Chapter 1: Heliopolis!
The Park!
It was a sunny day on the Orb's Neutral Resource Development Satellite Heliopolis. A young girl sat on a bench next to a young boy both of whom were around the age of 16. The girl had her eyes closed, but when she opened her eyes she reviled a pair of mahogany colored eyes as she watched a green robotic bird fly around before landing on the boy's laptop.
"Birdee!" it chirped.
She turned her head to look at the boy next to her. He had brown short massy hair with bangs, Caucasian colored skin, and lavender colored eyes. She looked up at the sky till a voice called to both of them.
"Hey Kira, Skyla!" a boy called, "Kira Yamato and Skyla Etoile!"
"Hey Tolle, Miriallia," Skyla greeted with a wave.
"Here you are," Tolle said, "Professor Kaito been looking for you."
"He said if we found you to send you over to the Morgenraete lab," Miriallia said.
Skyla looked at Kira as a red/white robotic wolf jumped into her lap then curled up there.
"Again…?" Kira asked, "I wish he'd just leave me alone."
"Poor Kira," Skyla cooed.
"It's not surprising the Professor favors you," Tolle said, "after all you are number one in the Science department in your class."
Skyla was looking over Kira's shoulder as the news came on.
"And now for a special news alert…" the news reporter stated, "ZAFT forces have invaded Kaoshiung early this morning before dawn. Even now the battle rages on between ZAFT and the Earth Alliances. This is a live broadcast from the battle."
All four teenagers looked worried as they watch the broadcast, but only Tolle spoke
"Th-this is…horrible."
"Isn't Kaoshiung close to the Orb homeland?" Miriallia asked.
"Don't worry Miriallia," Tolle told her, "there's no way the battle will be brought to Orb."
"I hope your right," Miriallia said with worry.
They all started to head over to rent a car, so they could get to Morgenraete. As they were walking Skyla heard talking up head, so she looked ahead to see a girl with hot pink colored hair arguing with two other girls.
"I'm totally serious it's nothing like that," she told her two friends.
"Yeah?" one asked.
"Your lying," another accused.
"Why don't you just come on out and admit it?" the first one asked her.
"I told you," the hot pink haired girl said, "*Laughs* Uh?" She looked over at the sound of footsteps to see Skyla, Miriallia, Tolle, and Kira walking up to them. "Miriallia, Skyla."
"Hi," both Skyla and Miriallia greeted.
"I betcha you know about it Miriallia, Skyla," one of the girl's friends said.
"Know what?" both Miriallia and Skyla asked.
"Come on stop it?" the girl asked.
"She got a latter from Sai Argyle, but she calms nothings going on and she refuses to dish out anything," another one told them, "right?"
"It's so true."
"Alright!" the girl said angrily, "would you guys give it a rest?"
When someone cleared their throat Miriallia, Tolle, Skyla, and Kira looked behind them to see a woman and two men standing right behind them.
"Uh?"
"If your not getting in mind if I do?" the woman asked.
Tolle, Kira, and Skyla got out of her way so she and the two men could get through.
"Oh, we're sorry," Tolle said, "please."
They all watched her walk by and get into a car.
"What's your big anyway?" the girl asked before turning around and walking to a car. "Let's go!"
"Wait up?" one of her friends called out running after her.
"Hey!" another called, "wait?"
Skyla watched as all three of them got into a car talking before looking back at Kira.
"How about that Sai?" Tolle asked, "he wrote to her. To Flay Alster no less." He turned to look at Kira. "What a total shock and surprise?" He then clapped his hands down onto Kira's shoulders. "You got some compaction Kira Yamato." He turned to walk away. "Good luck."
Miriallia and Skyla giggled as they walked towards the car that Tolle had gotten into.
"But really I'm not…"
"Poor Kira has to compete with a friend over Flay Alster," Skyla teased making Kira groan.
"Even Skyla," he complained making Skyla and Miriallia giggle.
The Car!
Skyla sat in the front seat in the passenger side of the car while Tolle and Miriallia sat in the back and Kira drove on their way to the lab.
"There's no harm in asking," Tolle was saying, "I don't know what's the big deal is."
"I said no and that's final," Kira told him.
"What's the problem?" Tolle asked, "doesn't sound like your going to ask." He then shrugged. "So I guess I have to do it."
"Tolle your being a pest," Kira told him.
Skyla giggled as Kira and Tolle had an argument though it was more of talking with no yelling at each other while rolling her eyes and sharing a silent look with Miriallia.
The Morgenraete Lab!
All four of them walked into a lab room to see two boys around their age working on things, but they looked up when the group entered the room. Skyla looked around the lab to see a girl standing away from the others watching them, but when they locked eyes it was like they could understand each other and Skyla knew that she was there for something relating to the Morgenraete. When they broke eye contact that only last for a few seconds Skyla looked at the boys.
"Hey," Tolle greeted.
"Ah, Kira," one of them said, "you finally made it."
"Hey Sai, Kazzy," Skyla greeted.
Tolle walked up to Kazzy before pointing at the girl.
"Whose that?" he asked.
"Oh," Kazzy said, "the Professor's guest." He looked at her too. "They were apparently told to wait here."
"Really?" Tolle asked.
"So," Kira said leaning over to look at Kazzy, "where's the Prof?"
Skyla walked around the room looking at things before going back over to others and as she walked past the girl she looked at her out of the corner of her eyes to see the girl watching her as she walked by and it was like before because when they made eye contact it was like they were having a privet conversion with each other. When Skyla reached the others the girl and her look away from each other, so they wouldn't get the others involved.
"He handed me this," Sai told Kira, "it's extra stuff."
"Great," Kira mumbled.
"You'll survive Kira," Skyla said as she patted him on the back.
"So what's on it?" Sai asked, "I'm assuming it's somehow connected to the work from Morgenraete."
At that Skyla and the girl cought each other eyes again making Skyla positive that Morgenraete was doing something that it wasn't suppose to be doing. When the girl nodded confirming her suspensions Skyla broke eye contact with her and looked at Kira waiting for his answer.
"Not exactly," Kira answered, "it's to improve the frame sat nuzurole. It's actually just a program analogies."
"More importantly," Tolle said as he put Kira in a choke hold, "ask him about the latter."
"What latter is that?" Sai asked.
Skyla just shooked her head as Tolle tried to get Kira to ask about the latter, 'I feel sorry for Kira and Sai.'
"No," Kira told Toll, "come on. Really it's nothing."
"Nothing?" Tolle asked.
"What is it?" Sai asked.
"Well, you see…"
"It's nothing," Kira interrupted, "drop it."
"What Tolle?" Sai asked, "tell me?"
"Would you guys give it a rest?" Miriallia asked.
"Let go," Kira told Tolle, "your choking me."
"Your not getting off that easy," Tolle stated, "not until you tell him."
Skyla walked up to Tolle and Kira before pulling Tolle off of Kira.
"Tolle, you should watch it," she told him, "you really were choking him.
After a few minutes of talking everyone went around goofing off in the lab while the girl stood there watching them, but Skyla stood behind Kira who was talking about the program. It wasn't long till they felt a trimmer making them look up at the ceiling as the emergency lights went off.
"A meteoroid?" Sai asked.
"What's going on?"
They all ran out of the lab with the girl right behind to the stairs where they saw people from the bottom floors moving to the top.
"What's this all about?" Sai asked one of them.
"I don't know."
"We're under attack by ZAFT!" one of the workers answered, "some of their Mobile Suites have entered the colony. You better hurry, too."
Kira looked away just in time to see the girl from before ran off from the group, so he ran off after her making Skyla look after him.
"Hey, you!" he called.
"KIRA!" Tolle called out.
"I'll be right back!" Kira shouted back before he disappear out of sight.
Skyla soon took off herself following after Kira making the others call after her.
"SKYLA!"
Skyla give them the thumbs up before turning the corner she saw Kira turn looking for him though she couldn't see till…
"You're a…a girl?"
'That's Kira for you,' Skyla thought with a sweat drop.
"Yeah," the girl answered, "what did you think I was? WELL, LET'S HEAR IT!"
At that moment Skyla had finally cought up to them making Kira look at her.
"Skyla, you should have stayed with the others," he told her.
"You're my friend, Kira," Skyla told him, "so I'm not leaving your side."
"Go back now," the girl told them, "I've got to check up on something on my own."
"Easy for you to say," Kira stated, "how well we retrace our steps? Let's see." Skyla looked around when Kira grabbed her wrist along with the girl's. "Here this way."
"Let go of me, you jerk!" the girl yelled at him.
"Jerk?" Kira asked as he looked at her.
"Kira, you can let go of my wrist now," Skyla told him to only have him pay no attention to her.
"I just never thought we'll get involved."
"Don't worry we'll be ok," Kira told her, "there's still shelters in the factory district." It was then that when they came to the factory they saw two Mobile Weapons. "What? Hey, those are…"
"I knew it," the girl said as she fall to her knees and she grip the railing. "The Earth Forces prototype Mobile Weapons." Her grip on the railing tighten. "FATHER, I KNOW YOU BETRAYED US ALL!"
Skyla was the first to notice that one of the people that were protecting the Mobile Weapons looked at them and went to fire and she wasn't the only one who noticed.
"Come on," Kira said to her and the girl as he helped the girl up. "Crying won't help you. Come on now run." They came to the shelters were and that there was one shelter that had a green light. "See." Kira press the call button. "Some people have evacuated here."
"Is there someone still out there?"
"Yes," Kira answered, "my friends and I need to get inside. Please open the door?"
"3 of you?!"
"That's right," Kira said.
"We're full to compassity already. There's still shelters in stator 37 in the left block. Can you make it there?"
Kira looked in that direction before looking back at Skyla and the girl before pressing the button again.
"Please take my friends at least?" Kira asked, "their just girls."
"I'm not leaving you, Kira," Skyla told him firmly.
"We can only take one of them. Sorry."
When the doors open Skyla pushed the girl into the elevator with Kira's help.
"What are you?" she asked, "I can't.."
"Get in well you?" Kira asked, "we'll go to the other side. Don't worry? Ok? Hurry."
"What?" the girl asked after they finally got her in, "don't do it?!"
Kira and Skyla turned on their heels and ran back to the way they came from, but stopped when they saw that someone was coming up to a woman from behind.
"Behind you!" Kira yelled.
"Look out!" Skyla joined in.
The woman was able to shoot the guy before he could shot her and looked at them.
"Those kids again," she mumbled as she was trying to reload her gun. "Why did they?" She then pulled out a hand gun while still looking at them. "Come here!"
"Thanks, but we're off to the shelters in the left block never mind us!" Kira told her.
"There's nothing left behind that door!" she told him and just prove she was right there was a blast from the doorway. "This way!" She ran to where the cockpit for the Mobile weapon was while Kira and Skyla followed on the balcony before they jumped off. "Huh?"
"RUSTY!"
Skyla looked over to where the voice came from just as an Earth Forces officer was killed.
"Hunmana!" the woman yelled.
At that moment the ZAFT Soldier shot the woman in the arm making Kira jump down to her to make sure she was alright while the ZAFT Soldier came at her with a knife it was then that Kira looked up at the Soldier to see a familiar face.
"Athrun?" Kira asked as he stood up.
The Soldier stopped in surprise as he looked at Kira.
"K-Kira?" he asked.
The woman left up her arm and went to take a shot, but the Soldier jumped back just in time while Skyla jumped down to Kira just as the woman pushed both Kira and Skyla into the Mobile Weapon that they were standing on before jumping in herself. The Soldier watched from the other Mobile Weapon before he, too, got in.