Gundam Seed: The Keepers of Justice

Chapter 1:
The Eternal

Dante stared up at the ceiling above his bed on the Eternal, pondering the events that had taken place all that time ago, a whole week ago. There were 34 tiles above him, he had gotten bored and counted them.
Dante pulled himself up and looked around. To his right was a wall, a completely white wall with a strip of photo booth pictures which himself and Kiara, his girlfriend… no, ex-girlfriend. To his left was another bed, it was unmade and the owner had left it. The wall beside the bed was undecorated; save for the schematics of the X32D-Sovreign pinned up, with weak points and blind spots circled. At the end of each bed was a desk and a computer, both of which connected to a wardrobe and separate showers. The one on the opposite side of the room was on, and a person was inside.
The shower turned off and the towel that hung from the door disappeared. A few seconds went by and then a person emerged. He had dirty blonde hair and green eyes. His skin was slightly tanned and his body was quite toned. The boy, Candidate 48, Matthew Wyte, stepped out and wiped his hair. The light shone over it and revealed blue dyed areas.
Matt walked across the room and got dressed from the clothes strewn across his side of the floor.
"Why does nothing interesting ever happen to us?" Dante sighed, turning his head towards Matt.
"What?" Matt asked as he buttoned up his 'Three Ships Alliance' uniform.
"Why does nothing interesting ever happen to us?"
Matt looked momentarily stunned, and then said, "you mean… you mean apart from almost being shot by our comrades, breaking out of a military space instillation, stealing the most advanced Gundams in the solar system and finding out, from your cousin, Lacus Clyne, who you should have mentioned you were related to, that we had been involved in a planet wide genocide operation?"
"Well when you put it like that it sounds interesting, though it did all happen over a week ago." Dante said, now watching the front doors.
"Over a week… It was only last Tuesday." Matt said, a little annoyed.
"And today is Wednesday, so it was technically over a week ago." Dante turned and stood up. "I got nothing to do on this ship." Dante sighed.
"Don't worry, the enemy will make their move soon enough, but for now you should run some simulations on the data we got on the 4 Gundams of Darkness."
"I'll do it later." He sighed, sitting on the seat by the computer. "Hey, out of interest why is this ship in a group called the three ships alliance? What is it?"
"It was an alliance between the Eternal, from ZAFT, the Arch Angel, from Earth Alliance, and the Kusanagi from Orb. All state of the art vessels, all rogue to their countries… except the Kusanagi seeing as they had no country left to be rogue to… well anyway, they fought against both sides of the conflict in the last war and ended it."
"And what happened to the Kusanagi and the Arch angel?" Dante asked.
"Well the Arch angel is on earth, it was originally hidden from the world, like the eternal, but, well, it had to re-surface about 6 months ago."
"And the Kusanagi?"
"Not a clue. I think it disassembled and the main part returned to orb in case of another emergency."
"With that Cagalli girl I suppose."
"No, according to records she boarded the Arch Angel. She would have returned to orb after the war, but, well lets just say her husband needed to stay aboard he Arch Angel due to the anti-coordinator feeling across the entire planet, except the ZAFT owned places, though they quickly rolled out as many pilots as they could. Though the war was over the conflict was still raging."
"No kidding, we were on a team to cause mass genocide dude, I think that kinda speaks for itself."
Matt smiled and buttoned up the last on his top. "Come on we're due in the hangar for maintenance."
"Do we have to?"
"Well no, not if you let someone else touch your Gundam."
"Nobody touches the Liberty! It's funny that. This entire war is about liberty and I wont let anyone touch mine, even though liberty should be passed around. I'm coming." He sighed, buttoning up his top and running after his best friend.

"What do you mean an accident?" Dante shouted at the maintenance officer. "What did you do to my Gundam?" he pushed off of the wall and flew up into the air to the cockpit. He got in and started running diagnostics.
"Weapons… fine, armour… fine, cameras, boosters, shields… all fine." Dante sighed and looked around at his controls confused. He shook his head and leapt out, looking down at the maintenance officer. "Ok, I give, what did you do?" he shouted.
The officer merely pointed at the Gundam's foot, where there seemed to be a large red splodge. Dante floated down and looked at it. "I'm sorry sir, it was an accident, we were carrying paint and… well… I tripped."
Dante stared blankly at the Gundam's foot and then turned to the officer.
"That's it? You're joking right?" he said, a little surprised.
"er… y-yes sir, I mean no sir, I am serious."
Dante started to laugh. "it's ok man, what's your name?"
"Kody sir, Kody Oliver."
"Well Kody, I'm gonna be piloting that thing against other gundams, fighting as hard as I can to stay alive, it's quite likely that they'll take my leg off, I donthey, is this you?
Think a bit of paint matters… so long as it's in a decent colour, and I do happen to like red."
The Officer, Kody smiled. "well, sir,"
"call me Dante."
"ok, well, Dante, here's your report, it has information on the striker packs which I think can be adapted to suit the Liberty. I'll leave that with…" before Kody could finish what he was saying a siren sounded throughout the ship and Lacus Clyne's voice came on the speakers.
"pilots, to your gundams we have a ZAFT squadron decending on our position, Eternal will provide support, god speed, Liberty, Sovreign please, look after yourselves."
Dante nodded and turned back to Kody. "see you in a while, I'll try to let them get the leg first." He joked, patting him on the shoulder and pushing off towards the liberty's cockpit.
Dante climbed in and strapped himself in, closing the doors. He held on as he felt the ship transport him into the launch bay.
The three lights changed from red to green and the abort sign now read 'Launch.'
"Dante Cross, Liberty, Launching!" came Dante's voice across the intercom as he jetted out of the ship, turning on his Phase shift armour.