To Rebuild From Ashes
Chapter VI
Author's Note: Sorry that the plot kind of stopped for a while, going to get it going again.
Athrun was lying on his bed thinking about how much he missed Cagalli. It had been a day since the Eternal's departure from the Plant, and it was just as long since he last saw his girlfriend. He didn't know why it was taking, a six-hour direct-flight to Junius Eight, a day to get to the destination. He asked some of the crew members and they vaguely responded something about concealment. He didn't know what they were going on about, but guessed the real reason wasn't supposed to be known by many.
By a whole day's confinement to the Eternal, he had done possibly anything and everything he could think of. He never noticed how boring it was on a ship when there wasn't a constant briefing of battles or some strategy making to do. He now understood how Lacus felt being confined to a small room with only HARO to talk to. He even went to the hangers and found his newly made replacement-MS for Justice.
He knew without a doubt that it was a remake even before any of the techs's said anything about it. He self destructed a MS that had a Nuclear Core, so he obviously concluded that nothing but tiny microscopic filaments would be left of his previous MS. He quickly exited the hangers, not wanting to remember anything having to do with the MS and the memories it carried for him, at the moment. He ended traveling all around the ship wondering what to do. He even ended up finding Kira some time later, but Kira didn't seem in the mood to talk.
His responses were short and to the point, and Athrun quickly left his presence wondering what was wrong with him. He vaguely wondered if Kira got in a fight with Lacus over something stupid, then he wondered what the relationship between the two of them actually were. They weren't a couple, unless they kept it a secret, and they weren't just friends, it was all too clear by their posture around each other. He sure hoped they got together; it would be good for the both of them.
Andrew was sitting stiffly in his Captain's seat in the command room. He felt very paranoid about something, but he couldn't tell what it was about. He rarely liked when he got those feelings, because his intuitions were usually right, with something bad usually happening.
"Sir, we are now within a 10 minute flight time from Junius Eight."
"Good, good. The evasive flight tactics seemed to have worked considering no one attacked us on our way here." Bartfield said.
"Sir, if I may ask, was the precaution really necessary?"
"Yes, I think it was incredibly necessary, even Captain Ramius agreed with me on that one." Bartfield answered. "Well I think were out of the woods now, I don't think anyone would be foolish enough to attack when we're within 5 minutes time to getting support from the Plants(1). But still be on the alert, you never know how desperate anyone can be for attacking."
"Yes sir, hmm... that's strange..."
"What is Lieutenant?"
"Well it seems that the area were about to enter was a stage for a previous battle. It must have been a large scale battle at that, from the incredible amount of debris that is lying around in space."
"I didn't know there was any significant battle around Junius Eight, but it could always have been space debris floating from Junius Seven. It wasn't that far away, and the explosion was tremendous."
"Yes, that could be it sir, it might be a little hard flying through the place without slowing down, so I'd say our ETA is now about 12 to 13 minutes instead of 10. We are in the thick of the debris now Captain."
"Right, alert Junius Eight of our del-"
"Sir! Radar jamming, I don't believe this is normal sir!"
"What! Alert for battle stations, pilots in their MS, and get weapon operators in here!" Bartfield yelled quickly. No one bothered replying because talking was considered wasting time in a battle.
"Four- No Five MS, Strike Dagger types, from the left and 7 Strike Daggers from right." A radar operator yelled.
Bartfield grumbled, "This whole place is a trap..."
"I count 2, 250 meter class ships, and 4, 130 meter class ships."
"There's 20 Moebius flying towards us from behind!" Another crewman yelled.
Kira was already in his MS, waiting for clearance to launch by the time he saw Athrun in his screens. He hoped that he would show soon, because he figured he'll need help.
"Freedom you are cleared for launch."
"Kira Yamato, Freedom, launching!" Kira yelled out.
Freedom flew out of the hanger, and it had its Phase Shift mode activated. Kira looked at this screen and already saw two M1 Astrays in front of him. They were flying towards the large group of Moebius's that were trying to flank them. Two more soon joined them, and the Buster Gundam with the Strike Rogue joined the M1's also. His intercom buzzed to life, interrupting him thoughts.
"Pilot Yamato, join Frela and take the Daggers at 2 O'clock."
"Roger." Kira said, vaguely remembering that Frela was one of the newer pilots that would fly a M1 Astray.
The M1 finally came out and caught up to him. He flew towards the 7 Daggers with the pilot in tow.
"Hey Yamato, what's the plan?" A feminine voice spoke to him, with only the speakers activated.
"I'm going to need help with support-shooting. Stay behind and don't do anything to attract attention to you too early. I need you to provide support shots; the M1 isn't fast enough for 7 Daggers anyways let alone 1." He explained.
"Hmph, fine, roger." He could tell she was annoyed.
"You're carrying a sniper anyways." He added as she followed his order and snuck behind a destroyed wreckage of a ship. "Make sure to get their long rangers before they get you."
He quickly picked up the speed of Freedom, narrowly dodging the large amount of debris that surrounded the area.
'Perfect covers, they can't all rush me. The left-most MS seems to be the leader, he has 'Agni' 320mm-impulse cannon attached to his left shoulder, modified, so it can't be as powerful as one I had for Strike. 3 Daggers with long range weapons, they're probably support MS's. Two carrying normal 57mm beam rifles, one's carrying a modified bazooka of Calamity Gundam. Damn, got to watch out for that one, it seems it's for middle-range fighting, not my specialty.' Kira evaluated the situation in a mere second.
He went for the leader first knowing that killing him would make the others less effective. The long rangers shot at him first as he guessed they would. He quickly dodged, while returning fire at them. They dodged also, but he got one in the MS's left arm. Pity it didn't get his gun arm. Kira shot his modified "Lupus" beam rifle and got the leader in the shoulders, severing his left arm and destroying the "Agni" impulse cannon.
The leader quickly pulled out his saber with his right arm, and the one with the bazooka got close enough to shoot Kira. He dodged but it, but the shot hit a large debris behind him, throwing Kira off course from the resulting explosion. Freedom righted himself quickly and shot at the one with the bazooka. The one in the bazooka dodged well and quickly, so Kira came up with a new tactic. He feinted a shot to the Dagger's left and shot quickly to his right. The feint worked and he destroyed the Dagger with the bazooka.
Athrun was in the battle-field against 5 Strike Daggers with only a rookie, by the name of James, to back him up. It would have been a bad situation if the Daggers weren't also rookies. They had no battle experience and made common rookie mistakes. Some of which were staying too close to one another. They also shot their weapons too early, not knowing the ranges of their weapons well enough.
The rookie on his side ended up killing one, but got his gun arm damaged. Athrun quickly backed the rookie up after destroying a Dagger with a beam saber and having his back pack destroy another.
"You alright?" Athrun said to the rookie over the intercom.
"Yeah, my right arms useless and I'm not exactly pro at the beam sabers."
"Better then nothing, make sure you don't forget about your Vulcan's on your head either." Here Athrun had to dodge a shot. "Not best for anything more-"Athrun had his backpack attacking, while dodging again. "-then really close range, but its effective against the MS faces."
"Thanks." James said.
Athrun fired his Lupus once again and it destroyed another Dagger. There was only one left and Athrun with James charged at it.
"Make sure to not stay close to me, gives easier targets, fly like a drunk, it provides harder to predict moves." Athrun said while advising James all the way.
Athrun reattached with his backpack to give him faster speed. He shot his Lupus to make sure to keep the Dagger on alert. He didn't want the Dagger to find a good stable shooting position. He shot again with the Dagger dodging once again. The Dagger was a quick one and Athrun was getting annoyed.
"Surround and attack." Athrun told James.
Athrun knew that without a doubt he could have killed the Dagger quickly with his beam saber, but wanted to give the rookie some experience. Besides if the rookie improved it would only help him also. James charged with his beam saber and Athrun was rather impressed at how James destroyed the Dagger's beam rifle.
Athrun shot at the Dagger and this time it didn't dodge to well. It got shot on its right shoulder. It blew the right arm off and the MS was now helpless. It didn't have a gun or a saber. It only had a shield now, and it couldn't do anything. Athrun decided to let the rookie finish him off.
"Think you can handle a defenseless MS?" Athrun said sarcastically.
"Sure." James said.
The M1 charged at the Dagger and sliced the Daggers leg. Then the Dagger did something James and Athrun didn't expect. The Dagger grabbed onto the M1 and drew it close, and then it self-destructed killing both the Dagger and the M1 pilot, James. Athrun was shocked at how the situation turned out and was incredibly sad at the turn of events.
Athrun spoke in the cockpit, yet knowing that no one would hear, "Last lesson rookie, a lesson where even veterans forget... never underestimate your opponents..." Athrun sighed.
Two shots came from behind, but he dodged those also. He turned and shot rapidly at the two Daggers with the regular beam rifles. He got one around the head, rendering the suit useless, and skimmed the other in its legs. The leader was close to Kira but he got shot. The leader never expected and his MS blew up. Kira silently thanked Frela was saving his ass, and returned to the matters at hand.
The Daggers seemed distracted with their leader's loss, and Kira used it to his advantage. He shot the Dagger with the beam rifle in the head and flew for the remaining three long range shooters. One got shot by Frela, with the rest of the Daggers being distracted by Kira. The remaining two shot at Kira and he dodged once again.
He shot one of the Daggers in chest, shooting through the cockpit, with the MS exploding. The explosion rocked the other MS of balance, what with the MS being too closed to its comrade. Kira used the situation to his advantage and shot the last Dagger in the chest. A piece of debris seemed to take the blunt of the shot, leaving a smothering hole near the chest but not at the cockpit. He shot again, but the Dagger seemed to regain focus of the situation and dodged. Unfortunately for the pilot, Frela shot to where the Dagger dodged and the Dagger ran into the shot, blowing it up.
"Nice work Frela, good shooting."
"Thanks Yamato."
"Pilot Yamato," the intercom spoke, "You may return the battles- FUCK, Yamato 11 O'clock 35 degrees above you."
Kira looked towards where he was told and noticed lights that were not created by the stars in space. It was the flames from the exhaust of MS's. He swore quietly, which was so unlike himself. He could see shots being fired at them, but none of them hit. They were too far away.
"Frela, guess were not done. Same plan this time we get closer to Eternal, we need support."
"Roger."
"Uh... intercom guy," Kira felt really stupid right now for not knowing the guys name, "how many?"
"There are 15, all Daggers, but there're 30 Moebius behind them."
"Damn, Frela change of plans, go closer to Eternal, but stay around Buster and Strike. There more close range, and will need your help." Kira said, he opened another channel, "Athrun, we're the fastest we can intercept them first."
"Yeah, let's go." Athrun's voice sounded tired to Kira.
Kira flew at a reckless speed through the debris belt to intercept the large numbers of suits and mobile armors. He could see Justice on the other side of the Eternal also flying at incredible speed to reach them.
He got close and went into Freedom's HiMAT firing position. Hip rail-guns and wing shoulder beam-cannons shot at the MS's. 3 of Freedom's shots hit but the fourth dodged. There went Kira's surprise; he saw Justice shoot its "Lupus" rifle, while separating from its backpack. He and Athrun flew through the mass of MS's and MA, dodging fire like crazy.
A lot of support fires were given to them, but it didn't destroy many. He vaguely saw Athrun slicing through a MS with his saber and his backpack destroying another. He shot his beam rifle many times, destroying 2 MS's. It ended up being disabled as he dodged a shot, hitting the gun but not him. He quickly flew away from the defective gun that exploded from the overheating of the ammunition. He pulled out his twin beam sabers and sliced through another MS's. By that time, Buster and the Strike Rogue came and provided help. They both destroyed 3 MS's with Frela providing long range help. The rest of the M1's helped out but two of them died. The M1's destroyed 4 of the Moebius and the remaining 4 MS.
'Where are the Moebius in the brunt of this?' Kira asked noticing that the Moebius weren't fighting much.
It seemed that the Moebius flew away from the brunt of the fight, and the MS's were the distractions for something. A group of 26 Moebius were flying the long way around the battle to the Eternal, Kusanagi, and the Archangel. The ships shot out at the brunt of the MA's and destroyed quite a few. Kira and the rest were shooting at the MA's also.
Kira hit one and noticed that it provided a large explosion, an incredibly large explosion that took out 5 of the Moebius's nearby. Kira's eyes almost popped out of his head, as he concluded that they most be using nuclear warheads.
Kira opened all channels, regardless if the enemy listened and yelled, "They got nuclear warheads!"
"Fire the linear gun but save the missiles, too much debris! Concentrate the positron gun to the left of the Moebius, don't want to accidentally friendly fire!" Ramius yelled at the crew.
This scared the others into a frenzy of action, shooting down the Moebius at an incredible rate. But in the end there were too many of them, and there were no telling how many of the ships or which ships were carrying the nuclear warhead. This in itself was strange considering that usually the nuclear missiles were at least twice the size of the Moebius making it hard to conceal. Kira figured that they must have modified it to a smaller version and fit it in the storage of the ship; after all it was only to destroy warships not a whole colony.
One Moebius got close to the Eternal and shot a small missile towards it. It ended up hitting a small debris close to the Eternal, proving Kira right. The explosion was gigantic more then enough to destroy Eternal in one blow. The Moebius quickly got shot down, and the MS's and the ships were shooting at the Moebius's in frenzy.
There were 5 Moebius remaining, and 3 seemed to have a nuclear missile with them for they shot it at the Archangel and the Kusanagi. Kira shot one and Fleya shot the other. The last one went towards the Kusanagi but was shot down by a shot that came from behind the Kusanagi. There coming, were the Plant re-enforcements. The rest of the Moebius were destroyed with fury at the close call of the ship's destruction. A public channel opened up for all the pilots and the ships.
"This is Yzak Joule, of the ZAFT. My comrades and I are to escort you to the Plant. Follow us back to safety."
The ships followed the MS's of ZAFT and while some of the MS's of the Eternal/Kusanagi/Archangel returned to the hangers, many stayed out, being wary of the debris that provided perfect cover for a surprise attack.
The ships ended up reaching the Plant safely and without further interruptions. The crew and pilots exited their respective ships and MS's. Captain Bartfield, Captain Ramius, and Captain Zechs(2) met with Yzak. They started talking rapidly while exiting the hanger.
(1)Five minutes, if the Eternal is flying to Junius Eight, with Junius Eight also sending MS troops to help. They'll meet in the middle of the ten minute flight, and there you are!
(2)Zechs will be the Orb ship, Kusanagi's Captain. I forgot to put a Captain for the ship. Cagalli is more of a diplomat or representative for Orb, considering her father's position. Sorry for the confusion.
Chapter VI
Author's Note: Sorry that the plot kind of stopped for a while, going to get it going again.
Athrun was lying on his bed thinking about how much he missed Cagalli. It had been a day since the Eternal's departure from the Plant, and it was just as long since he last saw his girlfriend. He didn't know why it was taking, a six-hour direct-flight to Junius Eight, a day to get to the destination. He asked some of the crew members and they vaguely responded something about concealment. He didn't know what they were going on about, but guessed the real reason wasn't supposed to be known by many.
By a whole day's confinement to the Eternal, he had done possibly anything and everything he could think of. He never noticed how boring it was on a ship when there wasn't a constant briefing of battles or some strategy making to do. He now understood how Lacus felt being confined to a small room with only HARO to talk to. He even went to the hangers and found his newly made replacement-MS for Justice.
He knew without a doubt that it was a remake even before any of the techs's said anything about it. He self destructed a MS that had a Nuclear Core, so he obviously concluded that nothing but tiny microscopic filaments would be left of his previous MS. He quickly exited the hangers, not wanting to remember anything having to do with the MS and the memories it carried for him, at the moment. He ended traveling all around the ship wondering what to do. He even ended up finding Kira some time later, but Kira didn't seem in the mood to talk.
His responses were short and to the point, and Athrun quickly left his presence wondering what was wrong with him. He vaguely wondered if Kira got in a fight with Lacus over something stupid, then he wondered what the relationship between the two of them actually were. They weren't a couple, unless they kept it a secret, and they weren't just friends, it was all too clear by their posture around each other. He sure hoped they got together; it would be good for the both of them.
Andrew was sitting stiffly in his Captain's seat in the command room. He felt very paranoid about something, but he couldn't tell what it was about. He rarely liked when he got those feelings, because his intuitions were usually right, with something bad usually happening.
"Sir, we are now within a 10 minute flight time from Junius Eight."
"Good, good. The evasive flight tactics seemed to have worked considering no one attacked us on our way here." Bartfield said.
"Sir, if I may ask, was the precaution really necessary?"
"Yes, I think it was incredibly necessary, even Captain Ramius agreed with me on that one." Bartfield answered. "Well I think were out of the woods now, I don't think anyone would be foolish enough to attack when we're within 5 minutes time to getting support from the Plants(1). But still be on the alert, you never know how desperate anyone can be for attacking."
"Yes sir, hmm... that's strange..."
"What is Lieutenant?"
"Well it seems that the area were about to enter was a stage for a previous battle. It must have been a large scale battle at that, from the incredible amount of debris that is lying around in space."
"I didn't know there was any significant battle around Junius Eight, but it could always have been space debris floating from Junius Seven. It wasn't that far away, and the explosion was tremendous."
"Yes, that could be it sir, it might be a little hard flying through the place without slowing down, so I'd say our ETA is now about 12 to 13 minutes instead of 10. We are in the thick of the debris now Captain."
"Right, alert Junius Eight of our del-"
"Sir! Radar jamming, I don't believe this is normal sir!"
"What! Alert for battle stations, pilots in their MS, and get weapon operators in here!" Bartfield yelled quickly. No one bothered replying because talking was considered wasting time in a battle.
"Four- No Five MS, Strike Dagger types, from the left and 7 Strike Daggers from right." A radar operator yelled.
Bartfield grumbled, "This whole place is a trap..."
"I count 2, 250 meter class ships, and 4, 130 meter class ships."
"There's 20 Moebius flying towards us from behind!" Another crewman yelled.
Kira was already in his MS, waiting for clearance to launch by the time he saw Athrun in his screens. He hoped that he would show soon, because he figured he'll need help.
"Freedom you are cleared for launch."
"Kira Yamato, Freedom, launching!" Kira yelled out.
Freedom flew out of the hanger, and it had its Phase Shift mode activated. Kira looked at this screen and already saw two M1 Astrays in front of him. They were flying towards the large group of Moebius's that were trying to flank them. Two more soon joined them, and the Buster Gundam with the Strike Rogue joined the M1's also. His intercom buzzed to life, interrupting him thoughts.
"Pilot Yamato, join Frela and take the Daggers at 2 O'clock."
"Roger." Kira said, vaguely remembering that Frela was one of the newer pilots that would fly a M1 Astray.
The M1 finally came out and caught up to him. He flew towards the 7 Daggers with the pilot in tow.
"Hey Yamato, what's the plan?" A feminine voice spoke to him, with only the speakers activated.
"I'm going to need help with support-shooting. Stay behind and don't do anything to attract attention to you too early. I need you to provide support shots; the M1 isn't fast enough for 7 Daggers anyways let alone 1." He explained.
"Hmph, fine, roger." He could tell she was annoyed.
"You're carrying a sniper anyways." He added as she followed his order and snuck behind a destroyed wreckage of a ship. "Make sure to get their long rangers before they get you."
He quickly picked up the speed of Freedom, narrowly dodging the large amount of debris that surrounded the area.
'Perfect covers, they can't all rush me. The left-most MS seems to be the leader, he has 'Agni' 320mm-impulse cannon attached to his left shoulder, modified, so it can't be as powerful as one I had for Strike. 3 Daggers with long range weapons, they're probably support MS's. Two carrying normal 57mm beam rifles, one's carrying a modified bazooka of Calamity Gundam. Damn, got to watch out for that one, it seems it's for middle-range fighting, not my specialty.' Kira evaluated the situation in a mere second.
He went for the leader first knowing that killing him would make the others less effective. The long rangers shot at him first as he guessed they would. He quickly dodged, while returning fire at them. They dodged also, but he got one in the MS's left arm. Pity it didn't get his gun arm. Kira shot his modified "Lupus" beam rifle and got the leader in the shoulders, severing his left arm and destroying the "Agni" impulse cannon.
The leader quickly pulled out his saber with his right arm, and the one with the bazooka got close enough to shoot Kira. He dodged but it, but the shot hit a large debris behind him, throwing Kira off course from the resulting explosion. Freedom righted himself quickly and shot at the one with the bazooka. The one in the bazooka dodged well and quickly, so Kira came up with a new tactic. He feinted a shot to the Dagger's left and shot quickly to his right. The feint worked and he destroyed the Dagger with the bazooka.
Athrun was in the battle-field against 5 Strike Daggers with only a rookie, by the name of James, to back him up. It would have been a bad situation if the Daggers weren't also rookies. They had no battle experience and made common rookie mistakes. Some of which were staying too close to one another. They also shot their weapons too early, not knowing the ranges of their weapons well enough.
The rookie on his side ended up killing one, but got his gun arm damaged. Athrun quickly backed the rookie up after destroying a Dagger with a beam saber and having his back pack destroy another.
"You alright?" Athrun said to the rookie over the intercom.
"Yeah, my right arms useless and I'm not exactly pro at the beam sabers."
"Better then nothing, make sure you don't forget about your Vulcan's on your head either." Here Athrun had to dodge a shot. "Not best for anything more-"Athrun had his backpack attacking, while dodging again. "-then really close range, but its effective against the MS faces."
"Thanks." James said.
Athrun fired his Lupus once again and it destroyed another Dagger. There was only one left and Athrun with James charged at it.
"Make sure to not stay close to me, gives easier targets, fly like a drunk, it provides harder to predict moves." Athrun said while advising James all the way.
Athrun reattached with his backpack to give him faster speed. He shot his Lupus to make sure to keep the Dagger on alert. He didn't want the Dagger to find a good stable shooting position. He shot again with the Dagger dodging once again. The Dagger was a quick one and Athrun was getting annoyed.
"Surround and attack." Athrun told James.
Athrun knew that without a doubt he could have killed the Dagger quickly with his beam saber, but wanted to give the rookie some experience. Besides if the rookie improved it would only help him also. James charged with his beam saber and Athrun was rather impressed at how James destroyed the Dagger's beam rifle.
Athrun shot at the Dagger and this time it didn't dodge to well. It got shot on its right shoulder. It blew the right arm off and the MS was now helpless. It didn't have a gun or a saber. It only had a shield now, and it couldn't do anything. Athrun decided to let the rookie finish him off.
"Think you can handle a defenseless MS?" Athrun said sarcastically.
"Sure." James said.
The M1 charged at the Dagger and sliced the Daggers leg. Then the Dagger did something James and Athrun didn't expect. The Dagger grabbed onto the M1 and drew it close, and then it self-destructed killing both the Dagger and the M1 pilot, James. Athrun was shocked at how the situation turned out and was incredibly sad at the turn of events.
Athrun spoke in the cockpit, yet knowing that no one would hear, "Last lesson rookie, a lesson where even veterans forget... never underestimate your opponents..." Athrun sighed.
Two shots came from behind, but he dodged those also. He turned and shot rapidly at the two Daggers with the regular beam rifles. He got one around the head, rendering the suit useless, and skimmed the other in its legs. The leader was close to Kira but he got shot. The leader never expected and his MS blew up. Kira silently thanked Frela was saving his ass, and returned to the matters at hand.
The Daggers seemed distracted with their leader's loss, and Kira used it to his advantage. He shot the Dagger with the beam rifle in the head and flew for the remaining three long range shooters. One got shot by Frela, with the rest of the Daggers being distracted by Kira. The remaining two shot at Kira and he dodged once again.
He shot one of the Daggers in chest, shooting through the cockpit, with the MS exploding. The explosion rocked the other MS of balance, what with the MS being too closed to its comrade. Kira used the situation to his advantage and shot the last Dagger in the chest. A piece of debris seemed to take the blunt of the shot, leaving a smothering hole near the chest but not at the cockpit. He shot again, but the Dagger seemed to regain focus of the situation and dodged. Unfortunately for the pilot, Frela shot to where the Dagger dodged and the Dagger ran into the shot, blowing it up.
"Nice work Frela, good shooting."
"Thanks Yamato."
"Pilot Yamato," the intercom spoke, "You may return the battles- FUCK, Yamato 11 O'clock 35 degrees above you."
Kira looked towards where he was told and noticed lights that were not created by the stars in space. It was the flames from the exhaust of MS's. He swore quietly, which was so unlike himself. He could see shots being fired at them, but none of them hit. They were too far away.
"Frela, guess were not done. Same plan this time we get closer to Eternal, we need support."
"Roger."
"Uh... intercom guy," Kira felt really stupid right now for not knowing the guys name, "how many?"
"There are 15, all Daggers, but there're 30 Moebius behind them."
"Damn, Frela change of plans, go closer to Eternal, but stay around Buster and Strike. There more close range, and will need your help." Kira said, he opened another channel, "Athrun, we're the fastest we can intercept them first."
"Yeah, let's go." Athrun's voice sounded tired to Kira.
Kira flew at a reckless speed through the debris belt to intercept the large numbers of suits and mobile armors. He could see Justice on the other side of the Eternal also flying at incredible speed to reach them.
He got close and went into Freedom's HiMAT firing position. Hip rail-guns and wing shoulder beam-cannons shot at the MS's. 3 of Freedom's shots hit but the fourth dodged. There went Kira's surprise; he saw Justice shoot its "Lupus" rifle, while separating from its backpack. He and Athrun flew through the mass of MS's and MA, dodging fire like crazy.
A lot of support fires were given to them, but it didn't destroy many. He vaguely saw Athrun slicing through a MS with his saber and his backpack destroying another. He shot his beam rifle many times, destroying 2 MS's. It ended up being disabled as he dodged a shot, hitting the gun but not him. He quickly flew away from the defective gun that exploded from the overheating of the ammunition. He pulled out his twin beam sabers and sliced through another MS's. By that time, Buster and the Strike Rogue came and provided help. They both destroyed 3 MS's with Frela providing long range help. The rest of the M1's helped out but two of them died. The M1's destroyed 4 of the Moebius and the remaining 4 MS.
'Where are the Moebius in the brunt of this?' Kira asked noticing that the Moebius weren't fighting much.
It seemed that the Moebius flew away from the brunt of the fight, and the MS's were the distractions for something. A group of 26 Moebius were flying the long way around the battle to the Eternal, Kusanagi, and the Archangel. The ships shot out at the brunt of the MA's and destroyed quite a few. Kira and the rest were shooting at the MA's also.
Kira hit one and noticed that it provided a large explosion, an incredibly large explosion that took out 5 of the Moebius's nearby. Kira's eyes almost popped out of his head, as he concluded that they most be using nuclear warheads.
Kira opened all channels, regardless if the enemy listened and yelled, "They got nuclear warheads!"
"Fire the linear gun but save the missiles, too much debris! Concentrate the positron gun to the left of the Moebius, don't want to accidentally friendly fire!" Ramius yelled at the crew.
This scared the others into a frenzy of action, shooting down the Moebius at an incredible rate. But in the end there were too many of them, and there were no telling how many of the ships or which ships were carrying the nuclear warhead. This in itself was strange considering that usually the nuclear missiles were at least twice the size of the Moebius making it hard to conceal. Kira figured that they must have modified it to a smaller version and fit it in the storage of the ship; after all it was only to destroy warships not a whole colony.
One Moebius got close to the Eternal and shot a small missile towards it. It ended up hitting a small debris close to the Eternal, proving Kira right. The explosion was gigantic more then enough to destroy Eternal in one blow. The Moebius quickly got shot down, and the MS's and the ships were shooting at the Moebius's in frenzy.
There were 5 Moebius remaining, and 3 seemed to have a nuclear missile with them for they shot it at the Archangel and the Kusanagi. Kira shot one and Fleya shot the other. The last one went towards the Kusanagi but was shot down by a shot that came from behind the Kusanagi. There coming, were the Plant re-enforcements. The rest of the Moebius were destroyed with fury at the close call of the ship's destruction. A public channel opened up for all the pilots and the ships.
"This is Yzak Joule, of the ZAFT. My comrades and I are to escort you to the Plant. Follow us back to safety."
The ships followed the MS's of ZAFT and while some of the MS's of the Eternal/Kusanagi/Archangel returned to the hangers, many stayed out, being wary of the debris that provided perfect cover for a surprise attack.
The ships ended up reaching the Plant safely and without further interruptions. The crew and pilots exited their respective ships and MS's. Captain Bartfield, Captain Ramius, and Captain Zechs(2) met with Yzak. They started talking rapidly while exiting the hanger.
(1)Five minutes, if the Eternal is flying to Junius Eight, with Junius Eight also sending MS troops to help. They'll meet in the middle of the ten minute flight, and there you are!
(2)Zechs will be the Orb ship, Kusanagi's Captain. I forgot to put a Captain for the ship. Cagalli is more of a diplomat or representative for Orb, considering her father's position. Sorry for the confusion.