This will be my second fan fiction for Gundam 00. This is intended to take place after the second season, my version of whatever the much anticipated movie will be if you will.
Beast, Angel and They're machines are mine along with Bane, Viral and Blissful Shadow are also mine (I do oh so love those two)
I don't own Gundam 00, if I did Setsuna and Feldt would have been together in the first season.
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Chapter one: Two years later
A man with shoulder length raven black hair and red eyes was leaning on a table, a book clasped in his right hand his eyes reading it with something like passion.
"Setsuna?" A voice said from the entrance to the tent.
The man looked up at her and a smile flitted across his unshaven face.
"No." He answered simply. "But very close Nena."
A rugged laugh come from the right corner of the tent. A figure shrouded in darkness stood there in the small recess where no light entered.
Nena wasn't sure what was going on. The last thing she remembered was her mobile suit exploding, and her dying. But here she was still alive, and she was fairly sure how. She had woken up in a glass tube wearing her flight suit. Then this man that looked like Setsuna had been standing they're smiling up at her. She had actually thought it was Setsuna at first but that couldn't be right, Setsuna never smiled.
"I can't believe she came that close." The voice from the shadows said, the voice was rough and rugged the voice of someone who was physically strong but there was something else. "But you know a smart puppet isn't normally a useful one." There it was, madness and rage.
"Calm down Beast." The man that looked like Setsuna but wasn't said. "She's more then any mere puppet."
"Aye Angel." Beast said dropping the subject.
"Angel?" Nena asked looking for some way out of this situation. "Is that you're name?"
He was silent for a moment while he dog eared the page he was reading and tossed it unto the table behind him.
"Close enough." He said crossing his arms in front of chest and turning towards her. "But do you know who I am?" He asked again a smile coming across his face, along with an inquisitive look in his eye.
"How should I know?" Nena said. "I just know you look like Setsuna."
Angel shook his head. His smile growing slightly wider.
"After all these years that's how I'm compare?" He laughed a little moving his left hand to his forehead as though supporting himself as he chuckled.
Nena was very uncomfortable, not to mention more then a little curious, by the way Angel acted. He seemed to be almost the opposite of Setsuna. He was talkative and easy to read.
"I would have hoped my sibling and I had differed a little since Krugis." He said.
Nena was shocked. She showed it in how she flinched and how her face fell open slightly. Angel looked shocked that she was shocked imitating the same gestures. Beast started laughing uncontrollably.
"My I didn't think it would surprise you that much." He said his eyes shut in face in an appearance of humor.
"I-I just didn't think he would have a brother." She said. "They're was nothing about it in Veda or…"
Beast snorted cutting her off.
"He came from a technologically dead country." Beast said mocking her. "The only thing's Veda knows about Setsuna was what he told them…"
Angel raised and hand silencing Beast.
"He probably doesn't know I'm still alive." Angel said looking up slightly at the stars above her head. "No. I think he wants to keep me a secret from them."
Nena was now very curious. She knew everything Veda knew about Setsua. But now she wondered how much they're was to it, and why they decided to try and save her life.
"Why?" She asked.
Angel tilted his head and then brought up his left and motioned her into the tent.
"Do you really care to know?" He asked tilting his head slightly to the right.
Nena shook her head waiting almost expectantly.
"Because I killed him…"
Ptolamaios.
Setsuna leaned back in Exia's cockpit. Exia R2. He thought to himself. Of course it was just Exia in his eye. The same mobile suit he had used first to change the world and then to cut the twistednes from it. Ian had tried to explain how Exia would be made into the Quan T. Much to the older mans annoyance Setsuna had just called it the Quanta.
"Hey are you okay in there?" Came the voice of the newest member of they're team.
"Yes." Setsuna said grabbing the controls and bracing himself for the simulation to begin.
A slight chuckle came from over the comm.
"That's just Setsuna for you." Lockon said. "He never changes…
Lockon was standing next to a thin tall man named Trace. His hair was brown and long in the back. His eyes were an aquatic blue and his white uniform fell on his figure like it was many times to large, even though it was the thinnest uniform they had ever produced.
"Hey how do you keep that white?" Lockon asked curiously.
Trace looked at him over his orange sunglasses.
"Bleach." He said simply.
Lockon was wondering if he was going to be another quiet emotionless guy.
"And more bleach." The ghost of a smile greeted Traces face.
"So what are you doing?" Lockon asked leaning over his shoulder board.
"Testing the limits of Exia." Trace said glancing up at the machine in question. "And it's pilot."
Lockon looked up at Exia as well. He knew very little about they're newest member. Little other then he was supposed to be one of the greatest scientific minds of his generation, and that he and Ian got along pretty well.
"Why do you want to do that?" Lockon asked.
"Because I want to know exactly what he can handle." Trace said his hands gliding over the keyboard. "So I know how much he can handle when the Quanta is integrated into Exia, and how much I need to lessen it's ability's."
Lockon was a little surprised.
"Is it that powerful?" He asked.
Trace glanced at him out of the corner of his eye.
"And then some."
Lockon sighed.
"You know ever since Tieria died…"
"We still have not confirmed that either way." Sumeragi said sneaking up on the pair.
Lockon sighed.
"Okay ever since Tieria disappeared you've all be serious." Lockon observed.
Trace just looked up at him a frown coming to his face.
"And shouldn't you be serious since one of you're comrades is most likely dead?" Trace challenged the clearly more muscular man.
Lockon gave him a hard stare and walked off. Sumeragi inwardly smiled at them. If Trace kept this up there would be a fight, one he would most likely lose.
He turned back to his console and sighed. This job was more frustrating then he had anticipated, and he had anticipated a considerable amount of frustration. But he thought it would probably be worth it in the long run.
"To change the world." Trace said to himself. "IS worth this headache of a work place."
"Tieria wouldn't like to hear that." Sumeragi said sitting on the side of his console.
Trace glance at her for a moment, honestly surprised he had spoken at all, and then proceeded with his work.
"From what I have heard Tieria was a workaholic as well." He said coolly, with a calculated air to his words.
She shrugged.
"He was what he was." She said pulling out a hip flask.
"Are you sure you should be drinking in here?" He asked raising an eye brow.
She waved the thought off.
"You really are like Tieria." She said laughing a little as the alchohol put a slight color on her cheeks. "You both worry to much."
"Suddenly I have a newfound respect for him…"
It was nearly eighteen hours later before Setsuna lost consciousness. Trace had went up to the cockpit to confirm it. He looked pale and stressed. Roughly as expected, the Quanta's design strained the human body. But for him to have made it so long would make him something more then human. Trace didn't have much time to ponder as he was shoved from the cockpit and sent spiraling through space as Feldt Grace replaced him at the open cockpit.
"Hey!" Trace shouted trying to regain control of his momentum.
"You suck you suck!" Her Haro said.
Trace could almost see it sticking a tongue out at him.
"Watch it or I'll make you into a toaster!" It was probably a valid threat coming from Trace.
"Setsuna?" Feldt asked ignoring both Haro and Trace.
He stirred and looked up a her, his face it's normal emotionless mask. Feldt was relieved to see that he was okay.
"Feldt Grace." HE said staring up at her. "Are you well?" He asked not really sure why she was hovering over him.
She smiled a little looking relieved.
"See I told you I wasn't going to kill him!" Trace called floating off into a distant corner of the hangar.
Feldt ignored him and Setsuna wondered absently what had transpired before he came to. HE then pushed out of the chair.
"Time?" He asked in as few words as possible.
"Twelve." Feldt said glancing down at a wrist watch she had started wearing recently.
"Lunch." He said realizing just how hungry he was.
"Twelve A.M."
Setsuna shrugged.
"Close enough…"
"Brother Alleluia." A man in orange jeans a tank top and a plaid vest said waving.
"Father Bane." Alleluia said about to bow.
Bane kicked him in the back of the head when he bowed low. Alleluia hit the ground hard in the middle of the cobble stone streets.
"Bow before no one but God." He said sighing.
"Who the hell does he think he is!" A voice screamed from some distant corner of Alleluia's brain.
Halleluiah was now dormant inside his mind, though he was starting to make a comeback a fact that bothered the expecting father to no small degree.
"Yes Father." He said standing back up rubbing his nose where the concrete had broken his fall.
"I'm no Catholic bastard." He said laughing. "Just a traveling Preacher, well minus the traveling these days."
The pair sat down on a low brick wall that surrounded the small town park. The town was as it normally was, covered in snow and seeming peaceful and dreamy. The stone houses looking out over the streets where horses walked the streets joined by the occasional moped or motorized scooter. The only motor vehicles in the town were Alleluia's jeep and the preachers Harley.
Alleluia was dressed in a heavy fur coat in insulated pants and he still felt cold. The preacher on the other hand seemed to be to warm in the frost as he yawned.
"It sure is a warm day." He said picking his left ear. "It's all the way up to twenty five degrees." He made it sound like any hotter and the world would melt.
"That it is father." Alleluia said looking up at the crystal clear sky, crystal clear except for a single cloud that looked suspiciously like wall-mart style smiling face.
They sat quietly for a moment. Alleluia knew he should be getting back home, Mary was waiting for him to start cooking her favorite dinner. Well her favorite of what Alleluia could cook, twice baked potatoes and his super secret meat loaf recipe. But he needed to talk to Bane, he just didn't know how to start.
"Is he coming back?" Bane asked out of the blue, Alleluia looked at him a little confused. "Halleluiah that is, is he becoming dominant again?"
Alleluia didn't know what to say. He had told Bane about his other half once but that was shortly after they met a year ago, he didn't think he would remember it.
"Relax." Bane said leaning forward his vest flapping in the wind. "My memory is almost photographic, and you were one of the most interesting people I've met."
"I can feel him stirring but he's not… awake quite yet." He said glad to get it off his chest.
Bane smiled a little pulling a cigarette out of his pocket.
"You must forgive me for this." Bane said lighting it and inserting into his mouth. "But I just haven't quit quite yet." He blew a smoke cloud and then put it out. "But I'm almost they're."
He got up and Alleluia did the same.
"If you need to talk you know where to find me." He said walking off in the opposite direction of Alleluia.
"Thanks." He said heading towards home with a new skip in his step…
"Tieria." A bright red headed man said as he entered the chamber of Veda.
"Yes Viral?" A disembodied voice said.
Several seconds later a hologram of the purple haired meister appeared. He was dressed in his old Celestial Being uniform.
"Your body will be finished within the next three to five months." He said staring Tieria who appeared to be younger in the eye. "Along with the new Gundam's." Viral said his voice as interesting as a gravel drive way. "Including the Dean, the mass produced combat Gundam made exclusively for combat module innovators."
Tieria nodded and walked absently towards Schenburgs lifeless body. He looked into his closed eyes.
"Is this the fruition of your plan?" He asked, then smiled and turned his back on Schenburg. "No. This wasn't your plan at all." He said walking back towards Viral who stared without saying anything. "This is the culmination of our dreams, of our hopes and desires. This has transcended your original goals, this is our plan."
"Very inspiring sir." Viral said. "Is they're anything else you wish to know?"
Tieria glanced at him with the ghost of a smile on his lips.
"No." He said and as Viral turned to depart he added. "Just make sure not repeat the mistakes of your father." IT was a warning clear and simple.
"Ribbons is dead." He said looking over his shoulders. "To follow a dead man is foolish."
Tieria narrowed his eyes and frown just as he had done in the first interventions.
"I have to disagree with you on that." He said.
Viral shrugged and left. The door slid shut behind him.
"Did Tieria chew you out again?" It was a black haired female.
"No." He said a smile that came ear to ear creeping unto his face. "I acted as a Inovade it expected to."
Viral walked off. The girl followed him much to his displeasure.
"But your part human right?" She asked trying to keep pace beside him as he moved fast through space.
"I'm still an inovade." He said that smile making him look quite demented. "I must do as he commands me."
She tilted her head and closed an eye as she examined him standing strong in his red military uniform. She herself wore white pants and a dark grey long sleeved tux with coat tails.
"I don't think you believe that." She said tilting her head trying to match his height but coming up a little short. "I think you think we're equal to humans… I think." She said confusing both Viral and her.
"Blissful Shadow would please leave me alone?" He said saying her full name.
She rolled her eyes disrespectfully.
"Yeah right!" She said her voice being a little higher pitch then it needed to be. "You're the most interesting person in Veda." She then looked thoughtful. "Well besides from mister Tieria but he doesn't have a lot of time to talk." She sounded disappointed.
"Lucky me." Viral said not meaning a word of it as they rounded a corner.
"Your so mean!" She said crossing her arms in front of her chest and pouting,
Viral took no notice and only increased his pace. Shadow practically had to fly to keep up with him.
"Why are you ignoring me?" She asked barely able to keep pace.
He continued walking hoping that she would just be quiet and leave him alone. He was wrong.
"Are you ticklish?" She asked out of the blue.
He didn't answer wondering what 'ticklish' meant. It wasn't a word that he had ran across before so he didn't know what it meant.
Shadow tackled him from behind pinching his chest.
"What the hell are you doing!" He shouted trying to wrest her from his body.
The pair hit the wall and he tried to pack pedal her into it. Only to realize that she was at least physically as strong as him.
"Nope not there." She locked his legs together and pushed off the wall. Viral had a lack of traction and was sent sliding across the floor as she moved to his armpits.
He squirmed and it felt… Odd. He started exhaling in an odd way, something most people simply call laughter. He quickly got it under control and Shadow decided to see if they're was anywhere else.
"Get off me now!" He yelled as she moved to his backs flipping them upside down.
"Nope." She said as the flipped down the hallway, which now had a large crowd gathering even a holographic Tieria was amused by the pair.
She tickled his neck and when that had no effect she moved up his face. And when she got to the back of his ears he bawled out in laughter.
"I knew it!" She said hooking her legs around his waist and tickling him mercilessly.
"Damn it stop!" He tried to say as they floated past the door on the end of hall way, which opened automatically.
"No!" She said laughing herself. "I've never ever seen you laugh before it's so cool!"
His laugh was unlike the way he was percieved. Light and something enjoyable to hear.
Viral had to fight through the laughter to grab her arms and flip her off him. She floated in a forward direction until she caught herself and smiled at the glaring Inovade.
"I knew you were ticklish." She said floating back towards him, her short hair fall in her eyes a little from the recent tumble.
Viral made a note as to what tickling meant…
"Ian Vashti." Setsuna said standing behind him..
"IS that you Setsuna?" He asked glancing over his shoulder.
The two were standing in a hangar in they're new Lagrange base. It was created after the destruction of Lagrange four, it was the old base refitted and repurposed and it was developing the five new Gundam models.
"What is the status on the new Gundams?" He asked floating up next to him.
Ian smiled as he waved for Setsuna to follow.
"This is Zabaniya." He said pointing to the green Gundam that was in roughly seven different pieces, more if you included weaponry. "It now has an interchangeable pod unit." He said pointing towards what looked two giants green sheets of sheet metal and two missile pods, along with what looked like a giant battery. "The first one here is a rifle slash shield bit unit, this going with the shield bits attached to the shins and chest. Unlike the previous version the range is roughly that as Dynamos' rifle with considerably more power." Ian landed on the missile pod. "This should be fairly self explanatory." He said tapping it with his boot and heading towards the battery. "They shoot GN missiles, and lots of them. Roughly a thousand per and it can make more on the go." He landed on the battery. "This device here links up to the rifle and increases range, I mean it can shoot from here to earths surface. Slow recharge rate and slight power reduction of course." He pushed of away from Zabaniya towards Raphael.
"We're building this one for when Tieria comes back." HE said as though the words would will him to materialize. "Raphael is probably the most unique of the four Gundams." He said.
The main body wasn't drastically different then the 0 Gundam.
"The most unique part is the back unit." HE said pointing towards a disjointed pile of parts, two pieces remotely resembling hands.
"Are those hands?" HE asked as they landed in the pile.
"Yes." HE said smiling proudly. "Each of these has roughly the power of a his former bazooka in burst mode, many times that when he activated trans am." HE said rubbing one of them like a father would pat his child's head. "And it makes use of Tieria's innovator ability's." He said that same sound of hope withstanding. "When he connects with it, much like he would connect with Veda, The whole back unit will combine with the Gundam, I'll let you find out what else it can do when Tieria's back."
Setsuna smiled inwardly. If Tieria would only let him tell them, well the others aside from Feldt he had permitted him that much, at least Melina she had been crying and was in a general mood of depression all day, or night Setsuna was never sure which it was anymore.
"And here we have Harul." It was in roughly fifty different pieces. "It's considerably faster then anything we've ever made." He said proudly. "We've also taken a hint from the 00 and made it's blades and gun one." He pointed to two swords that were the same orange that Alleluia had been piloting ever since the first interventions. "The boosters actually each have a GN drive, though they only store GN particles not make them." He said pointed towards two massive pods. "These have amazing range and beam width, though they lack some attack power." He pointed towards what looked like a modified version of Archer. "Of course we are working on a version of Archer, just in case Alleluia decides to come back." He said it as though he was expecting it to happen. "Now come on."
They moved on to a finished Gundam.
"This is the GN-1." He said shrugging his shoulders. "It's designed to be mass produced using a modified version of the Sudou GN drives. Not as good as what you got but Veda put it as the plan." He said landing on it's shoulder. "Also the stats are on purposely less then the other Gundams, I don't know why but that's what it's soppused to be."
It looked like a modified 0 Gundam. The shin plates where thinner and more cylindrical while the upper body was considerably more armored with spiked and extended shoulder plates. It also had a back unit with what looked like a long range rifle.
"It's designed to be an all purpose unit with a range of both back units and arm and hand units."
"And what about the 00 Quanta?" Setsuna asked a little eagerly, something most people wouldn't pick up on but Ian did.
"When have you ever been so impatient?" He asked in good humor, and then more seriously. "Feldt's working on it with Jaeger not me, and don't even ask she isn't going to show you no matter how much you beg." He said smiling and floating off.
Setsuna frowned and floated off. That's what he had actually wanted to see, but he had faith in Feldt. But not Trace. He was the newest member of Celestial Being, but not the only new member he had met two of Tieria's inovades recently, Viral and Shadow. Tieria had tried to explain exactly what type they were, Shadow was a combat type and Viral was called something else. Shadow had reminded him of Nena Trinity, just in her flamboyant manner and total randomness. Viral on the other hand was something new, he appeared respectful and mindless but Setsuna had seen the eyes of madness and something that said 'I'm just as good as you, hell I might even be better then you.' Both of them would piloting the GN-1. Shadow called hers Blessing and Viral termed his Libera. He said that Libera meant Liberate.
Setsuna sighed. He had things he needed to do. The most important was a video conference with the other leaders of Celestial Being, televised live around the world.
He was thinking about it as he walked down the hall towards his room, well his room at Lagrange four anyways.
"Setsuna." It was Feldt holding something behind her back in front of his door.
"Feldt Grace." He said walking up to her. "What can I do for you?" He asked distractedly.
"I um…" She brought a dry cleaning bag out from behind her back. "I made this for you're meeting." She said almost throwing it into his arms before she ran off.
He caught it the sleeve slipping off of it. And he smiled since no one could see him.
"Thank you Feldt Grace."
"Saji!" Luise called from the living room of his apartment.
"Hold on it's almost done!" He called back running out of the kitchen a plate of cookie's balanced in one hand, popcorn tucked under his arm pit and two cola's pressed against him so he wouldn't drop them.
Luise smirked as he tried to set everything down. He barely managed as the news anchor said.
"We now take you live to a special broadcast from Celestial Being."
The pair sat watching intently, and snacking on the food Saji had barely managed to prepare in time, as Celestial Beings emblem appeared. The sound of boot heels could be heard and a figure dressed in a blue flight suit with whit lines running down the right shoulder, on the left breast was a white line with two stars that had zeroes cut out of them pinned to it. The white line flowed down his right side all the way down to his boot where the bottom was white as well. And his helmet had a golden embroidering, one that matched the Celestial Being emblem on his right chest.
"We are Celestial Being." It was Setsuna's voice, and it was somehow how projected with an extreme sense of dignity and strength. "Our goal is to end war and establish peace to the world." Saji and Luise were paying rapt attention, as was most of the world. "We have shown the strength of our will by defiling the A-Laws and the united earth federation government. And that is the mere tip or our desire. IF the world persists on it's path of war we will return and begin our interventions again." The screen started to fade and was replaced by the 00. "This is your warning. Change or we will change you…"
"hahaha!" Angel was bawling with laughter slamming his fist into the table. "That idiot brother."
He stopped after a moment and stood back up. He was dressed in a white Celestial Being style flight suit with silver and gold accents and lining.
"Are you going to delay us forever?" Beast asked.
Beast wore a black and red and silver suit. His right arm encased in a golden gauntlet with blood red ruby's, in speaking of blood the finger tips appeared to be coated in the stuff. His helmet was also extended with teeth.
"So what is our first mission?" Nena asked from where she sat on the table.
She was wearing her old flight suit. She wasn't sure why she was following them, it all seemed kind of surreal. She thought maybe it was because of Angel who reminded her of Johan, and beast who seemed like Mitchel.
"Nothing more then a demonstration of our power." Angel said walking out of the tent.
Outside the tent were tens of thousands of people dressed in white and black flight suits waiting for him. They all saluted in unison as he walked up unto a raised platform with Nena and Beast in tow. He turned and faced them.
"Today." He yelled walking to the edge of the platform. "We take our place in history."
They're was a thunderous stamping of feet.
"Today we retake our homelands back from the earth federation!"
They're was applause and then he added in much quieter voice.
"And now we judge the world for it's sins…"
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I hope you enjoyed! I will be hopefully update very soon. If you have any ideas for the story or helpful advice/hints leave a review.
"I have judged you guilty, now die!" Angel.
"Feel honored. I would have killed you even if you were innocent." Beast.
'They kind of scare me…' Nena.
"My sword will pierce through to your soul!" Me
Until next time!
