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Chapter Seventy Eight

Mankind's Fate

Doomsday

Bridge

Ryu arrived back as he immediately took his place on one of the chairs in the top floor of the bridge.

"Sir," Willard asked looking back.

"Did you get word to the commander?" Ryu asked.

"Yes sir, he should be on his way back," Willard replied.

"Begin takeoff, he can catch up," Ryu replied as he went to work on the large terminal in front of him.

"Yes sir," Willard said as he looked to his people.

Willard gave the orders as the ship started preparing for take off.

Outside

The Doomsday rose out of the water a good one hundred feet off the waters.

The thrusters on the side were warming up as the engines could begin at any time.

Bridge

Willard got the final reports from the engineers and reactor operators as everything was in the green.

Operations crewmen checked the plating and everything else as the Doomsdays first ascent back to space was just about ready.

Ryu however went back to working on the terminal as he was getting progress on the operation. He saw the satellites reflecting power and firing their cannons. It was spreading all over the globe and was nearing them.

Ryu didn't have the monitoring equipment he had in that room but for now everything looked on schedule as they were reading for blastoff.

The Doomsday turned a little as it was in a wide open space where satellite fire wouldn't affect them.

"Launch now," Ryu said.

"Yes sir," Willard replied.

When Ryu said that he saw Kira was back and on radar, they didn't have to open a hanger for him as his machine could take it.

With Kira

Kira made his way back as he saw the ship preparing to launch. Kira sped up quickly as the Doomsday started firing up its thrusters.

Bridge

"We are all green sir," one officer said.

"Launch," Willard ordered.

Outside the thrusters fired up as the Doomsday lifted up into a diagonal angle.

Outside

Kira made it back to the ship as he landed on the haul as he took hold of part of the ship as the thing blasted off into space.

The thrusters fired as the engines went active as the machine was shot quickly up to space.

Kira ducked down and held on as he made sure his armor was fully activated which it was.

From the ground all you saw was large smoke trails as the massive machine launched itself into space.

Bridge

The force jolted people back into their seats as Ryu kept an eye on the monitoring before it went down like he knew it would, that would last until they arrived back in space.

Last thing Ryu saw was the satellite reaction getting very close to their destination, but what he didn't know was because of Mu's effort, that was all unnecessary.

"Victory feels good," was all Ryu said before they broke through the atmosphere and returned to space.

Eternal and Minerva

A little ways away, Archangel ruins

Mu was able to regain the machine as all he had left was propulsion on his machine; he got back to the surface as he looked at the ruins of the mighty Archangel. The crew he knew and Murrue were gone.

Mu looked up in the sky as for what he wanted to do was accomplished, the satellite near them was destroyed and with a little luck something he thought should happen would happen.

Mu didn't however have time to look around as he had to get moving again, this wasn't over yet.

Mu took one last look as he made a vow to himself, their deaths would not be in vain.

Mu maxed his output out again as he headed for the Eternal and Minerva locations very quickly.

Minerva

"What is that?" Arthur asked.

"This is the destination," Talia said as it did make a little sense.

They got word from the Eternal as something happened and they moved forward.

Eternal

Cagalli was highly distraught as they escorted her off the bridge and to quarters. Lacus' heart went out to her as she felt the most responsible.

Lacus however had to shake it off as they did that they did get word from the Orb homeland, it was a last signal sent as they heard what had happened. The reaction started as nothing could be done to stop it but what Mu gave them they would have a chance to one day rise again.

"Sir, we are at the Destination," Dacosta said.

"Prepare to submerge," Andrew said.

Lacus looked ahead as they saw this was the location, on the coast was a submarine holding base used by the former alliance. When Zaft left the earth that one time everything again belonged to the alliance. Mu contacted the president as he got all of these locations. This was their backup plan if all else failed, and they had Mu to thank for this.

The eternal submerged as they saw the dock, with the codes they were able to remote open it as they got a signal that Mu had arrived.

He got to their location as he gave them the news.

The crew of both ships took that hard, more death from their former hero.

Mu did land as he told them what to do next.

"I cannot talk about that anymore, all I can say was I destroyed what would cause use instant destruction," Mu replied as he moved them in.

The two ships entered the large submarine dock off the coast of Australia, which was stolen by Zaft but since they left the planet it was open and well below the surface.

Once the two massive ships were inside the dock was sealed.

Around Earth and Spatial headquarters

Earth

The reactions started and were going all over the place. Upper South America the cannon fire shot major cities and when they rotated the cannon it just kept spreading and spreading.

Total panic to those that were unfortunate to see what was happening only to have it happen to them as well.

Some were fortunate and were just vaporized immediately. Others had to experience the fear and pain.

Alliance Headquarters

The leaders watched helplessly which they remained seated as they saw a beam strike down and was heading right for them.

"It's all up to you now La Flaga," the president said as he closed his eyes as the beam swiped straight through them.

Earth

It was the same, North America, Europe, Asia, and even to heavily populated islands the reaction was spreading and creating total destruction.

However one continent was never to be targeted, that was the African continent, nothing was ever placed over there and for good reason. Zaft still needed that place. Once the shots were over the hit areas would not be habitual for a decades however in that continent there would be fallout from the planets radiation but nothing a coordinator couldn't handle. The shots were designed to do more damage when they were fired, the cannons fire wasn't meant or designed to do long term damage, and they were able to design it for only a couple of decades in hit areas and in non hit areas it would only have the side effects and that was mostly for naturals so they could still get the resources they wanted.

It was clear some naturals on the African continent would survive this but the fallout would cause disease and long term effects on the natural body. So that would wipe them out over time.

Headquarters

Victory and congratulations could be seen here however that was about to be short lived as the final satellites fired. There was just one thing all of them didn't fire.

Nothing was struck around Africa, that was expected, however lower South America and the entire continent of Australia was not hit.

When Mu destroyed that one satellite the ones for that continent didn't get any power. When the alliance destroyed the first two starter satellites they had to readjust and there wasn't a reaction to these few.

"What in the world happened?" the base commander asked.

"Sir…it appears at the deadline one satellite was destroyed and we just didn't have the power…" he said as the base commander slapped him silly.

"I have to report this to His Excellency?" the commander asked placing his hands on his head.

He was out of time as Ryu contacted him and the guy was scared to death as he answered it.

The commander was shaking the entire time he as reported, and Ryu said nothing as he signed off.

That was weird but that was also something he didn't expect either.

Underwater Hanger

Eternal

The crew docked in the empty hanger as the Minerva crew joined with the Eternal crew.

All gathered in the bridge as many still didn't know what was going on.

Mu was the last one as the events were still a little shaking but he had to get over it and over it quickly.

When Talia and Arthur arrived they had to know, "So this is it…we just stay here?"

Mu looked at them, "For now…the president and I had prepared the best we could for this situation, its not like we actually thought it would come to this but it has and we are here now."

"So what is next?" Talia asked.

"We stay here for now…if things went like I hoped and with a little luck we will be able to grasp the situation a little better soon, for now this is where we stay," Mu replied.

Mu decided to go over the plan one more time with them as he explained everything. It did put things in a little better light, but they were relying on two things that had to happen for this to work. One the satellites over this continent had to fail, and second was what Ryu did next.

Mu knew they had to rush people off the planet and everything so with that he was counting on that for delivering what he needed.

"I just say that is relying on to much to happen," Talia replied.

"Like I told you before we didn't plan for this to happen, it was just in case we failed and we did, look at the bright side we are alive which is more I can say for those around the planet," Mu replied.

"I am curious though, why did you think you needed to make this backup plan?" Andrew asked.

Mu only looked quickly before turning away.

"It was your abilities, wasn't it? You were having doubts about this operation weren't you?" Lacus finally asked.

"I will just say that I trusted that kid would have something more up his sleeve and I was right, no stop looking at the past and we move forward, this isn't over by a long shot," Mu replied.

The meeting went on as discussions about what they were doing next, after discussion it was then decided.

Shinn was there as well and was not to happy, however Luna seemed to calm him down and explained that he would get his chance again.

Space-Doomsday

Bridge

Ryu got the report of what went on as he told Willard to deliver a message before leaving.

Kira docked his machine as they cleared space as he watched in the hanger the devastation that was going on. The fear and pain he could feel it from up here.

Kira did return to the bridge as Willard gave him the message.

"The chairman wishes to see you at the observatory sir," Willard said.

Kira headed that way as he remembered the battle he just did. He couldn't stay for the witnessing nor did he get a report yet so as far as Kira was concerned those former allies were dead.

Kira headed that way as he arrived.

Observatory

Kira arrived as Ryu was looking out the window, "Well done today commander, you have served my goal well."

Kira stood next to him as they looked down at the earth, in the main areas you could see the difference those cannons had made. Greenery was changed to a large dust ball over much of the world, however Kira could see some things didn't look like they changed.

"Our judgment has finally been passed," Kira replied.

"Not quite commander," Ryu told him.

"Sir?" Kira asked.

"From the report I got not all satellites fired and those destroyed made the ones they were connected to useless, from our estimations on the report I got eighty percent of the population has been wiped out…leaving over twenty percent," Ryu told him.

Kira looked down, "Locations sir?"

"Africa which we planned, however we have lower South America as well as the entire continent of Australia," Ryu told him.

"We should reposition and fire again sir," Kira replied quickly, "They don't have a force to fight back with anymore."

"We cannot afford to do that anymore, we had to rush this and many forces now know what had happened, press reporters I assigned to remain on Australia to show us being humanitarian to these natural dogs will find the truth, though we can silence them the I don't need the political complications back home…if we were able to do it at our time this wouldn't be necessary however now I have to come up with a report to the Plants," Ryu said as after all the speed of rushing people off reporters and soldiers alike had already started talking not to mention what they likely saw here as many forces close to the earth were able to tell.

"We can crush them all sir," Kira replied.

"Indeed we can, I can handle whatever is leaked to the public…I am thinking of a better use for the naturals on the surface," Ryu replied.

"I understand sir, the long term effects of the fallout will kill them off anyway, might as well make them useful for awhile," Kira replied.

Ryu nodded his head, "I will come up with the story for the Plants on what happened, the naturals we have left we will return and make good use of them."

"I suggest we round them all up and place them on the Australia continent, we can keep a close eye on them there and when we need them we can transport them to our use…they will all fall ill and become weak so we don't have to worry about long term affects," Kira replied as ideas were brewing in their heads.

"This is how the situation will go down, I will deliver to the Plants a scenario of what happened and that we had to do it for their own good…leave the reason to me and in the meantime we will wait a few weeks and return to the surface…show humanitarian ways to the cameras and then do what we have to do," Ryu told him.

"We don't have to worry about the naturals again as the fallout will slowly weaken and eventually die out…we can keep that up until the fallout clears and the coordinators can finally return."

There was a lot more to it but for now that is where they stopped.

"Your abilities have grown commander, and I will be counting on them in the aftermath," Ryu replied.

Kira shook his head, "Thank you sir…however I believe they can go even further."

Ryu smiled, "If anyone can you will accomplish it…now return to the bridge when your finished, we still have much work to do but war my friend is now over."

Ryu walked out and back to the bridge.

Kira looked down at the earth.

Underwater Hanger

Minerva

Mu gave them tasks to do as Talia and Arthur returned to do them.

"Are you sure about this ma'am?" Arthur asked.

"I have to admit it can work…that all depends on what Zaft does next," Talia replied as now it was in Mu's hands.

Eternal-Bridge

Mu was still briefing Andrew and Dacosta as Lacus excused herself.

"You really think this will work?" Andrew asked.

"I know their will be survivors and I don't believe they will kill them immediately," Mu replied.

"What about you guys though? We saw the plans that radiation will affect you naturals," Andrew replied.

"I know, but that we will worry about in the future, it won't immediately kill us it will take years," Mu replied.

"I see…I have to admit I am glad you were with us," Andrew replied.

"Whatever we do next it will be Zaft's first move…I just hope they don't discover we are alive," Mu replied as they didn't know what was going on outside and that was a strong possibility.

Mu left as he remembered the Archangel and Murrue, he just got her back and now it was no more.

One thing was for sure and that was they had a long road ahead.

Eternal-Quarters

Cagalli was devastated as she didn't even know what was going on at the moment. What had happened to her was the most pain she had felt in her life, even worse when her country was destroyed by her own brother.

One thing they did know was she would pull through.

Eternal-Lacus' Room

Lacus heard all she needed to and now she just wanted to be with her children, all of them.

She arrived as she found them happy to see her. Her son she knew witnessed the worst possible thing as he was extremely quiet but he did join them.

Lacus knew for their future she would now fight on, even if the world wasn't what is was anymore they weren't out of the game yet.

Lacus stayed with them as they fell asleep on her, as they did Lacus placed her only thoughts to what she knew they would do next.

Now matter what it took they would get back whatever they could that was stolen from them and that was the earth.

Lacus' thoughts were on her children's father as that was the source.

Space-Doomsday

Observatory

Kira got a report to him from the satellites as he continued looking over the earth.

Apparently the waters around where they were fighting were struck by one of the satellites near the location. They had to be gone; it wasn't possible for them any other way. However they didn't have surveillance anymore so they could check it.

Kira watched over the earth as after all that planning, after all that work, and after all that destruction operation extermination was finally complete.

The operation wasn't done as they wanted which was leading up to what they had to do next, however the day of the natural has passed and it was time for the ultimates to begin.

With still a long road again Kira looked down at his work, "The world is now reborn."

Concluded and To be continued...

(A\N): The dark path still has one more chapter but everything above and back leads to the Dark path sequel. I have made a sequel for this dark path however the chapter that is already posted concludes the dark path, the next chapter does not take place in the sequel but everything else does. The next chapter already posted is just a way to end the dark path if you're not interested in the sequel. As for this chapter I left a lot of things unexplained as they will be better put when I do the dark sequel. This story is not yet finished however as there is still the original path to do. There are more instructions on that matter at the bottom of the next chapter already posted.