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Chapter Eighteen

Lunar Battle Part One

Lunar Space

Doomsday

Kira watched and saw it was time, "Fire!" Kira shouted as Willard gave the other and the payload was released as all fired on those coordinates.

Kira watched as the ships had no chance as all were wiped out, the range of the Doomsday's other weapons was too much.

Kira saw the destruction and after taking a few of his pills he gave the final order, "All machines launch," Kira said as the hanger was open and he led the way as the Armageddon and his team launched.

All over mobile suits were being launched and all ships opened fire.

Kira's Team

The four machines of the Doomsday were launched as Kira immediately came on the wire to them.

"Your mission is to clear an opening for the Doomsday to fire, clear the path in front and do not fail me," Kira said very serious.

All three acknowledged though Kira detected malice in Shinn's voice but that was fine with him, the more the younger pilot hated him the stronger he would get.

Basically Kira gave them orders to do as they please, as long as when it was time for the Doomsday to fire it had an open path, it mattered not if anything was in the way as it would just be wiped out with it, but Kira gave them the hard task as if they were going to be apart of his team then they had to constantly earn it.

The three split off as Kira slightly smiled looking at the alliance scramble to get into some sort of formation, Kira accelerated the Armageddon to top speed as he flew straight at them, but Kira was looking for only one thing, and as he looked at his radar he spotted what he wanted.

Minerva

Immediately after the order Talia ordered all their weapons to be fired at the ships close in range, for the moment the alliance looked like lambs to the slaughter, it was clear they were not prepared for this attack, though as she got a clear picture of what was ahead she saw they had plenty of ships and it wouldn't take them long to get into some sort of formation so it seemed that the commander wanted to take as many down as possible before them, but as Talia looked he was way out ahead in a almost suicidal position as he left them in the dust.

Zaft Fleet

Like Kira's orders stated they launched all their machines and opened fire with their cannons.

The new models of Zaku's and Gouf's were launched, there were also older models of Ginn's and Cgue's but very few as most of the military was upgrading to the newer models, but all were launched, and started moving in.

Doomsday

Willard watched as the four top machines launched and he then gave his orders.

"Helm, move us into position," Willard said looking over to his tactical officer.

"Ready all weapons and counter as you see fit," Willard said looking down at Sarah.

"Keep me in contact with the commander so I can report the moment we are ready to fire," Willard said looking back over to the screen.

The alliance was off target but he saw them starting to regroup a little so he knew they would have to be ready.

The bridge crew did as they were told and readied themselves.

All the doomsdays cannons were out and missile pods were opened, nothing was getting through this defensive front, but what was truly impressive was it could still assist in the assault as well as the range of the weapons was quite large so they would open fire as they saw fit.

The Doomsday kept on course as it had to get into range, and all ships were making sure it had the room.

Alliance Fleet

Total disorganization was what was apparent in the alliance military for the moment, ships were struggling to get into formation and to make matters worse when the Zaft fleet opened fire they took out several ships and were breaking through quite easily.

Girty Lue

Once Neo got word of the attack he had his ship move out as quickly as possible.

When Neo got to the bride his captain was waiting for him.

"What is the status?" Neo said quickly taking the command chair.

"They broke through our first line with that massive ship alone, our ships are organizing and are now are starting to return fire," the captain said.

"Contact headquarters and order all mobile suits to intercept, that should provide some cover for us to get our ships organized, we are heading out as well," Neo said.

"What about the Orb fleet?" the captain asked.

Neo looked over as the Archangel was also powering up, "They will take the point once we are organized, the same strategy applies, have them launch their machines."

"Yes sir," the captain said about to run off but Neo stopped him.

"One last thing, have our pilots ready themselves as well," Neo said.

"…But sir they are…" the captain was saying but Neo cut him off.

"This is as good a time as any, they will be fine, have them launch," Neo said as the captain acknowledged and carried out his orders.

It wasn't long before Neo head out, and it wasn't very pretty out there either.

Archangel

Once Murrue saw that Fleet on her monitor she knew this wasn't going to be easy, and what made all worse was the massive ship in the rear of the field.

Cagalli was on the bridge and Athrun had just left to return to the hanger, she was worried for him but it couldn't be helped.

"Captain, the alliance is ordering us to head out and join with the others…they want us to lead the assault," Miriallia said as the message came to her.

Murrue frowned, "This treaty keeps getting worse…but we have to stop that ship," Murrue said knowing all to well what was going to happen if they failed.

Murrue looked around as she gave the orders to head out; weapons were powered so they quickly made their way out ahead of the Girty Lue.

Once they got out they saw the Zaft Fleet approaching at high speeds, they only fired their opening round and since the formation was a complete mess since no one took into account Zaft would attack the damage was great.

They headed out and quickly joined with the Eternal and the rest of the Orb fleet.

Eternal

Since the Eternal wasn't docked it saw the fleet approach and it saw it's first attack from the one ship and it did do damage to a few Orb ships.

"That thing," Andrew said in disgust as not only was it a mass weapon but it could do damage like this as well.

Lacus looked on as a few ships blew up from their damage.

She had her eyes focused on the main ship.

That was when they got the orders.

"They are ordering us to take the lead and attack head on," Dacosta said.

Lacus looked at them, "No, we must not get in that path," Lacus said as she knew the alliance was putting them in the sacrificing position as if that cannon fired they would be wiped out with it.

"Going against orders," Andrew said as that was what he was planning to do anyway.

Lacus looked ahead as now all Zaft ships opened fire.

"This isn't good," Andrew said as now they were launching their mobile suits.

"Captain the Archangel is joining with us," Dacosta said.

The Archangel joined with them as the Orb fleet looked the most organized out of the alliance Fleet.

Girty Lue

Once Neo got out his orders were being carried out as the ships launched all their mobile weapons.

Daggers, Windam's, and mobile armors were all launched blindly from all ships, this was a sacrifice strategy that would hopefully by them enough time to get their battleships into formation to stand a chance of surviving, the alliance only hoped Zaft would keep their attention on the incoming mobile suits long enough for this to take effect.

"Have my own suit prepared for launch," Neo said back to the captain.

"Yes sir…what about the other three?" he asked quickly.

"Not yet," Neo said as he didn't want those machines to launch just yet.

Zaft Fleet

After the alliance mobile suits started launching, Zaft had no choice but to intercept, many captains knew the alliance was just sacrificing them to get themselves into some sort of ready position to stand a chance of winning. Though they knew of the plan they still had to deal with the suits first.

All captains ordered their mobile suits to intercept as they were still pushing forward; this was not going to stop them that easily.

Mobile suits from each side charged at each other as all collided in a fierce battle, beam rifles were fired, missiles were launched, beam sabers connected, and explosions were heard to the fallen.

Both Nazca and Laurasia class ships fired at the suits that were getting to close, but mostly they kept their course up heading for the alliance ships.

Minerva

Talia ordered her pilots to launch as well, Arthur was giving tactical orders while they were nearing the Orb fleet.

Once they got the order to launch Heine, Shiho and the rest launched to intercept.

Once they were out they charged into battle, but something was making one of the pilots check radar for something.

Orb Fleet

Eternal

Once the Archangel joined with them Murrue's face came on screen.

"Captain Ramius what is the situation?" Andrew asked.

Murrue looked at him, "The orders are to defend the front and launch all machines to intercept."

Lacus looked at her, "We mustn't do that captain."

Murrue slightly smiled, "I was thinking the same thing."

Cagalli joined in, "We have no choice but to launch our machines however, but that is as far as it goes, we have to bring that ship down."

Lacus hesitated but agreed, that ship couldn't be left to roam free, "We should order the fleet to follow us, it will take all our strength," Lacus said looking at the screen.

All were looking at the screen when they saw what came out of that large ship.

All immediately froze when they saw the Armageddon flying straight out and right for them.

By this time all mobile suits from the alliance and Zaft had just clashed.

Cagalli got on the wire quickly and ordered all her captains to launch machines to intercept, it was apparent that Kira set this fleet up to defend that warship, so they needed help getting close to it.

From all Izumo class ships, mobile suits were launched, Astray's and the newer Murasame's were launched and they quickly went to join in the battle.

Archangel

Athrun's face came on screen, "We are ready to launch," Athrun immediately said.

Murrue gave the go ahead, "You are cleared."

"I'm serious be careful out there," Cagalli quickly said.

Athrun slightly smiled as he signed off.

The Archangel opened its hanger and the three machines immediately began to take off.

Cagalli watched as she knew they were heading in an extremely dangerous situation, not only was Kira heading straight for them but the other three were right behind them and it would likely take all three just to handle her brother.

Cagalli looked back up at Murrue, "Have my machine ready as well."

All quickly looked at her.

"Miss Cagalli that…" Murrue said but was cut off.

"We have no choice, just do it," Cagalli said.

"That machine is outdated now Miss Cagalli, you can't expect to go up against them with that," Murrue said quickly.

Cagalli shook her head, "We have no choice."

Murrue allowed it but hoped it wouldn't come down to that.

With Athrun and his so-called team

The Savior and mark two Duel and Buster flew off to intercept.

Yzak immediately looked at the radar; it seemed he was checking for something.

Athrun saw the machines ahead as he knew he had to stop his former friend, but decided he would speak to him one more time.

Athrun got on the radio to the others, "I will try one more time, keep your guard up and be ready."

Yzak came on screen, "Do as you wish, but first I have something to take care of, I will join you again shortly, I suggest you keep him talking until then," Yzak said not waiting for a response as he flew off.

"What was that about?" Athrun asked as this wasn't the time to be messing around, but then again Yzak never messed around so whatever he was doing had to be important.

"Let him go, I believe he found who he was looking for," Dearka said.

Athrun nodded a little as they moved forward and found their target after several explosions, and another signal from behind.

Eternal

The Eternal led the way as they were heading straight for that ship, Lacus saw what was happening and she wanted another chance to talk with Kira as well, she only hoped she would make it in time before the suits engaged, for everyone's sakes.

Andrew looked ahead and the path to the Doomsday was not easy as several Nazca and Laurasia class ships were in the way, not only them but that new Minerva as well, this wasn't going to be easy and to top it all off, those four machines were in-between those, this was just great.

Alliance Fleet

They were losing suits left and right, but it bought them the time they required as they were finally able to get into formation to defend themselves.

Drake and Nelson class ships made up the front while the Agamemnon ships blended in the rear and sides. They were finally able to return fire and now it looked like full out war, but stakes were extremely high.

Their orders were the destruction of that massive ship, but all the other Zaft ships were defending it well, not to mention that massive ships long range as it was firing at them to, this wasn't going to be easy at all.

Girty Lue

Neo's ship was the closest to the Orb fleet and he saw them take action, they weren't heading for the front but he didn't expect them to follow orders so easily, however when he saw what was coming ahead he believed now was the time.

"Captain, launch those three immediately," Neo said as four deadly machines were heading right for them and Neo knew they had to have the advantage so joining these three with the three the Archangel launched that should be enough.

All three quickly launched.

Neo's Team

Sting was calm, Auel was looking for battle and Stellar was just following Neo's orders but as soon as they launched they were not holding back as all three flew off straight towards those machines.

"Time to show just what I can do," Auel said hasty.

"Remember our mission, we destroy that ship," Sting added.

"Piece of cake," Auel quickly answered.

Stellar said nothing just followed them.

Their machines were not really as good in space as they would be on earth but they weren't worried about that.

Kira's Team

With Kira

Kira was out ahead of any of the mobile suits, and as he was one thing kept entering his mind and it was the destruction from the first war, he could hear it all, destruction, sadness, and most of all fear. All these symptoms only enraged him further.

With a quick flick of the visor Kira downed a handful of his pills, after swallowing he returned his visor as he saw alliance mobile suits right in front of him.

"Little toys," Kira said as he moved to intercept.

The pilots were looking to counter the attack but they didn't expect this machine to be in front of them.

The targets were two Windams and three Astray's.

As soon as they saw the devil machine all aimed and readied to fire.

Kira's only response was a small smirk.

All five machines opened fire as Kira didn't attempt to dodge as soon as the blasts hit his armor they were sent right back at them.

With all five machines the beams they fired went and connected with their own beam rifles taking all five rifles out.

"C…commander," one said.

"Don't hesitated and attack," the commander of this squad said but one look made his own hands tremble as he clutched the controls.

The pilots went for their alternatives as all five pulled out their beam sabers.

Kira could sense their fear it was apparent in their movements.

Kira left his own beam rifle in its spot as the mobile suits hands reached and pulled out two of the four sabers attacked to the hip.

After Kira he accelerated at full speed right for them.

The pilots panicked a little at the speed but Kira did something strange to them.

Instead of attacking he piloted and stopped right in the middle of the five in a deadly position.

The commander saw a chance, "All of you attack," he said on his radio.

Kira waited and saw them head straight in.

There were two at his rear, two on the sides and one straight ahead of him. Kira knew that the one on the right rear and right side were the closest but the others were following.

Getting in a ready stance the two charged and both delivered slashes straight at Armageddon. The first slash Kira dodged looking at ease as the second one he spun the machine behind the second on and delivered a kick from the Armageddon's leg straight into the back of the second machine making it connect with the first.

As that was happening, the other two on the left side were near and Kira had his back to them, but he was well aware of what was going on.

The other two both tried to stab straight into the suits torso but Kira's machine was far more maneuverable as he turned around with lightning speed and blocked both thrusts with his own two sabers but as he did it he knocked them both off balance and Kira then activated the shoulder plasma beam cannons that lifted over the shoulder and were aimed straight at both cockpits.

Kira could only smile as he pulled fired both cannons and the shots went straight through both machines and immediately destroyed them.

The commander saw what was happening to his pilots, and was enraged, but no way was this guy in Kira's league.

The other two regrouped as the commander ordered them to surround him, but Kira still had the edge and now Kira put away one of the sabers leaving him with only one.

The commander knew that meant he held no respect for his team.

"Attack the rear," the commander said knowing this machine was deadly in a head on attack.

The two once again came for him, but now Kira was done with this little game, with the Armageddon's speed he met them even before they could charge him and Kira delivered the first blow straight into the cockpit, the attacked vaporized the pilot immediately and as Kira pulled away the machine blew up.

With only two left, Kira headed for the other one, this one had enough and was looking to retreat.

Kira smirked again, "Always finish what you started," was all Kira said as he reached for his shoulder with his free hand and pulled out the beam boomerang and launched it straight at the fleeing machine.

The pilot caught it on radar but as soon as he saw it the boomerang cut the machine in two as the commander heard his pilot's scream across the radio.

"One left," Kira said as he saw the commander charge straight at him, obviously enraged.

Kira only smiled as the commander got right up to him and started his slash, but Kira wasn't giving him the respect of blocking an attack, instead Kira swung his own saber and it immediately cut the commanders in half.

The commander was stunned, but Kira didn't stop the assault after the saber was destroyed and from the head down the Armageddon's saber cut the commanders machine in half.

With the final explosion Kira lightly laughed, this was what he had to do, destroy them all, make them all pay for what they have done, mankind must perish.

Kira wasn't in his own world for long as now he spotted what he wanted, as the Orb fleet was making their move towards his ship. Leading the way was none other then the Eternal.

Kira only smiled as he quickly took a few more pills, and flew straight off towards them, their were a few Alliance ships in the way but he could handle that, it was now that his team caught up with him as well.

With Kira's team

All three tried to keep up with their commander but Kira wasn't stopping for nothing, he went straight into the heart of battle.

They met a little resistance as well.

Rey and Luna were met by a Drake class ship which they easily demolished while Shinn took care of a few daggers and Windams of his own, there was no way Kira was beating him today.

All three rejoined as they went to catch up to their commander, Kira's orders were to clear out the center but Kira was doing that himself for the minute and as they flew towards him all they saw was destruction that he left behind.

With Kira

Kira saw one ship blocking his path to what the source of his misery was and he didn't waste any time on it. The ship opened fire and Kira easily dodged the attacks and as soon as he had the opening the wings on the Armageddon split apart as the eight dragoon blasters were launched but as they were both the two Plasma beam cannons lifted over the shoulders, both rail guns on the hips were raised and as the dragoons moved into position Kira fired them all.

The dragoons hit all over ship breaking the haul apart. The rail gun blasts hit the engines, and the plasma beams blasted straight through the bridge.

The ship soon blew up afterward, as Kira returned the dragoons to the wings.

That was when Kira got a radar alert of two machines, both he knew of the mark two Buster and the Savior.

Kira slightly smiled as he team caught up with him and three more signals were coming from behind the Buster and Savior.

Kira went to the radio, "Make yourselves useful and handle those three stolen machines," Kira said as he recognized the signals from those Gil built and Andrew stole.

The three got their orders, "Yes sir," both Luna and Rey said as they flew off.

Shinn said nothing as Kira seemed to be focused on those two machines.

Kira's Team

"We will each take one split up," Rey said over the radio.

"Roger that," Luna replied.

"Fine," was all Shinn said as he was getting cocky enough to want to take all three.

Rey led the way as he quickly met with the Chaos.

Luna found herself with the Gaia.

Shinn saw the Abyss and that was his as each went to intercept.

Alliance Orb Fleet

With Athrun and Dearka

Athrun and Dearka were heading for Kira and since no other Zaft mobile suit made it this far yet it wasn't hard to do.

They got the signature in front of them, as their was an alliance ship that was seeming to take fire all around, and after the blast to the engines and bridge the ship blew up, leaving the Armageddon right in front and staring straight at them.

"Found him sooner then I thought," Dearka said.

Athrun stared at the machine.

"He has company," Dearka added as the three other machines joined with him.

"He won't use them, he will fight us alone," Athrun added not taking his eyes off the machine.

Athrun was reaching for his com equipment when they got the three signals from behind.

"It's those machines," Athrun said as the three immediately flew past them.

Dearka saw the others going to intercept.

"The three are breaking away," Dearka said.

"So you want us to yourself do you?" Athrun said with a small touch a malice, he was angry Kira was doing this, and that wasn't sitting well with him for the moment.

"What now Athrun?" Dearka said.

Athrun stared at the machine

"Wait here," Athrun said.

"Are you crazy?" Dearka asked.

"I will not make the same mistake I did in the first war, if there is a chance we can avoid this…I must take it," Athrun said knowing the long shot that was, but it was an action he had to take.

Dearka let him go as he kept his finger on the trigger.

Neo's Team

Sting led the way as they saw the four machines in front and with their instincts they were looking for the first target they could find and it turned out to be Kira's team.

"Three of them are breaking away," Auel said as they were moving to intercept.

"It is expected that we prevail we will each take one, now go," Sting said as each of the machines split off and Kira's team did the same as each of them found a target.

With Yzak

Yzak saw the situation, first it was strange to fight against the same force he served so loyalty, however there had to be a reason he and the rest were targeted that day, he only hoped that finding that person would get him some answers.

Yzak broke away from the fleets when he ran into a few Zaft mobile suits that were catching up to the fray.

Yzak hesitated at first but once they raised their weapons at him, Yzak had no choice he aimed his own beam rifle but taking a page out of Kira's old book, Yzak fired and took out their mobile suits heads and arms holding the weapons.

Yzak wasted no more time as he flew off leaving them there, he spared their lives which was something he would of never of done in the past, but he did it now.

Yzak continued on as he saw the ship Minerva to his port side, the mobile suits were already launched as they seemed to be guarding the ship and out of freak luck he spotted the signature he wanted.

Yzak then made his presence known as he hoped the person would know it was him.

With Yzak and a Minerva Pilot

The mobile suits guarding the ship got that signal as it was heading straight for them.

"This is different," Heine said on the radio as he didn't recognize the signature, the machine wasn't registered in the data base.

Shiho looked at the monitor and she immediately recognized the machine, and the signature, "Commander Joule," she said but not over the radio, it seemed her search was a failure as he came to her.

Shiho came on the radio, "Leave it to me," Shiho said flying straight off.

"Are you sure, wait a minute," Heine said but since he couldn't leave the ship he had to let her go.

Shiho flew straight for him as she activated her Zaku's axe, and charged straight for him.

Yzak watched he slightly smiled, but knew they had to put on a show here.

Yzak removed one of his sabers and quickly met with her as they weapons connected as they remained locked.

Both Yzak and Shiho switched frequencies.

"Commander Joule, I didn't think I could find you," Shiho said as they put on a good show since the Minerva and others were probably watching.

"What is going on inside Zaft? First that attack takes out many of my squad and now the chairman's death, what is that new chairman up to? I know it's not good," Yzak said as they had to be quick.

"Things have gone crazy sir, first the new chairman orders us to do a full out attack, but I don't think it will stop here," Shiho said.

Yzak quickly filled her in on everything he knew.

Shiho was almost shocked, "Are you sure that is the goals sir?"

"Yes, it has been confirmed," Yzak replied.

Outside it looked like they were dueling, going back and forth but they couldn't keep this up forever.

"I have only heard weird things about commander Hibiki, for one thing my captain doesn't trust him, he apparently killed one of the crew when she countered him, so I guess he is capable of these things," Shiho replied.

"I need you to keep me informed about the events taking place, we have to stay ahead of the game if any of us are to survive," Yzak said.

"I could make this public sir," Shiho said.

"You will get no support, in fact they would get rid of you, we have to play this smart, stay alert and I will find a way for us to be in contact," Yzak said.

"Yes sir commander," Shiho replied.

"Prepare yourself," Yzak said as he moved his machine and quickly broke their stance and swung at her machine slicing the axe in half as he charged his suit into hers knocking her off balance and as that happened Yzak flew back off heading back towards Athrun.

Shiho knew he did that for show and she returned to the ship as well.

"That was foolish," Heine said as she returned.

"Sorry sir, but it is gone," Shiho said falling back in line.

Heine suspected something else was going on, but he returned opening fire on mobile suits that came near.

Zaft and Orb Fleet

Minerva

As they fired on the Minerva saw a few ships they only heard about in legend.

"Ma'am is that the legendary Archangel?" Arthur asked.

"Not only that but the Eternal as well, amazing," Arthur said again.

"Ma'am, commander Hibiki…" Meyrin still had trouble saying that name, "Is engaged right ahead of us."

Talia saw the destruction he left ahead, but with orders she had to do what she had to do, "Target the Archangel and fire," Talia said.

Arthur gave the orders as they opened fire.

Archangel

When the Orb fleet caught up with Athrun and Dearka there were several Zaft ships there as well and one was the Minerva.

Cagalli had her eyes on Athrun, but that soon changed as the Minerva fired its Tristons straight at them.

"Evade," Murrue said as Newman successfully evaded the shot.

Murrue looked at the screen as the Doomsday was getting closer, and she had to make a decision.

"Tell the Eternal to keep course, leave this to us," Murrue said as Miriallia got on that and told the Eternal what Murrue said.

"Aim Gottfireds and fire," Murrue said as their battle began.

Eternal

Dacosta relayed the message as Lacus was hesitant but it was the best course.

"Maintain course towards that ship," Andrew said but they soon had a small problem, as the ships that were behind the Minerva weren't assisting it and were heading for them.

Two Nazca class and one Laurasia class ship was moving to intercept them.

"We won't make it," Andrew said as they had to engage.

"Open fire," Andrew said as the Eternal was now engaged in battle.

Lacus let them handle the battle as right to the side she saw Kira, and she couldn't take her eyes off of what was going on.

Doomsday and Girty Lue

Girty Lue

Neo saw the two most powerful Orb ships were now tied up so it was up to him and his ship to stop that massive warship. Neo looked around for alliance assistance but the battle was not going their way and all ships were either engaged in battle or they were destroyed.

Neo observed the center was clearing out which meant that was where the ship would fire it's as some now called death cannon.

"What do we do sir?" the captain said.

"We have no choice, watch out for the range and head for that ship, we will end this," Neo said as he sat back and they headed right for the ship.

Doomsday

The Doomsday stayed on course as they didn't have a problem yet; no alliance mobile suit or ship was able to get close. Willard however fired at range as was dropping things left and right, he also noticed the center was mostly cleared as Kira left the destruction in his wake but now he seemed busy as well.

"I want a status report?" Willard said as this was the first time they had to use their other weapons.

"Weapons are holding sir, no trouble at all," the tactical officer said.

"Engines are at fifty percent of capacity sir," the reactor operator reported in.

Willard knew that meant they could go a little faster, but since they were making good time with the cannon to soon fire, he decided to leave it as that.

Sarah quickly reported in, "Commander Hibiki seemed to change his communication frequency."

Willard looked at her, that was strange, why would Kira do that.

"Can you get it back?" Willard asked.

Sarah typed and worked as fast as she could, "I…he seems to locked us out."

Willard wanted him on screen as he saw the situation, "I'm sure he has a good reason…we continue with our previous orders, get us into range."

"Yes sir," the helmsman said.

"Sir, we have a ship at two o'clock," an officer reported.

"Put it on screen," Willard said as they saw the Girty Lue.

"Foolish naturals," Willard said looking over to his tactical officer.

"Fire at will," Willard said.

"Yes sir," the officer said as he fired and now it was engaged in battle as well.

Plants

Ryu's plan for the media worked out well, he intentionally leaked what he was planning to do straight to the media and like he knew they were reporting on the matter, he even intestinally gave them access to some of the signals reporting to the ships and now it was being broadcasted in every Plant. Images of the entire battle were being played out, as citizens watched.

The images were mostly on Kira and the Doomsday.

People were becoming more and more aware of the Armageddon as it was becoming legendary among the pilots of Zaft, and many a hero to the citizens after the work he did in saving the Plant, building the warship that saved the Plants from a nuclear strike and now leading the attack that would assure no more attacks on the Plants.

All that was leaked intestinally to the public, and the public responded by looking at Kira the way Ryu wanted them to.

Aprilious One-Chairman's office

Ryu watched the battle and the public at the same time; everything was going as plan as he was showing the world just what Kira could do. He saw adults start to look safer and he saw children idolizing that machine. Everything was in place for that goal.

Ryu was preparing to address the Plants shortly as he would give plenty of credit to Kira and what he did, making the public see what he alone can accomplish was essential.

The other thing he saw was the battle was going their way and soon all of space would belong to them.

Ryu made sure the images of Kira once he got to his former team however were terminated as they just showed the Doomsday or the Zaft fleet, things would get intense with Kira fighting his former allies so he was cautious around that, but now Ryu would enjoy the show.

With Kira and Athrun

Kira saw the machine approaching as he quickly changed his communications frequency to match Orb's then he made sure his ship couldn't contact him; they didn't need to hear this.

Athrun was within range as he remained cautious, but it was Kira that spoke up first.

"Do you finally see the truth now?" Kira said.

Athrun knew he was gone, from one sentence that wasn't Kira anymore.

"All I see Kira, is the destruction you caused, the grief and hate you are creating," Athrun replied.

Kira slightly smiled as he established a visual link.

On the Eternal and Archangel they could also hear what was going on, but they had to focus on what they were doing; only Cagalli and Lacus could really pay attention.

"Such is the nature of mankind fool, history will always repeat itself until I change it," Kira said as the Armageddon now faced him.

Athrun stayed alert.

"You or anybody doesn't have the right to make such decisions Kira, I will…" Athrun said.

"Silence!" Kira shouted.

"I believe we did all are talking the last time," Kira said as a beam saber was drawn.

"I was hoping history wouldn't repeat itself again Kira, I didn't want to fight you but you are giving me no choice," Athrun said drawing his own saber.

Kira now lightly laughed as his visor was lifted, all on both ships and Athrun could see him, his eyes were emotionless, and filled with hatred.

"You are not worth fighting the way you are now, I want to fight the Athrun that fought the Strike on that island that fateful day, you remember don't you Athrun," Kira said.

That was striking a nerve.

"Right after your poor innocent Nicol was destroyed, you remember, my sword went straight into his cockpit," Kira said mocking.

"Shut up Kira, I will not fall for your sick mind games," Athrun replied.

"Such irony don't you agree, he died trying to save your life, but the thing was I wasn't really going to kill you," Kira said with a small laugh.

"He died for no reason, judgment was passed," Kira said again.

"I said shut up, what do you know?" Athrun said.

Kira smirked, "If only you told him the truth Athrun, maybe he wouldn't have died that day, you caused his death."

This talk was getting to him.

Dearka was getting tired of it as well.

Cagalli listened in disbelief.

Lacus shut her eyes as she watched the confrontation, her mind and heart were broken every time she listened to him.

"Enough!" Athrun now shouted.

Kira smiled again, "That is right, return to the person you were that day, prove my logic right Athrun, mankind can never change anger and hatred always win over."

Athrun knew he was playing straight into Kira's trick.

"I will eliminate every last natural, besides Athrun this was also your own father's goal, don't you think we are doing him proud?" Kira said again.

"This will not work Kira, I have had enough," Athrun said as he charged straight for him.

Kira shoved a few more pills in as he severed the visual link but they still had audio. Kira met his charge.

Cagalli had trouble watching as Athrun's suit was no where near on level with the one Kira had.

Lacus however listened to Kira's words, when he said naturals that confirmed he had something else planned, first humanity, then naturals then back to humanity, something was going on.

"You cannot stop the inevitable Athrun, everyone will die," Kira said as both beam sabers met in a deadly clash.

To be continued…

(A\N): This is mostly a set up chapter, The next part will have all the confrontations, I didn't want it all added in with this. See you later.