Chapter 4: We Are Celestial Being
DISCLAIMER: I do not own gundam 00 or gsd, property of sunrise/Bandai, this is simply for fun and entertainment, and this is fan-fiction
Start date – 11/25/11 (Mid-morning 3am) Finished - 2/6/11 (4am morning)
Celestial Being leaves the Earths' atmosphere. The ship cuts through the white clouds. Its color changing to a burning red as it heads toward space. Anew's eyes moved slightly, she notice something on the sensors as they left the atmosphere. "Sensors are detecting multiple objects outside the perimeter of the battlefield." Anew informs.
"What is it?" Lasse asks as he pilots the ship toward the battle, slowing down as he hears this news.
Anew was looking at the radar to find the source of the objects. She was about to answer Lasses' question when Feldt noticed something on the radar.
"GN particles detected!" Feldt yelled looking at the screen in front of her. There were signs of displeasure from the crew-members on the bridge as they continued on course.
Hearing this, the pilots became alert and tense, knowing it had become a more difficult mission; having to fight A-laws at the same time. Allelujah sighs closing his eyes, not wanting to fight more than he needed to.
Tieria narrowed his eyes determined to eliminate all of the A-Laws forces and the Innovators that manipulated them.
Lockon had his hands behind his head, finding it no different from fighting anyone else. "Hopefully they'll be more of a challenge than the other suits." He said to himself as the orange Haro spun around flapping its ears as its eyes glowed. "Be serious! Be serious!" it said.
Setsuna thought to himself as he sat in the 00 Raisers cockpit. He had much in his mind, the A-Laws, the Innovators, this world and all of its military factions. "Just what does this all mean…?" he questions.
A-Laws ships.
One of the many ships lined up as a silver haired commander sat at the front chair on the bridge.
"So they've come, just as predicted."
"Major, should we send out the mobile suit to intercept them."
"Of course, that's why we are stationed here, we'll take them down here and now" Major Rindt said.
In the ships hangar, pilots scrambled to their suits. Hiling stood leaning on the wall as she waited for something. She felt a sensation as her quantum brainwaves were active. "Ribbons?" she said. "I understand." She said aloud receiving her orders.
The hatch on the Baikal class ship opened as Aheads and GN-XIII's launched.
The mobile suits heads for the Ptolemy in a large group. Hiling stayed in her Gedessa near the ships. Ribbons ordered she was to not interfere with Celestial Being's intervention and only go after the 00 Raiser.
Ptolemy's Bridge
"So what do you want us to do?" Lasse asks glancing back at Sumeragi.
She thought for a moment coming up with a new tactic to combat both the A-laws and proceeding with their intervention. She opens her eyes as she looked at Feldt. "Tell Setsuna and Lockon to proceed with the first mission. Allelujah and Tieria are to stay behind and defend the ship" she orders.
She then contacts Marie and Saji as she wanted both of them to experience how Celestial Being fought their battles. The two walked through the door as they sat at the two seats at the end. Saji watched to see how Celestial Being fought.
"Yes, Ma'am" Feldt said. She relays the message to the Meisters.
Outside the Ptolemaios
Seravee and Arios launched first to combat the A-laws forces and be a diversion for the 00 Raiser and Cherudim to head into the battle between ZAFT and the Earth Alliance. The Arios transformed into its mobile suit mode. Allelujah aimed at the incoming suits as he pulls the trigger a few times. The Arios extends its right arm. The rifle it held fires off pink beams equal to the number of times that Allelujah pulled the trigger.
Some of the A-Laws suits managed to dodge the fire while others were less fortunate and were destroyed by one or more shots that hit the suits torso or multiple shots damaged them far enough that the suit exploded on its own shortly after it was hit.'
Allelujah looked to his right, seeing a suit getting pass him. He turns the suit around. The Arios dashes toward the suit. It pulled the beam saber out from the front skirt armor as it slices the suit in two.
"I won't let you get to the ship!" Allelujah said determined to protect his allies. The Arios flies back into the group of A-laws suits preparing to take out even more suits with a dual use of its twin beam rifle and its saber.
While Allelujah dealt with the mobile suits, Tieria was making his way toward the ship as he intends on destroying any trace of A-laws. Using the GN Bazookas Tieria managed to make a large dent in their forces as the large beams destroyed many suits.
Tieria neared the ships. He used the GN field to block the beams from the enemy as he forced his way toward the ships. He sets the Bazooka's down. He aimed at the ship with the GN cannon's on its shoulders. The Cannons charged as he prepared to fire. The handle in his right hand rotated as he turned it, charging the particles into the shot.
Before he could fire, his sensors activated as he looked up. A large beam shot down from above. Tieria looked up to see the mobile suit that he faced before. "It's the Innovator!" he said looking at the Gedessa lowering itself to Seravee's view.
"I'll take you down before I'll get that double powered one." Hiling said confidently.
The Gedessa pulls out the beam saber as it dashed forward striking the Seravee as it swung its saber down at the Seravee. Tieria activates the GN shield as it blocks the saber for a moment. He tries to fire at the Gedessa using the cannons on the shoulder. The canons moved and positioned themselves targeting the Gedessa as it charges for a moment before firing. The Gedessa dodges quickly avoiding the attack.
"You're going to have to do better than that!" Hiling yelled out.
In Ptolemy's launch bay
Setsuna faced the screen that popped up to his right. "Understood," Setsuna said looking at Feldt as he listened to the orders. The 00 Raiser was put on the Catapult as Feldt looked at him worriedly as she told him "Be careful…."
"Roger, Setsuna F. Seiei, 00 Raiser, eliminating targets!" he yelled out as the mobile suit launched.
The GN particle pours out of the suits drives under the two binders. It heads into the combat zone for the mission.
The Cherudim is put on the catapult as Lockon grinned wrapping his hands around the handles to his left and right. "Lockon Stratos, Targeted and firing!" he yells as the Cherudim launched. The suit holds its GN sniper gun II in its machine gun mode close to its torso as it rests on the left hand while the right hand held the handle.
A-laws
Hiling maneuvers the Gedessa as it dodges the fire from the Seravee's Bazooka's. She then looked to her left as the alert appeared on the screen. "So it's come out." She said seeing two objects heading away from the ship. Hiling's attention divided. She turned seeing a large pink beam heading toward the suit. The Gedessa moved out of the way as she narrowed her eyes in anger.
"Insect!" she yelled out.
She aimed the mega launcher at the Seravee. She fires the weapon as a distraction. The beam was easily dodged by Seravee as it destroyed many A-laws suits that were behind Seravee. While Seravee dodged, Hiling took this opportunity and leaves the battle heading for the 00 Raiser.
"What the?" Tieria asks as he looked to see the suit heading off toward the other military force's battle. "It's headed for the 00 Raiser!" Tieria tightened his grip on the handles. He pushed them forward. He prepared to leave to give chase until he looked at the small screen in front of him.
"Stop, stay on the mission, finish off the A-Laws suits first!" Sumeragi said.
"But Miss Sumeragi—"
"Setsuna can handle himself and Lockon's with him." She assured him.
"Fine."
The Seravee turned around as it continued on, taking out the A-laws suit with its bazooka's and cannons.
ZAFT and Earth Alliances' battle.
"Commander, we're getting some radio jamming" a soldier said on the bridge of an Alliance ship. The Commander looked down. He had never experienced this before. "No matter, prepare the suits for launch; we're going to take down those Coordinators once and for all!"
The Blue Zaku Phantom had just finished taking out two suits with its beam rifle as the shots went through the torso of the Daggers when Yzak noticed the jamming again. "What the…this again!" he yelled out annoyed by this. He looked over seeing the blue suit pass by him as Yzak watched it slice a Dagger L in two.
Yzak calmed down a bit assuming they were there to assist them until he saw the 00 Raiser taking out multiple GINNs. His eyes opened wide as he gritted his teeth together in anger. "What the Hell!" he yelled.
Dearka's suit had finished firing at an Alliance ship as the Gunner Zaku lowered its cannon as its mono-eye turned to the right as he looked at Yzak. "What's going on?" he question. He looked forward seeing a shot from a Dagger unit heading for him. He moved quickly to dodge it. The shield then rotates and the handle of a weapon ejects out. The Zaku pulls out the Zaku's beam tomahawk and throws the weapon at the unit. The beam tomahawk spun rapidly. It cuts the enemy suit in half and returns to the Zaku.
Dearka noticed a large beam headed in his direction. He moved the handles back and increased the thrusters output as he tries to dodge it. The suits left leg stuck out as the right leg was bent. The beam came to quick and the left leg was incinerated by the beam. "Grah!"
Dearka yells as he was pushed back by the explosion.
Yzak prepared to attack the 00 Raiser when he notices a large amount of explosions to his far right. The suit turns around, its mono eye moved to the right. Yzak saw the Cherudim wiping out both side's mobile suits. Yzak watches as the Cherudim used its GN sniper gun II machine gun mode and its beam pistol just taking out the mobile suits like they were nothing.
Lockon looked around at the mobile suits, annoyed by how weak the enemies were on both sides, "I should have stayed behind, at least the A-laws were more of a challenge." He complained. He sighs when he hears Haro speaking
"Enemy above! Enemy above!"
Lockon looks, seeing a Zaku Phantom coming down at him with its beam tomahawk. Lockon moved the left handle to the side and then turned the handle. The Cherudim raised up its beam pistol. The weapon flipped up as the white area parries the beam weapon. He felt his suit being pushed back by the enemy suit as he grinned.
"Looks like there are some who're worth my time"
He pushes the left handle forward pushing the suit back as he broke the clash as he backed off a bit and then fired the machine gun. The Zaku Phantom dodges the shots with slight ease. It returned fire taking aim with its own rifle.
Lockon moves the controls maneuvering the Cherudim as it dodged the beams.
The Cherudim extends its arm out. The GN sniper II changed to its Sniper mode. Lockon then locks onto the suit as he fires at the suit. The beam hits the Zaku Phantom's right arm and blows it off.
Yzak watched seeing the pilots' signal engaging the green suit. "Shiho!" he yells. The blue Zaku rushes toward her location. He sliced his way through many suits, trying to get to her quickly.
Lockon targets the suit again as he locked onto the torso. Shiho moved the left shield of the suit to block the shot, but the shield is destroyed in the processes of defending herself. The Cherudim dashes forward and fired once again.
Without any other shields and her suit in such a condition, the reality of dying hits her; causing her to freeze up. She thought she was going to die. She closed her eyes preparing for death when she heard an explosion. She opens her eyes as the smoke cleared away seeing the blue Zaku.
"Commander Joule!" she cried out.
"Shiho, return to the ship I'll deal with this guy" he ordered.
"I-I can still help!" She yelled determined to get her pride as a soldier back. "No! Your suits critically damage. It's better to live and fight another day!" Yzak yelled at her. "Y-yes sir." She replies as she heads back.
The Blue Zaku pulls out its long beam axe as Yzak narrowed his eyes. "You've taken enough of my comrades!" he yelled.
The Cherudim stops as Lockon looked at the blue suit. "It's that one…" he said as he recalled the colony drop.
"You're going down!" Yzak yelled. The Blue Zaku Phantom dashes forward as it swung its long weapon at the Cherudim.
Lockon quickly noticed how fast this pilot was as he dodged the weapon. Lockon narrowed his eyes as the Cherudim backed away, "This one's good..." he commented. He thought of using trans-am or not against this pilot.
At Setsuna's location
Setsuna finished shooting down two suits using both GN swords Rifle mode. He looks to his right, seeing an orange Zaku Phantom dashing towards him. He engages the suit for a moment. The beam tomahawk of the orange suit and the GN sword II clashed. "This guy…" Setsuna said finding himself challenged by this pilot. The battle was stopped when the rear sensors detected a large heat source. Setsuna and the pilot of the orange Zaku dodge it. The orange beam destroyed all the suits in its path.
Seeing a suit heading for the blue suit the pilot leaves the 00 Raiser to finish off taking out the other suits and Earth forces ships.
"This beam…" he said looking up as he saw the Gedessa, "That new model!" The 00 Raiser turns around aiming both its rifles at the Gedessa as Setsuna fires back with a beam that seemed equal in power.
Hiling looked as she was surprised that the gundam had fired a beam that seemed as strong as the Gedessa's weapon. "Even though the suit has more diffused particles, it shouldn't be able to keep up with the Gedessa…can it?" she questions as she moved the targeting icon away from her face as she heads toward the 00 Raiser.
At the PLANTs.
Durandal and the other officials looked on seeing the mobile suits Celestial Being used entering their battle. The others began talking to each other as they hadn't seen the gundams before. Durandal looked closely at the 00 Gundam.
"Should we retreat?"
"Are they helping us or attacking us?"
Many of them asked those question and similar ones. They were beyond confused by the actions Celestial Being took.
"What should we do?" one of them asks Durandal.
He didn't know to be honest; he was confused as them, even after seeing the suits fight before. "As much as I want to call them back we can't leave the Earth Alliance out there…" He said as if he knew the Alliance had something that was a danger to the PLANTs.
In the room Athrun waited
Athrun was sitting there waiting patiently as he waited on the Chairman. He heard a lot of commotion. He looked over, seeing a group of people crowding the television. He heads over and squeezed through seeing that Celestial Being participated in the battle.
"What are they doing?" he thought to himself as he watched.
He looked to his right seeing someone with an all too familiar pink hair to the far right talking to many men in black suits. He had a questioning look on his face. He approached the person as he lightly grabbed their shoulder.
"Lacus..?"
The person turned around and to Athrun's surprise, it was someone that looked like Lacus.
"Oh Athrun…I wasn't expecting to see you so soon..." she said. Her voice and attitude were completely different from what Athrun remembered of Lacus, even though it seemed like Lacus, he knew she wasn't just from the sound of her voice and how she presented herself. Just before he asked another question the men led this Lacus to another room ignoring him completely.
He was left alone as he thought of why there was another Lacus in the PLANTs. He hoped he would get his answers from the chairman during their meeting.
ORB
Shinn and the others watched as they were confused as the leaders up in the PLANTs. "What the hell are they doing attacking both sides?" Shinn said in an angered tone.
"Is this what they do?" he asks as he was extremely annoyed by this. "How the hell does this achieve the end of conflicts?"
Lunamaria looked as she kept an eye on the Cherudim. "What is there to achieve from this?" she questioned confused and angered that they attacked her fellow ZAFT comrades.
Ray watched silently as he thought to himself. "This will achieve nothing…"
Celestial Being's actions were so perplexing that the news broadcasts what they could of the battle. Murrue, Andrew, Lacus, Cagalli, and Kira looked as they saw what they were doing.
"All they're doing is causing people to hate them." Andrew comments.
"But if all the people hated them, then they'd unite under a common enemy…" Kira said gaining the attention of everyone. They were surprised by what he said.
Murrue watched as she thought of what Sumeragi said.
A-Laws
Arios and Seravee were finishing up the mobile suits. The only the ships themselves remained. "What do we do now, Major?"
Rindt breathed quickly taking short breaths as he was scared and nervous. He was on the losing side of the battle. Nearly all the mobile suits were destroyed. "Why did Captain Hiling leave? Have you contacted her yet?" he demanded.
"No sir, it seems she's engaging the twin powered one."
Hearing this Rindt grunted even more as he felt a surge of coldness running up his spine. He felt death was upon him. "All forces retreat!" he yelled.
The remaining ships leave the battlefield. The Seravee and Arios heads toward Setsuna and Lockon.
Earth Alliance forces
Their forces are diminishing, now's our chance!" the commander said as the Windams equipped with Nuclear weapons head for the PLANTs.
"Send the second wave now!" the commander orders. The second wave of nuclear equipped windams launched shortly after the first.
"Hehe lets do this right this time, for the preservation of our blue and Pure world!" a pilot yelled out. The group heads for the plants.
Back on the Battlefield
The 00 Raiser parry's the Gedessa's saber. Setsuna pushes the Gedessa back, then broke the clash. He used the other sword and slashed at the Mega Launcher, destroying it. Hiling yelled out. She didn't want to fail her mission; she needed the 00 Raiser to use Trans Am. The Gedessa then pulls out its second saber before it charged at the 00.
Lockon and Yzak's battle
The Cherudim stores its Sniper Gun on its right shoulder. It pulls out its second pistol as Lockon changed them from the pistol mode to its axe mode. The battle turned into a close combat match with the pilot of the blue mobile suit constantly rushing towards Lockon.
"Damn…" Lockon wasn't one for close combat but he knew how to hold his own against this pilot. The Cherudim blocks the Zaku's weapon and then moved under the arm as Lockon used the other pistol to fire at the arm destroying it as he moved back and launched a wave of GN missiles at the blue Zaku.
Yzak sees the wave of missiles coming at him. He held on the trigger. The Slash wizard pack on his suit released a furry of beams at the missiles as the two collide and explodes.
"If this keeps going on…then I'll…" he said. Yzak considers the condition of his suit against the enemy suit. He had grown to be a bit less reckless during the last two years and knew when to fall back instead of trying to take the enemy down with him.
Yzak looked down seeing a new message. "They're what!" he yelled out.
Ptolemy's Bridge
Feldt's eyes were wide with shock when she saw what was on the radar. "Miss Sumeragi! "
"What is it?"
"New mobile suits have entered the battlefield; they have nuclear weapons!"
Sumeragi's eyes showed a rare look of surprise. She had not calculated this factor. She did not know of the Cosmic Era's history. "Get all the gundams to stop those nukes" she ordered.
The order was sent to the gundams as they head to intercept the suits.
Both Marie and Saji were shocked by this new development.
"Nuclear weapons….?" Saji questioned to himself. He thought why any military force would need that kind of power.
Tieria and Allelujah's location
Both pilots looked at the new order shocked at the appearance of nuclear weapons. They didn't expect this to happen.
"Let's go Allelujah!" Tieria yells.
"Alright"
The pilots increased the thrust output of their gundams as they changed direction attempting to intercept the windams before they got to the PLANTs.
Yzak and Lockon's Battle
Both pilots stopped fighting when they got their message from their ships.
Lockon leaves the battle against the blue Zaku. He heads to rendezvous with Tieria and Allelujah.
Yzak sees the nuclear weapons on the Windams as he rushes toward them, leaving as he tries to get to the windams.
00 Raiser and Gedessa
Setsuna grunted. He didn't want to waste any more time on the Innovator, having received the news of nuclear equipped mobile suits, this Innovator was no longer a top priority to him. He pushes the suit away and then stabs it with the GN sword II. Hiling retreats quickly, ejecting the drive on the back as the suit explodes.
"Damn it, I failed!" she yelled in defeat.
Setsuna heads to the nuclear equipped mobile suits, dashing quickly toward the interception point. He passes Yzak, ignoring the Blue Zaku
The Blue Zaku's mono eye turned as Yzak noticed the 00 Raiser passing him. "Damn, I won't make it!" Yzak said.
Ribbon's Room
He closed his eyes sighing. "It's so difficult to find good help these days." He said as his eyes glowed. He connects to another Innovade and gave it his orders.
Near the PLANTs.
The ZAFT weapon; The Stampeder charged as it prepared to fire at the mobile suits equipped with Nukes.
"Power charged. Prepare to fire!"
The Earth Alliance suits fired the nukes as it heads to the PLANTs.
The weapon was about to fire when the weapon was shot at by a large beam. Hidden in the darkness of space was a mobile armor that had a Tau Drive. "I won't let you interfere with Ribbons plans." The pilot said as he leaves, making sure to keep himself hidden to aid in the others objectives with the chairman.
What the hell?" the commander yelled out. He saw the weapon destroyed. He feared for his life as he saw the mobile suits firing off their warheads.
In the PLANTs
The officials' panics even more. "What are we going to do now!" one of them yelled out.
Durandal narrowed his eyes as he ignored all the commotion. He didn't miss the fact that the Stampeder was destroyed by a red-orange colored beam.
The three Gundams.
Tieria looked at the ETA as he narrowed his eyes. "We'll have to use Trans-Am!" Tieria said. He knew they would not make it in time without it.
"Trans-Am!" the three said as their suits glowed the pinkish red. Their suits speed up and left after images. The three stopped as they aimed their long range weapons at the nukes. Allelujah pushed both of his controls forward and held on the trigger The Arios fired its submachine guns rapidly at the nukes.
Tieria kept a constant fire rate. He avoided using the GN bazooka's in any of its high-powered configurations, avoiding any more damage the PLANTs.
Setsuna arrives as he dashes in and fires the GN sword II rifles at the warheads. "Eliminating Targets!" he yelled out as he was focused on the objective.
Yzak stops and watches the suits. He looked in confusion, seeing three of their suits using some kind of system or ability that he had never heard or seen of until now.
"What's going on...?" he said as he watched the warheads explode one after another.
Second wave suits
"Come on boys, we'll finish the job that our brothers couldn't!" one of the pilots yelled. The others cheered in agreement as they followed the pilot and launched their warheads to one of the other PLANts.
All we need is one of them to go down and then we'll have our true world, our blue and pure world!" the pilot said laughing insanely
Back at the battle
Lockon fired at the warheads using the machine gun. He yelled out "Haro!"
"Shield bits deployed! Shield bits deployed!" it yells out
The shield bits on the Cherudim's rear GN drive, its shoulder and its knees leave and fly off. They changed to their assault mode rushing toward the warheads and firing at them.
He looks at the screen seeing Sumeragi's face. "What is it?" he asks. He narrowed his eyes keeping up the fire.
"There's a group of warheads on the east, take them out in one shot." She ordered.
"Understood," he said heading to a location where he could target all of the warheads.
Lockon then activates the suits holographic sniper mode. He locks onto the line of warheads. Waiting for the right moment, he was a bit hesitant if he would hit all the warheads.
"Lockon!" Allelujah yells out
"You are Lockon!" Tieria said.
"As the name says, targeted and firing!" he yelled, pulling the trigger. The sniper gun fires a large beam at the warheads destroying all of them, saving the PLANTs.
The three gundams' trans-am deactivated after their limit was reached as they regrouped.
At the PLANTs
Everyone sighed of relief seeing the new machines destroying the warheads.
The officials talked of how the gundams were while they were using trans-am
"I've never seen anything like that!" one of them said.
"You think they're our allies or our enemy?" another asks still confused that they attacked and defended them.
Durandal sighed. He was glad that the PLANTs were saved but now he thought of how the Stampeder was destroyed. He didn't let off on the fact that he saw the beam color. This reminded him of the suits the A-laws used. He wondered if he would truly be willing to talk and become allies with those possibly responsible for the PLANTs destruction, had Celestial Being not help.
He was still in thought when someone alerts him. "Chairman, there's another wave of nuclear warheads heading for the west colony!"
"What!" he yelled out.
Celestial Being
The four suits prepared to return back to Ptolemaios when they got another grieving update.
"Damn it…we won't be able to make it in time!" Allelujah yelled slamming his hand on the panel.
Everyone was silent when they realized they wouldn't be able to help. Setsuna looked ahead. He grips onto the controls tightly
The 00 Raiser flies off toward the warhead and leaves the others.
"Setsuna's left, and he's headed for the warheads!" Feldt said.
Everyone questioned his action when Sumeragi knew what he intended to do. "Go Setsuna…." She thought.
As the 00 Raiser heads to intercept the warhead, Setsuna pushes the buttons activating trans-am. The suit glows as it leaves two large circles made of particles.
Athrun's location
Athrun heard something outside of the colony. He heads near the window to see what it was. He saw many warheads heading to the plant colony near the one he was at. "Noo!" he yelled out hitting his fist on the glass.
Athrun then saw a blur to its right heading toward the colony and warheads. He looked seeing so many particles as he looked down seeing them in the room he was in. "What the…" he said.
His eye opens wide when he heard voices in his head. "What in the world's going on…" he thought.
When the 00 Raiser leaves and its distance father from Athrun the voices in his head stopped. He sighs dropping to the floor. "What…the…hell was that…" he said.
Setsuna's location
The 00 Raiser flies through all of the warheads as it slashes at them quickly. The suit extends its arms out. The GN sword II changes to its rifle mode. The binders on the drives faced forward as Setsuna pulled on the triggers. The 00 Raiser fires four large blasts. The beam engulfs the rest of the warheads and destroys them.
Plants
Some of the people in Durandal's office heard voices. They thought they were going crazy. Durandal himself experienced some of the voices as he wondered what caused this phenomenon.
"The warheads were destroyed by the blue suit sir" one of the soldiers informed him. Durandal looked up as he thought "That twin powered one…I will have this power…"
Setsuna
The 00 Raiser passes by the PLANTs as Setsuna could hear voices coming from the people in the PLANTs. He showed a surprised expression as he heard someone's thought about "have this power." He had to deactivate it quickly. He hoped this activation did not cause another transition.
Setsuna stayed still while his comrades' head for his location. "Hmm…." Setsuna said thinking about who thought of having this power, and what "this power" meant.
Hours later with Athrun.
Athrun sighed. He assumed the chairman was too busy. He was about to leave when he saw Durandal coming down the stairs. "Ah Athrun..." the chairman greets him.
"Chairman..." Athrun said looking at him. Durandal smiles at him apologetically. "I'm sorry that I'm late for our meeting, things came up and I had to deal the things at hand." He said.
"Its…fine." Athrun said.
"I have to apologize once again, for I have a very important meeting I must attend. If you wouldn't mind, I can have one of our people set a room for you and we can have our meeting in the morning." He suggests.
Athrun took this as a bit of an insult. He put some meeting in front of his. Although the chairman did say it was important. Not wanting to wait any longer, he replies to his offer. "That's kind of you, but I think I'll take a rain check on our meeting. I have to go back to earth." He said looking down slightly.
"I understand. Contact me when you wish to have another meeting." Durandal said as he walks past Athrun.
Athrun looked at Durandal as he left, thinking to himself about what kind of meeting he had to attend that he would go and postpone their meeting.
He turns around and then heads back to the shuttle port as he prepares to head back to earth and orb.
Ptolemy Bridge
The Gundam Meisters stood on the ground screen as Setsuna looked down, knowing that he would be punished in some way for disobeying orders and he was prepared for whatever punishment he would be given.
"You disobeyed a direct order not to use trans-am while using the 00 raiser and you've possibly caused another transition…" Sumeragi said. Setsuna remained quiet waiting for the punishment.
"But in the end….good job…"
Setsuna looked up in surprise as the others did as well.
"What do you mean?" Tieria asks.
"If he didn't then there would have been a nuclear explosion and millions would have died. I believe that prevent such an atrocity is more important than using or not using trans-am."
Tieria was silent. There was no arguing with that point. Lives of people were more important than if more people showed up due to the 00 Raiser's Trans-am.
Mileina looked over at the group as she pulled up a broadcast. "I think this is something you should look at Miss Sumeragi." She said.
The Meisters and Sumeragi looked down at the screen watching a broadcast from ZAFT.
Chairman Durandal stood in front of the podium as he spoke. "Today's events were both troubling and confusing. The group known as Celestial Being interfered in the battle attacking both sides. It seemed as though they were enemies but Celestial Being saved one of the PLANTs. My opinion about them as of now stands that they are not an enemy of ZAFT. If they continue to interfere then we as a nation will have no choice but to view them as an enemy. This will be my only warning to Celestial Being."
"Hmm….It's like back then…" Setsuna said as he watched the broadcast.
Hours after ZAFTs announcement, the Atlantic federation aired theirs.
"We of declare that If this group calling themselves Celestial Being do not yield to their interference then we will declare them as enemies of the Atlantic Federation. We will withdraw this declaration if they ally themselves with the Federation" the announcer said.
"Looks like we've become the target of the world again…that's just great." Allelujah said.
Tieria narrows his eyes tightening his grip on his arm, he obviously hated this situation.
Lockon just kept his eyes closed as he leaned on the wall. "What's different?" he said.
Setsuna just looked down watching the announcer being photographed. "There's something to be done here…" he thought.
At the boarding station in the PLANTs.
Athrun watches both announcements as he looked at the screens. "They've done it now…" he said to himself seeing that Celestial Being was now on the fence with both ZAFT and the Atlantic Federation.
"Sir, the ship is ready for you" the guard said showing him to the door.
"Right." He said as he goes through and took his seat.
The ship launches as it made its way back to earth.
ORB
Cagalli argued with the other board members as they tried to persuade her into joining the Federation. With Celestial Being showing themselves and demonstrating their abilities they presumed that it would be in best interest for ORB to join with a larger nation.
"Just give me the night…I'll give you an answer tomorrow…" she told them. After discussing whether they should give her the time to think they agreed, giving her the time.
Later that night she sat in the office alone, letting out a sigh. "This is too much…." She said to herself. The pressure of joining the federation was heavy to begin with but with Celestial Being showing up the pressure was multiplied ten-fold.
She looked down to see a call trying to connect. She looked at the number and smiled letting it through. "Athrun…what are you doing calling me at this time?" she asks
"Oh, sorry I didn't know it was that late…I'll let you rest if you want."
"N-No…" she said blushing slightly looking at the screen. "So why did you call…?" she asks.
Athrun blushed seeing her blush, but then replies to her question. "I called to tell you I'll be back in ORB by the afternoon." He told her.
She smiled feeling some weight being lifted off of her when she heard that he'd return. "Well that's good…"
The two conversed for a few more hours before they ended the call due to the time. Before she retires for the night she felt a stronger sense of courage and belief in herself.
The next day on the Minerva
Arthur walks into Gladys's room as they spoke. "Do you think we should leave ma'am?"
She smiled at Arthur. "I don't think there's a need to yet. ORB is not a part of the Atlantic Federation and we haven't gotten orders from Head Quarters."
"What of Celestial Being ma'am." He asks.
"The chairman has not declared them as enemies, yet. If they interfere in any future battles, that is when they are the enemy" she explained.
Celestial Being Forces in ORB
The members there got word that Celestial Being would make their announcement in response to ZAFT and the Atlantic Federation.
"Looks like we'll have to get out of here." One of them said
"How? We don't exactly have a powerful ship like the Ptolemaios" another replies.
"We'll find a way." Linda assures them.
Ptolemy's Bridge
"Feldt." Sumeragi said.
"Yes Ma'am." She replied getting the video feed ready. They had no access to Veda and Veda had the prerecorded message of Aeolia. Without Veda they had to make a person announcement.
She began the announcement as the video feed was sent to all armed forces.
"We are Celestial Being. No matter what the reason; religion, territory, supplies, revenge, all of these factors means nothing to us. We will engage in any battle that requires us to do so. This is our only warning for all armed forces to lay down your weapons and stop fighting. We will not stop until all conflict is eliminated."
The message is sent to all of the nations. All of them had a similar reaction thinking it was some kind of joke.
In ORB on the Minerva
Shinn watched along with the others as he scoffs. "What a bunch of Hypocrite…" he said storming out of the room.
Lunamaria looked at the screen as she thought back to her brief moment meeting Lockon. "Why do all this…." She said to herself.
On the Bridge
Gladys and the others watched. "So that's what you choose…" she said to herself.
PLANTs
Durandal he turns off the television after watching the announcement by Celestial Being. "It's just like you said…" he said. He turned to face a man with green short hair. "So you are Ribbons…." He said looking at the man.
"Yes…I am" Ribbons said in a smooth tone. He grinned at the Chairman. This meeting would bring his power to a greater level and bring him a step closer to his goal.
There it is Chapter 4. I know it's a long wait and again, had trouble with this chapter. It might be a case of writers block but hoping that goes away soon. Anyway, hope you enjoyed, r&r. Any suggestions put it on the review or message me, any errors, point that out (kindly) on the review, thank you and keep reading.