[Bows down on his knees] Please ! I REQUIRE C&C ! I beg you, be merciful
and spare me a few comments. I desparately need them. Please !...
<Ordinarily I automatically delete fics that aren't linewrapped, but
since I've never I've never heard of the source material, I'll make
an exception.>
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There was a time, in the era of great chaos, when the earth and the moon
<an era of great chaos> <the Earth>
were at war with each other. A
daredevil from the moon piloted a bizarre aircraft. it was feared and,
because of its shape, called "Einh�nder"
<piloted a bizarre and feared aircraft which, because of its shape,
was called>
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Phases of the Moon part 2
Full Moon
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An Einh�nder fanfic by Snapdragon
Snapdragon@videotron.ca
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[Music: Einh�nder - 17 - Thermosphere]
What did you know, the witch was right.
As the last spacecraft bound for Selene pummelled towards its earthbound
doom, the three lunar
fighters each took time to fill their lungs with air. They could still
breathe, that was already something good. The
last minutes had been frantic, and air had been a rare commodity indeed
in the last hours.
But they had not passed through earth's defence force without a scratch.
The defenders had put their
best unto them, and so damage had been inevitable. Michael's ship had
<put their best against them>
taken a few direct hits on his left wing,
and they were causing trouble. They had forced him to slow his right
<and it was causing trouble>
wing propulsion down to compensate, or he
would have been a wall decoration a while ago. It had made dodging more
difficult, but not impossible. If so, he
would have joined his enemies along the rocky ground.
The Martian girl was the one who had taken the least blows. Beside a few
<fewest blows> or <least damage>
harmless hits along the armor
of the cockpit, her Astraea FGA Mk. I had no other apparent damage. Her
superior skill had shone true today,
and would hopefully still shine on. Her surprising agility in the skies
made people think she was born a bird and
not a woman. Few other females could hold against her.
<Why females rather than "pilots"?>
The worst off was James' Endymion FRS Mk. II, whose manipulator arm
still held by the graces of the
gods after the many hits it had endured. A few other blows donned his
machine's hide, but they weren't slowing
him down a bit. He feared the manipulator would drop at any time,
wasting his precious Riot gun.
Their were still waiting for Selene's Main Unit, which should have been
there to demolish the latest
spacecraft instead of them. But it had somehow been delayed, and the
Einh�nders had been forced to do without
them. They had luckily been able to handle such a task with their
limited numbers, and the moon was safe for
now.
Speak of the devil.
Dozens of vessels appeared in the afternoon sky and stood still, seeking
whatever target they could find.
Their metallic blue skins contrasted with the clouded heavens, and
seemed to be an unlimited legion from the
pilot's vantage point. They were the completed EOS, the result of years
<Tell us what the acronym stands for, if you know.>
of work that cost the lives of so many
other pilots. They were programmed to emulate the best pilots'
abilities, and to replace the Einh�nder program.
This would be their first service.
Then the message from the lunar satellite Hyperion came. and changed the
course of their lives
forever.
Less than a second after its fateful transmission, three voices were
heard over the com-net, drowning the
sounds coming from outside the ships.
<Huhn? What was the transmission?>
"Those bastards ! ." cried Caroline in blood red fury, eager and ready
to crave her name in the EOS'
<carve>
armors. She boosted her propulsion to full, and charged head-on in the
once-allied swarm.
"Do they want to kill us ? ." added Michael, also in shock that their
country would do something like
that to them. He sat there unmoving as the EOS sensors worked their way
across the battlefield.
"Why ? ." was the only word that escaped James' mouth, and the only one
on his mind. Why would
their own country turn against them, them who just fought through the
whole earth defense for their sakes...
<Earth>
Why?
However, the gods weren't answering this particular question now, and
the sounds from his ships
dragged him back to the situation at hand.
Danger warnings flared everywhere in James' Endymion FRS Mk. II as it
became the target of a
hundred spacecraft. As the message from the moon had said, they were now
the last test for the EOS and were
considered enemies to their steel eyes. He barely dodged the dozen
cannon shells that buzzed just under his right
wing. His mind then sprang back into action, focused on the wave of
heat-seeking missiles just ahead, and his
question was pushed to the farther recesses of his brain, utterly gone
for this fight.
He would not go so easily.
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End of Chapter Two - Full Moon
Is followed by Chapter Three - Blood Moon
Notes : This will be the smallest of the Phases of the Moon series. The
reasons for this is the time covered :
Chapter 1 covered a day, Chapter 2 covers 30 minutes of time, Chapter 3
will cover a month while Chapter 4
will cover the rest.
This Chapter is set before the last stage of Einh�nder. There are 6
stages of battle between Chapters 1 & 2.
Chapter 3 will be set after chapter 2 before stage 7 and Chapter 4 will
cover the part after the Final Battle.
Einh�nder belongs to Squaresoft and is not meant any displeasure by this
work
Snapdragon/Thierry Chartrand-Chamblay
October 2000