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The Black Sea in Centra Asia is an inland sea whose only entrance is through several straits connecting it to the Aegean and Mediterranean Sea. Much of the shipping leading to ports such as Sevastopol, Yalta, and the sieged city fortress of Odessa depend on who controls the Black Sea. This importance is not lost on the pilots of the three pilots in the Goggs of the "Black Sea Defense Line". They already failed once in stopping the fleet of naval ships from the original Odessa Task Force Beta. With the enormous presence of ASW units at Odessa, the only thing the "Black Sea Defense Line" can hope for is to stop any further EF intrusions. The first checkpoint is the Bosporus strait. An understandable but predictable action. Murchadah Donelly sat in the cockpit of his Aqua GM, lightly napping. The rest of his MS team, experienced as they were, are finding the period of inactivity unnerving. Several days of continuous fighting at Odessa has sent many tons of debris drifting down the currents of the Black Sea to this strait that leads to the Aegan Sea. Zaku and GM heads, airframes, and an enormous oil pool to name a few. But the Irish fisherman sleeps. The sea will throw him the quarry he's waiting for. Afterall, he's hunting fish again. Giant mechanical fish. "We have sonar contact!" warns one of the other Aqua GMs," Powerplant noise indicates three Goggs... coming in at patrol speed from the northeast." "Just where we cast our net," mutters Donelly into his helmet mic," let's go." They first came from the sides. Two shapes drove directly for the Goggs. But as the Zeon marine mobile suits reorient themselves to fire, the two shapes launched without so much as altering their speed. A full two salvoes of eight torpedoes each swam into the Black Sea Defense Line team at over 65 knots. The front Gogg got off a full mega particle blast before its armor got ripped to shreds by the underwater detonations. The beam blast went wide. As the remaining two Goggs separated but one of them find himself in the path of another sixteen torpedoes from below. The multiple consecutive explosions completely destroyed sonar guidance completely, leaving the EF ambushers momentarily lost. Suddenly Donelly's Aqua GM bumps headfirst into something. Before the ringing in his ears subsides, Donelly saw the biggest monoeye ever. The Gogg is the first to attack, the claws on one hand tearing off the Aqua GM's right leg. With a shout, the Irish fisherman yanks out a beam pick and stabs it straight into the giant monoeye. The weapon lodges itself deep and Donelly loses his grip on it. No matter, the Aqua GM has three more. The hammering of the fourth and last beam pick into the Gogg's oversized head finally pryed the Zeon mobile suit off Donelly. The rest of his Aqua GM team finally finds him and slowly lifts him to the surface. But the fisherman left a little gift. He drops all six of his underwater grenades over the sinking Gogg. As they broke the surface, they register the grenades explosion,the hull of the Gogg collapsing, and the eruption of the water-cooled powerplant. Murchadh Donelly - 8 VP gained, 2 days damaged |