Your Kind….
Chapter 3: New Truth
By: Jen "The Stampede" Motou
"I have to go see Commander Creze!" The sound of Zala's voice has he snapped at me moments ago was still quite vivid in my mind. I scowled at him as he stormed off – he was obviously hiding something- and glanced over to Dearka to see him glaring as well. "Calm down guys, I'm sure Athrun has his reasons." Nicol tried to assure us, but When Dearka let out a disgruntled moan, and since I had rolled my eyes, I knew neither one of us were willing to expect that. "Yeah Sure, whatever." I said waving my hand dismissively at Nicol as I walked away from them. 'I'm going to find out guess what Zala is hiding...I'm sure it's got something to do with that pilot.' I thought heading back to the infirmary-I was bound to get past those doctors. "Hey Yzak!" I heard my best friend call from behind me, as I stopped to greet him. "Where ya headed?" He inquired. "To the Infirmary." I smirked when confusion lined his features. "I'm bound to figure out just what it is that our DEAR ZALA is hiding." I laughed slightly after finishing the sentence. "I see, and you think that pilot has something to do with it, Am I right?" He smirked, and I nodded with a smile. "Well since you've found me out, let's go." I then motioned from him to follow.
We got to the Infirmary in actually not that much time at all. I put in my identification code and to my surprise the door opened. ( I had previously gone there in a vain attempt to see the pilot of the Strike face to face without Zala there having a heart attack for some unknown reason but the door didn't respond to my code.) "Mr. Joule, Mr. Elsmen, what brings you two here today? Feeling alright?" Our doctors always seemed to enjoy their jobs- patching people up and all. "We're fine, thanks. Where's that pilot, Zala brought in earlier." The doctor smiled, then let out a slight laugh. "Oh you boys worried about him too? Young Athrun seemed quite worried about him, did he send you?" I looked down and tried to find the words to answer that. "Um. Yeah. Athrun wanted us to find out how he was doing? Can we see him?" Dearka blurted out, covering our hides. Yet again the doc laughed, and then led us to the boy. "Wow he's young." Dearka mumbled under his breath as we both took in the sight of the brunette pilot. "He's in Bad shape, Yzak." "I know." However the boy lay there, quiet, perfectly still as the doctors focused their attention to the wound in his left arm. It was still draining massive amounts of blood, even thought the wound was tightly bandaged. Then everyone paused, when yet again the boy's eyes turned to tiny slits, almost void of color. "A—Ath—Athrun?" he coughed out, as he moved his head to look at me. "At—Athrun?" he choked again. I couldn't help but feel bad for him, he seemed to know Athrun, however I didn't know how.
"Could one of you boys, go get Mr. Zala? He asked to be told when he woke up." One of the doctors inquired. Dearka shrugged, and I smiled. "Sure." I said as we both walked out of the room. Dearka stopped in the middle of the hallway and looked at me, as I pressed on. "Yzak, you want me to get him. I know how you and Athrun don't set we—" He offered, however I only paused before saying "Nah, thanks Dearka you should go find Nicol. I'll tell Zala. You think he's still "talking" with Commander Le Creze?" "It wouldn't hurt to try." With that I smiled at him, still confused, and headed to the Commander's quarters.
I was about 10 feet from the Commander's Quarters when I heard something I normally would never hear. –Yelling-- 'What? Yelling? Zala must be in deep to get the Commander to yell.' So instead of interrupting, I put my back to the wall of the Commander's Quarters and stood silent. "What took you so long?! I told you we would talk as soon as you got on board! I did NOT give authorization for you to play hero!"
"Commander! He was on the brink of death! You said you wanted him alive!"
"I said that to keep Yzak from shooting you too! He's an enemy Athrun when are you going to see that?"
"Excuse my brashness Commander, But He's My Best Friend!!!"
I felt my heart skip a beat when I heard those words. "He's my best Friend!" 'What? Athrun had been fighting his best Friend all this time. What would I do if Dearka fired on me? Would I fight back?"
"I don't care HOW close to you he is! He's an enemy, and will be charged on Military law!"
"Kira isn't even a Soldier! He's a Civilian being manipulated by the Naturals!!"
"Athrun, He's still an enemy! You told me you'd shoot him down! What's stopping you?!!! It's your emotions! They have no place on the battlefield!"
"And Kira and I have no place in your FUCKING WAR!!!"
That was the last word of the argument spoken, when I heard the door slide open and Athrun stepped outside in a fuss. I tried to remain still; it was NOT a good time to screw with Athrun. He turned quickly and glared at me. "Yzak…" He growled "What do you want…"
To Be Continued….