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It had been thirty or so minutes scense Nami and Kira had seen off Rau Le Crueset and they were still feel rather rung out about the whole experiance.
When Kira had landed and got out of the Strike he had been tackled by a very distraught Miriallia. Kira looked around wildly for some help but with none availible he just settled for letting Mir cry on his shirt will she tried to regain some sembalances of emotional stability.
A dazons odd meters away Nami watched the encounter with Nina and Murrue. She could imagine what Mir was going through, her own heart was braking and she had only know Tolle for a few weeks.
"Think she'll be ok?" Nina asked as she watch Mir tackle Kira.
"Ya, Miriallias pretty strong willed, she'll be fine as long as nothing else happen in the near future and she has someone to cling to" Nami said as she arranged some equipment and started to walk away. Lt. Ramius nodded agreement with that. From what she had seen of the girl while working with her Murrue had no daught that Mir had a very resiliant personality and would bounce back with some time and a friendly shoulder.
Murrue looked back at the female pilot and winced when she saw the black bag and plastic gloves Nami was carrying. How much help the red head would need when she was done was anyone bet, and Murrue didn't want to think about how little of Tolle there was to recover.
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Aboard the Vesalius, a Nazca-class destroyer, a Zaft red coat pilot named Athran Zala sat inside the cockpit of the mobile suit he had captured, the transformable X-303 Aegis, and worked to down load all the computer data that he had gathered on the flight back. All the while being tormented by images form the mission. Rusty being shot by a worker, other Zaft soldiers dieing in grosume ways, Alliance personal getting chopped up by machinegun rounds or palped by grenades.
And the possibility that his old friend Kira Yamato was now the proud owner of one X-105 Strike mobile suit.
Athran wonder way Kira hadn't moved to the plants and now he had an anwser. Kira had told him that his parents were strongly pasifistic in their beliefs and if that still held true (and he believed that it did) then when war had started to loom they would have moved to a neutral area instead of the plants. Athran at the moment was having trouble seeing Orb as neutral right now though.
"HEY!" the shout shocked Athran out and caused him to look out the cockpit hatch. A pair of machanics stood around a computer console liking slightly confused, the senior of the two looked up at Athran with a raised eyebrow that made Athran give an embarussed chuckle and started rubbing the back of his head.
"Sorry 'bout that, I got distracted and started working on yours by mistake." the machanic just shock his head and mumbled about crazy pilots.
"We've finished the external checks and recharge. you?" the junior machanic asked.
"I'm done as well, though I'm still trying to figure out how they thought that they were battle-ready with that piece of crap OS that the machines had installed in them." Athran said as he started to clamber out of the cockpit.
"Probibly took their entier coding and programing departments months to even get one that good, and we should be thankful that it was so bad or they could have seriously reamed the mobile force and the ships as well." the senior mechanic said as he started to float away.
"Flight Deck, ready fire fighting and rescuse teams, Commander La Crueset returning after receiving SEVERE! damage from multiple energy and ballistic impacts!" the Combat Controller shout over the intercomms. The deck crew just got the arrestor net up before the Commander's pile of scr_CQUE slammed into it and was brought to a screeching halt.
Athran was in shock as he looked over the wrecked mobile suit, and judging by the various 'what the hell!'s and 'holy shite!'s soaring around the hanger he wasn't the only one.
The CQUE was down both arms,the left one was melted off by some kind of energy weapon and the other had the folding and abbrasion marks consistant with a Ginn sword or another large physical blade. There were dings and slag furrows all over the suit from gazing hits and the thruster pod on the right side was missing the lower directional flang, probibly cut away with that arm. The other pod was just gone and judging by the cleaness of the disconnect Athran though that it had likely been jetisoned to prevent it's explosion from doing farther damage to an already wreaked machine. There was also a large chuck blasted out of the left leg by a linear cannon.
"We won't be able to fix that" the senior mechanic said as he also looked over the damage. "and I'd hate to meet the pilots that could do that to the commander's ride and walk away."
"How do you know they walked away?" his junior asked.
" 'Cause the commanders howling mad thats how" the older mechanic answered as they watched Le Crueset get out of his totalled machine, throw his helmet back into the cockpit then head for the door with such a look of fury on his face that any crewman or woman in his way move out of it post haste.
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For the first time sences this whole inscident started Murrue Ramius felt half way safe as she stepped onto the flight deck of the assaultship Archangel.
It had landed a few minutes after the silver CQUE had made a run for it and Murrue had wasted no time in gathering everyone up and getting them onto the ship where she could best defend herself and the Strike from further Zaft aggression. Though she had to admit that if Kira and Nami got pissed they could probibly mangle the Archangel as easily as they did the CQUE.
The Lt. soon found herself surrounded by a mix of junior officers and NCOs wanting to know what was going on. She tried to answer the questions but she know about as much as they did.
Before things got to depressing a distraction arrived in the form of a blond-haired man in a red flight suit. Murrue supposed that this was the pilot of the Mobius Zero that had been fighting with the CQUE. He looked around for a moment before walking towards Lt. Ramius.
"Lt. Mu La Flaga of the Seventh Orbital Fleet, could you please direct me to the captian of this vessel or the XO." Mu said as he stopped in front of Murrue and Ensign Badgiruel. The two female officers introduce themselves as part of the Third Special Division then Natarle informs the Lt.s that all the senior officers where killed when a bomb went off under the reception area that was being used by the captian to greet the new pilots of the vessel.
"As of this moment I believe that Lt. Ramius is the highest ranking officer assigned to this ship" Murrue was shocked hear that the captian was dead. She had generally like the CO she had hoped that he could help her with the issues that Nami had laid on the table from Orb. Now it looked like she was on her own.
"Man what an unmidigated fubar. In any case would you allow me to come aboard, the ship I was assigned to engaged the enemy and was sumarally sink for its efforts" Mu sounded distinctly put off by the whole affair so far. Murrue granted him permission to board the ship and ordered some of the mechanics to go and start to repair and rearm his mobile armor. When she turned back to the Lt. she saw him heading for the group of students that had just been brought in by the Strike.
Mu wandered for a moment why the acting captian had these kids with her but put it down to something about military secrets. He also saw that they had a Zaft pilot as a prisoner with them (a pretty one too!).
"Well well well what do we have here?" Mu sounded highly amused as he looked over the group before the sound of the cockpit opening got everyones attention. Mu watched as a brown haired boy helped a girl in an orange dress out of the cockpit and down the boarding cable. One look at the girl's expression turned Mu's raging criosity completely off, especially when he saw the long, black bag cupped in the hand of the white mobile suit that entered a few seconds later.
Murrue assigned Ensign Badgiruel and a pair of marines to take Nina to the ships brig and quietly had a pair of mechanics take the body bag to the morgue, then she turned to the group still standing around the hanger and started giving orders.
"Chief Murdoch!"
"Ma'am!" a grizzeled man about thirty in an orange jumpsuit said.
"How long will it take you to resupply the Strike and Mobius Zero?" Murdoch thought for a few moments before he answered.
"Depends Ma'am, but I'd need to get the parts and bullets from inside Morgenrate. Plus all the other supplies this ship is supposed to have would take a few hours to find and bring back, say three hours tops if we conscentrate on get the things for the mobiles first." he finally responded. Murrue immeadiately ordered him to get on it and turned to the group of students.
"Unforunately we can't let you off now, so I'll show you to some courters and ask that you all stay out of the crews way." the Lt. started to lead the group out of the hanger when Nami's cellphone started ringing.
"Ah? one moment please" Nami asked as she turned and walked a few yards from the rest as she answered her phone and started talking in a low voice. The rest started to conduct some small talk and laugh as Kira and Lt. Ramius got into another fight over the Strike's 'lack of decent armarment', which cause Miriallia to actually fall over laughing, just as Kira and the Lt. had hoped before a load exclamation got everyone's attention.
"WHAT!!!!" Nami yelled at her phone before slapping it back to her ear to hear what was being said. After a few more moments Nami slumped in a depressed manor and started mumbling under her breath.
"That didn't sound good" Murrue said as she watched Nami hang up and start to walk back towards the group.
"No da granny" Kira said from the headlock Murrue still had him in and proved to everyone that he had no female survive instincts as Murrue started choking him aguin.
"So what new disaster did you find for us?" Lt. La Flaga said when Nami was close enough to talk to.
"Oh nothing much, I just found out that the other two pilots in my team were killed when the Ginns hit the harbor. So I now have two mobile suits without pilots to fly them" said Nami in a bored fashion. Murrue was doing the math and decided that the risk was worth asking the question.
"Would it be possible for Lt. La Flaga to pilot one of these suits until we get to a location where you would be disembarking?" Nami made a show of thinking the question serious thought.
"Can he? yes, will he? no" before the acting captian could begin to arugue(beg) Nami held a hand up, "Not my rules Lt., my commander dosn't want the Alliance getting ahold of ANY! intel on us, or worse getting a copy of our OS".
Murrue seemed to slump as she thought about this and Mu was trying not to jump down Nami's throat. did she honestly think that they could get passed Le Crueset with just two mobile suits and his damaged Zero.
"And just what are we going to do when Sir Mask-a-lot come back for us? your two units and my Zero just aren't up to facing_ um how many mobile suits would he have left now? six?" Mu tried to guest-a-mate what kind of forces Rau would be able to throw at them still.
"Eight, Le Crueset has four Ginns and the other four prototypes that he could consevibly field in the next four hours, maybe a fifth Ginn if he whats for the one you damaged to be repaired but that would take eight to ten hours and we can leave in six hour at the latess" Nami replied as she started to walk away "besides he's going to be a little bit bisy in about thirty minutes, so we can take are time and get this ship properly supplied before we have to leave" Mu and Murrue looked at each other in confusion for a moment before they went charging after Nami to find out just what she was talking about.
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On the Vesalius, Rau Le Crueset was briefing the four remaining Ginn pilots from the Laurasia-class Frigate, Gamow. He had just began laying out what he know of the Archangel from his surviving sensor data when the ship's alarms started blareing.
"Bridge, what the hell is going on?" Rau shouted into an intercom as the pilots drifted down the corradors towards the flight deck and their mobile suits.
"Sir! Unknown heat source approaching, confirmed as a possible Assault Carrier-Type Capitalship at our starboard quarter." Captain Ades reports as he stands over the sensor operator's shoulder.
"WHAT! I'll be on the bridge in a few moments" Le Crueset yells as he sprints for the bridge. He was on the bridge in two minutes and still getting nasty surprises.
"Ades give me an update!"
"Sir, no change in contacts course or speed, range to contact two twenty and close, firing range in two minutes." the black uniformed captain informed his white wareing superior. Le Crueset looked shocked that the unknown had gotten that close without being noticed.
"Sir, I saw them when they fired up their engines and started to close on us." the sensor operator said.
"Damn, they were there the whole time just waiting for us to drop our guard so they could jump us!" Rau thought about the situation for a moment before he started giving out orders. "Way anchor, Vesalias ahead two-thirds, bow port forty five degrees up fifteen. We will move to keep the colony between us and the contact until such time as we can come at them on our own terms. We have a mission that still needs to be completed and we arn't leaving until we do. contact the Gamow and relay those orders."
"Yes Sir!"
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Unknown to the La Crueset Team, a flat black, two twenty meter transport used the confussion to sneak past their sensors and enter the colony's harbor.
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"Damn that La Crueset!" an older man growled as he watched the two Zaft vessels manauver to put the colony between themselves and the man's own ship, if only he could've gotten a little close before the snake spotted him.
"Cowards! using a colony for a shield" his XO ranted as he floated next to the captian's chair.
"We'll just add this to the list of greavances we have with Le Crueset when we take him to task for all he's done." the captain sighted as he looked towards his sensor operator, "Status report on the Smugglers progress" he ordered.
"Sir! they've just entered the colony's main harbor now" the girl manning said as she tracks the black tranport into the colony. the XO gave a sight of releaf when he heard that.
"Well at least that part of the plan went right"
"Lets hope that Nami can work as fast as advertised cause that bastard isn't going to wait very long before he'll go in after that ship." the captain said as he watched the two Zaft ships duck behind the colony. He was getting to old for this.
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"Sensors contact! incoming vessel from the main harbor!" The Sensor operator, Petty Officer Chandra, yelled as he watched the contact approaching on his scopes.
"Ship to condition red, captain to the bridge!" Ensign Badgiruel said over the ships intercom as red alert lights started flashing.
"Belay that and return to condition green, contact is friendly, repeat contact is friendly" Natarle looked up from the arming switch for the forward battery to see Lt. Ramius sprint onto the bridge.
"Ma'am?"
"That ship is bringing more supplies and reinforcements for us" Murrue told her jumpy acting XO as she caught her breath and assumed her seat. The stand down message went out over the comms and the crew went back to what they were doing.
"Ma'am are you sure we can trust them. Orb is not an ally of our nation." Natarle was very untrusting at the moment and was showing it. Murrue just reached for the intership phone and dialled the frequence that Nami had given her.
"NWDS Smuggler's Delight, this is LCAM-01XA Archangel, please respond on this frequence" Murrue waited with baited breath for a few seconds before-
"LCAM-01XA Archangel, this is NWDS Smuggler's Delight. How do you have this ship's ID and frequence?" the other ship's captain sounded warry of her an Murrue set about relieving thoughs fears as fast as possible.
"Dragoon Nami gave me the freq and ID" Murrue remember what Nami had said and was taking it slow with the other captain so she didn't get spooked.
"IF Dragoon Nami gave you that information then she also gave you an authentication code to prove it, please transmite the code now." the Smuggler's captain said. Murrue took a deep breath and started to relay the code.
"Authentication Code November Wiskey Deta Serria November Alpha Machel Indago Zero One Fife Zexs Zulu. please confirm authentication" Murrue held her breath as the two ships stared at one another over the four kilometers between them.
"THEY SPINNING UP THEIR WEAPONS!" Chandra shouted suddenly as Murrue continued to look out the window. Natarle started to panic as she watched her acting captain not do anything to counter the eminate threat.
"Chandra unlock our forward gun turrets and prepare to-"
"Belay that order, its a test and if we fail we'll be shot so just stay calm" Murrue spoke over Natarle and continued to watch the other ship.
"CAPTAIN?-" Natarle was interupted by a burst from the radio.
"LCAM-01XA Archangel, code authenticates stand by to recieve supply delivery, over" Natarle could hear what sounded like uncontrolled laughter in the background as the connection was cut. Murrue barely controlled her own desire to laugh as she looked at her still perplexed XO.
"I think you just got pranked Natarle" Murrue said as she returned the bridge to the XO and headed for the hanger bays.
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Down in the hanger it was controlled chaos as truck braught supplies from where ever they could be found.
And it didn't help when the crew of the Smuggler started bringing large amounts of additional loads of food and water, fuel and spare parts and the most distracting thing of all, two additional mobile suits like the white an teal machine that even now stood guard over the whole circus.
Mu and Murrue were taking their time to get to know the three mobile suits that the Dragoons were lending them, though so far they had only learned the model designation, XMS-002, and it's name, Hound, from one of the Dragoon Mechanics as they were unloaded from their transport carriers and placed into their new racks.
But that was all they got and now they were just standing on flight line trying to guest-a-mate what this mobile suit was capable of.
"Lets see. it's slightly shorter then the Strike, a pair of head guns, a large chest gun". Murrue was really starting to wonder how the Dragoons had paid to get such an exellent design.
"Ya, large caliber indeed. Bet the Ginn rifle is only slightly bigger then that gun" Mu said as he squirmed in place, he so whated to climb up and look inside this thing. Or better yet take it to a short spin.
"And a pair of beam sabers in the thighs, not as powerful as the Strike's but with a long blade and less draining on the batteries." Murrue finished as she took a few steps to the left and watched as same mechanics attached a large booster pack to Nami's hound along with a pair of beam pistols and replaced her rifle with a larger beam cannon that was attached to the shoulder as well. In the kneeling position the end of the cannon almost reached the ground.
The last thing the mechanics did was to reattach the Hound's external battery in its slot on the back of the pack. Murrue was surprised that the Dragoons used an external battery setup. while it made replacement a litteral snap it also left an important and highly explosive componate exposed to enemy fire.
Mu was still looking at the two 'new' units that were parked and ready to go. One was green with scarlet highlights and the other was light blue with silver. Man he wanted in but he had no dought that Nami would shot him if he tried.
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Nami knocked lightly on the door to Kira's assigned room. She had some things that she need to talk to Kira about and a project she needed his help on. She was also looking for Miriallia, and Kira's room was a pretty good bet for finding her at the moment.
Kira opened the door and emmediatly signalled for Nami to keep it down. On his bed Mir was visibly snoozing and he didn't want to disturb her.
"Well its better then her sitting around crying all the time" Nami said as she walked in and waited for Kira to close the door before she started talking.
"So how ya do'in Kira?"
"Well I'm better off then Miri right now but I've been to buisy to really think about what happened to Tolle" he stopped when Mir shifted slightly before he continued. "So what else did you want to talk about?"
"Alright then we'll leave Tolle for a later time, right now I need you for a few things" Kira raised an eyebraugh at Nami as she said that but before he could complain Nami started laying it out for him.
"Listen Kira, if I could throw you and Miri into one of the shelters and be done with it I would but their sealed up now." Nami looked Kira right in the eyes, she need him to understand her, that she really was trying to help him, "Right now our options, yes Kira I said 'our', are extremely limited. If its just me and Lt. La Flaga out there protecting this ship from the enemy then OUR chances of survival run at about thirty percent, and it drops to twenty percent if they send the four other prototypes after us. We really do need you out there in the battles with the Strike. Just that small addition raise our chance of survival by a full fifteen percent."
"Why me! why can't you just put Mr. La Flaga in a Hound or give him the Hound's OS for the Strike?" Kira was getting defensive.
"One. The Hound's OS isn't one hundred percent compatable with the Strike and it wouldn't get the same proformance as a custom job. Two I'm under a standing order not to give the EA any more info then is strictly nessesary to complete my mission. And third, the situation dictates the actions and I don't have time to train Mu up on the Hound to a combat acceptible level." Nami looked at Kira could tell that he understood what she was saying, but that didn't mean that he had to like it.
"Let face it Kira your our best option for a Strike pilot at the moment." Nami didn't sound happy about that but pressed on, "also I have a BIG! favor to ask you".
"What do you want?"
"Can you whip up a natural OS for the Strike? Please!" Kira blanched at that and tried to see her resouning. After a moment Kira just gave up an asked.
"So I can get you out of the Strike and into a Hound. Kira its the only way that I can think of that will keep you out of the clutches of the EA military and by extention Blue Cosmos. I know you won't like the idea of working for a bunch of paid killers but its that or be a Blue Cosmos lab rat" Kira had to agree with that last statement as he'd heard that Blue Cosmos used captured Coordinators for testing of chemical and biological weapons (or for just plain old target practuse!).
"Alright I'm in so whats the first order of buisness?"
"Get out of Heliopolis in one piece without destroying the colony in the process" Nami said as she looked at her watch "and on that we need to go get ready cause the ships going to move out in a few moments"
"Ok, ah what should I do with Miri?" Kira asked as he looked over at the girl on his bed.
"Let her sleep for now" Nami said as she stood up and headed for her mobile suit. Kira got up and washed his hands before he started for the door as well.
"Kira?" a soft voice asked from behind him. Kira turned to see a sleepy Miriallia siting up and looking at him with puffy, red eyes. Kira walked over to her and sat down on the edge of the bed.
"Are you going to fight aguin?" she may have been groggy but the fear was still evident in Mir's voice.
"Yes" Kira know that Mir need straight answers right now.
"Please be careful! I don't know what would happen if I lost anyone else right now" for Mir to admit to the fear was enough for Kira to realize just how scared (and how fragile) Mir was right now.
"I will and I'll keep an eye on sleepy head as well" Kira used Nami's nickname to show Miri that he wasn't too worried about the situation. It seemed to cheer up Miri alittle bit.
"A-and could you do something for me?"
"Sure Miri, what ya need?" Kira asked. Mir's whole demeaner seemed to harden for a moment.
"Castrate that bastard for me" Kira blanched for a moment before he realized who Mir was talking about. Kira reached over an pulled Mir into a hug that help her relax for a moment before he stood to leave.
"With pleasure Miri" and with that Kira headed for his mobile suit.
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Rau Le Crueset desided that it would be best if he led the follow up attack on the Archangel personally. As such when the remaining Zaft Ginns busted into the colony he could be found in the middle of the formation in the only surviving Vesalius Ginn, equiped with a 'Brutus' Heavy Ion Cannon and looking for blood.
"All units, begin the operation" Rau sent over the radio as he lined up on a section of the colony's exterior near the harbor and fired his heavy cannon. the massive green beam slammed into the colony and tore a giant hole in it that the Ginns began to enter.
"Sir, the enemy vessel is directly under us with its bow halfway into the harbor access tunnel." the leader pilot reported. Rau couldn't believe his luck, the ship was basically imputant with most of its weapons unable to fire.
"All units fire now!" Rau was going to give the ship a chance.
And to bad about the colony.
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"CAPTAIN! the Zaft vessel just launched five Ginn towards Heliopolis!" The sensor girl on the Dragoon warship shouted.
"That bastard! couldn't even wait long enough for the Archangel to leave the colony before he started shooting!" the XO raged. His captain looked just as mad but didn't subject his bridge crew to the decibels that he'd like to use.
"Commo cut the CAP loss, Launch our alert suits! Get them into that colony NOW!" he shouted the last in the hope that it would some how make his mobile suits faster.
"Please make it in time!" the XO whispered as a pair of blue an green Hounds began a hard burn for Heliopolis and a sudder announced the opening of the hanger doors.
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Nami had taken up a rearguard position as the Archangel entered the harbor access tunnel and was the first to see the incoming threat (hard to miss a massive explosion that leaves a giant hole).
"Archangel, Nami. Incoming from your six o'clock high!" Nami commo'd as she layed the sights of the seventy six milmeter heavy beam rifle on the hole the and run the magnification to max.
"Roger Nami!, enemy dispensation?" Natarle asked from the CIC.
"One moment---, count five Ginn with D equipment! shite is that bastard trying to wreak Heliopolis?".
"Probably" Kira said in revalsion as he landed the Strike on the Archangel's rear deck and started working on a firing salution for the approaching Ginns.
"I'm coming back there!" Mu shouted as he started to turn the Zero around.
"Negative, the Zero isn't going to survive a seven suit melee in these kinds of inclosed spaces. Get outside and wipe the stragglers sir." Kira said as the Archangel's bridge slipped into the tunnel. Now only the two upperstern CIWS turrets could get a firing salution on the enemy.
Everyone was watching as the Ginns lossed a missile volley and the crew of the Archangel felt useless as only the MS's could aquire solid lock to fire with. Kira had to leave the rear deck to begin firing and he managed to kill three missile before they got to him. luckly the Aile striker pack came with a large shield and he blocked one large and three smaller missile with it. Nami's large cannon wasn't suited for hiting fast moving missile but she still got one with her machineguns and caught a pair of smaller ones on her shield as well but that still left elevan large and forty three small missile to slam into the colony's walls and central support shaft.
"Bastards" Nami shouted as she put the pipper on the lead Ginn and let her heavy beam cannon fly. The Ginn took the hit just below the cockpit and momentum drag the Ginn long the beam until it exploded. The other four Ginn scattered and started to bare in on seperate targets. The one with a heavy cannon went after the Strike, one went for Nami with a sword and two went for the ship.
"Damn!" Nami shouted as she dodge a swipe from the sword aimed at her. If she wasn't carrying the cannon she could easily out manauver this slacker but he wasn't giving her time to drop it. "Kira I'm engaged, can you get those Ginns after the Archangel?"
"I'm just as tangled up as you are and this pilot is damn good" Kira shouted back as he blocked another blast from the ion cannon at Rau's control. Nami tried to think of a way out but couldn't find one with the distraction of the sword welding Ginn in front of her.
"Back off!" Nami shield slammed the Ginn into a mall. finding the opening she was looking for Nami snapped her cannon up and pumped a pair of beams into the Brutus the other Ginn was trying to hit Kira with. The Ginn only just managed to throw the cannon away before it detonated and Kira used the openning to gun down the two Ginn heading for the Archangel.
Nami was about to pump a third shot into the Ginn harasting Kira when her opponent sliced the grip off her cannon with his sword. Nami thrustered back hard and jettisoned the damaged weapon. The Ginn came charging after her and found out that Hounds are equiped with beam saber the hard way. Namly having one rammed through his cockpit and out the back. Nami jetted away just before it exploded.
With no opponent right now Nami felt safe to look around. She was shocked and alarmed by the number and size of the breaches she could see in the colony walls. they wouldn't take anymore.
"Kira forget that guy, if we don't stop fighting and leave now the colony will fall apart!" Kira didn't need to be told twice and started to boost after the Archangel. But the last Ginn decide to throw one more attack at him and launched six midium size missiles at him. The missile missed Kira but slammed into the weakened shaft and shattered it. The panels that the shaft held together broke apart and the whole colony disintergrated. Kira and Nami were seperated in the buffeting as the atmosphere all went out in one big puff.
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On the Zaft ship Gamow. Nickel, Dearka and Yzak were sitting on standby in the pilots ready room when the colony came apart. None of them had words for the horror they experianced as they watched Heliopolis fall apart.
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On the Dragoon warship, the crew was enraged. ready and willing to go through hell to pay Le Crueset back for this latest attrosity.
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In Orb a middle aged man in a purple suit watched as the status indacators for Orbs only space colony went red. He know that he would be vary bisy in the near future.
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