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Chapter Thirty Seven

Judgment

Doomsday

Briefing Room

"…Sai," was what the first one said.

"Kuzzy," was what Sai said.

"What are we doing here?" Sai asked looking at the soldiers.

"I can answer that…" was what Kira said as he entered the room.

Both looked and were shocked to see Kira right in front of them. They knew from the Zaft broadcasts that Kira was now with Zaft and he would be leading the war, they just never expected he would snag them. Sai still had lingering feelings about Kira, but he never expected to see the look of so much hatred in his eyes, it was as if he was going to destroy them right here and now. Kuzzy on the other hand wanted to leave all this behind and now he was being dragged back into it.

"Kira…" was what Sai said.

Kira walked in as he nodded to the soldiers, a few walked out leaving only two at the door.

"It has been a very long time, don't you agree?" Kira said walking towards the main screen and standing still.

"What is this? Why have you taken us?" Sai asked, he remembered the Zaft broadcasts and when he first saw Kira at them he was completely stunned, Sai decided to do some digging around and he eventually discovered that the mass destruction in space was from a ship that Kira built.

"I am clearing all the remnants from my past…and you two are walls that have to be torn down," Kira added.

Sai tried to stand up but the one soldier pushed him back to his knees.

"So it all comes down to this, you destroying Orb that we worked hard to save, and the peace that we have built," Sai added.

Kira turned around, "You mean everything I built, anyway I have had this conversation already and will not have it again, besides until all of you naturals are destroyed I will continue to wage war."

Sai shook his head; Kuzzy on the other hand remained quiet.

Kira looked straight at Sai, as Sai looked at him in anger.

"I can feel your hatred towards me Sai, but I don't think it is just from Orb or taking you, let me guess you still haven't gotten over the fact that she chose me and not you," Kira said.

Sai tried standing up again, "You don't have the right to mention her Kira!"

Kira smirked, "Let me tell you one thing, she had many satisfying qualities."

Sai growled a little as more anger built.

Kira walked over towards both of them, "I will give you one piece of credit Sai, though you have no fighting talent, you at least have a backbone…you on the other hand," Kira said looking at Kuzzy.

Kuzzy quickly looked away.

"You were always just around for the ride, always complaining and whining about this and that, I almost didn't think it was worth the effort to find you," Kira said turning back around.

"Just tell us what you want Kira?" Sai asked.

"I want to ride myself of my own demons, and to do that your presence is required, I will tell you the same thing I told Miriallia," Kira said explaining the encounters he had with them.

"You have seen her?" Sai asked even more stunned as he heard what Kira has been up to with all their former friends.

"She was able to evade me for now, but as soon as the Archangel returns, she will face my judgment…back to the point your sins are the same as hers, I got you people safe passage to earth and you joined the alliance after all I did to get us off that ship, not once concern and not once any gratitude what so ever, that is why I spent my resources in tracking you down…your judgment will be paid but first I will make you watch," Kira said nodding to the guards.

The soldiers took the two again.

"I knew you were suffering from the last war Kira…but I have no clue why you are like this now," Sai said as the guards began leading them out.

"You can drop your fake concern, I can sense your emotions, and remorse is not what you are feeling, don't bother lying I will know, take them," Kira said as the guards dragged them out.

Kira had a special place where he would be handling the rest.

Taking a few pills Kira was ready as he walked over to the speaker.

"Captain prepare to target," Kira said as Willard acknowledged.

With the guards outside Kira made another request, "Head to the private floor and make sure she gets the ultimate to the location," Kira said as now it was time for his own son to watch the destruction he was about to unleash.

Hallway

As Sai and Kuzzy were being dragged away Sai had to admit he never did get over the Flay incident, but at least he and Kira were coming to speaking terms after the last war. Sai basically fell out of appearance after the war was over, but he heard rumors Kira wasn't doing so good. Then came the disappearance, which was the last he heard of Kira until the broadcasts from Zaft started a year ago. Sai used the year in his spare time to try and find some answers as why Kira was with Zaft and such but all he discovered was Kira built the warship and mobile suits since Zaft made things known. Just looking at Kira Sai knew he wasn't the same anymore, but nothing like this he expected.

As they were dragged along Sai knew he had to try and get some more answers.

Private Floor

Sarah was waiting with her son, she knew unless she did as he ordered then he would have someone else do it and that wasn't acceptable to her at all. She didn't have to wait any longer as the soldiers came and gave her orders.

She heavily sighed as she smiled at her son and picked him up as the soldiers lead the way.

Bridge

Willard got the com from Kira as he now gave the orders.

"Prepare the Genesis Cannon," Willard said.

The officers immediately went to work; the tactical officers began firing preparation.

Willard removed the keycard and placed it in the slot on the control panel on his chair.

"Activate cannon doors," Willard ordered.

The officers worked quickly as soon all felt the rattle.

Outside the protective shielding around the cannon slightly moved as the cannon doors opened.

"Move cannon to readying position," Willard ordered.

The cannon outside moved ahead only a little and then stopped.

"Charge cannon," Willard ordered.

The tactical officers did just that as outside the protective shielding covered the cannon as best as possible until it would be fired. All outside weapons were opened, alerted, and on constant scans. If anything got close it wouldn't be pretty.

"Charging time one hour sir," the tactical officer once again said.

Willard knew they had the cannon charged before they arrived but the atmosphere was making the cannon not as efficient as if in space.

"Monitor the reactor core and keep constant scans for enemies," Willard ordered as now he had to wait for Kira's order.

Orb Waters

This battle was pretty much fifty-fifty, on the ground Zaft's sea power and mobile suits were easily advancing, but because of Orb's superior air power they were able to force those units right back.

Explosions were lighting up the sky and sea, the hours were nearing the morning sunrise as the sky was now more like a dark blue and growing lighter, it was going to be hard for them not to spot the doomsday when the sun rose.

Orb Forces

On his ship Todaka kept up the assault while he was practically ignoring all calls from the bunker in Orb, he didn't care anymore what the Seirans wanted and just immediate hung up on them saying he had a war to fight.

"I want a status Report?" Todaka asked.

"We have the numbers sir…but we cannot attack their submarines strength, their aquatic mobile suits are providing defensive cover…however our aerial units are now maneuvering higher to try a different attack approach," one officer reported.

"Do we have any status where that ship has gone?" Todaka asked quickly.

"Our scouts are still trying to locate it sir, I believe it can mask its signature or something…however we did notice heavier resistance to the west, it might be out there," the officer told him again.

Todaka looked, "The sun will be up soon, if they want to fire it will be before then, find it."

"Yes sir," the officer said running off.

Zaft Forces

As per Kira's orders the captains were not ordering attacks on the base of Onogoro, all they were doing was assaulting their naval fleet. Many wanted whatever Kira was going to do to do it quick, this was wasting time and putting them in more danger. They were not losing this battle but they were not winning it either, they needed a bigger force or they needed that ship to fire.

Onogoro Bunker

Status reports from the outside had all but stopped for the Seirans. Unato was really annoyed these soldiers weren't making time for him.

"If that ship fires will we be safe?" Yunna asked his father.

"We go down far enough, we will survive," Unato replied.

Technically they had the entire fleet defending them in Onogoro which is why Zaft was at a standstill, however they were leaving everything else open, if Kira wanted to take the island by force he could do it by spreading around the attacks but since he had other plans he was playing into it.

They continued to cower while their soldiers were in the fight for their lives.

Pacific Ocean-Hours from Orb

Archangel

Every second seemed like an eternity for Cagalli and the rest.

Cagalli nearly paced holes in the bridges floor.

"How could I have been so stupid?" Cagalli asked herself.

"You did the humanitarian thing Cagalli, there is no shame," Murrue added.

"In doing so I took our best ships away from the Orb defense force," Cagalli added.

"There is no point in feeling guilty about what has already been done, what we do now is focus, the Orb defense forces are strong, I believe they can hold out until we get back," Athrun added.

"The defense forces aren't what I am worried about, its Unato and his idiot son," Cagalli added knowing all to well what the blue cosmos supporters would likely do and that would be the wrong thing whatever they did.

It was then that all got a com signal from Neo's ship, he just got word of battle and the others never felt so helpless.

Eternal

"How much further?" Lacus asked.

"Still hours out," Andrew replied.

Things were a little calmer over here, but the worry didn't go away.

"Do we know how far Zaft forces in general have advanced?" Lacus asked that was a concern for her children.

"They are heading up Asia and down Africa as we speak, it won't be long before they advance and have two continents, they already have Australia and I suspect they will own Africa without much effort," Andrew replied.

Lacus slightly sighed in relief they were still no where near her children, she knew the reverend was very resourceful but she knew if they ran out of places to hide that would not be good.

It was then this ship got the word about the battle, Lacus shut her eyes to think, there was something she had to do as well and she had to get to Orb before it was too late.

Doomsday

Observatory

The soldiers led Sai and Kuzzy to an observatory floor that was located a few floors down and right in the front of the ship. As they looked out they could see much darkness but with the sun starting to come up they were starting to make something out, without a doubt it was this ships target.

The soldiers threw them to the floor as they stood watch by the door, Kira wasn't here yet. As they looked around they saw one chair and that was about it.

It appears they were now allowed to walk around as they were no longer restrained but they couldn't leave this room.

"What do we do Sai?" Kuzzy asked almost in a whisper.

It was then the door opened, "You will be able to do nothing," Kira said entering.

Kuzzy backed away as Sai glared at him.

Kira was a little late as he just had to take care of something personally. It only took a few seconds then he came straight here.

"Look ahead," Kira said pressing a few controls, as it seemed the windows became clearer.

What they saw made Sai's eyes drop and Kuzzy fearful.

"That's the Orb capitol," Sai said.

"Correct, this will be the first target," Kira said proudly.

Sai quickly turned to him, "The capitol isn't a military target, besides I thought you were going to hit Onogoro?"

Kira lightly laughed, "That is what they thought as well, however in order for maximum damage I will wipe out the Orb capitol."

"They are civilians Kira, you cannot…" Sai said getting to close to Kira as Kira immediately backhanded him and Sai fell to the ground.

"I can do whatever I feel like, I have the power not you and not the naturals, besides blame your leaders for this, the Seirans are making all of Orb's military defend them on the island, they don't care for the people anymore then I do," Kira said taking a seat and it looked like he was going to lay back, like watching a movie or something.

Kuzzy helped Sai up as both looked at Kira.

"I guess my thoughts were right Kira, you are just a monster," Sai said looking at him again.

Kira turned to him, "I do only what is necessary, the look on my sisters face when she sees the people in a cloud of destruction and chaos all of that will justify what was done to me, they and you will experience it first hand."

"My parents…" Kuzzy said lightly.

Sai still glared at him, "That is why you took us huh? To make us watch as you destroy all that is important to us?"

Kira slightly smiled, "Correct…besides Sai after all I am just doing what Flay herself tried to do, she wanted coordinators dead and I want naturals how are we so different?" Kira said knowing this would get under his skin.

"Flay…Flay was messed up a little Kira," Sai said.

"So you will make excuses for her, but I believe you are still just sore she chose me and not you," Kira added.

"She was only using you Kira, that was…" Sai said as Kira cut him off.

"Did you think I didn't know that at the time, of course I knew it," Kira added.

Sai stopped and looked at him.

"How utterly foolish I was as to play along with her game, but I believed at the time it was my fault for letting her father die, though lets just say I have woken up from those thoughts and well Flay was satisfying for a natural," Kira said with a small smirk.

Sai felt his anger boil again.

"Despite Flay's foolishness I have to give her credit where it was due, she at least went after what she wanted, doing whatever was necessary to get it done…however what really steams you is she really did fall for me to, leaving you behind like the trash you are," Kira said.

"Even back then Kira, I thought you were my friend, but now that I think about it no really friend would have done what you did to me back then," Sai added.

"My heart is aching badly by your words," Kira said adding a mocking tone.

Sai couldn't take it anymore and tried to punch Kira, without even looking Kira raised his hand and caught it.

"I believe I got my point across," Kira said as he immediately twisted his fist and as he heard a snap Sai's arm had broke.

Sai fell to the ground in pain as Kira stood up, "I believe I will give you a first hand look at the event."

Kira looked over to one of the guards, "Take Mr. Argyle to the V.I.P suite," Kira said standing up.

"Yes sir," the soldiers said taking hold of him and getting him out of there.

Kuzzy was now left alone.

Kira looked at him, "Still silent are you, not to worry however, your submission is proof enough how naturals are supposed to be with us," Kira said taking a seat again, however he reached in his jacket and pulled out a small control panel.

He then contacted the Bridge, "Captain use the transfer procedure on your terminal, I will fire the shot myself," Kira said.

"Yes sir," Willard said as Kira had the only mobile firing unit for the Doomsday's cannon on earth, there was one more but that was in the position of Ryu.

"To think I once looked up to you Kira," Kuzzy said breaking his silence.

"I told you lying was pointless, you feared me from the moment you found I was a coordinator," Kira said setting everything up on the mobile panel.

Kuzzy said no more as he looked out ahead.

Kira got the controls transferred as the cannon was just about charged.

With Sarah

Sarah took her son and was led to control room; in it were several monitors all placing at one direction, her curious son looked at all monitors.

Sarah saw they were of a city, and one zoomed in so far as to see a street, where people were starting to gather since it was nearly morning.

"What is this?" Sarah asked.

"The target," was all the soldier said.

She quickly turned around as now he was making his own son watch as he blew a city away. She looked behind her only to find out that the soldiers wouldn't let her leave and if she turned her son away they might just force him to watch anyway. She was now at the point of hating Kira for what he was doing to their children, he just really wasn't the same person she had met two years ago, in fact she didn't know if he was ever that man.

Bridge

After Willard got the commands all there was now was time, and it was running out for Orb.

"Cannon output at eighty percent sir, fifteen more minutes," the tactical officer said.

"Keep watch," Willard said.

The sky was now a normal blue and the Doomsday would now be visible.

With Sai

The soldiers were taking him a long distance from what Sai had seen. His arm was killing him and they had now restrained him again. They kept walking until Sai felt he was outside.

Looking up he saw he was straight were this massive cannon was located, looking ahead he could see the Orb coast and city, but what was next to him was the cannon.

"Where am I? What is going on?" Sai asked.

One soldier smiled, "This is where we maintain the cannon after a shot has been fired, and where it charges before it was fired, let's go," the soldiers said as they dragged him forward.

They were moving quickly now as they were taking him to what looked like the barrel of the cannon.

Reaching the end they immediately threw him on something and restrained him again.

"What is this?" Sai asked.

The soldiers now backed away, "You will be the first to witness the shot," the soldiers said now quickly heading back out of there.

As Sai looked around he realized he was now inside the cannon, or something like that but when that thing fired he would have no where to go.

Sai struggled but it was useless, his arm was broken and it was practically all over, some VIP suite this was. Trying again and again it was useless especially since now the cannon started to open.

Sai only shut his eyes, he wasn't able to get the better of Kira, but one thing he wouldn't do was let Kira see him down.

Southeast Asia and Zaft Channels

Captured Base

The technical teams were preparing the data they had retrieved; the leader of the assault team was now on the com with a commander in charge of the Asia fleet.

"Yes sir, it is detailed and the time line is specific," the leader gave him.

"I am looking at the data now, send the rest and I will take it up channels," the commander said.

"Yes sir," the squad leader said as they finished sending the data.

Satellite stations

After the commander got the data he knew he had to send it to the Doomsday but they were currently in an operation, however this data had to be used quickly.

The commander sent it straight back up to space where an admiral was taking a look at it.

"Are you sure?" the admiral said.

"Yes sir, if we are going to have a greater chance it would have to be now," the commander replied.

The admiral received all the data, "I will inform the chairman of my find."

"Yes sir," the commander said and now the admiral went to the highest channel.

Aprilious One

Ryu was currently watching the feed from the Orb battle, he had two monitors going one was a satellite image of the battle and the other was from the Doomsday itself.

"Sir you have an urgent call," Ryu's aide said.

Ryu looked at them, "It better be worth it, this is getting to the good part," Ryu said as he was now in contact with one of his admirals.

"Sir, you have to take a look at this discovery, time is of the essence," the admiral said sending the data.

Ryu looked it over and smiled, "There you are…" Ryu said as this was a chance they couldn't miss.

Orb Waters

The battle had slightly shifted to the Zaft side when the morning sun started to rise but it was extremely slightly, just when they started winning however the Zaft forces received a signal to start falling back.

Zaft Fleet

The captains knew that was the time, and they started recalling their machines and heading back out into sea.

Orb Fleet

"Sir Zaft is starting to fall back," one officer told him.

Todaka knew this was strange, "Where is that ship?" Todaka asked quickly, as this could only mean one thing.

The sun was nearly up and the waters could now be seen.

One officer quickly rushed in, "Sir, we have a visual in section two."

"Section two, Onogoro is no where near section two, the capitol…" Todaka said as it hit all of them.

"Onogoro isn't the target the capitol is…we have to…" Todaka said as all of a sudden a very bright light was seen.

"Help us all…" Todaka said in defeat.

Doomsday

Bridge

"Cannon charged sir, I repeat cannon charged," the tactical officer said.

"Open the cannon into firing position," Willard ordered.

Outside the ship started opening up as the cannon started coming out and opening into its umbrella shape, it wasn't long when they couldn't see in front of them.

Willard got on the com, "Commander, the cannon is ready, all that awaits is for you to fire it."

With Sarah

She hated this more then anything and her son wouldn't turn away from the monitors he was even reaching out to them, she had no clue what Kira had been teaching him with those programs but now he seemed a little to interested with this.

Observatory

Kira was sitting down as he saw the cannon open, which was after he told Kuzzy just where Sai was.

Kuzzy looked at the destruction cannon but couldn't see Sai, but he was there.

"You have to stop this Kira," Kuzzy now pleaded.

"The fun is just about to begin, the destruction should take out most of the city, but the fallout from the blast will do the rest," Kira said as he had prepared the final button.

Switching to a monitor since the cannon was in the way Kira looked, as the sun kept rising.

"I beg you Kira stop," Kuzzy said again.

"Beg all you want, it won't help you," Kira said nodding to a few other guards and they grabbed Kuzzy holding him to another monitor, "Just watch and learn what happens to those that appose His Excellencies plans."

Kira now waited as the sun reached over the horizon, he knew Orb ships had to spot him by now, "True judgment is now passed," Kira said pressing the final button.

The ship rattled as a massive shot was released.

To be continued…

(A\N): The next chapter is the aftermath as well as the Eternal and Archangel get closer. See you later.