Fore-warning, the start is gonna get kinda confusing, all is explained in my usual authors note/rant at the end. For those of you reading my other story, here's a sneak peek into Noah's return.
Enjoy
Tempering a blazing soul
6 months previously…
Shinn panted as he tried to catch his breath. He and his family had been late due to various reasons getting to the evacuation boats. While the evacuation had begun well before even the first shots were fired, days even, the evacuation had been slow and methodical due to, and unknown to shinn, his family and all citizens of orb except certain military personal, a certain gunpla battlers tactics required the city to be barren by the time the earth alliance launched their attack.
Shinn's family lived outside the initial evacuation zone and had been caught off guard when the E.A. attacked while their part of orb was still just beginning to evacuate.
As they ran down the dirt road that led to the docks he took a moment to glance through the trees. What he saw was…well it was a wonder.
The beach was being heavily defended, but mostly by two particular mobile suits.
No one expected them and even the orb officials had been surprised…well except Erica Simmons, when three astoundingly powerful suits came out of seemingly nowhere and began assisting the defense.
He watched as a salmon colored mobile suit weaved almost gracefully around a group of the E.A. new strike daggers. As it came behind the rear mobile suit it raised a weapon, it was too small for shinn to make out but he quickly knew it was a gun as he saw the machines hand shoot up slightly three times and heard the faint, distant sound of a ballistic weapon firing with each one.
The machine maneuvered around the strike dagger as it fell to its knees but did not explode. From there it came around to the front of the next machine and put the gun to its head, firing once causing the head to explode before booting back then raisin it's leg to kick the machine back.
The strike dagger fell onto it's back and when it tried to get up the salmon colored machine put a bullet in each knee, causing the servo's to die and the machine to stay on the it's back to a degree.
Leaving that one alone it put the weapon away in a holster at its hip, quickly boosting back and away to dodge the remaining squad member's rifle fire as they finally caught up with the quick machine.
As they did so he saw a red and white machine which clearly held two long, curved blades, kabana's, and boosted towards the group which h now had it's back to them. The machine brought both blades down through the shoulders of one strike dagger before turning and bringing its left sword up in a diagonal upward slash, cleanly cutting through the legs of another before the black armor on its left shoulder moved seemingly on its own and punched the machine as it fell, sending it flying across the beach while the machine blocked a beam saber from the last strike dagger with one of its swords.
He was pulled away from the fight as he caught his foot on a rock, shouting as he stumbled but ultimately kept running. He could see it…the docks were not too far away…that was when two machines, custom ones, one in a mobile armor form, another blue artillery looking suit on its back.
The blue suit jumped off the other and in the air fired its arsenal, destroying nearby astrays that were guarding the path.
As they exploded his family stopped and huddled together, his father shielding them as best he could. When the shockwaves settled they began running again but soon another explosion rocked the ground behind them and as they kept running his sister stumbled on a root, falling and losing her phone.
"No my phone!" shouted his sister, mayu. He looked up and saw a blue, white and black machine coming in for an attack on the blue artillery unit and looked back to his family. "Go! I`ll get her phone and catch up!" he shouted and his family moved to run as his slide down the hill to her phone…
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Luke panted as he ran into the hangar. It was now or never. If Noah could save Nicol…maybe he could save her…help shinn keep from becoming the hate and anger filled lap dog that he was in seed destiny.
He ran over to the repaired strike on the gang planks and climbed into the open cockpit, despite Murdoch yelling at him to stop.
Remembering the show as best he could and the controls of the cockpit pod arcade game the former gunpla battler strapped himself into the strike and took a deep breath, pressing the activation button and listening to the war machine come to life.
"Come on come on…there!" he shouted as he tried to figure out how to open a channel to the bridge…but miriallia beat him to it.
"Luke what are you doing in the strike!? You can't pilot a mobile suit even with its new OS!" she shouted at him
"Please miriallia, I need the aile striker pack and permission to launch! Lives are at stake…specific lives In fact that I think I know how to save!" he exclaimed as he shakily moved the strike into position to be put on the catapult without its MS cage.
The girl glared at him but glanced up, clearly getting orders from captain Ramius. "fine…your good to launch but captain wants you back as soon as this little mission of your is done. Equipping the aile flight pack…also patching la flaga to you to cover you with the build strike." She stated before the comm line ended.
Luke closed his eyes and took deep breaths, feeling the strike be outfitting with the pack that would be the best capable to get him to where he wanted to go…he just hoped he could find Kira in time to do so.
He opened his eyes when mu came on the comms. "All right Luke you got me for five minutes then the captain wants you back. What's the plan?" he asked as he visibly jerked to move his controls so he could dodge something.
"I need to find Kira. He should be engaging the new gat series prototypes…while I can't go too into detail there's a certain family in danger and an important character of the sequel to gundam seed whose attitude towards life depends on me saving them." He said, feeling the catapult throw the strike out of the archangel.
The moment he hit the pedal to climb he also pressed the switch to turn on his phase shift armor. He saw mu in the build strike full package 2.0 and moved towards him.
The former mobile armor pilot groaned. "Seriously getting tired of this "can't talk about the future but this is all some cartoon to us BS." Stated the man as he looked around for Kira.
Finally he found him and without telling Luke maxed out his acceleration towards the freedom.
Luke though was thankfully clever and followed suit, unlike Kira not bothering to worry about the strikes battery and using the aile pack to essentially fly.
Luke meanwhile figured out how to contact people and opened a channel with Noah who was currently playing hide and seek with the forbidden in his custom zaku warrior "phantom pain". Noah and the rest of the gunpla battlers taking part in the fight via a link from the simulation to a large gunpla battle arena in neilson labs, though Noah was actually here and in a scanned in version of the zaku warrior, were all piloting custom suits which Noah deemed a good balance between strong enough to survive but not over powering so as to make this battle ridiculously short and damage the seed plot and timeline.
He had rules for being here.
A gunpla being used via the arena could not be gundam class, or if it was it had to be severely under armed, hence the sengoku astray.
One had to understand that while they were battling in the arena, custom software for this disabled plavsky particle based abilities such as the star build strikes discharge system or the sengoku astrays many abilities.
In the case of gundam seed or any universal century series the gunpla could not be a suit from an advanced series, such as bringing the strike freedom in to back Kira up in the freedom or bringing the NU gundam in to waste char in the original mobile suit gundam series…except Noah…but he's just having fun with the prototypes to tie them up
Fighters would also have to understand that that this was technically an alternate universe…they didn't need to know how it happened or how a gunpla arena could essentially act as a bridge. Saving lives was allowed as was obviously killing…but they had to understand they were essentially killing "real people" lives, in Noah's new gundam seed world, were being ended if you destroyed a mobile suit.
Also saving a life like he did Nicol could potentially have consequences, same with ending certain key characters early like say them all ganging up on the gat series porotypes and wiping them out.
The final rule was that anyone entering via arena had to follow Noah's orders, such as sei in his improved build strike full package which he rebuilt just for this was following his order to assist in air defense and meijin kawaguchi and mister neilson were following orders to defend the beach.
Rules aside, he saw Noah on his communications screen shortly. "what's up Luke?" he asked as he once again faded out of sight, using the basic GN particle properties he gained from the spikes on his shields to float back just out of the forbidden scythes reach and make the extends machine visibly begin searching for him.
"Noah I wanna try to save shinn's family…I think I figured out how and what shot to either throw off or even outright block. Shinn blames Kira for his families death, but if I remember correctly they show the calamity firing first then Kira…I think their shots intercept each other and result in an explosion…if I ram Kira and throw his barrage off can you get between the shots and try to soften or even redirect the explosion away from them?" asked Luke
Noah nodded. "Yeah definitely…but we have to hurry, I just saw the calamity and raider go by and the calamity jumped off." He stated, remembering the opening to gundam seed destiny episode one well.
With that settled Luke watched as Kira dove towards the calamity, firing the shot that caused mayu to drop her phone before maneuvering away from return fire.
Quickly pushing his thrusters to the max without warning mu he flew right into Kira's left side as his barrage fired, throwing the entire thing off.
At the same time as the calamity fired Noah's phantom pain faded into few and soon a green GN field surrounded him as both his shields swung out to also block either shot. He had been careful as he saw shinn slide down to get his sisters phone, noticing the family huddle together as the ground shook when he settled down from hover mode.
In theory the GN field shout have absorbed the blast…but that would have been from a full GN drive. The six cones on his shield were the equivalent of a micro GN condenser/drive, only having enough juice to block one beam that was as strong as the calamity's Scylla cannon and Kira's baleana plasma cannons.
When those three, plus Kira's full barrage hit the field absorbed most of the fire but soon failed and his shields took the hit, also failed and Noah found himself diving off his cockpit hatch as the machine boosted off the ridge from him dragging the accelerator forward as he dove, moving the main blast away from shinn's family but still they were caught in it.
Noah tucked and rolled but still found himself slowly getting up, his left arm dislocated but other side he was bruised and scratched.
He looked up to watch sei's build stroke land in front of the calamity as it tried to fire again but it brought up the modified absorb shield and it opened, absorbing the almost point blank hyper powered beam.
The calamity tried to boosted back but sei beat him to the punch, keeping the shield up and boosting forward, with Kira quickly landing between them and opening up with another barrage which caused all three machine, sei and Kira tailing a fleeing and damaged calamity away from the area.
Noah looked around at the area the blast from his exploding zaku phantom did grab and saw charred ground, fires…but no sign of shinn's family…"shit…we failed…"he thought as he watched Luke land in the strike and put it on one knee, Mu, likely upset at having to babysit him, swiftly landed behind him to cover lukes machine while he got out and began to look around.
Noah didn't want to watch him realize they failed and limped away to scan in his second to last resort machine. He had one more after it but it was to be saved for the second battle and was already scanned in.
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Luke frantically looked around. Someone had to have survived…he ran over to look at shinn, the stunned boy not noticing him as he glanced at something and his face was wracked with grief. Luke followed his gaze and gasped. There was his sister's arm...again…
"shit…come on…please let me have done something good here besides just watch Noah and fanboy over being on the archangel.." he said quietly as he looked around.
Finally movement caught his attention in the corner of his eye, as well as a hoarse cry for help, to quite to attract shinn or the ORB officer who was dragging him practically away from the blast site.
Luke ran over and gasped. There she was…it wasn't shinn's whole family…but still the one thing that fueled his hate for Kira…
Mayu lay in a puddle of her own blood and looked up to Luke. Alive…barely…but alive…and missing an arm.
"don't worry mayu…I'm gonna get you out of here…"he stated as he scooped the bleeding girl into his arms and ran back to the strike, grunting and groaning as he climbed up the kneeling machine and back into the cockpit, resting the battered and bruised girl in his lap.
The moment the strike was reactivated and standing he turned around and boosted over mu, who quickly contacted him.
"Hey what's the big idea? Where's the fire kid? "He asked but then saw the girl in the video feed.
"I'm sorry mu, please go back to the fighting…I need to get her back to the archangel…contact them and tell them I'll need medical on standby and likely gonna be a crash landing." He said as he moved the strike in a straight shot for the archangel.
Mu nodded and cut the comms. He then opened a line to the archangel's bridge. "Luke says I'm done babysitting, but to tell you he's gonna need emergency medical teams in the hangar and likely is coming in for a crash landing…"he said as he flew the build strike 2.0 back into the fray.
Miriallia nodded and cut the coms as well, relaying mu's message to the necessary people.
Shortly after the strike came in hot, wobbly and just as it reached the catapult ditched it's aile striker pack into the water before turning grey from a dead battery and coasting into the hangar doors, turning around so that as it hit the crash landing net he was able to grab mayu and keep her from flying around in the cockpit.
The moment the strike stabilize and medical crews ran towards it he brought the strike into a crouch and brought mayu out, jumping the short distance from the cockpit hatch to the metal floor, with a grunt, holding her carefully till they got her on a gurney…
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Shinn couldn't believe it as he turned around and saw the blast results from the black mobile suits explosion. He took a step towards it and looked around. "Mother…father…mayu…"he whispered. Finally he glanced down and saw mayu's arm…"mayu!" he shouted and ran over, despite the orb officers protests….only to find it was just her arm.
Looking back up at the hill he couldn't see any sign of his sister…his mother or father…
Just as shinn fell to his knees a mobile suit flew over and another explosion caused a massive gust of wind.
"Come on kid…we need to go now!" exclaimed the guard, as he force shinn to stand and nearly dragged him into a run back to the docks.
Shinn couldn't believe it…all because of that stupid mobile suit exploding…all this fighting…and him going to get his sisters phone…he was now the only member of his family.
Shinn Asoka…was alone in the world…or so he thought.
On the archangel the doctor and newly staffed orb nurses were helping mayu fight for her life, Luke watching from the doorway, praying she'd live.
Like padme with Anakin in star wars…he knew if she saw what shinn became…in time…she'd likely hate it, and with revealing she was alive…unlike padme…and her talking some sense into him maybe…just maybe he could be like Noah with Nicol and redeem shinn.
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Current day, cosmic era 71, 6 months later
Shinn, ray and luminaria along with their class of zaft recruits were getting a tour of the mobile suit production facilities, even getting a glimpse at the new models they may be piloting if they passed their classes.
The class passed a door that stated it was top secret, the only one in the entire facility….and for some reason it caused shinn to stop. He felt drawn to the door.
He had no idea that in a whole other universe the computers that made up the zero system had turned themselves on and with Noah away it was time for the newly evolved AI to flex its cybernetic skills.
Ray and Luna stopped and turned back to the blue haired coordinator. "Shinn…come on that's off limits. Or did you not hear the instructor just now? "Asked luminaria as she had a bad feeling in her gut. Shinn was about to go into one of his stubborn and reckless moods and no one was gonna stop him.
Ray raised an eyebrow though, unknown to his classmates to have special privileges within the plants.
Shinn turned back to luminaria and then back to the door. "Yeah I heard but...it feels like something is calling out to me...like I'm supposed to go in there…"stated shinn as he walked up to the door and looked to the keypad.
He turned back to ray. "Hey…you're top of our class in electronic warfare right? Think you can get it open?" he asked.
Ray sighed. "Probably…but if we get in trouble this is all your idea…"said the usually logical and rule following ray saburel, which made luminaria gasp.
"What? Are you serious? Who knows what kind of trouble we could get in if they catch us…"she exclaimed quietly.
Shinn shrugged as ray pretended, without his knowledge, to hack the doors console. "So? I wanna know what's in there and why it's calling to me or whatever." He stated.
After a minute of fake hacking ray put in the emergency code he was given by durandal. With that the door opened and the trio walked in quietly. What they found made them all gasp.
Inside was a beaten and bruised EX-caliber. While it was still new to the text books of zaft academy it was already priority one curriculum and so they all knew full well what a god the machine was.
Whatever researchers were working on it seemed to have left for lunch and so they walked along the gangplank till they stood in front of its open cockpit.
The machine looked like they had been modifying it for some reason.
"This…this is…"Luna couldn't even finish her sentence.
"EX-caliber. The only mobile suit known to the cosmic era of celestials being." Stated ray as he and luminaria looked up into the machines two different colored eyes.
Meanwhile shinn's focus was the open cockpit door. While it was right out of a horror flick now he could hear a subtle whisper…and his entire being was screaming to get in. so while his worry wart classmates examined the machine…he did just that.
The moment he did though he regretted it. Again like a classic horror flick the moment he sat in the chair the cockpit door closed on its own.
Noticing that he was in an old model GINN cockpit which they were currently studying how to use, he grabbed the door release switch and pulled.
It wouldn't budge.
Things got even worse as the machine began to hum to life…interior wise…outside luminaria and ray were still awestruck by the machine.
Shinn pounded on the door, shouting at his friends to go get help…but for some reason they didn't hear him. As the machine booted up the monitors began to glow a bright golden color and shinn found himself experiencing the worst migraine of his life.
He yelled out in pain as he grabbed his head. Even with his superior coordinator body the pain…he was slowly losing a battle to stay conscious.
Finally as the screens glowed so bright it was blinding he lost the fight and blacked out.
As he did the monitors, the whole cockpit instantly shut off, including the zero system computers. It's work was done…time to see what came of it as in the rebuilt and upgraded original simulator cockpit sat shinn, passed out and slumped in the chair, unaware he had transitioned between universes.
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3 days ago, build fighters universe…
China rocked her hips back and forth, smiling as her new baby boy sucked on his pacifier, trying to get him to sleep. A ping came from the computer at the hobby shops front counter and she walked over, still rocking the baby as he slowly drifted to sleep.
China noticed a new e-mail. It was from Noah…well his e-mail address anyways.
"Dear china, I do apologize for this inconvenience giving your current situation but I was hoping you could put a real grade destiny gundam on my tab and deliver it to my home, specifically my gunpla lab. Again I apologize for bothering you with this but I am planning to work on a custom destiny when I return from the world tournament. Thank you, Noah Carson"
She raised an eyebrow. It was rather formal in wording for Noah. But still Noah would be good for the destiny. So with that she rang him up for the requested model and went to get it. She'd deliver it later after her baby boy's nap.
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Shinn groaned as he slowly came too. "Damn…that…what was that?" he asked as he shifted to sit up in his seat. As he slowly opened his eyes he blinked. Gone was the GINN cockpit, now he sat basically in a cockpit shaped…shell.
Looking around he found a lever that was labeled "simulator door lever" confused as to why it said it was a simulator the future faith member pulled it and a moment later the front of the "cockpit slid up and he got a look of just where he was.
The room outside was no longer the hangar that the somehow reconstructed EX-caliber was in and luminaria and ray were gone.
Cautiously he stepped out of the simulator and looked around. The room was dark but with his coordinator enhanced vision he could make out that it was supposed to be a living room. Instead he looked behind the cockpit and saw the mass of shut down computers and monitors.
Taking another step he began to search for a light switch. The technology looked almost primitive compared to what was in the plants. Just what happened to him in EX-calibers cockpit? Was he hallucinating?
Finally shinn found a switch by feeling along the wall. Flipping it he had to shield his eyes at the room's lights. Once they had adjusted he got a better look around the room.
He was right. It was a living room that had been repurposed into something else. This was someone's home…but…did this count as breaking and entering? He hoped not. But then again perhaps this…simulators maker could explain just what happened. Hopefully they came home soon.
Deciding a look around the apartment couldn't hurt he began to explore. The apartment was a mess, no real pictures of loved ones, just chicken scratch notes and piles of books on subjects shinn couldn't comprehend even the name of.
Finally he made his way upstairs and looked around. There were 2 bedrooms, one clearly a guest bedroom given how clean and unused it was, the other, larger and obviously the master bedroom looked as bad as downstairs just add piles of clothes.
"Man this person must be either insane or a damn genius…"he muttered as he found more notes posted along the wall…till he came across an odd room.
After flicking on the lights he saw it looked like a cross between a shop class working station and a mad scientist's lab. Taking a step in he had to close his eyes, a wave of lightheadedness coming over him. When he recovered he shook his head. "Must be some sort of…time jump lag? Whatever it was that happened to me lag?" he thought as he dismissed the lightheadedness as nothing but a side effect of all this.
He noticed a box with pictures on it and a note on top of it on the desk, along with more notes, but more organized. There was also an abundance of tan pieces of resin and odd pieces of some sort of toy?
But as he got closer to the box he saw a familiar list of letters.
Brushing the note off him finally read the full thing…it was a zaft mobile suit designation…
"ZGMF-X42s…destiny?" he said, confused. When did this model come out? He had never heard of it. And it sounded like it would be a prototype. Was it still in the concept phase?
Noticing the chair that whoever used this desk would sit in, he took a seat and opened the box carefully.
"What the…is this some sort of aesthetic test model?" he asked himself as he pulled the plastic bags filled with riggings out till he found the instruction booklet.
He blinked. He…he was on the cover of this book with the machine. "What the…am I somehow in the future?" he was so confused.
Opening the instruction booklet he began to read through the instructions, not questioning how he can read the odd symbols (XP). Reading the first two pages with basic advice on how to build the model, info on the destiny gundam…even on himself…
Even with how confused he was he closed the booklet and picked up the note that had been on the box.
"Noah, I hope you did well in the tournament. I know you feel you aren't worthy of piloting a gundam till you win and I know sei is rooting for you even if you end up fighting him...when you sent me the email ordering this I assume you're pretty sure you`ll win…though I was under the impression you hated the destiny with a passion.
But…I won't judge your choices.
Sincerely, china"
Shinn blinked. Noah? He looked back to the model. He hated the destiny…yet he ordered it? Well…maybe it was a mistake. Looking back at the instructions shinn bit his lip. Was he somehow the pilot for this mobile suit? And if so should he use this as a chance to get to know it early?
While deciding shinn quietly got out of the chair and headed downstairs. Not realizing what he was doing, he passed the living room, went into the kitchen and began scrounging for food…which this person clearly had no true diet. All he found were various pastries apparently called pop tarts in many different flavors.
Looking into the fridge for a drink he found a few cases of something called "DR pepper" frowning he grabbed one of the cases and set it on the counter. He then looked through all the pop tart flavors and grabbed a box of cookie dough and a box of s'mores flavor.
Setting those on the case of soda he picked it all up and headed back to the workshop. Setting the soda on the floor and opening a box of pop tarts. Before shinn knew it the riggings were out of the bags and set up like it shows in the instruction booklet, a can of DR pepper nearby and open, and a bite of cookie dough pop tarts in his mouth.
He blinked. Well…it seemed he would be building this model. It was then he noticed a lab top set up in a corner with a notebook on it. He picked up the notebook and flipped through it. He raised an eyebrow. These were mobile suit designs.
One looked like a…well almost an outdated version of the strike daggers the earth alliance was using now...but it was covered in pistols and knives and had a heavy sniper rifle and four weapon cases on its back.
Another looked like…he immediately tossed the notebook across the room and wished he had a standard issue side arm to shoot it.
The machine on the page…was the zaku "phantom pain"…the one that exploded and killed his family.
He took a few deep breaths and sat down, turning to the laptop and turning it on…well apparently waking it up from sleep mode. On the screen he saw a video…looking to the title, gundam seed destiny episode 39.
It was snowing, and as he pressed play the "camera" this was clearly a cartoon" scrolled down to show a mobile suit…it looked like an advanced version of the GAT-x105 strike, aile pack, that he learned about in class….but more advanced.
It showed the mobile suit walk into the lake that was in front of it, slowly…like the pilot inside was sad for some reason. He blinked when the machine stopped and the cockpit opened…to show him…and a girl in a pink flight suit.
He paused it for a moment…as any guy would…and admired the fact he was wearing a zaft red elite flight suit and didn't look much older than he did now. He knew he was gonna graduate with flying colors…maybe…
He continued the video and watched as he looked angry for some reason, then glanced down at the girl and caressed her cheek before pulling her close to him. Clearly he loved this girl at some point.
Then there was a series of flashbacks, one of them grabbed at his heart as the girl struggled, clearly fighting her own body as she had an oxygen mask over her mouth. As she struggled she seemed to look right at him and say, "shinn…you said…you`d protect me…"
He couldn't help but tear up as he watched the flashback of her dying in his arms…telling him she loved him as her dying words. Why? Why did she have to die?
And Stella…"Stella…"he said, as if seeing how a potential lovers name felt on his tongue. It did have a…natural sense to it…like he was meant to love her…
He continued watching as "he" told her it was alright…then brought the machines hand to the cockpit and somehow…he was still in training… but somehow made the arm extend and he walked out onto the finger tips, gently setting her in the water.
"there's no longer anything for you to be afraid of…you don't have to suffer anymore…" he said through tears as he let the girl go, letting her body sink slowly, peacefully with the weight of the flight suit.
Another flash back and he watched him carry her to his waiting mobile suit…his mobile suit…he felt sad…knowing he would be in command of such an advanced looking machine…and yet he couldn't save the one he loved…
"There's nothing to frighten you anymore…no one to be cruel to you…"
Now shinn was crying…would he have to endure this? If this was his future could he prevent this? If it was his past what kept him from saving her?
"So…be at peace…and rest peacefully in this place…" he said as he began outright sobbing.
As he cried on screen shinn, without meaning too slammed his fist on the desk and said, at the same time as on screen, the exact same word. Almost…
"I said I'd protect her…"he turn around and grabbed a nearby plastic toy, throwing it across the room. "I SAID I`D PROTECT HER!" he shouted, falling to his knees. Why? Why did he feel this way? It was just some carton right? O-or maybe it was a…somehow cartoonified TV show. Maybe for some reason he left zaft and began acting?
But he couldn't stop the tears, not realizing how much he was mimicking himself in the episode.
"Stella…I'm sorry I failed you…I…if it is my future I swear I'll do all I can to stop it from happening!" he shouted, slamming his fist on the floor. Finally he stopped crying and got up, jumping into the chair he got on the laptop and found out he was halfway through the episode. He wanted to watch this…he wanted to find out just how this happened. How he fell in love, what that machines name was.
If this was his future…he was not going to let it repeat itself. He would save her…he would protect her…she would never have to suffer again whatever it was he had sworn to protect her from.
With that he found the list of episodes and clicked on episode 1. If he was really going to know how to stop that from happening…he'd need to start from the beginning…
Even as he began to work determinedly on building this destiny machine…he had failed to notice just what machine he had thrown and now broke…
It was an impulse gundam, force silhouette that had been in the middle of being weather treated to look as it had in that episode, in the corner of the workshop was the beginning to a small diorama of the lake it would be standing in, a painted resin figure of Stella already beginning to sink in the solid blue block of clear resin.
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Ok…so I'm sorry to my fans who read this and seem confused. I got some writers block on my next chapter for chasing dreams and slashing nightmares so I thought I'd start shinn's little spin off story. And please, those who read my other story…YES NOAH IS AWAY AT THE TOURNAMENT BUT WILL COME BACK IN THE OTHER STORY BEFORE SHINN GOES BACK…no shinn will not be squatting in his home though Noah will earn of his transfer to the build fighter universe aka his reality
Anyways hope to get good reviews, and I know the orb scene/opening may have been a bit confusing. To clarify and spoil the ending to chasing dreams and slashing nightmares…well…part of it. Noah will technically die again…almost. But he will disappear from both universes. This story starts technically in the middle of that story but shins transition to the build fighters universe takes place between gundam seed and destiny.
Confusing I know but trust me…I'm a complex person…it`ll all become clear when I finish my other story and this one and the sequel merge into one story.
And before I get flames of shinn watching destiny and knowing everything…gonna spoil this little bit…when he goes back, like Noah only being in the simulator for a few minutes, but was in gundam seed for months, shinn will be gone for months but sadly pass out again when he crosses and wake up a minute or two after he left, but due to the painful crossover he will lose all memory of watching the series, even the destiny gundam itself, but like flay he will be getting déjà vu and it will influence him and help me actually build his character.