AN: Hey how's it going everyone! It's lyokoMARVELanime here with a little something for you Gundam SEED Prime fans. A little series of one-shots of what I like to call, the deleted scenes. Now as the title and the previous statement would suggest, all of the one-shots here are basically some moments from each of the Gundam SEED Prime stories that did not quite make it into the final draft of the chapter for one reason or another, like it just would've pulled away from the main story too much, or there was just no way to work it into the chapter without making it longer than necessary, but I am going to do my best to make sure that those scenes at least find their way here.

Now with that said, let's get things started with the first of the Deleted Scenes from Gundam SEED Prime. This first scene here is one that would've taken place in Chapter 10: Island Encounters, but since I wanted to focus that chapter on the first meeting of Athrun and Cagalli, and the meeting between their respective Cybertronian allies, it ultimately didn't make the cut. It actually draws its main inspiration from a certain episode of Transformers Cybertron. Now without further ado...

I do not own anything from either the Gundam or Transformers franchises or any other franchise mentioned in this story.


We're Going for a Swim

It was a beautiful day with the sun shining, the sky clear of any clouds, and the sea so calm that you could fall asleep listening to the quiet. Add in the light wind that was blowing, and there was only one thing to say about it. "This feels wonderful," Miriallia exclaimed from the upper deck of the Archangel.

Miriallia was not alone in this feeling, as the entire crew of the Archangel had to completely agree with her on that sentiment. The white ship and their new allies, the Autobots who were aboard the large golden and red ship named the Omega II, had just set out from the desert a few hours ago for their voyage across the sea to Alaska, and given all that had happened and the fact that they were not likely to encounter any enemy forces anytime soon, Murrue Ramius had decided to allow the crew to all have some brief moments up on the deck to enjoy the feeling of being at sea. It was something that everyone was eager to take advantage of, especially the kids from Heliopolis, but not quite everyone was excited about being at sea.

"It sure is beautiful, but I'm feeling dizzy," Kuzzey said, clearly indicating he was getting a bit sea sick.

"Oh yeah. This is the first time you've ever been at sea isn't it Kuzzey? Weren't you born in Heliopolis," Tolle asked from where he was standing next to his friend.

"Yeah and I thought the desert was scary, but this place really freaks me out. It gets really deep in some parts doesn't it," Kuzzey asked worriedly.

"Yeah and there're monsters too," Miriallia replied with a devious little smile.

Kuzzey instantly cringed at that, which got Tolle to smile as he lightly reprimanded, "Oh stop teasing him Mir." Tolle then looked back at his friend and tried to make him relax a bit as he said, "Don't worry too much Kuzzey. At least you're not the only one who seems to be getting freaked out."

Kuzzey raised a confusing glance to his friend along with Miriallia and Tolle simply chuckled as he pointed over in the direction of the Omega II. The other two looked over to see that some of the Autobots were on the upper deck of their own ship as well, and one particular, army green Wrecker was trembling like Scooby-Doo after seeing a ghost. Everyone else soon saw this as well and were all wondering what the deal was with the normally fearless Wrecker which led Mu La Flaga to head over in his Sky Grasper and find out for himself.

Over on the Omega II, Bulkhead was still trembling as he glanced at the water, much to nearly everyone's amusement. "Uh that sure looks pretty deep," Bulkhead muttered. "You know, maybe if we do get into a battle I would be better off on the bridge or at the weapons control or something."

"What's the matter Bulkhead? Ya fraid to get wet," Hound asked teasingly.

"No, and nothing's the matter," Bulkhead retorted.

"Okay then prove it," Hound said. Immediately after he had said that he started to push his big friend towards the edge of the ship. "Just take a little dip for a few…"

"AH! HOUND STOP," Bulkhead exclaimed, already starting to panic. "Okay, okay fine. I'm not too big on the idea of going into the water. Happy?"

"Care to explain the reasoning for that," Mu asked, having landed his Sky Grasper on the deck of the large gold ship and heard the last of that conversation when he walked up.

"Do I really need to explain it," Bulkhead asked. "I've never been underwater before, and neither has any of the other Autobots. There weren't any oceans back on Cybertron you know."

"Unless you count some of the energon pools, or the sea of rust," Arcee stated factually. "But I wouldn't recommend swimming in the former for obvious reasons, and the later was only named as such because it was full of rust storms almost all the time."

"I am certain that there is no need to worry Bulkhead," Optimus said as he walked up from behind them. "For all we know, it may be no worse than fighting in a zero gravity environment. Really all we can do to prepare ourselves for possible underwater combat now is simply jump in." As soon as Optimus had said that last part, he quickly transformed to his vehicle mode and raced off the edge of the ship, crashing into the water.

"Optimus," the Autobots on the deck all shouted. Bulkhead was the only one of the three on the deck to dive in after their leader, and he was soon joined later by Bumblebee, both doing so in vehicle mode. Everyone who saw this was slightly surprised by the actions that the Autobots had taken, but for the 'Bots that were underwater at the moment, it was a different story.

"Yeah this was a great plan. We're just sinking," Bulkhead said with the obvious amount of sarcasm. The three then transformed back to their robot modes a moment later to try and improve their situation, with no success what so ever. "Oh yeah Optimus, this is much better."

"There is no need to worry Bulkhead. It would appear that we are being kept afloat by our vehicular modes' tires, so we should have nothing to worry about," Optimus reassured his friend.

"Optimus, are you all okay," Elita One then asked from over the radio.

"We are fine Elita, but we are facing some unexpected factors," Optimus replied.

"What do you mean? What's the problem?"

"What isn't the problem," Bulkhead immediately cut in. "We have no idea what we're doing! 'Just like moving in a zero gravity environment' he says. 'Let's just jump in' he says."

"I will admit that this is proving to be more difficult than I had originally believed it would be," Optimus admitted.

"Uh question," Bumblebee then piped in. "What're we supposed to do now if we can't even get back up on our own?"

"Oh gee-whiz," Tolle moaned as he raced down to the lowest parts of the Archangel. "I'll show 'em how it's done." Before anyone could do anything to stop him, Tolle had dived right into the water and the minute he resurfaced he called out, "Hey someone tell those guys down there to watch me and do what I do."

Murdoch instantly relayed that message to La Flaga, who then had Elita relay it to Optimus and the others. With that done, Tolle began to show off his swimming skills as he called down to the submerged Autobots, "Okay guys, this is called the breast stroke. Just do like I'm doing and you shouldn't have any problems moving."

After watching the young man demonstrate the swimming form for a minute, the three Autobots were quickly doing the same as well. "Thank you Tolle Koenig."

"Yeah this isn't actually so bad," Bulkhead admitted.

"It's still kinda weird though," Bumblebee pointed out as he followed the two in practicing the strokes.

A short while later, Tolle had shown the three Autobots how to do all the different swimming forms he knew, and each of them had found that they all had a preferred swimming form they liked best. Sometime during the course of this, Bumblebee had tried out his blasters to see how well they would work underwater, only to find that they would be useless, leading the Autobots to decide that they should make sure they had weapons such as Scrapmakers and the like for whenever they had to fight underwater. To put it simply, the Autobots were now sea worthy swimmers and warriors. "Thank you again Tolle. It would appear that we needed you and the others more than we realized. Otherwise we would likely have been sunk," Optimus attempted to joke.

The attempt was not well met. "Ugh dude," Bumblebee groaned.

"Don't even get me started," Bulkhead agreed.

"That one hurt," Hound stated, having heard the joke over the radio.

"Just another reason why Primes don't normally tell jokes," Arcee added.

"While I will admit that his sense of humor has never been his strongest point, I just want to make sure that it is well known that I did not marry Optimus Prime because I thought he was funny," Elita One quickly stated.

With that said, it was quickly learned that day that even the mighty Autobots needed help sometimes, but even then some things were impossible, even in the case of Optimus Prime.


AN: So there you have it. Now I will say that not all of these scenes will be like this one. Some may end up being a bit more serious than others, and others may be so funny that you'll either find yourself unable to breathe from laughing so hard, or they may just make you say "That was so funny I forgot to laugh". I really don't care about that either way. I'm just posting these so you can see what didn't make it in to the final version of the story despite the fact I wanted them to.

Please read and review, and I'll see you next time for either the next GS: Prime deleted scene or the next chapter of one of my other stories!