Disclaimer: Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny does not belong to me.

Phase 24: The Unexpected Participants


The water of Kingdom of Scandinavia

Athrun and Nicol had commenced their game. The rule was Athrun had to obtain the head crest of Infinite Justice before it was defeated by the Asterisk. Athrun fought hard. Asterisk vanished before he knew it. Athrun did not know where the Asterisk would reappear.

"Stay calm." He told himself as he closed his eyes.

"There!" A green seed exploded in his mind as he managed to get a hit on the Asterisk which reappeared. Athrun managed to disable his mirage colloid which located in the head crest of the Asterisk with the attack itself.

"Damn!" Nicol scolded himself for his foolishness of underestimating Athrun. Infinite Justice was one of the most powerful mobile suits around anyway. He tried to blind Athrun with its holographic boomerang. Athrun dodged it swiftly throwing its boomerang at the Asterisk which avoided it by flipping itself in somersault.


Underground Base of War Gazers

Serene felt herself lying in a pool of blood in a corner of the VIP room. The leader of the Scandinavia had betrayed them. To her dismay, he was part of the URANUS and had shared information related to them to the organization. It was just a plot to take them in. The truth was, the URANUS wanted them gone for good and hence, the attack.

Serene was trying to fend for herself alone since the rest had their attention diverted elsewhere. She was shot mortally by the soldiers surrounding the leader. Serene laughed at their foolishness. Wondering if it was the end, she tried to reach for her walkie talkie before she lost her consciousness. The walkie talkie was buzzing with screamings of her companions.

Rey was stumbling through the wreckage in the city with the intention of returning to the base as soon as possible. He clutched his head while hiding behind huge debris avoiding the hunt by the URANUS soldiers. All Rey could hear was the cries of desperateness. Sensing that Serene was in danger, he tried to find a way out. His eyes widened in disbelief when his fellow companion, Ricky fell in front of him shielding him from the incoming bullets. Feeling pissed, Rey picked up an unarmed gun and sent the URANUS soldier who shot Ricky to hell.

Cradling Ricky by his arm, Rey encouraged him to hold on. Ricky shook his head and asked him to continue protect the future of the NewTypes before he went limped. Rey looked at the sky in tears and wondered what exactly their future is like. Grabbing the key around his neck which was to given to him in crisis, Rey proceeded to the secret area where his sword laid. Rey needed to obtain the real key which would end this foolishness once and for all.


Somewhere in the water

Liberate Destiny was flying non-stop. Minerva was trying to shoot it down by disabling it. It could not afford to lose the mobile suit just like this.

"Shinn stop it and come back." Lunamaria tried switching on the comm.. but was in vain.

Meanwhile, Lacus returned to her room. She sat on her bed and started crying. "Kira, are you crying?" She whispered.

"This is bad. Now, we don't know where we are." Dearka commented while watching the back of the Liberate Destiny. Minerva had the speed to catch up with the Liberate Destiny which seemed to be flying with no sense of direction despite its damaged engine. Yzak was hopping mad in frustration.

"The radar is working sir! We are now near the border of Kingdom of Scandinavia." The stand-in CIC reported.

"What?" Yzak and Deaka ran over to look at the radar and the sensor.

"It's working." They said happily in unison. "Show us the visual." Yzak ordered. A screen popped out showing the areas around.


Archangel

"Captain, a battleship and a mobile suit is spotted near the border." Meyrin reported.

"Minerva and an unknown mobile suit." Miriallia added.

"Show me the visual."

"Yes!" They could see a white gundam approaching them. It resembled the Destiny Gundam but yet some similarity with Freedom especially its wings.

"Open a communication channel!" Murrue ordered. She started speaking to the incoming Minerva and Liberate Destiny.

Athrun in Infinite Justice spotted the incoming mobile suit and turned to Asterisk.

"I didn't send in reinforcement." Nicol replied. "Are you the one who did that? If you did, you lose. I'll let you off if you surrender."

"It's not us." Athrun defended. "I don't need help and I'll defeat you by recovering the head crest."

Shinn who was in the Liberate Destiny was in the daze. He did not know what he was doing. His mind was in a blank ever since the Zeus got away. He was not able to avenge Kira. He did not expect himself to be so bad in using the HiMAT function which Kira was able to do it with 100 accuracy. He felt so ashamed. Cold sweat was dripping in his face.

Shinn spotted the Archangel which he mistook in daze as the Julius and commenced his attack on it.

"Port 30, evade!" Murrue ordered to avoid the beam coming from the Liberate Destiny.

"You?" Athrun yelled over the comm.. upon seeing the Liberate Destiny attacking the Archangel.

"Destiny?" He tried to approach it abandoning his game with the Asterisk but Asterisk stood in the way.

"As expected, the Destiny belonged to the URANUS right?" Athrun asked. Nicol denied it.

"Sorry to disappoint you. I don't know where it come from and I would have thought it belongs to ORB." Asterisk started unleashing its holographic boomerang.

"Why did you?" Murrue asked over the comm..

"This is Yzak Jule, the captain of Minerva in pursuit of our own mobile suit which has gone berserk hungry for revenge." Yzak explained.

"Berserk is not the word to use, Yzak." Dearka corrected.

"Anyway, we had to stop it before it starts its rampaging." With that Yzak switched off the comm..

"Impulse boy?" Mwu sensed the presence of Shinn in the Gundam while he was in the hangar.

"Murrue, I'm going out."

Murrue was about to permit when a new mobile suit appeared in front of the ship blocking a beam from the Liberate Destiny which almost got the ship.

"Legend?" Meyrin exclaimed. The grey mobile suit appeared blocking the view of Liberate Destiny.

"The Zeus." Shinn muttered in anger. Again he mistook the Revival Legend as the Zeus.

"Archangel will fall back, Athrun-san finish off your battle with the Asterisk, I'll take care of him." Rey announced through the comm.

Athrun did not expect it was Rey who helped them. "Thanks!" Athrun replied as he turned to Asterisk, "We shall end this in a short while." Athrun replied confidently.

Both Rey and Athrun proceeded with their respective mission clashing with their respective opponents.


A/N: Well, that's one of the worst chapters I had ever written which is why I never like writing battle scene. Please bear with it. Please R&R and see you soon! It will take me some time before the next update. Till then!