DISCLAIMERS/NOTES:Go look at the past chapters. It's all there.
A/N:Dudes/Dudettes, Athrun and Cagalli NEVER separated! They never specified that they did. Besides, Athrun said that they didn't have to take it so fast and that he would wait for her before they left to space. Also, they have a pic of the official couples and they were KxL, AxC, and SxL. Although I prefer Shinn and Stellar than with Luna. She's too old for him.
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…Archangel: Onsen…
"…sigh…"
"Lacus?...What's wrong?" Cagalli asked as she dipped herself in the hot springs with a towel wrapped around.
"Oh!.. it's nothing.. Hehehe…"
Cagalli made a 'yeah right' face. "Lacus… is it about Kira?"
Lacus' blushed and tried to hide her face but Cagalli already saw it. "Wha…what? No no…it's-"
"Lacus…" Cagalli came over and sat beside Lacus on an artificial rock. "…are you worried that he doesn't feel the same way about how you feel about him?"
Lacus held her hands up and stuttered, "No no! It's not like that!"
"Oh!... I get it." Cagalli gave Lacus a hug. "It's okay. I'm sure that Kira loves you as much as you love him." Lacus' eyes went wide and relaxed. "He might not admit it yet, but the way you two show affections for each other, that's proof that you two are lovey doveys. I know this had been on your mind for a while… Kira still has feelings for Fllay." Lacus turned her face away. "He just needs a little more time, ya know? After all the things that he went through and the guilt he carries for trying but couldn't save innocent lives. Lacus, I know Kira loves you so much. So… just give him a little bit more time, okay?"
Lacus hugged her back with a smile, "…sigh… you're right. I shouldn't even be thinking about that at a time like this. It's just the way you and Athrun portray your love for each other… I can't help but feel a little jealous. Hehehe…"
"Hey, we are girls aren't we? All girls and boys should be thinking about that and not be in a war. And there wasn't a time that I wasn't jealous about you. You were engaged to him first and he kissed you first. And that you are waaayy hotter than me!"
"Heh… really? Hehehe..."
"Hey Lacus…"
"Hmmm?"
"You know how you said that I have the capacity to embrace a child?" Lacus turned to her as Cagalli was caressing her flat tummy. "I believe that you have that capacity too." Lacus blushed. "Lacus…will you be my child's godmother?"
A feeling arouse from within Lacus. A feeling that she hasn't experienced in such a long time. It was the feeling of joy. Lacus' eyes were full of happiness as she embraced Cagalli. "I would love too." Cagalli smiled.
The two girls relaxed in the hot springs as the warmth and comfort of the water soothed their whole body.
"Cagalli… I kinda knew that something was going on with you when you began to have headaches and kept on having fainting episodes."
"Really?… See… you would be a great mother if you sensed something like that."
Lacus blushed. "I..It's a girl's intuition."
"Sure it is," Cagalli giggled.
Just then, Kira and Athrun walked in. The two boys blushed really hard.
Cagalli whispered to Lacus and smiled at her. She got out of the waters and took Athrun with her. But before she left, she grabbed Kira by the ear and deathly whispered, "You better kiss her soon or there will be consequences." She let go of his ear and dragged herself and Athrun out. Kira just stood there in a state of a shock but then took a glance at Lacus whose back was turned from him. Kira went into the springs to join her.
He didn't know why but he just suddenly had the urge to embrace Lacus. His strong muscular arms wrapped itself around Lacus' body causing her to jolt in shock. Kira buried his face in her neck and whispered, "Lacus…"
Feeling that he wasn't going to do any weird stuff, Lacus relaxed into his arms. She adjusted her neck so Kira and herself could get comfortable.
"Kira… guess what?" Kira lifted his face to stare at her. "…I'm going to be a godmother."
Kira's eyes were filled with happiness. "That's great! You'll be a fantastic godmother." Lacus smiled at him.
There was a moment of silence. They both didn't know what to say to each other and the silence was making them both feel awkward. At times like this, they wish they were like Athrun and Cagalli. Sometimes, they would get jealous about how many things they have to talk about. Breaking the awkwardness, Kira decided to speak first.
"Lacus…I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier." Kira looked away in shame.
Lacus turned to him and gave him a smile. "It's okay. You were just protecting Cagalli. If it was me, I would be yelling at everyone myself," she giggled.
Kira smiled. He knew Lacus would forgive him but was he thinking selfishly about having Lacus all to himself and taking advantage over kindness?... Yes he would, because not only had he fallen for someone that was pure and sincere, but an angel from the heavens.
"Ummm… Lacus…how do you … you know… feel… about me?"
Sensing his nervousness, she remembered what Cagalli said. "Let him break it to you first. It's his job after all." "How do you think I feel about you?"
"Is she teasing me? Cause if she is…I like it." "Uhhh… I think…" Lacus brushed away the wet hair from his eyes and let her finger fall slowly down his cheek. Kira was getting tingly and he saw that Lacus was somewhat smirking at him? He let out a big breath and took a deep breath in. "…Lacus… I…I like… I like you...a lot."
Lacus blushed and felt all tingly inside. Kira shyly looked away and Lacus smiled at him. She embraced him and whispered, "…I love you too."
Kira's eyes went wide in shock. It's not a surprise that Lacus can decipher what emotions you're feeling but to Kira, it's different. He hugged her back tightly and said, "..I love you Lacus… I love you so much." He could feel Lacus smile against his chest. He broke their hug and gazed deep into Lacus blue eyes. Kira nervously asked like an innocent boy, "Lacus… may I…may I kiss you?" He felt he had to ask since Lacus wasn't like any other girls. She is ZAFT's princess.
Lacus caressed his face with her hands and pulled him close as Kira was doing the same. Their lips were an inch away, "You don't have to ask, Kira." And with that, Kira brought his lips down to hers and kissed her with a lot of passion. A kiss that wasn't anywhere near the same as the kiss he shared with Fllay. This kiss… was the kiss of true love.
While Lacus and Kira were enjoying the moment they were sharing, they didn't notice that someone was peeping on them through the curtains.
"…sigh… finally," Cagalli said as she moved away from the curtains and let the two lovebirds be alone.
"You know… it's not nice to spy on people."
"Psh!...says you."
Athrun smiled at her and made his way to where she was. He hugged her from behind and kissed her forehead. "You know… when you pulled me away from them, I thought you wanted to… you know."
Cagalli gave him a face, "Is that all you think about?"
"Right now…yeah."
Cagalli pushed herself away from him. "I came here to relax and clear my mind. Not to be making out with you."
Athrun chuckled at her state and embraced her back into his chest and he felt her smile against his chest. "So… how you feeling now?"
"Mmmm… better. Although I'm still a little scared. About being a mom, ya know? Oh! I asked Lacus to be our baby's godmother."
"Really! She would be a great mom, just like you."
"I know she would be… sigh… How are the others?"
"Well, when you were in surgery, worried like hell. But right now, they're fine and went back to the Minerva. Stellar wanted to stay and be here with you and the baby but she said something that she made a promise to Kira to watch Shinn. By the way, I heard Shinn went to speak with you."
"Yeah he did. I was actually nervous cause you know… it's Shinn. He wanted to apologize for all the things that he caused me and congratulate me for our baby. I told him 'thank you' and that it was totally understandable, but it seems that he won't get over it that easily. I told him that he has Stellar to look after now and that she depended on him so he shouldn't be going all depressed over what he said and did to me…sigh… Stellar's so young and innocent, she shouldn't be involved in this war."
"I know what you mean. No one should be in a war at all."
"Yeah… a war only messes people up and destroys innocent lives. Just like how I know someone who totally messed up and almost lost everyone."
"You're never gonna let that go are you?"
"Nope! Just like how I'm NEVER going to let go of a certain someone dressed up like a girl gone wrong."
Athrun's eyes widened in complete shock. "You saw those pictures!! HOW?! WHEN?! WHERE?!"
"Dearka sent them to me. I heard about this when I came back to the Archangel from Miriallia and she told me that if I was to find anything and I mean anything scandalous, it would be from Dearka."
"Soooo that's what you asked him for when you typed him an e-mail a while ago… Uhhh! I thought Dearka was worst about not letting this go but now you… I'm sooo not gonna survive both your wraths."
Cagalli laughed, "I was going to use those pictures as an example to all men out there if they were to betray anyone they love or care about."
Athrun just smiled at her and in the same time felt like burying himself behind close doors for the rest of his life cause of the pictures. But when he really thought about it, he did deserve it.
"Whatever makes you happy, Princess."
"Awww… if you're cool with it then it wouldn't be any fun. I'm gonna have to think of something else," she giggled.
"That's okay. I have things up my sleeve."
"Oh? And what's that?"
"I don't know… Maybe a certain someone playing dress up with Stellar and another in a very nice looking EA uniform with a ZAFT belt." Athrun took a side peek at Cagalli and saw her face in shock. He smirked at her.
"H..How?!.. .When?!"
"I have my ways."
"Argh!" Athrun chuckled at her. Cagalli heard him laugh and she too giggled. "I guess we're both even. But I think mine is better than yours. Ain't I right?" Cagalli stopped giggling when she felt Athrun's sad gaze. She caressed his cheek and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's…It's just that… I did a bad job protecting you. I almost lost you again."
Cagalli smiled. "You didn't. I'm here ain't I? And look… I'm fine… see? I'm almost completely healed. And Kira agreed that you and I share rooms so we could take care of the baby together. He's soooo careful with me," she said, rubbing her tummy.
Athrun hugged her tight. "I'll protect you better."
She hugged him back, "…sigh…"
"You know… I didn't want to say anything but… back at Orb, when you fainted… I thought you were having a relapse."
"You know… you're not the only one who mentioned about me passing out. Lacus and I talked about that but in a totally different way."
"You've been having headaches and fainting lately haven't you? Even when we were at the former PLANT coliseum?"
"Would you get mad if I said 'yes'?"
"…sigh… why didn't you say anything?"
"Cause if I did, you and Kira would've made me stay at Orb. I know how you two are."
"True… but you still should've told me."
"Yeah… I should've. And the difference between you and Kira is that you could be reasoned with by me!"
"That's true. I'm a total sucker for your wrath."
"Indeed you are!" Cagalli giggled. Athrun gave her a surprise kiss and caressed her flat tummy as they both relaxed in the springs.
"I still can't believe that I was pregnant for that long."
"Could that be why I was soooo 'attracted' to you during that period? Even now?"
"Maybe… but I'm sure it's cause you're a perv."
"Or, that I love you soooo much I couldn't help myself."
Cagalli giggled as she splashed water at him. "Perv."
"I'll show you a perv." Athrun smirked as he and Cagalli began to have a water fight as Athrun chased her. Their screams of laughter echoed throughout the room. Lacus and Kira smiled at their direction. Those two lovebirds were so in love.
Cagalli's towel began to unravel itself from its owner and she quickly caught it in time and fixed it. She looked up to see Athrun staring at her with a dazed expression. He suddenly caressed her face with his hands touched her nose with his.
"Be careful… or I won't be able to control myself."
Cagalli smirked and lifted an eye brow, "Oh really?" With that, Athrun dove in and captured her lips and they both disappeared into the water.
The two soon-to-be-parents kissed passionately as they came up from under the water. Cagalli's arms wrapped around his neck as Athrun caressed her waist as he brought her to him as close as possible to his chest. He let one hand slither down her body as it slowly went down under her thigh and brought it slightly up. At that moment, Cagalli broke away from their kiss and slightly pushed Athrun away.
She giggled at his confused and shock look and in the same time, trying really hard to resist his hot look. His hair wet and dripping to his face and washboard chest as it was pulled down from the water and gravity. "Athrun… not here. They're going to hear us. Especially when Kira and Lacus are on the other side." Athrun pouted with a sad look. "Nice try though… you almost got me off guard."
"B..But, we haven't done it here before. It's totally different from a tub and I still have one more."
"Nut-uh… you can experience it when we get back to the mansion."
"But it'll be forever till we get there!"
"No sex for you."
Athrun pouted like a child whose mommy wouldn't buy him candy. Cagalli giggled and wrapped her arms around his neck as she went right up against his chest. As she did so, Athrun wrapped his strong arms around her waist.
"But…" her nose was touching his, "…you can kiss me how ever you like." Athrun looked at her with a pouty face still on. "But that still doesn't land you any pleasure. No matter how intoxicating your kisses get."
Athrun did a tiny sneer but replaced it quickly with a teeny smile. "Ehh! Better than nothing!" He swooped down and captured her lips with his and instantly began an extreme make-out session with his one and only. Cagalli smiled against his lips and he felt it making him kiss her with even more passion as he slipped his tongue into hers and she moaned at his actions. He moved to her neck but soon went back to her lips since that is where there's more sensual contact.
"Mmmmm…maybe this one I'll let go." Athrun smirked against her lips, which she felt, and kissed her with even more passion than before.
He spoke against her lips, "...Maybe…. we should…go…to ….our room."
The only response he got was a smile against his lips and an increased amount of passion.
CODE RED! CODE RED! CODE RED!
"What's going on?!"
"Captain! It's a message from ORB!"
"What's it say?!"
"It says that they're under attack by the Earth Forces!"
"What?! Why?!"
Suddenly Lacus, Cagalli, Kira and Athrun came rushing through the control room doors.
"What's the emergency?"
"ORB is under attack by the Earth Forces."
"What?! Why?"
"We don't know and neither do they… Something is up. They wouldn't just suddenly attack them knowing that we're up here."
"Captain! Team JOULE has margined the PLANT borders."
"Wait a minute… if Yzak's team is margining the borders. This means that he knows something isn't right."
"What do we do? We can't just turn back to Orb when we're this far out and very close to Yzak."
Kira thought for a minute. "We have no choice. We can't go back to Orb. From all we know, this could be a trap from Lord Djibril. We're gonna have to keep moving to where Yzak's at and hope that Kisaka could handle things."
Cagalli knew it couldn't be helped. As badly as she wants to go help her country, Kira's right that they're already too far out. She had no choice but to keep on going and pray that Kisaka could fend them off.
"Let's go."
Everyone looked sadly at Cagalli. They continued their destination. Suddenly a cry from Miriallia was heard.
"CAPTAIN! A HUGE SOURCE OF ENERGY IS HEADING OUR WAY!"
"WHAT?!"
"IT'S COMING AT US REALLY FAST!"
"The attack on ORB was a diversion. EVADE NOW!!"
The Archangel tilted to its side sharply as everyone held on to anything. They gassed as much speed as possible as they tried to get out of range. They barely survived as the heavy energy hit one of their tails that caused a major explosion damage to their ship. When they were in safe range, they gazed at the screen.
"Captain! The energy is bending and fanning out!"
"What?! How?!"
Everyone looked before the screen and in an instant witnessed something that was nothing like what they've seen before. A feeling of déjà vu smacked to each and every living person in this universe.
"Jesus God…"
The beam of energy light bended towards one of the PLANT'S major cities: JANUARIUS 1 and 4 slicing through it clean in half as the light faded after impact. The PLANTS slid off each other as smokes of explosions erupted from the fallen PLANTS. But something inevitable happened during the moment JANUARIUS 4 exploded. As it fell to it's destruction, a part of it's half collided with December 7 and in turn causing that PLANT to be destroyed and adding the body count to another million.
Everyone stood in shock at the sight before them. There was nothing they could do. All they could do was watch as the fallen city exploded with the screaming cries of innocent victims.
The crew was rushing and running around the ship as they tended to the injured and tried to fix the damaged ship and making sure that none of the gundams were damaged.
In the control room, there was a three way communication underway.
"Everyone's completely devastated. Shinn's furious and Stellar tried to hold him down from acting rash. He almost went out with his gundam."
"We've lost many soldiers who were caught in the blast. Many of our surviving soldier's families were in Aprillius," said Yzak.
"That Djibril. He was building this in secret all this time. Even when ORB knew there was something up in space, they couldn't figure out what it was with the Earth Alliance heavily guarding their territory."
"Requiem."
Murrue turned her seat to Neo as everyone else looked at him in confusion.
"It's called the Requiem. It's just like the GENESIS from the previous war but much more advanced. It has the ability to bend energy towards any target by using a costumed cylindrical asteroid ring that are built with a special kind of metal that reflects and fans the energy from asteroid to asteroid towards it's target. There are a total of four of them. Just like the GENESIS, it needs to change mirrors every time a blast has been fired. And to shoot at a certain target, the rings need to move and angel itself towards the target. The Chairman didn't know any of this.…. I'm…I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier. It was in the early stages of construction. I didn't think that they would finish it this fast and that it slipped my mind."
"You…YOU! BECAUSE OF YOU! WE'VE LOST MILLIONS OF INNOCENT LIVES!"
Dearka held Yzak back away from the screen. "GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF! IT'S NO POINT IN YELLING AND BLAMING ANYONE NOW! WHAT'S HAPPENED HAPPENED! WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON HOW TO BRING IT DOWN! COME ON!"
Miriallia was shocked at Dearka's angry state. Sure he's a complete dumbass and acts like a total freak but never in her life did she think that she would witness him be like this. She always thought that he would act in a calm manner.
"Dearka's right. We can't pursue the Chairman right now. We have to focus on bringing the Requiem down. We can't let another PLANT and innocent lives be destroyed by that thing."
They all looked in silence at each other. When suddenly, Neo began to speak again.
"Just in case it slips my mind again and while it's still fresh in my head. While I was still back at the EA, they had blueprints of a new gundam. It's called NECROPHADES. I only took a glance at the prints but got a lot out of it. It's apparently really advanced with deflector mirrors, energy absorbers, and some kind of thing that makes them go really fast. Like at the speed of the Justice and Freedom and the accuracy is supposed to be just like them too. I'm thinking they made a Justice and Freedom like gundam, Earth Alliance style. And I don't know about the pilots. They're probably going to use the EXTENDEDS."
"Damnit. We have to deal with their new gundams too?!"
"The god of darkness."
"Huh?"
"Necrophades. You know, Zorc Necrophades from Egypt?"
Shinn displayed a huge amount of confusion. "I don't get it?"
"Didn't you learn anything in History class? Anyways, Zorc Necrophades first appeared in ancient Egypt some stone ages ago. He was some kind of evil worshipper. They say that if some kind of extreme disaster or a form of extreme evil comes about, he would be reborn to the modern world."
"He already is born to this world. And he took form of two different people. But Necrophades being reborn or not just seems highly unlikely. It's just that these two leaders of different races are characterized like that guy. I'm sure that Djibril only named these new gundams after him cause he represents the dark side. " (A/N: I got that from Yu-gi-oh! LOL!)
"Wow, for someone like you, you know your stuff. I like you Suntan Boy."
"Oh shut up."
"We have no choice then. Whether they made these new gundams or not, we can't let it slip out of our minds. We'll assume that they already made these gundams and we're going to have to wait and see what it could do."
"….sigh… Alright, my team will go and retaliate back those assholes and take down the rings. Yamato, you and the Archangel stay behind us. We can't afford to have you guys get damaged since you still have to accomplish your goal. You're the only ones who could stop this. Minerva, I'm not sure what the Chairman still thinks of you guys, but judging by right now, he still thinks that you're on his side. Make sure you don't let him know what you're doing and when you're having a video confrontment, don't let him see Stellar. Either wise, I don't know what he'll do."
"No problem. I know Gil inside and out."
"Good-"
"COMMANDER! THE CHAIRMAN IS MAKING A WORLDWIDE SPEECH!"
"On screen!"
Dullandal's face appeared before everyone's eyes.
"I AM SURE THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE WITNESSED THE TRAGEDY THAT HAS BEEN BESTOWED TO OUR KIND BY THE EARTH ALLIANCE. I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS KIND OF ACTION. OVER AND OVER AGAIN THE EARTH ALLIANCE HAS CONTINUED TO ATTACK AND DESTROY INNOCENT LIVES. ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS TO LIVE IN PEACE AND BE ACCEPTED FOR WHO WE ARE, BUT THE EARTH ALLIANCE AND EVEN ORB STILL FAIL TO ACCEPT US. AND USING THIS VILE WEAPON AGAINST US IS ULTIMATELY INHUMANE. I WILL NOT LET ALL THOSE WHO HAVE PERISHED UNDER THEIR HANDS BE IN VAIN. IF THIS IS A FIGHT THEY WANT, IT IS A FIGHT THEY WILL GET. AS OF NOW, ZAFT WILL TAKE DOWN ALL OF THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEAVE US AT PEACE. FOR ZAFT!"
"He does hold some truth into that. But we still can't allow him to destroy everyone for the sake of his DESTINY plan."
BEEP BEEP BEEP
"It's a message from the Chairman…. He wants us to destroy the Requiem."
"I got one too. It says that even though I don't trust him, he wants us to protect the PLANTS from any incoming attacks and also destroy the Requiem at all costs. He's using the 'protect the PLANTS' tactic on me."
"Either way, we can't let the Chairman do whatever he pleases or let the Requiem fire another shot. Too many innocent lives were lost and I don't want not one more to join them. Follow what Yzak said previously and let's end this war together."
Everyone shook their heads in agreement.
"Just you wait Djibril. You'll be so sorry for firing that thing."
It had been a long fifteen hours and the gang had finally arrived at their positions. They were really close to the borders of the Earth Alliance and as suspected, they were heavily guarded. Each cylindrical ring were protected by the brand new made advanced gundams; the NECROPHADES. It seems that the Earth Alliance had already finished making their new gundams after all.
ORB had placed their troops at the outside border of the Earth to prevent any attacks from hitting the earth grounds. Their special Op forces were further ahead to assist allied troops.
Each squad slowly inched their way towards the Earth Alliance and with in seconds, the battle began with the Earth Alliance making their first move.
Down at Earth in the naked human eye, you would see bright lights dancing in the night sky with many colors. It would look as if a fireworks display is taking place when really, a deadly battle of life and death is in full throttle. The occupants in the inner blueberry (a.k.a. Earth) could only watch from below as their loved ones fight for peace.
DESTINY was up against the brand new NECROPHADES. The EA's new machine had equivalent speed as the DESTINY's.
"Argh… their too fast!"
"Shinn! Behind you!"
"What?… Argh…"
Rey took out his saber and tried to slice the Necrophades but because of their new mirror reflectors, it did no damage.
"I can't cut through it!"
Kira and Athrun were both going through the same problem. Nothing was working against the Necrophades. Not even when Kira, Athrun and Shinn were in SEED mode. Kira sent a text message to the Archangel to see if they found any more information on the Necrophades.
Miriallia came into view. "You guys… The Necrophades is incredible. Attempting to strike it with the saber won't work neither shooting at it. The energy absorber is encrypted into the mirror reflectors. It'll just absorb your attacks and it seems that the pilot could use that energy and send it back at you. Their speed is powered by nuclear energy."
"They haven't done that yet."
"Kira, I'm going to go test it out."
"Athrun!"
Athrun didn't listen as he flew towards five incoming Necrophades. He shot randomly towards them in order for them to split from their form. He took his chance to a nearby Necrophades and shot three times at it.
The Necrophades, as Miriallia said, absorbed the energy and something started to form in the middle. A mini circle of bright light gradually went bigger and within seconds blasted out its chest and straight towards Athrun at an enormous speed.
Athrun was trying to fly away as fast as possible but it seems that he would get hit. Kira came in just in time and grabbed Athrun's arm and flew off with triple the speed and the blast just missed Athrun's left leg.
"Phew… Thanks Kira."
"No problem… Now that we saw it in action, we have to figure out how to take it down without killing the pilot."
"Yzak! Kira said-"
"I know! We have to do something! Djibril is getting ready to fire the Requiem!… ARGH!!… Out of my way!" Yzak took down some of the simple gundams that the Earth Forces were still using. "At this rate, we'll never make it!"
"Yzak! Shiho's in trouble!"
"What?!" Yzak turned around and saw that Shiho was struggling against three Necrophades. Yzak finished off the other gundams, not caring to save the pilot, and fought his way to where Shiho was. "SHIHO!"
"Commander!.. Arghhhhh!…" Shiho was shot from behind and one Necrophades in front was just about to shoot her cockpit. Shiho widened her eyes in shock. Just then, a beam came flashing down between them and the Necrophades backed up. Shiho looked to see that it was Yzak. "Yzak…"
Yzak smiled at her but threw his attention back at the Necrophades. He observed the battle before his eyes and didn't know what to do. His own forces were being annihilated and not one Necrophades went down. Yzak was soon joined by Dearka, Athrun, Kira, Neo, Shinn and Rey.
Shinn yelled. "We have to do something!"
"Don't you think we know that?!"
"You guys! Shut up! We have to figure something out!"
"Kira! We found something!"
"Mir! Hurry up! What is it!"
"The whole body of the Necrophades is unscratchable. But there's only one part that doesn't have a lot of the concentrated barrier. You have to attack from just under their cockpit!"
"But… that'll kill them."
"I know… But there's something else. We've detected another Necrophades but with completely different properties. It seems that it has more power and it's bigger than the other Necrophades. If you take that one down, then the rest of the Necrophades power would revert to a regular gundam."
"So we have to take out the mother ship. I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to take on the mini ones with Yzak. You guys try to find the mother ship." Yzak only smirked. Dearka knew him so well. Yzak wouldn't mind taking out a person's life as he was trained to do so. He does feel guilty about it, but it was either him or them. This applies to Shinn and Rey as well.
"That's a good idea. Dearka, you and Yzak make your way to one of Requiem's rings and take it down as planned. Neo, go with them to back them up."
"Got it! Let's go, Joule! Old man!" Dearka smirked at his own words as he, Yzak and Neo took off. He felt as if he was lording over Yzak this time. Of course he knows Yzak would get him for it later.
"Old man? I'm not that old!" Neo yelled back only to hear Dearka laugh through the intercom. "…Kids these days." Neo smirked.
The rest of the guys went to where the Minerva and Archangel were. All those two ships could do was defend themselves. There attacks weren't fast enough to compete with the Necrophades, but they were able to take down the other gundams with the help of ORB and Yzak's forces.
"Fire the lohengrins!"
"Captain! One is still damaged from the Requiem!"
"How long till repairs are done?"
"It's only at eighty percent! If we use it, it'll be useless to use it again."
"Lock on target and fire the missiles!"
"Target locked on!"
"FIRE!"
Missiles were shot from the Archangel and went straight towards a couple of Necrophades under cockpit.
"We got it!"
"Talia…how are you doing?!"
"We're okay, except that we've sustained heavy damages. Most of our weapons needs repair and are immobile."
"We'll back you up!"
"Right!"
The battle continued for hours and the guys were able to take down a couple of Necrophades but their numbers were too great and its speed is still tops. It's useless to take on this many with only a few men. Even for an Ultimate Coordinator and ace pilots. But their determination to end this war was even greater, giving them the adrenaline and will to take down all those who gets in their way.
"Lord Djibril! The Requiem is almost complete! We're at seventy percent!"
"Good… When it hits ninety, fire it at those abominations!"
"Yes sir!"
"This is going to end it all and I'll be god! Muahahahha!"
"Argh…just a little more. Almost there…"
Yzak took down another Necrophades and is just so close to one of the Requiem's rings. But was soon blocked with ten more other Necrophades.
"Damnit! Out of my way!" Yzak attempted to slice it but it's mirror's absorbed it's energy and threw it back at Yzak which he dodged just missing it.
"ARGHHH!!"
"DEARKA!"
Miriallia heard Yzak's cry and immediately switched to Dearka's screen. Her eyes widened as Dearka was shot from the front and smokes flew out.
"DEARKA!"
Dearka shook his head from the impact and gave her a thumbs up and a smile. "I'm okay." Miriallia's eyes let up as her worries left her. She touched the screen, tracing his face, which only Dearka saw.
Yzak came to his aid and blasted the Necrophade away. "Dearka! You okay?!"
Dearka moved his gundam and he did sustain some damage from the front making him an easy target, now that his front cockpit was weakened. "It must be my birthday. I had the girl of my dreams show concern for me and now my best friend."
Yzak shook his head at his comment. Even though they were in such a bad position, Dearka never ceases to add a joke. "Dearka… you're such an ass." Dearka only smiled.
"Hey morons! Stop clowning around! The Requiem is gonna fire soon!" shouted Neo as he was battling.
Yzak and Dearka broke their positions and went back to their goal.
"Yamato! Did you find it yet?!"
Kira was busy with five gundams. "Arghh…no! I'm kinda in a loop!" Kira kicked one gundam and it flew to the other four smacking them all away. Just then, Kira noticed something. "What is that?"
There was a lone Necrophades in the middle of space and it was indeed much bigger than the other ones. It was darker in color; almost matching the color of space. "No wonder we couldn't find it…. YOU GUYS! I FOUND IT!"
"Kira! The Archangel!"
Kira heard Athrun's voice and saw that the Archangel and the Minerva was being pummeled.
"Lacus!" Kira flew straight towards the Archangel with Athrun as they flew in top speed.
"Captain!" screamed one of the crewmen. Murrue only looked in shock with her eyes wide as saucers. Lacus, Miriallia, and Cagalli gasped and only looked in shock before them as did the other crew.
The Minerva too was facing the same thing. Both ships stood in position as there was nothing they could do. Their ships were too badly damaged. Meyrin screamed with her eyes closed as she, Lunamaria and Stellar covered their heads. The two Captains tightened their grips.
Two Necrophades aimed their guns at the ship's main control window and you could see the energy being collected into a single point in their guns.
They all waited for their deadly fate with eyes closed when suddenly…
"DIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!!"
Murrue opened her eyes to see the Akatsuki come up from underneath the Necrophades and blasted its gun right under their cockpit, destroying the gundam. Same goes for the Minerva when the DESTINY came into view.
"Whew!… Almost got you there huh?…" smirked Neo.
"You guys okay?!" screamed a concerned Shinn.
Talia sighed heavily from relief as she returned a smile. "Thank you, Shinn." Shinn smiled at them and went back to the battle. Talia turned her chair towards Stellar and smiled. "You are a very lucky girl." Stellar blushed, while Meyrin and Lunamaria felt jealous.
Athrun and Kira sighed in relief when they heard Neo's voice. "I got it covered! Get your ass back out there!" They both smiled and thanked him as they went to find the big Necrophades.
"It's right there!" shouted Athrun.
"Athrun, you go directly to it! I'll come up from behind!"
"Got it!"
Kira flew out as Athrun went straight towards it. The Necrophades saw it and took out its saber. And soon, Athrun and the Necrophades were in a saber battle.
"I see… you're size is limiting your speed."
Athrun continued his saber battle to distract it from seeing Kira coming up from behind him, taking out his own saber. Just when Kira was about to strike it, the Necrophades flew up and Kira nearly sliced Athrun.
"What the hell?!"
It seems that the Necrophades saw Kira coming up from behind it. Just then, Kira and Athrun received a call.
"Miriallia!"
"You guys! There's no one in there! It's computer automated! I detected no heat source or living object within!"
"That explains why it dodged my attack."
"Kira! I have a plan!"
"What is it?! Hurry up!"
"If I'm right…Kira, remember what we learned back at the moon? Our project about jamming signals from a distance?"
Kira thought about it and his eyes went wide. "Oh yeah… Just like the function of a heart. If we send out multiple random jammer signals, the computer would receive every one of it all at once, overloading it's memory and stressing it to work harder to receive more of the signals and eventually exhaust itself and..-"
"That's right…boom."
Kira smirked. "Leave it to you who would remember things like that."
"Shut up… That's because it was my hobby," smirked Athrun. "…and it was me who figured it out."
"True… I was always letting you do the work. Since you love to work that brain of yours."
"Wouldn't talk."
Kira and Athrun exchanged nods with a smirk and soon, went off to finish the mother Necrophades.
Meanwhile, Dearka and Yzak were busying trying to make their way to a nearby ring. They were just so close but the Earth Forces are doing everything in its power to prevent them from destroying it.
"Arghh… Damnit… We'll never make it!"
"JOULE team! I'll make way for all of you to get to the ring. Destroy it with everything you got!"
"ROGER!"
"Yzak let's go!"
Yzak and Dearka were taking out the Necrophades as they were better at destroying them than the others. The JOULE team finally made their way to the ring and tried with all it's best to break the metal strip that was surrounding the ring. But something was wrong.
"Commander! It's not breaking!"
"What?!"
"Could it be that it has an energy absorber as well?"
"Damnit!… Even if so, that thing can't absorb all energies, right?"
"What are you saying?"
"All right! Concentrate all attacks at a single point! That should overpower the barrier and crack the metal!"
"ROGER!"
"Ohhh…I get it."
"You weren't really smart to begin with, Elsman."
"Hey, I am smart! I just didn't want to stress my brain. Besides, I let you have the opportunity to figure it out so you wouldn't throw a fit if I thought of it first."
"Uh-huh…sure… Now shut up and destroy them!"
"No killing remember."
"PSH!"
"My lord! It seems that ZAFT has reached one of our rings!"
"WHAT?!"
"The barrier is weakening!"
"Fire the Requiem!"
"We can't! It's not complete yet!"
"I don't care! Just do it!"
"If we do it, it'll reflect damage to ourselves! It'll be useless!"
"DAMNIT!"
"Athrun! Behind you!"
The Necrophades just missed Athrun with its saber.
"Kira, do we have enough to confuse it?"
"I don't know… but to be cautious, I sent a text message to Rey and Shinn."
"Right… their gundams are just like ours. We're the only ones with the neutron jammer system."
"They're waiting for our signal."
"Ready when you are."
"Okay… All right! Send it now! Right into its chest!"
The four gundams took their stance and immediately sent their jammer wave signals straight directly into the Necrophade's chest.
The Necrophades stood at its position and you could see ripples of energy being absorbed right into its chest. It began to shake and discolor and soon it just floated in mid air.
"Did it work?"
"I don't know."
Suddenly the Necrophades took motion once again and began to attack Kira and Athrun with twice as much speed than before. They both dodged its attacks and they found themselves only defending against it as the Necrophades was just too fast to even land an attack on it.
"I didn't work!" yelled Kira as he dodged another attack.
"Wait! Look!"
The Necrophades began to shake really badly and was crunching into a ball and then stretching out back. The whole body began to glow red and the bright light was getting brighter.
Kira and Athrun backed away from it as soon as it began to discolor and within seconds, an explosion erupted from the Necrophades as the shock waves were sent throughout the solar system.
"We did it! It worked!"
All mini Necrophades suddenly de-colored into a darker color after the destruction of the mother ship.
Shinn looked before his eyes and hit the air with his fist. "They did it!!"
"Well I be damned," smirked Neo.
"That's great! Now let's finish this!" said a smiling Rey.
"They did it! All right!"
Murrue and Talia smiled at their cheering crew.
At the same time, they ordered, "Let's finish this!"
"Chairman! Team JOULE is attacking one of its rings as we speak!"
Dullandal smiled evilly. "Good…" He stood up from his chair, glanced out the window and began to hum a tune.
"All right! They did it! Whoo hoo! Now we can take them down easily without killing them!"
Yzak sighed a heavy sigh. "Now I don't have to feel bad about killing the pilot when I could now just immobile them."
"What's this? The all-mighty Joule feels for someone?"
"Shut up you ass! Let's just hurry up and finish this!"
"Aye, Captain!"
They went to finish off the remaining gundams that was attacking their team. The metal ring was almost broken as cracks could be seen but they needed more time. While they were taking down the Necrophades, they noticed that even when their barrier was gone, they were still tough to handle. Just then, Kira and Athrun joined their team and were helping them take down the gundams.
"Great job guys!"
"You too!… What's the status?"
"It's just about there, but they need more time. It also seems that even though the Necrophades barrier is gone, they got skilled pilots behind the wheel."
"Extendeds"
"Yeah… I thought of that too."
"Dearka, you go help them out. Athrun and I will do the rest. Where's Yzak?"
"He was just here a minute ago."
They looked around and saw Yzak far out near the Earth Alliance's base.
"How did he get there?!"
"He must've got there while attacking the others."
"That idiot."
"There's no time to chit chat. Hurry up and help them Dearka!"
"Right!"
Dearka flew to his team and began to blast at the already red-hot concentrated point of the ring. His blast began to crack the ring and soon everyone began to fire all at once into that single point.
…Georgie Porgie pudding and pie…
"My lord! The ring!"
"FIRE THE DAMN THING!"
"It's not completed!"
"My lord! A ZAFT gundam is near our base!"
"Take it down!"
"We're trying!"
Yzak was firing everything he had at the Necrophades and was beginning to get really frustrated.
"Eighty percent!"
The JOULE team was almost there.
"Eighty-three percent!"
…kissed the girls and made them cry…
Cracks began to get bigger and bigger.
"Eighty-five percent!"
Athrun and Kira joined Dearka and aimed their guns at the hot point. Energy began to collect.
"Eighty-eight percent!"
"Arghhhh….!!" Yzak took down the remaining Necrophades and glanced at Earth Alliances base. "You…" Yzak hissed menancingly as he flew extremely fast towards them. "DJIBRIIILLL!!"
"Ninety percent!"
"FIRE!!"
The Requiem began to collect energy with insane speed and fired its gamma rays to one cylindrical ring as it bounced off to the next.
…when the boys came out to play…
"COME ON!!" screamed Dearka. The whole team including Kira and Athrun aimed their guns and at the same time blasted all at once to the already cracking metal and finally after an exhausting effort, the ring cracked in half and began to slide off each other. Just when the gamma rays were coming towards them, they all backed away from range and the energy went through the ring and disappeared as the ring was destroyed and there was no support to send the energy.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" screamed Djibril.
Just then Yzak came into view at the window and pointed his gun at them. Djibril shrieked in shock.
Yzak stared blankly at the window and whispered one word.
"Die."
He blasted his gun at Djibril as the whole room was engulfed in flames with explosions. All you could hear was the cries and screams of victims and the once Lord of the Earth Alliance.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
"…Georgie Porgie ran away. No wait… died. I think that's how it goes," smirked Dullandal.
A/N: How was it guys? I didn't take me 6 months this time. LOL! Most of you asked if Cags was having a relapse or dies. In my fic, there is one thing that NEVER happens; the death of a main character. No way! ... Unfortunately, for those who haven't realized yet, that this fic will be coming to a close soon. I'm seeing two or three more chapters left. ToT NOOOOOOOO!! Don't worry, I have another fic in mind. Some oneshots and other anime stories. All based on ASUCAGA and other couples from other animes. Probably mostly GS though. XD
I've just watched Paradise Kiss and was shocked at the ending. Yukari doesn't end up with George! Well... in my fic... THEY WILL! I'm gonna make an alternate ending for that show! It's sooo good! ... ALSO! Have any of you read "Vampire Knight?" It's really good!! ZERO and KANAME is soooo HOT! But my favorite is AKATSUKI KAIN!! OMG! His hair makes him look soooooo SEXY! Oh! They're making an anime for that show too! It will be aired for the first time on April 7th! I'm soooo excited!
I'm trying to speed up all my fics and oneshots and stuff before school starts cause I know that I won't be able to update for a while with the homework they're going to give me. No, I don't use paper cause I think it's a waste. I only use one paper for notes for all my fics and type stories out from scratch in my head. But I NEVER leave a fic undone. If only my dumbass siblings can leave me alone to type away. They don't know I'm an author. If they find out, they'll make fun of me endlessly and think lowly of me.
BTW, any updates on the GSD movie? I found out that they're releasing the FINAL PLUS dvd in english in April. What about for GS! It's sooo much better!
Oh yeah... the editing process was such a pain. If there were some mistakes, don't blame me. Stupid fanfic won't save my underlining stuff.
I love to babble... !CHEERS!