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Lt. Ramius woke up feeling very sore, like she'd been thrown around inside a pop can. Murrue sat up as soon as her head stopped spinning and looked around. On her right was a tied up Zaft pilot laying next to a disabled Ginn and on her left was the X-105 Strike with a pair of students examining the cockpit and a teal and white mobile suit kneeling next to each other.
The Lt. jumped up when see saw the students eyeing the Strike, they were looking at classified goverment equipment that might be the key to winning the war. She had to stop them and fast.
But just as Murrue started to reach for her gun she felt a hand grab hers and heard a loud click behind her head.
"Thats far enough Lt. Ramius!" a female voice growled from behind her. Murrue didn't find this funny and tried to find an argument that would work.
"Listen here soldier, I'm autherized by articual six of the Alliance Military Secrets Act to detain any civilian persons who have come in contact with classified Alliance military equipment or documents. Now stand down and let me do my job." When Murrue felt the hands release her she thought that she had avoided a terrible misunderstanding but when she turned around her happy moment was interupted by a solid right hook to the mouth. Nami was pissed and it took all her patience that she had to wait a moment for Lt. Ramius to shack out the dizziness from the hit before she torn into her.
"No you listen to me Lt." Nami said the 'Lt.' with as much disgusted as she could manage as she hulled Murrue up by the collor of her coveralls so she could glare straight into the Lt. eyes. "you are standing into a foreign nation's colony, building mobile suits and ships illegaly, which has resulted in an attack by a foreign nation whom they have a treaty of neutrality with. As a result of said attack Alliance secrets have been viewed by civilians of this country and you without authority are trying to detain said individuals even though it clearly states in the Secrets Act you just quoted that foreign nationals are only to be detained with permission from their nation while on their nation's soverign soil and Heliopolis is a part of Orb and I have an executive order from Lord Uzumi Nara Athha that revokes any privilages granted to Alliance personal by the Seiran family in my back pocket. Any questions Lt?" Lt. Remius could only stare at the girl in shock. She had authorization to arrest them? oh god had they been opperating without the support of the Orb goverment.
"Excuse me miss but could I see this order please?" Murrue asked quietly, Nami pulled a copy from her pocket and unfolded it for her to read. There it was in bold writing with Lord Uzumi's signature and offical seal. Murrue slumped alittle more and quietly answered most of the question that Nami asked before being tolded to stand, as she did Murrue looked up and found herself stareing down the barrel of her own pistol. The brown haired women resigned herself to dieing for what could best be called crimes aguinst Orb when Nami smirked and spun the pistol around so Murrue could take it by the grip.
"What? don't you want this back?" Nami sounded highly amused as Murrue slowly took her pistol back, "listen I can't do this on my own and if your the Murrue Ramius that Admiral Halberton won't stop talking about then I feel that I can trust you." Murrue started to smile back at the girl and watched as she walked of towards a white and teal mobile suit then turned to watch over the students as Kira returned with a trailor with the number five on the bumper.
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Nina watched as the pilot that had cuffed her come walking back, she had watched this pilot tear into the older lady that had come out of the Strike with the pilot then gave her back her gun and start to walk back towards her. Nina had already made up her mind to tell this girl everything she needed to know about this incident and how it started, though she only know a little bit. Nami arrived a few seconds later and riped the tape off Nina's mouth.
"Oooowwwhhhh!" Nina started rubbing her lips together to rub the pain away.
"Sorry" Nami sounded more amused then sorry but Nani let it slid and got ready to answer the coming questions, Nami sighted and got started.
"Ok Nina I need your full name, rank and serial number."
"My full name is Nina Hawke," Nami's eyes seamed to widen for a moment before she focused on her pisoner aguin "rank is Green Regular and my serial number is Z1004822AG" Nami nodded as she stood up and stepped behinded Nina, pulled her to her feet and started to undo the handcuffs.
"Whats going on? why are you releasing me?" Nina asked as Nami removed one of the cuffs before spinning the girl around and recuffing her hands in front of her.
"Oh I'm not releasing you, I'm just making you more comfirible while we what for our ride to get here." Nami said as she led the Zaft pilot over where the rest of the group was hanging around working on the Strike when Nami thought of one last question.
"Hey Nina, one more question for you. Which team were you flying for?"
"The Le Creuset team" Nina answered before she could think about it. Nina happened to look at her capter and paled at the barely concealed hatred that had been invoked by that little bit of info.
The two girls finished their walk in silentice and were soon distracted by an amusing fight that had broken out between Kira and Lt. Ramius. Apprently Kira had left the Ginn sword he had used in the last battle on one of the magnetic mounting clips along with a couple of full mags for the Ginn rifle that was still in the Strikes right hand. Lt. Ramius had taken offences to this and was yelling that each of the Striker Packs as she call them, had been perfectly designed for their intend purpose and wouldn't need additional armarment, to which Kira replied that the idiot incharge of the design team had obviously forgotten to do the same for the Strike itself. Murrue finally lost her cool after that and put Kira in a one armed head lock and started squeezing the life out of him.
Just as Kira was starting to turn blue a large explosion came from near one of the tunnels in the shaft. Through the smoke made by the explosion blasted a red Moebius Zero and a silver CQUE. The Zero was missing all of it's wire-guided gunbarrels and was only just keeping the CQUE away with it's linear cannon and some fancy flying.
"Kira! get the Strike activated now!" yelled Nami as she ran for her own mobile suit. Kira didn't waste any time as he sprinted for the Strike.
Up in the air the two combatans took notice of the activity on the ground and the silver CQUE rolled over and dived in for a straffing run, but never got close when the Zero made a diving corkscrew and cut it off.
Nami straped herself in and hit the activation code for her machine before she even closed the hatch. It would take about fifteen seconds for all the systems to come on line fully and Nami planned to use those fifteen seconds to the max and hit her com switch.
"Kira you reading me?" Nami asked over the radio.
"Loud and clear" Kira radioed back. Nami gunted then unlocked her weapons and prepared herself.
"Listen well Kira cause there are a few things I need to tell you. One, don't use the large Positron connon that comes with that pack, it could cause serious damage to the colony," Nami looked up to see the CQUE and the Zero in a royal dogfight several hundred meters above them. "Two, this is Rau Le Creuset that we're going to be fighting so don't let your guard down for anything." Nami fired her thruster and leap into the air torwards the two combatants just as the mobile suit seemed to get the upper hand on the fighter and swop in for the kill.
"Anything else?" Kira asked as he lined up his Ginn rifle for a shot. Nami couldn't keep the smirk of her face as she locked her beam rifle onto the CQUE and prepared to let Le Creuset have it as he dove in on the helpless Zero.
"Good hunting" Nami and Kira then opened up on the poor bastard with all they had.
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On the bridge of the battleship Archangel, Ensign Natarle Badgiruel and a couple of other crewmen floated onto the bridge of the vessel and began activating and checking systems in order to launch the ship.
"Whats the stats of the main harbor doors?" asked Natarle.
"Blocked by dibree ma'am" one of the officers in the cic said. Natarle looked over some plans on the commanders concil and came to a conclusion.
"Ensign Neuwmann when we reach full power spin the ship 180 degrees, drop assault cannons. We will broke into the interior of Heliopolis and make are way out through the main harbor".
"Yes ma'am" the man at the helm answered as the connections between the ship and it's dock began to fall away.
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Nami was slightly peeved as she rolled her mobile suit into a better firing position. How had they missed the shiny bastard. though now that she though about it she had put the burns onto the thruster armor and Kira had put some nice dings in the CQUE's sheild but that didn't make up for the fact that they should have ripped the silver machine into little pieces.
Well at leasted the Zero had been able to make a break for it and put a kilo or so between them. She could even see the bright red fighter stocking them in the distance, looking for a chance to come roaring in for some payback.
Nami and Kira had figured out a relativaly simple way of dealing with Le Creuset. When ever he tried to go for the Strike Nami would drop on his tail, and when ever he tried to swat her mobile suit Kira would get a clean shot at the CQUE's back with his rifle and the massive minigun on the Strike's right shoulder. Judgeing by the way the CQUE was flighing Le Creuset must have been getting pretty annoyed by the whole situation.
Just as Rau was looking for an exit a large explosion distracted everyone.
A large section of wall was removed by the blast and out of the smoke plowed a large warship.
"Ok now that was cool. slightly distracting and unnessary but still co-hey were ya goin'" Nami said as she adjusted for the pressince of the new ship when the CQUE used the smoke as a screen and dove for the Strike.
Nami tore ofter the silver machine and was about to take a shot when she noticed that the Strike and her friends were in the line of fire. Nami snareled and scidded to the left for a better angle, which gave Kira an openning to open up with his rifle, minigun and CIWS. The CQUE raised it's sheild and held course through the storm of bullets.
When the silver mobile suit got within a few hundred meters of the Strike Rau opened up with his rifle, forcing Kira to drop the Strike to it's knees to protect the people on the ground. Le Creuset saw this and an evil smurk appeared on his face. when he flashed past the Strike La Creuset spun the CQUE around and sprayed the ground around the Strike with the minigun built into his sheild. He hope that the plight of the people on the ground would distract the Strike long enough for him to manauver passed the other mobile suit and the Zero and excape.
Kira watched in horror as the silver mobile suit blazed passed him, spun, and opened fire. He tried to move the Strike between his friends and the incoming bullets and for the most part he succeeded but for a single 28mm round that snuck passed his guard and landed in Tolle Koenig's lap. All that was left of his friend was some memories, a crying girlfriend that was being held by Lieutenant Ramius and the Zaft pilot.
And a large red splat on the ground where Tolle had been standing.
Kira was normally a very quiet person and proffered to stay out of fights if he could But after seeing a friend reduced to hamburger left Kira seeing red and he soon locked on to the silver CQUE that had claimed his friends life and launched after it.
There was going to be hell to pay!
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Nami was a few hundred feet behind the CQUE when it made it's run on the Strike. She saw the puff of red that ment that it had someone on the ground, had hit one of her friends. She didn't know which one but that didn't matter to much to her, one of her friends was dead or severly wounded and she intended to make the mask wareing freak pay dearly for it.
The CQUE used the momentary distraction of the two MSs to shot up and over them-.
And straight into the gun line of a red Moebius Zero on the attack.
Rau barely dodged the linear cannon rounds of the Zero when the sky was filled with green bolts of death. Nami was closer to the CQUE then Kira and had locked onto the silver machine with her beam rifle, spraying the area to keep the enemy from getting away as she waited for Kira to arrive. and she didn't have to wait long either as Kira dropped on the CQUE from high right and cooked off both of the Strike 350mm gunlaunchers at the machine. Rau managed to shot one missile down but the constant barrage of beam fire from Nami ment that he had to block the second with his sheild, which ruined the sheild and it's CIWS gun in the blast and knocked the mobile suit off balance and right into and attack from the Zero's linear cannon, which riped a massive chunk out of its right leg before Kira and Nami blaze in with swords drawn and carved off both of the CQUE's arms.
Le Creuset had had enough and activated a special option that he had installed. The CQUE launched more then a few high powered flash bombs and made a bee line for the nearest exit.
Kira and Nami just hooved there for a few moments without speaking while they let the effects of the bombs were off before they started to glide back to what was left of their friends.
"Kira?" now that the fight was over Nami was alittle, no alot worried about her friend. Kira answered with a nothing more then a grunt, which made Nami even more worried.
"Who got hit?" Kira didn't respond, "I'm not dumb Kira, you wouldn't have been out for a gallon of that guy's blood unless someone got hurt now who is it?" Nami demaned.
"Tolle" was Kira's only responces but it was enough for Nami to get the message.
"How bad?" Kira took a moment to think up an answer. He could only think of one word that really discribe what he had saw.
"Ketchup" Nami thanked him before turning off her radio and let out a scream of frustration and cursed Le Creuset so badly that the devil himself would work with the man himself.
CHAPTER END.