A/N: Well it took a lot longer than expected the sequel to Legacy of a Soldier is finally here. I would have had a sequel up sooner, but I had a ton of story ideas revolving around this story…so many I couldn't decide which was better despite some help from my friends. I ultimately ended up settling on this one I considered.
Complete Summary: About over a year after the events of Shadow Mosses; Andrius aka Solidus Snake, but also known as Big Boss has safely remained underground hiding with Nemo and Python. But strange dreams experienced by Nemo ends up brining them to South America where the two about to get caught up in another situation that will affect the state of the world and ultimately reveal Andrius's destiny.
As the story progress we'll see some cameos and appearance from other members of the Gundam Seed cast…more from the last story.
Chapter 1
Drawn back to the Battlefield
The sun was shinning high over a small rural resort town found along the coast of Colombia where an old two engine jet was landing at a small town airport. The airport has seen better days, but it was still capable of operating with three hangers for aircraft, a small control tower and terminal for arriving and departing passengers. Outside the airport itself at the foot of a seven step stairway leading into the terminal, were a row of yellow cabs.
A pair proceeded to step down the stairs towards the row of cabs with each person holding a suitcase in their hand. The first person was a woman with pale white blonde hair wearing blue jeans with a white T-shirt and a denim jacket while her companion was roughly around the same age as her, but he had brown hair, a black windbreaker jacket, a blue shirt, and dark blue jeans with hiking boots and large black sunglasses.
After the two inspected the cabs they picked out one to travel in, they loaded their luggage into the trunk of the vehicle and hopped into the, if not a little smelly and dirty, cab departing the airport. Of course the interior of the cab was something they had expected. Ever since the Atlantic Federation forcibility seized control of the South America Continuant, the people in the more rural areas of the country have been in a terrible state of poverty.
After driving across town to a small fishing harbor where a small two story inn awaited them sitting on the ocean side. The young man paid the driver for the ride while his female companion pulled their luggage out of the trunk. The cab drove off as the duo was walking over to the inn.
"You know…you could have dressed up in something that would have concealed your identity better?" The young man commented.
"Like that wig and large sunglasses really help hide yours. Besides, that red wig you bought me was horribly itchy."
"Sorry I had no idea it would be such a terrible fit."
"Let's get checked in...I know you want to rest after that flight."
"No agreement here" The young man replied as he and the woman walked up the steps entering the inn.
Once inside the innkeeper gave them their key to the room the two had purchased; after signing the necessary paperwork using an assumed name the two made their way to their rooms where the traveling couple took a load off. The woman laid on the bed furthest from the window while her companion walked over to the other side of the bed and sat down on the edge.
The room wasn't what you would call a luxury suite, but it was rather plain. But it wasn't dirty or a wreck, but was kept rather surprisingly cleaned and suitably furnished with simple wooden furniture dotted around the small room considering the state of the town.
"Did you hear anything from Python yet?"
"He told me before we took that flight that he found what appears to be remains of a base about a two day journey from here in a rather remote area of the jungle on the San Hieronymo Peninsula. It apparently has a bad reputation among the locals as being a short of forbidden ground. There are a lot of rumors and claims that the land that base sits on is haunted or in the grip of some kind of evil spirit." The young man answered as he pulled off his wig revealing medium length dark blue hair.
"I know what you are thinking Andrius, but I feel this is where I need to go to discover my past."
"I understand Nemo, but I am just feeling a little uneasy. The Atlantic Federation and the resistance are fighting in the nearby area along with ZAFT forces in the local area providing assistance to the resistance fighters." Andrius replied as he removed his sunglasses.
"Maybe I can finally figure out a proper name for myself."
"Yeah…I think any name than Nemo would be better for you, but I am surprised for all of the time we have been together is that you couldn't settle on a name you thought fits you."
"It's just all of these dreams and feelings I have and now I am certain they are connected to this place and my original."
"According to Python this area was where your original died."
"Maybe visiting the place where she died might help me…I don't know why, but I feel drawn to this place. It's almost like I am being called."
"Well we got nothing better to do, but I am a little worried still."
"I understand how you feel Andrius, but we should be hearing from Python soon."
"Yeah" Andrius said as he seemed uneasy about being here in this region of the world. The young man given the title of Big Boss and possessor of the code name Solidus Snake sat down on the bed next to his closest friend and companion contemplating what awaiting them as he had hoped Nemo would find what she needed here.
Meanwhile in another area of the jungle miles away located somewhere on; a man wearing a hat over his pin-covered bald head was cutting his way through the dense jungle underbrush using a machete to clear a path for himself. Wearing suitable clothes for his trek through the jungle over the special suit he wore that kept his body temperature in check Python continued through the jungle heading towards the old Soviet Missile Base where he had served under renegade FOX unit commander Gene until he was defeated in single combat by Big Boss and then subsequently, but unexpectedly saved by Big Boss when his suit was damaged.
Thanks to having previous served under Gene and having originally combed the area for Big Boss at that time Python had an excellent recollection of the base and the surrounding area's layout and he knew the surrounding terrain extremely well. Although years of overgrowth had covered a number of the trails he and search parties had used including a few roads that were now abandoned Python still remembered how it was back in 1971 as clearly as if it was only yesterday.
Python had some reservations about returning to this god-forsaken place after so many years, but he had begun to wonder about the rumors surrounding the base that had taken root seven years after he and Big Boss left and was completely abandoned and fell into a terrible state of disrepair.
He had admitted to Andrius only a few days ago that he had expected the local government to take control of the base to use it, but was surprised to hear that they had left the base to fall apart. The old ex-FOX operative wasn't sure why they didn't since he wasn't aware of any attempts by the government to take over the base and if they did he didn't understand why they would abandon it.
Python didn't care for their reasons and never thought about it until a month ago following the end of the Second Battle of Jachin Due. It started happening when Nemo began on having strange nightmares and an odd urging to come here. Based on the descriptions they sounded more like parts of her original's memories…Elisa's memories.
As Python drew closer to the missile silo he heard a loud explosion in the distance followed by something gigantic crashing into the ground. Unable to clearly see what was going on the old soldier hurried through the jungle trying to see what was happening. Python arrived at the top of a hill overlooking a large area of the peninsula below where he saw something he hadn't expected.
It was standing at least around forty meets tall at least three times the average height of an average mobile suit. It appeared humanoid in appearance, but it had a set of reserve jointed legs with two large claw-like feet with an oddly shaped upper body. It had no visible head except for one embedded into its chest with a set of squad shaped red eyes in a black visor-like region on the upper half of his chest while near those eyes were tiny movable arms with rotating beam Gatling guns. But on its large board shoulders were a pair of massive high velocity magnetic railguns with a smaller railgun right below the larger gun; however their almost skeletal appearance suggested they were incomplete to a degree and were still being worked on.
Before the mammoth machine was a squad of six ZAFT mobile suits consisting of two ZGMF-1017 GINNs in the company of two TMF/A-802 BuCUEs and an AMF-101 DINN flying over head lead by the GAT-X103 Buster Gundam. Surrounding the machines were the remains of other ZAFT mobile suits that had attempted to challenge the walking nightmare, but were soundly defeated.
The DINN dived bombed towards the towering machine, but when it fired all of its weapons at it nothing the DINN had was capable of penetrating its Phase Shift Armor forcing the other two GINNs into action as they began unloading the ammo clips of their machine guns hoping to draw the monster machine's attention from the charging BuCUEs after activating their mouth mounted dual-ended beam sabers as the two machines were trying to go for the legs.
The giant machine fired its beam Gatling guns and shredded the enemy machine under a hail of heavy beam fire while the other one was crushed to death when the giant monster of a machine lifted its foot up and flattened the ZAFT machine under its enormous weight.
The Buster Gundam tried to retaliate by combing its two cannons into one powerful high-energy cannon before firing it at the chest of the towering mobile suit. As far as the ZAFT mobile suits could tell the shot was a direct hit, but when the smoke cleared the surviving ZAFT pilots were horrified to see the giant machine was unharmed as it had protected itself with a trio of lightwave shield generators built on its body with three emitters, one on its chest and two on the flat-board shoulders of the machine.
But suddenly the stomach section of the machine opened revealing a concealed Positron Blaster Cannon. The Buster Gundam took to the air to get out of firing range, but his two GINN comrades weren't as lucky as they were wiped out in the blast.
The Buster didn't have a chance to recover or launch another attack on the massive machine as four hidden missile pods opened up long the body of the machine right before it unleashed a wide spread launching of multiple anti-mobile suit missiles in front of the machine while some went high into the air nailing the DINN leaving the pilot of the Buster Gundam to face off against Rau as the missiles hammered his machine, but his Phase Shift Armor weathered the damage.
As the gigantic mobile suit moved in for the kill as a second plate of armor above the Positron Blaster Cannon revealing a hidden pair of Scylla cannons while Python a safe distance away quietly watched.
A/N: originally I had a conversation between the Buster and the pilot of the new Metal Gear included, but I decided to remove it to keep the identity of the Metal Gear's pilot hidden so it turned out a little shorter than intended. To answer a question asked to me in a review I choose Orb for the site of FOXHOUND's revival mostly for story purposes and I thought it would be easier for Solidus and others to establish FOXHOUND since anti-coordinator movements are safely lower in Orb than in the Atlantic Federation.
Also to make things a little easier Andrius will be refered to by his usual name, but some people will of course refer to him as Big Boss or Solidus Snake.
Anyway I got chapter two already ready to go and I'll post it either after a review or two or one week from the posting of this chapter.
