Phase 02: Its Name is Gundam
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In the cockpit of the saved mobile suit
"Move back behind the seat," Lt. Ramius orders. "At least we can save this one. Even I should be able to operate this," she says while pressing some buttons. Several screens come to life and 3 large screens for external view are revealed.
Kira recalls the new revelation and thinks about their encounter, 'Athrun? No, it can't be, that's not possible.'
A blue screen near the legs is shown saying "Welcome to M•O•S" and a flower that has OMNI on it appears. Then a yellow screen shows:
General
Unilateral
Neuro-Link
Dispersive
Automotive
Maneuver
Confused, Kira inquires, "GUNDAM?" Kira will later refer to the machines as Gundams.
Outside
The machine comes to life and moves itself from the frame. Explosions occur throughout the factory.
(Invoke by T.M. Revolution)
"A level 8 evacuation order has been issued for all of Heliopolis. Residents are to make their way to the nearest shelter at once."
Kira's friends are running but an explosion happens and two machines fly out.
"Athrun," greets Miguel from his GINN (a green ZAFT mass-produced mobile that has a Mohawk-like appendage on its head, a single eye for scanning, a gun-not beam-, and a heavy sword) unit after Athrun's mobile suit touches ground.
"Rusty failed," Athrun bluntly but sadly reports.
"What?" Miguel asks in shock.
"The other machine has been boarded by an Earth Forces officer," Athrun continues.
Lt. Ramius's machine finally lands but stumbles. Kira notices a box on the left view screen pop up. "What? Sai, Tolle, Kuzzy?" (Sai is the guy in the red blazer, Tolle is the blue dressed guy from Phase 01 and Kuzzy the sweater dude)
The GINN takes out its gun and fires it at the saved unit's feet. Miguel puts the gun away and draws the GINN's sword. "Okay, I'll capture this machine. You go ahead and make sure you get yours out of here." The GINN charges towards the lieutenant's unit.
Athrun has a moment to himself where he thinks, 'Kira, no it can't be, there's no way he could've been there.' He brings down the keyboard from the side and begins rapidly typing and rebuilding the machine's operating system (OS).
The GINN approaches the other suit as it's walking perpendicular to the GINN's path. The GINN slashes at the unknown unit but the unknown unit uses its thrusters to dodge. Inside the cockpit, Kira falls across the lieutenant's lap. She replies with, "Get out of the way! You want to die!"
"I'm sorry," he says before he notices the oncoming GINN and yells "Aaaah!"
The GINN leaps and prepares an overhead slash. Lt. Ramius presses a button that causes the mobile suit to gain colour: white overall armour and a blue and red chest area. The mobile suit blocks the GINN's sword with its arms, which causes a lot of resultant sparks.
"What?" Miguel asks, struggling to keep the offensive.
Inside Lt. Ramius's unit Kira is amazed. "This mobile suit, it's-" Kira starts but the lieutenant grunts in discomfort.
The GINN backs off and Miguel is confused. "Damnit! What's going on here? What's with that armour?"
Athrun appears on Miguel's communications screen and says, "They're all equipped with a system known as Phase Shift Armour." Miguel's GINN lands. "Once activated, it renders the GINN's sword useless," Athrun continues and a then activates his suit's Phase Shift which turns his suit a pink-dark red colour. Athrun destroys two incoming missiles with the machine's Igelstellung guns as well as the missile's launcher which is a vehicle.
"You gotta get outta here now. You can't stick around this place forever," Miguel says. Athrun sees a young Kira which fades before he leaves.
The GINN bursts forward which Lt. Ramius replies with its own Igelstellung guns but miss. Kira notices and thinks, 'The calibration's off.'
"Huh. Doesn't matter how good your armour is-" The GINN slashes downwards, takes to the air and makes a horizontal slice which it hits. "-If you can barely move!" continues Miguel and he makes another downwards slash which knocks the machine into a school. Kira wees his friends running on screen. "Trying to pilot that mobile suit! You're way in over your head, natural."
The GINN prepares to stab its sword through Lt. Ramius's suit's cockpit. On the ground, Kira's friends are shocked. The GINN lunges forward with its stab. Kira presses a button that causes the machine to kneel, thereby parrying the fatal strike. Kira moves back a control, the suit moves forward and tackles the GINN, causing the GINN to fall backwards.
Lt. Ramius, astonished, asks, "How did you-?"
Kira presses two buttons that initiate the viewing of the OS. "There are still people all around here. If you're gonna drive something like this, you gotta make better use of it."
The GINN stands up and readies its weapon, to charge again.
"This is ridiculous. How can they expect to run a complex machine with this kind of OS?" Kira asks incredulously.
"It hasn't yet reached the completion stage, it can't be helped," she retorts.
Miguel's suit is up after a few moments. Miguel, infuriated, says, "You bastard."
Back in the lieutenant's suit, Kira asks for her to move aside. Kira brings down a keyboard from the side and begins to rapidly type like the ZAFT soldiers.
Lt. Ramius, seeing this, thinks, "This kid…"
Miguel's suit fires its thrusters in order to make a frontal assault.
With a stern look, Kira turns to see the oncoming suit. Then he fires the Igelstellungs at the oncoming GINN and successfully hits. This leads to Miguel's suit losing the momentum and is forced to stop which Miguel voices as "What?" However, after stumbling a step or two, the GINN uses its thrusters once again to gain momentum and has its sword behind it for a horizontal slash. Kira on the other hand prepares to punch the daylights out of Miguel's suit which hits the head of the enemy suit before Miguel gets his slash in. Miguel is thrown back quite a ways (a/n: if you think about it through physics, the force of both sides would cause the GINN a lot of damage) and voices it, "Aaaah!" before landing into a structure.
Kira, still altering the OS of the suit, says aloud, "Take the calibrations and reset the zero-moment point at CPG." Then, still in the same state he thinks, 'Connect the control module to the quasi-cortex molecular ion pump. Rebuild neuro-linkage network. Update metamotor cortex parameters. Start feet-forward control. Transfer functions. Correct for Corrielis deviations. Online.'
Miguel finally decides to get up after his knockdown and asks "What's with this guy? Now he's moving better!" Miguel puts the sword away for the GINN's gun and fires numerous shots which hit the suit Kira's currently piloting.
Kira presses down a pad which activates the thrusters and takes to the air. Miguel, persistent, planned on getting the enemy's suit so he fires a round or two at the airborne suit. Because he can't get a bead on his target, he as well takes to the air to combat this improved suit, however still firing with his gun.
Kira looks through the OS registry to check any possible weapons to use against the enemy. "Weapons?" he asks only to find that the only weapons available are the Igelstellungs Vulcan Guns and a pair of Armor-Schneider Combat Knives. He then incredulously asks, "Armor Schneider? That's all there is!" Seeing that the only option for close combat disabling is the two knives, Kira opens the compartment for the knives to remove the weapons for use.
The GINN lands first and fires another round at the approximate location of enemy's landing. Kira, not really wanting to be shot down, lands but breaks into a run with the knives in the suit's hands. All the shots Miguel fired explode onto the pavement behind the Earth Forces suit.
"Damn piece of Earth trash!"
"No! Don't do it here!" Then Kira cuts a sharp turn and uses the thrusters to get up and personal with Miguel. "Stop it!" Kira exclaims before plunging a knife into the 'shoulder' of the enemy suit, followed by the second one on the opposite 'shoulder'. This generates a lot of sparks. The GINN's arms falls to its side. Then a shadow behind the GINN appears and grabs the GINN's heavy sword when the GINN ceased functioning.
Miguel inside the suit is in the dark. "Hydro not responding. Multi-drive system offline." Now resorting to drastic measures, Miguel pulls a lever that causes a countdown on the screen, giving him 60 seconds to get the hell out of there. The GINN's chest cockpit door is blasted open and Miguel is seen climbing out of the cockpit but using his thrusters on his pack to get away.
Lt. Ramis, seeing the ZAFT pilot get away, warns Kira to step away from the GINN. However, her warning came too late. The GINN explodes, causing collateral damage to Kira's suit and the surrounding area.
Somewhere in Heliopolis
There is debris and dead personnel. The female ensign who was assigned to get Lt. Ramius is unconscious but is knocked conscious by a floating body knocking her into the ceiling in the zero-gravity area.
"The ship! Where is the Archangel?" She uses the cadaver that jostled her awake as a boost to move.
Space
The Earth Alliance ship that Lt. La Flaga came to Heliopolis with is penetrated by a mobile suit. "We've lost control!" a crewmember informs the captain. In front of them is the Heliopolis colony. Due to having no control, they ram into the Heliopolis colony screaming "Aaaah!" The ship crumples and is destroyed due to the continuous forward motion.
"Uh! Can't we do something about this difference in battle strength?" Lt. La Flaga asks before jettisoning the four gun-barrels on his Mobius Zero unit to cause beam-based damage to the enemy.
In the enemy commander's ship, a crewmember reports, "Olar's damaged. Emergency landing. Fire crew to B-Deck!"
"In a simple battle such as this, Olar's taken damage?" asks Captain Ades.
"From the looks of it, we have an unforeseen problem; a rather annoying fly buzzing around," Commander Le Creuset says.
"Laser beacon detected from Miguel Aiman. It's an emergency."
"If that weapon's effective enough to take out Miguel's mobile suit, it's all the more reason we simply can't neglect the last one," the commander says before leaving.
With the female ensign
"Is anybody here? Anyone?" she asks before the captain's hat, now tattered, floats by. She grabs it and starts choking up. "No, damnit. Are there any survivors out there?"
Suddenly there is a repeated banging sound. She turns towards the source and a male, the other ensign assigned to getting the lieutenant, bursts through with a flashlight. "Ensign Badgiruel, glad to see you're ok," he says.
Space
Retreat flares are fired. The lieutenant notices and wonders, "They're retreating? But there's still something…What's this?" La Flaga turns his unit the opposite direction and goes that way.
Another suit appears on the scene, a white suit; it's a ZGMF-515 CGUE, and it closes on La Flaga's Moebius Zero.
"Tell me, do you feel my presence, do you sense it in the same way I sense yours? An unfortunate fate, wouldn't you say, Mu La Flaga?" Le Creuset asks rhetorically before speeding towards La Flaga's location.
Back in Heliopolis: with Kira
The mobile suit is knelt down and is damaged by the looks of it.
"Nice."
Lt. Ramius is lying on a park bench with her right shoulder gauzed and wrapped. She suddenly stirs and awakens. She sees Miriallia.
"Well I see you're finally awake," she says to the recently awakened. Then she calls to Kira, "Hey Kira!"
The lieutenant grunts in pain after an attempt to sit. Kira comes over and informs her, "You're better off just lying still for now…I do owe you an apology; I guess I got kinda carried away in there."
Miriallia comes back and asks the patient, "You thirsty? Care for some water?"
Lt. Ramius notices and says, "Thank you." Kira helps her to sit up in order to drink.
"This so-called Gundam is awesome!" Tolle says.
"So does this thing move or not?" Kuzzy asks.
"Guys, stop playing around with it," Sai, being the voice of reason, advises.
"So why do you think it turned grey?" Kuzzy asks, curious.
"I guess it means the main battery is out of juice," Tolle suggests bluntly.
"Keep away from that machine!" the lieutenant shouts before firing a round at the machine where Kuzzy and Tolle are. She gets off of the bench and advances on the guys at the mobile suit weapon-first.
"Hey, what do you think doing?" Kira asks Lt. Ramius while catching up to her. When he does, he urges her, "Please, stop all this…There's something you should know. They're the ones who carried you out while you were still unconscious."
Suddenly Lt. Ramius turns her gun on Kira. She states, "I am grateful that you saved me but you kids have been exposed to a top military secret. It's not something that civilians should be handling carelessly."
Tolle, being a smartass comments, "Give me a break. You had Kira driving it a moment ago." This remark to which she points her gun towards Tolle.
"All of you over here," she says, gesturing with her weapon. They do as asked. They all get grouped together. "Your names, one at a time," she orders.
"My name is Sai Argyle," the guy who formerly had a blazer on says. (He now is wearing the black shirt underneath the blazer)
"I'm Kuzzy Buskirk," the guy in the green and blue sweater indicates.
"My name is Tolle Koenig."
"I'm Miriallia Haw."
After a pause and a gesture with her gun, Kira plainly responds, "Kira Yamato."
"And my name is Murrue Ramius, an Earth Alliance Forces officer. It is my unfortunate duty to inform you people that I cannot permit any of you to leave." This earns a lot of "What?" from Kira and co. "Despite the circumstances, the fact is you witnessed a highly classified military project. Until I am able to notify the appropriate authorities who will then determine how the situation is to be handled, you have no choice but to remain with me at all times."
"You're kidding," Kuzzy says incredulously.
"Are your out of your mind! That's the biggest joke of all!" Tolle exclaims, thinking that all of this is a huge joke.
"You'll do as I say," snaps Murrue.
"In case you haven't noticed, we're citizens of Heliopolis, so we're neutral. We have nothing to do with the military or anything associated with it," Sai says, intent on weaselling out of the situation.
"He's right," Kuzzy says, thinking alike.
"What are the Earth Forces doing in Heliopolis in the first place? Even that doesn't make any sense," Tolle inquires.
"You said it. I mean isn't that how all this started?" Kuzzy put his two cents in.
Suddenly two gunshots ring out and Murrue is holding the weapon, albeit to the artificial sky. She then lowers the gun towards Kira and co. "Quiet down. You kids don't understand anything, do you? You keep insisting that you're neutral and aren't involved but can you really distance yourself from what's happening? You don't seriously believe that's possible, do you? The Earth Forces' most vital secret was here and you people have seen it. That's the reality; you'll just have to deal with it."
"…A little harsh, wouldn't you say?" Sai says after a pause.
"It may be harsh but we're in a middle of a war here, between PLANTs and Earth, between coordinators and naturals, outside of the world you live in," Murrue says, getting quieter near the end.
Space
The enemy captain's CGUE is hiding from the Moebius Zero behind a lattice structure when it passes by. Suddenly the CGUE turns and is in view of the Zero and fires on the Zero.
"Bastard! Is that you Rau Le Creuset?" Lt. La Flaga asks while evading most of the rounds.
He then flies into range and releases the gunbarrels on his units to open fire on the CGUE. They miss of course. One flies directly in front of Rau's unit.
"You always seem to get in my way, Mu La Flaga, though I imagine you'd probably say the same thing about me!" The CGUE turns and heads into the spaceport entrance.
"Ngh, he's gone into Heliopolis," Mu says to himself and follows suit, intent on stopping Rau.
Somewhere in Heliopolis
A large four-legged ship is seen in the dark with debris surrounding it.
"The only survivors are the few of us who were aboard the ship at the time of the explosion. But most of them are factory workers," the male ensign sent to get Lt. Ramius informs Ensign Badgiruel.
"Current status? What of the ZAFT vessels?" inquires Ensign Badgiruel.
"I have no idea. We've been busy enough as it is, verifying what's happened around here," the male ensign responds.
Ensign Badgiruel hops into the front of the bridge and presses a button that turned on the lights in the bridge and activated the initial programs of the vessel. "This 'Archangel' is quite the ship. It would take a whole lot more than this to sink it," Ensign Badgiruel says to herself.
"However out there is a mountain of debris; it's blocking off the harbour exit. We're completely trapped in here," the male ensign informs.
She presses a few buttons on a small pad to activate the ship's radio which displays that there is little to no signal. "Hmm? So the airways are still being jammed and yet they-? Then this has only been a diversion? That must means that ZAFT's true target is Morgenroete!" she ponders and says, startling the ensign she's talking to. "Makes sense. What's happening there? Where are the G-Weapons? This doesn't tell me anything at all," she says, clearly frustrated with the situation.
"X105 Strike here, Earth Forces please respond," comes from the radio, startling the two ensigns.
Somewhere in Heliopolis
"X105 Strike here, Earth Forces please respond," comes from the radio of a mobile suit's cockpit.
"I guess, it's time to reveal myself," a shadowed figure says.
With Kira
"X105 Strike here, Earth Forces please respond! Come in Earth Forces, please respond!" Kira shouts into the radio, but all he gets is some static.
Outside the X105 Strike (which will now be referred to as the Strike), a trailer is brought into the clearing. Sai climbs out and approaches Miriallia, Murrue, and Kira who got out of the Strike.
"The number 5 trailer," Sai says before turning to the trailer, "that's the one you asked for, right?"
"Yes, that's right. Thanks for the help," Murrue says.
"So, what's next? What are we supposed to do for you now?" Sai asks, clearly irritated by his tone of voice.
"Can you please get the Striker pack? Once that's done, Kira, try contacting them one more time, okay?"
"Sure," Kira replies.
Later
A gust of wind buffets the five teens "Aaaah!" but barely fazes Murrue who shields her face. A grey machine is landed opposite the Strike. Suddenly the lieutenant notices the emblem on the suit's shoulder; it is a sword overlapping a scythe on a red shuriken base, the emblem of the Shinigami of the Earth Forces. Then she notices the armaments adorned externally on the suit; a large scythe in one hand, a sword that looks oddly familiar, a large beam katana on the unit's back, 2 beam sabre handles, a small shield that bears the same symbol as before on the left shoulder, and if she really tried, she could make out a pair of railguns on the shoulders.
The teens recover by this time. As well, Murrue finishes her initial observation of the unit. The cockpit opens not long after. Out steps a blond figure that wears an orange long-sleeved shirt that has its sleeved folded back, black pants, and an EA uniform that is of unidentifiable rank at the moment (because it is over the figure's left shoulder). The figure implements the usage of the line for boarding and disembarking a unit. The entire time Murrue has her gun trained on the figure.
The figure is on the ground and walks towards the others there.
Murrue, being impatient, demands, "Who are you? State why you were piloting that machine."
The teens recognize the figure and in unison ask incredulously, "Naruto!"
The figure does not respond which prompts Murrue to fire her gun on the advancing figure. However, the figure disappears but reappears in front of her and in her guard, He socks her in the stomach, however, not enough to render her unconscious, just temporarily paralyze her for the meantime. At his current proximity, they could notice a sword slung over Naruto's back, its hilt and the sheath's end visible.
"Can't believe you guys had me come out. To formally introduce myself, I am Naruto Uzumaki, an important member of the Earth Forces; I am a part of the 8th Fleet and assigned to the 5th Special Division. I am here to respond to your distress call."
"No way," Tolle voiced out everyone's (including Murrue's because she hasn't seen him before) thoughts about the matter. "We're friends with an Earth Forces officer and another threatened us? This is confusing."
"Not really. I'm a laidback person. Plus the paperwork is killer which is why I usually hang with you guys, no paperwork to deal with," Naruto says as a joke. "The lieutenant there is telling the truth but she is hard on you guys is because she's the captain's pet and I'm not referring to me either," he adds on as another joke. Murrue on the other hand is flustered at the accusation (he refers to the captain status).
Murrue, indignant, decides to shout at him rather than use the gun (due to shoulder and stomach pain possibly causing poor aim), "Get back here so I can hit you!"
A while later all Murrue's anger is expended. Naruto, who seems more formal, informs her, "All jokes aside, I am assigned to the 5th Special Division to keep an eye on you, Lt. Ramius, and to ensure the safety of the ship. Orders are from Admiral Halberton. And by the way, you can't get rid of me very easily. Think of me in a sense as a bodyguard, a combat specialist bodyguard." He turns to the teens on the side, shocked. He says to them, "Despite whatever your mind is contemplating on this revelation, I am still your friend. Like I said earlier, I do not like paperwork, which prompted me to find people to hang with."
Back with the warring veterans
Rau fires several rounds at the moving Mu.
"Why in this place?" Mu asks rhetorically before firing four shots from his beam rifle. They all miss their target. Rau retaliates by shooting several rounds at Mu who dodges them. Mu is trying to get a lock-on on Rau when Rau goes behind a structure.
"Mu, I'd actually be pleased if you vanished right about NOW!" Rau says to himself before appearing at the other side of the structure and opening fire on the Zero. These shots penetrated numerous of the four gunbarrels the Zero possessed, causing Mu to abandon the barrels lest he get blown up in the aftermath of the barrels' destruction. Rau Le Creuset pursues the Zero.
Archangel
Ensign Badgiruel is seen in the captain's seat.
"Launch the ship? But that's impossible with the number of people we have."
"The time you're using to argue could be better spent on making it possible," Badgiruel coldly says to her male counterpart. "Morgenroete could still be under attack right now for all we know!" The door to the bridge opens and a handful of people are there. They hopped to the general area of Ensign Badgiruel, behind two chairs and consoles perpendicular to the back of the captain's chair. "Are you saying we should remain cooped up in here and ignore what's happening elsewhere?"
"I rounded them up for you," an entrant informs Badgiruel.
"To your stations, people!" she orders, intent on getting the hell out of there. "Just carry out the computer's instructions."
"Right."
"Ma'am."
"Those ZAFT vessels are still out there somewhere. We're in no position to engage them," the male ensign argues (he argues a lot, doesn't he?), standing behind a control chair.
"I'm aware of that. As the ship comes on-line, be ready to fire assault canons. You can do that, chief, can't you?"
The newly appointed chief spins the chair around and sits himself down and turns around.
"Alright, commence launch sequence. Due to the urgent nature, we'll omit C-30 to L-21 from the process. Main power on-line," she orders. A screen displaying the 'Main States of Archangel' with 6 Main Engine Power gauges, 6 Sub Engine Power gauges, 3 Fuel Tank gauges, a Speed Meter gauge, a Count Down to Start number screen, and a Selector screen.
"Output increase stable, 450 seconds to required rating."
"That's too long," Ensign Badgiruel says, agitated (impatient little bitch, isn't she?) "What's the status of conduits to Heliopolis?"
"They're undamaged," the person who sits beside the male ensign says.
"Set us up to draw power through them. Get the conduits on-line. Relay power to accumulator," Badgiruel orders
"Connection confirmed, flow stable, 20 seconds to required rating," the one beside the male ensign informs.
"Life support systems normal."
"CIC on-line."
"Weapons system on-line. FCS, contact. Magnetic field chamber and pellet dispenser…functioning and stable."
"Maintaining external impact damper at maximum output."
"Linking main power, engine stable."
"All Archangel systems on-line. Preparations for launch…complete," the chief says.
"Seal all airtight bulkheads. All hands, be prepared for sudden impact as possible damage to the ship. Advance with caution. Launch Archangel!"
The ship slowly advances. Then the ship's frontal 'legs' open to reveal a positron cannon in each 'leg' that extends out.
With the warring two
Several shots from Mu are fired at the approaching CGUE but all miss. Then the CGUE stomps on a gunbarrel to cease its firing. Now without any gunbarrels, the Zero only has the beam rifle mounted on its underside. The two continue to have a dogfight (a duel between 2 airborne vehicles).
Back on the Ground
The Strike walks to and kneels down at the trailer. The trailer opens up to show an assault pack; a power and projectile portion and a hyper impulse beam cannon longer than the height of the Strike.
Kira kneels at the Strike's cockpit opening yelling to Murrue, "The power pack, which one is that?"
"The weapons and power pack are integrated! Mount the whole unit!"
Later
"The evacuation orders are still in effect I guess," Miriallia says.
"I wonder if my father and the others have made it to the shelters," Sai says.
"Uh, I want to hurry up with this and go home," Kuzzy says, his hands behind his head and leaning against the trailer.
Suddenly there is an explosion. The CGUE makes it out of the smoke and debris first but the Zero is hot on Rau's tail. Noticing this, Naruto disappears, off to cloak his unit, seeing as ZAFT should not know of his presence on the research satellite.
In the CGUE cockpit, Rau spots the Strike, and says, "Hmm, so…that must be it."
Mu also takes notice of the Strike and says, "The final unit."
The CGUE, intent on destroying the unit because of the inability to capture it, speedily makes its way to the unit. However, the Zero intercepts the Rau's intended path, causing it to alter its plans. Miriallia screams due to the high velocity wind.
Murrue runs while clutching her right shoulder and exclaims, "Mount the equipment before it's too late!"
Now inside the colony, the Zero and CGUE restart their dogfight. The CGUE, now behind the Zero, brandishes its heavy sword and rushes in to end Mu La Flaga. However, Mu sensed the presence of the enemy unit, and pitches the Zero to possible shoot it as the CGUE passes overhead. This does not work in Mu's favour as the CGUE simply cut the Zero's beam rifle in two (it never seems to be good for La Flaga; first the ship he came on, then a person he knows, his gunbarrels, and finally his beam weapon) and continues its course towards the Strike.
"I'll take you down now while I have the chance!" exclaims Rau, rapidly approaching the idle Strike, not noticing Naruto perched on a nearby tree with a rocket launcher.
Kira lets out a battle cry, mounts the pack, activates Phase Shift, and stands the Strike up.
Archangel
"As we hit maximum combat speed, fire assault cannons."
The assault cannons are charged up and are ready to fire…they fire, destroying the exit doors. Outside the harbour, it is revealed that the doors lead to a hillside within the colony of Heliopolis.
"What!" exclaims Rau to himself. Rau stops his advance, shocked by the unprecedented interruption that is the new warship.
"Damn, almost had him, if he only moved closer," muttered Naruto to himself.
The Archangel makes its way out from the smoke cloud made by the doors' destruction, smoke trailing behind it.
Kira is forced to become a warrior to save his friends. The Archangel and the remaining Gundam remain prisoners in Heliopolis, a land now consumed by the war. ZAFT Forces launch another brutal assault that puts the entire resource satellite in danger of crumbling in space. Who is the shadow that showed up at the before the GINN's self-destruction? What does the emblem mean and what else is Naruto hiding? And two young friends meet up once again but this time in combat. Next on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. Shoot down the approaching menace, Gundam!
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