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Chapter 10

"Seems like we're in for more of a battle then I thought," Sam stated as she glanced around at the battle going on all around her and the others. She moved inside her gundam's pilot chair uncomfortably, she noticed everything around her at the moment, from the itch caused by her hair to the beat of her heart racing.

"Scared now?" came the drawling voice of Yzak through the communicator as the Duel sped off to enter the fray without a hesitation.

She ignored him and headed off in a different direction to another part of the battle. The Mystic pulled out two laser swords as it started to cut down it's opponents, though it dodged the many blast from the weaker battle engines.

"Yzak, we're here to fight the enemy, not each other," Dearka spoke up finally, as the Buster also entered the battle, attacking the weaker units first.

"Yea, yea," Yzak replied as he went back to battling.

The group was outnumbered by many vessels, though it seemed that only the weaker ones had taken to fighting first. The enemies plan seemed to be trying to tire the others out before sending out the better teams, but that was not working. To the team of ZAFT, it was more of a warm up, after all Coordinators were hard to slow down when they needed to fight. The Blitzkrieg, Blitz and Aegis were in battle as well, each attempting to strike down as many enemy units as possible. The Blitz used it's Mirage Colloid ability to become invisible, and attack the unaware enemy units. The Aegis to wasn't having any problems yet, though it seemed that the amount of opponents seemed to be increasing and not decreasing.

"Damn," Rebel spat as he was attacked by several enemies at once. His gundam sped out of the danger zone, though he was followed by several other battle ships.

"Rebel.." Estelle whispered as she watched the battle on the screen as he was doing. She was behind his seat, holding on as the ride became bumpier then she anticipated.

"Don't worry Estelle," Rebel said as he finally lost the units that were tailing him, and headed to fight a couple others instead. This time the element of surprise was on his side. The Blitzkrieg zoomed around many of it's targets, bringing them down as they fired at him. Rebel reached for a gear but his gundam was rammed from the left. It happened in mere seconds, his arm caught around the gear, he was pulled in the opposite direction and... Crack. The noise seemed to echo inside the small cockpit.

"Rebel!" Estelle gasped, knowing all to well what happened.

Rebel looked to his arm, it was twinging with pain, though it was as limp as a soggy rolled up news paper. He cursed under his breath, as another enemy unit blasted his gundam. Rebel felt his head smack hard against the side of the cockpit and stars floated around in front of his eyes. "You O.K Estelle?" he asked, making sure she was alright first.

"Yea, but Rebel...?" she asked, more concerned about him then she was with herself. She managed to hang on, not receiving any injuries herself.

"I'm fine," he stated looking back to the battle.

The battle field was thinning out, but now the stronger units were flown in. It included some odd gundam like machines and a couple of fighter planes. The Duel and Buster were doing well, the two had taken to one area, and they blocked for one another just as well. The Blitz would reappear and disappear when it needed to help fight or defend the Vesalius. The Aegis and Mystic were flying back and forth, each blasting and defending themselves when they needed.

Sam was looking around the battlefield as she soared past and dodged some fighter planes. She looked to her comrades, she'd seen the Duel and Buster, they were fine, Aegis and Blitz were doing alright as well, but the Blitzkrieg had taken a few hits. "Rebel, are you alright?" she asked as she tapped the communicator button.

"Yea, just a bump," he replied, not mentioning his arm or the fact that e was seeing stars.

"Alright..." Sam replied as well, though she though his voice sounded a little distant to her. She sighed deeply as her gundam gave a shake. "What the!" she yelled, turning the Gundam to face it's opponent, but all she seen was a green blast heading her direction, she pulled the Mystic to the right, but the blast still hit. Sam screamed, though it was unheard by anyone but herself.

"Sam!" Athrun yelled as he seen the left of the Mystic get hit, pieces of the metal flying and disappearing in the darkness of space.

Estelle gasped as her hang covered her mouth as she watched the Mystic as well. Rebel shook his head, he seen what happened, but it seemed to only add to the confusing he was sensing as well.

The Duel and Buster seemed to have paused, both were facing the direction of the Mystic as well. The gundam had shut off, you could tell as all the lights from it had shut off. The Aegis flew towards it, pushing off it's opponents with quick blast from it's gun. The Duel and Buster were now also back to battling, though this time the fighting had more effect. The amount of enemies diminished as the battle became dirtier.

"Team, time to pull back!" came the voice of the Vesalius captain.

The Blitz, Duel and Buster headed back blasting the enemy units in their way. Only the Blitzkrieg and Aegis were left outside with the broken up Mystic. The Aegis hooked on to the Mystic and headed back with it in tow, though the way wasn't easy. A couple remaining battle planes attacked, shooting at the Aegis, causing some explosions on the surface of the red gundam. The Blitzkrieg fought them off until the Aegis got inside with the Mystic, the enemies had pulled back as well. At last, the Blitzkrieg re-entered the Vesalius' hanger.

Yzak, Dearka and Nicol had already exited their gundam's each had their helmets off and were watching as mechanics and other tried to find an opening to the Mystic's cockpit. Athrun was lowering from the Aegis' cockpit as well. He pulled off his helmet, and he was unsteady on his feet. The blast from the last fighter planes had sent sparks up inside his cockpit, causing burn marks on his pilot suit, he also had been bumped around a little.

The last to get out of his gundam was Rebel, who was followed by Estelle. The others hadn't noticed, as they continued to wait for some sort of sign from the Mystic. Rebel and Estelle joined the group as they continued to watch the mechanics work. "Athrun you O.K?" Estelle asked as she approached him.

"Just a couple burns," he replied looking to Estelle for a moment, but soon returning his attention to the Mystic as the cockpit had finally been opened. The group couldn't see what was happening as a few men were now undoing the seatbelt inside the Mystic, pulling the pilot free.