Athrun Zala swerved his Infinite Justice Gundam away from the Destiny's anti-ship sword. Athrun kicked the Destiny away and fired off a salvo from his Gundam's beam cannons. The Infinite Justice drew its beam saber and charged towards the Destiny.
Inside the Destiny's cockpit, Shinn Asuka snarled in rage as the Justice charged. He blocked a beam saber slash with the Destiny's anti-ship sword. The two suit's broke apart, and the Destiny drew its beam cannon. "Die you peace loving Orb bastards!" Shinn fired several shots from the beam cannon, sending bursts of violent red and white energy streaking toward the Infinite Justice.
Athrun blocked behind the Justice's beam carry shield and drew his beam rifle. He charged forward again, a beam saber in one hand, beam rifle in the other. Shinn darted away and activated his Wings of Light. He zoomed toward Athrun, anti-ship sword ready to impale the Infinite Justice.
Athrun dodged and fired a salvo of beam fire at the Destiny. Shinn effortlessly dodged and whipped forward toward Athrun. Shinn slashed with is sword and caught Athrun in the right leg. The limb flew off into space, and Shinn closed in for the kill.
"Now you'll pay for everything traitor! You'll pay!" Shinn stabbed his sword into the Infinite Justice's backpack, causing it to explode.
Athrun jettisoned the backpack and slashed at Shinn with his beam saber. He sliced the Destiny's left hand off at the wrist. Athrun swung the saber in a backstroke and aimed at the Destiny's cockpit.
Shinn sneered inside the Destiny's cockpit and activated the Destiny's Palma Fiocona beam cannons and thrust the machine's hand in front of the Justice's beam saber. The beam cannon fired, deflecting the beam saber and damaging the Infinite Justice.
Athrun gasped as a scattering beam shot impacted on his mobile suit. The Justice's head flew away along with chunks of armor. The Destiny loomed in front of him like an angel of death. Shinn raised his anti-ship sword and brought it down on the Infinite Justice. With a shear of metal, the sword sliced through the Infinite Justice. The remains of the mobile suit ballooned to twice its size before exploding in a hurricane of fire and shrapnel.
Shinn turned the Destiny towards the looming pink shape of the Eternal. He activated the Destiny's Wings of Light and sped toward the battleship.
Kira Yamato zoomed towards the massive shape of the Messiah space fortress. His Strike Freedom Gundam, tucked away safely inside the METEOR support pack, was like an avenging angel. Kira had heard from Mu that Athrun was gone. Kira tightened his grip on the controls, gritting his teeth in anger. An amethyst Seed burst in his mind. His pupils dilated, and he charged forward with a roar, the METEOR's engines at full power.
Rey Za Burrul sensed the Strike Freedom's approach. He activated his Legend Gundam, preparing to intercept his enemy. He launched his Gundam from its perch on a section of the beam shield generator that encircled Messiah.
He pushed the Legend's thrusters to their brink, determined to intercept the incoming Strike Freedom. When he came within range, he deployed the 8 DRAGOON units from the Legend's massive backpack. The remote weapons spiraled outward, ready to rain death on their foes.
Only Kira's exceptional special awareness saved from the ambush set by the DRAGOON units. He swerved the METEOR wildly in an attempt to dodge the mass of beams that streaked toward him. The Legend reared up in front of him, rifle raised.
A beam shot from a DRAGOON pod pierced the METEOR's side, causing the hundreds of missiles inside its armored carapace to explode. The METEOR blew apart, sending the Freedom flying. The Freedom managed to regain its balance a moment before the DRAGOONs were upon him. Kira dodged wildly, looking for some escape.
Rey smirked and fired of several potshots from his beam rifle. The Freedom attempted in vain to dodge the multitudes of beams his DRAGOONs emitted. Suddenly, the Strike Freedom's wings spread and eight DRAGOON pods detached themselves from the main mobile suit. Rey, taken by surprise, momentarily lost control of his DRAGOONs.
Kira, taking advantage of the DRAGOON's lack of movement, destroyed several of them with his own DRAGOONs. The enemy DRAGOONs quickly resumed their barrage of beam fire, but now Kira had a chance. He dived and swerved, returning fire with his railguns, twin beam rifles, and DRAGOONs.
The DRAGOONs suddenly parted, and the Legend swooped down with a beam javelin in hand. Kira blocked with his beam shield and jetted away. He drew his beam sabers and met the Legend head on.
Beam saber and javelin clashed in an explosion of sparks. Rey cartwheeled over the Strike Freedom and brought the Legend's weapons to bear. He opened up with a firec salvo of beam fire. Kira quickly activated the Strike Freedom's beam shields, blocking the worst of the blast. Suddenly, two spike shaped DRAGOONs came flying at Kira, long beam sabers on their tips. Kira raised his shield to block them, but the slid through it easily. The two beam sabers sliced through the Strike Freedom's forearm and into the cockpit. With a flash the Strike Freedom exploded into a mass of shrapnel. Rey smirked as he saw a beaten and battered helmet floating in front of the Legend.
After the battle of Messiah, ZAFT fired Neo-Genesis into the approaching Earth Alliance fleet. The weapon decimated the fleet. With Ptolmaneaus in ZAFT hands, and their fleet effectively destroyed, the EA withdrew the remainder of the their forces back to Earth.
Within days, ZAFT began to drop large amounts of troops onto the planet. Though the Earth Alliance put up a valiant fight, their forces were too small to pose much of a threat. Within months, ZAFT forces completely occupied what was once the Earth Alliance.
After the Orb and Terminal fleets were destroyed at the battle of Messiah, Lady Cagalli of Orb sealed off the country's borders and steeped up production of mobile suits. ZAFT on several occasions to invade the sountry, only to have its forces pushed back.
As Supreme Chairman Durandal imposed his Destiny plan on the human race, Naturals were treated like slaves. They were forced to do the most dangerous and meticulous work and thousands died from starvation, sickness, and hate crimes commited by Coordinators.
But, there was hope. In CE 79, a rebel group came from Mars. Consisting of fiver Girty Lue class battleships, and the new Dagger E, they were known as the Adepts. Now, they prepare to attack a ZAFT military installation.
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Gilbert Durandal looked out over the large hangar of the ZAFT military installation of Solomon's Sword. It was ZAFT's second largest military base, next to Armory One, and was the testing ground for the new ZAKU II line. It was also the staging area of ZAFT's taskforce Jaeger, assembled to hunt down those pesky Martiian rebels.
He was currently waiting for Cagalli Yula Attha, ruler of Orb, to arrive. As she had done five years six years ago, she wanted to finalize a peace treaty with the PLANTs. He smiled as hes aw the familiar form of the Kusanagi II gliding towards the hangar. "Rey, move the Manticor and Hydra teams into position. The Lion has entered the den."
Twelve of the new ZAKU IIs shot out to meet the shuttle and act as an escort. They moved into position beside the DOM Troopers alreadfy escorting the ship. Gilbet snarled at the purple and black mobile suits. They were based on stolen designs from ZAFT. One of these days Gilbert thought, he would have to seek out and destroy Terminal.
The Kusanagi II landed and an honor guard of Orb soldiers escorted Attha into the crowded and busslying hangar. He descended the escalator the connected the docks of the hangar to the control tower and various other structures vital to safe transport.
"Ah, Lady Cagalli. I hope you were not offended by the additional escorts. With all these rebels running around, you can't be too careful." As Gilbert spoke, he sized up Attha. She was taller and carried her self with more confidence than he remembered. She wore the blue and white uniform of the ambassador of Orb, though Gilbert would've thought a dress would've been more appropriate.
She glared at him with fierce brown eyes, replying, "Supreme Cahirman Durandal, I thank you for the escort you sent. You are right, you can't be too careful. Now, on to business. Why are you still investing in more and more powerful mobile suits? Haven't you beaten the people of Earth deep enough into the ground?" Cagalli also took the chance to look over Gilbert. Durandal was tall, with streaks of grey in his jet black hair. He carried himself with the overblown confidence that suiuted the supreme leader of the PLANTs.
Beside Gilbert, a young blonde spoke up. "Lord Durandal feels the need to create more mobile suits because they are rebels who wish to undermine his authority!" Gilbert threw him a fatherly look and spoke quietly, "Rey, calm down. I'll handle this," he turned his attention to Cagalli, " If you desire peace, prepare for war. As of now, I am preparing a Taskforce to hunt down a group of rebels known as the Adepts. This base is the staging area."
Secretly, Cagalli hoped those Martian rebels would attack and defeat ZAFT. Openly she said, "Of course Chairman Durandal. As long as there are those that wish to threaten he peace you have worked to esrtablish, you will have to fight back."
Two cloaked Girty Lue class ships slowly approached Solomon's Sword. One of the ships launched a small escape pod. The pod, too small to be detected, sailed towards a small acess shaft. Two retro rockets fired and the pod's hatch popped open. Five silhouttes emerged and fired their jetpacks towards the shaft. The lead figure, a young man of about 19 years old with dark purple hair and crystal blue eyes smiled in anticipation.
Author's note: And so ends the prolog of Gundam Seed: Sorrow in the Shadows. This has been given life in the form of various other fanfics, but none have lasted that long. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish this one.
As to my reasoning for writing this. I think that 98 of all the stuff in the Seed section sucks. It all just someone inserting a Gary STue character(Solid Shark, I'm looking at you) or some horny otaku's fantasy. I'm going to fix this. If anyone has any question's, suggestions, requests, or death threats, let me know. I'll accept any kind of review, but if you flame I'll dflame back. Try to keep your comments constructive though. Oh, if you read my fic, have the balls to leave a review.
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