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The door whisked open, and Shinn was met with a roar of chaos in the control tower.
"Will someone please tell me what the hell is going on?" he promptly called out.
"We have multiple readings on our radar, sir." Fall instantly handed the report.
"Mobile suits or people."
"Both."
"Damn." Shinn read over the papers.
A voice called out, "Multiple heat sources detected."
Looking at his helmsman, a woman in her late twenties, Shinn frowned, "Were there any training simulations assigned for today?"
"None, sir." Fall reported.
"Enemy units." Shinn growled, "Assemble squads 1-3, have them prepped and ready for launch." Pressing the button for engineering, he called out to Lunamaria.
"Yes?" she answered.
"I want you to go out with the troops."
"Roger that." she chimed back.
Dearka caulked back the anti-mobile suit rifle and fired one more time. Even with the jeep moving as fast as it was, they were not going to make it. Miriallia craned her neck around and handed him another cartridge.
"Elthman!" Eli called out from the driver's wheel, "The tree line!"
It was a mile away, less...Dearka smirked, maybe they would be able to beat those bastards anyway. Looking around, seeing the other jeeps successfully evading the enemy Zakus, he began to scan the area for any suspicious suits. He knew there were two or three elites in the bunch.
"Awe, come on!" Alex whined over the coded link, "Let me shoot him at once, he really pisses me off!"
"You can't shoot him just because he makes you angry, Alex." Micka's voice sighed.
"We swore to the princess that we would protect Orb. These people are originally from Orb territory." Katsuya told them both.
"Well damn..." Alex's thick Russian accent sounded disappointed. Whoever the hell that dark-skinned, blond dude was in that jeep he was giving a hell of a fight. His shot was so good, no one could risk getting closer. Already taking out three or four of the regulars with nothing but a anti-mobile suit rifle, Alex was not willing to take a risk with the son of a bitch.
"Wait for my signal." Katsuya said, "Till then, put on a good show for the audience."
"Understood." his team mates answered him.
Katsuya turned back to the battlefield, and gasped. He barely had time to move as the rifle centered from the head vehicle fired straight at him. After dodging it, he cursed. He had given away himself, and now the attacker would be focusing on him.
Dearka smirked,
"There you are, you sneaky bastard." he whispered to himself, firing again. He missed.
If he was in a mobile suit, he would not have. Although, whoever this was, they were not a half-bad pilot either.
He yelped as the jeep sped over a rock, and reached the tree line. They were immediatly in the middle of an airfield. Dearka felt himself grin as he set his eyes on the base of Carpentaria.
"DEARKA!" Miriallia shrieked.
He felt himself being flung into the air. After landing hard onto the lot, it knocked the wind out of him. After a few seconds of recovering, he sat up. Mobile suits filled the entire area, and a land battle had broken out around them.
Miriallia.
It was the first thought on his mind. Eli was next to him, and touching his wrist, the old man was alive. Looking around frantically, he could not find her.
"Miriallia!"
Shinn had just learned how tall the trees in the forest behind the base really were. They had known the signatures on the radar were close, be he had not expected a battle to crash right into his backyard.
"Ah hell!" he leaned forward, grabbing the mic, "Launch all the squads right now!"
"Captain Asuka!" the helmswoman called to him, "There are civilians on the airlift field!"
It was then that Shinn realized the mobile suits were defiantly from Twlight, and they had been chasing a long caravan of jeeps filled with civilians. Feeling his heart beat faster, he suddenly wished that he could have done anything to avoid accepting this job from Zala. Next time he saw him, he did not care of Athrun was his superior, he was going to punch him in the face.
"What's the location of Captain Jule's craft?"
"It's out of range."
That was one less worry.
"Mobilize some troops, get those people to safety underground. Have the med team on full alert." Fall ordered, "Captain, youmust launch."
Shinn frowned at him, "Excuse me?"
Fall glared at him, "I think I can take care of things here fine, sir."
"I'm glad that you can."
His first-officer seemed furious. The man had been on his case ever since he had been assigned. Shinn had learned that if he had not been there, the man would have been promoted to head the base himself. Turning his back towards the view screen, Shinn promptly ignored Fall's request. He was not a dumbass, there was no way he would leave his position.
"Sir-"
"IF YOU DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW MY ORDERS THEN GET THE HELL OUT!" Shinn snapped. This earned a shocked expression from Fall and everyone else on the bridge. He turned back to the screen, he could not do much until the civilians were out of the way.
Dearka ran.
Miriallia?
She was nowhere to be found.
He stopped, a shadow looming over him. Looking up, a Zaku pointed a gun right at him. It dawned on him that he was completely defenseless. Holding his arms over his head, he heard an explosion, and looking up, the Zaku was a smoldering pile of metal. He turned around to see one of the Zakus that he had been trying to destroy earlier, gun pointed right at the mobile suit that had tried to attack him.
What?
Giving a somewhat bewildered look, the Zaku strode over to him, leaning over. Opening it's hand, Dearka recognized the familiar form of Miriallia.
"Miriallia!" he shrieked, holding on his arms as she slid out.
She was limp in his arms, a bloody gash in her forehead, but she was alive. Looking up at the mobile suit that was obviously her savior, he did not know what to do anymore. The Zaku positioned itself over Dearka, and did not move.
Holy...what was going on?
Sinking to the ground, the entire sight filled with explosions and blasts. But he did not hear any of it. Checking her over, Dearka shook her.
"Miriallia! Mir!"
She twitched slightly, and her eyes opened. Looking up at him groggily, then she reached up and touched the side of his face. He had not realized before that he had injured himself as well.
"It's okay." he read her mind, "I'm alright, don't worry."
With that, her head rest against his shoulder, and he looked up again at the Zaku that had saved her.
What the hell was going on?
Shinn was lost beyond belief. His troops were holding their own against the enemy Zakus, but now there were apparently three rouge Zakus in the bunch that had completely turned forces. This was perfect, bloody perfect.
Slowly, the battle was dying down. There might have been enough Zakus to chase down a group of jeeps, but not to face the battalion at Carpentaria. As the last of the last of the enemy suits were fleeing, Shinn promptly hailed Lunamaria cockpit.
"Luna." he said, "Find out the intentions of those three suits."
"Yes sir." she sounded a little too happily.
With their rifles pointed at the three rogue Zakus, Dearka looked around while trying to assess the damage. Soldiers had been working all over the airfield to get people into the base. That was a good thing. Miriallia was alright, and so was he.
Suddenly, the cockpit door opened on the suit over them. He watched as a red-suited solider descended from the cockpit toe rope.
"An elite?" Lunamaria frowned. Looking at the other two suits, they did they same thing. The first pilot was a young girl, younger then she was, with short hair. She tucked the helmet neatly under her arm and waited patiently.
The second pilot looked like the leader. He had flaming red hair, and signaled to the girl-pilot to come to him. She nodded and promptly jogged over to his side. They, in turn, headed over to the third pilot.
Dearka stared at the man in front of them. He was about Dearka's age, with long brown hair. It fluttered wildly around him as he slid off his flight helmet.
"You're one stubborn son of a bitch." he sneered, "What the hell are you made out of? Concrete?"
"Maybe." Dearka smirked back at the brown-haired elite, "Thanks for saving Miriallia."
"I can never pass up the chance to save a pretty girl."
Dearka did not like him before, now his hated him.
"Alex." the red-haired pilot walked up to him, "That's enough."
Dearka spotted Lunamaria Hawke running towards them in the distance. He had met her once when she was on the Minvera. She was a gifted pilot for someone her age.
"Major Elthman!" Lunamaria ran towards him, gun pointed straight at the intruders, "You three, stay away from them!"
"Shesh." Alex held up his hands, "We save people and kick butt for them and look what happens. Hey..." he looked at Micka, "...did she just say that guy's name was Elthman?"
Micka shrugged.
Luna sunk at Dearka's side, checking Miriallia, "She's injured. I'll flag a car for her."
"I apologize if we seem strange to you." A baritone voice told her.
Luna stood up, standing in front of Dearka.
"I am Katsuya Kiriyuhi." he said, the tall pilot with red hair, "These are my team mates Vladamir Alexander and Micka Forrester. I know this seems odd, but we request assylm."
Suzuka moved slightly.
Under her head was a strong shoulder, and there was a slight weight resting on her waist. Looking up in the darkness, she saw the pale face of Rey. He was asleep, having fallen asleep not long after she did. Suzuka knew she was working hard, but Rey was taking the brunt of the work.
Rey had lay on top of the sheets, his uniform unbuttoned to his belt. She slowly pulled herself to sit up, looking down at him. She stroked a little hair from his face, and simply stared at him.
He was handsome and beautiful at the same time...intelligent, brave, wise, outspoken yet calm...he was everything that she ever wanted in someone. Truthfully, he reminded her a little of her brother, but there was something else about him that made her heart skip. Although she had tried to stay as professional as possible, she had to admit that she was falling in love with Rey. The way that he moved, talked, or looked at her made her hypnotized with him.
She leaned over, curling up next to him again. It felt strange having a night of undisturbed sleep. It was the first time in ages that she had not had any nightmares.
The hand that had been resting on her waist, which had moved to the pillow, suddenly rest on her shoulder. She jerked slightly, and looked up at a pair of blue orbs glowing at her in the dark.
"Rey?" she propped herself up on her elbows, "I didn't wake you, did I?"
"I was half asleep." he said, "Did the message come yet?"
"Not yet."
It had been 4 hours, and Ezekiel had not replied back yet. Their entire night was getting close to over, and they had a shift that started in another 4 hours. Suzuka knew she should go back to her quarters soon before people grew suspicious, but she could not bring herself to leave.
Rey could not stop staring at her. He really did not know why, but she kept looking back at him with such intent that his eyes were fixed on her. If she did not say something soon, or make a move, or something...he might make a move of his own. Something that would not necessarily be a good thing.
She was driving him crazy.
"Suzuka-sa-"
He did not expect her to kiss him. Her lips pressed against his mouth, and he found himself laying limp on the pillows as she opened his lips.
"Stop calling me that." she said.
Suzuka gasped as he flipped her over. She knew he was strong, but he was fast as well, and had taken her by surprise. He was kissing her. His lips moving over hers, his hands resting on her face. They slowly slid down to her neck, over the center of her chest. It was then that she realized he had unbuttoned her uniform down to her waist. When the hell had he done that?
An arm wrapping around her shoulders, he tilted her head back and left a searing trail down her neck. Rey felt her arms around him, and he could feel all control slowly slip away.
"Suzuka-" he tried to speak again, but could not finish the sentence. Shepulled off the belt on his uniform, her arm rest on the side of the bed, and it slowly slid from her fingers. Reaching up, she took the long, red coat off his shoulders. He had muscular arms, which was a sign that he had been working out on the ship, and probably before while they were on shore-leave.
"That's better." she breathed into his ear, her hands running under the shirt he wore and over his bare back, making him shiver in her arms.
He smirked.
Rey never smirked.
"Aye, ma'am."
His voice was raspy in her ears, and she could hear his own short breath in her ear. At some point, everything stopped making sense. Her body moved on instinct, and she could hazard to guess that his was to.
She was beautiful, every part of her. Rey could feel her hands moving over his bare skin, and he could not stop himself from grabbing the end of her shirt, and pulling it over her head. He smiled at the small noise she made, her cheeks flushed a bright red. Her skin was so pale, pale as snow, that it made it look twice as noticeable.
He touched his lips to the inside of her breasts.
"Suzuka..." he breathed, touching his lips to the top of her ribs, and then to her stomach.
"Don't stop." she buried her hands in his long hair, pulling it free from the tie and letting it fall around his shoulders.
Pulling the shirt over his head, she tossed it to the floor with her own forgotten shirt. Grabbing his face, she pulled him up again, and kissed him. Running a hand down her side, he began to pulled up her right knee, hiking her skirt up her legs.
"Rey, I-" she breathed into his lips.
The message alert went off on the screen in the next room.
"Ignore it." he said.
He bent over to kiss her again, and the alarm kept going off. Rey let out an irritated sigh, and slowly climbed off of her. She lay motionless on top of the bed, and watched him walk into the next room.
Rey turned on the link, Ezekiel stared at him a moment.
"Did I wake you, sir?"
"I suppose you could say that." Rey replied, hoping that he did not look too shaken. His heart was racing in his chest. "What did you find out?"
Trent stood in his dim lite office, staring out the windows. He glanced one more time at the paper in his hands, and found himself feeling better. The situation suddenly had tipped into his favor. Oh the simple piece of white, folded paper in his hand there was one word scribbled on it.
Legend.
"It's quite a piece of news you told me, doctor." Chairman Trent sneered, "This may even allow us to catch the missy too."
"Suzuka Kiriyuhi was a great loss to our science department, sir." Hersh tilted his head slightly, with a little work, and some persuasion, I may be able to integrate her skills back into the force."
"I see." he wander over and sat at the desk, "Are you sure this is the right word?"
"Positive. We made sure to test his brain functions in simulations. It will have the acquired results."
"Thank you, it should come in handy. "What of our princess? How is she fairing?"
"She seems surrendered to her fate, sir. She won't even eat now."
"I don't care about that idealistic wench. Once I get her out of my hands, then I'll be able to take over Orb. Zala has no idea what he's doing, and without her, he'll be nothing."
"It disturbs me, sir."
"Oh?"
"That no one hasn't tried to break her out this week."
"Oh, there have been attempts." Trent nodded, "Captain Hayworth has done and excellent job of keeping the area secure and hidden from public eye. If Zala tries anything, we'll know it."
Hersh sighed, he had a bad feeling.
"We only have 24 hours." Rey walked back into the room. Holding up a disk, he set it on the counter, "Hayworth has her location here. We'll be able to get to her easily. There is a 15 minute gap when the security cameras go down for repair tonight. Marks found the logs, and says that it'll take 5 minutes to get there, and 5 minutes to escape. Judging and whether or not we have any trouble."
"That's not a lot of time."
Suzuka pulled herself to sit up. Rey sighed, walking towards her. Sitting on the edge of the bed, he picked her shirt up off the floor. As she slipped it on, he pulled her into a lingering kiss. She stared at him in a daze, wishing that they were back at Orb at the moment and not on some base in outer space.
"I expect to continue this later." Rey whispered in her ear.
She blushed, and nodded at him.
"So, what the plan?"
"He's already alerted the fleet to the time frame, they are slowly moving here. We'll break Cagali-sama out, and escape threw the base. The Eternal sent a helicoper to meetus at the checkpoint, and they'll escort us from there."
"Sounds good." she said.
Both of them got dressed, and headed towards the door. Walking down the hallway in a nonchalant manner, Rey fished threw his jacket for the key. Sliding it threw the padlock, it opened.
"This hallway wasn't on the floor plan." Suzuka frowned, "What the hell do they do down here?"
"It didn't really say." he said, glancing in one of the many rooms that lined the hallway, he felt his heart constrict, "I think they torture prisoners here."
Suzuka gasped, Cagali-sama...
Reaching the end of the hall, he swiped the fake card one more time. Nothing.
Letting out a grunt, Rey pocketed the card, and opened the panel to the wall.
"This will take a moment, watch my back."
She looked at the door. There was a small window, but no one walked past in the hallway. It was a very unnoticeable door, and people probably thought it was for storage, or extra space.
There was a click and the door opened.
Closing the wall, Rey slowly entered the next hallway.
It connected to a string of other halls. Reaching into his pocket for the paper he had written thedirections Ezekiel had given. He stared at the cell number and block number.
Cell 134 in Block C.
They were in Block C already, and looking at the cell in front of them, it read 103. Rey frowned, shining the flashlight down the dark hallway. He almost felt a twinge of pity for the guards that were forced to work here. Almost.
Suzuka was unconsciously rubbing her hands together. If Athrun-sama was here, he would be going nuts. They were just feet away from rescuing the young princess.
Cagali lay in the corner of the cell like she usually did. Now that she thought about it, she spent a lot of time just sitting on the floor, refusing to lay in the cot against the wall of the cell. All the months of laying on the floor, bruised, injured...tomorrow that would be over.
Athrun.
The only reason why she was sad, was because she would have liked to see him once more. Kiss him, hold him...tell him not to worry about her. Or at least, to tell him to find someone else that could make him even happier. Thinking of all of these things caused a tear to fall down her cheek, and she wrapped her arms around herself. It was rare that she even cried anymore.
No more suffering. No more torture.
That was something to make her happy.
Slowly closing her eyes, she smiled to herself. Sleeping was a good thing, even for her last night.
There was a noise.
Thinking it was just the guards, she shrugged it off and closed her eyes again. But they shot open when the gate to her cell opened. Two shadowed figures, one holding a flashlight, were walking towards her. A feeling of dread passed through her. Who the hell were these people?
She opened her mouth to scream as the first unknown person approached her. Cagali gasped in horror as a hand covered her mouth, blocking all potential for sound.
"It's alright, Cagali-sama." a young man's voice spoke to her, "It's okay, we're not going to hurt you."
Opening her eyes again, something even more frightening stared back at her. A pair of blue eyes that glowed in the dark...a familiar pair of eyes and a blond head of hair. The waist-length hair was bound at the base of his neck, but she could still tell it was a lot longer then when she first met him.
"Cagali-sama?" he spoke again, "It's alright now. We're here to save you."
Cagali recognized the person she was staring at.
She was staring into the eyes of Rey Za Burrel.
Woo7. Another chapter.
Arigato
Lilith