Gundam SEED Zeta Destiny
This is another fanfic that has nothing to do with the Shadow Marines. I'm sure you'll be saying, "Thank God!" In this fanfic I'm doing a retelling of Gundam SEED Destiny except with a few twists and turns. You'll just have to find out what they are. Please leave comments to help improve the story.
Chapter 1: Nightmares and Arrivals
Girty Lue
4:30 a.m. PLANT Standard Time
"NO!!!!" screamed Stella Loussier as she woke up from her sleep, waking her two teammates Sting Oakley and Auel Neider.
"What is it Stella?" asked Auel as he rubbed his eyes before throwing himself back on the bed.
"Did you have another bad dream again?" asked Sting in his sleep.
Stella was afraid to tell them about her dreams, about she died by the hands of someone who was trying to stop fighting or how someone she fell in love with in her dream either killed her or they were killed by someone else. She looked at Sting and Auel and just threw herself back on the bed and fell back to sleep; but it wouldn't do much of anything as she twitched, tossed and turned trying to forget the nightmare she had.
6:30 a.m.
Stella woke refreshed eating her breakfast calmly and quietly as Sting and Auel slowly lurched their way into the mess hall. As always Auel left his uniform unkempt as it looked like he wanted to show off that he was buff and tough enough to take on anyone. Sting on the other hand made sure his uniform was nice and his jacket buttoned up properly. Stella looked at both of her teammates and silently thought about her nightmare from last night and the person she saw in her dream. It seemed to Stella that the person she fell in love was a ZAFT soldier to be exact; he seemed to be cold and rude at first, but he was rather warm and kind on the inside as he showed her the kindness she sought after all abuse and torture from that one place she came from; she couldn't remember. Stella wanted to know more about this ZAFT soldier with a cold exterior and warm interior; it didn't really matter to her if she would get in trouble just because the lover from her dreams was a Coordinator. Sting and Auel abruptly interrupted Stella's line of thought as Auel slammed his tray down to the table next to Stella causing her to flinch.
"So what that dream about, Stella?" asked Auel as he slammed some eggs down his throat.
Stella looked at Auel and gave him a dirty look as she replied, "It doesn't matter what it was about. It was just a dream. And close your mouth when chew; it's disgusting to watch you chew." Stella then picked up her tray and floated towards the kitchen and left the mess hall.
Auel looked at Sting confused and Sting said, "You know she does have a point, it's really disgusting to watch you chew when talk. Besides, I don't think she wants to tell us about her dreams."
"Yeah, well she's not gonna get help from us or Neo if she doesn't tell anyone," said Auel after he wolfed down the last of his bacon.
"Maybe that's the point," remarked Sting before taking a drink from his orange juice.
"Maybe what's the point?"
Sting and Auel turned around to find the owner of that voice was their commanding officer, Captain Neo Roanoke, the leader of the 81st Autonomous Mobile Suit Group better known as Phantom Pain.
"Is there something going on that I don't know about?" asked Neo as he sat down next to Sting.
Sting sighed and explained about how Stella was having nightmares that woke them both up when she screamed. Neo sat as Sting explained the situation and recollected as he often heard Stella scream too.
"I'm sure it's nothing," said Neo as he began to eat. "But right now we got a mission from the higher ups; the three of you need to make sure you're ready in thirty minutes in the briefing room."
The three Extended soldiers waited patiently for Neo to arrive into the briefing room for this mission they were going to get. Auel paced back and forth across the floor; Sting sat in the chair he usually sat in and caught up on his reading; Stella just sat and pondered her dreams again like she tried to do before Auel rudely interrupted her line of thought. She looked like she was dazed until Neo arrived and his sudden arrival snapped her out of her dazed state.
"All right we got word that ZAFT has built three new mobile suits at a colony they call Armory One," began Neo the lights dimmed down and images suddenly appeared on the monitor. "Your mission will be secure these three new prototypes and escape with them. You be receiving help from within the ZAFT military."
"Why do we have to have help from Coordinators?" Auel asked in disgust.
"Because they're actually double agents inserted within the ZAFT military," answered Neo. "Chairman Durandal has begun to allow Naturals to join the ZAFT military, but only in small numbers."
Neo continued with the briefing giving the layout of the colony but mostly the military base on the colony. He also gave them orders to destroy as much of the base as possible. Neo assured the three Extended soldiers that the Girty Lue would be in the area to provide support and cause as much chaos as possible. Auel smirked in approval of Neo's last statement.
Near Armory One
Roux looked at PLANTS colony in amazement; she had never seen colonies look like hourglasses. She and the other two pilots, Elle Vianno and Elepo Puru were used to seeing cylinder shaped colonies and the hourglass colonies were a new concept to them.
"Hey Roux what are we gonna do?" Elle asked Roux. "We've got get to a colony and see if we get some help."
"I know, I know," said Roux in a stressed out tone, "I just don't think we'll get much help from whoever runs this colony."
"Well we won't know if don't try," replied Puru cheerfully.
Roux smiled as she took the lead and the three of them headed towards Armory One; at first they saw a shuttle and Roux thought about escorting it to the spaceport but decided against it, especially after spotting two ZAFT GINNS. The GINNS spotted and surrounded the Zeta, Qubeley Mk II and Gundam Mk II. Roux had Elle and Elepo surrender without fighting; she too surrendered without fighting. The GINNS escorted the three Gundams to Armory One quietly and quickly without any problems. However once they got inside the GINNS had to go and help retrieve three stolen prototype mobile suits stolen by young teenagers and they had to be recaptured promptly.
"You two want to help out?" Roux asked Elle and Elepo.
"Why not," answered Elle. "I mean we need to know more about our surroundings, right?"
Roux gave Elle a slight nod and shut off the visual COM before speeding towards the stolen Abyss and engaged it in battle along with the ZAFT mobile suits fighting it.
"What the hell?!" snarled Auel as he was shocked to see the Zeta Gundam charging at it firing its beam rifle. "I've never seen that mobile suit; is it another ZAFT mobile suit we should've taken?"
"It doesn't matter Auel," answered Sting. "We'll just have to destroy it along with the base and the mobile suits"
"Roger that," said Auel as he smirked at the Zeta Gundam.
Elepo and Elle headed towards the Gaia and Chaos who was already fighting the another Gundam like them, the Impulse and a ZAKU piloted by Athrun Zala who was protecting Chief Representative Cagalli Yula Athha.
"Hey you two need help over there?" Elle called out to the pilot of the Impulse.
"Thanks, but I can handle these two on my own," replied the pilot of the Impulse.
"Right, sure you can," Elle said under her breath or at least she thought was under her breath.
Gundam Mk II and Qubeley Mk II joined the fight despite being told not to help him. Puru and the Qubeley Mk II fought with the Chaos while Elle and the pilot of the Impulse dealt with the Gaia. Elle noticed how skilled the pilot of the Impulse was with his mobile suit as he was able to match Stella's move with relative ease. Elle and pilot of the Impulse, Shinn Asuka quickly introduced themselves while fighting with Stella and the Gaia. Roux continued to fight with the Abyss until she saw that she was out of energy for her beam rifle and beam saber was out of energy. She did the only thing she could do, head for the warship and beg them for help with the Zeta Gundam. Roux quickly broke off the fight with Auel and transformed the Zeta into its fighter mode and flew to the Minerva, ZAFT's new warship hoping they would at least help her out. Before landing on the Minerva, Roux turned the Zeta back into its mobile suit form and landed on the deck after Athrun's ZAKU landed on the deck. Within twenty minutes a hole was created by a panicking Stella who didn't want to die. Once the hole had been created the Gaia had been sucked into the vacuum of space along with Shinn who was foolish enough to get close to the Gaia when the hole was formed. Once the Impulse was out in space the Phase Shift armor had disappeared and he tried to fire the beam rifle but it too was out of energy.
Outside Armory One, near the Girty Lue
Stella saw the enemy mobile suit was out of power and she easily destroy it and that would be the end of it. But instead destroying it she chose to capture it in her panicking fear of dying instead and possibly the pilot too if he was the person from her dreams. She shook the thought out of her head but failed. She got deeper into her thoughts as she tried to remember if she heard pilot's voice in her dreams or saw his face. Stella stayed like that until Sting contacted her.
"Hey Stella what are you doing with that enemy mobile suit?" asked Sting confused.
"I-I'm taking the mobile suit to Neo," stammered Stella. "I'm sure Neo would appreciate it if we took this one too."
"I'm sure he'll appreciate it too," said Sting getting his bearings and locating the Girty Lue.
"But what about the pilot?" asked Auel as he joined the group. "I guess we'll have fun killing him once we get back on board."
Stella said nothing as her mobile suit still had the Impulse restrained, floated gently to the Girty Lue as soon as it appeared from beneath its Mirage Colloid protection. The bay doors opened as a mobile armor launched from the ship to provide cover for them until they got back into the ship. Neo looked and saw the fourth mobile suit being restrained by the Gaia.
"What's with the fourth mobile suit?" asked Neo in surprise.
"This one appeared from a battleship and fought with us," answered Sting. "It ran out of power and Stella captured it hoping you'd appreciate the bonus she brought you."
Neo smirked and nodded in approval and said, "Good work Stella we'll take it too; no sense in letting ZAFT have better weapons than us."
"What about the pilot?" asked Auel hoping he could have fun and kill Shinn at his own pleasure. "Can we kill him?"
"No Auel," answered Neo. "We're not going kill him. We'll simply use him until we no longer need him."
Auel huffed in disappointment that he couldn't take pleasure in killing a Coordinator. But then again Neo had a point; the pilot could be useful and if Shinn got out of line he'd have a good excuse to kill him. But how would Neo's superiors act if they found out that he let a single Coordinator live, let alone that he was using a space monster for the purpose of helping his unit. Stella guided the Impulse to where she wanted him to park it. After Neo's mobile armor had been recovered, the Girty Lue began to make it's withdraw from the area and headed towards the Moon. Shinn thought that his life was going to end once the Earth Forces technicians opened the cockpit of the Impulse and forced him out. At first he thought about fighting back but he wasn't in a position to fight back because his mobile suit was out of power and it would take awhile for this ship to recharge its power so he could make the escape. Stella stood there waiting to see the pilot of the Impulse come out and was surprised to see Shinn.
"All right I can move on my own," snapped Shinn as he was annoyed by the soldier, assigned to escort him to the brig, jabbing the barrel of his rifle into his back.
Shinn took off his helmet to reveal the rest of his face; Stella was surprised to see that the pilot look so… she couldn't quite put her finger on the word she was trying to think of. As she thought about the word she thought about Shinn, Stella decided that she would take Shinn herself to the brig as she shoved the soldier away and grabbed hold of his left arm floating towards the door.
"So I guess I'm your prisoner, huh?" Shinn asked Stella after leaving the launch bay.
Stella froze thinking that Shinn said she was his prisoner and she started to tremble in terror thinking about what Neo said that ZAFT did to prisoners of war.
"I don't wanna be a prisoner!" Stella exclaimed shaking in fear as she lunged at Shinn trying to beat him.
Shinn was puzzled by Stella's sudden break down; if she was the one who piloted the Gaia, why did she break down in terror. But Shinn couldn't fantasize about 'what ifs,' he had to calm her down and make her feel safe.
"It's all right you're not going to be a prisoner," Shinn said as calm and gentle as he could be while he embraced her. "I won't let you be a prisoner; I promise."
All of a sudden Stella calmed down after hearing Shinn assure her that she wasn't going to be a prisoner. Shinn smiled and said, "I was talking about me being your prisoner not the other way around."
"Oh, I'm sorry," was all Stella could say.
"I should be the one apologizing," said Shinn as he put Stella's hand on his left arm. "Shouldn't you be taking me to the brig until your commander gets back?"
Explosions rocked the Girty Lue as it was being pursued by the Minerva, hot on their tail. Instead of doing what she said she was going to do with Shinn, Stella pulled Shinn with her into a compartment where Sting and Auel where waiting in until they got away from ZAFT. Stella clung to Shinn, afraid that she was going to die. Shinn blushed out of embarrassment; he didn't know one thing about her and yet she clung to him hoping that he would protect her from dying. Shinn did the only the only thing he could of and right in front of Stella's own teammates.
"Don't worry everything will be okay," Shinn said as calm as possible to Stella, "you're not going to die. I'll protect you; I swear I'll protect you."
Sting and Auel took notice as Shinn said those words reacting as if Stella was going to go on a killing rampage like she usually did if someone told her she was going die. But Stella instead calmed down still clinging to Shinn; she felt relaxed and laid her head on his shoulder. Auel was dumbfounded when he saw how Stella started to like Shinn; on the side Sting thought Auel was jealous because the Coordinator found a way to keep her calm and he was better looking than him. No, that wasn't it; Auel didn't care about looks the only thing he cared about was getting the biggest target to take out. Sting thought that maybe the Coordinator wasn't as bad as he taught to believe; normally he would've killed Shinn because he is a Coordinator and he was enhanced to compete or be better than Coordinators.
Armory One
Roux waited patiently as the ZAFT technicians hastily made upgrades to the weapons of the Zeta Gundam and Gundam Mk II. They replaced the old beam rifles with new ones that didn't expend much energy for one shot like their last ones did. The rest of the upgrades would've been done at the Carpentaria base but he decided to let Morgenroete finish the upgrading for them; it was the least he could do after ZAFT had "borrowed" their scientists to develop their new mobile suits and the Minerva. Chairman Durandal told the technicians to send the parts to Morgenroete in Orb because the Minerva had the Chief Representative on board the ship. The technicians hurriedly put the parts on a shuttle they used for black ops missions dropping into neutral countries. It was a perfect cover for them and the Earth Forces wouldn't fire on a shuttle full of civilians heading to Orb. The shuttle raced as fast as it could and safely landed at orb while Roux, Elle and Puru took off to reinforce the Minerva since the Impulse was captured by the Earth Forces in the first place.
ZAFT Trans-atmospheric Assault Ship Minerva
"Sir, we've got three inbound mobile suits approaching from five o'clock," said the radar operator
"Three mobile suits?" asked Deputy Captain Arthur Trine. "Are they with the Earth Forces?"
"No sir," answered the radar operator. "Checking thermal patterns… it's the Zeta Gundam, Gundam Mk II and Qubeley Mk II."
"Sigh… Meyrin, better inform the Captain of our new arrivals," instructed Arthur.
"Yes sir," replied Meyrin as she sent Captain Gladys a message of the AEUG's three Gundam pilots arrival to the Minerva.
"Roux Louka requesting permission to board this ship," Roux requested Captain Gladys.
"Permission granted for all three of you," replied Captain Gladys.
"Thank you Captain," said Roux as she bowed to Captain Gladys.
Elle got out of her mobile suit along with Puru; Talia couldn't help but notice that Puru was just a little girl, eleven years old to be precise, and she was already piloting a mobile suit. It wrenched her stomach to think that children, young as at least Elle and Roux, were already fighting on the front lines of wars. The last war was a prime example of this thought; so many young people died in battles before they could have a promising life.
"Um, are you okay ma'am?" asked Vino, one of the young mobile suit mechanics.
"Oh, yes I'm fine," answered Captain Gladys. "Have the three young girls share a room with Lunamaria or Abby."
"Yes ma'am," replied Vino as he went to tell Lunamaria and Abby the Captain's instructions.
Junius Seven
After everyone settled down a disaster was about to brew as explosives were placed at strategic places of the colony as preparations to enact the plan were about complete. The leader of the group of GINNS took a deep breath and gave the signal to begin the operation that would finally wipe out every last Natural that murdered those of Junius Seven. Unfortunately the thrusters somehow gave off signals that reached as far as the Girty Lue and even the Minerva. The leader realized too late that ZAFT were already sending a demolition crew to break up the colony. So he did the only thing he could do, and that was order his men to be ready a counterinsurgent attempt to thwart their plan. This plan, if it succeeded, would be the beginning of new mankind. Coordinators would be the masters of the universe and any other Natural not dead would live only to serve the new mankind and they would be nothing more than inferior animals.
Girty Lue
"Captain Roanoke!" cried Matthew Andrews, the communications officer. "We've got signals coming from Junius Seven; it's moving toward Earth!"
"What?!" said Neo in surprise. "Get Sting, Auel, Stella and the ZAFT pilot, what's his name?"
"Uh he said his name was Shinn Asuka, sir," answered Matthew.
"Yeah, right," replied Neo as he floated to the elevator, "Have Shinn join the Extended pilots in the Briefing Room as well."
"Yes sir!" exclaimed Matthew as he saluted Neo.
"Sting Oakley, Auel Neider, Stella Loussier and Shinn Asuka, report to the briefing room immediately."
Shinn looked at the three Extended pilots around him in the briefing room; he had mostly one concern about Auel, the other two he didn't know what to think about. …Well Stella, he thought, was really beautiful and they had gotten closer and bonded with each other in just a short two days on the Girty Lue; mostly because Stella kept Shinn at her side and never him out of her sight. She felt that she was responsible for keeping an eye on Shinn and making sure that he stayed out of trouble and alive. Shinn looked at Sting; he was quiet a lot and never really talked much but he did like to play sports like basketball with Auel and maybe once with Shinn if he and Auel wanted to double team him for fun. Shinn then turned and looked at Auel and felt a little uneasy being around Auel because he could swear that Auel was looking for an excuse to kill him. Shinn wondered if Auel had seen a psychiatrist and if he had been dubbed as a trigger-happy freak; Shinn would never tell that Auel's face because it might be the last thing he ever said. All three Extended pilots were in their pilot's uniform but Shinn's was taken away from him and he wasn't going to wear the pilot uniform of a common mobile suit pilot; he was an ace, not some grunt pilot. The only reason he got captured was because he got overzealous and ran out of power for his mobile suit. The door slid open and Neo stepped in; as he stepped in the pilots all saluted him and he returned the salute.
"I'm surprised that you're saluting an enemy officer even though you're a prisoner," Neo commented to Shinn, trying to get him to snap at him. But Shinn refused to crack and only replied with a dirty look, "I'm only doing this to stay alive for as long as I can."
Neo cracked a smile and nodded to Shinn; he then showing photos of Junius Seven to the four pilots.
"As you're all aware this is Junius Seven," began Neo, "a place of tragedy and lost souls. We've just received transmissions of orders that indicate Junius Seven is on a collusion course with Earth."
The four pilots were stunned to hear this; Junius Seven was the site where the Bloody Valentine War started and ended. How was it possible that Junius Seven was going to collide with Earth, wondered Shinn in his mind. Neo continued the briefing stating that they were going temporarily join forces with the Minerva and the demolition ship to assist in breaking up the colony. The Extended pilots were shocked to hear they were going to help their enemy, ZAFT.
"Hold on," protested Auel, "why are we helping the Coordinators? Aren't they the enemy?"
"Yes but think about all the lives that will be lost if it hits the Earth," snapped Neo.
"Hey, why don't you think of it as blowing something up," Shinn remarked sarcastically, "I mean you do like blow stuff up, right?"
Auel looked at Shinn and gave him an evil grin of approval; he put his arm around Shinn and said, "I like you, Coordinator. You understand what I like and where I want go."
"Gee, thanks Auel," said Shinn as he took Auel's arm off his shoulder, "and my name is Shinn, Shinn Asuka."
"Well Shinn Asuka, I'm going to let you pilot and maintain your machine," said Neo before freezing up himself, seeing a flashback of him in a past life telling another kid that he had to maintain his machine.
"Wait, hold on," said Shinn surprised at Neo, "what do you mean 'your machine?'"
"You piloted it," answered Neo, "it's your responsibility. Oh there's pilot suit for you in the lockers for you. It's not your ZAFT suit, I hope you like it; I… found it in the locker."
"If you're talking about the grunt suits, you can forget about it," Shinn said defiantly.
Neo smirked and left the briefing room, not before he said, "We have an extra pilot suit in the locker next to Auel's locker."
The Extended pilots left the briefing room and headed to their mobile suits while Shinn went back to the locker room and found an Earth Forces red ace pilot suit and helmet and changed into it quickly so he could join the others and launch. He made his way to the launch bay where saw Stella was waiting for him before she boarded her Gundam. Auel and Sting took a quick look at Shinn as Stella guided him to the Impulse; they thought he looked like a real pilot wearing an Earth Forces pilot suit instead of those skimpy ZAFT pilot suits. Stella smiled at Shinn before getting into the Gaia and closing the cockpit; Shinn returned her smile and boarded the Impulse.
"Shinn, are you okay with this?" asked Stella.
Shinn was confused by Stella's question and asked, "What do you mean 'Am I okay with this?'"
"She's asking you if you're okay with fighting with the Earth Forces," Sting said calmly before Auel could get out of hand.
"Like I told Neo earlier," began Shinn, "I'm only cooperating to stay alive for as long as possible."
Shinn began think about kicking himself later on for that comment. He was really drawn to Stella and still couldn't understand why someone like her could be in the Earth Forces. It wasn't the real reason he stayed with them and didn't try to escape; he fallen in love with Stella despite the fact that she and her two teammates had stolen the Gaia, Chaos and Abyss. Sting and Auel knew the real reason he decided to stay behind; he swore to Stella that he would protect her and planned on keeping that promise even if meant he would be declared a traitor by ZAFT. Sting and Auel decided between themselves not to try and push him any farther until after the mission was complete. Neo listened to the conversation on the bridge and began to have another flashback from his past life. This flashback was when asked a ZAFT pilot if he was okay with the mission given to them by Lord Uzumi Nara Athha, even if it meant he would be declared a traitor by his own father. He had even explained by his reasoning to some blonde haired girl who challenged him just the kid's father was the PLANT Supreme Chairman. Neo had getting these flashbacks ever since Shinn came aboard the Girty Lue and been hanging around Sting, Auel and Stella. He began to think about his past life; his life when he was known as Mu La Flaga, the traitorous Hawk of Endymion who fought against the Earth Forces after the Archangel deserted the frontlines at the Battle of JOSH-A in Alaska. No, it wasn't possible there was no way he was that traitor in some past life; he was still Captain Neo Roanoke, the commander of the 81st Autonomous Mobile Suit Group, and it wasn't going to change any day.
The four Gundams flew in together in a tight formation towards Junius Seven when they saw flashes around the area of Junius Seven.
"What's going on here?" asked Sting dumbfounded by the situation.
"Oh man there's already action and I'm missing it!" exclaimed Auel. "Dammit, I gotta get a piece of the action before it's too late."
"Hold on a minute Auel," said Shinn trying to stop Auel while simultaneously checking the battle around the destroyed colony. "Is that the Joule team?"
"What do you mean the Joule team, Shinn?" asked Sting.
"It's a mobile suit group led by Commander Yszak Joule," explained Shinn. "He fought in the Bloody Valentine War against the Earth Forces piloting a mobile suit stolen from Heliopolis, the Dual Gundam.
"I'm tagging the Joule team as friendly forces so you don't get confused and destroy both sides."
"Thanks Shinn," said Sting as he raced off to join the heroic effort to save Earth.
Shinn looked at Stella and asked her, "Shall we get to work?"
Stella gave him a slight nod and both of them joined the battle as well.
Junius Seven, en route on collision course with Earth
"Damn these guys are tough for terrorists," snarled Yszak as he fought with a GINN trying to break away from him and destroy one of asteroid breakers about to be activated.
They were tough alright, since most of his team only had a few who had seen combat and the majority of them of had just become ZAFT Reds fresh out of the Academy. He had hoped for a squad of professionals not a squad that was a bunch of newbies and a few veterans. Dearka wasn't fairing any better with the squad he had under his command. Dearka returned to ZAFT after the Three Ships Alliance had quietly dissolved itself and parted ways. He still thought about how much he was lucky not to get executed by his superiors; Yszak was in the same boat mostly because he shot the shuttle carrying civilians from Heliopolis when the Archangel made its escape. But Chairman Durandal spoke on their behalf convinced the Council to lighten their sentences. They lost their Gundams and Dearka was sentenced to four months prison time for deserting at Orb and was demoted. Dearka was even struggling to keep his relationship with Miriallia from down the drain. But Dearka couldn't think about Miriallia, he had a job to and it was to support the demolition team breaking up Junius Seven. It was a pity that they couldn't try to put it back into the Debris Belt and leave there; but it would an impossible task considering how much fuel and manpower they would have to use. The GINNs were a big problem to deal with while guarding the demolition team and the asteroid breakers. Mobile suits from the Minerva arrived to provide support for Yszak and Dearka and things started to look better until more GINNs began to swarm the demolition team and their protectors. Things again took a turn for the worse and couldn't get any worse. Gundam Mk II constantly had to fight off GINNs that took the place of one fallen GINN. Roux had to dodge colony fragments and enemy fire at the same time; this coupled with the fact that she wouldn't survive if she got hit by a blast from a beam rifle; or at least that's what she thought as her mobile suit got nailed a couple times by beams and didn't explode. She guessed that her armor was strong enough to take some punishment; but she wondered for how long it would last.
"Hey look it's the mobile suit I fought with at the ZAFT base," Auel said with gusto as he charged towards the Zeta Gundam hoping to play the hero. "That needs a helping hand; so I'm going to give them a hand."
"Hey Auel!" exclaimed Sting as Auel hastily sped off to help the Zeta Gundam. "We should try to… huh?" Sting noticed the Qubeley Mk II struggling herself and rushed to help her. Shinn and Stella both noticed Elle in her Gundam Mk II and went to help Elle. But Shinn needed different equipment for this type of battle. Luckily for Shinn the Minerva had the other two Silhouettes, Force and Blaster. Shinn changed direction towards the Minerva while simultaneously making contact with the Girty Lue to retrieve the Sword Silhouette. Shinn detached the Sword Silhouette and boosted to the Minerva. Stella became nervous and followed him.
"Shinn, where are you going?" Stella asked nervous that Shinn would rejoin ZAFT again.
"I need another Silhouette from the Minerva," answered Shinn. "I don't plan to forget about my promise. I will protect you; I swear I'll protect you."
"Captain, I got two mobile suits approaching," said the radar operator. "Checking thermal heat patterns… It's the Impulse and Gaia!"
Captain Gladys and Chairman Durandal, who had boarded the Minerva during the Armory One incident, were surprised to see the Impulse and Gaia return together. Durandal began to think that Shinn had been killed until they heard him contact them.
"Minerva send out the Force Silhouette," barked Shinn getting into position to receive it. "I know you have doubts about me still being alive; but here I am, alive and still fighting."
Meyrin looked at Captain Gladys awaiting instructions and Captain Gladys looked at Chairman Durandal who gave her a nod of approval. The captain sighed and said to Meyrin, "Send out the Force Silhouette."
"Yes ma'am!" said Meyrin as her fingers danced on the keyboard to give out orders to send out the Force Silhouette.
"Why is the Gaia not attacking the Impulse,' wondered Captain Gladys as she saw the Gaia to left of the Impulse waiting patiently for the Impulse to be equipped with the Force Silhouette. Either Shinn decided infiltrate the Earth Forces on his own or he really had joined the Earth Forces when he was captured. No, right now those questions had to be saved for later; right now breaking up Junius Seven had to take priority and it seemed that two of the hijackers came to help if not all of them and Shinn too. Captain Gladys watched as the Force Silhouette streaked towards the Impulse and attached itself to the Impulse.
"Shinn, is it what you wanted?" asked Stella as they turned towards the continuing battle and boosted away from the Minerva.
"Yeah, I needed this particular Silhouette," answered Shinn as he turned back towards the Minerva, remembering his manners. "Thanks Captain."
Shinn and Stella raced back towards the battle hoping to catch some of what was left of the battle. They got exactly what they wanted, except the terrorists were still resilient. Despite their resilience, the work was progressing three asteroid breakers had completed their tasks and were falling into the atmosphere, one had been destroyed and the other two were still falling towards their designated target points. Lunamaria and Athrun protected one breaker while Yszak and Dearka had joined together and protect the last breaker. The battle dragged on for another ten minutes which was left until Junius Seven fell into the atmosphere. The terrorist leader had no other choice but finally get in the fight and ensure that the colony fell himself and that all the Naturals would die screaming in agony and suffer the way people of Junius Seven suffered when those inferior Naturals fired a nuclear missile at Junius Seven. In the leader's mind ZAFT had gotten weak because Ilene Kanaiver had made the ZAFT military weaker and Chairman Durandal wasn't doing enough to get the military back up to its former strength; so he was going to take things into his own hands. There was a problem he had to take care of; there were the ZAFT forces trying to protect the Earth and there were the four Gundams that came from the Earth Forces carrier. Unfortunately he met his end when Shinn and Stella snuck up on him from the left and right skewering him with their beam sabers. The leader was dead but a lot of people would die because pieces of Junius Seven weren't broken down enough to burn up in the atmosphere.
"Stella, Shinn our time is up," informed Sting.
"Roger that," replied Stella as Gaia grabbed the arm of the Impulse and boosted away from remaining fragments.
"But the fragments are still too big for it to cause minimal…" Shinn started to protest as the Gaia pulled the Impulse away from remaining fragments.
"I know but we'll fall to Earth if we don't get back to the Girty Lue," Stella said gently as they boosted away from the fragments. "Neo, can you send a message to the nations of Earth warning them of the fragments?"
"I could try but the message won't make it in time," answered Neo before sighing.
"Try it anyway," suggested Shinn. "We should still try to save as many lives as possible."
"Never thought a couple of kids would talk me into trying to save the world," Neo said under his breath.
He sent out the message simultaneously to all nations warning them about the fragments of Junius Seven and that they should mobilize their military and shoot as many fragments as possible.
Many nations did receive Neo's warning about the fragments and had to hastily mobilize what they had ready to go at a moment's notice. They mobilized mobile suits, fighter planes and any warship loaded and ready to go. Fragments did impact Earth; but the causality figures were in the tens of thousands instead of hundreds of millions. There were cheers of jubilation throughout the planet praising the efforts of ZAFT's heroics and combined efforts of the Earth Alliance ship in the area fighting the terrorists and sending the warning that saved millions of lives from dying in the Break the World Incident. Although there were shouts jubilation for ZAFT, there also jeers and screams for war with ZAFT as those people thought that ZAFT had sponsored the drop and made it look like they were the heroes. Djbril was at lest pleased that were people who wanted war with the filthy Coordinators. Those who wanted war with the space monsters were smart thought Djbril as he sipped his vintage red wine from the vineyards of France. Either way the Coordinators were all monsters who deserved to die along with those Naturals who felt that ZAFT were the good guys.
"The only way to control this planet is to remove those traitors who accept ZAFT," Djbril said to himself as he continued to sip his wine. "Anywhere ZAFT has a presence, we will torch the base and all of the inhabitants of the city its next to. Those Naturals who accept and mingle with ZAFT will all die and their blood will run with those of the space monsters."
A week later
Girty Lue, L4 Mendel Colony
Stella was sound asleep; she had sleeping a lot better now that Shinn had been her and the other Extended pilots. Her dreams had pretty much gone away and her two… no three teammates didn't hear a peep out of her while slept. Shinn had begun to fall in love with Stella and the same was true for Stella; she fell in love with Shinn. He made her feel safe and he always kept his promise to protect her; but right now Shinn couldn't sleep something was bothering him. He knew that Neo looked like he had been sneaking around the ship and hiding something secretive. He went to go find out what Neo had been hiding. Neo floated towards a compartment in the middle of the ship; Shinn had seen the compartment before; or he thought had seen it. Shinn silently followed him towards the compartment and stopped at an intersection ducking in it to avoid being caught by Neo. Thirty minutes passed and Neo left the compartment and Shinn slipped by him hoping Neo didn't turn and notice him. He entered the empty compartment only to discover three empty pods linked up to a computer console.
"Something tells me I'm not like this," Shinn said to himself as he floated to the computer to look at its contents. "What the hell?!
"What is this thing?"
"They're treatment pods," answered Neo behind Shinn.