Disclaimer: I do not own Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans.

This fanfiction is an AU fic that branches off from episode 42 of the canon anime.

Please enjoy.

Deployment 1: Fly! Gundam!

"What do you mean pull back, Lord Elion?" Iok spoke to the comms.

"Teiwaz and I've just made an agreement." Rustal Elion stated bluntly. "They turn a blind eye on what we've did to them and the Hammerhead, and in turn we don't intervene with them ever again."

"B-But sir!" The commander stuttered out. "The-They're criminals! We shouldn't collaborate with them!"

"Iok." The Lord snarled out. "Teiwaz and I've made a peaceful agreement so that we can avoid a unnecessary conflict that'll come out of our pocket for the possible damages, including your little revenge scheme against those Tekkadan kids. And yes, I've heard already and I'm not pleased in the slightest. So unless you've got gunk in your ears and a brick between them, allow me to make myself clear."

Iok gulps in his superior officer's tone.

"Pull. Back. Now."

The scion of the Kujan family looks at his staff for answers.

Not one speaks.

"... Yes sir." Iok moped.

"Return to Gladheimr 1 by 1500 hours." The comms then cut off.

"All ships." Iok commands. "Prepare to return to base-"

The ship's interior rumbles upon being hit by something.

"What the hell was that!?" Iok cried out. "All units, status report!"

"Commander..." One of the helmsmen then points toward something out of the window.

In from of Iok's Skipjack-class flagship, there was a ship three times bigger than it. It's hulls are dyed with the colors of black and red distributed all over it, and on its side was emblazoned with a symbol of a cross with forked tips with a circle that carries an "X" but it's tips jagged out towards a clockwise direction.

"Commander Iok!" One of the comms officer spoke out. "We're getting an unknown transmission from the unidentified-"

"JUST PUT IT THROUGH!" The scion yelled out.

The speakers around the command deck buzz in a static.

Right before the words became clear as spring water.

"GOOD EVENING YOU GJALLARHORN PIECES OF SHIT!" The voice cried out from the comms. "This is the captain of the Yamato speaking, and I'm happy to announce the fact that what you and your fleet have experienced was a warning shot! So here are my demands-"

"TO HELL WITH THAT!" Iok snatched the comms from the operator's hands. "JUST WHY DO WE OF THE ARIANRHOD FLEET MUST COMPLY WITH A PIRATE'S DEMANDS!?"

"I'd really love to tell you..." The voice behind the comms then trails off. "But judging from the crest upon your flagship, I'm assuming that I'm currently speaking to Lord Kujan himself, am I correct?"

"THAT'S RIGHT!" The scion roared out. "AND IF YOU DO NOT EXPLAIN YOURSELVES RIGHT NOW, THEN I HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO GIVE THE ORDER TO SHOOT YOU AND YOUR SHIP DOWN RIGHT WHERE IT STANDS!"

"... You do realize that my ship is literally three-times bigger than yours, right?"

"AND THERE'S ONLY ONE OF YOU COMPARED TO OUR SEVEN!" Iok then gestures his hand toward the ship outside. "ATTENTION ALL CREW MEMBERS! THE UNIDENTIFIED SHIP HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TO BE A HOSTILE! I REPEAT! THE UNIDENTIFIED SHIP IS A HOSTILE! ALL UNITS PREPARE TO ENGAGE IN COMBAT-"

"Yeah yeah. Heard ya', hotshot." The voice behind the comms spoke out. "You wanna fight so bad?"

"Lord Kujan!" One of the officers cried out. "Ahab waves detected!"

"How many?"

"... Just one, sir."

The scion then bursts out into a fit of laughter. "PRICELESS! YOU THINK ONLY ONE MOBILE SUIT IS ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT SEVEN FLEET-"

One of the adjacent ships explode into a bright purple haze.

"Then here ya' go. Try not to die too quickly, ya' hear?" The voice behind the comms then cut communications.

"..." The scion stood there with his jaw hanging out.

The comms flare up again.

"Oh and P.S., you might wanna read the name of the UMS, buddy." The voice spoke out.

Iok then dashes toward the radar, with the sole enemy Mobile Suit on it, with a label that reads the following:

ASW-G-36 Gundam Stolas

Iok then sees a blue comet streaking across space, and flying-nay.

Soaring.

Soaring towards the other ships in his fleet.

"Commander."

Iok watches in horror as another ship with his beloved men in it explode right in front of him.

"COMMANDER!"

Iok is then pulled out of his funk.

"Commander."

Iok then looks at his officer's steely gaze, brimming with determination and a stalwart sense of duty.

"Your orders."

Iok then slaps himself back together. "Prepare to sortie all Mobile Suits."

"Yes sir." The officer then heads down to the hanger, with his custom Schwalbe Graze waiting for him.

The officer gets into his suit, he sees the cockpit opening from the hanger, the officer jumps up towards it thanks to the hanger's zero gravity, and seats himself in as the others do the same in their own Mobile Suits.

The intercom inside his cockpit then light up, with the the monitors showing the outside world through the cameras.

"Attention all crew members!" Iok's voice echoed throughout the halls of the Skipjack. "Bridge has confirmed one hostile ship and one Gundam-type Mobile Suit that has just recently sunk two of our ships. Your orders are simple."

The officer then puts on his helmet right after he kisses the silver locket with the picture of his lover in it right before he closes it.

"KILL THAT SON OF A BITCH AT ALL COSTS, UNDERSTOOD!?"

The officer then gives a salute to his superior officer right before he launches.

"This is 2nd Lieutenant Jaeger Lobos in the Schwalbe Graze Raubvogel."

The officer then tightens his grip on the controls.

"Launching!"

The catapult beneath the Mobile Suit's feet then speeds off towards the open space.

The Schwalbe Graze was flying in the vast emptiness of space, with several other Grazes by him.

"Alright men." Lobos spoke through his comms. "Maintain formation, and whatever you do, do not engage the enemy alone-"

"FOR LORD IOK!" One of the suits break formation upon seeing the azure streak.

"Sargent Ricos! NO!"

Too late.

Ricos's Graze immediately explodes into a purple haze.

"It's too fast 2nd Lieutenant!" One of the Mobile Suit pilots yelled thorough the comms.

"Everyone, maintain formation!" Jaeger ordered. "And whatever you do, don't let that bastard get away-"

Another Graze explodes.

"2nd Lieutenant Lobos!" One of the pilots cried out. "I've got visual!"

"Send it through!" On the pilot's intercom, it showed a blurry image of what it looks like an aircraft that was seen used during pre-Post-Disaster century.

"Whatever the hell that is, it's fast." His thoughts raced as he tries to look for this phantom. "In fact, it's a little too fast. Either that thing is somehow being remote-controlled or the pilot is somehow not dead from the excess g-force. Either way, can't get carele-"

"COMMAN-" Another Graze explodes next to him.

He then sees a face of a Gundam blur past him.

"OVER THERE!" Jaeger's Mobile Suit then fires out both of its Wire Claws and latches onto the Gundam.

The Mobile Suit is then yanked along with the Gundam, violently torquing the Graze pilot's head to the back of his cockpit.

"YOU'RE NOT GETTING AWAY!" His muscles tensed out as the speed continually increases.

Jaeger's eyes then begin to become blurry from the excess speed. His blood in his veins are now all rushing towards his head.

"Not yet..." His grip on the controls tightened as he begins to nosebleed.

He then reels his Wire Claws closer to the Gundam.

"NOT YET!" The Schwalbe Graze Raubvogel's signiture weapons, the feet-stored Hunter's Edge derived from Colonel Vidar's Gundam Vidar, flips out of its toes and kicks its blades toward the Gundam.

"YOU'RE MINE!"

The blades then strike the Gundam.

Jaeger is then thrusted toward the front of his cockpit after the Gundam halts instantly, colliding his Mobile Suit to the Gundam.

"... I did it..." The pilot wheezed out in relief. His hand then squeezes the locket around his neck. "...I stop-"

Something then penetrates the Graze's cockpit behind the pilot, stabbing through his back and out of his chest, and opening the locket in front of him.

The Gundam reveals it's true form.

From its facade as a fighter, it was a Gundam with a purely white and blue color scheme, a pair of folded-up wings that looked similar to the Graze's Booster Units, but streamlined for maximum aerodynamics, its white-armored arms were coiled around the Graze's torso, holding a combat knife stabbed through the Mobile Suit's back, its legs were covered with thrusters venting out towards its ankles, and its head was crowned with a golden double V-fin centered with a red tab over its sharp pale-green eyes.

The Gundam then pulls out the blood-tipped knife and twirls it back into its wrist-mounted storage.

"2ND LIEUTENANT!" All other Grazes then charge toward the Gundam guns blazing.

The Gundam then kicks the downed Mobile Suit towards the gunfire, causing it to explode into a magenta haze, obscuring the Gundam.

"SHIT! WE LOST HIM!" One of the pilots cursed.

"EVERYONE! STAY IN FORMATION!" The other pilot barked out from the comms. "WE CAN'T LET IT PICK US OFF ONE BY ONE-"

The Gundam's knife is then inserted through the Graze's Head Sphere Sensor. The intercoms inside the Mobile Suit's cockpit go black.

"Shit. Shit. Shit!" The pilot then pulls out an emergency kit that consists of a radio, a penlight, and a 9mm pistol.

Before the pilot can reach for the radio, the whole cockpit shakes violently.

Outside, Gundam Stolas catches the disabled Graze by its "nose", taking the poor bastard for the ride of what was going to be the last moments of the pilot's life, going well over 2,000 mph.

The only thing left inside the Graze's cockpit was the pilot's helmet full of blood and his whole body now contorted into a heap of mangled limbs.

"SHIT! IT'S TOO FAST!" The Grazes fired their 120mm Rifles at the blue blur in vain. The blue blur then flies toward one of the ships behind the Grazes.

"COMMANDER!" The comms roared out. "THE GUNDAM BROKE THROUGH THE LINES!"

"ALL SHIPS! FIRE ALL GUNS AT WILL! ALL SHIPS GO INTO BATTLE MODE AND SORTIE ALL REMAINING MOBILE SUITS!" Iok barked out his orders to the remaining ships.

The flagship's main bridge then withdraws into its cloister.

Guns from the ships and Mobile Suits alike fired out their munitions at will.

The Gundam in its fighter form dodged all of them with ease as it then transitions into its Mobile Suit form, and pulls out two 90mm Uzis, shooting the Grazes down with deadly precision.

Stolas then reverts back to its fighter form, flying towards the Skipjack's now-exposed hanger.

"WHAT THE-"

Those were the last words spoken from the pilot's comms as the Graze explodes inside of its hanger, taking all other Grazes and the whole ship it was on with it.

Three Skipjacks down, about four remain at the mercy of this Gundam.

"... Another Skipjack down, Lord Iok." The comms officer stated.

Iok was trembling in his seat, horrified at the carnage that one measly Mobile Suit was causing. The screen shows the Gundam wasting the Grazes left and right as speeds toward another Skipjack.

No matter what orders Iok gives out, no matter how talented his men are, no matter how advanced his fleet's Mobile Suits were, no matter how much the Arianhrod outnumbered the enemy, it didn't change the fact that Iok still sees that the Gundam was still flying around and another Skipjack explodes on the big screen.

"COMMANDER!" The comms officer to Iok's right yelled out. "OVER 59% OF OUR FORCES ARE NO LONGER ACTIVE! WE'RE TAKING TOO MUCH HEAT! WE NEED TO PULL BACK AT ONCE!"

Iok grits his teeth upon the decision that he was faced with. Either break his family's creed of never running away in order to save his men's lives, or uphold the creed and watch his men die like cattle.

"Commander..."

Iok's eyes then begin to blur from the mounting pressure of his position.

"Commander..."

Iok's breathing becomes uneasy as his heart rate begins to increase and cold sweat pours down from his cheeks.

"COMMANDER!"

Iok snaps out of his panic.

The Kujan scion turns toward his officer.

"Your orders."

Iok gulps down his remaining fears down to his throat.

"Order all remaining ships and Mobile Suits to retreat."

"Yes sir." The officer then goes back to his assigned comms to relay the orders to other ships.

The remaining Skipjacks then begins to turn around towards their course of retreat.

"Aww. Getting cold feet already?" The voice behind the comms mocked Iok.

A rumbling sound of an explosion was heard through the flagship's thick hulls.

"Then let me turn up the heat then."

"LORD IOK! ANOTHER AHAB REACTION READING!" One of the comms officers cried out. "IT'S ANOTHER GUNDAM TYPE!"

Another Gundam.

Iok resists pissing himself when he sees the next UMS's (Unidentified Mobile Suit) designation name.

ASW-G-68 Gundam Belial

Outside, the red-and-black Gundam with monstrous-looking clawed arms and feet, pulls out its hand from hull of the destroyed Skipjack. It's narrow V-finned head then turns to see a squadron of Grazes approaching it, in hopes of slowing this new Gundam's advance and buy time for the ships to retreat.

"FOR LOR IOK!" The Grazes then begin to fire their guns towards the hellion of a Gundam.

The 120mm rounds from their rifles simply bounce off its obsidian armor, not even chipping its paint job.

"ALL UNITS, PULL BACK-" Before the platoon leader can finish his order, one Graze breaks formation and charges toward the lone Gundam with its 9.8m Battle Axe in hand.

"FOR LORD IOK-"

Belial's whole arm then fires out with a wire attached to its rear, grasping the Graze's cockpit, digging its red claws into it.

The tips of the claws then open up to reveal small vents.

"What the-" The pilot is then set upon by multiple jets of fire from the claw's vents.

"HELP ME! GET ME OUT OF HERE! IT BURNS! IT BU-"

Those were the last words of the pilot as his face behind his helmet's visor was frozen with pain and fear, right before his Graze explodes into a ball of fire.

The cabled clawed arm the retracts back to the Gundam that it came from.

The Gundam's blood-red eyes then shine toward the remaining Grazes like a starved predator.

"SCATTER!" The Grazes then all fly into different directions in hopes of losing the deranged-looking Gundam.

The Gundam then simply fires all of its arms and legs towards the remaining Grazes, with each of its claws digging into their cockpits.

Fire then floods the cockpits, turning each Mobile Suit in Belial's grasp into a furnace of a Devil's personal make.

All five Grazes are now decimated. And on the Gjallarhorn's side about a few squadrons of Grazes remain, with only two Skipjacks remaining operational.

The two errant Gundams then fly towards the fleeing ships.

"ALL SHIPS! COVER FIRE!" The scion yelled over the ship's comms.

The cannons of the remaining ships turn toward the two Gundams begins to unload all of its munitions.

Belial then shoots out one of its arms, grabbing the Graze by its ankle.

"G-GET AWAY!" The pilot shrieked as he then tries to hack off the clawed arm with its axe, but to no avail.

The hellion Gundam then reels itself towards the struggling Graze, winding back its other arm, right before Belial delivers a massive punch to the Graze's face, knocking the whole head sensor off of the whole Mobile Suit. The two Mobile Suits breach the hanger, cramping the already-small space of the whole area, crashing through platforms and equipment by its mere bulk, and sending pilots, mechanics, and still-manned Mobile Suits into disarray.

Belial simply points its bladed fingers and spews out jets of flame onto the human crew members scorching them into charred silhouettes of their former selves.

One of the Grazes in the hanger detaches its rifle barrel from its 120mm, converting the gun into its close-combatant form.

"YOUR ASS IS MINE!" The pilot yelled out as he aimed his short-barreled rifle towards the Gundam.

The trigger is pulled, firing out its rounds.

The Gundam simply lifts up the Graze as a makeshift shield. Once its purpose has been served, the Gundam shoves the downed Graze towards its brethren behind it, sending them both crashing into the hanger's walls.

Belial then plunges both of its bladed arms into both of the Grazes's cockpits, right before setting them on fire, killing the two dead.

The Gundam then turns toward the closing hatches of the hanger.

"YOU HAVE NOWHERE TO RUN, YOU BASTARD!" The intercoms in the hanger roared out. "IF WE OF THE ARIANHROD FLEET ARE TO DIE, THEN WE'LL SIMPLY TAKE YOU DOWN WITH US-"

Before then voice can finish its message, the Gundam's claws then begin to glow in a shade of bright blue, with lines of heat radiating out of it.

Gundam Belial then digs through the closing hatch doors, prying them back open like a shelled oyster.

The Gundam then gives the camera in the hanger the middle finger right before it takes off, leaving behind the exploding ship to its fate.

"Lord Iok..." One of the comms officer in the flagship muttered out. "... We lost our last of our main fleets."

Iok grits his teeth so hard that if he grits it any harder, they'll break on their own.

"... Do not stop the retreat." Iok heaved out from his tears. "I'm not letting any more of my men die all because my grief." Iok then springs from his commander's seat.

"MAXIMUM PROPULSION! WE'RE ALL GOING BACK HOME ALIVE-"

A thundering rumble shakes the whole main bridge.

"STATUS REPORT!"

"GUNDAM BELIAL HAS LANDED ON TOP OF US!"

"SHAKE IT OFF-"

Sharp digits then burst through the ceiling, impaling the comms officer in front of Iok, and another claw nearly grazing the Kujan scion's left cheek as the whole bridge goes pitch-black, sans the still-active monitors.

The comms then flare to life.

"You know." The voice spoke out in its signature mocking tone. "I would say a snappy one-liner to make your inevitable death even more humiliating, but fuck it."

"Lord Iok." The other comms officer spoke out. "Another Ahab reading."

"Where's it at?" Iok heaved out from his seat.

"..."

"Well?" Iok grows impatient. "Where is it!?"

"... Behind us."

"How big is it?"

"... Three times bigger than our whole ship."

"... Is it the Yamato?"

"... It's better it you see it for yourself, Lord Iok."

The Kujan scion then approaches the monitor, right before his eyeballs almost escapes from their sockets from how big they opened up.

The Yamato wasn't a ship.

ARG-MA-G5-24 Metatron

But a Mobile Armor in guise of a ship.

"I'll just settle for seeing you piss yourself again." The comms then cut off as the vents on the digits open up.

"So you plan to burn us all to death then!?" Iok puts on a brave face. "Then co-"

"Nah, too easy."

The vents then spew out anything but fire.

"You can all suffocate to death instead."

The dizzying scent of gas then begins to fill the whole room.

The officers and their commander begins to choke in this hellish air, some of them slowly reached for their guns and aims it towards themselves, hoping for a painless death.

The gun fires, lighting the air itself on fire, causing the whole command bridge to explode into flames.

The ship, however was still (relatively) intact.

Gundam Belial gives a thumbs-up toward the soaring Gundam Stolas.

The fighter then sends out a flare, signaling the Yamato to come closer.

The Mobile Armor's interiors then open up a hatch, releasing its specialized, High-Mobility Type Plumas to collect the remains of the detachment fleet as the Mobile Armor itself then swallows the intact flagship whole.

In the interiors, several appendages reach out towards the lifeless ship, dismantling it piece by piece.

Inside the ship however, a few officers and the rest of the staff were suiting up in their space suits, arming themselves with all sorts of guns, ready to fight for their lives.

The main hatch opens up, and out come the remaining Arianhrod staff.

... In the line of fire of Belial's mouth flamethrower coming from its head that is snaking out of its neck.

In flash, the Gundam disposes the remnants, leaving their once-whole bodies, burnt to a crisp.

"Good work." The comms inside the Yamato's interiors spoke out. "Head to the Mobile Suit hangers and refuel. Meet up with me on the main bridge for a briefing in an hour."

The two Gundams walk deeper into the hulls of the Yamato.

Within the same hanger, several other Mobile Suits loom within the darkness. The two settle down on their respective cloisters, with one heading out.

In the Mobile Armor's cockpit/bridge, a lone figure sits in front of numerous intercoms, with each showing a different views of the conflict between two mercenary factions.

"ASW-G-13 Gundam Beleth, you're cleared to launch at will." The unknown figure ordered through the comms. "Head towards the battlefield listed on the coordinates, collect our potential assets, and make sure that the merchandise is relatively intact. Understood?"

The sound of the catapult launching the Gundam towards the void of space echoes throughout the hulls of the Mobile Armor.

About roughly several miles away from the crash site, the conflict between the two mercenary factions was reaching its end.

On top of the JPT Trust's flagship, the Predator, was the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barabatos Lupus Rex, the Devil of Tekkadan, ready to deliver the coup de grâce towards the blubbering bastard with its oversized mace.

"Orga." Mikazuki spoke through the comms from his cockpit. "Your orders."

At the seat of the Isarabi, the tan-skinned, white-haired youth in a suit glowered at the intercom screen showing the horrified expression of Jasley Donomikols.

"Do-"

"Wait."

The comms of both ships were then interrupted from a unknown source.

"Trace the source!" Orga orders the staff.

"Boss!" One of the comms officer cries out. "We got one!"

"What the hell is it!?" The leader then rushes toward the screen, intending to find out who is interrupting his revenge towards that scum of a man below the Gundam's feet.

ASW-G-13 Gundam Beleth

"YOU BASTARD!" Orga yelled through the comms connecting to this rouge Gundam. "JUST WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!? THIS IS OUR BUSINESS!"

"I'm aware." The comms spoke back. "It's just that I'm cleaning up the mess that you fucks were about to make and my boss would prefer if the merchandise remained intact."

From the Predator, Jasley was laughing his ass off upon the fact that he was saved by some unknown being, as if the hand of God itself had intervened.

"Whoever you are, I thank you!" Jasley spoke through the comms. "Get me the hell out of here alive, and I'll put up a good word with the boss back at Teiwaz-"

"Spare me your bullshit, dead man. We're here for your ass."

Jasley's expression of joy then drops into a face of fear once more.

"Wha-WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN BY THAT!?" The man screamed through the comms.

"Ugh. Don't you what I just said? And here I thought that you knew what I mean to say, with you being, you know, from a galactic-equivalent of a mafia."

Jasley did know. It's just that he didn't want to believe it.

"Okay." The comms continued. "Since your brain seems to be not functioning properly as of now, allow me to dumb it down for you. I'm here for your ship, all of your Mobile Suits, all of your equipment, all of your clothes that you have on your back, and oh, can't forget all your food, now can I?"

"JUST WHY THE HELL I HAVE TO COMPLY TO THE DEMANDS OF A NO-NAME SPACE PIRATE!?" Jasley yelled out. "ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHAT!? FUCK THAT!"

The man then grabs his microphone and begins to relay his orders. "ANYONE WHO FINDS THAT DAMN GUNDAM WILL GET A PROMOTION! AND YES! THAT INCLUDES YOU HUMAN DEBRIS BASTARDS-"

"Too little, too late buddy."

The sirens in the Predator goes off.

"BOSS!" One of the officers cried out. "I-INTRUDERS! THEY BREACHED THE SHIP!"

From the breach, several armed figures come marching out of the exit. Upon seeing the staff of the Predator, the unknown figures open fire upon the hapless mercenaries, killing them dead without as so much as a smidge of resistance.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT!?" Jasley yelled out. "IF YOU WANT MY STUFF, THEN YOU CAN HAVE IT! JUST DON'T KILL ME AND I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT!"

"Then I want your head over a fireplace and your fat ass inside a meat grinder. How's that for a deal then?"

Jasley grits his teeth "You dare mock me-"

A lifeless Hyakuren floats towards next to the Barbatos.

Upon seeing the trashed Mobile Suit, Jasley orders the remaining JPT Trust's Mobile Suits to find out where the downed Mobile Suit came from.

Beneath their ship, they begin to frantically search for this enigmatic Gundam.

"WHERE THE HELL IS IT!?" One of the pilots yelled through the comms.

"SEND IN THE HUMAN DEBRIS FIRST THEN!"

The Hugo then shoves a Man Rodi in, forcing it to play the part as bait.

Instead, the Hugo is then shocked by something and the whole Mobile Suit short-circuits.

"... What just happened-"

The Hyakuren's intercoms inside its cockpits goes completely dark.

A thin blade slides out of its eyes right before it retracts back into somewhere.

The last Man Rodi then starts firing its gun everywhere in panic.

Two shots where heard, directly shooting its main batteries, rendering the whole Mobile Suit nonfunctional.

Within the darkness was the Gundam, standing upside-down on the surface of the Predator, surrounded by dead Mobile Suits.

"I'm not mocking you, Jasley." The comms stated. "I'm just plainly stating that I'm killing everyone on your ship and all of your Mobile Suits that you have outside will be commandeered. Is it so hard to comprehend?"

The comms then redirect towards Tekkadan's. "As for you young warriors, you may go back home, for you've done enough for one day."

"HELL NO!" Orga roared out. "WE CAME THIS FAR AND YOU'RE EXPECTING US TO TURN-"

"Who's telling you to turn?" The comms responded. "You've done what you needed to do, and hell, me and my boss have done you guys all a favor by eliminating the Arianhrod detachment force that were about to come from your rear."

"I don't believe you." Organ droned out.

"Make of that what you will." The comms then cut off as the whole flagship opposing them was allegedly going straight to hell.

"Mika." Orga spoke through the comms. "Stupid plan, but can you check on what's going on in the ship?"

"Don't need to." Mikazuki replied. "In fact, the others have front-row seats to this little shitshow."

In front of the Predator, Ride, Shino, Dante, Akihiro, and everyone else were staring through the front window with their Mobile Suits.

From the window, Jasley tried to yell at them to "fuck off", but before he can go on any further, several figures dressed in pure-black tactical combat gear enter the main bridge, and proceeds to ventilate the bastard that killed Naze and Lafter in cold blood, as indicated by the blood splattered all over the window panes.

The blood is wiped off with a hand, revealing the figure in black, giving the Tekkadan Mobile Suits an "ok" signal.

"... That was fucking weird." Akihiro commented.

"Mika, what happened in there?" Orga spoke through the comms to the Barbatos.

"Jasley's dead." Mikazuki replied.

Orga slumps back onto his seat. The feeling of his revenge against the bastard that sent big brother Naze to his death has now carved a deep hole into his soul.

"Just what is this empty feeling?" Orga thought as his chance of revenge was stripped away right in front of him.

As he thought of this new feeling of disappointment, the Mobile Suits associated with Tekkadan return to their ships.

"Oh, and a parting message from my boss." The voice behind the comms spoke out. "If you know a man named McGillis Fareed, tell him that 'Ragnarok is coming'."

Beneath the now-empty Predator, a Gundam lacking a V-fin appears before the Barbatos, giving it a thumbs-up before reattaching a large pack onto its back and departing towards an unknown location.

"Oh and P.S. All the Mobile Suits that I've disabled is now all yours."

To Be Continued...

Author's Notes: I might be going crazy writing a third fanfic right upon juggling the previous two, but fuck it.

I'm already insane as is.

So yeah, in celebration of the upcoming release of Gundam NT, I've cooked up this brainchild ever since reading Wing Zero Alpha's fic, Mobile Suit Gundam Alpha, so yeah.

I'm giving it my all, as always.

So this little AU fic that I've cooked up? First order of business, I must ask a question.

Which death of Iok was more deserving?

Death by Gusion Rebake Full City's oversized gardening shears from the canon anime?

Or death by monoxide poisoning while watching his fellow crew that he was commanding die in front of him one by one?

You the readers decide!

As par for course when it comes to my fanfics, prepare for OCs. Both pilots and Mobile Suits alike.

And like Alpha, OC Mobile Suits will be covered in detail, with a few bits of backstory of said machines.

So what do you guys think?

Leave any thoughts, comments, or review on this new little journey that I'm about to partake.

Specs for OC Mobile Suits (Introduced in Order Debuted)

EB-05s Schwalbe Graze Raubvogel: A heavily-customized variant of the Schwalbe Graze. Built for close/anti-Mobile Suit combat, this Mobile Suit was requested for a pilot who wanted to keep his very first unit but have the capabilities of the recently-produced EB-08 Reginlaze. It's still capable of carrying the standard-issue 120mm Rifles and 9.8 m Battle Axe, but the pilot forgoes all of that prefers to stick to its dual Wire Claws and the recent addition of the Hunter's Edge derived from the Gundam Vidar. With its ability to catch its targets and hacking its prey with its feet, it was eventually given its moniker of "Raubvogel", which translates to "Raptor" in German. Its paint job is black and navy, suggested by the pilot to give his custom Mobile Suit the capability to camouflage in space, and also because the pilot who requested it thought it looked cool, which the other Gjallarhorn aces constantly remind him of as an inside joke within the community.

ASW-G-36 Gundam Stolas: One of the Gundam frames from the Calamity War, this Mobile Suit is designed for hit-and-run tactics, as complemented by its close-range weaponry. It carries a pair Gundam Astaroth's combat knives sheathed in its sleeves, and its firearms options are the rare 90mm Uzis, which are designed to eat through hulls, both Mobile Suit and Ships alike. Additionally, it carries a set of 50mm vulcans around its collar for additional firepower, and can be used as the fighter mode's main source of offense. It's unique feature is its ability to transform into a form resembling a fighter jet and in its fighter form, its overall speed triples, going well over 2,000 mph in a matter of moments. In order to combat this detriment, it's cockpit is laced with numerous shock absorbers so that the torque wouldn't send the whole cockpit out flying, numerous engine limiters were placed so it wouldn't explode, and its Alaya-Vijnana System was completely overhauled so that the pilots who were piloting it wouldn't have their spines snapped in two during the first five seconds of its launch (Yes, that did happen). All was that was in vain, however. Despite those features being added during the Calamity War, and it was notorious for killing over 28 pilots during its 20-month service before it was launched into space after declaring it a failure. So why did it show up in this skirmish/complete slaughter? Is it remote-controlled? Or did the pilot actually conquer this monster of a Mobile Suit? If the latter is proven true, then who is the insane bastard that actually did it? It's paint job is blue and slate gray with bits of red, with yellowish-gold for the double V-fin.

* Overall Mobile Suit is based off the MSZ-006 Zeta Gundam (Zeta Gundam), and the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero (Gundam Wing).

* Its weapons are Post-Disaster Era versions of Gundam Pixy's loadout (Cross Dimension 0079), with Wing Gundam Zero's collar vulcans.

ASW-G-68 Gundam Belial: One of the Gundam frames from the Calamity War, and the very first of its kind to be destroyed in its initial 1-month deployment. Its last visual during the Calamity War was that its arms, legs, and head were being ripped apart by five different Mobile Armors, with the cockpit being invaded by a High-Mobility Type Pluma. Fast-forward +300 years later, this Mobile Suit is now sporting a completely different and outright demonic appearance, this Gundam is now an unconventional anti-Mobile Suit specialist and anti-personnel unit. Its weapons are four of its γ Nanolaminate clawed limbs that can extend out like Gundam Barabatos Lupus Rex's Rex Nail, and each limb packs an exhaust vent on each digit that can be switched out with incendiary or poison gas tanks. Or alternatively, its flame tanks can also double as monoxide exhausts, also turning this feature into a posion weapon. Alternatively, the claws themselves can be heated for a quick kill, or even act as an escape method. Its "secret weapon" is its head, which carries not so much as a flamethrower, but a blowtorch, which it's twice as effective as the claw-installed flamethrowers, but with a shorter range. The Gundam's head has a mouth (the gap between the black and red sections on its face) can open, its teeth can "bite" through Nanolaminate plating like hot knife through butter, and it can it extends its neck out like that of a snake in a basket. Additionally, the Gundam's armor is composed of the extremely-rare Ω Nanolaminate, the most durable of its kind, and its signature feature was that the metal always appears not in metallic, gunmetal black, but rather pure, obsidian, glossy-black. Impracticality aside, this Gundam is solely designed for fear tactics and sowing discord in enemy formations. Outside of Mobile Suit combat however, its feature eerily resemble that of a Mobile Armor's functions. One could say that the Demon that once hunted down the Angels has now become an Angel itself. It's paint job is only black and blood-red, including its V-fin.

* Overall Mobile Suit is an amalgamation of the GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam (Gundam SEED), AMX-014 Döven Wolf (Gundam ZZ), AGE-2DH Gundam AGE-2 Dark Hound (Gundam AGE), and the always-bizarre Gundam The End (Gundam Build Fighters Try).

* The flamethrower claws are loosely based off Guren Type-01's (Code Geass) arm-implanted Radiation Wave unit.

ARG-MA-G5-24 Metatron/CHAR-0088 Yamato: The long-lost Mobile Armor from the Calamity War has now risen back from the dead. Appearance-wise, it resembles less that of an homicidal automation but more of a carrier fleet, although its size and function is justified since this "Mobile Armor" is more leaned toward being a mobile hanger for its brethren, rather than for populace downsizing, but its still capable of doing so. It's main method of offense is to produce an overabundance of Plumas, a standard for all Mobile Armors in its series. However, Metatron holds the distinct advantage of having the highest production rate and the most variation production of said Plumas (Variations will be given further detail as they debut). Variations include the Pluma Ground Type (the ones that are shown in the canon anime), the Pluma High-Mobility Type (used in space and ariel traversing), and the Pluma Anti-Type (anti-Mobile Suit variation). And as it also functions like a carrier fleet, this Mobile Armor carries all sorts of artillery equipment that an Armored Assault Ship would carry on its hulls, such as the typical main guns, anti-aircraft ballistics, and numerous missile salvos. Another feature as a Mobile Armor is its internal Beam Generator, but unlike its counterparts's uses for mass-destruction, the energy is used as a perpetual-motion-engine reactor, meaning that this Mobile Armor doesn't need to refuel constantly, allowing it to focus on supporting its brethren. As shown by its loadout, it's domain is in space, and even though this unit can function on surface ground, it's basically a sitting duck for sniper Mobile Suits, due to its obvious weak shot being its hanger interiors. In fact, the whole reason why it was classified as MIA rather than DIA is that it was assumed to have retreated into the asteroid belt after losing other Mobile Armors to support. Regardless, Metatron is deserving of its reputation of one of the many Mobile Armors that nearly put humanity to its grisly end during the Calamity War, and any pilot foolhardy enough to underestimate its capabilities will find themselves buried. Literally.

* Overall Mobile Armor is based off the MA-05Ad Big Rang (MS Igloo).

* Mobile Armors in the IOB universe doesn't have designation numbers, so I'm giving them one, just because.

* ARG means "Apocryphal Records of the Genesis", G5 means "Genesis chapter 5", 24 references "verse 24" of Genesis. All of that references to the Chapter in Genesis where Enoch have met Metatron and ascended towards Heaven.

* Mobile Armor has been renamed after one of the IPJ Fleets.

* Its fake serial designation number is a reference to the movie, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack.

Pluma High-Mobility Type: The standard-issue Pluma that all the anime watchers know and love, but modified with various equipment to make it fit for space mobility, like additional thrusters on its legs and a fuel cartridge for fast refueling and longevity. It's railguns are replaced with a magnetic grappling hook derived from the Gouf Custom (08th MS Team), its claws were modified into pincers for securing its prey, and its real drill is removed in favor of a stinger tail reminiscent of the Hashmal's Wire Blade, but a boring drill to dig through tough materials rather then an anti-personnel blade. All of these equipment is solely meant for logistic support for its manufacturer, but like all of its counterparts, they still have the means and ways to rip a Mobile Suit a new one. Preferably in its cockpit.

ASW-G-13 Gundam Beleth: One of the many of the Gundam Frames from the Calamity War, and the biggest oddball of its lineup. Beleth is designed to be the most adaptable out of all of the 72 Gundam Frames. It's main feature was its Variable-Pack System, which allows it to equip backpacks that suit for different situations and needs. Ammo caches, mobile repair tools, and civilian transport were the options proposed for this Gundam. Keyword, being "proposed". In reality, the whole Variable-Pack System, while already installed, it wasn't built upon any further then that, and the only time that it was used was testing the other Gundam's equipments, and was eventually labeled as the "Testbed Gundam". It only saw battlefield deployment once, and surprisingly, it lasted on its feet for the whole battle. But by some sheer stupidity-induced luck, the Gundam was blown off its feet by a stray mine, a misfire from one of the guns during its maintenance, and the Mobile Armor that the whole squadron was fighting was still functioning, and the final seal on Beleth's fate was a stray railgun fire through its back and out its chest. Now upon its return, it has gone from a testbed unit, to a fully-fledged stealth and infiltration unit. Its Ahab reactors were gutted out in place of conventional rocket thrusters, it paint job was updated from the typical white and blue to a navy and dark violet for space camouflage, its V-fin was completely removed from its head, its feet now have magnetic soles for sticking onto the ship's surfaces, its Variable Pack is now a carrier for personnel transport/breaching party, and its loadout consists of two 50mm Handguns holstered on its legs for a surprise ranged option, 10m Stilettos concealed in the Gundam's cuffs for disabling other Mobile Suits, and its main weapon is the 20m Tesla Baton, which carries enough electrical charge to short-circuit any Mobile Suit up to a Gundam-type for every hit landed, and it can be done up to five consecutive times. The main drawback is that this Mobile Suit has the durability of a wet tissue paper, it's the one of the slower Gundams in the lineup, and with it being a dedicated stealth unit, the overall difficulty of piloting this Mobile Suit is near-impossible to pull off. But anyone with enough dedication and experience sticks to this Mobile Suit, and a whole new world opens for the pilot behind the control sticks, where no one else can even dream to enter.

* Overall Gundam is based off the RX-79 [G] Ez-8 Gundam Ez8 (08th MS Team), RX-78GP01 Gundam "Zephyranthes" (Gundam 0083: Stardust Memories), GAT-X105 Strike Gundam (Gundam SEED), GN-000 0 Gundam (Gundam 00), and the RGM-89De Jegan ECOAS Type (Gundam Unicorn).