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Mobile Suit Gundam 00:

Crescendo

A Series of Short Stories

Written by,

William R. Woods
"deathzealotzero" or,

"Deathzealot"

Foreword:

The following is a series of flashes, or small short stories if you will that lead up to an alternative version of Season Two of Gundam 00 that will become the sequel to this overall larger story. This includes scenes from the last episodes of Season One which have been rewritten to better lead into the new version of season two that I am currently planning on writing. Also included are characters and a bit of story from the side story manga of Gundam 00 which has also been changed for this story and its sequel. Not much but still modified in some ways. Not to mention that unlike Gundam SEED's Astray Series I am not that much a fan of the 00 Side Stories besides some of the characters and mobile suits introduced in these mentioned side stories

To keep things easier to read with these short stories, there are going two parts to them. The first part will be following the storyline of Celestial Being getting bloodied by the UN Force's Operation Fallen Angels and them starting to rebuild after the end of the battle. This is Crescendo the first part of the larger series. The second part, or Intermezzo, will cover a variety of different stories that from all across the four-year time skip between the end of Season One and into Season Two. For example, one story will follow a UN Forces Officer a little bit after the end of Operation Fallen Angels which is an alternate point of view for a series of events that may appear in one of these stories, and then the next story will follow another character at the end of the time skip. Then we get the next story in the series, Rubicon which will cover an alternative version of season two of Gundam 00.

Well. That is about it. I hope you all enjoy these small short stories and hope to see you in Intermezzo and Rubicon. Till then…

Report 01: Switch

It was like if a simple switch had been thrown by someone and then I was entirely different from what I was before. I still had my memories of the past, but now I had more than that I knew who, and what I am. I also knew that somehow the Plan had been corrupted from the original plan set down by Aeolia Schenberg, the man who became the father to my original self…

- Hanaya

Medical Center
Krung Thep Colony
Lagrange Three, Earth Sphere
March 17, 2308A.D

In one of the small waiting rooms attached to one of the main treatment rooms of the main medical center of the Asteroid Colony of Krung Thep the tall figure of Chall Acustica, former Gundam Meister of Celestial Being and current commander of the shadow support group Fereshte. She could only stare through the window of the room and into the treatment room on the other side of the window. On the medical bed in the center of the chamber was the now deceased form of Fereshte Gundam Meister Fon Spaak which made the woman close her eyes with a sad sigh.

She hadn't been that close to the man. He'd been quite a pain thanks to both his actions as well as his attitude. However, the man had been under her direct command. Not to mention, he had been defending the solar reactor they had been entrusted with when he was heavily injured from both the shot from the enemy mobile suit and the explosive collar he had been fitted with to prevent him from betraying Celestial Being going off. After the battle, they managed to get him into a medical capsule and then raced to the Krung Thep where he could be treated properly at their Medical Center, which was far superior over the med-bay onboard their own ship but there weren't much the doctors here could do for the young man. Now he was dead, and she was without a pilot and down one of their refitted second generation Gundams as well

She sighed once more and prepared to head back the colony's docking bay to return to her ship but before she could do anything else a holographic message screen opened in front of her making her frown before briefly reading its contents. It was a simple message from the individual she knew as Gundam Meister 874, a fellow second generation Gundam Meister, or now known as Hanayo the intelligence inside a Haro-class robot assigned to her group to support their Meister in combat. The message asked her to meet Hanayo at the colony's local VEDA Terminal for she had new information on what was going on. Chall nodded at this knowing she had asked her old friend to look into what was going on with Veda and where in the world these three new Gundams and their Meisters came from. Therefore, she changed direction and headed for the VEDA Terminal hoping Hanayo had found something to explain everything.

VEDA Terminal Room
Krung Thep Space Colony
Lagrange Three, Earth Sphere

With a near silent series of groans, the heavy security doors leading to the room holding the colony's VEDA Terminal opened to admit the figure of Chall who suddenly stopped in some surprise. For beside the inert yellow cat-eared robotic ball that is Hanayo's Haro Body there was also a hologram of Hanayo's original body she had used when she was a Gundam Meister alongside Chall. What's more the usual rolling red programming code of an active VEDA Terminal was absent from the holographic screens that made up the walls of the room. In fact, the screens were dead and dark which made Chall stare at them in some confusion before she turned her attention to the holographic form of her old friend to see the young girl looking hologram looked to be quite upset over something.

"Hanayo what is going on? What happened to VEDA?" Chall asked stepping fully into the room and letting the security doors close behind her. The hologram sighed before turning to look at Chall and who was surprised to see that Hanayo looked to be crying, something she had never seen the usual stoic being do before. She had looked quite upset over the so-called Platune Incident that saw the deaths of their fellow two Gundam Meisters and the injury of Chall herself, but she never cried then.

"There is a lot that I have to tell you, Chall. First of all, as of ten minutes ago the Trinity Siblings had been pretty much neutralized with two of their Meisters killed, and one of their Throne Units have been captured by someone working with the UN Forces. Secondly, apparently around the same time, the Mainframe of VEDA and its main Terminal on the Moon have been breached by an unknown party who managed to take it over. In response, a System Trap was activated inside VEDA which wiped out any information on the Gundams, Gundam Meisters, Krung Thep Colony, our various support bases, and the identities of our remaining agents from the system," Hanayo explained in a voice that was far more emotional than what Chall was used to hearing from her, almost sounding like a human. However, Chall didn't really notice this for the information delivered by Hanayo hit Chall like a sledgehammer. Ever since she had been a teenager she had faithfully served as an agent of VEDA and Celestial Being. Being told that VEDA had been captured by some unknown party was a massive shock to her, and she really didn't know what to do after that bombshell.

"Was it the UN Forces then?" Chall finally managed to gather herself to ask Hanayo a few moments later.

"Unknown, but I do not believe so since whoever did this could and did hack through all seven security levels of VEDA. Which does mean they had to have at least some experience with VEDA to do so," Hanayo explained with a frown on her holographic face making Chall blink in some surprise before they narrowed in understanding.

"So, you may have been correct earlier when you mentioned that we had a traitor inside Celestial Being itself," Chall said in response to Hanayo. She remembered when the Trinity Siblings first appeared and Hanayo said that they may have one or several traitors inside Celestial Being since as far as she knew there were no other Gundam Meister Teams besides the primary Ptolemy Team and their own ad-hoc support team.

"Correct Chall. The Trinity Siblings, their Throne Gundams, and the False Solar Reactors of said units were not in the Plan as I knew it. This further was evident when thirty mobile suits equipped the same False Solar Reactors were given to the newly formed UN Forces," Hanayo answered, explaining further her earlier statement. Chall only nodded in some understanding before she looked over at one of the wall panels in some thought and suddenly sighing as she came to a conclusion.

"So, Celestial Being is nearly defeated by these traitors and the UN Forces then? Without VEDA, The Plan is being corrupted by some traitor, and the UN forces are hunting down the remainder of the Gundam Meisters, swamping them with overwhelming numbers," she asked the artificial being in front of her and was in turn surprised by Hanaya scoffing at this. Before she stared at Chall with a familiar crooked grin on her face, one that took Chall back to various talks she had with her fellow Second Generation Gundam Meisters and that same grin appearing on the face of Ruido Resonance several times with the first time earning the man a slap from Chall herself.

"Oh no Chall we are not done yet! We need to fix the mistakes of the past and whatever changes the traitor made to the Plan. There is still a lot we need to do," Hanayo mentioned with a small chuckle before stepping up to one of the display panels of the terminal and pressing her hand on said panel.

"As for not having VEDA to help us. Well, that had been planned for as well by VEDA," Hanayo mentioned with that same crooked grin and concentrated a moment before in front of Chall's surprised eyes the various display panels started to light up once more showing dark blue rolling coding instead of the usual red coding of VEDA.

"I was initially developed by VEDA as a support Quantum AI to not only back up VEDA but to replace it if something ever happened to it. For as you know VEDA really wasn't fully sapient therefore didn't have the needed intuition to allow it to fully account for different reactions of humanity in general. Hence it created me using data from a similar project that was under development by a man named Doctor E.A Ray, an old friend and close colleague of Aeolia Schenberg, who theorized that an AI could be created by fully mapping and scanning a human's brain. VEDA took that data from Doctor Ray and the data from a scan done by Schenberg on a young girl he had adopted in his later years to create me. That young girl was my original and when that mentioned System Trap happened a switch was literally thrown on in me allowing me to remember everything including the memories of my original self," Hanayo explained with a sad look on her face making Chall just look at the hologram in some shock before she recovered and shook herself.

"That is amazing Hanayo," Chall mentioned after a moment as she studied the display panels and seeing the figure of Hanayo standing in the middle of the rolling code calmly looking at her.

"However, I take it we don't have time to fully explore this therefore what do you suggest we do now Hanayo," Chall asked the newly revealed Quantum AI who nodded at her with a pleased look on her face.

"First, we need to recover the remaining Meisters, the Gundams, and their Solar Reactors before the UN Forces fully wipe them out. I calculate that they can handle themselves against the remaining UN Force GN-X Mobile Suits, especially with this new Trans-Am System and the new equipment," Hanayo mentioned as several holographic screens popped up around her showing various things including schematics for different pieces of equipment she wasn't familiar with along with logs of some sort.

"This happens to be the new GN Arms, two of the CB-71 Assault Containers and other upgrades for the Gundams. Therefore, they can hold off the UN Forces for a bit. I don't know what else this traitor has up their sleeve to throw at the Meisters, therefore, some reinforcements would go a long way to make sure that any of the Gundams or their Solar Reactors do not fall into the hands of the UN Forces," Hanayo continued on as she looked over the various screens with a frown on her face before looking up at Chall who nodded in agreement.

"I have relayed orders to get the Euclides readied for this mission," Hanayo mentioned as a holographic window opened in front of Chall showing the colony's main dock and the form of the CBS-68 Euclides the mothership of Fereshte being swarmed by Karels and Normal Suited Celestial Being Engineers. Chall blinked in some surprise to see that the ship's docking arms were being removed and replaced with what looked to be a pair of large CB-70 Series Containers.

"Those are the remaining pair of CB-71 Assault Containers that were still being built here at the colony. The construction of these two Containers had been running behind the other two, therefore, remained here while the other two were deployed to support the Ptolemaios and its team. While they still are not entirely finished, their GN Missile Launchers are still not ready for action, everything else still works, therefore, will allow the Euclid to have some needed offensive options," Hanayo mentioned in response to Chall's confusion as a pair of mobile suits were maneuvered into the hangers of the Assault Containers. Chall looked over at Hanayo in further confusion since those two mobile suits resembled the destroyed CBY-004 Plutone.

"Ah. Those are a pair of prototype Mobile Suits also being developed here to test out GN Condenser powered Mobile Suits. And yes, they used spare parts from the Second Generation Gundams to construct them hence why they look like the Plutone. I am transferring them to the ship to help support the Astraea Type F," Hanayo explained further with a small smile on her face. Chall after a few moments of some surprise and confusion manage to recover enough to start thinking about this.

"I am going to need pilots for these new mobile suits, and the Astraea for with Fon now declared dead I only have Eco and I admit he is a better helm officer then a Gundam Meister," Chall said with a frown eying the new mobile suits as they were slid into the opened containers.

"I have ordered Grave Violento to report to the Euclid along some extra personnel to help in this mission including some needed medical personal," Hanayo replied with a nod of her head to the holo screen showing the suited figure of Celestial Being Agent and Recruiter Grave Violento along with the shorter form of his partner Hixar Fermi making their way to the ship making Chall nod in understanding. She knew the man had initially tested the Third Generation Gundams when they were first being developed and then had recruited the Meisters to pilot them. Hixar meanwhile had been a recent recruit assigned to Grave to help in his further recruitment missions.

"Understood. What about those mobile suits? Will Hixar and Eco pilot them then?" she asked turning to look at Hanaya.

"Nope. The Artemis Units really don't have Cockpits right now. Therefore, I will be remotely controlling them through their computers," Hanayo explained with a nod of her head making Chall raise an eyebrow at the AI but nodded understanding.

"Anything else you need to throw at me Hanayo before I get ready for this rescue mission?" she asked the AI who only shook her head for a moment before turning and staring at the forgotten Haro body of hers which suddenly started up with a beep before bouncing over to Chall with the general Haro greeting making Chall smile slightly as she caught the rounded robot.

"Just that I modified my old Haro body to allow it to act as a relay for me since I am now stuck here at Krung Thep. That is pretty much it Chall. Go help them before something else gets thrown into the works. I will be making some further plans while you do that," Hanayo mentioned with a small smile of her own making Chall nod in understanding.

"Understood," Chall replied before exiting the Terminal Room leaving Hanayo alone in the room making the newly upgraded AI entity to sigh.

"Father, I hope you are in a better place now," Hanayo mentioned sadly to the open air and a tear rolling down her holographic cheek before she turned to get back to work. She wasn't going to let this unknown traitor destroy the Plan and the organization that her original's father put some much effort into making a reality.

-o-End-o-

Post Chapter Notes

Okay, that was longer than I planned it being, but it still managed to cover everything that I wanted it to. Though still had to make some minor modifications to make things work in the end there.

Anyways, I hope all enjoyed this first little story of a new series of short stories exploring a slightly different take on the final episodes of Season One. Along with the corresponding chapters of the Side Story Manga Gundam 00F. First significant change is that Fon is killed thanks to Team Trinity attacking him to recover the 0 Gundam's Solar Reactor from him after he refused to simply hand the reactor over to them just like that. Never understood how the man managed to live with the explosive collar going off along with the effects of the Red GN particles poisoning him. I, therefore, had him passing away from his injuries even though Chall and the rest of the Fereshte managing to get him Krung Thep where the better medical facilities located there could maybe save him. They didn't, and Fon dies. Good riddance in my opinion for I never liked the character.

Also, I like to mention that I am not too sure of the timeline here since we really don't get a general idea on a timeline of events during the first season and the 00F side stories. Therefore, I am having the incident between Team Trinity and Fereshte happening right before Corner and Harvey hand over the GN-X machines over to the power blocs. Then just over a week passes as Fereshte rushes Fon to Krung Thep and then we get what happens here in this chapter which gives time for the new UN Forces to start their hunt against Celestial Being.

Another of the changes is that Grave Violento is not a Innovade and is simply a regular human being who tested the just finished Third Generation Gundams and then recruited the Meisters to pilot them. Hixar I am not too sure of just yet, but he maybe a Innovade sent by VEDA to keep an eye on Grave. He also doesn't pilot the Gundam Rasiel which I never understood the reasoning for him to do so since they only had five GN Drives after all and I don't believe the large GN Condensers that could be used in place of a Drive were developed yet. Then we have Hanayo as not an Innovade but a prototype Quantum AI created by VEDA to replace it in the case of either the destruction or capture of its mainframe. Hanayo's memories were then closed off when VEDA had her take part in the test of the Second Generation Gundams which was reawakened when the System Trap activated due to Alejandro killing Aeolia in his stasis pod. Currently, Hanayo is not as powerful as VEDA overall but can process things far faster due to being an AI over a large, high-powered computer. This is because I never understood the reasoning of having other Innovades introduced to Celestial Being overall so early in the timeline when they were confused with the Innovades in Season Two.

Finally, I changed some of the Celestial Being equipment around with the addition of two more Assault Containers, which I am having docked with the Euclides to give some needed firepower to the Factory Ship. The only difference between these two sets of Containers is that this pair doesn't have the GN Missile Launchers working but everything else does. I also assigned code-numbers to both the regular Containers and the Assault Containers to make more sense. The regular Containers getting the CB-70 model number due to them being developed in conjunction with the Ptolemaios while the Assault Containers got the CB-71 code number because they were designed after the regular old containers. Then the so-called Artemis Prototype Units introduced here are indeed the GNY-0042-876 Artemie which I have changed to become prototype GN-Powered Mobile Suits testing out large GN Condensers that are capable of powering regular mobile suits. This would be important later on and into the sequel story, though yes, I know it does change a few things with Hanayo's background story. Never really understood the whole Celestial Being Civil War arc of the Manga.

Okay, that is about it for this long ending author notes, which I do apologize for everyone. I was trying to keep my notes down to a minimum, but when I get going, I just don't stop. That said the next chapter will have us returning to the Ptolemy and her crew with a few more things being changed there as well.

NOTE: Yes. I am looking for a Beta Reader for this story. If interested either PM or Email me. Thank you.