A weapon for hire.
the battle for ponyville 4
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The kshatriya had lost no time entering saber range with the tallgeese, from then the dober gun had been set back on the side still strapped to its shoulder and a pink saber had been drawn from the shield now held firmly in its hand. They shared a few blow and entered into a rhythm of high low risk low reward feint and passing blow.
They were judging each other and kshatriya had quickly put away the sabers in her wings unable to share her focus between all of them under milliardo onslaught of attack and forced to constantly pull away from the trade she couldn't see the outcome of.
'how is he pushing me back so much?!'
Off course she already know how, milliardo used all her opening and weakness and aimed at joint and vital part like the cockpit or main optics almost constantly and with a precision and confidence that turned its feint into impossible to ignore threat. She ended up having to take each possible blow as a real one and was forced into the defensive.
If it wasn't enough it was clear he knew how to counter higher spec units, he interrupted any of her move before she could put weight behind them and kept her unstable and at a range that was far too close for comfort considering her longer arms reach.
And to top it all she was using a weapon he knew particularly well, the saber of the epyon were less condensed than regular beam saber and could actually be pierced by the thrust of one near its tip, as such she had to increase her saber particle output on the fly since leaving them on high power would drain her energy faster.
'd-dammit! I won't last long when other enemy units join if i'm already being thrown around like that by him alone!'
She was so worried she didn't see the shield strike that took her on her right side, it was followed by a downward slash coming and she crossed her blade up to block, but it was a feint and instead she took the tallgeese heel to the guts and was sent just below the tallgeese, she tried to pull up as leaving the high ground to him was a bad idea but before she could the tallgeese had retaken its dobergun in hand and shot her down at point blank, she fell from the sky her head smoking and sparking.
"Hacks the main optic is gone, i'm blind!!!"
'-repair underway kshatriya, the damage are manageable,image back into 1.30 minutes.'
"1.30 minutes?! I hardly got a second!"
A hail of bullets forced the tallgeese to pull back and fly around as it followed him, the heavy arm piloted by pinkie had noticed what was going on and seeing how the battle against the aries was -despite milliardo speech- still very on sided in favor of equestria decided to focus on lending a hand to kshatriya.
"Get off her meany!"pinkie and her heavy arm where falling from the sky having jumped from the ship and landed hard in front of the downed kshatriya before opening her shoulder silos and released a salvo of missiles.
The tallgeese fell into a dive as a missile hit its left shoulder ripping a part of its added hull leaving the ball joint exposed but still operational.
'the heavy arm? How did he end here?!' milliardo wondered,'wait, this kshatriya said she followed my story since i was zech but i never heard of her, if she could follow all my life since then without my notice is it so hard for her to get her hand on the gundams blueprints? Of course not. This woman is even more dangerous than i thought.'
Milliardo pulled the tallgeese up and picked altitude again while dodging the heavy arm hails of bullets. Turning around and flying just shy of the ground he pushed the tallgeese thruster into fullpower shield forward straight at pinkie . Pinkie stood her ground and braced for impact even while firing, the tallgeese only took a few scrash and bullets impact before hitting the heavy arm and lifting it up and across the battlefield for miles before slamming the heavy arm back on the ground, the tallgeese was straddled on the heavy arm.
Pinkie unlocked the knife in her right forearm and slashed at the tallgesse but milliardo knew about the hidden blade and caught it in its shield's edge were it cut deep and ended stuck.
"Crap basket!"pinkie screamed, her left arm was stuck into the gatling, useless at short range and her right arm was stuck along with the blade as for her missiles at this range it was goingto hurt her maybe more than him since she was stuck against the ground.
Milliardo raised its beam saber high but before he could finish pinkie off, it was the tallgees turn to be tackled and lifted off the ground and toward the sky, the heavy arm blade snapping off instantly with how fast the talleese had been ripped from atop it.
"T-this mobile suit it belong to?!"milliardo muttered, the blue units had large shoulder pad and long arm-guard as well as a head crest.
Luna's voice confirmed its suspicion."long time no see toddler, playing rough with my friend i see?" the bertigo threw the tallgeese to the side but before he could gets its bearing back she fired at him with the beam canon in her forearm and got its backpack left thrusters unable to maintain its altitude he started to fall, she took advantage of the high ground and opened fire at him, milliardo did its best but its shield could only cover so much and its damaged backpack barely allowed dodging maneuver.
The talgeese finally crashed down smocking with half melted hull plates and ripped apart mechanic, giving each limbs response a quick check-up, milliardo was relieved to once more behold the tallgeese resilience. He severed power to a few now missing part and ejected every useless pieces of hull he could, solving the MS system problem in barely a few second and instant decision.
"Princess luna, it seem your unit was upgraded, just like all of the equestria units."now grounded the tallgeese was an easy prey for the flight capable bertigo and any units from the equestria passing by and deciding to attack him, having ejected a lot of plating the tallgeese was much lighter but also more fragile. Milliardo was doubtful of his chance.
The bertigo landed a few step from him,"indeed, and with the advantage in technologie gone we can now dispense some much needed spanking to l the young fool who thought themselves above morality and decency. You first and your maggots of father -a blight upon him- next." she turned on her two beam saber and took a stance. Both pointed forward, but her right arm was close to her while the left arm was almost fully extended.
Milliardo also took a Stance, ejecting aside the dober gun and raising is shield in front of its xcockpit he point is blade behind him from above is shoulder as if ready to slash downward.
They circled each others for some time, neither attacking merely waiting for a signal. A momentary wekness. And princess luna found it first.
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third person pov
After checking on pinkie, Kshatriy had observed with her secondary optic as her employer luna and one of her idols milliardo took there respective stance, her main optic was back online a few second before the clash.
And what a clash. It was beyond just speed it was like a choreography. Each blow was met with another there was no blocking no parry, merely attack meeting each others in a shower of spark and cacophony of straining plasma and mechanic. Each trade flowed into the next each dadge and shield deflected hit was done with hair thin movement.
't-this is...incomparable. So this is what two experimented pilots fighting look like in rel life.' the kshatriya visibly trembled.
'-kshatriya, you are experiencing a strong emotionnal reaction. You should tke the opportunity of the tllgeese being bussy to incapacitate it?'
'n-no way, i'm shaking in terror hacks can't you see?'
'-scanning...scanning complete. Diagnosis: incorrect kshatriya, you are clearly shaking from excitement.'
Had ksgatriya had a mouth, her smile would have splited her cheeks.
She let out an unsettling dry chuckle.'dammnit, how could i help it, look at them. They. Are. Beautifully!'
Milliardo's blade and the bertigo's blade clashed onlast time and then.
Milliardo shield's edge slammed into the left hand of the bertigo crushing its fingers and batted aside its right hand. It tried to capitalize on this with a clean slash of its beam saber but got nailed two time by beam laser, one in the right elbow just between the plating blasting its armed hand off and another almost nailed its head but instead melted its optic by how close it came to.
Milliardo looked left from where the beam had come, and far far away all the way atop the equestria ship stood the exia, holding a beam laser meant for a jegan with both hand.
'this girl got a mean aim!'
Milliardo grunted as the tallgeese was thrown down, frour beam saber pinning him to the ground two above two bellow its arms.
"Got you!" kshatriya yelled."its over milliardo, i have the high ground!"
Milliardo looked around for a way out, its arm could be sliced off way before he could do anything. The enemy units was far too heavy to be kicked away, all he could hope for was is personal guards.
"Knight to blank units, need assistance what is your E.T.A?"
There was a moment of silence and dread took hold of milliardo."sorry chump, your boy got no wing left to reach you. Come say hi to your boss." said rainbow dash voice on the com.
"S-sorry sir, she plucked us out of the sky right on the crazy woman clutch ghu!" there was a hitting noise and a grunt of pain.
"How do you call my friend crazy asshole! Anyway, don't wait for help from here before surrendering chump, none coming your way. "
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Rainbow dash P.O.V
Rainbow let the com fall to the ground and turned to the bound griffin around her, while she plucked the feather of the newcomer of the north, rarity was dismembering them, by orders of the princess none was to be killed. Milliardo and is close aid were part of the moderate party of griffonia and milliardo and is sister in particular were the children of an old friend of celestia.
Rainbow dash didn't like it though."fucking politic getting into matter of honor...who care about there mom and belief, those asshole still killed equestrians when said to."
She looked around, no enemy units in the air and the basic leo had long since been cleaned out. While kshatriya, luna pinkie and in some measure twilight had dealt with milliardo, the other had cleared the field of any threat.
"Rainbow dear, if you are done tying the scoundrel up, might i suggest going back in your unit?" rarity was busy plucking the javelin from the nearby body, those had proved very useful into crippling units without blowing them up, and there short side had allowed there use even in melee."i simply must ask kshatriya if she has other weapon like those, felt like old time when i used my needles..."
The mood of rainbow lightened a bit at earring her friend good mood, jumping on the opportunity to nurture it she answered."bet she does, gal might be a pervert but she know her tech."
Rarity's units seemed to freeze before the optic slowly focused on rainbow walking back to her unit."my word rainbow, this sound like gossip! You must tell me more!"
She grinned as she hoped aboard,"sure, see it started with her and princess luna talking on our way back from-"
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third person POV
kshatriya was sweating, figuratively of course. she had listened to there conversation and waited for milliardo to surrender but...it wasn't coming, he was just silent.'come on big guy, don't make me do this, i didn't come here to kill my idols!'
after what felt like hours and unable to wait any longer she spoke again."please milliardo, its enough just surrender and lets talk thing out like the peacraft normally do."
finally milliardo answered."*sigh* i can't surrender. blackbeak has my sister gilda surrounded by is agent, one step out of line from me or her and they kill her, same if i get too close of her."
kshatriya relaxed a bit,"well...that's a possibly nice coincidence. i guess?"
milliardo frowned,"how so?"
*BOOM*
an explosion pulled everyone's attention to the adrastea, the main control room was on fire and all who's optic could reach saw something burst out the shattered window.
"here agent berserk! i got the VIP alive! asking for extraction!"
kshatriya chuckled as she heard fluttershy sweet beautiful voice, and spoke to milliardo, "we kind of just abducted her in the chaos."
Author's Note
sorry for the long wait, i know many might think i would have published more with the isolation and covid-19 and all that jazz but i wasn't confined at home. i work on a post away from others and can't work from home so no i wasn't allowed to stay home, i stayed home like two day and then my boss had filled the paper for me to com back to work so yeah didn't have more free time. i had less actually since i went there by driving instead of transports so no writing on the way. still i got this one done and i started draft for the next one i also work on other story but nothing ready to come out.
still hope you enjoy the chapter. also keep your kin and yourself safe. ^^
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