Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Eternity:
Chapter 1:
The Descent of the Dark Knight
In the year C.E. 73 the Second Bloody Valentine War ended in a peace agreement between ZAFT and Orb. The year is now C.E. 76 and peace between Coordinators and Naturals has continued for three years without a single conflict.
Orb
It was a bright and sunny day in Orb as a shuttle flew into the sky. The only passenger aboard the shuttle was a young man in a military uniform. The man looked out of the window as he left the earth behind.
"Lt. Colonel, we will arrive at the Morganrate asteroid factory in 30 minutes." Said a voice on the intercom.
The man got out of his seat and walked into the lavatory. He turned on the faucet, took of the sunglasses he was wearing and splashed the warm water onto his face. He then looked into the mirror and saw the reflection of his face in the mirror; the mirror showed him the ruby colored eyes of Shinn Asuka, former Ace of ZAFT, former pilot of the Destiny Gundam, and one of the only mobile suit pilots to ever defeat the Freedom Gundam. He was wearing an Orb military uniform, with a black turtleneck undershirt.
"I can't believe only a few days ago I was sitting around doing nothing and then Attha asks me to join the military. And I can't believe I accepted." Shinn thought to himself as he put on the sunglasses and exited the lavatory and walked back to his seat.
The remainder of the trip went by quickly as the shuttle docked with asteroid factory belonging to Morganrate. Shinn picked up his suitcases and walked off the shuttle and was met by a young woman.
"Hello my name is Erica Simmons, and you must be Lt. Colonel Shinn Asuka, correct?" the woman asked.
"That's me." Shinn replied.
"All right then follow me." Erica said.
Shinn nodded and followed Erica as she led him through the factory until they came to a hangar with a huge security door. Erica placed her palm on a scanner and the door opened and the two entered a pitch-black hangar.
"What's in here?" Shinn asked.
"Your new ride." Erica said as she flipped on the lights.
The lights flickered on and Shinn eyes went wide as he saw what looked like a ghost from his past.
"The Destiny?" Shinn said flabbergasted, as he looked up at what looked like his former mobile suit from the Second Bloody Valentine War. " That is the Destiny right?" Shinn asked Erica. "I mean it looks like the Destiny." Shinn added.
The mobile suit in front of him did look like his past suit, but there were some differences. One being the shield of the Destiny's left hand had been changed a bit and looked jagged with what looked like a segmented whip with a point at the end of the whip came out of the end of the shield, which was on the left hand. The beam boomerangs were still there as well as the Wings of Light but his Anti-Ship sword and beam cannon were missing on the backpack.
"Your half correct." Erica said. "I'd like you to meet the Eternal Destiny. We salvaged the Destiny at the end of the war and had it rebuilt. And if you come with me up to the control room I would like to tell you about the modifications we made as well as some of the new equipment." Erica added and motioned him to follow her up a set of stairs.
The two climbed the stairs and entered what looked like a lounge/control room. There was table between two couches and on the wall opposite of the window that looked down on the hangar.
"Please sit down." Erica said as she motioned to one of the couches. Shinn sat down on one and she sat down on the opposite couch. She pulled out a remote and turned on the huge monitor in the room. The screen began to show recordings of the Destiny's past battles as well as recordings of suits that fought against the Destiny. During the clips the monitor show data on the Destiny performance.
"As you can see on the monitor, the original Destiny was a most powerful mobile suit. Its speed was second to none as well as its ability to adapt to the situation of the battle, but it had two major flaws." Erica said as more data flashed on the screen.
"And those where?" Shinn asked.
"First, the mobile suit didn't carry the right weapons and had a lack of affective weapons. For example only one Anti-ship beam sword." Erica said as the screen showed when the Destiny's sword got destroyed. "And second it played to you second strength instead of your major strength." She said.
"My major strength?" Shinn asked with a puzzled look.
"Every good mobile suit plays to their own strength. Kira Yamato's strength is his marksmanship, Athrun Zala's strength is his close combat skills, and you strength is your reaction time or your speed. The mobile suit played to ability to adapt what kind of combat your in, not your speed. " Erica told him.
Shinn thought what she had just said over in his head and he nodded in agreement.
"So with that data we were able to get from the remains of the Destiny we were able too upgrade the Destiny to what it is now." She pushed a button on the remote again and the schematics of the Eternal Destiny came on screen. " The Eternal Destiny main strength is its speed due to its new reactor, one of three high powered prototypes. And if your wondering why prototypes, we had to decrease the power output for the standardized models. Also the hyper capacitor has been modified for longer usage time as well as more power output. The Mirage Colloid used to produce the Wings of Light has been upgraded, because of a new technology that uses the oxygen to create the colloid gas. So you should in theory have unlimited WOL on Earth but in space you'll have to use the colloid the suit stores in its tanks. Now then to the armaments." Erica said as the schematics of the Eternal Destiny highlighted certain sections of the mobile suit. "The only weapons that remained were the beam boomerangs and the Palma Fiocina beam cannons. Everything else is new. First off on the backpack are two small positron cannons that fold out like Strike Freedom's rail guns, and speaking of rail guns there are two of them that deploy from the backpack and rest of the shoulders of the mobile suit. Your beam riffle was redesigned so you could split it into two separate riffles plus the energy output of the riffles was magnified. Your shield now has a new version of the heat rod attached to it and they're other small additions that you'll find about in this." She said as she handed him a data disk.
"Heat rod? Wasn't that the cable like thing on the Gouf Ignited?" Shinn asked as he took the disk from her and put it in his pocket.
"You're correct, but as the Gouf's heat rod was meant to shock the opposing mobile suit, yours heats up to a high enough temperature that it slices through a mobile suit like a hot knife through butter." Erica told him.
"Wicked." Shinn said with a smirk.
" But the main change is in your beam sword, we determined that the Anti-ship sword was a weakness because if an opponent sliced the sword on the metal edge it would be broken but this new design will prevent that." She said as the monitor changed to focus on the hip of the mobile suit. " Unlike other beam swords which have their own battery pack, yours on the other hand will never run out of power because your sword will be powered by the mobile suits reactor, and since it's attached to the reactor you can adjust the length and the power of the blade. I'm proud to say this Lt. Colonel that you have the most powerful beam sword in the Earth Sphere."
"When can I try it out?" Shinn said.
"In a few days." Erica told him.
"But I'm supposed to get picked up by the Archangel in a few days." Shinn said.
"Actually you have new orders, you're supposed to fly to the Archangel. It's currently docked on the moon, so it's not that far." She told him.
"Right. So how am I supposed to carry my luggage?"
"There are compartments in the cockpit to hold up too six large containers, so that should be enough. Also the Eternal Destiny or ED for short will be done in five at 10:30 in the morning ORB time, so if you excuse me I have to oversee the preparations of your mobile suit. Also if you follow the hallway you'll find your room we have already loaded your luggage onto the suit just in case that something happens." And with that she left and left Shinn alone.
He didn't stay long and exited the room and walked to the room they gave him and collapsed on the bed and which he fell asleep, but the peace of sleep was short because their was a sudden explosion the rocked the factory.
Shinn awoke suddenly and raced out of the room and down the hall too the hangar. There he saw Erica giving orders to the people around her.
"What the blazes is going on?" Shinn asked.
"Were under attack." She told him.
"From who?" He asked.
"We don't know, but who ever it is has enough firepower to wipe out this entire factory." She said as she turned to toward Shinn, but he was gone.
Shinn jumped and thanks to the weak gravity and floated to the cockpit where he began to strap himself into his new mobile suit.
'What are you doing?" he heard Erica yell.
"Tell everyone to evacuate and I'll cover your escape!" He yelled over the sounds of explosions that rocked the factory.
"But its not done yet!" She yelled back.
"I'll decide that!" Shinn said as he closed the hatch and turned on the mobile suit and saw the ever-familiar OS Menu with the even more familiar GUNDAM on it. He noticed the OS was the same, as the Destiny's so the OS didn't needed to be changed.
Then there was a noise and he heard Erica on the video screen say, "The emergency hangar has been opened get going!"
"Thanks. Shinn Asuka, Eternal Destiny, lets do it!" he said with a smirk and let his boosters roar with power as the ED soared out of the Hangar and into space.
Outside
An unknown fleet of spaceships was currently bombarding the factory as well as sending out its MS, which contained a mish mash of ORB, EA and ZAFT suits. But just as they were prepared too finish off the factory, a MS shot out of the top of the factory.
"What is that?" said a pilot of a GOUF MS.
"No idea." Replied a pilot of a Strike Dagger II suit.
Just as Shinn got out of the factory he turned on the Phase Shift Armor which turned the ED black, crimson red, and its joints platinum. Shinn flipped opened the wing binders and unleashed the WOL, and flew toward the enemy. Needless to say instead of a MS it looked like a fallen angel.
"Lets see what the ED can do." Shinn said with a smirk. "Stellar please guide me", he whispered and suddenly in his mind he saw the image of his late beloved and he smiled as a red seed in his mind exploded and his pupils narrowed as he entered SEED mode. He ignited his heat rod and flew at the enemy MS. He flew by the first one at break neck speed with the HR out and as soon as he passed it, it exploded. This would be the fate of numerous enemies as the ED soared and dominated on the battlefield.
The battle went by quickly and soon the MS were called back by their mother ships. Shinn sat in the ED smiling. Then suddenly his communicator on his view screen came to life and a picture of Erica came on.
"Good job Lt. Colonel." Erica said but then added, "But your job isn't over. Get a look at this."
His video screen suddenly showed ORB getting attacked by a giant armada. Buildings were being blown up and dozens of mobile suits were ravaging the island.
"What the hell?" Shinn asked.
"It seems it was a dual pronged attack. Well at least one of them failed. Also you have new orders: descend to earth and protect our homeland. The ED should be more than capable to handle re-entry. So go, now." She said.
"Roger that." Shinn said.
The ED turned away from what was the Morganrate factory and flew too Earth at top speed. Within ten minutes he was begging his re entry. The ED suddenly was covered in a gel like substance as it continued its descent.
The sun was setting on ORB and it was terrible, there was destruction everywhere, and the defense forces had been pushed back to the executive mansion. But there was hope for the soldiers of ORB as the Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice continued to disable MS, but even Kira and Athrun were getting outnumbered.
"They keep coming." Athrun said into his COM.
"We have to hold on till Cagalli can get to the Archangel." Kira said,
The SF and IJ continued to fend off the MS, as Cagalli was on an elevator to her subterranean private escape tram, which led to the Archangel's hangar in the hill behind them. GOUFs, Strike Daggers, Windams, ZAKUs and a whole menagerie of MS continued their attack.
"I hate to say this Kira, but we losing this we need to get out of here." Athrun said.
"We have to hang a little longer." Kira said.
As the two fended off their attackers Athrun saw something descending from space. "What the hell is that?"
In the sky, a dark MS descended onto ORB, and Kira and Athrun watched as the MS descend to their location with the setting sun behind it.
"Did somebody call for back-up?" a voice said over Kira and Athrun's comms.
"What is that?" An enemy MS pilot said.
"Who is that?" Kira asked.
"Is that the Destiny?" Athrun said. As he saw the new MS take out some of the air-borne enemies.
The ED hovered in the air and Shinn's voice came over the COM units of the all the MS, "Who am you ask, some could call me a fallen angel, but I would rather be a dark knight. But too those who try to turn ORB into ashes, I am your end!"
The wings on the ED back suddenly came too life and out shot the EDs Wings of Light as well as the EDs HR and beam sword. The engines roared to life and Shinn roared as he flew at the enemy.
…..To be Continued