Foreword: This is my first crack at a Fanfic ever. I hope you like as to the pairings I am a fan of Kira/Flay not Kira/Lacus. I haven't decided if Lacus will be paired with anybody but if she is it will be an OC as for Athrun and Cagalli I might pair them up but I dont know yet. I will post my mecha as soon as I get the mecha page done. Thanks in advance.

Disclaimer I do not own Gundam Seed. I do own Ryan Ford, Eric Torrico, and Roxanne Smythe. I also own the GAT-X 606 Shadow Gundam and the GAT-X 093 Black Hawk Gundam.

Year 70 of the Cosmic Era. Tensions between the PLANTs and Earth were at an all time high since the conflict began. It was first assumed that the Earth forces, with their superior numbers would be victorius, but these initial assessments proved to be false. The superior technology of ZAFTs military and the addition of their superior GINNs quickly allowed them to hold the superior numbers of the Earth Forces at bay.

Gundam Seed: Hunt of the ShadowWolf

Prologue:

The Fall of Hope

Battle of Carpenteria: April, 2nd C.E. 70:

Carpenteria: A young man sat in the locker room of the Carpenteria base still under the command of the Earth Alliance forces. He took a deep breath staring at his helmet lost in thought. "Ryan are you alright," Asked an older gentleman? Ryan didn't hear him and continued looking into his reflection. His hazel eyes staring at him as he looked at his brown hair and noticed his brown goatee that he has had since he was sixteen. He was lost in thought as this would be his first battle. The older gentleman shook his head and said, "Son you okay?" John Ford put his hand on his Twenty one year old sons shoulder and the young man looked up. Ryan looked into his father's eyes and said, "I'm fine. Just nervous after all it's my first battle ever." The older man laughed lightly and took a seat next to him. "Lieutenant Commander Ford you are going to be okay. You are a natural at piloting. It's okay to be nervous. We have to keep this base in our hands and prevent Zaft from getting another foothold on Earth. If not then this war will last longer." The young man nodded. "I know dad, but i am only one man. How much of a difference can I make?" Ryan looked around the locker room at the grey lockers and the white ceiling. The young man laughed and said, "I really hate this bland room. It feels like a prison cell." His father with his Blue grey eyes looked at his son and laughed. "Yeah i know how you feel," he said. "It's time to go and get in our machines." The two stood and left for the hangar. Ryan took one last look around and held his dogtags in his hand. The young officer dropped them and finished pulling his pilot suit on and pulled his helmet on. He heard the click as it sealed.

On a ZAFT submarine outside of Carpenteria: A young man with bright green eyes and black hair sat in the cockpit of his DINN waiting for the operation to begin. Eric Torrico sat lost in thought. He was thinking of the coming battle and what it would mean if ZAFT could take the base and he smiled at the thought of showing the naturals that ZAFT wasn't going anywhere. He looked around the cockpit making his final inspections of the machine. this was his first taste of battle and hoped he didn't freeze up. "Commander everything is good with mymachine. How about yours?" The unknown commander said, "Good." The comander sounded no older than twenty seven. His face appeared on the screen of Eric's machine and he said, "Are you ready Eric?" The Twenty two year old nodded and said, "Yeah I'm ready. I'm nervous, but that's to be expected." He laughed nervously and said, "I'll get over it as soon as I launch." The Commander nodded and said, "Good. All units launch. Today we show the Earth Alliance we mean business." Suddenly thirty DINN's launched and started towards the base. Along with Goohns and a couple ZNOs. The battle was about to commence.

Carpenteria: The two men climbed into their cockpits and buckled in. Ryan was sitting in his spearhead going over the controls and running a last minute inspection of it in the calm before the storm. He had a bad feeling in his gut, but didn't voice it. He continued waiting for the order to launch. Suddenly the orders came and Ryan's features hardened. "All unit's launch we have several heat sources on our radar." The young man waited for several machines to launch. His machine was moved to the launch area along with his fathers.

"John Ford launching." The older man's machine shot forward as he took off and joined the formation.

"Ryan Ford heading out to intercept the enemy," The young man said as his machine jerked forward and he quickly joined his squads formation.

"We have to keep them from getting near the base," Said Commander John ford. He looked around assessing the situation, as he heard a chorus of, "Yes sir." The formation flew towards the DINNs launching several wave's of missiles. Most of the DINNs were able to maneuver through the missiles shooting most down. Three DINNs were caught in the fire and blew up. A few missiles managed to hit a submarine that hadn't dove and took out several missile tubes. Eric grit his teeth as some of his friends were killed and he began to fire at the Spearheads flying towards them, causing the formations to break up. Ryan continued his flight straight towards the DINNs skillfully avoiding the shots as he opened up with his 20mm machine guns shredding one DINN with them and firing off a small wave of missiles that hit two more DINNs destroying them. His breathing fast and erratic at launch had begun to calm and he surveyed the situation. He knew they were in trouble, but he had hardened himself for this and maneuvered his mobile armor to come back around and began a strafing run before being forced off his mark by a DINN. Eric Torrico moved his DINN towards the fighter that had taken out three DINNs. He fired at it causing it to move out off its present course and he began to pursue it. He pulled out his machine gun and began firing at the machine again as he launched two missiles at it. Ryan quickly destroyed the missiles and began barrel rolling through the machine gun rounds skillfully. Eric grit his teeth as he realized his enemy was a skilled pilot and was forced to dodge machine gun fire. Torrico pulled his machine out of its dive and refocused on the mobile armor that turned to come back at him.

Ryan began another strafing run on the current DINN he was fighting as he launched three waves of missiles at a group of enemy machines and destroyed three more before turning back to the machine that has been harassing him. Eric looked at the machine breathing heavily. His adrenaline pumping and his eyes narrowing. The Twenty two year old had to take this machine out and fast or it would cause massive damage to the entire fleet. Torrico began fired off a burst of rounds that took out one machine gun on the enemy machine. Ryan grit his teeth as he returned fire and watched as on of the DINNs missile tubes blew upcausing massive damage to the DINNs left arm. Ryan let out a whoop before refocusing and turning his machine around and bearing down on the enemy DINN. Ryan flew into a mass of clouds and disappeared. Eric grit his teeth and began to search for the enemy unit. His alarms went off as the enemy machine was able to get behind him. He dodged and yelled, "What the hell. You hunt like a friggin wolf." He thought to himself, 'and blends into the shadows like he is a shadow himself.'

Elsewhere: The battle was taking a turn for the worse for the Earth Alliance. For every one DINN they took out they lost four machines. The battle was a desperate struggle for the Earth Alliance to retain one of it's key bases. If Carpenteria fell it would be a huge blow to the Earth Forces. John Ford appeared to be one of few pilots not currently struggling despite knowing he was out matched by the superior might of the DINN he had just taken out his fifth enemy as ten more DINNs were launched from the subs. He shook his head and said, "Man this is nuts Mu." His friend laughed and said, "Yeah tell me about. We are going to run out of pilots and machines at this rate." The older black haired man shook his head at the grim reality of the situation and nodded at the younger blonde. Mu La flaga began a strafing run on several DINNs as he launched his missiles. Taking two more. "Command how is Ryan faring against the enemy," John asked about his son. He has currently made himself an ace as he has taken down six enemy machine's, but he is in a dogfight with one DINN and has lost a machine gun and took out a missile launcher on the DINN effectively disabling the left arm," came the response. His father nodded and said, "Thanks. Mu and myself will handle things over here."

The battlefield looked like it was in complete chaos as there were machines flying all over the place. Explosions were being set off here and there as the subs and the base continued to launch volley's of missiles at one another. Of the twenty subs sent to attack five were destroyed and another four were almost completely disabled. As for the base it had sustained a large amount of cosmetic damage and very few of the key parts were damaged. The EA was being badly shoved around like they were paper dolls. ZAFT was proving its technical superiority.

With Ryan and Eric: The twenty one year old was being stared down by the Twenty two year old. They circled each other before resuming their fight, They both fired on each other. Eric emptied the last of his missiles at the Spearhead and Ryan shot all but two down. He dodged them and watched as two DINNs flew right into them. He let out a sigh of relief and grit his teeth as he launched the rest of his missiles at the enemy suit as he flew by. Eric shot them down and dodged what he could not shoot down and watched as they slammed into two of the disabled subs and he watched in horror as they were completely destroyed and sunk. he growled in frustration and yelled, "You bastard. I will end you." Ryan turned his machine and began to fly back at the enemy DINN he fired several rounds at the enemy machine. Eric was able to dodge all but one shot that he was lead into. It blew his other missile launcher but caused relatively minor damage as he was out of missiles. Ryan shouted, "Why won't you die already dammit." He maneuvered his machine around and made a strafing run at Eric's DINN. Eric dodged the rounds and fired off a quick succession of shots that Ryan easily barrel rolled through. Eric couldn't believe the skill of this pilot. As Ryan turned his machine around a missile that was shot from the base locked onto him and he began trying to lose it. He flew left and right, but the missile kept its lock and bore down on him. Ryan rolled his machine upside down and flew as low to the ocean as he could without stalling his machine. Suddenly the missile struck his machine and it blew up in a fiery explosion.

Eric couldn't believe it, after all the two had been through it turned out to be friendly fire that finally took his foe down and he breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn't him that blew up. Eric saluted his fallen enemy and returned to his sub for maintenance. At this point in time the battle began to take a turn for the worse for the Earth Alliance as the Goohns and ZNOs began their attack directly on the base. The battle quickly ended after that and John Ford just heard the news of his son. Of course the news was twisted to where the enemy mobile suit shot him down.

A/N: This is my first crack at writing a fan fic so please review and constructive criticism is welcomed. If you don't have anything nice to say without explaining it your review will be ignored thanks. I hope you like the beginnings of Hunt of the ShadowWolf. I know Mu is assigned to a fleet in space but he will be assigned there after this battle and since I wont be doing the battle of endymion I figured he should have a little screen time here.

Why did the Earth Alliance kill Ryan? What will become of Mu, John, And Eric? These will be answered in the next two chapters. I know the Prologue is short at only just over twenty two hundred words but it will get longer.