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Chapter Forty Three

Out Fly

Onogoro Island-Aerial

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 that voice very clearly.

"What an unexpected surprise this is," Kira said with his voice in a little disbelief.

Lacus detected the mocking disbelief tone he was using.

"You know who this is Kira, I cannot believe you have pushed it this far," Lacus responded.

"All I have did is what I explained I would do Clyne, your idiotic ideals are nothing but fantasy but as you can see my world is falling into place, a lot has happened since we last spoke," Kira told her deadly.

"Look at Orb Kira, you destroyed all of what you saved, you never gave me the true reason for all this Kira, and many do not care anymore, but I do, and I want the real reason," Lacus replied with her voice raising a little.

"My oh my, is she actually getting angry? Just tell me something Clyne, what are you going to do if the reason is just what I have always said? Nothing has changed and everything is just as I said," Kira told her seriously.

"Your lying, I refuse to believe that!" Lacus voice was raised to the max.

"That is your problem not mine, to think this all could have been avoided," Kira told her.

"What are you saying?" Lacus said confused.

"If you weren't so foolish as to believe the world was fine the way it was, if only you knew the power of what we are trying to do, I am bringing true change, a war to end all wars Lacus, sacrifices have to be made but the in the end it would be all worth it, if only you would have understood that you could have joined right by my side," Kira responded seriously.

Lacus was looking at him like he was crazy. Their video links were working and she could see him all to well. He was definitely different from the last time she spoke and saw him, it was like he was worse and she didn't think he could go any worse.

What he just spoke was the most absurd thing she ever heard.

"It's not right Kira and you know it, people…" Lacus said.

Kira quickly snapped a little, "Stop using that word, people, I hate that word, people this people that, people this people that, naturals, coordinators all are as worthless as the day, the new breed will make the new world, and it was something I would have shared with you, but no all you ever did was put other people first and your doing it again, no more."

Lacus knew she was losing him, but what he was saying was striking her heart, "So you say Kira, yet you had children with another woman am I wrong?"

Kira slightly smiled, "Oh I see, so your playing the jealously card, well I have to say she wasn't that bad, not as good as you however…"

Lacus now shot back, he was doing it again, this all seemed like some sort of game to him, besides she wasn't really that jealous, though part of her was very disturbed with him and someone else, but what she was angry about was how he was taking things, he truly didn't seem to care he wiped out all these people, he didn't care about the misery he was causing, he didn't probably care if he struck her down right now, she was hoping he would show some kind of hope but it wasn't working, she now had to do what she had suggested, before the entire world was polluted by his destruction.

"Enough of your games Kira, I was hoping that the part I loved about you was still there, but obviously I was wrong, if you won't stop then I will stop you," Lacus replied quickly.

Kira watched as the Freedom made a threatening stance and aimed its rifle.

Kira however outright laughed, "I haven't heard anything so ridiculous since a traitor begged for his life, you may be right about one thing I won't be able to fight if I cannot stop laughing," Kira said more mocking then anything.

Lacus looked towards the ground everything was set up all she had to do was open fire and start flying. Even after all she said there was still that little part of her that didn't like what she was about to do, a part of her heart wasn't happy about this, but her mind seemed in full control.

"You have forced me into this Kira," Lacus replied.

"You have forced yourself into this Lacus…besides your nature and your idiotic ideals are what destroyed our past, as well as what could have been the future, and now I will do what I have to for those like yourself that foolishly stand in my way," Kira said going on.

"But I do actually have to thank you," Kira said clearly.

Lacus listened.

"You saved me the trouble of hunting you down, first you, then my worthless sister, then Athrun, and to top it all off Orb will follow all three of you," Kira responded as he saw her move.

Lacus heard enough, this had to be done, she quickly fired the beam rifle as she quickly turned around and made her way towards the base.

Kira saw the blast moving the head of the Armageddon he dodged the shot as he saw her fly off.

"After all that talk you run away, though a game of cat and mouse may slightly satisfy my need to destroy you," Kira said as the wings spread on the machine as he prepared to pursue.

As Lacus flew away she knew one thing had to work. After the Minerva joined with them she heard from a few pilots and such as well as Neo that Kira may have the ability to detect emotion she was feeling. One of those would have been deception; she could tell he must not be picking that up for the moment, as the entire time she did her best not to think about it once. The other alternative was Kira saw no threat in her to use his abilities, but as he reached the danger zone she knew about he may pick it up so she had to both fly and focus her mental abilities the best she could. Knowing Kira like she did was an advantage anyone else and he would have picked up these emotions, another reason why she wouldn't let anyone else fly this mission.

Kira saw her heading downward as he now pursued, he removed his rifle as they were heading back down towards the base. Kira was about to lock on when all of a sudden the base went completely black. Kira knew that was odd as he had other sensors to get by that, but what do naturals know? That was what was on his mind as that happened.

Kira was gaining ground as he opened fire.

Orb Waters

Southwest of the Island

Zaft and Orb were now fully clashed in this battle, unlike the first time Orb and Zaft were now at their best. Orb in a way which the Seirans weren't holding back to protect themselves as they weren't in charge, and Zaft because this time they weren't holding themselves back in not attacking the island.

Mobile suits were clashing in the air as ships and submarines were firing at each other. Zaft and Orb were so far all equal.

Northeast of the Island

With the threat from the Doomsday no longer apparent, Orb ships were heading south to join with the rest of the fleet. Only two ships were remaining just in case there were any surprises and that was the Archangel and Eternal.

Archangel

Murrue knew that she and the rest of her crew were saved by Neo's deflection of Kira's gun launcher.

His suit was badly damaged as she wanted to send someone out there to retrieve him; Kira already long flew to the island so their role was done as long as the Doomsday didn't show up.

"Can you reach him?" Murrue asked.

Miriallia tried but no luck, "Sorry captain, I am getting nothing."

Murrue saw that half the side of the Windam was blown off.

"Send someone…" Murrue was trying to say.

"Captain the screen," Miriallia said.

Murrue looked at the screen as a pilot had just opened the cockpit and came crawling out, he looked half conscious. For some reason she was glad, but nothing could have prepared her for what happened next.

As soon as the pilot came out he landed on the deck slightly propped up to the side of the suit, as his head leaned down his helmet mask came off.

The entire bridge crew was not prepared for what they saw, especially Murrue who quickly sat back down with her hand to her mouth. The voice, the aura and now the face, how could this be.

Eternal

Unaware of the situation over on the Archangel the Eternals bridge crew kept their eyes on the island. With Kira gone it was all in Lacus' hands. With odds highly against her, all they could do was believe she had what it took to get this done.

With Shinn and Athrun

Athrun was playing this battle very smart; he was practically leading Shinn around the island to where the other battle was taking place.

Their battle was going all out, Shinn was running low on juice however which was not good. There sabers were connected again as Athrun retreated a little, then Shinn would attack, Athrun would block then fall back towards the bigger battlefield.

Athrun had to admit Shinn was good, but he wasn't using his head when he fought, it was strictly on emotion and that was what made him realize Athrun was only stalling him.

Onogoro Island

Headquarters

Kisaka and Talia now took their places inside the headquarters as they got conformation Lacus was engaging with Kira. After cutting the lights around that area of the base, Kisaka took his place as he was one of the most important figures for this plan Lacus was using. He was all set up and now all he had to do was wait for Lacus' command.

Talia however communicated what was going on to Cagalli who was outside the headquarters. She knew this was taking place on the other side of the island, looking over she had to keep faith Lacus could do this.

"Stay safe," was all Cagalli said as she couldn't contact Lacus anymore, she couldn't let herself be seen by him either, one wrong move and this would fail costing all their lives at the hands of Kira's wrath.

With Kira and Lacus

Lacus maneuvered towards the ground the fastest she could, looking down she saw how they had set this up, over half the base had to be used for this plan. Containers, hangers and empty suits were set up like a large obstacle course, she had to by time to get this underway, and pulling this move to quickly would make his abilities become aware.

Lacus was heading for the first few buildings as she was quickly alerted to weapons fire, she knew Kira caught up fast, accelerated in a dangerous move she went in-between the buildings as the blast struck the ground.

Lacus then moved to her com, "Stage one," Lacus said as that was all she could request as help until she started her true goal.

At the headquarters Kisaka heard that as he gave a few commands.

Kira saw the blast missed but he wasn't really aiming well, this seemed a little to much fun, like a bloodthirsty beast hunting his prey, that was how he felt and he liked it. Right before reaching the ground Kira saw several small explosions as smoke started rising all over the place.

Kira landed the Armageddon on its feet as he could tell those were large smoke bombs.

"Interesting, I didn't think you had this in you, but you underestimate my machine," Kira said switching to infrared on his screen.

The smoke was all but useless, however Kira knew this would be no fun if he did it the easy way, he had waited to long to make these three pay, it wouldn't satisfy him if he destroyed them that easily. Kira also knew his time had to be limited before reinforcements arrived but for once he didn't care, this was the only thing that mattered.

Switching back to normal control Kira went into the smoke with his rifle in one hand and one saber in the other, "Where oh where could that Lacus be?" Kira said in an opening com, he knew she could hear him even if she chose not to respond.

Lacus was behind one of the hangers for the moment, seeing Kira turn around looking away from her she was going to move to a different location but that was a bad thing.

Kira's abilities immediately alerted him to behind him, "Found you," Kira said turning around quickly and firing.

Kira was seeming to have a good time, but the anger he still held was very strong at this point, and that was starting to take more and more control.

Lacus ducked back behind the building as the shot caused part of the hanger to collapse, Lacus moved to fly again as she looked back, seeing nothing undamaged for her plan she flew off keeping low to the ground and going through the buildings and containers.

"This is fun," Kira said following her until he lost her at a turn, shutting his eyes his abilities once again came through for him, "You cannot hide from me," Kira said with a small laugh turning towards a few empty suits and firing.

Lacus moved back as the suits blew up he shot, using the explosion she moved away again back to the other hangers. Lacus knew he was gaining ground and it was becoming more and more difficult to suppress the plan ideals out of her head, all it would take is for Kira to sense that and it could be all over.

After the blast cleared Kira saw her fly off, something was no longer sitting right with him, she wasn't looking for a fight, she was just running.

"What could be going on in that pretty head of yours Lacus, its not unusual for people to run away from me, but you on the other hand have something else in mind, I guess I will have to uncover it," Kira said now pursuing her again.

Lacus knew he was becoming suspicious, she had to move around for final position to make this work, she stalled him long enough, she was hoping to go a little longer so he would not sense it coming but he was just to much more skilled then her as all of those were close calls, if she was shot down now not only would her children be left without any parent but everyone would perish.

Lacus was behind a few storage containers when she removed one of the sabers, looking to the side she threw it in a different direction as she went in another.

However Kira didn't fall for that as he aimed and fired.

Lacus got the alert as the beam came right in and went through her beam rifle, she dropped it as it blew up and she continued on.

"Oh no, now what?" Kira said to her as he moved in to pursue her, this was fun, however as he turned he immediately stopped with a new sensation.

"Danger," Kira said almost coming to a complete stop, and now in a foolish move he chose to ignore that feeling.

Pursuing Kira was gaining ground.

Lacus knew she had to do it now, heading for altitude she flew up into the sky.

Kira saw as he pursued her.

Orb Water and Headquarters

Waters

Todaka was leading the charge well, but on their right flank, they were weakening when Zaft's aquatic models started taking out ships.

Todaka sent in reinforcements but some might breach to the shoreline.

Aerial

With a dodge from Athrun's shot Shinn now realized he was in hostile territory, war was going on all around them, it seemed as if someone ordered in Zaft reinforcements, and he knew it couldn't have been Kira as he was with him the whole time during their journey, something wasn't right about this.

Getting back to this battle he knew he would figure that out later.

Headquarters

Kisaka was monitoring and when he saw on radar the Freedom was in the sky that was the signal to get ready, he was ready to do what he had to do.

Talia told Cagalli as Cagalli could see the machine in the sky as well as her brother following her, this was the most critical time and Cagalli knew that.

"Are they all ready?" Cagalli asked.

"Correct," Talia replied.

The next few minutes would be life and death.

Onogoro Hanger area

Sky

As soon as Lacus got up there she saw the Armageddon straight on her heals.

She spun her machine around and now headed towards the correct location, it was an area where many hangers were lined up on each side one after another across and down buildings and hangers were located.

Lacus was in a direct decent like she did at first this time however Kira was right on her.

This feeling he was getting was driving him crazy, Kira took aim and with a smirk smiled as he fired.

Lacus was alerted but it was far too late, the left wing was hit on the Freedom and blew as Kira shot again hitting the right one, with both wings gone Lacus was heading for the ground, she never meant to get hit.

Slowing herself down as much as possible as she fell, she hit the ground hard but not to hard, with the suit on its back.

With Cagalli

Cagalli saw that hit and she now feared the worst as the Armageddon was still coming.

With Kira and Lacus

Kira watched as the Freedom hit the ground, lowering his rifle Kira pointed the saber straight down.

Lacus regained her composure as she opened her eyes, the machine was practically unmovable at this point, there had to be damage elsewhere. However what really caught her eye was Kira heading straight at her with his saber pointed straight at her.

Lacus knew this was it; she pushed the button on her radio as luckily that was still working, "Now!" Lacus shouted.

Headquarters

Kisaka got the word from Lacus.

Getting on the com, "We are a go, do it," Kisaka ordered as for the most important part he was typing a few commands on the board as he pressed the final button, looking up hoping this would work.

With Kira

Kira was heading straight down at her with his mind completely focused, until he heard a voice.

"You cannot stop the inevitable, people will never change…" was what the voice said.

Kira's expression went from dark to completely demonic, his hands started shaking with complete rage, and his machine slowed to almost a halt, nothing else mattered. All the fun and games stopped right then and there, he was now going to a place even a demon would fear to go.

Kira's breathing was completely heavy as his eyes were now the worst they had ever been.

"Le Crueset!" Kira shouted.

With Lacus

Lacus saw the actions, and knew it had to work, she knew the one thing that affected Kira above all else and that didn't change.

Headquarters

After doing that Kisaka gave the orders.

With Kira

Kira knew that voice anywhere, this wasn't Ryu either, they had a similar voice but it was nothing this precise, it was him, Kira knew this from anywhere.

In complete rage Kira turned towards the voice, "Le Crueset!" Kira shouted.

Kira turned the machine however as immediately shots were fired as the machine was struck all over the place.

To be continued…

(A\N): The next chapter will be another short one. Bye for now.