Right this is chapter 4. I may not be getting many reviews but I'll put it up because I might as well. Thanks to Xx-Erin-xX-AthrunandCagallifan for reviewing and having a chapter dedicated to me (No idea why) but (hugs).
Anyways on with the chapter.
The late Admiral finally got what he deserved, his face was priceless at seeing that pathetic excuse for a base being destroyed by a single mobile suit. Ryan thought as he walked into the cafeteria only to see Tolle nearly choke to death on his own food.
"Someone explain to me why everyone barely has any water?" Ryan asked to the Heliopolis crew, noticing that no one had a full cup.
"We were never able to re-supply at Artemis." Mir answered, Flay then stood up and walked to Ryan.
"I'm sorry about before, at Artemis." Flay apologised but not looking at Ryan.
"I couldn't care less, but have you said sorry to Kira and Arli yet?" Ryan asked giving the red head a glare.
"Well…no not yet." Flay replied
"Nows your chance, good luck." Ryan quickly said as he saw Kira and Arli enter, Ryan left quick before anyone could say anything to him. He walked to the bridge and he entered to see Mwu and Murrue discussing something.
"What are you two talking about then?" Ryan asked looking at the both of them.
"We were talking about going to the debris belt to try and get some supplies there." Murrue replied calmly.
"Do you realise what is at the debris belt?" Ryan asked again eyes narrowing at the captain of the ship.
"Everyone does just junk left by people going through space and remains of battleships." Natarle interjected looking up at Ryan. Ryan just glared back.
"And the ruins of Junius 7." Ryan coldly stated back looking to see shocked faces which surprised him.
"That can't be right, you have nothing to support that." Natarle snapped back.
"I know because I went there myself!" Ryan shouted back making the Ensign wince at the comment. Ryan then stormed out and went to the hangar, he had to keep busy so he went check on Hydra. After a while he saw that the hatch was opening and that Arli and Kira were getting into their mobile suits.
"Hey what's going on?" Ryan asked Kira as the Strike was put on the catapult.
"We're to get the ice from the debris belt and junius 7 so we've been ordered to launch to watch out for them, plus the ice will be quite strong so we'll need to cut it."
"Yeah but first we're going to look around your coming aren't you Ryan?" Arli asked her face appearing on Ryan's other screen.
"As much I hate to fine, lets go." Ryan replied back as Hydra launched last. Once they had entered the ruins of junius 7 they explored what was left with the others from Heliopolis and Natarle to Ryan's slight distaste. One room that had opened showed a corpse of a woman embracing her child, everyone reacted badly to this, apart from Arli and Ryan who showed little or no reaction to this after seeing this everyone went back most not wanting to see anything else. As they went back the way they had come Arli at the back of the group went in a different direction, Ryan quickly followed making sure the others hadn't noticed.
"Where are you going the way out is where the others are going." Ryan whispered to Arli not wanting to stay here any longer either.
"I…I need to check on something okay." Arli whispered back going down another corridor and in to another room.
"(sigh) Come on how long is this…" He didn't finish as he saw that there was two women in this room he couldn't make out what they looked like but he could see Arli hugging one of them and he could hear her crying.
"Arli…" Ryan started not knowing what to do.
"She was my mother, she was visiting her when they fired." Arli squeaked out while sobbing.
"Come on, lets go it won't help to stay here." Ryan said going over to Arli and taking her off her mother and leading her out, closing the door.
"You going to be okay?" Ryan asked breaking the silence as they headed back.
"Yeah I think so." Arli said back almost inaudible.
"And where have you been?" Natarle snapped at them once they had caught up to everyone else and were outside.
"Um…wrong turn I guess." Ryan replied with a quick smirk.
"(sigh) Fine then." Was all Natarle could say. Ryan quickly returned to Hydra and entered the cockpit. He turned on the main power and saw the others throwing out origami flowers out across the ruins. When did they get them oh well I just want to leave, as sad as it is. Ryan thought as he watched the flowers drift off in different directions, Ryan put his fist on his heart and whispered a prayer to those who had died on that day.
Once everyone had paid their respects to those of Junius 7 the team had to extract ice from asteroids and any that had formed on the ruins of the colony. Ryan was the only one not doing anything as Hydra drifted through the area with it's arms folded, Ryan in a similar position inside but sitting down and eyes closed.
"Hey kid you think you could help with this your beam sword is better then the Strike's and Combat's beam sabres." Murdoch said through the radio as he was helping with the extraction.
"I am not grave robbing." Ryan stated his eyes remaining closed.
"Yeah but like it or not we're the ones alive and we need it more." Murdoch quickly said back.
"Hmph nice try but the answer is-"
"Ryan look out!" Kira shouted out
"What?!" Hydra turned to see a GINN that had noticed Hydra and was now shooting it. Why here of all places. Hydra was able to keep evading the GINN's shots and returned with his own shots from the beam rifle, but the GINN also dodged and hid behind a asteroid.
"Ryan let us help!" Arli cried out having noticed the battle both the Combat and the Strike heading to help Hydra.
"I don't need help!" Ryan snapped back as Hydra drew a beam sword and the shoulder claw cannons came off the shoulders, Hydra charged as the GINN revealed it self again to fire more shots only for the charging mobile suit to slash it's gun in half, one of it's shoulder claws grabbed it's head and crushed it while the other crushed the lower torso and then shot through leaving a gaping hole, the GINN drifted back before exploding.
"Whoa where did that come from?" Murdoch thought out loud, lucky for him he didn't have visual as Ryan had given the small ship he was in a dark glare.
"I'm going back to the ship." Ryan calmly said as Hydra sped towards the Archangel slowing as it neared the hatch and walked in as it returned to its place in the hangar. Of all the places that GINN had to be there why though, oh well he shot me so I attack back hopefully I won't get complaints. Ryan thought as he checked Hydra for damage and to turn off the systems. Looks like they're coming in better say sorry for shouting at them. As Ryan left the cockpit the Strike was coming with a life pod in it's hands
"I think I'm suffering déjà vu."
"How are you?" Arli asked having heard Ryan.
"(sigh) Kira had already brought in one life pod, if he keeps this up they'll have to start charging him." Ryan replied looking down at the crowd that had gathered around the pod.
"Shall we go down there?" Arli asked already on her way down to wherethe pod was.
"Fine haven't got anything better to do anyway, sorry for shouting by the way." Ryan said catching up to Arli.
"Don't worry you was getting shot at." She cheerily stated. They joined the crowd as it was opening, some soldiers had their guns poised to shoot down what came out. Of course what came out was a pink ball that bounced on the wall before floating in the air then a pink haired blue eyed girl came floating out of the pod with a happy expression on her face. Why cant Kira just leave the pods be Ryan wondered as he saw Kira help the girl get her feet on the metal floor.
"Oh my, its clear this isn't a ZAFT ship." The girl blurted out after looking around at everyone. Now that is a stupid thing to say. Ryan thought as the girl was taken off by a couple of soldiers followed by Natarle, Mwu and Murrue.
"Who in the world is she?" Ryan asked Arli as they walked out of the hangar.
"Her name is Lacus Clyne." She replied as though it were obvious.
"Siegel Clyne's daughter, wow things might get complicated then." Ryan said
"Not really she is my best friend." Arli blatantly said.
"Your full of surprises aren't you." Ryan said keeping in his shock.
"Yeah well, I think I'll visit Lacus, coming." Arli said
"No thanks that pink princess is probably too nice for her own good, I'll see ya later." Ryan said as he went towards the cafeteria while Arli went to see her friend. He grabbed his tray and sat on the edge of one table near the door, although other people came in he paid them no mind. Once done he then noticed Flay and Mir bickering.
"What's going on between them two?" Ryan turned to see Kira and Arli had entered.
"Basically Mir had asked Flay to take the pink princess food to her but she didn't want to and now it's like this." Ryan said humorously.
"Why do you keep calling her pink princess?" Arli asked while watching the two girls argue
"Because she looks like one she is your friend I thought you would've noticed." Ryan replied having then noticed that the 'pink princess' had entered. Everyone watched as he walked over to Flay and held out her.
"Stay away from why would I shake hands with someone like you!" Flay shouted out in protest backing away form the co-ordinator girl, who had a surprised look on her face.
"I don't want any of you co-ordinators acting friendly with me !" Flay shouted once more which changed the other girl's expression to a sadder one.
"Alright enough tantrum and shut your mouth before you upset anyone else today." Ryan said calmly walking in between the girls and picking up Lacus's tray and walking out giving the tray to Kira. "You take of that girl and get her back to her quarters alright." He then left before Kira could say anything to protest. He went up to the bridge to see if anything had happened.
"Anything interesting happened yet, captain." Ryan said as he leant on the top Murrue's chair, looking at the main screen.
"Well yes we have we have been in contact with the advanced forces and will be rendezvousing with them, and then we'll be heading for the 8th fleet." Murrue explained looking at Ryan.
"Captain are you sure you should be giving information like this to him?" Natarle spoke up from her seat, clearly annoyed.
"Take it easy I won't be doing anything with the information, apart form getting ready to leave." Ryan quickly said back.
"What?" Murrue asked Ryan with a curious look in her eye.
"Once this ship reaches the 8th fleet and the civilians are safe then Hydra and I don't need to be here anymore since my reason for staying here was to protect the civilians." Ryan explained.
"There's a message from the Montgomery." One of the crew said at the captain.
"What is it?" Murrue asked.
"We are in a combat situation with ZAFT rendezvous cancelled archangel is to retreat, end of message." The soldier read out aloud for everyone in the bridge to hear.
"They're nuts they can't win with mobile armours, Murrue its your call do we help or do we run?" Ryan said looking at Murrue with a serious look in his eyes.
"Even if we did run we may not escape, alright all hand level 1 battle stations the archangel will provide support for the advanced forces!" Murrue commanded. Ryan smiled as he left the bridge to get to the hangar. She picked the harder option, she is one heck of a captain, for once a soldier gets my respect. Ryan reached the hangar first and climbed into Hydra and went towards the catapult.
"Ryan we've got three GINN's and the Aegis, good luck." Mir said as Ryan was ready to launch.
"Thanks but I won't need it, Ryan, Hydra launching!" He said back as Hydra was sent into the battlefield.
"Kira, Arli, Mwu I've got a plan, Kira takes care of the Aegis while the rest of us take care of a GINN each got that." Ryan spoke out over the radio to the others who had launched.
"Yeah I've gotcha." Mwu said as his mobieus zero went towards the GINN attacking the Bernard ship.
"Ok then." Kira said as the Strike charged towards the ship attacking the law.
"That just leaves us with the ones attacking the Montgomery, Flay's father is also aboard the ship." Arli said as she charged towards one.
"I don't care really as long as this battle ends quickly." Ryan replied as Hydra began shooting the other GINN which repeatedly dodged it's shots, it then fired back with it's machine gun which Hydra dodged and then countered with the Gatling guns now mounted on its hip and was able to destroy it's leg.
"Hey Ryan my mobieus is damaged by that GINN and it's attacking Bernard, think you could take of it." Mwu said over the radio as he returned to the ship.
"Alright give me a minute." Hydra then fired it's shoulder claw cannons and the Gatling gun's separately which threw the GINN off and was eventually shot in the torso destroying it. One down. Hydra then charged to the other GINN which had enough time to severely damage the ship, Hydra rammed into the GINN before it finished the ship off, the GINN quickly regained balance and moved away from the Hydra. It then fired it's bazooka which Hydra easily dodged and shot the beam rifle at the GINN twice, the first hit the GINN in the leg destroying it and sending it back which made the second shot miss, and hit the Bernard making it explode.
"(laughing nervously)…Crap." Ryan said to himself "For once I didn't mean to destroy a ship, damn!" Hydra then pulled out it's beam sword in the left hand and sliced the GINN in half.
"Arli how are you doing." Ryan asked looking towards the other two ship noticing the Law was damaged.
"Not quite but don't worry I'll stop him from damaging the ship further." Arli replied the combat having sliced one of the GINN's arm off with one of it's beam sabres and then continued to attack with the GINN barely able to dodge. Look like she's in control now where's Kira. The strike and Aegis were away from the ships clashing briefly with one another before shooting each other again. And they're even so he won't be attacking.
"Ryan the Vesalius is firing at the Montgomery." Mir spoke through the radio.
"What?!" Ryan shouted out Hydra turning to see the Vesalius closing in on the Montgomery and narrowly missing with it's cannons.
"Oh no you don't!" Ryan shouted out charging at the Montgomery and stopped in front of it.
"Ryan you'll get yourself killed get out of the way!" Arli cried out having finished off her opponent and seeing the Hydra about to take a hit form the cannons. Hydra remained in it's place with its shield on it's right shoulder, now on it's arm covering a small part of it's body, the lasers hit and Hydra was pushed back into the Montgomery. Seconds later a explosion swept over Hydra and smoked covered the suit and part of the ship. When the smoke cleared Hydra was in the same position with no damage but a red sphere covered it generating from the shield.
"EMF shielding gotta love it." Ryan spoke out triumph in his voice.
"Ryan are you okay." Arli said shocked at how the Hydra survived.
"Yep but the ship isn't I got rammed into it, some one tell them to evacuate quick I can't take that many hits." Ryan replied the Hydra now moving forward to get out of the dent in the ship while in the same position. The Vesalius fired again, and the same thing happened but the dent became larger as Hydra was pushed back again. I can only take another hit before the EMF goes down. Ryan thought as he removed Hydra form the dent again only to be put back in there by another shot from the cannons the red sphere now disappeared.
"Have they evacuated yet?" Ryan asked Mir through comms the Vesalius charging the fourth shot.
"No they haven't, we've got no confirmation." Mir replied worriedly. The Vesalius fired. Hydra dashed out of the way in time, but the shot went through the Montgomery leaving a hole in the middle and then exploded.
"Attention ZAFT forces this is the warship Archangel of the Earth Alliance Forces currently under the protective custody of this ship is Chairman's Siegel Clyne's daughter Lacus Clyne, this is by chance we came across her by a life pod we bought her aboard as a humanitarian gesture however if you continue to attack we will consider this an abandonment of your responsibility to protect miss Clyne we will then take matters in our own hands." Natarle spoke through all frequency's so everyone heard her speech.
"I think we better get back to the ship, this is definitely unexpected and a bit pathetic really." Ryan said to Arli both the Combat and Hydra heading towards the ship.
"I just hope Lacus is ok." Arli worriedly said
"Don't worry they won't do anything, it was their last resort other wise the ship would've gone down too." Ryan quickly said back as both mobile suits entered the ship. "They probably took her back to her quarters so maybe you should visit her."
"Yeah thanks." Arli left the Combat while Ryan remained in Hydra. Things can only get worse now, I doubt it'll get better, and it looks like I ain't leaving yet.