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Chapter Seventy Three

Operation Extermination Part One

Doomsday

Bridge

Ryu watched, "Operation Extermination has now begun," Ryu said standing up and leaving.

He boarded the elevator as he headed to a floor not granted access by many; this floor was even more secured then the private floor where their quarters were stationed.

Ryu went down as he landed on the floor and had to punch in a few security codes just to get the door opened.

Knowing the code he was granted access as the doors opened into a pitch black floor. Ryu moved over to the side as he counted the correct number of steps as he reached the wall and slid a panel over as a terminal was shown. Ryu placed his hand on the pad as they were still in the pitch black; the terminal analyzed and accepted his print as the lights to the floor went on.

Ryu walked down the hallway to the one and only floor as there were more terminals. Ryu was forced to pick one hand as he placed that hand on the right panel and his other hand on the left. There was a retinal scan as well as he looked into that.

After a few seconds it was accepted as he removed his left hand and typed in an over fifty word combination password, it was timed and he had to do it quickly but it was no trouble for him as all of that was accepted.

The doors security measures started opening as he was left with one more door, and a regular password code to enter. Ryu entered the final password as it was accepted and the final door slid open revealing one room.

Battlefield-Air

Orb Forces

From the three ships mobile suits were launched. Each ship had its main one. The Minerva had the Impulse, The Archangel had the Akatsuki, and the Eternal had the Justice.

All the ships had standard models of mobile suits as well and they were the Orb Mursames. They were here for one purpose.

Once all suits were launched they were all under Mu's command as he was the field commander.

Mu gave orders as they saw the Doomsday only had one suit and that one suit was equivalent to about one hundred suits.

Mu got on the radio, "Myself and the Justice will handle the mobile suit, Impulse you have command of the rest of the units and assist with the assault on the Doomsday."

"Copy that," Luna said as she turned away as the suits followed her, they were going to provide support in bringing that Doomsday down.

"Ready for this?" Mu asked Athrun.

"Let's end this," Athrun said as they accelerated towards the approaching Kira.

With Kira

Kira saw their formation on what they were doing, they certainly didn't have the man power as they did before, after all he took out most of their strong suits and pilots now he just had three technically left soon to be one in his mind as he moved in towards Athrun and Mu.

With all three of them

Kira went straight for the long range gun launcher as he aimed and fired the long range shot.

Athrun and Mu broke formation as they dodged and the battle was on.

With Luna and her team

Luna took command as they approached the Doomsday, and when they did they were met with its defensive fire.

Battleground-Sea

Doomsday

Willard was in command as he saw the ships spreading out as well as the threat coming from the air.

"All three ships closing captain," one officer said.

"Let's give them a welcome, fire the payload," Willard ordered as that was the term for it.

The Doomsday had strong range on its weapons so it had the luxury of doing this next attack.

The tactical officer prepared to fire.

Two Lohengrins were aimed as well as one Valiant and one Gottfried cannon towards the front. One Valiant, One Gottfried, and several missile pods and other beam cannons were aimed towards the left and right.

Finally anti air CIWS as well as Missile pods opened for those approaching in the skies.

"Ready captain," the tactical officer told them.

Willard waited a few more seconds, "Fire."

The tactical officer did just that as the massive payload was launched.

In the Air

Luna took note of the payload heading for her suits, missiles and other fire.

"Evade," Luna ordered as she was pulling back, up and every which way, she was able to use her rifle to shoot a few missiles down but there were many.

Her team members were doing the same as a few unfortunate didn't have the skill or luck to evade as their suits were struck and destroyed but she still had the majority with her as they did their best to evade and pull forward.

With the Minerva

"Ma'am!" Arthur nearly screamed.

"Evade to port," Talia ordered as the ship pulled as fast as it could.

The Minerva was lucky they were at long range or that shot would have struck them.

"Get us closer to return fire, prepare the Tanhoiser for when I call for it," Talia said clearly.

They did their best as they were getting closer and opened fire with their normal arsenal.

With the Eternal

"Sir!" Dacosta said.

"Pull us out of it," Andrew ordered.

The Eternal also dodged the barrage from the Doomsday as the range did help.

"Prepare our weapons to open fire," Andrew said as the main cannon was getting ready.

Lacus watched as if they couldn't get closer then they wouldn't have a chance.

With the Archangel

The Archangel had more firepower shot at it as Murrue quickly gave the order, she ordered their on Lohengrin cannons to counter, the officers did just that as the shots were fired very close. However she did order them to evade as they had other fire on them as well however that shot slowed them down a little.

The beams from both cannons met up with the beams from the Doomsday. The beams met as for a slight second they stalled with one another before the Doomsday's cannons broke free; however enough power was taken away that they never reached the Archangel. That showed the output the Doomsday's cannons produced was still much greater, but it worked.

Newman pulled the Archangel away as it came very close. The Gottfried cannon struck the Archangels left Valliant cannon as that cannon blew up. That was close if they didn't do what they did they would have been destroyed so it was a small price to pay.

Murrue ordered the ship to start maneuvering forward as they were charging their Lohengrin cannons again.

One thing was for certain that this battle was going to be difficult for both sides.

Around the Earth-Alliance Forces

At all four locations the commanders got the word from their president that the operation was beginning. All pilots rushed to their mobile suits as the base personal set up around the reactors and the Destroy.

The Destroys pilots boarded as they were now waiting for the targets to come down.

In all four locations they didn't know which reactor would start but they couldn't take any chances as if they failed it could be there's and their failure would result in the world being exterminated.

The pilots were ready as the alliance mobile suits and other weapons saw the Zaft forces approaching as they set up for a defensive stance.

All pilots took aim as they all would hold these Destroy grounds at all cost.

Battlefield-Air

With Mu and Athrun

Both Mu and Athrun had to pull away as that long range shot went straight through the both of them.

Mu went on the com, "Flank the formation and attack at will."

Athrun got the word as he acknowledged.

Mu aimed the rifle as Athrun did the same, and with perfect knowledge they knew to only fire when the right spot was opened.

Mu was on the right side as Athrun was on the left as they opened fire.

With Kira

Once their formation was broke Kira was turned towards Athrun as he went back to the side for smart reasons. He was a lot more armored on the sides of his machine and the joints were the less exposed on the sides.

They countered that as Kira saw them open fire on him.

Kira evaded as he decided it was the perfect time to have a little discussion with his old allies.

Kira turned and got into their frequency as he spoke.

With Kira, Athrun, and Mu

"Such an honor they send their best out to greet me," Kira told him.

Mu and Athrun listened as the battle was all about flying right now, no more attacks were done just yet but the flying was still hardcore.

"It ends Kira…what you have done and what you want to do can never be taken back," Athrun told him.

"You make no sense, I know very well you know what we are planning, and I also know from your activities you believe you have a way to stop it, I take by the way you are able to track us you can get through our jamming equipment?" Kira added as he flew towards the back of Athrun now.

Athrun only stared at the machine as he didn't want to be in this position Kira was behind him and that was a disadvantage as he tried to keep him off and Mu was circling around.

"I don't know why I was surprised Kira, you have outdone your madness every time but this…" Athrun said trying to turn.

"This is the end, the new world will be born after those shots are fired, and then my duty will be complete," Kira added as Mu was around.

"You have certainly gotten twisted kid, your insane plan will not do what you wish, in fact kid its exactly what he wanted," Mu added knowing what Kira was doing, he wanted them to show as much emotion as possible as Mu knew how these abilities they had worked.

Mu tried doing the same with Kira's as well however all he got was so much darkness and hate that it wasn't doing him that good, but there are times when it comes out and Mu was ready, however for the moment Kira had reacted to his statement.

Kira knew who he was referring to, "Fool! There is one main difference…he wanted everything destroyed and our goal starts mankind anew, a fresh start with one species, the ultimate species…but in order to start anything the old must be exterminated, I will not give you the pleasure of watching this take place as I will begin this operation with both of your lives!" Kira said highly annoyed as he shut off the com.

"So be it," Mu added as he and Athrun sped up.

Kira was sandwiched in between both suits.

Athrun spun around activating a saber as Mu did the same as they both charged.

Kira reached down and pulled out two as he countered the stab and the slash from both suits.

Beam sabers clashed on both sides as they were doing their best to overpower this machine.

Kira had a powerful machine but two on each side wasn't something he wanted to be in. Kira pushed as much as he could before activating the thrusters and pulling back out of this very quickly.

Athrun and Mu had to stop their advance or they would slice each other as they turned and faced Kira.

Kira pulled the plasma cannons over the shoulders as he aimed and fired.

Athrun activated the shield generator as Mu was able to quickly catch on and evade.

As Mu evaded he went back to his rifle and fired a quick shot to the Armageddon's knee joint.

Kira caught on to that as he lifted the leg up as it just struck the armor. The beam went back as Mu quickly spun off that shot that was heading back.

Athrun came back around with his own rifle firing shots towards the shoulder joint.

Kira got the alert as Mu aimed once again. This was close as Kira turned the machine quickly while flying straight up into the air.

Both shots missed as one however missed just barely around one of the joints as Kira flew out of that and used his speed to his advantage here.

Kira had to separate them to make this easier.

Athrun and Mu turned to different frequencies as they knew they had to keep the pressure up on Kira. They flew after him as he started moving away a little.

They followed until Kira quickly flipped around and pursued them, straight at them.

Eternal-Quarters

The children were left with their supervisors as they knew the battle had started.

Lacus' son looked around as he didn't know what was going on in the battle. He was left alone mostly as his sister was helping with their half sister. He knew he had things and questions he needed answers to. He was waiting for the right time for their attention to be fully on those two as they were doing something with the infant.

He maneuvered towards the door as he went outside. He knew that had to alert them as he did something sneaky, he quickly jumped up and locked the sliding door, he had planned this all along and did what was necessary earlier in the day and all he had to do was hit one more button and the door would lock which it did. However it wouldn't stay locked for long as they could open it from the inside with a little work but this would give him a big head start.

He took off as he had to make it to the bridge and he had to see what was going on.

Battleground-Sea

The firing went on back and forth for a good fifteen minutes as they ships were maneuvering in closer and closer each time. Shots were coming close and a few struck the armor plating of the Doomsday however that wouldn't do anything with only a few shots. It was clear Orb was up to something.

With the Doomsday

"Sir, they are powering up all there main weapons and closing," one officer said.

Willard looked at the screen, "Keep the pressure up and prepare for another payload."

"They are closing to fast sir, if we stop firing they will be able to get into range," the officer replied.

"Let them, another payload shot and it won't matter," Willard said.

Willard explained another strategy as they thought he was nuts, but he was the captain as they fired their shots and allowed them to get in closer.

In the Air

After all that fire Luna was the only one to make it as close as possible, she still had about fifty percent of her mobile suits but they still couldn't get close. Luna remembered this monster well which helped her and she saw where she used to dock. However she was trying to get closer and was stuck as she was doing all she could to dodge and fire a shot whenever she could.

So far she did hit one missile pod but that was it.

Luna knew something had to change or this ship would have them.

With the Minerva

Going with the strategy they used their small cannons and other weapons to get close and they were almost in range for the Tanhoiser.

The bridge shook as the Minerva was struck hard on the haul but it just struck a launching bay.

"We cannot take much more of this ma'am, that ship will tear us apart," Arthur told her.

"Just a little bit closer, keep at it, with all three ships firing their main weapons it will bring them down," Talia said as that was their goal.

They were just about in range as they were waiting for conformation from the other ships.

With the Archangel

Both Lohengrins were ready for this strategy as they were doing the same as the other ships.

Murrue was doing what she could but the firepower was constant and accurate for the Doomsday.

"Orders captain, we have to press forward," Miriallia said.

Murrue heard that, "We are almost there," Murrue said as they neared the almost the front again.

With the Eternal

Andrew moved the ship forward as their main cannon was just about charged and ready to fire.

"Sir, we are receiving close calls here," Dacosta reported.

"Better then direct hits, keep moving and evade as necessary," Andrew replied.

Lacus watched the battle as she kept one eye on the monitor showing the mobile suit showdowns.

Cagalli was doing that as well, she hadn't talked to Athrun yet but she heard their communication. She was worried as they weren't making much progress on Kira but then again they hadn't used all their modifications yet either.

They were nearing the range as they waited for final orders.

Orb Ships

Kisaka was monitoring the ranges from all ships damage was happening but this was the best way to end this battle. They had to fire all they had with all ships and close enough as if this didn't work they were in some trouble.

Kisaka saw the Minerva was first in range as the Eternal followed; the Archangel was almost there as they were taking most fire while returning it.

"What is happening?" Murrue asked as she was on that ship.

"Almost there," Kisaka said as a few seconds later they had range.

"That is it fire!" Kisaka said.

Miriallia transferred the orders around.

On the Minerva Meyrin told her captain, and on the Archangel Dacosta got word and reported it to Andrew.

All three captains were ready as their main weapons extended despite the ratting from the fire they were taking; their armor wasn't going to hold out much longer.

In perfect unison you could see all three captain give the order to fire. Their main weapons then fired.

Talia watched as the Tanhoiser let loose, Murrue with the Lohengrins, and Andrew with the main cannons.

Kisaka saw that as it was time for the second part.

All captains knew it as they then took one of the Doomsday's strategies and fired all they could at the warship as they continued advancing.

In the Air

Luna got the order as she and the rest quickly pulled out of there and out of the way as Luna ended up by the Eternal and the rest scattered around.

With the Doomsday

Willard knew what they were up to.

"Sir, we cannot take all three at once," one officer said as all ships were moving towards them and not caring for the damage they were getting.

"Hold strong," Willard replied.

"Sir! They are firing," the sensor officer yelled as this was unison fire.

Willard saw that as they couldn't evade.

Battlefield

Outside you saw the Doomsday in the middle and a triangle of Orb ships around it. When the shots were fired all were on target. Beams and missiles, as well as other fire was heading straight for the Doomsday.

The blasts were all straight on target as all struck the mighty ship.

Around the Earth-Zaft Forces

In all four locations once they got the orders they moved their forces in.

In a few areas around Asia and North America they were able to use their land battleships but in the other areas around Spain and South America they had solely mobile suit power.

They moved in as their orders were to secure the area of all Alliance forces for some reason they weren't given.

They moved their forces to the location as they saw quickly alliance resistance, as mobile suits were set up and opened fire as soon as they moved in range.

Zaft countered as they had their land based and air based mobile suits, while the alliance seemed to only have their Windams, but that was the front line.

The battle commanders gave the orders as this was the perimeter but they had to secure the entire area so they gave the formation orders as Zaft and Alliance forces started to clash.

Battlefield-Air

With Kira, Athrun, and Mu

Kira flew straight at them as he fired two shots from the rifle; Athrun evaded while Mu used his shield and deflected the attack. Kira flew right between them as they turned around quickly.

Kira threw the Beam Boomerang from one shoulder as he himself turned around.

Mu evaded while Athrun flew over and used his saber to cut the thing in half.

Athrun fired the weapons on his backpack as Kira dodged quickly while he approached with a saber drawn.

Mu got in his way with his own saber.

The two met with lighting fast slashes. The beams were heavily close as Kira's missed completely as he flew towards Athrun however Kira noticed something towards his lower hand, Mu got a slightly piece of it, not enough to take damage the hand but it melted the armor plating.

"Very impressive," Kira stated as he knew for the battle he wanted it would have to be these two to give it to him and so far they were doing just that.

Kira was becoming a little careless which is why that happened but it proved now he could get the battle he wanted.

Kira broke off attack from Athrun as he noticed what was going on with the ships.

Kira turned back around letting lose the rail and plasma cannons with one shot while firing his rifle.

Mu quickly evaded while Athrun tried to do the same. He was forced to use the generator as Kira saw a quick chance. Kira flew up with one saber while Athrun was deflecting the beams.

Athrun tried pulling back as Kira stabbed the saber towards him. Athrun was lucky but it nailed the shield generator on his arm. The generator blew up as Athrun flew out of there.

Athrun cursed as now he was without protection.

Kira took notice as he wasn't getting very far here so he had to change the stakes.

Kira saw the Orb ships fire as massive payload at the Doomsday as he headed straight for it.

Mu and Athrun followed as they saw what was going on as well.

Everything struck the Doomsday as a massive cloud of smoke was formed.

They followed Kira as Kira flew right into the cloud.

Mu and Athrun were immediately halted as they couldn't fly blind into that.

"Spread out," Mu ordered as they backed away a little.

Mu had act quickly as a massive shot came out of the cloud and Mu found his rifle being hit. He quickly released it while raising his shield as the rifle blew up.

"Not good," Mu said, "Fall back farther, put some distance around here for now," Mu said as they couldn't see a thing, that mighty ship may have been destroyed or damaged but they couldn't worry about it as they had Kira to focus on.

After Kira flew in he used one last shot from the gun launcher as he could use his sensors, it did strike as now Kira wouldn't fly back out, he had to change the stakes a little.

Kira noticed something from the south of him as that was the location of an Orb ship. It was none other then the Eternal.

Kira decided the best way to do this for now was to make a little detour. Kira flew off at top speed as he came out of the cloud.

With Luna

Luna noticed something coming out around her position it was none other then her former commander.

She watched him fly by as he was heading for the Eternal, she couldn't allow that to happen, despite a difference in skill she at least had the courage to go after him.

Eternal

Bridge

"Direct hit," Andrew said as they couldn't see a thing yet.

"I thought it would explode sir?" Dacosta said.

"There are more then enough ways to bring down a ship, I know that couldn't have destroyed it but if it disabled it enough that would be good enough to finish it off," Andrew said as they waited.

"There is something coming out," Cagalli said as she was listening to the chatter on the radio where Mu and Athrun lost Kira.

Soon they saw, "That could be a problem," Andrew said as he looked up.

Lacus saw just who it was, "Kira."

Towards the back the elevator had opened as well, Lacus' son poked his head out as the others were to busy with this battle to notice.

He saw the screen as just what was approaching.

However they had one more problem as the smoke was clearing.

All Orb ships

All of the Orb ships watched as the smoke was clearing just enough as they saw a shadow in the outline.

They waited a few more seconds as it was just about all cleared up.

"Ma'am," Arthur said on the Minerva.

Murrue looked concerned.

Lacus stared quickly as well.

That massive Doomsday was still there, and looked for now to still be running.

Talia stared as well, "Look there," Talia said.

Other ships did that as well. The Doomsday was missing a few things as the attack wasn't all in vain.

Doomsday

Bridge

The attacks and the explosions rocked the ship slightly as they rode through it.

Willard ordered their defensive measures up as counter measures were launched into the air as well as the armor plating was activated to full status.

The blasts knocked out one Lohengrin cannon, One Gottfried and damaged two barrels on another, Two Valliant cannons were heavily damaged as well as several other cannons.

However the armor plating held up to what it was supposed to as not one single breach or engine was damaged and certainly not the Genesis cannon either.

"Give me a status report?" Willard asked.

"Weapons status still at around seventy percent sir," the tactical officer said as they still had a lot of their weapons despite the damage.

"Operations are in full, radar, com and scanning is at one hundred percent sir," the operations officer added.

"Helm controls are stable," the helmsman replied.

"Engines are fully operational, no damage," The chief mechanic said over the com.

"Fusion reactor undamaged," the reactor operator said.

"Defensive shielding and measures are down to fifty percent sir, we won't be able to take more of those without the armor finally giving out," the operations officer added again.

Willard nodded, "They had their turn now they are in range of all our weapons, target with what we have left and ready to launch another payload."

"Yes sir," the tactical officer said preparing just that.

Highly Classified Room-With Ryu

Once Ryu entered that room there was one large terminal with a few monitors.

Ryu once again went through a few scans as he used his activating keycard.

Things immediately started booting up as on the screen an image of space from all Satellites.

Ryu looked down and saw the status of all fifty satellites.

On another side of the Terminal he saw the reactors status.

The other end of the panel had a few other controls Ryu didn't think he needed so he focused on these.

Once that keycard was in he imputed his password as he started the operation.

Ryu was working on the controls for the satellites for the moment as he saw all were in good shape and all were under his command. Ryu typed in a few things as he saw all satellites emit a green ready signal as Ryu was arming them.

This process wasn't easy and was going to take a little time to charge so Ryu had to have everything ready.

Ryu looked at the earth's location for the minute as he saw which reactor would start the reaction.

Ryu armed the reactor as he brought all on line, next he began the satellite process as they had to be lowered into the atmosphere.

Ryu used their activation codes as all were just about ready. Ryu saw it would take some time to lower them so now he waited as all were coming on line.

When he got the signal he activated the controls.

Space

All satellites were armed as Ryu activated their codes.

They slightly shifted position as they began lowering themselves, however they weren't fully activated yet as they would not open until he gave their final code.

They started lowering themselves into position as Ryu watched from the monitors.

"Almost time," Ryu said as he watched them begin their decent.

Outside the Doomsday

Mu and Athrun saw the smoke clear as Kira was gone, however they were met with some anti aircraft fire as they couldn't pursue just yet and had to pull back while the Doomsday looked like it was doing something.

They soon heard where Kira was.

Eternal

In the Air

Kira flew forward with Luna on his tail as he was ignoring her for the moment as Kira flew right up to the Eternal.

With the Eternal

All watched as Kira was coming forward as they prepared for defensive firing against him.

They saw Luna on his tail but they didn't think that would do much good.

With Kira

Kira knew what was behind him as he immediately slowed the machine almost to a stop.

Luna couldn't catch it in time as she was flying right by him but as she did he caught her machine with his mobile suit.

With the Eternal

Those immediate watched as Kira snatched the machine in the air, and all knew that was good.

With Kira and Luna

Kira spoke as after a few minutes he got an alert signal as well as his senses were telling him something.

To be continued...

(A\N): The next chapter is more of the battle while Ryu puts the final preparations on the satellites. Bye for now.