The Great King Chapter 66: Battle of Oceania Part Three, a gundam seed fanfic

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Chapter Sixty-Six

Battle of Oceania Part Three

Right Phalanx

Dearka watched as they broke through and he knew he would have to use his sword, the archers were hastily retreating while firing, the infantry was being over run and Dearka knew he would have to fall back as well, but what he spotted made him draw back his bow one last time, he saw the target aimed a little and fired.

Nicol was pleased that they were able to break through the lines, and that the forces were on the run. Nicol glanced over and saw that his commander was doing his job as well, they had completely broke through the infantry lines and were chasing down the archers, Nicol was about to led his cavalry to take control of the cavalry teams when he spotted a what looked like a Buster commander aiming with his bow at something. Nicol looked over and saw that he was aiming for his second in command.

Dearka knew his unit was lost, but they did do significant damage, but when he saw what looked like a leader overpowering his infantry he just knew he couldn't miss this opportunity. Dearka knelt down on one knee and aimed his bow.

Nicol knew he couldn't reach this Buster commander in time, so his only hope was to warn his commander, Nicol broke out of the formation his cavalry was in and tried his best to reach the commander.

It was difficult hearing throughout all the noise of the battlefield but he thought he heard his leader's voice; he turned around and saw his Lord shouting something out to him.

Dearka saw the man turn around and fired his arrow, the commander was trying to hear what Nicol was saying and before he knew it the arrow had struck right in a vital point in the opening of his armor. Nicol watched in horror as the commander fell from his horse, he and the commander almost had a father son relationship as the commander served Nicol's family his whole life.

Dearka smiled as his job was done and he saw that the units were advancing faster so he started falling back with the surviving members of his unit, after the commander fell, the units completely broke through and ran down most of the archers, he had no defense and fell to the Blitz knights quick. Dearka and the few surviving members quickly retreated to the center, but the right Phalanx had fallen to ORB. As they were retreating Dearka saw that his unit had lost over eighty to ninety percent of the squad, and new that the Buster squad had fallen.

Nicol quickly got off his horse and went down to the fallen commander's side, his wound was critical and with no time to treat a wound in the battlefield it would be fatal.

Nicol looked at him, "You have to hang on."

The commander smiled up at him, "Leave this…old man…My Lord…there is still…a battle to…win…make ORB proud…it has been…an honor…serving you………" he said as he perished right their.

Nicol watched and took his words to heart, the commander was right he had no time to grieve. Nicol was beyond sad, but with the battle still continuing he knew he had to secure those catapults which would give ORB the total victory on the right Phalanx.

Nicol slowly laid the fallen commanders body back down and got back on his horse, he saw that the Buster squad was retreating but he needed to get them out of the catapults to secure victory. Nicol hastily rode to join up with his cavalry who were busy taking down the retreating archers, Nicol caught up to them.

"Let them go, secure those catapults!" Nicol shouted and all started heading for the catapults, the heavy armed infantry finished with the Buster infantry and joined them as quickly as possible.

The captain of the catapult team saw all to well what happened to his unit, as he saw the cavalry and infantry approaching, his unit started abandoning the catapults and grabbed whatever weapon they could, but most ran away.

Nicol and the cavalry cut right through the men who took up arms, while leaving them there they picked off some retreating ones as well, when the others were too far into the center Nicol addressed his cavalry.

"Leave them, let's return and destroy those catapults," Nicol said.

"My Lord, shouldn't we use them ourselves?" one asked.

Nicol looked at him, "By the time we get them ready our own units will be mixed in with the rest, and we can not use them against our own men."

The men knew that made sense.

They returned to the phalanx and saw the heavy armed infantry cut the rest of them down and they started destroying and setting fire to the catapults, Nicol watched as the catapults broke apart and was pleased at the outcome, Nicol was proud of his squad and turned to his men,

"Well done, this battle is far from over, we will work our way over to the Left Phalanx and assist the Aegis squad in hold the left, we will win for the commander," Nicol said as the Blitz knights erupted in cheer, they quickly got back into formation and headed towards the center heading into the Left Phalanx, they knew they had a choir getting there, so they started heading there immediately.

Center

With Kira

The battle raged on in the center but with few for ORB, the archers kept firing at the enemy reinforcements but were limited by making sure not to hit their own men. So far the combined forces of the royal guard and Kira's cavalry seemed to be winning this so far, but Gil wasn't finished with them yet.

The first wave was pretty much taken care of with minor losses for the ORB army that was when Kira saw the second wave approaching, the archers fired as best they could but when they got to close they had to stop firing. These units were like the last except they had added light infantry units. Kira's cavalry had little time to get back into formation but they achieved it.

The second wave approached fast with their cavalry but the royal guard was easily able to counter them. As the light and heavy armed infantry approached Kira and his cavalry units once again intercepted them.

They immediately surrounded Kira trying to earn a name for themselves by being the one who defeated the ORB King, but Kira was countering pretty nicely, his cavalry units were doing the best they could to get the enemy units away from their King.

Kira was able to take down a few, but when the light armed infantry approached with several spears he knew they could take out his advantage of being on a horse. As the spears approached Kira easily was able to evade the first thrust, but he could not reach the man to counter attack him so Kira used his sword to sideswipe the man's spear breaking it in two. That didn't stop the others as they started trying to stab him, Kira used his sword the best he could, and evaded but it was starting to overwhelm him. Tori was thrashing around as he was being surrounded and when he got on his two back legs trying to make some room, Kira had to evade an attack and fell from the horse, landing square on his side.

The cavalry was coming to his aide as fast as they could and they two got off their horses to assist; they ran up to the knights and started engaging them.

Mu saw what was happing ahead of him and could bear it no longer, Mu turned to look at his squad who was also looking on with concern.

"On my order charge!" Mu shouted out to the Strike squad.

The Strike squad obeyed and started charging towards the front of the center battle, the Strike unit was made of all knights with all different specialties so Mu knew they could handle themselves against these ordinary units. The Strike squad began the charge and quickly entered the battle.

Kira fell on his side and quickly rolled over on his back as he saw a spear heading straight for him, the man stabbed down but the spear impaled the ground, Kira saw this opportunity and stabbed the man square through the stomach dropping him immediately.

As more knights charged at him, Kira quickly stood and the cavalry units that disembarked their horses finally broke through to him.

"Are you alright Your Highness," a knight asked as he engaged an enemy knight.

Kira smiled, "I'm fine, we cannot keep wasting strength, here let's finish this," Kira said and the knights were once again inspired by their Kings words.

By now the entire second wave infantry knew where the King was and attempted to get to him, Kira didn't like what he saw as they approached, that was when he saw Mu and the Strike cavalry immediately ride into them blocking their path to the King.

Kira smiled as he saw Mu riding thorough, he didn't want the Strike unit in yet, but he was surprised Mu held out this long, Kira and the others used this opportunity to get back on their horses. As soon as they were on their horses the remaining Strike squad arrived and in no time were tearing the second wave's numbers to almost nothing, and it wasn't long before this wave was completely destroyed.

After the remaining units from the second wave fell back, Kira and the rest immediately got back into formation and Mu rode up to him.

"Hey kid, you alright?" Mu asked.

Kira looked at him, "I will live, and I see you entered the battlefield early."

Mu smiled, "I was bored, besides you can't have all the fun."

Kira had to laugh as they returned to formation, Kira looked around and their losses were still small, and his royal guard didn't seem to lose any on the last wave. The strike squad took there new position next to the royal guard and waited. Kira knew that they could only possible hold off one more wave and still have the energy for the Emperors new squad. Kira was glad when he saw that they had the left Phalanx, and he could get no word on the Left, but he was sure Athrun could handle it.

With Gil

Gil was watching as the regulars of his knights connected with the regulars of the ORB knights and he was eagerly awaiting a report from Sai, Sai would not fight and though he was a strategist Gil assigned him to get reports from units to relay to him.

Rau was still enjoying the battle, but now he wanted action, as he saw the second wave fail in the center he knew it wouldn't be long now.

Gil was overlooking the battle when Sai returned.

"I have news sire," Sai said as he stopped in front of him.

Gil looked at him, "Go on."

Sai hesitated, "My Lord, the regulars are still even with the enemy regulars…the Left Phalanx seems like it could go either way," Sai was really starting to hesitate as that was the best he could do with good news.

Gil grew impatient, "Go on, I have no time for hesitating."

Sai jumped at his tone, "The Right Phalanx has fallen sire and the Buster squad has all been destroyed…and in the center the first and second waves are gone." Sai finished as he was worried how the Emperor would react.

Gil was not too happy about that last news, but he still had some ideas.

"Rau come here," Gil said.

Rau who was behind Gil smiled and then approached him, "I am here My Lord." Rau said.

Gil looked back at Sai, "Prepare the third wave to strike the center, as soon as they are ready have a unit of archers fall behind them and as soon as they engage, have the archers fire."

Sai looked shocked, "But…but sire that would hit our own people."

Gil glared at him, "The third wave is made up of mostly native Oceania soldiers, losing them will mean nothing."

Sai bowed, "As you wish sire," Sai said as he went to give the command.

Gil looked back at Rau, "Prepare the squad, as soon as the arrows strike them we will charge and finish this."

Rau smiled, "It will be done sire," Rau said as he went back to the unit with a huge grin on his face, he gave the order and the squad was ready.

Gil returned to looking at the battlefield and he was ready to attack as well.

Sai ran over to the third wave and gave the orders, the third wave was former Oceania knights who's ruling houses escaped slavery by swearing allegiance to ZAFT, while the ruling houses were traitors to their fallen nation, many of the knights did not like there betrayal, but for the sake of their families they fought for ZAFT.

The captain of this wave was a little older and when Sai gave him the orders he prepared his unit and then began the charge.

Gil saw this and when they got a ways away he messaged the archers to fall behind them and as soon as the engagement began they were to fire at all of them, the archers got their orders and left.

Left Phalanx

Athrun engaged some of the infantry approaching him and was easily able to cut through them, as they proved not that formidable, on the other side Yzac was doing the same but he used his rage and angrily cut through some of the Aegis members, all he saw was the commander on horse heading straight for him, and he wanted him out of the way so he could get to the center.

Athrun and Yzac had their eyes on each other, but the there were units in the way so they had to engage them.

The second in command commander of the Aegis squad was handling the infantry squad and the battle seemed to be even, he was engaging the enemy as well, and the losses for both sides were starting to add up for both.

Yzac was disposing of the Aegis squad members like they were nothing, and in no time he was right in front of the Aegis squad leader, and Yzac smiled, as he was ready to fight.

Athrun was in the same situation as Kira was earlier; the knights seemed to be gunning for him as he was the way they could make a name for themselves. Athrun evaded attacks from the ground and countered as he could, he to started cutting down the Duel members.

Athrun quickly glanced at the squad and noticed that they were way to even and it could go either way. Athrun stabbed through one more and when he looked back up the leader of the Duel squad was right in front of him.

Near the Right Phalanx

Nicol and the remaining members of the Blitz squad knew they had to help over in the left Phalanx, they could not afford to lose one Phalanx as they were outnumbered, Nicol glanced at the center and was pleased that it was looking well, as they started riding towards Athrun he was intercepted by more regular ZAFT units and had to engage them, he and the Blitz unit started getting through them the best that they could.

Center

The captain of the third wave began the charge as all of his men were looking at them, there force was just like the second wave in cavalry, and infantry, they began the charge and the captain looked at his men.

"Sir, how long must we do this?" he asked.

The captain frowned.

"We have no choice they will slaughter our families or turn them into slaves," another knight said.

The first one frowned.

The captain had enough, "We may be able to do something else."

All looked at him.

The captain smiled, "I will speak with this ORB King, make sure none of you engage his force until I speak with him, this may be a way out for everybody."

All were confused but the believed in their captain. They were really close to the ORB forces now.

The archer unit was doing the best to keep near and they were looking forward to firing.

With Kira

"Your Majesty the third wave is approaching," a knight said.

Kira and the others readies to attack, but something was off, they were slowing down and they had sheathed all of their weapons.

"The archers are ready to fire sire," a knight said.

Kira looked at the men approaching and saw the lead on clearly, he was still in the distance but Kira could tell they weren't trying to be hostile.

"Hold fire," Kira said.

"My Lord," the man said confusingly.

Kira looked at him, "I said hold fire, something is going on and if it's a trap we may be able to use this."

The knight said nothing.

The captain smiled as they didn't start firing there archers at them.

"He seems to know we mean no harm, I guess he is like the rumors say," the captain said.

"Sir," his men said in unison.

The captain looked at them, "Stay close but I will go in alone."

The knights nodded there heads and let the captain start riding in, they went a little ways but when the ORB army reacted the captain looked back and held his hand out for them to stop, which they did.

Mu saw what was going on a rode near Kira, "What do you think kid?"

Kira kept his eyes on this man, "Stay alert, but I think something else is going on."

Mu nodded his head and the man approached.

The captain stopped a little ways ahead of him, "Great King of ORB, my men mean no harm."

Kira looked at him, "Identify yourself."

The captain smiled, "I am a former captain of the old Oceania Republic."

Mu looked at Kira, "I heard about this before kid, it appears the rumors were true about ZAFT making a few units of the countries they conquered into the army."

Kira looked back at him, "State your business."

"My men and I are not like our traitorous houses, we only serve ZAFT because our families depend on it," the captain told him.

"Go on," Kira replied.

The captain smiled, "We heard rumors about you Great King, our families are still in Oceania, we want assistance to get rid ZAFT of our former land, and we are willing to fight for you."

Kira looked at Mu.

"It is possible kid," Mu said.

Kira was about to say something when he saw what was approaching from the skies.

The archers were in position as soon as they began their talks, and when they saw the units not engaging they immediacy fired anyway.

Kira looked up, "Incoming," Kira said and Mu noticed and they knights did as well, the arrows rained down and struck the ORB forces and the Third wave, the captain watched as his men took the attack.

"Captain, we will be glad to help you, and I am putting my trust in you to rid those archers," Kira told him.

The captain looked grateful, "We will not fail sir," he said as he and the other unit rode to intercept the archers, Kira and Mu watched as they engaged them.

"You sure about trusting them kid?" Mu asked.

Kira smiled, "Something told me I can trust him so I will."

Mu smiled.

The archers were being cut apart by the unit as they had no time to run away, and it was noticed by someone as well.

With Gil

Gil watched as the second wave started attacking his own archers, and though he didn't care about his units that made him have to rush his charge.

Rau noticed what was happening and all he needed now was the Emperors orders.

Gil grew tired of this and looked back at Rau, "Prepare your unit."

Rau smiled and unsheathed his sword followed by his whole unit.

Shinn and Rey did the same thing; their orders were to take charge of the unit while Rau accomplished his final task.

Gil watched a little while longer and gave the order to charge.

Gil looked at Rau, "Let's go!" he shouted.

Rau smiled one last time, "Attack!" Rau shouted to his unit and the Providence squad started making its way towards the ORB center.

Left Phalanx

The second in command of the Aegis squad was engaging as fierce as they could, the formation they were using wasn't working like they hoped it would. The Duel units were in just as much rage as its leader and it was slowing them down. They kept up there fight and were doing their best to hold them off, they vowed that they will not lose this Phalanx.

Athrun looked up and his eyes deadlocked with Yzac's. Both were still on their horses, but they knew who each other were.

Yzac smirked, "The mighty Aegis commander I presume, a pity I have to waste my talents on you, but getting rid of you will bring me one step closer to your King."

Athrun didn't like this guy's overconfident attitude, but he remembered what Kira told him about his skill.

"The ruthless Duel commander, you're anxious to face the King again, but the outcome will remain as it did the last time you fought him, with your humiliation," Athrun told him sternly.

Yzac grew angry, as he remembered that night once again.

Athrun smiled, "Hit a nerve, but you won't have to worry, you won't make it to the center."

Yzac let his rage go and he charged straight at Athrun with his sword ready, Athrun was glad he was able to turn the Duel commanders mind games against him. Athrun did wait as he charged straight at him as well.

They neared each other and there swords met with a clash that could almost overwhelm the sound of the battle around them. Athrun could tell Kira was right about this man as there strength was practically even, Yzac knew this would be more of a challenge than he thought, he broke their test of strength and circled each other again, as the second charge at each other began, Athrun didn't like what he saw.

Center

As Gil and the providence squad made there charge, the third wave of the former Oceania knights did not like what they saw, the captain immediately tried to get his unit into formation, but the Providence squad led by the Emperor broke right through taking out over fifty percent of there unit.

Kira and the rest of his unit in the center was pleased that they had a new ally, but what they saw made them get in a ready stance.

Kira watched as he saw the Emperor and the new squad break right through them.

Kira looked on as all he saw was Gil, it was the same with Mu but all he saw was Rau; all were in a ready stance as the forces approached. There was no way Kira was going to let them, just slice through them, he gave the order and Kira's cavalry, the royal guard and the Strike unit charged straight at the Providence unit, and the Emperor.

To be continued…

(AN): I hope you liked this chapter; the next part should be up by Tuesday. See you later.