Stellar dropped the tray in shock, full of realization that this little girl was Shinn's little sister, "Are you alright?" Mayu nervously asked. Stellar could naught but stare. Shinn had previously told Stellar that his entire family was wiped out. "Mayu," Stellar called, "Can you please come with me?" Stellar asked softly still suffering slightly from her initial shock. Mayu nodded ever so slightly and picked up her crouches to follow Stellar.
Stellar and Mayu arrived in the suite that Shinn was staying in, "Stellar, back already?" Shinn shouted from the kitchen, "Yep and I brought company too." Stellar replied with a smile, "Great timing, I'm preparing some supper right now." Shinn shouted back, "I have a surprise for you Shinn." Stellar said with a smile, Mayu yelped with hearing her brother's name, "Shinn!" Mayu yelled falling over, initially forgetting that she had one leg missing. Shinn appeared out of the kitchen to see Mayu. His reaction was a mixture of shock, surprise and happiness. Shinn dashed to Mayu and held her tightly. The scene was a complete Godsend. Stellar couldn't be happier for Shinn who was bursting in tears with her sister who was alive and well… (Well I guess she's not that well, considering she has one leg.)
The next morning, Athrun was still sleeping like a baby in his hospital room. Cagalli, Kira and Lacus showed up all with smiles. "Well I never thought that a self-centered brat you'd ever get married." Cagalli smirked, "Are you kidding Cagalli?" Lacus said, "Kira is everything but that." Lacus said, "That's right, he's also annoying." Cagalli remarked.
Athrun was waken up from the noise. "Hey Athrun's finally up." Kira grinned, "What's going on?" Athrun asked dazed and still groggy, "Lover-bird Kira here proposed to Lacus last night." Cagalli said, "And I heard Kira popped the question while doing 'it'." Cagalli smirked. Kira and Lacus both blushed, "Lacus! How could you?" Kira shot, "I certainly didn't say anything." Lacus said ever so innocently, "Actually, Stellar told me." Cagalli said, "She was told me that she was quite jealous after seeing you two doing that." Cagalli remarked, "What is it with girls and gossip?" Kira complained.
The hospital room door swung wide open as the Colonel came in, "Oh sorry, I forgot my manners." the Colonel went out, closed the door and knocked before opening the door again and coming in. "Miss Yula Athha, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you." the Colonel said sympathetically, "What is it Colonel?" Cagalli asked, "Well I have reports here that… the ORB union has been disbanded. I have the documents that the United Emirates of ORB has been replaced by another world organization." the Colonel said, he read the report out loud:
"The people of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union have seen the ORB union unfit to continue to exist as our world's leading protectorates. Countless failures by the leaders of ORB, to reinforce their sovereignty over oppressive powers to protect the helpless nations that the ORB union swore to protect. Many times we have demanded that the ORB use their trade sanctions and military might to discourage the enemy powers from flaring up another gruesome and unpredictable war. And many times this was ignored by the arrogance of the ORB union's key leaders; once again, innocent people have been made to pay in blood for the ORB union's mammoth mistakes.
Although we would like to see all of the key leaders of the ORB union removed from power, we believe that we should offer positions of power to the more compromising ORB members in the United Nations. Should these members decline our offer, we shall compensate for their loss. We the people see fit that Princess of ORB: Cagalli Yula Athha should be the honorary chairperson in the United Nations. Official reports tell us of Miss Athha's actions during the years of insecurity. Miss Athha had many of her orders for a trade sanction on the enemy powers denied by the ORB officials, her demands for military actions were rejected numerous times. Only at the start of the world war did ORB's congress agree to take any military action.
Official declarations from almost all of the European countries and most of the African and Asian leaders have demanded the disbanding of the ORB union and the rise of another world organization. Instead of declaring that one family and/or nations hold such vast authority, we compromise that the world itself and five key superpower nations should be the world's key protectorate from future conflicts.
We also demand that the Plants union should stay in power and governed under another democratic leader after the Plants leaders are disposed of. We advise that this newly appointed leader should be someone who has close ties with people trustworthy; someone with political background as well as experience in the military and has some knowledge of the domestic and world economy.
We are confident that the newly formed, United Nations peace organization will fulfill its duties in the future and hopefully until the end of all mankind.
Signed: Andrew Waltfeld, the people's minister of economic and social equality.
The Colonel left the documents on the table next to Athrun's bed and left in a hurry. Cagalli's face had reflected numerous emotions; shock, confusion, anger, outrage, disgust. Cagalli scanned her eyes over the reports, "Oh well if you look at the time, we have to meet… err… err… Dearka! Um, Dearka! We have to tell him and Miriallia about us, let's go Lacus." Kira said quickly dragging Lacus with him, "But Kira… hey stop that… Kira we can't just…" before Lacus could finish, Kira shut the door dragging Lacus away with him away from an active volcano about to erupt.
Cagalli immediately ripped the document again and again as Athrun watched hoping that she Athrun wouldn't suffer the same fate. Cagalli then threw the little pieces of paper and cried: "Wahoo!" as the paper acted like confetti. Athrun scratched his head in confusion, "Err… I… um… why are you so… happy about all of this?" Athrun asked, "Are you kidding? I hated all that politics and all that paper work and besides, I was basically a political pawn in the ORB: I couldn't even get a single bill passed." Cagalli said, overjoyed to be out of the corrupted ORB union. However she did feel a little guilty. The idea of a world's single protectorate was the idea of Uzumi Athha; seen as the man to win over the hearts and minds of the populace with a clear conscience and good intentions; the kind of leader that a peaceful world can't live without.
"So I see that Kira's allowed to have sex while we can't." Athrun said jealously thinking of some way to outwit Kira in this situation, Cagalli gasped, "Excuse me, but you're the devil who stole my soul against my will." Cagalli angrily pointed out, "Yeah yeah Cags, I know you liked it too, especially when I started kissing your neck." Athrun smirked, Cagalli snorted in disbelief, "Oh yeah, do that again and I'll show you what your neck will feel like in a minute." Cagalli raised her fist shaking them in front of Athrun, "Why don't you give me a lesson right now?" Athrun daringly said with a wide smirk, "I would love to, but hurting a wounded person just doesn't seem right… and don't call me Cags, you're not my boyfriend or anything." Cagalli shot back, "Oh that really broke my heart." Athrun said in a sarcastically upset tone and a puppy dog's look, "Don't use that on me Zala. You're wasting your time by doing that you know." Cagalli smiled, slicing up an apple, "No seriously Athrun, you need to eat up." Cagalli continued slicing, "I won't eat anything, unless you feed me." Athrun smiled, "In your dreams Zala." Cagalli laughed. Athrun stared at Cagalli with the saddest expression he could come up with, he stared for minutes while Cagalli was cutting and peeling the skin from the fruit. "Okay already, I'll feed you, just stop that cute puppy dog look." Cagalli giggled.
Meanwhile, Kira introduced Lacus to Shinn and Stellar; Mayu was being looked after by the Colonel who had finished his paperwork overnight, he insisted that he look after Mayu while Shinn and Stellar went off to have fun. Kira, Lacus, Shinn, Stellar, Dearka, Miriallia and Yzak came together and decided to go and watch a movie at the Borgeusne Theater. The theatres were crowded with soldiers on RnR, in which case the group decided to dine out at a five star restaurant (Lacus's treat) before seeing a play about William Shakespeare.
With the rest of the day off, Athrun and Cagalli decided to check out of the hospital. Athrun claimed to be better although he still looked rather pale. Athrun and Cagalli stayed in their suite sleeping on the bed lying in each other's arms. This action ended up disastrously, as the couples overslept forgetting about what Kira and the others might think if they found that they checked out of the hospital.
In the evening the group returned to visit Athrun and Cagalli after their first night out. To their surprise they found Athrun's room empty with only little pieces of paper lying on the floor. At first Kira thought that Athrun and Cagalli were moved to another room, but they soon found out that Athrun checked out. "Uh oh, I think those two are having the time of their lives right now." Dearka poked Kira, "What does that mean?" Kira said, "Athrun and Cagalli are probably just… oh my goodness!" Kira said dramatically, "You're such a drama queen Kira." Lacus smiled exuberantly, "God only knows what those two are up to." Miriallia teased, "The Princess of ORB? Now wouldn't that be a sight?" Shinn smirked.
Meanwhile, Athrun and Cagalli were still deep asleep in each others arms. Although they did nothing out of the ordinary, they'd still have to explain to Kira and the others of what was going on. Kira picked the lock on their door; a light 'click' was heard implying that the door had been unlocked. Kira slowly and quietly sneaked in followed up by Lacus, Dearka and then Miriallia; the rest of the group went back to their rooms. Kira came within feet of Athrun and Cagalli still dozing off. The sight was enough for Kira to handle. Kira fetched a large glass of cold water and hurled its contents on the sleeping couple. The cold water immediately had its effect waking them up instantly as both Athrun and Cagalli bolted upright. "What the hell was that for?" Cagalli yelled, "One, that was for thinking you could get away with it. Two, for sleeping on the same bed half naked. Three, it's a good method to waking people up." Kira stated, "Kira let them be, you sister never did that to me when she found out that you were dating me" Lacus argued, "Good point, but still, they've been unofficially dating for how long?", "A month and a bit now." Kira proclaimed, "It's far too early for them to be at this stage." Kira pointed at the two in bed, "It's not what it looks like Kira. We didn't do anything like that." Cagalli said, "Well why don't you enlighten us and tell us what you were doing then." Kira folded his arms waiting for a reply, "Just sleeping with each other… you know… the natural state of bodily rest." Athrun replied intelligently, "Honest to God Kira." Cagalli said, "Now can you bloody well do us a favour and get out!" Cagalli yelled.
Kira wasn't completely sure whether his sister and his best friend were telling the truth, but the tone and temper of Cagalli kept him from investigating the matter even further. However frightened Athrun was of Kira's over protectiveness, he was as cunning as a fox. Athrun decided to take advantage of the situation. Athrun immediately pinned down Cagalli's arms firmly, Cagalli shrieked in surprise, "What are you doing Athrun?" Cagalli asked nervously thinking that Athrun might decide to rape her, "I'm taking advantage of the situation, Kira's highly unlikely to be back so soon and we have all this free time." Athrun proclaimed placing kisses on Cagalli's neck, Cagalli's whole body was tickling from pleasure as the sensation spread throughout her entire body.
Unfortunately for both Athrun and Cagalli, Lacus had left her jacket behind previously while trying to restrain Kira, she quickly went back, quietly opened the door and to her surprise, both Athrun and Cagalli were locked in a 'fierce conflict over territory'. Lacus flushed a light shade of red while quickly, but quietly getting her jacket and leaving as quickly as she came. Cagalli was tempted by Athrun's muscular outlines and his smooth alabaster skin. Shinn and Stellar were next door and were stirred up by the strange bumping and moaning noises.
However, Lacus was not the only one who was watching them. From a distance a man in his mid-forties was spying at them with binoculars, infuriated and on the very brink of insanity. Looking at Athrun and Cagalli was enough to make him want to kill them, but watching them make love was just too much. "Sir, I'm back at twenty three hundred just like you ordered sir." a teen with long blonde hair and cold blue eyes said firmly, "Private Rey Za Burrel. Have you found what you have needed about those rotten, stinking Airborne troops that stormed the castle?" the man asked still in rage, "Yes sir, I found that the person who led the attack is too much of a challenge to eliminate with out current resources. We have a total of two targets." Rey said, "Their names: Shinn Asuka and Stellar Loussier. They should be easy enough to take out." Rey assured, "Where the hell is that sideshow of yours?" the man angrily asked, "Private Lunamaria is coming, she's got our weapons." Rey said, unmoved by the anger and rage of his superior, "Remember Rey, we are exacting vengeance on these rotting bastards, we're doing this for your father and for Hitler. I'll have a plan ready by two days time." Rey saluted and replied: "Yes Sir General Zala." Rey went off.
General Patrick Zala looked through the binoculars with Athrun and Cagalli in his sight, "I promise you boy, I'm going to inflict so much pain on you that you'll be on your knees before me begging me to put you out of your misery."