Your Kind….
Chapter 21: Bargaining
By: Jen "The Stampede" Motou
It had been a little longer than four months since Kira had been 'captured', I had assumed that ZAFT would have killed him by now. I mean why would they keep the pilot of the Strike alive? The only thing I could think of is, since he IS a coordinator, they could force him into ZAFT, but I'm sure Kira would have rather died. I had slipped out early with Commander La Flaga on a vain attempt to track down the team that had taken Kira from us. We searched for nearly the whole day and came back with nothing. When we returned boy did Captain Ramius lay it to us. She would have come out with out heads if Commander La Flaga hadn't spoke up. "So you're officially pronouncing him dead, now?" "No…He's a soldier M.I.A." "So he's NOT DEAD?" "No." "Good…then we went looking for what was missing."
After that We had left, to go to our quarters, where I was ambushed by Mirallia, who too cursed me out for leaving. After I explained myself, she claimed down, and all was well—as is could be with Kira gone. So here I now find myself setting at my post on the main deck, doing the same things I do day in and day out. Nothing had happened for a while. I couldn't remember the last time that the ship had encountered an enemy, which was good because I don't know how well we would have done with Kira gone. Gone- Forever. I was starting to doze off when the alarms went wild. An enemy had been sighted.
"It's the Versailles!" was sounded to the right of me, waiting for Captain Ramuis's command. "Prepare for battle, level 2 Battle stations, all units stand by." After which Commander La Flaga was summoned and there was a mad panic amongst the crew. "A Battle! Without the kid!" was the basic response from most. "Get it together people! He's been gone; we were going to have to face this sometime!" The Captain spat, and we all unnervingly took our posts. As the hip closed in, we prepared for enemies to be sent in our direction, however nothing of the sort happened. Perhaps we had ran into them on accident, but we assumed other such motives were involved. I knew the ship was familiar, but after have a few months off of enemy encounter, where escaped me at the moment.
"Captain, the Versailles is trying to make video contact, should I confirm?" came from a member of the crew to Captain Ramuis's right. "What? Um…Yes...Let's see what they want." We all kept silent as the screen ahead of us filled with light, creating a picture of a long blonde haired man, covering his face with a white mask. "Ah, legged ship.." he spoke, and for some reason it came back to me. The Versailles….I knew the ship was familiar for some reason, and it clicked now. It was the ship that housed the Le Creze team. The same ship, the same team that stole Kira from us. "They're the Bastards that took Kira!" I spat aloud without thinking. "Cadet Nolenberg!" The Captain also jumped out of her chair at me. However the man only grinned.
"Well My dear legged ship, I see your crew still holds a grudge against us. Kira? You mean that boy…that pilot. Yes we took him, in fact he is exactly why I wished to contact you. Interested?" Of course all eyes were on the screen as everyone remained perfectly still, be even tried to breath lightly as not to make any noise. "I'm listening, you have my full attention." Captain Ramius spoke firmly. "Is he alive?" she finished. Yet again that man grinned, evilly grinned. "Yes he is alive but I don't know for how long…"
To be Continued.…