Auel slowly woke up from his sleep. One by one he felt the feeling return to his limbs. Auel noticed the bindings that kept his hands together, he tugged on the cable with all his earthly might in an attempt to free himself and failed. Auel glanced around the room and noticed it was the same as the Girty Lue he had been stationed on only months before.

"Oh man…looks like I'm not in Kansas anymore" sighed Auel as he feel back down onto the bed. He noticed a small flicker of red out of the corner of his eye…Auel rolled over to get a better look. "Nani?" the flash of red turned out to be the hair of a girl who occupied the bed next to his. "Well this might not be as bad as I thought" joked Auel to himself as he glanced down the room to the door, he could hear footsteps coming from the hall way.

The door slid open and a girl with shoulder length brown hair walked in. The girl made a bee line for the red head. The brunette stopped half way and glanced at Auel. The two teenagers met each other's gaze, Auel's eyes traced the girls figure. She wore an ORB Military officer's uniform; her peach coloured collar showed her shipmates status. The girl also glanced over at Auel's attire, he wore his teal coloured pants, no socks, his customary open, low cut, large yellow shirt and unbeknown to the girl he also had shaved his chest prior to entering the battle where they had picked him up.

"Ah, I see you are awake" smiled the girl as she walked over to Auel

"Yeah…" Auel turned his head away from the girl and glanced at the ceiling.

The brunette sat down on the stool between the two beds and brushed the long red hair away from the girls face.

"Say…um…Who are you and where are we?" asked Auel sitting upright and crossing his legs.

The brunette turned around and smiled. "You are in ORB…this is the Invincible Archangel…and I…I am Miriallia Haww" smiled Miriallia as she looked deep into Auel's light blue eyes. "And you are?"

"Auel Neider…Lieutenant 2nd class, 81st Mobile Suit division code named the 'Phantom Pain'. I am the pilot of the Abyss unit." Explained Auel.

"Phantom…Pain…Oh" Miriallia got up and walked over to the boy's bed. "Does the name Cough 'Neo Lorrnoke' ring a bell?" asked Miriallia imitating Neo's voice.

"Lorrnoke-Taisan? How do you know that name?" asked Auel looking over to the girl.

"Ohm we picked him up after his Windam went down in a fight with Freedom. He has been recovering in another room…" explained Miriallia as she stood up and walked over to the desk next to the door. "I take it you are one of the 'Extended'?" asked Miriallia as she began to rummage through the draws.

"Yeah…What…What's going to happen to me?" Asked Auel looking at Miriallia with his baby blue eyes.

"I assume you will be let off with Neo once both of your injuries are healed…unless you want to stay?" a smile crept onto Miriallia's face as she pulled out a small box from the draw and turned to Auel.

"…But…I am a soldier…it is our job to fight…I am and EXTENDED!" yelled Auel as he thrashed around on the bed. Tears began to liberally flow from his eyes onto his face, he crashed his body against the wall and bed repeatedly. He gradually relented after a few seconds and began to whimper. "I am an Extended…Stellar…" Auel raised his hands to his face and began to cry "Stellar…STING…WHY MY NOT WITH THEM!" he cried as Miriallia slowly walked over to him. Her caring hand was placed on his back. All of Auel's memories of Sting triggered the memories of Stellar, the emotion he felt was over powering.

"My songstress skills are not as fine as Lacus's…but I have to try" thought Miriallia as she saw Auel crying like a child. Miriallia closed her eyes and breathed out, she opened her mouth and began to sing "I am here now…don't you cry…any tears…I will protect you…forever more…don't cry…my tender child…don't cry…don't cry" sung Miriallia as she wrapped her arms around the boy's body. She could feel his pulse on shoulder as she hugged him tightly. Miriallia had not felt this way in a long time…she had never felt this since Tolle…

Within moments Auel clamed down and rested his head down on the girls knee's, he glanced up at Miriallia and smiled. Miriallia sat at the top of the bed and smiled back at him.

"Thank you…you barley know me…yet you helped me…" Auel looked into the girl's eyes…their eyes were the same Aquamarine blue.

"You don't need a reason to help people…You talked about…Stellar…and Sting?" asked Miriallia as she brushed the boys blue hair out of his eyes.

"Yeah…they are two other Extended I am with…Sting pilots the Chaos…its green and flies…Stellar pilots the Gaia…that Bacue like unit" explained Auel as he closed his eyes.

"Auel…Stellar is…dead…and Sting is as well" Miriallia moved her hand down to the boys shoulder and patted his shoulder.

"What! No…that's…that's impossible…"Auel sat up as shook his head. "No…NO it refuse to believe that! Sting and Stellar… That's impossible. They are Extended…NO!" Auel beat his still bound fists against the wall.

"I am sorry Auel…Chaos was taken down by three of our Murusame units…and Stellar…Stellar was piloting a large unit that levelled many cities…we had to stop her. We didn't mean to kill her…Sting survived…but he died later at heavens base…" Miriallia's hand was beaten away by Auel.

"Go…GO AWAY you…you BITCH!" spat Auel in a fit of rage; he lunged at the girl and fell just short of her thanks to the cable restraining him. "GO…GO…GO TO HELL!" spat Auel over and over as he whipped and kicked at Miriallia. The Brunette stood up, knocking the stool backward and ran out the door, a few tears trickled down her face as she did so.

"Nice going…I think she was falling for you…You didn't have to be so mean" sighed a girls voice as the screen that blocked Auel from the red head's view was pushed aside.

"Who are you?" asked Auel in a sour tone.

"Meyrin Hawke" replied the girl, she wore a long very pale green shirt and pants, her fiery red hair contrasted with her purple eyes and light attire.

"Why are you here" snapped Auel.

"I was riding with Athrun when our GOUF was taken down…ouch" Meyrin stood up off the bed and winced as pain shot through her body. Meyrin fell against the poster of her bed for support.

"So you're a Zaftie" sighed Auel as he lay down and rolled over to face the wall.

"Communications officer Meyrin Hawke, attached to the ZAFT battle ship BB-01 Minerva…well not any more" Meyrin walked over to Auel. She stood just outside his hitting range and looked at him. "Be reasonable to her…she did not pull the trigger…Freedom did" explained Meyrin as she looked at Auel.

"I know…but…but Stellar" Auel curled up into a ball and began to cry.

Knowing full and well that it might just be a ploy to gain a hostage, Meyrin advanced on Auel and sat down beside him. The red headed girl brushed her hands along his back.

"What's with him…he seems like a large child…who are these Extended?" pondered Meyrin in her head, she then stood up and walked out the door and down the hall to the room that held Athrun and Neo.

Auel sat up in his bed munching away on the food that had been brought to him by Miriallia who had come in to check on Meyrin.

"So, Meyrin-San…Will you be returning to ZAFT once this is over?" asked Miriallia politely as the girl carved up her food in a very elegant manner. At the mention of ZAFT Meyrin dropped her fork and looked down into her lap.

"I…I don't know…I want to…I want to see Shinn, Luna…Vino…"a small smiled crept across Meyrin tear stricken face at the mention of Vino.

"Are they your friends?" asked Miriallia leaning over and looking at Meyrin's puffy red eyes.

"Yeah…Shinn…is the Pilot of Impulse…Luna…the Zaku Warrior" sniffed Meyrin "and Vino…Vino is…my best friend on the Minerva" said Meyrin in between sniffs.

"Don't worry…We will try to sort things out…" smiled Miriallia as she patted the girl on the back. "And you…are you going back to the Alliance?" asked Miriallia looking over at Auel.

"I…don't know…Sting and Stellar are gone…it depends on what Neo wants" shrugged Auel as he swallowed a chunk of steak. Auel placed his fork and Knife on the side of his tray and looked at Miriallia. "Why?" asked Auel looking at the brown haired boy.

Miriallia looked surprised at the boy's open ended question, what was he asking about.

"We won't try and stop you if that's what you are asking" explained Miriallia.

"No, that's not it…Why do you keep on interrupting battled between the Alliance and ZAFT?" asked Auel looking at the girl. Miriallia looked at Meyrin and then back at Auel.

"Because…war is a horrible thing…we want to try and stop the fighting…so no one else has to cry" Miriallia remembered all the times she had seen people be killed. She remembered Helipolis being torn apart, the beams from a ZAFT ship hitting Frey's father's ship, the time, when she saw Kira kill Nicol, when Athrun killed Tolle and when Uzumi-Sama died. "So no one else will ever have to cry again" smiled Miriallia looking at Auel, tears slowly began to form in the ends of her eyes.

"Milly…I…am sorry for what I said" Auel blushed as he looked away from the girl and shuffled his legs around.

"Thank you" smiled Milly as she got up from the stole and walked over to Auel's bed. She leaned over close to Auel's ear and began to whisper "A ZAFT/Alliance attack fleet is on its way here demanding the hand over of Lord Djibril by ORB…before the battle starts, the captain is going to let you and Neo off…unless you want to stay?" whispered Miriallia into the blue haired boys ear.

"An Allied ZAFT Alliance fleet?" asked Auel quietly looking very confused.

"While you were out, Dullindal-Gichou declared a war on the LOGOS…the ORB govt is sheltering the leader…but the other emirs are trying to get him out…a battle looks inevitable" sighed Milly as she sat down on the stool and leaned against the wall.

"Where's the pilot of Freedom?" asked Auel with a confused glance to Milly's expression.

"He went to space to help Lacus-Sama" explained Milly.

"But Lacus-Sama in on earth…she was with Dullindal-Gichou" questioned Meyrin leaning over her dinner.

"Her name is Meer Campbell, she is a Lacus Otaku who was hired by the Gichou to act the part of Lacus...to gain the support of ZAFT soldiers still loyal to the Three Ships Alliance." explained Milly.

"Oh…my head hurts" Meyrin began to scratch her head franticly as she ran the facts over in her head. "But Athrun-San had sex with her…does that mean GASP oh sweet Jesus" Meyrin covered her mouth.

"WHAT! No wonder Cagalli-san was angry at him" laughed Milly. The sweet laughter soon spread to Auel, and then to Meyrin. The three sat and laughed for a few minutes before Milly left the room to go and wash.

"Vino?...Is he the pilot of that white Zaku?" asked Auel looking at Meyrin.

"Oh no. That's Rei…he's scary…I swear he's gay…" laughed Meyrin as she stood up and walked over to Auel's bed with her tray of food.

"So who were Stellar and Sting?" asked Meyrin as she crossed her legs and sat at the end of Auel's bed.

"Stellar Lousier was the pilot of RGX-02 Gaia, Sting was the pilot of RGX 01 Chaos" explained Auel as he looked at Meyrin "They were both Extended like me…we grew up in the Londoniba Lab and were assigned to the 81st MS division known as the-" Auel was cut off by a familiar voice

"The Phantom Pain" the voice finished Auel's sentence. The voice belonged to Neo who had entered the room while Auel was talking to Meyrin.

"NEO!" Auel looked excited to see the older man.

"Yo" smiled Neo as he raised his hand and approached the bed. Neo wore an ORB officers uniform with a purple collar.

"An ORB Uniform?" asked Auel looking at the man's cloths

"Yeah. I cannot go back to the Alliance…Neo Lorrnoke. Born C.E. 49, enlisted with the Atlantic Federation in C.E. 60. Leader of the 81st MS division" Neo repeated a few facts to Auel

"So?" asked the blue haired boy scratching his wrist.

"Mu La Flaga. Born C.E. 49, Enlisted with the Atlantic Federation in C.E. 60. He went AWOL in late C.E. 71. Presumed to be killed in Action in early C.E. 72" explained Neo again. "I and genetically identical to that man…and I have been having flashes and remember things I never did…like piloting a Gundam" explained Neo as he walked over to Meyrin's bed.

"What does that mean?" Asked Auel.

"I don't know…so I will stay with the place of these memories to find out" smiled Neo "DO you want to stay as well?" asked Neo.

"I don't know…I think I might leave the military all together and become a basket ball player" Auel smiled and blushed as he reviled his dream to the duo.

"Oh a basket ball player?" smiled Meyrin.

"Yeah…Me, Sting and Stellar all played it on the John Paul Jones" smiled Auel. The group began to talk amongst them selves before Neo left to check on some arrangements and Meyrin left to see how Athrun was doing. Having no one else to talk to, Auel fell back asleep and found the answer of what he should do.

"So you want to return to the Alliance?" asked Neo looking at Auel firmly from across the bridge.

"Not really" sighed Auel as he stood at the very front of the bridge, on the deck about Neumann's station.

"Then why?" asked Murrue from her seat.

"Because I am an Extended. We are the soldiers of the Alliance…I do not fit in here…" Auel shifted his eyes away from the group assembled in front of him.

"But Auel…didn't you say you wished the fighting would stop? If you go back to the Alliance…we may fight each other" Miriallia cast Auel a friendly gaze from her screen and smiled.

"We might…but I feel as if I am being called back…Please…let me go" Auel bowed to the group and closed his eyes.

"Very well…we will ready a Heli to take you back to Washington" explained Cagalli as she looked at him.

"Thank you Daihyou…I honestly hope I never meet you on the battle field" smiled Auel as he walked off the deck and into the lift.

A few minutes later Auel walked onto the open deck of the Archangel where the Heli waited for him. Cagalli had arranged for the Heli to be unmanned so that Auel if he wished could go anywhere he pleased. Auel turned and took one last look at the ship.

"She thought much of this ship…she hopped I would do as much good as it did…I am sorry Alexia…I couldn't live up to your hopes" smiled Auel as he turned and walked over to the Heli.

"AUEL!" Meyrin came running out onto the deck in a Morgenrate uniform.

"Meyrin?" Auel looked surprised as the girl ran over to him and lunged into his chest. Auel was knocked back but kept his balance. "What are you doing here?" he asked

"Don't go. Please don't go" cried Meyrin.

"I am sorry Mey…But as I said…I am an Extended…I don't belong in ORB…not yet" Auel left Meyrin's embrace and walked into the Heli. He turned around and looked at Meyrin "I hope I live through this war…and I hope you do as well…I really would like to walk with you on a beach somewhere just for a minute or two…then I would be truly happy. Be well Meyrin Hawke" smiled Auel as the greyish blue door closed, blocking the two.

"Auel" Meyrin's eyes began to fog up as she watched the door close, Auel was going, leaving her…just like they all did.

"Im sorry" whispered Auel as he sat down in the pilots chair and turned the engines on. The Heli slowly rose up into the sky and flew off towards Washington.

Auel looked out of the window to see a massing ZAFT/EA battle group approaching ORB.

"Good luck Funchi Kung Archangel" Said Auel as he headed for Washington.

Auel's Heli approached the now costal city of Washington thanks to the craters left by the Junis 7 impact

"This is Auel Neider, 81st MS division. ID number EXTND 31s requesting permission to land" Auel sent his ID code over and over to the Earth forces.

"This is DC control. Permission granted EXTND 31s. You are cleared for landing on pad 02" replied the voice.

"Thank you" Auel steered his Heli over to the specified pad. Once he had disembarked he was taken to the commander of the Earth Forces in the Washington area. Auel entered what was the old White House. Windam units stood guard equipped with Jet Packs along side Dagger 105's with launcher or Aile systems equipped. Euclid MA's patrolled the sky's along side Spear head fighters. The blue haired boy entered the old Oval office where the commander sat and waited for him.

"81st MS division Phantom Pain's Auel Neider reporting" Auel saluted the short chubby man.

"Good, good. I am Admiral Theo Christian. I hear you have been in ORB as of late?" asked Theo as he gestured for Auel to sit.

"Yes. I was being kept on the Archangel along side Neo Lorrnoke" explained Auel.

"Neo?...please explain" Theo linking his fingers and leaned his elbows on the desk as Auel sat down in one of the leather chairs.

"Well sir-" Auel explained how the Archangel was not a formal part of the ORB military and all the info regarding the people he met except Neo's confusion about being Mu

"Interesting…Once you have rested we will be transferring you to one of our upgraded Destroy units. ZAFT is advancing on Washington. We expect them to strike when Operation Fury commences on ORB" explained Theo.

"Under stood" Auel stood up, saluted the man and left.

Auel entered his barracks and threw off his blue uniform jacket. He strode around the dark grey room for a few minutes running it all over in his head.

"AHH!" Auel ruffled his hair and then kicked off his shoes. "May as well have a shower" sighed Auel as he undressed and walked over to the bathroom. He turned on the shower and looked at himself in the mirror.

"I am Auel Neider…An Earth Alliance Extended" Auel glared into his own eyes as the steam slowly began to creep up the mirror. "I am Auel Neider…A…Earth Alliance Extended" he sighed as he opened the glass doors and stood under the belting water.

Once he had finished up in the shower he threw on a towel and walked into the barracks. To his surprise a women with long golden hair sat on his bed and looked at him. She looked around the age of 40.

"Alexia…" Auel was dumb founded. He had not seen Alexia since he left the Lab…and then he heard that it had been destroyed by ZAFT forces.

"Hello Auel…It's me…Mum" smiled the women standing up and opening her arms.

"ALEXIA!" Auel ran into his 'mothers' arms and began to cry. "Mother, Mother, Mother" he cried over and over as she brushed his head.

"It's okay now Auel" smiled the women as she kneeled down. After a few minutes Auel began to calm down enough so Alexia could ask him a few questions.

"Auel…why did you come back?" asked the women as Auel slipped on his yellow T shirt.

"I am an Extended…my place is here" nodded Auel.

"But you are also a human…and a young man…do you want to be here?" asked Alexia looking at her 'son'.

"To be honest…no…but I will still fight" nodded Auel as he slipped on the blue jacket.

"Only fight if you believe you are championing a just cause" smiled Alexia.

"But-" Auel tried to argue a point he didn't want to.

"Go back to ORB…That is where you want to be is it not?" asked Alexia standing up and walking over to the slightly shorter boy.

"Yes" smiled Auel. Alexia wrapped her arms around Auel again.

"Then go…after the Devastate training mission…you will be dispatched to the ocean near ORB…the Windams assigned to go with you are all new MD units…do not worry about destroying them" smiled Alexia.

"MD?" asked Auel looking up.

"Mobile Dolls…computer controlled units" smiled Alexia one more time before she turned to leave. "Auel…there are a few things I have to do…I will see you again" Alexia closed the door to Auel's barracks behind her and walked off to the control room.

"Living CPU ready. X2 Devastate system ready" a voice echoed through out the hanger bay.

"I am not a living CPU…I am the pilot" snapped Auel. There was nothing Auel hated more than being labelled like a piece of machinery that could be replaced, Auel was Auel, one of a kind!

"Shut up and do as we say!" snapped the control tech.

"A please wouldn't have killed you…but his might!" Auel aimed the two Positron cannons up at the control booth. The short fat doctor went as white as a sheet as Auel charged up his finger lasers. "PSYCH!" Auel shut of the positron Cannons and readied for take off.

"Well um…ready for take off?" the techie looked around the small dark control room and got the go ahead from all the other supervisors. "Good…X2 Devastate. You have GO!" yelled the tech sergeant.

"Auel Neider. Devastate DERUYOU!" the large grey unit took off and headed for the sea along side six Windams.

"X2. This is DC control, We are going to run a combat sym with you. The Windams you see are all controlled by remote. They are loaded with battle data we received from Heavens Base" explained the Techie as the instructions for the Windam came up on Auel's screen.

"Windam 01 and 02 are using the DESTINY program, Windam 03 and 04 are using the Legend program and the Windam 05 and 06 are using the Impulse program" Auel read the instructions our loud and sighed. "Oh well…it beats staying in bed" smiled Auel as he closed the visor on his light blue flight suit.

"Auel remember. FIGHT as your heart tells you. Not what the military tells you" Alexia's face appeared on one of Auel's screens.

"Alexia…thank you…now get out of there" replied Auel as he closed his eyes and took up a monotone voice.

"WHAT!" the tech sergeant's voice could be heard in the back ground followed by the clicking of guns and the firing of a gun. After the shot was fired a woman's scream could be heard piercing the air.

"ALEXIA!" Auel looked back at the black screen to his left and placed his hands on it. "ALEXIA!" he cried Alexia's face reappeared on Auel's screen, her body was covered in blood and she looked on the verge of death.

"Auel…fight as you…see fit!...Good bye" Alexia disappeared from Auel's screen.

"ALEXIA!" Auel looked up in shock. His instruments went off reading a LARGE explosion in Washington. Knowing he had no time to cry Auel activated the Scylla system and fired them at the Windams. The units using Legend and Destiny's system evaded easily, but the two Impulse Windams were shot down.

"Damn it" Auel pressed the transform button on his panel. The X2 began to change, the two sets of Positron cannons turned 180 degrees as the head piece of X2 moved back. The legs moved around giving the unit the ability to walk. "Now…we end this!" Auel fired his face laser at a Windam. The blue and red beam tore into the units left arm and took off its Jet packs wing. "GO DOWN!" Auel flipped out the two sets of Positron beam cannons. They folded out like the positron beam guns on Saviour the MS from which the idea was taken from

Auel charged up all his beam weapons 8 positron beams and 26 normal lasers and fired each of them on a different angle. The onslaught of beams succeeded in destroying the remaining units. Auel glanced at what was left of Washington and fought to hold back his tears.

"Alexia…" He slowly moved his X2 away from the field of battle and towards ORB where operation Fury was only moments away. The X2 reverted to its MA form in which its speed was more than tripled.

As his unit moved across the open Sea's Auel had a lot of time to think. X2 Devastate was to much of a dark name for his new unit…

"I know…for now on you will be known as the X2 Raze" smiled Auel as ORB came into view.

"Holy hell…" Auel looked on and saw multiple small explosions covering the land, he saw Murusame and M1 alike being torn up by the Gouf and Zaku units. Auel began to press a series of buttons and opened up a com line to the National Defence HQ of ORB.

"I am Auel Neider. Pilot of GFAS X2 Raze, ORB control…ya want a hand?" asked Auel as he locked onto the group of EA vessels with his 4 main positron beam cannons.

"This is ORB control chief officer Jona Roma Saran…if you can" begged Jona from the other end of the comlink.

"Okay. Lets rock and roll baby!" smiled Auel as he targeted a group of Babi units closing in on him.

There you all go. That's Return from the Abyss Chapter one.

YAY, Auel gets a Destroy…and I needed a name for the weird Rei look alike at Londoniaba so I used Alexia Cool ne?