"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

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"Kira! If we survived this I'm going to kill you and your mom!" Miorine angrily shouted as the Strike and Aerial are spinning around the vortex, with the Panzer Eisen still latched onto the Aerial's right arm, "And when the hell is this gonna stop?! I'm getting dizzy!"

"Miorine, please don't kill Kira-nii-chan and Okaa-san!" Suletta shouted at Miorine, much to the girl's annoyance, "But Kira-nii-chan, what is this?! And where are we going?!"

"I don't kno-OH!?" The Strike and Aerial soon did a little stop in... space as they saw... another Strike, the same design as his own Strike but with green eyes instead of yellow, equipped with a light colored Aile Striker Pack. Behind the emerald-eyed Strike is a space station. A huge space station, "Another Strike?!"

"Strike-nii?!/Strike?!" Suletta and Miorine gaped at the sight of another Strike. Same goes to the Aerial as her eye's flashed.

Before the three (four) could ask, they were soon back to their journey.

Inside the Another Strike... is also Kira Yamato, wearing the Earth Alliance pilot suit.

"What the-?! Was that another Strike?!" (HSR) Kira asked as his eyes widened, trying to process on what happened, "And... it has another Gundam with it... Mou, the Amber Era really is different. Not only are they advanced, but they also have... God-like beings and fantasy stuff. Also... why the hell were they sucked out and sucked in by a portal? Were they travellers perhaps..."

Soon a video of a brown-haired female with purple eyes appeared on one of his monitors with a frown.

"Kira, come inside. The twerp's already here." Herta told Kira.

"Ah! R-Right!" Kira nodded as he made his Strike turn around and went back to the Herta Space Station.

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As the three continued to scream as their Gundams are spinning around the vortex, their short journey through this vortex ended as they are met with... islands?!

"Islands?!" Kira gawked as the two Gundams were puked out of the Warp. The Warp became small as it went back into the Strike's crest and both Gundams are now using their thrusters to keep themselves steady in the air... with the Strike slowly descending because of the weight of the Multiple Assault Striker Pack that he is currently equipping. Suletta noticed this as she made the Aerial grabbed the Strike's arm, preventing the heavy-armed Gundam to descend.

"Are we in... Earth?" Miorine muttered as the Aerial looked around her surroundings, giving Miorine the 360 view, "But how... and how did your mother had that technology in your Gundam. Speaking of... What is with your mobile suit, Kira?! And why did it send us to Earth?!"

"I..." Kira muttered, trying to answer Miorine's question, but then he noticed a few visible lights not that far from the Gundams... Wait no... its a battle. And what caught his eye the most is a very familiar white ship, "No way... Suletta, follow me." Kira said as he went to the ongoing fight. Suletta was puzzled at that but she complied nonetheless as the Aerial followed the Strike.

"Are those..." Miorine muttered as her eyes widened, "Mobile suits, and ships... but they're also fighting... Are the Earthians fighting Spacians? No, those mobile suits... I don't recognize them."

"There's no way that she managed to send me back here. There's no way!" Kira cried out and Suletta and Miorine are puzzled as to what he meant, "Archangel...! So she sent us in my timeline!"

"Timeline...?"

When they're near, but not too near, a GINN went through the Archangel and aimed his rifle at the ship's bridge. Kira's eyes widened as the Strike aimed his beam cannon at the GINN, "STOOOOPPP!!" Kira yelled out as he fired his beam cannon at the GINN, killing the mobile suit. 

Because of this act, the crew inside the Archangel just gaped at the unknown beam that killed the GINN, until their eyes widened when 2 mobile suits flew in front of the ship's bridge, and one of them are a familiar white mobile suit.

"What?/ No way, the Strike?! I thought Athrun destroyed him! And what is that other mobile suit?!" Mu La Flaga gawked at the sudden appearance of the Strike Gundam and Aerial.

"This is Kira Yamato! Aerial and I are here to help! Please get your ship out of here!" Kira's voice called out to the crew in Archangel, who are in shock.

"Kira?" Mirillia asked.

"It is Kira!" Sai confirmed, happy that their friend is alive.

"Our Kira?" Murrue asked in the same tone as Mirillia.

Kira then looked ahead as two GINNs fired their weapons at him, but Kira made the Strike to fire it's beam vulcan to the GINNs, easily destroying their weapons, "Suletta. Don't deploy the GUND-Bits for this, we're not sure if Aerial's GUND-Bits are compatible with Earth's gravity. Just use your beam rifle and kill the enemy mobile suits."

"K-Kill?!" Suletta stuttered, not expecting Kira to say that to her. Miorine then interjected Kira's request.

"Are you an idiot?! You're making Suletta kill?! Also, what's happening to you?!"

Kira gritted his teeth, and Miorine's right. So he replied, "I'll explain later after this, but you're right, Miorine... Suletta, just aim for the head and limbs instead if you don't want to kill. I don't want you to have blood on your hands."

"Kira-nii-chan..." Suletta muttered as the Strike equipped its Agni and aimed it with his beam cannon at the enemy ZAFT mobile suits.

Kira entered SEED mode (still at first method since he didn't make his decision about what he really needed to fight for again. And Lacus gave him the "neither power alone nor strength alone" speech. And that's a good thing since I need to redeem him by killing rather than aiming for the limbs.) and fired both beam weapons, destroying ZAFT Mobile Suits in its line of sight.

"Damn! The Strike got that much power?!" Yzak cursed once he saw the Strike destroying his comrades. Suletta then began to think about Kira's words to her recently... then her eyes flashed determination, now knowing what to do. The Aerial then aimed her beam rifle at a GINN, as she fired her beam rifle at the GINN...'s head. Then more GINNs and DINNs fired at the Aerial, who flawlessly dodged the bullets and returned fire, aiming and destroying their heads and limbs.

"Suletta..." Miorine muttered at Suletta, who is focused on the battle in front of her. Kira noticed Suletta's actions as he smiled, in relief that Suletta didn't have to kill. Then Kira's face was shown on one of the Archangel's monitors inside the bridge.

"Murrue-san! Get out of here!" Kira pleaded to Murrue and the rest.

"Ah, but... um..." Murrue started, recovering her shock from Kira and that other Gundam's appearance, "There's a... Cyclops System below Headquarters..." Murrue stated that missiles from a DINN went to the Archangel, but were destroyed by the Aerial's beam rifle, then the DINN's head was destroyed in suit, "...and we've been made... decoys...! They planned it all! We had no idea! So we can't withdraw! We must get the ship further from the base!"

Kira gaped at that, he knows what a Cyclops System is, and he needs to finish this fast. Then Miorine and Suletta's face appeared in the Strike and the Archangel, "Cyclops System? What is that?" Miorine asked, now curious at a time like this what that is.

"The Cyclops System was originally not a weapon, but a mining device that used microwaves to melt lunar ice that contained rare metals. But it could become a bomb when it's overloaded... which is dangerous." Kira explained to Miorine, as she and Suletta just gasped at that information, "We need to warn them and get them out of here! Suletta, help me! Don't worry I won't kill. Both forces don't deserve to die like this..."

Suletta then complied at Kira's request and reassurance as both Gundams readied their weapons. Kira opened a channel to every soldier in the area as both Strike and Aerial fired their weapons to drive both forces back, "ZAFT! Earth Alliance! I call upon both Forces! Any moment now, the Cyclops System will activate and the Alaska base... will self-destruct!"

Because of this information, both forces just gasped as Kira continued, "I ask that both Forces cease battle at once and retreat from this area! I repeat: Any moment now..."

Everyone could only stare in astonishment and awe as Kira repeated his message to the warring factions, and soon enough everyone began either smiling with pride at what Kira was doing or praying that he could pull it off. 

"That kid." Mu muttered as he smiled under his helmet. Miorine just smiled at Kira, at least she knows that Kira isn't a bloodthirsty soldier. The same goes to Suletta.

However, not everyone was doing so, as one silver-haired, scarred pilot swooped down firing on the Strike, "I'm not falling for that!" Yzak shouted as he charged at Kira, only for the Strike to block his blasts with his Panzer Eisen shield.

"The Duel!" Kira gritted his teeth once he saw the Duel as he began to recall the girl that gave him an origami flower back in space and how the Duel unintentionally killed the civilian shuttle with the girl on it. He hated the pilot for that but he began to calm down, focusing on the matter at hand. Kira then intercepted Duel's attack with the Strike's left arm, preventing him from slashing, then grabbed Duel's fist when he attempted to punch him.

"I told you to stop! Do you want to die?"

"What?" Yzak shouted as he used the Duel's assault shroud to try and blast the Strike's head off, only for the Strike to dodge and land a head butt on the blue mobile suit allowing it to backflip in mid-air, despite its current weight but he managed it, and swoop in with its beam saber, aiming at first at Yzak's cockpit.

Yzak cried out in fear, not ready to accept his fate, but Kira chose to be merciful and moved his slash a little downwards. Slicing the Duel's legs off, "Get out of here! Stop fighting!" Kira shouted at the Duel as he kicked the Duel's back hard, knocking the blue Gundam to the sea, only for him to be picked up by a DINN.

"Why... did he?" Yzak whispered, wondering why the Strike decided to spare him as he and his comrades retreated.

At the Archangel, the alarms then blared as Sai informed Murrue about the Cyclops System, "The Cyclops System has been activated!"

Kira and co gasped at that as Murrue immediately gave an order to Neumann, "Engine at maximum speed! Evade!"

The Archangel had begun accelerating as fast as it could away from the battlefield and other ZAFT and Alliance forces did the same. The blast radius reached a GINN's Guul, causing it to explode and fell, but the Strike reached for the fallen GINN's hand, with the Aerial taking hold of the Strike's other arm.

"Hold on!" Kira reassured the pilot, "Suletta!"

"Right! Miorine-san hold on!" Suletta affirmed as the Strike and Aerial used their thrusters to the max while the JOSH-A base behind them slowly crumbled to smithereens.

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Shortly after, the Archangel, Skygrasper, Strike, and Aerial had all landed on the remains of an island that was once the headquarters of the Alliance. Mu, now out of his support craft, just looked at the wasteland before him as he threw his helmet down in defeat. In the Archangel, the crew are trying to recover from before. They maybe able to survive that but in this battle... they lost. With the Gundam Pilots, both Kira and the girls are out of their respective Gundams and checked over the GINN pilot that Kira saved.

"Try to stay awake. Are you alright?" Kira asked the gravely injured pilot.

"Please, sir! Stay awake!" Suletta cried out to the pilot with Miorine worriedly looking at the pilot.

"Were you two... pilots of those mobile suits?" the pilot asked Kira and Suletta as they nodded to his question, "Why did you... save me?"

"...Because I wanted to, and you don't deserve that kind of death. Along with the rest of ZAFT or Earth Alliance." Kira answered the pilot as the pilot weakly smiled at him.

"S-Sir! Please save your strength!" Suletta cried out as soon as she noticed that.

"You would've saved yourselves time..." then he closed his eyes, ready to die in peace, "...if you'd let me die back there..." Then the GINN pilot died.

Suletta just gasped as tears flow down her face, the first time seeing a person die in front of her. Miorine clicked her tongue and looked away, trying to hold back her tears and shock but they are visible. Kira looked down in frustration as he punched the ground and cursed.

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The PLANTs were abuzz with what had happened down at Alaska, as everyone raced around talking about it and trying to get answers as Athrun walked into a building and he was recently given by Cagalli to a ZAFT aircraft with Yzak with them. And now he's back at PLANTs thanks to a spacecraft that he was recently in. Athrun then spotted someone he knew and called out to him to get answers of his own.

"Athrun Zala!" the commander Yuki exclaimed in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"I'll tell you, but first, what's going on?"

"Operation: Spitbreak seems to have failed." the commander told Athrun and Dreadwing. "We're yet to receive details, but one initial report is saying total destruction."

"You're kidding!"

"And I'm afraid I have more bad news for you." Yuki said as he whispered to Athrun, "One of the newly developed top-secret mobile suits have gone missing, like it was stolen. And the person who arranged that was Lacus Clyne and her father's supporters. The National Defense Committee is in a state of panic."

Because of this information, Athrun's eyes widened as he dropped his brief case, "You're kidding...! That can't be...! Lacus wouldn't do such thing!"

A little time skip, the PLANTs were in an uproar, or more specifically, the officials in the PLANTs were in an uproar over the theft of the Freedom by the Clyne Faction. Athrun then decided to confront his father as he walked through the hallways that leads to his father's office.

"Excuse me." Athrun said as he entered Patrick Zala's office and saluted.

"It seems a Cyclops Sustem was used! An enormous array was found beneath the base." one of the Coordinators, who is being accompanied by four other Coordinators, told Patrick in front of him.

"Where's Le Creuset?"

"We haven't been able to reach him yet, but we're told that he is safe."

"Have him give us a detailed report on the incident!"

"A number of the committee members, including Eileen Canaver... have stormed the assembly hall demanding an explanation." A ZAFT Superior informed as soon as he entered Patrick's office.

"Give me a moment!" Patrick said, referring to Athrun, who saluted at him in the end.

"They're demanding an emergency Supreme Council meeting on this issue."

Patrick annoyingly sighed, "In any case, have the remaining troops hurry over to Carpentaria!"

"Yes, sir!"

"I want to see everyone stay in control! What we need right now is coolheaded, objective reporting on the situation!" He told the Coordinator on his right, who nodded and went on to do it. Then he looked at the Coordinator on his right, "Where have the Clynes gone?"

"We don't know yet. Clyne appears to have prepared escape routes." The Coordinator informed him as at the Clyne House, loads of soldiers are in and out of the House, trying to find Lacus and her father, "It may take longer to find him than we expected."

Patrick didn't like this as he clenched his fists tightly, "Get the Justice Department on it! Restrain all Council members who were close to Clyne, beginning with Canaver."

"But, sir...!" the Coordinator tried to object, but Patrick didn't let him finish.

"Lacus Clyne and her father's supporters stole the Freedom! Her father fled with her, and is yet to be found! And information on Operation Spit Break's target was leaked!" Patrick yelled out as he slammed his hands on his table, "Even a child could figure out what really happened here! Clyne betrayed us! Yet Canaver and the others are pressuring me about this? They're the ones to blame! In fact, they're giving refuge to the culprits! That's the only explanation for all this!"

"Very well, sir!" The Coordinator nodded as he and the other Coordinators left the office, leaving Athrun and Patrick. Patrick then sat down back on his chair as he sighed in frustration.

"Chichiue." Athrun said, but Patrick just glared back at him.

"What did you just call me?"

Athrun quickly retracted what he called Patrick as he immediately saluted and corrected himself, "I'm sorry! Chairman Zala.

"You understand the situation, don't you?"

"Yes. But still...!" Athrun then admitted as he lowered his hand, "I cannot believe it! Lacus stealing the Freedom? It's inconceivable!"

"Look at this." Patrick said as he pressed a few buttons on his desk as a monitor revealed itself beside Athrun and Patrick. The monitor then shows the Freedom Gundam, the head looks a little bit like the Strike but it isn't, and Lacus Clyne along with a supporter of hers in front of the Gundam, "It was taken by the surveillance camera at the military factory. The Freedom was taken immediately after this shot was taken, but we don't know where it is. Why would anyone accuse her unless there was proof to back it up?" The camera then zoomed in, "Regardless of what you'd like to believe, these are the facts!"

Athrun then went silent, trying to deny that fact but his father kept on going, "Lacus Clyne is no longer your fiancée." Patrick stated as Athrun looked at his father in disbelief, "The official announcement has not been made yet... but she's being treated as a fugitive being sought after for treason. Your next mission is to recapture the stolen X10A Freedom... and eliminate the pilot and all persons and facilities... believed to have come in contact with the pilot... which is supposed to be your original mission." Patrick said as he pressed a few buttons as the monitor in his office changed, from the Freedom to the... Strike and Aerial protecting the Archangel, which Athrun gasped at that.

"I believe you reported that you killed the pilot of the Strike, but it looks like he returned along with another mobile suit." Patrick said as he gave Athrun a grim expression, "Yzak Joule and the other surviving pilots managed to report, saying that the Strike and that other white mobile suit, Codename: Witch, suddenly appeared and forced both the Alliance and ZAFT forces to retreat before the Cyclops System could explode. So tell me... why is the Strike back, Athrun?"

Athrun then looked down, shocked that the Strike survived, but the question is... is Kira the one that's piloting that? "It's impossible... It's impossible!" He then looked back to his father, "I destroyed the Strike back at that island! I killed the pilot! Cagalli told me that when they found me, they couldn't find the Strike anywhere on that island! They couldn't find him! They couldn't find Kira!" 

"Kira... as in Kira Yamato? Your childhood friend from Copernicus? He's still alive?!"

"I tried to tell him to come with me! Tried to tell him to join the PLANTs because that's his rightful place! But he couldn't. Because he has friends that he needs to protect on that legged ship!" Athrun argued with his father, "So in the end, the next time we meet each other, we must pull the trigger. So I did when he killed Nicol and I killed that support craft of his... and here I thought that he's dead."

Patrick then looked at Athrun as he sighed, "Well whatever now, he's a threat to us now. Kira is now a traitor to the PLANTs. A traitor to us coordinators! Just like Gud Vair is a traitor to us." Patrik declared as Athrun gasped at his father's quick declaration to his childhood friend as a traitor already, "The Strike is back and he's accompanied by that other mobile suit. You defeated him before, you can do it again."

"But how?"

"You shall receive the X09A Justice at the arsenal in replace of your X303 Aegis... and begin your new mission as soon as preparations are complete. Destroy the Strike and that unknown mobile suit. Kill Kira Yamato!"

"B-But what about the Freedom and Lacus?!" Athrun asked as a ZAFT member went inside Patrick's office.

"Those machines, X10A Freedom and X09A Justice... are equipped with N-Jammer Cancellers."

"N-Jammer Cancellers?" Athrun gaped at his father's information, "Impossible!"

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Athrun and his father are now at the hangar, looking at his new machine, which is being worked on by several mechanics. He also gasped as Justice's head looked similar to his old Aegis, "Why'd you build such things? The PLANTs made the decision to abandon all nuclear weaponry!" 

"Now we need it, in order to win this war! We need that power! Your mission is very important. Give it every effort." Patrick argued and said as he looked back to his son, "Don't worry about the Freedom, we'll take care of it. Worry about the traitor. The Strike is not as advanced as the Justice, so you have the advantage. We're not sure about that other one, so be careful."

Then Patrick looked down, reminiscing about Nicol, "Nicol loved his songs very much. "

Athrun then did the same as his father, "I'm sorry about Nicol."

"No, it's all right. I'm sorry, too..." Patrick apologized to Athrun, knowing full well how close Nicol and Athrun are, "I do understand. This is a war, after all. And You did take revenge."

"Well..."

"However... when youngsters like Nicol and you... are in the battlefield sacrificing yourselves... how could anyone betray you? That angers me more than anything! I don't want any more sacrifices!" Patrick admitted to Athrun, "And that's why we agreed to equip the latest models with N-Jammer Cancelers!"

After that, Athrun then began to think about Lacus, until his thoughts were broken when an operator announce.

"We will now begin simulation for final activation." The operator informed, "F-6, please set your terminal online."

"Should this get into the hands of the Earth Forces... they'd be more than happy to begin using nuclear weapons again." Patrick told Athrun, who began to recall the Bloody Valentine incident, "We must stop that from happening at all costs." Then Athrun then recalled the aftermath of the Lacus trade, when Lacus called out Rau Le Creuset, "I'm counting on you, Athrun." Patrick said as he looked back to his son.

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Everyone from the Archangel stood on the desolated island that was once JOSH-A base looking towards the Strike and Aerial that had helped saved them in silence after disembarking from the ship. Then they saw Kira, holding his helmet, with the girls, doing the same but Suletta just hid behind Kira since she's meeting new people. The Archangel crew just looked at the approaching students from Asticassia, in disbelief that Kira's alive and well.

"Kira." Sai muttered as the three students arrived as they stopped in front of Mu and Murrue.

"It's been a while, everyone." Kira said as he gave his old friends, because he is in Ad Stella in 13 years, a smile.

"You're really... Kira, right?" Murrue asked, ignoring Miorine and Suletta for now because... it's Kira.

Kira then gave her a smile as he nodded at her question, "Yes."

That statement was what finally did it, and what had prompted Miriallia to lead everyone in rushing over to their friend in happiness at seeing him alive to either place a hand on his shoulder in a gesture of welcoming him back or to ask him the ridiculous question.

"You're real, right? You're not some ghost, are you?"

Then he looked at Sai and Kuzzey approaching him as Kira suddenly had a guilty expression on his face, "Sai. Kuzzey."

"I'm so glad... you're alive." Sai said as Kira appreciated that as he put his hand on Sai's shoulder and apologizing to him.

"Sorry. And thanks." Kira said as he walked back to the crew, "I'll bet there are a ton of things you want to ask me, aren't there?"

"Yes." Murrue said as she smiled a little.

"There are many things I'd like to ask you as well."

"I'm sure there are."

Then Mu decided to ask Kira, "What's with that pilot suit? And who are those girls?" The crew then looked back to Suletta and Miorine. Suletta hides behind the girl as Miorine just crossed her arms and glared at Kira. Kira just chuckled at that.

"Well..." Kira chuckled not knowing where to start as Suletta began to introduce herself when she unhid herself from Miorine.

"I-I-I'm Suletta M-Mercury! K-Kira-nii-c-chan's adopted little sister!" Suletta stuttered but she managed to introduce herself to the Archangel crew, "N-Nice to meet you all!"

Then it was Miorine's turn, "Miorine Rembran." Miorine simply introduced herself to the crew as she looked away, "Suletta and that idiot's bride."

"Eh?" The Archangel crew gawked as they looked back to Kira, who again sheepishly scratched the back of his head.

"It's a long story..." Kira said.

"I see. Let's talk things over first." Murrue replied.

"Yeah, that idiot owes all of us an explanation on what's going on." Miorine said as Suletta tried to scold Miorine, but it didn't faze the white-haired girl. 

Ignoring that, Murrue looked back to the Strike and Aerial, "It's good to see the Strike is in good condition, but what should we do about that other machine?"

"XVX-016 Aerial Gundam." Kira started as he introduced Suletta's machine to the rest, "A Mobile Suit based on the Strike and another Gundam, making her..."

"Strike-nii's little sister!" Suletta cheered, trying to ignore the glances of the Archangel crew as she is now shivering.

"So... the Aerial was based on the Strike huh? Does that mean..." Mu said as he looked back to Kira.

"Yeah, she can equip Striker Packs. For the Sword and Launcher Shoulder Units, there are separate arm-mounted variants of it."

"Arm-mounted variants?" Murrue repeated Kira's information.

"Yeah."

Then Mu decided to change the subject, as he looked back to the Strike because he noticed the Strike's not in its dull-grey form, "Why isn't the Strike deactivating its Phase Shift?"

"Phase Shift?" Suletta and Miorine repeated with puzzled expressions, first time hearing about this.

"Phase Shift Armor to be precise. It is an armor system that uses electricity to reduce the damage from all forms of physical attacks although, in most practicalities, Phase Shift armor makes a mobile suit virtually immune to solid body impact attacks." Kira explained as he continued, "A mobile suit equipped with Phase Shift armor is an all-gunmetal gray mobile suit if the armor isn't activated. But if Phase Shift was activated, a hissing sound could be heard as the mobile suit would now then gain color."

Then he looked back to the girls, "Which is what the Strike originally had. But when I arrived in Ad Stella 101, Elnora-san rescued me and brought me and the Strike along with the teleported Striker Packs in Vanadis. They upgraded the Strike, switching the grey armor into Ad Stella's one."

"H-Hold on, what are you-" Miorine said but she was cut off by Kira.

"Miorine, this is the best time to explain what happened." Then he looked at the rest, "All of you guys need to hear this. Starting for you two." He looked back to Suletta and Miorine.

"I... I was not born in Ad Stella. Heck, we're not even in Ad Stella! We are on Earth, yes, but not in Ad Stella's Earth. Miorine. Suletta. We are in Cosmic Era 71, the timeline where I and the Strike originally from."

Because of this information, Suletta and Miorine's eyes widened, not expecting that.

Murrue then asked, not understanding what Kira's saying, "Kira, what are you talking about?"

Kira then looked back to Murrue, then at the puzzled crew of the Archangel, "When the Aegis grappled me and the Strike, the pilot self-destructed his Gundam and managed to escape. The good thing is that the Strike's emergency shutter worked and protected me from the explosion." Kira explained with a sorrowful expression, "The next thing I knew, I was in space... along with the Striker Packs. Then after that I was rescued... by Prospera and her mobile suit, the Lfrith, but at the same time... my body reverted back into a 5 year old."

"5 years old..." the Archangel crew muttered amongst themselves at Kira's information. It may be absurd and bizarre, but they know Kira's not a liar. And he also has evidence, the girls from Ad Stella.

"Wait... Kira, don't tell me...!" Miorine gasped, putting the pieces together. Turning 5 years old, his sudden arrival in space in Ad Stella. More specifically Ad Stella 101, the same year that the Cathedra Agreement was agreed. Kira noticed Miorine's and Suletta's expressions as he gave them a guilty look.

"Yeah... I'm no son of the White Devil. They're just bluffs that me, okaa-san, and Nyla-nee came up with since we're fugitives." Kira said as he then dropped the bomb on the two, "I am the White Devil of Vanadis. Hope you two forgive me for hiding these secrets..."

Both Suletta and Miorine are unsure of what to do now... But Suletta then began to approach Kira and did what both Kira and Miorine didn't expect. She slapped the boy, and this surprised everyone.

"Suletta!/Kira!" Miorine and the friends of Kira Yamato called out, but Suletta in the end hugged Kira as she hid her face on his chest.

"You mentioned Okaa-san and Nyla-nee... they're survivors 21 years ago, weren't they? Then... was Otou-san..."

"Yeah... he worked at Vanadis. He sacrificed his life so we can escape. Yes, that also includes you, Suletta..."

"But... how? You looked like..." Miorine started. Kira looked like 17 years old, and yet he said that he arrived in Ad Stella in AD 101... Wouldn't that make him 26 years old...?

"...I'll tell in another time..."

"I-Is... t-that w-why... y-you d-didn't... s-smile a-at Mercury...?" Her voice now starting to cry... because of the tears now staining on his pilot suit.

Kira then comforted Suletta, by returning the hug and patting her head, "I'm sorry, you two... Not only because I killed... but I couldn't save our dad... Hope you forgive me."

The Archangel crew just looked at the two, they pity Kira so they decided to give him some space. Miorine just looked at the two, unsure what to do next, more specifically now that Kira exposed himself and they were in a new timeline.

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Back at the PLANTs, we're currently in the now-trashed house of the Clyne Family, and Athrun is there wearing his civilian clothes, but he still kept his arm strap for his broken arm. Athrun is standing in the middle of the Clyne House's gazebo as he looked around the damage that his father's soldiers had done. Then he walked out of the gazebo to be met by more trashed items, which he then looked away guiltily as he recalled him and Lacus bonding.

"Lacus." Athrun muttered, but he immediately turned around as soon as he heard a bush rumble. He then glared at one of the pushes, ready to take them down.

"Damn it!" ... Lacus' pink Haro cursed as he bounced off the bush, and Athrun didn't expect that, "I won't accept that!" Pink-chan said as he hopped to Athrun then hopped away when Athrun tried to grab the little cursing ball, "Hello! Hello!"

"Haro!" Athrun called out to Pink-chan, who then did a U-turn as he was about to tackle Athrun's face, but Athrun managed to grab him. Athrun gazed at Pink-chan for a moment as he gave a few beeps in greeting and saw that the poor little guy was covered in dirt, suggesting that he had been left out there for some time now, when he noticed the flowers that were nearby. Then he recalled Lacus telling him about these flowers. These white flowers are from the first theater where she sang in public. Athrun continued his gaze at the flowers as Pink-chan then hopped off from Athrun's hand.

"Haro! I'm fine!" Pink-chan cheered from the ground as he bounced back in on Athrun's hand, "So are you!"

Then Athrun gasped, now realizing where Lacus was thanks to this pink ball of metal and curses. Then he ran to the direction where he thinks Lacus is at.

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Now at the Archangel, the Strike, now without its Striker Packs equipped because it is stored away, Aerial, and Mu's Skygrasper are in the hangar. The mechanics just looked at the mobile suits, specifically at the Aerial because they're not sure what to do about her. But Kira did tell them that he would help them with maintaining and supplying Aerial since he's the one who maintains both mobile suits.

 Speaking of Kira, Kira, and the girls are now in Earth Alliance uniforms since they didn't bring any clothes with them. I mean, who would've thought that Kira and Suletta's mom would fuckin' send them to the Cosmic Era? Even Kira didn't expect that!

Anyway, brief summary of what happened after the Battle of JOSH A, or rather Operation Spit Break, the gang went inside the Archangel, and Kira and the girls changed clothes, but Suletta had to show it to Kira if it suited her, which Kira admittedly did tell her that it suits her. Miorine then grumbled that the color pink didn't suit her, but Kira tried to cheer her up by complimenting her that it suited her. And the next thing is... That is correct! Kira got a slap to the face in return!

After that, Kira then fully explained to Suletta and Miorine his origins, what's currently happening in his timeline, and how he came to Ad Stella as soon as they were about to arrive at the bridge. Suletta forgave him because she understood why he kept this from her, but Miorine... well she's an understanding person, she said to Kira about giving her some time before she could either forgive him or not because of the secret. It's understandable why, so that's good...ish.

"Miorine, wait." Kira called the girl out, who stopped and looked back at him.

"What is it? We need to meet up with that captain, remember?"

"I know. And... you know about the Antidote, right?"

"Yeah, everyone knows it. What about it?"

"Have you heard about its prototype, then?"

"Prototype...? Kira what are you-" Miorine then gasped when she saw Kira slip his collar to reveal... a drawback from the GUND... Instead of orange/red... it's purple, "K-Kira..."

"Shortly when I and the others were escaping, we were caught up by another group of Heingras... this time they were equipped with the Proto-Antidote." Kira explained to Miorine, "I should've expected that back then... but it was too unexpected for me. One of them got me and activated the Proto-Antidote... giving me this. Hekstigma."

"Heks...stigma?" Miorine slowly repeated as she touched Kira's neck which has the mark of the Hekstigma.

"Yeah...  Me, Prospera, and Nyla-nee didn't know about that until we arrived at Mercury and researched about this... By the time I was 9, the Hekstigma was too much for my body... So I was put to sleep in a container and filled up with liquid that stabilized the disease... for over 21 years."

"Stabilize... So you're not cured...?!" Miorine gaped again as Kira nodded at her, "Then how are you still...?!"

"Stabilizing pills." Kira said as he reached for his pocket and showed Miorine a small container that contained his pills, "Every time the Hekstigma occurs, I need to drink these pills..."

"Kira..." Miorine just worriedly looked at him... and hugged him, "I'm... sorry for what that bastard did..."

"....It's fine..." Kira closed his eyes as he hugged her back, "It's fine... also I'm sorry for dragging you and Suletta into this..."

"Let's... talk about that in another time..."

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Ok, back to the present...

"So that was the plan?" Kira asked, now getting the gist of what happened back at JOSH-A.

"Likely." Mu nodded as he and Murrue looked across at Kira, with Suletta and Miorine beside him as they leaned against the bridge's glass. The rest of the bridge crew are looking back at Murrue and Mu.

"And we weren't told a thing about it," Murrue added.

"Headquarters had probably been aware that ZAFT's target was Alaska for some time." Mu continued his explanation to Kira, "Otherwise, they wouldn't have activated the Cyclops System under the base."

Miorine glanced at Kira, then back at Mu and Murrue, "So what does the Archangel... what do you all plan to do from here on?"

"Our plans?" Murrue asked as she and Mu looked at each other and then back at Miorine, "What about you two then? I know you guys are students in another timeline and all."

"We already did. And it's helping you and this idiot." Miorine said as she jabbed her thumb to the Coordinator beside her, "Knowing Kira, he'll help you guys instead since this timeline is his home."

"Miorine..." Kira muttered as he looked at the white-haired girl, "You don't have to you know."

"Kira, your mobile suit is the key back to our timeline and all three of us don't know how to activate that. So we decided to help you and your friends instead. Right, Suletta?"

The red-haired girl nodded as she gave Kira a determined expression, "Yeah! Even though I don't like the idea of killing or I didn't expect us to be sent here and get involved in a war... This is your home Kira-nii-chan! So I'll help!"

"You guys..." Kira muttered as he looked at the girls then he gave them a smile, "Alright... thank you."

Then the topic was then decided to change when Jackie began to inform the crew.

"Due to the N-Jammers and magnetic fields... we haven't been able to establish communication at all..." Jackie informed.

"So we do damage control here and make it to Panama on our own?" Arnold added.

"You think they'll welcome us with open arms? We know too much for our own good." Mu pointed out, referring to their supposed next destination.

"I guess they'll treat a ship that has left the front line without orders... as a deserter." Murrue said.

"Even if we were to return to our initial post, we'd no doubt face court-martial." Arnold voiced out his concerns.

"And this would be another crime added to our record." Dalida added.

"It's becoming difficult to remember what we're fighting for." Murrue sighed as the crew then had unsure expressions as silence began to surround the bridge of the ship... until Kira broke that.

"What do you believe one should be fighting against... to end all this, Murrue-san?" Kira voiced out as the Archangel crew looked back to the boy, "Whatever it is... even though we're now defectors of the Earth Alliance... I believe must begin to fight against it."

Then after that, the Archangel crew now went to their separate ways. The mechanics then began to repair the ship's damages. Inside and out.

"To Orb?" Murrue asked as she is inside her office along with Mu, who placed a cup of joe on her table.

"Yeah." Mu affirmed with his cup of coffee in his hand, "I don't think anyone's in the mood...to return to the Forces."

"I guess we're more or less guaranteed to face execution." Murrue voiced out as the other Archangel crew then began on working in their respective posts.

"The kid's changed, hasn't he?" Mu asked, now noticing Kira's change of attitude and personality.

"Yes. He did spend 21 years in that timeline of those two girls that he was with..." Murrue confirmed as she chuckled, "I didn't expect him to have a fiance soon after. Looks like a lot of things have happened there."

"Hehe, yeah." Mu said as he chuckled and took a sip of his coffee and decided to go back to the topic, "What should we be fighting against?"

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Then in the corridors, Kira's giving Suletta and Miorine a tour inside the Archangel.

"And this is the cafeteria. It's already self-explanatory why." Kira said as he and the girls arrived at the cafeteria with Miriallia Haw inside. Kira noticed Miriallia, who noticed him and the girls due to his voice, "Hey... Mir."

"Kira... hey." Miriallia replied back as the two stared at one another without talking back... until Kira broke it.

"Sorry about... you know... Tolle..." Kira apologized, referring to his fight with Athrun at the Marshall Islands and seeing Tolle die in front of him.

Miriallia knew what Kira meant as she gave him an apologetic expression, "It's fine... you did your best. And I'm just glad that you're back." Miriallia said as both friends gave each other a small hug then broke off, because its... well, a small hug.

Miriallia then noticed the girls who just watched the scene, "Ah, you guys are with Kira, right? I'm Miriallia Haw, Kira's friend." Miriallia introduced herself to the Ad Stella girls.

"N-Nice to meet you, Miriallia-san! My name is S-Suletta Mercury!" Suletta introduced herself through stutters as she bowed at Miriallia.

"Miorine Rembran. Suletta and Kira's fiancé." Miorine introduced herself as she crossed her arms.

Then the girls began to talk to one another, using this chance Kira decided to leave the girls alone. Once he's out of the cafeteria, he went straight for his room and the first thing he saw is... a box on his bed. He went straight to the box and observed it because he didn't touch it. Then he looked around and saw a piece of metal on the ground. He picked it up and he began to reminisce about his last conversation with Flay before the battle at Marshall Island.

Then the room's doors opened as his pet robot-bird Torii (Or Birdy), landed on his shoulder. Kira immediately noticed Torii as he looked back to see Sai on the door.

"It stayed with me while you were gone." Sai explained to Kira, "I felt uneasy about turning him off."

Torii chirped as Kira stood up from his kneeling position, "Thank you." Kira thanked Sai.

With nothing else to say, Sai turned around, planning to leave, "Bye."

"Oh, Sai." Kira called him out as the boy looked back to the Coordinator, "Where's Flay?" 

Sai then began to recall his and Flay's conversation after Kira's disappearance, then he shooked that as he began to tell Kira about Flay, "She was transferred at Alaska. Together with Lieutenant Badgiruel and Commander La Flaga."

Because of this information, Kira gasped, now he knew what happened, "Although the Commaner returned... the Lieutenant and Flay are gone."

Kira looked down, "I see."

Then Sai began to release his emotions, "...I was really sad when I heard you were dead."

"Sai?" Kira looked back to Sai.

"So I'm overjoyed... to see you alive... and have you return! But...! Why is it always like this with you?" Sai then looked back to Kira as he recalled an event where Miriallia and Flay tried to kill Dearka and he tried to stop them both, "You're different! You're nothing like me! As always. Always. Always!" Then another flashback when Sai tried to pilot the Strike in a desperate attempt to save Kira, "Watching you, I end up feeling totally miserable! I do!"

"But you're different from me in other ways too, right, Sai?" Kira asked as he looked away from Sai, who looked back at him with a surprised expression, "I may be able to do things that you can't... but you can also do things that I can't."

When Kira admitted his flaws, Sai just stared at him, with nothing to say to him in return.

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Athrun then arrived at the theater where Lacus held her first performance via his car. Damn, he has a car? Anyways, as soon as he arrived, it began to rain and he made it inside through the theater's entrance.  

As soon as Athrun had walked in, he almost immediately heard a familiar singing voice ring out through the theater, singing a new song he did not recognize but understood the meaning of it clearly. It was a song that spoke of a never-ending hope for peace and prayed that the day that it was achieved would soon come. Even though it made him pause for a moment, it did not stop Athrun from continuing on with what he intended to do. He took out his gun and made his way into the theater as quietly as he could until he saw her. His fiancé, well former fiancé, Lacus Clyne. 

Lacus herself is sitting on some rumble of the stage as she sang. Athrun then intended to make his way towards her as quietly as he could while having flashbacks back at Orb when Torii flew at him and encountered Kira, then the Battle near Orb, the Battle at the Marshall Islands, and his talk with Cagalli. As soon as he was near, Pink-chan called out to Lacus.

"Hello! Hello! Lacus!" The Haro cheered as he bounced into Lacus' lap.

When Lacus saw her dear little friend had hopped into her hands, she could not help but smile as she greeted him and then turn to face Athrun as she stated, "I was certain that you would bring him here. Thank you very much."

Athrun just looked at her, "Lacus!"

"Yes?"

Athrun then jumped onto the stage and went in front of her, "How do you explain all that's happened?" 

"You came here because you heard what happened, right?"

"Then is what they're saying true?" Athrun demanded, "That you stole the X10A Freedom and betray PLANTs? Why did you do such a thing?"

"I didn't betray the PLANTs. I betrayed your father." Lacus said as Athrun's eyes widened as he aimed his gun at Lacus, "Your father is becoming what the PLANTs are against."

Athrun kept his aim at Lacus, who continued on, "At the PLANTs, after you returned following a lengthy absence. Did you notice anything?"

Then Athrun began to recall after Kira killed Nicol. His father's sudden aggressiveness, the N-Jammer Cancellers on the ZGMF-X Gundams... indicate that Lacus has a point.

"Lacus...!"

"What is it that you believe in and fight for? Is it your father's orders? Or the supposed medal you received after your fight against the supposed-deceased Kira Yamato?" Lacus asked as she dropped the bomb that would break Athrun.

"Lacus! How did you...?" Athrun asked but Lacus intentionally ignored his question.

"If it is, then Kira may once again become your enemy. And so will I." Lacus stood up from the rubble and approached Athrun. Then outside of the theater, a limo arrived and stopped in front of the theater as Patrick Zala's men barged inside. 

"If you've declared me as an enemy, will you shoot me? Athrun Zala of ZAFT?" Lacus finished with a stern gaze that made Athrun not hold his emotions back or held up his gun as his shoulders shook with sadness, and he found himself more confused than ever about what he really should be doing, ignoring his own question about how Lacus knew about Kira.

"I... I...!" Athrun tried to find words to answer Lacus' question

"Miss Lacus!" A voice called out, in which Lacus and Athrun noticed as they looked at the front to see Patrick's Secret Service. Athrun went in front of Lacus and aimed his gun at his father's men, who did the same as they aimed their guns at Lacus.

"Thank you very much, Athrun Zala." thanked one of the agents.

"What the hell?" Athrun asked, wondering what they were doing here as two of the agents walked to wards Athrun and Lacus on their left.

"The fiancée naturally knows her best." the agent explained and commented, "You've saved us time. Now, please step away from her!"

Athrun then aimed his gun at the other agents, "She's a fugitive accused of treason." the agent reasoned, but Athrun has nothing of it. Then more agents arrived in the theater with more guns, better guns to be precise, "We have orders to shoot to kill if we need to. Are you sure you want to defend her?"

"Those orders can't be right!" Athrun argued as a gun shot shot through an agent from behind on the ground. Using this chance, Athrun forced Lacus and himself to get away from their line of sight and hide behind their line of fire behind a rubble.

The agents fire in return, but the rest are not aware that they're being killed silently from behind. The attackers who killed the agents are none other than the Clyne Supporter's as they hid behind the audience chairs and kill each agent.

"Damn it!" Athrun cursed as an agent and his teammates kept on wasting their bullets. Two of the agents died when either Athrun or one of the Clyne Supporters fired back. One of the agents who survived, but will be killed soon after, went to the front of the rubble as he aimed his gun at AThrun and Lacus, but he died thanks to DaCosta, who approached the two.

"Lacus-sama." DaCosta said, silently telling her that they need to go with just a look.

"Thank you, Athrun." Lacus thanked Athrun with a grateful smile.

"Are you finished, Lacus-sama?" DaCosta asked as Lacus and Athrun approached him, with the Clyne Supporters on the ground watching them, "We really should be going as well."

Lacus nodded at DaCosta as she looked back to Athrun, "Goodbye, Athrun. Thank you for bringing Pink-chan to me.

"Hello! Hello!" 

"Kira's on Earth. We managed to get a hold of Yzak's report back on Earth. The sudden arrival of the Strike and another white mobile suit." Lacus told and answered Athrun's question from before, "I suggest that you have a talk with him. Your friend." Then she decided to leave the theater along with DaCosta as Athrun just stood from his position and watched, not knowing what to say and now unsure of many things.

"Lacus..." Athrun muttered.

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Then we switched back to ZAFTs hangar as Athrun is now inside his new machine, the successor and look alike of his previous Aegis Gundam, the ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam.

"Sound A-55 alarm. Radiation levels, normal. Course clear. All stations have approved take off. Countdown to begin from T minus 200." 

Athrun then pressed a few buttons inside Justice, making some adjustments of it and recalling his conversation with Lacus. The Justice's eyes glowed as Athrun pressed the Phase Shift Armor button to activate the said armor. The wires that are hooked onto the Gundam detached themselves as the Justice is now being covered in a dark red and black color.

"T minus 50. A-55 in effect. Confirmed separation of conduits from X09A. Standby for take off."

"Kira..." Athrun muttered as the hangar doors above the Gundam opened, "How the hell did you survive?" He pushed a lever in his cockpit, activating his thrusters.

"T minus 5. May our justive have the divine protection of the stars."

Athrun then readied himself for him and his new Gundam to launch, "Athrun Zala! Justice, taking off!" The Justice Gundam then jumped up as he flew out of the PLANTs and started its first every journey, but Athrun's second journey... to Earth.

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RF2: Now starts a new arc! The Students From Ad Stella aka the Cosmic Era arc! So...what do you guys think? Also this is the changes that I'm talking about, Suletta not killing. Why? Well it's because of Kira, but she will still kill because of the... spoiler alert... Battle of Orb. Also originally, I was about to make Miorine be problematic-ish because....

1. They're in another timeline and its all Prospera and Kira's fault.

2. Kira's the White Devil.

3. They unwillingly became soldiers.

So the drama starts between her and Kira. Supposedly so. But uhh... Miorine is a understandable girl, and its all because of Kira that she became like that. How? Well offcam, or rather offchapter shit happened, I guess. I might make an Omake Book for Coordinator From SEED. Also, made Lacus and her faction to steal the Freedom for plot reasons. 

And originally, I was suppose to make Athrun not to go after Kira on Earth and decided him to go with Lacus with the Justice, but... I decided to change my mind. Athrun has a major impact at the Battle of Orb, even if Suletta is with Kira.

Speaking of Kira! His disease was revealed to Miorine only. Will Suletta know as well? Well... she won't for this arc, but she will know in the future. Also Heks means witch in Dutch while Stigma has multiple meanings, all relating to the ancient use of the term to relating to puncture wounds (including tattoos), specifically the scars they leave behind. So when we fuse the two words together into english, it translates into... "Witch's scar" aka Hekstigma.

Oh and hey! A small easter egg and brief meeting with HSR Kira and the Strike! Yeah, I had to do that, it's all thanks to Fate-Turner72022's stories (The Gundam 00 x WFM x Hoyogames stories, check him and his stories out, they are great!) that inspired me to do this small easter egg. Could there be a potential crossover between my two stories? Eh, I think not.

And that's it for today! Hope you guys like this! This is RF2, signing off! See you!