Summary: Say hello to a little something, do to the permission of Dragoon Swordsman, and Stormwolf 77145, this beast of a work, is a crossover, of out main Gundam Storys. Dragoons, Valkyries Run, Storm Wolfs, Song of the Stormwolf, and my, Stone of Jade.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything pretty much. Besides, Sam and the Jade Frame. And the new OC Vyse. Dragoon Swordsman, owns Alex, and his Associates, and Stormwolf owns Sebastian Conner. The new group appearing known as Bro, besides the OC's Vyse, and Fiona, belong to Bandai/Sunrise.

Chapter 01: Heliopolis

CE: 70, Shortly after the bloody valentine Tragedy, The tension between the PLANTs and the Earth have escalated in an all out war. Without a doubt, everyone believed in victory of the Earth Alliances vast numbers. They were wrong, eleven months have past, and now there seems to be no end in sight.

January 25th CE71

Heliopolis, was a beautiful colony, used by the Orb Nation, to house Civilians. However, the company around it, seemed to suggest otherwise of what is going on. A pair of ZAFT aligned ships floated in space. Not far from them though, was a black mobile suit. It was a ZGMF0LRR704B GINN Long Range Recon type. It hid behind a asteroid, as its recon equipment were being used. Even though lightly armed, it did hold a MMI-M8A3 76mm heavy assault machine gun, in its right hand. Other then this weapon, it was unarmed. Inside its cockpit, was a double one, in the front was a young man. At the age of seventeen, he checked over the info being given to him. "It seems ZAFT has got here before us." he admitted. The person, did not wear a space suit, instead of it he wore a red bandana, and a black uniform with blue stripes going down both sides of his shoulders.

Sitting slightly above him, in a pilots suit, was a dark green haired woman, and her suit had a bit of a larger chest plate. She shook her head, "This isn't good." she said, as she hit the radio. "Commander, this is Blue four." she radioed.

A couple thousand meters away, was a white ship. Floating in space, doing nothing at all. "Commander do you read?"

Sitting in the captains chair was a man, wearing a red uniform, unlike the ZAFT reds. More like Nobles robes, and he had long blonde hair. His head was covered with a helmet, with a mask covering his eyes. "This is the captain Fiona, what is the status?" he questioned.

Back in the mobile suit. "It seems that ZAFT has arrived, what are our orders?" she asked.

The man looked at her, "Continue the operation, our other pilots will head out as well." he told her. "If need be, ZAFT has probably gave us the proper distraction." he added.

"Understood." The two told him.

Heliopolis Colony Interior, VIP Residential Area:

The building was like a mansion with a beautiful yard within the colony. This particular building was lent out to the Orb Noble families. Standing at one of the windows, was a young male, short silver hair, as he looked outside with ice blue eyes. His face though, was uneasy beyond knowing as he watched many people walking the streets infront of the building.

"Is something troubling you?" came a voice he was all to familiar with behind him.

He turned to see a young woman, in her early twenties, she had long dark brown hair, wit her her bangs combed straight across her forehead, but with some combed to the side as well. Her red eyes just looked at him, as though peering into his soul. She was dressed in the Nobles getup of the Sahaku Family, one of the five families, of the Nation of Orb. "Lady Sahaku." the man said.

The woman smiled, "Its ok Sam, you can call me Mina remember." she corrected him.

"Ahh right." he said with a smirk. But then his face returned to a serious look, as he peered outside again. "Something is not right, I just have a bad feeling." he added.

The noble woman quirked an eyebrow at what he meant, as Sam looked at her, his ice blue eyes looked into the fiery red of her own. "Sam, what do you think is going to happen?" she politely asked him, as Sam shrugged.

"I don't know, its just, that your brother left quite fast this morning to the 'factory'." he told her, adding a emphasis onto the word factory.

Heliopolis Interior, Residential District:

Within the apartment room, upon a queen sized bed, a young man with dirty brown hair layed sprawled out on the bed, his right hand clenching the top blanket of the bed. Dark brown hair, messed from the nights sleep, and yet opening his eyes, to show an navy blue, as he slowly sat up. "Man what a dream." he quietly said. "Hanging onto the door of a car, as two friends of mine are in the front seats, as we chase down some girl. . ." he explained to himself. "Weird." He added getting off the bed, and heading for the shower.

After washing himself he left the room and got dressed into a pair of dark blue jeans, and a ash gray muscle shirt. He then went over to his pillow and raised it, to reveal a hand gun, an old Heckler from under the pillow. He then went over to the dresser, and pulled out the drawer, to reveal a Koch .45 USP Tactical, as he placed the Heckler onto the gunbelt the Koch was already a part of. He placed the belt onto his jeans. He then finally came over to a dufflebag. But besides just it, there was something else, a sheathed weapon, a katana to be exact. It was in a dark green scabbard, the handle ornately carved with the head of a wolf. He also removed his Order medal from its place of prominence and hung it around his neck, tucking it into his shirt.

He soon returned a key into the landlord, and left the building. The man former a soldier of ZAFT, walked towards the space station.

Morgenrete Facility,

Alex had left Tolle and Miriallia to find Kira Yamato, as he went to the Morgenrete facility to do some more work for his professor. However, it took him longer with a private manor before he arrived to the room.

Sai Argyle looked up as Alex entered the lab. "Hi, Alex. What kept you?"

"Had some things to take care of," was the reply. He didn't elaborate, to no one's surprise; Alex Strassmeier was the most private person any of them had ever met. He glanced at the door, spotting someone he hadn't seen before. "And who's that?" He nodded at the blond girl leaning next to the door.

Kuzzey shrugged. "She's a guest of Professor Kato's; apparently she was told to wait here."

"I see." Alex studied the newcomer. About a head shorter than he, amber eyes, a mop of blond hair under a beret... Where have I seen her before? He was certain he'd seen her face somewhere, but he couldn't figure out where.

Then it clicked. Cagalli Yula Athha, the chief representative's daughter. Well, well, well, what would the Lioness of Orb be doing in a place like this? Interesting. Alex was well aware that most people wouldn't have recognized her, but he had more reason than most for paying attention to Orb's inner workings.

Kira, meanwhile, was examining a program Sai had supplied. "It's an analysis of some kind," he said.

"Probably something to do with Morgenroete," Tolle said.

Cagalli ignored them completely, focusing on the young man watching her. Who is he, and why is he staring at me? She didn't know what to make of him, but he was more than a little disturbing.

The next hour was uneventful enough. Tolle and Kuzzey worked with a frame that looked suspiciously like the innards of a mobile suit cockpit. Kira, Sai, and Mir fiddled with a series of programs, with little effect; Kira speculated that it was a wiring problem. Alex divided his time between helping them and surreptitiously watching Cagalli, who grew progressively more irritated.

"If we could just get past this wiring problem, we'd be fine," Kira was saying, a peeved note in his voice. He looked over his shoulder. "Alex? Any ideas?"

The other Coordinator shook his head. "Not at this point, I'm afraid." He started to turn away, then froze for a split second as a buzzing sounded in his ear. He glanced around the room to make sure no one had noticed, then nodded to himself. "Strassmeier," he subvocalized.

"Alex, it's Lia," a female voice said. Lia Ramius was one of the key players in their secret project. "We've tapped into the colony's computers, and there's trouble."

Alex frowned minutely. "What kind of trouble?"

"According to what we've found, Morgenroete is building mobile suits for the Earth Forces."

"Mobile suits?" Alex repeated. "But Naturals can't pilot such machines. Not without a severely upgraded operating system, anyway."

He could almost see her wince. "Maybe they've found a way around that. There's six prototypes here, plus a new warship to carry them. As far as I can tell, only our machines can stand up to them; nothing ZAFT has can do it, that's for sure."

"Wonderful." Alex swore under his breath. So much for neutrality. "That explains one thing that's been puzzling me for the last hour."

"What's that?"

"Chief Representative Athha's daughter, Cagalli, is leaning against a wall about five meters away from me." He gave the princess a narrow glance, which she returned almost challengingly. "I'll bet she's come to see for herself; by all accounts Cagalli Yula Athha is anything but stupid. Hotheaded and impulsive, yes. Stupid, no."

Lia sighed. "Figures. Look, Alex, you'd better keep an eye on her. The last thing we need is for the Princess of Orb to be caught up in a ZAFT attack."

"ZAFT? Are you sure?"

"Positive; we've I.D.'d at least three ships, a pair of Nazca's and a Laurasia." His friend took a deep breath. "The Laurasia is the Gamow, nothing special. The Nazca's, one of them is the Mendeleev, on the other hand..." Lia paused. "It's the Vesalius."

Alex swore again. "Of all the ZAFT commanders in space, it had to be Rau Le Creuset. All right, get everybody aboard the Valkyrie ASAP, Lia. When I give the signal, launch. The code is Ragnarok."

"Roger that. Be careful, Alex." There was a click as she disconnected.

Alex forcefully resisted an urge to slam his fist into the nearest wall. Just great. Morgenroete is building mobile suits for the Earth Forces, the Chief Representative's daughter is here to check it out, and to top it off, it looks like we're about to go toe-to-toe with Rau Le Creuset himself.

As far as he was concerned, the only difference between Rau Le Creuset and Patrick Zala was that Le Creuset was creepier. Both men, in their own ways, disgusted him: Zala by his unreasoning hatred of Naturals, and Le Creuset with his evident lack of anything resembling a moral compass; the man clearly believed in the philosophy of the ends justifying the means. And I'm related to one of Zala's inner circle. This could get complicated.

Despite his iron self-control, some of Alex's thoughts must have shown on his face, or so he judged by the way his friends were looking at him. "Are you okay?" Kira asked.

Alex quickly shook it off, his poker face sliding back into place. "It's nothing; don't worry about it." The others went back to their work, not sure if they'd all been hallucinating.

Cagalli, however, thought otherwise. She hadn't missed the way he froze, however briefly, when he received the call. You know more than you're letting on, don't you? Are you with the Earth Forces, or ZAFT, or what? It didn't occur to her that he was, in some ways, connected to both, but she wouldn't have cared even if she'd known. Either way, you're trouble.

Heliopolis Exterior:

A trio of GINN's flew into the colony, just over several civilians. "ZAFT soldiers!" one man called, as the GINNs flew over.

However outside, a GINN slashed a Mobious in half, as it went on threw. "Haha, this is easy." the green soldier mused, as he looked to his right, he did not last much longer, as his machine was hit repeatedly by machinegun fire. The guns came from that of a pair of Gunbarrels.

"I knew something bad would happen." Notioned a man in black and purple flightsuit, with a helmet to match. "Damn, just why is that man here anyways?" he questioned. Just then he felt a familiar sensation he has had before. "This feeling, has he come out to fight?" he questioned. However, before he did anything a GINN Recon type flew on by. "What a GINN, it didn't attack me?" he asked.

Within the GINN the pilot had a feeling. "What is it Vyse?" the woman asked, as the pilot shook his head.

"Nothing Fiona." he told her. "What of the others?" he asked.

Fiona looked at her instruments, "They have launched from the Argama, They will be intercepting any back up ZAFT might send us. But that leaves us three, two of which are clearing a way, while the third brings in a team, to capture the machines." she told him.

Vyse nodded, "Alright, lets do it." he told her, just then their machine warned them.

"Vyse, incoming Mobile Armor, its a Zero." she called out. Vyse instantly knew what to do, as he dodged the nose mounted linear gun of the Zero.

Vyse turned his machine around, and fired a burst of three bullets. The Zero was not a normal pilot, as it dodged the attack. "This guy, is he like me?" Vyse questioned, as he then turned and flew towards the colony.

"Who is that guy?" Mu asked. "He's pretty good." he added, "But I am as well." he added, as he fired all four of his Wired Gunbarrels, along with his linear gun. Vyse quickly dodged most of the attacks, however his machines back was hit by a spray of gunfrie from the Gunbarrel. Just then he had a new feeling, and dodged an attack. Coming towards him, was a white CGUE, ZAFT's commander type mobile suit. "Is that your Rau Le Creuset?" he asked.

The GINN Recon was slowing down. "Damn." Vyse said. "Main fuselage was damaged, the machine is losing power then it normally would." he told Fiona.

"Most of our equipment is knocked out as well." Fiona informed him, as she tapped on her keyboard, to adjust the power useage, do to that she was the coordinator out of the two. "We have about five minutes of energy left Vyse. I suggest we find somewhere to land, and quick. We'll have to find a pair of machines for us to take." she told him.

Vyse nodded, as the GINN flew over the same civlians. Just then, they arrive into the colony itself, just then, several large explosions could be heard. "What damn." he called out.

"Hey your not a member of our team, who are you with!?" demanded a voice, as a green GINN appeared infront of them.

Vyse cursed under his breath, "Not good, its ZAFT." he cursed. Just then the GINN's heavy machine gun raised at them.

"Answer, what squad are you from?" he ordered. Vyse hit the thrusters and flew up. "Fool, you can't run from me!" he called out. With that, the two machines flew through the colony.

The two were heading straight for the manor. Sam saw the oncoming Machines, as his eyes widened. He turned and ran towards Rondo Mina Sahaku. "Mina!" he called out, as she turned towards him, only to be tackled by the man. The two hit the ground hard, as the mobile suits flew by, the windows of the manor shattering from the power of the machines thrusters. The glass rained down upon Sam, as he covered the noble woman's head. "Damn it." he said, as he began to get up.

Mina was a bit shaken but stood. "What was that just now?" she asked.

Sam got up as well, and brushed himself off. "Nothing good." he told her. "We need to get to the shelter now." he told her. All he got was a nod of confirmation of her agreement.

The Recon GINN turned and fired its heavy machine gun at the GINN, only to be dodged. Vyse cursed, "Damn, standard GINN's are more maneuverable then this thing."

"Vyse!" Fiona warned, as Vyse finally noticed the GINN was up close.

"Damn!" he called as the GINN opened fire, bullets shot through the upper Torso of the mobile suit.

"Ahh!" Fiona screamed as the mobile suit went and crashed into the ground.

In the GINN the pilot smiled, as it was the Magic Bullet of Dust Miguel Aiman. "Thats it for you." he said, as the GINN looked to its right, to see a Missile truck heading its way. "Oh no you don't." he said firing his machine gun at the weapon, destroying it. "Damn, when will that go off?" he questioned, as the mobile suit took off.

On the ground, Fiona opened her eyes, to see Vyse infront of her. "What happened?" she asked.

"We were shot down." Vyse told her, as he went and hit the hatch controls forceing it to open. "Can you continue the mission?" he asked her, as Fiona slowly nodded her head. "Alright." he said, hitting another switch, as a pair of weapons came up. They were a pair of F9100s. "Here." he told her, as Fiona finished taking off her harnest to catch the weapon.

"I'm going to Morgenrete." Fiona told him, as she climbed out.

"Gotcha, I'll meet you there." he told her. "If we don't receive a radio signal from the other, we leave in fifteen." he told her.

Fiona nodded, as the two went their seperate ways.

Within a few minutes, Underneath the Manor, Sam and Rondo Mina Sahaku lowered upon the elevator. "This is bad, I knew it was a bad idea." he told the woman behind him.

"Your talking about the whole thing with the Earth Forces aren't you?" she asked, as Sam nodded. "I understand your hatred for them, but this was a good chance for Orb as well." she told him.

"I know." he said, as he looked down towards five 'beds' that held five sleeping mobile suits. "Lets get you to a shelter." he told her.

Mina shook her head no, "No Sam, I'm taking one of those machines, to help protect this . . ." she was stopped, as two fingers were on her lips.

"No Mina. You are to important to put in harms way right now." he told her, as he then grabbed her hand, and began to drag her towards the elevator to the lifepod. "I will see you again Mina." he told her, as she nodded, going into the elevator. The door closed as she put a hand on the elevator, as Sam did the same. Just then an explosion happened behind him, as Mina saw that the door was blown open before she went below the floors level.

"Damn!" Sam said, as he drew a glock, a type of pistol normally used by law enforcement. He opened fire, only missing the assailants head by a few millimeters. He then saw the figure heading towards the mobile suits. "Oh no you don't." Sam said, as he reloaded his gun, and began to charge for his foe. He was stopped as the figure opened fire on him, as bullets missed his feet by mere centimeters. "Hold it right there buddy." he said, just then Sam saw something he did not want to see. The MBF-P01 Astray Gold Frame's eyes glowed yellow. "Someone is in Gold!" he called out, as the machine stood up.

Inside, a sly smile crep across the face of Rondo Ghina Sahaku, Mina's Ferternal Twin Brother. He was wearing a yellow and black flightsuit. "So he is still here." he said, as he saw another, as the machine stood.

"Not good." the other person said, as he ran behind cover, which so happened to be behind one of the machines, a silver one for certain. It was colored the same as the other three, but it was silver.

Ghina though smiled, "I have a way to kill the both of you, with only a single shot." he said, as the Gold Frame went over, and grabbed a large weapon, a beam bazooka. "Weapon registered." He said as he aimed at the hole, and then he fired, the beam went and hit the hull of the colony. Melting it away.

"Damn!" Sam said, as the air began to be sucked out. The assailant though, climbed within the silver machine, as Sam looked around, as he began to lose his footing. Just then, several more vibrations could be felt around him, as he began to fly out. "Raghh!" he yelled, as he flew bouncing off of the Silver machine. But as he flew over the Jade colored machine, his hand grasped on the edge. He took one final breath as he climbed towards the cockpit, getting to the controls, as it opened. Sam could feel the temperature of the area drop rapidly, as the gaping hole was making it to becoming Absolute Zero. As the cockpit opened, Sam did not wait until it was fully open to climb in.

His next door neighbor saw this. "Persistant." Vyse admitted. "Why did they build these machines? I thought the Earth Forces, were the only machines here." he admitted. The machine he was in begin to start up, and the first thing to come on screen was the word. "GUNDAM" he noted the word, as the word split into its letters, in a vertical setting and displayed the words General Unilateral Neuro – Link Dispersive Autonomic Maneuver.

Sam in the other one, started the machine he was in as well, as the screens came on, he noticed the silver machine, was halfway up. "A Natural?" he questioned, as he changed began to stand his machine, grabbing a beam rifle in the rack right beside the Jade colored machine. The beam rifle snapped over, aiming at the cockpit. "Stop moving your machine or else I will shoot!" Sam demanded.

Vyse opened his eyes, "Lewis?" he asked, as the two machines looked at each other, as though they were frozen in time.

Morgenrete Facility:

An explosion rocked the room, Kira Yamato, Alex Strassmeier, Cagalli Yula Athha, Kuzzey Buskirk, Sai Argyle, Tolle Koenig, and Miriallia Haww, all felt the floor underneath them shake. "A meteor?" Sai wondered.

Alex shook his head. "A ZAFT attack. Morgenroete is building mobile suits for the Earth Forces, and Rau Le Creuset is here to collect them." Ignoring his friends' looks of surprise (and Cagalli's look of suspicion), he reached for the door with his left hand; his right suddenly held a pistol. "Come on."

The seven youngsters emerged in an emergency stairwell. Dozens of people were already on it, clearly trying to get out as fast as possible. A few looked taken aback by Alex's pistol, but he ignored them, reflexively scanning for any threats.

None presented themselves, though Cagalli was beginning to feel like threatening him herself. How do you know it's ZAFT? Are you in on this or something? The more she saw of the mysterious Coordinator, the more suspicious she became.

"What's going on?" Sai asked, bewildered. Is Alex right? Are we under attack?

"We're under attack by ZAFT! Some of their mobile suits have entered the colony!" Kira and his friends gasped, and Cagalli's eyes narrowed, but Alex didn't even blink. "You'd better get out, too!"

Kira and the others started for the exit, but Cagalli ran off in the opposite direction. Seeing this, Kira ran after her. Is she crazy? He doubled his pace, peripherally aware of Alex close on his heels. He didn't bother to question his friend's action; Alex never did anything without reason, he just usually kept that reason secret.

"Kira! Alex!" Tolle called.

"I'll be right back!" Kira yelled back; Alex didn't respond at all.

Ahead of them, Cagalli raced down the seemingly dead-end corridor. If we're really building mobile suits for the Earth Forces... Father, how could you? She grimaced at the thought of the young man from the lab. And how did he know it was a ZAFT attack? There was only one conclusion she could draw. He must be a ZAFT agent. Which means he's involved in the attack.

That was when Kira caught up with her. "What are you doing? It's a dead end here."

"Stop tailing me!" Cagalli snapped. "Better get out of here and hook back up with the others." She glared at Alex as he came to a stop near them. "And what do you think you're doing?" she demanded.

Alex took notice of something out of the corner of his eye. "Take cover!" he told them, as he pushed Cagalli and Kira out of the way, as he jumped backwards, as machinegun fire erupted where they stood. When Cagalli start to sit up, Kira noticed her hat had fallen to the floor.

Kira blinked in surprise. "You're...a girl?"

She glared at him. What did you think? "Yeah, what did you think I was? Let's hear it!"

"Perhaps you two could wait on arguing until we are no longer in danger of being blown to bits," Alex suggested mildly. He then turned out of cover, and fired a revolver twice in that direction.

On the otherside the fourteen year old Fiona Heartily took cover as she was shot at twice. "An old Revolver?" she asked, recognizing the type of shots fired at her. "Typical gun of a weakness." she said, firing a blind shot short burst.

Alex was wondering why the last burst of shots were nowhere near them, as he fired another three shots. "Wait, thats what they want me to do." he realized, as his gun had one shot left. He then slid another bullet into the Gun, and fired the last shot he had before the new bullet.

"And that is six." Fiona said, as she then left cover and charged. Alex knew this plan, and fired the final shot, with it, Fiona was hit in the shoulder, causing her to collapse onto the ground. "Damn." she said, as she fell to the floor. "Damn." she said.

Alex nodded to Kira. "The foe is down, unsure if any others are there." he told him, as then, he felt a strange sensation. "Kira down that hall, now!" he called out, as Kira was unsure what Alex just meant. However, he then felt the ground shake, and turned his head to the newcomer. It was the Silver mobile suit, staring in at them.

"Vyse?" Fiona questioned, as she saw the eyes. "Is that you?" she asked.

Vyse was in the machine and nooded, "Fiona take cover." he told her, as he stared at the foes she was fighting just moments ago. She moved into cover, as Alex suddenly grabbed Cagalli, as Kira got up.

"Hey let go of me!" Cagalli shrieked, as Alex payed no attention, moving her into the hall, as glass began to shatter. Behind them, the Silver Mobile suit was firing 75mm slugs into the spot they were just at, from the mobile suits head. Cagalli was wide eyed, as if he let her go, she would have been swiss cheesed.

"Fiona come on." echoed a voice, from within the mobile suit. The injured person climbed into the hand, as Kira noticed this. The Mobile suit did not even look at them again, as it took off.

He then looked at Alex. "Was that one of the mobile suits?" he asked, as Alex shrugged.

"If it was, there are five others that are not active." he admitted. Alex then went over to Cagalli. "Come on." he told her.

"No." she said pulling her arm away.

Morgenrete:

Earth Forces soldiers, had been pushed back, as three of their new mobile suits have been taken. They have been pushed back, for the next two to be shipped out, the GAT-X303 Aegis, and GAT-X105 Strike.

Lieutenant Murrue Ramius, Earth Forces, was in a bad position. Three of her people had already been killed in a firefight with ZAFT commando-pilots, and she herself was running low on ammunition. This is ridiculous, she thought, blasting yet another greensuit. How did they find out?

Alex, Kira, and Cagalli burst out onto the catwalk above. Cagalli took one look at the mobile suits on the floor and sank to her knees. "I knew it," she moaned. "The Earth Forces prototype mobile weapons... Father, I knew you betrayed us all!"

Alex grabbed them both and yanked them down, just as Ramius fired on them. "Do you think you could draw even more attention to us?" he hissed at Cagalli, voice even colder than usual. "There might have been two or three people in the colony who didn't hear you...maybe." Without waiting for a response, he got to his feet. "Come on, the shelter is this way."

They reached the shelter easily enough, only to run into another problem: it was full. Completely.

Kira closed his eyes in despair. "What do we do now?"

Alex hid a grimace. I guess I have no choice. "Kira, head for the shelters in the left block. I'll get the girl out."

His friend's eyes widened. "Are you sure?"

"Trust me."

Kira hesitated, then nodded reluctantly. "All right, then. Be careful." He turned and ran back the way they had come.

Here goes nothing. Alex began running in the opposite direction; Cagalli, though still suspicious, realized she had no choice but to follow. They dodged intermittent explosions -apparently one of the GINNs was using HE rounds in its rifle- and turned down an alleyway. This should do for now.

Alex stopped so suddenly that Cagalli ran into him from behind. "Watch it, you- !"

"Quiet," he snapped.

She glared. "Who do you think you are? I have-"

Cagalli stopped in mid-sentence at the look he gave her. "I said quiet," Alex repeated. "I need to think, and I can't with you jabbering at me." He glanced skyward. Lia, I hope you're ready. We can't wait any longer. Since his throat mike had been damaged in the ruckus, Alex brought a wrist-mounted comm to his lips. "Ragnarok, Ragnarok. I say again, Ragnarok."

"Copy Ragnarok," Lia Ramius's voice said. "What's up?"

"Launch the Valkyrie. I'm in an alley in the factory district with the princess." Cagalli stared at him in disbelief. "I need you to pick us up."

"Roger that," Lia replied. "We're on our way. ETA: fifteen minutes."

"Good." Alex signed off and glanced at his companion. "We have a little time, so you might as well ask some of your burning questions."

Cagalli blinked, put off balance by his remarks. "Let's start with who are you, and how do you know who I am," she said, trying to steady herself.

"Quick and to the point. Just what I expected from the Lioness of Orb." Alex's shoulders twitched in what might have been a shrug. "My name is Alex Strassmeier. As for how I know who you are, I'm afraid a detailed explanation will have to wait until we're aboard ship. For now, suffice it to say that I've seen you before." He quirked an eyebrow. "Next?"

She blinked again. What's with this guy? "How did you know ZAFT was attacking before we got out of the lab? Are you a ZAFT agent?"

"Hardly. I am a second-generation Coordinator, yes, but that is irrelevant." Alex gave her a searching look. "Unless Orb policy regarding my kind has changed recently?"

Cagalli shook her head. "It hasn't, and I don't care if you're a Coordinator. What I do care about is how someone could know about the attack ahead of time without being in on it."

"I didn't know about it ahead of time; some friends of mine learned of the mobile suits Morgenroete was building here," Alex countered. "When they spotted two ZAFT vessels, I knew an attack was inevitable. I do have connections to ZAFT, yes, but also some admittedly indirect connections to the Alliance."

"How can you be connected to both sides without being some kind of double agent?" Cagalli demanded.

"I said I had connections, not that I was with either side," he said coolly. "I have a relative in ZAFT, and the young lady I just spoke with is the niece of an Earth Forces officer, which puts me in a rather difficult position." Another minute shrug. "Further explanations will have to wait; the Valkyrie will be here at any moment."

Factory District:

Murrue turned to the two last remaining soldiers, "Hamada, Bryan, activate them hurry!" she called. As a soldier up where Kira and the girl once were took aim.

"Look out behind you!" Kira called, as the one that had her targeted miss, as the woman turned around, and shot the soldier herself. After that, her clip of ammo went empty.

"Come on!" she called to the teen.

"I'll head for the shelter in the left block!" Kira called to her. "Don't worry about me!" he answered.

"The only thing left there is the door itself!" she told him, as she opened fire with a pistol at the ZAFT soldiers. Kira then catapulted himself, landing on one of the two mobile suits. That was when one of her comrades was killed for killing another. "Hamada!" she called firing at her comrades killer. However, the ZAFT soldier turned and fired at her, piercing her arm, but luckily, the gun Jammed so it could not finish the job. With that, Kira rushed to the woman to give her air from the wound. However, the red clad soldier came running at them, with an army knife ready to kill anyone in his way.

Kira looked at the soldier coming his way, and saw the face of his attacker. "Athrun" was all Kira could say, as the soldier stopped infront of them.

"K. . .Kira" was the reply from the soldier. The woman raised her wounded arm, and fired upon the soldier, who left them, and went for the other machine. She then pushed Kira into the cockpit of the machine they were on, and jumped in herself, sealing the cockpit behind her. As the mobile suit Kira was in the woman started it up, as the word GUNDAM came up, and split itself into an Acronym known as General Unilateral Neuro - Link Dispersive Autonomic Maneuver. With that, the mobile suit known as the GAT-X105 Strike began to raise from its sleeping position, as the entire facility began to go into a blaze.

A/N: I know certain areas may feel rushed, but in a sense they were. I wanted certain things done before the bomb actually went off. Oh well.

New Mobile Suit information, that has been seen thus far. Plus pictures.

Model number: MBF-P04

Code name: Astray Jade Frame

Unit type: prototype general purpose mobile suit

Color: Normal: Jade and White

Phase Shift: None

Picture: http://i7(dot)photobucket(Dot)com/albums/y288/Muarzi/Gundam/Jadeframe(Dot)jpg

Manufacturer: Morgenrete Inc

Operator: Earth Alliance, ORB

First deployment: 25 January C.E. 71

Accommodation: Standard Cockpit

Dimensions: 17.53 Meters

Weight: 49.8 Metric Tons

Construction: Unknown

Powerplant:Ultracompact High energy battery

Equipment and design: Sensors range unknownHardpoints for A-Packs

Fixed armaments: 2 x "Igelstellung" 75mm multi-barrel CIWS, fire-linked, mounted in head, 2x Beam sabers

Model number: MBF-P05

Code name: Silver Frame

Unit type: General purpose mobile suit

Color: Normal: White and Silver

Phase Shift: None

Picture: http://i7(dot)photobucket(dot)com/albums/y288/Muarzi/Gundam/mbf-p05(dot)png

Manufacturer: Morgenrete Inc

Operator: BRO

First deployment: January 25 CE 71

Accommodation: Standard Cockpit , (Later Modification) Two seater cockpit

Dimensions: 17.53 Meters

Weight: 54.8 Metric Tons

Construction: unknown

Powerplant: Ultracompact energy battery

Equipment and design: Sensors Unknown range, (

Fixed armaments: 2 x "Igelstellung" 75mm multi-barrel CIWS, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2x Beam sabers, mounted on back over shoulders; 4x Wired Beam Gun pod (Mounts one Beam Gun each)

Optional hand armaments: 1x Anti beam coated shield, 1x 57 mm high-energy beam rifle