"For this operation, we are going to use GN particle properties against them. By dispersing drones in a large field, we can pick their location the moment they stop responding, and we will know it's them." Kati Mannequin explained to the teams as everyone was preparing for the battle.
"Nice, we are going to use their abilities against them." Graham nodded as he commented. Next to him, Billy was listening with one ear as he read the new information he had received from Commander about the GN technology.
"It is a double-edged sword."
"Yeah, and now we can use their technology!"
The Iron Lady explained the tactics. Making GN-X work alongside the Trio of their Gundams.
Once plans were approved, in fact, Marcus was here; he simply said: 'Yes, do whatever you want, you are one of the best.'
Marcus, after all, is modern-day Cao Cao. He lets talent do its work. It's the whole point of talent in the first place.
Before long, the forces moved to space, and the operation soon started. With basically an unlimited budget, things moved at a rapid pace.
~~~~~~Several Days Later~~~~~~
Celestial Being was ready for the faithful battle; they were ready for a massive force from the UN, as they all saw that Marcus had basically made the whole world leader and was now leading all three Blocs and their military assets.
At that moment, Sumeragi Lee Noriega knew that if she wanted to face the Holy Byzantine Empire, she had to beat its 'vassal' first, and that was this world's united front.
"...We have an issue, Miss Sumeragi," Christina said to the waiting Captain.
"Is it the UN?" The tactical Forecaster replied, and before long, she was back on the bridge checking what the CIC girl had for her.
"Recon drones… they are using GN particle abilities against us…smart.
Tell the Gundam Meisters to be ready. It won't be long until the UN Force will be here." Sumeragi immediately knew what is going on.
"Roger."
Before long, the Meisters were in their Gundams, preparing for battle.
But then…
"...What is that?"
Christina pointed at red dots.
The camera zoomed in, showing a magnified image.
"..."
Sumeragi's eyes widened as she saw GN drives and tens of mass-produced models and three Gundams leading the front!
"...The confiscated GN Tau drives and the so-called Gundam Thrones. It was Marcus Anaheim all along." The Captain of Ptolemaios mumbled before looking at worried Christina.
"Tell Gundam Meisters to prepare for Anti-Gundam combat, this is not a drill!"
"R-Roger!" the CIC girl stuttered, very worried by what she had seen.
~~~
"Anti-Gundam combat… damn." Lockon commented as he saw the direct live stream." Marcus Anaheim is not messing this time around. He is not pulling his punches."
"Should be obvious we did what he wanted us to do. We are no longer needed." Virtue's pilot replied.
"So this is the fateful battle. Good luck, guys." Kyrios Gundam pilot said as he realised the odds.
"Yes, I expected you all to survive and return," Lockon smirked for a second as he heard the CIC talk.
"Loading Exia Avalache Seven Swords into catapult deck."
'At least we had time to prepare.' Lockon looked at Exia over the cameras; it was loaded to the brim with weaponry.
Before long, Exia launched, followed by Kyrios and Virtue. Leaving only the Sniper Dynames docked to the mothership.
As they waited, a huge red particle beam blasted towards them.
"Shit! Trans Am!" The Gundam pilot activated the special GN reactor trait.
Dynames activated Trans Am as the GN field was deployed around the mothership to tank the damage.
"What the hell was that?" He looked worried for a second.
Lockon checked the cameras and saw two gundams docked, and the black gundam leading the front had its shoulder cannon extended to twice its size.
It was literally an artillery unit.
'Shit. What is that Gundam?'
~~~
Seeing the blast, Exia rushed at the enemy Gundams at double time.
Before Exia could attack the black Gundam, the Red and Orange sword-wielding Gundam intercepted Setsuna.
"We meet again, Kamal!"
"That voice… Graham Aker?" Setsuna looked a bit surprised, but he quickly focused on his opponent.
"This time around, our odds are nearly the same!!! You are going down, kid!" The sword-wielding Gundam roared with power as it was finally able to push the other Gundam back!
"Tsk!"
"It's Setsuna F. Seiei! And I am Gundam Meister, of Celestial Being!" Exia's eyes glowed as the thrust of his machine went through the roof. The extra verners, thruster equivalent only powered by GN particles, gave the Gundam more power, enough power to overpower the Gundam Zwei.
But before Exia can get comfortable, red beams from GN-X force the close-quarters mobile suit to pull back and focus on the mass-production units.
'To many of them.'
Setsuna used its extra thrust to weave around GN-X as the machine dodged the shots and moved in to start taking out these new units.
The Seven Swords loadout had Exia wielding 3 swords, 2 beam sabers and two beam daggers. The mech was a walking (floating) pile of sharp tools which took out four GN-X in a matter of moments. However, these GN daggers were one-time use; after throwing them into GN-X, they were no longer usable. But at least they did their part to lower the number of enemies they had left.
A similar situation was with Kyrios, which is flying around at absurd speeds and sniping with its long-range rifle.
The Gundam took out 3 GN-X before two other Gundams tried to corner it down.
That left Virtue, the Artillery Gundam, to focus on taking out the Mass Production units.
It's where the Trans-Am was used to shoot a massive beam of GN particles, clearing over a dozen GN-X.
'This is far better than I have expected. Once these mass-produced models are down, we can focus on those Gundams and then Marcus Anaheim.'
Tieria Erde thought to himself as he clenched his fist; just thinking about that guy made him borderline fly into a rage.
Taking Veda? Treating the quantum computer like some calculator? He will kill that guy! Thousand times over!
However, the situation swiftly began to deteriorate for Celestial Being, as Lockon could hit GN-X simply because of how fast the GN-powered machines were, while Virtue was no better after using a Trans-Am-powered GN Bazooka.
The two machines were sluggish now. And because of that, even if UN forces lost half of their mass production units, the rest of them started to chip at the Gundam Meisters.
Virtue lost its shoulder cannons; Dynames' shields were destroyed; the two Gundams were exchanging fire and taking damage; a Gundam part for a GN-X; that was no good.
While Setsuna was not doing any better, after taking down seven GN-X, the Gundam lost its leg boosters as Graham destroyed those with GN fangs.
In the next clash, Gundam Zwei was able to cut off Exia's left arm while losing his own in the process.
"Fang go!" The blonde ordered the Fangs to attack from behind as Exia lost the last Avalance Boosters, but in the process, Exia cleaved Gundam Zwei's side, causing both Gundams to explode partially.
"Shit…"
Graham realised that the Gundam's core systems went down.
Only the monitor worked.
'Did the reactor go burst?'
He frowned as he saw Exia floating before him as well. But then Celestial Being's Gundam eyes glowed as it moved once more.
'Well, shit.'
The remaining GN-X support tried to attack the close-range white and blue mobile suit, but it glowed red as it went Trans-Am and began to slice and dice the last remaining GN-X forces.
'Commander won't like this, he told us to go easy…'
After a couple of seconds, it was only Graham and Setsuna as the Celestial Being, as if knowing he was being watched, looked at the Gundam Zwei.
It was about to finish the job, but at that moment, Marcus' image appeared on the screen.
"You did well, Graham. Leave the rest to me."
"Commander?"
~~~
As the fighting was dying down. All of the GN-X were blown to kingdom come, and the three Gundam Thrones were mostly crushed as Kyrios pilot 'flipped' and wrecked Gundam Throne Eins and Drei, while it lost its Gust equipment, it was largely intact. Unlike Exia, which lost one arm, or Virtue, which had to shed its armour for speed, Dynames lost most of its equipment, leaving with a GN pistol and a beam saber.
It was a brutal fight, but they were still at the top.
But then, all of nowhere, a blue beam with yellow lightning slammed into the Ptolemaios… erasing the two massive verners and stranding the carrier in space.
"Ptolemy! What the hell!? From where!?" Lockon looked around, towards the Earth. The Gundam used its targeting to zoom in.
"Who is it? Lockon?" Virtue's pilot asked as he saw Lockon zoom in.
"Reinforcements! S-Shit… I see six Gundams coming this way." The Dynames pilot looked pale as they said that.
"Marcus Anaheim… the Empire's real machines are here…"
"Regroup around Ptolemaios." Sumeragi appeared on the screen. "We need to find a way to retreat; this is a bloodbath by this point. Marcus used the UN forces to weaken us before sending the real force." She explained what was going on.
"Can Ptolemaios move?" Lockon asked with a worried look.
"Hard to say, the engine room doesn't respond, we can assume the worst." The captain grimaced.
"...shit…"
"They are here!"
A red blurnarrived at insane speed, grabbing Lockon's Gundam; it was a red claw.
"YOU ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY! YET YOU DON'T BOW, FOR HIS TRANGRESSION DEATH AWAITS YOU!" A male voice screamed through the open channel, making the Celestial Being speechless.
Not because of the nonsense they were hearing, but because of how absurdly fast the machine was.
"Lockon!!!"
'What the hell, how can someone move like that!?'
The sniper struggled as he tried to move Dynames' hands. But the red machine was crushing the limbs of the Gundam.
"It appears Lord Jeremiah is spreading his loyalty to these terrorists; we shouldn't hesitate either." A woman's voice said as out of nowhere a black Gundam appeared and a lance went through Virtue's head, taking out the frontal camera.
Before doing a swirl with the weapon and cutting the limbs in a single clean motion.
"Tieria, Lockon!!!" Exia rushed to assist, but a Gundam with beam sabers intercepted.
The Close Quarters Gundam tried to overpower, but the pilot of this machine effortlessly slaughtered the one-handed machine, removing the limbs with several swirls of the beam saber the mobile suit was limbless.
What was left was Kyrios, which tried to assist, but two Gundams with loads of beam rifles literally blasted the 'bird' out of the 'sky'.
'W-What is this? How can these machines move like that?'
Then, almost like magic, Marcus Anaheim's Gundam appeared in front of their bridge.
'S-So fast!!!'
"H-How can it move like that!?" The crew member Ptolemaios commented as they scrambled out of their seats, the Gundam pointing its rifle at the bridge.
"Now let's restart our previous conversation, Leesa Kujo, you are in the presence of the Emperor of… Two Earths. What do people do when they are in the presence of such authority?" Marcus's face appeared on the screen as he repeated the question from the previous conversation.
"..."
The brown-haired woman bit her lower lip as she felt like dying inside.
"...You want me to beg?"
"Not at all. Etiquette is part of civilisation's culture. I have your friends captured. The very least show respect to your enemy, or you are that uncivilised."
"..."
At that moment, she sighed, before bowing her head.
"Please… Your Majesty… spare the Gundam Meisters and my crew… we surrender."
She asked with a slightly tentative tone. The woman was hopeful as she noticed that he likes collecting talented people, and Celestial Being's pilots are very talented, if not the best pilots the world can produce.
"Since you asked so nicely, I accept your surrender."
He smiled, seeing one of the greatest tactical forecasters surrender to him like that.
From the looks of it, he has this world secured. However, he should not count his chickens before they hatch. He still needs to smooth out the transition.
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