Ok so for those of you reading the updated version of this chapter. I had problems with yesterday uploading the files. In the process of changing them so they would work I accidentally over-wrote the correct version of this chapter with an older one. So after the part with yzak this is all completely re-written and hopefully better than before.
Please enjoy
The three becomes four
Nicol and Dearka were both floating on either side of the purgatory as the three ships settled back into space. Nicol personally was watching the kusinagi while it was constructed. The fact the ship had launched in a compartmentalized form astounded him. This was partially why he was proud to be a part of celestial being. He got to meet and see such amazing people and the creative designs they made.
As the last parts of the ship connected he glanced to a monitor showing his new home. While there were transfers that needed to be done in terms of mobile suits and equipment for said machines as well as personnel he was curious as to where all everyone would go.
He had heard about dearka's now budding romance with miriallia and was wondering if he'd want to stay aboard the archangel. He had no qualms with it and was sure Noah wouldn't either but at the same time he hoped Dearka would remember who he joined during the battle of orb and help defend the purgatory.
Speaking of the GN drive powered ship the new crew were still familiarizing themselves with the controls of the ship.
To that point he was amazed at Alice's handiwork. Not only was she a natural but she was just a teenager and yet she had built the vessel to such great detail he knew the ship likely was considered "world series class" in their world.
He heard the fact the kusinagi was finished docking and maneuvered to the now opening hangar doors of "launch bay one" onboard the celestial being ship. Glancing to see where Dearka was going it was no surprise that the blonde coordinator was heading for the archangel.
Deciding to leave it be he landed the blitz jaeger and began to walk it into the ship.
The hangar was amazing for the fact it had once been a model. Stopping the gundam in the center he powered it down and opened the cockpit, stepping out and looking at the empty mobile suit bays. So the baker team had de-scanned their mobile suits? Well two of them. He had heard about Alfred's heroic sacrifice of the "zaku arsenal" and was just glad the English coordinator had survived.
The only mobile suit in the whole hangar aside from his currently was the buster. He smiled, seeing the grey colored prototype stowed away gave him a sense of accomplishment. With Heliopolis seemingly like it was so long ago it helped put his mind at ease that the war was nearing its end.
Nicol saw one of the St. Helens technicians float over and wave to him with a scanner in his hand. Just how many of those had Noah made?
The green haired teen took off his helmet and floated down to the technician, curious as to why he had a scanner. "What are you doing with that?" asked Nicol as he saw the technician set the device under the blitz jaeger and began the shrinking process.
"Mrs. Alice stated that Noah made a few spare GP-bases and scanners for us technicians. While ultimately it is the meisters responsibilities to maintain your machines, in combat operations Alice was told to have us have scanners so that you and the other pilots can go grab a bite to eat, treat any injuries, do whatever while we make rapid repairs and maintenance. Basically our jobs will be to apply quick coats of paint, attach spare parts, re-charge/re-arm, anything that needs doing and can be done quickly to maintain the mobile suits performance." stated the man as he picked up the blitz jaeger and handed it to Nicol.
"Thank you. It's good to know that clearly Noah wanted to ensure no one would be without a job." Said Nicol as he pushed off the floor and headed for the ready room, somewhat glad to be back in space. He thought about what all his machine would need to keep it maintained. Aside from the occasional replaced weapon or maybe an arm or leg he could only think of new coats of paint or re-applied decals…cosmetics basically.
With that in mind he reached his locker in the ready room that Alice included and began to get out of his flight suit. In a half hour or captain kisaka, captain Ramius and mu would all be joining him and captain Rozene on the bridge of the ship to discuss their next move.
Noah was MIA and he was not looking forward to when Nina transferred to the ship. He had seen what happened with the sword calamity and like everyone likely was was confused as to how Noah seemed to take the strike to his cockpit which should have killed him or sent him home…but instead seemed to break down into GN particles and reform behind the customized prototype.
By the time the fight was over all three ships had broken the atmosphere so no one knew what happened to Noah. Either way this ship was to be the meeting place for strategizing while all three ships got everything straightened out.
He headed for the mess hall or whatever this ship had for an eating area in order to grab a snack before the meeting. Even just floating in space he found piloting the new machine of his very hunger inducing.
THE THREE BECAME FOUR
Nicol was surprised as he saw Kira, athrun and cagalli joining captain kisaka for this debriefing. While it was not unwelcome he just had not expected so many people. Either way he brought up a holographic map of the area of space they occupied.
It was the L4 sector and he was already formulating a plan.
"So…pros and cons list anyone?" asked mu before murrue punched his arm.
"Pros and cons list of what?" asked captain Rozene as she looked to a tablet Alice had given her and multi-tasked, focusing on the meeting and reading the bio of the actual leader of this vessel and its crew.
"Our situation. I mean before we can even plan what to do next we have to take stock right? Why not a pros and cons list?"
"Because half of what would be on one list belongs on both." Stated athrun.
"Like?"
"Like the fact Noah is MIA?" said cagalli as she floated around the exotic bridge.
"That's a con. No good can come of that because whether he is dead or back in his world or whatever he isn't here to help if we get attacked." Stated captain Rozene.
"Ok what about our supply situation?" asked Kira.
"The kusinagi and archangel are full on supplies and won't run out anytime soon. But there are some supplies such as water that we will go through quickly." Stated kisaka as he looked at the map.
"The purgatory is in the same state. Thanks to Nina leading the sword calamity away from us we were able to load everything onboard. But we are also a fully crewed ship as is the kusinagi. My guess is we start running low before the archangel simply due to that." stated captain Rozene as she looked up and let her tablet drift away.
Kisaka and murrue nodded.
"That's true. while the archangel did receive some crew members from orb forces Noah saved in the first battle they are still not at full force while the kusinagi obviously has a full crew and your ship does not need as many people so I'm sure you are at more than full capacity." Said kisaka as Alice floated up to the table.
"Actually the purgatory has just the right amount in terms of crew members. Due to celestial beings original secrecy they obviously only brought in the dedicated and the best and brightest humanity had to offer. So originally compared to this ship now the ship had less than a skeleton crew. I actually added features to the ship to counter the fact a lot of maintenance and other duties were handled by celestial beings advanced AI computer VEDA and a squadron of haro bots in special little carrier things." She stated which caught everyone's attention.
"Just how many people are actually needed to crew this ship Alice?" asked murrue as she floated closer to the girl which seemed to startle her.
"Um…if memory serves about…um…I'm not sure. They technically weren't fully staffed either for the ptolamaios kai: but they were only missing a few people to man the guns and that wasn't bad since the ship rarely needed someone to man them. But I think there was maybe 5 people to fully man the bridge, 2 of which were pilots/co-pilots for when they weren't in combat to run shifts and one of them was miss sumeragi, the technical captain of the ship though her actual title was tactical forecaster." Said Alice, taking in a breath as her nervousness clearly had her over explaining.
"Then you had Ian Vashti who was the engineer/designer of the gundams and he used haro's for repairs since the gundams rarely needed more than simple maintenance. And lastly there was the four gundam meisters….and then you had the civilian um…forgot his name that piloted the 0 raiser…a-a-and then you had soma Perez aka Marie parfacy who piloted the GN archer, a support unit for the arios…um…"the girl had now resorted to thinking on her fingers till athrun floated over and tapped her shoulder.
"Alice…you're not Noah. We know you probably don't think like him or know as much as he does. I think Miss Ramius just wants a general number." Stated athrun and the girls face went red…and she fainted.
Athrun looked to everyone and his hands shot up as he floated back, worried they might have thought he did something.
"So if I heard that right it`d take 4 people minimum if you add in the robots to run this boat plus however many pilots. We don't have shift cycles sorted just yet…we could spare a man or two for you captain Ramius." Stated captain Rozene but murrue just waved her hands and chuckled.
"No no please. Your people are with celestial being, they should be adjusting to life on this ship not the archangel. Besides I won't ignore the fact no one may be part of blue cosmos or anything but I doubt zaft navy uniforms will lessen how tense things already will be when we enter combat. They may have adjusted to Nicol but he also wore a modified E.A. uniform with a zaft patch sewed onto it. I mean no offense of course."
Rozene nodded and smiled. "I understand. It likely would be the same if our situations were reversed." Said the former zaft captain. She smirked. "I think my main issue will be re-adjusting to working in space…all of us on this ship actually. My whole crew are sailors of the naval variety, at least 2 years on that carrier each aside from our pilots. Valeria and Alfred both only had a couple months under their belt. "She was currently just staring at her tablet she had forgotten would float away if she just set it aside and had not been there when she reached for it.
Murrue giggled. "Trust me I know the feeling. It was the reverse when we were in Africa. Ensign Neumann nearly dropped a water bottle on my feet when he held it up in the air and let go expecting it to hang there when he made sure he wouldn't put any inertia into it."
After a few minutes of thinking mu sighed. "So anyone have any idea where Noah is anyways? I mean he is alive right?"
Alice nodded as she came to. "As soon as we settled in space I used my personal GP-base to contact the others on the other side and they said his cockpit is still set in "limbo" basically it's still in use."
Where was Noah? If he quantum lept here he'd be here by now and if he used trans-am he should be coming up on their radar by now.
Did the E.A. ambush him somehow and get him? Did that quantization take so much out of him he passed out?
That…was closer than anyone would know.
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Noah groaned as he came too. Alarms blaring, lights flashing…what the hell happened?
As his eyes opened he saw something that nearly had him pissing his flight suit….
Zafts home defense fleet had him surrounded. The jacin duea defense line had him dead to rights!
And he had inbound communication requests…oh…
"Yes?" he asked sarcastically as he opened the latest one up to see a familiar face…well familiar to him.
Talia Gladys stared back at him and sent him a glare at his response.
"This is Talia Gladys, captain of the zaft Nazca class frigate Voltaire. Seems I have the honor of being the one to ask you to power down your machine and surrender or we will have no choice but to open fire on you." She threatened though her face told Noah she had seen footage of him and Luke when they first returned to the cosmic era.
"Talia…can I call you Talia? Look. You`ve clearly seen what me and my friend can do to a zaft battle group…what do you think I can do when I unleash my full arsenal on an entire fleet?" asked Noah which caused the blonde to raise her eyebrow.
"I don't follow. There is a significant difference to that combat situation and this, starting with your friend's presence. What makes you think you alone can do a lot more damage to us now then you two did to that fleet?" she asked.
"I don't know I just wondered if you`d actually respond…bye." Stated Noah before he cut the communication and flexed his hands over the control balls of the Gabriel. "Boring conversation anyways." He mumbled with a smile before his cockpit screamed at him about all the beams, bullets and missiles he saw coming his way.
A few clicks and flicks of his wrists and his quantum GN drive dumped everything it had into a GN field while he swapped out his GN sword rifles for his buster sword 2's.
As everything impacted the field his readout told him it was about to fail but when it started to rise in strength he knew he had at least survived that. He was not ready to try quantifying again just yet. Though the fact he did that…holy shit he was an innovator!
As the cloud from all the missiles began to fade and everyone reloaded, let their barrels cool, whatever he flicked his wrist and brought up his trans-am program. Activating it he swiftly dove down and flew through at least three squads of mixed mobile suits, a string of explosions following him before he began spinning and twisting, lances of red sniper fire shooting from his swords as he climbed, dove, jinked, spun, every evasive maneuver imaginable in order to avoid getting bogged down in CQB.
Unfortunately a pair of heavy weapon GINN's jinxed this as he cut them in half…and their missiles.
Boosting back he found one of his GN swords grabbed by a GuAIZ which forced him to turn around and try to run his cockpit through with its beam claws on its shield. Instead Noah released one of his swords and ignited one of his wrist GN beam Vulcans/sabers and jammed it into the machines torso, angling it so he knew the tip at least found the cockpit before de-activating it and pushing the suddenly limp machine back, hoping he both did and did not do the horrible thing of killing the pilot without destroying the machine. He did not envy whoever retrieved that floating casket.
He turned to grab his sword and found himself blocking the same blade which had been grabbed by a CGUE.
The command suit brought it's chain gun shield up and started to open up on Noah but he boosted up, to the left and rammed the zaft machine with his right shoulder/ GN buster sword, forcing the pilot to drop the sword before grabbing it and bringing the massive clear red blade down to bisect the command unit before boosting away.
"Shit…gotta do something quick or else I'm gonna get trapped here. But what to do what to do…"stated Noah before he came up with an absolutely insane plan.
Reaching down to check his bag he still had with his half damaged models in it he decided they were in good enough shape for this.
As he continued to evade the enemy, occasionally firing at one or slicing them in half he looked for someplace to lay his trap. After a few moments he found it, one lone rock that would obviously help with the MS combat portion of their defense line.
Utilizing his advanced mobile suit he made sure the enemy ships on the other side wouldn't see him in time as he dove under it, running along the surface before Noah opened the cockpit, thankful he had his flight suits on and slammed the gundam back against the rock, using the fingers and feet to stop him after storing his weapons.
Before his pursuers could follow him or the enemy could get a visual on him he activated the GN drive powered standard cloaking and watched as a pair of GuAIZ flew past him followed by a CGUE.
Taking a deep breath he grabbed his bag and pushed himself out of his cockpit, using the cracks between his gundams armor to carefully climb down to the rock behind it.
Utilizing a remote command program on his GP-base to close the cockpit, he waited for a GINN to fly close and pinged it for communication. Linking it to his helmet he took a deep breath.
"Stop where you are NOW!" he shouted, the pilot stopping literally in front of the gundam. "Good…now…drop your weapon." Stated Noah, by now thanks to the propaganda both sides broadcast about him earlier in the war everyone knew his voice.
"Have you informed anyone I'm speaking to you?" asked Noah
"n-no…please don't kill me. I have a family on junius 2…"said a younger male voice, probably in his early 20's like Noah.
"Good then you`ll do what I say and toss your weapon." Stated Noah as he watched the ginn throw its gun off to the side.
"Good…now I want you to turn around 180 degrees. Anyone picks up on this I'll kill you on the spot." Threatened Noah as the GINN fired its thrusters, slowly spinning till the pilot could make out the gundams shillouete but didn't move, not realizing Noah wasn't inside.
"Good….your flight suit pressurized?" asked Noah.
"Yeah…w-what are you gonna make me do?" the young man sounded terrified.
"Open your cockpit…"
The pilot did as he asked and Noah took advantage of the fact the cockpit wasn't facing him to push off and catch the platform the door made. He caught the pilot by surprise as he climbed up to look him face to face.
As he fumbled for his sidearm Noah had the one Nicol gave him long ago now out and aimed at him. The blonde natural smirked. "Your taking me to aprilius one." Stated Noah as he got into the ginn's cockpit, grunting as he climbed behind the pilot's seat.
"w-what!? H-HOW?" screamed the man as Noah sighed.
"Here's how it's gonna go. I have remote control of my gundam. Your gonna sit here like a good boy while I use my gundam to slice off your left arm and right leg. Your gonna say you don't know what came over you but suddenly you became an ace pilot…"stated Noah, finally noticing the boy was a green novice supposedly. His attitude screamed this was just a job to earn for his family. He had no reason to die.
"Anyways I'm then going to have it drop one of my weapons before I retrieve it…don't ask how. Anyways your gonna take that sword and fly back towards the fleet. If my assumptions of the higher ups are right, this close to home they will fly you straight back to a dock if not have you head straight there. You make sure I'm not found all this will go according to plan and you may even come out a hero…and alive. I`m assuming you can figure out what will happen if it doesn't right?" asked Noah to which he got a swift nod.
"Good…I may do a bit more then cut a few limbs…"stated Noah as he brought out his GP base and the pilot watched the gundam de-cloak. Oh the look on his face as the massive GN buster blade was brought up and back down to sever his left arm before swinging around and brought through the right leg in a back handed slash.
From there the pilot screamed as the Gabriel's fist swung out and bashed against the head a couple times before the groan of metal being strained could be heard and suddenly his main camera went on the fritz, giving a broken picture as Noah was extra careful to tear open the head and CRACK the camera lens, not bust it completely.
"Ok…take the weapon…"said Noah as he saw the pilot, curled up in his seat, uncurl and see the GN buster sword two floating in front of his machine.
Noah separated it from the list of what his scanner would pick up and initiated the program as inertia had pushed the ginn back. So with a boost of GN particles plus the scanner "de-scanning it" the machine turned into a glowing cloud of plavsky particles and not only flew into the cockpit but into Noah's waiting hand.
He put it in his bag and tapped the pilot on his shoulder. "Ok…close your cockpit and go. We don't have time to waste." Stated Noah and the pilot nodded feverishly, clearly not wanting to anger Noah.
With that Noah watched the cockpit doors close and checked the main monitor and listened to the pilot's comms. If this worked…he was gonna join the military cause either his eyes were glowing and he was in innovator mode or he was a god damn genius.
THE THREE BECAME FOUR
Dacosta panted as he reached the back entrance to where lacus clyne was hiding. The door opened and as he nearly dove in two men checked to ensure that the coast was clear before closing the door.
By the time lacus stood and greeted the young man he had caught his breath. Boy did he have some news for her!
"Thank you for all you're doing. What is the word on the street?" asked lacus, everyone stopping what they were doing and paying attention to dacosta.
"It's not looking very good. After azalea joules speech a lot of people are upset with you or at the least are not sure what to think. And to make matters worse they are claiming celestial being has infiltrated the plants and killed master seigal under false information that he was still chairman." Stated dacosta which made everyone gasp…well everyone but lacus who sighed.
Without even a tear in her eye she looked to the tan coordinator and nodded. "Then my father either is dead or will be soon. But my question is why blame celestial being? Ever since they showed up in the war zala has stated the plants would be impervious to their potential infiltrations."
"That is the one bit of good news I had. I overheard a phone call a red ace got while I was gathering Intel at a dinner. He rushed out after hearing about an attack on the homelands defenses. Apparently Gabriel showed up out of some kind of portal made up of those particles and just hung there in space till Noah finally answered one of the many captains who tried to speak with him and make sure this wasn't a trap." To this news lacus actually giggled.
"They actually thought they could speak with him? If I learned one thing during my encounter with him on the legged ship it is that he does not go back on his word. He stated zaft was an enemy of celestial being. They should have disabled him when they had the chance." Giggled the pink princess, her haro bouncing while shouting the word disable.
Dacosta smiled at her laughter. "But it gets even better. I checked Andrews intelligence sources and found out the Gabriel disappeared during the engagement though a GINN pilot claimed to have had a freak moment of immense skill and managed to steal his weapon."
"That's not possible! Even the CGUE's have proven to be ineffective against Noah, how could a GINN have done any better?" asked one of lacus' supporters.
"That's just it. Apparently he hid on an asteroid and ambushed a GINN pilot, 19, fresh out of the academy with a new family being started in the junius colonies. He only joined zaft to help save up some money for the baby."
"While I am still waiting for the even better news what happened to the pilot?" asked lacus.
"That's the downside to this news. When his GINN came directly into the docks here on aprilius one to hand deliver the weapon before Noah could get it back he shot and killed the technicians who came to help the pilot out and somehow got his weapon back because it was missing when the MP's got there. The um…the pilot had an "accident" that resulted in a hole between his eyes while they debriefed him on his encounter." Stated dacosta sadly.
"You mean zala had he killed!? Just for letting Noah inside at gun point? The kid killed two men and let him live! That's valuable intel to someone like zala!" shouted another man.
"yes but after Nina yong stole EX-caliber I guess anyone who encounters Noah either kills him or doesn't come back alive…even if their mobile suit makes it back somehow."
"Damn him! He's so desperate to get rid of Noah he will just kill anyone who doesn't kill him?"
Dacosta nodded. "Guess so. Point is though…Noah is in aprilius one and needs help!" he exclaimed happily which had everyone jump to their feet and look to lacus. This was a game changer in terms of getting her out of here safely.
"Then I guess it is time we leave. I wish to make one more broadcast at our next location while you try and find Noah. We CAN NOT leave till we find him. If we do zala will find him and kill him, I'm sure of it." Commanded lacus as everyone scrambled into action.
"If Noah doesn't kill him first. Seems like a nice guy but quick to pull the trigger before he even bothers to try and negotiate his way out. You sure we are safe with him?" asked dacosta as he helped the princess pack.
She nodded and smiled. "Yes. If Noah is here I know I will see Mr. Yamato again. Mr. Carson will make sure we get out of here safely." And with that everyone just focused on packing up.
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Athrun could only feel pity and sorrow instead of the rage and hatred he wanted to feel for his father as he walked up to him. Due to having piloted a shuttle from the archangel back to the plans rather than the justice he had been put in detention then brought here. A reasonable course of action to be sure.
"What the hell is wrong with you boy? Where is the justice? And what happened to the freedom? And why the hell did we just get attacked by Noah fucking Carson!?" his father shouted at him, practically foaming at the mouth with rage.
"No father this time I'm asking the questions. And I'm asking my father Patrick zala, not chairman zala." Said athrun which only got Patrick even angrier.
"What did you say to me!?"
"I have only one question to ask…how much longer we are going to keep fighting this war? How many more people must die before you see things clearly?" asked athrun as his father jumped to his feet.
"What the hell are you blabbering on about now? You let that damn natural get inside your head didn't you!?" he shouted.
Athrun had no doubts the guards and other politicians could hear his shouting.
Athrun chuckled nervously and sighed. "I only came back to ask that one question in person because I had to give you the benefit of the doubt….if I didn't I'd be no better then you…"said athrun before his father slammed his fist down on his desk.
"How dare you. HOW FUCKING DARE YOU! Why the fuck should I answer that kind of question from a boy who knows nothing about what's going on? Especially when the man who filled his head with such nonsense just slaughtered nearly 30 of his fellow pilots and god knows how many in the ships he sunk!" shouted Patrick as he began to walk around his desk.
Athrun wasn't even surprised this was what happened with Noah. Dead or alive Noah wouldn't let Gabriel fall into zafts hands. How he got here athrun would never know. But he knew his father was a fool to think Noah wouldn't go down or away without a fight.
Athrun thought back to what Alice had shown him. The teenager had been kind enough to show athrun the footage Noah spoke of from this "gundam wing endless waltz". His father was like a mixture of deikim and mariemaia. Angry at the past and delusional as to the fact he was clearly being manipulated. Who was pulling the strings athrun didn't know…but after watching those clips he could see the strings on his father's back…and likely also azreals. But who was the maestro of this play?
"How can you not see it father? How can you so blindly rush into fighting with the earth forces when clearly there is someone playing both sides?!" athrun finally shouted in return.
"Alaska, panama, Victoria…you attacked because you were attacked first and then they fought back…"
"AND THAT'S HOW WARS ARE FOUGHT ATHRUN! DID MY POSITION IN ZAFT REALLY GET YOU YOUR RED UNIFORM OR ARE YOU SO STUPID YOU DON'T KNOW HOW WARS ARE FOUGHT?!" screamed the zala patriarch.
"IT ISN'T HOW WARS ARE FOUGHT! IT'S HOW THE CYCLE CONTINUES! THE CYCLE OF MEANINGLESS BATTLES OVER WHAT?! TERRITORY? OVER HOW ONE IS BORN? OVER SOMEONE KILLING ANOTHER PERSON?" shouted athrun, his father surprised by this outrage and silencing himself.
"BEFORE ALASKA I THOUGHT NICOL KILLED YZAK SO I KILLED KIRA'S BEST FRIEND AND THEN IN RETALIATION WE BOTH TRIED TO KIL EACH OTHER AND I THOUGHT I HAD SUCCEDDED! ALL ON YOUR ORDERS FATHER! ON YOUR ORDERS SO MANY INNOCENT MEN AND WOMEN DIED AFTER NOAH RISKED HIS LIFE TO SAVE EVERYONE, COORDINATORS AND NATURALS! AND PANAMA YOU DIDN'T EVEN GIVE THE NATURALS A CHANCE TO SURRENDER AFTER EVERYTHING YOU HAD OUR TROOPS DO!" shouted athrun before he hung his head and began to sniffle, trying not to start crying.
"How many more times must I kill someone I love on your orders father? How many more lives need to be lost before you realize mother wouldn't want you to lead our people this way?" asked athrun before finally finishing.
"W-where did you get all this nonsense into your head? Where did you…"
"NO! DON'T EVEN START WITH THAT BULL CRAP! YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN!" yelled athrun.
"Yes…I spoke with Noah and he knows how this is going to end. It doesn't even matter how it's written all over the campaigns you and the naturals are going on. This war is going to end in one big cluster fuck of a battle with both sides aiming to annihilate the other. Pure genocide." Said athrun in a numb tone before angrily jabbing his finger at his father. "UNLESS YOU CAN SEE PAST YOUR SHORT SIGHTED ANGER, STOP LETTING IT CLOUD YOUR JUDGMENT AND STOP THIS ENDLESS WALTZ!"
Patrick was seething in rage at that last outburst. "That's the whole point of this war you dumb boy! Those naturals are jealous of us. They make us out to be monsters, freaks, abominations just for how we are born and so long as even one stands we will not know peace!" shouted Patrick as he grabbed athrun by the collar. "Now answer me carefully because I am not in a forgiving mood. Where are the justice and freedom? What have you done with our machines!?"
As his father shoved him down and got his gun out of his desk athrun could only chuckle. This argument…what was the point? Another battle for his father to prove he was a worthless waste of space? To prove he could never gain his approval even if he brought him Noah Carson and a GN drive himself?
No he'd have to literally be worthless by then, crippled maybe? Missing an arm or a leg…somehow he felt this argument was his father trying to reassure himself that he was correct…like a zealot whose point has been proven wrong and they won't give up.
He heard his father ask him again about the machines and threaten to have him arrested if he didn't answer….so he just sat there and looked at the floor, ashamed at the moment to even share the same DNA as the man before him as the guards rushed in and aimed their rifles at him.
As athrun was hauled out of his father's office he actually smiled seeing the crowd. They all heard the argument…they all were seeing how far his father had gone. If anything was accomplished by his torture and death it was that he opened a few people's eyes to what was happening and maybe that alone would make a difference.
He finally looked up when the guards holding him were surprised by something. In the car in front of him was Noah…with a grenade pin in his hand.
"Hey there guys…nice day to die huh?"
Wait where'd the grenade…oh…that was all athrun could think before Noah tackled him away from the two guards and covered him as the grenade went off and took the car and a few of the guards with it.
"what the…Noah what are you doing here?" asked athrun as Noah helped him up and he was surprised to see one of his armed escorts shoot the secret service members joining them to ensure they were dead.
"Could you not have warned me you were gonna do it like that?" asked the guard as athrun turned to Noah and watched him un-cuff him.
"What can I say I was channeling duo…I'll explain later. Anyways just be thankful we are too close to Patrick's office for me to pull out a gunpla. Then we'd really be in hell." Stated Noah before the guard groaned.
Athrun looked between Noah and the zaft MP. "Just what is going on here?"
"We can talk later but Noah here is helping us get Mrs. Clyne out of the plants. We are part of what they are calling clyne faction…" he said before Noah interrupted him.
"Dacosta we really don't have time…oh good at least Larry survived. Seriously…your names Larry?" asked Noah as a guard that survived joined them and the one known as dacosta handed athrun his side arm.
"Fuck you Carson! Let's just go!" shouted the other one known as Larry before athrun was forced to follow the three men.
A little while later Noah scrambled to get stuff out of the duffle bag he had with him.
"Stop over there!" shouted Noah and the driver nearly forced them all into the windshield as they drove up to a hangar.
"There's nothing in here Noah what the hell!?" asked dacosta when Noah opened his door to the military jeep they stole.
"That's the point. The city was already in checkpoint mode for me, with athrun gone Patrick will likely shut the colony down basically. You`ll need a distraction to keep the spaceport open while they launch a counter attack. Don't worry I'll keep the fighting to the base and I'll use Kira's tactics." Stated Noah before closing the door and hitting it twice.
"Fuck…he better not stay behind and get himself killed. Mrs. Lacus will have my head if he does that." Stated dacosta as they drove away.
Athrun though knew what Noah was doing. "Always has to be dramatic about it doesn't he…"muttered the purple haired coordinator.
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Noah sighed as he sat in his hastily repaired gouf elite's cockpit. He once again flexed his fingers over the control balls and counted down. "10….9….8…7…" by now the eternal was beginning its prep sequence and lacus was just getting aboard while athrun and dacosta were likely just stealing a shuttle to get to the eternal. "6…5…4…3…" Noah continued to count as the machine began to power up. He could hear the space ports defenses going after the shuttle they stole.
"Time to make my entrance once more…2…1…" said Noah and with that the ground shook as the eternal shot out the main gate to their hangar.
"only have time to distract them for a few seconds then I have to make my exit…better mark it…"stated Noah as the Zeon machine stood up and crashed through the roof of the hangar he set up in. quickly noticing where the small defense team sent to meet him made up of three GINN's he marked it knowing there was likely a way back out of the plants.
He waited a moment, turned to hide his Gatling shield. When the GINNs raised their rifles and were about to open fire Noah turned and raised the massive shield and chain gun. "So guys…or girls…I hate to make this a "mines bigger" situation but…mines bigger." He said in a crude joke before the barrel began spinning up. The three machines split up and while the middle one tried to climb away from him Noah lowered his targeting reticle and opened up, all most all of his shots connecting and shredding the green mobile suits legs and a slight shift had its rifle and right arm up in flames
The one that boosted to the right closed in, trying to see what would happen if he tried to stab Noah's new machine…well new to them.
As the remains of the first ginn fell Noah turned and with the kampher arm that replaced his lost right arm reached back to grab the shotgun that he also moved from the undamaged kampher elite. Without missing a step Noah drew out the CQB gun and pumped a single shell at the GINN's legs again. The massive pellets disabled the legs so that when Noah side stepped it's thrust at him it simply fell to the ground as it tried to land while Noah tossed the shotgun up, caught it on the pump action and used the inertia to pump it, toss it up once more and caught it on the grip.
2 down one more to go…and this one was GREEN.
Even after seeing everything that their fellow pilots endured this pilot thought it was smart to try both techniques. Raising its rifle they did not hesitate to open up on Noah in their left hand while their right drew the GINN's sword and they tried to hit him with a downward slash.
Noah managed to block all of the GINNs shots and when the sword hit his shield Noah shoved it aside.
"Sorry guys…I tried…" he felt bad as he turned and shoved the barrel of the shotgun to the GINN's gut…aka the cockpit…and pulled the trigger.
As the GINN exploded Noah boosted off towards where they launched from and began his fight you into space.
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By the time he got outside he saw the shuttle heading into the rear hatch of the eternal and gunned his engines. Not bothering to inform them of his arrival he found the doors about to catch his foot as the giant mech tumbled into the ship though given what it was meant to hold Noah easily got it sliding on one knee and between that and both guns sliding on the floor the machine came to a halt.
He got out to see athrun staring up at his machine and smirked. "Yeah…the sweet thing about gunpla…usually the guy who built it uses the same parts for limbs and such…like me. A quick repair and Zeon was ready to show zaft where they came from. Come on we need to head to the bridge."
With that athrun began following Noah and the one known as dacosta through the ship.
When they reached the bridge athrun was greeted by lacus and he smiled. "Why am I not surprised? So you're the captain of this vessel?" asked athrun as they shared a brief hug.
"Technically yes but in terms of combat operations I'm the main guy to talk to." Said a rather older and deeper voice. The chair in front of lacus' spun around and athrun's eyes went wide.
"Hey…nice to finally meet you. Welcome to the ship of the songstress. I`m Andrew waltfeld." Said the main before his chair spun back around.
The teen looked to the pink haired songstress and raised an eyebrow. "We have a lot to talk about don't we?" asked athrun and lacus nodded before Noah passed them.
"Hey where are you going?" asked athrun.
"Well we are about to enter fighting range of the jachin duea forces. I need to go swap the gouf elite for Gabriel or we are screwed." Stated Noah as he entered the lift and the door closed behind athrun.
"Kids got a good intuition." Stated waltfeld as athrun heard the radar operator call out about mobile suit contacts, about 50 of them. It was the jachin forces and he noticed almost all of them were GINNs. Noah probably destroyed or maimed most of the higher ranking suits earlier.
"Does this ship have any mobile suits?"
"Nope fresh out kid. This ship was designed for the exclusive use of the freedom and the justice…and I guess whatever that other kid is using. Sounds like he has multiple, might see if he has one you can use." Stated waltfeld but lacus stopped him.
"please your injured and Noah's machines are very powerful but if the models he showed me are what he is using then the one he calls Gabriel is the only one that can be used to fight this many forces and still keep up with us." Pleaded lacus to which athrun nodded.
"Ok…I'll stay."
Lacus smiled and looked out front. "Please open all channels for an outgoing communication." Requested lacus but waltfeld chuckled.
"We just got pinged for one so I think Noah beat you too it. Kid sure enjoys his speeches." Laughed waltfeld as Noah's voice came over the radio.
"Attention jachin duea defense forces. This is Noah Carson in the Gabriel gundam. Earlier I went easy on you as I was intent on getting to this ship. Onboard is lacus clyne. She's the one you should be following not Patrick zala. She is his enemy purely because they see drastically different futures for your people. Where Patrick wishes to see nothing but an endless cycle of meaningless battles till either your all wiped out or the naturals are wiped out to the last screaming infant she actually wants to end this war just like celestial being…well in a more peaceful way." Said Noah, growling as he clearly felt he wasn't getting his point across.
"point is if you attack us now out of Patrick zala's will I cannot promise all of you will live….but let us pass and get powerful and dangerous technology out of the hands of that mad man and no harm will come to any of you. Please…for her sake I'm begging you not to attack us…I already have more blood on my hand then I intended when all this started." Said Noah before the line was cut.
"Sir the GINN's are still inbound…the Gabriel has begun engaging them!"
"I figured they wouldn't change their beliefs so easily….Noah will be hard to change too." Said waltfeld somberly as he watched the fight begin.
"Sir GINN's inbound from above…they are using heavy weapons!"
"Bring up anti-air defenses, try and hold them off till Noah can come back and deal with…"
"SIR MISSILES INBOUND FROM BEHIND US…THERES TOO MANY TO INTERCEPT!" shouted the radar operator.
Right as waltfeld wondered if he had put too much hope in Noah defending them a green beam came out of nowhere and blew up one of the missiles…and another….and a white and black blur flew past them.
"Is that Kira?" asked athrun as he watched the tactical screens and one by one the missiles were shot down.
Of course both him and lacus watched as just as Kira unleashed his mobile suits full arsenal Noah seemed to stop amongst his own group of GINNS and with that six red blurs shot off his back and flew around him before returning. A moment later weapons, heads, limbs…everything but the cockpits on 15 ginns exploded.
With that the 6 ginns still surrounding him let go of their weapons and raised their arms. Noah smirked. "Good…you`ve learned your lesson then…"he said before he flew off to join Kira in escorting the eternal back to the Mendel colony.
THE THREE BECOME FOUR
Flay sighed as she sat in the mess hall of the Vesalius. She pushed her food around with her fork as she sat alone for this meal time. She had been forced into a zaft green uniform, her pink celestial being uniform likely burned or something.
Le creuset had told her to go eat after she sat in her quarters for so long, trying to ignore her hunger. She was not a fan of being here. And to think the earth forces were the reason she was here. She wasn't allowed on the bridge and her rooms monitor was not given access to camera feeds like the archangels so she was resting her hope on rumors of a new blitz gundam being fielded and the return of celestial being.
The only reason she hadn't tried to steal a mobile suit or escape back on earth and really earn her spot in celestial being was yzak. The silver haired coordinator had taken a liking to her or pity or something. Either way he was kind to her and made her feel like someone gave a damn about her here because god knows rau didn't. Even she could see he had plans for her. What they were she had no idea.
So when yzak sat across from her she looked up and smiled. For a moment she could see the fellow teen seemed somewhat happy to see her smile but a couple of greens walked by and his scowl returned before his face returned to a more neutral expression.
"You should eat. The commander doesn't want you starving yourself anymore. "He said with little emotion as he took her hand and forced her to get some food on her fork. "Eat….or I'll be forced to make you." He said.
As flay looked at the food she watched him reach into his pocket and pull something out. He set it under a napkin and slid it to her.
"Maybe this will give you whatever hope you need to try and survive. You're not in the brig so be happy about that at least." Stated the pilot of the duel.
Flay lifted the napkin and blinked. It was part of her uniform. A hastily cut section with the celestial being symbol still stitched on. "Thank you." She said quietly before pocketing it and starting to eat.
"They rebuilt the duel. Guess the techs had enough time working on it to work out the specs and even improved on It." he stated, clearly wanting some form of small talk. Maybe he was interested in her.
"that's interesting…what do you mean improved on it?" she asked, genuinely curious as she not only knew this would be a good chance to get intel for Noah but also thought maybe the suit had received some form of an upgrade that would allow her to steal it and get away.
Yzak opened his mouth to start talking but stopped and thought about it for a moment. "No…when you get out of here you`ll just go tell Noah about it and he`ll be ready for me." Stated the hothead as he crossed his arms in annoyance.
She shook her head. "No I swear I won't. You seem happy to have a new mobile suit, just wanna hear about It." she said with a smile. The teen could see the boy was definitely made to be a soldier as when he thought she genuinely cared he sighed and started explaining all the upgrades to his suit. It was starting to feel like Kira had in all those flashbacks and while it killed her to do it…she was proud she was starting to get him wrapped around her little finger.
"Well for starters they improved the phase shift armor. I guess with my suit being the only gat series left they wanted to put some new tech in it. They also found designs in some stolen E.A. files to integrate my assault shroud into the duel to reinforce the armor but the stupid naturals were going to just laminate those parts. Guess they don't want their ace pilots surviving or else they`d shell out the cash for the P.S. armor." He said, a smile creeping onto his face as he pulled out a tablet and brought up the specs for his new gundam.
"They improved the thrusters and put the beam saber mounts down on the thigh armor which will make it easier to just ditch my weapon and draw them out. They added more armor to the forearms and added folding mounts for a pair of beam pistols. Guess they saw the new blitz and figured the pistols were a good choice for CQC." He said as he showed her the specs for a gundam known as the "duel: regen"
"They also added ejectable missile pods that can attach to the back pack. Then there's the new rail guns at the hips and they added mounts on each shoulder for shields and both shields have a smaller rail gun built in. they got rid of my old Shiva rail gun on the right shoulder and replaced it with a second missile pod." He stated, his eyes gleaming at the amount of firepower.
"It sounds like they wanted to replace the buster with your duel but didn't want to sacrifice how mobile your gundam was." she said with a cute giggle. She knew already yzak had an ego and a temper. So stroking that ego was her best way to make him a friend to her.
The proud coordinator chuckled. "Yeah probably. They must have realized it would have been easier to combine the two G-weapons and let me pilot it then hold out for elsman coming back with the buster."
Flay giggled and continued to eat, listening to yzak go on about his skills and his battles, pointing out every flaw of his teammates. It was interesting to hear the tale of her time on the archangel from one of the people who had tailed them.
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Dearka sighed as he laid on his bed. Even though he was celestial being he had been given quarters on the archangel. Why he was here…that's what he was trying to figure out.
He wasn't Nicol. He didn't have the blood of his fellow kinsmen on his hands. He had wasted plenty of the earth alliances new machines and could bring vital technology and information to the homeland if he went back to the plants.
He'd be a hero!
Dearka groaned and closed his eyes as he rolled to face the wall. Yeah he'd be a hero…if chairman zala didn't kill him for not bringing back Noah or his head. Maybe that's what was keeping him here? The fear of knowing it was the toss of a coin as to whether going home would see him through the war any better than staying here.
Maybe he'd get promoted? Dearka shook his head. No that would just put someone else in the buster panzer and the idea of someone else sitting in that mobile suit left a sour taste in his mouth. He wasn't fit to lead a team anyways. Leadership was too hard of work.
But again maybe he'd get shot and killed. Wouldn't matter then.
But as he thought about what harm would come of him dying…aside from the obvious and the fact zaft would have GN drive tech he could only think of one person who he wondered if they`d miss him.
He was pulled from his musings by his door opening. He sighed, thinking it would be Nicol asking why he was here and not on the purgatory.
"Look Nicol if you're here to ask why I'm not on the purgatory its cause I'm not sure if I'm even staying. And don't go all "well me and Noah will kill you if you try to leave." If I'm gonna leave I'm gonna leave." He said.
He felt someone lay down next to him and his eyes went wide. He was ready to roll over and shove Nicol out of the bed until he felt a pair of soft, supple mounds press against his back and a soft, smooth cheek nuzzle its way into the crook of his neck.
"That's a shame. I had really hoped you`d stay." Said an all too familiar voice as her hands wrapped around him and he brought his own hands up to hold hers.
Dearka looked down and sighed. "Why? All we did was kiss. What was it supposed to mean?" he asked as miriallia pressed her body closer to his.
The natural brunette shrugged. "I'm not quite sure. I had hoped to come and talk to you about it." She said softly, the somewhat intimate mood between them feeling somewhat correct to both of them.
Dearka smiled and chuckled. "All I know was I was explaining how all I could think have was you and your kindness when I was defending the ship. A debt repaid. But at the same time all I could picture is you looking out at the missiles and the fighters, terrified that it could be your last moments and it killed me to think about that." Stated the Casanova coordinator.
Miriallia giggled. "Well there was a time I was staring down yours or nicol's barrel and wondering if I was going to survive." She said, his hands releasing hers and she found them shifting so that they were facing each other, her finger tracing the celestial being patch on the tan jacket that was part of his uniform.
"When that fighter jet squadron came in for their attack run and I heard we couldn't shoot them down I was worried it was going to be the end. I wanted to think of Noah or even Kira coming to rescue us but to be honest…I thought of you. I hoped maybe all that time you were in our brig would have made you a better person and that you`d save us. But at the same time I figured if you managed to get the buster or whatever Nicol had left you, you probably would take off to go rejoin zaft. So when you contacted us after attacking the fighters I have to admit my heart kinda melted." She said, her face bright red.
Dearka chuckled again. It was true. If she hadn't been so kind to him. If she hadn't come and talked to him now and then, hadn't been the one to make sure he got all his meals…if he hadn't had that weird dream where she defended him while he was in the med-bay and that flay girl attacked him…he probably would have left and not thought for a second of using the buster or buster panzer to make sure miriallia and the archangel survived.
"So what do we do now? I mean what do you wanna do?" he asked as she moved closer to him.
For a moment she bit her lip, trying to decide what to say or do. Finally she decided on pressing her lips to his before grabbing his sheets and pulling the covers over them.
The rest can be left behind closed doors…
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"So that whole ship…was a model...built by a 16 year old girl?" asked waltfeld as he sipped on his coffee and listened to the tale of the three other captains in this little alliance.
He could have heard it from Noah himself…but he opted not to. No he didn't need all the technical details and basically the celestial being pitch.
Captain Rozene nodded, taking a sip from her water bottle. "Yes commander. And she's not even a coordinator." Stated the blue haired woman.
"you have to admit that if people like here are where Noah came from and they can customize a mobile suit to such an extent and with such detail…what all can we expect to see from Noah's friends?" asked murrue as she enjoyed her own cup of coffee. Finally…a cup of java she could actually enjoy.
Kisaka nodded in agreement. "I saw some of his friend's mobile suits. The level of customization wasn't as high as Noah's with something like the Gabriel but the way they fought spoke volumes in terms of likely how toned down their mobile suits were in comparison to likely what they usually piloted."
Murrue looked to the orb commander. "You think Noah might have asked them to use a specific strength level of machine so that the battle wasn't over quickly or something?"
Kisaka nodded again. "The one mirroring la flaga's new mobile suit seemed more advanced than the other two but was a good middle in terms of armament. More specifically it was that shield that could absorb the beams. It was the most advanced and custom piece of hardware any of them had."
"Wondered if the pilot was given some kind of extra permission due to perhaps being the original builder of that design." Pondered waltfeld.
"Noah did mention a "Sei Lori" as the build strike's original builder and I have to say compared to the original strike…I almost wonder what would have happened at Heliopolis if we came up with the design. It's fast, agile…hell Kira ran simulations in it while we were traveling here and recreated what first happened. He said had he had access to those beam sabers and the enhanced head Vulcans Heliopolis could have gone a whole different way. He compared it to a medium between the versatility of the strike and the speed and agility of the freedom with a good combination of the firepower both suits have." Said murrue as she recalled talking to mu and Kira about the new variant to the strike.
At that statement waltfeld chuckled. "Sounds like if you`d had it back then zaft would have been in trouble. That much fire power, must have a reactor in there. Thought only zaft built the n-jammer cancellers." He said as the desert tiger stood from where he was leaning and looked to his lover who was sitting in the corner reading.
"They are. Noah provided Erica in morgenroete with the designs and formula for a micro fission reactor shielded by something called gundanium. I have no clue how it works but I guess the N-jammers can't reach it through the casing. Even then it isn't directly powered by the reactor. The reactor is just constantly feeding the battery with power." Stated murrue.
Waltfeld nodded and sighed. "So what the plan then? Noah given you guys any clues as to what's next?"
Rozene shook her head. "No. he just asked us to be ready for combat at any time."
"So we're flying blind then?"
The blue haired coordinator shrugged. "Currently I'm operating and planning as if Noah isn't exactly here. He seems fine with it so long as what Alice says goes. Otherwise he has yet to actually inform me of any war plans of any kind."
The three other captains sighed.
"Well at least he's here. That's good enough for me. Let's figure out what our next move should be." Said the tiger as he took a sip from his cup of coffee.
Rozene decided to voice her own ideas. "I was thinking we operate under standard staging ground protocols. Have the pilots do patrol routes on timed shifts, try to set up traps or some type of early warning system outside our radars. Get the ships prepped and ready to move out."
The other three captains nodded.
"That's a good plan. Pretty standard and probably something we were all thinking of but hey, don't fix what isn't broke right?" asked waltfeld as he looked to Rozene who blushed, realizing he was right on just how standard that line of action was.
"We have enough pilots perhaps we should work out overlapping patrol shifts? Have 2 or three pilots out at a time?" asked murrue to which kisaka nodded.
"Yes. Most of my astray pilots are still green. I would prefer they be sent out in their teams or with one of our ace pilots. It would be good for them to learn from them, maybe have them run drills with them." Suggested kisaka.
The group agreed and waltfeld realized his cup of coffee was empty. "Whelp I think that's good enough for now. We should keep in contact, update each other on anything going on or issues. I`ll get the crew started on preparing the eternal, we had a bit of a rushed exit so we have things to stow, stations to set up. It might take a bit but hopefully we will be safe here." Stated waltfeld and with that the meeting was adjourned.
The three become four
Luke watched the young girl's chest rise and fall. An oxygen mask over her face, mayu Asuka was currently heavily sedated after the emergency surgery the doctors had to perform. The one good thing about her wound…soldiers lost limbs all the time in combat so even ship bound combat docs were trained for field amputation and clean up.
For now bandages were wrapped around the nub just above her elbow on her right arm. Luke's eyes were red from tears. She had coded twice but each time she came back. The doctors said she certainly had a strong will to survive. But was it that or her coordinator DNA?
Either way as the girls heart monitor picked up a bit he looked to her face and saw that her eyes were starting to open. As soon as they were at half-awake they shot open and once again he was on top of her…kinda. He held her shoulders and just shushed her.
"Mayu relax…relax! You're ok…your safe. Come on now just go back to sleep. You`ve been through a horrible tragedy. You need to relax!" he shouted as the doctors came in but he waved off the second dose of sedatives. He figured her body would filter them faster than normal but he didn't expect anything different aside from a heavier dose from the natural medics. Regardless the original doctor stationed on the archangel stood by with a syringe.
After a few moments of thrashing to try and get Luke off her mayu slowly calmed down, panting under the mask as she looked up into his eyes, fear in hers. "Relax….your safe I swear it. I`m gonna let go now and your gonna just relax and listen ok?" he asked calmly. Slowly the coordinator child nodded and Luke moved back to his seat.
"Ok…you`ve been in a horrible tragedy. Due to a mobile suit exploding….your family aside from your brother are gone. Your brother however managed to get on a sub headed to Carpentaria and will be making his way to the plants by now." He said, stopping as he saw her eyes turn to saucers, tears welling up in them.
"Also due to the explosion you were thrown against a large boulder and somehow had your arm torn off. Currently you're on the former earth alliance vessel archangel where the medics were able to stabilize you." He said and she began to visibly shake, glancing to the doctors.
Luke snapped his fingers to regain her attention. "Hey hey…I said you're safe and even swore by it. I`m Luke and my word is my bond. You have nothing to fear here. You understand so far?" he asked.
The poor brunette coordinator nodded. "w-what about my brother…will I get to see him again?" she asked, reaching up with her left arm to pull the mask off for a moment.
Luke nodded. "In time…but first we have to get your arm fixed." He said quietly before fixing the oxygen mask.
Mayu slowly nodded, tears running down her face as she slowly raised her right arm, the sobbing starting as she saw the remains of her arm.
Quickly Luke sat down on her bed and pulled her up into a hug. She latched onto him and just started bawling into his chest. This what he expected of her reaction. For the moment Luke just rubbed her back and rocked her, letting the 9 year old cry till she was ready to hear him explain the plan to help her with her arm.
Finally after a few minutes mayu calmed down and thanked him for consoling her. Laying down she was still sniffling and could only hold her right arm up as best she could, unable to get over the loss of her arm.
"now mayu…we have a way to get your arm back…it's gonna hurt so we want to put you in a chemically induced coma for it…but if my information is correct on the ship my friend is the captain of, the purgatory, has advanced medical tech that allows them to stimulate the stem cells in your body and it should regrow your arm. But it's gonna take time and it's gonna hurt. It's called cellular regeneration." He explained as mayu lowered her arm.
"It's gonna hurt?" she asked. At 9 the concept of regrowing ones limbs was lost on her.
Luke nodded. "Yes…a lot. Way more than most pain medications safe for a kiddo your age would cover. So we wanna put you in a chemically induced coma till your arm is re-grown."
Mayu looked away from him for a moment, biting her lip under the mask as she tried to decide what to say. "And my arm will be all better?" she asked, her innocence shining through her bandaged figure.
Luke nodded in response, motioning for the doctor to radio the purgatory.
Mayu finally looked back to him and nodded, pulling the covers up over her as she seemed to try to hide. Clearly her mind was regressing somewhat, likely to let that innocent, naïve mind of a child hide mayu from the truth of the incident.
Luke nodded in return and took her hand, holding it to comfort her till the medical team was ready to move her.
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So…hope you guys like the chapter. Like I said huge mistake with the uploading process. It is a bit different but hopefully in a good way.
Also this was where I mentioned to lack of reviews guys. Just a small quip about the fact I have so many more chapters then nemesis astrea's original story and I realize part of that is his OC contests and he is a much better writer then me…BUT still…reviews keep me focused and going…so REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!
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