Disclaimer: I do not own either Gundam, talk to Bandai for the rights, because I don't have them.
Brief Summary: The Strike floated in ruins far behind as Athrun, Gai, Nicol, Mu, Lowe, and the Serpent Tail Crew prepared for another sortie against a large force of nine ZAFT ships and a few dozen mobile suits.
"Kira's Last Act"
Chapter 2: "New Challenges Fly Forth!"
Yzak Joule looked distastefully at the report. Athrun Zala and Nicol Amafli had defected with the machines that had lost so many to steal to the Alliance, the Naturals. Yzak's sneer could not get any scarier. It did when Dearka Elsman entered.
"We've been ordered by the Supreme Council to stand down," the blonde said to the silver headed boy.
"WHAT? What about those traitors?" Yzak demanded.
"The council suspects poor leadership on Councilman Zala's half and incompetence on Commander Le Creuset's half. Right now, there's absolutely nothing we can do sort of being branded traitors ourselves," replied Dearka, his violet eyes shining with repressed emotions.
After a period of silence, Dearka asked a question of Yzak, "did you hear that the pilot of the Strike was a 1st Generation and Athrun's boyhood friend?"
"Yeah, I can probably see why now, but still, it doesn't sit well with me," Yzak responded.
The alarm sounded and the two went flying towards the ready room with their flight suits in hand. When they arrived, S4 officer was talking on the intercom and the three other remaining pilots were seated. The two quickly changed and stored their gear and took seats, stylist in hand and log on right knee.
The intelligence officer turned with a grim look on his face as his blue eyes looked at the assembled remaining five pilots out of what had been fourteen. He shook his hair, his military crew cut red hair just looked almost ghostly. He then began to speak.
"Nine Nazca-Class and eleven Laurasia-Class ships have gone rouge and are launching an unauthorized attack on the Legged-Ship. Stop them; do not allow any harm to befall the Legged-Ship. As long as the situation remains unclear and Miss Lacus Clyne remains aboard that ship, well I don't think you need to be told what is already obvious. Good luck and good hunting," the S4 said, saluting them.
The small group saluted back and then headed off to their mobile suits. The group boarded their suits and began taxi and launch procedures. A song began to filter through their communications, Invoke. Listening, they launched into battle with the remains of other mobile suit teams. Joining together the mobile suits numbered only 46, against a fresh force of unknown count. The ship count of allies was 27 ships against 20, but with fewer mobile suits.
On the Archangel, Klaxons and alarms whined and wailed, as men and women ran to their posts. The pilots gathered in the Pilot Briefing room. Ensign Natarle Badgirul gave the briefing.
"Twenty ZAFT ships, mixed classes are approaching. Enemy mobile suit count is unknown, as we do not know if they tried to stuff those ships full of mobile suits and commandos. Don't let them get anywhere near us. The 8th Fleet is only 15 minutes away not, don't die, that's an order. Dismissed! Good luck and good hunting," she saluted the group of pilots.
They all returned the salute, even Junk Guild mechanic Lowe Gear who was still aboard and the Serpent Tail crew. Everyone suited up and mounted up. The Blitz and the Zero were launched first, followed by the Red Frame and Serpent 3 in a regular Moebuis Mobile Armor, but with a 50mm Gatling gun and five instead of four missiles. Then Blue Frame, followed by Elijah Kiel in the GINN-Elijah Custom, two more Serpent Tail GINN Customs (Serpent Tail 4 and 5), and then the Aegis.
CQUEs and GINNs from the ZAFT ships launched. Each ship had been stuffed full with a grand total of 18 mobile suits. When all were launched, a total of 360 mobile suits flew throughout the dark of space, but additional ZAFT ships arrived and aligned themselves with the Council Loyalists bringing Dearka and Yzak's allied force up to 139 mobile suits, the odds were now roughly 2-1. Skill and luck would determine this battle. Something the Rouge ZAFT troops were lacking.
Somewhere in Space
A young boy of 15-16 years of age with brown hair opened his violet colored eyes to take a look around him. He then felt himself being lifted out of some tube that was full of some kind of liquid. The sounds of battle raged all around him, only these sounds could be found in an infirmary aboard a battleship. He could not remember how he came to be aboard the ship, but he saw men that all looked alike, quite literally, saved for those who were wounded. There were also robots rushing between all the wounded, tending to their injuries. The boy found himself placed upon a gurney and rushed out, the sounds of gunfire and ship fire filled the hallway, then an explosion that threw the boy to the ground and the two men carrying him.
After regaining his senses, the boy heard the sounds of energy swords clashing against one another. Seeing two people in brown clothes fighting off eight, no make that seven, others in dark clothes. Blue and purple met red and bronze in fierce melee combat. The person with the purple beam saber went down. The other went wild in trying to stop the enemy advance. Reaching over and picking up the fallen purple beam saber the boy joined the fray and quickly defeated three opponents. The remaining four found themselves fighting 2-1 odds instead of the original 4-1, but this had an unknown factor. Seeing that the fallen fighter looked like his mother, the boy went livid with controlled fury, a seed appeared in his mind's eye and the remaining four were quickly dispatched.
Five more with red beam sabers rounded a corner and fell victim to a man with dark brown robes and a purple beam saber. He had dark skin and eyes, was bald, but held an air of respect and wisdom. The boy nodded to him, acknowledging his presence when a voice boomed in a tongue that the boy did not recognized.
"What?" the boy asked aloud.
"The enemy is defeated and retreating," the older man said as he walked up.
"The boy was amazing, he defeated seven Sith by himself!" the other fighter proved to be a young woman with brown hair, tan skin, and green eyes and in the same age group as the boy said.
"What's your master's condition, young padawan?" the man asked.
"Oh no! I got so excited…" the girl started.
"I'll live, once I make it to a bacta tank," the older woman said.
"We'll take it from here General Windu," two men in white armor with T-shaped visors said.
"Go ahead," General Windu asked.
"Found him in space, that we did. Unknown marks and words upon it, there was. What planet are you from dear boy?" asked a very small green long-eared man.
"I'm from the space colony Heliopolis which was destroyed by ZAFT Forces, but I'm a citizen of the country of Orb, in the South Pacific on Earth," Kira replied.
"We have much to discuss, that we do, for we have never heard of those planets. Oh, yes, I'm Jedi Master Yoda and this is Jedi Master Mace Windu. That's Jedi Padawan Luna Raath," Yoda said.
"By the way, who are boy?" asked Master Windu.
"Kira, Kira Yamato," the boy answered.
Back in Earth Space
The battle was fierce, despite the skill and luck of the ZAFT Loyalists and the Archangel, the Rouge ZAFT troops were starting to gain the upper hand, when out from no where, several Rouge ships exploded, a bright light cutting through each one. The 8th Lunar Fleet had arrived. The Rouges hadn't counted on the 8th Fleet being so close. The results were distatorious for them.
On the bridge of the Meneloas, an Agamemnon-Class carrier, (Upper Half) Rear Admiral Lewis Halberton looked out at the battle. He shook his head in disbelief.
"ZAFT and OMNI ships fighting side by side. This is a sample of the future, let us ensure it lives," he said to all ships of the 8th Fleet.
The 8th Fleet ships fired their guns and all watched as the remaining 137 Rouge mobile suits and the 14 remaining ships disappeared under a constant hail of fire. The 8th Fleet mobile suits took care of any stragglers. The ZAFT-Archangel Force had lost over half of its strength, but none from the Archangel had been lost. Athrun had seen to that.
During the battle, he saw a seed explode in his mind's eye and for a brief second, thought he had seen Kira Yamato with a beam saber in hand, fighting off enemies, but Kira was dead and Athrun wouldn't let his friends join him so soon.
During the battle, Kuzzey Buskirk had broken free of the brig and ran for the bridge. He immediately sat at his station as his replacement was carried away with a head wound. He immediately began his job and shocked everyone else on the bridge just by being there, let alone doing his job. This raised moral on the ship and the pilots and gunners fought back with increasing strength, that is, until they were relieved by the 8th Fleet.
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars, talk to Lucas Films.
Pretty interesting idea I had, eh. I also figured something out about three ships in the Gundam Seed Universe, Montgomery, Law, and Bernard. When you turn that around you get Bernard Law Montgomery, the man that had been commander of British troops in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and Europe. Interesting, yes? No? Do tell.