Oh dear me. My first story is getting overhauled. That's a new thing.

So yes, welcome dear viewer of Mobile Suit Gundam; Tekkatsu No Kyojin!

This is technically my first story on a fanfic site. But I rewrote so many things that I don't know if this is can even be considered a 'first'. If you think about it, the amount of times I rewrote all this, I think I can write seven short stories :v

But whatever, I'm rambling on. Let's get this story moving. A few notes down below.

Also, it's best if you watched Iron Blooded Orphans Ep 1-25 for better context.

Edmonton

In the impressive town of Edmonton(I presume it looks impressive anyways. It looks quaint. Never been there…) to be in, either as a tourist or as a normal visit. I mean, the Capital of Alberta would most likely draw many visitors. Most likely… probably? I dunno…

But strangely, the roads and sidewalks of Edmonton were eerily deserted. No one was even seen on the streets of the place. And for good reason too.

Days prior, the news outlets of Edmonton reported that the newly formed 'Mercenary Organization' known as Tekkadan were on their way here, escorting the Maiden of Revolution known as Kudelia Aina Bernstein, a blonde teenager who was tall (and thicc) with blue eyes and extremely long hair.

And speaking of the devil (or Maiden, if you wanna be specific), a Mobile Worker came roaring down the desolate streets of Edmonton, accompanied by a hijacked Gjallarhorn MW and a jeep which was on their tail.

Within the MW up front was piloted by Takaki Uno, a blonde Tekkadan mechanic, with Tekkadan leader Orga Itsuka, a tanned boy with a scar of unknown origin, and the maiden whom I just spoke of. The hijacked MW was piloted by some random person whom was not named… poor sod.

They were only in here thanks to their mobile suits, the Barbatos, Gusion Rebake, Ryusei Go, and twin Roueis who held the line as they delivered Kudelia. Of course, it wasn't all thanks to their Mobile Suits. It was also thanks to the missile launcher equipped Mobile Worker squad, who helped them break into Edmonton.

Inside the jeep was the aforementioned Kudelia Aine Bernstein, alongside the former Prime Minister of Edmonton, Togonosuke Makanai, who has the dumbest awesome name ever, alongside the most badass beard I've seen in a long time, and the Goddess herself, Atra Mixta, chef of Tekkadan.

And if you don't agree, get out. Atra is literally God in human form. That adorable pink haired girl is literally the best waifu (to me anyways. If you like Kudelia, then you do you).

Back on topic, the trio of Tekkadan vehicles, or two Tekka-cars and one hijacked Gjallarhorn MW, tore through the streets of Edmonton, ignoring the protests of the soldiers there. Smiling, Orga gave a relieved sigh.

'Perhaps things will go smoother from here on…' thought the boy, before Takaki snapped him out of it,

"Orga!" he exclaimed. "I lost communications with the others! All comm-lines are down… only LCS is active!"

From up back, Atra had no clue what was going on, though Orga, on the other hand, did. Or at least had an idea of what was going on.

"You gotta be kidding me…" said Orga, lifting the hatch of his MW up and looking out, only to widen his eyes when he spotted a figure coming down from up top. "They're allowing Mobile Suits into the city?!"

And right as he said that, a massive 22.2 metre Mobile Suit came crashing down between the Tekkadan and Gjallarhorn Mobile workers. More specifically, it crashed behind the Tekka-Worker and in front of both the Gjallarhorn MW and jeep.

The impact sent the Tekka-Worker forward, with the other two being sent back. Hell, the jeep overturned.

Groaning from inside his Mobile Worker, Orga slowly got out of it, and found himself facing the back of a Gjallarhorn MS. It was an odd one, lengthier than your usual EB-06 unit. And in some sort of purple colour.

Around it, the dust began to clear, and it began to speak in an oddly familiar voice.

"That's right… I remember now," it said, sounding resentful of itself. "I'm sorry, Lieutenant Crank (or Cranknee if you follow the Japanese dub too much). I was supposed to obey your orders… and capture Kudelia Aina Bernstein!"

Grumbling to himself, Orga wondered how he'd get them out of this mess, right before he heard Miss Kudelia herself.

"I am Kudelia Aina Bernstein!" she exclaimed at the massive mech, with little to no trace of fear in her voice. "Is there something you want with me?"

"So you were here all along..." it said, voice filled with hatred. Its head turned to face her before splitting open, exposing a mono-eye, though unlike a normal Graze's, it was blood red. "I went to collect you at CGS..."

"That idiot…" grumbled Orga as he got out of his MW. While he admired the girl's courage, he found it to oftentimes be misplaced. Sure, you could be courageous, though it'd be better if you used your brain as you did. "Takaki, get ready."

"Yes sir!"

"If you had come with us, Lieutenant Crank wouldn't have died, besides..." as the massive Graze kept talking, Atra began crawling out of her upturned jeep. As she did, the Gjallahorn Mobile Worker aimed its cannon at the Mech.

"Create an opening where she can escape," said the pilot as he aimed the Worker's cannon at the mech, and right when he had it in his sights, a vulcan gun flipped down from the Mech's shoulder pad and blasted it. The Worker blew up, killing its occupant.

Whirling around in shock, Kudelia gasped as she realized that another one of her escorts had perished. But the MS, on the other hand/manipulator, didn't care for it. "Lieutenant Crank would not have died… if not for you."

"Because of my actions!" exclaimed Kudelia, effectively cutting off the Graze unit as she whirled around to face it. "Many lives have been lost." unbeknownst to her, as she said this, Atra made a mad dash for her, as did Orga. "That's why I can't stop now!"

"That ego..." said the Graze, voice dripping with venom as it raised one of its axes. "I will

teach you!"

And once it was raised, Kudelia saw Atra whirl around and tackle her back whilst screaming her name.

Yet, in the one and a half seconds before they hit the ground, they heard the sound of seven thrusters coming their way, and by the time we hit half a second, all they saw was a white figure coming up to the Graze and deflecting its strike, something which kicked up a ton of dust and knocked Kudelia and Atra back even more.

Groaning softly, with the lil girl Atra atop her, Kudelia slowly opened her eyes who were closed thanks to the dust. And after some time, she realized that she was atop Orga, who managed to get under her… somehow.

Yet despite his sore feeling, Orga managed a smile as he spotted the white figure through the dust.

"I knew you wouldn't let us die in a place like this…" he said proudly as the dust parted to reveal the Gundam Barbatos Form 6, using it's Wrench Mace to block the axe of the Graze.

As for Kudelia, she was wide eyed and gaping. Mikazuki Augus, the boy saved her… again. And Atra, who had gotten off Kudelia, simply smiled. She knew Mika wouldn't let any of them die, not here. Not by the enemy's hand.

Standing its ground against the Graze, the Barbatos' leg units were slowly bending, mainly because the larger MS was much stronger. Despite this, it held it's ground as best as it could.

Currently, it was missing the left 'horn', thanks to the Kimaris Trooper, and had some battle scars though it wasn't much of a biggy compared to what it went through with Lafter.

Within the cockpit, however, the pilot, the aforementioned Mikazuki Augus slowly looked up, his face devoid of any real emotion.

"Let's do this," started Mika as he psyched himself up for a battle. "Barbatos…"

And in response, the Barbatos' optics blazed a glorious light green, signifying that it was ready.

And unfortunately for him, so was the Graze, who's optic seemed to glow a darker shade of red.

"It's YOU," muttered the pilot of the Graze. "The sinful child who killed Lieutenant Crank!"

"Who's that?" asked a genuinely confused Mika, which made the Graze roar in anger. Raising its left servo, the thing attempted to strike him, though Mika simply raised the right unit up to stop the arm. "Oi, don't move."

And, admittedly, I did chuckle at that.

Anyhoo, as he held it back, the Graze kept pushing his MS back, sinking the feet units of the Barbatos deeper into the ground.

"Unbelievable…" said the occupant of the Graze, pushing the Barbatos back some more. "At this rate… your sins will only keep growing!"

Grumbling as he held the arm controllers firmly, Augus was wondering how he'd down this one without accidentally injuring/killing his comrades by accident.

Thankfully, the second half of his worried were voided when the LCS came on, with Orga's voice speaking to him.

"I'm sorry, Mika!" he exclaimed. "But we don't have much time left before this election! We're making a break for the Parliament! In the meantime, we'll leave this goon to you!"

With his friends out of the picture, Mika flashed a grin, something rare for him, before swiveling the Barbatos' land boosters up.

"Understood," acknowledged Mika as the thrusters powered up. "Let's do this, Barbatos."

With that, the Gundam Frame blasted forward, pushing the Graze back. Stopping abruptly and letting the Graze frame fall back thanks to momentum, Mika used that time to land a kick onto it's spine region and slamming the Wrench onto it.

Though, to his surprise, the Graze unit managed to block the downswing with one axe wielding arm unit while it was still bent back from the kick. And like the Slenderman, it straightened itself up as though it had no frame and it's one red optic glared at the Barbatos.

"Lieutenant Crank… at this rate…" said the pilot of the Graze. "Your tears will not stop!"

And with some random move, it slammed the Wrench Mace down onto the floor with both of it's axes, grounding the Barbatos' primary weapon.

"Yet… in this fight…" it continued, further confusing Mika as he forgot about the Crank chap. "I will make him repent!"

On a side note, can someone acknowledge how obsessive Ein is in avenging Lieutenant Crank? I mean, his obsession is even worse than Setsuna's obsession with becoming a Gundam… and when it gets past that… you need help.

Back on topic, the Barbatos' pilot was left momentarily stunned at that reaction speed, but he quickly recovered and gripped the Wrench with both of the Gundam's manipulator. Blasting the right thrusters, he sent the Gundam flying to the left for a roundhouse Wrench whack, though to his (admitted) shock, the Graze managed to block the Wrench with its axe.

It was then where it hit him.

'So, he uses it too?' he thought, narrowing his eyes at the Graze. 'The Alaya Vijnana…'

And that thought was confirmed when the Graze suddenly appeared behind the Gundam, and it brought an axe down on it. Since Mika realized it too late and didn't have time to use the Wrench Mace, he instead raised one of the arm units and used one of the blue 'shields' equipped on them to block the blow.

The axe, instead of rebounding on the armour, was lodged into the armour. Seeing an opportunity, the Graze sent a drilling kick at the Barbatos' chest unit. The kick sent it back while creating a slight crack on the chest armour.

Recovering quickly from that, the Barbatos dug it's leg units into the ground, landing on it's knees and drove its right manipulator, whose digits were sharp enough to be considered claws, into the ground to slow and reduce it's impact on landing.

Grumbling at the shakiness in his cockpit, Mika shook his head and turned the Barbatos' head unit up to face the Graze. Whoever piloted the thing most definitely had an AV system.

Two AV fighters, this would most likely be interesting.

Several minutes later

As with any other MS battle, the one raging between the Graze and the Barbatos kicked up a ton of dust. And, of course, it attracted a fair share of onlookers, specifically the Gjallarhorn soldiers who were staring at it.

"Commander…" said one of the soldiers. "Should… we do something?"

"Well… I don't know," admitted the man. "I know that one of the Mobile Suits are in there… but it's hard to believe so… it's almost like the devil."

As the man said that, the cloud dispelled a tad as the Graze swung its axes at the Barbatos. Hopping back, it dodged one swing, though didn't fully dodge another which nearly took it's leg unit.

In the cockpit, Mika felt a little shaken up by that, though he noticed the Graze's axe stuck in the ground. Deciding to take advantage of that, he swung the Wrench Mace at the Graze's arm unit, intending to remove that limb, though he didn't expect it to let go of the axe to dodge.

As a counter, the Graze launched a leg at it, sending the Gundam Frame flying to the side and landing on it's rear, losing it's grip on the Wrench Mace which landed behind it. Gritting his teeth, Mika turned to check the fuel supply. As he did, the Graze pulled it's axe out of the ground.

"This is the perfect form of the Alaya Vijnana…" it said. "It's not like your crude one…"

Pointing it's retrieved axe at the Barbatos, it continued.

"The power to unify humans with Mobile Suits…"

"The perfect Alaya Vijnana?" wondered Mika, sounding a tiny bit distressed.

"You… you are nothing…" continued the Graze, raising an axe. "But a mere defective one!"

Right when the axe came down, the Barbatos did an impressive backflip and, assisted by the thrusters, it landed at where it dropped it's Wrench Mace. Bending down, it retrieved the weapon, though it couldn't dodge the axe which was tossed at it.

The weapon bounced off it's shoulder pad, though it did break off the side piece (the largest bit with the blue strip) and make the Gundam nearly lose its footing, though it readjusted it quickly.

Just in time too, as the Graze swung it's axe at the Barbatos, making it bend down to duck under it. While it did, the Graze leapt into the air and attempted to land on the Gundam… something which was pretty funny if you think about it too hard.

Once it landed, it kicked up a ton of dust, as you'd expect when a MS landed on… anything. Though through all that, the Barbatos did a roundhouse Wrench swing in an attempt to use the slight confusion to its pilots advantage, only for the Graze to deflect it with one axe.

The momentum redistribution caused the Gundam to get sent backwards. It shook Mika up a tad, though he wasn't down, not yet.

Some random place whose name in the anime was in japanese so I dunno what it's called. I mean, it could be the parliament, but I'll assume it's another place for now

"Boss, I got a call from Miss Atra!" informed Takaki as he crouched near a computer. "He made it to the assembly."

"I see," replied Orga, tying his Tekkadan jacket around his waist. As he did, Takaki looked to him.

"That means that our job's over, right?" asked Takaki.

"Yes… it will be… soon," assured Orga, looking downcast. "I'll end it…"

"Boss?"

"Takaki," said Orga, sorta cutting Takaki off. "I need a favor…"

"A favor?" asked Takaki, sounding worried. "What about you?"

"I can't leave Mika by himself," replied the big boss of Tekka-squad. And Takaki let that quote sink in for a second.

"Hold on… you're going to the battlefield?!" he exclaimed. But Orga simply smiled.

"It's my job as the boss, Takaki," said Orga reassuringly. "It's my responsibility to see this through…"

And with that said, Orga rushed out to get into the Mobile Worker parked outside.

Back to the battlefield

With yet another loud crash, the Gundam Barbatos was sent straight into a small structure… thing.

Covered in many scars, dents and even broken off pieces. Though the main pieces were the V-Fin (which was broken off in a previous battle so don't count that) and part of the arm shield.

In contrast, the Graze, who stood in front of it, was almost scratchless. It had little to no dents in it, mainly because Mika couldn't hit it too well.

"Sinful child…" grumbled the Graze, looking down at the Gundam Frame. "Lieutenant Crank(nee) never intended to fight you…"

While the Graze pilot continued it's babbling, something Mika found generally annoying in combat as he kept babbling about some sort of crank.

At the moment, he ignored the Graze and checked the systems.

"Only a little gas left in the thrusters…" he muttered as the AV system fed him most of the data. "Even with the remaining Autocannon bullets… I can't kill him."

"Why do you not understand?" cut in the Graze pilot.

Deciding to reply, Mika looked back up.

"That old man was wanting to die himself," he said, which didn't really help the situation.

"I knew it…" it said, as it's optic blazed up intensely, the optics releasing what could be called 'flames'. "You are defective!"

As he said that, the MS raised an axe, not noting the Barbatos' back thruster powering up. And when it was raised, the booster blasted to life, kicking up a ton of dust. Despite the cloud of dust, however, the Graze saw the Wrench Mace flying at it, and caught the thing.

"You rat…" he cursed before driving it's last remaining pile bunker into the Wrench Mace, completely destroying the top half and slightly crumpling the bottom. Though what it didn't predict was the Barbatos coming at it from behind to strike.

Mika attempted a simple action, grab the Graze's cockpit and crushing it, or trying to shoot it with the Autocannon. Though the Graze was too fast for his liking, and it whirled around, using the same arm it used to break the Wrench to catch the manipulator.

"You animals know nothing about the righteous path for humans!" exclaimed the Graze. And despite the firm footing it had on the ground, backed by the feet unit's suspenders, the Graze managed to lift the Barbatos off the ground and toss it to the side.

While in mid air, Mika gritted his teeth before activating the land boosters, flipping him rightside up. To help soften his landing, Mika kicked down on a leg controller, and the grey bits on the soles of the Barbatos' feet units flipped up, creating a claw-like appendage.

Assisted by those 'feet claws', the Barbatos' landing was not as hard as it would have without the. Though Mika didn't have enough time to recover to avoid the drill kick directed at it's chest, drilling into it and denting the Nanolaminated armour, nearly puncturing the right vent of the chest armour.

Though, thankfully, Mika leapt the Barbatos back to avoid a double backswing from the Graze, which kicked up dust as usual. While it pulled it's axes out, Mika activated the backpack arms which helped the Barbatos grab the emergency weapon of the Barbatos, a Longsword, off it's back, just in time to block a strike from the Axe.

The Graze did not let up, slamming the other axe onto the Longsword.

"But you laid a hand on your savior and pulled him into the grave…" continued the Graze. And at this point, Mika gave up listening.

"Basic speed…" muttered Mika. "No… the reaction speed… a difference in the Alaya Vijnana system?"

"You cannot be saved now…" continued the Graze as the Barbatos' knee units began to give in and bend down. "With your body disgraced by sins… you cannot be saved! Not you… or that woman!"

And that was what made Mika realize that almost everything was on him now.

"And your comrades… never!" continued the Graze, again, as he pushed the Barbatos onto it's knees. "I will kill you and your comrades to purify your sins…"

At this point, Mika pretty much lost interest in all he said. All he heard was the word sin.

Sin… this person spoke about Mika as though all the problems in the Solar system. But he didn't know what Mika went through as a child. This… brat… he was most likely a Gjallarhorn soldier. And while Gjallarhorn soldiers would face hardships, they never knew what it would feel like to constantly be running from soldier's or being nameless for nearly eight years.

And while this boy yelled about just one boy, Mika has lost several hundred friends die. Die because of people like him. People blaming Kudelia-San for all of this. While he prefered Atra over Kudelia, the blonde has definitely earned some of his respect. Though anyone who could stop an entire fleet with just her voice would earn anyone's respect.

To add on, he said to kill his comrades to 'purify his sins'. If he thinks he'd even lay a finger on any of them, especially Orga, Takaki or Atra, he was wholly mistaken.

"Sins…" muttered Mika, his pupils slowly shrinking, something he usually did if he was angry. "Save? That… is not for you to decide…"

And that seemed to make him snap, as he directly asked his own Mobile Suit to amp it up.

"Oi… Barbatos," he said in a soft, deadly tone. "Just give me all you have… we have no reason to hold back any more…"

Once those words were said, the Barbatos' optics slowly brightened up by a few hundred shades. Noting that, the Graze kicked the Barbatos upwards at the chest, sending it back and up. Zipping behind the Gundam, it swung it's right axe at the waist unit.

"Die and repent!" proclaimed the pilot, launching the axe at the Gundam.

And it wasn't prepared to witness the Gundam deflecting the axe with a sword swing, greatly shocking it.

"What…?!" exclaimed the Graze as the axe dropped behind the Barbatos. "That reaction speed…"

"No…" came Mika's voice from within the cockpit. Gripping the arm controllers tightly, Mika withstood the amount of data pumped into his AV system. On a normal day, he would have lost a part of him thanks to the data, but today, he was pissed. And it took a lot more than this to paralyze a pissed off Mika.

Though it didn't stop his right eye and nostril to bleed thanks to the amount of AV-data transferred into him.

"More… more…" demanded Mika as the Barbatos complied, pumping more and more into his AV system. "Give me more… Barbatos!"

And with that said, the Gundam's green optics blasted to life, ready to battle.

With Takaki

"Boss?"

Atop a building, Takaki contacted Orga with his LCS comm links. As he did, Takaki was setting up several LCS drones so that his leader could contact the other Tekkadan members.

"Can you hear me?" asked the blonde. "I've put up all the LCS drones we have. You can ocntact everyone on our team now."

Over with Orga

"Good job, Takaki," thanked Orga as he drove down the desolate streets in his MW. As he did, he tapped the LCS comm link button to contact every member of Tekkadan who was still up.

"Can you all hear me?!"

Outskirts of Edmonton

In the outskirts of Edmonton, a single Mobile Suit stood silently.

For the past hour or so, it had been holding it's ground against waves of ED-06j Graze Ground Types. And it did it's job pretty well, as pretty much no Grazes were still up and standing. Though it was pretty beat up, with it's light coffee coloured and white Nanolaminated armour dented up and shit.

Aside from the dents, it was missing one of it's sub arms which were stored in the backpack, but aside from that it received no major damage. After all, the Gundam Frame is epic.

It was known as the ASW-G-11r Gusion Rebake. And it's pilot was Akihiro Atland, a beast of a teenager.

And onto the topic of 'no Grazes standing', I wasn't really joking. All around it, at least a small army of Grazes laid, their pilots killed and Mobile Suits beaten. Hell, when the Gusion lost it's axe, which Akihiro probably tossed at a Graze to kill it, the man didn't stop, using the Gundam's shield as a weapon by slamming it into a Graze's cockpit (that's hardcore, right there) and even stealing a Graze's sword to do battle.

Hell, he even ripped a Graze's arm off. Currently, he was still holding it in the Gusion's right manipulator.

Unfortunately, all the strain from the battle did take some tolls on Akihiro, as the AV system did make him nosebleed slightly, not to mention how worn out he was. But he managed a smile when Orga's voice came through the LSC.

"Makanai and Kudelia have reached the Parliament!"

A little closer to Edmonton

"Our job was a success."

Forming a line, the heavy artillery Mobile Worker units rained down fire on the Gjallarhorn Workers. In the battle, they lost a few of their numbers, but the Gjallarhorn ones were dropping faster than flies in a frog farm.

Inside his MW, Eugene Seven Stark grit his teeth as he and his friends laid down suppressive fire.

"So… do not die here!"

The outer rim of Edmonton

"Don't die now!"

Laying on the ground in front of his destroyed Ryusei Go, Norba Shino smirked as Orga issued his commands through his Graze Frame's LCS.

Alongside him were Lafter Frankland, Azee Gurumin, Eco Turbine, three members from Teiwaz who accompanied Tekkadan to Earth, and Yamagi Gilmerton, an adorable boy who has a crush on Shino.

Hey, don't judge now.

Recently, when the Kimaris Trooper and unidentified Graze unit came down, all three of them (Shino, Lafter and Azee. Eco and Yamagi are just engineers) were taken out of commision thanks to its more advanced A-V system. Thankfully, none of them were taken out of commision, only receiving several broken ribs… maybe.

"Whoever dies from here on out… I'll make sure to kill you again for disobeying me!"

Edmonton

"So! No matter what…"

Coming at the Barbatos, the Graze attempted a downswing at the smaller MS with one of its two axes. It didn't account for it to dodge, however.

"What is this?!" exclaimed the Graze as the Barbatos issued a possibly fatal strike to its arm which would have severed it. Thankfully for the Graze, it was able to pull its arm back to avoid the strike, only to lose one of its axes which was diced in two with the Longsword.

"His reaction speed has tripled…" muttered the Graze's pilot in shock. "How is this possible… his Alaya Vijnana system shouldn't be able to give out that much data!"

While the Graze attempted to figure out how to pin it down, the Barbatos' pilot pushed on tirelessly, focusing all his might on killing the Graze. Though he did pull part of his mind away to listen to Orga's orders.

"Live! Even if you have to crawl… or if you have to die trying!"

As he said that, Mika unknowingly smiled a tad.

'He's been wanting to say that for some time…' he thought wistfully was he dodged a strike aimed at the waist unit and retaliated by swinging the Barbatos' Longsword at the Graze, slicing off a piece of it's 'horn' on it's head. 'For so long…'

'Don't die… just live. It's simple when you put it into words, but he couldn't just say them…'

Once the thought was over, Mika ducked the Barbatos under a sideswing from the Graze and swung the Longsword at it's cockpit, which it narrowly dodged, though a cut did appear on the edge of the unit. In retaliation, the Graze sent it's axe down on it, a strike which kicked up a ton of dust, and this time it didn't have time to dodge a swing which knocked off a part of it's arm frame.

And outside of all that chaos, the two Mobile Suits and their pilots didn't notice the Mobile Worker which stopped outside the dust.

"How is this possible…" muttered the Graze's pilot as he launched his MS' fist, spun up into a drill punch, at the Barbatos, which it blocked with it's Graze Ritter shoulderpad, though it was sent back a little, and a drill punch mark formed on the shoulderpad. "His movements…!"

With Orga off the LCS, Mika turned his mind back to combat, activating the Land Boosters and blasting his Gundam forward. Seeing his opponent coming, the Graze swung it's axe to stop the Gundam, though it didn't account for it to leap right over it.

Landing on both feet units, the Barbatos raised an arm to block a drill punch with the arm 'shield'. As it did, the Graze swung its axe at it, though before the weapon could connect with it's target, the Barbatos swung its blocking arm to the side, sending the drill arm to the side and allowing it to launch a punch at the Graze's head unit, snapping part of its 'horns' off and denting and bending it's helmet thingy.

Whirling back to face the Tekkadan MS, the Graze's optic seemed to glow a darker shade of red, prompting Mika to swing the Longsword at it again, though the Graze narrowly dodged it, earning a smaller cut on it's waist frame.

Not using it's axe this time, the Graze sent a drill punch at the Barbatos' head unit, sheering off it's left cheek armour and making Mika flinch in the cockpit. And that action sent it out of the dust cloud, allowing Orga to see what was happening, and to flinch at how damaged the Barbatos was.

"Not a chance!" exclaimed the Graze pilot, and before Mika could recover, it sent a drilling kick at his Gundam's waist frame, sending the Barbatos back and causing its Additional Armour Plating to drop off.

Stepping forward, the Graze stomped on the armour piece which had a Tekkadan symbol stamped on it, crushing it under it's metal foot.

"This is the end…" said the Graze, and honestly, Mika couldn't be bothered to listen.

He was tired, dehydrated, and he wanted to just close his eyes and drift into an embrace of dreams. So, as the Graze opened it's damaged helmet and glared at the Barbatos with it's single red monoeye, which was cracked from the punch he gave it, before raising it's axe, Mika didn't dodge.

Why bother fighting this thing? He had no goal, at least nothing he could remember… fighting this thing had made his brain feel mushy.

Closing his eyes, Mika simply accepted his fate… a fate of a Child Soldier. And while he did, he missed the activation of his Gundam's LCS comm links.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, MIKA?!"

That voice… it belonged to… Orga… Orga!

Blasting his eyes open, revealing dilated pupils, Mika remembered his mission. To ensure Tekkadan was successful.

And he was going to be there when it happened. So dying was not on his list, not now. Not ever.

With his mind cleared, Mika pushed down on a button on the Barbatos' arm, ejecting the Barbatos' Ritter shoulder pads and the backpack unit to reduce the weight on the Barbatos.

And to put it simply, it worked. Once the axe landed, all the Graze hit was the armour the Barbatos removed, though it did miss the backpack unit (for plot needs).

"What…?!" proclaimed the Graze, shocked by the speed. Swiveling it's cracked monoeye from side to side, it couldn't see the Barbatos, until it heard the sound of it's Land Boosters. Turning back, it saw the Gundam Frame leap into the air, Longsword raised.

Quickly, it attempted to swing its axe at it, though it was too slow, as the Barbatos completely severed the left, axe wielding arm unit off.

"He… he cut the Mobile Suit's inner and outer frame all together?!" exclaimed the pilot of the Graze in shock as his MS' arm unit went limp, losing it's grip on it's axe which landed to the side while the arm landed on the ground.

While it was still in shock, Mikazuki felt wistful inside the cockpit. Partly because he remembered what he was supposed to do, but mainly because he learnt how to use this weapon correctly.

"I finally understand how to use this…" he muttered, smiling ever so slightly. "It was so easy…"

"You… you monster!" exclaimed the Graze, launching its arm which was still attached for a drill punch. Dodging to the side, the Barbatos avoided the strike before severing that arm unit with it's sword.

"Look who's talking!" said Mika in a harsh tone as he narrowed his eyes at the Graze.

Moving back, the Graze began to raise it's leg unit for a drill kick, something it's opponent's MS dodged before stabbing it's weapon into the leg unit, making the Graze step back.

"Lieutenant Crank(nee)!" it exclaimed, it's voice filled with shame as it turned to the Barbatos, it's remaining leg unit seemingly about to break and it's single red optic blazing red. "Specialist Major Bauduin! My righteousness…"

Having enough of his babbling, Mikazuki pulled back the Barbatos' arm units before springing them forward, jamming the Longsword into the cockpit of the Graze. It was a clean cut, one which went right in and destroyed the pilot's life support system.

And as it went limp, Mika simply glared at it.

"Shut up…" he grumbled. "Orga's giving me orders…"

As he said that, Orga looked up to the sky, smiling happily.

A smile which faded when his LCS comm links went on.

"Orga!" came Takaki's voice. And he seemed alarmed.

"What is it, Takaki?" asked Orga, his happiness fading thanks to Takaki's tone.

"There's a large amount of Ahab build up near you…" said Takaki urgently. "It's… it's coming from the Mobile Suit Mr Mikazuki is fighting!"

Widening his eyes, Orga whirled back to face the Barbatos and activated his comm links which connected to the Barbatos.

"Mikazuki!" exclaimed Orga. "Fall back, now!"

Hearing this, Mika simply felt confused, before the on screen alert came up, alerting him to an Ahab build up. And if he remembered what Old Man Yuki said… it meant…

'Self destruct!' thought Mika as he flipped the Land boosters back and activating them, blasting the Gundam back, and also yanking the Longsword out. Yet, something seemed to be malfunctioning in the Barbatos. Mika would have wondered if it was because he pushed it too far, but he didn't have much time, as the Barbatos seemed to just shut down.

Alongside that small problem, the Barbatos was being pulled towards the Graze. Not just the Barbatos, though. The Wrench Mace, Graze's arms/axes, the armour parts which the Gundam ejected, some light posts and stuff around the area, and even Orga, who was reversing his MW.

Yet, when the Barbatos and Mika came into contact with the Graze, the 'vortex' stopped, causing Orga's MW to be sent back slightly. Grumbling, he climbed out of his Mobile Worker, before widening his eyes.

"Orga!" came Takaki's voice again. "The Ahab build up is gone. But I'm not picking up the Barbatos' Ahab Wave! What's wrong?!"

But Orga didn't answer. The sight in front of him was too much.

Mika… Mika and the Barbatos… both gone. Nothing was even left, not even any of the weapons.

And for one of the few times in his life, Orga allowed himself to shed some tears before letting out an anguished yell.

A yell which rang through the Edmonton sunset and represented the lost of a friend, and something which would haunt Orga for many years from now.

Yet… the Tekkadan leader was wrong to assume that Augus was dead.

In fact, he was well and alive, fighting for a new cause…

SO YES. WELCOME TO TEKKETSU NO KYOJIN!

If you're wondering, no, I dunno what kinda drug I was on when I was writing this. I'm too young to take drugs anyways. Also, this was edited on the 20/8/17… yes… I edited chapter 1 NINE YEARS after I published it. Gotta love how time flies…

Now onto a question I'm sure y'all are wondering.

"Why are Mina Carolina, Nac Tias, and Mylius Zeramuski in this story? I can understand Annie Leonhart is here since she's a main character (sorta), but why three characters who are dead?"

Well… main reason is because I like em! I mean… I'm not a main character kinda guy. Except Mika. He's boss. But in other series, I attach more to Side characters. And besides, Mina, Nac and Mylius all have the basic character traits to turn them into good characters!

And the writers decided to kill em off. Thanks a lot, Eren. Speaking of Eren, I seriously dislike him. Hot headed simpleton. Mikasa and Armin are alrai. I remember using them as main characters, before I changed it cuz Side characters FTW!

P.S, originally, I didn't intend of Mylius to be a main character. It was supposed to be 'Mikazuki, Mina, Annie, Nac', but for some reason there is no way to choose IBO characters… dunno why. So because of this, Mylius has joined the game!

Onto other subjects in this waaaaaay too long outro, I chose the Barbatos because it is, in short, one of the weakest Gundams in the universe, but it looks epic. Since it's one of the weakest, I decided to use it (also because I really like it). I mean, just imagine the Strike Freedom Gundam or even the God Gundam. The story would be over before it begins!

And finally, why Mika? Well, mainly because I love him. Not in a gay way. In a 'favorite character' way. I may be biased, since IBO is the first real Gundam series I completed, but I just really like him. Also, I really wanna try and develop Mika as much as I can.

SO FINALLY I'M DONE WITH THE OUTRO. I'LL SEE YOU IN C2.

BAI

P.S, FINAL NOTE WHICH I FORGOT TO ADD, but in this story, I will be using come ideas which come from the Barbatos concept art from the Gundam Wiki. Stuff like the 'Backpack claw' will be here, and the Autocannons can detach and be able to use the Arm Motors in the case of emergencies.

Also, the grey pieces on the feet unit can flip down to act as 'braces' to slow it down when falling back. It isn't a concept thing, but a design inspired by the Exia Repair 2's feet claws.

Alright see ya