Before Reading Information:
This is my work-in-progress fanfiction, Gundam SEED: Legacy.
First of all, this may have some slight sexual themes, language and violence. But then again Gundam did too, so I figure it's legit, but just in case I thought I'd warn you.
I'll try to spell check all my work diligence.
Now, I'll try to update once a week, but maybe more often or less depending on outside influences, school and personal engagements.
Now I love feedback but I'd appreciate it in a PM rather that cluttering up this thread with posts, alternately you can post in the feedback thread/section I have made.
Also if you happen to find any plot holes or typos/ mistakes, inform me by PM.
Also there are still a few things I'm unsure of, I plan to use GS characters as historical figures and so on, but I also plan to have them play little part in this series of mine. This is for two reasons, firstly I'm not so sure that I can talk from the point of view of Kira or Shinn or Lacus and secondly because I want this to a have a newer, "fresher" feel to it, that said it is highly likely these characters will feature in some role or another because they are crucial players in C.E
Now I'll give you a brief run-down of the scenario.
The year is Cosmic Era 84.
There has been ten years of peace throughout most of the world and life is finally beginning to jump back. In fact many believe a new golden age to be just around the corner. This point of view is reinforced by the relative absence of hate-groups such as Blue Cosmos from the public eye, as well as an unprecedented level of wealth among the populace. World hunger is all but a bitter memory as advanced hydroponic structures have been erected across the worlds hotspots of famine.
The great superpowers have fractured and weakened, like a wild animal that has been tranquillised they seemed to have been fought to peace.
The Atlantic Federation was bled dry in the last war and agreed to limit it's military to only peacekeeping forces and to dispose of nine-tenths of its nuclear arsenal.
The Eurasian superpower is also no more, without the image of a horror from space out to enslave and destroy the Naturals, Eurasia has now split into four smaller states, these are the Republic of Western Europe,the Middle Eastern Union, the Dominion of Indo-china and lastly the
Commonwealth of Eastern Europe. Each of these nations has taken large steps to ensure peace and happiness throughout their populace, in areas such as the middle-east this has been established by forming a council where equal members of every ethnic group are represented fairly and a single Grand Councillor rules for two years, elected by the council.
South America has risen again as the United Republics of South America and still keeps strong ties with ZAFT.
Africa has also managed to form a lose coalition of states, this is simply called the African Union.
Indeed for the whole world it appears that life is set to become better as a new age of reason and cooperation dawns.
Humanity has also began to reach for the stars, the colonies on Mars have spread to it's moons and both are flourishing. A deep space colony known as "Heart" has been set up to orbit between Mars and Earth, a link to remind all that no matter how far men may venture they have not forgotten where they came from. Yet only a few million people have taken to the stars as of yet.
ORB and Scandinavia have kept up their policies and remain places that many coordinators call home.
In PLANT coordinator scientists have finally found a way to equalise the lack of fertility among later generation coordinators and have set about a widespread re-fertilisation campaign, the results of this are unclear as of yet but show great promise.
Yet under this serene mask hatreds still rage, without the "space monster" to focus the peoples hatreds many on Earth have fallen back to their own petty ethnic grudges. There are those that hate others based on race, religion and political ideals and sometimes these hatreds give birth to violence.
Also the fearful shadow of prejudice, suspicion and loathing has spread to PLANT. The society that was founded to escape Natural paranoia has in turn given birth to its own, within it lie two deadly factions that threaten to disrupt the peace. The Agents of Destiny, who believe that the ideals of Gilbert Dulandal were simply the only answer for a long-term peaceful future, and the Children of Zala an organisation that mirrors Blue Cosmos like some freakish distorted mirror, many in the Children believe that Naturals are an inferior race that is simply an obstacle in the way of a bright, new, coordinator future.
And on earth the shattered remnants of Blue Cosmos have had ten years to regain strength and consolidate their power, to regain influence throughout the world, the fires of hatred left unwatched can soon spark even greater conflict...
History:
After the second PLANT-Earth War Lacus Clyne took position as Chairman of PLANT, with partner Kira Yamato as her supreme commander, however, her reign was only for a few years. Whilst the populace loved her and she did much to tie Earth and PLANT together she ultimately proved a temporary fill-in for a truly gifted leader. (She's a pop-star for god's sake. I have nothing against Lacus but come on, there's gotta be more skilled people.)
This leader came in CE 77, Alerik Cuale by name,. After he took power Lacus Clyne left the international scene and returned to Kira Yamato's homeland of ORB where the couple settled down..
The seven years up to the present have been filled with reforms and new steps, among them creating another home for coordinators, this was named "Heart" which unlike PLANT is not an an acronym but rather a symbolic name, for it was made to the "Heart of a new world." Also it was Alerik who was responsible for giving the Earth the gift of advanced hydroponic vegetables that could be grown where the land would not support enough food for the populace .In ORB Cagalli Yula Atha ruled until CE 82 at which point she too stepped down, convinced that the world was now a safe place. The question is, is the world headed for an age of gold or another time of horror?
Oh yeah, I don't own Gundam SEED or any of it's trademarks.
Now, without further stuff I give you Gundam SEED Legacy.
By the way three I's means a change in time and/or point of view, five I's means a change in point of view or scene.
Lastly, thoughts and memories or dreams are usually in italics.
Phase-01:Deceptions
Orientale City, the moon.
Zera Dromos tapped his fingers on a coffee table, his eyes never left the door.
Late, damn. Why of all days could be be late? If those Coordinators are onto us... Zera thought, he was not in uniform today but rather dressed in a casual pinstripe suit.
The door popped open and a blond haired man walked in, dressed in shirtsleeves and a vest he certainly didn't look the part of a soldier, more like a young schoolteacher on holidays.
"Horuma," Zera said nodding toward the man. "Why exactly are you late?"
Horuma grinned, he always did that when nervous, "Sorry sir, the traffic was terrible."
Zera rubbed his eyebrows and groaned softly to himself. "Well, when will the shipment be within our attack zone?"
Horuma looked around the room for a moment before stepping forward and lowering his voice, "Two days, it's on track. The parade was scheduled for next month, but they wanted it to be there early...Uh...I'm sorry to be so direct but-"
Zera nodded again and cut him off, "don't worry you'll get your money. Times are hard around here, I won't tell your buddies in ZAFT if I get captured either."
Horuma viably relaxed and adjusted his pair of black-rimmed glasses at Zera's words.
"You'll get your money after we've got the hardware, the account will be under the name Joseph Pilsberry and the password is malediction," Zera said and rose from his seat. "Do forgive my hasty exit, but I have somewhere to be, as you know."
Horuma agreed as Zera slipped out the door, shutting it quietly behind him.
III
Girty Lue class vessel "Pariah" holding orbit around the moon.
Zera gazed at the vessel as his small shuttle drew near, the hanger opened as a voice buzzed through the shuttles speakers, "Welcome back Captain, I trust all went well?"
Zera smiled. "Yeah Silvia, it all went well," he responded.
The shuttle, like an unarmed fighter really, came to rest with minimal sliding.
Zera climbed out of the cockpit and proceeded across the bay and into a corridor.
"Hey, Lightning, what's the news," a casual voice said.
A man stood in the corridor, Mars Yeddin was an ace pilot who had served with Zera for four years, he was short, slim and had hair the colour of a fire engine with green eyes.
"I've told you Mars; it's 'captain' or 'colonel' while on duty," Zera responded with a scowl.
Mars raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms, "The day I call you captain is the day that Heman Lossi actually manages to hit something in simulation. In other words, never. So anyway how'd it go Lightning? You gonna tell us the plan yet?"
Zera smiled wryly, "Patience is a virtue. Go have a drink, then go to the briefing room, I'll tell the team then."
Mars' eyebrow twitched, "Y'know whatcha problem is? Ever since you became a Commander you always feel like you can order me around," he said whilst walking away, clearly talking to him self by now. "Yeah that's the trouble, I remember back at the academy it was always-"
Zera shrugged to himself as Mars rounded a bend, cutting off his monologue.
With a sigh he walking down another stretch and tapped the open-door button to the bridge.
The command crew stood and saluted as he entered.
"All command crew members and mobile suit pilots are to meet in the briefing room within an hour," Zera announced.
"Yes Captain. Sir, command sent you a message, we transferred it to your quarters," Silvia said, with waist-length brown hair and honey-coloured eyes she looked a good deal younger than her twenty years of age.
IIIII
Mars sat staring at his mobile suit, without power it seemed a dull silver but once activated it would appear dark blue. Behind him a long row of Windam Plus were stretched, probably a dozen or so. In front of him there were only two mobile suits, Zera's Vamp and his own mobile suit.
"Well honey, looks like you'll see some action real quick-like," Mars said and chuckled to himself quietly.
"Sir! The Captain has announced that all pilots are to head to the briefing room within the hour," the man was a gunner, charged with firing the Gottfried.
"Well, I wouldn't want to keep ol' Lightning waiting." Mars said and made his way toward the briefing room.
IIIII
Zera sat at his desk, the message still there flashing in the dim light.
"New pilots? At this stage? Arriving in a week? Turn over the captured hardware to the fifth division?" Zera said to himself digesting the orders, he was getting a bad feeling something was starting.
"The plan was to steal a handful of Zaku's and attack Orb, try to make it look like ZAFT was launching an assault on the capital to wipe out leadership. After that the nations of earth would have no choice but to re-start the war against PLANT. but now...Sepha, what on Earth are you thinking?" Zera continued.
IIIII
A man sat with his arms crossed, his white hair fell forward across his face. Out of the circular windows stars could be seen dotting the inky blackness.
"Serrim, ya hear the news? We're heading to our first major assignment!" The man who spoke had black ear-length hair that was slightly ruffled and green eyes.
"Jin, I already knew that. The only reason you didn't was because you fell asleep during the briefing," The white haired man answered.
"Ohhh, that explains why Estell wasn't impressed either."
Serrim sighed, "you can't impress her, or Rafor either. Extended are rather...difficult that way."
Jin crossed his arms, "well I gotta try. Besides what else is there to pass time? I only know four good ways to pass time and one way is available right now."
Serrim scratched his head, "Four? Well why don't you go check on your Windam?"
"That piece of crap? I hope I get something better soon or I'll scream. Here we are, some of the most promising and skilled new recruits and what are we stuck with? Mass produced mobile suits! At least Bouncy over there got a Vamp."
Serrim sighed again, "Bear with it funds are tight as it is. We barely have enough money for researching new products, let alone giving a new custom-made suit to every pilot who whines enough. Until we have more allies I think we'll be stuck with Windams. Still, maybe command will have sent something nice in the other transports or maybe they sent something ahead. As you said, we are special forces."
Jin grinned, "Ya think? You're not just saying that to make me feel better?"
Serrim winced, "Yeah, I totally and completely believe."
IIIII
"As you all know, the reason we came to this point is to surprise a ZAFT convey carrying arms, the reasons for which are classified but you all can guess. It's a simple deal, we'll take out the guards, probably Zaku's, and then move on to secure the cargo. Remember that despite the fact that the ships we'll be fighting are undermanned they are still battleships and still have the capacity to use their own fire-power. There will be four in all, all Nazca class and all fitted with additional mobile suit pods. These are not to be damaged except to destroy armaments. In addition there will be two Laurasia class, destroy these if you will," Zera finished.
"Yes Captain. For the preservation of a blue and pure world." The crew responded.
Blue and pure world? Yeah I suppose that's a nice thing to fight for, how long has it been since I've fought with that in mind? To me it was always duty, the Coordinators have their place and we have ours but we cannot co-exist, both of us have proven that twice already, Zera thought.
"Yo, Lightning, you all fine and dandy? Not gonna zone out on us in battle are ya?" Mars asked with a grin.
Zera gave a start, "wha? Sorry about that I was going to start a stroll down memory lane."
"Well don't do it here eh?" Mars said.
"Yes, I think I'll go to my quarters and have a lie down. Tell Darwin to take command for a few hours, please?"
Mars crossed his arms, "Sure, sure. You're getting old man, laying down during the day? Anyway we've got a couple of days yet, it'll take that long to arm up all the Windams and get everyone in order. I'd recommend everyone have a refresher on the simulators. I'm gonna head there right now, see ya 'round Lightning. Oh yeah, don't break ya hip getting outa bed."
Zera felt his face go plain as Mars walked away laughing to himself.
"'Old man'? Can't say it's better than 'Lightning"
IIIII
Mars' Windam dodged to the left and spun firing it's rifle, the Zaku went down in a neon explosion.
MISSION COMPLETE
Score out of 1000, 959.
"Damn" Mars swore and climbed out of the simulator-cockpit.
"Hey Mr. Ace, that's pretty good. For a potato!" a fellow pilot said.
"Hey Zaki, you do it then, go ahead best me. It's a simulation roughly similar to our mission, a dozen enemy mobile suits, one enemy battleship to take down, highest level of computer response and AI. I would have easily beet 975 if I'd dodged more of that Phantom's missiles."
Zaki smiled and climbed in, there was a moment as the simulation started up and soon it displayed the view as it would have been from a Windam cockpit.
There were a few moments of manoeuvre and Zaki took down a Zaku that tried to hit him with it's tomahawk then the screen went flat white and the camera displayed a third person view of the Windam being shot by a Zaku.
"Tisk, tisk. Not only didn't you beat my skills, you couldn't even finish, peripherals man, use 'em." Mars said and sauntered off.
III
Two days later.
Zera sat in the cockpit of his Vamp, waiting for the signal.
"Captain, the convoy is in sight" Darwin said over the communication link.
"Very good, remember the orders, Pariah is to engage the escorts but not the battleships themselves. If it's getting too dicey fall back, we'll handle it."
"Yes Captain."
Zera did one last check of his blue flight suit and spoke, "Zera Dromos, Vamp, launching".
As soon as he exited he could here the other pilots signing out.
"Mars Yeddin, Dark Aegis, let's go!"
Zaki Rumo, Windam, here I go."
Zera examined the convoy, the intelligence had been correct, a dozen Zaku and a GOUF, two Laurasia class.
"Third battalion, Attack!" Zera ordered and sent his Vamp forward.
There was a moment as he drew his Schwert Gewehr that he could feel it, the tension of just before shots were fired.
Then it happened, the Zaku were mainly Gunner Wizards and as soon as they saw the Windams they opened fire.
"Insects." Zera spat as he thrusted heavily to the right to avoid being hit.
Behind him an unlucky Windam exploded as he turned his thrusters onto maximum to close with the enemy.
Mars grimaced, "bastards! You got Emanuel." The Dark Aegis transformed into mobile armour mode and let loose it's Scylla beam cannon toward the Zaku, one dodged and one had it's arm vaporised but the beam continued on to strike a Laurasia class, it wasn't a good shot but it destroyed the bridge nonetheless.
Zera closed with the Zaku and took a swing at it with his Schwert Gewehr, the Zaku attempted to block but had it's shield cloven in two, Zera used his momentum to spin around and cut the Zaku in half.
"Tsubashi! Behind you, GOUF!" Zera barked and Tsubashi's Windam thrust forward in time to dodge the whip of the GOUF, only to be caught in the combined crossfire of four Nazca class.
Then the Pariah fired it's six Gottfried's, all of which struck the second Laurasia, a few would have pierced and likely destroyed a Laurasia, all six at once tore it apart.
The GOUF changed its focus and flew toward Zera, swinging its whip forward and drawing it's Tempest beam sword.
Zera threw his shield toward the GOUF, as the slayer whip coiled around it the shield overheated and exploded in a cloud of metallic vapour, and Zera attacked, for a moment he and the GOUF crossed blades, Tempest to Schwert Gewehr, both hovered in the maelstrom of battle.
But Zera's action had brought him toward a Nazca class and he was forced to break off the combat to avoid the Nazca's beam cannons.
Then he brought his Vamp spiralling toward the Nazca and attacked, his Schwert Gewehr slicing through its cannon.
The GOUF pursued him, firing it's Draupnir forearm beam gun.
"Damn, you're persistent," Zera said with annoyance thick in his voice and spun around and fired up his boosters to fly above the GOUF and dived down, blade first.
The GOUF lacked the reach and the speed to keep up with him, it dodged to the right and lunged him with its Tempest, only to have the Schwert Gewehr impale it's left side rather than its right and fall short of striking distance, for a moment the GOUF floated backwards before it exploded.
Zera smiled and redirected himself toward the last of the Zaku's, they were sheltering on the surface of the Nazca classes, obviously they had picked up that the Nazca's were being spared direct assault.
"Don't shoot, we can't risk a stray beam penetrating the armour. I'll deal with them," Zera ordered and attacked.
The Zaku were still firing their rifles in rapid succession and Zera had to dart quickly and skilfully to avoid their attacks.
But clustered together they couldn't dodge very well, and the Vamp was fast.
Zera lunged forward and embedded his sword in the first Zaku's chest, drawing it out would take valuable seconds, instead he leapt back and drew both beam sabres using them to deflect incoming beams and attacked again, one blow cutting vertical the other horizontal, the next Zaku fell to the ship like a puppet with it's strings cut. The two remaining Zaku broke and ran, he pursued lunging into one and impaling it from behind and then spinning to cut the next Zaku in half, beam blade slicing through it's midsection with ease.
Zera looked around, the Nazca's all floated without weapons.
"Who'd we lose?" Zera asked.
"Tsubashi and Emanuel, Zaki and Soyama, Bint lost his arms and headed back to the Pariah and Losollo got his legs blown off, I'd say it'll take a few weeks before they're combat ready again," Mars answered.
"True, but the important thing is that we have what we came for, two dozen ZAFT mobile suits."
"But why'd we want ZAFT suits?"
Zera thought for a moment, "They are an invaluable part in a very crucial deception."
He heard Mars laugh over the radio, "that the way it is huh? Well that explains everything."
Without command the squad began to return to the Pariah.
End of phase 01.
Phase two preview
With the capture of the ZAFT mobile suits the first act of Zera's orders have been fulfilled. But who are the new pilots being sent in, and why? Why are the carefully laid plans being altered now? What will fate have in store for the Pariah and it's crew?
NEXT PHASE: MEETINGS
(Feedback? anyone?)
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