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Chapter Seventy Seven

Operation Extermination Part Five

Aerial Battle

"Your choice, goodbye old friend," Athrun replied as he powered up his machine.

Kira flew towards him at high speed as both machines removed to sabers.

Athrun reached for something as soon as they clashed he put the substance tightly in his right hand before taking the controls.

The Armageddon and Justice clashed with their sabers as Athrun knew Kira went further then he remembered with these abilities and he was only going to beat him with one way.

With the sabers clashed Athrun moved for the chest mounted CIWS as he opened fire.

Kira however was able to use his abilities to quickly pull back before Athrun got the shot off.

Athrun spun around firing the beam cannons on the backpack as well as using his beam rifle; Athrun had to keep him away as he didn't have his generator anymore.

Kira was forced to dodge as Athrun had precision shots and they were heading for the areas without his armor.

Kira evaded as he went upside down firing the plasma cannons as well as his rifle.

Athrun was doing his best to dodge he was able to cut one shot with his saber as he spun around and accelerated towards the Armageddon, Athrun activated the Griffon beam blades on the wings as he heading straight for Kira.

Kira quickly spun around as he blocked with his own saber and delivered a knee straight to the back of the Justice sending him straight for the ocean as Kira fired one shot.

Athrun was in freefall as he felt the back of the justice explode a little; the backpack took heavy damage as he lost his cannons from the blast Kira fired.

Athrun did regain himself as he stayed low and flew away a little; Athrun knew this was getting no where as he didn't have the abilities that Kira did.

Kira went in pursuit.

Athrun was about to turn around when he heard Cagalli come on the radio, she was highly worried.

With Athrun and Cagalli

"Athrun," Cagalli said worried.

"I am alright," Athrun replied.

"Retreat for now and wait," Cagalli told him.

"You know I cannot do that, what Mu has is a true way of survival for all of us, I have to hold him back…just forgive me for what I am about to do," Athrun replied as he opened up that right hand.

Cagalli took a look at what he had, she knew those things anywhere, "Don't you remember what happened last time, if you lose yourself he will destroy you easily," Cagalli said quickly.

Athrun slightly smiled, "Have a little faith in me."

"What am I supposed to tell our child when you're not around," Cagalli quickly replied.

"I plan on being around, but in order for all of us to have that gift I have to do this, don't worry…this time I will control this and not lose myself," Athrun replied looking straight at the remainder of the pills they recovered when Kira crashed.

Athrun knew he needed a good rage boost to win this battle quickly; Kira was picking him apart so this was really the only choice he had.

Athrun smiled at her again as he said something then cut the line.

Cagalli placed her head down as she heard the three words he told her, and now she just had to do what he had asked and have faith in him.

With Athrun and Kira

Athrun turned the machine around as he downed the pills.

This time these things worked twice as fast.

Kira was heading for him when he immediately turned around, Kira then lifted his head, "Rage…interesting," Kira replied as Athrun was flying at him fast with two sabers.

Kira removed two as well as he charged straight for him.

The mobile suits clashed as Kira knocked one saber out of his hand as Athrun flew by.

As Kira turned he got a signal as Athrun cut off one of the tips of the wings.

Kira used his abilities to hone in more as he wasn't getting anything from Athrun only this rage.

Athrun let the rage take him over but this time he kept Cagalli in his mind as that was his saving point, he would think of her if he started losing himself and it was working. His skills were improving but he had to end this quick before the effects wore off, these weren't designed for him.

Kira activated the plasma, rail and his beam rifle as he fired a barrage.

Athrun started evading as he flew up again.

Athrun was going for the killing blow when he suddenly felt himself in a free fall again, Kira sped up to a speed he hadn't seen before and slammed straight into the machine sending the Justice to the ocean.

"Now I know what you're doing," Kira replied as he went after him.

Archangel

Hanger

Murdoch and his crew worked on the Akatsuki and had it all ready as they were about five minutes out from the target.

Mu was going over the specs as this was going to be a very bumpy ride.

"Remember commander you have to keep it stable when in flight or you will lose it and it will be over," Murdoch told him.

"How I get myself into these sticky situations I will never know," Mu replied heading back towards him mobile suit.

"It's a good thing we have this machine sir, any weaker machine and the thrusters would never work," Murdoch replied.

Mu boarded the mobile suit as he walked towards the opening of the hanger which was already opened.

He was steady as he was keeping the machine balanced as much as he could but it wasn't easy.

Mu stopped as he plugged the power cable into the back of the rifle, now all he needed to do was launched but they had to be right under the satellite.

Bridge

Murrue was giving orders as they were arriving towards the location.

"Take us to these coordinates and standby," Murrue ordered.

"Yes captain," Newman said as Murrue then used the com and called down to Mu.

With Mu and Murrue

Mu looked at the monitor inside as he saw Murrue.

"Calling to check up on me?" Mu asked.

"Is everything ready?" Murrue asked.

"I am ready for launch immediately, though it's unfortunate it had to come to this," Mu replied.

"Were counting on you," Murrue replied.

"Is that all you called for?" Mu asked with a smile.

Murrue blushed, "Just take care of yourself out there."

Mu smiled, "How about we pick up where we left off six years ago after this?"

"You read my mind…now prepare yourself we are almost there," Murrue told him.

"Cool," Mu replied as he readied himself for launch.

Aerial Battle

Kira headed straight after him.

Athrun regained himself as he headed for Kira.

Kira smirked as he removed the saber as soon as they passed.

Athrun spun around as he felt an explosion.

Athrun turned over as he was missing his right arm.

"What?" Athrun replied in rage trying to regain himself.

"Naughty person you are old friend, I detected what you were thinking, you have been taking my pills," Kira replied.

"So what?" Athrun replied in rage.

Kira smiled and laughed.

"What is so funny?" Athrun asked.

"You complete fool, those were specifically designed for me and me alone, no matter what you do with them they will affect you a lot more different then they affect me," Kira replied.

Athrun quickly looked up in hatred.

"I do admit they gave you a little power but now that I know I am afraid this will come to an end," Kira replied as he powered up both sabers and as a little fun took a couple pills himself.

Athrun only had one but he wasn't worried.

Kira placed his head back, "Never better," Kira replied.

Athrun felt something shatter inside his head as he flew towards Kira.

Kira in response did the same thing, high on pills; seed mode both were in however Kira still had his abilities as well.

Athrun and Kira flew straight towards each other.

With Cagalli

Cagalli heard the responses from Kira and Athrun and now she wanted him more then anything to stop, those things didn't work on Athrun as they did on Kira, Athrun was able to process them correctly according to Kira and now this.

Cagalli watched as they moved in closer.

With Athrun and Kira

"Though they don't work for me as they do you, I can still use their power and I can still keep myself," Athrun replied as he remembered Cagalli and kept his mind this time, how that is something they didn't know but he was doing it.

Kira flew forward as the beam sabers clashed heavily.

"Got you," Kira replied as he spun off the saber and turned around.

Athrun looked quickly as Kira broke his stance.

Athrun looked to the monitor as he saw the devilish eyes of that machine.

With Cagalli

Cagalli cried out as she watched what she saw.

With Kira and Athrun.

With Kira around he had one free saber as he drove it straight through the Justice.

Athrun was stunned as he looked down slightly to see the beam straight through him.

The last thing Athrun thought of was Cagalli, "I'm sorry Cagalli…live…" was all he said as Kira pulled the saber out and the Justice blew up.

Kira watched as the parts of the Justice fell to the ocean, "Just another day at the office," Kira replied looking down as he popped a few more pills before looking at his hand.

"Foolish man he was, if only he saw the light," Kira replied as he now had one more thing to do as he saw the Doomsday was powering up to leave.

Kira flew off and that was in one certain direction as he looked at his radar.

Kira accelerated to maximum as he was going to put this to the end.

Eternal

They were nearing their destination as they heard Cagalli cry out.

"What is it?" Andrew asked.

"He…he's gone," Cagalli quickly replied.

All were stunned at this especially Lacus.

"What am I supposed to do now," Cagalli asked feeling her stomach.

Most of the crew turned away as they didn't know what to do in this situation.

Lacus however couldn't as she was in the most awkward situation but Cagalli was like a sister to her, and she was saddened over Athrun's death as well.

They kept the ships on course while Lacus did try something.

However they did get more bad news as well.

Doomsday

Classified Room

Ryu watched the power up of the satellite cannon as all gages were showing normal, Ryu then smiled as the large destruction beam was shot down.

Ryu watched as the chain reaction also started, the energy was shifted to the other satellite reflectors as their cannons would power up and fire and so on and so on until all that could were fired.

Ryu transferred monitoring of the satellites to his spatial base as they had to leave and they had to leave soon.

Ryu quickly got out of the room as he was on the line with Willard immediately.

With Ryu and Willard

"Yes sir," Willard said from the bridge.

"Status on liftoff?" Ryu asked quickly.

"We are good to go now sir," Willard replied.

"Recall the Commander immediately, he will catch up," Ryu said as he made his way towards the bridge.

"Yes sir," Willard replied.

Bridge

Willard quickly gave the orders as the helmsman and such started launching sequence, it had been awhile since they heard from Kira but they knew he could catch up on the launch.

All were prepared as they were nearing ascent back into space however they had to do it quickly.

Archangel

Bridge

"We are in the location captain," Newman told her.

Murrue picked up the phone as she called down to the hanger, "Launch now."

Hanger

Murdoch got the order as he transferred it up to Mu, "You are cleared go commander," Murdoch said quickly.

Improvised Akatsuki

Mu got the word from Murdoch.

Mu powered up his mobile suit to full as he was ready to activate the thrusters.

"It's in your capable hands sir," Murdoch told him.

Murrue quickly came back on as Mu winked and smiled as he put the visor down and he jumped off the ship to get a little distance.

Mu was away from the hanger as he fired up the thrusters.

The back thrusters fired up as he got a large jolt in his seat as he was launched up to the sky.

"Not what I expected," Mu replied as he got himself together and started balancing the mobile suit, if he was off it was over.

Hanger

Murdoch and the mechanics watched as the power cable was still holding, they improved it and made it a lot longer but it was all still in testing.

Akatsuki

Mu kept glancing down at his monitor as he had to let the computer do its thing here, once he was in targeting range he would have to fire.

Keeping that cannon steady was hard as he couldn't move the arms which were holding it.

Mu had to quickly arm the cannon as all he had to do now was pull the trigger.

Mu kept going up as he couldn't fail.

Bridge

Murrue and the others were monitoring what was going on when Miriallia got a major alert as something was fast approaching and that wasn't good.

"Captain," Miriallia said as the screen was activated.

"Inform Mu now…get weapons ready and fire," Murrue said as they aimed what they had left and launched.

With Mu

"Commander," Miriallia said.

"I really cannot be chatting right now," Mu said as he was doing all he could to keep this thing stable with these reactors.

"No time sir, Kira is fast approaching," Miriallia told him.

Mu quickly shook his head, "Of all the timing, do what you have to and keep him off, I cannot help yet."

"Yes sir," Miriallia replied.

Mu was now worried about the ship as this wasn't something they needed, but he now worried what that meant for the Justice.

Mu had to shake that off as what he was doing was essential and he hated to say far more important.

Space and Orb

Orb Headquarters

With the Orb forces guarding, they really didn't expect this as the sky got awfully bright.

Todaka was in charge as he observed.

"We have failed," Todaka said as all the forces were wide out in the open.

Space

Once Ryu placed them in charge of the monitoring they went back to work as they watched it take place, their chairman's grand plan.

Luckily they were Ryu loyalists or what they were witnessing wasn't going to look good, though they had no idea what the chairman was up to once this was over but that wasn't for them to worry about.

All turned their attention as the first cannon was working.

Satellite cannon and Onogoro

People from the ground looked up at the massive light which suddenly got extremely bright with a flash.

The cannon fired his shot just as the Doomsday would have except this time the cannon was far more deadly.

People could only watch as the light got brighter and brighter, until they didn't even know what hit them. The initial shot struck the heart of the Onogoro base and many things and people were instantly vaporized. The island wasn't that large as the satellites didn't have to move around to cause total destruction, however they did use them anyway as they moved the satellites cannon in the limited range that it could. The blast didn't stop coming out as they moved the cannon around as it struck the surrounding waters. They couldn't move the satellite as that had to stay in alignment to reflect to the others, however the cannon that was on the front of the satellites could be moved and rotated and that was what controlled the blasts so that gave them more destructive power.

Todaka knew it was that time as his ship and his fleet was destroyed.

It was already done as the blast and fallout nailed the entire island.

"Victory is ours," the base commander said as they watched the power start reflection to other satellites, it was going in two ways as it would keep reflecting and firing to the others, in no time at all they expected total destruction as they wanted.

The satellites by the main bodies of Asia and upper South America were now receiving power as their cannons prepared to fire down, the chain reaction kept going since they were using the power source that was unlimited.

One thing that was for sure was the Doomsday had to be lifted off before the satellites around that were hit or it was over.

However for now it looked like they pulled it off.

Archangels Location

With Kira and the Archangel

Kira arrived as he saw the Archangel just as still as can be, "Now what could this be?" Kira asked sarcastically.

Murrue and the others turned all weapons as they fired them.

Kira saw that as he was forced to slow down and retreat.

Murrue knew Mu better do this quick as Kira had to see the cable as well as smoke from the thrusters Mu used.

Kira evaded as he moved all weapons forward and shot a large payload.

Murrue couldn't evade as they couldn't move.

"Brace for impact," Murrue said as shots and beams were striking all over the place and to some of their remaining weapons.

"Captain!" Miriallia quickly said.

Murrue looked as they just saw their worse nightmare; the wings on that machine were extended.

After that the Dragoons were launched and split the worse into twenty four.

Kira spotted that cable as they had to be up to something and the best thing for a large cable like that was to cut it in half as he fired his Dragoons and removed his saber.

Kira moved forward as he made a slash straight for the cable.

With Mu

Mu was nearly there when he got the word that the attack started.

"Almost in range," Mu replied as he felt something wrong with the thrusters, they were running out.

"What else could go wrong? Come on," Mu said as he was doing what he could while keeping it stable.

Mu was about fifty feet when the thrusters cut off.

"No!…It will not end like this," Mu said as he ejected the thrusters and fired the Akatsuki's thrusters to maximum, although the suit was meant for this altitude and he could feel the stalling as well as starting to overheat as soon as he fired them up as he was carrying a lot more weight.

"Almost," Mu replied as he was maxing out everything, warnings left and right were going off.

Mu was five feet as he wanted to go a little higher, he gave it everything he had as he accelerated forwards hard as his thrusters exploded…however he got fifteen extra feet from what they calculated.

"I have done it," Mu replied as he pulled the trigger and the shot was fired.

After that the machine went into a quick freefall as the cannon exploded as well as the arms that were holding it.

Mu was doing his best to regain control but he got just about all he could from the machine, he did what he had to and now that was their chance they needed, when he was nearing the ocean he suddenly got a quick sense from his abilities as what he saw when he was close enough he was stunned.

With Kira and the Archangel

Kira sliced the cable just as Mu got the power up.

Kira did that as he turned around as the dragoons did their work; Kira moved them all around strike the legendary ship all over.

Inside they were rattling as the ship was taking heavy damage, and they were out of weapons as Kira did away with them with the dragoons.

However it soon stopped as all opened their eyes and looked out front only to see those demon eyes of that machine standing right in front of the bridge looking at them.

They couldn't do a thing, which was until Kira came on the air.

"Like all good things they must come to an end," Kira replied coming on screen.

Murrue looked at him.

"Yes, that's it," Kira replied.

"What are you saying…what will you do?" Murrue asked.

Kira looked straight at them, "I can feel it, I can see it…your fear, that is the look I wanted to see on your faces…for what you have done…I which have waited far to long can now end it."

All tried standing up in a fear of panic.

Kira took one last look at their faces as he reached out the Armageddon's hand and instantly crushed the bridge.

He squeezed it straight off.

All inside were immediately crushed, "Squishy," was all Kira replied at first as he opened and closed the hand and kept doing it over and over as parts all over fell from the hand.

"It's so very…refreshing," Kira said as he placed his head back.

Kira then looked back down as he moved all the dragoons around as well as the plasma and rail cannons as he fired one more shot straight through the ship.

Kira flew off as the dragoons returned to him as the massive ship then blew up. The ship he once worked so hard to save was the ship he now worked so hard to and did destroy.

Kira remembered before he attacked the Archangel he got a withdrawal order as he quickly had to abandon this as he flew off at maximum speed.

With Mu

Mu crashed hard into the ocean but before he did he saw the carnage.

For the first time Mu yelled in utter pain and anger as he slammed into the ocean.

To be continued...

(A\N): Final two chapters up this path will be up together. See you later.