Chapter 37
They had been driving for about a half hour, when they finally pull up beside the main entrance of the space port.
Where they immediately took notice of just how empty and deserted the place looked right now. And even true that was somewhat suspicious. It at least did made it clear to them, that the copycat hadn't gotten there yet.
If she was there the whole place would most likely be swarming with her many fans.
But the only people they could, see was two female Zaft soldiers in their early twenties. Walking slowly past the car, like they didn't have a care in the world.
Yet the sight of them looking so relax, was enough to make Andrew narrow his one remaining eye slightly.
"Kazuma, open up the window and ask those two chicks what's the heck is going on here. It's almost like they didn't know that the fake Lacus was suppose to arrive soon" he said. Not hiding the fact, that he was having a very bad feeling about all of this, where the hell was all of the welcome committee, and all the people wanting pink haired woman's autograph.
Hearing the man order him that. Kazuma hurried roll down the window, and call out to the two women.
"Hey ladies! Would you mind telling us, what is happening here? This entire places looks like is haunted by handful of ghosts, that has scared everybody away, was it not today that Lacus Clyne was suppose to get here?" He asked, while taking a look around the place. He too couldn't help but feel somewhat on edgy, about all of this. Especially since he had been keeping an eye on the space port, the last couple of days.
And this seriously was the only time he had ever seen it look this empty, which was in his eyes more then enough reason to be nervous and ready to take on anybody that was a threat to them, and even as the two lovely ladies stepped over next to the car, he kept his foot on the gas pedal ready to get them out of there any moment now.
And when he took a small look at the rear-view mirror, he noticed that Daisuke had his hand inside his jacket, seeming a bit like he was searching for something very important.
But Kazuma knew, that he was actually getting ready to pull out his gun, that was hidden away in there.
Yet he seriously hoped that it wouldn't become necessary, for them to kill the two lovely ladies.
Fortunately neither of the two beauties, seemed to have all that much hostile intentions, as they made their way over towards them. "Well yes it was. But unfortunately we are having some trouble getting her shuttle to work. Apparently the engines are so mess up that it can't leave anytime soon. We actually did call the hotel to tell them to let you know what was going on. But it would seem like they where able to give you that message before you left miss Lacus!" The blond one of the two women said, while looking at the pink haired girl at the backseat of the car.
Hearing that, Lacus smile a bit at the two women.
"No it would seem that way. But I guess that's kinda my fault, you see I wanted to go out shopping for a bit before it was time for us to leave earth. But never mind that now, is there no other shuttle around we could use? It doesn't really matter, what kind of model it is, just as long as it's safe to fly in" she said, to the two women in a kind tone.
Hearing the songster ask that. The black haired one of the women got a somewhat thoughtful expression on her face.
"We might just be something you could use miss Lacus. You see the Minerva is suppose to deliver something here shortly, which is as far as I know also meant to go back to the Plants" she explained. Still looking like she was thinking very hard about what she had just suggest.
And it did not take long before she again continued speaking sounding just as thoughtful as before.
"So if it's all right with you miss Lacus? I think it might just be possible that you travel along. But that of course means that some type of mobile suit will be store in the back of the shuttle!" She said.
Now having some doubts about, how wise an idea it was, suggesting something like this, to a woman as popular as Lacus Clyne. Yet much to their minor surprise she actually seemed to be thinking very thoroughly about what had just been suggest.
And after a few seconds she turned and looked over at the badly dressed man beside her. Obviously wanting to hear his opinion on all of this.
He on the other hand, did not answer her immediately. He just reached up and rubbed his chin in a thoughtful manner, he might not show it much. But he was actually quite curious about, what it was that the Minerva was bringing there.
There really was no telling, if they could use, whatever it was against the Chairman. But if they could somehow manage to ruin some of Durandal's plans, he thought it was a very wise move for them to accept this proposal. So with that decision made he again looked back at the two women.
"It's not normally something a celebrity such as miss Lacus should be traveling in, but she has been working quite hard recently, and we are all slightly concerned, that she might be over exhausting herself. So I believe we will accept your proposal. And if we could somehow avoid her fans, that would be great too. She really does need to get some rest!" Andy said, trying to sound somewhat arrogant while talking to the two women.
Not totally happy about the lack of respect. The black haired woman narrowed her eyes a bit, while glaring straight at the man.
"We'll see what we can do. So would you please wait here until we get back!" She growled back in a somewhat displeased tone.
And before either Lacus or Andy had enough time to give her some kind of reply. She hurried turned around on one foot and rushed off. Obviously wanting to get this extra assignment, out of the way in a hurry.
The other girl however stayed there a bit longer. "I know...I know that you said that miss Lacus was tired, but would please give me your autograph?" She asked in a deeply embarrassed tone, while watching the ground like it was the most interesting thing in the entire world. For some reason she just could not help but feel like she was imposing at bit right now.
Especially since the ugly dressed man, had already said that the songster had been feeling quite exhaust, these last few days.
Yet much to her pleasant surprise the celebrity slowly reached over, and gently pull the piece of paper she was holding on to so tightly, out of her grasp.
And it was only a short moment later, when she saw the pink haired songster write her name down on the paper and handing it back to her. "Here you are! I'm really sorry if it's not as nice as usual. It's kinda hard to write in here" Lacus said, while smiling kindly at the other girl. That by now was almost spellbound by the autograph in her hands.
So it was only when Kazuma reached out, and snap his fingers directly in front of her face, that she finally got back to reality. And looked over at the pink haired woman who was properly a few years older then her.
"Thank you very much miss Lacus. I greatly appreciate it" She said in a tone, that left next to no doubt about the honesty in the last sentence. She truly did seem very happy, about having this piece of paper with the celebrity's name on it.
And after mumbling out one more small thank you. It didn't take all that long before she turned around, and went off in the same direction, her friend had disappeared in a few minutes early.
"Man she was a sweet girl, kinda wished that I could have asked for her phone number" Kazuma said.
Sounding somewhat disappointed and deeply crushed, that he had not been able to do that. And even true he couldn't deny, that he had frankly been expected at least a few comments for that remark.
None of the people in there paid all that much attention to him. They all pretty much choose to ignore him and start discoursing, this unexpected development, in their well thought out scheme.
"Are you sure that this is a good idea Waltfeld? If we actually does ends up traveling, on a military shuttle. Then this task can be much more dangerous then what we first expected!" Daisuke said, while looking directly at the other man, with a serious look in both of his dark blue eyes.
Yet after doing that for a few brief second or two, he once more began talking. "There is just no telling how many soldiers is on board that shuttle, and if the Minerva tries interferes, with our take off, we could be in serious trouble" the man said. Not bothering to keep it a secret, that he was still playing around with the small deadly weapon, hidden away inside his coat.
And even true it did not really take the worlds biggest brain, to see the logic in Daisuke's words.
Andy didn't get much time to reconsider his decision about this, when the only female in the car cut in. "I too believe, that this is one of those opportunities we should take advantage off. I'm sure that whatever it is that the Minerva is delivering here, it has to be quite important. So if we could somehow get our hands on it, I think we should do it. You never know if it can help us beat the Chairman!" She said, while looking around at the three men in the car.
Yet even while doing that she could not help but think about how drastic move this was. If Athrun or Nicol somehow noticed them, there was a high chance that they could all be capture.
But if the grey space ship was just dropping by here, to deliver it's cargo. It was very unlikely that any of the ships pilots would even get the time to get off and take a look around the places.
"I just hope those two don't see us, they are the only once here that knows who we really are!" She mutter loudly, while trying hard to figure out, what would happen should they run in to either of their old comrades.
Hearing her say that and knowing what she was thinking about. The Desert Tiger got an even more serious expression on his face.
"Well if we do run across those two. Then just make sure you keep your distance. Remember that you have been working quite hard recently, and that you are really exhaust. If you do that, it should be a good enough excuse, to avoid contact with those two!" Andy said, while giving her a small reassuring smile.
Yet before she could answer him. It had now become Kazuma's turn to interrupted the conversation.
"Now that we are talking about making and having contact with people, here comes the black haired babe again! Man she does looks cute, when she is all mad and grumpy like that!" He said, with a small yet perverted grin on his face.
Just as he nodded a single time, in the direction of the extremely fine looking female specimen, which he could honestly say, that he wouldn't mind spending a couple of hours alone with somewhere.
Most preferably a soft bed or a big haystack. Just a places that was at least somewhat comfortable and warm, so he could really show her, just how lovely a woman he truly thought, she was.
Yet before he could really start daydreaming about the hastily approaching woman.
Daisuke gave him a strong nudge with his left elbow, and just feeling the light wavy of pain from his right side. Was all that was needed to snap the playboy, back out of his perverted thoughts.
Just as the short temper young woman, got back over beside the only open window in the car.
"So gorgeous got any good news for us, and your phone number?" Kazuma immediately asked. Already knowing, that there was no way in hell, she would give him something like that. Especially since she still seemed totally piss, about the way Andy had spoken to her not long ago.
It was kinda obvious, that she was a lady that carried a great deal of pride. And that could only mean that it would take quite a long time, before she would forget the overly arrogant way, Andy had been asking her for a favour.
So after just standing there for a few seconds glaring hatefully at the chauffeur, she really despised men who behaved like this. Not having anything else in their mostly empty heads, other then to flirt with every single woman they came across.
And even true she could not deny, that she was somewhat tempt, to show this thick-headed moron, how big a jerk he really was.
She realized that now wasn't the best time for something like that. And she quite frankly didn't want to get in trouble, for beating up a civilian for no other reason then he had been trying to flirt with her.
That however did not stop her from glaring at him a couple of seconds longer, until she slowly turned her almost piercing yellow gaze away from him, and back at the badly dressed man, sitting in the back seat of the car.
And even true she would very much have liked to glare at him a bit too. She knew that they where in a bit of a hurry right now, seeing as the cargo that where suppose to be on the shuttle too, was now being transfer from the Minerva.
Which of course meant, that it would not be long now, before the smaller space ship, was ready to take off.
"The crew of the shuttle told me to say, that they would all be deeply honoured having you on board miss Lacus. And that they would do their best not to disturb you while you where resting!" The black haired woman said.
Just as she turned, and looked over at the pink haired songstress, that actually looked a bit like, she was ready to drift of to sleep, where she was sitting now.
Yet that did not prevent her, from lifting her head and look over at her. "Thank you very much for all of you help. It would have been quite troublesome if we have to leave, and come back later" the pink haired songstress, kindly told the other girl.
While giving her a tiny smile that made it pretty clear, that she was sincerely grateful, for everything the female Zaft soldier had done for them.
Seeing her do that, and hearing her words, the black haired woman just couldn't help but smile back.
"It's all right miss Lacus! I'm just really relieved, that I could help you out. Now if you and your traveling companions would please follow me, then I'll lead you to the shuttle. And away from all of your fans, you can always give them your autograph once you are feeling better!" She said loudly.
Looking somewhat concerned, about the pink haired celebrity. As far as she knew it was very unlike her to be so fatigued.
So with nothing more to say, three of the people in the car began getting ready to get out.
Yet even while they where doing that, Andrew slowly leaned forward, and told Kazuma in a small tone. That he should remember telling Kira and Dearka, about this new development in their plan.
And that the Minerva was here, which meant that they should most likely prepare face of against some of her mobile suit forces, and perhaps even the ship itself.
Hearing that Kazuma took a small glance over at the black haired girl, that was far too occupied telling miss Lacus how they where going to get to the shuttle without meeting any of her fans.
And satisfied with knowing, that she wasn't really listening in on what they where talking about, he smiled a bit at the Desert Tiger. "Count on me Waltfeld. I'll be sure to tell them everything they need to know, and if something does happen I'll be nearby too" he whispered back.
Before he took yet again a small glance over at their unintentional ally, that by now was much more interested in seeing, the pink haired girl write down her autograph to her.
And relieved to know that she had no idea, about what they where truly up to, he again turned and looked back at Andy.
"If anything does happen Waltfeld, you can always use that girl as a hostage" he said. Realizing that if they tried something like that, this girl would be resisting a great deal.
But it was better that way then they, ended up getting capture by the Zaft forces here. And when he saw the Desert Tiger nod slowly a single time, in understanding to his suggestion.
He once more began talking in a loud tone that all of them could easily hear. "Well hurry up and get out of my car man. I don't have all day to talk with you, I need to get this thing wash before I can head back home!" He all but yelled at the Desert Tiger, doing his best to sound like, he was running very low on patience, and that he really didn't want to be there, any longer then he had to.
Hearing that Andy looked a bit skeptical at the brown haired man, as he turned and crawled out of the car. Yet before he shut the door, he gave the playboy a light smack at the back of his head.
"Thank you very much for driving us here Mr Kazuma, I hope that you have a nice trip home, and that you don't drive over a canyon somewhere!" He said, doing his upmost to sound very polite and friendly, about everything he had just told the women chasing man.
Raising his right eyebrow at that remark, Kazuma slowly reached out and started the car again. "That's pretty mean of you man! You know I still haven't been able to score, that lovely babe's phone number" he said, just as he gave her a small flirtatious wink, then speed off before she had the chance, to do anything extremely painful and unpleasant to him.
Seeing the man and the car disappear in the distance. The black haired woman let out a loud offended sound.
"Hmmf! Men like him, should be pulled out in to the street and shot!" She declared loudly, in a tone that made it completely clear for all of them, that she meant every single word, of what she had just said.
Just knowing that their buddy, had yet another girl after him, that wanted to rid of him in some deeply gruesome way. Was more then enough, to make both Andrew and Daisuke chuckle softly.
As they each tried to image, what kind of scene it would be like, if this girl or one of the many others, Kazuma had succeeded in pissed off, since he had first become a playboy, got their hands on him.
One thing was certain, there was a definitely great deal of ladies out there, that would just love getting their lovely little hands, around his throat.
And truth be told both men, would just love to tell a few of the women, Kazuma had been fooling around with over the years, where he was hiding out now. It would without question, be funny as hell, seeing him do everything he could think of to avoid all of his past girlfriends, or whatever he call them.
Yet as they stood there with those amusing thoughts flying through their heads, the black haired girl's voice suddenly brought them back to reality.
"I seriously don't think, I'll ever understand what some girls sees in guys like him, but never mind that now, lets get going. I do have other duties to attend to. So if you would please follow me, and try not to wander off. The only thing the crew of the shuttle is waiting for is you guys!" She explained.
Just before she began leading them towards a lesser used path of the space port. By going this way, she could make sure, that none of the songstress fans would see her leave.
If the other pink haired girl really was in such a serious need of getting some rest. She was absolutely determined to help her out as much as she could, at least until it was time for the shuttle to take off.
"By the way young miss, do you know anything about, how many crew members is on board the shuttle? I'm sure that you can understand that it wouldn't be good if there is to many people around to, disturbing miss Lacus while she is resting!" Andy said, now once more sounding like a big arrogant jerk.
Which result in, that the girl was somewhat absent minded, as she hastily turned around and immediately answer the question.
"I'm sorry but I really don't know anything about that, but if I had to guess I would say about five or four!" She said angrily, not realizing how vital the information she had just give the man truly was.
And how much it meant, that they had a bit of an idea, about how many people they would have to knock out, before they could gain control of the small space ship.
Yet looking at it with just a bit of logic. It was pretty much impossible for her to have know, what the three people walking behind her, was actually going to do once they got board the shuttle.
It really didn't happen all that often, that a small bunch of people like this, would just calmly waltz in to an enemy base. And swipe a military craft, like it was the most common thing ever.
So with nobody suspecting them at all. It did not take long before they reached their ticket out to their rendezvous with the Eternal.
"Here we are now, I really do hope, you are feeling better, once you get back to the Plants miss Lacus!" The slightly older girl said, while looking at the celebrity with a concerned look, in both of her eyes.
Noticing that, Lacus just couldn't help herself from feeling a little guilty, about tricking the helpful girl like this.
They might only have meet her a short while ago. But this woman had already done a great deal for them, and as much as Lacus disliked lying to her.
She knew that it just couldn't be help, it would be pretty dumb of her to drop the whole whole tired act now. She had to keep on pretending, that she was just about ready to collapse at any moment now.
But that did not mean, that Lacus couldn't at least show her, that she was grateful for the assistance.
"Each of us, really appreciate the help you have given us, and please say hello to your blond friend. She seemed like a very nice person" Lacus said in a kind tone, as she gave the other girl a small polite bow.
Hearing that, the black haired girl smile a bit. "I'll make sure to tell her that. I think it will make her very happy to know, that you thought about her miss Lacus. Now if excuse me I'll be going now. Beside I think that the pilot of the shuttle is waiting for you!" She said loudly.
Before slowly nodding a single time in the direction of the entrance, to the small space ship.
Where they all noticed a small man, with a pair of nerdy specs waiting for them.
And just seeing the way he kept on beating with his left foot, made it kinda obvious that he was running very low on patient, and that he wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible.
Knowing that he had already said more then enough, to piss this young woman off the next couple of days, and that Lacus had already thanked her for the assistance she had given them.
Andrew honestly saw no real reason, to say anything else, that would properly result in her getting even more cranky.
So while mentally preparing himself, to knock the stuck-up guy with the round glasses out, instantly after they got inside the shuttle. The one eyed man slowly step past the two woman, and began making his way over to the ship, with Daisuke following not far behind him.
"Come along now miss Lacus! It would be very impolite of us, to keep the crew waiting, any longer then we already have" the Desert Tiger said calmly, while looking directly at the man, standing just ahead of him.
He could easily tell that this fellow, didn't suspect anything either, and that he had no idea about what was going to happen to him soon. It seemed very much like that the only thing on his mind at the moment, was getting the shuttle in the air.
Taking one short glance over at the Minerva that could be see in the distance. Lacus could see some work being done on the enormous ship.
Yet nothing that show, that they realized what exactly they where up too yet.
But she was pretty certain, that once they took control of the small craft. It would only be a matter of a minutes, before they would have a ton BABIs and other flight type mobile suits on their tail.
She just hoped they could get safely out in to space, before the grey war space ship, could get the Saviour and the Impulse up an running.
She wasn't totally sure if Athrun would actually try to shoot them down. But from what Cagalli had told her, about the guy in the Impulse. She was pretty sure, that he wouldn't even hesitate a second about killing all three of them.
Which made her hope deeply that Kira and Dearka could get here in time. Before the Minerva could get it's two gundams out there to chase them down, if that really happened. It would be even more difficult for them to get away from this place.
And not wanting to increasing the risk of being seen by either the base's personnel, or even the two people on board the Minerva, she honestly consider to be two of her really good friends.
So while still thinking about that. She gave their guide one last quick bow, then immediately turned and went after the two men, who she could see waiting for her by the entrance to the small space ship, which they where planing on borrowing without asking.
Once inside the ship, it did not take long before the door flew shut behind them, and seeing as their welcome committee wasn't really that big a fan of the pink haired girl. He just stood there a few minor seconds looking at her, before he turned and got ready to leave.
"Welcome on board miss Lacus, we are all deeply honored to have you trav...!" That was pretty much all the poor fellow got out.
Before the Desert Tiger's right hand, flew in to the left side of his neck.
Which pretty much instantly, send him falling to the floor with a small bump, clearly not going to wake up any time soon. After that and once he was sure that nobody had seen, what he just did he turned and looked over at Daisuke.
"He seemed quite tired, do you think the rest of the crew is in need of a good long nap too?" He quietly, before he slowly kneel down and picked up the unconscious man, then stepped over and opened a small door just opposite of the entrance, where he noticed a few cleaning supplies and a few other things, which was obviously meant to be used to maintain the small ship.
And not wanting anybody on the ship to see this guy, he roughly dumped him in there, then stepped back outside and closed the door again.
Just as he once more turned his attention back towards the other man, who not all that surprisingly, hadn't let his guard down at all.
"Well to answer you question Waltfeld. I believe most of them have been working quite hard recently, so lets do them a favour and fly the shuttle for them, while they get a little well deserved nap" He said, while taking a look around for anything that was a threat to them.
Looking a few times between them. Lacus of course couldn't help but noticed, the tiny grin both of the men had on their faces.
"I don't think, I'll ever be able to understand, how the two of you, can actually make jokes at a time like this. It just seems so unnatural, that you can do that while we are in danger" she told them almost in a whisper, as she took a small nervous glance around, for the other people on the shuttle.
Hearing her say that, Daisuke smiled slightly at her, just as he told her his reason for fooling around at a time like this. "Well it does help keep the tension low. I know that I for one can't fight properly. If I'm walking around being all nervous" he explained. While he reached down in to his pocket and pull out a small device, which he immediately handed over to her.
Slightly puzzled by that action, Lacus took the thing and looked up at the man. "What is this? And why are you giving this to me?" She asked confused, even true she already did know the answer, to the first of her questions.
She might only have seen one of these things, while watching television.
But it wasn't really difficult to figure out, that the small device was a shock gun of some kind, and judging from it's minor sizes, it was clearly meant to be hidden away somewhere on the body, so nobody could find it.
Yet while she tried to figure out the reason for why the man had given this to her. Andy stepped over next to her.
"To tell you the truth, it's actually me, you should be asking that question Lacus. I told Daisuke to bring something along you could use to defend yourself with, incase we got separate" the one eyed man told her.
Just before he reached up, and grapped on to the ugly scratching grey wig, which he immediately throw over his shoulder and on the floor, then once more continued explaining to the girl, how to use the small weapon.
"You just point it at somebody and press the trigger, then your target will get a light shock, that will knock them out for a few hours" he told the woman in a small yet serious tone, as he saw her nod a few times in understanding.
And somewhat pleased to know that she had a bit of an idea about how to use the thing. He decided that it was best not to spend anymore time just standing around down there. Soon or later the crew would start getting suspicious about what was going on.
"Now then lets hurry up and take care of the rest of the crew, Lacus you will becoming with me up to the cockpit, while you Daisuke take care of the guys down in the ship's mobile suit bay. And then take a look around the rest of the ship for anybody else?" Andy asked, while wondering a bit, why nobody had come searching for them yet.
But apparently the only person on this ship, who hadn't been in a lazy mood, was the moron he had knocked out only a few minutes ago, and thrown inside the small closet, to keep him out of sight.
Yet it was becoming somewhat clear, that the rest of the crew was either busy elsewhere, or was using the quiet time to slack of for a bit. Which definitely gave them a bit of an advantage, when taking control of the ship.
"All right you got it buddy, I'll see you two when I'm done!" Daisuke said and left without saying anything else. It actually seemed a bit like, he was looking forward to beat the crap out of the Zaft soldiers, hang out down in the mobile suit bay.
And see what kind of mobile suit, this ship was suppose to transport, back to the Plants. He might not have the ability to use the damn thing, but that certainly did not mean, that he wasn't a bit curious about it.
Once out of sight. Lacus turned and looked over at the man standing next to her.
"He does seem like a kind person, but I can't help but find him a bit strange. I mean is he always so eager to get in to a fight with others?" She asked, while wondering slightly, where in the world Mr Waltfeld knew that guy from.
Thinking a second or two about her question, the one eyed man reached up and scratch his hair a bit.
"Yeah well. I guess this is pretty normal for him, he does prefer to test his fighting skills against powerful opponents, that's actually one of the reason why I decided to take him along in the first places, there isn't really that many people around, that can beat that guy in a fist fight, which I actually think does bothers him a bit" Andrew explained, while thinking about how many times, he had heard Daisuke complain about not having a worthy opponent to fight.
Hearing the man tell her that. Lacus nodded slowly in understanding, while hoping deeply that the fight searching man, wouldn't get himself kill, down in the mobile suit bay.
Yet before she could worry about it for long, they both suddenly heard a loud displeased voice, coming slowly towards them, which made it clear, that now was not the best time, to stand around in once own thoughts.
But as she took a small glance over at the Desert Tiger, to try and figure out what he was thinking about.
He gave her a small sign, that told her that it was best for her to stay where she was, while he took care of whoever it was that had interrupted their little discussion about Daisuke.
And not wanting to increase their chances of being discovered. She just nodded quietly in understanding, as the Desert Tiger began cautiously make his way towards the still approaching man, obviously getting ready to give him the same brutal treatment as the last one.
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While all of that was happening on the smaller space ship.
Talia was up on the Minerva's bridge, having a nice little conversation with the top commander of the base.
Seeing as the two of them had been at the academy together, they where quite good friends, and had no trouble finding something to talk about with each other.
The brown haired woman was especially interested in hearing, about how his relationship with one of her other friends from the academy was going.
"So are the two of you still living together? You did say even back at the academy, that you would propose to her once we where done with our training. But did you actually do that? Most of us back then, didn't really think you where brave enough to go through with it" the woman told him, with a small grin on her face. While thinking about some of the more crazy thing they had done back then.
Hearing that the man let out a small laugh. "Wow it's nice to know that you guys had so much faith in me back then. But yes I did propose to her just a few days after we left the academy, and even true she did need a few days to think about it, she did say yes in the end!" He said with a proud smile on his lips.
Just as he was about to tell the woman that they had actually talk about having a kid, before the war broke out.
Yet before he could do that a soldier suddenly cut in to the conversation quite loudly.
"I'm really sorry to interrupted sir. But we just received a weird phone call, from miss Lacus manager, telling us that they will be arriving here within the hour, and that the shuttle better be fully repaired then!" He explained. Not doing anything to hide, that he was more then a bit confused about this.
Not totally sure if the young soldier was serious about what he had just told him. The commander said the very first thing that enter his mind.
"You have got to be kidding, we all of us just saw miss Lacus board the shuttle, that is suppose to take the Gaia gundam back to the Plants!" He yelled out. Already prepared to give the young soldier the biggest scolding he could imagine for pulling such a stupid joke at a time like this.
Unfortunately his next words did disappoint him. "I'm sorry sir! But it's not a joke it's the honest truth!" The teenage said. Sounding very much like, he was just about ready to go in to a panic over all of this.
Still pretty much clueless about what in the world was going on. The top commander blinked a couple times, as he tried to make some sense of this, and finally after a few seconds, he decided what they needed to do.
"Hurry the hell up and get in contact with the shuttle! Make sure that they do not leave, before we can figure out, what the heck is going on!" He ordered loudly, just as the screen in front of them was split in half.
Which meant that now both Talia and him could see the cockpit of the shuttle, where they immediately noticed a large man working on the controls. Clearly getting the small craft ready to launch.
And one single look at him, was more then enough to make it clear, that he was not a part of Zaft. "Who in God's name are you? And what are you planing on doing with that ship?" The deeply puzzled commander asked loudly, while trying to figure out why this man seemed so familiar.
Andrew on the other hand. Just lift his gaze away from the controls, where he looked a few times between Talia and him. It was almost like he wasn't worried one bit about what he was doing and what consequence it could have for him.
Yet before he had the chance to repeat the question. A small childlike smile appeared on the man's lips.
"Why hello again captain Gladys! It's great to see you again, have you finally decided to bring that pizza, we talked about during our last conversation?" He asked in a calm voice, as he continued working on the controls.
While looking directly in to the brown haired woman's lovely eyes. Still behaving very much like, he didn't have one care in the world. And had no idea about just how serious the crimes he was committing truly was.
Hearing the strange man ask her that. Talia couldn't help but get a puzzled look on her face, as she tried figure out, who exactly it was, that had asked her that bizarre question in the past.
Yet it was only after a few long tense seconds. Then her eyes widen slightly in realization, as she finally figured out where it was, she knew this man from.
It wasn't like it happened all that often that somebody would actually ask her for a pizza and a coke over the radio. "So it's YOU! You where that guy, who warned us back in Orb, that strange man who said he was working together with the Desert Tiger!" She call out in shock, while looking the man over, hoping to find something that would tell them, why he was doing this.
Unfortunately he didn't show any hesitation in his actions. And just continued working like it was a completely normal day on the job for him.
Yet as he was doing that the other person listening in on the conversation, suddenly cut in loudly.
"Don't kid yourself Waltfeld, Talia might not be able to recognize you. But I remember your mug everywhere. I was after all suppose to be apart of the Eternal's crew when you, and the rest of those damn traitors throw us all off. So tell me what you are up to now, you damn bastard?" He demand in a loud voice.
As he stood there looking at the man, who had wound his pride so badly two years ago.
Looking the angry man over a bit. Andy got a somewhat thoughtful look on his face.
"Well not hurt you feelings or anything like that buddy, but I don't really remember you. But if it's any consolation I am very sorry about it. Now then as much as I like talking with an old friend, and a lovely woman such as you captain Gladys. I believe that it's about time for us to get going. By the way before I forget, thank you very much for the gundam. I'll be sure to put it to good use!" He said, with a great deal of sarcasm in his voice.
And with that the communication was cut off, and the small space ship, began hastily making it's way down the runway.
Seeing that, the top commander quickly got out of the shock he had been trap in the last few minutes. And yell out a few loud orders.
"Damn it all! There is no way I'm going to let that man get away with yet another one of Zaft's ships, so hurry up and get all of the mobile suits out there! Shoot that bastard of a traitor down, no matter what!" He ordered loudly. Actually sounding quite a bit like a small hysterical child, that wanted a new piece of toy and had no idea about how much he was embarrassing himself right now.
Yet just as those words had left his mouth. Meyrin who was also up on the Minerva's bridge yell out a few more bad news.
"Captain the Freedom, is coming directly towards us, followed by a single Orb Murasame!" The girl explained. Just as the screen show the two mobile suits getting closer and closer to the base.
Which was a clear sign, that it would not be long now. Before a battle would start, above the space port.
And knowing that. Talia instantly shout out for the ship to go over to condition red.
And to get the two gundams and the GOUF out there, to counter the two, still hastily approaching mobile suits, and to try and stop the shuttle, that had already gotten quite far down the runway.
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So with the alarms now sounding all over the ship. Athrun and Nicol was hastily making their way down to the ships hangar.
Both of them wondering what in the world was going on, as for what little they knew about this base and what they had been told. This base had yet to suffer any of the Earth Forces' large attacks, they had pretty much left this place alone since the war started.
Seeing as this base didn't have a whole lot of strategic value, as it was located quite far away from any enemy territory.
Which was actually one of the reasons why it had been decided, to ship the Gaia out from there. They did not want the Earth Forces to get their hands on it one more time.
But as the two former members of the Le Creuset team, was wondering what was going on.
They both hurried enter the hangar, where the very first thing they saw, was the ship's only female pilot standing over by her ZAKU. Apparently hoping that she could somehow help out, even true it had only been the pilots of the three flight capable mobile suits that had been call in to action.
"What's happening Lunamaria? Is it the Earth Forces!" Nicol asked the girl. While taking a quick look around the hangar, where he could easily tell, that he was not the only one worried about losing the Gaia to the Earth Forces again. After they had gone through so much trouble, getting it back.
Yet once he heard her reply. He would honestly would have preferred, that it was the Earth Forces that was out there.
"Well I don't really have all of the details! But apparently, some weird looking man, and a girl looking very much like miss Lacus, have just ran off with the shuttle that had the Gaia on board. And that's not the only bad news, both the Freedom and that blue Murasame is out there fighting to protect the shuttle!" The female pilot said loudly.
Truly angry that somebody was actually trying to steal the Gaia one more time.
Yet as she stood there, trying to get at least a little control, over the deep anger she was feeling right now. She didn't notice the thoughtful frown, Athrun now had on his face.
He might not totally understand what was happening outside. But one thing was sure, if Kira and Dearka was presently fighting to keep the Zaft forces away from the small shuttle.
It could only mean, that the real Lacus was on board that ship.
And knowing better then most how protective his best friend could be over the woman he loved. Athrun realized that if there was anybody out there that did try to shoot down the shuttle, there was a minor possibility, that Kira would cease with his none killing fighting style.
Which could definitely be dangerous for all of them. So he just had to do something to stop Kira, and bring the shuttle to a hold without destroying it.
If Lacus got kill out there, he knew that there was no way neither Kira or Cagalli would ever forgive him. But he just couldn't let them get away with that ship, and the Gaia gundam.
"Damn it, lets go Nicol. We need to stop them before anybody gets hurt, and they can escape with the Gaia!" The blue haired young man said, as he turned and took off towards his mobile suit. Not even bothering to give Nicol the necessary time, to give him some sort of response.
He just need to get outside and put a stop to the Freedom as quickly as possible.
Which he already knew, was properly easier said then done.
With Lacus being involve in this, there was simply no way in hell, that Kira would permit anybody, to get anywhere near the small stolen space ship, so they could try and force it back down to the ground.
But he at the very least just had to try. They could not let them get away now.
And with those thoughts rummaging through his mind, he immediately wrapped his right hand around the thick black cable, which was supposed to take him up to the Saviour's cockpit.
Realizing that it would not be long now, before he would have a very tough fight on his hands.
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Meanwhile outside Kira quickly took aim and fired the beam rifle two times, destroying first the head on one BABI then the right arm of the next one.
But even while doing that, he instantly roll to the side, to avoid another attack from a pair of newer Zaft mobile suit, which meant that now the Freedom was up side down, where he instantly fired of both plasma cannons. So the two red powerful beams flew in, and destroyed the head and right arm, on one of the BABIs, just as it had been about to attack him one more time.
And before the other mobile suit could even try and aim at him again. Dearka's Murasame show up in it's mobile suit mode and immediately fired a couple of shots down in to the chest of the enemy mobile suit, thereby making it blow up not that far away from them.
"Damn, there is a lot more of these things here then I thought!" Dearka complained, while continuously firing off the beam rifle after yet another group of approaching BABIs, that was trying to get around him and the Freedom, so they could reach to the shuttle.
Hearing that Kira took a small glance over at the space ship, which his wife was on board, where he saw that it was now airborne, and that could only mean that it would not be long now before it was out in space.
But with the about twenty BABIs heading towards the shuttle, there was still a chance that one of them would actually hit the craft, and with that in mind, he activated the target lock system.
And it was only about a half minute later, when the gundam fired just about all of it's weapon, disabling more then a few of the flight type mobile suits.
"Yeah, I know Dearka. But look at the bright side, we only have to fight them until the shuttle is safely away, after that the two of us can retreat, and head back to the Archangel!" Kira yelled out to his friend.
Just before he pulled out the right beam saber, and took of towards five of the BABIs, which was apparently hoping, that they could somehow keep Dearka and him occupied, while the rest of the BABIs took out the hastily ascending shuttle in the distance.
Yet when Kira got in between the five mobile suits, he swiftly thrust the beam saber out, and cut the head of the first one of the BABIs, then hurried moved the saber upwards which removed both arms on the next one, then flew up over a minor attack from behind, while turning around at just the same time, where he fired of both rail cannons down at the third mobile suit.
Destroying about half of the weapons it had in it's mobile suit mode.
Yet before he could do something about the other two, a pair of small yet effective missiles, came flying in from out of nowhere, and slammed in to the back of the fourth BABI, making it blow up not that far from him.
"Kira you go after those two that is heading for the shuttle, I'll handle the last of these guys!" Dearka said in a loud tone, just as the Murasame, got back over in to it's mobile suit mode and pull out it's beam rifle, clearly getting ready to beat the crap out of the purple machine in front of him.
Hearing that, Kira turned and took off after the two BABIs, that was getting closer and closer to the shuttle.
"Thank you Dearka, I really own you a big favour!" Kira said, while he kept on increasing the Freedom's speed. Truly hoping he could get there in time, before those men in the mobile armor transformed mobile suits, could kill the woman he loved.
Fortunately it did not take many seconds, before he zoom straight past the two BABIs.
Then instantly turned around, and fired one shot at each of them, taking out the engine on the closed one of them, which meant it was pretty much impossible, for it to stay airborne any longer.
The other one however, somehow manage to avoid, the green beam intend for it, by transforming back over in to it's mobile suit mode.
"I'm going to take you out right now Freedom!" The pilot yell out in a deep determined tone. As he fired of the two hand held weapons, and the cannon install in the machine's chest area.
Seeing all of those beams heading right at him, Kira didn't waste anytime in getting the shield up to counter the first two attacks, after doing that he immediately throw the Freedom to the side, just as the thick red destructive beam flew right past him.
Knowing how dangerously close the last attack had been, he did not want to give this guy another chance, he hurried took aim and fired a pair of beams at the BABI before it could do anything else.
And just like last time, only one of the green beams found it's target, blowing of the left arm on the BABI. But while the atmosphere flight mobile suit tried to increase the distance between them.
Kira gave his low lip a light bite, as he carefully took aim, he seriously didn't want to kill this guy if he could avoid it.
And just as he saw the BABI, raise it's remaining hand held weapon, to attack him one more time, he hurried fired a single well placed shot from the rifle, which blow the right arm, straight of the purple machine.
Yet even after that, it still seemed a bit like the pilot in the BABI, wanted to continue on with their battle.
But much to Kira's small surprise, the man over in the other mobile suit began laughing loudly.
"Heh! I guess you are still as formidable a foe, as the last time we fought each other Freedom! Now hurry up and getting moving, there is somebody very important to you on that shuttle. And I'm certainly not going to just throw my life away, after you went through the trouble of sparing it twice now" the BABI commander said.
Just before he turned the armless mobile suit around, and began making his way back to the base. Truly pleased to know, that he had once more gone up against such a powerful opponent. It made the adrenaline pump through his body faster, then it had ever done before, and it made him even more determined, to improve his skills, and become an even better pilot then he was now.
Maybe by doing that, he would be able to last at least a bit longer, the next time he came across the Freedom, and that thought alone was more then enough to make the grin on his face grew a little bigger, as he got ready to land.
Looking after the BABI for a moment or two, Kira couldn't help but wonder a brief second or two where exactly, he had fought against him before. "What are weird pilot, but he was right about one thing, I better hurry and catch up with the shuttle, before anybody else can threaten it!" He said to himself.
Just before his mobile suit to spread out it's ten long wings, and took off after the shuttle, determined to defend it, until it was completely out of sight, and none of the Zaft force in the area could shot it down or stop it.
Yet as Kira was racing after the craft carrying his wife. Dearka was still going up against the last of the BABIs out there. Yet unlike the other once which he and Kira had taken out relatively easy when they had gotten there.
The pilot inside this machine was quite good, and with the BABI more heavily armed, in the long distance combat department, he was having a few problems, taking this guy out, which to be frank did piss him off a bit.
That however did not mean, that he was giving the fellow over in the BABI an easy time, he made sure to keep moving and fire of his beam rifle every single time, the opportunity presented itself. But to his minor irritation he didn't really have much luck in hitting the enemy unit, that was moving around all over the place, at just about the same speed as himself.
"Damn it! This isn't getting me anywhere time for a change in tactic!" He growled loudly, while at the same time evading up over the next couple of attacks, from both of the purple BABI's, hand held weapons.
After that he instantly reached out, and got the Murasame, over in to it's mobile armor, which he knew would give him a small edge when talking about speed.
But he realized, that if the BABI was meant as a replacement for the DINN, it was definitely no slowpoke when talking about speed.
Yet with all of those weapons it was carrying around, it was bound to be much more heavy, then a Orb Murasame, and that would undoubtedly, slow the other flight type mobile suit down quite a bit.
So while he was flying around at top speed, the BABI kept on firing, both of it's hand held weapons after him.
Yet thanks to all of the past experience, he had gain from being the Buster's pilot, he was quite accustomed, to the whole long distances combat routine, which meant that he had very few problems, predict and avoiding all of the lonely mobile suits attacks.
But if any kind of reinforcement happened showed up to help this guy out.
He knew that he could be in some real serious trouble, so it was properly a very wise idea, to get rid of this fellow as quickly as possible.
And he already had, an idea about how to take him out, it was just a matter of carrying it out, before his opponent would somehow get in a lucky hit on him.
So while swiftly rolling away, from two other attacks from the BABI, he didn't waste any time, in pointing the front of the Murasame at the other machine, and before it had the opportunity to do anything else he fired of two missiles at the BABI, which the pilot of course immediately tried to destroy before they could get to close to him.
Yet while he was occupied with that, at least for a small second or two, Dearka instantly got the Murasame over in to it's mobile suit mode, where he hurried fired of a couple of shots from the beam rifle at the other machine.
And seeing as it had just finished taking out the two missiles, the pilot simply didn't have the enough time, to avoid the green beams heading his way, which meant that the first one flew in a destroyed the left arm on the BABI, while the last one hit the chest area, which not surprisingly, made the purple war machine, blow up just a half second later.
It was just about that time, when the Freedom got over beside him. "So Kira, did the three of them, get safely away from here?" Dearka asked, while looking over at his friend's mobile suit, wondering slightly what the other pilot was thinking about at the moment.
But even true Kira had heard the one question Dearka had just asked him, he didn't really give him a reply back that very instant.
He just sat there in absolute silence, trying to figure out when he would be able to once again see his wife, there truly was no way for him to know, how many weeks or even months, would have to go by, before he would be reunion with her again.
Yet after sitting there for a few quiet seconds, he let out a deep breath.
"Yeah! Each of them where ok, they didn't really have much trouble dealing with the ship's crew, seeing as none of them had actually expect anything, and from what little they told me, they even manage to get their hands on the Gaia gundam, which apparently was suppose to be taken back to the Plants. So I guess the entire thing went pretty well!" He said, sounding just a tiny bit sad.
Truly happy to know, that the shuttle and their allies where all safe, Dearka sighing softly in relief. "It's great to know, that nothing happened to any of them. Now shall we retreat, or do you want to say hello to our two so called friends?" He asked, while using the beam rifle to point at the transformed Saviour gundam and the yellow GOUF, which they both knew belonged to Nicol.
Looking a bit at the two mobile suits, Kira slowly narrowed his eyes as he seriously consider what they should do now.
He knew that it would most likely be best, that they hurried turned around and left the area. But even so there was still one single thing, he honestly wanted to do now that he had the chance.
"Lets stay just a bit longer Dearka. I do have a small matter, I need to discourse with Athrun!" He said in a unhappy voice, just as both of the plasma cannons flipped over the Freedom's shoulder, where they instantly fired off two red beam each after the Saviour.
But with the long distance still between them. Athrun apparently didn't find it too difficult, to avoid his first attack.
Yet that only served, to make Kira turn the Freedom a bit to the side and fire a second time, after his best friend's red mobile suit.
Which of course immediately roll away from the attack, but that just made Kira shoot of the weapons a third time.
Seeing that and knowing what Kira was referring to, the blond man grin slightly, while turning his gaze away from the Freedom, and back towards, the two still hastily approaching mobile suits.
"Fine with me Kira. I do own Nicol some payback for all of the damage he did to my mobile suit, the last time we met. So let hurry up and go say congratulation to the new daddy. I'm certain he is going to be quite pleased by getting news like this!" The blond boy said, just as he moved the long range deadly weapon a bit, then fired a few shots after the yellow mobile suit.
Yet while they where firing one attack after another, both Athrun and Nicol was somewhat surprise by this situation.
"Ok this is a bit strange, I was actually expecting them to withdraw once the shuttle was gone!" Nicol yelled. Just as he raised the shield, to defend himself from Dearka's next attack, then swiftly reduced the thrust of the mobile suit, so he dropped down under the next couple of beams coming his way.
"Damn it, he just isn't letting up at all here!" The green haired man complained, just as the beam sword flew out from the shield, which he immediately grab on to with the right hand.
He knew, that there was just no way he could beat, Dearka in long distance combat at this moment in time, so what was the point of even trying, he had to find away to get closer to him.
By doing that, he could force Dearka to depend on the one hand-to-hand weapon the Murasame had. If he could do that, there was a big chance that he could either destroy the Orb machine, or force it away from the area.
But even true that plan did sound pretty good in his head. There wasn't any kind of break in Dearka's many attacks, which meant it seemed pretty much impossible for him, to turn this battle away from the long distance kind, and over to close combat instead.
Hearing him say that, and seeing what the problem was, Athrun was just about to give Nicol a hand, when two more red beams came flying towards him.
And with him being momentarily distract by Nicol's and Dearka's battle, the attack came dangerously close to hitting the right wing on the Saviour, and it also served as a pretty good remind him, that he could not afford to just ignore the Freedom right now.
He had to defeat Kira first before he could help out Nicol.
But as luck would have it, Kira seemed absolutely determined, to put more then one or two holes, through the Saviour, with those damn plasma cannons.
"Damn it Kira, there is no reason for this. Neither you or Dearka have any reason to stay here, didn't you already accomplish what you came here for!" Athrun yelled loudly, while rolling over the next attack from the Freedom's shoulder cannons.
Yet as he was doing that, Kira apparently decided, that it was finally enough with the plasma cannons, instead the Freedom shot full speed forward and reached over and pull out the right beam saber, obviously getting ready to use the weapon on the Saviour.
"Well lets just say, that there was a few things I really wanted to tell you about!" Kira yelled back over from the Freedom, not bothering to hide, that he was in a very bad mood about something right now.
And even before Athrun could get his mouth open to ask about it, the brown haired man swung the saber out after the other gundam, once more trying to remove the right wing on the Saviour.
And it was pretty much by share luck, that Athrun even manage to avoid, getting some serious damage on the gundam. Which would properly have gotten both Vino and Yolant, to complain a lot to him the next many days.
But even as the Saviour roll away from him, Kira did not cease with his small chase, instead he went over in to seed mood, then swiftly lifted the left arm and instantly throw the shield, over in to the side of the Saviour with as much force as possible.
"I'm not going to tell you, that you guys made a mistake Athrun. I just seriously hope that you are going to take responsibility for it. If you don't you can be damn sure that it will be more then just your mobile suit, I'm going to beat up" Kira said, before he slowly placed the beam saber, back where it belonged on the Freedom, now just waiting to hear what Athrun had to say. Realizing that the somewhat brutal assault was over.
Athrun reach out, and finally got the Saviour back over in to it's mobile suit mode, with the violent way Kira had been attacking him, ever since he and had gotten out there, he just hadn't been able to do that before now.
And seeing that, Kira didn't have any of the Freedom's weapons out, Athrun knew that their small fight was over, at least for now.
"What are you talking about Kira? I thought the only reason, you guys came here, was to steal that shuttle. So Lacus could get safely out to the Eternal" the confused blue haired teen said. Not doing anything to hide, that he was having quite the headache at the moment, from Kira's last stunt with the shield. He could not describe how incredible loud that had echo through the cockpit, it truly had been a painful experience.
Looking the red machine over for a moment or two, Kira seriously wondered what his friend was thinking about right now.
"Athrun, in just about eight months you are going to become a father, so would you PLEASE consider coming back to the Archangel? Cagalli might be to stubborn to admit it out loud, but she really does need you are lot right now. I can't even recall how many times I have caught her playing around with her engagement ring!" The brown haired man said, with small amount of anger in his voice.
Of all the things Athrun had expected Kira to tell him here, that had definitely not been one of them, and now that he had heard it, he had a very hard time figuring out just how he was suppose to react.
It wasn't really everyday, that once best friend would show up from out of nowhere, to tell one that the woman he was in-love with, was pregnant with their child and that she missed him a lot.
"I...I...that's...Kira...I didn't know...!" Athrun tried to say, while he thought about what else he should say, but he pretty much came up blank, in the whole speak department.
So in the end, without saying another word he fell slowly back in the Saviour's cockpit, and sat quietly there thinking about. Cagalli and how she was feeling about all of this, one thing was sure, she definitely had to be very uneasy, about the whole matter.
But as Athrun tried to make up his mind about what to do, Kira suddenly interrupted his thoughts.
"Well that's just about everything, I wanted to tell Athrun, now it would properly be wise for me and Dearka to get out of here. I can see the Impulse heading directly towards us! I frankly don't get why, you decided to join Zaft again, and I don't think I ever will, but try and figure out where it is, that you belong Athrun!" He told his friend.
With that said he turned away, and fired a couple of beams in the direction of the yellow GOUF, to get Nicol to back away from Dearka's Murasame, which it was still fighting against.
Amazingly enough, not one of the mass-produced machines, had taken any kind of damage yet, even true their battle had been very intense, the last few minutes.
Yet once Dearka saw his old team mate back away from him. He immediately realized that it was time for them to get going.
"Man, and it was just starting to get fun. But I guess we'll just have to finish this some other time Nicol. I'll see you later!" The blond teen called out, before he got the Murasame over in to it's mobile armor mode then took off full speed away from the area.
Hearing that and seeing the two mobile suits leave. Athrun finally snapped back out of his thoughts.
"Wait a minute Kira, I still want to talk about thi...!" That was about all he got out.
Just as he watched the Freedom, quickly drop down under an attack from the Impulse, then fly full speed straight down, where it swiftly pick up it's shield again, then took off in the same direction, as the blue Murasame.
And once the gundam was completely out of sight, Athrun let out a deep breath. "Damn it! Why couldn't they have wait just a bit longer, there are still so many things I needed to talk with Kira about!" He muttered to himself, while glaring a bit at the Impulse, even true he already knew, that Shinn and that Impulse wasn't the reason why they had left. It was most likely because, Kira had told him about everything, he had to say.
But Athrun kinda wished, that he had stuck around just a bit longer. At least until he had the chance to get over the minor shock, of being told that he was going to be a father.
He really had been wanting to ask Kira about how she was doing and if she was feeling all right.
Truth be told, he had a whole bunch, of vital questions, he had wanted to ask his best friend about. But it was just too late now, both Dearka and him was already far away from the area, perhaps even down in the ocean heading back to the Archangel.
Yet as he was thinking about that. Shinn's loud voice suddenly cut in to his thoughts.
"Why the heck didn't you fight him Zala! You where just hang around there doing nothing. How the hell could the Chairman even think about giving you that mobile suit! When you are just wasting it's power!" The dark haired boy shout loudly. Not giving a damn that that it was a high ranking officer, he was talking to in such a manner.
Hearing that Athrun turned and looked away from the direction, Kira and Dearka had disappeared in.
"You should not be pointing fingers Asuka! What where you up to all of this time? Why didn't you launch when the alarm sounded? And you better not tell me you fell asleep while watching that enemy pilot!" Athrun said, completely and utterly pissed of right now, and if Shinn provoked him in anyway he was more then prepared to give him the biggest ear full ever.
He seriously wasn't in the mood, to be a nice friendly commander at the moment.
So if Shinn decided to continue the argument. He would most definitely not settle for giving him a small warning.
"Well it wasn't like I wanted to stay back there and wait around not doing anything. But Vino and Yolant was running a maintenance check on the Core Splendor, so I couldn't really leave before now!" The boy explained.
Having realized that Athrun was just as angry, as that one time he had hit him, for disobey his orders to retreat. And he seriously did not feel like, getting a smack like that again, if he could avoid it.
Satisfied with the somewhat reasonable response. Even true it had not really been done, in the most friendly tone. Athrun slowly turned his back towards the Impulse gundam.
"I understand what the problem was Shinn! But what I'm curious about is, what you where doing, while they where working so hard on your machine, you have been ignoring your duties a lot these last few days, so straighten up it's also your job to help look after the Impulse!" He said in a angry voice. Knowing that, he was taking some of his frustration out on the other pilot.
But he just couldn't help himself. Shinn's bad attitude really got on his nerves right now. "Ok! I'll be sure to help out, with the Impulse's next maintenance check. Now can we go back to the ship, there is something I really need to do!" He said in a displeased tone. Seriously worried that Stella would wake up, from the deep coma she had been in, ever since she was brought on board the Minerva, and he honestly didn't want to think about, how badly she was going to react, should she wake up with him not being there.
If that actually happened, she was bound to be scared out of her mind. So he really wanted to be there to comfort her and protect her, once she finally woke up.
And even after being told by his commanding to straighten up. He was absolutely determined to stay by her bedside for as much as possible, until she got back out of her deep coma.
Already having a pretty good idea about why Shinn was in such a big hurry to get back to the ship. Athrun let out a soft sigh. "Yeah, there isn't much reason for us to stay out here anymore!" The deeply puzzled young man said. Seriously wondering what he would have done, if Kira and Dearka had stuck around there long enough for him to go over everything Kira had just said to him.
Would he actually have gone with them back to the Archangel, and the woman he loved, or would he have stayed loyal to Zaft.
He just couldn't find the correct answer to any of these questions right now.
The only thing that was somewhat clear to him, was that he needed a few hours alone. So he could think about everything, and make up his mind about, what in the world he should do now.
So without even waiting for his friends, he go the red mobile suit moving, and began slowly making his way back to the enormous grey space ship, he had been living on for the last few weeks.
Yet even while doing that, it became clear that it was pretty much impossible for him, to keep Kira's words out of his mind.
It truly was painful, and very tough for him to know, that Cagalli missed him so much right now. And that there was really nothing, he could do about it, at the present moment in time.
Which was why, he kinda wished that those two, could have stayed put just a bit longer. So he could at least have tried to straighten out the large amount, of puzzled thoughts, that was flying through his mind.
To be continued.
One thing I always wonder about in the original gundam seed destiny is how the Gaia gundam ended up on the Eternal. So I hope that you guys like this explanation for that small matter. Let me know what you think.