Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY

The New Coordinate

Story:
AU of GSD. Xander Darklighter, a pilot with attitude problem was just assigned to Minerva when three new mobile suits were stolen from Armory One. What will happen when he decided to take that path in front of him?

Notes:
I don't remember much of the beginning of GSD but I do remember certain points and its main plot but the dialogue the characters speak and how they act might be different from the ones you saw. Hey, it's AU. Give it a little leeway, okay?

And do forgive me for my crappy English. And please don't expect much from me. I fear that I might screw up.

Finally, I don't own GSD, their characters or anything else aside from Xander Darklighter.

Chapter 1: Just Not My Day

Captain Talia Gladys looked at the list of ship's newest member. Arthur Trine, her second in command stood from across the table. "Most of them are mechanics and engineers. Wait, there's a pilot here. Xander Darklighter?"

Arthur blinked as if he remembered that name. "Oh, that troublemaker? I've heard that his scores are pretty astounding despite his discplinary problems."

Talia nods. "I've heard that too. But do we need another mobile suit pilot?"

"But this list had been comissioned by the Chairman himself." her assistant stammered.

Talia sighed. "We can't do a thing about that, can't we?"

A military jeep arrive just outside the ZAFT military factory. The driver turned to a young man who was still sleeping at the back.

"Yo, Darklighter. We're here."

The young man woke up to reveal a pair of aqua blue eyes. He looked around. The whole place is busy. He has heard that the PLANT Chairman Gilbert Dullindal is giving a tour around the area to Orb's Chief Representative. He pulled out a disc from his pocket. He cursed.

"Tch. Damn orders. Why did it have to leave till the last minute? I was hoping to enjoy my time in training new recruits."

"No use in whining now, kid. It is an order from the Chairman himself."

"Yeah, I know." He then got out of the vehicle. "Thanks for the lift, Sarge."

The driver smiled and salutes him. "I'm expecting something in return someday. See ya around, Darklighter."

He smiled back. "Yeah, I know. Just wait till that day. And be seeing you around too."

As the jeep left, he flauntered his silver white hair upwards. He slings his bag and make his way inside. He smiled dryly upon the prospect of reporting in to the captain.

"Xander Darklighter reporting in...riiiight."

Rey Za Burruel was working on his unit when he felt a presence behind. He turned around to see a young man with silver white hair in a formal ZAFT uniform.

"Excuse me, can you tell me where the ship Minerva is?" he asked politely. Rey narrowed his eyes as not many people are supposed to know about it. Even most of the engineers here don't know much about it.

Seeing the way Rey looked at him, he took out the disc containing the orders. "I'm Xander Darklighter. I was assigned to Minerva under the order of Chairman Dullindal."

Rey took the disc and ran over it briefly. Then he nods and returned it to him. "Minerva is at the end of the factory. You won't miss it." he informed.

Xander slipped the disc inside his pocket. "Thanks."

As he watched Xander leave, Rey was wondering how he could sense his presence without looking at him.

Xander was about to reach the end of the factory when a huge amount of noise was heard and followed by a crushing sound of three mobile suits made their presence known. He quickly took cover on the previous factory he just passed.

"Now what? Don't tell me it's a test run!"

Then, the three suits started to thrash the area without further delay. Chaos ensued as the soldiers scrambled into their units to counter the threat. This had caused Xander to run frantically for cover until he bumped into someone familiar. He was holding a girl in his arms. He recognized both of them. The girl was Orb's Chief Representative, Cagalli Yula Athha. And the man is...

"Athrun..?"

The man looked up at him and his eyes widened. "Xander? Xander Darklighter, right?" He asked.

"Athrun, you know him?" Cagalli asked curiously. Athrun nods. "We were classmates a few years back. But forget that for now."

Xander nods. "Let's spare the introduction later. Care to tell me what the hell is going on?"

Athrun shook his head. "I don't know either. But I suspect that those three new suits were stolen by Earth Federation."

Xander sighed and slapped his forehead. "Great. With that, my day is complete."

Xander went seperate ways with Athrun and Cagalli ran into another direction. He was still cursing his luck about all this. "Of all the days, why does it have to be this one?"

He stopped in his tracks when he saw a blue mobile suit lying in the rubble. "Just what I need to take those out. But I haven't seen this unit around..."

He quickly make his way towards the cockpit and was relieved to see it was undamaged. He got in and turned on the system. "Shoot! No OS?" he cursed aloud. He pulled a keyboard nearby and started to tinker with the system. "Now I have to make my own OS. X-rated." he chuckled. His eyes widened in surprise as he made his way into the system's configuration.

"Ah? What's this? Wait, isn't this the new ZGMF-2000 GOUF?"

Athrun, who was in a Zaku cockpit with Cagalli, got thrown away by the impact caused by the new ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam. "Damn it!" He pulled out an axe concealed within the shield and threw it at the black, menacing unit. The unit blocked it easily and Athrun could see that he was surrounded by the three; ZGMF-X88S Gaia, ZGMF-X31S Abyss and ZGMF-X24S Chaos. Gaia was about to launched an attack when it was hit by a few rounds of missiles. A small flight unit approached in and did a backward loop as it connects with the other two units that follows it. After the sequence is complete, it formed into another Gundam unit; ZGMF-X56S Impulse. It took out two anti ship swords and put it together to form a double sided blade. It then initiated the attack starting with Gaia.

"Another one?" Athrun thought. He then detected another mobile suit approaching. "You've been damaged. Withdraw at once." The voice said.

"Xander? Is that you?" Athrun turned on the monitor and his face confirmed his answer.

"Yeah. Athrun, withdraw to the ship Minerva nearby. I'll help that red suit."

Xander didn't waste any time in engaging Chaos for combat. He started with a few rounds of attacks from the 'Draupnir' 4-barrel beam gun. His opponent easily avoided it. Sting Oakley, the pilot of Chaos screamed; "Don't get in the way!" With that, he launced a few 'Firefly' guided missles.

"Now that's cheating, you know?" Xander moaned as he blasted each one of them with the beam gun. Then, he felt another presence. It's Abyss coming in from behind with its lance poised to strike him. "DIE!" Auel Neider, its pilot shouts.

"Shoot!" Xander cursed as he lashed the 'Slayer Whip' mounted on the forearm. The tail hit the staff of the lance and Xander applied the finishing by sending a massive electric shock along the whip. Auel writhed in pain as the electric shock hit every part of the suit. But Xander knew that this won't be long because the Chaos just unleashed its two mobile armor pods and they were coming at him at a breakneck speed. Xander was too slow to react and the pods hit him squarely. As he fell, he could see the pods are still attached to him and both are prepared to fire its beam energy at him.

"Damn. I'll be dead if I don't do something. Here it goes." With lightning speed, Xander's GOUF unit managed to detached itself from the pods and slashed at one of them with its 'Tempest' beam sword. The attack didn't hit the mark and the pods returned to its owner who was now on the way out with Abyss and Gaia.

"Dammit! They're leaving!" Xander shouted in frustration.

"We won't allow that." a voice came from the new Impulse Gundam (with the now equipped force silhouette). Behind it there are two other units, the red ZAKU Warrior and the white Blaze ZAKU Phantom.

Xander smiled. "Yeah. Let's go." With that, the four ZAFT units followed the fleeing three.

"I'll take Gaia. You guys take on the rest." he said. Without waiting for response, he apprached Gaia steadily and used the whip to catch it by the leg. His attempt was successful and Xander pulled it down.

"You ain't going nowhere, black beauty." he smirked as he sends out the electric shock. Suddenly, Abyss came in and sliced the whip easily. Cursing, he attacked the blue unit along with the white ZAKU. The battle wasn't meant to be long as Abyss easily flee into a newly blasted (by Gaia) hole that leads into space. Only Impluse and the white ZAKU followed suit as the red ZAKU suffered some damage and Xander's GOUF was running low on energy.

"Dammit! I just can't believe how my day is turning into..." Xander cursed as he slowly descended towards Minerva's catapault deck.

To Be Continued...