Evangelion Seed
Disclaimer: Anyone who owned both Evangelion and Gundam would be very wealthy. So it can't be me. But a guy can dream
"Hello" – Talking
"Hello" – Radio
'Hello' – Thoughts
Author's Notes: This is a fic I was challenged to write by Tellemicus Sundance. He wanted to see what I could do if I combined the worlds of Evangelion and Gundam. I am taking a number of liberties with technological advancement and history so that everything is set up by the appropriate time frame. If anyone considers anything I write here real, then I would like to see your history homework, I could use a good laugh.
Chapter 1: Prologue
The year 1945. A year that was many things for many people.
It was a year of celebration for the Allied forces as they broke the Axis' power and their victory was cemented with the death of Mussolini and Hitler.
It was also a year of horror and fear as the world witnessed the destruction reaped in Japan sowed by the atomic bombs that wiped Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the face of the Earth.
But for the scientific genius George Glenn, a scientist that advanced computer technology by decades, it was a year of triumph as he discovered a process that would genetically enhance humans before they were born.
In September of the year 1951 the island nation of Japan formalized its surrender by signing the Treaty of Peace.
Over fifty countries participated in the ceremony, the majority of who were disgruntled with the slap on the wrist they felt the Americans were administering to the Japanese as punishment.
Although the Japanese did pay compensation for their actions in the war, the European and Asian Allies felt that it was inadequate.
Another sore point with them was how Japan did not really lose any territory for its transgressions. Instead certain overseas territory was placed in trusteeship with the U.S. until the time America felt it was right to turn control back over to the Japanese.
In October of the same year George Glenn revealed to the world the fruit of his labor. That fruit were fifty 5 year old children, fifty 4 year olds, one-hundred 3 year olds, one-hundred 2 year olds, and two-hundred 1 year olds he had genetically enhanced. He called these children Coordinators.
Backed by the American government Glenn continued his research in the public eye. For ten years the world watched as the Coordinators, the 500 original and all subsequent groups that were born proved to have a learning curve several degrees higher then newly termed Natural children, capable of completing current high school and college course work by the time they were fifteen. The Coordinators impressed the world further with their incredible physical prowess, whether it was their hand-eye coordination, their physical speed and strength, or their natural immunity to diseases such as influenza or even the common chicken pox.
The world's view was split into three different divisions. Some saw what the Coordinators could do and didn't really care, seeing them only as the kind of people you hear about on the news but will never meet in real life. Many looked at the Coordinators with reverence, considering Glenn's work to be a medical, genetic, and technological miracle.
But many saw the results of Glenn's work and declared whether openly or quietly that the children should have never existed in the first place and that all research into human genetic manipulation should be halted and destroyed. The most vocal proponents of this view are Blue Cosmos, a French environmentalist group that was steamrolling into the political area and gaining considerable headway.
Despite the naysayers, by the year 1961 Glenn considered his work complete. With that announcement the American government, the greatest supporters of the Coordinator project, proclaimed that they would be making the technology needed to create Coordinators available to anyone who desired it. This extended to foreign countries.
In the political arena the U.S. had been having both major successes and disastrous fallouts, and it all stemmed from the issues concerning Coordinators. America found itself at odds with the other four members who formed the major Allies during World War II. Relations with Great Britain, which had finally started to progress forward after the First World War, had ground to a halt. France who had been a long time friend and ally cut off all relations and kicked out all American diplomatic entities when they were offered the technology. The Soviet Union wasn't even offered the technology considering the rivalry that existed between them and America at the time. China was in a similar boat and already had poor relations. But what truly surprised the U.S. was how they received similar reactions in most of the European, African, South American countries, Middle East, and other Asian countries.
While the 'Old World' turned back America's offer with violent words and threats, many of the 'New World' countries such as Australia, Canada, and Mexico, and older allied Asian nations such as Japan and South Korea accepted the gift with open arms and friendly gestures. However when these other eleven sovereign nations accepted it, they were put into a similar political situation as the U.S.
Following the availability of genetic manipulation technology was the Coordinator Rush. A stampede of couples wishing to have a child desired to make their children Coordinators. These people saw the genetic enhancement has the best way to ensure that their children a better future, which is the basis of all parents hopes and dreams.
While the civilians sought to improve their children, the political leaders sought ways to improve their situation with the rest of the world. All twelve nations were at a diplomatic standstill with the majority of the world, and rather slow with those who had yet to take a side in the conflict. And there was no covering up the fact that they were in a conflict similar to the Cold War that existed between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Although everyone doubted that it would escalate into actual war, the possible repercussions did not bode well for them.
The solution that they were presented to the problem came from the Japanese who took a page from the man who once said 'United against a common enemy.' Their solution was considered radical and crazy by all whether they were conservative, moderates, or liberals. But in the end they all agreed that it was the best solution.
By early 1963 the twelve governments signed the Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty, and took the name of their founding document as the name of their new super nation, which became more commonly known as ZAFT. The new government created for the new nation was crafted and erected quickly as most of its predecessors had considerable experience setting up a new political structure in a short amount of time. Although they did not have a state system like the U.S. did, they still kept the regional names of territories for practical purposes.
This action did not go unnoticed. A counter move lead by the European nations, many of whom maintained control and ties in their old colonies swiftly established an alliance between the majority of European, African, and South American countries. The alliance then quickly coalesced into the Atlantic Federation. Although the countries that formed the Federation were still separate entities, they worked as one unit and were considered a single country. The infrastructure for the Atlantic Federation's government took a considerable more time than ZAFT's as they were basing theirs off considerably older governments that were slow to change.
The sudden shift in the world political structure left the Earth with two new super powers that eclipsed the former two. Although the Soviet Union did not lose any power with the creation of the Atlantic Federation and ZAFT, their influence was no longer great enough for them to be considered a super power.
With the new super powers came a new race of economic, political, and technological power. Although ZAFT did not have much political influence outside the voice they were given in the United Nations they did develop a technological advantage thanks to projects spearheaded by the aging George Glenn and the Coordinators. The greatest example of which was the mass driver developed and built in Mexico that replaced all work concerning space travel based on chemical reaction propulsion.
In 1975 the space race had reached new heights. A handful of mass drivers had been built around the world and were being used to continually launch construction modules into space to be used in the construction of L group space colonies and orbital military bases.
In 1990 the country of North Korea sure that because of the now official Cold War between ZAFT and the Atlantic Federation there would be no retaliation launched a second invasion into the sparsely defended ZAFT territory of South Korea. Taking a page from Nazi Germany's book they struck quickly with hammer blows that broke through the unprepared defenses, ignoring and bypassing the majority of the military forces in order to reach their target. Victory seemed assured for North Korea as they closed in on Seoul, until they crossed into a military testing facility. There the North Korean army discovered ZAFT's new experimental weapon. The mobile suit OZ–06MS Leo.
Although the Leo was slow and awkward compared to many modern weapons, its versatility and firepower quickly proved it to be superior to tanks and other current military weapons. A mere handful of squads quickly turned back the invading forces and backed up by the ZAFT military forces that were ignored by the invading army, drove into North Korea. After a mere month of combat North Korea officially surrendered and was annexed into South Korea to form a single Korean territory as a part of ZAFT.
With the success of the mobile suit prototypes new attention is brought to ZAFT.
Communist China and the Soviet Union, afraid for the continued existence of everything they had built since World War II with the revelation of ZAFT's increasing military might, began a series of diplomatic discussions and treaties with each other and several other countries from the Middle East such as Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Iraq. These treaties would eventually lead to the forming of the third super nation of the Eurasian Federation by 1995; however because of the differences between the governments of its constituents it would be many years before they became a unified force, experiencing the rise of several terrorist groups that opposed the union.
The UN, concerned about the possibilities of war, issued a decree stating that all current civilian space colonies, the majority of which were asteroid mining facilities, research labs, and production facilities, were to be placed under the control of the Orb Union. A chain of islands colonized in the late 1700's that had recently been gaining considerable power despite the rise of the super nations. Orb had stayed neutral in every war to take place since it was first established as a country, and was considered to be the only nation that would stay neutral if war broke out between ZAFT and the Atlantic Federation.
The purpose of the act was to make sure neither side in the Cold War could use the colonies as staging platforms for invasion armies, or as launch pads for missiles. However all nations retained control over any military bases they built in space as long as they kept to UN guidelines.
Over the following years no major incidents occurred until the year 2000 in the month of September when the Katsuragi Expedition, a team of civilian scientists from ZAFT backed by the UN, arrived in Antarctica to conduct classified research on an alien organism codenamed "Adam." And the world was forever changed on September 13 during a contact experiment with Adam awoke the creature releasing its long dormant power and causing what came to be known as Second Impact.
The only survivors of the Katsuragi Expedition were Gendo Ikari who had left Antarctica the previous day, and Misato Katsuragi daughter of Dr. Katsuragi who was found almost a day later in an emergency survival pod floating in the ocean.
The force of the explosion tilted the Earth off its axis and melted the southern ice cap, flooding the world. The sudden rise in water levels created devastating floods, tidal waves, and tsunamis that destroyed many coastal areas.
In the end the natural disasters caused by Second Impact were just the precursors of the death and destruction seen in the short yet brutal wars that followed.
But in those few months the most life changing event happened after Japan felt the effects of a third nuclear bomb that destroyed much of Tokyo killing half a million people. The bomb was deployed by the Atlantic Federation who believed Second Impact was the result of some new ZAFT weapon. In retaliation ZAFT unleashed one of its latest technological developments onto the world, the Neutron Jammer.
ZAFT launched a countless number of these devices from their satellites in orbit, driving them deep into the Earth's crust. Once activated the N-Jammers arrested the movement of free neutrons thus preventing the use of nuclear fission based technologies. This made the use of nuclear based weapons impossible and forced all active nuclear power plants to shut down. An insignificant loss to the Zodiac Alliance who had long since prepared in case they ever did use the N-Jammers.
Because of the N-Jammer field's side effect of disrupting radio waves the range of radar and all conventional forms of communication were restricted. And because of the effective range of a single N-Jammer's field it would take decades if not centuries to remove enough of them to restore the use of nuclear power and radio waves.
What followed was a series of small yet bloody battles between the Zodiac Alliance and the Atlantic Federation. It was clear that the Cold War was over and that it had been replaced by a hot one. The war would have continued and escalated if not for the intervention of the UN revealing to government leaders what Second Impact truly was and the danger that was to come. An immediate ceasefire was called and the Valentine Ceasefire signed on February 14 of 2001 AD. On that same day a new calendar was established, naming the day the treaty was signed as February 14 of 1 CE or Cosmic Era.
In order to prevent panic about the situation the "official" explanation for Second Impact was that a meteorite 10 centimeters wide and traveling at 95 percent of the speed of light struck Antarctica
Over the following three years Gehirn, a top-secret agency not affiliated with any government, was established to study the data gathered by the Katsuragi Expedition to develop effective countermeasures against the Angels. Their research quickly led to the development of the Evangelion and Magi super-computers. The organization would be overseen by the Instrumentality Committee, a group of five UN appointed officials that would report anything and everything to the 'leaders' of the UN.
During this same time period there was a significant amount of immigration to the Orb Union and into space.
The Orb Union despite being a chain of islands, was relatively unaffected by the rising water levels due to how unusually high the islands reached above sea level. Their tropical paradise climate only added to the allure. But what truly brought people in was how moderately minded Orb was and their laws that not only kept them neutral in all global affairs but prevented the persecution of any person whether they were a Natural or a Coordinator, making the place a haven to those tired of the radicalist way of thinking in AF or the isolationist ways ZAFT had been adopting.
Granted ZAFT had a similar policy, but some of its residents had grown tired of the hostilities they shared with the AF which was growing more Blue Cosmos minded with each passing year.
Space was also an attractive alternative too many people after Second Impact forever changed the Earth. Each year thousands of people flew to space in order to get a job working on either the S group colonies being built by the Atlantic Federation and Eurasian Federation, or the PLANTs (Productive Location Ally on Nexus Technology) under ZAFT construction.
The UN had allowed other nations besides Orb to build and own civilian colonies as a part of their territory as long as they followed specified guidelines. Guidelines such as not being used to build or store military weapons or warships, being kept in a sanctioned geo-synchronous orbit around the Earth, and kept at a distance where they could pose no military threat to the Earth.
But despite the ceasefire and the fact the most of the Earth was currently working towards a common goal tensions between the nations of the world remained high.
In the Atlantic Federation as each year went by more and more of its leaders were unofficially accepting the policies of Blue Cosmos for their own.
The Eurasian Federation, while not as radically minded as its Atlantic counterpart, was not particularly fond of either ZAFT or the AF. ZAFT was just the bigger threat in their mind, so should the war start up again their allegiance would go to the Atlantic Federation.
The Zodiac Alliance felt the same as the other two super-power nations. However unlike them, with its recent and somewhat forced isolationist policies ZAFT had only a few trading partners beyond its borders, the largest of which was Orb, and none of them were willing to get dragged into a war amongst the super-powers. Instead the nation would have to rely more on its technology to create a mobile suite standard army.
So the leaders of each one of the super-powers began preparations for the continuation of the war once the coming Angels were defeated…if they were defeated…if they came at all.
However not everyone was so desperate for war and bloodshed. Over the years a number of political figures attempted to mend the bridge between the three nations, and if their clearance was high enough often through Gehirn. That is until 10 CE when Gehirn is disbanded with all personnel, assets, and facilities being transferred to NERV, an organization run by Gendo Ikari and overseen by the UN's Instrumentality Committee. Its purpose is to continue Gehirn's research and to use it in defense against the Angels, no longer allowing any civilians not associated with NERV from using or even being allowed within their facilities.
But despite this setback some people would not be denied in their goal. None more so then Lenore Zala, wife to Patrick Zala a swiftly rising political figure in ZAFT. She was a woman of grace, beauty, and a gentle disposition making her a beloved icon for peace in the Zodiac Alliance.
Many in the world believed that if anyone had the persistence and determination to truly end the war that had been on a temporary truce for more than a decade and bring true peace to the world it was her.
Lenore never gave up even when the ceasefire was ended on February 11, 14 CE after a terrorist attack on February 5 destroyed the United Nations that had been relocated onto the moon several years prior, and the majority of the current UN leadership was killed. Evidence was found that could be used to link just about any nation as the one responsible for the attack.
Alas, it is sad and heartbreaking to know that if Lenore's dreams were ever realized that she herself would never get a chance to see it. Because on February 14 of 14 CE, several days before she was to meet and discuss possible peace treaties with Atlantic and Eurasian Federation representatives, Lenore Zala was killed in the destruction of the Junius 7, one of the newest of ZAFT's PLANTs to be constructed. An event that became known as the Bloody Valentine Incident.
The cause of the destruction was a nuclear missile, the fourth used in history, fired from one of the Atlantic Federation mobile armors that had been in the area legally as part of an AF task force.
ZAFT citizens howled for revenge at the loss of not only one of their most beloved icons but for the thousands of innocent civilians that perished in the colony's destruction.
This was the act that truly rekindled the war that had been put on hold 14 years earlier. Using their technologically superior mobile suits ZAFT launched several invasion forces into Southeast Asia, Central America, and Northern Africa.
Both the Atlantic Federation and Eurasian Federation leaders made the same declaration as their ZAFT counterparts and to counteract the invasions joined together in a military alliance along with several others of their allies. This alliance became more formally known as the Earth Alliance, because of the sheer number of countries that were involved, and their combined military forces became known as OMNI Enforcer (Oppose Militancy and Neutralize Invasion).
The Earth Alliance met ZAFT in the field of battle, hoping to use their superior numbers to crush the ZAFT military. However it quickly became apparent that despite being vastly outnumbered ZAFT mobile suits were more than a match for their OMNI opponents.
This was particularly obvious in space where the ZGMF-1017 GINN mobile suit proved tactically superior to the Earth Alliance's TS-MA2 Moebius mobile armor, the EA often needing five Moebius to bring down a single GINN.
In an attempt to turn the tides of war the Earth Alliance turned to the G Project spearheaded by the Atlantic Federation. The purpose of the G Project, which began several years prior, was to create a series of prototype mobile suits that would be able to fight on par with anything ZAFT fielded yet could hopefully be piloted by Naturals.
To ensure secrecy the Atlantic Federation worked with Morgenroete, a military contractor based in the Orb Union. Specifically within its facilities in the Orb colony Heliopolis.
However ZAFT caught wind of the project as it was nearing completion. In an act unsanctioned by the ZAFT Supreme Council, the Rau Le Creuset team infiltrated Heliopolis, destroyed the Morgenroete facilities, attempted to destroy the new warship the Archangel, and managed to steal 4 of the 5 G Weapons.
The final suit, the GAT-X105 Strike, remained in Alliance hands. But due to the circumstances of battle ended up being piloted by Kira Yamato, a young Coordinator and citizen of Orb who completed the mobile suit's unfinished operating system but configured it to Coordinator use. During the battle Heliopolis was destroyed by a combination of Rau Le Creuset ordering the GINN's under his command to use D-type heavy weapons, and Kira underestimating how powerful the Strike's weapons were. Fortunately there were no casualties among the Orb civilians who had time to evacuate into the shelters that acted as life boats in case of the colony's destruction, several of which were brought aboard the Archangel.
The Archangel fled the destruction of Heliopolis pursued by ZAFT warships under Rau Le Creuset's command who sought to capture or destroy the Strike and destroy the Archangel.
With the Bloody Valentine War raging across the Earth and Heavens NERV and its purpose were almost forgotten. Almost.
Evan Wilson, captain of the Vosgulov-class submarine Varnass, did his best to stifle a yawn, not being entirely successful. He stood aboard the bridge of his vessel and it would not do to show the men under his command how tired he was. But the fact of the matter was he was bored.
The war had been going on for nearly a year now and over the past eleven months he and the Varnass had served with distinction in the Indian Ocean against the Atlantic Federation Navy operating off the coast of Africa. There were even a few rumors that he could end up being promoted to Commander. That was until a month ago when he and several other captains had been reassigned.
Now here he was patrolling the middle of the Pacific Ocean smack dab in the middle of ZAFT territory. If it weren't for the possible threat of the Eurasian Federation attacking from the Northwest or the Atlantic Federation attacking from the Southeast then there would be no point for any warship to be here. But those threats were minor considering how most of the Earth Alliance Navy in those areas were pinned closer to shore, unless one managed to slip out. Otherwise out here only a few hundred miles away from Hawaii the only company they had were the fishes.
Captain Wilson suppressed the urge to sigh as he wondered for the thousandth time what he had done to be punished this way. His standing orders were to patrol for and investigate any anomalies in the Pacific Ocean. The orders were vague and for an indefinite period of time. The kind that usually meant the end of a man's career.
He might have continued his ponderings if he hadn't been interrupted by one of his subordinates. "Captain." Called the soldier manning the sonar. "I'm picking up a large unidentified object on sonar moving at a steady pace beneath the surface."
"Is it one of ours?" Asked Captain Wilson.
"Negative. It's too small to be a sub and too large to be a mobile suit. Also too quite to be propelled by engines."
"Probably just a whale then." Dismissed the captain.
"Negative. Too big to be a whale and possibly even quieter."
Wilson frowned. If it was bigger than a whale then it had to be man-made. But to move quieter then a whale made it something that he had never heard of. And just the sort of anomaly he had been searching for. "Launch two GOOhNs and get us within visual range. I want to see what this thing is." He ordered.
The Varnass moved in on the unknown object with its GOOhN escort several dozen meters ahead.
"Sir," said one of the of the GOOhN pilots over the radio. "We have a visual of the target."
"What do you see?"
"To be honest sir we have no idea." Admitted the pilot. "At first glance I would say some sort of mobile suit. But the longer I look at it the less likely that seems."
"Are we in visual range yet?" Asked Wilson
"Yes sir."
"Put it on screen."
One of the monitors turned on to show the view seen by one of the outside cameras. What it showed easily explained the pilot's words. Whatever the thing was it had a vaguely humanoid shape like a mobile suit, but that's where the similarities ended. Twice the size of the GOOhNs with long spindly arms and legs. Bony protrusions were visible along its shoulders and sides. And from the current angle nothing in the way of a head could be discerned.
"What's its current velocity?"
"If its course doesn't change it will reach the shores of Japan in eight hours." Was the response.
"Alright if the N-Jammers aren't interfering with our radio too badly then I want to hail this thing. If it doesn't respond then we are to assume it is of hostile intent." Wilson ordered.
"Yes sir. Hailing now."
Picking up the radio the Captain Wilson attempted to make contact with the unknown. "Hailing unknown vessel. This is the Varnass, please respond and identify yourself." Silence was the only thing that responded to him. "Unknown vessel, you are within ZAFT territorial waters. Respond and identify yourself or else we will have no choice but to open fire." Again there was no return signal. "Unknown vessel this is your last warning. If you do not respond we will open fire." Nothing. "Tell the GOOhNs to launch torpedoes." He ordered.
Lifting their arms the aquatic mobile suits launched a barrage of 14 torpedoes each from their arm mounted torpedo launchers. The torpedoes zoomed in on the unidentified object, exploding upon impact against the things side.
Captain Wilson smiled. 28 torpedoes were a little excessive for a single target of such size. But when dealing with the unknown it was better to err on the side of caution. "Target's status?" He asked the individual watching the sonar.
The soldier looked at his monitor and paled. "Target is continuing its course. No change."
"What!" Exclaimed the captain. Turning back to the monitor he watched as the water calmed and visibility returned to reveal a perfectly intact…whatever the hell it is. "Have the GOOhNs back off. Arm all torpedoes tubes. Once the mobile suits are out of range fire all torpedoes."
After the GOOhNs had moved away the Varnass fired twelve of it more powerful torpedoes. Just like before they exploded against the thing. And just like before the target wasn't damaged.
"Has there been any change at all?" Wilson asked keeping the desperation from his voice.
"Target's course and speed have not been altered. There is no discernable damage to target's exterior." Came the stunned report.
"Send the GOOhNs back in. I want to know what this thing is and why we can't hurt it."
Following the captain's orders the mobile suits swam forward and started circling around the rather ugly monstrosity.
Seeming to grow annoyed with the two smaller machines the target lifted its arms unleashing energy lances that sliced the two GOOhNs in half.
"Sir! Target has responded! It's destroyed both mobile suits!" Exclaimed one of the crewmen.
"Status of the pilots!?"
"Their dead sir." Was the grim response
"Damn it." Cursed the captain. "Helmsman I want us brought to the surface. I want the rest of our GOOhNs in the water. I want the DINNs in the air on their way to Japan. We're going to use everything we've got to stop this thing. And if we can't then at least the military will have an early warning about this…monstrosity." The crewmen rushed to do their jobs, arming weapons, getting pilots to their mobile suits, and raising the Varnass to the surface to launch the DINNs.
Whatever this thing was they were going to make sure it was stopped, one way or another.
As man met the first angel to appear in 15 years, a different encounter was happening in space.
A confrontation between three warships, two advanced mobile suits, and two childhood friends. On one side lies the Archangel, the most advanced and powerful warship created by man, its aft weapons armed and ready to fire on the ZAFT ships that had until moments ago had been pursuing them.
Said ships, the Nazca-class Destroyer Vesalius and the Laurasia-class Frigate Gamow, waited with their own weapons shut down and engines on standby.
Between them were two mobile suits. The captured X303 Aegis, piloted by Athrun Zala, and the X105 Strike mere meters apart with the Strike keeping its beam rifle trained on the red mobile suit. The cockpit hatches were open allowing Kira and Athrun to perfectly see each other. Between the two, floating towards the Aegis was Lacus Clyne whom Kira had gone to great trouble to get off the Archangel and was probably going to be sent to the brig for this.
But he had to do what he thought was right. And keeping a gentle soul like Ms. Clyne prisoner aboard the Archangel where she was being used as a hostage was not something he could allow. None of the crew had liked the situation in fact most of them hated using her that way, except maybe Ensign Badgiruel who more easily accepted it since it kept the ZAFT forces from attacking. But it was still wrong and unlike the others Kira couldn't be court marshaled.
As Lacus reached the Aegis she was caught by her fiancé Athrun who spent a few seconds looking at the bulge in her space suit where her clothes were hidden while she thanked the pilot of the Strike for what he had done. With Lacus safe in his arms Athrun turned and called out to his old friend Kira. "Kira! Come with me too." He said a little to Kira's surprise at the offer. "Is there any reason for you to remain in the Earth Alliance?"
"I'm sorry Athrun." Called back Kira struggling through the words, knowing what saying them means. "I don't want to fight you, but my friends are on that ship and I'll do whatever I must to protect them."
"If that's the case Kira, then the next time we do battle I will fire at you!" Stated Athrun, holding back the tears that those words wanted to create.
"And so will I!" Responded Kira. "I just wish that it didn't have to be this way." He said more quietly, just barely loud enough for the two across from him to hear. The cockpit of his mobile suit closed and the Strike started drifting back to the Archangel.
Aboard the Vesalius Captain Aides reported what was happening to Commander Le Creuset. "Enemy mobile suit is increasing in distance."
"Very well." Said the Commander aboard his CGUE in the mobile suit hanger. "Start the engines, Aides!"
The Captain was about to give the command when his communications officer spoke up. "Sir! We are picking up an open message being transmitted on all military frequencies! It says that the ceasefire is back in effect and for all hostile actions to cease!"
"What?" Exclaimed the Captain. "Can you confirm the transmission's origins?"
"Doing that now sir…We have confirmation. The transmission is a legitimate announcement from the Supreme Council and is also being transmitted on all civilian bands as well."
"What's going Captain?" Asked Le Creuset wondering why the vessel had yet to move or why he hadn't been launched yet.
"Commander, the Supreme Council has just announced that the ceasefire is back in effect."
"Does the Supreme Council give a reason?"
Turning to his communications officer for the answer, the young mad said. "The transmission to the military says that it has to do with a Code: Angel."
"I see, so the time has finally come."
"Sir?" Queried Aides, unsure as to what the Commander was talking about.
"I'm returning to the bridge Captain. And hail the Legged Ship. I am going to want to talk to their Commander."
"Yes sir." Responded Aides.
Meanwhile aboard the Archangel Lt. Murrue Ramius was being given similar message from the communication operator Kuzzey Buskirk.
"Are you sure?" She asked.
"Positive." Said the civilian operator. "The message has the Earth Alliance's current authenticity codes and is being accompanied something called a Code: Angel."
Murrue gasped. She had spent time at NERV Germany and knew precisely what a Code: Angel meant. However before she could respond Kuzzey spoke up again. "Ma'am we are being hailed by the Nazca-class."
"Put it on screen." Murrue ordered.
On the main communication appeared the image of the famed masked Commander and mobile suit ace of ZAFT. "This is Commander Rau Le Creuset. I wish to speak with the Commander of the Legged Ship about the ceasefire and of a possible alliance."
Murrue looked a little surprised when he said alliance but quickly hid it. "This is Lt. Murrue Ramius, Captain of the Archangel. What is it you wish to say?"
"Assuming you have received the same message as we have, then I wish to inquire as to whether anyone aboard your ship was familiar with Code: Angel. It has been 15 years since the code was first created, and probably 5 years since anyone has given it some serious thought."
"Yes Commander Le Creuset." Responded Murrue. "I was stationed as NERV Germany 4 years ago as an AF liaison. A Code: Angel means that the Angels have appeared." The bridge crew glanced around each other trying to see if that comment made any sense to any of the others. From the looks of it no.
"Correct Lt. Ramius. Right now defenses are being prepared at wherever this new Angel is headed, which is suspected to be towards the 1st Branch of NERV in Japan. And as I am sure you know NERV believes that conventional weapons will have little if any effect on them."
"And what does that have to do with an alliance?" Asked Murrue.
Le Creuset smiled softly as he laid out his plan. "Because when they designated conventional weapons, NERV was referring to projectile weapons such as guns and missiles. By that definition the G-Series mobile suits are all equipped with unconventional weapons."
"Their beam weaponry?" Murrue hazarded a guess. "But what about the weapons NERV has been developing?" While she had worked in a NERV base for a while she never had the clearance to know everything that they were doing.
"From what I understand NERV's weapons have never been field tested meaning that while they were designed to be used against the Angels there is no guarantee that they will succeed. Granted the same could be said for the G-Weapons when facing an Angel, but I have a feeling that things will go much more smoothly if they grace the battlefield with their presence."
"Captain," whispered Natarle next to Murrue. "You can't possibly be considering this proposal. They're ZAFT. And our orders say to meet up with the 8th fleet"
"Ensign Badgiruel, do you know what will happen if even one Angel reaches its objective?" Asked the acting Captain. Natarle shook her head. "There will be a Third Impact." Numerous people around the bridge gasped most of them were old enough to remember what happened during Second Impact and they all knew that it was doubtful that the world could survive another.
Turning back to the monitor Lt. Ramius agreed to an alliance.
Rau just smiled and said, "Wonderful."
Several hours later found Kira in the cockpit of the Strike. He was currently updating the Strike's OS so it could more easily move while under the effects of Earth's gravity.
Kira would be the first to admit that he was probably one of the last people who would one to spend his time preparing for a battle. But it beat doing whatever punishment the Archangel's XO had planned for him. And his mood was improved further by the sight of mobile suit on the opposing wall of the hanger.
After the ceasefire had called (again) the command staff of the Archangel and the Le Creuset team discussed a plan of what needed to be done. Lt. Ramius and Commander Le Creuset had both been adamant that despite any standing orders they had to get down to Earth and help in the fight against something called an Angel. Ensign Badgiruel insisted that it was top priority for the Archangel to join with the 8th fleet. Commander La Flaga was up in the air about it. Until a video image was broadcast over ZAFT's military bands showing the first conflict against the Angel.
The way the monster shrugged off multiple torpedo volleys and then destroyed the GOOhNs has if it were swatting at bugs had quickly changed their minds.
Their decided plan was first to transfer all of the Gundams over to the Archangel. Now Athrun's Aegis shared the right hanger with Kira's Strike and Mu's Moebius Zero, and in the previously empty left hanger now contained the GAT-X102 Duel, GAT-X103 Buster, and the GAT-X207 Blitz. Kira was glad that the civilians had been taken off the ship and shuttled over to the ZAFT vessels during that time so they wouldn't be in danger. The second was to reach a point over the Earth where the Archangel could descend to an intercept point between the Angel and Tokyo-3, the suspected target. Finally once they had reached the Angel the Archangel would engage it while the Gundams disembarked to engage it as well.
Originally Commander Le Creuset had wanted to put the Strike and Aegis aboard the Gamow and then detach the hanger using its capabilities as an atmospheric re-entry capsule. However Murrue quickly shot that down when she informed him that Archangel was capable of atmospheric re-entry itself. It was only logical that the captured ZAFT suits should be brought over to the ship that was originally built to support them in combat, was fully equipped to house and repair them, and had a crew trained specifically for that job.
Rau couldn't argue against such a well prepared argument.
Currently the scheduled atmospheric re-entry was to happen in just one hour. By current estimations they should be able to engage the Angel shortly after it made landfall.
Pausing in his typing for a moment Kira couldn't help but contemplate the irony. He had wished that there was some way that he would no longer have to fight Athrun and lo and behold and Angel causes a ceasefire and a temporary alliance between the Archangel and the Le Creuset team. It was enough to make an atheist find religion.
Although he found he wasn't quite as fond of most of Athrun's teammates when the five of them had met briefly. Sure Nicol Amalfi, the pilot of the Blitz had been a likable enough fellow who had greeted Kira kindly despite being enemies just hours prior. But Dearka Elsman, pilot of the Buster, and Yzak Joule, of the Duel, had been less receptive of him.
They were rather upset that a Coordinator was working with the Earth Alliance. Yzak seemed especially irritated when he found out that Kira had no previous training in piloting a mobile suit when he first got into the Strike's cockpit. The only bit of mollification to the two pilots was that it hadn't been some Atlantic Federation pilot with a Natural use OS, which was a closely guarded secret in ZAFT.
Kira sighed hoping that their current feelings wouldn't have an adverse on the upcoming confrontation.
Looking around he took in the faces of all the techs and crewmen prepping the ship and mobile suits for the battle. Kira couldn't help but notice how young so many of them were. Not as young as he and the other pilots but Chief Murdoch was easily the oldest followed by Commander Mu La Flaga.
That sight made some words that Murdoch once told him come to mind. "War is always an ugly business. And it's always made worse when I have to watch promising young men fly out in their machines only to not return."
Kira hadn't seen nearly as much as the Chief had, but what he had seen had convinced him that at 16 he was too young for war. But as long as he could make a difference he would fight. He just hoped that nobody younger would have to know what the frontline of war was like.
Aboard a maglev train inbound to Tokyo-2 sat a young Coordinator by the name of Shinji Ikari. His full attention was upon the letter in his hand. The letter had come from his father whom Shinji hadn't even seen much less spoken to in years. The sheet of paper had only one word, "Come."
Author's Notes: I am probably stretching myself thin with this story. But when I was challenged by Tellemicus (a great author himself) I just couldn't say no. Granted it took a few months because I got a little bored rewriting history. Oddly enough it was watching Code Geass that got me interested again. Mecha anime, you gotta love'em. Heck I even sort of want to write one of those now. Although considering what is already on my plate I probably shouldn't, but I said the same thing about the last three stories I posted and I even have another in the works so who know.
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