Disclaimer: The only characters I own, are Samuel and his clones. And the only machines I own, is the Astray Jade Frame.
Ok, I know this is a bit faster than I would of liked, but As I am working again, it will take some time for future chapters, however, I hope you all enjoy this one.
Chapter 09: Sibling Rivalry
Upon turning miss Clyne to her people, the Jade Frame, Mobius Zero, and the Strike all touched down within the Archangel's hangar. Five people were waiting for them, and they were actually just Mina, and the clones of Samuel. Each of them, went for the Jade Frame, as the cockpit opened, and the catwalk got into position. "Samuel, what the hell is going on?" Mina asked, as she floated to his machine, only allowing him, to take the helmet that he wore off.
"I helped take a friend to safety, she was not safe aboard this ship, and neither are we." He told her, as she looked at him in wonder of what was going through his head.
"Hey Kid!" Mwu called up to them, as the Mobius did not need a Catwalk to be boarded or disembarked. "You as well Samuel, Mina, the Captain would like all of you to meet at the Captain's office ASAP, so we can discuss these things." Mwu smirked, as he left the hangar, as Samuel began to role his eyes.
"What do they want this time?" Samuel wondered, as all Kira did was silently followed the man.
"I heard its suppose to be some kind of court martial or something." Saxen informed him, as the six of them, drifted off where Mwu and Kira vanished, so they could go to the Captains office, for what was to be discussed. Within a few moments, as they left the hangar, a pair of armed soldiers escorted the six coordinators to the Captain's office. However, in a sense, these Orb Natives, just continued down the path towards the office, wondering exactly what this was all going to be about.
"Each of you will wait here, until we get a few things straightened out." One of the soldiers told them, as he then looked at them.
"The Captain has informed us, Miss Sahaku, if you wish, you can defend both of the defendents for the actions they have taken. If you do not agree, lieutentant La Flaga will do so." The other soldier informed her, as Savir, looked at the man, as he looked that the man held the holster where his gun is suppose to be.
"I see, I choose to defend Samuel, then, I think Flaga will do nicely for Kira as is." she replied to him, as he nodded then left into the room.
"Captain, the first ones for the trial have arrived, Miss Sahaku will be defending Mr. Joule" The soldier told the people of the room.
"Very well, send Miss Sahaku, and Samuel in." Murrue's voice ordered them. With that, the soldier motioned both of the Orb representatives into the room. Inside waiting were Murrue Ramius who just looked uncertain of what to do with this situation. To her left, was Natarle, who looked very disapproving with what has happened.
Mwu passed Mina a regulations book, as all three of the officers were in full uniform, even Mwu wore the hat which was apart of the standard uniform. "Here you may need this, however I really doubt you will." he told her, as Samuel took the chair infront of the Captain, as Mwu went to the corner and Mina sat where Mwu once was.
"This Court Martial is now in session." Murrue stated, as she looked over to Mina. "Miss Sahaku will be your counsel, while Ensign Badgiruel as the prosecution." She informed them, as Mina had to go with what her heart or head told her in this. "Ensign Badgiruel, you may begin to tell him what Crimes he has committed." she told her.
Natarle nodded to her captain, "Of course, however, only two crimes have been committed by acting crewman Samorei Joule One was the theft of Earth Forces property, as well as the aiding, and abetting the escape of a prisoner of war." with that last part, Mina looked at the Ensign with a serious look.
"I object!" she called out, causing Samuel to smirk at the woman he had a love interest with. "The MBF-P04 Astray Jade Frame is not of the Earth Forces, it still belongs to the Orb Goverment! So the charge of theft, would be more upon your own selves if he is not able to use such a machine." she told them. "And I also object on the view of Lacus Clyne, when she arrived, she was appointed as an honored guest, not a P O W." she told them. "For the Jade Frame, he may fly it to defend this ship, but he is of not an Earth Forces soldier, nor does he fall into the jurisdiction of these accusations" she protested to her.
Ramius took everything that was just said by Mina and smiled. "Understood Mina, as of this, all accusations towards Samorei are now dismissed." She pointed out, as Mina smiled at this, and sat down upon the seat that was behind her.
"But Captain, Miss Clyne was a very important piece for stopping ZAFT from attacking us." Natarle told her captain.
"And that is why, if I did not help in her escape, just think of this Natarle, she would be used, in much worst ways than one could imagine. I for one, know what I speak of." Samuel told them. "Trust me on this, Earth Forces are not that great, when they get a coordinator in their ranks. Especially when the top brass gets to them." he told them.
"What are you getting at?" Mwu asked the second generation of coordinator.
"It is something, that someday you will find out, but not now." he told Mwu, but just allowing the mobile armor pilot to see just his left eye.
"Alright then, you have nothing to worry about anymore Samuel, you and Mina may leave, and when you do so, send in Mr. Yamato." Murrue told them. With that, each of the two walked out, with Mina giving Mwu his regulations book once again, as they left. "Looks like with what he brought up, we should go a bit easier on Kira." she commented.
"I wonder, what more secrets he is still hiding from us." Mwu wondered.
"More than we may ever understand." Murrue commented on the small subject.
Archangel Corridors:
Samuel and Mina floated down the corridors as Samuel caught sight of one person that he already felt very bad for what he failed to do. "Flay." he said, as the red headed girl looked up, looking at him with sadness in her eyes.
"Samuel." she said as she floated over to him. "I want to apologize to you, and you as well Mina." Flay said with sadness in her voice.
"Flay, I accept the apology." Mina told her, as Samuel nodded in agreement. "We already know what you must be going through, so we are not being hard on you for it." She told her.
"Yeah Flay, so don't worry about it. However, I do suggest you apologize to Kira as well." Samuel told the young girl, as he then looked at Mina. "I'm heading off to go over the Jade Frame again, or do some work on it." he told her, as he left the area in the elevator heading down.
Lauraisa Frigate Gamow
The three Gundam pilots of the Blitz, Buster, and the Duel gathered around the map display, in the middle of the bridge. "It's true we will be able to catch up with the legged ship before they meet with the Eighth fleet." Nicol pointed out. "However, we will only have ten minutes before entering its fireing range." he brief the other two, Yzak and Dearka.
"This is no problem then, however we still have that little thing Creuset spoke of." Yzak told them.
"Oh, that of your brother right?" Dearka commented.
"My brother died at Junius Seven, and I wont let that damn Natural soil the name of Joule." Yzak told his blonde friend. "So, we have ten minutes, or do we have ten minutes only. Its only a matter on how you think of this." he commented, as he still continued to think of what Rau briefed for the Gamow since Lacus was retrieved by the Vesailius. "It would be a sheer shame, if we let the Legged ship, escape with us having those ten minutes." he commented to the other two.
"I agree. Whether a surprise attack succeeds or not, does not depend on the amount of time we have." Dearka added in.
"The Vesalius will be arriving to back us up, once it drops off Lacus Clyne and as long as she is no longer a factor, so we can take out legged ship at our leisure." Yzak added in with sarcasm within his voice. "Lets take out the legged ship, and destroy that imposter before they get back, got it"
"Ok" Dearka told him with a thumbs up.
"Understood." Nicol reluctantly agreed.
Archangel Bridge:
Natarle, and Murrue were watching the endless place known as space, as Natarle walked closer to her commander. "It will be another half an hour till we get to the rendezvous point." Natarle informed her captain.
"Its still amazing that we even got this far." Murrue sighed, knowing they were getting ever so close to her idol.
"All operators, stay on full alert!" Natarle ordered. "The fleet is highly visible, and can be a large visual to the enemy ships." she ordered.
"Yes ma'am" the operators all called out.
Archangel Hangar:
Samuel sat in the cockpit of the Jade Frame, as he did various works on the machine, and now not hiding his true ablities, he was using his actual coordinator speed at typing. Infact, he was actually copying what data was on the machine onto a disc. "A lot of things are happening now." He commented, as he looked out into the hangar, seeing the Strike, standing on the starboard side of the ship. 'Now, with ZAFT knowing I still live, I wonder what Yzak and mom are doing now?' he wondered to himself.
"Hey Kid." Murdoch said, from just outside the cockpit.
"Holy cow, Murdoch!" Samuel called out in surprise, not expecting to see the mechanic. "Well, what is it?" he asked the man.
"I've been wondering, where you studied for Mechanics?" he asked the coordinator.
"I forget the place now, its been a long time since I went there, I mainly went to the College on Heliopolis was to review."
"I see. Hey mind giving us a hand with the Strike for a bit?" he asked, as he floated over to the railing of the catwalk.
"Sure just give me a little more time, I'm almost done of Jade's." he continued to type, as he was bringing up a lot of data on the Jade Frame, and its weaponry, and Binsoku pack. With that, he ejected the disc, and placed it safely in his clothing, and went to help with the Strike.
Archangel Cafeteria:
Sai and Kuzzey were in a middle of a discussion, as one of the topics however the three friends only shared glances with each other, as Kira went to get a drink. However, Sai noticed someone that came in behind Kira. "Flay!" he said surprised, to see that she was even walking about, since her father died she has been resting in bed. However, all she did was stare blankly at Kira. Sai got up, to go to her, "Flay shouldn't you be in bed?" he asked her.
"Don't worry Sai, I'm alright." she told him, as she then went over to Kira, who she had hurt with her words after her dads death. "Kira. . . I apologize for what I said, prior to my fathers death." she told the Strike pilot. "At the time, I was, in termoil, and said things I should not have said. I am really sorry." she told him.
"Flay" Kira notioned, as Flay looked saddened within her eyes.
"I know, that you and Samuel both fought your hardest to protect the Archangel, I just want you to know Kira, I am behind you all the way." She told him, as Kira just looked at the girl he has had a crush on for such a long time.
"Flay it's ok. And I know, it is because of my friends I wont let anything happen to this ship." Kira told her. "I am sorry I could not protect your father, however, I will protect you and the others." he told her.
"All I wish, is that this war will end quickly." she nearly whispered, as Kira nodded in agreement.
"We all do Flay, believe me on that." as all of a sudden, the battle alarm began to go off throughout the ship.
Archangel Bridge:
Upon moments earlier, Mina had arrived, to discuss future plans for herself and Samuel. However, their discussion, was just interupted, my Romero Pal. "N Jammer interference increasing!" Romero called out.
"Damn!" Murrue called, as Natarle left where she stood, down to supervise the CIC battle. While Murrue went and got into the Captains Chair, as Mina went towards where the door was, to leave the bridge, as it is somewhere she does not belong.
"Just minutes before the Rendezvous." Natarle pointed out, as Murrue began what her position is meant to do.
"Got to level one battle stations, prepare for anti mobile suit, and anti ship battle!" Murrue ordered out, as the entire Archangel went into alert.
In the hangar, Samuel left where he was working, to get to the Pilots room, to put on his flight suit once again. Within moments, he was ready, as just he did, Mwu had arrived when Samuel went through the door. Once Sam was in the hangar once again, he launched himself to the Jade Frame. As he did, Mwu got into his own cockpit, while Samuel strapped himself into his own machine, as he began to turn on its main power. "Samuel, Mwu!" Mir called to them through the radio. "The Opposition is one Lauraisa class, The Blitz, the Buster, and the Duel." Mir briefed the two pilots, as their machines were loaded onto the catapults, with the Jade Frame getting its Binsoku pack once again.
"So, he is among them. Brother, I'm sorry, but I must protect this ship, even from my own family. However, i will not let that pain hurt mother ever again." Samuel told himself, as he got the all clear to launch. "Binsoku Jade Frame Heading out!" he called, as the mobile suit, launched into space changing from its dull gray to its white and jade colors.
"Mwu La Flaga, Launching!" Mwu told them, as his Mobile armor blasted off.
Within moments though, Mir gave the same briefing to Kira, as the Strike got ready to launch using its Aile Striker Pack for this battle.
"Kira Yamato Launching!" Kira called out, as the Strike Gundam, as the formation of the two Mobile Suits, and the Mobile Armor began to head towards the three incoming mobile suits.
Yzak, Dearka, and Nicol all went into a strange formation, as the three machines went back to back, twirling in a circle heading towards the Legged Ship. That was when Samuel noticed something on his own scanners. "Everyone Scatter!" he called, as with that, the two mobile suits, and mobile armor broke formation, just at the same time as the three stolen G-Weapons as a large pillar of a beam cannon blast from the Gamow passed by the mobile suits, and nearly hitting the Archangel itself.
"Damn, using those machines to hide their ships attacks, Impressive." Mwu commented, as the Mobius Armor went after the stolen units.
"Yzak, its just like you doing this." Sam told himself, as he charged for the incoming machines.
Yzak, began to take charge of the situation with the three G-Weapons. "Nicol!" he called to the Blitz's pilot. "You go for the Legged Ship, Dearka you'll take the Mobile Armor, and I will handle the Imposter and the Strike!" Yzak told them, as they all split, as Mwu tried to hit each of them with his wired Gunbarrels.
A few of the shots of the mobile Armor's kinetic weapons, which did not phase the Buster, besides doing some damage to his energy. "Those weapons, useless." Dearka commented, as he fired twice from his own weaponry.
"Lieutenant!" Kira called out, as he fired at the Buster, however the Duel began to go in for the Strike, firing its own rifle.
"No you don't." Samuel called, blocking the three shots aimed for the Strike, with its shield.
Yzak's Duel, drew its beam sabre, as it raced right for the Jade frame, and the so called imposter. "How dare you soil the Joule name!" Yzak yelled, as he had every intention to destroy the Jade Frame . Samuel saw this coming from his brother, as he blocked the beam sabre with his shield, while changing weapons with the other hand. The two machines split from their battle, and clashed with beam sabres once again.
"Kira, go help outMwu!" Samuel ordered his friend, as the beam of the Duel's sabre began to shed some light upon the Jade Frames own head. "Yzak!" Samuel yelled, as he switched to the duel's frequency.
"Shut up you damn Natural, my brother is dead!" Yzak yelled, as the duel backed off, then came in again, as the two sabres clashed together, in a brilliant array of heated colors.
"Your wrong Yzak, I am the one you speak of!" Samuel called back, as the Jade Frame began to move the sabres towards the Duel, which broke the lock of beams, backing away.
"Shut up you damn bastard, my brother died at Junius Seven!" Yzak yelled, as his anger was beginning to cloud his judgement.
"Yzak, if you want to know for sure who I am, ask a question that only Samorei can answer!" he told the duel pilot, as the two machines squared off with each other.
"Fine then, my brother has had three girlfriends, who was the third one?" Yzak asked him as the Duel threw away its shield, as the Jade Frame followed suit,a s both machines were now using two beam sabres. With that, the two machines came together once again, as the four beam sabres connected with each other, leaving their shields floating in space.
"Fine, I will tell you, Allenby Hahenfuss!" Samuel answered, as his machine backed away once again, firing its CIW's at the duel to no effect, other than just shaking the mobile suit up.
However, back with Dearka, Mwu, and Kira. The three machines dance, with none of them getting a real hit, as Dearka combined his launcher, and beam rifle together, to create high energy beam rifle, as both mobile weapons dodged the attack. "Persistent you two are." Dearka commented, as he dodged the beam rifle attack from the Strike, do for not having his own anti beam shield. Dearka then returned fire as the shoulder compartments of the Buster opened, as a barrage of Missiles fired at the Strike, and Mobius' deployed Gunpods. Most of them dodged the attack, however one Gunpod was destroyed in the attack.
"Damn." Mwu grunted, as he turned around and opened fire with his Linear Cannon, as the Buster dodged its attack.
"Not today, you damn fool." Dearka told him, as he reversed his connection of his rifles, into a live ammo shotgun, firing at the Mobile Armor, barely nicking the machine.
"Mwu!" Kira called out, as the Strike came in with beam sabre a blaze, which the Buster dodged it, and fired hitting the strike with its shotgun.
"Damn, do these guys ever give up, we out number them three to two. Speaking of which, where is that other machine?" Mwu wondered.
As at that moment, the Blitz was heading right for the Archangel, which was already busy with the constant attacks from the Gamow. However, as the Blitz dodged an attack from the Archangel's valiants vanished using the colloid particles. "Captain, I've lost the Bliz!" Jackie Tonomura called out.
Ramius however did not panic, because she knew its capabilities. "Its gone under Mirage Colloid." She stated. "Fire Anti Beam Deph Charges!" she ordered, as the archangel launched the defencive weapons she ordered to be fired.
"Replace all anti beam deph charges, and anti shrapnel warheads!" Natarle ordered the crew. With that, the anti beam deph charges fired, exploding very close to the ship, making an explosion that allowed the beam hit by the deph charge reflecting away from the ship. "Triangulate the Blitz' position from that shot!" Natarle ordered, as it was done. "FIRE!" she called out.
Nicol fired another attack on the Archangel, however he grimaced, as a cluster of the warheads were coming his way. However, as the missiles came at him, with no way to avoid them, the Mirage Colloid was deactivated, as its phase shift reactivated with him taking the hits to his shield now, for less of an aftershock to his own person. "Of course, you were the ones who made this machine, of course you know its weaknesses." Nicol grimaced, as he made some minor adjustments, as he went under Mirage Colloid once again.
Natarle knew he would do this, and made the necessary order. "Set Igelstellungs to manual, and fire them randomly!" She ordered, as the Igelstellungs went crazy firing every which way.
However, back at the mobile suit battles. Samuel had the Jade Frame dodge a horizontal attack, and then a vertical attack from the Duel's beam sabre and Yzak's rage. "You cannot be my brother!" he yelled, slashing at the Jade Frame once again, blocking the Duel with the two beam sabres.
"Yzak, you must believe me!" Samuel called back to him, as the Jade Frame made no real attack attempts on the Duel, as most of the time, it was just parrying the Duel's attacks.
"No I will not believe no damn Natural!" he yelled back, as the duel came in full force, firing its own Igelstellungs missing the Jade Frame completely, as it made a vertical climb, or so it would if it was in atmosphere.
"Yzak, I am telling you the truth! You are in denile of the truth!" Samuel called out to his brother, as the Jade Frame was running away from the Duel by going in reverse.
"Then," Yzak began to muffle, as one of his beam sabres came down upon the Jade Frame, which got its beam sabre in the path just before the sabre could come back down upon the cockpit of the mobile suit. Yzak began to mumble as he thought of the one thing that only Samorei would know. "Then tell me Natural, what did my brother use to call me, before I became a teen?" Yzak asked him, as Samuel was confused with what he meant, as the beam sabres clashed once again.
"Man, and you told me never to call you this again. isn't that right Doll, or should I say, Silver Dollar." Samuel replied, which caused the Duel to stop right where it was.
"It, it can't be!" Yzak said surprised, as the Duel stopped right in its current position. "Samorei, what the hell is going on?" Yzak yelled at him as the beam sabres stayed out, while the two machines stared down each other.
"As you stated, I'm suppose to be dead, however I have been living at Orb, with the Sahaku's." Samuel began to explain to his brother, as the two machines continued their stale mate of just looking upon each other. "I have been with them, for nearly a year, and was apart of the project, that your machine was from, and how I got this machine." he told the younger of the Joules. "Yzak Move!" Samuel warned him, as both of the two machines dodged an attack from the Archangel's gottfrieds.
"Why the hell are you with these natural's?" Yzak bellowed at the Jade Frame, as its beam sabre came down upon the frame once again.
"Because, the person who has housed me, and has makin my life better is on board that ship!" Sam answered his brother. "In which, I will fight to protect her, even from, my own family." he shot at the Duel, as the beam sabres connected with each other once again.
"Then, I have no choice, but to take you down, permanently this time!" Yzak yelled, as he scored a lucky shot, as the leg of the Jade Frame, was sliced away by the Duel.
"Damn!" Sam called out, as the rest of his machine flew away from the Duel Gundam. However, Samuel's own problems were not as severe as the Archangel herself.
The two mother ships fired at each other, however, the Gamow landed a hit on the post side of the Archangel. As it and even the Blitz was right on the ship, right where none of the ships weaponrycould reach the mobile suit. "Heat distriubtion systems can't keep up!" Chandra reported the current status of the ship. "Armor Temperatures are rising to fast!" he called out.
"Damn, we will only be able to take only a few more hits." Murrue said with anger in her voice, as the ship was getting beat, in this time limited battle. "Turn to Starboard 20 Degree's, we need to get out of the path of the Lauraisa!" She ordered.
"Where are our Mobile Suits!" Natarle ordered, as Mir got right on this little problem.
"Kira, Samuel, the Blitz is right besides us!" She franticly called, as both machines heard the called, as the Jade Frame looked over towards the Earth Forces ship.
Kira stopped his own attack of double teaming the Buster, as both of the machines sped off towards the Archangel. However, as the Buster was busy with the Zero, the Duel went to stop the Jade Frame. "You are not going anywhere!" He yelled.
For Kira, however, images of the destruction of the Montgomery flowed through his head, and the words that haunted him, from what Flay had yelled after the day it was destroyed. As well, many images of his friends flowed through his mind. Behind Kira's eyes, a amethyst seed floated down within his mind, as it shattered into thousands of pieces. When Kira finally opened his eyes, they were unnaturaly clear. "I wont let, any of you sink the archangel." Kira calmly told them, as he hit the thrusters fully, heading towards the archangel. However, the Buster fired at Kira, with him just dodging it. "Let me help my friends!" Kira yelled, as both his beam sabres ignited, with him going right for the buster.
"WHAT!" Dearka yelled as the Strike came in, with four precise slashes, destroy all four of the Buster's weaponry. "Damn, what the hell, they are all gone?" he called, as the Strike never stayed to finish him off, as it went right after the Blitz.
However, for Yzak, he cut the Jade Frame off, as the two machines faced each other, "You are not going anywhere Samorei, I'm taking you back home!" Yzak yelled at the Jade Frame.
"I wont go, not now, The woman I will die protecting is on that Ship!" He told his brother, closing his eyes. Then his eyes widened, even though in full focus, his eyes however had crows feet on both sides of them, as they showed pure anger within them. The Jade Frames own eyes however changed color, from their usual amber, to the ghostly white once again. "I WONT EVEN LET YOU GET IN MY WAY!" Samuel yelled, as the Jade Frames thrusters went into full gear. Samuel, got the mobile suit, to slam one of the beam sabres away from the Duel, as it then threw one of its own right at the machine. Yzak was not lucky enough to get away, as the beam penetrated the upper body of the Duel, right through the neck, causing a chain reaction within the Duel itself, with its instruments going crazy. Even some of it, exploded on the inside, sending shrapnel right into Yzak's helmet, slicing his face. Even though the Jade Frames sabre was loss in the passing through, it grabbed the Duel's floating sabre, and flew off towards the Archangel along with the strike.
"AHH, it burns, it Burns, it Burns!" Yzak yelled, as he held his face in pain, not truly even believeing that his own brother had done this to him. While at the Archangel, Nicol stopped his constant attack on the ships structure, finally realizing what has happened to Yzak. However, he had to deal, with the incoming mobile suits, that were using in a way, rage as their power now.
"STOP IT!" Kira yelled, as he came at the Blitz, with his beam sabre ignited. The Blitz, jumped out of the path of the beam sabre, as the machine then tossed its sabre away, and then thrusting to the blitz once again, slamming its knee into the black Gundam's Torso.
"Leave us ALONE!" Samuel yelled, as his own mobile suit, shoulder tackled the blitz away from the Archangel.
"AHHH!" Nicol yelled, as his machine was knocked back a good amount of distance. "Damn, the Eight Fleet." he whipsered, as he went and grabbed Yzak and his damaged Duel. "Dearka!"
"I know, we got to retreat now, otherwise we wont stand a chance!" Dearka called back, as the three stolen G-Weapons flew away, while Kira landed on the deck of the Archangel, while the Jade Frame flew close to the bridge of the Archangel, with the Jade Frame's eyes returning to normal as well, as Samuel's own face.
Samuel though, unlike Kira, who just breathed heavily from exhaustion. Samuel hugged his chest, from the pain of what had just happened. "So this is what it feels like after I do that." Samuel told himself as he cringed in pain, as he did manage to have the Jade Frame, sheath both of its sabres.
"They are in full retreat, Kira Samuel, that was great!" Mwu called, as he congratualted the two of them.
"Lieutenant." Kira calmly said, as he was still in shock of what he had just done.
"No, not great, that was unbelievable!" the Zero pilot called to them, amazed of what he had seen by the two mobile suit pilots.
"Not Really." Kira told him, taking in, that what he did, was what he had to do.
Then, the words, that the entire ship has been waiting for, for so long were spoken. "Its the Eighth Fleet, We made it!" the words went through everyones heads.
However, not all was right, as Samuel hit the comlink to the bridge. "Captain." Samuel managed, as on the bridge, the view of his cockpit came on the main vid screen. "Get the doctor." He told them, as they caught a glimpse of Samuel's being on the screen. He was hugging his chest in pain from what he had done.
A/N: Another Chapter done, and it's still the same stature of what I have done. Now, everyone has seen how Yzak is looking at his brother right now, and of what his brother did to him, for just wanting to protect Mina. Now that is a person who is willing to protect the person he cares for to the very end.
Now, the main question is, what is with Samuel's machine, and what is up with him? Only time can tell.
