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Kira walked onto the bridge of the Eternal, and leisurely made his way over to Andrew Waltfeld's side. Andrew took a sip of his coffee and looked at Kira, out of the corner of his eye "whatcha doin, kid?" Kira rubbed his neck and walked to where Lacus would normally sit and sat down "I'm just trying to figure out why they would be at the D-establishment." Andrew nodded, he too has been pondering over the reason behind it, "if I had to take a guess, I'd say that they might be experimenting on her." Kira's eyes widened in horror, he rolled his hands into fists tightly "I hope not."

DaCosta glanced at them over his shoulder "wasn't that place supposed to be destroyed though?" Kira let out a long tired breath "yes, but we were planning to do it quietly after the celebration." DaCosta began to rub his chin in thought "so everything should have been cleared out of there, correct?" Kira rested his head on his hand "as far as I know, the only thing left was anything, Lacus felt should be destroyed." DaCosta, instantly stood up from his seat, Kira looked at him curious "what?" DaCosta waved his hands around in front of himself frantically "are the security cameras still there?" Kira perked up "I think so, why?" DaCosta wanted to hit Kira "it's simple we hack the cameras to get a visual of the inside, and outside of the building!" Kira quickly jumped up from his seat "I know the perfect person for the job!" Andrew raised an eyebrow in amusement "Meyrin Hawke?" Kira grinned "well I was actually thinking myself, but she would be good too." DaCosta quickly began pressing buttons to get into contact with the Voltaire. Kira quietly left the bridge.

Shiho popped up onto the screen looking serious "everything okay?" DaCosta shook his head "let me speak to Meyrin Hawke." Shiho nodded "hold on just a second." Meyrin came in to view looking confused "yes?" DaCosta looked at her "try to hack the security cameras at the D-establishment!" Meyrin's eyes widened and she nodded "right away!" She began typing, Shiho was standing behind her watching silently and decided that she should go get, Yzak.

Athrun was laying in bed breathing heavily 'shit.' He rolled on his back and closed his eyes 'just let me make it to Cagalli, then I will rest however long I need to.' He growled a little bit from annoyance when someone knocked on his door. He carefully sat up and walked over and entered the code in for the door to slide open. As it opened he widened his eyes feeling unprepared at seeing Kira standing there "did something happen?" Kira smiled as he ran a hand through his hair "um possibly. DaCosta came up with the idea that if the security cameras are still in D-establishment, we can hack them and see what's going on." Athrun quietly nodded his head and grabbed his uniform jacket "then let's go hack the cameras." Kira smiled enthusiatically as Athrun walked out of his room "DaCosta is contacting Meyrin, as we speak." Athrun was pulling his jacket on "I see." Athrun felt a sudden pain and took a deep breath, Kira immediately looked over to him "are you alright?" Athrun nodded his head reassuringly "I'm fine, just worried for what we might see." Kira looked at him skeptically "I understand." Athrun walked a little faster and went on ahead of Kira. Kira frowned to himself 'he is pushing himself way too much, his wound can't take it.'

Athrun entered the bridge, Kira a little bit after, together they walked over to stand beside DaCosta, and Andrew. "Any luck?" Andrew shook his head a little "not yet." Athrun starred at the screen showing satallite scans intently and noticed a blinking light "hey what is that?" Kira walked closer to get a better look, "it looks like some sort of transmitter! DaCosta try to pick it up!" DaCosta quickly went to work "yes sir!"

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Yzak was sitting in his quarters looking over the pictures of his mother and Nate Lancaster. The door slid open and, Shiho gracefully walked in "Yzak." He looked up two her and studied her face "yes?" He watched as she walked over and stood beside him "Meyrin, is currently trying to hack the security cameras at the D-establishment." Yzak quickly stood up in front of Shiho "then let's go to the bridge." As he was walking away she grabbed his arm, he turned to look at her surprised "Yzak, I have a bad feeling." He took hold of the hand she was holding on to him with and squeezed it gently "it's going to be fine, we have been through worse." Shiho glared at him a little "I'm not scared. It's just a bad feeling." Yzak nodded and pulled her out of the room "I understand."

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Cagalli stiffened as she heard footsteps coming towards her. She honestly didn't have hardly any energy left, she wasted it all on her pointless struggle to get free from the barbed wire. So she really didn't feel like talking to whatever bastard that was coming to bug her. She quickly shut her eyes as the person took her blindfold off, she blinked trying to get rid of her blurry vision to see the person. The man quickly ripped the tape off of Cagalli's mouth "sorry about that, I figured it was best to get it over with as quick as possible." Once Cagalli was able to see the man she blinked in astonishment "you.. you're!" He put a hand over her mouth "shh be quiet, my name is Eric." Cagalli looked at him like he was an idiot as he took his hand away from her mouth "no it's not." He shook his head "just listen to me, I don't have much time. I'm undercover right now, that's why I'm here. I sent out a transmission for Kira, to warn them of the bomb." Cagalli licked her dry lips "I don't understand, why would you be undercover?" He smiled gently to her and started to attempt to take some of the barbed wire off "I've matured, and a while back I ran into your old bodyguard Kisaka. I told him of some rumors that I had been hearing, and he confirmed some of them with me. So I asked if there was anything I could do to help, and he gave me many options and I chose to come here." Cagalli felt a little relieved as some of the wire loosened up "I see, so are you going to get me out of here?" The young man shook his head "I can't, I'm just doing this so once they get here, you will be able to quickly escape." Cagalli frowned when his watch started to beep, and he quit working on the wire "I'm sorry but I have to go now our ship is leaving. By the way I'll cover for your lie about the new machines." Cagalli sighed and smiled sadly to the man "thank you." He nodded and started to walk away "don't worry things will work out." Cagalli leaned back on the wooden chair and frowned 'Kisaka, why didn't you tell me anything?'

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Lacus was quietly singing a new song, and carefully watching General Quentin, as he was looking over files sent from Orb. She noticed his once dark red hair, was oddly turning grey, and his ocean blue eyes seemed rather dull lately. She wondered if something was wrong "General Quentin, is everything alright?" He glanced up to look at her "yes, why?" Lacus pushed papers to the side of her desk "you just seem down." He laughed loudly at her comment "Chairwoman, it hasn't been the easiest weekend." Lacus shook her head a little "no that's not what I meant, I'm talking about even before all this happened." He placed the papers down on the table and let out a tired breath of air "did you know I had a son, and a daughter?" Lacus smiled to him "no I didn't. How old are they?" He felt sick to even talk about it "my son is 21, but my daughter died during the second war, she was 17." Lacus felt guitly for asking "I'm so sorry." He shrugged her off as he stood up "it's in the past now. Anyways when is the leader of the Atlantic Federation supposed to contact you?" Lacus rested her head on her hand "anytime now." He nodded and crossed his arms "do you think they have something to do with all of this?" Lacus ran a hair through her hair "it's possible, but I just don't know. It seems more like that ship was trying to frame them, but I don't trust Winston Nelson anyhow." He nodded and walked to stand in a corner behind her when the video screen blinked for her to activate a conference. Lacus hit the connect button so that she could see, Winston smiling at her on the screen.

"Good afternoon, Chairwoman Clyne."

Lacus nodded once and folded her hands together "good afternoon, you wanted to speak to me?"

He laughed a little and then became serious "yes, well I heard the Orb princess was taken, the night we were all at the celebration."

Lacus didn't change her neutral facial expression "I see."

Winston shook his head "actually, Nate Lancaster from Orb has been accusing me of it along with everyone else of the Earth Forces."

General Quentin raised an eyebrow. Lacus frowned slightly "I didn't realize he was doing that."

Winston nodded once to her "I guess on the video the man that was with Cagalli, was wearing an Earth Forces uniform. I told Mr. Lancaster if it was really the Earth Forces then shouldn't the man that was making the announcement been wearing the uniform too?"

Lacus looked down to her desk at a picture of Kira, Athrun, Cagalli and herself and smiled sadly "yes, that is true."

Winston looked at her through the screen and smirked a little "have you found out what they plan to do with, Cagalli?"

Lacus looked up to the screen "unfortunately no."

Winston tried to look disappointed "ahh I see. I hope she is alright my daughter, Laraine seems to like her, and I like to consider myself her friend as well."

Lacus was surprised by him saying that "I'm sure she is. She will be safe and back home in Orb in no time."

Winston didn't like the sound of that but he didn't show it "I hope so, let me know if you need any help. Although there isn't much I can do in this situation."

Lacus nodded thankfully "I will, thank you very much, Mr. Nelson."

He smiled "call me Winston, and it's no problem at all, good bye, Chairwoman Clyne."

Lacus smiled "good bye, Winston." She then cut off the connection and turned to General Quentin "well what did you think of that?"

He crossed his arms and walked over to stand beside where she was sitting "trouble."

Lacus nodded "I agree, he might not be involved in Cagalli being taken, but there are still those assassins. He could have something to do with that."

He saluted to her "I will go look into it." Lacus nodded "alright, let me know if you find anything." He started to walk away "I will."

Lacus let out a breath of air and relaxed a little.

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Kira leaned over the chair "what does it say?"

DaCosta blinked "it says bomb, level 5, fenced in lioness."

Athrun looked worried "could the lioness be, Cagalli?" Andrew nodded "that would be my guess."

Kira leaned against the back of DaCosta's chair "so level 5 would be where she is at in the facilty."

Dearka was on the left side of the screen "level 5 would be the prison cell." Athrun bit his lip and went into deep thought.

Andrew shook his head "the thing is, why would anyone try to help us?" Kira looked at him "what about the bomb?"

DaCosta blinked "a bomb is in the room with, Cagalli." Kira nodded "I thought that too."

Yzak was on the right screen "hey you idiots, Meyrin hacked the cameras. We have visual."

Athrun shot up from his seat "of Cagalli?" The visual popped up in Yzak's place it was the ship leaving the facilty. Kira raised an eyebrow "shit!"

Andrew nodded "they are getting away from the bomb." Athrun looked horrified "how much time do you think there is?"

DaCosta shook his head and cancelled the footage off the screen and pulled Yzak back up "is there any way for Meyrin, to get any of the cameras from level 5?"

Yzak looked at him then turned around and looked at Meyrin "can you?" Meyrin shook her head sadly "no they arn't working."

Yzak looked back at DaCosta "did you hear that?" DaCosta nodded. Athrun looked at Kira, and Kira understood. "Athrun, Shinn, Lunamaria, and I will go on ahead in our mobile suits. We will be able to get there quicker that way."

Andrew nodded "sounds good to me. Go get suited up boys." They both nodded and ran out of the bridge.

Dearka looked around "where are Shinn, and Luna?" One of his pilots Thomas who had short chopped orange hair and violet eyes looked at him "they are in their quarters sir." Dearka rolled his eyes and walked over to a woman "must I do everything?" He grinned to the woman, and she shook her head and made an annoucement that would go over the whole ship "Shinn Asuka, Lunamaria Hawke quit playing twister, and get suited up and go to your damn mobile suits!" Dearka nodded his head proudly "couldn't have said it better myself!" Everyone on the bridge started to laugh.

Luna blinked at the announcement, "twister?" Shinn looked at her and grinned "who knows. Let's go." Luna swiftly followed him out of the room to go get suited up.

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Mwu and Murrue were walking through Orb together "this is a disaster." Murrue glanced over to Mwu "they're frightened, from everything that has happened." Mwu took her hand into his "I know." Murrue looked around at the people running about frantically "this will hurt, Cagalli." Mwu nodded slowly as he watched the people too "are they leaving Orb?" Murrue looked at him sadly "I think so." They kept walking silently until they heard a man call out to Murrue. They both turned around to see Arnold Nuemann with his hands in his pockets "hey, long time no see." Mwu, and Murrue smiled to him, Mwu then stepped foward "how have you been?" Arnold shrugged a little and looked serious "I've been okay, but I actually need to talk to you two in private." Mwu and Murrue glanced to eachother and nodded "alright, where at?" Arnold looked around "would your home be alright?" Murrue nodded her head approvingly "then shall we go?" Arnold held his arm out and grinned to his two comrades "lead the way Captain." The three started on their way to Mwu, and Murrue's home.

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Yzak glanced over to Shiho and whispered "you still have that bad feeling?" She completely turned to look at him with wide eyes "actually it's even worse now!" Yzak blinked, surprised at how she was acting "maybe you're sick." She was offended by him saying that so she crossed her arms and stuck her nose up in the air "Commander, I'm perfectly healthy." With that Yzak, watched as she stomped her way out of the bridge. He crossed his arms, and growled a little "women."

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"Strike Freedom, you're clear for launch!" Kira took a breath "Kira Yamato, Freedom, let's do this!"

"Infinite Justice, you're clear for launch!" Athrun nodded a little "Athrun Zala, Justice, launching!"

"Shinn you have a clear go to launch!" "Shinn Asuka, Destiny, launching!"

"Lunamaria, it's all clear for you to launch!" "Lunamaria Hawke, Impulse, here I go!"