Heya guys, Welcome back to Dark System Rising. Although I don't think it's an appropriate name. I think it's the closest so I decided to go with it. Anyways the first two chapters are prologues. I know I could have just put both chapters together but I couldn't feel the flow. So I decided to split it into two.
To my first ever reviewer, I would say that you are close to one part of the surprise. Close but not exact. Though I guess time-travel fics are intriguing to write.
So here's the second part of the prologue. And by the way, I don't own Gundam 00.
Ian Vashti looked at the blueprints that the blue uniformed meister who stood next to him showed him.
It was simple, elegant and underpowered. He was serious. The mobile suit or 'gundam' as the raven haired boy called it was simple.
The chest piece was similar to the Astrea as was the main camera. And the legs and arms. But the shoulders were pointed at the ends and the hip connectors looked more like panties instead of the skirt that the Astrea had.
It was gundam Exia he said.
A melee specialized mobile suit. And it was all it was good for, an up-close-and-personal mobile suit.
A tricky suit to pilot.
It's weapons were four GN beam sabers, two GN coated blades and a GN ANTI-SHIP sword outfitted with a small GN coated shield at the top with a GN beam blaster.
The gun-sword-shield was awesome though, in his opinion. The blaster was small enough to fit under the shield and the sword was under the blaster. With just whipping it up, the long, thick blade would swing up with the hilt just fitting unto the blasters barrel.
There was also a GN coated Shield that was very much similar to the Astrea with the exceptions of points at the tips.
He wanted to do a different outfitting, hell he wanted to redo the whole suit with the exception of both the gun-sword-shield and the shield but the kid was adamant.
Oh well. He'd roll with it. And hopefully he'd get to tell him 'I told you so.'
They began working on the engine first.
And boy was he impressed. The kid knew what to do how to do what he needed to do.
The funnel system the spins throughout the GN Drive was put at the tip. They were called the flywheels. They absorb protons within the Drive to create a sort of high propulsion system.
A core component of the GN Drive was the GN generation furnace. This furnace uses energy to create the GN particles. It was more or less located in the middle of the whole engine.
The stability control was more of a computed system that regulated the Drive's output. Thusly, it can be called the 'brain' of the Drive.
The Topological Defect Blanket was the special key component. Other than being the infinite source of energy, it's other uses are unknown.
Fit them all together and then you've got yourself a GN Drive.
The problem was that it took them a whole damned year to finish up the GN Drive.
Even then, they weren't idle.
The torso of the Exia was easy enough as they just decided to use an unused Astrea prototype. Then they stripped all the useless parts.
Again watching the kid work on the suit was nothing short of amazing. It was as if he had done it a dozen times.
The mobile suit took them half a year.
The weapons took them less than half a year with the majority of the time working on the gun-sword-shield. Seriously, he thought that the idea of the weapon was cool.
There was also the operating system or OS of the suit.
This the kid did personally.
And when he checked it, his heart nearly jumped in joy.
The OS was beautiful. From what he gathered, the OS was fast-paced and relied on the mobility of the mobile suit to dish out large amounts of damage with the large sword. To him it was beautiful. Of course the fact that it meant that the mobile suit wouldn't have a dent helped.
Soon, it was ready for testing.
Simulations were never his thing, Setsuna would admit that much. But it was necessary.
He would be going against Allelujah. He was considered a jack-of-all-trades. To him, the man was a mobile armor through and through.
He could never pilot the suit as if it were a jet and mobile suit at the same time. No, that was Allelujah's forte.
He entered the mock cockpit before putting on his helmet. The moment he did, everything sprung to life.
Lifting his data pad, he connected it to the cockpit with Allelujah doing the same. After transferring the data of Exia, he began to wait for it to finish loading.
He knew the others were watching, gauging his ability. He knew that if he were in their shoes, he'd probably be doing the same thing too. It never hurt to be cautious. He wondered what he was in their mind. Probably a newbie. Oh well, he'd show them what he was made of.
As soon as the screen blinked again, his breathing hitched in his throat. Everything went calm soon after and he knew it was time to let go even for a short while.
His hands on the controls and it felt nostalgic, like he belonged.
His senses branched out, and everything became slow.
The fight was short and dull.
He knew Allelujah was serious at the beginning and he was confident in his abilities. But he couldn't win. Not even when Hallelujah came out to play.
The ravenette was brutal and yet the way his mobile suit moved was as if it was dancing.
Exia stood at least a few hundred meters away from the Kyrios.
At an unspoken signal both brought out their weapons to bear and all hell broke loose.
It was Kyrios that shot first, purple beams of light was sprayed onto where Exia was. 'Was' being the key-word.
Made for speed, the Exia had already begun to move forward as the Kyrios pulled the trigger.
Before long, the two mobile suits were engaged in melee combat.
Exia's blade swung into battle, being blocked by a GN beam saber before Kyrios's rifle pointed at the main camera.
Letting go of the sword, Exia spun around the beams before grabbing his own GN beam saber.
Kyrios's rifle exploded into a small blossom.
Kyrios then shifted into flight mode and climbed up before shifting back with his GN rockets aimed. Before he could launch the missiles, Allelujah saw a spinning shield heading for him.
Quickly pulling back the throttle made him lose the objective before his camera turned red and alarms rang out throughout his cockpit.
It was instinct that prolonged the fight as his GN beam saber flashed out to block the giant gun-blade. With him being too unfocused and too unstable, his mobile suit was quickly driven back to the ground.
What followed was a one-sided beat down.
Kyrios's preemptive strike would've been a one-hit knock-out but he forgot how fast Exia was. Spinning around the hasty stab to the cockpit area, Exia followed up with a swing to the head which was blocked. Kyrios never saw the other hand come up with a GN blade.
Cutting down the arm before dodging the clumsy swing to the head, Exia back-flipped before thrusting forward with the gun-blade pointed in the cockpit area.
If it was a real fight, Allelujah would've been split into two with most of his chest missing.
Allelujah was a fighter so he knew what to look for when fighting an opponent. He was a freaking super-soldier for crying out loud.
He was confident in his abilities but it was suddenly over-shadowed when he saw Setsuna.
The kid was confident, and his aura radiated 'danger' yet there was a slight feeling of comfort. Then when he stepped into his cockpit he knew that this was going to be a hard fight.
He was right.
The kid was a scary beast to fight. He'd almost pity the ones who would have to face the kid.
He didn't know how the kid was doing it. He was fast, faster than his mobile suit by a large margin. It took a large amount of luck and prediction to actually counter.
He knew that the only way to win was to go sky high with explosives but he forgot about the shield.
Seeing is spin towards him made him focus more on the obvious threat, ignoring Exia for a split second.
But a split second was all it needed.
His instincts to live flared up as he blocked what would've been his 'death.' Instead he was catapulted downwards into the ground.
He knew he lost but was smiling inside. He knew now how weak he was and he aimed to get stronger. Swordplay was never his best suit to begin with but he was good enough. Rather he's the one that's scouting ahead, speeding in front of others, breaking enemy formations with a preemptive strike before the main force came.
Quickly pushing his throttle forward, his right arm thrust forward, stabbing the Exia cockpit.
He was in awe a moment later as the Exia spun around gracefully, almost as if it were dancing. He decided that the Exia was a beautiful mobile suit. It didn't matter that it was under-powered. If Setsuna was piloting the Exia, then it was over-powering.
He wondered if Exia and Setsuna operated on a different plane altogether. Their movements were too graceful, too human.
He blocked the over head swing before swing his own sword. It was too fast for even his own eyes as within a flash, his wrist was cleanly cut off. Again he tried to swing at the head only for Setsuna to back-flip and just before it touched the ground, Exia thrust forward with it's gun-sword.
Just as it touched, the simulation stopped.
A sudden thought occurred to him. How long has Setsuna been piloting?
The group who had watched how well the mobile suit would operate were left with jaws hanging.
What kind of a mobile suit was that?
It was a collective question on everyone's mind.
It moved gracefully, not a movement was wasted and it was fast. The reaction speed of the pilot was unnervingly fast, as if he could read between moves. They knew from the start that Setsuna was leading the dance. He controlled the battle, making Kyrios move where he wanted them to be. Careful, calm and controlled, adjectives that were used when Setsuna was piloting the Exia.
It may not look like much compared the Astrea and Astrea Type-F but it proved that looks could be deceiving.
Both pilot left the simulator. Allelujah was breathing hard while Setsuna looked like he didn't even break a sweat.
Setsuna was the first to take off his helmet. The smile that was plastered on his face unnerved most of them but it also looked serene, calming.
"I've missed using a mobile suit."
The disfigured Tieria then spoke. "How does it feel to be in a cockpit again?"
By the time Allelujah took off his helmet, he heard Setsuna speak and he shivered.
"Miss Sumeragi, I'm in your care. Please do not hesitate to use me in combat situations."
And he said all this with a smile.
Even when this unnerved them, they knew he would be an invaluable piece in this war for peace.
The meisters could almost feel sorry with how much destruction Setsuna would bring, but it was for peace.
Sumeragi grinned almost evilly. Oh, you'll be in my care alright. Yes indeed. She could almost taste his lips.
For some reason Setsuna felt that he should be scared.
The last part was unintentional. I swear. I just went with the flow and it kinda ended up to where it was so I guess I'm not that bad at humor. I guess my brand of humor is just controlled in a way.
Right, so I wasn't particularly happy with this chapter and I'm not sure why. Maybe there's something I missed out there or it could be entirely different but I'm not that happy how this prologue went.
I also want your opinion, do you think this fiction could reach 100k words if I do this right? I think I might but who knows. Maybe I could even go at 200K and reach fot the stars.
Lastly, I'm pretty sure that you guys know what I'm about to say but I'll just say it so I can actually improve.
Read, Rate and Review. It would be helpful if you actually critisise properly instead of just flaming. Also if you're wondering, there might be a few, FEW, lemons in this story. In the case of lemon(or lime), a warning will be put up at the top of the story. Just right above the Disclaimer.