War can be a Beautiful Thing.
Chapter 7: Coordinator plus One.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
" Talking"
' Thinking.'
" Don't you get tired of being around here so much?" Kira asked as he worked on the Mobius Zero. He was sitting on the cockpit while his laptop rested on his lap. Murdoch was helping him install special gear that would link the machine to the two simulators the Archangel had built.
" Not at all." Eve said with a smile as she laid on the top of the Mobile Armor.
' That's one dedicated girl.' Murdoch thought with a smile. It hadn't been the first time the Raven haired teen decided to hang around Kira instead of being with her friends at the two simulators.
" Kira! Let me use Buster to fight so that I can show these two fools how a real man fights!" Tolle said with a smirk making Kira shake his head with a light chuckle. Tolle had been battling agaisnt Kuzzey and Sai all morning. It was their day off and the teens were using the only form of entertainment available. Kira couldn't help but let out a shiver if there had been more teens in the Archangel. Kira couldn't believe the odds that his group of friends were the only people around their age.
" Not in your dreams Tolle." Eve said before Kira could answer. " You already know that no one other than Kira and the Mechanics can touch Buster." Eve said making Tolle frown, he knew she was right. The only problem was he didn't plan to take the Gundam on a joy ride and felt their ridiculous amount of precaution was not needed.
" It won't really help us get better if we can only use two simulators. Thanks to the schedule change we can only battle Kira and Mwu after dinner." Tolle said with annoyance, Kira let out a quick chuckle as Eve only answered the Teen by sticking her tongue out.
" Why do you guys want to train? Do you plan to join the Alliance and fight?" Fllay asked making the Teens lose their cheerful atmosphere.
" It's not about fighting." Eve said as she locked eyes with Kira. " It's about protecting everything with the insignificant amount of strength you carry, Ne Kira?" Eve said making Kira close his eyes and take in her words.
" Fighting to protect, I can live like that." Murdock said with a smile, his mechanics felt the same. Each was working on their own task but the hanger allowed them to listen in to the conversation. Not to mention they naturally paid attention to the teenage eye candy. They cursed the fact that the teens were too young and already taken. Except Satella she just liked flirting while keeping her options open.
" Fighting isn't about protecting its about following orders. That's the only thing a soldier has to worry about." Natarle said making Kira frown.
" Orders are worthless if they do more harm than good. To become a soldier one has to throw away what makes them human. If that's the case I'll never fight in an army." Kira said making Natarle glare at him.
" Better than being a money hungry Mercenary, you have no home, no honor, and no pride. Working for whoever is willing to pay the most and never taking responsibilities for your actions, its nothing more than taking the cowards way out." Natarle said making Murdock want to slap the woman.
" It's must be nice." Kira said making everyone in the hanger look at him with confusion. " To be able to live a life filled with nothing but black and white. It's too painful to live in a world filled with colors for a person that can't let go of the past." Kira said making Natarle want to hit him.
" What gives you, a coordinator, the right to talk to me like that?" Natarle said with a glare.
" It's because I'm a coordinator that I have every right!" Kira said while shocking the hanger. " What's wrong?" Kira said making Natarle look at him with shock.
" Isn't that what you wanted to hear? Natural." Kira said with an ice cold glare that made Natarle want to step back.
" It's people like you that throw around those words that has brought war upon humanity." Kira said with venom.
" Coordinator, Naturals, Straights, Gays, Whites, Blacks, the Alliance, Eurasia, Orb and ZAFT is nothing more than stupid words people use to separate themselves from others. It's that need for separation that creates fear for anyone different than you. Before anyone knows it extremist of such groups are born. The Nazis of the Second World War, The Taliban of the Third and finally Blue Cosmos of the Fourth." Kira said making the Naturals around him fill with shock.
" You guys didn't figure it out?" Kira asked. " The world is at war, and in the end the ones that will always pay for it will be those that can't fight." Kira said as he disconnected his laptop from the Mobile Armor. " It's this type of history that makes me wish I was never born human." Kira said as he got out of the mobile armor and went walking past his friends.
" You can keep your orders Lieutenant Natarle, I don't have plans to bring Humanity once step closer to extinction. No matter how much it deserves it." Kira said as he left he hanger. All the ones listening couldn't help but feel their beliefs needed to be reworked.
" That boy has the makings of a great leader." Murdock said making everyone look at him with shock.
" Not only can he see the big picture along with its finer details, but his heart can never stop carrying the sins of his past." Murdock said as he turned to work on whatever it is that needed to be work on.
" I hope your happy Lieutenant." Eve said as she got off the Mobile Armor. " You finally got what you wanted." Eve said making the woman confused.
" You're the first person that Kira has ever learned to hate." Eve said before walking past the woman only to have her arm be snatched.
" That's not what I wanted." Natarle said.
" Let go of me." Eve demanded while pulling her arm free, she rubbed the bruise the woman had made.
" I'm sorry I didn't mean..." Natarle said only to have Murdock come into her view.
" It's best you be going now." Murdock said making the woman look at him with disbelief.
" I can't afford to have you do anymore damage. Next time you come here make sure to bring the Captain or Mwu with you. Otherwise I'll order you out of my hanger." Murdock said making Natarle want to defend herself only to go silent with the serious frown the normally calm man had.
" Lieutenant." Murdock said as the woman turned to leave in defeat. " Why did you come?"
" The ship is dangerously low on water, our food will become limited once more and the Captain wanted me to give this Mission request to Kira." Natarle said as she handed a flash drive to Murdock. The man recognized it as one of the few that Kira had apparently had custom built. Meaning that only the Captain, Murdock, Mwu and Kira could get in it.
" I can take it to him." Eve said while surprising the two officers over that fact that she was still near. " I'm going to go see how he is and make sure he eats. He has the habit of forgetting about the world when he is working." Eve said with a light smile.
" Just make sure to drop by the medical bridge first." Murdock said as he saw Eve nursing her wound.
" Sure." Eve said before taking the flash drive and leaving the hanger.
" Don't worry about Kira." Eve said as she stood by her friends. They had started to get out of the simulators in hopes of making him feel better.
" He's a better person and won't let this get him down." Eve said with a smile making her friends agree. Miriallia and Sai went back to fighting each other on the simulators.
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" Fllay what are you doing here?" Kira asked as the red head opened his door. The brunette, to her shock had been lying on his bed while covering his eyes with his forearm in a weak attempt at blocking out his tears. He had been so affected by the confrontation with Natarle that he had forgotten to lock his door.
" I...are you crying?" Fllay asked when the sight of Kira's suffering finally registered in her brain.
" A little." Kira said with a weak chuckle. His pain grew more as the one he liked saw him in such a pitiful state.
" Is it true?" Fllay said making Kira flinch.
" Is everything you said down there true?" Fllay said making Kira wonder why he didn't notice his crush being with their friends.
' She must have been in the actual simulator. Miriallia did say Fllay had beat Sai and tied with Tolle.' Kira thought as he tried to come up with an answer Fllay might like.
" It's true." Kira said while hoping to be true to himself for once.
" My father, he... he doesn't like Coordinators." Fllay said as she stood at the door way, never once showing a sign of wanting to come into his room.
" He taught you well." Kira said making Fllay look at him with shock.
" The first step towards hatred is uncertainty. I've always noticed it." Kira said as Fllay looked at his heart broken form.
" You always became defensive near me. And you have the habit of flinching when I move near you." Kira said making Fllay's eyes to grow. " You never talk to me, just politely answer if I talk to you. I think out of everyone back in Heliopolis you were the only one that was ready to figure out I was a Coordinator." Kira said making Fllay turn her head.
" You were too good to be a natural." Fllay said making Kira chuckle.
" I've always hated being different." Kira said making Fllay look at him with disbelief.
" I dream about one day being in a world where I'm just normal, where nothing I do is amazing. A world where I can be myself and not worry about anything." Kira said making Fllay want to say something but she couldn't. They were in an unbearable silence that made Fllay be the first to give in.
" Why didn't you ever return to the plants? Isn't that the place you want to be? The place that can make you normal." Fllay said making Kira move his hand to look at Fllay. She could now clearly see the signs of his crying.
" I want to be normal, not have it forced unto me. Orb is the only place I can find peace. The Earth hates Coordinators, The plants hate Naturals... Heliopolis was my Eden, my paradise, my home... now I got nothing." Kira said making Fllay look at him while he covered his eyes once more.
" You have the Archangel and your friends." Fllay said as she turned while in the doorway. She heard Kira ask her one question that left her nearly as broken as his heart. She quickly left while trying to go over their conversation, trying to find the monster her father had painted.
+-*/\*-+
" The Alexandra was unable to sink the legged ship. However this time we will destroy it." Rau Le Creuset said before informing his crew about the extra mission they had to do while in the debris belt.
' Kira, have you really become a monster. How can you kill your fellow Coordinators? What is so special about that group of Naturals that has you bathing in the blood of your people?' Athrun thought before refocusing on the rescue mission involving his fiancée.
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" Preparations are complete." Natarle said as she stood in the bridge.
" Launch all worker pods. Power down the engines and run on silent. Have all communications be passed through the G line." Murrue said making the ship stop moving as small machines began to fly out to gather supplies.
The Buster floated in space and would kick off large chunks of debris to keep moving. It landed on what used to be the hull of a ship. Kira had two jobs, protect the worker pods and find anything to add to his collection of weaponry. The Buster jumped and continued to glide through space as its monitors searched for any sign of danger.
" This... it can't be." Kira said making his words go over the emergency frequency the Archangel was using.
" What is it?" Murrue ordered.
" It's a Commercial Ship from the plants and a battle ship from the Alliance both destroyed each other." Kira said as he sent the images he was seeing back to the archangel.
" Those blast craters are still cooling down. There might be survivors in the area." Mwu said making Natarle want to groan.
' That means Kira is going to be bringing in Life boats soon.' The woman thought as the Buster and Zero searched the space for any distress signal.
' Got it.' Kira thought as he found a dead life pod. His eyes grew as his sensors caught something.
' Its a GINN made for scouting. It's directions is heading towards where those two ships did battle.' Kira thought as he saw the machine look around.
' I wonder.' Kira thought as he pushed the escape pod towards the GINN. He saw the Mobile Suit gently catch it. It was so excited about finding the life boat that it forgot about the high powered riffle it was carrying.
' He's going fast. Whoever was in there must have been important.' Kira thought as he saw the GINN take off without a second thought.
" Hey kid why didn't you destroy that GINN?" Mwu asked as his sensors caught its movements.
" It was looking for survivors, the only thing we found so far was that escape pod. Probably the only person that would have been able to tell us why the Alliance attacked a Civilian ship." Kira said making Mwu nod his head.
" Keep an eye on its direction, I'll keep a watch over the Archangel." Mwu said making Kira nod his head before they cut communications.
" Not bad." Kira whispered as he made Buster lift the riffle the GINN had been carrying. It took him a few minutes but he finished hacking it.
" Kira, Lieutenant Flaga, you might want to get over here and fast." Tolle said making the two machines head towards his direction.
" Julius Seven." Kira said with disbelief as he looked at the remains of the colony that had triggered the Fourth World War.
" I'm going to go report to Murrue, and work on a course of action." Mwu said making Kira's eyes to grow.
" Wait a minute, you can't be saying what I think you're saying." Kira said making Mwu sigh.
" You got good instincts kid, but at the moment we are desperate and the chances of getting supplies somewhere else is zero." Mwu said making Kira's eyes to search his mind for an answer but found none.
" I'm sorry kid." Mwu said making Kira nod his head before they cut their communications.
" Those two ships were destroyed but I might be able to find something helpful." Kira said to himself, he needed something to get his mind off what the Archangel would soon be doing.
Kira quickly flew towards the remains of the recent battle with hopes of finding something. Besides a few pieces of usable scrap there wasn't anything to help the Alliance ship. His monitor flashed for a moment before locking on to a heat signature.
' It's a malfunctioning life pod. Instead of being dead in space its traveling while not sending out a distress signal. It's set on lowest form of power possible to allow longer time in space. It's why we weren't able to pick it up with traditional sensors. If I hadn't upgraded Buster's the night before I would have missed it." Kira thought as he got closer to the lone pod that had gotten stuck on a piece of a ship. 'There is probably only one person in there thanks to the limit oxygen they would have.' Kira thought before making Buster's hand grab the life pod. He slowly brought it towards the chest of his Gundam before making his way to the Archangel.
' This life pod is different from the ones in Orb and that one I gave to the GINN was different from this one. I wonder who was sent to ZAFT.' Kira thought as he saw the Archangel coming up.
' I knew it.' Natarle thought as she saw Kira approach them.
+-*/\*-+
" Well if it isn't Craig the Cooker of Coordinators." A ZAFT commander said as a man from the Alliance glared at him. The ZAFT Officer could only imagine how much Patrick Zala would be pleased about their discovery. The high level information gatherer before them had a large bounty from his years of service in the Alliance.
+-*/\*-+
Once again the crew of the Archangel was gathered in the hanger wondering what their Coordinator had brought in with him. The mechanics waited until the last mobile armor docked so that they could begin working on the life pod. Murdock looked at his team as they locked eyes, he could see a few had their weapons ready without alerting their fellow soldiers.
' Hopefully you didn't bring us anything too dangerous kid.' Murdock thought as Kira floated towards the life pod. Clearly showing no sign of being prepared in case something dangerous happened.
" I'm opening it." Murdock said as he punched in a universal code to a panel in the life pod. Some light hissing came as the air shut environment of the life pod began to adjust to the atmosphere of the hanger. It's single door opened dramatically to the people of the Archangel as they waited to see what was inside.
" We're fine. We're fine. Thank You! How are you?" A pink mechanical ball said as it slowly shout out of the life pod and moved through out the hanger taking it's environment.
' What the hell?" Was the thought of everyone but one person.
' That's so cute.' Miriallia thought as she looked at the pink ball of metal.
" Oh my this doesn't look like a ship from ZAFT." A long pink haired beauty said while being dressed like a princess.
' Oh shit.' Kira, Murdock, and Mwu thought as the innocent teen looked around. Her eyes grew as she noticed she wasn't going to touch ground anytime soon.
' Perhaps pushing with all my might to leave was not the right thing. Maybe the alliance doesn't know how to unload Life pods?' The teen thought before wondering how she was going to be able to walk around.
" I got you." Kira said as he appeared near her and pulled her to the ground to get stabilized.
" Why thank you." Lacus said with a smile making Kira blush.
' Kira never blushes like that with me.' Eve and Fllay thought as the young coordinator looked into the eyes of the person he saved.
" We should take this conversation somewhere private. Kira you are welcomed to join us." Murrue said as the two coordinators landed on the ground.
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" I refuse to believe she is dead." Athrun said when their scouts found nothing near the remains of the ship Lacus had been at.
" All the pods are accounted for except for the one Lacus was in." Rau Le Creuset making the man want to hit something. " We don't plant to stop searching anytime soon Athrun, if she is alive we will find her." The man said making Athrun relax.
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' Figures the Alliance would get more civilians involved in this war.' Kira thought as a frown formed on his famous showing to the others his thoughts on what Lacus had just said. The teen had just finished telling them on how her civilian transport had gotten attacked.
" Thank you miss Clyne, I'll have Kira take you to a room you can use." Murrue said with a neutral tone.
" Keeper her safe kid." Mwu said making the brunette nod his head.
" So this is your room and uh... yeah." Kira said as he felt a little awkward around the kind hearted beauty. The innocence radiating off her was extremely refreshing.
" Thank you and I hope we can be friends." Lacus said making Kira look at her. " Yeah... friends. I got to go now and do something..." Kira said as he wondered why his first contact with his fellow coordinator was so weird.
' I think the Naturals are starting to get to me.' Kira thought as Lacus waved with a smile before he turned to leave. He stopped walking and turned his head once more and saw Lacus wave some more with an even bigger smile.
' Weird... but cute. Not to mention... whoa bad Kira can't think that way about prisoners... but still... wow.' Kira thought before turning his head with a shake and making sure to spend a lot of time working on Buster. When he got to the hanger he thanked Murdock for reminding him they were still salvaging things from the broken colony and needed his protection.
Kira once again salvaged around for anything that would help him protect the archangel that was becoming his temporary home.
After taking what they would need the crew of the Archangel released some paper origami to thank and remember the lost souls of the broken colony. It was an act that brought a tear to Kira's eyes, yet filled him with pride at the same time. The Archangel soon left the area of Julius Seven before making its way closer to the Alliance.