"Okay lets do this." Yoru said to herself as she was out in the battlefield again against Kettei.
Yoru maneuvered Escalus to go full speed at the Revenge Gundam. The Revenge responded on defending itself but it was no use. Escalus Bean saber was out and it was ready to take action.
"I am sorry Kettei but I must end this now so neither of us don't get killed." Yoru said to herself as she cut off the limbs of the gundam so she couldn't move the gundam. Yoru then maneuvered the Escalus to grab the Rvenge and headed for the inside of the L4 Colony.
Once inside what used to a home to many people away from anyone that has to do with the battle. Yoru took her helmet off and opened her cockpit and grabbed the cable to descended to the ground.
"Open up Kettei. I brought you here to talk, not to fight." Yoru yelled.
After a few minutes the hatch to Kettei's cock opened. Kettei emerged with a hand gun in her hand aimed for Yoru. Yoru simply raised her hands outward from her sides so Kettei knew she was not armed.
"If you came to talk you would have came to the Plants long ago." Kettei said staying where she was.
"I would have if the E.A. didn't try to retake Japan." Yoru said calmly.
"Yes I heard, it was a month after I left." Kettei replied.
"Kettei I know how you feel inside. When Yoshi was killed by Zaft I was furious too. If I wasn't a coordinator I would have joined E.A. and revenge my brother's death but I couldn't since I am a coordinator. Do you think Nicole would want you to be like this?" Yoru reasoned.
"How in the hell would you know Nicole?" Kettei spat at Yoru.
"I knew Nicole because I would play the piano in concerts with him when I was at the Plants visiting a dear friend of mine." Yoru replied.
"Your Aki Kanzaki?" Kettei asked.
" Yes that was me in my alias name. I have a long past with Patick Zala that is very troublesome and I couldn't let Atrhun's father know that I lived through his attempted assignations." Yoru said with sadness in her voice.
" Why didn't you tell me? You told me long ago that we were friends. Friends do not keep secrets." Kettei yelled.
"Because I was protecting you. If anyone that was really close to Patrick Zala would have come after for my location and most likely kill you. I couldn't let you know my past." Yoru said as tears tried to spill from her eyes.
"Haru asks me everyday when you will be back home and I try to tell her any day now and now she has given up hope on you. Many people at Sugura Bay has lost faith in you. Help me Kettei, help end this war so I can save lives." Yoru said trying to keep her emotions intact.
"Patrick Zala is going to try and use a weapon that can tip the battle into his favor. He is going to use nuclear weapons." Kettei said as she lowered her gun.
"Kettei…"
"Don't be getting sappy on me Yoruichi Kururgi. Next time you see Haru I will be home in the fall." Kettei said with a small smile.
"I will." Yoru said as she tugged on the handle of the cable and ascended into the air toward her gundam.
"Stay here and a person from Orb will com get you." Yoru said before getting into her gundam to leave.
"Patrick Zala is the one directing the nuke attacks. You find him the attacks will stop." Kettei yelled to Yoru.
Escalus launched into the air toward the exit to the outside.
"I know where your father Athrun." Yoru said though the channel she opened to his gundam.
"I will follow you." He replied to her.
Yoru and Athrun got inside Genesis to stop Patrick Zala. As they near the bridge they heard a gun go off. When the doors open they saw Patrick Zala floating in the air bleeding barely alive. Everyone started filing out of the room as Athrun went to his father.
Yoru felt no joy of Patrick's death even though he was the on that killed most of her family. She felt utter sadness as she watch Athrun cry over his father's death. Patrick's lasts words being destroy Earth made her sad.
Yoru went to the computers to try and stop the attack sequence. Athrun did the same but the two of them were at loss.
"I am going to go to the inner core and destroy this." Athrun said as he went toward the door.
"That's suicide Athrun!" Yoru exclaimed.
"So, at least I can put a end to the Zala family's cruelty." Athrun said.
"But you are not cruel. You are innocent is a twisted world of war like Nicole." Yoru said to him.
Athrun became silent before he left to go to his gundam. After the two of them got into their gundams the Justice suddenly took off toward the core. Yoru followed using Escalus.
"Don't do it Athrun all you will do is bring sadness." Yoru said through the audio channel.
"Give me one person who would?" Athrun asked.
"Me, I would be sad. Most of my family is gone, my friend Nicole died and if you go you will die. I don't want to loose you Athrun." Yoru cried letting her tears show for the first time in many years.
"Gomen ne Yoruichi (I am sorry Yoruichi)." Athrun said as his gundam's areal attachment detached and crashed into Escalus to stop her.
"Baka ya rō(You Idiot)!" Yoru yelled as she crashed into it in Escalus.
Yoru maneuvered Esculas to where she could get through the Aeral gear that was in her way. Once she got it out her way she made escalus go full speed to find Athrun.
She found Athrun with the cockpit door open punching in the buttons to the self destruct on the Justice.
"Don't do this." Yoru said as she arrived.
Yoru opened the door to the cockpit of the Escalus. Tears were streaming into the non-gravity air of her helmet.
"Don't do this. The hardest thing in life is to move forward one foot at a time." Yoru said as she stood up, "Come back with me. Everyone is waiting for us."
Yoru held her hand out to him waiting for him to take it. Athrun hesitated and suddenly grabbed her hand. Yoru instantly pulled him into Escalus and closed the door and maneuvered Escalus to fly out of Genesis. Athrun was silent as Yoru piloted. Her eyes had a glaze to them to show that her coordinator instincts were fully active.
They made it out the Genesis in record time. They were able to get away just in time of the explosion.
"Talk about cutting it close." Yoru said with a smile as her eyes went back to normal.
Yoru opened her cockpit doors to allow room for the two of them. Athrun stepped out onto the doors and hung onto the door as Escalus moved so they could find Kira.
"Thank you Yoru. You were right, I am a idiot." Athrun said to Yoru as he looked over the space scene before him.
"Lets say moron and keep it like that." Yoru replied to him.
~Prelude to Sequel~
A woman with long black hair and blue eyes was in a limo on her way in Orb to see Cagalli. It had been two years but Japan has been helping Orb rebuild itself from the destruction and sadness it faced.
"You know should have worn a dress or something." A voice beside her said.
"If I did that Athrun I would not have been who I am. Instead I would be another person. I do not hide my true self from anyone." The woman said.
"You changed your hair color and your wearing colored contacts Yoru. Lets not mention your under a alias right now." Athrun pointed.
"So toss me over the next bridge we come to. I am protecting the ones I love. Especialy you." Yoru said before she leaned over to him and kissed him on the cheek.
There was a silence when Yoru started to laugh.
"Whats so funny?" he asked.
"Your seriousness. Loosen up or you will get premature grey hairs on your head." Yoru said laughing.
Athrun just smirked to keep himself from laughing.
"Well we are here, shall we go see Cagalli-chan." Yoru said happily as she opened the door.
~Author's Notes~
So this is the last chapter of Confrontation. I will start the sequel in the winter due to college classes starting to get busy. I am working on a wolf's rain but it going to be slow updating on that even though I posted three chapters today. Those three chapters are just the appetizers. Until my next story or sequel of Confrontation enjoy my other stories.