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Chapter Thirty Four

Clash Part One

Atlantic Ocean

Minerva

Using the satellite images sent by space they were on an intercept course to the Orb ships. The most recent image sent however they now knew they were up against three ships.

Talia gathered all the data and sent them to her tactical officers and pilots to look over.

Talia however knew this was more like a suicide mission the commander was sending them on. There was no backup for them and they were now heavily outnumbered. Talia had a feeling Kira was just using them to keep these ships distracted and he would have her out of his hair if they were destroyed.

Talia wasn't going down that easy, this battle was going to be difficult, but she would prevail for no other reason then to make Kira annoyed.

Hanger

All pilots were now placed under Heine's command; he had the pilots running simulations and battle scenarios to prepare for this attack. The only problem was they had no clue what mobile suits to expect to engage. He came up with a few good formations to run; they should bring the top suits more control over the battle.

As soon as they entered the Atlantic all pilots were ordered to remain on alert, they ordered rotations and made sure when they slept it wasn't far from the hanger.

Shinn however was glad for this opportunity he was given, this would truly be the time to prove his worth, and that chance had just arrived.

Bridge

They had been in the Ocean for a few days when the time had finally come.

"Sensors are detecting three ships ma'am," Meyrin said on the com.

Arthur sat up.

Talia had them placed on screen, "Battle stations," Talia ordered.

Arthur activated the alarm as the crew quickly moved to their alert stations.

Inside the hanger the pilots knew this was the time.

All rushed to their machines.

Heine, Shiho were the ones who had seniority and first and second command. Shiho knew she would have to get the former commander Joule in an engagement to deliver her information, but she had to be careful.

Rey and Luna suited up and boarded their machines, The Legend powered up. Luna only had one pack and that was the Force Impulse.

Shinn was the last to make it to his suit, he had to look cool being the last one to enter his machine, sort of like how a leader is the last one to make an appearance or something like that.

Boarding the Destiny, he moved to the launcher.

All pilots were suited and powered up waiting for the orders to launch.

Back on the bridge, Talia entered into battle mode herself as she had one last idea.

"Arthur, get me a com to those ships," Talia said.

Arthur looked at her funny, "Ma'am?"

"Just do it," Talia ordered.

"Yes ma'am," Arthur replied setting it up for her.

Archangel

The Archangel and the rest were on a course to Northern Africa, they had no clue they were being intercepted earlier, and their satellite knowledge was destroyed when Zaft took all of space so all they had was radar.

When they left Panama a few days ago, they ran constant aerial and aquatic scans and found no Zaft ships under or above water.

Bridge

The trip was mostly silent for the crew; all were worried about the people of the African villages as many remembered the battles fought in the first war. Cagalli especially as she was friends with practically all of them. They had no news and no assurances of what they were getting themselves into.

"I hope everyone is alright," Cagalli said.

"They were very resourceful, I am sure they can handle themselves," Murrue added.

"That was against captain Waltfeld not Kira, to make matters worse Kira knows the location of their bases and everything else…I am afraid he would slaughter them just to get at me," Cagalli added, in her mind her brother was no more, just like Kira said himself Kira Yamato was no more, he was just now Kira Hibiki a cold blooded killer.

Miriallia was listening, but then she got something on radar.

Hanger

Inside were three machines, the mark two Duel and Buster and now the gold machine of the Akatsuki.

Yzak and Dearka were on standby as they were looking over their machines.

"Do you think we can eventually get back what was lost?" Dearka asked talking about Zaft.

"Of course you idiot, hopefully she has information that will be useful," Yzak replied.

"We don't even know if we will see her again, one more engagement from that ship and its over," Dearka said a little joking.

"Just finish what your doing," Yzak added as that was really his last hope, if Shiho didn't get anything solid then Zaft will truly be lost to the madness of the new chairman and his arch rival from the first war.

John Paul Jones

Bridge

Communication had all but stopped for this ship, Neo received several orders to return over the past few days but he disobeyed them all. Now since they stopped Neo knew he was considered a rogue ship, which was likely.

"Are you sure about this commander?" the captain asked.

"Jibril no longer has the best interest of this world in mind, he is leading us to destruction," Neo added as he himself is all but washed up with Jibril.

"Maybe your right sir," the captain added.

"How are they?" Neo asked.

Looking at a monitor he saw the three extended sleeping inside what looked like containers.

"They are resting and will be ready for battle at any time," the captain added.

"I don't like doing this to them, but we are at a critical time, sacrifices will have to be made if we are to survive," Neo added.

"Yes sir," the captain said as he was walking away but then they also got the same alert as a few officers turned to him.

Eternal

Bridge

After days of traveling Lacus really missed her children, she couldn't even risk contacting them, but she knew they were safe with the reverend, the place he took them will keep them safe, she believed strongly.

Andrew was having a big problem as he was running out of coffee, but the upcoming battle was on his mind, he knew depending on what was going to happen he may have to take up his suit and fight. Returning to the desert also brought a few mixed feelings, he did some bad things here the last war, and maybe now he would get the chance to make up for a few.

Lacus continued looking ahead and she was thinking clearly about Kira, she knew many had given up on him, but a small part of her just wasn't allowing her to do that yet. She knew what she had to do when seeing him but still there was that small part in her heart that didn't agree with it. She knew these emotions could get them all destroyed if she hesitated so she couldn't afford to do that. She would have to follow through even if it meant destroying her heart in the process. Too many lives were lost, to many sacrifices during the first war to let Kira do what he was doing. Even now casualty numbers were likely skyrocketing on a war that should have never taken place. She just wondered why she couldn't yet hate him.

Hanger

Athrun was down working on his new machine, he knew soon it would be time to take it into battle. Athrun was the one that new Kira the longest out of everyone and when he met him he could no longer hesitate, he tried and tried talking but that wasn't working, either Kira was to far gone, they did something to him, or he just truly changed, maybe more he didn't know, but the fact was if Kira had to be destroyed to stop all this madness he would do it with his own hands.

Bridge

Dacosta was monitoring the waters when they got a Zaft signature.

"Captain we have an incoming," Dacosta said.

"Source?" Andrew asked.

"A Zaft ship…it's big," Dacosta said.

Lacus looked at him, was Kira coming straight at them.

"We are receiving a message sir," Dacosta said.

"Patch it through to the entire ship," Andrew said so others and Athrun could hear it.

"Yes sir," Dacosta said patching it through.

Minerva

Getting the link she wanted Talia wanted to make an announcement, "Orb ships…you are currently heading into Zaft occupied hostile waters…turn back immediately," Talia said clearly.

"Ma'am!" Arthur said shocked.

The entire bridge looked at her very shocked; she was disobeying Kira's direct order to attack.

Talia knew Kira was sending them on a suicide mission, she wasn't going to allow her crew be Kira's pawns to just sacrifice when the larger pieces could benefit off of it.

Orb ships

On all three ships they now saw what they were up against, the Minerva was a powerful ship, but there was only one.

When they received Talia's message however this was completely strange.

On the Archangel Cagalli and Murrue thought about the situation.

"Scan for more Zaft vessels," Murrue ordered her crew.

"There is no way Kira would order a ship to just turn us back…he is likely trying to play with our heads again," Cagalli added.

On the John Paul Jones Neo thought about the situation and told them all too just wait it out for now.

On the Eternal Andrew ordered scans as they pulled up the data we have on the Minerva.

"What do you think sir?" Dacosta asked.

"It is likely a trap; there is no way that kid…" Andrew hesitated to say his name with Lacus present, "Their command officer would not just tell us to turn back."

"Something seems off here," Lacus said, "Patch me through to the Archangel," Lacus told them.

Switching the line Lacus asked he she could be the one to respond. Cagalli was in charge of Orb, but Lacus was the former ambassador to both countries so she okayed it.

Lacus switched to the channel to the Minerva.

Minerva and Eternal

"This is Lacus Clyne speaking for the Orb forces," Lacus said connecting to Talia.

Talia slightly sighed, "I understand what you are trying to do Miss Clyne, but I will inform you that you must turn back, I cannot guarantee your safety if you continue forward, please just head back to your country."

All ships were still listening.

"Forgive me captain but we must move forward, a lot of innocent people are in need of our help," Lacus said.

Talia knew what Lacus was talking about, but she want to say anything about it, she just wanted them to leave, despite what Kira would do if he find out she was doing what she was doing.

"Listen Miss Clyne, if you continue on course we will have no choice but to attack, don't make me do that option," Talia added.

"With all due respect captain, but we have the advantage, and we will not turn back now, we must find and confront him," Lacus added.

Talia knew what she was talking about, why they wanted to rush to her deaths was beyond her.

"One thing captain…why are you so concerned about us? I know for a fact your…commander…would not have ordered this sort of action," Lacus told her seriously.

Talia looked away.

Cagalli decided to jump in at this point, "This is Cagalli Yula Atha, chief representative or Orb…tell me captain is this some kind of sick game my brother is playing?"

Talia immediately heard the word brother, "Brother?"

"Your commander my twin ultimate brother…there is no way you would live if you gave us these commands, do you have another force stationed nearby? Are you setting up for some sort of ambush?" Cagalli asked again.

Those were legitimate questions and Lacus might have said something but she didn't think it was that at all, one look at this captain and she saw this had to be about something else.

"I can assure you representative my orders are to attack you…but I believe we can avoid all of this…just please turn back," Talia said.

"You could always just avoid this battle and let us go," Cagalli added.

"If I do that he will know I disobeyed…I don't want to attack you and you will find nothing ahead of destruction, it is all a waste of time and a…" Talia said as she found something happening down in the hanger.

"What is it?" Talia asked.

Arthur looked, "The mobile hanger is opening ma'am, the Destiny is about to take off."

"Just as I thought," Cagalli added, subjects about her brother were slightly making her jump to conclusions.

"If you want to avoid this captain I suggest you stand down, nothing will stop us for assisting those people and getting my brother," Cagalli said as the link was severed.

Minerva Hanger

All the pilots were on standby just watching as the three ships ahead were at a stalemate, Shinn was getting very annoyed, it looked like a staring match and he wanted to prove himself.

"I'm tired of this," Shinn said moving to the launcher and manually opened the hanger heading straight out.

Shinn was the first one to launch as he would end this by himself if necessary.

Minerva Bridge

Talia thought she could end this without conflict but Shinn screwed that up, the Orb ships now believed that they were being set up. While their guard was down they would launch a quick strike which is what Shinn did, as soon as he got out he aimed his own Launcher straight at the Eternal.

Talia heard Cagalli's last statement as the Archangel moved to battle ready to open fire.

"What now ma'am?" Arthur asked.

"We have no choice…prepare for battle the link is severed," Talia said as now she was in that outmanned situation against two legendary ships, this could have ended peacefully and they could have made it look like a battle took place here, but now it looked like Kira would get what he wanted. All because of a hot headed pilot, or maybe he was loyal to Kira, Talia didn't know, but now she had to deal with it.

"Return fire," Talia said as the battle had begun.

Arthur ordered the suits to launch and the rest of Kira's team soon joined Shinn as well as the others.

Outside

As soon as Shinn got out he aimed his gun launcher and fired straight at the Eternal as he made a pursuit course towards it.

Orb ships

Lacus also knew this could have ended peacefully, but something wasn't right about the deception part, she didn't believe Talia was lying.

They got an alert of the blast from Shinn as Andrew ordered the ship to evade which they did.

"Battle stations, tell Athrun to launch when he is ready," Andrew said quickly.

Lacus looked around and saw others involved in this battle, she knew she somehow had to get a hold of the captain of that ship again, she still believed it wasn't to late, with others busy she quickly tried reestablishing the link to her ship again, but with the battle going on she had to find a random frequency that could take awhile, she had a bad feeling she wouldn't make it in time.

The Archangel saw the blasts as Murrue gave the orders themselves, all the mobile suits they had began to launch as she aimed the Gottfrieds at the Minerva.

Neo saw this as a sign, he heard every word and didn't trust the Zaft ship, when the first shot was fired he ordered his ship to stay back and to have the three extended launch in their machines. For now he was sitting this one out. The three soon launched as Auel went straight into the water and Sting flew in the air. Stellar's suit was land based mostly so Neo ordered her to guard the ship if any got close.

Mobile Suit Launchers

Eternal Hanger

Athrun saw the green light as he launched his new Justice; it flew out as he saw a group of three right in front of him. The Justices new armor shined as he met up with his allies.

Archangel Hanger

Yzak and Dearka launched quickly as they joined up with Athrun, Dearka took the rear to provide support. While Yzak joined with Athrun.

Jones Hanger

Auel went into aquatic mode as Sting took the air, their target was the Minerva, they would try to hit it from the sea and air, while the other three dealt with the other machines. Stellar landed on the ship as she was going to provide support if any got to close to this ship.

Minerva Hanger

After Shinn fired he remained in the air as Luna and Rey both caught up with him.

Heine and Shiho along with the others launched in their Gouf's and Zaku's as they stood on the Minerva's Haul for the moment.

Shinn saw the machines launching from the enemy suits as his comrades joined up with him.

"Your being to hasty Shinn, we didn't even have orders to launch," Luna told him.

"Enough…I was tired of waiting, today is the day I through it all back into that high and mighty commanders face.

"Calm down and focus Shinn, what is done is done, we have company," Rey added.

Luna stood on guard as all six machines immediately engaged each other.

The Sea-Minerva, Archangel, Eternal

The Archangels Gottfried cannons fired causing the Minerva to evade hard to port, during this time the Eternal was also moving around for a shot.

Eternal

"Aim missile pods, try to get their engines with our main cannon," Andrew ordered.

The bridge tactical officer and Dacosta were trying to do just that.

By now the archangel and Eternal were both trying to surround the Minerva from both sides.

"Missiles are locked," Dacosta said.

"Fire," Andrew said as missiles were launched from all sides of the ship.

Minerva

After dodging the first attack from the Archangel Talia wasn't going to allow them to sink her ship.

"Missiles approaching ma'am," Arthur said.

"Deploy counter measures," Talia ordered as their smaller liner guns took aim and fired. Outside their mobile suits on the haul also aimed their weapons and fired, but they would soon have something bigger on their hands.

"Aim the Tristan's and fire," Arthur said.

The Tristan's locked on to the Archangel and fired.

"Maneuver us for a shot…get the Tanhoiser ready," Talia ordered, this was such a shame, all of this she knew was playing straight into Kira's plan, he wanted them going at it like this.

"Yes ma'am," Arthur ordered.

Archangel

After their Gottfried shot fired, Murrue followed formation with the Eternal as she saw it take down the missiles.

"Captain, we have incoming," Miriallia said.

"Get us out of here," Murrue told Newman.

He maneuvered the ship evading the Tristan fire, but that was awfully close.

"Valliant's and Gottfried fire them after you distract them with missile fire," Murrue ordered.

"Yes ma'am," the tactical officer said.

Cagalli was also present and watching the battle that was going on in the air, she couldn't take it anymore just waiting so she quickly made her way down towards the hanger, despite the pleas for her to stop, they couldn't lose her or Orb would truly be the alliances lap dog.

Heading to the Hanger Cagalli boarded her own machine as she soon launched, she remembered the promise her and Athrun made once and they were going to keep it.

The Valliant's and Gottfrieds were aimed as missiles were launched at the ship.

Murrue waited and saw her chance, "Fire!" Murrue said.

The two were fired as they nailed the Minerva's haul.

Minerva

They were taking a few shots from the Eternal when the missiles were launched from the Archangel, Talia ordered them dodge or shot down, but what she really had in mind was the Tanhoiser.

Some missiles splashed down in the water causing water to slam up on the haul, but Arthur soon caught that they were using those only as a distraction.

"Incoming ma'am," Arthur said quickly.

"Turn the ship," Talia quickly ordered.

The ship was turning to try and lower the impact, however the Gottfried and Valiant blast nailed the side of the ship blasting a hole in the side of the ship, the armor held off most of the blast and if this was any other ship they would have exploded, but the beam shielding took the majority. There was still an explosion though as the blast itself turned the ship facing near the Archangel.

"Damage?" Talia asked.

"We have to gain altitude ma'am," sections five and below have taken damage.

"Ma'am," Arthur said looking ahead.

Talia saw they were turned straight towards the Archangel, they were turning that way but the blast sped them up.

"Is the Tanhoiser operational?" Talia asked.

"Armed and ready ma'am," Arthur said.

"Target the Archangel and fire," Talia ordered.

The Tanhoiser aimed straight at the ship and fired, the ship was damaged but it had enough to get this off.

The massive blast was soon shot.

However something else happened at firing.

"Incoming torpedo's ma'am," Meyrin said.

"I told us to go up," Talia ordered as they could be taking on water.

The helmsman had no choice but to go up and the blast was thrown off a little.

Archangel

"Direct hit ma'am," Miriallia said.

"They seem to take a lot of damage," another officer said.

However as the smoke cleared they were aimed straight at them with that cannon.

"They are firing ma'am," Miriallia quickly said.

"Accelerate, full ahead," Murrue said.

They saw the blast soon fired but as they did they also saw the ship go up and the blast was slightly altered, but now way enough.

"Were not going to make it," Newman said doing all he could.

The Tanhoisers Blast struck the back of the Archangels wing and blew a few engines as there was another explosion.

The ship was shaking rapidly but they had no internal haul breaches.

"That was close," Murrue said.

"They are being attacked under water ma'am," Miriallia said.

The crew knew it had to be one thing.

Eternal

The Eternal saw the blast from the Minerva but worse they fired their massive cannon, they were having a few problems of their own, but assisted as much as they could.

Lacus was worried after the Archangel was hit but it didn't look serious, she was trying to get a hold of that ship again, but in battle frequency's kept changing to prevent eavesdropping so it was difficult, she just knew this was a pointless battle and had to stop it.

Minerva

"We have an incoming suit at the bottom ma'am…It's the Abyss," Arthur said.

"One coming in from the air, the Chaos ma'am," Meyrin added.

"Just what we need, have the mobile suits intercept," Talia said.

"There is one more incoming ma'am, it is headed straight for another suit," Arthur also added as now the suits were getting close to each other.

Aerial-Mobile suits

Shinn's Team-Athrun's Team

Athrun's Team

With Athrun leading the way Yzak and Dearka joined him.

"You have to get me closer to that ship," Yzak said.

"Focus on getting past these people first and I will do what I can," Athrun added as they had three powerful machines right in front of them.

"Leave this to me," Dearka said taking long range aim and firing.

Athrun and Yzak split up then as they engaged.

Shinn's Team

"Mark Two Duel and Buster…as well as Mark two Justice," Rey said identifying them.

"Leave this to me," Shinn said quickly.

"Incoming blast," Luna added.

Shinn quickly took aim with his own Long range beam cannon and fired at the blast canceling it out with his.

Removing his anti ship sword he accelerated towards the machine.

Rey soon followed, and Luna went after the long range machine.

Destiny and Duel

Yzak and Athrun saw it coming in, Yzak immediately took this machine.

Shinn moved in to slash the Duel apart, however to his surprise Yzak was able to dodge it.

"How the…" Shinn said.

"You attack to aggressively rookie," Yzak replied removing his own saber and connecting with Shinn's anti ship sword.

Shinn could feel his anger boil as he released the sword with one hand and but the palm straight to Yzak.

Yzak saw what that thing was loaded with and broke off his attack as Shinn fired the palm beam cannon.

Yzak maneuvered more towards the Minerva as the two engaged.

Infinite Justice and Legend

Both saw Yzak and Shinn fly off as Athrun fired his chest mounted CIWS, the gun fire made Rey dodge but it wasn't anything to worry about.

Rey then countered firing his high energy beam rifle.

Athrun sped up and dodged removing one saber and heading for the Legend.

Rey soon countered with a Beam Javelin making Athrun back off the attack a little.

Athrun knew he had to play this smart, the Legend was bigger and a lot slower then he was, and he had to use that.

Athrun made an accelerated move firing the two beam cannons on the backpack causing Rey to dodge, Athrun flew by and as he did he activated the Griffon Beam Blades that were located on the wings.

Rey never saw this coming, one blade cut his rifle in half and the other sliced a few Dragoons off the back.

However he wasn't done as Athrun aggressively spun around and rammed his knee straight into the Legend, Rey was off guard and was thrown straight into the ocean below.

Athrun was about to move forward when he saw the Akatsuki flying towards him.

"Cagalli?" Athrun asked.

"You didn't think I would just sit around did you?" Cagalli asked.

Athrun shook his head, "I suppose not…I took that one down but I doubt he is out."

"Leave him to me, go for that ship," Cagalli said.

Athrun nodded and flew off.

Cagalli waited as the Legend reemerged from the ocean below.

Impulse and Buster

Luna flew forward as to try and take out the Buster.

Dearka got the warning as he opened the missile pods on the shoulder and fired them at her.

Luna got the alert and dodged and fired at them the best she could, she got through them trying to get in close to the Buster however Dearka turned it around and fired the shotgun straight at her. The blast she was able to dodge, but not all of it as she put up the shield to block some of it, the blasts tore the shield apart as she dropped it.

Luna aimed her own beam rifle and fired, causing Dearka to full back.

Luna saw her chance and removed a beam saber charging straight for Dearka.

Dearka dropped his high powered rifle but it stayed on the suit, he removed the mark two's new saber and connected with the blade.

Luna and Dearka pushed each other back and forth as they were approaching close to the battle going on down on the sea.

Ocean-Minerva and alliance suits

Heine got word that their was an incoming from the skies and water, he radioed to the other pilots to be on the look out, they had just dodged and nearly threw half the suits off when they dodged that torpedo from the Abyss.

The Abyss soon poked its head up from the water and fired the Duel cannons on the fins.

Heine was right near that as he fired his own weapons.

Shiho came to assist firing her own beam cannon, the Duel cannons struck the haul a little but nothing serious and when they fired at the Abyss it just went back into the water below.

"It has to come back up now that the Minerva's out of the water," Heine told his pilots.

Shiho was looking but then she saw something that caught her eye.

The Chaos was also making an attack from above. Firing its multi phase beam cannon down on the ship.

"Leave that one to me," Heine said flying up towards it.

Swinging the heat rod at it he caught Sting straight in the Chaos' leg.

"What the…" Sting said looking back, "You will not beat me," Sting straight trying to break free but the leg of the Chaos then exploded as the armor gave out.

"Try it pal," Heine replied activating his own beam blade and heading straight for the Chaos.

Removing his own saber Sting turned to block it but that heat rod hit him and disorganized him again. Heine moved in and cut right through the weapon pods making the Chaos severely damaged, the machine fell towards the ocean as there was massive damage and an injured Sting.

Heine was glad for his efforts and landed back on the ship.

John Paul Jones

"We have the Chaos in trouble sir," the captain replied.

Neo watched as the suit fell to the ocean, "Contact the Abyss and have him bring him back."

"Are you sure sir, he is in good range for the ship," the captain replied.

"If I just let him die I will be no better then Jibril, bring him in," Neo ordered.

"Yes sir," The captain said getting the orders.

Ocean

Auel got the orders and was not too pleased, "Idiot Sting!" Auel said quickly.

Not wanting to but he did abandon the attack and retrieved the heavily damaged Chaos before it sank to deep. He immediately began taking it back to the ship.

Aerial

Akatsuki and Legend

As soon as Rey came back up he saw this new machine.

He immediately attacked with the Dragoon units left as they moved forward and fired.

Cagalli dodged as she fired her own beam rifle. The Legend was a lot slower and her suit seemed more superior anyway.

Destiny and Duel

Shinn was getting very annoyed by now, this guy was matching him.

They were well in the area now where the ships were firing at each other.

Yzak saw where he wanted to go and now he just had to get this machine off his back.

Shinn was firing with his own beam rifle while Yzak dodged and returned fire.

Down below Shiho finally saw Yzak but now she had to wait until he could get down here; one thing was for sure though the Destiny is no easy opponent.

Yzak and Shinn once again connected with their beam sabers as both saw the Buster and Impulse battling and closing in on them.

"Dearka fall back," Yzak contacted him.

Shinn however wasn't worried about either of them and that was when he saw his chance, breaking the stance he swiped the Duels arm straight off the machine, Yzak immediately dropped the thrusters falling towards the Minerva below.

Shinn let him go as he saw the Eternal straight ahead and no better way to prove himself then by destroying that massive ship.

Turning he went for the ship, but something got in his way.

Impulse and Buster

They had a pretty even battle, both saw they were about to interfere with the Destiny Duel battle, and were trying to avoid it, but neither would give the other an edge.

Dearka heard Yzak call out to him as he slammed the Buster into Luna making her regain composure and fly away a little to make another charge, however he was right in the Destiny's path to the Eternal.

Eternal and Outside

Lacus was working hard as she finally found the frequency and just before she was about to make the contact she saw what was happening above.

Infinite Justice

Athrun was flying towards this ship as he saw Yzak go flying, he was heading for the Destiny but what was ahead made him accelerate even faster, however their was no way he could make it.

Minerva

Yzak fell on the Minerva's haul as Shiho made sure she was the one to be there, she made it look like they were about to enter battle.

Yzak was glad this was his chance, but something above caught his eye.

Destiny

Shinn was heading for the Eternal but the Buster was in his way with his back turned towards him.

Shinn removed the beam sword and accelerated straight for him.

To be continued…

(A\N): Decided to cut it into two parts, the second part will be up tomorrow. Bye for now.