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Chapter Seven

Interior Part One

Blue Cosmos Base

Kira radioed in, "I'm in."

All heard that and prepared, Rau smiled, and Patrick was watching everything up in plants.

Yzak and Dearka heard over their headset that Kira was inside and they went on watch. Yzak was too pleased about it, but he had to do what was instructed. Dearka already had a bullet loaded in his sniper rifle, he flicked the safety off and used the built in night vision to watch the main entrance, Dearka saw about three guarding, but his job was only to keep watch for the time being. Yzak kept watch down below, he would be on the lookout for the arriving unit, and that was his purpose for the minute.

Athrun and Nicol had not moved from that brush in hours, but now was the time, with their night vision activated they slowly rose up and saw the guards guarding the entrance, they had to get close enough to take them out, but they would wait until Kira secured a path on the inside, they couldn't risk dropping to many before the main objective was completed. Athrun and Nicol split up and each went to one side, using the darkness to shield their movements they were easily able to get to the side of each guard, they were well hidden so all they had to do now was waiting for Kira's signal.

Rau was watching the feed from Kira's camera on his monitor, and he liked what he saw so far, up in the plants Patrick was doing the same thing, but all he got was video and no audio.

Rau noticed Kira was looking around and Rau spoke up.

Inside the base

"Now that your in, make your way to the warheads, we don't know what's down their but from where you told me you entered they should be somewhere to the north," Rau radioed in to Kira.

"I understand sir," Kira replied.

Kira was on one knee checking the surroundings, it was defiantly a low class base, the ceiling held numerous pipes that ran along the top, the walls were corroded, and he could see no security equipment, which was funny. Kira looked in both directions and knew he had to head north, their were only two ways to go so he rose to his feet and steadily made his way down the northern path.

Kira kept to the walls, glancing back occasionally to see if there was anyone behind him and their wasn't, as he neared the end of the hallway, leading into another one, he slowly moved along the wall, Kira stopped as he heard a voice on the other side. Kira held his rifle defensively knowing all to well he really didn't want to start no racket until his primary objective was completed. Kira slowly listened as the guards were in deep conversation.

"Did you check the control room?" one asked.

"For what nobody knows were here," the other replied.

"Fool, we supply energy to the main Panamanian base as well, it has to be guarded," the first one replied as Kira took that information in, it made him curious of what power source they were using, but he would figure that out later.

"Alright, I will head there now," the second one replied as he made his way down the hallway.

Kira listened as he heard the other on walking towards him, Kira didn't want to fire his rifle here so he threw it to the side and took hold of his Socom and pointed it towards entry to the two hallways keeping his back and arm to the wall, Kira waited and as soon as the man came around the corner Kira fired and it immediately dropped the man as Kira caught him and dragged him around the corner, the shot was to the head and killed immediately.

Kira was faced with the problem of what to do with this man, as he holstered his Socom and looked up, the piping wasn't that high up and wouldn't be a great hiding place but it was big enough for a body, Kira didn't have no other choice as he picked the man up and tossed him up a little ways as his body wrapped around a pipe, Kira used one hand to jump up only about ten feet and take hold of the pipe, he used his free hand to move the man so he was completely lying on the pole, Kira jumped back down and looked up, if someone were to look straight up they might notice, but someone walking by would never notice. Kira took hold of his rifle again and made his way back to the corner; he peeked over and noticed no one there.

Kira slowly went down this hallway, taking in the sights as he was trying to figure out where the nukes were stored, this place had a few intersecting hallways and that made it a little difficult but he continued on.

Kira stopped at one intersection when he noticed a group of guards standing around, Kira quickly moved back and placed his back to the wall, keeping an eye on his surroundings, the guards were light, but they seemed to be getting heavier as he went in and he knew he was on the right path.

Kira couldn't stand around here all day so he had no choice but to take these men out, all this would mean is that he would have to work faster, Kira wasted no time and showed himself as his rifle was pointed at them, the guards didn't notice at first but as soon as one saw his eyes turned big and Kira opened fire, he fired three shots and all the men could do was raise their weapons but it was to late, Kira's fire dropped them each with on shot, as his UMP was silenced the shots were never heard, Kira had to remain silent until he had the nuke, and then it would not matter for the second part of his mission. Kira was satisfied and noticed they were guarding a door that seemed to lead somewhere. Kira ran over to them and kicked one body out of the way so he could look in. The door was locked up Kira used his rifle and fixed that as the door popped open. Kira slowly opened it and found that it lead down another long hallway, but this time the hallway was more preserved, it seemed to be all metal, and Kira smiled as he radioed in.

"Nighthawk reporting, I believe I have found the section leading to the nukes, disposed of five guards already, increasing time by ten minutes," Kira said.

Rau was watching everything, "Granted, I will move the team up by ten minutes, proceed in and complete the task."

"Understood sir," Kira said as he dragged in the three bodies quickly and shut the door, it was still a mystery to him that this place wasn't more secure but he had no time to worry. Kira moved quickly down the hallway until he slowed down as he reached the end. Kira looked around and saw yet another guard but this one was heading into a small room, Kira waited a few seconds as he peeked again and noticed the man went into the small room, Kira made his way as silent as possible to the doorway and slowly looked around the corner, when Kira looked he saw the man doing something with the computer in the room, With the door open Kira pulled out his trusty fiber wire and moved in quickly wrapping it around the mans neck, the guard instantly started struggling but Kira's grip was to strong, this man really tried putting up a fight, but Kira had enough and loosened the grip and with a tug of his arm he immediately broke the mans neck. He stopped struggling and Kira threw him down to the ground.

Kira threw him down and walked over to the computer screen. He looked at the computer and saw something troubling, he typed in a few numbers and his eyes got a little big. It was the complete layout for this base, Kira smiled as he instantly memorized it. Kira looked around again and saw a file that caught his attention. Kira easily got through the security and opened the file, what he saw inside shocked him. It was the complete design of the power source for this base and part of the Earth Forces base, it turns out it was all powered by a nuclear reactor. This made is second objective easier, but it puzzled him why they would place it here, unless they were fully planning to develop more weapons here. Kira made sure his camera captured this, as Rau and Patrick saw everything. Kira made a mental note of this as he switched back to the map; he wanted to look at it one last time just to be sure. On the map it showed him where exactly the entrance was, and Kira found a quick way to it, but as he tried to bring up this area it showed a one way hallway, and then nothing, which meant they wanted to keep it out of the official record and it also meant he was close.

Kira finished with the computer and took his rifle back in his hands, he looked around the corner and saw no guards, he made his way out of the room, and again down the hallway, Kira knew this was only one way, so he was going to eventually run into trouble. He continued deeper and stopped once again at another hallway corner, Kira peeked around and he was right, except there were about five down this hallway this one was wider and he could tell it was a lobby of some sorts, and from what he saw it was like the guards were most likely preparing to move out. Kira knew he would no longer be able to maintain stealth here, so all he had to do was make sure none called for back up. Kira readied his rifle and looked one last time as two were just talking, and the three looked like they were waiting for something. Kira decided he could take out the two with no trouble so he would start there and hopefully get the others before they made to much noise.

Kira jumped around the corner firing two shots that struck there targets easily, the others didn't hear the shots but they saw them fall, by that time Kira already moved in the main room, and the three saw them and raised their weapons, but Kira was able to fire another two shots dropping those two leaving only one left, the man was stunned by he took cover raising his rifle to try and search for Kira but he couldn't see him. The man looked all over but couldn't find him so he reached for his radio and placed it near his mouth but it was too late. Kira used his speed after he dropped the men to take cover behind one of the large poles used to support the ceiling, Kira looked over and saw the last man taking cover behind the desk and he moved quickly and silently as he got right in front of the desk the man was looking all around with his head poked up a little but Kira was right in front of him ducked down so the man couldn't see him. As Kira waited he heard the man take hold of something, so Kira ninja rolled right to the side releasing his rifle and taking hold of his M9 by this ankle and went he got to the side the M9 was pointed straight at his head. When the man turned Kira pulled the trigger dropping him instantly.

Kira re-holstered his M9, and stood back up, he was glad he was able to keep it silent. Kira took hold of his rifle again and looked around but found nothing important here, it was still a mystery to him that this place wasn't as guarded as it should be.

Rau and Patrick were thinking the same thing as they were watching the live feed. It was too suspicious that the security was so light. Athrun and Nicol were awaiting Kira's order as they couldn't move in on the guards here until Kira had secured the nuke. Yzak and Dearka were still waiting up top but their role was limited in this mission only to the escape.

Kira continued down the next hallway, until he slowed down when he saw what looked like a volt, it was a large metal door, and Kira smiled as this was where the map cut off, his main objective was in that room. Kira wasted no, and once again not a single guard. Kira approached the door and saw that it was locked by two number security councils on each side of the door; it was obvious you need two people to get in, but Kira had ways around that. Kira slowly approached the door, and looked at the first council, Kira easily hacked into the security program and punched in a few numbers, he broke deep into the security files and was now able to surpass it. Kira smiled as he did the same thing to this one but this time he punched in a few numbers activating an override code and it worked. Kira had to quickly do the same to the other one as he only had five seconds; he ran back over to the other council and pressed the same numbers with two seconds to spare.

Kira smiled as the security code was confirmed. The large door started to automatically open and Kira moved to the side and a good thing because there were two blue cosmos members and two main earth forces personal inside.

Vault

Inside the volt the blue cosmos members and earth force members were discussing something when the doors opened, they were immediately surprised.

"All are prepared," the blue cosmos member said.

"They were all shi…" the earth forces member said as the door opened.

"What's going on!" the other blue cosmos member said as the others were ordered to wait in the lobby.

The door was fully opened and they saw no body.

"What is the meaning of this?" the other earth forces member said.

"I told them to wait, go check it out," the first blue cosmos member said to the second and he started walking towards the door but that was his mistake as Kira opened fire hitting him three times, the earth forces members immediately ducked as the first fired his rifle at Kira, but Kira moved back to the wall.

Kira didn't look fully in yet, and he couldn't afford hitting the nukes, so he had to take a chance, Kira ran from the wall as fast as he could come back into view and the blue cosmos member fired but missed, Kira used his laser pointer and fired hitting the man straight in the chest. Kira stood back up but he knew there was more he looked around and saw one earth forces member try to point a pistol at him and Kira beat him to the punch and fired his rifle dropping him to his death.

The other member did nothing as he was cowering behind a table. Kira was finally able to look around and his face went to horror as he radioed in.

"This is nighthawk, we have a problem sir," Kira said.

Rau looked through the monitor and looked around and noticed, "What is going on, the scans were correct."

Kira looked around, "The nukes are gone sir, except for one."

Patrick stood up back at the Plants, the scans were only taken a day before they left and they already moved them.

"I thought there were at least twenty by the thermal scans," Kira reported as he kept an eye on the cowering man.

"They obviously moved them, but we still have the one correct?" Rau asked.

Kira now knew why security was so light, they moved the nukes, and were preparing to move this one, but Kira was luckily able to intercept them. "That is affirmative sir…I believe I have a way to find out where the others have gone to," Kira said as he looked at the cowering man, and Rau saw it through the camera.

Rau smiled, "Very good, do whatever means necessary, and afterward finish him."

Kira flinched but he vowed to do whatever it took to finish this mission, "Conceder it done sir," Kira reported in as Rau and Patrick were watching closely.

Rau decided that since there was only one nuke he would radio the recovery team to move in. Rau radioed them and they began the trip up the river.

Kira slowly approached the man, and saw he was not looking at him, Kira saw his weapon holstered by the side and instantly grabbed it kicking the man over. The man fell down hard as he pleaded for his life.

Kira kneeled down and grabbed him by the collar.

"Where did the rest of the nukes go?" Kira asked normally at first.

The man looked at Kira, "I…I….I…ah…" he said as Kira grew angry.

Kira elbowed him across the face making him fall down, but Kira picked him back up and rose to his feet, "Where are they? Make this easier on yourself."

"I only just got here, I don't know the rest," He said but Kira didn't by it.

Kira threw him with one hand against the wall and drew one of his knifes and threw it straight into the man's shoulder, he yelled in pain as he slid down the wall.

Kira walked back over to him, "I can tell a liar and you are one, now speak!" Kira said as he raised him to his feet.

"Ah…Azeral had them moved," He said.

Kira was happy he was getting somewhere, "Where did he have them moved and when?"

The man grew silent and Kira started digging his knife in deeper as he cried in pain again.

"He had most of them moved in the morning yesterday," he replied as Kira and his team were only hours behind.

"Good, now where did he take them?" Kira asked as the man grew silent again.

Kira was tired of this, as he twisted the knife again, and used his other hand to latch on to the mans arm, Kira let go of the knife and used both arms to snap the mans arm, breaking it in several positions as he heard the bones break, he cried out again, Kira was never like this, but this was important information for the safety of Plant and so he could show the leader that his world would come true, so Kira would not hold back.

The man was in agony and he could take no more, "Washington, he took them to Washington."

"The earth alliance capitol," Kira could tell he wasn't lying, "You have been most useful as Kira once again pointed his rifle at him again and fired shooting him straight in the chest. Kira didn't give a second glance but found his hand shaking once again.

"Why is this happening again?" Kira asked himself as he radioed in again.

"Did you get all of that sir?" Kira asked.

Rau smiled, "Every word, we are looking into the matter, just finish your mission."

"Yes sir," Kira said as he spoke to the others.

"Alpha one, move in, I will meet you at the entrance in a few minutes," Kira said as Athrun and Nicol heard every word.

Outside the base

Athrun and Nicol heard every word and prepared to take out these outside guards, each of them started moving ever so close as the night was shielding them, they got close enough and wasted no time as each of them fired their weapons one shot and both guards fell. There weapons were silenced so no noise was heard, Athrun and Nicol started moving the bodies out of the way as they now deactivated the night vision as was waiting for Kira to arrive.

Dearka saw everything through the scope, "It seems their moving in."

Yzak growled, "If it was me we would be done by now."

Dearka chuckled as they saw the recovery team arriving.

"There here," Dearka said as Yzak and Dearka would have to wait until the escape to come down.

The recovery team arrived and moved in and met Athrun and Nicol by the entrance.

"Commander Zala sir," they said as they saluted.

"As soon as he comes, we move in," Athrun told them.

"Yes sir," all of them said as a lone figure was approaching.

"Commander," one man said and Athrun looked and smiled.

Objective One

Kira finished with the man and walked over to the warhead, it was situated on the table and Kira looked it over and found the control device, Kira opened his tool hit and used his automatic screw driver to loosen the screws on the control panel. Kira got it off and lifted it up, he had to make sure it would not accidentally be detonated, Kira looked over a few wires and cut the main ones leading to the power source to the detonator, this bomb was practically useless, if fired nothing would happen, if set nothing would happen, it was still a good bomb, and it shot or something it could detonate, but that would be rare. Kira screwed the panel back on and hastily rushed out of the room.

He made his way back to the entrance to the main way back into the interior, as he walked out he pulled some something out of his bag and marked the door with a red paint. Kira didn't have time to lead them back so he had to mark it for them. Kira remembered every part of the map as each hallway he turned he marked. Kira didn't have to worry about being stealthy, but he figured there weren't enough people left here to worry about it.

Kira made his way to the entrance and found a few guards along the way, but they easily became prey to his rifle, Kira marked a few more turns and saw the exit. He ran up and spotted the team.

Athrun smiled, "I heard everything."

Kira looked at him, "It's ready, I marked the way, and you should have no enemies."

Athrun smiled, "Alright people move in," Athrun said as all started rushing in.

Athrun looked at Kira, "What about you?"

Kira smiled, "I know where I have to go, this base will be no more when I'm finished."

Athrun smiled, "I will get them out and wait for you here."

Kira smiled and both ran in, Athrun caught up with the team and Kira went the other way, when he looked at the map earlier he saw where he had to go.

Athrun and the others followed Kira's marks and they made their way to the metal hallway following seeing all the fallen bodies, they moved faster and saw the vault with the nuke. They went in and Athrun saw it.

Athrun looked around and saw a cart used to transport it. "Use that lets get this ready."

"Yes sir," they said as Nicol grabbed the cart and all eight of them gently picked it up and placed it on the cart.

Athrun smiled, "Alright lets go, Nicol take the rear and watch our backs."

Nicol nodded and they started heading out.

Kira was heading where he had to and Rau and Patrick were watching closely pleased with what was happening so far.

Kira reached a new part of the base and stopped as he was preparing to enter the door, to a part he has not been to yet.

To be continued…

(AN): I hope you liked this part, it was cut in half, the next part will be up by the weekend. In this fic Athrun and Lacus are not engaged, and it won't be to much longer before Kira and Lacus meet again. Bye for now.