Opening Theme: 'Strength' by Abingdon Boys School

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"Speaking"

"Radio"

'Thoughts'

Flashbacks

AN: This fic was boosted to M Rating FOR A REASON! If you do not like Lemons, then simply DONT READ THE LEMONS.

The mood aboard the Archangel was not a good one, they had just lost two of their best pilots on the ship and their fate was uncertain, listed as MIA (Missing in Action). Chris after going through their room with Liz to pack their personal belongs when they found on Ryu's desk a piece of paper containing the password and user name to his laptop.

After gathering the others, Chris activated it and had found plans and designs for upgrading their suits for in atmosphere combat along with a short video of his will:

"To the one who is hearing this," it said showing Ryu sitting in his desk with Kira sleeping on their bed in the background "What I feared has come to pass and I may now be dead, this is my final testament to my friends, this is my will,"

"I was the original designer of the G-weapons, or Gundams as we now call them, the Dynasty was my concept, and I can see its influence in the rest of them, And Jordan, I also see the influence of your Model with the ARC-equipped mobile suits as well."

"So using my original designs I planned out a series of upgrades that will allow your suits to become more powerful, along with each blueprint is a semi-intelligent AI based off of my personality and knowledge that will aid you in properly construct the upgrades,"

Ryu turned and smiled at Kira who was sound asleep "I do this to give my friends the weapons to fight and protect for what they believe is the truth. I also have included a frequency code for the Mercenary Mobile Suit Force known as Terminal, they have access to mobile suit construction facilities and if you can get a hold of them they will provide you with supplies and parts, for a price of course. If any of the Pilots are listening to this especially Kira, people my believe that the G stood for Genocide, but it wasn't, it stands for Genesis, these Gundams in the right hands can bring about a new beginning while you may not have inherited my will, I hope you fight to change this world and bring it one step closer to unity."

Ryu then sighed. "Jordan…If I hadn't told you this already…I knew your Father…your Real Father." Jordan and Matthew stiffened. "He, myself, and another of our friends helped design all of the Gundams. I do not know where he is at the time, however…I do know what kind of man he was." Ryu smiled. "Your Father, Alen Takeo, was a great man." He said. "A prodigy in mobile suit combat like me. He held family higher over everything…when…When I first met you at Heliopolis; I couldn't believe my eyes that you were his youngest son. When I asked Gineta…she confirmed it, but she told me not to tell you who your Real Father was…she said it was for the best. But please, don't be mad at your Parents. Your Mother told me you're Father left in order to protect you, and your mother. He always loved you, and he still does. All I can do now is wish you the best of luck. Computer End recording."

The Pilots all just stared at the computer screen now. "Even in death…" Graham said. "He helps you guys as much as he can…"

"What, are you giving up on them that quickly?" Jordan demanded, glaring at the ace pilot.

Graham sighed. "Jordan…face the facts." He said. "The two still had a whole Zaft fleet to worry about…they couldn't-"

"Bullshit!" Jordan shouted, shocking many of the others. "After all the time we've know those two, after everything they've all been through, what we've all been through, can you honestly say that a fleet like that could have killed them? They are both MIA. They are just MISSING IN ACTION! None of us saw them get killed, so I am going to believe that somehow, someway, those two are alive." He then looked at his Brother. "Three years ago I thought my own Brother was killed in the Bloody Valentine. I gave up all hope that he could be alive. But look now, he's standing right in front of me." He then glared at the others. "If Matthew could survive, then so could Ryu and Kira! And I am going to keep on clinging to that hope."

There was a whole minute of Silence. "Jordan's Right," Darknal said, standing up. "Ryu and Kira are tougher than that. They could…no, they are alive."

"I agree with them too." Chris said, and Liz nodded. "After all we've been through…I'm sure their just fine…tired as hell, but still fine."

"If Jordan believes that they could be alive…I believe so too." Amy said firmly.

"Same here," Hikari said, nodding her head.

Graham sighed. "That's some slim hope you're riding on." He said. But he then smiled. "But…if what I heard about the Dragon is true, then he should have been able to cut through those ships easily."

Since then, all of the Pilots clung to the hope that Ryu and Kira were fine. They threw themselves at the Upgrades to the Gundam's and the other Mobile units. Getting the designs and collaborating with Johanna, Murdoch and the Semi-Intelligent AI Ryu left behind to get the upgrades going. Darknal had also used the same concept with the AI and created his own AI variant and downloaded it into his GINN to help him piloting it.

Meanwhile Liz had been making occasional visits to Yuuka down in the brig talking with her and trading stories about their past experiences and their lives growing up.

Mu was the most effected out of the pilots having been like a brother to Ryu and started to see Kira as a little sister as well he locked himself in his room for a day only to come out the next day with a rough design plan for upgrading the captured Lightning using the remaining weapons of the Strike Dynasty, and the Hyperion. Outside of working on his suit he was far more quiet than usual usually seen in the Tactical Planning Room trying to figure out a plan for getting to Alaska without incurring major losses.

The Heliopolis enlistees had thrown themselves into their jobs with Tolle putting himself through simulator after simulator training himself to be the pilot for the Skygraspers they received.

Murrue sighed as she looked over the reports "Morale is at an all time low," she murmured to herself "and our fighting strength is severely reduced right now with the loss of Kira and Ryu."

"That is true," Natarle agreed, the ensign had been impacted by the pair's sacrifice and was doing her best to think more openly instead of within the confines of military rules and regulation "However the entire crew is completely determined to see this through to the end. And many of the pilots, especially Jordan, believe that Ryu and Kira could still be alive. In all honesty…I hope they survived too."

Murrue nodded in agreement "Let's hope that's enough." She declared as she stared out over the desert.

Desert

"So this is the new warship of the Earth Alliance?" a Blonde haired 23 year old said, looking through binoculars with a mug of coffee in his hand. "What do they call it again?"

"The Archangel," replied a blond haired girl.

Another man, a younger boy looking to be about 17 with black hair, and dark blue eyes, chuckled.

"That's funny considering the ship has been more like an Angel of Doom for the Earth Forces. Heliopolis, Artemis Base, Admiral Halberton and the 8th Fleet, all lost after coming into contact with that ship, while the ship itself escapes," he said. "Of course, the fact that it has survived all those encounters is testament to its crew, its mobile suits and the very ship itself. They're just what we need to push Waltfield out of the area." The man finished.

"Well, seeing who was with them, it's not that hard to believe." Said a young 16 year old girl with long dirty blonde hair, and Laughing Green eyes said. "That's…if he's still onboard…"

The black haired teen smiled as he put a reassuring hand on the girl's shoulder. "I'm sure he's onboard, Jade." He said reassuringly. Jade nodded slowly. "I hope so Drake…" she whispered.

Sahib Ashman, the leader of the rebels, nodded. "How do you know they'll be willing to aid us, John?"

John Cypher cleared his throat. "Because they're just as desperate as us, they're in the middle of enemy territory. They have no clue as to the recent events here on Earth. And they're in the Tiger's backyard. They have no choice but to seek our aid."

"Chief!" shouted a rebel. "We just received word. The Tiger's left the Lesseps with a team of BuCUEs. He's heading for that ship."

"Should we help them out?" asked Drake.

"No. Not quite yet," answered John. "We need to see their strength with our own eyes first. And if they fall here, then they weren't strong enough to help us defeat the Tiger anyway."

"But sir, Isn't it true that Ryu could be onboard?" Drake Connor asked. This fact caused John to bite his lip slightly. "I know that, Drake." He said. "But we can't be too hasty. Even for his sake. Besides," he took another sip from his Coffee. "This Is The Dragon of Endymion, and his personally trained friends we're talking about." John grinned. "I think they will be just fine. But still, best have the rest of the team ready to jump in if they need help."

He then turned to the others. "Drake, Jade, get to the others and tell them to mount up." he ordered. "I want Calista in a sniping Position ASAP, Jade, get your Specter ready for some air Support. Drake, you and Jake are to get in your suits too." The two saluted. "Yes, Sir!" they replied as they got into their own Jeep, and sped off.

Archangel

Jordan yawned as he made his way to his room with Amy. "So pretty much, Darknal installed his AI into the GINN so that even while he's sniping, the AI can maneuver the GINN around when it's in the air." He said reading off the current upgrades on the suits. "The Thunder, Raven, and Raptor's Advance Atmospheric Flight systems are still in progress, but should be finished by the morning. But we got the Hero's Land-hovering system prepared along with those new Exia Kai II Dagger/Pistols. Mu is moving the Light wave barrier shields from the Hyperion and is going to add them to the Lightning along with a few other of its armaments, as well as adding hard points so that it can use Striker Packs. And we gave some Mirage Colloid to the Raven." He sighed as he put the report away. "Well, I'd say things are going more smoothly than we expected." He admitted.

"Thanks to you, of course." Amy said, surprising Jordan. "Jordan, that little speech you gave to the others actually boosted their moral a bit. Everyone is hoping that maybe Ryu and Kira could be alive. And now, there looking at you for support."

"Me?" he asked incredulously. "Why me? I mean, sure Ryu promoted me, but I'm not leadership material!"

"You are, we know you are." Amy said firmly. "Listen, With Ryu and Kira gone for now, we need someone to follow, a leader. Sure, Mu is Ok, but he's no commander. And neither is Murrue. You can do it. You've come up with plenty ideas in the past, like when we ambushed Zaft at Heliopolis to get to Artemis." She then grabbed his arm. "I know you can do it, Jordan." She stated firmly. "We all do."

Jordan stared at Amy for a minute, before sighing. "I guess you're right, Amy." He admitted as they reached their quarters.

An Idea came to Amy's mind, and she blushed a bit, but thought it was Ok. "Ya know…being a commander now that means you must have a lot of stress, right?" Jordan blinked, and nodded. "Ya, so?" he asked.

Amy then walked forward, swaying her hips in a fashion causing Jordan to blush. "Well…maybe I could…relieve some of that tension…" She trailed off with an impish grin as she ran her hand along his slightly stiff cock.

Jordan was looking like a ripe tomato when Amy had said that while she sported her own light blush while she giggled "I want to do this Jordan," Amy whispered seductively into his ear as she pressed her chest up against him "So make sure you're ready to return the… 'Favor'."

Jordan nearly choked at her tone of voice and actually did choke when he heard her statement "Holy crap..." he muttered before the information overloaded his brain and fainted.

Amy blinked as Jordan fell unconscious. "Wow…I think I broke him." She said to no one. Suddenly she grinned as an Idea popped in her head…

Jordan's Room

****LEMON ALERT!**** (Skip to next warning if you are under legal age for your country or you do not like Lemons.) Note this is my first attempt at a Lemon, so it's probably gonna suck.

Jordan groaned as he felt something warm rub against his cock making stiff as a board, opening his eyes slightly he immediately shut them again at the sight of Amy in her underwear, somehow in the room they shared. "This has to be a dream," he moaned as she rubbed against the tent in his boxers "A really good dream, but a dream nonetheless."

Jordan suddenly yelped when Amy pinched his arm with a grin "You're not dreaming Jordan," she amended in a sultry tone that made his dick twitch as she slid his boxers off. "This is very, very real." With that she licked his member from base to top making Jordan let out a low groan in response.

Grinning, Amy took a moment to remove her Bra, fully revealing her B-Cup breasts to Jordan, whose Jaw dropped instantly. "Like what you see?" She asked in a seductive tone, and Jordan just nodded dumbly.

Continuing where she left off, she grabbed his slightly above average sized cock, and she quickly brought it into her mouth, as she started bobbing her head up and down while swirling her tongue around it.

As for Jordan, he had honestly never felt this good as Amy was actually giving him a Blow-job. To be fair, he was still thinking this was a dream, however he decided that if it was…he was going to enjoy it for as long as he could.

Amy for her part had begun to truly get into the act enjoying the way Jordan tasted, but also the sounds her actions drew from him. When Jordan said, "I'm cumming," she decided to catch his load with her mouth. However she was surprised at just how much there was as he exploded inside her mouth. Catching as much as she could she couldn't believe that it actually made her cheeks bulge before leaking from her mouth.

Swallowing as best she could she found him to be quite bitter but knew that if he asked her again that she would gladly drop down to her knees. Jordan for his part smiled at her as she brought a finger to her chin to trace a line of cum that had escaped and brought it to her mouth liking it clean. She smiled at him showing some of the more confident and sure as she asked, "How was that?"

"In all honesty…greatest experience of my life so far." Jordan admitted as he grinned. "But now…I think it's your turn."

Jordan then moved towards her legs, and started to rub the wet area that developed between her legs, making her moan lustfully.

Jordan grinned at the Reaction as he gently rubbed her through her panties before removing them and viewing her wet entrance.

"Beautiful." He muttered, causing Amy to blush. She then gasped suddenly as she felt Jordan's fingers begin to fiddle with her entrance. "Oh god…" she muttered.

Jordan just grinned as he slipped his fingers into her moist entrance and started to slowly pump it in and out of her as he also started to suck on her left breast, and slowly he picked up the paste, causing her moans to grow louder. As Amy neared her climax Jordan pulled back from her breast and gazed into Amy increasingly cloudy gaze before placing his lips to hers. She responded immediately to the kiss, meeting his tongue with her own in a duel. The kiss only ended when Jordan gave her clit a gentle squeeze sending her over the edge "Jordan I-I'm C-Cumming!" Amy warned, as did so covering Jordan's hand in her release.

Jordan pulled his hand out of her entrance, and gave it a lick. "You taste pretty good Amy." He commented, causing said girl to blush. He began to lower her down towards his lap but stopped as she came into contact with his revitalized cock. Amy couldn't believe how hot it felt against her lower lips, and wondered why Jordan stopped.

"Now, you sure you want to do this?" Jordan asked, and Amy nodded. "Ya…when you kinda fainted, I stole a few of Hikari's birth control pills. We're fine." Jordan blushed a bit, remembering that. "As curious as I am to how and why Hikari would have those, we have bigger things to worry about." Jordan said. "This is probably gonna hurt at first."

"I know, I'm ready." Amy said. With a quick nod, he Leaned forward he kissed her and as she kissed him back plunged passed her hymen. She tensed and screamed into his mouth. Jordan began to kiss along her face and neck giving Amy the chance to grow accustomed to the feeling of him as well as to allow the pain to diminish. Eventually she cupped his face saying, "I'm ready."

Jordan began to move inside of her slowly and languidly, but Amy soon wanted more and when she began to try raised her hips to meet his in a hurried tempo he began to increase his own pace as well. "Mo-mo-more" Amy pleaded.

Instead of responding to her request he rolled them over so that she was on top and stopped moving completely. She stared down at him with a pout he found adorable, but she eventually began to raise and lower herself over his tool. Soon she was riding him at a brisk pace when she suddenly tensed as she experienced her second orgasm of the night. Her tightening grip around his cock almost sent him over the edge but he managed to restrain himself.

Amy collapsed forward breathing hard against his chest, but upon realizing that Jordan had yet to cum began to once more move her hips. As she did that she also began to run her tongue over his nipple moving back and forth between them. Responding in kind Jordan began raising his hips to meet Amy causing her to lift her head away to shout out, "Jordan I-I'm Cumming!"

"S-same here Amy!" he replied, Feeling his release Amy threw her head back experiencing her third orgasm of the night.

After their respective releases, they sat in the middle of the bed and the two lovers stared into each other's eyes before kissing gently.

"That was…that…wow." Amy said.

"Same here," Jordan replied, grinning like a loon.

"I love you, Jordan." Amy said as she rested her head on his bare chest, her eyes closing.

Jordan smiled. "And I love you too, Amy." He said, and the two quickly found themselves asleep.

**** END LEMON!**** (You may begin reading again!)

A few hours later

ZAFT Camp

"So that's the Legged Ship eh?" Andrew Waltfield questioned as he looked through a pair of binoculars at the prototype Carrier "The ship that The Dragon of Endymion, the Valkyrie of Heliopolis and Admiral Halberton gave their lives to defend."

"Their morale must be extremely low right now." His aide Martin DaCosta commented "It would be best to attack them now."

"True," the commander agreed with a frown "But knowing the Dragon he left a few surprises behind, order the BuCUEs to launch."

"Yessir," DaCosta complied with a salute.

Andrew continued to frown as he stared at the ship in thought.

Archangel

"The ship can be cooled by routing excess heat through the black hole exhaust system," said Chandra to Kuzzey, wanting to reassure the boy that they probably wouldn't have a fight on their hands in the near future. "As long as we can evade infrared scans by satellites, we just might pull this off. Our radar's unreliable, but that means theirs is too."

Begin Chandra, the main door of the bridge opened, and Tolle and Miriallia stepped through.

"We're here to begin our shift," said Mir.

"Don't give me that!" said Arnold scolding. "You're late!"

"Sorry," said Mir. Arnold just shook his head and decided not to worry about it as the two sat at their stations.

"All because of the Neutron jammers?" asked Kuzzey, returning to the subject he'd been on with Chandra before his friends arrived. "But isn't there a way to get rid of them?"

"Impossible," said Chandra, shaking his head. "They've been fired deep below the Earth's surface. We don't even know how many there are. If it were possible, someone would've done it already. Radio waves and fission-based energy have been adversely affected. But it's still a lot better than having nuclear missiles flying around all over the place. If ZAFT had retaliated in kind after the nuclear attack on Junius Seven, there would be no Earth right now."

"Anything unusual?" asked Natarle Badgiruel as she stepped unexpectedly into the bridge. Chandra nearly panicked as he quickly saluted.

"Sir!" he said. "Nothing detected!"

Natarle mentally noted Chandra's report as she walked to the front of the bridge and offered a bottle of water to Arnold.

"Do we have the data on the hull's distortion?" she asked.

"Yes. Thanks," said Arnold as he took the bottle. "These are just simple measurements. The stress distortion seems to be within acceptable limits, the details can be seen…" Arnold trailed off as he tried releasing the water bottle in mid-air and it dropped unceremoniously to the floor.

"Ensign, please," said Natarle as she stepped around him and retrieved the bottle. "Try to remember we're no longer in a weightless state here on Earth."

"I-I'm sorry about that," he apologized.

"Look at the gravitational field," said Natarle, scanning Arnold's station read-out boards. "The underground caves are causing irregularities."

"What does that mean?" asked Tolle. Arnold turned his head to look at the copilot.

"Around here are abandoned mines for petroleum and natural gas deposits," he explained. "But our Intel was based on pre-war data, so we don't know the exact locations. Landing carelessly on the wrong spot could prove disastrous."

"I-is the spot we're on now okay?" asked Tolle nervously. Arnold looked at Natarle.

"It is, right?" he asked.

Natarle merely said "Hmm" as she straightened and began drinking her water.

Then the alarms went off, confusing everyone.

"Detecting lasers aimed at this ship," said Chandra from his station in the CIC. "Matching… confirmed! They're target designators!"

Meanwhile

"All hands to level two Battlestations!" Came Chandra's voice over the PA "Repeat all hands to level two Battlestations!"

Around the ship, sleeping crewmen woke up and hurriedly dressed themselves, bolting about their rooms before running off to their stations.

Flay herself didn't have a Battlestation to attend too. A moment after the alarm went off; she saw Jordan and Amy emerged from their quarters, running past Flay as if she wasn't there. She couldn't fault them for it, either, given that they were the Archangel's primary defenders.

Of course, she did blush like crazy seeing the state of disarray their clothes and Amy's hair were in. It seemed almost like they'd only just thrown on their uniforms, and while removing uniforms was normal when going to sleep, Flay couldn't keep her thoughts from turning to more mature possibilities, turning the girl's face as red as her hair.

Later

Hanger

Jordan climbed into the Cockpit of the Hero. "What's the status on the enemy force?"

"Unknown." Natarle said. "We don't yet know the full strength of the enemy."

"Alright…let me think…" Jordan said. "Alright, here is what we do. Chris, we just upgraded the Raven with Mirage Colloid. You launch first with it activated, and see what the enemy force is. Amy, Liz, you two launch next, and me and Matthew will follow. Our suits are not calibrated for Ground Combat yet, but I'll be working on that on the field. Darknal, you launch in the GINN and stay above the Archangel providing Sniper Support. Hikari, Graham, you two stay on stand-by. I don't want all of us in the battle at once, but if you see us in trouble, Launch. Mu, you stay on stand-by with the Sky Grasper with the others since the Hyperion isn't really the best for Ground Combat, and the Lightning is still in the works."

Everyone agreed, and the Raven was first to launch. "Chris Dante, Raven Gundam, Launching!"

The Raven disappeared first, and then launched to the skies. Coming up behind it was the Thunder and Raptor. "Amy Sierra, Thunder, Taking off!"

"Liz Dante, Raptor Gundam, Lets go!"

Battlefield

"Alright, I have visual now." Chris said as the Raven grazed across the skies. "Contacts confirmed. Several BuCUE's are surrounding the Area, along with additional Choppers for air support. I'm also receiving a Lesseps-class land battleship on the sensors."

"Shit that means we're probably dealing with the Desert Tiger Andrew Waltfield." Matthew said, drawing gasps from the others.

"Keep your cool, guys!" Jordan shouted. "If we managed to beat Rau, we can beat Waltfield."

It was then the Raptor and Thunder blasted out of the Archangel in MA mode. The two Ariel mobile suits moved against the Choppers, while shortly after the Hero and Warrior launched…and sank into the sand.

With Matthew and Jordan

"SHIT!" Jordan shouted as the Hero landed on the ground, armed with its Beam Magnum for the first time, only for the suit to sink into the sand.

Suddenly, from behind a sand dune, a pair of BuCUEs equipped with missile launchers fired a barrage at the Hero.

"Damn it, I knew it couldn't be that easy," Jordan said, dodging most of the missiles and gunning down the rest with his Igelstellungs.

From behind, however, a pair of high-velocity slugs flew through the air and hit his machine in the back, sending the Hero back crashing to the ground.

"Ugh," Jordan groaned, trying to pull the Hero to its feet, only to have the machine start sinking into the ground. "Damn it! Matthew, try to hold them off of me!" he shouted as he tossed the beam magnum over to the Warrior, who grabbed it. "Will do!" Matthew said as the Warrior jumped up to the air, and started firing.

However, his suit's calibrations were still off, so the shots were off, and didn't score many hits.

Matthew activated the Warrior's thrusters, flying back into the air, but a missile barrage struck his machine this time, sending him back to the ground. Dammit! He thought.

One of the BuCUEs firing missiles and the one that had blasted its railgun emerged from their hiding places and began circling the Black mobile suit. One lunged at him, but Matthew evaded, only having the other slam him from behind. "Shit!" Matthew yelled.

With Amy, Chris, and Liz

"Dammit, their getting pounded down there!" Chris shouted as the Thunder and Raptor flanked the Raven as they took down the enemy Choppers.

"We have to help them!" Liz shouted as she fired her machine guns destroying another Helicopter.

"She's Right, we should-SHIT!" Amy was interrupted as she banked left in order to avoid a series of missiles aimed at her. "We've got additional Contacts! Four AMF-423 GeGET's Inbound!"

"GeGET's?" Chris asked for confirmation. He looked through the Raven's screen, and sure enough four GeGET's were on approach. All four of them were Mostly Red with a black trimming.

"Rot Squadron." Amy said, surprising the others. "Their one of the Hellfury Team's groundside squads. It's commanded by Detlef Fleisher, the Red Swallow."

"How do you know that?" Liz asked.

"Ryu gave me, Jordan and Matthew intel on the different 'Aggressor' teams the Hellfury team had in total, and what types of mobile suits they use." She answered. "Ryu said GeGET's use beam weapons, so we should be careful."

The GeGET's then split up. Two of them headed for Chris and Liz, while the remaining two headed towards Chris.

Amy fired her SMG's at the mobile suits, but the two split up, one going to the left, the other flanked right. 'Let's hope Ryu's Upgrade's paid off!' she thought as she switched the Thunder into MS mode, and inset of falling, it hovered in the air.

Waiting no time, Amy then fired her two Wrist-mounted 90mm Gatling's at both of the GeGET's, surprising them, and they backed away. Amy then pursued the left GeGET, drawing her Beam Saber for Close Combat.

The GeGET reacted quickly, and drew its own beam sabers, and caught Amy's.

Meanwhile, Chris and Liz were fighting against the other two GeGET's. Chris fired his 57mm shield cannon at his GeGET, though missing the suit, it hit its propellant tanks, but the GeGET ejected them before they exploded.

Liz, meanwhile fired a few Hydra missiles at her GeGET, however the GeGET fired its 110mm Machine Cannons from its wrists, and destroyed the missiles. Liz then fired her Waste Gatling cannons as she circled the GeGET, with it returning the Favor with its own 110mm's.

Archangel

"Their getting pounded out there!" Hikari shouted as she and Graham waited to launch. "Darknal, can't you help them!"

"I'm trying as best as I can!" Darknal said as his GINN flew over the Archangel. "But These BuCUE's are pretty dam fast, and even with the A.I I'm having a tough time here!"

"That's it! We're launching!" Graham ordered. "Mu, you stay on stand-by! Hikari, you're with me!"

"Got it! Hikari Sierra, Phoenix, Launching!"

"Graham Aker, Aviator, Heading out!"

Zaft

"Hmm." Andrew said as he saw the two units launched. "Those are the two unknowns?"

Battle

As Hikari and Graham Launched, and Matthew providing a great distraction using his Beam Magnum to keep the BuCUE's at bay, Jordan was typing away on the keyboard of the Hero trying to fix their little sand-problem.

Contact pressure is decreased, so I better take that into account, he thought to himself as he typed. Estimate reduction in pressure. For friction coefficient, set granularity of the sand to minus 20.

The Hero landed, slid slightly down the dune… and stopped, standing atop the desert sand without effort.

"Bingo! Guy's, I'm sending you the OS modifications now!"

"About fucking time!" Matthew shouted, and a few second later, the Warrior finally started to stand on the sand.

Far away from the battle zone, beyond the range of any of the Earth Forces to detect, a ZAFT land battleship carried out the orders of the Desert Tiger, took aim with its main cannon… and fired.

On Miriallia's station display, Mu's face suddenly appeared.

"The Skygrasper is ready to go," he said. "I'm launching."

"Incoming heat source from the southwest!" announced Chandra. "It's a cannon blast!"

"Take off, evasive maneuvers!" ordered Murrue immediately. The Archangel did so, moving into the air, and attempting to avoid the cannon fire.

"Where's it coming from?" asked Natarle.

"Projected source: twenty kilometers southwest!" responded Sai.

"Afraid that's out of our range, so we can't mount a counterattack," said Jackie.

"I'll go mark the enemy with my laser designator, and then you can fire your missiles at that target," Came Mu's voice.

"It's not like we have time to search for the enemy," said Natarle.

"We won't know until we try," said Mu as he readied his Skygrasper on the catapult. "Just don't them get you before then."

The Skygrasper moved onto the port catapult.

"La Flaga, standby," came Mir's voice as the catapult opened. "Course cleared for launch. System, all green."

Mu heard her words and launched his Skygrasper.

Andy's eyes narrowed as he focused his binoculars on the fighter that had just emerged from the Archangel's catapult.

"That machine wasn't mentioned in the report," he murmured.

"Second wave approaching!" warned Chandra.

"Evade it!" ordered Murrue. "All hands, prepare for sudden impact!"

"It'll be a direct hit!" said Chandra.

"No, the Archangel!" Jordan cried. Then, behind his eyes, a Golden seed burst in an explosion of silver light. And the Hero began to Glow.

Andy frowned. It's that mode again. He thought as golden light appeared though the Hero's body.

Jordan jumped into the air. "Hikari, Graham, fire your cannons into the sand," I said. "It should provide some cover."

Opening up with their machine cannons, Graham and Hikari did as told, creating a cloud of sand around them. The Hero leapt up, Exia Kai's in beam rifle mode, and he took careful aim as he evaded a railgun shot by a BuCUE.

He squeezed the trigger, and the single beam of energy pierced three of the high-velocity rounds, drawing gasps of shock from all the onlookers. He then fired repeatedly at the remaining cannon shells, destroying all of them before they could reach the Archangel in blinding speed.

When he landed, he holstered his Exia Kai III's, and drew out his newest armaments, his two Exia Kai II Dagger/Pistols (AN: They look like those weird pistol/Dagger things those guys from FF7 Advent Children had). "We gotta hold 'em off!" he shouted as he fired them in pistol mode.

Meanwhile

Matthew snarled as his suit was knocked back by the missiles being rained down upon them by the helicopters "Fucking hell!" he swore as he swerved between two BuCUEs and used his beam saber to slash the apart "Guy's how are you doing on Power?"

"I'm fine for now," Liz informed as she destroyed a helicopter that was attempting an attack run on her brother. "Most of us are Fine, but we won't last long."

"When this is over," Jordan said as he kicked back a BuCUE, "Remind me to upgrade the Hero and Warrior with those Energy transfer cables onto our suits. That should help us out in the future."

"Ya that would be a good idea," Chris said. As he spoke he evaded a GeGET that was trying to dissect him with its beam saber only for a series of missiles to hit him forcing him to the ground. "Oh no." he whispered as his energy levels depleted, and his suit's P.S armor faded away and he saw a BuCUE coming around for another pass.

"CHRIS!" Liz shouted in desperation sharply turning the Raptor nearly knocking herself unconscious from the G-forces of the maneuver, but even with the high speed turn she would not be able to save him.

Chris saw the BuCUE coming, he could still move the suit, but without Phase-Shift, the armor was pretty much nonexistent, and he couldn't dodge the missiles forever. 'No,' he thought to himself as he saw a grayish green seed fly through his mind 'I can't die like this,' the seed revolved once 'I owe it to Ryu and Kira to SURVIVE!' The seed exploded as his irises shrank and his eyes dulled. Shifting his suit he slid under the flying BuCUE grabbing the underside of its head and slammed it onto the ground quickly leveling his rail guns on the BuCUE and pulled the trigger destroying the suit, unfortunately due to the proximity his own suit was sent tumbling back from the blast.

As a GeGET moved in against him, however, the Hero then appeared in between them, firing its Exia Kai II's; tearing apart it's left arm and leg. Damaged, the GeGET had enough ah retreated.

"Chris, I'll help you get back to the ship. Graham, Hikari, get Liz. She got knocked unconscious from the G-Forces of that turn she made."

Meanwhile

"Captain!" called Mir. "The Thunder, and Raptor, is low on power, and Raven is out of power! They won't last much longer!"

"Damn it," muttered Natarle.

"Can we provide any support?" asked Murrue, even though she already knew the answer.

"Not in this situation," said Romero Pal. Flay stared out the forward viewport in horror as the enemy closed in on the vulnerable Gundams.

Meanwhile

"The proper timing and application of force is the true way to win a battle, Waltfield. Even a pinprick can be fatal if aimed correctly." John then smiled. "Calista, Open up!"

Battlefield

Suddenly, a trio of shots rang out. Two choppers and a railgun barrel of a BuCUE exploded. A Red/White trimmed GINN High Maneuver type, covered in a tan tarp, armed with a sniper rifle, was lying on a sand dune a fair distance away. The GINN rose to its feet, its crimson monoeye scanning across the battlefield.

"Amazing, to be able to hit three separate targets so quickly and from that far away, that sniper's almost as good as the Katana's," said DaCosta.

It was then, that several other mobile suits appeared from the dunes. The first was a Blue/White CGUE with a DEEP arm's sword; the second was a Crimson Red ZGMF-602 GuAIZ Fury Custom.

While the GINN provided sniper support, the CGUE and GuAIZ sped towards the battle, the GuAIZ's two beam claw shields activated, and the CGUE's Beam Sword activated as they sped towards them.

However, then two more mobile suits appeared, and they drew the most attention.

The first looked similar to the Phoenix, but had a more sleek appearance, and was currently in MIX mode. The second was oddly similar to the Strike, but the head was definitely different, and it was White, Black and Silver.

The Phoenix-like suit fired its Gun-pod at a BuCUE tearing it apart. While the Silver mobile suit fired a 540mm Scylla cannons at the enemy, taking out two choppers and another BuCUE.

"YEEHAW!" an unknown voice said on the Radio. "Jade did you see that! That was totally awesome! I Love this suit!"

"I saw it Drake, I saw it." A second female voice said. "And you said that almost a million times now."

Then, a band of rebel vehicles appeared over several sand dunes, firing missiles at the BuCUEs and helicopters. While their weapons were inferior to the weapons of the BuCUEs, they were major distraction to the mobile suits, and took another chopper out of commission.

One jeep parked next to the Hero and fired a cable to the Hero's leg.

"Pilot of the Earth Forces mobile suits, if you want to live, follow my instructions," a voice said over the comm. "We've set a trap at this location. Lure the BuCUEs there."

"You gotta be kidding me," said Graham.

"Um, hello? They have like 5 mobile suits here, and we're in trouble. I say we trust them." Amy said on the Radio.

"Definitely," said Matthew. "We don't have any real choice."

"No, we don't," Jordan said. "Alright, let's go."

Taking to the air, their Gundam's soared over the sand for the target location as the jeeps spread out away from us. As they stopped at the location of the trap, they turned around, and prepared their combat stances.

As the BuCUEs leapt at them, they all leapt backwards.

Waltfield, who had been frowning in confusion over the strange tactics of the mobile suits, gasped in sudden realization. Unfortunately, it was too late to do anything about it.

A series of sudden explosions surrounded the BuCUEs, before one final explosive went off, consuming the mobile suits in a massive ball of fire. "BOOMCHAKALAKA!" Darknal yelled. "Now that's an explosion!"

The Gundam's landed on the sand and collapsed to their knees as the last of the combat power was drained from their batteries, their armor fading back to dull grey. With the Exception of Jordan and Matthew's, and the Golden glowing Hero's ARC system disengaged.

"We're withdrawing," said Andrew. "We've achieved our immediate goal."

Later

"Local guerilla fighters huh?" Jordan mused as he looked out using suit's cameras, a flash of blond hair caught his eye and he zoomed in to see the girl they shoved into the life pod from Heliopolis "Hey Guys, look at the person fifth from the left."

"Hey isn't that the girl we saved?" Chris asked when he spotted the blonde "What is she doing here?"

"I don't know," Amy replied "But there's the Captain and Commander La Flaga."

With Murrue

Mu sighed as he walked beside Murrue with a hand hovering over his sidearm 'Huh, never before have I treated strangers with open suspicion,' he thought to himself as he took in each person standing there before quickly glancing to the mobile suits standing in their silent vigil 'Maybe it's because protecting this ship and crew is my homage to Ryu and Kira.' Turning back to their saviors he saw a stocky man with a full beard step forward.

The GINN, the two unknowns, the CGUE, and the GuAIZ, upon arriving, knelt down, and the cockpit opened, the pilot's clambering out to join his comrades.

"It's only proper that we should thank you," said Murrue as they came to a stop. "After all, your group did save our ship and mobile suits."

"Murrue Ramius, Earth Forces," continued the captain, introducing herself. "I'm with the 8th Fleet."

The bearded man who seemed to be the leader held an arm up in front of the young man, silencing him.

"Our group is known as the Desert Dawn," he said. "I go by the name of Sahib Ashman. You need not bother thanking us. I'm sure you understand. The reason we were fighting was not necessarily to save you. We attacked them only because they also happen to be our enemy."

"You guys versus the Desert Tiger?" said Mu. "Fighting for awhile?"

Sahib glanced at Mu. "I recognize you," he said. "But I cannot say how or from where."

"That's Mu La Flaga. The Hawk of Endymion," said a young man in a Red trench coat, with mid-length blonde hair and blue eyes hidden behind a pair of Sunglasses. Followed by two others, a young girl with Crimson red hair, and purple eyes, and another young boy with Brown hair, and the oddest eyes Mu had ever seen. His left was Ice blue, while his left was Dark brown. They were the pilots of the GINN, CGUE, and GuAIZ.

Mu Smiled. "Well, It's good to see you three again, John, Calista, Jake." He said.

The Blonde, John Cypher, smiled and nodded. "Great to see you again Mu," He said. "Still stuck with mobile armors?"

"Not for long, buddy," Mu said as he turned to the others. "Guys, these are John Cypher, Calista Shae, and Jake Ranger. Their Mercenaries from Saber team, a group of Merc's the Falcon team would work with occasionally."

"It's a pleasure." Murrue said, nodding. "You strike me as well informed people; do you know who we are?"

"You are the crew of the Archangel, the Earth Forces new warship," said Sahib. "You came to Earth to escape the Le Creuset Team, and Hellfury team. Those machines of yours are…"

"X305 Raven, X310 Raptor, X001 Hero, X002 Warrior, and X317 Thunder" said the blond girl. Sahib frowned, and stepped between her and the two Earth Forces officers.

"So here we are. How good it is that you know who we are and we know who you are," said Sahib. "Though I am surprised that you are here, I assume that you landing here was an accident. So I'm curious to know what you plan to do next."

"Can we count on your complete cooperation?" asked Murrue. Sahib smirked, almost smugly.

"If you're serious about talking, then you should lower your weapons," he said, before glancing at the mobile suits. "They should disarm as well."

Murrue was quiet for a moment.

"Very well," she said finally. She turned to the mobile suits and activated the small radio she kept with her. "Jordan, Matthew, Liz, Chris, Darknal, Amy, Hikari, Graham, you heard him." She said.

The team responded as they exited their suits, and approached them. Jordan looked over to the others, he saw short nod's from them, and they reached for their helmets and took them off, once their helmets were clear from their faces the assembled guerrilla fighters gasped in surprise "Their so young." Sahib murmured as the blond girl growled and stomped towards the pair startling the ones closest to her.

"YOU!" She shouted "What are you doing in those suits!"

Me, and the others looked at her calmly as she approached them. Matthew turned too Jordan. "Friend of yours?" he asked, and he chuckled. "No, we only met back at Heliopolis just before you and Zaft attacked."

"I don't see what that has to do with you," Chris commented blandly at the blonde "And shouldn't you be in ORB right now?"

The girl growled and moved to strike Jordan when she suddenly had a pair of pistols pointing at her from Amy and Hikari, both groups stiffened as Mu moved in front of Murrue and the hidden security team tensed while the guerrilla fighters tensed for action as well

"I wouldn't suggest doing that again," Hikari advised coldly, surprising those listening that the normally gentle girl could sound so cold "We've just recently lost some very good friends, and we'll be damned to let it happen again." The pilots passed by the dumbstruck blond and they saluted to the captain.

Jordan then glanced at the two unknown suits, for they had yet to reveal their pilots. "Now, are you gonna show use those suit's pilots?" he asked, pointing at them.

"Ah, right" John said. "Drake, Jade, get out here."

"Right, we're coming." Drake said as the suits cockpits opened up, and two pilots climbed down to meet them.

When they arrived, they removed their helmets. The first was male, probably about as old and Jordan was. He stood an inch taller than Jordan, had Raven black hair, and blue eyes. He had a look about him that reminded Jordan of himself.

The second was female, looking to be about 16. She was two inches shorter than the boy, had shoulder-length dirty blonde hair, and laughing green eyes. But, the strangest thing was…for some reason she reminded the others of Ryu in a way.

"Allow me to introduce ourselves." The boy said. "I'm Drake Connor; I pilot the MBF-P05 Astray Silver Frame." He pointed up at the 'Silver Frame' and he then gestured to the girl. "And this is Jade Hisanaga, pilot of the TMVF-01 Specter."

When he said 'Hisanaga' that caused the other's eyes to fly wide. "Jade Hisanaga?" Mu asked incredulously. "Would you…by any chance…be related to a Ryu Hisanaga?"

Jade's eyes went wide. "Y-yes." She said. "Ryu's…well, he's my Older Brother."

There was a whole Minute's worth of silence. "W-wait," Jordan said. "Ryu told us that all of his family was killed when Victor Amsel destroyed Oratorio." Jade shivered a bit, but Drake put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "I almost did die…" Jade said. "But…John and the other found me…and saved me. I've been with them ever since." Jade then stepped forward. "I heard that My Brother is on the Archangel, where is he?" she asked.

"Maybe he was smart enough to leave, and go home." Cagalli muttered.

"Shut it, bitch." Matthew growled, surprising the others, even Jordan.

"We…don't know where Ryu and Kira are." Jordan said. "He and Kira were last seen in orbit fighting off a Zaft fleet with the remains of the 8th Fleet. We haven't heard from them since." Cagalli froze when she heard that as her eyes widened. As did Jade's.

"You-You mean…" Jade stuttered, tears developing in her eyes.

"We didn't say they died." Jordan stated firmly. "We're just saying we don't know what happened to them. I believe they survived, and I'm gonna keep on believing that until I see otherwise. I know their alive. I just know it." Jade stared at Jordan for a moment, and smiled. "Your right," She said. "I…I just gotta keep on hoping."

Jordan smiled, and nodded. "Well, seeing how you're Ryu's last Family, that means you are entitled to his belongings on the Archangel." Matthew said. "We'll take you to his room, if you want."

"Yes, thank you." She said, as Jordan, Matthew, Jade and Drake headed back to the ship.

As they left, John hummed as he eyed Jordan and Matthew. 'Yup, their his sons.' He thought. He then unnoticeably grinned. 'Things are gonna be getting Real interesting now.'

Space, Hours after the Battle

A single red-trimmed white mobile suit shifted though the mobile suit along with a pair of Kirmera Salvager Pods, each unit was emblazoned with the symbol of the Junk Guild "Amazing!" The male pilot of the mobile suit literally squealed in excitement "Look at all this stuff, this is an amazing haul!"

"Should we really be doing this Lowe?" asked a female piloting one of the Kimeras "I mean it only has been a couple of hours."

"Don't worry Kisato," the final pilot, a male, reassured "This is also a rescue operation for any survivors."

"Liam's right," a female voice broke through from their mothership, the ReHOME "Besides I'm picking a faint SOS signal right now, about a klick west from you current position."

"Got it Professor," Lowe confirmed as he moved his mobile suit the Red Frame west and picked his way carefully through the wreckage until he came across something that made his eyes widen "Prof, you are not going to believe what I just found." He whispered in a soft voice as a pair of Mobile suits, both unerringly similar to his Red Frame, floated in front of them, one held the symbol of a sword flanked by a pair of wings while the second held the symbol of a dragon about to take flight "Hell, even I'm having trouble believing it and I'm looking right at it!"

Meanwhile

Aztec-class Super Battleship

Zar Hellfury walked into the ship's medical bay. Inside was the ship Doctor, as well as his own 'Son' lying on the bed, unconscious. "How is he?" he asked.

"Well, fine for the most part." The Doctor said. "But…well…"

"Well, what?" Zar asked.

"Well…look for yourself." He gestured to Kane. Zar looked, and his eyes widened. Kane's normally jet black hair was starting to turn into a grayish color. When the Doctor lifted his eyes open, Kane's eyes were even changing from being Blood Red, to being a faded Red/Green color. "I don't know what's causing it, but your son's physical attributes are changing at an alarming rate. But it doesn't seem to be lethal, this is very strange."

"Let me know if his condition changes." Zar said as he left the medial room.

A few hours later, the Doctor stepped out of the room to get something. However then a figure hidden in the shadows appeared "You desire power, the figure said. He had crimson red hair, with crimson red eyes, and stood at 6'2. "Power to crush those who oppose you," The figure then took out a syringe with a black liquid, and injected it into Kane's arm. "You will have your Power." He said as he walked out of the room. "In time."

AN: Now, I know some of you are confused as to where the Silver Frame, and Saber Team came from, but don't worry. I am working on a fic that's like the SEED astray series that will explain who Saber Team is in full, and how Drake got the Silver Frame and all. I'll be posting it up soon, it will be called: 'Mobile suit Gundam SEED: Astray Miracle'

Ending Theme: 'Unlimited Sky' by Tommy Heaveny6

Link: http : / www . youtube . com / watch?v=QhDlnWE9qCQ

Mobile Suit Serial Number: AMF-423 'GeGET'
Unit Type: Mass Produced Aerial/Space assault Mobile suit
Power plant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special Equipment: Sensors Range unknown; 2 x Ejectable External Propellant Tanks
Fixed Armament: 4 x 110mm Machine Cannon, mounted on wrists; 2 x Beam sabers, holstered in shoulders, hand-carried when in use

Optional Armament: Beam Rifle
Pilot: Detlef Fleisher
Appearance: Looks like the AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra
Colors:

Standard: Pale Red

Rot Colors: Bright Red with black trimming
Info: Created to replace the AMF-101 DINN, the AMF-423 'GeGET' is the first Zaft Air assault mobile suit to use beam weapons, and can function in both space and in atmosphere. Several of these units were given to the Rot team.

Mobile Suit Serial Number: MBF-P05 'Silver Frame'
Unit Type: Prototype General Purpose mobile suit
Power plant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special Equipment: Sensors Range unknown; Mirage Colloid (Blitz Pack)
Fixed Armament: 2x "Igelstellung" 75mm anti-air vulcan gun, fire-linked on head; 2x beam saber, mounted behind shoulders, hand-carried when in use;

Optional Fixed Armament:

Astray Duel Pack: 'Shiva' 11mm Railgun mounted on right shoulder; 220mm 5-barrel missile Pod mounted on left shoulder; 57mm High-energy beam rifle with 175mm Grenade Launcher; 2 x 9.1m Anti-ship sword, mounted on hips, hand-carried when in use;

Astray Buster Pack: 350mm Gun Launcher; 94mm High-energy Rifle; 2 x 220mm 6-barrel Missile Pod, mounted on shoulders; Combine Shield, 1 x Beam Boomerang, 1 x 6-barrel 30mm Gatling Cannon;

Astray Blitz Pack: 'Trikeros' offensive/Defensive shield system, 50mm High-energy Beam Rifle, 3 x Lancer Darts, Beam Saber; MA-22Z prototype high density beam sniper; 'Gleipnir' Anchor;

Astray Strike Pack: 'Astray Flight Pack'(looks like the Red Frame's): Type 71 Beam Rifle; Shield, left fore-arm mounted;

Astray Aegis Pack: 540mm 'Scylla' cannon shield;

Astray Dynasty Pack: 'Exia Kai III' Sword/Rifle, mounted on right forearm, right hand-carried when in use; Missile shield, mounted on left forearm 4 x Missile pods, 5 x 'Hydra' class missiles per pod;

Optional Armament: Bazooka; Type 71 Beam Rifle; Shield;
Pilot: Drake Connor
Appearance: Looks like the MBF-P02 Red Frame
Colors: Pretty much take the Red frame, and were its red replace it with silver.
Info: The fifth unit of the Astray Series. This unit was found onboard the Cornelius-class Tender/Salvage ship that would be named 'Saberwing II' by the Mercenary Group Saber Team. It already had the intended 'Astray' packs that are similar to the Striker packs for the strike.

Mobile Suit Serial Number: ZGMF-515 'CGUE Jake Ranger Custom'
Unit Type: Custom Commander-use mobile suit
Power plant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special Equipment: Sensors, range unknown
Fixed Armament: M7070 Shield-plus-28mm Vulcan System

Optional Fixed Armament: MA-M4A Heavy Sword, mounted on right hip, hand-carried when in use; NOL-Y941 heavy Laser Sword, mounted on left hip, hand-carried when in use;

Optional Armament: MMI-M7S 76mm Heavy Machine Gun
Pilot: Jake Ranger
Appearance: A ZGMF-515 CGUE with the YFX-200 CGUE DEEP arm's sword

Colors: Blue with white trimming
Info: Jake Ranger's Customized CGUE

Mobile Suit Serial Number: ZGMF-1017M 'GINN High Maneuver Type Calista Shae Custom'
Unit Type: Custom High Mobility mobile suit
Power plant: Ultracompact energy battery
Special Equipment: Sensors range unknown
Fixed Armament: Sniper Rifle

Optional Fixed Armament:

Optional Armament: JDP2-MMX22 experimental 27mm armor assault rifle with Bayonet
Pilot: Calista Shae
Appearance: A ZGMF-1017M GINN HM Type

Colors: Red with White trim
Info: Calista Shae's Customized GINN

Mobile Suit Serial Number: TVMF-01 'Specter Jade Hisanaga Custom'
Unit Type: Transformable Stealth Type Mobile Suit
Power plant: Hyper Ultracompact Battery
Special Equipment: Mirage Colloid
Armament: 2x Igelstellung CIWS mounted in head; Beam Saber, mounted in forearm, hand carried in use; 55mm Gunpod, hand carried, mounted on body in fighter mode; 8 x 'Alpha' Multi-purpose Missile launchers, two mounted on shoulders, two mounted on thighs, and two mounted on wings;, 6 x Missile tubes per launcher;
Pilot: Jade Hisanaga
Appearance: Looks like the SV-51 from Macross Zero

Colors: Black with White trim

Jade Custom: Forest Green with Brown trimming
Info:

Mobile Suit Serial Number: ZGMF-602F GuAIZ 'Fury Custom'
Unit Type: Custom mobile suit
Powerplant: Ultracompact energy Battery
Special Equipment: Sensors, Range Unknown;
Fixed Armament: 2 x MA-MV03 Composite Shield, mounted on forearms; 2 x MMI-GAU2 "Picus" 76mm CIWS, fire-linked on head; 2 x MMI-M20S "Pollus IX" railgun, mounted on hips;
Pilot(s): John Cypher
Appearance: Looks like a ZGMF-600 GuAIZ, only with the GuAIZ R's Rail cannons, and not just one, but two Composite shields with beam claws integrated into them.

Color: Crimson red with Yellow Trimming
Info: The Custom mobile suit used by John Cypher.