And...I'm back!(again)

Now, first off; My life has been really hectic lately, what with graduation and job hunting and what-not, so I now have even LESS time to type out this story. just putting this here as an early warning for delays after the NEXT chapter. I'm apologizing in advance and hope for your understanding.

Now then, without further ado. Here's chapter 3!

I do not own either Gundam SEED or Gundam 00.

Copyright: Sunrise inc.

Gundam SEED: 2002, 2013

Gundam 00: 2007

Chapter 3

AD 2312

Two Weeks Later

Lagrange 3, Celestial Being Factory Base

"Hey, kid. How are you holding up?"

"I'm fine, Mr. Garfield. Thanks for asking" Kira replied, looking up from his work console.

"Good to know, kid. And to think that the same kid that freaked out about ending up in another world a couple of weeks ago, is sitting before me all calm and composed."

"Please. It wasn't that bad."

"I know, I know. Just wanted to see how you were coping with all this. It's not every day you get thrown into a different world, after all!"

"Yeah…"

As Kira turned back to face the console, his thoughts started to drift towards the state of the Freedom.

Two weeks earlier.

In the maintenance hangar, a number of engineers were gathered around the damaged mobile suit the two Gundams brought back to the base.

It has been a whole week since they got the pilot out of the cockpit, but with that absurd system lock, they had to wait for the poor kid to wake up, just so they could unlock the main system.

The kid was surprisingly cooperative, and the engineers quickly started going through the onboard files.

He wasn't kidding when he said that he was from another world.

Phase Shift Armor(which block all kinds of physical armaments), Neutron Jammers(which somehow prevents a nuclear reaction? That one was confusing), humanity split between the genetically modified "Coordinators", and the naturally born "Naturals", a giant Gamma Ray satellite weapon(which instantly made the hairs of everyone present stand on its ends)?! These were things that never existed in their own world. Just what did their world experience that would lead to the creation of these kinds of technology?

After everyone calmed down, it was back to the main question: can the unit(that they learned was a Gundam itself. Appearance wise, at least) be rebuilt?

"Honestly, kid, your machine is pretty roughed upped." Ian said while looking at the Freedom's blueprints.

"Erm…how bad is it?"

"Well, for starters." Ian continued, as he brought up the Freedom's blueprints and schematics. "The wing units, along with the energy cannons, are totally gone. The layer of specialized nanomachines that made up the Phase-Shift armor has been completely burned off. The right arm's gone, and the left isn't in any better shape. And to top it all off: the internal frame is barely holding itself together. It's a miracle this thing didn't break apart the moment Tieria grabbed it."

With each damage listed, Kira felt more and more depressed. He knew that that confrontation with Rau le Creuset was intense, with both units taking significant damage, but he didn't know that the Freedom was this badly damaged. After a short moment of silence, as he looked upon the engineers going over the unit, he decided to suck it up, and ask bluntly.

"So…..can it be fixed?"

"Like I said, kiddo, it's pretty throughly trashed. We'd practically have to build the whole thing back up from scratch. And we still have a few other units to work on, so that might eat into the time we can allocate to this."

"I see…." Now Kira was feeling even worse, knowing that this was partly his own fault.

"…Well, don't feel too bad. If what you said was true, you didn't have much of a choice about it."

"But-"

"It's fine. Look, I promise I'll have the guys work on this when they can. And besides, it's not ALL bad news."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Since we we were able to extract the data from the unit, that means part of the core system is still intact. That, and the reactor pretty much survived, so we won't have to think about a different source of power."

"But, what about the-"

"Weapons?" Jonathan cut Kira off, as he entered the hanger. "Don't worry about it, we'll think of something on our end."

"But, how?"

"Amongst the data we extracted, there was information about the structure and material information of each one of your armaments. And the Union and AEU were already researching beam weaponry, I'm sure there's something we can use."

"Err…"

"Oh, right. Different world. Sorry, kinda forgot about that for a bit. Guess you have some learning to do yourself, eh?"

"And with that," Ian said, as he put his hand on Jonathan's shoulder, "I'll leave this thing to you, Jon."

"EH?! Why me?! Can't you just get Sherilyn to do it?"

"She's busy with the maintenance of the 2nd generation Gundams, and you're the only other person around here I can leave this to."

"Yeah, you make that sound so nice. But you know that we're still swamped with work on the other two, right? Not to mention…"

"Which is why I'm leaving this to you. Can you do it?"

"*sigh* Alright, I'll see what I can do. But I'm going to need a few more personnel if we're going to stay on schedule."

"I'm counting on you, Jon." Ian finished off, as he headed towards the 00 Gundam.

As each engineer returned to their work, Kira turned to look at the Freedom, with a spark of hope lit within.

'Don't worry, we'll have you fixed up in no time.'

"Still, it's hard to believe that you've only been here for three weeks. You're practically like a native now, what with how fast you're learning our world's history."

"Weren't you working on the Freedom? Why are you-"

"Hey, I'm practically working on it alone here. Guy needs a break once in a while."

"I see…...but still, the technology in this world is amazing. Orbital Elevators, the world being powered by Solar energy, no such things as Naturals and Coordinators….."

"And yet, war still exists."

The moment Jonathan said that, the mood in the room turned a little dark.

Even after learning that the people who saved him were a private armed organization, known as Celestial Being, he can't help but sympathize with their goal to eradicate warfare, but he still felt a little conflicted, as they chose to do it through force.

After a moment of depressing silence, Jonathan finally broke depressing mood by changing the subject.

"Anyway…..you must be bored, being cooped up in here all the time. How 'bout I show you something interesting?"

"Something interesting?" That got Kira curious.

"That definitely piqued his interest.' "Yeah. We're about to start a test on another suit we're developing. Wanna tag along and have a look?"

"Sure, I'd like to."

And...that's chapter 3. I hope that's long enough for some of you.

Anyway, in regards to the Phase-shift armor's components, I've actually done my research. And the end result was that there is NO explanation on how the PS armor even works. And before any of you rant off saying "but it works by stopping any physical attacks blah blah blah...", I'm talking about how the technology is even APPLIED onto the armor surfaces to begin with, not what it does.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any description(wikia or official sources) on how the Phase-Shift armor even works, and this(the Nanomachines thing) is me taking liberties on how it's able to stop physical attacks, save the suit from the heat of an atmospheric re-entry, and change the suit's colors from White and Grey monotone, to the colorful palates we've come to know.

With that rant out of the way; Please do leave a review, in case I missed or messed up anything, and thank you for your support.

Uploaded: 25/06/2018

Next Update: 25/08/2018