The Wings of Destiny

by Shadow's Aura

As tension between the military powers arise once again, two new pilots from a secret organization interferes in a battle between ORB and ZAFT, and could change the present fate of the world.

4. Preventer's Attack

Meyrin: "Two unknown heat sources approaching extremely rapidly toward our position."

Deathsycthe swings down. Ada braces for impact.

Ada: "(I'm…. going.. to… die…..?)"
Ramius: "Ada!"
Kira: "STOP!"

Freedom chases to the scene. Deathscythe's blade cuts right into a shield. In front of Strike Rouge, a red mobile suit blocks the attack.

Ada(dazed): "Huh?"
Duo: "What?!"

A large blast from the left is fired, and obliterates the right arm and scythe of Deathscythe. A blue mobile suit of the same type fired the shot not to far off.

Kira: "(What is this? Are they allies?)"

The red mobile suit takes out its sword, which is embedded in its shield. It pulls it off and charges at Deathscythe.

Duo: "I'm not that easy to defeat."

Deathscythe launches its buster shield at the red mobile suit. It does a high-speed barrel roll, throwing its shield at the Deathsycthe's in the middle of the roll. The two deflect and the blue mobile suit catches the red ones shield. The red mobile suit at full speed approaches Deathscythe and slices its torso in half with its beam saber. All that remains of Deathscythe is its chest, head, and left arm. The blue mobile suit fires at blast at Shenlong, who is able to avoid the blast and snatches Deathsycthe.

Wu Fei: "Quatre, retreat to Zechs and Trowa!"

Sandrock joins on the retreat path with the other two gundams. The red and blue mobile suits follow. Akatsuki groups up with Freedom and Strike Rouge.

Kira: "Ada, are you alright."

No response.

Athrun(comm.): "Kira! How are things over there? What was that about?"
Kira(to Athrun): "They're heading your way; I am too." "Mwu, Ada, continue to protect the ships. There are still Zaku's here."

Freedom heads off in the direction of the retreating gundams.

Mwu: "Hey, young miss. Can you still fight?"

Ada, inside her cockpit, is shaken up. Her trembling hands grip the controls as her trembling eyes wander.

Mwu: "Archangel, open the hatch."
Ramius: "What's going on?"
Mwu: "She's done fighting."

Akatsuki escorts Strike Rouge back into the Archangel. The ship is struck by two missiles. Akatsuki re-launches to find itself way outnumbered. Two M1 units attack in front of him, one gets destroyed with a Zaku. Impulse destroys two Zaku units.

Luna: "There are just too many for us."
Mwu: "This is really bad."

Quatre's Zaku Squad attacks the ships as well.

Justice melees the Tallgeese, who counters with its own shield. Tallgeese backs off and fires its beam cannon rifle at Justice, who dodges the attack, but singes the armor.

Athrun: "Ergh. Our situation is not looking good."

He takes a look in his left screen to see Destiny get impaled by two missiles. Heavyarms charges with its heat knife attached on the underside of its right arm and slices off the right arm of Destiny.

Shinn: "Argh!! Damnit."
Athrun: "Shinn!"

Athrun goes into SEED mode. He fires his dual cannons, located on his hover pack on his back. The pack raises over the shoulders and fires. Heavyarms jettisons' its Gatling gun on its left arm to take the blast as it backs off. Justice is already in Heavyarms face, dual saber drawn. It slices down at Heavyarms but Heavyarms is able to avoid it.

Athrun: "This is pointless! Just leave."
Zechs: "Nothing is ever pointless. We are here to test your limits as pilots."
Red suit pilot(to blue pilot): "Go back and help the ships"
Blue suit pilot: "Roger."

The blue unit turns around, and takes a wide arc path back towards the ships, avoiding the oncoming Freedom.

Wu Fei(comm. to Minerva): "Two unexpected mobile suits have arrived. They have heavily damaged Duo's unit and Quatre's unit is damaged as well."
Heero: "I see. Bring Duo back to the ship. Quatre can guard the ship. I'm heading out."
Relena: "Heero.."
Heero: "I'll be fine."

Shenlong returns to the ship, and places Deathscythe in the safety net in the dock and returns outside.

Shenlong accompanies Wing Gundam onto the battlefield.

Heero: "These new two. Are they gundams?"
Wu Fei: "No, they look like just modified mass produced units."
Heero: "Then their capabilities are far limited. This should be a quick clean up."

Mirarila: "Four Zaku's at seven o'clock high."

Akatsuki disables a Zaku with its rifle, an M1 unit is destroyed in the background.

Mwu: "I can't get there. I'm busy!"

The ship's defense destroys two of the units, as one flies ahead of the other. A missile from the ship destroys the leading Zaku, which leaves the second Zaku on a straight path at the Archangel's bridge.

Cagalli: "Archangel!"

Watfeld and Lacus turn to their monitor.

Lacus: "The Archangel is in serious trouble."

The Zaku flies right up to the command bridge, and pulls back its sword to attack. Everyone on the bridge stares death in the face. Mirailia covers her head in her hands.

A brilliant yellow light surrounds the bridge. A beam blast from a distance destroys the Zaku. The Eternal's crew broadcasts an image to the main screen of the Archangel. The blue unit rapidly approaches the three ships. It stops in front and in-between them both. It fires its buster cannon four times in all directions, destroying 12 units. The crew of both ships and Mwu just stare out of amazement. Mwu is the first to catch on, and disables two units with Akatsuki's dragoon system. The blue unit fires one more blast, destroying five units. The Eternal's missiles destroy two units as well. The remaining units retreat.

Mwu: "Phew. That was close. Thanks for the help there. Who are you, anyway?"

The unit flies off to the other battle.

Mwu: "Hey, wait!." He sighs.
Ramius: "Let it go. It saved us after all. Kira and the others will take care of it."
Mwu: "We still don't know what they're intentions are."
Lacus: "Major, go ahead and relay images to us, but try not to get caught into the battle."
Mwu: "Well, whatever the little princess says."

Tallgeese fires its beam cannon rifle at Justice, who is able to dodge, but is attacked by Heavyarms. It attacks with its knife that is blocked by Justice's shield. Tallgeese draws its saber and strikes at Justice. Justice blocks with its saber, now having no free movement. Heavyarms opens its chest to reveal its dual Vulcan barrels.

Athrun: "What?!"

Several beams fly in at Tallgeese and Heavyarms. They both push off and evade the attack.

Kira: "Athrun!'
Athrun: "Kira?"

Freedom advances onto the battlefield.

Athrun is distracted by Kira's appearance onto the field. Heavyarms notices this and within striking range.

Trowa: "You let your guard down."

Destiny collides with Heavyarms, sending the two backwards. Destiny, with saber drawn, goes to strike Heavyarms.

Shinn: "Take this!"

Heavyarms barrel rolls and spin kicks Destiny back out of the way. Tallgeese is right behind Destiny, saber drawn.

Zechs: "See ya, kid."

Justice's flyer pack rams Tallgeese, allowing Destiny to pass right on by.

Kira: "Shinn, return to the ship. We can't afford to lose you or your unit."
Shinn: "But.."
Athrun(scolding): "Shinn!"
Kira: "Athrun and I can handle these two."
Shinn: "Alright."

Destiny turns and begins to fly off the battlefield. A large beam blast flies between Tallgeese and Justice, heading right for Destiny. Wing Gundam in bird mode followed by Shenlong appear from the Minerva's direction.

Athrun: "Shinn!"
Zechs: "So, he decided to launch."

Destiny turns to see the blast headed straight at him.

Shinn(shocked): "Whaaa…?!"

A buster shot destroys the right leg of Destiny and continues to head at the Wing Gundam's buster shot. The two collide and cancel one another out in an explosion. The blue unit flies from behind Destiny.

Athrun: "What was that?"

Freedom counters and attack from Tallgeese, who sword grapples with it.

Zechs: "You're opponent will be me."
Kira: "Athrun, help Shinn escape. Judging by the size of that buster shot, it must have a cool down period."
Athrun: "Right."

Justice flies off towards a broken down Destiny.

Athrun: "(Hang in there Shinn.)"
Heero: "You think I only have on shot?"

Wing Gundam reverts to mobile suit mode and fires another shot at Destiny.

Athrun: "No! Another shot so quickly?"

Heavyarms and Shenlong interrupt Justice's path toward Destiny. The blue unit passes by Destiny as it dodges missiles from Heavyarms, as Shinn glares it down on his screen.

Blue pilot: "(I don't have an angle to fire at it)."

The blue unit fires a buster shot at Shenlong, causing it to break away from Heavyarms.

The buster shot makes contact. After a short display of exploding light, Destiny continues to retreat. Eight energy disks float in a giant circle, creating a beam shield that blocked the buster shot. Seconds later, the power on the disks vanishes, and the disks fly off. The red unit appears from the distance, which the disks return onto its back. Destiny succeeds in withdrawing from the battlefield. The blue unit returns the red unit's shield.

Heero: "So those two units must be the interferes."

Wing Gundam charges at the red unit.

Athrun: "(It's fast. There is no way a normal unit could compete with it.)"

Justice cuts Wing Gundam's path off.

Heero: "You're in the way."

Wing Gundam pulls out its saber. Justice counters, and Wing Gundam slices through the left shoulder of Justice, cutting a large part of the Gundam off. It then kicks Justice back and aims its buster rifle.

Kira: "Athrun!"
Athrun: "(shit)"

Wing Gundam fires its rifle. The red unit throws its shield a bit in front of Justice. It makes contact with the buster shot, splitting the beam around the chest area of the Justice. The rest of the gundam is disintegrated, along with the shield. The red unit charges at Wing Gundam, and the two have a saber battle.

Red pilot(Kira): "Take that unit and bring it back."
Kira: "But what about the battle?"
Red Pilot: 'Don't be foolish. Just get out of here while you can. Take our help while you can."
Kira: "Right. Thanks for the help."

Freedom grabs what's left of Justice and flees the scene. Tallgeese attempts to follow, but the red unit fires its beam rifle to halt its movements.

Red pilot(to blue): " I used up all my mobile suits energy on the overdrive thrusters and energy disks. I don't have a fusion reactor like you to create energy. Plus, that must even be low by now. How's your unit?"
Blue: "Status reads 35% power reaming."
Red: "Alright, take out the ships engines then we're retreating. I should have enough energy for that hopefully. Make it quick."
Blue: "Roger."Heero(to red pilot): "What is your purpose for being here in this battle."
Red pilot: "Funny. I was going to ask you the same thing."

The blue unit flies by the rest and heads toward the ship. Shenlong flies after it. Tallgeese begins to follow.

Heero: "Let Wu Fei and Quatre and the ship deal with that one. We'll finish this one."
Zechs: "You don't want to finish this yourself or are you underestimating my talents to do it myself?"
Heero: "You forget what our mission is. I'm taking no chances."

Freedom meets up with Akatsuki half way back to the ships.

Kira: "Mwu, take Athrun and return to the ship."
Athrun: "Kira, what are you going to do?"
Mwu: 'It's obvious. He's going back to help."

Freedom hands over Justice to Akatsuki and flies back to the field.