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Note: I'm working on creating several different paths that would have happened if this was changed or that was changed. Basically quite a bit of theories and conjecture about the story we have all come to love and alter.
"The Ender named Zone"
Phase One: "Re-entering the Zone in Green"
Secret Mobile Suit Test Hanger, Morgenroete Factory District-39, Heliopolis Island Type-3 Colony, Orb Union
January 25th, Year 71 of the Cosmic Era
11:13 am Heliopolis Standard Time
Kensouke Walton was climbing into the mobile suit he had been testing for Morgenroete and the Orb National Defense Force for a little over a several weeks now. This mobile suit and its three companions identified by their paint jobs as Red Suit, Gold Suit, and Blue Suit are the prototypes for Orb's new mobile suit program. Though Kensouke isn't a fool. He knows that there are five prototypes being produced for the Alliance here. He also knows that the Seiran Family is behind this breach while the Orb military is behind the four he and his fellows are working on, though he hates the fact that a Sahaku is looking down at him as he tests the new Natural-adapted Operating System with the new Artificial Intelligence Support Construct, which he decided to name Rei or Spirit in International English.
"Blame just about anything English on England, as if!" he mumbled when he and all the others around him felt a tremendous shake that was a quake.
"What the hell was that?" the Sahaku male yelled.
"It's ZAFT! Launch the Green Suit into battle!" came the Heliopolis Defense Force Command Headquarters orders.
"Roger, Green Frame, Test Pilot First Lieutenant Kensouke Walton, moving out!" LT Walton yelled as the last few ammo clips were locked into position and he began a full activation sequence bringing Rei and the Green Suit, which he called Frame, up and running.
The plugs supplying power broke away as the Green Frame was put onto a vertical catapult and connected to another power source and then given its shield and 76mm battle rifle. The Green Frame also received its 57mm high-energy beam rifle that was attached to a hard point just behind its shield and a bazooka that was attached just behind the right shoulder. Two packs of addition ammo for the 105mm bazooka were also attached to the Green Frame's back. Once in battle, LT Walton planned on ditching everything, but the needed munitions and weapons for that specific part of the battle. He then activated his Phase-Shift and Rei came to life with the soft, almost heavenly voice that he could not place into any specific group and her holographic image appeared on his left panel.
"All systems green!"
"AISC, named Rei, fully operational and green across the board!"
"Batteries check at Green!"
"Weapon loading now complete! We have green light here!"
"Phase-Shift online and functioning as should, green light!"
"All sections are green light across the board, except medical, but that's expected. Green Suit, LAUNCH!"
"Green Frame launching!" the Green Frame was hurled through the Linear Catapult and into battle.
Secret MS Factory District-37, Morgenroete, Heliopolis
Two teens stopped to see the gun battle being waged below them between people in worker and technician orange jumpsuits with blue hats and many green and two red space/flight suited ZAFT soldiers. The blonde hair girl fell to her knees crying about the two grey mobile suits that the ZAFT soldiers and factory personnel were fighting over belonging to the Alliance. Then she yelled out to her father.
"FATHER! WHY DID YOU BETRAY US?"
At once a few shots hit the area they were standing. Immediately the brunette male picked up his companion and began dragging her across the walkway to get to a shelter telling her everything would be alright.
Below them, the person who shot at them, a long haired brunette female, noticed that they were just a couple of kids trying to get clear of the heavy fighting. She was a bit confused as to why there were a couple of kids in the factory district and where they came from. Her musings were cut short by the cry of one of her fellows being hit and a few near misses near her. Not more than twenty seconds had elapsed.
Outside the Morgenroete Facilities
All hell had broken loss and the few Alliance Forces in the colony were shredded by the two ZGMF-1017 GINNS and the HDF Linear Tanks, Linear Self Propelled Artillery, and the Missile Jeeps that had been able to mobilized, were in the process of getting shredded. The Alliance had mainly only Missile Jeeps and most had been lost when three of their five prototype mobile suits had been stolen. The remaining units were fighting hard and most were dieing fast. The HDF troops were not fairing any better, but at least they still had some heavy vehicles left. Then behind the two GINNS, the mountainside fell away to reveal a Linear Catapult and then ten seconds later, a green mobile appeared shooting up into the sky and then doing a front flip as it started to come down.
Once the green mobile suit landed, it stood to its full height. It was just less than twenty meters in height. It was green and white and had golden horns with amber eyes. It was armed to the teeth with a bazooka, a machine gun, a shield, and lots of ammunition. The most significant thing though, was the Orb National Defense Force Seal on its right shoulder and on its shield.
The two GINNS actually looked at one another and then back at the green mobile suit. The confusion was obvious, as the HDF troops didn't know they had a mobile suit and the Alliance troops didn't know that the suit even existed even though they had originally five mobile suits. Then a voice barked out from the mobile suit.
"To the ZAFT GINN pilots! This is the Green Frame of the Orb National Defense Forces! I hereby order that you deactivate your mobile suits and exit them! Surrender now! You are surrounded by the Orb Union National Defense Force!"
The HDF troops had rallied at the sight of their mobile suit and had quickly surrounded the two GINNS. The GINN pilots didn't like the odds. Thankfully for them and painfully for the HDF, three more GINNS appeared and evened out the odds a bit to ZAFT's liking. The Green Frame dumped all its spare munitions and weapons and the shield and went to work. Its battle rifle barked as a burst of three 76mm Armor Piercing Shells ripped into a GINN, hitting one of its spare ammo clips, and exploded in a fiery show of death and power. The remaining GINNS began to scatter, but one was caught in a hailstorm of fire from the HDF vehicles and was torn to bits before it exploded when a missile made contact with its battery.
Three blocks from the Morgenroete Main Gate, next to a bombed out building and behind the remains of a tank
Three teenagers had stopped to seek shelter as the battle raged about them. They saw the arrival of the Green Frame and its subsequent order for the GINN pilots to surrender. Then the arrival of the additional three GINNS and also had front row seats to the Green Frame's first killed and the death of a second GINN caught in the middle of a fire cauldron of HDF fire. The battle raged before their eyes as two more GINNS arrived to try and pick up the slack of their fallen comrades and then a third GINN arrived, this one from above and not from one side of the colony or the other like the other five did. Then a factory facility exploded and two more mobile suits appeared.
They watched as the HDF and the Alliance troops stopped firing to figure out whom those two belonged to, but the Green Frame got two more GINNS before turning to see who were in the machines. For a scant few seconds, all firing stopped and it reminded one of the teens, a young girl with wavy light honey brown hair of an old joke that she voiced.
"True Peace, not a shot fired or insult said. It lasted only a few seconds before everyone reloaded and started again."
Her two companions, both male with black hair and deep Asian features and light brown hair with European features and yellow glasses, looked at her and found the irony of the joke. Then, a second or two later, the firing began again. They looked at her with a look that said fortune telling much? She shrugged her shoulders as how was she to know that the shooting would restart right when she finished saying that old joke.
They watched as one of the grey mobile suits stumbled about trying to put some distance between it and the ZAFT while the second one stood still. It was clear to them and anyone else that the one moving away from the GINNS was not in ZAFT hands and the one standing still was in ZAFT hands.
Two of the GINNS tried to cut it off and cut it up, but a double burst of gunfire reminded everyone that the Green Frame was still there and activate, but one of the GINNS found that out the hard way. It crashed into the ground, paving its why into one of the factories, where it promptly exploded and destroyed the factory. Pieces of shuttle components rained down on the battlefield, but the second GINN managed to dodge the second round of double burst fire, drew its weapon, and fired at the grey mobile suit which promptly turned to white limbs and red feet with a blue torso with red sides and blue shoulders and survived all the High Explosive shells that hit it.
The GINN landed, drew its sword, and was nearly caught by the Green Frame's fire once again. Though the fire impacted against the other grey mobile suit, but this one had turned a burgundy and black color and staggered slightly from the AP rounds hitting it.
The teens watched as two missiles appeared out of a park and headed straight towards an unsuspecting GINN, but the burgundy mobile suit intercepted the missiles and counter fired the offending Missile Jeep, destroying it as it tried to flee to a new position. The three teens watched, as it had been a direct hit with no survivors. Then the ground exploding near them, telling them to relocate and fast.
Inside the GAT-X105 Strike
Lieutenant Murrue Ramius of the Oppose Militancy and Neutralize Invasion Enforcer, OMNI Enforcer, tried to move and defend against a GINN with a proper OS system, a skilled pilot that was obviously an ace with greater training then her, and doing so with a wounded shoulder. Her passenger just looked on in terror as the GINN closed the range to use its sword, but was thwarted when another GINN that had been filled full of holes crashed between them and exploded. She activated several additional small pop up screens on the main screens to see what was happening around her and saw a green mobile suit she did not recognize go hand to hand with a couple of GINNS, but then she heard the boy gasp.
Turning to see what had caused him to gasp, she saw three teens and heard him mention their names. Then the threat board came to life and the alarms rang alerting them to the GINN trying once more to kill them. LT Ramius was forced to back up as the Close In Weapons System was not properly aligned and could not be brought to bear against her enemy. The camera monitoring the three teens did a close up of the female's panicked face and the boy moved forward planning on doing something and ended up ducking below the GINN's MAS-02 Heavy Sword and then shoulder tackling the GINN, knocking it to the ground and stunning the pilot.
"Please move," the boy said.
"What?" responded LT Ramius.
"Please, move out of the way," he said again and she did.
LT Ramius watched as he began to type at an amazing speed and mumbling about computer programs and components and other things involved in producing Operating Systems for mobile suits. He then shook his head and complained about the OS being terrible and LT Ramius stated that it wasn't finished and still in the testing phase. He finished rewriting the OS just as the GINN got back up and launched another attack, but this time the CIWS was brought into play and the GINN was once again knocked back as the Strike went onto the offensive.
'Who is this kid? He's definitely a Coordinator, but why is he fighting… He's a civilian and Orb doesn't have bias laws against either Naturals or Coordinators!' LT Ramius thought.
She glanced left and noticed the green mobile suit finish off another GINN when it got back its battle rifle. The GINN was hit several times from several bursts of fire and one hit the unit's spare ammo and once again there was a deafening roar combined with the sight of death and power. She then felt the Strike begin to rocket forward and saw the boy drawing out the Armor Schneiders and launching an attack on the furiously firing GINN. The boy got the left shoulder and the right side of the neck. The GINN shut down and the pilot abandoned the mobile suit.
"This isn't good, get us back from here," she said too late as the GINN self-detonated knocking the Strike onto its back and LT Ramius out cold.
Her last view was the tumbling cockpit, debris, surroundings, and the green mobile suit finishing off the last GINN with a trap shot like move and begin to rush to their aid.
43rd Street and Sakura Lane's Peace Park, Heliopolis, Orb
01250071 Military Dating (January 25th, 71)
1431 hrs Military Time (24 hour clock, 2:31 pm)
First Lieutenant Kensouke Walton rubbed the bridge off his nose just under his glasses. He was already tired from the day's events and it wasn't too surprising. Somehow and against all odds, he had single handedly shot down five GINNS in less than five minutes. Most people would give quite literally anything to be in his shoes. He is after all, the very first combat ace with five mobile suit kills IN a mobile suit and that he IS a Natural is an added bonus.
Still, at the moment he glanced around the makeshift command post. He was in it alone, except for a kid he knows, named Kuzzey Buskirk. Kuzzey had seen the battle first hand and had thought that LT Walton was a Coordinator, but when he showed Rei's portable imager, Kuzzey mellowed.
Near them and looking over the Strike was Sai Argyle. He was checking for any serious looking battle damage that he could tell with the naked eye and his untrained mind and hands.
Also nearby was Kira Yamato, the young man that had piloted the Strike, and his fiancée, Mirillia Haw, were lounging next to one of the trees with a blanket salvaged from a nearby store covering them and asleep. LT Walton remembered when he had first run into the two of them.
Flashback
A broken man walked down the street. He was broken, because he had done something that could never be forgiven. He ran away from the consequences, because he knew he did not want to face the problem, did not have the strength to face it, and was scared beyond belief for his life. As he walked, he heard a young woman scream. Something inside of him came to life and he pursued the screams.
He rounded a corner to see several men attacking a young teenage girl. They were insulting her and beating her. The broken man charged right into the men and tackled a couple of them in one move. He got up and knocked another out with a blow to the throat that nearly collapsed his airway. He was then blind sided by another attacker, but he turned, used to being blindsided, and threw a haymaker that followed by a left uppercut that stunned and dazed his opponent and then grabbing his shoulders, brought the man's stomach to meet his knee and then head butted him on the jaw for good measure, sending him into a wall that he hit his head on hard enough to draw some blood from the back of his head and knock him out cold.
Another attacker came with a knife, intent on stabbing the interloper in the back, but a trash lid impacted along the side of the man's head and knocked him to the ground. A young man of 15 years of age charged in and threw a straight punch to the nose of the guy that had the knife, breaking the nose and knocking him out.
Another thug pulled out a gun, but the girl brought her purse down on his hand and the shot went into his buddy that had been in front of him, dropping him with a new hole in his can. A nearby group of HDF troops on leave heard the shot and ran to investigate and saw the brown haired boy and the man of mixed descent holding off a group of men, of which four remained and four were down, three out cold and one shot in the butt.
The group of soldiers charged in just as a couple of police cruisers arrived and the four officers dismounted to investigate the gunshot. What they found were four men being restrained by HDF troops and three civilians looking mighty thankful for the assistance.
Later, at the Police Station, the man was sitting around drinking a cup of water and finishing a ham sandwich with American cheese and green lettuce, light mayo and mustard when the mother and father with their daughter walked up to him to thank him for helping to protect their daughter. He accepted the gratitude hesitantly, remembering his past, and was curious as to why Blue Cosmos terrorists would attack a Natural. The girl came out and admitted that her fiancée was a First Generation Coordinator, but that she and him were happy together.
"Please say that you have nothing against this!" the girl had begged.
"Why do you need to beg when I hate Blue Cosmos and their warped logic," he stated and continued, "I may disagree with the Coordinator gene treatment, or whatever they do to make a baby into a Coordinator, but it is not my place to tell others how what to do with their kids genetics, but I ask that they think before they jump into the whole thing. And after all, a Second Generation Coordinator is unmodified and only has the Coordinator tag, because their parents had it. I also fail to see how Coordinators are a threat to the environment."
At that moment, the tension in the whole station had died out. The man's words rung true. He seemed rather intelligent for someone who seemed to be a penniless drifter. Then the young boy and his parents approached. They talked a little and gave the man their thanks, but he brushed it off as his part to save the human race from sorrow and insanity. It was then that he learned he was talking to the Yamatos. A family that had been rising in the Orb Union political scene. Still generally unknown outside of the Orb Union, the Yamatos were fast gaining power to rival the Seirans, the Sahakus, and the Athhas. The latter they have close ties with.
It proved to be one of the best moments that the drifter named Kensouke Walton had ever had. He soon found himself with glowing reviews in front of the nearby ONDF recruitment officer. That in turn led to his becoming a test pilot for the ONDF assigned to test the latest weapons coming out of Morgenroete's factories. That in turn got him his appointment to being a lead mobile suit test pilot for Orb and got him assigned the Green Frame and then the AI Support Construct, Rei.
End FlashbackAlso, the wounded female that had been with Kira inside the Strike was laid out on a bench, covered with another blanket and a nurse who had gotten separate from her hospital unit was checking over her bullet wound. It wasn't anything serious and the nurse had already removed the bullet and dressed the wounds. Nothing new in the art of battlefield medicine, but she at least had the time to make it a proper removal in the field.
Turning his attention to Kuzzey who was listening intently to the rally orders and soon got what he was listening for.
"Ken! Its for you," he said handing the headset over to the professional soldier.
"Army Silver Single Kensouke Walton here, what are my orders?" he asked sounding very serious.
"FIRST LIEUTENANT Walton, you are to hold your position until new orders arrive or your relieved, understood?" the irritated deep English voice of Sea Going Eagle (Naval Captain) Wallace Ramsey replied.
It was no surprise, as the two disliked the other intently. Kensouke Walton's problem was that Wallace Ramsey talked and acted like his family background, a wealthy English family from the 19th Century, but more like the 18th Century.
For Wallace Ramsey, it was that Kensouke Walton was too much like a Yankee in his opinion. Wallace Ramsey thought Kensouke Walton a hothead, brash, an upstart, and the list went on. Needless to say that the Orb National Defense Ministry tried to keep the two as far apart as possible and it went down the ranks to the lowest rank soldiers. Oil and Water was the biggest understatement of the year.
"Roger that sir, but I got a BIG problem and its not healthy to pass it off,"1LT Walton replied.
"What is your problem? Out of Coca-Cola already?" Captain Ramsey sneered over the radio.
"Negative, got plenty of that! Didn't want it to spoil, exposed and heating up in the sun, but seriously, I have one wound female. My best military guess is that she is an Alliance officer," there was a loud crash on the other end of the radio, "Also I have four civilians and a lost military nurse on my hands as well, but two of the kids are Kira Yamato and his fiancée," there was even a bigger crash in the background.
"We're trying to get reinforcements to you, hold until relieved and then escort all back to the rear, but now…" an explosion and silence, then a strange howling sound that could mean one thing, "FIRST LIEUTENANT KENSOUKE WALTON! PROTECT THE CIVILIANS AND YOUR MACHINE TO THE BITTER END! GOD SPEED!" then silence and the colony gave a shudder.
"May you win all your battles," Rei then spoke the obvious.
"Central Command has been destroyed by D-Package Weapons… No survivors among the upper levels of command… Why? Why kill so many if they do not wish war with us?" Rei could not help, but ask, even if she was an AI Support Construct.
"That is a good question, but we must prepare, an enemy approaches… Rei issue the orders to abandon Heliopolis… Gamma Signet Alpha one-oh-seven-three-Charlie-five-oh-one, First Lieutenant Kensouke Walton, issuing orders to protect Orb secrets, but let's leave the Alliance foundries unharmed, for now," 1LT Walton said grabbing the portable imager, but stopped and left it and gave Kuzzey his .45 Morgenroete Special Forces with Armor Piercing slugs in it.
"Anything none Orb or Alliance comes near, blast him/her, I don't care, waste'em and waste'em good," he said running to his mobile suit, but gunfire at his feet stopped him.
All turned to see the woman was up and she had her weapon still.
"Tell me you gave her a knock out stim and not an up and at them stim," 1LT Walton threw the nurse a pleading look, but she gave a sheepish smile.
"Only just realized that I made that mistake," she said sheepishly.
"Just who are you?" she demanded of Walton and then pointed her gun at Sai, "And you get down from there!" she was in control, but then the pistol left her head and a thunderclap sounded.
Everyone looked towards Kuzzey who was on his butt and smiling like a sheepish idiot. Smoke drifted from the barrel of the pistol. He had actually blasted something and it was a pistol and now he looked like an idiot who had just tripped down some stairs.
"Nice shot Kuzzey," Walton said as he pulled out an old 1860 Colt Army Single Action Revolver, caliber .45, the tables were now turned.
"Ken?" the woman said surprised and then it hit Walton like a Luarasia-Class ramming into him.
"Awe hell! Murrue Ramius! Dammit to hell! This is just Rio Grande!" he shouted and cursed even more under his breath to keep even Kira from hearing the assorted words he used.
"What are you doing here? I thought you were dead? They said you committed suicide," LT Ramius started forward and when she reached 1LT Walton, she touched his face and began to see if he was really there and he was.
"No my goddess, I just left… The war was going badly and the hate… I couldn't take it and you know me better than that! SUICIDE! When I get my hands around Sutherland's neck, he is going to regret it!" Walton said a few more things, but he kept them to himself and in his mind.
"You are still alive, but why are you in that flight suit?" Lt. Ramius asked.
"I was lost, but then I found the path in the Orb Ground Defense Force. I'm a Silver Single Railroad Bar in the ONGDF, but we've got serious problems. ZAFT just took out my Command HQ and I have only orders that are no longer followable, but I want to know if we can salvage anything from the Alliance R and D sites?" Walton asked.
"Get the number five trailer and we might have a chance… How you fixed for power?" she asked.
"I got more than enough power and firepower to go through an fleet of ZAFT ships!" he smiled good-naturedly at her.
"You there, get the number five trailer," she pointed at Sai and he looked towards Walton.
"I'll vouch for her. She had been a teacher when we started dating," he told Sai and Sai nodded and went to get the number five trailer.
"You know, I don't know whether to kiss you or yell at you?" Walton said to Ramius.
"How about neither, for now," she said.
"Agreed, Kira Yamato, Mirillia Haw, Kuzzey Buskirk, First Lieutenant Jen Simmons, and Rei," he pointed to each and then added, "the fellow that just left is Sai Argyle. Also, don't, whatever you do, point a gun at Kira Yamato or Mirillia Haw."
"Why's that?" she asked confused.
"I doubt you want half the ONDF on your tail for threatening two of the most powerful kids in Orb. Kira's family is a raising political family with strong ties to the Athhas and Mirillia Haw is his fiancée and I don't doubt that you know this as of the fight with the Magic Bullet of Dusk, but Kira is a First Generation Coordinator. Just a heads up," he said and then claiming her lips for about five minutes before they parted.
"I don't date mobile armor pilots anymore Ken," Ramius told her old boyfriend.
"Then I'm glad I did desert, because I'm a mobile suit pilot these days," he replied, but Lt. Simmons cleared her throat and things got busy preparing for ZAFT.
Inside the Main Support Shaft
Lieutenant Mu La Flaga, the famous Hawk of Endymion, was trying desperately to keep from being shot down by the White Knight, Commander Rau Le Creuset. The battle raged back and forth and then the Hawk lost a gunbarrel to Rau. He tried to avoid another volley of fire and lost two more gunbarrels, but he countered fired and nicked the left leg of the white ZMGF-515 CQUE in front of him. The Hawk knew that his orange with a white feather TAS-02.mod.00 Moebius Zero mobile armor was still outmatched by the ZAFT mobile suits, especially the CQUE in front of him with an veteran and ace in front of him, even if the Zero was a superior model over the TAS-02 Moebius mobile armor.
"Mu, I would really appreciate it if you died right about NOW!" Rau Le Creuset said over the radio.
Mu La Flaga deployed his last gunbarrel and tried a pincer attack, but he lost the last gunbarrel and blew up several areas of the insides of the Support Shaft. Then Rau Le Creuset returned fired and a hole was blown open in the side of the Support Shaft and the Lt. La Flaga took off through it. Rau Le Creuset followed rapidly, intent on making the kill. Only he had to dodge 76mm AP shells flying at him from the M1 Mobile Suit Burst Fire-only Battle Rifle, caliber 76.1mm, fired by the MBF-01 Green Astray mobile suit, piloted by First Lieutenant Kensouke Walton with aid from the Artificial Intelligence Support Construct Rei.
'The Orb mobile suit the others reported… Interesting… I see it might have the same technology as the Alliance, so we may yet salvage this mission,' Rau Le Creuset thought.
"You bastards spoiled a perfectly good day! Then you go and use D-Package weapons on my GHQ! Now you blast holes in the Main Support Shaft! I am SO going to kick yer ass!" and with that said, the two mobile suits began to battle.
Cliffhanger, I know it is, but with a positively EVIL reason. RHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
So I do hope you all enjoy.
"The Ender named Zone!"
Next Phase: "The Battle of Heliopolis!"
Rise Up and Defend Gundam!
2nd Disclaimer: I do not own Zone of the Enders either.