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Chapter Ten

Arrival

Earth Alliance Capitol

"Nighthawk," Kira said.

The man smiled again, that was the name he needed to hear, "Welcome to Washington, lets go sir, I have everything ready."

Kira smiled and they walked out of the airport. The headed to a car that this agent had standing by; they walked in and started driving out of the airport.

"It is an honor to meet you sir, your skills are legendary," the agent said.

Kira looked at him, "You know of me?"

The agent smiled, "Yes sir, I have been with the leader for years, most of the men no nothing of you, but there are us old timers that do," he said as he smiled a bit.

Kira smiled as well, "Do you have the details?"

The agent smiled, "That is correct sir, I have you set up in a small hotel a little ways from here, tomorrow when it begins you are to present your invitation at the gate, let them scan you and proceed in."

Kira liked it he made it sound very simple. As the agent was about to say something he pointed out the window.

"That's the presidential palace, you will head in from the front gate there," he said as Kira looked out the window.

Kira looked at the palace, it was huge but that would make things easier for him. Kira looked at it until it was no longer in sight, he already knew of several good exit spots if needed.

The agent smiled, "What's your intake on this?"

Kira looked at him, "Shouldn't be a problem, now continue."

The agent smiled, "After you get in, stay towards the back out of sight…this will be the tricky part, I placed a M9 in the upstairs west wing, you will have to get up there and retrieve it, I have no idea about security but I'm sure a man of your reputation will find no trouble."

"I will figure something out, continue," Kira told him as he wanted all the details.

"Once you have the gun, just hid it in the clothes that I placed in your hotel, once you have it head back down to the main room and await the speech, the leader doesn't care where you fire from, just make sure he falls while the cameras are rolling, I left it un-silenced so it should make your escape a little bit easier," the agent said as the noise would send most into a panic.

Kira looked at him, "What is my escape?"

"Get out of the palace and head towards the back, jump over the cliff and into the water down below, I will have a small boat awaiting you, that is all I know, the leader said he would have something for you," the agent replied.

Kira smiled, "Very well."

They said no more as the man pulled up to Kira's hotel, it was small and fairly cheap, but he didn't care, Kira got out of the car, and the man stopped him.

"One last thing here," he said as he handed him a map.

Kira took it and looked at it, it was a map of the palace that portrayed all the locations of possible escape routes, as well as the exact room of where the weapon was stored, and it even gave the location of the boat that he was going to set up.

"Where did you place the gun?" Kira asked as it would save time.

"There is a bed next to a wall, I fastened it to the back, you will have to move it, no one goes in there, so it will still be there," he said.

Kira smiled, "Great work, I will handle it from here."

The agent gave a nod and threw the room key out of the window as Kira caught it, "Don't fail," he said as he drove off.

Kira watched him leave and decided to head straight for his room, he had practically a full day before tomorrow evening, and Kira fettled with the lock and the door was open.

Hotel Room

Kira walked in and immediately he found what the man said, on the bed was a tux laid out, with the invitation on top, Kira walked over and examined the invitation, the banquet was to be held at seven, and the speech at nine, so he would have to remain unnoticed, retrieve his weapon, and find a suitable spot to fire all within two hours, that should be a problem. Since it was getting late Kira decided to turn in, he was not going to fail what he waited so long to do.

Plants

The next day approached and Patrick received a summons to the council room today, Patrick smiled as this was his big chance, he wanted to go over a few things with Athrun first as he would be with Rau in the chambers. The events down on earth were by now known to all the people and they believed that Zala was correct, and he was gaining more popularity within the Plants.

Zala Mansion

Patrick was preparing for the meeting when Athrun walked in.

"You wanted to see me father," Athrun said.

Patrick looked at him, "Do you remember what to say today?"

"Yes father, I went over the tap several times," Athrun replied.

Patrick smiled, "Good, this will be our chance and after tonight a major threat will be gone."

Athrun knew what he was talking about, "Are you sure you should have sent Kira alone father?"

Patrick glared at him, "He will have no trouble Athrun, let it go and focus on what we have to do today."

"I understand father," Athrun replied.

"Head back to the base and arrive with the Commander, it will not look good for us to arrive at the same time," Patrick said as he was ready to go.

Athrun agreed and started heading back to the base, Patrick left his mansion, and headed for the shuttle bay to take him to Aprilious One. He was very pleased with what he knew would happen.

Clyne Mansion

Siegel was preparing to head to the council meeting as well, he knew that any chance for a peaceful solution with the Earth was all but shattered, he knew that the nukes were an issue, but they could have gone about it a different way. Siegel wanted the full report to decide what to do next. He knew his popularity among the people was dropping and he would likely fall to Patrick Zala, but that wasn't going to stop him from trying to end this peacefully.

Lacus as well was concerned about the matters at hand, both she and Siegel knew that there last chance was the Orb visit in a few days, that would be there last chance at spreading a peaceful solution throughout the world.

Siegel was fully prepared and left to the shuttle bay, he boarded the shuttle and it took off for Aprilious One.

Military Base

Athrun returned to the base to find Rau preparing to leave for the meeting as well. Rau had a few loyal members load the nuke into the shuttle; he was going to make sure to wheel it out in front of the council. Athrun saw him and approached him.

Rau saw him coming, "I take it your father has left for the meeting."

Athrun saluted, "Yes sir, he told me to travel with you."

"I suspected that, now do you remember your report?" Rau asked.

Athrun nodded his head, "Yes sir, I have everything memorized."

Rau smiled, "Very well, now get on board."

Athrun saluted once more and got on the shuttle, followed by Rau they were running low on time and the shuttle was launched.

Aprilious One

Shuttles of all council members were arriving for this meeting, Patrick was one of the first as he wanted to make it a little early, all other shuttles arrived followed by the Chairman's as the last one, and all were heading to the main building.

Rau and Athrun's shuttle arrived shortly after that, Rau ordered the few men to cover the nuke and prepare to wheel it into the council's chamber when called for. Rau and Athrun boarded a truck that was standing by and the rest of the unit loaded the nuke and jumped in. They left the shuttle bay and headed straight for the main building.

When they arrived the units got out of the truck and placed the nuke on a cart while still covered, they made there way up the ramp as Rau and Athrun followed. They went inside the building and stopped at the closed doors, as Rau told them to remain outside until they were called for, they agreed and Athrun and Rau walked in the council's chamber.

Council's Chamber

All council members were arriving into the main chamber, the normal ones entered first while Patrick arrived as second to last, he had no time to fill the others who agreed with him, on what transpired but he knew they would play into it. Patrick received stares from all as he made his way to his seat. After a few minutes the doors opened revealing the chairman, Siegel walked in and looked over at Patrick who had somewhat of a grin on his face. Siegel walked over to his seat and sat down. It was then that the doors opened and Rau and Athrun walked in taking a seat in front of the table, they too had stares by many.

"Shall we begin?" Siegel asked as Patrick waited for it.

"I'm sure by now all of you know what happened down on earth, and I called this meeting to get the direct details, I can tell you that a peaceful solution will be hard to achieve now that this has happened," Siegel said as he looked at Patrick.

Patrick stared at him, "I personally monitored the actions of the unit on the ground, and they did no wrong Chairman, with what was discovered, it is easy to see that the naturals never had any attention of a peaceful solution."

Siegel stared at him, "Your unit was ordered to retrieve evidence not set off a nuclear explosion."

Patrick smiled, "They did what they had to, and yes they do have proof, but action was needed to prevent what would have happened, the unit saw that if they wasted time showing you the proof the plants would face nuclear attack, and that is still a threat, besides the explosion was from the carelessness of the alliance."

All council members started bickering at the moment.

"I'm not saying what they did was completely wrong, but the unit took it too far, they blew up more than half of an alliance base, which will likely cause us a war now," Siegel said.

Patrick glared at him, "It just shows you that the Alliance was in partnership with blue cosmos, I have the tap here from the operation, and it shows the alliance members."

Siegel looked at him, "What about all the nuclear warheads you claimed were at the base, did they find evidence of any?"

Patrick smiled, "I have more than evidence," he said as he looked at Rau.

Rau stood up and walked towards the back and opened the door, the people outside saw this and stared carting the nuke inside the room, the council watched as they didn't know what was going on.

The men stopped the cart right in front of the table and left the room, as all looked confused by this.

Patrick smiled, "With your permission chairman, I would like the members who were actually there to finish the briefing."

Siegel looked at the council and noticed they were eager to here, "I give my permission."

Patrick nodded, "You want proof, there it is," Patrick said as he looked at Rau.

Rau smiled and took the cover off revealing the nuclear warhead, the council immediately went big eyed, and some stood up.

Siegel looked in shock.

Patrick observed them, "Here is your proof, the unit secured this last warhead, as the others were already shipped to Washington."

"They could be planning to send these into space," Councilmen Amalfi said.

"It is clear what the naturals want, and that is full out war," Councilman Elsman added.

"This doesn't mean all want war," councilwoman Canaver said.

Patrick head that, "All naturals are the same, I would like for the commander to give the rest of the report."

Siegel was still in shock, "Proceed."

Rau stepped forward and saluted.

"My team did everything according to regulations, we even made a new discovery I will show you in a minute," Rau said.

All were listening carefully.

"We got into the base and discovered that it was mostly deserted, upon further inspection, we came to the conclusion that they were moving out, we infiltrated deeper and discovered the where a bout's of the nukes, once found this was the only one left, we received information that they moved the others, not wanted to leave this one behind, we took it with us," Rau was saying.

Patrick smiled as he watched Clyne; this was his day of victory.

"Once we secured the nuke we found more devices for making new ones, so we decided it was best to take out the base there, we had no idea that it was linked to the alliance base, the explosion caused both to fall," Rau added in a few details as he said that.

"There could have been other ways to do this," Siegel added.

Rau smiled, "We have tape of the entire operation taken from the infiltration, I would like the man who pulled this off to finish briefing you," Rau said as he looked at Athrun.

Siegel looked at him, "I will allow it," Siegel said as he wanted details.

Athrun walked up and saluted. The tape was loaded in and all watched on the monitor, it was really Kira's camera, but they took out the sound and made sure anything that showed his face would be deleted.

"This is where I infiltrated, I made my way up north where the scans were shown, I made it into a lone door that had different surroundings," Athrun said.

Patrick smiled; Athrun was getting everything right so far.

"Once inside I made my way to the vault where the warhead was placed, as you can see it had earth alliance forces ready to help with the delivery," Athrun said as all were watching the tape, but it left out a lot of action, next it skipped to the reactor.

"I secured the nuke and moved the rest of the team in as we retrieved it, we didn't want to leave a fully operation nuke there for them to retrieve and use against us," Athrun kept going.

"After they had it I needed to find out if they had any more, so I continued, when I ran into the control room for the base, I found out they were intending to mass produce and stage a full out attack, I saw a thermal reaction on the screen and headed to the location, it turned out to be a reactor, and when I was about to leave I discovered a earth alliance member, it drank a new substance and it was very difficult to contain him," Athrun said as he gave the statement they made for him.

Rau added in.

"We analyzed the bottle, and determined it was a new drug that could work quickly to increase a natural's strength and speed to match coordinators," Rau added.

"That is disturbing," Councilwoman Joule said.

"We are attempting to analyze more, but it shouldn't take us to long," Rau said as Athrun went on.

"Once engaging this man, he fired randomly setting off a leak, as you can see most of the tape was damaged, I was able to put him down, but the damage he made somehow triggered the explosion later on, it was the alliances carelessness that set it off," Athrun said as they doctored the tape up pretty well, in some spots where they had to lie they made sure static would not show what really happened, it was like that throughout a lot of the tape, Athrun didn't like this but he had no choice.

"After I got up I rejoined the unit and we made out way back, it was then the base blew up, I can say that the damage done in that room was enough to trigger a meltdown, it didn't help that the guy was acting crazy from the stuff as well," Athrun finished up.

"As you can see the naturals are to blame," Councilmen Elsman said.

Patrick smiled as he watched Clyne, Siegel knew Patrick had just sealed the deal, but something didn't feel right about the situation.

"I can tell it was difficult down there, and you did somewhat the right thing, but our overall goal is to come up with a peaceful solution," Siegel said.

"It is obvious they do not want peace," Councilwoman Joule said.

"We still should not give up hope, we must keep trying," Councilwoman Canaver said.

Siegel stood up, "All of this still needs to be looked into, I thank you for your report," Siegel told Athrun and Rau.

They saluted and sat back down.

"These matters will have to be looked into further, I will leave that up to you," Siegel told Patrick.

Patrick smiled.

"As for now, peace is a long shot, but with the upcoming Orb visit I hope to change that, it is essential we continue for a peaceful solution," Siegel said as Patrick didn't care to listen.

"I thank you again, for coming today," Siegel said as all started to rise, Siegel was the first to leave as he had a lot on his mind.

Patrick smiled and nodded over to Rau before leaving, Rau had to do another task of making sure the public found out about this. Athrun and Rau left to return to the base taking the nuke with them; it was going to be properly destroyed.

Patrick left only to go back to his office, he wanted one more piece of good news today and he was hoping for that tonight.

Earth Alliance Capitol

Hotel

Kira got a lot of well dissevered rest, he woke up and only prepared for tonight, he ate a little and was satisfied, he used the rest of the day to just take it easy and focus on his mission, Kira easily memorized the map so he destroyed it, when it came close to the evening hours Kira changed into the outfit that was left for him, he spent a little time making sure everything was right, as he couldn't afford to draw any attention, he was satisfied and grabbed his invitation before heading out the door.

Palace

Kira walked until he saw the palace, it was almost seven and he saw guests arriving, they were being scanned at the gates, but he had noting to hid, Kira smiled as he started walking towards the gate, he stood in the short line until it was his turn.

"Invitation," a guard with a semi-automatic said.

Kira smiled and handed him his invitation, the guard looked it over and nodded to another one who walked over to Kira.

"Hold your arms outright and stay still," he said as Kira did that.

The guard ran the scanner and found nothing; he finished and nodded back to the first one.

He handed the invitation back and waved him through.

"Enjoy the evening sir," he said as Kira smiled, "Don't worry I will," Kira told himself.

Kira could tell a lot of people were attending as they were all dressed fancy.

Kira walked in and followed the walkway up to the palace, this place was a lot bigger up close, Kira made a mental note of the surroundings as he was walking in, he got the exact count of guards and there positions, but he would observe a little more later. Kira walked up to the main entrance and once again had to go through the same ritual, but they found nothing and waved him in.

Kira smiled and walked right into the main door, he had his mind only on one thing and that was killing this man, as he wanted to for two long years. Kira walked right in and would complete this task no matter what.

To be continued…

(AN): I hope you like this chapter; the next one will be up sometime this week, Bye for now.