DISCLAIMER: If there were Gundams, I would steal them and then destroy the world. But unfortunately they don't exist, so why sue me?
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Nice reviews… just read on I like you already D, though I got to say something to you guys that from now on, I would be forced to update this fic about a week to two weeks instead of a couple of days because my vacation will be soon over and I would study again. But I promise you guys, this fic will finish with a big bang.
By the way, special thanks random reader for correcting the military positions.
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED:
Fate
The Archangel-class Battleship had just arrived at the Aube territorial waters after the atmospheric drop and was now going inside the naval port.
The Aube Headquarters, as everyone knew, had self-destructed, but it had only destroyed the above surface down to the third underground level including the Kaguya Mass Driver Facility. In other words, the repair and docking services below Aube was intact during the explosion, thus enabling the Orb to reuse it for the Peacekeepers Units. After the war had ended, the Aube facility has been hastily repaired until today.
After the standard docking procedures, every personnel were permitted to go see their family for a short time and they welcomed it gladly.
"Major Nataku Badgiruel… same rank as her eh?" Murrue commented, looking at the couple of papers Nataku presented to her when he reported at her office onboard Archangel.
"Yes ma'am" Nataku replied, knowing too well what she mean.
"According to your records, you have participated in the defense of Panama and the retaking of Victoria spaceport. Quite formidable records indeed, and during the Operation Countdown you have met and fought with Major Mwu La Flagga in the defense of Andymion"
"Full credit goes to him ma'am, the great Falcon of Andymion. I was saddened when I heard about his untimely death during that war"
Murrue nodded and continued to look at his papers "Hmm… all of your transfer papers are in order so…"
She stood up and raised her hand to handshake him "Congratulations, as of now you are now part of the Peacekeeping Forces Unit 7, Major Nataku Badgiruel"
"Ma'am" Nataku replied, shaking her hand "Thank you ma'am"
Murrue smiled, before handing him a disk "This disk contains the data down to the last detail about the Kamiapolis incident. It includes everything you need, pictures, voice recordings, overview map of the facility, etc. etc. Now start working"
"Yes ma'am…"
Nataku saluted and then left the office.
"What do you think of him Admiral?" Kisaka asked, sitting after Nataku had left.
"I think he is a decent man… that's all. He is quite famous for solving military investigations so fast"
"Hmm… how he manages that?"
"I don't know… maybe he has a couple of contacts on his secret payroll"
PHASE 04: Yamato Squad
Technicians were milling around the mobile suits Duel and Buster as they were brought to the hangar and was parked along with Freedom. Their respective pilots then came down while the technicians engaged lockdown clamps in their mobile suits.
"That Freedom pilot… I'll see him for sure today" Yzak muttered, seething painfully as his side contracted.
Dearka sighed helplessly, looking at his bandaged shoulder.
"Oh there is the Freedom pilot you've been itching to see" the blonde pilot said, pointing at Kira who went inside the Freedom's cockpit.
"I think I'll drop in for a nice chit chat" Yzak said, smiling as he took the umbilical bridge elevator to brought him up, Dearka following him uneasily.
OOOOOOOOOOKira was busy checking and updating again the Freedom OS when someone interrupted his work.
"So you are Kira Yamato, am I right?" someone said.
Kira looked up to see Dearka and another guy staring at him, particularly that another staring at him like that.
"Yes"
"I didn't realized until now that you are the one piloting this mobile suit, and the one who formerly piloted Strike"
"Yeah…?"
"Didn't realized that I've seen you before…"
Kira frowned, then remembering that he indeed saw him before. Back at that fence, during that time when he searched his pet robot bird Tori.
"Let me guess… you are the one who piloted Duel…"
"And you are the one who gave me this scar, Kira Yamato"
The Freedom pilot then stared at Yzak with slit eyes, and then raised his seat. He stood up and before anyone could comprehend on what he had done, he punched Yzak straight in his face.
Dearka exclaimed while he ran to Yzak's side "What the hell!?"
"That's for the shuttle you had shot down!!!" Kira angrily seethed.
People around looked at them interestedly.
Yzak looked at him back dementedly, knowing too well what he was talking about "That shuttle was carrying those retreating Natural bastards!"
"Natural bastards you say!! That shuttle is carrying civilians!! On top of that… on top of that…"
Kira impulsively reached out and grabbed Yzak's collar "THERE IS A LITTLE GIRL IN THERE YOU… YOU BASTARD!!!"
"Stop it you guys…" Dearka said, going between them.
Yzak's eyes widened as Kira abruptly threw him beside and runs away, crying.
"That shuttle… did it carry civilians?" the silver-haired pilot muttered before he shook his head "No he was lying, that bastard…"
Dearka saw that Yzak couldn't believe what Kira had said, so he suggested "If you don't believe what he had said, then you might as well ask about that to the crew of the Archangel. They were there to see that happen…"
Yzak spitted blood before forcibly standing up, pain contracting in his injured side. His silence satisfied Dearka that he would really ask about that matter.
OOOOOOOOOOIn some hangar, three deadly-as-they-look mobile suits stood above the simulation and training ground. Cables run from each of the mobile suit cockpits to the virtual simulation training dummy cockpits in the ground. Researchers milled around as the record the combat data of their pilots.
"Wow… amazing…" Kylie said during the virtual mobile suit simulation session along with her teammates "This mobile suit I'm piloting is amazing!"
"Ten enemy mobile suits at three o'clock" Bart reported.
"Ana, handle them. I'll take care
of these pesky mobile suits in my front"
"Hai" Ana replied.
While they continued their session, several researchers were monitoring their progress.
"Hmm… it seems that they are quite… skilled pilots. Extremely skilled pilots" a man in his 30's said, his glasses shining due to the light coming from the fluorescent lamps "How much more enemy mobile suits they have shot down in a minute?"
"Sir" the researcher reported "Approximately one hundred mobile suits per minute"
"Amazing… what are the models of those enemy mobile suits?"
"Strike Daggers, Cgues, Dinns, Ginns, Zauts, Bacows, Geits and a couple of mobile armors, all of them attacking in all directions"
"From the data gathered during the CE71 war, are they all accurate according to their combat data?"
"Yes sir"
The man then approached the control unit and inserted a disk.
"What are you doing sir?"
"I will upload the models of the "star" mobile suits during that war"
The man then typed some console commands and then straightened up, picking the communication headset.
"Ah guys…"
"Yes?" the pilots chimed.
"You performed well during the simulation. I must say that I'm quite impressed with you performances"
"Those mobile suits are easy" Bart sarcastically commented.
"Yeah…" Ana said.
"Shut up you guys!" Kylie mirthfully exclaimed.
"Oh yeah? If that's so then you must take up the next challenge?"
"What mobile suits?" Bart excitedly asked.
"You'll see…" the man said, before pressing the enter button in the keyboard.
Six mobile suits appeared on the simulation, and all three pilots gasped.
"Wow… they look all deadly to me" Kylie commented.
"Sure is…" Bart could only say.
"What are these mobile suits?" Ana asked.
"Freedom, Justice, Providence, Raider, Forbidden, and Calamity. From the data we have gathered, all of them will move and engage at you according to their respective pilot data. Do your best pilots, becausetheir pilots are excellent"
The pilots didn't reply and instead engaged those mobile suits in virtual combat.
"Gather all their pilot data and we'll put them into good use" the man in glasses ordered a researcher.
"Yes sir"
The man then walked towards the head researcher "Is everything going smoothly here?"
"Yes sir Blue Cosmos Director, Reyland Raphael" he replied.
"When will these mobile suits be operational?" Reyland asked, nodding towards the towering mobile suits above them.
"Sir, as of now the GAT-X051 Prohibit, X019 Foray, and X085 Disaster is at ninety percent done" the researcher reported, looking at his clipboard "Within a week sir, they would be operational"
"I see… anyway they are based from the designs and specs of the GAT-series X252, X370 and X131. The new GAT series we had are better than those mobile suits. Equipped with Internal Thermo-Nuclear Drive, Neutron Jammers now met their match"
OOOOOOOOOO"What's this?" Cagalli asked, frowning when Claudia showed her the dummy cockpit, its cables connected to the ZGMF-X06A Righteousness' cockpit.
"You are going to duel with each other in virtual simulation" Claudia simply said.
Cagalli was about to question who her dueling partner was when she saw the green-haired youth who kidnapped her stepped inside another dummy cockpit, this time connected to the ZGMF-X07A Independence's cockpit.
"What do you want? Combat data?" the Orb representative asked, frowning.
"Yes"
"What makes you think that I will do it?"
Claudia stared at the boy and he got her signal, throwing the sword to her. She caught the sheath and pulled out the blade inside it and then pointed its sharp edge to Cagalli.
"If you value your life, I suppose you will do what I want"
Cagalli seethed, and before Claudia prodded her again, she stepped inside the dummy cockpit, which closed around her. Darkness envelops her for about two seconds before lights came up and heads up displays popped up. Monitors came to life and she can now able to see outside.
She knew that the outside was computer-generated background image. A later while her rival, the Independence Gundam came out in the view, the mobile suit also a CG image.
Claudia's voice came into her dummy cockpit's communication channel.
"You won't come out there Miss Attha until I see the satisfying results. Begin!"
Before Cagalli realized it, she had already moved her suit to dodge the incredible multi-colored laser barrage the Independence Gundam was shooting at her mobile suit.
She couldn't helped but to be amazed at the mobile suit she was piloting "This mobile suit, Righteousness… my God…"
OOOOOOOOOOAthrun Zala commandeered his custom-made Geits mobile suit in space as dummy enemy mobile suits popped up in his HUD (Heads Up Display), training along with other Peacekeeping Forces Mobile Suit Division 30 stationed at PLANT.
He easily shot down those dummy mobile suits with Gets' Buster Rifle, dodging the paintball bullets and missiles headed his way.
"If I only had the Justice…" he complained to himself, but then he thought that if he didn't detonated his Gundam inside the Genesis Cannon, Earth would be destroyed.
Sighing, he continued the exercise, determined to keep up his excellent piloting skills. He didn't have plans to be beaten by his best friend in piloting, even if he still has his Freedom Gundam.
Gundam… another term he had picked up from Kira in defining those special mobile suits.
OOOOOOOOOO"—there is a big chance that the Orb Representative was brought to the Mendel Colony" Nataku said, tapping up the investigation report on the monitor.
"Mendel Colony you say?" Murrue said, glancing over to his investigation report.
"Where else? It would be impossible for that group to retreat to Earth because the Atlantic Federation Orbital Monitoring and Defense would detect them. Unauthorized drops would result in being shot at"
"Hmm…"
Nataku exasperatedly wailed "Arrgghhh!! It's been five days and still you hadn't suspected the Mendel colony as their hideout for five days!!" Arghhh!!!"
"What would you want us to do, major?" Murrue asked.
Nataku straightened up and told his point "Set up the whole Unit 7 and investigate the Mendel Colony… again. Even though I know that it has been searched already, from the inside out"
"Yes, yes. Tomorrow, we'll sortie out, all of Unit 7"
"That's better"
OOOOOOOOOONext morning the mobile suit pilots, Major Badgiruel, Colonel Kisaka, Lieutenant Neumann and Admiral Murrue and a couple of officers gathered at the strategic meeting room.
"I believe that the Orb representative was brought to the Mendel Colony by the forces unknown, so it's best to check it out"
"Mendel Colony was searched a month ago right?" Yzak said.
"I know, but I believe we had missed something there. On top of that, suspicious activities was sighted in that colony"
He brought up a couple of visual feeds of the Mendel Colony.
"That's something new…where did you get that Major?" Murrue asked.
"I had a contact—a scavenger I will refuse to name—took these live visual feeds. And just look at that, wouldn't it be suspicious?" Nataku said, pointing at the large object on one of the feeds.
"That looks like a… ship… exiting the Mendel Colony" Dearka remarked.
"Another sortie I suppose?" Yzak asked, glancing at Kira's serious expression.
Nataku nodded "Yes"
"So what is the plan?" Kira then asked, thoughtful expression evident in his face.
"Well, the plan is that we would meet up with the rest of the Unit 7 in space" Nataku explained "After re-supplying the ship, Archangel will then move forward to Mendel Colony. Once we had reached its territorial space the mobile suit team will then move in"
"Mobile suit team…" Arnold Neumann, the Archangel's helmsman said.
"Let's see…" Nataku said, assuming the thinker stance while checking up the pilots "Hmm… good, good"
"Huh?" Yzak said, frowning.
"Yamato squad"
"Huh?" Kira Yamato queried.
"Yes, that's right. Athrun Zala has been notified about this mission and would soon join up with you. After he had joined up with you, you are now officially under Yamato squad. Of course, Kira here would be the leader" Nataku explained.
"That would be interesting" Dearka commented "The great Yamato squad"
Yzak chose not to say anything about it.
"Then it's settled. Archangel will launch in one hour"
While they talked about a couple of things, Admiral Murrue Ramius smiled and said to herself "Well… he is quite a capable strategist himself… just like Natarle"
OOOOOOOOOO
"It was true…" Yzak morosely admitted after seeing the shuttle being destroyed by his mobile suit Duel during his battle with the 8th Armada, last two months ago "I shot down that shuttle…"
"See? Then Kira has a right to hit at you like that" Dearka said.
Yzak touched his injured cheek and finds it still aching "He even had a right to kill me if he was up to it…"
"Hmm…"
"Don't worry I won't kill you" Kira said, startling them especially Yzak "I won't kill you Yzak Jule"
Eerie silence befell upon them until Kira decided to speak again "Admiral Ramius told me to tell you guys that we are now ordered to be on standby in our respective mobile suits" he said before turning around and started to walk towards the hangar where their mobile suits are kept.
"Affirmative" Dearka said, saluting and followed suit.
Yzak uncomfortably nodded and walked together with Dearka.
OOOOOOOOOO
The battleship-class Archangel then slowly rose from the naval port, inclined in twenty-degree pitch before firing its two Lohengrin Particle Cannons in full speed, thus creating interference in the aerospace that would enable them to accelerate faster into space.
The Archangel carries the mobile suits Freedom, Duel, Buster and Major Badgiruel's Strike Dagger equipped with Aile pack.
Unknown to them however, someone was watching, and reported it to someone in his communication device.
OOOOOOOOOO
"So they are now heading towards here at the Mendel Colony, huh?" Claudia remarked.
"What are your orders?" a soldier who reported this to her asked.
"Hmm… I think it's time now for Operation Meteor. Are our men ready?"
"Yes, they are ready to assault the stability control center at one of the PLANT colonies, the Amorante 8. At the same time, another group of our soldiers are ready to take down the present PLANT government"
Claudia smiled "Begin the operation in 0800 hours. By then the whole Peacekeeping Forces Unit 7 will be all but too late when they reached this Mendel Colony"
"What about Miss Attha?"
"Oh, she'll stay at my side and watch the fireworks"
Claudia then saw the green-haired youth walking towards the cockpit of Independence, already dressed in his cockpit entry suit.
"What do you think you're doing, Loki Einwell?" she asks.
The green-haired youth named Loki Einwell replied, staring at Claudia with his golden eyes "I'm going to sortie out"
"But the Independence mobile suit is still not yet complete"
"I know, several weapon packs are not yet attached on it along with its main weapons, but its beam sword will compensate. If I got into any trouble, I'll just activate the MCSS (Mirage Coloroid Stealth System)"
"But still… why would you want to fight them?"
"I don't know… I just like to"
Claudia thought for a moment before she answered.
"Hmm… okay then… but return when I ordered you to"
"Yes ma'am"
Loki then went inside the Independence's cockpit before it closes around him. And then moving the mobile suit into the surface elevator that would bring it outside of Mendel Colony.
"Prep out the Ginn mobile suits" Claudia then ordered the soldier "They will cover us in our escape"
OOOOOOOOOO
After meeting up with the rest of the Unit 7 in space and after resupplying, the Archangel then moved forward to the Mendel Colony. Soon they had the colony in their sights.
"I didn't realized that we would be going back to that colony again…" Athrun said on Kira's communication channel aboard Freedom.
"Yeah…" Kira replied, memories about that place returning to him, causing him to frown which Athrun noticed in his above communication channel live video aboard his Geits Custom.
"Something wrong Kira?"
"Huh? No, there's nothing wrong…"
"Oh…"
"Uhh… may I butt in?" Dearka asked from his communication channel in Buster.
"Yeah, sure" Athrun answered.
"It seems that we are going back to that colony right?"
"That's what Kira and I are talking about"
"I see, hey Yzak remember the last time we went there?"
"I remember, I know…" Yzak replied monotonously.
After awhile the sortie buzzers sounded, signifying that they are now ready to sortie out.
"Well, its time… let's go"
OOOOOOOOOO
"Well… the mobile suit team is ready ma'am" Miriallia said, reporting to Murrue.
"I see… well then, all hands in First Stage Battle Status!"
The Archangel then moved out at the same time, the mobile suits aboard it sortie out.
Several beeps startled Murrue and she asked Sai about it.
"Ma'am, sensors detected a movement on Mark 3, Charlie 20, 10,000 meters. It is only a single mobile suit according to the sensors and coming from the Mendel Colony. It's coming towards us"
"A single mobile suit, what kind?"
"Searching the database according to its registered thermal patterns and its acceleration… nothing found!"
Murrue then turned to Miriallia "Send out order to the pilots of Freedom and Geits to check out that mobile suit, while the rest would search the Mendel Colony's interior and exterior"
"Tell them to wait" Nataku said, jumping off from his seat "I'm going out too in my Strike Dagger"
"Major…" Murrue started, but Nataku cuts her off.
"They would need assistance in searching the Mendel Colony"
"Okay then…"
"Acquired visual contact, enlarging the image" Sai reported "Displaying on the monitor"
All gasped when they saw the mobile suit.
"A Gundam!?" Murrue exclaimed.
OOOOOOOOOO
"Major Badgiruel will join you and together you will search inside the Mendel Colony" Athrun said over to the communication channel "Kira and I will check out that unknown mobile suit"
"Roger that" Dearka replied in his communication channel before Buster and Duel joined up with Major Badgiruel's Strike Dagger and boosted towards the Mendel Colony.
Kira and Athrun warily approached the mobile suit, and gasps when they saw what it looks like in their magnification scope.
"A Gundam!?" Kira exclaimed.
Athrun frowned "At a time like this…"
After a short moment the mobile suit's identification is displayed on the monitor, in big bold orange letters: ZGMF-X07A Independence.
"Independence…?"
"The model number… was it made by ZAFT?"
"Apparently, it was made by those Klueze faction…"
Suddenly Independence boosted forward to them, its weapon—a Beam Sword like that of Sword Strike's—engaged.
Kira and Athrun reacted and moved their mobile suits away, Kira dodging the swipe.
"So fast…" Kira said before firing Freedom's Vulcan cannons at Independence, which dodged it nimbly.
Geits then boosted forward, its Beam Claws opened up and clashed with Independence's Beam Sword.
"This guy…" Athrun seethed, moving away his Geits before being struck upon by Independence's Beam Saber.
Kira moved his Freedom forward and tries to hit Independence with Beam Saber, only to succeed in slashing thin air where Independence had been.
"He's difficult to deal with… an exceptional pilot!" Kira exclaimed.
WHAM!!
Before he realized it, the Independence kicked his Freedom away.
"Nggg…"
"Kira!" Athrun exclaimed before he realized that the Independence was already swinging the sword below him.
"Oh shit!!"
KZZZTTTTT!!!!
Athrun's Geits dodged the blow but in the process, the Independence managed to slice clean the Geits' right hand. Athrun retaliated by swiping Geits Beam Claws at Independence, but was parried.
The Independence then poised to strike him.
"No you won't!!!"
Kira's voice made itself heard in Athrun's communication channel as Freedom kicked Independence's head unit.
Geits picked up the Buster Rifle floating in space and fired at the Independence, yet again dodging easily his beam attacks.
"That mobile suit… is sure extremely good at maneuvering" Kira said to Athrun through communication channel "And its pilot too…"
"It is… you should return now to the Archangel and get your mobile suit repaired, its right arm has been destroyed"
"But—"
"No, I will take care of it"
"Are you sure that you can handle him?"
"Yes"
"Okay then, I'll leave him to you"
Tensely Freedom and Independence warily waited for each other to move before Kira decided that he would go first, engaging Independence in Beam Saber-Beam Sword combat as Geits retreated back to the Archangel.
OOOOOOOOOO
"Where do we suppose to search at, Major Badgiruel?" Yzak impatiently asked.
"At Area 7-100, check out your maps on your onboard computers"
"Major, ten heat patterns registering as Ginn mobile suits appeared, NW about 7000 meters from our current position" Dearka reported.
"Are they under the Peacekeeping Forces?" Nataku asked.
"No, they aren't"
"Seems that my assumption is correct after all" Nataku confidently said before boosting forward his Strike Dagger "There is something inside here after all!"
He then charged out into the open together with Yzak and Dearka. After a moment, they saw the Ginn mobile suits, apparently waiting for them.
In a second, Strike Dagger, Buster and Duel are blitzing with those Ginn mobile suits, firing and dodging.
OOOOOOOOOO
"Major Nataku reported that they had engaged a couple of enemy Dinn mobile suits" Miriallia reported to Murrue.
"I see, what about the situation of Kira and Athrun?" Murrue asked.
"They are still engaging with that mobile suit, registering as ZGMF-X07A Independence"
"A new Gundam!?" Murrue exclaimed "Archangel, steer to port 15 and support Freedom! Open up the Variants Rail Cannons and activate Corinthos pod missiles. Send Freedom the order to move away from the missile trajectory"
"We got a lock on, Admiral" Ramel Paru, the ship's new weapon helmsman reported.
"Fire!!"
OOOOOOOOOO
Loki was puzzled why Freedom moved away so sudden when he realized why as alarm beeped beside him signifying that the Independence has been locked upon. He then moved his mobile suit away from the Variant Lasers path while dodging the missiles being launched at him.
Claudia's voice then made itself heard on his communication channel "Break away right now. We're leaving"
"I understand" Loki replied and after dodging the beam attack from the Freedom, he then boosted away from the battlefield.
"Where are you going!?" someone from the Freedom exclaimed in his communication channel, chasing him "Where are you going!? Where is Cagalli!?"
Loki frowned, identifying that someone as Kira Yamato, the former pilot of Strike. He continued to boost away while Freedom runs after him while firing the Beam Rifle at his Independence.
That decided for Loki, activating the Mirage Coloroid Stealth System. It did the trick, stopping Freedom in its tracks while trying to figure out where did he go.
OOOOOOOOOO
"Arghhh!!! They're such a pain in the ass!!" Yzak exclaimed, trying in vain to take down a single Ginn. So far not even one of the ten Dinn mobile suits they are engaging was destroyed.
"They are not regular pilots, I'm sure of that!" Dearka said.
Nataku managed to destroy a Ginn's leg part but still it keeps on shooting at his Strike Dagger.
"Lucky you major!" Dearka sarcastically commented "You managed to hit one of them at least!"
A beep distracted him from observing Nataku's vain attempt to destroy at least one of the Dinn mobile suits.
"Oh sit!!!"
A large beam suddenly was fired upon them as they took evasive maneuvers.
"What the hell!?" Dearka exclaimed.
"A battleship-class detected below us!!" Yzak exclaimed over to their communication channels.
They saw a battleship appeared from the mountainous hideout and was now moving towards the Mendel Colony exit.
"That's what I'm telling you!! Are you guys recording this?" Nataku asked.
"Oh shit! I forgot!"
"Then record it now Elthman!!"
"It's recording now!! Sending the data to Archangel!"
An explosion occurred just behind them. Turning around they saw Duel hovering around the two destroyed Ginn units.
"This guys are too hard to deal with! As if I was fighting Nicol!!"
Dearka frowned at his statement "Fighting Nicol?" he asks.
"He moves are just like Nicol! Do you remember our mobile suit mock battle back two months ago?"
"During the time we are at ZAFT? After we had snatched these mobile suits we had today?"
"Yes!"
A barrage of missiles distracted them, taking evasive measure so as not to be hit before Yzak and Dearka resumes conversation while they are again busy with the Ginn units.
"But Nicol was dead right!?"
"I'm not saying that Nicol was piloting that mobile suit! I mean that those who are piloting that Dinn suits are moving and thinking exactly like Nicol!!"
"I got your point, so lets take them down already!!" Dearka exclaimed, attaching Buster's two primary weapon armaments into a long multi-laser weaponry and then firing it, destroying five Ginn units immediately.
"Hey, leave some for me!!" Nataku exclaimed, shooting down a Ginn.
OOOOOOOOOO
"A battleship-class detected at Mark 5, Charlie 76, Indigo 9! Distance, 15000 meters!" Sai reported.
"A battleship!?" Murrue exclaimed "What kind!?"
"Accessing the database according to its registered thermal patterns and acceleration… nothing was found!" Sai said "Magnifying the battleship…"
The monitor displayed the enlarged object that is the unknown battleship, and all of them gasped.
"That looks like the Eternal Battleship!" the Archangel's helmsman exclaimed.
"The Independence disappeared from our sensors Admiral" Miriallia reported "Freedom cannot find the target!"
"Does it have the MCSS function?"
"Apparently, yes admiral"
"The unknown battleship is breaking away from us!"
Before Murrue could issue an order to go after what looked like the Eternal battleship, someone from that battleship is attempting to contact them.
Opening up the communication between their ships, Murrue asked "Who is this?"
"This is to the Archangel ship, if you proceeded further I cannot guarantee the well-being of someone important onboard our ship, Eternal-class Forever" someone female said as if threatening her.
Sensing the worst premonition, Murrue asked again "Who is that person?"
A moment later a familiar someone's voice spilled in the speakers "Ramius-san!! Go get this captors—ahhh!!!"
"You heard her, your Orb Representative, Miss Cagalli Yula Attha. Now stand down all of you and if you didn't, I cannot guarantee her safety"
OOOOOOOOOO
"You bastards!!!" Athrun exclaimed, seething when he heard over to his communication channel that Cagalli was being held hostage onboard that ship.
At the same time Kira, who also heard it aboard Freedom in his communication channel, also exclaimed "You bastards!!"
TO BE CONTINUED