I in no way own Gundam 00

Chapter 04

Previously on Shadow Meister

(Ptolemaios)

"Ms Sumeragi, there's new data from Veda uploading." Said Chris to the tactical forecaster, who as usual is drinking alcohol.

"What is it?" Sumeragi asked as the others on bridge look at her.

"It looks like footage from a battle. Let's take a look." She said playing the footage and the crew of the ptolemaios are shocked at what they see.

Now

The first to react was Lichty who shouted what he thought. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"

"What this idiot means is what did we just see." Said Lasse calmly.

"As soon as Exia and Dynames are onboard have all the Meisters and Ian in the conference room." Said Sumeragi as the others got back to their posts.

An hour later, the entire crew with the exception of Ian were assembled in the conference room.

Before the Meisters could ask, Sumeragi said. "Chris play that footage." For the next twenty minutes, the four pilots watched the same battle as the bridge crew even the normally stoned faced Setsuna and Tieria were stunned. Lockon was the first to speak.

"What was that?" Ironically that was the same question on the mind of the other three.

"That was the one responsible for the seemingly random attacks since we started our missions." Ms Sumeragi explained watching the Meisters reactions. "Chris get Ian on the line?" A minute later Ian appeared on the screen.

"What do you need? I'm in the middle of maintenance at the moment." Ian explained with a frown.

"Just want to ask if you know anything about this Mobile Suit?" Sumeragi asked showing the engineer a short clip.

"Sorry I don't know about this unit. However I recognize the pilots fighting style." Ian said getting everyone's attention. "Feldt bring up a file labeled 229703. It shouldn't be hard to find. When you found it play it." The file didn't take long to find and it was watched. The file turned out to be a mission footage.

"When and where is this and what Gundam is that?" Lasse asked as the crew continued to watch. It was a Gundam with a few similarities to Exia, with a rifle in one hand and a beam saber in the other. Destroying several space type Tierens.

"It's the same pilot. I can tell from the machines movements." Said Tieria as the video ended.

"To answer your questions. It's the same pilot, as for where and when. It's our base at L3, Ten years ago. As for the Gundam that Exia's predecessor, the Gundam Astraea." Ian concluded and was about to end the transmission when Sumeragi spoke up.

"Do you know this pilot, Ian?" Ian frowned but spoke.

"Yeah I know him. But unfortunately I haven't seen him in about seven years. His code name is Alex Crow. Back then he was registered as a reserve Meister and information agent. He also performed weapon testing when required." And processed to cut the link.

'Alex what the hell are you up to?' Ian though looking at his PC. After punching a few keys, a photo came up. On it was four adults, two teenagers and an infant. It seemed to be a younger Ian, younger Doctor Joyce Moreno with longer hair and Feldt as a baby with a young woman with blonde hair who was holding the baby, a teenage girl with brown hair, a young man with red hair and a young man with white hair and black sunglasses. 'Good times.'

(Flashback Ten years ago Krung Thep)

"Hey Alex." Ian said as he entered the hanger to see the only active Meister looking at the first and second generation Gundams. Alex looked exactly the same except he had shorter hair and instead of black he has a gray pilot suit on.

"Ian, have you ever thought about what the Gundams represent?" Alex asked still looking at the Gundams.

"The Gundams are a means to eradicate war." Ian replied with a textbook answer.

"I see. For me they represent a symbol of rebellion." Alex explained getting Ian's attention. "Using the Gundams we're rebelling against the current system." He finished staring the engineer right in the eye. "Because if you think about it. That's all we're really doing."

(Flashback End)

'Even now I don't get what you were talking about.' Ian though as he got back to work not before sending a message to an old friend.

After an unbearably quite dinner with the society awkward Setsuna and Tieria. Chris returned to the bridge and noticed an warning going off. After yelling at Lichty for a minute, she hit the alarm alerting the rest of the crew. After making a quick battle plan taking into account that Dynames was incapable of launching since it was still in the middle of maintenance and lacking it's left leg. The plan involved Kyrios and Virtue to attack the enemy from behind and Exia defends the ship while Dynames uses its rifle from the container. However not all everything goes according to plan as Allelujah was captured and Tieria was restrained by six Tierens. Just as the super soldier tieren was about to hit a beam blast came out of nowhere destroying it left arm. Several more shots came destroying the machines holding the cables connected to Virue's arms. Everything stopped as everyone looked around, only to see a somewhat familiar machine floating just above the fighting with its rifle pointed straight down. Only one word could be said by those who saw what happened. "Gundam."

Author's notes: sorry it took so long to get this chapter out. I been going through some personal issues.