Alex said " Dad thank you for taking care of safe and secret delivery of the Maws and pseudo GN drives in my place."
James said " What are you saying thanks for son this is for our family's future and don't think you have to shoulder all the hard things by yourself just because you are a coordinator. I your dad might not have your coordinator like super brain but my experience and age allowed me to learn and do many things."
After that Alex and his family had some simple time watching movies and talking about interesting things till night when his mother went to the kitchen to prepare dinner with the help of the nanny. After dinner the family sent some more time playing simple games before going to rest for the day.
Early next morning James and Alex had their breakfast and left the villa to get to the shuttle parked near mass driver. So that they can go to space with the help of mass driver and link up with the Nelson class battleship of their company.
During their driver James told Alex he would arrange some bodyguards to go with him to Heliopolis but Alex rejected it on the basis that it would be inconvenient for him to do things with bodyguards following everywhere.
After a few minutes they reached the mass driver dock area and find their shuttle being prepared to be moved to the mass driver so they get into the shuttle and put on a space suite for safety and sit in the seat and secure themselves and wait for the shuttle to be moved to the mass driver . Which will be done under the careful supervision of their pilots.
After some time the shuttle is ready and they take off with the help of mass driver's electromagnetic force accelerating them. A few mins later they joined the Nelson Class battleship get to the bridge and stay with the bridge crew for some time to confirm if the booster prepared for the Nelson are good enough for high speed journey to reach Junius 7 so that they can reach there in a less than a day and not in 3 or 4 days of regular travel time. Cause if we go by normal time we would be shot dead by the enraged plant coordinators when they see a earth alliance ship as they won't even ask you if you are private ship at that time of their grief.
Plants Junius 7 early morning 13th FEB C.E 70
Finally we got in here before this place is blown to hell. i had the Maws begin reconstruction of the shuttle immediately after we left and to be safe i had one Maw physically link to the monitoring cable to adjust the so they won't find any sounds or sparks coming from the shuttle. when we went inside we booked a hotel on the other side then they went to the research facility with his father taking the lead and him acting as if he is learning everything . Because James was a father of coordinator they didn't doubt are discriminate against him thinking as a forward thinker and his business ability and recent advanced products and increase in capital also help.
After a simple look around they meet with Lenore who is one of the lead researcher to talk about and understand in detail about the space food research and what kind of cooperation can be made with their current abilities of the company and plants.
Lenore talks to James about what kind of a cooperative research can be made together after a lot of discussion they can't come to a common ground so they decide to try tomorrow.
Alex and James go to take rest for the day. Alex uses the remote monitoring to confirm the old thrusters are already removed and kept at the modified ejection bay made special to drop the Maw from above Jupiter's atmosphere without entering it and the refitting of the GN drives will be done by the morning he also checked again everything in the flight path programming to see if the shuttle can leave without ever being noticed by anyone. He also made the Maw's drive to lower space than the plants floating area after launch so that they don't get noticed. And the thruster will left in the dock after the battle begins before leaving to create the impression of the shuttle's destruction.
The next day by the time of breakfast they receive the news of earth alliance presence near plants before they go to the research facilities. Alex after having his father arrange for the spare shuttle to reach just before the earth alliance attacks they went to the research facility at Alex's suggestion.
James ask " Son why are we going to the research facility according to your prediction this place will become a war zone and we are going to use the time when they attack the docks to secretly ship the shuttle out . So shouldn't go to the dock where the spare shuttle will dock to escape soon ."
Alex responds " Dad i didn't say the earth alliance could attack the docks. if they really did that it would be impossible for our shuttle to leave unnoticed as the GN particles disrupts electronics. Besides do you think can get past the MS GINN's around ? So the only thing those crazies in blue cosmos could do at that is to nuke this colony don't under estimate their craziness. "
James is even more shocked now and also ask worriedly " Then son why aren't we running now with such a big danger around ?"
Alex reply's " After thinking about it for a while i thought we should save Lenore Zala as i feel if she dies Patrick Zala would go insane and do anything to destroy all natural which is something we don't want. A sane supremacist Patrick is many times better than an insane Patrick so we are going to the research facility. While there convince her of how you feel safer in the Nelson class battleship for the further cooperation discussion as you feel the earth alliance battle could effect the colony and you want to be able to not be affected by the battle. And say that although our battleship is also a battleship it is mark with our company's information as plants already know of it's presence they won't attack it and earth alliance will also be careful of attacking our companies battleship and so as to not risk unnecessary politics."
James agree to his son and after they reach the research facility he asks to talk to Lenora.
when Lenora arrives James say " Miss Zala, i came to see if our talk over cooperation can continue but i just received news that and earth alliance vessel is heading here to attack. So if you are not uncomfortable i would prefer to have this discussion with you on our company's battleship."
Lenore says " Mister Ashford aren't you over worried there is no way ZAFT will allow earth alliance armies to attack the colonies and defense force of plants are very strong so there is no need to worry."
James says " Miss Zala i understand you confidence in the plants but i am a father who can't let my son be at the risk of another life and death situation . four years ago when my son was attacked by blue cosmos i decided not take any more risks with his life so please consider my feeling as a father and besides our ship will not leave the Plants area so you have nothing to worry about. Any way i have called a spare shuttle for emergency to the near by dock we will use to go to the battleship and our custom made shuttle will still be dock in the plants so you don't need to worry about us not coming back. And even if we are on the battleship i am sure the soldier here will notify about you leaving with us to mister Patrick so you don't need to worry."
After thinking for sometime and looking at Alex who is only a year or 2 older than her son she decides to go with James and Alex as when she thinks about it even she wouldn't want to take any chances with her son.
The group then comes to the dock where their spare shuttle is located and leaves Junius 7 with it for the battleship by time they reach the battleship the battle outside had intensified and when the people in battleship were about to arrange the venue for their discussion they saw a bright flash after which the ship was knocked back by the debris and was subjected to violent shaking. Lenore who just got on the ship couldn't understand what was happening and why the ship shaking and what the bright light was about she thought the earth alliance had gone crazy and even attacking any companies cooperating with plants now without how crazy they really were and that Junius 7 was Nuked but James was not to shocked as his son had said of such possibility but still surprised and wanted to go to the bridge to confirm if Junius 7 was really Nuked.