Gundam SEED: Destiny Falling
By: Shadow Chaser
A Sequel to Entropy Rising
Phase Nine – Shaping the Past
Rodina, Siberia
"You were supposed to be discreet."
"I felt it most opportune to break their will."
"You could have accomplished your goals without the unnecessary fireworks."
"True, but then again, would have you have anticipated that he get the nuke out of the ship in time?"
"Point taken. But I still would have liked that failure to have died. One is enough…"
"Do you want me to go back and kill them? They have barely any defenses and the populace is frightened."
"Chaos is one aspect, but that will be unnecessary."
"As ordered, sir."
"Tell me, what did you think?"
"If he was one hundred percent, then it would have been a magnificent battle."
"Which one?"
"Both."
"Ah…then you're referring to those who fight destiny, the twin angels of hope and free will."
"Yes. Given the chance, I still think we should have destroyed them."
"Yes, but where's the fun in that when you can break both?"
"True, true."
"Are you enjoying your time at the moment?"
"Yes. He is a very complex character, one of the hardest I have yet to play."
"Then good; I have another task for you and your partner-in-crime."
"As you wish…"
"Oh…after we are done with that particular task, please return to the PLANTs. I will have a special task for you to do there if everything goes as I have predicted."
"Sir, so far you have never been wrong. I shall do as you ask."
"Thank you."
Onogoro Island, Orb
"Canard…"
The whisper of his name startled Canard Pars from where he was having a quiet conversation with Prayer and he looked up towards the source of the voice before all of the muscles in his body seemed to freeze up and tense. It was her…
She had not been the cruelest of them all, but she had been present whenever the others punished him for not exceeding their expectations. She never hurled the insults and derogatory statements at him, but instead was a silent and cool observer, always jotting notes down on her datapad and clipboard. She had always stared at him with calculating eyes, not unkind eyes, but not kind either. To her, he was probably just an experiment, a hypothesis, a test. To her, he was probably a failure, unworthy of attention after he kept failing, after he kept proving that he wasn't the Ultimate Coordinator.
She looked different now, her eyes worn by the ages of time, her face with more wrinkles than he had remembered. Even her hair was different, but her lab coat, this time adorned with the patches and stitching of Orb's Scientific Technologies, made her look the every inch he remembered her in.
"How do you know Canard Pars?" Athrun Zala's voice brought him back to the present and he saw her suddenly close down on her expression before shaking her head.
"Canard Pars? I'm sorry, Athrun, he just reminded me of another person I used to know named Canard," Dr. Kamiya shrugged to which he mentally raised an eyebrow and saw that Zala was also not buying her story. If she wanted to play this game, he would go along with it, until he could find out what her true motives were. He had no doubt that she was still the manipulative scientist that she was back on Mendel all those years ago. Age just made her better at hiding certain things.
"Okay…" Athrun looked at her carefully before shrugging and gestured to him, "Auntie, this is Canard Pars, one of the Junk Guild's pilots who helped us out in Berlin. Canard, this is Dr. Kanoko Yamato."
Canard forced himself not to start at her last name. Yamato…which was the same as Kira's last name. This was the woman to whom Kira called a mother?! Impossible… Even if she had changed her name, to him, she was still Dr. Caridad Kamiya, one of the chief scientists of Mendel. "Good to meet you," he nodded a greeting to which she inclined her head before turning to look at Prayer who had half a smile on his face.
"Prayer…you over did it didn't you?" her voice was soft and gentle, a complete contrast from what he remembered and he narrowed his eyes, wondering how did she know Prayer was a clone. He knew some of the details that Prayer had entrusted to him during the trip from Berlin to Orb, but he knew that he hadn't gotten the full story.
"I'm sorry, Dr. Yamato…I know I wasn't supposed to, but…" Prayer winced slightly and Canard realized that he was trying to get up and immediately placed a hand over his chest, pushing him back onto the bed.
"You're still too weak…" he gave him a pointed look.
"Ah…sorry Canard," Prayer stopped struggling and gave him a faint smile.
"How many did you take this time?" she asked, bringing out a small datapad from the folds of her lab coat.
"Three. I know last time I nearly overdosed on four, so I tried three, but I think the strain was too much for it," Prayer replied quietly.
"What are you talking about?"
"Prayer…I hope you didn't mind that I told Athrun about your condition," she asked and Canard felt his hackles rise. Who gave her the right to talk about Prayer being a clone to someone from the outside, especially someone like Zala. Granted he was Kira's best friend, but he was also the son of the late Patrick Zala and Canard didn't know where his real loyalties stood. He could have been making up all of that crap earlier regarding him being blackmailed into joining ZAFT's FAITH unit for all he knew…
He had given the copy of files they found on the Serpent unit to Zala, but what the man didn't know was he also kept a copy of the files just in case Zala was going to use it for nefarious purposes.
"It's because of Rau Le Creuset, isn't it?" Prayer glanced over to Zala and he nodded. "Then I don't mind, especially also since Reverend Malachio trusts you."
"What about Rau Le Creuset?" Canard was confused. Why mention the psychopathic commander of the ZAFT forces who held Patrick Zala's ear for all this time? He knew Zala had served under Le Creuset as part of his elite team before he defected and went AWOL from ZAFT during the war four years ago.
"During the latter half of the war, we discovered that Rau Le Creuset was a clone of a man named Al La Flaga, Mu La Flaga's father. Being cloned wasn't perfect and had its imperfections. Le Creuset had to taken pills to keep the pain and tremors that his fragmented DNA stable. It was something I discovered during my time with his unit, but I didn't realize the implications until the whole story was revealed to me," Zala said before glancing at Prayer, "you probably have to do the same, right?"
"Yes…and if I take too much of the pills, my body starts to reject its effect and it turns toxic. But if I end up straining myself…well," Prayer gave a small chuckle and Canard frowned. This was definitely no joking matter, but who in the world would even attempt to clone another person? Cloning was illegal in the Earth Sphere and even no doctor, not even the ones that had pushed him in the Eurasian Federation, would touch cloning with a ten foot pole.
The answer stared at him in the face and he mentally kicked himself for not figuring it out sooner. During the later stages of the Bloody Valentine War, before the Battle of Jachin Due, he had read reports that the Clyne Faction had taken up refuge in the remnants of Mendel and a three-way battle between OMNI, ZAFT, and Clyne Faction had broken out with it ending in a stalemate. This was where they probably learned Le Creuset was a clone…after all, who better than to try a new radical experiment than Dr. Ulen Hibiki?
"All right, I'll start you on the low dosage IV line for a few hours and you'll tell me how you feel afterwards, all right? We'll up the dosage if you still feel bad. I'll also need a sample of your blood just in case there are irregularities within your DNA that may have come up when you strained yourself."
"Doctor?"
"Yes Prayer?"
"I'm sorry…about Kira…"
"It's…not your fault…its no one's fault," her voice cracked slightly and Canard's gaze shot up to her. She looked genuinely sad and a part of him felt a bit guilty for treating her so hostilely even though it was mostly silent. She, after all, was Kira's caretaker and mother and when mothers lost their children, it was as if their whole world had dropped out from underneath them. If he had only been smarter, if he had only realized that the Dendrobium Orchis was armed with the same Armure Lumiere as his Hyperion Shiki did. If he hadn't been so hasty, so filled with rage at seeing Kira being taken away while they couldn't do anything, then maybe, maybe he would have made a difference.
"Canard?" her voice made him look up again and he saw what looked like the suspicious shine of unshed tears in her eyes. "Can you please bring Prayer to my lab in about half an hour? Lacus can direct you there as I need to talk to her too."
"S-Sure…" he replied hastily, unsure as to her abrupt request before she reached down and touched Prayer briefly on the cheek.
"Don't worry, you'll be back to normal in no time," she said soothingly before turning around and heading out, Athrun following her, looking a bit bewildered.
Canard watched the door close, knowing that in half an hour, he would get the answers his questions and the ultimate question for him, why she the only survivor of Mendel when all others had been slaughtered?
Athrun followed Kanoko off of the ship, noticing the way she glared pointedly at Yuuna Seran, as if daring him to quarantine her like the other Naturals aboard the Archangel, Kusanagi, and ReHOME.
"Lacus, a young man by the name of Canard Pars will be escorting my patient off of the Archangel in about half an hour. If you can show him the way to my lab, it would be much appreciated," she faced her before bowing slightly to the others, "please excuse me."
Athrun threw a hasty salute to Captain Gladys and Ramius before quickly following Kanoko, sensing that she wanted to talk. There was also the question of asking her if she knew about Rodina and what else about her hypothesis that this plague was created by Coordinators even though it was claimed by Blue Cosmos. Behind him he could hear the spluttering comments that Seran was making at his hasty departure and inwardly smiled. The less he had to see of that man, the better for the both of them.
He knew that a majority of the marriage proposals that had been hounding Cagalli for the past year were from Seran and the man knew that it must have irritated him to no end. He had even caught him trying to accost Cagalli more than once and one of the times, literally punched him in the face before telling Cagalli's estate guards to throw him out. That particular scenario had not ended quite as well as he had thought it would. It seemed that in the aftermath, Unato Seran had made it his personal mission to try to discredit him or at least get him away from Cagalli.
"Seran should shove it…trying to imply that I carry the stupid virus?" he heard Kanoko mutter mostly to herself and tried to suppress the small bark of laughter, but was a bit unsuccessful.
"Oh, I'm sorry Athrun, I shouldn't even be making comments like that right now," she shook her head and he nodded.
"I perfectly understand, Auntie. At least Rondo Mina is keeping him in line," he knew it was very rare to see the head of the Sahaku household on Earth and in Orb, but in the past year since the Talon Incident, the sharp-eyed woman had at least made an effort to make sure her house was represented in the Council meetings.
"I hope we find Cagalli and Kira before anything else happens," she murmured.
"That reminds me," he said as they worked their way through the corridors and into her lab, "do you know a place called Rodina?"
She stopped so abruptly that Athrun nearly ran into her before stopping himself. "Where did you hear that name?"
"The pilot of the Dendrobium gave us the coordinates to a place called Rodina in Siberia. I had figured that you or your husband would want to know where Kira and possibly Cagalli were taken."
He watched as she sat down heavily, staring at her computer screen for a while before turning to face him. She looked so old, he noticed, so old and so exhausted. "It's been a long time since anyone has mentioned Rodina," she sighed, "before my posting at Mendel and my work with Dr. Hibiki, I was at Rodina. I left due to conflicts of interest and because of differing issues."
Athrun suspected that there was more than what she was saying and wondered if anything else could be more than the bombshell she had dropped upon him and Lacus regarding their genetic histories a year ago. "There's more, isn't there?"
Kanoko nodded before composing herself, "Its best if you waited until Lacus arrived. She would want to hear this and I fear that I'm only able to tell the story once."
"Does it have to do with Kira and his status as the Ultimate Coordinator?"
She looked at him with steady eyes, "It's the beginning of everything."
Canard pushed Prayer's wheelchair with a steady hand, keeping pace with Lacus Clyne as they made their way to the Scientific Technologies building and to Dr. Yamato's lab. Their walk was mostly filled with silence, which allowed him to reflect upon his thoughts and provided some insight into the woman that was Lacus Clyne.
When he had first seen Kira, after his little jaunt through the sewers of Moscow, he immediately picked up on his possessive body language towards Lacus and inwardly had smiled at the way the two supported each other. She was a good and strong woman and though he noticed that they took great pains to hide their relationship, he had caught them looking at each other whenever they thought no one was around to watch.
He had also seen how she cared for Kira, especially after he had collapsed. He still didn't know how Kira figured out that Princess Cagalli was captured, but he decided to let it slide. Some things just worked in mysterious ways. If he had to play the big brother to Kira, he would have given them his approval.
He started slightly as he realized where his thoughts had headed. Since when did he considered himself a brother to Kira? As far as he knew, he had studiously avoided running into him, which was one of the reasons why he joined the Junk Guild. He wanted to watch from afar, not get caught up in his life. He realized that it was just as quickly that he had warmed to the idea of actually being family to Kira. That idea had blossomed to the point where his rage had taken over him during the battle for Berlin when Kira was about to be captured by the Dendrobium.
Shaking his head ruefully, he gave a quiet snort of exasperation with himself.
"Something the matter Canard?" Lacus' curious voice made him glance over to her and he shook her head.
"Nothing, just thinking," he glanced at her before quickly changing the subject, "where is your Haro? That thing seems to be following you everywhere." It was true. During their trip from Moscow to Berlin, he had nearly gone spare from the annoying electronic pet and contemplated smashing it, but didn't get the opportunity to do so.
"I left it with Kaza-chan," Lacus smiled and Canard nearly tripped from shock. Leaving the Haro with Kazahana was like leaving a ticking time bomb with the girl. Anything could happen and most of them bad.
A soft chuckle of laughter from Prayer made him look down to see his dear friend trying to muffle it, even though he looked so pained. He suddenly dissolved into coughs to which Canard stopped pushing and knelt down next to him, squeezing his arm in concern. "I'm all right…" Prayer wheezed out, "I know I shouldn't have laughed, but…it was quite amusing, Lacus-san."
"I'm sorry," she apologized before he resumed pushing him through the double doors and into the lab.
The first thing he noticed was Zala sitting in a corner couch, looking a bit out of sorts. He barely looked up at them before Lacus touched his shoulder and hurried over to him. It was also then that Dr. Yamato came out of an adjoining room and waved him over. He still didn't trust her fully, but she did have the knowledge to help Prayer so he would extend some measure of trust.
"Please place him on the bed. I'll start the IV line and give you a light sedative so you can sleep it off, all right Prayer?"
"Sure," his dear friend replied.
Canard parked the wheelchair before gently picking up his friend and carried him over to the bed, making sure he covered him with a blanket in case he got cold. He acknowledged the smile of thankfulness that Prayer gave him with the barest of nods before stepping back to allow Dr. Yamato to do whatever she needed to do.
He watched as she hooked his wrist up to the IV line before injecting a needle into the upper part of his arm. Prayer's eyes slowly closed and his breathing evened out. He looked at peace and Canard allowed himself to relax just a bit.
"He must be so special to you, isn't he, Canard?" she suddenly spoke up next to him, making him tense again.
Turning slightly he gave her the barest of nods, "God help the person who would want to harm him."
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean for it to come out that way," she apologized and he realized that he had directed his words towards her. He watched as she sat down next to Prayer, glancing out to her office where Athrun and Lacus sat, talking quietly with each other. "All of you are so young and to have such cruel destinies…" She shook her head before staring at him and Canard stepped back at the analytical gaze she had. He suppressed a shudder running through his body as he recognized that all too familiar look. It was the same one she used to give him when he was back on Mendel. The same one some of the scientists who trained him in the Eurasian Federation wore.
"You call yourself Canard Pars now, don't you?"
"My name was given to me by my guardians in the Eurasian Federation."
"You were with OMNI?" she looked surprised.
"I was abandoned there," he replied.
"Oh…" she fell silent for a few seconds and he narrowed his eyes.
"And you, you changed your name, didn't you Dr. Caridad Kamiya," he sneered, feeling a rush of anger fill him.
"So you are Experiment 086-EEX, code named Canard," her gaze was simple and he blinked in shock. He had let her manipulate him into revealing who he really was in such easy fashion.
"Shut up," he growled out, clenching a fist in anger and shame. He couldn't believe that he had fallen for her tricks again. "You have no right-"
"You're right, I have no right to goad you like that, I apologize," she interrupted him and he stared at her, surprised. "I'm just…happy to see that you're alive. That your mother had thought you had died…and yet you survived."
"Even she called me a failure," he barely remembered any images of Katherine Hibiki, but what he did remember was her sorrowful face and a really angry face that he knew he hadn't meant to see. He remembered her screaming at someone, but couldn't remember the conversation. Her face was what scared him the most at the time…
"You were not a failure," Dr. Yamato suddenly looked a bit angry, "to me you weren't."
"Compared to Kira, I am," he shot back.
"You…you know about Kira?" her face paled and he narrowed his eyes slightly before nodding.
"That he's my brother? Yes. I was told every time I failed at something that I wouldn't be able to beat the Ultimate Coordinator. I found out who he was through my channels and connections in OMNI. Compared to him, I am the failed Ultimate Coordinator. I am not even good enough to defeat him."
"Live…your own life," a sleep murmur came from the bedside and the two of them stared down at Prayer who had sleepily opened his eyes, yawning slightly before turning to his side and falling back asleep.
"Prayer…I take it he knows?"
"Some of it," Canard shrugged, "he was the one who saved me. Brought me back from the brink of my own self destruction."
"I see."
"Why did you change your name? Couldn't bear to live with the shame of your hands stained with the blood of innocent children?" he asked before he realized his words had hurt her deeply. He opened his mouth to apologize, but she shook her head.
"Don't," she held up a hand to stop him, "don't apologize. You should never apologize to someone like me. Katherine wanted to leave after Kira was born so we made arrangements. She died in the attempt, and we left to run. I headed to Copernicus City where I met my husband…and got married. He knows about Kira and up until the war reached Heliopolis, we succeeded in keeping Kira safe and sound."
He suspected that she wasn't telling him the whole truth and something in her story didn't make sense. "You said 'we', who's we?"
She looked at him with a steady gaze for a few seconds that seemed to stretch into eternity before nodding mostly to herself. "Only a select few people know of this, Athrun and Lacus being two. What I am about to say could end up destabilizing peace for all we know and destroy the lives of four very important people, Kira being one of them. Do you harbor any grudges against my son?"
"I used to," Canard admitted before glancing down at Prayer, "he helped me get over it."
"Live your own life, I take it?" she smiled gently at him before her expression grew serious again. Glancing towards the two others that sat in her office, she looked back at him and took a deep breath. "Uzumi Nara Attha and Ledonil Kisaka were the scientists who escaped with me. You would not recognize him from your memories because both was assigned to a different group and department at the time, but transferred over shortly after you were taken away.
"When we escaped, it wasn't just for Kira; it was also for another child that Katherine had gave birth to naturally. She originally wanted to escape with that child, but once Kira was born, she knew she couldn't leave her son behind. Since I took Kira, you can probably guess who Uzumi took…"
Canard stared at Dr. Yamato in shock, part of his mind unable to comprehend her words, the other part just screaming its mental head off. Was she saying that the Princess of Orb, the firebrand Princess who everyone had started to call the Lioness of Orb, was Kira's sister…his own sister?! It couldn't be true…could it?
"Twins," Dr. Yamato murmured and Canard felt a bit lightheaded.
"Twins?" he managed to get out before snapping his mouth shut at the implications. But…as far as he knew Princess Cagalli was a Natural…Kira was a Coordinator. That…isn't… It was possible the rational part of his brain supplemented. It was true and it was possible because of the sick person Dr. Ulen Hibiki was. It would be just like him to treat his wife like that, to have one child as a Natural and one as a Coordinator, the Ultimate Coordinator.
"You can see why something like this would destroy their lives," she glanced out to her office where Athrun and Lacus still sat, however, the two of them were staring at him in slight curiosity; well curiosity for Lacus, suspicion on the part of Zala.
His mind slammed itself back to the topic at hand. He had a sister?! It explained why Kira was able to know how the Princess was captured and why he collapsed just before they had shaken hands. He must have felt something through the unique bond that bounded all twins together, whether they were fraternal or identical.
"I…I see," he found that his mouth was dry and tried to swallow some moisture in it.
"Canard…" the gentleness of her voice made him look up to see her staring at him in concern.
This woman…he couldn't think of her as Dr. Yamato anymore…this woman, Kanoko, how did she do it? How did she have the strength of millions to keep such a secret and still live? Was he such a lesser man to know that he would have succumbed to his fate or even killed himself if he carried such a knowledge and the atrocities committed?
"Canard…I have told you my secrets…will you let me tell yours," she asked quietly.
"To who?"
"To Athrun and Lacus," she replied.
"Why?"
"Because I recognize Rodina, the place where Blue Cosmos supposedly have taken Kira and Cagalli. I want you to hear it too since you may have experience, but they won't understand why you are here. Lacus may trust you without any explanation, but Athrun, the poor boy has lost so much and seen his world fall apart in the matter of days…"
"You're afraid that he'll snap somewhere along the line," he glanced over at Zala who was still staring at him with suspicion before glancing back at Kanoko. "There's something else you're not telling me, is there? Something to do with Zala, right?" he probed her.
"There is," she nodded without hesitation, "but I do not have permission to tell you."
He stared at her for a few minutes, the silence between them punctuated by Prayer's soft and steady breathing. Finally, he nodded. If it would help save his brother and his newfound sister, then he would do it. "Tell them the bare minimum…and swear it from them that Kira and the Prin-and Cagalli, never find out about me."
"I understand. Thank you Canard, you're more like your mother than you know," she smiled at him, a sad, sorrowful smile before getting up and heading out to her office. Canard watched her approach both Athrun and Lacus before glancing down at Prayer's peaceful form.
"Sleep well, friend," he whispered before getting up and following her out into the office. He had a feeling that this was only the calm before a very large and dangerous storm.
Rodina, Siberia
Cagalli Yula Attha was furious. She paced around the bed like a caged animal, her hands clenching and unclenching with her pent up anger. How dare they…how dare they… She took once glance at the occupant on the bed before turning back around and resumed her pacing. She wanted to scream her frustration out, but even then she knew that it would be detrimental to the person resting on the bed, and she didn't want to hurt him further.
She supposed that the only consolation was that they allowed her to see him to be with him, to care for him as best as she could. It was hell of a lot better than to listen to that stupid man's impassioned pleas for her to join up with him; for her to "face her destiny" as he had so eloquently put it. Bullshit, she inwardly swore.
There was no way in hell she would ever join up with him, even if she died for it. He was the image of everything that was fundamentally wrong with the world. He wanted to watch it burn, not like the psycho Rau Le Creuset, but like what the one who gave her the gift of life wanted to do. She would never call Ulen Hibiki her father, only the one who gave part of himself to give her life. In her eyes, Hibiki was nothing more than a bastard who wanted to play God. Uzumi Nara Attha would always be her father, no more, no less.
A soft groan from the bed nearly startled her and she quickly hurried over to the occupant's side, grasping his hand in hers as he groaned again and shifted slightly before a wince of pain appeared on his face. "Kira?" she whispered quietly, squeezing his hand briefly.
When she had first woken up she had thought she was on PLANT, seeing that man's face before her, until his words had shattered that illusion and she had realized she was now a prisoner of Blue Cosmos. He had also introduced her to the person who had surprised her in Copernicus City and had subsequently captured her and she was floored by his resemblance to her beloved Athrun. If she didn't know any better and if he wasn't wearing such an ugly smirk, she would have thought that the man named Triton Lynd was Athrun.
She had thought she'd seen a familiar face, but instead had woken up to a nightmare. Now she was determined to spare her brother the same fate.
"Kira?" she ventured again as he slowly opened his eyes and she bit back a gasp at the deep well of pain in them before he slowly turned his head towards her and she smiled in relief. "Kira!"
"C-Cagalli?" his throat was hoarse and she quickly let go of his hand before offering a cup of water with a straw to him. He took the offering and drank greedily before finally resting his head back on the pillow, grimacing in pain. "You're all right…you're safe…"
"Silly," she admonished him gently, grasping his hand again, "of course I'm all right. You…however, you don't look so good…what happened?"
"Freedom," he drew in a shallow breath, "I found Freedom…"
Cagalli shook her head, closing her eyes briefly, "Oh no…you didn't, did you Kira?"
"I…had no choice," her brother replied quietly and she sighed.
"You always have a choice, Kira," there were times that she didn't know what to do with her twin brother. It didn't help that sometimes, she knew that he was as stubborn as she is…and that was probably how twins operated. She laughed lightly, knowing that it was tinged with a hint of bitterness. "But you can never turn away from those who need help, can you?"
"Cagalli?"
"Oh Kira," she could feel the tears forming in the corner of her eyes, "why did you come? Why did you get captured?"
"Wha…"
"We're prisoners of Blue Cosmos…" she felt a tear slide down her face before she squeezed his hand, "they know who I am…and it's a good guess they know who you are…"
"Of course we know who he is," a new voice spoke up from the door to the room that they were in and she looked up and froze.
"You…"
"He is the Ultimate Coordinator, the perfect being," she had originally thought him as perhaps a decent person. A political ally so to speak, after all, his actions at Copernicus City warranted at least a chance of perhaps knowing a future ally. But in hindsight, she knew that it had all been a sham. He had orchestrated the attacks on civilians and had done so with the intent of driving everyone into the right spot for him to be successful. He was a masterful chess player, predicting the right moves and what everyone would do. It was just because they were too foolish enough to believe that peace existed after quelling the fire that was the Talon.
They had been duped by the brilliant chess master.
"Chairman Dullindal," she growled out.
Author's Notes:
Canard seemed to take over this chapter. Heh. I think what will end up is both Canard and Prayer will make the transition from secondary characters who were supposed to have just cameo appearances to full-time characters; if not for their storied histories, but also for the fact that they've become semi-important to the overall plot. Lowe and the others will probably take a back burner and don't worry, I haven't forgotten about Phantom Pain and the four who stole the mobile suits. They will probably be featured in the next chapter! I hope you guys enjoyed my most recent offering and please, don't forget to leave reviews! I thrive on reviews!
