It has been a LONg time coming...but HERE IT IS! the Next Chapter of RFTA!


Auel awoke with a cold sweat running down his back. It was true, that night had been filled with more nightmares than never had before. These were not just normal nightmares, like the ones he had after he first killed a man, but ones that shook his soul so much, tore his being apart and played on his darkest memories so much, that it left him a broken man.

"Damn it" Auel remembered what had awoken him, the alert siren was sounding, the Masamune was under attack. Auel wasted no time in grabbing his flight suit and floating for the exit. Auel managed to get his suit on, all save zipping it up, before he reached the door. He floated down the hall muttering curses to himself as he approached the hanger.

"Sorry for keeping you waiting" smiled Auel as he arrived on the flight deck. The blue haired boy looked at his comrades as he approached his Leviathan. He saw Tolle walking up to his Aminus unit, Miguel walking over to his EFT and Aisha walking over to a bright pink coloured DOM Trooper.

"When you were sleeping we rendezvoused with the Archangel and they transported over that unit for Aisha, it's the strongest mass-produced Mobile Suit out there" smiled his technician.

"Oh right...I must have slept for a long time" laughed Auel as he attached his flight helmet.

"23 hours straight sir" smiled the technician as he gave a mock salute and activated the lift to Auel's cockpit.

"All hands, we are currently under attack from the Minerva Class vessel Minerva, Nazca Cruisers Plato and Voltaire. You are going to sortie to engage the enemy mobile suits Zaku Warrior, Gouf, Zaku Phantom, Impulse Force Silhouette and Zaku Phantom Variant" explained Meyrin over the intercom.

"Meyrin?" Auel looked around in dismay. "What is she doing here" he thought. "No time to be thinking about irrelevant things." Sighed Auel as he rose into the cockpit of his unit.

"Hey Auel" smiled Meyrin's face on his com screen. The brunette was wearing her ZAFT uniform, but with no cap and her hair untied.

"Mey-rin" Auel was struck for words. "What are you doing here?" asked Auel as he saw Aisha launch in her Dom unit.

"I am functioning as the Link between the Mobile Suits and the Masamune, Charlotte is in charge of CIC now" smiled Meyrin.

"Good to know" smiled Auel. "Well when do I launch?"

"Right now. X333 Leviathan, you are go for launch" smiled Meyrin.

"Auel Neider, Leviathan hashinsuru!" The Blue unit took off and activated its Phase shift. The Moment Auel began to engage the enemy units.

"Auel, we may not be able to provide you with much support because the Minerva is producing lot of energy emissions…they are centred around the Variant Zaku" explained Meyrin to Auel, the connection was highly affected by static

"Fine by me" nodded Auel. The variant Zaku moved toward him. "Tish, that must be their lead unit. I'll take him out FIRST!" Auel fired his back mounted cannons at incoming Zaku. The Orange unit rolled away with ease, as if it was able to see that attack coming.

"Knock it off Auel-San" a familiar voice came from the end of Auel's communication line.

"Heine!" Auel stopped dead in his tracks and looked at the Zaku. "Is that really you?" asked Auel.

"Heine?" Meer looked up from the helm of the Masamune, the Lacus impostor turned ORB crewwoman had figured out she had talents of her own, manoeuvring a ship was one of them.

"Yeah it's me…" Heine's face now appeared on Auel's screen.

"What, why are you with the Minerva!" barked Auel.

"Because I am going to do my best to defend PLANT, no matter what!" replied Heine as he drew both his Zaku's swords. Heine's Zaku Variant was just a normal Zaku Phantom with an added D-Beam reactor, the fore arms had been switched with that of a Gouf, twin Rail guns on its thighs and two swords stored on its arms.

"What, that's a load of bull and you know it!" replied Auel "You know the Destiny Plan will only result in death!" barked Auel. The blue haired boy had no idea really what he was talking about, only that his words were right, and for Auel, that's all that mattered.

"Maybe so, but I cannot afford to let anyone else die" Heine gripped at Auel and fired his rail guns, the two volts hit the blue units chest and refracted.

"Not that easy aye Heine" Smiled Auel as he fired his chest laser at Heine.

"I must admit your unit is an admirable foe, but NOTHING I cannot DEFEAT!" Heine drew both Beam Sabres and took up battle stance.

"Shit" Auel reached for his fins and drew out two Beam Sabres. "Bring it" smirked the blunette as he twirled both sabres in his hands. "You know, deep down inside, I always wanted to fight you like this" smiled Auel.

"Me to" laughed Heine as he flew toward Auel. Heine slashed at Auel's arm. Auel Quickly evaded and pressed his Sabre against it.

"Heh, you're not actually that bad Heine" smiled Auel as he rolled over his positron cannons.

"Neither are YOU!" yelled Heine as he slashed Auel's cannons off with his spare sabre. "But no matter how hard you try, I will not die in this fight"

"You need to be taught a lesson HEINE!" Auel kicked Heine away and fired his Fin lasers at Heine.

"Like hell" Heine blocked the Attack and then fired back with his beam Gatling gun. Auel evaded the attack and then fired his missiles at Heine.

"Don't play me for a FOUL!" Heine used his wrist lasers again to take down the missiles.

"GRRR!" Auel stabbed forward and then was his in the chest by Heine's knee.

"AUEL!" Meyrin let out a cry from the bridge to her cherished friend.

"Meyrin Hawke?" Heine stopped for a moment and glanced at the Masamune. "So she is on that ship?" asked Heine as he then looked at Auel. "Arnt you going to fight on?" asked Heine.

"Yeah…but let me ask you something…where is you pink winged friend and you grey buddy?" asked Auel as his unit slowly began to move.

"Shinn and Rey?" asked Heine "They are at Messiah" replied Heine with a smirk. "Why do you ask?"

"Because I thought they should be here to watch me take down this TRAITOR!" screamed Auel as he entered his SEED mode.

"Traitor!" Heine fired a volley of missiles from his Blaze Pack. Auel waisted no time in effortlessly shooting down the missiles with his Fin lasers, not a single one missed its target. "Aren't you the traitor!" barked Heine as he flew at Auel, sabres at the ready

"Don't make me puke!" Auel clashed his swords into Heine's.

"You claim you want peace, yet you do it with weapons in your hands, you're a traitor to your own words" retorted Heine.

"At least I'm not some ZAFT lap dog!" Auel fired his Fin lasers at the Zaku.

"I'm no lap dog!" Heine flew between the shots and threw his Tempest beam sword at Auel, the sword lodged itself into Auel's left Fin and consequently destroyed it. Auel's unit shut down as a result of the explosion "Ha the tides have turned!" Heine pulled back his last Sword. "NOW TAKE THIS!"

"Don't get cocky!" the sword was cut in two before Heine could throw it.

"What?" Heine flew away and turned around. "Oh so it's the Aminus, Tolle you got bolder" smirked Heine as he fired a missile swarm.

"I cannot afford to be indecisive anymore, it's to costly!" Tolle fired all his Rail Guns at Heine, but as he did the pellets came apart and intercepted the missiles.

"Hmph!" Heine fired his wrist lasers at Tolle along with a shot from his beam rifle. The beams all flew into the cloud off smoke. Moments later an array of lasers came back towards Heine, some in pellet form and one solid beam. "What?" Heine rolled aside and looked at the cloud "Is he armed with the same weapons?" thought Heine. The orange haired boy's question was soon answered. A Silver Aminus came threw the cloud with its Beam Long Sword in hand. "Beam reflective?" Heine fired his rail guns at Tolle. As the bolts came close, Aminus shimmered and changed back to its normal colours.

"Meet the latest innovation in Trans Phase Armour!" Tolle stabbed his sword along Heine's left thigh, the graze disabled his Rail Gun.

"Damn you and your armour!" Heine whip kicked Tolle's unit away. "Now to finish you off!" Heine grabbed his beam rifle and readied his last surviving rail gun. A mobile suits hand was placed on Heine's shoulder. A palm laser then shot right the units right shoulder. "What the hell?" Heine looked around and saw a crippled but not beat Leviathan ready to stand against him again.

"AUEL!" Tolle reached to Aminus' back and grabbed a collapsed Beam Glaive and threw it to Auel. Auel jumped over the top of Heine to grab the glaive, as he jumped Leviathan made a corkscrew like motion

"Thanks" Auel grabbed the glaive in mid flight and opened it up. Auel then sliced off Heine's other arm. "Its over" Auel slashed off Heine's head and last rail gun. "Give up" ordered Auel. Ever since Leviathan had come back online, Auel was more serene than he usually was, there was no trace of his cocky macho self in his voice, just pure determination.

"You think you've won…guess again!" the Zaku then rammed into Auel and self detonated. Once the smoke had cleared Auel and Tolle were in complete shock, so was the Masamune crew.

Meer let out a shrill scream from her post as Helmsman when she saw the unit explode. "HEINE!" she cried and looked down at her controls "It cant be…Heine…" A few tears crept out of her eyes.

"Bro…no way" Miguel spun away from his duel with Lunamaria.

"We have no time for that. Charlotte, get us a screen, we are going to retreat!" ordered Alexia as she looked down at Rachel. "Meer can you pull yourself together and get us out of here?" asked Alexia.

"Uh yeah" Meer snapped back and pushed the Masamune to full speed.

"All suits return to the barn, we are bolting for it!" replied Meyrin.

"What?" the Mobile Suit Pilots were lost for words, Aisha was keeping the Minerva at bay with her weaponry, Yzak's Gouf and Dearka's Zaku's were held off by Mayura's Neo Astray, Miguel had Luna on the ropes, if they pressed on they would be able to win.

"That's an order, get your asses back here!" ordered Alexia

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"Ma'am the enemy vessel is attempting to retreat" Burt looked down at Talia.

"What?" Arthur disable it!" ordered Talia "Don't forget we want the technology on that thing"

"Aye ma'am. Isolde, target Masamune Class ships engines. TAE!" the large three barrelled cannon fired, Aisha was able to intercept one of the shells, but the other two smashed into the engine drive of the Masamune.

"Ma'am, our engines are down 70" Meer tried to accelerate the ship.

"Can we still get out of here?" asked Alexia. The ship was rocked again

"Negative" the Masamune shook under the force of the attack "They just took out our starboard engine" she screamed as the ship rocked even more violently.

"Damn it, get us facing the Minerva, fire all out weapons at her, CIWS as well!" ordered Alexia "We will take her out no matter what! For the sake of ORB!"

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"Captain, enemy vessel has locked on weapons…all of them, ma'am they are going to fire all their weapons at us!" yelled the sensor officer.

"Damn it, Malik get us out of the firing line, Arthur, when we are clear I want you to fire back!" yelled Talia.

"Understood" replied the two officers.

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"TAE!" Alexia screamed her fire command at the top of her lungs. The Minerva escaped the deadly onslaught by the skin of her teeth.

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"Tristan number two, Neidharts FIRE! Get us in firing line for the Tanhausser!" ordered Arthur, the missile swarm hit all over the Masamune and crippled its weapons, leaving only Lohengrin #2 online.

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"Ma'am we have lost all out weapons accept Lohengrin #2…but that wont be able to fire for another 10 minutes" explained Charlotte. "Damn" the purple haired girl hit her hand on her rest and gritted her teeth.

"Its over then" Alexia looked at the Minerva as it came around and readied its main gun. The crew of the Masamune hung their heads and waited for the end.

"Ma'am we have 6 ships on the sensor…reading as Agamemnon 2, Nelson 2, Archangel 1…Izumo 1" The sensor officer read out the sensor readings to Alexia. "The enmy vessels are targeting the Minerva.

"Is it the Archangel?" asked Alexia.

"No…its IFF matches the Seraphim" replied the officer.

"Seraphim?" Alexia was shocked.

"Ma'am we are being hailed by the Kusinagi" explained Meyrin.

"On speakers"

"This is Cagalli broadcasting from Onogoro to Masamune, do not attack these forces…as of 0900 hours today, we have joined a coalition with the Alliance against the Destiny Plan" explained Cagalli. "Your forces are strained, with draw them from battle"

Sting and Stellar launched immediately and made quick work of the ZAFT units, all apart from Yzak, Dearka and Luna, who were forced back to their ships and consequently retreated.


"O I get it now…so Heine gone BACK to ZAFT" explained Stellar as she sat in a meeting with Alexia, Rachel, Sting and Auel in the Seraphim's captain's room.

"Yeah, he was piloting a customised Blaze Zaku Warrior before he blew it up" explained Auel "What gets me is he seemed so calm about it…I know Heine was calm and all but never that calm…he was calm threw out the battle" explained Auel.

"Really? I was listening…he seemed pretty angry to me" inserted Meyrin as she moved over and placed a pitcher of water on the desk.

"Yeah" replied Auel "But calm in his way of being angry" explained Auel "As if he wasn't in any real danger"

"Stellar think he should been…you two are both as strong" explained Stellar.

"Why do you say that?" asked Auel.

"Stellar tried to kill you both, neither of you died" replied the girl who was latched to Sting's side.

"But no matter how hard you try, I will not die in this fight" Heine's words echoed in Auel's head "Not matter how hard I would try…he couldn't die" whispered Auel allowed

"?" Stellar and the rest raised an eye brow and beckoned for answers

"Wait…I think I got it!" Auel walked over to Rachel's computer "excuse me sis" he then opened up file after file and began checking things. "THERE!" he smirked.

"What is it?" asked Rachel as she leaned forward.

"No matter how hard I tried, I could not have killed Heine. Even if I had driven a beam sabre into his cockpit, because he wasn't there. The Zaku was remote controlled FROM the Minerva" Explained Auel.

"That would explain the added interference from the Minerva" replied Charlotte.

"So Heine is still out there…and he knows we are beaten bad…there might not be any stopping them next time…cause I garneted he will come back with something nastier than that Zaku" explained Auel.

"Must you always be so cynical bro?" asked Rachel.

"Well my leviathan is down, Aminus took a beating, the Neo Astray will be out of commission for a few days, the Dom can be replaced…al we really have is the EFT and your two units" replied Auel.

"Oh yeah I forgot. We brought you a new present to celebrate our Alliance" smiled Rachel as she grabbed Auel's arm. Stellar ran up and grabbed the other. The two girls pulled him down the corridor to the hanger bay. Sting traipsed behind them along with Alexia.


"Just a little longer nee-san" Rachel opened the door to the hanger and Stellar covered Auel's eyes. The two girls lead him to a carry frame. "3, 2 ,1 and OPEN!" the two girls counted down and then Stellar removed her hands. Auel was tempted to turn and hit both girls for dragging him half way across a battle ship when he would have come willingly…but what caught his eyes was more interesting…the unit resembled Freedom a lot.

"We built this based on the data we got from Freedom in the last war, we also used the broken up pieces of the original Freedom when we conquered Carpentaria…Auel I would like to present you with GAT X0 Sovereign" smiled Rachel.

"This is for me?" asked Auel as he turned around and looked at Rachel.

"Yeah…that's just what I said" sighed Rachel. "It is equipped with the Alliances Neo D-beam system, a back up Ultra Compact Battery generation 3, Neo Trans Phase Armour, a Mirage Colloid, Geschmeidig Panzers and a new Impact Initiator" explained Rachel. "Here is the book" Rachel handed Auel a large manual that was easily the thickest book Auel had ever seen.

"Thanks" Auel looked at the Manual's cover and then at the head of Sovereign. The Manual read "Liberty, Independence, Autonomy and Freedom" and finally below the OMNI crest "For our peaceful world" "Thank you" nodded Auel. Auel was now the pilot of the latest Freedom Model Mobile Suit


Auel walked into his quarters that night and dropped the manual for Sovereign on his desk. The blue haired boy let out a sigh and then sat down at his desk. The meeting he had been in was the most depressing meeting ever, he had learnt that Dullindal was in the last stages of the Destiny Plan's initiation. All the chairman needed to do was Destroy ORB and push aside anyone that sided with them…that included the fleet Auel was part of. The Archangel and Eternal were heading for Station One to try and destroy it in 2 days. The current plan was for the OMNI assault fleet to link up with the ORB assault fleet and then storm the Requiem laser and destroy it.


THERE WE GO THAT IS OVER! I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT! I KNOW IT TOOK EVER SO LONG TO WRITE IT…BUT I WAS IN ITALY AND GREECE SO YEAH ;P