I don't Gundam SEED or Gundam 00, and so on and so forth.

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Chapter 3

Atlantic Federation Orbital Space Elevator "Pillar of Heaven"

"The party being hosted at the second Orbital elevator to be completed, nicknamed "Pillar of Heaven", to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Junius treaty Declaration, as well as the second anniversary of the Orbital Solar rings completion, is in full swing. Representatives from each of the member nations involved in the construction of the orbital ring and elevator system are attending this party. Also attending are many Celebrities, representatives from various industries as well as the military." Stated the news reporter present at the massive gathering, struggling slightly to be heard over the throng of conversation caused by so many being present, it was an interesting sight, amongst all the designer dresses and expensive tuxes several military uniforms could be made out, though most of them were earth alliance uniforms, with the occasional flash of a ZAFT or ORB uniform here and there, with the ZAFT officers staying mainly in one corner of the large ball room where the party was being hosted.

Even though we're all supposed to be friends both sides are still regarding the other with suspicion and contempt. Mused a young woman, her long silky black hair done up in buns, as well two long braids that reached her waist, with bangs neatly framing her face in a bob cut, that will soon change, as will everything else. A voice brought her out of her thoughts, in which see turned to see a waiter asking if she wanted something to drink, and quickly turning red with embarrassment, that might have had some thing to do with the dress she was wearing, a maroon dress that started as in the style of a sleeveless cheongsam for the upper section, while below the shoulders it was in the style of a ball gown that went all the way down to the floor, wrapping around her legs before billowing out slightly, with a large portion of the lower back left bare, despite covering her neckline completely the dress was tight fitting around the torso region and left nothing to the imagination.

"I'll have one thanks" she responded with a smile, crossing her hands behind her back to accentuate her bust further, trying to make the waiter more uncomfortable than he already was, she made her way over to him and took a long thin bottle with a straw poking out of it from the tray.
"If your face stays like that you'll lose some manliness" she teased before floating away with a giggle, as she took a sip of the bottles' contents a young mature looking man wearing a dark blue changshan approached her, his hair pulled back in a loose ponytail.
"It has begun, my lady" he informed her, as she finished sipping from the bottle her eyes narrowed, her expression changing from playful to serious.
"I see, they have begun to move. Celestial Being's Gundam Meisters…"

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The three DINNs caught up with the gundam as it continued its accent towards the pillar, immediately opening fire with their machine guns as soon as they got into range, the gundam veered to the right, avoiding the volley of gunfire and letting the DINNs pass overhead, as they circled to make another pass, the pilot readied the weapon on the gundams right arm, firing off a few shots from a small beam rifle fixed to the shield, as the pink phospherent shots flew wide the giant blade swung down to cover the barrel and lock in place as the gundam accelerated upwards, making an upwards slash at the closest DINN, slicing its right arm off at the elbow, as the DINN fell back to earth, one of the others got into position behind the gundam for its attack run, readying it's shotgun to fire in conjunction with the machine gun.
"You're mine!" the pilot announced as the crosshairs locked on and he fired off another volley, to his dismay the gundam strafed left and he missed completely.
"Such mobility! I can't land a hit on that thing, how can a mobile suit like that even exist!?" he whined at his flight leader.
"Don't break formation! Reinforcements will be arriving shortly" true to the flight leaders word, 6 more DINNs were launched from the pillar itself to intercept the gundam.

"As I thought, ZAFT as armaments concealed inside the pillar, including mobile suit and fighter bays" the gundam's pilot mused, increasing its acceleration upwards towards the oncoming DINNs.

"Lockon! Reinforcements approaching. Reinforcements approaching." Chirped an orange haro, its owner chuckling inside his cockpit as he observed the battle unfold.
"This might be tough even for Setsuna, by the looks of things he has his hands full." The pilot propped his leg up on center console in front of him. Grabbing hold of a large aiming module.
"Well, s'pose I'd better help him out and aim at a few of them. Let's go! Gundam Dynames and Lockon Stratos shall win the first battle."

The airborne gundam continued to dodge the incoming fire, weaving and blocking the bullets that hurtled towards it, with movements so graceful it almost seemed as if it was dancing. But each second it wasted on the defensive gave the DINN pilots more time to surround it.
"Keep your distance!" ordered the flight leader. "Even though it's a new model, it's just one enemy. Surround it and engage." A second later, a pink energy beam came out of nowhere, striking the DINN sneaking behind the gundam and causing heavy damage.
"Enemy attack!" called one of the pilots.
"From where!?" demanded the flight leader, another beam shot out from below, cutting through the clouds and striking his wingman, the flight leader was aghast.
"Energy beam! From below!?" he yelled, unable to determine where the shots were coming from.
"Is it Lockon?" the gundam pilot asked himself, back a ground level, another gundam, similar in design to the airborne one, lay back against a small cliff face, a large sniper rifle in it's hands.
"Dynames, sniping the targets" the pilot declared, before firing another 5 shots, each shot disabling one DINN each, leaving only one left.
"my wingmen have all been taken out!" the pilot yelled frantically, noticing that the airborne gundam was right in front of him, he could do nothing but look in horror as the gundam sliced into his DINN, sending him spiraling back to the earth below.
"Second phase." The pilot began, returning the blade to its folded position.
"Is complete." Finished the other pilot as the other gundam lowered its sniper rifle the scope in the other gundam's forehead retracting back inside as the V-fin slid up to conceal it.

In the car park of the proving a teal SUV sat, it's occupants in deep discussion about the gundam that appeared.
"That mobile suit is trying to reveal ZAFT's military strength?" asked the passenger, the same blond woman that was talking with the PLANTs chairman during the gundams appearance.
"yeah, ZAFT is trying to show the world that it possesses far more military strength than what the Junius treaty allows." The other occupant responded coolly. "This is a warning to the constitutional government." The woman looked at him and smiled slightly.
"Why do you think that Athrun?" she asked
"You should ask the pilot of that gundam." He answered. "but…I doubt ZAFT will stay quiet with things like this occurring, speaking of which, where did the Chairman go?"
"Durandal?" Cagalli responded "He's off doing political damage control, as well as trying to figure out how their multi million dollar latest model top of the line suit was reduced to scrap metal in seconds."
"I see." Athrun murmured, gazing at the giant pillar that sat in the distance.

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Up in space, a huge piece of debris bounced off the giant orbital ring, triggering a response in the warning sensors at the Atlantic Federation Geosynchronous Orbital Station nearby, it's purpose to monitor all activity near the Federations Orbital Elevator, in a heartbeat it relayed the signal to the CIC of the Nelson class battleship Durham, that was stationed in the area.
"There's another response from E-sensor" muttered one of the CIC officers, the monitor in front of him blinked as it brought up new information. "There's been a lot of debris today."
"Isn't it a little big?" asked the officer to his left.
"I'm sure some debris from an old satellite got stuck." Remarked another.
"Make sure we're on high alert." their commanding officer told them "Don't forget that they're holding the ceremony at the Pillar of Heaven."
"Roger" responded the first officer. He brought a zoomed in picture of the area where the sensor was tripped onto the main screen, to which everyone could make out several objects moving alongside the orbital ring.
"Whats that? Putting it on the monitor." He announced as he brought another image up that was zoomed in closer.
"Mobile suits?!" the Commanding officer called out, on the screen where four GINNs, two of which were carrying one M66 'Canus' guided missile launcher in addition to their standard machine guns. "It can't be! They're breaking past the debris! With the shields interference, not only their mobile suits, but their bodies can pass through as well!" the lead GINN exploded as it veered too close to one of the solar arrays.
"I knew it!" the commanding officer continued "They've certainly prepared themselves well…" the second CIC officer looked at him. "Are they terrorists?" he asked.
"Scramble the third defense unit" the commanding officer barked ignoring the man's question.

There was flurry of activity in the Durham's hanger bay, as support crews rushed to get three GAT–01A1 Daggers ready to sortie. "Damn it! Of all things, they target the ceremony!" complained one of the pilots.
"Lieutenant, I've only had 120 hours of training in space…" the other pilot told the squad leader.
"stop them no matter what!" the lieutenant ordered. "If you do that you'll get a double promotion!"
"the loading of equipment won't finish on time!" a tech told the lieutenant as he was about to enter his cockpit.
"I know that!" he growled back, in one the hallways, an officer with cropped gray hair was making his way to the locker room so he could get suited up.
"GINNs you say? Damn ZAFT…this is what happens when no one bothers to check their armory's inventory properly or dispose of old suits in the correct manner." He ranted at no one in particular.

At the ceremony on Federation officer approached another and whispered something to his ear before moving off to find another officer to relay the situation, the woman in the maroon dress noticing the Federation officers discreetly filter out of the room, but leaving the other guests, particularly the ZAFT, Erusian and ORB officers, behind.
"My, my." she said, raising one eyebrow "They're the only ones leaving in groups. How selfish."
"Should we seek shelter?" the man with the pony tail asked.
"No need." She responded lowering her head slightly "But as expected of Miss Sumeragi, an admirable prediction."

The Daggers were moved to their respective catapults on the Durham, the third having to wait for a free catapult before it could be launched.
"Allow maximum for B3 area. The next squad will scramble in 300 seconds. Response in B3 area to an unknown." Announced the bridge, The suits were quickly launched, their pilots entering a close formation.
"Control to units. 0287 until the unknown approaches the pillar" the ships radar officer informed them, relaying coordinates for the Daggers to follow.
"Heading out." The Lieutenant said. "Block the enemy's routes!" he ordered his wingmen. The GINNs changed their flight path, putting the solar array between them and the Daggers
"The enemy is altering movements!" informed one of the pilots. "Damn it! They're hiding in the ring!" the lieutenant flew up to intercept.
"follow them!" he barked. "Lieutenant! We can't take them!" bemoaned the other pilot.
"Don't give up!" his wingman admonished. The three Daggers opened up with their machine guns, the streams of tracer ammunition flying towards their target in a wide arc, the GINNs however were moving too fast and the bullets missed.
"Damn it!" the Lieutenant swore. The two missile launcher carrying GINNs slowed down and readied their weapons.
"The enemy is in position to attack!" announced one of the Durham's CIC officers. The GINNs launched their payload, the large missiles streaking towards the pillar.
"They're en route for a direct hit!" the officer announced, panicking "The interceptors won't make it in time!" the missiles continued to their target, and everyone on the Durham's CIC held their breath, before the missiles could hit, a bright pink bolt of energy struck them, and they exploded prematurely, fragments of shrapnel hitting the pillar instead, The ceremony guests looked around in confusion, trying to figure out where the explosion came from.

"Gundam" the woman in the maroon dress whispered, outside a white and orange mobile armour approached the pillar. "Gundam Kyrios."
"What's that!" yelled the Lieutenant as he sped towards the pillar, his wingmen close behind him.
"Sumeragi's predictions are quite impressive." The mobile armour pilot said to himself. Two of the GINN's turned to face the mobile armour and opened fire whilst the other made a break for it, charging towards the pillar, the mobile armour did several barrel rolls, dodging the incoming bullets before firing several rapid bursts from it's beam sub-machine gun, destroying both GINNs.
"Damn it, no way I can reach him or attack without damaging the pillar." He grumbled, seeing that the remaining GINN was too far ahead for him to intercept. "Tieria!" he called out, unable to do anymore as the GINN continued its suicide run.
"An unknown is charging in!" the 2nd CIC officer informed his Commanding officer, the Durham was also powerless for the same reason as the mobile armour that appeared, a large bulky white and black mobile suit flew up in front of the pillar blocking the GINNs path, spraying mysterious green particles over a large area, the unknown suits presence interfering with all communication and radar devices near its location, shutting down the Durham's CIC, and leaving the party-goers more confused than before, save one woman in a maroon dress, who just smirked. "Virtue." She whispered.

"Virtue. Eliminating the target" the new arrivals pilot announced, the suit brought a massive cannon to bear, and after a short delay unleashed a blast equal in power to a Lohengrin positron cannon if not greater, vaporizing the oncoming GINN.
"Third phase completed." Its pilot informed the mobile armour pilot who had just caught up.
"Geez Tieria, talk about overkill…" the pilot muttered back, having seen the blast along with all the party-goers, who turned to look out the window and saw both the mobile suit and mobile armour, the news reporter who was at the ceremony struck with awe as her cameraman was filming the two unknown arrivals.
"what…what is that?" she stammered.

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Authors notes: God this is taking forever, I wish I had more hands, then I could type quicker.

Just so you know, kira will be appearing (boo, hiss, etc) but he won't actually be entering combat till way later in the story, he won't be godlike in combat, and there will be no strike freedom or infinite justice either, freedom will be there but with a couple of modifications.

Oh and sorry I'm not using names for some characters yet, it's just my way of doing things, plus it's fun to see readers try to figure out who's who on their own, cos I believe that they're intelligent and can figure most things out for themselves.