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Hard time deciding Setsuna`s age…
"X-105 Strike, Come in." Repeated Natarle through the com unit as she continue looking for Strike response.
Only after a few moments pass that a reply from the Strike came, "This is X-105 Strike, Kira"
The reply soothes the concerns of the Ensign as her shoulder clearly sagged in relieve, "Are you okay?" Upon Kira acknowledgement of his wellbeing the Ensign ordered the civilian to return to the still intact white ship.
"So what are we going to do now?" The hawk of endymion bring the bridge back to focus.
"We have an unknown G-weapon inside our ship, and not to mention were still in the middle of combat, can you see what the ZAFT ship are doing?" ask Murrue, which were replied with negative by her officer, not that the answer unexpected, among the large number of colony debris to sensors ability were greatly hindered.
"I guess it's the same for them as well" commented Mu, bringing in a brighter view to the situation.
"They would still pursuit us given the current condition, and if we were attack now, there`s no chance for us" Natarle commented on their condition"
"If the unknown G-weapon is accessible we might have a better chance of surviving, I`ll go check on the suit and its pilot, this ship is fast right? Why don't we outrun them?" Said mu as give his last piece of mind toward the situation, the idea of leaving an unknown entity in their ship just rub him in the wrong way, "Why did that women easily let that suit in?" he mindfully start his monolog.
"They also have the speedy Nazca class cruiser, there is no guarantee that we can outrun them" Said Murrue as the matter of fact.
"Then we`ll just surrender to them obediently, well that's just another option" said the hawk, as his figure disappears through the door.
"Wait a minute is that a life pod?" asks one of the officers monitoring the optical sensor.
"Who authorize such a thing?" Natarle is beginning to sense her temper rising upon the action of the coordinator.
"You can`t authorize? What do you mean by that? The propulsion unit is damage and it was just floating around, are you still telling me to leave it behind? There are refugees on board!" argued Kira through the com unit.
"A rescue ship would come soon, The Archangel is in battle right now, we can't take any refugees" explain Natarle.
"It's ok, I give my approval, I don't want to waste time arguing about something like this. Hurry up and retrieve them"
Inside Exia.
Setsuna is getting more and more depressed why did he end up backing up this ship? As a Gundam Meister he shouldn't play favors, and now he finds himself in the hanger of an unknown warship, if only his navigation system make more sense here, he would probably had blasted the hanger door and escaped with Exia a while ago, but now… he realized drifting around aimlessly in the space is not a good idea in any situation.
"Oii~ , G-weapon pilot, you can come down now" one of Exia audio sensor picks up on the shout outside the suit.
"G-weapon? They think I`m their comrade?" just as he about to open his cockpit it seems the ship is retrieving another suit, in its hand was a lifepod, it seems that the ship is trying to rescue to survivors of the colony, maybe they were attacked by the other warship, is this place at war?
'To prepare human for the coming dialog' suddenly the phrase came to mind "is this the dialog Aeolia prepared us for?" Setsuna opened the cockpit and then landed in front of the blonde officer.
"I`m Earth Alliance`7th Mobile Fleet, Lieutenant Mu La Flaga" said Mu as he introduced himself, the pilot infront of him is definitely no 16 year old kid, so perhaps he was one of the original test pilot for the G-weapon? Although now that he looks at unit, it does have a bit difference compared to other G-weapon, judging by the not yet grey even after shutdown, it doesn't have phase-shift armor installed in it.
"Code name Setsuna F. Seiei, I am the pilot of this suit" like it or not, Setsuna had no choice but to introduce himself.
"Code name?" "I was right, this unit is really top secret, even their pilot had to use code name" "This is an impressive unit your piloting here, it does have a significantly better movement compared to other G-weapons, is it an os-prototype suit?"
"I`m sorry, but I am refrained from revealing any information about this unit to anyone" reply Setsuna stoically, hearing the stoic reply the lieutenant gave a huge sigh of defeat, by those kind of answers he already know, further attempt to salvage info would be hard, especially from this type of person, not that he`ll give up, he`ll get his chance when they aren't facing an immediate threat from ZAFT warship.
"Well Setsuna, we`ll resume this talk later, are you unit still operational? Right now Zero is down, and Strike could only be piloted by that civilian kid there" gestured Mu towards both unit and its respective pilot, the stoic way the pilot carries himself somehow make Mu tries to explain the situation better, as if the pilot were slow on pick-up, well by the lack of reply on Setsuna part who can blame him?
"A civilian kid?"Setsuna somewhat lacking surprise reply came.
"Well his not hostile, but he is actually a coordinator, it's not so rare, after all Heliopolis is a neutral colony." Explain Mu, he don't know why, but something about this guy make him want to elaborate himself, it's like this guy is somewhat lacking on common sense.
"Exia is capable of sortie at the moment" Setsuna finally answered Mu question.
"Exia?" reply Mu with a troubled face.
"This unit name" reply Setsuna with less than four words.
"Ohh… ok then, the ZAFT would probably unable to detect us for the moment since all of the debris stiil emitting heat, so we are invisible for the moment though you should stand-by for now, we are still in battle alert, said Mu as he hurried towards the bridge again, now that they have two operation capable unit, the chance of surviving the scene grow a bit more.
As the lieutenant left Setsuna turn his stare towards the so-called coordinator, which end up seeing eye to eye, the coordinator is actually staring in his direction as well.
With Kira…
The sight of the mobile suit pilot is somewhat grabbing his attention, it's like the pilot is someone raised in a complete different world then himself, still he didn't want to think anymore, he is severely tired, he is severely confused, why was Athrun there with the ZAFT, he told him that he hated war, that war won't happen, that earth and ZAFT could understand each other, but why is the one shooting at people now? Why is fighting now? Is that person really Athrun?
Kira continue to wonder as he floats down from the strike cockpit, completely trying to ignore his surroundings, he still couldn't believe it, Heliopolis his home is destroyed, what happened to his parents?