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Legacy Of Providence
Chapter Nine: Destiny's Impulse
With Athrun…Over the comm. came Yzak's voice. "Zala, are you alright?"
"Did you call me by my first name before?" Athrun questioned back as he straightened out. He had to shake his head for several minutes to try and clear his mind and figure out what hit him from behind earlier.
"What the…?" came Yzak's bewildered reply, "Have you ever known me to call you by your first name?"
Athrun didn't he stop to think before he blurted, "No,"
"Exactly, now answer my first question dammit!"
"Yzak if I'm talking with you this easy how hurt do you think I am?"
The silence on the other side of the comm. was a sure sign that Yzak hadn't even figured of thinking about that. "You ask me that knowing the damn answer, god, you wonder why I don't want to be on the council,"
"Well now that that's out of the way who did yell my name?"
"How the hell should I know?" Yzak barked back, "My question is, did you see who or what hit you?"
"I found it quiet difficult to do that when my ass is soaring end over end backwards!"
"Alright, calm down," Yzak replied hoping to get Athrun's new found temper to calm down, 'Dumb clone must of said Cagalli,'
"Yzak do you have any sight of Shinn and Luna?"
"No, I lost them on entry,"
"Find them,"
"What'll you do?"
"I'm going to see if I can find who the hell hit me,"
With Shinn and Luna…
Shinn was standing over a down Impulse during the discussion between Athrun and Yzak. The reason the Impulse was down was that during entry through the atmosphere Luna seemed to panic and lose control of the Impulse. Luckily for her Shinn was near by and more willing to help her than ORB.
"Luna are you all right?" Shinn questioned over his comm. hoping to find out how Luna was.
The reply to his question came a little slower than he would of appreciated. "Yes, I'm alright, good thing I had a helmet on, my head hit the side of the cockpit,"
"Good if you're feeling alright I'll go see if there's anything I can do to help ORB," came Shinn's own response. The mere thought of helping ORB was a thorn in his side but it was either this or do what Yzak said and wait for this organization to attack them. With that he punched the thruster controls and left Luna in search of some place he could help.
"Don't worry Shinn I'll be fine," She called to his retreating back.
"Ha, you should worry," came Shinn's voice.
"Shinn?" Luna questioned in fear. There was only one time where Shinn frightened her. That one time was at the end of the second war when he attempted to attack her. It would seem that she would now add another instance to that list.
"In a way," Shinn answered. From behind some rubble came the stalking form of a Blast Impulse.
"Not possible," Luna whispered.
"More like not probable," the clone laughed, "In all the possible out comes in a war, this is not the one you would think could possibly happen,"
"Your not real,"
"O I'm real and I'm going to show you how real I am!" With that the clone fired not only the beam cannons but the rail guns as well.
Luna would be at an extreme disadvantage compared to the clone. While the clone had access to spare parts for the Impulse along with the Silhouette's, she was limited to the Force Impulse system only. Yzak had explained extensively that the Silhouette's would take to much time to transport down with them and even if they got them down they had no way of launching them for her to switch to.
When the shots from the Blast Impulse came Luna shoved the shield from the Force Impulse out in front of her hoping to block some of the attack. The shot slammed into the shield forcing the Force Impulse to backup several steps. The shield was heavily damaged and one more shot from the Blast Impulse would destroy it. That next shot was what the clone decided to do. But due to piloting with Shinn for many months Luna realized that the clone though sounding quite insane, would use the same fighting techniques. So when the clone brought the cannons into position for the second shot Luna flew out with as much speed that the Force could provide and raised her beam rifle. The clone seeing this hesitated for a single moment, 'She's nuts,' the clone thought, and that single moment was all Luna needed to fire two shots, one for each beam cannon, destroying them.
"Blasted girl," the clone growled, "You think that single move will save you, think again," The clone now switched the Blast Impulse into it's other mode of battle, he deployed the missile launcher. "Time for this little pain to die!" He clicked the launcher and started to rain missiles down on Luna's head.
'Shinn help me,' Luna thought as she sat in the Impulse with missiles raining down on her head every few seconds.
Then suddenly, there was nothing. No missiles firing, no MS moving, nothing, it was as if the clone of Shinn and his mobile suit just disappeared. At lease until, "You want him to come help you don't you," came the clones mocking voice, "Do you really think that you are the one he loves get real!" With that it was the Sword Impulse not the Blast or Force that came attacking. One of the Excalibur swords came slashing across the middle of the Impulse while the other came straight down hoping either to cut vertically or horizontally. It was apparent that the clone didn't care which way it was.
'What did he mean by the one he loves?' Luna questioned herself in her mind as she moved the Impulse out of the way.
"You're wondering now what I meant by the love comment aren't you," spoke the clone now flying into the Impulses range. The Sword was gone and now the Force stood before Luna. "Stupid girl, I have his memories I know what is more important and trust me on this it's not you,"
"What?" came the confused reply from Luna.
"Damn it why don't you listen!" the clone screamed, "He doesn't love you, he loves the little blonde natural from six months back, trust me if she was around you would have no one but your sister, or at least your sister until she left your idiotic ass as well!"
With that the clone struck now firing his beam rifle wanting to blast Luna's Impulse into pieces. When the shots started to fire, Luna would let lose a scream as the Impulse was rocked with shots. She would be thrown around the cockpit and be badly hurt as she watched the clone and it's Impulse stand above her she quietly sobbed to herself as she thought of Shinn's unloving feelings for her and hold her wounds.
With Shinn…(After leaving Luna at the start of the chapter)
Shinn had just sliced an attacking ZAKU with his beam boomerangs. "Yzak's worried about these weaklings," Shinn laughed to himself as he threw one of the boomerangs forward, "We could've waited until they were right on the damn doorstep," Shinn laughed slightly at this.
"True, but then you would've been arrogant and lost anyways," Shinn's voice spoke again. The only problem was, Shinn didn't speak it.
"I didn't say that," Shinn said aloud.
"Of course you didn't, I did," Shinn spoke again.
"What the hell is going on?" Shinn demanded.
"Since you asked so nicely," Shinn's voice spoke. Crashing down from the sky came an MS prototype that Shinn had only seen pictures of. It was the Destiny Impulse, the MS that was used as a test bed for the Destiny.
"Hello there," spoke the new Shinn clone.
Shinn decided on a tactic that the others didn't use when engaging their clones, instead of asking what the hell was happening, he started to attack instead with his palm cannon.
"Interesting, your different then the others," the clone spoke.
Shinn decided not to speak and just continue to attack the mockery of not only his image but of his MS. "So hot headed, you weren't always this way, remember, you used to have a level head, at least until your pathetic family got blown apart,"
"What did you say?" the real Shinn's voice snapped.
"Then there was the that natural girl, Stellar was her name I think, you let her be blown away as well, my my my, you just let anyone get killed don't you, no wonder your new girlfriend is just about dead as well,"
"SHUT UP!" Shinn hollered as he activated the Wings of Light on the Destiny. The Destiny moved rather quickly around the Destiny Impulse. Due to it's high speed the Destiny became difficult to track on radar as well. Shinn would of kept the pace going and gone for the kill if he hadn't heard Luna's scream on his comm.. 'Luna,' came the quick thought of Shinn's as he left the battle with the clone and hurried off.
"I don't think so," The clone followed as well.
The clone piloting the Impulse on the other hand didn't see the Destiny approaching and decided to aim for the cockpit where the now sobbing Luna was sitting. "Bye bye little bug!"
It was then the Destiny and its Impulse counterpart arrived and Shinn used the Destiny's beam shield to block the shot. He then shot straight up and above the Destiny Impulse, it was here that instead of using his anti-ship swords Shinn decided to use both of his clones. He wrapped one hand of his Destiny around each sword and pulled them free. He then kicked the Destiny Impulse out of the way and somersaulted backwards, as he came down he slashed apart the Force Impulse piloted by his clone paying attention to where the clone would be sitting. Therefore killing the clone.
After the battle Shinn landed and ran to the Impulse hoping to find Luna. When he opened the Impulse he found her sitting curled into a ball sobbing to herself. Shinn would then take Luna with him into the Destiny and leave the battlefield.