Chapter 26: N4A2 (Nosforatu)

Two weeks has passed since Samorei awakened from his months sleep. He walked down the halls, still with his right arm was still in its cast, however his leg was completely healed, allowing him to walk the halls. He had heard news, that the Archangel was coming to Orb once again, and has received heavy damage. However, before it arrived, Mina had insisted that he'd go to Morgenrete before the ship arrived, in which he was doing. He left the manor, for the first time, in weeks in which he was not use to the natural light, causing him to cover his eyes, until they got used to such light once again.

Ahead of him, his clone Savir, and Mina were waiting by the Limo for Samorei, which he came to them. Mina nodded at Savir, as the clone did so back, and with that, all three of them, climbed into the back seats of the strecthed car. "So what is this about?" Sam asked, to break the long silence since the ride began.

"As Azure would say, your queen, has a gift for you." Savir told him, which had Sam look at Mina with a surprised look.

"What sort of surprise?" He asked, with an all of sudden curiosity, as he looked at lady Sahaku.

She just smirked, as she shrugged. "Just some things of the AMATU." she told him, which got him curious, as he never heard of the AMATU. This had him pondering, all the way, until the pulled up to the mobile suit factory.

Meanwhile, heading towards ORB waters, was a heavily battered Archangel, with a bit of an odd company. About five Proteus Mobile Armors were swimming underneath the mighty ship. They were that of the last of the Earth Forces, that were left at JOSH-A to die. Most of the ships crew, were still shakened from the event, and more with the curiosity of the ZAFT mobile suit in their hangar, the ZGMF-X10A Freedom. Which they were not allowed to touch, ordered by both their captain, and the mobile weapons pilot. Of which, was standing on the bridge, along with the ships other pilot, and the bridge crew. Which they began to see Orb once again. "I never thought we'd be coming back her, so soon." Natarle commented, as Murrue nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, so much has happened, since we were last here." she commented.

"More than any of us can comprehend." Kira told them, looking over to Mir, who he felt responsible for what happened to Tolle that day, he kept on thinking that, until Kuzzey got something on his communications head set.

"Captain, Orb forces are giving us the all clear sign to enter their shores." he informed his captain.

Sai then got something weird on his sensors. "Captain, incoming Moible Suit." He called.

"What is it? Is it ZAFT?" she asked.

"No commander. . . I don't believe it, its the Jade Frame!" he called.

As outside, indeed, a machine resembling the Jade Frame was approaching. Its general Design was the same, as the original, where it once was white, is now black in color. Its head changed from the original version, was more sleek, and resembled the AMATU's own head with two g weapon type eyes, along with a mono eye above the original two. Its Beam sabers were removed from its forearms, while on the right hand, seemed almost like a pincer upon the right forearm. Within its shoulders, it had handles of a pair of beam sabers, which also look like they could connect with each other. On the back of the machine, were a pair of black longspears, connected to the flight pack, of the old Raikou pack. Upon the right shoulder of the Machine, was an Orb Emblem, overlayed with the Sahaku Family Crest of a pair of golden hawk wings, and golden Talons to match. Inside, Rondo Mina Sahaku smiled, as she flew the machine, with Samorei, in an actual second seat, like Mina usually was, in a make shift one, in the Jade Frame. "Archangel, this is Rondo Mina Sahaku, flying the MBF-P04 N4A2 Jade Frame." she radioed.

That was when the image of the Archangel crew appeared on her screen. Which was a new version of the old, as the inside of the Machine was completely new of Orb technology. "Lady Mina, it is good to see you." Murrue said, as then all of a sudden, she got a surprised Look, as she saw who was behind the Orb Nobleman. "Sa. . . Sa. . ."

"Hello Captain, its good to see you are alive." Samorei replied, as on the ship, everyone began to whisper things, wondering if this was the real, or another Clone. "Don't worry all of you, I'm the real deal." he confirmed to them.

Mina nodded. "Were coming in for a landing." She said, as the upgraded version of the Jade Frame, began to head for the hangar of the ship.

The newly formed machine, landed in the hangar of the Archangel, it powered down, into its slate gray form, that it used to take within the hangar. Both Mina, and Sam first took notice of what was in the hangar. Now where the Strike Once was, now stood a fully repaired Buster.

"The Buster?" Sam asked, as he lowered on the zip line, as Mina went down ahead of him. Sam was in his Morgenrete uniform, while Mina, was in her black, and golden flight suit. Then he looked over on the otherside, and saw a very majestic like Machine, the Freedom. "What in the?" he asked.

"Its the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam." Kira said, as he walked in catching a very surprised look from Sam.

"Kira, you're. . ." Sam began, as he witnessed the Aegis' destruction.

"Alive?" Mina asked, as she heard about the Strikes Demise before it was transfered. "But. . . But how?" she asked.

"That lady Sahaku, is a tale for another time." Kira told her. "However, I would like to have your cooperation, that maintenance will be up to me, on the Freedom." Kira told them.

"Wha. . . Why?" Sam asked him. "It looks like a Technological playground." he explained.

Kira smirked. "Alright, here is the deal then. I'll let you take a look at its technology, your just not allowed to take the data, of its primary system, the Neutron Jammer Canceler."

"What? Zaft has finally made the tech to counter act their own N-Jammers?" Sam asked astonished, as Kira nodded, confirming Sam's thoughts, as soon, as Kira mentioned the NJC. That he now knew the Freedom, was of something he hated, a Nuclear Weapon. With this, Sam turned to Mina and nodded, and with that, she left, while Kira and Sam stayed where they were. "Kira, if you don't mind, I would like to take down every piece of technological piece of this mobile suit." Sam told him. "However, I swear to you, I will not touch the canceler." Sam told him.

Kira nodded, accepting this. He cared for Orb, it was his homeland, and as Sam showed the same thing, the technology the Freedom had, could very well, create a peaceful future for the Orb Union.

Meanwhile on the Bridge.

Mina Sahaku entered the bridge, to see the battle weary, and battle scarred soldiers of the Archangel. "I see you are all as cheery as ever." Mina commented to them.

Mu smirked. "Yeah that happens, when you are about to get your insides boiled over." he commented.

Murrue had a bit of a giggle before she turned to one of the Lady's of Orb. "So lady Sahaku, what news have come to give us?" She asked.

Mina nodded. "Well, as you already know, Orb is willing to help this ship out, as now that it seems you wont be rejoining the Earth Alliance." she said, earning a nod, from most of the crew. "Well, then as of this moment then, I declare this ship a part of the Orb Military." she told them with a smirk. "Upon docking, you all can choose to either stay, or return to being a civilian, the choice is yours, and any would be respected." she commented to them, as Sai, Kuzzey, Mir, all looked at each other with smiles on their faces. "However, I strongly urge for all of you to join the military." she continued.

Murrue nodded, as she understood why. "I see, you want us to join, mainly because of our experience with this ship correct?" she asked the woman, who just nodded in agreement. "Alright, but I believe that this should wait, until we are on the mainland before anything big is decided." she told her.

Natarle came up, with a calm look on her face. She agreed with this, as she came over to Mina. "Lady Sahaku, I will be glad to join the Orb Military, right at this moment." she told her, holding out a hand.

"I see, and then welcome to the Orb Military Natarle Badgiruel. We will start the papers, once we reach the mainland." Mina told her. "Would anyone else, like to say they join right now?" she asked.

Mu just smirked. "I wonder, how well the Earth Forces, will act, when they just lost the Hawk. I'm in." he told her, as Mina just smirked. After a few moments, everyone else signed up, right on the spot. While the students from Heliopolis, are still a bit, iffy on such an invitation.

In the Hangar, Sam was in the cockpit of the Freedom, with Kira, as Kira helped Sam out, from extracting information on the machine. Besides that he was making sure Sam did not take the Neutron Jammer Canceler data. "This is quite the equipment." Sam said, turning on the Freedom's main computer systems. "I can't wait to start intigrating some of the equimpent into the Vampire." he told him.

"Vampire, is that what you call your machine that now, why?" Kira asked him.

"Its New Model Number, the MBF-P04 N4A2, which is a way of saying, Nosforatu, a Vampire from a very old movie." Sam Explained. Its actual name is Jade Frame V, but I just call it Vampire." he continued, as he began his data extraction.

"I see." Kira said, as he still had the flash in his mind, of the Jade Frame being impaled by the Strikes Shield. "Sam, I have a question." Kira began, as it got Sams attention. "During that last battle, was Tolle able to eject in time?" he asked.

Sam nodded. "Yeah, after I was awoke, Mina explained everything, even the fact, that Tolle survived the Ordeal." Sam told him, as Kira was surprised, and happy, that Tolle was alive, now he knew all his friends were still alive.

"We should be arriving at Orb soon, you can get ready for Departure Kira, I promise I wont take the NJC data." Sam informed him, as Kira nodded, taking the Zipline, down to the floor. With that, everyone on the bridge watched, as the nation they visited just a month ago got larger upon their monitors.

A few hours later, ORB, Onogoro Island Secret Harbor

Cagalli observed, the mobile assault ship carrier known as the Archangel, pulled into the harbor. Among the people that wached, were her father, the Yamatos, Seirans, Ghina Sahaku, who seemed to have an annoyed yet serious look upon his face. While two more occupants were among them, Erica Simmons, and the mystery woman from the meeting that the Yamato's and Uzumi had. Cagalli, could not hide her excitement, from the news she gotten a while ago, that one that was one thought dead, is actually alive. She moved past Ghina, as she went towards the ships main hatch.

She raced through the hatch as it opened and paused before an elevator door. As it opened, she stepped aside to let the ship's doctor and another crewman pass with a stretcher; she winced as she saw the man's injuries, for among other things, he seemed to have lost an eye. That made her nervous, for the Archangel's message traffic had not included casualty lists.

The princess was soon walking the corridors of a higher deck, glancing down each side corridor... until she saw the face she was looking for, heading in the opposite direction down a parallel passage. "Kira!"

Kira turned. "Cagalli-! Oof!" Cagalli jumped at him, knocking him off his feet and slamming him painfully to the deck.

She didn't let him up, instead pounding her fist on his chest. "You idiot!How could you do something so stupid? You're just-!" Tears filled her eyes, streaming down her face. "You're so-" Cagalli hung her head, crying. "I thought... I'd never see you again... How could you do that to me?"

Kira let his head sink to the deck. "Sorry," he said quietly.

She finally looked up. "So you're... really alive?" she whispered.

He smiled. "Yeah. I'm alive. And I did come back." he reassuring her, as not far from them, was the sound of a females laugh.

"Cagalli, do you really, have to do that here, right where everyone can see you?" the high classed voice asked, as Cagalli looked up, to see Rondo Mina Sahaku leaning against the wall not far from them. With that, she got off Kira, and stood up.

"Just, how long have you been there?" Cagalli asked her fellow nobleman. With only a reply of a smirk from her rival.

"Just long enough Athha." Mina replied, as she got a glare from Cagalli.

"Its not what you think." Cagalli informed her. "I just got over excited." she continued.

"Right, if you feel like calling it that, by all means do so." Mina replied, as Kira rubbed the back of his head, do to the collision with the ground, from Cagalli's tackle. "Just next time Cagalli, if you want to do that, don't get overexcited where others can see you." And with that, Mina left, leaving a flareing Cagalli behind her, as well as a confused Kira.

"Just what was that about?" Kira wondered, as he watched Mina leave, as well as turning to Cagalli.

"Nothing, its just well, ever since we were younger, she always picked on me, do to being younger, its just something we usually did back then. However, she doesn't do so much anymore, since Sam came to Orb."

Archangel Bridge: After Mina left, Uzumi, and Kisaka arrived. "I want to thank you for coming to our aid once again," Ramius said, bowing slightly to the former Chief Representative.

"You're quite welcome," Athha said graciously. "I'm sure you understand why we can't make you and your crew too welcome as yet," he went on, "but at least you'll finally have a chance to get some rest before we discuss whoever is wishing to join the Orb Military." he added in.

"Thank you for understanding." She, too, understood; it could be awkward for Orb to be harboring deserters from the Earth Forces, particularly after all the trouble HQ had gone to to insure there would be none to tell the truth of what had happened. Hence his reason for having Mina ask for them to join Orb.

After you've all had a chance to relax, I'll bring you up-to-date on the latest intelligence we've gathered." Athha had an odd expression on his face. "With the Earth Forces Headquarters gone, the world has once again shifted in a new direction; and the news we've heard will give you much to think about. It may even make you question why you decided to put on that uniform in the first place."

Ramius tilted her head. What?

Mobile Suit Hangar:

Samorei, just finished getting the blueprints of the Freedom, without the data on its power source. However, down below, Kira was showing Cagalli the Freedom, as she showed him, the new version of the Jade Frame. However Cagalli, felt like brining up a different topic. "I've seen Athrun, again." she told him, earning a surprise look.

"I see, what was it about?" he asked, as Samorei up above, listened in.

That Night: Marshall Islands

Within a bed, a woman, with long dark brown hair, layed out on the bed, sheets tossed around, as she wore a white nightgown. She continued to toss and turn, as a nightmare was going through her head.

Explosions could be seen all round, as warriors explode along side them, with people screaming all around the area. An Angel was fighting three demons in the air, and the Demons, were winning. The Angel was losing a sword, versus scythe battle, being knocked away. With that all three of the Demons began to had energy glow infront of them. One in mid air, another from its chest, and the last one from within its mouth. The attacks all hit the angel dead on, with nothing left of it. As the angel was destroyed, the demons continued its destruction on the innocent people in the area.

Within the room, her eyes shot wide open, to reveal a pair of hazel eyes, as she shot up to be sitting in bed. Sweat dripping of her elegent cheek, as her breathing was harsh. "No, the angel it can't happen like that, not yet." she told herself as then the door opened, reveal a lot of kids, and Reverend Malchio.

"Momma, whats wrong?" The children called, as they came over to her. She patted two of the childrens heads, but then she looked at Malchio.

"Another of them?" he asked, as she nodded in agreement.

"Yes Reverend." she told him.

"I see, children, please, let Rosa rest, it was only a bad dream." he told them, leading each one of them out. "Or at least, lets hope, the ones Destiny, she dreamed of, doesn't end in such a way." he whispered, as Rosa sat in the bed, thinking, of the angel being blasted into atoms by the attacks.

"This fate, should not come true, no it can't, otherwise, the children, will be in danger of their future world." She told herself, as a familiar feeling was felt within her, it was faint, but it was there. "So? Is he coming?" she asked herself.

Orb, briefing room

The Archangel's head officers, all now wearing their old ranks corresponding, and each of them, were now wondering exactly of what they are going to hear. Even though they are now officially in the Orb Army. The rest of the crew, have been kept in the shadows. Uzumi came into the room, to see the officers now in Orb uniform. "I see, you are all looking comfortable in your new uniforms." he told them. "I feel a large portion of Sorrow, for what has become of your comrades at Joshua." he told them.

Murrue nodded. "We all feel a heavy blanket of sorrow, for the friends, and comrades we have lost." Murrue complied, as Samorei came in.

"And it is all the faults of the Earth Forces, Atlantic Federation." he told them.

Mu, Murrue, and Natarle all looked a bit hurt by that. Everything, the three once believed in, was burned away, along with the activation of that cyclops system. Including their loyalty. "Now, the main questions are, are your ready to fight them if need be?" he asked.

"Yeah, those damn bastards wont get away with this again." Mu told them, as he has witnessed such a thing twice.

"Oh Mu." Murrue said, as she put a hand near her face.

"However, this was a huge strategic advantage of the Earth Forces now. Over eighty percent of the ZAFT forces here on Earth." Uzumi contemplated. "However, these events are getting worst, Natural aggression towards the coordinators, are getting largely higher in intensity." he continued to explain. "Along with all of this, even now, all neutral nations on the Planet is being pressured to join the Earth Alliance." he said looking down. "With Orb as no exception." he added in, in a gruffer voice that his voice is already as. "Its something we wont do. You see, you are all Naturals, however there are a few that are coordinators in this room, and we accept them all on our soil." he continued. "Even my own daughter, Cagalli is one." he told them, as everyone were shocked with surprise of the information.

"Its true." Cagalli commented. With this, she got a surprise look even from Uzumi. "Dad don't give me that look." she said with a stern look in her eyes. "I know because it is the only explanation on WHY, I have yet to get sick with anything serious." she told him.

"Interesting, even the Sahaku's would be very impressed you figured such a thing out Cagalli." Samorei told her. "However, this does not help us. If the Earth Forces don't get Orb to Join them, they will attack us."

"Indeed, your are right Samorei." Uzumi told him. He then turned to Murrue. "You are all still young, you still have your own destinies threads to strung on the tapestries of fate." he told them. "It is still your choice of what to do with your life." he told them.

"And what do you plan to do?" Kira asked the Chief.

"I will say this, the swords Orb have, will no longer be used as decorations." he answered.

Panama, ZAFT Submarine fleet

Several ZAFT Vusgolov classed subs were just off the coastline of Panama, and the Panama Canal. Yzak Joule, sat within the cockpit of the Duel Gundam, "Come one, When are we attacking!" Yzak yelled, as everyone were getting, to get revenge for the trap they were lured to. 'Now is my true chance, to get revenge for what they have done to my brother.' He thought to himself.

"All, pilots to their machines, the attack on Panama is about to begin!" The Pa system called, as other members of the ship, got to their GOOhNs, while others to DINN's and GINN's. The only G-Weapon left for them, was the Duel Gundam, Yzak was currently within. Yzak's machine began to move, as it was placed on the catapult, with an accompaning Guul. "Yzak Joule, you are clear for launch." the radio officer told him.

"Its about time." Yzak called out. "Duel, taking off." Yzak radioed, as the sub he was aboard, raised to the surface. With this, the Duel was shot straight up from the catapult, as it came to a landing on the Guul. GINN were doing the same, while on other ships, GOOhNs, ZnO's were fired like Torpedos, while DINN's launched in the vertical launchers into the air, as they took flight, towards their objective.

Panama Base

"What is it?" a soldier asked.

"Incoming Enemy Mobile suits!" another answered.

"Launch the defence squardrons, Counter with the Proteus Mobile Armors!" another called out.

As outside, hidden bases below, began to deploy the dinosaur like mobile armors as they roared and got ready for combat. While other soldiers, mounted their tanks, and their trucks equipped with Rocket Launchers. All the while, as they got ready to defend the place. As some of their troops, began to arrive for support with a new weapon.

Meanwhile, the battle had begun, as rockets explode within the air, some hitting their targets, while others being blown out of the sky. Yzak, on the other hand, was making a beline right towards the bases, with his Guul. Two DINN's formed on his wings, as the three Machines, opened fire, as Several GINNs joined in. Several Missile trucks, being blown away, by live ammo fire, from the GINNs machine guns, and shot guns of the DINNs, while CGUE's and the Duel fired their beam rifles.

"This is going to be ea. . ." one soldier began, but before he finished his sentence, his mobile suit, was blown out of existence by a stream of Plasma. Down below, many Proteus Mobile Armors, cover fired comrades of theirs that were heading to the ocean, to stop the enemy ships that were under the sea.

"Don't let them in the ocean!" Yzak yelled, as he altered course, and went for the beaches, where the Proteus Mobile armors were. Within moments, he was fired upon. However being a red Jacket, Yzak was no easy target, as the Duel moved in movements other pilots could hardly do. Upon going stationary once again, upon the Duels left shoulder, the missile pods bursted open, and with that, five missiles were fired, each one hitting the cockpit of the Mobile Armors, obliderating the occupants. However during this laps of stationary combat, a mobile armor fired its Plasma Cannon. Yzak saw this, and moved him self into position, and had the Guul take full forces of the attack. The Guul exploded in a cloud of smoke.

"Did I get him?" the pilot asked himself, and then he got his answer, a high velocity grenade was shot through the main torso of his mobile armor, cutting it in half. However, even though the machine was disabled, the pilot was done for, with the grenade that was in the ground, exploded, taking the cockpit, and pilot with it.

"Raynar . . .!!" another pilot yelled, only being silenced by a CGUE's heavy assault blade.

"Commander Joule, take Squadron Alpha into the enemy territory, we'll stop any more from going into the ocean." The CGUE pilot told Yzak, as he nodded, and with that ,the Duel went on the attack, heading into Panama, cutting down any enemy mobile armor in his way, along with firing his railgun, and beam rifle at the tanks, and missile trucks.

The Duel came out of the forest after it through a beam saber into the side of the head of a Mobile armor, and then retrieveing the handle before the machine detonated. "These armors are getting old." Yzak said, as he fired a emerald beam of death at an outpost obliderating it, and the occupants.

Meanwhile in Orb

Kisaka came into the meeting room, where the others were standing. "The Earth Alliance is under attack! ZAFT is attaking Panama now." he told them.

"What!?" Samorei asked. "Are they crazy, even with Mobile suits, the Earth Alliance is still nearly at full force, ZAFT is considerably out numbered." he told them, as then the other saw that Sam had a surprised look in his eyes. "Wait, will they do what they think their going to do?" he asked.

Murrue, and Uzumi looked at him oddly. "What do you mean, what do you think?" Murrue asked.

"If they are attacking the last Mass Driver now, then they are going to use the lance of Odin. The Gungnir" he told them.

Back in Panama, the ZAFT forces were gaining ground in the battle, with the Duel, and their commanders in the lead, with GINNs giving covering fire. As within the base, the head officials were getting worried. "Commander, ZAFT forces have broken the third line, they will be upon us, in moments!" an soldier called.

"Send out the tenth squardron of daggers. Have Jean Carrey lead" the commander told them.

"Yes sir." they called.

With this, on the battlefield, the soldiers continued fight each other, as the Earth Alliance, was about to relase their four of a kind of Aces. The first sign of them, was a beam rifle blast, hitting a GINN square in the head. "What in the world!" a GINN pilot yelled, as he looked at the oncoming enemy. And what he saw, gave him fear in his eyes. What he saw, was a scaled down version, of the Legendary Strike Gundam, that met its fateful end on the Marshall Islands. "What the, the Strike!" he called, as Yzak saw what he spoke of.

"That is not the strike you idiots!" Yzak told them, as he opened fire on the enemy machine. While above, falling object s began to descend on the area. Even though they looked like the Strike, the Daggers were a bit clumsy, obviously for their first experience in combat. "So they are becoming like, live stock to the slaughter house." Yzak told himself, as he aimed a beam rifle towards the enemy daggers. However he noticed something in time, as an emerald beam of death, ripped through the beam rifle, turning it into scrap metal. Yzak looked at the origin of the blast, and he saw it with fear on is face. To what he saw on top of the hill, was a copy of his GAT-X102 Duel. However this copy had looks the same, however its color scheme was not. Compared to the duel, the new opponent had all the blue on his machine, replaced with red. "The same machine?" Yzak asked himself.

Inside the machine, that is branded as the GAT-01D Long Dagger, which was nearly identical to the Duel Gundam, and with its foresta mode, which was a mimic of the Assault shroud as well. Inside the cockpit, wearing a white earth forces unfirom, was a blonde man, with glasses. It was Jean Carrey, a coordinator, or what people call, Glittering Star J. "One of the Earth forces stolen G-Weapon's." he told himself, as he fired another shot with the beam rifle. Yzak saw it coming, and dodged with ease from the attack, and began to run up the hill towards the copy.

"Your machine is nothing but a small comparrison to the original!" Yzak yelled, as Jean saw the machine coming and dodged the Shiva railgun attacks.

"Stop this attack." Jean called out, as he drew a beam saber, and with instinct, Yzak drew his own, as the two Duel machines began to have a duel with their energy sabers. Yellow of saber, clashed with a pinkish red one, with both pillars of flame being the only thing stopping the other one from slashing their machines to pieces. Meanwhile both Strike Daggers, and GINN's were being destroyed, along with CGUEs, however ZAFT with more advantage in experience, while the Daggers, have more firepower. However, the falling stars from the sky rained down, as large machines landing in locations all around Panama. Upon landing, several GINNs began their operations, with GINNs, DINNs, and CGUEs defending them, from both the Proteus Mobile Armors, and the new enemy machines.

However, Yzak and Jean, continued their duel of fire across the land scape. Each one of them, taking out other enemy machines that got to close to their one on one matchup. With this, only the Duel's Phase shift, gave it and advantage, and a weakness all the same. As with the phase shift, it was immune to the Long daggers rail gun and missiles. However do to having Phase Shift, the Long Dagger had a longer lifespan than the Duel does. The Beams clashed once again between the two machines, as they went into a heated struggle of raw strength. Yzak, oddly enough, was gaining more respect for the pilot as the only one that dueled like this with him, was Samorei.

"Your heart is not in this battle is it?" the voice of his opponent called through the radio to Yzak. "I can tell." Jean told himself, as with Yzak's moment of surprise, the beam saber Jean had locked, slid down the beam, and severed half of the hand of the Duel, leaving only a part of the palm of the Duel. "Kneil and I will spare you." Jean told him, as he held a saber ready to fall upon Yzak. Yzak admitted he was distracted.

"Your right, I am not fighitng with my all. But I wont go down here!" Yzak called, as Jean began to bring down his saber to decpatate the machines head, and removed the last weapons of the Duel. However Yzak was not giving up, as he slammed his shied with force onto the Long Dagger, causing it to lose balance. Yzak, then drew his second beam saber, and brought the beam saber down, decapitating the machine, and the arm that held the rifle and or the saber. "I will no go down without avengeing what they did to my brother!" Yzak yelled, as all of a sudden, the Gungnirs exploded, sending out a large wave of Electromagnetic energy covering a several mile radious, which in reality blanketed Panama completely. The Energy did more then one would of thought. The massive energy force deactivated all Earth Alliance Mobile suits, Mobile Armors, and conventional weaponry, along with whiping out the stronghold near by, and last but not least, ZAFTs main target, the Mass Drive, which quite literally tore itself apart.

"What? My machine! Its not working!" Jean called out, as he tried to get his machine back up. With that, he realized what that massive energy was, and his mobile suit was effected. "Damn, that was an electromagnetic pulse." he told himself.

He looked up, as the Duel had discarded its shield to only now hold its saber coming towards the Long Dagger. Yzak inside the Duel, was getting radio chatter, from other pilots. As Earth Alliance Soldiers were surrendering, as their machines were no longer active. "This is for what you did to my friends in Alaska!". "How is your pure and blue world now?" Many words were exchanged for what had happened to their friends, family, and comrades who died in Alaska.

Jean looked at the duel within his machine. "Well what are you waiting for Duel pilot? Aren't you going to kill me?" Jean asked Yzak.

"No, there is nothing right, about killing people who cannot fight back. If I do, I am no better then the damn bastards that did those things to my brother." Yzak told himself, as he had the Duel sheath the beam saber. "Go, before one of the others find you." Yzak told him, as the Duel picked up the beam rifle, the Long Dagger had, and placing it, in its docking area, on the mobile suit. As it was in place, the Duel picked up its anti beam shield, and began to head back towards the ZAFT submarine fleet. "What is the point, in killing those who cannot fight back?" he asked no one in particular, but who he really though of when he said it, was the pilot of the Jade Frame.

Which as he thought of it, to Yzak. In Orb, Samorei Joule looked upon the upgraded Jade Frame. "Vampire, or as your number says of you, Nosforatu."

A/N: I am sorry for taking so long to update, but I have had work, and writers block for the last while, along with getting Xenosaga Ep III and beating it, and now of getting Final Fantasy XII. And even starting another fic, for Yugioh GX. Things have become hectic. Well, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.