Here we go again, it didn't take nearly as long to write this chapter as I expect, so please enjoy and remember to review.
Chapter 2
It was just after things had settle down a bit after the first explosion had shook the colony.
"WHAT the hell was that about?!" Shinn coursed while looking up at the ceiling for a few minutes before he again turned his attention back towards the three stolen gundams, seeing that they still looked ready to fight.
But from what he could tell it shouldn't be long now before they would ran out of power, they had after all been at it for a while now, and there was just no way they could keep going like this.
He was just about to take of after them again, when Nicol began talking over from his GOUF.
"Well if I had a guess on what it was, I would think it was something that came here to pick up those guys" the green hair boy said while taking a deep breath, before he once again continued talking to his two friends.
"It does make sense if you think about it, they are after all here to capture those mobile suits, and it would be pretty bad planing on their parts if they didn't have someway to escape, and from what I can tell, those three are not small flies they really do know what they are doing, so we better stop wasting time and take them down, before they can find out of the colony!" Nicol said in a somewhat thoughtful tone, as he got ready to attack the Abyss one more time.
Thinking a small minute about Nicol's words Rey got a somewhat determined look in both of his eyes, as he again turned his gaze over on the three gundams.
He knew Nicol was right about what he had just said.
If those three really did get out of here, they most likely wouldn't be able to get their hands on any of them again, so maybe it would be best to just destroy them before they could get that far.
"Ok you two lets take them out and lets stop worrying about how much damage we make on them, I think it's best we destroy them, before they can really become a threat to us, Shinn you go in first me and Nicol will cover you!" Rey explained, while taking a short glance between his two friends machines.
Before he once again turned his attention over on the three gundams.
Hearing Rey say that Shinn couldn't help but smile a bit, he was glad that he didn't have to think about what kind of condition the stolen gundams was in when he was done with them, with that in mind he took of full speed towards the three of them, both beam swords out and ready to strike.
He did however not get far before the Gaia turned and began shooting at him like there would be no day tomorrow.
Seeing how determined the bastard inside the black mobile suit was to take him out, the boy quickly decided that he would go after that machine first, so itn't would end up hurting Nicol and Rey while it was trying to take him out.
"You damn bastard you are finished!" he called out loudly, as he slammed both swords down after the Gaia, but before any of the weapons could get in contact with the machine, it got in to it's four legged mode and jumped away from him.
But while it was doing that it turned and shoot of the three beam rifles at him, making Shinn lifted up the shield to defend himself, after that he quickly pulled out the beam rifle that up until now had been on the Impulse's back, then he turned and fired a single shoot after the Gaia.
Yet before the green beam could hit the black machine, it hurried evade to the side and ran straight at him.
Seeing that Shinn again fired two shoots after the four legged mobile suit, forcing it to change direction.
And now that it's back was turned towards him, Shinn pull out one of the beam boomerangs and without wasting even a second he throw it with full speed after the enemy mobile suit.
But unfortunately before the weapon could hit the black mobile suit the Chaos jumped in and knocked the boomerang away with one of it's beam sabers.
Just the sight of the green gundam interfering was enough for a very deep frown to ran over Shinn's face. "You damn son of a bitch!" he growl out in a truly angry tone, just before he charged of full speed towards the two gundams.
Utterly determined to tear them completely apart even if it was the last thing he ever did.
And it did not take all that long before he was fighting with the two mobile suits with everything he got.
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Meanwhile over in the Chaos Sting hurried duck under the left beam sword from the red gundam, only to slam his saber together with the right one a second later.
Which resulted in that the two gundams end up with their weapons locked together, both of them fighting hard to get a hit in on each other.
But even while all of that was going on, Sting took a short glance away from the unknown mobile suit and down at the power, seeing that it was running dangerously low.
Which got him to slowly bite himself in his lower lip. "Stella, Auel we need to get out of here, if we stay in here much longer they will capture us!" the green hair boy yelled just before he quickly jumped a bit away from the red mobile suit.
Where he hurried shoot of the few missiles he had left, forcing the red gundam to back away from him before any of the warheads could hit it.
Seeing that he now had a small break from fighting that damn mobile suit he hurried made his way over to the Abyss, that up until now had been busy trying to take out the white ZAKU and that other strange machine.
"Auel are you ready to go?!" Sting asked in a serious tone, while firing a few shoots after the yellow mobile suit, that had been just about to attack them again.
And with Auel's help, the two boys had no trouble at all keeping the yellow Zaft machine away, but even as they where trying to take that mobile suit out.
The ZAKU began shooting at them from another direction, which made Auel turn and shoot right back.
"Yeah I'm ready to go, but I kinda wish we could have beaten the crap out of those three bastards!" the blue hair boy yelled, while using one of the fins to take a single beam from the white somewhat annoying mobile suit.
Hearing Auel say that Sting could only nod slowly in agreement. "Yeah I know what you mean, but we have to wait until next time before we can do that!" the green hair boy said and was just about to say something else.
When Stella suddenly began yelling in a very angry tone, that made it obvious for both of them, that she was utterly pissed off and that she was far from done fighting against those three oppositions.
"I'm not going anywhere before I destroy all three of them, especially that red one!" the blond girl growled out in a completely wicked tone, before she once again jumped straight at the enemy gundam that used it's shield to make sure that it wouldn't get any damage from her attack.
But that did not stop Stella from trying to take the bastard out one more time.
Seeing just how aggressive the blonde hair girl was fighting right now Auel got a somewhat annoyed look on his face, as he watched the Gaia land with all four feet on a few parts from a destroyed building that had collapse at the start of the battle.
But it did however not stay there for long, before a single green shoot from that unknown gundam they had been fighting almost since the start of the battle, got the black mobile suit moving again.
With that the two boys could only watch, as the Gaia ran straight at the red mobile suit. Yet just as Stella was about to attack the damn thing one more time.
Another big explosion shook the entire colony, which made it pretty obvious that things outside was getting quite hectic, and that their ride couldn't stay there much long.
But seeing as Stella didn't want to leave a deep frown ran over the Abyss pilot's face.
"All right, you can stay here if you want to, me and Sting will just tell Neo that you die to protecting us. I'm absolutely sure that he would be very happy to know that you sacrificed yourself to save us!" Auel said, trying hard not to laugh at the girl, for some reason he always found it a bit funny when Stella was like this.
Hearing Auel said those words.
Stella could only sit there with big eyes as the boy's words continued running through her mind.
"DIE! I.....I.....don't want to die!" she quietly mumbled while a few tears began running slowly down her face, as she continued telling herself that she didn't want to die, and that she was so scared right now.
Yet it was only when Auel called out and told her, that he was sure that they where all going to miss her.
That the blonde girl let out a giant almost painful scream. While she quickly turned around and took of full speed away from the red gundam, she had been trying her best to defeat all of this time.
Still yelling loudly about, that she did not want to die and that she didn't want to be in there any longer.
And after that, it did not take long before the Gaia was in the air, heading towards the hull of the colony.
Which made it obvious for the two boys that she was determined to blast her way out of the colony. And just seeing her act like this a deep angry frown ran over the Chaos pilots face, as he turned and took a short glance over at the Abyss.
"Auel why did you say that you know how she react when she hears that word!" Sting said a bit angry at his blue hair friend.
The other boy however just let out a small unhappy sound before he began talking.
"Well you heard what she said, she want to stay in here, so I just told her the one thing I knew would get her moving, but never mind that we better help her, that red fellow is after her!" Auel said, before he took of to help the Gaia, that by now was under attack by the red gundam.
Seeing that Auel was right about Stella being attacked, Sting let out a small sigh, while rolling his eyes a single time at his blue hair friend, he was just about to head of after the Gaia.
When suddenly he was attacked by the white mobile suit.
Which made him lifted up the shield to take the first two shoots, after that he quickly aimed his rifle at the still attacking mobile suit, and was just about to shoot back when he heard another big scream from the girl over in the Gaia.
"Leave me alone!" she cried out and, as she evade a few shoots from the yellow Zaft mobile suit, that was once again attacking her.
Seeing that she was going to need his help to get out of there, Sting took one last look at the ZAKU where he narrowed his eyes just a bit.
But he didn't really do that for long before he hurried took of in the Gaia's direction, truly hoping he could reach the girl before anything could happen to her.
Unfortunately he didn't get very far, before he was once again attacked by the same mobile suit as before.
"Ahhh go to hell you bastard!" he called out as he began shooting at the white mobile suit, that was flying a bit away from him, but before the beams could hit the damn thing it quickly rolled to the side, where it fired a few more shoots up at him.
So after yelling out a few more curses at the white mobile suit, he once again began shooting at the damn thing, a small part of him a bit annoyed that it couldn't just have stayed down on the ground.
But now that both the Gaia and the Abyss was able to fly. He knew that the gravity inside the colony was messed up.
And that of course meant that all the other mobile suits could fly around too, which made the whole getting away from there safely so much harder.
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While all that was going on outside Lunamaria had just gotten her ZAKU over to it's usual place on the Minerva and was now on her way down to the ground where she could see Yolant and Vino waiting for her.
"Hello Lunamaria, it's good to see you are back, is it just me or are your mobile suit moving a bit strange?" Vino asked, not once taking his eyes away from the red ZAKU.
Hearing the boy ask her that, a deep frown ran over the red hair girls forehead and she was just about to tell him, that it had been like that since it was knocked over by the first explosion the three stolen gundams had made, when they broke out of the hangar they had been stored in.
But before she could even open her mouth, the cockpit of the mobile suit that had followed her in to the Minerva's hangar flew open.
And just one single look at the two people that was now getting out of the machine was more then enough to tell the red hair girl that the two of them where not Zaft soldiers.
So without giving it a second thought, she hurried reached out and grabbed the gun from a soldier that was standing next to her, and once she had made sure that the weapon was loaded.
She quickly ran over to the green mobile suit. "OK both of you put your hands on your heads, and tell me what you where doing in that machine!" the girl order in a loud tone, while aiming the gun at them, making sure that they both knew that this was serious business.
The boy however just took a single look over at her, before he helped the girl the rest of the way down from the mobile suit.
Once she was safely down on the ground, Athrun turned and looked back over at the gun swinging girl.
"I'm very sorry that we had to use that machine, but we didn't really have much of a choice, we did try and find some other solution, but we had to use that thing to defend our self against those three mobile suits, if we didn't do that, we would have been dead by now!" the blue hair boy explained, while making sure that he was standing directly in front of Cagalli, so if the red hair girl should shoot he would be the one to get hit.
Those few words did make some sense to Luna, but there was still another question she want answers to. "Ok I do get that, but I think all of us down here would like very much to know just who the heck you are?!" The girl said still pointing the gun at the two of them.
She just wasn't all that certain if the boy and girl where a threat or not.
But with everything that had happened in the last hour, it certainly didn't hurt to be at least a little cautious.
Seeing that the girl was still holding the gun up, Athrun let out a small breath, while taking a small look around at the other people down there, making sure that they where not about to open fire on them.
After that he once again looked back at the red hair girl, with a slightly uneasy look in both of his eyes.
Not that anybody but Cagalli could see it, none of the other people there knew him well enough to recognize that look.
It was then he began talking in a very loud tone, that he was sure could be heard all over the hangar.
"My name is Alex Dino and I'm the bodyguard of Cagalli Yula Athha the Orb Chief Representative, so now that you all knows just who we are will you please low your weapons?!" Athrun said, still looking a bit like he was ready to throw himself forward to get the gun away from the red hair girl.
Even true a part of him did know that doing something like that would be a very stupid idea, it was just that he was completely determined to protect the girl he loved no matter what, especially after what the two of them had just been through.
But once he saw the red hair girl low the gun, he visibly relaxed a bit, it was after all nice to know that the girl wasn't going to shoot them.
Knowing that the two of them where not a threat, Luna slowly hand the gun back to the soldier she had taken it from.
"Well, I'm truly sorry for the rude reception, but I'm sure that both of you can understand, that all of us here is just a tiny bit anxious with everything that has been going on. It's not really everyday that somebody just waltz in here, and steal three of our mobile suits like it's nothing!" the girl explained, while signal the others down there to low their weapons too.
From what she knew Zaft and Orb was on good terms, and threatening the leader of a country they where friends with, didn't really seem like the most smart thing to do.
So after standing there looking at them just a bit longer, she decide that it was properly best to make them feel somewhat welcome, even with everything that was still going on outside.
"Will the two of you please follow me, I know it would be best to tell the captain that you are on board, but I don't really think I can disturbed her right now, with the battle still going on. So for now I will show you to an empty room, where you can stay until all of this is over!" Luna said.
As she began walking down the hall, with the two of them walking closely behind her.
But even as she was leading them through the Minerva's halls, she couldn't help but take a small glance back at the blue hair guy behind her.
And it didnot take long before a small red glow ran over both of her cheeks.
The guy just looked so handsome, which made a small part of her wish that she had the time to get to know him a little better, she did however not get long to think about it before her sister's voice could be heard all over the ship.
"Attention all crew members, the Minerva will now start getting ready to go in to combat against the ship that is attacking us from the outside, so all of you are to get to your stations!" Meyrin said loudly out over the speakers.
Hearing that Athrun immediately looked up at the ceiling. "What you can't be serious, me and Cagalli don't want to be any more messed up in all of this!" the blue hair boy yelled, as he looked over at the red hair girl that had been walking in front of them this entire time.
But before the girl could even think of something to say back to the boy, a shook ran through the ship, which made it obvious for all of them, that the grey space ship really was being made ready to leave.
And just the knowledge about what was happening now, was more then enough to make Athrun mutter out a few not to happy words.
"Ahhh damn it all, why the hell didn't we stay outside?!" He asked himself, with a angry look in both of his eyes.
That made it clear for both girls that he was truly regretting getting on board this ship.
Feeling a bit sorry for them, Luna was just about to say something back.
When Cagalli reached out and took his hand where she immediately gave it a gentle squeeze, and it didn't take long before she began talking to him in the most calm tone, she could manage under the circumstance.
"Please try and relax, there was no way you could have know that this ship was going out in to battle, when we got in here Athru....Alex!" the blond girl said while taking a short glance over at the other girl, truly hoping she hadn't caught her small mistake.
But one look at the girl's surprised expression, was more then enough to tell Cagalli, that the red hair pilot had heard what name she had just used when talking to Athrun.
Luna however didn't really say anything, as she stood there looking at the blue hair boy, now with a slightly shocked look on her face, while she slowly let her eyes ran over him.
Not doing a thing to hide, that she was studying him hard, obviously trying to find some kind of answer to the questions that was now running through her mind.
Was this handsome guy, really Athrun Zala the son of Patrick Zale the last Chairman of Zaft. Just the thought that he might be who she thought he was, only served to make the interested Luna had in him rise even high.
She just couldn't help but like it, when boys had a little mystery to them.
But as the red hair girl continued standing there watching Athrun like that, a truly deep frown ran over Cagalli's face, she really didn't like it when another girl was looking at her boyfriend like this, and this girl just couldn't take her eyes of from him right now.
"Do you think you could hurry up and lead us the rest of the way to the room, you where talking about before!?" The Chief Representative said, doing her best not to sound to hostile, while glaring at the red hair girl, that was gawking so openly at her man.
Hearing those few words Luna slowly turned her attention away from Athrun and over at the blonde girl.
Where she almost immediately noticed the somewhat angry glare the other girl was giving her.
Seeing that Luna didn't even think about it for a second before she send the exact same look back, doing her best to show the other girl that she was ready to fight if there was a need for it.
So while the two girls was busy trying to see who of them could look most angry.
Athrun took a few smaller looks between them.
This was not the first time he had seen his girlfriend act like this, he still remember the very first date, the two of them had been on.
Where one of the female waiters at the restaurant they had gone to, had tried to flirt with him more then a few times, needless to say she did not get a tip.
But after watching the two ladies glare at each other for just a bit longer, he reached out and placed a hand on Cagalli's shoulder, making her turn around to look at him, where he gave her a caring smile.
Before he looked over at the red hair girl. "I think Cagalli's right there is really no need for us to stand around out here, and as much as I hate the idea about being on this ship at the moment, there isn't really all that much that can be done about it!" the blue hair man said, not doing a thing to hide, that the mood he was in right now was far from a good one.
Once those few words had left his mouth, Luna slowly turned her eyes away from the back of the blond girl and over at Athrun, where she immediately noticed the slightly angry look in both of his eyes.
But it did seem to calm him down a bit, being so close to the other girl.
Which made Luna feel just a tiny bit jealous, she couldn't even remember the last time she had a boyfriend.
And now that she had finally meet somebody interesting, he was of course taken, which made a few very colourful words ran through her head, she did however not think about that for long before she slowly shook her head a few times.
This was far from the right moment in time, for her to be thinking about something like that, there was still a lot of things she had to do with the battle still going on outside.
So with those thoughts in mind, the red hair girl slowly turned away from Athrun and Cagalli and began flying down the hall, making sure to call back for them to please follow her.
It wasn't long after that, before the three of them arrived at one of the few rooms on the ship she knew was empty.
And once they got in there it wasn't much later, before the blond hair girl moved over and sat down on one of the beds, that was in there.
While Athrun kept standing by the door looking quietly around the room for a few seconds, before his eyes landed back on her.
"Thank you very much for taking us here" the slightly older teen said, as he walked over and dropped down beside Cagalli, where the blond girl immediately moved in, and rested her head against his shoulder, where she let out a tired sigh, while both of her eyes felled shut.
Seeing that both of them where at least somewhat comfortable at the moment, Luna quickly told them to please wait in there for her to come back, after that it didn't take long, before she turned around on one foot and left the room, heading back to the hangar.
Truly hoping that the mechanics down there had somehow been able to fix her mobile suit in that short time she had been gone.
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At the same time outside Shinn was evading in between an attack from the Abyss, while getting the Impulse up to full speed, heading directly towards the Gaia that was at this very moment trying to blast it's way through the walls of the colony.
But there was just no way in hell Shinn would allow the bastard to do that. The person inside the black gundam, had already made more then enough damage around here.
And Shinn was completely determined to make sure that whoever was piloting the Gaia would suffer greatly for everything that happened since the three gundams had first broken out of the hangar.
He was just about to attack the four legged mobile suit one more time, when he was again attacked by the Abyss, which forced him to evade to the side before any of the beams could hit him.
After that he quickly fired a few beams back at the blue gundam, while looking over at the Gaia where he saw it fire all three of it's beam weapons directly at the wall of the colony, making a smaller explosion not enough to break through.
But just one look at the place where the Gaia was shooting, made it quite clear for everybody that was watching this, that it wouldn't be all that long now before the black gundam would make a very big hole in the side of the colony.
Seeing that Shinn got a hateful look in both of his red eyes, he need to stop that damn machine.
But there was just no way he could do that with the Abyss getting in his way.
He first had to find someway to get past the irritating blue mobile suit, and the boy could only think of one way to do that, he need even more speed then he had right now, and there was only one way to get that.
So after again evade an attack from the Abyss he called out to the Minerva. "I need something fast out here, so send out the Force Silhouette!" the boy order, while throwing of one of the swords after the Abyss, that quickly knocked it away with it's lance.
While flying straight at him, and it didn't even take a minute before the two gundams was trying everything possible to take each other out.
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Back on the Minerva's bridge both Arthur and Meyrin was looking over at the captain waiting to hear what she had to say, about what Shinn had just asked them to send out.
And it was only after a few short seconds before she lifted her head and looked over at Meyrin.
"Just do it, there really isn't much point in keeping it a secret now, with the three other machines being taken like this!" the woman said, with a deep frown on her forehead.
She truly didn't like where this was going as things looked now, it would be very hard getting the three gundams back, and she could already tell that their pilots wasn't fighting the three mobile suits as carefully as before.
But that might be a good idea if they really couldn't recover them, it was most likely best to just destroy them so nobody else got any use out of them.
But as the woman was thinking about all of that, the door to the bridge suddenly flew open.
And Gilbert Durandal stepped in with a angry look on his face, but it didn't take long before he looked over at her, and she could see his expression soften just a tiny bit. "How is it going Talia, any luck getting the machines back?" He asked, as he walked over and sat down in an empty chair that was just behind her.
Hearing him asked that Talia slowly shook her head.
"No, I'm very sorry, all of our pilots are doing everything they can to stop those three, but as things are going now, I really don't think they can stop them at this point in time" Talia said, just as the Force Silhouette left the Minerva heading out towards the Impulse.
Which meant that it was only a matter of a few minutes before the red gundam turned in to a blue one.
And just one look at the mobile suit was more then enough to tell everybody that it had completely change, and it didn't take long before all of them could all see the Impulse, as it once again took of after the Gaia with the Abyss following right behind him shooting at him the entire time.
But Shinn just evade the few beams, while he made his way over to the Gaia.
Seeing that Shinn had a bit more luck now Talia turned and looked back at the Chairman.
"I gave Shinn permission to use the Force Silhouette, I don't really think it's possible to hide it any longer!" Talia explained not once taking her eyes away from the black hair man behind her.
And it didn't take long before she saw a slightly thoughtful look ran over his face, but it only took a second then it was gone again.
And they could all see the man nod slowly a few time, as he opened his mouth, where he began talking in a reassuring tone.
"I agree Talia, you did make the right decision, all of us up here has to do everything we can to help our pilots out, that's the only way we can ever hope to win against opponents, no matter who they, are we always need to help each other out!" he explained.
While looking up at the screen just as the Impulse slammed one of it's beam sabers out after the Abyss.
But as he sat there watching the boy do battle, against the blue mobile suit a somewhat thoughtful expression came over Gilbert's face, as he wonder a bit if the boy was powerful enough to beat that certain person, Gilbert Durandal knew that at some point in time he need to get rid of.
But it didn't looked like Shinn could do it yet, but if the boy continued fight as he was now, then maybe someday in the future he would be able to beat him.
Those thoughts however didn't stay on his mind for long before he slowly shook his head a few times, just as he again began observing the boy fight, smiling a bit as he saw him chase after the Gaia.
"How are Rey and Nicol doing right now?" He asked a bit concerned about how the two other boys was handling things out there.
He did however not have to worry for long before the red hair girl to the left of him began talking, in a loud tone. "Both of them are fighting with the Chaos, and from what I can tell from here the two of them are all right!" Meyrin said, just as the screen jumped away from the Impulse, and over on the Chaos that was busy shooting after the yellow GOUF that was on it's tail.
But before any of the shoots could hit the Zaft mobile suit, it hurried change direction and got down under all the green beams the Chaos was firing at him, and while Nicol was taking on most of the gundams attention.
Rey's white ZAKU began attacking the Chaos from behind in a very aggressive way, that told all that was seeing this that the boy was out to destroy the Chaos.
And just the sight of how the boy was fighting made Arthur turn and look back at the woman behind him. "If he keeps going like that he might end up doing some very serious damage to the Chaos!" the man said, while taking a short glance back at the screen, where he could see both Rey and Nicol attacking the green gundam from two different directions.
Hearing her second in command say that Talia turned and looked back at him, obviously thinking hard about his words.
But just as she was about to say something back to him, Gilbert began talking in a somewhat calm tone, not once taking his eyes away from the screen.
"It's all right that they destroy them, I'm certain that nothing good will come if we lose those three, and I much rather see them destroyed then in the hands of our enemy, whoever they are!" the man said, while smiling a bit over seeing Rey fight so hard against the Chaos.
After that a small moment of complete silence fell over the crew, as all of them watched the battle.
Yet that did not last for long before Meyrin began talking in a loud obviously concerned tone.
"The Gaia have just succeed in blowing a hole through the outer wall of the colony, and it's already heading out with the Abyss and Chaos following closely behind it!" Meyrin said, while the screen showed the Gaia gundam flying out through it's homemade exit.
Seeing that a deep frown ran over Talia's face and she was just about to yell out a few orders, when she saw the Impulse fly full speed after the three stolen mobile suits.
"Damn why can he wait to hear what we have to say at a time like this?!" she muttered, a bit angry at the boy inside the Impulse.
It however not take long before she again turned her attention back over at the red hair girl. "Is the ship ready to head out Meyrin?!" She asked in a loud tone, while taking a small look around at the people gather on the Minerva's bridge.
Seeing that all of them looked like they where just waiting for her to give them some kind of order.
And once she heard Meyrin tell her that everything checked out and that the Minerva was ready.
Hearing that Talia nodded slowly a single, now with a determined look in both of her eyes.
"Good we are heading out then, we are going to cut them of before any of the stolen mobile suits can get over to whatever is waiting for them out there, after that we are going to pick up our three reckless pilots!" the woman said, just before she yelled out that the Minerva was taking off.
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Meanwhile outside on the Girty Lue, Neo Roanoke lifted his left hand and took a small look down at his watch, thinking about what was taking the three teenagers so damn long they should have been back by now.
But there was no sign of any of them, and that made him wonder what the heck they where doing.
If they didn't hurry up there was a very good chance that Zaft reinforcements would show up.
And even with only the four Dagger Ls on board, there was no way that the Girty Lue could handle a whole fleet of Zaft ships.
But while all of those thoughts was running through Neo's mind, the man beside him began talking in a slightly angry tone, that told the mask man that the captain of the ship was running very low on patience.
"We can't keep staying out here much longer Roanoke, sooner or later more Zaft forces are going to get here, so I think it would properly be best for us to leave this place, before we get in to a battle we can't win, those brats knew they had to be on time for this!" the man said, while taking another short look out of the window, clearly trying to see the three kids out there.
Hearing that, Neo turned and looked over at the man, where he smiled a bit at him.
"Don't worry, I'm sure that it wouldn't be long now, before our three little pigs will get here, it's not like it was an easy mission we send them out on, but I'm confident that they can handle it, I wouldn't have asked them to go in there, if I didn't think they could get the three gundams out!" the mask man explained, while leaning back in his chair.
Looking much more relaxed then a normal person should, under those circumstance they where in right now.
They where after all in enemy territory, and just seeing him looked so calm was enough for a deep frown to ran over the captain's forehead, and he was just about to say something back, when another one of the crew members suddenly called out to them.
"Something has just blow a big hole through the colony!" a black hair man yelled loudly, while taking a quick look back at the captain and Neo, before he once again turned his attention back towards the controls in front of him.
Hearing those few words, Neo immediately stood up and smiled a bit at the captain.
"See I knew they where going to show up, now hurry and get my mobile armor ready, I'm going out there to get our three little pigs!" the mask man joked with a grin on his face, as he turned around and left the Girty Lue's bridge.
With most of the crew looking after him, a few of them wondering how the heck he could joke around at a time like this.
But it didn't take long before the captain yelled out for the Exus to be made ready to launch, and that Neo was heading out.
After that he hurried yelled out to fire all the weapons at a single Nazca Class that was trying to get close to them.
It wasn't really that long after that, before a purple mobile armor flew full speed out from the Girty Lue's hangar, heading directly towards where he could see their newly acquired mobile suits fighting against something.
But it was only when he got a bit closer, he could actually tell, what the three of them where trying so hard to beat up.
And just the sight of the battle made a small smile ran over his lips, as he realized why the teens had taken their sweet time getting out here.
"Ok you three hurry and get back to the ship, I'm sure that you are almost out of power, I will deal with those three!" he said in a serious tone, while slowly looking the three other mobile suits over.
And it didn't not take him much time to determined which one of them where the most dangerous one, and that meant he had to get rid of that machine in a hurry.
So without giving it a second thought he took of full speed towards the blue gundam, letting the gunbarrels leave the Exus, where they immediately began shooting widely at the gundam, that hurried tried everything to evade all the beams he was firing at it.
Yet it quickly became obvious to Neo that whoever was in there, was far from use to real combat, something that gave Neo a very big advantage.
Which was shown by all the scratches that was now appearing more then a few place on the Impulse, and just seeing the guy squirming around like this was enough to make a small grin ran over Neo's face.
He did however not get much time to play around with the blue gundam, when suddenly a minor explosion caught his attention not that far away from him.
So after taking a brief glance over there, he noticed that one of the Dagger Ls had just been taken out, and that the white ZAKU was heading right for him.
He was just about to attack the hastily approaching mobile suit, when a strange feeling went through him it was almost like he knew who was inside the ZAKU and what the person was saying, it was just so hard to describe it felt so unreal.
So after thinking about it for a few seconds, he made the decision to ignore it for now, there wasn't really anything he could do about it at the moment, no matter how strange it was.
So while thinking about that he fired of a single beam after the ZAKU that immediately flew over the beam, where it fired of both it's beam rifle and a few missiles at him, but Neo just evade to the side and used the barrels to take down the warheads, before they could get to close to him.
After that he once again began shooting at the gundam, only fighting with the ZAKU when he didn't have any other options.
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At the same time over in the ZAKU Rey tried to hit the purple mobile armor, but it just slowed down a bit so the two beams past right in front of it after that it again got back in to full speed and started with it's somewhat relentless attack on the Impulse again.
And seeing just how much trouble Shinn had against this guy, the blond boy began talking to him in a loud tone.
"Shinn you have to focus more, that way you are fighting now will get you killed someday, you always have to be calm in battle, especially against a person like the one over in that mobile armor, he is not your everyday pilot that you meet all the time, this one is a real pro!" Rey said, while evading in and out between the beams from two of the gunbarrels.
But as he was doing that, he suddenly noticed that they where coming right at him, with the beam cutters out and ready to tear his ZAKU apart.
But just as they where about to hit him, he elegantly got over both of them and once again attacked the mobile armor, when he heard Shinn call out to him in a very angry tone.
"I am focusing, I just need to take that guy out then we can go after the three bastard that took our mobile suits, by the way what the hell is Nicol doing right now?!" The boy asked loudly as he pulled out one of the beam sabers and took of after the mobile armor, determined to cut that stupid thing in half, not that he ever got close enough to actually do that.
Hearing Shinn's question Rey took a look around, wondering just where exactly Nicol was, and why he wasn't helping them out.
It did however not take long, before he spotted the yellow GOUF keeping the last three Daggers busy.
And from what he could tell from where he was one of them had already taken some very serious damage, but it was kinda hard to tell from this distance.
"He can't help us Shinn! somebody needs to keep the Daggers away and Nicol is the only one that can do that right now, there is just no way for any of us to get away from this guy!" Rey yelled loudly, while flying over one of the gunbarrels, only to fire the beam rifle after it a second later.
Unfortunately the beams didn't even get close to make contact, as the barrel turned around and flew back towards the mobile armor, where it immediately got ready to land on the purple machine.
It did however not get the opportunity to do that when it was cut in two by the Impulse.
Seeing that Rey couldn't help but smile a bit, as he again tried to hit the fast moving thing with the rifle. But now they guy was a bit more careful to leave himself open like that, and even as Rey tried to shoot down the armor he began talking to Shinn.
"Good job Shinn now lets hurry and get rid of this guy, I'm sure that it wouldn't be long now before the Impulse will run out of power, and if that happens we are going to have some serious problems!" Rey said, while evading an attack from the mobile armor itself.
Hearing his friend say that, and seeing how hard Rey was fighting right now, Shinn got an angry look on his face as he shoot the two machine guns in the Impulse's chest trying to take out one more of the gunbarrels.
Yet this time it did avoid the attack and flew back to the purple machine where it land safely on top of it.
After that it did not even take a second before the mobile armor once again took of after Rey.
With Shinn looking after it the entire time, and just seeing how well this guy was fighting was more then enough to make a deep angry frown ran over his face.
How the hell could this guy fight so well, he should have beaten him by now, the Impulse was after all much more powerful then that stupid mobile armor, but up until now he had only succeed in taking down one of the barrels.
And that had only been because the bastard in there had been far to busy fighting with Rey. "Damn you, I'm going to show you who the hell you are messing with!" the boy yelled.
Just before he once again flew full speed after the irritating machine, now even more determined to show this bastard, that there was no way he Shinn Asuka was going to lose to him.
Unfortunately he didn't get very far, before he once again was attacked by two of the barrels, and even true the only thing he really want to do right now was to cut the mobile armor straight over.
He just couldn't find a way past those damn barrels.
It wasn't like he could just ignore them, if he did something like that he would surely get his ass handed to him, that however didn't mean he couldn't at the very least try and get close enough to take the bastard out.
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At the same time the Minerva was flying slowly away from the colony and was soon up to full speed.
"Everything seems all right Ma'am, the Minerva is ready for combat, you just said the word and we can enter our first battle!" Arthur said, sounding a bit proud over how well the ship was flying, while taking a small look over at the captain.
That nodded slowly to his words, and asked where what their three mobile suit was doing.
That was when the red hair girl up there began talking in a loud tone. "The Impulse and ZAKU are in a battle with something, it's kinda hard to tell what it is from this
distance, but I think it's a mobile armor of some kind!" the girl said.
While using a few seconds to try and find Nicol's GOUF, but when she actually did found him she didn't waste any time in telling them what he was doing.
Hearing what was going on Talia turned her head away from Meyrin and looked out at the strange looking space ship they where heading right for.
"We are going to attack that ship, that will be the best way to get the enemy to fall back, and until we found out the real name of that ship, we will call it Bogey One, make sure to enter that in to our database!" the woman said, slowly looking the blue coloured space ship over.
For some reason she couldn't help but think that the ship looked kind weird, but maybe that was just her imagination.
"Once we get in range of them, make sure to keep moving so they wouldn't hit us with any of their weapons, we don't really know what this ship is capable of, so stay on your toes and don't let your guard down!" the woman order loudly.
Just before she told them to get their own weapons ready and that they where going to try and hit the engine with their first attack.
That way there might still be a chance for them to get the three gundams back, and maybe find out just where those guys had came from, there wasn't really much on the ships hull, that show them just who exactly this ship was fighting for.
So if they could capture them then that would be for the best. "Captain we are in range, the ship is firing missiles!" Arthur yelled out in a slightly panicky tone.
Not that Talia thought much about that she just yelled out to evade them.
But even as they where doing that, a few warheads continued heading right for them, but thanks to all the weapons on the Minerva not a single one of them hit.
"Get the Tristan ready fire!" the woman yelled out, but just as the four beams was about to hit the ship it suddenly disappeared right in front of them, which made all of their eyes widen a bit, as Arthur asked loudly what happened to the ship.
Even true the answer was quite obvious, it did however take a few minutes before Talia let out a small sigh.
Just before she began talking in a somewhat thoughtful tone. "They are using Mirage Colloid, this might be much harder then I first thought!" the brown hair captain said, while trying to find the blue space ship again.
But there was just no sign of it right now, but she knew that it was still in the area, seeing as the purple mobile armor was still having fun with the Impulse and Rey's ZAKU.
"Hmm the only thing we can do now is go help out our pilots, and if we want some clues on who the hell sat this thing up, we have to try and get our hands on that mobile armor, even true I do think that's going to be easy said then done!" Talia said, studying how the person was using his machine.
There was little doubt in her mind, that this guy was a true ace pilot, seeing just how easily he was handling their two mobile suits.
It was just about the same time the Gilbert began talking behind her.
"I don't think this person are going to be that easy to capture Talia, from what I can see he seems to be quite a determined fellow, not somebody that are going to be taken down without a fight!" the man said, while seeing the mobile armor fly over another attack from Rey's ZAKU.
That was when Meyrin once again began talking over from her sit.
"The Impulse is running dangerously low on power!" the red hair girl yelled, a bit concerned that Shinn would get seriously hurt if he continued staying out there much longer.
But even as those words left her mouth the captain just looked over at her, where she gave her a reassuring look.
"Please don't worry Meyrin, I'm sure that the guy is going to retreat when he sees us coming at him, he might be able to keep Rey and Shinn busy, but I really don't think he has that much of a death wish, that he would risk his life fighting us too!" the captain said, while ordering the crew to get ready to fire a warning shoot in the direction of the battle.
Even true a big part of her really did want to attack the purple mobile armor, but they couldn't do that with the Impulse and ZAKU so close to it.
If they really did something like that, they might end up hitting their own.
So they just had to do the next best thing, and that was to try and scared away, and a shoot from the Tristan should be more then enough for that.
And it wasn't even a minute later before both cannons was shoot of, in the three fighting machines direction.
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When that happened, Neo slowly lifted his head and looked up at the green beams from the still approaching space ship.
Once they had fade away he immediately turned the armor around and took a quick looked over at the ship, where he slowly raised his left eyebrow under his mask.
"Hmmm it would seem like, we have outstayed our welcome here!" he said, with a hint of a smile on his face, just before he called out to the last two mobile suit that they where leaving this place.
With that all three machines took of full speed away from the battle they had been in engaged in up until now.
Each of them begin extra careful not to get in range of any of the Minerva's many weapons.
They truly didn't feel like fight something that powerful at the moment, if they really had to fight do something like that, they would surely need a very good strategy.
It wasn't all that long after that before all three machines reached the now again visible blue space ship, where the mobile armor enter the hangar first followed closely by the two mobile suit.
Once all three machine secured inside the blue space ship, the Mirage Colloid was activated once again, which made it very hard to figure out where exactly the ship was heading.
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Just seeing the mobile armor retreat like that a deep angry frown ran over Shinn's face, he was just about to chase of after the purple machine.
When Nicol dropped down in front of him stopping him from going anywhere.
"Get out of the way Nicol I'm not done with this guy yet, there is no way in hell he is going to get away with what he has done!" the Impulse piloted yelled loudly, as he again tried to get past the GOUF.
But Nicol made sure that the only way Shinn would get past him, was to force him to move and even true Nicol knew that the younger teen was pissed of right now.
The green hair boy was completely certain that Shinn wouldn't try something like that.
"Please take a deep breath and try and calm down Shinn, if you go after that guy now you will surely die, there is no way you can beat him now" Nicol said in a deep serious tone, while still not moving away from the Impulse's path.
Hearing that Shinn was just about to say something back, when Rey got over next to them, where he immediately began talking sounding just as calm about all of this as Nicol.
"I agree with everything Nicol have just said Shinn, it really wouldn't lead to anything good if we just rush after those guys without some kind of plan, beside the Impulse needs to be recharge and my ZAKU did take a bit of damage while we where fighting that mobile armor. And I would actually like to have just a tiny break before we get in to a battle again" Rey explained, while he slowly turned away and took of towards the Minerva, just as the ship fired the return signal.
Seeing that Nicol too turned away and began making his way back to the grey space ship.
With the Impulse pilot looking after him the entire time.
Once he saw the yellow mobile suit enter the ships hangar.
He couldn't keep his anger down any longer, he slammed both of his fists down as hard as possible in to the controls there, almost breaking a few things there.
"DAMN THOSE GUYS! You just wait till the next time we meet, then you are all going to DIE!" the boy yelled loudly.
And with a truly angry expression covering his entire face, he once again gave the controls a few minor hits, not caring one bit if he did damage something in there.
And it was only when he heard Meyrin tell him that he should hurry up and get back here, that he got his temper a bit under control, but that did not mean he was far from finished being angry.
And even while he was flying back to the Minerva, he kept mumbling about just what he was going to do, when they found those bastards again, there where surely going to pay for everything they had done.
"You just wait till I get my hands on you!" he muttered, now with a somewhat wicked grin on his face, as he slowly enter the Minerva's hangar.
Still with all those delightful thoughts running through his mind.
To be continued.
I'm sure some of you are a bit curious about when Kira and Lacus are going to show up, but it will however take some time yet before any of them will appear in this story.