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Chapter 5
The last ZAKU had just left the Minerva, and now all five mobile suits was heading towards Junius Seven.
"Ok you guys lets split up and take down those attacking GINNs as quickly as possible, the work crew really don't have the time to fight those guys right now!" Rey yelled loudly, as he quick evade a few beams from the first GINN only to have Shinn shoot it down a second later.
After that he hurried pulled out a beam saber and took of directly towards the next GINN where he hurried tried to cut it in two.
But the purple mobile suit just flew straight over the weapon and away from him, and once it had gotten a little distance between itself and the gundam it immediately began firing it's beam rifle down at the Impulse.
Seeing the beams coming right at him, Shinn quickly throw his mobile suit backwards, as he tried to aim his own rifle at the GINN.
But before he could even get a shot of, the GINN was destroyed from behind and he could see Rey's white ZAKU there.
"Let's hurry Shinn, we need to take out those guys, before they can make any more trouble for us!" The blond teen yelled, as he began shooting of his beam rifle at two more approaching GINNs.
Once he saw his friend do that, it didn't take long before Shinn too was firing his own rifle at them.
Yet every time it seemed like the beams was going to hit the enemy machines, they quickly evade to the side.
"Rey! Just who the hell are those bastards!?" The boy yelled loudly, as he used the shield to defend himself, just before two shots from the closed GINN could hit him.
Then he hurried fired of a few beams back after the mobile suit, forcing it to back away from him.
And while it was doing that, he immediately fired one well placed shot in to the back of the GINN, making it blow up in a minor explosion, after that he turned and saw Rey finish of the other one.
"I don't know who they are Shinn, but be careful when you are fighting them, they clearly have a lot of experience in piloting those GINNs!" The blond boy yelled, just as he evade another attack from a new GINN, that was coming right at him.
And it only took a few seconds, before the ZAKU and GINN was flying almost next to each other, both of them doing everything to defeat their opponent in a hurry.
The sight of his friend, and the other mobile suit fighting like that.
Shinn quickly realized that if he got involved in that.
He might actually end up just being in Rey's way, so it was no doubt best, to let Rey handle this on his own, then for him to try and help him.
So after looking at the ZAKU for a few short seconds, he turned the Impulse around, and took of to where he could see a few other Zaft forces, fighting against three more of the strange looking GINNs.
And it wasn't much later before he had cut the first one of them down with the beam saber, and was now shooting of the two machine guns in his mobile suit's chest after another one, that immediately flew up over the shoots where it began firing back.
But Shinn however only narrowed his eyes a bit, as he made sure to use the shield, to take care of all the beams, that was coming at him.
After that he hurried put the beam saber away again and got the beam rifle out, where he didn't waste any time in shooting back at the GINN.
And it take long, before the two mobile suits was flying full speed at each other, and it took even least time, before a one single beam left both of their rifles, heading directly towards each other.
But as the two beams was about to make contact with their target, Shinn hurried evade to the side and fired one more shot at the GINN, that at the same moment had just gotten over his first attack.
Luckily this time the bastard inside the purple GINN, didn't have nearly as much time to avoid the beam.
Which meant that the left leg, was blown completely of the mobile suit.
Smirking a bit at that Shinn was just about attack the GINN one more time, when suddenly a rain of beams flew through the back of the purple mobile suit and came straight at him, which immediately made him react.
He hurried got the shield up in front of himself, making it take two of the beams, while the rest flew closely by him, and hit Junius Seven instead.
Not that he gave that much of his attention, he was far to busy looking at the blue mobile suit, that had been responsible for taking out the GINN, he had just been fighting.
"Ohhh crap! I really hate you three!" He said out over the radio, not once taking his eyes away from the Abyss gundam, that now had it's lance out and was coming right at him.
Seeing that he hurried pulled out one of the beam sabers and flew of to meet the Abyss mid way.
And it didn't even take a minute, before the two gundams slammed their weapons together, both of them struggling hard to over win each other, and it was just about the same time, that Shinn could hear an angry voice talking to him out over the radio.
"Believe me you bastard, the feeling is mutual!" The guy in the Abyss told him coldly.
Just as the two of them broke apart, where they immediately fired of their beam weapons at each other, which of course made both pilots, evade to the side, so the beams flew right past them.
But just as Shinn was about to attack the Abyss one more time, the blue gundam lifted up both of it's fins and fired of a new round of beams at him.
"Damn you!" the Impulse piloted yelled loudly, as he hurried made his way up over the attack, where he immediately fired of two shoots down at the enemy unit.
But much to his big irritation, none of them came close to hitting the blue mobile suit.
That was already shooting back at him with everything it got, and there wasn't really any doubt in the boy's mind, that the Abyss clearly had the biggest advantage in long distance combat.
And with that in mind he quickly pulled out the beam saber again, and took of towards the still shooting mobile suit.
But after avoiding getting hit by all of it's attacks.
It wasn't long after, before the boy slammed the beam saber out after the Abyss, that immediately moved up over the weapon, where it didn't even waste even a second, in thrusting it's lance down after him.
But before it could hit the Impulse, Shinn hurried pulled the shield up to defend himself against the attack. And as the Abyss tried to push the shield away, he couldn't help but yell out a few more curses at the blue machine.
This time however, he didn't get any kind of response from the machine's pilot.
The Abyss just continued fighting him, with the same insane eagerness, he had seen more then a few times, since he had first faced this mobile suit in battle.
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At the same time not that far away from where the Impulse was fighting with the Abyss.
Nicol was covering a team of three GuAIZ Rs, that had just finished placing yet another one of the flare motors on the surface on Junius Seven.
Yet just as they where about to activate it, two beams suddenly flew in and hit the closed GuAIZ Rs, destroying it completely. Seeing that Nicol hurried turned and saw two of the GINNs coming right at them.
"You guys keep working, I'll take care of them!" He yelled loudly, just before he took of towards the two machines, that immediately tried to shoot him down.
But the green hair teen didn't give them the opportunity to aim properly.
He made sure to keep the GOUF moving until he got in range to use the whip, that he hurried throw out after the nears one, entangling it's right arm where he didn't waste any time in sending out a big electric shock that destroyed the entire arm.
After that a few well placed shoots from the beam gun, was enough to destroy the mobile suit.
He did however not get much time to think about that, before a heavy sword was slammed out after him, which forced him to get the shield up in a hurry, to counter the attack.
And immediately after he did that, the guy inside the GINN tried his best to push the shield away.
He did however not have much luck with that, because as the two of them struggling against each other like that, the green haired pilot gave the GINN a very hard kick in it's stomach area, making it spining away from him.
Truly happy to have a short break, Nicol hurried pulled out his beam sword, and charged full speed at the GINN, that was already making it's way towards him.
And it was only a few seconds later, before each mobile suits thrust out their close combat weapons.
But both of them made sure to have their shields ready, which meant both mobile suits was soon locked together, each pilot doing everything they could think of to overpower their opponent.
But seeing that he wasn't going to beat this pilot like this.
Nicol made the decision that he had to get away from the GINN.
So after struggling like that for about a small minute or two. He quickly backed away from the purple mobile suit, where he immediately throw the whip straight at the GINNs cockpit.
But before the weapon could make contact, the GINN made a small manoeuvre to the side, barely avoiding getting pierced by the weapon.
And even as it was evading like that it was still shooting of it's beam rifle at him. But the former Blitz pilot was quick to responed to that, and was soon firing his own weapons back at the GINN.
"This guy is really good!" Nicol grumbled loudly, as he continued trying to defeat the purple mobile suit, not realizing that he was actually fighting the second in command of the small army of GINNs.
But even if he had know who he was up against, there was no way the green hair teen would allow this guy another chance to destroy any more of the GuAIZ Rs that was still working on trying to move Junius Seven in any other direction than earth.
But he even as the two of them continued fighting and shooting at each other like that, Nicol couldn't help wonder just who the hell this guy was, and why he was fighting so intensely.
So after evading yet another shot from the GINN, he began talking loudly to the pilot.
"Who are you? And why are you doing this!?" The boy asked, still shooting of the beam guns on the GOUFs right arm, after the GINN, that hurried flew up over all the beams and fired a few shoots back at him.
That was when the person in the GINN gave him an answer.
"I'm just a lonely man who wants to make sure his wife can rest in peace, she was killed down there when those disgusting Naturals came here and destroyed this place!" The man said, just as the purple and yellow mobile suit again came together.
Hearing the man said that, Nicol couldn't help but blink a few times, as he took a small glance down at the Junius Seven, thinking hard about the mans words.
He truly did feel sorry for him, he knew what it was like to lose somebody one cared so much about. But even so, it didn't make it right for them, to kill all those people down on earth, there would just come so much sorrow with it.
So after being in a lock like that for a few seconds, they again pulled away from each other.
"Believe me, I really do understand what you are saying, but there is so many innocent people down there, that didn't have anything to do with Junius Seven, some of them where properly feeling, just as badly about it as we where!" The boy yelled, as the two machines weapons was yet again thrust out after each other.
"It's doesn't matter if they feel bad about it or not, they didn't do anything to save my sweet Jennifer, so that's why they all deserve to die!" The man yelled, just as he tried to put the heavy sword through the GOUF's cockpit.
But just before the melee weapon could even touch the yellow mobile suit.
Nicol quickly got the GOUF moving, and flew directly up over the attack, then he turned and throw the whip down at the GINN.
Making it wrapped itself around the sword, where he immediately gave the weapon a hard yank, tearing it straight out of the GINNs hand, that didn't waste any time in trying to get a hold on it's beam rifle.
And only just succeed in that, when Nicol once again throw the whip down at it, this time hitting the head of the GINN, destroying the main camera on the mobile suit, blinding it completely.
After that, he hurried pulled the weapon back, and took of directly towards the now damage machine, that couldn't even see what was going to happen next.
Once close enough he gave the GINN a hard kick in it's chest area, sending it swinging straight down towards Junius Seven, where it smashed right in to the surface colony and blow up.
But even as he was hanging there watching the minor explosion, Nicol felt a sad look ran over his face.
"I really do hope you and your wife can rest in peace, without Junius Seven falling!" He muttered quietly to himself, just before he took of to help a few other GuAIZ Rs, that couldn't work, because a few GINNs, just kept on attacking them.
But fortunately, it didn't take long, before Nicol got in between them, and immediately began shooting at one of the GINNs, that of course shoot right back.
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Elsewhere Athrun had just finished taking down yet another GINN that was trying to destroy the flare motor he was closed too.
Not that he had much time to relax before he was forced to evade an attack from another approaching GINN, that was obviously trying to get him out of the way so it could destroy the flare motor.
But thanks to his quick responed the two beams it had fired flew right past him.
Not that Athrun cared much about that, he was already far to busy shooting back at the GINN.
But he didn't even get the chance to hit the purple mobile suit, before two green Gunbarrels flew in and destroyed the GINN from behind, but even as that happened, Athrun was far from happy to see, what was now coming right at him.
"Damn you guys hurry up, I'll keep this guy busy!" The blue hair teen yelled loudly.
As he began making his way towards the still approaching Chaos gundam, where he immediately fired of a more then a dozen of beams at the green mobile suit.
That of course didn't have any trouble shooting back.
Which forced Athrun to chance direction in a hurried, and it didn't take long before he land on Junius Seven's surface where he fired one single shot up at the Chaos, that apparently chosen him for a target.
Unfortunately the only thing he hit on the gundam was it's shield that it quickly lowed again, and fired of pretty much every weapon it had down at him.
Seeing that he hurried jumped to the side so the attack hit the colony instead.
Once he had avoided that he hurried fired one more shoot up after the Chaos, that quickly rolled to the side where it immediately shoot of another round at him.
But Athrun had already left the place the Chaos pilot had been aiming at, which meant that the attack didn't even came near him, they just flew down and made yet another small impact on Junius Seven's surface.
But as that was happening Athrun found himself behind the green gundam.
Something he was quick to take advantage of, by pulling out the beam tomahawk, and throwing it full speed at the back of the gundam hitting one of the Gunbarrels that was place there.
But just before it could blow up and do some serious damage to the Chaos, both of them left the back of the gundam, so the green mobile suit itself, wasn't touch by the explosion of the barrel, and now the last of them was coming directly towards him.
Seeing that Athrun felt a small frown ran over his forehead, he need to take out that barrel too, that way he would have a much better chance to defeat the gundam.
He did however not even get one shot of, before a big red beam flew in from another direction, and destroyed the Gunbarrel.
Once that happened he only blinked a single time in confuse, it did however not take him long to get over that, and he was soon firing more then a few shots at the Chaos, forcing the green gundam to quickly evade to the side.
That was when another red beam came flying in, almost blowing the right arm of the gundam.
But whoever the pilot was inside the Chaos, made certain to keep the mobile suit moving so the attack didn't even leave a scratch.
And it was just about that time, Athrun saw a red ZAKU coming towards him in a high speed, and once it got over beside him, he heard the voice of the red haired girl he knew was inside that machine.
"Damn it! I seriously have had all I can take of those three, we just have to take them out right now!" Luna yelled, as she fired another shot at the Chaos, that hurried got over in it's mobile armor mode, and flew full speed away from them.
But it only took a small minute then it change course, once again coming right towards them.
Seeing that both pilots immediately began shooting at the Chaos, making sure that the gundam was forced to keep some distance between itself and them.
But even as both of them, where trying their best to make a few nice air holes in the gundam, it kept moving around so damn fast that every time it looked like they where just about to hit the machine, it somehow evade both of their attacks.
Which again made the girl yell out just how annoying all of this was, and that the moron in the Chaos was going down no matter what.
And even as she was saying those words, she hurried took aim and once again fired a shot at the gundam.
Still not having much luck, in actually doing some real damage to the machine, that was still flying hastily around them, obviously doing everything possible to make itself a hard target to hit.
But even as the two of them, was keeping the green gundam on it's toes. Athrun began speaking to the red hair girl in a much calm tone, that nobody else would use under the circumstance they where in right now.
"Try not let them bother you so much, it's not like we are actually here to fight those three!" Athrun yelled, as he took a glance down at the flare motor he had been with earlier, where he saw two of the GuAIZ Rs trying to get the thing ready to use.
And he could see, that they where just about to activate the device, when he saw something black came running straight at them on four legs.
And just one glint at the fast moving thing, was more then enough to tell him what it was. "Look out, the Gaia is heading your way!" He called out, after the two Zaft pilots, that was still working on the flare motor.
But unfortunately his warning came to late, as the Gaia jumped up from the ground, where it immediately fired of two rounds, from the three beam weapons it had in this mode.
Which was more then enough to take out the two GuAIZ Rs, before the pilots inside the mobile suits even had the time to react.
So now the flare motor was all alone down there, with nothing to defend it.
A chance the person inside the Gaia apparently didn't want to waste, as the black four legged mobile suit dropped down almost beside the strange looking device, where it immediately turned, and began shooting of all it's weapons up at the flare motor.
Destroying it completely, before it could be used for it's originally purpose, of trying to get Junius Seven, further away from earth.
Seeing whoever was inside the Gaia do something so idiotic, Athrun gave his lower lip a very, very hard bit actually getting a little blood to fly out in to his helmet.
Not that he gave that much of his attention, he just turned the ZAKU around and fired of two shoots down at the Gaia, that quickly jumped away before any of the beams could hit the mobile suit.
Which immediately made Athrun narrowed his eyes a bit, as he once again began shooting down at the four legged mobile suit, that was now running full speed over Junius Sevens rocky surface, jumping around on pretty much everything down there to evade all of Athrun's attacks.
But as he continued trying to take out the Gaia like that, it suddenly jumped away from the colony, and transformed in to it's mobile suit mode, where it immediately got a hold on it's beam rifle, and fired two shots directly up at him.
Once that happened Athrun hurried used the shield to take care of the first beam, then he quickly made a small manoeuvre to the left to avoided the next shot.
After that it didn't even take a minute, before he was flying full speed down towards the black mobile suit, grabbing a heavy sword that one of the GINNs had left behind.
And it was just shortly after that, before he slammed the long sharp weapon out after the Gaia, that of course used it's shield to defend itself from his attack.
The two of them continued struggling like that for a few minutes, but it didn't take long before they quickly broke apart, the Gaia shooting of the two machine guns it had in it's head, a few of the shots coming dangerously close, to do some serious damage to Athrun's green ZAKU.
But he hurried took cover behind a few parts, of the still moving colony, where he immediately began shooting at the hastily approaching gundam, forcing it to chance direction.
At the same time not that far away Luna was watching as Athrun was fighting the Gaia, a part of her feeling slightly impressed at how well he was handling himself against the black stolen mobile suit.
"Hey Athrun, are you ok down there?!" She asked, while again trying to take down the Chaos, before it could make any more trouble for them.
"Yes I'm all right, you just keep the Chaos busy, there is no way I can handle both of them at the same time!" The boy yelled, as he quickly ducked down under the Gaia, that was now once again fighting him in it's quadruped mode.
It truly did looked like a wild animal right now, especially with the two beam blades out and ready to strike, not that he was going to give this bastard the chance to do that.
And it was just, as that thought enter his mind. That the Gaia fired of it's three beam weapons then jumped straight towards him.
He quickly avoid all three shots, and was just about to face the gundam head on, armed only with the heavy sword he had picked up not long ago.
But just as the two mobile suits was about to smash together, a yellow GOUF suddenly dropped down from out of nowhere, and gave the Gaia a very hard kick, in the middle of it's face, sending it clashing to the ground not that far away from them.
"Hey Athrun, I'm sorry to interrupt, but it did looked like you could use my help!" The pilot inside the GOUF said, still keeping a very close eye on the Gaia that by now was already getting back on it's feet again.
"Yeah you could say that Nicol, even true I honestly rather help out with moving Junius Seven, then waste time fighting with those two!" Athrun said, while taking a short glance up at the Chaos.
Just as it rolled away from another one of Lunamaria's attacks, then fired of it's beam rifle right back at the red ZAKU.
That quickly evade to the side, it was kinda hard to see who of them was having the advantage from this distance, but it truly didn't seem like the girl need their assistant right now.
Which was actually a good thing, that way they could both concentrate on the Gaia, that was at this very moment coming directly at them, obviously quite determined to take both of them down in a hurry.
Not that the two men was going to make it that easy, for whoever was inside the Gaia, and once the black gundam fired of all three of beam weapons.
Both the ZAKU and the GOUF hurried jumped away from Junius Seven surface, where they immediately began shooting down at the Gaia, with pretty much every long range weapon they got.
Which of course made the Gaia fire right back at them.
But they hadn't really been fighting like that for long, before Junius Seven suddenly broke in two, and a very big part of the colony began moving slowly away from earth.
But unfortunately there was still a great deal of the space colony that hadn't change direction and was still heading slowly towards the green and blue planet, that was getting somewhat bigger and bigger by every minute that went by.
"Damn it! It's not enough, Nicol we have to take this guy out right now!" Athrun yelled loudly, just before he charge of full speed towards the Gaia, with the yellow GOUF following closely behind him.
And just as they where about to attack the black gundam it quickly jumped backwards where it transformed in to it's mobile suit, where it immediately pulled out a beam saber.
But even as it did that, Nicol and Athrun was still heading towards the Gaia, that hurried tried to put it's beam saber directly through Athrun's cockpit.
But he quickly got the shield up to take the attack, but as the two of them where struggling like that.
Nicol flew in from the side and slammed his beam sword out after the Gaia, cutting the left arm straight of the gundam, just as Athrun gave the black mobile suit a hard kick in it's stomach, sending it swinging away from them, directly towards a smaller asteroid.
Yet before the Gaia could smash in to it, the Chaos got in the way and saved the black gundam, from some serious damage.
It just about that time that Lunamaira's ZAKU came over beside the two boys.
"I'm sorry that I couldn't distract the Chaos any longer, he took of, when he saw what the two of you where doing to the Gaia" the red hair girl explain, while getting ready to counter whatever the two gundams was going to throw at them next.
It was obvious from the way they where moving around right now, that they where far from done fighting with them.
Hearing Lunamaria said that, Nicol took a quick glance away from their opponents, and over at the red ZAKU, that was almost right beside him.
"It's all right Luna, we don't blame you, now lets not waste any time talking, we need to get rid of those two in a hurry!" The green hair GOUF pilot said, in a loud tone.
Just as the three Zaft mobile suit, once again took of towards the Gaia and the Chaos, each pilot determined to give the two stolen gundams, the most serious beating they could ever imagine.
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Meanwhile on the Minerva.
Talia was softly drumming her fingers against the arm rest of her chair, while she watched as about half of Junius Seven continued heading slowly towards earth.
Finally after a few minute of very tense silence, the woman turned and looked over at Meyrin. "How much time will it take, before Junius Seven breaks through the atmosphere?" She asked, while again looking out at the sad remains of the old colony.
"Hmm it's kinda hard to tell captain, but if it continue with the speed it has now, then about fifteen minutes, maybe even less!" The girl explained, as she looked away from her controls and out at the fallen colony.
She did however not get all that much time to do that, before the captain again asked her a question in a loud serious tone, this time about what their mobile suits was doing right now.
Hearing her asked that, Meyrin immediately began trying to figure out the answers to her question.
And it wasn't long after, before she again opened her mouth, where she began telling the woman what she want to know.
"The Impulse is fighting with the Abyss not that far away from here, and Luna, Nicol and Athrun is fighting the two other gundams, unfortunately I can't located Rey's ZAKU anywhere right now!" The girl informed them all in a loud tone, while she tried her best to find any signs of Rey's mobile suit.
But there was just way to much interference at the moment, to find something so small as a lonely ZAKU.
Once Gilbert heard the girl say that, he immediately took a small glance over at her.
He wasn't really happy to know that she couldn't find Rey out there, he was after all one of his most trusted loyal fellows, and he truly did cared a lot about the boy, he was just like a son to him.
Which meant he didn't want anything to happen to him, everything would become so much more complicated, if Rey wasn't around on the Minerva, to keep a close eye on Shinn.
But just as he was about to ask if she was sure that he wasn't out there somewhere, Talia cut in and asked yet another question.
"What about Bogey One, have they done anything since we started sending out signals, on the International Distress Channel?" The woman asked, truly wondering if there was anything else they could do, to get in contact with the blue space ship.
They had been using the International Distress Channel in a way try and get in contact with Bogey One, almost since the battle had started.
Yet up until now, it didn't seem like the ship care much about, that they too, where trying to stop the purple GINNs out there, which would most definitely be a much easier task, if their mobile suits didn't have to fight the Chaos, Gaia and Abyss at the same time.
"No it's still not doing anything captain, it pretty much seems like they are ignoring us!" Meyrin said.
Just as one of the screen up there showed the blue space ship flying around in the distance.
Still not doing anything, that made it clear if they understood that the Minerva was not there to help the GINNs out, and that the only thing they want to do, was stop Junius Seven from falling.
And after just watching the enemy ship for a few seconds, Arthur turned and looked back at Talia, where he once again told her his honest opinion about what he thought they should do about Bogey One.
"I know you said before, that it wouldn't do us any good attacking that ship captain, but if we do that, we might be able to force the three gundams in to a withdrawal!" He said in a loud tone, truly hoping that the captain would follow his advice.
Those words did make a thoughtful look ran over Talia's face, as she seriously consider everything Arthur had just said.
But soon after she slowly shook her head, as she looked over at the man.
"I don't think that's a good idea Arthur, even if we do attack them now, we will most likely be wasting valuable time, that would be much better spend on a way for us to try and stop the rest of Junius Seven!" Talia explain, as she again looked out at the view in front of them, still trying to figure out the best way to destroy the rest of the colony.
Hearing her say that and seeing her expression, Gilbert immediately knew that she had something planed.
And he truly hoped that whatever it was, it would be enough to prevent the disaster, that was going to happen in least then fifteen minutes.
So after wondering a bit what was going through her mind he was just about to ask her what exactly she was thinking about, when suddenly Meyrin cut in and told them a few good news.
"Bogey One have just send out an retreat signal, the three gundams are leaving the battlefield!" The red hair girl sai,d in a loud tone that could be heard all over the bridge, as the screen show the Abyss quickly leaving the fight it had been in with the Impulse.
"I guess they finally believed us!" Gilbert say, as they all saw the Impulse turn around and take off towards Junius Seven, quickly cutting down a single lonely GINN, that tried to get in the gundam's way.
But they did not really get much time to watch Shinn fight.
When the captain of the ship began speaking in a somewhat thoughtful tone.
"Yes I agree that it does look that way, but there might just be another reason for their withdrawal. We are after all getting closer and closer to earth, and that means that it wouldn't be long now, before the altitude will began to pull more and more on Junius Seven, so we have to make up our minds now, about what we can save and what we can not!" The woman said, just as the lower parts of the colony began glowing slightly red.
Which was more then enough to make it clear for all of them, that the situation was getting all the more grave.
"So what are we going to do captain?!" Arthur asked, sound very much like he was just about ready to go in to a panic, and one look at his face, showed her that he was getting more concerned, by every small second that went by.
But Talia really didn't have the time to explain it to him now, she instead turned and looked over at the Chairman with a serious expression on her face.
"I think that it's best that you get of here Mr Chairman, the Minerva is going to follow Junius Seven in through the atmosphere, and use the Tannhauser to try and destroy as much of the colony as possible!" The woman said, in a determined tone.
Hearing those determined words leave her mouth, Gilbert did try and came up with something to say back.
But finally he let out a deep sigh, as he slowly stood up and looked directly in to her eyes.
"I guess there it's no use trying to talk you out of it, when you first make up your mind about something, there isn't much that can chance it!" He said, as he turned around and looked over at blond girl, that had been pretty quiet up until now.
"Lets go princess we need to get of this ship before it enters the atmosphere!" He said in a gentle tone, as he reached out to help her up from the chair, she had been sitting in all of this time.
But she on the other hand, just looked up at him with a determined look in both of her eyes, that remind him slightly about the look he had seen on Talia's face.
And it actually surprised him a bit, when he saw her slowly shook her head, as she began talking back to him in the same kind of voice Talia had just used.
"I can't, if the Minerva is going to go through the atmosphere, to try and destroy Junius Seven. Then I want to be right here with them, I know I might not be able to do anything to help. But there is just so many people down there, and even some I care very much about, so I can't just run away at a time like this!" The girl said in a loud tone, not once looking away from the Chairman.
That after nodded slowly in understanding.
"I see, then I wish all of you the best of luck!" he said while slowly letting his eyes ran over all the people gather on the ships bridge, the last one his eyes land on was Talia, that by now had her back turned towards him, busy telling her crew what they where going to do now, and that they need to get their mobile suits, back on the ship in a hurry.
So after watching her a bit more he turned and began making his way over to the door, where he stopped for a few seconds.
"I do look forward to hear news about your success Talia!" He said.
Just before he opened the door and left the ships bridge, with a somewhat thoughtful look on his face. He truly did hope with all of his heart, that the Minerva could somehow accomplish, the mission it was just about to under take.
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Back outside Athrun was now on his own now, seeing as Lunamaria had gotten her ZAKU's head blown of by a shot from the Chaos.
And that meant that somebody had to escort the red haired girl back to the Minerva, to make sure that she wasn't shoot down, in the blinded state her mobile suit had been in.
And even before they could discourse it, Nicol had grabbed on to the red ZAKU and told Athrun that he was going on ahead.
But just as the blue hair teenager was about to head back too, he discovered a flare motor some of the retreating GuAIZ Rs had left behind when they took of.
And even true he knew that it might be a stupid idea, there was no way he want to let that thing go to waste, not when it was so much better used trying to slow down the still descending colony.
Yet while he was trying to find just the best spot to place the device.
The Impulse suddenly came over beside him. "What are you still doing here? You should have gotten the retreat signal already!" The boy said, as he watched the slightly older teen work on getting the flare motor ready.
Taking a brief glance up from what he was doing, it didn't take long before Athrun attention, was once again turned towards the task in front of him.
"You should just hurry up and go Shinn, I know we already got the signal to return to the Minerva, but even if the ship use it's main cannon on whats left of the colony, there is bound to be a damper on how much damage it can make. And if there is a chance I can get this thing to work, it should help out a bit!" Athrun explained in a serious tone, while taking a quick look around for any more threats.
So after making sure, that there was nobody else nearby that wanted to attack him, he once again got back to work on the flare motor.
Just as Shinn flew over and began helping him out.
"I really don't get why you are with Orb, you seem so much smarter, then anybody else down there!" Shinn said, in a tone that made Athrun lift up his head and take a glance over at the Impulse.
But just as he was about to tell Shinn that now was not the right time to be discoursing something like that, an alarm suddenly began making a loud sound inside the ZAKUs cockpit.
Which immediately made him look up, where the first thing he saw was two more of those GINNs, that had been the once responsible for this whole mess.
So after letting out a small curse he hurried took aim with the beam rifle and fired a shoot at each of them.
Unfortunately both of them evade his minor attack and began shooting back.
"You just keep working, I'll take care of those two!" Shinn said in a determined tone of voice.
Just before he took of towards the two hastily approaching GINNs, using his own beam rifle to get them to chance direction, so there was no chance that they would hit the flare motor, while he was busy fighting them.
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Meanwhile back in the Minerva's hangar.
Lunamaria had just gotten out of her ZAKU where the first thing she noticed, was that they where missing both the Impulse and the green ZAKU Athrun had borrowed.
"Where is Shinn and Athrun?!" She asked in a loud tone, and with a worried expression, while looking straight over at Nicol and Rey, who was already busy talking about that.
"We don't know Lunamaria, they are still out there somewhere!" Rey said taking a glance back at his mobile suit, where he quickly let his eyes ran over the machine, until he got to where the right arm was suppose to be.
But he had lost that, while fighting with one of the GINN pilots out there, which had forced him to use all of his missiles to kill whoever was in the GINN.
But as he stood there in his own thoughts about what could be going on outside, Luna grabbed his shoulders, making him look back at her.
"If they are still out there, we have to help them somehow!" The girl said in tone, that could most likely be heard all over the hangar.
Not that anybody was really listening to what the three pilots was talking about, they where all far to busy getting things ready to when the Minerva would enter the atmosphere.
Hearing her said that Nicol moved over beside Luna, where he gently placed his right hand on her arm, which was more then enough to make her look away from Rey and over at him.
"Please try and calm down and take a deep breath Luna, it's not like Rey and I are not worried about them, but there is no way any of us can go out there now, we would be burned alive, if we did try to help them!" Nicol explained, just as a minor shook could be felt through the entire ship.
Which made it clear, that they where in for a very tough ride, but even as that was happening, Luna still had a somewhat angry look on her face.
"Ok I guess you are right Nicol, but they better be all right after this!" The red hair girl said.
Before she turned around to try and find a place where she could sit down for a bit, even true she didn't really show it much, she was quite exhausted after everything they had been through.
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So while that was going on down in the ships hangar, the crew up on the bridge was just as worried about the two boys out there.
But Talia knew that there was no way they could wait for them any longer, not while over half of the population down on earth was in such a serious danger.
"We just have to hope that both of them will be all right, now hurry up and aim the Tannhauser!" The woman order loudly, and it was only a few second later before she yelled out for the weapon to be fired.
But even true it hit right on, Junius Seven kept getting more and more red as it continued it's descend through the atmosphere.
Seeing that Talia didn't waste any time in yelling out for the cannon to be fired one more time at the colony, which did destroy some of the colony, but it was still not enough, there was still way to much of it left that was heading for earth.
"Damn it fire it again and make sure we hit, we don't want to waste any of our fire power now!" The woman said, as the crew once again shoot of the main cannon at Junius Seven.
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At the same time, Shinn had just finished the first of the GINNs and was now heading towards the last one. "Damn it, this is useless!" The boy grumbled loudly, as he quickly throw the beam rifle away.
Not bothering to keep it any longer, he couldn't aim it properly now that everything was shaking so damn much.
So after getting that out of the way, he hurried pulled out one of the beam sabers and took of towards the last of the GINNs, that was busy trying to take out Athrun, who not long ago had gotten the last of the flare motor working.
"You two don't understand anything, don't you realize what they did to us here, how much we suffered because of those Naturals, this is truly and rightfully the only way for us Coordinators to live, the way Patrick Zala want!" The man inside the GINN shouted loudly.
Just as Athrun let out a shocked gasp, at hearing his father's name, being mention at a place like this.
So this person he was fighting with right now, was one of those people that supported the way his father had done things, one of them that truly believe that the only way Coordinators could live in peace, was that all of the Naturals got killed.
And even true Athrun really did want to argue back, and tell this person that he disagree, the boy knew that there was nothing he could say, his father had after all been willing to kill everybody down on earth.
And it didn't really help on his depressed state of mind, that the person in the GINN wasn't done telling him, just how right all of this was.
"Why can't you see that we have to get rid of them all, it's the only way for all of those people that was killed here to rest on peace, my daughters tombstone most fall!" The man yelled.
Just as he and Athrun slammed the two heavy swords together, both of them fighting hard to over win each other.
Hearing the man talk about his daughter like that, Shinn did feel a little sympathy for the man in the GINN. He did after all knew quite well, how it was to lose those he cared about.
But that however didn't mean, he would allow this guy get away with trying to kill everybody down on earth, so once he saw the ZAKU and the GINN move apart.
He hurried charge in and tried to cut the enemy mobile suit in half.
Unfortunately thanks to another shoot from the Minerva, that hit quite close to them.
The only thing he actually succeed in hitting was the right leg on the GINN, and that didn't really make all that much of a different, the bastard inside the GINN, was apparently still quite determined to kill both Athrun and him.
And it was just shortly after that, when Shinn saw the two other mobile suits there fly towards each other, where their weapons was once again slammed together.
Seeing this going on just in front of him, Shinn hurried took a quick look around himself. It was getting so damn warm inside the Impulse right now, and he could already feel, a great deal of sweat running down his face.
Which made him wonder how exactly it was over in the ZAKU, his mobile suit might just be able to make it through all of this.
But the ZAKU wasn't really made for something of this calibre.
And he that really made him think about how they both could get away from here alive, it did however not take him long to realize that the only way, they could get out of there, was to get rid of the lunatic piloting the GINN.
So with that decision made, he once again took of full speed towards the purple mobile suit, still listening with a half ear to what the bastard inside the GINN was saying now.
But this time it was actually getting a bit on his nerves.
Here they where fighting for their lives, and the only thing he did was piss and moan about, how much all the Naturals down there, deserved to have Junius Seven dropped on them.
"Shut the hell up already, we get it now!" The boy in the Impulse yelled loudly.
Just as he used the beam saber to cut of both of the GINNs arms, then gave it a hard kick in it's stomach area, sending it smashing head down in to the colony, where it immediately blow up.
After that Shinn hurried throw the beam saber away, and quickly flew over and grabbed on to the right arm of the ZAKU, then got the thrusts up to full speed, trying to get both of them away from there.
It did however not take long, before he heard Athrun's voice call out to him.
"Shinn! We can't get back to the Minerva now, and that means that the only thing we can do is head down!" Athrun yelled loudly, while trying his best to get some control over the ZAKU.
Not really an easy task under the circumstance they where in right now.
Hearing the older boy said that, Shinn couldn't help but let out a unhappy growl, while he quickly turned the Impulse around and began heading for the green and blue planet, that was waiting below them.
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At the same time down on earth, Murrue Ramius was busy making sure, that all the children that was living with reverend Malchio was present.
After hearing about Junius Seven falling, they had immediately called the reverend and the children to ask them to come over, as quickly as possible.
And after counting them two times, she knew that she was missing one, and just a brief look around, was enough to tell her who it was.
"Mayu Ramius come here this instant, young lady!" The former captain of the Archangel yelled so loud, that she knew that everybody nearby could hear her.
And it did not take long, before a short haired girl, with brown eyes came running over to her, where she immediately looked up at her step-mother with a truly well know frown on her forehead, not that Murrue was effect by that.
"There is no need to yell mom, I just needed to use the bathroom!" The girl explained.
Now doing her best to sound and look as innocent as possible, truly hoping that her step-mom would let her of easy.
But Murrue just shook her head a few times and rolled her eyes, then she hurried reached down and took the girl's hand in a tight grip, making sure that she could not run off again.
Meanwhile not that far away, on one of the balconies that was located on the house.
Kira Yamato was standing together with his wife, looking up at Junius Seven that could now be seen quite clearly on the cloudless night sky, none of them said anything, as they watched the descending colony.
The only way somebody would be able to tell that both of them where worried, was by the way their fingers kept twirling around with each other.
They did however not get much time to just stand there by them self, when suddenly they each heard a familiar voice coming towards them. "That really doesn't look good!" Dearka said in a deeply concerned tone, as he and Miriallia got over beside the married couple.
So now all four of them, was just standing there, watching as Junius Seven continued coming slowly towards earth.
To be continued.