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Chapter Sixty Nine

Battle of Panama Part Three

Panama Base-Near Headquarters

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.

Taking a look at the headquarters Kira noticed it was fairly open as the suits and other weapons had to enforce the defensive line so Kira took aim with the Vulcan CIWS on his head and aimed it straight at the headquarters. Knowing the blue print well from what they got on infrared before shutting the surveillance of the satellites down Kira knew where he had to go and what he had to do but before that he opened fire.

Shots fired out of the head as Kira was hitting the entire first floor of the headquarters. He couldn't use anything more powerful so this would do and should open a path where he wanted it. It took precision shots and his abilities to hit marks that wouldn't bring debris in their paths as well.

Kira went along the entire floor as glass shattered, concrete collapsed and a few minor fires were breaking out but all in all Kira's excellent targeting was doing its job.

Agile Choppers

The pilots saw the commander firing on the first floor of the building as they knew this was their cue to make their landing. Their escort was with them as well and these suits were to cover anything that was heading back this way. However for now all were way to busy with the Zaft forces by the defensive line so it was cleared so far.

With the area cleared the choppers made their way down as the assault teams started bailing out with their repelling lines. The first few soldiers kneed down and covered the rest as they were heading down one after another.

With Kira

Kira finished his attack as he saw the teams getting out and finishing exiting from the choppers, it was now his turn.

Kira quickly worked on the suits computer for a second before contacting Ryu.

"Yes," Kira said.

"You are cleared, get this done fast," Ryu ordered.

"Yes sir," Kira said signing off.

Kira finished doing what he wanted to do as he activated the Mirage Colloid again. He opened up the cockpit as the mobile suit landed.

Kira typed in a security code as it would keep the Colloid activated and wouldn't open the cockpit for anyone but him. Kira couldn't be to cautious, however the armor was still going to be activated so he didn't expect any problems as well as the escort in the sky so his suit should remain untouched.

Kira landed as soon the attack teams saw a line and the commander, it was strange seeing it like this but that was the commander for you.

Kira landed as the line went back up and the cockpit closed, leaving complete invisibility.

Kira quickly made his way over to his attack teams as they already saw soldiers poring out of the headquarters, however the Agiles were still above and they opened fire immediately. What Kira noticed was they weren't coming out of the way he was going in which meant his little attack just might have done the trick.

"Let's go," Kira said as they had to get this done quickly.

Kira didn't have any field equipment on him as his two guns would suffice.

They made their way over to the entrance as now the timer was started.

Inside the Base

The base didn't expect an attack at all. They were to busy with the front line defense that when Kira opened fire many from the higher floors didn't know it but those on the front floor did. Shells went through striking just about everything, including people, which was a mess.

The shots were so precise that debris fell from some areas dropping it straight in hallways and open lobbies. Kira studied the blueprints so well he knew how to bring the stuff down and where. There was however a few shots that went off course and one that was near a place Kira was headed but what could he do.

Fires were started in other areas trapping others and panic was seen through many halls as this attack wasn't expected. Total fear and chaos on the first floor just as Kira liked it.

On the upper floors they did get word and they were sending the info up the chain of command as it eventually reached the base commander.

"They what?" the commander asked.

"According to reports heavy damage on the first floor, many injured and a lot of causalities sir, also we have reports of Zaft soldiers landing outside the headquarters," the officer reported to him.

"Sound an alert, defend all areas getting here, and send out whatever we have left," the commander ordered.

"What about the first floor sir?" the officer replied.

"We are in the middle of a battle, there is nothing we can do now, just get it done," The commander ordered.

"Yes sir," the officer replied as he did as told.

The commander knew for some reason Zaft had to be after something inside. He had no clue what as they had nothing of real value; however this command center had to be the target so they would defend it.

Fire fights were soon started as Zaft had entered the base.

South of the Base

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

Shinn looked into the eyes of that pilot, and something stopped for him, he didn't see what he expected, he saw what looked almost like a frightened child, almost as if she didn't even know where she was at or something.

Shinn looked at the short haired blonde as he had to quickly shake himself out of a trance, she was staring at him but more like staring at the weapon pointed at her.

Shinn rose as she cried out and hid her face in her hands; there was something terribly wrong with this girl.

Shinn kept the weapon pointed at her as he called out to her.

"Stand up," Shinn said but not angrily as he always did.

The extended did nothing; she just remained on her knees and wasn't looking at him anymore.

Shinn then approached, she was wounded badly he could see that in her uniform, his orders were to finish her off but he wanted to first find out what the heck was wrong. Why he had no clue, he just felt he had to.

"What is wrong with you?" Shinn asked as it was practically a stupid thing to say.

Shinn was about five feet from her as she again looked up at him, "No die, no die, no die," was all she was saying.

"Neo will help, rescue Neo," she was now erratic saying things he had no clue the meaning of.

One thing he did get was she didn't want to die.

Shinn got a little closer as she saw his weapon again and immediately fell backwards trying to get away from him.

"Wait a minute," Shinn said quickly as he didn't know why again but he holstered his weapon inside his flight uniform as he didn't want her to see it.

She was trying to get as fast away from him as possible. Shinn noticed she was making her wounds worse as he reached out and grabbed her arm.

"You are going to injure yourself more stop struggling," Shinn told her a little sternly.

Stellar was wiggling and shaking her best to get out of his grasp, "No, no," she was saying over and over again.

Shinn didn't expect this next as she slugged him right across the cheek, his head was knocked a little back as that blow was especially hard for someone of her size.

"Knock it off, your going to kill yourself," Shinn told her as he grabbed both of her hands still a little woozy from her blow.

Stellar heard that word as she froze once again, "Die."

Panama Headquarters

With Kira and his team

Approaching the entrance where they wanted to enter, a large hole was blown open as per Kira's attack.

Soldiers moved into their operative formation covering the openings and the higher windows, as well as the rear and front.

Kira was still in his flight uniform with the helmet down, one simple reason was his helmet was unique, it had its own scanning, infrared and night vision built in. The thing cost a pretty penny but it was worth it for situations like these, they needed Kira to go where he needed and when he needed.

Approaching the entrance Kira had removed his two handguns looking at the entrance.

With a quick wave over his head, three assault members moved forward covering the entrance as they looked inside.

So far things were cleared and debris was blocking the places Kira had planned for them to be blocking.

"Move in," Kira ordered as the teams and himself moved inside.

First floor

Looking around all the smoke and debris nothing was found. Kira using his helmet looked through all of it with the infrared and found nothing but deceased bodies, but he knew that could easily change once they started going up.

"Commander," the team leader said.

Kira was in thought for a second, "Head east until I say otherwise."

"Yes sir," the squad leader said as they had no maps or anything on this place with them. Their satellites got the images earlier and they didn't bring a map for one reason. Kira had a photographic memory, he knew where to go and what to do, it proved it from the opening attack he did on the base. Debris seemed to fall in the right places and openings were just where they wanted them.

Kira however could thank his abilities for that, however that was only for the first floor, they had to go up to the command center which was a little ways up but he knew how to get there.

They started moving east through the damaged floor. All soldiers stayed on alert as they couldn't take any chances.

Kira was moved towards the front as they were approaching the last section they wanted to be at.

"Commander...a living natural," one soldier said as one natural soldier was squirming trying to crawl out of here.

"Orders sir?" the leader asked.

Kira didn't answer or looked as he walked right on past, aimed the weapon down and pulled the trigger.

That shot ended that persons struggle.

"Do you need to ask again?" Kira asked annoyed.

"Negative sir," the leader said as they approached the hallway.

Kira saw the door they wanted, "We head up five floors, get out head west and take the final emergency stairway to the top floor," Kira ordered as he kicked open the door.

"Move out," Kira said as the assault teams went ahead of him but not too much ahead as they were heading up stairs.

Reaching the fifth floor rather quickly, Kira sensed something as he gave a signal to two soldiers.

Kira backed up a step as the soldiers lined up against the wall with one holding something.

Kira nodded as he moved forward and kicked the door straight open and off the hinges as he quickly backed to the other side of the wall and the soldier holding a flash grenade threw it in as they stayed out of sight.

When it went off, Kira led the firing as they found some people.

The soldiers joined in as the firefight began.

Alliance Forces

The base commander hipped up security quickly as he got the report. He ordered security teams to all entrances and exits of each floor, not knowing where they were coming from.

He had the elevators that worked guarded and then moved to the stair cases. They just wanted people guarding them until they were organized enough for their own security teams to start patrolling them.

The fifth floor however got a rather quick surprise as the door was kicked open.

They quickly aimed their weapons only to see a flasher rolling around on the ground by their feet. Went it went off they were disorganized as their eyes and ears took a hit but that wasn't the worst part as the Zaft teams opened fire on them and it wasn't a pretty sight for the ones by the door.

Doomsday and Outside Forces

Doomsday

On the bridge Ryu had done all he could for the moment, the cannon was just about ready and as soon as he got word from Kira that they were on their way out he would give the order to open up the cannon into firing mode.

The battle at sea was practically over, Zaft reining totally supreme, the Doomsday's opening shot never allowed them to get back organized the ship was simply to powerful and the only way this ship would come down was by a ship or ships that were more powerful then the alliance had. Numbers didn't work for all their standard models, there had to be more to bring that beast down.

Ryu also needed Kira's word to announce the code phrase to their forces or they would have a very bad day once the cannon was fired.

Defensive Line

It all depended where you were at one the defensive line for what side was doing the best. In the center the alliance forces were holding strong as that was where most of their forces gathered, however on the right and left flank that was a totally different issue. They almost completely lost the left and more and more Zaft forces were breaking through the right.

The alliance forces were forced to make a U shape defensive line taking some away from the center but it seemed to be working for now.

However the aquatic mobile suits were starting to finish off with the ships and join up with their land base campaigns so that wasn't good for the alliance.

However Zaft wasn't pushing hard either, they didn't have to.

The battle continued to rage on.

Headquarters-Fifth Floor

Kira led the fire as he targeted two soldiers that were near the door and dropped them immediately, his team then moved in and they had assault rifles so they poked them around and opened fire.

Chaos was seen on the floor, gun fire everywhere and some people were civilian contractors not just military personal, but did Kira care, no way. All people had to be destroyed.

Kira gave the signal as his team started moving in and taking cover behind the wall edges and getting low as they tried to get all members on this fifth floor.

Kira moved in towards the middle as his perfect accuracy targeted and dropped the alliances reinforcements.

Kira took the lead by one wall ledge as he saw something fall towards his feet; it was defiantly one of the alliances grenades.

"That wouldn't be good," Kira said as he kicked the grenade back the other way, it exploded shortly afterward not close enough to alliance personal but it was away from him.

"Foolish naturals, threw it too soon," Kira replied as they didn't wait long enough to throw the grenade.

There weren't that many soldiers left in the stairways as Zaft was advancing quickly. They moved and kicked doors that were shut, destroying all inside and moving on.

Alliance Forces

The alliance attack teams were trying their best but Zaft was to fast and to precise with their targeting. They were losing people left and right as a few were trying to radio above for more backup.

The base commander did take it as he was trying to figure out what they were doing, he had a clue but he had to confirm it.

"They are on the fifth floor and moving west sir, we need backup," one soldier said.

"Fifth floor…nothing but the infirmary and technical posts are there…however," the base commander said as he now could confirm it.

"They are heading for the emergency stairs, I will send you what I can," the commander said signing off and giving orders.

The emergency stairs led from the top to the fifth and then another to the first floor. Kira blew the other entrance away so he had to go the long way around but his plan was working.

Zaft forces

It wasn't long before this floor was cleared from hostile forces since there weren't that many posted here, reinforcements weren't around yet and Kira and his team and found those emergency stairs.

The attack teams stood in defensive stances as Kira moved towards the door, using his abilities he didn't have to worry and that helmet so it was cleared so far.

He opened the door and the assault teams started moving in and moving up.

This time however they were more alert as alliance forces were firing down at them.

Miles from the Base

With Shinn and Stellar

Stellar was still frozen after she said that.

Shinn was stuck awfully close to her, he should have killed her, but he couldn't do that just yet.

Now she was repeating the word die all over as she started struggling again.

Shinn kept his grip on her, "Listen, your not going to die," Shinn told her loudly as he still wasn't sure on that yet but she had to stop getting worked up.

Upon hearing that she did start to calm down, she then looked up at him with innocent eyes. He saw them when they were enraged but these were different.

"Who are you?" Shinn asked.

She was still a little silent almost as if in shock.

Shinn took a step back, "You do have a name don't you, my name is Shinn."

"Stellar, Neo calls me Stellar," was all she said.

However this Neo was she was certainly obsessed with that name.

"Is Neo your commanding officer or what?" Shinn asked.

All she did was nod her head.

Shinn now knew at least he was getting somewhere with her now.

"You came from Orb correct?" Shinn asked though he still hated the word Orb.

"Stop Hibiki from killing Neo," was all she replied.

That clicked in Shinn's head as his commanding officers last name was Hibiki.

"You're lucky you are still al…" Shinn decided not to say anything else that related to death he didn't know how she would react to other words so he decided to avoid it all together.

Shinn stared at her as she wasn't bad to look at, but he knew once again he should have killed her not sit around and get to know her but he couldn't stop.

Shinn saw her arm as he reached out to it.

She did back away a little.

"I am not going to hurt you, you need treatment," Shinn said.

Stellar stared at him, his eyes didn't look deadly or anything they were soft towards her, maybe even more so then Neo's.

She lifted her arm as Shinn took it and started field treating it.

Shinn tried cleaning it off the best he could as he wondered about her, for a second she didn't seem much like a soldier, but then enraged she certainly seemed like a great soldier.

Shinn checked her other wounds as she was causing a lot of damage to them, he didn't see anything fatal but he did see some series that she needed to have them looked at more thoroughly.

"Does your commander know you're here?" Shinn asked as it seemed strange for them to only send one suit.

Stellar shook her head again, he didn't.

"This is just great," Shinn said as he looked back towards the base.

What in the world was he going to do now?

Shinn now had to make a decision, he would have to finish her off or he would have to let her go. Questions flew through his mind, letting her go. Would she be able to make it? Would the commander find out? Or the biggest question how would she go? Or the other reasons he was starting to lean away from, Kill her, or capture her and let Kira kill her.

Shinn looked at the base as he still had some time.

Shinn walked back over to her as he spoke with her some more, she was starting to trust and open up to him rather quickly he thought.

Headquarters-Stairways

Taking fire from the high ground wasn't the best of things but Kira's team was trained to deal with that. Their coordinator skills and accuracy were going to come into play as it was all about timing and like before precision.

Kira got in on this as well as he finished off soldier after soldier going up.

Eventually they got through that and were at the top floor.

Kira knew this door led into one giant room which was the command center.

They had to know he was coming as he gave a final few orders to the squad.

"Watch your firing and drop anything inside, except leave whoever is in charge for me," Kira ordered as they prepared to move in.

This door was sealed shut so Kira nodded to his explosive specialist as they started rigging the door.

The explosives were set as Kira and the team moved back.

"Now," Kira ordered.

The turn of a small lever on a detonator blew the door right off with minimum damage.

"Go," Kira ordered as the assault teams moved in.

Alliance Forces

The base commander had the doors sealed but when one blew open he quickly grabbed his handgun as they would stop them at all costs. The commander did one more thing before turning and aiming his weapon to fire, it did.

Gibraltar

Alliance Forces

Like other alliance bases around the earth Gibraltar was stepped up in security as well.

However since they were a mass driver they were taking into account larger measures and were at the highest level of security. It was a good thing as well since the morning after Panama they were coming from across the Mediterranean.

Zaft Forces

Like on their scheduled time the Zaft forces were heading across the sea, the journey was time consuming however they made it quicker then schedule, the morning after the Panama battles conclusion.

They only had mobile units however they met with no resistance until they were in the bases radar range.

Forces moved in as battle was raged.

Headquarters-Command Center

With Kira

After the door was blown open the assault teams had to be highly cautious of what they did, but they did open fire.

Kira however was one of the first ones in again as he used his abilities to pick off the most threatening first.

Alliance forces

The base commander turned and opened fire as he saw his officers being picked off left and right by this man with godlike skill.

He was forced to duck under a counsel as he evaded fire, which was when his team moved in. With as many counsels in here to hide Zaft was being highly cautious as many were still forced to stay outside and fire from the doorway.

"Sir, what now sir," one alliance officer said ducking from fire.

"We have the advantage, I know what they want," the commander said.

"Return fire at all costs, they will not take my base, we have to hold them off for as long as it lasts," the commander replied.

"Yes…," was all the officer got out as he was shot and perished immediately.

The commander returned fire with a pistol but the shots were getting closer.

With Kira and the base Commander

Kira moved his unit in as they stayed hidden and returned fire carefully. The majority he kept back. This went on for a little while, which was making Kira fall behind schedule.

Kira decided if this was to get done without screwing up what he wanted to do, he would have to do it himself.

Kira jumped up and rolled over one counsel firing two shots, striking two officers. When he hit the ground he rolled over once more reaching another council.

Kira calculated about five to six more officers. His team was doing a great job with the others and they finished off a lot earlier.

Climbing to one knee but keeping his head hidden. Kira saw where he wanted to go, three more councils ahead.

Kira decided he could do this in one run.

Moving to the lower side of the council Kira shot once again striking another officer as he jumped over and flipped forward to the opposite row of councils, as he did he fired three shots. One was a fatal first blow while the other struck an officer in the lower leg which made the officer jerk into the open and the second shot was a fatal shot dropping those two.

Kira didn't stop as he rolled over another row and was now only two rows away.

The officers were forced to stay down as the Zaft forces behind were also moving in from behind Kira.

The base commander was hunkered down as they had no where to go, but he knew it was over long before, he just wanted to hold out longer then it would truly be all over.

With two of the remaining three officers left and they were diagonal to Kira; he decided he had to do it this way.

Changing clips again Kira had two full rounds of magazines left. He lifted the barrel of one slightly over the edge and fired randomly while the second one to the lower side randomly.

This forced the alliance officers to stay into cover as Kira made his move with his lightning speed.

Heading straight across to the counsel, he was on one side they were on the other, Kira made his last roll as he shot one person and holstered the weapon while the other one quickly moved the weapon towards Kira. Kira snatched the weapon and lifted it upward as the officer was firing shots into the ceiling. Kira stared at the officer as he bent the arm down; the strength of a natural was nothing for Kira.

Kira then let his arm do the rest as a little twist and the remaining officer was not going to be moving that neck anytime soon. Kira gave a final shot just to be sure.

Kira set his eyes on the final person who was the base commander and was pinned down from Kira's units they weren't letting the commander move in for a shot.

Kira moved over the side as he placed the weapon right on the commander's head.

The commander didn't see him coming that way, he immediately dropped his weapon.

"You know that won't help you," Kira told him deadly.

"Maybe…at least I could say I saw the face of the demon of Zaft," the commander said.

Kira looked at him funny, "Something is not right."

The commander looked at him swiftly for a second, that didn't seem good, "What are you talking about?"

"Danger," Kira said from his senses.

Kira nodded as the officers took hold of him.

Kira turned around to the terminal as he saw the bases self destruct mechanism on and running down; it was at a minute thirty.

"Impressive," Kira said.

"Its to late, if it wasn't programmed with a mandatory time limit I would have done this a lot sooner, after all this battle was lost before it began, and now you won't even be able to stop it," The commander said.

Kira smirked as he typed godlike into the terminal.

Twenty seconds as the base commander saw the timer stop, "Override accepted," was all the terminal said.

"How?" the commander asked stunned.

"Naturals, you prove over and over your inferiority," Kira said lifting the gun again.

"Your beloved species as almost at an end so need not worry the rest will join you," Kira said as he pulled the trigger.

The commander fell to the ground, "Such a waste of good ammo," Kira replied holstering his weapon.

Kira then turned to his team, "I want it in two minutes."

"Yes sir," the officers replied as they took out small computers as well and began hooking them into the command centers main computer.

They got through the security easily as they began the download.

"I want to know what the alliance is up to," Kira said as he walked away.

The sole purpose of this mission was to steal all the data that was in the bases command center, Kira knew that the alliance big shots had to be in contact and since they didn't attack them immediately that confirmed his suspicions and now Kira wanted data. If the alliance big shots said anything to them Kira would know just what their plans were and he would know what they were doing to mount a counter defense, so if it was in the alliances communication data base or anything else they would know everything.

The entire download of all that data took only two minutes.

"Done sir," the officer said.

"We fall back now, mission complete," Kira said as they began falling back and out of this base.

They met with a little resistance but other then that they had a straight path through.

Outside the headquarters

Once outside they had the data as the choppers returned and Kira radioed Ryu.

"Sir, we have the data," Kira said.

"Excellent, bring it back and we will have it analyzed, I will begin preparations for the cannon immediately," Ryu said.

"Yes sir, we are falling out now, now is the time for the signal," Kira said.

"Return immediately," Ryu said.

"I have one last thing to do sir, then I will be back," Kira replied as he moved towards his machine which wasn't at all touched. The machine deactivated its armor as Kira went up and into the cockpit.

His team climbed their ropes and the choppers were heading out of there quickly.

Doomsday

Ryu looked straight at Willard, he gave the signal and the cannon started moving again.

South-Miles from the base

With Shinn and Stellar

Shinn spoke with Stellar some more, she did open up to him a little and Shinn had made his decision.

"Listen, I will get you out of here," Shinn told her.

Stellar looked up at him, "Shinn look after me."

"Yes I will, I will take you away from all this war, I don't know how I am going to do this, but," Shinn said as he was really pondering how to do this.

Shinn reached his hand out to her as she stood up, they were going to get off the top of this mobile suit that was for sure, he didn't know how he would do this, but right now the best thing was to get away from here.

Shinn and Stellar got a large gust of wind as Shinn turned around and saw nothing, the paranoia was starting already.

If he were to do this he couldn't turn back, coming back was a certain death sentence, but going to Orb wasn't something he wanted either. However if he could just get her away without him knowing that wasn't something that was very likely as well. Shinn determined the first thing to do was destroy the remains of the Destroy. If he did that he could maybe just say that she went up with it. That could work for now.

Shinn was coming up with ideas he could go with, for some reason he felt a strong connection with this girl and couldn't just kill her. Shinn decided it was for the best if he just snuck her on board and then came up with the rest afterward, one thing was for certain he had to do it fast as time was short.

Shinn looked at Stellar, "I am going to take you to my ship, it is large enough to place you somewhere, at least then I could find some way of getting you back."

"Thank you," Stellar said as she smiled at him.

Shinn blushed, something he never did before, and he realized she probably never thanked anyone before either.

"We better go," Shinn said nicely.

Stellar smiled again as they began walking.

They began turning around as immediately a shot was heard.

Shinn jerked as he looked over, Stellar was looking at him however she had a bullet wound straight to her chest.

Shinn's eyes widened in pain and horror as she began to fall. He didn't know her that well but for some reason it truly hurt.

Shinn reached out and grabbed her as she became very weak.

Shinn didn't remember hurt of this kind since his parents and sister died.

Shinn looked up as he saw his commanding officer up in the air holding one of his guns. Soon the armor deactivated as that gust of wind just showed what that was from.

Kira stared down at them, "How utterly disappointing, you have failed me!"

To be continued...

(A\N): The next chapter is the aftermath, the Doomsday, as well as Kira and Shinn's confrontation. See you later.