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Three Doms dash over the plains of Central Asia. Their speedy patrol crosses many miles of terrain and these three veterans of the Zeon military are not to be easily trifled with. Gaia, Ortega, and Mash have served with each other for a long time. They not only shared military duty but decorations as well. As the legendary Black Tri-stars they reckon themselves invincible. There is one elusive prey out there though, that would reinforce their reputation. The white Earth Federal Forces ship is somewhere in Central Asia and it felt as if fate would lead them to it. Fate brought a pair of 580mm shells exploding on the ground in front of them. "Norlan! We found them and marking them on your grid now!" The now familiar voice of Karen Finn, the communications officer on the HMS Cockblock brought a smile to Petty Officer Norlan Harkin's face. He adjusts the eye patch over his left eye before bringing the GM Light Armor to its full height. A GM E and five GMs stood up behind him, their pilots signalling they are ready. Above them, the lumbering Depp Rog opens its bomb bay doors. Off in the distance, dirt is blown into the air as the Black Tri-stars ran around the falling 580mm shells. "Great! Alright, let's go!" shouts the pilot of the GM Light Armor. With a cheer, the band of GMs got up and ran towards the three Doms, line abreast. The GMs began letting lose shots from their beam spray guns as they closed the distance on foot. Harkin and the GM E held their fire until they are in range with their 90mm machineguns. The "ratatatata" of their bullets join in on the screeching of beam energy until suddenly the world collapsed around them. As Harkin's Light Armor lands flat on the ground it tumbles around like a ragdoll. Once he caught his breath, the Petty Officer screams angrily into the helmet mike. "TALOS! STOP SHOOTING AT US! Shoot the Doms!" On the bridge of the HMS Cockblock the overweight ship captain grabs the communications handle. "Harkins, it's not us! I repeat, we didn't fire that shot!" shouts Ricky "Talos" Witt. Finn was busy working the communications channel until something caught her eye. She turns and looks outside the large bridge windows and gasps. "Oh... my... god..." In the far distance the empty 680mm cartridge of the Xamel pops out the rear of the breech. Boraguard Heindsheft adjusts the sights and fires the enormous howitzer again. Around him are his two Doms, a careful precaution as he shells the living daylights out of the EF units in the open. "Talos? Karen? What's wrong, what is-?" His words are cut short as another explosion rocks the Earth under his mobile suit. Harkin's GMs are scattered and trying to regroup. He looks up at the Pegasus-class carrier HMS Cockblock only to see it spraying AA fire. But the fire isn't directed at the ground but up into the area. "Gaws! Norlan, we have Dopps and Gaws-!" Four mega particle shots smashed into the starboard side of the HMS Cockblock. The ship lists slightly before its own mega particle cannons fire back in staggering volleys. Off in the distance, the Gambit and Lillith continued firing as they launch their Dopps. The Zeon high performance jets rockets towards the Depp Rogg. The Federal heavy bomber snaps in half as its airframe is torn apart by the fightercraft. Harkin watches the carnage and the pending doom before crying out," FALL BACK! EVERYONE FALL BACK!" His GMs were doing that until a dark shadow passes over them. They drop something but it didn't explode or shine. The objects slowly drifts to the ground over the heads of the confused GMs. They got quite the education when the Plasma Leader expands and electrocuted a few of them. The monstrous Adzam hovers over them with its Minovsky-craft compressor and shot mega particle beams at the HMS Cockblock. The Port catapault section blew wide open and the debris rains down on Harkins. He brought his shield up as the GM Light Armor's cameras zoom out to the far distance. To his horror, as the HMS Cockblock is pummeled above him and his GMs are fighting the Adzam, two Dobdays rumble at him. The Resolution and Thorhammer open fire at maximum range. When the world around Harkin came to a stop once again he chokes into his microphone," Karen... Talos... take off and go... just go..." A burst of static and muffled voices answers him but Harkin looks up to see the HMS Cockblock gain altitude. Around him though, all hope is lost. Private Cervantes Zuhr in his Dom Funf sails past a stumbling GM, implanting a large 880mm round from the Raketen Bazooka into the GM's chest. Sergeant Eugene Rice-Ionesco did circles around another GM, riddling the poor Federal mobile suit with a full clip of 120mm ammo. It died like a depressed lump of swiss cheese. Unterscharfuhrer Steve Myer trades shots between his Zaku Kai and the GM E but his Zaku machinegun rounds are richoeting off the pesky shield. The GM E lowers its shield to fire it's 90mm machinegun only to get a thrown heathawk embedded into its head. Three grenades bounces towards its feet as Myers dove for cover. The resulting explosion nearly topples Harkin as he got back to his feet. Harkin is surrounded by Zeon mobile suits right now and the treats the situation as such. He knows that for the HMS Cockblock to get away, he needs to buy it enough time on the ground. The GM Light Armor broke into run towards a Zaku II. The Zeon suit open fires but shot high. Harkin smashes the shield into the chest of the Zaku. The shield broke off and fell to the ground. The GM Light Armor moved over, firing at the Doms and Zakus around him. Very quickly the gun fell silent and Harkin picks up his beam rifle. He barely brandishes the gun when two shadows zip by him from opposite directions. The GM Light Armor's right arm fell to the ground and the beam rifle fell in pieces. Stumbling, the GM Light Armor bumps into a Magella attack tank before falling forward onto its knees. The doomed EFSF pilot ignites his beam saber but something causes him to look up. There it is. The HMS Cockblock has gained altitude, swatting away Dopps with its many AA guns... Then the biggest beam of light Harkin has ever seen punches right through the assault carrier. The force was so hard and sudden that nothing remain of the central superstructure. Only the enginges, the wing tips, and what is left of the starboard catapault fell onto Central Asia. From the clouds hovers Private Lucas Marcolini, the deaf Zeon pilot who vaporized Torrington Base in his Apsalus II. The few seconds it took for Harkin to realize what happen span over an eternity for him. Then in a climbing rage, he brought the GM Light Armor back to its feet with its beam saber flaring. But three voices broke over his radio. "JET.....!" "....STREAM....!" "....ATTACK!" The glare of the scattering beam gun from Gaia's Dom melts away all of the external sensors of the GM Light Armor. The hard punching 360mm round from Gaia's Dom Bazooka blew open the mobile suit's chest cavity, revealing the Minovsky Ultracompact fusion reactor. Shrapnel zigzags in and out of Norlan Harkin's body even before the second Dom fires its own 360mm Bazooka. This round from Ortega struck the cockpit, blowing the door and hatch inwards. Harkin is flatten like a human pancake even as Mash's heat saber cut a burning slash through the rest of the cockpit and mobile suit. The three Doms stop a good distance away as Private Norlan Harkin dies in the fiery pillar that was his GM Light Armor. The Black Tri-Stars chalk one up for their record before resuming their patrol. Norlan Harkin - 4 VP gained, dead 7 days Lucas Marcolini - 7 VP gained, 1 day damage Steve Myer - 7 VP gained, 1 day damage Boraguard Heindshaft - 7 VP gained, 1 day damage Cervantes Zuhr - 7 VP gained, 1 day damage Eugene Rice-Ionesco - 6 VP gained, 1 day damage |