I dont own GS, GSD, or Wing.

Sorry for long time from last update. The only excuses I have are bullcrap. Since it's been a while I made this chapter longer. Just don't think that all chapters will be this long.

Yamato's Legacy

ch. 3

Cagalli barely refrained from pulling all her hair out. She was on the verge of tears. Athrun was not by her side, left to escort Kira and Lacus. She stayed behind, trying to find a diplomatic solution, but it was proving to be near impossible. Whoever attacked them would not reply to any messages, leaving the blond and her country in the dark.

It was getting late, and she needed to get some rest. She had not slept in two days, ever since White Base was lost. She was currently alone in her office, allowing herself just a little time away from the committee.

Cagalli did not have any kids. Her niece was enough for her. But just like with Kira and Lacus, since Athrun was a coordinator they had to try really hard to have a child. Her and Athrun decided not to give it a hard try till a later time. Cagalli was still currently single, and she was still young. She was scared that the people would not except a young mother in charge of the country. Unlike Lacus, Cagalli was a permanent member of the committee, and did not have the luxury of giving up her term within four years. Or eight in Lacus's case.

Cagalli began gathering her things, and prepared to head back out into the lions pit. Stroking her finger, she felt the silver ring. She may not be married, but she was still engaged.

The door to her room burst open, and a middle aged woman with black hair stopped before Cagalli. Not even giving a salute the girl spoke, "We need to go!"

Cagalli had got to know the girl very well over the years. Her husband was a valuable member of the committee, and shared many of the same views as her. He was one of Cagalli's greatest ally's. "Could you not knock, Noin?"

"Sorry ma'am." She panted heavily, "But we're under attack."

Yzak lay in his bed while the darkness surrounded him. Alone. He had no body to accompany him in the dark room. The only people he cared about where either not on the ship or with someone more important then him.

Dearka was with Miriallia, like always. She always seems to hate having him around, but both stick to each other like glue.

Yamato. Yzak did not have a close relationship with any of them. Though he served as, and still serves, as one of Lacus Yamato's leading generals, he has become to trust the woman. Not always agreeing with her views, but she was a good leader. One he would follow to his death. And her husband?

Kira, was not an enemy. He was greater then an ally, maybe even a friend, but neither of them were close. Because of Miriallia, Dearka had gotten to know Kira very well. So maybe Kira Yamato is a friend, but a friend that is barely more then an acquaintance. They did try to kill each other many times before after all.

Shiho was gone. Haven't seen her for a month at least. Yzak liked the girl, maybe loved her, but their forming of a relationship was to slow, and before either knew it, she was transfered to the earth. Besides, she was to 'goody too shoes' to share a bed with Yzak.

So now he lay on his cold bed all alone. Cold because he likes it that way.

In his current sleepless existence, today, really yesterdays, events unfolded. Hard for him to decipher what exactly happened. Like a rubrics cube. Yzak may be a coordinator, but he still could never figure one of those out.

From the attack on the Yamato house to he battle in space, it all did not make sense to him. Why was Zaft attacking their former leader, who was loved by the people greatly. What was Zaft planning. A ton of 'Pro Zaft Cause' propaganda had surfaced over the last day, claiming the end of naturals and rallying the people behind the chairman.

The Eternal has since ceased it's attack on the Archangel, but is following then. Currently the Archangel was heading out of Zaft space, but like during the first Bloody Valentine War, the ship was being followed, and every move watched. Archangel was on it's way to meet with an Orb ship, but she would have to loose the Eternal first.

But all his thoughts came to a climax with the natural Chinese boy. A natural that had been able to easily destroy those seemingly invincible enemy suits, and do it with ease. A natural who had been able to best not just him, but also Yamato with his piloting of his suit. A natural who had putt his own Buster in the repair shop for the next few days. A natural Chinese boy that Yzak hates.

Apparently the natural, whose name was in fact Wufie, seemed to have a great deal of knowledge of the enemy. When asked how he was able to kill them so easily, Wufie just laughed, saying there is 'no thrill in the death of a machine'. It was then that he told everyone on the ship, that their new enemy was a computer controlled suit. Something Zaft had been working on for years and is no where near completing.

It is a little uneasy with him on board. Yamato decided it was better to bring him aboard, claiming it was better to not have him as an enemy. Yzak, forcible going against his ego, had to agree. This Wufie did best the best in Zaft.

The green suit was something to marvel at. Wufie would let nobody do anything to his suit but look at it, and he was still pretty uneasy about that. It wasn't phase shift armor. It stayed green the whole time, but the metal had a hard texture to it. But that was all they knew. Wufie was extremely paranoid with the suit. Yzak wouldn't be surprised if the suit was set to self destruct if anyone, but Wufie piloted it. When asked about the armor he laughed again and claimed, "Thats what makes it a Gundam." And he left it at that.

A low pitched beeping noise came from the console on the wall, next to Yzak's head. Grunting he moved himself up and pressed the intercom button. "What?" he asked exhaustedly.

"Yzak get up here." It was Dearka.

"Where?"

"To the bridge."

"Why?"

"We are about to meet with the Mizuki. An Orb ship."

Yzak grunted as he sat up in his bed. He rubbed his eyes and let out a yawn. "I'll be right there."

He then got up and dressed himself.

Kira sat in a comfortable chair on the bridge. In his arms sat his wife resting her eyes, which due to the large number of empty seats on the bridge, she still preferred to sit in his lap. Murrue was standing looking out the view screen while talking to her husband. Rarely did she sit down in the command seat during non combat time. In her seat (the captains seat) sat Andrew Waltfield, who preferred to sit in 'the most comfortable seat on the ship' as he said.

Every one who should be on the bridge was there with a few exceptions. Dearka was late in telling Yzak so Yzak was on his way. And Miriallia, who was happy to comply to the request of both Kira and Lacus, was baby sitting Kelly. Dearka, having watched Mir so many times, was the one operating the CEC.

And lastly, in the back corner, hovering off the floor in a sleeping form was Wufie. He only gave them that. No one knew his last name. Apparently Yzak had a run in with him before, and learned this Wufie was a natural, but that was all they knew. Both Yzak and Wufie would not talk about what happened to them before.

The Archangel was sitting at the rendezvous point. She was to meet two vessels, both from Orb nations. One was led by Kira's oldest friend, Athrun Zala. The other he heard was under the command of Shinn Asuka.

Though it was bad time's, Kira was looking forward to this little reunion.

"Approaching vessel of the port bow." Dearka said calmly. "It's Orb."

"What happened?" Cagalli screamed as they finally made it to the hidden shelters elevator. Taking it down, they would have to pass through a mobile suit hanger and take a second elevator to the well protected battle command center.

Noin leaned against the rail on the elevator to catch her breath. "Our section one forces were completely obliterated. We are also receiving signals that enemy mobile suit carriers have entered the atmosphere and their trajectory is straight for Orb."

Cagalli was near exhaustion and had a head ache. "Evacuate the people. That's the top priority."

"We are. The citizens are leaving as we speak, and the army is deployed. Right now, everyone is doing what they are supposed to."

The elevator came to a stop and the two women head across the hanger to the second elevator. Out of the corner of her eye, Cagalli caught a glimpse of a girl by the name of Kia.

Kia was the forth member of the M1 Astray unit that fought in space during the first bloody valentine war, but due to illness, had to sit out. She did perform bravely when Zaft attacked during the second war, and earned lieutenant. She also grew up with Cagalli, and they had not been close in years, they were friends.

But there was no time to talk. Cagalli quickly hurried to the elevator.

Kia maneuvered her suit out into the green fields. She was an ace mobile suit pilot, but one could not tell from her upbeat nature and the way she carried herself. She was always positive. Well, not always.

Right now she was scared. She was frightened. She as about to pee her pants, because the sky was almost black as the enemy suit's began to rain down upon them.

Then the sky was filled with light as the weapons from both sides began firing. Spurting out bullet's, trying to fill the sky to were there was no hole between rounds that an enemy could hide in. Some bullets flew to the sky, tearing through the air, while other's, those from the enemies, came down with greater force due to gravity on it's side.

This was not an attack, it was an invasion.

And as Kia assumed, the anti air guns failed and the enemy came in close range. That was her cue. She jumped out from the building she was using for cover, firing her rifle at the nearest enemy she could see.

And she missed.

The enemy suit did a 180 degree spin, dodging her attack, while coming to face her and opened fire.

Complete surprise over came her. Her reaction time was too slow and bullets ripped into her suit, causing massive damage, but she was able to get to cover again.

The M1 Astray was never known for it's reliability. The Astray's suffered from many mechanical problems that came with first generation mobile suits. Kia's was a third generation Astray, a M1 AC, but it still suffered from mechanical failures from time to time. But the Astray was known for being tough as an ox. The armor was tree times as strong as the armor on the base Zaku unit's, and could perform better. However Zaft could produce twenty Zaku's to one Astray.

But that did not account for this enemy. There was hundreds of them, and all of them were better then the Astray's. And they were ruthless.

Kia could hear the hovering propulsion engine's of the enemy, making it's way to her position. Making a quick weapon's check, she realized all thruster's were out, fluid for the hydraulics was leaking, coolant was also leaking, meaning she did not have long till her suit over heated and shut down. Also computer wires and sensors were out, causing parts of the suit, mainly the arms, to function awkwardly, meaning weapons were difficult to use.

Ditching the rifle she armed herself with her duel beam saber's, hoping she could get the enemy in close range combat, before she ran out of power, which she was loosing fast from a mixture of damage to the computer and the constantly rising heat level. While alarms were blaring in the cockpit, the gage she had to watch the most was the heat and pressure gage, because if when that goes red, it could ignite all the fluids and the suit would explode.

The suit came from the side of the building, and she swung at it as she received even more damage from the enemies rifle. Her suit was nearing it's death faster and faster. She needed to make her next few movement's count.

She was in the middle of the shopping district, which she choose due to the cover it provided, but it also made it hard to use a rifle in the street's. It was made for close range combat.

And the narrow streets gave the black suit a hard time to maneuver.

She lunged for the suit in a downward slicing motion.

The enemy countered, shifting the gun to it's left hand while pulling out a beam saber in it's right. Using the saber it blocked her attack and moved backward firing it's rifle again.

She moved her suit forward as fast as the damaged suit could move. The street erupted as mortar rounds filled it, hitting everything but the Astray as Kia moved erratically.

She slashed the suit again, only to be blocked. The suit followed the same tactic of blocking and falling back, but this time Kia swung the other saber, taking out the enemy suit's legs.

The leg's are a big part of a mobile suit. While on earth, due to the gravity, losing the leg's would cause a malfunction in the gyro balancer. The gyro balancer effected all functions of a suit, from movement, to targeting, to just standing. With the loss of the leg's a gyro balancer would have to reset , which only takes a moment, but it is very difficult to reset it while in combat, thus leaving the pilot to use his or her own skill's at adjusting to the situation. Of course this is not a factor in space where the suit is weightless.

The enemy suit came crashing down in the streets, ramming itself right into an outlet mall. Using what she had left, Kia encountered the dazed suit, stabbing her beam saber into where she thought the cockpit was.

She screamed from a mixture of frustration, fear, and exhaustion as the heat from her beam saber ignited the fluids in the enemy suit and erupted it into a ball of flames.

She sat panting in her cockpit as it blared 'WARNING' and red flashing lights. As soon as she could realize her camera's went blank and her suit was thrown to it's side.

A second enemy suit, this time from the air plummeted it's armor piercing rounds into her Astray, taking out it's main camera's, dismembering it's left arm, and disconnecting it's left thigh from it's mechanical hips.

Kia grumbled from the pain as she was thrown to her side. The camera's that still worked came to life and gave her a view of her killer.

Luckily as her suit fell down, it fell into a position that gave a moment of cover from her adversary, allowing her time to 'recover'.

Ignoring all the warning's lights, the 'red' heat gage, and all the glass monitors that were cracking as she moved, she readied her suit to do battle. She moved it to a sitting position behind the building, hoping to ambush this enemy suit as she did the last one. She focused herself on the incoming enemy, as she tried to not pay attention to the godzilla like sounds coming from metal engine parts grinding against metal.

But this suit knew what she was doing. It flew by the building, dodging Kia's small attack and countering it's own beam saber, taking the only other upper limb her suit had.

Her suit fell to it's back off balance. Staring at the enemy suit approaching, she hurriedly moved her hands to disconnect her set belt and escape the crippled suit. But she knew it was in vain. It was near impossible for her to not die in this situation.

But her death did not come. The enemy suit's main lens which was in place of a normal suit's eyes, flashed. The suit turned to it's left as if it was surprised, and the suit exploded in a mighty explosion.

Kia exited her suit to the intense feeling of heat and burning hot ash scattering over the ground. She stumbled out of her suit, while looking at her newest savior.

Standing where the enemy suit once stood, was a pure white, and navy blue mobile suit. It was a design she had never seen before. It looked as a combination of more complex, and more simple, then any suit she had ever seen. In it's hand was a green beam saber, on it's other hand was a large whip painted to match the suit, and on the back was a rail gun.

The suit did not stay long. It turned to her as if to make quick confirmation that she was alive, then it flew off and engaged another enemy in the distance, easily destroying it.

Kia moved away from her suit. Deep in her training she knew she had to get away from it. But as she ran she watched the white suit dominate the battle ground.

She flew to the ground as another explosion erupted. This time from her crippled Astray, which finally gave it's life away. Fire caught the remaining liquids on fire.

Getting up, her body hurt, her head was bleeding, her chest stung, and all that was on her mind was the mystery suit. But she knew what she had to do. Kia made her way to the nearest mobile suit bay, hoping to find another Astray before they were all gone.

Cagalli finally roamed into the command center. Inside the rest of her cabinet was already waiting for her. Her generals also were there giving off orders. However one of her generals was missing.

A few of the men walked to Cagalli, giving their regards for her safety, while most of them concentrated on the on going battle.

"Who's white suit is that?!" One of the men asked.

As Cagalli sat down Noin moved ahead and answered the mans question. "Don't shot it down. It's on our side." She moved to an open computer station and brought up a visual feed with the pilot.

A man with long female-ish white hair came up on the monitor. "General Peacecraft!" The generals in the command center identified him. Cagalli herself was also surprised that he was out fighting.

The man, Peacecraft, gave them momentary recognition, but kept most if not all his attention to piloting his suit.

Duo, at the request of Shinn, went to meet the people on the Archangel. He did not want to go, he hated situations like this, but Meyrin did accompany him, so it wasn't that bad.

He was about to meet Chairwoman Yamato and her family, which was no biggy. He got used to knowing famous people. But it is good to finally meet her. After he and his friends came into this place, they almost immediately took a liking to her views and ideals.

He roamed the halls with Shinn in the lead with Luna right to his side. He was behind strolling next to Meyrin. The rest of the team that came aboard the Archangel was left in a rest area while the four made contact with the captain.

Walking down the halls Duo had memories of the Peacemillion, and later the second vessel of that name. He couldn't help but compare the two. The Peacemillion was without a doubt a larger vessel, with larger halls and bigger rooms, but the Archangel look more 'homely'. It look like the vessel meant something to the people who manned it. She was cleaner and just nicer. Like it was a home.

A slight brush was felt against the top of his hand. Looking down for the source of contact, he realized that Meyrin was much closer then she was a moment ago. She walked staring straight forward, with her hand that was closest to Duo hanging as if to get his attention. Her other hand was near her mouth as she chewed on the tips of her finger nails.

Duo had to admit he was very attracted to her, and she looked really cute in this pose. Thoughts of what happened between him and Hilde consumed his mind. Grunting from the painful memories (he was happy he would never see her again) and he right then and there committed himself to not do the same thing to Meyrin, that he did to Hilde.

Slowly reaching out, making sure nobody was looking, he lightly grasped her hand and intertwined his fingers with hers, which she great fully did back to him. She stopped staring straight and looked into his eye's on his smiling face. Smiling herself she turned her head back forward blushing. But a blush she did not try to hide, but wanted Duo to see.

It wasn't long until they were on the bridge. Once on, the lower rank member's saluted, which Duo felt was odd since nobody on this vessel, or in the Clyne Faction, had any since of rank. Shinn, Luna, and Meyrin all returned the salute. After a moment of figuring out what was going on, Duo finally saluted back.

Duo liked being the center of attention, but did feel awkward having everyone stare at him holding Meyrin's hand.

"It's good to see you three again." A woman with flowing pink hair, carrying a near identical looking child stepped forward and addressed the three accompanying Duo. Duo knew her very well from the media and his little side research; Mrs. Yamato.

It was at this time that Meyrin let go of his hand and made her way to the former chairwoman. Duo was a little disappointed, but seeing Meyrin's eyes gleamed at the sight of the little Yamato, was okay for him.

"Meyrin!" The young girl screamed happily as red hair met pink. After a brief moment of chit chat, Kelly was handed away from Lacus and into Meyrin's arms. Lacus husband who was by her the whole time went forward and shook the hands of Shinn and Luna.

Duo felt like an outcast. He was just abandoned by the three people who knew him and kinda just stood looking on. Shinn and Luna were talking to Mister Yamato, and Meyrin was holding the young girl while talking to Mrs. Yamato and some brown-reddish haired girl.

So he just stood in the back, sticking one of his famous I'm bored posses, while blowing the hair out away from under his hat.

"And this is Duo." It was Meyrins voice.

Duo opened his eyes to come face to face with purple eyes and pink hair. The little girl giggled as well as Meyrin who was holding her. She then thrust her hand forward. "I'm Kelly."

Duo gently took her hand and got on his knee's, closing his eyes, and bowed straight down. "It's my honor to meet you my Lady."

He heard giggling and laughter. He opened his eyes and stood up to see the little girl giggling and the three grownup women trying not to. Whither they were trying to hold back laughing to him or not, he did make Kelly happy, and that was what he was going for.

The mother of the girl walked forward and shook his hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Duo. I'm Lacus Yamato. Don't think that your stunt you just pulled with my daughter will work with me. Not while my husband is watching at least."

Duo partly laughed. "Don't worry about me. I know were to draw the line." Duo could have sworn he heard a sarcastic 'yeah right' from a very familiar voice behind him, but he let it go.

The other girl walked up and introduced herself as Miriallia Haww. Duo was friendly with her, but saw a light haired man staring intensely at him from behind her. Then the man made a kill gesture to him, and Duo knew then and there to watch himself around her.

"So Duo." It was Lacus, "Can you tell us anything about your self?"

Meyrin spoke for him, "Duo's a mobile suit pilot. A very good pilot."

"Oh, really."

Kira came up to meet him. They shook hands. "Nice to meet you. Were are you from Duo?"

Duo just smiled. He decided silence was the best answer. Actually he could not remember what he told them before. He just looked at Meyrin, hoping she would help him out of this.

"He won't tell us." It was Shinn, his savior, "All he'll say is that he is a natural, but I have never seen a natural pilot like him."

A sound of liquid being forcefully spite out of one's mouth was heard. Everyone turned their attention to the white haired young man (Yzak) , standing next to the light haired man giving him death looks (Dearka). "Another one!" He screamed. Maybe Shinn was not his savior.

Duo cocked his head like a confused dog. "Another one?" He looked around the room for answer's. It was Kira who pointed to the other corner of the room. Which Duo followed.

"Wufie! What you doing here?" Duo said heading forward to his old war buddy.

Wufie was still floating in the air, in a meditative stance. "You are still careless. You should have noticed me the minute you got in here. Did they teach you anything?"

Duo sighed, this was about the friendliest greeting he was going to get from the Chinese man. "Well excuse me for not practicing those skills in five years."

"You should always be conscious of your surroundings."

"Well I'm sorry for being rusty." Duo threw his hands up into the air, "And here, I was excited to see you."

Wufie just let out a "hmph" and went back to meditating.

Everyone on the bridge was at first stunned that they knew each other, but Shinn spoke first. "So Maxwell, is he another one of the five?"

Wufie then screamed at Duo, "YOU TOLD HIM ABOUT US?!!"

"Calm down, I only said that there was five."

Wufie who did not remain cool decided to change the subject, "Were is the 02?"

Duo of guard by that question asked him to repeat.

"THE 02! YOUR GUNDAM!"

"Oh, you mean Deathscythe. I left him with Trowa." Duo thought out loud, "I probably should email him about that. I kinda need my suit."

Yzak came forward. "Wait, wait, wait. There are five of you guy's?"

"Five in our little group, but I know many better pilots then me."

Everyone just watched as Yzak's temper flared. No one dared to stop him at the moment. "How on earth is it possible for a natural to be better then a coordinator?!"

A couple people in the group yelled out his name, ashamed of the comment he just made.

"Well, I have been piloting my whole life. Practically since I was born." Duo said.

Immediately he screamed out in pain as Wufie hit him hard on the head.

Lacus was the next to talk. "Wait, since you were born? That doesn't make since. Mobile suit's have only been around for thirteen years. You possible could not have piloted one at such a young age."

Duo stayed silent, his eyes nearly jumped out of his head. He just made a big mistake.

"Idiot!" Wufie yelled, and this time, his punch sent Duo straight to the ground.

Duo got up quickly,screaming from his throbbing head. "What was that for!?"

"You need to learn to shut your mouth."

"Well excuse me."

The whole crew was watching the two bicker at each other. It wasn't to different from when Yzak would get into it with Athrun.

Kira who had moved closer to his wife, just in case something crazy happened spoke gently into her ear. "Should we stop them?"

Lacus turned to look at him, with an expression that spoke to Kira. 'Yes, but I'm not going to do it.'

And then, just as if it was intended to happen all along, the CEC made a contact beep. Someone was hailing the ship. Wanting to talk.

Miriallia left to her counsel and quickly began reviewing it. "Incoming mobile suit fleet."

Everyone's attention was now on her. Even Duo and Wufie stopped fighting to see what she would say.

"Checking makes and models of the suit's." The room was filled with suspense. "I got a positive ID on the lead suit." She paused, and first double checked her readings. In this time Dearka made his way over to her and helped her out. Finally she spoke up, addressing the crew, "It's the Justice."

Zechs flew through the streets, thankful that the Tallgeese III was still in just as good shape as it was the first day that he operated it. He was comfortable with the Tallgeese. He piloted better suits (Zero and Epyon), but the Tallgeese just suited him better. It was his trademark suit.

Not that he was not grateful that the Tallgeese III incorporated some of the designs of the two more powerful suit's. The whip, to allow him to fight as he did in Epyon, and the rail gun, that perform similarly to the Zero's Buster Rifle. The Tallgeese was just not as maneuverable as the two suit's, nor as quick and more bulky. But as Zechs felt, it was up to the pilot to overcome this.

Zechs. It was the name he decided to keep. Within the land of Orb, he was legally named Milliardo Peacecraft, but he was never deserving of that name. He long lost the right to it. Even so, everyone referred to him as Zechs. If it was up to him, he would have also kept the name Marquis, but his wife insisted he go with Peacecraft, as a way of leaving the past behind.

It wasn't long after their reunion, that he married Lucresia. It was quiet. Not even a wedding. Just an exchange of their vows, and signing a few document's. Document's they had to fill a second time once they arrived in Orb. Noin, was the name he continued to call her, and a name he will always call her. She preferred it. She looked at it like a pet name.

It was a long story that not even Zechs officially understood that got him into the cabinet at Orb. His papers marked him as Scandinavian, which he was by ancestry. He was not an Orb citizen by birth (duh), which meant he was eligible for every office but the leading representative. Besides, that was Cagalli's job and would continue down her family, just like the royal family in England.

Fighting these mobile dolls were a flash back to the past. Their moves and counter's have not been changed. In fact, very few mechanical upgrades were done if any. Destroy mobile dolls had no guilt or weight of battle afterwards.

Zechs really had never felt pain for killing some one. It's not that he was without a conscious, but the first time he had so much rage and anger built up that he was happy to have that person die by his hands. By the time he should be thinking about the deaths he had caused, he was numb to it. Only once did he fight to not kill and that was during the L3 X-18999 incident. But Zechs was never one for massacre. He would never allow that.

To Zechs, war was I kill you or you kill me. It was as simple as that. When you are fighting humans mind you. But mobile dolls.

It was more of a test. He was seeing how well his suit performed and how well he could execute attacks. They are great practice.

There was one thing that only the people closet's to him could tell. Among those people was his wife, and the deceased Treize. But if they could see him at the moment, he was frustrated, but only they could tell one thing. He was having fun.

Which he should not be. Zechs knew war, and he knew the enemy. He knew their war. Zechs knew that this war was going to be much worse then the previous two this world had fought in. He knew many innocent people will die. This coming war, like the two original World Wars, would be a war of the people, and would be fought in the peoples homes. In their backyards, and everywhere conceivable. This will not be a war of just military against military. No, this will be a real war.

And Zechs also knew, that Orb was gone. The enemy was coming to fast and in to large a number. Over half of Orb's mobile suit division had been destroyed and all the remaining suit's had been deployed.

He saved as many as he could. But his enemy was merciless. Zechs knew the enemies tactics. They were sent to destroy all. To kill everyone, from soldiers to civilians.

Zechs moved in and destroyed six dolls in a row. He hated how the Orb forces would look in aw at how he piloted and fought. They should be focusing on the attack and not him.

Looking at the damage, the main city was still standing, but badly damaged. Orb was a small Island country. Very advanced, but not much to protect, which was good and bad. It could have a strong army for less, but not a large army. Orb could easily be overwhelmed like it is now.

Zechs aimed his rail gun up into the sky, targeting a doll carrier with nearby carriers. Before being able to jettison the dolls, Zechs fired, destroying the carrier in seconds. The explosion from the blast consumed some of the nearby carriers, taking them with them, and knocking a few more off course, or send them into a free fall which they could not recover from and fall to the ground destroyed.

Zechs just destroyed many suit's, but it was not enough.

Zechs took notice in the air, the next batch of mobile dolls were different. Same Taurus's, but weaponry was different. They had the standard rifle, but beside that was a wide radius cannon.

These dolls took the arm mounted cannon and began firing the shells into the city and all land scape it could reach. The shells, were not bullets by any means. They resembled large canisters. Cylindrical canisters.

Zechs could not get all of them. Only a few. His rail gun had just been fired for the fourth time on maximum, and he only had minimum power available for it at the moment. Like the Wing Zero which required the Buster Rifle to recharge after three consecutive shots, the Tallgeese's rail gun's electromagnets had to recharge after four shots. He is able to fire it, but not very strong.

He aimed up, he would jut have to pick them off and get as many as he could. Lifting the rail gun once again out of it's holster he aimed at one canister and fired. Once the canister was penetrated it exploded into massive fireball, fare larger then Zechs could imagine, but not strong enough to destroy any nearby canisters.

Then it hit Zechs what these were. Incendiary bombs.

Incendiary could not take out any armor, or destroy bunkers. But it made it hot. To hot. Everything catches on fire, and the ground becomes so ht you can not walk on it. Soldier can die from the immense heat and fire as it claims everything. And Orb, was never equipped to take an attack like this. No country is.

Incendiary is not a weapon you use when try to take over a land or city. It's a weapon you use to annihilate a city or land.

Zechs aimed and fired a second round only to take out one more of the hundreds of falling upscaled grenades. He fired as much as he could, but with the low charge in his rail gun, he could only take out a handle full.

Before the bombs hit the ground, about a kilometer high, they burst open, with each bomb spraying out hundreds of smaller bombs. Once they hit the ground it lit up like the sun. Fire spread through the street and building quickly. It lit the ground on fire, starting a roaring forest fire in the nearby Orb national forest. Orb was small, and it did not take much to cover all of the island.

Zech's pulled up the link to the battle command. He was greeted with the face of his wife. Grim to say the least. Even he did not know they would go this far.

"Noin." He spoke out, still as calm as ever.

She looked up into the pixels that showcased his eyes. She knew what he wanted. Nodding her head, she moved to the side and let Peacecraft address the counsel.

"Counselmen," He spoke, "I regret to inform you that the nation of Orb is about to be no more. Our defenses had crumbled as well as the land we thrive upon, being destroyed as we speak." He had all the attention of everyone, but Cagalli, who was crying with her head in her hands. "I do not believe we will be able to win this fight, nor do I believe our enemies will allow us to surrender. In all my military belief and reasoning, I find the best course of action would be to abandon Orb." Everyone gasped. Even Cagalli moved her head to stair at him. Zechs continued as they remained silent, "Not only do I believe it is the best course, but also the only honorable course we as the leaders of Orb can grant our people. We have to save as many as we can, civilians and soldiers."

He awaited their decision. His rail gun would take at least twenty more minutes to recharge. The enemy had resorted to different tactics. One's not allowing Zechs to fight they way he wanted. He had to resort to flying straight for the incendiary bombs and destroy them manually with his saber.

"No!" Cagalli screamed. "No! I will not let this happen again. I will not!" She continued crying in her chair. In her breath she talked to the deceased. "I won't let this happen again, father." But all she said was in vain.

It was already decided by her generals to abandon Orb. Orders were being sent out as she spoke.

All were in low spirits. The battle had only been going for a little over a half hour. They had not even had time to inform all other parts of Orb, vessels in space and colonies, about the attack. Orb had fallen quickly.

Noin placed a hand on the shoulder of the blond. Cagalli then burst into tears, letting them fall freely from her face. Only once had she cried like this, the time she lost her father and her country for the first time. But now it was different, because she may never get it back.

Noin moved and talked into Cagalli's ear. "We have to go."

"No! We have to fight. We have to stay our ground. We can't let them bully us!" She moved away from Noin, not letting the black haired woman the chance to grab her.

"Cagalli, your not thinking rationally." Noin yelled. And Cagalli clearly wasn't. Everything she stood for was gone. It was not the same as when EA or Orb attacked. Everything was gone.

Placing her hands on the blond girl, Noin applied pressure in all the right spots. After a moment Cagalli's screaming died down, and all that was heard from her was heavy breathing. Noin called Kisaka over to assist her, and carry Cagalli to an escape shuttle.

"Take care of her Peacecraft." On general said out load. As Orb military rule, the generals could not leave until the battle was over. No matter who won. And the case of a retreat, they had to leave last, like the captain of a ship. And these generals had no intention of leaving.

"I will." Noin bowed. She did not salute like Orb military did. Not at this instant. She bowed like a Romefellar soldier did.

Another general came and talked to her. "We may have lost White Base and the Island, but Orb still exist in space. We still have the rest of the colonies."

Noin nodded at him. She remained silent.

"I have a request." The leading general spoke up. In most cases, Athrun Zala, or Alex Dino, would be the leading general, but in his absence next in command would take over, who was this guy. The man roamed over the the video screen display Zechs. "I want both Peacecrafts to accompany her to space. Zech's piloting is superb, it would be a shame to waste him in this futile battle."

The man noticed the hesitation in Zechs voice and answered the unasked question. "Don't make this an order. I still out rank you Peacecraft."

"Yes sir." Was Zechs reply, followed by Noin doing the same thing.

"You two know what to do. You practically created her escape route. Keep her safe." With this Zechs cut off his feed. All the generals in the room gave one last final salute to Cagalli before she was carried away.

Once again that girl will survive the loss of her country. While it may never be the same again, as long as she lives, so does Orb. That was the thoughts of the generals as the they prepared to die for their country.

Athrun sat down on one of the empty seats on the bridge. Unlike the reunion between the Archangel and the three from the Misaka, this was all about business. The Eternal made no move during this time, so Athrun was quickly let in.

Athrun was supposed to be in the Tsukumiya, not arrive in the Justice with many damaged Orb mobile suits.

He got a quick drink as he sat down and begun telling the story to every one about what happened. "We were attacked. Not long after we cleared the atmosphere and docked with the Tsukumiya, we were on our way and stumbled across a ship."

Kira sat in front of his friend and handed him a towel that Lacus had brought up. "What ship?"

"A giant ship." Athrun panted out. He was clearly exhausted.

"How big?" Marrue asked him. She was the one who had to know the most, in case they had to battle the vessel.

"Big. At first I thought it was a colony, but it moved too fast and was too nimble. It had many weapons and in moments our vessel was destroyed. I barely had enough time to get to the Justice."

Yzak came up. "The size of a colony?! What vessel is that big!"

"Chill." Dearka said, "Let him finish."

Athrun continued, "They sent out a small attack force and dwindled our military force to the few suits you see here. They were the same suits that you fought with on White Base. They destroyed half our suits, then stopped and left."

"They just left?"

Athrun took another drink. "Yes. They left us there. We did not have the resources to continue to fight so we retreated and came here."

Duo stayed a little bit out from the group made his way to the CEC. After asking the brown haired girl, Miriallia, if he could use it real quick, Duo quickly opened his mail box and looked for any messages from Trowa. Sure enough he got one.

Duo

02 is were we agreed to place it if something like this happened. I left it hidden as you can find it. I'm sure to see you again on the battle field.

Trowa

Duo smiled a little bit, but quickly retracted it. It did not feel right to smile right then. Trowa gratefully put Deathscythe in a place were Duo could easily get the suit. Now Duo just had to convince everyone make a quick stop at Junius 7.

A small red light began flashing brilliantly on the counsel and let out a load beep with every flash. "Excuse me." Miriallia said as Duo moved aside to let her mess with it.

"And that's not all." Athrun said. Kira, Lacus, and everyone there eyed him. "The ship, was Zaft. I could tell by the weapons and design. A new Zaft vessel."

No further questions were asked as Miriallia dropped everything she had in her hand and gasped as load as she could. Everyone turned their attention to her as she read the message.

Miriallia spoke, "It's a message from Orb. Code 1347. Orb has fallen. Surprise attack. Retaliation proved to fatal. All force to with draw and seek shelter in willing countries. Orb has fallen. The mainland is to be abandoned. Repeat Orb has fallen. Orb is no more. All military personnel and citizens are to retreat to friendly countries. Orb has fallen."

Everyone remained dead quiet in the room. No surprise could have prepared them for this. No one talked. Not a sound was heard. Even Kelly did not make a noise.

Only one voice was heard. Only one sound sounded in the moment of silence. Miriallia spoke again. "Orb has fallen."

Hopefully since summer has finally started and school is out, I'll be able to update more. This fic is more fast paced then my other fics and will really pic up soon. Here are a few things.

The gundams (wing gundams) will follow the manga were they were updated between the one year war and Endless Waltz. They also are upgraded even moer to fit this story better, as are all the Seed technology as well.

Kia, is a play on words. If you get it laugh, and don't get to attached.

Alright until next time, and remember, if I receive no reviews I will not update, no matter how long it takes me.