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Chapter Thirty

Victorian Campaign

Doomsday

Willard was monitoring everything from the bridge and after he got word that the resistance force was destroyed and their leader captured, he received word that the commander had headed straight for Victoria. After taking Victoria and getting the information they needed Willard knew they could leave the rest of Africa to the other forces and they could get out of here.

"They are escorting the prisoner back here sir," his operations officer told him.

"Is everything set up?" Willard asked.

"Yes captain, the commander's orders are to place him inside the tent and wait for his return," the officer replied.

Willard nodded, "Very well, proceed as plan…in the meantime how is my data coming along?"

"We are testing the cannon constantly sir, however we really won't know anything until the first shot is fired in this atmosphere," the tactical officer replied.

"Keep on it, when the time comes I do not want to explain to the commander why the firing is off," Willard replied as that was a death sentence.

"Yes sir," he replied as they continued working.

Private Floor

As soon as her duty shift was over Sarah returned to check on her children.

"How are they?" she asked one of the nurses.

"They are still very uncomfortable, this is their first trip to earth and they are still very young," the nurse replied.

She badly cursed Kira for this, taking them into a war zone like this, she didn't even understand why it was so important to him, and he never once held either of them. The only thing he ever paid attention to was the movements of their son, he studied his reactions and timing but that was it. Now she feared he was going to make them observe what he was doing, both children learned fast by observing and she feared he was going to train him to be just like him.

Outside

A secured base was finished by the time Kira finished attacking the city. They had everything set up for the interrogation of Sahib. A tent was set up with a bunch of monitors, a lone chair and a few other things but it wasn't like a normal interrogation like Kira did in the past, he didn't really have any tools to use, this was going to be something different.

The base saw the mobile suits return that left with Kira to the resistance base and in one hand was Sahib, the Gouf held him secured until they arrived and now he was lowering him to the surface where armed soldiers would take over.

The Gouf released him as the soldiers tried taking hold of him.

Sahib still had some fight in him as he struggled, however one belted him in the gut with the back of his rifle taking the wind from him. He stopped struggling as the two dragged him to the tent.

Once inside they tightly secured him to the chair as he regained his senses.

"What do you people want from me?" Sahib asked.

They however didn't answer.

"Who is in charge? I wish to speak to that man I saw," Sahib said again when he was decked straight in the mouth.

The soldiers never said as word as one went outside and stood guard while the other stayed inside and right by the door. They were ordered not to speak at all to anyone they detained, whatever the man did or said they were to ignore until a superior arrived to take over.

Sahib saw the equipment as he had no clue what was going on.

Tassil

With the city secured and resistance fighters destroyed people were allowed outside as long as they didn't get near the border of the town. Mobile suits were on constant watch and armed soldiers walked the perimeters, rumors spread of those destroyed before dawn and people just weren't equipped or prepared to fight back so they didn't.

The soldiers knew the virus had spread by now throughout the entire water system. It was just a matter of time now.

It was morning and people were now getting their water, so in about one hour's time it would take effect. For ten long hours they would be in agony.

For Kira that was his time window for Victoria, he had to have that finished and return to get the information from Sahib before people dropped like flies.

Soldiers and suits watched as people drank, once inside their blood system and after the hour the virus could be spread through the air as well, that wouldn't take long to infect the entire town.

One really watched family was that of Sahib, that was Kira's greatest leverage.

Near Victoria

With the forces set up outside, they were waiting Kira's order and it didn't take to long for him to arrive.

Kira used the Armageddon's speed to cut the time it took in half as he arrived in only two hours after he left.

When Kira arrived he saw his forces waiting as he landed right next to a Compton class ship.

Heading down all soldiers immediately saluted as they led Kira inside where a meeting was already in progress.

All captains saluted as Kira entered.

Compton Class ship

"What is the status?" Kira asked looking at the map.

"We are still undetected sir, we are still out of range from their long range radar," one captain said.

"What is the strength of the force?" Kira asked.

"I can answer that commander," the Special Forces unit that was picked up said.

Kira saw the men, "Report, I have limited time."

"Yes sir," the man said as they brought up a map of Victoria.

"They have no land battleships at all protecting this base, mostly just transport ships, mobile suits however go to about a hundred, mostly Daggers but a few Windams," the leader reported, "However their defensive forces are filled with artillery, tanks and fighters."

"Seems a little meager for a base like this," Kira said.

"The alliance kept most of their strength in the federation, panama and such, and Eurasia is holding their ground in their own territory so this was practically just a force to hold it down, nothing we cannot handle," the leader replied.

Kira looked at the map, "All we need is the mass driver in tack…have our aerial units keep the fighters and Windam's busy, our ground units will launch an attack on the daggers and artillery they have on the ground, I will personally take care of any anti-aircraft fire and the command center itself, as for the battleships you will head in as well and lure some of the suits out, make no mistake we take no prisoners, destroy them all."

"Yes sir," all replied.

"We move out in fifteen minutes, dismissed," Kira said as all saluted and those that had to left the ship.

Kira himself as he headed for his suit.

All ships, suits and aerial support readied themselves as Kira gave the final order and they moved in.

Space

Aprilious One

It has been almost two days since the attack begun and media coverage was now completely cut off. Everything that was taking place on earth was controlled by what Ryu wanted. All the people of Plant knew was that Kira had led the attack on earth and they were going to war to destroy the alliance forces, that was all the information people had, but once they heard Kira was leading many felt reassured and about ninety percent went about their daily lives as they trusted in the chairman and in Kira.

One thing that did occur that Ryu wanted was many were now taking an interest to what he proposed in his speech before all this began. Immediately after this started couples began looking into the ultimate coordinator facility in the Mendel Colony, and appointments were already being made. From what they saw and gathered, they wanted their children to become this new species, they wanted them to have abilities just like Kira had. Just like what happened after the news was released about George Glenn all those years ago, it was starting again and people wanted to take this next step. The firsts were couples that weren't able to have children at all; this was that chance they never thought they would have. Some that had concerns looked into the data that Ryu wanted all to have and saw it was very promising and they were seriously considering it. Others believed that this was the next step to take, they didn't like the idea of their children being born from a chamber, but with what Ryu said they hoped with more research they would be able to eliminate it eventually but for now this was the best path, the option was open for them to do this as well.

Basically the turn out was on par if not better for what Kira and Ryu thought. You did of course have the more radical coordinators that spouted it was wrong and all other nonsense like that but they were minority, in the future they would be ones Ryu would have shot on sight.

Chairman's office

From the moment the first decent to earth Ryu had been monitoring everything, military command was getting all the facts and transferring them back to him every few minutes.

He soon got those video links.

"What is the status of our occupation?" Ryu asked looking at one monitor.

"We have just received word from the commander leading the Australia campaign sir, they have successfully taken Carpentaria, and captured or destroyed all other coast line bases the alliance had recently developed," the officer reported.

Ryu slightly smiled.

"They are currently hunting down a few alliance forces that are trying to escape in land on the Australian continent, but they are boxed in and no where to go," the officer reported again.

"That victory was easily expected, what are the losses?" Ryu asked.

"Five percent losses at sea and fifteen percent land forces," the officer reported.

Ryu didn't like to hear those numbers, "How in the world did it get that high?" Ryu nearly shouted.

"Resistance was more then expected sir, besides our forces came in waves, the coastline was harder to breach then expected, but overall this was still a tremendous victory," the officer replied again.

"Twenty percent losses is a great victory to you? Do you think I can replace that kind of hardware overnight?" Ryu was now shouting.

"Most losses were older model suits sir, though the alliance wasn't at full force we had no secured airspace and no support from the land, many were taken down in the carriers before landing, and overnight our forces were at a disadvantage when fighting as most had never fought on earth sir, our estimates were a thirty percent loss so we did better then the strategists expected," another said.

"Tell them to finish what they are doing and regroup at Carpentaria, make sure they are in constant alert status for the Atlantic Federation," Ryu said angrily switching the monitor off.

Something told him he had to speed up this acceleration of the Doomsdays first shot on earth, he needed to strike fear back into their hearts, most probably don't think the cannon can be fired on earth so he had to show the power soon.

Turning to another monitor Ryu talked to another high commander, "I want better news."

"You shall have it sir, Commander Hibiki so far has successfully led the attack on the cities and crushed the resistance fighters, he apparently used the level five biological agent on the town," this one said.

Ryu raised an eyebrow, "Does he have the resistance leader?"

"Yes sir, the commander has released the virus on the town to inspire this man to give up the location of the mines, the commander is currently in route to Victoria, while sending the Minerva to scout their escape route in Suez," the officer replied.

Finally what he expected from Kira, results.

"Keep me informed and inform the commander to make contact with me once he has the location of those mines, they are needed more critically then I first thought," Ryu said looking over data he just received.

"Yes sir," the officer replied signing off.

Ryu looked over all the data, he was going to have to send in all reserves now as to face down and destroy the Atlantic Federation as well as to keep other areas at bay long enough to do what had to be done, he needed more forces.

He knew once Kira got into the main fight then things should go their way one hundred percent, and he would expect no less.

Victoria Base

Alliance Command Center

Basically the information they got here was scarce, they knew a Zaft invasion had begun but they got absolutely no orders since they took station at this base. When they arrived a few days ago they found a dead crew that the Zaft Special Forces left, that was suspicious but since then they had been reactivating everything at this base.

That was the same for all mass driver basses, when Ryu made the terms a year ago all abandoned the bases but stayed nearby in order to retake them and since Ryu announced war they had only two days since the speech before the invasion began and they were still in the process of getting everything together.

The man in charge of this base was a Major from the Atlantic Federation, he had been trying for days to reach their headquarters but nothing, it was almost as if they had been ignored or at worse abandoned.

Forces on the outside had been on alert since the invasion had begun and stepped up defenses, but they never expected this base to be hit first.

It wasn't long before the radar picked up the signatures of Kira's charge as he was now moving in.

"Major, we have incoming," the officer replied as they were now in long range radar.

The Major looked, "Alert all forces, how many?"

"The numbers are still coming in sir, unknown…" the man said trying to get the numbers.

The other base personal inside this control room were alerting the base as alerts went off, fighter pilots went to jets, mobile suit pilots went to their machines and all others went to their positions.

"I got it sir…fourteen land ships sir, mobile suit units unknown," the man said in a panic.

The Major about dropped his chart, "They are sending that many here, why is this base so important to them?" the Major said as it was a mass driver but they didn't have the forces to counter that, Zaft wasn't taking any chances on this base for some reason.

"Keep trying to alert headquarters, contact Eurasia at Suez if you have to," the Major said looking closely as the mobile suit units were being identified.

However he got an unknown for the one leading them all, and he was getting a very bad feeling about it as well.

"Alert all units, fire at will," The Major said quickly.

"Yes sir," all replied as they transferred the orders out immediately.

With the Zaft Forces

As soon as Kira crossed into their sensors he radioed back to the warships.

"Open fire now," Kira ordered.

Each of the ships aimed their main cannons at the base; the base had no importance to Kira, all he wanted was the mass driver so if they had to destroy everything around it then so be it.

Each ship aimed and fired their attack straight at the base.

Alliance Forces

"Major, several heat sources are approaching," an officer said.

Looking closely he knew what they were, "Anti-aircraft fire!"

Several turrets that were around the base, missile trucks and even mobile suits aimed at the sky to fire.

Once the missile and cannon fire was in range they opened fire.

Firing into the sky they took about fifty percent of the firepower out, but the rest started hitting the base.

Barracks, and the communication towers were hit, several mobile suits and personal were also destroyed.

The Major was about to ordered a pursuit but that was when that lone unknown machine made his appearance.

Zaft Forces

After the shots were fired Kira told his ships to push forward but at a certain distance they would stop, and by stopping he meant they would only provide support, he and the rest were heading in and they didn't need friendly fire hitting their own suits.

Kira radioed in to mobile suits teams and told them to move in.

Accelerating he was the first to take off; the armor was activated as the wings once again spread to give maximum speed.

Kira easily left the other machines in the dust.

Kira saw the base as the enemy mobile suits were heading in his direction, but the skies were starting to fill with fighters as well.

Kira looked at his rear camera and the aerial units he had should take care of them.

Focusing on the battle in front of him, Kira saw to Windam's taking aim and firing.

Not moving the beams struck his armor and like with all beams they were sent right back at them, the suits had no time to react as they blew up from their own shots.

Kira took hold of his beam rifle that moved down into his right hand, while removing one saber for his left hand.

Approaching the perimeter of the base Kira used the saber to cut the tower in half as it fell down.

Stopping right there, he saw the turrets and tanks taking aim on him.

The fighters were moving in as well, but the Aerial Babi's and Dinns had caught up and they started firing taking the attention away.

Kira used the head Vulcan guns to take out the tanks, and he moved around stepping on them as well.

Kira saw many anti-aircraft guns being fired at his aerial units and he used the beam rifle to take as many as he could find out, but the mobile suits were closing in on him.

Seeing three daggers approaching him Kira fired a beam straight into the sand causing the sand to disorient them for a second.

Kira launched into the air taking aim with his plasma beams that lifted over the shoulders, Kira fired both of those striking two of them to be destroyed immediately.

The remaining pilot saw his friends destroyed as he looked up.

Kira charged down at him with his beam saber pointing straight down, Kira cut right threw the head and it went down into the body even striking the pilot directly. Kira backed away as that machine blew up.

With more approaching. The land units had finally arrived.

The Gazuoots were in tank mode as they began firing on approaching suits, the Bacues moved in with their ground speed and fired their missiles also the beam sabers that were placed on the front cut through mobile suit legs dropping machines to the floor.

The Zaku's and Goufs were next, but it was clear that the sand was affecting their joints a little, these machines weren't really designed for desert combat but they were holding their own, many of them stayed on the outside to help guard the ships as fighters were breaking through.

The ships activated all their weapons firing them up in the air at the fighters, while being cautious of their own machines.

With backup Kira looked forward and flew forward going deeper into the base, looking ahead he saw the driver was alright so far and they would keep it that way. Kira knew the alliance had too much pride to destroy it themselves as their arrogance was if they lost it they could reclaim it like they did in the first war.

Alliance Forces

The Major saw the mobile suit now as that was the one many talked about at the lunar battle a year ago, the demon of Ptolemaeus as many were calling Kira from the alliance.

"Sir our front line has been destroyed, our fighters are being intercepted by their aerial machines," one officer said.

"Move all forces to the front, push them back," the Major responded.

"Communication?" the Major asked.

"They took out our towers and radar domes sir, nothing is left to call backup," another responded.

The crew inside the headquarters watched as the land units arrived and Kira was doing enough damage by himself now backup had arrived.

"They are after the mass driver sir," another said.

"We will not lose anything to these monsters, we will prevail in the end," the Major said as like Kira predicted they wouldn't destroy it.

"Sir…" one panicked and almost shouted.

The Major saw the problem and he two panicked.

Minerva

The Minerva was on their way to Suez when they detected a lot of alliance presence just short of the base\town.

"Where are we?" Talia asked.

Arthur was looking all over the place for the location.

"This place is called…the Gulnahan Ravine or something," Arthur said.

Talia looked ahead, "Why is the alliance stationed here?"

"Should we move forward ma'am?" Arthur said.

Talia told them to move in range to get a closer look; they entered the valley and were extremely sorry they did.

"What is that ma'am?" Arthur said.

Talia looked forward as something was mounted on the cliff.

"Captain, that thing is charging," another officer said.

"All stop, back us out immediately," Talia said as they had no where else to go.

The helmsman immediately started reversing but it was a large ship and was taking awhile.

"Captain!" Meyrin said quickly.

"Full power to the engines," Talia said as a shot was fired.

The Minerva was maxing out its power and overheating the engines but it was moving out of there.

The shot from the Lohengrin cannon stationed on that mountain fired, it struck the Minerva straight in the front but since they were at the boundary of its range it didn't do any damage to seriously.

The ship was shaking as it was struck.

"Full retreat, get us out of here," Talia said.

The ship got out of the ravine as they pulled back to a safe distance.

"What in the world was that?" Arthur said.

"It appears they are making sure we cannot get to the Eurasia border," Talia said.

"What now ma'am?" Arthur asked.

"We wait until we can report this to the commander, get me in touch with the Doomsday," Talia said as they didn't have the firepower to take this thing out by themselves.

Many were weary at, that but it had to be done.

Little did they know they were already being approached.

Victoria Base

With Kira

Moving in further Kira was engaged by two Windams and one dagger.

By now all machines knew that firing beams at this demon wasn't going to do any good so they moved in with their sabers. Kira saw them approaching as he reached for the beam boomerangs and threw them both at the dagger as the Windams dodged.

The boomerangs went right past the dagger but on their way back one cut threw the legs stopping and dropping it to the ground while the other went straight threw the mobile suits core blowing it up immediately.

The boomerangs returned as Kira removed to sabers to counter the other two.

Blocking one Windam, Kira moved out of the way as the two Windams sabers were driven into each other.

Kira used that and pushed the machines straight into each other causing both to fall to the ground with force. The power of the Armageddon was just too much for any normal suit.

With both on the ground Kira placed the Armageddon's foot on the two machines keeping them down as he combined both of his beam sabers making the beam that much more powerful. The reached down and stabbed both machines at once. The beam went threw each cockpit as he backed off and watched as they exploded.

The other machines were engaging and catching up with him as the base was just about to fall, but Kira now saw the headquarters and to confuse the forces even more he was going to cut off their command structure.

Flying straight for the headquarters Kira fired shots and tanks and other machines as he landed straight in front of the building.

Alliance Forces

The Major and his officers were trying their best but they were just to overwhelmed and they what they saw next was the Armageddon land straight in front of them.

Looking into the devilish eyes of that machine was all to freeze.

The Major only shut his eyes.

With the Zaft forces

Kira reached down and combined all four of his beam sabers making a large beam spear. With the beam much larger Kira used both hands and cut right threw the headquarters. With one swipe the building was destroyed.

Returning the sabers Kira looked around as the base had pretty much fallen and as he looked closer the mass driver stood alone and with extreme minor damage they could easily fix.

A few suits that survived tried to bug out but Kira ordered them pursued. Kira stopped in the center as his force took control of the mass driver.

Kira immediately remembered he was on a time limit and looked at the timer, all in all this battle took four hours, planning and attacking, it took him two hours to arrive and two to make it back. He should be just in time for the towns affects to look the worse.

Kira immediately got in touch with the land ships captains.

"Yes commander," they said in victory tone.

Kira wasn't that satisfied with this battle, he was tired of facing down no name opponents without any challenge; he had to get to Orb quickly. The captain's tone wasn't to pleasing to him as they had the advantage all along, but that would change when they went after bigger fish.

"Secure the base and mass driver, I have to leave immediately, contact space and wait for further orders," Kira ordered.

"Yes sir," the captains said.

Kira immediately took flight as he wasn't waiting around anymore; flying off at top speed he was on his way back to Tassil.

Tassil

After administrating the virus people drank and went about their business, after and an hour of exposure they became contagious, people basically were allowed outside as no Zaft presence was in the inside of the town, all they said was they couldn't leave.

People spoke with each other and went back to their homes, and that was just what should have happened.

The first ones infected were in crowds talking when immediately they started feeling sick, coughing and sneezing, but what came out was blood. This virus worked fast and would put them in agony for ten straight hours. Children and the elderly were the next to go as they had weaker immune systems. It wasn't long before people were collapsing in the streets; they felt as if their skin was burning.

A few hours later the forces could hear screaming, it wasn't to pleasant to listen to, but the entire town was falling like this.

The Zaft forces had orders to leave them just where they fell; once Kira arrived back he had something special planned for them.

Orb

Cagalli gave the order that she was heading out with the Archangel and Eternal, but her council and Unato quickly opposed, they said it was an unnecessary risk.

Cagalli fired back in saying those people needed help; she still didn't know about the virus or anything going on over there. She just knew they were under attack.

The council was doing their best to hold her in as they were saying Zaft forces were just around the corner in Australia and she shouldn't be doing this.

Cagalli however was going no matter what, but what the council was doing was slowing her down.

Eternal

Lacus was on the eternal getting the latest of the invasion and already Australia had fallen mostly to Zaft, as for Kira in Africa they were getting no word from that. Lacus heard what Kira did for those people in the first war and now he was taking away what he gave them.

Lacus worried for her children but she had just spoken to them and the reverend was taking good care of them. She knew she wouldn't have to worry too much about them.

Now there was just the fact that they had to hunt Kira down.

She was still very conflicted with what she would do when she saw him again, but for one measure she was currently preparing herself for it, the other she hoped for but this one was something she had to do personally.

Tassil

Doomsday

Willard got word exactly two hours after Kira left Victoria that he had arrived back.

"Welcome back commander," Willard said.

"Victoria is secured, what is the status of the town?" Kira asked.

"Sir, it has been seven hours since infection, people are extremely weak and agonizing all over the town as we speak," Willard responded.

"That leaves me three hours to break him, plenty of time," Kira replied, "Send in the teams and have them set up, I will begin immediately."

"Yes commander," Willard said.

Giving orders a few Zaft teams went into the town, they had no danger of exposure as the virus doesn't affect coordinators, so they went in like nothing was wrong.

Tent

Sahib had been sitting here for hours and he was really on edge, they had told him nothing at all.

He heard a person walk in behind him, but he thought it was a guard change.

"We meet again," was all Kira said.

Sahib recognized that voice as Kira walked in front of him.

Sahib saw the look in his eyes, completely different then he remembered.

"You…of all people why are you doing this to us?" Sahib shouted.

Kira looked straight at him.

"One reason and one reason only," Kira replied as now he began.

To be continued…

(A\N): The next chapter contains the interrogation, Orb's departure, as well as the Suez engagement. Bye for now.