Long time no see... i thought the story is dead, thank to new readers for reviving the story, i don't own the story, this is a non-profit fanfic.

Arcangel cafeteria…


Arcangel had already been contacted by its allies, as he continue to ponder on the correct course of action, Setsuna decided now is a good time as any to head to the cafeteria.

He decided to take this opportunity to digest some nutrition peacefully, unfortunately for him even that insignificant wish couldn't be fulfilled, and the main reason would originate from the two noisy girls arguing over a similarly insignificant matter.

As the matter continues indefinitely, the familiar face of a comrade in arms entered the room.

"What happened?" ask Kira as he tried to understand the situation.

"It's the food for that girl, Miri wants Flay to bring it to her, Flay said no, they got upset just because of that" answered Kuzzey.

The brief explanation gives light to the event, and a certain innovator find the scene as an opportunity to access the psychology of the war, probably the orginal gear that makes the clock tick, the differences between a coordinator, and a natural.

"I don't want to, it's scary to go to a place that has a coordinator" Answered the red haired girl.

Perhaps the innovator was wrong, though the surface of the matter seems insignificant, the true value runs much deeper.

"Flay!" exclaim Marilia who obviously notice the presence of a brown-haired teenage in the room.

"Of course that doesn't include Kira, I understand that, but, that girl is from ZAFT right? A coordinator isn't just smart, they also have excellent reflexes, what happens if something goes wrong? Right?" Argued Flay, she even went as far as asking confirmation from Kira leaving the coordinator speechless.

Thanks to the little speech of her, Although Setsuna couldn't put that conclusion in words, but he finally understood it, the reason for the war, in its simplest form… Fear.

The natural envy the coordinator for their talents, and before long the envy turns to fear… fear of being replaced, fear of being oppressed, so they took the initiative, they tried to oppress the coordinators, but the coordinator are humans too.

The coordinator on the other hand would not be oppressed, not without a fight, and so one thing lead to another, an in the end… war.

As Setsuna continue to submerge himself in the ocean of emotion born from an insignificant squabbling, he even missed the entrance of a princess.

"My… whose really strong?" an innocent voice as beautiful as a silver bell sounded through the cafeteria, completely in contrast with the somewhat annoying pink ball flapping beside her who continues to make illogical remarks, it seemed this smaller HARO has a very limited vocabulary, not an uncommon feature for HARO's but atleast the HARO's back home could make basic repair or assist in battle... this one...

The quartet finally gathered enough wits to finally be shocked by the appearance of the princess.

"Ah, I'm sorry if I surprised you, I got thirsty, and please don't laugh at me, but I'm very hungry as well" explained the polite princess, however not even someone with an excellence reflexes as Kira still couldn't come up with a reply yet.

"Is this the cafeteria? I'd be happy if I can have something to eat" added Lacus politely, and true to his title, the one with excellent reflexes finally gathered enough wits.

"H..hold on a second!" maybe not quite excellent after all…

"They didn't lock your door?" Kuzzey who's supposedly gifted with a normal reflex were the first to voice a logical set of words.

"I don't understand! Why is a ZAFT girl walking around without permission?" a hint of fear gradually filled the red haired girl.

"Ara, I didn't get out without permission, I asked while I was in the room, 'is it ok for me to come out?' I did that three times!" the princess answered with overflowing innocence and pride.

"And, I don't belong to ZAFT, ZAFT is the name for the army, its officially known as the Zodiac Alliance of Freedo…." Although before she could finish her explanation she was rudely irrupted.

"You're all the same, you're all coordinators"

Normally the innovator would have intervene to prevent the event from taking a disastrous turn, but before he could acted, instead of lashing with fury from being directed with racism, the princess replied politely.

"We are not the same, though I am a coordinator, I am not military personnel" after briefly examines the appearance of the red haired girl she added.

"You are not military personnel either, right? If so, then we are the same. Sorry for the late greeting my name is…" although she continuously initiates the chance for mutual sense of humanism, she was constantly disrupted.

"You're a coordinator! Don't act like we can be friends!" Flay ended up saying an even worse statement as before, it can't be done, this child heart is still unprepared, no matter how much Lacus try, she would only ended up pushing the girl away from her.

Flay further outburst were hindered by a firm grip on her shoulder.

"That's enough miss. Kira please escort Miss Lacus back to her room" said Setsuna who had neatly returned his tray to the counter, even though he didn't know how to put his thoughts into words, he reached a conclusion, that for the moment, further dialog is impossible and would only worsen.

"Sai, Marilia, take care of your friend" said Setsuna as he too exited the cafeteria.

With Kira…

"I have to stay here, don't I" Lacus politely voices her thought.

"Yes, it seems to be that way"

"This is boring, I'm alone all the time, even though I want to talk to everyone" said Lacus as she dejectedly sits on the chair.

"That's because this is an Earth Alliance ship, and there are people… who don't like coordinators, besides, we're now at war…" Said Kira as his eyes stares into an empty space, the one who is hurt the most by Flay words weren't Lacus but instead is Kira.

"What a pity… but you are very kind, Thank you!" Said Lacus as she tried to lifts the heavy atmosphere.

"B… because I'm a coordinator too"

"But you are kind because you are yourself, right? Could I have your name please" said Lacus with an angelic smile.

"I'm KIra, Kira Yamato" answered the blushing Kira.

Time passes…

The news of their rendezvous with the earth alliance fleet had finally been speared across the ship, somewhat giving them a sense of calmness and relief, some sleep better during their time off, while other waiting patiently for the next event to unfold.

For Setsuna, the rendezvous would be the end for his travel with the Arcangel, he had no intention of joining either side of the war, and with the new information entering the ship he wouldn't be able to.


Arcangel Bridge…


"Three ships on radar, escort ships, Montgomery, Bernard, Law" the cheers of the crew echoes through the ship as their ally entered their radar field of detection.

But just as quickly as the light atmosphere were broken with the detection of battle-like heat pattern wave, from their supposed to be escort.

"Exia, Lieutenant Seiei, to the linear catapult"the operator voice echoes through the launch deck, as soon as the red light turn to green the Exia R2 is being catapult into battle.

"Mobius Zero-type, Lieutenant Flaga, to the catapult" and similarly the Zero exited the Arcangel with great speed.

"You're late kid!"

" I'm sorry!" replied Kira as he entered the Strike cockpit.

"To the catapult, Launcher Striker, stand by, system all green, route clear, Strike, go ahead"

Exia who is equipped with one of strike spare shields entered the battlefield, his main task is to confront the opponent leader, in this case Aegis while Launcher strike would back him up with support fire, the main idea was to swiftly eliminate Aegis, with the unit spearheading the assault gone, things would be in their favour, if only the GUNDAMs pilot were out for blood.

The two unit begin their dog fight as the Aegis wisely avoided close combat with the terrifying close range oriented white suit, however if he strayed too far away from the Excalibur the Strike would have clean shot at him.

The red machine turns and twist to maintain the range, however the Excalibur pilot isn't a rookie, could it be that the pilot is also a coordinator?

But before long he ended being force to enter melee combat, The Aegis quickly activate its wrists mounted beam saber to parry the terrifying green blade, the footage from the last battle teaches them how deadly the enormous blade could be.

And even though the Aegis intercept to enormous blade with two blades and a full thrust, it was single handedly thrown back, however instead of pursuing the tumbling red machine, the Excalibur uses the momentum from the impact to quickly distance himself from the red suit.

And the answer came at last minute from the tail of Athrun eye as he saw the Strike pointing its equally terrifying 320-millimeter ultrahigh-impulse cannon at him, however due to a stroke of luck, the pilot of the Strike… Kira had a moment of hesitation, and he narrowly escapes the blue red beam of annihilation.

A normally a waste of such perfect opportunity would earn the pilot of the Strike, harsh curse and abusive words, however instead of that a mere silence greeted him as the Exia re-engage the red machine who quickly increases the distance between them.

"Kira, Lieutenant Flaga machine in damaged, cover him" ordered Setsuna as he continues to engage the Aegis.

The strike quickly changed target and narrowly saved the Zero from an additional damage from the pursuing GINN.

Having Kira to snipe the Aegis had been a huge mistake, he always felt the warring emotions between the two unit whenever they were in combat before, and the slip fortify his assumption, Kira would have less trouble engaging the Duel, Blitz, Buster, or any other machine, but as soon as the Aegis entered the equation things would go south.

Without the support from Strike, Aegis quickly opted for a long range combat, its trusty 60mm high Energy Beam Rifle continues to spit yellow light of death, however to his dismay he couldn't even force the Excalibur to use the shield as the white machine easily and effectively turns and twist to avoid his highly accurate shots.

And on the other hand, whenever the white machine uses its beam rifle to return the shots, he was forced to block it with the Aegis shield.

"Who the hell are you?! Are you too a coordinator? Why are you guys siding with them?" Athrun shouts through the frequency he usually uses to communicate with Strike.

" I'm not a coordinator" Replied the Excalibur pilot calmly.

"Impossible, for a natural to pilot a mobile suit to this extend, that's a lie!" Shouts Athrun.

"Is that it?"

"What do you mean?!" Athrun shout while simultaneously shoot at his opponent.

"Is that the reason you fight? Is that the reason you kill in this war? Because you are superior to the naturals?" and with that the finger that is about to squeeze the yellow death trigger stopped.

"What do you know? You are the first one to kill! You were the one who destroyed Junius seven!" In a rare moment, the usually calm Athrun abandoned his rifle and madly entered close quarters combat.

But instead of shredding his opponent to pieces, the Excalibur pilot instead block the swing with its shield and sword.

"Is that the reason you fight? So then when will you stop? After you kill every single one of the natural? And how different are you compared to the ones who killed your loved ones?" the voice of the Excalibur pilot felt cold through his ears.

Just before he could further argue his point, a huge explosion shakes the battlefield, Montgomery has fallen.

And not a moment later a voice of a female earth alliance resounded through the communication system of the war field.

"Message to ZAFT forces, this is an Earth Alliance vessel, The Archangel! Right now we have onboard, the daughter of the chairman if the PLANT high council, Siegel Clyne's daughter, Lacus Clyne! We found her in an ejection pod by accident, and are treating her in accordance to basic human rights and civility, however, if we are fired upon by any of your ships, her safety is forfeit"

"That is despicable! Taking a civilian that you rescued as a hostage… is that your kind of justice? I will rescue her… Definitely!" the Aegis then retreat from the battle.

"There are things that you can and cannot do…" mutter Setsuna softly.

As Setsuna exits his suit he could hear Kira`s angered tone.

"What's this all about?"

"Whatever…, you heard right? That's how it is" replied Mu.

"Taking her as a hostage, threatening her and then running away… is that what the Earth Alliance is about?" Kira continue to confront the lieutenant, he couldn't understand, that even the lieutenant disapprove the current situation, but what's done is done.

The lieutenant then turns sharply at him "Not being able to do anything but shameful things like that… it's because we're weak, right? Be it you or I, we have no right to criticize the captain or the vice-captain"

And Kira couldn't come with a comeback, he should been capable of defending the Montgomery but in the end he was too late, as soon as the Montgomery main cannon destroyed, the ship became defenseless, and no matter what he do, he couldn't shield the ship from the twin 177cm high-energy beam cannon.

to be continue


lol after such a long hiatus i only publish that much? sorry ka ka, but between the busy schedule (no longer a NEET) (SDGO) i was thinking of a rewrite, the previous chapter was done in haste and after reading it even i down vote it, is it ok for a rewrite?