Chapter 04: Rematch Plus Chaos

Matisse, smirked, as she had the Minerva in her sights, as to the starboard side of the ship, off the stern of the Minerva. "Lets see how well they do against two more of their old units." she commented. "Captain, have our Machines launch!" she called out, and soon the two catapults of the ship opened. Inside, Testament, and a black Gundam's eyes both glowed green. The Black Machine had white on area's, it was known once before as the ZGMF-YX21R Proto Saviour.

"Alright lets kill them all this time." The Testament's pilot's sneered, as he launched from his ship, red phase shift armor, taking form.

The next pilot, was Ile, as he smirked, "Psycho cases, oh well, better then a wimp." he said with a smirk, as his mobile suit, with black phase shift armor, launched into space, and verted into a jet form, and flew towards its foes.

The battle, has begun, as the Blast Impulse, Gunner ZAKU, and Zephyr ZAKU, flew in formation, as they detected the machines. Behind them, Alex and his two comrades, detected them as well. "Great." Alex began. "A single Machine." he added. Just then, from out of nowhere, he saw a beam fly on by him, as it shot through the chest cavity of his wingman's chest. "Carl!" he said in a calm manner.

"CARL!" his other wingman, called out.

"Ronald, don't lose control." Alex told him, as he opened his cockpit, and saw the culprit. "As I thought, the Testament." he concluded. "Everyone, be wary, the testament is out here, and we can only see it with our own eyes!" he warned.

Sagira, saw the machines, as a transmission came in from Luna. "Can I say something?" she questioned. "I never did real good in the debris simulations." she told her commander.

Sagira smirked at that, "Well the more experience you get, the better you become." she told her, as she saw the black machine. "Can't be, Proto Saviour." she said in shock.

Shinn opened his eyes wide, "No way, the Sixth Prototype! Here!" he called out, soon, he Luna, and Sagira dispersed from their formations, as did, Shawn and dale, with a pair of streaks of Plasma flew on by them. The two blasts originated from the mobile form, of the Proto Saviour's Armforta's Plasma cannons.

"Oh no you don't!" Sagira called, as she released her DRAGOON units, and opened fire with a total of seventeen beams. The Proto Saviour reverted to Mobile suit form, and dodged the incoming beams, and returned fire, with a pair of beam cannons at the mobile suit.

Rather then reflect, Sagira dodged the attack. "Back at yeah!" Lunamaria called, as she fired off her Orthro's beam cannon, at the mobile suit. The Machine nimbly dodged the attack, and returned fire with its beam rifle, as Luna dodged it.

"Argh!" Shinn called out, as he fired off a pair of Kerberos long ranges beam cannons, and a pair of Deluge Hyper Velocity Railguns. However, Shinn was surprised, as the pilot, had the machine revert into mobile armor form again, and had it fly through the four weapons, heading right for the machine. "What!" he called out, as the beams ended, it changed into mobile suit form again, drawing a Vajra beam saber, and went right for the Impulse's chest cavity. But before the hit could happen, a web of beams appeared infront of the Impulse, stopping Saviour in its tracks. The ones responsible were Sagira's Dragoon units.

Not far from them, both Alex and his wingman Ron, had their cockpits open, so they could keep an eye on the Testament, as the blood red machine, clashed beam sabers with the GuAIZ R. "Argh, a grunt like you should not still be alive, so I'm gong to enjoy adding your head to my collection!" he called out.

Alex smirked, "As I thought, you are that psycho of Zala's Ash Grey." he concluded. "So Sam was foolish and let you live." he added.

"Hmhmhmhm hahahaha, Die Die DIE!!" he called out, not caring what Alex was saying with a relentless attack.

"Commander!!" Ron called out, as he fired his beam rifle to help his commander. However Testament, backed off, and took a look at its new target.

"Hahaha, time to die!" Ash called out, as the two antenna glowed blue, as the machine flew towards the ZAKU.

"What the?" Ron wondered, as his Machine would not respond.

"Ron MOVE!" Alex called out, however Ron could not, the Testament's Mirage Colloid Virus Spreader, had disabled the machine.

"What, no no NOOOOO!!!!!" he called out, as the Testament's beam saber, seared through the Torso of the ZAKU, burning Ron through hell, as the saber finished going through, the mobile suit exploded a moment later.

"Ron!" Alex called, as the Testament turned, Ash with a face full of a sinister smile.

"Another one bites the dust, and has joined my collection!!!" he laughed, as he looked at the machine. "And your next!" he called out.

Alex, felt a little bit of anger, as his comrades fell, but he knew better. Instead, his and the Testament's blades of pure fire, crossed. GuAIZ R, an outdated Machine, stood its ground to the more advanced Testtament Gundam. The very machine designed, from what specs they could muster from the Strike Gundam, and completed by the Earth Alliance themselves. "You can't win, the Testament is far more powerful!!!" he called out.

Alex snorted, "Its not the crate, its the one who flys it!" Alex told him, as the thrusters of the GuAIZ began to thrust more with power, making the Testament fall back.

"DIE DIE DIE!!!" Ash called out, as his backpack, transformed into a version of the Jet Striker, a powerful thruster as well, as it began to force the GuAIZ back.

Mendeleev Bridge:

Lia watched on, "Target VLS at the Testament!" she ordered.

"But commander, the equipment, it can't get a lock!" her weapons officer told her.

Lia grimaced as she thought of another way. "Then target Alex's GuAIZ R!" she ordered.

"But Commander!" another called.

"Just inform Alex of what's coming, he'll get out of it, but for now, Target his GuAIZ R!!!" she ordered.

"Y. . .Yes mam." they said, as Alex got a text message on his monitor. "Targeting Commander Strassmeier's GuAIZ R"

"Alex, I hope you can pull a rabit out of your ass this time." she joked a little.

Debris Field Battle:

"So I am the one being targeted. I see, bold move." he noted, as he then saw the Mendeleev launch its vertical missiles, heading right for him. Alex nodded, as he backed away from the Testament, Ash not realizing what was happening, charged after the machine. Alex in between him, and the missiles. "Just a little closer." he said, as the two objects came at him. "A little closer!" he called out. Just then, as the Missiles and mobile suit were about to hit him, he moved his machine to the right, as Ash got a face full of Missiles.

"WHAT!!!" he called out, as the Testament, was just hit repeadedly by the missiles. Alex thrusted towards the mobile suit, with beam saber held in hand, he slashed off the head, getting rid of its Mirage Colloid ability, then the beam right arm of the gundam was cut off, and took his saber back, ready to finish of the maniac at the cockpit. However, then a beam fired, Alex let go of his saber, as the beam pierced the handle, destroying the melee weapon.

"What the?" he questioned, just then, the Asgard fired its gottfrieds, only missing the GuAIZ R, by a meter. "Damn." was all he said, backing away from the beam cannons.

Lunamaria saw that the ship had attacked. However beside her, Sagira, only having her DRAGOON's deployed, she was wondering. "Where are the others at? Did Asgard cover their escape?" she questioned.

Minerva Bridge:

The entire room, was quiet, as only the Mendeleev had actually entered combat. "Just what are you getting at Chairman Durandal?" Cagalli asked him, as Athrun, looked at the chairman.

"Yeah, 'sir' what are you getting at?" Ahmed asked, almost full of sarcasm.

Durandal, let out a small laugh. "I am not accusing young Athrun of anything." he told the both of them. "Former Chairman Eileen Canaver explained it all to me, about Athrun's actions during the last war." he told her. "I just wished to speak, to Athrun Zala, rather then, Alex Dino." Durandal told them.

"Captain, it is confirmed, the mobile suit, Shinn and Sagira are engageing is the stolen prototype that we built on Earth." Meyrin confirmed.

Talia, nodded, "I thought that was it." She concurred, just then, she realized something. "Quick where is Bogey One, we've only been fighting Bogey Two!" she called out.

"Mam, we can't tell!" Burt informed her.

Ahmed got a concerned look, "Damn, Mirage Colloid again."

"Again!" Arthur said in realization.

Unknown to them, Abyss, Gaia, and Chaos, waited in the Debris, using it as a cover in both thermal and visual. "Argh, I can't take it anymore!" Auel called out, as the Abyss backed away, bringing up both of its shoulder shields.

"Auel wait!" Sting called, but it was to late, the Abyss fired, six beams through the Debris, melting it away. The GuAIZ R, being flown by Dale was struck through the cockpit.

"Ahh!" The pilot screamed as his GuAIZ R, was destroyed by the blast.

"DALE!" Shawn called, however with his momentary distraction, led to his own Death, as one of the gunpods from the Chaos Gundam, came out, and fired, sending the second GuAIZ R, of the Minerva's to join with the Debris in the small battlefield.

"What?" Luna called, as she pulled back, as the Gaia, racing across the Debris, half way up its legs, as the machine picked up speed, almost like it was running on 'air' so to speak.

Stellar, with angered eyes, has her machine come chargeing, firing her beam assault cannons, at the ZAKU. Luna though unlike Alex's comrades, was better then that, as she dodged the attacking Gundam. "Argh." Stellar gruffed, as she jumped into space, transforming and opening fire on the ZAKU with her beam rifle.

Luna took the hit to her shield, "Back at yeah!" she called, as she fired the multi colored beam cannon, at the Gaia, only to have the attack dodged, however the Debris behind the Gundam ignited, into an explosion.

With Shinn, and Sagira, the enemy Machine Proto Saviour, dodged on through Sagira's DRAGOON units. "Impressive." Sagira commented, as she recalled her weapons, as they re attached to her Blossom pack. Just with that, the enemy, turned into mobile suit mode again, and came at Shinn with a beam saber.

However, Shinn, ejected a beam Javelin from his Machine's pack, and used the beam to block the beam saber. "Damn, this is getting annoying." Shinn concurred. "Just how many of our Machine's do these guys have?" he asked.

Sagira, just dodged that of a beam saber, as the Anneritto Blitz came in, trying to cleave her in half. It only had its standard weapons, and was having its older pack equipped this time. "You again." she said surprised, as the Blitz Two, fired a pair of beams from her offensive shield systems.

"So, its the fancy one again. And still using the remote weapons package." Shaai said from within her machine. "Well then, lets see what you got again!" she called out, as the Blitz Two, took off towards the ZAKU variation of a Gundam. Sagira, had her machine eject the handle of her tomahawk from the left shoulder shield, and clashed the tomahawk against the beam saber of the Blitz Two, as the two Machines, were at a stand still, with their blades against each other. "I never did expect a grunt, even a Variation, would be able to match the Blitz." she concurred.

Sagira, smirked a bit, "This pilot is rather good, I wonder who it is?" she questioned, as her Machine looked over to Alex and his GuAIZ R. As the Testament retreated, the GuAIZ R, was blocked both by the Abyss and Chaos.

Auel sneered, "This will be easy." he said, as he swung his beam lance.

Sting nodded, "for once I agree." he admitted, as his Machine had transformed into its Mobile Armor form.

"Well then, lets get him!" Auel called out, as he blasted off towards the silver machine.

Alex, snorted, "Big mistake you two." Alex concurred, as he dodged the initial strike, from the Abyss.

"I missed?" Auel questioned, as his vertical swing had missed, he went with a Horizontal, and missed the GuAIZ again.

"Step one, Keep a calm mind." Alex began, as he took a beam to his shield from the Chao's beam rifle. Then, he with his heightened Spatial Awarness, Alex saw Sting launch his two Gunpods, as he dodged the initial attack, and fired a beam of his own, turning one of the pods, into a part of the debris graveyard they were fighting in.

Sting, sneered, "A Grunt is doing this." he said. "Whoever this guy is, he's good." he admitted.

"Lets see him handle this!" Auel called out, as he spread out his shoulder shields, and fired six beams, and his Callidus Multiphase energy cannon.

Alex saw this, and drew a beam saber, blocking one beam, and knocking another away with the saber, to protect him from the incoming attack, as the rest of the beams struck the asteroid behind him. "Well i got to give them this, they don't know how to quit." he admitted, as he put his beam saber away, and took off, behind a chunk of the asteroid.

"Get back here." Sting called out, as he blasted off towards the Debris of the Asteroid, as he turned the corner, the GuAIZ was not there. "What the?" he questioned.

Alex, who had appared to disappear, had actually already moved. "Well, you were a good foe." he said, as from around, he fired his beam rifle towards the black machine. However, unexpectedly, the Abyss came in, and took the hit, to its shoulder shield.

"Sting, pay attention!" Auel called out, as he and the Chaos both blasted off towards the lone machine.

Meanwhile:

Talia, sat calmly, along with her guests, besides Ahmed, who was on the edge of his seat. "Any detection on Bogey One yet?" she asked.

"No nothing yet mam." Burt told her.

"Alright, then, Arthur, proceed with an attack on Bogey Two." she ordered.

"Yes mam, arming, Isolde, Tristans, and Neidhart Missiles, through tubes, one through four." Arthur ordered.

"Powering up weapons." Chen, the weapons officer relayed.

"Right, now fire!" Talia called, however, the ship shook.

"What?" Burt questioned, as he looked at the screen. "Captain, its Bogey One, its behind us!" he informed her.

"What?" she questioned.

"Activate the CIWs, protect us from their missiles!" he ordered, as the Minerva began to open fire, to protect itself.

"Malik, keep us as close as possible to the Asteroid!" Talia told her helmsman. "And make sure none of those missiles hit us!" she added.

"Yes mam." Malik told her, as he brought the Minerva closer and closer to the asteroid.

Girty Lue:

"They seem to have fallen into the trap" Matisse told Neo, as he nodded.

He also added a smirk, "It seems you are correct." he added. "How is the Mendeleev doing?" he asked.

Matisse shrugged, "Its captain is better then some of the typical captains in the ZAFT military." She complimented, the Mendeleev.

Neo smirked, "That's not like you giving out such compliments." He told her, as she shrugged. "Well, we should continue anyways." he said, as she nodded, and the screen went black.

Neo, just shook his head, "That woman, what a strange one she is." he said shaking his head.

Ian nodded, "Well, what now, we have gotten them really close to that asteroid." Ian wondered, as he looked over to his commander.

Neo smirked, "Load our Missile tubes, target the area around the ship." He told them. "Lets have the Natural surroundings, destroy this thorn in our sides." he concurred.

"Yes Sir." Ian told him.

Outside, the Impulse flew through a ruined colony, being chased by the Proto Saviour. "Fast for a piece of junk." The Saviour's pilot concurred, as he fired a pair of Plasma Bolts, with the Impulse Dodgeing it.

Shinn sneered, as he turned around, and fired both of his Kerberos beam cannons, missing his foe slightly, however, the Saviour's wing began to skid and spark across the interiors wall.

"Hmm, kids good." Ile commented, as he reverted to Mobile suit form, and flew towards the Impulse.

Outside, Luna saw this through the observation window, and as she just got done dodgeing the Gaia. "Shinn!!" she called, as she fired her Ortho's beam cannon, which smashed on through the wall, and ruptured the metal within.

"Whoa." Ile called out, as he flew through the glass, and flew along side the beam. "You're dead." he called out, however, a beam streaked infront of him. The source, was the Mendeleev.

Lia, commanded her troops, "Target Port and Starboard Beam cannons, towards the Asgard, Target the Proto Saviour with our VLS, ready, now fire!" she called, as the Nazca erupted fire.

On the Asgard, it dodged the two beams, and fired four beams of its own, from its Gottfried Beam Cannons. Matisse smirked, "Pathetic, Fire, our Corrinthos, target several area's on that ship!" she ordered.

"Yes mam!" a soldier called, and soon Asgard fired off a pair of beam cannons, and its Corintho's VLS missiles.

On the Mendeleev, Lia had a scornful look, "Hard to port, fire missiles to intercept theres!" Lia ordered, as the ship moved in the direction and fired its missiles at the Unknown ship. However, the ship vibrated, "Damage report!" she ordered.

"Captain, our Starboard CIWs, have been destroyed, our High Energy Cannon, has been heavily damaged." Her soldier told her.

"Damn. Signal Alex, we have to pull out of this, for now." she concurred.

"Yes mam." another called out.

Out in the battle, Sagira flew pass the Aneritto Blitz. "Minerva, give me more of my weapons, send out my other Dragoon Flyers, equip two with a Sword, and Force Silhouette pack!" She ordered.

On the ship, Talia nodded to Meyrin. As down in the hangar, the Force, and Sword packs were equipped to two seperate DRAGOON flyers, and soon launched, as the last two came out as well.

Back on the battle Shaai smirked, "Asking for help?" she asked, firing another beam at the ZAKU, which dodged the attack, and fired eight beams at the black mobile suit, which only bent the beams away from it.

Sagira smirked, "This foe is rather irritant." she noted, as she fired her beam rifle, as her DRAGOON's re attached. However soon, Four more appeared, two of which held the additional silhouette packs of the Impulse Gundam. "But lets have some more fun." she added.

"What the? More remote weapons?" Shaai said a bit surprised, as she dodged several beam guns coming from the DRAGOON flyers. "This person is too good it seems." she noted, dodgeing the attacks. "But oh well, a more worthy challenge." she noted, as she got a small headache, as she had an image of the Strike Gundam come at her. "What the?" she wondered, as she parried a blow of the ZAKU's Beam Tomahawk. She then brought her shield up to block a pair of beams form the DRAGOON flyers.

Soon, Sagira had one of the the Sword Silhouette's Excalibur Anti Ship Swords, and took it clashing the anti ship weapon against both of the shields of the Anerrito Blitz.

Meanwhile Alex, on the other hand, dodged an attack from the remaining gunpod of the Chaos, and Casual cleaved it in half with his GuAIZ's beam saber. "The Mendeleev is pulling out? Not good." he notioned, as he blocked a beam rifle shot from the Chaos, and dodged a multi shot attack from the Abyss. He then fired back at the Chaos, who was now two weapon pods less.

"Why can't I shoot this guy down?" Sting questioned, as he turned into his Mobile Armor form, and fired his beam rifle from that position, and his 'Callidus' Multiphase energy weapon, which streaked only to hit Debris behind him.

Not far away, the Gaia, and Proto Saviour had begun to team up against the team of Lunamaria Hawke, and Shinn Asuka. "I just can't believe these pilots, are already this good, in stolen Machines." he commented.

Luna nodded, "I agree, but don't forget, it took the Creuset team a shorter time then this, to already learn their machines." she told him.

"Yeah yeah I know." he told her, as they fired their biggest weapons at their foes.

However, both the Proto Saviour, and Gaia changed into their other forms, and dodged the attack. The Gaia ran on Debris, as the Proto Saviour flew out of the way. "Take this!" Stellar called, as her two wings went to her sides, and formed a pair of beam blades, similear to the BuCUE's and LaGOWE's beam sabers. Luna mostly dodged the assault, but her ZAKU's Shield was cleaved in half from the attack.

Then the Proto Saviour came at her, firing a pair of Plasma Blasts. But was soon stopped by Shinn's aerodynamic shield, that was mounted on the Impulse's left arm. With that, Shinn's cannons snapped into another position and fired a salvo of missiles at the Black Jet like Mobile suit.

With another battle, the Girty Lue fired off a Salvo of Missiles at the Minerva, but not exactly. "Captain, they're not going for us!" Arthur inplied, as she saw this too.

"Damn, they are going for the asteroid." she noted, as the missiles began to hit the surface of the asteroid they flew by. Debris began to ram onto the ship, as Malik did his best, to make sure the ship did not turn into a pancake. However, he stopped the Ships thrust, as a very large chunk, floated infront of the ship.

"Captain, our course is blocked!" Malik called up to her.

She nodded, looking over to Arthur. "Damage report Arthur!" she commanded.

Arthur nodded, "Hull is severly damaged, we got leaks in sections four, five and seven." he noted. "Fires have been detected in section eight!" he added.

"seal the sections with leaks, get fire crews into section eight!" she commanded.

Gilbert just watched, "It seems we are in a bit of trouble here." he noted. As Burt detected something.

"Captain, two Dagger L units, coming in on the Port Side." Burt called out.

Ahmed shook his head, "This is not good, were sitting ducks here." he noted.

However unknown to all in this fight, there were an extra three Dagger L's hiding in the Debris, and they came from neither the Asgard or Girty Lue. Just outside of sensor range, a lone Archangel Class ship hovered in its one spot, The mostly red ship, hovered in place, as inside. The crew of the ship, informed much of the situation going on, as in the middle,sitting in the captains chair. An Admiral Earth Forces officer sat there, however he was refered to as Captain a lower rank. "So, that is the new ZAFT ship?" he questioned.

"Yes commander." another told him. "Do we intercept?" he asked.

"Have they entered Alliance Territory?" he asked.

"Almost sir, they need to fly another twenty six Meters, and they will be in our territory." another told him.

Glaeser shook his head, "Neo you fool, doing that to early." he commented. "No matter, have all weapons online, if that ship is even a millimeter in our territory, I want them to know, that they are." he concurred.

The soldiers nodded, as down in the hangar, as the ship could carry nine machines, it only had eight, four of which were still in there, of three Dagger L units, and one machine, was a dark blue, and black Sword Calamity. It was Rena Imelia's unit from back in South America. Rena, Sakura Burst Imelia, stood at the foot of her Machine, well actually floated infront of it. "This is really sickening, having to back up some of those Phantom Pain guys." she said in a sour tone. "Oh well, orders are orders." she concured.

"Yeah mam, and you know what that means." an Earth Forces pilot commented.

"We get sent into the slaughter." she concurred. Lately she has trained more soldiers, which have all been assigned to the Archai, besides one. The Student not among them, was a cold person, but a very brilliant mind in calculating War Strategies, that had, either a ninety to one hundred percent chance of success. "Alright Mount up, we are already suppose to be on standby!" she ordered.

"Yes mam!" the other pilots called out, as they each floated towards their respective Machines.

Back with the Minerva:

"Captain, Rey is unable to launch via catapult." Meyrin told her captain, as Talia nodded.

She then looked forward, "Get Rey equipped, and have him go out Manually, he is still able to." Talia commanded. "Get him to protect this ship from those mobile suits." she ordered.

With that, the White ZAKU Phantom was equipped with a Blaze Pack, and floated out itself, as Athrun looked around, trying to think of what to do, to get Minerva back into this fight.

Neo then sensed, Rey, "This feeling, another one, so they are both out there." he noted on the Girty Lue's bridge. "I'm heading out there, all you got to do Ian, is sink that ship." he ordered, as he left.

"Yes sir." Ian told him. "Get us into position, and prepare to fire all our Gottfrieds at the target!" Ian ordered.

Rey flew on through, as he fired his beam rifle, destroying a Dagger L, as he continued on by. "I need to keep these guys busy." he thought to himself, as he flew on by the last one. With that, he sensed, something, another one like him.

That other was Neo who flew the Exus once again, "Now white Baldy, lets see how well you are, when your friends deal with my own friends." he mused, as he raced towards the White ZAKU.

"Commander, I see him." one of the Dagger L's told his commander. The Dopplehorn Dagger L pilot went towards the ZAKU. "I got him!" he called out.

"No Stop you fool!"

With that, Miller, flew towards the ZAKU. "Die you Space Monster!" he called out.

However, the White Phantom turned, and saw him incoming, taking two beam rifle shots, to one of his Shoulder Shields, and then fired off a shot of his own, however his wasn't blocked. Miller was no more, as the beam shot through the mobile suit, adding it to the debris as well.

"Miller!" Neo called. "Alright Baldy, now its personal." he added, as the Exus' thrusters went to full power as it went for the white Machine.

Rey saw him coming, as he dodged the four beam onslaught from the mobile armor. "Just who is this guy?" he wondered, dodgeing the beams, and fireing his own rifle once again. However, the gunpods dodged the attacks, as the ZAKU dodged the main body of the mobile armor. "He's good." he added.

Archangel Class ship Archai - Bridge:

Glaeser smirked, "Are they any closer yet?" he questioned. "Unlike them, were not of Phantom Pain, so we are still to follow that damn treaty." he said a bit annoyed.

"No commander no change, our Dagger's are still out of sight though, they have yet to be detected." one of his officers told him.

Glaeser just layed back, "Argh, damn bounds." he said, tapping his fingers on the armrest. "I just want one of those ships." he commented. "Always foiling my fun." he added. "How is my daughter though, is she doing alright?" he asked, as he turned to the CIC. Inside, in the heads chair, was Rosa Menyar, a shoulder length brown haired woman, with hazel eyes, and purple lipstick, sat there. She smirked.

"Doing just fine sir." she told him. The woman was a kind hearted girl, and was once known as 'Mother' to several children. Just then she felt something, "Sir, I sense, another one, there is more then just three like me out here." she informed him.

She was right, A good distance away from the Archai, floated a ship under the cloak of Mirage Colloid, floated there. On the bridge, a male, with long white hair, watched the battle ensue. From his upper lip, to between his eyes, and above his right eye, was a scar that had the guy shown as knowing combat before. He just smirked watching the battle unfold. "So this is the abilities, of ZAFT's second line of mobile weapons?" he questioned.

"So it seems captain." another man told him, as he looked out to the battle. The one that spoke was a black haired male, as he cracked his knuckles watching out into the battle.

"How is the Mirage Colloid doing?" the white haired male asked.

One member worked at his station, "Commander Banken, we still have an hour until it falls." he noted.

"I understand, keep the ship hidden, I'm going out there, I want to test these toys." Banken told them, turning to leave the ship.

Back with the battle, Shinn flew really close to the Proto Saviour as the two mobile suits, clashed their respective melee weapons together. "Just who is this guy?" Shinn questioned, as they broke apart, and he fired a volley of missiles at the mobile suit.

The Black Gundam stopped its thrust, and went backwards, as the missiles came at him. Transforming, and opened fire with its CIWs. The Missiles exploded, and with that, Shinn fired, his Kerbero's beam cannons through the smoke. But that was just the gist of it, soon, two Plasma bolts fired through as well, as the four beams met, with an explosion where they did meet. "is that it of him?" he questioned, however he got his answer, as the black Gundam came through again, beam saber ignited. "Shit!" he called out, as He turned to dodge, only to have his Silhouette, destroyed by the Vajra beam saber. "Damn him. Sagira, could you send over the Force right now?" he asked.

Sagira, who just dodged a beam rifle shot from the Blitz, as she nodded. "Roger, that sending it your way now." she told him, as the DRAGOON flyer with the Force Silhouette left them, and went for Shinn.

Shinn nodded, as he brought out his beam rifle that was sitting on the back of the Core Splendor, and aimed at the Gundam and fired. The beam bounce off of the Proto Saviour's anti beam shield like it was nothing, and returned fire on its own. Shinn dodged it, and fired another volley of missiles, to distract the Gundam as the DRAGOON flyer came in. As the Proto Saviour fired to destroy the missiles, Shinn detached his Blast Silhouette, as the DRAGOON Flyer detached its own. Soon the Impulse was equipped with its maneuverable pack, and his shield extended to its full size. His phase shift changed, to what it's main version was, and flew towards the Black Gundam.

"Well, the reports were right." Ile noted, as the two machines exchanged beam rifle fire, with one another. "It is like the Testament." he commented, on the machine they had.

Nearby on an old Colony surface, Stellar's Gaia Gundam charged for the Red ZAKU. However Luna wore a red coat for a reason. She grabbed her Tomahawk, and threw it at the Gaia Gundam. Only to miss, however she planned on that, and shoulder tackled the Gaia to the ground. Not doing any damage to the machine, but shaking up the pilot instead. "She's still getting up?" Luna questioned, as she saw the Gaia get up again, and change to its mobile suit form.

"You're going to pay for that." Stellar growled, drawing one of her Vajra beam saber with that, she charged for the ZAKU who side stepped the attack, and flew towards the handle of her Tomahawk, and grabbed it, activating the beam weapon. "Get back here!" Stellar called out, as she fired her beam rifle at the retreating ZAKU.

Luna's main cannon snapped into position. "I'm not going anywhere." she noted, as the Gaia was giving chase. "I just wanted you right there!" she called out, as the mobile suit turned, and fired the beam cannon assault weapon.

Stellar saw the weapon, and transformed, jumping out of its path, as where she once was, instantly vaporized. Just then, Luna got a message, "The Minerva is stuck?" she questioned.

At the same time, Shinn, and Sagira got the message. "What, damn!" Shinn yelled.

Sagira shook her head, "Talia, we can't bail you all out all the time." Sagira noted. Just then, both the Zephyr and Blitz had to dodge two beams at the same time. "What the?" Sagira wondered, as she then saw the culprit. A Black Mobile suit sized version of Neo's Exus flew towards them. Two DRAGOON units, attached to the mobile armor, as the who back part with the thrusters detatched. Soon the machine reverted to a Mobile suit, that was much like the Aegis Gundam, and had its backpack reattached, as it reformed. Sagira cocked an eyebrow as she saw it.

Shaai was wide eyed under her mask, "The Voyager?" she questioned.

She was right, and inside, was Banken, wearing a black and white pilots suit, much like an Earth Forces version. "Can I join in the fun?" Banken questioned.

"You!" Shaai called onto his Radio. "What are you doing here? You have nothing for this place, nothing to give, and nothing to take!" she told him, as Banken sneered.

"Oh, my dear Shaai, its been a while." Banken told her. "But I don't really care, but I would like to test out my new system, that I came up with over the past year." he told her. "And I plan on using it on that one." he added, as he went for the Zephyr.

Sagira smiled, "They never learn." she commented, as the machine came at her. The Voyager, emitted a beam saber from its right forearm, as it came down towards the Zephyr, only to be stopped by the beam tomahawk. "Shinn, Luna, help out the Minerva, I'll cover yeahs!" she ordered, as her DRAGOON flyers, went after her team.

Shinn and Luna nodded, as they stopped their sorties, and went for the Minerva. Banken smirked, "Badmove sending your own help to go help your team." he mused, as his machine thrusted forward. Sagira smirked, as the two machines, went back and forth, beam saber, and tomahawk clashing, as they passed each other.

"Raghhh!" Banken yelled, as he emitted a second saber, and went for her machine. However, one saber was stopped by her axe, the other by her shoulder shield. With that, though the Zephyr grabbed a grenade, and just let go of it. The Grenade opened up, and began to open fire on the Voyager, with machine gun fire. "What the?" he wondered, as he backed away as he was pelted by machine gun rounds.

"Bad move." Sagira told him, even though her foe could not hear her, as she fired off her DRAGOONs. The beams went for Banken, who detached his four, to deflect the beams with his own Geschmeidig Panzer system. "I see, that defense, which is no match like this!" she called, as she cleaved one of the DRAGOON's in half with her beam tomahawk.

"What?" he questioned, as he saw her coming at him next. He activated his machines left foot's beam saber, as it blocked the beam axe. "I'm not going down like that, but I had enough, for now. I'm sure we will meet again." he told her, as his Machine vanished, under Mirage Colloid.

Sagira had a questionable look, "That was, easy." she noted. However, she turned in time, to deflect a beam from the Blitz again.

"Now where were we?" Shaai questioned.

The Minerva Bridge:

Ahmed looked around, "Does anyone have any ideas? Or do we all die here today?" he questioned.

Arthur turned to him, "We are trying the best we can." he told the bodyguard.

Talia nodded, "This kind of situation, isn't always presented itself to people." Talia told him, as Athrun thought of something.

He nodded to himself, "Captain, how many starboard weapons and thrusters you have left?" he asked her.

Talia turned to him, "What are you asking, I can't give such information to a civilian." she told him. "Even if you are Athrun Zala." she added.

Gilbert Durandal shook his head, at Talia's sudden words, "Now Talia, we should listen to Athrun, or Alex. He was a member of the Creuset Team, back in the last war, and saved the Planet. We should listen to his idea, I give permission as well, about the info you are so worried about." he told her.

"But Chairman!" Arthur protested.

He then shrugged, "Just call it that we trust him enough with it." Durandal told the Black uniformed man.

"Very well, Arthur, tell Athrun what we got, then use his plan." Talia ordered.

Arthur then nodded, "Yes mam." he told her, as he began to note off, what Starboard weapons and thrusters, they have left. "We have six thrusters left, and weapons are at max." Arthur told him.

Athrun nodded, "Alright, have all thrusters go at full power, and fire all weapons to the starboard side." Athrun told them.

"Are you mad?" Arthur questioned. "The resulting Debris would crush us in an instant." Arthur protested.

Talia though shook her head, "No Arthur, I believe this is what we should do, I rather take this chance rather then being a sitting duck." she told him.

"But Captain!" Arthur called out.

"Just do it!" she ordered.

Arthur straightened and did what he was told. Ahmed leaned over to Athrun, "Hey man, is it just me, or are you becoming more like a Resistance fighter now?" he asked.

Athrun shrugged, "It just seemed like a good plan at the time." he replied.

Talia, began to order, "All hands brace for multiple impacts, Fire anti beam deph charges on the port side. When we get the bow into position, I want the Taunhauser targeted on Bogey One" she ordered.

Ian nodded, on the Girty Lue, "All weapons fire!" he called out, as the Gottfrieds fired. However the beam were suddenly weakened as the Minerva fired Deph chargest that weakend the beams on its port side.

Talia nodded, "Now's our chance, FIRE!" she ordered.

"Fire!" Arthur repeated, and soon, the Starboard thrusters, activated, the guns fired.

Matisse, and Ian, were confused, as the Minerva fired the point blank range target of an asteroid. "What are they trying to do, destroy themselves?" Ian questioned.

As outside, Alex, flew past flying debris from the resulting attack. Do to his experience with the machine, he was having good success with the maneuvers. However, the two that he fought, being in Machines with this being their first sortie, were not as successful. However, they were not destroyed, do to that they were being protected by the phase shift armor of their machines. "Damn it." Auel yelled, as he fired his Callidus, destroying a large chunk infront of him.

"What were they thinking?" Sting wondered, as he flew past another chunk.

That was when they found out, the Minerva emerged from the dust cloud of debris, with its main bow cannon, wide open. It was the ships, QZX-1 "Tannhäuser" Positron Blaster Cannon. "Fire Tannhäuser" Arthur ordered, as the bream of red, and swirling white energy fired from the ships bow.

Ian acted immediatly, "Evade!" he ordered, as the ship went to its port side. However, it did not fully evade the blast. Its starboard side, was melted away, with several hull breaches, destroyed weapon systems, and just plain old melted away parts of the ship. "Send out the signal flares, get us out of here!" Ian ordered.

"But sir Neo hasn't commanded ah. . ." a soldier told him.

"I don't care. I will take full responsiblity, we can't fight them, with them back in." Ian ordered.

Neo nodded, as he saw the flare, while dodgeing. "This seems like a good time to do so." he admitted, dodgeing another beam from the White ZAKU phantom. "Shaai!" he called.

With that, the Blitz, moved underneath a bunch of beams from the DRAGOON's of Sagira's Mobile suit and clashed her beam sabers with her beam axe. "What is it love?" she questioned, as the Blitz flew past the mobile suit, and fired a pair of railgun blasts, courtesy of her backpack she had chosen.

"We're leaving." he told her, as two of his gunpods flew towards a piece of debris, slicing it in two, to make more of an obstacle for the ZAKU to get to him.

"Oh alright." Shaai said, as her Machine vanished under Mirage Colloid.

"Effective move." Sagira admitted, as she saw the carnage of what the Minerva had done to the Girty Lue. "So, they are retreating." she admitted, as she flew towards the ship.

Gaia, and Proto Saviour turned, and ran, as they saw the signal, both pilots actually knowing it was the sign to leave. Shinn and Luna watched them go. "Did we win?" Luna wondered.

Shinn shrugged, "How am I suppose to know?" he questioned. With that, the Zephyr flew beside them. "Commander, are you alright?" he questioned, as he then saw the four remote flyers with her.

She nodded, "I'm fine Shinn, its time to return to the ship. You two, Miss Hawke." Sagira told them, and soon, flew off towards the ship. In moments, the two Mobile Suits, followed suit.

Mendeleev, After the Battle:

Alex, floated down the halls of the Nazca, as he entered onto the bridge. "Lia, how bad is the damage?" he questioned, landing not far from the captain, in white. Lia smirked a bit, "Miminal damage, A few of our CIWs, are gone, and our cannon has taken damage. We will be able to make repairs out here. However, as you know, we lost two of our Machines, all we got left, are the other GuAIZ R's." She admitted.

"I see." Alex said in a cold tone, looking around. "Any word on the Minerva's condition?" he asked. "I understand, both of our ships, will be here for a while, repairing." he commented, as the brown haired woman nodded.

"Yes, for now anyways. Lady Cagalli, has a shuttle coming for her, her body guards, and Durandal." she told him, as Alex snorted.

"I don't know why, but I can't seem to trust him." Alex told her.

With that, she slapped him on the back of the head. "You know not to say things like that." she scolded him.

Minerva:

Talia, Durandal, Cagalli, Ahmed, and Athrun floated down the hall, as Athrun turned to the ships captain. "Miss Gladys'?" Athrun asked, as she turned to him, with a questionable look, of curiosity of what he wanted to tell her. "I should apolgize, I overstepped my bounds as a civilian onboard a military vessel." he told her.

She smiled a bit, "There is no need to apologize, 'Alex'" she told him. "Infact, if it wasn't for your quick thinking, we might not be talking right now." she told him. "But for now, you all should rest. There is a shuttle coming here, for the four of you." she told them each.

Durandal nodded, "I understand." he admitted.

"I'm going to go think about a few things." Athrun admitted, as he began to go down the hall.

"Alex." Cagalli said, going over to him.

"Its alright Cagalli." Athrun 'Alex' told her. "I just. . . I just want to think of somethings." he told her, leaving.

"Athrun." Cagalli said rather quiet, as she felt Ahmeds hands on her shoulders. "Ahmed." she said looking at him, and then at Athrun.

Ahmed just nodded, "This could be a new war starting Cagalli, I think we should let him be." he told her, as she nodded.

Athrun, walked through the halls, as he made it to the Minerva's Lounge.

The lone member, of the Orb civilization, sat on the comfortable accommodation, of the ships lounge, and layed back. "Is it all happening again?" he wondered. With that, he remembered, the collapsed remains of the Heliopolis Colony, two years ago.As well as some of the fights with in.

Gunfire, ensured, around them, as they approached the stationary mobile suits. Then Athrun turned, to see, a fellow red coat go down. "Rusty!" he called out.

Athrun grimaced, of losing his friend, to the Earth forces, that day. Then not long before the fall, he thought of Miguels fall, to Kira, and the Sword Strike.

Meanwhile:

"I am finding it hard to believe Alex Dino is really Athrun Zala." Shinn said abruptly, as not long ago, the pilots learned of from Meyrin about the news of Athrun Zala.

Luna shook her head, "I told you, even the representative called him Athrun, I'm sure of it." she told them, as Rey, and Sagira were a pair of silent walkers.

"Interesting a famous war hero, would come to this ship with Attha." Sagira commented, as each member was back to their normal uniforms, with Luna, and Sagira in their custom variations of the ZAFT uniform. "I wonder, how many more of them are close by?" she questioned, as they came closer and closer to the hall.

Meyrin then perked up, as she turned to them walking backwards, as they entered the lounge. "Yeah, and get this, he was the one that. . ." she began, as the pilots looked in, to see Athrun sitting. Meyrin turned to see him, and almost instantly, went and hid behind Rey.

Sagira tilted her head a bit, "So the famous Athrun Zala." she noted, looking at him. "Quite the site of a famous war hero, going by a different name." she added.

Athrun just looked up at her. "Sorry, but you got the wrong guy. I'm just Alex." Athrun told each of them.

Shinn shook his head, 'This guy, supposedly a war hero, and he just says he is someone he isn't?' he thought to himself.

Athrun looked over, "Its you, I get the feeling you have something against Orb." he told the hotshot pilot of the Impulse.

Shinn, just had an angered look towards Athrun. "So, what?" he asked.

Athrun shrugged, "Just wondering, as you said some harsh things about my friends family." Athrun told him.

Shinn grunted, "People like you from Orb, would never understand." he told the blue haired pilot, and left the room.

"Shinn." Rey and Luna called after him, but they were a bit late, the pilot had left.

PLANT: ZAFT Observation Station:

The room full of terminal's that kept an eye, on pretty much everything of ZAFT Territory, and throughout the area. One soldier, who was taking a drink of water from his container, as he noticed his monitor saying something. "Hey commander!" he called.

"Yes?" a tall man with brown hair came over, to look over his subodinates shoulder.

"Sir, something isn't right with this. It says that the ruins are moving, but, that's impossible." the soldier told him, as the officer took a look.

The image, was of the orbital pattern, from within the Debris belt, most notebly on the screen though, that the data that signified Junius Seven, was showing an unstable Orbit, and was off course with the original planned direction of its orbit. "This is not right, inform the council, and inform Chairman Durandal!" he ordered.

Minerva:

The Ship, floated within the Debris, as Mechanical crews, repaired the damage that was dealt to the hull to the ship. While on the bridge, Arthur was in command, and was busy getting reports, of the damage's and repairing reports.

While at the same time, Talia was in the captains quarters, looking at her screen, and then resting back into her seat.

While in another room, Shinn Asuka, sat on his bed, with a pink cellphone behind him. The stained phone just rested on the counter, as he then went and picked it up, flipping open the phone. He then went to voice mail. "Hey there, this is Mayu, sorry that I can't talk right now, please leave a message. Beep" The Cellphone chirped, as he then felt something wrap arms around him. He felt two soft things rest on his back.

The figure that grabbed him, leaned to his ear, "You still miss her don't you?" came an all to familiar voice to him.

He nodded, "Yes, I do Commander." he admitted, as he looked to see the azure blue eye, and long platinum hair of Sagira, beside him.

A/N: The first real battle for the Minerva has begun and finished. I know some things are a bit odd for this, but I winged it to fit this series. And to give some people strong foes to fight, rather then having it one sided.

And it seems, Sagira is in Shinn's room, just what is going on here?

I'm sorry if this chapter is late, which I know it is, is because I work on the weekdays, and I don't have a whole lot of writing inspiration when I get home. Please Read and Review.