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Because of such good reviews and my unability to update recently, you guys get an extra long chapter.

Yamato's Legacy

ch. 5

Borodin ate by himself in his cabin. The captains cabin was furnished in all sorts of decorations, containing a western European style with many Asian and American artifacts. Ironic that the room designated for the leader of the most advanced battle ship had no decorations from the Plants. Everything was taken from his home, which before was imported from earth.

However being the captain of this vessel was difficult at the moment. He finds himself at a loss, grated only the control that the admiral on board would allow him. So to speak he felt himself of little to no more worth than an on board Private.

A soft noise, a metallic sound came from the interior speaker, telling Borodin he has a visitor. Borodin moved himself up from his table and greeted his guest. Ivan the man who was like a son to him entered. After an unusual informal greeted he sat down to eat with the captain.

"Are you studying again Captain?" Ivan asked, referring to the bible at the side of the Captains food.

Borodin closed the black book with a thud. "I can spend all my life studying and I still learn more and more every day."

Silence engulfed the two for a moment as they sat and ate. They let the sweet taste of the food take over their senses. Ivan was the first to speak. "We have new orders."

"Oh? What are we to do now?"

"The head general has seen fit to remove all obstical's before we take on the Earth Alliance."

"Isn't that what we are doing? We already took control of the Orb base and I sent half of my mobile dolls to destroy Orb. I know Scandinavia is next."

"Yes. But there is a small change directly affecting this ship."

"And what would that be?"

"Two thirds of the three ship alliance has been disposed of. But the most unwilling to die has of yet."

"So?"

"Our orders are releave the Eternal. While this is happening we are to seek and destroy the renegade battle ship Archangel, which was stolen by Earth Alliance spies."

Borodin sighed. "This seems like a waste. Are these orders from his excellency?" The Yamato was classified as a mobile fleet command battleship. Going after a single small common battle ship was a waste of it's potential. But it seemed unlikely that former chairwoman Mrs. Yamato's personnal ship could be stolen.

"No. From Admiral Gates."

Borodin had a tremendous dislike for the Admiral Gates. For most that the Admiral choose the Yamato as his ship of operations, while unofficially releaving Borodin from his command. The Admiral himself seemed to know little about combat. Being a high member of the Romafeller party, it was unknown of the battle experience he had. He was also prone to ego trips, which involved Romafeller. If anyone failed, he seemed to make it his responsibility to correct it. "When do we move out?"

"Now Sir. Admiral Gates is already on the bridge, leading the attack."

Borodin nearly slammed his fork down and wiped his face with a napkin. "That idiot does not know the first thing about commanding a ship." He then went to a mirror making sure he was dressed right. Being a captain, especially a captain of his nature, he had to always look perfect in front of his men. It was expected of him. "Sorry to cut this short Ivan." He then adjusted his tie and walked out the door. "Enjoy your meal."

Cagalli finally opened her eyes. She had been asleep for hours beyond hours. First once she was smuggled out of Orb during it's destruction, she went with Noin and loaded up into her husbands awkward suit.

She really did not remember much, because she was crying and not in a preferred state of mind at that moment. She did know it had been a few days since the death of Orb, but she did not know the exact amount.

In fact, she currently has no idea where she is. She does not remember falling asleep, she figured Noin or Zechs drugged her to make it easier on them. Last she remember was traveling under water in Zechs suit to avoid detection.

Now she was on a cushioned seat in an extremely large vehicle. A very big truck. She sat up and looked around. The seat she was on spread all the way across the front of the truck, and had glass lined up all around it, showing a flat nose. It had just one large seat, and Zechs was in the middle driving. Noin was to his side, and they were a good fifteen feet away from Cagalli.

"Well, look who's up." Noin said in a cheerful mood.

Cagalli looked outside, and all she saw was desert. "Where are we?"

"We're in the Arabian desert. We have some friends who will help us out." Zech's said. He then handed a map to Cagalli and pointed out the general location of where they were and where they were going.

The desert brought back memories of the first war to Cagalli. Her second meeting, but first real meeting with Kira. Back then she really did not understand everything. But this was a different desert. Similar, but almost a full country away from the resistance group she helped.

"What is this?" Cagalli asked waving her finger in the air pointing at the truck.

"This is a mobile suit transport vehicle. In the back is the Tallgeese." Noin said.

"We're almost there so sit tight. They do have a high frequency communication satellite, so hopefully we will be able to get in touch with the Archangel." Zechs interrupted.

Because of the Njammers in place since the first war, communication had been disrupted. However recent studies have shown that extremely high frequencies are uneffected. This opened back up communications again. This meant sending a high frequency code that a computer would have to interpret and convert to a video feed, which left about a five second lag when talking.

The only draw back, was that this new communication device had yet to be implemented in most equipment. The Archangel would have one, due to the political importance that the ship now possesses, as well as the Eternal. Most plants have them as well as Orb. It's just a problem with manufacturing.

Time passed by quicker then Cagalli expected. She tried not to think about anything. Tried to clear her mind and take a break from being upset. But on thing kept running through her mind. And it wasn't what she would expect it to be. It wasn't the destruction of her country, but more of her fiancée. She could not get Athrun off her mind. Wondering what he was feeling, how he was taking this. Did he make it to the Archangel? Is he worried about her? Stupid question's, but ones that her mind would fondle over.

During her internal debate Zechs would occasionally get in a radio and talk back and forth with someone else. Cagalli did not know what they were saying since they were speaking Arabic. Even during her resistance days everyone spoke English, Japanese, or Kisaka would translate them for her.

Zech's pulled the truck to a stop. "We're here."

Cagalli looked out the window. Night was beginning to fall, but there was still plenty of light. They were in the middle of the desert without any sign of life anywhere.

Before Cagalli could ask Zech's anything the ground before her rose up, revealing a hidden ramp and cargo bay.

"This is a hidden base." Noin instructed her. "Of the Maganac Corp."

Beefy, burly, heavily armored mobile suits and hover suit's, the likes of which Cagalli had never seen before, came out and escorted the truck inside.

It was 'night' time on the archangel. All personnel who were not currently running a shift were asleep, or trying to be asleep. It had been rather quiet and in a more negative mood since the news about Orb came through. Which was understandable since over half the crew was Orb citizen's, and everyone was friendly with the country.

Zala had taken it hard. Once the news came, all he did was continuously try to contact anyone over the were abouts of Cagalli. Kira and Lacus, both were not doing good either. They seemed rather depressed, but tried to remain strong to help Athrun do it. They would take turns with helping Athrun and watching Kelly.

Through the whole ordeal they had tried to keep what was going on away from Kelly. Kelly loved her Aunt very much. She was still to young to understand what was going on, but her innocence help people through it. Close members of the crew, would visit and play with her to get their minds off what was happening.

However, two volunteer members of the crew had a little different attitude. The Archangel currently had nowhere to go. Plans to head to one of the smaller Orb colonies were originally planned destination, but after a little bit of persuasion, Duo convinced them to make a short stop at the ruins of Junius 7.

Currently the Archangel was slowly guiding itself through the ruins. It's size meant it was harder to reach the intended destination. Luckily whatever Duo was trying to pick up was sending a signal beacon back to the Archangel.

Commander Waltfield was in command at the moment, with a skeleton crew. Kira and Lacus were in their room asleep with Kelly. Athrun finally collapsed from exhaustion, and the Captain and her husband where finally getting some sleep. Unfortunately for Duo, Meyrin was sleeping, sharing a room with her sister. Shinn was awake somewhere in the ship.

"You find it yet?"

Duo turned his chair around to be greeted by Wufie. "Well good morning to you too."

Wufie took a near bye chair, turned it backwards and sat in it near bye Duo. "Mechanics downstairs keep bugging me about my Gundam. They can't just seem to get to stay away from it."

Duo who was monitoring the CIC was monitoring all the channels to see if any of the other gundam boys were on it. He was also tracking the package, and monitoring the movements of the Eternal. On the side he like everyone else on the ship where watching what was happening on earth. "Might as well let them help. I mean you and me can only do so much to the suit. It'd be good to get some help with repairs in the future."

Wufie was too tired to argue, but Duo had a point. Even being helped by Duo (if hell ever freezes is when that happens) they could only do minor maintenance. If the Nataku was to get badly damaged, then he would have to get help by the crew.

But one of the secrets that make the five Gundams so powerful was the ease of maintenance and the lack of the need for it. The Tallgeese frame was built to withstand hard and long confrontations and require little maintenance. The standard Leo, as well as it's equivalent Zaku, need fifteen hours of maintenance for every one hour of use, not including time in combat. The Freedom was worse since it was the only mobile suit of it's kind. But the g-boy's suits needed only three hours for everyone one.

The five gundams were a marvel of engineering. The basic frame was so simple in design it appeared out dated, but the support braces were designed so when they are hit, they recoil against each other, allowing the suit to take far less damage then normal when hit. This also help less maintenance, however the gundamanium was the only part of the suits that could not be repaired with out the aid of Howards shop. Howard came to this world as well, and is the only person to know how to make gundamanium.

Gundanium is not hard to form, but the extreme conditions require it to be created in space. Of course if you know how to make it, it is easier. Gundanium when created forms three by-products, all of which are gundanium, just different forms of it. One is a powder gundanium, which resembles a Indian red baby powder. A second is a very brittle gundanium, which can easily be chipped and broken by a person's fist. And the last of the gundanium is the extremely hard light weight metal. The last form is the form that the gundams themselves use.

All three forms can be combined to form the strongest form of gundanium, dubbed tri-gundanium. Tri-gundanium is up to ten times stronger then the gundanium that the suits use, but is so hard, it can not be shaped into armor. Howard using a laser in space heated up to one hundred times the heat of the sun could still not soften the metal enough to begin to form it. But he keeps trying.

Aside from the armor the Nataku could still give them problems. It took all five of the g-boys months just to convert one of the Gundams to be compatible with the tools and equipment from this world. That included changing bolt sizes and ammunition. The Heavyarms took the longest because of the amount of work. Which was good since all the ammunition the Heavyarms came with could not be replaces in this world.

"I still do not agree."

"Well these people are our friends, so I don't think it could hurt much."

"Right now they are our friends."

Duo turned and looked straight at Wufie. "What does that mean?"

"The only reason they are our friends is because of that Hawke girl. If you screw this one up, then no telling who's side they are on."

"No faith man. No faith. I don't plan on messing this relationship up."

"Yeah. That's what you said about Hilde, and how did that turn out."

Duo turned away back to the CIC. "That's a low blow man. Besides how did it work out with you and Sally? I never thought of you going after the older ones."

Wufie almost yelled at Duo. "For the last time Maxwell, there was no romantic relation between me and Sally."

"I mean that's cool if you like girls older then your mother, but what ever."

"Besides I was not her type."

Dou turned and looked at Wufie with a smile on his face. "So you did like her." But the look Wufie gave him back was something different. Duo could sense he was getting something wrong. "Wait. What do you mean not her type?"

"I'll put it so you understand. When ever we went to a bar, I always felt I was competing with her."

"What do you mean compete..." Duo's eyes widened at a realization. He nearly yelled, "You mean she is a lesbian!?"

Wufie himself raised his voice. "You mean you didn't know? The way she acted, like a man all the time. Don't tell me you never saw the way she would look at Noin. It disgusted me."

Duo was dumbfounded. "No I guess I just never paid close attention."

Andrew Waltfield, who was currently in command of the ship stepped in. "Hey, keep it down. Everyone's trying to sleep."

Both of them lowered their voices, while Duo let out a sorry for the both of them. Wufie spoke, deciding a change in topic would help. "Have you contacted anyone else?"

Duo knew exactly who Wufie was talking about. "Well I have only got the one message from Trowa. I just got one from Quatre a little while ago. He was about to receive both Zechs and Noin. He said he will send a message once they were safe. Haven't heard from Heero."

"I doubt he will be of much help himself." Wufie said.

"Have you talked to him lately?" If it was true, it kind of hurt Duo. Duo was the closest friend to Heero, and even he had not seen him in almost two years.

"He asked me to do something for him. Don't ask."

"How's he doing?"

"No good, but not bad. Doctor said his eye sight will be completely gone in around five to six years. He tells me everything is just a blur to him. He is forced to rely on Relena too much."

Duo sighed. Poor Heero. Not long after they arrived in this world, Heero contracted a rare eye disease. Slowly, but surely he was loosing his sight.

A beeping was heard from the counsel. "What is it?" Wufie asked.

"It's a message from Quatre."

Zechs pulled the truck to a stop. Once done the passengers exited the cabin, and waited a moment for the leader of the group to make his way down. As Cagalli herself left the vehicle she noticed two more vehicles like the one she was in pull up, and people exiting said vehicles. Among this group of about seven, she spotted an old friend Kia and Eric Simmons.

"We had some stowaways." Noin answered her unspoken question. "They followed us as we left Orb in two Astrays."

Bye this time a boy around Cagalli's age appeared. He was a mix of Caucasian and Arab. Kind of like what Dearka was. In fact, both of them had the same unusual blonde hair. "It's good to see you Noin and Zechs."

He and Zech's both shook hands. "I take it my men were no trouble."

"Not at all Quatra." Noin moved herself to greet him.

Quatra left the two and made his way Cagalli. "I take it your Ms. Cagalli Yula Atha. Am I right?"

Cagalli shook his hand as well. "Yes." She answered stern. She was in hardly a mood to talk. She just lost her country.

"Well nice to finally meet you. I am Quatra Rebarba Winner. I am the leader of the Maganac Corp." He was surprisingly cheerful, but Cagalli had to admit, he somehow called her down.

"If you come this way," Quatra held out his hands, "we have yet to get your accommodations ready, so least go have a cup of coffee and talk."

Cagalli and the seven stowaways moved into a small room, made out of old metal. It was painted in a desert tan color, and was cjipped, and rusted. In it sat a large table, a coffee machine, and a large screen accompanied by a projector. The room seemed to be a briefing room.

Zech's and Noin went to help get the Tallgeese ready for battle again.

Kia came forward and spoke. "Why? Does anyone know why they attacked us?" She sounded desperate.

"Orb's political power is too great. Your voice in the last two years was too big of a threat so they destroyed you." Quatra was talking in a serious tone now. "You weren't their first target's. With the loss of White Base, Orb has lost all military power in outer space. Then they withdrew and executed as many opposing politicians as they could."

"What are you saying?"

"Within a day they had severely crippled the Three Ship Alliance. It was luck that the Archangel was able to get away. But I bet they are really going to try to destroy it now." Quatra passed to take a sip. "I have fought Romafeller before, and I know what they are doing. They are taking all of the smaller factions or countries out of the picture first. What this will do is give them a strategical advantage for strikes against the EA when the time comes. They will also have less to worry about. Next Scandinavia will go, then all allies with it. What their hoping for, is that the surrounding countries will get frightened and join forces with them. Just like in the previous two wars."

"So it's Zaft?" Cagalli asked.

"Yes. Romafeller is in control of the Zaft government." Quatra looked at his watch. "If you will just wait right here. But Ms. Atha, I think you will want to come with me."

"Why?"

"Well I have a friend on the Archangel currently and he told me that an Athrun Zala was just taken aboard. I thought you would like to talk to him."

Cagalli did not show it, but she was beaming with happiness inside. Athrun was okay. This was the first good news in days.

Caridad Yamato walked down the street clinging to her husband. Due to recent military activity and the words from the new leader, naturals, though few in the plants, were treated very poorly. It was similar to the way the Nazi's treated the Jews, before the extermination camps and the war. Naturals were once again blamed for all the problems of the country, and thus hated by the people. Ironic, that the heart of the Romafeller foundation was made up of naturals.

They walked down an empty street very close. Haruma kept his wife in a protective hold. The two had relocated to the plants to live near their son and his wife. They were Kira's parents, and he still called them mother and father, but in actuality they are his Aunt and Uncle. Via Hibiki, Kira and Cagalli's biological mother, was the younger sister of Caridad Yamato. Caridad explained everything to Kira within the years after the war.

Lord Uzumi knew the family of Via and Caridad well and after the miss-carriage that took both the life of his wife along with his daughter, he struck a deal with the family. At the time the Yamato's were granted possession of the twins they were financially broke, and thus struck a deal to where he would raise the young girl as his own daughter. Caridad who's father was once a very close friend of Lord Uzumi was reluctant, but eventually agreed with Lord Uzumi. The agreement meant all financial dept would be deleted as well as a monthly pay to help the family raise Kira. They also agreed to never meet face to face again too keep the children separate and unaware of of their history. Caridad explained to Kira that the reason she let Uzumi take Cagalli was not because of money. Lord Uzumi had been a man who she always trusted. If it was anyone else other than Lord Uzumi, she would have said no.

These facts, about Caridad being the sister to Via Hibiki, had been kept from Cagalli. Cagalli had no idea that she had any family outside of Kira left.

Signaling down, they were surprised that a taxi stopped to pick them up. The large 'N' that was forcibly sowed onto all their clothes identified them as naturals, and naturals were usually restricted from public transportation. However some times taxi's would take them.

Ounce inside they asked the driver to take them home. The driver looked back at them confirmed the address and then was off. It was odd however. Most cab companies will only hire men to drive their cabs. This is due to the large amount of contact with strangers, were in the past their was an extremely large amount of female cab drivers being raped.

However this one was a girl, no older then twenty. She had golden blonde hair tied up and placed under her hat. The way the hat bulged out meant she had a lot of hair under it. She was dressed as one two with the crappy clothes all cabbies were. She looked to be mainly French.

For Caridad, today was the first time out of her house since she learned of what happened to her son's house. She locked herself up in her room and cried as she did when Heliopolis was destroyed. She left only today to help her husband who had been searching all week for any information about their son and his family.

The news they found was startling. Kira Yamato and more importantly his wife Lacus Yamato had been labeled traitors. Evidence showing them selling information, of strategic military placements and strategies to the country of Orb. Also, the prosecutors claimed to have evidence of money swindling.

The Yamato family did not believe a part of it. Sure, Kira and Cagalli had a close relationship. The knowledge of them being brother and sister had been a well kept secret among family and friends. And the two would see each other at least twice a month. Athrun would also make personal visits to the Yamato house to see his good friends. But Caridad knew for a fact that her son would do no such thing.

Over the years Caridad had grown really close to her daughter in law. During the time at the orphanage the two got to know each other, but it was with the birth of Kelly that the two really spent time together. Caridad loves her daughter in law just as much as her son, and she knew the true heart Lacus possessed that would do no such thing.

"Excuse me." Haruma called out to the cab driver. "This is not the way to our house."

Haruma had been able to keep himself together just a little bit better then Caridad. He was calm, but extreme worry was still evident in his voice.

Caridad strengthen her grip on her husband. Coordinators had been known to beat or rap naturals in recent times, and the cab driver, though a woman, was still fully capable to take her out and possible her husband. If she was a coordinator.

"I'm sorry. But we are not going to your house." The cabby said.

"Then where are we going?" Caridad almost yelled out the question.

"You are the parents of Kira Yamato. The Husband to former chairwoman Lacus Yamato?"

They nodded their heads. Caridad did not know why, but she answered truthfully.

The cabby looked back with an idiotic smile. "You're going to be my ticket."

"Ticket?"

She turned back and focused on driving the car. "Ticket to see your son."

"Kira! He's alive?"

The cabbies voice became very serious, throwing aside the cheerfulness it once had. "I will explain everything I know later. Mr. Yamato had escaped along with his family. Right now we are being followed, so try to stay calm."

Caridad did not know what to do. She did not know how to act. She just remained quiet. She had no idea whether to trust this girl, but at the moment, she had to.

"HOLD On!" The cabby yelled. She then turned the car down an alley and sped as fast as she could.

Haruma looked back to see three black sedans speeding up and following them down the same alley. "What's going on?"

"That's Zaft special forces." The cabby said.

"What do they want?"

"To kill you." the cabby swung the car again into another connecting alley. It was night in the colony, and the mirrors had turned to deflect only a hint of moon light rather then sunlight.

The cab pulled into an old mobile armor manufacture base which had been converted to a residential area after the advent of the Zaku.

The rear glass of the cab shattered as the cabby pulled down another street. The street turned out to be a dead end. Fenced up there was no way out. The cabby did a complete 180 degree turn before coming to a stop.

The three black cars then stopped not far from the three in the cab.

"Prepare to get out." the cabby said. She then pulled a gun out of the glove box.

"What!? They'll kill us!"

Just then a small foot ball shaped metal capsule flew and punctured the middle car. When it hit the car exploded in a ball of flame, killing all men inside it and pushing the other two car sideways.

A sound of a large piece of metal hitting the ground was heard, and a gigantic green foot placed itself no more then inches away from the front of the taxi.

The three occupants in the taxi looked up at the giant. It was a green mobile suit. Missile crates were placed all along it's body. On it's back were three things. In the middle looked to bee some sort of beam rifle, while attached to it on the sides were two twined 27 barreled Gatling guns.

The vulcan cannons on the head of the suit opened fire and rained bullets down, destroying the other two cars.

"All right. Keep your head down. This is where it's going to get tricky." The cabby said. She then floored the cab again. She headed straight for the Zaft Naval Base with the green suit right behind her.

As they neared the cabby took the small radio on the dash and contacted the pilot of the suit. "Trowa. Now it's your turn."

Trowa acknowledged what she said and jumped the Heavyarms high in to the sky. The sky was a figurative term on the plant. As he jumped up he pulled out his two gattling guns and fired them destroying all vacant mobile suits.

Luckily just as Trowa predicted there was no mobile dolls stationed at this base. He shot the ground up, forcing a way for the taxi into on of the ship hangers.

The Heavyarms itself received the most drastic changes to it over the last five years. All the weapons had to be converted to use ammunition from this world, were as before, the ammunition he brought with him was not replaceable. The Heavyarms since the beginning had the most armor of all the Gundams. It's gundanium armor was twice as think. The newest weapon added was a high intensity beam rifle on it's back.

Most people would consider the heavy arms old fashioned, because it did not use beam weapons, but instead reallied heavily on ammunition and other ballistic weapons. But there was a lot of problems with beam technology. When a beam weapon fires it appears to fire a large concentration of light forward. However the actual 'beam' is very small, around th thickness of a clothespin. What the eye see's is all the energy in the form of light being released from it.

The thickness being so small, means it is incredibly hard to be accurate. In space it is hard for a pilot to judge distance between him and his enemies, and thus a pilot can only accurately fire a beam weapon with the aid of a computer. But this tends to take an extreme amount of skill to do even with a computer.

But beam technology is not very reliable as well. Inside what appears to be the 'barrel' of the beam gun is a rod. This rod is made of glass segments and inside it is where the beam is formed and held until it is fired. The 'barrel' is more of a means to protect the rod. But if the glass is cracked, the rifle would be useless. But on suits like the Freedom and Justice, they had a spare glass segments, so when one is cracked it is jettisoned out into space and then a new one slides in it's place.

A beam rifle generates so much heat that it can literally warp the rifle, rendering it useless. And beam weapons do not have unlimited fire power. They have a battery that is charged up with the energy and then released when it fires. One full charge on the battery is one shot. The battery is usually hooked directly up to the suits main power source, and will draw it's power quickly, only taking a few seconds to charge. But the battery is only good for thirty to fifty shot's, depending on the intensity of the blast.

Beam weapons also could easily be identified and spotted by the enemy. In space, and old fashioned bullet could be a silent and deadly killer. Beam weapons do not travel at the speed of light, like one would think.

Of course there are always exceptions. One being the twin buster rifles the Wing Zero uses, which each buster rifle has it's own internal nuclear reactor instead of the common battery. This gave the buster rifle a much stronger fire power. The buster rifle can only fire three consecutive shots at full blast before it needs to cool down as not to warp the rifle.

But the most dangerous upgrade the Heavyarms received was the new cockpit set up. Something that Trowa had been designing since before the Heavyarms was first activated. The new set up allows quick and easy management of the suits functions, allowing him to control as many weapons as he needed at the same time. While the twin gatling guns and the suit were controlled like a normal suit, all the missiles, beam rifle, and close proximity guns were controlled by a point click touch panel. Of course if that failed, they could be used normally.

Ounce Trowa was satisfied with the destruction he caused, he picked up the smaller taxi, deciding it would be faster if he just carried it. He turned off the audio so he could not hear the Yamato woman scream while be lifted.

Using LAMB missile he made holes in the increasing amount of colony walls until he finally made it to a ship hanger. It was not a primary ship hanger, which is why it was evacuated instead launching the ship.

Out in the space of the hanger was a white vessel. The black lettering on the side of the ship identified it as the Eternity. The Eternity which was the second/final ship of the Eternal design. It was near completion when the Eternal was abducted. During the war, it was decided that mobile suit transport ship like the Eternal class were no good. They were turned down in favor of battleships which could as well transport just as many suits. With the loss of the Eternal and end of the second war, the Eternal class abandoned and the Eternity was modified into a military transport.

The Eternity looked like a white Eternal without most of the beam weapons and METEOR units. It's only offensive weapon was the triple beam cannon on the top. But the Eternity had one quality that is what drew Trowa's attention to it. The Eternal class ships where still the fastest known ships created by Zaft. The Eternity should easily be able to escape.

Trowa set the car down right next to the bridge maintenance hatch. Upon this he let the three out of the vehicle and he threw the car away.

The girl who was driving the cab entered the bridge with the Yamato's. Mediately she began typing commands into the computer.

The vessel powered up. It's vast engines causing a soft rumble on the room. Trowa positioned the heavy arms on the Eternity in a position to protect the bridge.

"What's going on?" Caridad asked the girl. "What are you doing?"

The girl moved from the pilots seat and moved to the security monitor. She then punched in a few commands, closing all bulk heads and locking the ship down from outsiders. She had to work fast. Three minutes was all the time she reckoned till Zaft realized what they were doing.

"I used to be stationed on this ship." she replied. She left the security station and moved to the CIC. Quickly she called Trowa. "Trowa, I'm going to kill the radio and wifi."

Trowa acknowledge what she was saying. Killing the radio and wifi was an expression. Basically it meant shutting off all means for the ship to communicate. This in turn also shuts down the computer's ability to communicate to another computer, or another computer communicate with it. Shutting down the wifi meant the ship and the Heavyarms would not be able to talk, but Zaft could not override the commands and turn the ship back around.

Once the girl did this she moved herself to the weapons control. Taking the firing control she aimed and fired from all three barrels on the triple barreled gun. Her sights was the dock doors.

The dock doors were basically just two metal slabs held in place by magnets. The Plant had been designed to with hold an outside attack, but was designed so if an emergency like a ship accidenly hitting the doors, they would collapse and drift off into space. That means the inside was venerable and a direct hit from a beam weapon could force the two doors out of their basic hinges and float away in space.

The electromagnetic beams hit the doors blasting three holes in them. The high intensity electricity traveled through the metallic doors and disrupted the electro-magnets holding the doors in place for a split second. That coupled with the force being pushed by the beam caused the two doors to fly open.

The girl moved back into the pilots seat an moved the ship out. The slammed the throttle controls, not caring about the amount of damage to the docking bay the jet stream would leave behind. Moving out it was clear that another vessel was moving in to attack them. It was one of Zaft's most advanced, a Minerva class vessel.

The Minerva class was an enigma. During the first war Zaft had come to a realization after the Archangle made an appearance. Unsuccessful attempts to destroy it and it's sister ship the Dominion caused Zaft engineers to design a new vessel, fearing that their were out dated by comparison. After the final battle Zaft secretly obtained the remains of the Dominion, but more importantly spies were able to steal a copy of the blue prints of the third ship, the Pegasus. These were given to the engineers and thus the Minerva was born. However the Minerva was considered a great failer. Three Minerva class ships were in operation during the last battle of Messiah. One was destroyed while the Minerva herself was heavily damaged. One ship remained in combat the entire time, yet they could not take down a single one of the Earth Alliances Archangel class vessels, which had grown to a number of ten (not including the Archangel) by the battle of Messiah.

But the Minerva class was slow and the only ship in the area. Things could not be better for the Eternity.

The girl moved the Eternity in a course heading for the moon at full speed. It has been said that one person can not operate a ship, and it was true. The Eternity would be easy pray if the Minerva class ever caught up with it. The girl could not pilot and use weapon control at the same time. Not to mention that the Minerva is a battleship and the Eternity is a mobile suit transport ship. Also they were just praying that the engine's would not give them trouble at the moment. The blond haired girl knew nothing about them, but also had no one to monitor them at the moment in case something went wrong.

Enemy mobile suit headed for the Eternity from the Minerva class. They were still a good distance and Trowa did not want to leave the ship. The Heavyarms could not ketch back up if he left.

He pulled out the only beam weapon he had, a Galvetron RX-78 high intensity beam rifle. In lay mans terms, a beam sniper rifle. It was a marvel of engineering as complex as a mobile suit itself. The 'barrel' and all it's contents expand to three times it length, giving it even greater accuracy. The rifle could hit a destroyer from over a million miles away in space. Accurate up to five hundred miles on earth. The beam was smaller and a very dark blue, making it hard to see in space, and it traveled twice as fast. And to think, that Trowa had the only one.

The barrel extended and Trowa fired, easily taking out one Zaku. The three accompanying Zaku's for a second hesitated, but maintained course. Trowa fired again, destroying another, leaving two more left.

They were still a little bit of a distance away. Trowa turned his attention from them to the Minerva class. Taking aim, he fired, slicing a hole in the ships main left engine, slowing it down.

Once this happened, the Minerva class vessel released it's signal flairs for the Zaku's to return. The main hatch opened on the Eternity and Trowa moved the Heavyarms into place within.

The blonde girl sighed and finally took off her hat, letting her long hair flow freely down to her knees. "That turned out better then I thought. Are you two okay?"

The Yamato's just stared at her. They seemed to be in aw, confused, and scared. "Why did you do this?"

The girl laughed. "Like I said, you are my tickets to see Mr. And Mrs. Kira Yamato." she held out her hand. "My name is Cassidy Barton. Nice to meet you."

The mood had lifted a little bit on the Archangel. Everyone was very relieved when they received a video message from Cagalli. Athrun couped himself up in a private room and had a 'private' conversation with Cagalli. Kira and Lacus were too relieve.

Duo's package was retrieved. A large shuttle was found still operational in the debree belt. After realizing that the shuttle would take up to much room on the ship, Duo opted to just remove the contents.

Shinn watched as the bay door of the shuttle opened and a black MS stood up. The black suit had large bat like wings on it that engulfed it's body like a cloak. It was a magnificent suit, just like the green one on the ship.

"Whoa. Trowa really over did himself."

"You say something?" Shinn asked after Duo leaked his mind over the radio.

"No. Just thinking how good of shape this suit is in. Hasn't been used in five years." All of Duo's personnel settings were still in place and the suit acted like it just received a good tune up.

Duo placed his suit in the hanger along with the Nataku. The mechanics and engineers marveled at his suit as well. An ongoing poll started about which suit the crew thinked looked cooler.

Athrun was sleeping, having not slept at all the night before. After his talk with Cagalli he was finally able to calm down enough.

Kira and Lacus were in the play room with Kelly. Since the Archangel was used as a personnel transport from the family, it was furnished with a little room full of toys and games for the young Yamato girl. They were joined by Dearka and Miriallia, who just adored Kelly.

Duo made his way to the bridge. Since Miriallia was playing with Kelly, that means that Meyrin was on the bridge. He was right. Using the same chair that Wufie used the night before, he sat down next to her at the CIC.

Meyrin looked bored, which was what most people who worked the CIC would be. The Archangel was short staffed as always, meaning there was not much to do at the CIC. She was very happy that Duo joined her. The two made small talk, whispering about little things, and of course Duo wanted to know all the gossip. All she really had to do at the moment was monitor the movements of the Eternal.

Their nonmilitary behavior was acceptable on the Archangel. Murrue, joined by her husband, was in the command seat, and she never ran a tight crew. And since the Archangel was not a military ship anymore, Murrue never forced protical. But if battle erupted, she expected it.

The controls Meyrin was sitting at flared up. "Uh, Captain." she called out.

Not just the captain but everyone on the bridge turned to her. "What is it?"

"It looks like the Eternal is leaving."

The Archangel originally came to the debree belt because it was hard for a ship to chase them, and to pick up Duo's suit. The Eternal, sent out scout mobile suits to watch the Archangel, but not a single one got into position to engage the Archangel. The Eternal would stay outside the belt, just watching the Archangel, and following it if need be.

It was an awkward situation for the two ships to be sure. Both knew of the others presence and saw what they were doing. But both would not take any action in fear that they would start a fight.

"What do you mean leaving?" The captain made her way to the CIC and sure enough, the Eternal was turning about and leaving. "Why?"

"Hold on." Something had caught Duo's eye. It was a rather large piece of debree that was moving differently. Then it dawned on Duo what it was. No asteroid moves like this, or any piece of rock floating in space. But the thing is as almost as big as the Libra! "We got a problem."

"What is it Duo?"

Duo punched in a few keys to pull up the main monitor. Then he placed the view screen at the angel he wanted and magnified. Just as he expected.

One the screen was the largest ship ever constructed. At first the crew on the bridge thought it was a small colony, but the vast amount of weapons and cannons on the decks identified it as a Zaft vessel.

Everyone was speechless, but Duo spoke. "Tell everyone to get here now."

A lot of the specs of the suits I am making up, as well with a lot of the technology. I try to make it seem more realistic, giving problems we have with tanks today to the suits. My father was once a tank commander and he told me for every mile driven the tank required 18 hours of maintenance.

Also the characters had changed a lot in the last five years. Cassidy Barton will be explained in the future, but so you know, she is a coordinator married to Trowa. I probably should not be saying this, it could give to much away if you look real close, but this story will follow the manga's for wing where the wing zero is upgraded to the angel wing version after the TV series and before endless waltz.

And for Heero fans, he will not be fighting in a suit, but he will play a very big action role. So just sit patient and don't hate me.

So please read and review. The more reviews the quicker I'll update, I hope.