It had been such a normal day until then. Aria had attended her lessons as usual. People had ignored her as always. It was lonely but at least it was normal. She liked it when things were normal. Everything went crazy that afternoon.

She had gotten that same weird feeling and cold shiver she had felt when she saw the shooting stars. Something had made her look out of the classroom window. She'd never had the urge to look out of the window. There was never anything to see normal. Then again, that afternoon wasn't exactly normal.

She had spotted something on the horizon. It had looked like streams of blue and green flying from left to right. When the streams had disappeared they were replaced with what looked like flames. She had felt so scared at that point it was unbelievable. That was when she saw perhaps her worst nightmare. Everyone knew what a mobile suit was but so few civilians ever saw them. She, however, saw five coming towards the school.

The evacuation alarm ran out, filling the building with a shrill beeping. Everyone around her started to panic. She just sad, frozen, staring out at the approaching mobile suits. Her teacher grasped her hand.

"Come on child! We have to leave!"

The woman's voice was filled with fear. Aria breathed very heavily and forced herself to stand. Had anyone else seen the mobile suits? They must have. Someone must have. That was why the alarm was ringing.

Aria picked up her bag with her books and lunch box in and fled the room. The wooden floors of the corridors were creaking constantly as children and adults ran towards the many staircase. Everyone was hysterical. Aria herself was petrified. Her hands were shaking fiercely as she sprinted along the corridor behind the teacher and other students.

"They're here!! Hurry!!"

Those words only served to fill Aria with more terror. The elderly principal was yelling for everyone to leave the school quickly. As Aria reached the ground floor the building vibrated. She could see one of the mobile suits had fallen over into the section of the school that she had been sitting in. She couldn't believe her eyes. There were mobile suits fighting outside her school. It was supposed to be a time of peace! What was happening?

She hastily ran out the front door and down the steps. The mobile suits were right in front of her. Two of the Earth Alliance's suits were fighting one of ZAFTs suits and one she had never seen before. It was a light blue with some sort of shield on each shoulder. It was carrying an indescribably huge axe. They were towering above her.

As she moved to follow the rest of the students one of the Alliance's suits sidestepped around the blue suit and shot it in the back. The blue suit was sent forward in Aria's direction. All she could do was watch in fear as the suit's foot was nearing her. All of sudden the suit shifted to the right and the foot landed a few metres to the side of her. A rather angry voice came out of the suit.

"What are you doing you idiot! Don't just stand there! Get the hell out of here! Do you wanna be killed!?"

As soon as the voice stopped a flash of light flew past its body and hit the school. The roof shattered and the walls cracked. Aria looked up at the devastation of her school. Suddenly a huge slab of concrete from the roof fell loose and began to fall to Aria. She shut her eyes and screamed. All of the students who had run away turned and looked in horror.

Crash! The concrete hit the floor. A gust of wind caused by the impact sent Aria's hair fluttering. She opened her eyes. She was still alive? How?

She looked up. The blue suits axe was imbedded in the ground and rose over her. The pilot had just saved her life. He spoke. Once again it sounded seriously angry.

"What the fuck are you doing!? I just told you!! Run!! Get going!!"

She turned around and stared at the suit. Suddenly she got that feeling again. It was so much intense this time though. She looked at suit for a couple of seconds before nodding sharply and running away as fast as she could.

Whilst running she glanced back at her saviour and couldn't help but smile. She felt a strangely warm sensation inside her as she stared. Another beam of like flew into the battlefield. This time it came from another ZAFT mobile suit. The beam ripped straight through the Alliance suit before colliding with the school. Another chunk of concrete fell to the ground.

The first ZAFT mobile suit then sped toward the last Alliance suit. The Alliance suit tried to bring its beam sabre down on top of the ZAFT suit but it grabbed the Alliance suit's arm. Within a couple of seconds the ZAFT pilot has forced his sabre through the other suits torso, causing it to explode. Aria kept running. In an emergency like this they would immediately board the bus and go home. They did.

As the bus drove away from the horrifying scene Aria stared back almost lovingly. She was still in disbelief at what had happened. Despite being almost killed everyone still ignored her. The desert sand soon covered the back window and she could barely see as the ZAFT and blue mobile suits walked off.