Disclaimer: I don't anything within this story except Hiroku, the story plot, Rayne and Hisoka (there at the end). I will say that this story follows the Gundam Seed storyline and has direct quotes, but I added to them by bringing in an OC, so many of the episodes are word for word but then my character Hiroku comes in. So enjoy…and read and review please!
Chapter 10:
The alarm sounded early the next morning. The five young ZAFT pilots quickly left their rooms and headed to the locker room to change into their flight suits. They then headed off to their mobile suits to await further orders.
A ship is separating from the enemy fleet. Identifying…it's the legged ship!
"Huh?" Yzak said.
"What?" Hiroku squeaked.
Dearka just whistled in response to this information that they were told.
"Ha, I knew you were right Athrun." Nicol voiced happily.
"We're taking off! That ship goes down today!" Athrun ordered.
"You won't get any argument outta me for once." Hiroku commented.
They all launched from the submarine and made their way to the enemy ship. They were an ominous looking bunch on their way to fight the legged ship. As they drew closer, the Archangel must have picked up there signal and let out a smoke screen.
"A smoke screen?" Dearka questioned.
"Huh! Their getting cute with us." Yzak seethed.
Just then two blue and white fighter planes launched from the Archangel, but still no Strike yet. All the sudden through the smoke screen two beams were fired.
"Everyone scatter!" Commanded Athrun.
As soon as the beam was fired, the Strike launched into the air.
"Come on Strike!" yelled Yzak.
"Be careful Yzak!" shouted Hiroku.
"There's no way your gonna get passed me!" Dearka voiced trying to shoot down one of the fighter planes. Just then his goul was shot and blew up underneath of him. The Strike then kicked his machine in the cockpit area and Dearka plummeted towards the ocean.
"Damn you!" growled Yzak.
"Dearka!" Hiro yelled.
Just then Yzak's goul was also hit and blew up. Yzak's machine was now also making a decent towards one of the small islands in the area.
"Ahh!" yelled Yzak in a growl.
"Yzak! No!" shouted a concerned Hiroku.
"Hold on Yzak!" Athrun voiced watching Yzak fall from the sky.
"Take this!" Nicol shouted going towards Strike. Just then Strike changed his equipment in mid-air. "He changed his equipment in mid-air?" he voiced stunned. Nicol charged again towards Strike and got an arm to his Blitz Gundam sliced off. Nicol was then kicked off his goul. Hiroku watched from a short distance and saw that a fighter jet was going to shoot a missile at the now falling Blitz. Hiroku flew towards Nicol in order to save him. She shielded him from the missile.
Inside Hiroku's machine, fragments of the interior were blowing up and some metal pipes above her head fell on top her, knocking her out instantly. Her machine plunged downward on to a small island that was not too far from where Yzak and Dearka were able to land there machines.
"Dearka where is Hiroku? I don't see her machine anywhere." Yzak voiced worriedly for his girlfriend.
"I don't know…" Dearka answered, also worried for his friend. Dearka looked around the many islands to see if he could spot her machine. As his eyes passed over a very small island he saw her machine lying in a heap with smoke rising from it. "Yzak over there!" Dearka pointed.
"No! Hiro! Come on, hurry!" Yzak shouted trying to get his machine over to her as fast as he could.
Once Dearka and Yzak made it to Hiroku's machine, Yzak's stomach churned at the sight. Both the arms, legs and the head of her machine were gone. Yzak and Dearka quickly exited their machines and ran over to get Hiroku out of hers. Yzak opened her machine's cockpit and looked inside.
"Oh my god…" Dearka whispered.
"H-Hiro…" Yzak said under his breathe.
Hiroku was slouched over at the waist with a large crack going across her shield screen on her helmet and blood running down her face and seeping through her side. Metal pipes from above her were holding her down.
"Come on lets her outta here." Dearka suggested.
"Yea…" Yzak quietly said.
The two boys cleared away all the debris from on top of Hiro and then Yzak carefully lifted her out of the cockpit. He carried her to his machine and laid her gently in his lap.
Oh Hiroku. Please be ok, please…please. Yzak closed his eyes and hugged Hiro closer to him.
"Hey Yzak! I just saw a huge explosion over on that island over there!" Dearka voiced over the communicator.
"Ok…let's go…" Yzak answered back.
They quickly headed over to the island were the explosion was and they saw Nicol's machine lying around in pieces with smoke and small fires on each piece. Athrun's machine was motionless with the phase shift amour off, and Strike was standing there being still as well. Dearka and Yzak were shocked unbelievably so that Nicol was dead. Both started shooting at the Strike who quickly flew up to the Archangel. The three ZAFT machines left and headed back to the submarine.
Once inside the submarine Yzak ordered the doctors to take care of Hiroku. He had wanted to stay with her but they told him that she would be fine in their care and that he could see her when they were finished cleaning and bandaging her wounds.
Dearka, Athrun and Yzak were in the locker room changing. The tension in air was very thick. No one was speaking a single word until Yzak broke the silence.
"Dammit! Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit, DAMMIT!" Yzak yelled pounded his fist into one of the lockers. Dearka was buckling his belt around his jacket and Athrun was fixing the collar to his jacket. "Dammit!" Yzak kicked one of the locker doors and it opened to reveal a red coat jacket that was now without an owner. Yzak stared at it wide eyed and stepped back.
"Yzak…" Dearka said when he saw the jacket.
"Why did he have to die like that? And why out here?" Yzak turned towards Athrun with a slight glare. "Well?"
Athrun glared harshly back at Yzak and then lunged forward and grabbed him by the collar of his flight suit and shoved Yzak against the lockers. Yzak winced at the impact.
"Why don't you just say it Yzak, it was my fault! He only died because he was trying to save me!" Athrun growled.
"Athrun…" Dearka put his hand over Athrun's that were clenched on Yzak's collar. "You too Yzak…" Yzak glared back at Athrun with shaking eyes. "Fighting each other isn't going to help us one bit." Dearka reasoned. Both Yzak and Athrun took a step back from each other. "Remember that the Strike is our real enemy."
"I know that obviously! He's the one who killed Miguel, and he gave me this scar, next time we meet I'll get him." Yzak stated glaring at Athrun fiercely with small tears in his eyes. Yzak then ran out of the locker room with Dearka in tow.
"Yzak…" Dearka called after him.
Dearka and Yzak ran out of the locker room. Dearka placed a hand on Yzak's shoulder to stop him from running. Yzak stopped but didn't turn around to face his best friend.
"Yzak, everyone is upset. Why don't we…" But Dearka was cut short.
"I just want to be alone OK!" Yzak yelled and then ran off again. Dearka just sighed and went to the cafeteria to get something to eat.
Yzak ran to his room to change and then immediately went to the infirmary to see how Hiroku was. He was really worried about her. On his way there he saw the doctor in the hallway.
"Doctor." Yzak called running up to the man in a long white coat. "How is she?"
"She is doing just fine. She has been waking up occasionally, but only for a few seconds and then goes back to sleep. Her wounds aren't too serious, though the one on her side is rather deep, so she shouldn't do any real strenuous activity for a while. If you like you can go in and see her?" the doctor informed Yzak.
"Sure." Yzak answered. He was relived to know that she was on the mend and it was nothing serious.
Yzak entered Hiroku's ward and silently walked over to her sleeping form. She was a little paler looking than usual and her hands were tightly clenching on the sheets that were pulled up to her chin. Yzak sat down on the edge of the bed and gently placed the palm of his hand completely on her cheek while he caressed it with his thumb. He felt her instantly lean into the touch.
"Hiroku?" Yzak called when he thought he saw her eyebrows twitch as if they were going to open.
Hiroku was hearing someone far away call her name. The voice that was calling her was smooth and warm. It held love and care in the way it voiced her name. She tried to will herself to open her eyes to see the one face that she longed to see, but her body just wasn't cooperating.
Please…let me open my eyes! I want to see him so badly. I need to see him and let him know that I'm ok and that he shouldn't worry too much. Oh please…Oh please…
Yzak watched her face and soon noticed small tears trickling down her cheeks. He was puzzled at first as to why she was crying but then he just pushed it aside. He leaned down and kissed away her tears and then leaned into her so he could whisper in her ear.
"I love you Hiroku. Please come through…I need you."
Yzak stood up off the bed and took one last glance down at his unconscious girlfriend. He leaned down and gave her a kiss on the forehead and then retreated from the infirmary to go to his room to relax somewhat.
"How's the little missy?" Dearka asked looking up from his log book that he was writing in.
"She's ok. She is still conscious, but the doctor said that none of her wounds were too serious, only the one on her side is deep. And where she was cut on her head is probably going to be very sore." Yzak answered looking down.
"She's gonna be fine Yzak. I'm sure of it. She is strong enough to pull through something like this. Just make sure your there for her when she needs you." Dearka voiced putting an arm around Yzak's shoulders.
"Yea I know…"
"Why don't we hit the hay early and go visit her before we report for the bridge tomorrow morning."
"Sure."
Yzak took a quick a shower and then got dressed back into his clean uniform. When he came out of the bathroom he found Dearka already asleep. He took this time to slip out of the room and head back to the infirmary. He tiptoed through the halls and when he reached the infirmary door he quietly eased it open. He winced at the rather loud swish that the door made when it opened. He walked into Hiroku's room and pulled a chair up to the bedside. He grabbed her hand and caressed it with his thumb. He held her hand firmly and then put his head on the bed and went to sleep. But not before he thought some about the day.
I really thought that today would have turned out good. I guess that was Athrun's doing giving us a false sense of Hope that we could take down the legged ship and Strike this time. Boy was he wrong. I can't believe that we even lost Nicol. Sure we may have teased him about being a sissy sometimes and how he was always on Athrun's side, but he certainly was the one keeping the cheeriness in the group and reminding us of our left behind childhoods, since he sometimes still acted like a kid. You will be greatly missed Nicol. Hiroku…god…how could something like this happen. What could she have done to get hurt this bad. I want to destroy that Strike even more now! He hurt her…he is so going to pay. But enough about than damn Strike…Hiroku…you have to wake up soon…I need you here…I have become dependent on you, but I like that I am…it strives me to go that extra mile on the battle field even though you get mad at me when I do something reckless. Please come through soon…I need to hear your sweet voice…please…Hiroku…I love you.
Yzak then fell into a dream filled sleep. All about the love of his life. He even dreamed of possibly marrying her once the war was over…but that dream soon ended. He didn't want to think that far in the future…but it was a possibility. He loved her enough to want to, and he had a feeling that she did too.
OUOU…Yzak's getting serious…what do u think? Well before u tell me go on to chapter 11 to see what happens next!