Disclaimer: Same Damn thing....... I don't own anything from Gundam Seed...Okay.
A/N: Issues. that's all I've got to say. School. Well you know the drill. I'm tired and all that crap. Homework, 4 projects in 1 week quizzes every day. Screams I'm sick of it!
O.O o-okay enough from me. Good news for all you Murrue/Natarle fans the story heats up a bit in the next couple of chapters. And now a word from our sponsors! Saunters off to finish homework.
Natarle: huh? Wha? looks around Who me?
Murrue: yea. You. Goof.
Natarle:oh. laughs nervously. Uhhh I have nothing to say except: Enjoy the show! Yawns. I'm bored.
Chapter 5: Battle of The RX-30.
She had her plan. 'now to put into gear.' She thought. "So what do you think Natural?" Yzak asked. "It's really a beautiful thing is it not? It is the first ZAFT developed 'G' thanks to Nicol. It's name is RX-30 Cyther." Natarle yelped in surprise when Yzak turned to her and pointed his gun in her face. "Geeze. Could you like not do that? Look I like it in all but what the hell is it for? And is it even operational?" Yzak laughed "Of course it's operational. It's the most powerful mobile suit developed. Oh and it's supposed to be used to destroy The Strike and the Legged ship." Natarle's anger rose "It's called the ArchAngel you bastard!" She yelled. "And what's so important about it Huh?!" He yelled back jabbing his gun into the side of Natarle's head. " It's a mobile assault carrier! The worlds strongest Ship out there!" Yzak nearly fell over laughing. "Don't tell me that you're a crew member on that piece of crap." Natarle broke free of Dearka's grip and lunged at Yzak punching him hard in the face. "actually I do and I have someone to get back to." 'If she'll even take me back that is.....' Yzak jumped up "what!? Get Her! Don't let her get to Cyther!" Dearka took off after Natarle 'Damn She's fast!' He though continuing his pursuit . "Don't let her get any farther Dearka!" Out of nowhere a tall blond man stood in Natarle's path causing her to skid to a stop before running into him. Dearka stopped as well. 'Well he's gonna end her life' He thought running back to where Yzak was standing.
She found herself standing 20 yards away from the mobile suit. The only thing in her way was this unknown person. "Who are you?" She asked annoyed wanting to get out of this hellhole. The blond man took a step towards her causing her to step back. "I'm Commander Raw La Cruset. I'm surprised you don't remember me. You're own brother."
Natarle stood dumbfounded "wait that mask. You're the one who almost killed Mu. But how can we be related?" Natarle's thoughts raced but always seemed to stop at one particular question. 'If we're siblings dose that make me a coordinator? Maybe, how else would I have been able to take on all those coordinators I fought earlier. I still think it was a mere stroke of luck.' Raw's hand shot out catching Natarle completely off guard. He had caught her by the throat "Our mother was a coordinator and our father was a natural.. Both of us our Coordinators. Face the facts." He drew he closer and whispered this in her ear: "It ends now." Natarle struggled to get out of his grip realizing he was cutting off her wind pipe. She gagged and wondered how she was doing. 'No' She thought. 'Murrue.....'
Murrue stormed onto the bridge "Do we know anything about where she went down?" She asked. "No, Ma'am we're still looking but we believe she went down somewhere over the Red Sea." 'Damn if she's dead.. It's all Mu's fault." Murrue turned to leave and ended up face to face with none other than Mu. 'God, can't he just leave me alone?' "Hey. Err Captain? Uhh One question.. Are you and the lieutenant...Uhh In love?" Murrue stared at him 'What nerve he has asking me something like this.' "Is it any of your business?" Murrue snapped at him. Mu looked taken aback "well sorry I was just curious cause a woman just doesn't take off after another like you did back there." Murrue looked past him. "deploy your Sky Grasper and go look for her I either want her body or her. I'd like to see her alive rather than dead."
Mu ran to the hanger bay 'Why'd she do that? Her and the lieutenant have to be in love. He jumped aboard a Sky Grasper and was off.
Raw continued to squeeze tighter on Natarle's throat. She found herself struggling to breathe and get away. 'Murrue....' The thought of Murrue pushed Natarle to her limits. She swung her feet up forcefully kicking Raw in the face. He let her go. She flipped an landing on her feet. "you know. Do you people ever learn to put someone down uhh lets see gently?" Natarle said holding her collar 'well. Nothing seems broken.' Raw rose and swung at her. She dodged simply as though he was swinging a fake punch. "Too slow." She said. She struck out. Hitting him in the stomach and sending him flying back. He got up like nothing had happened and lunged at her. He swung rapidly. 'This is ridiculous.' She dodged and blocked every punch. 'Maybe I am a coordinator.' She thought blocking a kick. His other foot came flying at her. Impact. It felt to Natarle as if she had been hit with a battering ram. Blood flew. Her jaw cracked. She fell. The only thing she could feel was pain. 'Did he just break my jaw?!' She moved her jaw and found that it was indeed broken. ''More like out of place'' She mumbled under her breath. Raw jumped at her just to receive a harsh kick in the stomach. She flipped up and prepared to fight. Strength ran through her. She'd never felt this way before it was a feeling of invincibility. "your eyes..... Interesting." Raw studied Natarle's eyes. 'She's not a normal coordinator... Could she be? No, that gene is extinct. Could father have lied? Could she be an Insanity Coordinator?' He thought. Her eyes normally an ivory-purple was now a mixture of black and dark purple. Splintered with gold. Where her pupil was normally located there was no indication that it still was. Her jaw cracked again and she winced slightly because of the pain of relocating her jaw. She ran at him fiercely punching him. She refused to let him fall. Her knee hit him in the back and her fist came down in his stomach. The pain was unbearable. He yelped as he hit the cold metal. Natarle loomed over him " Tell me." She seethed "how dose it feel to be in this kind of pain?" He got up slowly holding his stomach and coughing. "It hurts." He answered clearly hurting. " Aww. I'm sorry to hear that.. Allow me to fix it for you." She kicked him in the face and watched as his head snapped back. Natarle heard a audible crack. "Deal with that now too. Oh and lame answer."
Murrue sat silently in her room thinking 'Why would he ask me about Natarle? Dose he know about us? Could he have over heard us? No. Did he kiss me just to see the reaction he would receive? Oh That asshole. Grrr..I hate him... Geeze to tell the truth I thought I would end up liking him and hating Natarle... Apparently not.....' The alarm went off practically scaring Murrue to death. "Geeze!" She tore off.
Arriving on the bridge a few minutes later she found herself sitting in her chair. "what's going on now?" She asked "It seems we've been noticed there are 4 Bacows heading our way Captain." 'Darn just when I need her she's not here.' Murrue started to shout out commands. "Where's La Fllaga?! Ensign Yamato to your station and stay there until you're told otherwise!" She paused for a moment "All hands Level One Battle Stations!"
"Captain! La Fllaga has already begun battle with the enemy!" " Kira proceed to catapult! and watch out for gravity..."
Kira moved the Strike to the catapult "Install Launcher Striker!" Slowly the parts needed attached themselves to the Strike. "Kira Yamato! Strike Gundam Launching!" He flew out to the battle field. He sunk. 'Damn! The Strike is not cut out for this kind of battle' He thought. The Bacows saw the Strike and headed for it. "You may be able to pilot in space, but here I don't think so!" A Bacow came slamming into the side of the Strike sending it falling to the ground. 'Damn!' Kira began to fire off random shots haplessly.
"Fire Valiants!" Murrue yelled. Two yellow beams erupted from the sides of the ArchAngel both of them missing the Bacows. Out of nowhere missiles came flying at the ArchAngel hitting it at all sides. "All hands brace for impact! Fire sledgehammer missiles!Kira keep out of the missiles path! Do you hear me?!" missiles flew out from all sides of the ship and flying along the ground a mass of chain explosions erupted around the Strike. In a cloud of dust the Bacows remained unharmed. The Strike was badly damaged from being hit so many times. 'Damn Kira's Gundam can't take much more of this. Natatrle where are you?' Murrue looked around at the battle "Where is La Fllaga?!"
She yelled "He went to find the source of the missiles!" Suddenly 6 helicopters emerged from around a dune 'There's our answer..' "Captain!" "Fire Igelstllungs!" The small guns fired taking down 3 of the helicopters. Kira continued to fire at the Bacows none of his shots hitting 'The ArchAngel...' something at his side started to go off 'Shit! I'm running out of power!' Ira pulled down the keyboard and began to type rapidly. In a matter of minuets he managed to configure the way the Strike should stand and how it should land.
He took off at one of the Bacows hitting it to the ground. He fired at it's head destroying the machine. He began to engage with the others.
Natarle took off towards the 'G'. She reached it and climbed slowly up to the cockpit. 'Let's see how well this baby runs.' She thought. She pulled down it's keyboard and disabled the self-distract command. Cyther rose slowly breaking the bonds that held it. Natarle continued to type rapidly setting everything to her liking. 'lets see. Weapons..Weapons..uhh 2 Beam rifles, Wrist mounted shield, huh.. An energy barrier? That's new. 4 beam sabers and 1 sword.. Whoa this thing is loaded. It looks a lot like the Blitz though. Nature remembered what Yak had told her. 'It's ZAFT developed thanks to Nicol' ' Oh, yeah. Duh.' Cyther slowly began to move. It took out one of the beam rifles and shot down the main hanger door reviling the night sky. Cyther began to advance slowly then speeding up. As soon as it reached the door it took off into the night sky.
"Captain! The ArchAngel can't take much more! Heat levels have increased to high! Igelstllungs 3 and 4 have been destroyed! The Strike is running out of power!" 'Dammit! Nature where are you!' "Captain! We have conformation that the enemy's main guns have locked on to us!" Murrue panicked "Captain a large heat source is heading our way it's cannon fire!" "Intercept it!" "We can't and there is no time to move!" Murrue braced for impact and waited.
Natarle noticed the battle raging in front of her. 'The ArchAngel.' A beams flew past Cyther 'Now time to put this energy barrier to work. The Phase Shift went down and Natarle controlled Cyther in front of the beams path. A large blue barrier enveloped Cyther just as the beams hit it. There was a loud explosion but Cyther emerged undamaged. "Nice." Cyther ran along the sand at an incredible speed.
The Strike was thrown to the ground and it's Phase shift went down. "Now you're defenseless!" A Bacow advanced on Kira and his fallen Gundam 'Is it over for me?' He closed his eyes ready to except death. All of a sudden a black beam came out of nowhere shooting the Bacow down. 'What the hell?!' Kira forced Strike to it's feet. He looked to his left to see another Gundam coming towards him 'Crap.' He thought.
Murrue watched in horror. She looked at the advancing mobile suit. 'Is that the Blitz?' she wondered 'No. It can't be.'
Kira studied his appending doom as it advanced on him. The Gundam was back ,gold, and silver. To him it resembled the Blitz. But it looked very different in some ways. It's color one. And it's shield was smaller and it had no grappling hook. It also had 4 beam sabers and 2 hip mounted beam rifles. From what he could see. The Bacows rushed at the mobile suit.
Natarle was more than ready for the incoming enemies. Cyther removed a saber and swung decapitating one of the 3 Bacows 'One down two to go' The black beam flickered " What the hell is that thing!" one of the pilots yelled. "I don't know! Lets just take it out!''
The other two tried to confuse Natarle by sliding around Cyther in different directions. She caught all of there movements. Cyther began to run after one of them matching it's speed. 'And it's supposed to be the fastest ground mobile suit invented..Heh don't think so . Cyther sped up and jumped in front of the Bacows path. It removed a rifle and fired. The black beam went straight through the Bacow. It fell and exploded. The other had stopped. It opened fire. "Take this Bastard!" The pilot yelled Cyther jumped to the side and ran at the Bacow dodging random shots fired. "haaaa!" Cyther jumped into the air and the saber came down on the Bacow stabbing through it. Removing the Saber Cyther jumped back just as the Bacow exploded.
Murrue sat in awe 'who is that?' She asked herself. "Captain w-what do you want us to do with this unidentified mobile suit?" Murrue snapped out of her trance "fire an Igelstllung at it." The rapid fire gun went off at the unknown 'G' It dodged it simply. ''Whoever the pilot is their sure good!" Natarle's face appeared on one of the small screens on the side of Murrue's chair " Hey! Watch where you're firing these things!" She snapped "N-Natarle! Y-You're alive! Open the hatch! Let the Strike and the Unknown in!" Murrue took off to head down to the hanger bay.
Natarle got out of the Cyther's cockpit and took the small elavator type thing down. 'hahh...feels good to be back' She thought. "Natarle!" She looked up just as Murrue came barreling into her arms nearly knocking her over. "oph!' Natarle pushed Murrue away "Natarle? What's wrong?" Natarle began to walk away from Murrue. 'oh yeah...Mu..' Murrue ran after Natarle and stopped in front of her "Natarle listen to me will you?" Natarle looked at Murrue "What?" She responded rudely. Murrue's hand made contact with the side of Natarle's face again catching her off guard. "Damn you listen to me!" She yelled "Natarle. It wasn't what you thought. I wasn't kissing him he was kissing me. In fact I hate him now for what he did to our relationship. I'll let you think on that If you need me I'll be on the deck. And with that she left a stunned Natarle standing in the middle of the floor.
'She hit me.' Natarle thought 'Maybe she's right....' Natarle walked to her room and got her uniform back on and ventured off to find Murrue.
Murrue looked up at the stars. 'I can't believe I hit her. Now she must hate me.' Murrue was so lost in thought she didn't even notice the figure approaching her from behind. She felt arms wrap around her waist and jumped slightly. "shh.....It's just me." Natarle whispered in her ear. "Why Natarle? I'd figured you'd given up on me." Natarle rested her head on Murrue's shoulder. "I'm sorry Murrue.. I-I didn't know.. I thought the same thing. Can you still forgive me?" Natarle asked. Murrue left the warm encirclement of Natarle's arms and turned to face her. "I thought you'd never ask." Murrue wrapped her arms around Natarle and kissed her deeply. Their tongues brushed against one another.
Kira waked down the hall slowly. "Hey! Kid!" Kira turned "huh? Oh hey." "Have you seen the Captain?" Kira knew everything that happened. "No." He lied. "Oh..Okay. Well when you do tell her I want to see her." He said walking off. " Okay..." Kira answered.
Natarle pulled away from Murrue. "let's go inside.. It's getting cold" She said "umm..Let'." Murrue agreed. Natarle walked in with Murrue following. After a few minuets they arrived at Murrue's room. "Uhh.. I'll see you in the morning...I guess." Natarle turned to leave but Murrue grabbed her arm. "You know...You can stay here....You don't have to spend the night alone.." Natarle laid down next to Murrue and put her arms around the older woman. Soon the two women where fast asleep laying in each other's arms.
Wow! what an accomplishment! My longest yet! Yawns enough with homework I'm gonna go to bed..Cause I'm tired... Heheh.. course you didn't need to know that. saunters off.
Natarle: see ya later folks!
Murrue: come on you. walks off dragging Natarle with her