Disclaimer: I do not own anything with that deals with wonderful anime series known as Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, which includes its sequel, various manga and OVAs, or the RPG Game known as MS Saga: A New Dawn. Both are owned by their respective owners, and are not owned yours truly. So please no lawyers, all the money I have is for my schooling. Thank you!
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: A New Dawn
A SEED and MS Saga AU Crossover Story
Written by, William R. Woods
aka "Deathzealot"
Author Foreword:
Hello All! This idea jumped at me when I made the mistake of picking up my dusty copy of MS Saga and started to play it. As I played it over the last few days, many thoughts started to swirl around in my head. Not to mention rekindling a few older ideas I had back when I first got the game years ago. This story is the product of many of those thoughts.
Anyways, I need to start explaining what is going on or this Foreword shall once again cover a single page or more. Therefore, I shall start with the lifeblood of the Gundam Franchise, the awesome and powerful Mobile Suits and Gundams. Now in the game they have MS and Gundams from many Gundam series like Original Gundam, Gundam Zeta, Gundam Double Zeta, Wing Gundam and G-Gundam. This shall not work in my story for since it is entirely based in the CE World and all those machines from those series do not exist there. Instead we have almost every single Mobile Suit and Gundam in SEED or Destiny replacing them. Though no worries many other non-CE machines shall be in appearance somewhere down the road. For example the second arc of the game, were you are going against many machines from the Dark Gundam Corp, is still pretty much still intact. Also other machines shall be slotted into the story, like the GM, Guntank, and Guncannon. Not to mention some Original created machines may make an appearance, some in the appearance of other non-CE Mobile Suits or Gundams.
Also I need to mention that I am separating the CE Mobile Suits into three factions, first all of the ZAFT Machines bar some of the Marine Types shall be the mostly used by the Eisengrad Army, secondly many mobile suits of the Earth Alliance shall be machines of choice for the Dark Alliance during the story's first arc, and finally the Orb machines shall be pretty much exclusively used by the Unicorns, though I am replacing Tristan's first machine with a M1 Astray instead of a GM. The reason behind this shall be explained further into the story. The reason behind this change of mobile suits, is that I personally thought that each faction we see in the game should have their own series of Machines, but we see a lot of overlap during the game. With each the Dark Alliance and Eisengrad using GM based machines or Zeon based machines during the game. Now for the other factions, like the Air Pirates and the Neo-Zarth Army they shall have their own type of Mobile Suits, though the Neo-Zarth should inherit much of their equipment from the defeated Dark Alliance.
Next I need to mention that unlike the game were you pilot your mobile suit where ever you need to go at least till you get the Gaw. In the story there is no need for that, for in the game it was to encourage leveling your characters up like all RPGs. Instead in A New Dawn the people of Earth travel around in either landships or large truck like vehicles, for even with a genocidal event like the Great Fall did nothing to the N-Jammers buried in the ground. This includes the main characters and as the story progress they shall get bigger and better landships till they receive whatever I decided on to replace the White Base in the story. All landships featured in the story are either canon ships from either SEED or Gundam X or slightly modified version of said ships, with only a handful of original landships, which are more towards the light landship category. Also there will be landship battles in several places in the story where a few landships shall duke it out against each other. Also some large air transport may make appearances, like the ever lovable Gaw Attack Carrier, and several other air born transport carriers.
Finally, I need to mention that several characters have been replaced because I either didn't personally liked their character, they were too two dimensional or I just did not need them in the story. For example, Fritz is being replaced by an original character for the simple reason is that I do not like writing cowardly characters like him, not to mention he wined way too much. Other characters shall moved around instead of being replaced, for example Hal Vizardt shall not be an Eisengrad Captain or have anything to do with Eisengrad either, instead he should be replaced by Major Nicholas La Flagga. With that I need to explain that a few characters have been slightly modified to become relations of various heroes from SEED or Destiny. For this happens to be a SEED fic, there need be some familiar names laying around. Others like Nicolas are replacing some older game characters because I could not really find a way to fit them into a Gundam SEED world or like mentioned above I just did not like them. As for Hal he shall be instead be featured in the story as Vladi Zarth, he maybe under the name Hal to cover his real name during several instances in the story, but the character overall shall still be Vladi.
With that said I shall let you get to story, and no more silly ranting by the author for the rest of the story, or at least till the end that is. Anyways enjoy the story.
Update (11/2012):
Hello everyone, I figured I should give this story some further thought after not even touching for a few years. I have recently finally beat MS Saga and decided to dive into this story once more. Not really has been changed besides the date that the story is based in has been changed instead eighty or so years after the Great Fall, I have changed it to over a century. This allows me some lee-way in the back story and such. Also it makes far more sense story-wise I think. Other then that major change and small very minor edits nothing is really changed in this update. So relax and enjoy the story.
Introduction:
The year was Cosmic Era 90, sixteen years after the end of the last war and the Earth Sphere had pretty much stayed peaceful throughout that time. Both Naturals and Coordinators are living peacefully together with no further tension between these two sub-species of the human race. With this peace have come various new technologies with the combined efforts of both naturals and coordinators working together. One of these mentioned technologies is something that would finally end various areas' food problems, and help speed up the rebuilding of the damaged colonies, which had been slow going in the last few years.
This new and wonderful piece of technologies is Zarth Enterprises Glory System or just the G-System for short, a wonderful piece of engineering which is able to create almost anything using only basic components like water and air. This new invention could help save various lives from various areas which have still not recovered from the horrible Break the World Incident all those years ago. Not to mention help in the reconstruction of the orbital colonies. This seemed to be something out of a dream and would be able to help the human race step out of their small corner of their galaxy.
However sadly this dream soon became a horrifying nightmare when one of the creators of the G-System, a Roan Zarth, the younger brother of Zarth Enterprise's Chairman Rivage Zarth, got a little to greedy and started to build a larger form of the G-System on the darkside of the moon. This so called Giant G-System overloaded sending aftershocks through the three so called Master G-Systems which connected all the G-Systems together. The Master G-Systems soon overloaded as well destroying everything around it, which included munch of the planet, the lunar city of Copernicus, and the PLANT Colonies located at Lagrange Point Five, all victims of the Master G-Systems horrifying overload. This would later be called the Great Fall, and over 78 Percent of the human race perished in this one single event. Even then a further 12 percent living in space would perish without any support from the planet or the PLANTs, for none of the remaining orbital colonies where agriculture colonies and therefore they would soon die of starvation. The few that were smart would make it Earth were they would try to survive on the barren surface of the planet. This left only the self-sustaining Martian colonies and their supporting asteroid or orbital colonies as enclaves of man along the stars.
Even then humanity endured and started to rebuild using the G-Systems which caused the Great Fall, but they had little choice. To prevent any misuse of the G-Systems and another Great Fall, a group of former military officers and police officers got together to form the Unicorns a group whose mission is twofold, first to police the G-Systems and to make sure no one misuses the powerful machines. Secondly they shall police the wastelands that where once cities, farms, and countries to prevent anarchy from taking route.
Now a little over a century later after that fateful day, humanity has finally started to restore a shaky yet stable society out of the ashes of the old, however tragedy soon strikes as trio of black mobile suits savagely destroyed a small orphanage operating in the wastelands which had once been France. Only two of the orphans living there, a boy and a girl survived the massacre and soon sworn to avenge their lost friends. Even then a new and fresh dawn has arrived for humanity, but what does this new dawn bring to the tired yet hopeful human race?
Chapter BGM is ZIPS by T.M Revolution
Phase 00: The Mobile Suit
The MBF-M1 Astray was the mainline mobile suit of the Orb Union during the First Bloody Valentine War, where it would outfight both ZAFT's popular GINN and the Alliance's new Strike Dagger. It is a lightweight and well balanced machine able to participate in many different missions from anti-mobile suit to anti-ship when needed. This well rounded machine is a prefect specimen of early Cosmic Era Mobile Suits.
Taken from The Mobile Suits of the Cosmic Era
Circa. March 10, 49AGF
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Mega G-System 01
Spain, Eurasia
April 5, 115AGF
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The Glory System or better known as the G-System, the ultimate creation of mankind yet the cause of its greatest disaster, the even still called The Great Fall. Even then under tight security these massive facilities managed to help humankind rebuild from the ashes of the old. Over six of these facilities were still in operation out of the dozen that had been built around the world. The facility known as 01, buried deep into the Baetic Mountains in what was once Southern Spain, was pretty much left alone for the most part for only small villages and towns lay in what used to be Spain. This all changed as with a hiss of escaping of air and steam the massive Mega G-System activated as it was given new instructions and power flowed through it. Like a massive flower the Core of the G-System closed onto itself starting to follow the instructions given to it. Within only a few minutes it was finished and with yet another hiss of escaping steam the flower opened showing a large cylinder standing in the center of the center of the Core. With another hiss of steam and air the cylinder lifted up away, leaving a tall humanoid looking form standing in its place. Soon a buzz started as various fans started blowing the steam away from the Core, showing that the form was indeed humanoid. In fact it was a large seventeen and a half meter tall robot with a large flight pack mounted onto its back. This happened to be a mobile suit, a breed of giant war machines that besides the G-Systems were considered to be one the greatest creation of humankind. This mobile suit happened to be a MBF-M1 Astray, the front line machine for the long gone Orb Union. In today's age it was pretty much rare with much of the data on the machine lost when the island country of Orb was lost under a large tsunami that covered the entire nation taking many of its secrets with it. Yet here one those secrets stood tall and proud only awaiting its intended pilot to climb aboard. The red, white and black painted machine almost gleaned in the overhead lights as two small forms slowly approached the massive war machine standing there. One of them a teenaged boy with short red hair and mismatched colored eyes looked at it in awe, while the other a short black haired teenaged girl only simply blinked in surprise at the mobile suit. Both teenagers wore pretty much the same outfit, with long black pants with a white turtleneck t-shirt tucked neatly in the pants, and a red vest going over that. The only difference between the two was the boy's vest had a large lion headed emblem on the back of the vest, while the girl had a snarling wolf head displayed there instead.
"Wow! I can not believe it actually worked!" the red headed Tristan Krush said in an awe-filled voice. With a shaky step the young man leaned forward and touched the machine with one finger as if he wondered if it was actually real or if it was some sort of figment of his imagination. His companion laughed lightly in amusement at this behavior, but this was the first time that the two had seen a real live mobile suit this close. They had only seen pictures and videos of them, not like this. However the young man's awe filled face soon closed off as he nodded to himself.
"This is only our first step in avenging Ms. Natalie and the Orphanage Rena," the boy, Tristan said with a sad yet determined voice.
"Yes. This is only the first step, next we need to get training to use mobile suits for simulation's in Marie's old mobile suit simulator is not the same," the black haired Rena Chevalier replied with the same tone. The reason behind this is that the two teens where the only survivors of an orphanage which had been brutally destroyed by three unknown black mobile suits two years before.
"Your right Rena, we are not like that Legendary Mobile Suit pilot Marie told us about, were he jumped into a mobile suit and within minutes could operate it almost like one that been trained to do so," Tristan said turning to look over at the girl standing next to him with a small smile on his face, one that was copied by his friend. However before she could say anything noises started to attract the two teen's attention. With matching frowns the two started to look towards the massive door leading into the inner domain of the Mega G-System. With a loud swish the doors opened and a large figure stepped into the G-System. Twin gasps from Tristan and Rena escaped their mouths as the overhead lights hit the figure once it stepped further into the G-System, sending vibrations through the steel catwalk that connected the door to the Core of the G-System.
"Another Mobile Suit? Here?" Tristan said out load in some confusion. For the figure was indeed a mobile suit, similar in appearance to the Astray, but still different then the other machine. Rena meanwhile looked the new mobile suit over with a frown on her face for unlike Tristan, Rena had a photographic memory which combined with her thirst for learning made her one of the more knowledgeable of the two teens about any other mobile suits. Thanks to reading the various data manuals and pictures of various mobile suits that Marie Simmons Orijin Tokita their new guardian as well as teacher in all things mobile suits had scattered around her home.
"I believe that is a Dagger R Tristan," Rena said with a small smile on her face for the other mobile suit was indeed a GAT-01R Strike Dagger R or just simple known as the Dagger R, which is a refined version of the older GAT-01 Strike Dagger from the First Bloody Valentine War. Over fifty some add years ago, when the various rebuilt cities and towns finally started to get back onto their feet, they need some sort of defense against the various bandits and pirates that emerged in the wake of the Great Fall. Three older Mobile Suit designs were chosen from Unicorn's Mobile Suit Database to give these various cities and town a defense mobile suit to use against the bandits and pirates. One of the three was the Strike Dagger, thanks to it being simple, and easy to learn how to pilot. However before they started to use the G-System to produce these machines, all three designs were refitted with newer weapons and internal system to better keep them up with any later produced designs. Today with the rise of the Eisengrad Army and various other powers around the world these three units where now considered to be finally obsolete when compared to the ZGMF-602R2 GUAIZ R2 of the Eisengrad Army and the ZMS-02 Leo of the Asian Defense League. For the age of various small cities and towns being alone against the onslaught of bandits were over thanks to the Eisengrad Army in Western Europe, Asian Defense League in Central Asia, and American Knights in North America watched over those who needed help. Therefore whoever was piloting this old Dagger R was most likely some sort of Bandit.
"I believe you are right Rena," Tristan said as he slowly started to make his way towards the Astray standing behind two of them. The Dagger only stood there with its head moving back and forth looking around the large Mega G-System.
"You better find a place to lay low tell I take care of this guy. We can have the G-System produce your machine after this is over," Tristan said looking over at his friend, who only nodded without complaint before running off towards a smaller door opposite of the one which the Dagger R had entered. With a final step Tristan reached his new machine and taking a long breath he flipped open a small panel located above the machine's ankle to reveal a keypad that was hidden by the panel. Using a single finger he hit the zero key on the keypad four times. With a loud clunk the machine's cockpit opened and its zipline descended towards him. He was just time for the Dagger started to move towards the Astray. With a curse Tristan ducked into the Astray's cockpit and immediately started to power up the machine. As he did the small radio clipped to the collar of his vest hissed as it connected to another radio.
"It looks like you managed to get into the machine just in time Tristan," Rena's voice came through from her own similar radio from wherever she chose to hide at.
"Yeah, I am lucky that I had been training with this machine in simulations for the past year, so this should not be too hard," Tristan replied with a small smile on his face as the Astray finished powering up.
"Not to mention your Astray is vastly superior to that junk pile he is piloting," Rena said with a small chuckle, once more using her vast mobile suit knowledge to the test. As Tristan was about to reply the Astray's COMM unit popped as it connected with another similar unit. With a hiss of static one of the Astray's lateral communication screens came alive showing Tristan a rugged older man wearing a black face mask over his eyes. At this Tristan narrowed his eyes for that mask was the signature of a large group of bandits called the Black Mambas which had harassed the orphanage many times before.
"Well, looks like my sensors are not deceiving me after all; this G-System is in fact very much active. Not to mention there is an interesting machine here that I am sure the Boss shall love to get his hands on it. Yeah kid hand over that machine or you won't get hurt understand," the pilot said with a sneer on his face. Tristan only rolled his eyes before getting comfortable in the seat.
"I don't think so, this machine is mine. I used this G-System to create it for one simple reason, and that is to make my self-assigned mission easier," he replied with a cocky smile on his smile.
"Why you little punk! Fine I shall tear you it out of it instead," the pilot replied with an angry snarl before he broke the line. Tristan only sighed and started the breath exercises that Marie had taught the two of them during their training. With renewed resolve the young Astray pilot only looked up at the screen showing the advancing Dagger R. With a calm movement he engaged the Astray's thrusters sending up towards the G-System's ceiling just in time to avoid a deadly stream of munitions from the Dagger R's rifle a GAU-8M2 Automatic Machine Gun. During his thruster jump Tristan reached for one of the machine's two beam sabers, located behind each shoulder. With a flash of frozen fire the blade came to life and like a bird of prey the young pilot came down on the hapless bewildered Dagger R. The beam blade came down with the Astray slicing through the Dagger's head and then into the torso before continuing on. Another thruster jump took the Astray away from the now bisected Dagger, just in time as both pieces exploded sending debris everywhere around the G-System. This battle was now over, and the victorious Astray lightly landed on the edge of the Core of the G-System proudly looking over the sparking debris before it that was all what is left of its vanquished foe.
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Post Chapter Author Notes
Well! Here is the first chapter of my new fic and I hope you all enjoyed it. I would now like to take a moment to answer some unasked questions that many of the readers may have after this. First of all yes many of the canon machines may be a bit refined then what you know them as, for I was not going to take them and just throw them into the story as they were. For that may not be a good idea, for as we all know any of the older SEED machines will not be much of a threat against the newer Destiny machines, not to mention any pro-Destiny machines I decide to throw in here. Therefore many of the SEED Machines shall get many upgrades to better match them against the newer Destiny machines. Even then these other normal mobile suits from SEED shall stay as cannon fodder and not be much a real threat against our heroes.
Second something that always bugged me about the G-System, is that it would not produce the machines normal handheld weapons, but it could do the various fixed weapons on the machine. However not once did it produce a mounted beam saber, like on the GM that you start with. It should have had a single beam saber, but it did not have one when Tristan and Fritz made it. Therefore my Astray here shall have both of its Beam Sabers.
Next up the Dagger R itself, it looks similar to the older Strike Dagger that we see in droves in the final half of the series. It just has several additions to it like complete reworked internal equipment (i.e sensors, radio, avionics, the thrusters). As well as several other differences like the hand plugs of the Dagger are vastly different then the Strike Dagger, for it can use various different weapons. Like the rifle I have it using here which is the same one used by the 105 Dagger.
Also in the introduction some may be a bit confused over what is going there. Since this story is based in the world of CE I had to modify the MS Saga back story a bit to fit it, for honestly what would happen if only Earth was wiped out like in the game. Well in the time of peace I have after Destiny, the PLANTs would help rebuild the planet. Therefore a lot sooner then they had in the game, ruining the story. Therefore I changed a few things, for one the Ultimate G-System has been replaced with the Master G-System, which in this story there are three. One on Earth located in a facility outside New York City, the second located in the middle of the suburb colonies of Copernicus City, and finally the last one built into the newly built PLANT Colony called Armory Two. So when the Great Fall happened not only does Earth suffer but the PLANTs and the Lunar Cities as well. The only extra-Earth colonies that survive it are any rebuilt colonies at L4 and L3, not to mention the Martian Colonies as well. However without the Farm Colonies of Junius, or the Hydroponics Farms of Copernicus these last orbital colonies would not last for very long. I hope this explanation serves to counter any confusion you may have over the new back story.
Now lastly the Eisengrad Army shall not be the only major good guy faction in the story, for like mentioned there are a few others around the world. Our heroes shall meet up with all them as the story progress. Not to mention several other bad guys shall appear in the story besides just the Dark Alliance, and the Neo-Zarth Army. One of them the Black Mambas are already mentioned and shall be the primary antagonists for the heroes for the first part of the story.
I would also like to mention that this story is not in anyways related to Maileesaeya's Gundam Legacy. While I did read his story, it only made me pick up MS Saga once more and start playing it, which rekindled a few older ideas I had for a MS Saga fic. Therefore I somewhat got the idea from him in a round-about-way, so credit where is due. Thank you Mail for getting me moving and writing this, I tip my hat to you sir. Thank you.
Anyhow that shall be it, thank you for reading and I shall see you all in the next chapter were we the after effects of the battle with the bandit. Thank you.