Holy, writing this was annoying. i'm not going to say when the next chapter will be up anymore. i never follow through when i want the chapter handed out. Well anyways here it is.
Message to Cyberdemon "Update one of you're stories already"
on with the chapter now
Chapter 7
Project Justice
Lacus was still standing in front of Kira's tombstone. She didn't want to leave just yet; she wanted to spend more time here. Eventually the thick clouds that covered the sky began to pour out rain. It didn't take long for Lacus' dress to become completely drenched. Lacus didn't seem to care that she was now drenched, she didn't really seem to care about anything. What was she doing to herself? Lacus had to take better care of her self if she wanted her babies to be healthy. Lacus snapped herself back to reality and walked in the direction of her home.
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"I still find it hard to believe that Kira is dead" Patrick said. Gil smiled.
"…Me too, but everything that has a beginning, has an end. The Kira that emerged from the machine, he let his talents get the better of him. He probably got what he deserved but still, what a misfortune, to think that the Ultimate Coordinator to be killed. They don't even know who killed him." Gil said. Patrick jerked his head.
"I know, even the dental records were inconclusive." Patrick said. Gil sighed.
"As much as we try something new, Athrun is the only one that can lead them. We have to keep trying Patrick." Gil said. Patrick sighed.
"I've told you that woman has poisoned his mind, he won't come no matter what" Patrick said. Gil smiled.
"There may be a way around this Patrick" Gil smiled
"…What?"
"…Blackmail"
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Lacus arrived at her home shortly after she had left the cemetery. She was greeted by one of her maids who Lacus had just hired. Her name was Mina, a very loving woman around the age of 30. Mina had green eyes and long blond hair. Mina gasped as she saw Lacus in her drenched clothes.
"Ms. Lacus, you're soaked." Mina said. Mina immediately ran over to Lacus and began to dry her with a towel that was lying around near the front entrance.
"…Don't worry, I'll be fine" Lacus said.
"You have to take better care of yourself. You're going to harm those babies of yours if your not careful Ms. Lacus" Placing the towel over Lacus head, Mina began to dry Lacus' hair. Mina was cut off as she felt Lacus lower her head onto her shoulder. Lacus began to cry once more. Mina embraced Lacus as she cried on her shoulder.
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A month had gone by since Kira's funeral. It was hard, but Lacus was managing to live on her own with the help of her maid, Mina. Lacus' belly started growling slightly larger, but it wasn't too big yet. Lacus was seated in her larger living room, she was waiting for Athrun. Athrun had told Lacus a week in advance about today. He said he had something he really needed to show her. Athrun didn't say exactly what it was; he just told her that it was a project he had been working on with Kira for the past 4 years. What Athrun had to show her wasn't on earth, it was in space, and it was hidden so that no one could find it without the proper coordinates. Lacus was a bit confused from all this. She wasn't sure if it was a good idea to go, but Athrun was Kira's best friend, so she trusted him.
Moment's later Mina came into the living room leading Athrun in. Athrun's eyes widened as he looked around. "This place is huge Lacus, this biggest I've ever seen"
"Well anyways, are you ready?" Athrun asked. Lacus just simply nodded.
"Yes, but what is it?" She asked again. Athrun smiled.
"You'll see when we get there" Athrun said. Lacus sighed. She never really liked all this secrecy, but Athrun must've had his reasons.
"Alright then, let's be on our way then" Athrun said.
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Kira moved around skillfully, trying to hit all the virtual targets with his laser gun. Ulen and Creed were both amazed at Kira's progress. In just a month's time, Kira substantially increased his abilities. He was faster, stronger, and his knowledge about weaponry had increased dramatically. Kira even learned how to jump into seed mode willingly. Every second of everyday, Kira felt more and more powerful. Kira wanted nothing more then to become stronger, not even losing his memories were going to stand on the way. In fact, Kira didn't even care about his memories at the moment; he just wanted to get stronger.
"…He's already cleared level 23" Ulen said. Creed widened with shock, Kira was no doubt, stronger then Creed himself. Creed's abilities definitely transcended passed most Coordinators. …But next to Kira… It was like comparing first generation computers to the most advanced piece of hardware to date. Kira was definitely the Ultimate Coordinator, there were no doubts about it being fiction; it was definitely a fact. The tests proved it.
"…It took me almost 3 years to get passed level 10." Creed said. "Kira hasn't even been hit yet since he started a month ago…"
Ulen grinned. "What do you expect; he is the Ultimate Coordinator, he's the Ultimate Being"
Creed nodded his headed viciously; he was in denial. "…No, I don't think he is the Ultimate Coordinator" Creed said. Ulen jerked his head towards Creed.
"The way he moves, the way he thinks. He's beyond a Coordinator; I think Kira is a completely different being. With the rate he's moving at now, by the time he's done his testing, he'll be a monster. No one will be able to stop him" Creed said. Ulen chuckled.
"You're absolutely right; I just can't believe I didn't try doing this before. If it wasn't for that woman, Kira would've been by my side a long time ago." Ulen said, remembering how his wife betrayed him and his ideals. Creed glanced over at Ulen, he was confused.
"…Woman, what woman?" Creed said.
"Kira's mother, the one that took my daughter away, then several years later she took Kira away from me and she tried to have me killed. She thought she seceded in killing me, but she obviously didn't. I've been in hiding ever since" Ulen said.
"What happen to her?" Creed asked.
"I don't know I was never able to track her down. She could be dead for all that I know." Ulen said. Ulen didn't speak much of the subject; Creed could easily tell by the tone of Ulen's voice that the subject was not something he wanted to talk about.
"I see. Father, what are going to have Kira do once his training is finished?" Creed asked.
"Well I haven't really thought about it." Ulen said. Ulen was already thinking of using Kira against Athrun Zala. Ulen had been working hard, trying to figure out exactly what it was that Kira and Athrun were working on. All he knew was that it was an operation called Project Justice.
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Athrun and Lacus were on a private shuttle that had just launched from earth and was now heading towards the opposite side of Plant. They were moving into the direction of the moon. Lacus felt a little nervous. But she started to feel a little worried when she realized that they passed the moon.
"…Aren't we going to-" Lacus was cut off by Athrun.
"No, it's just passed the moon Lacus. Don't worry" Athrun said. The shuttle continued to move forward. It was just a matter of time before they stopped. Once the shuttle stopped Lacus became confused.
"We're here" Athrun said. The shuttle began to progress very slowly now.
"There's nothing here, what are you talking about?" Lacus said with concern. Almost as soon as Lacus spoke, what she saw in front of her was something fairly large. It was something that had been in a camouflage. The camouflage slowly faded away and what Lacus saw, was something she didn't expect to see. It was an enormous battleship. The back hatch opened and the shuttle flew inside. Lacus was in complete shock.
"I know you're confused, I'll explain everything to you once we're out" Athrun said. Lacus didn't say anything; she didn't know what to say. Was this what Kira was working on? Athrun and Lacus both floated out of the shuttle. They were currently in the armory that had many mobile suit technicians. The armory also had mobile suits such as Freedom, Justice, Abyss, Chaos, and about 15 more mobile suits.
"What is this place?" Lacus asked. Many of the people there waved to Athrun.
"This is a battleship, designed and funded by Kira. This ship is called Eternity. These people, us, we're part of an organization created by both Kira and me called Project Justice." Athrun said. Lacus gasped. This place was created by Kira?
"Lacus, Kira didn't tell you this because he didn't want you to worry." Athrun said. Lacus jerked her head.
"…Worry?" Lacus said. "Why are you showing me this? This has nothing to do with me" she was being honest. She was trying to forget about Kira, but now she was in a place that was completely structured by Kira, but for what?
"Kira told me, if anything ever happened to him, he wanted you to see this." Athrun said. Lacus felt like she was going to cry again. Why is it that every where she went, everything seemed to remind her of Kira. Athrun and Lacus went out of the armory and made their way down a long hall. After about 10 minutes or so, they stopped in front of a door with a security clearance numb pad.
"This is Kira's room. I don't know the pass code, but Kira said you would. There's something I need to take care of now, please just stay in here until I come back. I should be gone 20 minutes tops." Athrun said. Lacus nodded as Athrun floated down the hall. Lacus glanced at Athrun for a quick second before facing the door in front of her. Lacus inputted a 4 key code. Access was quickly granted and the door quickly slid open. Lacus walked into room, the door shut instantly as she walked in the room. Lacus gazed around quickly. Kira's scent was still here and it was making her vulnerable. Lacus walked over to Kira's desk and sat down. She was surprised, on Kira's desk there were at least 12 different pictures of Lacus, he kept them all framed. Lacus felt her heart skip a couple of beats. Kira had always told Lacus how much he loved her, but she never knew he had any pictures of her.
"…Kira"
Lacus' eyes gazed down at the drawer next to the chair she was seated in. Lacus opened the drawer, she found nothing but of bunch of folders. "…So Kira must've been here all those times he said he had to leave for the weekends, but he would never tell me where he would be going. He didn't want to lie to me so he just said he couldn't tell me. But what exactly is the meaning of this place Kira?" Lacus said out loud. Lacus reached her hand deeper into the drawer, she felt a rather solid, yet soft object; it was a tiny red box. Lacus pulled it out and observed it.
'This can't be… it just can't, please don't let it be what I think it is…' Lacus thought before opening the tiny red box. What Lacus saw nearly made her heart quiver in pain, tears quickly dripped down her face. It was the most beautiful ring she had ever seen in her life. The message was sent quite clearly… Kira was planning to ask Lacus for her hand… he wanted to merry her. It took about 15 minutes for Lacus to stop crying, but now, she felt worse then she did before.
"…Kira" Lacus took out the ring and placed it on her ring finger. Just as she started to observe the ring on her finger, the buzzer to the door sounded. Lacus quickly got up and floated towards the door. Opening the door, Athrun was there waiting. Athrun floated into the room.
"Lacus, is there anything you want to ask me?" Athrun asked. Athrun knew Lacus was confused, he knew she had a lot of questions about this place too.
"Why does this place exist?" Lacus asked.
"Because of my father" Athrun said, shamefully.
"…You're father?"
"I've know for years of my father's plans. He's planning on starting a war. He wanted me to lead his army, but I can't fight for his ideals" Athrun said.
"…War, ideals? What are you talking about?" Lacus said.
"Lacus, you know it's just a matter of time before a war finally breaks out. My father hates Natural's, he wants nothing more then to eliminate them all and make a world full of Coordinators." Athrun said.
"…I know that but… this place… what's its purpose?" Lacus asked.
"When the war breakout between Naturals and Coordinators, we will stand in between and fight for the sake of Justice." Athrun said. "This is what Kira fought hard to protect. I believe the reason Kira is dead is because they found out about this project."
Lacus was shocked. Kira was killed, because he wanted to fight for this?
"…Wait, why is your father doing such a thing?" Lacus asked. Athrun lowered his head.
"Ever since my mom was killed, my father had never been the same. He's consumed by hate."
"…Lacus, the real reason you're here is not because Kira wanted to you to see this. Well he did want you to see this, but there's also another reason" Athrun said, finally getting to the point.
"This project may have been created by both me and Kira, but it belongs to Kira since he's the one who funded it. When Kira died, you became the legal owner of this project." Athrun said. Lacus gasped.
"With your permission Lacus, will you let us continue this?" Athrun asked. Lacus was surprised.
"Well of course, why wouldn't I?" Lacus said. Athrun smiled.
"Thank you Lacus." Athrun said. "Do you have Kira's palm disk?"
"…Yea, actually I do." Lacus said.
"The password is eternity411" Athrun said. "When you log on and connect to us. You'll see a log of out progress. You'll be able to monitor our performance"
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Lacus was amazed that Kira had designed such an amazing place. Lacus was returned back home several hours later. Once Lacus had returned, she began to do things to help others. She threw a lot of money on charities, she helped people who were suffering on the streets. However the more time that passed, the worse Lacus' morning sickness got.
Lacus began to remain in doors because of her sickness. (A/N: Morning sickness is when women are pregnant and throw up a lot)
Spending time indoors made Lacus feel isolated, but she knew it was for the best. The last thing she would ever want to do was push herself too hard and increased the risk of hurting Kira's babies. Time seemed to take forever now that Kira was gone. But for Kira's sake, Lacus had to move on.
Seconds felt like minutes, minutes felt like hours, hours felt like days, days felt like months, and months felt like years. Over time, Lacus' belly became larger and large with each passing day. 5 months had passed now, Lacus was at the hospital. Lacus was in the process of giving birth to her babies. It had already been hours since Lacus' water broke. Athrun and Cagalli were waiting outside of Lacus' room, waiting for the good news.
"Cagalli, how long is this supposed to take?" Athrun asked. Cagalli sighed.
"…A long time" Cagalli said. Hours and hours had passed. Both Athrun and Cagalli could hear Lacus' screams. God it sounded so painful. "I'm not having a baby anytime soon…" Athrun grinned
The first baby was finally born; the first to come out was a baby boy. The cry of the baby was such a memorable moment for Lacus. After time had taken its time, the focus was put on Lacus again as she was not done giving birth. Finally after what seemed like an eternity of pain, the second baby was finally fully out. Lacus was relieved that it was finally over. The second baby was a girl. Once the doctor cut the umbilical cord, the babies were handed to Lacus in a while cloth. Lacus' long hair was a mess, after how many hours of giving birth, she was exhausted. Lacus held the babies in her arms. Lacus' babies were both very healthy. Lacus was humming a melody to try and calm the babies down from crying. Lacus observed each of the babies carefully. The boy, who was born first, was a brunette with amber eyes, just like Cagalli's but they were different: probably picked it up from Kira's father Ulen. The baby girl, had light hair, it was obvious that it was pink, and she had violet eyes, just like her fathers.
"Congratulations, you have a pair of healthy babies. Have you thought of a name for them yet?" the doctor asked. Lacus was a bit hesitant to answer. Lacus looked down at her son, trying to think of a name.
"…Zack" she said lovingly. The doctor wrote down the name.
"Ok and the girl?" the doctor asked. Lacus didn't even hesitate.
"Erika" Lacus said. The doctor nodded.
"Okay, and it is to my understanding that you wanted these kids to be named after there father, correct?" the doctor said. Lacus nodded
"Okay, so Zack and Ericka Yamato. I'm going to finalize this, are you sure" the doctor asked. Lacus simply nodded.
"Okay, I'll send in your friends." The doctor said just before leaving the room.
Athrun and Cagalli both got up as they so the doctor emerging from Lacus' room. They ran up to the doctor.
"How is she?" Cagalli asked. The doctor smiled.
"She's fine, you can go in and see her now" the doctor said. Athrun and Cagalli proceeded onto Lacus' room. Cagalli took one quick look at the babies, she almost cried. Cagalli was now an aunt.
"Lacus, are you okay?" Cagalli asked, concerned over the last couple of hours. Lacus had been screaming quite loudly. Cagalli could only imagine how painful it must've been.
"…I'm fine" Lacus said, never taking her eyes off her babies. Cagalli walked closer to get a better look at one of the babies.
"Lacus, can I hold one of them?" Cagalli asked. Lacus nodded her head and handed Cagalli Erika. Cagalli took Erika in her arms. Carefully observing the baby girl, Cagalli noticed the beautiful eye colour in Erika's eyes. "She has Kira's eyes"
Silenced was all that was heard. Cagalli really didn't mean to mention the name of her dead brother, she felt like hitting herself right there and then. What happen next shocked both Athrun and Cagalli. Lacus smiled.
"…It's okay. I've already accepted it. Kira's gone, and he's never coming back." Lacus said. Cagalli and Athrun looked quickly at each other; Cagalli then starred back the child.
"She's going to be just as beautiful as her mother." Athrun said. Lacus slightly blushed. It had been a while since Lacus had heard a comment about herself.
"…Thanks" Lacus said. Right at that moment the doctor walked in.
"Alright we're going to take the babies now. Lacus you need to get rest, you've lost a lot of blood." The doctor said. Lacus simply nodded. Cagalli handed Lacus the baby back.
"Well Lacus, we're here to support you, so call us if you need anything, okay" Cagalli said. Lacus smiled.
"Thank you Cagalli, I'll be fine, don't worry" Lacus said.
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There done. this is the last short chapter, from now on the chapters are going to be long. the next chapter is going to finally get on with the actually story. Til then see you all.
