A couple of days have passed as almost reach the meeting point with the other fleet. “Looks like we are going to meet them after all…” Todoka said as he sips a glass of tea that was provided at the captain’s chair. He then leans against the chair and relax for a while. A couple of minutes later on he heard the door open behind him. It was Kanata, wearing her casual dress on that time too. Everyone gets up from their seats and salutes her to give a sign of respect. “At ease people, you don’t have to be that formal all the time. Don’t mind about me for now alright, continue your work,” she said and gave a warm smile and stands near the captain’s chair while looking at the main view screen. The others sat down and start to do their work again after hearing what she said. “Are you alright with this Kanata? For me to handle all the things here…” Todoka asked while continues to sips some tea. She nodded and gave a reply, “Yup it’s alright, you don’t have to worry about me. I want to see how to manage it first before I start to handle the commands my own after this. Besides the only person who has these kinds of experience would be you, Kira and Athrun.”
“Captain, we receive and incoming message… It’s from the 3rd and 4th Division Defense Fleet!” Kanata was happy to hear that the other defense fleet from the other colony was alright. “Alright open the channel” Todoka said to the communication officer. She nodded and opens the channel.
“T-This… is an emergency…! We are under attack…by unknown vessel… a couple of our defense fleet has been…damage… We’re not…sure how long we can’t last…”
“How far are we with them?” he asked the helm officer that in charge at the moment. “About 2 minutes from the place. It’s not far from here. What’s the order Sir?” That moment was a bit silent thinking on what to do. Looking at Kanata, Todoka decided to go and help the others and everyone in the bridge agrees. “Alright then, all hands… Battle Stations! Tell the Murasame Units, Kira and Athrun to get ready.” Todoka said to them to relay the message to the others.
Upon the arrival, the Kusanagi and the 2nd Division Defense Fleet is far from the range of the enemy scanners and Todoka decided to have 5 Cruisers and 4 Heavy Cruisers to escort them with a couple numbers of fighters. He didn’t want the others to involve or they might get into much trouble if the enemy spot a massive fleet coming in. In an open channel to the fleet, Todoka gave the order “Alright, the Kusanagi will go on the intercept course, the Hikari and Yamato will defend from the side. Kira, Athrun, we are counting on you for this one. Disable the enemy fleet so that we could have fewer casualties. Alright let’s move out!” The small task force starts to move to intercept with the enemy fleet.
As the enemy spotted the Kusanagi and the other fleet that is defending it, the enemy cruisers starts to open fire on them as the fighters moves for an intercept course. The shot was missed as the fleet evades the attack. With a counter-attack they start to fire back at them and it was a hit but didn’t have any effects due to the shields. The enemy fighters move swiftly and start to fire on the Kusanagi and the other defense fleet. After a while the Murasame fleet, command by Kira and Athrun starts to move out and give a heavy beating to them. Although it was 1/3 ratio of the numbers of fighters between the enemy and what they have, they were able to fend them off with minimal casualties. One by one the enemy fighters were taken down. As all the fighters were wiped out the Kusanagi continues to move forward on an intercept course with the other defense fleet, suddenly the enemy fleet shoots out some flares to the dark space and moves off from the place. “Guess that does it then. Maria, contact the other fleet and tell them that we are moving out soon after repairs are done,” Todoka said as he sighs with relief. He was glad as that everything turned up alright. Kanata, still beside the captain’s chair, was happy to see the others survived from the attacks. She then exited the bridge and walks trough the corridor of the Kusanagi passing a couple of rows of windows. As usual, she stops for a while and look outside to see the beautiful stars.
After a couple of hours the repairs are made, they are ready to get moving again. Now with quite a number of ships available, it would be much safer to move to a new place.
Now the journey continues to find a new place to live in…
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