Meanwhile on an unmarked island...

Selena Oliver sat in her chair as she looked out the window towards the ocean where the small port used by the mercenaries, if you call this makeshift hole a port, and wondered how much longer it'd take OMNI to actually find out about what was really going on here. No matter how hard she tried to shake the feeling she couldn't help but feel that they were literally just inches away from her. In truth this was grossly wrong and she knew OMNI had no idea where to start looking for them as this place had top secret ZAFT equipment on it in the form of the G.U.N.D.A.M class suits Raider, Forbidden, Buster, and Red Astray as of now. They had failed to capture not only Calamity....for that she blamed herself....but also they had lost Strike, Duel, Aegis, and all the others. Hell they had even lost their commander. The team wasn't exactly all the fond of their new situation either. They had lost their leader....their BOSS. Captain Carson was their leader and he was killed by an enemy pilot. Selena watched carefully as Kai paced outside and kicked the sand occasionally. He had taken the loss especially hard seeing as he was personally close to Carson. Lyon....Lyon was himself as he usually was though it was a front partially for his disbelief and anger about how Commander Tyber had refused to let them choose their new commander from between themselves. Kai nearly cursed out Tyber and that was never any good. Commander Tyber....'why was he so calm about this?' Selena asked herself mentally as she got up from her seat as a black man and an Arabian man walked through the back door. "Can I help you soldiers?" asked Selena patiently as she looked at the men. "Aye the Commander wants to see you three. Lyon is already there. These damn mercenaries wouldn't know how to maintain this place if it shot them upside the head with the instructions." the black man said impatiently. Both of these men weren't 'mercenaries' or 'pirates' as ZAFT wanted them to be. They were ZAFT soldiers marshaled from Africa and the conflict in cultures was really taking a toll here. Intolerance cultures here on Earth was such a pain in the ass to deal with. Up in space you didn't need to deal with this. "Hey Kai we're moving out! Meet us by the mobile suit area in the middle of the island. It's important." Selena casually shouted towards Kai as the man grumbled something back at her as she lead her way out of the door and with the men towards the base in the middle of the island. As she walked she casually looked at all of the ZAFT soldiers arming themselves and preparing the mobile suits to be used or scrapped into the ocean to avoid showing this island was used as the planning base. The Commander had said that this place was used by pirates back in the day and was abandoned way before he great great great grandmother was born. All she knew now was that this place was the one place she didn't want to be at.

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At the ship:

Mizawa brazenly entered the hanger area and was oddly enough smiling, "Good news everyone....the Chinese are sending aid to us and should be here within ten hours. Meaning that if this search gets out of hand and lasts for a ungodly amount of time then we have one thing we can fall back on. With the Chinese's help we should be able to quickly and efficiently find these bastards. How kind it is of me to come and inform you all of this." Mizawa said proudly as Kaiser walked up to Mizawa, "How is this good news the Chinese are horrid people and are barely affiliated with OMNI. If it wasn't for Mongolia being OMNI affiliated the Chinese wouldn't have any part of this and they'd probably side with ZAFT." Kaiser complained to Mizawa who chuckled as he watched Richard exit Calamity, "Got a complaint too boy?" asked Mizawa as Richard walked up, "No I don't have a problem with it...besides the fact that the Chinese are ruthless bastards. Their history should prove that much. What if they take the suits for themselves?" Richard asked Mizawa who chuckled, "Simple....we kill them." Mizawa said as if it were the time of the day that he was asked for, "Cold and brutal we don't need a world war right now and the Chinese know that. Siding with ZAFT would lose them half their nation because more than half aren't rich enough to pay for coordinators to do what they do for their babies. Besides there's way to many of them anyways." Mizawa said as if it were the plain truth which made Richard curb his tongue and vomit a bit in his mouth.