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Chapter 51
Everything was calm and peaceful on the Archangel.
The huge blizzard that had been going through the area had at long last finally quiet down a bit, so now there was only a few small snowflakes descending slowly towards the ground.
But even though it was still extremely cold out there, Kira was still outside helping Mayu build a snowman on the front deck, something which the girl did nothing to hide that she was enjoying quite a bit.
"It's real shame that we don't have any old clothes to dress him in. It could be really great if we could somehow make him look like either grandpa Amagi or grandpa Murdoch. I would have loved to see their faces if we did something like that" Mayu said excitingly.
Just as she started rolling together the next huge ball of snow that was suppose to be the middle part of the snowman.
And as Kira watched the small brown haired girl work so hard on that. He just couldn't keep the happy smile away from his face as he slowly reach down in to his pocket, and pull out a big carrot which he had made sure to get from the kitchen, before the two of them went outside.
"Well if it's any consolation Mayu I do have a nose for him" Kira said cheerfully, while slowly placing the carrot beside their first part of the snowman, which the two of them assembled only a few moments ago.
Taking a look down at the orange vegetable, Mayu immediately got a happy smile on her face while she continued working on the next huge ball of snow they where going to need for their creation.
"That's great big bro, but I really wished that we had something that could be used as a hat for him" she said, while Kira began helping her move the now larger snowball around on the deck, it was after all starting to get to big for her to move around on her own.
Yet even as the male Yamato was doing that. He got a somewhat thoughtful expression on his face. "Well if it's really that important to you, that he has some kind of hat Mayu. It wouldn't really hurt to take a look around the ship, to try and find something that could be used as a hat. Perhaps if we are lucky the chef has an old pot we can use" Kira suggested, while he slowly lifted the huge snowball and placed it carefully on top of the first one.
Seeing that they where one step closer to finish their masterpiece, Mayu kneeled down and started working on combining the two large snowballs so the smaller top one wouldn't accidentally fall off.
And as Kira began helping her with that, the smaller Ramius began telling her big brother figure about her opinion on what he had just said. "I think that's a really great idea big bro. And if there isn't something in the kitchen we can use, maybe there is something down in the hangar grandpa Murdoch would mind we took" she said, now again sounding very excited about this whole project the two of them where working so hard on.
Knowing that she was right about the hangar being a good place to find useful items, Kira nodded slowly in agreement. But before he could get his mouth open and say anything to the girl.
The door leading into the ship flew open and out stepped Murrue carrying a blue vacuum jug. "Hey you two how far is the snowman?" She asked even though it wasn't hard to tell, what was done on the snowman, and what still needed some work.
But Mayu didn't realize that her mother already knew the answer to her own question. So the smaller Ramius instantly stood up straight, and gave her mother a bright happy smile.
Then started telling her just how much more work that needed to be done on their project. "Well we need to make one more snowball as his head, and then we need to find a few things that can be used as his mouth and eyes!" She said loudly, then disappeared into her own thoughts for a few brief moments, until she again started talking to her mother.
"And it would also be pretty great if we could find something that could be used as a scarf for him, preferably a purple one that is after all my favorite color!" She just about yelled, as she slowly kneeled down and once more continued working on the low part of the snowman.
Seeing her daughter being so happy was of course more then enough to make a huge smile appear on Murrue's face. And she was highly grateful for all the time Kira had been spending with the girl the last few days.
And as she turned and took a look over at the brown haired young man, which she had seen as a little brother, practically since she had met him. She could of course not help but notice, the way he was rubbing his hands together, which was a pretty obvious sign that he was freezing a bit right now.
And seriously not wanting the teenager to freeze to death while out there, Murrue slowly opened the vacuum jug and pour some hot chocolate into a small black cup, which she had brought along with her out there.
"Here Kira drink this, it should help keep you warm" the woman said, as she handed the cup over to the young man.
Seeing what it was Kira took the steaming cup of hot chocolate away from her and took a small sip of the warm tasty liquid. "Thank you miss Murrue, that's was just what I needed. It's actually much colder out here then I had first expected" he said.
Before taking another mouthful of the hot beverage, enjoying the chocolate like taste of it, as it disappeared down his throat.
Still smiling at him. Murrue took a glance over at her daughter before she gave the Freedom pilot a response. "You are welcome Kira, I just figure that the two of you had to be cold after being out here for such a long time" Murrue said, then pour herself a cup of hot chocolate, which she instantly started drinking while wondering if her little girl was freezing in the clothes she had on.
She definitely didn't want Mayu to catch a cold now, because she wasn't properly dressed. But as far as Murrue could tell, it wasn't really the cold weather that was bothering the girl right now.
Yet it was pretty obvious from her expression, that there was something the girl wasn't entirely happy about. And when Murrue notice the child steal a small glance at her cup of chocolate, it took the captain least then a second to realize what was going on.
Apparently Mayu was a bit offended about not getting offered any hot chocolate of her own.
"If you really want some of this Mayu, you need to take a small break from your working on the snowman. This stuff is still very hot, and I do not want you to pour it on you hands while you are busy crawling around down there" Murrue explained to her daughter in a serious voice.
Hearing her mother's words, Mayu narrowed her eyes slightly as she looked at the half finished snowman, then over at the blue vacuum jug that she knew contented the brown tasty liquid, she liked so much.
Just seeing the way she kept on looking back and forth between the two things, made it pretty obvious to both Murrue and Kira, that the girl was having a tough time deciding what exactly was most important to her, at the moment.
But in the end the brown haired girl apparently decided, that satisfied her thirst and getting some nice hot chocolate was just a tiny bit more important then building the snowman.
So after taking one last glance at the snowman, the smaller Ramius slowly got back up on her feet, and stepped over in front of her mother.
"I would like a cup of hot chocolate too mom. It's not like this guy is actually going to go anywhere" Mayu said loudly, as she watched her mother pour some of the brown liquid in to the third cup, she had brought along with her up there.
"Here you go Mayu, it should help keep you warm while you and Kira are working on your snowman. And I did make sure to ask the chef before I left the kitchen if he had anything against making some kind of soup for supper" Murrue explained softly.
While watching her daughter take a light sip of the brown beverage, obviously a bit worried about burning her tongue on the liquid.
Murrue did however not get long to watch her daughter enjoy the hot chocolate. Before Kira's calm voice made Murrue turn her attention over on him.
"That sounds really great miss Murrue. I noticed when I visited the kitchen yesterday evening, that he had a bunch of tomatoes laying on the kitchen table. So it's most likely going to be tomato soup" Kira said, then took yet another mouthful of the beverage.
Yet as he thought about just how much he was looking forward to get a nice big portion of that, when the time came for all of them to have supper.
That was when the youngish person present out there, decide to share her opinion about todays supper, with her big brother and her mother. "Yuck I really don't like tomato soup, I would most rather have pizza or something else that don't taste so horrible" the girl complained. Sincerely hoping that she could get something else for supper, than the blood red colored soup.
Hearing that and seeing the displeased expression on her daughter's face, the Archangel's captain chuckled softly while she reached out and placed a hand on the girl's right arm.
"Well if it's really that terrible Mayu, I'm pretty certain that the chef wouldn't mind making something else for you. But just make sure that you tell him, that you do not like the food before it gets to late Mayu, he does after all need a little time to prepare something else for you" Murrue said, trying to make her words sound just a tiny bit more strict than usual.
Murrue knew that if she didn't make absolutely certain that these words hadn't gotten through to the girl. There was a good chance that Mayu would forget all about it, simply because she was so caught up in building the snowman and playing together with Kira.
And it was only when she saw her daughter nod a few times in understanding, that the somewhat serious look in both of Murrue's eyes disappeared again. "Happy to hear it sweetie, now then any of you want a second cup of hot chocolate?" Murrue asked kindly.
Quickly drinking what was left in his black cup, the only male present up there took a single step over towards the woman. "I wouldn't say no to a second cup of hot chocolate miss Murrue" he said.
Then watched as miss Murrue opened the blue vacuum jug and made a friendly gesture, that was meant to tell him that she was going to pour it for him again.
And knowing that Kira pointed the cup out towards her, so it would be easier for her to fill the black mug with the still steam hot liquid. "Thank you miss Murrue" the boy said once he saw the hot chocolate approaching the edge of the small mug.
Not saying anything back Murrue just smiled as she nodded a single time at him, before she turned and looked over at her daughter who by now had already finished her first cup of hot chocolate, and was now once more busy working on the snowman with a look of deep concentration on her face.
Which was all Murrue needed to tell that the girl wasn't really interested in more hot chocolate and would rather continue working on the snowman for now.
So while happily watching her daughter mess around with the white figure, she placed the vacuum jug down on the deck and leaned back against the railing, where she let out a deep contented sigh, while enjoying the peaceful atmosphere.
Yet as she was doing that Kira was starting to wonder what everybody else was doing.
He hadn't really been the most social person today. Truth be told, the only other person he had actually seen before agreeing to go out here with Mayu was the Archangel's head chef.
And he wasn't really one of those people Kira spend a whole lot of time talking to around the ship. Actually now that he was giving it some thought, he realized that it had actually taken him a few days doing the last war, to remember just what exactly the guy's name was.
"So any ideas about what Cagalli, Miriallia and Dearka are doing today?" Kira asked, while tighten his grip on the slightly warm mug in an attempt to get some warm back in to both of his chilly hands.
Hearing Kira asked that, Murrue narrowed both of her eyes in a thoughtful way. "Hm well I don't know what Miriallia and Dearka are doing. I have yet to see any of them today. Cagalli however is down in the mess hall having a meeting with Amagi and the rest of the Orb soldiers, about what Unato and Yuna are going to do now that the Takemikazuchi has been destroyed, and the rest of the Orb fleet has withdraw back home" Murrue said.
Then wonder briefly, if the two idiotic Seirans where planing on going after the Minerva again. Even after all the terrible things, that had happened doing the last battle at Crete.
There was just so many Orb citizens who had lost their lives while fighting the highly dangerous Zaft war ship.
So Murrue Ramius sincerely hoped that the other Orb politicians, was wise enough to keep on insisting that the remains of the fleet stayed back home in Orb, at least for now, this whole mess with Zaft and the Earth Forces would just be so much easier to deal with, without having to worry about Orb too.
"I wonder what they could be talking about. It has been a while now since we last heard anything from Kazuma, I really hope that the Seirans haven't discovered that he is the one spying for us" Kira said, generally worried about the Murasame pilot. Who was probably busy snooping around somewhere, he most definitely weren't welcome with open arms.
Not really knowing a whole lot about this Kazuma fellow, other than that he was one of their more important contacts back in Orb. And that Kira was obviously a bit concerned about his lack of communication, these last many days.
Murrue reached up and scratched her hair a bit, as she tried to figure out what to say to the teenager next to her.
"Well maybe he hasn't found any new information lately, or perhaps he has to lay low for a while, until it's safe for him to send what he has to us. Even if the Seiran family are almost completely brain dead. There is bound to be some people working for them, that would notice Kazuma if he started messing around in Orb to much" Murrue said.
Before she slowly reached over and gave Kira's arm a small yet reassuring squeeze. Which instantly made the Freedom pilot turn his gaze away from Mayu and over at the woman next to him, where he gave her a small yet grateful smile.
"Yeah I know it's pretty dangerous playing spy like that miss Murrue. If he is discovered, it's very unlikely that we will ever see him alive again, the Seirans does after all seem ready to do just about everything to remain in control of Orb. Especially Yuna's actions in the last couple of battles with the Minerva, has really shown just how far he and his father, is willing to take all of this" Kira said loudly.
Then thought back to some of the more insane things the Seiran family had done. Just the whole matter with ordering the Orb fleet, to fire on the Duel Rouge gundam had really made it clear for all of them just how far over the deep end Yuna had gone since Cagalli ran away from Orb.
And Kira seriously hoped that Kazuma wouldn't end up being capture by Yuna or any of his supports, there was seriously no telling just what they where going to do to the Murasame pilot, to pry just a little information about their location out of him.
So the male Yamato sincerely hoped that Kazuma was doing all right back home in Orb, and that Yuna and his father had yet to realize that Kazuma was function as a spy for them.
Yet as Kira was standing there thinking about that, Murrue gave his arm yet another light squeeze, before she once more began talking to him. "I'm sure that Kazuma knows just how dangerous it is to snoop around after the Seiran's future plans. Which is probably why we haven't heard anything from him recently. I'm pretty certain that he will contact us, once things calms down a bit back in Orb" Murrue said, thinking about how much was going on in the small country right now.
Knowing that Murrue was probably right about everything she had just said, the pilot of the Freedom nodded slowly in agreement, while thinking about everybody he was worried about right now.
There was another one other than his new friends Kazuma, he was worried about, there was his best friend Athrun and there was especially his lovely wife Lacus, yet even while the happy faces of those three people ran slowly through his mind.
Kira stepped away from the railing, and once more start helping the small girl he saw as a little sister roll the third ball of snow.
Still thinking hard about the many people who where important to him.
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Meanwhile else where on the ship.
A certain young couple was down in the hangar playing poker with the chief engineer.
"All right boys I got a full house here. So unless any of you can top that it looks like I win again" Miriallia said, with a teasing grin on her face, which she knew would definitely get on both her boyfriend's and Murdoch's nerves.
Seeing the four aces laying in front of the teen, Murdoch narrowed both of his eyes a bit as he lifted his gaze and looked over at the girl.
"I seriously hate playing cards with you Miriallia, you could run the worlds biggest casino out of business in just a few hours" he said unhappily, frankly not getting how a normal eighteen-year-old, could be so damn good at playing cards.
It just didn't matter what kind of strategy Dearka and him came up with, the brown haired girl would always find some tricky way, to beat both of them. And it didn't really help that Miriallia had the almost perfect poker face.
Not even Dearka was able to tell from her expression if she had a good hand or a bad one. It kinda seemed like her face, was made of solid rock whenever she was playing cards with somebody, there was simply nobody around that could read the girl when they had a poker game going.
And that was actually something that annoyed more then a few of the newer crew members, that had firmly believed that they where quite good at playing poker until they had gone up against Miriallia.
Still smiling at the chief engineer, Miriallia slowly reached out and started gathering together all the cards on the table, getting ready to play yet one more game against the two men.
But even as she began mixing up all the cards in the somewhat unique way her father had taught her a few weeks before she got involved in the last war, The youngish member of the Haw family, had nothing against telling her two opponents just how much they sucked at this game.
"Well Murdoch it's not my fault that you guys a sooo easy to read, maybe if you guys put on a Halloween mask it would be tougher to figure out what kind of cards you are sitting with" the girl teased, then began throwing out the cards to her two cranky opponent.
And it took a least then a second to figure out that Murdoch had a pretty good hand, whenever he had that he would always reach up and rub his chin in a thoughtful way, while if he had a bad hand he would just squeeze his fist together in a displeased manner.
Truth be told the chief engineer was actually one of the most easy people on board the Archangel to read when playing cards. And now that she was actually giving it some thought she couldn't help but wonder how in the world nobody else had notice those minor habit of his, but apparently none of the other mechanics paid all that much attention to each other when the cards was given.
So after watching Murdoch a bit longer, the girl slowly turned her mostly emotionless gaze away from him, and over at her boyfriend who was definitely that much harder to read than the chief engineer.
Ever since the two of them had started dating. Dearka had actually managed to get pretty good at hiding what kind of cards he was sitting with. But that most certainly did not mean that she wasn't able to figure out what kind of hand he had gotten.
He would always have a hint of a smile on his face when he was pleased with the cards he had just gotten. And from what she was able to tell, he was far from happy with the cards he had now, which meant that Murdoch was most likely the biggest threat to her victory this time around.
And with that in mind she once more turned her attention over on Murdoch, who where presently busy studying his few cards. Apparently trying hard to decide what his first move was going to be, seeing as he was the one that was suppose to start this game.
And finally after a few short moments, Murdoch smiled slightly as he made his first move. This time completely and utterly determined to win, over the eighteen-year-old woman, that had humiliate him and the other mechanics so many times in poker.
Yet while Miriallia and Murdoch took this game quite serious.
Dearka however had a much more relaxing attitude to the whole thing. He was simply just enjoying spending time with the one of his good friends, and the woman he loved.
Not that it really hurt seeing Miriallia so combative. If anybody actually asked him, he honestly found her quite attractive, when she was behaving like complete nut case that was so determined to claim victory in no matter what game they where playing.
Truth be told she could actually be a bit of a poor loser whenever she lost a game. Yet Dearka actually liked that too, seeing as he could then try a lot of entertaining ideas to try and make her feel all better.
Especially tickling her had proven quite useful in the past and if that didn't work, there was always the highly preferred option of giving that certain spot on the back of her neck a few light kiss'.
He knew that by doing that, she would be almost like pudding in his hands, which of course was always something that could be quite enjoyable for each of them.
Yet one look at her face made it pretty obvious to him, that she was completely confident in her victory this time around too. And that was definitely in Dearka's eyes somewhat of a disappointment.
Seeing as he had honestly hoped that, either him or Murdoch would be lucky enough to beat her in just one game.
He really wanted to see if he could find another inventive, yet funny way to try and cheer her up again.
To be completely honest he was already planing on asking her to go with him down to the ship's hotspring, where they could spend a little alone time together just the two of them.
Perhaps he could even give her a small massage.
Yet seeing as most of her attention was turned towards playing poker right now, Dearka knew that there was simply noway his lovely girlfriend was going to lose any of these games.
Miriallia was simply too caught up in the whole winning streak to realize, that Dearka wasn't really all that interested in playing poker right now. And that he would most rather just have some fun with her without nobody else around.
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Yet while the young couple and the chief engineer was having a good time.
The atmosphere down in the mess hall was the absolute opposite of the one down in the hangar.
Cagalli was sitting at the end of the large table with Lieutenant Amagi standing just behind her. And all of the other Orb soldiers gather together around the table all of them with their gazes turned towards her.
And even though they had been over pretty much everything they needed to talk about now. Both about the Seiran's plans for Orb and what exactly they could all do to once more turn their small peace loving country back to how it used to be.
But as happy as Cagalli was getting all of this out of the way, she honestly felt like she had one last thing she needed to tell all the brave soldiers in there.
So after slowly moving her eyes over each and every one of them, the young woman stood up from the table, where she immediately gave all of them a deep bow.
"I really want to tell you guys just how much I appreciate everything you are doing for me and Orb. I'm just so happy to know that I'll have all of you guys to help me out, when the time comes for us to try and get Orb back from the Seiran's control" Cagalli said.
Just as a few salty tears left her eyes and slowly made their way down both of her cheeks, only to land on the table a brief second later. Not that the blond haired girl actually noticed that, truth be told she didn't even realize that she was crying right now.
That however was one thing none of the soldiers around her could avoid noticing.
But it was only a moment Amagi reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder that the silence was brought to an end.
"Please cheer-up Lady Cagalli, none of us likes seeing you this sad. If there is one thing I can say for certain, then it definitely is, that we would all much rather see you with a smile on your face, instead of a bunch of tears running down it!" The Lieutenant said loudly, while most of the soldiers nod in agreement.
Hearing Amagi say that she was actually crying, Cagalli instantly reached up and hurried wiped the tears away.
"I'm...I'm...sorry about that guys, but it has been a couple of really stressful weeks for me since I left Orb. And it doesn't really help that I feel like crying half the time while the other half I'm more happy then I have ever been before" Cagalli explained softly.
Then took a glance down at her stomach, honestly blaming the little thing in there for all of her mood swings recently. Yet even though there was no way she could deny that this whole matter didn't bother her quite a bit.
It did not take long before she slowly reached down and gently rubbed her stomach, which was more then enough to make a huge smile appear on her lips.
Seeing her do that most of the soldiers in there could not help but smile, as Ikeya began telling the blond woman his opinion, on her mood swings.
"Well I for one can only speak for myself Lady Cagalli, and I don't blame you one bit for being a little cranky. If I was forced to leave my country because of two power mad fools then I too would be a little pissed off" the man said, already knowing that it wasn't just the entire matter with the Seirans that was making the girl cranky.
The child she was carrying definitely had something to do, with her easily getting pissed off attitude.
Not that any of them blamed her for that, as far as Ikeya knew all of them thought that it was pretty great that the girl was pregnant. And it had actually made most of them feel that much more determined, to help their young leader get Orb back from the Seirans.
Yet as he was thinking hard about that, the person next to him decided to cut in to the conversation. "Ikeya's right Lady Cagalli for the first time ever, those stupid Seirans has really messed up everything, since they came up with that bright idea to join the Earth Forces. So if you ask me, your somewhat sulky mood is more then justified!" The pilot said, while completely ignoring the unhappy glare Ikeya was now giving him.
Looking at him for a bit then around at everybody else, was more then enough to make the blond teen realize, that they all understood why she had been behaving so nutty recently.
And knowing that Cagalli gave them all a huge grateful smile. "Thank you very much guys, I can't even describe how much it means to me, that you are willing to help me out against those Seirans. Even with me behaving like a completely nutty cartoon character on drugs" the blond teen said, making everybody in there laugh loudly at that slightly odd description of her mood swings.
"I guess that's one way of saying it Lady Cagalli, but I don't really think your behavior is that bad. When my wife was pregnant with our first child, she almost made me sleep outside a few times" another one of the pilots explained while thinking about his wife and kids back home.
He did however not get long to do that before Ikeya interrupted his thoughts.
"Who the hell could blame her for that. She was properly drunk when she agreed to marry you" the man said, which of course resulted in that every person currently present again started laughing loudly.
Even Cagalli couldn't keep her laughter in, as she waited to see what the man's reaction was going to be to that little comment.
And it took less then a second, before the slightly offended man yell out for all of them to shut up. And that his wife certainly hadn't been drunk when he had proposed to her.
Unfortunately it was kinda hard for anybody there to take his yelling serious. Seeing as he himself had a large smirk on his face. It was after all completely normal that soldiers joked around like this.
Especially Ikeya enjoyed making jokes about his marriage, seeing as the two of them where childhood friends and actually brother-in-laws. And that of course meant that he was at this moment in time happily married to Ikeya's older sister.
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Yet while the atmosphere on the Archangel was bright and mostly cheerful, the same couldn't really be said about the one on the Bonaparte.
Neo Roanoke slowly enter the large land battleship's hangar, follow shortly by Sting Oakley and Stella Loussier.
Each one of the Extendeds dressed in their space suits, yet while Sting looked highly satisfied and pleased with what they where about to do. Stella had a much more nervous expression on her face, as she fought down the temptation that want to take a hold on Neo's hand, for some reason she just couldn't help but be scared right now.
She just felt so unsafe down there, like just one wrong move could make the entire hangar collapse over her, which was definitely not a feeling she liked. And it didn't really help that there was so dark down there, she really wished that they would turn on some light.
And after taking one more nervous look around the hangar she moved a little closer to Neo. Sincerely hoping that just being near the man would somehow help keep her safe from danger.
Yet it was only when he reached up and softly rubbed her short blond hair that she was able to calm down at least a bit.
"Please do not worry Stella, your assignment isn't really that dangerous. Sting over there will handle every opponent that gets in our way. You will be perfectly safe in the Chaos" Neo said, while looking directly in to the girl's two nervous eyes.
Looking right back at the man, Stella blinked a few times as she turned her head a bit to the side. "So Stella wouldn't be in danger?" She asked softly, sounding more then a bit like a small child, that shouldn't be allowed inside a mobile suit under any circumstance, no matter what size or form it had.
Still stroking her hair, Neo smiled gently at her. "No I don't believe it will be necessary for you or anybody else to interfere in this battle. Sting and the Destroy should be more then powerful enough to beat everything Zaft can throw at them, the only thing you need to do Stella is to make certain that not even one Zaft soldier survive this. So you just keep an eye out for leftovers" Neo said in the most soothing tone he could muster.
Not totally certain what to say back to the man's comforting words, Stella just nodded slowly in understanding while taking a glance over at the machine that she was going to be piloting.
She did however not get long to watch the smallest of the two gundams down there, before Sting's voice pull her attention away from her new mobile suit and over at him, where she immediately noticed the somewhat cocky grin that was covering his face.
"If it's all right with you guys I would like to get going soon, I'm quite anxious to see what this baby can do!" The green haired teenager said loudly, not once taking his eyes away from the Destroy.
It just looked so damn powerful and he was really looking forward to test out the Destroy's weapons, in a city or two. It definitely was going to be entertaining to see just how much destruction he could make with this thing.
Yet while he was so caught up in looking the Destroy over, he of course had no way of knowing that Neo was glaring quite hard at him right now, especially because the blond man was still wearing his mask.
And just one look at the wicked expression Sting had on his face, was more than enough to make Neo feel like dumping his breakfast somewhere. He seriously wished that he could call this whole thing off.
Unfortunately it really did seem impossible to stop any of this from happening, and knowing that the mask man let out a tired sigh as he began making his way over to his Windam.
"Yeah you are right lets get this show on the road, just be careful that you don't hit anything on your way out of the hangar Sting" Neo said, then took one last glance over at Stella that was still looking quite nervous about this whole ordeal.
Yet as luck would have it, there was nothing he could do about it now.
Which meant that it did not take long before the Destroy, the Chaos gundam and a small squadron of Windams left the Bonaparte. And without wasting anytime they all started making their way towards whatever German city they where currently closed too.
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At the same time back on the Archangel.
Dalida and Arnold was up on the bridge.
Enjoying a cup of coffee while watching the news on the main monitor.
Not that the man on the screen said much that was overly interesting, right now he was talking loudly about a new shopping mall that was supposed to open in Berlin in just a couple of days.
And listening to the man talk about that was honestly incredibly boring, which frankly made both of the men wonder, just when exactly he was planing on telling them something they actually wanted to know.
But before any of them could get their mouth open, and start complaining about the tiresome program they where currently watching. They suddenly heard a small alarming sound from one of the control panel.
Which was all they needed to tell that they had just received a message from somebody.
And not really overly depressed about having something else to do other then listening to the boring news reader, Dalida turned around in his seat and start working on the controls now in front of him.
And it took less than a second before he let out a deeply shocked gasp. "What the hell is this?!" Dalida asked loudly, while quickly scanning over the deeply terrifying data they had just received from some of the other Terminal operatives.
Immediately taking notice of the highly shock look his friend now had on his face. The dark blue haired man could of course not help but wonder, what all of this was about.
As far as he could remember, he had never seen Dalida make that kind of expression before. "What's the matter Dalida? You look like you have just seen a ghost or the devil himself" Arnold said concerned.
Hearing his friend say that instantly snapped Dalida back to reality, as he turned and looked down at Arnold.
"It's not far from it actually, here take a look at this!" Dalida said, as he made the images of a completely annihilate city, and what had apparently been the cost of all the destruction appear on the main monitor.
Seeing such a gruesome sight was all that was needed to make Arnold gasp loudly too. "What is that thing?" He asked, referring to the enormous monstrosity they could see slowly leaving the sad remains of the city.
Followed by a few mobile suits, that appeared to be Earth Forces Windams. Yet thanks to all of the smoke on the screen, it was kinda hard to tell just what exactly they where.
And it was only after watching the scenario a bit longer that Dalida was finally able to get over his shock at seeing so much death and destruction, which meant that it took less then second before he got a deeply determined look in both of his eyes.
"I have no idea about what that thing is Arnold! But one thing is certain, we have to show the Captain and everybody else that this is going on right now. So lets go over to level two battle station, that is bound to get everybody up here in a hurry!" The glasses wearing man said.
Just as he activated the alarm and began talking loudly out over the speakers, telling the entire crew to get to their station and prepare for combat, not that he actually knew for sure, if they where going after that monstrosity.
This frankly just seemed like the best way to get the Captain and Kira up there, as quickly as possible.
To be continued.