The Meeting at the Pier

[Sven Cal Bayan]

Sven looked above as he saw the captain jumped off. "It does make sense and Stellar could keep watch of our mobile suits," he replied. Sven thought for a moment. "Sir, you know they are going to ask us about the Artemis encounter as well the Armory One incident. Are you sure you know what you are doing?" he asked.

[Eric R. Takemura]

"I know, and we'll deal with that matter if it does come up." Eric told Sven then he turned around and looked at his Strike for a moment and then looked at the Minerva.

[Kira Yamato]

Kira led the way down the ramp with Shinya and Sakurai following him. The first thing he saw was Gail Strike and Strike Noir. He then saw the blonde captain as well as a pilot who had silver hair. He walked up to the two Alliance members and smiled.

"Hello, I'm Commander Kira Yamato and these are my pilots, Shinya Tanaka and Sakurai Honoka," he said.

[Akitsuki Yamato]

Shinya stood behind Kira as he saw the damaged Gail Strike and Strike Noir. He then looked at the blonde hair captain as well as the Silver-haired pilot.

[Sakurai Honoka]

Sakurai touched the side of her head as the wind blew against her face. She looked at Shinya, then Kira. She also looked at the two pilots wondering what was going to happened next.

[Eric R. Takemura]

Eric remembered the name Kira Yamato since he met him during the failed assassination attempt of ZAFT's chairwoman. "Its been awhile Commander Yamato, I'm Captain Eric Takemura, and this is 2nd Lt. Sven Cal Bayan." Eric said to Kira he remembered that Kira wanted to talk to him about the Artemis encounter. "Did you want to talk about what happened in Space?" Eric asked since he wanted to get straight to the point.

[Kira Yamato]

Kira immediately remembered the young captain during the first time they met after the failed attemtp on Lacus' life. "Yes, I remember you now, but I have not see any of your other pilots," replied Kira hinting Eric that he knew there were others that are not with Eric.

Kira briefly looked at Minerva then looked at Eric. "Moments after the failed attempt on taking Lacus' life Shinya and I defended the base. However there were reports that the Gaia, Wing Zero, and Destiny Impulse were stolen. It is clear that those units were stolen by the terrorists which we fought at Artemis with the EXCEPTION of Gaia which was fighting yet again for Earth Alliance. Kira remembered Gaia appearing again at Armory One. "Did you have one of your men steal that unit?" asked Kira.

[Eric R. Takemura]

Eric knew he had to lie about taking the Gaia since he has Stellar piloting it. "I'm sorry Commander my unit was not the ones that took the Gaia, but I know one of the pilots that took your Destiny Impulse. Eric was hoping that Kira would be curious about that last part he said since he does know who stolen the Destiny Impulse Gundam.

[Kira Yamato]

Kira had some doubts about Eric's replies, but when he learned that he knew the identity of one of the pilots, he had to ask. "FAITH member Shinya saw a female setting an explosive charge on the golden astray amatu, but that is what we know so far. Who is that pilot of the Destiny Impulse?" he asked.

[Sakurai Honoka]

Immediately after Kira and Eric were talking about Destiny Impulse Sakurai had a brief flash back fighting that mobile suit. She too, wanted to know the identity of the pilot.

[Eric R. Takemura]

Eric then remember his conversation with Yumi after she damaged his Gail Strike. "Her name is Yumi Ishikawa, she lost both her parents and brother because of the two wars that came to ORB, and she was like a sister to me when I was growing up here in ORB." Eric then had a flashback of when Yumi said that Eric was still Eric and not his father before she left for the Stolen ZAFT ship.

[Akitsuki Yamato]

"Yumi?!" exclaimed Shinya. He suddenly had a flashback of the girl he met at ORB Memorial. Shinya then explained to everyone that he met a girl while visiting ORB memorial and her name was Yumi Ishikawa. He also mentioned that the girl he saw setting explosives was indeed Yumi.

Shinya was surprised to learn that the girl he had dinner with was the enemy all along.

[Sakurai Honoka]

Sakurai heard Shinya said he had dinner with that girl. She didn't want to let everyone know how she felt at the moment. When hearing about the Yumi, she suddenly remembered that girl. She was the one that pointed the gun at Shinya and then at her.

[Eric R. Takemura]

Eric could tell something was bothering Kira's two pilots but he didn't want to ask them since he was thinking about the Stolen X304 Kyrios since he did damaged it in the battle before Yumi sliced off his Gail Strike's left arm.

[Akitsuki Yamato]

Shinya also wanted to say something to the captain. "Tell me, what is Phantom Pain's business in ORB and do you know anything about what happed in Artemis ruins. We fought Earth Alliance mobile suits." he asked. Shinya remembered meeting the young captain in the attack of Armory One.