Chapter 11: Ending it all

Summary: After arriving at Ardel's base, Dearka and...Kuzzey must fight their way to get to Miriallia. Time draws near as Dearka ends it all with his mentor and the one he loves.

Review Replies:

Angel Of Dreams- Yay, I finally got this chapter out. Expect the next one when gets the upgrades.

Prayer Reverie- It's finally nice to talk to you, I should review you stories as well, but since with all these papers I have to do for college, reading nor writing stories has been taken over by papers and exams.

Cheerful-pinkstar- Thanks once again.

XWHRobynX- Naw, he'll be alive. I may hate Kuzzey, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to kill him off. The admiral on the other hand...

Yingyang-fairy- Yes.

Now on to the story!

Dearka's POV

As I saw the island on Buster's sensors, with Kuzzey's insight on his security, I flew near the ocean to avoid the sensors that detect anything flying in the sky.

I landed on the beach and surveyed the base.

A mountain eclipsed the base, a river ran alongside the base, and the base looked like it was long abandoned. It didn't look like it was used during the war.

No one is outside...hmm...

I guess I will have to use this to my advantage.

I made Buster knelt to the ground and lowered as much as possible and opened the cockpit and Kuzzey jumped out in a ZAFT pilot suit.

Rather, I kicked him out.

"Hey! We're working together, show some respect," complained Kuzzey, rubbing his sore bottom.

"Idiot! This isn't a time for courtesy. Just follow the plan so we can get out of here," yelled as I closed the cockpit and made Buster stand up.

Kuzzey activated Mirage Colloid on his pilot suit and headed wherever Milly was.

Now to cause some chaos...

With micro missiles in short supply, I used a couple to explode above the base, which activated the base alarm immediately.

Moments later, about ten GINNS flew out of several warehouses, 3 BuCUE's joined the GINNs as they left the warehouses, and over twenty GOOhN's surfaced from the ocean.

They surrounded Buster with all weapons pointed at me.

They were about to fire, but suddenly by some miracle, Beam fire from above made them scatter for cover.

I looked up to see a blue Zaku Phantom with a beam scythe being escorted by four GuAIZ with beam rifles.

"Going to battle without me? How cruel of you Dearka," sarcastically said a familiar voice.

"Yzak! How did you know I was going to be here?

"Enough talk, we've got some mobile suits to take out," said Yzak as the Zaku landed near me and covered Buster's back.

Then...he appeared.

A Zaku in jet black flew towards Yzak and me.

I couldn't tell if it was a Warrior or a Phantom because it didn't have those shields, but it had two katanas mounted on the left hip.

The Zaku unsheathed each katana one by one and pointed one at me.

"About time, Dearka, I was getting tired of that filthy Natural," sneeringly said the Admiral.

"Let's finish this, Dearka," said Yzak as he readied his Zaku into a battle stance.

"Wait, Yzak. He's mine...you go take care of those other suits,"

Yzak flew off to meet his soldiers who were currently handling Ardel's Forces.

With all the courage I had, I raised Busters arms and fired a multitude of beam shots.

They all made contact with the black Zaku...only for the beams to harmlessly dissipate off the armor.

"Well...this is going to end quick then," calmly said the Admiral as the Zaku flew towards me with both katanas to the mobile suits sides.

"Now... You're going to die!"

Miriallia's POV

-Day 1-

Where am I?

The last thing I remember was being drugged at Dearka's bedroom and now I'm in some dank and smelly cell.

I saw that the people who took me here were wearing the green ZAFT uniforms.

And then I saw one person who wore a ZAFT Council Uniform look at me with extreme prejudice.

He knelt down and held my chin up to look into my frightened eyes.

"Who are you people?"

"Just people who are better than you Naturals," said the man with a vitriolic tone.

Then he forcefully locked his lips on mine.

I tried to fight him but my hands were cuffed behind my back.

As he explored my mouth with his tongue, I had the last straw with him.

I fiercely closed my teeth and bit his tongue.

He tried to squirm away but I had it in a fierce tug of war, and I didn't intend to lose.

I held and held until I felt his fist connect with my stomach.

I fell to the ground in a coughing fit.

He wiped off blood that was obviously coming from his tongue.

"Fine, you want to play that way? Fine then bitch, I'm done playing,"

He cracked his knuckles and knelt down to ready his fists for another punch.

He was about to punch again but one of his soldiers stopped with great urgency.

"Admiral, he's gone!"

"Who's gone?"

"Our trump card."

He stood up and straightened his uniform and walked out of the prison cell.

"Oh well, it doesn't matter,"

"But Admiral!"

"I said it doesn't matter, we have a new ace up our sleeve now."

He looked at me once again with great prejudice and walked out of the prison.

"Get her some clothes, I can't stand looking at a Natural body,"

-Day 5-

I can't stand it anymore.

Day after day this sick freak shows me movies that show Anti-Coordinator slogans.

"For a pure blue Earth!" exclaimed a Blue Cosmos as he killed a Coordinator.

Movie after movie I see members from Blue Cosmos committing vicious acts against Coordinators...and even against Naturals who were helping the poor Coordinators!

Finally, after the perhaps the bazillion film that had the Blue Cosmos made, that creep returned with a silver platter filled with the cover still on top.

Not being fed since I got here in this wretched place, my stomach made an audible growl as if my stomach had a mind of its own.

The creep lifted the lid and rapidly waved his hand in my direction, my nose catching a whiff of the smell of newly baked bread.

He waved the bread near my face, so I tried to take a bite, but at the last second he viciously pulled it away.

"A Natural shouldn't eat fresh bread, give her some stale ones instead,"

Day after day I have been eating stale bread and water, and everyday I think that I can't live like this.

And I think I'm staring to feel sick.

The creepy guy looked at his pocket watch and sneered evilly in my direction...but then again he's been looking too evilly to me all the time.

"Times up."

I cringed as I heard the sounds of multiple rifles being readied.

"Why?" asked wearily as I looked into the eyes of a man so full of hatred.

"You caused him to think...to think...THAT NATURALS ARE WORTH PROTECTING!"

As I saw him motion someone to come closer, I felt the barrel of a rifle press against my back.

Then I felt a couple more barrels.

Then a few more until I felt like 20 barrels uncomfortably press against me.

Then again I would feel uncomfortable about any amount of rifles pressed against me.

The creepy old man raised his outstretched hand and showed it to me.

"Now you die like the Natural scum you are,"

I trembled as I thought this would be the last moment of my life.

Killed in a dank prison.

Away from the people I love.

No...the person I love.

Dearka helped me realize that I can't hold on to Tolle's memory forever.

I learned to love with what I have in the present, not dwell on the past.

"5," eerily whispered the man as he put down a finger, signifying a second closer to my death.

"4."

"3."

"2."

I never heard him say the last number as the prison walls shook from what sounded like explosive weaponry impacting areas around the place.

The creepy man motioned his cahoots to lower the rifles and pressed a button on the intercom.

"What the hell is going on out there?" angrily asked the man

"A mobile suit has begun attacking the base," spoke the voice on the other line in a frightened tone.

"I don't get it. This was the perfect location for a secret base.

It's not on any maps, so how did this...wait, "a" mobile suit? You mean there's only one?"

"Affirmative, but this mobile suit isn't recognizable on any of our databases...but there are recognizable pieces of the Buster G,"

Buster? Could that be Dearka?

He turned around to look at his people with bloodlust in his eyes.

Almost contagiously, the soldiers had a similar gaze on their expression as well.

"This is the moment we have been looking for! It's been a long time since we fought at the battle of Jachin Due!"

His soldiers roared in anticipation.

"Come! We fight today and destroy that suit. If all goes well, we'll retake the ZAFT council to our will once more! Now get to your mobile suits, we don't want this battle to take long."

As they left to wherever they kept their mobile suits, the leader of this primitive pack looked at me and gave me a dangerous omen.

"Once I deal with this mobile suit, I'm going to deal with you,"

He left and I was surrounded by loneliness, but this was different.

10 minutes later I wallowed in my predicament.

If he got what he wanted, I would lose Dearka and I would regret this for the rest of my life.

Then it struck again.

A few days since I've been in this forsaken place, I have started to feel sick, but I don't think it's the prisons fault.

But I'm not ruling it out.

I felt my stomach once again convulse against my body for the past 2 days.

I clutched my stomach and collapsed on the ground.

What's wrong with me?

As I began to pass out, I saw a person donning a ZAFT pilot uniform de cloak and walk towards me and helped me get up.

As I was being helped up, an explosion rocked the prison and the person let go of me and I fell to the floor.

What was to be my savior from this prison was scared as well.

"Ahhh! Let's get out of here as fast as possible!" screamed the man in the pilot uniform as he ran in circles like a headless chicken.

Wait a minute...the only person I know that runs like a chicken is...

"Kuzzey?" asked with a fear that what I asked might be answered.

"No time to talk Miriallia, we have to get out of here!" exclaimed Kuzzey with extreme bravado.

I cringed as he approached me.

"No! Why should I go with you?"

"Come on, I know the way out of here!"

"So you are apart of them!"

"No, you got it all wrong Miriallia. I can explain"

As Kuzzey slowly walked towards me, I darted past him and headed towards to prison door.

To hell with Kuzzey, I can find my own way out of this hellhole.

But I got near the door; the stomach pains once again show up at the WORST possible time

Moments later, I was once again assisted by Kuzzey.

"Relax, I won't hurt you."

"I don't believe you. How do I know you're going to kill me when I least expect it,"

"If you don't believe me, you can ask Dearka when this is finally over,"

My eyes lit up when I heard his name.

"Dearka...he's here?"

"He's giving me a distraction so I can save your paranoid behind,"

"Oh..."

"Now let's cooperate for a while. Dearka said to get you out of her as fast as possible," stammered Kuzzey as he hurriedly carried me on his back and headed the way out of here.

"Damn your heavy," complained Kuzzey as he carried me.

"Shut up," retorted as I knocked on his helmet.

-Meanwhile, outside the base-

Dearka's POV

As I continued to fend off his close-quarters assault, he managed to cut off an attachment from a Meteor Unit off my arm that shoots high-powered beam shots with those katana of his.

I flew up above the island to get some breathing space.

There is no way he can move like that with a mobile suit.

I haven't been able to get a good shot with my beam weapons and even if I did, it would just dissipate with that armor of his.

"Tell me, giveup yet?" eerily asked my former mentor.

"No,"

He flew up and with excellent precision; he cut Buster's right arm and my only beam weapon left along with it.

He flew up some more and added insult to injury; With the Zaku, he stamped its foot down on Buster's chest and I came crashing to the ground.

InsideBuster's cockpit, wires were exposed and panels were continually exploding all around me.

This doesn't look good for me right now.

The admiral, with his sickthirst of savoring each second of battle, walked slowly with both katanas in each hand.

When he came to me, he lowered the katanas to just inches above the cockpit.

"You know Dearka, if you just came back to me, none of this would have happened. In fact, if you give up now, I'll let you live," spoke the admiral through the intercom.

"If you think I'm going to give up because of this, you ARE crazy,"

He snorted at my response and raises the katanas high above Buster and made a speech.

"Suit yourself, but your decision has a consequence and that consequence is...THIS!"

As he violently lowered the katanas to go for the kill, I thought this was the end.

Have all I been through to get to Milly is to end like this? This is unacceptable.

Then I saw a red flare light up the sky in the base, which caused the Zaku to momentarily stop lowering just inches to my hull.

The source of the flare was no other than Kuzzey signaling that he was able to get Miriallia.

Yes! Just what I needed, some good news!

Getting back on track, the Zaku raised the katanas once more and plunged down towards my cockpit.

I pressed the Phase-Shift button and if by a miracle, it worked!

Yes! Some more good luck!

Buster soon became the green, beige and crimson monstrosity I used to pilot back in the war.

As the katanas made contact with my now strengthened armor, each blade began to shatter piece by piece until the only part left of those weapons was the handles.

"What the? This can't happen!"

I used Busters legs to kick the Zaku off of me and with the assistance of Meteor's Boosters, I was able to stand up and charged at the now weaponless Zaku.

I first began to use my only hand to deliver a few punches to the cockpit to shake him up a bit

After sufficiently knowing I caused him to not react to my punches, I held onto the Zaku's Head and I opened up Meteor's "Erinaceus" Missile Launchers, with each missile aimed at the Zaku.

"You fool, you'll kill both of us at this range,"

"That's never stopped me,"

"Oh is that so? Then perhaps this will,"

He raised one of the Zaku arms and raised it towards the direction where Miriallia and Kuzzey were.

Where is he going with this?

The armor around the arm broke off and revealed a missile launcher that held only a couple of rounds.

"If you shoot at them, I'm going to shoot at you,"

Even with that ominous proposition, he released the missiles and they were on their path towards Kuzzey and Miriallia.

"NOOO!"

With no reason to hold back, I released all of the missiles aimed towards him, completely obliterating the Zaku.

As Buster fell back with such force, it collided with multiple buildings that were once a thriving military base.

I assessed the battle damage and I guess this is Buster's last fight.

With the Neutron Jammer now useless, Buster began to lose power.

I was able to open the cockpit and hop out before it finally lost all energy.

As I got out, I heard a booming explosion not far from my location.

Oh no, those missiles were directed at Milly!

I ran as fast as I could to see a cloud of smoke and Miriallia unconscious from the blast.

I ran to her and held her tightly against me.

"Milly...Milly...wake up," softly spoke as I rocked her slowly.

Where the hell is Kuzzey? He's supposed to be protecting her.

As if on cue, all the mobile suits under Ardel's group lost power simultaneously and stopped fighting, which made Yzak's small squadron feel a lot more relieved as they shot down the enemy mobile suits.

Minutes later the blue Zaku dropped down and opened the cockpit, with Yzak hopping out.

"Is she all right?" asked the concerned member of the Zaft Council.

"She looks okay, but I'm worried about what they did to her while she was here,"

"Come on, we should get you two back to Orb,"

Soon after this conflict, Yzak had not only brought his mobile suit and his squadron, but he also had his ship, Muradin, as long range backup which was now docked beside the beach..

I carried her in my arms across the base and I walked towards Muradin when I saw Kuzzey ran towards me.

"WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!"

"I'm sorry, but..."

"But what? You left Milly out to die. What possible excuse do you have now?"

"I thought I would help out by shutting power off to the mobile suits."

Wait...so that was his doing?

Choking on my pride, it took me a while to apologize.

"Hey Kuzzey, I'm sor...I'm sor...I'm...sor...I'm glad you helped out. Now let's get back to Orb and clear your name,"

So it wasn't a complete apology; if he ever brings it up, I can at least beat him up.

-10 hours later, Central Orb Hospital-

What a day this was eh?

After presenting evidence after evidence that members from Ardel's Faction had committed these crimes in Orb, he was cleared of any crimes against his name.

A doctor is currently diagnosing Miriallia, who currently is in a hospital bed.

Her mother and father, who recently arrived from Germany came straight away to the hospital and were sitting in the waiting room with Kuzzey and me.

I had a lot on my mind as well.

I almost got Miriallia killed when I was fighting back there.

If she did get killed I would have never forgiven myself.

If only I had sharpened my piloting skills I would have taken Ardel down quicker.

If only...

Kuzzey who was shaking my shoulder disrupted me of my thoughts.

"What do you want Kuzzey? I already gave you money to buy some candy off those vending machines,"

"No, didn't you hear? Miriallia's awake and she wants to see you,"

Relieved by that news, I walked by the florist and bought some lilies to bring for Miriallia.

When I walked into her room, her eyes lit up like the night sky.

"Are those for me?" asked Milly as she eyed my bouquet of lilies.

I handed them to her and she took in the smell of the newly bought flowers and looked up at me and smiled.

"I like tulips...but I guess lilies smell nice too,"

I sat at the edge of her bed and admired her features.

I would never want to leave her...but now, I don't really know anymore.

She grabbed my hand and pulled it towards her stomach.

"What is it Miriallia?"

"Oh...I guess it's too early for them to be kicking,"

"Kicking?"

"The doctor said I'm fine and these stomachaches are simply natural with..."

"With what?"

"Pregnancy,"

Pregnant? She's pregnant?

Noticing my depressed expression, she spoke up.

"What's wrong, I thought you wanted a Dekkie Jr. of your own,"

"I know I wanted this to happen you move into your parent's place for a while?"

"Why? I want to be with you when the baby comes out of me,"

I got up from the bed and walked towards the door.

"Wait! Why are you doing this Dearka?" asked Miriallia who was now crying.

"I almost got you killed back there. If only I had trained more in a mobile suit then you wouldn't have been knocked unconscious, if only I had more people protecting you, if only..."

I turned and ran.

"Wait Dearka! Wait!" was the last thing I heard from Miriallia.

Unable to look at her anymore, I ran out of her room, past Kuzzey and her parents, and left the hospital.

Even though I got what I wanted, why am I running away from it?

Why?

A day later I ordered my staff to pack everything of hers and sent them to her parents place.

I just can't look at anything that is of Miriallia's right now.

(Transform into Waverider mode and prepares to fly past any flame hurlers)

Now before you go on a witch hunt, I already have the last chapter made and I'll upload it once I edit it enough and when gets done with it's upgrades.

Chapter 12: Moving On

Summary: Dearka comes back to Miriallia after finally getting his personal issues resolved.

Plus there's a baby, or perhaps, two babies, or perhaps 3 babies...on second thought, 2 is better.

Oh and since I probably won't be able to send the last chapter until gets its quirks fixed so expect the last chapter on Tuesday.

And to Prayer Reverie, I am so jealous of you right now!

After reading the latest chapter of Kido Senshi Gundam SEED: The Keshitai, I read the last paragraph and I'm jealous.

You got into the Beta! Damn I wish I knew Blizzard was taking more beta testers.

Oh well, I'm still planning of getting a copy for Christmas.

Anyhow, I'm going to lie back and talk at my message boards, talking about the newest episode of Gundam SEED Destiny!