GUNDAM:CHANGE THE WORLD
Hello my readers, it is I AraelDranoth once again.
I was kind of disappointed with this chapter as I was with the last but I guess it is mainly because I so deperately want to get to when Setsuna will meet HER.
Until that time I must say that I hope you enjoy the story and to please review whenever possible.
In regards to 00 it is a machine that is on the same level as the Freedom and the Justice. However when it enters TRANS-AM it is as powerful as the Strike-Freedom and the Infinite-Justice. In fact it may be slightly more powerful than those machines... I will decide on the exact power levels at a later date, like when and if I reach the Destiny storyline.
Onto the story.
"Where is Kira Yamato?" Setsuna asked the bridge via the communicator.
He had spent a number of hours in the company of Lacus Clyne before he dropped her off at his and Kira's quarters. It was shortly afterwards that he realised that he had not seen Kira for quite some time.
"Scanners indicate that he is working on the Strike in the hangar at the moment." Captain Murrue Ramius replied.
The Captain looked haggard and there were dark circles under her eyes. Setsuna noticed this but said nothing, he knew the reason for this was due to the fact that the Archangel was being constantly hounded by the Laurasia class ZAFT ship that was currently hot on their heels.
They were due to meet up with an escort fleet from the eighth fleet in about thirty-six hours and as such Setsuna saw it as the perfect opportunity to begin Kira's induction into becoming a full-fledged Gundam meister.
Thanking Ramius, he signed off and headed for the hangar. It took him ten minutes of traversing the ship before he was able to reach the hangar. Surely enough, there in the cockpit of the Strike sat Kira Yamato, his hands a blur over the keyboard of the Strike's mainframe.
Floating up to the cockpit Setsuna grabbed his arm and began dragging him out of the cockpit.
"Hey! What gives, Setsuna?" Kira questioned, a surprised and an annoyed expression crossing his face.
"We don't have a lot of time left on our hands before we are due to enter into the battlefield again, as such it's my job to ensure that you will be able to survive the outcomes of war." He explained.
Seeing Kira's puzzled look he sighed.
"It's time that you began your training to become a true Gundam meister." He stated.
Kira's expression turned angry.
"I don't want to be a soldier!" Kira yelled.
Setsuna narrowed his eyes in response to this outburst.
",A soldier is someone who fights for the ideals of another person, group or just for themselves, a Gundam Meister isn't a soldier." He hissed.
Kira looked confused.
"Then what is a Gundam Meister?" He questioned.
"A Gundam Meister is someone who despises war in all its forms. We fight not to promote war but in order to prevent it, we are the pain that accompanies a great change. Our goal is to end conflict, not to fight to take lives or force ideals upon others. As Gundam Meisters you should live for one thing and one thing only." Setsuna explained.
Digesting what was said, Kira spoke again.
"And what is it that?" He asked, his tone guarded.
Setsuna's eyes softened at seeing the hopeful expression on the boy's face.
"Reformation, that's why we fight... for the Reformation of Humanity. So that there may come a time when there will be no more fighting and we can all walk hand-in-hand with smiles on our faces and joyous laughter in our hearts." He spoke, his voice filled with a sense of conviction, he continued.
"We're going to liberate the world, in order to end this chain of endless battles and bring peace to everyone out there... so that children may never again have to suffer for the sins of their fathers and forefathers."
Letting go of Kira's arm he held out his arm to the boy, hesitantly the boy nodded and grasped Setsuna's arm with his own.
"I want to be a Gundam Meister if that is truly what you stand for Setsuna." He spoke, his voice unsure.
Giving Kira a short nod, he led Kira over to the simulator located in the corner of the hangar. Sitting the confused teen down into the simulator he selected the training difficulty of the simulator to be that of the one he created. It was entitled: Gundam Meister difficulty.
The sim made that the user would pilot an selection of machines, including a Natural dumbed down version of a GINN against a simulated version of the Exia.
"What machine is that?" Kira asked curiously. Setsuna gave a faint smile.
"It's my old machine, Exia. Its a machine with about a tenth of the power that 00 possesses but she will still give even the best machines a run for her money, trust me on that." Setsuna answered.
"You expect me to be able to defeat that with at best, a GINN? Its impossible!" Kira groaned.
Setsuna gave a small sigh "Why do you say that?"
Kira looked at him as though he were insane.
"Have you seen the differences in the specs between the two machines? It isn't possible for a machine like a GINN to be able to land even a blow on that machine, let alone destroy it." He explained.
Setsuna rose an eyebrow
"That's where you are wron about that, you are too focused on the statistics of it all." He explained.
"Statistics?" Kira asked.
"Its not the machine that matters all the time. Its not a machine that kills people, its the pilot. In the end if you're good enough, it won't matter what you pilot, you should be able to at least deal a few critical blows to your opponent before being taken out. Besides..."
He smiled.
"the goal of this simulation isn't neccessarily to win, it is to survive. All you have to do is to survive, always remember that on the battlefield it is your instincts that will allow you to survive."
With that he walked away, leaving Kira to his thoughts and the simulation before the rendezvous with the eigth fleet was complete.
The eighth fleets forward advance escort was only an hour away, as such Setsuna put on his pilot suit and that's when he recieved a message from 00.
Setsuna, we need to launch
Setsuna's eyes flashed gold as a vision crossed his mind of a large beam piercing the Archangels engines, crippling her. All of a sudden three mobile suits appeared out of nowhere literally and began tearing the ship to peices with their weapons.
The mobile suits appeared almost identical in appearance to the Blitz. The only differences were that they were red, green, blue and black in appearance. In addition the black one was equipped with what seemed to be an armory based solely for close combat hit and run attacks.
The black one seemed to possess two short beam sabers, Armr-Schneider knives, as well as a beam rifle. On the suits right arm was a large black shield.
His vision shifted to the green one carried some form of high energy cannon in its hands as well as possessing two missile pods mounted on its shoulders.
The blue one possessed a simple beam saber and a shield however he noticed that whenever the Archangel attempted to fire at the suit, the shield formed a large dense energy shield that would stop any attacks that hit. The saber also seemed to be able to transform into some kind of energy whip.
The red one was the one that seemed to be the biggest threat. It had six wing like protusions on the back of the suit. These wings turned out to be DRAGOON lasers or "Fin Fangs", each of the wings flew off and became an offensive laser allowing for omni-directional attacks. It was an attack method that Ribbons Almark and Ali al Sachez preferred.
He identified the suits from the information gathered by his quantum brainwaves as: The Raven, The Clover, the Guardian and then... the Liberty.
Setsuna immediately began heading for the hangar. He hailed the bridge as he entered the hangar, making his way towards 00.
"Murrue Ramius I'm heading out in 00!" He spke loudly into his communicator.
"What! you can't we are almost by the escort fleet!" was his frenzied reply from the Captain.
"If you don't let me launch then we all die right here! Is that what you want?" He yelled into the device, even as he entered into 00's cockpit.
There was a long moment of silence from the other end of the radio before he recieved a reply from the bridge.
"I trust you Setsuna, do what you have to do... you are clear to launch, good luck."
Nodding, Setsuna made sure that 00 was loaded onto the catapult, ready for launch. He recieved a green light for launch.
We shall bring Reformation to this world, me and 00.
"Setsuna F. Seiei, 00 Raiser, Launching!"
Setsuna once again was momentarily thrown back into his seat by the G-forces from being launched from the catapult into deep space. Immediately exiting the Archangel, 00 performed a reverse flip and thrusted towards the engines.
Setsuna saw the beam streaking through the air, towards the engines and pushed the thrusters to the maximum.
00 became little more than a blur as it appeared in front of the beam, GN field activated.
"WHAT THE HELL! WHERE DID HE COME FROM?" Maddy O'brien, the pilot of the Clover, yelled.
Setsuna narrowed his eyes as he calculated the appearing points of the other three mobile suits based on the mental replay of his vision.
Choosing one point he thrusted forwards with his GN blade outstretched. Ahead he could see a distortion.
Mirage Colloid.
At the last second, the Guardian appeared its energy shield coming to life. This was the pilots first mistake. The GN blades were designed so that energy shields, beams and GN fields would be made redundant. In other words, the GN blades cut through them like a hot knife through butter.
The Guardian backed away a short distance as the GN blade went right through the shield and destroyed the entire shield arm as a result.
Snarling the pilot of the Guardian, Sophie le Fleur activated the energy whip and sent it careening into 00.
Thus the pilot made her second and last mistake. She assumed that 00 ran on an electricity based power system. In other words it did nothing to 00. Grabbing the whip that surrounded 00's left arm, he threw the Guardian over and into the Clover causing both suits to go spinning out of control.
Getting a warning flash from 00, Setsuna moved to the right just in time to dodge a thrust from a beam saber coming from the black suit, identified as the Raven.
Setsuna growled as the suit reengaged him. In the corner of his eye he could see the Liberty was attacking the Archangel as well as the eighth fleet along with the Le Creuset team.
Whoever the pilot of the Raven was, they were good, very good. In fact Setsuna would have to admit that they were as good as he was in Exia. However there were three differences between the two suits that would be deciding factors.
Firstly, 00 was a close combat specialist Gundam. Its sole purpose in life is to be the ultimate machine killer with blades out there, and in this universe, the Raiser sword would put him on par with quite a number of superweapons as well.
Secondly, the machine that the Raven was facing was 00, the ultimate anti-Gundam Gundam, surpassing even Ribbons Almark's Reborns Gundam.
And Thirdly, he was Setsuna F. Seiei, trained since he could walk to fight for his country and religion and then to carry on fighting even after losing these things. He has had almost literally a lifetime experience of war as a result.
After trading a flurry of blows with the Raven, 00 managed to take out the machines legs.
Kicking the machine away from him, Setsuna pushed the thrusters to maximum in order for 00 to reach the Archangel in time. The Archangel was struggling immensely and Mu La Flaga's Moebeius Zero had taken some damage, forcing it return to the Archangel for emergency repairs.
Spotting the Liberty, he raced forwards in order to engage the machine.
Katherine Hamelle was the leader of the Valkyrie team and was an ace pilot of ZAFT for over 7 years of her life. In that time she had fought countless battles against unbeatable odds only to emerge victorious with her team in the end.
The mobile suits that she and her team were piloting were first stage prototypes for the next generation of G-weapons to be created. Her suit in particular was the design template for one of ZAFT's future ultimate mobile suits. It was merely entitled Operation: FREEDOM. Unfortunately her suits' specs were only a sad twentieth of the supposed power of the Freedom. But on its own the Liberty could take on the Le Creuset team's G-weapons all at once and stand a good chance of coming out of the fight, triumphant.
Which was why Katherine couldn't understand how this mobile suit, classified GN-X, was able to evade all of her attacks so fluidly and ignore her DRAGOONS as though they weren't even there.
She couldn't even attempt to open a communication with her teammates or her opponent due to some kind of interference emmitting from the GN-X.
Deciding to end the battle once and for all 00 activated its GN field and raced forwards. He ignored all the impacts from the DRAGOON lasers and charged forwards, catching the Liberty off guard.
Letting out a roar, Setsuna used the GN blades to completely decapitate the Liberty's arms, leaving the mobile suit defenseless.
Katherine could only sit there as the GN-X held the tip of its blade against her cockpit. All of a sudden her communicator screen opened showing a male pilot in a blue suit wearing a tinted visor.
"So, I'm guessing you're the pilot of the GN-X?" She asked.
"GN-X? This isn't a GN-X" The pilot responded sounding insulted.
"Are you going to kill me?" She questioned.
A long silence lasted between them as 00 lowered its blade.
"You fought like a true pilot, go. Take your teammates and leave, I won't be so generous again."
Nodding to the pilot she asked for his name.
"My name is not for you to know right now, soldier of ZAFT."
"Then can you at least tell me the name of your machine?" She queried.
"His name is 00 Raiser."
"00 Rasier, Hm?" the Liberty flew away, the rest of the Valkyries already following having run out of battery.
Turning back to the battle with the Archangel he saw the last of the escort ships blow up. In the midst of it he heard Kira's strangled cry at the loss.
That's when he heard it.
"Attention all ZAFT forces, this is the warship class Archangel. Please cease all hostile activity, currently on board in our protective custody is ZAFT Supreme Council Chairman, Siegel Clyne's daughter Lacus Clyne."
Setsuna saw red.
00's eyes flashed.
HOW. DARE. THEY.
Racing towards the Archangel he prepared to protect his pink haired friend.
Wow that was a long chapter.
Anyway let me know how I did I will really appreciate it even more if you could LEAVE ME A REVIEW PLEASE.
In regards to the Valkyrie's suits they are still the same level suits as the Le Creuset team's, the only difference is that they are the prototype templates for FREEDOM AND JUSTICE. Compared to 00 they are still little more than swiss cheese.
Until next time
AraelDranoth