Gall Force: Battlezone Earth
By Jason King
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Based on the Gall Force series by Movic
This story contains the timeline and survival explaination established by Fred Herriot. Aside from that this is mostly out of my imagination.
Written on a 386 with Windows 3.1! (Cool huh?)
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Intro
-----3,000,000 BC-----
The 9th star system...
In the final seconds before the final destruction of Chaos, Rabby and Patty pull their fighters out of the planet's atmosphere. The central guard cruiser being completely vaporized by the great hear of the activators. Rabby felt no sympathy to the five ships, and the Paranoid dynomech. Good riddance she thought to herself. The escape pod of the Blossom went rocketing towards Terra, taking Rumy and the boy with it. If there was anyplace they could live, it would be Terra.
But the new question that Rabby and Patty were left with was, "What next?"
What next indeed. They both knew that if they tried to return to the fleet they would be tried for treason, and they both did not want to go to Terra, even if seemed like the ideal place to go, something inside said they shouldn't. So here their two ships were, orbiting a burning planet with no where to go.
"So Rabby, what should we do?", Patty asked.
"I'm not sure. There aren't that many options open to us." Rabby replied.
"I know. This is a real problem. I know what we did was the right thing, but I don't think there is anything we can do from here."
"Actually, I just thought of something we can do to fix our problem."
"Really? What?"
"About a year ago, I heard rumors of there being other civilized planets out in this part of the galaxy that have actually been taking in refugees from this war. After all this is the most isolated territory of either side, so it would be very easy to safely get to one of these planets." Rabby explained.
"Do you know where they are, after all, these are just rumors."
"I could use the scanners on the fighter, and there should be some nearby planets. We could find them."
"Well, okay then. As long as you know what we're doing."
Rabby and Patty pulled thier fighter's out of Chaos orbit and out of the system. They quickly fly past Mars and move on into the astroid belt. Most of the giant space rocks were pretty well spaced and they could negotiate the belt without too much difficulty. Untill one of the astroids strayed into Patty's flight path. It was a medium sized rock, about the size of a car, but it was moving rather fast, and it caught Patty off guard. It soon collided with her ship and damaged her right engine, this was enough damage to cause her to collide with Rabby, inflicting similar damage to Rabby's ship.
"Aaahh! I collided with something, my controls are damaged!" Patty said in a panick.
"So are mine, I don't think we can make it out of the system. We'll have to preform an emergency landing."
"I think we can land on a nearby moon orbiting the sixth planet. It has an atmosphere."
"Well that's something."
Both ships stuggled to keep steady, Titan was dead ahead. The ships quickly entered atmosphere and landed hard, rendering the two Solnoids unconscious. The cold temperature froze there bodies preserving them. And fate as it would seem, would bring another group to Solnoids to the giant moon.
Sigma Narse---10 years later...
Not long after the Chaos fiasco, the last ever battle of the great Solnoid-Paranoid war was coming to a crashing end. The last ships of the now ravaged and crippled fleets of the Solnoid and Paranoid fight each other in an all out death match where neither side is expecting to escape alive. Planet destroyers and warships, exchange fire bringing each other down with each blast. Lasers rip through the metal armor of the ships and plasma beams vaporize whole compartments, millions of live are lost. And finally, the battle comes to the ultimate climax as the last three planet destroyers of both sides fire off at once, bringing the battle to a quick end with brutal finality.
But it seems that there are some survivors. At the edge of the solar system a lone gunship luanches a missile carrying, not explosives but a data card containing the entire history of the solnoid race, to the planet Chaos. Also it seems that there is also a small fighter nearby. Lufy looks out at the gigantic explosion created by the destroyers. Her fighter is heavily damaged, this was the toughest battle ever in her career. But, like all the rest, she made it out alive, now with 357 kills on her data tag.
"Am I the last one?" she asked herself. After saying that, she suddenly felt a big lump in her throat. The last one. That sounded so lonely. "I'm alone."
She learned a lot since she left the academy, then she was just a brash fighter jock, out there for the action, not really paying attention to the lives being lost around her, but after her experience on the "Star Leaf" and then with the Lorelli fleet she learned the importance of freindship, First Rabby, and then the Lorelli girls. But now she was alone agian, this time for good.
She was so caught up thinking about that that she didn't notice the blip on her scanners. "WHY AM I ALWAYS THE LAST ONE!" she yelled in anger. She refused to let herself cry, and instead, slammed her fists down on the control panels. When she then noticed the other blip, it was a friendly! How? She didn't care how, she steered the ship around to contact the other ship, Maybe it was Shildy and the others. "Idiot, don't get mixed up over the impossible." But still, she wouldn't stop thinking about it.
"Well, it's over.", Shildy said with a sigh.
"It ended so quickly." Spea added.
The four of them Shildy, Spea, Catty, and Amy looked out at the giant explosion unfolding in front of them. The gunship just sat there drifting, left undisturbed by the destruction only a few planets away. They may not have been able to save the Solnoid and Paranoid, but at least now a new race would be able to carry on in areas neither side was able to take part in. They could only wonder what Terra would someday be like. And now, the same question that hit Rabby and Patty was now going to hit them, "What next?"
"Now that we are the last survivors, what are we going to do now? We can't just drift here forever." Spea asked.
"If I may interrupt, I have a blip on scanners that is fast approaching us." said Catty.
"What? Is it a Paranoid?" Shildy asked.
"No, it appears to be one of our own." Catty replied.
"Really?" Shildy asked surprised.
"Here it comes." Spea said.
Lufy's fighter passed by and turned right around coming to a near stop close to the gunship. "Hello? Is there anyone alive in there?" Lufy called through the intercom. Moments later she heard a very familiar voice. "Lufy! Is that you?!" Shildy asked back, her voice sounding shrill.
"Shildy?! Wow, I must be dreaming. What are you guys doing out here?" Lufy asked.
"We were finishing something Captain Nebulart wanted us to do." Shildy replied.
"Say, my ship is really banged up, is there any room on that ship for me?" Lufy asked noticing all of the panels in her ship were flashing warnings and other cautions.
"Sure." Shildy replied.
Lufy's ship canopy popped open and she steered her struggle suit into the open hanger of the larger gunship. After getting aboard she got out of the struggle suit and walked over into the cockpit of the ship.
"You know Lufy, I honestly think nothing in this galaxy can bring you down." Shildy said as Lufy came in.
"You're probably right. But do you have any ideas for what we should do from here?" Lufy asked, knowing the seriousness of the situation.
"We can't go back to Marsus" Amy said, sounding sad.
"And there aren't any surviving "Star Build" planets." Spea added.
"Ah, but you are forgetting one that IS still here." Catty said.
"You mean Terra don't you." Shildy inquired.
"Yes, if you look at all of the available options, Terra is the best choice." Catty explained, "It is still Solnoid territory, and it has the perfect environment for the Solnoid body."
"Hey, I have no problem with going there, why not." Lufy said.
"Actually, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. But we may not have enough fuel to make the whole trip." Shildy explained, a little cautious.
"Well I think it's better than wasting fuel sitting around here. I say we go." said Lufy.
"I agree with Lufy." Spea said.
"Then it's settled, we should go to Terra." Lufy said, trying to bring the discussion to a quick end.
"Okay, we'll go. But I hope we have enough fuel to make it the whole way."
The gunship flashed into lightspeed on course for Terra, but it would seem that Shildy was right and they didn't have enough fuel to make it to Terra. With whatever amount of auxilary fuel there was Lufy managed to bring the ship to a landing on Titan. Upon realizing thier situation, Lufy recommended going into cryofreeze so if by any crack chance they may have, an advanced Terran civilization would find them. Catty would stay awake for a while to make sure nothing would go wrong. What non of them knew, was that they landed very close by Rabby and Patty, who were already frozen for ten years.
What would happen to them next was for the fates to decide.
---2534 AD the 9th System-----
"Enemy SiegeMechs detected in sector grid 551, moving to intercept. Targets are a level 5 threat. Stay alert out there!"
Five Terran BattleMechs were patrolling the Titan terrian when they detected 12 enemy SiegeMechs landing near their patrol zone. It was wartime in the former 9th system, now known by the Terrans as the Solis system. The heavy war machines soon went into close conflict with each other bringing forth a fierce battle.
The lead mech pilot linked his weapons and activated the manual torso turret. "Alright you alien bastards, prepare for your ultimate doom!" He zeroed in on the lead mech and let loose with a barriage of machinegun and plasma blasts, gradually ripping off the armor of the enemy mech. The plasma cannons let off powerful recoils and the chainguns created firetrails with their bullets in the thick methane atmosphere of the moon titan. The huge metal behemoths of both sides fought fiercely in a ballet of metallic destruction. Using quick manuvers and all of his skill he made quick work of his enemy. His squad mates were doing equally well as they carefully targeted the weak points of their enemies.
The battle continued farther and farther away from the Terran base until both sides were out of the scanner range of their mother bases. Only the orbital satelites could find the five Terran warriors as they forced the enemy mechs into a slow retreat. But their mission was to destroy all enemies. And the enemy mechs weren't planning on giving up quickly. The six remaining SiegeMechs gathered their senses and started showing their skills to their Terran foes. The 6 legged insect-like enemy SiegeMechs locked their guns and returned heavy fire upon the less armored Terran BattleMechs. The second in command's cockpit was quickly atomized in the blaze of a harsh nuclear ray. The giant mech collapsed to the ground unsettling thousands of methane "snow flakes". The mech quickly and violently exploded tossing shrapnel all over the battle field.
"NOOO!!!" the leader cried out in anger as he quickly fired off several blasts at the legs of his enemy, quickly bringing it to the ground. The battle continued with lasers, bullets, plasma, and missiles flying in all directions. As the dust settled only three mechs were left standing, all of them Terran.
"Enemy targets destroyed, 2 losses, no other targets in sight." the leader looked around for any possible ambush points, finding none he began to turn his mech around, his squad mates doing the same. As he turned, he noticed some unussual looking wreckage, he didn't remember blowing anything up in that direction.
"Titan command, I have something a little out of the ordinary on visual scan."
"I can see it too." said one of the other pilots.
"Minion One, this is Titan command, can you send us an image?"
"I'll see what I can do." Slayer one zoomed in on the wreckage with his sniper system. Then he pressed a button on his left control panal to take a field image. Then he relayed it back to base using the Titan satelite network.
"Minion One, this is Titan command, visual recieved, we are checking it." there was a pause "analysis complete, the computer could not find anything like you found here. We are sending in a transport to your coordinates for pick up and close analysis.
Five minutes later a VTOL aircraft arived at the scene to pick up the three Solnoid ships. The three remaining mechs ran back to base. The pilots were eager to find out what they discovered.
The Titan base was built inside a large crater. It had 7 main dome structures and large metal tubes connecting each structure, this was in fact standard Terran base design. Six of the seven structures met together to form a hexagon, the seventh was placed in the center. This served as main command. The base itself was actually almost a city, the main command was situated in the south end of one of Titan's largest mountains, the mountain named Mt. Armstrong, after the first man to step foot on a celestial body other than the Earth. There was actually a large titainium mine in the mountain, which provided a vast majority of important war material. Near the mine was a medium sized arcology for the residents of the area, from there, 5 outposts and central command formed a defensive ring around the mountian and arcology. Other features of the base was a full sized spaceport and supply depot, as well as a field of machine warehouses and a fusion powerplant. Because of all of these features, the titan base is the second most important base in the solar system. The first most important point of the system is the World Nation of Mars, which contains the second largest human population in the solar system.
As they steered their mechs into the docking bay, the transport had already finished unloading it's unussual cargo. No one had any idea what might be in the ships.
to be continued...