Heya. It's kinda short seeing as it is the pilot episode for the series. I actually had fun writing this chapter. And I know it's pretty short considering that you've waited for a couple of weeks. All I can do is apologize and continue on to try to live up to all your expectations.
Also, I've decided to re-watch the whole series together with Seed and Seed Destiny. Woot! Also there might be a few items here that may seem familiar and copied so if there is, then I apologize.
Finally, I'm wondering if anybody else found the Exia beautiful? I felt like there was some kind of forbidden beauty just hiding and it was all I could think of even during school. The only other gundam that ever caught my eye like that was the Freedom piloted by Kira Yamato in Seed. The Freedom made me design of a new Freedom called Liberation. Lame I know but sue me. I was thinking of keeping the wings, grab the Exia torso, keep most of the weapons with the DRAGOON system together with the rail guns at the edge of the wings. But that's just me.
Woot, over a hundred views already.
And now, the disclaimer: I don't own anything.
"You know that you're from the Union right?"
"And you aren't?"
Billy sighed.
"Well, true but your military personal. I'm an engineer. In other words, a civilian."
Graham Aker shrugged. So what?
"An engineer for mobile suits."
At this Billy conceded. It was true too.
The two were on a visit to the latest showcase of the AEU Enact. Of course it was a public showcase. It was their latest mobile suit that was said to be on par with the Union's Flag. Of course it wasn't proven yet.
The Enact was impressive enough. It could transform into a jet fighter, and its mobility was good enough. It also looked like a twig, a thin twig that could easily be snapped in two.
The pilot was certainly a show-off.
Mock mini-guns started shooting at the mobile suit, dozens and dozens of bullets speeding towards it. Flying deftly, the mobile suit dodged the shots as it pulled out it's own rifle.
Graham just wondered if the mini-guns were calibrated wrongly. He's seen outdated automated weapons track faster than that. Or maybe it was just him. Nah, the guns were just really slow. Really, really slow.
The balloons that were being used as targets popped one by one.
"So this new Enact. The first AEU suit that runs on Solar energy." Billy shrugged.
"The development of the AEU orbital elevator was lagging. This was probably to make up for it by making the suit state of the art," he sighed. "The AEU's got balls I'll give them that. Announcing their new model at the tenth anniversary ceremony of the HRL."
Again Graham wondered if the mini-guns were that slow. Yeah, it really was slow. He wasn't even impressed by the aerial maneuvers the pilot pulled off. He could do most of it with his eyes closed.
"So what do you think of the suit?"
Billy shrugged before looking at it in amusement.
"I don't know, you're the pilot here. You tell me."
"Me? Pilot? I've got no idea what you're talking about."
"Ah well. I've no idea what to think of the suit," Billy said. "After all, it's just a carbon copy of the Union Flag."
There was an indignant yell.
"Hey! You, over there." Billy had a smack-dabbed expression on his face although it held more amusement then shock.
"I heard everything, care to repeat that?!"
Graham laughed at the expression on his face. "Well now we know it has great sound pick up."
"I guess so," Billy smiled, amused.
Sumeragi stared hard and long at the person in front of her. This was serious dammit.
Setsuna stared back, equally hard and equally long. He was serious but Tieria told him that he always looks like this. The two were surrounded by the other meisters.
"I'm not allowing you to go out there."
"I see, may I ask why?"
"You're our trump card."
"We have two other teams, Team Fereshte and Team Trinity."
"But wouldn't it be better if we had OUR own trump card?"
"I see. I do not like this and I do not agree but I will respect your desicion," He said.
Sumeragi sighed. She thought they'd been over this. Maybe he just liked getting under her skin.
"Thank you." She almost missed the small smirk. And when Setsuna smirks, nothing good comes out from whatever he's planning in his head.
"I'll be waiting for the mission conclusion. My room or yours?"
Should would've laughed her ass off if she wasn't too busy trying to keep her blush down.
The crew looked at them in disbelief. Setsuna and Sumeragi?
"Meisters, prepare for sortie," she commanded, her blush going down. "Mission plan, Lockon's ready and waiting down there. And with the tenth Anniversary going on in the orbital elevator, it'd be too big a target to not notice. Tieria and Allelujah will be on standby."
She was met with a chorus of 'Hai' before they all went out the door and towards their mobile suits.
Setsuna sighed. If he were to be honest, he'd rather do something than just lazing about.
Walking over to the opposite of Christina Sierra, he sat on the system module before booting up the system.
"Well, if I want to make my self useful at the moment, I guess this'll be a good place to start."
System check and green.
Engines are working at optimum efficiency.
Loading bays are green and the linear catapult was fine.
All in all, the ship was one hundred percent operational.
"Setsuna, can you please check the linear catapult one more time? I'm getting a ping and I'm not sure if I'm right."
He was jerked out of his thoughts and gave a full minute before answering with a 'yes'.
Christina was there when he was testing out the suit and she was star-struck. Not to mention the OS used was magnificent. All those calculations well under a day when it would've taken them weeks -and dare she say it- months. In her eyes, he was a system-god and he deserved her respect. He was also really good at piloting. Very good. It was such a shame Miss Sumeragi got to him first.
Going straight to work, Setsuna pulled up a short system map. "System setting check?"
He got a green light before moving on the the magnetism power source. Oh. It was turned off.
"Christina, turn on the ion-pumps and wait a few seconds before checking again."
"Hai."
The female got to work, minimizing the mobile suit maintenance and bringing up the system windows. She felt like whacking herself in the head. Typing in the code for access, she quickly turned on the ion-pumps before counting five. As soon as she reached five, she refreshed the system check.
"It's green," she said. "Gundam Astrea to the launch hanger. Set, ready."
"Running a check on Astrea. Everything is green. Christy, set linear output to seven fifty megawatts. After that transfer launch controls to Feldt."
"Done, Astrea, ready for launch."
Feldt's face covered their screen before she smiled.
"Thank you. Feldt Grace, Astrea, launching."
They watched as the Astrea launched towards Earth.
"Standby for catapult reset. Christy, send the Virtue in while I reset."
Christy, who was still staring at the form of Astrea, jumped when he called her. She blushed.
"Hai, Virtue to the launch hanger. Set."
"Virtue diagnostics are green, set linear catapult to one thousand megawatts. Again transfer launch controls the Tieria."
While the two were operating, the other three were listening in.
Lasse, their main pilot commented. "He sounds like a leader."
Lichty, Lasse's co-pilot couldn't help but agree. "Yeah. Hey, Tieria, was Setsuna always like this?"
Even Sumeragi was a bit curious at this point.
"No," the disfigured voice of the AI answered. "It was only on one journey where I made a mistake that he became what he is today."
"What happened?" Sumeragi was very curious now.
"He kept telling me that we had to leave but I was adamant in getting the data. We managed to leave but he lost his left half of his torso, arm included." There was some sort of regret, and some guilt.
"Kyrios, set to launch hanger."
"Calibrating linear catapult to Kyrios. Set linear catapult to seven hundred megawatts. Transfer launch control to me."
"Hai."
Setsuna flipped a dial before connecting to Kyrios' wave length.
"Allelujah, launch control transferred to me. Set your engines to minimum capacity. I'm experimenting something that you might enjoy."
The man looked at him oddly. They once went to spar one time. But there was a handicap, a four-on-one match. It took a while but they still lost. Let it never be said that Setsuna could even the odds.
"Uh, hai?"
The face of Setsuna looked back at Christy before looking backat Allelujah. "Ready for launch?"
Allelujah steeled his face.
"Hai. Kyrios, Allelujah Haptism, blasting off."
"Incredible. I didn't know the AEU had another model?" Billy exclaimed. "Or are they those unknown mobile suits that the HRL termed- what were they called again?"
Graham sniggered. Billy was absolutely terrible with names.
"I believe they're called gundams, " Graham said with a shrug.
As the mobile suit floated closer, they noticed that the Astrea was exuding some sort of greenish particles.
Graham narrowed his eyes. "What's with the light?"
The Astrea touched down right in front the audience, looking almost menacing as it's armor glinted blinding white in the sunlight. It slowly turned towards the Enact. In the cockpit of the Astrea, Feldt regarded the Enact with curiosity. Twig like and almost frail, she wondered how well would it fare in combat.
"Oi, you mobile suit. Where you from? The HRL? The Union?" Patrick asked before smirking. "Hell, it won't matter anyways. I'm just going to cut you down."
In the stand, most of the people were panicking. Spotting a pair a binoculars in the hand of a man, Graham quickly snatches it. "Excuse me."
The man looked at his empty hand for a moment before looking at Graham. "Hey, that's mi-"
"I said excuse me," the blonde regarded the man with a cold eye. "Gun...dam. Huh, well what do you know. Those HRL boys actually dubbed them right." Then stopped. "Billy, what made them think of the gundam?"
Billy looked thoughtful as he reponded. "Well, it spawned from an old Japanese anime called Gundam. Most notable features are the heads and the 'v'-shape on the top of the head."
Graham could actually picture a chibi version of him sweat-drop. "I-I see."
One of the officers in the background pulled out his mini headset and called the pilot of the Enact. There was no signal.
"Tch, there's no signal." The officer looked worriedly at the suit, more worried about the suit than the pilot. One of the men from the business sector was quick to calm him.
"Maa, this could be an experience to see how well the Enact would do apart from simulations. And isn't our pilot an ace? He'll be fine."
Even then, the officer had a bad feeling crawling up his spine.
The Enact quickly moved into battle. Pulling out a sonic blade, he ran towards the unknown. "Ha! How do you like our sonic blades hmm? Bet you can't move in that cockpit of yours."
As the Enact moved towards her, Feldt felt herself calm. "Astrea, proceeding to eliminate target." Pushing the throttle forward she jinxed to the right before pushing her arm up in a slicing motion.
The Enact passed by before noticing it's sonic blade plus it's arm a few meters away.
"You little shit-stain! I'm going to kill you!" The Enact pulled up its rifle and leveled it at the Astrea.
There was a flash of movements and within a few seconds, the Enact was no more. Only the Enact cockpit and main camera was intact while the arms, legs and gun were cleanly sliced.
Feldt stared at the suit. Absolute rubbish."Phase one complete."
Pushing the throttle before pulling it back, she started floating away.
Graham narrowed his eyes. "Again, what's with the light?" It seemed like a propulsion system and if he was right, it had communicative disruption properties.
The sound of metal scraping against metal caught his attention as the pilot of the Enact dug himself out of the debris that was previously know as Enact.
"Where is he? Where's that suit? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'M PATRICK COLASOUR, YAH HEAR ME YOU SHIT-STAIN!"
Oh, so he's their ace?
It didn't matter, what mattered was that the AEU wasn't going to take this lying down.
"Phase two commencing."
Feldt sighed. Was that really all that AEU had to offer? If the AEU was to participate in war with pilots of that caliber, they may as well just keep making more trashy suits and more pilots instead of making high-quality suits. Seriously, for them, they may as well go for quantity instead of quality. Then maybe, just maybe, they've got a chance of winning the war.
But wasn't she going against war by war?
The whole point of thinking was giving her an headache.
No time for that now, she had a mission to complete.
Dodging incoming fire by strafing to the right, she let the AEU Hellion squad passby before shooting. She wasn't as good as Lockon but she was catching up.
One of the Hellion's got it's hand blown up before strafing to the left and jinxed to the left before opening another barrage of shots. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see another two squads of Hellion approaching from inside the tower.
So she was right. Two more squads, she could take them all down herself but it wouldn't be easy. Hell, she'd probably get lots of dents on her Astrea and she didn't want that. Ian would scold her. Setsuna could probably destroy these easy without a scratch.
Firing at the closest one, she had the satisfaction of watching it blossom up in flames before jumping to the left as her klaxon blared. Oh, that thing was annoying but it saved her life. She'd give it another chance.
Floating around, she squeezed a few more round into another Hellion as it burned to the ground. Watching for incoming fire, she noticed a twinkle.
Lockon's ready and firing.
As predicted, one of the Hellions behind her was instantly gutted by a purple beam of light. The other suits scrambled away from their comrade as it exploded.
Accurate, as always.
The two worked in tandem with Feldt positioning them in conjunction to Lockon's sight. Watching from the corner she saw a few Hellions double back as they tried to escape the battle.
As one of the Hellion peeled off from the burning wreckage, the farthest Hellion was gutted without prior warning. Astrea appeared in front of the last Hellion with it's rifle pointed straight at the cockpit.
Feldt looked on impassively as she pulled the trigger. Still with her impassive face on, she watched as it crashed to the ground and exploded.
"Second phase is complete."
"My lady, it's starting."
Wang Lui Mei stiffened.
"I see. Thank you, Hong Long."
Although unfelt by others, she could feel the floor beneath her shaking.
Watching most of the HRL soldiers moving towards the center of the room where the entrance and exit was located.
"Oh my, leaving us all here. What selfish people the HRL are," she stated while observing them.
"Shall we evacuate, my lady?"
She stopped. "No. Let Celestial Being run its course. It is their big debut after all. Just as Miss Sumeragi predicted."
Again, the other occupants of the room never noticed the small burst of light out the window. She wondered how people could be so... unobservant. Oh well.
The three Tierens moved towards the last known location of the unknowns.
"Damn the AEU! Selling suits to tin-pot countries."
The squad leader moved his team faster.
What were they carrying over there?
"Sir, I don't think we can do this on our own!"
The squad leader snorted. These were just terrorists for god's sake. They weren't military trained.
"Don't give me that shit son, fire! Don't let them get close."
Seeing as their leader fire his rifle, the other two fired as well. Those Hellions were too fast.
Soon the Hellions were close enough and opened up a barrage of missiles. Just as they were about to hit, purple blasts of light destroys the missiles, leaving the tower intact.
"What was that?" The commander turned and saw a streak of orange racing towards the Hellions. 'What kind of a suit is that?'
"Miss Sumeragi's prediction forecast is really great. Very accurate." Allelujah sighed. It was baffling how she could do something like this to a tee.
Strafing to the left, he pulled the trigger, squeezing off a few shots as he dodged incoming fire from the Hellions. He managed to clip one on the shoulder and ultimately destroy another one. Even moving at speeds unknown, he managed to dodge the few rounds coming his way. Again he pulled the trigger and was met with fireworks as the other one exploded.
He really had to thank Setsuna. Who knew he could even go faster just with momentum? Apparently, Setsuna did.
He gritted his teeth as he watched the last one speed up towards the party. Even though he was fast, he wouldn't be able to stop the suit. And even if he did, the risk of destroying the tower was too high. "Tieria."
A slightly bulky armored mobile suit arose with a large gun pointing directly at the mobile suit. The suit lined up his rifle before opening up a barrage.
The golem-of-a suit took it calmly as the inside of the gun glowed purple.
The pilot of the Hellion felt a sense of foreboding before the large gun shot a lance of purple.
The Hellions armor melted first before it's engine over-heated then exploding.
"Third phase is complete."
The people inside watched as a purple beam shot out in space before a small cloud appeared somewhere in the middle. One of them were of the JNN.
"W-what was that?"
Tieria sure as hell didn't pull his punches when on a mission,
"Uh Tieria, don't you think that that was a bit too excessive?"
The man in question looked sternly at his sound receiver. "No, I do not."
"This is JNN news, reporting. Firstly we'd like to open with a coverage and continuation of the attack that took place at the Pillar of Heaven." The woman started. "Just this morning, Japanese time, the HRL Pillar of Heaven was attacked by what appears to be terrorists mobile suits. Megami Harune has live coverage."
The TV switched to another lady. "At around six p.m. Greenwich Mean Time, missiles were launched at the Orbital Elevator by suits that are believed to be terrorists. These missiles were struck down by as-of-yet unknown mobile suits." The screen then switches to a blurred picture of a behemoth mobile suit. "This picture was taken by a JNN crew that was on station at the time."
"What is that?"
Saji sighed. One of the other classmates decided to answer the blonde youth. "They say that that mobile suit wiped out the terrorists."
Louise looked at the suit. It seemed to bulky. "That suit?"
The classmate nodded. Saji kept staring at the suit as he tried to categorize the suit. Finally giving up, he just asked.
"So which military?"
The man shrugged, his face also in confusion. "Well, none of the other military knows either."
The TV blinked before the reported spoke again. "We have just gotten an update on the situation. We have received a video message from an organization that has claimed to have prevented the attacks. It is unclear who they are and what their motives are or whether or not this video is genuine but we believe that they are closely tied to the incident. We're now broadcasting the video uncut."
Again the TV blinked, before showing an old, bald man in rich clothing. He had a monocle and a beard. He sat on a black wooden chair with a cane in hand.
"I would like to address this statement to every single human being born and raised on Earth. We call ourselves simply Celestial Being," He paused. "We are a private armed organization in possession of the mobile weapon Gundam. The main objective of Celestial Being's activities is to completely eliminate acts of war from this world. We do not act for our own benefit or for personal gain."
His grim face seemed to make the message sound more serious. "We have chosen to intervene for the greatest goal of all to rid ourselves of the scourge of war. As of this moment I make this declaration to all humanity. Territory, religion, energy no matter what the reason or excuse if there is an evident act of war being carried out, we will commence intervention with our force."
"Any country, organization or corporation that PROMOTES war will also be a legitimate target for our intervention. We simply call ourselves Celestial Being. We are an armed organization that was established to eliminate all acts of war from this world."
Red ruby eyes glinted at a blue sun. Chittering noises could be heard from behind. The sound of pointed metal tip walking over the metal walls itself could also be heard.
The ruby eyes drifted over to a statue, a statue of their king on his throne. They call him Cthulhu. A deity. In a way, these humans were right.
His body blurred into existence. He has cometh.
A growl emanated from the decidedly behemoth. The behemoth turned and faced one exactly like him. He could tell that the creature was a hatchling. His metallic face was fierce with a pair of tusks protruding from the face. It's razor sharp teeth were dripping with green saliva. Thick cord-like hair whipped around its back like hair. It's body was also metallic. But it was different. The metallic color was fresh, clean and scars and dents were unable to be seen.
My liege will cometh again. And we will succeed. No one will stop us and especially not them.
The metallic creature howled before a multitude of growls, chirps, snarls and howls answered him across the ship. His master's ship.
When the time is right, we shall reveal ourselves. For now, let our agents do the dirty work.
He looked back towards the statue. The statue was a good deal bigger than him. His face was filled with scars and in some cases, the scars were deep enough to see the wires that were inside. It's arms were thick and long with the claws large enough to gouge a large gash in a ship. The torso was thick with wire-like cords just running across his chest. This legs were also thick, with stubs for toes the size of an average human.
He stared long and hard before noticing the slight coloration at the feet. Slight but it was enough. The process had begun.
He looked at another creature. They were similar except for the fact that the creature was smaller and lithe. It was colored white with dents on the armored arms.
"Ingbe ethe espross! Jal!" It may have come out as a growl, but the creature understood it perfectly. After all the time was nearly upon them.
"Har, General!"
The creature scurried across the ship, intending to spread the news to everyone.
And now we introduce a new species into the mix. I do not own it either. I just gave it a new name. It's actually a species in a game I play. I'm sure that it's a very popular game with tournaments and such. Seriously, my mill-blue is good but it doesn't stand a chance against fat-aggros. Ugh, need to find a faster mill.
What do you think about them?
Also, my main question is, and this is a two-fold question: Do you know what species it is? And from which game it comes from?
Another hint would be cards and magics.
As for my reviewers, thanks! There were tips which I appreciate and and it may be kind of a time-travel fiction it's also not really time-travelling. Parallel dimension travelling is the closest. Also, northernlion made me laugh.
Here, have a cookie. Ha, seriously, Feldt was kind of useless during the series now that I thought about it. She had potential as a meister seeing as her parents had been first gen meisters yeah? Squandered that bit of potential you did, Celestial Being.
Anyways, thanks for reading this chapter. R&R everybody and have a nice day.