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Phase 30: Arrival of Dreams
Blasts rained upon the base as Kiran was awakened from his peaceful sleep. He heard the alarm and knew the sound well. He sat up quickly rubbing the sleep from his eyes and pulling on his uniform. The Tranquility had not arrived and they were not ready for this! The outpost was not fully defended without the special forces from ORB and Kiran fought off fear. He ran out from his room toward the hangar where the Minerva was and he saw many others doing the same. The base was alive with activity now and he knew that many were as scared as he was now.
Meyrin frowned as she made it to the bridge of her ship, she did not want to send Kiran out there again but she knew he would insist and this time he would be fighting his own. She turned as Ceveris floated to the bridge.
"Have you recieved orders yet?" he asked, "are you launching."
"I do have orders to defend this base," Meyrin responded quickly giving commands to the pilots of the ship, "and you Ceveris have no obligation to follow us any further. We have submitted this ship to ORB's military for now, and as you are not a part of that you do not need to fight." She hated the fact that she would not have his backup in the hard battle they would be facing but she knew it was better that she let him know the situation they were in.
"Not a chance I'm going to let the kid face this alone," Ceveris responded turning toward the door, "Kiran will fight, you know this Meyrin. This time they are coordinators and they are more powerful than what he has faced so far. I will launch to protect him not ORB." She was glad he made his intentions clear. She now prayed that the Tranquility would arrive soon as the Minerva moved out of the hangar.
Yaro heard it in his mind as something exploded with in him. He sat in his mobile suit cockpit as they had recieved a distress call from the outpost. Hopefully they would arrive in time, and then he would unleash the dreamer upon those who were enemies of peace.
The Minerva lifted off into the Fray of the battle as Meyrin shouted orders and the crew followed. Alicesia was tense as she saw the numbers for the ZAFT forces that had been sent. Such a large force for such a small base, they weren't looking for a fight they were preparing for an annihilation.
"Watch out!" Meyrin yelled as the ship banked hard to the right and a blast moved right past them, "take us under!" The ship then submerged into the water and Alicesia held on tight not understanding what they were doing. It was then that the water above them cut and she saw that a large positron cannon blast was blocked by how quickly they went under. Meyrin smiled at the success of their movements.
"Get us up, then fire the positron cannons dead ahead!" Meyrin yelled, "Alicesia, give our mobile suits permission to launch!" Alicesia turned to do her job and she saw more orders from the base. It seemed they had more of a problem
"Captain there are three new gundams out there! They are tearing through the main defenses!" Alicesia said alerting the bridge.
"Get Ceveris and Kiran out there!" Meyrin shouted as they came out of the water firing the deadly positron cannon into the ship directly in front of them. Meyrin would rather not kill but at this point they would die if they didn't do something. It was times like these where she wished she had Kira and Lacus around to keep the spirits of everyone up. She glanced at more of the base orders frantically as she heard Ceveris and Kiran launching, it seemed the Tranquility and more ORB forces were nearby but they would still have to hold out until the ship got there.
Kiran launched into the battled and immediately starting dodging shots when Ceveris came from behind him and started cutting through mobile suits with his powerful machine. Kiran knew that he was fighting the PLANTs now and part of him was hesitant; what if his friends were out there somewhere? He remembered his best friend had always talked of joining the military. Now was not the time to think about it, he had left everyone without saying goodbye but now he had to focus on the battle.
He maneuvered around the machines before him looking for weak points as Ceveris had taught him, he only wanted to disarm them not to kill them. ORB had set up lights in the ocean that lit up the sky for their mobile suits but the sun was rising now. He finally made it around one mobile suit and disarmed it as Ceveris destroyed one that was coming toward him. Kiran really wished he could tell Ceveris not to kill them but he knew that it made little difference to the older pilot what happened to these people. They were enemies and to him enemies needed to be destroyed; it was against everything Kiran had been taught but he knew that not very many people were raised as he was. Not very many people believed in the ideals that governed him and so many of the people he knew.
"KId there are those Gundams from the report," Kiran looked in awe to see the two new models, they were definitely more powerful than the Courage. He gulped as one headed toward him and Ceveris. "Stay close," Ceveris ordered and Kiran obeyed following his every move through the battlefield, protected behind the older Gundam.
The Gundam's then attacked them and Ceveris shouted Kiran orders as they both fought it together. Soon Kiran found he wasn't doing much and Ceveris was battling it alone when another seemed to be coming for him. He knew now was not the time to be a coward but he could do much more facing units that weren't so strong. He then did what he knew how to do and plunged toward the ocean pulling up just as he was at the waters surface and speeding along it toward a cloud of weaker machines. He then engaged one and was backed up by a group of ORB soldiers.
"Those machines are too strong for the ORB forces!" Alicesia declared in shock as the three gundams moved through the lines of the battle without even slight concern to their own well being.
"Focus on the fight ahead of us," Meyrin yelled, "we need to keep our minds on the battlefield at hand." Alicesia obeyed focusing on their immediate enemies though she was awestruck by the new Gundams. She wondered what it would be like to pilot one and to rule the battlefield like they did.
Kiran disarmed a few more mobile suits when he turned to a new contact on his radar and saw that it was one of the Gundam's from before; the one that had tried to engage him earlier. He moved his mobile suit back quickly and searched for weak points as the machine attacked him seemingly full force. He fought the machine back trying to conjure up that feeling that he had gotten in past battles. He wanted that strength now; where was it? He fought fear that was filling him as he tried to beat back the machine which kept gaining grounds.
"STOP IT!" Kiran yelled pulling his beam saber and meeting his opponents attack. He glanced around for help but there was no one there. His beam saber was knocked aside quickly so he drew other weapons but he knew now he was out matched. He searched for an escape but he knew he was too inexperienced to handle this. It was then that a blast shook the battlefield and two ZAFT ships exploded from their line.
Kiran glanced and so did the other pilot as a mobile suit streaked through the sky faster than any other on the battlefield. The machine had literally appeared from thin air with power and strength.
Who was it?
He glanced briefly at his targeting computer as he sent off another large blast from his main guns, this time annihilating the units around the Minerva. He smiled to himself as he turned now toward his real target, it seemed that little Kiran had decided to try and take on more than he had bargained for. With swift movements he spun the PLANT gundam pilot in a circle as the enemy tried to keep up with his speed. Yaro smiled at this, it seemed the pilot was no match for him as something exploded in the back of his mind and a glow electrified through his cockpit.
"Who are you?" he saw Kiran's face and it confirmed to him that it was his brother on the battlefield. Yaro revealed himself to Kiran and the boy had a face of clear shock. Kiran didn't recognize his brother at first glance, something was different about him and his eyes were glowing brightly now.
"Get back to the Minerva Kiran," Yaro said as Kiran noticed a fresh wave of ORB forces filling the battlefield, "we brought enough re-enforcements to handle this." Yaro then turned away leaving his brother no room for answer. He turned back to his battle against the gundam and found that soon all three were gravitating toward him. He smiled at this as his seed blazed to a brighter level and he lifted the arms of his gundam firing off nets of lasers and trapping one within their destructive power. He then pulled a rifle off the back of his mobile suit and fired off a round taking out the main weapons of another and without loosing a beat he pulled his beam saber in time to meet a close attack from the final of the three. He spun around this machine quickly knocking away the pilots beam saber and crushing the camera of his machine. He had every mind to completely destroy these three but he felt anger enough to leaven them humiliated as he blasted toward the plant ships.
Mobile suits tried to stop him and he destroyed those that he didn't have time to disarm. He found himself in front of one of the ships quickly and he fired a shot into the bridge instantly destroying the ship. As he turned to the others he saw another strange mobile suit fighting off the PLANT forces.
"With me," Yaro sent to the pilot who was obviously experienced, "we're going after the head ship."
"Alright, I don't believe I've met you I'm Ceveris," he said, "and your name is…" Yaro glanced at him with a slight dark gaze, his eyes continued to glow.
"I am Yaro Yamato," he responded before blasting toward the flagship. Ceveris followed him and eventually took the lead clearing the path as Yaro's gundam transformed. He let his cockpit carry him forward and he found himself laying forward now aiming his main guns. The extra feature of the Dreamer, it was made for both long range and short range. In long rage mode it was a little more vulnerable though which is why he called for the other pilot. He smiled as he aimed his guns and locked onto the ships weak point. The battlefield turned as the gundam fired a large positron blast equal to that of a ship into the flagship of the enemy forces. It was as if everyone stopped in awe of what had just taken place.
Meyrin frowned at what she witnessed as the PLANT forces retreated from the sight of the new ORB forces now. Yaro had almost single handedly beaten back their forces and he did it so brutally. It was wrong for a machine to posses that much power to be given to someone so young.
"We've won the field!" Alicesia declared as Kiran's mobile suit entered the ship.
"No Alicesia," Meyrin said standing up remembering what it was like to live in the PLANTS, "we've fought hard today but we've stooped low. I fear that because of this battle the retaliation will be strong. In a way we've lost because we've allowed ourselves to kill them and they won't take this lightly. Never forget Alicesia that so many died here today and I fear that the losses will fuel the anger of the people. I fear what is coming."
It was uncanny, it was something she would have never expected. It was just wrong. Jayley sat there in space after seeing the footage and reading the reports. ORB had indeed developed more strength than she had ever foreseen that they could. She had worked years on those three Gundams and suddenly ORB comes out with a new transformable model and all her hard work was made void. There was no doubt to her that the PLANT council would be unnerved by the situation, so many had been killed by that machine. She was lucky that her three gundams had made it out. Now what actions could she take. She stared at the video thinking as she saw it over and over again. There was a blue glow around the outline of the cockpit, something she didn't really want to see.
That kind of glow had appeared once before, in he eyes of Meiko Virea in her final battle; there was no doubt in her mind that it was Lienes precious super seed. She knew of only one other who could posses such power, the original prototype, the A1. It was impossible in her mind that the A1 could be in ORB, the child was safe in the halls of Redemption for sure. Here the evidence supported but she didn't want it to. The connection was wrong, everything was wrong.
"Beat pretty bad," she turned at the sassy voice in the room as a young girl walked forward with a cocky look in her face. The girl watched the videos streaming by and let out a small laugh, "His technique is sloppy Jayley, I have no doubt in my ability to face him."
"No Gera," Jayley responded breathing out, "not yet. We've only seen part of what he can do and your mobile suit remains unfinished."
"Then what will we do?" Gera said with slight anger on her face. Jayley let off her own glare; Gera was her father's most powerful warrior, his own child that he believed could match the level Liene achieved with Meiko Virea but Jayley knew better than that Gera was good but she was limited as the technology that went into her training, in order to beat this new warrior they would have to catch him off guard with her.
"We will bide our time for now," Jayley responded, "for he has given us the extra push we need to continue this war. Just wait for you chance, for I promise you will get it. This enemy has come out with a bang but the war will weaken him and then we will strike."
So I was working on the next chapter when I realized that this would be a good place to cut off for another short chapter, since I've been slacking off lately I decided to deliver this piece early.
Another reason was that the next part of the chapter takes place a month and a half later so I decided to cut if off before the time transition.
Thanks to those who reviewed my last little bit, those reviews kinda refreshed me and I'm slowly getting back into the spirit of the story so keep reviewing and to those of you who haven't reviewed please begin.
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