Phase 47: The Light of the Seed


"Damn you!" Shinn yelled as he fought off the twin machine and Athrun cursed as well. These machines were not particularly run by skilled pilots but their determination and the power that was harnessed within them was becoming overwhelming. Athrun and Shinn pulled out more tricks wondering how it was that Kiran and the ORB machines had fought them off earlier, they must have been held back for this battle. The two aces dodged and fired back but nothing seemed to be penetrating their machines and neither Athrun nor Shinn could afford to charge a more powerful blast without loosing some part of their own mobile suits.

"No you can't!" Luna's voice was heard as the Impulse slammed it's machine into the one fighting Shinn throwing that machine off balance and giving him the chance to fire a more powerful blast to the one fighting Athrun which knocked the other's weapon and melted part of it's arm.

"No fair!" the girls voice came as Ura came back to fight Luna but the team of Luna and Shinn met her with powerful amounts of strength. Athrun was being backed up by ORB machines against the weakened Un and they were beginning to make she ground. He hoped they could get out of this soon as he noticed Yaro and the Archangel moving for Liene's STING 2.


"Par les cendres distancées et la mort dans son sillage, comme les flammes se fanent elle montera de nouveau," Ceveris said as he looked in the distance to see the Phoenix fighting. Ceveris had done so many things in his life and from one organization he had heard the prophecy of the Phoenix, to live to see it amazed him but he felt a beckoning, something had changed and he knew that those who had told him that phrase had seen it as well and they would not be far behind.

"Ceveris!" he heard Meyrin's voice as his machine deflected another robotics shot.

"Yes Mey," he responded firing back and destroying the machine that he was fighting. He turned to see Kiran flying toward the Minerva at a high speed as the ZAFT weapon fired again this time taking a Clyne faction ship away along with a few ROW forces. He shook his head at the madness he was seeing from Jayley Lired and something clicked in his mind.

"We need to figure out how to stop that thing before it destroys more of us than of ROW!" Meyrin said frantically but Ceveris was barely hearing her as another message appeared on his screen. Jayley has gone out of bounds but let her off, was all it said. He didn't understand as the secret he was hiding he knew would be revealed today. The most important thing to him through it all was that Meyrin be protected from all this; there were to many things the world didn't understand but when it came down to it he knew that he lost her once and would never risk loosing her again. He looked back toward the Minerva and destroyed a few more robotics, disarmed a ZAFT unit and turned to see Kiran flying toward him.

"Have you been listening to anything," Kiran said catching Ceveris's attention, "I found a schematic of the cannon from ZAFT, Meyrin wants us inside to discuss how to take it out! The ORB forces have given the Minerva this task!" He was surprised that Kiran would have the schematic but he trusted that Kiran was right so he followed the courage back into the Minerva.


"The Minerva is pulling back," Waltfeld said to Lacus as the Eternal fired a large beam toward an oncoming ROW ship.

"That's fine," Lacus responded, "They are going to regroup for a moment. Our focus is getting through these lines. Inform the Archangel that Yaro wants their help on a full battle assault on the enemy ship!" At that moment a large blast rocked the Eternal throwing it off course as the Black Gundam fired at them the flew quickly in their direction.

"We have a problem," Waltfeld declared locating the source of the blast and the machine that had caused it. That was the machine that had gone after Yaro in the battle for ORB and it seemed to be slightly upgraded since their last encounter.

"Load missile tubes, aim side cannons," Lacus declared searching the battlefield for a better out but that machine was targeting them, "hurry!" It was then that machine vanished causing them all to wonder.

"Mirrage!" a crew member declared as another blast rocked the Eternal and the machine reappeared closer to the bridge.

"FIRE!" Lacus yelled.


Lunamaria moved her machine quickly dodging another attack from one of the twin mobile suits. Shinn fired on it yelling out angry statements as he sought to disarm it. Luna turned to help Athrun again as a few of the ORB units went down. She breathed hard trying to keep up with both units and help out where she could. She spun about and was knocked off by a blast from one of the machines.

"LUNA!" she heard Shinn yell. Where he was his seed exploded in his mind causing a more intense focus and power. He moved around the mobile suit catching it's fire power with his shield and slicing off one of it's legs. Luna was right behind him picking up that the machine was thrown off and that it seemed to dislike close distance combat. She pulled both her beam sabers and was met by the other machine with one. She sliced at it causing more damage as Shinn shot it from farther back. The Machine seemed angry and fired causing the side of the Impulse to be damaged. Luna gritted her teeth as the heat in her cockpit increased.

"Pull back!" Athrun yelled as he saw what was happening.

"No!" Luna responded catching the machines weak point and jamming her beam saber through its armor and moving back just as the machine exploded. Her breathing increased but one of them was down.

"You're going to pay for that!" Ura declared angrily moving toward Luna, but Athrun was there fighting it off.

"You're hurt!" Shinn declared. He was angry at what that machine had done but he was also angry that Luna had taken such a risk. He knew now he would have to continue to protect her from close calls such as this.

"Get her back to the Eternal!" Athrun yelled to Shinn as he fought this machine. He could take this one. Shinn nodded and grabbed the Impulsed and moved back to base quickly. Luna breathed quickly as she felt a dizziness filling her, she should not have even come out here today but she had won a small victory which meant they were one step closer. For that she was thankful and for that she was satisfied.


"FIRE!" Lacus yelled once again as the Black Gundam continued to move, dodging their attempts. Tears filled Lacus's eyes at the hatred she was seeing coming forth from that machine and how it seemed to be on a rampage to kill them at all costs. Everyone on the bridge near froze trying to find a way out, loading weapons and firing what they could but it kept disappearing and firing on them.

"No!" Lacus heard Kayla's voice as the little girl entered the bridge, her eyes filled with seed mode and she stared out the window. Gera felt a strange power in her mind and faltered for a second trying to keep her eyes on the Eternal. It had to go down today. It was then that out of nowhere Kira arrived. The Ultra Freedom shined brightly as he knocked Gera off her course toward the Enteral and Lacus felt shock and excitement at Kira's arrival. She should have known he was coming. She turned to see Kayla's eyes fade as a smile crept to the small girls face. Kayla must have seen something to make her know that Gera was there and that Kira was coming.

"You really thought I would let something happen to you?" Kira's face appeared on her screen, "never!"


"Yaro, we're backing you up, move in!" Yaro smiled as Murre Ramius appeared on his screen and the mobile suits of the archangel appeared. He nodded and looked toward the STING 2. The four barrels seemed to all be weak in and of themselves and he theorized they just needed to destroy those parts to make it dysfunctional for this battle. It wouldn't be like last time, there would be no time to repair it for sure and Liene would end today so all they needed was to stall.

"Alright," Yaro said to Murrue, "I'm going in on the first barrel, cover me! I'm going to transform into cannon mode, I need heavy cover if this is going to work!" Murrue nodded, she understood what exactly he was planning.

"Mu, Jacob," she said to her pilots and coincidentally her family, "move in around Yaro! We'll take out what we can, keep him protected. We're moving in as a unit! Let's go people!" The unit moved together, destroying enemy units and moving out of the STING 2's firing range to where they could inflict some damage. It was then that the machine fired again from two of the barells and one of the shots went beyond toward the PLANTs when it was intercepted by a ZAFT ship that sacrificed it's life to defend it's home.

"That was close," Yaro said angrily, "this thing needs to go down now!"


Meiko moved now faster, letting her memories of her training guide her as the puzzle was unlocked and she saw clearly that Liene knew what was happening around him and that he knew that she alone would figure out how to find him. She smiled as she saw the Drudgen and knew that's where Liene was. The arrangement of ships on the field was exactly like a training matrix she had practiced on as a child and the command ship in that matrix was found where the Drudgen was located now, far away in the back and well hidden. She dodged a lot of blasts from ships around her, but they were wary of hitting each other.

"You want to go further?" She heard a voice she recognized from her days in training and saw on her screen two pilots whom she had once trained by. Saru Nism and Mishe Leer moved toward the Phoenix, both determined to beat Meiko. Her seed exploded in the back of her mind and she read their formations like she was reading their training commands and dodged their first pass. She moved behind them quickly and fired at them. They dodged but she pulled out something, they did not expect as a large cannon caused an explosion from a nearby robotic that blocked them off for the second she needed to slam her machine into Saru's which caused it to misfire on Mishe. The two were so confused Meiko had time to aim her cannons at a nearby ships main weapons and engines and release shots from all her weapons at once, crippling the ship. She then backed on Mishe again causing his engines to sputter as she fired the camera off Saru's machine and moved with a blinding speed toward the Drudgen. She didn't have time for these petty games.

She fired on the robotics that surrounded her, taking most of them out by confusing them. Some accidentally hit each other and she smiled at it.

"I do want to go further," she said responding to Misha's last message and she smile cockily, "and no one's stopping me today. No one and nothing will stop me from this." She moved her machine at an even faster pace and destroyed the side of the Drudgen's hangar, moving in with the Phoenix and destroying every machine inside quickly. She landed her machine on what was left of it raising her head at the end of it and smiling to herself again as she locked her unit and lowered herself quickly.

As she expected guns fired on her but she drew two pistols killing everyone that stood in her way and making it out of the hangar faster than they knew what was happening. She was inside successfully and she would end this toady. This would not be a repeat of Mars but rather it would be what Mars should have been. Liene would face her like a man this time and he would fall.

"It ends here tonight," she whispered as she ran on through the base, once again recognizing the schematic from something she had seen as a child, everything was set up for her and this time she gladly walked in.


"So you just happen to have this schematic?" Ceveris asked Kiran whom seemed proud of himself as he pulled up the plans to the cannon ZAFT had built. The Minerva crew were all trying to figure out how to beat that thing but Kiran seemed confident that he knew the answer.

"I got it from ROW when we were at Mars," Kiran responded, "they must have stolen it from the PLANTs but they were unable to find the answers I found." Kiran then started tying in and exploring the images, "you see the way the ships built, it works best if the ship can't be infiltrated, but if we can get in there I can reprogram the machine to end it's nuclear surges and disarm it without any unnecessary large explosions, I have a feeling we'll get enough of those from that STING 2."

"I see," Ceveris responded staring at the route Kiran had pulled up as he recognized some of the weapons make. It was clear that whoever built this was not ZAFT, they were drawing on designs that ZAFT didn't have but Ceveris knew who had them. In this moment he saw that the weaponry matched that of what he had stolen from ROW many years ago and sold to those who still owned him. There was something going on beyond ROW and beyond everyone else today, the game was clearly changing and Jayley Lired was showing where her allegiances lied. He hid the knowledge of what he saw in his mind, hoping beyond hope that it wasn't as catastrophic as he thought it could be.

"Arthur," Meyrin said calling up her first in line, Arthur Trine, who had been by her side and with the Minerva since the beginning. He smiled at his captain.

"Yes Captain," he said saluting, he had watched her grow from bridge member to captain and he was proud of her.

"You are in command and you will be Captain if I don't return," Meyrin said grabbing her gun belt and strapping it on and turning back to Kiran, "I'm escorting Kiran in." Ceveris was shocked at this, Meyrin should be going and a captain should never leave their ships even if it was for this noble reason. Arthur nodded, obeying his captain without question.

"No Mey," Ceveris responded, "You're needed here, I can escort Kiran."

"You may come as well if you like Ceveris but no matter what you say I am going in," Meyrin replied with a stern look on her face, "I promised Lacus when she agreed to let Kiran come aboard that I would be personally responsible for him and I intend to protect him with my life if necessary. It's a duty I made to my leader and I won't back down now." Ceveris nodded, he understood where she was coming from.

"Well I'm going in with you," he replied as they all moved toward the mobile suits.

"Minerva back us up! Take that ship head on!" Meyrin said as they boarded and blasted off.


"Back off," Kira yelled to Gera as she tried to get by him again to get to the Eternal. She seemed uninterested in fighting him as she dodged his attacks and no matter how hard he tried to lock on to her weapons and weak points she seemed to be using his respect for life against him.

"No!" Gera responded angrily as she had to meet her goal, "I will destroy the Eternal and show Jayley I was worth it! I will show her! Then I will show the world that I was the best and that I can be better than even Meiko! I have to kill Meiko!" The rantings of this girl were insane but what Kira saw was a life that was destroyed by hatred and war. He saw her desperately struggling to prove herself based on the standards of worth that others had taught her for her entire life. She was wrong to assume that worth was gathered in who could kill the best or who could meet the demands of those who were wrong in every way but she was also lost to him as he knew that nothing he could say could change her.

"You're not going to hurt them!" Kira declared, "because you don't understand! You don't know what it's like to value human life!" His seed exploded in his mind as Lacus saw the machine begin to glow for a second, he was changing. Kira was beginning to feel the rush as suddenly his super seed was accessed but it closed just as fast. He began to understand the power that Meiko and Yaro bore and he began to see clearer.

He moved in a pattern of destruction and life at the same time, fighting off Gera's attacks and showing her that he could kill her if he wanted to. He brandished his weapons again holding onto the controls of his mobile suit and disarming the Black gundam slowly, piece by piece.

"No one should have to prove their worth through the death of others!" Kira yelled to her, "No one should even have the chance to kill! This ends today!" He then laid the final blows to her machine causing her to cry out in shock at how he had so easily trashed her mobile suit while still leaving her alive. He could have killed her for what she was planning on doing to his family but instead he left her to live and see that the world was changing because everything was changing.

"Lacus move the Eternal in!" Kira responded, "Back up the Tranquility, stay out of the range of that cannon and the STING 2." He now felt an urgency thanks to his connection with the super seed, "I have to find Meiko!" He blasted off toward the ORB forces leaving the Eternal shocked by what they saw. His power was clear but it had grown in a different way and Lacus smiled as she knew that Kira alone could tip the balance in this battle and that he would do everything he could to make sure that things ended right. She just prayed that it was enough.


"I'm done here!" Athrun yelled slicing off the head of the second twin unit angrily and shutting down it's main systems. He was tired of playing with this machine while everyone else was moving into action. He smiled at what was unfolding around him and hurried to join in. He rushed to where the tranquility was and joined in fighting off a ROW ship.

"Getting the hang of things out here Athrun?" He heard Yzaks voice and saw Dearka's unit with Yzaks.

"More like getting fed up with things out here!" Athrun responded, "these ROW units are more annoying than they are difficult to defeat! And they keep coming." Yzak nodded.

"Well don't get lazy you two," Dearka said joining in on the conversation, "There are plenty more where these came from!" They turned to see more ROW ships entering the battlefield from what seemed like nowhere. Athrun rolled his eyes, the sheer number of ROW units was impossible. This whole thing had to have been in works for years before this, this battle had been planned for a very long time.


Leyas moved around the corner of the large PLANT station. Her and Trey had driven their machine into the PLANTs earlier under the stealth of the mirage colloid and landed in the hangar. There was a wide alert out for them now that their mobile suit had been found but she didn't care, they had gotten in and they were moving faster than had been expected. They had to end Jayley's reign if nothing else. She held in her hands a flash drive that had the key for everything and they were in the top ZAFT communication tower, which she was sure she would be able to make the PLANTs all listen from. She would make them hear her side of the story and the side of her family.

"We're almost there," Leyas said to Trey when a gunshot was heard through the station and they turned to see guards coming. Leyas and Trey ducked turning the corner quickly as Trey pulled out a gun and turned to Leyas with shock. She needed to keep going. They were almost there, he saw the door from where he was and he pulled out a second gun handing it to her.

"Go!" Trey said to her, "I'll hold them off here!" Leyas nodded running up the stairs and Trey moved to fire at the guards that were clearly trying to advance. He saw Redemption guards on the incoming and what he didn't' expect he saw. Flay was moving with them and fighting. He moved in to join the action ducking behind a barrier and firing, killing one of the guards. Flay smiled cockily at him and turned toward the stairway affirming that she knew Leyas was gone.

"Good job so far," Flay said to Trey, "the rest is up to her, we just have to hold the fort down here!" Trey nodded firing once agian.


Jayley Lired was infuriated by the news she was getting. Not only was Gera down but it seemed Redemption and the Clyne faction had found a way into one area of the PLANTs that they shouldn't have a chance to get to. She was angrier than before as she exited her office and headed down to the PLANT council room. The council was clearly upset with her.

"We told you to regard them as allies Jayley," one of the council members said, "we are now dealing with the fallout of your actions. They have invaded us."

"We'll win this!" Jayley yelled at them, "I promise you all we will win this!"

"No Jayley," she turned to see Gryser Cerrian as the council members faded revealing them to be holograms, "I will win this one, you will loose." He held a gun to her and fired as she looked at him with shocked eyes. She had never expected him, the man who had taken her in and raised her to be the one behind her demise. She had done everything he ever asked until this day, and she had thought that in this moment she was getting close to having what she wanted but once again she was betrayed by the man who said that he would protect her forever. Her eyes filled with tears as she fell to her knees, staring at him with questioning eyes.

"Why?" she asked him, tears falling freely now, "I thought you loved me! You said you would be my father, that you would protect me. WHY?" He only smiled at her question as life left her and she fell dead to the ground.

"Because you were always a failure Jayley," he responded walking away as his own guards entered the room and he turned to them, "make it appear as suicide, then let Leyas win this round. After that bring me her." He then walked from the room with a confident smile. Things were working out to his advantage now.


"Minerva move in!" Kiran yelled as the large ship shot a positron blast through the side of the ZAFT ship, barely penetrating the heavy armor. Kiran smiled as he slashed through the side of the hangar flying in with no problem. Ceveris saw as the cannon fired again this time the blast burned right past the Minerva barely brushing the side and causing a series of small explosions on the ship.

"You sure you got this Minerva?" He asked as he left but no one responded so he took as a yes and went in. When he got inside Kiran and Meyrin had already dealt with the guards and were moving in. He floated after them quickly as he realized they had picked the perfect hangar. They were near to the terminal Kiran needed. They made it through the hallways quickly and he turned to see more guards that were not ZAFT soldiers. He quickly fired on a door which left them on the other side as it closed.

"Thanks," Meyrin said to him, "It's good to have you around."

"I love you Mey," he said to her quickly as his breathing increased at all the signs he was taking in. Kiran was at the terminal working already and working as fast as he could. Meyrin looked at him confused as to why he would bring this up now and the way that he did it.

"I love you too," she responded, still wearing her confused look.

"No matter what happens," Ceveris continued as he felt that he knew what was coming. He received a message on his watch that said what he was supposed to do and he was fighting it now. He had been sent on a mission to help the Minerva and until now that had not changed but he was beginning to see it clear, that those who owned him were not there to help the Minerva but rather there to see it destroyed.


"Come on, come on!" Leyas said opening up the computer terminals and making her way through. Lucky for her there was no one in that room, and that did not strike her as suspicious, everyone was out there on the battlefield. She quickly plugged in her drive, breathing hard as she kept hearing gunshots from below. She hoped Trey was still okay.


"I'm going in!" Yaro yelled as he fired his nuclear cannon at the first of the gun barrels on the STING 2 then quickly transformed. He followed the blast and shot every weapon he could into it at once. Once it cleared he saw some damage had been done but not enough. He moved back and shot again moving close and firing.

"You're going to fail," he saw the face on his screen was that of his biological father, it was John Liene mocking him now. That meant Meiko was not all the way in yet and Liene persisted on. "You are not one of them, you gutless coward. Your greatest strength is in your hatred and anger toward me, now use that; stop trying to be Uzumi Zala, you will never be him." Yaro tried to shut the voices out as he fought to fire on that machine. Mu and Jacob were handling all approaching units and the Archangel was backing them up, now all he had to do was take out this barrel. He shut off his radio but somehow Liene was still there on his screen.

"I'm not going to listen to anything you have to say!" Yaro responded with anger, "Kira Yamato is my father."

"But you will never be him either," Liene countered pulling out all the stops, "you are my son Yaro and you will always be my son, no matter how hard you fight it you have the same madness that drove me to victory time and time again. You just won't use it because if you do you fear what others will think of you. No Yaro, embrace who you are!" Yaro felt tears entering his eyes as he was fighting but the seed in his mind exploded and something inside him was changing.

"No Liene," Yaro responded firing more and more but it seemed his efforts were becoming futile.


Flay shot her gun at the ZAFT guard when something filled her thoughts. She knew what was happening now, Yaro was being attacked by Liene. It was the stage Liene would attack at and she knew something Yaro didn't. She had changed the Dreamer for him and she prayed that he realized his only way away from Liene was through his super seed.


"Listen to me boy!" Liene yelled now, "your a coward and a thief for you have stolen life time and time again. You are a murderer, no matter how you try to run from it that is the truth of everything."

"NO!" Yaro yelled again his super seed bursting forth as his mobile suit transformed again and a new system activated.

"Super seed light," the system voice said, "power up." Yaro felt everything around him, the entire battlefield as his thoughts were extended and he could hear so much more, he could see so much more. The super seed power flowed through him as he fired his weapons again, this time they glowed bright and blue with the color of his eyes and the cannon burst forth in flame. Yaro felt the burst of power flowing through him and he blasted away from the machine as the first barrel was destructing before him.

The Archangel crew watched in awe as one was down and now they had three more to go but Yaro's light was intensifying. He could see the pain in the battlefield, his family fighting for their lives over the entire thing. Everyone he loved and cared about was there, they were all putting their lives on the line and today he would protect them with the light of his seed.


"That's it!" Leyas yelled as she had the systems online. She grabbed the microphone in front of her and turned on the camera, her face was on every TV in the PLANTs and on the ZAFT ships. Today she was showing the world who she was and what lengths she would take to bring back right to the world and end the cycle that had been started by Jayley.

"Hello my fellow countrymen," she began, "for I was raised here in the PLANTs and among ZAFT; this is my home just as much as it is yours. For I am Leyas Yamato and I have returned, but fear not I seek no harm here for I love it here more than anywhere else in the world. I am here before you today as one of you for everything Jayley told you was a lie and a face that she put on to gain more power for herself. I was forced from my home when my mother was denounced by lies and my fathers name was tainted by a past that was misunderstood. No the people Jayley described were lies because she herself was a lie. She never sought to bring good to the PLANTs, only to fulfill some sort of vendetta she had against my mother." Leyas calmed down for a moment taking the time to breath and think about what she had to say next. The eyes of her nation were upon her in shock; for the child star they had watched leave them had returned and she bore the strength that her mother had carried years before when it was then needed.

"What I am here to say is," Leyas began again, "my mother and father are innocent but Jayley Lired is not. She was using all of us and for what I don't understand but I have all the evidence I need to prove to you that she was wrong." With that Leyas played the images of Jayley and ROW and everything that was proof. "She was working with ROW all along, but her motives were not theirs. She rather was working against my mother and against peace. I ask you people of the PLANTs, is this the leader you still want to follow? Is this the person you pledge your allegiance to? Because she lied to us all! What will you do now that you know the truth? WIll you stand with her or will you turn to the side of right and fight ROW alone; for they are the only enemy we have here today!"


Lacus was shocked at hearing her daughters voice as Waltfelt had played back what he was hearing on communications. Leyas had gone behind their backs and broke into the PLANTs, a risky move but everything she was saying was making a difference. The ZAFT units seemed to double their efforts against ROW and those who had been fighting the Clyne faction turned back to ROW, the battlefield once again united toward ROW and with Yaro's light glowing even brighter Lacus felt a warmth in her heart. Everything was changing toward the good.

"Move the Eternal on!" Lacus yelled, "keep fighting, it's not over yet."

"It's not," Kayla spoke up looking around the room, "it's so far from over."


"I got it!" Kiran said as he prepared to type in the final codes, he was close to stopping this thing then he head a gun cock and turned with Meyrin to see Ceveris pointing a gun at him.

"Stop," Ceveris said breathing hard as sweat poured down his face and he looked like there was a war going on inside him. Meyrin was shocked at what was happening and she stepped forward but he cocked his gun, "I don't want to hurt either of you! Trust me Mey, I love you and I don't want either of you hurt but I have to do this. This isn't up to me, just calm down and no one will get hurt." Kiran looked at him confused.

"What are you doing Ceveris?" Meyrin asked him socked as tears filled her eyes and she yelled at him now, "what the hell are you doing!" She drew her own gun but he shot it out of her hands causing her to cry out. Kiran only needed to touch the enter key now to finish but he didn't dare with Ceveris's gun pointing at him, the older pilot had been acting strange through the entire battle and now Kiran saw a side to him that he didn't understand and he didn't want to believe.

"Who's making you do this?" Kiran asked him angrily, "because you made damn sure you didn't give us a clue as to the danger of having you with us. Who the hell are you to turn on us now?" Ceveris shook his head now.

"You don't understand cause this is so much bigger than you kid," Ceveris said to him now getting angry and turning to Meyrin, "I love you Mey but I can't let Kiran finish this."


Yaro's light was intensifying but then it moved back, lessening as he moved with the archangel to fight the next barrel. Everyone around him was confused but in the confusion a ROW mobile suit came to attack him full on. It was a more advanced Gundam Unit.

"Yaro Yamato," Jurme Krey smiled as he happened upon a prize.

"Should I know you as well," Yaro said facing off with the unit in battle, he didn't have time for this. He had to get to the other barrel with the Archangel. It was then that Athrun flew in with Yzak.

"We'll take this Yaro!" Athrun said, "Go!" Yaro didn't need more invitation as he flew off the meet the Archangel.


"It's not your fault Kiran," Ceveris said to them, "this is so much bigger than us. There are people who are so much larger than all of us and if I don't do this they will kill you all!" Kiran looked at him shocked.

"Who are you working for Ceveris," Meyrin asked crying more now, "I trusted you when I knew better. Now tell me who?"

"I can't," Ceveris said as Kiran saw the door to the other room was being worked on, the guards would be here soon. He shot a look to Meyrin who was torn up but who had promised she as on Kiran's side through everything. Ceveris loved her but he was clearly torn by something. Kiran felt power rising in him and prayed it would be enough as his seed exploded in the back of his mind and he hit the last key flipping away as Ceveris's bullet fired. What Kiran didn't see was Meyrin moving as fast as she could. She screamed as the bullet sunk into her and Ceveris looked shocked. The wound was in the shoulder but it was enough to snap him out.

"Gryser Cerrian," Ceveris said out loud now seeing Meyrin in pain, "It's Gryser Cerrian." Kiran looked up now as the doors opened and the guards entered. He moved fast grabbing a gun and taking cover as shells rained toward him and not the others. It was clear now their target was him. Meyrin grabbed her gun and fired three shots taking cover. She hit three guards. Ceveris just stood there staring as his world was falling apart. He was always working for Cerrian but he was promised a good life if he obeyed.

"NO!" Ceveris yelled as madness filled his eyes and he fired at the guards, he killed four more of them but shots rained in his direction as bullets filled him and he fell down from the pain and shock of it all he looked toward Meyrin, "I never wanted it to come to this, I love you." He fell dead and Kiran cried out in anger for whatever had caused this to fall had torn them apart. He had finished his mission but there was a cost. He could see Meyrin as she cried out in anger, for she had lost her heart today and this time it was worse than before. She was barely holding on and he knew he had to get out of here soon. He looked for a way of escape frantically.


She walked through the open doors, seeing her destination before her as the two doors closed behind her and she didn't care. She knew what was happening out there and she knew that everything was because of the man before her. Tears filled her eyes as she knew the cost out there would be heavy because she had failed before. John Liene's back was turned to her as her head was down to the ground and she walked down the center of the room. He was staring out the window at the battlefield before him, staring and waiting for her. He turned as he knew she had arrived and he smiled to see her there, finally. There were no weapons in her hands, only at her sides. There was just that deep anger in her eyes and the depths of her hatred and sorrow over everything that he had done and what she had to do to end it.

"You've arrived," he said completely facing her now, "as I expected. You could have ended this battle out there and looked to a future one to end me but I see you have realized that it is your destiny to be here now." She nodded to his words.

"I never understood," she responded, "there was so much you lied about and so many things you did to destroy me but it always made me stronger and in the end it brought us here. Who are you really John Liene and why is it you delight in bringing so much pain into this world? How could any one person do what you have done and still live with himself? Tell me?" At this Liene's expression softened, for she was searching for his humanity. The goodness of Kira Yamato had filled her now.

"I was born to this cruel world as you were Meiko Virea," Liene responded to her, "and as you do now, I wanted to see it changed but I have changed because of my obsession. I've grown into a madman, hardened by everything; so much so I can't even see why anyone would continue to hope for a brighter future but I've always believed one was possible if humanity were to start over knowing everything we know now." He paused for a moment turning back to the window, "cause we have caused so much death, I don't know if humanity even deserves a chance anymore, but I know you disagree with me."

"I do," Meiko declared her hand now on her gun.

"Then you must realize that you and I are the same in so many ways," he said to her, "For we have both been the cause of death. You by my will in the beginning, but now you fight on your own accord using the skills I taught you." He breathed in, "I took you in, the child of Kira Yamato. I took you in when you had no one, in the intent of keeping you safe but that changed. I saw what I had to do, so I turned you into a weapon to end everything. To bring everything down." She looked down remembering everything that she had done as a child.

"I sought to tear the whole world down and recreate it," he continued, "but I was never alone in this. What you understand is who I am, what you don't understand is what is out there as well Meiko. You think you can win here and bring peace now but it's just the beginning of sorrows. Even if the darkness fades and light comes again, everything I did was to wipe out the very evil that you have prevented me from destroying. For there is someone out there who has been behind every war and heartache for a very long time, and he is the evil that you will have to face when this ends because mark my words Meiko Virea you may appear to win here today and your victory may be sung from the highest hills but you've already lost! Because you chose to defy me and leave ROW in order to be a part of those idiots in Redemption you have failed to see what I trained you for! ROW is evil but it's evil went to one extent, to destroy war and all factions who would seek it including the one led by Gryser Cerrian!"

She had heard the name before, but now she stood shocked staring down at the man she should not hesitate to kill but she was unable to move at the sound of the name before her.


i hope you an forgive me the lower quality of this chapter. I was trying to cram so much into it that I kept getting confused as to what part I had already done and what was coming next, it was a battle to continue this battle! :D

So I'm not going to be describing any mobile suits, I'm kinda bad at it and haven't done it in awhile. I'm tired now. I spent the past four hours pouring my all into this chapter.

SO please review, I have three reviewers now so I'm not convinced very many people care about the end of this story and I am tempted to go on another hiatus so let me know if you want more REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!

-Winterchill