Disclaimer: Gundam SEED does not belong to me and I do not stand any monetary gains in writing this fan-fiction.
A/N: I'm extremely sorry for not updating for so long, RL's been hard on the head. Entering a new phase of education is just challenging at best. There! I haven't abandoned this story, and I won't, it has too much potential waiting to be unleased, now if I can just find some extra time… I might update this weekend. Just a short one now.
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Part 4
"Is that so? And no one has been able to unlock the OS yet?" Commander Creuset asked with one brow raised. It was clear to him that no natural could have constructed that OS, and there was no reason to make the OS of one particular mobile suit different from the rest during the prototype production. It must have been altered after the first attack on Orb. And with the Video Miguel had brought back much earlier, the only people who could have changed the OS were the Earth Alliance Officer and Boy they'd captured not long ago.
The obvious person who could have done such a thing was the coordinator kid. There was no way the Officer could have done such a wonderful Operating System.
Rau realised he had underestimated the EA, they were indeed capable, to have acquired such a talented young man. Coordinator or not, the young man was indeed very talented.
"No sir, shall we wait till we reach Carpentaria? There has been absolutely no progress." Nichol said tentatively. He gazed at the older man carefully, cataloguing each and every reaction. The Commander showed no twitch of the lips or of any facial muscles, but Nichol could almost hear the cogs turning in his head.
"Get Athrun to take a look at that OS, then ask him to come to me to report on what he finds." Rau le Creuset ordered.
Nichol could not understand why the Commander would order such a thing, and the small voice nagging at the back of his mind told him it had something to do with the prisoner. From the small clues the commander seemed to leave around, apparently Athrun and the boy knew each other. And if what he thought the commander suspected was true, the boy was more than he seemed. He caught a glimpse of the boy typing in the Mobile Suit, and what he'd saw told him that the boy would move very quickly and think on the feet if he wanted. If Nichol could wager, he would bet the boy was a coordinator, and an extremely skilled one at that.
But nevertheless, Nichol walked to Athrun's room to look for him. Perhaps if he asked the right questions, and in an appropriate manner, the other ZAFT Red member would divulge a secret or two to him.
As the door to Athrun's room hissed open, Nichol realised that it was going to take a lot more effort than just going to his room to get Athrun to talk, he was not in his room.