"Kira Yamato/Suletta Mercury!" - Normal Text.

"Strike/Aerial!" - Some Random-Ass Bold Text That I Put Just To Make It Look Cool When Other Fanfics Do It Cuz Why Not Text.

"Launching!" - Thinking Text.

"Bruh" - Comms/Mic/TV Audio/ZOOM Meeting/Flashback Text

Warning: This is a long one. Like really.

In the Earth Alliance's Lunar HQ, all of the members of the Alliance are currently more active than before. I mean, it's obvious why. They've just arrived in space and they had to get themselves ready and comfortable in space. The Strike Daggers had to get in line and ready, and some Alliance Ships were about to dock on the base. Speaking of ships, on top of the moon is a black Archangel. The Dominion. It's current Commander? Natarle Badgiruel, the former second-in-command of the Archangel's Captain Murrue Ramius and former member of the Archangel corps.

Currently, she and her noob crew are doing simulations. Several simulations. And the previous simulations are anything but successful. Because the crew members are noobs and Natarle wasn't satisfied with this. Including now when their simulation is another failure.

"What the hell are you guys doing? You're responding way too slowly! At this rate, we'll be destroyed in our first battle! Do you understand that?" a pissed and unsatisfied Natarle barked to her noob crew.

"Captain. We have the fleet headquarters online." a communication operator informed Natarle.

A few meters away from the Dominion are a fleet that contains Muruta Azrael, the Strike Daggers, and of course the three Alliance Gundams. The fleet are heading towards the Dominion.

A few moments later, they entered and Natarle's superior officer and Muruta arrived on the bridge.

"Sorry to bother you during a simulation." apologized the Alliance superior to Natarle.

"No problem, sir." Natarle assured with a salute.

"Let me introduce you..." he then looked at the smug man beside him, who is looking around the ship's bridge and crew, "to Director Muruta Azrael of the National Defense Industry Association. I'm sure you've heard the name."

"Ah, of course...!" Natarle reluctantly replied. She knew who Muruta is and she didn't like him.

"He will be joining you aboard this ship...as an observer of the three state-of-the-art mobile suits...being loaded on the ship. Please welcome him."

"Nice to meet you, Ms. Captain." Azrael greeted the captain, who saluted in return.

"Sir! Lietenant Natarle Badgiruel. However..."Natarle forced out.

"However I never expected the captain of the ship we're boarding... to be this young and beautiful." Azrael interrupted, "Is this an added benefit of some sort?"

"Not to worry. She is very skilled." the commander assured Azrael, piquing his interest, "Her family has a long history of military service."

"Well, sure, but..."

"Also, prior to her posting here..." the commander cut Natarle off, "she served as the first officer of the Archangel."

"Wow! So you're very familiar with it." Azrael commented as the three Alliance Gundams' pilots arrived, "I'm counting on you. After all, we're on our way to go and sink the Archangel."

Because of this information, Natarle gasped in shock. Partly because up until now she believed that the Archangelhad been lost with the destruction of JOSH-A, and also because only seconds after finding out that the ship and crew were still alive and she was being ordered to pursue and destroy them.

"This colony was scrapped before the war..." Andrew commented when he took a good inspection on the colony that he was in, "Because it was a biological hazard, wasn't it?"

"Yeah. I remember the Mendel accident well." Mu, who Andrew was talking to, nodded to Andrew's question, "It caused quite a stir. But, because of that, it escaped with less damage."

In the colony, everyone's doing their own thing. Deark telling the mechanics about his mobile suit's maintenance, and Athrun in the observation area just looking at the three ships before him.

"I'd say it's most appropriate for setting up base." Mu said as he and Waltfeld, without his prosthetic arm, are strolling through the corridors of the Archangel, until they arrived on the bridge and met with the rest.

"Our immediate concern is likely the moon."Lacus revealed, taking the lead on the meeting. "I hear the Earth Forces... have been continuously sending troops from Victoria since they took it over."

"Are they planning an all-out attack against the PLANTs?" Murrue asked with a concerned expression.

"More than likely they will now that the leader from Blue Cosmos is with them." Miorine said as she is beside Kira and folded her arms.

"I agree with the girl here." Andrew agreed with Miorine, "Their forces are full of people who have always wanted to do that. "For the preservation of our blue pure world.""

Murrue had an upset expression, which Mu took notice off as he looked at Andrew, "Let's not start that."

"They're not my words." Andrew shrugged.

"That's still stupid to hear." Miorine admitted. When she first heard of the Blue Cosmos' motto she blanch, like bruh. Really? Blue pure world?

"I can't blame you, Miorine." Mu gave Miorine a sad smile, then he looked at Andrew, "But what you're saying is true."

"I can't see how getting rid of Coordinators will lead to a pure world. I don't know what is meant by pure world in the first place...but from the position of the PLANTs...nothing would be worse than being shot for such a reason."

Then Cagalli decided to use this time to leave the bridge via the elevator, while Kira couldn't help but look at Cagalli as she left.

"On the other hand, the leaders of the PLANTs look upon the Naturals as pests. Naturally, they'll defend themselves...and then go on the attack, so as never to repeat history. The question is, how much longer will this continue?"

Murrue looked down as she put her hand on Mu's shoulder and stated a fact that everyone had to agree with, "We live in such a cruel era."

"But it has always been we humans who do this, and who stop this." Lacus assured Murrue and the rest with negative expressions, "Throughout history...there have been many people who feel the way we do. Wouldn't it be great to create an era where that is not necessary?" she turned to Kira with a smile.

Kira gave that a moment so he could process her words in his brain. When that's done, he gave Lacus a simple nod.

"I finally found you." Cagalli called out as she saw Athrun just looking at the ships and moping. Why is he moping? Well, it's because of his father. Ever since he went back from the PLANTs with Lacus and co. Athrun couldn't get a rest because of his father's true intentions in this war. Killing all Naturals.

Athrun then turned to see Cagalli coming over to him, barely noticing anything else at the moment as the blonde said, "I bet your head's like a hamster about now."

"Eh?" came the simple response of Athrun.

"You're mind's going around in circles getting nowhere. That's why you need to discuss what's on your mind with everyone!" Cagalli reminded him, "When we gather for meetings, you should be there, too."

"Sorry."

Cagalli then glance at Athrun's arm that was still bandaged up in a sling before asking, "Does it hurt?"

"Ah, no...!" Athrun tried to deny it, but Cagalli didn't believe him.

"Of course it hurts. You were shot by your own father."

Athrun looked away sadly, seeing that Cagalli had hit the nail right on the head without even trying.

"I could not stop him." Athrun told her, "I realized it for the first time. I was totally powerless. And I didn't understand a thing."

"Everyone feels that way. Those who think they understand are only fooling themselves! It's still too soon to give up on your father! You may still have the chance to talk to him properly!" Cagalli encouraged as Athrun just looked at her while Cagalli's having flashbacks about her father before his death, "So stop standing around and looking so hesitant, and..."

Cagalli found that she could not finish what she was saying, as she was suddenly caught off guard by Athrun wrapping her in a warm, thankful hug which made her face start to blush instantly.

"Sorry." Athrun whispered to her.

"Wh-What do you mean, sorry?" Cagalli rebutted.

"Well, like I said. Sorry." Athrun repeated.

A few hours later, the Four Ships Alliance members were hard at work preparing the ships and themselves for action. Mu and the Astray Trio were hard at work loading supplies onto the ships.

"We've brought as much ammunition and as many resources as we could load."Waltfeld informed the four mobile suit pilots,"As for supplies from this point on... those remaining the PLANTs will somehow...provide us with what we need to along their supply route."

Mu gave Waltfeld a "Gotcha" sign with his left hand as Pink-chan floated beside Andrew, who shoved him off of him.

"How much longer before we complete final adjustments to the ship?" Lacus asked to one of the four mobile suits on her scree, who informed her about the duration, "I see. Please move as quickly as you can."

With the Gundams, the Strike Kai uncrouched from his position once he got a hold of a supply box, with Mu commenting how impressed he is about Lacus.

"Commander!" Asagi's Astray stood beside Mu's Strike Kai, "We'll take care of the work here."

"Never mind." Mu stated as the Strike Kai looked back to the Astray, "I think of this as part of my training. You girls already have some space simulation experience, don't you? I can't afford to let the younger ones look good at my expense." Of course, he had to take a joke on that last bit. Classic La Flaga. The Strike Kai jumped up as the Astray M1 gave him a push via the foot as the Strike floated away.

"If the Eternal is specifically designed...for the Justice, we should transfer them to you." Murrue told Lacus, who's face was shown on the monitor alongside Kira, Athrun, and Suletta's. The three pilots are together while Lacus is not, "We'll keep the Strike, Aerial, Strike Kai and Buster with us."

"Very well, Ramius-san." Athrun said as he took off his arm sling, "I'll move to the Eternal." Then he was greeted by the looks of Kira and Suletta, "We'll meet again, you two."

"Ah./Hai!" The two pilots nodded to Athrun.

Just around the corner of an asteroid near the Mendel Colony is the Dominion.

"Three silhouettes of battleships detected within the harbor of the Mendel Colony. One of the ships is confirmed as the Archangel." a CIC Operator informed Natarle.

"Looks like we've arrived first." Muruta mused once he saw the colony on the monitor, "How lucky. Okay, let's get started. You may sink their ship if you wish. The chief objective is to get those three mobile suits. We'll send our guys too. They'd better do their job right today." He refers to the Aerial, Freedom and Justice on the three mobile suits parts. How the hell did they know about the Freedom in the Eternal? Well, the PLANTs assumed that Lacus and her supporters stored the Freedom in there. Which they aren't wrong.

Natarle looked back to Muruta and sighed as she complied to his order, "This ship will begin battle. Activate Igelstellungs and Valiants! Load all missile launchers with Sledgehammers! Aim Lohengrin!" The Dominion deployed its weapons then its thrusters activated, now on its way to battle, "Target, Archangel class, ship number one...the Archangel!" She exclaimed, with a hint of hesitation on her tone.

In the Archangel, on Sai's radar, he saw one big red dot. This surprised him as he immediately informed Murrue and the rest present in the bridge, "Large heat source approaching! Believed to be warship class." He informed Murrue and Arnold, who gasped at this information, "Distance 700, Orange 11, Mark 18 Alpha. Matching with library...Not listed!"

"All hands! Level one battle stations!" Murrue told Sai, who nodded and began to inform the people in the Archangel and the rest of the ships. Soon immediately, the Strike Kai and Buster are being put on the catapult now. On the hangars, Kira, Athrun, and Suletta are inside their Gundams as they close their visors and wait for Mu and Dearka to launch. Then Athrun's face was shown on their monitors.

"Kira! Suletta!"

"Yeah./Right!" the two nodded.

Just as everyone was at their stations, an explosion shook the colony.

"Archangel, taking off! We're heading outside!" Murrue then announced, then Kisaka's and Andrew's faces were shown on her chair's monitor, "What's Kusanagi's status?"

"We can take off! We're okay!"Kisaka informed.

"Eternal needs more time for final adjustments."Andrew added.

"Very well. Then please standby within the harbor." Murrue told Andrew, "Once we determine whether the enemy is ZAFT or the Earth Forces... we will know what they're after."

"Thank you! Appreciate it!"Andrew thanked.

The Archangel activated its thrusters as it now prepared to launch, "Activate Igelstellungs and Valiants! Load all rear missile launchers."

Once the ship is now outside, they've readied their weapons. But the next thing is not what they're expecting. Well, except for Suletta and Miorine.

"This is the Earth Alliance Forces' Mobile Assault Ship Dominion!"Natarle's voice exclaimed as the Archangel corps' members who knew her gasped,"Archangel, can you hear me? Your ship is listed with the Alliance as a rebel ship...and we, therefore, demand your immediate and unconditional surrender. Should you fail to abide by these orders, we will destroy your ship."

"Natarle.../Lieutenant Badgiruel." Murrue and Arnold muttered in disbelief.

Everyone could only sit there in shock at the realization that the Earth Forces had sunk so low that they were sending out their former crewmate and friend after them like this, but they were in for another shock given what Miriallia was about to report. "Captain! We have a visual image of the enemy ship!"

The image of the Dominion was shown on the left side of the monitor, with the crew looking at it, "The Archangel!"

"It's the same model." Miorine and Arnold commented.

A moment afterward, the familiar face of Natarle herself appeared on the main monitors of the Archangel.

"It's been a while, Captain Ramius."Natarle commented, hoping to keep things as friendly as possible.

"Yes." Murrue replied.

"I regret we have to meet again under these circumstances."

"Same here." Murrue told her former second-in-command sadly.

"I heard about what went on in Alaska. However, I strongly suggest that you surrender... and talk things over with the top military officials. I don't know what help I can be, but I'll do everything I can to assist you. I know you're well aware of what this ship is capable of doing."

"Natarle. Thank you." Murrue began, "But we cannot do that! This isn't only about what happened in Alaska. We have serious doubts about the Earth Forces as a whole. Therefore, there will be no surrender and no return to the military!"

"Captain Ramius."Natarle began, but she was then interrupted by a smug voice from off-screen.

"I was listening with interest to see where things were headed. You should be embarrassed, Ms. Captain."The voice of the scumbag, Muruta Azrael, was heard."If we could solve everything by talking, there would be no conflict in this world. Enemies are made through misunderstandings. And we must shoot those enemies!"

The pilots had a shared unpleasant expression to what Muruta stated.

"Director Azrael!"Natarle tried to protest, but she did not get any farther than that.

"Calamity, Forbidden, and Raider! Launch! Today we destroy the indestructible Archangel!"

Everyone in the Three Ships Alliance gasped once they heard the name.

"Isn't Azrael...?" Mirillia started as Miorine finished it for her as she looked back to the girl with an expression of anything but pleasant.

"The leader of Blue Cosmos!" Miorine exclaimed.

"Mobile suits have taken off from the Dominion!" Miriallia then reported.

"Mu! Dearka! Kira-kun! Suletta! Athrun!" Murrue said as both pilots nodded.

"Roger!"All pilots nodded as the Strike Kai was being equipped with the Launcher Striker Pack.

"Strike Kai! Please take off!"Miriallia exclaimed from the speakers.

"Mu La Flaga! Let's go!" The Strike Kai was soon launched.

"Buster! Please take off!"

"Buster! Ikuze!" Dearka exclaimed as the Buster Gundam was launched.

"Athrun Zala! Justice, deru!" The Justice was then next for launch. Then... now for the Aerial, now no Striker Pack equipped, while the Strike is being equipped with the IWSP and arm-mounted beam cannon.

"Are you sure you're not gonna use any of the Striker Packs?"Kira asked through the comms as Suletta nodded.

"Hai. I can now ask for everyone's help, Kira-nii-chan." Suletta told him as she smiled. Kira smiled back in return as he nodded to Suletta's statement about not using Striker Packs today.

"Aerial! Please take off!"

Suletta nodded to her as she exclaimed and the Aerial's eyes flashed, "Suletta Mercury! Aerial, ikimasu!" The Aerial was then launched. As soon as she was out, she switched from Bit On Form to her Normal Form as the GUND-Bits turned into her shield.

"Strike! Please take off!"

With determination flashed through his eyes and the Strike's eyes glowed in contrast to his pilot's determination, both of them were now ready to launch, "Kira Yamato! Strike, heading out!" And with that, the Strike was launched out of the Archangel.

"Buster and Strike Kai, stay back and protect the Archangel!"Murrue ordered as both pilots of the Strike Kai and Buster complied and stayed back, with the three Gundams of the Three Ship Alliance readying themselves when on the Aerial's monitors, it managed to identify the three machines of the Alliance.

"Athrun-san! Kira-nii-chan! It's those three!" Suletta informed her fellow pilots, who then nodded to her.

Once the three Alliance Gundams are near, the Calamity fired his beam cannons first at the Three Ship Alliance Gundams, who are forced to split up to dodge the attack as the Raider and Forbidden are now in the previous position of the three Gundams.

"They want us to catch those guys alive! We can destroy the Strike instead! Like they wanted an outdated mobile suit!" Clotho reminded his teammates.

"Will just one of them do?" lazily, but still with emotion, asked Shani to his red-headed teammate.

"The Archangel and one unidentified vessel are proceeding." the Communications Operator of the Dominion informed Natarle as a map of the ongoing battle appeared on the monitor beside Natarle, "Course, Green 94, Mark 3, Bravo."

Then Natarle began to instruct her crew to load missile launchers, set terminal guidance to self-control pattern B, and set the ship's thrusters to the maximum.

"What good will it do to fire your missiles where there is no enemy?" Muruta asked, questioning Natarle's plan as he looked at the captain.

"If you don't understand the strategy, please be quiet." Natarle shut the blonde man up, slowly but surely getting tired of him. The Dominion then fired its missiles to God knows where.

The Buster was upside down, but it didn't stop him from combining his two weapons into a sniper rifle and firing at a Strike Dagger, who hid behind an Asteroid but it was futile when it was destroyed. The same goes for its left arm, but shortly the Strike downgraded variant was dead when the Launcher Strike Kai fired its Agni.

"I'll show you how much better I've become at this!" Mu exclaimed with determination.

It was not long into the fighting that the Kusanagifinally joined the battle, with Cagalli on the bridge. The Kusanagi then maneuvered to try and cover the Archangel's port side.

"There's only one enemy vessel! Aim for its engine!" Cagalli ordered, but the Kusanagi then suddenly stopped.

"What happened?" Kisaka demanded.

"I don't know! It seems like a cable-like object is clinging onto the ship!" the Kusanagi helmsman frantically informed as Cagalli and Kisaka gasped, with Cagalli glaring at the cables.

"Break free from it!" Kisaka exclaimed, but the helmsman told him that they couldn't.

With no choice, Kisaka decided to send Asagi to deal with the cables, "Asagi! Something's grabbed onto the ship! Go and get it off!" Kisaka ordered.

"Roger!" the Astray pilot replied as she headed out to do just as she was asked, but she was not going to be doing so alone or without cover when the Forbidden noticed her. Of course, the Aerial also noticed it.

"The Kusanagi!" Suletta exclaimed as the Aerial went after the green Gundam.

"Oi, Shani! Damn, that bastard!" Clotho cursed when he saw the Forbidden going to the Kusanagi. Sliding that thought away, CLotho focused his mobile suit on the Strike as he fired his Mjolnir at the backpacked equipped Gundam. The Strike fired its beam cannon at the Raider, but it missed. Then the Strike ducked down when the Raider's Mjolnir barely hit him as he was now surrounded by the two Gundams of the Alliance.

"I've got this one!" cockily exclaimed Orga as the Calamity aimed its beam cannons at the Strike. Kira grunted until he looked to his right monitor to see the Mjolnir heading straight to him.

In quick reflex, the Strike aimed his Combined Shield's Gatling at the Mjolnir and fired at it simultaneously with his beam vulcans, trying to slow/destroy the mace. It didn't work as the Strike resorted to raising the shield to his face and swatted it in the direction of the Calamity, who didn't expect that as the Mjolnir hit his chest. Then at the same time, the Justice's Fatum 00 also hit the Calamity, but this time it's at the back.

With the Kusanagi, Asagi's Astray is trying to cut the cable with her beam saber while she's upside down, then the Forbidden appeared right in front of her, which Asagi didn't expect.

"Goodbye!" Shani exclaimed as the Forbidden raised its scythe, ready to kill Asagi, but thankfully that was avoided thanks to a last-minute save by the Aerial's kick to the chest, kicking the Forbidden away from the Astray.

"Asagi-san! Please hurry!" Suletta exclaimed to the Astray pilot, who complied and returned to do what she was doing.

The Forbidden recovered from the Aerial's attack as he charged at the Aerial, "How dare you get in my way, newbie!"

The Aerial's beam rifle began to ignite a blue beam blade, but at the same time she swatted her arm so the shield could separate into her GUND-Bits, surprising Shani but it didn't stop him from charging at the Witch From Mercury. The same goes for Suletta and Aerial as she roared and charged at the green Gundam.

"Well, look what we have here. The curtain has already been raised." Rau mused as he was inside the Vesalius as the said ship and two other Nazca-class ships were hiding behind an asteroid behind the Mendel Colony. The reason he mused was because of the ongoing battle he was informed of by Frederik.

"The Eternal, and two other vessels. One is the legged ship." Frederik informed, "And it looks like the Earth Forces are countering with only one vessel."

"Whatever the case, without a better understanding of what's going on here... there's little we can do." Rau groaned as he lazily looked at the battle on the monitor in front of him. Then he looked back to Frederik, now thinking of a plan, "Yzak and I will enter the colony...and gather information."

Both Yzak and Frederik widened their eyes in unison, not expecting this plan from Rau himself as Frederik began to ask the blonde man, "You're going, Commander?"

"I want the Helderton and the Heusinger to remain here. The Mendel Colony..." Then he stood up and he went straight to the door to leave the bridge and go to the hangar, "If all goes well we could bring a number of matters to a close. Got that?"

Frederik saluted, "Yes, sir!"

"Where's the Dominion?" Murrue asked as she looked at Miorine, who had a focused expression when she looked at her monitor.

"There's too much debris..!" Miorine informed until her expression changed from focused into panic as her eyes widened at what she saw in her monitor, "Blue 19, Alpha. It's the Dominion!"

"How'd it get there?" Murrue gawked with her eyes widening once she saw the Dominion a few meters above the Archangel.

The Dominion's Gottfrieds fired at the Archangel, but it managed to evade the blast thanks to Murrue's quick orders and Arnold's quick reflexes. Though the Archangel was quick to avoid the initial attack, they weren't expecting the missiles from the sides that Natarle sent out.

"Missiles approaching at tremendous speed from Orange, Delta!" Miriallia informed once she saw the missiles of the Dominion now onto the Archangel.

"Counterattack!" Murrue quickly ordered.

"We don't have time!" Sai exclaimed.

In a distance away from the Archangel, Kira noticed the Dominion's missiles heading straight towards the ship where his friends were, "The Archangel!" Kira shouted as he readied the Strike's beam cannons, vulcans, gatling, and railguns on the IWSP, left and right arms, and fired in its direction.

The beams and railgun bullets soared through space as they managed to destroy some of the missiles upon impact, but they didn't manage to destroy the rest of the surviving missiles. The Archangel fired its Igellstellungs at the missiles, but it didn't manage to destroy them as the missiles hit the sides and left Gottfried. The missiles hit the Archangel, causing the crew to brace themselves from the blast while Kira just cursed as he gruntingly shoved off the aim support camera in his cockpit.

In the Dominion, Muruta's eyes shone. Impressed at Natarle's strategy, "I must say, I'm impressed." Muruta admitted.

"Frankly, tactics of this level are nothing to be impressed about." Natarle looked at Muruta.

With Kira, he punched the Strike's thrusters to the max as he went straight at the Dominion, with fire fueling his eyes at the sight of the Dominion, "Natarle-san!" Kira roared out.

"You'd like to destroy the Strike, am I right?" Natarle asked Muruta for reassurance once she took notice of the Strike, who nodded at that, "Then get the Raider and Calamity on it. Valiants! Gottfrieds! Target, enemy mobile suit!" the said guns of the Dominion aimed the Strike. Then they fired.

The Strike raised his combined shield to block it, but he had to quickly let go of it once the powerful beams made an impact on the shield and destroyed the IWSP Strike's shield. But the loss of the shield didn't stop Kira from keeping on going, but he had to click his tongue. The Strike's cockpit blared as Kira quickly looked to his right to see the Raider firing at his Mjolnir at him. The Strike reversed back to dodge the Mjolnir, but then his back was hit by the Calamity's.

"I've got you this time-OOF!" Orga was then kicked back by the Justice.

"You're fighting me!" Athrun exclaimed as the Justice combined his beam sabers and charged at the Calamity.

The Strike fixed his footing in space as the IWSP began to produce electric crackles with Kira looking at the Striker Pack's condition as he cursed, "Damn. One more hit and this Striker Pack is done for."

With the Archangel, Miorine noticed the Strike's condition on her monitor as she looked at Murrue to inform her, "Captain! The Strike...!"

Murrue's eyes widened once Miorine told her.

Then at the Vesalius, Rau's GuAIZ and Yzak's Duel launched from the Vesalius. Of course, since Rau took off, it's reasonable that Mu sensed him when a mental white lightning flashed across his mind.

"This feeling. Could it be him?" Mu muttered as soon as he finished killing a Strike Dagger. Then he turned the Strike Kai around and its thrusters punched to the max as he went straight to Rau and Yzak's location, leaving Dearka behind and confused.

"Hey! Old man!" Dearka cried out to the leaving Strike Kai.

"Don't call me "old man"! ZAFT is close by!"Mu corrected and informed Dearka, who slightly gaped, but then he activated his Gundam's thrusters and followed Mu.

With Kira, the Strike equipped its Anti-Ship sword in its left arm, with Kira grunting as he backed away from the Raider.

Then he made the Strike go up, but not while the Striker Pack was still crackling, to dodge the Mjolnir.

The Calamity fired a barrage shot at the Justice, who was evading around the shots as Athrun's frustrated at the predicament he is now. He then detached the Fatum 00 from his back as the support craft went straight to the Calamity, firing its beams at the Gundam. The Calamity, however, raised his shield to block the beams, but he was soon tackled off by the Fatum 00. Once its mission was done, the Fatum 00 returned to the Justice's back.

"Kira!" Athrun exclaimed as soon as he saw his friend's problem.

Seeing her brother in trouble, the Aerial then damaged the Forbidden by damaging his shield with her beam blade.

The Forbidden kept his distance from the Aerial and her GUND-Bits, trying not to die from those swarms. Dealing with them was a pain if Shani was being honest. Good thing the Forbidden has the Geschmeidig Panzer installed.

"Kira-nii-chan!" Suletta cried out to her brother.

The same goes could be said to the Archangel crew. Specifically Murrue and Miorine.

"Kira-kun!/Kira!" said M&M. Okay that was bad, I'll stop.

Anyways, the Dominion fired its missiles, but Natarle gave a small but hesitant pause for giving the "Fire!" command to her crew, as it went straight towards the Strike. Kira did not expect Natarle to give him another missile attack as his eyes widened in shock. Too late to dodge the attack now, but Kira has to do something. Fast! He began to quickly think of alternatives. Again, dodging is out of the options because the missiles are close to him and the IWSP pack is too damaged...until he remembered what Erica told him before the fight.

He entered SEED mode once again as he pressed a few buttons to quickly detached the damaged IWSP, then he pressed an unknown button... on the butt end of the lever of his mobile suit. You guys know what I'm talking about right?

He pressed that said button and the Strike began to glow once again as the missiles hit him, creating a heavy smoke effect.

"Kira!/Kira-nii-chan!/Kira-kun!" The people who were close to him all shouted at the brown-haired Coordinator, fearing that he would die. But Erica thought differently.

And she's right. Once the smoke effects dissipate, all that's left are... the IWSP parts. But where's the Strike? Well, a few meters upward we see... a warp. A green warp to be precise. The warp formed up as a certain tri-colored Gundam went out of it unscathed.

The people who saw that gawked with their eyes widening at what they just saw.

"So he used it huh... and it looks like my theory was correct." Erica Simmons smiled, the woman seemingly responsible for what happened as Cagalli looked at her with a confused look.

"W-What do you mean by that, Erica-san?" Cagalli asked as Erica began to explain...along with a flashback. A flashback before the Battle of Mendel happened.

"Kira. We did a little modification in your Strike's cockpit."Erica told Kira what she and the mechanics did to his Gundam. Currently, both of them are in the Archangel's hangar.

"Why's that, Erica-san?"Kira asked, now curious about what they did to the Strike. Erica then showed Kira her tablet about what she found.

"Apparently after a careful study about this, I theorized that you could use this Warp Drive System to your advantage for dodging missiles and beam attacks by these..."Warps"."Erica explained to the boy, who in return had a confused and concerned expression.

"But... you said that it's a theory. If I did use that, won't that send me back to Ad Stella?"Kira pointed out, which caused Erica to put her hand on her chin.

"Well, I did more careful research about this. Here."She swiped her tablet to see two Warps that she drew. One is blue, and the other is green. Each one is labeled Warp Maximum and Warp Minimum,"The blue warp is called Warp Maximum. I believe that in a certain amount of speed, that will send you back home to this Ad Stella... I hope. The green warp is called Warp Minimum. No certain amount of speed is required for it. Just press the button on the opposite end of the right lever."

"Sugoi..."Kira muttered in awe. He had to admit, this would give him an advantage over his enemies in terms of dodging. But the question is... is it safe? Will it succeed? Will they return back to Ad Stella? Or arrive in a different timeline...

"You want to give this a field run? Just the Warp Minimum. We don't know if the Warp Maximum can send you three back to Ad Stella."Erica asked. Before Kira could give his answer, he heard the voice of Suletta calling out to him,"Maybe at a later time, Erica-san."

"Alright then."Erica nodded.

Then the flashback ends with Erica finishing her explanation to Cagalli, who is in awe.

In the Strike, Kira mentally sighed that Erica's theory worked. But of course, it has its drawbacks as Kira looked at the Strike's Phase Shift power level... it depleted. But it's better to be safe than sorry.

"Erica-san, your theory worked. But at the cost of the Strike's battery." Kira muttered as the Strike turned around to face the Dominion with its eyes flashing and the vents gushing out air, "Murrue-san! Please send out the Aile Striker and Shield! At this location! Just like Mu-san's plan back then!" The Strike turned around and went to the location where the Aile Pack was supposed to launch. But of course, he has obstacles in his way.

"Attack! Take this!" The Raider fired its Mjolnir at the Strike, who used its Warp Drive once again to dodge it. A few meters away from his previous position, the Strike flew out of the Warp Minimum, which dumbfounded Clotho once again, "What the hell is that bullshit?! I didn't know that old piece of shit can do that!" The Raider transformed into its MA mode to chase after the Strike.

Kira looked at the Strike's now depleted battery gauge depleting even further as he clicked his tongue, he needed to be careful using the new system, or else!

"Mou, just get away from me!" Kira made the Strike turn around a moment as it fired its beam vulcans at the Raider, who immediately swerved around and fired back at the Strike, fortunately, they didn't hit the Gundam.

The Archangel then sent out the Aile Striker and Shield straight to the location that Kira had pinpointed for him to mount on. As the Striker Pack and Shield went to the location thanks to the zero gravity here in space, the Strike arrived shortly, with the Raider on its tail.

"Why won't you die!" Clotho roared as the Raider continuously fired its shoulder cannons at the Strike, which it efficiently dodged. Once the firing stopped, the Strike turned around, and fired its long-range weapons, pulling out the Armor Razors and throwing them at the Raider, who was forced to transform into MS mode and block it with his Shield Cannon.

Once the Strike was at the pinpointed location, and right on time, the Aile Striker Pack attached itself to the Strike, which stored the beam rifle onto its right hand once again and grabbed its Shield. Now with a Striker Pack equipped and its battery still at its depleted state that made the pilot click his tongue that changing Striker Packs won't even make the battery full, the Strike activated its thrusters as he charged toward the black Gundam.

The Raider fired its Mjolnir at the tri-colored Gundam, who bashed it away with his Shield. Clotho couldn't do anything at this point as he was kneed to the chest by the Strike himself causing the Raider to lose his position while the Strike still went past him to deal with the Calamity.

Why's that? Well, the Justice and Strike decided to switch their enemies in the meantime as both mobile suits went past each other to deal with their new foes. The Raider fixed its position as he tried to go after the Strike, but he had to raise his shield to block the Justice's beams.

The Forbidden fired his curved beam while in HSA mode at the Aerial. The Aerial's GUND-Bits went to the side of the Aerial to block the beam attack by the Forbidden. With that done, the Aerial and Bits aimed their sights at the Forbidden and fired, well, of course, the BITS had to surround the green Gundam. The Forbidden quickly spin, but of course not while using his shields to deflect the beams. Then some of the deflected beams of the Aerial went straight to her as some of the GUND-Bits quickly went in front of her to deflect the beams... followed shortly when the Forbidden, now in its Normal Mode, appeared in front of the Aerial.

Suletta yelped at what she saw as the Aerial fired its vulcans at the Forbidden, who used the butt end of his scythe's staff to hit the Aerial's head, causing the Aerial to lose her position with Suletta to scream. The Forbidden was about to go after the Gundam until he was tackled by the Justice's Fatum 00.

"Suletta! Let's switch, I'll deal with this one, you go after that black mobile suit and help Kira!"Athrun's voice called her out, as the Aerial fixed her position and looked up to see the Justice locking blades with the Forbidden,"Go!"

Suletta shook her head to regain her focus as she nodded to Athrun, "Right! Thank you, Athrun-san!" The Aerial turned around as the GUND-Bits attached themselves to the Gundam into Bit On Form and went to the Strike to help.

The Calamity is now in front of the oncoming Strike with its beam cannons aimed at the mobile suits, "Hey, hey! Why can't you just die for me?" The Calamity fired a long-range barrage of beams and railguns at the Strike, who stopped in his tracks and began to dodge every bullet and beam coming his way. The Calamity then fired two Scylla rounds at the Strike, who managed to dodge the two of them.

Kira looked up from his cockpit to see the Raider in MA mode firing its missile cannons at the Strike again. The Strike tried to dodge the black transformable Gundam, but it was too late as he was then hit by the Raider's claws in the chest, which caused Kira to fall back.

"Damn it!" Kira cursed.

"Kira-nii-chan!" Suletta cried out as the Aerial's GUND Bits separated and began to fire a barrage of beams at the Raider, who immediately transformed into MA mode and dodged the beams as best as the pilot could, much to Suletta's chagrin.

"Kira! Damn!" Athrun cursed seeing that his friend is in trouble. He made the Justice fall back to dodge the Forbidden's curved beam, then he followed it by grabbing his Bassel Beam Boomerang on his right shoulder and throwing it to the Forbidden. Shani noticed the beam boomerang going to his location as he used his shield to successfully block it, but then he failed to notice the Justice appearing in front of him and slashing his scythe in half, causing the Forbidden to fall.

The Raider fired his shoulder guns at the Strike while the Strike just raised his shield and fired at the Raider.

Unknown to the Strike, he was being locked on by the Calamity behind him, but Orag couldn't lock onto the Strike because of the blurs of the Raider going past his screen.

Annoyed by this, Orga called out to his teammate, "Outta my way, Clotho!"

"Shut up! You need to deal with that other one!" Clotho warned Orga, who was confused as to what he meant.

Until his cockpit shook he grunted when he looked to his behind to see the Aerial is the one that is responsible because she kicked him. The Calamity recovered as he fired his beam cannons at the Aerial, who maneuvered out of the way and fired her beam rifle at the Calamity.

The Raider activated its Ahura Mazda as he tackled the Strike's shield, but at the same time, he had to evade the Aerial's, who was beside the Strike, beam shots.

The Calamity locked onto the Strike, with Orga pulling the trigger of his Gundam's Scylla. As the Scylla was fired, the Justice swiftly went in front of the Strike, with Athrun entering SEED mode as well, as the Justice blocked the powerful beam shot. With a roar of determination by Athrun, the Justice's thrusters activated ashe then pushed back until the beam ended up damaging the Calamity more than it did anything the Justice's shield did take some damage from doing this, it was well worth the effort to have disabled one of the Calamity's cannons.

"Athrun!/Athrun-san!" the siblings from Ad Stella asked the blue-haired boy, who reassured them that he was alright.

Suddenly, all three pilots were being fired upon by the Raider as the Justice raised its now battered shield and pulled back. Then the Strike and Aerial went in front of the retreating Justice as they fired.

The Archangel aimed its sights onto the Dominion as they fired their remaining Gottfrieds, but of course. The black variant of the Archangel evaded it, with Murrue clicking her tongue.

The Strike Kai and Buster are inside the colony as they go past the Eternal. Andrew and the rest are wondering why those two are inside, not outside participating in the fight, as Andrew grabs the Captain's phone.

"Hey, what is it?" Andrew asked as Dearka's face was shown on the monitor.

"He says ZAFT is close by! Yes. Him."Dearka informed them as Andrew and Lacus' eyes widened,"In any case, I'm going over to check! If he's right, this could mean trouble." then Dearka's screen closed as Andrew put the phone down.

"The harbor on the opposite side?" Andrew clicked his tongue.

"In any case, please hurry with the Eternal's takeoff. As long as we're stuck here, we have no choice but to leave things to them." Lacus said as Andrew and the crew looked back at her, while the songstress just smiled.

Then Andrew nodded as he looked in front, "You're right! DaCosta!"

Deeper in the Mendel Colony, the GuAIZ and Duel are soaring through the skies, with Yzak being aware of his surroundings as he looks at both of his monitors. Until Rau had a white lightning spark across his face... same goes for Mu.

"They're here!"Both blondes exclaimed while both Dearka and Yzak just gasped. In the Duel's cockpit, it identified the Strike Kai and Buster.

"A purple Strike? And the Buster?!" Yzak gaped.

Dearka also identified the two ZAFT mobile suits before him, "The Duel!"

Then soon after, they exchanged attacks.

"So, now you're piloting that! Mu La Flaga!" Rau yelled out as he aimed his GuAIZ's beam rifle at the Strike Kai and fired a few rounds. The Strike Kai managed to dodge those beams as he fired back with his Agni by going upside down.

"A new model? This attachment might be a disadvantage." Mu noted as he clicked his tongue. And he is right. The GuAIZ is fast while the Launcher Strike Kai isn't.

The Buster and Duel exchanged beams as well, with Yzak wondering why Dearka's machine was being piloted by a Natural. But what he doesn't know is that the Buster is indeed being piloted by Dearka Elsman himself.

"Take this!" Orga roared out as he fired his beam cannons at the three Gundams, who split up to evade the beams.

"How's this!" The Raider fired its machine guns at the Strike, who twirled around while firing his beams at the Raider.

The Raider managed to evade the beams until he and the Calamity stopped when both pilots noticed the Forbidden in HSA mode approaching them.

"Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!" Shani cursed at the Aerial and Justice as he fired his Hresvegler at the two. The Aerial and Justice managed to dodge the continuous curved beams fired at them, but of course, the Raider and Calamity were nearly hit by the curved beams.

"Shani!/What are you doing, you fool!" his teammates called him out.

The Strike then managed to evade the curved beams as he returned fire to the green Gundam, which was deflected with Shani exclaiming back at the two, "It's that guy and newbie's fault!"

The Justice and Aerial once again evaded the curved beams and got themselves their distance away from the Forbidden, with the Forbidden himself choosing to go after the Justice instead of the Aerial.

"He's totally reckless!" Athrun clicked his tongue as he looked back to the Forbidden chasing after him.

The Aerial pulled out her beam saber as she went down to separate the Forbidden from the Justice by slashing the Forbidden, who jumped off to evade the attack.

With the Kusangi, Asagi managed to completely cut the cable off, "I'm sorry it took so long!" the girl apologized to her commanding officer and her friend.

"Thanks! We appreciate your help!" Kisaka reassured.

Now that the cables are off, the Kusanagi is now available for battle, with Cagalli giving the orders, "Maximum propulsion! We'll go after the Dominion!" then she looked back to the crew, "Don't get the ship caught on anything else!" Then the Kusanagi went to its next destination. To help the Archangel, who is exchanging bullets with the Dominion. Of course while on their way, Strike Daggers are attacking so the Astray M1s outside of the ship begin to fight back.

"Bastard!" Yzak growled as the Duel pulled out its beam saber and charged at the Buster, "How dare you use Dearka's machine!"

The Duel gave two slashes at the Buster, but the Buster miraculously evaded the slashes.

"Yzak." Dearka grunted.

The Launcher Strike Kai fired its gatling of the Combo Weapons Pod at the GuAIZ, who managed to dodge the bullets.

"Who would've thought I'd have the chance to meet you here?" Rau mused, which annoyed Mu even more that he had to growl out his archnemesis' name. The GuAIZ then activated a beam claw on its shield as he charged at the Strike Kai and slashed, but the purple Gundam managed to dodge it, "I'm glad, Mu." Rau either sarcastically said that or not, but either way Mu just clicked his tongue.

The battle wages on between the Archangel and Dominion as both ships gave their all. Each bullet or beam hit one another... until an unknown beam hit the Dominion, which greatly damaged the ship as the crew braced themselves from the hit.

"Distance 20. Orange 15, Mark 1, Alpha." the Fire Control Operator told Natarle as a screen was shown beside her to reveal... the Kusanagi, "Orb's Izumo-class vessel is approaching!"

"Oh my. I think it's freed itself." Muruta mused once he and the others saw the Kusanagi approaching them and supporting the Archangel. The Dominion was forced to leave its spot when the Kusanagi fired its Gottfriends at the black ship.

"We'll temporarily retreat! Fire retreat signal!" Natarle ordered as Muruta gawked at what she said. Natarle told Muruta why they had to retreat, "Right now, we're at a disadvantage."

"But we had them cornered!" moaned the blonde to the captain.

"The energy levels of those three machines are reaching a critical level. If we don't retreat now, we'll be destroyed." Natarle reasoned and she had a point. At the fight when all three Alliance Gundams are fighting their respective foes, their Gundams' power is critically low as all three pilots begin to gasp.

"I hope you're confident that if we pull out now, we'll win the next time." Muruta accepted Natarle's reason as he gave her a smug look.

Natarle then gave Muruta a serious look that Muruta himself wasn't even fazed about, "Would you rather die now?"

The Archangel kept on firing its Valiants at the Dominion and most of them managed to hit the ship. Muruta then reluctantly complied. He didn't like it, but he also didn't like dying today. Well, you know what they said. Live today fight tomorrow.

"Fire signal!" Natarle repeated, "10 to starboard. We're leaving the battle area."

With that said, the Dominion fired its flares into space as the pilots just looked at it. The same goes for the captains and crews of the ships as they are confused as to what the flares mean... except for the Alliance Gundams.

"I guess time's up!" Orga muttered with a displeased face. The same goes for Clotho.

"It looks that way!" Clotho added as the Raider transformed.

Shani didn't seem to bother to notice the flares because he was too focused on the three opposing Gundams before him, "Take this! Take this! Take this!" He fired a shot at the Aerial, but since she is surrounded by her GUND-Bits, the beams didn't do shit. Then the Justice arrived to help the Aerial as he fired a few shots at the green Gundam, which was deflected.

The Forbidden was about to charge at the Justice and Aerial, but he was then stopped by green beams from the Calamity as he and the Raider rendezvoused.

"Shani!" Orga called out to his teammate.

"We have orders to retreat, you fool!" Clotho said as he left.

"But...but that guy and that newbie...!" Shani tried to argue but Orga cut him off.

"Right now, we've got to retreat! Do you want to experience that pain again?" Orga reasoned as Shani's eyes widened in the realization that his teammate had made a good point. The Forbidden turned around as both himself and the Calamity left while the Strike, Aerial, and Justice just looked at the retreating Alliance Gundams.

"Their ability to retreat quickly is equally impressive." Murrue commented as she and the others looked to the monitor about the retreating Gundams.

Kira's eyes returned to normal as he looked on while thinking about Natarle,'Natarle-san.'

"Kira-nii-chan!"Suletta's voice called him out as the Strike looked back to the Aerial and Justice, with the Justice putting a hand on the Strike's shoulders.

"Are you two alright?" Kira asked the two pilots.

"Yeah. Bot those pilots...!" Athrun nodded, with Suletta agreeing and reassuring Kira.

"I thought so too when we fought against them in Orb, but...!"

"It's hard to believe they're regular soldiers."

"I also believe that they're not Naturals." Suletta added, which caught the attention of Kira and Athrun, "But they're also not Coordinators as well."

Kira and Athrun agreed with Suletta's assumption.

Everyone let that hang for a minute as their forces began to return to their respective ships in silence and exhaustion until Waltfeld spoke up over everyone's comms,"Hey. Any word from La Flaga or Elsman?"

That got everyone worried instantly, some people more so than others.

The Strike Kai managed to dodge the GuAIZ's beam attacks as he retaliated by firing his vulcans at the GuAIZ. Well, that didn't work, then the Gundam aimed his Agni at the GuAIZ and fired. Of course, the GuAIZ swiftly dodged the beam, which caused Mu to curse.

Rau smugly chuckled as the GuAIZ just looked at his inferior opponent, "You're pretty good in that!" The GuAIZ gave the Strike Kai a few rounds before he dodged another round from the Strike Kai's Agni.

"Bastard! I'll get you today!" Mu cursed as the Strike Kai fired two missiles at the GuAIZ, but of course, the missiles failed to reach the ZAFT mobile suit as they hit the ground.

"Damn you!" Yzak cursed as the Duel slashed at the Buster, who moved up to dodge the attack, "I won't let you have your way, bastard!" the Duel then fired a lot of missiles at the Buster, who countered it with his gun launcher to destroy the missiles. Then Yzak didn't expect the next thing that would happen...

"Yzak!" Dearka called out to his friend, who was shocked as both mobile suits came to a halt and Yzak became even more confused that Dearka's not only piloting the Buster but...fighting alongside the Naturals?

"Dearka?" Yzak muttered.

" I will go get Mu and Dearka. In the meantime, work on replenishments and maintenance." Kira told Athrun and Suletta and the rest as all three Gundams were preparing for their next move.

"Kira/Kira-kun."Miorine and Murrue's voice was heard.

"The Justice is okay. I'll go too."Athrun insisted on helping Kira on this.

"M-Me and Aerial are good to assist you, Kira!"Suletta added.

"No, Athrun, Suletta. The Dominion hasn't completely retreated yet...so you two better remain here, and Suletta, the Aerial will be a huge help in defending against the Alliance." Kira told them, who in return called out Kira's names.

"I will be fine. I won't go overboard." Kira reassured him as the Strike activated its thrusters as Kira went into the colony to reach Mu and Dearka.

Athrun and Suletta just looked back to the disappearing silhouette of the Strike, until Lacus' voice broke their trances,"All vessels, please hurry with replenishments and maintenance. If ZAFT forces are in fact present in the other harbor...we will be facing another stressful situation. We cannot allow ourselves to be defeated here!"

The Duel and Buster are still on the air, looking to one another.

"Dearka! Is it really you?" Yzak broke the long game of silence between him and the Buster before him.

"Yeah. It's me." Dearka calmly replied to his friend as his face appeared on Yzak's monitor.

Yzak could not believe what he was hearing or seeing, and then his shock became anger as he demanded, "Why the hell are you fighting alongside that purple Strike?What the hell is going on?" The Duel then took a guard stance, "I'm truly glad that you're alive! I can't forgive you if this is what it looks like!"

Before either of them could say anymore, Kira's voice called out to the Buster.

"Dearka!"

"Kira!" Dearka exclaimed.

Yzak then looked to his right to see the Aile Strike approaching them and his eyes widened, "The Strike!" Usually, when he sees the Strike, his vendetta gets the better of him and he's about to attack. But this one is different because he isn't charging. He began to recall the battle of JOSH-A when the Strike told him and his forces to retreat. The Duel then moved his body in front and he was about to charge, but his way was blocked by the Butser.

"Stop it, Yzak! And you too, Kira!" Dearka called out as Kira's eyes widened and the Gundam stopped in its tracks. Then the Buster looked back at the Strike, "Leave this guy to me!"

"Are you sure, Dearka?"

"Yeah."

"Alright, then. But don't let it develop into what happened between Athrun and me." Kira requested Dearka, a request that Yzak heard and was then shocked by as he wondered what Athrun's connection to the Strike pilot was.

With that dealt with, the Strike took off to the skies to help Mu, leaving Dearka to deal with Yzak. Seeing Kira gone, Dearka opened his cockpit so that Yzak could see him from the Duel and then asked, "Let's lower our rifles and talk! Yzak!"

Yzak just fixed his glare at his former teammate while Dearka was just waiting for his answer.

Then soon, Yzak agreed to talk with Dearka and both Yzak and Dearka soon landed their machines. Once they had both climbed out, Dearka was ready to try and talk to his friend, but before he could so much as greet the silver-haired man, Yzak raised a gun to the blonde.

"I'm not naive enough to believe the words of an enemy so easily!" Yzak declared.

Because of this, Dearka sighed and said, "Am I your enemy?"

"You're the one who went off to become my enemy!" Yzak exclaimed, his aim not faltering.

"I don't remember ever becoming your enemy." Dearka said after a moment of silence.

"Get real! You're a traitor!"

"I also don't remember ever betraying the PLANTs!"

"How could you say that?"

"I just no longer think..." Dearka began as he recalled his time at the Archangel. More specifically he thought about Miriallia, "I no longer want to follow orders to fight a war...with the sole purpose of killing off every last Natural!"

That gave Yzak reason to pause for a moment.

The GuAIZ charged at the Strike Kai, who dodged but at the cost of his Agni in half now. The GuAIZ quickly turned around to attack the Strike Kai again, but the Gundam quickly grabbed onto the GuAIZ wrist and shield to immobilize him for a bit.

"I figured, if you shot me here, well, that's a fate that I could accept." Rau commented, which caught Mu off guard, as the GuAIZ used this chance to kick the Strike Kai away from him, "However, it doesn't look like you're quite capable of pulling that off. I guess in the end, a child cannot win against his father." The GuAIZ fired at the Strike Kai, but its beams were missed.

"What?" Mu asked as he discarded the Launcher Striker Pack and grabbed the Armor Schneiders from the side skirts. Before he could do anything, the GuAIZ deployed its Extensional Anchors at the Strike Kai, cutting off his arm and hitting the side of the 's cockpit exploded a bit before a piece of shrapnel cut his side and the damaged Strike Kai now went down to the ground.

"It looks like destiny is siding with me." Rau smirked until a lightning bolt once again flared through his mind as he was forced to look to his left, "What?" The GuAIZ aimed its beam rifle at the location, but it was destroyed by a green beam from the approaching Strike.

"Mu-san!"The worried voice of Kira called his superior officer out.

"The Strike!" Rau growled as he let his GuAIZ charge at the Strike and slash the Gundam with its composite shield.

The Strike, however, raised its shield to block the GuAIZ's attack. Then, the Strike slightly raised its shield so the Strike could do a side-ward kick to the GuAIZ's torso, causing the mobile suit to fall slightly.

Quickly using this chance, the Strike aimed its beam rifle and fired at the limbs and head of the GuAIZ, guaranteeing that the GuAIZ couldn't do anything to prevent itself from crashing.

The masked man was determined to not let this stop him though, so he quickly climbed out of his mobile suit and raced into one of the nearby facilities. As soon as he saw his old enemy trying to make a run for it, Mu was quick to start climbing out of the cockpit and start shooting at the other blonde.

The Strike just looked at the fight below with Kira worriedly calling out Mu's name once again.

"What do you say we put an end to all this today?" Rau suggested as he turned around and ran,"Come with me! I will personally hand you your fate!"

"What's that bastard up to now?" Mu asked himself as he gave chase.

Seeing this, the Strike quickly landed on the ground and Kira pulled out a side arm of his own.

Kira then went down from his Gundam and headed inside the facility that Mu had entered. Then shortly after, he paused behind cover for a moment, with Kiratrying to listen for any sort of sound that would lead them to wherever Mu had disappeared to after entering the facility until they heard the sound of gunshots and Rau yelling out, "Do you have any idea what this place is, Mu?"

"Why would I, idiot?!" Mu yelled back in retort, prompting Kira and Suletta to begin racing over in the direction of his voice.

"What a crime, for you not to know!"Rau called back once more.

Kira then slowed down his pace as he never relaxed his guard at the seemingly endless silence that followed by aiming down in different directions. With no other choice, Suletta decided to call out Mu.

"Mu-san! Where are you? I'm here to save you!" because of her voice, both Mu and Rau heard her.

"Kira!" Mu called them out while Rau began to whisper Kira's name mentally.

'Kira... Yamato? He's alive?'

Rau smirked as he looked in the voice's direction and called him out, "What a thrill to have you join us, Kira Yamato!"

Kira continued moving until he finally spotted Mu and ran over to him as quickly as possible. "Why did you come?" Mu demanded in a heated whisper.

"I couldn't just wait outside for you." Kira told Mu, "What am I supposed to tell Murrue-san?"

"What a kid."Mu jabbed back in reply with a small grin.

Kira noticed the wound on Mu's left abdomen, "Mu-san! You're hurt!"

"Oh, it's nothing." Mu assured the boy, "But if you intend to use that thing, release the safety!"

Kira then glanced at his gun and saw that Mu was correct. The safety hasn't released yet.

"Now don't hesitate, and come with me!" Rau's voice tried to persuade the two teens and one adult. Or rather one teen and two adults, "To the place where it all began! Kira! This is where you were born too, isn't it?"

"Don't fall for his tricks!" Mu quickly told Kira when he noticed Kira's eyes grow wide with shock for a moment. "You don't have to listen to a word he says!"

Then without a moment to lose, the two pilots began to move further into the facility.

A moment later, they found themselves in a strange laboratory with enormous vats surrounding the walkway that was above it. Kira then noticed that there were several strange containment units with fetuses inside.

So caught up in this is Kira, that he did not realize that he was being shot at until Mu pushed him down just before any of the shots could hit.

"Does it bring back memories, Kira? You should know this place." Rau continued to call out simply shot off a few more rounds as he ran in the direction of the door they came from.

"Know this place? Me?" Kira muttered, how can he know this place?

Mu snarled as he reloaded his gun. Mu then quickly opened fire in the direction Rau had started to shoot him from as he ducked for cover in the next room, but he was not quick enough and ended up getting shot in his shoulder.

Of course, this didn't go unnoticed by Kira.

"Mu-san!" Kira worriedly cried out to his commander as he raced to the injured Mu La Flaga, before narrowly avoiding Rau's shots.

"Mu-san! Are you alright?" Kira asked as he worriedly looked at Mu and his new wound on the shoulder.

Then Rau stepped out of the shadows from where he was hiding with his gun still aimed at them. Until he put it away, "I'm not going to kill you. I think you deserve to know since I made you go through the trouble of coming all the way here, after all."

Kira then aimed his gun at Rau.

"I won't kill you until you learn everything." Rau said as he threw a picture frame to the three pilots... and it was the same picture that Cagalli had that made Kira's eyes widen. Then a book fell into the picture as photos were scattered when the book hit the ground to see... a young Mu La Flaga and his father.

"Oyaji?" Mu muttered in shock, and Kira was surprised as he looked back at Mu.

"Aren't you curious?" Rau said as he is now a few meters away from the two with a gun aimed at either Kira or Mu, "About where the endless desires of humans are headed? About the story of the fools who pursued a crazed dream...based on their belief of progress? After all, you're a son of all this too."

"This place is a forbidden, sacred area." Rau began, "The remains of a dream seen by fools that believed themselves to be gods. Did you know? That your parents were not your real parents?"

"Bastard! What are you...?" Mu tried to ask, but Rau just shot in his direction which prompted Mu and the rest to duck back to cover. Then Kira sat up as he aimed his gun back at Rau, but soon he found his hands shaking. He wants to shoot Rau right here, right now, but at the same time, he wants to listen in on what Rau's talking about.

"Didn't think so." Rau chuckled, now that he took Kira's interest, "If you knew, you wouldn't have turned out the way you did. You wouldn't have turned out so normal, with no sign of a tainted past."

Then a flashback of Rau and Athrun's conversation in space occurred briefly in Rau's mind.

"It never occurred to me when Athrun first brought up your name...that you were "the child". I had assumed that the twins had died. Especially you. Along with your real father, Doctor Hibiki...you were the biggest target of Blue Cosmos at the time, after all."

Kira was still in disbelief that he could barely even process any words, "What... but..."

"But you survived, grew up...threw yourself into the war, and are still alive. Escaping death's door again." Rau smirked once again, "Why do you think that is? You've even led me to want to believe...in their crazy dream."

"I'm what? What am I?!" Kira demanded his aim at Rau not shaking now his courage was coming back to him, "What are you trying to tell me?!"

"You are the dream of humanity." Rau finally told Kira what he was originally so that made the boy and girl gasp, "The Ultimate Coordinator. It was Doctor Hibiki who created the artificial womb. And you were the only successful birth that resulted. His son. At the cost of his other children."

At this revelation, Kira was beyond simply shocked, and Mu had to pull him out of the way before Rau Le Creuset had a chance to shoot him. Mu then stood up from his position and fired a few rounds at Rau, who managed to dodge the bullets by hiding behind a wall beside him.

With the masked man now gone for the time being, Mu had to drag a fazed Kira Yamato down the stairs by Kira's other free arm.

"Don't let it bother you!" Mu grunted in pain due to his current wounds, "How could you take his nonsense seriously?"

Back at the Three Ship Alliance, repairs to their weapons and the damages have been fixed, and Asagi came back in her Astray M1 when she finished scouting Mendel. She informed the small Alliance that three Nazca-class ships just were behind Mendel and that caused a mild panic among them... Well, only the three Astrays.

"Even Kira's not coming back..." Athrun muttered inside the Justice, which was on standby in the Eternal's hangar, "Suletta, let's go."

"H-Hai!"Suletta, who's in the Archangel being fitted with the Sword Striker for increased close quarters whenever the Forbidden and Raider are fighting her and the Aerial, immediately nodded at Athrun.

Athrun closed his visor as he prepared to take off to retrieve Kira and Mu, "Justice, deruzo!"

"A-Aerial, ikimasu!"

"I will not permit it."Lacus' face was shown in the cockpit,"Athrun, Suletta. Remain on standby until further orders."

"But we're faced with a situation where three of our machines haven't returned." Athrun reasoned out to his former fiance, but that gives Lacus all the more reason not to let him launch.

"All the more reason you must stay! We cannot carelessly reduce our fighting strength any further. We do not know when the Dominion... Will attack us again. Even if Kira, Mu, and Dearka never return...we must still continue to fight."

Soon afterward they reached a lab on their way down and for the time being, they used this lab as a resting and hiding place.

"Today my secret shall be revealed." Rau's voice echoed throughout the lab, with his footsteps being heard indicating that he was going down, "I was not born naturally, like a normal human being."

"Damn him." Mu cursed as he took a quick peek from the counter that he and the kid were hiding, "Hey, Kira!"

"I was genetically modified... early in the embryonic stage." Rau said as he stood next to a bunch of buttons on the wall. He pressed the buttons as the lights were now turned on. Revealing the insides of the lab one by one, "George Glenn was humanity's first Coordinator. Do you have any idea how the chaos he caused...spread darkness throughout the world? Do you know what people started doing after that?"

Then clips of the people here in Mendel occurred.

"It's a dream people bought at a great price...so of course they wanted it to come true." Rau then aimed his pistol at the Archangel corps members, "Nobody ever wants their dream to be destroyed. Is that what drove them onward? Because people labeled this their dream, and demanded it come true? What have people gained from it? What have they grasped? What lies beyond their dream?"

Then Rau began to walk slowly while continuing his rant, "At first people were curious...to learn about something...then they became eager to obtain it. And then, forgetting why they wanted it...they toyed with life, proclaiming it precious as they destroyed it."

"Shut up!" Mu roared out as he peaked his head out of their hiding spot and he fired at Rau's position.

Rau quickly noticed this as he quickly hid behind a wall again and fired at Mu and continued his rant, "No matter what we know...no matter what we've obtained, it won't make any difference!" He continued while shooting at Mu, his missed bullets hitting the jars and such of the lab. Then Rau unhid himself from his hiding spot and began to approach Kira, "People are amazing. They grow envious, hate each other, and eventually kill each other! Then we should all kill until we're satisfied! If that's what we're hoping for!"

"What gives you the right to make that determination?" Mu asked while hiding behind a wall a few meters away from the kids as he fired a few rounds at his rival.

The bullets just grazed Rau's hair as he fired on a last piece of lab equipment hanging on the ceiling, which fell to the ground and caused Mu to seek cover. Because of this, Rau's magazine fell from his pistol, and now he is out of bullets, "I have that right! And I'm the only one in the universe who has that right! I have the right to pass judgment on all of humanity!"

Because of Rau's declaration to Mu, Kira's eyes widened as he looked at the madman before them.

"Cut the bullshit! You bastard!" Mu barked at his rival, who then hid behind the debris that he shot at the ceiling for cover while reloading his gun.

"Don't you remember, Mu? We met once...long, long ago before we ever met on the battlefield." Rau revealed, which confused Mu as to what he meant. Rau also began to chuckle darkly followed by, "Your father, Al Da Flaga was an arrogant fool...who thought he could buy immortality. And I am a defective clone of that man."

"What?!" Mu gawked at this revelation, his eyes widening.

With the hiding Dominion, they also got information about ZAFT's three Nazca-class ships nearby, much to the amusement of Muruta and the warriness of Natarle. At the same time, the pilots of the Dominion are suiting up into their pilot suits.

"Making the first move will put us at a great disadvantage." Natarle said when one of her crew informed her, "Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee success."

"It's easy for anybody to declare the impossible as being impossible." Muruta said while he was floating and looking at the asteroid that the Dominion was hiding at. Then he looked back at Natarle, "But it is another matter to actually make things possible. Everyone knows that in the business world."

"But this is a battlefield. Failure means death." Natarle objected, seeing that if they made the first move, they would fail.

"It means the same in the business world." Muruta countered with a huge smirk on his face, "Are you one of those people who only fights battles that you know you'll win? Although that's fine by me."

Natarle had to stop herself from scowling at the Blue Cosmos leader's mockery, but it was visible when she tried to... thankfully, Muruta wasn't fazed as he looked back at the window... because he knew he'd got her in his grasp.

"When push comes to shove... you've gotta do what you've gotta do to be victorious. We can't remain sitting here forever, can we? Give it your best shot. Remember, nothing ventured, nothing gained."

In the Dominion's hangars, the pilots finished drinking their usual drug dose of Gamma Glipheptin as they immediately went to their mobile suits.

"Oh, and also... tell those boys to capture the Strike as well. I have no idea what Orb did to give that outdated mobile suit the ability to do that, but that technology will be helpful to our cause." Muruta gave a malicious smirk as he couldn't wait to get his hands on the Strike's Warp Drive System.

"The pilot of the Strike is a Coordinator like us." Dearka told Yzak about Kira, "He's been friends with Athrun since they were kids. He survived by arriving into another timeline after the Battle of Marshall Islands... where he became the older brother to the female pilot of the mobile suit you and the rest of ZAFT called "Codenamed: Witch"."

"What are you saying?" Yzak couldn't believe what Dearka was telling him. The Strike's pilot was a Coordinator like him and ZAFT? If so then why?! And arriving into another timeline and becoming the older brother to the pilot of Codenamed: Witch?! And the pilot of Codenamed: Witch is a female?! Dearka could be lying! There is no way!

"I'm not as devoted or resigned to this cause as those two are... but I've seen some things..." Dearka trailed off as he began to recall Miriallia's first attempt at killing him, Operation Spit Break, and the Battle of Orb, "I watched them. And I saw Alaska, Panama, and Orb. After all this, there's no way I can return to ZAFT... and battle however I'm ordered."

"Dearka!"

"We'll get in trouble again if we fail this time?" Shani asked with a frown when he closed his visor.

"Give me a break. That man's using us any way he wants." Clotho sighed as he let out his disdain for Muruta.

"It can't be helped. We're better off killing than being killed." Orga shrugged as he got ready when the Dominion's catapult doors opened.

The pilot let out a smirk once he's launched out of the Dominion... with the Dominion itself following, and the two of the Alliance's Gundams.

In the Archangel, Sai immediately informed Murrue about the Alliance's Gundams approaching the colony, of course, the same information was known to the rest of the Alliance... including ZAFT. Captain Ades begins to wonder where Rau is... and what's happening inside the colony, while Flay is in her quarters looking at the floppy disk.

Immediately, Murrue immediate;y gave the order to ready themselves for level 1 battle stations.

Mu couldn't believe the revelation that was dawned on him by his rival/enemy... Rau was a clone of his dad?! Like hell, he could be!

"My dad's clone? How do you expect anyone to believe such a fairytale?!"

"I don't want to believe it either! But unfortunately, it's a fact." Rau could've agreed more with Mu, but sadly... that's the truth. And behind Rau... Kira seems to have recovered from his midlife crisis.

Rau then decided to walk forward and continued his rant, "The final door is about to open. I will open it! And this world will come to an end! This world of endless ambition will end! And the conceited fools floundering in it will get what they wished for!"

"Mu-san!" Kira suddenly exclaimed, now recovered from his shock recently. Because of this, this also surprised Mu, Suletta, and Rau as Kira suddenly stood up and ran to Rau's location, while also grabbing a stone from the floor, "It won't happen!"

"Kira!" Mu called out to the brown-haired boy as he peeked his head out from his respective hiding spots and watched Kira evade a storm of bullets from Rau's gun.

"I won't allow it!" Kira then threw his stone at Rau, but not before his pilot suit was grazed when one of the bullets hit his shoulder. Rau met the same fate when Mu grazed his arm, alongside the stone that Kira threw that caused his mask to detach itself from Rau's face.

With his mask gone, the two pilots from the Three Ship Alliance couldn't help but gawk at Rau's now-revealed face. Rau's face greatly resembles... Mu's and his father's face.

Even though his identity was now exposed, this wouldn't stop him from continuing his rant.

"What do you think you can do about it?! Nobody can do anything about it. The whirlpool of hatred is spreading across space!" Rau finished his rant as he immediately turned around and left.

Mu tried to call out his rival, but his injuries got the better of him and he fell.

The Justice and Aerial, equipped with the Sword Striker and the GUND Bits surrounding the white mobile suit, just launched out of the Mendel Colony, with the Astray trio following just behind.

"You girls stay and protect the ship! Suletta, you're with me!" Athrun ordered the girls they comply with the senior pilot's order.

Shortly behind the Aerial and Justice were the ships that just come out. Murrue is giving orders to watch out for any movement by ZAFT's Nazca-class ships and aim the Gottfrieds and load the Korinthos missiles.

"Prepare to fire main cannon! Fire anti-beam depth charges! We'll crush their mother ship!" Andrew ordered his crew as the Eternal began to fire all of its missiles.

As the Aerial and Justice are on their way to deal with the three without the Strike, Shani immediately detects the Justice and Aerial.

"That's him. And the newbie as well... The newbie's using the sword."

"Hey, man. One of them is missing... but the higher-ups want us to capture the Strike." Orga noticed that the Strike wasn't with them, much to the joy of Clotho.

"That means that teleporting punk is out! Let's make quick work of those two this time."

With Athrun activating his SEED factor and the Aerial equipping its Schwert Gewehr, the Gundams began to fight one another.

While they are fighting, the Dominion is nearby, with its Gottfrieds and missiles firing at the Archangel nearby.

"Evade!" With Murrue's order, the Archangel evaded the green beam from its sister unit, just by a meter.

"Four missiles! Green! Alpha!" Sai immediately informed Murrue about the Dominion's en route missiles towards the Archangel.

"10 to port!"

The Igelstellungs managed to destroy some of the missiles.

Back with Dearka and Yzak, before their conversation could go any further, the colony shook as the Coordinators tried to balance themselves.

Then Yzak's communicator went off as Yzak raised his wrist.

"Yzak, can you hear me? We're going."The tired voice of his superior told the scar-faced man.

When Dearka heard that, for him, that seemed to be enough for Dearka to leave as he went for the Buster.

The footsteps alone immediately made Yzak aim his gun at Dearka, who was still unfazed as he stopped for a second and looked at Yzak.

"If you insist I'm your enemy just because I'm no longer with ZAFT, then shoot me." Dearka threatened Yzak, who wouldn't let himself do so.

"You're being deceived!" Yzak shouted at Dearka, but Dearka just sighed.

"I wonder which one of us is really being deceived. I don't know for sure, but I'm going." With that, Dearka grappled back up towards his Gundam, "If I have a choice, I'd rather not fight against you."

As the Buster left, Yzak began to ponder Dearka's words to him.

"Dearka! Kira! Commander! Answer me!" Miriallia called out to the pilots in panic and desperation, but still no sign... so she asked Miorine, "Miorine, how about on your end?!"

"They're not answering!" Miorine frustratingly said as she slammed her fist on the console, "Just what are they doing in there?"

"Gottfrieds! Fire!" Murrue shouted as the Archangel's Gottfrieds fired to the Dominion.

Natarle immediately told her crew to evade, which they did as the beams went above the Dominion.

"Take this!" The Raider fired its Mjolnir at the Justice, but the Justice evaded to the side and fired at the black mobile suit.

But the Forbidden in its Bullshit mode went in front of its sister unit and blocked the Justice's shots as Shani smirked.

The Justice then revved back as it kept on firing at the Forbidden, who went after the red mobile suit.

The Raider was about to join in, but it narrowly revved back when the Aerial did a slash with its Schwert Gewehr.

The Aerial did another swing in the Raider's direction but the Raider dodged it again and fired its shield cannon at the Aerial, who blocked it with her Panzer Eisen.

Once the firing's done, the GUND Bits went to the Aerial and aimed at the Raider as they rained fire at it. Of course, the Raider had to transform into its Mobile Armor form and dodged the beams, much to the dismay of Suletta as she clicked her tongue.

Not far from them is the Calamity as its cannons glowed.

"Out of my way, you guys!" Orga smirked as the Calamity fired, with both of the mobile suits from the opposing factions had to dodge the Calamity's beams.

"Support the Justice!" Lacus then looked at Waltfeld, "Can't we use METEOR yet?"

"Another minute and a half before it's fully activated." Waltfed told Lacus with a look of disappointment.

Kira then went to Mu and said, "Let's go, Mu-san. Can you stand?"

Mu gave a slight pause then he replied to Kira, "Yeah."

Kira then scooped up Mu's arm over his head as they began to go back to their mobile suits.

"We'll go around, using the debris as a shield." Murrue instructed the crew as she looked up at Sai, "Anything on the Nazca-class vessels yet?"

"Still no movement." Sai told Murrue.

Kira and co. managed to rendezvous with Dearka, who finished his talk with Yzak, as they now head straight to the Archangel to put the now damaged Strike Kai inside for repairs and for Mu to recover. But of course, they were met with another battle. The Justice and Aerial VS the Three Machines.

"Captain. It's the Strike."Miorine's voice informed Murrue that the Strike and Aerial returned.

"Mu-san has been injured." Kira told them as Murrue gasped at what she just heard. The Strike then entered the Archangel. The Strike immediately put his damaged little sibling in the hangar so the medics and mechanics could get Mu out and get treated immediately. Then, the Aile Striker and Shield was discarded as another IWSP was put on the Strike's back and a Combined Shield was put on the Strike's elbow. With that done, the Strike went out of the Archangel as he and the Buster now went straight to the battle to help Athrun and Suletta, but not before he entered SEED mode first.

Not far away from them is the Duel carrying the damaged GuAIZ as they enter the Vesalius. Once done, Yzak immediately went out of his Gundam to check on Rau.

"Commander!" Yzak went to the now open cockpit to see Rau not present, confusing the mobile suit pilot.

Inside Rau's room is Flay as the doors open. Flay stood up and looked at Rau, who was suffering at the moment as he immediately went to his desk cabinet to grab something.

This surprised Flay as she gawked at Rau. She looked closely as she saw Rau take out some pills and she saw him gulp down a handful of them.

Flay approached Rau as she stopped before him because of his desk, waiting for Rau to calm down. She saw him grab one of his masks as he wore them.

"Ades!" Rau immediately went to the telephone beside him as he called his second in command.

"Commander! What happ...?"

Before Ades could ask Rau what happened to him, Rau immediately cut him off.

"Get the Vesalius moving! Ready the mobile suits for deployment! Order the Heusinger and the Helderton to do the same!"

"But...!"

"We can't just sit here and watch, now can we?" Rau frustratingly countered, "We cannot let the Earth Forces get their hands on those machines! I'm going out too. Get me a CGUE! I'll go up to the bridge shortly."

Rau began to catch his breath repeatedly after what happened recently. Then he smirked and looked at Flay.

"So, I want you to assist me. This is my final gamble. On whether or not the door will open."

Flay had an uneasy look on her face when Rau told her about his new plan.

Justice threw its beam boomerangs at the Forbidden, but the green Gundam swatted the boomerang away with his scythe. The Raider then aimed his Mjolnir at the Aerial and fired at the Gundam, who elegantly dodged it as she fired back with her Schwert Gewehr's laser gun and GUND Bits, with the Raider dodging the lasers.

Athrun noticed that the Calamity appeared behind him as he tried to turn around and fight him, but he was pushed away by the Gundam's bazooka. The Calamity was about to fire his beam cannons at the red mobile suit, but a beam went across the green Gundam. The Calamity looked back to see the Strike charging at him.

"Athrun! Suletta!"

Athrun and Suletta gasped once they heard that voice.

"Kira!/Kira-nii-chan!"

The Calamity then aimed its cannons at the Strike and fired a few rounds. The Strike managed to dodge the beams or block them with its shield then threw the Midas Messer at the Calamity, which it easily destroyed the beam boomerang.

As the battle rages on, the Forbidden fighting the Aerial and struggling, the Justice fighting the Raider, and the Strike and Buster fighting the Calamity.

Then three Nazca-class ships began to approach the ongoing battle, which was soon detected by the Dominion and this caught both Natarle and Muruta off guard, thinking that ZAFT would use this battle's opportunity to finish off both the Earth Alliance and ORB forces.

When a barrage of missiles from the Dominion was on the Eternal's way, the Strike fired all of its long-range weapons to deal with the missiles with the Buster and Aerial (With the GUND-Bits surrounding the white mobile suit) beside him as they began to counter the missiles with everything they've got. When the missiles were dealt with, Kira began to reminisce about Rau's words back at Mendel.

In the Vesalius' hangar was a life pod... meant for a now space-suited Flay Allister.

She went inside in fear per the words of the ZAFT crew.

"What are they planning to do with that girl?"

"I don't know. I'm sure it's some sort of plan thought up by the Commander."

Flay heard them say that from the inside as she watched them leave from the monitor that she was watching. She closed her eyes as she began to recall about Rau's plan. Starting with the Floppu Disk that he gave her.

"I'm very tired too... so please deliver this key to the final door for me. If that key makes it into the hands of the Earth Forces, the war will end."

"I would like the attention of those on the Archangel Class Earth Forces vessel! I'd like to return a captive to you before we begin battle."

The voice of Rau le Creuset announced from the Vesalius, and now this made everyone confused. What the heck was Rau talking about? What does he mean by captive? And what does that have to do with this battle?

RF2: Well that's it for today! We got another long chapter, one that is longer than the Refuge and Battle of Orb chapters. This chapter is 14k words! Why did I do that instead of splitting it? Eh, I considered What Stands in the Way, Spiral of Encounters, and The Opening Door as one single episode that split into three episodes with some of them being filler scenes when I watched the show.

Okay, now the main recap! The Warp Drive! The System was modified for Kira's advantage to avoid impossible scenarios, but using said system will cost the Strike's battery to be used, and even if Kira changes Striker Packs, the battery will remain the same as when it was used before. And now that Kira knows what he is, and that Rau Le Creuset's words to him began to... get to his head. What will he do? Will he keep on fighting? Of course, he is. And... will he tell his friends about what he is thanks to Rau? Who knows.

Anyways, what do you guys think? Good? Bad? Decent? Who knows, it's your opinion!

Anyway, that's all for today! Hope you guys like it! This is RF2 signing off. See you!