Heliopolis, Morgenroete Factory District

As the flames consumed the warehouse, seven mobile suits shot out from the ruined building. Their movements were erratic, at best. Four of them were slow and shaky, like trainees piloting a mobile suit for the first time were operating the machines. The other three landed fairly smoothly, though they effectively stood their ground after doing so.

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

Chris watched his aunt struggle to operate the mobile suit. Though he knew they were still in danger, he couldn't help but feel concerned about the others.

"Damn. They still haven't perfected the OS yet. How did they ever expect this thing to be combat ready with this OS?" said Johanna in frustration.

Chris couldn't help but agree with her. The operating system was clearly of an inferior design. This was very bad for them, especially if those GINNs decided to attack.

With Ryu

Ryu was silent as he rapidly typed away at the keyboard in the cockpit of his commandeered mobile suit. He'd seen the mess the OS was in, and had immediately begun rewriting it. One of the machines was occupied by a ZAFT soldier… and his typing had become even more frantic as he saw a group of GINNs land nearby.

Suddenly, a woman's voice came over the radio. "Pilot of the Raven, identify yourself."

"This is Johanna Dante of Morgenroete," Johanna replied. "Lieutenant Ramius, is that you?"

"Yes," answered Ramius. "It's good to see that you managed to survive and get that machine out of there."

"Is Kira with you?" she asked.

"The girl? Yes, he's here."

Ryu sighed in relief, knowing that Kira was safe.

"Pilot of the Dynasty, identity yourself," came Ramius's voice again.

"Dynasty here," Ryu said. "Give me a second; I'm trying to work out the kinks in the OS."

"Who are you?" The Mechanic asked insistently "I don't recognize you as any of the G-weapon pilots."

"Relax Ramius," Chris and Liz's aunt's voice came through the radio "He can be trusted,"

"Alright, pilot of the Thunder, Identify yourself." Murrue said.

"This is…uh…Hikari Sierra, and Amy Sierra." Hikari's voice came though. "We got stuck in the same suit together."

"You two alright?" Ryu asked.

"We're fine Ryu." Amy said. "Just…just a bit shaken up is all."

"Pilot of the Raptor, Identify yourself." Murrue said one more time.

"Um… this is Liz Dante," came the voice of Chris's sister. Shocked, Ryu stopped typing for a moment. "I'm Johanna Dante's niece."

With Chris

"What?" exclaimed Johanna. "Liz, what are you doing in there? Where's Nick?"

What sounded like a choked sob was the first reply, and Chris felt his heart freeze.

"He's… dead," came the choked reply. Shocked, Johanna's control on the mobile suit slackened, and the GINN attacking them landed a hit near the foot of the machine, sending it tumbling off-balance.

"Damn it," said Ramius. Ryu also made a quick swear.

"No," whispered Johanna. She blinked back tears, and shook her head, getting herself back under control. "Listen to me Lieutenant Ramius, the OS still isn't ready for a Natural like you or myself to pilot. Allow Kira to pilot the machine."

"What?" both she and Ramius said in disbelief.

"Kira's a Coordinator, just like my nephew. They should be able to better handle these machines than we can at the moment."

"What?" Kira said again.

"I cannot allow a civilian to pilot a top secret machine," said Ramius.

"Would you rather be dead?" Ryu barked. His own mobile suit then turned Red with black trim, woodland green on thighs, and Biceps, and a white face with a Golden double V head crest. "Chris, take control of the Raven, and get the O.S working. Liz, Cover you brother. Amy, or Hikari, same as you. Get the Thunder working and give some support to Kira. I'll try to distract them."

With Ryu

'Armaments: CIWS ' Igelstellung', no good in this situation, to many enemies; IWS: Hydra Missile Shield, no good either possible collateral Type 71 beam rifle also can badly damage exterior wall,' Ryu thought to himself as he scrolled through the weapons of his mobile suit 'I guess that leaves the 'Exia Kai III' Sword/Rifle.' Taking a deep breath he unfolded the blade and held it at the ready, exhaling he started attacking the mobile suits in front of him.

Dodging the shots from the GINN in front of him Ryu lashed out with the blade destroying the offending gun before boosting back to dodge several more shots from his opponent's partner. Gritting his teeth Ryu fired his Igelstellungs forcing the suit to back off; his danger sense flashing Ryu quickly brought up his shield and blocked the sword thrust of another mobile suit. Narrowing his eyes he saw that four of the ten attacking mobile suits were surrounding him as the other six moved to attack his friend "Watch out the enemy is heading to your position!" He called out over the radio alerting the others.

With Hikari and Amy

"Let me in!" Amy demanded. "What? Are you crazy?" Hikari demanded. "Nee-San, we don't have time to argue!" Amy nearly shouted, shocking her elder sister. "We are both dead if we don't do anything, and I know more about this kinda stuff than you do, so Move!"

Hikari blinked in surprise. She tried to find an argument, but she knew that her sister was right on this one. He got behind the seat as Amy took the seat. She immediately started typing away on the keyboard trying to fix the O.S.

It was then Ryu's warning came through, and six GINN's were speeding towards them. 'Dammit, I'm not finished!' she thought as she only had time to finish the legs. Two of the GINN's sped towards her, one headed towards Kira while the other two ganged up on Chris.

The two GINN's charged, firing their rifles at her. Amy hopped away, trying to get some distance away from them as she was still trying to reprogram the O.S. After a few minutes, she managed to at least get her right arm with her Beam SMG working. "Alright, this should do for now." She said as she drew her Beam SMG. One of the perusing GINN's charged forward with its sword drawn, while the other stayed behind with its machine gun. Amy pointed her SMG at the rifle-wielding one, and fired. A rapid stream of beams streaked towards the GINN.

Though the GINN managed to avoid a direct hit, its shoulder and half of its head was blown away. The Pilot smarted out, and ran.

That left the last GINN. Amy finished the Thunder's left arm's recalibrations, and her suit could now actually fight effectively. 'Ok, I've already tried the SMG.' Amy thought. 'Hu…Beam Sabers, or that Heat shield? Ah, let's try the Sabers.' She then drew out the Thunder's two beam sabers, holding one in each hand."Alright, let's dance!" Amy said as she flew forward 'I've always wanted to say that.' She thought afterwards.

The GINN fired his Machine gun wildly, hitting the nearby buildings and structures. "Hey! Shoot me! Not the colony!" Amy shouted as she drew closer, dodging all of the GINN's shots with the Thunder's superior mobility.

Suddenly the Thunder was right in front of the GINN, and in two downward slashes, she sliced off the GINN's arms. The GINN pilot chickened out, and ran.

Amy sighed in relief as she relaxed in the cockpit. "That was too much like work." She muttered. She then faced her sister with a grin. "See? I can handle myself." Hikari game a weak smile. "Ya…I guess." She admitted.

With Kira

"Move aside already!" said Kira angrily. Ramius's stubborn refusal to let her take over had nearly gotten her friends killed.

Relenting, Ramius did so, and Kira took the pilot seat. She pulled out the keyboard and began typing away at lightning speed, one eye on the GINN as it stood up and readied for another attack. She wasn't too worried about Adam, Sue, Darknal and Amy—if the machine they were in has the same sort of armor as the one he was in, they'd be fine.

As the GINN approached, Kira finished her first set of calibrations, and fired the head vulcans at the GINN, causing it to stumble as it stabbed forward. Kira deftly evaded, and punched the GINN in the face.

"Take the calibrations and reset the zero moment point and CPG," muttered Kira to herself, still with an eye on the GINN, but otherwise ignoring the machine entirely. Connect control module to quasi-cortex molecular ion pump. Rebuild neural linkage network, update metamotor cortex parameters. Restart feet forward control, transfer functions, correct for corrial asteviation, online.

The GINN stood up and fired at Kira with his rifle, shaking the mobile suit. Gripping the controls, Kira rocketed the prototype into the air, evading further fire.

"Weapons…" muttered Kira, typing at the keyboard. The offensive system screen came up, listing two head-mounted 75mm Vulcan guns, and two hip-concealed assault knives as the only weapons it currently had.

"Armor Schneider?" questioned Kira incredulously. "That's all there is?"

Left with no other choice, Kira sprung the assault knives, grabbed hold of them, and closed on the GINN, which began to fire wildly.

"No, don't do it here!" cried Kira. "Stop it!" Kira ducked under fire from the GINN's machine gun, and stabbed forward with both knives into the GINN's neck, watching with some satisfaction as the GINN went limp.

"Get away from the suit!" Ramius shouted in panic, right before the suit self-destructed causing Kira to recoil violently and the mechanic to smash her head on the bulkhead rendering her unconscious.

"Kira are you alright?" Chris' worried voice came over the radio.

"I'm alright, but Miss Ramius smashed her head on the bulkhead and is unconscious." She reported as the stood the suit back up, checking the surrounding area she sighed in relief as she saw he friends cautiously come out of their hidey-hole.

With Chris and Liz

"Oh fuck!" Chris swore as he brought up his duel hyper velocity shield cannon to block the shots from one of the two GINN's as he activated his PS turning the suit Midnight blue with red trimming before returning fire with his Igelstellungs forcing the suit to dodge to the left, unfortunately he forgot about the second suit and was tackled to the ground by said mobile suit who now stood over him with its heavy sword at the ready to stab him.

"NO Chris, Aunt Johanna!" Liz shouted firing her beam rifle at the suit missing by good bit.

It served the purpose however as the suit was distracted long enough for Chris to bring his cannons to bear and fired off a shot at point blank to the cockpit destroying the suit. Gritting his teeth as the Raven slid along the ground, blown back by the explosion "Aunt Johanna are you alright?" Chris asked in concern as he stood the suit back up beside his sister's mobile suit as she activated her PS turning her suit light blue with red trim and bronze joints.

"I'm fine just a little dazed." She replied "just focus on the enemy."

"R-right." He stuttered as he turned back to the final GINN who was bringing his rifle to bear. Activating the thrusters Chris dodged to the right while approaching the suit and drawing one of the beam sabers at the suits waist. "Eat this!" he shouted slashing at the suit that jumped back.

Chasing the GINN he slashed once more as it dropped its gun and brought it sword to bear, unfortunately the sword did very little and ended up cut in half as Chris' saber continued its original path and cut the cockpit. Remembering what happened the last time he hit the cockpit he jumped back just before it exploded clearing him from the blast radius.

With Ryu

Ryu ducked the Dynasty under one GINN's sword, and retaliated by ramming it with his shoulder, and firing two beams into it at point blank, destroying it as he backed away in time to not be caught in the blast.

Switching the rifle into sword mode, he then sliced the arms off of another GINN, and delivered a roundhouse kick knocking it into a few buildings. The third GINN tried to sneak up behind him, but Ryu withdrew his Exia Kai, and drew his two hip-holstered beam sabers, and sliced the GINN into pieces.

Holstering his beam sabers, he drew out his Exia Kai again as the damaged GINN retreated while the last one stood its ground. It was then four more GINN's arrived backing it up while the Aegis and Gale retreated.

'Dammit, I won't last much longer.' He thought to himself.

However, suddenly another explosion from Morgenroete blasted through. Out of the fires of the facility, another mobile suit, this one almost completely black, with a Red trim, soared out of the ruined building.

"This is Kane Hellfury to any Zaft personnel within Heliopolis. Do you read me?" A cold voice on the radio said.

"Sir! Intel was wrong." One of the GINN pilots said. "There were more machines than what Intel reported. The enemy has maintained control of five suits of their own!"

"Make that Seven." Kane said.

"Seven?"

Just then, two more mobile suits jumped from the ruins of Morgenroete. One was Blue, White, and Red, and the other was Black with a gold trim.

Then the red one drew out its Exia Sword/Rifle into sword mode, and snapped into a combat position against the machine Kane piloted. The Black-gold suit made a similer pose, drawing out two "Kotetsumaru" Katana's, twirling them around its fingers, and snapped into a combat pose.

With Jordan

Matthew and Jordan were in hot pursuit of Kane as they busted out of the Factory. They then noticed the team of five other Gundams similar to their own, and the five GINN's with Kane.

"Jordan, you help the Gundam's down there, and take out the GINN's." Matthew said. "Leave Kane too me."

"You sure Nii-san?" Jordan asked, and his Brother nodded. "Kane's an experienced pilot." He said. "You wouldn't stand much of a chance against him alone. Help them out, leave Kane to me."

"Right…just don't get yourself killed Matt." Jordan smiled a bit. "I just got you back; I don't want to lose you again." His Brother smiled. "Will do Jordan." He said as he sped towards the Monster.

'Ok, what weapons does this bad-boy got?' Jordan thought as he landed next to the Samurai-looking Green/Black mobile suit. 'Exia Kai, Beam Sabers, Beam Daggers, Katana Short sword, Katana long sword…Hm, let's mix it up a bit.' He then drew a Beam Saber with his right hand and a beam dagger in his left hand.

The Hero charged forward towards the GINN's. He tossed the dagger into the head of one GINN witch backed off. He then ducked under another GINN's sword and did a kick-swipe that knocked the GINN down to its back. Jordan then stabbed the GINN in the Torso, being careful to avoid the Cockpit.

Retrieving his Saber, he then shouldered into the GINN that was previously impaled by his Dagger, forcing it back as he retrieved his Dagger from the Mobile suit.

Putting away his beam weapons, he then drew his Exia Kai in sword mode, and his short sword in his left hand. "Bring it on!" Jordan shouted as he charged forward.

With Matthew

Play: 'Monster' by skillet. Link: http : / www . youtube . com / watch?v=YXcfH1iUzB0

Matthew's sword's clashed with Kane's own Heat Sabers, both pushing against each other. "I expected better from you, Matt." Kane mocked on the Radio. "I never would have thought you'd betray your own species, especially after Junius 7."

Matthew growled as he pushed the Monster back."Don't you dare bring that up you bastard!" He shouted as he delivered a severe kick to the Monster's torso. "You're just as bad as Blue Cosmos! You killed those Civilians without a second thought! Dammit, they were my Parents Kane! And as for that comment on betraying my species, I never did that. I may not be fighting for Zaft now, but Coordinator or natural, we are all Humans."

Kane just laughed as he fired his palm-mounted beam cannons. "Oh, please spare me the lecture." He said as Matthew evaded the shots. "Coordinators are the only True humans! Naturals are just vermin that deserve to be stomped on like rats! And seeing how they were your Parents, I must assume the current pilot of that other machine must be your brother you're always talking about?" Matthew could hear him laugh. "I'll enjoy killing him while you watch, just like I killed you mommy and daddy!"

"YOU BASTARD!" Matthew shouted as he drew his 'Senkoumaru' Naginata, and fired his head-mounted 60mm Vulcan cannons as he charged at the Demon-like suit.

Kane replied to it by dodging the volley of rounds, and drawing his own beam sabers in a reverse grip and caught the Spear-like weapon from hitting him.

"You took away my Mother, and my Father, you will NOT TAKE MY BROTHER!" he shouted as he punched the Warrior's thrust to the max and he pushed the Monster into a set of buildings. Matthew placed his foot on the Monster, and raised his Naginata ready to pierce the Monster's cockpit, but the Monster fired a set of beams from the Palm-mounted cannons forcing him to retreat.

"I'll get you, Matthew Takeo…" Kane muttered on the Radio as he took flight and ran. "I'll kill you, and that pathetic brother of yours!"

Matthew snorted as he holstered his Naginata. "Not in a million years, Kane." He muttered as he turned towards his Brother and the other Gundams.

(End song)

Meanwhile With Jordan

Jordan, with one final swing, sliced the last GINN in half. Two of the others had started to retreat, but Jordan didn't bother giving chase. He didn't want to kill any more of them.

It was around this time Matthew finished up his battle with the Monster, and he landed beside the Hero. The two suits faced the other five Gundams.

"To the Pilots of the two Unidentified mobile suits," came an oddly familiar voice to Jordan. "Thanks for your help."

Jordan blinked. He knew that voice. "Ryu?" he asked on the Comm. "It that you?"

Three seconds passed. And Ryu's voice, along with Kira's, Chris's, Liz's, Amy's, and Hikari's voice all called out at once: "JORDAN!"

"Yes, yes it's me." He said. "But…what are you guys doing in those things?"

"We could ask you the same thing!" Kira said. "But who's in that Black one?"

"It would be best if we discussed this elsewhere." Ryu said. "Jordan, you and that other guy meet us over by that park." Ryu's suit pointed at a Park. "Right, see you there." Jordan said and they walked towards the said Park.

At the said park

As Chris and his friends exited their machines, the two machines then walked towards them.

The cockpits of the black and red suit opened. From the red one, Jordan emerged. "Jordan! There you are!" Kira shouted. "Where did you get those machines?"

"They were in a hanger inside the factory." Jordan replied. Then the second pilot stepped out, revealing a man wearing a red Zaft pilot suit.

This got everyone on edge. "Jordan, who is that?" Ryu asked wearily, edging towards the Dynasty.

"Relax guys, he's with me." Jordan said as he and the Zaft Pilot lowered themselves down.

"Well, who is he?" Chris asked.

Jordan smiled. "Ladies and Gentlemen," he said, putting his hand on the Zaft red's shoulder. "Please say hello to my Big Brother, Matthew Takeo."

"You're…Brother?" Amy asked, amazed.

"But, didn't you tell us he died at the bloody Valentine?" Ryu asked, just as amazed as the others.

"I did." Jordan said.

"Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated." Matthew finished, removing his helmet. Everyone who was Jordan's friend gasped at how similar they looked. They were almost identical, only that Matthew had slightly longer, shaggier hair, an inch taller than Jordan, and a scar just below his Jaw.

"Holy shit you look just like Jordan…" Chris muttered.

"Runs in the family I guess." Jordan said. "Matt, allow me to introduce you to Chris Dante, Liz Dante, Kira Yamato, and Ryu Hisanaga. I think you already know Hikari and Amy."

Matthew eyed Ryu for just a moment, but then faced Amy and Hikari, smiling. "Good to see two." He said. "How've you been?"

"Great Matt." Amy said. "It's great to see you again."

"Same here." Hikari said. "Things were way too dull without you."

Then Ryu stepped in. "As much as I really am enjoying this little Family Reunion," He said. "I don't think this is over yet and I want to make sure that our suits are properly prepared. Kira, you take a look at the OS for the Dynasty. Chris, take a look at the Raven and finish tweaking if it needs it." Turning to Liz, and Amy, he raised an eyebrow "Are you going to pilot the Raptor and Thunder for now?" Ryu asked the two as the others did as asked.

"I guess." Amy said, a little hesitantly. "I'm not really looking forward into fighting again…but we need to be ready, right?"

Liz bit her lip in thought before nodding in affirmation "You guys will need the help right?" she asked rhetorically "You want me to make sure the Raptor is up to snuff right?"

Ryu nodded before turning to Johanna "Where are the Strike's weapons?" He asked.

Johanna sighed rubbing her head "They are normally stored in a warehouse near the factory," she answered "but we transferred them to the prototype carrier we were building alongside the G-weapons, the Archangel. But with this attack I believe they probably targeted it with the initial explosion."

"Take Sai and see if there are any of the weapon packs left," he ordered pointing to Sai "Mir, Tolle, Hikari, can you please see if there is any food and water nearby please, mobile suit piloting can be very draining."

The five nodded and went off to do as requested with Sai and Johanna hotwiring a nearby car. Ryu then faced Jordan and Matthew. "I think it's obvious you'll be piloting your machines." He said.

The brothers glanced at each other, and simultaneously they said: "Do ya think?"

Ryu Chuckled. "Alright, I get it, your brothers." He said.

The two smiled, and they headed towards their machines.

'I hope that this is the worst the day has to offer,' Ryu thought to himself as he made his way over to the sleeping mechanic 'Than again…I am the bitch of Murphy's Law.'

117Jorn: Got that right.

DragonKnightRyu: Shut up Jorn

"Ryu was it?" a voice said suddenly. Ryu twirled around to see Matthew standing there. "Ryu Hisanaga? You wouldn't happen to be the same Ryu Hisanaga, the Dragon of Endymion, would you?"

Ryu tensed up a little. "Maybe…" he said."Why?"

"Just curious is all." Matthew said with a shrug. "The Commander said there was Rumors about you living here at Heliopolis, but it wasn't confirmed. Now seeing you in person…I actually expected you to be taller. Maybe…I dunno, some 8 ft draconic beast?"

Ryu gave out a small chuckle. "I guess I can't really hide it from you." He said. "Ya, I am the same Ryu. But…try not to tell the others, please?" Matthew nodded. "I understand that, sir." He said. "I would probably be asking the same thing if you were asking me if I were the 'Grim Reaper of Junius 7'" Ryu blinked at that. "Really?" he asked.

"Ya, we're one in the same." Matt said. "Remember? I piloted that Black/Gold CGUE with that steel Scythe?"

"Ah, right." Ryu said, recalling it. "I cut your Scythe in half, Right? Sorry about that." Matt just waved it off. "Ah, it's alright." He said. "I managed to fix it. Besides," he looked up at the Warrior. "I think I found a brand new replacement."

Ramius groaned as she woke up a half-hour later and opened her eyes to see the artificial light of the colony "So sleeping beauty awakes." A voice to her right stated and a hand appeared holding a bottle of water "Drink, it'll help with the headache."

Following the arm Ramius saw a young man with green eyes and short military-style brown hair "W-who are you?" she asked weakly.

"Ryu Hisanaga, I was piloting the Dynasty," he said shortly "Drink, you need the water."

Accepting the bottle Ramius opened it and drank deeply draining a quarter of the bottle in one go. More alert she sat up and looked around the improvised camp and saw that two additional civilians were speaking with the siblings from the warehouse as the girl who took control of the Strike; Kira if she remembered right, sat in the Raptor typing away on the keyboard while eating a granola bar.

Meanwhile the two other siblings, the two girls, were resting on the Thunder's foot. The Younger one resting her head on the elder's shoulder. While another Civilian was inside one of the two X000 units. Though she could see someone in the second unit, she couldn't tell who.

"Johanna and another civilian went to see if there are any weapon packs left in storage for the Strike." Ryu said from next to her "We've been trying to see if we can contact the Archangel to see if anyone survived the blast."

Ramius whirled to him reaching for her sidearm that was o longer there her eyes wide in shock and fear she looked at Ryu who was holding her sidearm "How do you know about the Archangel?" she growled.

"I know because Johanna told me about it," he said in a bored voice as the others looked on "Besides it doesn't matter right now as we need to be prepared in case ZAFT returns to try and finish the job."

Ramius relaxed slightly at his explanation and relaxed even more when he handed her gun back to her. As she reholstered the gun Johanna and Sai returned in a transport with a crate and parked behind the kneeling Strike. "Thankfully there was one left." Johanna explained as the crate opened up "So we should be able to boost our radio range with it."

Ryu nodded and signaled Kira to get the Pack mounted on the Strike, but frowned as he felt a tingle in the back of his head. He wasn't the only one who felt this, as Jordan got the same feeling as well. 'Hu?' he thought. 'What the hell was-?'

Everyone mount up!" he ordered as he made his way to the Dynasty leaving a confused Johanna and Ramius behind "I have a feeling that ZAFT is on their way!"

"Ryu!" Kira shouted from the now armed Strike "Communications just cut out!"

Ryu swore violently "Mount up NOW." He literally roared the order as they got in their mobile suits 'Power is halfway, I cannot prolong the battle.'

A sudden explosion jerked every ones heads to the sky as they saw a whit CGUE and a Moebius Zero entered the colony with the Zero's gunbarrels missing. 'I only know of one Zero pilot left, and I only know of one ZAFT pilot that pilots a white mobile suit.' Ryu thought to himself as he watched the Zero lose its linear gun "Let's move people!" he shouted over the radio as he launched the Dynasty into the air "Kira when you get a shot, take it!"

"Understood." She confirmed in a shaky voice as the non-combatants took cover behind the transport truck.

"Guy's be careful," Ryu warned as they approached the white CGUE "If my guess is correct than we're fighting an ace, so be on guard and cover me."

"You're right on that." Matthew said. "It's my Former Commander Rau le Crueset." Ryu groaned. Just as I thought.

With Rau

'So that's why Miguel and the others failed,' Rau mused 'there were far more prototypes than anticipated.' Boosting forward he collided swords with the Green-Black mobile suit as the others tried to flank him from both sides, chuckling he tried to drag the Green-Black mobile suit into the line of fire only for the suit to ram the broad side of the shield into Rau's CGUE surprising him. However his reactions were quick enough to dodge the shots that the other two took at him. As he continued to trade blows with the Green-Black mobile suit he couldn't help but feel he had fought a person who piloted like the one in front of him now, it suddenly clicked into place and Rau's eyes widened from behind the mask. 'I have to confirm this.' He thought to himself as he opened and area-wide radio-link.

"I don't know why your here piloting an EA machine, but it certainly has been a while, hasn't it, Dragon of Endymion Ryu Hisanaga!" Rau shouted over the link causing all movement to freeze on the battlefield.

Suddenly a chuckling broke out over the link "I haven't heard than name for almost three years," Ryu said over the channel in a reminiscent voice before turning to ice "I hope you're ready Rau le Crueset the White Duelist, because you have dragged me out of retirement by threatening my home and friends, and I will not stand for it!"

Rau grinned as he blocked another strike from Ryu's blade.

Meanwhile

With Kira

Kira was in shock at the revelation of who exactly Ryu was, she had guessed that he was a soldier, ZAFT due to the fact he was a coordinator, but the legendary coordinator ace of the EA, the only coordinator pilot of the EA who went missing after Junius Seven. That was defiantly shocking news to all of them. 'It still doesn't change anything Ryu never hid anything from us,' she thought to herself as she continued to watch the ongoing battle between the two aces 'It is understandable that he would hide this from us because he would want to fade into atomicity.' A sudden beeping caught her attention and saw a text message from Ryu telling her to get ready for an opening and for Chris and Liz to get ready to prevent Rau's escape.

With Ryu

Ryu was breathing heavily as the adrenaline coursed through his system dodging Rau's shots and returning his own as the deadly dance continued 'Defiantly out of shape,' he thought to himself in frustration 'I should have done more than basic workouts.'

Gritting his teeth he fought off the effects of a high G-force turn to dodge another shot from Rau '10% power left, I hope they are ready.' Narrowing his eyes Ryu took the risk and launched off a volley of missile from his shield along with a salvo of shots from his beam rifle draining the last of his energy he made sure he touched down safely hoping his plan worked.

With Chris

Seeing the missile volley Chris launched the Raven into action pushing the suit to the maximum thrust he started shooting at Rau with Liz keeping him on the defensive and hopefully clearing a shot for Kira as the two of them ganged up on Rau they could clearly see why Ryu had trouble with this guy 'Does this guy have eyes on the back of his fucking head!' Chris thought in wonder as he fired off a shot from his rail cannons from behind that Rau dodged "Liz! Come from below!" Chris shouted over the radio as he charged in firing his railguns and drew his beam saber only for Rau to introduce the Raven's head with the CGUE's foot.

Watching Chris saw Liz fly in desperately firing hoping to hit their elusive foe on to be disappointed as he weaved through the shots like a dancer and responded by grabbing the Raptor and throwing it into the Raven causing the pair to crash into the ground.

Rau

The masked commander smirked as he defeated the two mobile suits. 'Not as tough as they-'

Suddenly Rau's danger senses went off, and he backed away just in time missing a swipe from the Hero's Sword/Rifle. The Hero's head turned around, and if looks could kill, the Hero's face looked down-right murderous.

Begin Playing: 'Hero' By Skillet. Link: http : / www . youtube . com / watch?v=cV7vHjtzubw

With Jordan

"I don't care if you're the #1 ace in Zaft." Jordan stated firmly. "You will not hurt my friends." With that said, Jordan sliced with his Sword again, with Rau catching the swipe with his own blade. The CGUE then delivered a kick to the Hero's midsection, sending it back a little, but Jordan recovered quickly as he put away the Sword/Rifle, and drew out two beam sabers, and charged forward.

Rau swore, and backed away as the Hero accelerated forward. He fired his Rifle at the Suit, but the rounds pinged off harmlessly off the suit's armor. The Hero then flew in low trying to get behind Rau, but he saw this and flipped around and backed away again.

"You're rather good with that suit of yours." Jordan could hear the voice on the Radio. "But let's see how long you can last until you too run out of energy."

'Oh fuck!' Jordan thought, thinking about that for the first time. 'What are my energy levels…wait, hu?' when Jordan glanced at the Energy bar…it was still at 100%! He tapped it a few times, but it stayed that way. 'Ok, weird…' he thought. 'As curious as I am…I'd rather worry about this White guy here.' With that he then drew out his two Katana swords and prepared to engage the White Duelist yet again.

Aboard the Archangel

Ensign Natarle Badgiruel and the handful of crewmembers that currently made up the bridge crew of the Archangel rushed to get the ship 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 went 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," reported Chandra.

Unfortunately, there was no way for them to open the hanger doors, if they were even still operational. So they were gonna have to a make a door.

"Take us out, maximum speed," ordered Natarle. "When the ship reaches maximum speed, fire assault cannons!"

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

Heliopolis Interior

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

The Archangel has entered the fray.