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Chapter Sixty Eight

Battle of Panama Part Two

Miles from the Panama Base

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.

Stellar saw the alert as she landed her machine crushing the jungle behind her as she showed the massive size of the Destroy.

"Enemy," Stellar said to herself as she prepared to fire, however that machine looked very familiar to her.

Kira saw the Destroy in its attack mode, from the earlier scans he took of the Destroy over the ocean he knew the weaponry and the power of what one of these things could do.

Kira didn't waste anytime as he stuck with his rifle.

"Let's see what you have," Kira said as he fired a few shots at the machine.

The shots were immediately nullified by the energy barrier but Kira expected that.

Kira flew up close trying to get a feel for this pilot, so far no emotions were showing to badly, he would have to do a little more attacking to bring the emotions out of whoever the pilot was.

Stellar counter firing a few shots of her own, the two high energy beam cannons locked on as they fired.

Two massive blasts were moving towards Kira as his armor wouldn't be able to repel those beams so he quickly flipped over one and then completely evaded the other.

Kira knew he would have to go in short range if he wanted to penetrate that energy barrier.

After evading the last attack he moved in closer dodging more blasts. However this time he removed his sabers, connecting all four into a large beam javelin. Kira moved in towards her quickly.

Stellar fired again however this machine was quick to evade and even faster that she didn't get time to repel the attack. Kira moved in and sliced one of the large cannons right off the back of the Destroy.

Stellar got knocked around as her anger rose.

Kira was up in the sky as something was occurring to him, "This is boring me, is that all you have?" Kira was asking as so far it was a complete disappointment.

Stellar yelled out as she activated the twenty thermal plasma cannons across the backpack.

Kira got an alert on this as this was a complete barrage of fire. Beams shot out from all around the back pack and going just about everywhere.

Kira dodged the attacks as they were coming one right after another.

Kira had a slight smile again, "A little better but you better go higher then that," Kira was talking about her battle performance."

Kira flew in between attacks and did the same thing with the other cannon. Kira swiped the second large beam cannon off as he went back for the sky.

Stellar felt being attacked again as she lost another cannon, it was then she realized she was very close to dying.

Stellar quickly shook her head as she freaked out completely. She took the Destroy out of its attack mode as the machine rose higher in the sky.

Kira however immediately sensed the distraught from the pilot, his abilities caught that fear instantly, "There you are," Kira said as he was tapped in now.

Kira watched as the machine rose as this was something that should have happened in the first place, the attack mode on the Destroy was not good for one on one battle with the Armageddon. Kira knew that from the scans earlier and now he finally caused this pilot to switch to is normal mode and now Kira would hopefully get the battle he wanted.

Doomsday

Bridge

Ryu became aware that the Destroy arrived and he knew Kira moved to intercept it. This was bad timing for them as he was about the clear the defensive lines of the base but they would make do without him for this task.

A few suits that were already gaining ground were destroyed so Ryu contacted all battle commanders and made sure they didn't move in until all squads assigned were near the shore.

The remaining suits were forced back a little as they waited for their reinforcements, once they were at equal strength it was coordinator vs. natural and Ryu was pretty clear who would win.

Ryu checked on the progress of the cannon as well, so far so good as it was charging the fastest it could.

The assault teams were still waiting orders but until Kira returned Ryu couldn't send them in yet.

The waters were falling to the Zaft forces as the power was just too great, they had to spend a lot of resources against the Doomsday and that was a death wish in itself so they just didn't have the naval forces to do this. They thought they did but it just wasn't enough to the power of the Doomsday and the fleet of Zaft.

Ryu sat back as he watched the battle go on, today was turning out to be a great day.

Alliance Base

Frontline Defense

The mobile suits second line was forced forward as Kira nearly wiped the first out before he took off but they were holding ground so far. The Zaft mobile suits fell back as they waited for their own reinforcements, which was when a battle at the shore was really going to begin.

Headquarters

"Commander, they have passed the point of no return, however our shore line defenses are holding strong," an officer said.

"What was the news on that machine we picked up?" the commander asked.

"It has landed south of us sir, and that suit went after it," the officer replied.

"This might just be our day after all, we will hold them here, I want the status of that warship?" The base commander said as if they fired that cannon it was over and so far no ship was able to confirm what the Doomsday was doing our show images as they were destroyed before they could get close.

The Zaft fleet was almost like as shield as well blocking the view and their aerial suits were taking care of fighters or anything that got close since they arrived past the point of no return, as the alliance likes to call the location its at.

South of the Base

With Kira and Stellar

All Stellar could feel and determine was death at the moment. This machine not only looked like the devil itself but its reddish black eyes truly gave it that feeling of death.

Stellar was breathing heavily as she wasn't out of the fight; she just had to compose herself.

What she didn't expect was a voice coming over the radio.

Kira thought it was possible to get the battle he wanted, and with his abilities finding the weakness it was time to play around with the mind a little.

Kira tuned into all frequencies on the radio as he pinpointed her signal and got it with barely any trouble at all.

"You better not be making me waste my time, identify yourself pilot, you are certainly not who I thought," Kira said as he had suspicions when he heard a machine like this left Orb but it wasn't Mu behind the machine.

Stellar heard the hatred in the voice as she grew angry, however her fear was to strong as well and that was only giving Kira a big advantage.

"I can sense your distraught, identify yourself," Kira said.

"Neo not die," was all she said.

Kira remembered that name it was what Mu used, however this pilot didn't seem all up there or something was wrong.

"Hibiki, panama, don't kill Neo," was all the pilot said again.

Kira heard his name, but his abilities were telling him something else about this girl, the readings were erratic he was sensing from her, he hadn't sensed anything like this since that extended on that ship.

"You search for commander Hibiki do you?" Kira said needing to get more.

"I will kill him, he will not hurt Neo," Stellar said.

Kira got that loud as day, she could make sense, and here he thought he would be dealing with another one of those brainless tools.

"You're an extended I believe, though you seem as idiotic as the rest, you can manage a full sentence, now we are getting somewhere," Kira replied.

"I want Hibiki, no one will destroy me," Stellar said in raged.

Kira slightly smiled, "A sentence twice in a row, now I am privileged…well my dear you came to the right person, I am none other than Commander Kira Hibiki the one that will destroy you."

Steller found her guy, this was the target she wanted as her rage built again, but when she heard that word destroy it distracted her a little, however she was still in the fight.

Kira knew he found it with her displeasure of hearing about death, "Just wait until I finish up things here, Neo will be eliminated."

Stellar felt both fear and rage.

"Neo will be destroyed," Kira told her.

She was losing it.

"Neo will die!" Kira said completely darkly as that did the trick.

Stellar shook her head again, "I will kill you!" Stellar yelled.

Kira observed the machine as she targeted the energy cannon on her head as well as the missile launchers on the main body and fired them all.

"This could be it," Kira told himself as he quickly evaded the cannons as he targeted the missiles with his rifle.

He picked them off while evading.

Stellar was going crazy with the weapons, she fired more even after they were destroyed, it was shot after shot. She even added in the multi phase energy cannon on the torso.

Kira was doing what he did best as he evaded the shots and destroyed the missiles, "You will have to do better then that," Kira radioed to her.

"Neo not die," she was saying over and over.

"You better worry about yourself as you will be the first to die!" Kira yelled hatefully.

Stellar froze for a split second when she heard that, her fear was growing strong again, and for good reason.

That split second dropped the defense long enough for Kira to fire his rifle straight into the torso's energy cannon. It was not a fatal shot but an explosion around the torso occurred.

That only drove her fear and rage higher as she was attacking with just about everything she had.

Kira only sarcastically shook his head, "Those who fight me with pure rage will never defeat me, you truly are the brainless tool like I thought," Kira replied moving in closer as even after his shots she could have defected them with her own positron shield but she was obviously not using it for some reason.

Stellar however moved the retractable arm straight at the approaching Armageddon, Kira dropped his senses as he didn't think she was worthy of them but that was a mistake.

The arm smashed straight into the Armageddon knocking Kira back, Kira turned around firing a quick shot and doing a split second something else as he saw the five barrel hand beam cannon staring straight at him.

The shot from Kira smashed the head of the Armageddon taking out that weapon, but he had a little problem of his own as Stellar fired those cannons.

Panama Base

Defensive Line

The battle started raging as Zaft reinforcements gathered and made their assault.

Suits rifle fire and saber clashes were what the sight was about. Tanks fired and were stepped on, missiles and anti defensive weapons were used.

All out war on the shore was being done.

Headquarters

The command structure was still up and running which was a good thing but they were losing this battle and losing hard as the Zaft ships were getting closer.

Panama Waters

Fleets

Zaft had taken about eighty percent of the ships and the alliances aerial forces were retreating to the base to help out there so it was becoming more and more easy to get things done.

With Shinn

Shinn finished off another suit as he realized that Kira was about a few miles south and was fighting a Destroy. Shinn's orders were to assist in advancement but Shinn got a very strong feeling he should head that way. Why should Kira get the better victory, after all they were winning out here. However a quick order came in to him as it was from the chairman it made his strong feeling reality as his orders were to go and relieve Kira so he could get things done at the headquarters.

Shinn smiled as he started heading south, this was something he had to do and he would get his ultimate glory with Kira not able to do anything about it.

Miles south of the base

Stellar finished firing the shot as she looked ahead.

All she saw after that five barrel shot was the Armageddon's energy shield activated and not a scratch on it.

"How sad, you should have seen that," Kira said over the radio.

Stellar had him that time and now he was treating her like a piece of garbage again. However she felt a little strange in this suit.

Kira used the machines finger and pointed down.

Stellar couldn't see but as she tried moving forward she felt it, and was able to see it as something happened.

Before the shot Kira fired the rifle however he quickly connected his two sabers with the other two into the javelin and threw it a few seconds before activating the shield. The sabers on each side were already in doubles as Kira never split them so all he had to do was grab one double and move it to the side connecting it to the double then throw it. It was a perfect throw from the Armageddon as the large javelin beam struck right inside the left leg of the Destroy.

"Your arm blocked your view when I threw it, the down side of a large mobile suit, however it was truly pathetic, you deserve to die," Kira told her sternly.

Stellar tried moving the legs again as the beam only sliced threw more as the javelins beam was large with all four sabers giving it a lot of power. Her first move made the saber slice downward more as now the leg exploded.

Stellar cried out as the machine was going down since the other leg couldn't stabilize it.

"You're in trouble now," Kira replied as he believed it was time to finish the job.

The Destroy came crashing down as it was now on one knee and still falling downward more.

Stellar tried moving the machine as best she could and firing but controls were starting to malfunction. Damage down all over was heavy and she didn't know what was going on.

Kira landed his machine in front of hers as he retrieved his four sabers; he now disconnected them and returned them to their places.

Stellar moved the arm as she tried placing it in front of the Armageddon. Kira quickly removed one saber as he started slicing the finger cannons on the machine.

The cannons blew up as she was running out of options here.

"Now you die!" Kira told her sternly.

Stellar quickly looked up as Kira rose to the sky.

She watched as the wings spread, Stellar quickly gripped her head as she didn't know what to do anymore she was about to die and it was affecting her.

Kira released the dragoons as it didn't find it necessary to split them so there were only eight blasters.

Kira moved them around as they struck the machine in various places.

The back the head the arm and finally Kira moved it around to the main body as he fired there striking the torso.

Stellar felt the cockpit explode but it wasn't fatal damage to her at least.

The machine was exploding all around her as the machine was leaning backwards and now fell straight on its back damage was seen all around it. Parts were destroyed and the machine was unusable.

Kira returned the Dragoons as he got an alert from behind.

Kira checked the data as it was his moron subordinate.

With Kira and Shinn

Shinn arrived as his hope of making Kira abandon this battle for orders was shot to smoke. The Destroy was lying destroyed in the jungle below.

"What is it you want?" Kira asked as overall he was too disappointed with this battle, he expected more. Kira then knew that just about only two people would be able to give him a battle he wanted, after this battle it had been proven.

Shinn was highly annoyed, "The chairman's orders, I am to relieve you here so you can take over the assault."

Kira smiled, "Well as you can see I have taken care of that little problem."

Kira could sense Shinn's distaste, "What's the matter? You're not getting any big missions; well little cubs have to earn their place before challenging the alpha."

Shinn was growing angry, Kira said something like that to him before and it made his blood boil.

Kira was about to turn around when they both detected something from their monitors.

Down at the Destroy the pilot was getting out, Stellar was dragging her injured self out.

Kira looked over to Shinn, "Since you want action so bad, I will leave that pilot to you, kill her and destroy the rest of this worthless machine, you weren't missing anything," Kira said as he flew off back towards the base.

Shinn snarled as he landed the machine.

Doomsday

Bridge

"Sir, we are receiving a com signal," an officer told Ryu.

Ryu took it on his terminal as it was Kira, "Destroy has been destroyed sir," Kira reported.

"You don't sound to pleased commander," Ryu told him.

"It was another of those brainless extended, a complete waste of my time," Kira replied.

"Such is life commander, forces are clashing at the base, I shall send the choppers out now," Ryu said.

"Acknowledged," Kira replied as they were going in and they signed off.

Ryu then gave Willard the order.

Agile choppers

The assault teams were ready as the choppers were given the orders to take off. A few aerial machines went as escorts as they surrounded the choppers.

The choppers then made their way towards the base.

Panama Base

Assault teams

The mobile suit escorts saw the approaching line. One good thing was just about all anti aircraft torrents were destroyed, and the mobile suits were clashing hard as they approached from above.

The mobile suits and choppers went for altitude to the highest point they could go to avoid as much fire as possible, but everything was to busy to worry about it.

They crossed the battle grounds as they saw the headquarters building and something from the south.

With Kira

Kira arrived back at the base from the south, most forces were at the west defensive line so he meant with no resistance as he crossed into the base, however a few suits did spot him, their un-fortune.

Kira shot them dead with his rifle as he saw the headquarters, looking above he saw his attack teams moving in as Kira had to do one more thing before they went in. As he did that now.

Miles from the Base

With Shinn

Shinn landed the machine as he grabbed his pistol as he opened the cockpit doors. He went down the wire as he landed on the ground. From what he saw that pilot looked completely out of it and highly injured so he figured he could do this quickly.

He ran towards the Destroy as Kira damaged it pretty good, sure he could have just destroyed the entire thing with a shot from the Destiny but he wanted to do it this way. He wanted to show the leadership he could operate just as Kira would. Kira wouldn't just destroy the machine he would finish the pilot then the machine and Shinn wanted to show the leadership he had what it takes to do the jobs Kira did.

Arriving upward he started climbing up the mobile suit as he took notice of the pilot, he watched as her helmet fell off but he couldn't see her face yet.

Shinn got up and dropped to one knee as he pointed his weapon. That was when she turned around and spotted him.

To be continued...

(A\N): The next chapter is the assault on the headquarters as Shinn is faced with a decision. Bye for now.