So how are we all, I got another Chapter, that you may or may not like, so um here it is, no opening song, yet since there is only one person has asked for one in their review.
Do PM or review if you want an opening song for this, tell me the song and what you would like to see in it.
Chapter Two
"You've got such a gloomy personality, why don't you just give up and stop pretending to be human?" Duo Maxwell to Heero Yuy
"NOT A ZAFT SHIP HARP, NOT A ZAFT SHIP HARO!"
The pink Haro that was around her said this as the princess of the PLANTS began to look around.
"You're right Haro this is not ZAFT ship, this must mean that is an Earth Alliance ship?"
Anthony was unable to recall how this ended so he decided to move away and say "Well this is awkward, I'll be in my suit if you need me."
All of them looked to him, they did not say a word to him.
Mu in turn said "You must be Lacus Clyne of the PLANTS, sorry that we were the ones who got to you, but this is the Archangel of the Atlantic Federation."
Lacus in turn smiled at him "Oh I don't mind, you do not seem like bad people."
She tilted her head to the side and then looked at the only person who was leaving "Say I do not know that uniform, is that a new style or regiment of the Earth Alliance?"
All of them were able to tell that she was directing this question to the young man who at this moment was the odd one out since he was the only one wearing a different uniform.
To his credit he did turn around and say "I'm sorry by it is not a new style, it is a uniform but not of the Earth Alliance."
The pop star looked a little confused and said "Ah, you must be with the Junk Guild and those from Mars then no?"
Anthony shook his head at her and said "No not it at all, now if you don't mind I'll be leaving."
It was at this point Murrue said "Since you did bring her here, would you mind escorting her to a room that is free, I believe there is one that was free for pilots?"
It was a request and Anthony knew he could deny it if he wanted to but he also knew he should try not to piss of the crew of the Archangel.
It was at this point Anthony said "Sure."
He then climbed up to his suit and to all of them seemed to lock in got back down and said "Sorry where am I taking here?"
Mu at this point gave a little laugh and said "Kira go with him, he clearly doesn't know his way about the ship."
Murrue gave a nod to Kira meaning to him that may as well be an order she then looked to Mu who gave a shrug.
Natarle at this point got what the officers were planning to do and said "Alright all of you back to your posts."
She looked to Murrue who gave her a nod in thanks, she knew that she may have to command the bridge for a little while.
Mu and Murrue would follow Kira and Anthony and explain what was going to happen to Lacus.
They would have to explain that though she was a civilian, she was an enemy civilian and there were certain procedures that had to be followed.
In part Natarle was thankful that she did not have to do it, there was something about Anthony that scared her, he just knew too much about all of them.
To the point where she thought he almost knew what they were thinking and why they thought it.
Anthony looked to Kira who said "Shall we go."
It was at this point that the pink haro must have scanned the card that was in Anthony's pocket.
"ANTHONY HITORO HARO, AGITO CADET HARO, CLASS ZERO HARO, DESIGATED NUMBER 016 HARO, ROLE STRATEGY AND HAND TO HAND COMBAT, HARO!"
Anthony closed his eyes and sighed, he knew exactly what it was going to say next, "Why oh why, now I being gifted this card by the creators for being a celebrity fan."
Anthony wanted to face palm but he knew that was not an option now, in fact he had ever so slightly edge towards his mobile suit, close enough for him to make a break for it.
"CONSULTANT OF THE CONSOTRIUM OF EIGHT HARO, REPORTS TO ARECIA AL-RASHIA HEAD OF SORCERY DIVISON HARO, IS PART OF A RESEARCH TEAM OF THE ALTOCRYSTARIUM!"
At this point no one had noticed that Anthony was at his mobile suit and already climbing into the cockpit.
"Really regret taking that damn card with me!" But the damn pink ball of death was yet to finish it's.
"PREFERRED MISSIONS, SEARCH AND DESTORY AND RESCUE OPERTATIONS HARO."
"PUNISMENT MISSIONS HARO, LAST STAND AND SUICIDAL OBJECTIVES HARO!"
"NOT RECOMMEND THOUGH HARO, HAS COMPLETED 4 OF THEM HARO."
Anthony knew what it was going to say next, it was the missions that he excelled at, taken of the Expert trails from the game.
"TRACK RECORD 5 FAILURES OUT 127 MISSIONS HARO, WAS OFFERED TO BECOME L'CIE BY THE VERMILLION BIRD CRYSTAL HARO, REFUSED OFFER HARO!"
Anthony emerged from the mobile suit with what seemed to be a phone, all of the crew members of the Archangel were staring at him.
"You wouldn't believe if I said that is my record in a simulation now would you?"
At this point Mu said "Well you are 19, so unless your like 30 I can't believe that."
Now the pink Haro decided to dig Anthony's grave a little deeper
"ALL MEMBERS OF CLASS CURRENTLY DECEASED HARO, AGES OF THE DECEASED BETWEEN 15 TO 17 HARO."
Kira at this point asked "Wait all members are dead, how is Anthony still here?"
"MEMBERS NUMBER 014, 015 AND 016 REVIVED BY DR AL-RASHIA, HARO HARO."
The mechanic who was taking a break from fine tuning the MS Strike spat out his coffee "Wait hold on a minute!"
He now pointed to Anthony and yelled "Did that thing just say you came back from the dead!"
Anthony then said "I believe that is quite impossible, I was not dead, I was just paralysed."
Mu at this point had to ask "Wait so the head of sorcery was the one who fixed you right."
Anthony gave a nod and said "Yeah, just don't go there at all, I'm not really able to explain that."
Lacus must have caught on to what Anthony had said "Wait, if you couldn't move then you must have watched your friends die?"
Anthony sighed and answered "More like siblings and in way yes, they even left spot for me between King and Seven."
Murrue could see the weight of guilt upon Anthony, she did not want to push the subject but she heard Mirrallia say.
"Wait, just hold, did you have a guy named Jack, a girl named Queen and your leaders name was Ace?"
Anthony shot her a dead panned look and said "Yes that is it exactly, why don't you mock my dead friends some more will you?"
Murrue at this point then said "I would like a word with you about this after you have escorted Lacus."
Anthony at this point gave a sigh and said "Sure why not."
Kira at this point looked a little afraid of Anthony "Whoa, man that must have been harsh to lose all the people you considered family."
Anthony shrugged and said "Time heals all wounds, just every now and again it will leave scar.
As the two of them escorted Lacus away, Mu looked to Murrue and said "Now I know I am no expert on it, but he seemed rather embarrassed about that."
Murrue looked at Mu then back to where the door the three figures had gone through "I don't know if that is real or not, if it is I would like to ask him about what the Agito cadets are?"
Mu in turn said "I think I'd like to ask him about those suicide missions that he was sent on?"
All of the crew looked to Mu who just said "What?"
With Lacus, Kira and Anthony
Anthony and Kira had just brought Lacus to the room that was meant to be for Anthony, but since Anthony had decided to stay in his mobile suit, it was currently free.
"Sorry if it is not as good as you are used to."
Anthony gave a shrug and said "Tell your pink ball of death to shut it please, I don't like people reading what is in my back pocket."
Lacus and Kira despite the situation began to chuckle together at what Anthony had just said.
Anthony looked at them and sighed "Well what has been said has been said, I think I will leave you two alone now."
Anthony turned to leave and the pink Haro began to say "HE IS SILLY HARO!"
Anthony turned around and glared at the Haro "Mr Pink you're just in time for football, the only thing is, we don't have a ball, you don't mind do you!"
Mr Pink or rather Haro jumped into Lacus's hand and said "HE'S SCARY, HE'S SCARY HARO!"
It was now that Lacus said "Haro, don't be rude, I am sure that Mr Hitoro is a very nice person you just went and told everyone about him, that is why he isn't very happy."
Kira at this point narrowed his eyes and asked "When you told me you were not a soldier and that you've never killed anyone, was that true."
In reply Anthony said "I have not lied to you yet."
Anthony paused as he considered how he should explain what he did in Final Fantasy Type-0 to Kira.
"To be truthful, I am not a combat cadet, more of on field strategist who sees the battle unfold and directs his allies to control the flow of the battle."
Kira then said "So you have been on the battlefield, why did you do that if you had your suit the Agito Zero, surely you would have been more useful?"
Anthony at this made a blank face and said "All the operations given to Class Zero were on the ground and on foot, well not all but they all ended up in hand to hand combat."
Kira was taken aback by this, so was Lacus, this meant that out of 132 missions, he had been on foot fighting an enemy for all of them.
"I was never really a Agito Cadet Kira, it was more of an honorary role given to me, I did not lie when I said I was not a soldier or that I have never killed."
It was Lacus who spoke next when she said "You're eyes tell me that you haven't killed, you don't seem to be the type of person who would take a life easily."
Kira at this point apologised "Sorry it is just with what that Haro said, I thought you had lied to me."
Anthony shrugged "I don't blame you, I am no soldier, I can tell you that honestly for now at least."
Lacus entered the room and Kira locked the door "You know that won't hold her, not with that pink ball of doom in there."
Kira looked at Anthony and asked "A pink ball of doom, I don't get what you mean?"
Anthony shook his head and then said "It doesn't matter, none of it does at this point, just trust your feelings and if you're unsure come talk to me."
Kira looked at Anthony as he left and asked "Wait what do you mean, Anthony?"
Anthony turned around and had a smile on his face as he said "Only the chosen may enter that land.
The chosen will touch all of creation and obtain that which is truth."
Kira was able to tell that he was quoting something and was about to ask what it was, when Anthony continued to speak as he walked off.
"It is reason outside of reason, the reason of Agito. It is power, the authority of Agito."
Anthony stopped there as he vanished at the end of the corridor leaving Kira to ponder his words.
Kira did not know it but on the other side of the door Lacus had heard this as well and asked herself "Agito, what is that, it seems to be important?"
Archangel Officers Lounge
It had been about five minutes since Anthony had left Kira and Lacus and he was not in front of Mu and Murrue who clearly wanted to know what it was that the 'Haro' had been talking about.
Mu clearly was the good cop out of the good cop bad cop act they would pull on him.
"So that Haro was scanning your ID card that had data on your profile stored on it.
Little did they know that it was made by a video game company that was thrilled that a national Gunpla champion was a fan of their game.
"In a sense yes, in a sense no, believe what you want of it."
Mu now eyed Anthony and said "So you weren't lying when you said that you were not a soldier?"
Anthony nodded "I am not a soldier, that is why as that pink ball stated that I was a cadet, well at least honorary."
Mu looked at Murrue who had the next question "So you reported to Arecia Al-Rashia who was the head of sorcery?"
Anthony buzzed through his mind for a few answer to throw at them, the second one out of five seemed to be the best.
"Think of her as the head of military research and the brand name that of sorcery."
Mu looked to Murrue and gave a nod to her, it did seem like a reasonable why to explain such a name.
Mu then asked "It also refereed to her as Dr Al-Rashia, care to enlighten us to what that means?"
Anthony gave them a nod and said "She was called doctor because she was a good doctor in every part of that field, she was also the equivalent rank to the second highest commander of an entire nation."
Murrue pushed forth another question "Your record said you have completed 132 missions, 4 of them being suicide missions and last stands, yet Lieutenant La Flaga said you claimed that you haven't killed?"
Anthony in turned replied "I have yet to kill, my role on the ground was that of the strategist, in case all parameters went to hell, I was on field to provide a strategy as well as predict enemy movements."
Mu in turn could not help but look a little impressed, in his head Anthony thought "Well that is what I did in the game, I literally guide Class Zero through the entire story."
Mu looked at Anthony and then said "Damn kid that is impressive but I could not help that you said on the ground, I take it you did not your suit?"
Mu looked at Murrue who then asked "What type of missions were you sent on?"
Anthony looked at her and said "Until a certain even, all missions were top secret, then on who knew broke their oath and told all about it, as a result those who we had saved and protected called us monsters."
Both of them took the hind that it was not a topic that he would discuss at all. Mu sighed "Such is the case, it is more sad that all your friends died, my I ask why were kids involved in a war?"
Anthony sighed "For that I can only say that the Consortium of Eight chose to do so."
Murrue then asked "I have to ask this, but, is Akademeia a nation or an academy?"
Anthony replied in the most casual way he could "No it is not a nation, it is the capital of one and was named because it was built around the academy."
Anthony was literally pulling that one right out of his ass, he did not recall why it was really called Akademeia.
Mu then chose to ask a rather more personal question "Are you a scout sent here to check up on us, do you serve your nation still?"
Anthony said two things in reply to this "First, it was not my nation I was not born in it and no I do not serve what remains of it."
Murrue blinked, to her he had just said what remains of it.
Murrue looked a little concerned and asked "Wait, what remains of them, did your home get destroyed?"
Anthony shook his head "No it was not my home, second no it was not destroyed, but you heard the price of saving it from the pink Haro."
Mu looked to Murrue then back to Anthony, they got that Class Zero had died in order to stop the what it was that was destroying their nation.
"So, so you are out here on your own?"
Anthony gave a nod to Mu and said "Yes, yes I am, Dr Al-Rashia said that the last page was ours to write, she vanished soon after that last battle ended, I have not heard or seen her since."
Murrue and Mu both paused for a second as they took in what he had just said "How did the Earth Alliance miss this, I mean if you had a war, how did we not know?"
Anthony shrugged at this and replied "I have no answer for you there other than you weren't looking."
Mu now closed his eyes and said "That is a lot to take in and believe, but for some reason there is only one explanation for it."
Murrue looked to the Lieutenant and asked "Wait what, I don't see how there is an explanation for this?"
Mu gave her a grin and said "Yes there is one and only one, though it does not seem possible."
Murrue raised and eyebrow and asked "What may that be, I mean he clearly has a history that we do not know of."
Mu sighed and said "You limit yourself to much Ramius, he is clearly from another world or rather another earth, am I right?"
Anthony gave a shrug and said "In a sense you are correct, but not as a whole." Mu punched his fist in the air "I love it when I'm right!"
Murrue looked at him and then to Anthony she put her hand to her fore head "Why does that make so much sense."
Anthony ten asked "I would appreciate due to obvious reason this does not leave the room."
Mu and Murrue looked at one another then gave a nod and turned back to Anthony "you shall have our word on it."
Anthony gave them both a nod "I take it you two won't report this either when you fill in your reports."
Mu gave a nod "I'd rather not have the higher ups leaning on me to tell them why I said that their was an alien in my report."
Murrue looked rather shocked that Mu said this, but she had to admit that he was right.
They'd be thrown in the loony bin if they did claim that he was from another world.
It was at this point Anthony said "Not to be rude, but I am pretty sure I am human, like I have no augmentation, I can't use magic, so on so forth."
Mu's ears perked up and he asked "Wait, hold on, magic is real?"
Anthony shook his head and said "Not in the way you perceive it."
In his head Anthony said to himself "Heck it must because I am literally in anime, place I can seem myself in the ink, I am not amused!"
Mu looked a little confused and asked "Wait what do you mean by that."
In turn Anthony replied "It's mean that since I could not harness it, I do not know the basics of it, as a direct consequence I cannot explain it to you."
It wasn't entirely a lie, he could explain some of it, just he never bothered to read too much into magic.
"So there is such a thing as magic right?"
Athony sighed "In a sense yes in a sense no, thing of it as an energy source that those who are born there can tap into."
Mu at this point said "Well, we shouldn't dig any deeper, you clearly are leaving a lot of holes in it, but hey most people would think you're made, but due to the fact your identification got read out to us."
It was now that Anthony scratched his head and corrected Mu "It would be more of an evaluation rather than a ID card."
Murrue had already given up on this and said "I think we could that, though why are you slightly embarrassed?"
"It did not finish, for there was my daily habits as well, thank god no one heard it" Anthony replied with a heavy sigh shaking his head.
Mu then asked "Wait, why does it have all that on there?"
Anthony sighed "Well people don't notice most of their habits, if they did and they were not known for having exceptional attention to detail and a fantastic memory, they'd be escorted the brig."
Mu looked to Murrue and said "Well that is one way of making sure you don't have any infiltrations, it would need them to genetically alter themselves to pass off as one of you?"
Anthony gave a nod then said "Let me just say, if someone claimed to be a dead there was a very simple way to know you were a spy."
Murrue looked rather suspicious of that statement and asked "What do you mean by simple?"
She got no answer for a whole minute before Anthony said "They had a system in place that enabled those who lived to forget the dead and all memories associated with them."
Murrue and Mu both knew they had to stop here "Thank you for sharing for Mr Hitoro, I can't help but notice that you never refereed to they as we?"
Anthony closed his eyes and said "Let me just say, I had no such gift placed upon me."
Mu looked at Anthony and said "Man kid, that is harsh." In turn Anthony replied "Thanks old man I really need that."
Mu looked taken aback "Wait, since when was I an old man." Anthony smirked and said "Since you called me a kid, soldier."
Murrue looked at the two of them and gave a sigh "You seem to know how break any mood."
Anthony gave a nod "It's how I haven't put a gun in my mouth and fired up."
Mu blinked and took step back "Man, you said that far too casually!"
Lacus's room
It was around the time for the middle meal and Kira had been too busy to be assigned brining Lacus her food.
So the task feel to the only person who Kira could see was not in any shape or form racist to any Co-ordinators.
That would have been Tolle, except he was unable to do so because of Mirallia who insisted that he stay with her.
In the end Anthony had been asked to go give Lacus her food, Anthony did not like the idea because it got in the way of precious Kira Lacus time.
But since he could not say that out loud he had just said "Yeah, yeah I'll do it, of my own accord as a favour to you Kira."
Now he had to sit with the pink haired princess and her rather annoying Haro while she ate her meal.
Lacus thanks to Haro had escaped from her quarters to wonder the ship, having prior knowledge of where she would be, Anthony had retrieved her and returned her to her room.
Sitting in silent thought, Anthony closed his eyes and thought of the Gunpla tournament, a smile crossed his face as he recalled the events leading up to it.
Lacus who was eating noticed this and asked him "I did not mean to say, but did you know you look rather at peace or gentle when you smile like that?
Lacus was so sweet she could give any normal man or woman diabetes if they talked to her for to long.
Anthony was aware of this and replied to her "Sorry I don't know what I look like when my eyes are closed."
She gave him a nod to say that she agreed with what he said as she finished her food.
Anthony made to take her tray and leave but she stopped him and asked "Before, you said something to Kira, something called Agito, what is that."
At the moment Anthony saw no harm in telling her, but he also saw no benefit to it either.
So instead he decided to do what Crisis Core Genesis would do and quote a poem.
"Only the chosen may enter that land." "The chosen will touch all of creation and obtain that which is truth."
"It is reason outside of reason, the reason of Agito." "It is the power, the authority of Agito."
"The sage proclaims: In all things, there is meaning, in all things, mourning will end."
"Make your choice: Will you choose reason, or the power of the kings?"
"And unto him I reply: I will become Agito."
"I will sound the knell to shake all the world." "When nine and nine meet nine, the depths of reason shall stir."
"When the seal of creation is broken, a voice like thunder shall sound."
"And thou shalt know, we have arrived."
Anthony recited this to her for he knew that it would make little sense to her, he also knew it was like the second last verse of the tome rather that the first.
Lacus took in long minute to speak but when she did at last.
"That, that sounded so beautiful yet sad, they way you said that, it was as if you were standing in for someone?"
Anthony in turn took her tray and made to leave but before he left he said "Not some one but twelve, now if I may, I am leaving you to your own ends, but try to keep Haro in here."
As he stepped out the door he said "Not all of the crew are friendly towards you."
Lacus gave him a sad nod and said after the door had shut "It is sad that people are divided by such things."
She pictured in her mind the image of his uniform "What was the role of the Agito Cadet, outside of battle?"
Archangel Hanger
Anthony walked in on Kira staring at the MS Agito Zero, it was clear he was in awe of it and how a natural was able to move it.
Anthony recalled that he had promised Murrue that he would show her the inside of the suit in return for letting Lacus stay aboard.
"I know it is one heck of a suit, but if you stare at my suit it makes me rather uneasy.
Kira snapped up as he turned around and saw that Anthony was behind him.
"Sorry I did not hear you come, I just wanted to look at your suit, it seems so different?"
In reply Anthony said "I can accept that, just tell your mechanic to keep his hands away from it."
Kira gave a small laugh and said "Murdoch would not be too happy to hear that."
Anthony raised and eyebrow and said "When he builds a mobile suit, then he can huff and puff, until then he can sit tight."
The two of them shared a laugh but the conversation took a serious turn when Anthony asked "You are under the pressure aren't you?"
Kira narrowed his eyes and looked to the ground "I'm fine I have to just deal with it for now."
Anthony gave him a nod and then said "Hearing a friend refer to you as the enemy though not directly is harsh kid."
Kira looked at him a little shocked, he did not know that Anthony had been there when Flay had said this.
"Oh how do I know, I was there though I left just as silently as when I came in."
Anthony looked to Kira who ha screwed up his face and was looking at the flaw of the hanger, it was almost as if tears were about to flow forth from his eyes.
"Look, here people are emotional beings at times they say and do things they don't really mean."
Kira now looked up at Anthony and wiped the tears from his eyes and asked "So was that meant to make me feel better?"
Anthony shook his head "That is really none of my concern, though if words could make a man bleed her words would have you bleeding from the heart."
These words struck Kira so hard he did not even see Anthony walk past him.
Anthony now climbed into his mobile suit and said "Now I can't say that I have any experience with relationships of that kind, but I'd draw the line at being called a monster."
Anthony now sealed of his suit and said "If you want me I'll be in here, oh crap I forgot to eat."
Anthony then came out from the cockpit locked it and dropped down to the floor.
"I have no one else to blame."
As Anthony past Kira he said "The remaining radiance forges the wheel of creation and sets it whirling anew, is this wheel one of joy or one of despair, or perhaps?"
Kira had no idea what he was talking about, but he clearly was able to tell that quote that Anthony was making was not finished.
Due to this Kira called out to Anthony as he left the hanger "Wait why did you stop, there was clearly something else to that?"
At this point Anthony turned around and said "That is the last line, you can say it is up to us to decide what the end is."
With that Anthony had left the hanger to go get the meal he had forgotten to eat.
Kira could not help but ask "What is with that guy, he seems so, unreal, it is as if he is aloof?"
ZAFT forces
Athrun had been recalled to give an evaluation on the new mobile suit, he was now standing before the council ready with his speech.
"I am Athrun Zala, pilot of the G-weapon Aegis, my suit's defining feature that sets it's apart from the others is it's ability to transform into a mobile armour."
Athrun paused he saw his father give him a slight nod to say continue.
"During the operation to retrieve the new mobile suits of the alliance, several of our pilots were killed, due to this we were unable to retrieve the G-weapon Strike, but due to an encounter in space we came to see that there was another mobile suit."
He knew what he was about to say next was critical, even the Commander had told him so.
"The unknown mobile suit seems to differ from ours due to the fact that on the battlefield it never seems to run out of power."
He paused and council members began to murmur about what should be done and what could be done.
This was not the end though for Athrun had only touched the tip of the iceberg what lay beneath was far more disturbing.
"During my first engagement with him, he called me by name as well as Nicol Amalfi pilot of the G-weapon Bltiz."
But there was more, Athrun knew that their murmurs could wait, what he had to say next was very disturbing.
"When we engaged him in combat, the suit showed that it was far superior to our own, as well as he knew our tactics and patterns."
Athrun paused again this time looking at his father, he could see that his father was clearly disturbed by what he had just heard.
"He chose not to kill us and only disable our suits, after which he stated across all channels that Co-ordinators were just for show, this would leave evidence to believe that the pilot was a natural."
These words unnerved all in the room and the entire assembly began to make noise about what had just happened.
"That natural scum, how dare he do such a thing!"
"A natural piloting a mobile suit, since when did this happen?"
"The Earth Alliance has such a powerful suit, how long till they mass produce them?"
"Those bastards, to spare us to show that they are so much better than our own, they will pay for this."
Chairman Clyne tried to maintain order but this was too far gone, even for the liking of Athrun's father Patrick Zala.
Chairman Clyne now turned to Patrick Zala and asked "Is there any word on the Silverwind?"
Patrick Zala gave a grim nod "None of it good, it would appear that her life pod was captured by the legged ship."
Chairman Clyne's face seemed age greatly at these word Patrick Zala shook his head "We will get her back Chairman, those bastards taking a civilian as a hostage!"
Rau Le Cresuet on the other hand was not thinking about how to counter this new problem.
He was able to tell that the new suit was only helping the Archangel for some unknown reason.
"If the pilot is really a natural then he is years ahead of both ZAFT and the Earth Alliance."
He had to ask himself "How does he know our plans, our strategy as well as our habits."
He shook his head, he knew Athrun, Nicol and Yzak, at this moment Rau was not sure if his foe knew about Dearka.
"Who is leaking information, last I checked the only one who did so was me?"
Rau now approached Chairman Clyne "Sir, there is a logical conclusion to this."
Rau paused so that all could turn to see him and Chairman Clyne, he knew that they would all do so, puppets were predicable, especially when he was the one pulling the strings.
"Though it pains me to say this, we must have a leak."
Rau knew they they did currently he was the leak and not in the vegetable sense.
Chairman Clyne asked "What has drawn you to this conclusion?"
Rau gave a polite nod before he said "With respect, knowing about the mobile suit is one thing, knowing names and habits or the pilots and exploiting said habits is two every different things."
He saw Council member Joule sigh, she had a very good idea what had happened to her son, Yzak.
Now the only real problem he had was making sure he wasn't discovered as the leak.
If it did happen, he could kiss all of his plans to eradicate humanity good bye, all due to that wretched mobile suit.
What he really wanted to do though was bring the pilot of the mobile suit.
"Is that suit part of an omni potent being, if there is a God, I clearly have not been in his good books."
Within Agito Zero
Anthony sat within his mobile suit, not long ago it had been a Gunpla, how had things got so wrong or rather so god damn weird.
He was currently running a simulation of combat against Rau Le Cresuet, the mad omnicidal maniac was a pretty good pilot.
Not to mention that he was not in a Gundam of any sort and he was able to make Anthony put forth some actual effort.
"Dam he is rather good, not as good as any of the U.C super aces but still good."
Needless to say that Anthony was winning each skirmish, he also had the MS Strike in the simulations as well. It fought the way Seed Kira fought against the other four of it's own kind.
Kira clearly had problems when it came to fighting, but Anthony knew he had to gain some clarity around what he was doing here, if not he would die, that was the cruel truth about war.
Well at least to some extend, a soldier who refused to fight was worse than the one who did not know how to.
Turing off the simulation he was satisfied with the results, he knew that he could beat them all, he had both the technology as well as the information to do so.
Now it was all up to him, now there was a very big difference between the Gunpla tournament and the actual battlefield.
This caused Anthony to go run over and over the entire scenario in the simulation.
Thanks to the Zero-System he did know where and how they would strike at him and Kira, the only thing was Kira, may not always do as he is expected to.
It was at this point that Anthony heard Mu calling for him, from the hanger.
"Well I guess I have to go see what he wants from me."
Anthony got out of the cockpit, locked it and then went to Mu "So do you need me for anything or is there some sort of an emergency that I missed?"
Mu shook his head "No, it was just that we were going to discuss the next course of action I would like to invite you to join us for this."
Anthony gave him a nod and said "Very well then, I shall come with you, but is it really okay for a stranger outside of your chain of command to be present at such meetings?"
In reply Mu just gave a smile and said "You're right it's not okay, but since your record said you were a strategist, your advice is welcomed."
Anthony in turn gave Mu a nod and said "I can do that, but just to let you know I will give you advice, but I won't tell you to follow it."
Mu looked at Anthony and said "I don't know if you know you're being vague or you just do it as part of who you are?"
Anthony did not reply to Mu, no he just looked to Mu as if to say 'lead the way'.
Mu in turn gave him a nod and said "Follow me."
Archangel Officers lounge
Murrue and Natarle had been waiting for Mu to return, what they did not expect was that Anthony would agree to come along with him.
Murrue was able to get over the shock faster than Natarle and said "Well since we are all here, we might as well discuss our rendezvous with the advance force of the 8th Fleet."
Mu at this point took a seat facing the two women while Anthony took to standing up and looking at the map that they were viewing.
"If we are able to make it, we should be in contact with them in less that a whole days time."
Natarle said this as she viewed the last known coordinates of 8th Fleet, she did not know why, but she had bad feeling about the coming day, most of them knew it was no time to relax.
Murrue gave her a nod and said "That is correct, but we can't just go ahead and openly walk straight into their arms now can we, we are still a target."
All in the room had to nod in agreement with her, it was true they were still a target, a massive white and red target, Anthony found it rather ironic.
"If we are able to make the rendezvous, with the numbers of the 8th Fleet we should be able to descend to JOSH-A."
Natarle and Mu seemed inclined to agree, but were a little unsure about it, Anthony on the other hand did not care for morale and went out and said what was on his mind.
"ZAFT will not allow that to happen, numbers do not win a battle, you should know this by now."
All in the room turned to look at Anthony, they knew he was referring to both the Earth Alliance against ZAFT and the single MS Strike.
Anthony waited for them to continue, they noticed that he was stating what they all feared.
It was at this point Murrue decided to try to involve him a little more by asking.
"Why do you believe that or rather what makes you believe that the 8th Fleet will not hold out."
Anthony sighed "Not to be rude, but have your forces are losing your war, since you are fighting and uphill battle, focus on what will go wrong and how to counter it."
Natarle now spoke up, though it was just a common question "Are you saying that no matter what happens, we are not going to land at JOSH-A?"
Anthony shook his head "No that is not what I said, though all the simulations that I have run out of about say two hundred, half you make it to JOSH-A if you try to reach there during the battle."
Anthony then said "Though I did not involve myself in any of those, but be it known, if I do, I have no intention of going to JOSH-A."
Mu blinked and said "Wait, you're not coming with us?"
In reply he got are you fucking kidding me face from Anthony.
"Is that attempt at wit, La Flaga, I'd not allow any data of mine to be in the hands of Blue Cosmos or any other genocidal maniacs."
Mu looked at him and blinked and then said "Wait a second, are you saying that Blue Cosmos is in control of the Earth Alliance."
The reply he was given was calm, yet rather vague "I never said that, I just said that I didn't want them to get their hands on my suit." Anthony at this point noticed that Natarle was about to go silently for her side arm.
Anthony was about to speak when Murrue grabbed Natarle's arm "We should not antagonise him, he just stated that he will not accompany us when we reach our destination."
It was at this point Anthony said "Speaking from experience, the higher ups love to blame someone and make them into a sacrificial lamb, your actions so far, do you believe that you will be spared such a fate?"
Mu's eyes widened at the mere implications that Anthony was implying.
Natarle and Murrue as well, just how was this child able to tell the thinking of the command.
"Don't look so worried, I am merely speculating, though if they do come to pass, don't hold it against me."
Natarle knew that what he was saying needed to go down in her report, she also had a sick feeling that he was right about what the higher ups would do.
Mu now looked to Anthony and asked "Do you know when ZAFT will attack us?"
Anthony in reply just sighed and said "There are two ways that they will do this, the second will only occur if they fail on the first one."
Murrue looked at Natarle who looked back at her, Mu in turn asked "Um could you tell us about them?"
Anthony in turn said "Yes, the first one will be when you're about to link up with the 8th Fleets advance force, the ships that they send will signal to ZAFT that you are here."
Anthony paused for a moment, he wanted them to ask him about what would happen there.
Natarle, who was a little bit on edge asked "Okay can you predict the results for us?"
Anthony gave her a nod and said "You will survive as in the Archangel and her crew the skirmish, but the other ships will not."
Anthony did add at the end of that "I was not involved in those ones, so breath easy."
It was at this point that Natarle tried to challenge Anthony by asking "What could one suit do in the course of a battle."
In reply Anthony shrugged and said "Well I don't know, did you ask the folks at Artemis." It was clear that he was mocking Natarle, in the worst possible way.
Natarle clearly had no come back for this, luckily for her, mu got this back on track.
"Okay besides that, what is it that you can tell us about the attack."
Anthony in turn folded his arms and shook his head "There are too many ways that battle could go to predict the exact result."
Mu blinked and asked "Wait, just hold up for a minute there, too many, how many did you see?"
Anthony sighed "I have seen at least 12 different results with variations in between them."
Mu gulped for a second there "12 that is a lot you have got there and with variations, what do you mean by that?"
Anthony sighed again and said "It is hard to explain, but there are 12 separate results of the coming battle."
Anthony looked to the and waited for them to nod to show him that they were able to grasp this much.
"There are some that share variables with other endings so they are those that are in between the 12."
They were all able to get this and now realised why Anthony had said that there were too many ways the battle could go.
"I have never killed before, but if I have to I guess I have to."
They all saw him shudder a little at this, though he did his best to disguise it.
"At any rate, the best advice is as soon as you are contacted by the advance force to prepare for battle, I'll see what I can do in battle"
At this point Anthony left the room saying "You don't have to do this if you don't want to, it's your choice."
Murrue knew that she may not have liked to but she had to heed the warnings of that young man.
After he left them she thought to herself "He seems so distant, what type of war did he fight in that made him so aloof from us, when it comes down to it he just tells us to choose what we want to?"
Mu who was next to her now tapped her on the shoulder and asked "So, do we do what he suggested we do or not?"
His reply came from Natarle who said "Though I'd rather not say this, it is better to be safe than sorry."
They all knew that Murrue was a little surprised that Natarle was going along with this.
"I agree, it is better to be safe that sorry, send out the order to the crew as soon as we are contacted, prepare for combat!"
Archangel
Anthony was making his way back to the hanger to rest up before the battle, trying to keep his cool and not tell them that if they don't listen to him they could die was exhausting.
It was right now that a pink ball came rushing at him.
A few years of martial arts kicked in and skilfully stepping to the side Anthony caught said pink ball and looked at it.
"Well shit" were the words that he uttered as he looked at the pink Haro in his hands.
He now looked up to see that said owner of Haro was talking with a Kira "I think I'll take this and allow them a little more alone time."
Jumping to the other end of the corridor as silently as he could Anthony moved into the next hall way.
The pink Haro now noticed that he was indeed not Lacus and said "MONSTER, MONSTER HARO!"
Anthony then said "Say that again and I'll use you as my ball that I will kick, got it!"
His reply was "GOT IT, GOT IT HARO!"
Anthony now walked casually to Lacus's room, where he knew she was not and placed the pink Haro there and said "Stay here or else I will turn you into a toaster."
"GOT IT, GOT IT HARO!"
With these words he made his way slowly back to where Kira and Lacus were, he took his time in getting there.
Making sure they had enough time to talk about who they were, that which Kira missed due to the fact that Anthony had been forced to give her the food rather than Kira.
It was about five minutes later that he decided to come in on them.
But he hesitated as he approached, the topic the two of them were discussing was not war or anything that was in SEED, it was in fact him!
"You must be a really kind person Miss Clyne to see that in him, I don't think that I could tell that about him."
Lacus giggled a little and said "Lacus is fine Mr Kira, you don't see that aspect of kindness to him, I can no matter how hard he tries to hide it."
Kira seemed to be taken aback and asked "Are you saying that his behaviour is all an act?"
Lacus in turn gave a smile and said "That is what I see, he is acting, trying to make sure that you think he is aloof and above it all, when really he is making sure you all are alright."
Kira looked Lacus in the eyes and then said "I think I can see what you mean, he is there if I am feeling down, some how he knows it when others do not."
Lacus in turn gave Kira a nod and said "I do believe that is one of the many reasons to believe that he is not as stoic or aloof as he seems."
Anthony decided against going to them now, it would be rather awkward if he did and he did not like such a feeling.
As he made his way back to the hanger he heard Lacus say "You know Mr Kira, you are a kind person in your own way, to protect all these people, you are a very good person."
Anthony in turn gave a short smile at that as he walked off things between the two of them were back on track.
"I guess I can use some sleep for now, I will need to be rested before I go into battle again." entering the hanger he looked at the MS Agito Zero.
"How many of your secrets will I have to reveal to obtain total victory, is it possible to avoid it, but enough I need some rest, tomorrow is another day."
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