Five years later...The SAMF grows stronger while the Earth Alliance and Clyne Faction begin to fall.

Liru, now being a fifteen year old, has grown up to be a powerful coordinator. Her parents worry more for her sake when she goes with her class to Heliopolis to see the Gundams in action.

The bus stopped outside the silver gate Heliopolis as a lady in a white uniform came to greet them. They stepped outside of the bus and form two lignes of boys seperated from the girls in front of the lady.

"Welcome to Heliopolis Class 3-B. My name is Murrue Ramius and I am an Orb mechanic. Today, you shall be seeing a few stationary Gundams and maybe later on you'll be able to try them out." Murrue smiled at all the anxious faces as the class started whispering to each other. "I will be taking attendance now so please pay attention. Say "here when I list of your names boys:

"Yabu Chugen; Komu Dairi; Ogawa Haisen; Numai Mitsuru; Riku Mori; Sota Namura; Shugo Sasagawa; Hiroki Seto; Yutaka Sugimura and Satoshi Yokomichi." All the guys responded back to Murrue with "Here" and she moved onto the girls.

"Mayu Aozora; Ayame Dorai; Yuko Hyuga; Yukie Ishikawa; Megumi Kanai; Yumiko Kato; Mizuho Kinoshita; Yukiko Kitano; Izumi Mihara; Rika Nonaka; Mitsuko Shibasaki; Sakura Shimaki and..." Murrue paused and smiled. "Liru Yamato."

Liru's friends turned to to her with confused faces.

"Do you know her?"

Liru looked back at Murrue and couldn't remember ever meeting her before.

"No I haven't. Maybe she knows my dad or mom that would explain it."

The girls shrugged and turned their attention back to Murrue as she explained the locations of the base.

"The elevator is right in the center of the base so if you get lost just go there and someone will find you. The bathrooms are located on the second floor. The technology and Gundams are on the first floor and lead on through the basement. Okay class, let's go."

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Inside the base, the class explored all around as few words from Murrue were reaching their ears.

Soon after, Murrue finally gave up on trying to lecture them when they passed the Gundams. Too much talking broke out and Murrue let them wander off for an hour around the first floor.

Liru and her little group of friends went straight over to the biggest Gundam at the far corner of the hall.

A worker was sitting inside the cockpit and was typing away on the computer inside the machine. He noticed the girls and put the computer down and went outside towards them.

"Are you guys interested in Gundams?" asked the worker.

Megumi and Mayu both noded vigurously a looked starry eyed. Yumiko was looked a little confused when she saw the machine. Mizuho looked like she didn't even want to go near it or even be at Heliopolis. Liru looked very intrigued when she looked up at it.

"What model is?"asked Mayu.

"This is my favorite, the Strike Rouge. Weighs 64.8 metric tons and is 17.72 meters high. We have attached 57 mm High-Energy Beam Rifle as its weapon. My name is Chishiki, ask me anything you want about these Gundams and I'll know."

Liru smirked at the machine and turned to Chishiki.

"Was this paticular machine registered to the pilot Cagalli Yula Athha?"

Chishiki was struck back by the this question.

"How did you know that?"

"Cagalli is my aunt. My name is Liru Yamato. My father used to bere as well, Kira Yamato."

Chishiki smile at Liru and told her that he has only heard of that name from the other workers and had been told many stories of him and his abilities.

"He was a coordinator wasn't he. Not a big surprise with abilities like his. That must mean that you should have some abilities within you as well. Do you want to try do a test-run for this mobile suit? I was going to just now but I think it would be more interesting if you gave a try. What do you say?"

"Sure!"

"Hey Duo! Come here for a second. Liru Yamato this is Duo Maxwell, he came to Heliopolis with me four years ago. Duo, Liru wants to do the test-run for Strike Rouge."

"Really? But she only a kid even you can barely make it move let alone go outside for a test-run. What are you playing at?"

Chishiki waved his hand to silence Duo. He led the way to Gundam and opened the cockpit. Liru looked inside with peering eyes.

She got inside and closed the door as Chishiki gave her a thumbs-up.

A videoscreen poped-up and it was Duo face she saw.

"I'll lead you through this. Okay, to start it up, just pulled ba-..."

Liru was way ahead of him she started it up and was already typing things on the keyboard. All the controls were lighting up at the clicking of the computer. Liru's eyes were moving back and forth very fast and she was muttering quietly underneath her breath.

"Configure the Armament Igelstullung 75mm anti-air Vulcan Gun and Armor Schneider Combat Knives to non-airial style combat. Land and gravity force must be reimputed to the Earth instead of space. Switch the Ultracompact Energy Battery to a restored one. Place a new Phase Shift Armor to the new AI system..."

Liru's friends were staring at her, mouths opened while Chishiki and Duo were trying to keep up with what she was doing.

"User registration pilot..." Liru looked down and saw two names on the screen. Cagalli Yula Athha and Kira Yamato. Liru smiled and typed in her own name. "Okay, after a few minor adjustments, this Gundam is all ready for take off."

"Okay, Liru, we're unhooking Rouge. Ready. Take off!"

Fire shot out of the Strike and it took off through the opening in the wall leading to an arena. Awaiting there was another machine, a Dom Trooper.

"Liru, what you have to do is take down this machine. No one is inside it so don't worry about anyone else being injured just look out for your own neck. Let the battle begin!"