And do the Mobius were deployed for the sneak attack, and the Strike and Exia would be deploy as soon as the Arcangel fire the preemptive strike, at the moment the Strike is being prepared on the linear catapult, and as soon as it were launched it would be followed by Exia.

The nervous Kira continue on running the mission strategy through his mind, basically, it's Setsuna and his job to protect the enemy ship while the Mobius zero sneak attack the Nazca class blocking their path.

"Kira~" a familiar voice snaps Kira from his pondering, the coordinator identify that his classmate Miriallia Haw is wearing a OMNI uniform, and speaking to him from a console at the bridge, and in the background Natarle is staring intently at the girl. Perhaps she`s worried of her?

"From now on, I'm the battle controller for mobile suits and mobile armor, glad to work with you" she said with a sing sang tone.

"It should be 'pleased to work with you'." came the voice of another officer correcting Miriallia of her lack of formalities, though shocked that Miriallia join the crew, the sudden turn of event pleases Kira, at least the person in the background isn't the one coordinating him anymore, don't want to end up in a pointless bickering during fight.

"Start the engine at the same time, fire the cannons, target, the Nazca class cruiser ahead." Ramius clear orders were heard across the bridge.

"Lohengrin, fire!" and so the lohengrin positron blaster cannon spew deadly burst of beat towards it target, though the distance between them allow the Nazca class to avoid the easily detected attack, the heat from the attack also signaled the Laurasia class warship of the battle ahead of them, and so the four stolen G-weapon were launched in an attempt to sink the legged ship.

"Kira Yamato, Gundam, launching!"

"Setsuna F, Seiei, Exia Gundam heading out." And so the two gundam deployed in order to protect the white ship, the enemy had gone full force with the stolen G-weapon, Duel, Blitz, and buster launched from the Laurasia class and Aegis came from the Nazca class halting the Arcangel path.

Setsuna somehow could sense the hesitant between the Strike and Aegis, the conflicting emotion between them were so strong he could felt them, even without 00 raiser.

Eager to defeat the enemy mobile suit, the overconfident Yzak aim to take down the Exia while leaving the legged ship in the hands of Blitz and Buster, visually it wasn't such a bad decision since the Exia seem to be a close quarter combat type, armed with the Earth new prototype Duel, it isn't possible for the natural to overwhelm an elite red uniform coordinator.

"Die! Lowly natural!" Yzak eagerly charges the Exia, he has nothing to fear, that unit main sword aren't made of beam, against phase-shift armor, such weapon are meaningless, not that Yzak had any intention of getting hit by a Natural, the thought of being strike by such person while piloting such an exquisite unit would shame his pride as a ZAFT red uniform

As the duel comes begging for a melee fight, Setsuna unfold the Gn Sword Kai, the green edge of the blade glitters beautifully in the heat of battle.

Duel initial slash were avoided without any excessive movement, and Setsuna exploits the apportunity fully, the Exia counters the attack resulting with the Duel's arm nearly severed in half, although the shield perform its task as it allowed the Duel to escape from the huge sword range.

Such event didn't go unnoticed by Yzak best friend, Dearka Elsman.

"Damn Natural!" Yzak curses the shameful turn of event , though Setsuna isn't a soft hearted warrior, such an opportunity shouldn't be allow to go to waste, he fold his sword and aims rifle mode Gn Sword Kai toward the retreating Duel, just a millisecond from shooting his weapon, his instinct told him to evade, and so he narrowly avoid the Buster shot.

"Yzak, don't go near that weird mobile suit!" shouted Dearka through the coms unit.

"Damn natural! What's with that stupid sword? It pierces the shield even though it's not beam" Yzak rages while he switch to his rifle and shots towards the Exia.

"Athrun, what are you doing? Hurry up and finish that unit!" the frustrated voice of Yzak echoes through the coms unit.

"Leave this unit to me, go back Athrun up!"

"What! don't mock me, I'm gonna destroy this one myself"

"This unit excels at close quarters, Duel aren't suited to go up against him!, I'll hold this unit for now, Go!" yells Dearka as he rains beams onto Exia, unable to counter Dearka, Yzak charges at Strike, he would finish this guy quickly so he could settle the score with that bastard.

Yzak aggressive strikes frightened the untrained pilot of strike, as result Kira quickly wasted his energy in his panic attempt to hold of the angered Duel.

Meanwhile the Nazca class is closing in on the Arcangel and is preparing to fire its cannon, the Arcangel on the other hand were forced to still their hand knowing Flaga Mobius Zero is closing in on the enemy, if the Zero was just a second late, the Arcangel could have suffered heavy damage.

Their sneak attack was a success and the Nazca was damaged by the Mobius sneak attack, fully harnessing the chance, the Arcangel fired their Lohengrin to hammer the Nazca down.

Hearing the retreat order, Yzak vowed to at least destroy the Strike, The Blitz who had also joined to hammer the Strike down is pushing the Strike and its pilot into critical exhaustion, Even as he tried, Setsuna close quarter type machine were unable to effectively cover the Strike from the assault, the most that he can do is preventing any suit from closing in on the Strike.

"Tch, I can't capture him, at this rate Kira going to get shot down" Athrun is desperately thinking a way to prolong his friends life, "Yzak that enough we were ordered to retreat!" were the futile attempt to persuade his friend to stop their aggressive attack.

As the Strike energy dissipates the strike turns grey, its phase-shift armor has fully dissipates now, Setsuna were forced to recklessly close in to cover Strike, such recklessness almost killed him as few shots from the Buster nearly hit him.

Luckily for the two white suits pilot, Mu had finally reach them, and with joined effort between the Zero and Exia Strike were able to breach their line and headed towards the Arcangel where the Laucher-striker pack is waiting to recharge the Strike, just as the Strike equipped with the power pack, a grenade that passes manage to get pass the Exia and Zero hits the Strike.

Luckily for Kira the phase-shift armor were capable of withstanding the attack, and with the newly powered Strike, they were able to force the stolen suits to retreat.


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i know me grammar sucks, Y U No Help beta for me?

also chapter is short coz i dont wanna rewrite a 3k worth of word should there any stupidly huge mistake