DISCLAIMER: Somewhere in this world there is a secret facility that was building up Gundams and I was assigned along with my four friends to steal what Gundam we like. And when we are in a botched situation our Gundams will self-destruct and destroy anything.
In my dreams… oh well back to the reality, I don't own Gundam Seed or any Gundam series.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hmm… favorable reviews and flames not yet coming. Just read on, I like you already D
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED:
Fate
"What do you mean she was kidnapped!?" Kira exclaimed, finding it hard to believe that his sister was just been kidnapped.
Especially if his best friend is the one guarding his sister.
"Yes…" Athrun replied, unable to look straight into his eyes "She was kidnapped by some unknown group…"
"Since when?"
"Three days ago…"
"Why didn't anyone tell me? Why didn't you told me earlier?"
"Because I told them that I will let you know personally… after I recovered from my injuries"
Kira impulsively grabbed Athrun's collar and exclaimed "How could you let my sister be kidnapped!?"
"I protected her damn it but I failed!! That's why I won't give up finding her and her captors! I'm…I'm sorry…"
Kira let go of Athrun and sighed. He pocketed his hands and closed his eyes to think for a moment before replying, now in a positive manner like he is always "Of course I know Cagalli is important to you so you will do everything in your power to protect her wasn't it?"
"Yes…"
Kira then placed his hand on Athrun's shoulder and smiled "Then we'll find her. We won't give up no matter what are we?"
His best friend smiled "Yeah… by the way I would like to check up on Lacus before I go back to PLANT"
"..okay"
While Kira and Athrun continued to talked about a couple of things, Sai and Miriallia were conspicuously listening as well as other interested technicians milling around the M1 Astray mobile suits and the Freedom Gundam.
"Guess Kira didn't take it lightly about his sister being kidnapped" Miriallia commented.
"Yeah, I guess so. So… are you ready to go?" Sai asked.
"Yeah, Ramius-san said it is our first assignment to assist her of some sort of things. She also told me to check up on that Zala guy's friends"
"I see… well let's go Milly" Sai said, hefting his pack "Too bad we don't have chance to say goodbye to our friend, since this assignment was so sudden"
"Yeah, but we can call him after our arrival at the Kamiapolis colony right?"
"Sure we can do that"
PHASE 03: Human Complexities
"Three thermonuclear warheads are stolen!?" Murrue exclaimed, slamming down her palm on the desk vehemently "What had happened to the Special Forces 3rd Company!? Are they the best right!?"
The Earth Alliance commander working for the Peacekeeping Forces Unit 32 based on the Kamiapolis sighed and replied "Yes they are the best but they encountered a serious problem"
"What kind of serious problem?"
The commander then pressed a button and a wide monitor slides down. After a while it showed the live recording of the incident involving Special Forces 3rd Company and the unknown mobile suits.
"This recording came just earlier from the facility down there at the Nevada desert, sent to me using a secure line"
"That train… it's heading to the disarmament facility right?"
"Correct, and during the trip these mobile suits stormed in and wiped out all of the Strike Dagger squads…"
"Those mobile suits… they are…"
"GP series"
"Hmm…but still, those mobile suits alone are no match for the Strike Daggers except that if the pilots are extremely skilled—most likely that they are the Coordinators for the extremist Klueze faction. What more if they are able to pilot the Gundams?"
"Yes…by the way admiral… you mentioned Gundams … are they mobile suits?"
Murrue, even though was tense because of the situation, smiled "Heard from a… friend of mine using the first letters of the OS of the GAT series"
The commander chuckled "Well then, since this incident is one of the Class A Scenario, I think your unit will handle it capably. I guess the Peacekeeping Forces Council had ordered you to investigate and use the resources you had to stop this potential threat"
"We had been ordered, sir"
OOOOOOOOOO
"IT hurts… it hurts… it hurts…" Yzak seethed, feeling extreme pain in his side as he tried to get up from his bed. His broken rib has been placed back on thanks to the modern technology and the soldier who had found the broken rib on the floor.
Still it hurts every time he even tried to move.
"It hurts too here" Dearka said, touching his injured right shoulder that was covered with a cast right from his shoulder to his arm and supported by a sling "That boy is amazing though, he hurts us painfully yet we still live"
"Nicol…"
"Nicol? Is he Nicol?"
Yzak shook his head, closing his eyes "HE is not Nicol, he's already dead"
Dearka frowned before replying "Yeah… he is dead. But the boy looks amazingly like him… except for his eyes"
"Golden eyes… the way he handles his sword…"
"A Samurai X wannabe I guess… " Dearka sarcastically commented before chuckling "I like that series and I even watched its OAV too…"
Yzak snorted and dementedly looked at the wall that is suddenly interesting.
"Hey you're having that look again…" Dearka said.
The silver haired soldier seethed incoherently.
The door to the medical unit opened and Dearka turned to greet the nurse or a doctor who was usually checking up on them when he gasped, and then smiled. The person who went inside noticed that she frowned when she saw him again; never noticing that one corner of her mouth was slightly raised as if she was amused.
Both are somewhat happy—guarded but happy nonetheless—to see each other again.
Of course, during the war when Dearka had joined up with the Archangel, for some reasons Miriallia is somewhat interested in him as well as Dearka is interested to her, but it's not that they liked each other already.
"Ms. Haww? But what are you…"
Miriallia finished for him "—doing here? Don't you see my uniform, I'm now a part of the Peacekeeping Forces—"
"—What unit?"
"Unit 7"
"You didn't answered my question about what are you doing here"
"Ramius-san told me to check up on you guys"
"I… see. The Admiral is here right now?"
"Yes, she is checking up on the investigation as well as supervising the training of new recruits at the Kamiapolis for the Peacekeepers"
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
"It just happens that me together with Yzak here are also under Unit 7"
Miriallia just raised her eyebrows that told him she knows.
"Since… when did you come here at the Kamiapolis Colony?" Dearka then asked.
"Just an hour ago after I've met up with Kira—"
"Kira…" Yzak butted in "Kira Yamato"
"What's the deal about him?" Miriallia asked, perturbed that this Yzak was looking at her like that.
"You're his friend right?"
"So?"
"…"
"…"
"Nothing… nothing at all"
Yzak turned away before muttering incoherently again.
"What's up with that guy?" Miriallia silently asked.
Dearka whispered back, rather loudly enough for Yzak to hear and maybe release him from his uptight situation "Because Yzak is gay that's why he was looking for your friend, I mean look at his hairstyle…"
"I'm not gay!" Yzak retorted before returning to his self-induced angst while thinking how to get back at that golden-eyed boy for causing his injury.
"Then find a girlfriend or else every male would feel uncomfortable when they are around you hehehe—ow!"
Miriallia tightened her hold on Dearka's shoulder cast "What makes you think I'm your girlfriend, idiot?"
The blonde soldier rolled his eyes before whispering, this time only for Miriallia to hear "Well, I've known Yzak for a long time since we have joined ZAFT forces before. Let's just say that he wants a payback… but only if he is an enemy"
"Well Kira is not his enemy anymore…"
"He has now, and it is someone we have encountered during the incident"
"Oh…"
"By the way how's your friend Kira? Have he… heard the news about the Orb representative? She must be really important to him so he does have the right to know wasn't it?"
"Your friend had already told him about it… it was hard for Kira to accept though, since that Zala guy was his best friend so he has confidence in him that he would protect Miss Attha. But like as he was always, he dealt it with more positive manner and said that they both will find her"
"Oh…"
OOOOOOOOOO
It was a windy night at the peaceful country of Orb, the stars are shining brightly in the horizon and lights from the lampposts, street lamps, buildings and establishments brightened up the whole city.
But on the Allster residence, two young people are talking under the sheets.
"So she… came at your home and kissed you?" Fllay asked calmly.
"Yes… and then I abruptly pushed her away"
"Nothing had happened?"
"No, nothing had happened"
"What did you two talked about?"
Kira for a moment was silent before answering "About why did I chose you over her. I gave out the reasons why…"
"Hmm…"
"Do you feel… uncomfortable about it?"
"Yes"
"That's right, she kissed me…"
"Yes she kissed you. But…"
"But…?"
"I believe in you. I believe that you love me. Because of that, I will protect you with all of my feelings"
"Do you… trust me?"
"Yes"
Kira smiled.
OOOOOOOOOO
"You recuperated so fast colonel" Murrue commented when she visited Kisaka on his medical unit.
"Fortunately I got prompt medical attention. I was hit in my gut but the shot came clean though…" Kisaka replied, looking at a couple of bandages in his side "Within a couple of days I can serve the Peacekeeping forces again"
"That's good to hear… by the way colonel, what caused your present injury?"
"Well… you might not believe it but it is a boy who had done this to me"
"A boy?"
Kisaka nodded "Yes, a boy, I think he's also at the same age like those young pilots. He managed to take us all of down painfully yet leaving us all alive"
"How so?"
"He was carrying a sword, a different kind of sword. A reversed edged sword which he used the blunt side to incapacitate us"
"Sakabatou"
"Sakabatou?"
"Yes" Murrue said "I once read long ago about Japanese swords and that kind of sword was used by a legendary assassin called Battousai, but that's long ago during the Meiji Era"
"You sure read about Japanese History I guess…"
"Back to the subject, so after that boy incapacitates you and the young pilots who had accompanied her, he then kidnapped the Orb representative?"
"Yes…"
Murrue leaned to a wall and assumed a thinker stance "So far no leads had shown up… because of that the Earth Alliance has sent to me a military investigator to help us find those perpetrators"
"I see…"
"Recently the main branch of Earth Alliance HQ in Washington had sent me a notice involving that military investigator's transfer" she explained "He is a major from the 47th Atlantic Federation command who are coordinating with the Peacekeepers Unit 7"
"What's his name then?"
"Nataku Badgiruel… Natarle's brother"
"You mean…"
"Yes, he is…"
OOOOOOOOOO
Nataku had just arrived to the Orb Airport Terminal and was now waiting for someone to pick him up outside. Dressed in civilian clothes so as not to attract attention and hefting a couple of baggage, he waited patiently for someone to pick him up.
An hour had passed and still he was standing there when a car stopped in front of him. The car's side window opened up and a woman called him.
"Are you Major Nataku Badgiruel?" the woman asked.
"You must be Director Erica Simmons for the Orb Military" Nataku said "Are you the one to pick me up?"
"Yes, yes" Erica said "Get in after placing your bags in my car's trunk"
After placing his bags behind he then gets inside the car and Erica drove out from the terminal.
"So you got transferred to the Peacekeeping Forces Unit 7 huh?" Erica started.
"Oh yes" Nataku replied "I'll be helping them in the investigation"
"I see…"
OOOOOOOOOO
"Miss Attha, here we are…"
Claudia pressed a button from a remote control and lights spilled out all over. Cagalli shuts her eyes abruptly before adjusting to the sudden light, then gasped.
Standing in front of her was two new mobile suits, each as deadly as they look that made Cagalli only stare on amazingly even though some parts are still being attached and built on it.
"They are still quite unfinished, about 70 percent done" Claudia said.
"What… what are they?"
"ZGMF-X07A Independence and ZGMF-X06A Righteousness"
Cagalli then looked at Claudia and asked vehemently "How did you…"
"I was once a director of the Blue Cosmos until they discovered my secret as a Coordinator. With that, my execution will be carried out until I was saved…"
"By whom? Raww?"
"Yes, he made a deal with someone named Murata Azrael"
"What kind of deal?"
"Exchange of intelligence, and information. Azrael wants the destruction of all Coordinators, Raww wants to destroy all of Naturals, so I guess they agreed on something"
Cagalli continued to look on at the mobile suits "But how the hell did you manage to built this?" she asked, frowning.
"I'm extremely wealthy and I have couple of contacts and influences, while keeping low profile during that Cosmic Era 71 war. Plus, these mobile suits are based from the designs and features of the X10A Freedom and X09A Justice, and then my researchers made them all better than those mobile suits"
"Why… build this?"
Claudia answered Cagalli straightly "Because another war is coming"
"You're going to wage war?" the Orb representative seethed.
The woman didn't answer.
OOOOOOOOOO
"Ahhh… this is life" Kylie said contentedly sighing "Piloting a mobile suit slash student of Eurasia University is exciting you know"
"Yup" Ana affirmed after chugging a bottle of soda.
"Hey where's Bart?"
"Bart? Like as always, hitting on girls again"
Bart is seen swooning a girl in their sights. They laughed when they saw him being book-slapped by that girl.
"See Kylie? Like as always…"
"You're right Ana hehehe…" Kylie laughed before looking at Bart's pathetic attempt to pout for being dumped "Yare, yare…"
Ana then nudged her side "Hey Kylie, look at that guy"
"Bart?"
"No, the other guy"
Triangulating on where and who was Ana was staring at, Kylie found the target to be a young man suggesting that he is maybe about twenty one years of age or older. She is seventeen years and old, and just legal.
Just legal? Kylie thought What am I thinking?
"So what's the deal about that guy?" she asks.
"Hmm… nothing. He just looks like an American maybe" Ana said.
"Maybe a new teacher? Look at him carrying some books"
OOOOOOOOOO
Somewhere on some secret facility two men are discussing, a researcher and a man dressed in business clothes, their features partially hidden in shadows and the only thing that lightens the room is a wide screen monitor showing familiar figures and their data.
"These are the eligible candidates for the new mobile suit units"
"Oh really?"
A tap of button, and a picture of a girl brown shoulder length hair with blue eyes are displayed on the monitor along with her data;
NAME: Kylie Valentine
AGE: 17
BLOOD TYPE: AB
UNIT DESIGNATION: BC-Unit 2, Second Lieutenant
PERSONAL HISTORY: deleted
STATUS: STAGE 5
Another tap of button, and a picture of another girl with long blue hair that reached to her waist and with red colored eyes were displayed along with her data;
NAME: Annabelle Gutenacht
AGE: 17
BLOOD TYPE: A
UNIT DESIGNATION: BC-Unit 2, Second Lieutenant
PERSONAL HISTROY: deleted
STATUS: STAGE 6
Another tap of button, and a picture of a young boy with cropped red hair with deep-set green eyes along with his data are displayed;
NAME: Bartholomew Greenfield
AGE: 16
BLOOD TYPE: O
UNIT DESIGNATION: BC-Unit 2, Lieutenant
PERSONAL HISTORY: deleted
STATUS: STAGE 7
"All of them are Enhanced Naturals, Gripheptamin-drugged Naturals" one commented "Why is it that their personal histories has been erased?"
"To protect their families and friends" the researcher replied.
"I see, anyways what had happened to the Operation Big Heist?"
"It went well sir, mission success"
"Good… good. It seems that they are now eligible to pilot our newest machines. Those GP series were old models and cannot fare well with those Strike Daggers, but their amazing piloting skills proved them no match. How much more if we put them into "them", hmm…?"
"Currently, the engineers and scientists were dismantling the bombs and transforming them into a more usable source, like power"
"Like the Neutron Jammer Cancellers"
"If the data we have acquired from the former Blue Cosmos director, we can make our own N-Jammer Cancellers"
His companion chuckled "Hehehe… soon those Coordinator scums shall be wiped out from the face of our planet and the whole universe… hahaha…"
The researcher kept silent.
OOOOOOOOOO
Kira just finished calibrating and updating Freedom's OS when he decided to take a break inside the cockpit, and then reminisce why he was here.
Actually, he was wondering why Freedom has been rebuilt by the Peacekeeping Forces, in spite that all kinds of nuclear weapons—Thermonuclear or Neutron Jammer Cancellers—were now disarmed in accordance to the treaty. As said by Murrue…
I know weapons like this are made to destroy, but can also save many lives. The tiny flame of hope we all have carried is now getting bigger and bigger as people realizes, as people supports, as people believes…
"The flame of hope…" Kira murmured to himself.
"Yamato… First Lieutenant Yamato…"
Someone female called outside, and Kira pressed a button to raise his seat to greet her.
"Director Simmons" Kira said, wondering what does she need right now and noticing a guy beside her.
"Hello Kira-kun, how are you today?"
"I'm fine…"
"That's good to hear" Erica said before looking at the guy she was with "Kira, meet Major Nataku Badgiruel"
Kira blinked "Badgiruel? Then you are…"
"Yes I am, First Lieutenant Yamato. I am your Natarle's brother"
"Oh…"
Nataku then stared at the Freedom's head unit "So this is the ZGMF-X10A Freedom mobile suit you are piloting huh? From the looks of it, it is a formidable weapon. First time I've seen it today actually… hey, this mobile suit can shoot down multiple targets as many as fifty mobile suits right?"
"Yeah"
"And with ultra-high mobility, this mobile suit is sure a kick-ass weapon… although I wonder why this was rebuilt? Since the treaty both governments had decided to disband and disarm all kinds of nuclear weapons…"
"I know that this Gundam is equipped with N-Jammer Canceller" Kira explained "But without this Gundam in watch of peace, there would be battles and I must fight to protect"
"Such words… I do also believe in that philosophy" Nataku commented.
"You do?"
"Yeah"
Nataku then turned to Erica "This kid seems to be a nice one, and yet I can't believe it…"
"That he's piloting a mobile suit like this" Erica finished for him.
"Yeah"
Nataku sighed and then turned to Kira "Although I would like to have some chat with you boy, but it seems that Ms. Simmons here would want me to report first on duty. So next time eh?"
Kira nodded "Sure next time"
"Then see you"
"See you"
Kira watched their retreating backs before locking up the Freedom OS before going home.
OOOOOOOOOO
"I can't accept it! I can't accept it!"
"Shhh, Pink-chan behave"
Lacus was now packing her things up while the Haro-Haro Pink-chan is constantly jumping around her suite at the Orb Royalty Hotel. She was now going back to PLANT when a knock disturbed her from settling things up.
"Who is it?" she asked.
"Miss Clyne, there is a lady here who would want to talk to you"
"Who is she?"
"Miss Fllay Allster"
Lacus was speechless for a moment.
"…"
"Shall I let her in?"
"…"
"Miss Clyne?"
Lacus regained her composure before gently replying, wondering why Fllay would visit and want to talk to her "Let her in"
The door opened and Fllay stepped in. Lacus nodded to the Peacekeeper military personnel to close the door and he did., saluting first before closing the door.
"Allster-san, what brings you here?" Lacus asked.
Fllay seemed to be sure of herself, of what she would want to say "I… four days ago…"
Lacus knew what she was talking about and calmly replied "I kissed him… are you… going to chastise me about it?"
Fllay gently shook her head "No… instead I will give you a friendly warning"
The pink haired girl stared at her, listening.
"Stay away from Kira… if you plan to get him away from me, I will get him back. I won't hesitate to fight you, Miss Clyne"
A moment of staring followed.
"…"
"…"
"I perfectly understand, Allster-san"
"Then I'll see you again… by the way…"
"What is it?"
"I'm sorry about before… back on the Archangel… back before I understood what had happened during the war… for being naïve"
With that, Fllay turned around and exited Lacus' suite, passing Athrun on the way, who raised his brows in puzzlement.
"Who is she?" Athrun asked a nearby soldier who was tasked to guard the PLANT Memorial Representative.
"She is a visitor for Miss Clyne"
"Oh…"
OOOOOOOOOO
"Do you still plan to keep me here?" Cagalli asked after going back to her quarters where she would be guarded.
"Of course, until the war had broke out" Claudia replied.
"What is the purpose of showing me those mobile suits?"
"To prove that Naturals are fallible, to prove that Naturals are weak, to prove that they have no right to deny human progress that are us, the Coordinators"
"You…"
"Soon the world will know who are the strongest. The weak shall perish, and the strong shall survive"
"You…"
"I believe that I together with my brother we are the strongest of all"
SLAP!
Cagalli slapped Claudia.
"You think you can just kill all Naturals like that!!"
Claudia smiled "You wouldn't understand, you will understand. I will make you understand"
TO BE CONTINUED