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Gundam Seed Purpose

Chapter 28: Frames United

They were waiting, not to ambush but to outright attack them as they tried to retreat. Canard had never really fought battles as big as the ones he fought when with the Archangel and eighth fleet. Despite the hardship he had found friends in the most likely and unlikely of people. Gekido was angry at the best of times, but he always inspired people to be individuals and as good as they can be. Kira was the brother who Canard never had and the success that he never got to be, at first Canard hated him, hated being a failure but thanks to Gekido's attitude Canard managed to see himself and Kira as individuals, not the products of some scientists quest for improvement. Canard thought of Kira as a brother, and he was eager to meet with him, to tell him everything about Hibiki's experiments and especially about their mother.

"Hey Canard are you ok?" Hayato, a rather short and chubby black haired boy asked him.

"I'm fine" Canard said, running a hand through his long hair.

Most of the eighth fleet pilots now wore more casual clothing, which meant the usual black jacket and gloves for Canard, a black jacket and jeans for Hayato and for Sarah a pair of jeans and a green tank top. They all watched out of the shielded window of the Earth forces moon base, gazing at where they knew the True Storm and Black Storm units were.

"A whole army of mobile suits ready to attack, I don't understand how naturals would join ZAFT" Hayato said.

"They don't follow ZAFT, they follow Dagger Thanos, it's said that the man is a coordinator however he wasn't modified, in fact people say he was a skinny little weakling but through training and studying he became quite a strong and smart military genius, at the academy he apparently excelled in sniper and close quarters combat, he has no prejudice views of Naturals and recruits coordinator and natural alike onto his two squads, his black storm unit has become his own private army they say" Canard explained.

"I hear he's also quite handsome" Sarah added with a giggle.

Hayato and Canard shook their heads at Sarah's relaxed attitude. Then again someone had to be optimistic, after all the entire base was on edge.

"Most of those ships out there are Nazca class ships filled with simple GINN's and fresh pilots, we've got enough fire power here to take on two black storm units" Canard said.

"That's easy for you to say Canard, I've got a girl friend waiting back home and I'm not gonna get myself killed on some suicide run against the True storm unit" Hayato said, looking at a picture he often carried of his girl friend and a few of his friends on Earth.

"He's waiting out there, still in his mobile suit, staring at the base I just know it" Canard growled.

Captain Hoffman spoke out on the intercom.

"All remaining forces of the eighth fleet please report to the hanger in your flight gear" he said.

Hayato looked at the speaker in shock while Canard slammed his fist into the wall beside him.

"So instead of waiting them out they're sending what's left to die, bastards of the Atlantic federation" Canard growled. 'Gekido, what would you say to that pompous commander if you were here?'

Hayato dropped his head in disappointment. There was a bitter silence throughout the base as the mobile armour pilots of the eighth fleet put on their yellow flight suits and walked through the corridors of the base. They formed up into two lines, Canard at the front, facing captain Hoffman who was also in space gear.

"Our mission is to draw away the ZAFT force drifting towards the lunar base, central believes that they are units that will be used for this rumoured operation spit break" Hoffman explained.

"We all know that's a load of bull shit" Canard said out load.

Hoffman nodded his head "But if there's a chance we can get through and kill Thanos, then there's a chance that they will all retreat and we will have won this battle"

Canard lowered his head, having doubts that such a plan would work. Then again he was here to make it work. The pilots climbed into their units, Hayato took one final look at the picture he carried before clipping it onto his controls. Canard slit his faceplate down and began walking the Hyperion out of the hanger.

"Canard, the rest of the lunar base forces will launch 30 minutes after we have, that might be too late so I am counting on you to protect our ships and mobile armour" Captain Hoffman said through the radio.

"I'll do my best" Canard said.

Dagger opened his eyes and said a few simple words, "They're here!"

With those words the fleet opened fire. Canard immediately activated the Hyperion's umbrella shield, blocking the shots from Dagger's ship. But he could only protect the ships flying behind him; the other shots from the ZAFT ships hit the surface of the Lunar Base. GINNS and most surprisingly of all green colour mobile armours were launched from the enemy ships. One of the EA pilots targeted the approaching enemies, but widened his eyes in utter terror as Jessica's GINN appeared in front of it. Jessica smiled as she sliced the mobile armour in half.

"EUGENE!!" Sarah yelled.

"CANARD THEY'VE GOTTEN PAST YOU WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!" Hayato yelled as he and the rest of the MA's carried out manoeuvres to dodge the incoming fire.

"WAIT STAY IN FORMATION YOUR LETTING THEM THROUGH!!" Canard yelled.

GINN's and MA's began flying past Canard, shooting at the EA MA's. Canard roared as he turned the Gundam around and fired its assault rifle. Five GINNS were town apart by the beams that the machine gun shot out. Hoffman ordered his men to fire, hitting only one MA with missiles and Gatling guns.

"These natural pilots are better then we'd thought they'd be" One EA pilot said as he shot at one GINN, blowing off its arm.

The Hyperion ignited its beam dagger and slashed one GINN in half before blowing a MA apart with its CIWs. Cairo fired his shoulder cannons, knocking the Hyperion off balance. Marcus then flew in and sliced two MA's in half. He and Jessica began flying towards Hoffman's ship, which was protected by two more Drake class vessels.

"Can you hear them praying over the radio Marcus darling, its so cute when they make peace before they die" Jessica giggled.

"Death comes to us all, those who run from it are only fooling themselves" Marcus said emotionlessly as he fired his machine gun at one of the drake class ships.

Lucas fired his bazooka at Canard, who merely dodged the shots before returning fire with his cannons. He then drew his beam daggers and flew at Lucas, cutting down two CGUE's that got in his way. Canard slashed at Luke, who flew back and fired a shot from his bazooka, knocking Canard away. Dagger aimed his sniper rifle, tracing the scope directly along Hayato's flight path. He fired one shot but didn't hit Hayato, a deliberate warning shot.

"SHIT!" Hayato yelled as he desperately flew around, hoping to fly out of the scopes sight.

Dagger fired one more shot, this time clipping the MA's left side.

"HAYATO!!" Sarah yelled, flying at Dagger's GINN.

She dodged a beam from one of the black Nasca class ships, and then fired two missiles at Dagger. The commander flew upwards, dodging the two missiles before he drew his beam sword. Canard blew apart a GINN with his machine gun and looked towards Sarah and Hayato's position. His eyes widened as Dagger raised his beam blade. The crimson bean slashed straight through Sarah's MA.

'Gekido, did I live up to your code' those were her last thoughts before the girl was melted by Thanos's blade.

"SARAH!!" Hayato screamed.

"YOU BASTARD THANOS!!" Canard roared.

The seed spun and shattered and Canard threw away his submachine gun. He ignited his Armure Lumiere beam sabres and roared as he flew at the commander. Canard swung and barely hit the black GINN, only burning half its left shoulder. Dagger raised his blade and blocked another swing. He flew backwards, strafing from left to right in order to dodge multiple shots from the Hyperion's cannons. Dagger pulled a beam knife out of his GINN's waist and threw it at the Gundam. Immediately activating his barrier Canard easily blocked the shot and went back to shooting at Thanos, blowing up one Nasca class ship.

The other members of the True Storm unit were decimating the Earth forces even with the little amount of reinforcements that had been sent from the lunar base. Marcus sliced another Mobile armour in half while Michelle shot two more with her rifle. Jessica smiled as she flew past the other mobile armours and directly towards Hoffman's ship. Cairo and Luke concentrated their fire on Hoffman's ship.

"SHE WAS EIGHTEEN! EIGHTEEN!!" Canard yelled.

"We make the choice to fight Pars, she made hers and I made mine!" Dagger said.

Thanos swung his sword and clashed it against Canard's beam sabres. With a few clicks on his keyboard Dagger intensified the energy being poured into his beam sword. With one slash he sent the Hyperion flying backwards. Dagger put away his sword and flew at the Gundam, delivering a crushing kick to its chest. He then motioned his hand to the a GINN flying past. The GINN threw its bazooka to Thanos who then began bombarding the Hyperion with missiles. Canard aimed and fired his cannons. Despite the seed increasing his own abilities, Thanos possessed better reaction times and his modified GINN had more speed than any that Canard had fought before. The young coordinator looked at his metre and saw that his energy was falling dangerously low, even with activating his umbrella shield at certain points before being hit he still lost energy faster than others considering his Hyperion's primary weapons fired beams.

"Captain, we're receiving too much damage, our weapons have already been destroyed" One of the crewmen of Hoffman's ship said.

"Damn it…everyone get to the escape pods" Hoffman ordered with a heavy heart.

Jessica pointed her rifle at the escape pods, licking her lips at the thought of the naturals deaths. Thanos fired one more shot at the Hyperion, blowing apart its cannons. The Commander then threw the bazooka away and drew the beam sword. He flew straight at the Hyperion's back, slicing off its arm, then turning around and slicing off its head. Canard grinded his teeth together as he awaited the final blow. Thanos's alarm blared and he flew the GINN backwards as numerous beam bullets flew between him and Canard. Thanos looked towards where the gunfire originated from and a smile crossed his face. Floating in front of him was the Gundam of Gai Marakumo, the Blue Frame. Jessica brushed her finger around the trigger, but before she could fire.

"Leave them ALONE!!"

Jessica turned her head and gasped as a Gundam resembling the Blue Frame but Red and without the heavier armour flew at her. It drew its magnificent katana the Gerbera straight. With one slash the Red Frame took off the GINN's arm.

"Gai Marakumo, Lowe Guele, pilots of the Red and Blue Frame…everyone retreat I want to fight them alone!" Thanos said.

Without hesitation the pilots of the True and Black Storm units began their retreat. Lowe blinked in surprise.

"Did we win already?" Lowe asked.

The Answer was given as Thanos ignited his beam sword.

"Canard, fly to my ship you'll be safe there" Gai said.

"Sure thing, fuck the Earth Alliance I aint fighting for them after the lives they've thrown away" Canard said as he flew the Hyperion to Gai's ship.

He looked at his side view screen and saw Hayato's MA flying towards the Rehome. Canard guessed that Hayato wanted no part of the war as well now. The two frames and Thanos stared one another down.

"Man look at that beam sword, what I wouldn't give to check out that generator" Lowe said with a smile.

Thanos was the first to move, flying straight towards the two Gundam's. Gai fired his gatling gun before throwing his sword. The Blue Frame's mouth plate slid down as it began flying towards the black and red GINN. Armour Schneider knives slid out of the frames feet as it kicked at the GINN. The GINN flew backwards, blocking the Blue Frame's sword as it flew into its hand. Lowe flew forwards, swinging his sword down. But the GINN flew downwards, its shoulder suffering a small scratch. Dagger then flew upwards, kicking the red Frame across the face. An Armour Schneider knife then slid out of the GINN's right foot and Thanos stabbed it into the Blue Frame's shoulder. The two Astray pilots flew back, astonished by Thanos's skill. Lowe sheathed his sword and drew the Astray's beam rifle. Thanos had the same idea as he flew upwards, taking a destroyed GINN's rifle. He switched off the sword and flew at the Red Frame, pelting it with bullets. Gai aimed his gatling gun and fired at the ZAFT commander. The stream of bullets brushed past the GINN's legs. A smile crossed Thanos's face as he returned fire, hitting the Blue Frames shoulders. Lowe fired his rifle but Thanos flew left and right to avoid them. He threw away the rifle and flew straight at the Red Frame with his sword. Lowe brought his shield up and blocked the attack; he then drew one of the Red Frame's bean sabres and slashed at the GINN. Thanos flew backwards and kicked the Red Frame across the head again. Gai then flew in and swung his blade, slashing it with Thanos's. Lowe threw his shield away and drew both sabres. He clashed them with Thanos's sword and grinded his teeth together as he pushed on the controls. Thanos, who sliced the Red Frame's hands off, won the deadlock. Gai moved in and swung his sword downwards. This time Thanos reacted just a few seconds too late as the sword sliced off his sword arm.

"Lowe, we're leaving now!" Gai said and the Junk Guild member nodded his head.

As the two Astrays flew back to their ships a smile crossed Thanos's face as he allowed them to flee.

'The Frames, impressive mobile suits, I wonder how much skill the Gold Frame pilot possesses, no they aren't the ones I truly want to face…Gekido Jaeger and Kira Yamato you'd both better survive to see space' Thanos thought as he began his flight back to his ships.

Next Chapter 29: The tragedy that is war

Kira…fuck MIA I'll find their bodies and swim them back to Orb if I have to, don't just presume something and then leave them to die


Well What does everyone think of the chapters?

Next chapter will have more drama , some of Gekido's usual defiant antics and of course a fist fight between the two rivals

Hope everyone enjoyed the special