Chapter 10: Haunting Of The Past
In space, it was known that the machine known as the Girty Lue flew somewhere through the new battlefield, one of the asteroid variety. Chirs, Alexis, Nicola, and Aelan were all together, each watching each others backs. They saw the asteroids moving throughout the area as not far from them, the ZAKU Phantom, a GuAIZ R, and a ZAKU Warrior, and the now Green Phase shifted Blast Impulse Gundam, every one of them, had no Idea what just transpired on the Minerva. Chris looked as areas of a destroyed PLANT also littered the area as he had this strange feeling. This feeling was being shared with Nicola as the two looked throughout the area, Aelan though had no feelings that were with Chris and Nicola. "I have a feeling that this is a bad time to bring this up." Lunamaria mentioned as she moved around an asteroid. "My scores were not that good during the asteroid field simulations." She radioed to the ships in the area, as the Minerva was inside the field, as the Avalon was flying just outside of it, trying to get a detection on the ship.
"Man, thats not good then, especially with the heat signatures in the area, its the perfect camouflage." Chris radioed to her as his machine came up to hers, which frightened her a bit, never truly seeing the machine. "Hey Sophia, any detection yet on the enemy machines?" Chris asked his ship.
"Nothing yet, but as far as we know, the ship has yet to leave the field." Soph told them as she had her eyes on the screen the whole time, ready to say anything. Psymone, moved the ship out of the way of a stray asteroid that broke the away from the field.
"This is nuts, the entire area is unstable." Psymone said through the radio as Alexis nodded as she moved around a moving piece of the destroyed colony that was apart of the field.
"At least on the birght side." Nicola began, "They are having the same problems as we are." She said in a cheerful voice.
"Why are you so cheerful when a battle is about to begin?" Shinn asked as he was searching some of the condemed buildings of the former colony.
"Its just the way she is." Aelan radioed to him as she looked around, just searching for anything.
Onboard the Minerva, the ship was in utter silence from the revelation on who was on the bridge. Kevin was holding everything back, as now another bridge crew was well aware of who he was, and that one of them seemed to have nothing but utter fear in her eyes. "Interesting Chairman, how did you get such knowledge about me?" Kevin asked, just urgeing himself to not slit the mans throat.
"Oh, just a little red bird told me much about you, as the both of you were apart of Abaddon." Dullindal said having his chair turned to the man ready to go berserk to kill him in an instant. "She had much to say about you two, and also Eileen Carver, the last Chairman, she also said quite a bit of things, especially about you surviving that Nuclear Blast caused by Jason Hibiki." Dullindal said as his hands folded with each other. "Besides, I think someone knew of you before I mentioned your name." Dullindal said as Kevin looked in his line of sight, seeing Meyrin nearly freaking out.
"Miss Hawke are you alright?" Talia asked as then Kevin shared the same look as Meyrin did, as soon as he heard her last name, and the only reason she be looking at him the way she is. Meyrin then fainted as she fell to the floor. "Arthur get her to the Infirmary!" Talia ordered the man as he didn't ask any questions and did as she said.
"Will she be ok?" Cagalli asked as Arthur nodded.
"Yes, she just fainted, I'll take her to the infirmary anyways, might be something psychological." Arthur told them as he went off the bridge.
"Well, with that all done, something just doesn't feel right about this place." Talia said as she was completely right, hiding out in the debris all three of the stolen machines hide within the area, each waiting for the right time to strike.
Nicola floated in space as an old GINN head floated by her, but this isn't any ordinary, the head was crushed, and Nicola brought the Crimson blades hand into view with her. And she noticed the GINNs head was crushed by her dragon claw. "Ch. . .Ch. . .Chris!" Nicola called as she knew what colony they are flying in.
"What is it Nicola?" Chris asked as his machine came floating beside her's.
"This colony, it was once our home." She told him as Chris could tell as well now, as he saw the werehouse that the two Gundams once resided in. As they realized this Aelan floated by debree as she was looking around for anything that could be the sign of an attack. Then the battle began, Sting unleashed his Gunbarrel's as they moved with mediocre success. The Abyss Gundam emerged from its spot as it opened its Shields to its HiMAT mode, revealing the cannons. Stellar's Gaia Gundam hid on an asteroid in its Quadrouped mode as it opened fire on Aelan as well. The beam attacks came at her as she dodged each one with effort as she also tried to determine where they were from the angle of the shots.
"Its a trap!" Talia and Athrun called as that was when everything began.
"Mam, Heat sources detected!" The Electronic warfare officer called as he began to detect, a ship, and mobile suits coming from it.
"Damn, what are they thinking?" Kevin mumbled as the detections of vultures were coming there way.
"Mam, Vultures incoming!" The soldier called.
"Fire the CIWs, take those things out!" Talia ordered as the 40mm CIWs opened fire destroying several missiles.
"Is it just me, or are those things not even targeting us." Kevin said as he saw each Missile going around the ship.
Meanwhile Sting opened fire with his gunbarrels on Shinn as his shots fired, he dodged an attack from Aelan's buster rifle. The Gunbarrels finally fired destroying a GuAIZ R as Shinn dodged the attack. "No Damn it!" Shinn called as he fired his "Deluge" Hyper Velocity Rail cannon which Sting dodged the attack. At this time, the Girty Lue Launches two more Strike Daggers and went under the cloaking ability of Mirage Colloid. A few seconds later, it reappears behind the Minerva, which would mean the Avalon would have to turn around to get a clear shot at the ship. "Mam the ship is behind us!" an officer called as Kevin wondered how it could of done that so fast. The Girty Lue fired more missiles which were hitting the debris around the ship.
"Turn the ship forty degrees to port!" Talia ordered as it was blocked off by a set of Daggers.
"Mam, they have us cut off!" A soldier called as Talia tried to come up with something else.
"Hug against the asteroids, use them as cover for the escape." Talia ordered.
"So this whole thing was a trap, genius." Kevin said as he tried to think of his own way of how to get these people out of this scenario. As this went on, The Abyss came in for the Crimson Blade with its lance which she dodged easily do to the Meteor pack, which almost hit by the lance. The Crimson Blade turns around and opens fire with one of the 120 cm high energy beam cannon at Aeul who dodged the attack.
"Damn, who knew they be this good." Nicola told herself as she dodged a mult phase cannon from Aeul. Nicola easily dodged it.
"Stop moving so I can squash you!" Auel called as he rushed towards the new enemy machine of his. He got in between the two massive arms of the meteor unit slashing with his lance, without the beam extended, which hit the Crimson Blade knocking Nicola into a loop. "I got you now!" He called. That was when he noticed a multi phase beam coming at him and dodged it leaving his opportunity to finish the Crimson Blade.
"Get away from her!" Aelan called as she got in between the two machines and fired a buster rifle at the Abyss which dodged the attack. "Nicola! protect the Minerva, its under heavy attack!" Aelan ordered as Nicola used her thrusters to go help the Minerva.
Meanwhile with Shinn, Lunamaria, and Rey all three received a message from Talia. "Mobile suit team, return and defend the Minerva!" Talia's voice called to them.
"Shinn Luna lets go!" Rey told them as They made there way back, which evidently, lead it to having Stellar Tail them. And with this, the Minerva fires its missiles to defend itself from the Daggers which were dodgeing the attacks. Chris and Alexis however were off dealing with. The Gaia Gundam came in and transforms into its Quadrouped mode, and begins to run across some of the colony wreckage, which she then fired her rail cannon at Lunamaria. Luna easily dodged the attack, and fires her 'Orthos' long range beam cannon at Stellar, who jumped over the beam, which allowed her to ram into the red Gunner Zaku Warrior. She evidently landed onto another piece of colony wreckage.
Luna however was forced by the Gaia's momentum crashing into the side of some wreckage. Shinn was shocked by this as he turned around and aimed his two Kerberos high energy beam cannons at Stellar as she dodged that as well. At the Minerva, Nicola fires her high energy cannon at a Dagger L, blowing it to atoms with the attack. "Thats for my home you Earth Forces Bastards!" She said to herself as she dodged the attack of another Daggers attacks. A beam rifle then fired by her as Rey's Zaku Phantom began to help his new comrade was protecting the ship he was stationed on.
"Attention Nicola," Aingeal called as Nicola dodged another Daggers attack, then silenced it with a swing of the mighty Beam sabre of her Meteor units arm.
"What is it?" Nicola asked as somehow the Girty Lue had more machines than one would think it had.
"From our scanners, the Minerva has no way to use its weapons, unless they wish to destroy their own ship with it." Aingeal informed her.
Onboard the Girty Lue, Neo smiled to himself as he stood up. "Prep my Exass, Their ship is unable to move, I'll go ahead and finish it." Neo told Ian. "Whats the status of the Raptor?" He then asked.
"To much Debris is in the way of the ship sir. They Can't use their weapons unless wishing to take out the enemy ship." a soldier called as Neo nodded. With that the masked man left to go for his own machine.
"Target Sledgehammers at the asteroids, use them to destroy the ship!" Ian called, as it was done so even though, one large Asteroid went right into the path of the Minerva, leaving the Giry Lue a clear shot.
On the Minerva were being detected coming towards the Minerva. "Commander!" one of the bridge crew called. "Incoming Missiles!" The person called as indeed they were coming.
"Fire the CIWs!" Talia called, then both Athrun and Kevin notice something strange, the missiles were not going for the Minerva, but for the Asteroids.
"They are not going for us!" Kevin called as Talia and Dullindal looked at him.
"They are heading for the Asteroids, there going to destroy us with Collateral damage!" Athrun called.
"Come on, get us out of here!" Talia ordered, as Dullindal turned to her.
"Captain Glady's do we have any other mobile suits left to send out?" Dullindal asked her as she shook her head no.
"No, the only machines left are the repaired SAHAWKU, and the Repaired ZAKU Warrior, but we have no assigned pilots." Talia answered as Kevin looked at his former fiancee from his other life as she nodded to him.
"Captain, I ask permission to use the Sahawku." Kevin asked her as she looked at him.
"No, do you truly think we let someone like you use a weapon like that!" She told him.
"Captain Glady's, if he doesn't. . ." Cagalli began as Dullindal looked at her.
"Captain, I advise that he does so, the more machines out there the better chance of our survival, the Avalon can't help us, so we must help ourselves." Dullindal told her as before she could say anything Kevin Walker had already left the bridge as a shadow vanishes within the light. "Well it seems hes already off, no matter what you say." Dullindal said as he looked at the closing door evidence of the man leaving. "Just as I have thought he would do, going out into battle to protect the people he cares about." Dullindal told to himself as Cagalli heard him, knowing exactly what he meant.
Talia sighed giving into the situation, she had no choice but to agree with the chairman. "Bridge to mobile suit hangar, prep the SAHAWKU, one of our guests are going to be using it." Talia radioed to the hangar, as Aves, the lead mechanic began the preparations for it.
"Captain do to our current situation, we can't launch the damn thing unless we have it smash right into an asteroid during Launch!" Aves radioed to her as Kevin came floating towards the mobile suit.
"Thats why I don't launch, just let me walk out of the catapult, and I'll blow that bastard of an asteroid apart with the buster rifles." Kevin told him as the hatch of the machine opened do to one of the mechanics getting it to. Kevin floated by the ZAFT personnel and into the machine and strapping himself in before closing the hatch. "I'm walking down the Catapult Talia, just so I don't get crushed by the pressure of the giant asteroid infront of us." Kevin told her as his machine walked towards the airlock as the door closed. The mobile suit sized hatch opened infront of him, with that he walked past the linear catapult. That was when Kevin had this familiar feeling he had often these days when fighting. He felt yet another presence do to his empathetic senses. "Damn, which person of my past is in this battlefield?" Kevin asked himself.
As outside, Rey was on hot pursuit of one of the last two dagger L's as everyone else dealt with the stolen next generation G Weapons. That was when he had his newtype flash once again, as at the same time, Neo did as well. Rey quickly stoped his machine as an emerald beam flashed by where he could of been. "Damn!" He said aiming his rifle above him shooting at the Exass Mobile armor of Neo's. That machine dodged it easily as it fired ten beams of energy at Rey with him dodgeing the attacks.
"Who is this pilot?" Neo asks himself as he flew by the ZAKU Phantom which opened fire on him, with a few barrel roles, Neo was able to dodge every one of the beam shots. Aelan wasn't have such luck, the Gundams, had stopped taking on seperate targets and began blasting at Aelan. They Kept pounding on the light wave shields of her mobile suit, which alarms inside the machine were going off.
"Damn! Chris, I need your help ASAP!" Aelan called as she saw her shield can only take so much more pressure from the fire power of the enemy mobile suits. Let alone, with the random fire, she can't take the chance to open it up to allow her Schlag cannons or Scylla Cannon to fire.
"That shield wont stay up forever you know!" Aeul said as he kept on firing his HiMAT cannons at the Red Queen. That was when a high energy beam of energy went by destroying one of the arm shields that contained the cannons. "What?" Aeul said as he dodged the attacks some more. The attacks were originating from both Shinn and Lunamaria's machines.
Sting still kept on shooting at Aelan with his own weapons, until one of his gunpods were destroyed. He moved from another attack of a beam sabre, that emanated from a beam sabres hilt that layed inside the hand of the Black Lightning. Which led to being whacked by the Nidhoggr scythe from Alexis Avian Gundam. "Argh, damn it, to many of them!" Sting called as he fired his last gunpods Missiles at the Avian which fired its own from its chest, detonating each of the missiles.
"Take This!" Stellar yelled from an asteroid as she fired her rail cannon at Chris who used his right arms shield covered cannon to take the hit from the attack. He then fired his apocalypse cannon at her which eradicated the perch the Gaia Gundam was on, making it jump to a new point area of fire.
Meanwhile, Rey was dodging every which way from the Exass' Gunbarrels, and its rail cannons as well. Chris thought of both the Impulse and Luna's ZAKU's knowing they were not nuclear powered, their machines would be getting low on power by now. Which led to him getting in between them and Aeul's firefight. "Pilots of the ZAKU and Impulse, return to your ships!" Chris called.
"Your not the boss of me!" Shinn said moving aside as he fired his pair of rail cannons.
"I know I'm not your boss, but look out your power levels, don't tell me that they are not running low." Chris told him as Shinn did so, and noticed the pilot was right. His power was running low.
"Come on Luna, we got to return to the ship!" Shinn called as inside the Red Zaku, Lunamaria nodded and followed suit. They both go for it, which Sting saw this.
"They're fleeing, get them!" Sting called as both his and Aeul's machines changed their targets, and fired what weapons they had left at the two fleeing machines.
"Oh no you don't!" Chris, Nicola, and Aelan all called as Aelan attaches her two Buster Rifles, Chris aiming his Apocalypse cannon, and Nicola aims one of her high energy rifles towards the area Shinn, and luna were. All three of the Nexus family fired their weapons, each one taking out the barrage of attacks from Sting's and Aeul's attacks.
"Oh my!" Aeul said as he never saw such fire power from such machines.
Meanwhile on the Minerva, they were being pinned down by Missile Fire, most being destroyed by the CIWs, while the rest were hitting the walls of asteroids, making chunks of the asteroids hitting the sides of the ship. "Damn, if we sit here, we are sitting ducks." Talia said as Athrun behind her was thinking of a way to get them out of this mess.
"Commander, may I suggest something." Athrun began. Talia turned to Dullindal who nodded approving Athrun to speak. "Has Kevin's SAHAWKU leave the ship yet?"
"Yes it is." She told him.
"Get him to stay on the ship." Athrun told her as with that.
In the SAHAWKU Kevin was about to jump from the ship to join the battle. "Sir Walker do you read, the Captain wishes you to stay on the ship!" The replacement for Meyrin called.
"Why?" Kevin asked as he actually wanted to go join the fight.
On the bridge Athrun jumped over to the station that was telling Kevin what to do. "Kevin, this is Athrun, I have a plan, and it needs you to stay there." Athrun told him as Kevin muffled something Vile in Russian.
"Alright Athrun whats the Plan?" Kevin asked.
"Ok, Talia, how many starboard thrusters are left?" Athrun asked.
"We have six left why?" She asked as Athrun came went over to the hologram map of just outside.
"Well, if we activate all the starboard thrusters, and use the Starboard Weapons to fire in the same direction, we can bank enough to turn the ship around to target the enemy vessel." Athrun told her.
"Which in terms, gives Walkers weapons, and this ships Positron Cannon a clear shot at the enemy ship, good plan Mr. Zala." Dullindal told. On the screen Kevin nodded.
"Yeah, the plan is good, lets give it a shot." Kevin radioed to them.
"Alright, lets do it, Prepare to fire the Taunhauser!" Talia called as outside the bow of the ship began to open revealing the cannon of the positron energy, the ships strongest weapon. Which was ZAFTs version of the Archangel and Izumo Class ship's Lohengrins. "Ok, hard bank to Port, use the Starboard Weaponry, and its Thrusters to swing us around!" Tala ordered, in which it began to do so.
Chris, Aelan, Nicola, Alexis, Shinn, Luna, Neo, Rey, Sting, Stellar, Ian, and Asriel, all looked to see the dazzling move being done by the Minerva. The ship banked to its port side, which gave the now charged Taunhauser, and Kevin a clear shot at the Girt Lue. "FIRE!" Talia and Kevin shouted as a beam in diameter of 90 meters of an azure Cyan Blue light appeared from the combined Buster Rifle of Kevin's SAHAWKU. Along with the the Red and purple beam outlined in white beam of light fired from the Taunhauser, which both nailed the starboard side of the Girty Lue. "Activate full thrusters, get us out of here!" Tala ordered as the ship began to move.
Outside, after the show, Rey fired his beam rifle, destroying a barrel off of Neo's Exass. "Damn, Ian signal a retreat, we're leaving, they have won this day." Neo called as his Exass went for the Girty Lue which then Aeul, Sting, and Stellar all did the same. The Minerva began to pass by the Girty Lue, as it extended its wings, to deal some extra damage to the Starboard side to the Girty Lue as it moved away.
Onboard the Avalon Asriel took this as a chance, with all three of the stolen machines got into the ship however. "Prepare to Fire Lohengrins!" Asriel ordered.
Sophia then found out on the radar screen the ship vanished using Mirage Colloid. "Sir, the enemy vessel has vanished!" She called.
"Damn, use the signal flares, tell our team to return to the ship." Asriel told him.
Chris, Alexis, Nicola and Aelan all saw the Avalon telling them to return. "Chris with your permission, I would like to go to the Minerva to keep an eye on Walker." Aelan called.
"Alright, I'm going with you, just to stop you before some collateral damage is done." Chris told her. "Nicola, Alexis return to the Avalon, we will return eventually." Chris told them, as both the Red Queen and the Black Lightning went towards the Minerva.
Onboard the ship, when the alert was dropped Dullindal, Talia, Athrun, and Cagalli walked through the halls of the ship heading to meet with Kevin. "Commander Talia, I am sorry for overstepping my bounds." Athrun apologized.
"There is nothing to apologize for, our ship would of been destroyed if we didn't go with your plan." Talia told him. As in the hangar, one of the Mechanics floated to Lunamaria, telling her that her sister is in the infirmary, which led to her to go there immediately. Which made Aelan curious when she got onboard taking the only GuAIZ R's that was lost's place for the Red Queen. Chris kept his machine in the center of the area, and followed Aelan. Meanwhile, Kevin floated down the halls heading towards the lounge where he could sense Athrun and Cagalli both heading with the Captain and Chairman.
Meanwhile, at the infirmary, Meyrin was coming around waking up from her fainting spell learning about Kevin. "Uh, what happened?" Meyrin asked to the doctor.
"Oh, Miss Hawke you are awake, your sister is on her way here." The doctor told her. "You fainted on the bridge during combat." The doctor told her.
"Ouch, I have a strong feeling I'm in trouble." Meyrin told him with her usual smile, then all of a sudden the worried Luna came into the infirmary still with her flight suit on.
"Meyrin, are you ok?" The elder of the siblings asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She said as she saw both Chris and Aelan come into the room. "And who are you two?" She asked, as she saw that Aelan came in wearing the same flight suit she wore when she left the PLANTs weeks ago. And Chris wearing a black and yellow version of Aelan's.
"Its not polite asking someones name if you don't give your own first." Aelan told her.
"Oh, I'm sorry for my sister." Luna told her. "My Names Lunamaria Hawke, this is my sister Meyrin Hawke." Luna told her as Aelan went wide eyed. She knew she felt something about these two girls, and with their last names, she knows exactly why.
"Do you two have any relation to a Erica Hawke?" Aelan asked as Meyrin nodded.
"Yeah, she was our older sister, but." Meyrin said turning her head away.
"Don't worry Meyrin, I know, and I knew your sister." Aelan told her. "She may of mentioned me to her letters or calls to home. My name is Aelan Strato's, I was in the same unit as your sister for a while." Aelan told them.
"You knew our sister?" Luna asked as Aelan nodded.
"Yes I knew her, very well to be honest, besides Rachel Carver, she was one of my best friends." Aelan told the girls. Then Chris coughed a little bit. "Oh, sorry Chris, this is Chris Nexus, a very close friend of mine." Aelan told him. "And I don't mean dating close, my sister holds that department with him." Aelan told the two.
"A pleasure to meet you girls." Chris told them.
"Same to you Chris, were you flying out there?" Luna asked.
"Yes, I was flying the Black Lightning mobile suit." Chris told her.
"Aelan?" Meyrin began to ask. "Kevin Walker is on this ship right, the same one from the project?" Meyrin asked as Luna looked at her with shock, as Aelan looked away from her.
"Yes, yes he is." Aelan told them.
"Why do you sound so disappointed about it?" Luna asked.
"I'm sorry to say this, but well, Kevin was the one that destroyed the project, he destroyed the whole thing, everything, everyone." Aelan said saddened as both Lunamaria, and Meyrin looked on with shock.
"Are you sure?" Luna asked as she reached and put a hand on Aelan's shoulder. Aelan was almost on the verge of tears for what happened to her friends. To answer Lunamaria's question all she got was a nod.
"I have one request about this deal from the two of you." Chris mentioned looking at the two girls. "For the time being, show no aggression to Kevin Walker, he is extremely dangerous, and from what I have seen of him. It does not take much for his aggression to boil over."
"Plus from his past with ZAFT, that wont really take much to get him mad, especially onboard a ZAFT ship" Aelan told them.
"So, it would be wise for Mobile Suit Combat, for when you have a chance, but wait until he is an enemy, not when he is an ally." Chris told them.
"Well, do we even have to be nice to him, like talk to him or anything?" Meyrin asked.
"No, no need for that, just don't show aggression while he is aboard the ship." Chris told the girls. "Would you girls however know where the Chairman could be?" Chris asked. "Wait nevermind, You don't have to answer me about that, I can tell Walker is going where Dullindal is." Chris said as he floated out of the room and down the hall.
"What did Chris mean by that?" Meyrin asked standing up a bit confused. Luna was also getting up, with Aelan turning to them.
"Its a little something, me an him were a part of something, just incase of renegades from Abaddon, like Kevin is. Chris just has this knack of finding someone with a special kind of power." Aelan explained, which left the Hawke sisters wondering even more of what she meant.
Talia, Athrun, Dullindal and Cagalli, walk down the halls. "Miss Athha, a shuttle will be meeting up with us soon, so that it can take you, Athrun, and Kevin back to Earth, will this be acceptable?" Talia asked her.
"Yes, it is fine." Cagalli told him.
"We were lucky to have the three of you." Dullindal told her and Athrun. "Especially you Athrun, that was a great way to use your current resources to turn the tide of battle on the enemy. We could use more of you in ZAFT." Dullindal told him.
"Thank you sir, that means a lot, and Commander, I am sorry for overstepping my line mam." Athrun apologized.
"Oh, no worries Athrun, nothing to apologize for, if it wasn't for you we would all be dead now." Talia told him.
"Well, thats one reason I chose him as my body guard." Cagalli told them.
"Well, I hope none of you mind, I would like to go to the Lounge." Athrun said leaving before anyone could give him an answer. As he walked through the halls, he thought of the last war.
Flashback Fall of Heliopolis
Not that it mattered; the Strike kept him in view the whole time, and even tried a forceful slash. But he maneuvered the Aegis out of the way, and Miguel Aiman rushed forward again. "I've gotcha now!"
Kira had other plans; he reached up, grabbed the handle of the beam boomerang mounted on his left shoulder, and flung, sending a circle of energy at the GINN. It missed at first, but just when Miguel thought he was safe, it doubled back... and cut off his right leg.
Athrun watched in horror as the Strike took advantage of the opening, raised its huge blade, and swung... neatly cutting the GINN in two. "Miguel!"
End Flashback.
"War is such a terrible thing." Athrun told himself as he remembered back to that day again.
Flashback
Athrun turned his head as he saw his friend Rusty Mackenzie double over dead from being shot.
End Flashback
"So many, so many friends were lost, just because of a thing called war." Athrun told himself almost on the verge of tears.
Flashback
Time seemed to slow for all involved as the Blitz neared the Strike, Kira began dodging to the side... and then an azure column lanced down from the sky, engulfing the Blitz and blasting the Strike and Aegis backwards. The huge blue beam shone for an apparent eternity, but faded at last... and nothing remained of the Blitz but very, very small pieces of shrapnel.
Above, a great winged figure like an avenging angel hung for an instant, before vanishing from sight.
End Flashback
"I can see why Aelan always hated war, the death of so many friends." Athrun told himself, as he remembered hearing the destruction of Junius Seven, right where his mother was on that fateful Valentines day. A day of love, but was turned into the day of horror, and sorrow. He came to the door, as he saw one of his oldest friends, Kevin having a drink of coffee, a little something living with Andrew Waltfeld did to him.
Kevin felt something was wrong with Athrun, feeling the pain on his mind with his extra senses. Kevin took a drink of his coffee, when he lowered the cup "Something wrong Athrun?" Kevin asked.
"Just thinking, on the sacrifices during the last war." Athrun answered him as Kevin sighed.
"Your right, war is not nice, so is life." Kevin told his friend as Athrun took a seat beside him. Kevin knew there was someone else near, as he could sense Chris just outside the door. "Chris, eavesdropping is a bad habit to get into." Kevin said as Chris walked into the room.
"You caught me Kevin." Chris said sticking his hands up. "Even though, I got closer then required to hear what you were talking about." Chris told him. "I heard you were talking about the war two years ago." Chris told them.
"Yes, what is your perspective of this war Chris, and did you find your friend?" Athrun asked.
"Yes, to answer your second question. And about war, I just plainly hate it." Chris told the two. "I only fight to protect, and I will protect who I care about." Chris told them.
"As do I." Kevin told him. "And to end the evils that wish to bring war, and the ones who made me the way I am." Kevin told him.
"Really, the ones that made you the way you are, are you really that sour to those people? Or to yourself for what you have done to them, any idea of how many families you have destroyed for what you have done?" Chris asked him. "Speaking of families you hurt two members of one of those families is onboard this ship." With that Kevin looked at him.
"So Aelan told you, of Erica right?" Kevin asked him as Chris nodded confirming it.
"Becareful of them, becareful of the sisters, Aelan didn't give full details, just one main one, you killed their sister." Chris told him, before Kevin could say anything, Cagalli came into the room.
"Am I intruding?" Cagalli asked. But before they could answer Rey, Shinn, Youlant, and Vino came into the room talking about the last battle. Right behind the them, were the Hawke sisters along side Aelan wearing her red mask, as she has only shown her face to the people she trusts the most.
"So, if it isn't the people from Orb." Shinn began sarcasticley looking at Kevin, Cagalli and Athrun, which made Kevin think that Shinn didn't like ORB for some reason.
"I'm just Alex." Athrun told him as Shinn came over to him.
"You people from ORB think your so high and mighty because your neutral huh?" Shinn asked them as this was raising Kevin's anger, the way he spoke of his homeland. "Sugar coating your own military, but you have much problems, what was that old quote?" Shinn asked himself. "Power Corrupts, Absolute Power corrupts Absolutley?" Shinn asked them.
"We do not do such things!" Cagalli shouted.
"That is more load of a bull than in a bulls stall." Shinn told her, as the two began to get into a petty argument about ORBs Military.
"Shinn calm down." Luna told him putting a hand on his shoulder. "This isn't the place for this." She told him.
"She's right Shinn, this is not the place for such an argument." Aelan told him, as he looked at her, as he knows her machine was at ORB where his family died.
"Whatever your majesty." Shinn told her using her nick name as an insult. "That also goes for you." He said turning to Cagalli. "Your nation has its own military, while it trys to destroy others, do you really think ZAFT and the Earth Forces will let that go, sure you already have the best technology, don't you think that is enough?" Shinn asked her, then all of a sudden Kevin swiftly moved from his seat, grabbing a hold of the collar of Shinn's uniform. A sudden thud was heard as Shinn's upper body was slammed onto the wall of the ship. "Urgh!" Shinn said as he felt sudden pain go through his body.
"Shut up!" Kevin breathed. "Quit speaking of ORB like that, anyone of ZAFT has no right to speak about those things, I've lost much to ZAFT!" Kevin told him. Then in a flash, Kevin was now against the wall, with Shinn falling to the floor. Kevin took a second to focus, as he saw Chris holding him by the throat by his left hand, holding him well above a foot off the ground.
"Stop it!" Chris growled, not like a human but an animal, this shocked Aelan seeing Chris act this way. Cagalli, and Athrun "Sure ZAFT hurt your life, and lead to the cause of others Suffering, but it wasn't just ZAFT that did that, it was you so if you are going to send anyone on a guilt trip go through it yourself!" Chris told him. "Life is like a pond Kevin, and the one who starts the ripples is yourself, but what they do is not under anyones control, besides yourself, for creating it." Chris told him, as Kevin was understanding what he was saying.
"Chris, put him down." Aelan told him as Chris obliged what she said.
"If you all excuse me, I'm going to reflect on what Chris just said." Kevin said drifting by the others, Cagalli followed right after him.
"Well, I'm heading to bed." Shinn told everyone as he left the room,
"I'm going to go find the Chairman" Chris told the group as he left the room as well, along with Aelan beside him.
"So ah Athrun, that is your name right?" Lunamaria asked.
As this went on, Shinn was walking to his quarters, with Rey not far behind him. "Shinn, mind telling me what that was all about back there?" Rey asked his best friend.
"Nothing." Shinn told him. "Can I be alone for a bit?" Shinn asked Rey as he nodded leaving his friend be.
Meanwhile at a ZAFT observatoin station, something weird began to show up on the scanners of the Debris belt. "Uh sir, is it just me, or is Junius 7's Orbit suppose to still be good for a few hundred more years?" A soldier asked as his superior came up. He saw what the soldier meant.
"Send out an alert, Junius 7 has broken its Orbit!" The soldier called, with this, on the Minerva, Shinn flips open a pink cellphone as he hit the play back button.
"Hey, Mayu here, I'm sorry I can't come to my phone right now, please leave a message for me!" The phone called.
A/N: Woot another chapter done, And I say this is way better than what I had it last time. And I mean way better.
An announcement of mine, I am balancing between three pieces of work right now, Fate being the least of them, I'm not overly working on that right now. This story Legend's Rising is one of my biggest projects I'm doing, and to me its going well, I like to get some feedback from others.
Another of my projects can be found on fictionpress, using my same name on here on that. Its a story called Chaos in the Making, if anyone wishes to read a story that has nothing to do what is already made, its something I like yeahs to read.
Ok, until whoever reviews, and when they update and I review till next time NukeDawg