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Gundam Seed Purpose
Chapter 37: The Ladies
Gekido flew through the depths of space, keeping his phase shift armour deactivated so as to avoid drawing attention to himself. He left the piloting to Bigg's as he sat back on the chair, scribbling a few notes into his book.
Damn, maybe I should've bought a deck of cards with me for the journey. Oh well I'm bound to run into a ZAFT force sooner or later.
"Gekido, I've detected several heat signatures ahead, ones moving at an incredible speed towards the edge of the Plant's borders, it appears to be heading for Earth"
"Ignore that one, tell me about the others"
"There are two more, both scouting type GINN's"
"Get the sniper scope and foot controls ready!"
"Very well!"
The sniper scope slid down and Gekido zoomed in on the two reconnaissance type GINN's. His breathing became steady as he readied himself.
Don't you idiots dare turn your heads, just leave me be and you wont get shot down!
Gekido growled, as the GINN's did precisely what he didn't want them to do. They turned their heads to face the Purpose's jet form. Knowing they had discovered him, Gekido transformer the Purpose into its mobile suit form and aimed his sniper rifle. Without hesitation he pulled the trigger, firing two beams into the chests of the two GINNs.
Damn it, they had to be thorough with their work didn't they. No sense in regretting it now, I've got fifty kilometres of ZAFT territory to scout out, might as well get to it.
The Purpose ignited its jets and increased its flying speed. This time Gekido held onto the controls, being ready for anything.
It seemed Natural to get her out of the colony. After all ZAFT MP's were already putting all their efforts into locating her and keeping her at the heart of ZAFT seemed a little stupid. So she would need to be transferred, so she could focus her attention on reminding the Plants population that Zala was merely fighting for revenge. Lacus Clyne walked through the customs of the public shuttle launch sight, wearing a black wig and special contact lenses to hide her eye colour. She took a seat in the private shuttle, sitting in front of none other than Yamato Kuzunagi.
"Nice to meet you again my dear, it gives me deep regret to hear of your current state" Yamato said. "May I offer you anything, tea, coffee, I have some ice water if you'd like"
"No thank you Mr Kuzunagi I'm fine, have you been able to contact your people in the Plants?" Lacus asked kindly.
"Yes thank you, they are doing quite well thanks to the money your father gave them, with that money they have been able to create a machine capable of outmatching whatever nuclear weapon Patrick Zala has built" Yamato explained.
"That's good, but I would really like to avoid any direct confrontation"
"You know if Gekido were here he would tell you that sometimes direct confrontation is the only way" Yamato chuckled as Lacus blushed.
The small private shuttle continued to fly towards one of the other colonies and Lacus sat back as she pulled her pink Haro out of her bag.
"I wish I had my Blue Haro with me, its too bad it may still be stuck on the Archangel" Yamato said, taking a sip from his teacup.
"Mr Kuzunagi, could you tell me more about Gekido?" Lacus asked.
"I'd be happy to, but I'm afraid I have some work to do" Yamato said as he turned on his laptop.
Lacus nodded before she leant her head back into her seat, closing her eyes peacefully. The Shuttle pilots suddenly widened their eyes as a giant humanoid figure appeared in their flight path. It was a mobile suit, a crimson and black mobile suit with a X shaped blade running across its chest, the standard Gundam head and two types of weaponry, a double barrelled gatling gun on its right arm with a cable attached to the end, connected to some kind of engine on the machines' back. Its second weapon was a beam cannon, also with a cable connecting it to the engine. The Gundam also had a pair of demonic wings and its V-fin was sharper than most machines.
The pilot smirked as he targeted the shuttle with his beam cannon.
"How unfortunate that you have to suffer the same fate as your father!" Akushi Thanos said as he prepared his Total Genocide's Massacre weaponry.
Gekido had officially had enough. For hours he had flown and he was currently getting closer and closer to the Plants.
"I spy with my little eye, something beginning with T!" Biggs said.
"The Blackness of space" Gekido grumbled.
"Wow, you've gotten it right every time"
Biggs just had to gain a sense of humour with his sentience
Gekido leant opened his eyes, looking at the silhouette of the Plants. He scowled at the colonies!
All that peace, it makes me sick to my stomach. They're living in luxury, the only suffering being the reports of their dead.
"Gekido I've detected a heat signature ahead, it's some kind of mobile suit" Biggs said.
Gekido bought up his sniper scope up and zoomed in on the colonies. He growled as he saw some kind of Gundam aiming its cannon at a civilian shuttle. The memory of what Akushi did to his adopted father and siblings flashed in his mind, and he knew precisely what he had to do.
"Goodbye Lacus Clyne!" Akushi smirked as his finger wrapped around the trigger.
The pilots were ready to say their prayers and scream out, while Lacus and Yamato remained ignorant over the situation. Suddenly, something they never expected to happen happened. They heard a roar across the radio and Yamato's sharp coordinator hearing heard it, a strange smirk crossing his face.
"AKUSHI THANOS I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!!!" Gekido yelled.
The Purpose's jet form slammed into Akushi's side, knocking his target retina off balance. Akushi fired his cannon, the yellow blast narrowly missing the shuttle. Lacus saw the beam go past her window and looked out of it, widening her eyes as she saw the jet transform into the Gundam Purpose.
"You just can't resist shooting down defenceless shuttles can you?" Gekido asked as he ignited his shield beam sabres.
"What can I say Gekido, it's my trademark, one, two and this will make the third" Akushi grinned.
"MONSTER!!!" Gekido yelled.
Akushi fired his beam Gatling gun, launching a flurry of beam attacks at the Purpose. The Purpose flew to the left and right, dodging the hail. Gekido rushed forward, slashing one of his sabres downwards. But Akushi pulled up his gatling gun, blocking the sabre with the shield attached to the gun. Akushi kicked the Purpose backwards and fired the Gatling gun again. On instinct, Biggs activated the arc field, blocking the shots. The Purpose's eyes flashed a green colour while the Genocide's flashed red. Both Gundam's rushed towards one another. Akushi blocked Gekido's sabre with his shield and bought his cannon up, aiming it directly at the Purpose's head. Gekido leaned the Purpose backwards, barely dodging the cannons blast.
"LET'S SEE YOU SURVIVE THIS!!!" Akushi yelled.
The blades on the Genocide's waist and chest armour flew off and began flying around the Purpose. Gekido switched to his pistols, firing solid shell bullets at the blades, along with his Vulcan's.
Damn it, annoying pests…wish I could kill them all!
He felt the seed spinning, but knew he couldn't rely on that power, especially now that he was in coordinator territory.
"BIGGS SNIPER CANNON NOW!!!" Gekido yelled.
Gekido let go of the controls as the sniper scope dropped down. The Purpose pulled out its sniper rifle and aimed at the Massacre.
"BIGGS PERFORM AERIAL MANOUVRES AS I FIRE!!"
"Yes Gekido!"
Gekido looked down the sight and yelled as he fired at the Genocide. The beam flew into the Gundam's shoulder, shocking Akushi slightly. Akushi launched his blades at the Purpose, which flew to the side, while at the same time firing shots from its rifle. Much to Akushi's surprise the shots were pretty accurate, if not for his reaction time they would have hit his cockpit.
"Your improving Gekido!" Akushi grinned.
"Weird, you seem to be doing a little bit better than the other battles" Gekido said.
"What can I say a one on one battle with you really gets my blood pumping"
"And soon I'll have your blood leaking!"
"Oooh clever response" Akushi grinned.
The panels of the Genocide's shoulder armour and chest opened and Akushi launched a hail of missiles at the Purpose. Gekido deactivated his arc barrier and switched to solid shells with his sniper rifle. Each shot he fired with his rifle and Vulcan's reduced the number of missiles. Only two missiles were left, which flew past the Purpose, towards the shuttle docking with one of the colonies. Gekido pushed his controls forward, knowing that if he missed with his rifle he would hit the shuttle. He flew past the missiles and into their flight path, just inches from the shuttle. Lacus looked out of her window in shock as the Purpose fired its Vulcan's destroying one of the missiles. But the other flew into the Gundam's head. Much to Yamato and Lacus's shock, the missile had broken off half of the Gundam's mouthpiece and snapped the left side of the V-Fin.
Damn it, I should have turned on the barrier before reaching the shuttle!
Akushi smiled at the damage he had done to the Purpose. He could only guess what Zala was thinking right now.
"WHAT! AKUSHI THANOS IS ENGAGING AN ENEMY NEAR THE COLONY!!" The New Plant Supreme council chairman yelled.
"Several GINN's have been deployed to assist him Chairman Zala sir" Commander Yuki said.
Security forces had already been deployed to the spaceport, where Lacus's shuttle was currently docked. Lacus looked outside her window and put her hands together.
"Miss Clyne, if you intend to get out of this without being in ZAFT custody then your going to have to call Gekido" Yamato said.
"But how and more importantly why cant you?" Lacus asked.
"I'm still not ready to see him, and let's just say that during your short stay on the Archangel I made some modifications to Mr Pink" Yamato smiled as he tapped the pink Haro.
Gekido rammed his Purpose into the Genocide. The Purpose tore off the Genocide's gatling gun and smacked it across the head with it's own weapon. Drawing out his Hyper Bazooka, Gekido fired seven shots into the Genocide, throwing it backwards.
"I'll draw energy from the arc shield into the arc cannon" Biggs said.
"Go ahead!" Gekido growled.
The young pilots head twitched as he heard a beeping sound.
"What the hell?" Gekido asked out load.
"HARO! HARO!"
I did not just hear that! There couldn't possibly be a Haro inside this Gundam.
The Blue Haro, the one that Gekido had named Yamato and thought he had left at the Archangel suddenly jumped out of the back of the pilot seat, bouncing around the cockpit. Gekido's eyebrow twitched as the Haro continued to bounce around.
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Gekido yelled.
The Haro suddenly stopped at Gekido's lap and opened its "mouth". A screen and speaker had been built inside the Haro. At first Gekido saw static, until Lacus appeared on the screen.
Ah shit it's the sunshine vomiter!
"Why hello Mr Jaeger, it's good to see you again" Lacus said with a smile.
"This is a really bad time Lacus, AND CALL ME GEKIDO!!" The young pilot yelled in impatience.
"Sorry, I was just wondering whether you had the time to help me, there are currently a group of ZAFT MP's in the space port and I wondered if you could scare them away"
"Scare them away, fine I'll see what I can do" Gekido mumbled.
The Purpose turned towards the colony that Lacus's shuttle had landed in. Gekido flew the Purpose straight into the spaceport, crushing several small shuttles that were presently unoccupied. The Gundam looked down at the military policemen gathering outside Lacus's private shuttle. With simple flicks of its fingers, the Purpose threw the guards into the wall. The Purpose then turned towards the Genocide. Gekido armed his arms beam cannons. He pulled the trigger, sending two yellow blasts flying into the Genocide's shield. Akushi grinded his teeth together as the beams pushed him backwards, beginning to melt his shield.
"Thank you for the aid Gekido" Lacus said kindly.
"Your welcome, now what the hell are you doing here asking me to disable guards anyway?" Gekido asked.
"It's a very long story, which I'm pretty sure you don't have time for, my friends are on their way to escort me out"
Gekido nodded his head before switching the Haro off and throwing it aside. He turned his attention to the Genocide. The machines shield had been completely melted by the Purpose's cannons. Akushi threw the useless defence away and drew a crimson beam sabre from his back. Gekido ignited his own beam sabres and took a deep breath before he flew out of the colony and into the battle with the Genocide.
Yamato smiled as Lacus looked out of the window on the far end of the shuttle, watching the battle between the Purpose and Genocide.
"You know, this would probably be a good opportunity for you to give Gekido his jersey" The man said.
"Oh I shouldn't, he surely has more important business to attend to" Lacus said.
"I'm sure you and he will be able to meet face to face again" Yamato smiled.
The Purpose and Genocide slammed their sabres together one last time before separating. Both pilots breathed heavy breaths as their Gundams eyes flashed. The Genocide sheathed its sabre and flexed its fingers. Suddenly, a blade shot out of the Gundam's wrist.
"Let's see if I cant pierce your Arc!" Akushi said as the Purpose began to shine, activating the Arc field.
The Genocide's blade glowed red hot and both Gundam pilots grinded their teeth together, ready to roar at the other. Suddenly Gekido felt a ringing in his head.
No way! You've got to be joking! WHY NOW!!!
Gekido clutched his head in pain and the Gundam's eyes began to glow a red colour. Akushi noticed and heard Gekido's odd behaviour over the radio.
"She's here, the Lady's here" Akushi growled as he swung the Genocide's head round.
In the distance, Gekido, Lacus, Akushi and Yamato saw a white light flying towards them. It was a mobile suit, in the same shape that the Kratos and Orion's had been based on. The mobile suit's head had four Gundam eyes, with an iron mask covering the mouthpiece. Its armour was a white and red colour, the white parts shining like the Purpose occasionally did. On it's back was a flight pack similar to the Aile Strike, but with longer wings and a smoother design. Its visible armaments included two beam sabres at its hips, two beam Vulcan's on its wrists, including a shield similar to the Freedom's attached to its shoulder.
"What…the hell…is that?" Gekido asked out load, fighting the pain in his brain.
"A White Akuma, so it must be that bitch!"
The Akuma span around gracefully, its hip armour launching strange white pods, seven in all.
"Oh great, wireless units again!" Gekido growled as he armed his sniper rifle.
The pods suddenly began firing beams at both the Purpose and the Genocide. Both pilots flew their mobile suits out of the path of the beams, returning fire on the Akuma. But the Akuma showed impressive speed, or its pilot had incredible reflexes, dodging every single shot fired with a mere twist of its body. Gekido grinded his teeth together as he saw the images of a lab, including the tubes with Embryos inside them. Then he saw a more peaceful scene, of a brown haired woman shaking hands with a man who looked like Yamato.
What the hell do these images mean?
"DAMN IT!!" Akushi yelled as the seven pods surrounded the Gundam's and fired cables into their backs.
Electricity ran through the cables and directly into the mobile suit cockpits. The pilots yelled in agony as the armour of the Gundam's sparked with electricity.
"A PLASMA FIELD!!!" Akushi yelled.
Gekido yelled, trying to move his Gundam. But his and Akushi's efforts were both in vain. Lacus put her hands to her mouth as she watched the two Gundam's at the mercy of the White Akuma. The Songstress bought her Haro up and typed a frequency into the radio Yamato had installed.
John sat in the makeshift office he had set up in the Serpent Tail ship, drinking Coffee from a canister. He had separated from the Junk Guild for now and was using the Serpent tails ship with Mikhail, Heine, Hayato and several mechanics from the junk guild. The former commander's desk radio started to bleep. John lazily switched his screen on and widened his eyes as he saw Lacus on the screen with a very worried expression on her face.
"Mr Alaric I'd really hate to bother you but I'm in desperate need of your help right now" Lacus said.
"Okay Miss Clyne, just take a breath and explain to me what's wrong" John advised.
"It's Gekido, he's in danger, please I need you to help him, and get here as fast as you can I beg of you"
"Gekido is with you now? All right just send me the coordinates and I'll be on my way" John said calmly, but inside he was jumping at the chance to save Gekido's life.
John Alaric received his orders from the Songstress, as well as the coordinates. He took out his flight suit and ran towards the hanger.
"HEINE YOUR IN CHARGE!!!" John yelled as he ran past Heine.
"What, but sir where are you going?" Heine asked.
"To save the natural who surpasses coordinators"
John put on his flight suit and prepped the Far Sight for launch. He grabbed hi sniper rifle and an ion cannon as the Farsight walked onto the catapult.
"John Alaric launching!"
Gekido had never been in so much pain in his life. He once heard one of his psychiatrics say that mental torture was the worst kind.
Idiots obviously haven't been shocked with a plasma field…which saying hurts like a bitch would be way under under statement!
Akushi too was going through as much hell as Gekido was, glaring at the White Akuma the entire time.
Damn it! Has everything that I've done been for nothing? Heliopolis, the Lunar fleet, the desert, the sea, Orb…has it all been for nothing. All the people I killed, and the people I've seen killed…Tachi, Kisagi, Tolle…Jack. What meaning is my life, without victory, without defiance till the end.
We can't go on…there's no point in going on!
SHUT UP!
"The Process still has some flaws, though I believe it's much quicker than that fool Hibiki's"
Who the hell is Hibiki, what the hell are these things I'm seeing?
There's no point in worrying…we're about to die anyway
"He's perfect…think what we could do with him"
"……"
"Your actually worried about ethics, look at what I am, I, the failure and the one in Orb are things that shouldn't exist, and neither should this one"
"….."
"What's the matter, do you feel sympathy for him, he doesn't even know how unfortunate he is, do you really think that he'll care about what we've stolen from him, no of course he wont, he'll give in to his instincts like the animal he is"
"He's not an animal"
"Then he's a monster!"
"There's no such thing as monsters"
"Only evil people, yes you've said that many times but what we do is right, or at least it'll be right in the new world"
STOP IT! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!
Everything's been for nothing! This whole fight is meaningless and all the death is meaningless!
The Archangel, Kira, Sai, Mu, Miriallia, Kuzzey, Murrue, Natarle, Flay, Kai. Those days have been the happiest…no don't thinking like that, it's not the end.
All the things we never got to do
I've lived, I've lived, I've lived!
To kill, kill people whose deaths made no impact, they're deaths were meaningless and so is our's…no one will care!
The White Akuma drew its pink beam sabre and pointed it directly at the Purpose's chest. Lacus widened her eyes as the Akuma flew forward, ready to run the Purpose through.
Not like this…
"LIKE THIS!!!" Gekido yelled.
Gathering all his strength, Gekido tore the wire off his back and braced himself for the Akuma's attack. The White mobile suit swung its sabre downwards just as the sonic blades shot into the Purpose's hands. Gekido crossed his blades, stopping the sabre just inches from the Purpose's head. Akushi tore the wire off his own back and aimed his cannon at the deadlocked machines. The White Akuma flew backwards, sheathing its sabre and ignited its hidden beam claws. Gekido fired his buster shields, and widened his eyes in shock as the Akuma easily sliced the two projectiles in half.
"Bye bye bitch!" Akushi growled before he pulled the trigger.
The Genocide fired its cannons, launching a yellow beam at the Akuma. But, much to Akushi's shock the Akuma blocked the beam with its shield. Surrounding the shield was an Arc field.
"Damn you Yamato!" Akushi said, slamming his fist into the screen.
"Mr Kuzunagi am I mistaken or was that aura that appeared around the White mobile suit's shield an Arc field?" Lacus asked.
Silence was her answer; she began to turn her head, however she only reached an inch before she felt a bang to the back of her head. Lacus fell to the floor, unconscious while Yamato stood over her, holding Mr Pink.
"I'm very sorry my dear, but I've afraid the time for charades is over" Yamato said, his face devoid of his warm and comforting smile, replaced with neutrality.
Gekido growled as he and Akushi flew around to avoid the funnels launched by the Akuma.
"Hey Akushi, whose this Lady?" Gekido asked.
"You'll know soon enough, but for now I'll just tell you that she's as inspiring and convincing as Lacus Clyne, her influence can spread to both the strong and weak minded" Akushi explained, dodging a beam shot from one of the funnels.
"Gekido, I'm detecting several heat sources approaching, about Ten GINN's, Six CGUE's and some kind of mobile armour" Biggs said.
"Zoom in on it"
Gekido widened his eyes at what he saw. It appeared to a bigger, purple and black version of the Aegis's mobile armour form. What he heard next over the radio caused both he and Akushi to growl in anger.
"FOR THE LADY!!" The pilots of the ZAFT suits yelled.
"I see, that bitch is truly skilled at her art if she can tame Ash Grey and a load of other ZAFT aces…I'm out of here, your on your own Gekido" Akushi said before kicking his thrusters into high gear and flying away from the battle.
Gekido was ready to take off as well, until something else appeared on the radar. The Purpose swung it's head round and watched as a ship, two times the size of the Archangel, with a similar launching system appeared in front of one of the colonies. This battleship was pure white, armed with buster cannons, rail guns, missile launchers at its sides and two guns similar to the Lohengrin. Gekido then watched as the Akuma flew towards the ship, entering its hanger with Lacus's shuttle.
"I would recommend we retreat Gekido, we're outnumbered and we have no idea what kind of forces this new ship contains, then there's the kind of unit this Ash Grey is piloting" Biggs explained.
That was Lacus's ship, is she in danger…was she kidnapped? I could easily outrun these guys but what about the girl? And if I don't defeat this Lady now she might come back to haunt me later. Damn it, what can I do? Save Lacus or run away like a coward!
But we're one man against an army! What can one man do?
"One man, whose heart is consumed by a single desire, whose willing to fight and die for that desire, one man can defy an order…one man, one person…CAN MAKE HISTORY! I'M COMING LACUS CLYNE!!!" Gekido roared before he flew forward, ready to and always willing to face the unknown without a shed of regret.
Next Chapter 38: Unbreakable
Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, next chapter will be switching between teh Archangel as they arrive in Orb and Gekido as he tries to get into the Lady's ship. I might include ZAFT's invasion of Panama next chapter as well, depends on how much I'm willing to cram into one chap. Ash Grey is not an OC, he has been featured in one of the Astray mangas, expect to see a bit of him in action next chapter.