This phase focuses on the night that comes a few hours after the battle and next phase will bring to light what happens the morning after when Redemption meets with ORB for their first talk. So brace yourselves for a chapter where Meiko will be prevalent. She is the main character after all and I'm so happy to have her back.
Phase 36: The Darkness of the Night
The darkness of the dead of night filled her being as the world around the Island nation was still. She knew her mother was probably worried about her as in the aftermath of the battle she had completely vanished, choosing to hide in the shadows and wait for cover of darkness for this moment. There was moonlight shining through the trees as she moved swiftly through the graveyard in the center of the ORB capital. She wore a dark hooded cloak which hid the redness of her hair and the face she knew others might recognize.
In her hand was a blue flower as she made it to her destination and she stood at a place where she should have found herself long before this time. Uzumi's grave site was very hard to gaze at as she still felt him with her, it was a reminder that he would never really be there with her the way he had been before as her ever loyal friend. Memories of old times filled her mind as she remembered being in classes with him, wandering ORB with him and Yaro and she remembered fighting him in the simulated mobile suit battle. It had been too close to real for her and then it had been real as she had never wanted it too be. The even twas so unfair to the world that sometimes she could still be found mourning it but not in the same way as before. Then she hated herself for it now she saw that it wasn't really her fault.
She fell to her knees in front of the tombstone and placed the flower on the grave. She saw that hers wasn't the only offering to him, there were others that were recent. She understood that the people of ORB still mourned their lost prince, especially with the battles that were fought in ORB without him there to protect them. He had truly left behind a legacy as one of the most amazing people to ever breathe. Meiko had made her decision for ORB quickly and though it was reckless she knew she had too, because this was Uzumi's home and when talking about a place like this she couldn't afford to stand down for a moment.
A cold wind blew around her as she remembered him rescuing her from her dream where she was in a grave yard very much like this one. A single tear floated down her cheek and she didn't bother brushing it away.
She lifted her head toward the moonlight to stare into the light that wasn't as bright as the sun. She had determined to shine as much light as the moon, enough to see by but not enough to become someone like Kira Yamato or Athrun Zala. No, she had a path very different than theres but she was still determined to be a hero in her own way.
She sat there thinking about everything when she heard the rustling of leaves that did not come from the wind. There was a step and the crack of a twig. Someone had followed her. She reached out with her mind and ears listening to the sounds of the person drawing closer, her training made it possible to determine where exactly they were and to cue in that they had no idea that she knew they were there. She took in a breath as she heard breathing now as the person drew closer. Just one more step.
Meiko was up in a flip to the side and now facing the person head on. He swung at her but she caught his blow with her metal hand causing him to wonder what he had just hit as pain shot up his own hand. She lashed out with a well placed kick but he raised his arms in defense. She was about to draw a weapon when the person spoke.
"Meiko it's me!" she recognized his voice but had never expected to hear it here. She had never expected to hear it again in her life, it was shocking but he had made it out as well and now he was here in ORB. He must have seen her fighting and being the only one with extensive battle experience with her and her tactics he had somehow come to the conclusion that it was her. How had he known? No one else would have survived the odds she did and barely anyone was going to believe it when she did decided to let them all in on her true identify. She should have expected that someone would notice and he was the person she should have expected to believe.
"Trey," she said his name now as she was unsure of herself, she had just gotten used to the idea of fighting beside these people now she was speaking with the friend who had stood by her side for so long. She had betrayed him in so many ways and now the worst of all she felt like she couldn't trust him with the truth. She removed her hood and he saw his suspicions confirmed, he was completely shocked out of his mind that he was in fact right. He didn't understand how it could have happened but when he saw Meiko fighting he just knew it had to be her. He had kept telling himself that there was no way anyone could have survived what she had done to the STING. She had destroyed her mobile suit while she was inside of it next to one of the largest power sources in the world. Kira Yamato was on the outskirts of the explosion and it destroyed his machine. How was it now that she was alive?
"How Meiko?" he asked her, "we all watched you die? I have asked myself how it could be real and I decided if it was you that you would come here tonight and fighting you hand to hand I just knew it was you but I can't understand how." He saw sorrow in her eyes as she turned back toward the moonlight.
"I don't even really understand," she responded to him thinking over the events that had taken place, "but all this time I've had quite a few people watching over and protecting me. I survived the STING explosion thanks to a backup system in my mobile suit that launched me into the outer part of the explosion but even then I should have died. Redemption saved me and they say that it was a power within me that kept me alive."
"How did they know you were still out there?" Trey asked with shock. He was still surprised seeing someone he was sure he would never see again but he couldn't escape the truth that she was real. Meiko was indeed alive and not just a a ghost come to save them.
"Milady Redemption…" Meiko thought about not telling him the truth but she knew he was the only person he could confide in now, and she had missed having him. He was like an older brother to her and now tears flowed from her eyes and thought about it. All this time she had been alive and she had kept that truth from the people she cared about the most, from him and from everyone else. She came back to help them but she had never thought about what they were going through. She knew some of them would feel responsible for the things that took place in the months before, and none of them were. Every choice was her own. Now tears flowed freely.
"Trey I can't I just can't believe you're here," she said jumping and wrapping her arms around him, "I thought for so long that I'd never see you again nor anyone else but you're all here." He hugged her back a little shocked at her outburst, she had indeed changed and it was evident now that something within her was different. For the first time ever he saw that she was at peace with herself.
"I can't believe it either Meiko," he responded as tears flowed from his own eyes, "I was sure that I would never see you again. I put it all behind me and tried not to dwell on it but it kept coming back in my mind." There was no accusation from him about how she kept the truth back in the months, there was just acceptance for he was the one friend she had always had and he was the person she relied on now. He was now the only one who knew the truth and he was the first to believe it. She had survived and she was back to help ORB and to save this world.
"I have so much to tell you," she said as they let go of each other and wiped the tears from their eyes. They went walking now through this grim graveyard both feeling more joy than they had in so long.
"And I have so much to tell you as well," he replied thinking over the post battle attitude around the ORB forces. Everyone was uneasy about what had taken place and the worst thing was that Kira was unable to make an decisions because he was so worried about Yaro. That reminded Trey of the past and he remembered how Yaro and Meiko had been in their last goodbye when she had given him her necklace. Trey stopped and turned to her now with a heavy heart.
"Before anything else is said," he spoke now with a conviction she hadn't heard in a long time, "I have to tell you that Yaro is hurt." It was as if she felt his words as a stab to her own heart.
"Hurt?" she questioned with fear in her eyes, "but I saved him! I stopped that machine and Kira stopped his anger, What happened?"
"We're not entirely sure," Trey responded trying to calm her down, "he is very much alive but he fainted in his mobile suit in the last part of the battle and he hasn't woken since. Kira and Leyas are beside themselves. The doctors says he seems physically fine but whatever they try they can not wake him, they have concluded that his mind is what is hurting." It didn't sound right to Meiko, it reminded her too much of her many nights battling the super seed when it had taken over her being. Milady said she would be out for days sometimes when struck by an attack. These attacks were things that none of them understood and it seemed that as time went on Meiko had less and less of them and now she was completely fine. However she was supposed to be one of the few human beings in the world that had the power of the super seed, was it possible that Yaro possessed it as well?
If that was true and Yaro did have the super seed, could her own seed be enough to heal his? Could she somehow use it again? She had been avoiding it since her time on the Island with redemption because of how it hurt, but she couldn't deny that it was a possibility. There was still so little known about it but they did know that it had healing powers and that the outbursts had been part of the healing process she had gone through and they had connected her to Uzumi after all. Perhaps she could use them now on Yaro.
"It's late," Meiko said turning toward the moon, "is the base sleeping? Is he alone?" Trey didn't know what she was getting at but he did know that if she was willing to help that she might be the only one who could get through to Yaro. He was changing without check and it seemed that no one could really figure out how to help him.
"Yes," Trey responded, "there is no one around." Meiko nodded to him.
"Then get me in there," she said to him, "and no one must know about this." Trey didn't understand that but he respected her wishes.
He tossed and turned as his mind was on fire with visions of the past and of things he wasn't sure about. He was trapped in these dreams unable to stop them as everything he held dear was being destroyed before his eyes then it appeared again. He found himself unable to fight it but he wouldn't submit to it either. It was terrifying for him to be trapped in this state of visions. He cried out to nothing and he didn't even realize that someone was there.
Meiko removed her hood and Trey watched as she placed a hand on Yaro's forehead. The boy was dripping with sweat and he seemed to be in a feverish state of unrest for he was moving about as if being plagued by a nightmare. Tears once again formed in Meiko's eyes at seeing him, Yaro the one that she had done so much to save was now reduced to such a weak state. She had to end this, she reached her hand out over him and took his hand in hers letting tears flow from her eyes. He was Yaro Yamato, everything she had done was for him and she knew that out of every person in the world there was no one she cared about more for even in his anger she couldn't bring herself to hate him. He had threatened to kill her and her response was to rescue him.
"I'm here," she whispered, "I've fought so long in my mind wondering if this was possible again, and I'm still scared to really face you because you are the one person who can break me." She breathed in reminiscing on everything that happened in the past, "we tried to be friends, to walk together but the dark came and I reached and you weren't there, and everything was wrong! So many nights I saw your face and I knew that you felt the same pain I did. I spent so many nights wondering if I would ever find you again or if you were even alright. I would reach for you and there would be nothing there, so many times and I began to wonder if I would ever see you again! Yaro I need you," Trey was surprised now, Meiko never revealed her feelings about anyone before, she always held it in. "I need you," she felt the seed energy gathering in her mind and she put fear of using it out of her mind as the seed exploded in the back of her mind and she dived into the place where she knew she would be able to grasp some of the super seed's power.
"Live Yaro," she whispered on as a glow filled her eyes and Trey's mouth dropped open, "live please and let these visions go, for they are not reality but your fears and they will destroy you if you hold onto them, live." Meiko then felt it, Yaro's own seed as she touched his hand the dark visions he was seeing began to enter her head. She almost dropped his hand but she knew she needed to hold on as she willed her own seed energy to enter him. She saw now that there was a blue glow under his eyelids and as she fought her own mind it was beginning to fade. She was completely focused as she watched her energy go into him, a counter act as she willed it to heal him not to hurt him as his own was.
Trey was shocked at what was taking place as Yaro's movement's stopped and his limp hand suddenly tightened into a grip around Meiko's hand. She opened her eyes as he had stopped moving and the visions had stopped coming, she had felt his hand wrap around hers but when she looked he was still asleep. She put her loose hand on his forehead again and found that his fever had broken, he was healed.
She turned to Trey and nodded that now was the time she would be leaving. She turned back to Yaro again as more tears flowed from her eyes, he needed rest so she would not wake him; perhaps they would be able to speak in the morning when she made her move. She knew how the others would react and she prayed that Yaro's own reaction would be as hers.
They walked together in silence and approached her machine. He said nothing after the power he had witnessed coming from her and the words that she had spoken to Yaro, he knew now that her heart was truly free. She was no longer bound by the fear of ROW and the things that might have destroyed her. It was very odd for him to he walking with her when for so long he thought she was dead, he never even had the smallest hope that she could have survived. Her small frame still looked so weak it was hard to believe that such power was behind her, she was stronger than he was and stronger than many others he fought alongside.
"When will you tell everyone the truth?" Trey asked her as they both stared up as the Phoenix, the machine she had used as her mask. She had thought about it, and about everyone deserving to know it was just hard to fathom. How would those people react? She had done many wrong things against them and even in saving them she didn't know how they viewed everything.
"Though I keep wanting to go back on it," she said, "I am sure it will not be long, for as you figured it out someone else might see it as well, then there's Yaro." Trey understood that, she would not hide herself from him. Whatever fear she had of how he would react, he knew she would want to face him more than anyone else. Trey saw her hide some of the fear in her eyes at her own words and he almost laughed about how she didn't understand that Yaro missed her more than anything. Their friendship on earth had been unlikely but as they had talked together and walked together they had been unable to deny the pull that existed between them. It was as if fate had intervened and brought them together once again. He knew how Yaro would react and he knew that everything would be so different once Meiko was back in their lives, not just as the Phoenix but as herself.
"Yaro needs you as well," Trey said to her trying to reassure her, "For so long he's tried to hide everything from those of us who are around him because he was trying to stay strong, but he missed you more than anything."
"Thank you Trey," she whispered in response and turned back toward the Phoenix, "It's hard to think on these things, for my path is one that takes me back onto the battlefield repeatedly. I fear that my path and his run side by side and that he will also be forced into the same pain that I face when I fight."
"Everything is on schedule," Gilligan said looking at his clip board, "what exactly are you planning?" Liene had been angry for the past two hours and no one really understood what he was planning but every order he shouted. At some moments he seemed very afraid and at others he was calm. Something had definitely changed about their plans, they were more desperate seeming and a new piece of technology was being tested on subjects mercilessly.
"She's mocking me!" Liene suddenly yelled in anger, "The whole theme, the Phoenix! She has laid herself open leaving all the clues there as if we weren't going to connect the pieces and see what it is she is doing! RAYLA FROST! That woman who should have died floating in space and her damned daughter who should have gone with her!" Gilligan raised his eyebrows at this, Rayla Frosts plans had indeed been shocking and very unlike her with holding so many lives hostage. What he didn't understand was Liene's outburst about Rayla's daughter, Gilligan knew this girl to be Meiko Virea, who was now very much dead. She had been in a position that no one in the world could survive, super seeded or not.
"Meiko's dead Liene," he said trying to calm his superior down, "dead and you don't have to fear her."
"NO!" Liene yelled at him, "you didn't see it? You didn't hear it? Her voice was the same, her words just as defiant as ever! The Pilot of the Phoenix, it has to be her, it has to be Meiko!" Gilligan was taken aback by this, it made no sense, no one could have survived that. He wasn't going to believe Liene's ravings now.
"No one could have survived that explosion!" Gilligan insisted, "there is no way it is her! Perhaps Milady has groomed someone to act and fight like her to throw us off, but Meiko is dead!" Liene then shook his head and turned toward a newly developed mobile suit.
"No," Liene said solemnly now, "I don't know why I didn't realize that all this time she was waiting for this. Meiko Virea is now fighting alongside Redemption, our worst fears have been realized but there is still hope that we can defeat her if we finish this equipment. This is the only way to fight the super seed and we are the first to have it. We must be ready for I know Rayla and I know that her next objective will lead her here, to Mars." Liene breathed in, "Meiko's been careless with her identity and I am sure she doesn't care if I find out, there is nothing that I can hold over her head now for if she is with then she is safe. Milady won't let anything happen to her. We must wait for her to come here then she will be alone."
"What are you planning?" Gilligan once again as he saw a spark ignite in Liene's eyes.
"Meiko will come," Liene responded, "and we must let her, for I know Rayla, Maryah; She will not tell the full truth and I will. Meiko must hear everything from my lips. Perhaps there is still a chance we can sway her loyalties." Liene smiled his twisted smile, "and those of Yaro Yamato."
Fredrick Turnal was shocked at how Redemption had rescued ORB with such insane tactics as they used. This definitely changed things, he was happy that someone was able to save ORB even if he wasn't. He had contacted the PLANTs and made arrangements for an alliance, they were surprised but he didn't link his military into the terms of the agreement. The PLANTs were very compliant after their total defeat and humiliation at the hands on one gundam.
It was still hard for him to fathom how one unit could turn the tide so much, but video footage of that unit had been released and it was truly something special. It had the wings of a bird and it looked like a flame of fire. He wondered where the future would take them if these wars persisted. Now that the PLANTs and the NEA were in peace talks he began to see that maybe the whole would could find a way to work together to dispel the darkness of the factions that were trying to control and twist everything. Perhaps this Phoenix could change the course of the future, and bring about an everlasting peace that will forever exist in the hearts and minds of every person on the earth and in space. Perhaps the dawning of a new age was possible.
"You failed!" She yelled at the young pilot who sat there so calm and defeated, "you were supposed to destroy him! You were sent out there to destroy that mobile suit! There is no way I want you here anymore, you failure!" Gera seemed to not hear her as the girl was lost in her own feelings about what had taken place, there was no one stronger than her yet that new machine had defeated her so quickly that it was uncanny. She didn't understand it, she had been just about to break the Dreamers defenses with her black gundam which had been created as the ultimate weapon, then out of nowhere she was attacked by something that was entirely too perfect to be real. Whoever piloted that mobile suit was good, really good.
"Don't lash out at her," Jayley felt shock when he heard the voice. She quickly fell in her knees before him as her leader, her father, the great Gryser Cerrian had come here. "You lashing out at her does nothing, when you also made mistakes. You ended a war over a fluke from a girl in a mobile suit. Did you really believe that this new warrior would make her debut in such an darkening way? The Phoenix was truly built so that it could be a power in this world, you didn't have to listen to her, she would have let them go." Jayley trembled at his words, she understood that and she had seen it but had been too weak to act on it. She had played right into their hands and let them win the entire war because she was too weak to force her will upon the PLANT council. She was still playing the game of politics but she shouldn't be loosing because of one girl and one machine.
"Forgive me sir," Jayley said trying to control her anger at herself now, "I know that I was wrong but I was weak."
"I know Jayley," he responded, "so I have arrived now because the next stage of our plan will begin. Now that redemption has resurfaced I am sure that they are going to go to war with ROW, in that case all we have to do is wait for the two to weaken each other. The goal of finding Lacus Clyne is now secondary for I am sure she will come to us before this is all over. We will bide our time and wait."
"Wait for them to come?" Gera asked, she was clearly upset as well, "well answer me this sir, will my mobile suit be better than hers next time? I want to destroy that girl!"
"Don't worry Gera," he replied to her, "that machine will fall, but not by your hand. Your goal is still the Dreamer, for it is that boy who will cause us the most trouble if we let him live. Don't forget that!"
Ceveris yawned as he awakened and saw that Meyrin was standing beside the bed he laid in. He recognized this place as the medical center and concluded he must have been injured in the fight with the black Gundam, he didn't remember very much except that he was being beaten very badly. Seeing Meyrin there was a welcome sight, he seemed to get more and more beautiful as each day passed by.
"Hello Mey, I didn't expect to see you here," he said with a smile when he saw the distressed look on her face and realized that she was serious about something, "what's wrong?" he asked her.
"You!" she said harshly as if she was frustrated, "you are what's wrong! I can't believe you! I've tried so hard to get rid of you yet you keep coming back and risking your life! How could you Ceveris? I can't believe that you care so much after all the things that I've said bitterly to try and get you to leave! I have been so convinced all this time that you didn't care, can't you let me go on my delusions! I don't want to be hurt by you again!" He failed to really see how his loyalty was a problem but she was clearly very distressed by the truth she couldn't escape, she really loved him. He couldn't stop himself thought he knew this wasn't a good moment for it, he started laughing very loudly at her.
"Why are you laughing at me?" She asked in distress as she wiped tears from her eyes and began laugh a little herself though she tried not to, "I am being perfectly serious Ceveris!" But he couldn't stop laughing and she couldn't stop herself from laughing. In this moment she saw herself sitting on her ridiculous high horse and trying so hard to be strong around him when all along she loved him as much as he loved her.
"I know Mey," he said with a final laugh and their laughter turned to smiles, "believe me I've tried to fight it as well but your like a magnet pulling me in. I love you Mey, that's the truth, the most real thing I've ever spoken because your the most real thing I've ever known."
"And your arrogance," she said with a laugh, "you pull me in even though I fight to resist you. I can't believe you have put up with me!"
"Well I knew that there was no way I would ever find someone as perfect as you anywhere else in the world," he said sitting up and facing her, "that I shouldn't give up on you." Tears now flowed out of her eyes as her smile at him was real and she sat down beside him blushing from how he made her feel.
"Then there is no other way to say this," she responded to him, "I do love you…" Before she could continue he cut her off kissing her passionately. She had missed him so much. She wrapped her arms around his neck kissing him back. She would deny the truth no longer, she loved him more than anything else in the world despite everything in the past, now was the day she would forgive and forget the past and move on into the future where they would face the dark together.
She woke up to a cold wind blowing from the open balcony door and she sat up when she realized Athrun was not beside her. After the battle that day they were all on edge but it was important to get sleep when it was possible. Now the nation was in an uneasy peace and still shocked at how easily one unit just put a whole war to end. She knew that Athrun was feeling very torn about what to do regarding the situation because he felt that he had failed to protect his nation and so a foreign force had come in and now they owed these people. Despite how Kira tried to reassure them all that Redemption's motives were good Cagalli didn't like being put in a position of debut.
She stood up wand walked out the balcony door to find that Athrun was out there lost in thought and wondering what to do next.
"It's cold out," Cagalli said. Athrun had felt her presence coming and he knew that she just be worried about him, he just couldn't sleep now. He was too deep in thought about everything, Redemption, the Phoenix and Yaro. Nothing was making as much sense as it should.
"You should be asleep," he said to her turning around to face her.
"Not with you like this," she said walking up to him and raising a hand to stroke his cheek, "we're all on edge Athrun, but nothing will happen tonight. We will speak to Redemption in the morning and we will sort everything out then. Staying up like this will doe us no good. Please Athrun." He understood her concern and he knew she was right. They should rest in peace while peace was around them.
"You're right Cagalli," he said taking her hand, "nothing will be decided tonight, but tomorrow we will figure everything out."
How long do you think you can keep this up before Liene leaves you for dead?
Jayley's words echoed in his mind, haunting him like a cancer that was slowly eating away his mind. She was right in everything she had spoken to him about Liene's intentions for he now saw it in the mans eyes, Liene wanted Mike dead. Mike couldn't figure out how Liene knew he was secretly working against him but somehow he did and at the same time Mike was glad that now Liene saw the truth. It was an odd relationship now as the two still persisted on as if they were working together though both of them knew that they were not.
Liene would try to kill him soon, he was sure of it but not before he was done using him. Mike still felt that he had his uses here in ROW so he was not really frightened about his future at this point. He was more saddened by the truth that Jayley would be his downfall for he had reported to her ROW's strength so many times now that there was no turning back and Liene saw right through his games. Mike now saw that overall Jayley's intentions were not on track with what the world should be heading for, he had no doubt that she was ready to sacrifice the PLANT fleet to continue the war with ORB but she had not at the insisting of the PLANT council. That whole situation puzzled him for he did not understand who on earth would threaten the PLANTs the way that girl had.
He looked out the window into space and he knew that his time in life was expiring, he could feel it. He wondered if he could just die without his life ever really meaning anything. He had once had hope because he had raised Meiko, and she was supposed to free the world but now no one really remembered what it was she did for the world. Was it really his destiny to die like her, alone and with no one to remember him. He would have no name to himself. Was this really his fate?
Milady and Yzak both stood in the Reversal's hangar, it was wide open in the moonlight though no hands were awake. They lad left it open waiting for Meiko to return, when she had disappeared after the battlefield Milady had begun to worry about her by Yzak just seemed on edge about the whole thing. Meiko was fighting with them now but the way he saw it she was not committing herself to anything. This was very hard for him to look at, how was such a warrior to be trusted? What if she just decided to leave a battle one day? Milady did not seem to harbor these fears so he just had to trust her, Meiko was her daughter after all.
It was then that they both sighted a mobile suit flying toward the opening in the ship and as it got closer they recognized it as the Phoenix, Meiko had inded come home.
"I knew she would come back," Milady said sighing relief. Yzak nodded as the machine landed inside the hangar and Meiko came down from the machine. She stopped in front of them and looked like she had a heavy heart. They both knew that something had happened to make her like this. Milady had her suspicions about where Meiko had gone but she dare not question the things her daughter did. She lost the role to play mother the day she agreed to let Liene use her daughter for his own schemes. Milady wasn't sure waiting up for Meiko was the best idea either. Meiko did not take offense at the actions, she was still not used to having a mother and she believe that Milady was behaving a a natural mother would. She was worried about her daughter, now Meiko faced a test of whether she cold go through with everything in front of people that had been hurt by her and people who she had saved in so many ways.
"I will be at the meeting tomorrow," Meiko said, "ORB will surely call for a meeting with you." Milady nodded, she knew they would. She was going to say something about it when Meiko continued, "you may wear your mask mother but I don't think I'll follow in that. There is too much risk in this world and I have a duty to perform. A duty to myself and to the nation of ORB, promise me you won't interfere with what I decide to do."
"I promise," Milady replied knowing she had to trust her daughter, "But is all this really necessary? I am sure after what happened with the STING you were forgiven by everyone." Meiko's eyes widened as she realized her mother saw right through her.
"I went to Uzumi's graze tonight as you suspected," Meiko said, "and there I met Trey, and he took me to Yaro." Milady's eyes widened now, had Meiko revealed herself to the boy. "I didn't reveal myself, he wasn't awake. He was hurt. What else could I do? I went with Trey and I watched him Milady, he has the super seed and it was attacking him like it attacked me, so I did what I could. I healed him with my seed, and I pray that it worked." Milady was shocked at this, Meiko now understood the seed well enough to identify it as well as use it, this was something she had not expected to happen so soon.
"Welll…" Milady tried to speak but she was interrupted by Meiko.
"I thought I was the only one with it!" Meiko exclaimed, "How is it that Yaro has this as well? What is it that is taking place?"
"You thought you were so special Meiko?" Yzak asked looking at her, "you think you're the only one."
"We let her believe that was true Yzak," Milady said angrily to him and then she turned back to Meiko, "it's true there are others, but we weren't sure that there should be. When I researched it with Liene we didn't believe that anyone else would be able to use it. Your strong Meiko, stronger in body than most so you could endure it but I wasn't sure about others being able to use it, it was just a theory." Meiko looked betrayed still.
"What will happen to him if it is the super seed?" Meiko asked her, "how will his life be affected?" Milady understood that this boy was a weak point for Meiko, she cared about him more than anything else in the world, enough to lash out at her own mother.
"I don't know," Milady lied to her now because she still had to protect her. Meiko shook her head and stormed off as if she saw right through Milady. Yzak sighed and turned back to Milady when Meiko had left the room.
"I thought you said Yaro would never be able to access his super seed?" Yzak expressed now. Milady turned away from him as well. It was true that was what was planned, that was what she theorized. He was never supposed to have the super seed in the same way that Meiko did, he wasn't strong enough to take that much raw power.
"I was sure that we had made sure this would never happen," Milady responded, "We never wanted him to get hurt by it but we were still only theorizing about everything, even the super seed prevention measures. Now Liene has all that data and I am sure that he is preparing to use it for something. If Yaro has accessed the super seed than he is in danger, this was never supposed to happen!" She had tried so hard to prevent this. Yaro had been the one child she had been able to save from ROW, the one child that she found when she left and she desired to protect him more than anything. She had placed him in a orphanage and made sure that Lacus and Kira got him, because she wanted him safe.
"He was the only one you could find," Yzak said reffering to Yaro, "are you sure that you didn't want to keep him around?"
"I wanted to be better than John Liene," Milady replied, "I would not raise a child in a militaristic organization, and Yaro wasn't mine to raise. I thought he would be safer with Kira and Lacus. Everything I did was for the best."
"But now he's suffering," Yzak said, "it seems even you couldn't keep him from his destiny." She nodded. She had done all she could but in the end he was still on the battlefield and him and Meiko had still met each other. Now she prayed that Liene had not figured everything out, for if he found out what she had done seventeen years before then he would certainly use all her lies against her.
"If he is awakening," Milady said looking to the moonlight, "then he will need Meiko, for she is the only one who can help him as she did tonight."
He awoke in darkness but his head no longer hurt and his mind was no longer numb. He looked around him and there was no one there. He concluded that it was night for surely in the day someone would be watching over him. Yaro Yamato was confused about what had happened on the battlefield but there was no war raging around him now and he was aboard the Archangel by the looks of it so he was safe. He was still tired.
Dreams had plagued him earlier but then an angle had entered his dreams and saved him. He had only seen her figure but he had heard a voice inside his head, whispering words of comfort and he was confused about it. Something in the world around him was different now and he knew that he would find it all in the morning. He would find the truth about what it was that had changed and who it was that had come to ORB to save them all.
Survivor18 - So sorry about the confusion, Gera is the pilot of the black gundam what I was saying was that she was not the person in Yaro's vision. She was the one fighting him but when his seed was activated someone else appeared to him. I also corrected the mistake between Tripp and Trey, my bad, I totally didn't realize that I did that.
So Jayley was defeated but at this point I think all of you are expecting her to make another move immediately. She wants to but she can't just yet. Her anger and plot isn't over yet it's just going to be running in the background as Liene will once again claim the spot of the main villain for the next arch. Be prepared for the super seed to lead on to the future. Things are getting crazy once again. :D. Stay with me!
Thanks again to Byron Lancaster, Fenikkusumaru, Capt Freedom and Survivor18 for reviewing! :D
I know I've been writing and posting a lot lately, it's just I've been hit with tons of inspiration and now when I sit down to write it just seems to be coming to me, I don't know how long this will last but I do know that at the end of this week I will be back in school and unable to write as much so enjoy it while you can!
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