A/N: I'm sorry for the late update. I have so much assignment that I have to finish first. Well, here's the next chapter and I hope you will like it. Please read and review. I'm sorry if I have some minor grammar mistakes. Thank you for your reviews, it really makes me happy.

Summary: Someone is planning for new war but its target was neither the Naturals not the Coordinators. Their target is the Nation of Orb, its ideals and those who wish to protect that country and peace. Will our heroes able to stop this war from coming true and who are the two new characters? What is their relationship with our heroes?

Main Paring: Athrun x Cagalli, Kira x Lacus.

Other Paring: Shinn x Lunamaria, Dearka x Miriallia, more paring coming up…

Disclaimers: I do not own GS or GSD.

Chapter 9

--Previously in chapter 7--

"The plane, which the Scotland representative was riding, was destroyed within Orb's water territories and he was killed when the plane exploded". Athrun and Kira's eyes were wide open, Lacus places both her hand to cover her mouth and Cagalli just stared at Ray with a shocking look. "This is not the worst part of it".

Cagalli was really angry when she heard it. She abruptly stop up from her seat and said, "What do you mean not the worst part? The Scotland representative had been killed within Orb's water line and I wasn't-"

"The Scotland had received news that this was no accident and is it a murder", Kai cut Cagalli off before she could continue. Cagalli look at Kai. "And they said that this action was a direct order from the Orbs Representative herself"

Cagalli was speechless and she fall back onto her seat after hearing what Kai had just said. Athrun went to her side to see if she was all right. Cagalli barely smiled.

Kai sighed; he had guessed something like this would have happen. "Scotland is planning for an attack as we speak". Kira and Lacus look at Cagalli then back at Kai. "What is your next course of action, Cagalli Yula Attha, Head Representative of Orb?"

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Attha Manor, meeting room.

Mwu and Murrue entered the meeting room of the Attha manor, dressed in their respected uniform. Behind them was Miriallia - who is a freelance photographer in Orb - now in her Orb military uniform and Andrew, dressed in yellow ZAFT uniform with a dark blue, knee length coat over it. When they entered the meeting room, they saw that Lacus, Kira and Athrun have taken their respected seat around Cagalli. They also saw Kai and Ray getting ready for the meeting.

"Have a seat everyone. We will begin our meeting in just a moment", the raven hair adult said.

Mwu and Murrue took their seat next to Kira and Lacus while Miriallia and Andrew sat next to Athrun. Cagalli is seated in the front center of the medium length, meeting table. Once Kai and Ray finished with the things they were doing, they took their seats at the end of the table.

Cagalli saw the look from the blue-grey hair adult and stood up from her seats. She look at everyone and said, "I call upon this private meeting is because we have received some information that a member of the Scotland's council has been killed within Orb's water territory"

Mwu, Murrue, Andrew and Miriallia were shocked when they hear that Cagalli has just said.

"But I thought that was only just a rumor speared by the Earth Alliance?" Mwu said, which causes everyone to look at him. "Well, that what I heard from gossips"

"It was just a rumor within the Nation of Orb and no one would pay attention about it until it was too late", Lacus pointed out, "But thanks to a friendly ally, we were able to learn about this matter before it was too late". Lacus looks at both Kai and Ray.

"But what proof do we have to backup about this matter?" Andrew said suddenly. Everyone turn to look at him. "I mean this is not a laughing matters. It would really cause a full scale war between us and the Earth Alliance if we do not have any proof of this rumor"

"That, you do not have to worry about, Andrew Waltfeld-san", Ray said, which causes all the attention to be focus on him.

Kai gave Ray the signal where he is allowed to show the people what they have for them today. Ray turned on his laptop and shows his guests a little clip on the Scotland council's accident. Everyone was shocked, including Cagalli, Lacus, Kira and Athrun, who have not seen this clip before hand. The Chinese has expected their reaction and rewind the clip till right before the shuttle, with the Scotland flag imprinted on it's back wing, exploded and paused right there.

The young Russian stood up from his seat and faced the rest. He pointed at the screen behind him and said, "This is the clip we collected from the international satellite. As you can see, the Scotland shuttle has indeed exploded after it enter Orb"

"Yes we can see that, but we are not the one that shot down the shuttle", Mwu said.

"Wait a minute", Andrew said. He saw something was funny with the clip. "There's something strange about this clip". Everyone look at him with a confused look.

Andrew stood up from his seat and walk towards the screen for a closer look. And he was right, "Just as I have thought. Someone had tampered this clip before it was announced, hasn't it?" he asked looking at Kai.

"You do have a sharp eye for only having one eye, Andrew Waltfeld-san", Kai said with a smirk. Andrew smiled and went back to his seat. "Like what Waltfeld-san said, and yes, this clip has indeed been tampered with before it was broadcasted to the entire world, except Orb"

The young Russian told his friend to put on another clip and pause at the same spot. "This clip on the other hand was taken by my personal satellite and as you can see," he pointed out at a certain spot of the image, "the shuttle did not exploded by itself. It was being shot down"

Ray played the clip furthers until they saw where the bullets were from. It was from one of the deserted island near Orb's mainland.

"But there aren't any military force in any of those island", Kira said. He knew those islands very well because he once stayed on those islands. "And if it does, won't the Archangel's satellite pick up its energy signal?"

"True indeed Yamato", Kai agree until he point out a certain factor.

"Is the Archangel equipped with its own personal transmitter?" Murrue nodded. Kai look at her and said, "And do you know that the satellite that is linked to the Archangel's transmitter was destroyed in the previous war?" Murrue's shocking look has given him the answer. "I guess not!"

"As many of you have know that a destroyed satellite is just a junk towards a battleship", Ray said suddenly. He is working on the image and zooming in on a certain spot. "Until another satellite is linked up with the battleship, the battleship's sensors can only pickup energy reading within its destined territories and not beyond it".

The picture that the Chinese was tampering has finally focused and it is shown on the wide screen in front of the room. It was a picture where a mobile suit is shooting on something. Everyone was shocked, again, when they saw that it was an M1-Astray. But they were extremely shocked when they saw that the Astray has another logo imprinted on its body. The logo belongs to the OMNI, Earth Alliance army.

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A few weeks later, outside Orbs waterline

The Scotland's military forces have gathered outside of the country's waterline. They are waiting for a proper reply from the Head Representative of Orb, from Cagalli Yula Attha, about the murder of their council member. They will attack the country if the Head Representative did not give then an appropriate answer to this case.

Being the leader and the Head Representative of the government, Cagalli Yula Attha has passed all her military powers and authorities over to Kira, Athrun and Kisaka. The blond princess will be inside the meeting hall with Lacus. The two princesses are hoping that they will come up with the best way to stop this meaningless battle before it is starts.

Cagalli has sent out an evacuation order to inform the citizen in the country to take cover in the shelters. Now the city is buzzing with people, getting their family into the city's underground shelters for protection.

The Scotland has sent out seven Des Moines-class destroyers and five Tarawa-class carrier ships. Each of those ships has been loaded with over thirty mobile suits units but they are only two of a kind. Those are the Strike Daggers and Windoms.

On the other hand, the Nation of Orb had sent out ten Aegis-class battleships and three new modified Aegis ships. The Archangel has once again emerged from its underwater hanger and joined the battlefield in order to protect Orb.

The StrikeFreedom and its pilot along with its chosen cadets are stationed inside the Archangel as frontier soldiers. The golden mobile suit, Akatsuki and its pilot is stationed inside the Archangel as well as part of the frontier soldiers. The Justice and its pilot along with the rest of the cadets are stationed on one of the Aegis-class battleship. They have tagged along with the Marine fleet as the defensive soldiers.

Archangel control room

"Check the water pressure Neumann-shosan", the captain of the ship, Murrue Ramius, ordered, "We might need to submerged into the water once the battle begins".

"Understood Ramius-kancho", the pilot of the ship, Arnold Neumann, said. He turns around and began typing on the keyboards.

Murrue then turned on the monitor that is beside her seat and dial some numbers before placing the communicator on her ears. "How are the pilots and the mobile suits doing in the hanger Murdock-san?" she asked.

Kojiro Murdock, the head mechanic of the Archangel, appeared on the monitor beside her seat. He smiled and replies, "If you are asking about the maintenance of the mobile suits, then they are all just dandy. But if you are asking about a certain pilot then you will have to ask him yourself Ramius-kancho"

The brown hair woman blush slight pink when her head mechanic teased her. He saw her blushed and chuckled. "I'm sorry to teased you like that Ramius-kancho. But you really look uptight. So I thought you need so cheering up".

"Thank you Murdock-san", the captain smiled. "Now, can we get back to our business here?"

Murdock nodded. He took up the clipboard and read from it, "Let's see, the mobile suits' maintenances are still good. Their weapons, sensors and launch pad are all clear to go".

"Murdock, I need some help here with Akatsuki's DRAGOON system", Mwu's voice came from behind.

"How many times have I told you not to touched the mobile suit when the mechanics are doing their duty Mwu", the head mechanic scolded. He turns around and said, "Most of the mobile suits are ready to go anytime kancho".

"Murdock, I really need a helping hand here", the blond man's voice called again.

Murdock sighed. "I'll be there in a moment and stay away from the system Mwu. I'll report to you later on kancho, duty calls", he said and hung up the channel.

The captain sighs and places the communicator back on her armrest. She turned around and looks at her current CIC. "How much time do we left before the Scotland troops launch their attack?" she asked.

"We still have an hour more Ramius-kancho", Miriallia Haw, the Archangel's CIC, reported. Her attention has gone back to the screen in front of her when she heard a beeping sound from her earphones. "Cagalli-san is on the line and she wishes to speak with you kancho"

Murrue look surprised for a second then she told Miriallia to put Cagalli through. The blond hair princess appeared on the main monitor of the control room. "Is there something wrong Cagalli-san?"

"No, I uh…" Cagalli trailed off, not knowing what to say next. She cleared her throat and continue, "I just wanted to know how is everyone doing and the situation out there"

Murrue smiled warmly and said, "Everything here is just fine Cagalli-san. How are you, Lacus and the rest of the council are doing? Have they found out a way to stop this war from starting?"

Cagalli look sad and shook her head. "No! We have not found a way yet but we will keep on trying till we do"

"Cagalli-sama, we need your attention on this matter", a council called from the table.

"I'll be there in a minute", she replied. "I have to go now Ramius-kancho. I wish you all the luck in this battle"

Murrue nodded. When the blond princess was about to leave the screen, the Archangel captain calls her back, "Cagalli-san, remember to launch the new barrier around the Morgenroete and the Mass Driver. We will try our best to protect the city". Cagalli nodded. "And also, don't overwork yourself all right Cagalli?"

The blond princess smiles warmly and answer, "I won't Murrue-kancho".

The main monitor turned black after Cagalli left the screen. Murrue sighs then gave a serious look to her crew. "Everyone, be on your guard. We do not know when they will launch a surprised attack", she said and her crew nodded. The captain turns around and faced her CIC. "Miriallia, launch the second level of alert, all pilots please be on standby for launch"

"I understand", Miriallia answered. The brown hair CIC announced her captain's new order.

After hearing the order, the pilots went towards their locker and changed into their suits. But among the pilots, their brown hair captain is not with them when they descended into the hanger

Meanwhile, outside of the Archangel onboard the Marine Fleet ship was the Justice and its pilot. Athrun has ordered his team to be on the standby inside their unit and wait for his next order. They were also told to wait on the ship until. Once the cadets understood their orders, the Justice head towards the Archangel.

Archangel hanger

The blue hair admiral has requested a landing on the Archangel. His request was granted when the hatch on the ship's right leg opened up. Athrun landed the Justice and allow the computer to bring it inside the hanger where he was meet with the other units, the Freedom and the Akatsuki. After he has made that the OS of the Justice is properly shut down, the navy blue hair pilot descended from the cockpit of the mobile suit.

"Yo kid!" a familiar voice called after Athrun had safely descended onto the floor.

Athrun turned around and found that is was the Head Mechanic that called him. "Yes Murdock-san" he said.

Murdock smiled and asked, "What brings an admiral like you into the Archangel, Zala-taisha?"

Athrun chuckled at his joked and answer, "I'm just a mere soldier in this battle Murdock-san". Murdock laughed at his answer. The navy blue hair coordinator began to look around but he had failed to spot him. "Have you see Kira around here?" he asked.

"Your vice?" Murdock asked. He placed his thumb and index finger on his chin and said, "I think he's still in the mess hall. You need any help in tuning your unit before you move out?"

"Sure, if its not too much of a trouble", Athrun said. He also thanked the head mechanic and his men before he left the hanger.

Mess Hall

A brown hair Coordinator, still dressed in his soldier uniform, is sitting alone in the empty mess hall of the Archangel. He is concentrating on his laptop and has failed to notice that someone has entered the hall. But thanks to his years of military instinct, he has noticed that that someone was approaching towards him and knows whom that someone was.

Kira Yamato, the vice admiral to Athrun Zala, quickly picked up his now empty cup and holds it behind his shoulder. "Can you get me a glass of water Athrun?" he asked without looking behind him.

Athrun sighs and took his friend's cup. "Why are you still in the mess hall when your captain has already given her orders Kira?" he asked while filling the cup. He went back towards his friend and sat in across him. "You will get into trouble with this you know", he said and place the cup in front oh his friend.

Kira picked up the cup and looked at Athrun. "I guess I didn't heard her orders", he said then he drank from the cup. He saw his friend's worried look and said, "I will go and get ready once I finished this strategy". His attention went back towards his laptop.

"Strategy?" the navy blue hair admiral questioned.

The brown hair coordinator nodded and said, "This might give us an upper hand in this battle. I just need to calculate the-". Before Kira could finish what he was doing, his friend had shut his laptop down. Kira looked at him with a puzzled look. "Athrun?"

"Listen Kira, we have been fighting this kind of battle for the past three years", Athrun pointed out. "All you have to do is to be yourself like you always do. Just don't stress yourself too much all right"

"I get what you mean Athrun", Kira smiled. "Thank you for being my friend"

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In the Scotland's flagship

"Is there any transmission from the headquarters or any reply from the Orb's government yet?" the captain asked.

"No sir!" one of the soldiers replies. The captain of the Scotland troop nodded.

The commander of the whole Scotland Military force is waiting for the signal from their headquarters. The signal where they are allowed to commence the attack on the Nation that is right in front of them. He is also waiting for the answer from this nation that had murdered one of their country's council and if they did not give them a proper reply. Either way, their headquarters has given them the order to launch the attack after the time limit that was given to this nation.

"May I ask what are you hesitating for commander?" the blue hair man asked from the shadows.

The man surprises the commander when he heard his voice. He turned around and greeted the man. "ADES-sama", he said. "We are still waiting for their reply sir. That the order from the higher ranks"

"You are a well trained soldier but you do not possessed a mind for a leader", ADES commented. The commander just scowls at his comments. "Do you think they will be able to give us an appropriate reply with the time they have left commander?" The commander gives a moment to think. "The answer is 'no' commander. It would be the best if we have the upper hand in this battle, don't you think?"

"But our given orders…"

ADES cut the poor man off and said, "I'm certain that you know the history behind the Archangel that is right in front of us now and the two nuclear powered mobile suits", the commander nodded. "Then you would have come up with the conclusion that this would be a hard battle for us to win if the Archangel and the two nuclear powered mobile suits are placed as the frontier soldiers".

It is true and the commander knows about it. The Archangel, the Justice and the Freedom had made the impossible in the history of their era. Together with the Eternal, which is not the PLANTs' commander ship, they have managed to protect the peace that was impossible to claim.

The commander look up and saw his crew is looking at him, waiting for his next commands.

The commander grinned and looks at ADES who seems to be smiling as well. "All right then. Launch the missiles and the mobile suits. We will claim the upper hand on this battle", the commander ordered.

The Scotland troop began to launch an attack. The battleships launched the missiles into the air and aims at the Orb's marine ships.

The Archangel

"Missiles detected at 12 o'clock direction", Miriallia said.

"What?" Murrue exclaimed. She looks at the main monitor and saw the missiles being launched from their enemies' ships. "Avoid while intercept, fire Gottfried cannon one and two to intercept them", she ordered.

Nuemann, the pilot, did his best to avoid the missiles from hitting the ship and he did it at the cost of losing one of the Aegis-class battleships. The Archangel and the rest of the Orb marine force returned fire, destroying rest of the moving missiles before it landed on them and Orb.

The time limit is not up yet but they have started the war? What's going on here? Murrue thought. "Send out level 1 alert. Launch the mobile suits and begin to intercept with the enemies", she ordered.

Battlefield

The golden mobile suits, Akatsuki, launched from the Archangel after their captain sent out the orders. Mwu La Flaga, the pilot of the golden mobile suit and his troop began to intercept with the enemy's mobile suits. Mwu charged towards its enemies with great accuracy and protects the Archangel that's advancing towards the enemy's flagship.

"Kira Yamato, StrikeFreedom. Prepare for the launch", Miriallia said as the crane took up Freedom and loaded it onto the catapult system, "Confirmed that the whole system has been started. Start launching sequence, the hatch has opened, launch system has connected. Catapult online, system all green. StrikeFreedom, you are ready to go"

"Kira Yamato, StrikeFreedom. Ikemas!" the brown hair pilot said and the catapult system launch him and his suit out.

"Athrun Zala, Justice. Prepare for the launch", Miriallia said again. But this time, the crane took up Justice and loaded it onto the catapult system, "Confirmed that the whole system has been started. Start launching sequence, the hatch has opened, launch system has connected. Catapult online, system all green. Justice, you are ready to go"

"Athrun Zala, Justice. Hashin suru!" the navy blue hair pilot said. The catapult launches him and his suit out of the ship as well.

Once outside of the Archangel, Kira, who has received permission from Athrun, give out the orders, "Zala-tai will take care of defense on the mainland, the Morgenroete and the Mass Drive. La-Flaga-tai will stay with the Marine troop as backups. Akatsuki will be Archangel's backup".

"Understood. You heard the vice, let's make huge fireworks everyone. Yee ha!" Akatsuki blast off and landed on Archangel's deck. "Astray will stay on board the ships and Murasame take the air. Don't let them sunk our ship fellows"

"Understood captain!" the La Flaga-tai said together.

Justice turned to look at Freedom. "What are you going to do Kira?" Athrun asked worriedly.

"Leave the frontier soldiers to my team and I", Freedom's pilot said with a smile.

The Freedom flew towards the Airpack Astrays and instructed them to follow. The battle begins when Kira and his team uses offences to the enemies. In just mere minutes, a quarter of the enemy's forces have been wiped out.

Athrun and his team were also doing their best to keep the missiles away from the mainland. The barrier generator protects the Morgenroete and the Military based. That gives Athrun and his troop a chance to focus on the city and the meeting hall, where the senates are having their discussion.

After striking down another Window, the Freedom flew towards the enemy's ship and shot down two of their battleship.

Scotland flagship

"We had lost contact with Montage and Queen", the soldiers from the flagship reported.

"We had also lost contact with a number of Windoms and Strike Daggers sir", another reported.

"Commander sir, if we keep this up, our forces will be annihilated for sure", the second-in-command said.

The commander is really pissed off at the results. Without thinking straight, the commander gave his orders, "Send out all the remaining soldiers and mobile suits. We must bring Orb down for sure".

"Sir!" the second-in-command quickly quite down when the commander look at him with an anger look.

"I'm the commander here. Better not step over your bound Joshu", he said, "Release the forces now!"

"H-hai!" the CIC said, "All forces are to go, now! I repeat all forces are to go now!"

Battlefield

The Justice's long-range sensors has detected that more mobile suits had been launched from the enemy's ships. Athrun herd the alert that Justice is giving him and saw the incoming number of Mobile suits.

"How many suits can those battleships carry anyway?" he questioned. Justice alerts him that a huge energy source is coming his way. Athrun quickly maneuver Justice to avoid the direct attack and shot down the attacker. "That was a close one", he said.

"Sir are you all right", one of his soldiers asked.

"I'm fine, stay in your position soldier. We must not let any damaged come towards the city and the meeting hall", their admiral ordered.

"HAI!!" the soldiers replied.

Scotland flagship

No matter how many mobile suits they launched, they still lost half of the number within minutes. It isn't because that the enemy possessed powerful weapons, well that was one of the reasons, but the main reason is that their enemy's troops were very well organized. The commander has known about this fact but he still hope that they would be able to triumph over them. If they could just break their formation, they would have a chance in defeating Orb's Marine troops.

ADES was somehow able to read the commander's emotion through his expressions and body gestures. He decided that it is now the right time to test out his new toys. "I see that you might need some help in annihilating the Orb's forces", he said.

The commander look at ADES. "We are still capable in handling them thank you!" he said. "We, Scotland military forces, need help from no one, especially not from an outsider"

"Oh, but I insisted commander", ADES smirked. He took out his walkie-talkie and speak to it, "Release the M.D.s"

"M.D.", the commander questioned.

"Mobile Dolls to be exact commander", the blue hair man's smirk grew wider.

Battlefield

When the Scotland troops' forces were going thinner and thinner, reinforcement came and helps them. Three carrier ships had come out of nowhere and shot at Orb's Marine forces ship. They had also disrupted their formation as well.

"What the? What going on?" Kira asked. He saw the new carrier ships and he was shocked to discover that they have joined up with the Scotland forces. "Reinforcements huh!" he said.

When the new ships had launched nine Windom mobile suits, it didn't seem threatening at first. But when the mobile suits began to launch their attack, their power shocked everyone; even Athrun and Kira could believe what they have just seen.

Nine Windom mobile suits have broken through Kira's formation, destroyed four Murasame from his team and also sunk three Aegis-class battleships. The Windom has also damaged the Archangel. With the new reinforcement, the Scotland troop began to turn the table around.

"Miriallia, I need a states report of those new suits", both Kira and Athrun said together.

"Wait a moment", Miriallia said.

After to moment of silent, Miriallia began to report what she had found out about the new suits. Both Athrun and Kira were shocked but Kira was also distracted and let his guard down.

Kira had failed to noticed Freedom's alert that one of the Windom is coming down towards him. When he noticed it, the Windom was already right above him. Kira gasps when everything turned white then followed with an explosion.

--Continue in chapter 10--

A/N: Ooh no!! Will Kira managed to escape this new threat?Will Cagalli and Lacus come up with some way to stop this war from spreading? Hope you like this chapter. Please review. It would really brighten my day.