Disclaimer: I don't own the Gundam Franchise, though I do know some people (and me) who would love to own Fllay...or Lacus...yes...
Astral Age 139, the nations of Earth had banded together under many flags in order to move to space and balance the great populations that plagued the planet. The first to move into space were the Coordinators, a breed of humans who have become genetically advanced humans, and were met by all Natural humans with hate and resentment. They moved to their large PLANT colonies and paved the way for more humans to move to space. Next to move were large groups of rogue fighters, who established the Neo colonies named after their respective countries, and held fights every 4 years to determine which colony was the strongest. Afterwards came several masses of Natural humans, who occupied the Lagrange colony clusters and established their own union with the PLANT colonies. Last of the great movements were the radical idealist humans who sought refuge in the new Side colonies, and set up their belief that though they were Natural Humans, they were the superior race to all others.
Because of a conflict with Earth and its space colonies, the newly appointed protectors or the PLANTs, the ZAFT, joined with the Principality of Zeon, under extreme agreements, and created a new kind of weapon to dominate the fighter craft employed by the Earth Federation and the Mobile Armors of the Earth Alliance: the mobile suit. Mobile Suits were large humanoid robot machines that were well maneuverable and were vastly superior to fighters and mobile armors (especially in the hands of Coordinator pilots). Though ZAFT suits were unusable by Naturals from the Principality of Zeon, both developed their suits differently, but in unison for training and mass production purposes.
The Earth Federation, a grand military wing of the former United Nations, tried to catch up to Principality of Zeon and ZAFT with their mass produced GM mobile suits. The Earth Alliance, the more negotiable and more tyrannical side of the former United Nations, produced their version of the Federations GM, called the Daggers and Leos. However, these suits never truly left the surface of the Earth, and the mobile suit forces of ZAFT and Zeon dominate space; while on Earth, the Alliance and Federation's suits barely hang on to Federation controlled territories on both Earth and space.
In the Neo colonies, a new type of mobile suit was created exclusively for their fighting pleasure: the Gundam. The Neo colonies organized the Gundam fights, where each of their colonies would customize their own Gundam and fight on a designated spot on Earth with the Alliance and Federation's permission. Seeing these extremely powerful "Gundam" suits, the Alliance, Federation, and a neutral nation called Orb, banded together in production of military versions of the powerful Gundams. However, this information leaked out to the ZAFT and the Principality of Zeon, and they will destroy these new suits, or use them for themselves...
In between the PLANT and Side colony clusters, a large ZAFT Nazca-class battleship, the Vesalius, is being joined by the Zeon Musai vessel, the Primus. On board the Vesalius, Rau Le Creuset is speaking with Captain Ades as Miguel Aiman greets Johnny Ridden at the airlock.
"You're positive about this transmission?" Rau questioned Ades.
"Yes sir, positive. It came from our Orb spies on Heliopolis, who sent the transmission to Lieutenant Aznable before it got to us, sir." Ades replied.
"...interesting...so the Federation and the Alliance have developed new mobile suits like the Gundam Fighters, huh?" Rau paced towards the window of the Vesalius bridge, and glared into space.
"...uh...it would seem that way, sir." Ades responded.
"Commander Creuset, Johnny Ridden of the Primus is here for you, sir." Miguel announced as he and Johnny Ridden walked towards Rau. "I'll take my leave with the others to the mobile suit deck with the others, sir," Miguel nodded and then backed away.
"Very well, have the others ready for a briefing as soon as I am finished here with Lt. Ridden."
"Aye, sir," Miguel nodded again, turned around and walked off the bridge. As he left, he ran into Athrun Zala and Nicol Amalfi walking through the corridor. "Ah, Athrun, Nicol, what are you two up to?"
Athrun shrugged, "nothing really, we were gonna go and check on our GINNs, and make sure they're up to spec.
Nicol nodded and agreed, "yea, I get the feeling we're actually gonna fight again..."
"Hey, don't be discouraged, Nicol," Miguel stood between Athrun & Nicol and rested his elbows on their shoulders, "we're the Le Creuset team, we're elites and we've never lost a fight."
"I suppose, thanks Miguel," Nicol, Miguel, and Athrun begin to continue walking down the corridor.
Miguel nudged his elbow that was on Nicol, "let's go to the docking bay anyway, Commander Creuset wants to speak to everyone when his meeting with that uh...Crimson...Lightning...guy...is finished."
Johnny Ridden walked towards Rau, and then stopped. "Commander Creuset," Johnn Ridden saluted Rau, "Lt. Johnny Ridden of the Principality of Zeon ship, Primus, reporting as ordered, sir."
Rau turned and slowly saluted Johnny, "at ease, Lieutenant, ZAFT isn't a really formal military."
"Sir," Johnny Ridden lowers his hand. "What is it that we were called here for?"
"Well, it would seem that the Earth Federation and the Earth Alliance has developed newer mobile suits for combat against our forces."
"Commander, so what exactly is it that ZAFT asks of Zeon?"
"First, the transmission went to Lt. Aznable, and his unit is in charge of destroying the Federation's before they arrive at Heliopolis." Rau opened a map on the main screen and began pointing out Heliopolis and Side 7. "We are going to join his unit as backup should they arrive at Heliopolis, Lieutenant."
Ades just stood there and looked at the two, raising an eyebrow towards Johnny Ridden.
Johnny Ridden sighed and then shrugged his shoulders. "I never liked fighting around Char Aznable, Commander."
Rau drew his attention away from the map to Johnny Ridden. "Oh? That's right...you're 'Crimson Lightning' as they say, and live in the shadow of the 'Red Comet,' Char Aznable, huh?"
"Commander, not all of us are Coordinators, like you, or just that damn good like the 'Lightning Baron,'" Johnny Ridden's voice began to rise. "I won't fight alongside Char!"
"That's not for you decide, Lieutenant, know your place." Ades stepped in to calm Johnn Ridden down.
"That's enough, Captain Ades, just get us to the Char's coordinates," Rau ordered.
"Aye, sir," Ades looked towards Johnny Ridden as the two exchanged looks; he then turned headed to a different part of the ship.
"We'll both do, as our governments asked, and ZAFT holds a higher authority than Zeon, so you'll do as I say. You'll fight and support Char, understood Lt. Ridden?"
Johnny Ridden sighed, "yes, sir."
Inside the mobile suit deck of the Vesalius, Athrun, Miguel, and Nicol were finishing their personal adjustments to Miguel's GINN, while listening to some music from a small boom box. Dearka Elsman and Yzak Joule step into the dock and are surprised, at first, to hear the music playing.
Dearka and Yzak almost instantly recognize the beautiful voice. "You're future fiancé come out with another new song, Athrun?" Dearka asked.
"hmm...how'd you know?" Athrun responded.
"Lucky guess," Yzak interrupted, "what the hell are you guys doing now?"
Athrun turns off the radio with a smile, "we're just double checking our GINNs before we go into battle again."
Dearka scoffed as he rolled his eyes, "weaklings always check their weapons." Dearka looked towards Nicol, who broke away from eye-contact with Dearka and Yzak.
"That's true," Yzak added, "true warriors can go into battle with any weapon and come out victorious."
"That's just plain stupid, you know that Yzak?" Miguel interrupted.
"No one asked you blondy, no offense, Dearka."
"Are we finished here?" a voice came from outside the mobile suit dock.
The group looked towards the source of voice. Rau Le Creuset stepped into the mobile suit deck. The teens of his team all came to attention where they stood and saluted Rau. "Sir!" they all reported.
"At rest, everyone. Get into you're pilot suits and stand by," Rau ordered.
"Where are we heading to sir?" Nicol asked.
"Yes sir, and what is our mission this time, sir?" Athrun added.
Rau began to explain the plan to destroy the Federation and Alliance mobile suits, as Johnny Ridden just arrived back on his Musai, Primus. After some minutes, the two confirm each other, and then begin to move out towards the Side 7 direction. Halfway there, they meet with Char's Musai, Camel, and the three battle ships begin there move to Side 7.
On a large radar screen, inside an Earth Alliance cruiser, a group of mercenaries hired by the Earth Alliance detect the movement of Char, Rau, and Johnny's units towards Side 7. Olba Frost sits at his seat and notices the moving units.
Yo, Shagia, we've got units moving from Zeon and ZAFT territories. Get up here and take a look. Olba communicated telepathically to his brother.
Olba, I'll be up in a minute. Get Gai and I'll meet you two on the bridge. Shagia also responded mentally.
Olba then opened up a channel to another part of the ship. "You, Gai! GAI!"
Gai Murakumo was sleeping in his quarters of the cruiser. He slowly got up and turned on the PA system to talk with Olba. "What is it?"
"We've got some Zeon and ZAFT movement, my brother says he wants to see you here on then bridge as well."
"Alright, give me about a minute, I'm coming," Gai turned off the PA and put on his over shirt. He then opened his door and was joined by Shagia to the bridge.
When they arrived on the bridge, Olba explained to the two about the movement detected. "...so that's what we've got...three cruisers headed towards Federation controlled Side 7."
"Huh, what are they up to?" Shagia thought.
"Let's contact the Alliance, let them know about this movement," Gai suggested.
"Right...they are our contractors after all..." Olba added.
Gai began typing on the computer and set a channel to the Alliance base at Heliopolis. "This is the Frost Mercenary Unit, calling Heliopolis Alliance Base..."
"..." static insued the contact, "...this is Lucrezia Noin of Heliopolis base, go ahead Frost Unit."
Gai exchanged looks with the Frost brothers, and knew that they wanted him to respond. "We've detected enemy movement between PLANT and Side 3 colonies, we suspect...three battleships or cruisers heading towards Side 7, over."
"...long range detections confirm. I'll inform the Federation, thank you, Frost Unit. Lucrezia Noin, out." Noin immediately began retyping on the communication board and opened a channel to the Federation at Side 7. "Federation forces at Side 7, this is Alliance base at Heliopolis, confirm?"
"......this is Federation bases, Side 7, can the Federation be of assistance to the Alliance?" an officer answered the call.
"You guys will need the assistance. We have detected three cruisers or battleships from ZAFT and/or Zeon heading towards Side 7, confirm?"
"...we cannot detect them yet. We'll post the colony on alert, thank you Earth Alliance..."
While the two colonies were exchanging the transmissions, in the middle was a civilian shuttle carrying exchange students from Side 7 to Heliopolis. On board the shuttle, was the young Amuro Ray, Frau Bow, and Garrod Ran. Amongst the occasional jokes Garrod cracks about Amuro and Frau, Amuro, sitting just outside of the cockpit, overhears the pilots picking up the transmission. "...heading towards Side 7, confirm?......We'll post the colony on alert..."
"Cruisers to Side 7?" Amuro said lightly underneath his breath.
"You alright Amuro?" Garrod leans on Amuro's shoulder with his elbow. "Now what's bothering you?"
"I overheard the pilots getting a transmission, from Heliopolis I think..." Amuro's eyes wandered around the ship from the cockpit to his friends.
"What? That can't be true. The Alliance and Federation are at Ceasefire with ZAFT, Amuro," said Frau.
"Yeah, just don't worry about it. Everything will be alright, Amuro," Garrod added.
Just out of the perimeters of Side 7, the Camel, Primus, and Vesalius gathered together and prepared to invade Side 7. Char, at the bridge of the Camel opens a channel to both the Primus and Vesalius; Rau Le Creuset and Johnny Ridden appear on the screens in front of Char. "Gentlemen, we've just reached Side 7 space. We'll commence the attack. My group will enter the colony first, Crimson Lightning's unit will go to the far side of the colony and take on any enemy reinforcements, Le Creuset will remain in between the two and provide support to whichever unit needs it." Both Rau and Johnny nod their heads in approval, and close the line.
Char's Musai entered the colonies defense perimeter, and easily disposed of mobile suit opposition. On the other end, Johnny Ridden's unit opens surprise fire on the units expecting Char. Wile above the cylindrical colony, the Le Creuset team stands by with Rau at the bridge and the rest of his team awaiting deployment in their GINNs.
A Zaku II from Char's unit moves in to the colony wall, and manipulates the mechanism to open the gates. While inside the colony at the adjacent gates, the White Base is in an emergency of evacuation. The hurried White Base crew barely secure the Guncannon, Guntank, and the Gundam to their respective racks, and extract the Core Boosters and Saberfish to make more space. The crew then practically tosses the incomplete scattered parts of a red and blue Gundam styled unit; amongst the yelling of orders and responses, the words "G04 and G05" can be deciphered regarding the several incomplete parts floating into the White Base.
The Zaku II finally finishes manipulating the controls, the hatch opens and the Camel rushes into the colony opening fire to destroy and GM's and Saberfish waiting for them. After completing a makeshift docking procedure, Char boards his red Zaku II and accompanies his three men into the Federation base of Side 7. As they move into the colony, the White Base departs the colony at its top speed to avoid detection. The captain sets the course to Heliopolis, and yells at the crew to "haul ass! Let's go!"
Meanwhile outside, Johnny Ridden is dashing left and right, charging at his opponents with his personal red Zaku II, destroying GM after GM, and Saberfish after Saberfish. Then, a communication from Rau Le Creuset reached to Johnny Ridden, "Crimson Lightning, Char's forces just entered the colony, do you need assistance?"
Johnny Ridden just cut through another Saberfish with his heat hawk, and began to mutter under his breath, "at least we don't have to fight the coordinators." His voice then raised when he heard Rau talking to him, "oh...uh...no sir, we're fine out here on our own." Federation reinforcements showed up in the form of three GM's, and less than a dozen Saberfish and Core Boosters. "We've just got some reinforcements here, that's all." Johnny Ridden then charged into the units with his two allied Zaku IIs.
As Johnny Ridden destroyed unit after unit, the screams of the men drowned out most of the communication lines for the Federation and Zeon frequencies. "...it's the Char! Char the Red Comet is here! It's the Red Comet! Aaaahhhhh!"
"Dammit! I'm not the 'Red Comet!' I'm Johnny Ridden, the Crimson Lighting, remember that!" Johnny yelled as he destroyed more of the units.
Inside the colony, Char's group easily disposed of the GMs and even a few Alliance Daggers in the area. One of Char's Zaku II units identifies an incomplete mobile suit on a large transport truck. The mobile suit: Gundam G-3. The Zaku II opens fire on the unit with its machine gun, barely phasing the armor, and tossed two Cracker grenades to finish off the unit. Amongst the smoke, a red haired girl ran from a building close by, and got into the driver's seat of the truck. When the smoke cleared, the truck was already getting away into a shelter area with the heavily damaged G-3 on back.
Suddenly, a young Side 7 student named Kamille Bidan who was running by, saw the explosions and then ran towards where the prototype mobile suits had been. He climbed into the black colored Gundam Unit 1, and then fully activated the cockpit. "RX-78-1, Gundam. Wow, must be a powerful suit for that kind of number. Alright, let's go...Gundam!" Having already known about how to control a mobile suit, he gets the Gundam to stand up and assesses the events taking shape around him.
"Look, the Federation suit! It's moving!" one Zaku pilot exclaimed.
"I thought it was just incomplete parts!" the other Zaku pilot added.
"We can't capture it, so destroy it. Take out that black suit!" Char ordered his three units.
One Zaku II then immediately charge to the Gundam, emptying all the rounds he could with his Zaku machinegun but to no avail, as the Gundam was unfazed because of its armor. Kamille threw away the shield and pulled out a beam saber and charged the Gundam into hand-to-hand combat. The Gundam's reaction speed surpassed the Zaku II, and Kamille lunged the saber straight into the cockpit, piercing the Zaku II and forcing it to explode on the spot. The other two Zaku surrounded the Gundam with their heat hawks out, and Cracker grenades in the opposite hand. Char himself charged to the black Gundam, placing his Giant Bazooka and heat hawk right at the Gundam's head unit.
"Uh...trapped...shit..." Kamille growled.
"Surrender you're unit, immediately," Char demanded. "I'm sure you don't want to die, soldier."
"I'm not a soldier! And you're not gonna get this unit to hurt more people!" Kamille screamed into the communicator.
"...the pilot is a kid? Hey kid! You don't wanna die do you, surrender you're unit and I'll keep you alive! What do you say?" Char demanded.
"...grrr...fine! I'm yours if you promise to leave Side 7, right now!" Kamille proposed.
"You have my word...the word of the Red Comet, kid. You can trust me I'll keep you and this colony alive." Char then lowered his weapons, and his subordinates did the same. They accompanied the Gundam unit 1 back to the Camel, and then immediately departed the colony with Kamille on board.
The Camel and Primus regrouped to the Vesalius, and the commanders opened channels to each other. They all assessed their progress, and exchanged congratulations on the capture of one unit, and then agreed to move on the Heliopolis to take out the Alliance's Gundam units. The cruisers then proceeded in a triangular formation towards Heliopolis.
Minutes after the incidents at Side 7, the White Base has just entered Heliopolis territory, and is detected by the Alliance radar systems. The White Base remained unidentified, as well as the Civilian Shuttle that had just entered range as well.
"We have detected unknown vessels in perimeter. Dispatch unit to identify targets."
"Roger. Archangel here, we're launching." The Alliance battleship Archangel departs the colony and heads towards the objects with its weapons out and ready just incase the targets are hostile. After a few minutes they reach visual and communication range of the White Base and Civilian shuttle. "Unidentified object, this the Earth Alliance battleship Archangel, state you cargo and destinations," the captain demanded.
The captain of the White Base responded politely to his request, "this is the Earth Federation battleship White Base, we've been evacuated from Side 7 with prototype units for transfer to O.M.N.I facilities at Heliopolis. Request accompaniment."
"Accompaniment granted, welcome to Heliopolis, White Base."
"This is the Civilian Transport Shuttle, FA-088, we've got students from Side 7 awaiting exchange party at Heliopolis, over," the captain of FA-088 replied.
"Roger, Archangel will accompany both units. Welcome to Heliopolis."
The Archangel, White Base, and FA-088 docked at the bases at Heliopolis. The Archangel crew and the White Base officers leave their ships and meet inside the main operations rooms of the Heliopolis Base. On the White Base, Bright Noa is left in charge of the White Base. Murrue Ramius, Natarle Badgiruel, and Archangel captain meet with the White Base captain and secondary officers. Mu La Flaga moves to the transport corridor where FA-088 has empties its students into. The students gather around him to hear his briefing, and Mu senses something strange in his mind. Amuro Ray, amongst the students, gets the same feeling; the two then look towards each other, and immediately introduce themselves with a handshake and smile. Mu then begins to brief the students about what had happened, and afterwards they move the students out of the docking bays, and off the base where they were to meet the students from the technical college.
Meeting at a large park on the base just outside of the tram station, the Side 7 students and Heliopolis technical college students exchange their experiences. Three young kids from Heliopolis meet up with three from Side 7. "Hey, how are you doing? I'm Kira Yamato," Kira introduced himself to Amuro Ray with a handshake.
"Oh, I'm Amuro Ray. Nice to meet you, Kira," Amuro returned the greeting.
Garrod then barged into their introductions, "hey, Kira. I'm Garrod, Garrod Ran, good to meet you too." Garrod began shaking Kira's hand as well.
"Yea, good to meet the both of you. These are my friends, Miriallia Haw and Tolle Koenig," Kira pointed out his friends behind him.
Garrod immediately noticed Miriallia, and slided right next to her. "How do you do, nice girl from Heliopolis?"
Mirriallia had a surprised look on her face. "I do...fine...I guess..." she replied in her confusion.
"Yea she does," Tolle put his arm around Miriallias waist. "I'm Tolle, her boy." Miriallia just leaned her head into Tolle's shoulder, to make Garrod jelous.
Garrod formed a pouted face, as if he were saying, son of bitch! But he instead replied as politely as he could, "...you're a lucky guy you know that?" And chuckled with Tolle.
Amuro turned to Frau and prepared to introduce her, "this is Frau Bow, another friend of mine from Side 7."
Frau nodded her head as she walked to Kira and shook his hand, "hi."
Kira nodded as well in acknowledgement, then raised his eyebrow. "Are you two together, or just friends?"
Frau's mind raced with questions and yelling. I'm not just Amuro's friend, I really want him, she said to herself in her mind. "No..." she looked to Amuro.
"We're just friends, Kira," Amuro replied.
"Oh, that's cool, at least you're not like these two," Kira said pointing to Tolle and Miriallia.
"Amuro?! Is that you, Amuro?!" a female voice came from the large crowd of students.
"I know that voice!" Amuro said turning to the source of the voice. "Sayla!"
"Amuro!" Sayla waved as she moved her way through the crowd towards Amuro and Kira's presence. "It's good to see you again Amuro," Sayla said giving Amuro a hug.
"Yea, you too Sayla." Amuro exchanged a mutual hug.
"Frau, you're here too?" Sayla and Frau then exchanged hugs as well.
"Hi Sayla!" Frau responded with her hug.
As the group further exchanged information, a limousine pulled up, next to all the students. Inside, a red haired girl sat down looking out the window towards Kira; opposite of her was young man with short light-brown hair and orange tinted sunglasses. They opened the door, and stepped out to join up with the rest of the class. The young man, Sai Argyle, and the young girl is Fllay Allster.
"Sai, where the hell have you been?" Kira exclaimed to get Sai's attention.
"Kira, there you are, man," Sai moved through the crowd with Fllay towards Kira.
Tolle saw Sai and Fllay approaching together after hearing Kira's call. "...more like 'what the hell have you been doing?' Eh, Sai?" asked Tolle questioning Sai and Fllay's absence.
"Wow, what a gorgeous girl, who is she?" Garrod asked Tolle and Miriallia.
"Oh, you don't know them? That's right, you from Side 7, sorry," Miriallia began to explain. "That's Sai Argyle, he and Kira are practically best pals. And that's his fiancé, Fllay Allster; the daughter of a high-placed Alliance official. There's just rumors about Sai and Fllay doing some things while being together, but they're just rumors; plus," Miriallia began to whisper to Garrod, "everyone knows that Kira has a crush on Fllay..."
"Who wouldn't?" Garrod interrupted.
"...and...only a few of us who actually know Fllay, know that she has a crush on Kira, too." Miriallia finished.
"But she's only engaged because of their fathers. Nothing really more." Tolle added.
"Shame for Kira then," Garrod said.
"Hello, Sai, Fllay..." Sayla greeted the two. Sai smiled at the sight of Sayla, while Fllay looked away towards Kira and Amuro again.
"What's with Sai and Sayla?" Garrod asked. "I've never lived here, though I've known Sayla for a while."
Tolle began to explain, "About Sayla. Before Sai and Fllay were engaged by their parents, Sai and Sayla were going out for while, and it was really looking like it would've gone somewhere if their parents didn't intervene."
"Shame, huh?"
The teacher then called for the attention of both groups of students, who have now mixed together. The students then moved to the tram station, and then got on one large tram to take a quick tour of the base before they move on.
Outside of Heliopolis, the Vesalius, Camel, and Primus have arrived with ZAFT two more ZAFT mobile suit cruisers. Inside the operations room of Heliopolis, Mu feels the same sense he had with Amuro, only stronger and more familiar; he instantly recognized this feeling as Rau Le Creuset. Rau, himself felt the same exact feeling in his mind, and also recognized it as Mu La Flaga. While riding on the tram with his new friends, Amuro gets the same feeling in his mind, and puts his hand to his head, trying to figure out who it is that he's feeling. The joint ZAFT and Zeon forces opened fire on targets around Heliopolis, and moved in to invade the colony with mobile suits.
The Vesalius remained at a stationary position just outside of the colony, Rau remained on board while the rest of his team deploys in their GINNs into the colony, one at a time.
At the White Base, Bright Noa calls for emergency preparations due to attack. "Counterattack now! All forces to battle stations! Get me the captain of the Archangel, NOW!" he ordered.
"This is Ensign Badgiruel of the Archangel. What the hell's going on?!" Natarle yelled back to Bright.
"We're under attack from a joint ZAFT and Zeon force! I'm putting the whole of Heliopolis on RED ALERT!"
"Roger! I'm assuming command of the Archangel and deploying into the colony! White Base, deploy to space only if needed!" Natarle ordered back.
"Confirmed! Good luck, Ensign," Bright replied.
"The Alliance doesn't need luck!" Natarle barked back to Bright.
Inside the colony, two battalions of GINNs and three Zaku IIs entered the colony followed by the five from the Le Creuset team. The Archangel deployed inside the colony with a group of Daggers and Leos to attack the invading GINNs and Zakus. Archangel remains airborne, providing support fire to the units on the ground, who are getting massacred by the coordinator piloted GINNs, while the Zakus and the Le Creuset GINNs search for the prototype mobile suits across different parts of the base.
Passing by at an increasing speed, the tram carrying Kira, Amuro, and their friends can't help but watch the chaos of the battle before they can reach the nearest shelter. Suddenly, a GINN and a Dagger begin to do combat some distance in front of the tram.
"STOP THE TRAIN!" Amuro shouted to the driver.
The GINN dodged the Dagger's shots, and cut into the Dagger's torso with its heavy sword, and then takes off, leaving the heavily damaged Dagger dead on the track of the tram. The tram then immediately slammed on its breaks, forcing everyone on the train to fly forward screaming for their lives. Amuro grabbed onto both a pole and Frau, while Garrod held onto Sayla and Tolle. The tram's momentum was too great, and the tram still crushed its front end into the heavily damaged Dagger. Everyone on the tram flew forward, a few of the students fell into the walls of the tram or unto each other.
When the tram came to a complete stop at last, Kira got up and immediately punched out a window to get out. Amuro followed him, carrying Frau with Garrod's help. "How the hell did you do that?" Amuro asked Kira while trying to catch his breath.
Kira was still panting as well, "I just work out...that's all..."
"Oh...let's get everyone else off the tram," Amuro suggested.
The three helped all the students and injured teachers out of the tram, and they all began to walk across the grass and asphalt towards the nearest shelters.
"Garrod, you take them inside, and make sure they're safe, okay?" requested Amuro. "Kira and I are heading back to the base, to help out anyone else, alright?"
"Yo, I can help you guys!" Garrod exclaimed back.
"Then help us by staying here and helping them. You gotta stay strong for everyone here Garrod," Kira explained.
"I don't do bad news, you two better come back alive!" Garrod yelled back as he ran with the others inside the shelter.
Kira and Amuro exchanged a nod, and then immediately began dashing back towards the base as if nothing was going to stop them. They jumped fences like hurdles, and continued their sprinting around corners of the Alliance base. As they dashed around a corner, a person was running in the opposite direction and the three bumped into each other with loud "wham."
"Whoa!" Amuro stood up, rubbing his forehead, "why aren't you at a shelter?!"
"Why aren't you?" the person said sitting up. Kira tried to help the person up, but the person refused pushing Kira's arms away. The mysterious person lifted its head and revealed itself to be young woman, no older than Kira and Amuro.
"You should really be at shelter at this time!" Kira yelled at the girl.
"Out of my way! I have things to do that don't include you!" she snapped shoving Kira and Amuro out of the way.
"Oh no you don't!" Kira immediately grabbed her arm and prevented her from running away.
"Let me go, dammit!" she screamed.
"You're coming with us to an evacuation shelter!" yelled Amuro.
Amongst the explosions across Heliopolis, the three ran towards an evacuation center, there they shoved the girl into the evacuation pods, where she took the last seat just before the pod began moving into the interior of the colony. Kira and Amuro then turned around and, returned to the base, heading towards the O.M.N.I. construction facilities.
Dagger after Dagger, and Leo after Leo was destroyed by the members of the Le Creuset team and their personal GINNs. Realizing that they were right next to one of the O.M.N.I. facilities, Dearka, Yzak, and Nicol abandon their GINNs next a few Alliance operation buildings, and force them to self-detonate. The three then ran into the O.M.N.I. facilities with rifles, killing any member of the Alliance who opposed them.
"Alright gentlemen," said Yzak with a large grin, "take your pick!" Yzak rushed up a ladder and hopped into the cockpit of one of the three units stored inside the facility. Once inside, Yzak immediately turned on the mobile suit's programs, and started it up. He began to read what appeared on the OS screen, "'General, Unilateral, Neuro-Link, Dispersive, Autonomic, Maneuver.' Whatever...let's see...G-A-T-X, 102, 'Duel,' huh, sounds like my kinda suit!"
Dearka began to read the same thing in his unit. "...GAT-X103, 'Buster'...long-range assault unit," Dearka began chuckling, "this just gets better and better."
Nicol was reading a similar program in the unit he captured. "...'Blitz,'huh...mirage-colloid systems, stealth assault unit, wow. Yzak, I'm bringing mine on full activation, how about you?"
"Let's bring 'em all online!" Yzak yelled back into the communicator. The three gray mobile suits stood up amongst the fire and smoke, their eyes flashed their individual colors. "This is Yzak, you all ready to go and have some fun?"
"Dearka here, good to go, how about you Nicol?" Dearka's unit faced Nicols along with Yzak's.
"I'm all set here. Let's get going guys!" Nicol responded.
"Right, let's try out this here new 'Phase-Shift' Armor, boys!" Yzak ordered. The three once gray units now powered up their Phase-Shift Armor and denoted their true colors. Yzak's Duel became a gray-blue and white color; Dearka's Buster turned to its green, orange, and tan colors; and Nicol's Blitz shifted from it's gray to a Black and red coating.
The Buster unit pulled the gun-launcher and high-energy rifle from its sides and pointed them in opposite directions in preparation to fire on more Alliance suits and buildings. Dearka simply laughed before he was ready to take action, "LET'S ROCK!!!" and Buster began opening fire.
"YEEAAAAAAHHH!!" Yzak yelled in unison with Dearka, and charged towards groups of Leos. Nicol joined in and fired his gleipnir at an enemy Leo, crushing the cockpit and forcing it to explode.
While all of that was transpiring within the colony, outside, the chaos wasn't any different. The superior abilities the coordinators and their GINNs outweighed the abilities of the Alliances Daggers and Leos. Johnny Ridden and his Zaku team were still racking up points that made even the coordinators want to catch up.
"You're not getting anymore!" Lucrezia Noin yelled as she flew into the battle with her Space Leo unit.
"What? More Alliance pests?!" Johnny Ridden snapped as he charged and began dueling with Noin.
Returning to the O.M.N.I. facility, Kira and Amuro are still sprinting everywhere they can to give help to those in need. Running from ground troops, Murrue Ramius was dressed in an engineer uniform armed with a hand gun, constantly looking behind her. As Murrue ran in front of the nearest O.M.N.I. facility, Kira and Amuro were doing the same from the opposite end of the facility, the three suddenly slammed into each other in the middle of the large doors of the facility.
"Hey! What are you doing here?!" she scolded the two.
"Well, we-" Amuro tried to explain.
Oh hell, they're probably my last hope, she exclaimed in her mind. "Both of you, come with me, now!"
"Hey, what about the shelters!" Kira yelled.
"MOVE IT!" she snapped back. Kira and Amuro jumped to her command and followed her into the facility.
Just outside of facility, Athrun and Miguel made a heavy landing with their GINNs. "Miguel, I'm going inside to get one those new units, okay?" Athrun said as he left his GINN and proceeded inside the facility.
"Alright, just make sure that you leave one for me, okay?" Miguel replied as he took off in his GINN to join other ZAFT forces in battle.
Inside the facility, Murrue led Kira & Amuro to one of the three units inside facility. Two of the units were gray, while the last was a lighter gray in the dark lighting and covered with a large tarp. "Here," Murrue said as she scampered up a ladder on one of the gray units, "get inside this unit, NOW!" she barked at Kira and Amuro as they also scampered up the ladder. "Ugh...get-get inside," she panted as she pointed to the cockpit entrance of one unit.
"Amuro, get inside," Kira said.
"Right," Amuro nodded and then dashed to the cockpit of the unit, and then jumped inside.
"Hey, are you alright, ma'am?" Kira asked while trying to tend to Murrue's unseen wounds. "Were you shot?"
"I'm just fine, okay?!" she exclaimed as grabbed her bleeding shoulder, "ugh..."
"You're not fine; let me help you out, okay?" Kira tried to use his hands to apply pressure to her arm, but she slapped his hands away. "You have a lot of pride about pain, don't you?"
Inside the cockpit of the gray unit, Amuro was just sitting in the seat, and began to flip a few switches. The main screen lit finally lit up, and the various digital gauges and other objects appeared. "It's finally on..." he whispered. The screen displayed a few messages as part of the start up program, and Amuro began to quickly read through the different slides of messages. "Let's see...General, Unilateral, Neuro-Link, Dispersive, Autonomic, Maneuver? What the hell is all that?" Amuro continued to go through the slides at a faster pace. "O.M.N.I. Enforcer Unit, GAT-X105, Strike...wow. Let's see if we can get this thing to move." The operating system activates, and Amuro tries to manipulate the controls, but the suit doesn't accept the combination of movements. "Oh come one! Please get up! Come on, hey Kira! This thing isn't working!"
"Hold on, I'll be right there," Kira responded as he turned from Murrue and faced the cockpit.
"HALT right there!" a loud voice came from behind Kira and Murrue, surprising both of them.
Kira and Murrue faced to the source of the demanding voice, and saw a figure in a dark red flight uniform, pointing a rifle at the both of them. Murrue tried to raise her sidearm, but the figure pointed the rifle more to her than Kira.
"I said, halt. Now, I know you don't want to die, so how about you let me take this unit, and maybe you'll live," the figure further demanded as he lifted his face shield, revealing his face.
Kira turned around and looked at the figure. His eyes widened in disbelief as he saw the face of the oppressor; he breathing began to quicken as he slowly hyperventilated some words. "...Athrun?"
The figure stood, with the very same look on his. "Kira...?" he said in the same way. The two stood face to face, at gunpoint of each other, and just exchanged visually their views of each other.