Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Seed. However, I do own Rosalina Vokior, Maximilian Vokior, Seijun Kuragari, Aurora Camala, Laura Camala, Ryuki Eona, the GAT-X206 Blast, GAT-X304 Flash, the GAT-X307 Instinct and the GAT-X203 Resolve.

Phase One: False Peace

January 25th, C.E. 71

Aboard the Vesalius

Maximilian Vokior, or Max for short, zipped up his red ZAFT pilot suit as he held his red helmet in one of his arms. He glanced at his reflection from the visor, his crimson brownish hair that strangely resembles iron rust kept unkempt around his head and blue eyes that stared right back at him. His thoughts then wandered towards his current mission.

Heliopolis, a colony of the neutral nation, Orb, and they were to raid it. Why? They were apparently secretly building weapons for the Earth Alliance, which does not follow Orb's ideals. Now, they, the Le Creuset Team, were to steal these weapons to be studied and used against the Earth Alliance.

He grimaced at the thought of invading the colony. Part of the reason was because he felt it wasn't right to invade a neutral colony, and the other part of the reason was because his twin sister just had to insist on going to Heliopolis to visit a close family friend and to celebrate said friend's birthday. Right now Max could only hope that he would protect his sister should something go wrong. He sighed heavily as he sent a silent prayer to whichever god or deity was listening.

"What's with that big sigh?" he heard Nicol Almafi ask.

"Ah...It's nothing, just nervous I guess," Max said.

"Hmph!" snorted Yzak Joule, "What's there to be nervous about? Infiltrating that colony full of stupid Naturals will be easy enough. They won't even know what hit them."

That's not actually the reason why I'm nervous, Max thought as he chuckled nervously.

"Are you sure?" came the bored voice of Ryuki Eona, "Naturals may not be as smart as we are, but that doesn't mean it'll be easy invading a colony, especially one in the rule of Orb."

"Well then this mission will determine if your theory's right or not then, won't it?" Dearka Elsman smirked, his arms folded cross his chest.

"Is that a bet?" Ryuki grinned, twisting on a lock of his messy golden brown hair.

"Maybe..." the blond said as he walked out of the room with Yzak, making their way towards the hanger.

"Do you enjoy tormenting those two?" Athrun Zala asked, putting on his helmet.

"No, not really," said the golden brown haired boy, "It's really just Yzak. A blow to his ego and pride is always amusing."

"You're not the only one who thinks that, Ryu," Max said, chuckling, "But he's a good comrade to have around. He just needs to work on his attitude a little bit."

"Too true..." the brunette said as he exited the room with Athrun and Max.

A park in Heliopolis

Kira Yamato was typing away on his laptop, trying his best to finish the work Professor Kato had given him before he decides to dump more on him, which he knew would definitely happen sooner or later.

"You know, I'm really glad that there are two of us, so Professor Kato doesn't give all of them to me," the brunette said to the other person sitting across him.

Sitting across from him was a Coordinator named Seijun Kuragari who was also busy working on his laptop. Seijun was seventeen years old, his birthday just passed yesterday, and roughly the same height as Kira, give or take a few inches. He has black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing black jeans together with a white shirt and a dark brown jacket over it. He also wore two rings on both hands, one with a ruby embedded on it and another sapphire embedded, both of which were his late mother's last gift to him. He moved to Heliopolis roughly eight months ago with his aunt, who was called back by Morgenroete to Orb three weeks ago for a month, and Kira had only known him for half the amount of time.

"I'm not sure if that's a good thing for me," Seijun replied, "I'm stuck doing work with you when I could be spending time with Rose..." He motioned towards a girl sitting next to him.

"Couldn't you have asked your professor to let you off, Seijun?" the girl asked as she pouted, "I didn't come all the way here just so I can watch you do your work."

Her name was Rosalina Vokior, or Rose as most people call her, and was a close friend of Seijun who occasionally visits him. Not wanting to risk the safety of his daughter, her father, a PLANT Supreme Council member which no one in Heliopolis, except Seijun, knows about, requested her to change her last name whenever she visited Seijun, much to her displeasure. Her purpose for visiting him this time was to celebrate his birthday. She was sixteen and had crimson brownish hair that reached down to her waist and and amber eyes. She was wearing a red long sleeved shirt and a knee-length black and white stripped skirt.

"I tried, but that stubborn man just refuses to let me off. I even went down on my knees for crying out loud!" Seijun exclaimed, running his hand through his hair.

At this point, a mechanical green bird flew in and landed on Seijun's shoulder as a news report on a ZAFT invasion of Kaohsiung came on.

"Birdy!" Birdy chirped.

"Hey Birdy," Seijun said, bringing up two fingers and letting Birdy hop on his fingers.

"Kira! Seijun! Rose!" Tolle Koenig called out.

The said boys and girl turned to see Tolle walking towards them, with his girlfriend, Miriallia Haw, in tow.

"Hey, you two!" Seijun called out, and Kira and Rose did the same.

"So this is where you two are! Professor Kato told us he was looking for the both of you," Tolle explained.

"Eh!? More work?" Seijun cried out, his mouth and eyes wide open in disbelief.

"Again?" Kira asked.

"Yup..." Miri said, "He told us to bring you to him once we find you, even if we have to drag you guys all the way."

"Urgh! I shouldn't have come if I knew you'd be this busy..." Rosalina muttered.

"Come on! That guy has to learn how to do his work on his own!" the black haired boy complained, "Either that or he's got to start paying us!"

"Yeah! We're not even done with the one's he dumped on us yesterday!" the brunette exclaimed as Birdy landed on his laptop.

Tolle and Miriallia then stood on both sides of Kira and watched the news about the attack on Kaohsiung from his laptop.

"Ehh? If this is from last week, then Kaohsiung has probably already fallen…" Tolle commented.

"I agree…" Seijun commented as he and Kira shut down their laptop and Birdy flew off his laptop on to Kira shoulder while Rose brought herself up.

"Kaohsiung's quite close to us, isn't it? Will we be alright?" Mir asked, concern laced within her voice.

"There isn't any need to worry," Tolle reassured, "Even though they're close by, we're a neutral country. Orb won't be involved in the war."

"You're right about that, Tolle. After all, there's nothing of interest here in Heliopolis," Seijun supported, gathering his stuff, "Anyway, let's go."

Heliopolis Airspace

A brown ship was being docked in Heliopolis, carrying Earth Alliance officers in it.

"And with that, this ship's final mission has been completed with no problems," the blond captain said, taking off his hat, "You did great in escorting this ship, Lieutenant Flaga."

"We're lucky nothing happened en route," the said blond lieutenant replied, and he asked, "Any activity on ZAFT ships around this area?"

"We're tracking two, but…Even if they enter the port, ZAFT can't do any thing to us," the captain said.

"Because it's a neutral nation, right? I've heard it so many times that I'm sick of it."

The captain let out a chuckle. "But thanks to that, the plan has been able to proceed this far. The fact that Orb is part of Earth," he replied.

"Well then, captain," one of the ten pilots in the bridge finally said and the captain turned to them as they saluted and he returned the greeting before they left.

"Are you sure its fine to only let those people disembark?" the lieutenant asked, once the five pilots were outside hearing range.

"They are the top guns chosen to be the pilots of the G-Units. They'll be fine," answered the captain, "It'll be much better for you to go on home instead of pacing around and attracting more attention than you already have."

Outside Heliopolis radar range

Aboard the Vesalius

"Stop looking so serious, Ades," Rau Le Creuset said as he floated towards a table at the back of the bridge.

"Yes, but I'm waiting for a reply from the council…Isn't it a bit late?" the captain of the ship asked.

"It is late. My intuition tells me so," the blond commander replied, tossing a photo of one of the mobile weapons being built in Heliopolis, "The price we have to pay for a mistake here will be our lifes."

"The Earth Alliance's new mobile weapons…We must move quickly before they are transported away from here."

Heliopolis Transport Station

As Kira and company walked towards the transport station, they saw a group of three girls talking. Kira, however, had his eyes only on the redhead, Flay Allster.

"Oh, Miriallia?" Flay called out.

"Hi!" the brown haired girl responded and the other two girls started a conversation with her too. During the conversation between the girls, Kira's eyes were still only on the redhead, and unknown to him, Tolle and Seijun saw it. One part of the conversation caught his interest…

"She got a letter from Sai Arguille!"

Kira was surprised and looked at Flay again, wondering whether there was something going on with Sai and Flay. Tolle saw this and had an amused expression on his face. Seijun also saw Kira's reaction, but unlike Tolle, he frowned. Rose just sighed as she shook her head, not caring about whatever that had to do with the redhead. She'd only known the girl once during one of her earlier visits, and she had taken an instant dislike towards Flay because of her stuck up attitude.

During this time, three people, a woman and two men, walked towards the group. The woman coughed once to gain the group's attention.

"If you're not getting on, may we go first?" she asked.

"Sorry, please do," said Tolle and the group parted to let the three pass and get in the car, and Flay and her two friends got on to the next one.

"A letter from Sai…" Mir's boyfriend suddenly said, bringing his friends attention to him as he placed both hands on Kira's shoulders, "How surprising, for Flay Allster. That sounds like some competition for you, Kira Yamato."

Mir giggled as Tolle walked off to the next car, and the brunette was speechless as he followed.

"Personally, I don't think she's your type, Kira," Seijun muttered softly to himself, following his friends with Rose, "Maybe it's for the best if she gets together with Sai."

Elsewhere

The Le Creuset team silently moved through a passage that leads to a hidden hanger where the new Earth Alliance warship was supposed to be held in.

After watching Athrun give out a series of silent commands in the form of hand signals, the team split up and silently moved out, placing explosives around the hanger quickly, efficiently, and most importantly, stealthily.

Once they were done, they regrouped and escaped the way they came, not wanting to get caught within the explosion.

Professor Kato's lab

The doors slid opened, revealing the group of four as they entered.

"Hello!" Tolle called out. An amber haired boy moved to see the newcomers.

"Ah! You're here, Kira, Seijun, Rose," Sai said, and Kira felt uneasy near him, because of the news of the letter from Sai to Flay.

"Hey there, guys!" a light blue haired girl greeted as she stood up and walked towards them.

"Hey, Aurora," the group responded.

Aurora Camala, another Coordinator, had moved to Heliopolis from Orb three months ago with her mother. Her light blue hair and emerald eyes made her stand out from almost everyone in the colony, and usually results in the male population staring at her because of her looks. She's sixteen years old and a few inches shorter than Kira. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a violet tank top with a light blue jacket over it. Like Kira and Seijun, she is also good with programs and computers, though to a lesser extent.

"Who's that?" Tolle asked Kuzzy, pointing towards the stranger.

"The professor's guest," the dark haired individual said, "He's been asked to wait here for the professor."

"Ah, I see..."

"I've been keeping this for you," Sai said, holding out a disk (AN: I don't know what it's called), Kira took it as Sai asked, "What is it? It looks like the work on Morgenroete."

"Not really, it's improvement on the Frame-Set module. Program analysis, in other words," the violet eyed boy answered.

"Anyways, now that you two are here," Aurora begun, "Could you two help me with the work the professor gave me?"

"Sorry Aurora," Rose said, "But these two eggheads have enough work to last them the whole damn year!"

Suddenly, Tolle snuck up behind Kira and put him in a headlock, asking him to ask Sai about the letter to Flay.

While the group was having their argument, the blond stranger tried to sneak out, but found the back door locked.

Aboard the Vesalius

Rau glanced at his watch and smirked. His team should have successfully planted all the explosives by now.

"It's time," he said.

"Gamow, Vesalius, launch!" the captain ordered, and the two said ships moved out.

The alarms in Heliopolis control rooms went off as the two ZAFT ships approached, and the order to load the G-Units into the Archangel was issued by the captain to Ensign Badgiruel.

In Heliopolis, everyone was minding their own business as the time bombs continued to countdown.

The timer slowly counted down…

Three…

Two…

One…

And then…

…Boom…

Explosions racked through the entire hanger, killing those unfortunate enough to be caught in the blast, as tremors were sent from the source towards all of Heliopolis.

Many were curious of the sudden tremor, looking around to see if they could find the source, many of those looked up in time to see a couple of GINNs flying by.

Morgenroete Factory

Murrue braced herself as the tremors shook the entire colony.

"What was that?" Laura Camala asked as she recovered from the shock.

"I don't know..." Murrue said, then she turned to one of the other workers, "How are the preparations of the G-Units?"

"The Duel, Blitz, Buster and Resolve are already on the way! But the other five and the Striker Packs need more time! We haven't even gotten the last one out of storage yet!" he answered. Just then, two GINNs flew overhead and opened fire upon the district with their rifles. All the workers, including Murrue and Laura, threw themselves onto the ground.

"They're ZAFT's!" Murrue hissed as her eyes narrowed, "Prep the other five mobile suits for combat! In any case, we have to get them out of the factory district!"

"What a day..." Laura sighed as the cerulean haired woman brought herself up, "I'm coming with you, Murrue."

"Alright then..." said Murrue as she ran towards the mobile suits, pulling out her firearm just as Laura did so too.

Professor Kato's lab

"What in the-?" Seijun muttered as he held on to the table he was at as the room shook, the tremors also causing expensive instruments to collapse on to the ground.

Hope we don't have to pay for any of those…Seijun thought to himself as he saw the equipments falling.

"Is everyone alright?" he called out as the tremors subsided, reaching out a hand to pull Rose up.

"I'm good," Aurora said.

"Same here," Kira answered.

"Me too," Tolle replied as he helped his girlfriend up.

The stranger gave a nod, as everyone else gave answers of confirmation.

"Was that a meteorite?" Sai asked.

"I don't know...But whatever the case, we should get to the shelters," Tolle said, everyone agreed as they left the room.

Somewhere else

"There they are. It's just like Commander Creuset said," Yzak smirked as he looked through his binoculars at the G-Units.

"Scare them just enough and they'll come out of their hiding holes, huh?" Dearka answered.

"They're pretty stupid, being Naturals and all," said the white haired soldier.

"Like you're any better, old man," Ryuki muttered, loud enough for Yzak and the others to hear.

"What did you say?!" demanded Yzak, glaring at the boy, while some of the others chuckled.

"Calm down, Yzak," Dearka said, not wanting a fight to break out now, not during an important mission such as this.

Two GINNs then flew over and opened fire upon the Morgenroete Factory, causing destruction and forcing people to take cover. After that, they flew towards the highway and opened fire upon the vehicles surrounding the G-Units trailers.

"Whatever, lets just get going," and they flew down using their jetpacks.

"Destroy the facilities and equipments we can't take with us," ordered Yzak, as they opened fire upon the survivors of the attack, "The report said there would be seven, but there are only four…Does that mean the other three aren't here yet?"

"Leave that to Rusty, Max and me," Athrun said, "The rest of you take the four that are already here."

"Okay, I'll leave that to you," responded the white haired soldier, "Remember to disarm the self-destruct once we've got the machines."

The team landed and took out most of the guards and personnel nearby. Ryuki immediately ran up to the one that was closest to him and entered.

"I'll be taking this one; you guys get the others," he shouted before right before entering.

Somewhere else (Again)

The tremors continued as the group of teenage students approached the elevators and stairway. Sai immediately went toward the door leading to the stairs, thinking that the elevator wasn't the best way to escape to the shelters. The rest followed his lead.

"What's going on?" Sai asked, seeing a lot of people ascending the stairs.

"Who knows?" one of them answered.

"We're being attacked by ZAFT!" said another.

"Mobile suits have entered the colony!" one other said, "You guys should hurry too!"

The blond gasped and looked in another direction before taking off. Kira saw this and called out, "You! Wait!" as he chased the blond.

"Kira!" Tolle called out.

"I'll be right back," the brunette replied, and he ran off.

"Tsk!" Seijun muttered before chasing after him, "I'm going after him! You guys get to the shelters! Aurora, take care of Rose!"

"Seijun!" the brunette girl shouted before chasing after him.

"Rose, wait! Argh!" Aurora cried out before following after her charge.

It didn't take too long for Seijun to realize that Rose was following him. "What are you doing!?" he demanded, then he looked back at Aurora, "I thought I told you to take care of her!"

"She ran off before I could stop her!" the blue haired girl cried out. Seijun then glared at Rose.

"I'm not letting get in trouble!" she replied.

"Tsk! Fine! Just stay close to me!" the black haired Coordinator grunted as they continued chasing after their friend.

Kira had caught up with the blond, along with Seijun, Rose and Aurora. Just in time too, since the hall behind them collapsed, the shock pushing a huge amount of air past them, and the blonde's cap blew off.

"A…girl?" Kira muttered, clearly very shocked. Aurora sighed at Kira as she shook her head, having realized the blond was a girl when she first saw her, and wondering just how dense her brunette friend could be. Seijun was too busy seeing if Rose was alright to notice, but Aurora was pretty sure the two also knew the blond was a girl from the start too.

"What do you think I was until now?" the blond girl demanded, "Well, let's hear it!"

"Uh...No, well…" Kira stuttered, slightly embarrassed by his mistake.

"Excuse my interruption," Aurora called, her eyes darting back and forth between the blond and Kira, "But I think the more pressing issue is how are we gonna get back. The hallway's gone and I don't think any one wants to move that rubble away at our current situation. "

"Alright, then we'll go this way," Kira said, picking a random hallway as he grabbed the blond's arm and ran off towards what he felt was the safest route, the other three following after them closely.

"Let me go, idiot!" the girl cried out.

"Stop complaining!" Seijun said as he held on to Rose's hand, "We're helping you! Shouldn't you be grateful?"

"Besides, there should still be shelters at the factory," Aurora interjected.

Morgenroete Factory

Sounds of gun shots echoed through the factory, the workers from Morgenroete on one side and the soldiers of ZAFT on another. Athrun threw a grenade over a metal crate he was using as a blockade.

The grenade landed between a group of Morgenroete employees and blew up, killing them instantly.

"Hey, Athrun!" Max called out, his guns blazing towards the general direction of the workers defending the mobile suits, "There's two more than what our intel told us! Take a look!"

Athrun took a glimpse and his eyes widened as he saw five instead of three machines, meaning there were nine instead of seven. How could our intel be wrong? he thought.

"We've gotta destroy the two we can't take!" Athrun shouted as he opened fire upon the workers.

Hallway Passage

Kira, Seijun, Aurora, Rose and the blond girl finally reached the end of the passageway, and they looked down on to the floor below. Guns were fired from two sides of the factory, bullets whizzing left and right, killing those unfortunate enough to be hit at a vital spot.

But what caught their attention were the five mobile suits on the floor below, and they instantly knew they were different from the usual ZAFT mobile suit, the give away being the heads, since ZAFT mobile suits only have one eye, and the ones below had two eyes and were much different in terms of general appearance.

"Just as I thought," the blond said, collapsing on to her knees, "The Earth Alliance's new mobile suits…Father, you traitor!!" Unfortunately for all of them, an armed female worker heard the girl's outburst and turned towards them, aiming her firearm at them. Fortunately for the teens, they managed to duck in time.

"Are you trying to get us all killed?!" demanded the black haired boy as he brought himself from.

"Come on! This is no time to be doing something like that!" Kira said as he grabbed the girl's hand and took off, Seijun, Rose and Aurora following closely after them as they ran off.

Elsewhere

Yzak had finished recalibrating the OS for the Duel and brought the said mobile suit up, picking up the rifle and shield that came with it.

"This is impressive. How is it, Dearka?" he asked.

"Ok…Updater activated, nerve link ok, calibration completed. Move!" and the blond brought the Buster up.

"This is something else," Ryuki whistled, looking through the controls of the Resolve as he brought it up, "You done, Nicol?"

"Give me a moment…" the green haired boy answered as he rewrote the OS and brought the Blitz up.

"Where's Athrun and the rest?" asked Dearka, "They're late."

"They'll be okay. Let's go ahead and bring these to Commander Creuset without them," Yzak said, and the four mobile suits took off.

Morgenroete Factory

The five teenagers reached the nearest shelter, with only one of the three shelters that weren't completely filled up yet.

Kira pressed a button, and someone from the other side spoke over the speaker.

"There's still someone out there?"

"Yes, my friends and I…Please open the door!" Kira said.

"Friends? You mean more than one? How many?"

"Five of us..." Seijun answered as he panted.

"That's no good; we're already at full capacity as it is. There are still more shelters in the left block. Can you make it there?"

The two boys took a look in the general direction of the said block to evaluate the damage done. "There are three girls with us! At least take them!." Seijun pleaded.

The man on the other side sighed. "Alright...But we can only take one." The door opened at that.

Seijun immediately turned to Rose. "Get in there," he said, pointing to the open door to the shelter.

"What?" she exclaimed, staring the black haired Coordinator down, "No way! Not if you're staying here!"

"Would you be reasonable?! Do you know what your parents - no, even worse - your brothers would do if they found out I let something happened to you?! They'd kill me!"

"And I'm saying I'm not leaving unless you are too!"

Before either could continue with their squabble, Aurora had had enough and pushed the blond inside and shut the door, leaving no room for the other girl to retort. Kira, Seijun and Rose blinked at the blue haired girl.

"Well, now that that's taken care off, both of you can stop arguing and let's try to find another shelter," said Aurora as she and Kira ran ahead of the two. Seijun sighed as he took the Rose's hand and started running in the direction the other two ran off to.

The four of them then reached the catwalk above the commotion on the ground floor, when Kira spotted a sniper on the opposite catwalk, taking aim at the woman who'd almost shot them.

"Behind you!" Kira yelled, and the woman, turned around and fired her remaining bullets at the soldier, killing him. The brown haired worker looked up to the source of the warning and saw the four teens from earlier.

"Come down here!" she shouted at the four.

"We're going to look for another shelter at the left block! Forget about us!" Seijun yelled back.

"There's nothing else but the door," as soon as she said that, an explosion tore through from the said left block.

"Come here, all four of you!" she shouted as she made her way to the mobile's suit cockpit.

"Well, we've got nothing else to lose," the blue eyed boy muttered as he vaulted over the railing, his violet eyed friend sighed and follow suit after his friend, both landing safely, a little sore though, on the machine the woman was on.

Aurora scanned around quickly and saw her mother, who was easily distinguished with her cerulean hair, on one of the mobile suits nearby. She leapt from the catwalk and landed onto that mobile suit.

When Aurora landed on the mobile suit, Laura immediately turned around, hearing the thump, and would have opened fire had she not noticed her daughter's pale blue hair in time. "Aurora!?" she exclaimed, lowering her gun and making her way towards her daughter, "What are you doing here!? Shouldn't you be in the shelters?"

The younger girl was going to answer when rounds bullets came too close for any kind of comfort. "Get in here first!" Laura yelled, pushing her daughter into the cockpit of the machine they were on as she fired the randomly to distract the soldiers long enough before jumping into the cockpit and closing the hatch.

Rose was more hesitant about jumping off the catwalk, but when another explosion tore through the factory, she made up her mind and vaulted over the railing. However, she really had to look before she jumped, since she collided with Seijun, sending both tumbling off the machine. The black haired Coordinator managed to right himself in mid air and land on his two feet, while the girl met the concrete ground in a much more painful manner.

The young Coordinator heard a yelp and turned to his side to see that he just landed right in front of a ZAFT green soldier, who was bringing up his rifle to bare. He brought his leg up and spun, kicking the assault rifle, and the said rifle flew out of the ZAFT soldier's hands. His momentum forced him to complete his spin and, once that was done, he replaced his foot on the ground to still himself, only to see the green soldier pulling out a combat knife.

Seijun, on reflex, used one hand to grip the soldier's wrist as the soldier swung down, stopping the soldier from stabbing him. He was trained in using blades and also a high degree of various forms of martial arts from young, so he wasn't going to be intimidated by a mere knife. He narrowed his eyes as he clenched his hand into a fist with his free hand and thrusted it at the soldier. The green soldier staggered a little and unintentionally released his combat knife. Seijun then delivered a vicious kick to the soldier in a place where no man should ever be kicked. The guy cried out and collapsed on the ground, unconsious.

"Dang...I must have been slacking off," he muttered, waving his hand around to ease the pain, "That shouldn't have hurt at all..."

A groan behind he made him swiftly turn around.

"Are you okay?" he asked as he helped the crimson brownish haired girl up.

"Yeah, but that hurt..." Rose said as she clutched her stomach, "Next time catch me when I fall!"

"Then warn me when you're gonna jump!" he retorted.

"Hurry! Get into those machines and get it away from here," the woman from before shouted as she continued firing bursts of bullets from her gun at the ZAFT soldiers.

"Come on! Let's do as she says!" and the black haired Coordinator kicked the knife from the now unconcious ZAFT green away and pulled himself and Rose up on top of the other mobile suit. When they were right in front of the cockpit, several bullets came a little too close for comfort, so Seijun shoved Rose into the cockpit and dove in himself before closing it. Rose felt a strange sensation flashing in her mind just after the cockpit closed and her eyes widened.

At the same time, just seconds before the hatch closed, Max ran towards one of the mobile suits, opening fire upon surviving workers that tried to stop him, and looked to his side briefly just as he saw Rusty get shot and Athrun killed their comrade's killer.

"Max! Forget the other machines! Just take one and go!" one of his fellow comrades shouted. He listened to whoever was it that shouted and started making his way towards an uncommandeered machine in the factory, firing upon any workers that tried to stop him with his assault rifle. He ran pass one of the mobile suits he and saw the cockpit closed, so he ran pass it, assuming the mobile suit was taken.

He suddenly stopped and looked around, he had a tingling sense in his mind just now, one that he only experienced whenever his twin sister was in the area. He shrugged it off and resumed his sprint for one of the remaining mobile suits, assuming his twin was just in one of the nearby shelters.

Both parties never knew they had just missed the other.

On the mobile suit the female worker and Kira was on, Kira just stared at the ZAFT red and the latter did the same, lowering his combat knife at the same time.

"Athrun…" Kira mumbled.

"Kira…" Athrun muttered as his stance slackened.

The female worker managed to somewhat recover from her injury and shot at the ZAFT red, who retreated and moved to the final mobile suit in the factory. The female then turned to Kira and forced him in to the cockpit of the mobile suit before jumping in herself.

As explosions continued to tear the factory apart, the figures of the X105-Strike, X303-Aegis, X307-Instinct, X304-Flash and X206-Blast rose from the factory, breaking out of their shackles that were holding them in place and stood up amongst the flames.

A/N: Well, here's my first chapter of my version of Gundam Seed. I'm not really all that good, since this is my first fic after all, but I'd hope you will enjoy reading this and will continue to read it.

I don't really like Kuzzey, he'd not really all that important to the plot anyway, but I decided to include him in my fic just for the heck of it. If I can though, I'd try to find a way to get rid of him. If any of you who also don't like him and have any suggestion as to how to get rid of him (as long as they are logical and follow the plot), feel free to let me know.

Anyways, next chapter will be out next week or, if I'm lucky, by this weekend.

PS: No flames please, and please review!