I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for this phase, it was one of the original scenes I planned, this confrontation. Be prepared for this, it's going to change everything. I think there is one twist that will shock you all.

Phase 42: Hatred

"What is your child's name?" Mike Shustre stood facing the girl whom John had taken in a few months before. He had only seen her from a distance before but he thought her very beautiful. Something about her was different and broken, as though she felt the weight of something that she had done; a scar that was unhealed and unforgiven. He was speaking to her now, when she came in she was pregnant and half alive, but Liene had been able to save her and her child.

"Her name is Meiko," the girl responded holding her close, she's very much like her father. She looked sad saying those words, but not in the way that someone would look missing someone they were in love with; she looked as thought she missed something more.

"Who was her father?" Mike asked. He wanted to know more about this strange girl. She was so young and yet she had a child, and she had been out on the battlefield when they found her. The battle that had just ended the Valentine war. Something about her was so different than anyone he had ever met before. She had a resilience and a strength even though she was only a natural. He was also told she was barely sixteen years old and had been with the earth forces. Liene had been caring for her and she had apparently opened up to him about her past, he did have a very kind and trusting disposition and was able to charm most anyone.

"He was," she stopped for a second looking down, "a good man, a better man than most. Well I guess he's not even a man, more like a boy whom carried so much weight on his shoulders and who fought so hard. I thought that all I wanted was revenge on him for what he didn't do, and I was so wrong. He was so much better than I, in so many ways. I was wrong." She said no more on the subject turning away; her daughter in her arms, the last piece of her old life and her mistakes.

"Firing everything now!" Milady shouted as the blast tore from the Reversal into the second main hangar of the ROW base and Milady prepared for what was ahead. For this day she realized now everything would change and everyone would know the truth that she had run away from so long. She always knew the past would come back again to haunt her, she just never wanted it to be true. She never wanted it to be real.

"I'll give the orders Milady, don't worry about a thing," Yzak said as she held onto her controls, "our main unit will cover your entrance, you'll get there in one piece, we promise." He knew how much this meant to her more than anyone. Her little girl was her sole purpose in fighting the way she did and without Meiko that purpose would be gone and the world would no longer be the place it was supposed to be. She had to make sure everything went about according to plan. She knew that Kira would act soon and she would have to beat him to it, she had to remember what it was like inside that base even thought it had been so long since she had last been there. This was the place where Meiko and Yaro were born, the place where so much suffering was caused.

"Launch!" Milady yelled as her pilot launched the pod with her, they were going into that ROW base. For the sake of the world they had to make it in there. She already felt that something was wrong, something was off and she would have to stop this madness before it continued any longer.

Shinn fired shots as it seemed more fresh robotics were streaming from the base, it was half crippled but trying to recover from Yaro's sudden move. The fight was still raging and it seemed that the Clyne faction had won a moment ago yet they were loosing ground again. He turned his head to see the Justice speeding toward the base and he was shocked to see it enter the same hangar Meiko and Yaro had gone into. So now Kira was taking matters into his own hands.

"What's he doing!" Lunamaria declared, "We need to finish the fight out here!"

"Don't mind him," Shinn responded with a laugh, "if anyone knows what he's doing it's Yamato, besides we can handle ourselves out here! Take up arms Luna, we've got to run these guys to the ground!"

"YARO!" Meiko yelled as she realized what this was, an ambush! She jumped with swift speed as a bullet glazed over her arm and she slammed back behind cover taking Yaro down with her. There were guards on the balconies across from them, in the darkness; she hadn't noticed them. She cursed herself for being so foolish as Liene laughed at her incompetence.

"Really Meiko," Liene mocked her, "I would have thought that your actions would be better served fighting out there in your mobile suit where you are protected by armor, here you are vulnerable and weak. There is no way you can fight the way you used to in this way." Meiko looked down, her arm has been barely missed, there was a small burn from the fast passing on the bullet and there were many more fired as Liene made his idiotic speech. Yaro and spring up from the ground with her and both were crouching silent with their guns trying to asses the situation. She could not tell how many there were but she knew it was only a matter of time before they were overwhelmed if she didn't take some sort of action.

"Watch out!" Yaro shouted as he noticed a guard coming around on the far side of the room. Yaro fired a shot hitting the guard perfectly, instantly killing him. Meiko saw a flash of light as he did, it faded quickly but it was evident that Yaro was using his super seed with more assurance than ever before, that was an advantage.

"Kira take this map, I compiled it from memory last night," he relieved a transmission from Trey as he entered the hangar, "it highlights where Liene would be. I think Liene was waiting for this to happen, for Meiko to enter! Kira you have to hurry, they'll be strongly outnumbered.

"Thanks Trey," Kira responded to the boy with a nod opening the files and looking to where he would search, there were also a couple other areas highlighted by where else Liene might lead them to. He hoped that Trey was not right in what he said but he knew that the boy understood ROW so much better than everyone else on the ship; he knew how Liene would react to this battle. It seemed that it was all a setup to lure Meiko in and she had played along, even though she probably knew what she was getting herself into. She had been reckless because her inability to tell everyone her plans now placed Yaro in danger as well. Though Kira was sure that they could hold on for a little while, he had no way of knowing how long they would last.

"So you survived such a close scrape with death last time Meiko," Liene yelled, "you should have died then!" The gunfire kept increasing as Meiko felt pinned down behind the barrier. She noticed Yaro firing when he could but she herself was doing nothing, stunned by the situation. She had to fight anger boiled in her blood as a small explosion occurred in the back of her mind, her regular seed was enough now. She lept across the opening with assured swiftness firing three accurate shots as three men fell from the balconies, but once again her landing was off as she lifted her right arm and a bullet bounced off the metal she felt one actually hit her left leg as a numbness filled it and she crashed to the ground behind another barrier.

She dumped the empty cartage out of her gun and reloaded it. She had to protect herself and Yaro. His eyes glowed again as he let out a yell firing three shots out there. She knew they didn't have unlimited ammo, and she had no way of knowing how long they could hold out at this point.

"You're wrong about everything Liene!" Meiko yelled hoping that her words would be felt by the ROW soldiers, "your twisted lies have created more pain in this world than they have mended. You never once told me the truth about anything! You always lied to me! Now you can't even speak to me without an armed guard firing at me! If I surrendered you wouldn't even give me the chance to stand! There is no honor in you, nothing but hatred!" Yaro then froze trying to lift his gun in time as he saw another solider coming up toward Meiko, he would hit her perfectly if Yaro didn't stop him! Meiko tried to move to shoot the man but he was about to fire when a shot rang through the room and the man fell.

More shots were fired as Kira Yamato ducked behind the same barrier as Meiko with his gun and a bag full of ammo.

"You're alright," Kira said tossing some ammo over to where Yaro was and reassuring Meiko. She smiled gratefully at him, he had come at the right time, she was almost out and in that case she would have been completely defenseless.

"Why did you come?" Meiko asked him, "We're in so much more danger here, you're placing yourself at risk!" He smiled at this, he was the ultimate coordinator, there was no risk he wouldn't take to protect the people he loved; Yaro was his son and Meiko had become like family to him. She had done so much for them, she deserved their support and help in everything that she set out to do. He turned back to the task at hand. Liene was here and Liene's end was at hand.

"Kira Yamato!" Liene said his name with a laugh, "it's almost too perfect, are Lacus and the kids here as well? Don't you want to have a family reunion or have you already had one?" Kira had no idea what he was talking about, he would never bring his children into a situation like this. Seeing Yaro and Meiko here he just wanted his son out of there.

"Don't listen to a word he says!" an exclamation as two people ran in and a machine gun fired into the balconies and rafters. Milady Redemption and her two guards had arrived.

"What are you bringing in the rest of the battlefield?" Liene said with a laugh, "this is ridiculous!" It was everything he had predicted, they were all there as he had been assured they would be. Now the base was safe from both forces for there were leaders within the base now, and that meant that a swift capture of these leaders and Liene will have won this battle. Now to play games with their minds, this was the part he did best.

Athrun Zala looked toward where he knew Mars was and he wondered what exactly was taking place up there now. Cagalli and Jeffery sat in the room with him, they were all waiting for news but so far there was nothing. No transmissions had been sent in the few days since the departure of their allies. Of course the media had no news. The existence of a military base on Mars was not known to very many people and it seemed that the world had quieted down since Meiko's antics and the ceasefire between the PLANTS and ORB.

Everything was very uneasy now almost as though everyone on earth were holding their breaths and waiting for a miracle. Something was happening up there now and no one on earth or in the PLANTs knew much about it and very few people even knew anything was taking place. But somehow though the world knew nothing there was something felt in the hearts of each and every person that was around now. There was an urgency in mankind to look up toward the sky and brace themselves for everything was going to be different no matter what the outcome of the battle above. Either the cycle of hatred would continue in a greater way than every in the history of man or by the grace of the forces that were sent there would be a chance for the world to be redeemed. Athrun and Cagalli wanted that redemption for all. They wanted freedom and peace though it seemed like a fools dream, it was a dream that they had dreamed for a long time.

"We have to wait and hold on," Athrun said shaking his head, "We're so close to the end of it all, I can feel it. It this battle is the last it will be better but I have a feeling that it won't be the last."

"What makes you think it won't be the last?" Cagalli asked Athrun, "we're so close." He looked at her wanting to believe the way she did but the odds were interesting and he wondered if ROW was really centered at that base. If there was a chance that ROW had other forces this wasn't over, Liene or not the other men in that organization were filled with such hatred that they wold carry out whatever plans Liene had left behind and he hoped beyond hope that would happen.

Apparently the NEA and the PLANTs were in peace talks. It could be that the world was uniting against what might be coming or it could be that ROW was twisting the knife it had plunged into the world the day it was founded. Whatever it was the winds of the earth were shifting and life was changing. Everything was changing because of the hatred of the people, that damned cycle of hatred.

"Follow me in!" Yazk yelled as he approached a Gundam he knew was strong enough to help him. Trey and Kiran fought together in the main lines and Yzak had just noticed the situation getting sour.

"What?" Trey appeared on the screen but he could see Kiran as well in the background.

"I'm going in for a close approach, we have to stop them from launching anymore units!" Yzak exclaimed, "If we get close enough we can fight, and Kiran can hack the mainframe and cause a disturbance in their control over the robotic units! Everything is a program and if you destroy that program we've won!" Trey understood now, everything hinged on them winning the battle out here, for if they did then they could get into the base and save those who were now trapped inside. This was important.

"We've got it," Trey responded. He then turned his transmissions to the Clyne faction ships, "We're going in, send a unit to back us up, we have to end this soon!"

"Request acknowledged," Leyas responded, "We'll do what we can! Be careful out there you two!"

"We will," Kiran replied with a smile, "Lets take them down!"

"Meiko," Milady was next to her daughter upon entering and Milady quickly pulled out a bandage from a bag she had with her. She had predicted this situation. Meiko didn't protest as Milady wrapped the bandage around Meiko's leg tightly to stop the bleeding. She gasped briefly at the pain.

"Mother you should have stayed away," she finally said. Milady's two guards were firing shots at Liene's guards trying to take them out. Yaro was still fighting, and Kira as well. Meiko in this moment watched the scene unfolding, it was a hard situation for them all to be in. One false move could end it for any of them, and this wasn't something she wanted to drag anyone into but herself. She knew she could continue fighting even with the gunshot wound and she was concerned about everyone else more than herself. She shouldn't have jumped from cover when she did, she was just desperate to fight back.

"I would never stay away when I knew you needed me," Milady said.

Liene was happy with the turn of events, Milady Redemption had arrived as predicted and it seemed everything was going smoothly.

"Why don't you remove your mask Milady and let the world see your face," he yelled preparing himself. Kira turned to her as he couldn't see what her expression was right now, "Kira that's right, you've always wondered what she had to hide; how was it that this person who was on your side could have fear of showing you her face? What was it about her that caused her to be so wary?" Meiko glanced around desperately they had to shut him up, his words were to divide.

"Liene!" Meiko called out his name, "leave them be! It's me you want!" She moved slowly drawing both her guns as Milady looked at her with worry but she was sure.

"But this isn't just about you Meiko, sorry to say this but the world isn't all about you," Liene said with a twisted laugh, "no there is so much more that this is about. Kira Yamato, the unsung hero!" Yaro felt his anger rising, he knew he would have to keep himself in check, this was a desperate situation.

"No this has nothing to do with them!" Meiko cried out now once again more assured as she fired shots from the barrier scoping as best she could, she saw now where Liene was, just hiding behind his guards perimeter, too well protected for her to get to without putting herself in real danger. This danger was something she would have to face, she had to do this. She had to stop him.

"But it has everything to do with them!" Liene yelled now as he fired his own shots not caring that he was hitting nothing.

"Liene!" Milady yelled jumping from cover to get to where Yaro was but a stray bullet, or perhaps a well place one had a different plan. The bullet did not hit her skin but she felt a sharp pain as it burned past her breaking the hold that was on her mask and it fell to the floor. She turned her head toward Yaro and then back to Kira and Meiko, completely shocked by what had just happened. The expression on Kira's face was one that no one could really describe as memories flashed through his mind and the seed broke in the back of his mind. For before him, the girl had to be a ghost. Milady Redemption all along.

"It has everything to do with them Meiko because they created you!" Meiko's eyes filled with tears as she tried to figure out what was happening to her, why the hair on her skin stood up at his words and why everything around her seemed to stop at once, "because Milady Redemption is not Rayla Frost, she is not Mariah Virea; those names were disguises for her past; something so awful she didn't want anyone to know. For her real name is Flay Allster, the girl who did everything she could to kill Kira; like a black widow. What she didn't expect was that from the union with him she would get a child with more power than anyone ever existing before. You Meiko are her child and Kira is your father." Kira was shocked at the revelation and Meiko looked up at him as tears filled her eyes. This was not the time or the place to hear this. It was designed to destroy them.

"Of course she couldn't tell you the truth, because everything she is; she's a liar!" Liene continued, "because of all the things she did. She was ROW"s minx. For so long she touted on that she just wanted to redeem herself but she became one of us; a killer. And in the midst of everything she gave up her own daughter to be an experiment; a child solider on our regime. She'll try to say we stole you from her, but the truth is she gave you up!" Meiko shook her head and felt anger in her blood as it boiled over and her head began shaking.

"Meiko!" Yaro yelled her name as he realized what was going on. It was stronger than ever before as an explosion rang through her mind crashing through her being, no pain this time; somehow she overcame it as a violet light filled the area before her and her anger boiled over. She let out a scream of agony as she jumped up with all her strength leaping over the barrier to another one that would protect her. No bullet hit her as she killed four guards while in midair. Kira and Yaro watched in shock as she moved swiftly killing as many as she could fighting back as hard as she could. The fury Liene's words had unleashed. But how long could she hold out? Another gunshot hit her side and she fell to the ground behind a barrier as the super seed faded and she felt consciousness leaving her from the power of the seed. But still somehow she held on fighting through the pain and rising again to fire back at the guards that she was able to hit. She killed a few more but she knew it wold be evident to them that she was more vulnerable now.

Flay sat there in shock of everything, it was too much to handle for her at this moment. She knew it wasn't the right time to break but Liene had crossed a line she had not predicted. He knew more about her past and the awful things that she had done that he could have used against her, but no he had to reach in the past she didn't want to remember; the days when the death of her own father had driven her to a madness that had led her to toy with the mind of one of the kindest people in the world. This was the one thing she had never wanted to face. The darkness that could break her.

"Meiko!" Yaro yelled her name again and she glanced back at him for a second, she was safe back there for now but he had to get to her. He glanced around and saw his opening so he turned to Kira hoping that he would understand; they had to be strong despite the revelations. He was her father after all.

"Stay focused!" Trey yelled to Kiran as they both maneuvered their controls fighting off the machines that were attacking them. The Clyne faction units were backing them up as they fought their way to get closer and closer to the bases main controls.

"We'll cover you!" Dearka appeared on the screen before them, "just get close enough to hack their system, force them to send manned units!" They knew the advantage of this would be that the actual manned units would tire. These robotics could keep going and going without needing to pull back for a rest and it this battle continued on for too long the Clyne faction and Redemption units would actually start to get weary.

"We've got this!" Yzak responded, "go!"

"Got it!" Trey responded maneuvering the machine closer and closer as their enemies became preoccupied with the two veterans. Trey drove on closer and closer as Kiran used the weapons systems to destroy many towers.

"Now Kiran!" Trey yelled switching the controls to give him control of the weapons and the machine. Kiran's fingers instantly started moving on the keyboard before him ashe worked through complex algorithms at blinding speed. His seed exploded in the back of his mine as he focused in working through the firewalls. Trey had no idea what he was doing but he trusted the boys skills as he used the weapons to defend the mobile suit as best he could. Dearka and Yzak also flew around them taking shots to their own sheilds and destroying any enemy that dared to come near.

"Order all missiles to launch toward the ships leading the attack, the base is not our priority now!" Lacus ordered as all ships started to focus on the ROW ships that had launched from the base, "we need to take down the lead ships and to destroy their fleet. Cut off their escape!" She was frankly surprised that there were so few ships. Liene had to be building up power somehow. It made her wonder how much more bases ROW had and how much of a fleet he held back from this battle. They were using many resource defeating something that wasn't even ROW's best.

"Shinn!" Luna yelled as they fought on through what seemed like the never ending swarm. They knew it would have to end soon with Kiran working hard to disarm the robotics, all that would be left were the manned units.

"Stay with me Luna!" Shinn proclaimed, "we're not going down today!"

"Kira now!" Yaro yelled and the two moved together over the barriers firing their own shots and working their way toward Meiko. Kira felt a bullet sink into his arm and watched in shock as Yaro dogged every bullet with the light of his super seed guiding him. He made it to Meiko but Kira got stuck behind another barrier firing at the guards, it seemed like there were unlimited amounts of them still out there. Yaro quickly reloaded his gun and fired over the barrier ducking just in time to watch a bullet fly past him.

"I'm here Meiko," Yaro said putting an hand on her shoulder as he tore out another set of ammo, "I'm here." She looked at him as she took some of his ammo to reload his own guns, she was silent at his words as he had no idea what she was feeling now. She had just found out more than she ever thought she would and she had witnessed so much.

She was feeling as though she was the reason for so much pain and she wasn't even born out of love but out of her mothers twisted desire for revenge. It wasn't the romance she always pictured when she had thought of her parents. It was the cause of so much sorrow. On top of everything she had witnessed Yaro killing Mike earlier in that day. Surely Liene had watched them suffer enough, he could have no more to say; but in that case he would flee leaving them pinned down by his guards. What else could he have to say to them? What other dark secrets did he know? Yaro looked up from his guns and toward Liene.

"You're a twisted bastard!" Yaro yelled to him, "how can you believe that you even deserve to exist in this world after all the pain that you have caused? Will you ever break the cycle you coward!" He fired more shots in anger, an anger Meiko hated seeing in him but she knew that it was justified in every way.

"Yaro, you think you know so much about the world and you think you're s high and mighty," Liene declared, "but the truth is you and I are the same!" Yaro's anger increased at those words. How dare Liene even think that he could compare Yaro to himself; Yaro wanted real and lasting peace while Liene wanted to see the world destroyed. There was nothing about him that was right in any way. There was no one as evil as him the world to Yaro now.

"I'm nothing like you!" Yaro yelled.

"Then you deny that you have killed hundreds of innocents in the battle against the PLANTS?" Liene yelled, "they were fighting under orders not because they wanted to see anyone killed! Besides that Yaro it's your fault Uzumi died! You left him to face Meiko alone with no thought of the dangers he would face from a more experienced pilot! You're the reason this war has persisted and your hatred has been growing since your battle begun. Do you not deny the darkest side of yourself is taking you over, you are morphing into everything you were born to be Yaro!"

"Don't listen to him Yaro!" Meiko declared reaching her hand up to his face as she saw his blood boiling.

"You killed an unarmed man this afternoon and I applauded it!" Liene yelled out.

"Shut up!" Yaro said firing as many shots as he could toward Liene's direction. He had to stop for a reload. Meiko looked toward Kira in fear, Liene's words were eating their way through Yaro's fragile mind. These words were wrong for Liene to say now, he knew what he was doing. He was twisting everything they knew.

'I applauded you boy because you are all I ever hoped you would become," Liene responded, "for you are my son. My child, not Yaro Yamato but Yaro Liene." Flay flinched as the truth came out, she had never imagined this would come out and she cried out in anger. Meiko was stunned to silence at the words and she looked up toward the boy she had come to love, it could not be true; he could not be the son of the monster who was still trying to destroy her. It wasn't real, it wasn't right and Meiko realized that her mother must have known this as well, all along. Milady or rather Flay had known everything and in knowing everything she had let this moment happen. She had let this danger take them all.

"NO, you're a liar!" Yaro declared firing more shots as tears came from his own eyes, "you're a liar!"

"But I speak the truth Yaro," Liene spoke out more, "for it was that whore Flay who stole you from me, leaving her own child and stealing mine. She took you from me and somehow placed you in a place where you would be adopted by the Yamato's. A twisted trade off where Kira got my son and I got his daughter!"

"NO!" Yaro yelled again as his super seed light increased to a new level and his heart near burst inside of him. He moved more swiftly than anyone as he jumped up firing rapidly killing on every shot. Meiko followed as her own anger burned, she moved past her wounds and fired as fast as she could. It was an advance that Liene had not expected; Yaro's super seed and Meiko's dark anger.

"I've got it!" Kiran declared as he finally broke through the final defense wall around the ROW computers. Trey couldn't describe his relief if he wanted to at this point.

"Hurry it up then!" Yzak's face appeared on the screen. Kiran understood. They had to get into the base.

"Now!" Kiran yelled as he sent his final algorithm and just as sudden as he yelled the robotic units all shut down simultaneously. The battlefield was shocked as the Clyne faction and Redemption forces advanced at their sudden lack of adversaries. Yzak, Dearka and Trey let out cheers of excitement.

"You did it Kiran!" Trey declared, "you did it!"

"Get a team together quickly Waltfeld!" Lacus declared, "We have to get in there!" Without the robotics the Mar's defense line was so weak that it was certain now that the battle was won. She smiled as she knew now the important thing was to back up those who were in there.

"I'm going in Lacus!" Shinn declared.

"Not yet Shinn!" Lacus asked, "take down the remaining towers first! order the ROW forces to surrender! We're not backing down just yet!" In her mind she hoped Kira could hold on, she knew that she couldn't doubt him, for he probably had the entire situation under control but now. It was just the silence of the building that pained her as she wondered what exactly was taking place.

Gunshot after gunshot as the two advanced together. Flay stood up at the sight of it amazed by what she was witnessing as ROW's guard line caved over the overwhelming power of the two together. Many guards were dead or wounded and many more were leaving the premise as suddenly an alert rang through the base ordering immediate evacuation. The base rocked again from an explosion and Meiko stumbled but quickly made the final jump to where Liene was, she cocked her gun and fired. The sound of Liene's laughter filled the room as all were stunned by what they saw.

"You think it's that easy Virea," Liene sighed, "You loose Meiko!" The room stopped as they watched the image of Liene fade, a transmission. Meiko dropped her gun and stumbled backwards as the reality of the situation hit here. Liene the master liar had kept them all there and torn them apart for nothing. He was a transmission, he was never really at the base and if he was he evacuated long before.

"No," Meiko spoke the one word as anguish filled her. Yaro's seed faded and he fell to his knee's in exhaustion, emotional and physically. It had all been in vain. They had destroyed the base and killed many of ROW's soldiers but for nothing. Liene was still out there, the gamble had not paid off and now the emotions of the strongest were in a wreck as they were still all socked from the truths that they had heard, the truth designed to hurt them. The facts should not have been spoken the way they were. The harm they had done was irreversible. Everyone was silent until it was Flay who finally realized something as the evacuation alarm continued.

"We've got to get out of here now!" she exclaimed turning to her two guards, "Sent an immediate warning to the forces outside, tell them to get away from the base!" She turned back to Kira, Yaro and Meiko; "the base is going to self destruct, we've got to go now!" She rushed to Meiko grabbing the girls arm and pulling her from the floor. Kira stood up and did the same to Yaro.

"Hurry!" Flay said as she glanced around. They stared to move but Meiko soon stumbled, her wounds catching up to her. Kira stopped for a moment quickly taking his daughter in his arms they moved as fast as they could following Flay back toward the mobile suit bay. Kira glanced at Meiko, tears were still in her eyes as she held onto him staring forward. None of this was the way she had planned it, and now their lives were in danger once again.

Kira was beginning to worry as the alarm was sounding louder but they reached the hangar.

"Take the Justice," Kira yelled to Flay and her two guards as he floated toward the Phoenix, Meiko was the only one who could unlock it. Yaro moved into the Dreamer quickly. They all fastened themselves in.

"Go," Kira said to the other two and they listened.

Lacus watched as her forces gathered up quickly moving away from the battlefield as best they could. She saw as the Dreamer and the Justice quickly flew from the hangar and held her breath waiting for the final machine. This was happening again. They were fleeing an explosion, only this time their only way out was up into space and off this planet.

The Dreamer and the Justice moved at high speeds away from the base.

"Meiko you have to do this now," Kira said moving her hands toward the controls, "listen to me, you have to do this!" He shook her as he realized she was still in shock from everything. She nodded to him and moved her hands to the keyboard releasing the lock with ease. He quickly moved the controls taking advantage of the build of the machine. It was made for high speeds. He let out a shout as the Phoenix blasted out of the base just in time, the explosions had begun.

SO I'm not sure how you're all going to react to this one, it's been a long time coming. I knew there were predictions about Milady being Flay and I knew many suspected Meiko as being Kira's daughter but I was certain that no one saw the last revelation coming; Yaro as Liene's son.

SO naturally after working all day to crank this out I want to know what you think of it. It was quite exciting to write since I have pictured this scene in my head for two years now, waiting for the chance I would get to write it. Now I go that chance so here it is. So review and tell me what you think about this chapter and what you think about how everyone will react!

-Winterchill.