((ROFL! Nice joke. That's funny.)) Heero responded with another shot of the cannon. ((And hey, if you saw phase 45, I belive it was, maybe 46, then you'd know that you can lose your head just like that. Kira was rushing towards Flay's pod, and his head just went BOOM!)) Heero ejected the booster pack, put his cannon back in place, and with his right hand, grabbed a vulcan gun. He pulled out a shoulder mount, and placed it on the Peace's left shoulder. Heero attached the vulcan gun, and took apart his beam sabers, and placed them on the Peace's back. The cannon dismounted, and Heero had a plan.

((Yeah, but that was long into the fight. And you've already lost yours after my first attack :p ))

Canaan, now in the air, rushed in to take a swing with the Faith's beam saber.

((Well it was in the midst of a big battle, but he wasn't really engaged in a battle. They just fired off his head.)) The Peace had already ejectedd all it's weapon system. The Peace grabbed the cannon, and used it to dodge the attack by fireing it away from the attack. The Peace started attaching some of the weapons onto the cannon, it was now a mega cannon. Now for the hard part, takeing the 5 minute transformation to mobile weapon mode, and fuse with the cannon.

"Just what are you up to, Heero?" Canaan said to himself. He fired his shoulder mounted railguns at the Peace.

The Peace split into pieces, and started to from with the gun. "You'll just have to find out!" The arms started attaching to the cannon. One minute was up.

"Not if I can help it." Canaan tranformed the beam rifle into a plasma chain gun. "Eat this!" He fired an infinite stream of rays at the Peace.

"Damn you Canaan!" the parts moved around to try to avoid the bullets. The head that was knocked off was right behind the Faith. The face mounted vulcans opened fire. "That should buy me some time..." Heero siad to himself.

Canaan promptly side-steped out of the way. "Ha!" He said arrogantly, until there was an explosion behind him. It rocked the Faith around for a few moments.
"Grrr," Canaan mumbled, as he stabilized the Faith. "Clever. You always were the creative one. But can you do this!?" The Faith reached for its backside, and it got out two beam boomerangs. Canaan activated them, and flung both of them at Heero.

"Great... Just a minute left untill I can fire." ne of the Peace's arm picked up a drifting beam saber and threw it towards one of the beam sabers. Heero did the same with the other. "Just a few more seconds..."

"Hmm..." Canaan thought, and he got out the Faith's electrical whip. "Alright," Canaan said, and slashed it down towards the Peace.

The cannon was ready and was about to fire, to late. The whip was binding it together. "Alright Canaan, you won. Now finish it!" Heero said, ready to die. It would be a sad death, especilly since his friend was who killed him.

"Heh..." The cannon fired... It was a gaint beam that went burning through anything it touched. It would turn a Mobile SUit into ashes in minutes.

The beam obliterated the Faith's electrical whip.
"What the..." Canaan said, as the beam headed rapidly towards him. But he didn't get the chance to finish. The beam shot past, ripping through the ruined city behind him. When the beam cleared, the Faith Gundam was gone.

"Where are you Canaan!?" ((Yay, I just saw phase 48 :D. Why the heck is the Rogue PINK!?)) Heero looked around. "No matter, he ran away. I guess this means we are, and always will be till the end of this war, enemies." The Peace started converting back to normal. "Remains of the Faith's whip... He isn't dead, is he?"

((Because Cagalli is badass))
((And whatever you do, DON'T miss Phase 49 :o ))
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Canaan deactivated the Faith's Mirage Colloid. It appeared behind the Peace Gundam.
"Nope." The Faith was visibly burned, yet Canaan was able to get out of the way of the Peace's beam and activate his Mirage Colloid at the same time. His SEED activated just before the beam completely engulfed him. The Faith attempted to kick the Peace from behind.

"What the..." The gundam rocked alittle. "Mirage Colloid..." The Peace took out a Beam Scythe. "My last weapon..." It held it frimly "YOU WON"T KILL ME!" The SEED activated.

"JUST TRY ME!" The berserked Canaan rushed in with the Faith, dual blue beam sabers activated. "HEEEEEEERROOO!!!" The fateful battle, and the clash of the titans was at hand.

Heero slashed the Peaces' scythe side ways, attempting to cut off the head of the Faith.

Canaan parried the slash with the Faith's left beam saber, and did an upward slash with the right mean saber to try and dismember the Peace's left arm.

The peace's left arm bent, causeing the saber to hit the shield. The Peace flew back, and spun the scythe around.

The Faith backfliped out of the way. It had lost the right beam saber when it collided with the Peace's shield.

((Gundam Death Scythe move comeing up here. :D)) The Peaces' wings folded up in front, and the Peace vanished. Only to appear behind the Faith and slash with its scythe.

The slash hit the Faith at its center wings. Canaan had to boost forward to get away and turn around.
"Grrrr...." Canaan growled. The Faith came alive and activated its energy wings (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y96/Derc/Gundam/f057a870.gif), and rushed forward for one final attack.

((Kinda Baten Kaitosish :D)) Heero tried to move, but he couldn't. The Peaces' schythe was stuck in a piece of Junius 7. He tugged and pulled and yanked. He had to get it our or it was over, he knew that the Faith only used its Energy WIngs when it was about to use its final attack.

As he rushed forward, the Faith lifted its right arm, and its palm aimed in the Peace's direction. Particle effects started to charge in front if the hand. He was going to fire.

Memories of his family started flooding into Canaan.

"For ZAFT." He fired the Lohengrin beam.

"Alright, I never thought YOU of all people would be the one killing me. Just remember, the Earth Allience has to die 10 times worse then this, you know, for ZAFT." Heero have a ZAFT salute, knowing the Scythe wasn't going anywhere, the beam came rushing towards him.

Just as he fired, Canaan moved the direction of the shot to just miss the Peace.

He stopped. The realization hit him.
"No...." he said as he backed off. "I....can't do this. What am I doing?" Canaan looked at his hands. They were stained in blood, the blood from all the enemies he killed. He didn't want to add Heero's to it. He deactivated that Faith's energy wings. The Phase Shift armor also deactivated. Canaan shook his head and closed his eyes. "Why I doing this? WHHYYYY!?" He knew Heero had won. Not physically, but mentally. Canaan joined ZAFT as a result of the Bloody Valentine. He killed every EA enemy who oppsed him. Or, at least any enemy who had oppsed him. But...did that mean having to kill Heero too? Heero's words rushed back into Canaan:

You can still protect ZAFT as one of us, you can still hate the E A with all your soul, and if avengeing your parents is why you joined ZAFT, they why are you still with the murderous villains when you could be with us?

If Genissis is fired at earth, how is that better then the E A?

He was right. Canaan always knew Heero was right all along. Tears watered his eyes, and he sobbed quietly.

Heero was confused, he thought he was dead, but the shot missed. Heero knew it wasn't like Canaan to miss a shot on accident. He knew something was up. Canaan had spared him. Heero open his cock pit. He wanted to see Canaan in the flesh, nto on a monitor or in his Gundam.

Canaan opened his eyes to see that the Peace had opened its cockpit. He opened the helmet's glass visor to wipe away his tears. He regained his composure, and he, too opened up the Faith's cockpit.

"Why did you stop? Why didnt you kill me?" Heero stared at the wreckage. "We did alot of damage to each other. This reapirs will be very costly."

Canaan gave a chuckle. "You do all all that talking and all you're concerned about is costs for repairs?" Then he paused for a moment. "I...didn't want to kill you. I couldn't. Enough blood has been shed. I...wanna stop this war too, Heero. You've shown me that. Thank you. But, I can't join your crusade."

"It's alright, I understand. Good luck with ZAFT. Just try not to kill me next time we are in a battle. I don't know if I'll be able to get back to the ship. My booster pack is ruined."

"I'm sorry about that, but I'm sure you'll figure something out." Canaan said. "Heero, come back to ZAFT with me, I'm sure they'll accept you back!"

"I don't know, how can you be sure? I did after all steal their Proto Type Mobile Suit. And it is true, I don't have many friends back there. I'd rather be with one friend and be hated, then be with no friends. " Heero had o think hard. "Well, if they don't accept me back then no loss, but if they do... I guess I'll go back. Or atleast try." ((Heero may very well be the first mobile suit pilot to abandond their factio nand go back. o_O))

((LOL I wasn't expecting you to say yes, especially since all you've been doing this whole time was trying to recruit me into the Clyne Faction, calling ZAFT the "murderous villains." :p))
((Hold on I'm playing around with two options(possibly a third that involves both) on what happens next; this was unexpected...EDIT: Ack! Typos...))

((I know. :p So if this scenerio doesn't work, we can always switch to another one.))

"I'm sure they'll accept you back." Canaan gave out a sigh of relief. "You're making the right decision." He moved the Faith towards the Peace. "Need a hand?" He had the Faith reach out for the Peace.

"Yeah, this old thing isn't going anywhere. I just hope they don't accept me back just so they can get the Peace."

"I'll make sure they don't." The Faith grabbed the Peace's arm, and Canaan activated the boosters. Before he left with Heero, he gave a ZAFT salute to the ruins of Junius 7. "We'll be fine Heero," he assured him. "I hope."

Unfortuneatly, Heero wouldn't be with ZAFT for long. He was going back to attempt to defend the plants. He wants to make sure they don't go down. Noone told him to do this, he is doing this by his own free will. For the first month he'll be a regular ZAFT soldior. In the next few weeks he'd be planting in those defense mechanisms, outside defences in his mobile suit, other things inside. He had to complete his mission.

((Uhhhh...huh? :confused: I guess we already arrived back at ZAFT and the PLANTs then, and you decided to go your own way. Or maybe you'll just planning ahead...))
((I can continue from where we left off, or we can skip one month into the future.))

((I'm just planning ahead, that is what Heero is GOING to do once he is back with ZAFT. AFter that one month he will start planting stuff. We aren't going to skip that whole month. Unless you want to.))

((I guess we can continue from where we left off...and make it continous.))

As they approached the Visinger, Canaan opened the comlink to the Peace.
"Heero, I think I should do all the talking. I'll defend you. But, I don't know what to say to them about your defection. What DID you do when you changed sides?"

"Right. Let's see, I destroyed a few buildings in the plants, I stole the Peace. I killed 5 ZAFT soldiors, and I think that's it. Maybe it was 7 soldiors..."

"WHAT!?" Canaan said shockingly. He paused to think for a moment. "Well, this could get tricky. They could accept you back, or they'll charge you for treason and execute you. If they do accept, I think the worst thing that could happen is that you'll get demoted. And that IF put in a good word." Just then he received a transmission from the Visinger.

"Captain Zabaac, where the hell've you been!? Do you know the consequences for leaving without consent? And what do you have with you?"
"I take responsibility for my leave. However, I received a distress signaled from an old friend. The Peace Gundam."
"The Peace? But it was stolen! What of the pilot?"
Canaan paused to choose his words carefully.
"The pilot is a ZAFT elite, under my command now."
"Captain Zabaac, proceed back to PLANT with that traitor immediately, and report to the Council." It didn't go as he had hoped, but it wasn't as bad either.
"Understood. Canaan Zabaac out." He turned the tramsmission over to Heero. "Well, Heero, I guess they do know about your...past actions. But it could've been worse," he said. "We're going to PLANT now, is that still okay with you?"

"Yeah. Well if they execute me, well then, oh well. If they don't, then Liutenet Lekosh is back. Wow, I only left the plants about a month ago, and it seems like I haven't been there in forever."

The PLANTs. They were the hourglass shaped homes of the coordinators. Canaan docked at the L4 PLANT Armory one, and got out of the Faith.
"Well, Heero, you should remember this place well. I think this was the armory where you stole the Peace." Coincidentally, the Faith was in another armory nearby at the time. "We should make our way to HQ now and report to the higher-ups. The mechanics here, in the meantime, will do the repairs."

"Alright, I just hope they don't ruin my OS. So, who do you have in a mind? Because the closer you are to that higher rank, the more chance I have of my butt being saved." Heero looked around. "The exact spot where I stole the Peace..."

"We'll be meeting with Commander Yuki. You remember him right?" Canaan said as he walked out of the hanger. They were to take a ZAFT jeep to the military headquarters.

"Yeah." Heero said jumping in the jeep. He looked back at the Peace. He just noticed, he still had his flight suit on. "I don't really remember my way around the PLANT main base, direct me to the locker room once we get there, I have to get my old ZAFT uniform on."