Disclaimer: Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny does not belong to me.
A/N: New characters are introduced. Hope you guys enjoy my story until now. It had become more and more messier.
Phase 15: The Seeded, the Newtypes
Underground base
Rey Za Barel turned to face Kazuki when he greeted him. As usual Kazuki was energetic to be smiling at him from ear to ear. Rey sighed at the sight of him. Kazuki noticed that Rey was scanning through their database while he was out.
"Amazing right? Our data of the war we had observed over the years." Kazuki bended over the table looking at Rey into his eyes.
Rey nodded. From these database, he learnt that how he was saved by his own kind when he decided to die in the mobile fortress, Messiah after shooting Gilbert Dullindal. His telomere was short, he would die anyway. Kazuki knocked on the desk disrupting Rey's thought.
"Just live it through, Rey. You survived, that's the fact. No matter how short your life is, you should make the full out of it. " Kazuki handed Rey an invitation given to him by the head of Scandinavia. He informed Rey cheerfully that he had accepted the invitation to the international pianist gathering for him. Rey had a talent in piano and he should go for it.
"Why must I put up with your nonsense, Kazuki-san?" Kazuki said nothing and kept smiling. He knew Nicol Amalfi on the URANUS side would be participating in the international gathering. This would be a chance to get to know him.
Kazuki stood up and left. Someone came in and whispered to Kazuki. Rey narrowed his eyes and listened. "I'm ordered to see the king. Oh man! What a price to pay when they offered us a base." Kazuki sighed.
He gave a wave and left leaving Rey deep in thought and frowned when he saw the invitation card lying on the table.
Kingdom of Scandinavia meeting room
"We are really grateful for the help you had given us during this time." Murrue expressed her gratitude to the head of the kingdom. Rubbing his eyes he said, "We understand your predicament. Besides Cagalli's a daughter of my old friend, all the more I should take care of her."
Mwu raised the question of why the country was not attacked by the URANUS. The answer as expected, the use of the mirage colloid but he couldn't understand why they were still able to reach the country despite that.
"Your question is reasonable, I'll let my subordinates to explain to you." The door opened revealing a hazel brown hair guy about the age of Athrun with Athrun's hairstyle. Athrun gasped in surprise.
"Kazuki Minamoto arrived as summoned." The boy introduced himself to the crews of the Archangel. Even Cagalli was amazed the resemblance between him and Athrun.
"Don't worry, I assure you it's safe here, seeded." Kazuki turned to Athrun whose mouth was opened in shock.
"They are the War Gazer." The king introduced. "They are the human with high degrees of special awareness. They are the NewTypes."
"Newtypes? What are they?" Murrue asked.
"We are different from the normal coordinator or natural. Our ability includes sensing our own kinds, anything else it's a secret." Kazuki munched on his crackers he brought into the room.
Mwu was deep in thought wondering if it was the same kind of feeling he felt when Rau Le Cruset was near.
"Don't need to think, you are our kind. Uncle!" Kazuki declared.
"What?" Cagalli couldn't understand anything. Kazuki approached her and looked into her eyes. He shook his head. "I'm disappointed." He returned to his seat. He pointed to Cagalli and Athrun and called them the seeded which left them baffled.
"What's with all these seeded and newtypes?" Murrue was getting a headache.
"I'll explain to you in a short while. Now we had orders from the king to assist you but we'll not fight." Kazuki nodded his head to the king. The king excused himself.
Kazuki explained their purpose. They were the War Gazers who observed the battles of the wars from time to time just like a recorder which would record the history. There were still many remnants of their kinds around with their abilities unawake. They took in those who had awakened their ability but it would have to depend on the circumstances. Some would go unnoticed. But they would be observed anyway.
"It's the same reason why they are able to establish a contact with the rest of the world if we want. It's our ability which allows us to do so. It's hard to explain."
"What about the seeded? Do they have special abilities?" Murrue asked. Kazuki went over to Athrun's place and place his hands behind his seat.
"Battle ability will rise. For his case, his seed requires his determination to work. Some will require anger; of course some is able to go into seed mode anytime." Kazuki explained analyzing the ability of the activation of seed of Kira and Shinn.
Athrun was amazed by his theory. True, his mind became clearer when he was determined.
"Representative Attha's seed is unstable. I seriously don't think you'll activate it again."
"What did you say?" Cagalli almost stood up.
"It doesn't matter if you are a coordinator or a natural, as long as you are young, there's still potential for you to break your seed." Kazuki explained with his eyes on Cagalli.
"Enough of seed, does Cagalli-sama feel that something was missing?" Kazuki asked picking up some more crackers to eat.
"How did you know?" Cagalli asked.
"Of course I do. I'm the leader of War Gazer. Told you we recorded everything we observed down. Yes, you had lost something important, someone close to you." Cagalli widened her eyes realizing that it could be Kira.
"Yes, that's it." Kazuki could almost read her mind and replied her. Cagalli was stunned. Tears fell down her cheek as she started crying in the arms of Athrun who was shocked as well.
"That's impossible!" She barely choked out. Athrun patted on her back trying to console her although despite not knowing how he should react. He had expected this outcome. He closed his eyes in despair as his little hope for Kira's survival was dashed.
"If that's the case, can you provide us with the information of the URANUS and their battle data until now?" Murrue requested looking on sadly. They should have expected this outcome. Kazuki nodded his head in agreement to their request.
"I'll get my partner to compile a report for you as we promised. I'll like to talk to Athrun-sama alone." Cagalli could stop crying. It was when Murrue led her out the door with Mwu following behind; she glanced at Athrun for a bit.
Kazuki watched them left. He turned to Athrun. "Come! I'll take you to our base. You are the most powerful seed around anyway. "
Athrun followed him to a stairs when he stopped. Kazuki turned to him, "Why? Are you getting cold feet due to my ability? Don't worry, as powerful as I am, I'm not able to read your mind."
They reached to a door at the bottom of the stairs. A pink hair girl greeted Kazuki.
"Lacus?" Athrun almost jumped. He had met Kazuki who resembled him now Lacus.
"I'm Serene, neither Lacus nor I'm Meer Campbell." She pouted. Kazuki just smiled at Athrun. Athrun thought that she was right. A young girl like her was not even near Lacus' age.
They came into the room and Athrun saw screens that showed the happenings all around the world and realized how cruel URANUS was. They came to a table where a person with a long blonde hair was busy typing. Kazuki patted on his shoulder, the guy just shooed him away asking him not to bug him.
"Rey-san! Compile the report of URANUS for me." Kazuki started whining. Rey just sweated.
"Rey?" Rey turned around and faced the guy who called him.
"Athrun Zala?" Athrun was shocked to see him alive, "Aren't you killed along with chairman?"
"Hmph!" Rey did not expect to see Athrun. He replied calmly, "I was saved by them." Athrun turned to face Kazuki and Serene.
"We even provide rescuing service." Kazuki joked. Rey sweated once more. "But we'll only rescue our kinds." Serene added for Kazuki.
"When'll you bring the Newtype of Death here?" Serene complained. Rey stopped his work and deep in thought.
"His ability had not awakened; he won't be of use of the time being." Kazuki said watching the screens.
"Good thing that he survived." Rey said.
"We lost one. The most powerful of all anyway. We are too late." Kazuki recalled their trip to Berlin. The crashing of missiles prevented them to go near the site. He clenched his fist.
"The ultimate coordinator?" Serene asked. Athrun who did not understand stared yelling at them.
"I don't care about newtypes, seed or even the ultimate coordinator. Just pass me the information we want." Athrun was running out of patience since he wanted to return to Cagalli's side as soon as possible after hearing confirmation that Kira, his best friend was dead.
"It seems that you don't know anything." Rey commented after listening to his previous sentences.
"I thought at the very least, you'll know about the ultimate coordinator, you really disappoint me, Athrun." Rey shook his head learning that Athrun didn't know about Kira being an Ultimate Coordinator created out from an artificial womb. He thought at the very least, Kira would share his secret with his best friend like he did with Shinn.
"Rey-san. It's ok. Too much knowledge in one shot kills." Kazuki smiled at Athrun. "Please have a seat over there. It'll take Rey-san some time to finish compiling." With that he led Serene in to another room.
A/N: End of phase 15. Hope you enjoy it. I shall assume that Kira and Lacus kept the fact that Kira is the ultimate coordinator from Athrun. I wasn't sure about the pink hair girl named Setona Winters in the Gundam Seed or Destiny Astray so I might as well, make her another OC named Serene instead. Kazuki character is of reference of Makabe Kazuki of Soukyuu no Fafner who resembles Athrun physically. Please R&R. see you soon!
