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Chapter Forty Two

Now or Never

Orb-Onogoro Island

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.

Orb Waters

With the ships in wait and weapons ready to go, all were ready when the alert went off.

"Direction?" Todaka asked on his vessel.

"Coming in from the northeast sir," one officer said.

"How many?" Todaka asked.

"Only one so far sir," the officer replied.

John Paul Jones

"We have word captain," an officer said.

"Launch the two machines, and contact the commander," the captain said.

"Yes sir," the officer said.

The two ready machines the Abyss and the Gaia were launched, Auel went into the water while he waited for forces to appear, Stellar went on the top deck to help guard the ship. Sting wasn't on the ship he was at the headquarters but his massive machine wasn't ready yet, he had to sit this battle out.

Archangel

"The direction is the northeast captain," Miriallia said.

Murrue and the main ships were in that direction as they knew that had to be Kira, with the information Neo leaked it had to be him, so they placed their best around here to counter the Doomsday.

"Distance?" Murrue asked.

"Two minutes captain," Miriallia added.

"Remember what we have to do," Murrue said as they were ready.

Eternal

"It seems he is a little hasty if he has this big of a lead," Andrew added as they were getting no other signatures.

"Sir, another just appeared on the screen," Dacosta said.

"The Doomsday?" Andrew asked.

"Negative sir, another mobile suit signature…this looks like the Destiny," Dacosta said.

"Inform our ground units," Andrew ordered.

"Yes sir," Dacosta said as he did just that.

Orb-Onogoro Island Shoreline

Neo and Rey

Waiting for orders all were inside their mobile suits and waiting for the order.

Neo and Rey however kept a close eye on each other for some reason; they had a very strange feeling they knew each other somehow.

The orders were soon given.

"Your target is approaching commander, one minute to he is in range," the captain of the John Paul Jones said.

"Can you confirm it is him?" Neo said.

"Yes sir, the signature is right on," the captain informed.

"We are launching immediately, we will meet him over the sea," Neo said as this had to be convincing, but they would still be fighting for their lives.

"Let's go," Neo said as he and Rey launched.

Onogoro Headquarters

Cagalli was watching everything from the main headquarters with Talia, unfortunately the Minerva was not ready for this battle, they were only thirty percent battle ready and that would only make them a liability on the battlefield.

Giving the first order the entire bases center was lit up well enough to see everything, the rest was light but dark enough just what they needed.

Cagalli wanted to head to her machine which was just outside the main building, so she was going to have Talia run point if she was forced to engage in battle.

"Windam and Legend are moving towards the Armageddon like planed Lady Cagalli, however the Destiny is right behind, this was never in the simulations we ran, this could screw up everything," Kisaka added as he was there.

They however soon got a call, "Cagalli," it was Athrun.

"I am picking up two signatures," Athrun added.

"I know, it's the Destiny," Cagalli added.

"I will leave my post and keep him occupied," Athrun said.

"We cannot just…" Cagalli said.

"You can have a normal suit take my place, it won't make a difference, besides someone has to keep the Destiny at bay or this will be blown," Athrun added.

"Alright, shift your position," Cagalli said knowing Athrun was probably the only one capable of holding him off.

At his position Athrun took off.

"Lady Cagalli, something is very strange," Kisaka said.

"What is it now?" Cagalli asked.

"I don't detect any Zaft forces anywhere, I don't think there are any," Kisaka said again.

Cagalli looked at the radar for a few minutes.

"He wouldn't be so arrogant as to think he could do this alone," Kisaka said again.

Cagalli grew angry, "He would, but just in case we stick to everything, shift no positions."

"Understood," Kisaka said as now there were clashes.

Center of the base

In the dead center is where Lacus was waiting, she was in her own flight suit waiting for the word that Kira had entered the base. Looking in the vital spots she saw everything set up so it was all up to her.

Staring at the photo of her children and herself she would not let them down. Lacus now waited and hoped everyone would make it out alive.

Aprilious One

With everything ready for Ryu's journey, he was just about to head to the shuttle to be escorted to earth however he got an urgent call from the Doomsday which he took.

Ryu had to head back to his office, "What is it commander?" Ryu asked.

"Sir, its captain Willard sir," Willard told him.

Ryu looked at him funny, "Where is the commander?"

Willard told him everything.

Ryu said nothing at first, but after a few seconds he responded, "If this was any other time I would be interested in the outcome, but not when Jibril is at our grasp!" it was safe to assume he wasn't to happy.

"How long ago did he leave?" Ryu asked.

Willard told him it had been a day.

"You waited this long to contact me!" Ryu yelled at him.

"Forgive me sir, but only the commander has a direct line to you, plus it has been hard without jeopardizing our position, the commander said he would finish Orb and have enough time to get Jibril as well," Willard added.

Ryu quickly checked the Orb satellite, Kira was there and things were breaking out.

"I will handle the rest continue with your mission," Ryu said disconnecting the link between him and Willard.

"I did not come this far to have to hunt Jibril down, it seems I took his abilities a little too high," Ryu said but knew all too well he couldn't afford to lose Kira at this point.

Ryu used the channels now to contact his fleet down in Carpentaria, he ordered a force to move in and intercept the Orb fleet giving Kira backup. He was not to pleased with this at all, but losing Kira at this point would put everything he worked for to waste, no one else could carry out the tasks he needed down and no one was as loyal as Kira, Ryu knew this to be an act of Kira's hatred overwhelming himself and finally exploding, he knew the training he gave Kira would do this, but he was now wondering if maybe he went to far, insubordination was something he would not tolerate.

After this Ryu continued on schedule as now he was heading to earth as he boarded his shuttle and a large escort took him towards the earth.

Orb Aerial over the waters

With Kira and Shinn

Kira flew as hard as he could straight towards Orb, when he arrived he saw the main ships just waiting for him, as well as the base lit up a ways ahead, though he didn't focus on that for the moment.

Kira zoomed in and saw the ships trying to converge towards him, "At least they are set up this time, a nice challenge for myself, but I have no time for this," Kira said quickly accelerating faster and taking his aim straight at the Archangel.

Shinn tried keeping up with Kira, but his suit wasn't as good. When he did arrive he saw the ships preparing to engage. Kira seemed busy but soon he was busy himself.

With Kira and Archangel

Kira flew in as the ships started firing at him, Kira dodged with everything he had; this was no problem for him. Using the head Vulcan's he destroyed missiles fired and used his shield generator to block the beam attacks while he continued forwards.

The Archangel was the first ship in Kira's path.

"Incoming captain," Miriallia said.

"Aim the Gottfrieds and Valliant's, fire," Murrue said firing.

Kira got the incoming as he spun right around the Gottfried fire and dodged the Valliant's. His abilities were starting to kick into high gear, as he spun around the last attack the gun Launcher was activated and Kira fired.

"Incoming fire captain," Miriallia said again.

"Evade quickly," Murrue said.

"No time," Newman said as the beam struck one of their Gottfried cannons the explosion destroyed it immediately and caused damage to one of their hangers, but nothing else.

Kira was about to fire again when he froze, "This feeling," Kira said as it had been a whole year since he felt this. Kira returned the gun launched as the beam rifle slid down the right forearm and into place on the right hand as Kira turned to the side.

As he did he had to dodge fire as Neo arrived.

"You again," Kira said as he readied himself.

With Shinn and John Paul Jones

Shinn saw the engagement and then saw Rey, he didn't want to fight him but he had to finish off Orb.

Shinn had no time to react however as he got fired at himself. Looking down he saw the Gaia opening fire at him.

"You dare," Shinn said accelerating forward firing his rifle.

The captain of the John Paul Jones saw the incoming and ordered fire, but this was just a carrier and their weapons weren't that great.

Auel was nowhere to be found as he was still looking for ships but Stellar opened fire.

Shinn evaded the shots and fired a few of his own.

The shots struck the haul as Stellar jumped at him.

She was in one of her rages; after the first shot she got another fear of death.

Jumping towards the Destiny she removed one saber and swung at Shinn. Shinn quickly blocked the slash with his own as his suit was a little more powerful then the Gaia. Forcing his power on the Gaia he sent her back towards the ship as she landed on the deck.

She stood up growing angrier as she transformed the suit and activated the Griffon beam blades on the back. She charged at him in complete rage as Shinn jumped up and cut the blades straight off and he then landed on the back of the Gaia keeping it to the ground.

Taking his saber he moved in for the final stab.

Stellar saw what was happening and immediately freaked out again, she moved all the power to the thrusters and knocked Shinn off but not before he sliced the legs of the machine right off making her fall to the ground.

Shinn was growing annoyed with this suit as he had work to do; he then pointed the palm straight at it and began powering it up.

The John Paul Jones recalled the Abyss but he was still a ways out and heading for another battlefield.

Shinn powered completely up and began opening fire but as he fired he was shot at and forced to move, the beam still fired and it took connected with the upper half of the Gaia, taking the head and the explosion damaged the shoulder and arm joints making the suit all but useless.

The torso fell on to the ship as Stellar was unconscious.

After dodging Shinn looked up and saw the Justice heading straight for him.

Taking aim their battle had begun.

Aerial Battle-Orb Waters

With Kira, Neo, and Rey

Arriving Neo's senses told him just where to go, they sensed Kira, but one thing was for sure, this time he seemed a lot more focused.

Neo opened fire with his Windam as Kira dodged and readied himself returning the fire.

Neo's quick senses helped him dodge, but those were two close calls.

Turning around the two machines were left to stare at each other.

Kira remembering his training was putting it to good use, this just wasn't a battle of mobile suits, this was a battle of mental abilities and it was clear the other was trying to get the next move predication as precise as possible.

Kira caught a quick second of it as he predicted the move of Neo's machine. Neo moved and wanted to try a quick attack on the joints of Kira's right arm and flew up a little to move into position.

Kira however took aim first and fired at a spot he knew Neo would be in, Neo however sensed it at the last minute and raised his shield as it took the blast. That was Kira's chance however as he reached for one of his sabers and went straight for Neo.

Neo recovered from the blast only to have the Armageddon straight in his face. Taking one swing Neo sacrificed his shield as Kira cut it in half going straight for his cockpit.

Neo however was able to sense that first and quickly spun the machine around going for a saber of his own. Kira missed on the slash as he didn't expect that kind of speed left in this man. Neo swung as fast as possible as Kira was off guard but was able to counter his beam with his own. The sabers were connected as they stared straight at each other.

Neo slightly cursed, if this machine was a little bit stronger the Armageddon would have lost its head on that slash, and now it was all up to power and clearly a Windam wasn't a match for this machine with Kira's skills now equal to his own.

Kira slammed himself straight into Neo sending the machine straight for the water but before impact Neo regained control, as Kira had another problem.

Rey caught up with them as he fired his high powered rifle causing Kira to back off.

Archangel

Murrue and the rest saw what was going on.

"Hold fire," Murrue said watching the battle with interest.

"Are you sure captain?" the tactical officer said.

"We stick to the plan…all we do now is wait and hope it will work, but keep an eye out for Zaft forces," Murrue ordered as they continued to watch the battle as Rey joined it.

With Shinn and Athrun

Shinn remembered this guy well, "No one will stop my revenge," Shinn said removing his long range beam cannon.

Athrun watched him as the guy wasn't wasting any time, Athrun had to either destroy him or keep him busy as long as possible, he had to prevent him from reaching the island at all cost.

Shinn fired the beam as Athrun easily dodged firing the chest mounted CIWS and his rifle.

Shinn was forced to dodge as each returned their rifles and wanted to go hand to hand. With sabers drawn both connected with each other, as Athrun broke apart and then engaged again, he did that over and over, but the one thing Shinn's rage wasn't showing him was Athrun was leading him farther and farther out to sea and around the island.

Orb Headquarters

Cagalli was updated regularly, from what they saw there was no ships in the area, this was just a two suit attack, something she knew Kira's arrogance was driving. Keeping an eye on how things were going she made her decision now.

"Captain I am heading out, please keep me informed," Cagalli told Talia.

Talia agreed as Kisaka stayed with her, he fully objected to Cagalli heading out, even if it was to defend the headquarters, but nothing could stop her when she was like this.

Reaching her machine she went into the cockpit as she contacted Lacus.

Center of the Base

Lacus was waiting as she saw from a distance the battle was going on, with her machine in a standing position she waited.

"Lacus," Cagalli said contacting her.

"I'm here," Lacus said.

"We have confirmed it is Kira leading the attack with one other machine," Cagalli said.

"That's it?" Lacus asked.

"Correct," Cagalli added.

"Keep with the strategy, not to much force or too many would get hurt…are they sticking with the plan?" Lacus asked gripping the controls.

"So far I think they are, the ships engaged at first but now they are letting the machines handle it, Athrun was forced to engage the other machine, but we filled his spot," Cagalli added.

Lacus agreed.

"There is no turning back from this point Lacus, are you absolutely true…I can take over for you if you want, you do have children to worry about?" Cagalli asked.

Lacus knew Cagalli could handle herself, but this was something she had to do.

"Trust me Cagalli…I have to do this," Lacus said seriously.

"Alright…I will let you know when he reaches the island," Cagalli said again.

"Thank you," Lacus said as they signed off and Lacus readied herself to do what she had to do, no fear and no hesitations or she would end up dead.

Aerial Battle-Orb Waters

With Kira and with Rey

Kira looked over after the shot was fired only to see Rey in the machine he created.

"I see you have finally betrayed us," Kira spoke over the radio.

Rey heard him and easily responded, "You are the traitors, you killed Gil and ruined my life."

"How very touched I am over your sentiment, I will not deny it, Gil was a fool that was in our way, so we removed him," Kira responded deadly.

Kira could tell Rey was readying his machine.

"You don't honestly think I will let my own machine destroy me do you," Kira said removing one saber.

"Your treachery stops now, I will avenge Gil's death," Rey said with his own saber powering up.

Kira lightly laughed, but then it turned serious, "I have little time, but know one thing, you were just as useless as I thought you would be," Kira said as the Armageddon charged quickly at the Legend.

Rey pulled back on the controls of the larger machine, but that was the problem, this machine was so large in stature and though Kira made it very maneuverable, it was no where near the league of the Armageddon's maneuverability.

Taking one swipe Kira cut the high powered rifle in half as Rey threw it at him backing off.

Kira swiped it away with his machines arm and fired his Vulcan guns, as he moved to a better spot.

Rey recovered as he saw the Armageddon's pursuit, moving all dragoons on the back they flipped over as he fired the shots straight at Kira.

Kira dodged by gaining altitude, as he spun around and fired the rail guns on the hips, Rey backed off as one struck his armor knocking him down a little.

With Kira, Rey and Neo

Neo was waiting for a chance to get into this battle, it was clear that this Rey wasn't yet good enough to take Kira on. Neo knew they had the same ability, that was evident, but Rey's didn't seem on level with his own and Kira's. Neo had to do something or this battle wasn't going to last long.

Waiting for his chance he saw it as Kira fired the rail cannons at Rey. Neo moved in towards the back and threw his Stiletto the same type that got Kira's generator at their battle in space.

Kira's head however shot up when he sensed the attack.

"You don't think I would fall for the same trick twice now do you?" Kira asked himself as he turned around and fired his rifle striking the Stiletto.

Neo turned and knew right there his skills had improved, a year ago he couldn't detect his moves and now he seemed to be gaining the upper hand.

Neo removed a saber heading for Kira as Rey recovered and did the same.

"A two for one deal," Kira responded removing his two sabers and connecting both of them as beams shot out from both sides.

Neo made it first as Kira blocked his slash with one side. Rey made it a few seconds behind him as Kira turned the saber upward connecting with Rey's on the other side.

Kira still had one free hand while he blocked the attacks of both Rey and Neo from the other double saber.

This went on as Kira showed no signs of slowing down, Neo occasionally got close using his abilities but for now they weren't overlapping Kira's.

Kira had just about enough as he used his free hand reaching for a third saber.

Connecting his double saber with both Neo and Rey, Kira quickly removed another one of his sabers and moved in for the stab against Neo. Neo had to back out as he had to block this but as he did he was forced to leave the one end of the double saber undefended and Kira moved it down taking the Windams right arm with it.

Neo fell to the water as he had to sacrifice his arm or risk the stab into his cockpit.

His suit connected with the water as he tried to regain himself.

With Rey trying to take advantage of the situation he moved in and then Kira caught him; connecting with his saber Kira slammed himself into the Legend with full force taking Rey off guard.

Archangel

Murrue was watching the fight as she saw Neo fall to the waters, he looked alright but for some reason she was worried.

However what happened next shocked all of them.

With Athrun and Shinn

Shinn was beyond flustered with this battle, it was not going anywhere, he didn't have the upper hand at all, but he was holding his own in saying he wasn't losing either.

Athrun could tell the pilot was getting flustered. This was when pilots no matter how good they are make mistakes and Athrun was waiting for that mistake.

Shinn also had one small problem; he had to keep an eye on his suits power, while Athrun didn't have any power issues to worry about.

Shinn was already down to about half power so he started holding back a few attacks, and was sticking to short range saber attacks.

The one thing he didn't count on was Athrun was his strongest in short range attacks.

Athrun was just waiting him out and if he saw an opening he would take it and finish the machine, if not his mission was a success anyway in keeping Shinn from the island so either way would work for him.

Outside Orb Waters

It didn't take long to organize a force as they were still on standby since the first attack on Orb, however Ryu's order came in for them to head back in and this time their target was the Orb fleet.

Getting in range they saw all ships lined up in a waiting position as they were starting to move in. Suits were launched and submarines were about to fire as they entered the waters.

Orb Fleet

It didn't take long for Orb to detect the advance force heading in from the south, Kira was attacking from the northeast and the Zaft fleet was heading in from the southwest.

They detected the suits being launched as the captains of the ships gave the same orders. Orb launched their machines as they contacted the headquarters.

Orb Headquarters

Talia and Kisaka got word as they contacted Cagalli.

"You are sure?" Cagalli said from her machine.

"Yes, the same fleet from before," Kisaka responded.

"The Doomsday?" Cagalli asked.

"Negative on that, it is still not here," Talia told her.

"That's good news, intercept those machines, keep them off the island until we do what we have to at least," Cagalli said as Kisaka and Talia did just that.

Cagalli then informed Lacus of the situation.

With Lacus and Cagalli

Cagalli informed Lacus of the situation.

"What about Kira?" Lacus asked.

"They are still keeping him busy, I haven't heard anything else, just stay ready," Cagalli said as they went back to work.

Lacus looked ahead as it was clear the battle to the north was getting a lot closer.

Orb Aerial Battle-Orb waters

With Kira and Rey

After Kira slammed himself into the legend Rey made his mistake as he was turning his machine around.

"It ends now," Kira said removing one saber and using his abilities flying straight towards the Legend.

Kira moved in with a small smirk.

Rey turned the machine around facing Kira again but the last thing he saw was the demonic eyes of the machine as Kira stabbed the saber straight through the Legends cockpit.

The last thoughts on Rey's mind were of Gil and how he failed to avenge him.

Kira backed away as the Legend blew up. The large explosion could be seen a ways away.

Kira slightly smiled as he saw what was below and that was the Archangel.

Archangel

All saw the explosion of the machine, another life lost at the hands of Kira's treachery.

"Captain!" Miriallia said as Murrue looked up only to see a gun launcher pointed straight at the bridge of the Archangel.

"Newman," Murrue said quickly.

"No time," Newman said as he tried moving the ship.

Kira was in a rush as he saw an opening towards the island, he used just his gun launcher taking aim and firing it straight at the bridge while heading for the island.

Murrue and the rest braced for impact as they saw a one arm Windam fly straight in front of it with a busted shield.

Neo fell right where his busted shield was floating in the water.

Neo didn't know why but he felt as if he had to do this. Taking the beam straight on it connected with the busted shield already starting to melt it.

Murrue and the others watched as this was too much of a familiar sight.

Immediately when the beam struck the shield it was like a trigger. Neo's head flew up as years of his damaged memory immediately shot back into his head. He was not Neo Lorronoke, he was Mu La Flaga.

The crew outside was stunned as they watched.

The beam immediately was about to break threw the shield. Mu knew what he was doing as he used his machine and started pushing the beam to the side with his thrusters. The beam cut threw and took his other arm and damaging the entire side of the machine, but he was able to deflect the shot.

Mu slightly smiled as he fell to the haul of the Archangel.

"Murrue…" was all Mu said.

The com was activated as all heard that voice. This time is was no mistake about the voice.

With Kira

Kira left the rest alone as he now saw a clear path towards the base, his objective was to get in and start destroying everything.

Heading in however he saw a few Zaft machines approaching him, the both of which he knew.

Battlefield-Orb Waters near Eternal

Air

Both Shinn and Athrun saw the large explosion, it was quite a distance but both knew something was destroyed.

Athrun knew that couldn't have been Kira and either that Rey or Neo was the one destroyed.

Continuing their battle here, Athrun kept pushing Shinn to his limits, and Athrun was starting to see holes in the Destiny's attacks, it should be to much longer for him to mount his own strong attack.

Eternal

Following orders they kept up scans for the Doomsday, but it was apparent that the large ship wasn't coming. They also got word of the attack on the other side of the military island but they had to hold course.

Onogoro-Near Shoreline

With Shiho and Yzak

Shiho and Yzak were placed on the other side of the island to help with Zaft forces on that side, but once Yzak heard the Destiny was here he had to come, bailing on his orders he headed for the machine that Athrun was piloting.

Shiho saw him leave and tried catching up with him to talk some sense into him, this was just like the past, he would get angry and focus everything on getting back at one suit.

"We should report back sir," Shiho said trying to drag him back.

"This has to be done, he destroyed Dearka," Yzak said clearly.

"Stay the course commander, think of the big picture," Shiho told him clearly.

Yzak did slow down, "I have, and I remember, but Athrun is only buying time with him, I can destroy him and that is one less thing we have to worry about."

Shiho saw they were reaching past the shoreline when their sensors alerted to something fast approaching.

It was safe to say this wasn't something they wanted to run into.

With Kira, Yzak, Shiho

As Kira was heading in towards the base and a few hundred yards he saw two suits coming straight for him and both he recognized.

"The traitor and the failure," Kira responded, traitor being Shiho and failure being Yzak as he failed countless times to destroy him.

"Commander," Shiho said to Yzak as both saw the devil machine heading for them.

"Just great," Yzak replied taking aim, he wasn't scared or anything, but he didn't want to deal with this right now either, the Destiny was what he wanted.

Kira surprisingly slowed down to a stop staring at the machines, Kira then adjusted his com frequency.

"What do I have here today?" Kira asked to them.

Yzak stared at the machine, and quickly pulled out the mark two Duels saber, "What you have is something I apparently should have finished last war."

"I have no time to play around so I will make this quick with you, after all that is all I will need," Kira said removing his own saber.

"Pilot Hahnenfuss, how very unexpected," Kira said.

Shiho stared at the machine, "Like I told you commander, it was always on my terms."

Kira slightly smiled, "Yes you did, though you doubted that I didn't know what you were doing, deception is an easy emotion to detect no matter where you show it."

Yzak was wondering just what was going on, they were talking as if they knew each other well.

Shiho said no more.

"Shall I tell you how I know," Kira said as Yzak got finished of this talk and made his charge.

Kira saw the Duel coming towards him as he met the charging.

However before their connection Kira said one more thing, "You are cold to the core Hahnenfuss, although you're special talents were quite satisfying, that is what I will miss most," Kira said clearly.

Yzak got the picture, and like Kira wanted his guard was dropped.

Seeing his saber being lowered by what he heard, Kira accelerated faster and made his slash.

Yzak turned back around as he tried dodging the best he could. The slash went straight into the right side of the machine and took the Duels hand holding the saber. Yzak just barely avoided the attack but the damage was done as the side of the machine made a small explosion and started falling towards the ocean.

Shiho watched as she went to retrieve him.

Kira didn't stop her, but she knew she had to get by him first, "You are more like me then you care to admit, you did what you had to so you could complete your mission, your strength is something I should have considered when making an ultimate, but just know that your betrayal of His Excellency will be handed out shortly, I am pressed for time but I will be back and destroy you," Kira said seriously and deadly as he now entered the shoreline.

Shiho went and retrieved Yzak as she did use him for information and maybe she enjoyed some of it, but the one thing he was wrong about was she didn't think taking innocent life would justify any means to the end.

As Kira entered the shoreline he went for altitude as he saw the base well lighted in the center, moving his sensors in closer he saw something he never thought he would see again.

Onogoro Headquarters

With Cagalli

Kisaka told Cagalli the Armageddon had breached the shoreline and Cagalli told him to alert everyone to begin. Kisaka moved over towards a control panel and gave orders as he waited for Lacus' command.

With Lacus

Lacus waited and saw the earlier explosion and another small one just by the coast. It was then that Cagalli contacted her.

"He has reached the shoreline Lacus…its all up to you, good luck and make sure you stay alive," Cagalli said.

Lacus however saw the machine head for the sky, up above was the Armageddon and it was staring straight at her.

"Thank you for everything Cagalli…just remember what I said," Lacus said as she signed out and switched frequencies again.

Onogoro Base

As Kira was looking at the base everything else around didn't matter as he spotted the Freedom straight ahead. The machine he used to create the first world was restored and standing straight in front of him. How ironic he thought as he had to destroy the machine that made the first world all so he could make the new one.

Kira for some reason was getting to an anger boiling point, seeing that machine was something he never wanted to see again.

Lacus started straight up with her feet on the petals of the machine, she powered up the thrusters as the Freedom began flying into the sky but only straight up.

Kira watched the machine meet him now face to face but still apart a ways.

Kira however was getting a strange sense when his suspicions were then confirmed by the voice that came over his com.

"Kira," was what Lacus said and she said it with such disappointment.

Kira heard the voice clearly.

To be continued…

(A\N): The next chapter will be a short one as Lacus begins her plan. See you later.