I hope you all enjoy the latest chapter! it starts in a flash back before Heine's Story


"WHAT!" Rachel stood up and slammed her palms down on the table. The alliance had conquered Carpentaria within hours. The original mission was to weaken ZAFT's defence force for a later invasion, but Sting and Stellar had gotten a little carried away. ZAFT had 25 GOUF units, 37 ZAKU Phantoms, 60 Zaku warriors and 120 more units made up of Guaiz R, Ginn, Dinn, CGUE, GOOhN, Zno, Gazaut and Zaut units. The conquest had taken less than an hour and the Alliance only lost under half of its forces, the units waiting for the second assault arrived in time to bolster the failing attack line with their Destroy.

"It is official. At 0300 GAT X333 was stolen from the Auckland mobile battalion station, at this time we cannot say for sure who is behind the hijacking" explained the tall African American officer.

"Who are the prime suspects?" asked Rachel as she sat down, she gritted her teeth and placed her chin in her hands.

"We currently suspect The Clyne Faction Eurasia or ZAFT is behind the hijacking" the officer read from the paper report. "It is in the report along with everything else" the man leaned over and tapped manila folder with the OMNI logo on it. The file contained photo evidence, surveillance reports and statements from the soldiers who witnessed the unit leaving.

"I know, I know" Rachel took off her reading glasses and tossed them down onto her oak desk. "It's just that I find this all numbing" she moaned as she stretched.

"I am sorry Captain Keys. But may I remind you, you are station commander and it is your responsibility, the unit was stolen and HQ presumed that X333 would come here for spare parts, it is also in commanders code, section 3, 'All Officers commanding Earth Alliance bases are expected to be up to date with affairs in the surrounding bases" explained the officer as he looked around the office. It was a large office measuring 5m by 15m. The room had two Earth Alliance flags hanging next to the large oak desk behind which Rachel sat. The base's overall colour scheme was light and dark blue. The offices main feature was a large panoramic window that ran the entire 15m length of the room.

"And may I remind YOU that reciting the rules to a superior officer is an act of insubordination" smiled Rachel. Rachel stood up slowly and walked over to the officer.

"No you do not" The officer straightened his uniform and stood up straight.

"And let me tell you this. If this EVER happens again, you will be transferred to the Antarctic defence front" smiled Rachel, the artic front was the place on earth closest to hell, the troops stood guard over 100 barren land where not even ZAFT dared tread. With out dated Strike Daggers which did not have self de-freezing devices, the soldiers were forced to melt the ice on their units and keep them in fighting order. The base was run by the hardest, toughest and most generally hostile commanders ever. "Am I 100 perfectly absolutely positively crystal clear?" asked Rachel as she looked the man in the eyes.

"Yes ma'am!" saluted the officer as a bead of sweat dribbled down his temple.

"GOOOD, now onto the next item" smiled Rachel as she walked back behind her desk.

At that moment the door opened and Rachel's two favourite officers walked in, Sting and Stellar.

"Pardon us, are we interrupting?" asked Sting as he and Stellar saluted their commander.

"Well actually-" the male officer turned to the two teenagers.

"No not at all. Denzel, we are done here aren't we?" asked Rachel giving Denzel a sour look.

"Well we need to get through this Commander-" Denzel looked at Rachel with a critical gaze.

"Fine, if you insist" sighed Rachel "Just wait there you two. This wont take long" sighed Rachel again as she pointed to a set of seats at the end of her office.

"Thank you" smirked Denzel.

"Hold on" Rachel reached into her desk and pulled out a bottle of whisky.

"Captain…what is that?" asked Denzel leaning forward slightly.

"I don't know exactly…I found it in the officer's lounge…" Rachel proceeded to take the cap off and draw out 2 glasses from the draw, she poured whisky into them. She handed one to Denzel. The man gave her questionable looks. "Don't worry, I had it tested…it's not poisoned" smiled Rachel. Denzel took the glass and drank it slowly. Denzel placed the glass back on the table after he was finished.

"Now back on topic" smiled Denzel.

"Hold on…this is the last thing I promise" smiled Rachel as she pulled out a piece of paper.

"What is that?" asked Denzel. looking at the papers.

"Something that will make you very unhappy…and something to say I don't like you" smiled Rachel as she began to scribble some things down on the paper.

"Then why did you give me whisky?" asked Denzel as he began to shuffle in his shoes.

"Cause, it will be more fun this way" smiled Rachel. "Is Artic spelt with one of two t's?" Rachel looked at Sting and Stellar with a large smile on her face.

"One ma'am" smiled Sting.

"Thank you Sting…there you go" smiled Rachel as she handed Denzel the piece of paper.

"What is this…WHAT! TRANSFER?" Denzel looked at Rachel in disbelief.

"Did I spell it wrong?" asked Rachel leaning forward in her chair, Rachel stood up and looked over her desk at the paper in Denzel's hand "Nope. That's right" she smiled as she flopped back into her chair.

"No but ma'am" Denzel was lost for words. He shook steadily, he looked back and forth between the paper and Rachel.

"You better hurry up…you don't have much time" smiled Rachel.

"Understood" Denzel gathered what was left of his pride and left the room with a final salute. This gesture wasn't a happy one. Denzel was grumbling under his breath about how the military was slipping in its standards.

"I am sorry about that…Mint?" asked Rachel holding up a small glass bowl with small white circles in it.

"No, thank you" Sting held up his hand and shook his hand.

"Stellar full" Stellar shook her head and stood up. The duo walked over to Rachel's desk and saluted her again.

"What was that about though captain?" asked Sting

"Geh, The newest X333 unit was stolen from the Auckland base. It was going to be MY unit…bastards" Muttered Rachel.

"Oh…what unit was that?" asked Stellar.

"This one…GAT X333 Void" An Abyss like unit appeared in the same black and green fashion as the two other new units had.

The fin's of Abyss now housed Panzer units, mounted inside those fin's was an array of deadly weapons, the guns on Abyss's back could now fold over its shoulders or under its arms like that of Saviours. Abyss was also armed with palm mounted Photon Masser cannons; in fact all the weapons except his chest cannon were armed as Photon Massers. The two could see that the unit was armed with a lesser version of Strike Freedom's wings and claws like that of Raider, but with three prongs not 2. The unit looked truly daunting.

"So what do we do about that?" asked Sting eyeing up the whisky.

"Well we have three main suspects. ZAFT and Eurasia are unlikely candidates because they don't really have the nerve, and ZAFT doesn't seem like they would. The LOGOS war is nearly over…another unit would cause to much grief, there was a heated battle the whole way though the high jacking…unfortunately they were using a combined force of ZAFT and Alliance units" sighed Rachel as she rubbed her temples.

"You said combined units…what about that Clyne faction? They have Alliance units from the vessels that defected, and ZAFT units that were stolen by them…" explained Sting.

"You're right…YES YOUR RIGHT! I have a plan. You and Stellar will take Harpy and Titan and head to ORB…observe all you can and then get out" explained Rachel. Get your things; your units will depart ASAP. We will equip a couple sensor Jammer on them" smiled Rachel.

"What about HQ, don't we need verification?" asked Sting looking at the girl.

"No, this is an independent operation, I will cop the flak. Good hunting" smiled Rachel. The woman was buzzing madly in a happy way.


Both Sting and Stellar had carried out Rachel's operation. They found the stolen GAT X333 unit…and Auel. The duo now floated in 0G with Rachel aboard the Perseus, the Perseus was the base of operation for the Key's Squad, the vessel was assigned to patrol the region around Hinode colony.

"So captain, are we just going to monitor the ZAFT forces? Or will we engage them?" asked Sting as he pushed off the wall and floated over to Rachel.

"For now we are going to observe them…After they launch their units to attack Hinode we will strike" smiled Rachel.

"Stellar agrees" smiled the brainless girl.

"Good. We have detected another vessel approaching, it is mildly different from the Izumo vessels in the ORB navy. We are yet to decide if it is hostile or not" explained Rachel as she showed the duo the images on a view screen.

"Stellar wants to find out" nodded Stellar as she pushed off the ceiling. Stellar floated into Sting's arms, the two extends had formed a weird relationship, they cared for each other greatly and they called this feeling love.

"I agree. We will take our units out and confirm its intentions. This operation will be called operation 'Pnyx' get ready, we leave ASAP" Rachel saluted the two extended and left the briefing room.

Rachel floated down the hall over to the Mobile Suit bay. She floated past the 5 dormant Mobile Suits. There were two Windam units, Cerberus, Harpy and a Forbidden unit painted in a blue colour scheme identical to that of the Forbidden Blue. Rachel looked at her Blue unit and then walked over to the techie in charge of it.

"Excuse me" Rachel tapped the girl on the shoulder. The techie had short cut pink hair and wore a pink set of overalls.

"Oh Rachel-Kanchou" The girl saluted her charge and then looked at her data pad.

"Elvy, have you finished reformatting my unit?" asked Rachel as she walked over to the unit's large maintenance console. Rachel preferred to do all the hands on work for her units, but unfortunately after being promoted to Kanchou she was unable to and after taking a leave of absence from running Carpentaria she was even more short for time.

"We have increased the out put of the Hresvelgr but, unfoundedly it has forced us to slow the firing rate of your Eckzahn rail guns" sighed Elvy as she pressed a few keys on her pad, the sections of the Gundam in question flashed on the display of the console as Elvy spoke.

"It doesn't matter…I want to be able to fire this from behind a shield" smiled Rachel as she went over the plan in her head. She would hide behind debris or the units panzers and fire the beam to destroy the enemy units.

"Then you are all good to go…except for the left arm, the Vulcan guns in that arm cannot function when you fire any of the beams, so that renders the Premiere Attack useless…sorry." Elvy pressed a few more buttons on the console before looking at Rachel.

"It's okay, I doubt I will be using that attack anyway" smiled Rachel. A swishing noise came from the other side of the hanger as both Sting and Stellar entered the room. "Ah excellent. Let's launch you to" smiled Rachel as she walked over to a locker room and dawned her blue flight suit.

Moments later the three pilots were in their cockpits and finished prepping for launch.

"Alright you two…lets get this show started!" smiled Rachel.

"Yeah" nodded Sting

"Understood" Smiled Stellar

"GAT X252 Forbidden you are cleared for launch. Hashin douzou" the technicians gruff voice called out over the intercom.

"Rachel Keys, X252 DERU!" the blue unit took off and activated the G-Panzer units. Rachel's unit was the basic Forbidden like that used by Shani Andras in the first war, but hers was blue and still carried the trident of a Forbidden Blue.

"Next unit. X219 Cerberus. Hashin Douzou" the technician spoke out again.

"Stellar Lousier, Cerberus, Ikuzo!" Stellar pushed her foot down and launched her unit.

"X232 Harpy, Hashin Douzou. Windams launch after Harpy" finished the technician.

"Ha, Sting Oakley, Harpy. Hashinsuru!"


On the Masamune.

"An Earth Alliance ship?" Auel floated upside down in the hanger bay as he took part in a strategy session with Tolle, Heine and Alexia.

"Yeah, it appears there is an Earth Alliance Agamemnon class vessel ghosting our course. They have launched five mobile suits-" Alexia began to explain the situation but was cut off by Heine.

"Those two that attacked me in ORB are there aren't they" interrupted Heine.

"Yes. Along with a GAT X252 Forbidden and two GAT X04 Windam units" finished Alexia.

"Sting, Stellar…Rachel maybe" Auel landed on the ground and picked up his EA flight helm. Auel had refused to wear an ORB flight suit, saying he was a Earth Alliance Extended, not an ORB extended.

"Rachel?" Alexia looked at Auel in relative shock. Her other daughter was still fighting for the Alliance.

"Yeah, I will brief ya later. I am launching. Who else is with me?" asked Auel as he jumped up to Leviathan.

"I am!" Tolle moved over to Aminus and locked down his flight helm.

"Me to" Heine pushed over to Bokuro.

"Okay. I will have the ship go to battle status" smiled Alexia as she followed the technical staff off the deck.

Moments later.

"Auel Neider. Leviathan, deru!" the large blue titan took off and transformed into its MA mode. The glowing blue wings of light agitated and increased its speed.

"Heine Westenfluss. Bokuro, Ikuzo!" the golden unit took off and activated its Transphase armour. The unit followed Levi towards the enemy squadron.

"Tolle Koenig. Aminus, hashin" Tolle closed his visor and took off in Aminus. The unit's cape enclosed it and increased its speed as well.

The three units approached the Earth Alliance attack force.

"Bokuro, you take down X219, Aminus you work on X232…I want the FORB and the Windams…got it?" asked Auel as his unit accelerated.

"Do we have a choice?" smiled Heine as he drew a beam sabre and charged Stellar. Heine twirled away from Stellar's attack and fired his beam rifle at her unit.

"Looks like we don't!" Tolle's unit evaded Harpy's funnels with ease.

"Damn straight!" Auel flipped over a Windam and slashed through it with its glaive. Leviathan out classed all the Earth Alliance units except for X232 and X219, these units were on par with Leviathan…Auel just hopped the FORB unit wouldn't be a strong opponent.

"X333!" Rachel fired her rail guns at the unit. The yellow bolts tore through the dark abyss and approached Leviathan.

"Uh oh!" Leviathan twirled to the side and fired its back lasers at Forbidden, the green unit shut its Panzers and fired its high phase cannon at Auel. "Not bad not bad NOT BAD!" Auel fired his unit's six lasers at Forbidden and then transformed his unit into its MA form and flew off towards the other Windam.

"Oh no. Max!" Rachel fired her units Phase Cannon at Leviathan.

"Don't you ever learn?" snapped Auel as he activated the Panzers. The beam curved away and pierced the units chest. The blue Windam rippled and curled into an explosion.

"MAX NO!" Rachel had reached the end of her tether. "Your Auel…yes…but I cannot let you stop us from defending the Earth…YOUR IN OUR WAY!" Rachel snapped and entered her Seed mode. "You will pay for that!" She grabbed the Trident from her unit and headed at Leviathan.

"So you wanna play it that way, FINE!" Auel grabbed his trident as well and locked the spikes in with Rachel's.

"Damn you AUEL!" the G-Panzer units activated on Rachel's unit, they sent her flying away from Auel. Rachel fired the two rail guns at Auel and then her phase cannon.

"Don't get cocky SIS!" Auel evaded the shots, barely. "Now we see what your made of!" Auel transformed back into MA form and turned on his Wings of Light. The large claws on Leviathan extended and Auel charged at Rachel.

"No you don't BROTHER!" Rachel jettisoned the pack of Forbidden and sent it at Auel.

"What!" Auel was blinded by the panzers interference with his sensors. "DAMN!" Auel reverted to MS form and fired his hand laser at the back pack, it tore through the cap and destroyed it. "THAT WAS LOW!" snapped Auel as he searched for Rachel.

"Im over here brother!" Rachel's unit approached Auel from the back with its beam trident on.

"Shit!" Auel spun around to evade the attack but was struck in the head and left shoulder by the attack. The attack left the left side of his head section torn apart and the left arm disabled. "Masamune! Im returning! Have the tech crew ready!" yelled Auel. "Alexia! Try and talk some sense into that girl! She's F'n nuts!" yelled Auel as his unit fired a sent of Jamming Rounds from his back missile launchers.

"Understood!" replied Alexia. "We have to take out their ship first. Valiant #1, #2 take aim!" ordered Alexia. Alexia began to prepare her speech.

"Target acquired ma'am" replied the short gunnery officer with her short red hair.

"Good…FIRE!" yelled Alexia. The two large yellow bolts fired from the two cannons on the back of the Masamune, they slipped past Auel and the other units and smashed into the hull of the Perseus. The Agamemnon class ship started to come apart under the force of the second hit.

"What. NO! The Perseus!" yelled Rachel as the ship exploded. "NO MORE!" Rachel flipped out and threw her trident at Auel.

"Oh no AUEL!" yelled Tolle as he saw the weapon approach.

"Lets end it today bastard!" Sting sent his funnels behind Tolle. The four green DRAGOONs locked onto Tolle's unit and prepared to fire.

"Oh boy!" Aminus boosted up and evaded the attack. Tolle blocked his two blades hilts together, the blades broke in two and formed an x shaped star. "STOP FIGHTING!" yelled Tolle as he the weapon. The swirling blade slashed into one of Stings Funnels and continued to cut off his shield, after cutting the shield Tolle's blade slashed threw Rachel's trident.

"Thanks Tolle" smiled Auel. "Oh but YOU betta watch out!" Auel fired his back lasers at Sting. "Back off Sting, you guys are out numbered and out gunned. SURRENDER!" yelled Auel as he fired at Sting a second time.

"Surrender…to a traitor like YOU!" Harpy's eyes glowed as Sting fired his beam rifle at Auel. "DIE!"

"Oh no!" the green bolt approached Leviathan. Auel froze in place as he saw the bolt approach, his throat dried up as he saw the light fill his cockpit. Auel felt as if this was it, it all boiled down to this…his last moment…but the moment never came.

Out of no where the Bokuro came and blocked the shot. The beam bounced back and hit Harpy's left shoulder.

"Man you seriously need to stop going all dizzy" smiled Heine as he fired Bokuro's two positron beam guns at Sting, the Extended lost his legs to the attack.

"STING!" Cerberus came out of no where and fired its lasers and missiles at the ORB forces.

"SCATTER! Protect Leviathan!" yelled Heine as he fired his beam rifle at the incoming missiles. The pink explosions lit up the faces of the units as they moved around Leviathan. "Tolle, take him back to Alexia…this unit is mine" Heine grabbed his beam sabres and charged at Stellar.

"I don't think you have a choice in the matter" smiled Auel sarcastically.

"I think so" sighed Tolle as he grabbed Leviathans hand and flew off towards the Masamune.

"Now we end this" Heine looked at the enemy Mobile Suit and readied for battle.

"So you are my opponent!" Stellar drew her Sabres and attacked Heine.

"Looks like!" Yelled Heine as he blocked Stellar's attack with his shield. Stellar let out a shrill scream as she brought her beam hand down under the shield and tried to grasp Heine's chest.

"Damn it" Heine boosted over Stellar and kicked her unit in the back. Heine aimed his beam rifle at the centre of Stellar's unit…he could not pull the trigger to kill Stellar…instead he fired a single green beam that pierced her unit's right shoulder.

"Damn it" Stellar jumped away and flipped over her combined weapons. The beams and missiles headed straight for Heine.

"Ha. This is not my GOUF I say!" a targeting screen flipped down from the ceiling close to Heine's face, small triangles all encased the missiles on the screen. Heine held out Bokuro's wrists and began to fire his beam guns, the thin green beams pierced all the missiles and laser beams. The explosion provided Heine with a good chance to grab his beam sabre and move in to disable Stellar.

"I'm not going down like before!" yelled Stellar as she transformed into her MA form and activated her laser claws and beam sabres. "You're going down this time!" The beam sabres from Stellar's head pointed forward like prongs as she jumped at Heine.

"Damn it" Heine was caught off guard by the attack; he had no idea how to block it. All of a sudden all Heine could see was a pink explosion…but his unit was still intact. When the smoke cleared he saw that a heavy missile from the Masamune had hit Stellar in the back and sent her flying.

"Thanks Alexia" Smiled Heine as he looked down and saw Stellar retreating along with Sting and Rachel.

"No problem. Heine, return to the ship" ordered Alexia as the Masamune began to move over towards Hinode.

"Roger, returning now" Bokuro flipped around and headed back to the ship.

The Masamune approached the space port for Hinode. The colony seemed to shine as the ship approached. Auel, Heine and Tolle had all gathered on the OPS deck of the Masamune to watch their approach. Auel and Heine had seen many dockings during their time in their respective military's, but Tolle had only ever seen the docking with Artemis and that was it. The large steal doors opened as the Masamune followed in the docking lights.

"All hands brace please, we will now be matching rotation with Hinode" explained Alexia as ship slowly began to spin in time with the colony.

"Wow…" Auel felt his stomach leap as the ship began to spin in time with Hinode

"So this is your first time on an ORB space colony right Auel?" Asked Tolle as the trio slowly got used to the new sense of gravity.

"Yeah" smiled Auel as he looked around the inside of the hanger bay. There were multiple other IZUMO class vessels as well as a few classes from the other powers that had defected to ORB.

"What about you Heine?" asked Tolle turning over to the orange haired pilot. Heine had taken on wearing an ORB uniform. He wore the standard uniform with an orange collar similar to Miriallia's but a more vivid colour.

"Yeah…oh no wait. I went to Copernicus right after the war ended…but I've never been to a spinning colony" smiled Heine as he walked over to the window

"Really. Looks like there are down sides to being a coordinator" smiled Auel as he walked over to Tolle and lightly nudged him in the back.

"Yeah…but there are only a few" smiled Heine as he turned and waved his finger at them.

"Like?" asked Auel with a smirk. Auel was keen to prove he was as good as any coordinator.

"Um, Auel…may I strike a chord to just WHICH of our units in being restored…as in MAJOR repair?" asked Heine with a smirk.

"Fine…" sighed Auel as he crossed his arms and began to pout.

Heine strode over to a com panel and pressed a few keys "Captain, when can we disembark?" asked Heine as he pressed the bridge button.

"You can as soon as we get clearance. Apparently ZAFT is here as well. Hinode control want to make sure that we do not cause any trouble with them" replied Alexia's voice.

"But we are an ORB ship…shouldn't we get priority over ZAFT?" asked Tolle as he scratched his brown lop.

"That ZAFT ship is a special case…its carrying a special refugee…apparently she is carrying documents regarding Dullindal's plan" explained Alexia.

"So…why doesn't she just hand them over?" asked Auel in an irritated tone.

"She wants to make sure they end up in the right hands" replied Alexia.

"Hmmm. Captain…I want to talk to Athha-Daihyou" requested Heine.

"Why?" asked Alexia, Auel and Tolle all at once.

"I think I could pass as a ZAFT officer…I WAS one after all" smiled Heine as he looked at Auel.

"Okay then. I will arrange it. Just tell me when you're ready" replied Alexia
Information of the plan Dullindal is hatching are revealed.
Heine dawns a ZAFT uniform once again
Everything hits the fan.
NEXT!
Chapter 5-Stardust Knight!

As you can tell this is the shortest chapter yet. They will now be roughly 2500-3500 words so I can update quicker :P please leave your opinion about the chapter length in the review
Can anyone guess who the refugee is? And take a stab at who her body guard is :P it's the last revival there is :P