Kira was speechless at the sheer destruction his father had brought. He didn't question his ability to lead or to conquer; he could tell when soone was lying or making it up.
But now he saw it first-hand what he is capable of. He crushed ZAFT twice in a row, and now the Coordinators are in retreat, falling back behind their defensive lines.
"Was it really necessary to kill that many of them?" The brown-haired teen asked his father, who returned from the battle and left his Gundam.
"It's basic 101 of a battle to remove the opposition. If you just destroy their machine, they will return and will try to kill you again." Marcus simply explained to his pacifist son.
"...But there is no people in this world that could beat us." Kira frowned.
"Kira, what you are talking about is that you are extending your hand to soone ready to stab you.
If you don't believe , then use your powers in the battle and feel what your opponent is trying to do. If he is willing to kill you, then you answer in kind." Marcus replied to him, making him look down.
"...Does that an you will allow to join the next battle?"
"That is, if you are willing to fight. Do you want to fight? Protect your friends who are aboard this ship?" The disguised Emperor asked his son.
"I will fight to protect this ship."
"Good. It's a start." He nodded at his son, who was slowly getting there.
"...But… I am nothing like you. I don't find any happiness in doing this." Kira replied with a slightly angry frown.
"I know, your mother was quite a softy, though she has backbone when one was needed." Marcus chuckled as he passed the brown-haired teen.
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"Are we going to attack Boaz? It's quite a fortification they have there." Mu La Flaga asked Marcus as the Boss of Earth Alliance arrived at the bridge of Archangel.
"We are. We are here to win the war. Taking over Boaz and Jachin Due is a must before we take the PLANTs." He replied to the blonde as he floated over.
"It won't be easy. The number of warships and the fortifications of that asteroid, we can suffer severe losses before we arrive at Jachin Due." The Lieutenant said to Marcus.
"Indeed. That is why we will harass them with our Commander units. Destroy their assets before we take over."
"...I see… our Gundams will do it." MU realised what he was planning to do.
"Indeed. 105s will assist with their positron cannons. We shall take out the asteroid's weaponry. Once our troops destroy them, Daggers and foot soldiers will infiltrate the base and take it over."
Marcus explained to the bridge.
"Now, captain, coordinate with the rest of the fleet as we resupply before we continue our conquest." He said to the woman with a smile. "In the anti, I am going to rest for a bit."
"Sir, yes, sir! Thank you for your services!"
With that said, the disguised Emperor went to his quarters, where he found his darling wife already waiting for him.
"Co here, ti to cuddle!" She patted the seat next to her.
Her husband chuckled as he plopped into the seat next to her.
"Hmm, I can tell that you are not happy about sothing." Lacus slowly crawled into his lap before she hugged him.
"Indeed, it would seem my son thinks that I am quite a monster," Marcus said with a strained smile.
"And you are in a way. How many people can do what you can do? Your other kids have known you since birth, so they are little monsters themselves. But these two kids? They grew up sowhat normal." The pinkette tried to ease his mind, but what's there to ease when it's the truth?
"Hmm, I know. That is why I am annoyed. So I demand to cuddle." Marcus complained to her.
"Fufufu, already doing it~"
The pair stayed like that for a while before getting up and walking to the ss hall to eat.
The troops' morale was at an all-ti high, with everyone laughing or talking in a jovial tone.
The only one who was not was Kira, who was silent. Even his friends were happy about the second victory in a row.
Unlike before, when they survived on scraps, this ti around, they were winning properly and even sending ZAFT packing.
"He really is quite the softy, thinking about the dead enemies, instead of victory and peace that will co after," Lacus said to Marcus as she easily read Kira's thoughts.
"That's what I am saying." He nodded at her observations.
"Hmph, seriously, what is wrong with him?" Cagalli comnted as she sat down next to her father. She heard what Marcus and Lacus talked about.
"Caring for your enemy? Doesn't he know the mont they have a chance, they will stab him in the back?" The Princess stabbed her food with he fork.
"Manners, by dear daughter, keep your anger for your enemy, that's the least you can do to them." Marcus sharply reminded her to behave.
His authoritative voice made her straighten out automatically.
"Yes, sorry. I am a bit frustrated." The Princess swiftly apologised.
"You have no idea." Her father shook his head. That is why he is annoyed.
'I will need to speak with Via. The longer this continues, the more pissed off I get, and she is the one who will pay back in dividends. Worst case, I will bring her back and then educate her as I usually do with my naughty wives.' Marcus nodded to himself. Yep, he will make sure the brunette understands what happens when she behaves that naively.
Now he needs to deal with a muddy and quite delusional teen.
Honestly, that is not how an Imperial Prince should behave.
~~~~~~anwhile~~~~~~
As Earth Alliance regroups, resupplies, and prepares for the next push, the situation in PLANTs is becoming chaotic.
In the Supre Council, the Counciln were arguing among themselves.
"We should accept these terms! They are better than any other ti we got!" Siegel Clyne loudly exclaid. His allies notified him that Marcus Anaheim offered them to surrender. Only demanding land on Earth, not the PLANTs themselves, like the leaders before him.
That ans that they could get their independence.
"Don't be ridiculous, Siegel! It was nothing more than a ruse! He used it as a provocative asure to rile us up! And he was successful in doing it." Patrick barked back as he was as angry as always.
"There won't be any peace until we destroy the naturals!"
Though he said that a considerable number in his party were looking nervous, their reason is very simple: they are no longer confident they can win.
The last two defeats were bad, so bad in fact that they are stopping all advances on Earth and sending troops back to space for the defence.
By all ans and purposes, they should consider the proposal to stop the conflict. But many of them lost at least one or two loved ones in this war by this point.
For so of them, like Patrick Zala, he lost his wife in the Julius Seven Incident, and that alone makes him unhinged and want revenge.
"Damn, you, Patrick…" Siegel swore under his breath.
'I have no other choice.'
With that said, the eting didn't go anywhere as the council continued with the war.
Once everyone left and Patrick returned to his office, he called for a certain soone to see him.
It was Rau Le Creuset as he had sothing for him.
About an hour later, the man entered the office.
"Before you return to Boaz's defence line, there is sothing that you need to do," Patrick said with a dead serious tone.
"What can I do for you, Supre Council Chairman?" Rau smoothly asked.
"Your ship will get a new state-of-the-art GuAIZ, alongside the refitted GAT series. What I need from you is to capture one of the Anaheims." Patrick said while looking at the artwork in his office.
When the masked man heard that, he was speechless!
"...Sir…"
"We need to hold one of them as hostage until Genesis is completed. After that, I don't care. I will blow them all up." The Supre Council Chairman angrily explained, sounding quite mad.
"..."
'We are getting desperate, aren't we?'
"As you wish, I, Rau Le Creuset and Vesalius crew, are ready to serve."
"Good, then get to it. I don't care if it's the boy or the girl. I need one of them."
'Don't worry, I will try to get one of them. Maybe kill one by accident. It should trigger that man.' Internally, he was grinning; it was about ti he could see so proper carnage!
With a new mission at hand, the blonde man left the Supre Council Chairman's office.
~~~
As ZAFT was getting into position, Marcus was having a massive eting with his fleet's commanders.
By this point, more warships had joined him, alongside retrofitted vessels that chanics had redesigned for mobile suits rather than mobile armour.
Not only was the broadside exchange in the last fight a success, aning that shielding technology does work and is quite decent, but it will also be useful in the next battle of Boaz.
Marcus ordered a scale-up of the retrofits for other ships, as they will be necessary for the attack.
"First, we will bait them with a smaller attack. We shall use pilots skilled at evasive manoeuvres. Once ZAFT launches their attack, we shall use Commander models to attack Boaz's defensive installations. Once they are crippled, we shall move in with our invasion of their base.
Once we capture it, we shall use it as a staging ground for Jachin Due."
The disguised Emperor explained the plan in detail as he added 105s that will use Buster's loadout for long-range sniping and artillery.
Legion OS makes it far easier to blow them up from a distance.
In other words, he has built considerable diversity in attacks, especially as he scales up, while simultaneously standardising the designs for the mobile suits.
He made it easy to manufacture mobile suits. Sothing that PLANTs simply can't compete.
After removing the cancer that is known as Blue Cosmos, Marcus is all but assured to win the PLANT-Alliance War.
The question is how long Coordinators can survive by resisting him.
"Proceed to move towards Boaz, it's ti to lay siege to their 'castle'," Marcus said to the captain as he was on the bridge.
With a single word, over 60 warships began to move towards the asteroid base.
Several hours later, Marcus could see the first defensive line.
"Quite the sight, isn't it? Let's begin the first part of this little ga, assuming Patrick wants to play with us." The Disguised Emperor spoke with a teasing tone.
"...Play… what does that even an…" Captain Ramius was a bit confused.
"You will understand in due ti. There is no need to complicate things.
We made a move, and now they are going to make theirs. It depends on what they will do." As Marcus explained, the ships at the defensive line began to move.
"My, they are eager, and a bit stupid." The Disguised Emperor comnted. He was a bit disappointed by how naive these guys are.
"Prepare for Daggers to launch! Draw them out!" He swiftly ordered.
"And tell Mu and Lacus to launch. We will make ZAFT think that they are the core pillars of this attack, while we will launch from the back." As Marcus said, he got up from his seat.
"But…won't they think that sothing is wrong? Everyone knows that you have the strongest machine." Ramius was a bit confused. Especially after the last demonstration, his Testant stole the show on the battlefield.
"Yes, but rember we did a two-wave attack last ti. They can simply believe that we are not taking them seriously."
"...You want to trigger them again…" The woman was speechless. Is he so sort of rage baiter?
She is not wrong; anger is one of the easiest things to exploit, especially when the enemy is known to be prone to anger-related issues.
"Regardless, keep on pushing and adjust as necessary. I am preparing to launch with my team." As he said that, he swiftly left the bridge.
"...Honestly, it's sothing else to see the Leader of the whole Alliance wage war on the frontline," Natarle comnted from her side of the bridge. She was a bit speechless; this was old school among old schools. Leaders like Marcus stopped serving on the front lines around the 19th century; one of the last to do so was Napoleon.
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Book Two is approaching finale, I still have a bunch of lemons to write, and a couple interludes, among them 'First Contact' before Book Three so there won't chapters for a week or more until Book Three starts
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