Declaimers: I do not own Gundam Seed, or Gundam, the series.

Gundam World: The War of the Cosmic Era

Chapter 2

A soldier named Kira

"Kira, Kira Yamato, please report to the bridge on the Majestic." The loud speakers rang through the Carpentaria Earth Alliance base as soldiers performed their tasks vigorously. One boy, named Kira Yamato, lifted his focused, brown eyes from the book that he was reading as he heard his name. He stood up from the bed in his living quarters and stretched lazily.

"Awww..." he pouted, "The book was just getting to the good part too." But orders are orders; Kira closed the book, remembering to bookmark the page that he was at. Placing the book beside his pillow, Kira exited the room and headed towards the new Earth Alliance space battleship, the Majestic.

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In the bridge of the battleship Majestic, soldiers were busy operating and maintaining the ship and electronic noises from various equipments were humming harmoniously. A tall, red haired man yawned as he sat in his plush captain seat located in the middle of the bridge, waiting for his guest to arrive; A report labeled "the stats and performances of Kira Yamato" sat in front of him, it appeared to have recently been read. He turned slightly as he heard the communicator to his left buzz into life.

"Kira Yamato, reporting to the bridge as requested," a fuzzy voice sounded from the speaker. The soldier operating the communicator turned around to look at the red head, who made a swishing motion with his hand. The operator turned back around.

"Please proceed, Kira Yamato." The buzz in the communicator died, and soon after, the humming of the elevator sounded and stopped. The sliding mechanical doors opened and out walked Kira. He stopped and saluted.

"Kira Yamato reporting for duty." The red haired man slowly turned around in his captain seat and pushed himself up, a smile spreading across his face.

"I am Kenshin Himura, the captain of the Majestic," Kenshin addressed himself and gestured for the young man before him to follow him to his seat. "Do you pilot a mobile suit?" He asked.

"No sir, I am a new, second grade soldier, I am currently training to be a M.S. pilot." Kira said in a disciplined tone of voice.

"Ah, I see." The captain said in a jovial tone, "my advisors have informed me of your impressive piloting skills on the training grounds."

"Thank you sir."

Kenshin looked Kira over and walked past the boy towards the elevator leading out of the bridge "Well, follow me." He said as he pressed the down button on the elevator, the door opened.

"Take over for me when I'm gone lufius." Kenshin addressed his second-in-command as Kira walked into the elevator, and then he stepped into the cabin and closed the door. They were both silent as the elevator dropped a few levels and stopped, the doors slid open and they both exited.

After walking a distance in silence, the captain began," Kira, what do you think of the war?"

Kira thought for a brief moment.

"I simply wish that the Earth Alliance emerge victorious and peace is once again restored." He replied quickly, not thinking much.

Kenshin was silent for a moment, as if contemplating what was said. "Do you think that peace is necessarily restored if we win?" He took a sideways glance at the boy who looked surprised, "I'm sure that the coordinators don't want chaos either. They are fighting, just like us, to attain peace." Kenshin's strides hastened and Kira struggled a bit to keep up with the tall man.

"Sir," Kenshin heard the young soldier start again, "I think that…" Kira stopped for a moment, "I think that we fight for our beliefs and so does the ZAFT."

"Oh? And what does that mean?" The captain asked.

"That means that… even though the ZAFT and Earth Alliance are enemies, we both have the same goals," Kira struggled for a second and continued, "Only we have different methods of attaining it."

"Ah, we are here." Kenshin said just as the boy finished, not giving him a feedback as they stopped in front of a huge steel gate.

"Beyond this point this point is the weapons hanger for the ship Majestic, I have something to show you." Kenshin turned to Kira with a cold expression. The soldier felt a chill go up his spine as the captain suddenly became solemn and cold.

Kenshin turned and took out, from his chest pocket, a platinum card. Then he walked up to the card reader beside the gate and slid it through. A moment passed.

"Captain Himura, welcome, please enter" said a mechanical voice from the machine. With a loud thud, the gate slowly slid up, revealing, to Kira's awe, rows upon rows of mobile suits. Men hurried at the foot of many of these units to perform maintenance and adjustments.

"This is the main power of Majestic," The captain began as huge lights shone down on the hanger and crept over both of them as the door slowly slid up. "With the new, dual catapult launching system which can launch 50 mobile suits in 10 minutes and the maximum carrying capacity of1000 EAMSs, the Majestic becomes a formidable battle ship to offset the ZAFT spatial warfare superiority."

Kira was amazed. Never before had he seen so many Mobile suits compacted into one place. This was literally an army. Kenshin began walking again and Kira's eyes snapped from left to right as they kept on walking. The hanger floor was built from solid steel and the Earth Alliance Mobile Suits were parked in tightly compacted rows. Sparks flew from many of the units as adjustments and repairs were done to them.

Then, before he knew it, they were standing before yet another gate, or rather, a large subsection within the hanger. The area around it was different from the rest. It was isolated. Kira saw Kenshin walk up to the gate and punch a series of numbers into the pad. And then, with a click, the doors opened slowly. Kira could see nothing inside, as it was completely dark.

"Follow me Kira," The captain beckoned as he entered into the pitch black beyond the gate, "what you will see will both be your strength and burden as a soldier." The power of those words sent a shock through the young soldier.

Kira Yamato's breath caught for a second, he could see the enormous outline of a mobile suit shrouded in the dark. Something about it was different. Slowly, he took one step, then another, into the hanger where Kenshin waited patiently. The gate closed shut behind him after he entered. Now Kira's surrounding were pitch black, he could only hear his own rapid breathing.

Then, suddenly, several huge white lights turned on with a loud click. All of them were focused on one object. Kira could clearly see the figure now. It was a mobile suit but not a normal mobile suit; everything about it was different. In fact, Kira was having trouble processing what was in front of him. Its body was gray without a trace differing color. The design was sleek and captivating, a V-shaped, antenna like mechanism was installed on its armored forehead.

"What is that?" Kira asked very curiously.

Kenshin smiled as he observed the youth's fascination with this machine.

"This machine you see before you will be your weapon." Kenshin said. Kira's head snapped so quickly to look at Kenshin that his neck cricked.

"M, me?" Kira was thrilled, "you mean, this mobile suit will be mine!" Kenshin was well aware of the strong, eager aura that suddenly emitted from the boy.

"This mobile suit is our ace in the whole." Kenshin began proudly, "This type of mobile suit is still under experiment. Kira, this is a GUNDAM, short for General Unrestricted Network Drive Assault Module. This unit, and four other Gundams will be used as we launch an attack on the ZAFT's Moon military base in approximately two days. You will join the assault using the most powerful mobile suit yet built. Your advisor, major Mwu La Flaga will be here to brief you tomorrow at 05:30, be on time." Kenshin pressed a switch on the wall and the gates opened again, "our victory and the lives of many of our soldiers will rest on your shoulders as you are the first to field test this machine. If the results are successful, a mass production model of this unit will go into production, ensuring Earth Alliance superiority." Kenshin explained, "don't let this Gundam be stolen from you."

To Be Continued

Author's notes: finally, things are going to pick up!