Brothers in Arms
XXXG-01D: Yeah that's where I got the idea from, Shinn and Kira do look alike and I thought Brothers gave them a closer relationship than cousins. Is Mayu Shinn's sister? If mso the answer is no, since this occurs before the events of Shinns family been killed, and it since he's Kira's brother in this fic, it's simpler to have Shinn and Kira been the adopted sons of Kira's family (they don't know there origin yet.) Yes they are both UC. It will follow the tv series quite closely for the first season of Gundam Seed and so they'll meet Cagalli again, and we'll see where it goes from there. Sorry about that, I can't have paid that much attention to his eyes, it was hard to find a close up of his face at the time so I just guessed with what I could make out, I'll try to change that sometime. Shinn's disdain for naturals wasn't meant to be taken like that, I just thought, he's pretty aggressive right, and during Seed Destiny he's always surrounded by Co-ordinators, military as well so I think if you put him amongst non-military naturals he'll get snarky, it's not that he's prejudice against naturals, just stupid and annoying ones of which Tolle fits the bill perfectly, especially since he and Kira are clued up on Morgenroette and the Gundams. Shinn isn't lazy it's just that he's a super genius even by co-ordinator standards so why should he waste his time doing course work and homework which he could ace in his sleep, working on the Gundams however is challenging so he's always ready to work hard on them, Kira always seems to be the golden boy trying to keep everyone happy, so even though he feels the same way (and he does seem irritated about it in the anime) he does the work with miminal of complaint. That we'll have to wait and see…Yeah, I figure Athrun cares for both Kira and Shinn, but only Athrun loves Kira, and Kira loves Athrun although neither of them realizes or is willing to admit it, Shinn's love interest is well known and makes her own appearance in this chapter. I'm ignoring Shinns attidude towards orb which stemmed from his families death, since that hasn't happened his outlook is slightly different I have a monologue planned (chapter 3) where Shinn and Kira explain their point of view, and it's better than me explaining it here, so just be patent. Kira, Shinn and Athrun (who in my opinion is the Kirk of the Gundam seed universe, and is currently engaged to Lacus as part of an arranged marriage) are Bi it makes things simpler in my opinion. Shinn isn't working for the Earth forces, exactly, he and Kira are helping out Professor Kato. My version actually makes Kira's update of the OS more plausible, as even if he's a co-ordinator updating a mobile suits OS with no previous experience ids a little to far fetched the OS their working on is the one which Kira later updates the Strike with, and Shinn well you'll see whenyou read this chapter. Glad you noticed, I decided to keep the Mobile suits names a secret since they were never stated in the first episode (or the second for that matter) also they don't get named as Gundams until this chapter so there referred to as earth forces mobile suits or G-weapons and will continue to be referred to as such by ZAFT and Earth Forces personnel while Kira and Shinn call them Gundams, the X606 I named it that randomly since the other five included X105, X303, ironically it actually works as you'll see for yourself in this 's a long way away, there are dozens of chapters and episodes before I have to think about the death of the Strike, thank god! Sorry about the grammar mistakes, I try my best but I can't help the occasional mistake .those were some good suggestions but come on! How can you even suggest killing of Dearker and Yzak? I love those guys. Hope I've cleared up a few things, thanks for the review.
Chaos2Rapture: thanks for the review, you presume correctly.
JNottle: thanks for the review, Kira and Shinn are the main characters, Shinn doesn't appear at the start of this story becuase it makes his entrance during the fight between Kira and the GINN more dramatic.
Rin'negan Naruto: No problem i have an idea of who to pair who of with already and will be following the on screen pairings (mostly)
Chapter 2) Joining the battle, the Dawn of Strike and Impulse
Kira was having a bad day, first Professor Kato goes missing, then the colony came under attack from ZAFT and now an Earth Forces soldier had thrown him into a G-weapons cockpit. Okay so he'd wanted to be inside one but not like that. "Move back behind me" she commanded, Kira would have protested if she'd have given him a chance to. He moved behind the seat to comply "at least we can save this one" she declares activating the Mobile Suit "even I should be able to operate this" she claims with Kira thinking the operative word been should Hell she didn't even give him time to update the OS and he wasn't expecting a smooth ride, especially without a proper seat. He glances at a side screen depicting the other Mobile Suit the GAT-X303…Athrun…he was inside that Mobile Suit and…He was now a member of ZAFT! It couldn't…it shouldn't be possible!
The screen flashed attracting Kira's attention Welcome to M-O-S this was replaced by another display almost immediately.
General
Unilateral
Neuro-link
Dispersive
Autonomic
Module
"Gundam" he realizes, he and Shinn had been trying to come up with in Shinn's words 'a kick ass cool name' for the G-weapons as calling them that 'sucked ass big time' again in Shinn's words and here the name was staring him in the face. The Mobile Suit activates and breaks free from the holding clamps coming to stand amidst the devastation. Power indicators were in the green zone. Okay so this woman had got the Gundam to stand Kira merely prayed that she could get it to walk with any degree of success.
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Outside Morgenroette everyone was running around trying to find a shelter that wasn't full up. Kira's friends stumbled out of the lab building horrified by the destruction of their home around them. Every now and then a far or near explosion would shake the very ground beneath their feet indicating the battle between the Earth Forces and ZAFT wasn't quite over yet. Suddenly two grey Mobile Suits emerge from the factory district one of which lands beside a ZAFT GINN while the other tries to get away. Athrun reported his and Rusty's failure to the Pilot of the GINN on auto-pilot, it couldn't…it couldn't have been Kira, it was impossible! Kira would never join the Earth Forces!
Kira couldn't believe how badly the Gundam was handling, no scratch that he believed it he just wished the woman would let him do something about it but every time he tried to speak she snapped at him to be quiet He could only hope Shinn was having better luck with his Gundam. A heads up display showed Athruns Gundam standing beside a ZAFT GINN while a side display showed a group of civilians trying to flee from the battlefield Kira leaned forward over the womans shoulder "What!" he exclaims they hadn't reached the shelters yet? 'Sai, Tolle, Kuzzy, Miriallia' he thinks.
The GINN then fires of a few shots hitting the ground around the Gundam sending it stumbling back, and shaking up Kira inside. Placing its submachine gun on its back the GINN then draws its sword before signalling to Athrun to retreat back to the ship with his unit. Athrun didn't want to leave anymore than he wanted his comrade to destroy the Earth Forces Mobile Suit…Kira…could he really be onboard that Mobile Suit…he couldn't leave not just yet, he began updating the OS in his Mobile Suit. The GINN runs towards the Gundam whose movement was shaky like a toddler trying to walk and slashes with it's sword but the Gundam uses its booster jets to fly out of the way coming to land a few streets away. The motion causes Kira to fall face first into the woman's chest which puts her in an even worse mood than she was before. "Get out of my way!" she snaps. It wasn't his fault he hadn't done it on purpose to cop a feel in fact Kira was still trying to work his way out of the closet in terms of his sexuality. "Do you wanna die?" she asks him. Not particully but with a crappy OS and her at the controls his future didn't look all that bright, or long for that matter.
Kira struggled up and promptly screamed like a girl (which he would later feel completely humiliated about) as the GINN ran straight towards them and leapt up its sword swinging down for a punishing blow. Murrue however remains calm and presses a button causing a display pops up Phase Shift the Gundams exterior appearance changes becoming white and blue in colour, its arms are raised to block the sword which clashes against the Armor ineffectively. Kira gulps and sighs in relief mentally berating himself for forgetting about the Phase Shift Armor in the heat of the moment it'd take a lot more than a simple sword to get through it. The GINN pilot couldn't believe it his sword hadn't even scratched it….! "This Mobile Suit it…" Kira is interrupted once more as the two Mobile Suits break away from each other and face-of.
Athrun having finished his OS updates informs the GINN pilot that the Earth Forces Mobile Suits are equipped with a system called Phase Shift Armor and once activates it renders swords like the GINN's useless. He then activates his own Mobile Suits Phase Shift Armor causing his machine to change from grey top red in colour. And not a moment to soon as two missiles are launched from remaining Earth Forces Soldiers are intercepted by machine gun fire from the stolen Gundam which is then turned upon a fleeing Missile Launcher vehicle which explodes. Athrun glances at the Earth Forces controlled Mobile Suit with an image of Kira from their past superimposing over it, he shakes his head activates his thrusters and takes of to leave the colony.
Now the stolen Gundam had escaped the GINN flies forward for another attack and Murrue counters with the Gundams own machine guns but the GINN evades easily. Crap realizes Kira, the calibration on the onboard weapons were of as well. As the GINN swoops past slashing at the Gundam as it does so. "It doesn't matter how good your Armor is" the ZAFT pilot sneers sending his Mobile Suit flying at the Gundam once again this time managing to get in a solid hit even though the Phase Shift Armor still held strong "if you can barely move!" he attacks again this time sending the Gundam slamming back into a building. Kira glances to the side display his friends were down there! They could have been killed! Miriallia looked terrified. "Trying to pilot that Mobile Suit you're in way over your head Natural" the ZAFT pilot declares and if Kira had heard him he'd have agreed with him. The GINN advances and all Murrue could do was back away another step and she'd crush Kira's friends! The GINN made to skewer the Gundam Murrue moves to step back and…Kira…just snapped "No!" he cries pushing forward he knocks Murrues hand out of the way and presses another button instead causing the Gundam to kneel down taking the blow over its shoulder. Kira then grabs the thrust controls and pulls them back sending the Gundam charging into the GINN sending it flying (like a football tackle)
"How did you…" Murrue couldn't believe it this kid had only been onboard for a few minutes and had already figured out the control layout. It was no real wonder though that he could operate the system so flawlessly since he and Shinn practically wrote the system. "There are still people all around here" Kira chastises Murrue as he pulls up the OS framework "if your going to drive something as like this you need to make better use of it" he lectures while the GINN struggles back onto its feet, the pilot pretty much pissed-of by now. "This is ridicules" Kira continues "how could you expect to operate such a complex machine with an OS as bad as this?" he asks partly rhetorically "it hasn't reached the completion stage yet, it can't be helped" Murrue defends the current OS. Kira rolls his eyes as if he didn't know that "Lady" he murmurs "I am the completion stage, please move aside" Murrue gapes, he finally had her on the back foot and he intended to keep her there where she was less likely to get them both killed "hurry!" she finally moves to the side allowing him to jump into the seat, this was more like it. He pulls up a keyboard and begins inputting data to update the OS. 'This kid…' thinks Murrue.
The GINN activates its jets and flies straight at the Gundam. Kira growls "I can't finish this if you keep interrupting me!" he types faster with one hand while reaching for the controls with his free hand to open fire with the machine guns (now the calibrations been fixed) but doesn't bother as a new blip appears on the radar identified as the GAT-X606 and before the GINN can reach Kira's Gundam a series of blasts tear up the ground around it forcing it back. "What the…" the ZAFT pilot exclaims as his sensors zero in on the new blip. A small Blue and white Jet roars past the GINN "Shinn to the rescue!" Shinn cries over the radio "as usual" he smirks. Kira sighs but doesn't deviate from his OS updates "show-of" he mutters to himself. Murrue gapes at the new jet 'is that…the sixth unit but I was told it was still under development…who could be piloting it?'
"Okay time to do this" Shinn mutters to himself typing several commands into his modules controls "Legs Flyer, Chest Flyer form up!" two other modules flying behind the Jet (resembling respectively the Legs and Chest of a Mobile Suit line up with the Jet module "Core Splendour connecting to Legs Flyer" the Jet transforms and connects to the Legs which cover the lower half of the module completely. The Chest Flyer begins to descend onto the Legs/Core Splendour merger to complete the connection. "Another one?" the ZAFT pilot blinks "there were only supposed to be five where the hell did that one come from?" he asks out loud "Bastards" he swears discarding his sword to grab a hold of his submachine gun "take some of this" he takes aim at the newly forming Mobile Suit.
"Rebuild neural-linkage network, update meta-motor cortex parameters, restart feed forward control, transfer functions, correct for coriolis deviation…online" Kira declares as Murrue looked on in stunned awe, the boy had just completed a systems update which would have taken a trained technician a few hours in mere minutes. Kira pushes the keyboard away and takes the controls propelling the Gundam forward "oh no you don't" he cries. The ZAFT pilot tries to turn his weapon onto Kira's Gundam but before it can Kira has his Gundam throw a solid punch sending the GINN flying back down once again allowing Shinn to complete his connection sequence.
The Chest connects to legs covering the top half of the module as the merger completes, the Gundams eyes flash briefly as the Head raises into position Shinn presses a button causing a screen to flash up Phase Shift the Phase Shift Armor activates changing the Grey Mobile Suit to White and Blue making it appear similar to Kira's Gundam. "Thanks Bro" Shinn contacts Kira over the radio "now lets finish this" they pull up there weapons list only to find it wasn't an extensive list, they merely possessed Machine guns Igelstellungs and Assault Knifes Armr-scneider "what!" the twins exclaim in union "that's all we've got?" they each draw their Assault Knifes, Shinn landing beside Kira. The GINN pulls itself up once more and starts firing indiscriminately at the Gundams "Damn piece of Earth Trash" snarls the ZAFT pilot as the Gundams evade all the blasts which hit the surrounding buildings endangering anyone who has yet to reach a shelter like Kira and Shinn's friends. "No stop please!" cries Kira "Don't do it here" cries Shinn they attack in a pincer movement slamming their Assault Knifes into the GINN causing it to cease to function. Before they can catch their breath however the pilot ejects having set the self destruct which goes of sending the Gundams flying back with their Phase Shift Armor protecting them from most damage, the occupants are still shaken up inside the Gundams.
Murrue promptly faints falling on top of Kira "Oh so its okay for you to get in my way?" he asks jokingly barely a breadth away from following the woman into dream land himself. "Kira?" Shinn appears on screen through the video link "you okay? Sorry it took so long I had to manually prep all three modules myself, guess I missed the weapons module huh?" he jokes around but it was more strained than usual he was pretty shaken up as well. "I'm alive" Kira replies "no thanks to her" he gestures at the woman currently lying on his lap "she almost got us both killed several times" he complains. Shinn Wolf whistles "Kira" he drawls "I didn't know you went in for the mature woman guess those rumours about you and Flay aren't true after all" he teases before cutting the link. "No Shinn I…" Kira sighs and massages his forehead with one hand this had been a long day, and he had a feeling it wasn't near over just yet.
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Inside the Archangel Naturle Badgiruel floated unconscious but alive amidst the bodies of those less fortunate. Slamming into the ceiling and getting hit by the body of a dead crewman she regains consciousness, allowing her to wake up and find herself in hell.
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Outside the colony the battle was going badly for the Earth forces as the transport ship takes a direct hit before spiralling out of control crashing into the side of the colony as it explodes. Mu curses "can't we do something about this difference in battle strength?" he asks the Gods as he separates all four gunpods to take on a GINN destroying it's rifle and then it's arm in the process.
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On the ZAFT command ship the captain expresses his surprise that a GINN has been damaged by one of the Earth Forces Mobile Suit's however Le Crueset isn't concerned until the Pilot of the GINN destroyed by two Earth Forces Mobile Suits reports back that his Mobile Suit had been destroyed and that there were now Two G-weapon Mobile suits left unaccounted for. Le Crueset leaves the bridge to sortie himself they couldn't afford to neglect the obvious risk the two Mobile suits represented.
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Naturle floated through the rubble strewn tunnels "Anyone here? Anyone?" she gaps out loud as a battered captains hat floats past her, it couldn't be…She reaches out and plucks the hat out of the air "the Captain…" she whispers overcome with grief. Suddenly a sound distracts her from her own anguish the sound of a child crying floating towards the sound she finds a young girl hidden partially behind a fallen panel; she was about fifteen or sixteen years of age and had blond hair and light purple eyes clad in a dark grey exo-suit she was curled up rocking herself gently as tears streamed down her face. "…die…I don't, don't wanna die…no…no…no…can't die, can't die…don't wanna die…" She whimpers to herself seemingly unaware of Naturle's presence.
Naturle approaches the girl and gathers her in her arms "Shush" she comforts the girl rocking her gently in her arms "it's going to be okay now, your alive" her efforts calm the young girl down some what as she nuzzels back into Naturle's embrace "what's your name?" the Officer asks marvelling on how young the girl was "Stella my name is Stellar" the girl replies, Naturles eyes widen with shock and for a moment she has to fight her initial impulse to push the girl away no wonder she was alive, she was one of them.
A banging sound distracts her looking up she's in time to see a door been forcibly thrown of its hinges before a torch is shone into Naturles face blinding her Stellar cringes and holds onto Naturle tightly, the crewman holding the torch looks at Naturle in relief "Ensign Badgiruel glad to see your okay" the Crewman notices Stellar for the first time, and blinks in confusion not realizing who or what the young girl was. "Are you two the only survivors in this section?" the crewman asks before looking away in grief "are either of you injured?" he continues, Naturle shakes her head "a few bumps, we'll be alright" The crewman smiles relieved "can you come with me back to the Archangel, I've regrouped the survivors on the ship" Naturle pulls Stellar and herself into a standing position "Stellar follow me were going to the Archangel now, you'll be safe there" she tries to sooth the girls fears and seems to have succeeded…for the time being. "The Archangel …" Stellar smiles "…Archangel safe, Stellar not die there" Naturle supporting stellar follows the Crewman through the tunnels towards the Archangel .
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Outside the Colony La Flaga looked on the ZAFT vessels fire signal flares to signal the GINN's retreat but he couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. And he was right as Le Creuset launched in his CGUE a Custom GINN.
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Back in the colony the two Gundams (as soon as Kira suggested the name Shinn seconded it finding it sufficiently kick ass enough) Stood in the park beside a row of benches on which Murrue had been laid upon one with Miriallia checking on her while the boys scoped out the two Mobile suits. Murrue stirs before regaining consciousness seeing an unknown civilian girl hovering above her, the girl smiled "I see your finally awake" she greets the Earth forces officer before turning to the side Hey Kira" she calls over to the boys. Murrue tries to pull herself up in to a sitting position noting as she does so that one of the kids had bound her wounded shoulder and groans collapsing back down onto her back. Kira the boy in the G-weapon approaches her entering her field of vision "your better of not trying to move right now" he warns her before looking bashful "I guess I owe you an apology, I got a little carried away in their…I'm sorry"
Miriallia offers Murrue some water as Kira helps her up into a sitting position while the boys continue their inspection of Kira's Gundam (since Shinn death glared anyone who dared approach his Gundam) joking around they attract Murrues attention horrifying her. A civilian was actually sitting in the G-weapons cockpit, with another standing on the leg joint and two more crowded around it from the ground level. "So why do you think they turned grey?" Kuzzy asks Tolle in the cockpit who replies "maybe the main batteries out of juice" "Keep away from that machine" Murrue orders following it through with a single gun shot that pings harmlessly of the Gundams armor. Murrue stood despite her aches and pains pointing her gun at the civilians "What do you think your doing?" Shinn asks lividly "Is this how you thank us? We saved you!" Murrue aims the gun straight at Shinn's head he steps back afraid for a moment that she really was going to shoot him when Kira steps in front of him and the gun "they carried you out and helped me dress your wound please their not the enemy" he pleads
"I am grateful that you saved me but you kids have been exposed to a top secret military secret" claims Murrue. Shinn snorts not only did he and Kira already know about this so called top secret military project but… "So what?" he sneers "From the looks of it ZAFT already know about it and have already got their hands on four of the Gundams why aren't you threatening them instead of us, oh yeah that's right they defeated you didn't they?" "Shinn!" hisses Kira "It's my head she's currently aiming at" he reminds his hot headed brother. Murrue scowls but ignores the jibe at the earth forces "The G-weapons are not something civilians should handle irresponsibly" she states while Shinn mutters "Gundams" under his breath. "Give me a break" Tolle complains "you had Kira driving this one only a minute ago" Murrue turns the gun to face him much to Kira's relief and Tolle's discomfort. "All of you over here" Murrue gestures with the gun making the kids line up in front of her, away from the Mobile Suits, Miriallia grabs a hold of Kira's right arm frightened by the situation while Shinn grabs a hold of Kira's left arm in a parody of Miriallia's grip, Kira his attention focussed completely on Murrue doesn't notice his antics as their ordered to identify themselves.
"My name is Sai Argyle" Sai states "I'm Kuzzy Buskirk" Kuzzy states "My name is Tolle Koenig" Tolle states "I'm Miriallia Haw" Miriallia states…Murrue cocks her gun at Kira and Shinn gesturing for them to speak… "Kira Yamato" Kira states as he notices Shinn's grip on his arm and shakes him off "Ha! Shinn Yamato" Shinn smirks. "I see" Murrue narrows her eyes 'he must have been the one piloting the Impulse but how did he get behind the controls much less figure them out?' she thinks "My name is Murrue Ramius an Earth Forces officer" Murrue states. "We had figured that out for ourselves" Kira declares. "It is my unfortunate duty to inform you that I cannot permit any of you to leave" Murrue announces causing the others to gasp in surprise but Kira and Shin however were expecting this "despite the circumstances the fact is you've witnessed a highly classified military project until I am able to notify appropriate authorities who will determine how the situation is to be handled you have no choice but to remain with me at all times"
Shinn opens his mouth to utter a rather inappropriate comment something involving showering no doubt, before Kira elbows him sharply causing Shinn to grimace and bite back his remark. The others were just as vocal in opposing this and even tried to play the neutral card. Kira and Shinn felt like rolling their eyes welcome to their world they had been born in Orb a neutral nation and had been raised by their adoptive parents to be pacifists (although soemthing had clearly gone wrong in Shinns case) they were just your average ordinary coordinator super genius teenagers and yet had ended up designing and refigning a weapon for the Earth forces although admitadly it had been cooler than extra trigonometry. Murrue fires twice in the air causing everyone to flinch and jump in fright before she enters a tarrade about how it was impossible to distance themselves from the conflict and that neutrality was merely a convientent excuse to hide behind it wasn't like Shinn gave a damn he'd heard it all before and effortlessly tuned it out, all he cared about was getting behind the controls of that Gundam once more. "The Earth forces most vital secret was here and you've seen it" and designed it in some cases not that they ever got the credit for that of course. Damn it! If professor Kato was still alive Shinn was going to kick his ass half way back to Earth and Kira wasn't going to stop him this time. "this is a war between the PLANTS and Earth Coordinators and Naturals outside the world you know" Murrue finished her statement causing Kira to flinch and look away while Shinn scolws and clenches his right nuckle tightly.
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Outside the colony Le Crueset launches an ambush on Mu before heading into the colony pursued by Mu.
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On the Archangel the crewman explained their situation to Naturle the only survivors other than herself and the girl Stellar were those already onboard the ship mainly factory workers. Naturle checked the damage report which if correct showed only superficial damage they'd been lucky the Archangel was quite a ship it would take a hell of a lot more than that to sink it. "Out there is a mountain of debree blocking the harbours exit were completely trapped in here" the crewman claims finishing of his report. Naturle tries the coms which they find are still been jammed and starts "their still jamming the air waves and yet they…" Stellar looks up at Naturle from her position sat at one of the stations her knee's pulled up under her chin "…could this have only been a diversion?" Naturle asks out loud "but that means ZAFTS true target is Morgenroette!" she declares. "If they manage to capture the G-weapons…all we'll have left is the experimental Logos unit" the crewman states worriedly glancing nervously over at stellar who didn't seem to notice or maybe she was just used to the reaction "for…her use" the crewman finishes stuttering slightly. Over the coms a burst of static can be heard someone was trying and failing to get past ZAFT jamming and contact the ship.
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Back with the Gundams Kira in the Strikes cockpit kept up the transmission trying to get through to the Earth Forces with no success finally calling it quits for the time being just as a trailer pulled up beside the Strike with sai getting out of the cab "the number five trailer that's the one you asked for right?" he asks Murrue who nods her head gratefully "yes that's right thanks for the help" she replies. "So what should we do now?" Sai asks "please get the weapons pack for the Strike" she turns to Kira who was leaning out of the Gundam's cockpit "when that is done please try them once more" Kira nods his head and slips back into the cockpit seat "sure" Until Shinn returns with the Impulse and it's weapons pack we only have the Strike to defend ourselves with Murrue thinks If only ZAFT would leave, they already have four of our Mobile Suits what's two more…but of course even one new weapon left in the hands of the enemy is one to many.
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Mu and Le Crueset exchange fire which results in all the Mobius Zero's Gun pods been destroyed but Mu continues to fight with the main module firing the linear cannon at the Custom GINN.
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Onboard the Archangel the crew under Naturle prepare to launch the ship depending on what they found outside they may have to launch the Gaia along with Stellar who seemed eerily calm now they were about to enter a battle situation. As the drew power through undamaged conduits into the ship the weapons systems came online, all functional "Seal all airtight bulkheads, all hands be prepared for sudden impacts as well as possible damage to the ship" Naturle barks out her orders "Stellar standing by in the Gaia" a crewman reports "advance with caution launch the Archangel" the main engines fire up as the ship readies itself for launch.
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Back with the Strike Kira operates the Gundam moving it beside the trailer which opens up to display the Weapons and Power pack. Suddenly an explosion alerts them to the new danger as a white Mobile Suit appears been pursued by a red Mobile Armor. La Crueset zeroes in on the strike "ah that must be one of them" he checks his sensors but for the moment there was no sign of the other 'Sixth' G-weapon. "The final unit" Mu realises but couldn't be sure whether it was in friendly hands or not. La Crueset buzzes the Gundam with the Mu hot on his tail.
"Mount the equipment before it's too late!" Murrue orders urgently as the Mobile Suit and Armor exchange fire before the Mobile Suit finally destroys the Armor's cannon and proceeds to ignore it in favour of attacking the Strike. Kira equips the Launcher Strike Package and panics activating Phase Shift Armor just in time. Suddenly a massive explosion rips apart a nearby hill side and a beautiful white, red and blue ship with an extended section at the front and back giving it the appearance of legs emerges from the hole distracting La Crueset at the last possible moment.