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Well, here you go. The next chapter. I suck at describing battles. So there is a battle, but I did not go into details with it.

Hope you like it!

Phrase 2: The Battle Have Begun

Shinn was walking back and forth, nervously while Lunamaria and Meyrin were sitting down, staring at him weirdly. Vino, Yolent, Jen, and Alwyn were playing a card game of poker; Belle was skimming through a magazine while Mina was filing her nails. Lastly, Mei was sitting by herself and reading a book, not paying attention to her surroundings. They were in the resting area of the ship.

"Shinn, would you just sit down?" Lunamaria ordered. "You are making me dizzy."

"I am just thinking. Why would Athrun leave in a rush? And why is ORB all of a sudden being attack by the Earth Alliance? This doesn't make sense at all.

Meyrin shrugged. "Who knows. They just wanna attack ORB. Does there need to be another reason for it?"

"Wrong, Meyrin." Jen said. "The Earth Alliance had always wanted ORB to join them ever since the first Bloody Valentine."

"So why now?" Belle said, looking from her magizine. "Why they start to attack ORB now? Why didn't they do it in the past?"

Alwyn looked up from his cards, his face became serious. "Well, I heard deep inside the Earth Alliance is another Blue Cosmos, Logos, or whatever they call it now."

Soon, everyone was playing attention to what Alwyn was saying. Even Mei looked up from her book she was reading; there was a moment of silent, trying to digest what he was saying. No one talked, their face full of sadness. Shinn stopped and was clutching his hands tightly, recieving a worried look from Meyrin and Lunamaria.

Mina frowned. "Blue Cosmos or whatever it is called, who is running it, Alwyn?"

"That I do not know, but I heard he is like another Muruta Azrael and Lord Djibril, maybe someone worst than those two."

"That is just great," Yolent said sarcasticly. "Another person wanting to rid the world of Coordinators."

"I don't understand." Vino said. "After all that is happen, everyone knows that they are going farther than Plants did, making human beings into freaks of nature."

"It is because they are jealous of Coordinators," All of a sudden, Mei spoke. "They wanna make something is stronger than what Plants ever did."

Alwyn whistled, then grinned. "Guess this girl is smarter than she want people to see her as. Like the old saying, 'the quiet one is always the dangerous one'."

Mei glared at Alwyn before returning to her book.

"Oh, look what you did, Alwyn," Mina said, smiling. "You got her angry at you now. Here, I thought you were nice with the ladies."

"Mina, Alwyn, stop it." Belle said. "They did't mean it, Mei. They were just teasing."

Mei ignored everyone and continue to read, choosing not to say anything or to anyone for awhile. Everyone else just smiled at her, knowing Mei won't be talking to them for awhile. Everyone returned back to their activities, but they still can't help but think that maybe another person that is like Azrael is living and working for the Earth Alliance.

x

Mai and Alexandra were in a small room, waiting for Namine and Cagalli to come back and let them go. They knew that there would be some punishment for sneaking into a military base.

"Alex, what do you think they are going to do to us?"

Alexandra sighed. "I don't really know, but I think Chief Representative isn't known to be cruel. I think she is fair enough to understand."

Mai was about to talk, but they were interrupted by the door opening, revealing Cagalli coming in, the door closing behind her. She sat across from them, smiling at therm, before talking.

"I have been confirm that you truly are civilians of ORB, and your story was checked out," Cagalli stated. Alexandra and Mai smiled at each other. "However, due to the situation we are in, I will have to keep you two here until I can find a better way to get you out of ORB quickly and safely. I am terribly sorry for this."

Alexandra and Mai looked worryingly at each other, then looked at Cagalli who face was blank but in her eyes there was fire. They knew Caglli won't let them get in serious harm. They know they had to trust her. They both agreed, and Cagalli told them they just need to stay here until she can get them a transportion. After that was settled, Cagalli left the room, returning to the ORB headquarters where Namine was monitoring the EA ships.

"Anything new?" Cagalli asked.

"Nothing really, but you should know that the other representatives and I have been sending repeated amount of messages to them," Namine informed. "They have not answer to any of them."

"I see, so-"

Cagalli was cut off when the door open, stepping in Kisaka, panting and clutching a paper in his right hand. The two girls looked at him, curiously. He finally spoke after struggling for air, "They...reply back."

"What?" Cagalli did't give Kisaka time to finished, grapping the paper from his hand, reading it, and then rereading it to confirm it. Cagalli's eyes widen and she crumpled the paper tightly in her hand. Namine came over to Cagalli's side, and placed her hand on Cagalli's shoulder.

"What did it say?"

Cagalli spoke with anger in her voice, "...Prepare for battle. Get everyone ready."

Namine looked at her, shocked. "What do you mean?"

"GO NOW! Prepare for battle."

Namine stepped back, nodding before talking on the transmission. "All soldiers, prepare for level one battle station. Repeat, level one battle station. Not a drill."

Suddenly, the alarms went off, the room blinking red, madly. All the ORB pilots went into their moblie suits, readying themselves. The ORB engineers checking everything off and station themselves in order to move out the suits. Namine and Cagalli rushed off to the representatives' meeting room to inform and discuss the situation while Kisaka went to his post, preparing himself with his assigned team.

"What bloody hell is the EA doing?" One representative angrily demanded, he bang his fist onto the table. He read the paper out loud for everyone to hear, "The Earth Alliance and ORB cannot work together. You either join us or be against us. We have no problem with fighting ORB if you refuse our request."

"This isn't a request, they are demanding it." another representative sated. "They clearly want to battle ORB. This is unreasonable."

"Representative Smith, Representative Anderson, what do you think we should do about it?" Cagalli asked, calmly.

The two representatives opened their mouth but nothing came out so they remained quiet, the others followed their lead. Cagalli looked among the all faces of the representatives and then to her right which was Namine, who smiled at her.

Cagalli raised her right hand. "It is settled, we will fight them. Agree?"

Everyone nodded.

x

"What is taking him so long?!" Yuki demanded. "He is taking forever on deciding.I am not getting any younger!"

"Or any quieter..." Tarim muttered under her breath.

"What did you say?!"

Tarim, Yuki, and Odysseus were in the resting area of the ship they were in. They were informed that they would have to wait until the suits' information is processed into the EA database. Tarim was getting annoyed with Yuki's complains while Odysseus was resting his head on the table, his hair and eyes color changing back to mix of purple and pink. When he came back, he went straight to his doctor to be check up and see how well his body was functioning. Suddenly, the door opened revealing three men in white clothing, each were carrying a tray with water and a pill in a cup.

"Time to take your medicine." The first man said.

Slowly, Tarim and Yuki went toward the men and swallow the pill, then drink the water. The last man went over to Odysseus, telling him her needs to take the pills. Beside Tarim and Yuki having to take only one, Odysseus had to take three which he hated because it always made him feel funny and sick. He always refused to take it and sometimes get forced to take it.

"Come on, Ody." Tarim pleaded. "Just take it and then it would be over."

Yuki agreed. "Yeah, brat. Be a man, I think. What?"

Tarim glared hard at Yuki's unsuccessful help. She smiled sweetly at Odysseus and motioned him to take him. He sighed and unwillingly took the pills and drank the water, then rested his head on the table again.

"Hey, doc?" Yuki asked. "When can we leave? I am getting tired of this place."

"We haven't been informed about that, but it won't be long. Just rest up and you will be released." The second man answered before picking up his tray and folled the other two out the door.

"You really need to be more patient, girly." Tarim explained. "You are getting on my last nerves."

"You are getting on my nerves."

"Complain one more time and I won't be responsible with any bloodshed that will occur here."

"Oh, is that a threat?"

When Tarim opened her mouth, but someone interrupted by clearing his voice. The three pilots looked toward the door, seeing a man looked to be in his thirties, with blonde hair that looked almost white and grayest blue eyes, smirking at them.

Odysseus was the first to speak. "Cronus?"

"Hello there, Odysseus, Tarim, Yuki. All rest up?"

They nodded.

"Good, because it is time. Go to your mobile suit."

"Yes, sir," Tarim and Yuki both said. With a bow, they headed out the door, Odysseus followed closely behind, leaving Cronus by himself. They didn't know he had a develish smirk upon his face.

"This time, ORB will die."

x

"Is everything settled?" Cagalli asked over the intercom.

"Yes, Chief Representative." A man said. "Team Newmen is ready on your command."

"Same with Team Alto."

"Team Yuu, too."

Cagalli listened to all teams and checked them off. All the mobile suits were already stationed as well, all they need to do is wait for the EA to start the battle. So far, all the representatives positioned themselves in their place, with Cagalli monitoring the whole areas on the screens. She was interrupted when the door open, Athrun rushing in. She looked at him weirdly, she waited until he caught his breath before she spoke.

"Is there something wrong, Athrun Zala?"

"Caga-Cagalli...I..." Athrun struggled. "I need...to..talk..."

Cagalli raised an eyebrow. "Anything you need to say right now can wait. I am preparing for a battle."

"But Cagalli, I can help you. Let me join this battle."

"Athrun, you can't." Cagalli said. "You are not a ORB soldier anymore."

"But Cagalli..."

"Athrun, look at the uniform you are wearing. You are a soldier of ZAFT."

Athrun's eyes widen. He remember that Lacus had said the exact same thing a long time ago. Athrun continued to look at Cagalli, shocked yet she looked at him, her eyes blank. He became furious that he clutched his hands into fists and came over to where Cagalli sat, each of his hands gripping the handles tightly. He looked straight into Cagalli's eyes, his eyes filled with fire. She was slightly taken back by this action, but regained herself.

"What? Athrun?"

"Damn it, Cagalli! What happen to you that made you so distant? What is wrong?"

Cagalli frowned and narrowed her eyes at him. "You're asking me this? Why am I so distant? You are the cause of it!"

Athrun took his hands away from the handles, but he did not move from where he was standing. "Cagalli? What-"

"You left and you think I would forgive you for that." Cagalli was now standing. "You left me to deal things on my own. When I needed you the most, where were you?!"

"Cagalli, I..." Athrun now was looking at the ground. He didn't know what to say. She was right.

"I understand you needed to protect ZAFT and Plants." Cagalli's eyes started to water. "Yet you blamed me for being so careless. You were tricked! You believed lies."

Tears started to fall from her eyes, and she fell on her knees, covering her face. Athrun was shocked that he didn't know what to do. He didn't know that Cagalli was suffering. He didn't know that she was struggling back herself. He started to hug her and gently whispered in her ears, saying sorry and how sorry he was to do her wrong. They were interrupted when Kisaka's voice was heard over the intercom.

"Cagalli?"

Cagalli got up, wiped the tears off, and talked into the mic. "What is it, Kisaka?"

"They have fired the first missle."

Both Cagalli's and Athrun's eyes widen and they looked at screens; Kisaka was right, the battle have begun. Mobile suits exploding, parts were flying everywhere. Cagalli quickly pressed another button and spoke into the mic.

"ArchAngel, are you there?"

Miriallia's voice was heard. "This is the ArchAngel, Chief Representative."

"Launch now!"

"Roger."

Cagalli's attention was now on Athrun. She looked at him with sadness and pain in her eyes. She sighed. "Do you really want to help ORB?"

Athrun nodded. "Yes, Cagalli."

"Where is your Gundam?"

"It is in currently in Juno right now."

"Can you get it?"

"Yes."

x

Namine was stationed at the National Defense and was currently montoring he screens and the soldiers working on the computers and intecoms. She looked at the screens one more time until one mobile suit got her attention. It didn't blend with the other ORB mobile suits, MBF-P02 Astray. It was helping ORB, but it couldn't be an built by Morgenroete. The mobile suit was advantage and very familiar, but Namine couldn't place where she seen it.

"Identify that mobile suit for me," Namine instructed. "The red one that is up in the sky."

"Yes, Representative," One of the ensigns said.

Another ensign answered, "Identifying...ZGMF-X19A...the"

"The Infinite Justice..." Namine finished. "But even with the Justice won't help us. Quick, pull up the files of beginner pilots and direct me to Chief Representative Athha."

x

Ryo was watching all the experienced pilots launch one by one and all he could do was watch them. Suddenly, he felt useless and helpless. He couldn't do anything to help ORB and it made him feel angry because of that. His thoughts were interrupted by Hayato and Taz coming up beside him.

"Cheer up, man," Hayato said. "It is not that you're not able to go out there."

Taz smiled and placed his hand on Ryo's shoulder. "You just haven't been able to get more experience.You are still a beginner. You will have your chance someday."

"I know but," Ryo sighed. "I feel complete useless right now."

"Ryo Asuma?"

Taz, Ryo, and Hayato looked toward their right to find Namine standing there. They saluted at her, and placed their hand down when she gave them a nod. Hayato pushed Ryo toward Namine while Taz was smiling encouragingly at him. Ryo walked forward and once again saluted at her.

"Ryo Asuma at your service, Representative Harada."

"Follow me." Ryo nodded and processed to followed Namine until she stopped at a door. She told him to wait out here for a moment before she can tell him to come in. Once the door closed behind her, he let out a breath that he didn't know he was holding in. He didn't wait long, he immediately came in when eh heard his name being called. He noticed that beside Namine, Cagalli was there too, looking at him seriously. He saluted both of them, and oplaced his hand down when they nodded at him. Cagalli looked at Namine and she motioned Cagalli to continued.

"Ryo Asuma, you are the best of all the beginning pilots." Cagalli stated. "The only thing you lack is the experiences that a ORB pilot must undergo."

Ryo listened intensely.

"We have sent all the other beginner pilots to battle," Namine said. "However..."

Ryo nodded.

"Instead of piloting an Astray, you will be piloting a special mobile suit."

"You will be pilot a Gundam. The FWUX-VR17, Fate," Cagalli finished.

What do you know? A cliff hanger! Lol.

I will be working on the next chapter as soon as possible. By the way, Pandemoniun Theory. I will descriding what the Gundam Fate would look like. But if you dont want me to then tell me what color it would be.

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