Chapter 2
Cosmic Era 1173……
"Sir, from the data we collected, there's a good news and a bad news." A soldier said to the general. "The good news is that your daughter had arrived at the right time zone."
"And the bad news?" The general asked.
"Several unknown individuals from our time had also reached Cosmic Era 74. We can't confirm the exact numbers, but we assume that it is around two or three. Some were sent before your daughter, and some after her," the soldier replied.
"So Redav isn't bluffing after all! I thought he was only trying to scare us when he said that the enemy had a third time machine other than the one we stole from them and the one that we blow into pieces," a blue haired girl with golden yellow left eye and emerald green right eye stood up suddenly and exclaimed.
"Sis, will you please not shake the table? I'm trying to fix your mechanical arm here, which is a very difficult task" the blue haired boy said.
"Athura, if you can't fix it, then just let Lunamary do it," the girl said to his brother and snatched away her mechanical arm and re-attached it.
"Hey, I never said I can't do it! I just need more time than she does," Athura countered back.
"People, we don't have time to quarrel. We need to figure out what are we suppose to do next," A blonde commander told the twins.
"Yes Commander Flaga."
"Neo, any word from Mayu?" the brown-haired general asked the blonde commander.
"From what her sister just told me, she had managed to found a place for us to establish a temporally base on Earth, but it will take quite some time for her to figure out the best route for us to get there," he replied.
A dark-haired girl came into the room in a hurry.
"What is it Lunamary? Any new information from your sister about the base?" the general asked.
"I do have new info from Mayu, but it's not about our base on earth. She had hacked into certain databanks of the enemy and found something about 'Operation Genocide'.
"'Operation Genocide'? Isn't that the mission that Lacus was sent to prevent?" the blue haired girl asked.
"Yes. What Mayu found out was the names of those sent to begin the mission," Lunamary said as she handed a piece of paper to the general.
"What! I fought these individuals before! Lacus doesn't stand a chance against them if she were to fight them single-handedly!" the general was shocked to see the names.
"Then we will aid her!" the blue-haired girl said immediately.
"Kari, just how are you going to do that?" Athura asked disbelievingly.
"By going back to Cosmic Era 74, that's how! Lunamary's team had just fixed the time machine, so after she repaired my arm, I am going! And there's nothing you, Athura Zala, can say to stop me!"
"I will not allow that!" the general said sternly. "Like I told your brother, I promised your parents that I will not let you die in battle!"
"Then what about Lacus? You yourself said she's no match against those sent by the enemy. And none of you adults can go to her as you all have equally important jobs!" the dark haired girl backed her friend.
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Cosmic Era 74……
Lacus sat beside the girl who looked like her with a lot of questions in her head. She hasn't wake up ever since she muttered those words to Kira.
'What is she talking about? Protect Kira? From who? And what does she means by finding her ancestors to warn them?' Lacus asked herself.
"Lacus, you had been sitting here for more than an hour. You should get some rest. I'll wait here to see whether she awakes or not," Kira said.
"Thank you Kira," Lacus said and went out.
Kira sat down on a chair and browsed through the information they have collected about the girl.
"Hmm, I wonder if I should take some of her blood and analyze it. There is always the possibility that the hospital's equipment had gone haywire," Kira said to himself. He was about to call a few staff when the girl slowly awaken.
"Are you alright?" Kira went to her and asked.
The girl looked at him, and suddenly, she jumped down from bed and reached into her pocket. She pulled something out and all of a sudden, Kira found himself at the tip of a weapon that looks very much like a beam sabre.
"Who are you? Where am I?" the girl demanded.
"Easy miss. You fell down from a tree and fainted for quite some time," Kira replied.
The girl continued to stare at him. Kira tried to move away from her weapon but the girl noticed that.
"Don't try anything funny," the girl said. Suddenly she felt a little dizzy and found it hard to maintain her balance.
"Are you okay?' Kira tried to approach her, but again the tip of the girl's weapon went to the front of his neck.
"Who are you? And what year are we in now?" the girl asked.
Kira stared nervously at the tip of the weapon. "I…My name is Kira Yamato……And we are in year CE 74," Kira answered.
The girl's eyes widened upon hearing his name.
'Is this person really him? I have to make sure he is not lying.' the girl thought in her mind. Then she lowered her weapon. "Proof it," she said to Kira.
"Huh?"
"Proof to me what you said is true," the girl said.
Before Kira can say anything, Athrun's voice came through the speaker in the room.
"Kira! There's an intruder heading straight towards the room where you and the girl are at right now! Get out of there immediately!"
Kira can barely react when suddenly the door was blast open by an explosion. Outside the door, stood a human-sized Strike Freedom Gundam.
"Master?" the robot spoke to Kira in a surprised tone.
"He's not my father. He claims to be Kira Yamato," the girl told the robot.
Kira's thought he was in a bad dream. What the heck is going on here!
"Freeze!" a team of soldiers ordered the human-sized Gundam. The Gundam immediately release its DRAGOON units and the DRAGOON units tackled the soldiers before they can fire.
Kira quickly took out his gun, but before he can even reached the trigger, the weapon suddenly flew away from his hand and went to the pink-haired girl.
"What the……" Kira stared at the girl with a shocked expression.
More footsteps can be heard coming towards this direction.
"You are coming with us!" the human-sized Gundam suddenly grabbed Kira and pointed its beam rifle to the back of his neck.
"Nobody move or I'll shoot this person!" it said to the soldiers who arrived.
"Freedom, what if he really is who he said he is?" The girl whispered.
"There is always the possibility that this guy is an impostor. Lacus, try to read his mind to see whether this guy is lying or not," it replied.
"Wait a minute! What are you going to do……?" Kira suddenly felt that his mind had become blank. It seem he had felt this for an hour when he suddenly heard Cagalli's voice.
"What are you doing to Kira?" she shouted at the pink-haired girl, who had her hand placed into Kira's head.
"Freedom, I think you should let him go," she said to the human-sized Gundam as Kira came back to his senses after she removed her hand.
"You are telling me that he really is……?"
"I think we need to make lots of explanation,"
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Kira and the others are finding it hard to believe even a single word told by this Lacus look-alike.
"Let me get this straight," Murrue spoke after a long silence. "You are saying that you are Kira's descendant who came from CE 1173 using a time machine to reach here to protect us from your enemy who wants to kill us to prevent the birth of you and your friends, who happened to be our descendants?"
"If that is so, would you mind explaining why am I being pointed with deadly weapons just now?" Kira asked.
"I am truly sorry to put you through that. You see, the time machine that I used was not very stable, and even though I know how you look like, I have to make sure that you really are my ancestor," she replied.
"I think this girl has serious mental problems," Athrun whispered to Shinn.
"I heard that," the human-sized Freedom said. "You want proof? I will give you proof. Zala, take a look at your descendants," it handed Athrun a photograph. Athrun's mouth fell at the sight of the two persons in the picture. One was a boy who looked exactly like him, except that his right eye's colour is Cagalli's eyes' colour. The other one, a girl, looked exactly like Cagalli, but her hair is blue, like his and the boy beside her. Another thing is that her right eye has the colour of his eyes.
"Athrun Zala, Cagalli Yula Attha, meet your descendants – Kari Zala III and Athura Zala V," the human-sized Freedom said.
Athrun and Cagalli were speechless upon looking at the picture.
"Ha! Even I can make a picture that looks like that using my computer!" Yzak said loudly.
"You mentioned that humans at your time had been in contact with beings from outer space and had also learned something from them right? Any proof for that?" Dearka asked.
The pink-haired girl stared at Dearka with a slight grin. Then she said, "Dearka, get up from the chair and then kneel in front of Miriallia and said you will be her slave for a week."
To everybody's amazement, especially Miriallia's, Dearka immediately did what he was told.
"Wait a minute, just now you move my gun away without touching it, and the way you 'browse' through my mind and memories, are those some of your abilities too?" Kira asked.
"Yes," she replied.
A lady came in with a tray of tea. The pink-haired girl suddenly felt something was not right. Then without warning, she used her powers and pushed the lady towards the wall.
"!"
"Lacus, the tea is poisoned!" The human-sized Strike Freedom said after analyzing the tea that was spilled.
"I see you are still as smart as ever, Lacus Yamato VII," the lady who was knocked back stood up and revealed her true form–a legless being with three arms and one tail. Her eyes seemed to be made of fire, but her stare was very cold. Each of her three arms is holding a beam-sabre-like weapon, a beam rifle-like weapon and a shield.
Shinn and Athrun immediately took out their guns and fire at the strange being.
"Hahaha! Lacus, didn't you tell your ancestors and their friends that pathetic weapons of this age can't hurt me?" she sneered as the bullets hit her like soft rubber pods.
"Then try this!" the human-sized Gundam combined both its beam rifles and fire towards her, but she blocked it with her shield.
"My, I see that travelling through the time portal had damaged you a little. You used to shoot faster and more accurate than that," the being smirked.
"Freedom, take them and escape. I'll handle her," the girl said.
"Got it!"
"Going somewhere?" the being fired towards Lacus, luckily the other Lacus took out her two beam-sabre-like weapons and deflected the beams away. The she charged at her enemy and managed to send a slash to her opponent's arms.
"Gargh!" the monster growled and sent the pink-haired girl flying across the living room with a powerful knock with her shield.
"Lacus!"
"I'm alright! Just take them and go!"
"Seems like you are still weak. That's what you get for using an unstable time machine," the monster said and used her powers to press the girl and the robot against the wall.
"I think I'll kill you before I kill your ancestors. That way, I can spare you the pain of disappearing without a trace," the monster sneered as she moved her fingers as if strangling someone.
"Quickly! Run!" the girl shouted as she gasped for air.
Instead of running, Kira took the Gundam's beam sabres and charged at the monster. Apparently not expecting Kira or anybody to do this, the monster wasn't able to react in time. As a result, Kira sliced off two of her arms, the arms with the beam rifle and the beam sabre.
"Fool! You dare meddle in my affairs!" the monster shrieked and swept Kira away with her tail. Kira nearly fall out the window but the other Lacus immediately jumped to the window and managed to grab his arm.
The monster seemed to be too angry with Kira until she forgotten about the others who were also in the room. She dropped her shield, picked up the beam sabre from her severed arm and rushed towards the window.
"I'm going to send you and your ancestors straight to hell!"
"Think again!" Cagalli yelled as she and Athrun took the human-sized Freedom's beam rifles and shot her from behind while the Gundam fired its abdomen-mounted plasma cannon.
The three shots hit the target.
"Yeargh! You may have beaten me, but there will be more coming for your life……" the monster managed to say before she faded away.
"I'm glad that's over," Kira said as he was pulled back into the room.
"Kira, are you alright?" Lacus (the present one) asked.
"I'm alright. Thanks for saving my life," Kira said to the other Lacus.
"I'm the one who should thank you for saving my life. That's very brave of you to fight against someone who is a lot more powerful and can kill you as if you are a mere fly," the girl replied.
"So, got enough proof?" the robot asked Yzak.
"More than enough," Yzak said.
Shiho slowly went to the robot and whispered, "Excuse me, who will Yzak marry?"
Strike Freedom turned its head to Shiho, who was blushing. "Well, I can't tell you people too much about your future, but I can show you a picture of our fleet's stealth operation commander," it said as it projected an image for Shiho to see. The image showed of a girl with brown hair like hers, and eyes like Yzak's.
"Now don't you ask about her name. All I can say is that her ancestors is right here with us. You understand what I am saying right?" Strike Freedom replied in a small voice.
Shiho nodded, her face blushed even more.
"Shiho, are you blushing?" Meyrin asked.
"What, no, I'm not!" Shiho immediately said. "I'm going to the bathroom for a while." She left.
"What's with that wide smile on her face?" Lunamaria asked.
"So, do you all finally believe me?" Lacus (the one from the future) asked.
"Without a doubt," Athrun said.
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Kira and Lacus took the other Lacus to her room.
"Here you go. You might need some time to get used to it, because I think the bed from the future must be really different from the ones we have now," Kira told her.
"Thank you. Uh, how should I address the two of you?" she asked.
"You can just call us Kira and Lacus. I just hope that you won't find it funny to call someone else with a name same as yours," Lacus replied with a smile.
"I think I'll get use to that," the other Lacus replied with a laugh.
Outside the room……
"I bet Kira is feeling like he's in heaven right now, having two Lacus with him," Cagalli said to Athrun.
"Yeah. I suppose if we minus the fighter attitude, both Lacus should act exactly like each other," Athrun said.
Back inside the room……
"I just thought of something. Does your mobile suit need a bed too?" Kira asked.
"Oh, you mean Strike Freedom? He doesn't needs to sleep. And we don't call mobile units of his size 'Mobile Suits'. My Strike Freedom is a 'Mobile Guardian', 'MG' for short. Strike Freedom used to be my father's, but he asked him to follow me on this mission," Lacus said.
"Does your father look like Kira?" the Lacus from present time asked.
"Both of them look exactly the same, except that my father's taller than Kira is right now. He's the leader of the rebel fleet that is fighting the enemies who wanted you all dead," the Lacus from the future replied.
The three of them continued to chat. As they chat, the two Lacus even sang together, causing Kira to feel that he's really in heaven.
"Will you look at his expression? Kira looks as if he had everything he wanted in his life" Murrue said at the door.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Next chapter, a new girl will appear. Guess whose descendant is she?