Gundam SEED Armageddon
Variation: Gundam S/Armageddon
Phase 1: The Returning Darkness
"Sir, we've picked up a signal!" a man started running frantically around the halls, he was wearing a black colored suit with a purple neck, he had a purple and black hat on his head and a pair of black pants and purple boots, on the neck he had a symbol in the shape of an hourglass that was in a shade of gold.
People were walking around the halls all of them wearing different uniform depending on their ranks, the halls were mostly iron walls and the room were all either offices or viewing areas. Once the man stopped he looked ahead at the grey door in front of him. "Door open," the man ordered and as soon as the last syllable came out of his mouth the gray door opened itself.
"Yes officer Alsen?" a man greeted him once he went in, he was wearing a white long sleeve jacket with a pair of pearly white pants, he had a pair of black boots, his suite also had a black neck and black shoulders and he wore a flag like insignia with the top being red and the bottom being yellow.
"I was just sending the report of our last mission what would be the matter?" he asked as he got up. The physical appearance of the man weren't exactly the ones you'll expect from someone important, he only looked around 20 years of age, he had white hair that was combed the side and a pale white skin color.
"I'm sorry Commander Joule, but we just found this closed to the December PLANT." The officer held out a picture over so that the Commander could see well. The white haired man grabbed the picture and scanned it, at first it looked normal, they were in space and after the last few years it was normal to find ruins of asteroids, PLANTs or other kinds of artifacts that were left from previous battles.
"I don't see anything, would you mind pointing it out?" the Commander asked as he handed the picture back to the Officer Alsen. Alsen nodded, it was really hard to notice, it even took him long to see what was important in the picture.
"Sorry sir, here," Alsen apologized as he grabbed the picture again, he gave it back to the Commander; but this time he was pointing at the object. The Commander gasped as he stared at the picture once again, almost dropping it this time from the shock.
"No way, no freaking way, thanks for bringing this picture officer, you're dismissed." Alsen nodded, he saluted the Commander as he turned around and walked out of the office. The Commander dropped to his chair and put his hands on his forehead. "Computer on," the computer that was on the desk turned on immediately, a list of contacts appeared. "Connect me to Dearka Elsman." He ordered, the computer scrolled down and in less than a few seconds someone was on the screen.
"Ysac, nice to see you bro, why are you calling?" the man that appeared on the screen had black skin he had a glowing blond hair and brown eyes, he was wearing a white shirt with blue sleeves, or at least that's what could be seen through the screen. "You do know I'm on my vacation so I'm not really happy with you calling me right no." he chuckled as he grabbed a glass of water that was on his desk and drank some; he put it down and looked at Ysac. "Really why did you call?"
"What city are you in right now?" Ysac asked as he rolled on his chair so that he could grab the picture that was on the other side; Dearka was one of his old friends and he knew he could help him out, if it wasn't Dearka, then it had to be someone he didn't like.
"Febrarous City, that's where I live remember," Dearka answered pointing at his head, to make it look like Ysac should've remembered that.
"Oh right, I forgot anyways, do you have a way to contact someone that's in December City." Ysac face palmed, he forgot his best friend's city, which made him feel a little stupid.
"Yeah, I could contact Kira, if that's okay with you." Dearka grinned mischievously; he knew how much Ysac hated Kira, for all the humiliation he gave him in battle when the two were younger. Ysac frowned a bit after this. "Come on, you know he lives there so that he can watch over Lacus, so just let him do it, plus he's got more experience with this kind of stuff than us." Dearka laughed, Ysac sighed as he turned the screen off. "That was really rude of him, it must be something really important the shrugged as he turned the TV off.
Ysac pressed a button on the desk that contacted him with the PLANTs board. "Get me Kira Yamato on the phone, he lives in December City, yeah he should be awake right now." He pressed the button again as he leaned on the chair.
***
Space is a vast land in a sense, no matter where you went there were stars and darkness, there was a field full of giant hourglasses like colonies, and these colonies are known as the PLANTs which stands for Productive Location Ally on Nexus Technology. The PLANTs are the place where Coordinators a special group of human beings live, these people are special in the sense that their genes were engineered whit when they were still in the wound, which allowed them to have any kind of ability their parents wanted.
Coordinators were really special at first, and people liked them, but what would normal people do when they have to compare themselves to a race that will always be stronger, or faster, or smarter than them. That's when war broke out, normal people or Naturals as it is referred now became jealous, they attacked Coordinators and killed all the ones they could get their hands on, Coordinators in turn also detested Natural because they couldn't compare to them. Eventually Coordinators left Earth and created the PLANTs in space, they still set up a few bases in Earth though, that's when they created ZAFT a special troop that defend the PLANTs.
Eventually a big war broke out when the Earth Alliance Forces launched a nuclear attack on Junius Seven one of the PLANTs cities and it destroyed it and killed over 30000 people in the process, this caused ZAFT and the Earth Alliance Forces to start a war known as the Bloody Valentine War. After almost two years of fighting, the war finally ended when a special force from the ORB Union, a group of neutral forces stopped both sides, thanks to the efforts of Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala two young Coordinators peace was restored.
Peace didn't last long though, eventually a group of Coordinators took control of the remaining of Junius Seven and planned to crash it against Earth, thanks to the efforts of ZAFT forces they managed to break the PLANT up, unfortunately the smaller pieces still fell on Earth and one again; they broke the peace.
The Second Bloody Valentine War was more one sided than the first one, the Earth Alliance Forces was taken over by Blue Cosmos or Logos to be exact, Blue Cosmos was a group of people that despised Coordinators, they were originally the ones that started the fights between both species in the beginning. Blue Cosmos was eventually disbanded and ZAFT; with the help of Chairman Durandal became the heroes in the eyes of both Naturals and Coordinators, but what Durandal had plan was something that would show people what they would be from birth to their death, even though it was something really great, it really made life empty. Again thanks to the efforts of Orb, ZAFT was stopped just in time and peace reigned once again. But for how long.
***
December City, like any other PLANT was a giant city that was balanced between both suburban and forest nature. Thanks to the reflectors that absorb solar energy, the plants absorbed it and gave life to plant life while still helping out their people. The cities were big, and they certainly gave a new meaning to skyscraper. They had to be big, considering they were supposed to hold up to 50000 people in each PLANT. Bridges were always surrounding the city, and highways, there were also different sectors for the city.
It was dark right now, since the reflectors were reflecting the darkness in space at the current time. The city was quiet, there were still cars driving and people out, but it was quiet in the sense that everything was okay.
He looked out from the window of the apartment, he lived in the tallest point of the skyscraper, he liked it that way; he could look at the stars more instead of focusing in all the buildings all the time. It was late, but he just couldn't find sleep. He had brown hair, it was long enough to cover his forehead, his skin was tanned, and his eyes were violet. He was wearing a white shirt with short white sleeves, he had a pair of black shorts on. "Kira, go back to bed."
He turned around to look at the girl that was scratching her eye from the bed that was right next to him, she had a long beautiful pink hair that went down to her waist, she had crystal blue eyes that could charm anyone in sight; she was wearing a hair clip in the shape of three arrows and they were golden in color. "It's late, you should get your sleep." She got up, she was wearing a long pink night gown, and she walked over to Kira and grabbed his hand. They both stood looking at the stars above. "They're beautiful aren't they." She had an innocent smile; Kira looked at her and smiled too.
"Yeah, they sure are," Kira said in response, he looked at Lacus as she two shared a short kissed and then headed back to bed.
Lacus went back to her side as she tried to seek sleep once again; Kira just stared at the roof thinking back at all that had happened to him in the past four years. "Can we really stand around looking at the stars, when we all know that any minute this peace can be shattered once more?" Kira closed his eyes as he felt Lacus's head resting on his chest.
***
The next morning they both got up early; since they both had jobs to do, Kira came out of the bathroom wearing the ZAFT Commander's uniform, except he was wearing a wing like insignia with a golden dot in the middle. He was still drying his hair though. A bird like machine flew over to him and landed on his shoulder, it was mostly green and yellow, with an orange beak. "Birdie." The machine squeaked after landing on its owner's shoulders.
"Morning Birdie." Lacus giggled after seeing Birdie, a ball like object rolled over to her, it uncurled and showed a pink machine with two dots for eyes.
"Good morning to you too," the ball like machine said in a playful tone while Lacus grabbed it.
"Morning Haro." She smiled and then put it in the counter, Haro just rolled around impatiently. Birdie and Haro, both machines the two of them held dearly to each other and both where constructed by the same friend.
"Are you going to have any breakfast Kira?" Lacus asked as she walked over to the fridge to see what she could find, she knew how to cook but with everything she had to do she barely did. "I don't have much to do today, so I'll probably be back early."
"No, I have to go, I don't have time, and I'm meeting with some members of the council today." Kira walked over to a chair and grabbed a black bag that was hanging on it. "They want to talk to me about the new Mobile Suits they've created; I think they want me to test it or something."
"But you already have a Mobile Suit." Lacus said in a confused tone.
"The Strike Freedom needs some repairs, so I'm Mobile Suit less right now." Kira shrugged and turned to leave; but just when he was about to the phone rang.
A screen that was next to the phone turned on, the face of a girl appeared on the screen. She had a pale white skin and long red hair; she was wearing it in ponytails right now though, she was wearing a green suit with long green sleeves, it had white shoulders, a green skirt and a green hat with the ZAFT symbol on both sides; it also had a long green neck. "Oh, Chairwoman Clyne, morning." She saluted.
"Morning Meyrin," Lacus saluted back with a smile. "What a nice surprise."
"Actually, I called because I wanted to talk to Commander Yamato." Meyrin nodded really fast, even though she knew Lacus personally, she still felt kinda nervous at talking to the person that was in charge of ZAFT and the PLANTs. "I have a message from Commander Joule."
"From Ysac, that's unusual." Kira said with a confused look, he knew Ysac didn't like him cause of everything that happened with them, Kira didn't like him much either, due to all the people he tried to protect and ended up getting killed by him because of his thirst for defeating him. "What's it say?" he asked after walking in front of the phone.
"He didn't exactly say anything." After hearing that Kira started to feel like that was the Ysac he really knew. "But, he did send a picture." Meyrin said as she pressed a button and a picture popped up. It was the same picture Ysac was looking at the night before. Kira looked at the picture for a moment. His eyes opened wide as he saw what Ysac wanted him to look at, in the background there was a giant robot, it had a black like armor that reached its shoulders, its arms were white, and they had grey fingers. Its legs were also white with a grey and white color around the crotch. The chest had the black armor, plus a yellow point, which was actually a door. Its head was black with a V shaped golden crest on its head, and a pair of red eyes.
"A…a Gundam," Kira gasped as he took a step back, Lacus gave him a worried look, a Gundam. It was the name Kira gave the advanced Mobile Suits that surpassed all others, Mobile Suits that were so strong the only way they could lose against a normal one was if the pilot wasn't skilled enough to handle it. But still, with what they've learned, a Gundam meant danger.
"Meyrin, Kira will look into it, and I will too, tell the council to go to my office." Lacus said as she ran over to her room. Kira turned to Meyrin.
"Protect the new models; if that Gundam's here to attack the PLANTs then it's probably searching for them, also call Shinn and Lunamaria, I need them to meet me at the Mobile Suit station." Kira ordered Meyrin; he grabbed his back again and walked out before Meyrin had time to answer. She saluted anyways and the screen turned off.
Kira couldn't help but wonder what that Gundam was doing there, what it had planned, and what would happen if he didn't do anything to stop it.
***
Kira looked up at the giant elevator that took to the shuttle and Mobile Suit center; it was the place where the Mobile Suits were kept. At least five thousands meters up, it looked more like a tree but it was what combined both halves of the PLANTs. "Okay, let's go." Kira walked into the elevator as he started going on. He looked down at the plants, imagining once more what it was like when war was still present; and how much he wanted to stop that from happening again.
Kira had lost his share of people in the war, losing one of his best friend, the girl he first loved, and he also should've lost his own life quite a few times, which is what always quizzed him. Why had he survived? That was what came to his mind.
After a few moments the elevator stopped. Kira walked out and was greeted by a group of ZAFT soldiers wearing the green uniform, the saluted him and he saluted them back. It was the way ZAFT soldiers greeted each other and their superiors, if a superior saluted back then it meant he respected the person no matter what rank he was in, Kira was one of the few higher ups that did that, Lacus is another one; which is what gets soldiers happy because she considers herself the same as them. That's another thing. Lacus Clyne daughter of former chairman Senel Clyne, she used to be a famous pop start when she was younger and she became one of the most important people in both the PLANTs and Earth. And one of the most beautiful girls too, so you knew how much trouble Kira had with guys liking her, but he didn't really care much.
Kira got out of the elevator and started floating, the Mobile Suit quarters was farther into space; so the gravitational force of the PLANTs didn't work in that part. He kept floating and saluting soldiers till he came up to a white door; he took out a white card and slid it on the slider. The doors opened and he floated inside.
"I can't believe we actually go here before you." A girl said once she saw him come in, she was standing the metal bridge that was in between all of the Mobile Suits, which were giant looking robots of different shapes and sizes (I can't tell you all the ones that are there or else I'll take five hours to describe every single one). The girl was wearing a red uniform with long red sleeves, the neck was black just like the Commander's uniform, she was wearing a short pink skirt and a pair of black socks. She had a short purplish red hair that didn't go lower than her neck, blue eyes and a sweet and confident smile.
"Sorry Lunamaria, I had a delay on the way here." Kira chuckled softly as he floated towards Lunamaria. "Where's Shin?" he looked around the bridge to see if he found Shinn anywhere.
"He had to go to the bathroom; you took so long that he couldn't hold it in." Lunamaria shrugged as she stared at the Mobile Suits; hers to be exact. It was divided into three compartments, one of them held a pair of gray colored legs that were stuck into a jet, the one on top was a chest like armor, and the one above was a blue and white high speed jet called Cross Blender. "So, we might have to fight?"
"Yeah, I know you guys just came back from your mission in Carpenteria, but you guys are the strongest pilots I have at hand right now." Kira said as he looked at his own Mobile Suit. The Strike Freedom was a large robot like suit, it had a white head with a V shaped crest, and it had a pair of yellow eyes. It had a pair of blue and black wings on the back, a black armor with a red line going through it; the door to the cockpit was right under a small roof that was in the middle of the chest. Its legs were white, just like its arms. There was a sword on each side of its waist and a golden colored cannon right under the cockpit.
"Nah don't worry about it Kira, we didn't really do anything that important, I gotta admit, with peace comes boredom." Lunamaria frowned, she was actually glad that she would have something to do for once.
"Sorry I'm late, long line." The doors opened and closed behind them. A kid around eighteen years old came in and floated towards Kira and Lunamaria. He was wearing the same red uniform, except that he was wearing a pair of red pants and white boots; and just like Kira, he was wearing the same wing like pin.
"No, we were just talking; okay Kira what's the 411?" Lunamaria asked as a serious look crossed her face. Shinn gave her an angry look, since she was talking in a sense of rush.
"Ysac sent me this picture, there's a Gundam lurking around December City." Kira took the picture out and let Shinn and Lunamaria see it well. "I think it's chasing after the new models that are still under development," Kira said and put the picture back on his left pocket.
"They're gonna get a big surprise, the machines aren't here, they're in November City." Shinn nodded as he looked at Kira, who got even more serious.
"That just makes it worst, he could kill people, if he doesn't steal the models and kills all those people in the eyes of everyone it'll look like he did it for now reason, who knows what that could do to the world!" he yelled as he turned to Shinn, he knew he was overreacting, but it wasn't exactly a matter that could be taken lightly. "We're leaving right now, and we're tracking that Gundam." Kira started floating towards the Strike Freedom.
"Well, I guess then Naturals and Coordinators will start fighting again." Shinn put his hands behind his head then got a serious look. "But seriously, you're right, we have to stop it." He started floating off the bridge as he looked at his Gundam. It had a blue armor with two yellow squares on its chest, the armor got up to its shoulders, and it had grey arms and a grey head. The legs and everything that was covered by armor was totally grey or white. It had two red and black wings on its back; wings that would create purple beam feathers once it was turned on. It had a giant green cannon on its back and a sword that was on its waist. "Get ready to fight again Destiny." He opened the cockpit and got in.
Lunamaria floated over to the jet as she got inside. She opened a compartment where she kept her pilot uniform, it was a tight red uniform made of leather, the chest was in a purplish white shade that was made to fit her figure and her helmet was red and in the form of a beak; she also had red pants. She grabbed the uniform and started taking her ZAFT uniform off.
Kira also kept his uniform in a compartment. Except his was blue with a purple armor on the chest, not just that but on the left side there was a replica of the pin sewn on it. His helmet was in the shape of a beak too except it was blue, and of course the blue colored pants. And just Like Lunamaria, Kira started putting his pilot suit on.
Shinn had a suit like Lunamaria's except that his armor was totally white, and like Kira's the insignia of his pin was sewn on the pilot uniform. "Okay time to work." Shinn said as he started changing.
***
"Strike Freedom prepare for launching." Meyrin's voice was heard, Kira put on his helmet as the Strike Freedom started to move, it was actually sliding towards the launching pad.
"Kira Yamato here, ready to launch." He turned all of the screens and mechanisms up, including the camera which allowed him to see what the head was seeing. He looked up as the door was opening, he could see the darkness of space.
"Good Luck Commander," Meyrin said once again as the screen that connected her and Kira turned off.
"Kira Yamato, Strike Freedom, let's do it!" Kira yelled as the Freedom's wings turned on, it flew off making the cable that was plugged on its back come off. The Freedom flew out of the PLANTs at a great speed as he turned around and waited for the Impulse and the Destiny to come out.
"Cross Blender prepare to launch." Meyrin's voice came though as the jet was sent to the exit of the PLANTs.
"Lunamaria Hawke, Cross Blender Launching." Lunamaria answered as the jet flew out.
"Chest and Leg armor launching." The other two jets that were stationed in flew out, the jet turned into a cockpit as it fused with the legs, the chest armor got on top of it as a head came out. "Sending Launcher. A white jet with two cannons flew out. The Impulse opened its arms as the cannons got on its shoulder and turned the chest armor into a black color. "Good luck sis." Meyrin said as she saw her little sis fly off
The Destiny was the last one to move to the launch pad. "Shinn Asuka, Destiny ready to launch!" Shinn yelled as the Destiny's wings spread out and purple beam feathers came out as it flew out of the PLANTs. Shinn looked back at the plants as he headed towards where the Freedom and the Impulse were.
"We're all ready Kira." Lunamaria connected with Kira's Freedom, her picture came though a screen that was on the top of the cockpit.
"Good, then let's head out, remember we might enter combat." Kira looked at both of them, he didn't want to risk their lives, but if they didn't do this a lot of lives could be lost. "So are you ready?"
"You bet, I'll put my life on the line if it's necessary to protect the PLANTs," Shinn said confidently and clenched the Destiny's right fist. Lunamaria turned the Impulse so that it could look at the Destiny as she frowned a bit; Shinn always took things to the level of danger, which is what she hated about him.
"All right then, let's go!" Kira yelled as he clenched the levers of the freedom, increased its speed and started flying into space. He was followed by Lunamaria and Shinn immediately.
***
Lacus was looking down at her desk, she was wearing a black sleeveless dress with a pink line going in the middle, she had a black and pink mini skirt, and she was wearing a pair of purple gloves and purple boots. Lacus looked at the door; it had been thirty minutes since she ordered the council to meet at her office. "Where are thy," she questioned with a worried tone; she was the chairwoman, so normally the council would be running if it was something she ordered.
The door opened, a man around his sixty's walked in, he was wearing a purple suit that covered his whole body, it had black shoulders and the ZAFT symbol on its purple neck, he wasn't wearing a hat, which revealed his red hair. His face was kinda wrinkled; it was actually surprising his hair wasn't white yet. He had a sinister look in his eyes as he walked inside.
"Oh, Council Member Arty, there's something wrong, where's the rest of the council?" Lacus asked as she got up and walked over to Arty.
"Yes Chairwoman, there's something really wrong." Arty grinned evilly as he pulled out a gun and pointed it straight at Lacus, who gasped as she backed away. "Your views are wrong, and once you're gone, war can finally break out again and this time, Coordinators will win."
Lacus turned to the desk as she pressed a button on the desk. "This is Lacus Clyne please contact…"
A gunshot was heard all around the room. "Hello Chairwoman, Chairwoman are you there!" The woman screamed after getting no answer.
Final Words:
Peace, something that's really delicate, people try to keep peace going, but what about those who live for battles, what they could do with peace. And what about the person whose rage constantly run through them, is there any room for peace when there's always people who'll want to destroy it.
Next Time: Tears of Blood
