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Chapter Sixty Seven

Battle of Panama Part One

Panama Base

Knowing that a Zaft force was just outside their shores the base commanders prepared the best they could.

Waters

Alliance ships started surrounding the waters straight to the base. The Zaft forces were a few miles outside their waters territorial boundary so they were conversing on that location.

Several Destroyer class naval ships took the lead, Danilov, Arkansas, and Fraser class destroyers took the lead. Their numbers were stretching to the thirties with more conversing. Taking lead in the back were the Spengler class carriers with a full capacity of fighters ready for launch along with many Windams. The waters were as secured as they could get them for this critical battle.

Base

With the base on full alert they were setting up a defensive line straight around the shore leading to the base and covering areas around the mass driver. The base consisted of multiple tanks, missile trucks, anti aircraft defense as well as soldiers on the ground. Their mobile suits were placed all over with more Windams and upgraded Strike Daggers. The base was as prepared as it was going to be.

Headquarters

The base commander in charge was overlooking the situation as he orders from the president were clear; hold this area for as long as they could. One thing that highly worried them was none other then that Doomsday. One shot from its cannon and it won't matter how good their defenses were. His orders to the naval fleet were to hold that thing back as long as possible, do not let it near the point of no return. That was what they were calling it. It was an area near in the water just about a few miles to the base. If it got past that nothing could stop it from advancing.

Back in the base they knew one mobile suit that had to be stopped and that was the mighty Armageddon. Either way they had to hold this base for as long as possible; the base commander however was not looking just to hold the base he was looking for victory.

Everything was set up until the alerts came, "Battle stations," the commander said as now it begun.

Zaft Fleet

Vosgulov Class Subs

It took awhile but all subs had arrived and were ready to begin this operation. Ryu's briefing was simple get them close enough where they would handle the rest. The subs knew from the last satellite images they got where and how the base layout was but now that the satellites surveillance was shut down they would be going in without that information from now on.

They were ready and awaiting Ryu's order to attack.

Mobile Units

All pilots were inside their suits and ready for launch. Their aerial units still consisted of the Babi's and upgraded Dinns. Those suits would do the job from the air.

They had stored the Zaku's and Gouf's which would do the job from the land once they got to the base.

Third was the aquatic units of Geo Goohn's, Zno's and Assh units were for deployment into the waters.

All pilots knew their job but they also knew a code phrase as well. When they heard the orders of large bear, then they knew to do something that would have to be done at that moment.

All pilots knew their orders and assignments as they were waiting for the orders to launch.

Doomsday

Ryu was right on the bridge as the order was just about to be given. Willard was in his captain's chair as he was ready to command his ship into this battle.

Shinn got the word that they were ready as he made his way to his suit. He was prepared and waiting for launch.

Kira was down in his ready room getting prepared as well. The mission was simple; he had to get up to the base and get an attack team inside the headquarters. Sure they could just destroy the base but Kira wanted something that he believed was located inside this base. Attack teams were down in the main hanger boarding their Agile choppers ready to move in as they would assist Kira once he made his way inside. From Kira's estimations once that part of the operation began it shouldn't take more then ten to twenty minutes for what he wanted to do.

Kira made his way to his machine as he was ready to go.

Back on the bridge Ryu gave the order to all as all started to advance towards the alliances waters boundary.

Once they saw the boundary the alliances ships were ready for them.

"Now," Ryu ordered as the order was spread and all ships launched their machines.

Kira was ready as his hanger opened and the Armageddon was launched.

Around the Earth

Orders were given out fairly quickly to all five of the locations that Mu gave them. Each mechanic and engineer was given orders to move out to their specified location. Two were being sent to Asia, one to Eurasia and two for both North and South America. There locations were spread through out the globe however none were to far from the locations and luckily none were on the continents that are currently dominated by Zaft.

Another good thing was Zaft forces were no longer attacking and mostly doing withdrawing so they believed they could get this done without much trouble.

One machine was located in southern part of lower Florida; this one was determined to be sent to South America. Yes it was located in North America however they wanted it transferred through the gulf and to South America while this battle was going on. The distance was the shortest and no unit was located in South America so this was the one that had to be transferred here.

Another machine was located at the tip Alaska, this was would be sent to the North American location.

Two machines were located in Eurasia, one near England and another eastward towards Ukraine. The one near England would take over the Europe target, and the one near Ukraine would be one of the first to head towards the Asia target.

The final machine was located in the snowy mountains of Russia; this was the second one that would be transferred to the Asia location.

Each machine was given an emergency order to begin heading to their locations. When the chief mechanics got this they reported to their base commanders as transport was immediately granted.

The base crew began reading the large machines for transport as they had ways to get the big machines around. Some had to go by land, one by sea and a few by air but they were getting the job done.

The next part was up to the engineers and mechanics. They saw what the order dictated; they were to modify the cannons on the back of the machine with the guide sent to them. This was definitely unusual but orders were orders so they prepared the equipment for them as well. The crew knew they could work on these things while they were being transported so some knew they could be nearing completion before they arrived.

They were wondering about the power source like many were but the president had something else for that so they just had to worry about the cannons.

The bases saw this was a priority order and all had to drop what they were doing to ready the large machines transportation, that wasn't easy for a few however the ones over land had a larger advantage but it was still going to take time to get these machines to their locations. They were getting assistance by practically the entire alliance forces so that would cut the time down but they were still looking at days and that was going none stop. A lot would have to go right for them to pull the time issue out, but the order was clear they had no choice and it had to be done.

That was their situation and they were doing the best they could.

Panama Waters

With Zaft

Right near the border is where everything was launched, Aerial suites took to the skies, ground suits waited for their chance, and aquatic suits were in the waters.

Kira led the way as Shinn was trailing behind. Kira flew forward as the alliance started their counterattack.

The subs prepared for their own assaults as their weapons were fired straight to the ships.

The Doomsday however was remaining silent and out of the way, for now.

With the Alliance

When the alliance saw Zaft launch they did the same with their units. Fighters and Windams were launched into the skies as the destroyers were preparing their weapons.

The battle started as ships opened fire and they started taking fire from the enemy subs.

Mobile suits were launched as many saw the main machine in the center but rumors were certainly not helping their confidence. Many knew about the demon from the lunar crater, the ultimate coordinator and to some more superstitious people he was even being called a child of a god or a living god to others.

In that some didn't straight engage him as they went for the aerial units.

With Kira

Kira saw the prey heading straight for him and then some backed off heading for suits more fitting to them.

Kira crossed into alliance waters as he dodged a few rounds of fire from a few destroyers before they had to turn their attention back down to the subs.

Fire noticed two fighters and one Windam heading right for him.

The fighters launched missiles as they locked on to Kira.

"Weak," Kira said firing two shots from the beam rifle taking the missiles out.

Kira flew upward as the fighters were looking to go right by them, however Kira dropped his output and landed straight on top of the two as they tried passing him. The fighters took damage from the wings and such as Kira lifted himself back up. The fighter pilots could no longer control their aircraft as they were heading for the ground. Both ejected but they unfortunately did it in front of Kira.

Kira fired the Vulcan head guns straight at the ejecting pilots and let's just say it was a mess.

While he was doing that the Windam was closing in on his back with a saber raised.

Kira's abilities picked that up with no trouble, quickly turning the machine around Kira latched on to the Windams arm with the Armageddon's.

The pilot was shocked at the speed as now this machine had a hold of his units arm and was not letting go.

The pilot tried but this Windam was no Armageddon. Kira used the power of his machine and pulled the arm right off.

The pilot was knocked around a little as Kira placed the rifle that slid down straight to his arm straight at the cockpit doors.

The pilot panicked but it was far too late. Kira pulled the trigger as the beam went straight through and out the back. Kira waited for a second as another fighter was passing and then he fired the beam which went through the Windam and struck the fighter.

"Two for one deal," Kira told himself as he tossed the Windam aside before it blew up.

Kira flew off again as he had his eyes set on the Destroyer below him. The Gun launcher was activated as it assembled and lifted into the front arm.

Kira took aim at the Destroyer below.

The crew got the alert of being painted as they saw what was painting them.

The captain tried to evade but the shot was fired.

Kira fired the long range rifle as the beam went straight through the bridge. The Destroyer started exploding as it sunk.

Kira looked around as he wasn't finding a challenge here, maybe when that Destroy arrived he would have more of a challenge but this wasn't satisfying his dark need for more blood. He wanted stronger prey then this.

Kira flew off as he did more and more damage at seas, but Kira was setting his sights for land.

With Shinn

Shinn was behind Kira but he found his share of enemies. A few Windams were approaching him firing their beam rifles. Shinn dodged as he actually had a close call from one, he had to clear his mind as it was time to go to work.

Returning fire Shinn struck one with his rifle before pulling out his saber. One did the same as their sabers met but a Windam and the Destroy, there was no comparison and the pilots were not in Shinn's league.

Shinn knocked the suit back as he found his opening and cut the machine in half.

With one in his range left he moved in and engaged that one. There were a lot of suits around here and this battle could take some time as the alliance was waiting for them. However if they were all like this the alliances base wouldn't last to long.

Zaft and Alliance Units

Babi's and fighters were exchanging fire in the air while others shot and connected with other Windams. Some were doing well and others were not.

Dinn's were assisting in destroying the ships as well as engaging fighters and Windams.

The Aquatic units were solely attacking the ships. They were doing it underwater and coming to the surface to attack as well. Some were doing well, others were not, and some were destroyed.

The subs attacked the ships and the ships attacked the subs. For now it was pretty much even, but how long that would last was unknown as Kira was opening up a pretty big hole and that was what they needed.

The alliance wasn't doing half bad either as they were holding their own, however in the lines where Kira weakened it they were getting more and more suits getting past them and that was causing them to get hit from behind as well as the front which was not what the alliance wanted to happen.

The scene was all out war, explosions, cries and battle. There was no end in sight yet as the Doomsday still remained out of this, however when that changed the alliance knew they were going to be heading backwards fast.

Northern Africa

Zaft Temporary Camp

The force Ryu sent to take the Gibraltar mass driver was gathering at this temporary camp right at the edge of Africa, they knew they would have to cross the Mediterranean sea so they were waiting here for their units to arrive, most were aerial units so they could fly across and carry some of the ground units, the remaining ground units had aerial Guul's. They had no battleships or nothing like that they were a pure artillery unit and would have to get the job done with what they had.

Their goal was the mass driver near Spain so they would have a battle on their hands as well.

Eventually all their units arrived as they re-powered for the journey and the aerial units took hold of some of the ground unit suits as they made their journey straight across not knowing how the outcome would play out.

Doomsday

Bridge

Ryu had seen just about all he wanted to from this battle. They were advancing to slowly at first, and when Kira opened the hole in the center they sped up a little but he wanted this to go faster.

"Prepare the Lohengrin's," Ryu said.

"All three sir?" Willard asked.

"Do it," Ryu ordered.

Willard nodded to the tactical officer, as he went to work.

Outside in the front of the ship three panels opened as three cannons towards the bottom were coming out. All three cannons were ready as they now awaited Ryu's orders.

The Doomsday started moving forward as a few luckily fighters that made it threw the Zaft lines but were unlucky to run straight into the advancing Doomsday tried opening fire, but they couldn't get close enough. The range of the Doomsday's casual weapons was too great.

Anti aircraft CIWS went up into the sky and shot those things down along with missiles that were launched into the sky.

Zaft units in the way were given a heads up as they moved out of the way from the three cannons.

When Ryu saw it was clear he gave the order and all three cannons let loose their power.

Panama Waters-Near Shore

With Kira

Kira just swiped off the bridge of another destroyer as he got the priority alert.

Kira flew up into the sky as he knew the cannons power, he designed it after all.

Some units were surprised why he just stopped his attack and went for the sky but as they looked ahead and saw the massive ship approaching with three cannons out of the bottom.

They saw lights out of the three as three beams were fired.

The beams struck and destroyed everything in their path. Ships, suits and just about anything else that was in the way. The beam didn't reach the shore but it did strike one carrier as explosions were heard.

The firing was a complete success as now they had three large holes opened up and the Zaft forces swarmed in like vultures. The alliance was losing their edge at sea as the Doomsday was firing its own shots now but they kept their destructive fire down, only Gottfrieds and Valliant's were used now as they were approaching that line the alliance didn't want them to get to.

Kira smiled as he saw the destruction as he continued his assault heading back towards the surface. A few unexpected suits were flying by as Kira swiped down using two sabers to strike both Windams in half.

More tried engaging as Kira had his sights set on the carriers that were just ahead.

Kira looked ahead as about twenty suits, two fighters and two carriers were right in his path.

Perfect for something he wanted to do.

With Shinn

Shinn wasn't as far ahead as Kira was, he was still with the other Zaft units just a little ways ahead of the Doomsday. His fighting skills were as good as ever and it didn't look like he would be having any problems. Shinn as well started heading for the ships by the waters as for now they looked like they had the edge.

The battle had been going on for a little while now as there were a lot of suits and a lot of fire power; however they were up to the challenge.

With Kira

Kira saw the suits ahead of him as well as the fighters and ships. Kira actually accelerated faster heading for them.

Kira was ready as they opened fire, dodging easily all the enemy pilots saw was the wings on the Armageddon spread as the Dragoon blasters were launched, and split twice into twenty four units.

With their new feature controlling them on the surface was just as easy as controlling them in space.

The blasters flew off as Kira fired all of them right where he wanted them.

Each blaster went to a suit; it only took one shot from each as all went through the cockpit. The fighters Kira maneuvered the blasters a little quicker as one struck the engine and another went straight through the pilot.

The last two blasters maneuvered straight towards the carriers the hardest for Kira, but his abilities easily handled them as the two shots went straight through the bridge.

Putting the carriers out of operation and twenty four explosions the blasters returned and stationed themselves back into the wings.

Kira lightly laughed as now he saw the shore and a clear path to it.

Kira flew forward as now it was time to do some damage around the base.

Panama Headquarters

The base commander wasn't to at ease right now, the base just got an alert that the Armageddon was heading straight for the base, and the Doomsday was nearing the point of no return as they called it.

The commander sent all units he had around the base towards the sea front to defend against Kira; however what they found was nothing.

Doomsday

Ryu could tell Kira's position by the tracker and it was almost time to do two things, the main event as well as sending Kira those attack teams to get inside the headquarters.

Orb-Headquarters

Meeting Room

Preparations were extremely busy around here, for the plan they gave it was mostly up to the alliance for now. They had to get the units to their locations, get them powered and modified. That was the alliances goals.

Orb however had an objective of their own to complete and they were preparing heavily for it. All three of their main ships were being supplied and checked over. Erica was installing the component they stole from Zaft to the ships and suits. Zaft would no longer have that advantage anymore.

Many were worried about Stellar but nothing could be done about her anymore, they couldn't set up a rescue operation or assist her to risk screwing up everything, they had to leave her behind and let her go, and hope she could make it back that was all that could be done.

Orb high ranking officers were preparing their military as well.

Around the Island

Mu was struggling however Cagalli supped up security around his mobile suit so he couldn't go after her but he had decided on his own that he couldn't put everything at risk to go after her so they let her go.

Cagalli and Athrun were preparing their plans as well.

Lacus spent the time with her children, they still didn't show much improvement but she knew they could come back around, she believed in that.

The rest just kept up the preparations as their role would come soon enough.

Zaft Sacrificial Forces

Units Ryu ordered to the battle locations to secure whatever the alliance was to throw at them were gathering and heading towards the locations, but like the Destroys this was going to take time.

Two of the four forces had it pretty easy as they would use what the Doomsday was doing now to take Panama to their advantage as after the base was destroyed they could advance south and north to the locations they needed. One more would use the Gibraltar attack to their advantage and the last one would have a harder time as all Zaft forces would be out of Asia by then so that spot was a wild card.

They didn't know what to expect but they would do as they were ordered, no matter how much the disagreed with their chairman, they were after all fighting for the Zaft people, as they thought.

Panama Waters-Point of no return

Doomsday

The Doomsday was pushing forward and then to the alliances greatest fear they arrived at the point of no return.

Ryu went a little further as he ordered the ship to stop.

Willard gave the orders as the ship came to a stop.

Ryu looked at Willard, "Prepare Genesis Cannon," Ryu said as after Kira did what he had to do they were going to completely destroy the base.

Willard gave the orders as the crew prepared for that. The cannon still had to charge for its blast but it hasn't been used in a while so it was charged for operation now all they had to do was charge it for the blast.

Willard gave the orders as the large cannons opening started to rise as the cannon only stuck out a little ways but that was all it needed for the charging.

The crew knew they were going to fire the cannon as a lot of work was needed when this happened. With the cannon doors a little ways opened the cannon started charging. The time it took was twenty to thirty minutes this time around but they knew they would fire it a little later then that as Kira had something he wanted to do, but they would be ready.

Panama Base-Shore

Baseline

The alliances mobile suits and weapon heard the Armageddon was coming quickly but they didn't find it. They looked to the ground and the sky but it wasn't there.

All of a sudden all suits foolish enough to be in a line started getting blown up instantly.

Daggers, Windams and some base anti aircraft fire turrets were destroyed as the suits finally started looking around they could find it.

All of a sudden they saw a blur as Kira deactivated the Mirage Colloid armor. The alliance forces saw Kira holding that big gun launcher as he raised the output to maximum and it took a lot of their forces in that defensive line out.

The launcher was moved back in place as Kira took his rifle and went to work with that.

He moved back to the air as the tanks were firing at his legs.

Kira allowed a few beams from the other mobile suits to strike his ultra phase armor as the shot went straight back to them.

Kira saw the headquarters but he had to get this anti aircraft fire out of the way before he could bring in the assault teams.

Kira was the first to arrive at the base as he encountered a lot of fire but it was nothing he couldn't handle.

Maneuvering out of the way of enemy fire Kira saw more of his Zaft suits getting closer as he had taken out most of them so holes were larger. However Kira knew one thing and that was there were a lot more mobile suits here then there were out there so Kira had to use his own people when he went inside.

Kira was taking out suit after suit as some of his suits then finally joined him however Kira got another priority message and this one was from Ryu.

With Kira and Ryu

"Yes sir," Kira said to Ryu.

"Sensors just detected that Destroy commander, it is off course and will land a few miles to the south, it will likely come up from there," Ryu told him.

Kira slightly smiled, but he wanted this done before that suit arrived, so now he had to alter his strategy, first take on destroy then finish the job at the base.

"I will head it off down there sir," Kira said as he accelerated in what looked like a retreat but was far from that as he headed south.

Shore line-Miles from the Panama Base

Stellar flew non stop to this base, she was completely focused on this Hibiki and Panama, she knew she had to go north but her sensors alerted her to something a little quicker.

She saw a smaller machine heading at her but its devilish eyes made her think this could be it.

Kira arrived in no time with the speed from the Armageddon, the alliance forces didn't follow him as they were probably all too happy to see him go.

Kira however saw the large machine as now it was round two for him with another one of these machines, however this time it was at fully power, no damage and this could satisfy him.

Kira arrived quickly as he wasted no time.

To be continued...

(A\N): The next chapter the battle picks up, as Kira faces off with Stellar. See you later.