.
Eventually, a week has passed, and the civil war situation has stabilised.
The locals realised that Union's forces were no joke as entire villages ceased to exist. That alone terrified the Conservatives as they ended up swallowing this bitter pill and just hung up their guns and returned to living their lives.
'Well, this was not bad. I smuggled just over 20 thousand people.' Marcue checked the latest upgrade.
This number was decent enough. And it played a massive role in testing his systems. He had a chance to run some vital tests on Geass technology that were lacking.
Now he had 20 thousand tests to base his data on.
After reading it, though, he looked at the runway, his Union troops were boarding the military planes and were ready to return to their bases in Union territory. Some of them will be moving to Northern Asia, where the next operation will be.
For example, Marcus Over Flags will be going to the Human Reform League for 'Military Exercise'.
"It would seem it's goodbye for now, Commander Anaheim." Princess Marina saw him off, looking sad.
"Don't worry, I will be visiting this place often, since my company's holdings are throughout the whole nation." He smiled, making her sadness evaporate.
"Then I shall be waiting for that day." She smiled before leaning forward and kissing him on the lips, before leaving with her assistant. Her assistant winked at him before walking after her, Princess.
"C-Commander! What the hell, excuse me for my language." Graham gawked as he saw the whole thing.
"It would seem rumours around our Commander having several female friends are not false," Billy commented as he fixed his glasses, his brain still catching up to him.
"Well, I listened to her worries and assisted the best way I could," Marcus explained to them as he watched his Over Flags getting stored in massive transporter planes.
"... So …she is like your… second wife or something? Is that even a thing?" Graham doesn't quite know these things. One should ask him about the guns; he could tell everything about them in reverse, but this… this is not his field of expertise.
"Pretty sure he could marry her in Azadistan." Billy was a bit more knowledgeable.
"We will see. I am a bit busy for those things." Marcus rolled his eyes. He still has things to do, like taking over the world.
"Indeed. We should talk about this after we deal with Celestial Being." The mobile suit developer nodded at his Commander.
Still, it was surprising to see that he was able to get the Princess like this. They were here less than a month, yet he achieved that.
~~~~~~Later, In the Outskirts of Taklamankan Desert~~~~~~
Temporary bases were erected to house hundreds of mobile suits, artillery, planes, and ammo. It was a massive operation that would cost all three superpowers millions.
A remote military base with its comm tower became the centre point of all of this. People from all three blocs were present in this upcoming operation.
"Lieutenant Commander Anaheim. It is good to see you in person." The one who greeted the arriving Lieutenant was a Russian military man with facial scars.
"The Wild Bear of Russia. I wasn't expecting to see you here." Marcus replied as he accepted the handshake.
"With an operation like this… the best have been summoned here." 'The Wild Bear of Russia', Sergei Smirnov looked to the side. There were troops from the Human Reform League, AEU, and Union preparing their equipment for the upcoming conflict with Celestial Being.
Though all three were keeping to themselves, it was clear they would be working together on this operation.
"Indeed. We have brought some experimental tech which we want to use on Celestial Being as well." Marcus looked at the planes arriving from the Union; they carried the latest tech his Over Flag development team had been working on. He doesn't even need to do anything; he just selected a group of people and gave them a goal to work towards, and… bam, stuff gets done.
"I have heard rumours about your Over Flags fighting against Gundams on equal footing." Sergei looked at the black mobile suits being unloaded from the carrier planes.
"Indeed. While gundams are advanced beyond our technology, our neural interface technology is basically at the same level.
All we need is for our machine to move as well as theirs, the rest is up to pilots and their abilities."
"No need to be humble, Commander Anaheim, we all know that it's more than that. You even developed weapons that can damage them!" The Wild Bear already had a decent amount of intel on them.
"That would be classified information, Lieutenant Colonel." Marcus smiled a bit as he replied; his smile told the Wild Bear all it needed to know. The Union had weapons capable of damaging these Gundams, giving them an edge in the upcoming operation.
"Hahaha, I see. Well, may the best man win, Lieutenant Commander." The Human Reform League colonel saluted his group before walking away.
Marcus looked at the much smaller girl next to the Colonel. He realised that this was the Super Soldier of the Human Reform League. He completely forgot that these guys were experimenting with humans.
'I spend too much time playing with Mobile suits. Pity that Allelujah blew the facility up, it would have been interesting to compare notes with my A.S.P… '
"That little girl is a soldier. What is she doing here?" Graham complained the moment the Soldiers from the fellow super bloc went away.
"HRL Super Soldier, since they lack in the field of Mobile suits, they make it up with Experimental Soldiers," Billy explained to the blonde.
"...And how does a small girl come into that?" The guy frowned at such an answer.
"Ask them." The glasses guy shrugged; he was ready to move on and still needed to check the equipment they brought.
"Go, you two. Prepare for the battle. I still need to see the AEU people." Marcus motioned for his two subordinates to make a move on. He has greeted the host of this show, so for the meeting with AEU, he doesn't need the bulk of his soldiers.
"Understood, sir."
The pair went to their posts, while Marcus explored the base.
This was a critical battle, so he was a bit excited.
~~~~~~The Beginning of the Operation~~~~~~
Human Reform League baited some terrorists to a remote Nuclear Power waste site with some made-up information.
This was nothing more than a lure for Celestial Being. Not that the paramilitary organisation cared that the Human Reform League was inviting them.
They had a reputation to maintain, so they moved in to erase these terrorists who are the bait.
"Sir! We have spotted the Gundams!" The comms operative said to Marcus and a black-haired woman from AEU.
This woman was the famous Iron Lady of AEU, Kati Mannequin. A tactical forecaster that is at the same level as Celestial Being's Sumeragi Lee Noriega.
"Show us the image from the long-range camera." The woman instructed the soldier
Moments later, on the main screen, they saw Gundam Kyrios. But there was something off about it.
"New equipment… where do they get all those funds?" Kati complained with an annoyed look.
Marcus looked surprised as well, as he realised that this was Kyrios Gust, the Gundam had extra verners for thrust and the ability to shoot far!
'My oh my, they are going all out. Did my Over Flags cause you to pull out this extra gear?'
The disguised Emperor could not contain himself as he grinned at the sight!
'Yes, go all out, my Celestial Being! Destroy! So that I could rebuild from the ashes that you have left for me!'
He realised that in this battle, Celestial Being would crush them. There is no doubt. If Kyrios has Gust gear, then Exia will have Avalanche. And if that is the case, the three blocs will lose because these Gundams not only have Trans-Am but also the extra boosters and weapons!
This is no longer a battle but a mopping operation.
"The winged one has a long-range weapon as well!?" Kati exclaimed as they saw Kyrios blast the MSER-04 Anf that tried to approach the facilities from high air.
"Begin the operation!" She looked with an annoyed look at the Human Reform League officer and Marcus.
"Start with bombardment! We need to pin them down!" Marcus exclaimed, pretending to be worried as well.
Before long, the artillery units began to rain on Kyrios. But it was a wrong move as a pink beam from a massive distance erased the entire artillery division.
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"This… switch to formation B! Use bombers!" Kati roared at the officer. There was sweat on her forehead as she started to get worried.
But before the bombers could even take off, a blue-and-white mobile suit blasted into the base. It was Exia that began slicing and dicing through the runway, cutting through the military hardware.
"Send in the Over Flags! Surround the Gundam in the base!" Marcus joined in as he barked his orders. Over twenty Over Flags swiftly launched and began to fire on Exia and its Avalanche booster set.
This loadout makes Exia extremely fast and capable of ranged attacks.
So when Over Flags tried to attack, Exia activated Trans-Am and turned red and began to slice and dice even quicker. In less than a minute, all of the flags were turned into scrap metal.
"..."
When Marcus saw that, he was a bit worried. His boys are good pilots, but the technology limits them, so he was a bit worried when all of the machines got destroyed like that.
"These tactics… it can't be…" Kati stopped in her tracks as she realised who was commanding these Gundams.
"Are you familiar with the tactician on their side?" Marcus asked the Iron Lady.
"...Possibly, but I can't be certain."
After Exia, more bombardment came in from the Gundam Virtue, which joined the fight, followed by Kyrios, which was flying around like a bomber and dropping long-range shots.
In less than five minutes, most of the three bloc troops were destroyed.
"This is… utter annihilation," Kati commented as she tried to fight back, but it was like trying to keep sand from falling out between fingers.
"... We have lost." The HRL officer said with utter disbelief.
"Yeah…" Marcus tried not to grin, but his voice betrayed him, something Kati had noticed.
"Pull back, raise the white flag, we are giving up." The woman instructed as she looked at the Over Flags Commander.
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