I'm sorry this took so long.
I have been kinda busy with other things the last few weeks, so I didn't have all that much time to write on this.
Chapter 3
It had been about a half hour since they had gotten on the ship.
And at this moment Cagalli was sleeping peacefully on top of him, not that Athrun could blame her.
He too was quite exhausted after everything that had happened, and if somebody asked him and he had to give them an honest answer he to would like very much to get a few hours of sleep.
But as things looked now, he really did think that it was a good idea that one of them was awake, when that red haired girl or somebody else would finally come here to get them.
"I wonder how the battle is going, everything seems pretty quiet now" he mumbled softly to himself, as he slowly ran his fingers through Cagalli's short blond hair, truly enjoying the silky feeling of it between his fingers.
Which made him think about what exactly she did to make i feel this soft.
"Hmm....Athrun....." she sigh loudly while snuggling even deep in to his chest, where a small content smile ran over her lips before she once again continued sleeping peacefully.
Seeing that Athrun smiled a bit, as he slowly turned his attention away from her, and up at the ceiling.
Where it didn't take long before a few familiar faces began running through his mind.
All of them people that had die in the last war, Yzak, La Flaga, the three M1 Astray girls, and many other friends that he knew was gone forever. Even after all this time he could still clearly remember, how sad many of the people he cared about had all been after the war had end.
So while he was laying there thinking about all of them, a deeply sad expression slowly came over his face, as he truly wonder why the hell Cagalli and he had to get mixed up in something as crazy as this.
The only thing the young man truly want to do, was to live a calm and peaceful life together with the one he loved.
But now he had once again been force it to a battle, where each of them had almost been kill, just because that damn mobile suit they end up in could badly walk straight.
"Damn, why did this have to happen while we where here?" The blue hair boy quietly asked himself, while again running his fingers through Cagalli's blond hair.
While thinking about why the hell they didn't just stay home, even true he already knew the answer, they where here because Cagalli had needed to talk with the Chairman about maintaining peace between Zaft and Orb.
That however didn't mean he was in a good mood about everything the two of them had been through, not long ago.
"The next time we go somewhere, I really do think we should take Dearka's advice and go to the beach instead" Athrun said, smiling slightly over the former Buster pilots joking around, when he heard that they where going up here, to have a good long talk with the new Chairman.
But once he had said the Cagalli had just rolled her eyes a single time, while telling the boy he was an idiot. After that she had immediately ran of not hearing Dearka said anything about how truly depressed the blond girl had made him, by calling him something like that.
It was just about the same time that Miriallia had told him to shut up, which much to Athrun's amazement he had actually done.
Finally after just laying there thinking about all of that he slowly moved his head down on the soft comfortable pillow, determined to just close his eyes just for a little bit.
But even as he was fighting so hard to stay awake, it didn't take many seconds before he slowly drifted of to sleep, finally giving in to the deep exhaustion he had felt since the red hair girl had left them alone in there.
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At the same time down in the ships hangar Shinn had just gotten out of the Impulse and was now flying slowly away from the gundam still with a deeply angry look on his face, ignoring whatever Vino and Lunamaria was trying to say to him.
He just kept on making his way towards the exit of the hangar, not showing the least bit interested in talking with any of the people that was looking after him.
Once he was out of sight Luna couldn't help but roll her eyes a single time. "He is just so childish sometimes!" the red hair mumbled, as she began making her way of to a small screen that was at the end of the hangar.
Now that all of the enemy was finally gone, it was properly best to tell the captain, everything about the Orb Chief Representative being on board.
And it was only a few minutes later before she was over there, where she immediately got in contact with the bridge. "Captain I got something very important to tell you, but there wasn't really any time for it before now!" Luna said in a serious tone.
Which made the brown hair woman, look away from the Chairman and over at her, with a slightly wondering expression on her face, that made it obvious that she was a bit curious about what the girl want to tell her.
"Ok Luna what's going on? All of us up here is a little busy right now, with trying to figure out what we are going to do now, so please make it quick!" Talia said in a loud tone, not once taking her eyes away from the only female pilot that was on board the Minerva.
Who immediately gave a quick nod to what she had just said, and after taking in a small breath the red hair girl began explaining.
It did however not take her long to tell them everything that had happened doing the battle.
"So what you are saying young lady, is that under the battle the Orb princess and her bodyguard, end up in a defected ZAKU, and while trying to escape from the battle, they end up here on the Minerva?" Gilbert asked, now also looking at the red haired pilot, that nodded a few times to his words.
"Yes that's right sir, we where all a bit surprised at first, when we saw two strangers inside the ZAKU, so they didn't really get the most warm reception, when they got down from the machine!" Luna said, trying her best to sound as respectful as possible.
It wasn't everyday that she got to talk with the Chairman of the Plants, and she truly didn't want to say anything wrong at a time like this.
He however just nodded a few times to her words, while getting a somewhat thoughtful expression on his face, as he slowly looked away from her and down at the floor, clearly thinking hard about what she had just said.
"So where are they now?" He finally asked, as he once again turned his brown eyes up towards her, waiting to hear just what the two unwilling passengers on the ship was doing right now.
Hearing him asked that, Lunamaria immediately began talking in the same tone as before.
"Well after finding out just who they where, I took them to an empty room and asked them to stay in there until the battle was over. So unless they didn't do what I said, they should still be there now. Not that I think they have gone anywhere, each of them was totally exhaust after everything that had happened!" the girl said, as she began thinking about the blue hair young man, she had meet not long ago.
Even with the blond hair girl so angry at her, she still couldn't help, but find her bodyguard very interesting.
And she really hoped, that she would get the opportunity, to get to know him better. But now that she was thinking about him, she began to wonder if she should tell who she thought the boy really was.
She did however not get the chance to say anything when the Chairman again began talking to her.
"Well you did the right thing miss Hawke, it's not like they choose to get messed up in all of this, so we need to make extra sure that they are comfortable while they are here" he said in a calm tone, while smiling warmly at the red hair girl.
Just as she once again looked up at him, clearly getting her mind away from whatever she had just been thinking about.
Seeing that, it didn't take long before he continued talking to the girl. "You can just leave them to me, I'll go down there and get them, once I'm finished talking with Talia about the three stolen mobile suits. So for now, I think all of you pilots should get some well deserved rest" he said, while finally turning his attention away from the red hair piloted, and back at the captain of the ship.
And it only took about a half minute, then the girl disappeared from the monitor. "I didn't think something like that was going to happen!" Talia said, clearly surprised about what Luna had just told them.
Gilbert on the other hand just smiled a bit at her, while thinking about if having the two of them on board was a small blessing in disguise, he was sure, that he could somehow use this to his own advantage.
He did however not really have the time to think about that now, they need to figure out just what they where going to do, with those not so nice people, that had left the area not long ago, with three of their new machines.
After that he slowly turned his attention back over on Talia and Arthur, that both looked like they where just waiting for him to get out of his thoughts, so they could continue their conversation.
"So any ideas about what we are going to do about Bogey One?" He asked, as he took a few glances between the man and woman, that was standing a bit in front of him.
It was only a minute after those words had left his mouth, that Arthur began talking in a loud tone.
"I do think we should go after them, they have to be taught a lesson, about who they are dealing with" the man said, still having a bit of trouble understanding how any of this could happen.
How could somebody so easily get past all of their tight security, and ran of with those three machines.
Hearing her second in command said something like that, Talia couldn't help but smile a bit. "I agree with Arthur on this, if those three where good enough to get all the way in to the colony. Then just imagine what else they could do, now that they have mobile suits like that!" the woman said, in a very serious tone.
Just as she saw Gilbert nod a few times to everything she had just said.
After that he smiled a bit at them. "I guess we all agree on what we need to do then, so the only thing left now is to find out where they are heading!" The Chairman said, a tiny bit curious about what Talia had to say now.
"Well the way I see it is that they might have gotten away for now, but I think that it's very likely that they expect us to follow them, so if we are just a bit lucky, the ship may actually be waiting for us, the question now is where could that be?" Talia asked, with a look on her face that made it clear, that she was thinking very hard about her own question, as she looked up at the map that showed everything that was in that direction, the ship most likely had disappeared in.
And it only took a few small minutes before her eyes land on something that took a bit more of her attention. Which made an even more thoughtful look come over both of her eyes, as she tried her best to think like the captain of the ship they where searching for.
"Please do tell, what's on your mind Talia" Gilbert said, while looking the beautiful captain over, truly wondering what she was thinking about at this very moment.
Hearing that, Talia immediately snapped straight out of her deep thoughts, and looked back at the two men.
"Ohh sorry about that I was far away there for a minute. But never mind that, if they really did take of in the direction we think they did, then the only place they can be is here. If you try and think about it from their point of view, then this really is the only place where they can set up an ambush for us!" the captain explained, while pointing at a certain spot on the map.
Seeing just where she was pointing and realizing the logic of her words, Gilbert couldn't help but smile a bit at her, as he slowly stood up from the chair, he had been sitting in this entire time he had been up there.
"Good work Talia, now if you will excuse me, I do think I have kept my two guests waiting long enough. But will you please call me up here, once we catch up to Bogey One. I am a bit curious about seeing, this ship and her crew doing battle, against an opponent like that" he explained.
Just before he turned around, and slowly left the bridge.
With Talia calling out after him, that it would most likely take some time before they would be able to locate that ship, but once they did she would make sure to tell him about it immediately.
"Thank you Talia, I'm happy to hear that!" he said, while he opened the door to the bridge and disappeared from the room, with the brown hair woman looking after him.
Once he was out of sight, Talia walked slowly over and sat down in her chair, where she immediately let out a deep sigh. "He is never going to change" she quietly said to herself.
Just before she yelled out for her crew, to get the Minerva under way, and that they had a certain blue space ship to find.
Hearing the captain say that, it did not take much time, before the grey space ship was flying full speed away from the area. "Do you really think, we can find them captain?" Arthur asked, while looking a bit curious over at the captain.
But she on the other hand just looked at him for a few seconds, before she slowly shook her head.
"I don't know Arthur, that ship can after all use Mirage Colloid, and that will make finding them so much harder, there is just no telling where they could be hiding" she explained.
While looking out of the window, with a thoughtful look in both of her eyes, as tried to come up with a strategy to defeat a ship like that.
Seeing the thoughtful expression on her face, Arthur decide that it was properly best to leave the woman alone for now, he really didn't want to disturb her, while she was obviously thinking very hard about something.
So after looking at her a bit longer, he slowly walked over and got down in to his own seat, where he closed his eyes for a few seconds, enjoying the deep silence that was on the bridge right now.
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At the same time Gilbert was slowly making his way down the Minerva's halls heading for the room where the ships two extra passengers was suppose to be.
And it didn't take long for the black hair man to arrive at his destination.
He did however not enter the room, he just kept standing there for a few minor seconds, thinking about what he was going to say to them. He knew that somehow he had to win the respect of the young man in there, if he could do that it might be the most easy way to get him to join Zaft again.
And if that happened, Gilbert knew that he would get a truly great mobile suit pilot under his control, one he was sure could be put to very good use.
But getting the boy to join Zaft again could be a hard task, seeing as he quite obvious had very strong feelings, towards the blond girl that was with him inside the room. But perhaps he could find someway to break them apart, it could be a somewhat interesting small challenge.
That however made him think about if there was anything he could use the blond princess for, she was after all Kira Yamato's sister.
So just maybe she could be used in a somewhat creative way to get rid of the brown hair boy, but even as those thoughts was running through his head, the black haired man knew he was thinking to far ahead.
"Let's just concentrate on getting a new mobile suit pilot for now, then later I can think about what I am going to do with the girl" he whispered quietly to himself, as the slightly sadistic smile on his face slowly disappeared.
Which made him take a single step forward, where he immediately reached out and knocked softly on the door.
It did however surprise him a bit, when there was no kind of response from in there.
So after waiting a bit more he once again knocked on the door this time a slightly bit harder then before, but this time wasn't much different, there was still no sign of life from inside the room.
And he seriously didn't have all day to just stand around here like this, so after a few short minutes had gone by, he made the decision that he might as well just go in there, and see what the two teens was doing.
Once he got in there a small frown ran over his forehead, the sight of the two of them sleeping beside each other, didn't really make him happy. He did after all have some plans for Athrun's unique abilities, and as long as he was dating the Orb princess, they couldn't be used as well as they should.
Yet he could always think about that later.
And with those thought in mind, he slowly stepped over beside the two sleeping teenagers, where he immediately reached down and gave Athrun's shoulder a small push, trying to wake the boy up without making to much noise.
And it really didn't take much time, before a pair of green eyes slowly flew open and looked up at him.
"I'm sorry to wake you Alex, but I thought that the two of you would like to know that the battle is over!" Gilbert explained, while smiling a bit at the boy.
Hearing that and realizing just where the heck he and Cagalli was, it only took him a few short seconds to remove the blond girl from his chest and sit up on the bed, where he immediately reached up and slowly rub both of his eyes, trying to get some of the tiredness out of them.
And after using about a half minute on that he again lifted his head and looked over at the man.
"I guess the two of us fell asleep, I'm very sorry about that Mr Chairman" Athrun said, doing his best to not let out a big tired yawn, he seriously did not want to give the Zaft leader that impression that he was ready to go right back to sleep.
And truth be told he was a bit curious about finding out, just what the man wanted.
Just one look at his face was more then enough for Athrun to realize that the man had something he want to asked them.
Once those few words of a apologize had left the blue hair teenager's mouth Gilbert couldn't help but smile a bit at the boy, before he began talking in a somewhat calm tone.
"It's quite all right Alex, I'm not really that surprised that the two of you are exhausted after everything you have been through. But now that both of you have gotten a bit of rest, I was wondering if the two of you would like a trip around the Minerva, that way you might get a small picture of what the ship can do in battle!" Gilbert said, as he moved over and sat down on the small chair that was in the room.
Looking a bit more of the man, Athrun slowly turned his attention away from the man and down at the still sleeping girl.
"That does sound very interesting, but first I need to wake her up, so if it's all right with you could you please wait a few minutes longer, then I believe we should be ready to go!" Athrun explained.
Before he reached down and gently shook Cagalli, truly hoping that she wouldn't be so hard to wake up as usual.
But it did end up taking almost five minutes before her eyes was slowly open, where she took a small look up at him. "I don't want to get up yet Athrun, I want to sleep just a bit longer" she said while rolling over on the bed, making it so that her back was turned towards him.
Seeing that, Athrun slowly shook his head, this was far from the first time he had seen that sight, she did that almost every single time he had to wake her up.
He did however know a few tricks to wake her up faster, but there was just no way he could use those, as long as the Zaft Chairman was in there.
"Cagalli wake up! Have you forgotten where we are?" Athrun asked, as he took a small glance over at the Chairman that was now smiling a bit at how much trouble the young man was having getting the Chief Representative out of the bed.
She however just mutter something in a loud annoyed tone, that sounded very much like she didn't care and that she wanted to continue sleeping.
Hearing the blond proud girl said something like that, Gilbert let out a small laugh, that immediately made Athrun look over at him.
"Is she always that difficult to get up in the morning?" The black hair man asked.
Not doing a single thing to hide, just how amusing he found this whole scene, he would never had thought that the Orb princess was that determined, to get just a few extra minutes of sleep in the morning.
So after looking a few seconds at the man Athrun couldn't help but let out a small sigh at his girlfriend's sleeping habits, as he once again turned his attention back at her.
"Pretty much, she isn't really a morning person, especially if there is a lot of work that needs to be done!" Athrun explained, as he once again reached down to shake the girl, this time she did open her tired eyes a bit, and turned them up towards him, obviously asking why he was waking her up.
Seeing that Athrun hurried gave her a hard shove, making sure that she wouldn't go back to sleep again.
If that happened he knew that it would be almost impossible, to get her to wake up. "Cagalli I know you are exhaust, but I don't really think this is the right time for you to be sleeping, especially when the Chairman would most likely want to talk with you!" the blue hair man said, making absolutely sure that she didn't get a single moment of peace.
Not that he had to worry about her drifting of again.
Once she heard that the Chairman want to talk with her, it didn't take long for her tired mind, to remind her just where exactly they where.
Which meant that it didn't even take a minute, before she was sitting up on the bed, where her two eyes immediately flew over to the other person in there together with her and Athrun.
But what actually surprised her a bit, was that he seriously didn't look like he had anything against, that she had been sleeping so hard, when he came down here to get them. He just kept on sitting there smiling kindly at her.
"Good morning, I hope you slept well, and that the beds here on the Minerva, was to your liking?" The black hair man asked, while slowly getting up from the chair he had been sitting on, almost ever since he had enter this room.
Looking at him for a few seconds, the blond hair girl slowly stretch both of her arms up over her head, as she nodded a single time to his question.
Even true a part of her did feel slightly embarrassed, when she realize how much complaining she had done, when Athrun had first tried to wake her up.
She truly disliked the idea that somebody she didn't know all that well, had seen her act like that.
But the Chairman actually didn't seem to mind it all that much, he just kept standing there smiling at the two of them.
"So now that you are well rested princess, your friend Alex here showed a bit of interest in getting a tour on the Minerva, do you want to have a look around too?" Gilbert asked, not once taking his eyes away from the blond girl, that just took a small glance over at her boyfriend.
Before she gave him a reply, by nodding a few times.
Seeing that the girl also want a look around the ship Gilbert turned away from them and began flying over to the door.
"Ok then lets get going. I'm sure that the both of you will find the Minerva to be a very impressive ship!" the man said, while taking a short glance back at the two teens to see their facial expression.
The boy did seem like he was looking forward to this, but the girl had a somewhat unreadable look over her face. Which made Gilbert wonder, just what exactly the young woman was thinking so hard about.
He did on the other hand not get any time to try and figure it out, before the three of them exited the room, where he immediately began leading them down the hall explaining a few things about the ship that made it the most powerful Zaft ship ever.
But it was only half of his audience that was really listening, Cagalli was just so far away in her own thoughts that she only caught a few things of what the man said.
Athrun on the other hand was listening to every word the man said, he just couldn't help but be impressed, when the man told him a few of the things the ship could do.
It really did sound like this ship could handle almost any opponent it came across.
That alone made a very interesting question enter Athrun's mind, and now that there was a small break in the man's talking, the blue hair boy immediately used the opportunity to get his question out.
"Just how many mobile suits can this ship have on board?" The boy asked as he took a quick look around the Minerva's halls, trying to take in every single thing.
The ship was after all quite big, and he really didn't want to lose his way on it, while Cagalli and he was forced to stay on board.
But if somebody asked him at this exact moment, he wouldn't hesitate a second in telling them, that he truly want to get of Minerva as quickly as possible.
Looking a bit at the young man, Gilbert smiled a bit at him. "So you want to see the hangar Alex? Hmm I guess that's understandable, the two of you didn't really get all that much time to look around down there, and I myself would actually like to see how our pilots are doing" Gilbert explained, not once moving his attention from the blue hair teenager.
Thinking a bit about what the man had just asked, Athrun took a small glance over at Cagalli.
He truly didn't like it when she was this quiet, he had been certain that there had been more then a few things, she want to say to the Chairman.
But up until now, she seemed to be quite far away in her own world.
Which did make Athrun wonder what she could be thinking about. But seeing as she didn't care where the three of them went on the ship, they might as well get a good look at the hangar.
So after looking at her for a few seconds more, he again turn his gaze over at the Chairman, where he nodded slowly a single time.
"The two of us would like very much to see the hangar Mr Chairman!" Athrun said, as he quickly reached over and grabbed on to Cagalli's left hand, just to make sure that she wasn't left behind, when they finally continued on to their next destination.
"Ok if that's the case, then please follow me, we are not really that far away from the hangar, so it shouldn't take us long to get down there" Gilbert explained, just as he turned away from the two teenagers, and continued down the hall.
Now with a small smile on his face, it really pleased him to know that the boy want to see more of the Minerva.
It may only be a small step, but by showing of something like that he was sure that he could win at least a bit of the boy's trusted.
It wasn't long after that before they arrived at the hangar.
Where the first things Athrun's and Cagalli's eyes land on was the four mobile suits at the end of the hangar, it was quite obvious that they where slowly being made ready for combat.
Seeing as there was a great deal of mechanics over by the machines, each of them working hard on them.
And just the knowledge that something was going to happen soon was enough to make a deep angry frown ran over Athrun's face, as he looked away from the four mobile suits and back at the Chairman.
"So this ship is going in to battle again huh?" The boy asked, while giving the black hair man that standing just behind Cagalli and him, a slightly angry glare.
Just to let him know, that he was far from happy about where all of this was going.
Hearing the boy ask that, Gilbert got a somewhat depressed expression on his face. "We don't really have much of a choice, we have to get those three mobile suits back, before the people that has them now, can learn to use them to their full capability" the man said.
Before he slowly turning his attention away from the two teens, and down at the four mobile suits, now with a far away expression on his face.
But he didn't get much time in his own thoughts, before somebody began talking to him in a somewhat angry tone, that immediately made him look over at the blond girl that had been pretty quiet up until now.
"Why did you build them, did Zaft really have a need for something like that?" She asked, while glaring a bit coldly at the black hair man.
Seeing the dark look she was sending him, the Chairman turned and looked up at the ceiling obviously thinking quite hard about what she had just asked him.
But as he again moved his eyes back to the girl, and was about to give her an reply, somebody else cut in.
"HA! You Athha's are all the same, so damn stupid, that you don't understand anything that goes on in the world, the reason those gundams was build, was so they could be used to protect the Plants!" Shinn said, from where he had been listening to their conversation.
Hearing those words being yelled, Cagalli immediately turned her angry eyes away from Durandal, and over at the person with dark hair and cold red eyes.
That was sending her a glare, that she had no doubt would kill her if eyes could actually do such a thing. But after feeling a light shiver ran down her spine, she gave the boy the same kind of look back, before she began talking to him in a very angry tone.
"Yeah, and all of us here saw just how well they did that, do you guys even have the slightest idea about how many people where killed, because of those things?!"
She said back making sure not to break eye contact with the boy, which was much harder then she had first thought, seeing as this guy was apparently an expert in giving people a deadly look.
Not happy that she was talking back to him, Shinn looked even more hatefully at the girl, a part of him truly yelling loudly to run over there and show her a thing or two about how weak and pitiful she and the rest of the Athha's was.
But seeing as she was a guest on board the ship, he couldn't do something like that, he could on the other hand talk back to her.
"And why do you care, it's not like they had anything to do with you, the only things you Athha's really cares about is yourself. All of you showed that in the last war, by trying to stay neutral. If only Orb had joined up with the Alliance, my whole family would still be alive, they where killed by your father girl!" Shinn said, enjoying the somewhat shocked look on the blond girls face.
Hearing the dark hair boy blaming her father for killing his family, Cagalli didn't know what to say back she just stood there a few seconds with wide eyes.
Trying her best to get out some kind of reply to what the boy had just said.
But just as she open her mouth, a familiar person moved over and place a hand on Shinn's shoulder, which immediately made him turn around to see who was interrupting him.
Nicol however didn't say a thing, when Shinn's two cold eyes was turned towards him.
"Shinn, I have no trouble understanding why you are so angry and depressed over losing your family. But I don't believe you should blame miss Cagalli or her father, it's not like any of them pulled the trigger, it was the Alliance who killed them and that's it!" Nicol said, truly a bit angry at the boy for saying something like that to the blond girl.
Looking a bit at his green hair friend Shinn tried hard to come up with something to say back.
But after a few minutes he turned away and began making his way over to the red ZAKU, determined to help Luna look the mobile suit over.
Once the angry boy was out of sight, Nicol turned and looked back at Cagalli where he gave her a small smile.
"I'm sorry about that miss Cagalli, he isn't really that good at controlling his temper" the green hair boy explained.
While taking a small glance back at Shinn, where he could see that the boy was busy talking with Luna about something, most likely complaining about Cagalli and his interference, not that Nicol cared much about that.
Yet as he stood there looking after Shinn.
Cagalli took the opportunity to slowly look him over, he had really change a lot, since the last time she and Athrun had seen him. He was slightly more muscular now, and his green hair had grown quite long, and was now reaching far down his back.
But even with all the many changes, there was one small thing she noticed, that still looked the same, his brown eyes still had that caring look in them.
So after watching him a bit longer, Cagalli slowly moved in and placed both of her arms around the boy, pulling him in a gentle hug.
"It's good to see you again Nicol, all of us have really missed you!" the girl told him in a truly happy tone, as she gave his right cheek a gentle kiss, before she slowly backed away, giving Athrun the opportunity to step in and give his long time friend a hug too.
"Cagalli's right Nicol, it really has been a long time since we heard anything from you, how have you been doing the last two years?" Athrun laughed loudly, while he gave his old team mate a friendly slap on his back.
Before he moved away and looked at his friend, with a big grin on his face, truly happy to see the other boy once more, a small part of him had actually thought that they would never see Nicol again, after the last war had been brought to a hold.
Looking a few times between them, Nicol couldn't avoid seeing the happy expression both of them now had on their faces.
And just the sight of them smiling at him like that, was more then enough to make a small grin ran over his face.
"It is nice to see you guys too, I really have missed you, the last two years" Nicol said, while taking a quick glance back at his mobile suit, to see if the mechanics still back there, need his help with something.
Yet everything did seem all right at the moment, happy to know that he still had some time to talk with his two old friends.
He once again turned his attention back towards them. "So how have the two of you been doing? Are you still going out?" He asked sounding somewhat curious.
Yet as he saw the two of them take a brief glance over at each other and the slightly red glow Cagalli had on her face he knew the answer to his question.
Which made him grin a bit at each of them. "I'm truly glad to know that, the two of you really does deserve to be happy, by the way how are the married couple and Dearka and Miriallia doing? It's been a very long time since I last saw them" Nicol said while taking yet another small glance back at his yellow GOUF.
Not that there was anything back there for him to worry about, it was obvious that his machine was ready to head out at any time now.
Studying him for a minute or two, Athrun smiled a bit as he thought about what Nicol had just asked. But before he could even open his mouth, Cagalli began telling him what she honesty thought about the two couples.
"Kira and Lacus are more happy together then they have ever been before, it can be a bit annoying at times, it's almost like you need a crowbar to get them apart!" Cagalli said in a loud tone, which could be heard all over the hangar.
Hearing his girlfriend say something like that, Athrun couldn't help but roll his eyes a single time.
"Don't believe her Nicol, she is exaggerating the truth is that Kira and Lacus a very happy together, the same with Miriallia and Dearka!" the blue hair teen explained, with a small grin on his face.
"I'm not exaggerating Athrun they really are impossible to get apart some times!" Cagalli said loudly, obviously feeling a bit insulted about what her boyfriend had just said.
Yet the slightly angry glare she was now sending him, only served to make Athrun roll his eyes one more time.
But unfortunately Cagalli saw him do it this time, which of course made the deep frown on her forehead get a little bigger, as she quickly folded her arms and turned her back towards him.
Where she immediately let out a somewhat unhappy sound, while muttering something about Athrun sleeping out in the garden, once they got back to Orb.
Which made Nicol laugh slightly. "The two of you really haven't chance much!" he said, while using left hand to try and cover up his laughter, but he didn't really have much luck with that.
Seeing as both Athrun and Cagalli was now looking over at him, both of them clearly trying to figure out why this was so funny.
And just the sight of their confused expressions, was more then enough to make the green hair boy laugh even louder then before.
"Not to interrupted you Nicol, but why is this so funny?" Athrun asked sounding a bit puzzle, truth be told he honestly didn't understand, why listening to Cagalli and him quarrel with each other about Kira and Lacus relationship was that funny.
But even after Athrun had asked him that, the former Blitz pilot didn't stop laughing. It took him a few short minutes, before he finally need to get some air down in his lungs.
So after taking a few deep breaths, he once again turn his brown eyes over towards the two people, that was standing in front of him.
"The reason why I'm laughing, is because the two of you are just as I remember you from back on the Archangel!" Nicol explained in a happy tone, while giving both of them a caring smile, that made the two of them take a small look over at each other.
Both of them wondering if Nicol was right about what he had just told them.
But before either of them could get much time to think it through the Chairman stepped over beside them, with a serious look on his face, while the three of them had been talking loudly with each other.
He had been having a very interesting conversation with Rey, that was at this very moment was making his way back to his white mobile suit, that was standing at the end of the hangar.
"I'm truly sorry to interrupted your little reunion, but I just got informed by the bridge crew, that we are hastily approaching our destination, and that they would like for us to join them up on the bridge" the man explained.
While taking a few short looks between them, waiting patiently to hear what they had to say about what he had just told them.
And he did not have to wait all that long, before Nicol began talking in a slightly determined tone.
"Then that means I have to go now, I really do hope that we will get a little more time to talk later!" the boy said, smiling a bit at them.
Before he hurried turned around, and began heading back to his yellow machine, that was just waiting for him to get inside, once there it did not take long before the cockpit flew shut after him.
Once he was out of sight Gilbert looked back at the two other teens.
"Well then, would you please follow me to the bridge?" He asked, as he turned around and flew slowly away from them, not really giving the teens enough time to think up a reply to what he had just asked them.
So in the end both Cagalli and Athrun could only take a small glance over at each other, before they hurried took of after the man, it wasn't like he had giving them many other opportunities then to follow him.
And it only took a couple of minutes before they reached the Minerva's bridge.
They hadn't even gotten over to their sits, when one of the crew members began talking in a loud tone.
"We spotted Bogey One just ahead of us captain, it doesn't seem like they have noticed us yet!" the man to right of Talia said, not once taking his eyes away from the controls in front of him.
Hearing that Talia immediately yelled out for the ship to maintain present course, and to make sure that all of the mobile suits was made ready to launch at any minute now.
Once that was done she took a look out at the ship ahead of them. But even as they kept getting close and close to the blue space ship, it just kept flying like it didn't care one bit about their present in the area.
Which made a confused look ran over Talia's face, why didn't they do something, where they really planing to just let them fly up beside them.
If they did something like that, Talia was certain that they would have no trouble at all over powering the blue ship.
But there was just no way it could be that easy, what the hell where they up to, yet even as the brown hair captain was doing her best to try and figure out what Bogey One was doing.
Gilbert suddenly began speaking to their the two guests, in a slightly curious tone.
"I most confess, I do find Bogey One to be a very interesting ship, but I do actually wonder what exactly the ship's name really are. It has to have a real name not just something Talia over there made up. So please do tell me Alex what would you call a ship like that, or would you rather that I call you Athrun now?" The man asked, smiling a bit at the shocked look on both of the teens faces.
It did however not take long before Cagalli got over her shock where she immediately began talking loudly, hoping that she could somehow convince the Chairman that Athrun wasn't who he thought he was.
"But Mr Chairman he....is....not!" that was however all she got out.
Before the black hair man slowly shook his head, while he began speaking to her in a reassuring tone, that made both Athrun and Cagalli visibly relax.
"You don't have to worry miss Cagalli, I just want to make sure that when I'm having a conversation with him, that I'm not speaking to some kind of fake person, I would much rather talk with the real him. I'm sure both of you can understand that" Gilbert said, as he turned his attention away from them and back out at the blue space ship.
That still pretty much acting like it was no big deal, that they where getting so close to it.
And seeing that there was still no movement from the enemy ship, Arthur broke the deep silence, and asked what in the world they where doing, but before anybody could come up with an answer to his question.
Meyrin yelled out something, that was more then enough to make all of them look over at her. "Captain! we got five mobile suits and a single mobile armor coming in fast from behind!" the red hair girl yelled.
And even before she had finished the sentence, a few smaller explosion shook the entire ship, clearly indicating to the crew that they where already under attack.
"Hurry and get all the mobile suits out there, and aim the Tannhauser at Bogey One, we are taking that thing down, before it can make any more problems for us!" the woman loudly, as the crew immediately began carrying out her orders, getting the ship ready to fired the main cannon.
But just as the ship was at the right angle and was about to fire, Bogey One disappeared again.
Seeing that Talia couldn't help but let out a light curse. "That damn Mirage Colloid is getting on my nerves!" she said, not really noticing that a few of the people up there was actually nodding a few times in agreement.
They did however not have any more time to debate the blue space ship, when all of a sudden another attack made the Minerva shake violently.
Which it actually did for several minutes, but once it finally stopped Talia quickly turned her attention over on Meyrin and was just about to ask the red hair teenager, why their own mobile suits wasn't out there yet, but just as those words was about to leave her mouth.
Nicol called out that he was heading out, and once the yellow GOUF was gone, it didn't even take a minute before Luna and Rey was out there too.
After that the Core Splendor left the ship, which meant that it did not take long before the Impulse was assemble, and fully equipped with the Blast Silhouette.
And with that, it was only a matter of a few seconds, before a heated battle was going on right outside the Minerva.
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At the same time inside the Impulse, Shinn hurried evade in and out between all of the beams the Chaos' and the mobile armors gunbarrels was firing at him.
But even as he was doing that, he took a quick glance over at the Minerva, where he saw the ship take yet another hit from the Abyss, seeing that the boy couldn't help but narrow his eyes a bit.
"Somebody take out the Abyss, all it's doing is attacking the Minerva!" He yelled out in a angry tone, as he ducked under another rain of beams from the gundam and mobile armor, which made him end up behind the two machines.
Seeing that he didn't waste any time, in shooting of the two long-range beam cannons after the green gundam, that to avoid the attack, by transforming over in to it's mobile armor mode, where it quickly rolled to the side and away from the two shoots.
Notice that happening, Shinn hurried took aim after the machine one more time, and again fired of the two beam cannons, not having any more luck hitting the green gundamt this time.
Yet as he was about to attack it one more time, he was forced to evade over two of the gunbarrels, from that irritating purple mobile armor, he had first meet back at Armory One.
But once he was safely away from the attacks he quickly turned, and tried to take the damn thing out, before it could get too far away from him.
Unfortunately he did not have enough time to fire even one of the Impulse's many weapons, before he saw the Chaos coming right at him, now with one of it's beam sabers out and ready to strike.
And once he realized, that the green gundam was trying to get him in to close combat.
The boy got a determined look on his face, while he hurried pulled out the beam javelin, and took of to meet the Chaos mid way, making sure that he was the one to assault the other mobile suit first, by slamming the close range weapon out after the Chaos.
But just before he could hit the enemy, it got it's own beam weapon up to counterattack, which of course meant that now the two gundams was in a lock both of them struggling hard to over power each other.
It was only when the Chaos tried to hit him with one of the beam blades, it had on it's feet that he backed away from it.
The two of them however didn't stay separated for long, before they once more slammed their beam weapons together.
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And while Shinn was having the time of his life fighting with the Chaos gundam.
Luna had just taken out one of the Daggers, when she heard the Impulse pilot call out for someone to take care of the Abyss.
Which made her turn and look over at the blue gundam, just as she saw it evade in between an attack from the Minerva, only to shoot off properly all the weapons it had.
Seeing that the girl got an angry look on her face, as she hurried aimed her giant beam cannon after the blue mobile suit, determined to at least try and make a nice little hole through the Abyss' cockpit.
But it quickly became clear to the red hair girl, that hitting the mobile suit from this distance, was much harder then she had first thought, the Abyss didn't stay still even for a minute.
"Damn, why can't you just stop moving around so much?!" She asked loudly, while slowly moving the cannon up to just the right angle, so she was aiming directly at the back of the Abyss.
But before the red hair girl could press down on the trigger, an alarm began sounding loudly inside her mobile suit.
Which of course immediately made her turn around, where she saw the Gaia coming right at her with one of it's beam sabers out, obviously planing to use the damn thing to do a few nasty looking thing to her mobile suit.
But there was just no way that bastard, inside the gundam was going to get away with something like that so easily.
So after getting over the first strike, she quickly flew full speed away from the machine, where she turned and shoot of the beam cannon down at the Gaia, that flew straight over the shoot, while still heading right for her.
But that just made Luna fire of the cannon one more time, which made the Gaia evade quickly side, so the big red beam flew right past the black gundam and hit something else instead.
Not that Luna saw what it was, she was already far to busy trying to keep at least a little distance between herself and the Gaia gundam, that was trying pretty much everything possible to get close enough to tear her ZAKU apart.
Which was definitely not something Luna would allow the bastard to do, the red hair girl was completely determined to show this damn thief that she was not going down, as easy as all the other people this bastard had been fighting before.
It did however quickly became obvious, that keeping the Gaia away was much harder then she had first expect.
And even true she had only been fighting with the gundam for a few minutes, she could already feel a few drops of sweat running slowly down her forehead.
But that just served to make the female ZAKU pilot all the more angry and keen on beating the crap out of the Gaia, that was fighting her in the same violent manner, she was fighting it.
Yet it quickly became clear for all that was watching them, that just one single mistake from either of the pilots.
Then one of them would most definitely be dead, neither one of the pilots giving each other any time to breath, or think about what they where doing next, everything was based completely on impulse.
Both pilots pulling of whatever move that just happened to enter their head, at the heat of the moment.
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Elsewhere not that far away from her Nicol had just finished cutting down the last of the Daggers, and was now taking a quick looking around for something else to fight, when he saw Shinn fighting ferociously with the Chaos.
And just one small look at the two giant combatants, was more then enough to tell the green hair GOUF piloted, that Shinn did not require his help.
So after making certain that the Impulse was doing all right against the Chaos, he continued looking around after another target.
And it only took a few short seconds, before both of his eyes land on the purple mobile armor that was obviously trying to get under the Minerva, so it could attack the ship from below.
And seeing that everybody else was busy fighting with the three gundams.
Nicol quickly got the GOUF moving and charge full speed after the purple machine, before it could do any serious damage to the grey space ship.
And once he was close enough to his target he immediately began shooting of the beam gun at the armor.
That just rolled to the side, where the four barrels flew away from the machine and flew of directly towards him, where they of course began shooting at him like there was no tomorrow.
But the attack wasn't really all that unexpected, so Nicol hurried dropped down under the first attack from the barrels and once he was behind them he hurried throw the whip up around the nears one, where a giant electrical shock flew from the weapon and in to the barrel making it blow up.
After that, he quickly evade to the side, seeing as the mobile armor was once again heading right for him.
This time a bit more cautious in it's attacks, which forced Nicol to concentrate a bit more on his defenses then his attacks.
But that did far from mean, he was giving his opponent an easy time, he made sure to attack the enemy machine every single time he saw an opening, not that there was many of them, whoever the guy inside the mobile armor was.
Nicol had very little doubt, that this person was a brilliant pilot, and he could now better understand why Shinn had been complaining so much about this guy.
He was piloting that thing, like he had almost been raised to pilot that machine.
Unfortunately he did not get much time to think about that, as he was once again forced to get out the three hasty approaching barrels way, nearly avoiding being shear to piece by their beam cutters.
He did however not get any time to breath after that attack, because by now the armor itself was heading right for him shooting of both of the cannons that was on the front of the machine, this time hitting his GOUF's right leg, doing some very serious damage to it.
That however, did not stop Nicol from pulling out the beam sword, and head straight of after the mobile armor, where he tried his best to cut it in two.
But before he could get any closer to the purple machine, the last three Gunbarrels dropped down in front of him where they immediately began shooting at him with every weapon they had.
And it didn't take long, before the boy had all of his attention turned towards avoiding every single attack from them.
Which proved more and more to be a real challenge, this guy just didn't back down at all, he kept on attack no matter what.
"Damn it!" the boy finally yelled out loudly, as he again evade in between a few shoots from the armor and barrels, while using the beam gun to drive the machine a bit away from him, where he immediately throw the whip out towards the mobile armor.
This time it actually seemed like the weapon was going to hit, but just as the whip was about to wrap itself around the purple war machine.
One of the barrels flew straight in to the whip where it immediately blow up, seeing that happening Nicol took a short glance out after the mobile armor that was now heading full speed away from him.
And even true he was feeling a bit relieved, that he now had one less Gunbarrel to worry about, he was also a bit frustrated by the way the whip had just been destroyed.
And he truly wonder just what in the world this guy was thinking.
Yet even as those thoughts was running through his head, the green hair boy narrowed his eyes a bit and took of directly towards the mobile armor, that was at this very moment coming straight at him.
And it didn't even take a minute before the two machines was fighting each other with everything they got.
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At the same time in the Abyss, Auel had been having a blast making a great deal of damage on the space ship.
And he was even at this very moment, hastily approaching the Minerva from above, with a small confident smirk on his face. This time he was surely going to make space dust out of a few of the ships weapons, that way he and his pals would have a much easy time destroying the ship.
But just as he took aim with all of his mobile suits weapons, and was about to do give the ship a truly serious ass kicking.
He was interrupted when two green beams came flying at him, he hurried evade both of them, then turned and saw a white ZAKU heading straight at him, he didn't even have time to blink, before it pulled out a beam tomahawk and throw it directly at him.
The weapon however didn't even get near him, as he hurried knocked it away with the lance, and was just about to take of after the little pest, when it suddenly fired of a great deal of missiles at him.
Seeing that, he hurried began shooting widely taking all of them down before any of them could hit him, which of course made a few minor explosion spread out all the way around him.
That however did not stop him from trying to find the Zaft mobile suit, he quickly looked around all over the place, trying his best to capture just a small glint of the already doomed bastard.
Yet he didn't really have to search all that long, before something gave the Abyss a very hard kick from behind, sending his blue machine spinning around a few times.
And just as he got it to a hold and looked up at the ZAKU, two shoots left it's beam rifle, and slammed directly in to the Abyss' chest a few minor seconds later.
"Damn you, just for that I'm going to send you on a one way trip to hell!" he yelled loudly with a wicked look all over his face, while shooting of ever single weapon the Abyss in the direction of the white mobile suit, not even bothering to take the necessary time to aim properly.
Which of course meant, that the ZAKU didn't have many problems, evading the attacks.
Not that Auel cared much about that he was already heading full speed towards the enemy machine, with the lance out, ready to make mince meat out of the white ZAKU, he might still be angry as hell right now.
But even with that, he could still clearly remember that at the begin of this battle. That the moron he was fighting, had thrown away the one close combat weapon he had.
And that could only mean that he had nothing to fight back with, if Auel could get him in to a fight like that.
It did however quickly became obvious to him that getting in such close range of the ZAKU was a much more difficult task then he had first expect.
No matter what he did the guy would somehow find away to keep the long distance between them, shooting of the damn beam rifle the entire time not even hitting him once.
But for some reason it still annoyed him greatly, it was like this guy did everything possible to provoke him, which of course made Auel all the more determined to kill the bastard.
And it didn't take long before he gave up on the idea of fighting this guy in close combat and began shooting after him with whatever weapon that was ready to be used.
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Meanwhile back inside the Minerva, to be more exact on the ships bridge the entire crew watched as Bogey One became visible in between few destroyed space ship.
Seeing that Talia immediately yelled out for them to get moving again, and get all of the ships weapons ready to attack the ship, before it could disappear one more time.
But unfortunately they hadn't really been flying for long, before Bogey One again activated it's Mirage Colloid.
"Ahhh damn, hold here and get ready to counterattack, they can begin shooting at us at any minute now!" the captain said, truly worried that Bogey One would start attacking her ship while still being invisible.
Yet even as she tried her best to find some kind of trace, that could tell her, just where exactly the enemy space ship was hiding itself.
There was nothing to see out there, which made a deep frown ran slowly over her forehead, where the heck could they be.
She seriously did not like this kind of hide and seek. "Can any of you see them out there somewhere?" She asked, as she again let her eyes ran over everything out there, and it was then she saw it one more time, now even further away from them.
Seeing that she immediately got a determined look all over her face. "Ok full speed ahead, we are taking them out right now!" She order, as the crew began working on what she had just told them to do.
But there was however one that was a bit thoughtful over all of this, the way the blue space ship was moving just seemed so strange for some reason.
It was like they where being lure into something, and it was just about the same time, that both of Athrun's eyes land on the few old ships out there. If they continued heading in this direction, the Minerva would surely end up in between them.
And immediately after that thought enter his mind, he realized what was going on.
Which made him jump up from his sit as quickly as possible. "NO STOP!......STOP! If we go over there we will all be dead!" he yelled loudly, as the entire crew looked back at him.
"What do you mean?" Arthur asked, just as confused as the rest of the crew, he really didn't understand why they would die if they kept heading for the Bogey One, there was nothing out other then the enemy ship that was a threat.
And there was no way, that ship could take down the Minerva that easy, the boy made it sound like that ship alone, was the most dangerous thing ever.
Talia however could easily tell by a single look at the boy that he was very serious about this. And when she took a short glance over at Gilbert, she saw him give her a small nod.
That made it clear to her, that he too would like very much to hear what the former Zaft soldier had to say. So while still keeping both of her eyes turned towards the teen, she order the Minerva to be stop it's approach.
"Ok please hurry up and tell us what's going on!" The brown hair captain said in a very loud tone, while taking another brief glance out at the Bogey One that was still visible, apparently not having anything better to do, then hang around out there not doing a thing.
Which finally made Talia realize that something strange was going on.
It was obvious that the ship wasn't waiting for it's machines to come back, seeing as they where all far too busy, fighting against the Minerva's mobile suits.
Which made the whole thing even more weird. "There is some kind of trap out there somewhere!" she said, getting everybody's attention over on her.
Where a single look at their face made it pretty obvious, that all of them would like for her to tell them, just what she was talking about. It was then that Athrun began talking in a somewhat far away tone.
As he walked over to the screen. "Try and take a look here at those three wreck up ships, it almost looks like they have been put there on purpose!" Athrun explained, as he slowly pointed at all three ships, that was place in such a way that if they had continued heading towards Bogey One, they would have end up right in between the three of them.
"Meyrin how much time did we use to catch up to Bogey One?" Talia asked, not once taking her eyes away from the wreck ships out there, while waiting impatient for the red hair girl to give her an answer to her question.
Luckily it did not take all that long, before Meyrin was done figuring out the answer to what the woman had asked her. "It took a bit over two hours for us to locate them here captain!" The red haired teen said.
While looking away from her controls and over at brown hair woman, wondering why exactly it had been so important for the captain to know how much time they had spend on looking for the enemy ship.
And seeing the thoughtful expression the captain now had on her face, only served to make Meyrin and the rest of the crew even more curious about knowing what was going on.
But before anybody could say anything to the captain she began talking in a angry tone. "That's more then enough time, to place some nasty surprises on the three ships out there!" the woman said, while taking a glance around at every ship out there.
Before a small smile ran over her lips. "Ok aim the Tristan at the ship furthest away from us, let's see just what kind of thing they left in there!" She said, just as both of the cannons was fired directly at the wreck space ship.
Where both beams flew straight through the hall of the ship, creating an enormous explosion, much more intense and destructive then a single attack from the Tristans could possibly do.
And just the sight of how powerful the explosion was made a shock look ran over all of their face, as each of them thought about what would have happened if the Minerva had been in between all three ships, they might have been lucky enough to survive the three explosions.
But there was no doubt, that if they had been caught in a trap like that, they would surely have lost a great deal of their weapons and defenses.
It did however not take long, before Talia got her thoughts back to the blue space ship, that had used itself to lure them towards their own death. Just the whole idea that they where willing to do something that crazy, was more then enough to make the woman very angry.
"Hurry up and take down the last two ships. Once they are out of our way, then get the Tannhauser ready, we are not going to allow that ship the chance to come up with any new tricks!" She said, keeping all of her attention turned towards the Bogey One.
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At exactly the same time outside, Neo narrowed his eyes a bit, as he watched the Minerva get rid of their three traps, he and the others had used their precious time to set up, now it had pretty much been a waste.
"Damn it, how the hell did they figure that out?" He quietly asked himself, while carefully evading another attack from the yellow mobile suit, he had been fighting all of this time.
And once there was a little distance between himself and the Zaft machine, he took a small look over to see how the three teenagers, was handling them self against the Minerva's forces, all of them seemed to be all right, at least for the moment.
But he knew that couldn't last, if they continued this battle much longer. It would only be a matter of time before their newly acquirer mobile suits, would began to run low on power.
Which meant that it was properly a very good idea to caught their time here short.
He did not want to risk losing one of the machines, in a battle this like this, so after dodging another attack from his opponent.
He hurried took of full speed away from the Zaft mobile suit, leaving the two Gunbarrels behind so he could use them to keep his new friend busy, while he and the others retreated from this area.
It only took him about a minute before he got over to where he could see Stella fighting with a red ZAKU, that seemed to be quite a hard task for the blond girl to take down. And if there wasn't the danger of the Gaia running out of power.
He would have found the sight, of Stella doing battle with this person very entertain.
So after watching them fight for a few seconds, he fired a single shoot after the red mobile suit, getting it to back away from the Gaia. And once he was sure that the mobile suit, was keeping it's distance, he began talking loudly out over the radio.
"Ok guys, we are getting out of here, we are not going to win this battle, now that the Minerva has avoid falling in to our little trap!" The mask man explained, while again shooting a few times after the ZAKU, that was testing it's luck by trying to get in range of the Gaia.
But when Stella joined his little game, of trying to put a few holes through the ZAKU, it immediately backed away from them again.
Seeing that her enemy was out of sight, Stella turned and looked over at the Exus.
"But Neo, I'm not done fighting with the bastard in the red mobile suit!" the blond haired girl whimpered loudly, while firing a few more shoots after the machine she had been fighting with almost since the start of the battle.
But none of the beams got anywhere near the ZAKU, that took cover behind a few piece of debris, where it fired of that big cannon back at them.
Yet neither Noe or Stella had much trouble avoiding the red coloured machines attacks.
But before any of them could began shooting back, Auel began yelling loudly over in the Abyss, clearly very unhappy about what Neo had just told them to do.
"I totally agree with Stella on this one Neo, I want to stay here and slaughter the bastard inside the white mobile suit. You have no idea about how irritating this damn fool is!" the boy said, while shooting a few beams in the direction of the ZAKU.
Which somewhat smoothly got under all of them, while it fired it's rifle back at him.
Hearing the two youngish of the teenagers complaining like that, Neo slowly rolled his eyes a single time under the mask, why the heck did both of them have to be so damn stubborn at a time like this.
"We are falling back end of discussion, if you guys continue fighting out here much longer the gundams will surely run out of power, and if that happens then you three wouldn't stand a chance against all the other mobile suits here!" The mask man said, as he evade another attack from the yellow machine, that a small part of him was begin to find very annoying.
But thankfully, he still had the two Gunbarrels, to distract the enemy pilot.
And while he was busy doing that, they all suddenly heard Sting's voice over from the Chaos.
"I think Neo's right you two, it's not like our machines have an endless supply of power. And I for one don't want to be take down here, before I have another chance to beat this guy!" The green hair boy yelled loudly, while he yet again slammed his beam saber out after the Impulse, that quickly backed away from him and fired of it's two beam cannons.
But Sting just flew down under them, as he flew full speed over to where he could see Neo and Stella fighting against two of the other Zaft mobile suits there, and it didn't take long before he was giving them a hand.
"Damn, I really hate running away!" He complained loudly, as he fire all the weapons on the Chaos after the yellow mobile suit, that hurried throw itself to the side to evade his attack.
Which made a small frown ran over his face, it was just about that time that the rest of the power left the Chaos, and it returned back to it's usual grey colour.
"Ahhh damn it to hell!" The teen mutter in a truly angry voice, as he made sure to stay close to Neo's mobile armor and the Gaia that apparently still had a little of it's power left.
While looking around to see if there was any of the enemy mobile suits that was trying to attack him, but they kept their distance thanks to Stella and Neo.
Seeing that Sting too was ready to get the hell out of there, Neo slowly turned his eyes over on the Abyss. "Ok Auel you can stay here, if that's what you really want, but the rest of us is leaving this place!" The mask man said, as he and the two other pilots turned around and flew of full speed towards the Girty Lue, abandoning the Abyss by itself.
Just the sight of his three comrades leaving like that, was more then enough to make Auel growl loudly inside his mobile suits cockpit.
"Damn it! I really hate that grey rust bucket of a ship!" He said, while taking one last glance over on the Minerva, before he turned and followed his three friends over to their own ship.
The four of them hadn't been flying for long, before they noticed that the Minerva and it's mobile suits was trying to catch up to them.
That however didn't worry Neo at all, he just smiled a bit as he got in contact with the Girty Lue.
"Ian hurry up and detonate the rest of our presents out there, that should be more then enough to stop them, we can't have them following us now!" The mask man order, with a small smile on his face.
And it didn't even take a minute before all the other things the had planted blow up, making sure that their pursuers couldn't get anywhere near them, for the next few minutes, which was more then enough time for the three gundams and the Exus to get on board the Girty Lue.
Once they where inside the ship, the Mirage Colloid was immediately activated, as the ship made a hasty retreat from the area.
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At the same time back on the Minerva.
Talia slowly opened her eyes again, the light from the last explosion had been so powerful, that it was almost blinding and she could see the rest of them up there opening their eyes too.
"Damn them, Meyrin where is Bogey One?!" The captain asked loudly, truly hoping that the insane crew of that blue ship, wasn't about to try something else after that crazy stunt they had just pulled.
But much to her frustration there was no sign of the ship. Which was enough for her to mutter out a few not so nice things about the enemy ship, as she thought about all the completely insane things that ship had done.
Since she and the rest of the Minerva's crew had first ran in to it, but as woman sat there with a deep frown on her face, and her mind busy thinking about Bogey One.
Gilbert suddenly began talking beside her. "Hm it looks like that ship slipped away from us one more time, so what are we going to do now Talia?" The man asked.
While looking straight in to her beautiful eyes, truly curious about hearing what the captain of the Minerva was planing to do now, he would also like very much to get those three gundams back.
But he did not want to lose the Minerva and the Impulse in process. If there was no chance for them to recapture the three stolen machines, with the limited number of mobile suits aboard the Minerva.
He would prefer that they thought hard about their next move, before they rush after that ship one more time.
But maybe if the ship got a few more really good pilots, they just might have better luck at some point in the future, and he already had a pretty good idea for another pilot that would fit in quite well on this ship.
There was just one tiny problem he need to do something about.
And even as those thoughts was running through his head, he turned and took a glance back at the blond hair girl and Athrun that was sitting just a little behind him, each of them seemed to be far away in their own thoughts at the moment.
He did however not look at them for long. before Talia began talking to him.
"I think the best we can do now is to get our pilots back on board, after everything that has happened today all of them got to be completely exhaust, and I'm pretty certain that the rest of the crew are just as tired. It really has been a long day for all of us, and if we don't get some rest now that we have the chance, we might end up getting seriously hurt, the next time we run in to that ship" Talia explained, using her right hand to rub her eyes a few times.
Thinking a few minutes about that, Gilbert nodded a few times in understanding.
"Hmm I guess you are right Talia, but you too should really get some sleep. I may find your tired expression adorable, but I don't really think it would be wise if you fall asleep in that chair. And it's obvious, that you are just as exhaust as the rest of us" the man said in a serious tone.
He really didn't want to see, the woman collapse because of exhaustion.
Looking a few seconds at him, Talia finally gave him a small nod.
It was just about the same time, that Athrun and Cagalli stood up, where the boy immediately began talking in a obviously tired tone.
"Well if it's all right with you, I think Cagalli and I will be going back to our room, the two of us are totally worn out!" he explained, while looking first a few seconds at Talia, before he turned his eyes over on the Chairman that was giving them a caring smile.
"Can you find your way back there on your own?" He asked in a friendly tone.
While looking directly at the two teenagers, that both nodded a few times, before they turned away and left the bridge without saying anything else, other then a small goodnight, that only about half of them heard.
Once they where gone, Talia turned her attention back towards Gilbert.
"That boy, really did help us out a lot in this battle!" She said, while thinking about how he had saved the ship from flying straight in to the trap Bogey One had made for them, if they really had gone in there, they would have ended up with more then just a few very exhaust pilots.
Hearing her said that, Gilbert nodded slowly in agreement and with a strange smile on his face.
"Yeah he did, he was after all a part of the Le Creuset team once!" The man said, now again thinking about how he could get Athrun to join Zaft again.
There really was many of the boys abilities he could use, but before he could give it any more through, the beautiful woman up there turned and asked him if he want to go get some dinner, which he of course said yes too.
And it wasn't really long after that, before the door flew shut behind the two of them, as they also left the Minerva's bridge.
To be continued.