Gundam Seed Purpose
Chapter 6: The Graveyard
As the Archangel made its way to the debris belt the Heliopolis gang including Canard was summoned to the bridge. Gekido already had a good feeling of what the meeting would be about but the others seemed oblivious.
"Currently we are flying outside of the debris belt, as you know we weren't able to re supply at Artemis" Murrue began.
"Wait do you mean we're going to get our supplies from there?" Sai presumed more than asked.
"Extra credit for the bright student, there are several trashed ships and mobile suit pieces that we could probably use for my mobile armour and your mobile suits, plus in one area there are millions of pieces of ice that we can use to solve our water problem" Mu explained.
"So the others go out in mobile pods to search while Kira, Canard and I keep watch in our suits?" Gekido asked.
"That's the basic idea, Pal, Chandra and Ensign Badqiruel will accompany you all, we're not looking for much just the basic necessities to last us until we reach Lunar HQ!" Murrue said.
"Is it really necessary to have the mobile suits watching us, I mean we cant expect to run into ZAFT ships here can we?" Kuzzey asked jumpy as always.
"Pirates and Mercenaries sometimes make their homes here or at least re supply after a good days work, I don't know about mercenaries but pirates might look at our ship and get greedy" Canard said and Gekido nodded.
The Archangel entered the debris belt; the mobile suits launched first, strike equipped with the Aile pack and Purpose with the shield and beam rifle. Sai, Chandra, Pal, Natarle, Tolle and Miriallia rode in Mistrals, manoeuvring around the chunks of ships and mobile suits. Eyes widened at the sight that they saw and Gekido grinded his teeth together in anger. The crew of the archangel had stumbled upon the ruins of Junius Seven.
"Is that a continent?" Tolle asked looking at the large island shaped construct, the dome that was all that was left of the agricultural plant.
"That's all that's left of Junius seven!" Canard said simply.
While Canard stayed to keep watch Kira and Gekido landed their mobile suits on Junius seven along with Tolle, Miriallia, Natarle and Chandra. They got out of their mobile units and began searching the inside of the colony. Opening a door Miriallia screamed and buried her face into Tolle's chest, for the group now laid eyes upon the lifeless form of a woman floating around in the room with her dead son in her arms. Kira lowered his head while Natarle and Chandra both cursed their allies for causing such a tragic events. Though Gekido's face was covered people could tell that he was angry because his aggressive stance just got even more aggressive as he entered the room and caught a teddy bear that floated by. Squeezing his fist together Gekido threw the bear aside and roared in anger.
"WHAT THE HELL!! BASTARD EARTH ALLIANCE!! BASTARD BLUE COSMOS!! How the hell do they get away with something like this, what kind of citizens just let this thing slide, this wasn't a military operation it didn't even have anything to do with the war! THIS ISNT WAR ITS JUST PLAIN TERRORISM!!" Gekido roared then turned his vision to Chandra and Natarle "Tell me you two, why do you fight for the Earth Alliance when the only end result for the coordinators is THAT!" Gekido yelled pointing his finger at the dead woman and child, the two innocents. "I wouldn't be able to sleep at night!" Gekido said as he slowly floated out of the room shoving past Natarle.
Both Natarle and Chandra thought about what Gekido said. If there were villains in warfare then the Earth Alliance clearly took that status when they destroyed Junius seven. Gekido sat in the cockpit of the Purpose closing its hatch and removing his helmet.
"If there is a machine that could be called evil I would say Nuclear weapons fit the category!" Gekido growled.
"Weapons are incapable of feeling emotion, it is the emotion of the wielder that determines whether the weapon is evil, the Purpose can be used to protect and you use it to protect the ship Gekido, that makes you far better than all the soldiers that fired the nukes that day" Biggs explained.
"You know Biggs for a computer your very wise!" Gekido smirked before putting his helmet back on.
The Mistrals and the mobile suits returned to the Archangel and a debate started on the bridge.
"That water there, are you serious you want to take that water?" Kira asked. "You saw it yourself Natarle thousands of people lost their lives there and you"
"Listen kid no one wants to take anything from that place if it can be helped, but it cant be helped" Mu interrupted "No ones thrilled about this I don't see people yelling hooray water! We're alive people and we'll do what we have to keep on living"
"I couldn't have put it better myself, the needs of the living out weigh the needs of the dead, its not as if anyone's gonna miss that water there anyway!" Gekido grunted as he turned to walk out of the bridge.
Before the crew got to work on gathering the ice however the Heliopolis crew and a few of the refugees got to work on a memorial for those who died. Gekido was walking through the corridors of the ship until he stopped at one of the rooms to see some of the Heliopolis crew making origami flowers with a young girl. He grunted at the sight and walked to his room to see his jacket laid out on the bed.
"Ensign Natarle told me that you have to wear the uniform!" Gekido jumped in surprise at the sound of Yamato's voice.
Promptly smacking his adopted father round the head Gekido looked down at the blue jacket. Yamato floated back down into the room and was surprised when his son asked him a question.
"Yamato, if Orb had done something that could be considered evil would you be ashamed of wearing that mechanics uniform?"
Yamato thought for a moment then smiled as he replied "To be completely honest with you Gekido I wouldn't want to be a mechanic anymore, I'd want to do something that really mattered like changing Orb from within its own government"
"Yeah well I'm no politician!" Gekido grunted.
"Then do what you've been doing till now, fight and change the military from within, if soldiers learn of your example they may begin to respect you and your love of life might rub off on them"
"I wouldn't say I love life I'm just disobedient"
"Then maybe at times when they are given orders that go against everything you stand for they might do what you would do, despite the supposed greater good they might disobey those orders"
Gekido widened his eyes when hearing his adopted fathers words. He picked up the blue jacket and put it on then patted Yamato's shoulder before walking out of the room. After a few hours passed The Purpose launched out of the archangel followed by a Mistral piloted by Natarle with Miriallia as the passenger.
War is a terrible thing but sometimes it has to be fought, I know that sounds stupid but its just the way it is. I'll fight in this war my way…I'll follow the orders that suit me and maybe just maybe my achievements and attitude will rub off on people and the Earth military might change. We started this war and by god the Earth forces will end it when the soldiers get tired of this senseless hate campaign.
The crew of the Archangel closed their eyes bowing their heads in respect. It would be a long moment of silence to reflect the tragedy of Junius seven. Miriallia threw the bundle of origami birds into space. Gekido opened his eyes to look off into space, his eyebrow twitched as he saw what looked like a ship.
"Bigg's identify that ship for me" Gekido said.
"Judging from the interior and extracts from my database I would say that it is a civilian ship, also judging from its interior I would say it had quite recently been attacked" Bigg's explained.
"Lets ignore it, the crew must of all evacuated and I can only think of one reason why a civilian ship would be out here, for a memorial service so in that case we'll leave it be…hey wait a minute!" Gekido narrowed his eyes as a blue Ginn came into view; it looked similar to other GINN's apart from its antenna was sharper and placed in the opposite direction.
"He must be searching for survivors…wait that sign on its shoulder that GINN is part of the Serpent tail mercenary company!"
"What!"
"I don't know much about it but the Serpent tail group is famous for its ability to carry out even the toughest of jobs, apparently their leader was once with the Earth forces"
"Establish contact with the pilot" Gekido said.
"Why?"
"As a humanitarian gesture to the PLANT'S I will help the serpent tail group search" Gekido pushed on the controls and began flying his mobile suit towards the civilian vessel.
"Gekido what are you doing?" Natarle asked through the radio.
"Get Kira to take over for me there's something I have to do" Gekido said.
Elijah Kiel raised his eyebrows as someone hailed him on the radio. He pressed a button on his panel and on the top corner of his screen a pilot wearing a grey flight suit with a plate covering his face appeared.
"Serpent tail I presume, that's a civilian ship right?" Gekido asked as the Purpose flew closer towards the GINN.
"Yeah, we're in the middle of a job at the moment, who are you and what is your business?" Elijah asked.
"I'm just a nice guy offering his help, with the colour of this ship I'd say it was someone important" Gekido said casually as the Purpose looked at the empty bridge of the ship.
"It was, who are you with?" Elijah asked suspicious of the new arrival.
"I'm hanging out with an Earth Alliance ship though I'm not officially with the forces"
At that moment the alarms in Gekido's suit suddenly blared. A gunshot flew through the debris towards the Purpose. The Purpose flew to the side away from Elijah's GINN. Gekido turned his cameras to the direction of the blast. His eyes widened at what he saw. Standing in front of a pile of debris was what looked like a Gundam. Its primary armour was blue and white and it had several of pieces of armour on its chest and legs, on its back was what appeared to be a pair of blue wings.
"That one is with Serpent tail too" Biggs said.
"Gai what are you doing?" Elijah asked the brown haired pilot through the radio.
"Another job came through Elijah, we pursue the new Earth Alliance battleship, this guy is the pilot of one of its mobile suits" Gai Marakumo said as he targeted Gekido's Purpose. "My first shot was a warning, I can tell that your mobile suit doesn't have the weapons needed to take on the Blue Frame so surrender"
"Blue Frame is that what your Gundam's called?" Gekido asked.
The Astray Blue Frame detached its tactical arms, which folded into its Gatling mode. Gai aimed at the Purpose and fired the beam shots of the Blue Frame's gatling gun. Gekido cursed as he performed various manoeuvres to dodge both the shots from the Astray and the bullets from Elijah's GINN. The Purpose started flying behind the cover of the debris. Gai followed his target switching his tactical arms to their sword mode. Swinging its giant blade around the Blue frame cut through the debris that the Purpose was hiding in. The hardened mercenary showed no concern when the Purpose positioned itself underneath the Blue Frame's feet and began firing shots from its beam rifle. Gekido cursed as the Blue Frame easily dodged the shots from the Purpose's beam rifle. Elijah aimed and fired at the Purpose hitting it with the bullets from its machine gun and recoilless rifle. Gekido was thrown around the cockpit as the Purpose shook from the explosions that the GINN's bullets created. The Blue Frame swung its sword down on the Purpose narrowly missing it as the Purpose flew backwards and began shooting its rifle.
"Damn these guys are too tough!" Gekido growled.
"The Serpent tail has been a thorn in the side of ZAFT and the EA as well as allies to both of them, their loyalties do not lie in the factions but the money they are being paid, all mercenaries are like that" Biggs said.
"I need more weapons!" said Gekido as he pushed on the controls.
The Purpose Gundan began firing both its Vulcan's and its beam rifle as it flew at the Blue Frame. Gekido roared as the Purpose threw its shield at the Astray, Gai swung his sword round before slicing the shield in half. Gai showed little surprise or concern as the Purpose kicked the Blue Frame across the side of its head pushing it towards the civilian ship.
Even if I'm outnumbered…I can still win!
"COME ON BLUE GUNDAM GIVE ME YOUR BEST SHOT!!" Gekido roared.
"INCOMING BEAM PROJECTILE!!" Bigg's yelled.
Gekido yelled as he flew the Purpose away from the emerald beam that flew out of the debris. Turning the Gundam's head Gekido narrowed his eyes at the silhouette of what appeared to be a Gundam, a full view was obscured by the debris but as some of the debris floated away the Gundam suddenly disappeared.
Was that Mirage Colloid, no I heard that the Blitz was capable of using its weaponry without having to deactivate it, just how many Gundams are out there?
"GEKIDO!" Kira yelled through the radio as he and Canard flew towards the battle.
The Hyperion was firing its cannons at the Serpent tail mercenaries while the Strike was equipped with the sword pack.
I didn't need it but its good that things are even now!
Next Chapter 7: The Mercs
Thanks to SSJ-Jolt for letting me use his OC