Chapter 8
It was the morning of the Peace day march, and for the Yamato household it was hectic. Kira was running around the house getting himself situated, Kira almost forgot to eat breakfast Luckily Emily got him to eat before they had to leave. "Emily are you ready?" Kira said walking into his room "Yeah!" Emily yelled. Cagalli sat down on a couch as she watched Kira bounce from room to room looking for something "Looking for something?" "Yeah I may have misplaced my helmet?" Kira said walking back into his room. "How do you lose your helmet?" Kira shrugged, he walked into the living room and just stood there thinking. Soon his eyes lit up when he remembered where he put it.
He clicked a button on his wristwatch it brought up a slide and Kira started looking through the data stored, he then clicked something on the slide closing it. Kira then held out his hand and soon Cagalli and Emily could see a helmet materialize in his hand, once it finished Kira said "Found it! Now let's go I'm going to be late" Kira said walking out towards his car.
"Ken! Hurry up and get dressed, mommy's going to be late" Lacus said getting herself dressed. "But I'm watching TV!" Kenneth said sitting in the couch in the living room. "Turn off the TV, get changed, and brush your teeth mommy has to be downtown in a few minutes" Lacus said walking out her room down to the living room to hurry up her son. "5 more minutes mom" Kenneth said "Sorry dear but we need to go soon, you can hang out with Auntie there" Lacus said crossing her arms. "And if you're good then maybe I'll buy you the other robots you want" Kenneth's face lit up "Really?!" Lacus smiled "Only if you hurry up" she didn't get a response she just watched as Kenneth ran up the stairs and to his room.
"I'll tell him today" Lacus thought to herself before heading up the stairs to get herself ready.
During the car ride, Kira knew what the presider would be and his mind kept running simulations over and over again. Suddenly a caller interface popped up and moved to the side so that it wouldn't block Kira's view of the road.
"Kira you heading to the building?" Mu asked
"Yeah why?"
"Something urgent came up" that sentence quickly got Kira's attention. Kira looked at him puzzled, Kira quickly got an idea of what was 'urgent' but he needed to get confirmation. He watched as Mu nodded slightly causing Kira to hit his wheel hard.
"I'll be there" Kira said before cutting the transmission.
Everyone in the car looked at him "Kira what happened?" Cagalli asked he looked at her "I'll tell you after Peace day is over". Kira said not wanting to talk. "Why does it have to happen now?" he thought before grunting "Daddy?" Emily said looking at her father. Kira looked up and saw Emily's smile that she loved to show. "Thank you honey" Kira said returning the kind gesture to his daughter.
Once Kira got to the building everyone quickly got out of the car, and Kira quickly rushing inside. They quickly made their way to the boardroom, Kira being the first to enter said "Is this for reals?" walking towards Mu. He nodded "Yeah it is" Kira turned to Meyrin "How far out are they?" "About a few hours out" Kira looked at her "Can you get me linked up so that I am updated real time on their movement?" Meyrin nodded and quickly went to work. "In the meantime get the troops ready" Athrun nodded and went to the hangers to warn them about the pending dangers.
"I presume that everything is ready for the speech today?" Mu nodded "We'll march all the way downtown" "Security is in place correct?" Mu nodded again. Kira set his helmet down on the table and grabbed his uniform hat, "You know I'm not wear this until we get to our destination" Murrue smiled "Like always" Kira smiled "I guess we'll head down to the hangers too, Meyrin you can walk up to me during the speech to tell me when it's done" She nodded and everyone started to clear out of the boardroom.
Everyone in the boardroom headed towards their own hanger, once everyone got into their perspective hangers Kira and his family were the only ones left in the lift. "Kira you need to stop stressing out" Cagalli said looking at Kira. "Easy for you to say" Kira said looking at Cagalli "Daddy where will I go?" Emily said looking up at her father "You will be with Auntie on stage, daddy will join you there" Kira said as he finally felt the lift come to a stop. The doors opened and everyone walked out they walked to a set of giant metal doors, Kira swiped a security card and soon the giant doors began to open revealing a dark room. Kira walked in and the lights turned on one by one revealing Kira's mobile suit and every personal belonging he had in there.
"Daddy your robot is huge!" Emily said looking up at the Strike Freedom "Yeah, your mom gave this to me" Kira said as he put an earpiece in his ear. "Mommy gave you this?" Kira nodded, he looked over to Cagalli "I think Auntie would love to tell you how your mommy and I met" Emily nodded and ran towards "Auntie tell me!" Cagalli was about to turn to Kira for help but he had already went up to the cockpit to get everything ready. "I'll tell you after the ceremony" Emily frowned "Okay"
"Alright I should get going" Kira said grabbing his helmet he went over and hugged Emily "See you soon pumpkin" Emily returned the hug "Okay" they broke the hug and Kira started walking towards the Strike Freedom. Cagalli yelled "Wait! Lacus isn't here!" Kira turned "I know she isn't she is there already" he then continued walking. He got onto the rope and he was raised off the ground to the cockpit. Before he entered he yelled "Emily you look so small from down here!" Suddenly his earpiece received a transmission "Kira you ready to go?" Kira replied "Yeah I'll be right out" Kira was about to enter the cockpit when he was stopped "Kira! Kira! She's here!" Cagalli yelled Kira looked over the side and saw another pink headed person down there. He sighed and took the rope and descended.
"Lacus what are you doing here?" Kira eyes widened when Lacus just walked up to him wrapping her arms around his body, she buried her face inside his chest as she cried softly. "Um Lacus?" Kira said still puzzled from what Lacus just did. She lifted her face off his chest saying "I so sorry, please give me another change⦠Please" she said as she buried her face back into Kira's chest. Kira was still puzzled and looked up to see Cagalli's or Emily's reaction and what he saw made his eyes widened he saw a miniature him playing with Emily. Cagalli saw Kira reaction and mouthed the words "Told you", Kira then turned his attention to Lacus "Is that?" Lacus nodded "That's Kenneth"
Kira felt a tear run down his face, Lacus removed her arms from around him and looked up she didn't have time to say anything because Kira quickly pulled her into an embrace "I'm so sorry" Kira said hugging Lacus as tightly as he could. Lacus wrapped her arm around his neck and did the same "Please forgive me" she whispered. Kira placed his forehead against Lacus's saying "No forgive me" Lacus smiled and hugged him "Thank you" in the background they could hear Cagalli and Caridad say "Awe" While the two children said "Eww" Lacus broke the embrace when she heard ringing. Kira clicked his earpiece "Yeah?" "Hurry up we are going to be late" Kira slapped his face "Right I just got held up I'll be there". He turned towards Lacus "After I'm gone I need you to hurry or you'll be late" Lacus nodded and walked towards the kids.
Kira ran towards the rope, and he was brought up to the cockpit. He looked down and said "Kenneth do you like my robot?" Kenneth jumped up and down "Yeah it's so cool!" Kira smiled "Go behind the doors there so that you'll be safe when I lift off" The adults nodded and brought the kids to safety. Kira hopped into the cockpit, he put on his helmet and said "Meyrin give me the go ahead"
"X20A Strike Freedom flight path is clear, launch when ready!"
"Kira Yamato Strike Freedom launching!" he said flying out of his hanger and into the sky. Everyone watched as Kira disappeared into the sky. Lacus smiled "Come on, or else we are going to be late" everyone nodded as they started heading out of Kira's hanger.
Kira flew through the sky when Mu popped up on his screen "What took you so long" Kira smiled "I told you I was held up" "Okay well we'll have to wait for a bit since we are doing the fly by" Kira nodded and landed by the other's as they waited for their call. "Mu when do we go?" "When we see fireworks in the sky" Kira nodded "Better then get comfortable"
Cagalli looked at Lacus; she smiled "Congratulations!" Lacus blushed "Thank you, but I'm pretty sure it will get some getting used to" Cagalli laughed "Yeah I guess since you both are slow" Lacus smiled "Anyways let's go take our seats, the march are going to start soon" Lacus said. They approached their seats and sat down, Kenneth sat on Lacus's lap, and Emily sat on Cagalli's. Beside them were the Board excluding Shinn, Luna, Dearka, Yzak, Athrun, Mu, and of course Kira.
Soon the march started, Alliance soldiers walking down the street followed by mobile suits that followed behind them walking. The kids were having fun watching Cagalli pointed towards the sky and soon fireworks went off captivating the audience and everyone on stage.
"That's our sign" Mu said lifting off, soon one by one they launched "Okay guys formation" Kira said as he moved towards the front of the pack. "Let's do this" Kira said as he led the board towards the stage, Soon in the distance everyone could hear something coming they turned in that direction and saw The Strike Freedom fly by with a few mobile suits following behind. Everyone watched as they flew over them, a line of sparkles floating down to the people as Kira pasted them. They watched as the mobile suits land, all the cockpits opened as they pilots got out and approached the stage each one of them taking a seat.
Emily ran over to her father and sat down on his lap, Kira wrapped his arms around her pulling her close to his body. Lacus then approached the stand as she said a speech to both nations; during the speech Emily and Kira were talking when Meyrin approached Kira from behind. She tapped his shoulder getting his attention he turned and heard Meyrin whispered "They are about 1 hour out" Kira's eyes widened he nodded and told her "Keep me updated" Meyrin nodded and went back to her seat, Kira then leaned forward and saw Mu looking at him. Kira nodded and both himself and Kira stood up, Kira kneeled down and whispered "Emily go with Auntie for a bit, me and Uncle need to go somewhere" Emily frowned "Why daddy?" Kira kissed her on the forehead "Daddy will be right back okay?" Emily nodded and gave him a big hug "Be safe" Kira returned the hug "I will I promise".
Emily then walked to Cagalli and climbed onto her lap, Cagalli and everyone else looked at Kira and Mu with a puzzled expression written on their faces. Lacus stopped midsentence and saw Kira stand up she mouthed "Where are you going?" Kira walked up to her and whispered into her ear "Something important came up me and Mu need to go" Lacus nodded. Kira and Mu then started walking towards their mobile suits. Everyone watched as they got into them and lifted off, they watched as they went straight into the sky disappearing behind the clouds.
After they disappeared from site Lacus turned back to the audience "I'm sorry for the interruption" she then went on to continue to the speech being sidetracked by one question "What exactly are they doing?"
"Kira do you see them?" Mu said as he scanned space for any sign, "They should be-" Kira stopped when he saw something coming in fast. Mu saw what Kira was looking at and said "Those must be our target" Kira nodded "We need to delay their attack" "Agreed" Mu and Kira started flying towards the group of enemy mobile suits "Hey old man I bet I can take out more mobile suits than you" Mu chuckled "You're on" That was the last thing he said before entering battle with Kira.
The ceremony took only a few more minutes to finish, when it did they had their closing and everyone went on to enjoy Peace day. Lacus approached everyone "Where did those two go?" They shrugged, Lacus frowned "Well thanks for your help" Cagalli walked up to Lacus "Do you mind if we stay at your house until Kira comes back?" Lacus smiled "Sure"
Meanwhile in space
"What the heck is that!" Kira yelled "I don't know but we need to shoot it down!" Mu yelled back, Kira nodded and they charged towards it. They heard a voice come from within "Ultimate Coordinator, this is Exodia! A taste of what's to come!" Soon the machine opened up and inside they saw something charging up "Mu we can't let that think hit Plants!" Mu nodded as they both stood in front of the machine. The two observed as it was about to fire. Kira activated Full burst mode as he countered the blast, both beams hit straight on. Exodia exploded sending out a shockwave hitting Kira dead on as he hurtled down towards The Plants Kira screamed "Ah!" "Kira!" Mu yelled as he flew down trying to catch him.
"Athrun! Come in Athrun!" Mu yelled. Luckily the board had returned to the building "Yeah?" Athrun said as the board gathered around him "Kira was shot down he is falling towards the Plants, have the ground cleared and come help me!" Mu said cutting the connection as they re-entered The Plants atmosphere. "You heard him let's move!" Everyone scrambled, all everyone could see in the night sky was mobile suits filling it up.
Lacus, Cagalli, and Caridad watched "What's happening?" "I don't know" Caridad said. They stared at the sky as they saw something bright come plummeting down towards the surface. "What's that?!" Lacus said pointing at the sky. They witnessed mobile suits trying to slow it down to no success; instead they directed the fireball down to a big body of water. Cagalli and Lacus decided to run towards the body of water as Military men surrounded the lake emergency crews waiting on the side, they waited until the fireball crash landed in the water as it sank slowly to the bottom.
Then they saw Mu land as he descended from his cockpit he took off his helmet and started running towards the water saying "Get the crane out hurry up! Kira's down there!" Once everyone heard that it was Kira everyone kicked it into high gear as they tried to fish Kira and the Strike Freedom out of the water. "Is he surfacing?" Mu yelled making everyone work faster, divers quickly jumped into the water to try and get Kira out of his cockpit. They rose from the water "We can't open the cockpit! It's jammed" Mu eyes widened "Hurry up we are running out of time!".
Cagalli looked at Lacus as she stared at the water "Lacus?" Lacus felt tears roll down her face "Kira's down there" she said pushing herself into Cagalli's arms embracing her tightly. Cagalli started crying too "He'll be okay". They watched as they slowly pulled the Strike Freedom out of the water, once the cockpit was out of the water everyone rushed over trying to open it. Finally the cockpit doors slightly opened and everyone had to pry it the rest of the way, once it was opened wide enough everyone helped pull out the motionless Kira out of the cockpit, Mu quickly removed Kira helmet yelling "Kira!" everyone gathered around them.
Feeling that he could actually breath again Kira took all the air he could get in before gagging out the water from his lungs. Lacus pushed everyone out of the way, as she pulled Kira into her arms into hugging him tightly, tears rolling down her eyes as she cried. "Kira you okay?" Mu asked. Kira nodded as he breathed heavily "Yeah I'm okay, I just need to lay down" Mu looked at him "What about The Strike Freedom?" Kira managed to say "It didn't sustain major damage so it's okay to pilot just need to empty out the water" Mu nodded and told the men to bring The Strike Freedom to Kira's hanger.
"Why?" Lacus said still crying into Kira's chest, "You shouldn't hug me you're going to catch a cold" Lacus shook her head "I don't care" Kira smiled "Well thank you for your concern but I should really get standing" Lacus removed herself from Kira allowing him to stand. As Kira tried to get up he stumbled and almost fell over luckily Mu caught him "Thanks" Kira said as he put one arm around his shoulder. "Do you expect to stand right after you got shot down?" Kira chuckled "I guess not"
"Where shall we bring him?" Mu asked looking at Cagalli and Lacus, Cagalli instantly said "To Lacus's house" Mu nodded and the four started walking towards her house, Lacus walked alongside Kira as she thought, she thought and thought until she came to a decision. "Kira as Supreme Chairwoman I'm demanding that you stay home tomorrow" The three looked at her "Lacus-"Kira was cut off by Lacus "That's an order" Kira sighed "Alright, Mu will take my place tomorrow then" he nodded and the four continued walking. Once they got to Lacus's house Mu let go of Kira "I think you can make it up to a room" Kira nodded and whispered something to Mu "We need to discuss this when I get back" Mu nodded. "I'll send a doctor here to do a checkup" "Alright, see you Monday" Mu waved and started walking back to assist with the cleanup.
Once Kira closed the door, Cagalli asked "Kira are you okay?" he smiled "I'm fine I just need to lay down, is Emily sleeping?" Cagalli nodded. Kira sighed and started heading towards the stairs, the two watched as Kira slowly made his way to the stairs. Along the way he stumbled and Lacus quickly went to his aid as she helped him get up stairs "Thank you" Lacus smiled.
"What happened up there?" Lacus thought to herself, once they made it to the top of the stairs Kira asked "Where will I be staying?" Lacus pointed "My room" Kira looked at her as he noticed a slight blush on Lacus's cheeks. He smiled "Very well" Lacus then helped Kira into her room "Wait here I'll get some dry clothes" he looked at her puzzled "I'm not wearing your clothes Lacus" she giggled "You left some of your clothes here" she said before disappearing to get them.
Once she returned she handed the clothes to Kira, she then sat down on the bed; she watched as Kira removed his uniform top and the under shirt he wore. Lacus then started blushing like mad when she saw how toned his body was, her 'handsome' sight quickly disappeared when Kira put on a dry shirt. He turned around and saw Lacus staring at him, a blush very visible on her cheeks. Kira scratched his head "I think I should go change in the washroom" Lacus nodded and Kira walked into Lacus's washroom to change pants.
"I can't believe he caught me looking" Lacus thought to herself before burying her face into one of the pillows. She didn't notice Kira walk out of the washroom calling her name "Lacus? Lacus?" getting no response Kira tapped her shoulder "Lacus?" Lacus quickly shot up "Yes?" "Where do I put my clothes?" "Just leave them on the floor" Kira nodded and dropped his clothes near one of the chairs in the room before joining Lacus in bed. Lacus was still embarrassed from before, she didn't bother to look at Kira. "Should I kiss him?" Lacus thought to himself, she decided to go for it but when she turned over she was met by a sleeping Kira. She frowned but instead of kissing him, she kissed him on the cheek before turning back over and snuggling closer to him. "What happened in space?" Lacus thought to herself before falling victim to sleep.
