Just curious, but does anyone think it's really pathetic that I like to read my own fic?
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Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed or Seed Destiny
Suzuka entered the bridge, Cedric marched up to her.
"Captain, I do not think it is a good idea to let Mr. Za Burrel-"
"Commander." she sighed, "I know you object. Please, tell me later, I've got a lot to do."
"Yes, mame."
She sat in her chair,
"Prepare for battle and atmospheric desent." she said, "We will be going ahead of the Voltaire to hopefully take some of the pressure off their hull. Reiah? Please instruct Mr. Za Burrel at what he needs to do."
"Yes, Captain." the CIC controller smiled.
Rey sat in the cockpit, running his hands over the console slowly. Mobile suits were somewhat like women. Anypiolet could get uncommonly attached to his mobile suit. At times eating, sleeping, and doing most of the work inside the cockpit. He remembered there were many times that he fell asleep in his Zaku Phantom during his drills when he was first stationed on the Minerva. Lunamaria and Shinn would get on his case about it.
Every mobile suit had a soul. Silly as that sounded to some people, it did not sound strange to him. This particular Zaku that he was in would need to be like an extension of his own limbs while he was fighting, and since this was technically his FIRST time in a mobile suit since he had been cloned again, it was going to take a second for it to all come back.
But he was not having trouble with that either.
"Booting up OS..." he pulled down the keyboard and Ralph watched in amazement as Rey's fingers flew across the keys, "Main condensers...on, weapons check...green, main boasters...activated. Systems, all go..."
"You a little rusty?" Ralph smirked.
"Nonsense." Rey chuckled back at him, "I'm a specialist."
"SURE you are." he sighed, "Good hunting, kid."
The cockpit door closed as Rey buckled himself in. Reiah came onto the screen,
"Good afternoon, Rey-kun, I'm Leutinant Tesslia Reiah"
"Leutinant Reiah." he looked at her.
"Please, Tess is fine." she smiled, "I'll be your CIC controller so any questions, comments, or last rites before your departure?"
"I guess-" he smiled, "-once we get on earth, I want to eat a real meal."
"Well, I'm SORRY if our meals are not you your liking!" Cedric roared over the com, "Elitist..."
Everyone on the bridge laughed.
"You're all clear for launch." Reiah said.
"Rey Za Burrel, Launching..."
"The Kamaitachi is launching a Zaku, sir." Abby reported, "It's joining our squad sir."
"Good." Yzak said, "Release the docking clamps."
"Exiting the debris field."
They edged towards earth. Ezekiel frowned, glancing back at the captain.
"What is it, Mr. Marks?" Suzuka looked at him worriedly.
"No-Nothing, sir."
"It's too quiet." Cedric murmured to her, "There's nothing here. I expected almost emdiate attack by a Twlight ship."
"So did I." she said, "They aren't going to underestimate us again."
"I agree."
She looked at the screen, and sighed,
"Continue towards ear-"
There was a large beep, and Virgil Brooks gasped,
"Incomming!"
There was a large explosion.
Trent stood in his office.
"Your orders, sir?" Honoka stood in his office.
Chairman Trent was silent a moment.
"Destroy them all. Take the 25th and 63rd Squads with you. Do what you need to...just destroy them. Top priority to the Orb ship, we can't allow it to reach earth."
"If it's permissible to ask, sir, why so much commotion over THIS Orb ship? Are there not other Orb ships in the area that may pose a bigger threat? Orb's base at Mendel...we know the Eternal is still-"
"There is something on that fleeting Orb battleship. A weapon that we spent almost all of our manpower and resources over the last two years to build. We can't allow Zala to get ahold of it." Trent said, "That traidorous bitch...she will pay for what she stole from us. Stop it at all costs."
"And the Voltaire."
"Destroy it. No survivors."
Honoka sighed, "Aye, sir."
"Honoka you fool." Yzak cursed, "Target that ship. It's starting to annoy me."
"Targeting." his weapons officer repeated.
"Fire!"
Rey watched explosions litter the sky as mobile suits started battle mid-space. At this rate, they would be back to where they were an hour ago. Defenseless and hiding in a junk yard. Gancing around, he darted through other battles, and found Elthman and Hahnenfuss.
"Major Elthman! Hahnenfuss-" Rey called over the com, "-respond!"
"Here!" both officers called him.
"We need to protect the flagships!" he yelled, "We're too close to earth now! If either of the ships are damaged, they will be destroyed in the desent!"
They were close to earth now.
"The Twilight fleet is catching up to us, sir." Abby replied, "We're not going to make it-"
"We'll make it!" Yzak yelled, "Holms-"
"Already at top speed without burning out the engines!" the helmsman shouted back.
The ship began to rock as they began to pass through the first layer of the atmosphere.
"Retract all weapons, prepare for atmospheric entry. Recall the mobile suits." Yzak ordered.
Spying the flares from the Voltaire, Shiho turned to Dearka who was still busy firing on two enemy GINNs.
"Shows over, Dearka, we have to move!"
"Comming!" he shot a hole threw the chest of the mobile suit, and shoved it away. He shot towards the DEEP Arms.
"Rey-" Reiah's voice came on his main com link, "Please return to the ship."
He shot threw the battlefeild, drawing the two beam swords, he slashed his way towards the Kamaitachi, seeing the meters blip slightly as he was getting close to the atmopshere. Zakus could not handel the entry as well as a gundam would. If he was in the Legend-
He stopped himself. He must not remind himself of the past.
It was difficult to reach the ship, and he almost fell into the docking bay. With the speed quickly increasing, it was hard to judge rates. He glanced to the side to see that Shiho and Dearka had successfully reached the Voltaire.
Dearka grabbed the mechanical hand of the DEEP Arms and threw her onto the Voltaire's launch deck, and looked back at the ZAFT ships in pursute.
Honoka glarred at the fleeing ships, and he sighed.
I will not tollerate anymore mistakes.
"Charge the Tanhauser..."
Dearka gasped as the cannon opened and was locking onto the Voltaire.
"Captain Jule!" Abby yelled, "Captain Honoka's ship has locked onto us with it's Tanhauser cannon!"
"Is he crazy?" Bjorkland said, "If he fires that into earth's atmosphere-"
"Chairman Trent must have really threatened him." Yzak frowned.
"At this height-" Reiah told her captain, "-it runs the risk of frying earth's atmosphere."
"We can't allow that." Cedric said, "We should send one of the piolets up there to destroy it."
"We can't leave anyone behind. We're already past third stage entry." Suzuka replied, "We just don't have time."
Dearka sat in his cockpit, listening to the communication lines between his ship, his fellow squad members, and the two Captains.
He smirked, maybe today was a good day to die.
"I'll go!" Shiho called, "I can withstand the heat more in the DEEP Arms."
"NO!" Yzak shouted, suddenly alarmed, "You can't!"
"I'm the only logical choice! I have too go-"
She yelped as something grabbed her, throwing her mobile suit violently back into the launch bay. Dearka entered the codes for the docking door, it shut tight.
"Dearka, what are you doing!" Shiho gasped.
Yzak watched in horror as Dearka's Zaku left the ship, and shot towards the attacking fleet. He slowly stood up, hearing nothing in his own mind as the long gun Dearka kept with his Zaku was drawn and aimed right at the Tanhauser cannon as it was about to fire.
"Dearka." Yzak whispered.
Dearka fired the rifle at the cannon before it fired.
There was an explosion, and he heard Shiho cry out as debris from other mobile suits and damaged ships began to enter the atmopshere along with them. Yzak stared in shock as they entered the earth's atmosphere. Seeing nothing but fire and falling metal as they shot towards earth. The shot from the attacking ship was redirected into another direction, saving the two ships and the planet.
"Major Elthman!" Abby called over the com link, "Major, respond!"
Yzak's eyes closed painfully.
Dearka...
Miriallia sat in the jeep, looking over the photos.
"Anything good today, missy?" Rich asked her.
"Oh yes." she smirked, "Many good things."
"Hey-" he looked up, "-what the hell..."
They drove around the bend and up the path, and reached the ruins of the refugee camp that they had been staying in for a while. Miriallia jumped out of the car, looking around despertly as people were screaming and crying. Buildings were on fire, and medics were rushing around trying to help the injured.
"What happened, Ellanor?" Miriallia ran over to the young female doctor who was trying to inspect the wounded refugees.
"Debris..." she said, not bothering to look at Miriallia, "There was a battle in earth's atmopshere...debris everywhere..."
She looked around, and frowned.
"I'll go contact Orb right away." Rich headed towards the communication tower.
Miriallia ran threw the town. It was almost completely destroyed. Stopping, there was a crowd off people to the side andtheroad wasblocked off. Heading in that direction, she gasped when she got there.
It was a Zaku. Almost completely intact.
The technicians were trying to pry the melted cockpit door open. Spotting her helicopter piolet lending assistence, she climbed down the rumble towards the crowd of men.
"What's going on?" she called.
"Looks like one of the lucky devils might have survived." Zack, her piolet, replied, "The cockpit is just about to be opened."
"This is a ZAFT Zaku." she said, "Earth and ZAFT aren't fighting again, are they?"
"Damn, I hope not."
Prying the door open, she saw one of the men lean in and then a few moments later, he called for a med team. Miriallia shoved her way up towards the cockpit opening, and looking inside, she was shocked at what she saw.
"Oh my god..." she laid a hand over her mouth.
A very familiar face stared up at her. He was badly injured, and his eyes were practcially glazed over as he smiled slightly at her. Half of his face was covered with his own blood, and his right eye was swollen shut. One of his hands were tucked tightly under his arm. He had used one hand to direct the mobile suit away from the refugees, but as a result, had ended up burning it on the superheated controls.
"...shit..." the Zaku piolet whispered, "...I must have died...and gone to heaven...because the angels look like Miriallia..."
He passed out.
She did not know what to think.
It was Dearka.
This chapter seemed a little long and boring to me. It was really important, but long...and slow. The ending was what I was really trying to get too, but I wasn't too sure how to get there so I just threw a bunch of things in and hoped it worked out. Next chapter, the story will officially start picking up, I promise.
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