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A/N: Once again, I appreciate the reviews I had received. Now go on to the story. This chapter will focus on Shinn.
Phase
11: The Face-off
Julius
The ship reached Suez another base of URANUS they had taken over for replenishment. Stanley knew it would take some time for both the Archangel and the Minerva to arrive on the next stage area of the game. He decided to go for a break. He disembarked from the ship with a small group the moment the ship docked in the port and he had given the orders to the remaining crews to prepare for the coming battle. The truth was he had something to do, to pick up a girl in their facility somewhere in India. He had read off from his data that the girl was another survivor of war. Somewhere in the Equatorial nation
Stanley approached the facility with his army. Removing his hood and sunglasses he observed around the ruined building. This was the first time he had came here by himself after the old man arrived to fetch Nicol Amalfi who was undergoing his training here. This time he had the orders of destroying the faculty after fetching the girl who was left with a number of the remaining surviving extended naturals.
A brown haired girl was sitting inside reading as he and the troop stepped in.
"Sis, I had come for you by the orders of our master." Stanley explained his purpose of coming here signaling his subordinate to take the girl with them. The girl stood up glaring at Stanley with her pink eyes. She muttered, "The time has come."
"What are the orders?" The girl asked. Swinging her only arm stretching herself.
"Master had secured most parts of the Earth. However, both Minerva and the Archangel had gotten away. We'll be expecting them in our base in Panama. Our master had your mobile suit ready."
"I see." The girl attached her prosthetic arm to where she had missing her arm. Stanley couldn't understand why the old man had taken her in. Just because she was a kin of the former super ace in ZAFT. He had long heard of the ability of the Super Ace but this pilot was emotionally unstable. He had no interest fighting him in battle.
"Just give me the orders. To defeat them?" The girl eyed him sternly. Stanley just nodded.
"Alright, let's go. Stanley-niichan." The girl smiled naively in the sudden but Stanley did not take this in. His subordinate led the girl into the vehicle and left leaving Stanley to take care of the remaining extended who was defeated in the training by the girl, Mayu Asuka.
Somewhere in the Equatorial nation
Lunamaria passed Shinn a bowl of soup she had collected from the volunteers from the area who were distributing food and resources to the needy while Lacus was listening attentively to the talking of people. It was good to keep herself updated although she did not want to care. Her sense of hearing had became more sensitive after she became blind.
"Someone's coming." Lacus opened her eyes. A boy who was struggling to climb towards them.
Shinn ran to him and helped him up. He noticed that the boy was in chain and was bleeding from his cuts in his arm. Lunamaria came to the boy and started cleaning his wounds. Lacus heard footsteps of a group of people approaching.
"Move away from the boy, bastard." A guy in spiky blonde hair ordered. Shinn wouldn't budge. Lunamaria just stared at the guy in anger. In a moment a group of soldier snatched the boy from him and shoved Lunamaria to the ground when she tried to resist.
"Luna!" Shinn helped her up to see if she was hurt. Lunamaria shook her head.
"Who are you?" Shinn demanded. Stanley ignored him and shot the boy dead leaving Shinn and Lunamaria in shock. Lacus hid herself behind a wall and listened.
"Mere weaklings, they should die." Stanley commented.
"Why did you?" Shinn clenched his fist and jumped to punch Stanley in his face. Usually, Stanley would be able to react but this guy was fast surprising him. Stanley staggered a bit and balanced himself. He returned the punch to Shinn which caused him to fell to the ground when the soldier surrounded Shinn securing him.
"You are pretty good as a natural." Stanley praised Shinn for his braveness and his swiftness. "No, you are a coordinator. A pretty well trained one in fact."
"Who are you? Why are you attacking such a young boy?" Shinn demanded glaring at Stanley in anger.
"Well, I shouldn't tell you." He pulled out a pistol and aimed his pistol on Shinn's forehead. To him, Shinn was an incapable brat who was ignorant.
"You guys are cruel killing all the innocents just to fulfill your foolish desires." Shinn yelled after noticing the logo in his uniform. It was URANUS again.
"You are an intelligent coordinator, tell you what, if you join us, I'll spare your life. I can give you power. A power to decide one's life or death, a sword for you to obtain your desire if you like such as to protect your loved ones you know." Stanley looked at Shinn who was glaring at him angrily.
"Power doesn't mean anything. You'll be the cause of other people's misery." Shinn yelled at him struggling to be released from the soldier grasp.
"You really don't know anything. There are two choices in front of you: To die or to join us." Stanley punched Shinn on his chin. Shinn glared at him as though he couldn't wait to beat the craps out of him. Lunamaria watched this in fear. She noticed a wooden stick on the ground. Sneakily and carefully, she picked it up hiding it behind her back. Lunamaria would find a way to get Shinn out of this even if it would cost her her life.
"I'll never join you, despicable brat." He spitted at Stanley's feet. Fury in anger he pulled his trigger with Shinn glaring at him not afraid of death. Lunamaria raised her stick about to strike on Stanley.
A/N: This a short chapter. Rewrote these few chapters a number of times to fit in what I intended to write. Next chapter will focus on Athrun continued from the previous chapter. Please R&R, thanks!
