Gundam Seed: The Keepers of Justice
Chapter 2:
The Darkness begins
Dante burst out of the eternal, quickly followed by Matt, both drawing their beam rifles in one hand and one of their beam sabres in the other.
As the ships closed in it was obvious they didn't just want a chat. Mobile suits were ejected from the carriers and the battle cruiser readied itself to launch it's own vehicles, probably a Gundam or two. Dante watched, not moving and then the flagship, a Minerva class ship with mostly black paint, launched its gundams, four in all.
"Oh god… it's the Knight, the Swift, the Neon, and the Ghost… Kiara." Dante said, staring in horror at their enemies.
"Dante, pull yourself together." Matt shouted, his face appearing on the screen above Dante's head.
"I can't fight them!" Dante said, glaring at matt.
"And you don't have to, we'll just tell them about the Darkness program." Matt said, flicking off the camera.
Dante pushed forward and lowered his beam rifle. There was a bang and the swift fired a shot.
"Shit!" Dante said, raising his shield and blocking it.
"Dante!" came Waltfeld's voice. "What are you doing?"
"I… the pilot… The Swift's pilot is my girlfriend!" Dante shouted, blasting forward and blocking another few shots.
"That's Kiara?" came Lacus' voice. "Dante, return to the ship, you are no use to use if you cannot fight."
"No, but I can reason with them." Dante said, pressing a few communication buttons. Finally a face he almost recognised appeared. Kiara looked a lot different, she had suitcases under her eyes and a strange glazed sort of look in her eyes. "K-Kiara?" the girl raised her head.
"D-Dante… You… but… your dead… you betrayed us…" she mumbled.
"No, they tried to kill me and Matt, apparently 'cos we weren't good enough, but we were rescued." Dante said, slowing as the swift stopped.
"You betrayed us…"
"No… ZAFT betrayed me, look, you've got to know what your involved in…" Kiara looked away, obviously at another screen. "K-Kiara?"
Kiara stared at the other screen, speaking to someone else. "but… but I… What? No… But…" Kiara turned towards Dante's screen again. "I don't believe you… you scum I can't believe what you did… You WILL die."
"Wh-what?" Dante raised his arm and his beam shield appeared, blocking the attacks that she had sent his way. "KIARA!" Dante shouted and the screen turned off.
"God dammit!" he muttered. He span around. Kiara had gone, she really was fast, and Dante had no idea where she had gone.
There was an explosion behind him. He span around to see the swift's guns and limbs exploding and the main body floating back to its carrier. Dante looked to his left, the Sovereign had fired, and to his left an X88S-Gaia Gundam in the classic Waltfeld colours had done the same.
"Dante!" came Waltfelds voice. Dante looked up at the screen. "Go back to the ship!"
"No." Dante said clearly. A tear ran down his cheek. "No, I will fight, I will destroy those who turned her against me…"
Something, he didn't know what, clicked inside Dante's mind and everything became clear. He pushed forward on the boosters of the liberty and pressed a button. The radar on his dashboard began to beep; it was circling all of his enemies. It only took a few seconds and when it was done, so were the enemy mobile suits.
Dante pulled on the trigger and all of his guns, 7 in all, locked into place and fired.
All across the three ships alliance pilot's screens explosions were taking place, though three silhouettes remained.
"I'll take the Knight, Matt, you take the Ghost, use your cloaking abilities if you have them, and Waltfeld…"
"Call me Andy."
Dante nodded, "Andy, take on Tamara, I don't think either of us should."
Waltfeld nodded. "Done."
"Ok, move out." To Dante's right the Sovereign disappeared, as did the ghost up ahead, though he could still see it on radar. To his left the Gaia was flying off towards the Neon, dodging attacks from the destruction queen as it attempted to beat it.
Dante discarded his hand held guns and turned off his attached guns. He drew his other beam sabre and lit it, connecting the two ends together, creating a dual ended sword, so to speak.
"And you knight, are mine." He muttered, pushing his booster to full.
Dante sped off, up towards the Gundam. It raised it's beam rifle and fired, Dante's shield was up immediately, blocking it. he threw th shield back as the blast hit and lost it. The Knight fired again, but Dante dodged the attack. Dante reached the Knight and cut it's blade in half, spinning around and stabbing through the chest, disabling it.
Dante raised a foot and kicked the knight in it's chest and blasted off.
The Knights head turned slightly towards the command carrier. Dante looked at the others, they seemed to be doing the same, and then they blasted off, back to their ship.
"Come back, we'll continue around to the drop zone while they make repairs." Came Lacus' voice again as Dante's head calmed down, and he went back to normal.