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Legacy Of Providence

Chapter 20: Cleaning Up The Mess

Middle of battle…

"Kira how many of those clones survived the assault on ORB?" Athrun questioned.

"About five if I'm not mistaken," Kira answered, "Mine, yours, and three Shinn's"

"Just shows how good I am," Shinn's voice came over the comm.

"Calm down kid, you might be a Coordinator but you still need practice," Mwu's voice chimed in. He launched his DRAGOONS and proceeded to destroy several ZAKU's.

"Where the hell are the ZAFT forces I asked for," Athrun spoke to himself as he struck a Windam, "And where the hell is this Roy guy getting the Mobile Suits from,"

"Chairman Zala," Shinn's voice came in, "I'm picking up several signals inbound,"

"Whose side are they on?" Athrun voice as he sliced another ZAKU.

"They are on…" Shinn started.

"They're ORB," Cagalli's voice came on Athrun's comm.

"That's great!" Athrun said happily.

"That's not all, it looks like ZAFT's coming right behind them," Andrew Waltfeld's rang, "Looks like somebody ratted you out Mr. Chairman, ZAFT's sending a nice big fleet,"

"That's good," Athrun spoke, "Tell them to get ready, the main event's just starting,"

Athrun's comment on the battle situation was not far off. It seemed that the portion of the battle that he was participating in was small compared to what was about to begin. The Providence organization seemed to throw weaker units against them first saving the Providence ZAKU's for when the attack turned against them. Obviously it had. Leading the pack of Providence ZAKU's was Freedom, Justice, and three Legends.

"Looks like they brought out the big guns," Mwu spoke to the others.

"Where's the estimated location of Yzak's and Dearka's teams?" Athrun questioned.

"Dearka needs twenty minutes and Yzak's almost there," Shinn responded.

With the answer Athrun decided to launch forward till he slammed into the Justice. Kira, Shinn, and Mwu closely followed him. Each taking a clone. One of the Legends took off towards Yzak's position since no one was guarding it.

"You again!" roared Kira's clone, "I'm going to end this right now!" The powered the Freedoms weapons hoping to blow the Strike Freedom away.

The clone never had a chance. Kira had launched his DRAGOONS and decided to move and present a harder target to attack. His plan worked, the clone fired its plasma cannons right when the Strike Freedom moved. As Kira moved the S-Freedom the clone moved to attack as well. The clone never noticed the attack from behind by the DRAGOONS that were circling him. When the attack came he was too surprised to yell in defiance.

Athrun was also nearly done dispatching of his own clone. He had just destroyed the sub flight-lifter of the Justice using his own as a decoy. He used his FATUM-01 to make the clone launch his 00, he then used a beam boomerang and purposely missed the Justice, and his intended target was of course the lifter. With less mobility the Justice was now a sitting duck. With the leg beam armed Athrun rushed the target and kicked upward, slicing the target.

Mwu was having an entirely different problem. It would seem that he was not told that the Legends were armed with a revolutionary DRAGOON system that anyone could use. This had made the battle much more difficult or interesting depending on whose side you were on. "You wouldn't happen to be the clone pilot of the Chaos Impulse would you?" Mwu questioned.

"You're damn right I am," the clone yelled back, "Not such a smart ass now that we both can use DRAGOONS,"

The clone tried to put an exclamation point to the sentence when he launched the DRAGOONS. He was obviously not briefed in the Akatsuki's main defense system was the anti-beam coating. He learned the error of his thinking when the beams bounced off the armor and came back at him. He armed his beam shield hoping to block most of the shots. Two made it through and blow sections of his legs away. When he brought his beam rifle up to try and fire when the anti-beam coating was disarmed, Mwu's DRAGOONS came around and blew holes into the back of the Legend, destroying it.

"That's the thing," Mwu said in a teacher like voice, "When facing anything using DRAGOONS one should always be on the move," Mwu almost learned his own lesson when a Providence ZAKU took a shot at him.

"Think that's funny!" Mwu yelled, "Come here," with one last look over his shoulder to make sure the clone was dead Mwu launched after the MS.

Shinn was also easily dispatching his own clone. The clone in the Legend seemed to be the one that had piloted the Destiny Impulse in ORB. "Why won't you die!" the Shinn in Destiny.

The clone didn't reply. It instead lunged with the Defiant Kai beam javelin. It lunged forward only to strike the Arondight anti-ship sword. Shinn bashed the javelin to the side and swung his sword upwards diagonally.

The clone sprung backwards as its DRAGOONS launched. "You really are pathetic, how your girlfriend can tolerate you it's amazing,"

"How do you know about Luna!" Shinn roared back now trying to attack with his palm cannon.

"How do I know, you fool, us clones are linked mentally I know which of my clone brothers attacked the little bitch and wrecked her mentally!" the clone roared with laughter.

"You bastard!" Shinn roared back. The clone had pushed him to far now. Shinn punched one of the buttons on the Destiny. The button had activated the M2000GX high-energy long-range beam cannon. At this time the DRAGOONS were moving around rapidly and tried to fire. "Shame you clones never use your beam shields," Shinn smiled evilly as he fired the cannon. The shot ripped the Legend in half and continued on through till it hit an enemy ship.

With Roy…

"Damn it all," Roy swore to the covered figure in the room.

"What is it Commander?" the figure spoke.

"Another clone was killed," Roy answered, "I repair their units, give three of them brand new ones for their missing ones and they go and get them selves blown up!"

The figure stood still. "Maybe I was wrong all this time, maybe Mr. Elsman's friends are stronger than I thought," Roy now seemed to be talking to himself now.

"Commander, you should put more faith in your clones," the figure spoke.

"Leave!" Roy yelled, "I need to prepare,"

"For what?"

"Mr. Elsman's arrival," Roy replied calmly.

With Yzak…

He had a bad feeling about the current situation. He had know idea why he had such a feeling but he knew it was leaving anytime soon. He glanced to his right and saw Shiho flying along beside him in his old Slash ZAKU. She had done a wonderful job of altering his old Slash ZAKU. From the purple paint job to the rose on the right shoulder. She had done what he called an amazing job. He just hoped that the MS could hold up in combat.

"Shiho keep your guard up we don't know if those clones will come back," Yzak ordered.

Shiho was flying next to Yzak ahead of several Murasames lent by ORB. The Murasames were each hooked to a cable connected to the Ballistic Duel. Inside the B-Duel there was a remote detonated bomb. Yzak's plan was to place the B-Duel inside the Genesis and arm the bomb, when Dearka gave the signal that meant Roy was either dead or alive Yzak would click the button destroying the B-Duel.

"Just don't get yourself killed Commander," Shiho laughed.

Yzak was going to yell about not addressing him correctly when he realized that she had addressed him correctly. He felt somewhat disappointed by that. He was going to tell Shiho to prepare to head into the Genesis when a shot came out at him. "What the hell!" Yzak swore.

"It's a Legend!" came Shiho's panicked voice.

The Legend piloted by a Shinn clone roared to life as the group came into contact with it. This particular clone piloted the Abyss Impulse against Yzak back in ORB. Yzak launched forward hoping to settle the score.

The part of his face where his scar formally was, was burning. He had it removed shortly after the first war upon Shiho's insistence that he would be more physically appealing. This is of course before he had known he was going to marry her. The location of the former scar would burn continuously over periods of time, mostly during battle he had noticed.

"Well lookie here, it's the great Yzak Joule," the clone laughed, "Back for round two?"

Yzak simply growled in response. To Shiho however, "Get the damn Ballistic Duel into the Genesis, arm it and then get the hell out,"

"But…"

"NOW!" Yzak roared back as he slammed into the Legend again before the DRAGOONS fired a shot on him.

"Impressive Yzak, you're living up to your reputation," Shinn laughed, "Shame you've never fought anything like me!"

At the end of the speech the clone lunged forward with its beam javelin. He would lunge forward with javelin hoping to impale the GOUF Yzak piloted. As he lunged the DRAGOONS would fire and Yzak would curse his luck of having a mass produced MS instead of a decent proto-type that always seemed to do better.

"I have fought something like you!" Yzak roared, "He fought with a machine quite like yours, the only real difference is that he never fought me when I knew how to fight back against DRAGOON users!"

Yzak swung his Tempest beam sword at the torso of the Legend only to be stopped by a beam shield. Yzak cursed himself for forgetting the beam shield. Instead of pulling back however Yzak pushed forward. Something that both Yzak and the clone agreed was quite insane.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" the clone argued, "You'll never get through the shield,"

"The thing you forget is this," Yzak replied, "I am a Commander of ZAFT, I've gone through every file over the past six months of proto-type units, both their strengths and flaws, one thing I've noticed about you beam shield users, the shields can have an overload of power, momentarily disabling them,"

The Shinn clone would of argued the point farther but he could something sizzling. When the clone looked at the control board of his Legend the board was sparking and buttons and signals were going off.

"Damn you!"

"Go to HELL!" Yzak roared as the Tempest beam sword pushed through the shield and right onto the other side.

He might have enjoyed the victory more but there were bigger things to take care of. Like making sure Shiho was all right. So much to clean up so little to time.

TBC…

Well that's the latest chapter. Sorry for the shortness of the fights but I'm pushing through to the end. There is about one chapter plus the epilogue left by my guess.

Later Days…