Chapter 11: Revelations and Reunions
A/N: Thanks to all my readers...anyway the previous bit basically outlined the whole MuNeo theory which you all should have got by now...Anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter and reme,ber to review it. Any comments would be appreciated.
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Mu and Murrue walked out together hand in hand out of the Minerva's interrogation chamber, when he suddenly felt dizzy, a feeling coming over him, a flash of recognition, "La Creuset is here, I can feel his presence, why did we ally with him, he tried to destroy the whole human race," Mu told Murrue as they rested against the wall.
"La Creuset is dead, Kira killed him and Providence was eliminated by a blast from Genesis, no one could survive a blast from that superweapon," Murrue replied, slightly worried, as they resumed their walk towards the docks and then back to the Archangel
It was then that Mu realized that it could only be the kid in white, the Shinn had named as Rey. "Wait, I need to check on Stellar, and I want to see this Rey kid that Shinn named, who seems to look a lot like La Creuset, according to him," Mu replied, "we should probably make for the medical ward. Stellar will be there. I at least need to check on her condition," Mu said, as they changed directions and walked towards the medical ward to ostensibly visit Stellar.
Athrun met Mu and Murrue outside, just as he was coming away from Dearka's room, where he had just asked Dearka if he would like to transfer aboard the Archangel. Dearka had seemed very pleased about that decision and had rushed to start packing, and to transfer take his Zaku with him, he had quickly ushered Athrun out of the room, with a short thanks, but Athrun could see that he obviously wanted to leave and leave soon. Athrun wondered whether or not he should do the same, but he realised that he had responsibilities to the pilots and to Cagalli, he had promised her that he would get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding ZAFT and he hadn't gotten really far.
"What are you doing here?" Shinn asked as he saw Mu come through the door of the Minerva's sick-bay, he rose and tried to punch Mu but Mu caught his fist in the palm of his hand. "You are from the Earth Alliance, I remember you from when I escaped, you're evil."
"Shinn, stop it, that's an order," Athrun commanded as he stepped through the door.
"Neo," Stellar said as she saw before she remembered that she had run away from the Earth Alliance she was slightly apprehensive and looked to Shinn for reassurance. It was then she noticed that Neo didn't have his mask on, this was the first time I've seen his face she thought.
"Nah, my name is Mu, Mu La Flaga" Mu said a grin on his face, now that he was back to being who he should be, he elaborated, "I had temporary amnesia, so I changed my name, Stellar."
"Hawk of Endymion?" Shinn asked half a challenge implied in his voice, surprise showing on his face, "Some of the older trainees at pilot school said that we were lucky that you were dead and that you were a hotshot pilot." Of course, I said it was lucky that he was dead; I would have taken him down myself given the chance. Of course, I did fight against him a few times, but no one won.
"Yeah, that's the one," Mu replied nonchalantly, "for now though I would like to stay officially 'dead', so could you not tell anyone?" he asked, Shinn and Stellar. "Take care of her Shinn Asuka," Mu said as he left.
Mu walked down the corridor with Murrue by his side. Suddenly, another flash hit, and he looked up and saw Rey, who looked shocked too, as if they had both been hit by a strong punch. He looked at Rey's face and found it to be an exact copy of La Creuset and therefore his father. Whereas La Creuset had been a failure, this Rey kid looked like a success, somewhere along the way, one of the cloning scientists had succeeded.
"Rey Za Burrel, I presume," Mu said looking at the kid, as he and Murrue walked up to him.
Rey recognised the Captain of the Archangel from before, but the man next to her, the one who had spoken was a stranger, and one in a weird uniform. "Yes that's me," he replied, 'Captain Ramius," he saluted Murrue, the Captain of the Archangel, "and your companion is?" he asked Murrue.
"My close friend, he's interested about your background," Murrue replied, "he's doing some research, if we could talk to you for a moment, she said, as the three of them started walking towards the lounge. Murrue hoped her quick excuse would provide enough cover, she didn't want people especially Earth Alliance people finding out that Mu was alive, and there was a traitor, highly placed in ZAFT that had been feeding information to Blue Cosmos.
"What is he interested about? Most of it is in the ZAFT records database, you could probably get Ensign Hawke to pull it up for you with Captain Gladys' permission," Rey replied, anxious to avoid this sort of questioning by the members of the command of the Archangel. He couldn't refuse as that would have been tantamount to saying that he didn't trust his allies, yet Captain Ramius's 'close friend' didn't seem like a researcher.
"It would be easier if I asked you yourself, it would only take a little time," Mu replied, anxious to find out about this, Rey who looked so much like La Creuset and therefore, his own father.
"Very well, I shall give you some of my time," Rey replied, stiffly, "though I'll only answer the questions that I want to," he continued even more rigid than before; he really didn't like being questioned this way. It was akin to the Spanish Inquisition. He ushered his two guests into the officer's lounge, where there luckily weren't any others around.
Murrue and Mu began by thanking Rey for his time. Mu thought that it would be best if he pretended to be a researcher who was making notes on his subjects. After talking for about half an hour they thanked Rey for his time, saluted and left leaving behind a slightly confused Rey. He wondered why they were so interested in his past, as far as Dullindal his sugar daddy had told him, his parents were dead and Dullindal was his adoptive father, he enlisted in ZAFT and became a pilot, their questions about flashes seemed to be pointless, yes he had felt them but nothing had happened he didn't know why he got them, in fact he had felt the flash whilst on the ship, but as far as he was concerned it was nothing but a curiosity. Is there something more than what father told me?
Chairman Dullindal sat on his office on PLANT, good things are almost ready, once 'Lacus Clyne' is assassinated by Blue Cosmos, the citizens shall be ready to rid the world of Naturals and then I shall rule both Earth and PLANT. He had failed to have the real Lacus Clyne killed, but she hadn't surfaced ever since and the citizens of PLANT were so taken with the new and improved Lacus, even if the real one showed up acting like before, she would be dismissed as a fraud. And of course, the new Gundam was coming along well, and his pilot was doing well, all itched up for revenge. All was slowly falling into place, FAITH agents were in place to assassinate LOGOS leaders all over the world. They only awaited the last signal, the death of 'Lacus Clyne'.
After transferring back to the Archangel, they sat down to talk. "You promised you would come back," Murrue said now that she and Mu had time alone together, they were in her private stateroom, sitting with each other on the bed, his arms wrapped around her, "how did you survive the direct hit from the Lohegrin cannon?"
"Even I don't know, all I remember is waking up in a laboratory hospital. It is all blank from the time the Strike got hit till I woke again. I have no idea what happened. But what matters is that I'm with you," Mu replied, he could be very serious when he needed to be, even though he preferred to maintain a happy-go-lucky pilot personality, usually. With Murrue, he had flirted with her at first but then it had developed into something more deep, until they had been separated, but now they were ready to pick up where they had left off. He kissed her, her moist lips meeting his, a sweet kiss, no more, no less, they were celebrating their reunion. He kissed her again, this time both their emotions soared, as they embraced, never wanting to let go.
"Work on the three new mobile suits are ready, send the coded transmission to the Archangel for rendezvous and pickup," Colonel Kisaka ordered, from his station in the secret Morgenraete lab just outside Orb, "Erica, load up the suits on the transport ship, we shall take them out onto the rendezvous point ourselves." The three new suits were loaded onto the transport ship, as it sailed out of the hidden lab, emerging from underwater, away from any Orb or Earth Alliance ships it headed towards the rendezvous point.
Lord Jibril brushed the glasses off his table, Shit! Those damn Co-ordinators fought better and they had help, images taken from Victoria, showed both the Minerva and the Archangel, the Archangel should be on our side, being an Orb ship, Representative Seyran would have to pay for this. And to top it all off the Gaia and the Destiny are gone, and Colonel Lorrnoke was missing, it looks like I'll have to take personal control. He hated having to put himself in the line of fire, his predecessor Murata Azrael had paid for his arrogance with his life. He preferred to manipulate things from the shadows, but circumstance had forced him into the open. Luckily, Project Exodus on the Prometheus Moon base continued to evade PLANT detection, soon even the Destiny cannot defeat me.
On board the Archangel, Mu and Murrue walked into the lounge to meet the others and plan their next mission, "you have got to cut your hair, it's way too messy. I prefer how it was," Murrue had said on the way to the lounge.
"Ehh…I'll have it done just for you, the way you like it,' he had replied. They had laughed after this, after almost two years apart they had learned to appreciate every precious moment they had together. They had discussed what Mu would do now that he was back. Murrue had wanted him on the bridge to help her, Mu had wanted to pilot again, as soon as they got any new mobile suits, they could probably salvage the parts for one from the battle.
They entered the lounge and found seats, sitting together with Kira, Lacus and Andy they formed the mission command of the Archangel. "First order of business, is that now we are allied with Athrun, we need to inform them of our next destination just as they will inform us of theirs."
"Actually, the coded Morgenraete message has come through, they say that they are ready," Andy replied, "we'll have to go to the rendezvous point, and we have to leave soon if we are to make it there on time. So that will have to be out next destination."
Murrue shot a quick glance at Mu, now that they had new mobile suits coming in, they wouldn't have to salvage anything. Oh well, at least he'll be safer in those new suits than he would be in something scrounged from the battle. "Fine, then we'll proceed to the rendezvous point,"Murrue said. "As soon as this meeting is over, then we shall send the recall to everyone and tell Athrun where we are headed."
"The second order of business is that our suspicion of Chairman Dullindal has been increased. After talking to his adoptive son, Rey on the Minerva, we have come to the conclusion that he is at the very least involved in the research on Mendel and has taken steps to hide his results from us. We think that Rey is the successful version of La Creuset, a successful clone of Mu's father," Murrue continued, "We will have to be more cautious around the Minerva, even though Athrun holds a lot of influence, we cannot rule out betrayal by Dullindal, especially since he seems to want Lacus dead."
Kira and Lacus both agreed with Murrue's frank assessment of Chairman Dullindal's character, "I have always felt that he had more up his sleeve than he had led us to believe. My father always said that the old fox's eyes hid something," Lacus said, "and I think that we are getting close to finding out what." The Archangel slipped underwater again and left for the rendezvous, the Minerva following above water.
Meanwhile around Victoria, Meer Campbell carried by her escort flew towards the recently reconstructed base, another job, another concert to help encourage ZAFT to fight. When am I going to be able to meet the real Lacus Clyne like he promised me he would? Suddenly, one of the Gouf mobile suits carrying her Zaku exploded in a shower of fragments, they were under attack or were they? The scanners seemed to pick up no enemy ships or mobile suits. Another of the escorting Gouf mobile suits blew up, this time one to her right. "Abyss, Chaos," she heard the panicked voices over the comm., "we have to get Lacus to safety," the commander of the Gouf unit said.
The Girty Lue dropped its mirage colloid system, having been bought down to Earth by Lord Jibril where he awaited to board it and go to Prometheus. The leader of the Gouf unit sent out a general distress call to Victoria base. "Lacus Clyne is under attack…I repeat…" the voice blanked out as the Abyss used its scythe to cut through the Gouf. The base at Victoria went to red alert, "Send a message out to the Minerva, we will need it." The alarm rang through the recently reconstructed Victoria base, everything was still in disarray but they had to save Lacus. Goufs and Zakus launched from the base, ready to engage the enemy but they were too late. They saw the Chaos fire at the two Goufs holding Lacus's Zaku up, both of them exploding, the pink Zaku tumbled towards the sea, like a beast the Abyss rose up from the sea, its scythe cut the pink Zaku in half, destroying it utterly. Dullindal saw the live video feed from PLANT, he saw the footage as it was being sent to him by Victoria base. He went up and called for a press conference to announce the death of Lacus Clyne. Soon all will be mine.
"Lacus Clyne would have wanted us to fight on, she would want us to beat the evil Blue Cosmos and their puppet the Earth Alliance. Let her death inspire us to victory. We have to make sure that there are no more tragedies like Junius Seven, no more tragedies like then assassination of Chairman Zala, no more tragedies like the death of Lacus Clyne who inspired us through her music," people saw Dullindal say, as the interview relayed itself all over the world.
All over the world, FAITH agents pulled out their weapons, guns, knives, poison. A man in a board room, dead, two pools of red emanating from his chest where the FAITH assassin had shot him. A woman's body lying on the floor, her head half chopped off by the FAITH assassin. A whole boardroom, faces convulsed after the poison had been fed through the vents. All over the world FAITH agents executed their missions with savage brilliance. In California, a man dead on the toilet, a bullet hole in his head. Another woman, electrocuted in her bath in Paris. The story repeated itself throughout the world, LOGOS members were being taken out. As they all reported in, Dullindal began assembling the ZAFT fleet and his small fleet of Nazca-class cruisers equipped with neutron stampeders.
A/N: I wish that I could have written something like this…
"Transfer personal control of Gottfried cannon to my station," Lacus ordered. I'm shooting you down, you piece of fake ZAFT trash. She had been annoyed at this ZAFT imitation, she calmed herself as her Seed activated, She waited until the Pink ZAKU passed into her sights and fired sending out deadly green darts, obliterating the stupid Pink ZAKU and the fake slut in it.
Unfortunately that wouldn't have fit in with the story. Oh well, maybe a one-shot will suffice. Dullindal's plan starts to come into fruition and what is the mysterious Project Exodus? Find out in the next Chapter: Exodus
