While the majority of the room rolled their eyes at the speech given by the girl, as if it wasn't clear she'd be dead if they wanted to kill her by now, and ignored it, it was Paul who spoke up in a deceptively calm tone. "You're [i]so[/i] self confident in your own ideals that person murders just for his own beliefs. I refute that. A person's character is revealed by how they choose to react to something. The allies you fought for today...they threw their lives away for a cause bigger than their own. Their leaders ran instead of dying with them. What did I do? I hunkered down took a sword in my hands and tried to parry a beam shot at me in the hopes that I could save one of my enemies because I felt she deserved that chance It was a futile gesture but I did it. And I did it because I believe everyone deserves a chance. Stella was in an OMNI suit yes but she was clearly afraid and unsure. An enemy who questions their motives is a man who can be turned.

"Yes we attacked you today but a handful of days ago Angelo was the aggressor towards us. To make it clear we have fought a Neo-Zeon group before. A man named Glemy Toto... His men attacked Puru for leaving, we attacked them in return to help a young girl, and two strangers survive. We killed them and lost a possible ally in return. A couple days later, Angelo found us scavenging the materials from the battle later instead of letting them go to waste, and worst of all he turned on his own soldier, Stella Loussier, as soon as she started to doubt what was going on. And despite that Stella still asked the enemy soldiers to stand down. You're character is in question here: You rant and rave about ideology and what makes us kill. You have some point but you're also just as flawed as we are. We're a group of protectors who fight people who seek to harm our homes. That is our charge as OMNI Enforcer. We fight to protect people. Our politics may be called into question indeed. But we all signed up for one reason or another but the majority of us here know what we are and we don't question why we do it unless the orders in question are insane. It is a simple thing we asked of you no matter how ludicrous it was: apology, even if it is insincere, was it so much to ask?"
"Perhaps I am being a hypocrite as I hate ZAFT as much as anyone due to the losses they gave me in the pass, the things they stole from me personally. But this isn't about me. This is about Puru and while she may be young and ill experienced you're no more mature then her. You mock her for feeling anger at the destruction of her weapons? Be mad at [b]ME[/b] then you little witch. I'm the second in command and I am the one who gave Puru the orders to fight in that battle. She wouldn't have even thought about attacking anyone without reason. Unlike me and you...we kill without question. Puru is a girl whom I can see is not comfortable with just doing what she is told. I barely know her but her attitude screams: I feel strongly about things."

"On the subject of orders... Jason may be the head but I'm the neck. I'm the one who is to blame for this whole situation. I'll prove it to you. You questioned if we are willing kill you now?" Paul said as he pulled out his pistol as the room tensed and he simply aimed it at Reve, "I could do so. Right now. No one would blame me and we'd drag your body out and dump it in the dirt out there. But I don't want to unless you make me. This is my ship. This is my home and I don't hurt guests in my home unless I have to. And you...you're a guest here at the moment but even guests have limits. Believe me I have so much blood on my hands already killing you like this would just be a another drop in the bucket for me. There's a reason I pilot a gundam. A mere twenty some year old soldier piloting a experimental super suit. Don't get me wrong I don't enjoy killing. However I have killed so many people for the countries that I serve...for politics that I have no say in. So know this: I don't view myself as some...hero or whatever you think I think I am. I-I am a shield who does whatever he will in order to protect what he needs to protect. Now I ask you this: Knowing that I could kill you at any moment I choose to why do you think Captain Jason gave you food? Why do you think we didn't shoot you as soon as you exited you cockpit? The answer i believe is simple: It's a matter of practicality. If you want to survive here...if WE want to survive here we need help. We need people like you to work with us now. No matter how much it hurts to admit it that gundam of yours is DNA locked isn't it? We can't use it for anything other than scrap metal and we don't want to give it to some enemy to get. It'd be a waste. If you'd rather drop ship and go run free to Angelo's broke little excuse for a ship then do so. However we have shelter, food, soldiers, well trained officers, and repairmen to fix your suit. We are willing to give you these in exchange for your help/ Will you serve under the flag of a group that is so foreign to you like Graham Aker? Or will you take your chances in the wastes? Pick now. I'm overriding the Captain on this one and I'm sure he can't say much either because from what I can tell since no one has interrupted me that they understand what I am doing. You work with us or you work for yourself. There is no conscription offer here. You can't be one of us but you can work with us. Just take my offer or leave." Paul said firm and defensive. He stopped talking though and breathed in heavily. "Well at least you're not one to mince words Gundam I can respect that. But I think you came off a little to hard." Graham said to Paul as Puru eyed Reve uncertainly. She didn't expect Paul to defend her like this it was clear enough to see as her eyes lost some of that rage in them.