Declaimers: I don't own Gundam Seed; I only own the tiny number of reviews, which I get occasionally for this story. Hint Hint
Gundam World
Phase 3. Episode 1
"We will not surmise to the unreasonable requests made by the Earth Alliance!" Chairman of the ZAFT, Siegel Clyne, appealed passionately on international TV, "the Earth Alliance only attack for the sole purpose of withdrawing the freedom that us, the space dwellers, have worked so hard for after so long! Disarming our militia will only make way for the suppressing dictatorship of the Earth Alliance to reign once more over PLANT. If the Earth does not withdraw its forces from space, we, the ZAFT, have no other option than to fight back savagely in the name of Freedom!"
On the streets of PLANT, people cheered, their newly elected leader, the genius, Siegel Clyne, had taken a stand against the Earth Alliance and is willing to do all that he can to protect them. They were hopeful now, man lined up to sign up as soldiers to fight; mobile suits are churned out of factories 24/7; weapons are upgraded and researched in labs for the sole purpose of having greater killing capacities.
This was not the case on PLANT alone, on the mother planet Earth; men waved the banner of Justice proudly. Under the influence of such a powerful word, they began to develop even more devastating weapons, Gundams.
Both sides were preparing for all out war, it seemed that the death of a whole generation for the idealistic causes of a few politicians is looming just over the horizon.
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Kira yawned loudly after hours sitting in the Strike cockpit, configuring the operating system set-up to maximize the unit's capabilities. The unit had been repaired almost completely and was currently sitting in the Majestic hanger. The Strike Gundam was truly a magnificent piece of machinery, as Kira came to realize after going through its many function abilities. It had the most sophisticated super-computer built into it in order to make trillions of calculations each second; it had an A.I. system that, although still in experimentation stage, could possibly help the pilot adjust the settings of the Strike to suit the environment in which it was fighting in; it collected data during each battle and analyses each single detail afterwards to create huge databanks for strategy making and plan out the most effective ways of destroying its enemies. On top of everything else, the Strike had the most advanced machinery to help it move at super fast speeds without breaking down or overheating like conventional units do. It also had a phase shift armor that has never been used before. This armor rendered physical attacks useless and was the mechanism responsible for the change in color that takes place over the Strike's exterior as it powers up.
"How's it going up there?" Kira heard someone say from way down at the Strike's feet. He poked his head out from the cockpit to see a red haired girl looking up at him. She looked small from this height.
"Hi there!" Kira called back enthusiastically. "Are you the communication operator on the bridge? I've seen you before I launched." This was, in fact, the girl that took care of all the communications that went on in battles, she also monitored the conditions of the Gundams that were fighting and relayed messages from the captain to the pilots if there was one.
"Yeah, my name is Flay, are you Kira Yamato, the pilot of the Strike Gundam?" Kira pressed a switch to put the Strike's operating computer into standby mode and slid out of his cockpit. After descending the 15 meters from the cockpit to the floor, he stood right in front of the girl and smiled goofily.
"You got it right, I am, in fact, Kira, was there anything that you needed?" Kira said casually and flicked the top button on his maintenance uniform open, he relaxed afterwards.
"No, not really, it's just that now we have landed on moon and everything is so mediocre, there's not much to do. So I took a little break and came to see the hanger and all the units." The girl named flay looked around the hanger as if indicating her words in action. She was just a finger's width shorter than Kira and had long, shocking red hair that was tied back into a simple ponytail.
"I see, I don't think we lost that many units in the landing mission, so there's still a lot of units here to see."
"Speaking of the landing mission, congratulations on the great achievement on the moon!" She clapped her hands together happily as if cheering him on, "you destroyed over twenty enemy Zakus by detonating your own jet pack, I could have never thought of taking such a risk!"
Kira went silent for a while, and the bright smile faltered a bit as the memories of the horrible death match surfaced in his mind's eye again.
I don't want to fight
The face of the Blue haired boy forced its way into Kira's mind again, the look of desperation and fear that clouded over his face made Kira cringe involuntarily.
"Is there something wrong?" Flay's questioning voice snapped him back to reality.
"Nothing, I was just thinking of something." Kira replied slowly.
"Okay, anyways, I was just wondering if you had any time later." Kira's head snapped up so quick that the thought of battles and Gundams were out of his thoughts even before his astonished face was halfway to facing the girl Flay. The red haired girl gave a slight giggle at his awkward reaction, "anyways, we get a week off from our duties and we are all granted the passage into the Moon's metropolis, Gion. I heard it's a beautiful city; maybe we can go and see it sometimes." She finished and waited for a reply while shifting her weight so that she was leaning on one leg, looking relaxed.
Kira, on the other hand, wasn't so loose; he was tense, so tense that beads of sweat began forming on his forehead. It would be fair to say that this was his first interaction with a girl in this way.
"I, I would love to!" He barely managed to sputter out.
"Great!" the enthusiastic girl all but jumped in cheer, "I guess I'll see you tomorrow evening at 18:00 then? The Earth is visible to Gion at around that time and it's supposed to be beautiful!" She turned, smiling happily, "Okay, bye for now!" and she went away after a slight wave.
Kira was left speechless, it was obvious that Flay had planned out the whole thing, even down to getting the time right so they could watch the Earth glide over the Moon's skies, how romantic.
"HEY! Yamato! Get back to work!" Kira turned quickly in fear and saw, to his relief and annoyance, Major Mwu La Flaga in the distance, just emerging from his Burning Gundam, most likely eavesdropping because he had a huge, mischievous grin on his face. "No time to be flirting with girls! The Strike still needs configuring!" That confirmed it, the Major had, in fact been eavesdropping. And with dreaded realization, Kira remembered that he still had the Strike to maintain, he groaned and ascended once again into the Strike cockpit.
A pilot's work is never done.
To Be Continued
Author's notes: A filler chapter or two to loosen up your nerves for the NEXT BIG BATTLE! Where? Not even going to tell! BUWAHAHAHAHA.
And please understand that Flay was only "evil" because she was also a victim, I'm trying to capture the Flay that had not been put through the ordeal that she had been.