Disclaimer: …has anyone else had their defenition of "cute" destroyed by Lacus Clyne? I have!
"Kira Yamato! Strike Gundam! Heading out!" Kira shouted as the Aile Strike Gundam sped down the launch pad and out into space.
At the bridge of the Archangel, the main crew was getting the teens acclimated to their new jobs and the same was occurring on board the white base. Miriallia sat at the mobile suit/mobile armor operations console on board the Archangel, and Sayla was doing the same as her counterpart on the White Base. Tolle began his training-in-action at the controls of the Archangel; on the White Base, Garrod was also doing his part as pilot as well. Sai sat with Natarle at the firing control, learning quickly as she took up the pace in explaining to him the control system.
"So, what is it that you want us to do?" said Kai to Bright, the acting-captain. He stood with his pal Hayato. The two teens were dressed in the "cadet" federation uniforms as all their peers were.
"Well, preferably we'd like to know what you can do," Bright replied, barely analyzing the two teens.
"I can help out too you know…" Frau picked into their conversation.
"Well, quickly find something to do that suits you needs. We're in a combat situation right now and-" Bright was suddenly interrupted.
Three kids barged into the White Base bridge. Their loudness and horseplay caught the attention of the crew on the bridge. The three then especially caught the annoyance of Bright. The three stopped and rolled their eyes in front of Bright when they came upon his frowning face.
"Somebody get these three outta here now!" Bright ordered.
"It's okay, mister…captain, sir. I'll take care of them," Frau said.
"It's Bright Noa; and thank you." Bright and Frau only nodded in response to each other as Frau quickly ushered the little ones away off the bridge. The children could only giggle and laugh about Bright's angry face when they finally left the bridge. "Now then, you two. What is it?"
"Well, for starters our friend Amuro is out there fighting. We can fight too, ya know," Hayato suggested.
"Yea, we're not whimps just waiting to get killed on this ship!" Kai snapped.
"Hey, hey. No one's gonna get killed on this ship," Bright said, trying to calm down the two hot-heads. "Is South Burning back yet from the Archangel?" Bright asked out.
"Yes, sir. He's in the docking bay preparing our GM's for launch, sir," a crewmember shouted back.
"So, you wanna fight? Get to the mobile suit deck, and ask for South Burning and tell him that you wanna fight. And make sure you also tell him that Bright sent you," he ordered the two.
"Wow, gonna let us fight already?" Kai smirked.
"We're short on men, now get going you two!" Bright ordered again. To his response, Kai & Hayato only gave him their best (yet sloppiest) salutes, and took off. Behind them at the helm was Garrod, who just quickly looked at Bright and then returned to his assigned duty. "Good, all hands in combat status. What's the result from the battlefields, Sayla?"
"Uh…our Gundam units have just taken off from the Archangel and are due to engage the enemy units…very soon, sir," Sayla responded.
In the middle of the debris field, keeping away from detection, Mu La Flaga and his Moebius Zero were making their way to the Vesalius on radio silence. He sat his cockpit, switching between viewing at his main screen and out into space for full visual confirmation. "Hmm…Creuset's leaving the battle plan to the Red Comet…but…what else is going on?" Mu La Flaga said to himself. "They're changing the plan…Creuset's sent out the Gundam units that he stole!" he started to have the Moebius Zero pick up speed, "I gotta get to Rau Le Creuset before they attack!" he shouted as he maneuvered his mobile armor through the debris.
On board the Archangel, a few of the remaining space-Leos were also preparing for launch. Noin was already getting into one of her units, while the first of the Leos took off into space.
Flying through the debris, Kira and Amuro were waiting to detect the enemy units. Kira's Aile Strike Gundam was a little ahead of Amuro's Gundam; the two were constantly changing positions in order to get out of the way of the debris. "Yo Amuro, this is getting pointless staying the debirs."
"I agree. Let's get out..." Amuro replied. The two Gundams refrained from moving forwards and shifted direction to where they started to fly out of the debris field.
As the two Gundams moved out of the debris field, they were picked up on radar by Athrun and his team. Athrun's Aegis Gundam led in front of the Duel Gundam and Buster Gundam, with Blitz Gundam staying farther in the rear of the group. "We've detected the enemy units!" Athrun shouted out to his allies. "Which one is Kira..." he whispered as he analyzed the screen. One signature read "RX-78-2 Gundam," Athrun shook his head saying, "that' can't be it. It was an Alliance suit..." he then looked at the other signature that read "GAT-X105 Strike GUNDAM," and Athrun immediately recognized it. His eyes widened as he said, "that's Kira! Okay, Dearka, Yzak, Nicol, here's our plan-"
"Wait, I thought that we're going with the 'Red Comet's' plan?" Dearka smirked back.
"We're ZAFT elites. We can go with our own plans!" Athrun shouted back. "My unit will take on the Strike. Yzak, you and the Duel will take on the Gundam; Nicol, move in with your cloaking system up and attack their battleships; and Dearka, have Buster offer long-range support for any of our units. Expect them to send cannon-fodder reinforcements!" Athrun ordered to the other three. His Aegis unit then transformed to it's mobile armor mode and sped towards the Aile Strike unit.
"Roger!" they all responded. And the elites split up and followed Athrun's orders.
On Kira's sensors, he detected the Aegis unit getting closer. The signature read on his screen: "GAT-X303 Aegis GUNDAM" and then he started to remember it. He looked up and gasped when he saw the mobile armor getting closer at an increasing speed. The colors of the unit immediately registered in Kira's mind, and he remembered his best friend Athrun calling out to him from the Aegis unit. "That's Athrun Zala!"
The Aegis unit sped in front of the Aile Strike unit and the two stopped in front of each other. The Aegis immediately transformed out of it's mobile armor mode and stood in front of the Aile Striker. The two floated for a split second before Athrun and Kira would exchange their words. "Kira, what are you doing launching against other coordinators?" Athrun demanded.
"Athrun! This is something that I-" then a large energy blast just missed the front of the Aile Striker. Kira, having been interrupted immediately boosted his unit back away from the Aegis unit.
"What!" Athrun said as he too boosted back. He looked up and saw the Buster Gundam opening fire on Kira's Aile Strike. "Dammit! Dearka! What are you doing!" he shouted.
"Going with my own plan, Athrun. I'm gonna destroy that Strike!" he shouted back as he continued to open fire on Kira's unit. Kira started dashing away and then took aim with him beam rifle and opened fire at Buster. Dearka moved the Buster unit out of the way of Kira's shots and returned fire again. "You can't hit me!"
Meanwhile, Amuro and Yzak were in their own heated fight. Amuro dodged left and right to evade all of Yzak's shots with his beam rifle. Then Yzak shot a grenade at Amuro, who blocked it with his shield but was blown back. Amuro screamed in response and remaneuvered his Gundam to combat Yzak. "Come on! This is way too easy!"
"Ha! I'll show you!" Amuro shouted as he dodged left then up and opened two shots at Yzak. Yzak grunted as he immediately blocked the shots with his shield and then dodged out of the way in order to open fire as well. The two continued to chase each other in circles and around debris constantly exchanging fire.
Athrun then read a new signature on his display. One, then two more of this new signal had appeared on the display. They all read the same mobile suit number: "OZ-06MS." Athrun clenched his teeth and his controls as he then proceeded with his Aegis unit to engage the Leos. "If those are the Alliance suits, then their new battleship is here too..." Athrun said as his Aegis unit once again assumed it's mobile armor form and dashed to the Leos. "Nicol? Are you nearby?" Athrun asked out.
"I'm almost at one of their battleships. There's some Leos thought moving away from me," Nicol responded. His Blitz Gundam had its mirage-colloids activated as he maneuvered through the debris to find the White Base and the Archangel. "You want me to take on the Leos?"
"No, I'll take care of them. You focus on taking out their battleships," Athrun ordered. He Aegis unit was now in position. The Leos had detected it, and began to open fire. Athrun barrel rolled his Aegis unit to the left immediately in response, and then opened fire with his Scylla cannon, instantaneously destroying one of the Leos.
Amongst the screams of the pilot, Noin was only infuriated and charged the Aegis, "Damn you!" she screamed as her Leo dashed towards Aegis, constantly firing.
Athrun moved Aegis out of the way again, and Noin's Leo sped right past him. Athrun then grunted as he pushed the Aegis to speed straight for the other Leo unit. The Aegis's arms opened up quickly, and then grasped onto the Leo. "Take this!" Athrun scolded out as the Aegis ultimately crushed the out-matched Leo.
Then suddenly, during the fight between Dearka and Kira, a powerful beam cannon blasted in between the two. "I found their battleship!" Nicol shouted on his radio, "I'm moving in!"
Dearka was dishonored by Nicol's discovery, "not before I DO!" Dearka shouted back as he fired on more shot at Kira's Aile Strike, and then sped into the debris towards the source of the beam shot.
"Ma'am! Enemy units moving in!" Jackie Tonomura relayed out to Murrue.
"Confirmed! They're mobile suits, ma'am!" Dalida Chandra II relayed as well.
"...Here they come..." Murrue simply muttered. "All hands, Level One Battle Stations!" she ordered out to the whole Archangel. "What units?" she asked Tonomura.
"Detected; X-207 Blitz, ma'am!" Tonomura shouted back. "Second unit! X-103 Buster!"
"Damn, stealth and firepower...Open Fire!" she ordered out.
Then, on the White Base, they detected the Archangel comming under fire. Sayla rushed to confirm all the enemy units detected. "uhh...Bright! The Archangel is under attack!"
"What? Can we give them support fire from here?" Bright shouted out.
"No, sir! We need to move into position!" another crewmember relayed back to Bright.
"Mr. Garrod Ran, move us to the Archangel! Quickly!" Bright ordered to Garrod.
"Yes, sir!" Garrod responded as he maneuvered the controls of the White Base to bring it towards the Archangel.
"As soon as we're in range, open support fire and repel those enemy units!" Bright shouted out.
"Sir!" had been shouted back to him from all over the bridge in light of current combat situation.
The fight between the Duel Gundam and the Gundam continued. Duel continued to open fire every chance it could get a clear shot through all the randomly floating debris. The Gundam did the same and returned fire while making every attempt to block with it's shield and dodge into the debris. Duel shot two shots from his beam rifle again, and then threw its beam rifle to it's left hand and opened fire again; "dammit! Just DIE!" Yzak screamed as he armed a beam saber in Duel's right hand and charged into Amuro and his Gundam. Amuro yelled out in response and then tried to repel Duel with his head vulcans.
"What's that!" Amuro said as every single shot from his head vulcans were repelled or did not effect to the Duel. Then Duel was in range and tried to horizontally slice at the Gundam.
"Ha! Phase-Shift Armor, punk! You can't hurt me!" Yzak chouted as he had Duel take another swing at the Gundam.
Amuro dodged both of the swings towards him, boosting backwards. Amuro tried to fire again with his beam rifle at the Duel Gundam and then boosted away again. Duel dodged away towards the Gundam's left and then returned fire with its Igelstellung head vulcans. The bullets all hit the Gundam, but did next to no damage to the Gundam at all. Yzak started yelling out of confusion to why his shots were ineffective. "Gundamium alloy...it's saves my hide!" Amuro shouted back as he opened fire again with his beam rifle.
Yzak dodged those shots at first, and tried to return fire again with his Igelstellungs, but to no avail. Then suddenly another shot came at Yzak from another direction - it was a green beam that cut straight in front of the Duel Gundam, the bright light of the beam could nearly blind Yzak on the monitor. It was a shot from Kira and his Aile Strike Gundam, who dashed through the debris and continued to open fire on the Duel Gundam. "Stay away from my friends!" Kira shouted as he continued his barrage of beam fire.
"Hey, hey, hey! What makes you think you can take me, STRIKE!" Yzak screamed back. Yzak immediately had the Duel Gundam dash straight for Kira's Aile Strike. From it's left hand, Duel opened fire with his beam rifle and moved quickly into position to attack with his beam saber. The Duel Gundam came down hard, onto Aile Strike, but Kira was able to deflect the attack of the beam saber with his shield. Kira then forced the Aile Strike Gundam to boost forward, pushing the Duel Gundam back and then Kira lifted his shield, putting Yzak into a slight spin. "Dammit!" Yzak shouted as he tried to maneuver the Duel Gundam back into a proper orientation.
"Take this!"Kira shouted as he opened three shots at the Duel Gundam. Two of the shots missed, but the third had his the Duel Gundam in the left shoulder, disabling but not destroying the left arm manipulator.
"Found YA!" Mu la Flaga shouted as he opened fire on the Vesalius with his Moebius Zero. The Moebius had deployed all four of it's gun-barrels to open fire on the Vesalius from multiple directions.
"...Mu la Flaga...only the Hawk of Endymion could be so bold..." Rau le Creuset grinned. "Ades, return fire!"
"Sir!" Ades responded. The Vesalius immmediately returned fire and a heavy barrage of missiles and machine gun fire were spraying into space. The Moebius Zero was able to retract its gun-barrels and then immediately speed away to another position, and then open fire again with it's linear cannon. The barrage from both continued as their battle was fought like David versus Goliath.
"TAKE THIS STRIKE!" Yzak screamed as he moved again with the Duel Gundam's beam saber at Kira again. Amuro opened a single shot to the Duel Gundam that hit it in the left leg, but Yzak didn't stop. Kira dodged Yzak's attack and for a split second, watched as the Duel Gundam floated past the Aile Strike Gundam before bashing the Duel Gundam once again with his shield. Yzak let out a long battle cry as he charged the Duel Gundam yet again at Kira; Kira boosted the Aile Strike Gundam back again, and then opened three more shots to the Duel Gundam. All three shots hit Duel, and forced Yzak to loose his momentum, while taking a hit in the right leg, right shoulder, and the final shot had hit the Duel Gundam in the back. Although heavily damaged, the Duel Gundam was not about to be destroyed yet, for Yzak being a proud ZAFT elite, still had a lot of fight left in him.
"Kira, he won't stop 'till he's dead!" Amuro shouted to Kira.
Kira dodged the Duel Gundam trying to attack the Aile Strike again with its barely functioning right arm. "Or I'm dead with him!" Kira replied as he dodged another swing from the Duel Gundam. Kira then boosted back and prepared to take another shot at the Duel Gundam, then suddenly, and error message appeared on Kira's view screen. "What the hell!" Kira shouted in response, the message indicated something about his energy levels, and Kira then looked at the battery life of the Aile Strike Gundam. The power was below the battle capacity, and then on the screen, flashed "PS Armor: DOWN." Kira could only shout a long-going "NO!" as his Aile Strike Gundam lost it's red, white, and blue color scheme; and then phased-down to it's old standard gray on gray color schemes.
"Ha! You're Phase-Shift Armor's gone sucker! Now you're mine!" Yzak shouted as he charged to the Aile Strike Gundam. But then he was interrupted, the Aegis unit had shown up and then immediately grasped onto the Strike Gundam. "Hey! Athrun, what the hell are you doing! That's my target now!" Yzak scolded to Athrun.
"I'm doing what I need to do! I'm capturing the Strike Gundam and it's pilot, Yzak!" Athrun snapped back as his Aegis unit in it's mobile armor mode grappled the phase-shift-less Aile Strike Gundam.
"White Base, Archangel, whoever! Do you copy? Kira's in trouble, his Gundam went gray!" Amuro tried to communicate.
"Amuro! This is Sayla, come back the White Base, we need your help, quickly!" Sayla responded on the transponder.
"What? What about Kira!" Amuro shouted back.
"The Archangel's got a plan, we just need you to fend off these mobile suits!" Sayla reported back to Amuro.
"Roger! Hang in there Kira, help is on the way!" Amuro said as he boosted the Gundam the head for the White Base and the Archangel.
In the middle of his barrage on the Vesalius, Mu la Flaga was interrupted by a communication from the Archangel. "What? Kira's in trouble? Alright, I'm on my way!" Mu la Flaga responded as he retracted his gun-barrels, and then sped for the location of the Archangel.
"Don't let him get away! He's heading back to the Archangel! Where's the Red Comet!" Rau ordered out as the Vesalius started to speed up and chase the Moebius Zero through the debirs field.
"We should kill the Strike pilot and destroy the damn Strike Gundam! They're all threats to ZAFT and the PLANTs!" Yzak snapped at Athrun. Yzak's Duel Gundam was in position to yet again charge at the Aile Strike Gundam should the Aegis unit let go.
"He's comming with me, Yzak! That's the plan!" Athrun shouted to Yzak.
"Like hell it is!" Yzak snapped again.
The battle between the Archangel & White Base versus the continuous strikes from Blitz and Buster was only growing stronger and more destructive. Another GM unit had launched from the White Base but was immediately destroyed as soon as it left entered space from a shot by the Buster Gundam. The Blitz Gundam has stayed in and out of cloak making continuous attacks on the Archange's Igelstellung machine cannons, and evading the barrage itself.
"Wait for it, there!" Sai shouted as the Archangel opened fire at the Blitz Gundam as soon as it decloaked. Nicol detected the shots fired and then immediately boosted away, evading them. Blitz then didn't hesistate though to open fire on the Igelstellungs that Sai was controlling with Blitz's beam rifle and then destroy it.
Another beam shot came across the front of Blitz. The purple-pink glow was a distance away, but very noticible and worth the reason to dodge. Nicol gasped as he looked for where the shot had come from. He saw a white figure moving through space heading straight for him - it was Amuro and his Gundam. "I'm back!" Amuro shouted as he opened fire on Blitz again with his beam rifle. Nicol immediately dodged all the shots and reactivated his mirrage colloids and then disappeared, retreating away. The only unit left was Buster who was opening fire on the White Base continuously with his beam rifles.
"Hahaha! Eat this you damn Natural SCUM!" Dearka was chouting as he continued his own barrage. Then, a signal flashed on his monitor, indicating an enemy behind him. "What, you think you can-"
"Watch this junior!" Mu la Flaga taunted as he opened fire with his Moebius Zero. The Buster Gundam stopped firing and started to dodge the shots. The Moebius Zero deployed its gun-barrels and then fired on the Buster Gundam from five different directions. Buster was able to barely move away from all the shots.
"Dammit Buster, your a ass is a little slow there!" Dearka tried to return fire, but was forced to dodge another shot that had come up from behind from Amuro chasing him down. "Damn, yo Athrun, Yzak...I'm pulling back, running out of energy!" Dearka shouted into his communicator as he boosted in retreat while also phase-shifting down.
Meanwhile, Yzak and Athrun were still having their argument over Strike and Kira. Athrun has his Aegis unit start to move the flailing Aile Strike Gundam in the directionof the Vesalius as Yzak followed, extremely pissed off. "Let me take care of the Strike Gundam, I'll make it quick and painless for the pilot!" Yzak laughed.
"NO! I'm taking him hostage!" Athrun shouted back. "...Kira...this is the only way I can help you..." Athrun quietly said to Kira as the Aegis continued to carry the Aile Strike Gundam.
"Kira," Mu's voice got through to Kira, who was still trying to get the Strike Gundam to move. "When I say, immediately break away from the X-303. Eject you're Aile-Striker pack 'cause I've got a present for you!"
"Mu, what's going-" Kira tried to clarify the situation.
"NOW!" Mu la Flaga shouted as his Moebius Zero came up behind the Aegis and the Duel Gundam. His Moebius was modified and had the Launcher-Strike pack equipped the back of his unit. He then ejected the Launcher-Strike pack towards the Aegis unit.
Kira shouted out as he forced the controls of the Aile Strike Gundam and was able to set himself free from the grasp of the Aegis Gundam. Kira then used his little energy left to boost to the Launcher pack while ejecting his Aile-Striker pack.
"What the hell!" Athrun shouted as every had transpired within a few seconds. Yzak was silented with surprise as the events took place.
Kira had the Strike Gundam fully dock with the Launcher-Striker Pack. The energy gauge in Kira's cockpit filled up, and the Strike Gundam had re-activated it's Phase Shift Armor.
At the same time, behind the Duel Gundam and the Aegis Gundam, the Vesalius was in clear veiw and had already launched a barrage of missiles for Kira's Strike Gundam. All 12 of the missiles launched had stricken the Strike Gundam just before the Phase Shift Armor had fully activated. The explosion of missiles caused mild masses of smoke that had lasted for only a few seconds. When the smoke had cleared, and fully Phase-Shifted and completely online Launcher Strike Gundam was floating in space - it's eyes flashed back on they're eerie yellow color.
Yzak's mind and body were filled with both rage and surprise at the same time; the tension on him was so great that he couldn't even react to the Strike Gundam. Athrun as well could barely react as he peered into the eyes of the Strike Gundam, "Kira!" he shouted as he tried to charge the Launcher Strike Gundam; but to no avail as Yzak was actually able to regain his senses and start to use the Duel Gundam to charge the new Strike.
In that instant as Yzak blocked Athrun's charge with his own, Kira just knew what to do. He had the Strike wield the Agni Pulse Cannon in both hands and aim directly for the Duel Gundam. "TAKE THIS!" Kira said as he prepared to fire; Yzak saw Strike aiming at him again, but it was too late. The Strike Gundam had fired its Agni Pulse Cannon directly at the Duel Gundam.
"SHIT!" Yzak shouted as he barely moved out of the way, the power a size of the blast still grazed across the shoulder and chest of the Duel Gundam. The blast of the pulse cannon still continued, and struck the Vesalius on the starboard bow, causing heavy damage.
"Yzak! Kira!" Athrun shouted, she then took the Aegis Gundam out of mobile armor mode and then grabbed the remains of the Duel Gundam. He took one last look at the Strike Gundam and then took off immediately heading back for the damaged Vesalius.
Kira prepared to fire again, but Mu interrupted him. "Don't shoot Kira. Rau le Creuset knows he's been beaten, he's they're all retreating," Mu reassured Kira. The two watched for only a second as the Vesalius had turned around after collecting the last two Gundams and then began it's retreat. Then the two had taken off heading back for the White Base and the Archangel.
On Vesalius, Yzak slammed Athrun against the lockers in the Vesalius preparation rooms. "God damn you! What the hell is your problem, Athrun! We could've destroyed that damn STRIKE!" Yzak scolded.
Dearka and Nicol were present too. Nicol tried to sit down while Dearka was leaning against another locker. "He has a damn point, Athrun. Why did you want to let the enemy live, particularly that Strike and it's pilot."
Athrun remained silent.
"Well, we couldn't even destroy the other Gundam as well, ya know..." Nicol added.
"No thanks to you for being the first to retreat," Yzak snapped back. "As for you! Athrun, answer me! Why won't you destroy STRIKE!"
Athrun tried to remain silent. He then shoved Yzak off of him and towards Dearka, "Get off! I won't destroy Strike so long as I don't have a full reason to!" he snapped back to Yzak. Athrun then tried to calm himself down and left the preparation room heading down the halls of the Vesalius for his own room.
"The hell is his problem?" Dearka inquired.
"...Something about Strike is making him hold back..." Nicol lightly said as he started to undo his pilot suit.
At the bridge of the Vesalius, a furious Rau le Creuset was trying to raise communications with Char Aznable. "Where the hell is Lt. Aznable!" Rau shouted on the bridge.
A single soldier was able to respond, "sir, we have a communication from Lt. Aznable's ship, sir!"
"Put it through," Rau ordered, his voice had became calmed and deepened.
"...Com...der...set...we've...enga-...ith...lliance...cenary unit! We-...arely...hol-...off!" Char was explaining through his communication. His communication was scrambled and incomplete due to the debris.
"Dammit. Lt. Aznable, what's happening out there? Where are you!" Rau demanded. "Boost the signal power!"
"Sir!" a soldier responded.
"We're at the outskirts of Heliopolis, Lt. Ridden's unit is too far for support, but we're doing what we can to fend off this Alliance mercenary unit. They're actually posing a challenge," Char continued to explain.
"Huh, we've already sustained heavy damage, but are going to join you soon," Rau assured Char.
"Don't worry, we're fending off the damn mercs! See you soon Commander. Lt. Aznable out!" Char ended his transmission.
After all of those events had transpired, a single ship was trying to make it's way through the debris field of Heliopolis. It was a Junk Guild vessel, and a member of the Sweeper Group - a colony based team that had mobile suits of their ownthat junked and scavanged several and any kind of old weapons or scraps from the military or civilians. The Sweepers/Junk Guild were also members of a secret group called the Colony Rebellion Forces - a group that was concerned with finding any means to free all colonies of space from the dictatorships of Earth, and all dictatorships for that matter.
On board this single ship, was the recovered Astray Red Frame, which was undergoing a kind of full spectrum analysis of it and its systems on the mobile suit deck of the ship. Lowe Guele was sitting in the cockpit analyzing the OS of the mobile suit. Out on the deck, at the base of the Red Frame was Duo Maxwell, still decked out in his black outfit and analyzing the data collected.
"What are you up to, Duo?" a young kid asked from behind Duo.
"Whoa...watch it Judau. I'm busy," Duo tried to brush him off.
"Yes, I can see that, busy doing what? And where did you and Lowe get that?" Judau questioned Dwo.
"Oh that big red machine? Some Coordinator gave this thing to us just before Helio got destroyed. He said something about how it can 'help save the colonies' and not just the PLANTs or something like that," Duo explained.
"Do you believe that?" Judau continued to ask.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. But what I do know is that Lowe is the one who's staked all dibs on owning this thing," Duo sighed.
"Crap, here I wanted a mobile suit of my own too..."
"There you go again. You and Uso only dream of piloting mobile suits, and never do your jobs," Duo smirked.
"Hey, we're only a year younger than you. Plus you already know how to pilot a mobile suit anyway, when do we get our chance?"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. I only know how to pilot a suit, I don't own one," Duo explained.
"That can change, you know?" a female voice came from behind Duo.
Duo nearly jumped at the calm and sexy female voice. He turned around expecting a hot girl but found his face nearly at level with The Professors breasts. He face clenched and he looked up at The Professor, "jeez, Professor! What's wrong with you!"
She only sighed and started to play with her crimson hair. "You have a call, Duo. It's him." A slightly surprised face grew on Duo, and he then took off and left the mobile suit deck.
Lowe noticed The professor was out on the mobile suit deck, and came down from the Astray Red's cockpit to join her and Judau. Lowe then landed beside her and then noticed her twisting her hair slightly, so he sighed before asking her with a slight grin, "so...Professor...is it true that when women play with their hair they're thinking about sex?"
In a matter of less than three seconds, The Professor stopped twisting her hair, widened her eyes, and then immediately slapped Lowe across the face with the back of her hand. Lowe only shouted in pain when her hand left contact with his cheek.
In a separate room of the ship, Duo was opened up a communication with him. He typed on the console a few times, and then an image appeared on the screen in front of him; it was a dark figure of a short man with a strange hair style that had looked a lot like a large umbrella on his head. "Hey-hey, Doctor S, what's up?" Duo chuckled as he greeted the Doctor.
"Duo...the colonies need you, and we've got something that you may need as 'the Great Destroyer...'" Doctor S sighed.
"That's 'God of Death,' Doc...so what's the mission?" Duo smirked.