Chapter 36 Battle in the Straights
"The Earth Forces are heading out of Suez, we believe they are heading toward us." said Gladys as she, Heero, Athrun, Heine and Arthur stood around the briefing table. "We are heading to the Dardanelles to stop them from getting into the Black Sea."
"I see." said Heine "What sort of forces do they have?"
"That doesn't matter, they have the ship with our stolen machines on it." said Gladys
"I think you are forgetting something Captain, about the makeup of the Earth Forces." Said Heero as Gladys lowered he head before looking at Athrun.
"Yes, Athrun it seems, that a part of the forces are from the Orb military." said Gladys as Athrun's eyes widened.
"Orb?"
"Yes, I know you have feelings for the county, but at this moment they are our enemy and we will stop them." said Gladys as Athrun lowered his head.
"I see." said Athrun
"All we have to do is break that ship and their entire line will fall." said Yuna as he stood on the flagship carrier of the Orb expediency force, the Takemikazuchi.
"I see." said Neo "Then we will let the Orb military take on the Minerva. Lead them either to the left or right and we will join the battle."
"Perfect." said Yuna "We will begin at 9 tomorrow."
The next day the Minerva sat in the straight waiting, "Captain enemy mobile suits and warships detected." Said Meyrin as Gladys looked out of window of the Minerva's bridge.
"Very well, lower the bridge, have Shinn, Athrun and Heero launch, have the rest be ready." Ordered Gladys as the bridge started down into the ship.
"I hope I do ok." said Luna as she sat in her ZAKU waiting for the order to launch.
"You will be fine." said Heero as he appeared on her screen. "Just remember, the Orb Murasame is slower in its right turns then it's left. Take it into consideration when you fire your weapon." With that he disappeared from the screen.
"Thanks but you could have stayed longer." said Lunamaria as Zero, Saviour and the Impulse left. Suddenly the front Aegis ship fired their missiles at the three mobile suits. All three of them just rolled out of the way. Shinn and Athrun fired their weapons back hitting the missiles before they could hit their ship. Heero spun his buster rifle at the attacking ships. When the shot went off it didn't hit the ships instead it hit the water making a huge wave. The wave forced the ships onto the rocks off the coast line.
"What are you doing, destroy them!" yelled Shinn as Heero pulled out his beam saber and charged forward cutting apart the mobile suits but leaving the pilots alive.
"It seems that I am growing weak Zero, I can't bring myself to kill them just yet." said Heero "No matter, they are almost here."
"Aim Tannhauser we will take out some of the escorts." Said Gladys as the main cannon came out of the front of the ship.
"Enemy ship preparing to fire primary weapon." said an Orb office
"Evade." ordered the Captain of the Takemikazuchi, Todaka.
"Fire." ordered Gladys but before the beam shot another beam shot down causing the Tannhauser to blew up in a ball of fire.
"What?" asked almost everyone as a mobile suit came flying down.
"The Freedom?" asked Athrun "Kira?"
"Tannhauser destroyed."
"Put out those fires!" yelled Gladys as the Minerva did a water landing.
"Captain I am detecting another ship." said the radar man "I have a match…Archangel Class?"
The Archangel flew by the Minerva with the Freedom in front. Slowly one of the hangers opened and out came flying a red mobile suit.
"The Strike Rouge? Cagalli?" asked Athrun as the mobile suit came to a stop beside the Freedom, the crest of Orb placed over its right shoulder.
"I am the Chief Representative of the Orb Union Cagalli Yula Athha." said Cagalli's voice over all the air waves causing the entire battle to stop and causing everyone's eyes to widen. "Attention Orb forces stop fighting at once. I, Cagalli Yula Athha, still hold the potion as the Chief Representative of the Orb Union, and I order you to follow the ideas of our nation and return to our homeland."
On the Earth Alliance carrier Neo lifted the phone and opened a line to the Orb Flagship. "Yuna Rome Seiran, explain this now."
"Well it's…" said Yuna as he picked up his line.
"Is the person the leader of your nation and if so then why did she show up now and order you forces back? If I don't get an answer in 10 seconds things will get sticky for you and your nation." said Neo
"Umm…what I am trying to say is that…." Said Yuna before yelling "She is insane I don't know who that is."
"But Sir that is Lady Cagalli." said Captain Todaka "It's the Strike Rouge, her crest and her voice."
"It's a fake!" yelled Yuna "I know Cagalli and she isn't crazy she would never to do something this crazy, I am her husband and if it was the real Cagalli then she has been brainwashed."
"But Sir?" asked Todaka
"The real Cagalli is normal and wouldn't do something this crazy and make a fool out of me." said Yuna "Now prepare to attack, shoot down that ship and mobile suit."
"How can you give that order?"
"If we don't attack the Earth Forces will attack us and our homeland. Now fire!" yelled Yuna as Todaka lowered his head.
"Very well sir, all ships prepare to fire at…the unknown mobile suit." Said Todaka as his second in command's eyes widened.
"Sir?" said Lieutenant Amagi
"We have to follow orders." Said Todaka before adding to himself. "I'm counting on you Freedom." Suddenly a wave of missiles shot out of the Ob fleet heading toward Cagalli. Kira reacted and moved in front as his multiple beam weapons began firing.
"Ob fleet what are you doing?" yelled Cagalli "I ordered you to stop!"
"All forces that woman is not lady Cagalli." said a voice over the Ob battle channel "You are to sink the Minerva and the Archangel. The Earth Forces are launching as well."
"Arthur launch all mobile suits!" ordered Gladys as the Windoms and the stolen machines came into view.
"Looks like it didn't work." said Dearka as he sat in the Buster in an Orb flight uniform
"Ya. You will have to go out." said Miriallia as the Buster was lowered into the catapult.
"Don't worry, I'll be safe." said Dearka with a grin. "Dearka Elsman, Buster, taking off." With that the new Buster launched out of the Archangel followed by a Guul flyer allowing the Buster to fly.
"New mobile launch form the Archangel, no match." Said Meyrin
"Don't worry about that now!" said Gladys as the ship shook form another attack.
Meanwhile Athrun fought with the Chaos when he noticed the machine flying near the Archangel "The Buster?"
"Ok, let's try this out." said Dearka as he held the mobile suits arms out only to have two weapons come shooting out from behind its back. On the one side was cannon not unlike the original one but the other was two chain guns with a shield over it. (Like Heavy Arms.) Suddenly all over its body missile launchers appeared and a globe unlike Kira's in the Freedom appeared as the compute picked the targets. He pulled the trigger and over fifty missiles shot out, hitting multiple targets but not destroying any of the Orb mobile suits.
"Glade to see that the targeting system is working." said Heero as he cut a windom in half with his sword.
"Orb forces don't you hear me!" yelled Cagalli "STOP FIGHTING!"
"Sorry Cagalli but they are not listening, please return to the Archangel I'll do what I can to stop them." Said Kira meanwhile Athrun was doing everything he could to reach Kira while he fought with the Windoms.
"Damn it, why can't I reach them?" asked Athrun
"I am not letting you get near this ship." Yelled Luna as she fired her ZAKU's cannon at a M-1. Suddenly an alarm went off inside her suit she turned only to see a wave of missiles coming right for her. She turned her cannon and fired but nothing happed. "What, out of power!"
"LUNA!" yelled Shinn as he saw the oncoming missiles and tried to shut them down but missed. Suddenly Wing Zero came flying down taking the blows on his shield.
"Heero?" asked Luna as Wing Zero stood up from behind his shield.
"Next time you may not be so lucky." said Heero "Are you out of energy?"
"Yes." said Luna "My rifle is out of energy."
"I see, drop your weapon pack." said Heero as Luna dropped the pack from her ZAKU and to her surprise Heero gave her his buster rifle. "Don't shoot above about ¼ its max or it will tear your suit to pieces."
"Right." said Luna as her ZAKU took the buster rifle and held it in two hands.
"Also don't shot the Archangel or the Freedom." Said Heero as he pulled out his sword and charged forward. Meanwhile Heine in his GOUF was dealing with the Gaia. The orange mobile suit flew overhead dodging the fire from the Gaia.
"Take this!" yelled Heine as his whip came flying down giving the Gaia an electrical shock.
"Dang ZAKU!" yelled Stella as the Gaia transformed into its human mode. The moment it did the Gaia's gun got whipped causing it to explode.
"This is no ZAKU…no ZAKU!" yelled Heine as he pulled out his sword just like the Gaia.
"Three enemy mobile suits off the Minerva's port."
"Can you fire in-between them?" asked Ramius
"Yes."
"Alright Gottfried two fire!" ordered Ramius as the Archangel's Gottfried fired making the mobile suits brake away.
"Captain that ship helped us." Said Arthur
"They start out by destroying our cannon and now this…could they be here just to stop this battle." said Gladys.
"Who is this guy?" asked Shinn as he fired at the Freedom but Kira just rolled in and cut off the Impulse's arm. At the same time Dearka fired his Busters arm cannon straight into the water destroying the Abyss's leg engines.
"Got ya." said Dearka as he turned his other arm gun at a group of Windoms tearing them to pieces with his duel beam chain guns.
"Who is this guy?" asked Stella as the Freedom flew forward beam saber in hand. The Gaia lunged at the Freedom but only got its front legs cut off.
"Attacking all of us? What makes you so special?" asked Heine as he fired his GOUF's wrist guns but the Freedom just dodged before cutting off its arms. It came to a stop for a moment and the Gaia took its chances, it activated its back beam blades and flew forward again. However just as it did Heine in his GOUF flew forward also in an attempt to bring down the Freedom.
"Get out of my way!" yelled Stella as she cut Heine in two. The GOUF went up in a huge explosion. Kira spun around and kicked the Gaia back into the water. As he did the retreat single was given from the Earth Forces. When that happened Kira flew away leading the Archangel with Dearka in the rear his Buster ready for any attacks from behind.
"Heine." said Athrun as he looked down at the remains of the mobile suit. "Kira?"
Well I hope you liked this chapter, at the moment I am writing the very last chapters in the story and preparing for my first final on Wednesday afternoon. Therefore my plan is to update tomorrow and Wednesday morning and then I will not be updating till the Saturday at the soonest. Thank you everyone and please read and review.