Hey guys I'm back, I hope that you are all doing well out there. Thank you for your patience and for answering my question about Lunamaria and Meyrin's parents.
Chapter 89
'Now then what shall I do with you? Any suggestion?' Those words just kept on echoing loudly through Lunamaria's mind, as she started up at the Freedom, while those words might have been spoken in a mostly friendly tone, they still sounded more than a little intimating to the young redhead.
"Emm you could let me go?" Luna suggested nervously, honestly fearing that the Freedom pilot might just crush her, and the Core Splendor with his mobile suit's bare hands, she did not want to die like that.
Not saying anything at first, Kira just kept on looking down at the small plane in the Freedom's hands. "Yeah I could do that, but are you sure that is what you really want, Lunamaria? I could bring you to the Archangel, your younger sister is there, along with Athrun. I am certain that each one of them would be delighted to see you" Kira told her in the same friendly tone as before.
Blinking rapidly a half dozen times. "No...No you are lying! There is no way my sister is still alive, she is dead because of Athrun! And...and if he is still alive on board the Archangel I am so going to kill him! He took Meyrin from MEEE! LET ME GO ALREADY!" The Impulse pilot screamed at the top of her lungs.
"I am not lying to you Lunamaria Hawke. Your sister really is alive, she was the one who told me your name. But since it's obvious that I can't convince that I am telling the truth, I'll let you go. But please do me a favor and keep an eye on Gilbert Durandal's actions, if you do that, I am sure that sooner or later you are going to realize, just how crazy that guy is, and when you do, you are more than welcome on board the Archangel. Now then, if it's not too much to ask, could you please tell Captain Gladys not to open fire on me while I put you down on the Minerva's deck?" Kira asked politely.
Glaring angrily up at the Freedom. "You have got to be kidding!? There is no way I'll allow you to get anywhere near the Minerva!" Lunamaria yelled firing both machine guns, unfortunately that did not have much effect, since the front of the Core Splendor, was pointed away from the blue and white mobile suit.
"I see, well then I apologize for the rough treatment" Kira said back, carefully changing his hold on the small fighter plane, then after quickly getting out the right beam rifle, he turned around and fired a single shot at a GOUF, that was trying to slip past him to get to the Archangel, blowing off it's right arm.
"Since you are now weaponless GOUF pilot, please do me a favor an bring this to the Minerva, and do be a little careful with it, we do not want her to break any of her nails now" Kira said with a hint of banter in his voice, as he gently tossed the Core Splendor over to the GOUF, that just barely manage to catch it.
That one small comment about her nails, was all it took for Lunamaria to get over being tossed around like a rag doll. "Ahhh shut the hell up you stupid bastard! Just you wait, Shinn, Rey and Nicol are so going to make you regret coming back!".
"Ok there is no need for name-calling here. But speaking of Nicol I do have a few things I need to discuss with him, not to mention the Destiny brat. You take care now Lunamaria and do think about what I said" Kira said, then after making absolutely sure that his adorable wife, and the new Justice was safely on board the Archangel, he immediately swirled around and took off full speed towards the location where Dearka was facing off against the Destiny and the Adamant, completely determined to lead his friend a helping hand against the two ZAFT gundams.
Watching the new Freedom fly off, the angry expression on Lunamaria's face soften quite a bit, she did not even hear the GOUF pilot asking her if she was all right, she just sat there staring intensely down into her lap with a couple of tears running down her face. While it was true that she had loudly accused the pilot of the Freedom for lying to her, regarding Meyrin being alive, Lunamaria begrudgingly had to admit, that he had not at all sounded like he was lying to her. The fact that he had actually wished her well before taking off, made the older Hawke sister feel even more conflicted, his words had just seemed so sincere.
But did that mean? Did that mean? That he was also telling the truth about the Chairman?. 'Noo stop it Lunamaria! Don't go there! The Chairman is a great man, he is trying to rid the world of LOGOS a terrorist organization! There is no way he can be crazy like that guy said, he is just trying to get me to doubt my allegiance!. But...But Meyrin...When she and I joined the ZAFT military I promised mom and dad, that I would look after her, but how the hell am I suppose to do that, when she and I are on opposite sides in this war' the redhead thought, with even more tears pouring down her face.
At the same time, Kira chopped the head of two BABIs that had been foolish enough to get in his way, firing the left beam rifle into the head of a third one that had a yellow color scheme, which indicated that he was most likely the leader of this squadron of BABI mobile suits, not that Kira gave a rat's ass about that. The only thing he cared about at the moment was to get to the one armed Yami, as quickly as possible.
Once past the last hindrance, which just so happened to be a Gunner ZAKU Warrior on a Guul, Kira raised both beam rifles, firing a single shot from each down at the Destiny, yet before either beam could hit their intent target, Nicol moved in from the left using his beam shield counter the shots, the sight of the Adamant doing that instantly served to make the already deep frown on Kira's forehead grow even deeper. Athrun had not been able to tell him overly much about Nicol's new mobile suit, since unlike the Destiny and Legend, he had never faced this machine in combat, but it was highly obvious that it was very well armed, which along with it's top-notch defense made it clear to Kira that beating this thing was going to be quite a challenge, but that certainly did not mean that he wasn't going to give it a try.
So then after swapping the beam rifles out with the sabers, Kira increased the Freedom's speed even further, swinging rapidly from side to side to make it as hard as possible for Nicol to get a lock on the Freedom, Kira continued heading towards the black and green mobile suit, yet the exact instant his old friend lower the shield and pulled out the lance, Kira immediately fired the Calidus down at the Adamant, aiming to blow off it's ugly head, and thereby remove Nicol from the equation. Unfortunately much to his annoyance, Nicol was quick enough to evade down under the powerful red beam.
"Damn, guess we are doing this the hard way..." Kira said to himself in a low whisper, then swung the right beam saber down at his opponent. That swiftly countered that move with the lance, now locked together, the two old friends tried with all their might, to over power one another, only for Nicol to hastily back away, when Kira made an attempt, to cut off the Adamant's right arm with the saber in the Freedom's left hand.
Quickly blocking the large number of beams and machine gun shots Nicol fired at him, Kira heard the green haired man shout and curse loudly in anger through the radio.
"God damn it, Kira! I think the last time you fought this aggressively against me, was during our battle at Artemis! That really does feel like a lifetime ago old friend, even though it has only been two short years!" Nicol said, while charging fully speed at Kira, with the obvious intention of trying to pierce the Freedom's cockpit.
Keeping an eye on the lance, Kira immediately throw himself to the side the very instant Nicol thrust the weapon out after him, moving swiftly past the Adamant, Kira swirled around in one fluid motion that ended with him giving the orange eyed gundam a strong kick in the back, which he had kinda hoped would be enough to knock Nicol off the Guul, yet as luck would have it, the Adamant stayed put on the subflighter, turning around Nicol once more opened fire at him.
Evading skillfully in and out between the beams and machine gun shots, while firing both Railguns back, Kira gave Nicol a reply in a low angry tone. "Yeah tell me about it Nicol, that was back when you were actually a nice person".
"Oh give it a rest Kira! I already heard all of this drivel from Dearka, I do not need to hear it from you too, nothing you can say to me, are going to change my mind! Besides, I need to make you pay for what you did to Lunamaria, you are fortunate that she wasn't hurt!" Nicol growled with an unbelievable amount of hatred in his voice.
"I see, then it appears that we got nothing else to talk about. But if it's not too much to ask Nicol, tell the Chairman to stop threatening my wife, otherwise I might just start targeting the woman he loves, I know that the stupid son of a bitch, is in a relationship with Captain Gladys" Kira said, pointing one of the still activated beam sabers, at the Minerva. Not that Kira had any intention of targeting Talia Gladys, he was simply hoping that by threatening her, it would make Gilbert Durandal think twice about sending any more assassins after Lacus. Then without waiting for his old friend to give him a reply, he cut off the communication between him and Nicol.
Then as the Freedom's beam sabers once again clashed with the Adamant's lance, Kira got in contact with the Yami, that was presently flying around just above the sea, with the two beam blades on its legs, sticking down into the water, which resulted in a great deal of steam covering up the black gundam.
"Dearka do you read me?! Are you ok down there?!" He asked loudly.
It took less than a minute before Kira received what could only be described as a short fused answer from Dearka. "Other than the fact that the Yami is missing the left arm, I am thirsty and could use a small break, I am just dandy Kira. Now then since we are asking each other stupid questions, I got one for you buddy, what were you doing all of this time? What took you SOO damn long?!" The Yami pilot asked his voice filled with so much frustration as he rolled sideways to avoid a couple of green beams, the Destiny brat fired down into the steam in an attempt to hit him.
"I am sorry that it took so long Dearka. ZAFT got a lot of ships searching for the Eternal these days, sneaking past them without being spotted proved to be a bit of a challenge, and to make matters worse, they got a small fleet of Laurasia-class ships guarding the space almost directly above Orb, so we had to change our entry point at the last moment" Kira explained, while quickly combining the two beam rifles, then fired it down at the Adamant, in yet another attempt to destroy it's special Guul, not that he had much luck with that, the only thing he to hit, was the shield.
"Mmm, I guess those are some pretty valid excuses for you arriving so late to the party, Kira! So if you just help me beat the dumb brat and the stupid traitor, then everything is aaalmost forgiven. The only thing I am still a little ticked off by, is that this new Freedom of yours can combine it's weapons like that, if you do not know, that used to be mine and the Buster's whole shtick!". Those displeased words was followed by Dearka rushing full speed out of the thick steam, swinging the Mirage Colloid cloaked weapon out after the Destiny, that reacted immediately by activating those bothersome Wings of Light on it's back, swiftly backing away from him. Yet having fully expected that, Dearka waited for the exact moment Shinn stopped moving, then fired two rapid shots from the rifle, which he had been holding onto the entire time, the first shot doing nothing more than scratching the right leg, while the second shot blew it off right by the knee.
Not getting much time to be pleased with the resulted. The smirk on Dearka's face instantly vanished, once he saw Shinn stashing away the beam rifle and pulling out the giant sword, charging with posthaste straight at him. Absolutely determined to keep the downright insane brat from damaging anything else on the Yami, Dearka swiftly backed away while firing both the beam machine guns and the rifle at the rapidly approaching Destiny, not hitting anything else but the shield. Yet the exact instant Shinn trusted the sword out after him, the blond haired man got the Yami over into its mobile armor mode, then rolled sideways up over the attack, kicking down after the blue and gray mobile suit with the right blade, as he pasted over it, a moved that was swiftly countered by the sword.
Yet as Dearka worked on increasing the distance between him and Shinn, he heard Kira talk to him through the radio.
"The fact that this new Freedom can combine it's weapons ain't really my fault Dearka, it's not like I designed this mobile suit myself!" the Freedom pilot loudly informed his friend, knowing that if he had been the one who design this gundam, he would, must definitely have left out the DRAGOONs. Even after talking with Mr Waltfeld about it during their sparring match, Kira still did not entirely like that system. So if he had been the one in charge of this new Freedom's design, he would have put in a Balaena plasma beam cannon, in each of it's wings instead, even though he kinda doubted that one nuclear reactor would be enough to power those things for a long period of time, they did after all require a great deal of energy.
One thing however that was made perfectly clear by the Adamant charging straight at him with the lance ready to strike, was that now really wasn't the best time for him to be thinking about what other weapons he would rather have on the Strike Freedom instead of the DRAGOONs. Disconnecting the beam rifles, Kira stared intensely into the Adamant's bright orange eyes, only throwing himself to the right the very instant Nicol thrust the highly deadly weapon out after him, with the obvious intention of piercing the Freedom's cockpit, firing one shot from each rifle in the process, which was immediately countered by the shield, before the green haired man again charged full speed towards him.
'Ahh damn it! I had pretty much forgotten how skilled an opponent Nicol truly is, and unlike his old Blitz gundam, this machine is definitely made for heavy combat!' Kira thought, swiftly ducking down under the lance as it was swung out after him. Now underneath the Adamant, Kira turned and again fired the rifles, hoping to wreck up the Guul enough to send Nicol for a nice little dip in the sea, but while the first shot did hit the mark, it thanks to a somewhat hazardous evasion from Nicol did not damage anything overly important, so much Kira's annoyance the Adamant stayed airborne, yet as his old friend turned and once again headed towards him, the Freedom pilot noticed that the more sturdy Guuls speed, had definitely been reduced, and the bit of smoke that was seeping out from it, served as a pretty obvious sign that it was in the need of some serious repair work.
"That should at least make things a little easy for me. Not that Nicol is out of the game yet" Kira mumbled under his breath, then watched with narrowed eyes as Nicol stashed away the lance and got out his own beam rifle.
Greatly annoyed by the fact, that the Guul was not functioning like it was supposed, Nicol briefly considered giving it a few hard kicks in the hopes that would get it to work properly again, yet almost being hit by two yellow shots served as a pretty obvious reminder that staying still to try and fix the heavily damage Guul in the same manner one would attempt to fix an old TV, was a very bad idea.
"I have to keep moving, otherwise I am nothing but a sitting duck! If only I could get over land, then I would not have to worry about the Guul being destroyed!" Nicol mumbled, only to curse softly at the sight of the Freedom combining its two beam rifles again, quickly taking aim at him. Forcing the Guul upwards, Nicol was just barely able to avoid getting hit by the powerful green beam, Kira fired after him, yet as even more smoke seeped out of the Guul, the young green haired man seriously wondered, just how much longer this thing would be able to keep him in the air. Then while firing back at the Freedom with his own rifle and the beam guns, he glanced in the direction of Yalafath, it would take him at least two or three minutes to get there, probably even longer, since Kira seemed absolutely determined to keep him as far away Orb as possible.
'Damn you Kira Yamato! You are not going to be the one to prevent me from accomplishing my goal! I am getting past you no matter what!' Nical growled determinedly in his mind, while firing again and again after the Freedom, that kept on swiftly moving in and out between the beams, while shooting back at him.
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Yet while Kira and Nicol was trying so intensely to blow each other out of the sky, Lacus who had just landed the Infinite Justice on board the Archangel, was slowly crawling out of the powered down gundam, pulling off her pink helmet in the process, to rub away some of the sweat on her forehead, while Lacus did not mind being inside a mobile suit, especially if her husband was the one piloting it. Controlling one herself had honestly been quite nerve-racking, even with the bit of training Kira had insisted on given her.
'I really do hope, that piloting a mobile suit on my own was just a one time experience, I never want to do this again' the pink haired girl thought, just as she heard a loud excited voice call out to her.
"Big sis! BIG SISTER LACUS! Ohh I am so happy to see you again! You have no idea how worried I was about you and grandpa Waltfeld, when I heard about the Eternal being attacked!" Mayu cried out at the top of her lungs, racing towards her older sister with outstretched arms, and happy tears running down her small round face.
Quickly tossing her helmet over to Mr Murdoch who just happened to be nearby, Lacus reached out and caught the weeping eleven-year-old girl, as she leaped into her arms, almost knocking her over. It was more luck than anything else that Lacus manage to remain standing, especially considering how much time she had spent out on the Eternal being weightless.
Gently stroking the sobbing girl's back. "Shh it's all right sweetheart, there is no need for you to cry, both me and Mr Waltfeld are just fine".
Sniffling slightly Mayu backed slightly away from her older sister, looking into her eyes. "I...I am so happy to hear that sis...I did not want to lose either of you..." she said, just barely able to get those words out before another sob ran through her body.
It was at that exact moment, that Athrun who was still sitting in the crappy old wheelchair, choose to roll over next to the two girls. "I, too am glad to see that you are all right Lacus. I never expect you to be the one to bring the new Justice down here" the blue haired man said.
Breaking the embrace, Lacus carefully looked Athrun over, trying to judge just how injured he was. "I did not really do much Athrun, I was just sitting in it, keeping the seat warm. But what about you? Are you sure you are well enough to pilot it?" She asked with a hint of concern in her voice.
Ignoring the pain Athrun forcefully pushing himself up from the wheelchair he hated so utterly much. "Not really Lacus, but like I told Mayu I simply REFUSE to sit around here twiddling my thumbs, while all the people I love and care about, especially my wife to be, is fighting so hard to protect our home!" He growled determinedly, then without waiting for a response he began making his way towards the Justice.
Having fully expect that reply, Lacus nodded slowly, then smiled slightly when Mr Murdoch stepped over and took a hold on Athrun's arm, putting it over his shoulder.
"Here I'll help you out you stubborn idiot. And just to be clear on one thing you stupid nincompoop, if you get yourself killed out there and leave your kids fatherless I am SO beating you up the next time the two of us met" the large man growled in a low displeased tone.
Glancing up that cranky off chief engineer, who was still mumbling angrily under his breath about how much of a dumbass he thought Athrun was for doing this, and how stupid he had to be for helping him do it.
"You got yourself a deal Murdoch, if I die out there you got my personal permission to beat me up, when we met each other in the afterlife" Athrun guaranteed him while putting on his helmet.
If there was one thing Kojiro Murdoch had always been good at beside fixing damaged machinery, then it was showing people that he was mad at them, and the deep sulky glare he was presently sending Athrun, made it perfectly clear just how angry he was at the blue haired young man.
"I wasn't really planning on asking for your permission knucklehead! I was just going to do it, hell if it was not because I was afraid to injure you even further, I would have beaten you up right here and now Athrun Zala, for being so stupid! You have always been of the reckless sort, but you going into battle with your ribs still messed up, really does take the cake!" The pissed off engineer growled angrily, just as the two of them arrived at the Justice still opened cockpit.
Slowly crawling into his new mobile suit, Athrun turned and looked back at the mechanic. "Thank you, Murdoch, I appreciate the help"
"Don't mention it kid, EVER!" With that said the large man turned away and quickly left.
Shutting the cockpit hatch, Athrun immediately started powering up the Justice. Seeing that the red gundam's overall complicated OS had already been fully programmed to do battle in Earth's atmosphere, made a hint of a smile run across the young man's lips, there was only one person who could be responsible for doing that.
"This should make things a lot easier, I own you one Kira" Athrun mumbled softly to himself, then without further ado, he got the Justice moving, stepping onto the catapult, yet as he watched the hangar door slide open ahead of him, Athrun took a short anxious glance down at his chest, even without Murdoch's 'friendly' reminder of his ribs being mess up, it did not take a genius to figure out, that the launching of the Justice was not going to do wonders for the healing process.
"Aww man, this is going to hurt like hell...Athrun Zala Justice heading out!".
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At the same time back outside, a frowning Rey was growing increasingly frustrated by how this battle was proceeding, the Destiny was missing the lower part of its right legs, which most fortunately did not seem to hinder Shinn's effort all that much, he was still completely fixated on tearing that black gundam apart. Not too concerned about his roommate, Rey took a glance in the Adamant's direction, judging from the thick smoke that was steadily seeping out of the special Guul, Nicol would not be able to stay airborne much longer. Finally and without a doubt worsted of all, was that Lunamaria's Impulse, had been taken out of taken out of commission just mere moments after Kira Yamato had made his appearance, with his new Freedom gundam.
'Kira Yamato how are you still alive? You are supposed to be dead, I saw Shinn kill you' the blond man thought, knowing that there was nothing he would rather do then head off to fight Kira Yamato, the person he despised most of all in this entire world, the one who had killed Rau, his older brother, the one who along with his wife, was the biggest threat to Gilbert's plan for this world succeeding. Hell he had even told Lunamaria that he would deal with the Freedom, yet when he had been about to go do that, the golden gundam had immediately gotten in his way, thereby making it abundantly clear, that he would have to go through him first before he could challenge the Freedom.
But while Rey had been absolutely determined to get past his bothersome opponent as swiftly as possible, that was to put it mildly easier said than done, since the Orb gundam had such a major advantage against his own machine, it was so much faster, and it's beam deflecting armor made just about all the Legend's long range weapons virtually useless, which left him with only the machine cannons and the beam javelins. But even after trying a half dozen times, to get closer to the golden gundam, he had not succeed in doing that yet. The guy, whom Rey of course realized was the same person that used to be the pilot of that purple mobile armor, he had fought against those two times, shortly after the Chaos, Gaia and Abyss had been stolen from Armory One, whoever he was, was still extremely good at keeping his distance.
Yet just when he was about to once more charge off after the Orb mobile suit. Rey spotted from out of the corner of his eye, the new Justice gundam relaunching from the Archangel. Turning, the blond man started intensely at the powerful red mobile suit, wondering if the individual piloting it, was the one he suspect it might be. The chances of Athrun Zala still being alive, was after all relatively high, thanks to that black Mirage Colloid equipped mobile suit interfering, when Shinn had been about to kill him and Meyrin, during their escape from Gibraltar.
"This is becoming quite problematic" Rey said out loud, simply unable to hide the intense annoyance he felt over their present situation. The blond man of course knew better than anybody else, that getting rid of the new Justice gundam and its pilot Athrun Zala, was just as important as getting rid of Kira Yamato and the Freedom, with that in mind he was just about to take off after the red backpack wearing gundam, when a loud booming voice called out to him.
"Hah! You don't even know the meaning of the word, problematic! All of you ZAFT bastards, have no idea how much trouble you are in! So you better appreciate me showing it to you!" Mu yelled.
Those words instantly served to make Rey realize, that now really wasn't the best time for him to be distracted by the prospect of tearing the Justice apart, thereby ending to Athrun Zala's miserable once and for all. He had his own highly skilled opponent he needed to deal with, before he could go lend Shinn and Nicol a helping hand against the Freedom, Justice and that black Murasame like gundam, that had done so much damage to the Minerva, with that crazy stunt it had pulled with that old Guul.
Turning swiftly to face the golden gundam, Rey let out a small surprised gasp. Immediately throwing himself backwards, he just barely managed to get the shield up, before he was hit by two red beams that had evidently been aimed at the Legend's cockpit in an attempt to remove him from the equation. The fact that this guy unlike Kira Yamato did not mind getting his hands dirty made it all the more imperative that they need to get rid of him too, preferably capturing his pretty unique mobile suit in the process, he was sure that whatever technology was in that thing, it was something ZAFT could certainly use.
It was at that point the Legend's shield was yet again hit by two red shots, but while the long range attacks themselves wasn't really that surprising, the sight of the golden mobile suit coming straight at him, with its beam saber ready to strike did astonish Rey quite a bit, up until now this creep had done everything he could to stay out of range, so him changing tactic like this meant that he had to be up to something.
But with him getting closer and closer with every second that went by, Rey knew that now was not the best time to figure out what. He had a job to do. Putting away the rifle, he got out both javelins quickly combining them, then got into a position to tussle with the rapidly approaching Orb mobile suit. Yet the very instant he did that, three Murasame lead by that green one, dropped out of the thick clouds directly above them, each one of them firing all of their missiles at him.
Cursing softly under his breath, Rey continuously fired both machine cannons and the DRAGOONs at the many warheads, destroying one after another before they could even get close to him, but because he did not have the time required to even aim properly, not all beams hit their intent target, quite a few of them missed. Two shots flew past the many incoming warheads and seemed like they were simply going to disappear into the ether, when suddenly the golden gundam appeared from below, letting itself get hit in the chest area, thereby deflecting both beams back at him, one of them hitting and destroying one of the DRAGOONs on the left side.
"Heh, how do you like them apples?" Rey's opponent ask, his voice filled with so much banter and mockery.
Mentally reminding himself to remain calm and not give into the provocation, Rey glare up at the annoying Orb mobile suit. "Very clever, I am going to make you pay for that" he said calmly back, then quickly got the Legend moving, racing full speed straight at his foe. That immediately fired the beam cannons at him, then swiftly turned around and took off in the opposite direction, obviously going back to his previous strategy.
'There is no way I can not beat him in long distance combat, I have to try and draw him towards Shinn and Nicol, so they can finish him off!' Rey thought determined, as he kept on chasing the enemy mobile suit.
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At the same time in the middle of the mayhem down on the ground, Yuna was crouching down beside a tipped over bus, shaking like a leaf. The sound of something blowing up, not that far away from his location was all it took to make him whimper softly, as he looked around after the four loyal soldiers, who had been escorting him to the place where Djibril was presumably waiting for him.
Unfortunately much to Yuna's dread and horror there were no sign of the helpful soldiers anywhere. Maybe it really had been a mistake on his part to run away from them, when they had been momentarily distract by that wind turbine falling over, when the foot of it had been hit by that random beam shot that came from out of nowhere.
"HEEY IS ANYBODY OUT THERE! I AM OVER HERE, GUYS!" The frightened politician shouted at the top of his lungs, but even if there had been somebody nearby, it was impossible for anybody to hear him over the ear-splitting sound of battle in the area.
Reluctantly realizing that he was on his own out there and that if he want to survive this nightmarish ordeal, to get revenge on Cagalli Yula Athha for cheating on him, with the bastard Athrun Zala, he would have to do it himself. Standing up straight, Yuna looked around hoping to find a better place to hid until the battle was over.
Noticing an empty dumpster not that far away from him, Yuna with some hesitation in his steps began making his way towards it, he seriously did find the very notion of a man of his high stature, hiding out in something like that more than just a little appalling, but if it could keep him safe until all of this was over, he guessed that he could live with it.
"This is all your fault, Cagalli. Just you wait, I am going to make you pay for humiliating me like this!" He growled angrily under his breath.
Yet before Yuna could get any closer to the smelly old dumpster, a DINN suddenly appeared above him, shooting violently at something down on the ground. But even though none of the shots even came close to hitting him, the purple haired politician still screamed loudly as he threw himself on the ground, covering up his head.
"NOOO! STOP SHOOTING YOU STUPID COORDINATOR! DON'T YOU REALIZE THAT I AM DOWN HERE?!" The cowardly politician wailed, so utterly terrified by all of this, that he did not even dare to take a look up at the purple ZAFT mobile suit.
Yet as Yuna Roma Seiran laid there on the dirty ground, he seriously did not understand what in the world he had done to deserve this, there was after all no denying, that he was the rightful ruler of Orb. So why was he not somewhere safe?. While those stupid mindless lemmings that was his soldiers fought to protect him, along with the rest of his family. That was after all what those disloyal bastards was supposed to do, they should be glad to lay down their lives for him.
Yuna did however not get much time to feel sorry for himself, when he heard the booming sound of a mobile suit's footstep rapidly approaching his location. The sight of an M1 Astray leaping full speed over the hill not that far away from him, filled the purple haired man with an unbelievable amount of relief, especially when the clearly skilled pilot turned in midair, firing a single shot from the rifle up into the DINN's cockpit, landing with a loud thump just a few seconds afterwards.
With the DINN no longer a threat, Yuna who seriously did feel like his entire serious body was made of lead, pushed himself with a greal deal of difficulty up from the ground. Then after brushing away the bit of dirt on his face, to make himself look at least somewhat presentable, he started walking with slow unsteady steps towards the red and white Orb mobile suit, figuring that if he could get the pilot's attention, he would keep him safe, that was his job after all.
Once the staggering Yuna got a bit closer to the M1, he slowly raised his hand and was just about to wave up at the Orb pilot, yet before he could do that, the Astray suddenly swirled around with such speed, that Yuna barely had time to register what was happening, it was only when the M1 started shooting rapidly upwards, that it dawn upon him that the danger was far from over, there was another ZAFT mobile suit closeby that was a threat to his existence.
"GET RID OF HIM! YOU IDIOT!" The cowardly politician screamed at the M1 pilot.
Just mere second after those loud panic-stricken words had left Yuna's quivering mouth. The ZAFT mobile suit, which just so happened to be a GOUF, fired a round of beams down at the Astray, that immediately leaped backwards in an attempt to avoid the incoming attack, but even so the left leg was still hit and blown to bits. So as the Astray landed it was impossible for it to stay upright, yet as it start falling over, the Orb pilot quickly aimed the rifle and fired a single shot up at the GOUF, hitting the blue mobile suit's cockpit. Satisfied with everything he had accomplished in this battle, and knowing that there was not a damn thing he could do to resist gravity, the Orb pilot simply braced himself for the impact that was about to happen.
"NO DON'T AHH!" Yuna screamed in pure terror at the sight of the M1 falling straight towards him, his mind yelling at him to run, but his frozen body just wouldn't move, which meant that only a brief instant later Yuna Roma Seiran was hit and crushed to death by the Orb mobile suit's head of all things.
Opening the cockpit Usui slowly crawled out of his half wrecked mobile suit, pulling off his helmet and stretching his aching back. "Oh man I am getting way to old for this nonsense, if I never get in a mobile suit again, it will be to soon" he mumbled in a low grumpy tone, sitting down on top of his mobile suit, where he immediately reached down into his pocket to find his cigarettes, after all of this he seriously need a good smoke, it was not everyday went up against and beat five ZAFT mobile suits.
Yet what the nearly sixty-two year old man did not know, was that beside the enemy soldiers he had killed in this battle, him and his mobile suit had claimed the life of one more person. Not that Usui Takemoto would have given a rat's ass about that, had known who it was, he quite frankly hated the entire Seiran family with a passion, in his eyes it was entirely their fault, that Orb had gotten mixed up in this pointless war in the first place. So having one of those idiotic people's life on his conscience, was not going to bother the old soldier, overly much.
Fishing out his trusty old lighter, Usui quickly lit up the cigarette already hanging from his lips, taking a deep long drag from it, he leaned back to watch the 'entertainment' that was happening so far above him. He could see the new Justice gundam rapidly approaching the blue and gray ZAFT gundam, he had spotted a few times, while he had been busy thinning out the herd of mass produced mobile suits ZAFT had send there.
"Good luck buddy, show that bastard, that Orb is not a country anybody should mess with" the grumpy old man mumbled, quite a bit annoying by the fact, that he had not thought about bring a bottle of rum with him, he could really use a drink right about now.
To be continued.
A lot of you have asked me to make Yuna's death as painful as possible. I hope you guys are all satisfied with what I came up with, even though he died pretty much the same way as he did in the anime. What I mostly want to do when I came up with his death in this story, was to tell a little more about what was going through mind doing his last moments, to show that he was a selfish jerk to the very end, that got what he deserved. Please do let me know what you think.