Chapter 9
Part 1
Author: Chihiro-sama
There was much confusion. Murrue demanded that he explain his meaning, but the man in the captain's hat was rather incomprehensible, and in the meantime Azrael and Badgiruel were still arguing and everyone could hear them. Finally, Naruto, of all people, remedied the situation when he said, while leaning against the door to the bridge, "Oh - a white robot shaped like an egg? Someone left one lying around in the galley. I put it by the refrigerator . . . "
"Then go get it!" snapped Murrue.
"H-hai! . . . " Naruto hurried away to get it.
"That little thing?" Cagalli muttered in her mobile suit. "I had no idea-!"
"We will return your robot immediately," Murrue said to the man in the hat. "And you should surrender. Right now," she said to Badgiruel and Azrael.
"Okay, okay!" Badgiruel said. She promptly knocked Azrael out and said, "Will you lock this guy up for me?"
So, the crew of the Dominion was taken prisoner. They didn't know quite where to put all of their prisoners; the brig was pretty large but not that large. All of their other prisoners, interestingly enough, had turned out to be allies. Murrue ran a very strange ship. They put a lot of the prisoners in regular rooms and locked them. Murrue felt bad locking Badgiruel up but not bad locking Azrael up.
The only problem, really, was that the little robot named Wall-e wouldn't let Eve go. He was gripping Naruto's leg when Naruto came back to the bridge, panting, holding the unconscious Eve.
"Help me," said Naruto. "This robot dude won't leave me alone."
Cagalli, who could hear the goings on from the bridge because the communicator was still on, shook her head wearily. "He's persistent."
They decided in the end to send both little robots over to the other ship using a life pod. The man with the captain's hat thanked them and then the huge ship schlepped away.
Then they decided to have another party.
Chapter 9
Part 2
Author: Shirori Hitohana
They quickly forgot about this idea of having a party when they realized two very large problems; one, with all the people from the Dominion locked up, there was no one to pilot it; the Archangel was understaffed as it was, and could hardly spare anyone to pilot this other Archangel class. There was also the problem that they heard about through Azrael, as he blathered on and on about destroying the coordinators with some huge attack force. So, the three/four-ships alliance conferred with one another and decided going to help the PLANTs and end the war was more important than a party.
In the meantime, they decided they needed to speak with members of the Dominion's crew. Doing so, they found many malcontents who didn't hate coordinators, but who had been drafted, or forced by their families, or by some other outside force, into fighting the war. They set these members free and allowed them back on the Dominion; the new captain of the Dominion was a coordinator, Martin DaCosta to be exact, and other members of the crew were spliced together from the Eternal, Kusanagi, and Archangel, so that the freed members of the Dominion couldn't steal the controls, but could help if they honestly wanted to.
Now that they had the Dominion problem under control, they began making their way to fight to end the war. What no one realized, however, was that, in the kitchen, a dog and a frog (oh, wait, excuse me, a toad), were speaking with Naruto.
"According to the Hokage, you can go back now," the dog, named Pakkun, informed him. "All you have to do is let this toad take you to his world and then in a couple minutes Jiraiya will summon you back."
Chapter 9
Part 3
Author: Dragonwiles
"Really?" Naruto said enthusiastically. "I've always wanted to know what your world is like?"
"Oh, it's great," said the young toad cheerfully. "Swamps as far as the eye can see."
"Oh," Naruto responded, rather less enthusiastically. "Well, anyhow, so I just need to let him take me there?"
"That's right," responded Pakkun.
"That's easy, believe it!" Naruto said gleefully.
"Right," Pakkun said, disbelievingly. When had Naruto ever managed anything the easy way?
"OK, so just hop in my mouth," the young toad invited him.
"You've got to be kidding me," Naruto said, looking down at the normal-sized toad.
"Hey, do I have to shout? Hop in my mouth! That's the way to get home." the toad repeated.
"Even if you say that, there's no way that's going to happen!" Naruto insisted.
Pakkun sighed.
Meanwhile, the four ships had found the large Earth Alliance task force approaching Jachin Due. They needed to maneuver very carefully now, because the defending ZAFT vessels didn't consider the five ships friendly, any more than the Earth Alliance vessels did.
Duo looked at the armadas and commented, "You guys do have some friends, right?"
"You are our friends," Mu said sardonically.
"How encouraging," Leia murmured to herself.
"I'm encouraged having me for a friend," Han joked.
