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Distracted Chapter 7

Setsuna's POV

The 00 Raiser was a huge success. Everyone in the base was surprised at its capabilities but there were still some adjustments that had to be made before it reached its full potential.

Setsuna gazed out into space through a viewing window. Already he could picture the ALAWS on their way. In fact he was picturing it a little clearer than normal.

Those adjustments better be made fast. The ALAWS are already on their way and without the 00 Raiser, there's no way we can stand up to that purple suit.

Beep Beep

A message appeared on his communicator.

All meisters are to report to the briefing room immediately.

Without a second thought he flipped in the air and kicked off the window and flew through the door.

A few minutes later he swung through the door of the bridge where everyone stood staring at the image projected on the wall. It was an enormous crater surrounded with rocks glowing bright red.

"What is this?" he asked completely shocked.

"This is the ALAWS new weapon." Feldt answered. All eyes snapped over to her terminal. "It's an orbital laser. We believe it uses solar electrical generation."

"Where did it hit?" Lasse asked

"In the Middle East, Suille."

Everyone was listening closely to Feldt and Ms. Sumeragi. Everyone except Tieria. He just stood there almost glaring at the ground.

"There's no question." Ms. Sumeragi began. "We have to destroy it. We will leave port as soon as resupplies are done. "

"Wait!" Tieria finally spoke. "There's something you all need to know."

All eyes snapped towards him.

"There are those who are controlling the Federation from the shadows and intend to dominate the world.

"What?" Lasse and Ian exclaimed.

"And how do you know that?" Lockon asked glaring straight at him.

So quick to accuse, there's a chance that he just happened to find out…

"I met them." Tieria replied sharply.

Or not

"They call themselves Innovators."

Innovators? What's that supposed to mean?

Tieria went on with an explanation. "They are biological terminals of Veda…"

He went on about how the Innovators had control over so many things.

So the Innovators have been active throughout all of our time doing four years of armed intervention and possibly even before that.

"And they were the ones who gave the 30 GN Drives to the Earth forces 5 years ago." Mrs. Sumeragi said.

The GN Drives? Then that means…"

"Lockon and Chris were killed because of them." Feldt beat him to it.

So many questions were about to be asked but Lockon cut them all off.

"This is vital information and you're only telling us this now?" His voice was filled with anger and his eyes were shooting daggers at Tieria.

"They told me they were continuing Aeolia Schenberg's plan. If that were true, we could be the one's deviating."

That's ridiculous, what gives them the right to just play with our lives like that? If they control the ALAWS then they're murderers too.

Tieria's words filled Setsuna with rage.

"No way," Allelujah said. "Founding the ALAWS and murdering anti government forces, there's no way peace could be attained that way."

"It doesn't matter." Tieria said. "They insist that they're following the plan exactly the way it should be."

"I will destroy them." Setsuna burst out. "Defeating the ALAWS and the Innovators, I will do it through my own will."

"It's not that simple. The Innovators are powerful. Not only do they have full control of the ALAWS who are giving us enough trouble as it is but they also have control of Veda."

"That doesn't matter either." Setsuna countered. "We've been running our operations without Veda successfully for quite some time now."

"Won't you listen!" Tieria couldn't stand how he just kept on dismissing all of his warnings. "The Innovators have control of Veda, the most advanced technology and information on the Gundams themselves are stored inside. That means that they can constantly produce new mobile suits that are quite possibly superior to all of our machines. They also have capabilities that surpass any human on the planet. They can react to things faster than any of us here."

"It doesn't matter." He replied, voice as flat as ever. "We are Celestial Being and we are part of Aeolia Schenberg's plan. He invented the Gundams and the Solar Reactors for us. We are going to win."

"But..."

"They say they are part of the plan, but clearly the plan has been altered. The goal of all this is for the eradication of warfare but do you think that some of the steps to get there would be the murder of some of our dearest friends not to mention the countless thousands being slaughtered by the ALAWS? No, we will destroy them no matter what it takes."

Finally the feeling of dread and despair left the bridge. Instead everyone thought of only one thing.

Justice

Everyone was grinning and cheering but Setsuna tuned it all out. All he felt was rage. There was no way that he would let the Innovators get away with this.

I will destroy them. All of them. No matter how powerful they are, no matter where they hide. I will hunt them down with my Gundam.


2 hours later

Setsuna went through the current situation in his head

The 00's adjustments were all done but the 0 Raiser still weren't ready, if it wasn't ready in time for battle then it could prove to be a big problem. Supplies are still far from being completed though so there isn't too much of a rush. Unless…

They're already on their way here.

Setsuna didn't know how, but he knew it was true.

He had to hurry.

He went straight to the hangar bay to check the 0 Raisers status and unfortunately, it still wasn't done yet.

Not Good

Maybe the resupplying is at least close to being finished. He thought.

Unfortunately when he reached the bridge Feldt said that the supplies were taking a rather long time and they weren't even half done yet.

Not good.

Setsuna raced through the hallways of the base checking on everything.

Weapons on the Ptolemy have been repaired and missiles have been resupplied, the other supplies are still being transferred. As for the base itself…

BOOM

A large explosion shook the entire base. Feldt's voice rang out on the speaker system.

"All Ptolemaios crew report to your stations immediately, the Ptolemy will break off resupply operations until further notice. Base crew report to the hangar and evacuate. The ALAWS are here.

They're already here? But how did they find it so quickly?

None of that mattered, the only thing that did was protecting his friends.

"Gundam 00, Setsuna F. Seiei launching."

All 4 Gundams flew out at top speed. Allelujah immediately broke off to defend the shuttle while Tieria went to protect the Ptolemy's blind spot. That just left Setsuna and Lockon.

Beep Beep Beep

The radar flashed and 12 red dots appeared on the screen. Way too close for comfort.

"Setsuna intercept." Ms. Sumeragi ordered

"Roger that."

He flew straight at them and quickly destroyed a GN-X with his gun. A beam saber came down from above but it was easily blocked.

It's going to take a lot more than that to take me down.

With that thought a few grenades flew past him, encasing the entire area in dense white smoke.

Ha do you think I can't see you just because….

Suddenly a wire attached itself to the 00's arm.

Crap

A surge of electricity pulsed through the Gundam and Setsuna screamed in agony.

Setsuna cut the cable with much difficulty and destroyed the enemy squadron in time to see a massive red beam headed straight for the Ptolemy.

Impossible

It was a direct hit. The shockwave from the explosion shook the mobile suits on all sides.

The capabilities of that suit…

Setsuna's eyes narrowed at the thought

Innovator

To his right a certain mobile suit caught his eye…

The purple suit from before.

It was fighting with the Seravee, and winning too.

Just as he was about to go help, a beam flew past his shoulder. Another squadron had shown up.

Setsuna surveyed the battlefield while dodging shots from the new squad.

The attack was relentless. They were taking fire from every direction. Allelujah had his hands full protecting the evacuation ships. Not to mention Lockon and Tieria who had to deal with the countless waves charging at the ship.

We're losing

They needed the 0 Raiser and soon. If not, Celestial being would be destroyed right here.

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