GUNDAM SEED ETERNITY

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Foreword

After some years of peace between the Earth and PLANT, the Earth is suddenly shocked by many terrorist attacks. Old fanatics of war claims that ZAFT is at work, bringing the world into yet another war after the battles that plagued the world during C.E. 70 and C.E. 73. But no one truly believes in it. The new chairman and leader of PLANT, daughter of Siegel Clyne, Lacus Clyne has only been in position for a mere year, and all had been peaceful until now. What will happen now? How will PLANT, under the new leadership, and Earth Alliance react to these new happenings?

Our situation starts at ZAFT's hangar, as.......

Episode 1: Where it all begins

"This is my first time in space!" Nella cried out in amazement as she trailed after her commander and her fellow pilots. They were here for simulation training. It is a rare chance, for ZAFT would never allow the Earth Alliance to train in their ground using their facilities if not for the terrorist attacks. Now, both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT had made diplomatic actions to calm the stirred emotions in the hearts of both the coordinators and the naturals.

"Coordinators are the only ones capable of doing these things," she muttered in awe as she watched the skills and techniques of the coordinator pilots displayed around her during the training. Perhaps she was lucky, that on her first trip to PLANTs, Nella was able to enjoy the space colony more than she would have if there were a war. As she walked down the beautiful streets after training, she noticed a lot of people crowding in a portion of the street; they are looking up at a big screen where a broadcast of Lacus Clyne is shown.

Before she can hear what Chairman Clyne was saying to the people though, a person in the crowd started speaking agitatedly, "Didn't they have enough war in the past? What are they talking about, ZAFT attacking Earth?! They must be out of their minds!"

Another one yells back, "I heard the Earth Alliance forces are already placed on standby!"

"What do they mean by that??!! Placing their forces on standby?!!" yet another responded, clearly shocked.

At this point in time, Nella finally heard Chairman Clyne's calm voice, transmitted alongside her live feed image from the screen on a building, sounded clearly over the crowd of agitated coordinators. "My dear friends, do not be fooled by what is happening. Please everyone, calm down. There is nothing to be worried about. This evening, the high council of PLANTs shall be meeting with the Earth Alliance representatives, who like us believe that this is not the doing of ZAFT; we are working hard on resolving this matter and figuring out who is behind all this. We are not new to such strategies, especially during the last war, where Chairman Durandal exposed many of the minds behind such acts. Both PLANTs and Earth wish for nothing but peace."

A woman in the crowd exclaimed, "yes, we've had enough, we've already gone through enough war and pain." Nella peered around and saw that she was tearfully holding a baby.

Many people nodded and whispered in approval and continued listening to Lacus Clyne's speech. Along them, at the back of the crowd, a young girl with flaming ruby hair stood by herself, observing and listening, her brilliant green eyes sparkling in the light as a tear slipped down her face, marking a lone track on the smooth surface. She was shook out of her emotions just then, as someone bumped into her, and the both of them lost their balance in a sudden momentum.

"I am so sorry...really! I was totally fascinated by her speech; she is really an amazing person!" Nella exclaimed, trying her best to explain herself as she pointed to Chairman Clyne in the screen. Then, she studied the girl and asked awkwardly, "are you ok?"

As Nella Sky apologised and tried to help the girl up, in another place at the same moment, another girl is troubled. Rayne deFray was called by her Professor to the science lab they are using for their major project. It has to be something serious if Prof is asking to meet me only and so urgently, she thought to herself. What is it? Don't tell me it's about the recent terrorist attacks? But what had that got to do with me? I'm a normal student... Don't tell me it's Leena... or Mother...

And so she ponders as her shoes padded the cold floor, unconsciously making herself more and more worried. That was when she looked up and notices that she was in an entirely wrong place.

"Man! I'm supposed to be in the Block 9 labs... what am I doing in the Block 3??!!!"

With a shook of her head, she quickly turn a corner, quickening her pace in the process as she realises she is going to be late.

* * *

"Commander! We reached point A56w!"

"Excellent!" a man replied with gusto. He was sitting in front of a big window observing the rain outside. The darkness seemed to suit him, for he grinned. Then he glanced at the neon lights on his watch. It seems to please him more, as he announced, to no one in particular, "I am going to enjoy this beautiful war!"

It is not surprising that war is coming. No, it is not, for despite the announcement Lacus Clyne, Chairman of the High Council of PLANTs, has made, she could not help but feel the warning of an imminent war. Despite her kind hopes of a stable world with peace and her assurances to the people of PLANTs, the world seems once again tipped into another direction, a deviation from the world Lacus Clyne wanted. Thus, it is not surprising as well, to find that yet somewhere else in space, people of authority were and still are planning unpleasant surprises for the people of the world.

"Is our army ready to attack!?" A man with blazing green hair questioned his assistant.

"Yes, sir! The Army is ready now…" Ralph replied with a tint of fear clear in his voice.

"Good, make sure everything runs smoothly, or else..."

'BANG!'

Ralph gasped as the revolver goes off, punching a hole through the chair right next to him. Unceremoniously, Ralph's boss continued, "that'll be the end of you. A war would be brewing soon... I believed God is on our side; there is no way Zala could survive this time...," the man ended his speech with a long, loud cackle.

It is fortunate that no one, other than his men, heard him, for many would have been chilled and troubled by his words. One such person is Rann Zagart. Rann had been studying a new set of GUNDAM models, but she soon discarded them into a locked drawer as she left for Cagalli Yula Athha, the Head Representative of ORB Union's office. She had been troubled enough, with a matter that revolves around her head, and indeed, she would have been very much more troubled if she were to know anything about the dreadful plans the different organisations have for the world.

"Cagalli," Rann announced her arrival with no greeting. No greeting is required, for she is familiar with the blonde representative. "Athrun is looking for you... he mentioned something about speaking to you about something important..."

To her surprise, Rann was faced with silence as the person in question ignored the sudden intruder and continued her task at hand – her never-ending reports.

"… Don't tell me you have a fight with him or something..." Rann asked. She felt as if she had known this silence before. When Cagalli continued in her silence, she knew what was going on. "Wah, looks like I'm talking to a log," Rann commented and leaves Cagalli's office. Resigned, she then went to find Athrun, informing him that Cagalli is too busy.

She watched Athrun's response and was doubly confirmed of her suspicions. Athrun noticed the sudden silence though, and was kind enough to change the topic, "so Rann, how's your new GUNDAM?" He looked over at the girl.

"Everything is okay... Hey… is it true that there will be a war again?" They were sitting on a branch, each holding onto a cup of steaming tea. Rann stared down at her tea as she asked the question; the topic that has been in her head for so long, in which she had sought so hard to avoid. She knew that Cagalli will only be annoyed if she had asked this question. She would then loudly demand where Rann had heard it, and declare it to be the worst of the untruths. Athrun, however, had a different response. Serious and realistic, he never tried to avoid the truth. "I don't know Rann. I think it's only a rumour... "

"Rumour? But I really don't want to see another war again," Rann muttered, almost too softly.

"Everything will be fine... I trust Lacus and Kira. If there will be a war again, I know they will make a decision that is best for us." He leaned his head up towards the ceiling, and after a pause, continued, "but we don't know anything yet here in ORB. You have to remember that Cagalli will always try her best to deal with it, so we have to support her and ORB." Athrun tried his best to smile at his upset friend.

Even as Athrun tries his best to assure his friend, there are plans already set in motion. These are plans that people who should know did not know. If they were to know, they may be able to do something to put a stop to it. People like Lacus, Kira, Athrun and Cagalli. People who holds a position of authority in this world, who can spark a change, or stop the world from the motion it is set upon. They believe that the world is still in a peaceful equation; that there is still hope for understanding each other and retaining the peace. Yet, this peace is what that is fleeting away from the world. Such is shown, clearly, as even after Athrun's words, the world began to launch itself past the final stage of peace and into chaos…

"Are you ok?" Nella asks the girl right in front of her, trying to speak out loud against the noisy background. Before Cecile gets a chance to respond, her beeper rings. She pulls it out instantly and reads it silently.

"Urm...Sorry, I have to go....." Cecile quickly said after she had finished reading the message, a slightly worried look on her face. Thus she runs off to her car and starts driving away, all the while thinking, they are calling me in now?!! She wondered what this is all about, for there must be something serious to call everyone in. As her car reaches a military gate, Cecile flashed her ID to one of the guards, who grants her access into the compound. She then drives on, passing by hangers with mobile suits and mobile armours packed in them. There are people in suits hurrying around everywhere. Cecile looks around confusedly as she parks the car, and hurries out to where she ought to be. She never got to it though, for at that precise moment in time, a button is being pressed. A man was fingering the button in question as he watched the countdown timer on the screen reaches 1. Without hesitation, he pushed the button of the radio and called out, "fire!"

"Yes, sir!" was the answer received, and then, some parts of PLANTs experienced a sudden earthquake. It began with a gentle quiver, and slowly gained power as it continued its supremacy over the tiny humans standing on its surface.

"What the hell is going on?" Everyone could be seen running around, trying to get their balance as they scrambled for safety. If there is a "safety", perhaps it would not be so messy now, as screams of confusion, of hope, of desperation and for their loved ones resided in their throats.

"Nella, here you are!" a voice familiar to Nella Sky could be heard. It was David, and he was driving a car. "C'mon! They shot at the PLANTs… we have to leave this place!"

"Who did what?" Nella yelled back, unable to understand the words in this chaotic ground. Without even answering her question, David pulled her into the car. Minutes later, both reached their ship. They look up and saw, on the huge screen, the huge picture of what happened. A large portion of the PLANTs was blackened in destruction.

"What? What? What is that??" Nella cried out in shock when she saw it.

"It's here. Just a few miles from here. In this very place." The voice came from behind both Nella and David.

"Commander!" she cried out when she saw a man who just appeared.

"What do we do now?" David asked the man.

"They won't let us do anything!" the commander said seriously, "We are not in liberty to do anything. The best thing now is to keep quiet and watch what happens next. We are in a very dangerous situation now."

"But…." Nella was shocked.

"What did the Captain say?" David interrupted.

"The Captain is now checking the situation and trying to contact the ZAFT. We had better keep our eyes open now, as the Captain had said." Then, after a while, when more members of the ship had arrived, he said, "All hands prepare for action! Words of the Captain states that we may have to leave PLANTs suddenly! So start preparing for it!"

If there were any surprise at this announcement, it lasted only a second. In the next, the staffs of the Earth Alliance ship cried out, "yes, Sir!" and they were on their way to their assigned station. Nella was pulled out of the way as they rush about.

The commander saw it and informed both David and Nella, "all pilots are to prepare as well. Suit yourself up and head over to the briefing room."

"Yes, Sir!" David replied and pulled Nella along.

On the other side of PLANTs, Cecile finds herself suddenly on the ground. She had tripped while everyone was running and screaming... "What is going on????" she asked, mostly to herself.

She gets up, and as soon as she lifts her head up, she sees a familiar figure. Yzak was moving hurriedly away.

Cecile calls, "Yzak! YZAK!"

Yzak notices Cecile. He came over quickly and demanded, "What the HELL are you doing here?! It's a stampede!"

Cecile quickly responded, "I was beeped; they called me in, and then suddenly, there is a quake and I fell down… what is going on?"

Yzak looks as if he was about to yell at Cecile. Recognising it, Cecile quickly cut him off, "Yzak, This is not the time and place for this... what is going on now?"

Yzak felt agitated, and could not keep it from his voice as he said, "there was an attack on PLANTs, some of our men on duty blocked a part of the attack, but it is impossible to fully stop it." Then, angered by the thought of it, he hissed, "and so near us too! How dare they attack our military base!" Just as he finished speaking, someone called out for him, "Commander Joule!"

Yzak turns around in the direction of the voice and yelled back, "I'll be right there!" He turns back and faces Cecile once more, "whatever you do....Don't, oh forget it!"

And with that he turns and leaves her. Cecile was about call after him, and it was then that she truly realised the situation they were in. Hoping that she is loud enough, she called, "Commander Joule, take care."

Yzak turns his head around. There was a slight look of surprise, and then, irritation before he shouted, "Shut up!" and with that, he is gone.

"He'll never change," Cecile muttered to herself. She runs to where she was supposed to report to, and she found herself in front of Captain Arthur. Arthur had spotted her as well, and said, "Finally, you are here! Hurry up to the ship; we are about to launch. Quick!"

--End of Episode 1--