Gundam SEED: Entropy Rising

By: Shadow Chaser

Phase Twenty – Epilogue – Dawn's Carriage, Peace

In the end of all things, the LF had proven to both PLANT and Earth that it was needed to keep the peace between everyone. Many had joined up after the Talon Incident, realizing that their bigotry against one another was just another cause for war and war was not what they wanted. Everyone had come to love the peace, but where there are always human emotions there will always be the spark of rebellion.

Yzak Joule had returned to PLANT and rejoined ZAFT, but still occasionally participated in the LF when rebellion occurred.

Dearka Elsman and Miriallia Haw had sat down and discussed their future and both realized that they needed some time apart to cope with their own ghosts. Miri eventually decided to move on and returned to Dearka, but Dearka knew that he couldn't replace Tolle; he would help her cope and perhaps find a new love.

Murrue Ramius continued captaining the Archangel, and was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral for her actions against the Talon. Combined with both the Quinn Misali in the Kusanagi and Andrew Bartfield in the Eternal they split into three fleets, each for ZAFT, Earth, and Orb, but united against a common enemy.

Ledonil Kisaka had returned to his duties as both Cagalli's protector and the captain of the police force. He started training undercover LF officers to stand guard in the Senate Hall whenever they were in session to prevent another bombing from happening again.

Keiji and Kanoko Yamato both returned to their normal lives, Keiji officially retiring from the military and started teaching at Orb's main island high school. Kanoko had been offered a job in the Scientific Coordinator-Natural Research department, but declined the offer.

Taylor Ren joined up with the LF, after an extensive evaluation and Haruka Satou dropped out of college to pursue her own career.

Lacus Clyne returned to PLANT and became the Foreign Minister to firm up relations between the Earth and PLANT. She and her Vice Foreign Minister, Senator Amalfi who had been cleared of all charges, worked hard in trying to keep peace and continue good relations between both PLANT and Earth.

Cagalli Yula Attha continued to lead Orb and preside over the Senate Hall, but this time she was always accompanied by Athrun who had become her bodyguard. Athrun still worked in Morganroete, but it was more part-time than full-time.

And last but not least, Kira Yamato recovered from his wounds, but his psyche was still a delicate state. He graduated college with full honors, but decided not to do anything with his degree at the moment… He still wondered about his clone-brother Nikolai Mercus and his fate as a creation of Dr. Hibiki…

Entropy rising, destiny falling…

Fini

Author's Last Words:

1. I'd like to thank everyone who has reviewed this fic. Thank you for standing with me all of these three months in writing this. I apologize if I've offended anyone, but this is the vision I had for Gundam SEED and was inspired to write it. Thank you!

2. Griever's fate: Griever had to die…there was no other way to explain this. He was created in a way that if he was kept alive, then he would have been consumed by the madness that overtook Rau Le Creuset. Plus it's like a Harry Potter thing – one of them has to die for the other to live.

3. Haruka & Taylor: This was based off of RahXephon, where Ayato's two friends, Mamoru and Asahina were both Mu, but changed and wanted to kill him. If you've seen RahXephon, it's actually quite true that Mamoru tried to convince Asahina to be her true self while he was prepared to convert/kill Ayato…

4. Yzak: I had planned for him to come into the story late. I had also planned for him to be there at the last fight between Kira and Griever, but it didn't turn out that way.

5. Dearka, Miri, Sai, Murrue: All of these became secondary characters to the four main ones simply because I didn't know what to write for them.

6. Kisaka, Kanoko, Keiji, Kingfisher: Heh…the K's… All of them became sub-major characters because they had important roles; especially I felt that Kanoko and Ledonil Kisaka were very important concerning Mendel. I got the ideal for Kisaka as I watched the Desert Tiger arc and the 1st of the Orb arc. He's so protective of Cagalli, why is that? That got my muses thinking… Keiji and Kingfisher because I realized that there was no way that Kanoko was going to walk out of Mendel Incident unscathed. There had to be someone going after her and Keiji was the logical choice. After all, in the episode where they both meet with Uzumi Attha, Keiji is quiet, not really knowing the whole story, but Kanoko was vocal with Uzumi – so the two must have planned something together.

7. Seed-mode: Why was Cagalli born at the same time as Kira? I explained this theory online at 's forums so please, head there!

8. Anti-climatic ending: It's human. Nothing's meant to go out with a boom…it's also pretty realistic.

9. Teleportation: I left it at that because there's always room for a sequel…what you didn't realize I had one? Yes, there will be a sequel to Entropy Rising along with a prequel and an Alternate Universe. The prequel is called: Origin – Shadows of the Future. The Alternate Universe: Arbiter Forces. The sequel: Destiny Falling. Anyways, there were more psychic stuff than teleportation, but that's what the sequel will be exploring.

10. Gundam Universe references: I originally wanted to connect Wing, 0079, 08th MS Team, and many of the other Gundams into this story, but that will have to wait for both the prequel and sequel.

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