The Subject Chapter 1: The Next Generation

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Seed or Seed Destiny.

A/N: Thank You Etanzel-Angel and MindLezz for the reviews. Anyway this second chapter covers up to Episode 1 of Gundam Seed Destiny. So as you guys should have probably guessed this fic will focus on Neo. So most of it will be his POV and thoughts though there will be others indispersed within the fic. Anyway, enjoy this new chapter and R and R. Any sort of criticism and flaming will be welcome.

Lord Jibril walked into the lab as he had promised, the same scientist still attended the medical console, monitoring the Subject. "Your one month is up, I see he is awake and functioning."

"Yes, the Subject has recovered all bodily functions but as was predicted retains no memories of his life, he is a clean slate for you to work with. You know that the Subject could never appear in public again, as a traitor to our cause," the scientist replied, asking as much as he dared.

"He is too useful to waste, and I plan to use him to strike back at those that he worked with, revenge would be so much sweeter that way," Lord Jibril said, shaking his head at the scientist, "You ask too much, I have everything in control. Now may I talk to him?"

The scientist complied by opening the seals on the chamber and Lord Jibril walked in and sat on a chair next to the Subject, "You may bring him out of his sleep now," he ordered the scientist as the scientist manipulated the console in the observation room.

As sleep wore off, the Subject opened his eyes, Where am I? Who am I? I don't remember anything. He looked up and saw another man sitting beside his bed, he saw that he was in a experimental laboratory. Jibril saw that the Subject was now conscious, awake, so he spoke, "I am Jibril, you are Neo Lorrnoke, you were grievously injured in an accident. As soon as we found you and found out hat you had amnesia, I took the liberty of putting together a life history for you to read about yourself. Here," he handed Neo, the file, outlining his life and his deeds. "Oh, and this will be yours as well," Jibril continued, handing Neo the masked helm, "there are some dangerous enemies out there who would kill you if they found out you were still alive. But I should leave you to your reading now. You are still very weak, but we can talk again later." Jibril exited the chamber, and the scientist sealed the door behind him.

Neo sat up in the bed reading the file that the mysterious stranger Jibril had handed him. He carefully scanned the long biography that Jibril had left for him. Occupation: Pilot. The bio began with a childhood, that wasn't anything special. He had joined the Earth Military at 18 and had shown special aptitude at piloting and so they had made him a squadron leader. He had been transferred to secret research when the war had broken out between Earth and PLANT, testing Mobile Suits, when ZAFT had sabotaged the experiment, destroying the secret research lab and killing many civilians in the process as well. So this ZAFT is probably the one that wants to destroy me.

He continued reading the second document in the file, this one outlined the war between Earth and PLANT, and how PLANT had unleashed the super-weapon Genesis, killing many of the brave men and women of the Earth Alliance, it talked of PLANT using nuclear weapons against helpless people, wiping out enemy diplomats without reason until the brave Earth Alliance fleet had shattered PLANT and another neutral nation called Orb had come in to broker a ceasefire, but that wasn't going to last.

No mention was made of the three ships that had fought for peace, they had been conveniently left out by Jibril, to help harden Neo's resolve against the evil PLANT and their armies of Mobile Suits. The second document concluded, whilst the Genesis had been destroyed, PLANT would no doubt try to rebuild the weapon and was using this ceasefire to develop new Mobile Suits which would give them supreme power if the war ever broke out again.

Meanwhile, on Earth, Lacus and Kira were settling down at the orphanage, caring for the war orphans. Kira seemed to be at peace now, as he held Lacus in his arms, while keeping a watch over the children. She bent in for a quick kiss and he kissed her back. Things were finally going better, peace reigned over the world, Cagalli, was working hard as Princess of Orb to keep the peace together, but she and Athrun had been getting a lot closer to each other, even though he had taken on an alias. Little did he know that there were powerful forces at work trying to revive the war, and that he and his friends who had suffered so much in the first war would suffer again.

Shinn had been assigned to the pilot program for one month now, and his test scores were really good. Today, he would learn to pilot the experimental Core Splendour, which could have parts attached to it to become the Impulse Gundam. Over this past month, he had made some friends, who filled up part of the void that Orb had left in his life. Rey and Lunamaria were test pilots like him. Rey was definitely a lot more mature, having been in ZAFT the longest out of them three, Lunamaria, was a red headed girl, who had a crush on Athrun Zala, one of ZAFT's best pilots, but who had disappeared during the war and was rumoured to have crossed over to Orb, the nation that Shinn so despised.

There was also Meyrin and Youlan who worked on the Minerva. Meyrin was Lunamaria's sister. He saw them sometimes, but not as much as he saw Rey or Lunamaria, whom he would frequently see in the pilot's lounge.

On PLANT, Dullindal met with a young girl called Mia Campbell, as he set his own plans for PLANT into motion. Mia would be trained to act, sing and would have surgery so that she would appear to be Lacus Clyne, who had disappeared at the end of the first phase of the war, he knew that the war was going to continue, and Lacus was the perfect person to ignite the flames in the hearts of the Co-ordinators.

He knew the secret project on Armoury One, developing the new Gundams would be progressing along nicely, and his secret meetings with members of the remnants of the Zala faction would allow him to manipulate them into restarting the war without involving the rest of PLANT, which would then lead to retaliation by Earth which would start the new war, one in which he planned to be victorious.

Two weeks had passed since Neo had found out again about his past. Lord Jibril's present of the Exus Mobile Armour, had been a nice gesture. He had attended many debriefings after testing the new generation mobile suits that Blue Cosmos had been developing, specifically the new Windam Units that were to form the backbone of the new Earth Alliance army.

The debriefings had also included intelligence reports from spies deep within ZAFT, which indicated that they were also participating in the new arms race, developing new mobile suit units, Gundams; the Chaos, Gaia and Abyss. It was on that end that Jibril introduced Neo to the next generation of Human CPUs, Sting Oakley, Auel Neider and Stellar Loussier.

Neo had been given their files by Lord Jibril the previous week, and he had spent time going over the pilot records and test scores. Sting Oakley was seventeen years old, with Auel two years his junior, at 15 and Stellar stood in between the two boys, at 16.

The next month began a series of training exercises for the three human CPUs to get them familiar with piloting Gundams. Using data gathered by Azrael, the Lab built a series of simulators for the pilots, collecting both data and preparing the pilots for battle.

It was much later when Lord Jibril himself, turned up an exhausting training session, to plan the first strike in the new war. Intelligence had found out that Orb's Princess Cagalli Yura Athha was due to make a secret visit to Armoury One, within the week and that the Phantom Pain was being accelerated to coincide with the visit, even though security would be increased, it would be distracted and easier to circumvent with everything in a disarray.

By now, the pilot's were ready for the mission, what remained was to infiltrate the three human-CPUs into Armoury One and to execute the plan and steal the Gundams from ZAFT, like they had done at Heliopolis. Neo and Lord Jibril planned the mission down to the finest details, and even though Stellar showed some signs of instability they would not manifest unless under extreme stress which, if the mission went as planned, would not have a chance of happening.

Meanwhile, on Earth, Cagalli and Athrun were preparing for their trip to Armoury One and secret talks with PLANT chairman Gilbert Dullindal at Armoury One. Cagalli had opted for a formal jacket and pants rather than a dress, because the meeting was to be a secret, she decided that the less formal she looked the less suspicion it would raise, both at home and abroad. As they boarded the shuttle bound from Orb to PLANT, Sting, Stellar and Auel disembarked from a shuttle arriving at PLANT, greeted by Lord Jibril's agents, with final mission orders whilst the Girty Lue remained cloaked near Armoury One ready to create pandemonium, for the Gundams to be stolen from ZAFT and then retrieved by themselves.

One week later, Cagalli and Athrun rode on the shuttle as it pulled into Armoury One, on October 2nd Cosmic Era 73, for the secret meeting, looking forward to a meeting where they would be able to achieve peace, little knowing the storm that would be unleashed when Jibril's plan came to fruition.

The beginning