Disclaimer: I own neither Gundam SEED

AN: 'Sol' is in reference to our solar system, not the metaphysical existence of our soul.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Radio"

Chapter One: Becoming a Junker

Cornicorpius City - C.E 69

A young preteen girl of 14 years of age walking through the Lunar University let out a small sigh as she read through a small folder filled with sheets of paper, she had dark brown hair that fell to her waist, a pair of bangs framing her heart shaped face and expressive Amethyst colored eyes, wearing a dark purple kimono like top with detached sleeves, leaving her shoulders bare, that was held closed by a small obi-esque belt and a black pleated mini-skirt that ended two thirds of the way up her thigh with a pair of black three inch heeled, thigh high boots coming up only an inch or two away from the bottom of her skirt showing a tantalizing view of her creamy flesh.

Inside of the folder she was carrying was a list of possible opportunities she had before her, now that her time at Lunar Academy was ending, yup, a girl still in her preteen phase was completing the Academy, a post University school for the highest levels of intellectuals, specializing in computer sciences and mobile suit theory.

Due to her genius, several big name companies, such as Morgenroete, Actaeon Industries, and even ZAFT R&D were all offering her entry level positions, which would normally require a lengthy internship in order to get such a position.

However, there was also another group that made her a job offer, the Junk Guild, it wasn't a spectacular job like the offers from the major three Military Manufacturers, but… she always admired the Junk Guild for their free spirit and positive outlook on things. "Hmm, should I join one of them?" she muttered to herself as she walked. "All three are interesting…"

She let out a soft sigh as she continued to walk, looking up at the false 'sky' the protective dome of Copernicus projected. "To fly free through the skies… it sounds… fun," she whispered to herself as she brought a hand up to shield her eyes from the light. "And with them… I wouldn't have to worry about the war… will I?"

She let out another sigh. "Still, ZAFT's offer is pretty big, all things considered," Kira Yamato said to herself. "I mean, five figures… it's almost ridiculous."

Copernicus Academy, Dorms

"I'm back!" Kira called out as she stepped into the Dorm room she shared with her two roommates. "Apparently they wanted to give me job offers sent by the big three."

"Ooh, welcome back, Kira-chan!" a pair of near-identical girls looked up from the terminal they were working at. Both of them featured wavy silver hair cascading down to their waists, with large C-cup busts for their age. The red-eyed girl wore just a singlet and panties, while the other blue-eyed one was clad in a pale pink shirt and a white miniskirt.

"The big three? That's gre-great news!" the blue eyed one gave a small smile.

Kira smiled at the twin sisters. "Not sure if I want to take their offers though," she admitted. "All I'd be doing is creating machines of war..."

"Ah, right… Don't you have other offers though?" the red-eyed twin tapped her finger on her chin in thought. "If the big three want you, there must be countless other offers for you."

Kira nodded and pulled out a fourth sheet. "Well, I also got an offer from the Junk Guild," she informed. "And honestly... I want to take it..."

"Then go ahead!" her red-eyed dormmate skipped over and clapped her on her back encouragingly. "Live your dream, Kira-chan, we all deserve it, right Hanami-chan?"

"Ye-Yeah!" the blue-eyed twin nodded in agreement.

Kira smiled at the pair. "What about you two?" she asked. "What do you want to do?"

"We-well…" Hanami thought for a moment. "Probably the sa-same as you, Kira-chan, right, Kagami-chan?"

"Yep!" Kagami chirped. "Not too keen on weapons development either, I wouldn't feel comfortable knowing that stuff I develop could be used to take peoples' lives. That being said though, I'm not enough of an honors student like you for the big three to come knocking on my door anyway," she shrugged.

Kira giggled slightly. "Trust me, being an honors student isn't all that it's cracked up to be," she informed. "Everyone is always expecting perfection from me, well, almost everyone," she amended, sending the twins a grateful look.

"What are best friends for?" Kagami grinned as she pulled Kira into a brief, encouraging hug. "Don't mind us, just go chase your dream. We common folk will just have to do our best to catch up to you. But we'll get there eventually!"

Kira smiled at them. "With your guys' grades, I'm sure the Guild would let you join," she informed the pair. "Plus, they rely more on the practical interview than your grades anyways, so if it's you two, I'm sure you could join… that is…" she bit her lip slightly, blushing slightly as she figeted with her hands behind her back. "If you two wanted to…"

"Are you kidding us?" Kagami shot a look at Kira.

"Of-of course we want to!" Hanami quickly made her consent known with a similar light blush adorning her cheeks.

Kira smiled brightly at the pair. "Thanks," she told the pair gratefully before suddenly glomping them, a necklace with a simple Valkyrie amulet on it, a gift from the pair of them. "I'm really glad that you're my friends."

"So-so am I!" Hanami stammered, reciprocating the gesture.

Kagami grinned as she wrapped her arms around both of them too. "Let's keep making those memories together!"

Kira smiled happily, a slight blush on her features. 'I want this to last forever,' she thought to herself. 'I don't want these peaceful times to end…'

"So, what say we go out and celebrate this most glorious occasion?" Kagami suggested in an exaggerated grandiose manner as she pulled out her wallet to check her financial status.

"It'll be on u-us!" Hanami quickly added with a pointed look at her best friend.

Kira giggled a bit. "Alright, let's go!" she shouted out with a fist pump. "Let's party!"

Four Days Later - Junk Guild, Copernicus Branch

"Thanks for doing this with me, you guys," Kira said gratefully as the trio entered the local Junk Guild branch. "Are you sure you want to join the Junk Guild with me though?"

"Yup! Quite honestly I don't really mind the slightly lower paycheck if it means I get to go sightseeing in space," Kagami flashed a bright grin at her best friend.

"Ne-neither do I," Hanami agreed. "I wonder if we'll get to go to Italy?" she mused with a bit of a dreamy look on her face.

Kira giggled. "I know that look, she's thinking about food, isn't she?" she asked teasingly. "Tell me, are you being hand fed by a hot young Italian stud?"

"Ki-Kira-chan!" a scandalized Hanami gasped out. "A-a-as if!"

"Oh, then how about a feisty beauty?" Kira probed. "Wearing only a white apron to cover her voluptuous body…"

Hanami froze in shock. "I-I-I-I'm not a lesbian!" she quickly declared in a whisper.

'What if it was Kira-chan?' her twin's voice rang out in her head.

The blue-eyed silverette tripped as they walked and ended up planting her face in the ground.

"Hanami-chan? Are you alright?" Kira asked hurriedly as she knelt down next to her friend. "What happened?"

"No-no-nothing!" she sprang back to her feet, trying to stem the flow of blood from her nose and shooting a stern glare at a laughing Kagami. The nosebleed was from hitting her nose on the ground, she quickly reassured herself.

"Alright… if you say so…" Kira informed slowly, a small part of her feeling disappointed at Hanami's earlier proclamation. "C'mon, let's get to the interview."

"Right!" Kagami pulled out a packet of tissues and offered one to her simultaneously grateful and annoyed twin as they followed after Kira, snickering slightly all the way.

'Tha-that was uncalled for,' Hanami grumbled in her mind. Her red-eyed twin chose to respond only with a smile.

"Hello, your Miss Yamato and Missus Yukikaze, correct?" a receptionist asked brightly as they approached. "Welcome, Mr. Liam Garfield is waiting for you, please, this way."

Kira bit her lip slightly before nodding agreement, casting a nervous look to her friends.

"Go on ahead, we'll be waiting for the good news," Kagami flashed a thumbs up encouragingly, accompanied by a small nod from her twin.

"Actually, Mr Garfield has asked for your presence as well. Kagami Yukikaze-san, Hanami Yukikaze-san," the receptionist informed brightly. "He wishes to meet with the two of you after reading the piece the three of you wrote on using Solar Energies and Mirage Colloid Particles to create High Efficiency Solar Sails, please, come with us."

The trio shared glances with each other. "That was… kinda unexpected," Kagami said after a while.

"Then… we-we'll be in your care!" Hanami bowed so hard she would've unbalanced herself had her twin not caught her at the last moment.

Kira smiled at the pairs antics before the receptionist led them to a decently sized room where a man with long black hair and dark eyes was waiting, he was wearing what seemed to be a semi-casual suit and tie combo as he stood to greet them. "Welcome, ladies, I'm glad to see you accepted my invitation for an interview," he greeted. "My name is Liam Garfield, a representative of the Junk Guild, please, sit."

"Ah, thank you," Kira said as the trio sat down. "I'm Kira Yamato, these are my friends, Hanami and Kagami Yukikaze…"

"Ple-pleased to me-meet you!" Hanami bowed hard again, almost smacking her head into the table in front of them as she sat down in her nervousness.

"Thank you for having us, Garfield-san," Kagami took her seat confidently, although Kira could see her hands shaking slightly and a small bead of sweat rolling down her brow.

"Now, this is a fairly standard interview process, although the question may be a bit different from the ones you may have been expecting," Liam informed with a gentle smile. "Tell me, what gave you the idea for your article on mixing Solar Power and Mirage Colloid Particles to create Solar Sails?"

Kira scratched her cheek for a second. "Well, actually, I was attempting to create a thesis on using high efficiency solar panels to remove the need for reliance on nuclear power, so that the hospitals on Earth that were affected by the N-Jammers could be brought back to full operation."

"Hanami and I came up with the idea of using Mirage Colloid particles to improve the efficiency of solar furnaces, actually," Kagami tapped her finger on her chin in thought, her twin blushing slightly. "They would be more space efficient since the main problem with solar power is the size of the solar farm needed…"

"I see, and how was it that your ideas came together?" Liam asked with rapt attention.

Kira scratched her cheek again, a blush building up on her face. "Well… we kinda shoot ideas back and forth when we're stuck," she admitted. "And when we were stuck on our thesis', Hanami had the idea to use both of our ideas to create a more efficient Solar Sail unit."

"I only tho-thought of that because we were passing by an antique shop selling mo-models of ancient sailing ships at the time…" Hanami confessed, blushing slightly as well. "I-It was a spur-of-the-mo-moment kind of thi-thing."

"Most discoveries are," Liam informed, a smile on his face. "So, what did you hope to achieve with this technology if you did manage to create it?"

"Efficient space travel!" Kagami quickly declared passionately. "There's so much out there in space to see that we don't even know about yet, and solar sails are some of the more efficient ways to travel long distances out there. I want to see the sights! Maybe even explore some other planets on the way too!"

Hanami stifled a giggle at a thought that had leaked out of her twin's mind.

"There is that, but it could also allow for necessary resources to be transported more efficiently," Kira added. "Like with the Mars Colony, or even if we were to set up mining operations on other planets."

Liam nodded in understanding. "Admirable," he complimented, his smile widening. "Now I see that all three of you have put some time into mobile suit development of some sort," he added, looking a sheet of paper he held. "What were you hopes with that?"

Kira shrugged slightly. "While I am not a fan of the fact that most of that research, if used, would be for weapons of war, I understand that one cannot simply stand on the sidelines without someway to defend yourself," she informed resolutely. "So, that's why I researched mobile suit development."

"Besides, mobile suits can still be used for other purposes aside from war," Kagami nodded. "I know ZAFT repurposes some of its old mobile suits for construction, and there's also the potential to be used for search and rescue."

Liam nodded in agreement. "Yes, I actually agree with you on the matter, and the Junk Guild use the Work's GiNN quite commonly," he informed. "Final question, why do you wish to join the Junk Guild?"

"I… admire those in the Junk Guild for their free spirit and their drive for making use of what others abandoned," Kira admitted. "and since I was always pushed to make use of my genius, I guess I just want to be able to be just… me."

"I want to be able to contribute to the advancement of humanity as a whole. Obviously war isn't the way to go about it - this Coordinator-Natural racism thing is just stupid," Kagami shook her head. "I want to join the Junk Guild for the freedom to do what I want as a truly neutral faction, and also to see if I can't do something for humanity in the process."

"Umm… Kagami-chan has mostly said what I wanted to say, Garfield-san," Hanami spoke quietly in a rare moment when she wasn't stammering. "I… want to help people by developing new technologies. There are so many people suffering on Earth, I… I just can't stand by and watch as a human - I don't care who's a Natural or who's a Coordinator, I just want to be useful."

Liam beamed at the trio. "Then I have only this to say to the three of you, welcome to the Junk Guild," he informed.

Kagami actually let out a loud squeal as she practically jumped out of her seat and hugged her twin and their best friend both at once, only to teleport back into her seat in embarrassment when Hanami let out a polite cough accompanied by a blush while looking around furtively.

"Thank you, Mr. Garfield," Kira said gratefully, giggling at her friend's embarrassment. "Umm, when do you want us to start?"

"In one week's time," Liam informed. "The ship you will be stationed on, the H.O.M.E will be docking then and you will meet the rest of the crew then."

"Alright!" Kagami pumped her fist in the air, quickly recovering from her earlier embarrassment. "Hanami-chan, Kira-chan, we're going shopping before then!"

Hanami blinked in surprise. "Kagami-chan… wha-what?"

Kira also blinked at Kagami's proclamation. "What's wrong with what we've got?" she asked in surprise. "I mean, we've already got plenty."

"Come on! It's the start of a completely new life! We definitely need to celebrate by getting some new stuff!" Kagami declared, completely oblivious to the chuckles of the Junk Guild employee sitting just across them.

"Huh, Kagami-chan?" Kira asked as the Silverette grabbed on to her and Hanami's arms and began to drag them away. "Wait, Kagami-chan!"

"Thi-thi-this is so embarrassing…" Hanami groaned out loud as she attempted to free herself. "Tha-thank you, Garfield-san! We wo-won't let you down!"

Liam laughed as he waved, watching as the pair were dragged off by the excitable third.

One Week Later, Copernicus Docks

"Wow, that's a Marseille III-Class," Kira said as they watched the ship, painted in the Orange and Red Colors of the Junk Guild. "I'm impressed they kept it running."

"I wonder if we'll get a room together like before?" Kagami was bouncing on her feet excitedly as she spun her luggage bag around.

Hanami just smiled softly as she stared up at the ship that would be their home for the foreseeable future. "It's qu-quite appropriate for them to ca-call it the H.O.M.E., isn't it?" she remarked.

Kira nodded in agreement. "It should be fun," she said, her own excitement building up. "Plus from what Mr. Garfield said, the people aboard are pretty fun to be around."

Hanami reached out and tugged at her twin's collar before she could run off to meet the crew. "Kagami-chan… be pa-patient…" she admonished.

"Yes mum," the red-eyed twin rolled her eyes only to receive a poke to the ribs. "Oi."

Kira giggled at the pairs antics as a group of people descended from the ship. "Hey~ You must be the new recruits! Welcome!" the person in the lead, a male looking to be about 16 with brown hair and eyes, his spiky hair being held up by a blue bandanna and was wearing a yellow sleeveless jacket over a black t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans tucked into work boots. "Hey there! I'm Lowe Guele, a pleasure to meet you, although… I have to admit, most to the stuff you wrote in that article Liam showed me, went completely over my head."

Kagami gave Lowe an odd look. "I feel like doing it to him," she muttered, sharing a look at her twin and Kira.

"Kagami-chan, tha-that would be mean…" Hanami quickly dissuaded her.

Kira palmed her face. "He wasn't insulting us, Kagami-chan," she inputted. "Anyways, it's nice to meet you, I'm Kira Yamato, and these are Kagami and Hanami Yukikaze."

"I know he wasn't insulting us, but I thought we made that thesis idiotproof…" Kagami groaned. "Still doesn't mean I'm not pleased to meet you though!"

"L-Likewise!" Hanami quickly bowed.

"Lowe is that special kind of idiot," a red haired, dark eyed female wearing a black tube top under an open purplish t-shirt that left a lot of skin exposed and a pair of blue jeans that ended about mid calf, informed. "I'm Kisato Yamabuki, it's nice to meet you."

"Hey!" Lowe protested. "I'll have you know I am the Number One best when it comes to modifications!"

"Special kind of idiot I see…" Kagami smirked. "Oh well, to each their own. I'm looking forward to working with you!"

"You can just call me Professor," another woman with long reddish-brown hair and a pair of brown eyes behind her glasses, wearing a red dress shirt and black skirt under a white labcoat. "I enjoyed reading your thesis, I look forward to seeing the future work you do here."

"W-We'll do our best!" Hanami nodded enthusiastically.

"So, you three have everything you need?" Lowe asked. "Cause we got our first assignment already, a small skirmish broke out in L2 and it's our job to clean up the mess and scavenge what we can, ready?"

Kira nodded. "I know I am," she informed with a bright smile. "I look forward to working with you all!"

"So… when do we get going?" Kagami's eyes were practically sparkling in anticipation.

"Right now if you want to," Kisato informed, giggling slightly at the silverette's excitement. "We're just stopped to pick you three up."

"Oooh!" Kagami had to be once again politely restrained by her twin before she could rush off into the ship unattended. "So, where are we dropping our bags?"

"Follow us, unfortunately the three of you will have to share a room," Lowe informed apologetically. "We're a bit short on space with all the stuff we kinda have cluttered around."

"Oh, we do-don't mind that," Hanami quickly clapped a hand over her twin's mouth before she could let out an overeager shout in celebration, although she herself was grinning. "We've been ro-roommates for a while anyway."

'Meanie,' Kagami mentally pouted.

"Alright then, that worked out nicely," Lowe said in obvious relief. "C'mon, I'll show you your room, feel free to modify it as much as you want, so long as it doesn't affect the structural integrity anyways."

"What kind of modifications to a room wo-would damage a ship?" Hanami blinked in confusion.

"Well, basically there was one person, who ended up making a pin sized hole on an exterior wall of a ship we had once…" Lowe informed. "Thank god each rooms are sealed."

Hanami blinked again, then turned to look at Kagami.

"Why are you looking at me? I'm not going to do anything that stupid," the red-eyed silverette quickly protested.

"Really? Because sometimes I wonder…" Kira said slowly.

"I'm not that bad, am I?" an unnerved Kagami looked between Kira and Hanami slowly, cold sweat pouring down her brow.

Hanami decided to respond with a small cough.

"Must I mention the 'Experiment' you tried?" Kira said in a deadpan. "If I remember, you spent a week in jail for it."

"Ack," Kagami recoiled as if struck by an arrow. "Umm… It-it was just a week?" she quickly attempted to salvage her dignity.

"You had almost been brought to court for triple counts of treason and crimes against humanity, Kagami-chan," Kira once again deadpanned. "Forgive us for being worried."

Kagami winced again as she deflated and slumped to the ground. "Meanies. I swear you two are always picking on me," she whimpered as she curled up into a ball on the ground and a depressed aura appeared around her.

"We're just telling the truth, Kagami-chan," Kira informed. "You're the one who got yourself into those situations."

The defeated silverette started rolling around on the ground while mumbling incoherently in depression. After a while she ended up rolling to Kira's feet while looking up at her with exaggerated puppy eyes pleadingly.

Kira looked down with a deadpan. "You should know, I am just as immune to that as I am your mask, Kagami-chan," she informed bluntly. "I am above your petty attempts at manipulation."

"Darn it," Kagami groaned. "But can you at least… stop destroying my dignity in front of the people we just landed a job with?" she complained, pointing at the group of Junk Guild members staring at them.

"Why? it's ever so much fun," Kira informed innocently. "It would take quite the significant bribe to stop me from mentioning another certain incident that involved a cherry."

"Gaaaaah!" Kagami started bashing her head on the ground comically. "Fine, you win five parfaits at the next restaurant we find!"

Kira giggle happily in response. "Then my lips are sealed now," she informed as she began to skip away, towards the ship.

"She's a demon in human skin I swear," Kagami muttered before shooting a look at her twin sister, who was trying and failing to stifle her laughter. "Stop laughing!" she ordered as she stomped off after Kira with a mock huff.

"Wa-wait for me!" Hanami had to force herself to stop laughing as she followed.

"We'll, they should certainly be an amusing group to join us," the Professor said in amusement as the other two chuckle in response. "Let's get going."

Two Year Later - Heliopolis Colony, Heliopolis Junk Guild Branch

"Man, why did we have to get sent to man the Heliopolis Branch?" Kira asked in a small whine as she sat with a bored expression at a desk, she had grown over the last two years, her cup size growing to the upper end C-cups, possibly even to low D's, and was wearing an outfit much like two year ago, save without the detached sleeves, leaving her arms completely bare. "It's so boring!"

"Well, we do have to build up some paper-pushing experience at some point I guess…" Hanami suggested as she worked at her own desk diligently, having gotten rid of her stammer during her time with the more social members of the Junk Guild. She had undergone quite a big growth spurt, her bust going up to E-cups and her other curves growing even more pronounced. She wore an undersized dark blue half-jacket that was only buttoned up across the top of her sizable assets, under which she wore a white crop top. A pair of fingerless white evening gloves with a few dark blue stripes covered her arms, while she wore a dark blue miniskirt and knee-length black boots.

"Bored bored bored bored bored bored," Kagami repeated a mantra as she attempted to make a crossbow out of the various stationery lying around on her desk. She had developed in much the same way as her quieter blue-eyed twin sister, and wore pretty much the same outfit except she didn't have the undershirt, so her underbust was slightly exposed and her midriff was completely bared for the world to see. She had been the one to come up with the outfit and pretty much force Hanami into it, although the less shameless member of the pair had utterly refused to go without the undershirt.

"But for two years?" Kira whined. "I wanted to work on my High Efficiency Solar Panels… I was this close to finishing them!"

"You still need to file a patent for them afterwards anyway right?" Hanami pointed out as she neatly set a stack of finished paperwork on the side of her desk and started sorting through another stack.

"I have the patent ready, and it has been processed, all I need is the working model," Kira informed with a pout. "But they dragged me away before I could complete it!"

A pen flew at Kira at high speed, only for her to immediately dodge it. Hanami had also ducked under it with a sigh, as it hit the wall beside her. Both girls looked at an innocently whistling Kagami, who was hiding a crossbow made from a few rulers, a stapler and more than a few rubber bands behind her back not quite successfully.

Kira narrowed her eyes at Kagami. "You want to dance," she asked dangerously, her hands darting into her desk to pull out an 'Eraser Launcher' she made last week out of boredom. "Let's dance."

"Bring it on!" Kagami smirked with a glint in her eyes as small amounts of her killing intent started to leak out.

Hanami reached into her desk, pulled out several large components that she locked together to form a gigantic multi-barreled pen launcher, armed it and set it down on her desk as she continued her work.

"ATTACK!" Kira cried out as her makeshift weapon fired several rounds at Kagami, before dodging another pen from the crossbow.

"I declare neutrality unless attacked," Hanami said in complete deadpan as she unfolded a screen and put it up around her stacks of paperwork. Some of the other Junk Guild paper pushers in the office wisely decided to do the same, or hide their paperwork under their desks where they wouldn't be thrown everywhere by the oncoming ruckus.

"Oh no you don't!" Kagami loaded an uncapped marker onto her crossbow and fired it at Kira, who dodged again. The marker painted a stripe of yellow on someone else's face with a response in the form of an indignant shout.

"No more nice Kira!" Kira shouted out as she quickly replaced several parts in her launcher, making it powered by compressed gas before loading a shredded eraser and fired it at Kagami.

"That's not fair!" Kagami ducked behind a divider as she dove into her desk for another weapon. Moments later she reemerged with a magazine-fed paperclip railgun made out of several metal rulers and a car battery.

Hanami calmly added another large multi-barreled pen launcher to her arsenal, complete with several clips of ammunition.

Kira spun around several paperclips before launching several 'scattershot erasers' covering herself as she ducked behind a divider of her own and before fashioning a new weapon.

Kagami fashioned a riot shield from a few large pieces of mounting board and started advancing on Kira while keeping her suppressed with rapid fire from her railgun.

Kira suddenly popped up from behind her cover, holding a bottle of whiteout that she threw behind Kagami's shield before it exploded, splattering the silverette and the surrounding area in whiteout.

"How did you rig that whiteout to blow- never mind, you're Kira," Kagami groaned as she shook as much of the whiteout out of her hair as possible before deciding she needed an indirect fire weapon and starting to build a new weapon.

It was only half done before both she and Kira started to get pelted by an onslaught of pens. Hanami had set up her pen launchers on top of the wall of her cubicle, accompanied by a large belt-fed pen-firing machine gun on a makeshift bipod. "Neutrality unless attacked, I said," she pointed out as she gestured at the screen protecting her paperwork covered in whiteout.

Kira and Kagami both paled in response before… "I'M SORRY!" they both shouted simultaneously. "Please forgive us! Don't take away your cooking!"

"Actually I didn't think of that," Hanami tapped her finger on her chin in thought. "No food for you two until you get your paperwork for today done!" she declared in a tone that brooked no argument, accompanied by killing intent and a Noh mask floating in the air behind her.

The pair sobbed, not really affected by the mask, but rather her threat of no food before slumping over to their desks to start working on their paperwork. "Hanami-chan is a meanie," Kira pouted.

Hanami calmly rotated the machine gun to point in Kira's direction before settling back down to do her work while projecting another mask. The masks floated eerily over to Kira and Kagami to stare over their shoulders as they worked, somehow even breathing out cold breath on their shoulders through their nostrils.

"I'll be quiet…" Kira informed in defeat as her shoulders slumped.

"Good girl," Hanami's voice floated over the dividers between them.

"Hanami-chan is scary," Kagami commented fearfully as she dove into her paperwork with renewed gusto.

Outside of Heliopolis, inside of Resource Asteroid field

A pair of ZAFT Warships, both of them of the Nazca-class, floated through space, being sure to keep the asteroids between themselves and the Colony, on the bridge of the ship dubbed the 'Vesalius' a blond haired, white coated, commander smirked as he looked upon the colony. 'And now, the beginning of the end of the world starts again…' he thought to himself, restraining the laughter that bubbled up from within himself.

"Commander, away teams have reported in," the ship's communications officer report. "They are now beginning their infiltration of Heliopolis."

"Good," the blond commander, Rau le Creuset, commented with a smile. "Start the mission timer."

"Timer is active!" another officer reported. "T-Minus 7200 seconds until deployment of mobile suits!"

"Recon team has reported the OMNI Marseilles-III has not yet moved!" the CIC officer informed. "All cannons are locked on and will start charging at t-minus 7000 seconds!"

"Good," Rau complimented. "By the books today gentlemen, and it will be an easy victory."

END CHAPTER!