Chapter 47 Brimstone

After talking with Aquaman, Mike received word from the Ministry in Japan. Chinese government was denying any involvement with the monstrosity and was saying it was a group of rogue scientists. Since they denied involvement, they also claimed that they had no blueprints and were aware of no weaknesses regarding the suit.

Mike shook his head, "They are full of shit." He said, the ministry official and the commander of the Japanese Defense forces agreed with him. Aquaman was starting back up with the attack, and now spiel.Mike raised his hand. "2 questions. 1. Are we sure that it is nuclear powered?. "

"Yes, all scans indicate it is nuclear in nature." Green Arrow stated, the league had the best scanners out of all of them.

"2, How many nuclear power plants are within 1000 miles of our location?" H3 asked the second question.

"10 that are currently active, why?" The Japanese officials asked.

"If it came to it, how big of a mess would it be for them to become inoperative for the forseeable future?" Mike asked carefully.

"Major problem, we take them offline then economy could crash, hospitals would only have backup power, it would ruin our country." The official answered nervously.

"Hard way it is then." Mike sighed. "Freedom will engage the thing here." Mike pointed at an uninhabited island. "Get on the horn with the Chinese again state that satellite has it coming from their territory. Either they help, or we consider it a nuclear strike against another nation."

"But they said," the officials began.

"They are full of crap and get the rest of the security council on the line with you." Mike cut him off. "I can buy you a couple of hours." Turning to the League "Where is Captain Atom?"

"On his way should be here in 2 hours." Supergirl responded.

"When he gets here, he is on containment. Orb forces and Japanese Artillery and Missle Artillery will bombard this thing with everything they have. Freedom is rated for atmospheric reentry and radiation shielded. I'll take the thing head on and hold it back." Mike issued orders taking command of the operation. Turning to Aquaman, "You go with the officials, let them know this thing is endangering your kingdom as well, and risks a major international incident put the pressure on them." He nodded, not happy to be off the front lines but realizing that this time his power as a king was needed more than his power as a hero.

Mike entered the Strike Freedom and took off towards the island. Getting an encrypted transmission to the ships in orbit, he asked, "How many N Jammers do you have on board?"

"5 Sir," the captian answered, "It is the standard complement on most of our ships in case of a nuclear attack against Orb."

"Ready one as a fallback plan in case this goes south." Mike ordered. The captian acknowledged the order and readied the weapon.

As the island came into view, Mike saw the robot from JLU exiting the water, walking in a straight line towards Japan. Mike increases speed, flipping around and slamming into its feet, first driving the thing back a few steps.

Drawing the beam sabers, Mike attacked slicing and stabbed in a frenzy of blows. The sabers were ineffective, barely scratching the heavy dark crimson armor. Brimstone recovered, shooting a burst of flames at Mike that he dodged.

Missle Artillery and Naval Artillery opened up, hitting the robot hard, driving it back again. Mike sheathed the sabers and drew his beam rifles. Going full burst, he hit the thing again and again, forcing it on the defensive. "Watch the chest. It appears to be the power source." Mike advised, looking at the reactor embedded in it.

"Sir, there is a development you should be aware of." Noin said, coming over an encrypted channel.

"What is it?" Mike asked, dodging another blast from the flamethrower.

"Chinese naval forces are moving in the direction of Taiwan. It is likely this is a diversion." Noin said gravely.

"Shit, let the reps know and have our officials state that they need to back the hell off unless they want to lose that entire fleet, have White Base divert from here to defending their coast and see if we have any more mobile suit teams we can deploy."

The fighting continued for another 45 minutes before the League finally had some good news. "All we have to do is get these things in the reactor, and we can shut it down permanently, They claim they found the schematics in an abandoned hideout." Captian Atom arrived and relayed the message.

"I'll hold it still, Captian. You absorb the radiation supergirl you put the damn rods in." Mike said, the rest agreeing to his plan.

Mike then flew rapidly towards Brimstone, raising power to the Freedom's armor and beam shields he grappled the bigger robot, forcing it to stand still. Captian Atom absorbed most of the radiation. Supergirl slammed the rods home before ripping the whole reactor out of its chest. getting clear, the military opened up again, reducing the rest of it to scrap.

"Have they stopped moving towards Taiwan?" Mike asked for an update.

"They said that they were merely conducting a military exercise, all their ships returned to port." Noin answered.