survivor18 - I guess it was unclear, Yzak's mission was not to capture the Hatred, it was to capture the Pain while holding off the Hatred which is why they were a bit surprised that the Pain wasn't there. So Yzak damaged the Hatred at let it escape. So sorry about that not being explained well enough!
Phase 10 - Kira
There was an expanse of sea around him as he stood upon a rock looking down into the depths of the water. Lighting struck as wind blew and a storm raged around him. He looked around as he heard cries for help, cries that he recognized well.
As he gazed down into the ocean he saw them, his children grasping at rocks and screaming out in terror as the waves came up about them. Kiran, Leyas and Yaro all sat in danger while he was safe. Suddenly their images faded and he saw Lacus and Kayla standing on a rock under a break in the clouds, a light shined down upon them protecting them from the darkness of the storm. Soon their image faded and the storm ceased. He found himself alone surrounded by still waters and clear skies but the scene was one filled with deceit for as he looked down into the water he saw their faces; his children and his wife were dead beneath the ocean lost to all human kind.
He cried out in anguish.
Kira cried out as he woke up from his nightmare. Everything that he loved was dying, how could this happen? He breathed out reassuring himself that it was just a dream, nothing to worry about but a feeling in his heart told him that his family was in danger and he was here in a cell unable to help them. He hated feeling helpless and useless, he pounded his fists to the ground in frustration when he heard a voice behind him.
"You're awake!" He turned quickly startled, had his captors finally come to face him. He then saw that the person who had spoken was a prisoner like himself with his hands bound together, he was no longer alone in this cell.
"Who are you?" Kira demanded trying to make out this stranger, he had green hair and strange yellow eyes. Whoever this person was, Kira knew he had nothing to fear from him and that they were both in the same situation. They had both been put into captivity here.
"I am Gren Tris," the man said, "i would extend a hand but they are bound together."
"I'm Kira," he said hastily, "Kira Yamato."
"I know," the man said surprising Kira, he had never met him before, "I know you're surprised but your name is well known amongst the ranks of those who I work for. The wheels of a plan are in motion and I am here to bring you hope for the future, Redemption had arisen and your freedom is on it's way." Kira just looked at him with a face of confusion until he clarified, "I am an agent in the organization Redemption sent to bring you a message, the black rose has arisen and the lady of Redemption is now on her way to rescue you."
"To rescue me?" Kira asked, "but no one knows where I am but Lacus."
"You are mistaken," he replied, "Redemption has waited for a long time to strike at ROW and your capture just gave them reason to move."
"Then they are coming here?" Kira pressed future as hope filled him, perhaps he could get to Lacus and the kids in time to save them from whatever had been attacking them.
"Led by Redemption's Honor, they are coming," Gren replied. It was then that his mother's words returned to him
"When you meet with honor you must choose to return to Lacus and you must save your children from the darkness." His chance to return to everything he loved had come, he prayed that he would make it in time.
"All vents open," the voice rang around the ship, "all crew members prepare for submergence. Minerva engine levels all green. Take us under." Shinn stood on the bridge watching as the great ship launched for it's second time since being rebuilt. This was his mission, to intervene in the unrest caused by so much war. It was time for Minerva to take up it's calling and to fight for the brokenness around it.
"Our next launch," Lunamaria said standing next to Shinn shocking him with her unhostile tone, "I wonder what awaits us on our next mission."
"Lot's of ROW agents to fight off hopefully," Shinn replied, "if we can get along to defeat them."
"Meyrin talked to me the other day," Luna said suddenly turning to him, "and she does want us to try and get along for the mission so I guess that maybe I have been a little to rambunctious in the past. I am sorry for being so rude, you are a comrade with the same goals as me and I plan on being more civil in the future."
"That will be a change," Shinn mumbled earning a frown from Luna. Luna grunted in anger.
"I try to be nice!" Luna grumbled, "can't you at least stop being so insolent!" Shinn looked at her confused, what had he done now.
"What did I do?" he asked confused.
"Ok," Luna responded, "let's start over. We are comrades fighting for the same thing lets not fight for the sake of this crew, deal?" She held out her had and afraid of angering her again Shinn took it.
"Deal," he said.
Lacus flipped through the papers that Waltfeld had just handed her. Shiho, Waltfeld and Chairman Amarfi were all working out the details of a secret project Lacus wanted accomplished: the upgrades to the Journey and the Visage. She scrutinized each detail of the plans, she had witnessed that ROW's machines were behind her own and she wanted things to stay that way. She didn't want to know what would happen if her pilots fell behind those that were working for ROW.
"So the weaponry going to be more advanced?" Lacus asked, "what about the defense systems? We want our pilots as safe as possible especially in the event that they are our children like Yaro and Uzumi. I was frightened when we sent them out."
"That is detailed in the third page," Waltfeld said pointing it out, "we are boosting things to new levels because of the situations we went through."
"What pilots do we have for these machines?" she questioned further.
"I've been running inspections on the pilots looking for a couple who can handle the machines as good as Yaro and Uzumi," Shiho responded, "the difficulty is that most of our pilots are veterans who were never impressive and never will be and the few that are rookies are just simply not at the level they should be." Lacus thought about the situation, she could always call upon Yaro and Uzumi to fight again though she would never want to do it.
"I see you have your work cut out for you Shiho," she replied, "I want you to find pilots who are better than Yaro and Uzumi were. We want our machines in the best hands." Shiho knodded knowing to obey her leader though she was sure that the task would be impossible.
"There is so much to loose at this point," Amarfi spoke up, "I wonder if we should just let Uzumi and Yaro go through some real training and then call upon them again."
"Uzumi is the prince of ORB he could never be seen to join us!" Lacus protested.
"And Yaro?" Amarfi questioned.
"He's my son," Lacus said with a slight desperation in her voice, "and however many times I endangered Kira, I don't want my children fighting in this war."
"But if he wanted to?"
"I will not allow anyone to make the request," Lacus shook her head, "only if he asked for the position without a request would I give it to him. But I will not have any of you telling him how badly off we are, am I clear?"
"Perfectly," Waltfeld said looking toward the others who all nodded in agreement. Lacus looked out the window in the room toward space, there was too much happening around her and her thoughts turned to Kira, she wanted so badly to know that he was alright. He had to be!
Kiran walked briskly besides his cousin Jeffery hoping not to get lost; as younger students their school started a day early and Kiran was unsure what to do. School in ORB was not at all like it was in the PLANTs where the schools were smaller and more personal, here in ORB the schools were very large and easy to get lost in. Luckily Cagalli had every connection in ORB and was able to pull some strings to get Kiran the same class schedule as Jeffery though his cousin was two years younger. For the first time he would be in mobile suit training and the thought was exciting to him.
"How much farther is it?" Kiran asked his cousin.
"Not far now," Jeffery said, "that building there! That is where our first class is, come on we don't want to be late." Jeffery then started running quickly toward the class. Kiran ran too but slammed into someone causing him and the other person to fall to the ground. His papers went flying as he had to let go to catch himself. Great he had managed to humiliate himself on the first day. He looked up toward where the other person fell and was even more embarrassed when he realized he had knocked over a girl, who was very pretty. She had semi-long brunette hair that fell around her shoulders in soft curls and brown eyes.
"I am so sorry," he said rushing to help her pick up her things, "I wasn't looking where I was going, I was following my cous..fffriend to class. I am so sorry."
"You said that already," she said with a sightly frustrated look as he handed her what things he had gathered of hers. She looked up at him with some gratitude, "thanks, I mean not for knocking me down but for helping me pick up my things not very many people at this school would do that."
"You're welcome," Kiran said as he realized she wasn't mad, he then went to pick up his own things and when he turned around she had some of his stuff and handed it to him.
"I'm Alicesia," she said holding out a hand.
"Kiran," he said taking it, "I am so sorry again I am new here and..."
"I know," she said cutting him off, "I didn't recognize you and I know everyone here." Just then the bell rang and they realized that there were very few students still out. Kiran looked around for Jeffery but he was gone.
"Great," he picked up his schedule trying to decipher where to go.
"What's your next class?" Alicesia asked.
"I have some sort of science here," he said showing her his schedule, "but I have no clue where to go, my friend was leading me to it when he started running and I lost him."
"I have the same class," she said with a smile, "and the same mobile suit class as you, I'll take you."
"Ok cool," Kiran said not noticing that she was walking already, she turned around.
"You coming Kiran," she said with a nod.
"Yeah right behind you," he said following to her. They got to class on time and luckily the teacher had not arrived yet. Kiran saw Jeffery looking confused as he walked in. Jeffery waved and Kiran was about to wave when he noticed Alicesia wave. Kiran walked toward Jeffery and Alicesia followed him.
"You two know each other?" both Alicesia and Jeffery said at the same time.
"We just met," Kiran said to Jeffery, "because you ran way to fast."
"That's like Jefferey," Alicesia said sitting down, "you need to calm down sometimes."
"What there are places to be and little time to get there," Jeffery said defending himself, he looked as if he was about to say more when another girl walked in, this one had honey brown hair and the same brown eyes as Nessara. Jeffery waved at her.
"Jeffery likes her," Alicesia whispered to Kiran, "and has since last year but he is too nervous to tell her."
"Really, he's only twelve?" Kiran asked.
"And you are how old?" She asked.
"Fourteen," he replied a bit unsure how old the kids in this class were.
"Wow two years older," she replied sarcastically with a laugh, "I'm thirteen. Honestly I don't think it matters how old Jeffery is, he can like whoever he wants."
"I guess," it was at that moment that the teacher came in with a smile.
"Hello class," he said with a kind gaze, "it's a new week and time for us to get to work on those studies." Kiran was happy that the first day in a strange place seemed to be going well, he had managed to make a friend besides Jeffery and he looked forward to time time he would spend here. He focused on what the teacher was saying in class as he had missed many weeks of school but he managed very well as much of the lesson he had heard before. Alicesia was much less interested in the lesson, she liked Kiran right off and knew that they were going to be great friends.
Yaro was a bit unsure about how to begin this conversation and he expected all forms of opposition from both Athrun and Cagalli. When he woke up that morning he knew that he had to make his request known before he got caught up in his mobile suit training. Luckily he found the perfect opportunity at breakfast where none of the other kids were present. Uzumi had gone to the school to arrange a new class schedule for them both, Kiran, Kayla and Jeffery were in school and Leyas had fainted illness for whatever reason. Sometimes Yaro just decided that he didn't want to know what was going on in Leyas's mind, she always formulated plots and plans to get her way in whatever she desired and he was convinced that she was faking this illness to avoid having to go to school the next day. Realizing his thoughts were off track he brought them back to where they belonged and gathered his courage to speak.
"I've been meaning to ask you something," he began looking toward both Cagalli and Athrun.
"What is it Yaro?" Cagalli asked. He breathed in before asking his question.
"Do you know how I can find out who my real parents were?" he asked quickly adding, "I know that sounds like I am unhappy with Kira and Lacus when I really am not, I love them like parents, I just want to know." Cagalli put down the fork that she was holding and looked him in they eye.
"The truth is Yaro your parents might not eve be alive," she said, "you were placed in the orphanage after the great wars, who knows what happened."
"Then I know they wanted me," Yaro replied, "I just want to know who they were."
"That information may have been lost in the wars Yaro," Athrun said backing his wife up, "but if it is something you really want to know I will do what I can to help you find it."
"Thank you," Yaro said not wishing to talk about it more. He had gotten what he wanted out of the conversation and he was done with breakfast, time for a boring day preparing to face mobile suit training.
She stood across from the school grounds in a nearby park wondering what it was going to be like. She had never been to a school before and she was slightly anxious not knowing what to expect, she couldn't believe that her classes would start the next day. It was a new experience for her being unsure of what was coming, she could predict any battlefield situation and face it with a level head but when it came to a simple learning academy she was dumbfounded and did no know what to do. She stared at the steps and suddenly the scene morphed to a ruin in front of her. Everything was shattered and broken into pieces, there were clear burns from beams that had torn the place apart, there were bodies scattered all around. Everything had fallen apart. Meiko's breathing increased as she tired to shake the image from her head, she had seen images like this so many timed, in so many places.
"Are you alright?" The blue sky returned as a kind voice spoke these words, the school was there sit intact and there was life everywhere. She turned with cold eyes to see who was there and found herself face to face with an hazel-eyed, blue haired boy. His smiled did not fade as he saw her cold eyes. She just stood there staring at him until he noticed the coldness in her eyes falter as a sadness tried to overwhelm her blank expression. "Are you alright?" he asked again with real concern in his voice. How was that? How could someone she didn't even know care whether or not she was alright when the people she knew didn't even care.
"Yes," she responded hastily still trying to cover the fear in her eyes from what she had just seen.
"Are you sure?" he asked with even more concern. Uzumi had never seen anyone looking so scared in his life. He was leaving the school campus after meeting with some of the academic advisers when he had seen her staring toward the school grounds terrified.
"I'm fine," her face softened but she did not smile, "just fine."
"Do you go to school here?" Uzumi asked curiously, he had never seen her before yet she had looked toward the school with purpose. He had been gone a long time he might have never met her, "I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Uzumi Zala." Uzumi Zala, this was him the person she was supposed to befriend when she arrived at the school, what luck to meet him here now.
"I'm Meiko," she said taking his hand as he extended it, "Meiko Virea, and I don't go to school here yet but I will tomorrow." She put on a friendlier face though her eyes still remained as cold as ever.
"That's cool," Uzumi replied smiling, "I go to school here as well and my cous--friend is starting here tomorrow as well." He cursed himself mentally for almost slipping out the word cousin, he did not really know this girl and though she seemed harmless he was forced to be wary of everyone.
"So I'm not the only new student," Meiko said feeling a bit of relief, "that's good." She was a bit sad she had to decieve this boy, she thought he was very nice already. She had never met anyone like this, usually people were only nice when they wanted something from you yet he seemed like he was being nice just to be nice. It was a riddle to her and she did not realize that she now looked a bit confused to Uzumi.
"Don't worry about it, it's not that scary," Uzumi said catching her off guard.
"What?" she questioned.
"School here is not that scary, sure there are some mean people but there are tons of nice people as well," he said with a large smile, this was also a mystery to her. She had never met anyone will such a kind smile, it was almost unreal.
"Oh that," she said with a slight laugh, but he noticed that her eyes were not in it, "I'm not scared, I was just checking it out beforehand."
"Ok," he replied, "look I have to run, got a lot to do. But hey I'll see you tomorrow and maybe I'll help you find your way around."
"Okay," she said, "thanks."
"Goodbye," he said walking down the street leaving her stunned at what she had just experienced.
"Bye," she managed before turning to go her own way. She mentally told herself to ignore the kindness of Uzumi, though he was nice she had always lost her friends in the past. She didn't know how she would take it if she lost another one.
Yaro sat down near the front of the crowd. The whole Zala family was now attending one of Cagalli's national speeches. It was said that she would address issues related to ORB's sudden stress on more military. There were hundreds of people their to see their national leader make another speech.
Athrun stood behind the podium in a line of the country's leaders watching the crowd with caution. Something was not right about the atmosphere and he could not place it; ever since they first met he had somehow been connected to Cagalli in such a way he could tell when she was in danger and here in this room he was beginning to feel that she was in danger. He kept calm as he was a well trained solider in the past, but he could not keep his mind off his one goal; protect Cagalli. He radioed the guards again and found that there was nothing suspicious about, just norgam ORB citizens. For a moment the feeling left Athrun and he began to relaxe believing the threat was gone. Cagalli was then announced and she stepped up the stairs toward the podium with all the grace an official leader should have.
"Good evening citizens of ORB," she said in greeting with a smile as the cameras began to flash on her, "I would like to speak to all you citizens on this day because today an act was signed by our council to expand our ORB forces, in order to ensure a lasting peace for all of our people." She paused and looked out into the crowd with confidence, "I assure you all that this act does not mean that ORB plans on war ensuing here on our soil, it just a means for protection in this unrest..." She was interrupted by someone yelling. Athrun became immediatly alert as his sense of Danger began to rise. Yaro spun around to see where the voice was coming from. Athrun signaled the gaurds.
"Representative Attha!" the man yelled jumping up, "you know nothing of peace." The man then pulled out a gun and fired, he was backed up by another somewhere in the room. There were two shots and both were toward the sage. Athrun sprung with the reflexes of a coordinator and pulled Cagalli down just in time. One of the shots hit the arm of one of the council members, and a few more shots rang out as the whole room began to panic. Yaro jumped up as all the people began to scream and he spotted one of the criminals. The gaurds moved toward the first man and he turned the gun on himself and shot himself. Yaro yelled to the guards but his voice was lost in the screaming crowd. Taking the initiative he ran toward where the second man had gone casing after him with sure determination. He would not let anyone hurt his aunt without a fight. He ran out of the building and saw the man heading toward a car, unpurused by guards. Was it possible that they did not even realize that this mand had been shooting to? Yaro jumped after him reaching him just before he reached his car, he wrestled him to the ground. The man was strong but not enough, he was obviously a natural. Yaro wrenched the gun from his hand and pointed it had him before he could react.
"If you don't want to die put your hands up," Yaro demanded just as a group of guards caught the scene and ran out. Athrun was among them.
"Good work Yaro," Athrun said as the guards surrounded the man. Yaro's breathing was fast and his eyes were still filled with determination, this man had tried to kill Cagalli, he was wary of what else the man might be able to do.
"It's alright now Yaro you can put the gun down," Athrun said putting a hand on his shoulder, "we're here now." Yaro slowly came to his senses and looked his uncle in the eye. He brought the gun down from the man and turned to his uncle.
"I'm alright," he said, "How is Cagalli?" Athrun looked down.
"She is fine," he responded, "but Senator Duabi took a bullet for her near the end, he was just brought to the hospital."
"Why would someone do this?" Yaro asked tears filling his eyes, "why would anyone try to kill another? Especially someone like Cagalli?"
"Why would anyone accuse Lacus Clyne of being a criminal?" Athrun asked back, "there are so many things we do not yet understand, but we must find a way to understand them." The two then went inside to meet with the gaurds who were now smuggling Cagalli to a safe bunker, Athrun accompanied her and the kids were all brought to a secret car. They brought them home where Jeffery went on and on about how scary it was. Uzumi was relatively silent as was Kiran. Leyas and Kayla who had stayed home rushed out when the boys arrived.
"We saw it all over the news!" Leyas declared giving Yaro a hug, "I was so worried about Aunt Cagalli how is she?"
"She is fine," Yaro replied, "but one of the senators was hit."
"It's getting harder to understand everything," Kayla spoke up looking off toward the horizon, "the war we've been waiting for has finally arrived. ROW was behind the attack, I just know it." Yaro agreed with the younger girl, ROW was the only organization that he could think would do something like this, but why?
"Make this quick," Liene sat comfortably enjoying his dinner. His plans had been progressing with ease. Meiko had just made contact saying that she had met Uzumi and already begun to work on befriending him. The next day Liene was set to take off from the Mars base, even though he had just arrived, to ROW's main headquarters on the far side of the moon. It was at the main headquarters that many of his main plans would progress from and he was sure that from there he could work without fear of anyone suspecting. The man before him now was Commander Lero, a man who had been in the ROW ranks for awhile but had never really done much for them except maintain the small Mars base.
"Sir," he said bowing slightly, "now that you have finally arrived we have a piece of news for you. We recently found a ZAFT ship in our vicinity, a ship we didn't have on file so we took it captive and like you ordered us to we began to kill the prisoners. When we were about to kill the captain we noticed something about him, he manifested the seed mode and beat up many of our gaurds. It took a lot to restrain him, we then hacked the system of the ship and found out the man in question was in fact, now you'll never believe this, the man we have in our custory is Kira Yamato." Liene's head shot up fast as the name of his enemy was spoken. Could this be possible that Kira Yamato was in their custody? So that is why the Freedom was not among the group that saved Lacus! It had shocked him so that Lacus had to escape without him, yet here he was. He had been chasing them down! Standing up Liene shouted instructions.
"Bring him to me," he said, "I can't believe you didn't recognize him at first! The brunette hair with violet eyes!" They were a bit shocked by his outbursts.
"We have him here now," Lero said nodding to one of the garuds. The doors opened slowly and two garuds dragged in a man that Liene had not seen since he was a boy, Kira Yamato; he had grown up a lot yet now he was weakend by drugs that many ROW officials used to control prisoners.
"So Kira Yamato!" Liene smiled evily, he could not believe that his luck was about to change. For so long he had only shadows of coordinators to experiment on, now here he had the real Ultimate Coordinator. Kira looked at him with anger in his eyes, no doubt he didn't take to being locked up in a cell.
"Who are you," Kira demanded to know as fierce rage began to fill him. This must be the man in charge of this base, maybe even the one in charge of ROW.
"Why don't you remember me Kira?" The man asked walking circles around him, "I would have thought that you would never forget what we did to you in Gibralter." Memories hit Kira's mind of the torture and the pain he had endured at the hands of terrorists linked to Blue Cosmos. The man who led them was simply called J. That was when Kira realized it, J must have escaped all those years ago for the man that he was now brought before looked and spoke exactly like J.
"YOU!" Kira's anger was nearing his heights and J knew it, even with the drugs it would be hard to suppress the seed without another stronger dose. He quickly motioned for one of the guards to administer one. Kira let out a small cry as the gaurd kicked him down to his knees to stick the needle it. It made Liene smile to know he had the Ultimate Coordinator in his control now. Kira's breathing got hard as the drug began to take effect.
"You're the one who tried to kill Lacus!" Kira was able to manage to say between labored breaths.
"Wrong," Liene replied, "the plan was not to kill her but rather to break her into our way of thinking. You see if she came around then we knew we would be able to more easily take her two children from her for our purposes but since that didn't happen we gave up and left you two alone."
"Why?" Kira asked him, "why does ROW exist?"
"To right the wrongs of the world," Liene responded watching as Kira put his hand on his head trying to block out the effects the drugs. Kira gasped as pain was shot through his body, whatever this man was giving him was worse than anything he had experienced in Gibralter
"To spread your lies!" Kira could barely answer back as he felt his head spinning.
"You'll come around to our way of thinking soon enough," Liene pulled out and instrument and pointing it toward Kira he pushed the button letting out electricity. It tore through Kira like fire and he cried out. Soon it was to much for him to take and he blacked out. Liene put his instrument away and walked toward the wall.
"Put him on momentary recovery then place him back in his cell," Liene said, "I am leaving tomorrow but when I return I expect to see him here. Get answers out of him, we need to know where Lacus is well. I have a strange feeling that we are closer to our goals than I thought. If Gilligan is right and Redemption did not keep A1 than I am sure our lead rests in Lacus. We know she made contact with Redemption once at Gibralter. We have to find her, we need her to talk."
"Sir the assassination attempt was a failure," a small messanger ran into the room at that moment, "Cagalli and Athrun escaped." Liene smiled at this news confusing his gaurds. He had set up the assasination attempt to purposly fail, he knew that ORB was in a slight state of unrest wiht all the military acts Cagalli was signing. This stunt would surely send the whole coutry into Chaos setting the representative's attempts back. He did not want Cagalli dead yet, she was still an instrumental piece in his plan. Everything was going exaclty the way it should.
"This will go much easier if you tell us where Lacus is," Lero said overseeing as three of his men tortured Kira. ROW had advanced many different kinds of weapons in the past 16 years and one of the areas they covered was torture weapons; such painful ones that many victims were killed during their torture. Liene had been very specific about keeping Kira alive and Leo understood why. Liene had long worked on trying to harness the power of the seed, and during his studies he had discovered the ultimate coordinator might posses the super seed - a kind of seed more powerful than the normal seed that was rare enough.
"I don't know!" Kira declared glaring hard at Lero who only clicked another button on the machine to induce more pain.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Lero yelled, he was getting nowhere. It was possible that Kira really did not know where Lacus was, he was away when Lacus left but Kira must have some idea of where his wife would flee to. Why did Liene want Lacus? Because he had proof that she had made contact with Redemption on the issue of one of Liene's past projects. His proof came from a redemption spy he had captured; he had tortured this spy to find out where he had delievered some stolen goods to which he answered that Lacus and Redemption hid them together. Liene hated Milady Redemption more than anyone else because of this. Lero remembered the girl, she had always been troublesome and unsubmissive but Liene had insisted that she was important. Liene had personally overseen her training and prepared her for the future when she turned on him and stole information, goods and one of Liene's most important goods, the A1. Liene had tried to replace it, tried to recover it and he had tried to replicated it. Nothing had worked. Liene had decided to ignore the issue until he had stumbled upon some information regarding Lacus's new mobile suit, the Visage. Liene's fury was renewed at the information and he would now stop at nothing to uncover the truth about what Redemption stole from him.
"It's like I said! I don't know!" Kira declared again as soon as he could speak, "and even if I did know what makes you think I'd tell you?"
"Well under the right persuasion," he was about to push a different button when a hand caught his, Lero turned to find himself face to face with Mike Shurstre who had just returned from his mission to earth.
"That's enough Lero," Mike said switching off the machine, "your orders are to keep him alive, and he has endured too much this day."
"I am obeying orders," Lero said, "we need this information."
"In time," Mike said, "but there is now way to get it if you kill him, let him rest." Leo stormed off angrily and Kira looked up at the man who had stopped his torture. He was wary of everyone here, no one in ROW was to be trusted. Mike looked down with a sad look in his eyes, ROW had indeed become a place of misery with slime like Lero as main officers.
"I am sorry," Mike turned saying to Kira, "sometimes these people get out of hand."
"You're one of these people," Kira replied bitterly as gaurds came in to take him to a recovery room so he could be tortured again later.
"Something I remind myself everyday," Mike said turning away and leaving the room, it was all becoming harder to see. Liene would destory everything in his path if he was not stopped. Though no one in ROW particularly liked Mike, none of them questioned his loyalty either. It had pained him time and time again to prove it through brutal and terrible means. The one thing he had done right was help Redemption escape, but he was unsure if he would ever be able to help her again; he only hoped all her plans worked.
Gren sighed as he thought of what Kira would go through now. It would have to end soon, Redemption had to show up. He looked up toward the roof of the small cell, he had been with Redemption for three years and in those years he had learned so much about life. He could see the world with such clear eyes since Milady took him in. The organization was home to so many who were broken, so many who had lost everything. Milady gave them hope and offered them a way to fix this broken world. He had been so lifeless before she found him and now he was filled with so much hope.
Meeting Kira had been very surreal for him as he began to see why Kira was so important to Redemption. Just his voice inspired hope. Gren realized that hope was what it meant to be the ultimate coordinator. So would ridicule Kira and try to destroy him if they knew the truth about what he was, but that was because they did not understand. Hibiki had not even understood what he was dealing with when Kira was born. Gren sighed as he thought about what was yet to come; the super-seed had to awaken if this world could be saved. Even with hope in his heart a small bit of doubt lingered in his mind; ROW had already accomplished so much. His thoughts turned to Redemption's next gamble; the gamble for the soul of a child who had the same spirit that Kira possessed, a child that could bring about a true reversal. A child who was all but dead, one that needed a breath of life. Redemption would deliver a breath of life.
School would start the next day, he now needed one more relaxing walk before he was forced to return to his studies. He was curious as to whether or not the red head girl he had seen earlier would be there again this evening. After questioning the man Yaro had caught, ORB still did not understand why anyone would try to kill Cagalli. She had been returned home and security around the family had been tripled but so far there were no more threats. Yaro wondered how things in ORB would play out now that the country had just been thrown into panic. Cagalli had asked Uzumi to make a public speech on the matter as she was unable to appear before the public. Yaro knew that she hated endangering Uzumi but the public had to hear it soon, and what better way to announce his re-arrival than to address the nation.
Yaro shoved everything out of his thoughts, there was too much going on here. He missed the comfort of his home in the PLANTs, be he would not ever see that again.
He hurried along until he could see the cliffs. He then realized that a storm seemed to be drifting in. When he reached the cliffs there she was again, just as she had been the day before. Red hair glistening even though there was no sun, head bowed toward the ground. A scene Yaro did not wish to break. Who was she?
So I approached this chapter in a better way that past chapters. I decided to write at least one scene a day in order to get it done faster. I know I am still slow but I am now forcing myself to write. I've found that if I force myself to begin a scene that I am unsure of then ideas begin to flow, it's becoming kinda therapeutic to write this story now as I have found that there are so many pressures that life brings. I don't think that my grammar or ability to catch mistakes is any better though, in fact it might be worse. So I hope this chapter is clear and unconfusing, if you have any questions about it just ask, I will answer you to the best of my ability without revealing to much of the plotline.
So anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter, for action lovers there wasn't so much except for that assassination attempt. I also hope you liked the new characters introduced, Alicesia is one of my new favorites. So now Meiko and Uzumi have met, what will it be like when she finally meets Yaro.
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