We Met Two Years Ago

by Ben Firebird

The sequel to the story But We Just Meet, many of the pairings will remain the same, like Lacus/Kira and Cagalli/Athrun, but there will of course also be a few new once. This goes on in the Second Bloody Valentine War with quite a few change, like Shinn's sister Mayu still being alive.

82. Chapter 82

Chapter 82

Evading sideways, Lunamaria fired three shots at the attacking Windams that was coming right at her, while she and the other Minerva gundams pilots had original planned on taking on the Destroys, getting to the large war machines was proving to be far more difficult than expect, thanks to the unbelievable huge number of enemy mobile suits and mobile armors, that insisted on being annoying as hell by getting in their way.

"Damn this is crazy, I can't believe how many of them there are!" The redhead yelled angrily, then hurried used the shield to defend herself from a couple of beams, which Lunamaria simply couldn't figure out who had fired at her in the first place, so instead of worrying about that, she started firing the two machine guns in the Impulse's chest, blowing apart a incoming Windam, that judging from the beam saber it had been holding on to, had want to engaged her in close combat.

Yet the young woman had barely gotten rid of that mobile suit, when a short from Rey warned her that there was even more machines heading her way, and as she swirled around, Lunamaria barely manage to get the shield up before four shots could hit her mobile suit's more vital parts, and as she lower the shield again she saw five Windams coming right at her.

"God damn it this is irritating. I can not even begin to describe, how much I hate Windams right now" the girl growled hatefully out through teeth. Then while continuously firing the beam rifle, she hurried threw herself sideways to avoid their incoming attacks, but since she did not have time to aim properly she only manage to hit two of the enemy machines, and as one of them blow up, she saw the second now headless mobile suit that quickly backed away from her in a random direction, before it was destroyed by the Minerva's two extra GOUFs, that quickly rushed past it.

Seeing that, a deep frown immediately ran over Lunamaria's forehead. The female pilot of course realized that killing other people, was a part of being a soldier, but mercilessly killing somebody that had been unable to see, without giving it a second thought was not something she liked under any circumstance.

"Cold hearted bastards...I really hope those guys are going to be transferred away from the Minerva, once this is over..." she whispered softly. Luna did however not get long to think about how much she hated the Minerva's extra pilots, when a loud beeping sound, told her that the three remaining Windams was attacking her again.

Swearing like a sailor on leave, Luna hurried took aim with the beam rifle and started shooting back. Yet it quickly became clear to the redhead that the lead pilot of the three Windam mobile suits was no amateur, and was quite skilled in using his machine, which was probably the reason why it had been painted in another color scheme, than the normal white and blue one. And as the mostly dark grey Windam hurled a couple of Kunais after her. The redhead skillfully maneuvered her new machine past the first one of the weapons, then hurried ducked down under the second one, just as all three Windams opened fire on her with their beam rifles, obviously trying to destroy the Silhouette pack on the Impulse's back.

"You morons are really getting on my nerves! I'll show you are thing or two about who you are messing with..." she growled angrily. Then hurried swirled around in one fluid motion and fired a single well aimed shot from her own rifle at her three not so friendly playmates, hitting the close's once cockpit. If there was one thing Luna had been more than a little determined to do, ever since she was told by Captain Gladys, that she was going to be the new pilot of the Impulse, it was show everybody on the Minerva that she could control it almost as well as Shinn, and these dumb bastards was not going to prevent her from doing that.

Yet while Lunamaria Hawke was trying so determinedly to show everybody just what she and the Impulse was made of. Nicol was having a few problems with his opponents, since he was presently fighting two Zamza-Zah all on his own, which to put it mildly was far from amusing, these stupid mobile armors was a lot tougher, than he had imagined, and the green haired pilot of the Adamant was seriously starting to understand why, Shinn hated these thing as much as he did.

And as the more aggressive one of the Zamza-Zah fired all of it's long range weapons at him, Nicol immediately leaped away from the GUUL to prevent it from getting destroyed by the many beams, and while using the beam shield to defend the Adamant and himself from the attacks, he hurried took aim with the beam rifle, and fired two rapid shots back, at the highly obnoxious mobile armor, destroying the upper left one of the four limbs, and as it backed away from him, Nicol hurried got back down on the special GUUL, then took off full speed straight downwards, just as the second Zamza-Zah mobile armor tried to grab on to him from behind.

And with a quick barrel roll to the left, he was able to avoid getting hit by the four powerful beams the mobile armor fired after him. And as he got down near the ocean surface, the young pilot turned the Adamant around in such a manner, that he was flying in a laid down position just above the freezing cold water, continuously firing the beam rifle up at his two opponents. Yet seeing them use their reflector shields to defend themselves from his attacks, made one thing perfectly clear to Nicol Amalfi.

"This isn't working...If I keep on fighting these damn things in long distance combat, it will take waaaay too much time for me to take them out. I have to get in close to defeat them..." which was not really something the green haired pilot was overly happy about, since the Adamant was not designed for that type of combat, he would honestly much rather leave such things to Shinn in the Destiny gundam, or Lunamaria if she had the Impulse equipped with the Sword Silhouette pack. But since the two of them were were busy elsewhere, Nicol figured that he got no other choice.

And so with a deeply determined look in his eyes, Nicol press down on both foot pedals, thereby sending the Adamant blasting away from the sea with so much force that steam and water flew all around his mobile suit. And as Nicol headed straight towards the closed Zamza-Zah, the four limbed one of them, he threw the beam rifle over into the left hand, then hurried got out the lance with the right one.

The Zamza-Zah's next move, was one Nicol had already anticipate, which made it extremely easy for him to evade up over the beams the mobile armor fired at him. And with it still firing, Nicol hurled the lance with as much force as possible into the left side of the mobile armor doing considerable damage to the damn thing, yet not enough to destroy, which was something that made a small curse lave his mouth.

He did however not get long to complain, when the armor fire two red beams straight at him. Unfortunately for the enemy pilots the dark green gundam was more than fast enough to duck down under the attack, and as the beams flew above the Adamant's head, Nicol fired back with the beam rifle and the beam beam guns. But unlike before those three shots actually hit the Zamza-Zah.

"It's shield...I knocked out it's shield with the lance..." the green haired pilot mumbled under his breath. And knowing how easy a targeted the Zamza-Zah was now, Nicol quickly reached the decision that this was his best chance to take it out. Something the mobile armor pilots, apparently also realized since they immediately started backing away from him, once they saw him heading straight for them.

But even as one round of beams after another left the huge mobile armor in a desperate attempt to slow him down and keep him at bay, it took less than a minute for Nicol to shorten the distance enough between them, to pull of his next move. He once more leaped away from the special GUUL, however unlike before he did not stay airborne for very long before he smashed feet first into the Zamza-Zah.

"I am only saying this once guys, but I want my lance back! SO hand it over you dumb bastards!" He yelled, while grabbing on to the lance, that was still firmly impaled in the left side of the mobile armor. And as the Zamza-Zah's two large claws came towards him, in a obvious attempt to try and get a hold on him, Nicol did not show one hint of hesitation about firing the downward pointing cannons on the Adamant's back, directly into the enemy machine he was standing on top of.

The explosion that followed that highly reckless move, was all the motivation Nicol needed to get the hell away from the exploding Zamza-Zah, before he got caught in the explosion. And even as he landed back down on the GUUL he immediately fired a half dozen extra shots at the doomed war machine, just to make absolutely sure, that it would be completely impossible for anybody to repair the damn thing ever again.

And after watching the remaining parts of the mobile armor splashing into the sea, and disappearing down into the dark gloomy water, Nicol hurried looked around for the second Zamza-Zah, and saw it fighting against a pair of BABIs that had apparently been able to keep it distracted, while he took out the first one of the Zamza-Zahs.

Just when the green haired pilot was about to get in contact with the two BABI pilots, and tell them to back off and leave the Zamza-Zah to him. He saw a large number of beams, suddenly appearing from inside a huge dense cloud, heading straight towards the rear end of the Zamza-Zah. And knowing that there was only one thing in their entire arsenal that could fire that many beams at once, Nicol send a mental thank you to his friend Rey in the Legend gundam, as he watched the bulky war machine trying almost desperately to turn around, so it could use it's reflector shield to defend itself from the many incoming beams. Yet seeing the mobile armor's slow movement speed, Nicol instantly knew that it was impossible for it to stop the attacks, and it was with a small pleased smirk on his face, that Nicol watched the many beams tear through the Zamza-Zah, destroying one thing after another on the green Earth Forces machine. It was at that point that the BABI pilots decide to fire their chest cannons at the already highly damage mobile armor and as those beams hit the Zamza-Zah, it exploded in a bright blinding light that could be seen far and wide.

Then as the two BABIs hastily took off to search for something else to blow to bits, Nicol let out a long breath, as the Legend moved down beside him. "I apologize for stealing your opponent Nicol, but we simply do not have time for this, we have to get rid of those Destroys, before they wipe out our entire fleet"

"You are right, Rey!" Nicol immediately answered back then took a thorough look around to locate Luna and Shinn. It was not much later when he spotted the Impulse gundam chasing a grey colored Windam, that was doing a decent job avoiding the many beams Luna fired after it. After that he looked around a bit more, and it was not long before he saw the Destiny a bit away from Rey and him, having a pretty violent shoot-out with the likewise grey Forbidden gundam.

"Why don't you go give Shinn a helping hand against the Forbidden, Rey?! Meanwhile I'll help Luna take out that bothersome Windam, she is presently playing tag with!" Nicol suggested seriously.

Reaching down, Rey swiftly pulled out one of the Legend's beam javelins just before he gave Nicol a response in a likewise serious tone. "Roger that Nicol. I'll see if I can't sneak up on the Forbidden and take it out from behind, while Shinn is keeping it distracted" with that said, Rey took off full speed upwards quickly disappearing back into the thick cloud, he had appeared from not that long ago.

"Good luck Rey..." the green haired man said in a low tone, just before he rushed off in the direction of his girlfriend's mobile suit.

Letting out a short angry laughter, as he skillfully rolled sideways around yet another powerful red beam, his opponent fired after him. When the already severely pissed off Shinn, had first encountered the Forbidden, he could not deny that a part of him had honestly believed, that he would easily be able to defeat the outdated Earth Forces gundam. Yet he had only battled the scythe wielding mobile suit for a few minutes, when he had reluctantly realized that it was not going to be SO easy to take this thing out. And as he got in between a couple of railgun shots, Shinn hurried took aim with the Destiny's beam rifle and immediately started shooting back. Seeing the first one of the beams get deflect in such a manner, that it hit the left leg on a nearby DINN, that was busy fighting a couple Windams, was all that was needed to make the hatred Shinn felt towards the grey colored gundam raise tenfold.

And as he ducked down under another pair of railgun shots, it was becoming more and more obvious to Shinn, why Nicol disliked this thing as much as he did. "What tactic did Nicol say, I should use to take this thing out?" The red eyed teen softly asked himself. Seriously hating to admit, that he had not paid much attention to what Nicol had said to them, about the Forbidden, he had simply been too preoccupied with thoughts about the Raider, and how it was possible for it to use a mace as a weapon, even after having been told that the mace was more than powerful enough to take out a Nazca-class' bridge. The pilot of the Destiny gundam, still found the idea of arming a mobile suit with such a weapon kinda ridiculously, and a little amusing.

And while mumbling a few displeased curses over why the hell, he had been so easily distract, when Nicol had like said quite a few things that might have been useful to take out the Forbidden, now.

Shinn did however not get very long to mentally scold himself for his lack of attention, when the older gundam fired all of it's weapons at him, forcing him to rely on the beam shield to counter the attacks. Yet even as the many shots slammed into the shield and pushed the Destiny slightly backwards, the red eyed boy fired back with the rifle, hitting the left one of the two railguns, and as it explode the Forbidden quickly backed away, obviously determined to increase the distance between the two of them.

The fact that it was possible to circumvent the Forbidden's beam deflectors when it was attack him, was all that was needed to make a small smirk appear on Shinn's face, he might now be able to come up with an idea to take out the grey colored mobile suit. Whatever strategy Shinn was about to come up with instantly disappeared from his mind, when he heard a angry female voice screaming at him through the radio.

"Why yoooou ugly pathetic little MAGGOT! I am going to tear you apart for that! Do you hear me maggot?! I am going to kill you!"

Yet as the loud bitchy voice, kept on telling him again and again how much of a maggot he was, Shinn briefly heard Rey calmly telling him that he needed to learn to control his temper, yet once he heard the stupid bitch telling him that everybody he cared about was maggots too he instantly lost it, and was over in seed mode only a second later.

And as bitchy pilot of the Forbidden, continued blabbering loudly about how he and every single person on the Minerva were nothing more than worthless maggots, who's only purpose in life was to be stepped on by her, the furious red eyed teenager got out the beam sword.

"AH SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY YOU DUMB BITCH! I'LL SHOW YOU, WHO IS THE REAL MAGGOT HERE!" Shinn practically screamed into the radio, and without the least bit hesitation, he raced full speed straight towards the Forbidden.

Seeing the enemy mobile suit coming towards her like a runaway freight train, Reki felt a shiver of fear momentarily running through her body. Yet she was also excited over the prospect of killing this guy, the way he had yelled at her just now, was in her messed up mind a clear sign, that he was just as insane as she was. And the sight of the large beam sword being activated made Reki lick her lips a single time, as she quickly changed her hold on the Forbidden's scythe. And with a scream for her maggot of an opponent, to bring it on, she fired all of the Forbidden's remaining weapons, at the still hastily approaching blue and grey mobile suit.

Seeing the many shots leaving the Forbidden did not really come as much of a surprise to Shinn, he had frankly expected the brash girl to pull a move like that, and while smirking determinedly and muttering something about showing this crazy lunatic of a woman, just what exactly he and the Destiny was made of, Shinn rushed shield first directly into the attacks.

"It's going to take more than that to defeat me! TRY SOMETHING ELSE!" Shinn yelled out to the girl, as the last beam hit the shield.

Again feeling a shiver of fear, which Reki quickly forced herself to ignore. "I INTENT TOOOOOO!" She immediately yelled back.

It was only one brief instant later, when the boy and the girl rushed past each other, each of them swinging their close quarters combat weapons out after one another. Yet with it happening so unbelievable fast, it was impossible for anybody who might have been watching to tell, if either of the two gundams had been was hit by those attacks.

Shinn however was relatively certain that he had done at least a little damage to the Forbidden, he had felt the Arondight make contact with something on the grey colored mobile suit, yet as he swiftly turned around and looked back at his opponent, he barely manage to get the sword up to knock away the top part of the Forbidden's scythe. And as he looked the older gundam over he saw that the left one of the two beam deflectors was missing too.

It was at that moment, he heard a creepy giggle from the other machine. "Heh heh! Not bad you disgusting little maggot, I like you, I haven't had this much fun in ages! Let's hurried up and finish this stupid fuss already! I don't have all day, and there is a lot of other people to slaughter out here" she chuckled joyfully.

Honestly quite a bit freaked out by her words, and the tone she had said them in, Shinn swallowed loudly a single time. 'Maaaan what the heck is that matter with this girl? If this is what she consider to be fun! I would hate to see what her nightmares are made of...I have to stop her no matter what, before she can kill anybody els...'

Before he could even finish that thought, the crazy girl started shooting at him like he was the main target in a shooting gallery, and as he evade past the first one of the many beams, Shinn change his grip on the beam sword, so he was now holding on to it with both hands. The red eyed boy was confident, that if he could get in close, he could easily finish the older gundam off, with one last attack.

And with that determined thought in mind, Shinn quickly activate the Wings of Light, and took off towards the heavily damaged grey mobile suit, that was still shooting at him like there was no tomorrow. He did however not get very far, when he spotted a familiar likewise grey mobile suit hastily approaching the Forbidden from behind. And while the Destiny pilot would under normal circumstance have appreciated Rey's help, this time around Shinn could not help but feel somewhat annoyed by his friend's sudden appearance, he really want to defeat the Forbidden on his own.

Yet before he could inform Rey about his intention, he was attacked by three Windams who pilots was apparently delusional since they thought they could defeat him. "God damn it! Get the hell out of my way you little bastards!" He growled through his teeth, as he violently used the beam sword to cut the first one of the Windams in half.

Chuckling softly as she watched her maggot of an opponent tear apart those Windams like they were nothing, and hearing him bitching and whining about it the whole time, was something Reki thought was just so damn amusing, she really liked this guy, he was like her, and everybody she had been trained up with, perhaps he might even be an extended, or whatever the hell it was they were called now, she didn't quite remember. But if this guy really was one of them, why was he fighting together with Zaft?.

The totally messed up girl did however not get long to wonder, if the reason why, this guy was fighting against them, was because he had stopped taking his daily dose of Gamma Glipheptin, not that Reki understood why he would stop taking that stuff, she loved it. She was already looking forward a great deal to the extra large portion she had been promised, if she did killed a lot of people in this battle.

Yet all those crazy thoughts about why the Destiny pilot was fighting against them, immediately disappeared once the alarm located just beside her started beeping loudly, which could only mean that somebody else wanted a piece of her now, and seeing no opponents in front of her, Reki swirled around with as much speed as the Forbidden could manage, and seeing the pink flash of the beam saber heading towards her cockpit, made her quickly raise her gaze and look straight into the creepy dark green eyes on the gundam that was about to kill her.

"Not somebody else!...I WANT...THE MAGGOT IN THE DESTINY TO BE THE ONE TO KILL MEEEEE...!" Reki Neider cried out through the radio, sincerely hoping that whoever was inside the shitty mobile suit that was about to end her life, would soon be joining her in hell so she could get even with the son of a bitch.

But while Rey did hear the girl's words, he honestly could not have cared any less about what she wanted. She was an opponent that needed to be removed so they could move on to the Destroy gundams. And so with a uninterested look in each of his blue eyes, the pilot of the Legend slammed the Javelin into the Forbidden's totally exposed cockpit, instantly killing the insane female pilot inside the older gundam, and without even sparing the doomed machine a second look, Rey hurried kicked it away.

Finishing of the last of the Windams, Shinn turned around where he much to his deep annoyance, saw the Forbidden blowing up. "Damn it, Rey! Why did you interfere?! I wanted to finish her of myself!" The red eyed boy yelled with a dissatisfied look coving his entire face.

Honestly a bit surprised to hear, just how utterly important it had apparently been for Shinn to take out the Forbidden on his own, Rey could not help but let out a frustrated sigh, as he got the Legend over beside the Destiny. "Shinn I usually respect your determination to beat your opponents one on one, but we simply do not have time for you to get personal grudges against every minor opponent you come across. We all need to work together to defeat those Destroys" Rey said in a relatively calm tone. Find it kinda pointless to yet again remind Shinn about controlling his temper, and that he should not let himself get riled-up so easily.

Feeling a bit of sweat run slowly down his face, Shinn looked at the Legend that was floating beside him. "I know how important it is to get rid of those Destroys, and I am sorry that I fell for her provocation the way I did. But that crazy girl was just so damn annoying, and you can not deny Rey, that she was a threat, that we needed to get rid of too!"

Thinking briefly about how dangerous Nicol had said the Forbidden was, and how much destruction it had caused to their forces all on it's own. Rey found himself mentally agreeing with his red eyed roommate, it had been necessary for them to get rid of the older gundam and it's crazy female pilot. Yet before the blond haired man piloting the Legend could voice those thoughts, he was cut off by a large number of beams and missiles, heading straight for him and Shinn.

"Speaking of the Destroys, Rey. Here we got one of them now!" Shinn yelled out to his friend, as he used the machine cannons to quickly shot down some of the approaching missiles, and skillfully maneuvering the Destiny in and out between the many beams. Using the Wings of Light to make himself an even harder target to hit, yet even while doing all of those things, Shinn still fired both the cannon and beam rifle back at the much larger gundam, but thanks to it's stupid reflector shield, neither one of those attacks did any damage to the Destroy.

Rapidly evading the missiles instead of destroying them, and using the shield to defend himself against the many beams, Rey fired all of the DRAGOONs back at the enormous mobile suit, getting the exact same result as Shinn, with the beams ricocheting of the shield and hitting the freezing cold water underneath the Destroy, thereby creating a great deal of steam around the enemy gundam.

"Trying to blast our way through that shield, wouldn't get us anywhere Shinn! We have to get in close!" Rey yelled.

Once more firing the beam cannon, Shinn briefly considered telling Rey that they should use the Freedom pilot's tactic, and go after one of the Destroy's legs, to make it fall over and then finishing it off afterwards. Yet the mere thought of defeating a Destroy the exact same way as that bastard, was more than enough to make a deep hateful frown, appear on Shinn's forehead. 'NO way in hell am I going to follow that guy's tactic! I can come up with my own way to defeat these things...!' Shinn growled determinedly inside his mind, as he hurried took aim and yet again fired the cannon.

"If you cover me, Rey! I am certain that I can get in closer and use the sword to remove a few of the more nasty weapons on that stupid machine!" The red eyed boy said confidently, only to mumble a few unhappy curses afterwards, as he watched the Destroy starting to transform from it's fortress mode, into it's mobile suit mode.

"You bastards! I am going to kill both of you for what you did to, Reki. With her dead, who the HELL am I suppose to play foosball with now!?" A highly pissed off voice screamed into the radio.

Hearing what reason the pilot of the Destroy gundam had, to be targeting Rey and him, Shinn found himself momentarily wondering if all the gundam pilots they were going to go up against today, were all completely insane.

What was it with Logos? Why the hell did those bastards find it necessary to destroy everything they touched, even the mind of their own people. And just the thought of how much pain and suffering Logos had likely cause the crazy bitch that had been piloting the Forbidden, the foosball blabbing idiot in the mobile suit underneath him, and so many other people, especially Stella, was all it took for Shinn Asuka to scream loudly that he was going to put and end to Djibril and Logos, once and for all, and if anybody dared getting in his way, he was going to tear them apart.

Smirking slightly at Shinn's declaration, Rey who was still evading in and out between the many beams from the Destroy, and shooting back with all of the DRAGOONs whenever there was an opportunity to do so, wondered briefly where exactly Lunamaria and Nicol was right now, since they could certainly use their help against the second Destroy, that was hastily approaching their position. Yet seeing no sign of neither the Impulse nor the Adamant anywhere near them, the blond haired man quickly reached the conclusion, that Shinn and him simply had to handle the two giant war machines themselves.

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At the exact same time, back on board the Minerva, Gilbert, who for the last few minutes had been pretty quiet, was watching the overall hectic battle with great interest. From what he could tell, thing was going almost precisely like he had planned it, they had already lost a great deal, of Alliance mobile suits and ships. Yet once he heard Bart yell out to Talia, that they had just lost the signal from the Peremptory another Vosgulov class ship, a deep angry frown immediately ran over Durandal's forehead, since that was not one of the ships he had wanted to get rid of.

"How is our valiant heroes doing against the giant mobile suits? Have they beaten any of them yet?" The man asked in a deeply serious tone.

Of course having no trouble figuring out who the Zaft Chairman was referring to, Abbey was quick to give the man a response to his question. "No Sir, all six Destroys are still function! Shinn and Rey are engaging two of them at our starboard side, while Lunamaria and Nicol is ahead of us a bit to port, fighting another one of them!"

"What about the three other Destroys, Abbey? What are they doing?" Talia asked immediately after Abbey was done talking.

"The one furthest away from us is presently going up against a great number of our mobile suits, that is doing their utmost to keep it away from four of our Vosgulov, and some other ships. The next one, is not that far away from Nicol and Lunamaria's location, but it's not really doing anything, if I had to guess Ma'am, I would say that's it's just observing the two of them fighting that other unit!. As for the last Destroy, it's almost directly ahead of us, blasting it's way through whatever ship and mobile suit that gets in it's way, it really does seem like it's the most aggressive one of them!" The girl said, not once looking away from her screen.

Narrowing her eyes slightly, Talia thought briefly about what their next move should be. Judging from everything Abbey had told them, just now, it was highly obvious, that it would still take some time before any of their gundam pilots would be able to do anything to stop, the Destroy ahead of them. And the thought of how many more people it would be able to kill, before they got to it, was enough for the Minerva Captain to quickly reach a decision about what their next course of action should be.

"Tell our ships and mobile suits near that aggressive Destroy to get out of the way, so we can fire the Tannhauser at it. While it might not be enough to take it out, I am positive, that it should at least slow it down a bit!" Talia yelled out to her crew.

Yet before anybody up there had a chance to start working on carrying out those orders, a violent tremor ran through the ship, as some of their missile launchers and CIWS cannons was destroyed.

"Captain! We got thirty different type of mobile suits attacking our starboard side!" Bart yelled, as he made the many different type of machines appear up on one of the smaller monitors.

Seeing the large number of approaching mobile suits, Talia immediately yelled out for the Tristan and the Isolde to be fired, after that she loudly told Abbey to get some of their own mobile suits back there, to engage the approaching machines. And as the Minerva opened fire, and Abbey told two squadrons of ZAKU Warriors, and one of GOUFs to get back there and cover them, Talia once more ordered her crew, to aim the Tannhauser, at the Destroy ahead of them.

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Back outside, Shinn was getting more and more angry with each second that went by, with two Destroy gundams now shooting at Rey and him, getting in close, was proving to be more than a little challenging, and it was with a few loud curses, that the red eyed teenager hastily rolled sideways to avoid an unbelievable large number of incoming beams and missiles, and while screaming for it to get the hell out of his way, he used the beam sword and the left palma fiocina to tear apart the right hand from one of the Destroys.

Seeing what remained of the hand falling all around him, Shinn swiftly placed the Arondight back where it belonged, then hurried reached out and gabbed a couple of the bigger pieces, which he immediately hurled with as much force as possible, down into another hand that was flying around, not that far away from him, knocking it slightly of balance, which clearly served as the opening Rey had been waiting for since he waste no time blasting the damn thing apart with the Legend's DRAGOONs.

It was at that very moment, Shinn caught a glance of a powerful red glow to the left of him, and immediately knowing what that was, he hurried turned to see what it was the Minerva was shooting at. Yet the sight of the Tannhauser hitting a third Destroy's shield, without doing any damage to it at all, instantly made the angry vein on his forehead grow that much larger in size.

"Damn I hate these things!" He hissed out through his teeth.

"Yeah...They are quite bothersome" Rey said, breathing heavily like he had just ran the longest marathon ever. Fighting these things, was honestly getting old VERY fast, especially considering, that other than the pair of hands, they had yet to do any major damage, to any of the Destroy units. Which was not something Rey was happy about, quite the opposite as a matter of fact. And it REALLY did not help on his mood, that the Destroy gundam the Minerva had tried to take out with the Tannhauser, was now slowly, but surely making it's way towards the grey spaceship.

The pilot of the Legend, did however not get many seconds to mentally curse that fact, and wonder if Gilbert was going to be all right. When the pilot of the second Destroy underneath them felt the need to share his thoughts about what he and Shinn was doing right now.

"Will you dumb bastards stop hanging around up there?! And do something already! I want this done so I can go back to my room, and continue reading my new manga! It was just starting to get interesting when you idiots showed up!" A male voice screamed in a childish tone, that made it totally obvious to both Zaft pilots, that he would much rather do anything else other than waste his time fighting them.

"First talk about foosball and now manga! I wonder what the hell Logos does to these people to make them so damn insane, that those things are all they seem to care about" Shinn said, briefly wondering if they would find some of the same totally inhuman equipment here at Heaven's Base, as they had done at the Lodonia Laboratory, some of the things they had seen back there, had given him quite a few, not so pleasant dreams.

"Perhaps once this is over, we should consider getting ZAFT intelligence to look into that, Shinn. Whatever knowledge, we can obtain about Biological CPUs, could very well, make any future encounters with such opponents that much easier. Now however is not the best time for us to be wondering about such questions, we need to stay focused on the task at hand, Shinn" Rey said seriously, while continuously firing the DRAGOONs, destroying a few of the more vital parts on a Raider Full Spec, that just happened to be nearby.

"Ok, I get that you dumbass' a curious about US! But will you PLEASE stop blabbing about us like we are not even here! FIGHT US YOU ASSHOLES! FIIIIIIIGHT!" The lead Destroy pilot screamed. Having listened to everything the two enemy pilots had said about finding out what Logos had done to them, seriously pissed him off more than anything else. If it wasn't for Logos, he would still be living in a back ally somewhere in London, or was it Paris, he did not quite remember where he actually came from, perhaps it might have been New York instead. He did think that he had seen the Statue of Liberty at some point or maybe that had just been a dream.

The psychopathic lead pilot did however not get very long to mentally scold himself, for being unable to remember something as simple as town he grew up in, when his friend in the other Destroy, started yelling loudly at their two opponents.

"Yeah you guys are quite rude, you know! We are going to have to make you pay for that, by slowly wring your pathetic necks, and tearing you apart limb by limb!" He said in a tone, that made it clear to everybody who heard it, that he was looking forward to do that.

Narrowing his eyes at those words, Shinn was quick to give the cheeky pilot a response. "Blab, blab, blaaaaab! Bring it on, you stupid creep!" He yelled back, and before their opponent had any time to react, Shinn fired two rapid shots from the beam cannon down at the large mobile suit, blowing apart two of the high-energy beam cannons on the Destroy's back.

And as the words 'damn you' was screamed out after him, Shinn followed by Rey rushed full speed downwards towards the gigantic gundams.

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At the same time elsewhere, Nicol waved skillfully in and out between beams from the Destroy he and Lunamaria was fighting, and the exact moment there was a small break in it's attacks he immediately fired all of the missiles he had available down at the Destroy, of course knowing that they would not do any damage to the giant mobile suit, it was simply a necessary distraction for what he and Lunamaria had planned. And even as he watched the missiles exploded against the shield, he made certain not to move even an inch. What Nicol had done the last few minutes, was to try and provoke the enemy pilot as much as possible, so he was sure now that he had stopped moving around, the bastard could not resist attacking him again.

And the precise moment Nicol's attacks ended, the Destroy pilot immediately lower the beam shield, and fired each and everyone of his weapons, up after him, but even as Nicol knocked aside a couple of missiles with the lance, and used his own beam shield to defend himself from the attacks, he stayed put, thereby making certain that he was still a very easy target to hit. It was at that very instant that the Impulse dropped down from above, now equipped with the Sword Silhouette pack, and before the short tempered pilot even realized what was happening, Lunamaria slammed both beam swords into the back of the Destroy, and since Lunamaria was still falling she ended up cutting off a huge chunk of the Destroy's round shaped backpack.

Yet Luna barely touch the frozen ground, before she took off again, jumping hastily away, to avoid having the Impulse and herself crushed, by debris from the Destroy gundam, and as Lunamaria's serious blue eyes, quickly ran over the massive amount of damage, she had just inflicted on the enemy mobile suit a satisfied smirk appeared on the redhead's lips. Yet once the girl realized from the Destroy turning towards her, that she was now it's main target. The tiny smirk instantly disappeared again.

"Why...You...You...I am going to tear your head off for tha...aahh!"

The Destroy pilot did however not get the chance to finish that sentence, when the right shoulder was hit by three beams from that green mobile suit, on the flying surfboard or whatever the hell that thing was called. But while the minor damage to the shoulder did annoy him, he was still far too pissed off at the red machine to give much of a damn about that bit of damage. Instead he simply yelled out a few more threats and curses at the red mobile suit, before firing all of the missiles he had left after it.

Hearing Nicol loudly cry out her name, Lunamaria quickly jumped backwards as far as the Impulse would go to avoid the first round of missiles, yet as she touch down again, the redhead instantly realized that it was impossible for her to avoid the second round. And one short glance down at the power measure instantly made it clear to her that there was no way the Impulse would be able to withstand all of those missiles, with just half it's power. And knowing that this, was the end for her, Lunamaria mumbled a small apology to Nicol, then hurried squeezed both of her eyes shut.

Yet the immense pain Lunamaria knew was coming from her gundam getting hit by such a unbelievable huge number of missiles, did not happen, Instead the female pilot felt something slamming into the Impulse and roughly pulling her out of harm's way. And as she slowly opened her blue eyes again, the first thing she saw was the Adamant's brutish face, with it's orange eyes staring down at her. But even as the redhead heard her boyfriend asking her if she was alright, Lunamaria felt a light blush appear on her cheeks, since it wasn't really all that difficult to tell, that the way the Adamant was presently holding the Impulse, was in a bridal style like manner, and with her huge love of romantic novels, Luna could not deny that there was a tiny part of her that kinda dreamt of being carried like this someday in the future, by somebody she loved. And that fantasy was just SO much more intense, since it had not been that long since Nicol and her had just started dating.

Lunamaria was however instantly reminded of the fact, that now was far from the best time for her to be daydreaming about all the romantic moments, she was hoping to someday experience together with Nicol. When the crazy idiot in the Destroy, start complaining loudly about the fact that the Impulse was still very much intact, and that she had not been reduced to worm food just now.

"You stupid bastards! Who asked YOU to interfere!? I want so badly to see how many pieces I could blow that damn thing into!" The pilot screamed in a cold tone, that made it totally clear to just how much he enjoyed making other people suffer.

Glaring hatefully down at the enemy mobile suit, Nicol was quick to give the sadistic nutcase a response. "What the hell did you expect me to do!? You where just about to kill my girlfriend!"

"Ohhhh, well ain't that cute! I think I about to throw up in here. If you ask me buddy she is a total bitch, so I would actually be doing you a favor by ending her rotten miserable life...!"

The guy's completely insane yammering about how much Lunamaria deserved to rot in the deepest corner of hell, was something Nicol quickly had enough of, he was really having a difficult time controlling his temper.

And as the crazy nutjob started blabbering loudly about how Nicol would not have to break up with Lunamaria, because she would be dead, Nicol swiftly changed his hold on his girlfriend's mobile suit, and with the words, shut up already, the green haired man hurled the lance with as much force as possible down at the Destroy.

Ryo Muto had always been a guy who enjoyed talking, even if it was about a subjects he knew next to nothing about, he would always find someway to get involved in the conversation, which of course often resulted in him being told to shut up and mind his own business. Heck, there had even been a few times where somebody had threaten to rip out his tongue or kill him, if he did not keep his trap shut.

So even though he did hear the enemy pilot, in the green machine telling him to shut up, Ryo just kept going. That however was something the brash pilot quickly found himself regretting, for the very instant some sort of attack send an earthquake like tremor through his huge gundam, he could do nothing to stop himself from bitting his tongue so unbelievable hard, that it actually felt a bit like it was about to come off.

Quickly pulling of his helmet to spit out the large amount of blood, now in his mouth. "God dammmn it you bassstard that hurt...thatttt hurt! And I can't see anytttthing!" Ryo yelled confused, needing about a minute to figure out why he could no longer see what was going on outside. Yet once the penny finally dropped, and he realized that all of the Destroy's cameras a been taken out by that attack, Ryo immediately start complaining as much as he could about how dirty a move that had been.

Not paying the least bit attention to what the crackpot was saying now, Nicol cut of the communication between the Adamant, and the Destroy, then began talking to Lunamaria in a low serious tone.

"Are you ready Luna? We are targeting the cockpit now!"

Feeling a determined smile ran over her lips at those words, Luna reached up with the free hand that was not wrapped around the Adamant and pulled out one of the Impulse's beam swords.

"Just get me in closer Nicol and throw me at him, I'll destroy the cockpit, and show this whiney bastard just how much of a bitch I can be!" The cranky red haired girl said, clearly more than a little determined to shut this guy up, once and for all.

A quick roger was the only response Nicol gave Lunamaria, before he got the Guul moving and began heading full speed straight towards the blinded mobile suit beneath them, yet before they could get in range of the enemy machine, Nicol was forced to change direction, when the crackpot started shooting randomly in all directions with whatever weapons he had left. But since he couldn't aim the only things he manage to hit was a pair of his own Windams, and a BABI they had been chasing them around.

"He is not going to be able to hit us like that, is he Nicol?" Lunamaria a asked her boyfriend in a low tone.

"Nope, if he keeps on shooting like that his chance of hitting us is relatively low, Luna" Nicol immediately answered, referring to the fact that their talkative opponent, was mostly firing the Destroy's remaining weapon upwards, which served as a pretty obvious sign, that he was expecting them to try and finish him off from above.

But the chatterbox's upwards barrage of beams and missiles, wasn't really all that mind-boggling for Nicol to find away to get past, he simply got as close to the ground as possible, where Lunamaria used the Impulse's machine guns to get rid of a single Windam, that made the unfortunate mistake of getting in their way, but even as the mass produced mobile suit exploded, Nicol could not deny that he was a bit impressed by how fast Lunamaria had learned to control her very first gundam, there was after all no denying that the Impulse was a pretty complicated mobile suit.

Yet as a missile slammed into the ground not that far away from them, Nicol immediately shock away those thoughts, and made the decision that he could always tell Lunamaria after the battle how great she was.

"Are you ready Luna?"

"Of course just let me at him, Nicol!"

Those self-assured words had just barely left Lunamaria's mouth, before she hastily leaped away from the Guul, and with a hard yet helpful boost from the Adamant, she went flying straight towards the enormous mobile suit that was still firing all of it's weapons blindly. And as she got in closer Lunamaria let out a loud scream, as she thrust one of the beam swords into the area near the Destroy's completely exposed cockpit.

Coughing up a great amount of blood, while chuckling viciously at the same time, Ryo reached out with his one remaining hand, and press a single button that made a number pad appear.

"Heh...heh...if I am going...down...! Lets see if...If I can't take you bastards with meee..." he growled while slowly pressing four of the numbers in a certain order. Once that was done and he saw a timer starting to counting down, Ryo coughed a up a bit more blood, as he slowly closed his eyes blue for the last time.

Seeing the Destroy starting to glow like crazy, Lunamaria immediately realized what was about to happen, and without wasting anytime she released her hold on the sword, then threw herself backwards away from the enormous mobile suit, seriously expecting Nicol to be there, ready to catch her, otherwise she would never make it far enough away from the upcoming explosion. Yet just when Lunamaria was starting to consider the possibility, that Nicol might be distracted by another opponent, something grab on to the Impulse, and she heard a familiar voice telling her to hold on tight.

Nicol could honestly say, that he had never expected his and Lunamaria's opponent to do this. After hearing him talk as much as he had, Nicol figured that he was way to self-obsessed to actually blow himself, and that he would likely try to eject once his stubborn brain realized that it was impossible for him to win against the two of them with a blinded mobile suit. Yet once Nicol had seen the almost blinding glow from the Destroy, he had instantly realized how wrong his assumptions had been, and that he needed to get Lunamaria and himself, as far away from the self destructing gundam as possible.

The massive explosion that followed was so unbelievable powerful, that even though Nicol had miraculously manage to get them just far enough away from the blast, not to get caught up in it. That however was something they barely had time to feel any kind of relief over, when the shockwave hit them. And as the green haired man struggled with all of his might to maintain control of the Guul, and keep his hold on the Impulse, he yelled out a couple of loud curses at the talkative pilot of the Destroy.

Yet he just barely finished the last curse, when a loud unfamiliar voice yelled out the words, to watch out behind him, which immediately made Nicol swirl around in one fluid motion, activating the beam shield at the same time, just as a large piece of what had likely been from of the Destroy's chest, slammed into the shield with so much force, that Nicol was barely able to prevent the Adamant from being thrown of the Guul, in the process. But even with the controls in there telling him, that each and everyone of the Guul's weapons had ceased function, the green haired teenager could not have cared any less about that at the moment, he was much more concerned about Lunamaria's safety, since he had been unable to keep his grip on the Impulse, the red and white mobile suit had fallen backwards off the Guul.

Yelling out Lunamaria's name Nicol was just about to rush off after the falling Impulse, when a GOUF swooped in from out of nowhere and quickly caught the gundam. "I got you! Damn, that bastard was crazy to the very end!" The same voice, that had given Nicol that warning earlier said.

"Yeah no kidding! Thank you by way!" Lunamaria said back to the unknown pilot.

"Do not mention it. We Zaft pilots have to look out after each other!" He said in a determined tone, then carefully helped the Impulse get back over onto the Guul beside the Adamants, after that he took off straight towards a couple of incoming Windams that had been chasing him around the last few minutes.

Looking after the guy with narrowed thoughtful eyes, Nicol watched him fight his two opponents for a short moment, and seeing how easily he was able to entangled the lead Windam's weapon, with the Slayer Whip, while evading a large number of beams fired from the other mass produced mobile suit, Nicol let out a low impressed whistle, as he mentally promised to give this guy, his recommendation to the Chairman, for a promotion. The way he was fighting in his GOUF, seriously remind Nicol quite a bit about how he had fought in his own GOUF, not that long ago. The two of them where pretty much using the exact same fighting style, with very few variation.

Nicol and Lunamaria did however not get long to watch the GOUF pilot fight when they heard a wicked female chuckle echo out through the radio. "Man ohhh man, you guys two are just so awesome! He is gone! HE IS FINALLY GONE! After being forced to listen to all of his damn talking, and with those two times he tried to seduce me! I can't even describe how much I longed to see him dead...But as much as I appreciate you guys getting him to blow himself up. I still need to kill you!" The girl said, just as the Destroy unit that had yet to really do anything finally started moving.

Looking with narrowed eyes at the approaching machine, Lunamaria let out a deep frustrated sigh. "Ohhh great! And we have yet anoooother crazy person to fight...Please tell me, that I am not the only one who find these brain dead fools annoying as hell"

"Trust me Luna, you are not. I honestly have had just about all I can take of these guys, the sooner we get rid of them the better. As for this loony bitch, I do think I have an idea, that should do quite a bit of damage to her ugly ass machine! But I need you to cover me with the Force Silhouette, Luna!"

While it was true that Lunamaria was quite a bit curious about what exactly it was Nicol was planning, the redhead quickly decide that she just had to wait and see, what he was up to. And without wasting anytime, she got in contact with the Minerva, and told them to send out the Force Silhouette, which the ship did only a brief moment later.

Once the Silhouette Flyer was close enough, Lunamaria swiftly jumped away from the Guul, then immediately dropped the Sword Silhouette pack. And as the Force Silhouette got equipped instead, Lunamaria called out to Nicol that she was yet again ready to play kick the can, with whoever was dumb enough to get in their way.

"Great! Just stay close behind me for now Luna, and take out any mobile suits that tries interfere" Nicol said back.

"Count on me, I'll show you all why I earned this red uniform! Ohh and Nicol if whatever it is you are planning is something totally reckless and stupid, that makes me worry about you, I am going to be pissed" the red head promised him in a sweet yet still threatening tone.

"Ohhhh you are going to be so mad at me, after this Luna" those words was all Lunamaria heard Nicol say back, before he took off full speed towards the Destroy gundam.

Looking after the Adamant a short second or two, before she hastily took off after it. "NICOL! JUST WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PLANNING!?" She yelled into the radio. Then cursed loudly, as a squadron of Windams started shooting at them from the right flank.

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Meanwhile elsewhere, Shinn let out a loud angry scream, as he used the beam sword to cut down a couple of incoming missiles. Yet even as they exploded around him, he hurried used the machine cannons to take out five more of the missiles before they even got close to him.

And with the Destiny momentarily covered up by smoke from the explosion, Shinn hurried got the beam cannon ready and fired two shoots at the Destroy unit underneath him, during quite a bit of damage to it's chest area and it's left arm. But while the first attack had hit pretty close to the cockpit, it was made obvious only a brief moment later, that his moronic opponent was still very much alive, when he fired each and everyone of the enormous mobile suit's remaining weapons, at the smoke cloud Shinn was hiding in.

Letting out another ear piercing scream, Shinn rushed shield first straight into the heavy assault, cutting even more missiles apart with the sword, and using the shield to defend himself against the many beams he did not evade. And as a red beam slammed into the shield, Shinn yelled out to the Destroy pilot, that he was going to defeat him right then and there.

"Just go ahead and try it!" The foosball nut yelled back, making sure to keep up the barrage to make it that much harder for anybody to approach him.

"Believe me you little bastard, I am going to do more than just try!" Shinn screamed in the same ear piercing voice as before, as he kept on forcing the Destiny downwards, through the massive red beam. Even when he received the message, that the beam shield was getting close to it's breaking point, and was ready to overheat, Shinn only took one glance at the screen showing the message, then simply ignored it and kept going. Since it was impossible for any beam weapon to fire indefinitely, the Destiny pilot fully expected the attack to end before the shield would break down.

And the dark haired teenager was right in that assumption, it was only a brief moment later, when the red beam started to diminish. And the exact moment it stopped completely, Shinn immediately hurled the right beam boomerang at the Destroy, aiming for the chest area on the dark grey mobile suit, and as the weapon hit it's mark, the middle one of the three chest cannons blow up, taking the other two with it in the process. Shinn felt a satisfied smile ran over his lips, that smile did however instantly disappeared when the Destroy fired all of it's remaining weapons at him.

Seeing the rain of green beams heading his way, Shinn immediately activated the Wings of Light, and with a determined frown on his forehead he skillfully maneuvered the Destiny in between eight or seven of the beams, then hurried released the left hand's hold on the beam rifle, as it got hit by one of the many beams, yet even as that weapon blew up behind him, Shinn kept on heading full speed straight towards the much large mobile suit, that was clearly getting more and more desperate to keep him at bay.

Not that the stupid bastard, had much luck with that. Thanks to the Destiny's unbelievable high speed, and the Wings of Light, it wasn't overly difficult for Shinn to get in closer.

"Noooo...NOOO! YOU...YOU STAY AWAY FROM MEEE!"

"Yeeah right! You screaming that like a whiny little girl, is all it takes to get me to back off!. DREAM ON, YOU STUPID MURDEROUS CREEP!" Those loud hateful words had barely left Shinn Asuka's mouth, before he hammered the left fist violently into the Destroy's head, then immediately fired the Palma Fiocina twice, wrecking the head completely.

And with a large amount of parts flying all around him, Shinn hastily backed away, knowing that one last attack, was all it was going to take for him, to put an end foosball nutcase for good, so while shouting out the word die, Shinn once more rushed forward at the Destroy, thrusting the beam sword straight into the enormous mobile suit's cockpit. And as one explosion after another wrecked the Destroy, Shinn pulled the sword back out, then hurried got away from the enemy machine.

"Good job Shinn, most impressive work my friend" Shinn heard Rey's voice telling him, as the Legend got down beside him.

"Thank you Rey. What about your 'little playmate' do you need any help with him?!"

"No, he has been dealt with. But considering we still have three more of these monstrous machines that require our attention Shinn, I'll tell you how I defeat him later. This really isn't the best time for us to be chit-chatting!" Rey said in a slightly bossy tone.

Quickly pulling off his helmet, Shinn hastily rubbed away some of the sweat covering his entire face, then after taking a couple of deep breaths, the red eyed teen got the helmet back on again. Yet just when he was about to give Rey a response, both of them heard Lunamaria short out Nicol's name, which was all the two pilots need to immediately locate the Adamant, and once they spotted the dark green mobile suit, they saw it hanging in mid air with a large number of beams and missiles heading straight for it.

"WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING!? IS HE TRYING TO GET HIMSELF KILLED!?" Shinn cried out. Seriously believing that he and the other Minerva pilots, was about to go though the exact same pain they had felt, when Heine and well...Athrun had been killed.

Yet just when it looked like the attacks was about to hit the Adamant and tear it completely apart, it quickly transformed into it's mobile armor and activated it's beam shield. And while it was true that the Adamant had the best defense of all four of the Minerva's gundams, Shinn was still deeply concerned about his green haired friend, and so was Luna which was made clear by her yelling out Nicol's name one more time.

"Do you really thinking the Adamant can withstand all of that, REY?!".

Taking a quick glance over at the Destiny. "No idea, Shinn!" Rey immediately said back, then once more looked back at the Adamant. While Rey truthfully was also concerned about Nicol's safety, the blond haired man, was also thinking about what negative effects it would likely have on Gilbert's plans if they were to lose Nicol and the Adamant now.

"Holy crap, he made it!" Shinn suddenly yelled out, interrupting Rey's deeply concerned thoughts, about how much more difficult it would be to carry out Gilbert's ambition for this world without Nicol and the Adamant gundam. Yet as Rey Za Burrel raised his head again and looked back in the direction of the Adamant, the only thing he could see was a think dense cloud of smoke from all of the exploded missiles. Pretty much the only indication they had that told them, that Nicol was still very much alright, was the single powerful red beam and three green once, appearing from inside the think smoke, heading straight toward the Destroy unit, who's pilot had evidently not expected the Adamant to have survived it's massive assault, since it did not have the necessary time to activate it's own beam shield, which meant that all four beams did a lot of damage to the Destroy's right leg.

Seeing what Nicol was aiming at, Shinn let out a few angry curses. "Hmm I can't believe that Nicol is using the Freedom pilot's tactic. But whatever, let's go give him and Lunamaria a hand Rey, if all four of us gang up on that damn thing, it wouldn't stand a chance!"

Listening to Shinn's words as he watched the Destroy stagger a bit from the attack. Unlike his friend in the Destiny, Rey frankly could not have cared any less about what strategy, Nicol was utilizing to take out his opponent, just as long as it was working that was all that matter to him. So as even more beams appear from inside the smoke the blond haired man, yelled out a loud roger before he and Shinn raced full speed towards the Destroy gundam, Nicol was going up against.

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Meanwhile inside Heaven's Base main control room. The Commander of the base was listening with a deep frown on his face, as he was told that they had just lost their last two Euclid units, he seriously didn't understand how the hell they were supposed to win this now, especially considering that their Destroy units, was no match against the four Zaft gundams out there, they had already lost three of the much larger mobile suits. And when a female officer told him that all four of the Zaft gundams, was now ganging up on another one of the Destroys, the man instantly realized, that it would not be long before they lost that one too.

Yet while the Commander was trying with all of might to come up with an idea that could help them turn things back in their favor. Neither he, nor anybody else in the control room, noticed Djibril standing slowly up from his seat, picking up his cat, that had been sleeping comfortably by his feet all of this time, then walked with fast steps out of the large room, while carrying the animal.

Once out in the hall Djibril immediately shoved Emperor into the arms of his long time bodyguard, then told the man to follow him, which he did without saying a word, much to terrorist leader's deep irritation, he seriously wanted an excuse to take out his frustration on somebody. Unfortunately his bodyguard had always been the type person, that preferred to let his actions speak for him instead, which was frankly one of the two reasons why Djibril had hired him in the first place, the other being that the man had killed a whole family of Coordinators with nothing but his bare hands, which was something that had earned him a lot of Djibril's respect.

Just the thought of how many of those accursed Coordinators his bodyguard had killed even before joining up with Logos, would under circumstance have been enough to make Djibril laugh out loud, and the terrorist leader found himself wondering for a brief moment, if Durandal actually knew, that one of the PLANTs most wanted criminals was serving as his bodyguard. Djibril did however not get long to wonder about how much information Zaft had on the man walking behind him, when a long earthquake like tremor went through the base, which meant that the Zaft forces outside was getting closer, and that it would not be long now, before the base would fall.

"We are not going to win this, are we Sir?" Djibril heard his bodyguard ask in a low tone.

Looking back at him, Djibril send him a loathsome glare. "No we are not! So the two of us are leaving this damn place before it's too late! And if anybody gets in the way and start asking question about where I am going, you just kill them, ok!?" The grey haired man hissed angrily, as his thoughts turned to the battle that was still going on outside, he REALLY didn't understand how the hell Zaft was able to defeat so many Destroy gundams. When he had ordered the construction of those giant mobile suits he had honestly believed that they were invincible, and that Zaft would never in a million years, be able to build anything that would even come close, to stand a chance against them.

And while still mentally complaining about how much cash Logos had waste on those Destroy units he entered the small hangar where his personal shuttle was hidden away, once on board the tiny ship he immediately yelled out to the pilots to get them out of there.

"Gladly Sir, but where exactly are we going?!" The lead pilot asked, finding it unnecessary to mention to the terrorist leader that since most of the world was out looking for him, there wasn't really all that many places to go.

Dropping down into his seat, Djibril thought hard about that simply question for a few somewhat tense minutes, until he finally raised his head, and stared directly back at the pilot. "Orb, get me to Orb, Unato owns me a favor"

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Still sitting in her seat, Talia felt a hint of a smile run over her lips, as Abbey informed her, and everybody else up on the Minerva's bridge, that their four gundams had just finished off the fourth Destroy unit, and was now heading towards the fifth one, which just so happened to be the one they had fired the Tannhauser at a few times, until it had been clever enough to positioned itself in such away, that it was impossible for them to hit it, without taking out three of the own Vosgulov class' in the process.

"Great, we'll leave the last two Destroys to them! Have the rest of our mobile suits focus their attention on what's left of their mass produced machines and get our Vosgulovs, and all other ships to target the many weapon platforms near the shoreline. With most of their ships already out of the picture, those are their last line of defense! It will not be long now, before base falls!" The Minerva Captain loudly told her crew, then took a short glance away from the main monitor, and looked over at Gilbert, who had an expressionless look on his face, that made it impossible for even Talia to figure out what he might be thinking about at the moment, and while again wondering if there was more to all of this then what she had been told, the brunette haired woman once more looked back at the monitor.

Watching as Rey skillfully maneuvered the Legend in between a large number of missiles, then hurried fired all of the DRAGOONs down at the Destroy, he and the three other pilots, was facing off against. Yet as she quietly watched their four gundams do battle with the much larger mobile suit, Talia Gladys could not even begin to describe how impressed she was over everything her ship's pilots had accomplished in this battle. Each of them did most definitely deserved one or two medals and maybe even a promotion once this battle was over, they had each done such an excellent job beating those Destroy. When those ginormous mobile suits had first appeared, Talia simply could not deny that a part of her had honestly feared, that it would be impossible for them to win this battle, and that it might have been best for them to retreat from the area as fast as humanly possible. Yet now she felt confident that it would only be a matter of time before Heaven's Base surrender.

Also pretty certain of their impending victory, Gilbert did not really pay much attention to what Rey, and the three other pilots was doing right now. Instead he was watching one of the smaller screens up there, with a thoughtful look in his brown eyes, as far as he could tell they had lost a lot of anti-Logos Earth Alliance ships and mobile suits during this battle, thanks to the Destroys. And if Djibril had already made his escape, and was heading for the place, Gilbert was fully expecting him to go, everything would be perfect.

'Heh, so you are off to Orb now, Djibril? You really are quite predictable. But no matter what connection you have with Unato and his family. The Seirans will not be able to protect you for long. Yet if this gives us the opportunity to bring an end to Orb once and for all, you wouldn't hear me complain' Gilbert thought. Then looked at the Destiny, which could be seen doing battle on the main screen, and as he watched the powerful grey and blue mobile suit firing it's Long-Range Beam Cannon, the Zaft leader found himself wondering for a brief moment, just how much more loyal Shinn would become, once he was presented with the opportunity to finally get his revenge on Orb, for what had happened to his family. While there truthfully was no denying that Shinn was already a pretty loyal guy, it would not really hurt much if the red eyed boy felt like Zaft had given him the one thing he want most, since his entire family had gotten killed during the Battle of Orb.

Yet Gilbert instantly shook away those thoughts about Shinn's loyalty to him and Zaft, when Abbey's loud alarming voice called out to Talia.

"Caaaptain! One of our two temporary GOUFs, is requesting permission to land, it has taken a lot of damage it's missing both arms, and from what I can tell, the area near the cockpit has also taken quite a beating!"

"Get the hangar open and get him inside immediately! And make sure that the medical staff is ready to treat whatever injuries he might have! But what about the other GOUF Abbey, what happened to it?!" Talia loudly asked the blond haired girl.

Shaking her head sadly. "It got shot down a little while ago by a Raider Full Spec! That his friend out there barely manage to defeat, with the help of a few ZAKUs and other GOUFs!" The girl explained.

"Damn it..." Talia cursed softly under her breath, just as Bart yelled out that two dozen Windams was coming right at them.

Narrowing her eyes at those words, Talia was honestly slightly surprised that the enemy forces still had any pilots left, that was willing to attack them head on like that, after everything they had lost during the battle.

"Load Dispars, and aim the Tristans! Do what you can to make sure that they don't get close enough to get a lock on! I would very much prefer that we do not have to waste too much time on repair work, once this is over" the brown haired woman informed her crew, then gave Arthur a short nod which was all he need to yell out for the prepared weapons to be fired at the incoming mass produced mobile suits.

But while some of the mobile suits was hit, most of them manage to avoid the beams fired from the Tristans and the many missiles, and as yet another party of Windams joined the assault, the Minerva crew was honestly having a bit of trouble keeping the many machines at-bay. Yet just when Arthur was about to yell out for the Isolde to be fired, Bart's loud voice interrupt him.

"Captain our gundams has just taken out the last Destroy, which has resulted in Heaven's Base raising the white flag!" The blond man said.

"Tell all of our mobile suits to cease all combat actions immediately!. But have them stay outside on standby incase this is a trap. After they attacked us like that at the begin of this battle, without even giving some sort of response to our demands, I do not think it would be wise for us to put much faith in their words, until we are absolutely certain, that each and every one of their pilots have left their mobile suits, and that they do not have any other nasty surprises waiting for us! Don't you agree?!" Talia asked while looking over at her lover.

Looking right back at her, Gilbert nodded slowly a couple of times. "You are right Talia. We have already seen more than enough proof to know, that these people will not hesitate to use whatever dirty trick they can come up with, to win. So lets be extra careful here, we do NOT want to lose any more people, than we already have!" The Zaft leader said. Which was something they all agreed on.

Smiling slightly at his inspiring words, even though there was still that small nagging feeling deep inside Talia's mind, that kept on insisting that there was more to all of this, then what Gilbert let on, she knew him well enough to tell that he was definitely hiding something from her. But since she loved the big scoundrel with all of her heart, she firmly believed that whatever he was up to it would still help make the world a much better place.

"Abbey, tell the Adamant and the Impulse to get back here so they can escort the Minerva to the base. Next tell Shinn and Rey to fly patrol above the base to keep an eye out for anything suspicious!" The Captain ordered in a calm tone. Yet truthfully Talia also had another reason for wanting the Destiny and Legend fly around above the base, it was meant as a scare tactic, to show the surrendering army, that their strongest mobile suits was still more than ready to keep on fighting.

Not that there was much cause for her to be concerned, the base's surrender was handled relatively peaceful. Yet it did piss quite a few people off when they realized that Djibril, had escaped from the base at some point near the end of the battle.

To be continued.

Hey guys I am sorry that this chapter took so long, but to be honest with you, this is one of the most difficult chapters I have ever written, there was so many times where I sat down to write on this chapter, where I just ended up sitting there staring at the screen for who knows how long, I knew what I want to writte but I just couldn't do it. One reason why it might have been so difficult was because of the Destroy pilots and Reki Neider I want to make sure that they all seemed absolutely insane in their own way, that they where in one way another as messed up as the other Extended pilots from the series, I hope that I succeed in carrying out that task. Let me know what you think.