Gundam Seed: The Keepers of Justice

Prelude I

"Shit, shit, shit," Dante said as he dodged the blasts from the on-coming Mobile armours. Dante span in the air and fired back at the armour that had fired upon him. He hit the missile it was carrying and caused it to explode. Dante span the Gundam around, his orange hair flicking past his hazel eyes as it moved.
Dante fired at the X-302 mobile armour as it circled him, stopping every so often to change direction.
Dante stopped; he heard a beeping and span around just in time to see a bolt coming straight at him.
"Oh Fu…" he said as the bolt hit his cockpit, causing the simulation powered down.

Dante sighed and stood up, saluting the commanding officer.
"Good work Ensign Cross," the officer said, saluting Dante. "Though you did die at the end of that simulation you are still far superior in comparison to the other candidates for this team, only a few others came close to matching your score… We will consider you very carefully in the future. We request that you come back tomorrow at 8:00am for team work analysis simulations, ok?"
"Sir." Dante said, not moving any muscles except his mouth.
"You're team will consist of 3 other candidates, " a woman next to the commanding officer said. "Kiara Cage, Tamara Ferring and Matthew Wyte. Ok?"
"Ma'am" Dante said, again not moving a muscle.
"Very well, you are dismissed." The man said, saluting Dante.

Dante lowered his arm, stuffed his hands in his pockets and floated out of the room. Dante, like most, if not all Zaft soldiers, was, and is, a coordinator. he floated out into the corridor, and stopped, looking to the side at Matthew Wyte, his best friend and room mate on the space colony 'Tetra 2'
"How'd your simulation go? I hear your on my team tomorrow." Dante said, grabbing the moving rail on the wall and soaring along-side Matt down the corridor.
"Went ok, I died. You?" Matt said airily.
"Same, best score so far though apparently."
"Good for you. Any idea when we'll know the final team?"
"After the final test I suppose… any idea when we'll know the mission we're training for?"
"After the team appointments I suppose. Though I heard rumours that we'll be taking out the Earth Alliance installation on the moon."
"Didn't that go down before Jachin Due did? Didn't Jachin Due take it down?" came the voice of Kiara Cage, Dante's girl friend, coming around the corner.
"Hey, yeah, but they we're bound to re-build weren't they?" Dante said, moving back a little bit to make room for Kiara on the rail.
"I suppose, it's a shame, I was hoping for something with a little more fun to it. I mean those new Gundams in the hangar look sweet."
"Hold on there darling, you aint been picked yet." Matt said, jokingly. "Then again you are the president's favourite niece"
"Wouldn't that work against her?" Dante asked. "he doesn't want her in a situation where she could die."
"that's true…" Kiara said. "it doesn't matter, anyway, I'm gonna go get some sleep, catch you guys in the morning?"
"Hey Kiara it's only 6:40. why you going to bed." Dante asked,
"I need my beauty sleep, and I don't sleep well before simulations, so I give myself longer." She said, turning around. "G'night." She said, kissing Dante and pushing off, into her quarters, knocking into Tamara Ferring, her roommate, as she passed her.
"Hey guys," Tamara said, grabbing the rail.
"Hey Tam, how's it going? Ready for the team battle tomorrow?"
"Ready as I'll ever be, officer Kim told me that we'll be doing the Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala 'Jachin Due' battle simulation."
"The one when they had Freedom and Justice?" Dante asked
"Uh-huh." Tamara muttered
"So we're getting to use the new suits finally I assume." Matt said.
"God I hope so, I mean we'll be helpless in those bloody Ginn's we've been using." Tamara said. "Well anyway, this is my stop, later guys."
"Later Tamara"
Tamara pushed off into the only bar on that side of the colony, drifting up to the front.
"So where are we going tonight?" Matt asked, turning a corner, going towards their room.
"I think I might just go to bed, I was hoping to go out, but if Kiara's already down for the night… I just don't feel like it."
"Ok," Matt said, "well I'm gonna just go to the shooting range."
"Cool, talk to you later." Dante said as he pushed off of the rail into his room.

"Attention!" the ranking officer shouted.
The four pilots stood at attention, saluting the 8 inspectors, viewing from the balcony above them.
"Today we will be testing you in combat. You must work together using our latest gundam designs." The officer who seemed to be in charge said looking down at the Ensigns. "Kiara Cage, you will pilot the Swift Gundam, specialty: speed. Dante Cross, you will be piloting the Knight Gundam, specialty: close range combat. Tamara Ferring, you will be controlling the Neon Gundam, specialty: explosives Matthew Wyte, you will pilot the Ghost Gundam, specialty: stealth. Understood?"
"Sir!" all four pilots shouted.
"Very well, the simulation is a real battle from the last war. You must gain access to the Artemis space station. You must get past the defensive barrier and then battle Kira Yamato in the Aile Strike Gundam and Mu La Flaga in the Mobieus Zero. Good luck, please, go ahead."
The team nodded and turned towards the 4 pods in the centre of the room. They walked over and sat inside, turning on their computers and waiting to begin.

"Ok, lets see…" Dante said bringing up the Knight Gundam's specs.
A voice sounded in the cockpit in conjunction to the information being processed in Dante's mind.
"Though the Knight gundam specialises in close combat and is equipped for such with assault knifes, twin beam sabres, and a copy of the Gerbera Straight, it is also equipped with a 57mm high-energy beam rifle and a 75mm automatic multi-barrel CIWS. "
"Cool." Dante said, rocketing out of the ship in the simulation.