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Chapter Forty One

Alert

Orb-Onogoro Island

The journey back home carried no problems for the Minerva. The one thing the crew did see was a lot of Orb presence around the area, it was clear they were taking this round a lot more seriously.

Taking one look at the large island still made many turn away, and for the Minerva it was truly a devastating site. One that made this crew believe that they made the right decisions in joining with Orb.

The ships pulled up as Cagalli authorized the secret dock for the Minerva to get true repairs. Pulling the Minerva in, the Archangel and rest docked where they were supposed to.

Cagalli and the usual got off the ship as she headed down to the hanger to meet with Talia.

Underground Dock

With the Minerva coming to a stop inside the secret dock, Talia saw that many Orb engineers were already to assist. Talia added her own mechanics and maintenance workers to assist in repairing the ship as soon as possible. This wasn't going to be an easy job and it could take days of straight work to get the ship up and running. Days just might not be enough for what they needed.

Talia took Arthur with her as they were heading out to meet Cagalli.

When Cagalli arrived she waited for the captain as she oversaw the damage to the Minerva, Kira definitely did a number on the ship, and what was worse left them to die in the ocean, nothing surprised her about this anymore.

Heading out, they finally had their face to face meeting in awhile.

"Thank you again representative, and once again our sympathy for your loss," Talia said meaning the capitol.

"I appreciate it…but for now let us work on the next attack," Cagalli said leading the way so they could head back to the surface.

"They are coming in for another attack?" Arthur said quickly.

Cagalli nodded, "He will not just leave us alone here, we were lucky he spared us this much time, but if I know him he will be back and shortly."

"Forgive me for asking, but is he really your brother?" Talia asked.

"My brother no longer exists, he gave up being Kira Yamato when he started this war," Cagalli added in anger.

"I see," Talia replied as they started heading up to the surface.

"What is the status of your pilots?" Cagalli asked.

"We have two models he designed as well as about five other machines," Talia added.

When they reached the surface they walked out as there was a lot of activity.

"What is all this?" Arthur said as it was very lively.

"Hopefully this will be where he falls," Cagalli added overlooking the preparations.

"What do you have in mind?" Talia asked.

"This is actually Lacus Clyne's idea, you can get the details from her, if you like you can assist us," Cagalli said again.

"There really isn't anything else we can do," Talia added.

"I don't want you to think you owe us or something, all I am doing is following my father's ideals and doing what I believe is right for this world and that was something he used to believe in as well," Cagalli added.

"Shall we head to the conference room?" Cagalli asked.

Talia nodded as they were led to the headquarters where their ideals would be explained.

Orb-Regular Docking

John Paul Jones

Neo was aware of the plans as well, his goal was to assist, he had to admit from what he heard this could really work, the three extended he had with him were also getting a little restless at first, but now Neo saw what could happen to them in peace time. They seemed just like normal people when there was no war. Neo wanted to be able to grant them this when they won this war, but until then he had to keep them fighting.

Neo also heard his orders were coming in, using the contacts he knew wouldn't inform Jibril, he sent for two new machines. One in which Sting would have to use as the Chaos was beyond repair and completely scrapped, and the other just in case they lose another machine, the models were the same as they were the massive GF Destroy Gundams. There were only five in the making and Neo was able to get his hands on two of the mammoth beasts. He sent out for them after they crossed Panama and luckily they were able to just arrive using the only water way left to the alliance from the Americas.

Unfortunately he wasn't going to make them operational until his pilot could get them down pat and he was going to put Sting in simulations immediately, if they were attacked in a few days then this would all be useless as they needed at least a week to get this thing fully operational.

"Are you sure you won't take one sir?" the captain asked.

Neo looked at the man, "I will due in my Windam, how is Stellar?"

"We are keeping her sedated for now, but after she saw what happened to the capitol and some of the carnage she completely panicked, she seems fine now however, we will wipe it from her memory," the captain said.

"I don't like doing this to them, but it can't be helped, do it, after this is over they will be free," Neo also added as he went back to work, he had formations to plan as when the attack occurred they were going to be busy.

Eternal

With the time they had when Cagalli was gone, Athrun and Andrew went and retrieved something that would be helpful to Lacus, she had been running a few simulations and though she was improving her flying, she was still no where near Kira's league and in a mission where she didn't have to attack but fly that was a problem.

They had just called Lacus in as she was outside overlooking the base; it was set up nicely for this with hangers and buildings all over the place that was perfect for what they needed to do. Lacus oversaw the setting up of the most vital things for this plan and the extras needed to finish it off.

Now it was time for her to prepare herself.

Lacus returned to the ship as she saw what she would be flying.

"We thought you should use this, it is without a doubt the most advanced suit with exception to the one we stole," Athrun said.

Lacus looked at the machine, she didn't think it would have survived but Andrew and Athrun recovered it days ago and had been preparing it ever since.

"The Freedom," Lacus said as she looked at the original model.

"It is no Armageddon and is no where near as fast or maneuverable, but it is the best we can do for this crazy plan of yours," Andrew said with a smile.

"I will ask you one more time Lacus, are you sure you don't want me to do this, Kira would just as much come after me…or at least let us join you," Athrun said.

Lacus shook her head, "We cannot have too many machines, it won't work if he sees to many targets, besides the pathways are to narrow that he would have a much easier time with many targets to choose from then just one, and besides it has to be me."

"What is Cagalli supposed to tell your children Lacus? Their own father destroyed their mother," Athrun added angrily.

"Believe me Athrun I have thought of that, but this is the only way, besides I would never leave my children alone, that is my motivation to end this," Lacus added.

"There is no sense in arguing with her, just be careful," Andrew added.

Lacus smiled, "I will and I will bring this to an end."

"You better get started, get inside and start adjusting it to your comfort," Andrew said as they showed Lacus to her new machine, the one machine Kira used to bring them peace and now maybe she could at least use it to bring it back.

Orb-Headquarters

As Talia and Cagalli arrived in, there was a report already for Cagalli.

"You searched the island?" Cagalli asked.

Todaka looked at her, "We were only able to get to that one part, the radiation levels are to strong anywhere else, the suits started melting so I had to pull them out, even in the area they were in it was high."

"What did you find?" Cagalli asked.

Talia and Arthur only watched as Todaka put the images on the screen.

"It won't be pretty," Todaka said as he put images up.

Arthur nearly lost it.

"It seems as if there were several children on a camping trip, with some group or something, by this time there was nothing we could do," Todaka said again.

The radiation burns were severe, many disfigurements and cries for help were heard.

Cagalli's anger burned again, this was what Kira did.

"Did they survive?" Talia asked looking at the innocence in them.

"We tried getting them out but they perished on the ship, there was nothing we could do by this time," Todaka said again.

Cagalli had to change the subject, "How are our forces?"

Todaka understood, "All forces are prepared and on alert status, for ambassador Clyne's idea that is nearly set up in the base."

"Where is she?" Cagalli asked.

"On the Eternal Lady Cagalli, she is preparing and training the best she can," Todaka said again.

With that out of the way Cagalli began her meeting with Talia and Arthur, she explained the plan and what she wanted from them.

Talia had to admit this seemed crazy, but she agreed. If the ship was prepared she would assist, if not she was giving Cagalli full use of her pilots to assist with any opposing Zaft forces. There was something else Cagalli wanted and Talia admitted it was strange but since it was something that small she agreed.

Their meeting went on as all of the preparations continued.

Orb Secret Hanger-Minerva

Once word got out that the Minerva was back the first person that headed down there was Yzak, he was hoping to get a full report from Shiho.

Arriving down he saw the Orb and Minerva crew hard at work, replacing parts wasn't really the problem, except for the special design parts for the Tanhoiser which they would have to build from scratch. They had no time for that so they just stuck to the basics for the ship.

On board Yzak heard that she was down in the hanger and headed straight there.

Hanger

The pilots had just received their orders sent from Talia; they were to assist when the attack began. This was quite a strange strategy, but one that they will do without any question.

Rey was overlooking the plans with Gil's death high on his mind, he didn't get the chance to fight in the last battle when Kira took out the hangers, but with this one he would do everything he can to achieve that goal. Apparently he had extra orders in his assignment as they needed skilled pilots to engage Kira before he arrived on the island.

If they just opened a hole and let Kira straight in he would know something was up for sure, which is precisely the two pilots assigned to meet him when he started the assault were Neo and Rey as they were the two that had the best chance of survival. Athrun was a candidate but he had other duties when this went into action.

Luna received orders as well; she was currently going over them as her sister joined her. She had to admit she never thought anything like this would ever happen, after all had learned the truth they knew they were fighting a war that was never supposed to be. Their leaders started this just so they could destroy the world and start anew.

Luna also nearly lost her sister when this happened, after the commander tried to shoot her just to get Talia to cooperate she should have known then something was wrong, and now she would use his own machine against him if necessary.

Both Rey and Luna were surprised Shinn did what he did, after all that hate he showed Kira he still went back to Zaft. They knew his hatred for Orb was deep but they just never suspected he would throw away everything for it either, Shinn may as well become an enemy and they had to deal with that.

Shiho was working on her machine when Yzak found her.

Shiho heard someone coming, "Commander Joule," she said.

"It's good to see you're alright, before you said that you had something," Yzak said getting straight to the point.

"I did sir, however they were lost in that last attack, when the hanger collapsed it took out the pilots room where I stored it, it is neither completely gone or I will have to wait until they clear the section out, but primary systems are priority," Shiho said looking up at the room where it was still very much collapsed, the only reason much debris was cleared out of here was to ready the suits for battle.

"Dearka was killed," Yzak added.

"I heard sir, the pilot of the Destiny, the one that left here and back for Zaft," Shiho added.

"I truly hope he comes as well," Yzak said as they compared data some more but Shiho didn't have anything else. Kira only fed her stories so the data was no good.

Doomsday

Control Room

Kira was checking and double checking the images he was getting from satellite the entire time. Jibril didn't change course and was still going to be many days before arrival, however he could head to Orb and back in two days max. That would still give him the time he needed to get back and destroy Jibril before he crossed into the federations safe zone, as they were calling it.

Looking at images of Orb, their was definitely a lot more action and he couldn't tell why, Orb was desperately trying to block anything scanned from space, and though they had good images they weren't as good as they would be without whatever they were doing to block their full scans.

Kira knew he couldn't move forces for this so he had to do this on his own, their nearest forces were a good few hours from Orb, so if he would get in trouble, not likely in many minds, but if he did they would not make it in time.

Kira was overlooking it again when Shinn entered his room and saluted.

"What do you want?" Kira said not even turning around to see who it was, he knew.

"I can back so I could destroy Orb, I know what you are planning and I want in on it," Shinn added.

Kira slowly turned to him, "You wish to walk straight into the path of destruction?"

"Orb must pay, I want to finish this," Shinn said again.

Kira smirked, "Very well, keep your mouth shut and head to your hanger in eight hours, I suggest you rest until then, I don't need dead weight," Kira said handing him a folder as Kira left the room.

Shinn overlooked the data as he headed back to his quarters.

Kira's quarters

Kira returned to get what rest he could, this was something he would have to put his full senses on, not even he has tried to crush an entire military force practically alone before, but he could take this pain no longer, once they are stopped he knew it would disappear, once they paid it would be over, he already made them experience the loss and now he will end it with his own hands.

Taking as many of his pills he could, Kira made sure he would not be awoken by another nightmare, he will be at one hundred percent.

Lying down he entered his slumber with his mind focused.

Orb Onogoro Island

The preparations kept going on until they had everything in its right place. Cagalli and Talia oversaw the operation as Lacus was preparing her own self. Military personal was called into alert stations as all people set up a strong rotation to make sure they could be ready when Kira once again attacked, because they knew it was coming.

Cagalli was going to call the final briefing they would have as all had to remain on alert.

Eternal

Lacus' preparation for herself were going as well as could be expected, she actually took the Freedom for its first few test flights with her in it. Athrun was with her to assist in any way he could. They ran simulations of what they were planning to do, these were live ones however.

Lacus tried her best but she wasn't even able to out maneuver Athrun, this wasn't looking like the best idea, they just hoped they would have time to prepare her more, cause it wasn't looking to good. Lacus did do a few things right but with experienced pilots like Athrun, and worse Kira it wouldn't be a pretty sight.

Lacus was about ready to park it for the day when she went back out by herself; she ran the same route she would take over and over. Focusing like she knew Kira would be doing she actually improved her times, but nothing would be the same when reality was playing out, that would be a whole other ballpark as she prepared for that.

Landing it for the day Lacus was about to step out when she placed a photo of her children with herself right on the counsel. If she ever felt as if she was going down that would be her motivation to tell her to stay alive. Smiling she got out as she joined Cagalli's briefing.

Headquarters

Everyone was gathered for this meeting, pilots and all top officials.

They spent the first part going over Lacus' ideal one last time, after that Cagalli gave the final assignments.

"No matter which side they attack from the whole idea is to lure the Armageddon into the base," Cagalli added.

"We cannot just give him an open path but we stuck two of the best to engage with Kira, remember all you have to do is keep him occupied as long as possible then just let him go," Lacus added.

"What if we destroy him first?" Neo said.

Lacus slightly lowered her head, "Then none of this will be necessary, but I strongly suggest you not take that chance."

Rey and Neo were the ones to run point on that.

"I understand," Rey only said.

"We will see how it goes, if I can finish him then I will just remember that," Neo said as he did a number on Kira the last time and if Kira didn't change this should be a piece of cake.

Cagalli turned to Athrun and gave him his assignment, which he already knew, "I will handle it."

"The Archangel and Eternal will be on the front lines with our remaining fleet, they will take any Zaft ships and suits Kira brings with him, we set up a strong defensive line, and since we only have the island to worry about anymore…it will be a lot easier," Cagalli said with a little pain at that last part.

"We can handle it," Murrue and Andrew added.

Cagalli gave out the last assignments to the officers and she herself would remain at the headquarters with the Atkasuki. She added if the Minerva was ready it would join but that all depended on when Kira attacked.

"With no mistakes this will work, our soldiers are already on standby so just follow the commands when they are given, dismissed," Cagalli said as many left the room.

"You sure?" Cagalli asked Lacus one last time.

Lacus smiled, "Yes, I will do this, I have to do this."

"Alright," Cagalli added as Lacus returned to the ship.

Cagalli stayed with Athrun as an attack could come at anytime.

Outside suits and ships began final preparations as now all could move out as soon as the order was given by Cagalli.

Orb officers were now monitoring every radar in every direction, if something was close they would know it, if their radar went out that meant the Doomsday was close and they would know it was time, either way they were ready.

Once Lacus returned she turned in to prepare for more training tomorrow, but she wasn't aware of tomorrow being the day.

Doomsday

Hanger

Shinn went to his hanger eight hours after Kira said and now he was waiting.

Kira however was awoken by another nightmare again, slamming his fist against the wall he was completely tired of it, and for some reason he couldn't remember that last one, which was unusual.

Kira saw the time however and headed to his hanger as he contacted Shinn.

"Are you ready?" Kira asked.

Shinn was already in gear and in his cockpit.

"Very well, launch on my order," Kira said putting his gear on and heading to his machine powering it up.

Shinn did the same.

"Manually open the hanger," Kira ordered as they did.

Bridge

On the bridge Willard got the orders as this wasn't scheduled.

Willard contacted Kira, "What is going on commander?"

Kira looked at him, "We are leaving, Orb is calling, don't worry about it and continue doing what you are doing and I will be back before Jibril arrives."

"But sir…the chairman's orders sir," Willard said.

Kira looked at him, "His Excellency will not mind as long as I make it back to finish Jibril, now continue doing what you are doing or you will be detected."

"But sir…" Willard said as Kira cut him off.

"Launch now," Kira finally ordered as he and Shinn flew out.

Willard watched as there was nothing he could do, but one thing was for sure he had to contact space, if not the consequences for himself would be drastic.

Kira and Shinn flew off as Kira set a course straight for Orb.

Orb Onogoro

Eternal

Lacus trained the next day as well, she turned in that night only for something to happen. Lacus was even able to talk to her kids, both were safe and wanted her to come back soon, that was all she needed to hear.

The Orb military had nothing left to do as they were ready for a Zaft invasion, and that soon came.

Most were asleep when they got the alert.

Cagalli was at the Headquarters when a soldier rushed to her, "Lady Cagalli, radar has detected that suit."

Cagalli immediately called in the order on all channels.

People immediately began moving ships out to sea as pilots boarded mobile suits, the ships were launched as people in place for Lacus' plan waited and in position.

Lacus woke up with the news, she heard what was coming as Andrew came on.

"Its time," Andrew said.

Lacus nodded waking and heading for the Freedom, she got in and moved it off the ship as she saw the ship take off to sea. Lacus watched as they contacted her.

"Be careful," Athrun said.

"You can do this," Andrew added encouragement.

Lacus watched as the ship disappeared to sea.

The archangel wasn't far behind, Athrun was also now at the edge of the base himself as he waited for his role.

Cagalli had monitors on everything as she waited; she went out and boarded her own suit as if necessary she would fight.

Neo and Rey met up as Neo sent his team members out, one is sea and the other guarding the John Paul Jones already at sea.

Neo and Rey now waited as they kept scans up for that suit.

Lacus moved into her position as she was without a doubt nervous, but she was ready to do this. All Lacus could do now was wait until Kira got through.

With Kira and Shinn

This was a days flight as the two of the stopped at a island near the Orb territory, Kira wanted to wait until it was dark to attack, he used his own machine and re-powered the Destiny with his own reactor, when it became night Kira gave Shinn the order as they moved straight in.

Orb Waters

When the radar detected something they knew immediately it was the Armageddon, and then another signal came into the picture, but that was it.

All were waiting until they saw the machine heading straight for them, as this was it.

As Kira approached his mind and eyes were completely filled with hate, this was now his chance, with something snapping inside of his mind he accelerated faster as the eyes of the machine stayed lit.

Cagalli saw this on her screen, this ends now.

Lacus heard what was going on as she now saw blasts being fired, why it came to this she wished she knew, but it was here and now she had to put a stop to this.

To be continued…

(A\N): War and battle reunions will happen in the next chapter. See you later.