Pinned A/N: Hello. This is my first time posting here. I have written a lot of Fanfiction (mostly about Gundam) but I have never published it here before. I am a big fan of the Gundam Series and thus I am writing either altered versions of their story or originals based on existing material. There's just this thing about my writing: I always write in plot format. So please forgive me if you don't like this format or if the story becomes confusing.
Pinned A/N #2: Everything that happened in Gundam Seed (Remastered) stays exactly the same. Meer Campbell doesn't exist in this story. Nothing personal, I just thought that the overall story would still work without her.
A/N: OK, major changes are here. I'm sorry if characters here act weird but I tired to make it as detailed as possible while making as short as possible. I also did not include the three DOMs and its pilots because I didn't think they were a necessary part of the story.
GSD III – A War for One's Self
Everyone [in the base] is shocked to hear the incident. Durandal personally confronts Lunamaria about Meyrin's betrayal; Lunamaria is shocked beyond belief. Rey and Shinn were walking in the hallway when they bump into Lunamaria. Shinn pulls her to his room so that they can talk alone. Rey assumes nothing bad and leaves them be. Shinn tells Lunamaira the plan they [Shinn and Athrun] came up with.
Athrun was to punch Shinn (to make it look like a struggle) and escape in the hangar to get to the Saviour Repair. Durandal is going to order Shinn to shoot him [Athrun] down to test his [Shinn] loyalty; he will, but he must stab it away from the cockpit so he [Athrun] can escape. Athrun plans to go to the Archangel in ORB.
But the plan didn't account for Meyrin, and therefore he was shocked. He [Shinn] still followed the plan and did not stab the Saviour Repair in the cockpit. They may have been hurt but they are definitely not dead. This makes Lunamaria happy but Shinn tells her that no one must know, especially Rey and Durandal. She agrees to the secret, and asks him what he plans to do next. Shinn replies with "I'm not sure." Durandal initiates Operation Ragnarok (assault on Heavens Base). Kisaka secretly retrieves the cockpit of the Saviour.
A few hours before they head for Heaven's Base, Lunamaria enters Shinn's room and thanks him for not killing Meyrin. After talking about how their relationship will go from now on, they proclaim their love for each other and make love for the first time. ZAFT gives EF an ultimatum of five hours to turn over the head Logos members, to disarm, and surrender. They don't respond and instead, attack first.
Athrun wakes up in the Archangel and talks to Kira.
Five Destroy units crush the EF defectors and the ZAFT combined force. ZAFT tried to send reinforcements via air drop but Djibril uses the Nibelung to destroy all of the Mobile Suits in the air. Durandal orders the Minerva pilots to sortie.
They all sortie and easily destroy the Destroy units (and other mobile suits). The three Gundams rip through the rest of Heavens Base defenses with ease. The Destiny impales the last Destroy unit with its Arondight, killing its pilot, Sting Oakley. Djibril prepares to escape in a stealth submarine.
Athrun tells Kira about what happened to him. Kira assures him that Shinn will eventually join them. Athrun agrees. Cagalli enters the room and tearfully hugs Athrun. Heavens Base falls but Djibril escapes and heads to Orb.
Martin DaCosta searches the remains of the Mendel Colony and finds a notebook. As he heads back to the Eternal, a reconnaissance GINN follows him.
After the fall of Heavens Base, Shinn and the rest heard that Djibril has escaped. Shinn wonders what Durandal's next move will be. Rey talks to him about his [Shinn] relationship with Lunamaria; saying that it might not be the best course of action for him. Shinn defends his relationship with Lunamaria; Rey starts to get suspicious.
In the Archangel Athrun and Cagalli talk about their decisions and actions towards each other. They eventually forgive each other for acting the way they did. Athrun asked Cagalli if he can start again (and this time he will do it right) to which she replies a very wholehearted "Yes".
Back in space, Lacus and Andrew Waltfeld discuss the contents of the notebook which contains a very rough draft of the Destiny Plan from when before Durandal was Chairman. But before long the reconnaissance GINN shoots the perimeter security camera of the Eternal. Knowing that they've been found out, they ditch their camouflage and launch at full speed. The three Nazca class ships that have been following them, pursue them. Lacus orders the crew to head near Earth so that they can drop the Gundams on Earth if worst comes to worst.
Kira hears about the Eternal's situation and borrows Cagalli's Strike Rouge Ootori (and a space booster). The Eternal is being shot from all directions. While clever maneuvering and aiming has prevented them from being sunk, the continuous pressure from the enemy forced Commander Waltfeld to sortie in the Gaia. He, too, is overwhelmed but at the last second, the Strike Rouge Ootori arrives just in time to save the Gaia and the Eternal. It takes out a couple of suits before Waltfeld ordered Kira to inside the Eternal and get his new Gundam.
He goes in; Lacus hugs and greets him. She takes him to the hangar and shows him the Strike Freedom. Lacus tells him that its Hyper-Deuterion Engine was not yet ready, so it will be running on an emergency battery that can operate for a maximum of 5 minutes.
The Strike Freedom launches and defeats a total of 25 mobile suits (ZAKUs and Goufs), and three Nazca-class ships in a little over two minutes. The Strike Freedom runs out of power as it returns to the Eternal.
Shinn, Rey, and Lunamaria receive medals for their work on Heavens Base. Furthermore, Shinn and Rey are promoted to FAITH. Shinn hacks the camera of the room where Durandal was having a meeting. He hears that Djibril is in Orb and that the Chairman will use that as an excuse to finally burn Orb to the ground (with the help of the Destiny and the Legend). Shinn realizes that what Athrun said is true (The Chairman uses everyone like pawns and that he [Shinn] was the best pawn the Chairman could ever have).
He decides to defect, but before escaping, he goes to Luna's room and tries to convince her to come with him. She declines and argues that he will be declared a traitor and be killed. Shinn tells her what he heard. The two start to argue, but suddenly Rey, who has been listening to Shinn, bursts in the room with a gun and tries to arrest Shinn for treason (he also threatens Lunamaria if she will defect with Shinn).
Lunamaria emotionally froze and falls to the floor crying. Shinn tries to convince her one more time but Rey interrupted, and shot Shinn in the chest. He falls to the floor. Lunamaria rushes over to him but Rey shoves her away. Suddenly, Shinn kicks the gun out of Rey's hand, and knocks him down. Shinn grabs Rey's gun, smashes the window, and escapes. Rey calls for back up, follows Shinn to the hangar, and alerts Durandal. After a short gunfight, Shinn was able to get to the Destiny, although he was shot in the left leg and the right shoulder, he activates it, and flies out to the sea. The Legend chases and open fires on him. He evades, and cleverly uses his surroundings and the Destiny's Wings of Light to quickly escape. Shinn pulls out a thumb drive and his medal from his breast pocket. It turns out the medal deflected the bullet, saving his life.
Rey stops his pursuit knowing full well that the Legend won't be able to catch up with the Destiny. Rey reports the incident and tells Durandal that Shinn has nowhere to go. Durandal suspects that he might go to Orb. He tells Rey that they need to take out Orb now so that Shinn will not have time to leak any information. After carefully flying under the radar for a few hours, Shinn finds the Archangel's dock (using the thumb drive given to him by Athrun before he escaped).
Everyone is surprised to see the Destiny approaching, and they scramble a few Murasames on him, but Shinn puts away its weapons and surrenders. Meyrin asks Cagalli to tell the Murasame pilots to escort the Destiny inside the Archangel. The Destiny lands inside and the moment Shinn hits the ground, he collapsed from blood loss. Meyrin and Athrun help bring him to the medical bay.
Athrun visits Shinn as soon as he woke up and asks him what happened. Athrun promises Shinn that they will make things right. ZAFT's ultimatum (of surrendering Djibril) was up and they have begun their assault on Orb.
An all-out war begins between ZAFT and Orb. Cagalli asks for Shinn help. He tells her that the he won't let the past control his feelings anymore and agrees to help. She thanks him and rushes back to the bridge of the Archangel and demands that she join the battle as well. Murrue disagrees since there is no spare mobile suit for her to use. Cagalli demands to use the Sky Grasper, Kisaka and Erica Simmons (who overheard the entire conversation) take her to a nearby offsite hangar of Morgenrate; in the chamber of the Akatsuki.
Cagalli listens to her father's last will; having a reformed will, she decides to pilot the Akatsuki to protect Orb. Athrun walks with Shinn to the Destiny. He asks him to protect Cagalli out there. He promises to do so. Before Shinn closed the hatch, he apologizes to Athrun about everything. He [Athrun] says that they will have plenty of time to talk once he gets back. Murrue frees Neo (since they are about to go to war and she doesn't want him to get involved) and gives him the Sky Grasper. She cries as she runs back to the Archangel, leaving Neo confused.
Shinn stands by. Cagalli tricks Jona Roma Seran into acknowledging her as Orb's military commander; she orders his arrest for treason. She then assumes command of the Orb defense force and they start to push back the ZAFT forces. Their advance is short lived when the Minerva arrives and Rey launches in the Legend. It engages the Akatsuki. The two trade shots and clash beam sabers. Athrun sits in the CiC of the Archangel; so does Meyrin. The Destiny launches.
The Akatsuki is easily overpowered by the Legend; with the Akatsuki losing an arm and its shield, Rey goes for the killing blow but suddenly the Destiny shot the Akatsuki and ricocheted the shot from its High-Energy Long-Range Beam Cannon towards the Legend, stopping its charge. The Archangel launched, and engaged the Minerva. With ZAFT gaining the upper hand once again, the Akatsuki retreats and assists the Orb defense force.
Shinn and Rey fight, but due to his injury, he cannot fight at full potential. The Strike Rouge Ootori, piloted by Kira, and the Infinite Justice, piloted by Lacus (also a descent pod) suddenly descend from the sky. The Strike Rouge Ootori distracts the Legend so that Shinn can get his bearings (he injects a shot of painkiller). Kira tells Lacus to go to the Archangel so that Athrun can use the Infinite Justice (and also take the pod there).
Cagalli leaves the Akatsuki just outside the Defense Ministry building. She meets with the commanders, and orders them to find Djibril, slugs Jona, and tells the guards to take him away. Shinn tells Kira to leave Rey to him. He agrees and goes off to defend Orb. Lacus meets Athrun inside the MS hangar of the Archanghel. They talk about whether he should return to the battlefield or not. But Athrun ultimately decides to return and pilots the Infinite Justice. The Infinite Justice launches to help the Destiny.
The Minerva and the Archangel are busy fighting each other, when suddenly the Sky Grasper swooped in to help the Archangel. The Sky Grasper was damaged and boarded the Archangel for repairs. As the Destiny, Infinite Justice, and Legend battle it out, the high ranking Orb ministers, and Jona are killed by a ZAFT infiltration team, and a falling GOUF respectively.
The Strike Rouge Ootori suffered heavy damage by the sheer number of enemies Kira took on (alone). Cagalli tells Kira to use the Akatsuki instead. Djibril uses the chaos in the battlefield to escape, and takes a shuttle headed for space. The Minerva (and Orb) detect the shuttle launching; they send Lunamaria in the Force Impulse to shoot it down; she misses. Kira also chases it, but the Akatsuki ran out of fuel before getting within firing range of the shuttle. Djibril escapes to space.
The Archangel dives underwater to evade the Minerva. When Shinn and Athrun entered SEED mode, the Destiny and the Infinite Justice were able to inflict heavy damage to the Legend. Rey's left eye was blinded when the cockpit computers exploded.
The Archangel sank the St. Helens; the Minerva assumes command and calls for all ZAFT forces to retreat. The Destiny points its gun at the retreating Legend but Shinn hesitates and doesn't fire. Athrun tells him that he's done enough; the two head back to the Archangel.
A/N #2: I really just wanted to make an Evangelion reference via the Strike Freedom (5 minute operation time on battery). I also made Kira use the Strike Rouge Ootori during the defense of Orb to show that Kira doesn't solely rely on beam spam to kick ass.
A/N #3: Next part will be the last part. (seriously if this were to be a movie, is 2 hours enough to cover all this?)