Hey there readers, friends and critics. I know that you don't have alot of time and that there are better stories out there but could I get a coupla reviews for this story, PLEASE! I'm going insane trying to find out if people like what I'm writing or not. If you do review I will be eternally thank full and probibly respond.
Your very tired writer, c0dy88.
P.S. I'd better say it now but I don't plan on pulling many punches with language or blood, I'm not much for sexual scenes but you can expect the blood to flow.
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The Strike was drifting through the remains of the colony of Heliopolis, the loss of it's main internal support and the sudden outrush of air tareing the frigile structure apart in a very violent manner.
In the cockpit of the Strike Kira Yamato was out cold from a mild concussion but otherwise unharmed.
However, because of his current state he missed the increasingly frantic calls from the Archangel and the Dragoon ships as they searched for him.
"X-105 Strike! Damn it Kira answer me!" Ensign Badgiruel was starting to become very worried about the Strike and its pilot, even if she didn't agree with giving the exparimental mobile suit to a civilian she still wasn't going to take lossing a pilot lightly.
"Mobile Squad One, requesting permession to enter the debrie field in search of X-105 and XMS-002 Hound." one of the Dragoon MS pilots requested.
"Squad One you are cleared to enter debrie field" the Flight Officer on the Dragoon warship answered. Four Hound mobile suits kicked their thrusters hard and entered the wreakage, spreading out as they did to cover a larger area.
"Flaga moving to assist Squad One" Mu had his Zero racing after the mobile suits before anyone could even acknowedge his message. He was bound and determined to help find the two missing pilots, he'd seen too many return in body bags not to try.
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Nami was shocked awake when her Hound bounced off a piece of wreakage and cause her broken wrist to bump into the left control yoke.
"Wha-OH FUCKING HELL THAT HURTS!" Nami shouted as she craddled her left wrist to her chest and leaned as far forwards as she could.
"Why do I always brake the left wrist, why?" Nami grabbled to the fates as she scrounged around for the emergency supplies. When she found them she immeadately pulled out an autosringe full of painkillers and an injection collar. Nami then had to one-handed remove her helmet and unzip her flight suit so she could slide the collar around her own neck. Once the collar was seated she inserted the autosringe and started the timer. The mechanisium of the injection collar had a three to five second delay before it fire so that the patient wouldn't have any warning, not that Nami really cared at the moment but it was the thought that counts right?
The sringe firing was the final straw for Nami's nerves system, that last little burst of pain sent Nami into a sea of blackness as she passed out aguin.
When Nami re-woke up the pain from her arm had been greatly reduced, now it only felt like the first circle of hell instead of the ninth.
"Well its an improvement" Nami grumbled as she fish around for a pnomatic splint. The splint consisted of a plastic sleeve full of foam BBs and a valve. When the air was pumped out the sleeve shrank snoggle around the limb and the BBs compressed together to form a rigid cased that would inhibit movement in the injure limb, and all you need to do to release the splint was open the valve and let the air back in.
With her wrist now taken care of Nami turned to her mobile suit. A quick system check revealed that one of the thrusters on her mobility pack was damaged but functioning and that she no longer had a long range targeting camera. Not a real problem when she thought about it but now she needed to find Kira and the Strike. Nami worked the controls with her right hand as she tried to remember the direction the Strike had been sucked in when the colony had collapsed but her memory was to foggy to work something out. The best she had was to head in the direction of the harbor and hope. Nami finished setting her shield in a position that gave her both good protection and a reasonable field of fire, stowed her beam saber and pulled out a beam pistol and started for what was left of the harbor.
A few minutes into her search Nami heard her radio crackle.
"Hound Two calling Zero, comm'in Zero" a familiar voice said.
"Go Two" Mu reasonded.
"Could you meet me by the harbor wreakage immeadately, please" Two said in a worried voice. Nami didn't like what she was hearing and put more power into her thrusters.
"Could I ask why?" Mu sounded as worried as Nami felt.
"I need the Strike's cockpit override codes to get to the pilot" Nami and Mu both stomped on the gas and roared towards Hound Two at full military thrust, Nami even considered layin' on her afterburns but the wreakage was to tightly packed to risk it. Nami suddenly remembered that she had a radio and that sitting quiet had been a major mistake on her part. A mistake that she hurried to correct.
"Hound Two, Nami, Report"
"LT! Were hav-"
"REPORT!" Nami was in no mood to chatter right now add it came through loud an clear when she snapped that order over the radio.
"Ma'am, I have the Strike at the lower left corner of the wreakage of the harbor access tunnel. It appears that the pilot was knocked unconause when his mobile suit was bounced off the wreakage but I need the access codes in order to be sure!" Two sounded slight scared of Nami at the moment and Nami know that she'd have to make it up with the pilot later, emthosis on the later.
"All search an recuse units congregate at Two's location and provide overwatch while Two and I retrive the pilot and mobile suit. Report status as you confirm last over" Nami didn't have to what long for the reports to start flowing in.
"Flaga, thirty seconds from roundauve at military thrust!"
"One, ninety seconds behind Flaga!"
"Three and Four, thirty seconds behinds One. No enemies sighted in rear quarter!" Nami shifted slightly as she burned towards the roundauve point. she was slightly ahead of Mu, maybe ten seconds or so ahead.
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Not far from Two's location Rau Le Crueset listened to the radio chatter with a large grin plastered on his face. So the Strike's pilot was out off commision for the moment. He would have so loved to just go down there, blast Hound Two to little bits, take the Strike and leave. Profferably after cutting the pilots air supply but the reenforcements were too close for him to risk it by himself.
"Commander!" Rau looked up and felt his smile strech out even farther as he watched Athran and the Aegis burn towards him.
"Athran? What are you doing here?" Rau tried not to sound gleeful. The Aegis pulled up close to the Ginn and stopped.
"Sir, Captain Ades sent me to get you. The Vesalius and Gamow are pulling out before any more ships arrive." Rau was in shock and he showed it.
"What!? those aren't my orders?"
"Sir" Athran's voice lost some of its respect "The council has ordered you to return to face possible courtmarshal for the knowing disregared of civilian lives, and the destruction of the neutral colony of Heliopolis." Rau Le Crueset seemed to deflate as the orders sank in. He was being courtmarshal for fighting the enemy, what kind of goverment puts it own soldiers on trial for doing their jobs.
"Right lets go Athran" Rau took one last look at the mobile suits that had gathered around the Strike in the course of his an Athran's conversation. There were five of the ones from the Dragoons and Mu's Mobius Zero. even with Athrans help he wasn't sure they be able to get to the Strike now.
Rau let out a sigh and turned to follow Athran back to the Velsalius. He needed to prepare his defence, and he'd start by wiping out the records of the event on both the Vesalius and the Gamow.
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"I hope this will be of some help to you mister chairman" Uzumi Nara Athha said as he held a teleconferance with Siegel Clyne, Chairman of the Plants Supreme Council.
"It will be most helpful indeed, an aguin let me applagise for the behavior of the Le Crueset team in attacking and destroying Heliopolis. I can assure you that I will have Rau Le Crueset head on a stick for this. He was supposed to wait before taking any action" Mr. Clyne sounded highly put off by this incident.
And he was, he had just about gotten Orb to back a preposed peace plan and Le Crueset had to go and ruin it. He already know about the EA's little project on Heliopolis. In fact he know before Orb itself!.
Lord Uzumi for his own part was having a field day, both in gutting the Blue Cosmos supporters in Morgenrate and being able to stomp on the toes of just about every EA supporter that was trying to get Orb to join their cause.
But the crowning glory of this incedent was that it gave him enough ammo to have most of the Seiran family tried for treason. They had given add to a foreign power without the knowledge or concent of Orbs goverment. He had already sent the warrents out to have the whole Seiran family arrested and their property seized, then he intended to use every piece of evidence he had on them so that there was NO way for them to try and worm their way out of trouble. Then he'd have all but the highest of the offenders exiled from Orb or Orb terratory of the rest of their natural lives.
Mr. Clyne on the other hand was going to have to play this close to his chest if he wanted to cut a leg out from under the radicals on the council. He know that Patrick Zala was going to try and spin this in a way that would look good for Le Crueset (and by extention myself). He had the pilots and captains of both invalved warships make copes of all pertenant records and send them straight to the Justice Department and the Supreme Council for reveiw before they left the battle zone. And he planned to have all the surviving pilots along with captians Ades and Zelman testify as witnesses at the trail.
He was cutting it close but he might, just might be able to have Le Crueset's independant command revoked and reobsorbed into the lunar fleets.
"I thank you for your time Lord Uzumi, and have a good evening" Mr. Clyne said before he signed off.
"And you as well Chairman Clyne" Lord Uzumi said to the blank screen before he called for a report on the warrents being surved.
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Kira awake to the sickening stench of industrial cleaners, and the blinding white wall that quickly told him that he was in a hospital bed. The reason way made itself known when he tried to sit up, in the form of a blinding headache that sent him straight back to his pillow with a grown of pain.
"Whoa! your awake already? we all thought that you'd be out for a few more hours," the voice paused for a moment as if the speaker was concidering something.
"I guess this just go's to show that your head is the hardess substance known to man!" Kira had enough of the voice and simply throw 'the bird' at the speaker.
"Kira!?" a second female voice sounded shocked.
"Young man please refain from making obscene gestures in my med bay, even if the receaving party deserves it!" an older sounding gentleman's voice said, though he sounded highly amused by the whole thing.
"Ya! play nice egg head!" the first voice added.
"Nami!" the older man said in a warning tone, "I know your kind of out of it at the moment, but you don't need to take it out on a fellow paticent!" Nami seemed to have been satubly cowed for the moment as the older man walked away.
"Meanie!" Nami mumbled under her breath as she laid back do into her own pillow, the high grade painkillers making it hard for her to conscentrate on anything for very long. The second female voice let out a giggle as she leaned over Kira, blocking out his view of the ceiling with a mass of bushy, brown hair. It only took Kira a few moments to identify that bunch of hair.
"Hello Miri" this seemed to affect the girl in a way that Kira wasn't expecting. Miriallia's smile became fixed and left her eyes as she looked down on Kira.
" 'Hello Miri' is that the best you can think up after you get my home wreaked and end up in the infirmary?" everyone in the room felt their spiderscene start to tingle from the tone Mir was using, her friends recognize it as the 'give me one reason not to smite you!' tone that she used to use when Tolle was being an ass.
"Sorry Mir, but I only just woke, so could we please save the fighting for later" Kira hoped that he could delay Mir's outburst until they were somewhere that was more private and had a door with a lock. Mir seemed to understand this and stood to leave.
"We'll 'talk' about this when they let you out of bed Kira. Until then you'd better do some hard thinking cause I want some answers to some very important questions."
Mir turned around after that and started walking out the door but was stopped by a voice.
"Mir, when your done with Kira meet me in the hanger. theres something I would like you to do for us" Nami said from her bed. Mir was confused for a moment but agreed and walked out. A few minutes after she was gone one of the doctors let out a waistle.
"Boy your ether in for the night of your life or the beating of it".
"Both!" Kira and Nami said togther.