Chapter 8: The Beginning of Everything
Legend
Italics shows character thoughts
Word shows Date, time, and location
-Word- Shows Noises, or actions such as sighing
Author's Notes: Well, this is the hard part for me, to put my characters into the story without making the story go nuts. Wish me luck and in your reviews I'd appreciate any idea's, small and large.
Secondly, I've read over my work and I will address an issue now. I'm sure some of you have read this fic and thought that some things have happened without warning and seemed very random and I will tell you that that was the entire point of doing this solely from the main characters point of view. You see nothing from anyone's point of view but Scion's, Yumi's, and now Shigen.
So when Axle betrayed Scion the feeling of randomness and confusion, I'm sure some of you were like "Where did that come from?" Well that is how Scion would feel since he never had any clue about Axle's intentions. If you think about the SEED series and think how the story would be like if you saw things from JUST Kira's point of view then you would understand Kira's feelings much better.
This is my objective, to tell you a story and show you what it is like from the view of these people and their view alone.
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January 26, C.E. 71
On Route to Artemis, Following the Creuset team; 3:00 P.M.
The ship carrying Scion and Yumi were currently on route to Artemis, they had lost track of the ZAFT vessels since they were able to get beyond the radar range of the their ship before they could catch up. They knew the destination though and took appropriate measures.
-Tap tap tap tap tap-
Yumi was typing quickly on her laptop, she seemed pressed to find something quickly. Through her contacts in with EA she was given a User Name and Password to get into the EA database as a recruiter, this gave her the power to look through all EA soldiers and personal.
"Where is he?…Did he leave Halberton's fleet?" Yumi thought frantically as she looked to a letter on her desk, a hand written one was very odd in this day and age. She then found the name she was looking for.
"He was demoted for something classified…thank god. You're alive…Kaim Akita…thank god."
Yumi picked up the letter and sighed deeply as she read it, she even smiled as she read it. Yumi read it three more times before carefully folding it back up and placing it in her briefcase and looking at the clock.
"Time to see Scion.." Yumi had decided to spend more time with the young pilot, finding herself becoming very attached to the broken man, though easily provoked when it came to the war. She knew that Scion put up a very strong front but he was really very fragile and she felt that she was in a better position to help him, since she was very aware that he had a thing for her.
She stood up and drifted to the door before pressing the button to cause it to slid open and let her out. She then took a left and drifted all the way down to the end of the hall before stopping at Scion's room. She thought about knocking but decided not to since Scion would often cover up his sulking if he knew she was coming, he was often brooding about the war.
-SHIIING- The door slid open and Yumi walked in to see that Scion was brooding but in one of his three ways. This was his most common, he had a headset on his head while laying on his back in bed and was playing music with his eyes covered with his arm, the music was obviously loud since Yumi could hear it from the door entrance.
She walked over to the younger man and looked down on him. She would wait until he realized she was there which never took long, he was pretty sharp. It was in these silent moments that Yumi took pity on Scion, he had seen more then anyone should have to see in such a short span of time. Not only that but he was made to carry an impossible task, and deep down she believed that Scion doubted he could accomplish anything that Takashi wanted him too…..and she didn't blame him either.
"….Why do you keep entering without knocking? It's called common courtesy." Scion complained as he noticed the shadow that was hovering over him which prompted him to move his arm from his eyes.
Yumi smiled, "Nice to see you too Scion." She went over and sat on the bunk on the other side of the room, the only room left for Scion after his crew transferred unto this ship was a double room meant for two people.
"What is this about now? You wanted to talk to me?" Scion asked.
"Heh, don't flatter yourself. You wanted to talk to me." She retorted with the truth.
"….Ugh. Fine, I was just hoping we could talk a bit. You've bee distant ever since you came to space, well not that I've seen you much but you get what I mean."
"I actually don't. We never talked that much to begin with Scion and we've seen each other almost every other day since I've been in space so that would be considered an increase."
"….Fair enough. I was just wondering if we could…errr…" Scion stopped himself as he begun to think of words, he often wished he had asked her out a LONG time ago before this all happened. No such luck though.
"You want to have a date in space? On a war ship, while fighting enemy forces? Doctor Takashi always told me you wanted to ask me out…" Yumi said way to calmly, as if she was holding that one back for sometime now waiting for the perfect time to let it loose.
To bad it left Scion scrambling for a response, or anything for that matter.
"I! Uh…well...I…I…uh….Yeah….." Scion finally said after feeling completely defeated by this older women. Yumi laughed softly which made Scion's face turn a light red from embarrassment.
"Well Scion, I don't know if we could have a date on a ship like this but we can chat over dinner or something if you--" She was interrupted by an announcement.
"SCION KAZUMA! PLEASE REPORT TO THE LAUNCHING BAY. WE HAVE INTERCEPTED ONE OF THE ENEMY SHIPS!" An announcement blared over the com. Finally a lead.
Scion quickly stood on his feet and looked at Yumi who nodded, "We can have our chat later. Go get them." Then the young pilot dashed out of the room and down the hallway to the launching bay, they were on the offensive.
"Scion, we have confirmed the Vesalius! The Gamow is not on radar which means it must have been destroyed of they separated. We are almost in firing distance and you will be launching soon. Please stay on stand-by." The Pilot Coordinator said.
"Roger…" Scion said as he clicked on the power to Revolution. It had been slightly modified for Scion's taste in battle, which was long to mid range fighting. The Shield was now mounted on his left are, instead of holding it like normal, and in the free hand was the full sized Anti-Armor shotgun that modeled after Scion's Anti-Armor Shotgun attachment for his rifle, meaning he had two guns that he could use at the same time. Now that he had the new gun he could stick with the bayonet attachment for his rifle. It was a good change for Scion.
"Scion prepare to launch! We are jamming their radar!"
"Right!"
ZZZ-000 Revolution Gundam
Launching in…
3.…
2.…
1.…
LAUNCH!
"Scion Kazuma, launching!"
-ZSSHHRRRRRBRRRAAA- The Engine fired to life and the Gundam was launched into space via a Linear Catapult.
"Scion, we have one mobile launching to engage….It's the AEGIS! Confirmed! ZAFT has the Aegis Gundam!"
"Roger! I'll take it out, but only one mobile suit? The rest must have been destroyed in the battle at Heliopolis…" Scion said as memories of Junius Seven came back to him along with the sight of Heliopolis. He would make the ZAFT forces pay for doing what the EA did more then almost a year ago.
"Not sure yet. Good luck though!"
"Right!" Scion then blasted toward the Aegis Gundam, ready to do battle.
The two Gundam's met at roughly the halfway point between the two approaching ships. They looked at one another, waiting for the other to make a move, that the wanted the other to make.
"Pilot of the unknown mobile suit. This is Athrun Zala of the Creuset Team. State your reasons for attacking us!"
Scion almost gagged, Athrun Zala? The boy that had lost his mother in the attack on Junius Seven? The boy that joined the military to defeat the evil Naturals for attacking the colony. The boy that stood before him because he helped the attack go along?
Scion then began to lose confidence, not in himself but in his attacking the Creuset Team. Could he fight against this young man who's involvement in the war was a direct effect of Scion's deeds? Scion never got to answer his question.
"Fine! If you won't speak then we have no choice but to fight against you!" The Aegis then began circling around Revolution while firing its beam rifle at it.
"Damn.." Scion said to himself as he put Revolution into reverse to avoid the fire of the enemy. They now circled around each other exchanging fire as the ZAFT ship came into firing range, the prototype ship wasn't an offensive ship and was playing defensively.
-BRZSHHHH-
-BRZSHHHH-
Beam fire slip by the two enemies without causing harm to the other, Scion not willing to harm Athrun because of a guilty conscious, and the with the funnels acting as back up thrusters Revolution was to quick to be hit. After a few more exchanges the Aegis discarded it's beam saber and charged at Scion who in return discarded both of his guns, the shotgun wasn't any use against the Phase-Shift Armor anyway and the rifle wouldn't be useful in close combat, and pulled his own beam saber.
"Ugh…I have choice! I can't let my feeling get in the way. I can't let their lives be in vain!" Scion's thoughts told him, too many people had died to give Scion a chance to make up for everything. As much as he hated the idea of killing Athrun when it was his fault for killing his mother... but he had no choice.
-SLASH-
-SWISH-
The two mobile suits clashed again and again, both playing it safe and not attempting to strike at the other until an opening appeared. Behind them the Vesalius entered combat with Yumi and the prototype ship. The Vesalius let loose its two 120cm high-energy beam cannon but thankfully Scion's ship was fast enough to avoid the directness of the beams. The missiles that were launched next were intercepted by the Prototypes many anti-missile defenses.
Some distance away the mobile suits were still in the stalemate. The Aegis backed away to speak to the unknown enemy suit.
"Surrender! We won't destroy you if you surrender!" Athrun voice came over the pilots com.
"I can't do that! To many have died to give me this chance!" As soon as Scion spoke he regretted it, Athrun might be able to tell who he was.
"….Scion! Scion Kazuma! Is that you"!" Athrun called over the com.
"Tch….Sharp as always Zala…Yeah, it's me."
"I knew there was something odd about you! You traitor! You're just like Kira!"
"Whoa…Kira? Who the heck is that?" Scion wondered in the back of his head, maybe someone he knew that has switched sides?
"How can you side with the Naturals!"
"Don't act like you know so much! I haven't sided with anyone! You….You still talk like you know everything!" Scion then charged forward at the Aegis.
"I have no choice then, Coordinator or not, I must destroy you!" The Aegis then transformed into its mobile armor form and fired off its "Scylla" multi-phase energy cannon. The large cannon burst trailed right at Scion who in the last second got out of the way with barely any room to spare.
"Damn it…got too hasty. Stay calm." Scion told himself.
"Fine! Then consider yourself my enemy too!" Scion then released the funnels and had them surround the Aegis.
"What!" Athrun responded, surprised at this new development, "Commander, I don't think this machine is a EA mobile suit."
Scion gave a raised eyebrow as he heard Athrun speak to his flagship, of course he couldn't hear what the response was since it was over a secure frequency. He decided to take the initiative.
"Yes, sir. It would take to much power to run those remote weapons with the phase-shift...understood." Athrun said while speaking to Rau no doubt.
"Don't drop your guard!" Scion yelled as his funnels began firing one at a time to put up a constant barrage of fire on the Aegis who quickly reverted to it's mobile suit form to take advantage of the greater maneuverability. It was quickly began to retreat to the Vesalius.
"No, you don't!" Scion yelled as he chased after the Aegis. Just then the Vesalius fired its main cannons again used the Aegis to hide it, Scion easily dodged it but then he found that the target was his support ship, thankfully they too dodged the blast.
Then another blast came from another direction and hit the rear of Scion's ship. Scion looked to the point of origin and saw that it was the Aegis, once again in it's MA form. Scion slammed his fist down on the control panel before he was contacted by Rau Le Creuset himself.
"We are currently under orders to return to the PLANTS as soon as possible. We will leave you in peace if you will withdraw, otherwise we will fire again."
Now this made no sense to Scion. Why didn't he just destroy the ship then Scion? What game was Creuset playing? Scion, with all his reading on strategy, didn't see any good reason to do this.
…But he didn't have a choice, he had to take it.
"…Fine… I'm pulling back, Yumi!." Scion then called in the funnels and shot back to the ship, before boarding he looked back at the Vesalius and watched it go. Two things occurred to Scion that day, one was that with these new mobile suits Scion no longer held the advantage and battle would become more difficult, and two was that Creuset had to be killed…and soon.
The Unnamed Prototype Ship, 6:00 P.M.
Things were bad for the crew, the engine was damaged and would soon be dead, they thought that could make it to Artemis but after that they would be sitting ducks. Good thing for them that the battle had actually be going in the direction of the space fortress so they were still on track and making good time. Scion, though, was in a foul mood with everything that had happened in the day. The damage to the ship, Athrun's appearance, and Creuset's truce…It all made him angry.
The crew was still heading to Artemis because Creuset said that they were returning to the PLANTS for a mission which mean the Gamow might still be chasing that new ship and that meant the new ship might still be around.
It was good enough reason to keep going as far as the crew was concerned. The crew though was depleted because of the explosion close to the fuel reserves and many lost their lives in the explosion and in trying to put it out. It was a total mess. It wouldn't be long though before they reached Artemis.
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January 27, C.E. 71
The Unnamed Prototype Ship, 3:00 P.M.
Scion was in the bridge looking for Artemis that should soon becoming into view, and it did. At first it looked very normal before the explosions started happening. It started at one point then spread to another and before Scion even knew it, Artemis was under attack. Everyone looked at each other for some sort of explanation. It came.
"Confirmation! We have the Gamow! It's on the far side of Artemis, they've launched two mobile suits…Buster and Duel! The explosions are being caused by …The Blitz! We do not see the Strike anywhere on radar! ZAFT has the Duel, Buster, and Blitz!" The radar tech said calmly but rapidly.
"Okay! Battle stations! I don't think I need to tell you that with our engines shot this may be our last battle. I just want to say that I am proud to be your captain! Scion, launch immediately. We'll try to avoid enemy attacks until you return!"
Scion nodded to the brave captain, everyone else had stood and saluted him before going back to work. Scion to had a job, and he was speeding down the halls, or flying since there was no gravity. He had to protect this ship by destroying those three mobile suits…or die trying.
This would be the first official battle of Scion's war, the Beginning of Everything.
Author's Notes: Okay, so long time no update and this chapter is short, I don't normally do long chapters since everything get cluttered. It was why I seperated the first chaptered into two parts. Plus, some parts are just good stopping points and should be used as such.
Anyway, nothing to special about this chapter, a few plots start to develop and some interaction goes on but this chapter is really just a setting up for the next with has a lot of dialogue and so on. Will Shigen help the Archangel? Or will he fight against it? Who knows, well I do.
Also, doing the battles of the mobile suits is pretty hard :P, trying to give it meaning while not making it boring. Meh, I'll get better as I go on. And again, forgive any typos and such.
Enjoy,
-Arcaner.