Chapter 1

After their fight between the PLANTS, Kira and the others made their way back to space to hide from the PLANTS. They were all tired from all the fighting, especially Kira. " *sigh* That battle with the PLANTS was ferocious, especially the battle with the Strike," said Kira. Athrun replied, "Yeah…. C'mon, let's have a rest, I'm sure you'll need it." "Yeah," replied Kira.

Few days have past

"Huuuaaaammmm! (While walking around the Archangel) This place never been this peaceful!" said Kira. Kira finally reached the command center where Lacus is; "Hi Kira!" smiled Lacus. "Hi," answered Kira. "So how're you feeling?" "I'm fine, how 'bout you? You haven't taken a rest ever since the fight between the PLANTS on Earth." "Well, I wanted to make sure that the Archangel is in great shape for the next fight." Kira was worried; he'd been having a bad feeling ever since the fight with the PLANTS.

Suddenly, there was an explosion. "What was that?" Kira asked, he tried checking the status outside the ship through the cameras. "It's them! They're back!" Lacus exclaimed.

"Everyone in his or her stations! Prepare for battle!" shouts Murrue. Everyone quickly went in to their mobile suits and took off. Kira and the others are already in the battlefield, Kira had already defeated most of the zakus, but before Kira was going back, more zakus came with Rey and Shinn. Shinn still doesn't know who the pilot of the Freedom is. "Hey Rey, you take Athrun while I take on the Freedom," "Are you sure? Can you take him down without breaking down?" asked Rey. "Yeah, I wanna beat him up first before I kill him, he has to suffer for what he did to Stella," said Shinn.

Kira and Athrun were fighting the zakus together, but Shinn and Rey came. "Kira look out!" shouts Athrun. Shinn attacked Kira with the laser beam and Kira was able to dodge him but the laser beam caught some part of the mobile suit, and because of it, Kira is having some trouble with the controls. Kira was able to dodge Shinn, but he can't attack Shinn, Athrun saw what is happening and tried to safe him but… "Hey!" Rey exclaimed, "You're fighting me!" "Tsk!"

"I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO STELLA!" shouted Shinn. And he was going berserk on Kira.

Kira was trying his best to dodge all of Shinn's attacks, but he wasn't fast enough to dodge him. He was also badly injured, the glass on his helmet broke, it made his forehead bleed and it stabbed Kira on the stomach. Athrun tried to contact him but the radio on Kira's mobile suit was broken. "Now to finish you off," said Shinn, but before he could finish Kira off, Durandal orderd Shinn not to kill him but take him as hostage also he wants to ask some questions to Kira. "But sir…" "That is an order Shinn! Call the others too, we need to arrange another plan, " Shinn was not too happy about the plan but an order is an order. So he told Rey and the others to retreat while he took the Freedom with the pilot back to its mother ship. Athrun didn't know what happen until he saw the Freedom being taken by them.

Athrun went to Kira as quick as possible, but the battle between Rey almost exhausted all of his mobile suit's energy. Shinn, Rey and the others have all returned to their ships and retreated, with Kira as their hostage. Athrun was furious that he couldn't save his best friend, so Athrun with all the other pilots returned to the Archangel.

This is my first time posting this…so I hope you enjoyed it