Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam SEED or 00, they belong to whoever Bandai permits, and it is not me.
"Talking"
"Radio"
'Thinking'
Flashback
AN: This is a crossover with Gundam 00 and my universe of Gundam SEED, the background storyline will be different from Path to Redemption to prevent any spoilers, though there may be some minor ones(Nothing that you wouldn't be able to guess at anyways.) Also Instead of having a page for my original mobile suits I'll just put them here for your viewing Pleasure.
Mobile Suits
Model Number: GAT/ZGMF-X990: Dragon-X
Unit Type: Prototype Close Combat Mobile Suit
Powerplant: Enhanced Ultracompact energy battery
Equipment and Design Features: sensors, range unknown; Phase Shift Armor; DRAGOON System, Pananormic Cockpit(The ones used in Zeta And ZZ Gundams)
Fixed Armament: 2x "Igelstellungs" 75mm anti-air vulcan gun; 2x Beam Assault Rifle with 'Mesamune' Heat Blade Bayonets; 6x DRAGOON 'Fangs' (Think of the ones that the Gundam throne Zwei uses in 00); 2x energy transfer cables; 2x Heavy Beam Assault Cannons, mounted on shoulders, folded on back when not in use.
Pilot: Ryu Hisanaga
Appearance: Appearance wise, it resembles The Dragon with smaller containers from the X containing the DRAGOON 'Fangs', In addition the color scheme now includes crimson slash marks across the chest in an X fashion and has the symbol of a western dragon with its wings stretched out on its right shoulder.
Info: The Upgraded Dragon after the original was nearly destroyed after the battle in orbit using parts and weapons from both mobile suits and now uses a prototype reactor to power it and its new armaments. The 'Beam Assault Rifles', created and designed by Ryu Hisanaga, are a rifle that has two firing modes, single shot and rapid fire, and has Bayonets that includes the Heat Blade technology that was utilized by the Original Dragon Gundam. It saw service again during the period of peace after the war as Ryu and Kira acted as bodyguards for Kira's sister Cagalli Yula Altha and during the early stages of the second war.
Model number: GAT-X105A
Code name: Strike Astray
Unit type: Prototype All-Purpose Mobile Suit
Powerplant: enhanced ultracompact energy battery, power output rating unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; Phase Shift (PS) armor; hard-points for mounting Striker packs; flight pack, Pananormic Cockpit
Fixed armaments: 2 x "Igelstellung" 75mm multi-barrel CIWS, fire-linked, mounted in head; 4 x "Armor Schneider" combat knife, stored in hip armor and shoulders, hand-carried in use; Combined Shield, featuring 1x beam gatling cannon, 1x beam boomerang, mounted on left arm; Type three Mushashi Katana, mounted on Left hip, hand carried in use; 2x Plasma Cannons, mounted on flight pack, extended over shoulders in use.
Optional Hand Armaments: Type 71 Beam Rifle
Appearance: Same as the Strike but has the symbol of a sword with a pair wings on either side of it on the right shoulder.
Notes: The Upgraded Strike after it was nearly destroyed in battle, although it features many new weapons in its base form including a flight pack, it sacrifices its ability to use the 'Striker' Packs, It can however equip the weapons to it before launch if necessary. Having used parts from the Astray Units From Terminal Kira rechristened it the Strike Astray. It saw service again during the period of peace after the war as Ryu and Kira acted as bodyguards for Kira's sister Cagalli Yula Altha and during the early stages of the second war.
Prologue
Signius Colony Remains. Two Years After the Second Bloody Valentine War(BVW)
Kira yawned as she guided her Strike Astray through the various debris of a recent explosion in an abandoned colony that Terminal was hired to investigate. At twenty she was 5'9" with her waist length wavy brown hair, currently tucked into her dark blue helmet, and had what many would describe as a perfect figure, her Amethyst eyes had lost a little of their luster after having fought in two wars but haven't lost any of their determination or resolve. "Anything on your end Kira?" Asked her husband of two years Ryu Yamato, at twenty two he stood at 6'1" and still his amused jade green eyes that always seemed to sparkle with amusement and still wore his brown hair in a militaristic fashion and was still built like an athlete, having no family remaining after the second war he decided to drop Hisanaga as his last name and took up the Yamato name when they married one month after the final battle. "I got nothing but junk on this end." After the second war the pair remained a part of the of the mercenary group Terminal and worked at securing the stability of the new era of peace.
"Same here," Kira answered as the Pananormic monitor opened a view screen and revealed Ryu in the cockpit of the Dragon-X "It doesn't match a terrorist attack, looks like it folded in on itself or something."
"Now that you mention it," Ryu agreed as the Dragon appeared beside her "Let's head further in and see what we can find."
The pair made their way through the debris and made their way to the center of the blast and upon their arrival they both started scanning the objects around them "I got a hit." Kira said "A data terminal, looks to be intact. Remote accessing it now." Kira's fingers flew across the keyboard as she hacked into the data terminal and quickly breached the multiple firewalls and encryptions "Whatever was going on here, no one wanted it being found out," she mused as the data began to flow onto the screen "What this, Ryu take a look at this." Punching a couple of keys Kira sent the recently uploaded data to the Dragon.
"This is, Wormhole experimentations?" Ryu wondered as the data scrolled across the screen "Says here they were trying to see if you could create localized black holes and use them as weapons, but who would..."
"We should report this to command." Kira stated "We may have another terrorist group on the-" Alarms suddenly started blaring through the pairs mobile suits "Energy Spike detected! Is it an enemy?"
"No, the energy does not match mobile suit or armor signatures," Ryu informed as their suits scanned the energy "Could it be... Kira We have to leave NOW! Another wormhole is opening!"
"WHAT!" Kira shouted in shock as they pushed the throttle of their engines. It was too late however as a tear started opening in the space behind them and started dragging them backwards into it.
"Encoding compressed distress signal and sending it." Ryu said as he hastily typed a warning and distress signal and sent it back to Terminal headquarters at Mendel. "Damn never thought we'd be done in by an anomaly in space, eh Kira?"
Kira gave a weak laugh as she looked at Ryu "Who says were giving up though," she retorted as she started rerouting power to the thrusters only for no significant difference. Kira sighed and looked at Ryu again and smiled at him "I love you always Ryu."
Ryu smiled back at her and managed to bring the Dragon alongside her and wrapped his suits arms around her suit "I love you to Kira, see ya on the other side." He said before a bright white light consumed the suits and violent turbulence knocked the two pilots unconscious.
Mendel Colony, Terminal Headquarters
"Sir we're receiving an emergency transmission from The Dragon!" one of the communication officers shouted in distress to his commander "It reads as follows 'Found the reason for the destruction of Signius Colony, an unknown group was experimenting on creating localized black holes and wormholes in the hope of using it as a weapon. A sudden wormhole opened behind us and we were trapped, send our love to the others.' That's all sir."
The commander slumped into his seat in shock something shared with the entire room, the two most legendary and feared pilots in the world, the Valkyrie of Freedom and Dragon of Redemption were gone. Sighing the Commander managed to stand back up again "Very well, list them as MIA, I-I shall inform Ladies Cagalli and Lacus of this." He ordered as he left the room and headed to his private quarters, already the word was spreading throughout the base and many people had stopped their previous activities and simply stood or sat in shock of the situation. Reaching his office he sat in his desk and dialed the number for Cagalli Yula Altha's home.
ORB, Altha Manor
Cagalli frowned as she looked over some of the reports from military intelligence of some Blue Cosmos Remnant activities only to be interrupted by her aide entering "Miss Altha, Commander Zaire of Terminal is on the line, he says it's urgent." She said "Do you want to patch him through?"
"Yeas please." Cagalli said grateful for a distraction from the paperwork and picked up the phone "Hello commander, what can I do for you today."
"Lady Cagalli, I, I have some bad news for you," the commander began his voice heavy with regret that sent a chill down Cagalli's spine "Earlier today we sent out Lieutenants Yamato to investigate the recent destruction of the Signius Colony, we received a burst transmission from the Dragon saying they found the source, an unknown group was trying to create localized worm and black holes to use as weapons, from what we could gather one of the units activated near both machines dragging them into the wormhole, they have been listed as MIA, they send their love to you and the others."
Cagalli was in a state of shock as the phone slipped from her nerveless fingers and clattered to the floor, hearing the noise the aide looked in and saw Cagalli there her face frozen in shock "M-Miss Cagalli? Is there something wrong?" the aide asked nervously.
"C-can you have Athrun and the crew of the Archangel report here immediately please?" she asked in a whisper "I'm afraid I have some bad news."
The aide quickly nodded and called for the requested people while keeping a nervous eye on her boss. When they finally arrived Cagalli immediately broke into tears and collapsed against Athrun who looked positively baffled "What's wrong Cagalli?" he asked in concern and placed his hands on her shoulders.
"K-Kira a-and R-Ryu, t-they're gone." She stuttered out making everyone stare in shock "T-they were investigating Signius when they had gotten trapped in a wormhole."
Cagalli kept on blabbering and it took the rest of the day for her to finally calm down and after making the announcement to the country she locked herself away in her room only letting Athrun enter when he brought her food, even if she didn't eat anything. A week later a memorial service was held in honor of the fallen heroes as people mourned their vanishing.
00 Universe, Celestial Beings Carrier, Ptolemaios, Bridge
Lasse Aeon sighed as he took his seat on the bridge of the Ptolemaios for his shift and looked over the readouts "All green across the board, we are running at full stealth." He reported as he looked them over.
"Man this is So-o-o-o boring!" Lichte Tsey, the ships pilot, moaned as he leaned back into the seat "And there still is a month left of this until we start the plan."
Christina Sierra, one of the two tactical operators of the Ptolemaios groaned in agreement "I know, This is going to take forever!" she moaned "And we can't even go shopping!"
The final member of the bridge crew, Feldt Grace, remained silent as she was prone to do and continued looking over the reports when something registered on the radar "Unknown Contact!" she alerted making all of them jump into action.
"Have they spotted us?" Lasse asked "There isn't supposed to be anyone in this sector."
"I don't think they have seen us." Feldt speculated "But there is no movement from them."
"Bringing up a visual now." Christina announced and they all turned to the main screen only for their jaws to drop "T-those are..."
"Gundams." Lasse finished in awe as a pair of Gundams drifted along in each other's arms. One had a blue and white color scheme with a flight pack of some sorts and several obvious weapons on it while the other was had a Dark green and black color scheme with a crimson X on its chest, it had a pair of bayoneted rifles on its waist and what looked to be a pair of cannons on its back. Lasse reached over to the radio and linked it to their tactical forecasters, A women named Sumeragi Lee Noriega room "Miss Sumeragi, You may want to see this." He advised "You wouldn't believe me otherwise."
A short while later Sumeragi enter the bridge and nearly tripped when she saw the pair of Gundams "What the, are those Gundams?" She asked in a whisper "Have they been spotted by any of the nations?"
"We don't believe so ma'am." Lichte said as Sumeragi took her seat "Should we have Lockon and the others recover them?"
Sumeragi bit her lip and turned to Feldt "What does Veda say?" she asked referring to Celestial Beings Supercomputer/AI that held all of Celestial Beings founder Aeolia Schenberg plans and information.
"It doesn't say anything," Feldt replied "They are unknown to Veda's plan."
Sumeragi raised an eyebrow and turned back to look at the unknown Gundam lookalikes "Bring them aboard," she ordered "At the very least we'll be able to get some answers from them."
Hanger
Setsuna F. Seiei, the Meister pilot for the Exia, leapt into the cockpit of his Gundam as the orders to launch came through "Have we been discovered early?" he wondered out loud in his monotone voice.
"Apparently there are a pair of Gundam lookalikes floating around outside." Lockon Stratos, the pilot of the Dynames Gundam, relayed "So don't attack unless attacked first, ya got that Setsuna?"
"Understood," Setsuna replied as the Exia was loaded into the catapult "Setsuna F. Seiei, Gundam Exia, Launching!"
"Lockon Stratos, Dynames Gundam, Locked on and Firing!"
Dragon-X
Ryu groaned in pair as the Dragon and Strike Floated through space 'W-where are we?' he wondered as he blearily looked around and saw earth, but something was off, realization hit him like a ton of bricks 'Where is the Debris Belt?'
An Alarm went off in his cockpit alerting him to approaching mobile suits as his consciousness started to fade, the last thing he saw was a pair of mobile suits, with one having a passing resemblance to the Strike Gundam.
End Prologue REVIEW!
