Chapter 8 Nightfall and Firestorm
It felt so good to Leilani to be back in space, maybe because both her parents grew up in space she always felt great in space. However that feeling didn't take away from the fact that Commander Chang Wufei was briefing them on their mission. "This is operation Nightfall, the beginning of the end for coordinators. Your goal in the mission is simple to make take one of their bases on the moon so that we can use it as frontline base to remove the coordinators." said Wufei as images of their target came up.
"Not good, that is Copernicus." thought Leilani "that is full of innocent people if they get mobile suits inside those people are all but dead."
"Now for your assignments." said Wufei "The new gundams will be stationed along with the original gundam pilots on the flag ship Peace Million III. The other mobile suits will be placed on transports and jump away on the side. Now once you are on their side we have located four gates that will lead into the center of the base. Head for one of those entrances and get inside to take control of the base."
"Sir what is the strength of the enemy?" asked Marena
"Strong but we have more machines and the element of surprise." said Wufei
"No you don't." thought Leilani
"Remember because of the limited number of jump drive we can't send all our forces, you all are the best of the best so head to your ships and prepare yourselves for battle." said Wufei
An hour later Leilani floated down the hallway in a grey flight suit. "The time is almost here." thought Leilani as she entered the hanger where her mobile suit transport sat being loaded up with the different machines.
"Leilani!" yelled Victor as he floated up to her. Unlike her he was dressed in a black space suit his long hair floating behind him.
"Is something wrong Victor?" asked Leilani
"Nothing really I just wanted to say goodbye." Said Victor "And be careful you will be on your own for about ten minutes."
"I'll be fine." Said Leilani as she remembered her preventer mission "Locate enemy hangers and paint them with a laser for a missile strike."
"I know it's just I am worried about you." said Victor
"I can look after myself." said Leilani and without even thinking she added "But thank you for worrying." Then out of the blue Victor hugged her.
"I know." said Victor as Leilani's eyes widened at Victor's actions but her body instantly relaxed. "Just be careful."
"You too." said Leilani as her heart started to sink "This will be the last time we meet as friends Victor, soon we will officially be on opposing sides."
"See you soon Leilani." said Victor as he floated away. Leilani lowered her head as a single tear ran down her check.
"No, you won't." said Leilani as she put on the helmet before heading to the carrier.
A couple of minutes later Leilani sat inside her Leo as the carrier flew away from the base. "Three…two…one." said Leilani as the ship jumped away.
"Now is the time." said Leilani as she opened the hatch below her suit causing her suit to launch.
"Ensign Hawke what are you doing?" asked the captain
"That is Ensign Yuy, Orb special forces." said Leilani as she put her suit in front of the shuttle "And I am sorry."
"Launch the suits!" ordered the captain as Leilani her pulled her sword and cut the ship in two causing a giant fireball that destroyed the ship.
Leilani lowered her sword as she looked at her hands, the hands that had just killed those people "Leilani you can't think about their deaths right now you have to save your home." thought Leilani as she hit her radio. "Ensign Leilani Yuy calling Angel Squad Command."
"Leilani." said Heero as he appeared on the screen
"Dad, they are coming." said Leilani "There main force will be here in less than 10 minutes, I took out the scouting force but that will not stop them."
"I see, what is their target?" asked Heero
"They want to make a beachhead at Copernicus." said Leilani "Dad we can't let them inside the city."
"We will not." said Heero "Send any data you have to command and head to point orange 9 yellow 15."
"But Dad that's away from the battle." said Leilani
"I know but you can't fight in that suit, you need to pick up your new one." Said Heero as Leilani's eyes widened.
"It's ready?" asked Leilani
"They are all." said Heero "I will meet you up there Leilani."
"I'll be waiting." Said Leilani
Heero cut the link with his daughter before looking at his wife. "You know what order has to be given." said Luna as Heero lowered his head.
"Yes, but I wish I didn't have to give this order." said Heero as he turned to the group of officers. "Send this message to all EA, Orb and Zaft governments, ships and bases. Firestorm target Copernicus enemy forces hitting in under 10 minutes."
Instantly all the officers began sending out the order they wished they never had to send. Firestorm can only be called by one of the legendary three gundam pilots and means that war is threatening the world and angel squad alone can not contain it. It calls on all military forces of the three nations to action.
"Get those mobile suits launching now!" yelled the commander of Copernicus Base as people rushed to get Orb's 3rd Orbital fleet out "I want the fleet out and the people in the bunkers! Come one we are in the target."
"Chairwoman Yamato." said a Zaft captain as Lacus walked toward the command "What are your orders."
"Have all defense stations go online and form a defense line around the plants." Ordered Lacus as she walked up to a large table containing the locations of all Zaft military unites. "I want the 7th and 2nd fleet to move to Copernicus while the 1st and 5th to move around behind where Admiral Yuy believes they will appear."
"At once." said the captain
"How long do we have?" asked Lacus
"Less than 5 minutes." said the captain as a bright red dote appeared on the map. "Looks like your husband is heading into battle?"
"yes." said Lacus "Let's make sure we give them all the support we can."
"What is the situation?" asked Cagalli as she walked into Orb's command room.
"Admiral Yuy has declared a Firestorm target Copernicus." said Admiral Amagi "He and Angel squad are preparing to launch."
"Good, have all but one of fleets move toward Copernicus leave the other above Orb incase they decide to come here." ordered Cagalli
"At once." said Admiral Amagi
"What are the plants and EA doing?" asked Cagalli
"The plants are sending about half their forces their but the other half appears to be forming a defense line around the plants." said Amagi
"Makes sense since they would be the first real target since they are mostly coordinators." said Cagalli
"As for the EA they are launching their fleets but they would be coming from the back side of the moon and their ships are a lot slower then ours or Zafts." said Amagi
"So it will take them far too long to get there." Said Cagalli "The battle maybe over by the time they get there."
"Correct." Said Amagi
"All hands we are launching in less then two minutes." said Captain Murrue Flaga
"But captain this is a brand new ship it will take at least 15 minutes to run though all the check lists." said the helmsman
"We don't have that time." said Athrun as he walked onto the bridge. "We will just have to hope that this ship has the same luck as its predicator."
"Lets hope." said Heero as he and Luna stepped onto the bridge just as the 3rd ship in the archangel class was raised up out of the hanger and its engines coming to life.
"Alright everyone strap in and prepare for launch." ordered Captain Flaga
"All hatches are closed and we are green." said the helms man.
"Alright take off." ordered Captain Flaga as the ship took off into the air slowly at first. Even though it was a bit larger then the Archangel it still moved just as fast. The only noticeable difference between this ship and the Archangel was instead of red paint on the bottom it was blue.
"Let's get up there." ordered Heero as the two Lohengrin cannons lowered.
"Seraphim everything is clear above you so head on up." said Orb ground control
"Fire lohengrin." ordered Flaga as the Orb carrier Seraphim fired it's cannon's increasing it's speed and sending it flying up into space. Leilani sat waiting just above her home waiting. "There is nothing I could of done, they would of killed innocent people I had to kill them." said Leilani as she remembered the explosion of the transport. "I am a mobile suit pilot and a gundam pilot on top of that; I need to get past this."
Flashback
"Daddy?" asked a six year old Leilani as she ran into her father's study. Heero instantly put down his paper work and looked at his daughter.
"Did you enjoy school today Lei?" asked Heero
"No one of the older boys said you have killed people." Said Leilani as Heero lowered his head.
"That is true Leilani." Said Heero
"But Daddy killing people is bad and you are not bad so you couldn't have killed someone." said Leilani with a smile.
"Leilani I have killed more people in my life then I can count." said Heero as Leilani's bright blue eyes widened.
"Why?" asked Leilani
"Leilani…" said Heero as he tried to find the words to explain why he had done evil things.
"Your dad has killed people to help people." said Luna as she appeared in the door. Leilani looked at her mother a confused look covering her face. "Simply put your father killed only bad people who wanted to hurt other people."
"So…Daddy had to do something bad in order to stop something worst from happening." said Leilani "So Daddy is not bad."
"Yes, sweaty now why don't you go outside and play for a bit." said Luna as Leilani walked out of the room.
"Thanks Luna." Said Heero
"You still have a lot to learn about dealing with kids, Heero." said Luna with a grin as she walked out of the room.
End Flashback
"I had no choose I did something bad in order to stop something worst." said Leilani as she looked down at the fast approaching ship.
"Ensign Yuy the door is open." said a voice over the radio as the hanger door opened. Leilani slowly entered the ship. She backed her suit into the hanger across from her stood a shinny new machine. Its color pattern was almost the same as her fathers however its golden bands on the shoulders and running down its chest. It has wing like the original wing except with the top edge being gold. On its arm was a red and white shield almost like Wing Zero and in its other hand was a gun similar to Heaven's Impulse with a rife barrel and under that a short range buster rife barrel.
"Wow." said Leilani as she got out of her Perventer machine and looked up her gundam.
"Glade you could come back." said Uzumi Athha as he looked at Leilani.
"Ya, it's good to be home." said Leilani
"You better hurry up and change out of that suit." said Uzumi "Your parents put it in a locker."
"Thanks." said Leilani as Uzumi headed toward a large blue and white mobile suit that looked like the Justice. Just then Leilani's watched beeped.
"What is it?" asked Uzumi
"Time is up." said Leilani as alarms started going off. "They are here." Just then the enter Preventer fleet jumped in.
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