Chapter 24 A Noble Sacrifice
"All AA guns open fire turn Gottfried and make sure that none of those missiles hit the Earth." ordered Captain Flaga as the Archangel's AA guns began opening up on the flying mass of enemy missiles not knowing which ones contained nukes.
"I will not yet a single missile get though!" yelled Mu La Flaga as the Akatsuki opened up trying to protect his wife's ship. Suddenly a massive flash of blinding light filled the sky as a nuke hit a nearby Zaft ship. The ship disappeared in a massive fireball that consumed a nearby EA ship and several mobile suits.
Meanwhile on board the space battle fort Heero rushed toward Wing Angel. "Sir you need to get in your space suit." said an engineer as Heero jumped into Wing Angel
"No time." said Heero as he turned on Wing Angel and transferred command and control to the Angle system.
On the Earth Leilani like so many others were looking up at the night sky but at the moment blinding flashes of light. Leilani didn't need to watch the battle in space on TV to know what was going on.
"We need to get up there." said Leilani
"Our orders are to hold the capital." said Uzumi over the radio.
"To hell with our orders, there will be no capital or any other city if any of those Nukes get though." said Victor as Leilani smiled. "And I don't know about you but my weapons aren't that useful in shooting those things down once they enter the atmosphere."
"I'm good with it." said Rhyu "I never really liked fighting on the Earth."
"Alright, everyone find a transport from your nearest space pot and launch at once." said Uzumi
"What about following our orders?" asked Victor
"Victor a general rule to follow when it comes to Leilani is she is always right." said Uzumi
"I thought that rule applied to all woman." said Victor with a laugh as all the boys started to laugh along with him.
"If we were not under the threat of being killed in a giant nuclear fire ball I would hurt you all right now." said Leilani
"WHAT!" yelled Lunamaria Yuy as reports started to come into the Seraphim.
"Wufei has launched a nuclear strike against Heero." said Athrun
"Heero….Leilani." thought Luna as he thoughts turned to her husband and daughter who were currently under threat of nukes. "Athrun get a booster ready I am going to help my family."
"It is already ready." said Athrun "Go help them we will take over the lunar base."
Another ship explodes in a nuclear fireball as an Orb ship exploded. However they were not going down without a fight, their Gottfrieds and missiles found their marks and Preventer mobile suits and mobile suit transports exploded in their own smaller fireball.
Heero and Wing Angel flew out of the battle station and instantly launched all it's dragoon pods and splitting his buster rife. A globe appeared in front of Heero as the system began picking target. Soon the sky was filled with beams as Wing Angel began shooting down the nuclear missiles that Wufei still was shooting off at them.
Meanwhile on Earth Relena stood on the deck of the Aircraft carrier looking up at the night turned day sky smiling at the flashes of light every time a nuke went off in space. "Very good Wufei." said Relena to herself.
On the outskirts of Washington just beyond the point were the Orb, Zaft and EA had stopped their advance. Stood the young but powerful Senator Mariemaia Khushrenada. "This isn't right." said Mariemaia as another explosion happened
"Senator Khushrenada we need to keep going, we need to get you to the bunker." said a perventer guard
"Yes, we need to hurry." said Senator Khushrenada as she got back into a black armored SUV.
Murre Flaga snapped back in her chair as a nuke exploded nearby "Captain that shook wave just knocked out or front AA guns." reported an officer "And those new shields are down quite a bit."
"We need those AA back one line." Ordered Flaga
"Captain we have a nuke missile heading toward the Earth!" yelled the radar officer
"Can we shot it down?" asked Flaga
"No." said the officer
"Full power to the engines." ordered Flaga as the crew looked at her.
"Archangel what are you doing?" asked Mu la Flaga as the engines of the Archangel kicked up and pushed forward. Suddenly his wife's face appeared on his screen.
"Mu tell our kids why I had to do this and that I love them." said Murre the image disappeared as a nuke went off on the Archangel's energy shield but the explosion was too powerful and the shield came crashing down.
"You ready?" asked Leilani as she and victor found what could possible be the last mobile suit transport shuttle at the space port.
"Ya." said Victor as he zipped up his flight suit.
"Now you see why we always were ours." said Leilani as she took control of the shuttle remotely using her computer system.
"Ya." said Victor "You can launch."
"Alright here we go." said Leilani as the shuttle's engines engaged and they began to climb up into orbit.
As the flash started to disappear even Heero turn to see what was left of the legendary Archangel. The entire right side of the legendary ship was all but gone but the bridge seamed to still be intact.
"MURRUE!" yelled Mu's voice over the radio as his wife opened eyes as she sat up. She had been thrown out of her chair.
"Mu." said Murrue as she pulled herself to her chair. She could feel her blood run down her arm.
"Thank God your alive." said Mu "What were you thinking?"
"It was either us or an entire city on Earth." said Murrue
"Murrue get your crew out of there." said Heero as he cut in.
"You don't have to tell me again." said Murrue as she hit her speaker system. "All hands abandon ship."
"Admiral I am sticking the ships AA guns to automatic. That way we still have those guns." said Murrue
"Transfer control of the ship to me." said Heero
"What are you planning?" asked Mu
"You will see." said Heero as the Angle system got control of the Archangel.
"Admiral we have three shuttles coming up from planet side." Said an operator
"Another enemy?" asked Heero
"No, we have IFF of the gundams." said the operator as the shuttles reached the battlefield. They opened up and the other gundams appeared on the battlefield.
"Sir, we are out of nukes." Said a Preventer operator on Peace Million
"How many did we destroy?" asked Wufei
"About ¾ of their fleet and mobile suits but their gundams and that battle station is still intact." Said the operator
"Send in our mobile suits, launch our gundams and swarm them." said Wufei before he turned to look at Zechs "Come on Lightening Count lets go kill Heero Yuy."
"Leilani what are you doing here I told you to stay on Earth?" asked Heero as Wing II shot down a Leo.
"Well we saw what was going on and we wanted to help." said Leilani
"For once I am happy you disobeyed an order." said Heero with a smile as he noticed Wufei and the other gundams launching from Peace Million.
"Angel Squad Line up." ordered Heero as the gundams lines up minus the Akatsuki who was protecting the shuttles that was carrying the wounded off the Archangel.
"What are your orders, sir?" asked Umize as he lined up along side Heero
"Pick a target and destroy it." said Heero "Rhyu I want you to snipe those mobile suit transports I don't want to keeping dodging missile fire."
"Yes, sir." said Rhyu as he pulled back and raised his rife. "I'll cover you."
"Good and I have Wufei." said Heero with hate in his voice and in his eyes. "You have gone too far Wufei I will not this carry on."
"Looks like they are lining up against us." said Wufei with a grin "I have Heero."
"Commander." said a Preventer officer in Wufei's ear. "We have an enemy fleet heading toward the lunar base fast."
"I DON"T CARE!" yelled Wufei as charged toward Heero.
"I want Dimitri." said Leilani
"Then you can have him." said Umize as he sent out the list of targets for the rest of the group.
"Commander Maxwell we need your backing on this." said Senator Mariemaia Khushrenada
"Do you have my family?" asked Duo
"Yes, your daughter and wife are safe." said Mariemaia "We also have the governors and local commanders of the colony along with many base commanders on Earth."
"Alright, send the message I get things ready here." said Duo
"Finally it's you an me Heero!" yelled Wufei as he clashed against Heero
"Tell me Wufei do you not feel anything for all the people you killed?" asked Heero "If one of our ships hadn't taken the blow Millions would of died on Earth."
"Those weaklings do not matter, only the strongest have the right to live." said Wufei as Heero's eyes narrowed.
"It is time to teach you a lesson Wufei." said Heero as he pushed a button on his control panel. Suddenly the now abounded Archangel's engines came to life as it started to move forward.
"What is your dad doing?" asked Rhyu as the Archangel came screaming past him heading straight toward Peace Million 3.
"He is taking a page out of his old playbook." said Leilani as the Archangel flew past her battle between her and Dimitri.
"It's going to ram us!" yelled an officer on the Peace Million
"Move the ship!" yelled the commander as the Archangel came closer and closer.
"We can't!" yelled the officer as Archangel crashed into Peace Million the 3rd just like the original Peace Million crashed into Libra all those years ago. However before anyone onboard the ship could escape or do anything the Archangel power core went critical and exploded taking Peace Million with it.
"Goodbye Archangel." said Heero as he watched what remained of the legendary ship turn into dust.
Meanwhile inside a bunker located in Ohio a TV camera turned on and began broadcasting out across all Earth and Space. "We have all seen the battle raging over our planet either on our TV sets or just looking up into the night sky. We saw as our enemies protected us from nukes fired by the force we created to protect us." said Senator Khushrenada "Nukes, we agreed after the tragedy at the Neo-planets that we would be a nuke free race and yet our president has ordered the use of nukes. Over the past few weeks we have seen our so called enemies free a planet and a colony from us. We have heard stories and seen evidence about how we may be the ones who destroyed a colony and created coordinators just for war. I used to think that President Dorland could do no wrong but now I see that I was wrong. That Relena Dorland isn't a promoter of peace but instead a promoter of war."
"What are you doing?" asked Relena as she looked at the TV screen.
"So it pains me to tell her this but the Congress has passed a vote no confidence and has stripped her of the office of president. The Senators have asked me to take the reigns of president away until we can hold an election."
"WHAT!" yelled Relena as her Preventer guard ran into the room.
"President Dorland we need to get you out of here." said Preventer officer "We don't know what the commander of this ship will do. We have a chopper standing by."
"Let's get going." said Relena as she headed toward the flight deck.
"As my second order, I am ordering all forces to stand down." said President Khushrenada "Until we learn the truth behind everything."
Well two major things happened first the Archangel was destroyed while protecting the Earth from a nuke hit. Then it destroyed Peace Million Three. Second Relena was kicked out of office but do you think Relena will give up her office that easy? Well I hope you have a good Halloween. Now I thank you all for the reviews and I ask that you keep on reviewing. Thanks Wilkins75.