First off: HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!

Gets splattered by rotten tomatoes

Hey, HEY! Stop that! I'm not uploading a joke this year! Jeez...

Anyway, in celebration of (a belated for me)April Fools, here's an Omake chapter, which will partially reveal how much the Freedom might change. Enjoy!

I do not own either Gundam SEED or Gundam 00.

Copyright: Sunrise inc.

Gundam SEED: 2002, 2013

Gundam 00: 2007

Project log for CBNGN-001/GNMS-10A(Original Designation: ZGMF-X10A "Freedom")

(Note: Defer to Ian on new designation number)

Log file 0001

God, where do I even begin?

Yeah, sure, I kind of dug my own grave when I told Ian that I would work on it, but I didn't expect to actually have the damn scrap pile dumped on me.

According to the kid, this "thing" was-sorry, IS, the top of the line, latest mobile weapon developed by the Coordinators in the Zaft homeland, "Plant"(I've seen the acronym, and that is the DUMBEST thing I have ever heard ANYONE come up with, and I thought A-LAWS(Autonomous-Land, Air, Water, Space) was bad. I mean: seriously, WATER? Really? Then again, I guess A-LASS doesn't really have that nice a ring to it), based on the technology obtained from a "G-Weapon" Mobile Suit project developed by the Earth Alliance of his world, whose brass are, according to the extracted records, are apparently a bunch of even BIGGER a*holes than the current Earth Sphere Federation(and here I thought I was pretty racist at times).

Anyway, back on topic: The Freedom's damage, after tearing apart the outer armor, is actually far worse than initially believed. Partially because it turns out that the part of the system responsible for damage diagnostics was fried by whatever the hell burned most of said armor's surface to a crisp. So the damage diagnostics we pulled from the computer wasn't completely accurate.

Ian wasn't exactly exaggerating when he said that the internal frame was hanging on its last threads. The whole thing nearly crumbled from the neutron damage caused by that nuclear-fission powered mini "Death Star"(yeah, I bet most of you jackasses taking a peak never even watched any movies from the late 20th century, now did you?). How Kira didn't get cooked like a baked potato from all that heat, I will never know.

Moving on. After a thorough scan of the suit, I've decided that the best course of action for the Freedom going forward is to, well, rebuild it from scratch. Some bits of the frame's metal is salvageable, but we will have to replace most of it with the same enhanced E-Carbon we've used on the Gundams.

As for the armor, well, it survived pretty much intact. But if we want to keep it balanced(the original armor's material is slightly heavier than the E-Carbon material we use for the Gundams, even the Seravee's and the Virtue's), we'll have to build the armor from scratch. Guess the fabricator is going into overdrive tonight, just like how I'm going to be tonight, too.

Well then. Less talking, more working.

Log File 0002

Well, this is the first time I've updated this log in a week. Or has it been two? Talk about hectic days.

In regards to the last log, we had to put off the armor's fabrication to a later date than intended, and focus on the new frame's construction.

After consulting with Ian, we've decided to install GN Condensers and GN Cables throughout the frame, built right into it just like with the 3.5 Gen. It may be a little premature, but I agree with Ian that we should prep it for use with a GN Drive(if we could even MAKE another one to begin with), but for now, I'll just design a custom mount to load the reactor into the unit, and see if we can get it to use GN particles alongside the electrical power from the mini-nuke. Good thing we re-designed the frame before loading the file to the fabricator, or it's going to be a nightmare tearing it apart just for a few modifications.

As Ian is still busy with both the 00 and the new Gundams, I've sent a copy of the Freedom's original OS to Sherilyn, to see if we can make it compatible with our cockpit's system. After all, she was one of the ones who helped make the Independent OS we switched over to four years ago. Even if Kira has superior IQ and better reflexes than the average person, the OS used in our world is, honestly, vastly different than the one he's used to(I've kept the original cockpit intact, along with the computer. That thing's layout looks more complicated than it really needs to be, but running through the simulator mode, it's pretty easy to get the hang of, but I have the feeling that it's mostly thanks to the software, than my average-as-hell piloting skills improving). He may master it just as quickly like he claimed he did before, or he may fumble around like one of us Neanderthals. Who knows? But better safe than sorry.

On the note of the Freedom's OS, I get the feeling that the engineers weren't exactly trying to be subtle. You don't get any more passive-aggressive than "Generation Unsubdued Nuclear Drive Assault Module". Yeah, REAL subtle, guys. Not only is that a LONG ass way of spelling out "Gundam", it's also like they just copy-pasted the acronym of the original OS from those stolen units, and tried to make it sound more badass.(you people seriously need to get laid.)

Out of curiosity, I asked the kid what it meant on his original suit, the one he said was called the "Strike". He said it was "General Unilateral Neuro-Link Dispersive Autonomic Maneuver"(Honestly, I was half joking. I didn't expect an actual answer). Man, talk about a mouthful. And it barely makes any sense, too. Hell, I had to note it down just because I felt that I would forget about it pretty easily.

Anyway, it looks like there's still a lot more work to be done. Guess I'll work on the weapons while the frame is being assembled. Thank god for the Haros and the Karels, or this would have taken forever.

It looks like the first section of the frame is ready for assembly. Back to work.

Just a couple of short logs for now, and I apologize if it feels lazy, but I feel that I should show what will eventually happen to the Freedom.

And a heads up: due to life(especially work), there might be a slight delay with the next chapter, but only by a couple of days. I apologize in advance for my tardiness.

As usual: please review. And thanks for reading!

Uploaded: 02/04/2019(GMT 8)