I do not own Gundam Seed, this is a fanfiction only.

I looked at Mu, Kira and the lady I now know as Murrue Ramius. She still is not liking the idea Mu came up with, but neither am I truth be told. He actually found a GM I could pilot in one of the hangars of the battleship they called the Archangel. I would call it the White Devil, but then again I am still considered an enemy.

"Look my Captain is not simply going to sit out in space waiting for us to give him the Strike. He will launch another attack, and this time, he means business. If he can't capture it, he will attempt to destroy it."

Mu just had to look at me and ask me the question I really wish he wouldn't "Who exactly is your Captain?" I know if things were any worse I would laugh in a hysteria right about now.

"My Captain is none other than Rau Le Creuset, in other words, the second he hears you are in Heliopolis, he will stop at nothing to destroy the Archangel, the Strike, and quite possibly this entire colony just to make sure you are dead Mu."

He began to glare at me and I could only shrug my shoulders at him. "I have done nothing to the man to earn this level of animosity. A better question can you pilot that GM or do I need to find pieces so that we can build you a JINN from scavenged parts."

I looked at him and smiled, "If a Natural can pilot this thing, I should have little no problem piloting this thing. I could also always ride shotgun with Kira, but as we are in a dire situation we need as many pilots as we can get our hands on. The kids over there are college students by the look of it, they can't pilot a ball much less a GM."

The woman that managed to get the supposed Archangel free from the wrecked port was rather nice to look at, her short hair, nice figure, beautiful face to certain, if she wasn't constantly either glaring at you that as, as she was doing to me.

"How can we trust this guy? He is an enemy! He might be giving us false information so that we make a mistake and ruin the relations between the Earth Alliance and Orb!" I had to admit that wasn't such a bad idea from a ZAFT officer perspective.

"Actually had Kira not been here, we wouldn't even be having this conversation. I would have killed you all without as much as a thought about it. Earth Alliance killed hundreds of innocent people, which I might add included my mother. Don't act like the Earth Alliance are saints cause if anyone knows that isn't true it is me."

Mu sighed and looked at me, "The Bloody Valentine, How could I have forgotten about that unmitigated disaster. Ms. Badjirule might not understand it, but I do. Sorry that we made you remember something that horrible from your past Richard."

I looked at him and smiled, "Thank you, Mu. Didn't expect that from one of you guys, but it is appreciated. Come on, we need to do repairs on that Mobile Armor of yours, and I still need to check what awful thing that GM has for an OS. We don't have time to waste when someone will be eager to launch another attack on this colony."

As it turns out his machine only needed a bit of light maintenance. I used the cannon barrel of a tank and modified it as a replacement part, nothing major. My GM was in a word a disaster, how in the world did the Naturals pilot this thing with this absolute piece of garbage they even call an OS.

I saw cars in the Plants with better OS than this thing, and this was supposedly a Mobile Suit meant for actual combat, I wouldn't use it to haul garbage with the OS it has. I had no alternative but to build one from scratch. As soon as I was done, my former disaster became somewhat acceptable.

This thing still wasn't anything to jump for joy, but beggars can't be choosers. I just finished and descended using the ladder when I saw Mu looking at me. I certainly didn't like the way he was looking at me. I had to put a stop to whatever sick thing he was thinking immediately.

"Mu, mind telling me why are you looking at me like that? It had better be good." That was when he threw at me a pilot uniform for the Earth Alliance. I know my pilot suit is a bit stained but it wasn't something that bad.

"Richard I was thinking that it might be better that you wear this suit instead of the one you are wearing. I think the people in the Archangel might feel less aggressive, and more comfortable if you actually use uniforms from the Earth Alliance."

I guess I jumped to conclusions, after all, I looked at the suit and looked at him. "This changes nothing you do know that I am still very much an officer of ZAFT. Why in the world would I wear this, something from a group of people that are trying to kill all coordinators?"

He laughed and walked over to me and placed his hand on my shoulder. "Well I am not, and it could make thing easier not only for the personnel of the Archangel, maybe also that you don't get a shot on sight if we have to dock in an Earth Alliance facility. You called Kira sis, why don't we register you on the Archangel as Richard Yamato?"

I looked at him and smiled, "You know well that I am a Zala, always will be one. It doesn't matter what people call me. I have been called many things and many often foul, so you can feel free to register me as a Yamato if it will make the people on the ship relax."

I still kept improving my suits OS, I simply would not let something the Blue Cosmos loving fools design be the end of me. I also decided to place my helmet and new suit on. Good thing the helmet had a tainted visor, most people would not be able to see my face through it. If I had been hungry this pretty much killed my appetite, at least for now.

I got back on my suit till Natarle decided to great the people that had been gathered. I was told to come down so that there would be no need to repeat what would be discussed. "So Commander La Flaga will be the captain of this ship it seems." Murrue just made a mistake it seems, and the woman next to her was not happy to hear that.

"Actually I am not fit to command this ship, I know next to nothing about it. You just told us you need as many pilots protecting the Archangel and thus I, Kira and Richard will be out here protecting the ship, I can't be in two places at the same time ladies."

Murrue knew what he was saying, she didn't look like she liked it but understood his reason. "Lieutenant Ramius you are the next in line to be considered Captain, so that means you must take charge of the Archangel. I, however, have a bit of trouble with these two. I don't think two Coordinators should be allowed knowledge of such sensitive military secrets."

I walked over to her and smiled, I could see her back away as I looked at her. "So you will use the excuse of protecting military secrets to try and get your superior officer to have me and Kira both killed. How very Blue Cosmos of you to think like that. Now if you will excuse me, ladies, I need to get on my borrowed Mobile Suit and get ready to save the lives of all those present."

I walked towards my Mobile Suit and as I grabbed the ladder to climb aboard I looked at them as I turned around. "I would suggest holding the summary executions till after you and the others are safe, Mu pretty much said that you need all available pilots to keep this white monster safe. I can't very well do that if I am dead."

As I got in the cockpit I knew I should be kinder to them, but the racist tone of her voice upset me to no end. I don't know why hearing her voice upset me this much, I guess it had something to do with the fact that I thought that she and I could get along well enough since we were both career military.

I took off in my metal coffin, I know I should not call this suit that but let's face it. The thing was just not able to keep up with my piloting no matter how much I modified the OS, this thing was built by naturals, for naturals and with no one in mind other than natural pilots.

Just as I began to look for the supposed Strike, or as I knew it one of the G-Weapons, I saw Captain of my ship come through the docking entrance to the colony. I guess I did know him well enough to know he was not going to let the Naturals keep one of their secret weapons. He tried to catch Kira off guard, too bad for him I and Mu were already prepared for just that.

I deflected the shots using my Mobile suit's shield and Mu tried to blast him a new one. I decided to turn to laser communication and aimed at the G Weapon. "Kira, you alright in there? You need to turn on your Mobile Suit, without power it is totally defenseless."

She was still trying to figure how to do things, "Richard this is the second time I ever piloted period, I got no clue what to do." I guess it was to be expected she never did get any military training after all. I saw something in one of the trucks and I smiled, "Kira looks to the truck near you, the one with the large laser cannon. Move next to it, if I am right that thing is a weapon your suit can use."

I saw her move the Mobile Suit and sure enough, the Strike took care of the mounting of the weapon system. Rau tried to catch me by surprise but I was the one that caught him by cutting his weapon in half with my laser sword. He had to let go of it quickly and the rifle exploded causing some damage to his suit.

I had to do something to make the man leave, or Kira would have to do something she would later regret. I cut off one arm and a leg of his custom mobile suit. This must have been a truly unexpected occurrence for him, he must think that no Natural pilot could do that to him, or he is just in shock.

As he retreated and the rest of the mobile suits from the ship not that long ago was pretty much my home came swarming into the colony, I saw that many of them had fortress siege equipment and weapons, bunker busters, long-range ballistic missiles, heavy caliber laser siege rifles.

The thing that caught me was that one of the stolen G weapons was the thing I could not call anything other than a siege force. I flew up to him and began to use laser induction communications between us.

"Athrun Zala, mind telling me what the deal is? You tell me to keep your girlfriend safe and then you and our division do this? How in the world am I going to keep your blushing bride safe with this to deal with!"

I saw my brother looking at me and laughing his head off. "Oh, don't you give me that excuse big bro. If anyone is capable it's you. Now be truthful here, have you tried stealing her from me? I know you are single, and she is quite the looker."

I blasted my rifle barely missing his suit's head. "Make another joke like that and I will aim for something vital next time. I wouldn't be piloting this Natural made piece of garbage if I wasn't doing you this favor, and this is how you thank me?"

I saw him smile and nod this head as I was ready to turn off the communications. "Just keep her safe, we both know Naturals are going to just use her and probably kill her when they think she has no further use. I would ask you to convince her to come with you back to our ship, but I know how stubborn she can be."

"Don't worry little brother, I am keeping your love interest safe and sound. I just wish I had a better Mobile Suit than this piece of garbage to do that. Just remember I am in this piece of junk and Kira your true love is in the Strike. We both don't have that special alloy armor that she has, but I will keep her safe. Even if it means I will probably end up in front of a firing squad after this war is over."

We both took off in opposite directions and I began to blast away at the missiles as they were launched at the Archangel, I guess this is what they call being stuck between a rock and a hard place. They can shoot in any way they want, but we had to watch our shoots or Heliopolis was history.

Just as the battle turned into a war of attrition one of the Mobile Suits got blasted in half by Mu, but the thing was he accidentally cause the suit's missile arsenal to launch at the central column of the colony. As soon as the column was hit I knew this colony was done for and the colony began to jettison all the evacuation pods.

Even my Captain would understand that fighting if it continued would be an unmitigated disaster, he made all the ZAFT units retreat but I knew this was not the last time I guess my former Commanding Officer would launch an attack to get rid of the Strike or the Archangel.