By: Shadow Chaser
Previously on Gundam SEED: Entropy Rising…
"It's just a hunch, but I think the guy who's been demanding the deaths of everyone is part of something bigger that we should be keeping tabs on. Some of PLANT's scientists are going over the guy's autopsy right now so we should have the information within a couple of days."
"It's okay," she continued. "If you were a Natural, you wouldn't have survived your wound – you're lucky that your parents gave you the normal requisite of fast healing ability."
Griever cursed silently to himself as he hastily backed away from the vent he had been peering from. His father had warned him of this and he hadn't heeded his father's advice until he had seen Kira Yamato stare around, trying to pinpoint him. Father had warned him that he and the one who called himself Kira Yamato were almost one in the same, if not exact and so would be able to sense each other.
Griever watched as three adults walked by, one of which he didn't really care for, the female doctor. The man he registered in his mind as just another civilian, but the woman…the man's wife a part of his surmised, how dare she be here?!
He watched her walk by out of the corner of his eye and narrowed them ever so slightly as she turned and for a second both of their gazes met. Griever broke contact first, turning back to continue his work. Father never told him that she would be here…
Athrun ducked as the assassin fired a bullet at him and immediately brought his left arm up and knocked the gun away from his hand. He couldn't really get a good look at the assassin as he wore a cap, but he didn't care. Blocking a blow, he retaliated with a jab towards the stomach and twisted slightly, pushing the assassin back into the room.
What the… Athrun felt his jaw drop as he stared at the assassin. He looks exactly like Kira…no…wait…there's a scar… Indeed there was a long vertical scar running from the middle of the assassin's right eyebrow straight down to corner of his lip. "Kira…" he whispered and saw the corner of the assassin's mouth turn up in a feral smile before he leapt at him.
"I should have known…Kira Yamato…" the assassin suddenly sat up and turned to stare at him.
Kira recoiled…shocked…that face…his…face…? That couldn't be…unless… Rau Le Creuset lied! He said that he was the only one who was a success…there couldn't be another one of him…that was why he felt so familiar because the person sitting across from him, his purple eyes lit up in an insane manner, was…him….
No! It wasn't him, it was just…a…
Those eyes bore into him and said forbidden words that Kira didn't want to hear. I am you…you are me…
Phase Six – Revealing the Past, Present, and Possible Future
Kanoko Yamato wringed her hands together for what seemed like the hundredth time since she had sat down in the fairly stark room in the mansion that Cagalli lived in – an inheritance from her father. She glanced up briefly at the five other occupants of the room before staring down at her hands that were on her lap, folded together. She couldn't stand to look at any of them…especially in light of what she was about to tell them. Even with Ledonil Kisaka and her husband there, she felt no support, not even to tell the other three children…no not children anymore, all adults, in the room.
But they were still children in her opinion. Especially little Cagalli…even though she was the second oldest of the three that were in the room right now. She didn't know where her son was, but suspected that after what had happened, he was probably in shock. She too had been in shock when Ledonil and the children told her what happened just hours ago.
Oh Katherine…why…she looked up ruefully again and this time, sighed before forcing her hands to be flat on her lap.
"I…suspect that you have a lot of questions and wonder why am I here," she started, catching Lacus, Cagalli, and Athrun's gazes with her own, "to tell you the truth, what you encountered mere hours ago is, in a twisted way, Kira."
She winced at the gasped outburst from both Cagalli and Lacus while she noticed that Athrun had turned completely white. "When Ledonil told me that you had taken shelter in LaGrange Point 4 where Colony Mendel was, I hoped that nothing transpired there, but now, I see that I was probably wrong in my assumption. Please…can you tell me what happened to Kira in Colony Mendel?"
"During…the lull in battle Kira said that he was going to help Mu LaFlaga in the Colony who happened to be battling Rau Le Creuset," Athrun started slowly, "He was in there for quite a while, but when he returned back out, he said that Mu had been injured… I didn't notice it then, but he seemed to be weighed down by something. After he had discovered that Flay Alster was still alive – a girl he had hurt badly – were his words, he passed out."
"I found an exact copy of the photograph of him and Cagalli as babies inside of his flightsuit," Lacus took over as Athrun looked very hesitant to continue, "the same one Cagalli holds… Somehow, this triggered something within Kira, causing him to breakdown."
Kanoko nodded before she extended her hand out to Cagalli. "Cagalli…may I see that photograph?"
"S-Sure…" Cagalli reached inside of her vest and pulled out a fairly worn photograph and handed it to her. "Mrs. Yamato, I don't understand-"
She held up a hand to quiet her down and turned the photograph around, faintly smiling at the hastily scrawled names of Katherine's children, her own handwriting mere moments before everything went straight to hell. She turned it back around and stared at Katherine's smiling face as she looked lovingly down at her twins. Feeling tears begin to prick at the corner of her eyes, she cleared her throat roughly before looking up at the three children who sat in front of her.
Facing the photograph at Cagalli she smiled sadly, "This is your mother, isn't it?"
"Yes…" Cagalli frowned, wondering what she was getting at.
"Your mother's name was Katherine Hibiki and she was a scientist on Colony Mendel, long before it was abandoned," she said, "her husband was Dr. Ulen Hibiki."
"He sounds familiar," Lacus suddenly interjected and Kanoko nodded in agreement.
"He would, considering that your late father opposed him," she turned to Athrun, "however, I am surprised that you have not heard anything of the man, Athrun."
"Should I?" Athrun looked confused.
"Your father, Patrick Zala, supported and funded half of his research. Though I suspected it was your mother who prevented any knowledge of this to be passed on to you," Kanoko tilted her head before turning to Cagalli and nodded to the Princess' unspoken confirmation, "Yes. Ulen Hibiki is your father…and also Kira's."
"But…what did my father- Uzumi I mean…"
"Dr. Hibiki was a genius, but like some geniuses, he fell into his own madness and believed that Coordinators could be more superior than what they were now. Patrick Zala supported his idea, and siphoned some of his funds into Hibiki's private account and stationed him in Mendel to conduct his research.
"Hibiki believed that there was something that prevented a Coordinator from reaching their full potential. He wanted to surpass George Glenn, the first of Coordinators and realized that the only factor in his way was not the gene manipulation, but the mother's womb. After all, the mother was still human and humans do always make mistakes.
"However, when he tried to present his research to the scientific community, he was pushed aside by Chairman Zala and kept in the quiet confines of the curtains he was in. The Chairman wanted the findings for himself to use as a possible propaganda to overthrown Natural rule in the near future.
"Not easily deflected, Dr. Hibiki continued his research since the funds from Zala and his other supporter had been generous. He decided to build artificial wombs to test out his experiments and took his own sperm and his wife's eggs to try to create successful tests. He thought that if he successfully created the ultimate Coordinator, he wouldn't have to stay in Zala's shadows."
"So…that means-"
Kanoko shook her head to Cagalli's question. "No…there was only one successful try."
"Kira," Athrun's voice didn't hint at any emotion, but Kanoko could tell that the young man was battling with his internal demons, especially that of what his father did.
"But…"
"During that time, your mother, Katherine, got pregnant with you. She had decided that if her mad husband kept up his experiments, all life would change radically and the balance of nature versus creation would be upset. She decided to escape with her child, you, as soon as you were born. However, when the first successful…experiment…had been completed, she changed her plan to save this child too, to have him grow up as a normal Coordinator child would. She didn't want to see anymore of this mad science."
"That was when she received the support of your father Uzumi, myself, and Mrs. Yamato here. We were all assistants to Dr. Hibiki, yet we were completely loyal to Katherine," Ledonil suddenly spoke up and Kanoko was glad for the respite.
"However, the plan didn't exactly work out. Katherine, in the middle of her flight, decided that she would destroy all evidence of what had been happening on Colony Mendel and went back. She died by her husband's hands, but before she did, she had sent us a message that all of the experiments, both failed and those that were in progress had been completely eliminated and all evidence destroyed."
"Uzumi decided to take you, Cagalli, as his daughter and Ledonil as your bodyguard. I took Kira with me and we decided to part ways, never to meet again," Kanoko said.
"But Patrick Zala had heard what happened to Colony Mendel and heard about Kira. He sent an agent to bring Kira to him," she gave a sideways look at her husband and noted the shocked looks on everyone's face except her and her husband. "Keiji was one of the top Naturals infiltrators, so good that he had been suspected of being a Coordinator by Patrick."
"But once I learned the truth, I vowed to help keep the conspiracy alive," Keiji Yamato held up his hands in his defense.
"Athrun," Kanoko turned to the young man, snapping him out of his stupor, "do you know why your father sent you to the Lunar Base for schooling instead of one of the PLANT's premiere schools?"
"He said it would be good to learn some of the ways Naturals work and to help improve relationships---you don't mean?!"
She nodded, "You were sent to keep an eye on Kira. Your father couldn't do anything more because of the rising in political tensions between the Earth and PLANT. But when I met your mother, I knew that she was nothing like your father and had a good heart. She knew nothing of the covert activities your father was embedded in, but she was very bright in picking out that Kira was a special Coordinator."
"That was why my messages to my father always came back with questions about Kira that I thought I had answered. My mother intercepted them, didn't she?" Athrun asked, the clarity of the situation dawning in his eyes.
"Yes she did, but she never knew how special Kira was; all she knew was that if word got out of Kira's unique abilities, she knew that your father would know something was up," Kanoko closed her eyes briefly before opening them again, "but when tensions arose and you were sent back to PLANT, we knew that we couldn't stay on Earth or on PLANT anymore so we moved to Heliopolis, knowing that it was far from the conflict that we brewing between Earth and PLANT…however, we were wrong…"
"Father and the other Council members had contracted Morganroete to build the Gundams," Cagalli whispered, staring down at her own hands, fisted tightly.
"But Mrs. Yamato…what of the look-alike? I thought you had said Katherine Hibiki destroyed all evidence," Lacus asked, her eyes serious.
Kanoko sighed heavily, "That was what I had been afraid of. We suspected that Chairman Zala and Anton LaFlaga, a prominent Natural corporate head, might have smuggled samples of Dr. Hibiki's research to test for themselves. Perhaps when Anton LaFlaga died in the fire a few years into Dr. Hibiki's research, his things were discovered and sold to the highest bidder to try to replicate what Hibiki was doing."
"So…what now?" Cagalli asked, her face pale with the news.
"If word of this gets out, tensions will arise once more," Kanoko stared at Lacus, Athrun, and Cagalli in the eye, "and this time, stopping the war between Coordinators and Naturals will be impossible."
Kira backed slowly away from the doors to the room that everyone but him had been occupying. He had heard enough…and didn't want to hear anymore. Already, the pain had spread to clutch his mind, filling it will visions of what Rau had said those years ago… It was true…he was created…an unnatural phenomenon that shouldn't have existed.
Why did they want him alive? He should be dead for all purposes… Inwardly, he wished he had died; he had been one of the failures…why did he have to be alive right now? Why now? What was his purpose?
He stumbled out to the courtyard, and staggered towards a tree, slumping unceremoniously down in front of it, his back leaning against the coolness of the tree's trunk. He felt the blunt edges of the trunk scraping his back through his thin tee shirt, the summery night still giving off heat, but he felt no respite.
He could feel tears pricking at the corner of his eyes, but he didn't care as they started falling. Hollowness seemed to consume him as he cried out his sorrow, pain, and anguish at all that had happened to him.
Why…why was I created, he thought. Was I just a figment of someone's psychosis, their own experiment? Even my adopted mother said I was an experiment…I was a danger to everyone around me. Was I to be destined for the battlefield if I had been a successful experiment?
Was I to become like…my…clone-brother?
Kira sniffled and rubbed his eyes before he looked up past the darkened branches and up at the moonlit sky, still night time and only hours away from daybreak. He felt so lost from everything. Ever since his encounter with the person who looked like him, he felt so lonely, so out of place.
Ever since he was young, he knew that he was a Coordinator and his parents never denied it. When he asked why they made him one; their only reply was wait until he was older. He never thought about it, because at the school on the Lunar Base, he had met many other children, both Naturals and Coordinators who were like him and it was also why he became best friends with Athrun.
But was his friendship with Athrun a false friendship? Was what he heard just a façade for Athrun to become his best and dearest friend just to spy on him? Was everything a lie with him and Athrun?
And what about Cagalli? She had said that they were twins…and even showed the picture of the two of them together, but that was impossible. There couldn't be any truth in that…it…just…wasn't feasible. Could the misconception of him and Cagalli being related, much less twins, be a possibility? If he was created from an artificial womb, and she from their real mother's womb, then there was no way in the laws of humanity that they could be twins…it just wasn't possible.
Was Cagalli just keeping his hopes up? Was her father, Uzumi Attha, lying because he knew the truth to his existence and didn't want him to find out? Well, he found out from Rau and most certainly was confirmed by Mu when Rau revealed his identity. And now with his adopted mother…
Who was he anyways? Was he actually Kira Yamato, a senior college student at Orb's technical college, former pilot of the Freedom and Strike Gundam…Coordinator… Was he destined to be the ultimate weapon for Patrick Zala in his war against the Naturals? Like a time bomb of sorts? Was that what he was to become?
Or was there something else to his existence…or perhaps he wasn't supposed to exist at all, after all, he was the result of a massive tampering with the laws of creation and evolution. By all rights, should he even be alive?
"Kira…"
Kira nearly started at Cagalli's soft voice, but he didn't look up or even acknowledge her as he heard her steps coming closer to him. He just stared at a certain point in the dewy grass that was by the base of the tree, running his eyes over the roots that were above ground.
"Kira…" he felt Cagalli sit next to him, but he ignored her.
"Kira…I…know you were listening on us…I could feel it…" Cagalli started softly, "its…a twin thing."
"We were never twins nor siblings," Kira finally replied in a rough voice, and out of the corner of her eye, he saw her draw back, hurt from his comment.
"Yes we are," she suddenly narrowed her eyes, "you know it as well as I do. It doesn't matter if you were created nor was I born from a real womb-"
"Yes it does," Kira snapped, interrupting her, "it does. You…real. I am just a freak of nature. Created in some sick and twisted experiment."
"You are not a freak of nature!" Cagalli grabbed his shoulder roughly, but he shrugged her off violently, moving away from her.
He heard her scramble after him, and suddenly turned and stared at her, his eyes completely blank and devoid of anything. Seed-mode. "Don't you dare come any closer, Cagalli Yula Attha."
She recoiled, stumbling back on her hands. "Kira…your eyes…"
"I'm not human. I was created, that's all there is to it," he said in a harsh voice.
Cagalli hesitated for a second before she narrowed her eyes and raised a hand to hit him. He caught her easily and twisted it downward, seeing pain spring to her eyes. "Kira…stop…"
"You see? Strength comes easily to me. It's not human, nor is it Coordinator…" he didn't ease his grip on her hand, emphasizing his point.
"Kira…stop it!" Cagalli cried out slightly in pain as she tried to wrench her wrist from his strong grip. "You're hurting me…"
"You still don't get it, do you? I'm not your brother. I never was and never will be!" he dropped his voice to a quiet but deadly whisper.
"Kira…" Cagalli tried pulling harder, but his grip tightened, "you…are my brother. I don't give a damn if you were created! None of us do! You are one of us. You're not some freak of nature. Who gives a shit if your mother says that you were created from an artificial womb.
"I don't care if you are different from me. You are my brother, my twin, my own flesh and blood. You are you…"
She slumped against the tree trunk, and Kira blinked, his eyes still devoid of anything, as he saw tears start to fall out of her eyes. His grip on her hand lessened, and her hand slipped out of his, falling limply to the ground. His eyes started to lose their severity and returned to their normal state, wide and with realization that he had hurt her…
"C-Cagalli…" he whispered before he started to back up from her. He froze as she reached up and touched his shoulder gently.
"Don't, Kira. Don't leave us…okay? Don't fall away from those who still care for you and will always care for you no matter what the truth is," Cagalli whispered, her voice halting and sad.
Kira sighed before he turned slightly and gave his sister a half-hearted smile that was forlorn and fully if misery. "All right," he agreed quietly as he reached over his shoulder and gently clasped her hand with his own.
"We're your family. Athrun, me, Lacus…everyone, including your mother and father," Cagalli said in a quiet voice.
Kira sighed, "But…you-"
"Kira," she shook her head forcibly, "she's your mother. Katherine Hibiki might have been our birth mother, but Kanoko Yamato was the one who raised you to who you are. You are her son…" "You're also my brother and my twin," she whispered the last part as she drew her legs up to her chest and rested her chin on them. "I can somehow feel you inside my mind…"
Kira placed a hand on her shoulder, "Same here…"
"That's good," she murmured before she gave a small laugh, "I was beginning to wonder if we had that twin-thing or not." She gave a little smile and was glad that he returned it, even if it was a ghost of it.
"So…what now?" he asked.
"Stop pouting and being all 'let-me-beat-up-myself' and go see your mother?" she suggested.
Kira froze at the suggestion. He couldn't see her now…not…
"Kira," Cagalli snapped him out of his daze, "stop it. She's your mother…"
"Yeah…but…"
"But nothing. Tell her how you feel about all of this. She understands it as much as you do. Believe me, when she told us about you, even though you were listening outside, you didn't see her face. She was crying…she never wanted you to be like you are. Like our birth mother, she wanted you to live a normal life. That's what she tried to do all her life, to make you feel normal."
"Yeah…" Kira reluctantly agreed. He began to realize that even though his mother and father knew that he was not a normal Coordinator, they had tried to keep his life as normal as possible and he was starting to appreciate their efforts.
"Be strong, okay?" Cagalli shook his shoulder, squeezing it once to reassure him.
Before she could remove her hand, he placed his over her and gave it a gentle squeeze. Looking at his sister he smiled sadly, but his voice was renewed with confidence. "Thank you, Cagalli."
Athrun watched the whole scene unfold quietly in the shadows. He knew that at the time, intruding upon what was a time of healing between siblings was probably not the best idea. He had followed Cagalli out after they had decided to retire for the rest of the night to at least get some sleep before daybreak peaked in a few hours. He had thought Cagalli would go straight to bed, but she had went outside and he followed quietly behind her, as not to startle her.
Turning away to let his friends have some privacy, he headed back to the spacious mansion, looking up at the clear moonlit sky as his feet meandered their path back up the steps and past the front doors. A lot of the questions he had when he was a child were finally answered, especially regarding his father and mother's behaviors during his schooling on the Lunar Base. He now understood why his father was so persistent since he mentioned Kira's name after first meeting him all those years ago.
But even now, with the revelations that had been told to him, he still couldn't exactly take it all in as the whole truth. There just can't be the possibility that Kira was created, or even that any of Dr. Ulen Hibiki's experiments were actually experiments. What Kanoko Yamato said seemed so far out of the reaches of the norm that he had a hard time believing it.
But for one thing certain, it did explain why his father was so interested in the genetics of Coordinators, and why his obsession, even though he was in charge of the history of the structures of PLANT – that was December City, eventually destroyed his friendship with Siegel Clyne.
But still…the idea of an ultimate Coordinator…Kira?! No…the Kira he knew couldn't be such a thing. Kira was kind, gentle, sweet, and always caring for others before himself; easily hurt, burdened by so many things that he shouldn't have been burdened by. There was no way his best friend would ever be something like that twisted sick clone-whatever could be. No way that Kira would be able to commit such acts. Kira was a gentle soul.
He on the other hand, had hardened his own soul when the war between ZAFT and Earth had heated up four years ago. The events of Junius 7 told him that he couldn't afford to be innocent anymore, but the case was different with his best friend. Kira could afford to be innocent because his parents had no ties to PLANT, no ties to anything, and wanted to live the life of peace.
He hardened his soul so that he would be able to see Kira's go free…but now…he knew that Kira's soul was more fragile than ever. He had been blaming himself for the deaths of so many other people and while Athrun knew that he could just spout words of comfort, he knew that they were platitudes of nothing in Kira's own mind.
"What Mrs. Yamato said, is true, Athrun," Lacus' gentle voice making him turn around to see her walking down one side of the two-ballroom staircase that led to the second floor of the mansion.
"Lacus…I thought that you had turned in for the night," he noticed that she was dressed in a nightgown with a blue robe wrapped over her that really contrasted her long pink hair.
"I was about to, but your expression when you left the room told me that you had a lot on your mind. Do you want to talk about it?" she asked.
"No…" Athrun shook his head, "don't worry about it…I…I can sort this out…" He was about to turn around and walk away when a sudden impulse made him turn back around and stare up at her. "Why didn't I know about this earlier?! I could have found out from my father what happened and why he fell to his own madness. With this information, I could have prevented him from ever building Genesis!"
Lacus shook her head firmly, "No Athrun, you couldn't have known," she suddenly held up a hand to stop him from interrupting her, "with information like this, if you had known, then eventually the Supreme Council would have known and then the research would have continued. Many more like Kira would have been born and then there would be the genetic race of ultimate Coordinators to dominate everyone. You were a soldier, Athrun. The less you knew, the less the public knew."
"But-"
"Athrun, I knew something about what happened in Mendel, because my father wanted me to know. My mother was very unkind to him and I suspected that she had manipulated some of the genes that was used to create the experiments, and tried to alter my own genes. He wanted me to know that there was a chance, a slim possibility that I could be an ultimate Coordinator and wanted me to take extra care of what I did and how I presented myself to the public.
"But for you…there were no boundaries. After you and Cagalli had left, Mrs. Yamato told me that there was more to what Dr. Hibiki had created. There was something in the genes that if combined with another link-so to speak, then it would activate. The activation process he thought was something breaking, like a consciousness of sorts, but dubbed the reaction, seed-mode," Lacus said in a measured voice.
Athrun stared in shock. If what Lacus was saying was true…then…he had the genes of being an ultimate Coordinator. He had experienced seed-mode…in battle. It was like a breaking of his battle awareness, a seed that cracked inside of his mind and he could suddenly see his targets in a clearer light. During that time, time seemed to slow down, enabling him to predict patterns and discard them to directly hit his targets with uncanny accuracy. He had a faster reaction time, a better sense of control over his Gundam…
For a few minutes, he couldn't speak, but only stare at the ground in shock as he realized the magnitude of what Lacus was telling him. "My…father…" he braced himself against a railing of the staircase, suddenly feeling as if his chest was constricting his movements. All of the sudden it was painful to breathe…
"Athrun," Lacus placed a hand on his shoulder and he looked up at her, "even if you do have the genes of an ultimate Coordinator, you are not one. You are you…a normal third generation Coordinator like I am."
"Then what…"
"You have a slightly harder time going into seed-mode, don't you Athrun?" Lacus asked and Athrun wondered how did she know when he realized that during their battles in Justice and Freedom, their comm channels were always on, and Lacus was always able to see them switch into seed-mode.
"Yes…"
"Then that only means you are still human," she explained.
"But…what about Kira?"
Lacus shook her head, "Kira is Kira…he will always be himself, just as you are."
Athrun felt better with her words and nodded before letting go of the railing. "Thank you Lacus…" He leaned over and kissed her gently on the cheek before walking away. Even though she belonged with Kira now, he had always held her in his heart as a special person – a confidant of sorts. Now, it was no different…
Truly, he realized, of the four of them, Lacus was probably the most adult – the rest of them children to her guidance.
Lacus touched her cheek where Athrun had kissed her. It was a gentle friendly kiss, nothing more than that. He still surprised her at times, always a gentleman and very much different from Kira. Kira was a lost soul, one that needed her guidance and she was willing to give it whereas Athrun already knew his own path and knew what course he had to take.
Her father had always said that she was much wiser than she acted, and she knew that. It was a façade to act like a naive little girl, oblivious to the outside world and its consequences, but she had always been active in politics since she was born. Her mother had been one of the researchers working at the labs on Februarius City, home of the biochemistry labs and genetics labs that were used to create first generation Coordinators or to tweak second and third generation Coordinator's genes.
Her father was heavily involved on the Supreme Council, and so she grew up around everything. She knew that what Kanoko Yamato had told her was very important and of all the people that were in the room, she had to keep the secret well within the confines of the room.
If word of what happened on Colony Mendel spread throughout PLANT, then there was nothing that Eileen Canaver or herself could do to stop a tidal wave of resentment against Naturals. After all, Dr. Hibiki was a Natural scientist who had gone mad. The sheer mention of a Natural that tampered with Coordinator genes to actually try to make an ultimate Coordinator would have all the right-wing factions of both sides screaming for blood.
Lacus knew that both the Earth and PLANT could not afford another war. Not with the creation of N-Jammer technology and both Genesis and Cyclops in each other's hands. It would not be a war anymore; it would be mass genocidal murdering of each other – especially if right-wing factions took over the leadership of both OMNI and ZAFT. Xenophobia of each other would escalate tensions to the point where everyone would be completely wiped out.
Which was why the next step for the LF and for Orb was to track down whoever was trying to disrupt the peace. Lacus had a feeling that the attacks on Februarius 3 and Martius 5 were only the beginning of something larger. Orb was the first step…and the next step was hitting the Earth then somehow blaming PLANT for it – which meant that they had to find out where was the next target before anything could happen.
Even if Mrs. Yamato had said that the secret must not be let out, Lacus knew that the war between Coordinators and Naturals was inevitable – it was the only question now: How long would the peace last?
And…could they stop the outbreak of war and keep the peace?
Notes:
Anton LaFlaga - They did mention Mu's dad's name, but I couldn't quite catch it. So I named him Anton after a reference to Anton's Key that comes from Orson Scott Card's book Ender's Shadow.