Takeshi Yamato: And here we go with a new story. Again. Seriously, my Muse has so much trouble staying on target, and that's not counting all the video games I have. Well, here's hoping it stays on this for a while.

Xamusel: Yeah, same here… even with all that we have planned for it so far, too. In any case, this is going to be a massive project, if we can actually finish it at all.

Takeshi Yamato: Yeah. Anyway, this is a crossover, or rather a fusion, of Gundam SEED (Obviously) and Azure Striker Gunvolt. We won't be using Gunvolt characters directly, but we will be featuring Septima and Adepts, and some of the core SEED characters will also take roles of characters from Gunvolt. And if you don't know what I'm talking about… go and get a Nintendo 3DS and buy Azure Striker Gunvolt and Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 from the Nintendo EShop, or just get the Azure Striker Gunvolt Striker Pack through retail - it has both games in it.

Xamusel: Of course, since Takeshi and I were working out a plan for how to tell this story and I was getting stuck along the way, we decided to add another series to the mix… but only the one other series. Said series is not gonna be mentioned until the chapter it's revealed, though, so… sorry. :(

Takeshi Yamato: Yeah. Anyway, neither of us own Gundam SEED, nor do either of us own Azure Striker Gunvolt. If we owned SEED, it and Destiny might have turned out VERY differently.

Xamusel: If we owned ASG, or the other series used, we'd probably have to do things to make either of them VASTLY different from the materials they ripped off to a degree. Now, where was I…? Oh! The Wheel Of Fate Is Turning. Rebel 1, Action!


Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Septimal Advent
By Takeshi Yamato and Xamusel


Prologue: In the origin point


George Glenn. The first Coordinator, and the man who explored Jupiter. He was a prominent figure in the early Cosmic Era.

But Coordinators were not the only big issue of the era. For as Glenn was leaving for Jupiter, scientists made another discovery: People with actual superpowers.

These people could harness the power of the mind, control the elements, create illusions, and otherwise perform amazing feats, but all seemed to draw their power from a similar form of energy. In Year 48 of the Cosmic Era, these abilities were given the collective name of Septima, and those who used them were called Adepts.

During the years leading up to the next century, there had been many instances of Adepts being treated like lab rats, mainly to discover how they ticked and how to reproduce their abilities. Nobody knew how it worked, and nobody could figure out the correct genetic sequence… nobody except for one, that is.


"The PLANTs and Earth will see eye to eye," a young teen with blue hair in a green beret and school uniform said, "there will be no war." Extending his palm up hands forward, to give a green and yellow robotic bird to the person he was talking to, he waited for the bird to be accepted before he said, "The evacuation doesn't mean a thing. You'll join me in the PLANTs, right, Kira?"

"I don't know, Athrun," the other boy, with brown hair and violet eyes, said. "My parents are thinking of moving to Heliopolis, which is the furthest one can get from any hostilities that do break out."

"Ah, don't be like that, Kira," Athrun said, shaking his head in the process. "I know there won't be any war whatsoever… it just won't happen." He then stopped shaking his head, seeing someone come up from behind his best friend, a blush now adorning his face. "Uh… Kira?"

"What is it, Athrun?"

"Is it just me, or is Kyou really a guy?"

"Of course she's a girl," Kira said deadpan. "Really, why would you ask something that dumb? And be glad she didn't hear you - I've experienced her temper first-hand."

"Wait… you mean to say that I'm not gay?!" Athrun exclaimed.

Kira's eyes widened at that mental image, before things processed down. "Wait… you… you like her… as more than a friend?" he asked.

"Y-yeah… I do, Kira," Athrun said, looking at his feet as if they were more interesting than anything else. "However, I'm already engaged to someone else… but what can I do to stop that mess? I like my fiance, true, but it's not how I feel for Kyou… you know what I mean?"

"Kinda," Kira admitted. "Don't have anyone I feel that way for yet, but I do understand what you're saying." He shrugged. "Honestly? I'd say just tell your parents and your fiance's parents. They should be able to come to some kind of arrangement if you just outright say that it won't work out."

"What won't work out, Kira-onii-chan-sama?"

Kira was startled by the voice, and turned to see his sister. "Oh, Kyou!" he said. "Didn't see you there. How long have you been there?"

"Just got here, actually," Kyou answered. "I wasn't practicing to be a ninja today, that's been scheduled for when we move to Heliopolis."

"Ah," Kira replied. "Still, practice or not, you can be pretty silent."

"Mmhmm," Kyou nodded. "Still, how much longer will it take for until you get back to packing for the trip?"

Athrun shook his head slightly. "I better let you two get back to your packing…"

"Don't go yet, Athrun," Kira replied. "Why don't you talk to Kyou for a bit. I'll see you back at the house, Imouto!" He then left, not quite running, but definitely moving fast.

"Ack! Kira-onii-chan-sama!" Kyou exclaimed indignantly. "Why are you doing this?!" After a few seconds of no reply, she sighed in defeat. "Just my luck…"

"S… sorry about this…" Athrun replied, blushing. He had a good idea as to why Kira had practically abandoned them like this, and was both thanking and cursing him at the same time.

"It's alright," Kyou turned to face Athrun, looking at her fellow blue-haired human. "I still don't get it… why do I have to stay behind? I mean, he's your best friend, right? Why can't Kira-onii-chan-sama stay more often with you while here? It's not as if he's trying to hook me up with someone… right?"

"Umm… uh…" Athrun tried to stammer out. "Well… I… I had been telling him something before you showed up… and I guess he felt it'd be better for me… to tell you about it…"

"Eh?" Kyou blinked, her amethyst eyes looking deep within Athrun's green. "What is it?"

"Well…" Athrun stammered, thinking about it for a bit… before just deciding 'to heck with it' and pulling Kyou in closer, crashing their lips together and pushing his tongue past her lips as they opened in shock.

Kyou's eyes widened in surprise and shock, even as she tried to figure out how come Athrun was kissing her… especially in the French variety. Even so, she did wonder if Athrun liked her in a romantic sense… maybe this was the answer?

After a moment, Athrun pulled back. "I… I like you a lot, Kyou… and not just as a friend…" he said.

Kyou leaned forward into Athrun, before saying, "Me, too… I like you a lot, Athrun… no, not that, but… aishiteru."

"Th… thank you, Kyou…" Athrun said. "I… my parents have me in an arranged marriage, but… I just don't care for her like I do for you…"

Kyou looked Athrun in the eyes and said, "Well, I just have to one-up the competition, then, ne?"

Athrun smiled. "I guess you will… maybe we can talk your parents into letting you come to the PLANTs with me, even if they and Kira go to Heliopolis, so we can present our case to both my parents and hers."

"Eto… we already booked our tickets last night, Athrun," Kyou dropped the bombshell on him.

"Oh… Well, I guess we'll think of something," Athrun replied.

As it turned out, an opportunity landed in their laps, as a ticket mix-up caused Kyou to go to the PLANTs, while her spot on the Heliopolis trip was taken by one Rusty McKenzie.


"Ugh… why do I do this to myself?" Kyou groused to herself. "I was just trying to visit Mrs. Zala when Copernicus City was bombed, which caused me to get called in for combat duty around L5… this is not my week at all!"

What prompted this was Kyou having to deal with the aftermath of a terrorist cell bombing the UN building in the lunar city of Copernicus… mainly, the justified paranoia of the PLANTs being attacked by the sponsor nations. As a matter of fact, it was February 14th… and were the klaxons wailing?

"Attention all units, attention all units!" came the announcement over the comms. "Incoming hostile warships! This is not a drill!"

"Well, that's our cue," a blonde-haired man in a ZAFT Green Pilot Suit said, heading out for his Mobile Suit before turning to look at Kyou, a sneer on his face. "Oh, half-blood, do us a favor and die in battle, alright? You're a disgrace to the Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty."

After he said that, the other pilots in the pilot ready room laughed at Kyou's expense, while, for her part, she didn't bat an eyelash at the insult. "Oh, really, now?" she deadpanned. "Well, how about you all do me a favor and commit harakiri when I stop the battle from getting worse than it should be?"

There was stunned silence at the rebuttal, even as she made her way past them and over to her Mobile Suit.

With an annoyed sigh, she continued on her way and said, "Idiots… it's not 'half-blood', it's 'Enhanced Natural'. I wonder what it'll take for them to stop being such idiotic asshats…"

"Eh, don't worry about them," came a response from her left. "If idiotic bigots didn't exist, the world would be out of balance."

Kyou looked to her left and blinked. "Miguel-senpai, what brings you here? I thought you were stationed on the Verne?"

"A bit too many pilots over there," Miguel Aiman informed. "Some sort of bureaucratic snafu - they needed volunteers to transfer to other ships, and I figured you could use a friendly face amongst the idiots."

Kyou sighed in relief. "Thanks, Miguel-senpai," she said, moving to her Mobile Suit, a customized GINN that was painted in a midnight blue color scheme… even if that wasn't all the alteration done to the unit. It also had an enhanced base and max speed to allow for it to move to its intended destination sooner, plus an enhanced reaction time, to compensate for her ability to react to practically everything. "I guess we'll be wingmen this battlefield?" she called out to Miguel from in front of her GINN's cockpit block.

"Yep," Miguel replied from his machine to her left. "I have your back, Kyou."

"Thanks, Miguel-senpai," Kyou answered, moving into her cockpit. "I suppose that we'll be the first ones to launch, right?"

As if answering her question, Kyou's comm screen went off just when she was buckling up. "Redcoat Yamato, you and Greencoat Aiman are to head out immediately," the Commander of the team, Howard Alvarez, said over the comm. "Since you're the first two to be in your Mobile Suits, you get launching privileges first for once."

"What do you mean 'for once'?" Miguel asked from his GINN.

"Redcoat Yamato can explain that one, Greencoat Aiman," Commander Alvarez answered, before flashing the a-ok sign with his hand. "In any case, get ready to launch!" With that, his comm went off.

"So, what did he mean by having launching privileges first 'for once'?" Miguel asked.

"What he meant was," Kyou said, moving her machine to the launch pad, "those who are on time for combat launching of any sort are permitted to launch right away, while the latecomers are forced to wait an additional minute or more after they finally get to their machines. Of course, the amount of time varies on how many are late when." With that, she noted that it was about time for her to launch, so she said, "Kyou Yamato, GINN Kyou Custom, Ikimashou!" At that point, the launch sign proved to be on her side, as it told her to launch.

In the following battle, the Earth Alliance would deploy nuclear missiles in a strike on the Junius Colony Cluster, but Kyou would manage to shoot down the missile that would have struck the colony of Junius Seven. This day would later be known as the Saint Valentine's Miracle.


Rusty McKenzie was not exactly a cat person.

The reasons for this statement were said to be of genetics, but he could've sworn that he was alright with having a cat friend earlier in life, namely from before his time out of Japan came to a start. He knew the cat wasn't his pet, but rather the pet of his mother's maternal grandparents. Still, the fact was, he needed to figure out why he was allergic to cats when he happened to be a Coordinator.

Still, he wasn't sure what to say when he found himself continuously having his path crossed by kitties following their parents, all of them black cats. True, this was the day after the Saint Valentine's Miracle, but he could've sworn reality was laughing at his expense… and he was running late for class as it was. Sure, say what you want about Rusty, but he knew better than to make fun of those with terrible luck around animals.

With a sigh, he said, "I wish that I could get to class on time…"

"Need some help?"

Rusty turned to see a man that looked to be in his mid-twenties, a relative of Kira's from the looks of things, with a bushy mustache to separate him from the more Oriental-style Orb natives. "Thanks, mister Yamato," he said. "I need a ride to class, since I can't believe I got myself stuck with cats blocking my path like this."

"Sure," Takeshi Yamato replied. "Come on, Luna and I will give you a lift."

"Right, thanks," Rusty said, getting into the privately owned car belonging to the couple. As soon as they all were seatbelted and ready, Rusty asked, "Could we go around the cats to get to class? I don't want to test my luck here…"

"Definitely," Takeshi replied. "I know the superstition, and I'd rather not test it for accuracy, either."

"Ditto," replied Takeshi's wife, Lunamaria, as she sat in the other seat, having agreed to come along. "Rather not have any bad luck for having a black cat cross my path."

Takeshi grinned. "Plus, if for some reason you're still late, you could either state the truth or say that you 'got lost on the road of life'," he remarked.

Rusty opened his mouth to reply, just as the car started, before it went down a different road to get him to class at the HTC. While that was going on, he thought over what Takeshi said, before he groaned in annoyance. "I thought that series was long dead by now…?" he asked, putting his face in his hands.

"The series itself, maybe, but the memes it spawned? Those will never, ever die," Takeshi replied with a grin.

Rusty removed his face from his hands and said, "Not cool, mister Yamato. Why your wife married you, I have no idea, but I doubt it was for your sense of humor regarding the memes of… ugh… Naruto…."

"Hey, he quotes other memes quite frequently," Luna replied. "Naruto is only a small part of his repertoire. Though his favorites have to be the Seventy Maxims…"

"Seventy Maxims?" Rusty asked in confusion.

"Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries," Takeshi replied. "Sure, they come from a source almost as old as Naruto, but some of them are good, and even handy on occasion." He grinned. "Such as Maxim 36: 'When the going gets tough, the tough call for close-air support.'"

Rusty nodded, before he noticed that they were almost at the HTC. "Well, here's my stop coming up ahead," he said. "Thanks for the lift, you guys."

"You're welcome," Takeshi replied, as they approached the security checkpoint.

After the couple dropped Rusty off, he made it to class a few minutes early, to see…

"Miss Haw, why do you have a cat with you?!"

…that.

"Found him in a puddle," Miriallia Haw replied. "Got him out and dried him off, and for some reason he followed me afterwards. Wasn't able to make him go away, so I've just resigned myself to having him follow me until classes are over and I can either find his owner or drop him off at a shelter."

Rusty sighed in annoyance, feeling a headache coming his way. "Oh, brother…" he said. "Look, could you please keep your new friend away from me whenever possible?" Walking over to his work station, he said, "I don't want to run the risk of spray damage."

Miriallia's boyfriend Tolle just ignored him, walking over to pick up the cat. "Seems well-behaved," he remarked. "If he doesn't have an owner, he's still likely pretty smart. In fact… hey, little guy, could you please jump onto Rusty's lap? You know, the guy who wants to avoid you, over there." At the end of that statement, he pointed at Rusty, who sat down at his workstation at that time.

Rusty blinked when Tolle put the cat down, the feline rushing towards Rusty and getting on his lap. "Tolle, I tried wa-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ACHOO!" he sneezed at the last moment, spraying his germs at Tolle and the others in the room… with the sole exception of Miriallia.

Everyone worked to shield themselves as best they could. "Jeez, why didn't you just outright say you had allergies?!" Tolle complained.

"Would you have believed me?" Rusty sniped back, the cat realizing it was best not to sit on his lap, so it went away. "No Coordinator has allergies under normal circumstances, and I remember having feline friends before I was tested for that allergy… no, I wasn't allergic before I started sneezing all of a sudden close to 11 years ago!"

"Huh, that is strange," Miriallia remarked. "I wonder why that's happening, then?"

Before Rusty could answer that question the best he could, Kira walked in. "Hey, guys, did you know that… okay, whose cat is that by Miriallia's feet?"

Awkward silence hit the room for the remaining time before their instructor, Professor Kato, showed up to teach the class.


Kira Yamato made his way through Heliopolis, heading for the park. He had an important meeting there, after all.

He'd first met Flay Allster the day after he arrived on Heliopolis. It was just a brief meeting, but he'd thought she was very pretty.

A few months later, they met up again. And Kira learned something that was a bit of a surprise.

Flay was an Adept, just like him. And they even shared the same Septima. Hers was a bit weaker, considering she was a Natural, but that wasn't saying much. As such, the pair had started meeting up regularly so he could help her train with her powers.

And he'd found himself falling for her over the course of those meetings.

While he was musing about his love life, or lack thereof so far, his ears picked up on something coming from a nearby alleyway, which caused him to look and see… Flay being assaulted by three grown men?!

Anger flaring at the sight, he ran into the alley, azure lightning crackling around him as he yelled "GET AWAY FROM HER!"

The three men trying to assault Flay paled considerably when they heard the lightning crackle. Turning to see Kira, they realized that their worst nightmares had come true, especially if the kid really was protective of Vice Foreign Minister Allster's daughter… they woke up the sleeping dragon known as the Azure Striker!

Kira brought up a specially modified gun, and fired three rounds. They weren't bullets, rather they were specially designed nails. And they were at high enough velocity that they embedded into the skin of the men, one nail for each man. Kira then amped up the lightning even further, triggering his Flashfield: a sphere of azure electricity that crackled around him. And with his foes 'tagged', lightning arced out from the flashfield to flash-fry all three of them.

Flay, for her part, was healed from the assaulting dealt towards her by means of the lightning glancing across her. Given that they were the same type of Adept, it was definitely for the best, especially since Azure Strikers healed from lightning. "Th… thanks, Kira-kun," Flay spoke up from her position on the ground. "I don't know how Blue Cosmos found me here, but they did…."

"You're welcome, Flay-chan," Kira replied, offering her a hand up. "I take it they were wanting to 'recruit' you, given what you've said about them before?"

Flay took the offered hand and got up, even as she said, "Yeah… it's annoying to know that daddy's one of them, but he knows better than to have me be one of their goons, so he sent me here for my protection." As soon as she finished saying that, she gave Kira a hug, putting her head on one of his shoulders. "Arigato… Kira-kun."

"Y… you're welcome, Flay-chan…" Kira replied, blushing from the close contact. "I… I'm glad you're alright, and that you never bought into any of their rhetoric."

Flay simply moaned in response, before saying, "Yeah… daddy made it clear that his views were not my views. He wanted me to be free to choose properly." She then undid her embrace around Kira and corrected her posture, before she walked over to the exit of the alleyway. "Still… be careful, please. Daddy doesn't know you're a Coordinator."

"Right," Kira replied. "I'll… I'll be careful. And I'll do what I can to protect you, Flay-chan… I… I don't want to lose you."

"Arigato, Kira-kun," Flay nodded. With that, she walked out of the alley, Kira following a short distance behind her. "Is there anything you need to do with the corpses, by the way?"

"Oh, right, I should probably bring them to the police," Kira admitted. "Orb has a bit of a standing bounty on Blue Cosmos."

Flay paused as she was about to step away from the alley. "Okay, then," she said. "I think we should turn those bodies in right away. I would like to be able to deprive BC of their information."

Kira nodded. "Right," he said. He then paused for a bit, working up his courage. After what had just happened, he didn't want to wait any longer to tell Flay how he felt…

"Kira-kun?" Flay turned to face him. "What's wrong?"

"Flay-chan… I…" Kira took in a deep breath. "I… I've grown to like you a lot over the course of our time together… as… as more than a friend, to be honest… Flay-chan… Aishiteru."

Flay's eyes widened considerably when she heard the declaration of love headed her way, before she calmed down. A soft smile spread on her face, before she said, "Me, too, Kira-kun… me, too… aishiteru."

Kira smiled, as he and Flay embraced once more. Their lips met, and he swore that he could see azure sparks flying all around them.


Xamusel: FINISH!

what? You honestly thought we'd do something else with our time than write this prologue to completion? For shame, peoples, for shame.

Okay, joking aside, this is where we'll stop the prologue. We don't want to force the extra length to show up when we don't need it.

Takeshi Yamato: Yeah. Now, a quick word to those Gunvolt fans among the readers. We won't be using any Gunvolt Characters directly - if we use any of those characters at all, they won't be in the same roles they had in the games. As you might have guessed from Kira's scene, he possesses the Azure Striker Septima like Gunvolt. And Flay has it, too. Those two are our Main Characters for this story.

Other characters will be given Septima that matches their personality or role in the story in some way. No spoilers, but those of you who are fans of both SEED and Gunvolt should be able to put two and two together to come up with a rather bittersweet four...

Xamusel: Indeed. Also, keep in mind that what happens to Rusty in this prologue is only a precursor to what we plan to put in at a later time, namely around Chapter 13. I won't reveal any spoilers here, mind you, but those who know their anime and manga will get what is planned here.

Well, other than that, we plan to incorporate Rusty as a Newtype… yes, I know that's not a Cosmic Era term, but the fact remains that it's the closest term to explain how he can dodge so well. Understand? I hope so.

Takeshi Yamato: Well, next chapter, we get the story proper underway, and we get a few more derailings from canon. See you all then! :D