I don't own Gundam Wing or Gundam Seed

Chapter 06

All Chris saw when he opened his eyes was white and the smell of disinfectant, invading his nose. He sits up, to see he's in the medical room. Looking around, he sees Kira on the other bed with a wet washcloth on his forehead, while sweaating profusly.

"Good, your awake." Chris turned to see the ship's doctor at the door.

"What happened, last thing I remember is landing on the ship during entry." Chris said shaking his head trying to clear the cobwebs. "By the way what time is it?"

"You have three broken ribs and a minor concussion. It's amazing that your up so soon, You've been out for about five hours. As for the time its 10:30 am." The doctor explained. "Your free to go, just be careful."

Chris, just nodded and put his shirt and jacket on and walked out. As he walked through the hallway, he sees Miriallia and Tolle walking in the opposite direction.

"Your awake already?" Miriallia asked

"You guys stayed?" Chris asked, a little surprised they listened to his advice.

Miriallia answered. "We thought about what you said and decided that we wanted to stay."

"By the way where did you learn that?" Tolle asked

"I'll tell you later." Chris told the couple. "Right now I have to talk to the captain. By the way did Kuzzey, Sai and Flay stay too?"

"No, her father wouldn't let her stay onboard and Sai wanted to stay with her while Kuzzey stayed on board with us." Miriallia said with Chris nodding in understanding.

"later." Chris said, walking away.

"We couldn't of picked a worst place to land." Mu said looking at a map. "In the middle of ZAFT controlled territory.

"There wasn't much chose, the alternative was getting separated from the Strike and we couldn't afford that." Murrue said sipping her coffee. "Even with you and Chris, the odds are not in our favor."

Knock Knock

"Enter." Murrue said after the door opened Chris walked in.

"Good Day, Captain, Commander." Chris said to them.

"Well look who's awake." Mu said with his usually grin.

"Are you sure you should be moving so soon?" Murrue asked the young pilot.

"I'll be find as long as I take it easy." Chris said with Murrue nodding.

"What can I help you with?" Murrue asked staring the pilot square in the eye.

"I'd like permission to work on the Strike." Chris said

"May I ask why?" Murrue asked curious.

"There are a couple of reasons. First is Kira is still unconscious. Second as the commander might have pointed out, we're in Zaft controlled territory." Chris explained holding up two fingers. "And third, the time taken to adjust the O.S in combat might be fatal." Lifting up a third.

After considering his points, Murrue came to her decision. "I'll allow it, on the condition that your work is supervised by commander La Flaga and chief petty officer Murdoch."

Chris nodded his head in approval.

"Okay kid, let's go." Mu said leading Chris out of the room.

After they left, Murrue leaned back in her seat thinking about something Admiral Halberton told her.

Flashback

Chris and Mu had just left the room and Halberton turn to face Murrue.

"Something tells me that boy will be the one that ends this war." He said with conviction in his voice.

"Sir are you positive?" Murrue asked.

"Absolutely!" Halberton replied

Flashback end

"So what do you plan to do the Strike?" Mu asked as he and Chris walked to the hanger.

"Nothing major, just some minor adjustments. One is to make it easier to move on the sand, since I think we'll be attacked before we leave the area." Chris answered as they reached their destination.

"You've got a point. The chances of an attack are high coinciding the area." Mu agreed as he watched Chris get into the strike's cockpit.

For the next three hours, Chris altered the Strike's operating system every way he could think of and learned that Halberton went down with his ship taking the Laurasia class with him.

"So how's it going?" Mu asked handing Chris a bottle of water.

"So far so good, I adjusted the footing, to make it compatible with the sand and altered the targeting system to compensate for the heat. The overall system is the same except with a few of my own modifications." Chris explained putting the keyboard away and shutting the system down. "Kira has to make the final checks."

Mu nodded and said. "Where did you learn how to do this?" As he watched Chris getting out of the strike and walk over to his own machine.

"One of the pilots that trained me was a brilliant hacker, so I applied what I learned to this." Chris replied staring at his mobile suit. "How did you guys get me out of my machine?" He asked.

"Oh yeah, from what the mechanics told me when they got Kira out of the Strike, your machine's hatch just opened." Mu explained rubbing the back of his head. "Any clue how?"

"None, whatsoever." Chris lied while thinking. 'Of course it was Zero.' "Alright commander, if you'll excuse me, I need to check on my unit." He said getting into Wing.

"Later, kid." Mu said watching the young man disappear in his machine and then went to check the progress on the new skygraspers.

A few hours later, Kira wake up and was transferred to his own room. In the meantime, Chris fell asleep in his Gundam's cockpit, after going over every possible enemy mobile suit. While everyone was asleep, the ship is being watch by two men on a dune. One was sipping a cup of coffee and the other is looking through a pair of binoculars.

"Should we order the attack, sir?" the second man asked his commander.

"Yes, I suppose we should order the attack." said Andrew Waltfeld better known as the desert tiger sipping his coffee. He turned and slowly slid down the sand dune. When he stopped he walked toward the group of six BuCue mobile suits and attack Helicopters. "Everyone listen up, the mission is test the capabilities of the Earth Alliance's new ship and it's mobile suits."

"Can we destroy it, sir?" One of the BuCue pilots asked

"We'll cross that bridge if it comes to that, just remember that the 8th fleet gave their lives to get that down to earth and Le Creuset's team failed to bring them down." Andrew said "Now man your machines."

Chris was waken up by the ship rocking and the sound of explosions, after quickly composting himself, Chris calls the bridge. "What the hell is going on?" He asked as the ship rocks again.

"We're under attack." Miriallia said

"What's the number of units?" Chris asked activating all systems.

"All, we see is about ten attack helicopters." Miriallia replied anything Chris was going to said was interrupt by Kira.

"Where's the enemy? Never mind launching." Kira Demanded.

"We still don't know the position or strength of enemy and orders haven't been given to launch." Badgiruel said as the strike entered the catapult.

"Who cares I'll take care of them." Kira shouted anything else he was going to say was cut off by Chris.

"Calm down Kira, losing your head in battle will be the cause of your death." Was all Chris said before cutting the link.

"Well, Captain?" Badgiruel asked

"Very well." Murrue Said giving permission.

"Equip the Launcher pack." Badgiruel Ordered as the parts were placed on the strike.

In his suit, Chris was listening to everything said and disagreed with every decision. from letting Kira launch to arming the strike with the launcher striker, but kept his mouth shut.

"Kira Yamato Strike Launching." Kira said as the Strike shot out of the archangel launch bay.

What Enemies will they encounter?

Author notes: I have new poll up. Vote please