11: Flay's Hidden View

Flay Allster

On board ZAFT submarine

35 miles from Onogoro Island

Orb Union

At first when I came on board this ZAFT submarine, I just hid in my room and slept most of the time. But when Yzak gave a disk containing a modified Natural OS to use on the captured Strike Dagger, I suddenly wanted to make a difference and try to blend in with the ZAFT soldiers by piloting a mobile suit. Commander Le Creuset was happy to teach me how to pilot the mobile suit on our way to Orb and spy on the battle between the Earth Forces and Orb along with her allies. Commander Le Creuset promised me that once we got to Carpentaria, he would get me set up with an instructor and training partners to help me get better. I secretly cheered for Orb to win the battle; the Earth Forces didn't have a clear plan of what do once ZAFT was defeated. The Blue Cosmos group was certainly greedy and never explained why they hated Coordinators. I hated Coordinators because I felt inferior to them and assumed they could anything better then Naturals. Neyla tried a few times to knock some sense into me and get me to realize that Coordinators that were just any other human being. [Sigh] I wish I could've had an open mind when she tried to help me.

"How are you doing my dear?" Commander Le Creuset asked me as I snapped out of my guilt ridden daze.

"Fine, I guess," I answered him.

"I'm sure you'd like get in some training on your mobile suit," Commander Le Creuset said calmly, "but we don't wish to draw attention to us; if we surface and launch you out for a training exercise, the Earth Forces would attack us and try to sink us."

"No I'm just thinking about something else," I said to Commander Le Creuset.

"Oh, I see," said Commander Le Creuset as he smiled. "Well, I'll leave you to think on your own."

Le Creuset left me to think alone and I went back to my guilt ridden daze for another hour and then went to the mobile suit bay and went to work on doing maintenance on the Strike Dagger that was captured for me by the Archangel when they lashed out in retaliation for what happened in Alaska when the Earth Forces tried to sacrifice them in order to make Coordinators look evil like monsters. I spent most of the day learning about how to maintain my mobile suit from the mechanics and a few pilots. [Sigh] I wish Yzak was here to teach me how to pilot this mobile suit but he defected to the AEUG once I got here within ZAFT.

Three days later

ZAFT Base Carpentaria

"Well you're doing well with those accuracy drills," my instructor said to me. "I gotta say that OS that you installed is definitely improves your mobile suit's reaction time. You might even be par with a normal ZAFT mobile suit pilot."

It's been three days since we left Orb after the Earth Forces moved in and forcefully annexed the Orb Union. Those monsters began to force Orb's citizens into service and fight against ZAFT. Anyone who refused to fight ZAFT was shot on sight as ordered by the leader of Blue Cosmos, Murata Azrael. Had I known this was how the Earth Forces would react, I would've tried to give Coordinators a chance and learn to live with them, especially that girl Lacus Clyne. Right now she was declared a traitor by Chairman Zala for supposedly selling secrets of Operation Spitbreak to the Earth Forces. I'm frankly getting tired of hearing Chairman Zala remind the people of the PLANTS and ZAFT about Junius Seven. All he ever talks about is Junius Seven as he tries to unite all Coordinators under a banner of hatred against those of us Naturals who haven't sided with ZAFT. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful that Chairman Zala was willing to extend an opportunity to any Naturals who resent the Earth Forces and join ZAFT. But the only reason why he is letting any Naturals live is so that he could say that Naturals destroyed each other and that in end they became Coordinators to ensure that all Naturals are extinct. [Shakes her head in disappointment] What's the point in all of these speeches and constant reminders of Junius Seven; what will they accomplish? …I guess that's enough for today. I heard that the Archangel escaped from Orb while the AEUG kept the Earth Forces at bay; even their three new models were kept at bay. I must admit Neyla is a brilliant commander and knows how to piss her enemies off. Well I'm signing off now.

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