I'm sorry that this took so long. I lost my inspiration, and then I broke my finger last week. It feels better now, but I'm still typing with only 9 fingers.lol. Anyways, I hope you like this chap.

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Previously:

Yes! Cagalli thought to herself as she half limped to the radio they were allowing her to use. They had finally come up with a fool proof plan that would save Orb and get rid of the Alliance forces, and hopefully the entire Alliance shortly afterwards. We've finally done it! Now I have to go back to Orb. I have to give them the exact instructions. There's no way they'd understand it else wise. Cagalli thought excitedly to herself.

Cagalli sighed as she sat down on the small metal chair infront of the radio, and searched began the process of connecting to Kira.

Almost seven minutes later, she finally got through and ordered the soldier to call for Kira. They had things to get done.

"Cagalli?" Kira's voice asked, sounding anxious.

"Yeah, it's me. We finally came up with a plan. I'll be back to the base soon to explain it, so expect me." She said quickly into it before standing and practically running to the hangar, passing busy people as she went. The ships were now bustling in preparation, and everyone was excited and nervous at the same time at the possibility of finally getting rid of the Alliance.

Chapter 11: Final Plan

Cagalli yawned as she sat herself down in the cockpit of her gundam. She had been awake for over 48 hours, and was now completely exhausted. Starting up her gundam, she left the hangar of the Rebellion's main ship and flew out over the sea back towards Orb.

One of the rebellion's gundam pilot's told her that there was an unknown gundam outside. It had made no attempts to attack and that it had been there since her arrival. Cagalli muttered under her breath as she scanned the darkened sky. She saw a blinking red light to her far right. Guessing that it was the mysterious gundam, she ignored it.

She was humming a song to herself that she had been writing when she noticed that the red light was following her back towards Orb. Cursing slightly she sped up, her gundam exceeding normal gundam speeds. After all, she had a custom gundam. She saw that it was still following.

Who the hell is this guy?


Athrun watched Cagalli's gundam leave the main ship. He followed her until she began to speed up. She had obviously seen him and was not enjoying the fact that he was following her. At least she hopefully didn't know it was him.

Following her at a faster speed, they approached Orb. He didn't know what he was going to say to her, but he would help. He couldn't let her get killed.

Where are these feelings coming from? Athrun asked himself confused. Why did he have the need to protect her? He was confused.

Groaning aloud, Athrun watched as the object of his constant thoughts landed outside the buildings where the remaining Orb forces were gathered. He noticed the gundams on guard and hoped that if he showed no threat then they would not blow him into oblivion.

Landing, he immediately had four gundam guards around him, all with with weapons raised. So much for that idea. They obvioiusly knew who he was and weren't very happy with his presence. Leave it to him to get an unwelcome welcome. Oh well, what choice did he have? He had to make ammends with Cagalli and Kira, they were both his friends, what else could he do?

Opening his cock pit he stepped out unarmed and used a pulley to get to the ground. There, he was surrounded by half a dozen armed soldiers, all casting him glares as they directed him into the hanger as they confiscated his gundam. Shoving him onto the ground, they tied his wrists and ankles together just as Kira and Cagalli approached, a rather pissed off look on the blonde.

"What the hell do you want?" Cagalli asked, her gold eyes venomous. She really wasn't in the mood to see him, not with the plans for the attack going so well, and the time almost there. She had much more important things to deal with then a guy who was more confused then anyone she had ever met before. One minute he was her enemy, the next he was her friend, then becoming a closer friend, then once again becoming an enemy. What did he want now? To repeat the whole damn thing? That's what it looked like.

"I came to apologize about wha...Uhn!" Athrun said before he was cut off by Kira's fist connecting with the side of his face. The fact that Kira had hit him shocked Athrun, he had hurt his sister yes, but they were friends, he had known Kira for years.

"Don't even start. I should have you killed right now for what you did to Cagalli. She could have died you moron!" Kira said with an angry look in his eyes. Cagalli layed a gentle hand on her brother's shoulder to calm him down. They would get no where fast if they kept up like this.

"I didn't want to hurt her." Athrun said as he spit out the blood that had gathered in his mouth after he bit his lip. He sent his sorry green gaze to Kira, and then Cagalli. He felt terrible, and he hadn't done anything to help her. What kind of person was he?

"How could you do that to her. She did nothing but treat you with kindness, and you go and stab her in the back. You disgust me. Some friend you are. You probably don't even know what friendship is, because you obviously never figured it out while around us." Kira began to rant again, Cagalli having little sucess at shutting him up before this became a screaming match about who could scream the loudest and say the worst things.

"I didn't know she was going to get hurt. I swear." Athrun said looking down at the cold concrete beneath him. How could he let things get so bad? Unknowingly, he had, and now the price of his stupidity was their friendship. Something that he never wanted to lose.

"We don't have time for this." Cagalli muttered, a hand running through her hair unconsciously. "We have to move now. We can't waste time arguing with him." She said casting a glare at Athrun as she turned on her heel and began walking towards a makeshift table covered in maps and papers. About 15 gundam pilot's surrounded the table. Athrun recognized some of them as they cast him disgusted looks.

Kira watched as his sister returned to explaining things to the pilot's and then turned back to Athrun. Kira's eyes narrowed at him, and closed them as if thinking about something.

"Leave him." Kira finally said and the guards stepped back a few feet, but still watched him with mistrust. "I am going to let you go and you can do whatever it is you want." Kira said icy eyes watching Athrun. "But, if you get in our way, or I ever see you again, you will regret it." With that, Kira nodded at the guards and turned to go join Cagalli.

One of the guards approached him and pulled him up, cutting his bonds in the process. Within seconds, the guards were gone and Athrun was left alone in the hanger. Looking around, he sighed. He knew what he had to do. Gathering his courage, he made his way towards Cagalli and Kira.

Kira looked up as Athrun approached them. Cagalli, noticing her brother's lack of attention looked up as well and stopped talking. The pilot's watched Athrun as if her were a venomous snake.

"I want to help." Athrun said. Kira clenched a fist and looked at Cagalli. It was her decision. She had been the one to be hurt by Athrun the most. Her golden eyes glared momentarily at Athrun, then she nodded her head in silent approval. Athrun let out a breath that he had no idea that he was holding.

He would help them. He would fight with them. He would prove to Kira and Cagalli that he was truly sorry. He would do it.


Okay, I hate to admit it, but I've been writing this for months, working on it for5 min. here and there. Anyways, hope you like. There will probably be only one more chap. Then I can focus more on my other fics. Love ya all!

Mentally deranged...
-DHM-