Okay Guys here you go, I went ahead and wrote the next chapter I hope you enjoy, if any of you have any question do review and let me know, also I did make a massive mention to Anthony's past and yes unfortunately it does contain crossover features, I chose that to put with build fighters and will expand on it as a bonus four to six chapters at then end of this story.
I hope you enjoy what I have done and please review to let me know what I think no flaming please.
Opening Song (Rewrite by ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION)
As the music stars the scene shows the sun setting over the sea, as the music continues the entire sea and sky turn a crimson colour.
Gundam Agito SEED (logo)
"Wanting to spit out jarred thoughts." The scene shows Kira standing in on the outside deck of the Archangel, the wind is blowing his hair in is face, he has a trouble look on his face. Tolle, Sai, Mirriallia, Flay and Kuzzey can be seen behind him, they all have there backs to him.
"is because there's no other proof of my existence." The scene pans to the side where it shows Cagallia and Kisaka looking out towards Kira.
"The future that I supposedly got a hold of." The view now pans behind all of them looking at the Stirke without it's Phase Shift armour on.
"Has conflicted between dignity and freedom." The scene now pans around and zooms in on Cagalli face, she looks concerned and begins to move towards Kira.
As the instrumental plays the scene switches to a zoomed out shot of the Agito Zero, then jumps in for a zoomed in shot of Agito Zero as it's eyes glow.
"Wanting to erase the distorted after images." This Scene shows Anthony now in the cockpit of the Agito Zero, looking at a screen in front of him. He looks distressed and is holding a photo in his hand.
"Is because I see my limit over there." The view now zooms in on his hand to show part of the picture with him and what appears to be a woman in it, her face is covered by his hand.
During the short instrumental, the view flashes through the Archangel.
"In the window of excessively self-conscious me." The Scene shows Murrue, Mu and Natarle all on the bridge looking out at something. The view Murrue's face she closes her eyes and sigh as it does.
"There are no dates on last year's calender." The scene now switches to Mu's face as he now looks up to the sky.
During the instrumental, plays and the scene zooms in blocks on the Agito Zero eyes lighting up and then moving.
"Delete and Rewrite it!" The scene shows the Anthony and then pans out from to show the Agito Zero flying over the sea, his suit pushing aside the water near his suit.
"Presence great enough to make me forget those ridiculous super fantasies!" The Scene shows the back of the Agito Zero as it cuts through multiple DINNs and then pushing off the blast from the Buster with the suits right hand.
"Rewrite it for a dramatic revival!" The scene shows the Skygrasper firing at the Duel and the Blitz and then dodging the return fire from both suits.
"Even a meaningless fancy is a motivation to form you!" This scene has the Strike cutting down a GINN and then moving forward to take on the Aegis.
"Give me your whole body and soul!" The Strike dodges a shot from the Aegis mobile armour mode before the two of them clash. A silhouette of Kira and Athrun appear behind there mobile suits they both yell and are in SEED modes as there blades push against on another.
For the last instrumental it shows Anthony and Kira nodding to on another as they head to there mobile suits.
Chapter Eleven
"Even if we forget the faces of our friends, We will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls." Yuzuru Otonashi (Angel Beats)
It was around the middle of the night and Anthony had woken up and began to pace back and forth in the hangar of the Archangel.
He was unable calm himself, his dreams had not been restful at all, she had been in them, she had spoke to him, smiled at him.
It was as if he was going insane, that was not an idle thought, if he was he could not allow himself to pilot Agito Zero!
Anthony came to a halt and then began to close his eyes.
As he did this he took in a deep breath of air and then began to sing a song that did give him comfort.
"Walk on wandering soul for respite we pray let our humble song clear your heart of dismay rekindle the flame in your soul and set you free, so walk on and become the light that guides the way."
As he finished this Anthony opened his eyes he did not look around for it was dark, the only light that was there was given by the cockpit of his mobile suit.
Anthony heard the breaths and to footsteps of a man so he said "You can come out I can hear you, there is no need to hide, unless it is my life you are after, but I will tell you that my blood does not come cheap."
It was the voice of Kisaka that gave him a reply in the darkness.
"I'd rather not fight you if you do not wish to, from what the crew says you're not human."
Now said man took a step out into the lighted area though it was faint and said "That was one heck of a song you sung, but why do I get the feeling that it is not complete."
In reply Anthony just said "That is due to the fact that I only sung the opening of it, I have no real talent with music, so I am not as good as some of my siblings come class mates are."
Kisaka at this point asked "Is that so, you did sound pretty good to me."
Anthony gave him a short laugh and said "Duece was an expert with the flute, she was able to play any tune on it and hold that tune so well, it could literally kill."
Kisaka now raised an eyebrow "She was so good that she could kill with music?"
Anthony at that point gave a shrug and said "Ace used a card deck, I in turn beat down foes with this book, the Class that I was part of was a strange bunch, but we did care for one another."
Kisaka now walked up to Anthony, he had a bottle in his hand and a glass "Care to share one with me, it is not like the Officers here will?"
At this point Anthony asked "May as well, poison that is this thin once in a while won't kill me."
Kisaka at this point asked "Are you not afraid that I will drug you and take your suit?"
Anthony shook his head "You'd win you or my suit, I think you know the answer."
Kisaka did recall that Cagalli had claimed that that suit what ZAFT call the Omega and what the pilot of the suit called Agito Zero, did have some form of AI on board it "Oh right I did forget that, my bad."
At this point Kisaka poured Anthony a drink and gave it to him.
It was some type of beer, bitter and not very nice.
Anthony took it one small sip at a time, he had to thank God that it was a small glass and not the whole bottle.
Kisaka noticed how he drank and said "I see what you are doing, I have to admit that is a very smart move of you."
In reply Anthony said "I can handle high levels of alcohol, I just do not drink to often or have had a chance to, it comes with piloting a suit."
Kisaka gave him a nod "I can see that, it is not surprising that you are not allowed to drink."
Anthony did not reply to this but he instead asked "It is strange, I can only see those who do not wish to be here on the front lines as well as those who have no real part in this being forced into it by those who are too cowardly to step up and take the bullet that the caused to be fired."
Kisaka now looked to Anthony and said "Now that was pretty deep for a young man."
Anthony in reply asked "How young do you think I am?"
Kisaka gave sigh as he replied "In truth I don't even want to know how old you are."
Anthony gave him a nod and said "Yeah and I don't even want to say how old I am, it makes me feel old."
Kisaka was able to laugh at this and said "Yes don't we all feel old when we see our age."
Anthony at this point said "We will be close to your home close to ORB." This did catch Kisaka off guard a bit, but he saw no point in hiding it from Anthony.
"I guess you're right, if I may ask how did you know about the Princess?"
Anthony gave a sigh and said "It was not hard, I do match all faces that I see to files that I have, so I was able to tell who she was the moment I saw her."
It was at this moment when Kisaka said "So that is why you had her get into your suit back in the desert, that way you could test a few more things on here."
Anthony did not confirm or deny that no instead he said "The real question is if Lord Uzumi will allow us to land."
Kisaka had to admit this was on his mind as well, Lord Uzumi was not one to compromise the people of ORB "I guess we'll just have to wait and see Anthony."
ZAFT
Athrun was back with his friends and comrades, all of them were happy to see him, even Yzak though the latter did not admit it.
"Athrun it is good to have you back, we all thought that you may have died, it is good to see you again."
Nicol said this with a smile at his friend he now looked to Dearka who just gave a nod as if to say "I feel the same."
Yzak on the other hand had his scowl on, though it was his way to say he was glad that Athrun was back.
For brief moment Athrun recalled what the blonde haired girl by who was called Cagalli, the princess of ORB had said about the pilot of the Omega.
"At times he seems to know too much about all of us, about your side about the Archangel about me, about us all, his suit is not like any I have seen, it is as if he came form another world."
The grim face he had on recalled this made Nicol go and poke his shoulder.
As if he had been caught in a dream Athrun came back to reality, Yzak saw this and said "I see did you recall how you got shot down or was it something else?"
Athrun gave him a nod and said "Yes I was thinking about the pilot of the Omega, about how he got his hands on that suit."
Yzak was not buying it but then said "Yeah, if you say so, but just remember that you can't go die and leave us out there you here."
Athrun gave him a nod and said "I can hear you alright thanks for your concern Yzak."
At this Yzak bit back by saying "It was not concern, if you died while I was out there it would make me look bad, no it would make all of us red coats look bad."
Nicol at this point said "If I am correct, we all did look like a joke when that suit fought us."
Yzak did not wish to be reminded of that, but it did not seem as if he would catch a break, well at least not from Dearka who said.
"Yeah, he even told us not to even try to fight him, I guess he was not joking about being better than us."
Athrun could see that Dearka was just baiting Yzak so he cut between them and said "That is enough, we will attack them as soon as we are able to, if we can we can get by that Omega and take down the legged ship."
Yzak at this point did have to ask "Why did they come up with the name the Omega in the first place?"
Nicol could only take a guess at that and said "If I am correct Omega is the last symbol in the ancient Greek alphabet, in that case, it is saying that he is the end."
Athrun shook his head and said "No it is due to the fact that he is so deadly he is above, A rank and even Z rank enemies."
That did make some sense, though it was in a twisted way.
Yzak at this point asked "Wait Z rank enemy what are you saying, did the higher ups forgot that A comes before Z?"
In reply Deraka said "Well the way I see it, enemies go from F being the lowest to A being the highest, if there is a Z rank that would be the Strike, because the thing in front of A is Z if you go back from A."
That made zero sense to Yzak who just said "You know I don't care any more, let those who sit back and let us fight come up with all the fancy names they want to."
It was a rather harsh statement but, it was not unjustified.
Nicol at this point said "I wonder, how the Commander is doing, we have not seen him since we came out to sea.
Yzak had to admit they did have a point there, Rau Le Cresuet at times did seem to vanish on them.
Athrun did find it a little suspicious at time but he did not voice this ever, no he said "I am sure that he had been given a task to do as have we, in any case we need to catch the enemy and stop them before they reach ORB waters."
Yzak who was less of a fool than most thought said "I see, if they do they can be granted sanctuary in ORB."
Athrun, Dearka and Nicol did not expect Yzak above all people say this.
Yzak saw the looks on their face needless to say he was not amused by what he saw.
"What's with you guys, did you think I would not remember that we raided and ORB colony to get the our mobile suits?"
All of them chose wisely not to comment on that an angry Yzak was not an Yzak that they wanted to deal with right now.
Yzak saw through this and said "Do you three really think that I am a fool, do you really?"
Dearka gave a cough and said "Um taking on a the Omega may suggest that you are?"
If looks could kill Yzak would have killed Dearka twice over with that look alone.
It was only due to the fact that Yzak knew that Dearka was right that they did not get into a fist fight then and there.
Now was the time for Athrun to mediate things, he was in command of them for now at least.
So he had to show that he could at least control his own troops.
"Yzak stand down, Dearka you as well, we need to work with one another if we are going to make this operation a success, the pilot of the Omega is skilled enough is able to asses each of us well, we cannot fight him on our own."
Yzak gave a grunt, that was his way of saying that Athrun was right.
Athrun in turn gave him a nod and said "Now we all have to play a role if we are to even try to take them on, I can handle the Strike, Nicol can sneak past while you two fight the Omega."
Archangel
Anthony had not slept since he had woke up in the middle of the night after Kisaka had gone away.
In the early hours of the new day, Natarle who got up first freaked out when she saw him calmly haunting the bridge.
Due to the fact shifting around the area like a ghost, she went for her side arm. She found that her arm got pinned by a book.
"Your draw is too slow to kill me ensign, I do suggest that you try to improve on that at a later date."
Natarle let out a sigh or relief it was in fact not a ghost or an intruder and was just Anthony.
But then it came to her "What was he doing on the bridge?"
It was a very good question, one she knew he was not going to answer.
"I have to say your other sentry did not even pay me any attention, so hats off to you."
Natarle blinked the one she had just relieved had not noticed him, had he no eyes or had he chosen to ignore the figure who seemed to walk in the shadows as if he was part of them.
Natarle tried her luck and asked "So what were you doing up here in any case."
To her surprise she got a straight reply "I was up here because I could not sleep so I decided might as well make use of myself while I'm up."
Natarle was not used to him giving straight answers like that "Oh I see the it is my bad."
Anthony at this shook his head "You did what you were trained to do while I did what I was, I have to say that you may be in for some combat this day."
Natarle had to wonder if he made that line rhyme, or was that just the way he spoke?
She did not have time to ask either for as she now came back to reality, she looked around and Anthony was gone.
Anthony in turn had begun to make his way to the hangar, at least there he would not have to talk to any one for a little while.
"I see so the ship is going to awake soon, if I had to guess ZAFT will strike at them around nine past."
It was not some kind of sick bet, it was a type of timer for him.
"I guess I will have to stain my hands with blood after I leave them to their fate, I know it may be cruel but I have to kill Durandal and Rey."
Anthony had been going through how he would do this in his mind, first he needed to get to the PLANTS, then he needed to get to them and kill them.
If not for the Zero-System he would have had to give up some time ago.
"I guess there are some pros to having a AI that can grow and adept to battle, if I do succeed I will wipe out the events of Destiny."
That was true, but like all things, he had to tie the not at both ends.
"Logos and those guys, they will be around 14, if I am correct, I also have to kill Lord Djibril, if I do this I can make the future that Agito Zero promises real. "
Anthony shook of these thoughts and said "If I get too caught up in the end result I will lose sight of the here and now, I can't let that happen to me."
Anthony knew that Murrue and Mu knew that he had not intention of going with them to JOSH-A.
This he had stated that he does not trust their higher ups as well as he suspects that many of their commanders are part of Blue Cosmos.
"I will have to take care of Djibril and his group before I take out Durandal."
Anthony now shook his head "No I will have to trust in my suit and in Agito Zero, it will have to take down the Logos base."
Anthony knew that they were not soldier, he knew they were just puppets that would die if they did not receive their medication.
"It makes me sick to think that people would turn children into weapons, break their mind and force them to be dependant on medications from them."
Anthony knew that most of the ship was asleep so he could talk about this freely.
"It does not matter if I or Agito Zero does it without me, I am will still be the one to have killed them."
Anthony now stopped and looked up at the roof and closed his eyes and took in a deep breath.
"Once this conflict as been brought to an end, I may just have to vanish from the pages of history, if any of those from Rubrum can hear me, I think they'd laugh just a little."
Anthony was about to smile as he began to enter the hanger when he heard her voice "Do you really think that killing them will solve the problems of this world, I did not think you were the type of was ready for a quick fix or such short term goals like that."
Anthony opened his eyes and took a deep breath "You are just a voice in my head, I know you died a long time ago, I know you are not here with me, you cannot be, I am in another world far from where we were."
Anthony could almost feel a slap hit the top of his head and he moved accordingly to it.
"You do not see, that you can change the world, but what if the world does not need that change, do you have to put yourself through pain for their benefit?"
In reply Anthony just said "If you really are the ghost of the woman I love, then you know that I am and I am ready to be held accountable for that."
In reply to this Anthony thought he heard a slight giggle.
"I see so no matter how hard I try you will not be step off this course, that is what I loved about you, if you are ready, I will support you, I always will."
The voice and the warmth that it brought Anthony faded as if it was just a dream, in return Anthony just shook his head "Am I going so mad that I believe I can hear her and argue with her in my head?"
It was not healthy to hear voices in his head, nor was it healthy to talk with the dead, if he truly was doing that.
"I guess I'll just have to keep on moving forward, that is what I have always done, or at least what I have tried to do for so long."
As he said this he saw that Flay was in the hangar, she must have heard all that he had said since he came in here.
If Anthony did actually care about what she thought or said he may or may not have tried to sway her from her current train of thought.
But since he did not he just walked past her as if she was not even there.
But as he did pass her she asked him "Who was that, that you just spoke to, you said that she was the ghost of the woman you loved."
Anthony at this point tilted his head back at her in a shaft head tilt, he had always wanted to do one of these by the way.
Looking at Flay he said "Let me just say I hear her voice in my head due to the fact that I feel asleep holding her hand as she died."
That literally shut down anything that Flay was going to ask, Anthony had saved her father so it was not in her right or part of her nature to even ask what he was talking about.
She did not know that pain nor was she going to mock it.
"Oh, my bad" was all she could say in response to that.
Anthony did not stop for her and went on into his mobile suit. Leaving Flay to stare up at him and ask herself "Is he mad or is he hurt, what did he mean he had."
Anthony on the other had was glad he had not talked about those he had to kill while Flay had been there.
"I will have to keep a lid on it about my plans from now on, I don't I can explain my actions to any one if they asked me about."
But Anthony knew there was one person who he had to tell, her name was Lacus.
"I don't expect her to accept what I have done but I do know that she is more than capable of understanding it."
This would not make up for what he was going to do but at least a single person would know of it.
What she chose to do with what he told her was hers and hers alone, well in a sense it was his choice to tell her, but after that it was out of his hands and into hers.
Anthony's POV
I can hear the alarms sounding, the Archangel is going to enter combat soon, well I was wrong it was after nine past, it was around ten past when they chose to strike at us.
I like always was in my suit ready to go, from what I could tell no doubt they would try to bring us down before the Archangel was in ORB waters.
Pulling up the Zero-System I began to run theories on how the battle would play out, so far if my suit is correct, which I know it is, they will hide the Blitz from us in order for it to surprise attack the ship.
I did have to give them points for that, if they had done this and I was not around them may succeed in bringing down the Archangel.
"But then again I am here, so the future is not the same as what it is meant to be."
I did not say this to anyone, not I said this to myself and to the Agito Zero, even now I had it doing a test on me to check if I was ill.
Had the voice I heard been real, if so that was worth looking into, right at this point in time I could pass it off as a just a voice in my head, but I could not do that forever.
I told Murrue to let me handle them all this time and to wait back and not to launch until I said so, she did so.
Right now the Zero-System in my suit was telling me that I may have become or are in the early stages of becoming a Newtype.
I would have thought about that further, but I was now about to launch, so I knew I had to clear my mind of all of that for now.
"Keep calm, don't freak out, you know there plan, they do not know that you know so we are ahead of them."
I think I may just lost it, did I just speak to myself as if I was not myself?"
Yeah that made little to no sense to me at all, at this point I had to do what I had to do, I also knew that today was just the start, the days to come would only get harder, I had to kill if I wished to make the best possible future, then what return home?
No the moment that I took a life, I knew I will never be able to return home.
I shook off these thoughts as I said "Anthony Hitoro, Agito Zero."
I left out the launching part, I really did not see the point in saying that.
Now as I did launch I begin to emit certain particles form my GN-Drive.
Why I had not thought to do this before was beyond me, in truth I had forgot all about the benefits of a GN-Drive.
Now I say this but I do not open a channel or a speaker "I sure hope you and your suit can swim Nicol, if not you're up shit creek without paddle.
I just let the particles from my GN-Drivetake effect.
One the view in the Agito Zero I see the particles now lacing the Blitz, due to the fact that only my suit can see them, the Blitz must only be experiences some communication if not feed issues.
He'll never know what hit him, well, he will know, but he won't know who or why!
ZAFT
Nicol was just about to get into position when they all saw the Omega come out of the Archangel, it did not launch out, but simply walked out of the catapult.
Yzak took this as a sign of the pilot being a cocky ass and was showing off to them.
When Yzak tried to pull up Nicol on a channel, he found that he could not, it was as if all of there channels were being blocked if not disrupted.
Yzak at this point saw not point in this any more, he had to act and act he did.
Yzak moved the Duel and on full speaker said "I am here and I am going to even the score Natural!"
But the suit that was now staring him and Dearka down just replied to them "Sorry but I have to take care of your green haired friend first, if you wish to kill me I do ask that you please take a number and wait your turn in line."
Then in a matter of seconds, the Omega glowed red or was it pink and slammed itself at full speed into the Blitz. Yzak and Dearkasaw the Blitz appear as it was rammed.
The force of the attack sent it right down to the sea, the few moments that all of the ZAFT pilots saw the Blitz, showed that it's arms legs and chest were trashed and melted.
But it was not the only one at this point in time to have a meltdown, Athrun had seen what had just happened.
Slowly the Omega turned to face the rest of the Zala Team, it did not look as if it was impressed.
It now spoke to all of them "So who is next, take your time, I'm in no hurry, but if you want to catch up, I think you should at least try to get past me.
Athrun at this point who was having a meltdown over the fact that Nicol could be dead charged at Omega in a blind rage.
"YOU, YOU KILLED NICOL!"
Even Yzak was a little thrown off by Athrun's rage.
As the Aegis transformed into hits mobile armour mode it began to fire at the Omega.
With any way to communicate, Yzak at this point decided to follow his lead and began a charge of his own.
Dearka at this point stayed back and was about to fire a shot when he saw that the Omega had vanished from view.
In a flash the Aegis was smashed by the Omega, it's foot landing right against the rear of the mobile armour mode!
Athrun tried to react but a voice said to him literally in his suit "Behold the power of the Vermilion Bird Crystal."
The next that that Athrun saw was his suit now being thrown into the Duel, knocking it off it's transport and into the sea below.
Athrun now was able to steady his suit only to see that the enemy done what it had set out to do.
Athrun said "Damn, he us where he wanted us, we were unable to get to the legged ship and he toyed with us that bastard!"
Yzak was pissed off that not only had the enemy ignored him, it had even showed that he was not worth it's time.
"You bastard, I will make you pay for this blow for blow!"
Now the Duel was not meant to swim, but it could move, if only very slowly under water.
His suit unlike Athrun's or Nicols was not trashed this time, that was due to the fact that it hadn't even come into contact with the Omega in this fight.
It was at this point Yzak saw that the Blitz was unable to move and he thought "If he is alive, I can help him, since we are on the same side."
None of them knew why they were unable to communicate, but Yzak did know that he would not be known as a man who let his comrades die.
Picking up the Blitz Yzak said though no one could hear it "Dammit, I need to get back, but with only a certain amount of power I may as well be dead now."
At this point he disabled his Phase Shift armour, it would only drain more power, right now he could not afford to lose.
"I just have to hope like hell that the enemy is not as cruel as we are if not we are both dead."
Yzak may not have been known to be kind, but he was not evil, he would not leave Nicol to die.
Even if Nicol was dead already, he could not just sit by or rather walk by and not try to help out.
Agito Zero
Anthony who had now moved near the Archangel could see that the entire of the ORB fleet or at least a good part of it was now ready to take them on.
Anthony did not care for them at this point, for now he had to keep his attention on the ZAFT forces and he had to make sure they kept their eyes on him.
To do this he knew he only needed one simply action.
He knew that Yzak would at try to help out Nicol, who at this point would be badly hurt from what he had done to his suit.
In an instant he was down at the sea floor with them, he saw that the Duel did not have it's Phase Shift armour up, he grabbed both suits by the arm and pulled them up towards the surface.
Then he flew them to theback up forces that had come from ZAFT.
As he put the two of them down in front of the back force he said "It was never my intent to kill any of you, but those who wise to take my life I will not allow to do so, pull back now or die here."
It was no surprise to him that the ZAFT forces did as he requested and Anthony in turn made to leave, but he did not turn his back on them until they had done so to him.
Now he made to link up with the ship, no doubt Cagalli was speaking to the officers on the other ships.
It was at this point that he got a hail from the Archangel it was Murrue.
"So I take it they are going to let us through or are they not going to or do they wish for me to enter the ship before they let us through?"
Murrue gave him a nod "I see that you do know this, I won't ask how but know that I and the officers on board this ship are to meet with the head of ORB, I would like to know if you wish to join us?"
Anthony at this point just said "It they do not ask for me I see no point in seeing them."
Murrue at this point said "I can agree with that, if you wish return to us and we will begin to go to ORB.
Anthony at this point said "I'll do just that, but I will ask you to tell La Flaga and Badgiruel to not bring me up at all if I am not asked about."
Murrue then said "I will do. He knew that Cagalli and Kisaka were on the bridge but it did not matter to him at this point.
"I will not step up unless I am asked, my suit is on a need to know basis and I decide who needs to know."
As if to make sure Anthony put in a command to the Zero-System not to let them even scan it unless he said so.
It was at this point where Anthony knew it would take a while for them to get into ORB, then it would take even more time for them to speak with Lord Uzumi.
Now that he had entered his suit into the Archangel, he now let his eyes close and his mind drift back to a memory not of her but two dear friends.
Flashback
Anthony had come to meet up with his two friends, this was the plan he had with them, well one of them at any rate.
Right now he was in Japan visiting them some type before a Gunpla battle.
Sure Gunpla was important but his friends were just a little more, well a lot more but he would never admit it.
He knew that the two of them had or rather were still going through a crisis, a crisis that had lasted three long years.
His friend, he had known since he was 15 and his friend 12, he knew that his friend had been in what some may call living hell for his high school years.
He had heard about the fight between father and son, he had seen that his friend would never be able to play basket ball again.
But then his friend had met the young lady who would become his partner his girlfriend, things in his life had begun to look up.
But then that accursed day three years ago, this had happened.
When he heard of this, Anthony had quit the battle that had would have made him a super star.
He got on the first plane to Japan and then the first train that would take him to that town.
What he had found made him fall to his knees, it was not fair, life had taken away the one he loved, now it was taking away on of his dear friends!
Now he found that he was walking up a road filled with Cherry Blossoms that a young girl, the one who had been with his friend had fought to save.
He saw her with him now speaking to him as they were now about to enter the high school that the two of them had attended 3 years ago.
There was no wind that day so as he came closer to them he could hear the two of them speaking.
At first he was just going to walk up to them and say hello, but his friend the blue haired boy said a line that caused Anthony to stop in his tracks.
The blue haired young man said to the grey haired blue eyed girl in front of him "Tomoyo, I love you."
The young man paused and then said "This may be out of order, but I love you."
Due to the fact that Anthony was standing behind the blue haired young man he could see the face of the one who had been called Tomoyo.
Anthony saw her stare at the young man for just a few seconds but to them it could have been an eternity.
Then she speaks three words with tears in her eyes "I'm so happy."
As if responding to this Anthony moved to hide behind on of the trees, he still could hear all that was going to be said, but he knew that if was there his appearance may disrupt this precious scene.
Tomoyo then said "Me too, Tomoya I love you."
Anthony felt a tear trickle down from his right eye, it did not stop, he was so happy that Tomoya had said it to her.
Anthony knew she must have said it countless times to him, but right now Anthony knew that Tomoya must have felt for the first time the warmth the truth in those words.
Tomoyo then said "As I thought, this school really is an important place, for us it is where everything started."
She then continued to say "It was the same that day and now, it's the same today."
Anthony knew what she meant, what seemed to been an age ago, Anthony recalled being told about the heartfelt confession in the snow, had told and in truth only wished that the to of them find joy together.
Tomoyo then said to Tomoya "Yes this is not the end, this is just the beginning."
Anthony could not see her face, but he knew that she was in tears as she said this.
Like his they were tears of joy, she most of all would feel these over what Tomoya had said to her.
Then Anthony heard what him slide down to the ground.
Tomoyo said "Tomoya, you will soon lose this memory."
Anthony knew this was coming, but he had not real way to prepare for it, or rather in his joy he had forgotten this part.
Tomoya could only reply with "Eh?"
Anthony knew he must be confused with this but he trusted Tomoyo to explain it to him, she did not let him down.
"You will forget this week, you said that you loved me, those feelings will also be forgotten."
Then she said it the words that would shock Tomoya Anthony knew it would and he held his own mouth shut as she said this.
"This summer was not the summer you had that accident, that summer was three years ago."
Anthony could hear the disbelief in Tomoya's breath at this, then Tomoyo said to him "Three years have passed since that day."
Tomoya was silent in kind he did not know what to say.
Anthony did not blame him at all, he knew that his silence was just his shock, then he heard Tomoyo say "I want you to see this."
She must have been showing him that book she kept on her, Anthony knew it had to be that.
After a minute or more of pages being flicked Anthony heard Tomoyo's voice again, this time she said "Three years ago from now, about half a year after you graduated, you were in an accident."
She the said to him "At the time nothing serious happened, just treatment for the trauma."
Her voice then came to a halt, Anthony knew it hurt her to say this to him above all people, to the one she loved.
"Some time after that, though you suddenly collapsed, after that you were unconscious in a critical state for a while."
A little pause and she began to speak "When you finally woke up, you had lost all of your memories after graduating junior high."
She again gave a pause, there was no doubt that this hurt her, all of this hurt her.
"At first we thought it was temporary, the doctor and I were optimistic."
It was is were voice had so much pain that it seemed to seep into the area.
Anthony was no fool he knew what she was going to say to Tomoya next.
"And then one week after that day, you complained of a headache and lost consciousness, when you came to you had forgotten the last week, even the doctor didn't know the cause."
She did not take a break this time, Anthony knew that it must be her resolution to say this.
"Since then, the same thing has repeated, within ten days you lose your memories, that has continued for 3 years now."
When Tomoyo finished saying this Anthoy only heard silence, he knew that his friend was in shock, after all, his mind was that of a junior high kid at this point.
Then finally he spoke "Wait, sweetheart, even though you've graduated you've been wearing your uniform and going to school?"
It was true she had been doing this and her reply came to him straight away.
"By wearing this uniform, I'll be similar to the me you'd remember, I thought it would help bring your memories back."
Anthony at this point got up from the ground, tears still falling from his eyes and dared to look at the two of them, he could see the pain that was laced in Tomoyo's face, this had been hard for her.
"I spoke to the school about your condition, since I was Student Council President, they were willing to help, even the teachers understand."
As she said this Anthony ducked his head back behind the tree, he did not wish to ruin this now, it was their moment, their time together, he knew that the two of them may not have it for long.
"During my election work, I made a lot of friends in various clubs and as a result I am well known amongst the underclassmen, when I felt like it I would help with their practice."
At this point Tomoya let out a long breath saying "Ahh" as if he recalled a memory from this past week.
It was not hard for Anthony to tell that he was making this, he had been friends with Tomoya since he was 12.
Tomoyo then said "I'm sorry I didn't mean to deceive you."
Tomoya almost like his old self said "No I'm not blaming you for anything."
Tomoya then paused and said "It's just, it must have been difficult."
Anthony gave a nod to that he knew that it had been for Tomoyo.
Tomoyo then said to him "Yeah" she was acknowledging the fact that it was hard for her to do this for him.
"I was eager to get your memories back, I called over Sunohara, Takafumi, Kanako, Anthony and many other people you knew and they all talked to you."
"We went to various places, we tried all sorts of things."
"We even went on trips, I heard of some hot springs might have helped, so we went there."
She went on to say "I don't believe in God, but there were times I felt I should ask him, but it was all useless."
"Before 10 days passed, you would lose your memories and return to your self from just after middle school and so 1 year passed and then 2."
"Since Takafumi graduated he left for the city in order to go to university, I'm the one who told him to go."
She then added "Please don't think badly of him."
Tomoya just replied "I understand" but Anthony knew that he meant what he said.
Tomoyo gave a very weak "Yeah thanks, when Takafumi left, Kanako left with him, Sunohara continued to work at his parents home, Anthony has to go on and off with Gunpla but he does make time to see you, he walked out of a one of the international semi final to visit the hospital."
"And so everybody left, now it is just us, for the 3rd year it has been just us and Anthony from time to time, but he never stays more than a day."
She then paused again, Anthony stole another glace at them, and she was now looking up to the school "And yet I kept walking to this school, for the two of us this is the most memorable place."
Now tears were welling up in her eyes again as she said "This place we call a school, I believe in it and thus the whole time I've been praying for the day your memories will come back."
"I don't know when you will stop forgetting, that's why today once again I say these unreasonable things and stay with you, I'm sorry your headache isn't a cold, it's a sign that you are going to lose your memories again."
Anthony had thanked god that he had not been seen by her, but he thanks him again for not being able to see the look on Tomoyo's face.
"You will complain about a headache and lose your memories, just like a child, I'll cry, waiting for your eyes to open, hoping for that one time it will be different."
She paused again then said "But when you come to and won't even know my name, once again the two of us will start from our self introductions."
"As if never ending that day repeats over and over up until now, you haven't said anything to me accept 'thanks'."
Anthony knew that she was going to say this wasn't what she wanted to hear and thus she said just that.
"That wasn't what I wanted to hear, I thought you might never say it again, however at long last, at long last you said you loved me, that is the first time in 3 years."
In the shadow of the tree hidden from their sigh Anthony wiped his eyes, he was happy for them to have this moment, may he never be in a Gunpla battle again if he ruined it for them now.
Tomoyo then went on to say "And now I understand, our love is still there, even now, just now, you proved it."
She now faltered a little but then said "That's why, with courage, I can tell you."
She now paused again, Anthony knew what she was going to say, he also knew there would be no going back from it.
"Tomoya your memory loss can be cured with an operation."
Anthony knew that this news to Tomoya would be like a godsend, but Anthony knew there was a catch to it.
Tomoyo then said quickly "But the probability of success is less than half."
Tomoyo then went on to explain "The cause is a tumour in you brain, but it's in a difficult location, if it succeeds, though they say the probability of your memories returning is high."
She then solemnly said "If we don't do the operation your life will remain the same."
Tomoyo continued with this "Your father and I having talked it over and looked at the circumstances came to this conclusion, this whole time I was afaid, I wanted your memories to come back, that is how I truly feel."
What she said next made Anthony step out from where he was he knew it was time to show himself, but he could allow them a little more time to be with one another.
The words that Tomoyo said were "But I was afraid I would lose more of you than I already have, because of that I decided to wait and see if your memories would come back naturally."
An age seemed to pass and Tomoyo was yet to notice Anthony when she said "That's everything, it's the truth, please forgive me."
Tomoya's first reaction was to say "Well" and stop there.
But if Anthony knew anything about his friend, it was that Tomoya would pull through for you when you least expected it.
As if to sooth him Tomoya said "No matter what happens I won't waver, just as before no matter what happens, our love is eternal, Tomoya, Tomoya what do you want to do."
The couple still had not taken notice of Anthony who had tears rolling down from both eyes.
For a moment Tomoya seemed to be in deep thought.
Anthony smiled at the words that Tomoya said to Tomoyo "Let's get married Tomoyo." All Tomoyo could reply was "Huh."
Anthony if he had not been in tears would have laughed at this but he did not ruin the mood by doing so.
Tomoya again said "Let's get married, from now on we will always be together, because I will never lose these feelings, to keep them, I will undergo the operation."
He paused for a moment before he added "Because I don't want to ever forget again."
Anthony at this point felt the 2 rings he kept on a chain around his neck, he recalled the face of that girl and in an instant took of the chain and began to walk towards the couple.
At this point Tomoyo had replied to Tomoya "Yeah, let's do it, I also want to feel like this forever, let's get married."
Tomoya in kind said "Even if the next time I wake up I don't have today's memories I will once again fall in love with you, absolutely I'm sure of it."
If Anthony had any doubt in his mind about what he was going to do he had none left in him after that.
At this point Anthony put his hand on Tomoya's shoulder, even Tomoyo is surprised with his sudden appearance out of thin air.
"If you are going to get married you two should at least have rings no?"
Tomoya seemed a little shocked but the fact that Anthony when he was 15 and Anthony when he was 24 look basically the same he knew who it was.
"Anthony, how long, how long have you been there?"
It was these words that caused Anthony to smile and say "Didn't I tell you that I was a secret agent when met all those years ago."
Tomoya gave him a nod and said "I did not believe you at the time."
Anthony at this point held out the silver rings he had in his hands.
Tomoyo knew what they meant to him and asked "Is this, is this really alright with you."
In reply Anthony said with a smile "You and Tomoya are alive and can be happy, I wish it and I know she would wish it as well."
Tomoya was about to ask when Anthony said "I believe you should put the ring on her finger as she yours."
They did so, but Anthony could see that the headache of Tomoya's was getting worse with each second.
With the rings on each other, Anthony held Tomoya upright as he began to wobble.
Tomoyo held him and Tomoya looked up into her eyes, "Tomoyo there's no need to be sad, I'll be right back so please wait for me."
Anthony could see that Tomoya was in immense pain, but he some how held out and said "I wish you would smile, I would hate for the last thing I see to be you crying."
At this Tomoyo wipes her tears and said "Yeah you're right."
She now smiles at him and said "I'll be waiting for you Tomoya, so for now just take your time and sleep. Anthony let Tomoyo scoop him up and hold, him, she was crazy strong.
Anthony at this point pulled out his phone and called his brother "Yeah sorry brother, I am in Japan right now, Tomoya said he'd take the surgery, so I won't be coming back for a little while."
The reply Anthony got was "What, he is taking it, heck hold up, I'll be on the first flight there."
The call ended and Tomoyo who still held the sleeping Tomoya asked "You're going to stay?"
Anthony gave her a nod and said "Gunpla and Final Fantasy are just games, this here is reality and I chose my friends over career any day of the week, that is what she taught me."
Tomoyo now looked at Tomoya and the ring on both their fingers "Is it really okay for us to have this, I mean Tomoya told me how much she meant to you, why did you do this?"
In reply Anthony said "I know, but Tomoya is my friend, a friend is one who shares a connection to my soul, I have to say that I know she would want me to do this, I may have done this on impulse but I am glad I did it."
Then Anthony added "And as I have said so many times she was the boss."
Both of them laughed as they took Tomoya to the hospital on the way there Anthony said "Keith my twin is going to come as well, what are friends for if we are not there when the times are down."
In reply to this Tomoyo said "He is like a little brother to you, you did walk out of a tournament in America to come see him."
Anthony at this point gave a smile and said "What I gave up is nothing, a real hero is right here holding the man she loves, I don't know if I could lose 3 years of my life you did, for that I will always respect you and if you ever need any help once Tomoya recovers no matter what it is call me."
Tomoyo's eyes dropped again to Tomoyo as she said "You're always so positive, why?"
Anthony in kind gave her a shrug and said "I am for I know Tomoya will pull through, don't underestimate the power of the human spirit!"
Flashback end
Anthony opened his eyes, he had done his best to hold back his tears when he recalled this, it was not easy to do so.
They had now docked in ORB, Anthony knew he had to get out of his suit soon, but he also knew that since Lord Uzumi did not ask for him he could get up to a little mischief in the mean time.
"I will need to find, some sunglasses as well as a different shirt and pant to get changed into if my plan is to work, luckily I know where to find those items."
Anthony was playing on the fact that both the people SEED and UC had a history of not being able to recognise a man in a paper thin disguise.
The Agito Zero had located the cloths so Anthony now began to get out of his mobile suit and move towards it.
He did lock the Agito Zero, taking advantage of the fact that the entire crew were on ease about being in ORB, Anthony sneaked around the ship got into a shirt and pants that clearly did not fit him, put on the sunglasses he had come by, as well as comb down his hair so it no longer stood up.
Anthony took great care to fold his uniform and return it to the Agito Zero and then when the soldiers of ORB were inspecting.
He had his suit create an opening in which he could leave without them catching on to him or noticing that he was gone.
Anthony knew where he had to go, he could sneak into the ORB mobile suit base and try to find Selene McGriff who was meant to be there.
How did he know where to find her, the Zero-System of the MS Agito Zero is an over competent system, that is able to tell him what he needs to know as well as what he will need to know later on.
Not to mention the few things that he doesn't pick up on or doesn't care about, the last bit did earn scorn from time to time.
ORB negotiation room
Lord Uzumi now sat down with Murrue, Mu and Natarle, he had a few things to ask them and offer them in exchange for there stay here in ORB.
Murrue for once felt that if Anthony was here at least he could use his talent for throwing off situations to loosen up the tension in the air.
"I will have to remember that all of us do have our uses, I just can't stand some of his."
Uzumi looked to Murrue who he could see was a little uncomfortable and asked "You are the one who the others call Captain are you not, may I ask you did you really think I let you into ORB for the sake of one girl."
Mu when he heard this had to think that Anthony would have replied "Yes, in fact I do for you are a caring father and love is proven to make even the wisest of men into fools."
Mu did his best not to smile, there was no way Murrue could pull off that, but she did reply all the same.
"No Lord Uzumi, I do not believe that, I believe that you will tell us what you want from us in return for entering your nation."
Lord Uzumi nodded and said "You're right."
As Uzumi was about to answer, there was a rap on the door.
Uzumi, did not open up just in case it was Cagalli.
But a man's voice called out "Lord Uzumi, that unidentified suit has began to move our men have been forced away from the ship, it also has shown us that there is no pilot inside the suit.."
Uzumi was about to ask Murrue about this, when a voice was then heard over every speaker in the city.
It was the voice of a man, it was an aloof and knowing voice.
"I request that all ORB forces pull back from the Archangel Class ship, if not my owner has instructed me to unleash the power of a Primus l'Cie on you and your people, it is my recommendation that you do as I ask."
Murrue looked up, his suit can talk, then that means he must know all that was going on in our ship?"
Uzumi raised an eyebrow at her, it was clear to him that she had no idea that suit could do this.
"I see that I may have not inquired as to who the pilot of that suit is, I take it from your surprise that he is not part of your forces?"
Mu at this point answered for her "Think of him as an allied contingent, he also likes to remind all of us about that part, very often I might add."
Uzumi internally sighed "Perhaps I should have spoken to Cagalli about the crew, it is my bad judgement that caused."
Murrue now said "If he is not in his suit, he must be inside the ship?"
Mu in turn shook his head "That guy sleeps in his suit, I might also add that he can slip around the ship as if he were a ghost, so who are we to say he has not slipped out while we were focusing on hi suit just then."
Murrue then said "He is in his uniform, he'll stick out like a sore thumb?" Mu then replied "I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt, that he is capable of changing clothes, I mean I am sure he is able to tell that he'd stick out like a sore thumb."
Lord Uzumi then said "I believe we should talk once I have met this pilot, until then you will be detained at the docks." Murrue gave a nod "We can do this, I only hope you can find him."
Mu at this point said "I would say he left his suit behind, but as we now are able to see, that is not a problem for him."
Lord Uzumi then said "Then I shall speak to you later, for now I bid you good day."
The three Earth Alliance officers were then escorted back to there ship.
Mu on the inside gave a massive sigh as he thought "Why did I see this coming and ignore it, if I had not we would not have to wait until he is found to speak with Lord Uzumi again."
It was a drag, but one such as Mu was not allowed to show such emotions, he was an officer "I see now why Anthony never claims to have any rank and only does what he can by himself, the fact that people look up to you is tiring at times for me."
When they got back to the Archangel, there was only more trouble, Sai was missing a shirt and his shades while Kira was missing his pants.
Mu had to laugh "Not to be rude, but if he wasn't in his uniform day in day out, I would have not noticed him in a crowd."
Sai then asked "Um sir, still doesn't explain why he just went and nicked my spare shades, they were my only black ones."
Kira then said "I have to ask did he just put on Sai's shirt and shades as well as my spare pants and simply walked out of here as if he was in a mall?"
Murrue had them run a search on the ship's camera's, they did not find him on it, it was as if he was a ghost.
Natarle had to point out to her "His suit has a talking AI in it, who is to say he does not know how to control our cameras?"
She made a very good point and Murrue knew that he had a way into the ZAFT ships cameras, who was to say he did not have one into their own?
Murrue then said "If he does come back, I may be unable to stop myself from hitting him."
Mu at this point pointed at Kira and Sai "We have the kids right there, best not to say any more, or else you will have to hit him."
Mu gave a sigh and then turned to Kira and Sai "You two can go, we can deal with all of this once he comes back."
Morgenroete Faclility
Selene gave a sigh, she had been stuck her and was working on the M1 Astray suits that were still in the basic building blocks of programming.
She had worked slowly, this was due to the fact that she knew that the Legged Ship would land here soon and she was buying enough time as possible to stay inside ORB.
It was no where near dark but most of the workers had been called away by Lord Uzumi, she had to suspect that the Legged Ship was now here in ORB.
"I wonder did Uzumi double cross me, it was part of the deal that I would be able to meet the crew of the Legged ship and help on their repairs if they did land here?"
She gave a sigh, she did not know how much longer she could stall this and try to drag it out.
But see did know that it could not be for too much longer, she would have outstayed her welcome.
Now she gave a glance up at the suits that were in front of here, most were not fully built yet.
Turning around she began to make her way to the office where she would have to continue her work.
The door was locked but she did have a pass key and was able to enter it.
The desk that she worked at was at the far end of the room but as she began to approach it she felt as if something was off, her chair was facing the wrong way.
Selene now whirled around, but there was no one there, the others had left this area around ½ and hour ago, so other than security that was around on patrol she was alone.
"Good grief for a split second I did think I was not alone in here.
Then she heard the voice of a young man say "Oh but you are not are you, I am here with you."
Selene spun around and then slowly began to advance on the chair, as she got to it, she turned it around to find that it was indeed empty.
Hearing a thump land behind her she spun to see a young man, she did bring her fist to bare down at him, but she found that her blow was deflected and she was pushed over her desk.
"No one every looks up, that is why so many die due to that fact, it is such a shame."
His tone told Selene as well as his body language, that he did not intend to harm her if she did not intend to harm him.
Selene managed to get herself back on her feet as she asked him "Just, who are you?"
The young man had red hair, like crimson red, slightly tanned, had bad test in fashion to say the least and wore dark shades.
At first she thought he must be a Co-ordinator, it did make sense with that hair and that skin, not to mention he hid and dropped from the ceiling, that was at least 5 meters above.
"I can see the way you are looking at me, don't worry these clothes are on loan, there not mine."
Selene did not know why, but he didn't take them with consent.
His hair seemed to be combed down to his chin but she had to admit, other than his red hair, he did not stand out at all.
"You still didn't tell me who you are?"
The reply was not very kind "You know for a genius, you're not very Bright."
His words were rude, but she got the feeling he was comparing her to a guy he knew.
The man then seemed to confess "I guess Bright, would hit me for that, not that he'd need and excuse other than the last time he did it."
Selene did not get the reference at all, not that any one in her universe could blame her.
"How do you know who I am?"
His voice was a little bit familiar but she could not recall where she had heard it or heard a voice like it.
His reply was "I looked you up in a free to view website, I quite liked your profile and blurb on who you are."
Selene blinked did he just flirt with her and say that he saw her on an online dating site?
He saw the face she was making and said "It's not that type of sight, it's about information."
Selene did breath a sigh of relief, but then realised that was even more frightening.
"I also found out about the Deep Survey Space Development, DSSD for short."
Selene knew this was a reasonable mistake, but the man then said "Wait that doesn't sound right at all, it must be Deep Space Survey Development Organisation."
Selene then said "No that is quite alright, it is not a common mistake, but one is capable to of it."
At this point the young man said "My bad, did I choose poorly."
Selene had heard a similar voice say those exact words, on a recording, just this voice was not worse not hoarse and had a face to it.
Selene then said with wide eyes "Wait a second, you are, you are that boy from the video, the ones whose eyes we saw all of that?"
Selene took a step back she had seen this young man take on a metal man and not die in a single hit.
At this the young man who had been called Sedecim said "Well I guess it took you long enough to get it, I had to think were you just confused or afraid?"
Selene shook her head "I was just unable to put you and that voice together, that voice was more hoarse than yours."
The young man gave her a nod before she asked "Is Sedecim your real name?"
He shook his head "It is a call sign, I was 016, but if you have to call me a name you may Quattro Bajeena."
He smiles as light reflects of his shades "I'm with the A.E.U.G!"
Yes, for any of you had seen that one coming, just yes but A.E.U.G will stand for Anti Extremist Union Group AKA Patrick Zala and his radical Zaft buddies as well as Blue Cosmos/Logos, this will merge with the Clyne faction and the 3 ship alliance when they pop up. This is due to the fact that Anthony and Agito Zero are the only members of this group. He can't go saying the Anti Earth Union Group, due to the fact that he is not anti earth and he doesn't want to make up members for a union that doesn't exist in this world. Did any of you see that one coming, Aburg76 keep quiet.
Also I forgot to mention, that the flash back takes place in the CLANNAD spin off of Tomoyo After it's a wonderful life. I got the kid friendly version if you had to ask and no it's not in English so excuse me if my translation is well crap. Where did I get it, a site no I did not download it I bought it, so please don't ask me for it.
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