Ptolemaios...

Abord the Ptolemaios, the members of Celestial Being were in the mission briefing room, watching a live broadcast from the Human Reform League about their response towards the actions that Celestial Being have taken.

Human Reform League Leader: "Because of Celestial Being's armed intervention on the island of Ceylon, 148 of our noble soldiers lost their lives. Though they speak of eradicating warfare, the actions taken by Celestial Being are nothing more than terrorism, throwing our nation into disorder. We, the Human Reform League intend to take a firm stance and confront their terrorist actions."

Lichty: "I don't think they like us."

Lasse: "It's a natural reaction."

Christina: "But won't the Human Reform League strengthen their military because of us?" Just then, Tieria entered the room.

Tieria: "If that's what they say they'll do, then we will simply continue armed interventions."

Feldt: "Eradication of war."

Tieria: "Yes, that is Celestial Being's true goal."

Earth...

A scoff came from Asha Daiki as he was listening to the broadcast on his communicator while lying on his bed in his apartment. In his hand was a photo he always kept on his person; it displayed the entire crew of the Ptolemaios with the Gundam Meisters. He remembered it was Christina's idea to do this while Lockon and Sumeragi agreed with it. Tieria and Setsuna were the only ones who weren't on board with that, but it still happened.

Human Reform League Leader: "Regarding Celestial Being's interventions, we will introduce a military measures act. Whether it be ground or space... should they enter our territory, we will respond with military action. And to stop Celestial Being from continuing this violence, the Union will..."

Before he could continue, Asha shut off the broadcast and sighed as he sat up.

Asha: "They're being too loud..." He looked at the photo again and closed his eyes. "But bring it on. Besides, this is the step we need to eradicate war. And I'll make sure that happens... With my Gundam."

>Mission 4: International Negotiation<

"By 2307 A.D., Earth's fossil fuels have been depleted. Three groups of nations have created orbital elevators and a solar power generation system, giving humanity access to an exhaustible source of energy. However, each league of nations continues to play a grand zero-sum game for their own prestige and prosperity. Yes, even in the 24th century, humanity is still unable to live as one. But now there are people who dare to challenge this world.

The private armed organization that possesses the mobile suits called Gundams. Celestial Being. In order to eradicate war from this world, they begin operations that transcend race, nationality and religion. And now, once again, a new mission handed down to the Gundam Meisters is about to begin."

Human Reform League...

In earth base for the Human Reform League, an older man who went by the title of Lieutenant Colonel or by his real name, Sergei Smirnov approached his superior, Commander Kim. This man was in fact the same on that had piloted that Tieren High Mobility type and battled the Gundam Vega one on one. Despite losing, he learned quite a bit from that encounter. Now that he had seen a Gundam for himself, he now knew that what people were saying about it was not exaggerated.

Kim: "So, how was it, Lieutenant Colonel? You traded blows with that Gundam, right? Let me hear your frank opinion."

(Sergei Smirnov aka Lieutenant Colonel)

Colonel: "Yes, sir. In my personal opinion, I do not believe a mobile suit exists anywhere in this world that can stand up to a Gundam."

Kim: "Is its performance that good?"

Colonel: "That's just my personal opinion."

Kim: "Then, it was worth calling you out here. Lieutenant Colonel, acquire a Gundam before the Union or AEU do."

Colonel: "Yes, sir!"

Kim: "I am forming an elite unit for this purpose. I'll leave the selection of personnel to you but there's two soldiers I'd like to entrust with you."

Colonel: "Two?" The commander smirked and turned in his chair while gesturing to the door behind him.

Kim: "Come in."

The one of the two doors opened, revealing two young ladies dressed in the Human Reform League's uniform. One had long white hair and golden eyes while the other, a bit shorter than the former, had long dark blue hair tied into a ponytail and light blue eyes. Instantly, the two saluted the commander and Colonel.

White Hair Girl: "Excuse us. We are Lieutenant Soma Peries and Lieutenant Aki Arlux, Super Soldier Number One and Two of the Super-Human Institute Technical Research Center."

(Soma Peries)

(Aki Arlux)

(A/N: She wears the same uniform as Soma.)

Colonel: "Super-Human Institute? Sir, I thought that project was..."

Kim: "Apparently, it was continued in secret. The higher-ups believe that it will be our trump card against the Gundams."

Soma: "As of today, we have been assigned to serve in your elite unit, Lieutenant Colonel. Pleased to meet you." The older man stared at the two young ladies in bewilderment, before the voice of Aki Arlux appeared in his mind.

Aki telepathically: "A pleasure to meet you, Lieutenant Colonel. Due to circumstances, I will be communicating with you through my Quantum Brainwaves. But I promise this will not be an issue in upcoming missions." There was a moment of silence before Colonel released a small sigh and said under his breath,

Colonel: "You both are much too young for this..."

>>Somewhere Else<<

Asha was seen walking through a park with a milkshake in one hand while his other hand was in his pockets. As for why he was there, well it wasn't only to relax a bit but was to also find Setsuna since their next mission was going to begin soon. As he walked along the path, he heard a small grunt followed by a light thud.

???: "Ow!"

He stopped and looked down to see this young girl, who seemed to be like a year younger than him, had fallen over in front of him. She had gray hair with twin pig tails and brown eyes. He blinked in surprise before crouching down and helping her up.

Asha: "Hey are you alright?"

Girl: "Y-Yes. Thank you, mister." she said with a polite bow, although she was a bit clumsy doing so. He shook his head and smiled while standing up straight.

Asha: "No worries. Run along now and be careful next time."

Girl: "R-Right!"

With an embarrassed blush on her face, the girl quickly left the area. Asha watched her leave, feeling a bit of nostalgia just watching her scurry away as it reminded him of a memory.

Asha: "Hah... She reminds me of Feldt when she was younger..."

He laughed, with a soft smile appearing on his face as he could see flashes of memories in his mind. Those of a much younger Feldt who was, at first quite timid when meeting him, but quickly warmed up to him. However, as he was remembering memories, distinctive voices caught his attention.

???: "Hey, it's you!"

???: "Saji Crossroad."

Turning his attention to the voices, he saw it was Setsuna, who was seated on a bench. But standing in front of him were two teenagers, a male, who the meister referred to as "Saji Crossroad" with brown hair and black eyes and a blonde girl who was clinging to him. Her name was Louise Halevy.

(Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy)

Asha: "Oh?"

Saji: "Yeah. That's it. You remembered my name."

Louise: "Who is this?" the girl asked him.

Saji: "Oh, he lives next door. He's, um..." Setsuna was about to answer, before Asha approached them with one arm on his hip and a smile on his face.

Asha: "He's Setsuna." he answered, causing the three teens to look at him. Asha just looked at them before looking at Setsuna. "Didn't know you were going out making friends. Here I thought you were the socially awkward type."

Setsuna: "What are you talking about?"

Saji: "Sorry, but are you, his friend?" he asked. The secret Meister of the Vega looked at him with a smile.

Asha: "You could say that. Name's Asha Daiki."

Union MSWAD Headquarters...

Ralph: "I've reinforced the backpack and joints and applied an anti-beam coating to the surface. For weaponry, I procured the Iris Corporation's new prototype rifles."

Looking up at their new upgraded and custom Flag Mobile Suits, Joe and Graham had impressed and excited grins on their faces.

Joe: "Hah. Now those are Mobile Suits. You did amazingly, Professor."

Billy: "In exchange, even with the Anti-G System activated, you'll feel about 12G when turning at full speed."

Graham: "Let me say I look forward to the challenge." He smirked.

???: "So, these are the First and Second Lieutenant's Flags?"

The men looked over to see two men, both wearing the same uniforms as Graham and Joe approach them. Immediately, both stood to attention and saluted at their superiors.

Howard: "Warrant Officer Howard Mason, Master Sergeant Daryl Dodge. We've been appointed to the Anti-Gundam Investigative Task force at your requests, Sirs."

Graham: "You've come." He smiled as both he and Joe returned the salutes.

Joe: "Welcome aboard soldiers."

Ptolemaios...

Sumeragi: "Veda, tell me your prediction."

Seated in her chair in front of a large screen was the tactical forecaster, Sumeragi. Currently, she was using the supercomputer known as Veda to prepare the next operations based on the predictions it provided. It was how they were able to so perfectly predict many of the previous operations they did. After a shot while, Veda gave her it's prediction.

Sumeragi: "So, it's the same as mine. There are twelve different counter-plans. No matter which we choose, our position will be endangered. We know what must be done, but it's so tough." She was interrupted as Christina radioed in on her.

Christina: "Miss Sumeragi! A declaration's just been made in Taribia!"

The brown-haired woman's eyes widened as she quickly looked back to the screen before her, seeing as Veda also predicted this.

Sumeragi: "Taribia, just as I thought."

Taribia Leader: "The Union consists of over fifty nations in congress. But it functions as a dictatorship, as the US controls the distribution of solar energy. The solar electricity generation system should not be operated on the whims of a single nation. The Taribian Republic will secede from the Union and claim independent access to this energy! If there is political or military pressure against this claim by any nation, we shall respond with military action! Our nation resolutely opposes domination by the inferior U. S!"

The broadcast ended with roaring applause from the audience. Colonel and his newly gained members of his unit, Soma Piers and Aki Arlux were watching this silently, before the older man spoke up.

Colonel: "Lieutenants..." The two girls looked at him. "Do either of you know why Taribia is going with such a hard-line approach?"

Soma: "I believe they're acting with knowledge that if the Union takes military action, Celestial Being with intervene to prevent a conflict."

Aki Telepathically: "I believe so as well. They're trying to take advantage of this fact to have Celestial Being deal with Union for them."

Colonel: "Exactly."

A car was speeding through a city highway, with the driver being Hong and the passengers being Ren and Wang, with the latter sitting in the back seat with a smile.

Wang: "Even though we know we're being used, we'll make our move."

Sitting in his high rise building with Ribbons by his side, Alejandro took up a class of alcohol.

Alejandro: "Because... that is what Celestial Being does."

Back in the Ptolemaios, Sumeragi entered the briefing room, where everyone else was waiting. They all looked towards her, awaiting her orders.

Sumeragi: "We will commence our mission. Contact the Gundam Meisters."

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Asha's thoughts: "Tch... This bastards..."

With now the mission received and set in motion, Setsuna and Asha were seen, running through the city with the night sky above them while on the Island the Gundam Dynames and Kyrios were hidden on, Allelujah and Lockon were already launching.

Allelujah: "Kyrios, Allelujah Haptism, commencing intervention."

Lockon: "Dynames, Lockon Stratos, going out to do some shooting!"

Reaching the coast, Setsuna and Asha instantly dived into the water and began to dive down to the surface, where the Containers that held Gundams Exia and Vega were resting.

After getting inside and putting on their pilot suits, the containers began to open as the two Gundams activated. Asha gripped the Vega's controls tightly and took in a deep breath.

Asha: "Just like last time... Let's do this." He whispered to himself with his eyes closed as the red and white Gundam's eyes lit up, as if it responded to his words. Asha slowly opened his eyes as he had on an aiming expression. "Alrighty. Vega, Asha Daiki, blasting off into battle."

Setsuna: "Exia, Setsuna F. Seiei, heading out."

The Exia and the Vega quickly flew up, emerging from the water and took to the skies as it and the other Gundams were heading straight for Taribia.

However, they weren't the only ones as Graham, Joe and their new Squad were moving out at the same time, aiming to intercept one of the Gundams and do battle with it, mainly to test out the capabilities of the two custom flags.

Ptolemaios...

Feldt: "The Union's fleet and America's 2nd Fleet have arrived off the coast of Taribia."

Christina: "The air force has been sent out from their Brazilian Garrison Base. It looks like they have control of the airspace over the major Taribian cities."

Sumeragi: "How about the Taribian military?" she asked as she entered the bridge, where the others minus Tieria were.

Christina: "They've concentrated ground mobile suits near three of their major cities."

Lasse: "It's certainly a hair trigger situation."

Lichty: "Miss Sumeragi, what will we do?"

Sumeragi: "It's obvious. There's only one thing we can do."

On Earth, in the Pacific Ocean was one of the Union's Fleet of ships that Feldt mentioned. However, just then, Gundam Exia and Gundam Vega were spotted, approaching the fleet at an incredibly fast rate.

Crewmate: "Captain, two Gundams have arrived!" He exclaimed as the two Gundams blasted right past them, shaking the area with their presence. The captain quickly stood up and monitored the quickly disappearing machines.

Captain: "So those are Gundams!"

The Exia and Vega, along with the Kyrios in its Aerodynamic form and Dynames were rapidly approaching Taribia. Everyone that was watching as the events played out watched in anticipation to see what the group of Gundams would do. However, it wouldn't be until the Sumeragi's voice spoke through the four Gundam's cockpits that it would begin... And she spoke.

Sumeragi: "Commence mission."

It started. Multiple pink beams shot through the sky and instantly disabled a few of the Taribian's VMS-15 Union Realdo mobile suits stationed on the ground, immediately causing them to panic. They quickly looked up and saw the Exia and Vega, both fast approaching.

Realdo Pilot 1: "Gundam! Wh-Why!? We haven't done anything yet!"

That didn't matter to them, however. It was as Celestial Being's founder, Aeolia Schenberg said in his declaration. To Celestial Being, all countries that promote war are a target for armed intervention.

With them making their entrance, the two melee oriented Gundams landed on the streets before their targets.

Asha: "It doesn't matter if you didn't do anything. You promoted war through your words alone. And that makes you, our targets!"

The GN Sword Vega's blade began to glow and vibrate as the red and white Gundam blasted itself ahead, dodging and blocking each shot fired at it by the Realdos before quickly slashing through them, causing them to fall over behind it and explode gloriously.

Then it blasted its way over to a few more, slashing them in half completely, creating an explosion around the mobile suit as it's eyes glowed brightly, giving it a bit of an ominous presence.

Exia wasn't far behind as with it quickly slashed away at the Realdos before it, before flying out of the smoke it was engulfed in to proceed with its attacks.

High in the sky, Gundam Kyrios was spiraling towards the ground, dodging the barrage of shots from the Realdos before it transformed into its Mobile Suit form.

Allelujah: "Kyrios, commencing intervention mission."

With its GN Submachine Gun, it aimed and began rapidly firing at the Realdos, destroying a couple of them. Soon after, Kyrios began to descend, raising its shield to block the incoming shots.

With the Dynames, it was coming in hot, flying down with its GN Sniper in hand before its V-Fin came down in front of its eyes, revealing its Sniping Camera in its forehead. The Precision shooting scope in the cockpit came down, with Lockon soon grabbing into it and putting his shooting eye to its sight.

Lockon: "Dynames, targeted and ready to fire."

In an instant, the Dynames began to snipe each of the Realdos with ease, destroying them and sending them crashing to the ground.

Unlike their previous operations, they weren't aiming to only disable the mobile suits. They were making an example of what happens when they try to take advantage of them.

Lockon: "This is what you get for trying to take advantage of us!"

The Kyrios did a few more barrel rolls, before blasting two Realdos to dust with its GN Submachine Gun. Afterwards, it lowered its weapon and hovered there harmlessly.

Allelujah: "But this is so one-sided."

Asha: "Who cares?"

The Kyrios and Dynames both looked to see the Vega blast past them, with the red and white Gundam reaching to its right shoulder and grabbing onto the GN Beam Boomerang before throwing it. It sliced through three airborne Realdos causing them to explode and their remains to fall to the ground.

Asha: "They tried taking advantage of us. We're merely giving them the result of that and teaching them a lesson."

Allelujah: "Yeah, but... still." Asha said nothing as the Vega looked at the Kyrios and Dynames before blasting off.

Lockon: "Haven't seen him that riled up before."

Haro: "Scary! Scary!"

>>Later<<

After the battle and the mission was over, the four Gundams withdrawal from the area. In the Ptolemaios, Christina and Feldt were monitoring the status of the Gundams and the battle the entire time.

Christina: "The American mobile suit teams have taken off. We believe they're acting to protect Taribia, as predicted."

Sumeragi: "I see."

Feldt: "In accordance with the mission plan, each Gundam will begin to withdrawal and retreat to a safe zone."

Tieria: "What a farce." He said as he was floating around with his eyes closed. Then suddenly, Christina's console began to beep.

Christina: "Just a moment! I have two machines closing in on the Exia and Vega! They're Flags from the American military!"

Sumeragi: "American? What's going on?" She wondered.

Christina: "They're more than twice as fast as their specs and they're heading straight for the Exia and Vega!" The moment Feldt heard that, she briefly paused on what she was doing before glancing out of the windows for the cockpit, looking straight towards the Earth.

Feldt's thoughts: "Asha..."

On earth, Graham and Joe, who were the pilots of these Flag Customs were quickly closing in on the retreating Gundams. The two meisters instantly noticed them.

Setsuna: "Those Flags."

Asha: "Tch... Don't tell me it's them again."

Joe: "Heh... This feels amazing!" He said with a smirk, laughing in amazement from how fast the Flag Custom was. They were catching up to the Gundams, quickly.

Graham: "Now we can fight the Gundams! You handled that splendidly, Mr. President!"

Asha and Setsuna were quick to shock, seeing the two Custom Flags quickly approach them. It was like nothing they'd seen before. Mobile Suits, able to gain on a Gundam. In an instant, the Flag Customs began to fire their rifles attached to the nose at the two, forcing the Gundams to break formation and split away from each other. While Graham went after the Exia, Joe went after the Vega.

Joe: "It's you and me, Gundam!"

He yelled. Asha gritted his teeth as the Vega turned around, it's GN Rifle Vega aimed before it began to fire shots at the Flag Custom, however, it transformed into its Mobile Suit form and began to easily dodge the shots, like with what he did when the Dynames was firing at it.

Asha: "Fast! He's way faster than before!"

The Vega kept firing at him, but he's only dodge before he fired a shot of the Gundam, forcing him to stop and dodge, only for the Flag Custom to quickly get up into it's face. Joe then made the Flag Custom punch the Gundam Vega, two times in the face before uppercutting it, causing the Gundam to be pushed back and fall towards the ocean.

Joe: "Got him!"

Asha: "Gah! Shit!" He gritted his teeth before he noticed that the Exia had been knocked back by Graham's Flag with it's rifle before it began to fall too.

He suddenly gained an idea, seeing the ocean below them.

Asha: "Setsuna! The Ocean! Dive!" He yelled through closed comms to him. Setsuna instantly understood and nodded.

Setsuna: "Roger!"

With that, the two Gundams fell into the ocean and never resurfaced as they were making their escape. Joe clicked his tongue in slight annoyance.

Graham: "They got away."

Joe: "They can go underwater too? What the heck..."

Graham: "The custom Flags were able to stand up to the Gundams...but to be able to move underwater... You're just a little too versatile, Gundams."

As the Exia and Vega maneuvered through the dark ocean, Asha released a long sigh as he took off his piloting helmet and leaned back in his seat, allowing the Gundam's auto pilot to take over.

Asha: "They were able to keep up with us... and even force us into the ocean. Though, it looks like they can't traverse underwater... yet."

Setsuna: "Are you alright?" Asha was surprised to hear Setsuna through the comms. He looked over to the Exia, which was looking at his Gundam. He sighed again but smiled.

Asha: "Yeah... Just surprised is all. When we get back, we need to immediately report this to Miss Sumeragi and the others on the Ptolemaios."

Setsuna: "Understood."

He said, with the Exia's head turning back so it looked in front of it. Asha turned off his comms and before he reached into his pilot suit and pulled out that same photo of the entire crew together and just stared at it. He then held the picture close to his chest and leaned back into the seat.

Asha: "Now things are getting more interesting... Soon enough, we won't be the titans we currently are..." He closed his eyes. He could just hear the Gundam's GN Drive quietly whirling before he could hear that same metallic sound that always accompanied a Gundam when their eyes glowed. He then nodded. "Yeah... we'll get through this together, partner."

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