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Gundam Seed Purpose

Chapter 50: Nenshou Kokoro part 6

Dagger Thanos flipped through the pages of Cairo Niwa's file. Twenty-three years old, record holder for the weight lifting and wrestling championships and according to countless witnesses a great man. His battlefield experience included the mercenary uprisings three years ago, and his most recent being ZAFT's occupation of Iraq. The gentle giant walked into Dagger's new office, saluting the recently appointed commander.

"At ease Cairo, I assume you know why you are here" Dagger said.

"Yes sir, your putting together pilots for your ship the Argos" Cairo said.

Thanos nodded as he got up off his chair. He looked Cairo in the eye and then said something Cairo never expected.

"I order you to say precisely what you think of me Cairo Niwa, speak freely!" He ordered, not requested but ordered.

For a moment Cairo hesitated, before he gave his answer.

"To be quite honest sir…you scare me, after what you did after Heliopolis I can only imagine someone like you, consumed by hatred making this war worse…I think we need people fighting this war without such motifs of revenge…but alas not everyone will fight out of duty"

"You are right in that matter Cairo, if revenge wasn't allowed in war then we would half over three quarters of our forces cut and Patrick Zala wouldn't remain on the council, I've heard his son is enlisting

"Revenge, I hate war but even the wars that were fought for oil in the past were better than wars fought for revenge"

"You dislike war and yet you are a soldier, why is that?" Dagger asked.

"I've always been a good demolitions expert, what can I dedicate to society other than that?" Cairo asked back.

"You're the kind of man that feels humans have a Purpose?" Again Dagger asked a question, puzzling Cairo.

"I just feel that everyone should exist to provide something"

Dagger chuckled at the mans response.

"If we lived in such a world then there wouldn't be very many people in it, a doctor…I cant recall his name once called me a warrior born, his theory was that people had the potential to be only one thing and that one thing was written in their genes, that in a way we were servants of destiny…however there are those incapable or who simply don't want to fulfil their potential, are their lives worth any less than a soldiers, or an engineers or maybe even a politicians…society or laws may say so, but I don't think so…Cairo, the best thing you could do to contribute to this world is live in it, live, do or don't accomplish things big or small, marry or don't marry, raise a child or don't raise a child…just living can sometimes be the greatest thing we humans do"

Cairo lowered his head, thinking of the mans words before he asked a question of his own.

"So your saying all life is precious?"

Dagger turned his back to the man, squeezing his hand into a fist.

"Yes…but those morals are thrown aside in war, if we are to win then we must throw aside some of our morals…I want you in the Black Storm Cairo not only because of your skill in explosives but also because of your purity…if I ever cross a line, I want you to be the one who stops me, can I count on you to stay pure Cairo Niwa?" Dagger asked, turning to face Cairo.

Without hesitation, Cairo shook the mans hand.

"Yes sir, you can count on my purity"


The battle continued between Uragiri and the Seishin force. Multiple Orion's, grey GINN's and red Strike Daggers were being launched out of the fortress, which began to shatter rocks on it's surface, revealing the positron cannons and miniguns it was hiding. One of the positron cannons fired, consuming four ZAFT GINN's.

"Don't get too close to the fortress, fire our weapons on the portside" Murrue ordered.

A white and blue GINN was launched out of the Eternal, shooting its machine gun at a group of attacking Kratos's. Aisha grinded her teeth together, realising that zero gravity was harder to adapt to than she thought. Casvall flew in his Masamune's jet mode, shooting two GINN's that attacked the Kusunagi. He transformed into mobile suit mode, drawing his sonic blade and slicing an Orion in half.

"We need to infiltrate the base itself!" John said, locking sabres with an Orion.

"Forget it, leave everything to Gekido!" Leonardo said, grinding his teeth together as six Strike Daggers fired on the Infernus.

Jin slammed his hand on the missile launch switch, launching a hail of missiles that destroyed two of the Dagger's. Zack flew in, impaling one of the Dagger's with his nose cone. He then changed into mobile suit mode; shooting two other's in the chest. A Strike Dagger drew its sabre, slicing off one of Mikhail's arms. The "Doctor" plunged his sword into the machines chest, then flew backwards as a group of GINN's pursued him. Four rail gunshots destroyed the GINN's. Heine flew past Mikhail, shooting two more GINN's with his beam rifle.

"They seem to be putting a much better fight in" Ajay said.

"The longer we spend fighting the stronger they get, let's hope Gekido can do whatever he needs to do" Lucius said.

"DIE DOLLS!!!" Canard yelled, slicing two GINN's in half with his daggers.

The Strike Dagger's fired upon the ZAFT ships that had followed Miguel. A shot flew out of space, signalling the arrival of the Argos.

"OFFER SUPPORT TO LACUS CLYNE!!!" Thanos yelled.

"You're cleared for launch Marcus!" The radio operator said.

Marcus flew out of the Argos in the white GINN, it's waist and chest armour had been stripped off, leaving a slimmer Guaiz, equipped with HT rockets. The Black and White GINN flew at astonishing speed, shocking all it flew past. Marcus remained emotionless as he flew around, performing aerial manoeuvres that would have crushed his organs on Earth. He dodged a storm of rifle and missile fire from the Kratos's, drawing their attention as the Argos fired its missiles, destroying a group of Orion's. Marcus then flew at the Kratos's, igniting a red beam sabre much bigger than regular ones, the handle had a wire connected it to a battery on the Guaiz's shoulder. With one slash Marcus cut two Kratos's in half. Then span around, dodging a hail of machine gun fire from a group of Uragiri GINN's.

"This guy's incredible" Shiho said, watching the Guaiz in pure shock.

"I guess it's true what they say, that Thanos's best pilot is suicidal" Basque muttered.

The Guaiz took a shot to its head, burning some of its armour. Marcus yelled as he flew at the Kratos, splitting it in half with its sabre. An Orion stabbed one of the GINN's that accompanied Miguel in the chest. Mayura drew her sabre, beheading that Orion before a GINN blew her arm. The red haired pilot closed her eyes as a Strike Dagger flew towards her with its sabre ready. Zack suddenly flew in, stabbing the unit with his sabre.

"Mayura, please get to the Kusunagi now!" Zack said, firing his revolvers at a group of Kratos's.

"Okay, and thank you Zack" Mayura whispered as she flew to the blue and white ship.

The Infernus fired its cannons, consuming two GINN's. Leonardo growled as Kratos's and GINN's began to surround his ship. Mu shot a Kratos in the head while Prayer destroyed three more with his bun barrels.

"My batteries reaching the critical point" Mu growled.

"Mr La Flaga, disconnect your Zero pack, I'll give you my Aile Striker!" Hayato said as he flew behind the Strike.

"Good thinking kid, you should be a captain" Mu gave Hayato the thumbs up as he disconnected his zero Striker pack.

The Cosmos Grasper disconnected its Aile Pack, letting it fly towards the Strike. As the unit connected, Mu whistled in relief as his battery recharged to full power. He drew a beam sabre, beheading a Kratos before stabbing a GINN in the chest. On the Eternal, Athrun walked towards a shuttle, ripping his cast off.

"Hey, what are you thinking, your in no condition to go out there" Martin said, walking in Athrun's way.

"I know, but I cant just stand back while everyone's fighting, even if I end up making my wound worse I want to use the Justice!" Athrun explained.

"I understand what your getting at but right now making your condition worse isn't going to help us in the long run"

Athrun grinded his teeth together as the ship shook from a direct missile attack. Dagger Thanos launched out of the Argos, aiming his sniper rifle at the units attacking the Eternal. With each squeeze of the trigger, he shot down each of the six Kratos mobile suits.

"I truly regret what Akushi did to your father, he should have been arrested not murdered, but understand that I have no intention in joining your group, after we've defeated this enemy your back on my things to shoot list" Dagger said to the crew of the Eternal.

Lacus nodded, understanding the commander completely.

"Every body, all regular ZAFT units are on our side" Andy said to every mobile suit and ship of the Seishin group.

Rau smirked as the Vesalius drifted closer and closer towards the battle. His sources told him that a group of Earth Alliance ships were heading towards the field as well. He considered whether now was a good time to give them the date he had stolen. Akushi walked through the corridors of the Vesalius, wearing his black flight suit.

'Gekido, it seems that Uragiri's plan has come to fruition' the young man thought.

Rau and Ades raised their eyebrows as Miguel's face came up on the screen.

"Captain, Commander, right now you need to consider the Eternal and those other ships as friendly units, this new force is much bigger than we could have imagined" Miguel explained before he went straight back to the fighting.

"Commander, what should we do?" Ades asked.

"Hmmm, this seems to be quite a complicated situation, and despite it Chairman Zala wont approve of this temporary alliance" Rau said, putting a hand to his chin as he thought over the situation.

Miguel sliced one Kratos unit in half, and then blew another's head off with his rifle. Marcus slashed three units apart with his sabre, barely dodging an Orion's beam. He stabbed the mobile suit's head, and then slammed the Guaiz's fist into a Kratos's head, crushing the control system.


Taithan smirked at the sheer effort that the Saishin and ZAFT forces were putting in. He flew his Gundam through a vertical shaft, going over the data of more possible units that could be released.

"Lady Uragiri, ever since you found me in LA my life has gotten a whole lot better, my true art of war has been brought to the surface, I truly appreciate you making use of me, all of your plans are beginning to come true…now I will bring the prototype into action, the beginning of a new age in warfare, if mobile suits are the future frontline soldiers then space is the battlefield, and the Proto-Omega will be the beginning of the future for warships" Taithan explained, breaking off into laughter as he reached the outside of the fortress.

Slowly, the Bulky Gundam switched to its mobile armour form, landing in a hole in the fortress. Taithan's laughter became more hysterical as tubes popped out of the rock, slamming into plugs on his Gundam's armour. A plate slid over the hole and Noah widened his eyes as he detected a heat source on the fortress's surface.

"Captain…we've got a really big problem…." Noah put his hands to his head as he began breathing heavily.

Jin adjusted the outside camera, until he had a full view of the fortress. Looks of pure shock crossed the face of the crew as a humanoid object stepped off of the meteor. The stone covering it's body shattered, revealing it's grey metal armour.

"Is that a mobile suit?" Ades asked as the Vesalius arrived on the battlefield.

The fighting stopped, and every soldier looked towards the gigantic mobile suit standing before them. It was twice the size of the Eternal, bearing three fingers on each arm. Its head was of the monoeye type, with an upside down V fin on it's forehead. The machine had two holes of some kind on it's chest, while each finger also had a hole, presumably they were the barrels of cannons. On it's back was a triad of rockets. The Giant mobile suit had spherical shoulders, with Gottfried cannons on either side. Taithan removed his helmet, letting his long black hair out. He then unzipped his flight suit, revealing a chest with a Kanji symbol for control another for warfare on his shoulder.

"The Proto-Omega, the Ultimate form of warfare, this unit is your future soldiers of the battlefield" Taithan said as a black seed shattered and his eyes changed into Seed form.

Kira turned his head towards the giant mobile suit, shocked as the rest of the soldiers were.

"That idiot, he wasn't supposed to use it that early" Sora growled.

"Cool it Sora, we've won anyway" Alan chuckled.

"That's what you think!" Kira said, charging at the three Akuma's.

Alan fired his shoulder cannon, forcing the Freedom to swerve to the right. Kira fired his rifle, destroying a funnel that floated in front of him. He then bought his sabre up, blocking a swipe from Lenne. Sora flew in, crashing his sabres into the Freedom's. The Freedom slashed at the Black Akuma, forcing it backwards.

Everyone was left in utter shock by the arrival of the gigantic mobile suit.

"EVERYONE TAKE DEFENSIVE MEASURES NOW!!!" Leonardo yelled as the Proto-Omega's chest began to glow.

It unleashed a crimson and blue beam from its chest, which flew towards the Eternal.

"EVADE HARD TO PORT NOW!!!" Waltfeld yelled.

The Eternal barely dodged in time, the beam missing it by inches. But Taithan wasn't done yet; he raised the Proto-Omega's fingertips, launching pink beams from the barrels. The blasts flew into ZAFT GINN's and Orb Astray's, cutting them at their chests. Its head began firing Vulcan bullets, shooting apart both ZAFT GINN and Orb Astray alike.

"Everyone open fire on that mobile suit!" Lacus said.

"FIRE!!" Murrue and Leo yelled.

The Archangel and the Infernus fired their cannons, followed shortly after by a hail of missiles from the Eternal and the ships of the Eleventh fleet. John lined up the mobile suits, firing all their weapons at the gigantic suit. But each beam that flew towards the suit altered it's course, missing the mobile suit completely.

"WHAT THE HELL!!!" Canard yelled.

"It must be using the same kind of defensive equipment used by that mobile suit with the scythe in Orb" Noah said.

"And missiles wont do much good against that things phase shift" Lowe sighed.

"Then we'll get in close and use melee weaponry" John said, retracting his wrist blades.

"Commander Alaric, Astray Frames, Prayer, La Flaga and Zack, you guys come with me!" Canard ignited his beam daggers and flew on the path towards the giant mobile suit.

"Let's clear a path for them guys!" Koshiro said, firing his beam rifle alongside a squadron of Astrays and GINNs.

Much to the astonishment of the Gundam pilots, the Genocide Massacre flew past them, drawing it's swords at it prepared to face off with the giant Mobile suit.


He sat against the wall, looking at the floor in his dark room. If he actually had the lights on, it would have reflected off his long gold hair. For the past few days he had been locked in his room, leaving his hair and beard to grow. He would only ever go out to test new mobile suits, which was quite often considering ZAFT's need to produce more powerful machines. Marcus had test piloted quite a few units, even one of the Eleventh fleet's High Manoeuvre GINN prototypes. He had pushed that unit to it's breaking point, almost killing himself and severally damaging the machine from the overwork.

The door suddenly opened, and a young ZAFT rookie placed Marcus's food tray at the door. He then took the old tray and closed the door. Marcus crawled towards the tray, dragging it away from the door. He was given no forks or spoons, not being trusted in the slightest by the flight bases commander. Marcus picked up the food, which included a chicken thigh, raw beans, stale biscuits and loaf of bread. He broke off pieces from the bread, tearing it with his teeth like a wild animal. Marcus took started to gulp down the water he was given, when the door opened.

Even as the white coat commander walked in, Marcus paid him no attention, continuing to eat his food. Once he was done, Marcus threw the tray aside and leant against the wall, his eyes drifting to the red haired commander standing in front of him. The commander lit up a torch, shining it in Marcus's eyes.

"So you're the test pilot who seems to crave injury, I wonder why" The commander said.

"That's not really any of your business" Marcus growled.

"It will be when your part of my unit"

"I refuse!"

"This isn't an order that you have a choice in"

"Then I guess you'll have to shoot me" Marcus said.

Even as the barrel of a gun was pressed against the side of his head, Marcus showed no fear. In fact he got up off the floor, grabbed the barrel of the gun and held it against his forehead.

"I've got the gun loaded, and the safeties off…aren't you afraid?" The Commander asked.

"It's hard for a man with nothing left to lose to give a damn" Marcus said.

"I guess that's what all men think when they commit suicide, but when they're gone there are people they left behind who shed tears for their loss"

"Trust me, this isn't one of those cases"

The Commander laughed as he put his gun back into its holster. He switched on the lights, getting a better look at Marcus.

"You're a very valuable asset Marcus, some people don't see that but I do…some people say they don't fear death, but they're the fools, if they faced with the possibility of death then they would prove their words wrong, but you, I'm interested in seeing whether or not you can live up to the rumours about you, I'm interested in learning why you act the way you act Marcus, I also wish to see you saved from your self pity" Dagger explained.

"But then I wouldn't be a useful asset anymore"

"Then I'll have to make use of you while your still an asset"

"What's the job?" Marcus asked.

"As you know ZAFT wants Carpentaria, however the forces there are too many for mine alone to stop, we recently received a bombing type DINN, it's equipped with missile launchers and extra armour for bombing missions, but no pilot is willing to use it because the mission requires a single unit to go in, surprise the enemy and soften their forces up for our main occupation force" The Commander explained.

"What's the likelihood of failure?"

"You mean the likelihood of you getting completely destroyed by the Earth Forces, Thirty Seventy I'd say"

"I'll take the job" Marcus said without hesitation.

"There are several conditions though

"What are they?"

"If you survive this mission, you will join my new unit, you'll wear the red uniform join our own forces on the front line of the battlefield, do you agree to these terms?" The Commander asked.

"I agree, Commander…"

"Thanos, Dagger Thanos!"


Flay was sitting in Rau's room, watching the explosions of the ships outside. She knew that this would probably be the most brutal battle of the war. Flay didn't know how, she just knew that this battle would end tragically. The door suddenly slid open and Flay stood up as Akushi floated into the room. He was wearing his flight suit, with a frown across his face.

"Come with me!" Akushi growled, grabbing Flay's shoulder.

"But Rau Le Creuscet…"

"I don't give a shit what that masked freak says, your coming with me whether I have to beat you up and drag you to the hanger myself"

Flay nodded her head as she allowed Akushi to pull her out of the room. She knew there was no point in resisting; the boy could easily kill her if he wanted to. But then Flay remembered that small moment they had before Rau had arrived.

'What happened after he kissed me?' Flay wondered, thinking back to that time.

Akushi guided Flay into the hanger, floating towards a single GINN. He opened the cockpit, pulling her into the machine with him. Setting her on his lap, Akushi then proceeded to point at the different buttons on the console.

"These are the main activation switches, you flip them in the following order" Akushi said, proceeding to flip each switch. "The pedals at my feet here are the mobile suits feet, each step you take with them is a step the mobile suit takes, these sticks here are the main arm controls, the ones to the right are the thrusters, depending on how much thrust you want you push the stick forward to it's limit, these buttons on the other control sticks are for the weapons, you aim with the crosshairs then fire, when you out of ammo you use the opposite hand without the gun in to reload"

"Why are you telling me this?" Flay asked.

"Because I want you prepared, you've got a choice Miss Alster, you either sit back or wait for Le Creuscet to use you in his sick plan, get killed in that attempt to be used, survive but probably not see your friends ever again or…you could escape, die attempting it or see your friends again…the way I see it, at least you would have died fighting to see the man you love, make a choice Flay…now pay attention while I explain this to you again"

Flay didn't know what that masked man was thinking. But she knew now that it couldn't be something pure like he made it out to be. This war was going to end, but most likely with both forces wiping one another out. Flay was back in Le Creuscet's room, watching Orb and ZAFT fight together and die together. And Flay knew that this alliance wouldn't last long. Akushi's Genocide Massacre was loaded onto the launcher; the mechanics strapping two twin barrelled Gatling guns to it's back, removing its wings.

"Akushi Thanos, launching in the Genocide Dominance variant!" Akushi said.

The Genocide was launched out of the ship, it's phase shift armour changing to a red and gold colour. Akushi looked at the Proto-Omega, and at the meteor fortress.

"Damn you Karin!" Akushi growled, grinding his teeth together as he drew the Genocide's blades and faced off with the Proto-Omega.


Yamato and Yisaka smiled as they watched the forces of ZAFT and Seishin working together.

"Everything we planned is falling into place" Yamato said with a smile as he faced his wife.

"Yes, I just wish that our children weren't sacrificed" Yisaka said, closing her eyes as tears flowed down her face.

Yamato hugged his wife tightly, and then both separated as the door opened. They both widened their eyes to see Lady Uragiri herself standing with her pistol ready.

"Oh don't worry Mrs Kuzunagi, your new children are ready" Uragiri said and laughed as the couple widened their eyes in horror. "Though they aren't the real thing, one things for sure is that they're both going to kill Akushi, then their brains will shut down when they hear of your tragic deaths" Uragiri said with a smile as she squeezed the trigger.

Next Chapter 51: Regret!

The meaning behind the Kanji symbol on the Genocide is revealed


Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter, you'll have to wait till two more chapters to see Gekido settle things with Jack and Miguel.