celestial seed

by shadowof023

this is based on the story "eyes in seed" with permission from the writer. noah wished to expand the horizons of gunpla battles and let gundam fans try to change the fates of some of their favorite universes. but something goes wrong...now he gets to go from testing his new simulation system to piloting a gundam in true combat...good thing he built it right? re-write in progress

20. the day orb burned

p.s. I am finishing this at work and translating it from Microsoft word to open office word. I may re-post this after I get home and fix any issues but I apologize for any/all grammar and spelling issues I may have missed. I will clean this up better at home. Just wanted you all too at least get it before the day's end.

The day orb burned

Within moments after the opening shot's, both his and Valeria's, Noah watched the battle devolve into dog fights, missile barrages and ship to ship combat. He could hear planes flying overhead, clearly trying to find him instead of actually attacking anything.

Once they were gone he lined up a shot and pulled the trigger, quickly coring out a submarine which had surfaced. Whether to fire missiles or escape Cecil he didn't know. The sub didn't get the chance as it exploded.

A moment later he targeted another ship while the commando pulled back the bolt on his rifle, ejecting the large casing and loading another one into place. Once his target was picked he fired once again, smiling at the sight of the sinking earth alliance frigate.

Once the fighting began he took stock of the fleet and estimated it was nearly three times the size of the one in the anime. Every now and then he would check on the archangel, then the astrays, and then each fighter he knew, usually during recon flights.

He was especially proud when he got a chance during the third missile volley to watch Alfred boost in front of a line of rail gun tanks and open up with his full arsenal to protect them. Everything was going according to plan and according to his panel with a set of lights for each gunpla battler back home everyone was ready to jump in once the prototypes showed up.

As he observed it all his finger slipped and he found himself firing a stray round. He quickly checked his scope while he racked another round into the chamber. Luckily his scope had been aimed at the water so his round did no damage to anything which was both a relief and slightly concerning.

The main downside to that shot was the bomber squadron that had found him as his radar pinged to state he had inbound birds and they were coming right for him. In an instant he shoved the large rifle away and threw off his cloak, quickly rising to a knee as the bombers flew over him. His targeting systems picked up the bombs/ missile and he opened up with his head Vulcans and the chest mounted anti-personnel gun. He was happy to watch them all explode and decided it was time to move.

Grabbing the two smaller magazine's he put them in pouches designed specifically for them at his hip and jumped off the cliff with his gundam, quickly landing and beginning to slide down it.

Along the way he stopped at a small outcropping though his landing was quickly causing it to crack and break off. He slid his hand into a cave the outcropping lead to and pulled out a weapon he had Nicol hide while he went up to get ready to this fight.

Once it was out he pulled back the bolt on a smaller, lighter sniper rifle. He loaded one of the two magazines into it and pushed the bolt forward, chambering a round before boosting off the cliff and once more taking aim out to the bay. He only had one shot till he was into urban warfare and so he found himself targeting one of the first strike daggers to launch and fired.

As he fell his scope allowed him to watch the machine explode and with satisfaction he landed and proceeded to remove the scope from the rifles tactical rail. It was a much closer fight from here if he managed to find anyone.

The day orb burned

Nicol grunted as he landed back down in the forests. He was on the outskirts and as his blitz jaeger cloaked up he hoped to god everyone was ok. The fighting was already pretty thick and while his targeting wasn't as accurate as the strikes, when he could he'd boost up into the sky and try and shoot down as many missiles as he could.

"Nicol the alliance brought carrier planes. They are dropping units in behind me. Think you can head them off?" asked Valeria over the team comm channel.

"Need me to come up there and watch your back?" asked Alfred.

"No I have it. Alfred keep up with the AA support. We need as many of those rail tanks to stay alive for now." stated Nicol as he made his way to the team's sniper. As he did so he watched a pair of strike daggers land atop gun emplacements and cursed himself for not seeing them sooner.

Opening his hyper coat and uncloaking he boosted forward, beam sabers in hand as he sliced one dagger in half before spinning and shoving his other beam saber into the cockpit of the mass produced strike.

These things were easy to take down but he had to remember that the naturals were new to this sort of combat. Everyone in celestial being was a veteran fighter. He just hoped dearka joined them in that regard. He would hate to have to fight him.

For now, he recloaked and moved on to back Valeria up.

The day orb burned

Mu couldn't believe how this machine handled. The fused cockpit of a mobile suit and a fighter jet…it suited him perfectly as he landed amongst a group of strike daggers, raising his shield to block a couple shots before raising the enhanced variable beam rifle. With a couple pulls of the trigger the two in front of him were gone and a quick boost to the side saved him from a beam saber to the back. Attaching the rifle to a special mount on the back he spun around and brought up his two large beam cannons, firing crimson death at two more strike daggers.

The last one decided to get in close and charged him with a beam saber. As the rookie earth alliance pilot tried to push his shield aside with his beam saber mu used his free hand to grab his right beam saber as it spun in its mount and ignited, spearing the daggers cockpit without even leaving the mount.

Boosting back as it exploded he checked his power meter. No change. So many beams and so much thruster use and he was barely scratching the surface of this machine. He couldn't wait to put it through its paces against a larger force once they hit the beach.

Noticing a group of astrays that had just been saved by Kira he sighed. "Focus girls. The freedom is amazing but more are gonna be here any second." He stated before he took to the skies once more.

The day orb burned

Dearka ran through the forest panting. Shit. Why did he have to stop to watch the battle? Now he was right on the edge of it and was hauling ass away from the bay.

He was stopped though when he heard a mobile suit land nearby and the ground shook. He looked to the bay and saw one of orbs ships go up in flames as the archangel dodged a potentially fatal shot.

"Marilia!" he exclaimed and looked to the suit in question. It was blue and orange and looked to be an artillery type like his buster.

Wait a second! Couldn't he access that new buster by…scanning it in? Whatever that was.

Deciding he currently had a tactical advantage over the blue artillery piece as it began to move away from him he tossed the box to the ground and after a few moments he had the black box open.

Inside was a tan set of clothing like nicol's black set and a tan flight suit. Under all that though was what he was looking for. "The buster panzer…" he whispered as he pulled the model out of the box.

Could this small piece of plastic really save miriallia?

Only one way to find out.

He got up with the gunpla, the scanner and the GP-base and took a couple steps forward. Setting the scanner down he placed the buster panzer dead center. He took a step back and pressed the button Nicol said to.

He watched the scanner light up and some sort of light run up the model before its head straightened out and the eyes lit up. "Combat mode start up! Damage level set to to to…."

He cringed when he heard it start to glitch or so he thought…till the model broke down into a small mass of green and blue particles. It then shifted back a bit to an open area and grew and grew…. till the model…was full scale.

His mouth was wide open as he watched the cockpit open and the lift activate and drop down.

Looking back, he made sure the blue mobile suit wasn't aware of his presence yet. When he was sure it wasn't he quickly went back to the crate and yelped as he tripped trying to get into the tan flight suit. A few seconds later he was zipping up the suit and grabbed the helmet.

He grabbed the uniform and stuffed it into his helmet. Riding the lift up to the cockpit he looked the new buster over and couldn't help but enjoy the thought of all the potential hidden in extra armor.

Finally, he reached the cockpit and climbed inside. As the door closed he blinked at how bare the cockpit was. But then he remembered what Nicol said and sat in the chair, setting his helmet on the floor while watching a pedestal raise in the center. He noticed where to place the GP-base and locked it into place.

That's when he saw it. The rush of orange particles. Watching each display form, the control orbs, everything. So this is what piloting a celestial being mobile suit was like? Taking a deep breath dearka took hold of the control orbs and watched his main monitor as he did what he assumed Noah did to operate the arms, rotating the orbs and bringing them up in front of his face. Just as he hoped the buster panzer brought both hands up in front of its own face and as he gripped the balls with his fingers, each one in a specific slot…the fingers balled up to form fists then uncurled as he let go.

"This is awesome…" he stated as he finally refocused on the fight around him. More specifically he watched that blue unit.

"Now what do I do to use my weapons?" he asked as he started pressing buttons till he finally brought up a menu that clearly was a list of weapons. Reading each one he was surprised with how many missile types this thing had.

Finally finding what appeared to be beam cannons he chose them and watched through his monitors as a pair of large caliber beam cannons swung forward and locked into position on his forearms. "Sweet…" was all he said before he decided to try and find one of those new machines.

Sure enough the first one he saw within firing range was the artillery unit which had just decimated a team of orb's new models. So many new machines…who the hell built them all?

His targeting system activated and within seconds he had a lock. "Yes…ok…now then what does this thing use for propulsion?" he asked as he pushed his foot down on the haptic gas pedal. Soon he found himself begin to rise steadily but his eyes went wide when he recognized the sound his new machine was making. He had a GN drive! Ohhh…. this natural was screwed!

"Hey asshole! Focus on me!" he shouted as he increased his speed and raised both arms, firing both cannons at the blue mobile suit. As he approached it he watched it dodge the large pink beams formed from the GN particles and turn back to look at him.

Quickly he brought back his weapons menu and selected a missile set called "beam repellant". He pulled the trigger as he watched the machines array of weapons begin to glow while they charged. The apparent micro missile pods in his knees opened up and launched the small missiles.

He boosted back, bringing the weapons system up again. He was already getting the hang of this machine. He watched the forearm cannons slide back slightly as he chose the selection of "buster standard" and with that his machine grabbed a pair of weapons that he was quite familiar with.

It was then he noticed the missiles that he had fired had spiraled and gone off right in front of him, leaving a dense, black cloud that also had a green sparkle too it. He also noticed he had not seen the result of the blue machines barrage. So the smoke was basically the beam equivalent to an ECM and just stopped the beams? Nice!

Elsman was going to have plenty of fun with this machine.

The day orb burned

Mu groaned as he dodged the mace whip of the new machine that had launched from the earth alliance forces. "damn them…what the hell have they made?" he asked as he took a couple pot shots and watched Kira fire his baleana plasma cannons at the raider only to have all the beams deflected by the scythe wielding machine.

"Damn it…hey Noah where are your friends? I thought they were gonna show up when these guys…SHIT!" he shouted over coms as he found himself face to face with the forbidden. Its scythe was raised and he thought this might be the end…

Till a machine similar to his rammed into the forbidden and proceeded to fire its own beam rifle at it.

"What the…" was all he could say. He was staring at another build strike full package. Admittedly though this one seemed different in a way.

On its right arm was a small blue shield which seemed to have a beam rifle locked into it. The hand was holding basically the same rifle as him though four of its six lights were lit up.

The left arm had a shield just like his though as the raider flew in and fired its Scylla cannon he watched part of the shield that looked to be some kind of extra armor open and absorb the beam.

"Why doesn't my shield have that kinda tech?" thought mu as he turned and fired at the pair of prototypes as well, trying to drive them away. He thought about the machine. From what he could see the wings on its backpack had some sort of red crystal area, same with the legs, they had what looked like an extra section of armor though this one had those red crystal parts on it.

Aside from those it was basically the same machine. Was this one of Noah's friends? Had to be.

"I hope we aren't too late." Stated a voice over an open channel, one he didn't recognize.

"Yes we apologize, we were so astounded watching the battle we forgot to launch on time." Said someone else, they sounded more formal and had a slight accent.

Just after that he watched what looked like a custom astray fall from the sky and try to land on the raider, a thick black piece of armor smashing into the ground instead of the prototype.

When it stood back up a second black…fist? Some large arm looking thing came swinging up off the opposite shoulder in an uppercut to the raiders face before it jumped back, drawing a pair of katana like swords from its shoulders.

From there the forbidden landed in front of it and took a swing at the samurai looking astray. Without missing a beat, the new mobile suit rolled forward, stabbing one of its swords into the ground before reaching out to grab the handle of the forbiddens scythe just below the blade and bringing the whole fight to a stop as the tip of his other katana rested on the cockpit door of the forbidden.

"Please, I do not wish to end you but I will if I must. Surrender and get out of your machine and I'll spare your life." Stated Nils over an open comm channel.

"Like hell I will! Go die in a hole your moron!" shouted Shani, the forbiddens pilot as the forbidden entered its high speed assault form, the backpack coming up to rest atop the head before Nils had to boost to the side and dodge it's rail guns.

At that moment everyone stopped when a bright flash went off and they all turned to watch a massive crimson beam of death lance out from the military base area and reach all the way to a squadron of fighters about to make a run on the archangel.

The day orb burned

Murrue grit her teeth as the ship was rocked by missiles exploding nearby due to being intercepted by the CIWS. She was thankful that Nina and Nicol had worked on an enhanced targeting program for the system while the ship was dry docked. If it was one thing the earth forces were known for it was their use of missiles in naval warfare.

Below the archangel were the three celestial being ships, using her for cover from the missile barrages while their artillery kept the warships at a safe distance.

Some ways away murrue watched a ship suddenly explode as a large claw came up through the center of the deck.

She watched as Cecil had the HY-GOGG climb through the wreckage and as the flames blazed on the ship while it sunk she watched that mono eye flash before swiveling along its axis to look to a pair of strike daggers about to launch. Cecil raised his right arm and let loose a barrage of blue beams, destroying the mobile suits before the ship sunk enough that the amphibious mobile suit dove into the water and disappeared.

It certainly through azreals fleet for a loop when they were being attacked on all fronts. The way each attack from Cecil seemed to throw them into disarray they clearly were not expecting an amphibious mobile suit and clearly not one of its size.

Listening to the team communication channel Noah let her in on as well as the astrays she could hear that his friends had shown up in spectacular fashion. Even more so it seemed that mu's build strike 2.0 was giving them a huge advantage as well as all the celestial being units.

Speaking of them murrue was thankful Noah brought sniping to MS combat as she watched a jet try to launch after resupplying but just as it activated its afterburner it exploded, Valeria showing that she was the correct choice for the unit with every shot.

"Captain we have fighters inbound!" shouted the radar operator.

"Target them and bring them down!" she replied as she was curious as to how they hadn't been shot down yet.

"We can't ma'am! They seem to be using electronic counter measures so we can't target them!"

"Damn it…is anyone able to intercept?" she asked. They had so many mobile suits in this fight one of them had to be close.

"No ma'am, la flaga is with Noah's friends pushing back a group of strike daggers and Kira is engaging the prototypes. They seem to have gotten orders to attack him. Noah is currently engaged in urban warfare with another team of daggers." He stated before taking a breath.

"And what about the baker team?" she asked.

"Busy intercepting E.A. missile barrages and other fighter squadrons….and of course Cecil is underwater…" he stated.

Murrue bit her lip. The fighters couldn't do too much but they could cripple some of their weapons or even their engines.

"New contact! In the harbor…. ENERGY SPIKE!" he shouted before they all watched a massive crimson beam pass the ship and spear the core of the fighter squadron, destroying them all in a chain effect.

"Get me visuals now!" she shouted. A moment later the bridge gasped.

"dearka!" shouted miriallia happily as they watched the new buster panzer, standing in the bay with its weapon in the hyper impulse rifle mode which clearly was upgraded, open multiple hatches all over its body and unleash a massive barrage of missiles, four of which, two from each leg, dove into the water and took off.

"Buster panzer to archangel. Do you copy?" asked Dearka over the team's comm channel.

"This is archangel, we read you Mr. Elman. Thank you for the assist." Stated murrue as she watched the missiles streak around and past the archangel.

Some stopped after a moment and began to just fall like mortar rounds, others turned and followed certain targets. And a pair of explosions went off underwater as she assumed the missiles/torpedoes found their marks.

"I'll cover you as best I can from here. It seems this machine was designed to be an artillery platform." Stated dearka before Noah interrupted him.

"Damn straight! Thing would give trowa and his heavyarms a run for its money! Lock down into place to get stabilized and show the earth alliance why they should have headed my warning!" shouted Noah happily and murrue giggled.

"Ok everyone focus! This battle isn't over yet!" shouted murrue and everyone went back to their duties.

The day orb burned

Noah sighed as the GM commando rested on a building. He had managed to find a group of strike daggers that had unique colors, likely one of the first test teams or panama survivors. They had landed behind the lines of defense and were in all honesty giving him hell.

Checking his ammo count Noah saw he was down to three rounds. How the rifle was being blocked by their shields he had no clue.

He took a deep breath and popped back around the corner, taking aim and firing a pot shot at the lead machine which had already raised its shield. These guys were good that was sure.

When the other gunpla battlers had shown up Noah was relieved…. but the meijin seemed to be nowhere to be seen.

Deciding the rifle was a lost cause Noah dropped it, bringing up his weapon menu and selecting his beam M1911's though putting them in holstered mode, meaning that his hands simply rested on the pistols.

He could hear the daggers advancing. Reaching down between his legs he opened his backpack of back up models and tried to decide which one to use as this was not going to end well for his GM commando.

Deciding on his gouf elite he put it at the top with his scanner and got ready for the eventuality he would have to ditch the GM commando.

Finally, he heard the team right around the corner and decided to try something.

Setting his arm rakes to manual he took a tight hold on them and moved his hands from the pistols. In this mode he had complete control of the model, able to draw his weapons and use them even without opening his menu.

Finally, he noticed out of the corner of his eye the barrel of a strike daggers beam rifles and reacted.

Reaching out he grabbed the barrel and shoved it down, pulling the strike around the corner with it.

The machine tried to boost away but he knocked the shield aside and grabbed the mobile suit by the shoulder, spinning it around and drawing one of his M1911 based pistols.

Putting it to the back of the mass produced machine he put three rounds into it, the metal tipped plasma rounds exiting the front of the machine. This caused its eyes to flicker and it shut down like the blitz did in space.

Once that was done he brought his arm around the neck of the mobile suit and boosted around the corner. Within seconds the mobile suit turned meat shield saved him from four beam rounds before he shoved it forward onto the next two machines.

As they fell he quickly drew his other pistol and pulled the triggers till both pistol's custom slides locked into place, the internal magazines empty while both the strike daggers on the ground before him exploded.

Their two remaining comrades moved to charge him but soon arched their backs as both machines took a flurry of green bolts to their backs and exploded.

As the smoke cleared Noah smiled when the kampfer amazing stood before him, both beam sub machine guns being lowered. "I hope I'm not late. I was trying to decide which fight to join and yours seemed to be the most dire." Stated the meijin as his machines eye flashed and he activated his hover mode and boosted over to Noah, gliding around him to watch his back as Noah reloaded his pistols.

"I have good news and I have bad news." Stated Noah as he holstered the pistols and turned to face the meijin.

"What's the good news?"

"Good news is you're here so I'm safe for the moment. Bad news is the zero system may be showing itself. That was clearly an "elite" unit. Special colors, didn't go down as easily as normal. It's small but I think I need to change mobile suits. Can you cover me while I do that?" Noah asked as he opened his cockpit.

"Sure, but be quick. My sensors are picking up another carrier flight coming this way." Stated the meijin as he began to take aim at the sky.

Noah nodded and got out of his mobile suit, riding the lift down before he began to process of switching to his gouf custom.

When the carriers flew over they were gone…almost.

When the strike daggers landed and began searching for them the two Zeon based mobile suits were nowhere to be found.

The team leader used his mobile suit to signal they were to move out and as they headed down the street a large black hand reached out around the corner of an alley, soon the black head of Noah's gouf elite following as the white mono-eye swiveled around to look at them.

The strike daggers were quick to spin around to the sound of a crash and took aim in the direction of the noise which was Noah discarding one of his gouf custom shields and drawing his heat sword off his back slowly.

As they took a step towards the alley the kampfer amazing boosted out of an alley behind them and opened up on the two daggers formerly at the front of the team.

As the machines exploded and the other three turned around Noah boosted around from his alley and the leader of the squad found…well found himself and his cockpit speared by the glowing red blade before the mobile suit floundered on the blade as bullets not only riddled it but flew through it and into another strike dagger.

When the final machine spun around to face Noah its face plate was soon covered by the hand of the kampfer amazing and an amazing dagger pierced the cockpit from behind before it was tossed aside and exploded.

This was the beauty of the gunpla battle controls. Mobile suits became an extension of the pilot and fighting like an actual person became far easier. It was how most players were able to handle using G-gundam style models.

The two friends shared a gunpla based high five and Noah went to collect his shield, with tatsuya covering him.

The day orb burned

As the advance continued all the fighters soon found themselves pairing up and in their element.

Nicol watched Valeria's back as she sniped and occasionally used her as bait to draw a large number in though he made sure to warn her so she had her beam scythe/staff thing ready.

Mu and sei were soon flying around, utilizing their speed and their suits power to try and clean up the skies.

Dearka and Alfred were also working with the astrays to handle the bulk of the enemy as they tried to form a beach head.

The meijin and Noah were utilizing guerilla tactics and clearing the city of the ones that would utilize the carriers to bypass everyone while one of the few solo fighters, Nils, used the forests to his advantage and did the same.

Cecil was another solo act and he was out of submarines so his focus was acting like a shark and intercepting groups in the "shallow" water.

And Kira was exactly how he was in the anime…overwhelmed but otherwise doing his best against the prototypes in the sky.

…..

One might wonder where Nina was…

Nina sat in EX-calibers cockpit, the legendary machine standing in the deeper inland dry docks where ships usually were dismantled not built. She was currently the only one protecting the crew of the St. Helens as they boarded the new celestial being vessel.

It was bigger than she expected but at the same time she was impressed by her daughter's handy work. Originally the woman had been worried the girl never thought of how they would board it when there was no cockpit like the simulation set up dearka and Nicol currently used.

Instead she discovered the girl had rebuilt the base model from the ground up. Going into deep detail she built everything from the hangars which included standard mobile suit berths for machines like the buster and two full model building workshops for the models that Noah had built. She built the crew quarters though for that she learned some coding from Noah and learned how to code the GP-base that acted as the keys to this ship with the specifications for the beds and such.

She even custom built the bridge to be a fusion of the original bridge but elongated to include a tactical planning area like zaft ships with a holo-table and all.

Her hands were resting on her stomach, the coordinator curious if she could produce children as brilliant as this girl. It certainly was a blessing Noah had found her or else who knew what would be happening right now.

The key to all this was the fact she had included a keypad scribed and detailed next to the main airlock door. Once the machine was "scanned in she had lead the crew to the airlock and keyed in the code, allowing access to the models interior. By the time the transport truck arrived with the repaired blitz and buster they had opened the main cargo hatch and everyone began working on loading the supplies onboard while the chosen bridge crew began watching clips from gundam 00 and familiarizing themselves with the haptic controls of the gunpla battle arena setup and what each seat did according to the clips of the real celestial being using the controls and the proper files and controls being slaved to various consoles.

So far Nina had not needed to do any sort of fighting but she was itching to go join her fiancée. She was listening to the team communications channel, waiting to be called into combat but sadly wasn't hearing her name.

Suddenly though her systems went crazy with warnings and she had to nearly dive in front of the ship to block a crimson beam similar to the one the strikes Agni cannon and her paladin had fired.

Checking to make sure everyone was ok she turned to see where the shot had come from. What she saw surprised her.

Standing on the ridge of the dry dock area was an orange and yellow version of the one Noah informed her was known as the calamity.

She quickly looked it over and saw the main differences. This calamity was designed with close quarters in mind. It retained the shield of the calamity and the overall body but the twin cannons on its shoulders were gone. In their place rested a pair of modified anti-ship swords from the sword strike.

On its right wrist was come kind of claw, she guessed it likely was a wire based grapple device.

Any other secrets it hid she'd find out later as the machine boosted up and drew one of its blades, igniting the beam portion and moving to bring it down in a heavy slash.

Nina brought up EX-calibers left shield and blocked the attack, forcing it back and away from the ship. "Please hurry and finish. I`ll lead him away!" shouted Nina over her suits speakers and sure enough the zaft defectors picked up their pace as she pressed down on her acceleration pedal and put the shield in front of her, blocking a blast from the sword calamity's shield before ramming it and pushing it into another, empty dry-dock station, crashing through the racks and cranes that would help hold the ships and tear them apart.

It looked like the snow haired coordinator would get to fight after all.

The day orb burned

Kira groaned as he was forced to endure the heavy G's of the freedom doing a back flip as he dodged the Scylla cannon of the raider before bringing his shield up to block the forbiddens own curved beam.

He was beginning to question his own methods. He had already read multiple times he could have finished these clearly rookie pilots if he were willing to kill.

No! These were clearly angry and very disturbed people. He would beat them without killing them and show them killing wasn't the only way!

Diving to miss a swing from the raiders breaker weapon he brought out his full arsenal and fired, only to once again have the forbidden intercept and block his rail guns while bending away his beams.

One second these guys were a team, the next...

His thought was proven valid as the two flight capable prototypes had to dodge shots from their land stricken companion.

The next they were shooting at each other.

As he watched them bicker he tried to plan his next move. Lure them towards one of the other groups and get help? Try and lure them close enough to single one out? Whether they were fighting him or each other than each used their machines strengths to save one another.

During his musing though he failed to notice the raider and forbidden focus on him again and nearly missed blocking a swing from the raider only for the mobile armor to move and the forbidden to fire its main beam weapon.

No he didn't have time to block!

In an instant he watched both a red and a green blur fly in front of him!

What he saw amazed him. In front of him, shield drawn, was a red mobile suit. It had a flight pack on its back and had more than a few features that mirrored his freedom like the beam sabers at its hips.

The justice! He remembered lacus mentioning two mobile suits of the freedoms line being completed, the freedom and the justice.

The green blur was unfamiliar to him though it ultimately sat in front of the justice and had blocked the beam.

As it lowered its shield it raised a large rifle and seemed ready to fire but as the forbidden brought up its beam bending shields the wings on its back opened and with amazing speed it boosted forward, ramming the forbidden and forcing it's shields to part before a pair of head Vulcans and two machine guns on its clavicles opened up on the earth alliance prototype.

"Looks like I'm the last to the party. My apologies, me amour needed my attention." Stated someone, presumably the pilot of this machine. He had a thick accent and Kira recognized the Spanish he spoke.

"This is zaft special forces agent athrun zala, freedom do you read me? Or should I say…Kira yamato?" asked a second voice and Kira looked to the justice.

Athrun! He was the pilot of the justice! Oh thank heaven! But…was he here to take back the freedom? Would they be enemies once more?

"I hear you athrun. It's good to see you again." Stated Kira as everyone seemed to have stopped…well kind of.

Right as Kira said that the raider transformed and began to fire its guns at him. Athrun moved in front of him to block them but before the raider could get much traction in terms of moving towards Kira the green machine transformed into a bird of some sort and rammed it, quickly changing back and firing a few small pink beams at it.

Both he and athrun seemed amazed when the large rifle the machine held split, the green mobile suit holding the two rifles at its waist like dearka did in the buster. A moment later though it held them both out, arms straight and fired at both the raider and forbidden before flying off, leading the raider away but the forbidden seemed conflicted now with its targets…. till a massive blue beam forced it to back off even more and a rather odd machine came down and swung a bone shaped weapon that glowed bright red and orange at the prototype.

"Please continue your conversation. Let us handle these two. If anything worry about the calamity!" shouted another new pilot as he chased the forbidden off towards the island.

Kira turned the freedom to face the justice as it turned around and the two units just hovered in the air.

"We have quite a bit to talk about don't we?" asked athrun as the justice stowed its rifle on its back, another similarity between the two machines and reached out in a handshake.

The freedom did the same and shook the justice's hand. "Yes…yes we do." Said Kira, tears welling up in his eyes as they both turned towards the calamity.

"I'm glad you're alive Kira…. why don't we show the earth forces what we can do together as allies rather than enemies?" asked athrun as the justice reached over its shoulder and grabbed a handle built into the shoulder like the sword strikes beam boomerang.

Kira nodded. "Yeah…I'm glad we aren't enemies." Stated Kira before the two zaft machines boosted towards the calamity together.

The day orb burned

Noah could see the battle was beginning to wind down. The strikes were indeed being pushed back and after giving athrun and Kira time to really get in sync Fellini and maoh bowed out of the fight, the Italian dandy feeling his machine was too powerful for this fight at this point and maoh finding his machine unusable when he couldn't utilize the satellite cannon in his chest without plavsky particles.

"Almost time…meijin perhaps it's time I switched up again?" asked Noah as his gouf turned to face the kampfer amazing.

The once mighty Zeon machine was a wreck due to Noah fighting like him planned too now that he had back up. Recklessly and without care whether the machine survived or not.

So as he discarded the now empty chain gun shield off his remaining arm and had the machine draw the heat sword from within the shield he started preparing his next machine, the kampfer elite.

Setting the gouf to kneel he utilized the lift to reach the ground and quickly swapped out the machines. Within a couple minutes the kampfer elite was standing and as the mono-eye flashed a bright white Noah had it look up, noticing a pause in the fire fight above them.

"Looks like the battles over…. head back and fix up the kampfer. I`m going to head towards the dry docks to meet up with the archangel." Stated Noah and the kampfer amazing nodded before the meijin shut down his system and the kampfer blew away with the breeze in a cloud of glowing plavsky particles.

Just as Noah began to head towards the military base he watched Nina and EX-caliber come crashing through a building, a familiar orange machine forcing her into another one before backing up and charging its chest Scylla cannon.

The charging process was interrupted as Noah fired a shotgun shell at the machine, catching its attention and causing it to turn to fire its shield cannons at him, which with the guerilla warfare based mech Noah easily dodged before firing another shot, working the pump action and firing another one. "Get away from my future wife asshole!" shouted Noah from his speakers before the CQB calamity charged him, the gunpla battler deftly dodging him and boosting back towards Nina.

He looked EX-caliber over and cringed. Missing the left arm, it was clear Nina had trouble alone with the converted artillery. The head was crushed in on the left side as well, making the originally cosmetic damaged look actually damaged. The right leg was mangled at the knee and the sword was broken in half.

Seeing an opportunity Nina disengaged the GN sword system and grabbed the GN short sword, quickly turning and firing the tip of the blade.

The sword calamity caught it on the shield but seemed surprised when the blade not only pierced the shield but started to retract, forcing it to ditch the shield or get pulled towards his foes.

Right as it turned and began to charge the cannon in its chest once more it stopped, the eyes dimming as it was clear like his companions his steroids were wearing off.

Noah decided to put the final nail in the coffin of this fight and turned and started pumping shotgun shell after shell at the former walking artillery till it finally took off and followed its team mates back home.

Noah turned back to Nina and sighed. "You ok Hun?" asked Noah as the kampfer tossed the shotgun and he noticed EX-caliber's cockpit door was dented.

"Yeah…yeah I'm fine. Sorry I didn't call for help. I thought I had him under control." she said as Noah's machine grabbed the door and tore it off, tossing it aside and opening his own.

"It's fine. How's the ship? Any injuries or damages?"

As Nina walked out of the cockpit she shook her head, walking onto the offered hand and letting it carry her to Noah.

"No I blocked the one shot it got off and then forced it away…but I'm sure they know by now where it is. Noah he wasn't with his group nor did he seem interested in anyone but me…actually…I think he was looking for you." She said as she gave her lover a quick kiss and took a spot just behind his cockpit chair as the door closed and Noah shoved EX-caliber down onto its front, grabbing the GN drive and tearing it out of the mobile suit.

With the drive gone the gundam would be defenseless armor wise and with that he grabbed one of the two chain mines attached to his legs and opened it, quickly whipping it in a zig zag pattern over the machine before grabbing its GN sword system and tossing it on top of it.

Grabbing his second whip he double coated EX-caliber and now the GN sword system in the powerful mines.

Boosting back he set them off, satisfied as the explosives did enough damage that the former model exploded.

Once the dust settled he used his camera systems to scan the debris…and that was all it was…debris. The replaced cockpit caused the former model to simply break down into a busted mobile suit…except its GN drive which disappeared in a flurry of plavsky particles.

To ensure no trace of the powerful device remained though he closed the kampfers hand into a fist, hoping to crush even any model parts inside the massive hand.

With that done the machine turned around and once more headed to the dry-dock where the archangel would be equipped with its boosters and repaired for the trip to space. Hopefully Luke finished repairs on the Gabriel while he was gone which was just simple assembly at this point.

The day orb burned

Azreal groaned as he heard the news of his prized toys returning. Seems he had either underestimated Noah or the unsinkable archangel's new mobile suit compliment or he overestimated his own prototypes.

Either way he sighed and stood up. "I guess it's time we take a break from the fighting." He said sadly.

"What the hell? Why would we do that?" asked the captain as he jumped up and turned to face azreal. While true half his fleet was sunk, sinking, or in terrible need of repairs and almost a 3rd of their mobile suit regime were destroyed, disabled or back in their berths being repaired….they were making progress…kind of…

"Face it captain we won't be making any progress with just the strike daggers. No while celestial being and those traitors still have their mobile suits. Recall all your forces, take a breather, make repairs, whatever you need to do…just be ready for round 2. And next round expect my toys to bring us a new one…"stated azreal as he moved to leave the bridge.

"Fine…just get your people in order! They were sloppy, uncoordinated, and even killed some of our own troops in friendly fire!" shouted the man as he started ordering the retreat.

The day orb burned

Kira and athrun just stared at each other through their monitors. The silence spoke volumes as they both tried to figure out what to say.

Kira decided to break the silent moment. "Thanks for the backup…I wish we knew who that other guy was." Stated Kira as he tried to find the green machine but didn't see anything.

"I am still also curious…what are you intentions?" asked the perfect coordinator as both machines relaxed visibly.

"I have orders from the homeland to capture or destroy that machine or Noah Carson's new mobile suit…" stated athrun as his cockpit opened and the chair rose up.

"But I have no intention of following those orders…" he said as the freedom visibly tensed again.

Kira glanced at his cameras, the advanced software grabbing images of everyone's position with a few clicks of a button. The body language every mobile suit gave off was that of both relief and sorrow. While they were not as severe as Kira predicted given the earth alliances new mobile suits…

The casualties were likely still high. But again they were even lower than they should have been with Noah and his people here and orb's astray units thanks to his friend's intervention.

"I have no intention of fighting you or your allies…or celestial being….I just wanna talk…"said athrun as he held up both hands in surrender. "I just wanna talk…with my best friend…"

Kira found his demeanor softening and his eyes tearing up as he smiled. "You don't have to surrender athrun…just follow me." Stated Kira as his friend lowered back into his cockpit.

The freedom then turned and boosted off towards the land. Until he knew what to do next he figured they were better off at least landing the two nuclear powered mobile suits.

The day orb burned

By dusk almost all the mobile suits were gathered in the military base and in various forms of shutting down or the pilots exiting them except the astray series. While the girls the archangel crew had departed their machines and were relaxing, a few of the surviving astray pilots were helping move rubble and take stock of what all they lost.

As mu rode the build strikes lift down he watched as the other build strike and that custom astray, seemed to get an order from Noah's new suit and disappeared in clouds of blue and green particles.

He looked to the new buster and watched as the cockpit finally opened and dearka got out just as the blitz jaeger walked up next to it and began to power down.

The blonde coordinator glanced to the white mobile suit and tugged on the celestial being uniform he had changed into in his cockpit.

A moment later cagalli walked through the small camp as everyone started to gather…well all the mobile suit pilots at least.

"Good job everyone. I`m not sure why they retreated…but you all did a wonderful job." She said loudly as she walked through the group, Nicol and Valeria collapsing near the astray girls, both throwing their helmets of and panting as they went from sitting on their rears to laying back. It was clear the two coordinators had worked rather hard. Not that anyone worked more or less than the rest of them.

Everyone's attention though was grabbed by the sounds of the freedom and the unknown red machines engines as the two nuclear powered machines landed.

At that point everyone jumped to their feet and ran over, stopping a few feet away as they watched Kira and athrun ride their lifts down. Even colonel kisaka was there and they all were waiting and watching to see what the two coordinators would do.

As the two began to walk towards each other a squad of orb soldiers readied their guns and while kisaka raised his arm to try and stop them Noah spoke up. "Shoot one single bullet and I'll kill you all!" a moment later the rifles were heard clattering to the ground.

Kira glanced to Noah who just smiled while he raised an eyebrow. What was it with him and threatening to kill people? He guessed it was a recurring thing with the other gundam universes.

By now even the archangel's crew had come out and joined the spectacle. It was the small island after Alaska all over the place. Dead silence…everyone waiting to see what would happen.

Finally the two pilots stopped and just stared at each other. After a few seconds though everyone heard a mechanical "birdy!" cry and looked to watch a small mechanical bird fly out from nowhere to land on Kira's shoulder.

Athruns expression softened and he smiled. "Cool robot."

Kira smiled. "Thanks. It was a gift from a good friend." Replied Kira as he glanced to his mechanical pet.

"Must be a great friend to make you something like that…."

Kira nodded.

"Kira…."

"Athrun…."

Neither one seemed to know just what to say…till a certain blonde ran at them and shouted, "oh you idiots! Just hug or something already!" she then proceeded to grab them both by the neck in her arms and pull them into a hug. The two boys originally were confused by quickly just chuckled as they saw cagalli's tear soaked eyes.

"I'm so glad your both ok…you both mean so much to me…"she said softly as she hugged them tighter.

The day orb burned

A few hours later the archangel was in morgenroete being repaired, along with the astrays and build strike. Erica had been somewhat saddened to hear that EX-caliber was destroyed but knew it was for the best. Even if Nina was grounded without it unless she took the strike the less GN drives in the world the better.

Nicol, Noah, Kira and athrun all were sitting or standing at the feet of the freedom, discussing everything they knew about this war.

"But that's…" athrun started but Kira interrupted him.

"I know it will be difficult…but with everything going on…with how your said your father was acting…can you really see things going any other way?" asked Kira.

Athrun thought for a moment then sighed. "No….your right. But then what about celestial being?" asked the purple haired coordinator as he thanked cagalli who handed him and Kira both cups of coffee.

Noah shook his head. "it was one thing to recruit the zaft and earth alliance deserters for various reasons but celestial being is as neutral as neutral can be. If it weren't for the fact this falls right in the lines of what happened with that country in gundam 00 I would be forced to follow what I said in space and apply it to orb or else celestial being could be accused of playing favorites. We can't side with orb and empower them to actually become a third power house in this war."

Athrun sighed once again.

"If orb sides with the earth forces not only will blue cosmos slaughter every coordinator they can but they would use morgenroete and orbs power to attack the plants likely with a full line of mass produced gat series." Stated Nicol as he leaned against the MS cage that the freedom was currently in for transport.

"And if they side with the plants then your father will just use that same power to overwhelm the earth forces and it won't matter that they are a sovereign nation or have sided with the plants all this would happen all over again." Said dearka as he decided to butt in on the conversation.

Athrun nodded. "Your right. The way my father is he'd turn orb into a staging ground for an all-out assault on the earth forces."

After a few moments of silence Nicol spoke up, "I should mention…I feel partially responsible for what happened back on that island. athrun you and Kira were already in such a heated battle and yet I'm sure you were doing everything you could to not have to kill Kira….but then I destroyed the duel and it seemed to send you into a rage…"stated Nicol but athrun stood up and put his hand on nicol's shoulder.

"I'm sorry you have felt that burden for so long. I know yzak lived…but at the time I thought the earth alliance had actually turned you or handed the blitz off to another pilot and the fact I thought yzak was dead it just….it pushed me over the edge." Stated athrun.

He then turned to Kira. "And your friend…I didn't know him and I'm sure I would have liked to since he had you for a friend but…I'm sorry for killing him."

Kira shook his head and looked to miriallia who was nearby. "While tolles death sent me just as far over the edge it isn't me you should apologize to. Miriallia was dating him…she was the most devastated out of all of us." Said Kira sadly.

Athrun turned to her and bowed his head. "I am so sorry for killing your boyfriend. So many lives have been lost…he didn't deserve to lose his life in such a way."

The brunette smiled and nodded. "Thanks…that means a lot but…I understand. This is war. While I still miss Tolle…I have come to terms with the fact he knew what he was signing up for the moment he began piloting skygraspers two." Miriallia sniffled slightly and excused herself, walking away to clearly go gather herself. Dearka though quickly followed after her.

Noah stepped forward right as Kira began to open his mouth to speak. "Listen…I do apologize but I really don't need my mood brought down by all the philosophical, deep thoughts that your about to go into if your gonna say what you did in the anime. So…my apologizes there. What it comes down to though is that this war is escalating. Both sides are wanting to end this but they both only want bloodshed because the radicals have put blinders on their soldiers so all they see is the hatred and contempt they have for the enemy. So Kira…I know there is one question I want you to ask athrun…that I wanna hear his answer too given the changes that have taken place." Stated Noah

Everyone seemed taken back by what Noah said. It was blunt but…so true. And everyone was thinking back to all the horrible things that have happened.

Noah motioned for Kira to speak and the teen sighed.

"Fine…my only question I have left for you athrun is simple…are we going to be enemies again?" asked Kira as he looked athrun in the eyes.

The pilot of the justice seemed surprised by the question but smiled. "As I said…I have no intention of actually carrying out my orders. And seeing that you are not with the earth forces nor are you giving even orb the schematics to the N-jammer cancellers…I think I know the path I want to take." He replied as he reached behind him and pulled a duffle bag out from behind the crate he was sitting on.

"I replaced my standard issue emergency bag with some clothes, money…basically I made a bug out bag because if you had joined the earth forces I was going to take the justice to celestial being, if they didn't accept me I was going to go into hiding. I figured in my father's state of mind he didn't need something like the justice and if you're with the earth forces the last thing they needed were two nuclear powered machines." Stated athrun which brought a smile to Noah and Kira's faces.

"The world doesn't need this kind of power in anyone's hands. Even I'm only piloting it to keep it out of the wrong hands. After I confronted lacus for helping you she made me think…about how I came close to killing her just because my father said so. How could I do that when she helped you escape and even better helped you take a dangerous weapon out of…well out of a mad man's hands? I figured celestial being had the right idea and were the only ones I felt I could trust with something like the justice. But now I see your captain is clearly seeing the world for what it is and if you'll have me…I'd like to work with you all." Athrun turned to murrue who had joined to small crowd watching them.

The brunette smiled and nodded, leaning into mu's comforting embrace as she had been thinking back to their long journey and how everything could have gone.

With that Kira stood up and stretched. "I should get back to my duties and keeping the freedom maintained. We never know when they will attack again." he said as he left.

Athrun looked up to Noah who was looking to the freedom and the justice. "I feel like you're about to say something I should probably listen too." Said the teen with a smile.

"I was just thinking…miriallia left earlier but in the episode dearka tries to get an idea on her thoughts after this chat and she runs off crying. He tries to explain you were the one who killed Tolle…but unlike now in the episode you never know she was dating him and apologize like you did." Said Noah, pausing as he thought of how to phrase what he was going to say.

"What exactly is your point? Should I not have apologized? Did I break something in the timeline or some other sci-fi crap?" asked athrun angrily. Noah shook his head.

"No no this is good in my opinion…but in the series gundam wing…the final three episodes are also made into a movie called endless waltz. In this episode of gundam seed miriallia talks to dearka about what Kira was trying to say…how the fact in the anime he kills Nicol…and in return you kill Tolle. And here dearka is basically asking if she wanted to kill you. Nothing good comes of that." Stated Noah.

Athruns eyes went wide. So…if Nicol hadn't joined Noah…he'd likely be dead right now.

"in gundam wing endless waltz the whole plot basically is about the fact that this little girl is brainwashed into thinking she is following her deceased fathers will by taking over the world with mobile suits after a peace treaty bans the use of them, giving the gundam pilots a reason to destroy their machines. In order to do so she captures a woman named relena peacecraft/dorlian. While the pilots are nowhere to be seen…mainly because one of them is trying to retrieve their gundams…she tries to talk some sense into the girl. And yes I'm getting to a point I'm just trying to explain why this is relevant."

After taking a breath Noah sits next to athrun and closes his eyes. "Being here…taking part in this war…it's made me realize what relena tells her applies to not only any gundam series…but really to anywhere, any dimension or universe or whatever. And what she says in response to the girl talking about history being and endless waltz, with the three beats of war, peace and revolution keeping the cycle going….relena finally responds later with the fact that violence only breeds violence. So say Kira killed Nicol. In return you kill Tolle, Kira's friend. By mariemaia's logic miriallia should be out for your blood. But now…she's more like relena and realizes both here and in the original anime that killing you would only invite someone to get revenge and kill her and the cycle continues." Said Noah before turning to athrun.

"So by not killing me…she's stopping the cycle. Just like Kira is trying to stop the cycle by not killing his enemies." Stated athrun to which Noah nodded.

"While yes…muruta azreal and Patrick zala need to die…without their rhetoric to fuel that cycle this world gets 2 whole years of peace. But the sad thing is without something like the battle zechs and treize created in the end of gundam wing humanity will do what it does best…"

Athrun gave Noah a confused look.

"Humanity will find a way to create more conflict. It's in our nature and why I don't bother trying to use non-lethal tactics. So long as humanity exists there will always be war…always be conflict…but if you want to minimize it to petty squabbles that someone like celestial being or the preventers can end you need to show humanity the truly gruesome and horrible side of war. You need to make it so the very thought of war, for any reason, makes their stomachs churn and makes them re-think their choices." Stated Noah before he stood up.

"Food for thought athrun…it just might make YOU rethink certain choice later in this war." And with that Noah left to go make sure Gabriel was ready for orbs final act.

The day orb burned

Finally dearka caught up with miriallia and gently grabbed her shoulder to try and stop her, instead she spun around and shoved her face in his chest. This confused the Casanova coordinator.

"Why….why did he have to be so polite? So nice…and sincere….why did Tolle have to die to such a kind person?!" she exclaimed into his chest so it was muffled as she sobbed.

Realizing what needed to be done he gently wrapped his arms around her, staying silent as she cried.

"For so long I had a feeling the athrun Kira spoke of was the pilot of the aegis. Even when flay went after you and you made those comments while they escorted you to the brig I knew you weren't tolles killer. As much as I wanted to believe if I killed you…if I took nicol's side arm maybe or…or something and killed you I'd feel better. But every time I did…every time I wished death on athrun I…"the brunette turned her head so he could hear her as she sniffled and tried to stop crying.

"I could only see tolles face. I could hear him telling me that nothing good would come of it. He'd tell me to go on with my life…find someone that treated me as well as he did…find happiness." She whispered before looking up into dearka's eyes.

Finally the blonde spoke up. "Had I known he actually was your boyfriend…had I known so many different things…I never would have made that comment. Every time you came and brought me food I wanted to apologize…but you always seemed too mad...like if I tried talking you`d only tell me to shut up or something." Said dearka as he looked into her eyes. Those god damn eyes that saw him as another human being…not some coordinator or the enemy or whatever…someone who cared about his wellbeing simply because he was human.

"when I saw that blue mobile suit harassing the archangel, hell nearly destroying it I got so angry….I mean I wanted to say it was because if they shot you down I'd feel like a failure…like it was my job and that they were stealing that glory from me. But deep down…you're the reason I put on this uniform. You're the reason I got into the buster panzer and protected orb and the archangel. Look I don't know what to make of all this but…"

"Just shut up…" whispered miriallia before she pressed her lips to dearka's.

The day orb burned

Azreal sighed as he stood on the bridge of the carrier. He was waiting to hear the fleet was ready to attack orb again…until then he was going to let those insignificant, vile, disgusting…things rot in pain for disobeying him and coming back empty handed. "So what's the word? How long till we can go in for round 2?"

The captain turned to him and growled. "We have received multiple requests from orb to come to the table for talks of a treaty. And with everything that just happened I think it would be in our best interest if we did so BEFORE Noah brings out his new demon." Growled the captain as he ground his teeth in rage, knowing what was coming next.

Azreal shook his head. "I think not. We are WAY past peace talks. I mean with that kind of strength behind them how can we control them? I think it's in our best interests to just make them disappear don't you?"

"If we came to the table then perhaps celestial being would back off. They have no more power than us without them and the archangel's crew backing them." He replied as he was starting to get tired of azreals stubborn nature.

Azreal just shrugged and shook his head no.

"In that case we are nearly ready. The only thing left are your people and a few minor repairs." Stated the captain.

"I'm sorry about that. It's my fault. They clearly didn't understand their orders very well but trust me…next time they will do exactly as promised." Stated the blonde brat before leaving once again.

The day orb burned

Noah gasped as he was shaken off the small bunk. "Only a few hours…that's all they waited…fuck the kampfer I'm bring them the pain." He mumbled as he got up and rushed out of his quarters…leaving Nina laying in the bed fast asleep. She had been exhausted after fighting the sword calamity so Noah had slipped her some knock out pills so she'd sleep through the next fight.

As he ran into the hangar he saw dearka and athrun talking. He guessed about the fact athrun was staying. He turned to look at where the kampfer was stowed and watched Cecil heading towards the HY-GOGG which was set up by a hangar door that led to a built in dock for freight shipments.

"Cecil!" he shouted and ran to him. Cecil visibly fought the urge to salute him and Noah tossed him a GP-base.

"What's this?" asked the coordinator and Noah pointed to the kampfer elite.

"Take it and keep the streets clear. I`m gonna use a new machine that goes against my rules but damn I had hoped we fucked the earth alliance up enough they would at least wait a bit longer then the anime…so I'm gonna give them a reason to back off again. "Stated Noah.

"Bringing out Gabriel sir?"

"No…I'm bringing something far worse…" the message was cryptic but Cecil nodded and headed for his new suit. He had to admit he felt honored to use one of Noah's personal models….but understood what Noah meant as by the time he got it powered up and was ready to head out he saw what Noah scanned in.

The phantom pain…well that was the designation his new system brought up. He wondered how it got that name and began to follow his commander out, knowing the fighting was already pretty heavy.

The day orb burned

It was only minutes into the fighting and Alfred found himself hiding behind a car, the wreck that was his mobile suit/ gunpla in his pocket.

He had been lucky. He had decided to keep an eye on the fleet…but even then he never saw it coming. The earth alliance was out for blood and he felt horrible when as he tried to protect orb's defenses he failed to see a missile barrage flying towards where one of the celestial being ships was docked, annihilating the damaged naval vessel.

He hoped their souls rested in peace…but now what was he to tell the boss? He had gotten lucky, blocking a barrage of beam rifle fire with his body to cover some rail tanks he had dove out of his cockpit just before the machine exploded and a thankful soldier caught him while another ran and grabbed the wrecked model that was the remains of his machine.

He understood that if they survived the fight they got to get upgrades….he likely would survive…but his machine was in pieces…would he still get the upgrade?

No joke he was grateful for the chance to pilot the thing…but he wanted to know what these upgraded suits could do.

It was then a group of strike daggers came around the corner and he found himself praying they didn't see him and decide to shoot at him.

Unfortunately they never got the chance as with loud engines around its feet roaring while keeping it hovering, Cecil rounded the corner in the kampfer elite and immediately raised both arms, the loud tri barreled machine guns spitting lead at an incredible rate into the strike daggers, quickly finishing the group.

The Zeon based machine noticed Alfred and stopped near him, reaching a hand down as a sign for him to get on.

As the hand was brought up Alfred expected to find Noah in the cockpit, gun ready to kill him or something for destroying the model. Instead he found Cecil's smiling face.

"Regret taking it upon yourself to be the vigilant guard while everyone else re-armed and repaired their machines?" asked Cecil as Alfred flipped him the bird.

"Fuck off. Where did you get this thing?" asked Alfred as he climbed into the cockpit.

"Boss handed me the GP-base for it, said to keep the streets clear with it because I think him and the miss were getting a bit frisky or something when the attack started because he was NOT happy with those stupid naturals." Stated Cecil as he closed his cockpit and went off to continue fighting.

Alfred just flipped him off again and was glad he was safe.

The day orb burned

Shinn panted as he tried to catch his breath. He and his family had been late due to various reasons getting to the evacuation boats. While the evacuation had begun well before even the first shots were fired, days even, the evacuation had been slow and methodical due to, and unknown to shinn, his family and all citizens of orb except certain military personal, a certain gunpla battlers tactics required the city to be barren by the time the earth alliance launched their attack.

Shinn's family lived outside the initial evacuation zone and had been caught off guard when the E.A. attacked while their part of orb was still just beginning to evacuate.

As they ran down the dirt road that led to the docks he took a moment to glance through the trees. What he saw was…well it was a wonder.

The beach was being heavily defended, but mostly by two particular mobile suits.

No one expected them and even the orb officials had been surprised…well except Erica Simmons, when three astoundingly powerful suits came out of seemingly nowhere and began assisting the defense.

He watched as a salmon colored mobile suit weaved almost gracefully around a group of the E.A. new strike daggers. As it came behind the rear mobile suit it raised a weapon, it was too small for shinn to make out but he quickly knew it was a gun as he saw the machines hand shoot up slightly three times and heard the faint, distant sound of a ballistic weapon firing with each one.

The machine maneuvered around the strike dagger as it fell to its knees but did not explode. From there it came around to the front of the next machine and put the gun to its head, firing once causing the head to explode before booting back then raisin it's leg to kick the machine back.

The strike dagger fell onto it's back and when it tried to get up the salmon colored machine put a bullet in each knee, causing the servo's to die and the machine to stay on the it's back to a degree.

Leaving that one alone it put the weapon away in a holster at its hip, quickly boosting back and away to dodge the remaining squad member's rifle fire as they finally caught up with the quick machine.

As they did so he saw a red and white machine which clearly held two long, curved blades, kabana's, and boosted towards the group which h now had its back to them. The machine brought both blades down through the shoulders of one strike dagger before turning and bringing its left sword up in a diagonal upward slash, cleanly cutting through the legs of another before the black armor on its left shoulder moved seemingly on its own and punched the machine as it fell, sending it flying across the beach while the machine blocked a beam saber from the last strike dagger with one of its swords.

He was pulled away from the fight as he caught his foot on a rock, shouting as he stumbled but ultimately kept running. He could see it…the docks were not too far away…that was when two machines, custom ones, one in a mobile armor form, another blue artillery looking suit on its back.

The blue suit jumped off the other and in the air fired its arsenal, destroying nearby astrays that were guarding the path.

As they exploded his family stopped and huddled together, his father shielding them as best he could. When the shockwaves settled they began running again but soon another explosion rocked the ground behind them and as they kept running his sister stumbled on a root, falling and losing her phone.

"No my phone!" shouted his sister, mayu. He looked up and saw a blue, white and black machine coming in for an attack on the blue artillery unit and looked back to his family. "Go! I`ll get her phone and catch up!" he shouted and his family moved to run as his slide down the hill to her phone…

The day orb burned

Luke panted as he ran into the hangar. It was now or never. If Noah could save Nicol…maybe he could save her…help shinn keep from becoming the hate and anger filled lap dog that he was in seed destiny.

He ran over to the repaired strike on the gang planks and climbed into the open cockpit, despite Murdoch yelling at him to stop.

Remembering the show as best he could and the controls of the cockpit pod arcade game the former gunpla battler strapped himself into the strike and took a deep breath, pressing the activation button and listening to the war machine come to life.

"Come on come on…there!" he shouted as he tried to figure out how to open a channel to the bridge…but miriallia beat him to it.

"Luke what are you doing in the strike!? You can't pilot a mobile suit even with its new OS!" she shouted at him

"Please miriallia, I need the aile striker pack and permission to launch! Lives are at stake…specific lives In fact that I think I know how to save!" he exclaimed as he shakily moved the strike into position to be put on the catapult without its MS cage.

The girl glared at him but glanced up, clearly getting orders from captain Ramius. "fine…your good to launch but captain wants you back as soon as this little mission of your is done. Equipping the aile flight pack…also patching la flaga to you to cover you with the build strike." She stated before the comm line ended.

Luke closed his eyes and took deep breaths, feeling the strike be outfitting with the pack that would be the best capable to get him to where he wanted to go…he just hoped he could find Kira in time to do so.

He opened his eyes when mu came on the comms. "All right Luke you got me for five minutes then the captain wants you back. What's the plan?" he asked as he visibly jerked to move his controls so he could dodge something.

"I need to find Kira. He should be engaging the new gat series prototypes…while I can't go too into detail there's a certain family in danger and an important character of the sequel to gundam seed whose attitude towards life depends on me saving them." He said, feeling the catapult throw the strike out of the archangel.

The moment he hit the pedal to climb he also pressed the switch to turn on his phase shift armor. He saw mu in the build strike full package 2.0 and moved towards him.

The former mobile armor pilot groaned. "Seriously getting tired of this "can't talk about the future but this is all some cartoon to us BS." Stated the man as he looked around for Kira.

Finally he found him and without telling Luke maxed out his acceleration towards the freedom.

Luke though was thankfully clever and followed suit, unlike Kira not bothering to worry about the strikes battery and using the aile pack to essentially fly.

Luke meanwhile figured out how to contact people and opened a channel with Noah who was currently playing hide and seek with the forbidden in his custom zaku warrior "phantom pain". Noah and the rest of the gunpla battlers taking part in the fight via a link from the simulation to a large gunpla battle arena in neilson labs, though Noah was actually here and in a scanned in version of the zaku warrior, were all piloting custom suits which Noah deemed a good balance between strong enough to survive but not over powering so as to make this battle ridiculously short and damage the seed plot and timeline.

He had rules for being here.

A gunpla being used via the arena could not be gundam class, or if it was it had to be severely under armed, hence the sengoku astray.

One had to understand that while they were battling in the arena, custom software for this disabled plavsky particle based abilities such as the star build strikes discharge system or the sengoku astrays many abilities.

In the case of gundam seed or any universal century series the gunpla could not be a suit from an advanced series, such as bringing the strike freedom in to back Kira up in the freedom or bringing the NU gundam in to waste char in the original mobile suit gundam series…except Noah…but he's just having fun with the prototypes to tie them up

Fighters would also have to understand that that this was technically an alternate universe…they didn't need to know how it happened or how a gunpla arena could essentially act as a bridge. Saving lives was allowed as was obviously killing…but they had to understand they were essentially killing "real people" lives, in Noah's new gundam seed world, were being ended if you destroyed a mobile suit.

Also saving a life like he did Nicol could potentially have consequences, same with ending certain key characters early like say them all ganging up on the gat series porotypes and wiping them out.

The final rule was that anyone entering via arena had to follow Noah's orders, such as sei in his improved build strike full package which he rebuilt just for this was following his order to assist in air defense and meijin kawaguchi and mister neilson were following orders to defend the beach.

Rules aside, he saw Noah on his communications screen shortly. "what's up Luke?" he asked as he once again faded out of sight, using the basic GN particle properties he gained from the spikes on his shields to float back just out of the forbidden scythes reach and make the extends machine visibly begin searching for him.

"Noah I wanna try to save shinn's family…I think I figured out how and what shot to either throw off or even outright block. Shinn blames Kira for his families death, but if I remember correctly they show the calamity firing first then Kira…I think their shots intercept each other and result in an explosion…if I ram Kira and throw his barrage off can you get between the shots and try to soften or even redirect the explosion away from them?" asked Luke

Noah nodded. "Yeah definitely…but we have to hurry, I just saw the calamity and raider go by and the calamity jumped off." He stated, remembering the opening to gundam seed destiny episode one well.

With that settled Luke watched as Kira dove towards the calamity, firing the shot that caused mayu to drop her phone before maneuvering away from return fire.

Quickly pushing his thrusters to the max without warning mu he flew right into Kira's left side as his barrage fired, throwing the entire thing off.

At the same time as the calamity fired Noah's phantom pain faded into few and soon a green GN field surrounded him as both his shields swung out to also block either shot. He had been careful as he saw shinn slide down to get his sisters phone, noticing the family huddle together as the ground shook when he settled down from hover mode.

In theory the GN field shout have absorbed the blast…but that would have been from a full GN drive. The six cones on his shield were the equivalent of a micro GN condenser/drive, only having enough juice to block one beam that was as strong as the calamity's Scylla cannon and Kira's baleana plasma cannons.

When those three, plus Kira's full barrage hit the field absorbed most of the fire but soon failed and his shields took the hit, also failed and Noah found himself diving off his cockpit hatch as the machine boosted off the ridge from him dragging the accelerator forward as he dove, moving the main blast away from shinn's family but still they were caught in it.

Noah tucked and rolled but still found himself slowly getting up, his left arm dislocated but other side he was bruised and scratched.

He looked up to watch sei's build stroke land in front of the calamity as it tried to fire again but it brought up the modified absorb shield and it opened, absorbing the almost point blank hyper powered beam.

The calamity tried to boosted back but sei beat him to the punch, keeping the shield up and boosting forward, with Kira quickly landing between them and opening up with another barrage which caused all three machine, sei and Kira tailing a fleeing and damaged calamity away from the area.

Noah looked around at the area the blast from his exploding zaku phantom did grab and saw charred ground, fires…but no sign of shinn's family…"shit…we failed…"he thought as he watched Luke land in the strike and put it on one knee, Mu, likely upset at having to babysit him, swiftly landed behind him to cover lukes machine while he got out and began to look around.

Noah didn't want to watch him realize they failed and limped away to scan in his second to last resort machine. He had one more after it but it was to be saved for the second battle and was already scanned in.

The day orb burned

Luke frantically looked around. Someone had to have survived…he ran over to look at shinn, the stunned boy not noticing him as he glanced at something and his face was wracked with grief. Luke followed his gaze and gasped. There was his sister's arm...again…

"shit…come on…please let me have done something good here besides just watch Noah and fanboy over being on the archangel.." he said quietly as he looked around.

Finally movement caught his attention in the corner of his eye, as well as a hoarse cry for help, to quite to attract shinn or the ORB officer who was dragging him practically away from the blast site.

Luke ran over and gasped. There she was…it wasn't shinn's whole family…but still the one thing that fueled his hate for Kira…

Mayu lay in a puddle of her own blood and looked up to Luke. Alive…barely…but alive…and missing an arm.

"don't worry mayu…I'm gonna get you out of here…"he stated as he scooped the bleeding girl into his arms and ran back to the strike, grunting and groaning as he climbed up the kneeling machine and back into the cockpit, resting the battered and bruised girl in his lap.

The moment the strike was reactivated and standing he turned around and boosted over mu, who quickly contacted him.

"Hey what's the big idea? Where's the fire kid? "He asked but then saw the girl in the video feed.

"I'm sorry mu, please go back to the fighting…I need to get her back to the archangel…contact them and tell them I'll need medical on standby and likely gonna be a crash landing." He said as he moved the strike in a straight shot for the archangel.

Mu nodded and cut the comms. He then opened a line to the archangel's bridge. "Luke says I'm done babysitting, but to tell you he's gonna need emergency medical teams in the hangar and likely is coming in for a crash landing…"he said as he flew the build strike 2.0 back into the fray.

Miriallia nodded and cut the coms as well, relaying mu's message to the necessary people.

Shortly after the strike came in hot, wobbly and just as it reached the catapult ditched it's aile striker pack into the water before turning grey from a dead battery and coasting into the hangar doors, turning around so that as it hit the crash landing net he was able to grab mayu and keep her from flying around in the cockpit.

The moment the strike stabilize and medical crews ran towards it he brought the strike into a crouch and brought mayu out, jumping the short distance from the cockpit hatch to the metal floor, with a grunt, holding her carefully till they got her on a gurney…

The day orb burned

Shinn couldn't believe it as he turned around and saw the blast results from the black mobile suits explosion. He took a step towards it and looked around. "Mother…father…mayu…"he whispered. Finally he glanced down and saw mayu's arm…"mayu!" he shouted and ran over, despite the orb officers protests….only to find it was just her arm.

Looking back up at the hill he couldn't see any sign of his sister…his mother or father…

Just as shinn fell to his knees a mobile suit flew over and another explosion caused a massive gust of wind.

"Come on kid…we need to go now!" exclaimed the guard, as he force shinn to stand and nearly dragged him into a run back to the docks.

Shinn couldn't believe it…all because of that stupid mobile suit exploding…all this fighting…and him going to get his sisters phone…he was now the only member of his family.

Shinn Asuka…was alone in the world…or so he thought.

On the archangel the doctor and newly staffed orb nurses were helping mayu fight for her life, Luke watching from the doorway, praying she'd live.

Like padme with Anakin in star wars…he knew if she saw what shinn became…in time…she'd likely hate it, and with revealing she was alive…unlike padme…and her talking some sense into him maybe…just maybe he could be like Noah with Nicol and redeem shinn.

The day orb burned

It was not Calvin's day. He had survived the first battle. Yes…and he had survived this frantic assault the E.A. dogs had thrown at them…so far. But first he didn't get to eat breakfast, then he nearly soaked his flight suit in a protein shake he tried to down as he was launching…nutrition was everything to him…well it was how he was raised. Plus….he only got a few hours to sleep between fights.

And now…his captain was dead. Great.

The astray pilot used a busted building as cover but the overwhelming amount of strike daggers charging the beach was still making it difficult. He grit his teeth as he blocked a shot with his shield but he saw one coming right for him.

"No time to block or dodge…I'm sorry mom…I should have gone into teaching like you said…" he whispered…till the fatal shot never hit and the ground shook as another machine landed in front of him.

Opening his eyes he saw them. Wings. Green and white with yellow vents and a red bottom. Fanned out from the machines landing.

"What are you…."he pondered as he watched it raise its right arm, likely its gun arm.

A moment later though the machine became black as it was shadowed by a huge golden beam that fired in front of it.

After the beam dissipated it turned around to look at him before it crouched and jumped, flying off to save someone else.

"Thanks…"he said meekly before he grabbed his controls. He couldn't let this second chance be wasted…time to fight!

A moment later his world went dark as his machine exploded from a shot from the calamity….

The day orb burned

Dearka groaned as he ran through the military bases wreckage. They had launched everything they had! Those damn naturals. Taking a moment he glanced at athrun and Kira's fight with the prototypes. It was clear they were based on the gat series and he wanted to go out and join them…but as his now customized OS set off the proximity alarm he looked to the archangel, seeing a missile barrage aimed at them.

Turning towards them he manually used the controls to use the busters guns and form the hyper impulse rifle, the now Agni-cannon like shot lancing out to obliterate the missiles in a chain reaction.

Splitting the weapons he suddenly found himself under the first of multiple strike dagger squads.

"God damn naturals! Why do you have to keep fighting!?" he shouted as he turned and brought up the new program he found in the OS. It was a targeting system like Kira's in the freedom. Except it brought up a display that zoomed in on each hostile with an individual screen, each enemy making them smaller. Then with retinal scanning and just a look and blink system he could target the whole machine or individual parts.

In this case he targeted cockpits….

A moment later he pulled the trigger and the buster panzer's leg supports folded down before every missile port opened and every little gun he had on this thing took aim.

In a hail of beams, bullets and missiles he quickly cleared a courtyard of at least 15 strike daggers.

As everything closed up he noticed a warning pop up stating he was low on ammo.

"Damn…didn't realize the missiles actually needed re-armed…"he grumbled before he ran off once more to continue fighting with what weapons he could.

The day orb burned

Noah sighed as he watched the remainder of the strike daggers retreat. The end was near….and as he sat in his "reaper gundam" a custom crossbone gundam with moah's skull in the torso idea included. The idea had been his GM commando or whatever model he had left would be bait to draw plenty of strike daggers into the line of fire. Then he'd unleash one satellite cannon blast out of the machine and as the smoke cleared and the fires that would come of it blazed the pilots would look inside and see the bright red eyes of the skull…hopefully…before he launched out and tore into them till the machine was going to die.

Then he'd ditch and get into the Gabriel.

Now he was climbing out of his model and de-scanning it. Once he collected the machine he walked out of the cored out building and collected his GM commando.

He watched as the daggers returned to their ships. There was no need for an all-out attack after this. So Noah saw a bar nearby and sighed. A couple shots wouldn't be horrible right?

He pulled his now completed Gabriel gundam out and walked into the bar, setting it on the counter and heading around to grab his favorite brand of whiskey and got a glass.

"I feel like I need to make a toast….good luck to pissing the most racist fuck ever off? Naw that won't work. Naww…who cares. To me fucking that fuck up on the dominion!" shouted Noah before he took a sip of his drink and looked to his machine.

"Time to make the world burn." He whispered as he downed the rest of the glass, threw it away and grabbed his model, rushing outside with a rather angry determination.

The day orb burned

As Kira flew alongside athrun in the freedom he could only wonder what this small skirmish was accomplishing. Was azreal this determined to see the world burn?

Did his hatred for…well his kind really extend to the point he would waste the energy to deploy four prototypes…knowing they would not complete their objective?

Or was he counting on the fact the only other pilot not currently stowing their mobile suit was Noah…who was currently MIA.

No how could he know? With his arrogance he likely expected them to throw everything at the gundams to stave them off.

He likely expected Noah to join the fight and lose.

He expected him to lose.

He expected to win.

With that thought Kira gripped his control tighter and boosted forward, his shield blocking the raiders mace before he fired off a few pot shots.

Within moments the intense dog fight began just as last time as the four machines tried to slow the two nuclear powered ones down by hitting them with everything they had.

Until a brilliant crimson beam consumed the calamity's right side, taking its arm, bazooka, shoulder cannon and leg all in one blow.

"Kira, athrun get back. I can handle this. "Said Noah over the comms and the perfect coordinator turned to see the Gabriel gundam coming at them, stowing its GN buster sword two before actually shoving Kira out of the way and then boosting at the prototypes.

Within second the fight went from him and athrun and the four machines to Noah and the three machines while the calamity plummeted from the sky.

Kira thought back to call and realized something. Noah's eyes.

They had been glowing!

Just what had Noah become?

The day orb burned

Noah brought his buster swords around to block a blast from the sword calamity's chest cannons before Shani tried to cut him open with his scythe, only to have it blocked by Noah's GN sword rifle. As Noah blocked that he shoved it back before switching modes, the rifle opening to form the scissors mode.

From there he caught the next swing on the handle with the scissors, the weapon cutting the blade from the handle with ease. The gunpla fighter had no idea just how well he was doing. He was acting on instinct as he stowed his second GN sword rifle, caught the scythes blade before stowing the other one, dodging a swing from the sword calamity and bringing the scythes blade down to cut one of the anti-ship swords in half then kicked the machine back.

His GN sword bits formed a shield to block a barrage from the raider before it tried to charge him. Instead he spun and dodged the mobile armor, bringing one of the sword rifles back out and opening up on the raider's rear.

The flurry of red death caught one of its bird like claws and the appendage exploded, causing the raider to have to start heading back.

Two down.

Next up was Shani as he tried to ram Noah but as he blinked his glowing eyes he deftly rose above the charge before boosting at the forbidden which quickly spun and raised its shields, expecting the flurry of crimson death.

Instead the green suit found Noah once more weaponless as the Gabriel grabbed his shields and pried them open.

With a tight hold on the devices Noah kicked the forbidden multiple times, trying to kick him back till finally the Gabriel's strength tore the shields off. With them gone Shani tried to fly away but Noah brought a GN buster sword two out and quickly aimed and fired a thing red beam, spearing the forbiddens backpack, causing it to explode before the gundam fell out of the sky as well.

His enhanced senses screaming at him Noah turned around and found an anti-ship sword inches from his cockpit door….

The day orb burned

Nina was watching the fight from hers and Noah's quarters as the archangel took off. With every harsh move and piece he tore and cut off the machines, with how brutal he was being Nina wondered if this was still her lover flying or one of his friends?

She gasped though as when he turned to handle the sword calamity she screamed at the screen for him to watch out as like a horror flick she watched Noah's gundam get run through by the orange calamity.

Tears instantly welled up in her eyes and she screamed, "NO! NOAH!" hell everyone on the ship was….till they watched the Gabriel break apart into a mass of red particles and disappear.

Not an explosion like when EX-caliber was destroyed…no just as everyone wondered if Noah was done…again…the sword calamity was suddenly kicked down towards the ocean as Noah's Gabriel gundam reformed behind it.

The mystical machine moved to follow but it seemed his kick was strong enough to knock out its propulsion system as it didn't try to get back up.

By then the boosters had kicked in and the archangel began its trip up into space.

Noah hovered in the air and was panting, sweating like mad as his eyes dimmed till they were the cobalt blue once more.

He watched as the kusinagi took off and then was followed by the purgatory. The ship was only using a mass driver due to the bridge crews lack of knowledge of GN drives and the fact the ship only had one inside to activate trans-am so it wouldn't be as effective.

Looking down Noah wondered what would come of the prototypes. He barely remembered the thrashing he gave them. But as he looked up to see the three ships making their way into space he decided he best do so as well.

While yes he could break atmosphere by using trans-am…that fight…whatever happened to him had taken all his energy so he activated his quantum leap system and flew into the portal. In a few seconds it'd re-open near the ships and he'd get a small break to rest.

Yes…rest….like Nina would let him rest after all that…

As Noah disappeared into his portal he didn't get to see the kaguya mass driver and island go up in flames. While he may have said he was going to destroy the mass driver he ended up allowing uzumi to follow through with his suicide plan.

Orb was gone….and the war was devolving into a hunt for power. What would both camps do with the knowledge of what Noah just did?

The day orb burned

Ok so I decided to just have the whole war for orb in one go mostly cause I was wired on caffeine and as I re-watched the episodes to get a feel for how things went I kept thinking where I was ending it was not a good spot.

Plus I found a few good spots to add in some humor so hope you appreciated that. Also some of you may not appreciate Noah being so open about the other gundam universes. In my opinion the similarities between each series and conflict gives him a very much outside perspective on the war besides the fact all this is an anime to him. If I were him I'd be sharing that so the others can understand how other Meta verses time lines went and see those same similarities and differences.

Anyways I hope you enjoyed it.