Chapter 13 is now up sorry for the REALLY long wait, enjoy.
Ryan slowly opened his eyes to see he was still in the Astray's cockpit, the suit had lost it's remaining leg from the explosion along with having structural damage and was now unable to move, lying in a heap on the edge of a beach. What the hell happened?Ryan thought as he remembered the battle, as he grew more aware Ryan quickly pressed numerous buttons to try to contact the Archangel, but with no success, groaning Ryan opened the hatch and left the cockpit to be met with a shining sun replacing the dark clouds of the past battle, squinting at the light Ryan looked around to see the Astray had been thrown onto a beach. Above the island the Hydra look-a-like gazed down at the wreckage of the battle but more to the pilot who just got out of his mobile suit, before phasing out into thin air. Ryan quickly spotted the Strike, across from the beach supported by a rock looking worse for wear. Ryan jumped down from his battered suit, staggering slightly as he landed on the sand and ran over to the fallen Gundam, Ryan quickly climbed onto the Strike and quickly went to the cockpit, as he looked in through the gash that had been made across the torso, he saw the cockpit was completely wrecked, but with no pilot inside.
"Kira!" Ryan shouted looking around for the Strike's pilot repaeting this a few times, having no luck Ryan climbed down from the Strike and started to walk back to the Astray. As he made his way back Ryan sighted someone lying on the sand near the shore, Ryan quickly ran over to the person, as he neared Ryan slowed as he saw who it was, a pilot in a red uniform. Wonder if he's still alive?Ryan thought as he stood above Athrun, who was lying face down on the sand, without hesitation Ryan kicked Athrun hard in the side sending him to roll on he sand, and to Ryan's disappointment regained consciousness, the ZAFT pilot slowly stood up and looked over to Ryan who was glaring at him.
"I'm alive?" Athrun asked more to himself then to anyone
"You bastard!" Ryan shouted to Athrun and punched him in the face, sending him stumbling back "Do you have any idea what you've done?" Ryan asked Athrun angrily, Athrun glared back at him and tried to punch him, Ryan moved out of the way and kicked him in the back, causing Athrun to fall back onto the sand. "Do you realise you killed Kira!?" Ryan shouted at him
"I had no other choice, and I was trying to kill you!" Athrun shouted back, standing back up with some difficulty.
"Kira didn't deserve to die!" Ryan shouted to Athrun, resisting the urge to punch him again.
"Kira killed my friends and you killed Nicol!" Athrun argued, Ryan snarled at him before grabbing him by the collar and punching him in the jaw.
"How many times do I have to tell you Nicol isn't dead he's on the Archangel as a prisoner, along with Dearka and Yzak!" Ryan shouted in Athrun's face. "Unlike you I wouldn't kill my own friend!" Ryan continued seeing Athrun's eyes widen as he finally realized that Ryan was telling the truth and what he had done, Athrun felt tears welling in his eyes. Before he could say anything Ryan punched Athrun in the stomach, and let go off his hold on him as Athrun doubled over in pain tears dropping on the sand.
"So what happens now?" Athrun asked as he recovered from his pain. Tears still falling from his face. Ryan looked down at Athrun with a menacing look before dismissing it and looked over at the ocean
"We wait to be rescued, can't do much else since you busted our mobile suits up." Ryan answered simply, Athrun looked up at him questionably before following his gaze and saw an Orb ship coming towards the island.
"I can't believe we got ourselves captured!" Yzak shouted angrily at no one in particular as he and Dearka walked down the corridors of the Archangel, the ship still heading for Alaska. The soldiers taking them to the cells didn't take notice of Yzak's outburst.
"Yzak I don't think shouting will get us anywhere." Dearka calmly stated, smirking at his friends protests, neither had noticed the wrecked Blitz when they entered the ship. The two were then separated as Dearka had to go to the medical room, Yzak walked into the prison hold and saw Nicol sitting in one the cell nearest to the door, Yzak eyes immediately widened as Nicol looked up at him and gave him a small smile, before anything was said the soldier pushed Yzak into the cell next to Nicol's and locked the door then left.
"What the hell is going on, Ahtrun told us you were dead!" Yzak shouted from he sat to Nicol, who sighed.
"Well I'm still alive." Nicol said back bluntly "The Blitz was wrecked so I couldn't get back, did the pilot of that mobile suit come back?" Nicol asked Yzak looking over to his position questionably.
"After he took us down he went after the Strike and Athrun, neither of them came back, they got what they deserved." Yzak answered back coldly. "Did you find out who the pilot's were?" Yzak quickly asked, wanting to know who had humiliated him.
"I didn't find out about the Strike's pilot but the pilot of the mobile suit we faced was my friend we met back in Orb, he's also the pilot of that other suit we had fought in space." Nicol answered waiting for Yzak's reaction, the silver haired co-ordinator didn't speak, he gaped his mouth open before gritting his teeth in frustration then punched the wall.
As the Orb ship neared the shore Athrun stood back up, Ryan having taken a few steps back, looking away
"I'm slightly surprised you haven't killed me yet." Athrun said miserably, loud enough for Ryan to hear.
"I still haven't completely made my mind up so don't tempt me." Ryan said back coldly not turning to face him.
"Do you think there's any chance of Kira being alive?" Athrun asked, watching the ship dock on the beach shore near them.
"The cockpit was empty so there is a chance, but try explaining that to her." Ryan said back, seeing Cagalli, with Kisaka and several Orb workers disembark off the ship. "And just in case you didn't know your arm is broken." Ryan stated seeing Athrun's right arm hanging on a limb. Athrun had just noticed as well but his attention was more on Cagalli who was walking towards them, a serious and worried look on her face.
"What happened here?" Cagalli asked both of them, neither responded, but looked away. "Where's Kira?" Cagalli persisted, Athrun continued to remain silent looking aimlessly at the ground, Ryan looked over at the Orb workers who were searching for Kira before looking at Cagalli in the eye.
"Cagalli, Kira is-" Ryan started but stopped as he saw Arli coming towards them, having disembarked off the ship also. Worst time to show up. Ryan thought nervously.
"Ryan! Athrun!" Arli called out as she made her way over to them, Ryan and Athrun quickly gave each other a nervous glance before looking back at Arli. "What happened here?" Arli asked worriedly. Ryan took another look at the Orb soldiers trying to find Kira, but all that was in view was the limbless Astray, the battered Strike and pieces of the Aegis littering parts of the beach.
"I'll explain on the ship, Athrun's injured and I'd rather not stay out here." Ryan answered as Athrun remained silent, Cagalli nodded in understanding before searching for Kira herself, Arli looked at Ryan and Athrun, neither looking at her directly before she joined Cagalli.
"Thanks." Athrun said to Ryan kindly.
"Don't thank me yet you'll be explaining what happened to Cagalli, I'll tell Arli." Ryan said turning to face Athrun, who's eyes widened slightly.
"Cagalli will kill me!" Athrun protested, Ryan smirked slightly.
"And Arli wouldn't." Ryan quickly said back
"Are you sure she wouldn't kill you?" Athrun asked, tyring to wipe the smirk off Ryan's face
"I'm not the one who self-destructed their mobile suit and killed his friend." Ryan replied, growing more serious, Athrun noticed the change and said nothing else as they were escorted onto the ship to check their injuries.
Dearka walked into the cells with two soldiers and led him into the cell next to Yzak's, the soldiers then left without at glance at the other two.
"You look worse for wear." Nicol said kindly to Dearka, Yzak smirked as he saw Dearka walk with a bandage around his head.
"What did you do this time?" Yzak asked mockingly to Dearka, who attempted to glare through the wall to Yzak.
"I didn't do anything, one of the crew members attacked me and another tried to shoot me." Dearka explained sounding agitated
"So shouldn't you be dead?" Yzak quickly asked.
"No, because the one who attacked saved me from the girl who tried to shoot me." Dearka answered, both Yzak and Nicol look confused.
"Sounds like that one lost it." Yzak commented smugly, Nicol just frowned.
"I don't think so Yzak she kept shouting about her boyfriend being gone and saying what I'm doing here." Dearka said concerned for the girl and sympathetic.
"I'm guessing that was Tolle." Nicol said after a short silence getting questioning looks from the other two, although he couldn't see them.
"How do you know that?" Dearka asked interested
"Ryan told me before that last battle." Nicol answered simply
"The guy we met in Orb?" Dearka asked, eyes blinking.
"Turned out he was the one who piloted the mobile suit we fought in the last battle, and the one we fought in space and on the Lesseps." Yzak explained his anger rising again.
"Shame I kind of liked that guy, but if he's the enemy." Dearka trailed off "What were you saying Nicol?"
"Ryan told me that the pilot of the second aircraft we saw was piloted by someone called Tolle and the one you met Dearka, Mir, was Tolle's girlfriend and from what I can guess he must've died in the last battle." Nicol explained, Dearka looked solemn, while Yzak looked as though he was trying to say something.
"Well I say they both got what they deserved along with the Strike pilot." Yzak concluded leaning back on the wall.
"I don't think Ryan's dead." Nicol said bluntly.
"What makes you say that?" Dearka asked ahead of Yzak, who threw a quick glare at him.
"Haven't you two figured out who he is yet?" Nicol asked, smirking, when neither answered he continued. "You know the person who's family was hunted and killed and apparently him as well, Ryan is that the person the one some people called the 'half-breed'. Nicol answered, the other two eye's widen in shock and confusion.
"No wonder he could pilot something like that." Dearka managed to say, Yzak was trying to regain his composure, he was failing miserably.
"What the- then why is he with the Earth Forces it was just as much their fault as ours!" Yzak shouted out, Nicol remained silent, instead he laid down on the bed and tried to sleep over Yzak's cursing and banters, which led to another argument with Dearka.
Ryan leant back against the wall of the room he was in, the only injuries he had were a few scrapes and bruises, Athrun in another room Ryan looked to the door to see Arli walk in, a serious look on her face. "Why the gun?" Ryan asked seeing it by her side.
"Well you are with the Earth Forces still, it's just a precaution." Arli answered "So are you going to tell me what happened?" Arli quickly asked, Ryan could tell they hadn't found Kira.
"There was a battle, before that one where we captured Nicol and the Blitz, but Athrun and the others fought he was dead so they attacked soon after, Dearka and Yzak surrendered when the Buster and Duel were disabled, while me and Kira were fighting Athrun he self detonated the Aegis to try and kill us." Ryan explained watching Arli the whole time as she took it in. "During the battle Tolle died trying to support us in the Skygrasper." Ryan continued calmly but reluctantly, seeing Arli's face saddened almost immediately after he finished. "Did you find Kira?" Ryan asked seeing tears forming in her eyes although he already knew the answer.
"No we didn't, there wasn't a trace of him anywhere so they just put the Strike and the remains of your Astray on board." Arli answered sadly, her pink eyes dulled to the point where they almost looked grey still holding back tears.
"What happens now, to Athrun and me?" Ryan asked, knowing they couldn't just stay in Orb.
"Athrun is going to be handed back to ZAFT, I don't know about you." Arli answered truthfully looking directly at Ryan, who looked back. "You should get some rest we won't arrive at Orb until tomorrow." Arli said breaking the silence as she made her way out. "I'm glad you're alive." Arli then walked out and the door slid closed. Let's hope we can say the same for Kira. Ryan thought as he laid on the bed and fell asleep
The Archangel had finally arrived at Alaska, at the Josh-a base. The crew of the legged ship however were not overjoyed about it though seeing as not all the crew were still on the ship, having being listed as MIA.
"This is a message from the joint operations room to the Archangel of the eighth fleet." An officer of the base greeted Murrue and Natarle, both on the bridge. "This message is from Captain Sunderland. We commend you on making it here and will be de-briefing you soon, until then all members of the Archangel must stand-by on the ship." The officer informed the two, both looked surprised, as well as the other members on the bridge
"Did you say we have to stand-by on the ship?" Murrue asked slightly disbelieving.
"Yeah, with all the talk of an attack on Panama things are pretty hectic around here, just relax for now." The officer replied before shutting off the link.
"I guess it can't be helped." Murrue commented sitting back down on her seat, Natarle turning to face her.
"Do you think we should've waited a bit longer to see if they returned Captain?" Natarle asked, regret in her voice.
"I wish we could've done, we'll just have to hope that Orb have found them alive." Murrue answered although she didn't sound very hopeful. "Until the briefing get some rest Ensign." The Captain of the ship ordered Natarle, who saluted in reply and left the bridge.
"What do you guys think will happen to us, now that we're at Alaska?" Dearka asked the other two having grown bored from the silence.
"What do you think, they'll probably just kill us for being co-ordinators, damn naturals." Yzak replied arrogantly, leaning against the wall of his cell, arms folded.
"I suspect they might be busy since operation spit break will commence soon." Nicol assumed sitting on the bed staring towards the wall.
"Lets hope it brings an end to the war then we can all go home." Dearka said laying back down on the bed hands behind his head.
"We have to get out of here first you idiot." Yzak retorted back, after a moment of silence passed the door to the cells slid open as Mir walked in carrying three trays of food. Nicol gave a grateful smile as Mir passed his through the gap in the bars, she didn't return it her face staying saddened, Yzak didn't move when Mir set his tray down and pretended he wasn't hungry until he was betrayed by his stomach growling, he then reluctantly went to get his food. Dearka quickly rose to see Mir give his tray of food, he quickly got up and moved to the bars.
"Hey, wait!" Dearka called out to Mir who turned around.
"What?" Mir asked impatiently giving a glare to Dearka, who slightly flinched.
"I'm sorry about what I said before, I didn't know." Dearka answered
"It's alright you wouldn't have known, my friends call me Mir." The natural girl said her glare softening, at that Dearka's face brightened.
"Hey what are you naturals going to do to us?!" Yzak demanded, cutting Dearka off what he was going to say.
"Yzak back off!" Dearka shouted to his comrade, glaring at him, Yzak returning it.
"I don't know what will happen to you three, we are not allowed to disembark." Mir answered keeping her calm, but her gaze hardened slightly on Yzak, before she walked out.
"What the hell did you think you were doing Yzak?" Dearka asked the silver haired co-ordinator
"What was I doing? I wasn't the one chatting up a natural girl!" Yzak shouted back at him, giving a devious smirk.
"I wasn't!" Dearka shouted back
"Sure you weren't." Yzak argued back.
"Dearka was just apologising so back off Yzak!" Nicol shouting at Yzak, unlike the other two he had remained sitting instead of going to the bars to look at them, both looked surprised then Yzak scowled then moved away and ate his food the others doing the same.
Ryan awoke to see it was morning and the ship had arrived at Onogoro island. He waited until an Orb soldier entered his room and motioned for him to follow, the soldier led Ryan off the ship and into the port, Ryan saw the Strike and his Astray being carried off towards the morganroate facility. Ryan continued following the soldier until he stopped to see Cagalli and Arli waiting for him in a jeep, Arli waving to get his attention.
"So where are we going?" Ryan asked as he climbed in to the back of he jeep with Arli, the vehicle quickly sped off, Kisaka driving it.
"We're going to the morganroate facility." Arli answered simply, trying to smile although her slightly puffy eyes gave away the fact that she had not got much sleep.
"Why's that?"
"Once Erica found out you were one we rescued with Athrun she said she had something to show you, but she didn't say what." Cagalli answered looking over the front seat to look at Ryan, he shrugged.
"So has Athrun gone back to ZAFT?" Ryan asked casually.
"We had to, Orb does not hold prisoners from ZAFT or the Earth Forces." Arli answered, before a slight smirk appeared on her face. "Cagalli also gave Athrun her pendant." She added slyly, Ryan saw the Orb princess face redden as she glared at Arli, who didn't get rid off her smirk, Ryan also smiled to make Cagalli more embarrassed. Cagalli looked over to Ryan, a glint of mischief in her eyes, Ryan slightly scowled as he knew what she was going to say to Arli. She didn't get the chance as Kisaka pulled on the brakes as they arrived at the facility, making Cagalli fall forwards on her chair.
"Arli can you please escort Ryan to where Miss Erica is waiting." Kisaka requested to Arli.
"Don't trust me?" Ryan asked uncaring towards Kisaka who gave a hard stare back.
"You are still with the Earth Forces so we can't let you walk around." Kisaka answered monotone, Ryan shrugged before getting off the jeep and entered the facility with Arli. Inside were rows of Astrays and the Strike and Ryan's own battered Astray being repaired by a few mechanics. Arli led Ryan to the observation room to where Erica was waiting, watching two Astray's spar. The Orb worker turned to face them as they entered.
"There you are I guess you know why I wanted you to come here." Erica said to Ryan who nodded.
"Sorry about wrecking the Astray." Ryan said to Erica, who just smiled
"Don't worry about it, now follow me please." Erica said back walking pass them, Ryan followed, and to his dismay so did Arli, Ryan didn't object knowing it would be pointless. They were led through the hangar of the Astray's, and led into a separate hangar where the Hydra stood beside the Combat, which Ryan noticed had wings attached to it's back, Hydra itself looking the same as it was left, but it no longer had the bazooka attached to it's back.
"So did you do any work while I was gone?" Ryan asked eyes narrowing towards Erica who shrugged it off.
"We haven't done the external changes yet they're currently under construction but all the internal changes are done you just need to program it in." Erica answered, Arli watching the two interestingly.
"Does the jammer work?" Ryan quickly asked, Erica nodded while Arli blinked in slight confusion. Ryan saw this and decided to explain. "The repairs were actually upgrades to Hydra, including N-jammer canceller technology. Ryan said.
"It's nuclear powered then?" Arli asked to confirm, Ryan nodded. "Why would you want it to be nuclear powered?
"ZAFT probably have made the technology by now anyway." Ryan argued, before remembering something. "Did you say there was an attack coming up?" Ryan asked out of topic.
"Yeah ZAFT are going to attack Panama tomorrow, apparently Alaska are moving all their forces there for support." Arli answered "Why?"
"No reason, but since I am still with the Earth Forces I need to get there. But I'm not planning to go until tomorrow." Ryan said back, looking over to Hydra, which looked as if it was standing at attention. "Guess I better program all those changes on the OS." Ryan continued waving off the other two and using the foot rope to get to the cockpit, and quickly began typing away to install all the updates.
"I hope you don't mind us repairing the Strike and Astray in here." Erica called out form the floor, Ryan stopped typing to look out, seeing the Astray on supports being repaired on, as was the Strike.
"Why would you repair the Astray, I doubt I'm going to use it again." Ryan stated, looking down at the technician.
"The OS on that suit makes it the best Astray here, plus we found a few good pilots and one of them will be using it." Erica answered, smiling slightly.
"Not those girls, when I fought them they were hardly cannon fodder."
"No not them although they have improved, we can still continue with the changes on your suit if you want." Erica offered.
"If you don't mind although I doubt you'll have them done by tomorrow." Ryan said back gratefully before going back to his work. Erica just smiled to herself before turning back to telling the other mechanics what to do. By the time Ryan had finished all the adjustments to Hydra and preparing it for the other upgrades, if they ever got done, it was well into the night so he just fell to sleep in his seat, not very comfortably.
Ryan awoke slowly and quickly heard the Orb workers still fixing the two machines, then the sound of someone calling him. He looked out to see Arli standing at Hydra's feet, looking distressed.
"Ryan the attack has started, it turns out it was Alaska they were attacking!" Arli shouted out.
"I'll head there, the Archangel is most likely part of the defence." Ryan called back preparing to launch, Arli quickly ran to the launch controls, opening the over head hatch. As soon as the last hatch opened Hydra took off without warning and flew out to the open skies, the legs folding in and charged of towards the Earth Alliance base.
The attack on the Josh-a base raged on with the Earth forces fighting valiantly but slowly began to lose numbers to ZAFTs overwhelming forces. The Archangel was at the head protecting the main gate firing it's weapons frantically at any ships or mobile suits that came too close, it would've been easier for the legged ship if it had any mobile suit or armor pilots. A DINN was able to fly past it defences and about to attack the Archangel's bridge from it's side, before it fired a fighter jet quickly took out it's firing arm before finishing the suit.
"Captain the aircraft requests permission to come aboard." Sai informed Murrue who quickly granted it and ordered more commands after that as more targets closed in. The fighter jet landed in the hangar of the ship, the pilot, Mwu La Flaga, quickly jumped out surprising the crew, and before they had a chance to speak had rushed out and return moments later in his pilots suit and jumped into the ship's remaining Skygrasper, Murdoch got back to his senses and barked orders for the hatch to open, the Skygrasper rocketed out with the launcher pack.
"Mwu what are you doing here? I thought you were-" Murrue began having made contact with the aircraft.
"I changed my mind. Captain we need to get out of here the base has a Cyclops system under it and plan to activate it!" Mwu shouted to the Captain, who was immediately became shocked by the news. "I saw it with my own eyes the base command was abandoned, the defence is just a decoy to lure ZAFT in." Mwu continued trying to persuade the Captain for them to leave the battlefield. Murrue sat there shocked and undecided.
Hydra had made quick progress and was nearly within the battlefield, as explosions of ships and mobile suits could be seen over the horizon. Come on, let the Archangel still be in one piece. What the-Hydra swerved out of the path of a beam shot, as the Hydra look-a-like phased, in the buster rifle in it's hands ready for another shot. Hydra drew it's beam sword, ready to attack. "Not you again! Who are you?" Ryan demanded but got no reply from the pilot, instead the black Gundam fired the buster rifle again, Hydra moved out of the way and charged it attempting to stab it's enemy in the chest. The demonic suit swiftly moved out of the way and placed the buster rifle in the skirt armour and grabbed the scythe from it's back the red sickle blade igniting. Both Gundams charged the beam sword clashing with the red sickle, both trying to throw one another off, the black gundam kicked Hydra back and phased into thin air as Hydra recovered but remained where it was, unable to determine where the winged Gundam was. The sensors blared as the look-a-like appeared behind it the Scythe raised above it's head ready to strike down it's opponent. The sickle blade fell, a seed exploded in front of Ryan's eyes as Hydra turned to it's Hyper form and brought out it's second beam sword blocking the attack and slashing with the other, grazing it's arm as the twin retreated back. "I've had enough of this, tell me who you are!" Ryan shouted trying to get a response. The pilot responded showing their face on one of Ryan's smaller screens, he immediately recognised the person.
"D-Dad, you alive?" Ryan stammered not believing his eyes, at the silver haired man with blue eyes. He nodded although he didn't smile. "Why did you attack me, why didn't you tell me earlier." Ryan demanded his relief slowly becoming anger.
"Because I needed to see how good you had gotten, Ryan, and you wouldn't have attacked if I had told you. So why are you with the Earth Forces?" Ryan's father asked disappointment in his voice.
"I was hoping it would lead me to Muruta Azrael one of the people who sent our family their deaths, I've been doing that for months tracking down those responsible." Ryan answered without hesitation.
"Have you not been attacking anything else?" He enquired Ryan shook his head. "So you didn't give in to your rage, well done."
"Yeah but I need to get to that battle I need to save the Archangel." Ryan said quickly, Hydra moving to get to the base.
"The legged ship why?" Ryan's dad asked, moving his Hydra in front of Ryan's.
"You remember Nicol? He's on the ship and so are the other friends I made on there, I have to save them other wise they'll be slaughtered." Ryan answered quickly
"What would you do then?" He quickly asked
"Well, go to Orb since there would be no point in staying with the Earth Alliance. I know Orb didn't allow our family to enter their country but if they did they would've been attacked and more families would've suffered!" Ryan shouted back, knowing his father would argue. His father looked at him blankly trying to think of something to deter him. "That's why I've been taking down the ones who want to influence the war, if they have their way more people will suffer like we have, then it becomes a matter of who exterminates who first!" Ryan shouted Hydra pushing past Demon Hydra, both it and his father looking on as Hydra joined the battle.
The Archangel continued chipping away at the ZAFT forces, the Captain having made the decision to leave the battlefield, having completed it's objective of luring the ZAFT forces in. The Skygrasper after taking down several mobile suits received damage on it's wing and forced to return to the hangar. A GINN suddenly came in front of the bridge the mono-eye staring into the bridge then brought it's rifle up, preparing to end the legged ship. Murrue eyes became wide in horror, as did everyone else, Kuzzey trying to make a break for it out of the bridge, as the GINN was about to fire the rifle was torn in half by a beam shot from above, a black and white mobile suit with blue wings came down from the skies and beheaded the GINN with it's beam sabre.
"This is Kira Yamato, I'll cover you hurry and escape!" Kira said to the crew, who were staring in disbelief. Several mobile suits noticed the newcomer and surrounded it, Kira was about to shoot them, but beam shots quickly took them all out, Hydra quickly came into view for all to see.
"He's not the only one I'll cover you too." Ryan announced having heard the message and relieved that Kira was alive.
"Kira? And Ryan?" Mir asked to no one, having not caught on like the rest. The Freedom entered it's HiMAT mode as the rail cannons on it's hips and the plasma cannons on it's shoulders all showed themselves, Kira targeting mulitple suits and fired all it's weapons at the same time, disabling the targeted suits. Hydra did the same, using it's buster rifles, Gatling guns, shoulder cannons and chest beam cannons to take down many mobile suits quickly.
"There's a Cyclops system under the base, they plan to use it wipe us out, we didn't know anything of it!" Murrue informed them, still slightly shocked from the news herself. Kira quickly got over his shock and prepared to fire again, Ryan scowled but continued fighting the ZAFT forces, slashing DINNs in half with it's high energy beam weapons and it's heat rod.
"Attention all ZAFT and Earth Forces a Cyclops is about to be activated all forces retreat! I repeat there is a Cyclops system under the base all forces retreat!" Kira informed all forces hoping it would work. Not all of the forces took heed of his word and continued attacking, more of ZAFT forces entering the base through the main gate. The Cyclops system activated. The Archangel quickly retreated away from the growing explosions as did the Hydra and Freedom, as did other forces, although not all were lucky. Mostly ZAFT's forces were caught up in the massacre quickly killing many as well as those that served the Earth Alliance. An ominous silence took over the battlefield bringing it to an end the Archangel making it's way out of the line of fire.
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