'What the hell is going on here? How does Shinn know the pilot??' Athrun doesn't remember Shinn talking about any guy that was a pilot of a Freedom like mobile suit. The only people he talks about is Rey, Lunamaria and Meyrin and aside from those, Athrun isn't even sure he had any other friends besides them.

"Athrun do you know this mobile suit and it's pilot?" Kira questioned

"No, it wasn't stationed at the Minerva when I was there"

Kira couldn't stop looking at the mobile suit that looked so much as his own.

"Then how does the Destiny know the pilot?"

"I'm not sure Kira" Athrun was wondering too but he honestly didn't know either.

Just then the Minerva fired three colours into the air. They weren't retreat singles but something else that the two older teens weren't sure.

Suddenly the Minerva moved so that it was facing ZAFT military instead of ORB and fired at them.

ORB soldiers were in complete shock of the sudden change and didn't dare moving an inch.

Cagalli wasn't sure what to do now 'First this mysterious gundam that looks so much as her brothers, pops up out of nowhere and now the Minerva is...HELPING US??!!' 'Just what is going on here?'

She snapped out of her rant when she realized that everyone was staring at her, wondering what to do about this situation.

"What should we do Miss Cagalli?"

She straightened herself up and said " For now we do not attack the Minerva and focus on the other ZAFT fleets"

Everyone was shocked by that order

"But Miss Cagalli, the Minerva has caused a lot of problems for ORB" one ORB member said

"Yes I agree , we should take it down while it's busy with the ZAFT fleets" another said

Everyone was mumbling in agreement

But once Cagalli spoke , the whole room became silent.

"As long as the Minerva doesn't attack ORB we will not attack the ship, understand?" the ORB representative demanded

"Yes Lady Cagalli!" And gave out that order to the ORB mobile suits.

Cagalli sighed 'Just what the hell is the Minerva up to"

Just then the mysterious gundam and the Destiny moved from there spots and flew straight to the ZAFT ships. They started attacking and destroying them one by one.

What got Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala's attention was the fact that the two gundams were so much in sync with each other, that it looked like the pilots knew each other very well.

Kira had this weird feeling about this gundam. He couldn't quite describe it exactly...he decided to ignore it and instead looked closely at its fighting skills and he saw how swiftly it went by destroying many at once.

'Would I win if I was up against that gundam?' Kira thought sadly, unsure about himself.

"Kira?"

"Yeah?"

"You okay?" Athrun asked worriedly at his best friend.

Kira stared at him and smiled weakly " Yes I'm fine Athrun"

Athrun frowned but said nothing. He noticed since he came on-board the Archangel, that the ultimate coordinator wasn't himself. He seemed more distant then usual, like he was bothered by something and it was clearly getting to him.

Athrun has meant to talk to Kira about it but after everything's that's been going on, he hasn't gotten a chance to. He isn't sure Kira would open up to him fully either. 'Maybe I should talk to Lacus first and see if she knows what's up' he thought.

Before both the older teens knew it, half of the ZAFT fleets and mobile suits were destroyed in less then 5 minutes.

Athrun knew that Shinn was a skilled pilot and Kira couldn't argue with that either but the mysterious gundam and its pilot was a whole other story.

It smoothly attacked ZAFT's mobile suits but without damaging there cockpits like the Freedom does, looking like it isn't breaking a sweat.

Both the Destiny and the black gundam stopped there attacks to wait for ZAFT's response to there non-stop attacks.

Kira left Athruns side and flew to the two mobile suits and stopped behind them at a safe distance.

"Wait Kira , hold on a second " Athrun said while flying to Kira's side

He stopped beside the ultimate coordinator, "be careful" he said cautiously

"I know" Kira said, reassuring his close friend

Just then the ZAFT fleets singled a retreat, realizing that they were badly losing to the two mobile suits and they needed to regroup to figure out how to tell the Chairman that the Minerva betrayed ZAFT forces.

"Your not getting away" Shinn said through the open communications and started to fly towards them.

" STO-" Athrun started to say and move to stop Shinn but was interrupted by the black gundams sudden movement.

It moved right in front of the Destiny and stopped it right in it's tracks.

Shocked was writen in both the older teens faces by the silence that came across the two mobile suits.

Shinns usual outbursts and attitude wasn't there ...just dead silence, it's like both are talking but without words being said.

The Minerva singled for all mobile suits to come back and without a word the Destiny flew away from the ZAFT fleets and towards the Minerva , where the Legend was already preparing to dock.

Athrun stared at the Destiny go but quickly turned away to look at the other gundam that didn't follow.

Now both the Justice and Freedom were staring at the black gundam, it's like they were waiting for something to happened.

It moved and flew straight to the Minerva to dock the machine...like it was always part of the ship.

Both teens watched it go while wondering who was the pilot and how did it have to do with the Minerva's sudden change in sides.