Chapter 6: War of Broken Hearts

Part II

Legend

Italics shows character thoughts

Word shows Date, time, and location

-Word- Shows Noises, or actions such as sighing

September 5, C.E. 70

Inside the Clyne Residence, 2:00 P.M.

Scion walked behind Siegel as he led Scion into his house. The door opened and the older man stepped in with Scion following right after.

Then came the stampede…

"Haro!"

"Haro! Haro!"

"Haro, Haro, Haro, Haro, Haro!"

"HARO!"

All at once these mechanical balls of every color, of every shade, and of every kind of face, came rushing at him and surrounded him. Scion jumped and then his body recoiled away from them as they crowded around him and jumped up at him.

"Haro, stop that!" Siegel cried to the strange machines.

"Haro…" They all said sadly before they began filing out of the room silently.

" -Laughter- They seem to like strange people like you!"

Scion's eyebrow twitched repetitively as Siegel laughed at Scion and his surprise. His shoulders slumped and he gave a loud sigh.

"Come come, sit down in my office. I'll make some coffee." The council member said softly as he motioned to a seat at a simple round table in a room down the hall. Scion complied and Siegel shut the door behind them.

Once settled Scion had time to take a look about and notice that this place was indeed a very lovely place to live. It was expensive he was sure but it was simple too. Paintings big and small were hung on the wall while nice flooring with rugs, carpets in some of the other rooms, decorated the floors. To the ceiling were chandlers and around him were tables, couches, chairs, computers, and numerous little things such as pictures and documents scattered about.

"So, why did you come all the way out here? Siegel asked while he was brewing the coffee, thus cutting the silence that had overtaken them.

"…." Scion wasn't in the position he wanted to be in and so he had never thought of an answer to this question that was now presented to him. He looked down at his lap trying to think of something to say or something to do to dodge the question until a later time.

"You're half Natural and Coordinator aren't you?" Siegel said randomly as he came with the coffee and put it on the table. Scion in response quickly stood up with his hands on the table.

"What makes you think that!" Scion yelled defensively.

"One, you got defensive about it and two…you have those eyes."

Scion stiffened and he lifted his left hand to cover his left eye as if checking if it was there or not. At the time it came as a reflex.

"Normally when a Coordinator and Natural have intercourse a Coordinator is made because the Coordinator genes are dominant. But, there are those rare cases when the genetic code decides to throw a loop at human kind. Your red eyes are a sign of that loop."

"What kind of loop?"

Siegel stood up with his coffee and walked over to a window and looked to the outside world. He took a sip before going on.

"ZAFT will lose the war. Not because we are inadequate to win or because the EA is stronger. We will lose because the Coordinator race is dying. We have seen that by the third generation there are signs of reversal, in other words Coordinators will eventually return to being Naturals."

"That doesn't explain the loop.."

" -Chuckles- You don't get it? Your eyes are the loop. You with red eyes are 'perfect' coordinators that will never lose your abilities because your genetic code has decided that it will make it so. Down to the tenth generation and beyond your children will always have the abilities you have, it will never diminish. For some reason when Natural and Coordinator breed they may give birth to a Coordinator whose abilities have been decreased to a point where it can become concrete. The whole reason why Coordinators are reverting back is because the human can't accept the enhanced abilities and so through the generation the genetic code slowly kicks the anomalies out."

Scion's eyes opened wide. He looked at his hands for a moment while he let the short speech set in. He? A man that hated Naturals was a Perfect Coordinator? Was his life so filled with Irony?

"How do you know this?" Scion said after he was able to gather himself together.

"Because we've seen it. A man once had the same genetics as you. He was half coordinator like you and was killed just a few years ago. It was his autopsy that gave us the information that created the perfect Coordinator theory. I was one of the men that did the research."

"So are there more of me? I mean more Perfects?"

"Superiors are what we call them, but that's fine too, and no we haven't found another, well, only I have."

"When did you find another?"

"Three years ago when I found out that the man had passed on his genes in a way that no Coordinator would find it unless you were told, which was my case. He was a friend of mine…a good man."

"So is he near my age?"

"He is you in a sense. You are Kiyo's son. Kiyo Mori's son and he is your father. He passed on his genes through a sperm donation when he found out that people were getting suspicious about him, since he was half Coordinator like you. He told me about it before he was killed by some of the radicals that made it look like an accident. I've been watching you ever since to see if you would become like him and if the concrete gene theory was correct…it was…….and he was also the man that I told you was killed."

Scion sat back down slowly in his chair. It seemed to him that so many people knew more about him then they should. His mom knew he was half coordinator and he didn't, Halberton knew about the attack on Junius and how he survived, and this man knew his father! When would he be able to bury those secrets without them coming up?

"So how much do you know about me?"

"Not much. Once you joined the EA I lost contact with you for a while until you appeared in Orb Union with Takashi."

"You know the Doctor?"

"No, someone tried to get information on Kiyo some time ago and succeeded. It was through that link that I was able to track you."

Must have been Yumi…when she searched me.

"How much do you know about my actions then?"

"Little to nothing until you destroyed a small Earth Alliance fleet. Then it was kind of obvious for our spies to see what was going on."

"-Grumbles- I didn't make that much of a scene." Scion remarked bitterly.

" -Laughter- Of course you didn't. Either way we know that you are the pilot of that new machine and currently owe allegiance to no one."

"And you are happy about this?"

"Yes, is that wrong? To give that power to the EA would be bad for ZAFT but keeping it from ZAFT is also a good thing….this way has dragged on longer then I would have liked it too. It's good this way."

"Fair enough but why are you telling me this? Why did you bring me here?"

" -Sigh- You trust no one just like your father. To be honest I owe you father a favor or two and beyond that….you are the hope of the Coordinator race. As such I feel obligated to give you a little help even if it's just information. That is why you came here isn't it? To get my support?"

"….Again…fair enough. So what can I ask of you?"

"Many things, that is until you become known as a threat to ZAFT which will make helping you harder. Do you need anything now?"

Scion leaned back in his seat and thought silently to himself. He could use some time to study the rules or war and get a more definite battle plan in line. He could also use that time to get in contact with Yumi and see what was going on at her end.

"A place to stay for a while and books on war. I don't see myself staying for more then a month at most. Just enough time to learn how ZAFT works so I can make use of my influence, once I gain it that is."

"I can do that. Can I ask though what you plan is?"

"At this point…the plan is to simple make sure that neither side wins because that spells genocide for the loser. After a while the war will just become pointless and it should come to an end. I plan on ending it long before that though.."

Siegel nodded and appeared ready to speak before a beeping noise came form a computer terminal not far from where Scion sat. Siegel went to it and accepted a typed message.

"Hmmm...I'm called to a meeting. Feel free to make yourself at home, I'll tell the workers to allow you to be on the premises and treat you as a guest. Excuse me Scion."

With that the man left Scion sitting in his chair. He didn't like where he was at the time, it was all to easy….much too easy. Scion decided to shake the feeling off and explore a bit and perhaps find that girl, Lacus, again.

The Clyne Residence, the Back Yard, 4:00 P.M.

Scion opened the screen door and stepped out into the shining sun. He had been led to believe that Lacus was somewhere out here, he had followed the trail of Haro's to this place. And indeed there she was with another young man, with dark hair and blue eyes. He was dressed plainly but he couldn't be plain if he was talking with the Idol Pop star. He decided to approach them. Lacus noticed him first.

"Oh, Mr. Kazuma how are you? Did my father invite you in? That was awful nice of him!" The abnormally happy girl said.

"Uh, yes. I talked to him a bit and we've come to a sort of agreement. He's helping me with something."

"I see. I'm very glad that we can be of help Mr. Kazuma. Oh! This man sitting with me is Athrun Zala, my fiancé."

Fiancé? With a Zala no less! I've heard that Clyne and Zala aren't on good terms politically…strange circumstances.

"Hello. I'm Athrun as Lacus stated. Nice to meet you." Said the blue haired man as he stood from his seat and extended his hand to Scion.

"Likewise, I'm Scion Kazuma." Scion took his hand and they gripped each others hand firmly and shook a solid handshake.

"Please, sit down Mr. Kazuma and join us. We were just talking about recent events. Athrun is in the military and is quite the pilot." Lacus said though she seemed to not like the fact he was in the war. Glad to see she wasn't so happy all the time was Scion's thoughts.

"Really? What made you want to join the military? Just fell out that way?"

Athrun threw Scion a kind of cold glance. He looked to the side and took in a heavy breath.

"You must not get out much if you don't know…my mother died in the Bloody Valentine tragedy...I joined because of that."

Scion felt like he was just stabbed in the stomach. He was looking directly into the face of someone who's life he had torn asunder. He felt his hand turn into a fist and clench his pants tightly as he stared at the ground in front of his seat and under the table. Lacus seemed to think something was wrong.

"Is everything okay Mr. Kazuma? Did you lose someone in the war?"

"…I've lost a family member to this surge of Racism overtaking space and I've lost several people because of this war." Scion said bitterly as he thought of his father who was killed because of him being what Scion now was and thought of Axle who died because of his hate for Coordinators. And then his mind drifted to Doctor Takashi who he lost because of the EA's need to power…

"Oh dear, I'm sorry to hear that. Was it recently?"

"A few of them, yes. It's not important though, no point in re-opening old wounds."

"I keep trying to tell Lacus that the Earth Forces have to be beaten if we Coordinators are to live in peace. I'll never forgive the Naturals for what they did to my mother, for what they did to those hundreds of thousands of innocents!" Athrun said defiantly as if he was being watched by his mother who waited for revenge to be taken for her. Lacus gave a concerned look while Scion just stared at him for a moment.

A silence overtook the group now, with the occasional 'HARO' breaking the silence.

"…It may have been an accident or perhaps the soldiers didn't know what they were going to do or perhaps they were given false orders or something…I find it hard to believe that anyone could kill so many people...innocent people at that." Scion said, attempting to defend the EA and himself.

"An accident! How is launching nuclear missiles an accident! And getting false orders or not knowing wouldn't make sense! If they had the nuclear missiles on board then the mission should be pretty obvious." Athrun said with a voice that felt like daggers stabbing at Scion, since ironically he was one of the teams sent to destroy Junius.

"What makes you think that because of the EA that all Naturals are bad! You shouldn't condemn them all for the act of a few! And look at us? We dropped the N-Jammers which is starving millions!"

"It's better then the EA throwing nuclear missiles at all of our colonies! And if the Naturals just learned to use a better power source then nuclear power then they wouldn't have this problem!"

Scion now stood up, feeling agitated at Athrun's cold and uncalled for verbal attacks on Naturals. Scion also felt angered by the fact that this fool across from him thought that the EA pilots 'wanted' to shoot Junius down. Not only that but he was defending himself from his attacks, since he was partly to blame for the success of the mission.

"Hold on one gosh darn minute! Don't think you can just label all the Naturals just because you lost someone in this war! You aren't the only one to lose someone The Naturals are humans as well! It's people like you that keep this war going!" Scion yelled while attempting to hold himself back from jumping across that table and have at it with Athrun.

"Boys! Please! Lets not fight!" Lacus cried out as the two men stared the other down with cold eyes. Scion grunted and planted himself in his seat at roughly the same second as a random noise came into hearing, it appeared to come from Athrun.

"…." Athrun silently turned and checked a pager it seemed and his frown became very evident. He stood up and regarded Lacus, "I'm being called in Lacus. I'll stop by again when I have time."

"Okay, Athrun. Be careful…" Her voice trailed off but she smiled once the boy gave her a kiss on the cheek. He glanced at Scion for a moment but decided to just walk towards the house and the front door.

"I'm terribly sorry about that Mr. Kazuma. Athrun is very protective when it comes to this war and his mother."

" -Grunt- He shouldn't act so childish….Bah! I'm going to walk around a bit and cool off. Talk to you later." Scion stood after giving Lacus his farewell. Lacus nodded slowly and watched as the young man walked away with this hands in his pockets.

Time passed quickly for the young Coordinator. Siegel was often gone on official business and Lacus gone even more with tours and fan clubs. Scion spent his time reading, learning strategy and learning about ZAFT politics. He contacted Yumi and had her begin to gather information about the ZAFT and EA military, as much as she could without endangering herself and Scion.

…..Scion ended up staying longer then he wanted, mostly because when it was time to leave Siegel was not around in fact Siegel was gone on a very important trip that would soon send Scion into a new kind of war.

December 29, C.E. 70

Inside the Clyne Residence, 2:00 P.M.

Scion sat in the living quarters. He was alone…again. He had gotten tired of being alone in this house with only the many book Siegel had given him to keep him company. He was called earlier to wait for Siegel so they could talk about some urgent news. Whatever it may be Scion wasn't too worried since he had gotten used to the 'routine' lifestyle.

The door opened and Siegel hurried in and dropped some things on a nearby table before looking at Scion.

"I have big news! I've gotten an interesting rumor that the EA has created five prototype machines on an Orb controlled colony!"

Scion looked at the middle aged man. He hadn't told him about the EA war machines and he was slightly surprised that he found out at all. Siegel went on before Scion could interject.

"Not only that but I've gotten reports that one of our own is going to investigate!"

"Who?"

"….Creuset…"

A familiar name to Scion now. He was a competent commander among the ZAFT gossip but known to be a bit odd and didn't always follow orders, but never to an extreme sense. He was also known to be on good terms with Patrick Zala. Though that didn't sit well with Scion since he was said to be a top pilot among the entire military. If they got a hand on the new prototypes then the balance of power would shift largely in ZAFT favor.

"..Shit…he might just launch an attack on that colony…and we don't need Orb getting involved…Get me a way out and I'll be right on it."

"I have a shuttle prepared which you can have your man capture and get you on your way."

Scion nodded and quickly stood up and walked over to the man and patted him on the shoulder. Siegel pointed to a small card among his papers and Scion picked it up.

"I'll get in contact if I need you." Scion said while looking back at Siegel.

"Good luck Scion Kazuma. May your future be blessed.

Scion didn't respond. He quietly shut the door and left the estate. It took him a day to get to the airport, since he had to contact his aids to pick him up and tell Yumi what was going on, she then told him that she would be meeting him in space soon.

Orb Union, Location Unknown, 3:00 P.M.

-RING-

Cagalli looked down at her cell phone and took it out of her pocket to see a small message. She read the text message slowly before looking up at the sky with an angry face. Obviously she got some tip that she didn't like one bit.

Hours later Cagalli was on her way to the Orb controlled Colony to see about a new weapon that was being created there. She didn't want to believe that what Scion said about Orb helping the EA was true...she didn't want to believe that her nation was doing anything of the sort.

Authors Notes: This chapter is short but finally we are coming into the many story. I should make a note that unlike some other authors I will be showing mostly Scion's point of view and only if I deem it very important will I switch to other views. Since most people reading this have seen the Anime you should be familiar with everything and be interested in seeing what Scion's role in the Cosmic Era will be.

Lacus and Athrun will become larger characters so you Athrun and Lacus fans just be patient. Like most of the other encounters that Scion has I do them for a reason. Points to the Cagalli thing Explains how she ends up on the colony eh?

Also, with school in gear I will be cutting back on my writing time. I will try to get some more chapters out soon though and I hope I will have the next one within the next month.

-Arc