Disclaimer: The characters of Gundam SEED belongs to Bandai, "Blurry" belongs to Puddle of Mudd. Sebastian Connor is mine.
In the Arms of His Angel
By Storm Wolf77415
Oceans in Between Us
October 17th, C.E. 70 PLANT colony Aprilus One
The sun "came up" over the capital of the PLANTs, especially on a mansion on a bluff overlooking the colony proper. This mansion is home to the PLANT Supreme Chairman, Siegel Clyne. The sunlight filters through a window, settling on a bed with two teenagers sleeping quite peacefully together in it, a young man with dark brown hair, and a young woman with long shiny pink hair, her arms around the man's neck. Commander Sebastian Andrew Connor, the Storm Wolf of Jachin Due, and his fiancée, Lacus Anastasia Clyne, the Pink Princess of the PLANTs. It was a truly adorable scene, the warrior and the woman who loved him snuggled up close together.
Sadly, this peaceful scene will not last forever. The events of the day are set off by a small, plastic pink orb sitting on the nightstand. This orb seems unassuming when it begins beeping, flashing and then chattering excitedly, "Haro, Haro! Morning! Morning! Haro! Morning Lacus! Wake up! Wake up, Lacus!" Sebastian groaned and woke up, revealing irritated cobalt blue eyes.
"You woke up the wrong person!" Sebastian groaned, and sat on the edge of the bed, a great burden on the young warrior's mind. He looked over at the still sleeping form of his pink-haired angel. The sweet smile on her face never leaving for a minute, it shattered Sebastian's heart to his very core.
Everything's so blurry
and everyone's so fake
and everybody's empty
and everything is so messed up
pre-occupied without you
I cannot live at all
My whole world surrounds you
I stumble then I crawl
Can I really go through with this? Sebastian thought, Is it right for me to just up and leave her? It will break her heart. He then thought of the events of just two days prior, The words "the Naturals must all die!" ringing in his head.
Damn you to hell for all eternity, Patrick Zala! Sebastian silently snarled, It's because of you that I have to leave her! Oh, Lacus, I love you so much. We should be making wedding plans. Instead, I'm forced to leave you. If I don't, then we're both dead!
You could be my someone
You could be my scene
You know that I'll protect you
From all of the obscene
I wonder what your doing
Imagine where you are
There's oceans in between us
But that's not very far
Gamma Emission by Nuclear Explosion Stimulus Induction System, GENESIS for short, A giant gamma-ray laser that when fired, has enough power to scorch the entire planet Earth, and reduce it to a barren wasteland. Two days ago, Sebastian had learned of this nightmarish creation's existence when he overheard a conversation between PLANT National Defense Committee Chairman Patrick Zala, and Supreme Chairman Clyne, and thus became an enemy of the state, for GENESIS had been classified under level Omega Black, the Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty's highest security classification, knowledge of it was not supposed to go beyond the Supreme Council itself. Zala, his paranoia having risen to extreme levels ever since February 14th of that year, had developed GENESIS in secret and ordered anyone who had learned of the weapon's existence was to be shot on sight.
Can you take it all away
can you take it all away
well ya shoved it in my face
this pain you gave to me
Can you take it all away
can you take it all away
well ya shoved it my face
It's not fair! My life was just starting to come together again after Endymion! Sebastian thought, Lacus was helping me through my grief at the deaths of the other Storm Wolves. And now this happens? What more can go wrong? Actually, I don't know want to know to that. It just might come true.
Everyone is changing
there's no one left that's real
to make up your own ending
and let me know just how you feel
cause I am lost without you
I cannot live at all
my whole world surrounds you
I stumble then I crawl
Siegel came into the bedroom, finding his soon to be son-in-law silently agonizing, "Sebastian, it's almost time my boy."
"I know, sir. I just I don't want to do it." Sebastian said, "I don't want to leave her and break her heart. I want to tell her the truth. But then she'd be a target, and she's so fragile I'm afraid it would destroy her."
"It's a cruel world when we're forced to do something like this" Siegel said, "When we're forced to leave all we have behind, but you're not giving Lacus enough credit. She's stronger than you think."
"Sir, can you give me a few more moments alone with her?" Sebastian said.
"Of course, my car will be waiting outside for you" Siegel said solemnly, and he left the two children alone once again.
You could be my someone
you could be my scene
you know that I will save you
from all of the unclean
I wonder what you're doing
I wonder where you are
There's oceans in between us
but that's not very far
Sebastian quickly got dressed in his red ZAFT uniform. He then hovered over his fiancée, taking in her radiant beauty. Her soft, pink hair, long feathery lashes he knew framed the most beautiful baby blue eyes in the Earth Sphere when they were open. Luscious pink lips that always formed the cutest smiles, it took all of Sebastian's willpower not to break down and cry at that very moment.
"Goodbye, my angel. This is something I don't want to do, but if I don't, then we'll all die, and I can't let that happen, not to you" Sebastian said, "You give light to this whole world, it will need it if GENESIS ever becomes a reality. No matter what, I will always love you." Sebastian took a ruby red rose from the vase on the end table, and laid it on the pillow next to her. The Storm Wolf kissed his Pink Princess one last time before he headed downstairs to the waiting car, and his destiny.
Can you take it all away
can you take it all away
well ya shoved it in my face
this pain you gave to me
Can you take it all away
can you take it all away
well ya shoved it my face
A day later…
Sebastian arrived at the proving ground for the YMF-599 Proto GuAlZ, the template for a possible next generation ZAFT mass-production mobile suit that hopefully would go into production sometime next year. The prototype had no weapons equipped, as this test was mainly for the strength and durability of the mobile suit's frame, and who better to test it than ZAFT's greatest pilot?
Sebastian came into the hanger wearing his "Storm Wolf Gray" flight suit, his custom helmet, molded to look like a wolf's head with its mouth open and teeth bared under his arm.
"Are you ready, Commander Connor?" the head mechanic said.
"Yeah, let's do it!" Sebastian said, donning his helmet and climbing into the cockpit, the Proto GuAlZ was loaded onto the linear catapult, "Sebastian Connor, launching!" and the machine took off into space escorted by two ZGMF-1017 GINNs. Sebastian went over the plan that he and Chairman Clyne had come up with in his head, fake a malfunction in the GuAlZ's systems, rendezvous with a shuttle that would take him to a Junk Guild cruiser, set the self-destruct sequence, and then disappear. However, the first thing that had to happen was to lose his escorts. Sebastian accomplished this with the first part of his plan.
"Mayday! Mayday!" Sebastian began yelling at the top of his lungs.
"Commander, are you alright?" one of the GINN pilots asked.
"The engines are overheating!" Sebastian yelled "I can't cool it off!"
"Sir, what do you want us to do?" the other GINN pilot asked.
"Break off and head back to base! I'll try and see if I can't lock it down!" Sebastian said.
"Are you sure, sir? Shouldn't one of us stay here and guard you?" A pilot asked.
"Don't you worry about me! I can take care of myself!" said Sebastian "That's an order!" he added in order to keep a protest from coming. It worked as the GINNs flew away, "Control, this is Connor, my engines are overheating."
"We confirm it, Commander, we don't know how this could have happened," a technician said. What no one in the control room knew was that false data was being transmitted to the computers, showing the engines overheating, when in fact, everything was just fine.
Nobody told me what you thought
nobody told me what to say
everyone showed you where to turn
told you when to runaway
nobody told you where to hide
nobody told you what to say
everyone showed you where to turn
showed you when to runaway
Sebastian then headed away from the PLANTs, toward the shuttle, "Command, this is Connor, I'm not going to make it." He then shut off his radio and cut off telemetry to control.
He set the self-destruct sequence, and bailed out. He then jetted toward the shuttle as the Proto GuAlZ exploded behind them, as far as the world knew, the Storm Wolf of Jachin Due died in a tragic mobile suit accident.
Can you take it all away
can you take it all away
well ya shoved it in my face
this pain you gave to me
Can you take it all away
can you take it all away
well ya shoved it my face
Welcome aboard, Commander Connor! My name is Lowe Guele, Just so you know, we went ahead and collected some of your personal effects from the Clyne Residence, including this bad boy!" the Junk Guild technician indicated Sebastian's personal CGUE.
"Thank you, Mr. Guele, I've very grateful for you doing this" Sebastian said.
"No problem, so, where do you want us to take you?" Guele inquired.
"Take me to Heliopolis, it's far enough away from most of the fighting that no one would think of looking for me there" Sebastian said, "Although, I'm not quite sure what to do with my CGUE. It's just a little conspicuous.
"Commander, we found the ruins of Junius Seven not that long ago. Maybe you could hide it there?" Guele suggested.
"That would be perfect, let's get under way. Search parties will be coming out here soon enough" Sebastian said.
This pain you give to me
you take it all
you take it all away...
explain again to me
you take it all away
explain again to me
take it all away
explain again
As the cruiser slipped toward L3, Sebastian stood in a darkened corridor, staring silently out the window, thinking of a pink-haired princess. "I love you, Lacus, forever and always," Sebastian said "Someday, somehow, we will be reunited. That isn't even a promise, it's a guarantee! I will return you to my angel, wait for me."
Sebastian would arrive at Heliopolis a week later, enrolling at the technical college, and befriending a group of young kids, never knowing that destiny was already aligning things so that the Storm Wolf and the Pink Princess would find each other once more, and bring an end to the war altogether.
Author's Notes: Sad, Isn't it? For the third time in his life, Sebastian loses everything that is dear to him. First his family dies, then his team is wiped out at Endymion, and now he's forced to leave the woman who loves him above all else, because he accidentally uncovered a madman's intention to commit genocide. However, if Sebastian hadn't left, then Zala would have killed not just him, but Lacus as well. Would anyone have done anything less to protect their loved ones?