I do not own the rights to Gundam Seed, Iron Blooded Orphans, Wing or Gundam Build Fighter/Try. All characters that are not mine or owned by their respective series creators. Please enjoy. Credit for the original plot device, the zero system, goes to Nemesis Astrea. Any custom gunpla credit also goes to their respective creators or developers unless stated otherwise.

The legion grows

Flay whined slightly as the alarms blared and Kira got out of bed. She had to admit she had no idea what came over her. All she knew was…by doing this…It made that warmth go away. But as she curled up in the blanket, taking in Kira's scent…she couldn't help but begin laughing with tears streaming down her face as Kira left. The knowledge he was going to protect them kept him going right? No…he wasn't going to protect them. As much as he thinks it with what they had just done…no. Now he was going to save her. And she couldn't help but smile cruelly at that thought.

This though made her frown as that confusion came back and she slowly sat up, one hand using the blanket to cover her chest, the other holding her head. Why? Why did she want him to protect JUST her? It was flattering sure…but she wanted him to protect her simply to make him fight. She thought…she thought maybe if she slept with him it might help this confusion, like nature was using her body to enforce some cosmic desire for him and her to be together. No…while she did feel better. The confusion was still there.

"Why? Why is it when I think of him protecting JUST me…I feel such anger…and yet…"she sniffled slightly. "I can't stop crying. I can't help but feel that what I'm doing is horrible…but it's what I want." she shook her head. "NO! I don't want Kira to fight. He fought enough…daddy is safe, and Noah and Nicol could fight for us. So…" she pulled the blanket away from her slightly. "So…why can't I feel any real joy in this? Why do I feel like I did this purely to manipulate him? Why…why….WHY AM I SO CONFUSED?!" she exclaimed as she fell back in bed and cried, sobbing as she could still smell him. Part of her wanted him here, next to her, sleeping, safe….hers. But another part wanted him out there, fighting…like she didn't want him to come back. Like she wanted him to die while taking as many coordinators with him….and that thought made her cry even more.

Suddenly the alarms stopped and flay blinked. Was it a false alarm? Suddenly Kira was in the doorway and he looked…confused.

Walking over to the bunk they had been sharing he sat down, still in his flight suit and sighed. "Flay… I want you to leave my bunk."he said somberly.

Flay blinked. What? Kira was kicking her out. "What…but kira I…" she started but kira held up her hand.

"Please….just go…I need to think about something." he said as he motioned for her to leave. Flay slowly got up and got dressed, severely confused by the fact Kira was back already and was telling her to go. As she left she stopped and turned back to the coordinator.

Kira looked up and just shook his head.

Flay nodded and walked out of the bunk room and went back to her own quietly, somberly as she felt rejected in so many ways.

The legion grows

Asny and Lily sat on a box in the hangar, both still in their flight suits but Asny with a cup of military grade coffee. "This stuff is shit compared to some of the brew Andrew made."said Asny as Lily reached out and rubbed her back.

"How was it? Being a POW?" She asked as she wanted to hear what the enemy was like in treating their prisoners.

Asny looked at Lily and shrugged. "I dunno. I didn't feel like one. I woke up in a lavish bed, my bio-weave suit off me and on a chair nearby. There was a fresh cup of coffee and as I drank it Aisha came in and gave me a rundown on what happened. They found my machine half buried in the sand, likely from impact. Oh yeah the eject system doesn't work, so I tried to essentially commit suicide by going through re-entry alone. Guess it didn't work." she said as she sipped her coffee. Lily nodded, listening intently.

Asny continued as she looked to her gundam being repaired and repainted by the techs. "So anyways. They found me half buried in the desert. Thinking it was abandoned and made by some third party they recovered my suit before they got the report regarding "bravo two". So they hauled me back to base, not realizing I was inside. When they finally cracked open my cockpit they found me, passed out, severely dehydrated. They took me to a medical facility and got me all re-hydrated. When I didn't wake up they decided to move me somewhere more comfortable."said Asny.

"So…you weren't officially taken prisoner, even after they knew you were bravo two?" asked Lily.

Asny shook her head. "No not until they decided to do the prisoner transfer, and even then I only wore handcuffs for appearances." said Asny as she finally finished her coffee and set the cup down. "Lily…I told him everything. They were so nice and kind, I thought maybe if I told them it would break the simulation. I told him all about the demon king being a model, the torment being a model. About the zero system…everything." said Asny as she seemed worried.

Lily nodded and rubbed Asny's back more. "It's ok. I don't think he believed you. But for now let's stick to my story around the others. We can wait till operation spitbreak to tell them the truth."said Lily as she looked at the two machines now as well.

She hoped Waltfeld would reconsider the attack. But knowing him he may not even give them 24 hours to fix the torment. Either way she needed to be ready.

The legion grows

Waltfeld looked over the horizon at the archangel. They had closed back up and he could only imagine the fervent repair work being done to the torment. He had to admit he was going to miss his guest. But as the day passed by his soldiers were getting itchy to fight. However he could see that the ship was still on high alert. Turning and sliding back down a sand dune he looked to his troops.

"Men…I hate to have you wait longer, but with the ship still on high alert I can't in good conscience send you in knowing you would likely be killed. Please continue to wait on standby and when all this is said and done the first round of drinks is on me!" he said which got the men to cheer. He knew deep down there wouldn't be many returning. If the demon king was as blood thirsty on land as it was in space it would prove to be an uphill battle.

"Remember men! This will be recon only. No need for heroics. We are to test the atmospheric capabilities of the archangel and its mobile suit complement!" he called out. The men chuckled as one responded with, "I thought we were here to sink it?" Waltfeld chuckled.

"Yeah well we will cross that bridge ya know." he said as he sipped his coffee.

The legion grows

Kira stood outside of Lily's quarters quietly. He had thought it over and was curious what she exactly could offer that Flay couldn't. After all, he had had a huge crush on a Flay for years. And he finally had her attention and even more so he had her in bed. What teen wanted more than that? Sure the sex, well the one session they had, felt…forced on her end and emotionless…but that didn't mean it was bad right?

Just as he was about to knock, the door opened and another woman was in his way. "Oh um…" he stuttered, unsure what to say. The woman smirked and turned back towards the bunk.

"Practically robbing the cradle now I see." said the woman and inside he could hear Lily laugh.

"It's not like that Asny. Go get some food. Let me handle him." said Lily as Kira let the woman, asny, pass and he stepped inside. Lily was in just her pants, a damp towel covering her back and shoulders and her chest was buried in her bunk. Patting the bed near her rear she motioned for Kira to come over.

He walked over and sat down where she patted. "Just got a new tattoo. Asny is my tattoo artist back home so we figured we would work on something real quick now that I am here." said Lily as she turned back to Kira slightly but not enough to reveal her bosom.

"Oh um…cool. So…what exactly did you mean when you said I can do better with you? I have had a crush on a Flay for years…a-a-and she wants to sleep with me. What's better than that?" he asked as he looked at Lily and waited for an answer.

"Well for one I know what you're going through. The stress, the pain, the sorrow of killing. I mean I may not empathize with it all but I still understand it. So I'm someone you can talk to, about anything. I mean shit you wanna talk about girls I'm bisexual, and a woman. I can give you tips and tricks to help you get almost any woman. You wanna dump a bunch of emotional crap about piloting. I'm here for that too. I'm here to be a shoulder for you. But if you really want a sex object I'll be frank. Yeah right now you can't do better than Flay. While I'm open to cuddling and maybe a little handsy on your end…but I'm not about to risk a baby with you over you being a whiny bitch during war." said Lily.

Kira was taken aback by how upfront and blunt she was. When he heard her mention a baby he blushed and looked away. "I mean…we used protection. "said Kira and Lily laughed.

"Yeah and some of my friends used protection in high school too. Guess what popped out of their vagina 9 months later? Contraception is not foolproof. So unless you really REALLY need it and I happen to be horny…you're not getting any from me. But I also won't just lay there and let you go at me. I'll actually sit and listen. I'll talk back and help you process these emotions and thoughts." said Lily as she propped herself up on her elbows, letting the towel fall, thankfully to where it blocked her breasts from view but it revealed the tattoo. An odd, red flower-like pattern now was on her right shoulder. "Have I convinced you yet or you just go back to getting laid?" asked Lily as she waited for Kira to respond.

Kira gulped and looked away more. "I…I mean the sex is nice…but…it would also be nice to actually be able to process things. But…what would we be then? Would we be..dating?" asked Kira as if any teen needed a label for a relationship.

"FUCK NO!" exclaimed Lily as she waved a hand at him. "That's just weird. Plus it implies I like you enough TO date you. You're a cool kid but you're not my type. I'm more into more feminine boys if I'm gonna go with a boy. Otherwise I like girls.'' she said as she finally sat up, wrapping the towel around her chest. "If you have to put a label on it..call it friends with benefits. The benefit being your getting psych class 101 level therapy bullshit while I don't have to deal with you screwing Flay." said Lily as she held out a hand. "Deal?"

Kira thought for a moment before reaching out past her hand. Gulping, he decided to make a bold request. "C-can I um…see your breasts?" he asked.

Lily giggled. "Oh…sure why not. They are just breasts." she said as she dropped her towel and Kira could see her ample chest. Kira gulped again audibly and just stared for a moment before he looked up at Lily with a questioning look.

Lily knew that look and rolled her eyes. "Yes you can touch. Just don't get used to it." she said and Kira gently reached out with both hands to caress her breasts. Flay didn't exactly have that big of breasts, then again she was still growing. Feeling them for a few moments, Kira let go and took a breath.

"Thank you…I…I think I understand what you mean. By all of this. " said Kira as he moved towards Lily.

Lily blinked. "Hey…wait a second…what are you…" she was surprised when he wrapped his arms around her and they fell back, the boy naturally cuddling up to her and she sighed, placing a hand on his head as he seemed to pass out with his head on her shoulder. It was likely the first time in a while he had felt like he really had somewhere safe to just…relax. With that lily just let him rest and relax, deciding that he needed that more than he needed to talk.

The legion grows

It was nightfall by the time waltfeld noticed the ship seemed to have relaxed. It's atmosphere visibly less tense as he looked through his binoculars. In that time frame his men had rested, eaten, and were all ready to roll out on his command. Going back to them he smiled, and they all knew what that meant.

Climbing into their bucues they started their trek over to the archangel. It would take a little bit to reach it. The helicopters would reach it first.

As they did so they used laser target designators to try and get their missiles to hit correctly. As they launched them the pilots cheered as they flew off on a roundabout vector to come in for another attack run. The ship was already throwing up a flak screen that they could not get anywhere close to the ship. It would be up to the bucues to do the heavy hitting.

The legion grows

Kira and Lily both jumped out of bed as the ship came back to level two battle stations. Lily had even actually fallen asleep with Kira on her. Kira ran out of the room, already flight suited up and ready to go. Meanwhile Lily needed to at least put on a bra before she could get going.

While Lily took her time to get ready, Kira reached the strike and got on comms with the bridge.

"Where are they attacking from? The strike is ready to take off." said Kira. He had to admit whatever had happened between him and Lily...it had him feeling more than 100%. Like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders. So as his hands flexed on the controls he just wanted to get out and defend the ship.

"Kira, wait not yet,"said Mirialia as she took the call.

Kira flicked his helmet closed and started the strike's launch sequence.

"Come on, let me launch, open the hatch!" he replied.

Natarle growled and responded with, "we have no reliable intel on where they are coming from or what the enemy strength is. You have not been given orders to launch." stated Natarle.

"Come on just let me..what about that new machine?" asked Kira as he noticed on his monitors the new machine was moving towards the launch tunnel.

"Someone get me a line to torment. Asny had not been cleared by the doctor to fight!" called out Murrue as she heard him mention the gundam. A moment later Murrue saw Asny on her private monitor. "Miss Smith you have not been given orders to launch, let alone clearance…" Murrue began but she stopped when she received a death glare from the woman.

"Let me launch or I'll just cut the door open." said Asny as the torment raised its axe, extending the handle.

Murrue gulped as she knew the machine likely had the strength to cause significant damage to the ship. "Also I will need two of the strike rifles. Don't worry about my power level, I can handle it." said Asny as she reached the airlock door.

Murrue turned to the CIC and sighed. "Let them launch. If we don't then who knows what lily and asny will do." said Murrue as she gave in.

"Understood! Open the hatch, torment, strike and demon king are clear for launch when ready. Launch strike in launcher configuration. Provide two of the strike's basic rifles to the torment before launch!" called out natarle and the CIC got to work allowing these things to happen.

When the torment stepped into the launch tunnel it closed behind it and the ports opened to allow the strike equipment to be offered to it, thankfully a rifle on each side. Activating her sub arms with a roll of her shoulders, Asny reached out and grabbed the rifles, the gunpla system customizing her gundams hands to allow power to flow into the rifles as it would with the strike. from there the torment was catapulted out onto the sand.

It didn't take long for the helicopters to change targets and fire a volley of rockets at the torment. Planting its axe into the ground it raised its left arm and fired a couple rockets of its own out of the rocket gun which had been customized to have 2 rounds instead of just one.

One rocket found its target in the form of a helicopter while the other flew off into the distance.

Thankfully the torment had already been tuned for sand while Asny was in the desert tiger's compound. So as it jumped to move and reposition itself out of the landing zone for the strike it landed perfectly, the legs accounting for the shifting sand and allowing it to stand just fine.

The legion grows

Kira grunted as he hit the sand with the strike. He had seen as he landed that the torment had not sunk into the sand. Figuring the sand was firm enough for the gundam to stand on he landed…only to have the strike shift and be forced to take a knee. Why was he sinking in the sand?

At least for now the helicopters weren't focused on him. So he took that moment to bring down the keyboard and enter the strike's operating system and began trying to fix the problem with the sand. Halfway through though he was alerted to missile lock ons and looked up….both helicopters were aimed at him. It seemed the other gundams armor was too strong for them to penetrate with missiles.

"Oh crap…gotta move…" he said, trying to get the strike to jump in time to dodge the missiles. Just as he launched though he noticed an explosion and looked to the torment. It had its right arm pointed at where one of the helicopters had been. The other helicopter turned to flee but was shot down by a third combatant as the Demon King landed next to the torment.

As he landed though he found his corrections to the operating system hadn't been complete as while the strike originally stood its ground, the moment he tried to react to Bu-CuEs that came at them over the dunes it faltered and slid in the sand…again. He growled and tried firing the Agni cannon at a couple of the Bu-CuEs but found his aim more than completely off.

With this in mind he launched himself once more and in mind flight brought out the computer and began to fix the OS once again.

By the time he landed he had put the keyboard away and found the strike standing perfectly on the sand. He smiled at his work but couldn't revel in it for two long. A Bu-Cue came charging at him, seeming to have the intent to tackle him down.

With the suit now functioning properly on the sand he brought one of the strikes knees up and struck the wolf like mobile suit in the head, knocking it back onto its back in the sand. Had he continued watching he would have seen it try to get up only to have the demon king shove another Bu-CUE on top of it before piercing both with its giant sword/mace

Kira found himself about to be tackled by a second machine and growled as he brought the butt of the Agni cannon into its face this time, knocking it onto its back by him. He turned around and planted the strike's foot on its chest. As he leveled the Agni cannon with it he stated, "I will not let you destroy the archangel."

With that he fired point blank on the machine and destroyed it.

The legion grows

The show had been more than good. To see the archangel field all three machines…well it was a bit overkill in his opinion when the Demon King alone likely could have handled the five bucues and the helicopters. Still though as he sipped his coffee he couldn't help but wish he had sent in more men so he could watch this even longer. But as the strike was chased by the last bu-cue.

He was going to have the lesseps fire on the archangel..but his gut told him somehow that would not go over well. As of this moment his ship was hidden from the enemy…so why give a couple demons his location?

Turning around he made the hand signals for the crew to pack up and move out. The last bucue was not worth waiting for as he knew the enemy would destroy it.

They would fight another day. He just felt bad he had sent so many men to their deaths.

The legion grows

The Demon King and the strike stood nearby as the desert dawn gathered outside one of the ground doors for the archangel.

As Murrue and Mu exited the vessel they looked over everyone in attendance. Some of these fighters were only children. Then again Kira and half the bridge crew were only children as well.

"I supposed the right thing to do would be to thank you for helping us out. I'm Murrue Ramius, 8th fleet, Earth Alliance." she stated as she held out a hand to shake with whoever was in charge.

A man reached out to shake her hand. "My condolences for your fleet. It's truly a huge loss of human life. We are known around these parts as the desert dawn. I myself and sahib ashman." he said before stepping back.

"And just so you know we didn't come here just to rescue you. We came here to whoop some enemy asses." he said.

"This feud with the desert tiger, how long has it been going on?" asked Mu.

"Pardon my asking, but I swear I have seen you around somewhere." said Ashman as he rubbed his chin.

Mu chuckled. "Mu la flaga at your service. I'm surprised anyone in these parts knows about me." said Mu as Ashman shook his hand real quick.

"Oh I'm surprised to see the hawk endonym here."

Murrue chuckled. "You are quite informed mister ashman. And do you know about us?" she asked as she watched the exchange.

"Your crew of the earth forces a new assault ship, the archangel. Your escape from the le creuset team led you here to earth, am I right?" he asked and murrue nodded.

"Yes, that would be correct."

"And that would be the X105 Strike and the Demon King am I right?" asked Ashman as he looked at the two mobile suits. "And I take it the one that already went inside was the new machine that fell to earth not too long ago, though I'm unfamiliar with its name." stated Ashman.

Murrue nodded. "Yes it is. The one inside is called the torment." said Murrue.

"Well whatever the case I'm pretty sure you didn't plan to end up here, so I have to know…what do you plan to do next?" asked Ashman.

Murrue and Mu looked at each other. "Can we count on your cooperation?" asked Murrue.

Ashman laughed. "I'd love to chat about it more but not until your men drop their weapons. And lets see those pilots." said ashman as he looked once more to the gundams, surprising the marines inside the ship waiting and the bridge crew listening in.

"Very well. Ensign Yamato, come down here. I can't speak for Lily, the pilot of the Demon King as her system requires a connection to the machine. However I can at least ask if she…oh here she comes." said Murrue as Lily opened her cockpit and stepped out onto the platform it made, arms crossed and the Alaya Vijnana system attached still.

Kira meanwhile began to lower himself down in his lift. Once on the ground Kira took off his helmet and looked at everyone. That got someone's attention as she stormed over to Kira and moved to slap him, Kira catching it though with his coordinator reflexes.

"Why the hell are you piloting that damn thing?" asked the girl as Kira held her.

It took Kira a moment but then he recognized the girl before him. "Hey it's you. You're that person I met back in Morgenroete." said Kira only to have her start to squirm.

"Let go of me!" she exclaimed before he let her go only for her to back hand him.

Kira looked at her stunned.

"Cagalli!" called out Ashman.

Mu was confused as everyone else. "What just happened?" asked Mu as he looked to his Captain.

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Dearka sighed as he listened to his commander explain that they'd be stuck on earth.

"…help hunt down the legged ship and the Demon King. Remember though we have no idea how that machine may move in the atmosphere. So don't go in expecting it to move like a sack of bricks….one more thing." he said, deciding it was best to inform Dearka of this at least as he would at least listen.

"Incase you missed it during my fight with it, those four spikes on the Demon King act as some sort of remote weapon. Similar to the hawk of Endymion's gun barrel pods they operate via wire and seem to be almost prehensile. We also have a captured unit in the desert tigers territory, try to perhaps get some time with it and learn as much as you can, our captured destroyed mobile suit seems to have already been snagged and built upon by R&D. you should see it down there soon. I hear the pilot is quite the looker." said Rau before he cut communication.

Dearka sighed. "Did he really just forbid me from going back? He would rather I crawl around on the ground with the occupation forces. Oh well. Knowing him he will send Athrun and Nicol down here too." said Dearka as he looked around the office he took the call in.

Seeing a rather shapely looking woman with blue hair he smiled. "I guess it's not all bad..the women here sure do make the base fun." he said and the woman seemed to perk up.

Looking at him she flipped him off. "I heard that Elsman! And I'm into women for your information." stated the woman as she returned to writing her reports.

The legion grows

Kira felt so relieved as he lay next to Lily. They had just had a long chat, with him spilling his guts about how he felt responsible for the safety of the ship and how he felt he had to keep getting stronger. It had included some cuddling but now Lily was asleep and he was laying beside her, just staring at the ceiling. Was this what a relationship was like? Having someone to confide in to the point you felt a physical relief. He heard the door to Lily's bunk open and blinked, unsure if he should be seen here like this. Thinking it was Asny he just let it slip and decided to roll over towards Lily, tempted to wrap his arms around her but he wasn't sure if she would be ok with that.

However a moment later he felt soft mounds press against his back before he felt breath on the back of his neck. "Kira…I can't take being away from you." whispered Flay behind him as he quickly rolled against her to face her. She was stark naked and had a somewhat dazed look in her eyes.

"Um… Flay you can't be here. This is Lily's quarters and…" he started but Flay stopped him by pressing her lips to his, taking his hand and planting it between her legs. Kira squirmed and eventually bumped into Lily, causing her to stir.

"Huh..what…hey what are you doing in here…and naked?" asked Lily as she sat up and saw Flay.

That seemed to pull her attention away from Kira as she pulled him in closer to her. "Kira is mine….doing this…it's the only way I can feel at peace. Otherwise I just feel…angry..and then warm…and then angry…and I keep seeing these other worldly images of daddy being killed. And then him being rescued by someone other than you. Then I remember you rescued him. But…" Flay continued to ramble till Lily slapped her. That certainly woke her up.

Flay rubbed her cheek and blinked. "What…what happened?" asked Flay as she sat up and looked at Kira, then to Lily. Her face went beet red when she realized she was naked and grabbed Lily's blanket to cover up.

Lily sighed and moved Kira so he was sitting then making shooting motions. "Go…go Kira. I need to have a girls only chat with Flay. I think I know what's wrong with her." said Lily as she got Kira up off her bunk and the coordinator nodded, leaving and deciding to get something to eat.

Meanwhile Lily looked to Flay and crossed her arms. "So…I think I know what's going on." said Lily, making Flay gasp. "You do? What? What's going on with me? Am I going insane?" asked Flay.

Lily shook her head. "no no…but what I'm about to say you have to keep top secret. You can't tell anyone." said Lily as she shifted and tried to crack her back.

Flay nodded. "Yes…anything, yes please tell me." said Flay in desperation.

And with that Lilly went into a deep dive about her full background, reality, the zero system, the fact the other person rescuing her father likely being residual data from the original zero system creator's run through the system….everything.

The legion grows

As night settled, between Kira, Lily and Asny the three of them got the archangel covered in camouflage tarps in the desert dawn camp. As everyone settled in for the night and began to celebrate, Lily and Asny were getting ready for the fight they knew was to come…mostly thanks to Asny knowing more about gundam seed than Lily.

So as the two of them suited up and headed to their machines, sure enough they heard the captain call a general readiness call for defensive positions. With that they watched as Mu came in and launched into the skygrasper. Eager to enter the fight, Lily took a step out of her bay with the Demon King but stopped at only one step.

They both listened over the radio as Mu informed the crew that the civilians for the most part had gathered outside the town. Hearing that the Demon King took another step though Lily felt the gundam wanted the fight more than she did as she had not intended to take said second step.

Hearing there was no sign of the enemy Lily knew it was only a matter of time till the desert dawn folks went after Waltfeld. She gripped her control balls and tried to calm the beast she felt raging within her. She knew it was the Demon King, wanting its chains unshackled and to be let loose on the desert tiger, but she did her best to soothe it and get herself under control from it.

As the morning dawn came the girls heard Murrue shout at Mu about not stopping dessert dawn. Which he in turn said his line about that not being an option.

"More importantly the townsfolk are alive but have a lot of injuries. Food stores are low and water even less. What do we do in this situation captain?" asked Mu over the radio.

Murrue sighed. "I'll have to send Ensign Yamato after them. We can't just let them get killed out there." said Murrue but Lily decided to step in on the conversation. "Actually, in the interest of protecting the camp, why not send me. Leave Ensign Yamato here where he can help the most given the strike is battery powered. If he runs out of battery in the boonies there isn't much we can do to help him even if I and Asny go out with him. The Demon King is fast and can reach them in no time." stated Lily as she began moving towards the catapult.

Expecting Kira to pull some macho, I need to bring strong sentiment out his ass and state he should go. She stopped by the strike, instead the ensign nodded on his screen. "I agree. With the distance I would need to cover, half my battery would be used up by flying even in the Aile strike formation. " He said, which surprised Lily.

Murrue nodded. "Understood. Lily Solace, please launch in the Demon King and reinforce the desert dawn troops." said the good captain as she took her seat once more and heard Miriallia start prepping the catapult. Secretly Murrue also wanted to see if the Demon King could fly in general.

As it launched out of the tunnel she watched as the huge thruster on its back lit up as well as multiple smaller thrusters. Unfortunately it ended up falling but what she saw was it entered a hover mode of sorts. As the gundam sped off she hoped that the Demon King could actually do some good here.

The legion grows

As they drove back, Waltfeld sighed. He had hoped that the desert dawn would be stupid enough to come after them for burning tassil. He had hoped that would also draw out the demon king or the strike. Regardless as they drove back to base he just enjoyed the morning sun.

Suddenly over the radio one of his pilots informed him of a large object approaching at high speed along with several vehicles. "Looks like they wanna die after all." he muttered as his jeep took off, barely missing being hit by several RPG's.

As it took off the BuCUE's stopped and turned towards the threat, one intercepting a missile meant for waltfeld.

This proved to be something of a mistake as soon the three BuCUE's found themselves bowled over by the Demon King, the desert dawn barely making it out of the way themselves. As the three enemy machines started to right themselves lily circled one like a hungry shark before pouncing on it, using her brute strength as she had one more launched without her mace she shoved the BuCUE into the sand with one foot, holding it there despite it's treads digging into the sand as it tried to get away.

Grabbing the missile launcher on its back, Lily grunted as she slowly tore it off. "You won't be needing this anymore." she said before sending her pile driver into the BuCUEs back. She jumped back as it exploded and looked to see Waltfeld watching from nearby. With her speed she could easily reach him and eliminate him…but something reminded her he was an important character and needed to have his fight with the strike.

So she turned to see the desert dawn engaging the other two BuCUE's. One BuCUE switched to its cruising mode and began to run down the desert dawn, their RPG's barely scratching it. Lily raised her right arm and went to fire at it but found herself rocked by an explosion. Turning to the source…Waltfeld had pulled his own RPG out. What the hell? Where did he get that?

These questions would have to wait as Lily refocused on the BuCUE only to watch it overrun two of the desert dawn trucks. Finding the other one she saw it bat away cagalli's truck like it did in the anime. "Fuck…looks like my intervention didn't save as many lives as I hoped." said lily as she fired a couple 200MM rounds at the BuCUE, penetrating it and having one find purchase in a joint, disabling the machine.

Lily boosted over to her downed quarry and kicked it over onto its back. Stepping on where she knew the cockpit door to be she sighed as she once again activated her pile bunker. This time the BuCUE just simply shut down as the pilot inside was killed and the cockpit crushed. She hated knowing what she just did…but at least it wasn't the images of Nicol being cut in half by the anti-ship sword…which she hoped to prevent that or atleast kill him in a more humane way.

The last BuCUE took up position between her and Waltfeld and began to back up. Lily could hear the jeep Waltfeld was peeling out as it drove away on the sand. As the enemy retreated, Lily walked the Demon King over to the gathering of surviving desert dawn people. Unlike Kira though she rolled her shoulders and let out a held breath instead of panting and being worn out. Instead she was battling a mental battle over the desire to chase down Waltfeld and the last BuCUE and kill them….kill anyone who called themselves her enemy.

Crouching the Demon King down, Lily opened the cockpit and detached from her Alaya-Vijnana system. She climbed down from her cockpit, the Demon King not having a lift installed, and stood before the desert dawn people. Ahmed was dead…again. That much was obvious from cagalli's face. It made Lily's heart ache to see the girl in such pain at such a young age…but she knew a young raven haired boy was gonna come along eventually and make it all better.

Lily looked over the desert dawn and sighed. "Ok…I know my gundam is called the Demon King but…are you guys TRYING to get yourself killed or did you not see I had the three BuCUE's. You would have gotten your revenge." said Lily as she stood up and crossed her arms.

Like in the show, Cagalli got upset at hearing this. "What did you say? You bitch…" she said as she walked up but instead of grabbing onto Lily like she had Kira in the show Lily quickly had Cagalli turned around, on her knees and with her arms behind her back. "What the hell!? Let me go!" she shouted.

"Not until you learn some manners. Now tell me why I should care about you people, why am I'm such a bitch for opening your eyes to reality?" asked Lily

Cagalli growled. "Because we are all fighting, every day, for those we love and everything we hold dear!" shouted Cagalli as she struggled against Lily's hold.

Lily shoved Cagalli forward, allowing her to stand and rub her arms as they hurt from the hold. "And just what the fuck do you think people like him…" she said, pointing to ahmed who lay dead on a blanket. "Would want you to do? What the fuck do your feelings mean to those who are already dead?" asked Lily as she slapped Cagalli.

With that Lily turned back towards the Demon King and climbed back up, reconnecting herself and starting the machine up.

The legion grows

And that's another chapter finished! Hell yeah. Next up..chapter 8 and the meeting of the tiger and the demon.

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