fight for a future

The Aegis was the third ship to enter the Archangel. After heading back to it's dock, the team of engineers and staff arrived to check on the Gundam. Mary said to the head engineer, "Charge up my Beam Sniper Rifle, I want it ready for the next mission." The engineer didn't say anything, but nodded as he understood the order.

After the mission, Mary headed to the Archangel's bar to get herself a drink. She is happy to have completed her mission as well as the return of Zeria Iiyasei.
 
Standing up from his bed and walking over to his closet, Stephen removed the T-shirthe was wearing and replaced it with a jet black, skin tight Vest top, leaving his room, Stephen headed for the Bridge to see the captain, he had something he had to speak with him about. Striding through the hallways he could over hear the crew talking about zeria, saying stuff like "have you guys heard, Crimson is comming back" and "The Blitz is comming back to the Archangel" Stephen just ignored them, they didn't know the reason for her leaving and so they could all go to hell.

Striding into the Bridge, the captain summoned Stephen into his office "what is the problem Mr Hownam?" he asked "Sir,i wish to talk to you about taking a leave of absence" Stephen announced
 
Zeria had followed back to the Archangel in tears. Everyone remembered her. People actually wanted her back. She docked in, shutting down the Blitz, and taking a deep breath, just sitting for a moment. What would she say? What would she do? How could she possibly explain her leave to the captain?
~Will the captain accept me back at all...?~

She finally opened the hatch on her gundam, leaping out, and beginning to slowly walk the halls towards the captain's office. She was nervous as hell, and biting her lower lip. People were watching her with awed looks on their faces, and she could tell they were debating on whether to actually talk to her or not. By the time she reached the captain's office, she was almost on the verge of tears again, and she walked in.

Her heart seemed to stop for a moment as she spotted Stephen there, and she averted her golden gaze to the floor.

"S-sir...Zeria Iiyasei, formerly known as Crimson Blitz, requesting reaffirmation as a pilot of the Hunters in the Blitz Gundam..."
 
as Zeria walked in, the Captain looked quite angry "Sir, She can take my place on the Hunters Roster, at least until i return" Stephen announced, the captain glared at him "with all due respect sir, I'm leaving and I'm taking the Freedom with me, you can't stop me, so unless you talk Crimson Blitz back, your gonna lose alot of business, cos you will be down one ace pilot"

The captains face loosened up "Don't stay away tribal" Stephen smiled at this comment "I couldn't if i wanted to sir" he announced as he turned to face Zeria "I have something to come back to" he announced as he walked towards the door, stopping By zeria's side "It's good to have you back" he whispered before walking out and heading to the hangar bay
 
Zeria suddenly froze, then with an apology to the captain, raced out after Hownam. She quickly hooked a hand around his wrist.

"No! You can't leave! Why are you leaving just when I come back?!"

Tears splashed down her cheeks freely now and she began to tremble.

"You're the only reason for me to come back, Hownam. If you're not here, why should I stay? There's no one here who cares about me more than you do..."

She let go of his wrist, but threw her arms around him from behind, trying her hardest not to cry.

"You can't leave me all alone...please...don't go..."
 
Stephen couldn't move when Zeria had her arms around him, she was begging him to stay and all he could say was "I have to go" as Stephen walked away, he paused before going through the door to the elevator, he turned around to look at Zeria.

"I loved you, and you just up and left without saying goodbye, i had a feeling you were going to leave after he died, but i didn't think you would just leave, I have to go and check something out in one of the colonies" Stephenspun around and stepped into the elevator, "It's a dangerous mission, one that has a greater sucess rate if Only i and the Freedom go, I promise i shall return as soon as it's over"

Stephen then hit the button on the elevator that would take him to the hangar bay floor. upon arrival, Stephen strode over to the Freedom and climbed in. as he stood on the open bay door, he pulled on his space suit, he was going to need it.
 
Zeria stood frozen for a moment, watching him disappear into the elevator, her voice a whisper.

"I didn't know what else to do......"

Not wanted to let him leave without knowing something, she took the elevator down, running into the dock area. Tears streamed down her cheeks, showing clearly on her pale skin. She stood in front of the Freedom, and shouted up...

"I LOVED YOU TOO, STEPHEN HOWNAM! DON'T YOU FORGET IT! YOU BETTER COME BACK TO ME OR I'LL COME LOOKING FOR YOU! DO YOU HEAR ME?! I LOVE YOU, DAMNIT!"
 
As Zeria stood in the way of the Freedom, it stepped over her, standing at the end of the catapault, the doors opened "all systems Green, Stephen hownam, Strike Freedom, leaving" he announced as he rocketed down the catapault and headed directly upwards towards Space. The Freedom was one of few Mobile suits that could break through the atmosphere on it's own.

once in space, Stephen locked out all communication channels and headed towards one of the outer Zaft colonies.
 
Zeria swore, curse word after curse word, til she slowly walked back to where her room had been, and still was. Upon entering, she frowned. It was dusty, and nothing was touched.
~They really did forget about me...~

She sighed, dusting off the bed and everything else, before flopping down. She grabbed a picture off her shelf of her, Giulio, and Stephen. Quickly, tears began to flow again, and she curled up into a ball, crying.

"Why does it have to be like this? Why does he have to go?"

She clutched the picture to her, trying to remember if Hownam had ever given her a gift of some sort, and where she would have put it if he did...
 
Mary entered her room shortly after her drink. She undressed and put on a tank top and some track pants, before lying down on her bed. On her bedside table was a picture of her and her old comrades from ZAFT before the Mexico City Massacre. Looking at the picture, Mary saw an old friend that she once loved. His death hurt her very much, and his last words were "to find peace, no matter what sacrifices must be made." She started to cry, holding the picture in her arms. "I will find a way to end this bloodshed, to bring peace for everyone." Mary whispered
 
"I love the nuclear reactor inthis thing, limitless power" Stephen announced as he saw the colony on Radar "lets go" Stephen announced as he came to a stand still "time to start a war" Stephen opened up his communication channel and opened a link to the colony defence base "come in Zaft colony 215, this is Stephen Hownam, the pilot of the Strike Freedom, i have no dobt that you have picked me up on radar, and are currently releasing a couple of mobile suits to intercept, you might want to send more suits than you origonally thought, as i am not a scout suit, im comming to destroy your colony" Stephen announced before closing off the link and heading towards the colony at full speed.
 
OOC: Colony Drop eh? Well, in that case my mission will not be related to yours, but it will lead to some severe repercussions later.

IC: Mary was seen reading her poem book again at the briefing room, with her uniform on. Since Stephen was gone, Mary had to take the lead of her team in the meanwhile. It was currently unknown as to where Stephen was, but he had to be doing something of great importance to not be here at the time. She was waiting for the rest of the pilots to come, in order to start the briefing.

OOC: Stephen said I could make a mission seperate from what he's doing now.
 
As stephen approached the colony, blips began appearing on his radar, and he flipped a switch in his cockpit, that turned on a system that he had designed and installed himself, he called it the surprise blocker, he had salvaged a Zaft radio system from a Zaku a few skirmishes back, and he had intergrated it into the Freedom so he could hear enemy chatter during battles.

as he listened he could hear statements from the enemy suits such as "shit it's the strike Freedom" and "we are so boned" this made Stephen smile as his Seed gene activated and his targetting screen for his full volley flipped up, as on the oputside the Dragoon spikes disconnected and the Xiphias rail cannon's flipped out. Targets began getting circled on the screen, and then Stephen pulled the trigger multiple times unleashing volley after volley, disabling many of the suits.

Stephen then pulled the super lancerta beam sabers out and blasted through the remaining suits, doing the same, he was sparing the pilots. Once the suits were disabled he spun around and opened a channel with the Zaft radio "Colony defence squads, i have disable you as you are not my target, i apologise for any pain my actions will cause you, but Zaft took my family from me, and the families of the three suits that did it, live on this colony, today i exact my revenge" Stephen announced before heading towards the colony.
 
Zeria was moping for quite a while, before she headed down to the gundam dock, and crawling up onto the Blitz.

"I miss him, old friend. It's hard...really hard...I come back, just for him, and he takes off right away..."

She sighed, looking melancholy as ever, and beginning to look over the Blitz, making sure it had no damage done to it whatsoever, before beginning to shine it up.

"I miss the old days of just me and him, talking about our Gundams, and who would become the better pilot someday..."

Zeria gave a small laugh.

"I won't admit it to him, but he is the better pilot of the two of us. The best pilot I know. I have no doubts he would beat me in a gundam battle"

She smiled at the Blitz, pride in her eyes.

"I'm just glad I get to keep you, Blitz...you're like my best friend...and you're always here, where I can find you...you've always been mine......I can only hope Stephen comes back safe and sound..."

She sighed again, staring at the empty spot where his Strike Freedom had once been.

"If he doesn't come back, I don't know what will happen to me..."
 
Stood on the bridge of the Archangel, the captain looked out of the screen towards the horizon "that boy is driven by revenge, what is he doing in space" the captain pondered inside his mind, he was contemplating why Stephen had taken off like he did. Turning on the spot the captain left the bridge and headed for Stephen's quaters.

Upon his arrival he entered Stephen's room and looked around, and after around ten minutes of searching he found something bad for the crew, and knowledge as to why Stephen had left. It was a todo list of sorts. only three things on it, the first was to beatthe legend, the destiny and the impulse in a battle, which he did in the last skirmish, the second was to bring Zeria home, again done at the end of the last Skirmish, and the last. . . Destroy Zaft colony 215 "no, he found their families" the captain announced as he ran over to the comm opening it to the bridge he slammed his hand onto the button "Bridge, this is the Captain, head for Zaft colony 215 now, Stephen is about to do something stupid" he announced.

The ship drastically shifted it's tragectory, aiming for space,all of the boosters kicked in, giving it the thrust to put it into the atmosphere within minutes, he then opened a shipwide channel "all pilots, proceed to your suits, and prepare for Combat" he announced as he released the button "I just hope we are not to late" he muttered

Meanwhile in space. . .
the Freedom blasted towards the colony, pulling it's two beam rifles off of it's hips, and connecting them together to forma beam cannon. pointing the large cannon at the colonies power generator, Stephen smiled "Destiny, legend, Impulse. . . now you shall understand how i feel" Stephenannounced before pulling the trigger, a massive beamshooting out of the cannon's barrel and plowing into the side of the colony.

Hitting the power generator head on, the generator exploded, with cataclysmic reactions, blowingthe colony apart, killing everyone who was living on it, including the entire families of the pilots of the destiny, the impulse and the legend.

After the explosion the Freedom was heavily damaged, missing it's right forarm, and from the left knee down, it's phase shift armour was also deactivated, the cockpit was no longer pressurised as there was a large fissure in the chest, and Stephen lay unconscious in the chair.
 
"All pilots, proceed to your suits, and prepare for Combat."Mary closed her poem book and said, "What? Are we under attack?" She then proceeded to the hanger bay, putting on her combat and pressure suit. Apparently they were going out into space so she had to be prepared. As soon as she got into Aegis she opened a comm link to the captain saying, "Sir, what is going on?" The captain responded, " "Stephen's gone rogue, you must stop him before....." Mary said, "What?" Followed by a large explosion near where they were. Mary suddenly said, "What the...Stephen, what did you do?"
 
No sooner had the captain issued the command, than she was already in the Blitz, and launching.

"That idiot! What's he trying to do?! Purposely kill himself and leave me behind?!"

Tears welled in her eyes as she raced to where the captain had said Stephen would be. It was taking her a bit, but she finally hit the area of Zaft Colony 215. The others would be way behind her, since she had already been sitting on her gundam when the captain had let out the message. She approached, the Mirage Calloid System in full effect so none would see her, looking around and scanning the area. She spotted the Freedom and gasped, gliding directly to its side.

"Hownam! Hownam, are you alright?!"

No answer. She bit her lip, and manuevered the Blitz to support the Freedom.

"Damnit, Stephen, don't you dare leave me alone in this world! I'll never forgive you if you die on me!"

She began to try and bring the Freedom back. It was a slow process, and she was having a bit of difficulty, but she was pulling the Freedom along nevertheless. The sooner she could get Hownam back to the Archangel, the better it would be. The entire while, she kept calling through to him, begging him to awaken and let her know he was still alive...
 
Mary took off after the Blitz went off. She darted at high speed to the colony. But she could not find neither the Strike Freedom nor the Blitz. "Dammit, Stephen, why he'd try to put innocent lives in danger?" A tear shed from her eye saying, "I know you wanted revenge, and I thought you did when we took down the Minerva and it's pilots together, but why go so far?" She wanted an explanation from Stephen as to why he would slaughter 200,000 people in Zaft Colony 251. Knowing ZAFT, this would provoke an increase in hostilities doing something like this.

OOC: So what? Are you going to suffer from amnesia or something? Zeria is probably not going to be amused (at me.....)
 
Riina had kicked back in her room and slept like a pig. A shoujo manga covered her face while she snoozed away. All was quiet when a message blared through the intercom.

"All pilots, proceed to your suits, and prepare for Combat."


As a professional, Riina woke immediately and slipped out of her pjs and into her uniform. With record speed, the young pilot rounded the corner out of her room and towards the hangar. Ignoring all the commotion, she slipped on her white space suit, did a pre battle check on everything before hopping into Le Cygne. Only after she sat herself in the cockpit seat and started system check did she turn her attention to what was happening. Over the comm, she heard scraps of talk that were a bit disturbing. Apparently, Stephen had just shot down Z.A.F.T colony 251. Anger was not something Riina usually felt. Fighting soldiers was okay. It was their profession and they knew what they were in for. Killing defenceless civilians was wrong. borderlining cowardly. What was even more surprising was that Fabiola was actually agreeing with her. Inglesia sniffed in distaste at what Stephen had did. Opening onto a free channel, Riina vented steam that was unprecedented.

Jesus Christ Stephen! What the hell are you doing!? Revenge is on Minerva and her Gundam is one thing, but you killed everyone on a fucking colony! You doing this makes you know better than them!

Riina took a few seconds to calm down and in a much softer voice, she continued.

Stephen...you only felt you needed revenge because you family and friends were killed injustly, but what about all those you just killed? Will those that knew them and loved them not seek revenge as you did? How will killing those on the colony fix anything?

She did not know whether stephen heard it, but what he did broke her heart. As much as Stephen was a precious friend, he had gone too far and it hurt to see him do something like this. She slid down in her seat, resting her head on the head rest, letting things sink in when with a snap desicion, Riina sat up.

Everyone, clear out! I'm heading out!

Barely waiting for everyone to move, Riina moved Le Cygne onto the catapult and launched. All boosters were going at maximum. She had to find Stephen before the Z.A.F.T. Things could be sorted out after, but that comes first.

Mary, Zeria! I'm coming up from behind. I don't think anyone else can keep up with us, so i think it'll be just us three searching...
 
Stephen had began regaining consciousness as Zeria's cries for him boomed through the com, looking around his eyes were blurry, and his head was fuzzy. He could see the blitz through the large fissure in the cockpit "Zeria?" he muttered as he said this Riina cam over the com "Stephen...you only felt you needed revenge because you family and friends were killed injustly, but what about all those you just killed? Will those that knew them and loved them not seek revenge as you did? How will killing those on the colony fix anything?" Stephen shook his head slowly "I had to" Stephen muttered still disoriented.

Gripping the controls of the Freedom, he booted it up "come on, you have never let me down" he muttered to the Freedom, the systems then came online, all of the systems were in the red, including the nuclear reactor. "Oh crap" Stephen muttered "Guys, this is Tribal of the Strike Freedom, I am ditching the Freedom, it's reactor is in the red, and will go critical" Stephen's sentance was interrupted by red flashing inside the cockpit and an alarm "now, as a matter of fact" Stephen announced as he un buckled his harness and climbed out through the fissure, Grabbing onto the head of the Blitz he hit the button on his helmet, opening a channel to the Blitz and other suits "lets get the hell outta here before the Freedom goes suicidal and blows up" Stephen announced.
 
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