A/N: well I took your words into consideration and decide to try it with Lucas attacking Heliopolis and competing with ZAFT for the mobile weapons. I modified chapter three accordingly as well. Enjoy and tell me what you think?
Chapter 4
In the Shadows of Heliopolis
The following morning a Marseille III class ship arrived at the neutral colony, as the Earth Alliance transport ship completed docking producers. The old captain of the transport ship laid back in his chair relived as he took off his hat for a moment to relax as he proudly declared to a slightly younger Earth Alliance officer wearing a blue and light blue work crew jump suit.
"There you have it…this old ship has just completed her final mission. You served admirably as an escort Lieutenant La Flaga I am in your debt."
"Sir I am just glad we arrived here without incident." Mwu La Flaga replied. "Any ZAFT vessels in the vicinity?"
"We spotted two but it is no cause for alarm. They know they cannot initiate any hostile action once we are docked."
"Because its neutral territory, what a joke that is." Mwu replied sarcastically.
The old captain laughed before adding. "Well its thanks to them our plans have progressed this far. We are fortunate Earth has recognized Orb as a nation."
"Excuse us captain," The leader of a group of five young military pilots asked. The captain saluted them before they returned the salute before leaving the bridge.
"Think they can handle themselves alone on the ground?" Mwu asked.
"I know they are young, but they are all top-guns selected to be G-pilots…they'll be just fine. However someone like you would stick out like a sore thumb."
At that same moment a distance away from the colony hiding behind a large asteroid where two ZAFT ships, a Nazca class battleship and a Laurasia class frigate. On the bridge of the Nazca class vessel, the captain of the ship and his superior officer were having a discussion about a sensitive matter as two small vessels were launched from the Nazca class battleship moving silently towards the asteroid attached to the colony.
"Don't look so frustrated Ades?" Rau Le Creuset said to his colleague Captain Fredrik Ades.
"Well I suppose it wouldn't be too late if we waited to hear back from the council."
"It will be too late…I have a sixth sense about these things, if we don't seize the moment now we'll later pay with our lives for our reluctance." Rau said as he sent one of the photographs of the new mobile suits drifting by Ades. "The Earth Alliance new mobile weapons…we must seize them before they attempt to move them."
Aboard his own ship, Lucas climbed into his newly modified Egg Mobile as the protective dome closed and sealed around him. Like his father's signature hovercraft the Egg Mobile was a one-man hovercraft with a distinct egg-like shape and a small green circular lamp on the front with reinforced gray metal armor plating on the front, back and around the edges/sides of the vehicle's cockpit while leaving black patches of metal exposed. Going from the left side clear around the back to the other side was a yellow and black striped caution bar right under the metal reinforcement plate that went around the cockpit. And on the sides of the moveable circular lamp on the front where tree-yellow small dome-shaped tips, three for each side making six in all, and finally on the bottom of the craft was a hole where a small red antenna attachment was sticking out while there were small rectangle-shaped red wings on the sides and a red fin on the back side.
Aside from some recent modifications and a custom plush leather seat Lucas's Egg Mobile was identical to his father's where both hovercrafts could be outfitted with an almost endless array of weapons, armor and other gadgets, not to mention it was capable of doubling as the cockpit of someone of Lucas's larger machines with the exception of his own mobile suit.
"This will be too easy…taking those machines and awakening Shadow will be a picnic. As an appetizer I'll crush the Orb and Alliance forces stationed here. Have the Behemoth robots including our SWAT bot raiding parties moved into position?"
"They are ready and awaiting your arrival." Decoe replied as he stood next to the ready Egg Mobile.
"Alright activate the E-100 robots." Lucas ordered, as Decoe turned to five identical robots all-standing at seven feet tall weighing at almost two thousand pounds.
"Alright roll call…first off E-101 Beta," Decoe said as he stood before a black and white with some silver lining E-100 robot with small round green eyes, an egg-shaped body with reserve jointed legs and both arms were built in two guided missile-launchers. The robot eyes blinked twice acknowledging. "Now E-102 Gamma" Gamma like his brothers were identical in design as well, but he had a white, red and gold color scheme with one three-fingered hand on his left arm while his right arm had a energy machine gun that could double as a 15.5 cm smart missile launcher. Like his brother unit Beta blinked its eyes acknowledging Decoe. "Ok moving on, E-103 Delta," The third robot was more identical to Beta with dual missile launchers, but had some improvements to its boosters and a jet pack for flight (Beta, Epsilon, Zeta and Gamma had attachable jet-packs equipped for the upcoming mission), but to set him apart from the others Delta had a blue and silver color scheme.
After getting an acknowledgement from Delta, Decoe moved down the line.
"Ok E-104 Epsilon" The orange and white robot acknowledged the servant of his master. Like Beta and Delta this robot's arms were weapons, but instead of possessing dual small missiles launchers the robot had dual STINGER missile launchers for taking out large vehicles. "Ok last one…E-105 Zeta." Zeta was almost identical to Gamma in everyway including weapons, but he had more of purple, gold and silver color scheme.
"Excellent they are all ready."
"Your objective will be to protect Doctor Robotnik from all harm. If anyone attacks him then eliminate them." Decoe ordered.
"Yes" All five robots said together.
"Our main objective is the recovery of Project Shadow from Morgenroete the machines we'll capture once we eliminated all resistance."
"What about that new battle ship." Decoe asked.
"The Combots have already been deployed to plant explosives when I begin the attack I'll detonate them. The explosives placed in the right places should sink that ship as well as entomb it inside the colony asteroid."
"What should we do?"
"When the attack beings launch the Egg Dolls and have them wipe out all resistance then take out the harbor before moving in. Keep the disguise on the main ship to use it as extra armor until we no longer need it. Keep me posted."
"Yes sir"
"Doctor Robotnik…we detached two ZAFT vessels in the area." Bocoe announced on the overhead speakers.
"I see…so they must have heard about the new mobile weapons too."
"What should we do?" Decoe asked.
"Leave them be for now…but if they try to attack us take them out."
"Yes sir."
"Wish me luck…I'll be back with Shadow." Lucas said as he powered up his Egg Mobile as the crafted floated up into the air before exiting the hanger through one of the small linear catapults with E-100 robots following him providing armed escort.
With Bocoe hacking into Heliopolis's sensor and radar network they wouldn't see the small hovercraft coming, just as they didn't see the smaller robots infiltrate the colony superstructure via maintenance hatches and old passageways that were used by work crews during the colony's construction to move heavy materials through and large machinery.
Lucas had a wide smile on his face as he flew towards the colony deciding to take a maintenance hatch his robots had secured for him.
Around the same time inside the colony, more specifically at the Morgenroete Facility: Kira, Miriallia, and Tolle were inside Professor Kato's lab continuing work on some of Kato's research while the young woman who had arrived late last night was standing with her back against the wall in one corner of the room. Also with them were their other friends Kuzzey Buskirk and Sai Argyle providing assistance with the lab work.
"So what's taking Professor Kato is not like him to take this long?" Kira asked as he was going over a program set up for an exo-skeleton-styled frame they were trying to work on.
"I guess he is held up at an important meeting…he said he had to meet with some of the other researchers today."
As the two talked the young woman tried to open the door to Kato's office, but it was locked.
A short time later inside the asteroid interior of the large floating space chunk that the colony was attached to; a pair of ZAFT red coats in flight suits armed with assault rifles and wearing maneuvering thrusters on their back while carrying a powerful explosive were making their way through the maintenance corridors of the asteroid where they were directly above the Archangel as it sat in dry-dock.
The original raiding and capture unit sent into the colony were moving quietly throughout the area planting explosives timed to go off and destroyed the ship, but as they went about their mission they found that someone else had beaten them to the punch.
"Hey Yzak I thought Dearka and the others had the other sections of the dry dock?" Athrun asked.
"They do, but if they didn't plant this bomb then who did?" Yzak asked.
"Leave our bomb with it and set the timer…we better out of here before this thing goes off. We might have a competitor for those weapons."
Wasting no time Yzak Jule and Athrun Zala quickly fled the area hurrying to rejoin their comrades.
Later near Morgenroete lurking inside the underbelly of the colony, Lucas had joined up with the rest of his gathered robot henchmen. At least thirty SWAT bots equipped with jet packs and maneuvering thrusters armed with laser rifles with grenade launchers attached to them. Accompanying them and standing in for the heavy artillery were ten E-12 Behemoth robots. Giant robots standing at least twelve feet tall with large bodies covered in thick plates of armor with gold lining and large gold clamp-like claws, and a single red sensor eye.
"All forces accounted for…the Combots are taking up positions near Morgenroete to begin infiltration." The lead SWAT bot reported.
"Have all explosives been planted around the Archangel Dry-dock?"
"Affirmative"
"Good…the E-100 robots will follow me to the surface…when the explosion rocks the colony that will be your signal to emerge and attack eliminate all threats and secure the area."
"Understood"
With some assistance the E-12 Behemoth units opened the hatch leading into the colony habitat above them as the E-100 robots remained on the ground while the Egg Mobile ascended into the air while activating its Mirage Colloid cloaking device hiding the craft from sight.
"Attention Egg Fort, begin the attack." Lucas ordered as he sent an audio message to his ship.
Outside the colony a powerful wave of electronic interference suddenly blanketed the area.
"Captain Ades…there is a powerful electronic interference blanketing the entering area. All long-range communications have been completely blocked." A crewmember reported.
"It's not possible...we haven't begun our attack yet?" Ades commented.
"It seems we're not the only ones with an interest in those machines. Get my CCUE prepared for launch." Rau said as he left his chair to make his way to the mobile suit hanger deck. "Launch all mobile suits and move in to conquer the harbor."
"Yes sir"
At that moment aboard the Marseille III class transport class ship, the captain was alerted to the powerful electronic interference blanketing the area.
"Captain all long range communications have been completely blocked out."
"Are the ZAFT ships behind this?" The captain asked.
"No sir…no ZAFT ship is capable of this kind of level of electronic interference." A crewmember replied.
"Damn…have Gale and Luke board their Moebius units, but don't launch them yet." Mwu said as he hurried to the hanger to get ready to launch in his own machine.
Suddenly twenty Egg Dolls were launched from disguised Egg Fort as most of them assumed a defensive formation around the ship while two were heading towards the harbor. On his ship the Vesalius, Rau was entering the hanger when he was informed of the deployment of odd mobile suits.
"Ades change course and move to the other side of the colony."
"Sir?"
"We do not know their combat capabilities…if we can avoid a battle with them then do so. We don't have enough men to fight off that many mobile suits. But we must remain nearby to pick up our men if they succeed."
"But Commander if those machines are here for those mobile weapons then?"
"I am certain our men will succeed, but we need to be here to pick them up. Miguel and Olor pass this along to Athrun and the others…equip Olor's machine with a M69 Barrus heavy particle cannon."
"Commander?"
"We're going to create a new way out for our soldiers once they secure the machines."
Aboard the Egg Fort, Bocoe and Decoe watched the two ZAFT ships suddenly turn and move away from their area moving towards the rear of the colony.
"They are moving away?" Decoe commented stating the obvious.
"Let them go…the doctor said that if they didn't bother us then leave them be focus on defense and securing the harbor." Bocoe replied.
"We should sink them for good measure."
"We have our orders Bokkun." Decoe snapped.
"Oh come on they're not leaving the area."
"They are not attacking us so we leave them alone."
"If the doctor was here he would tell you to sink them."
"Be quiet Bokkun" Decoe and Bocoe shouted.
Outside Heliopolis launched a dozen MAW-01 Mistral mobile pods in a vain attempt to defend the colony. The two Egg Pods moved in and began brutally and mercilessly slaughtering them as the unmanned machines attacked. The mobile pods fired their dual fire-linked 40mm vulcan guns at the charging enemy machines.
The Egg Dolls effortlessly evaded all of their shots before the mobile pods were shot down by their beam rifles while a few were cut in half by the beam bayonets as they flew pass the unmanned machine. Five minutes were as long as they lasted as they were quickly destroyed, but inside the harbor…Mwu was activating his mobile armor the TS-MA2mod.00 Moebius Zero.
"Lieutenant La Flaga"
"The harbor is about to be taken over, launch the ship…I am going out too."
The Marseille III transport ship flew out of the harbor while two TS-MA2 Moebius mobile armors flew out along side of it to join the battle. The Moebius Zero flew ahead of the group as the three mobile armors were heading into combat against those machines. The two Egg Dolls entered the harbor blasting and shooting all of the control booths as they went.
Meanwhile at the Morgenroete facility; three of the G-weapons were being moved out to be taken to the dry dock where the Archangel was located to load them up while the ship was being prepared for launch in the possible event that the vessel would need to flee the colony if the worse should happen. The GAT-X303 and GAT-X105 units were currently still inside the factory being prepared to be taken to the Archangel.
From the top of a cliff face overlooking the highway leading into the asteroid interior the reassembled ZAFT raiding party had gathered as the group had spotted the three machines inside their trailers.
"There they are…three out of five." Dearka Elsman said as he took a look at them through a pair of binoculars.
"The other two must be inside the factory still." Nicol Amarfi noted.
"Rusty and I will go after them you guys capture these three. We better move fast." Athrun advised.
"But we have to wait for Miguel and Olor." Dearka pointed out.
"What about those bombs we found already set?" Rusty mentioned.
"There could be another group trying to capture them…let's get into the best position we can and attack. Nicol…you and Dearka still have your bombs right?" Athrun asked.
"Yeah…didn't see any point in using them." Nicol replied.
"Change the timer…set them on a short twenty second fuse. We're going to drop them on the enemy from above, the soldiers will lay down some cover fire to draw their attention; you, Yzak and Dearka will land on the mobile suits' cockpits from above and mount them. Get them up and running as fast as you can." Athrun said laying out a plan of action.
"That sounds crazy, but I think we can pull it off." Yzak said as he and Dearka approved of the plan.
As the ZAFT pilots made their preparations; Lucas grinned as he pushed a button on a remote detonator he was carrying as he set off the bombs inside the dry-dock where the Archangel was sitting as explosions ripped through the dock killing a large number of works as well as destroying the command booth where the captain and senior officers were gathered including the newly arrived G-pilots. The explosion shook the entire colony setting off alarms as evacuation orders were being given for all residences of the neutral colony to make their way into a shelter.
"Begin the attack" Lucas said as watched with glee as the Behemoth robots shot up from the ground smashing their way to the surface followed by the SWAT bots taking to the air with their jet packs as they launched an assault on the research facility. The Behemoth hovered smoothly across the landscape as they charged towards the Morgenroete Facility plowing through everything in their path as they ran over cars and smashing through a couple houses until they slammed right through the walls around the structure as they began attacking the security force stationed around the place.
As the SWAT bots were raining down laser and grenade fire from above the Behemoth robots were slaughtering the security forces protecting the research facility as security guards armed with rifles were being picked up and thrown high into the air while weapon trucks and vehicles were also being thrown around.
A few security force members in a Linear Tank managed to destroy one Behemoth, but a second one flipped over the tank while a missile truck began blasting away at one…however it thick armor provided just enough protection for the machine to weather the blows. A SWAT bot with a grenade launcher as it landed within the facility grounds reduced the truck to scrap, but another missile truck managed to shoot two SWAT bots down before being destroyed by the ones that had successfully landed on the ground.
"SWAT bots move in and begin securing the facility…clear a path I am going in." Lucas ordered as he flew towards the besieged facility with his armed escort following right behind him.
Inside the research facility; Kira, Kuzzey, Miriallia, Sai, Tolle and the young woman were trying to leave the rumbling facility as the battle raged on outside. The group was trying to use an elevator to escape, but when they realized the elevators were out of order due to the attack…Sai opened up the door leading into the stairwell as he saw people inside already walking down trying to reach the bottom floor.
"Hey what's going on?" Sai asked.
"I don't know" One worker replied.
"It looks like some robots are attacking us…they're mopping the floors with the security forces outside. If you're smart you'll get the hell out of here." A second worker answered.
The young girl turned and began running back down the hall of the research lab, when Kira saw her run off the young man followed right after her.
"Hey wait!" Kira shouted as he chased after the girl.
As the two Egg Dolls were closing in on the facility, outside the Moebius Armors were putting up a better fight against the Egg Dolls than the mobile pods, but the Moebius mobile armors were already virtually ineffective against ZAFT's mobile suits…so they didn't last more than a few minutes. Two more Egg Dolls ventured forth from the Egg Fort to deal with them, the trio tried team tactics to take them down, but the egg-shaped robots outmaneuvered their missiles before coming around with its beam bayonet activated cutting one in half as it passed by.
"Gale!" Mwu shouted as the mobile armor blew up.
Moments later Luke was taken down when the Egg Dolls double-teamed him crushing the mobile armor between their beam shields. Now Mwu was the only one left as one Egg Doll went pass the mobile armor piloting heading to the far side of the colony leaving the Hawk of Endymion to go one on one with an Egg Doll.
"Alright you want a piece of me…then bring it." Mwu shouted defiantly as he charged straight at the enemy unmanned mobile suit firing his linear gun at the machine, but the Egg Doll blocked with its beam shield while counterattacking by shooting its beam rifle at the approaching mobile armor. "I am only going to have one shot at this."
Playing a game of chicken with the enemy machine Mwu charged the Egg Doll at full throttle as rolled and dodged every shot the Egg Doll fired at him, but at the last possible moment as the enemy machine deactivated its beam shield and was about to strike with its beam bayonet; Mwu deployed the top and the right-handed weapon pod using the recoil to push himself out of the way while both weapon pods fired whatever weapons they had at the before the beam bayonet sliced through the top weapon pod destroying it while missing the right-handed one.
However with quick thinking and damn good readjusting and maneuvering, Mwu had repositioned the Moebius Zero with its linear gun aiming at the back of the mobile suit. The ace pilot wasted no time deploying the rest of his weapon pods and began pounding away at the back of the Egg Doll hitting it with all the Moebius Zero had.
The Egg Doll failed to turn around in time to defend itself as it had been forced to shield itself from the second weapon pod Mwu had left. The Egg Doll stopped suddenly as it began sparking from damages inflicted upon its backside before exploding.
"Whew…that was a little suicidal." Mwu commented to himself while making a mental note to not try playing chicken with an enemy machine again.
"I don't believe it…a mobile armor defeated an Egg Doll?" Decoe said in shock as they had just witnessed the impossible happen. "The Egg Dolls easily creamed the mobile armor defense forces on the planet Mars…how did this one win?"
"He must be an ace pilot with incredible luck…no matter we'll send a couple more after him." Bocoe suggested, but before he could send four more after the Hawk of Endymion. Mwu recalled his mobile weapon pods and retreated into the colony itself via entering what was left of the harbor. "He's going into the colony."
"Don't worry the other Egg Dolls we have inside the colony will get him. I'll send them a new set of orders to double team and shoot him down on sight." Decoe said as he transmitted a new set of orders to the two Egg Dolls inside the colony.
Mwu was flying through what remained of the colony harbor as he was checking the status of his mobile armor. Although he was still in good shape the Moebius Zero had lost one weapon pod taking down one of those machines, granted it was a small victory, but Mwu knew if they sent the rest of those machines after him he would be as good as dead. His only chance for survival and saving the G-weapons was to head inside the colony and help defend Heliopolis hoping those weapons were ready for combat. With their help he'll have the firepower he'll need to turn this battle around.
Around the same time at the other side of the colony, specifically at the section of the colony where the cylinder was attached to the asteroid; Rau, Miguel, Olor and Mathew were inside their respective mobile suits as Olor was taking aim with the heavy beam cannon blasted open a large hole in the colony wall creating an quicker route to where the team was located after picking up their signal.
"Mathew and Miguel proceed into the colony and find Athrun and the others. Tell them of the situation and meet us out here. Hurry both of you…we don't have a lot of time."
"Yes sir!" The two pilots said as they entered the colony while Rau and Mathew would cover their escape route.
"Commander we got incoming…one enemy machine." Mathew warned.
"I knew it…get ready Mathew, and be careful we don't know what that machine is capable of." Rau said as he moved in to attack the approaching enemy machine.
Inside the colony, the first of the two Egg Dolls was arriving at the Morgenroete Facility as it began attacking the ground forces surrounding the city firing its machine guns mounted on its body at the remaining artillery vehicles nearby. The second Egg Doll was heading for the three trails following a small group of SWAT bots and one Behemoth robot.
Inside the factory, Kira had caught up to the young woman inside a darkened corridor as he took the young woman by the arm stopping her in her tracks.
"Hold on its dead end up ahead." Kira shouted.
"Let go of me…there something I have to check on myself."
"What are you crazy you heard" Kira began, but was cut off by a sudden gust of air that surged through the hall from an explosion that shook the structure. The two were unharmed, but the surge of wind blew Cagalli Yula Athha's hat off. Kira looked at the young girl in confusion as he muttered. "You're a girl?"
"Yeah what do you think I was…let's hear it?" Cagalli snapped.
"Well uh" Kira said at an obvious loss for words.
"You better hook back up with the others."
"Easy for you to say how will I retrace my steps? Lets see lets go this way" Kira said as he dragged Cagalli down one of the hallways leading to the factory area of the facility.
"Let go of me you jerk!" Cagalli snapped.
"Jerk?" Kira said with a bit of confusion on his face.
"I did not think that we would get involved."
"Don't worry everything will be alright I think there are some shelters in the factory district." Kira said as the two hurried down the hall heading for the factory district, but meanwhile a few floors below them Lucas was entering the facility with his robot escort following right behind him using one of the freight entrance for heavy materials and machinery.
"Let's see the elevator leading to the lower levels should be just ahead."
The Egg mobile floated forward as it came to a large freight elevator.
"The rest of you stay here and guard my way out…Beta and Gamma with me."
"Yes master" Beta and Gamma replied together as the other robots took up defensive positions ready to defend the area against anyone attempt to enter. The elevator was only large enough for two of them plus Lucas's Egg mobile not to mention the weight of the two robots was redlining the elevator's weight maximum limit. Thankfully the elevator was capable of handling at least close to six thousand pounds.
The robots and their master descended into the lower levels of the Morgenroete Facility where Lucas was drawing closer and closer to a slumbering Shadow.
Outside near the entrance into the asteroid satellite the colony was attached to, a fierce battle erupted as large bombs where dropped from above landing near the trailers as the explosions destroyed large trucks and sent people and debris flying into the air. Amidst the confusion the ZAFT soldiers sent with the pilots to capture the enemy machines merged from their hiding spots as they began firing on the survivors while hurling grenades at them. With their attention successfully drawn away from the red coats above them. Yzak, Dearka and Nicol landed on the chest of the respective mobile suit they were going to capture. After making short work of the guards around them, the ZAFT pilots boarded the machines and went to work disarming the self-destruction before reconfiguring the operating system to allow them to successfully operate the prototype weapon.
Not long afterwards an Egg Doll arrived along with the SWAT bot squad and Behemoth robot as they ripped into the survivors of the escort protecting the three G-weapons while the Egg Doll turned and began blasting away at the ZAFT soldiers hidden nearby using its beam weapon to make short work of them.
Several minutes passed as the dust settled down and everything was silent as the SWAT bots and their robotic allies had finished both sides with only two SWAT bots from the squad remaining while the Behemoth was damaged suffering from a few artillery hits to arm and chest.
But as the Egg Doll was looking down to inspect the Duel Gundam, the mobile suit's head suddenly turned as it fired its CIWS at the enemy mobile suit before raising its beam rifle up to shoot the mobile suit in the face before it could counter attack. The Duel and the Buster Gundams rose up as they began blasting away at the surviving SWAT bots and the Behemoth robot using their CIWS head mounted guns to take them out quickly.
"Not bad" Dearka said as he checked out the controls.
"Amazing how much that playing possum trick seems to work." Yzak commented with a smile.
"Lucky for us it took us awhile to get these machines working otherwise we would not have been in a prefect position to ambush that enemy machine." Nicol added.
At that moment Olor and Miguel arrived on the scene.
"Hey are you guys alright?" Miguel called out.
"We are ok Miguel, we got three of the five machines so far."
"I knew you guys could pull if off. But where are Athrun and Rusty?"
"Two of the machines are still inside the factory they have gone over there with the remaining soldiers to capture them."
"Damn it…I am going over there to cover them. Olor brief Yzak and the others on the situation outside before heading back up to meet up with Commander Le Creuset." Miguel said before taking off for the factory while Olor began brining Yzak and the others up to speed on the situation outside the colony.
Back at the Morgenroete Facility, Lieutenant Murrue Ramius was in the fight for her life as she was taking cover behind a heavy stack of metal containers as she fired her automatic machine gun at the approaching SWAT bots as they were tearing through them. There were only a small few of them remaining, but they were badly outnumbered and outgunned. But thankfully a few well-thrown grenades had managed to eliminate a few of them, but the situation still didn't look good for them.
"Prepare X303 and X105 for combat now." Murrue ordered.
Meanwhile on the catwalk above them, Cagalli and Kira emerged and saw the two prototype mobile suits before them below along with the fierce battle happening.
"Those are" Kira began, but stopped when he saw Cagalli drop to her knees and began sobbing.
"I knew it…the Earth Alliance new prototype mobile weapons…father I know you betrayed us all." Cagalli shouted as Murrue heard them assuming them to be an enemy took a few shots at them, but luckily for her Cagalli was pulled away by Kira missing the bullets fired at them. Murrue realized her mistake before turning back to the fight at hand before moving to the Strike getting ready to board the weapon.
Meanwhile sitting on the metal rafters above them Athrun and Rusty were observing the situation.
"This is looks bad; robot soldiers, who would have thought?" Rusty noted.
"We can still do this, but it will be very risky. I'll grab that one" Athrun said as he pointed to the Aegis mobile suit. "Rusty do you think you can grab the last one."
"With their attention on those bucket heads…no problem."
"Get ready" Athrun said as he and Rusty moved into position to drop down on the new mobile suits while the few ZAFT soldiers that followed them took up positions ready to cover them. Meanwhile as Kira and Cagalli were attempting to flee to a set of shelters an explosion shook the facility again as the ground below them began to spilt open. Cagalli slipped and fell through the growing hole landing into an exposed ventilation duck as she slid down vent to the lower levels while Kira had barely managed to grab onto some broken steel reinforcements inside the concrete that he used to pull himself back up.
"Hey" Kira shouted for the girl but he got no reply. "Damn it" With nothing else he could do Kira pulled himself back up and began running back the other way since his pathway to the shelters he was heading to was cut off.
As Kira was running back he looked and saw a red ZAFT soldier leaping down from above heading straight for Murrue.
"Above you!" Kira shouted as Murrue turned around and saw the ZAFT soldier above her. Murrue dodged his gunshots before shooting Rusty four times in the chest killing him.
"RUSTY!" Athrun shouted as he successfully landed on the top of the Aegis Gundam while he noticed a certain young man on the catwalk behind the Strike. It can't be.
"Come here!" Murrue demanded.
"No thanks I am heading to the east block."
"There is nothing left beyond that door." Murrue replied as an explosion from the east block shook the facility again. With nowhere else left to go Kira leapt down onto the top of the Strike Gundam's chest missing its face.
With nothing more he could do Athrun climbed into the Aegis and began activating it while Murrue dragged Kira into the Strike Gundam as the factory around began falling apart as another series of explosions were tearing it apart. The Strike Gundam followed by the Aegis rose up breaking their restraints.
The battle of Heliopolis was just beginning…now it was question of who would escape the colony alive with the new mobile weapons.
A/N: I'll probably move this story into the crossover section right before the next chapter update so those with story alerts on it at its new location right off the bat. I just posted it here for a trail run and also I guess I was just more comfortable posting it here. And Cagalli fans don't worry she survived.