I'm back, not dead and hopefully not too forgotten, here's the latest chapter in my Divergence series, hope you enjoy. I own none of the characters, now on with the fic.
Divergence chapter 5
Tolle sat in one of the plush chairs in his aunt's living room, randomly flipping through channels trying to find something to watch, without much success. He had enjoyed his vacation so far, but his free time back on Deimos was spent playing soccer with his neighbor Elle, and with her not around he was left without anyone to pass the time, and he was still unallowed to look at any scary stories as per his punishment for scaring Mira back at Markino's orphanage.
Getting up after turning the TV off, Tolle decided to take a tour of the Mansion, he'd only been given a brief rundown of the place and it's locations, and not enough time to explore any of it's rooms. Taking it upon himself to walk around, Tolle came to the front entrance when the doorbell rang. Walking over Tolle opened it to find a delivery man standing there with a fairly large package in his arms and a clipboard. "Package for Athrun Zala" the delivery man said as he held the clipboard in front of Tolle. "I can sign for it" Tolle said as he grabbed the clipboard and crossed an "X" in one of the boxes that the delivery man pointed at. Waving goodbye to the delivery man, Tolle closed the door but stopped as he felt a hand on his shoulder.
Dropping the package out of shock Tolle looked up to see none other than the package's owner, Athrun Zala, his uncle. His face held a strict look to it but soon softened when he looked at Tolle. "Sorry big guy, just thought I'd give you a little spook, your parents tell me your into that kind of thing" Athrun said jokingly.
"Yeah, but only in books, which I'm not allowed to read" Tolle said as his uncle helped him up. "Hmm, well this book isn't scary and for taking care of the paperwork how about we take a look at it, and at the bonus DVD that came with it?" Athrun asked his nephew. "Okay!" Tolle said as he hurried into Athrun's study.
Placing the disc into the player Athrun and Tolle sat back while the menu option came up while several mobile suits came flying past, lighting Tolle's eyes up like fireworks. "I think he likes it" Athrun said as he hit the play feature button starting up the video.
The both of them sat back and watched as several different mobile suit battles played out, most being Earth Forces battles. Tolle especially liked the ones of the Moonlight Mad Dog and a pilot named Ed the Ripper who made a big difference during the final days of the war.
"Uncle Athrun, did you ever fight those guys during the war?" Tolle asked his uncle. "Them? oh no no, not me, I never fought the ripper or the mad dog, I mainly fought grunt soldiers and your dad..." Athrun suddenly had wished he had bitten his tongue at that last statement. Athrun looked down to see Tolle's face take on a gloomy expression at this.
"Hey hey big guy it's okay, your dad and I fight it's what friends do when they have misunderstandings, but don't worry, we made up and we're closer than ever, and I'd never think to harm my brother or my precious niece or nephew" Athrun said taking Tolle and placing him on his knee. "Okay I'm just glad you and dad aren't fighting anymore" Tolle said. "Me too big guy, me too" Athrun said as he got a hug from Tolle in return.
"So who did you fight during the war uncle Athrun?" Tolle asked. Uncle Athrun, it was a title that had come as a surprise to him yet he wore it with pride more than he did any insignia from ZAFT and it warmed his heart anytime his niece or nephew called him that. He may not officially be their uncle due to he and Cagalli only dating at the time but that'd change, and he'd start a family of his own soon and have his own children like Tolle and Mira.
"Well big guy, one of the battles I remember the most was when your dad and I met back up again..."
Kira dodged the attacks of the the Raider Gundam as it's Mace like Hammer flew at him yet again. The Freedom gundam was many levels above the Strike but even the Freedom was having trouble with these seemingly relentless three gundams that wouldn't stop hounding the Archangel. He had encountered the Forbidden and the Calamity Gundam and this one being the Raider, this one armed with an ability to change it's shape to an aerial form for better maneuverabiltiy while being able to swing it's hammer weapon at it's foes in it's MS form.
"I finally get back to the Archangel, my friends, and to the girl I love only to get these guys on my tail, it just won't stop" Kira muttered as he dodged another swing of the hammer. "I'll crush you yet!" Screamed the pilot of the gundam that appeared before Kira. "I won't kill him, but I won't let him hurt the people I love!" Kira yeleld as he swung his beam saber into the hammer. "What!" the pilot yelled. Kira swung again as the suit backed off, enabling Kira the time he needed to aim a good shot off at his enemy but as he was preparing to blast he narrowly avoided a swing from the Calamity Gundam's scythe.
"Well, the funny suit again" The pilot said as he brought the scythe back again. Kira knew he oculdn't avoid it and prepared to block it with the Freedom Gundam's arms but watched as the Scythe's blade was blocked by another gundam's beam saber.
Looking up, Kira saw the sight of a Gundam with similar color scheme of the Aegis Gundam from before. "What, are you working for Zaft!" Kira yelled as he flew away and prepared to take arms against the newest arrival on the battlefield.
"I'm not here on ZAFT's orders Kira Yamato, I'm here by my own volition, but I think we should save the questions until after we kick some of their asses!" the pilot yelled. "Athrun?" Kira muttered.
"So then your dad and I teamed up to drive off the other gundams and get everyone to safety" Athrun said as he told his story to Tolle as his smile seemd to grow. "Wow, that sounds so cool uncle Athrun" Tolle said enthusiastically as his uncle finished his tale of heroism in fighting alongside his father.
"Yeah but it wasn't always all fun and games out there kiddo, even coordinators have trouble behind the controls of a mobile suit" Athrun said hoping to keep Tolle from getting the wrong idea about war. The boy was very young and very impressionable, the last thing Athrun wanted to do was corrupt him with outrageous fantasies of what war was really like, along with having Kira and Milly hunting him down for telling him such stories.
"Do you know of any other great fights uncle Athrun?" Tolle asked excitedly.
"Well, most of the fights that I remember were up against those guys I told you about, but there was one fight that I do remember" Athrun spoke as he began to think back to the fight in question.
Athrun watched as the three Gundam pilots escaped back to their ship for some unknown reason, hearing on their monitors about it being too soon or their time running out, one of them even sounded like they were choking on something. Once they had escaped, Athrun noticed something in the background, something big and moving. "A mobile suit? Did we miss one?" Athrun said to himself as he maneuvered the Justice Gundam over to the other suit. Athrun neared closer until what looked like a segmented whip shot out at him. "What?" Athrun shouted narrowly avoiding being struck by the strange device. Landing nearby he took a glance at his apparent enemy. he watched as the whip retracted up into the small shield stored on the side of it's right arm, while on it's left was a massive looking cannon. The suit itself stood the same height as the Justice, it's face however bore no facial markings like one, instead was a long blue visor and a blue crest that swept back towards it's head, while a single gold antennae was planted on the center of it's head, various blue plates were marked on the suit's body.
"What the heck is that? That doesn't look like any other suit I've ever seen, could it be another new one sent by the Earth Federation?" Athrun said to himself. "Hmm, a Gundam this really is my lucky day" The other pilot said as he blasted forward to Athrun and quickly unsheathed a beam saber from it's sheild compartment. Athrun dodged out of the way and quickly unsheathed his own beam saber.
Athrun blocked the strike of the saber, and proceeded to duel the white suit in front of him and performed a few thrusts in an attempt to push the machine back. "Nothing's coming up on this suit, I don't have a clue as to just what model it is" Athrun said with a hint of worry at the strange suit in front of him. The suit backed a way and let the segmented whip from it's sheild once again swing out from it's side and wrap around the Justice Gundam's leg and drag it towards the white suit. "Now I've got you!" The pilot yelled as he prepared to stab straight into the Justice Gundam.
Athrun engaged the boosters of his suit in an attempt to pull free and managed to at least keep from being pulled in any closer to the suit.
Pulling his Beam Rifle up Athrun took aim and fired at the suit, only to have the shot blocked by the suit's shield that had benefited Athrun by quickly winding the whip back into it's holster within the shield. Athrun flew back and took potshots at the other suit in an attempt to take it out. The other suit deftly avoided all of Athrun's attacks and proceeded to engage it's device on it's right arm, which extended forward until it was even longer and proceeded to glow with a brilliant yellow energy. Getting readouts of a massive energy buildup from the device, Athrun blasted back just as a devestating surge of energy shot forth from the weapon, causing a large hole to open up in the wall that the Justice Gundam once stood in front of.
"Man, that was intense, that kind of firepower could just as easily destroy an entire colony, I can't allow him to leave here alive and cause any harm to the PLANTS or anywhere else" Athrun said with determination as he blasted forward aiming his rifle at the suit, the suit dodged most of the shots, and as it touched down on the surface, Athrun engaged the beam boomerang from the Justice Gundam and threw it while the strange vehicle was regaining it's ground. The suit engaged it's whip and batted the boomerang away, which unfortunatley left it distracted long enough for the Justice Gundam to fly in and get a point blank shot at it. "Got you!" Athrun shouted as he pulled the trigger of his Beam Rifle and fired. The suit's pilot showed his deft skills once again by quickly shifting over to the side and letting the blast hit it's shield instead of the suit itself.
The Pilot followed up by swinging his Beam saber at the Justice Gundam, only to have it blocked. "Hmm, you're not too bad" The other pilot commented. "Thanks, I think I'll take that as a compliment" Athrun said uneasily. The two suits jumped away, this time however the Justice Gundam proceeded to transform and the backpack unit flew off of it and attack the other suit while Justice continued to fire away using it's beam rifle. "This is getting to be too much, it's best I retreat." The other pilot said to himself as he fired off another round from the suit's main cannon and escaped the wrath of the strange Gundam in front of him.
"Dammit, he got away...Well I can't dwell on it forever, Kira, Cagalli and Lacus are counting on me" Athrun said reconnecting the backpack to the Justice Gundam and heading back out to the Eternal.
"The mobile suit escaped by shooting a bunch of debris down in front of me, and because there was a war going on I was unable to continue to hunt it down so I never saw it again" Athrun said as he finished his tale to his nephew, whom was more than excited at his story. "Awesome, have you heard anymore from that other suit?" Tolle asked. "No, no reports or anything, its like it just dissapeared" Athrun said, thinking back to his reports, none of which mentioned the white mobile suit anywhere. "So who knows, it may still be out there, even when we least expect..." Athrun was ready to scare Tolle even more, but jumped as he felt a hand on his shoulder, causing him to spring up a few feet in the air.
"Dad!" Tolle said excitedly. "Geez Kira, are you trying to give me a heart attack?" Athrun said clutching his chest while picking himself up off the floor looking up at his best friend and father of his nephew. Athrun watched as Tolle was scooped up in his father's arms and hoisted up onto his shoulders where he sat looking down at his uncle. "Having fun talking about the old days with my son I see" Kira said talking towards Athrun. Hoping his uncle wouldn't get in trouble, Tolle spoke up. "It's not his fault dad, I asked him if he would tell me some stories from the war" Tolle said to his father. Silence invaded the room for what seemed like hours until Kira finally spoke with his eyes closed and a smile on his face.
"Well he had to find out about some of the old days eventually" Kira said. Athrun silently felt relief flow through him with this, knowing his best friend wouldn't be crucifying him for this. "Hey dad, did you have any memorable battles from back in the war?" Tolle asked of his father.
"Well, there were a few run ins with some ZAFT officers, but there are a couple that do stand out in my mind" Kira began as he started to tell the story to his son and friend.
"Kira maneuvered the Strike gundam through the debris belt until it came to it's final stop. He had just gone through a small wave of GINNS and had narrowly survived a series of battles with the Le Creuset team, including Athrun. They were best friends, now here they were trying to kill one another. Trying to push such thoughts to the back of his mind Kira continued to prowl through the debris belt to see if there were any other further threats. He was almost ready to pack it in when movement caught his eye.
Looking over, Kira caught the sight of a suit, another gundam with a color scheme similar to his own, with one major difference, it had two sets of white wings one might find on a dove or an angel, almost bringing up images of a Cherubim. Back on the Archangel Miriallia caught sight of the new suit, and uttered only a single word: "Beautiful"
Kira would have shared the sentiment had the Gundam in front of him not laid it's eyes on him and aimed the massive double barreled rifle at him. "What!" Kira said in shock. "Target sighted, locked on" The pilot said looking back at Kira and the Strike Gundam. The cannon fired and even though Kira was able to dodge the blast, it was enough to reduce all thw wreckage behind Kira to charred cinders. "What power!" Kira said looking back. Seeing as how this gundam was in the mood for a fight, Kira first tried to reason with the pilot first.
"Stop it don't you want to live?" Kira asked as he held up his beam rifle in an attempt to warn to the other pilot. "Those who have laid eyes on a Gundam must not live to tell about it, those were the orders I was given" The pilot said in an almost mechanical tone of voice as he once again took aim and fired at Kira, again destroying more of the debris
Kira took notice of how the suit stayed back and fired. He almost considered slipping behind some of the debris and changing the armament of the Strike from the Aile Striker pack to that of the Launcher Pack and try to match the firepower of the other Gundam, but that would mean sacraficing the maneuverability of the Aile pack, and this suit had more than enough of that with those wings.
"Only one shot at this" Kira thought as he took off towards the Strike and took aim, firing off at the beam rifle of the other suit, thus cutting off any chance it had to return any fire. "Got you!" Kira yelled as he grabbed his beam saber and swung it at the other suit, only to have it blocked by the other suit's saber. Getting knocked back by the saber, Kira dodged each swing for all he was worth, letting some swings hit his shield and others with his own blade. "My mission will not go incomplete" The other pilot snarled. The duel was on with Kira swinging his beam saber for all of his worth
Seeing as how he was left with very little chance at surviving this way, Kira's only chance was to outmaneuver the suit, and maybe make an escape back to the Archangel. Kira followed up with another thrust which caused the suit to fly backwards and open up the two square compartments on it's shoulder to show dual gatling cannons which unloaded their deadly ammunition at Kira. Kira blocked with his shield and watched as it continued to be dented and deformed from the shell's impacts. The pilot flew backwards and once again grasped the double barrelled rifle and took aim.
"Locked on target, fire!" The pilot said as he let loose another blast at Kira. Kira dodged once again and returned fire with his seized beam rifle. The suit managed to dodge the shots and flew in with the beam rifle aimed right at Kira and fired, but not at Kira, rather at one of the red wings of the Aile pack, causing some degree of damage to the suit's manueverability. "Dammit, I can't move at all!" Kira said as he noticed the Aile pack's damage. The suit in front of him loomed over hiead with it's wings spread and the cannon pointed at Kira.
"Tolle, Miriallia, fllay, everyone, I'm sorry" Kira said as he closed his eyes and was prepared to welcome his fate. It never came as the suit lowered it's rifle and merely floated in front of the Strike. "What?" Kira asked as the suit lowered it's rifle. "ZERO says you're not my enemy, and I agree, Mission complete" The other pilot said and took off. "Wonder what that was all about?" Kira muttered as he drifted out of the debris belt and towards the Archangel.
"The suit took off, and I drifted back to the Archangel, the suit was never seen again, not even to this day" Kira said as he let Tolle down off of his shoulders and onto one of the couches as the trio moved to the family room. "Whoa, a suit with wings of a bird, Mira would love that" Tolle said thinking of how much his little sister had bonded with his aunt Lacus and had been learning to read under his aunt. Hearing a noise, Tolle looked over at the T.V. and saw an ancient martial arts film starring a well known kung fu expert named Bruce Lee. "Hey looking at this, this reminds me of another fight I had with a couple of strange suits that used martial arts in their fights" Kira said to his son. "Martial arts? Now you're stretching it Kira" Athrun said settling down beside Tolle.
"No no, I'm serious, it really happened" Kira said as he told his tale...
"There they go again" Kira said as he chased off the EA Gundams. Looking down below, Kira saw movement, about the size of a mobile suit. "Did I miss one, is that a Gundam?" Kira was leery considering how he had already spied another strange suit and nearly paid for it, but remembering his vow he made to Mir, he sought out down to investigate. Once he had landed, Kira saw yet another weird suit, outlined with three metal rods on the sides, and a color scheme similar to that of his old Strike gundam. "So are you my opponent?" The other pilot yelled in question to Kira's appearance.
"What? I'm not here to fight" Kira replied hoping to back out of this encounter. "Not an option, Gundam fight ready...GO!" The other pilot shouted as he dashed forward at Kira with his fist cocked back ready to strike.
Kira went on the defensive and engaged the Freedom's thrusters and flew backwards. "He used his fist, no weapons at all? What kind of a suit is that?" Kira asked no one in particular. "I won't let you get away that easily, Vulcan!" the other pilot shouted as the dual machine guns on the side of the gundam's head came alive and fired off rounds at the Freedom. "Well it's good to know that at least one thing hasn't changed about it" Kira muttered as he avoided the shots of the opposing mobile suit.
"you can't stay up there forever! But if that's how you want to do it, then I'll just come right up there after you!" The other pilot said as he engaged his own thrusters and leapt upward towards Kira. Kira kept his eyes on the other suit, and watched as the suit went for the device at it's side, which was revealed to be a beam saber. Kira blocked with his own saber and a duel was on. Careful observation lead Kira to the fact that the other suit's saber only had one blade, and that was something Kira could use to his advantage. Blocking high with the saber, Kira flicked the switch to his beam saber and ignited the other end and watched as the blade quickly grew and impaled the other suit's shoulder. "Ahh!" The other pilot screamed as he landed on the ground, thankfully able to flip over onto his feet. "You think that's going to stop me? I'll crush you yet!" The other pilot yelled as he reared back into a weird fighting stance. "Now what's he up to?" Kira muttered.
"Now From the school of the undefeated of the east, Sekiha Tenkyoken!" The other pilot screamed as he shot his hands forward and dispelled a powerful burst of energy towards Kira. Kira managed to avoid the blast by cutting all power to his thrusters and dropping to the ground. He wasn't so fortunate as the other pilot dashed towards him yet again. "Now I've got you! Burning Finger!" The other pilot screamed as he grabbed ahold of Freedom Gundam's head. "Gundam Fight rule number 1 any Gundam that's head is completely destroyed is officially exempt from the competition!" The other pilot said. Kira narrowed his eyes as he moved his arm back and grabbed ahold of his beam saber and moved it forward, igniting the rear blade of it, sending it straight through the other Gundam's arm, releasing him from the other gundam's grasp.
"Look, I told you I'm not here to fight, if I had known you would have done something like this I would have just backed off" Kira said in one more attempt to stop the fight altogether. "What kind of an excuse is that? Where's your warrior's spirit? Huh?" The other pilot said angrily. "This guy just doesn't get the point" Kira muttered as he sheathed his beam saber. "So you're giving up are you? Well too bad, I'm not about to let an opponent forfeit a match, now get ready..." The other pilot said as he let his gundam begin to glow a bright golden color, as the blue flap on the front of the suit flipped open revealing a bright green light as the gundam once again took the familiar stance.
"Now, Erupting, Burning Sekiha Tenkyoken!" The pilot yelled as he shot the familiar burst of energy at Kira, he wasn't prepared for what happened next as the burst of energy was broken down by the combined energy of the four rail cannons on the Freedom and it's beam rifle. The other pilot could only watch as the blasts shot forward and ripped into his suit.
"That's your last warning, your suit's been disabled now let's just forget about all of this" Kira said, hoping the other pilot would listen. He could only watch as the other suit slowly picked itself off of the ground and stared at Kira, sparks coming off left and right due to it's damage from the blast.
"I see, you were merely holding back, next time I swear I'll be the victor, and we'll see just who's the strongest!" The other pilot said as he took off from the area and over to a weird contraption that the other Gundam kneeled down in.
"Did he even hear a word I just said?" Kira muttered as he flew back to the Archangel to look over the damages his suit sustained in the battle.
"He flew off in some weird vehicle and that's the last I ever saw of him, the other suit..." Kira said but was unable to finish his words as he was interrupted. "Another suit, another one that fights like that?" Tolle said motioning to the fight going on the TV with Bruce Lee taking on a whole dojo full of students using only his hands and feet and a pair of nunchaku. "Yep, just like him" Kira replied as he sat down in front of Tolle and began his tale...
Kira had returned from the Archangel once again in the Freedom Gundam as he took off in a guarding fashion. "This is Kira yamato reporting, I don't see any sign of ZAFT Mobile Suits, nor do I see any sign of theEarth Force Gundams either" Kira said checking all visuals that his mobile suit offered him. "Roger that, keep scouting and keep us posted on any occurences" Murrue Ramius called back to Kira.
Kira may have made that vow to protect everyone but he would like nothing more right now then to be alone in his cabin with Mira having a pleasant conversation. "Don't get caught napping" A voice said that woke Kira up from his daydreaming, It was Milly. "Just thought I'd do my part of protecting you, You don't want Captain Ramius giving you the third degree while you're in that thing do you?" Milly said jokingly. "You should be careful yourself Mir, she is only a foot away from..." Recording ended. Were the words Kira heard as the recording ended. "Thanks Milly" Kira said as he turned off the recording his girlfriend had sent him. Kira returned to scouting when another image caught his eye on the ground below. it appeared to be, another mobile suit.
Looking down, kira spied what looked like a black suit with a red set of wings on it's back, it's arms folded across it's chest in a look of arrogance and determination. "Are you the pilot who defeated my stupid pupil?" The other pilot questioned as he pointed his Gundam's finger at Kira and the Freedom Gundam. "My common sense is telling me to say no, but no one else around to shift the blame on..." Kira relented.
"Yes, I am" Kira said, knowing full well that a fight was soon to happen. "This disgrace to the school of the Undefeated of the East will not go unavenged, no, prepare to face the true master of the Sekiha Tenkyoken, I, Master Asia!" The other pilot said as his suit struck a fighting pose.
"Why do I always have to attract the strange ones?" Kira asked himself. "Get ready, Here I come!" The other pilot yelled as it took off towards Kira. Kira destabalized the Freedom and dropped to the ground below and watched as the other Gundam dropped down and plunged it's fist down at Kira, only to have it sink down into the earth. Taking notice of the terrain, Kira noticed that they were fighting on what appeared to be a downward sloping hill at least at 45 degree angle. 'Maybe I can put this to good use' Kira muttered. The other gundam followed up with a series of punches and kicks. "Ha come on, are you just going to avoid me forever? Ha!" The other pilot yelled as he closed in. "Nope, just until I can do This!" Kira yelled as he thrust his beam saber at the other suit. The other suit managed to didge it and followed up with a weird sort of melee weapon, it appeared to be a cloth, only made of energy. "Surprised, that's how most of my opponents fall, by not expecting the unexpect..." The other pilot's rant was cut short by Kira flipping over the other side of the beam saber and slicing through the beam cloth. "You should follow you're own advice" Kira said.
Realing in the cloth, The other pilot started circling the Freedom. "Don't get arrogant, the battle is just beginning" The other pilot said. Kira blocked the flurry of punches using his shield which only became further dented and warped. "I am not having much luck with shields" Kira muttered as he continued to block and thrust with his saber. "Heh, not bad, you aren't a true fighter but you're at least making an effort, that's more than I can say for my stupid pupil!" the other pilot said. Kira rocketed back and took aim using his beam rifle, the other gundam wouldn't have it. "That's what you think, darkness finger!" The other pilot shouted as he shot for the arm of his gundam on a cable and straight at the Freedom. The hand wrapped itself around the rifle, only to be caught around the rope by Freedom's other hand, allowing Kira to engage the lower cannons and shoulder mounted rail guns and take aim at the opposing mobile suit.
The other pilot felt the blasts fire into his suit's legs and arms. The blasts would normally be avoided but the other pilot had taken into account the design of the terrain and it's slopping base, making avoiding the blasts all the more difficult. "Very tricky, you used the terrain and thought quickly enough to use my own Darkness Finger attack against me and turned it into an advantage on your part" The other pilot muttered as he slowly rose up from the ground. "But I'm not done yet, far from it, I'll show you the true power of the school of the undefeated of the East!" The other pilot yelled as his suit began to glow a brilliant gold and assumed a familiar position from Kira's previous fight. "Now, Sekiha, Tenkyoken!" The pilot yelled as he shot forth another burst of energy at Kira.
Taking careful aim, Kira blasted with every available firearm on his Gundam, and managed to blast through the suit's energy, however once the smoke had cleared, the suit was nowhere to be seen. "What, where'd it go?" Kira asked. "Don't think I'll fall for the same trick that my stupid apprentice did!" The other pilot yelled as he grabbed the Freedom Gundam up by the cockpit. "Now, Darkness, Explo..." The other pilot was ready to continue but soon dropped to his knees as well as the Freedom Gundam. Kira looked on as the Gundam in front of him dropped it's golden hue and fell down to it's hands and knees. "Not, now, not..." The other pilot said as he continued to hack and cough. "Who ever heard of piloting when you're sick?" Kira asked as he grabbed his beam rifle and stood back and took aim just in case the other suit got any ideas.
"You win for now, but soon I'll fight you again and show you the true power of the undefeated of the east" The other pilot said a little calmer as it took off into the sunset. "They get stranger with every encounter" Kira said. "Kira! Kira, come in please!" Milly cried trying to get Kira's attention. "Don't worry Mir, I'm okay, I just got lucky is all..."
"He took off, and I managed to escape without too much damage" Kira said as he finished his final tale. "Whoa, I still think you could have taken him dad" Tolle said with a smile. "Thanks son" Kira said ruffling his son's hair, to which Tolle replied by trying to bat his father's hands away. The fun was interrupted as the front door was opened and the women of the trio's lives were returning. "We're home" Milly called out to let anyone in the general area. Kira walked in seeing his wife, wearing a light blue sweater, jeans and a white tanktop underneath it. "Hey sweetie" Kira said as he leaned in and planted a kiss on Milly's forehead.
"Daddy daddy look at what aunty Lacus bought for me!" Mira said running up to her father. "Oh she's beautiful honey, just like you" Kira said scooping his little girl up in his arms.
Seeing how Kira would be busy with his daughter and helping Milly put away groceries, Cagalli decided to let Tolle have a little surprise. "Tolle, come here come here" Tolle heard his voice being called and looked over to see his aunt calling him over. "I thought it'd be only fitting to get you something that you would appreciate, something your dad, and your uncle both had during the war" Cagalli said as she reached into a bag, pulling out model kits for the Freedom Gundam, and the Justice gundam. "Ahh, Aunt Cagalli thank you so much!" Tolle said as he threw his arms around his aunt's neck."You're welcome sweetie, you're welcome"
Later that night, the children lay in their beds asleep. Mira lay with the doll the aunt Lacus had bought for her while above Tolle's head were two model kits of the Freedom Gundam and the Justice Gundam, now watching over him, just as both of the suit's pilots were doing to this day. In another room however a much different conversation was going on.
"So I take it you saw what Cagalli bought him?" Milly said as she lay with one arm propping her head up to look at Kira who lay in bed with his head in his hands folded out on the pillow behind him. "Yeah they acted like it was a secret and he tried to hide it from me but I found out, I just kept quiet so I could play along" Kira replied. "Do you think it's wise to expose him to such things?" Milly asked her voice taking on a hint of worry. "He was bound to find out sooner or later, and at least he found out from me and Athrun, so hopefully he won't get the wrong idea" Kira replied. "I hope you're right" Milly said as she lay down on his chest. Kira replied by wrapping his arms around his wife and began to rub her back. "You remember my cousin, the sharpshooter?" Milly asked. "Yeah you did mention her" Kira replied. "She and her fiance' Kazuki will be dropping by tomorrow, I already cleared it with Cagalli." Milly said. "Well good, now we'll get to see the woman who gav you such accuracy" Kira said earning himself a giggle from his wife.
Elsewhere...
Two opponents, stared each other down, hands at the ready, planning on which move to make, no matter what, it could mean the end of this round. "Your move" Said one as the other reached out, only to have his concentration disrupted by the sounds of yelling. "That's checkmate Heero" said the blonde haired man who took advantage of his opponent's distraction. Uttering a low growl the brown haired pilot rose up his seat to go and take care of the disturbance.
"Hey! will you two keep it down, we're trying to play a game in here!" Heero barked at his fellow misplaced pilots. All four of them, after being defeated or running off had been captured by the Earth Alliance and had worked out a deal to have their suits repaired in return for forming an elite team to take care of any potential uprisings or any other threats. The payment for them would be that the best scientists in the Earth Alliance would be researching ways to return each of them back to their own worlds, of this though Heero had his doubts.
"You'll never get strong enough to rid yourself of that scum who defeated us! now begin training right master!" yelled one of the other pilots. "Yes Domon, perfection doesn't come with sitting around playing a ridiculous chess game now we train!"
"I never lost, so I don't need to train with either of you, now keep it down" Heero said as he walked back into the room where Zechs and a new chess game would be waiting for him.
Hope you all enjoyed it, and as for the cameos, they happened...in Gundam Battle Assault 3: Starring Gundam SEED for the PS2. Now read and review please.