144 Running Away With Goods (Edited)
Thankfully, the Laurasia-class frigate only had a skeletal crew. 'Persuading' them to leave was not that difficult, for the simple reason that their clothes and masks intimidated the ZAFT ship personnel.
Normally, it will quite more difficult to make them surrender. Especially since they were outsiders. It would be a different thing if they were part of the military beforehand and then detected like how Lacus did.
Well, regardless, all of the crew were forced to disembark. After giving them their space suits, that is.
Once they got rid of the crew, Raynor created several clones to man the ship.
Before long, the Laurasia-class Frigate left the docks and started to fly out of the PLANT's at top speed towards deeper space and out of Earth's sphere.
However, at least six other Laurasia-class Frigates were right behind its tail.
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"They already left the Docks! How fast are these thieves?" The captain of one of the Laurasia-class said with a frown.
"Order the mobile suits to launch! Target the ship's engines!" The captain quickly ordered as he looked at the running away ship.
"Roger!"
The second in command nodded and started issuing the commands.
Similar situations were happening on other ships as they ordered to disable the ship and capture the thefts. ZAFT high command wants some answers.
Inside their hangars, the pilots quickly are boarding their GINNs and wait for the launch order.
~~~~~~Back with Raynor~~~~~~
"Well, well. We have pursuers…" As Raynor said that, he looked at the electronic map. The radars are picking up 6 Laurasia-class and at least 20 GINN already launched from the garrison, which was in Aprilius One.
Combined with the mobile suits inside the ships, they could potentially have 56 mobile suits pursuing them. These numbers are quite high. Only something like Freedom or Justice could potentially fight these numbers.
However, they are over a year and a half away from that kind of machine.
"No kidding, look how many signatures there are!" Arno pointed at the constant increase of dots on the map…
"Right. So Ruby…" Raynor put his hand on the girl's head and taught her how to use the guns of the ship.
He did the same with Weiss, who was confused for a second before she realized that they can now control the guns of the ship they stole.
"Arno, Yang and me, we're going to launch in the GINN we stole while Feixue is going to freeze any of the beams which will come towards the ship.
Our goal is to get clear for the FTL jump."
"Wait… when did you install FTL… Uh… never mind. Ruby let's go." Weiss grabbed the dreamy Ruby, who realized that she can shoot the set of twin beam cannons that this ship had.
"I am going to control the smaller ones and you can get loose with those twin cannons, and I think Ray mentioned a twin rail gun as well."
"YES! You are the best Weiss! And YES, on the Railgun! It's a twin 450 mm railgun on the very top. And there are two more which point at the back as well! Combined with the 937 mm High Energy Beams, we're going to toast them!" As Ruby said that, she quickly rushed to sit in her seat and started preparations to shoot the guns, while Weiss with a sigh walked over and took her seat next to her.
Raynor only mentioned the gun sizes once, and this teammate of hers already can recall them like the back of her hand…
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As Raynor walked in the locker room, his finger brushed through the lockers. He was scanning the contest of these lockers.
"Green, Green, Green, Green…"
Yang looked at Raynor with confusion for a bit before she asked Arno what Raynor is doing.
"He is being picky with his suit. Not that he needs it." The blonde friend of his and fellow Otaku said with a sigh.
"At least pretend that we part of this, Arno. Where is your sense of being part of something?" Raynor said with a frown on his face as his hand stopped at one.
"A red one… I suppose you can have this one Yang. I am still looking for that exalted white one." The Primordial said that while opening the locker for her.
The blonde walked over and pulled the bodysuit.
"Can… I fit in this one? This doesn't like that comfortable…" Yang pointed at the uniform.
"It's elastic, and it protects you from the vacuum of space," Arno said that while opening the first locker, he could put his hands on and pulled out the green ZAFT space suit. He doesn't care about the colors at this specific time. Maybe once they return to Titan and Tony can make some nice uniforms.
"I get it. Fine… still, they look not that fitting." As she said that, she walked away with the uniform.
While Raynor continued to inspect all the lockers. He didn't find his fabled white uniform but he is going to inspect the captain's cabin after this battle is over. Maybe he can find it there.
For now, he picked another red uniform.
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"Sir! The stolen ship is targeting us!" One of the monitoring soldiers quickly notified after he detected laser guidance being pointed at them!
"Prepare for evasive actions and tell those GINN to quickly take care of the engines!" One of the chasing captains of the ZAFT ship quickly ordered.
He was slightly concerned. How did these people quickly learn to use their equipment? They build their ships from scratch! From the equipment to the ammunition.
Do…PLANT's have traitors? They shouldn't! They are the coordinator nation! All the prosecuted Coordinators migrated here so that they could start a new life! Not a single one of them was here because of some sort of ulterior motive! They checked all of the people's files when they arrived here!
So…are these thieves from Earth? Naturals? No… this doesn't make sense these guys are moving away from Earth Sphere…
'This is confusing… what is going on?'
"Sir! They are preparing to launch their mobile suits!"
"This is not good! Destroy them! Don't allow those GINN's to fall into those robbers' hands!"
"Understood! Notifying the pilots!"
As the officer said that, one GINN after another started to get launched and the ones from PLANT are approaching them rapidly.
Soon enough, they are going to deal with them! The odds are not in the thief's favor. The captain has no idea why they decided to steal a Laurasia Class from the Aprilius One base, but what they did is stupid!
Moments later, the escaping ship opened its main batteries and green energy beams started raining on the pursuers, followed by yellow electrified blasts from the rail guns.
"Evade!"
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Raynor got into the cockpit of one of the GINNs docked in the hangar. His eyes morphed into his Rinne-Sharingan and he activated base Asura path for this one.
That moment, he already knew how to operate the mech properly. Pressing the 'ON' button, the systems started to power up.
The first thing he saw was the ZAFT symbol, which was quickly replaced by an error on the neural link.
*Sigh*
"There is no need to tell me that I am not human anymore," Raynor said to himself as he pulled out the keyboard which was attached to the side of the pilot seat.
Quickly, he bypassed the security of the OS and started to remove certain limiters, like the one on the G-Force. He completely turned this one-off. And of course, reworked some neutral link parameters which will allow for the suit to feel at the very least basics pilot's intentions.
As he was doing that. A screen for communication turned on. It was his friend.
"We are ready to launch what's the hold-up?"
"Just go. I still need to do some adjustments. The GINN wasn't built for Primordial Dragons." The Otaku said with an eye roll.
"Oh, Okay, we will leave some for you." As he said that, Arno's GINN was pulled into the catapult pad.
Moments later, he launched, then followed by Yang's one. Leaving only his one behind.
After doing all those changes, he pressed the execute button. The OS quickly restarted.
"Right, give me a second rifle. I won't be using the sword for this one." As he said that to the control, which is a copy of him, his GINN was moved into the catapult deck.
Sure enough, his loadout was changed. He got another 76 mm Assault Machine Gun and a few more magazines for it. Now this is going to be a little hard to reload them. But Raynor's idea is to count his shots instead of bullet spraying.
Once he was ready, the makeshift tunnel lit up. Well, calling it a tunnel is a stretch as the only thing there is are the magnetic walls which help to accelerate the mobile suit out of the hangar.
"Well, let's test out the capacities of this mech!"
As he said that, he got the all clear and pressed the launch button. Moments later, his Mobile Suit accelerated out from the ship.
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"Sir! The stolen ship launched two… three GINNs!"
"Intercept them! And destroy them!" As the captain said, their mobile suits rushed to engage the three machines.
With the odds overwhelmingly on their side, they only launched half of their suits combined with 20 garrisoned GINNs from Aprilius One, they had 38 suits in total!
As a squad of GINN approached one of the stolen GINN they opened fire immediately on it. The stolen machine quite easily dodged the attacks by accelerating its thrusters to the side and then immediately opening fire back at the main eye of one of the suits.
The ZAFT pilot was able to dodge it at the very last moment, but his mobile suit was already damaged around its head.
"Damn, this one is good!" As the ZAFT pilot said that he tried to attack it again, but as if knowing where he will be, the stolen mech opened fire and disabled the main camera, blinding the mobile suit.
This machine repeated the same action on the other suits. It was almost like magic as the machine would dodge bullets as if knowing where they're going to be shot and they would shoot at the location where GINN would move. It's like something akin to Precognition…
While the other stolen machine was with a heavy blade in one hand and the machine gun in the other. This one is quite opposite in fighting style, it would overwhelm with pure talent in close range.
However… unlike the other one, this one got damaged quite quickly because of its fighting style.
Then there was the last machine to join the fight…
"This…guy… what with the speed!? Can a GINN even move this fast!?" The stolen machine quite effortlessly dodged all the shots while blasting forward with two machine guns which were switched to semi-burst mode.
Shredding the cameras, guns and the gun hands, even blowing up several of them in process. The stolen machine quite effortlessly destroyed two squads of GINN which arrived there as support from Aprilius One.
"Quickly launch the remaining suits!!!" The captain of Laurasia-Class Frigate said, with a sweaty look, there was some panic in his eyes.
These three guys effortlessly took down over 30 machines!!!
"Roger!"
As the order was given to launch more suits, the fasted GINN started rushing towards the ships!
"Quickly! Open fire! Intercept!"
That moment, two of the ships were hit by the stolen ship. As the gunners of the stolen vessel utilized, the shock ZAFT felt when these three machines smashed through their mobile suits!
"Tsuigara and Ziegler have been hit!"
At the same time, the stolen mobile suit with two rifles maneuvered behind the Laurasia-Class and started shooting at the thrusters.
Blowing one after another while casually dodging the defensive batteries.
After disabling three ships, since his weapon isn't that good against ships and is more built to engage mobile armors instead, it quickly left the backs and rushed back at the stolen ship!
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Edited by Don Fluffles
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