Gundam Seed Purpose
Chapter 5: The Problem
The Heliopolis crew all giggled as they watched the doctor tending to Gekido's wounds. His arm was tied up in a sling and he slouched his shoulders on the bed as the nurse stitched up the cut on his head. He growled at the crowd outside the door sending them cowering back a bit. Holding an icepack to his eye Gekido tapped his feet together, something he usually did when he was ticked and trying to control it.
Flying a machine when your bleeding is a bitch, nurses are bitch's, Eurasia are bitches and Kira Yamato is a bitch for not coming to visit me, hell even the superior officers and that new kid came!"Now I trust you will stay away from the cockpit for a few days!" The Doctor said looking over Gekido's chart.
"The hell with that!" Gekido growled getting off the bed and walking past the Heliopolis crew.
The young natural walked to the cafeteria and looked at the three tables, Murdock and a few of the mechanics sat on one all muttering amongst themselves while the middle table was empty and the end one was occupied by Canard Pars. Unlike the other crewmen he didn't wear a uniform and instead wore more casual leather clothing including a jacket, trousers and fingerless gloves. Gekido walked over to the kitchen and picked up a tray.
"Good to see you finally got discharged!" Kai Yamada the chef of the ship stated, he was a man in his early twenties with red hair and blue eyes, he wore the white chef's clothing and had his sleeves rolled up.
"Please tell me your serving the stake again" Gekido said.
Kai smiled as he dropped a steak onto Gekido's plate "No boiled potatoes today I'm afraid, we weren't able to resupply at Artemis so there have been water restrictions set, hell we cant even clean the dishes in the sink" he said.
"Hang on a second this is the plate I used yesterday I can tell by the chip on it, so how the hell did you get it clean?" Gekido asked.
"Spit shine!" Kai grinned as Gekido's face burned red with anger, "Hey trust me its not nearly as bad as what we've been doing to clean Murdoch's plate" Gekido's glare changed to a satisfied smirk as he saluted Kai and sat down in front of Canard.
The two pilots exchanged quick glances then resumed eating. Laughter erupted in the cafeteria as Murdoch cracked a joke. Flay, Sai, Tolle, Kuzzey and Miriallia walked into the cafeteria and took their food. Sai sat next to Flay who shuffled back a bit.
"What's wrong Flay?" Sai asked.
"Well with all the water restrictions I wasn't able to take a shower today" Flay said and both Canard and Gekido scoffed.
'Looks like the ballerina princess aint pleased with four eyes' Canard thought.
Arranged relationships, they never work out!Gekido munched down on his steak disgusting those present with his bestial eating habits. Canard merely shrugged his shoulders while Flay and Miriallia actually covered their mouths. Tolle patted his stomach as the group began finishing their meals.
"Now Flay its up to you but I think you should apologise to Kira when he gets here" Sai said.
"But why?" Flay whined.
"I certainly can't force you but don't you think the situation calls for it?" Sai asked.
"Yeah the fact is Kira went through a loud of hassle back there because of what you said, its not as big a deal to us but the truth is that Kira's a coordinator so we're stepping on egg shells here" Tolle explained.
"I'm not asking much your both bound to run into each other at some point and it'll only make things unpleasant if you don't apologise" Sai said.
"Ok if you think it's for the best I suppose I'll apologise" Flay sighed.
Gekido removed his sling and began flexing his arm a bit.
"You heal pretty fast!" Canard said taking a quick glimpse at Gekido's bruised arm before taking a sip of water.
"It's always been a Natural gift, the doctors probably baffled by the results on my chart as well as my recovery process" Gekido said folding his arms.
"You sure your not a coordinator?" Kuzzey asked.
"No, blood and sweat Kuzzey two things idiots from Blue Cosmos should learn to do if they want to surpass Coordinators, it wouldn't exactly hurt you guys to train more often either" Gekido said.
"How come you guys aren't wearing your uniforms?" Tolle asked.
"My jacket was uncomfortable and pilots need to be relaxed you know, I've worn this shirt since I was 12 and it still fits and feels comfortable".
"I'm a Eurasian soldier and right now there's no superiors to order me around so I can wear what I want" Canard said.
Kira entered the cafeteria just as Murdoch and his crew left. Sai nudged Flay's shoulder and the girl hesitantly got up off her chair and walked over to Kira.
"Kira, I'm sorry about what I said at the base…about you being a coordinator" Flay said bowing her head for only a second.
"Its ok…it was true after all!" Kira said rubbing his head.
Canard and Gekido shook their heads at the sight, the latter got off his seat and quickly grabbed Kira taking him outside of the cafeteria. Holding him in a headlock Gekido whispered into Kira's ear.
"What the hells wrong with you Kira, I'd be going medieval on that girl for what she did"
"Well you see I uh…" Kira trailed off blushing.
"Wait a sec you like her don't ya, well I suppose I could respect you with your taste in women, well in terms of looks that is" Gekido said releasing his hold on Kira and patting him on the back. "How are the conditions of the suits!"
"With the water restrictions we cant use the washer so it making the mechanics jobs a lot harder" Kira said.
"I could understand that, I want to talk to you about what Garcia said earlier, you don't listen to a word that idiot says ok, you have no obligation to ZAFT and if there was such a thing as race traitors then Canard in there would be one too and he gets on fine with shooting down his fellow coordinators" Gekido explained.
"I'll be fine" Kira said putting on a warming smile.
"Good to hear that, cause if I hear that you froze up I'll kick you ass" Gekido said walking back to his room to catch up on some sleep.
In the Plants meanwhile Miguel worked tirelessly in improving his skills as a pilot. Piloting a GINN training type he ran through various exercises while mechanics began their work on his GINN. Miguel smiled in triumph as he beat his shooting range score, another exercise later again a smile crept across Miguel's face as his GINN stood over six or seven sliced up GINN drones. He walked through the corridors of the training facility and much to his surprise he met both Rau Le Creuscet and Dagger Thanos. Immediately standing to attention he saluted the two commanders.
"At ease Miguel, I would have thought with you being granted shore leave you would go and see your family" Rau said.
"Well sir I'm here improving my abilities as well as having my GINN upgraded" Miguel said.
"Yes I know I'm the one who approved of some "special" upgrades to your suit" Rau said smiling.
"IF only all of the soldier were as dedicated as you are Aiman, I would be training too if my duties as a commander weren't tying me down, over the past few hours I've had a lot of mothers and fathers to inform, damn war!" Thanos growled.
"But Chairman Zala has come up with a plan to end the conflict quickly right?" Miguel asked.
"Yes" Both commanders stated.
"To be completely honest with you sirs I'd like to meet this other mobile suit with the Archangel again in battle, I want to be the one to defeat him" Miguel said and Rau smirked.
'Oh believe me Miguel, with what we're doing to your machine you may very well be the one to shoot him down, if the mercenaries don't do it for us' he thought.
"GOD DAMN IT!!" Gekido yelled running through the corridors of the ship waving his fists at the Haro that had woken him up.
"This ship is crazy…and from me that's saying something" Canard said.
Tachi and Kisagi giggled at Canards comment. Gekido panted as he came to a halt at Yamato's office.
If I ever get my hands on the guy who invented those things, then so help me I'll crush his head beneath my boot!
"Hey Gekido, Lieutenant Ramias has asked for us on the bridge, presumably it has something to do with our water problem" Tolle said as he and Miriallia walked over to Gekido.
Last time I checked with the bridge we weren't even close to an allied base, but we were getting closer to the debris belt, and there would be plenty of frozen blocks of ice to fix our water problems for a good long while, that is if the officers are smart enough to get over the fact that we'd be taking water from a graveyard!
'I wonder what Commander Le Creuscet wanted me for?' Miguel thought as he walked through the corridors of the military base.
The ZAFT ace stopped at the door to the hanger bay to see Rau waiting for him. He saluted the commander who returned with his own salute before typing a few keys into the door.
"Miguel you do remember I told you that I authorised some very special upgrades to your GINN right?" Rau asked the pilot who nodded his head. "As you know the Black Storm pilot using the Massacre was the spy who told us of the six units, for quite a while he was sending in bits and pieces of information to the home front, using data he gave us on the beam weaponry of the Duel, our own beam weaponry project as well as development of rocket boosters we decided to incorporate these ideas into the upgrades of your GINN…I suppose you cant really call it a GINN anymore!" Rau smiled as he opened the door of the hanger.
Miguel stared in shock at the orange mobile suit standing in the middle of the hanger. Though the chest and hands remained unchanged the other features that would identify it as a GINN were missing, its head was a similar shape to the Gundam's but instead of two eyes it had one and unlike traditional Gundams the head was thicker, the shoulder guards were the same as the GAT series and attached to them were two Thermal energy cannons like the ones used by the CGUE deep arms mobile suits, its wings were gone replaced with a rocket pack with two small wing shapes on the back of it as well as a single beam sabre, to the side of the mobile suit was a shield with a skull and cross bones on it, the mobile suits legs were more similar in design to the CGUE's than traditional GINNs.
"The new unit has thrusters attached to its back, feet, elbows, chest and the tips of its feet allowing for quick manoeuvres, its propulsion system will allow you to move through an enemy fleet avoiding the enemies fire, the generator was replaced with those used by the CGUE deep arms mobile suits and you can clearly see the thermal cannons, the parts are much lighter increasing your general speed, your armaments will be a MA-M21G beam rifle and a heavy assault machine gun like the ones our GINN's use" Rau explained though Miguel wasn't paying much attention, his gaze was fixed on the new mobile suit.
"My new machine!" Miguel said in shock.
Rau smiled at Miguel's expression "A high performance mobile suit like this needs a name" he said.
Miguel lowered his head for a moment then smirked, as he looked up at the suit "I'll call it Defrock!"
Next Double Chapter arc: The Graveyard and The Mercs
Junius Seven, how the hell can the Earth Forces get away with something like this? This place may be a graveyard but we need water and supplies. Things were supposed to be easy but now we've run into this serpent tail group, and this stealth mobile suit and to top those off a wrecked civillian ship, all in a days work for a Gundam pilot I suppose. Watch out Blue Gundam cause not even your sword will pierce the Arc Shield!