Author's Note : Thanks for all the Reviews! Really nice to know other opinion and the fact that someone is acutally reading it! Completely get the part about it being rushed, I guess I had too many ideas I wanted to put out there, But here's my justification. I wanted the plot introduction to be done in the first chapter and not drag on, and I needed someone to find Kira who knows his past, so I figured it might as well be his aunt. As to why she was there and who and what Via Hibiki left behind and for what reason will be throughly explain in the 3rd or 4th chapter. (Depends on if I decide to put in some AxC or not.) Finally, I rushed the battle, intentionally because I wanted to illustrate the power difference between the Penelope and the Freedom.

PHASE 2 : The Eldest Sibling

C.E 75 PLANT's Hanger 3 ( 4 Months Ago )

Kira Yamato slowly walked out of the elevator and down into the 3rd ZAFT hangar. There he slowly headed to the one and only blue and light silver battleship docked in port, the Yamato squadrons flagship "Ptolemy". The Ptolemy was developed using secret technology from a project that took about 23 years to complete. The project was started by Uzumi Nara Attha and Siegel Clyne but they had hidden away all of the data regarding this when the war started as they did not want to fuel the war with new technologies. After the 2nd war the GN Project files turned up in a inheritance letter addressed to Cagalli. The engines of the Ptolemy use a system known as the Synergy (GN) Drive. Not only was the engine new, it was also powerful, it made the Ptolemy almost as fast as the Eternal, the fastest ship in the world, furthermore the Synergy drive could even create a phase shift armor for the whole ship. The Phase shift armor was strong enough that it allowed ship to go in for atmospheric re-entry and the thrust was strong enough to allow atmospheric exit all on its own without the need for a mass-driver. The ship also had state of the art technology and weapons systems intalled putting it in a class of its own. The reason the ship had been given to Kira was almost entirely due to Cagalli and Lacus fussing over him and forcing him to accept saying that this way they could rest in peace as it would keep him safer than any of the other ships when he was in battle.

FLASHBACK

C.E 76 Ptolemy's Bridge ( 10 Days Ago )

Kira stood there staring into the screen into the C.I.C terminal as Meyrin Hawke worked intently. After a long stretch of silence, Meyrin looked up and said "I've got it commander." Immediately Kira starts looking over the information on the screen, after skimming through the first page he looks up and says "Excellent work Meyrin, send it over to my screen and reset the system's search trail, then you can leave. Also please keep this a secret from everyone." "yes sir" responded Meyrin who upon finishing her work silently left the bridge leaving Kira to ponder over the file on his computer screen. As Kira read through the file the frown on his face got deeper and deeper. Ever since his confrontation with Chairman Durandal at the end of the last war, Kira had some sort of a nagging feeling, like something about the way things turned out, just wasn't right.

Just to be on the safe side, Kira had asked Meyrin to use her hacking skills to look up any relevant files in the old FAITH system's. The search proved worthwhile as it contained Durandal's personal files which proved Kira's suspicions right. Durandal had not been on his own, he was following orders from some secret organization all along, but somewhere during the war he had a difference of opinion regarding the way the destiny plan was to be carried out and it had resulted in Durandal leaving the organization. Another worrying fact was that all the crucial information about the organization had been deleted, not even leaving a ghost file. Either way refusing to give up Kira had asked Meyrin to try and find the trail of the one's who had deleted the files. As Kira went through the results of the attempted tracking he was astounded and very very concerned.

The file said that the deletion of the files had been from inside the plants and had occurred very recently, meaning that the organization was still operating but the worst part was that the communications log from when Duranadal was still in the organization showed that the trail led straight to a LOGOS system. Finally the last page said that the system in the plants was also linked to the LOGOS system but she was able to recover another file with all the latest details on the Plant supreme council... But the part that caught Kira's attention was highlighted and marked with footnotes. The first two were supporters of the Clyne Faction but both of them had died recently in an unfortunate accident in a space shuttle with a faulty engine leading to an explosion, but their files were marked with the words "Removal Complete" and the day of their death, which could only mean that this was not an accident but an assassination. And the next person on the list was Lacus Clyne.

Either way Kira figured Lacus was in grave danger, so he immediately called his 2nd in command; Ryo Ardae, and ordered him to call an emergency meeting of the Yamato Squadron and he also asked him to contact TERMINAL and get them to send in one of their agents to attend the briefing as well. Although perplexed at the sudden order from the Commander at 2 AM in the morning, Ryo efficiently got hold of everyone and by 6AM he had the TERMINAL agents, The Yamato squadron and 2 very annoyed and sleepy lieutenants waiting in the briefing room. Kira after going through the rest of the reports till 5:30 AM, went and took a shower after which he then went straight in to the briefing room after getting a call from Ryo. Once inside, Kira ignoring the half asleep yet angry glares from Shinn and Luna, looked through the people present, checking to see if anyone was missing.

C.E 76 Ptolemy's Pilot Briefing Room ( 9 Days Ago )

With everyone present and accounted for, Kira went straight to giving orders. "As of now, The Yamato Squadron will go into Code orange. All of you will report directly to me or Ryo only and not to any other person in ZAFT regardless of wether its Chairwoman Clyne or any another Commander. Next the Ptolemy will stay on continuous standby, with the Ginn's and Zaku's ready for launch at any given time. Lunamaria Hawke, you are to shadow chairwoman Clyne along with Shinn Asuka and act as her undercover bodyguards until further notice. Meyrin Hawke, You will be in-charge of coordinating the squad members actions. The remaining 5 Gouf pilots will be under Ryo and will stand guard outside the Clyne Manor at night. I also want all of the supreme council members and Aprillus 4's spaceports place under observation for anything suspicious. Finally these orders are strictly classified and are not to be divulged under any circumstances. All members are to keep themselves armed at all times, and needless to say that you must take extreme caution as to not alert any one of your actions" After a few seconds, once the magnitude of what Kira had just said sank in then finally Shinn spoke up "Whoah there... Commander are we under attack or something? Why are you taking up so many protective measures, especially around Miss Lacus?"

Kira sighed, he knew this was coming. It was better that he tell them the truth because a soldier needed a reason to fight, and without one they would be nothing more than cold blooded murderers , and he knew that, better than anyone else. Slowly he spoke up, "Yes Shinn, Im afraid that very well may be the truth."

Shinn could only stare at his commander open eyed as he digested what he had just said. But before he could say anything else Kira continued "I've got ample proof that the supreme council members from Maius 1 and 2 did not die in an accident but they were assassinated... The very same people who did that are now after Lacus... It also seems that these people are linked to both LOGOS and chairman Durandal. Either way I wouldn't put it past them to resort to using Nuclear weapons, so I want the Ptolemy on continuous standby so that we can intercept any such attacks. Until I get further proof regarding this, I dont want to get Lacus involved in this, as she has enough work to deal with any way. Composed of only ZAFT red coat pilots and the most experienced and loyal crew on board the most advanced ship in the world, the Yamato squadron is the best unit in ZAFT, and if we cant pull this off then no one can."

"Unless you have more questions, your dismissed" said Kira with a slight smile on his lips.

"Yes Sir!" replied the whole squadron as they started leaving in-order to prepare for their new mission. After they had all left the agent from TERMINAL came up and said, "Any special orders for us, Kira-sama?"

Kira slowly looked at her and said "Yes Catherine, Im afraid that I will be needing the Freedom once again." Catherine was not surprised, she had guessed this was the case as soon as she had heard that Lacus-sama was in danger. Slowly she replied "Consider it done sir, we will have it ready for you to pick up by noon tomorrow or we can have it discreetly shipped to the Ptolemy."

Kira slowly smiled, then said "I also want the Eternal on standby. Inform DaCosta of the situation and let him take it from there, then finally I also have a message for you. When the time comes, and Im not here, I want you to relay this to Lacus," slowly he proceeded to give Catherine the message which left her staring at him wide-eyed, but she was a professional and thus quickly recovered. Slowly she bid the Commander good-bye as she took her leave in-order to fulfill his orders.

As Catherine walked out the nights exhaustion caught up with Kira and he slowly slumped back onto a seat as he slowly rested his eyes thinking back at all the things that had happened so far. Him getting into the strike, destroying the blitz, getting beaten by Athrun, Defending ORB with the Freedom, getting beaten by the Impulse, his fights with the Strike Freedom against Rey Za Burrel and how it was just like his fight with Rau Le Cruset. Then Chairman Durandal and how he died, all these painful memories continued to plague Kira's mind as he tried to get some rest. But unknown to him a pair of eyes was watching him intently trying to decipher what was going on in his head right now.

After everyone had left Kira's deputy Commander Ryo Ardae continued to examine his commander's behavior carefully. He had not been with him long but Ryo had nothing but the utmost respect for him. Ryo was the only one apart from Shinn and Luna who knew that Kira was the pilot of the Legendary Freedom. Furthermore he had seen Kira fight in-person in some of the recent skirmishes trying to quell the remnants of LOGOS, and he had noticed how Kira would never aim at the cockpit no matter the situation and after each battle its was incredibly obvious how much sadness the commanders eyes with-held behind them. The only time he saw him look truly at peace was when he was beside chairwoman Clyne and it didn't take a genius to see the feelings that they both of them held for each other. At one point when the two were taking a walk in the Clyne Manor's garden making small talk, Ryo was following at a distance and at some point he had gotten so frustrated with the two of them that before he realized it he screamed out "Just tell her already! Its just 3 small words!" Luckily the two of them were far too innocent to realize what Ryo meant so he was able to play it off as making kira ask Lacus the "permission to leave..."

Unfortunately both of them had hardly ment the past few weeks because after the deaths of the two Council members, Miss. Lacus had become incredibly busy, so much so that she did not even have time to talk or eat even with Commander Yamato, the man rumored to be the closest to the Chairwoman. Considering that they love each other and even live under the same roof, If still couldn't find some free time for the commander then he could only imagine the amount of work she must be dealing with.

Slowly Kira got up and told Ryo that he was going home to get some sleep and asked him to lock up behind him. Ryo smartly saluted and started collecting stray files and papers as he started to clean up before locking up.

C.E 76 Clyne Manor, PLANTS ( 9 Days Ago )

When Kira got home at 6:43 AM one of the Maids informed Kira that Lacus had already left because she needed to get to her office early today in-order to prepare for some meeting, disappointed that he missed her yet again, Kira slowly made his way to his room and slowly fell asleep after kicking out some Haros that were screaming "I will not allow it! I will not allow it!... Haro! We have a Problem!"

As Kira fell asleep he was haunted by nightmares of the past... Where a group of coordinators broke into their house trying to assasinate Lacus... Another dream where the shuttle in which Lacus was in was attacked by DINN's as she made her escape into space... A dream where the Eternal was ambushed by ZAFT mobile suits while docked with the TERMINAL factory...

Slowly Kira was lifted out of his dreams as he hear a voice call out to him "Kira-sama, Kira-sama." As he slowly opened his eyes he could see that the voice belonged to house's head maid. She continued "I apolagize for waking you up Kira-sama, but you were having a nightmare and I though it best to wake you up"

Kira gently smiled and said "Its okay, Marie, Im glad that you did. Thank you"

Marie apparently relieved at that smiled and asked him, "Its almost 1PM sir, would you like us to serve you lunch?" "No Marie, I have to go, ill get something to eat on my way there" replied Kira

Marie apparently dissapointed bowed and left saying that she would get the cook to make him some sandwiches to eat on the way. Kira slowly got up and took a shower and was getting dressed as he saw a little silver ring, one of his most precious items. Slowly he picked it up and held it close to him as he whispered, "Im sorry Lacus, but I have to do this. I hope you can forgive me." Quickly wiping off the few tears that managed to escape his eyes, Kira walked out of the house stopping only to pick up lunch which he finished on his drive to Potlemy's Hangar.

C.E 76 Ptolemy's Bridge ( 9 Days Ago )

As soon as he reached the Bridge he was greeted by the crew and Ryo Ardae. Kira quickly got a status update from all of the stations then he announced that Ryo would be the commanding officer while he was gone and then turning to Ryo himself he said "Ill be going to get the Freedom, take care of things while Im gone" then he left to the mobile suit hangar with Ryo saluting behind him. Quickly wasting no more time kira got into his custom made "ZGMF-001F Astraea", ZAFTS new top of the line mass production type command unit. As soon as was in the cockpit be booted up his custom made OS that increased the mobile suit specs to their optimal levels. Within minutes he was ready to launch.

"Kira Yamato, Astraea Launching, Lets do this!"

As sson as he was out of the hangar he boosted the blue mobile suit's thrusters to maximum output and headed straight to the Etrenal's hiding place.

C.E 76 Somewhere In Space

Slowly as kira approached a huge metorite the navigation system inticated that he had arrived. Switching to a secure channel Kira spoke "This is Kira Yamato in the Astraea, Eternal please open the rear hangar."

Another voice spoke out through the speakers, "This is the Eternal, Welcome back Master Kira, Please proceed to rear hatch for docking."

Manuvering the Astraea with ease, Kira slowly docked with the Eternal. Without even waiting for the system to shut down he made his way to the bridge stopping only for pressurization. (*** A/N: Ship hangars are not presseureized during mobile suit launching and docking***)

Upon entering the bridge he was greeted by Catherine and DaCosta who saluted him. Quickly Kira updated them of the situation, "Im taking the Freedom down to earth, I have some business to settle there. I can return here by getting to Heliopolis through ORB's mass driver, they should not have any problem letting the Freedom through. I want this to remain a secret from everyone for now, but if something happens to me, then immediatly evacuate Lacus to the Ptolemy or the archangel and not the Eternal or any other ZAFT ship because an attack on me means that we have a spy in TERMINAL as they are only people who know Im going down to earth, and if they can infiltrate TERMINAL, then they probably already have spies spread out in ZAFT." If Catherine and DaCosta had been shocked by what Kira had just said, then they did a very good job of hiding it. They only nodded their heads in acknowledgement as they saw Kira leave to put on a pilot suit.

Within minutes Kira was back in the Freedoms familiar cockpit, starting up the system.

GENERATION UNSUBDUED NUCLEAR DRIVE ASSAULT MODULE

G.U.N.D.A.M Complex

Activating the Phase Shift Armor Kira quickly made his way to the launch catapult and launched as soon as the doors opened.

"Kira Yamato, Freedom, Lets do this!"

Once he was out of the eternal he opened up the freedom's wings for maximum thrust as he accelarated towards the earth. Then taking out a certain blood red coloured letter, he set the Freedom to re-enter the atmosphere so that it would head to the specific coordinates written on the letter. Once set Kira leaned back in his seat looking at the mysterious anonymous letter that was the reason for his sudden trip to earth. It read,

Kira Yamato,

As you may already know Lacus clyne is in grave danger. She will be assasinated in the very near future, and the cause of her death will be you and you alone. You do not have the power to protect Lacus Clyne from those wishing to harm her, also the bitter truth remains that the reason for all the danger she faces is because of you. Lacus clyne and everyone you hold dear will be killed in the near future. Lacus Clyne, Athrun Zala, Your twin Cagalli Yula Attha, the crew of the Archangel, the Yamato squadron WILL DIE and you are powerless to protect them. Their deaths will lead to another catastrophic war killing millions of innocent people. ORB will burn once again, The PLANTS's will fall... Kira Yamato you have no other path ahead of you as you are powerless tochange your destiny... But as Kira Hibiki you just may be able to stand up to your enemies and maybe that way bring real peace to the world. Kira Hibiki, Ultimate Coordinator and pilot of the Strike Freedom, I mean you no harm. If you wish to know who you really are, if you wish to know the hopes and dreams bestowed upon you, if you wish to acquire the power to protect Lacus Clyne and if you truly wish to bring peace to this world and rid it of the ghost of Rau Le Cruset then meet me before its too late, Pilot of the Strike Freedom.

Although Kira thought this was a blatant trap at first, the fact that this person knew so much about him, including him being the Freedom's pilot, an Ultimate coordinator, Cagalli's twin and about the possible assassination on Lacus persuaded him to see this through. But he decided to keep this letter a secret from everyone because he thought it would become a hassle or create unnecessary commotion and this was something he would have to see through alone. And the reason as to why he was going alone without telling anyone but the Eternal's crew was because there was a possibility that there was a spy in either the TERMINAL or ZAFT or maybe both, and this way Kira figured would be the best way to find out, if he really was their target and why, and also about where the information leak is.

Slowly the Freedom began to accelerate as it entered the earth's orbit... thats when Kira sensed something. A sort of vague pressure started building up in Kira's mind, this seemed to drain the energy out of him and it felt like it was slowing down his reaction speed. Then out of no where a yellow coloured beam shot at him from the left, Kira just barely managed to evade it by dropping down quickly, but before he could do anything else another barrage of shots came at him forcing him to go into various evasive maneuvers. Thats when he saw it. A mobile suit was approaching him from his left side. As it came closer Kira was able to make out the finer details of the mobile suit, evading another shot, Kira narrowed his eyes as he saw the unmistakeable face of a Gundam facing him. But this suit was unlike any other one he had ever faced before. It had a gundam's face but had sort of wing like attachments to its hands and legs. On its chest there was another attachment that looked like a very narrow and sharpened nose of a spacecraft.

Slowly Kira spoke "Who are you and why are you attacking me? How did you know that I was here? Whom are you working for?" The other pilot just remained silent and instead of a reply he simply just shot another barrage of beams at Kira from his shoulder mounted rail Guns. Kira evaded them but before he could move forward and attack the other gundam he realized that he was being pulled down into the earth's atmosphere. Then suddenly the other gundam charged, this time with a beam saber. Quickly Kira reopened his wings for extra thrust and maneuverability as he was now entering the atmosphere, then he took out his own beam saber just in time to parry the oncoming attack, then immediately kira fired the Freedom's chest mounted cannon and his him mounted rail guns at the same time. The other gundam equally adept, evaded the chest cannon and deflected the rail guns shot with his beam saber. Luckily the second rail gun shot hit his right arm blade effectively destroying it. After taking that hit the other Gundam moved away from the Freedom.

Kira wanting to question the pilot further followed him but did not engage him because he wanted to first enter the atmosphere and not risk a fight during re-entry. The other pilot also seemed to have reached the same conclusion as he too kept his distance and did not engage the Freedom.

Upon entering the atmosphere their fight resumed with the other pilot still remaining silent... Then he quickly evaded Kira's attack and went into the cloud cover, immediately Kira followed him, but no sooner did he enter the cloud he found himself face to face with the other gundam just lying in wait for him. Realizing his mistake Kira tried to evade but the enemies attack caught the Freedom square on its head destroying it causing the Freedom to fall into a spiral heading straight towards the ocean floor.

End of Flashback

C.E 76 Kingdom Of Scandinavia (Present Day)

Kira woke up with a start... He had gone through the same nightmare once again. He had been utterly defeated by the RX-104FF Penelope in his previous battle, and for the second time he had destroyed the Freedom which Lacus had entrusted him with. After his battle he had been rescued by Eliza Robbins, a blonde woman who claimed to be his aunt. They had spoken just once after he had woken up after the battle 2 days later, and she had told him about how they were related, but before Kira could ask her how she knew where he was and how she was on the very same uninhabited island as the one he had crashed into still remained a mystery.

After their introduction Eliza had given him an injection that made him feel like his brain was boiling over. She said that it was a radiation buffer that would cancel out all the high level harmful radiation he was exposed to, from the Freedom's Nuclear reactor and the Mega Particle Cannon. The searing pain across his head caused him to blackout and the next time he woke up 4 days had passed he saw that he had been put on Intravenous fluids but the pain had diluted but had spread all across his body. This time he was given a pain killer but it only eased the pain a little bit. Then after forcing him to eat some kind of porridge and letting him use the restroom, Eliza had given him another tranquilizer that put him back to sleep.

Judging by the calendar on the desk beside his bed, Kira figured that this time around he had been knocked out for 3 day. It had been 9 days since he had nearly died, 9 days since he had left Lacus's side. 9 days since he was supposed to meet that person who said that they would help him. As he though about all that a voice cut through his thoughts, "What are you thinking about Kira?" Suddenly Kira realized that Eliza had been sitting beside him the whole time cutting apples, but he had been too immersed in this thoughts to notice her. Also beside her was a pretty blonde girl. As their eyes met a small blush ran over her face and she quickly averted her eyes. Chuckling to her self Eliza introduced her as her only daughter Jennifer Robbins or Jenna for short. "She was the one who took care of replacing your bandages, you medication and I believe she has been looking forward to finally meeting her incredibly handsome cousin" explained Eliza, at which Kira chuckled causing Jenna's face to turn scarlet"

After introducing himself and thanking her, Kira replied to Eliza's earlier question saying "I was supposed to met someone who said they would help me gain enough power to protect Lacus and everyone else, thats why I came down to earth."

Eliza just smiled at him and said "And was that certain someone the author of a rather ominous red letter? Well, Kira Hibiki?"

Kira's eyes widened noticeably displaying his shock at the reply, after a moment he managed to say "So it was you who sent me that letter?" Eliza only nodded at the rhetorical question then continued, "You're not as healthy as I had hoped you would be when I gave this to you, but since we are incredibly pressed for time I guess it can't be helped." Then taking out a little brown box from a safe hidden in the wall beside Kira, Eliza continued "Kira Hibiki it's finally time for you to receive what your mother Via Hibiki and your elder sister Sakura Hibiki left behind for you."

Author's Note : Once again Please Review! I'd love to know your opinions!

Well I bet no one expected that part about Sakura Hibiki... Its a good change any way this is it for the Introduction / Prelude... Next in the next chapter titled "Inheritance" we finally get to see what this supposed relic from the past actually is. Next chapter will focus on some of Kira's discoveries but before that we will see what Lacus, Athrun and Cagalli have discovered during these past few days when Kira has been asleep.

Also thank you guys soo much for the reviews, it really boosted my morale and helped me finish this chapter in a day! So please excuse any embarrassing spelling and grammar errors. Im currently looking for a Beta Reader for this story so please leave you name in a review or PM me if you'd like to help.

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