Sorry about the mispost. Thank you Alex Yamato and of fic and fan for bringing this to my attention.

Sorry everyone about taking so long but here it is. I had to split this up into two chapter because it was taking too long to write.

Disclaimer: same as chapter 1

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Alex Yamato: yes the CB gundams will be joining the game, just not yet. Wait till chapter 4 for them.

January 25 C.E. 71

Morgenroete Factory District - Heliopolis

As the flames consumed the warehouse, three mobile suits emerged from the ruined building. Their movements were slow and shaky, like the machines were being operated by rookie pilots, whom this was their first time in a machine.

The Aegis pulled away from the other two machines as a pair of GINNs landed nearby the three Gundams.

"Athrun!" Miguel exclaimed happily.

"Rusty failed. I'm not certain about Aliza but I don't think she made it. She's not answering her comm." Athrun said glumly over the radio to Olor and Miguel in their GINNs.

"What?"

"The blocky machine was boarded by a Union officer and I'm not certain who's piloting the one with that giant claw thing."

"Ok then," Miguel said grimly, "Olor, you capture the blocky one, I'll deal with the machine with the claw. Athrun, you make sure that you get your out of here."

After he turned off his radio he muttered to himself, "I hope this machine actually puts up a fight."

Griffon's Cockpit

Rachel dropped down into the cockpit, taking the ZAFT soldier's handgun from its holster and then put the body of the unconscious red-coat on the right side of the seat. After putting down the soldier she took off her bag and put it on her left side and put her captive's gun on top.

As she sat down a beam scanned her eyes, and then on the main screen displayed the Union symbol, and then the start-up screen appeared.

"An automatic start up?" Rachel muttered, "Weird."

MOBILE SUIT NEO OPERATION SYSTEM
General
Unilateral
Neuro-link
Dispersive
Autonomic
Maneuver

Synthesis system

ARC - Experimental Frame - Griffin

"Eergh," Rachel growled as she started booting up the machine, "Look at the OS for this thing, it looks like a piece of junk. Wait a minute, there's no bloody programming for any of the weapondary on this thing. What the hell? Whatever, guess I'm just going to have to fudge it."

The machine slowly stood up.

THUMP! The red-coat's head hit her shoulder. Rachel groaned and turned to the red-coat, "I hope whoever it is wakes up soon…"

Rachel was interrupted by a groan as the red-coat opened her eyes.

"Huh? Wait what? What's going on?" the red coat asked half awake, she blinked, waking up all the way. Startled she turned and looked at the girl sitting in the pilot's seat and asked, "How? Why am I alive?"

"You're alive cuz I couldn't just leave an unconscious person in that warehouse to die!" Rachel said tartly as she pulled out the keyboard and started typing furiously, "Now if you don't mind could you please toss any other weapons you have on the floor, and then stay on that side while I try to reprogram this damn thing and keep us both alive. So stay there and shut up, ok?"

"Eeep, ok, ok, ok, I'll shut up," Aliza said surprised at her captor's vehemence and the sight of her own gun on the other side of cockpit. Aliza pulled her knife out of its sheath and then took off her helmet. "I'm Aliza, you?"

"I'm Rachel," the dirty blond haired civilian said simply, "Oh shit."

Athrun, Miguel, and Olor had finished talking and had split up to their respective targets. Olor was taking potshots at the staggering Strike while Miguel charged the Griffon with his GINN's sword out and swinging. Athrun had turned away and flown away.

Rachel grinned and said, "Well, I guess I'm out of time. Annoying, I only had time to deal with my legs, a flight system, and my left arm. The armor system was already done, and I didn't have time to deal with the problems in the claw thing on my right side. Oh well."

Rachel reached back, grabbed the controls and activated Phase-Shift, turning the machine a golden brown. She moved the machine's left arm to block the GINN's blade with the lower part of Griffin's left forearm, below the weird looking oval that covered the higher part. The blade sparked while it was trying and failing to cut the arm.

Miguel's simple answer to this was a smile, the words, "Finally a good an opponent," and a shoulder rush knocking the Griffon into a nearby office building.

"Ok then, let's see what this can do!" Rachel said with a grin, "Hang on tight."

"Wait, what?" Aliza sputtered.

Rachel activated the Vogel Thrusters (A/N think Code Geass - Lancelot Conquistador float system with some serious modifications, looks the same) mounted on the top of Griffin's back and the left hand and out of the tips of its fingers as a beam blade ignited. (A/N think the GNZ-005 Garazzo's hands.) Griffin burst forward and cut off both the GINN's legs and then its right hand in a fast circular motion, making the GINN lose his sword.

"Damn, if this were my normal machine this might have gone better." Miguel shrugged happily and activated the self destruct on his GINN and got out of it. "Well then I guess I found my new opponent."

The Griffin jumped back from the GINN as it exploded.

Rachel looked over at her passenger and groaned, startled and annoyed at the same time. "DAMN, I knocked her out again. Oh, vey. Ok then, let's go see how that other machine is doing."

The Griffin backed away from the ruined GINN and watched as the Strike pulled out its knives and gracefully but quickly disabled the other GINN. Rachel activated a voice only channel to the Strike as the GINN exploded.

"Yo, nice job on the GINN." Rachel called over the radio.

"Rachel?" Kira questioned, "You're the one piloting that machine?"

"Kira?" Rachel responded surprised, "Yeah, I'm the one in it. Let go find a clear area and figure out what to do next."

"You got it," Kira said, "There's a park nearby I'll meet you there. I also have an injured Union officer in my cockpit."

"Huh," Rachel thought looking at her own passenger, "This will be interesting."

Then out loud she said, "Ok Kira, I'll meet you there."

Unknown location inside colony interior of Heliopolis

Lyle sat down in a hidden corner and grabbed his backpack and pulled out a slightly smaller than a basketball sized light blue ball.

"Ok Haro, wakey wakey time." Lyle said lightly, putting Haro on the floor, before turning to dig in his bag.

"Haro, happy Haro." Haro said happily as it flapped its earflaps.

"Haro I want you to send this to the GN Drives you acknowledged earlier." Lyle said to Haro pulling out a small thumb drive with a red label on it, grinning evilly. "Ok?"

Haro opened its mouth and Lyle placed the chip inside it. "Haro sending object: Holy Hand Grenade."

Haro was silent for a few seconds. Then it announced flapping its ears,

"Haro SENT."

Then continuing but quietly,

"GN1 - received.

GN2 - received.

GN3 - received.

GN4 - not found.

GN5 - received."

"Thanks Haro." The 18 year old responded happily, relieved. "And that takes care of that. I hope they like their present. Hehehe. "

An explosion rocked the building.

"What was that?" Lyle muttered shocked. He stood up and put his Haro back inside his bag. He started running towards the source of the explosion.

Outside of Heliopolis

"Why, oh why did the Cap'in have to pick me for this mission?" the girl said watching Heliopolis through her machine's sniper rifle. "I know he doesn't trust Le Creuset, but why me?

"Hmm it seems like Rau himself is going to go out to fight and to fight the Hawk of Endymion's Zero, well that's going to be an interesting fight," Freya continued to mutter, however now she watched eagerly. "Wait, what the HELL just happened to my comm. n' radar systems? And what are those red lights down by the bottom of Heliopolis? I'm going to check it out."

The GINN moved out from behind its protective cover of rocks and headed down to the resource end of Heliopolis, making sure to keep out of sight of the Vesalius.

Heliopolis Park

Murre blinked and opened up her eyes. "Ow"

"Hey Kira, she's finally awake." Mir said loudly.

"It's better off if you try to lie still for now." Kira said as Murre tried to sit up. "I guess I owe you an apology, I guess I kinda got carried away in there."

"Do you want a drink of water?" Mir asked walking over with a bottle in her hands.

"Yes thanks." Murre took a drink and while drinking, she overheard Sai, Tolle, Bennet and Kuzzy talking about the Strike. Kuzzy, and Tolle had wanted to look at the Griffin but Rachel had warned him, "Touch it, I'll beat you black and blue." They backed off pretty fast.

Murre sat down the water bottle and yelled "Can you kids please come down here? I need to talk to everyone. "

"Coming." Was the reply from everyone, (excluding Aliza.)

"You mind staying up here?" Rachel asked before hitting the ground.

"Not really," was Aliza's wiry response, "cuz if I get out now I'll be shot. And I like my head, thank you very much."

Rachel smiled and activated the zip line.

Once everyone gathered on the ground, Murre said, "I'd put you all inside shelters and ask you to forget what you saw here but unfortunately the danger level is up to level nine and all the shelters are sealed. So for right now none of you will be able to leave."

"What? But we're neutral." Kira exclaimed, "Why…"

Kira was interrupted by a yell from the other side of the park as Lyle ran up.

"Murre, what happened?" Lyle said, "And what are my students doing here?"

"Your students?" Murre asked at the same time that Bennet asked, "Murre? Wait you know her? How?"

"Well…" the 18 year old teaching assistant stalled.

Murre smiled, "Well, that doesn't really matter. Can everyone please introduce themselves?"

"Sure," was the response.

"I'm Tolle Koenig," said the boy with wavy brown hair and dark green eyes.

"I'm Miriallia Haw," said the girl with light brown hair and light blue eyes.

"I'm Kuzzey Buskirk," said the boy with light black hair and light brown hair and a green hoodie.

"I'm Sai Argyle," said the boy with light blond hair, brown eyes and orange tinted glasses.

"I'm Bennet Hill," said the darker skinned boy with shoulder length black hair and bright blue eyes.

"I'm Rachel Simon," said the girl with dirty blonde hair and green-grey eyes.

"I'm Kira Yamato," the boy with violet eyes and brown hair.

Aliza, watching from the cockpit of the Griffin, raised her eyebrows and muttered to herself, "That's him? He really doesn't look scary, but then again looks are deceiving." She went back to listening to the names of her captor's friends.

"I'm Lyle Dylandy," the 18 young man with wavy brown hair and green eyes.

"I'm Murre Ramius," The woman with light brown hair and brown eyes finished. "The ZAFT forces outside might attack at any time so we might want a little more fire power."

"That certainly true," Lyle responded, "Kira, Rachel if you haven't already done so, please finish up or touch up the OS for the Mobile Suits. Also please try and contact Union Forces they might be elsewhere in the colony. Sai, Bennet, can the two of you please go and get the number five trailer from Morgenroete, for the Strike."

The two named walked off to get the trailer. Kira and Rachel walked back to their machines.

Bottom of Heliopolis

"What the hell are those machines?" Freya muttered to herself keeping her GINN hidden among the rocks, "They look almost evil, especially the one with the monster sword and the one with the monster cannon. The last one doesn't look as evil, but they're still really scary looking Mobile Suits. I've never seen their like before."

The one with the big sword suddenly grabbed the blade, and turned towards her GINN.

"SHIT!"

Heliopolis Park

A while later Bennet drove up in a truck with a giant number 5 on it. "Yo, I got it."

"Awesome," yelled Lyle from the benches where Murre had passed back out from pain. "Where's Sai?"

"He's getting a bunch of beam rifles for the Griffin."

"Great. Any idea when he's be b…, well I guess that answers my question." Lyle interrupted himself as Sai drove up in a truck labeled with the number 6 on it.

Bennet and Sai walked over as Kira got down from the Strike, while Rachel got down from the Griffin.

"Now how do we attach it?" Kira asked Lyle.

"Back up and attach from behind." Lyle said. Kira started the loading sequence.

"Also guys, I forgot to tell you before but I…" an explosion interrupted Rachel as a shaft above them blew open and a white CGUE and a Zero burst through the smoke. Rachel turned and ran back to the Griffin. "Come on! Why now?"

The two machines were almost dancing through the air. The CGUE turned and shot the last gunbarrel before turning around to finish the mobile armor off. The Zero ejected its linier rifle to block the CGUE's sword slash however the slash was just a feint as the CGUE turned his slash at the Zero to a strafing run on the two inactive Mobile Suits.

The Griffin activated and took off to distract the CGUE while the Strike attached the Striker Pack.

Hidden Harbor

Aboard the Archangel

Lt. Natarle Badgiruel and the handful of crew members that currently made up the bridge crew of the Archangel rushed to get the Archangel online. They had been attacked by ZAFT. The captain, the command crew, the G-Pilots, and majority of the crew that had been outside the Archangel when the bombs when off, were dead. And they had no idea what was going on outside of the hanger.

"All systems are green. We're ready to go." Chandra reported from his chair. "The entrance is block though."

"It doesn't matter. Take us out, maximum speed." Lt. Badgiruel ordered. "When the ship reaches maximum speed, fire the Lohengrins."

A minute later, as the Archangel neared the hanger doors, the two powerful Lohengrin cannons fired. Destroying the doors in a massive explosion.

Heliopolis Interior

Everyone heard and felt the explosion. Everyone stopped and looked up. There a massive fireball tearing through a part of Heliopolis. They all watched as the Archangel flew through the fireball.

"First a ZAFT attack, now this. What else is gonna happen today?" Rachel muttered.

"You're telling me?" was the sarcastic reply from her passenger.

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