Gundam reSEED
An altered retelling of Gundam Seed
Disclaimer: I do not own, and am in no way affiliated with the owners of the Gundam franchise. Only the original characters and elements in this fan fiction belong to me.
Author Notes: Please note that I will be using the Japanese versions of names, such as Tori instead of Birdie. I will also be toning down the "super powerful" Mobile Suits such as the Freedom and Justice.
Phase 1 – A False Peace
"Tori!"
A small green and yellow robotic bird flew gently but swiftly through the air inside the Heliopolis colony. The false sunlight beamed down upon the city. In a park on the western side, a young boy lay sleeping inside a small wooden shelter, his laptop showing a news a broadcast.
"Kira!"
The boy woke suddenly to the call of his name to see three people in front of him. The youngest, Tolle Koenig, lent forward and placed his arm on Kira's shoulder. The other two, a girl named Miriallia Haw and a slightly older boy named Jason Riggs, stood at the entrance of shelter. Jason covered his eyes from the glare of the light as Kira swung himself round to face the group.
"What's up?" asked Jason, smiling.
"You shouldn't be sleeping Kira, Professor Kato will scold you if he finds out…" added Miriallia.
Kira moved his hand to his forehead and leant forward onto his elbow. A look of exhaustion filled his face.
"So, what were you doing sleeping?" continued Tolle.
"The assignment the Professor gave me is so tiring! I needed a break…" replied Kira
"Well," said Miriallia, "he asked us to send you over to the lab when we found you."
"I guess he has something else he wants me to do…"
Kira sighed, and turned his attention to the news broadcast. Kaoshiung was being shown, or rather, the battle that was taking place there.
"What's on?" asked Jason.
"Kaohsiung…" replied Kira.
Miriallia tilted her head, as if she was in deep thought.
"Koashiung's pretty close to Orb, isn't it?"
Everyone turned to face Miriallia as she spoke. She was right, it was close.
"But, Orb's neutral. They won't ever attack us…" said Tolle.
"Well, if that's the case, I'm sure it'll be alright."
Jason turned on the spot and walked a few steps away from the shelter before speaking.
"Well, come on guys, we gotta get to the lab."
Kira nodded and pressed the power button on his laptop. The screen shrunk into the base of it, and Kira put it in his backpack before standing. The group began to walk off when the artificial wind picked up into a slightly breeze.
Outside the colony, an Earth Alliance cruiser was entering final docking procedures. On the bridge, the Captain breathed a sigh of relief and turned toward the young Lieutenant next to him.
"Well, that marks the end of this ship's service. We made in one peace thanks to you, Lieutenant Flaga."
"I wasn't that much help. Besides, ZAFT didn't exactly make much of an attempt to stop us."
The Captain chuckled.
"Probably because they knew you were here, Lieutenant."
The Lieutenant sniggered and looked through the screen into the dark reaches of space. A group of young men glided up to the Captain and saluted. The eldest of the group spoke with a firm voice.
"Well then, Captain. May we take our leave?"
"Feel free. Good luck."
"Thank you, Captain."
The men saluted once again, then drifted off through the door at the back of the Bridge.
"Is it okay to let them go unguarded?" asked Lieutenant Flaga.
"Now that we're here, I believe so."
"Because it's neutral?"
"Correct."
"Very well. I shall take my leave too. Captain."
The Lieutenant saluted. He spun round and exited through a second door at the rear of the Bridge. The Captain sat back in his chair and sighed once again.
Inside the colony, Kira and his friends approached the automated car terminal. Ahead of them was a red headed girl in a pink dress, standing next to two other girls, all of whom were laughing in a friendly manner. One of the other two girls spotted Miriallia and called her over.
"Milly! You'd know! What's in Flay's letter?"
"Letter?" replied Miriallia.
"Yeah, Flay got a letter from Sai!"
"Really!?"
The girl in the pink dress turned to face the pair with a look of annoyance on her face. Just then, two men and a woman approached from behind.
"If you are going to get on, may we?" asked the woman.
"Oh…erm… sure, go ahead..." said Kira.
The group moved out of the way and the three adults boarded the car and shot off into the distance. The girl in pink dress, Flay, flicked her head back before speaking.
"Forget it, I'm going!"
She clambered into the next car in a mild tantrum, followed quickly by the other two girls who were with her. As they sped off Tolle stepped forward and faced Kira whilst Jason moved next to him and placed his arm on Kira's shoulder.
"A letter from Sai, eh? I guess you've got some competition, eh Kira?" said Tolle.
"A little competitions always good…" added Jason.
Kira just shook the pair off and the four of them entered the next car. Ahead of them, the three adults were enjoying the air rushing past them. One of the men spoke in a deep, yet nervous voice.
"It sure is peaceful here."
"Yes, but kids that age are already being sent to the front lines…" replied the woman.
An a ZAFT cruiser, stationed behind a drifting asteroid near Heliopolis, a man in a white commander's uniform, with long blonde hair and a mask covering the top half of face stood over a chart of the area.
The ship's Captain floated over to him and began to speak.
"The Council's reply is late. Something must be wrong."
"Stop looking so serious Ades."
"But, Commander Creuset, something doesn't feel right…"
"You are correct that it is late, but for now, all we can do is wait and let the team do their job."
Commander Creuset turned toward the ship's screen and gazed upon Heliopolis.
"They won't fail."
Unknown to the inhabitants of Heliopolis, a group of young ZAFT soldiers were breaking through the security code locks to enter the maintenance shafts. As the shaft's blast door opened, the soldiers were faced with a grid of detection lasers. However, the beams were designed for Mobile Armours and machines of a similar size, they would be easy to get past for a human.
Meanwhile, Kira and his friends had reached the door to Professor Kato's lab room. Jason grasped the handle to the brilliant white door, and upon opening it, was surprised to be greeted by Sai Argyle, Kuzzey Buskirk and an unknown person wearing a long coat and hat standing in the corner. The Professor himself was nowhere to be seen.
As the group walked in, Tolle approached Sai.
"Who's that?" asked Tolle.
"No idea, they were told to wait here for the Professor."
"Oh, fair enough… Anyway, about that letter you gave to Flay!"
Sai rolled his eyes and turned away. The stranger in corner shook their head before averting their gaze to the many computers in the room, as well as the small exoskeleton in the centre.
All of a sudden, in the colony's security section, a warning alarm went off. The ZAFT ship that was stationed at the meteorite was approaching, alongside another, identical ship. The head of security grabbed the communication system's speaker with great haste.
"This is the Orb colony, Heliopolis, to the ZAFT ships. You are infringing on our area of space. Please turn back immediately!"
One of the security personnel's faces filled with fear as they turned to their superior.
"Sir! The ships are emitting communication jamming! This is an act of war!"
The head of security was stunned. He lost the ability to move or speak, and simply floated in shock.
In the maintenance shafts, the group of young soldiers began placing explosives in various parts of the colony, including around an unidentified, white battleship. The ZAFT ships drew ever closer.
Onboard the first of them, Commander Creuset lifted his right arm, and flicked out his fingers toward Heliopolis. Within an instant, four GINN mobile suits launched from the ships and headed toward the colony. The soldiers exited the maintenance shafts and found themselves on a cliff edge, and readied their machine guns.
Heliopolis began to scramble all the military units they had, which didn't amount to much. Lieutenant Flaga dived into his Mobile Armour, followed by two other Earth Alliance soldiers, and launched into the battle, followed by the cruiser he had travelled to the colony on.
Bullets were flying in every direction, illuminating the empty space around the colony. ZAFT's mobile suits were making short work of the Heliopolis defence team's mobile armours.
Inside the colony the explosives detonated, shaking the entire structure. Dust and debris filled the shafts. The room where the young men who had departed the Earth Alliance ship were staying was destroyed in an instant, killing each of them. The unidentified battleship was battered by falling debris, and the Earth Alliance's quarters were blown to pieces, killing almost twenty officers.
Kira stood up in shock, as Jason looked around wildly. Sai opened the door to exit the room just as the evacuation alarm sounded. Everyone in the room headed toward the evacuation stairwell. As Sai opened the door to the stairs, the group were amazed to see hundreds of people leaving the building.
"What's happening?" asked Sai.
"ZAFT's attacking!" said one of the evacuees.
"What!?" said Tolle.
The stranger who had been in the room with them began to look around the area before running off down the corridor to the left. Kira noticed them running away and went to follow them.
"Hey you! Wait!"
"Kira! Where are you going!?" shouted Jason.
"I'll be back in a minute!"
Jason looked back toward the stairs as Tolle and the others started climbing them. He sighed, shook his head, then ran after Kira. Another explosion occurred, covering the stairwell entrance with rubble. The blast sent Jason flying forward, hitting the ground hard. He looked up to see Kira running after the stranger.
As the stranger turned a corner Kira caught up and grabbed their left arm.
"Where are you going?" shouted Kira.
"Why did you follow me!? Go back to the stairs!"
Jason staggered round the corner.
"Can't do that now…" Jason continued, "the entrance has been blocked."
The stranger let out a slightly high pitched grunt of anger. Another explosive detonated. The corridor they were in before turning the corner filled with smoke, and a rush of wind blew the stranger's hat off, revealing a girl with shoulder length blonde hair.
"A… girl?" said Kira.
"What the hell did you think I was!?" screamed the girl.
"Forget it, let's just get moving!" said Jason.
Kira, still holding the girls arm, pulled her along with him as the trio ran toward the corridor's exit. To their surprise, they wound up on a gangway above three inactive mobile suits. Earth Alliance soldiers and engineers were locked in gunfire with ZAFT soldiers. Jason heard someone scream "the suits have entered the colony!"
The girl knelt down, tears in her eyes.
"Earth's new mobile suits… No… Father you traiter!"
Her scream drew the attention of a female engineer, who instinctively turned and fired, barely missing the trio. Kira picked the girl up and the three of them ran toward an alcove that housed the entrances to the evacuation shelters. Kira pressed the button on the speaker.
"Hey, open up!"
"What? There's still someone out there?"
The voice from the speaker sounded full of fear and regret.
"Yes, three of us!" said Kira.
"Three? We're already full…"
Kira's eyes widened for a second, before an expression of determination filled his face.
"Then just take one! A girl!"
"… Understood. I'm sorry."
An elevator rose up behind a transparent shield, which subsequently opened. Kira pushed the girl in.
"Wait! What are you doing!"
"Get in! You'll be safe!" said Kira.
"But…!"
"Just get in, we'll be fine!" shouted Jason as the shield shut once again, and the elevator took the girl down to the shelters.
"So what now?" asked Jason.
"We'll have to try over there!"
The pair ran out of the alcove and back onto the gangway. Whilst running, Kira noticed a ZAFT soldier sneaking up behind the female engineer who was standing on one of the mobile suits.
"Behind you!"
The engineer span round and dropped down just in time to avoid being shot, and returned fire, killing the soldier. Below her, one of her friends was shot and killed. She turned back to face the other ZAFT soldiers and opened fire, killing two of them before turning her attention back to Kira and Jason.
"You two! Get down here!"
"We'll go to the shelter over there!" shouted Kira.
"The entrance is blocked!" replied the engineer.
Jason and Kira looked at one another before jumping over the rail of the gangway and landing on the mobile suit below. The engineer seemed amazed they managed to do such a feat. Another one of her friends suddenly fell to the ground.
"Hamada!"
She span around in anger and fired repeatedly in the direction of the ZAFT soldiers, hitting one of the young soldiers that infiltrated the colony first. One of the other soldiers shouted the name "Rusty" before running out from behind their cover and firing at the engineer.
One bullet hit her in the arm, and she fell back in pain. Kira and Jason darted over to her as the ZAFT soldier realized he was out of ammo and discarded his rifle, drawing his knife instead. He jumped up on the mobile suit using his jetpack, and ran toward the engineer, Jason and Kira, only to stop at the last minute. Kira looked up, and felt a sense of fear fill his very soul.
"Athrun?"
"Kira!?"
The engineer lifted her arm, and fired at the soldier, Athrun, who used his jetpack to dart across to one of the other mobile suits. He then climbed into the cockpit, whilst the engineer tried to stand.
"One of you get in the suit over there and stay put. The other one get in here with me! We should be safe." Said the engineer.
Jason clambered over the debris that filled the area, and made his way to the cockpit of the other Mobile Suit, whilst the engineer and Kira got into the cockpit of the Suit they were standing on. The cockpit doors closed, and another explosive detonated, destroying the gangway.
Outside the hangar, within the town itself, three other new Mobile Suits activated, which the other young soldiers piloting them. One of the soldiers opened the communication link.
"Dearkka, how is it?"
"The operating system is pathetic, but it's up and running."
"Good, what about you Nicol?"
"Just a minute, Isaac!"
With a short time, the three of them stood up.
"Alright," said Isaac, "let's get these back to Commander Creuset."
He turned the suit toward one of the GINNs that were fighting against the tanks and jeeps next to him.
"Miguel, stay here and wait for Athrun and Rusty."
"Understood!"
With that, Isaac, Dearkka and Nicol started the jets on the back of the mobile suits, and took off toward the exit of the colony.
"Stealing these suits was so easy… Orb's just as weak as those other Natural bastards… No wonder they're working together now…" thought Isaac.