The Day Freedom Disappeared.

AN: This is my First story which ever get published

This is a crossover between Gundam Seed/Destiny and infinite Stratos. So the pairings I have not decided. I don't own infinite Stratos and Gundam seed/Destiny they are own by their respective owners.

Takes some parts from Worldwanderer2.0's Plot Bunnies: Gundam Build Fighter x Infinite Stratos. This may be a multiple crossover.

"Talking"

"Thoughts"

"Locations"

[IS Name]

AN: This was in my head for awhile and do I thought of putting it out there. This is my first story, put things in the review of what you want in the story and I will try to put it in.

In the year of Cosmic Era 71, the war between Alliance, a military forces composed of Naturals, the pure and unaltered humans of Mother Earth led by Muruta Azrael, the leader of extremist group Blue Cosmos, and ZAFT, a military forces composed of Coordinators, the augmented humans through the genetic alterations who lived in the space colonies known as PLANT led by the Supreme Chairman Patrick Zala, was about to reach its conclusion.

With over than half of casualties to the Alliance caused by ZAFT's Super weapon: The colony-sized laser canon GENESIS, the Earth forces made it up by using the remaining nuclear missiles carried by the warships and Moebius Mobile Armor units and Strike Dagger Mobile Suits they had against the more advanced yet less in number ZAFT's GuAIZ Mobile Suit.

In the midst of the chaos, an alliance of three ships of different origins: Archangel, the former Earth Alliance ship, Kusanagi, the ship which hailed from the neutral faction ORB Union, and Eternal, the ship from the ZAFT joined the battle to stop both factions from killing each other over the differences they had.

Both opposing leaders, Azrael and Patrick were killed in action. The former was vaporized by a direct hit from Archangel's positron cannon, the Lohengrin, right in the bridge of the warship where he resided while on the other hand, the latter was betrayed and shot to death by one of his subordinates, who couldn't stand his genocidal method anymore as he was willing to burn the entire Earth's surface using the GENESIS in order to win.

And yet despite of that, both Alliance and ZAFT still didn't stop from killing each other either out of revenge or simply believing their own respective view of how the ideal world they envisioned supposed to be.

However, the truth was that this war was one of the plans orchestrated by an individual who harbored the hatred towards both Naturals and Coordinators... no to the entire world for his existence as neither of the two and wanted to get rid of them.

A man known by the name of Rau Le Creuset, a failed clone of Al Da Flaga, a politician who sponsored Ulen Hibiki, a scientist who was in charge of the "Ultimate Coordinator Project". Driven into madness out of revenge, Rau wanted nothing but total annihilation to both Naturals and Coordinators who he thought were responsible of his imperfect creation caused by their greed and lust of power. By devoting himself to ZAFT to gain their trust, he secretly formulated his plan to get his revenge by giving important information of ZAFT's forces to Blue Cosmos in shadows to provoke them by giving them an edge over the Neutron Jammer technology, igniting more bloodshed.

All his plans had gone smoothly so far and it was only waiting for the time until the Earth would be burned to ashes by GENESIS' second shot while PLANT would be nuked by the nuclear missiles... if only the legged ship, the heir of Nara Athha, and the daughter of Siegel Clyne hadn't come to intervene and prevented the latter from happening. Still, even though the Alliance would be defeated in their current state and ZAFT would prevail in the end, the Naturals would take revenge on Coordinators and waged another war until both sides were no more. A fitting end for their arrogance and stubbornness.

But this is not a story about him. This is a story of a teenage Coordinator who came from the neutral side of two conflicting powers and somehow, by the twist of fate had found himself piloting a powerful prototype Mobile Weapon known as the 'Gundam'. After going through hardships, gain and loss on his journey, he's now determined to use his power and talent to stop this meaningless war and the true mastermind behind all of this with the help from his friends and allies.

His name is Kira Yamato...

" Z.A.F.T. Territory: Jachin Due "

As the final battle between Alliance and ZAFT continued in background, two Mobile Suits, the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam and ZGMF-X13A Providence Gundam piloted by Kira Yamato and Rau le Creuset respectively fought with fierce. Green beams from the Providence's DRAGOONs attack drones came from nowhere, either missing, grazing or deflected by its opponent's beam sabers or instead, hitting a nearby stray Mobile Suit, whether it belonged to Alliance or ZAFT. Not that the pilot cared much about them anymore as this fight now was a personal matter.

"You can shout all you want, but it's too late!" Rau mocked from his cockpit as Freedom shot down more of Providence's DRAGOONs.

Two Gundams then drew their beam sabers and engaged in a swordfight. Sparks flew around each time the energy swords clashed until the two finally locked each other, trying to overpower one to another.

"This is our destiny! It's a path you took knowing where it was heading to!" The masked man spoke again.

"Shut up!" retorted Kira, but Rau kept continuing.

"People have faith in justice and hide from problems they don't understand! They never learn, and never bother to ask! This is what lies at the end of that path! There's no way to avoid it!"

The Freedom and Providence then pulled back to get some distances.

"And mankind will become extinct! As they should!" As Rau said this, the remained DRAGOONs came in front of him and fired a barrage of beam shots. The Freedom was forced to dance in between the shots until finally it raised its anti-beam shield to protect its vital area from getting hit while coming closer to its opponent.

"I won't allow it!" The Freedom pilot exclaimed, ramming the Freedom's shield against Providence's chest which caused the DRAGOONs to scatter and reform. Not wasting every single chance, Kira used this to shoot down another DRAGOON and shouted.

"Your logic is twisted!"

"That's how people think, Kira!"

"No!" The Freedom then folded out its plasma cannons and rail cannons and fired all of them, including its rifle at once, destroying more of Providence's attack drones in process. "People... People are not like that!"

"Ha! How are they not like that? What's your proof?" Rau angrily retorted back as Providence fired its beam rifle continuously. "This is a world where people live with eyes and souls of hatred! Where fingers have no purpose other than to pull triggers!"

Slightly taken aback, Kira was caught off guard and had to pay the price: The Freedom's right leg took the shot and was immediately destroyed afterwards.

"What do you believe? And why do you believe it?" The masked man asked again, firing both Providence's rifle and beam cannon shield.

"You were brought up not knowing anything else!" answered Kira. The Freedom took again its beam saber and swung it only to get blocked against its opponent's shield.

"Oh course I know nothing else! People only really know about themselves!" Rau countered back. A few of his remaining DRAGOON then tried fired at Freedom which forced Kira to back away and took evasive maneuver, despite missing its right leg's propulsion, separating them.

Suddenly, Kira remembered back what people thought of him when he decided to jump into Strike Gundam's cockpit and fought to protect his friends. He was called a hypocrite, a traitor of all Coordinator race, etc. Rau then spoke again.

"Do you still wish to suffer? Telling yourself "someday, eventually"?" The Providence's DRAGOONs danced around its opponent, firing their beams as Freedom fought back to escape from them, "How long have you continued fighting with your thoughts clouded by such sweet poison!?"

Eventually, The Freedom finally managed to escape and shot down more of Providence's DRAGOONs. It was then when Kira heard Rau suddenly laugh maniacally as if he wanted to gloat his victory.

"No matter what happens now, I've won." said the Providence pilot who then activated his shield beam saber, "When Jachin Due self-destructs, GENESIS will fire! There's no way to stop it! Earth will burn, and the ensuing tears and screams will trigger new battles!"

"What!?" Kira exclaimed in shock. At the same time, he noticed two Mobile Suits: ZGMF-X9A Justice Gundam and MBF-02 Strike Rouge piloted by his childhood friend Athrun Zala and long lost twin sister Cagalli Yura Athha went inside Jachin Due which began self-destructing itself.

"Athrun! Cagalli!"

But he didn't have much time to be concerned about them as he evaded another barrage of Providence's beam shots. He had to win this fight first!

"This is a day of revelation for everyone!" Rau exclaimed. The beams eventually hit Freedom's shoulders and waist armor, taking out a portion of its right shoulder armor and left railgun.

"I won't allow it!" The Freedom pilot countered back, firing his beam rifle. The beam hit Providence's left arm, destroying it completely.

"Who do you suppose has continued to lead things to this conclusion?" The masked man angrily asked back, firing his own rifle in return which also took out Freedom's right arm and rifle, "You're also one of their results!"

"So what!?" With all of his strength, Kira then used Freedom's left arm which was still functional and took out its beam saber, plugging its bottom hilt into the other one on the left destroyed side armor, combining them into twin edged halberd and then dashed towards Rau. "There's a world I want to protect!"

Rau clenched his teeth, angry at his opponent's persistence despite his Mobile Suit being more crippled than his as he kept firing Providence's rifle. However, in the end, the Freedom managed to cut off Providence's right arm, destroying it in an explosion.

But the Providence didn't give up either as the pilot boosted back to gain some distance first. Using the remaining DRAGOON drones it had, they fired at Freedom like no tomorrow, destroying Freedom's head, and a portion of its left chest. And yet it still didn't stop the Gundam from coming to Providence.

"UUUUOOOOOOHHHHH!"

*CRASH!*

With a loud battle cry, Kira finally came close to his opponent and thrust his beam saber, piercing the Providence's chest where the pilot cockpit resided. Strangely at the brink of his death, a smile crept over his lips as his pilot's helmet slowly cracked and shattered followed by his mask came off from the air leak...

"Heh..."

At the same time, the Jachin Due finally exploded and GENESIS fired its last shot with both Gundams were still in its line of fire... and then everything went white for Kira Yamato...

"In Realm Between"

Inside the subspace, Kira's motionless body was drifting slowly through the vast emptiness of the area. There was nothing there, no stars, no debris. Even the wreckage of his Freedom Gundam or Rau's Providence was nowhere to be seen. There was nothing at all but strange colored clouds flowing and dancing around like they were making some sort of auroras.

"Mnn... hnngg..."

When his consciousness kicked back, the Freedom's pilot slowly opened his eyelids and saw the view right before his eyes. Needless to say he was both surprised and confused. Where was he? And what was this place? And why was he alone there? The last thing he remembered was he was fighting Rau and his Gundam and managed to pierce the cockpit. And then the GENESIS fired in the last moment...

"Am I... am I already... dead?"

Did he get vaporized by the giant laser cannon? Was this the afterlife? If yes, then would he be able to meet again with those he failed to protect? Tolle Koenig? The little girl who gave him the flower origami? And... Flay?

His question would be answered soon in a form of a massive cloud suddenly formed in front of him, taking appearance of a giant humanoid form whose size was maybe on par with a Mobile Suit.

"A... Mobile Suit..!?" Kira's eyes widened in shock and realization upon recognizing the familiar shape.

Because it was indeed a Mobile Suit. A Gundam, and it was the strangest Gundam Kira ever saw in his entire life as the cloud slowly dissipated away, revealing its full appearance.

Its outer appearance was unlike anything he had seen. The entire body had aerodynamically curved frames as opposed to the normally jagged sharp looking found on most Mobile Suits. Its round head looked like a dome or helmet and sported no v-antennae. Instead, the antennae was placed on the mouth area which made it looked like it had a white long curved mustache. There was also a strange symbol on its forehead which resembled an upside down 'A' letter.

Kira felt a shiver down his spine when its head looked up, staring at him with its ominously pink glowing sensor eyes as if it was looking through into his soul. He wanted to say it out loud to the whoever piloted the Mobile Suit what did he want with him or if he was the one who brought him into this place but for some reason, he was too afraid to open his mouth.

Suddenly, the upside down 'A' symbol on the suit's forehead began to glow faintly like a heartbeat. Kira could only guess what would happen to him next as he prepared himself if he was going to be at the death's door again for real.

But he was wrong. The forehead symbol then flashed a blinding light to him and when Kira opened back his eyes, he was greeted with a vision he never saw before.

The first was a vision of a woman inside what appeared to be a mechanical space suit with two engineers. Next was a woman whose face he couldn't see from the helmet and visor she wore in a robotic exo-armor taking down flying missiles with nothing but an energy sword similar to a beam saber only with longer grip. And then it was a meeting of what he assumed as world leaders from Earth signing up a document followed by applause.

"Why... why am I seeing this?" thought the confused Coordinator. But before he could even think for an answer, Kira suddenly felt a train of information and images rushing through his head. Various images of the exo-armor similar to what the woman wore before and schematics came to view like a fast forwarded slideshow.

"Uuuuuurrrrgggghhhh...!"

Even though his physique and mind had been genetically enhanced, that didn't mean all of these information wasn't killing his head. It was all too much for him to take all of it at once.

"Stop...! No more...! I... can't...!" Kira weakly pleaded but it was a futile effort. Unable to resist anymore, the Freedom pilot's body went limp, falling unconscious. At this, the mysterious Gundam's forehead stopped glowing anymore and raised its right hand towards Kira.

Rainbow mist then came out from the tip of the Gundam's fingers as it slowly made its way to the pilot and encased his entire body like a cocoon. And then in a flash of light, it disappeared again to the unknown...

"Infinite Stratos World: The IS Academy"

The Infinite Stratos Academy was the prestigious boarding all-female school located in a lone island near the mainland of Japan and could only be accessed via the monorail that went there. The purpose of this school is to train the future Infinite Stratos pilots so that one day they may represent their respective country or origin in an international event. However, aside from that, this school also taught its student the standard curriculum materials at international level.

Infinite Stratos or IS for short is an exo-suit originally created for space exploration and research, however for some reason it was halted and didn't left much impression to the public. Until one day, an unknown hacker suddenly hacked the security system from military bases all around the world to target Japan. No one knew who did this but all efforts to stop the missiles and drones were futile.

It was then when a single white IS whose pilot was unknown came to rescue. With power that no other military hardware had, the IS disabled all the weapons without any casualty, saving Japan from total destruction. This event had been known as The White Knight Incident to the world.

The IS finally earned its recognition ever since that day. However, with the power and ability it had, world leaders began to worry if such an advanced piece of equipment would be used for war. In order to prevent that from happening, they decided to make a treaty to regulate the usage of IS so it wouldn't be misused by the wrong side: The Alaska Treaty.

However, more problems then came up.

For some unknown reason, the IS core cannot be mass produced; only around three hundreds of them were created by their creator Dr. Tabane Shinonono. The said person also had been reported as missing for years. Multiple attempts to study and replicate the core only met with total failure so far as no one but Tabane herself knew how the core works.

And what left most impact to the world's society was the core only reacts to female which meant only women who could pilot the Infinite Stratos. With how the IS began taking important role to represent the power of a nation, women began taking part in important position in chain government around the world. Sadly, this situation also brought a negative side to the society.

Some women began viewing themselves superior to men and men almost treated like a second class citizen. While on daily basis, nothing happened, in the darker part of it, men almost could not have chance to obtain high-ranked job in their career due of their gender status as male. Some local governments even created new policies which favored females over males. For example on educational level, schools had been divided into two classes where all-female school had better facilities and teachings whereas co-ed or all-male school didn't get the same treatment.

Inside the classroom at one of the windows of IS Academy was a lone boy sitting in his desk amongst his girl classmates whose name is Ichika Orimura, the first and the only (for now) male in the world who had been discovered to be able to activate an IS.

Ichika glanced at a girl who sat at the furthest left from where he sat, gazing outside the window. This girl is Ichika's childhood friend Houki Shinonono, the younger sister of Tabane Shinonono. He secretly hoped that the ponytailed girl would notice him and say something, but it looked like she was too preoccupied in her own thoughts.

He let out a defeated sigh. There was still time before the teacher came, so he took out a manga under his desk and read it to kill some time. It was a manga about mysterious unmanned warships that came out of fog and then took over the seas from mankind.

The door then opened, causing all but one student to shift their attention towards the teacher's desk. There stood their homeroom teacher Maya Yamada, a green haired bespectacled yet buxom woman with her assistant Orimura Chifuyu, a stern looking woman who also happened to be Ichika's elder sister.

As soon as the raven haired woman finished introducing herself, the girls started fangirling over Chifuyu like she was a well-known celebrity much to her annoyance before she shut them all silent with her thunderous warning. Well it wasn't too far from that as Chifuyu was the last champion of Mondo Grosso, an international IS battle tournament which was held on special occasion.

Ichika on the other hand fared the situation as if this was just another Tuesday morning for him. The truth was, he already predicted this outcome thanks to ALICE and NOVA.

ALICE was an AI which had the ability to jump from one electronic device to another that Ichika found in his phone right a day after his discovery of being able to activate an IS. What he didn't know yet about her was the fact that ALICE was the AI from the IS core he activated who had taken interest on him.

NOVA on the other hand was an AI Ichika had created and programmed in his free time when Chifuyu was out for almost two years to teach in Germany. Yes, unlike most children of his age, ever since he was young, Ichika had taken a deep interest in computing and programming, especially the AI development. His drive to become a computer genius was driven further after watching the American movie about a genius, playboy, billionaire, and philanthropist man who created a robotic suit of armor with its own AI. While not as advanced or expressive as ALICE, NOVA proved to be a great assistant as well. Together, the two AIs could calculate the probability of what happened around him and predicted the highly possible outcome next.

Seeing that one of her students was paying attention at somewhere else, Chifuyu let out a grunt, walking towards his chair with her attendance book in hand and...

"WARNING. INCOMING HOSTILE FROM 2 O'CLOCK."

"Huh? What?"

And BONK! There was a small bump on his head and Ichika yelped then grunted in pain, much to Chifuyu's displeasure at his undisciplined act. Some girls giggled silently, finding the scene quite amusing before they got silenced by the sharp glare of stern woman.

Time skip, after school evening.

"Ouch, nee-san really hit me hard. I think a few of my brain cells had died today." Ichika said, rubbing his head which still felt a bit sore even after hours since that as he walked outside.

"ACTUALLY SIR, THE SYMPTOMS OF THE BRAIN CELLS DYING ARE INDICATED BY-"

"Yeah-yeah. I know. It's just an expression, NOVA." Ichika cut the male AI first, waving his hand in dismissal. "But seriously, did she really have to hit that hard?"

"TO BE FAIR, YOU DESERVED THAT SCOLDING. YOU HAD IGNORED YOUR TEACHERS IN CLASS AND READING A COMIC BOOK INSTEAD."

"Gee, thanks for the word of confidence, ALICE." Ichika grumbled in slight annoyance.

"THANK YOU."

"I'm being sarcastic... hey, is that Houki?" Ichika stopped walking for a moment upon seeing his childhood friend walking in front of him, "Hey, Houki!"

Surprised that someone had called her name, Houki turned around, and much to her surprise, to find Ichika already walked beside her.

"Huh!? I-Ichika?! W-why are you following me?" She stuttered slightly.

"What do you mean by that?" Ichika arched his eyebrow, "Aren't we going to the dormitory building for the freshman?"

"I know that, but do you really have to be that close?" Suddenly, the girl sidestepped away from him a bit to get some privacy, "And don't so casually use my first name here!"

"Gee, that's pretty harsh of you, Shinonono-san." The boy sighed in defeat, "First my nee-san and now you... What a great day I had today..."

"Hmph! If you paid attention back in the class, then maybe Orimura-sensei wouldn't have hit you."

Houki then looked away in slight annoyance. Despite of her cold attitude towards Ichika, the girl was actually happy that they could walk together like this. In fact, she actually harbored a feeling towards the boy ever since their childhood. However, as a girl who had been practicing kendo for years, she had hard time to express her real emotions. Quite an irony if one could say as kendo practitioner usually had a calm and controlled demeanor around people and yet here she was acting cold towards Ichika to hide her feelings.

But as she looked away, Houki then noticed that there was a star in the sky which made her frown in question. It was still evening now, so the stars shouldn't be visible yet.

However, when she took a closer look, the girl gasped in shock, realizing that with every second passed, the star slowly grew larger in size or more like it was falling down right towards the IS Academy island.

"I-Ichika..!" Houki called, tapping his shoulder to get his attention. "Look over there!"

"Huh? What do you mean Hou-" Before Ichika could finish his sentence, the said falling star already went past them. Both students were frozen in utmost shock as the wind caused by the force from the falling meteor blew their hair. Fortunately instead of falling into the landmass, the said meteor fell into the ocean, creating a heavy splash and small wave.

"Wha... what's that?" wondered Ichika. But before he could get an answer, an announcement came from the school's outdoor loudspeakers.

"ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS! ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS! AN UNKNOWN OBJECT HAD FALLEN NEARBY THE ACADEMY'S ISLAND. ALL FIRST YEAR STUDENTS PLEASE RETURN TO YOUR DORMITORY UNTIL FURTHER INSTRUCTION. I REPEAT-"

As the announcer repeated herself, a few Uchigane and Rafale Revive IS then came out from the academy's hangar towards where the meteor had fallen. If one could see further, Chifuyu was the one who led the IS team in her Uchigane.

"Gosh, Houki. We'd better get going to our dorm now." Suddenly, Ichika began taking Houki's arm and then ran towards the dormitory. "Maybe the teachers there could explain what just happened."

"Hey wha-? Don't drag me you idiot! I can walk on my own!" protested the girl as she reluctantly kept her pace.

Little they did know that today would be a starting point of something bigger that would happen in the future...

AN: So how is it. Man this took so long to complete because of all my school work. I just barely get time.

Thanks to Vandenbz for beta reading this chapter and Casualfictionwriter for the help.

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