Chapter 2: An Ambush in Space
Outside The Debris Belt - January 12, C.E 71
Clad in his iconic Zero costume, Lelouch Lamperouge or rather Zero commander of Zaft black ops team The W.O.L.V.E.S was in deep thought, it was because of a certain pink haired woman, who after learning that he was called back to investigate a rumoured Earth Alliance military satellite under construction in Lagrange point 3, stormed out her father's office demanding the said man to find someone else to do the mission. Of course her father told him that as much as he like to do that he can't since according to him it was majority of the council who wanted Zero to lead the mission. But it seems that Lacus as stubborn as she was said that if her father can't do it she will just go and demand it directly to the council. Which for the patriarch of the Clyne was a big no.
Knowing he needs to stop his daughter from doing something outrageous he called Lelouch and together they manage to placate the fuming pinkette by promising an additional two weeks of vacation leave for Lelouch as soon as he completes the mission.
So here he was now after two days of spending his time with his fiancee, in a small ship that disguise as a civilian transport ship 15 miles away from their target. Fortunately for them they haven't encounter any Alliance warship even at this distance which is a good sign to say that the new radar jamming system they had on the ship is working.
"Hey Jean." Lelouch said calling the attention of his assistance, who was so engrossed in her tablet.
"Wh-what is it sir?"
"I've been calling your name four times now. Anyways since I have your attention now I would like to ask if you know any good resort back in PLANTs?"
"I'm not quite sure but according to my friends Maius 3 and 4 are famous for their white beaches modeled from Earth Caribbean and Pacific beaches." Jean answered.
Having known that Lacus and her mother always spend their time on their vacation house near a small lake when she was a child Lelouch plan was to rent a small house near the sea and spend all the remaining days of his vacation just the two of them.
After thanking his aide, Zero and Jean began to engage in a conversation regarding the plan assault in Republic of East Asia Kaoshiung Spaceport.
The Spaceport in Kaoshiung was one of the four Spaceport belong to Earth Alliance and maintained by Republic of East Asia. As one of the member of the sponsor nations that sponsors the creation of PLANTs space colonies, the Republic of East Asia was among the three superpowers that creates the Earth Alliance to combat the more technologically advance PLANTs.
However its no secret that the Earth Alliance was only an alliance in name but in reality it was divided into two rival factions. The first one was the Atlantic Federation, first consists of commonwealth states of North America and grow largely in a numbers during its forced annexation of both Central and South America in February 19, C.E 70. Next is the Eurasian Federation, a superpower which encompasses a third of Europe and the whole of Russia making it by far the second largest superpower after the Atlantic Federation, its longest rival. An information that left him wondering why Zaft with its thirst of freedom against persecution from Naturals; didn't used it to their advantage.
'I guess its up to me to use it then.'
His sudden silence caught the attention of his aide, which a few seconds ago was telling him the status of his secret project in Heliopolis. "Is there something wrong Sir?"
Realising that he somewhat zoomed out in the middle of their conversation Lelouch tried to assured her that he was fine but was stopped when suddenly out of the corner of his eyes he saw something coming towards them. Seconds later a high pitched din began to sound inside the cabin as the voice of one of the pilots yelled from the ship's P.A system. "Incoming Missiles! Everyone brace yourself!"
The ship tilted ninety degrees and began a hard dive towards the direction of what remains to be a a ruins of a spacestation, sending drinks and folders that he brought spilling it contents. Lelouch fought off the wave of nausea that threatened to overtake him as the seatbelt strained against his abdomen from the violent manoeuvre.
In the midst of chaos, Lelouch caught a glimpse of a bright flash when one missile hit the ship's tail causing the whole ships to shake violently. He was aware of the pilot's frantic distress call over the roar of the depressurizing cabin. He saw his aide head hanging loose, having passed out in his right a few minutes ago. The last thing he heard was the sound of a loud hiss and boom, and then his world went blank.
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PLANT Supreme Council H.Q - Office of PLANTs Supreme Council Chairman (Same Day)
Chairman Siegel Clyne of PLANTs Supreme Council had just began reviewing the day's report on Zaft's planned invasion of Kaioshung Spaceport when he heard the knock on her office door.
"Come in."
It was his secretary James. When he looked up and saw his expression his heart sank. James had been the one to inform him of his Wife death almost two years ago, and he was wearing the same look now. "Tell me."
"Sir, the ship carrying Commander Zero had been destroyed."
After hearing the grim news, there's only one person that the Chairman knows who will be affected the most and most likely will hate him.
'God sure has a bad sense of humor.' Siegel Clyne thought as he was sure that the news will be devastating for Lacus for he saw what it did to the girl, just like the day after his wife death and before the boy Lelouch came.
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Zala Residence - Aprillius 1 - Aprillius City (Same Day)
Sitting on his personal study, the Head of Zaft Military and a member of PLANTs Supreme Council was having a conversation with one of his loyal follower and if you will base it on the big smile adorning his face; one will know instantly that whatever they were talking about was a good news.
"Once again congratulations with a job well done Captain. I will make sure to reward you and your men once you return."
"Thank you, Sir." The Captain replied, then after offering a salute cut off the connection.
Alone on his office at last, the patriarch of Zala Family can't help but smile once again. It seems that his patience had finally bore fruit. 'Now that Zero is out of the equation its time for me to start the next phase of the plan.'
It was almost a year ago when the Friendship between him and Lacus Father started to deteriorate. It began when the latter cancelled the engagement between his son Athrun and Siegel Clyne daughter Lacus and finally with Siegel stands in the war against Naturals, pushed him to plot to overthrow his former friend.
'I can't wait to see your defeated face My Dear Old Friend' with that thought in mind Patrick Zala began to laugh maniacally.
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Debris Belt (Three Hours Later) - NZS Great Degwin
"How long till we reach the origin of the signal Captain?" Mineva Lao Zabi, The current leader of what's left from the Principality of Zeon, asked the ship Captain.
Aside from the Coordinators and Naturals, there is another class of humans called Newtypes that lives in space. Newtypes are persons who have reached a new stage of human evolution when a Natural born human live in space, in order to survive and adapt to the life in space, their human body evolved naturally giving them heightened mental awareness just like some Coordinators have.
If Coordinators live in a group of space colonies dubbed as PLANTs and Naturals live on Earth, most of Newtypes lived on a small group of colonies of Side 3 commonly referred as The Duchy of Zeon or Zeon for short; a semi-autonomous nation founded by George Glenn friend and fellow Nobel Prize winner, Zeon Zum Deikun. Zeon shared the some unfortunate events as PLANTs such as its founder was also assassinated with his entire family in year C.E 55, a year after his friend George Glenn was also assassinated, and the threat and prejudice it received from its sponsor state, The Eurasian Federation.
Followed by death of Zeon Zum Deikun his loyal right-hand man Degwin Sodo Zabi, Mineva Lao Zabi Grandfather, was proclaimed as his successor. Under his Grandfather leadership, Zeon managed to become a prosperous nation with technologies on par with PLANTs. But unfortunately with the tension between the newly formed Earth Alliance and PLANTs turned into a full blown war and the Earth Alliance leaders afraid of Zeon joining with PLANTs in their war of Independence launched a series of nuclear attacks on its capital in Side 3 Space Colonies.
That incident, that known as The April Fools Genocide claimed the lives of almost half a million lives, both of civilian and military personnel. One of the casualties was the whole Zabi Family with Mineva Lao Zabi being the only survivor.
"We are not that far now Your highness." The Captain replied.
True to his words, they finally arrived the place where the distress signal that they heard three hours ago came from. What welcome them are the floating debris of the remains of a small ship.
"What the hell happened here?" The Captain of the ship asked no one in particular.
"Is that a Wolves member?" Mineva mumbled as she saw one dead body wearing the infamous black and gold uniform signalling that the body was indeed a member of The W.O.L.V.E.S. "If one of the Wolves are here then that means that Man came here." Mineva summed up.
"Send out some of the Zaku's and search the area for any survivors." She heard the Captain addressed the officer in charge of the comms.
As the said officer began to relay the orders for the Mobile Suits pilots, Mineva saw the all familiar frame of her friend and leader of the Royal guard being the first one to launch.
They waited for about fifteen minutes before one of the pilot contacted them. "Your highness we haven't found any trace of survivors or any clues that will tell us what happenned but fortunately it seems that we found an escape pod near the Debris Belt and little bit far from our exact location."
Glad that there was a possibility of a survivor, Mineva addressed her Guard-captain. "Good work Commander, you and your team may now return to the ship along with the escape pod your team had found."
With that said the Guard-captain cut the feed but not before acknowledging her liege orders. Mineva on the other hand was already left the bridge towards the Mobile Suit Hangar to personally check and ask the survivor what really happens and why someone like a small Team of W.O.L.V.E.S operatives were here in this part of space.
'I also need to know if indeed he was here.' She added on her mind not knowing that the answer on her question was inside of the escape pod that her Guard-captain had found.
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A/N: Sorry for the long wait. I hope that you like Chapter 2. Next update will take time since I will return my focus and time in World's destiny and Tide of Power. Should I make this story a Harem or not? If yes, who would you like to add in the Pairing aside from Lacus? Flay is out since I will pair her with Kira while Cagali is for Athrun. You can only choose the girls from any Mobile Suit Gundam franchise, since as you can see this is not Gundam Seed and Code Geass crossover anymore.
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