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The Soukou no Strain character Lavina Rebirth and 'Takaya' Nono from DieBuster! Do not belong to me, they belong to their respective owners."
Warning! This story features overpowered "Super Robots" and Hot-blooded Antics in a "Real" Universe. If you wish for your image of the CE timeline to not have a machine that can cleave an entire armada in a single swing, please stop reading and flee for your life. I've been watching too much Gurren Lagann and Getter Robo for this story to be sane.
Please Read and Review, but no flames please. As much as burning flames of righteous passion are cool, I'm highly flammable. So no flames please. Constructive criticism is welcome though.
Chapter 001/ Sea of Stars
CE 70…
"Look Sean! It's a shooting star!"
The young girl pointed up into the vast darkness that was the night sky as a streak of white shot through the darkness. The young boy's features lit up in amazement as he too noted the rare occurrence.
Atop a flower covered hill, a young girl and a young boy lay beside each other, gazing into the heavens. Barely fifteen years old each, the two childhood friends were enjoying a "self prepared" camping excursion with each other to celebrate their mutual birthday; away from his overbearing parents and the worries of her working class life.
The cool summer's night and the magical silence of the night protected the magical of their moment. Here the young natural girl and the coordinator boy could revel in the innocence of their childhood, protected from the prejudices and hardships of the world.
"So Sean, what did you wish for?" the girl asked. "If you wish upon a falling star, that wish would be fulfilled, so what did you wish for?"
"I wasn't fast enough." Sean smiled sadly. He wasn't fast enough… he was never fast enough. Trying not to let his melancholy show on his face, if only to avoid his best friend lecturing him about his lot in life, Sean responded immediately. "How about you, what did you wish for?"
"Isn't it obvious?"
The girl pulled herself to her feet. Arms spread wide to the starry sky as if to emphasize her point and her golden eyes twinkling with excitement, Sakura proudly declared to the entire world…
"I'm going to fly through space!"
Sean did a double take. "What? Coming from the five time junior national kendo champion?"
Sakura tapped her bokken on the ground, always never too far from her side, on the ground threateningly. "I'm being serious here!" Sean held up his arms defensively. Sakura continued.
"I'm going to fly through that sea of stars someday! I'm going to fly from star to star, exploring the galaxy, no the universe, to my hearts content. No restrictions, no boundaries, nothing to hold us back!" She proudly declared.
Sean blinked at her words before pulling himself up. "Us? As in… you and me?"
Sakura huffed in annoyance as if insulted that her friend could think of even such a thing. "Of course! Who else? Is there any other person that would be my partner?"
Sean shook his head. "No… I'm sorry. For someone like me, that's just an impossible - OW!" Sakura had smacked him on the head with her bokken in annoyance.
"No buts. We're flying through that sea of stars together, and that's a promise!" Sakura lifted her wooden sword into the air as if to hold him to ransom. Sean flinched, believing for a second that Sakura had somehow slid into one of her moods again.
"I don't care if you're the shame of the Branstein family. Once you get out into space, no one is going to care! Not your father… not your entire family… not even those stupid politicians who keep saying that coordinators and naturals are two different races!"
Sakura lowered her bokken, a slight tearing in her eyes and the softening in her expression.
"It will be just us. We don't have to worry about your parents" expectations or that racist drivel of our classmates every day. Just us. You and me. And the endless possibilities. Total freedom. We can go wherever we want…"
Sean sighed. "You've been spending too much time around your brother again haven"t you?"
The effect this statement had on Sakura was instantaneous. "No I haven't! Kamina"s been too busy to talk to me! He's either been working on that stupid "Astray Project" of his, hitting the pubs or chatting up that Erica woman to care about my welfare! Who the hell does he think he… opps."
"I'll take that as a yes." Sean smirked as Sakura almost said the very statement the older Nakagawa was infamous for spouting. Sakura pouted sourly.
"Okay, maybe I've been watching him work on his stupid robot for a bit." Sakura grudgingly admitted. Sean burst into laughter. "Hey that's not funny!" Sakura declared as she pounced on him.
"Sorry, sorry…" Sean laughed as they rolled around on the bed of flowers. After a few moments of wrestling each other playfully, they rolled to a stop as they lay breathlessly beside each other. Breathing hard, the two friend once again gazed into the heavens.
Then it happened.
"I was serious about wanting to explore the universe." Sakura stated clearly.
"I know." Sean responded. "But you know its impossible right? Even with the recent leaps in nuclear technology and the colonization of the earth sphere, we"re no where close to having the technology to…"
Sean almost had a heat attack when she suddenly rolled onto him. Her face no more than inches from his and her golden orbs boring into his onyx ones. Her long waist length dyed pink locks fell like a curtain to block out his peripheral view. The bodily contact between them was sending his senses into overdrive.
It was the first time in the fourteen years he had known Sakura Nakagawa that Sean Raymond Branstein realized his best friend was in actual fact, a girl.
"You know that's never bothered me before." Sakura whispered.
"Kick reality to the curb and go to the limit, eh?" Sean quoted her older brother word for word, his mind still reeling from her closeness. In fact his body was responding in a way he really didn"t want it to.
A slightly amused and embarrassed grin graced her features. "….you pervert." Sean cold only blush with embarrassment at the revelation that she had noticed his biological response.
"Sorry…" Sean nervously replied.
"Stop apologizing." Sakura stated. "You always are apologizing for things you shouldn't. I rolled onto you didn't I?" Sean hesitantly nodded. "This is why I can't leave you alone. Who's going to stand you for you if you're such a pushover all the time?"
"Is that the reason why you're going to drag me along on your joyride among the stars?" Sean said. Sakura smiled.
"Among other things." She kissed him.
It was a few moments later when Sakura pulled away that she noticed her best friend had fainted from the shock. "Oh well." She sighed with contentment, "It"s just like him to do that." She snuggled up to his unconscious body under the sea of stars, and all was right in their world.
On that day, under the starry sky on a bed of flowers, two childhood sweethearts made a solemn promise. They would journey together across the vast sea of stars, to find a place without any restrictions or boundaries would hold them back. A promise that was sealed with a kiss.
To be honest I was inspired by hanging around /m/ on 4-chan too much and reading another SRW OGs crossover by an author whom I can't remember. The name was "Sword that Cleaves Evil" I think. Although it was good, I was a bit miffed that its lead character Elzam Zormvolt was an ace coordinator in his teens, which is I my opinion incredibly cliché.
But then again, all my OCs are generally "localized imports" from OGs. So " guess I am worse than being cliché. I'm downright plagiarizing characters! I might as well be Harmony Gold splicing Macross to form Robotech. But hopefully, like Robotech, this story won't completely suck.
Given the recent influx of SRW OG crossovers on I decided that I'd do a more "subtle" crossover instead. If anyone has watched Turn A, you probably know how I'm going to do this.
Just a couple of notes; beware of spoilers. I suck at keeping secrets.
+ Sakura Nakagawa was based on the character Katsura Hanagiku from Hayate the Combat Butler. Except of course, the dyed hair. She is a natural as opposed to Sean, who is a coordinator.
+ Sean's looks are based on the character Shoji what"s-his-name from Fafner of the Azure.
+ Yes, Sakura's brother acts exactly like Kamina from Tenga Toppan Gurren Lagann, down to his iconic catchphrase and sunglasses. He works on the prototype M1-Astray and is wooing Erica Simmons. He also hides a dark secret and is a master at various forms of swordsmanship.
+ It may not look like it, but Sakura is a semi-OC, a canon character that has yet to assume that role (i.e. Casval before he became Char). Three guesses who she is once the hair dye goes away. It's not that hard.
+ As coordinators seemed so overpowered in the SEED universe, I thought it would be good to have a coordinator who has to work his ass off to do something worthwhile for once.
+ Sean is a rare "dud" 1st generation coordinator, a coordinator who turned out less than perfect in that he is and always be physically wreaker than the average human being.
One final not; I need a BETA reader! I absolutely suck at proof reading my own stuff. Also, I originally planned this story as a three part series, but as it stands the first part is so devoid of mecha action that's I've decided to kick it off at the second act and only revisit the first in flashbacks.
If I get enough motivation, maybe I'll go back and draw it up after I finish the thing, "Star Wars" style.
27/7/07. Oh dear, I just noticed that the speech indicators were all wrong. And here I was weeding out speeling and gramar errors. Well it's fixed now.
Preview! (not that you need it, it should be up already)
""I guess that is to be expected of you Miss Westenfluss! Miss Silver Shooting Star manages to make another spectacle again!"
Okay, au revouir… not!
