Chapter 2: The Dismantling and Reconstruction

Part B: The Reconstruction

Legend

Italics shows character thoughts

Word shows Date, time, and location

May, 2, C.E. 70

Scion's apartment, 6:05 A.M

He had been here for three months, give or take a week or two, operating this machine that still had no name. He spent his days testing new weapons and harder more elaborate training fields and courses. Scion found that like his Moebius training he was adept at the art of war and his handling of this G-weapon as it was called for lack of a better word, Scion had thought of a new word, but didn't think it mattered what the damn thing was called.

Scion sat in a lounge chair, his alarm woke him at 6:00 A.M and he was fighting off sleep. He had some special day ahead of him. A new training field of some kind and then a special meeting with Doc about god knows what.

He stood up and walked over to the window and stared down at the suburbs that he lived in. Everyone was still sleeping except for the Orb personal that worked night shift and the few late night people that roamed the town in search of a party or a place to crash.

"Three months…." Scion said to himself. In that time everything Doc has said had come true. His compatibility with the Psycho-Frame had gone up by fifty-percent since the first time he had stepping into the G-weapon and he was able to coordinate them into formations and for the most part he didn't even have to think about them. During that time he had learned to handle the funnels while using them as the add-on boosters. They also got the bayonet attachment on the rifle to work without damaging the rifle.

Perhaps the most astounding advancement with the Funnels was their new ability to create a shield that can protect the G-weapon, when all six funnels are active. With each funnel that Scion lost the shield would lose shielding coverage. It was also stressful on the pilot to keep them all information and still while the mobile moved about.

Scion looked at his watch and decided he might as well get some breakfast since he had an early appointment today.

Doc's Research Lab, 9:00 A.M.

Scion entered the labs main door while stuffing a doughnut into his mouth. He waved to the clerk, who's name he always forgot to ask. She gave him a strange look, probably for the doughnut stuffing, and let him enter. As he did so he brushed off the crumbs from his mouth with his hand.

He'd apologize later for the lack of manners.

Scion was greeted by all the technical staff as he came in. They would tell him something about his last run, a glitch of something to look out for in the future. He took note of most of them, the rest he tuned out since they mostly came with the same bit of information everyday.

After listening to everyone Scion made his way to the hanger and to his mobile suit. None of the mechanics bothered him, at least they seemed to have some confidence in Scion's own abilities. Doc decided to keep Scion's heritage a secret from the others. Half Coordinator was still have of something they didn't understand, but half of something was something he supposed.

"Scion."

"Huh? Oh it's you Doc. What's up?" Scion was a little thrown off by the Doc's sudden appearance to his cock pit. A first for the man.

"I'm going to tell you about your next training exercise."

"Why here?"

"Because it won't take place here and no one else but the Mechanics and a few of tech that I choose will know. It's a real live mission."

"But, I thought your machines weren't being used."

"Not officially they aren't but I have a powerful friend that knows what I have. He wants me to do him a favor with this G-weapon, which by the way I hate that name since this is not one of the EA's prototype machines. Get a better name."

"Right. Go on."

"ZAFT has been moving their forces closer to Orb to keep an eye on them. They have a small communications base and a small supply base which are waiting for the order to create a larger base of operations. You are to take out the communications then the supply base. Shouldn't be any more then four or five GINN's but with this mobile suit it shouldn't be a problem."

..So I have to kill more Coordinators. Haven't I done enough to them? No…can't start thinking like that. This is war and I owe Takashi for giving me a purpose, even if it is using this machine. If to war with ZAFT he wants me to go then to war with ZAFT I 'will' go. I can't start getting all pouty' over what happened…it was the EA's fault….no…Blue Cosmos fault and NOT mine, so stop being a sap.

"…..Understood."

"Good. The coordinates are all in place and you will go out through the outer exit for supply transport so no one will see you. Oh and Scion."

"Yeah?"

"Good luck." For the first time Doc seemed to be nervous about something which in turn made Scion nervous.

"Thanks, I'll be fine. I have your machine right?"

The Doc laughed as he patted Scion on the back.

"Yes, yes you do."

ZAFT Communications Base, 10:00 P.M.

Scion's Gundam, a name he got from one of the techs when he asked for a name, it was called as such for the words on the Gundam's start up screen 'General Unilateral Neuro-link Dispersive Autonomic Maneuver '. So this 'Gundam' walked through the forest, or stomped through to be more exact. It was night and the communications was only communication. The radar of the base was very limited without better equipment and Scion would be completely free to unleash his Gundam's power once the tower was gone.

The tower soon came into view and Scion immediately began aiming for it before someone spotted him on radar or with the naked eye.

"I got you."

The mobile suit raised it's arm, bearing the rockets for just this kind of occasion, and launched off one round then two for good measure. The first impact hit the tower causing it to fall, the second wave of missiles flew over and hit a building behind it.

Lucky for Scion though the tower was down and no one would be calling for help nor would they be reporting the attack of a new war machine.

"Okay…now I destroy everything." Scion said to himself as he unleashed more of the mini rockets on the varies buildings in the area.

"Pilot of the that mobile suit. This is the ZAFT commander of this base. You are to retreat now or be destroyed." A voice said over the com-link, he was obviously shook up.

Heh, you know you're isolated so you're trying to put on a strong front to get me to retreat? You've got to be kidding me.

"Sorry, but your base looks mighty defenseless and I don't see any reason to abandon this mission. I'm sorry that you have to die but orders are orders" Scion responded, though he felt a large guilt well up inside him at the cold hearted response he gave.

Scion blocked that frequency and turned his attention to the hangers and was about to fire on it to stop any enemy reinforcements from coming but he was to late. Two GINN's came out of a hole they blew in the entrance of the hangar while to Scion's surprise two DINN's came from an a hole in the top of the hanger.

Must be scared if they are blowing holes in their own hanger bay.

Scion took a deep breath before pressing the pedals at his feet and launching his machine into the air. He aimed his beam rifle at one of the enemy GINN's, while dodging enemy fire from them, and fired off a round. The shot missed but Scion was to busy retreating from the DINN's aerial attack to notice.

"Damn it!" Scion hollered as he shot off his last round of rockets into the air. His mobile suit came back to the ground with a thud and he boosted away again to avoid fire. The DINN's had more manueverablility in the air then Scion did.

"I got you now natural!" A com had been open obviously between Scion and his enemy, who were now more confident in their abilities to counter Scion's attack. The pilot came in his DINN at top speed intent on slamming into Scion.

"No you don't!" Scion screamed as he dodged the attack. Then Scion got a feeling of euphoria and his instincts took control of the funnels, which were attached as boosters, and activated sending Scion straight up allowing him to dodge a shot from the other DINN.

Whoa, how the hell did I know that was coming? Huh--

Again, Scion instincts came into action as the GINN's on the ground aimed at the descending Gundam, the shoulder and leg funnels rotated according to Scion's increased awareness, through the Psycho-Frame, and again saved him from danger and launched him over to the right. The Gundam landed with the other GINN coming at him with his MA-M3 heavy blade.

"I got you now!" The pilot knew that with the Gundam holding the rifle he could never stop his attack. (Remember that this Gundam doesn't have PS armor so even though he has the Gundanium alloy he will take some damage.)

In a flash of purple light and the sound of melting metal the GINN's arm came completely off. The pilot stood in confusion I fear that became more fear then anything as the rifle was in his face with the bayonet attachment active.

"Rule one; Never underestimate your opponent! Ever!" Scion screamed as he slammed the bayonet into the cock-pit of the mobile suit. The blade barely made it through the suit since it was only half the length of a beam saber. Scion retreated before the mobile suit fell without an explosion.

"You bastard! I'll kill you!" The three pilots said together which at another time and place would have been funny but not in this instance. Scion jumped backwards with his boosters into the woods.

"You won't escape us! I'l---" the GINN pilot words were cut off by six beam shots came from the forest at once. He watched in horror as his two ally DINN pilots were killed, three shots to each DINN. He looked forward as the Gundam once again rose from woods with six azure colored objects floated around it.

"Ahhh!" He fired off his heavy machine gun which to his already extreme horror were blocked by a purple color shield. The six funnels made a hexagon in front of Scion making a simple shield, he needed to defend from once direction so he didn't need to cover himself like he could have.

The funnels dropped the shield and pointed at the one GINN. The enemy machine with yellow eyes that seemed from hell raised it's own rifle. The pilot was now staring down the barrel of seven beam rifle all trained on him.

"No! no!" He never got to beg for his life as the hiss of beam weapons firing could be heard and the explosion of one lone mobile suit.

Everything around Scion got strangely quiet. He guessed that a few remaining soldiers got away though he doubted anyone would believe them about a new war machine. He was about to turn back and head to base when he picked up a number of blips on his radar.

"What the? It must be the convoy with equipment for the base…they'll have a escort but I have to take them out. Can't let them make a report."

Scion called back the Funnels into their places and boosted away from the area. They were most likely blind with no communication so no one would be telling them of the bases destruction, though they would notice that something was wrong when they got not communication from the base.

The convoy consisted of a transport ship with three DINN's escorting it. They flew ahead to scout out and stopped when the base came into view. They seemed to be getting orders on what to do.

Scion didn't miss this chance, his beam rifle was trained on the center DINN hoping to get splash damage from this one blowing up. His trigger finger flexed which was followed by a hiss. The beam streamed across the ground as it flew higher and higher until it pierced the targets torso. The fizz of shot circuits then the resounding of the explosion. The other two merely staggered away.

"What the?" The pilot to the left said.

"It must be an enemy in the forest hiding!" The other said as he began surveying the area.

The only down fall of Coordinators…you just assume you are better then your opponent. You don't know where I am or how many we are and yet you insist on fighting. Heh, listen to me sound all guru like. Don't get cocky, Scion.

Scion gritted his teeth as he aimed at the loud mouth one to the right. The lock on was confirmed and the trigger was pulled, though this time the shot was dodged. He had obviously been looking in the direction of the first shot.

The two DINN turned to face the new enemy and began fired a barrage with their MMI-M7S 76mm heavy assault machine gun into the forest around where the shot came. A flash of color from a booster activating then a white and blue blur was flung into the air. The Mass traveled high above the DINN's.

"What is that!"

"A new war machine! Tell the transport to get out of here!"

The two pilots tried to tell the transport to leave with this information but it never got the chance as the new enemy machine came down upon in finally dropping it's beam rifle to wield one of the beam sabers. It swung downward at the carrier cutting it in half. The ZAFT transport exploded leaving the two DINN's with only the goal to survive left.

"Bad luck for you. If you had come just a little later." Scion said over a open com frequency. The mobile suit fell to the ground and waited for them to make their move.

The two pilots stared at the new machine in awe of it. It's glowing yellow eyes set on them. They were sure it was the end for them but they wouldn't go without a fight.

"You're not match for us Natural!" The braver of the two pilots said as he charged while firing his multipurpose missiles at Scion. Scion's Gundam's "Igelstellung" made short work of those missiles as they were made to shoot down missiles and small aircraft. The DINN still kept coming firing more missiles that only got destroyed as they came to Scion.

"What is he doing? Just firing like that. Wait."

Scion turned his machine instantly to face the other DINN that has circled around him. Scion was getting a bit freaked by his ability to guess where his enemy was and when they were attacking. Scion shot his Gundam forward, dodging the remaining missiles, at the now close DINN. Before the DINN could pull back and get away Scion was on him with his beam saber, slashing upwards thereby destroying the things left wing.

"Loser!" Scion cried as he lifted his machine into the air and watched as the missiles that had been coming after him piled into the DINN. It was a simple matter then to unleash the funnels and dispatch with the other enemy DINN.

It was quiet now. No enemy around and Scion found himself gripping his controls so tightly that if he had his beam rifle he would have shot something. He slowly released the controls and slumped back in his seat.

I beat seven! Seven coordinators! Doc was right… I can do anything as good as they can if I try hard enough. Just takes hard work…I can do this. I can make a diffedrence/

Strangely enough Scion began laughing, a feeling of relief having come over him. He no longer felt like this inferior being that had to run and hide in a hole to escape the better race. He could hold his head high and know that he was just as good as them….and he could become better.

After Scion regained himself he laid the base and the surrounding area to waste…

March, 3, 2:00 A.M.

Doc's Research Base

"Doc. We have Scion and the Gundam in our radar range." A tech said to Takashi as he smoked a pipe, a new habit.

"I see. Open communications right away."

"Yes, sir."

Scion's Gundam walked along the secret road to base. His machine took no damage what so ever. More then that Scion had defeated two enemy GINN's and five enemy DINN's. Even with his machine it had been difficult, and even though he had taken no damage it was not an easy victory for Scion. He had to face more then just the machines he had to face the Coordinators inside, the very beings that for so much of his life he had hated and envied because of their abilities.

But he won didn't he?

"Scion can you hear me? It's Yumi." Yumi, the assistant to Takashi and the women that had found out about Scion's sperm donning father.

"Yes, I can hear you Yumi. Mission complete."

"I see. Good job then. Doctor Takashi would like to see you when you are free."

"Understood."

Scion clicked off the com-link and piloted the Gundam into the hangar where the mechanics flew unto it like flies to a pile of dung. They began checking for any damage to fix. Besides refueling they wouldn't find much to do.

Doc's Private Quarters, 2: 15 A.M.

Scion waited for the door to open, which it did almost as soon as he got in front of it. He wasn't sure what the Doc wanted exactly but so far the man hadn't wasted his time.

"You wanted to see me Doc?"

"Oh yes yes, come in."

Scion nodded and took a nearby seat. He wondered how a scientist that was nearly out of the game could afford something like this. He never bothered to ask though.

"What did you want to see me about."

"Just to talk a bit about current news and about your mission."

"I see. Current news first then." Scion despite his stunning success still had a bad feeling in his gut about killing Coordinators again though that feeling was small in comparison to the other one he felt…Confidence.

"Well the GAT-X series are under construction in one of Orb's Neutral colonies. Orb is also building a new machine called the Astrays. Though the details are a bit fuzzy to me."

"How did you find this out? Orb helping the EA would be a very big secret, you must have friends in high places."

Takashi laughed for a while before responding. He thought Scion would have noticed that even though he was not the most respected researcher he was definitely in the circle of power.

"I have that machine don't I? I have funding for it don't I? I had you brought here didn't I? I'm very well situated in the intelligence department. It's the political part that I don't like."

"I see…do you have any information on these machines?"

"Not yet. I just know that the EA has some revolutionary kind of armor system that some say rival the alloy that I bought for your Gundam."

Mine? Interesting choice of words Doc. Why not your Gundam?

"I see. That's very interesting. I knew it was futile for Orb to stay out of the war. To be neutral is to die by the one that wins."

"True. Which is why we have entered the race."

Scion nodded. It was true, Orb needed to be ready for anything. Needed to be ready to fight for their independence. He had lived here for only three months but found that it was a better place then most to live.

"The mission was very successful. The machine handled brilliantly though I'm going to make a few fine tune adjustments later today, after I get some sleep."

"I see. Well your face seems to tell me that there is more to tell. Is there?"

Scion started his conversation with a deep breath and a hand through his hair.

"Well, yes. Since my childhood, my teenage years anyway, I've hated Coordinators. I was fearful of them because they were better then me and I knew this but didn't want to believe it. So for a long time I was never fully confident in myself because I always felt inferior which is why I think this war happened."

"Go on."

"Today I beat two GINN's and five DINN's. But more then that I beat seven Coordinators and even though I had the better machine but I was still outnumbered by four then three supposedly better pilots and warriors…and I won. Today I learned that what you said was right, that I can become just as good as them in anything I want to, I just have to work as hard as badly as I want to prove myself. Even if I am half of what they are it gives hope to me that naturals may rise to the challenge given the chance. Today Doc….I found my confidence and now I think I can rebuild my self-esteem and my life. Yes, because of you bringing me here and because of that machine I have regained my pride, or at least I'm starting to."

Doc smiled, and stood up. He walked over to Scion and put a hand on his shoulder.

"So you are reborn then?"

"No. Just…myself again. I can take pride in being Scion Kazuma again. Not the Coordinator hating Scion but the Scion I should have been. The one that always tried no matter how far he could fall. Not reborn Doctor Takashi but rebuilt the way I originally was."

The Doctor smiled once more and patted his shoulder. He walked back to his seat and sat down slowly.

"Excellent. That is good news but you should be off. You need sleep."

Scion nodded and stood up a bit to quickly and got nasty head rush.

"Yes sir. Thank you."

As Scion walked to the door the Doc called to him.

"Scion."

"Yes sir?"

"Your eyes. Red right? Well I found that is a distinct trait of Natural Coordinators. Be on the look out."

Scion laughed and nodded. Pigment discoloration his ass.

Authors Notes: First big battle in this chapter, and I noticed that it's annoying that I haven't named Scion's Gundam yet but it's for plot reasons so bear with me. Also excuse me for any typos in this chapter. I read it but didn't catch to many but then agian I've always had trouble picking up on my own typos.

In the next few chapters,2-4 more, we will be getting into the beef of the war with Kira and so on. I'm still deciding on whether to involve Scion in that and watch hin change a few things that I didn't like in the series. You could give your opinions on this as well since I'm struggling with that right now.

Things are coming into full swing here now and soon the first big plot will be coming along. So far everything that has been going on have been leads and prods for Scion to get into a main thing, which then I might take into anime story line or not. Like I said I haven't decided yet.

Another thing I need some help with is that I need reviews. I got one review and Thanks a lot for giving that one review Centurious since it helped me get on this chapter. More reviews makes it easier for me to write more since I know people like this story.

Well that's it for now, enjoy chapter the end of chapter 2...Yes I like to do chapters in part A and B.