Gundam SEED: Hunt of the ShadowWolf

by ShadowWolf5988

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. This story tells how this war was fought and ended KiraxFlay OCxOC OCxAsagi

3. False Peace

Thanks to EmperorDraco7 for beta reading this story and giving your feed back. I won't bore you with any info here. I will get right to the Story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam SEED. I own my oc's and their machines.

Chapter ONE:
A False Peace

January 24th C.E. 71

Inside Morgenroete's Heliopolis Branch:
James Black, A young twenty two year old mercenary hired by Morgenroete to help guard a secret Earth Alliance project called the G-Weapon project. The young man stood there looking at two of the machines that had been built with a glint in his eye, that most kids had on christmas as they opened their new toys. He held his M4 assault rifle in his right hand barrel pointed at the ground. On his side were to forty five caliber hand guns and a mp5 was slung on his shoulder behind his back. For a simple guard he was heavily armed and wearing an all black special forces style combat uniform. His shaggy black hair was sticking up and out to the sides, but he carried himself like a professional soldier. The yound man was six foot one and had blue eyes. His beard was neatly trimmed the hair on his chin a little loger than the rest of his facial hair. He turned from the machines and began doing his rounds. Suddenly his PDA went off as he got several files from the group he worked with for the last year. The young man looked at watch and turned to a man. "I'm going on break, ill be back in fifteen minutes," he said. The older man nodded and said, "Okay Black."

James walked into the locker room, he looked in the mirrorand stared at a long thin scar that started above his right eyebrow and trailed down towards the middle of his chin passing within a few millimeters of his nose and stopping at the middle of his chin. The man sat down as he lit a cigarette. He took a puff and pulled out his PDA and began reviewing the files. He frowned as he realized what he had just been given. It was a detailed description of what ZAFT was planning to do the next day. Black shook his headand thought, 'So ZAFT is planning to steal the Gundams.' He knew he had to warn the others of the impending danger to this project and the colony. James had heard a lot about this Rau Le Creuset and knew this was bad. He put his cigarette out and walked back into the hangar.

Flashback:

James Black walked into Professor Kato's lab and said, "Hey Professor can you help me with something?" The older man looked up and said, "Ah James whatever it is I will gladly help you out." Black looked around the lab at all the different machines and equipment. He took a deep breath and turned back to the Professor. He smiled and said, "I need help stealing the GAT-X 606 Shadow, but I need to do it without anyone realizing what I am doing. Do you know of a way to do that?" Kato eyed the young man curiously. "Why should I help you Black? What is in it for me," he questioned. James looked around in thought. "I'll give you access to the data on all the machines while you help me do this, but I need this done by next week." Kato nodded and said, "So you want to acquire this machine, but for what reason may I ask?" James leaned down and whispered something in the older mans ear and the man had a shocked look in his eyes and said, "That is good enough for a reason for me. So what you need to do is put a back door operating system under heavy security in and you can be the only one to have access to it. So I will get to work on the security and it will be ready in two days. After that you have to rewrite the OS I put on here and do it in under ten minutes." The young man nodded and smiled. "Thank you sir." He left the room. Kato started working.

Morgenroete Hangar:
James Black and ten others were sitting around a table. James suddenly stood up and put some things on the display screen. "As you can see my contacts have warned me that ZAFT will be attempting to steal the Mobile Suits tomorrow which could prove disasterous for this colony." The men looked at the reports with little concern and an old man said, "Why would ZAFT attack a neutral colony?" James laughed as his eyes narrowed. "You helped the EA design these machines and you claim to still be neutral. That is rich, I have warned you. Now do what you think is right," he said with malice dripping off his every word. With that he left the room and went back to the hangar.

January 25 CE 71:

On Board the Vesalius:

Heliopolis Air space:

Eric Torrico was getting into his pilot suit and put on a jet pack as he waited for the mission to start. The twenty three year old was the oldest of the pilots and he stared in the mirror looking at his black hair and into his brown eyes. He had just joined the Le Creuset team two weeks prior, being hand picked by Creuset for this task. He looked at the other people taking part in this. Athrun Zala, Yzak Joule, Dearka Elsman, Nicol Amalfi, and Rusty Mackenzie were all putting on their pilot suits and jet packs. Eric said, "What do you think is going to happen to Heliopolis during this mission?" Yzak Joule sneered and said, "It can't be helped. How can you claim to be neutral and build machine's for the EA at the same time. It will serve them right." Eric and Nicol both shook their head at the rash and angry Coordinator. "Yzak whether or not Morgenroete built these things is not the question. The question is did Orb's government know about this and if so why would they risk their neutrality," asked Rusty Mackenzie. Yzak laughed and said, "Of course they know and approve it. Why else would they have been built." Athrun shook his head and said, "Morgenroete may have done this without approval, but they have been built and we have our orders. So this situation can't be helped. All the soldiers nodded and Dearka said, "Im with Yzak on this one. It will serve them right for building these machines." The pilots sat in their escort shuttle that would take them to Heliopolis and all pulled on their helmets sealing their suits.

Heliopolis:

Kira Yamato was sitting at a bench working on a project he was given by his teacher Professor Kato. He was watching footage from a battle in Kaoshiungfrom the week before. Suddenly he heard his name. "Hey Kira this is where your hiding," a voice said as the young man turned to see his friends Tolle Koenig and his girlfriend Miriallia Haw coming towards him. Miriallia saw the news footage and said, "Fighting in Kaoshiung, that's close to the homeland. You think it will be safe?" Tolle said, "Of course Orb is neutral so it will be fine." Kira nodded in agreement. Tolle looked around the park and said, "Oh by the way Professor was looking for you." Kira sighed and said, "Already, what does he have more work for me. I haven't even finished what he dumped on me last week." With that comment he closed the laptop and three of them headed off to the technical college.

The three of them were walking down the sidewalk towards a car terminal that would take them to the college, when Miriallia saw her friend Flay and two others. She walked over and said, "Hey Flay." Suddenly the two girls said, "Did you know Sai gave her a letter. I bet it was a love letter." Flaystarted stuttering and turned bright red. Kira looked at Tolle and said, "Do you know what is going on?" Tolle laughed and said, "Uh no idea, I dont speak girl." The two friends laughed as they heard some one cough to get their attention. A raven haired woman said, "Do you mind if we get this one?" Tolle moved aside and said, "No not all we are waiting on our friends to finish up." The woman and two men climbed in the car and drove off. The woman thought, 'And to think their are children as young as them already fighting in this war.'

The three friends climbed in a car and started towards their destination. When they arrived they showed their badges and went in. They walked towards the lab and entered. They saw their young blonde friend, Sai Argyle and someone they didn't know. "Who's that," asked Tolle? Sai turned and said, "No idea a friend of the professors I would imagine." The other three nodded and noticed the Professor was missing. "Where is the Prof.," asked Kira. Sai shook his head and said, "I have no idea."

Heliopolis interior:

The ZAFT pilots were busy setting explosives around the central Shaft near a secret hangar. They joined back up and proceeded deeper into the colony to begin phase two of their mission.

Heliopolis Captain's office:

The captain was talking to the G-pilots just before they left and Lieutenant Mu La Flaga the sole survivng Mobeius Zero pilot said, "Are you sure it's safe to allow them to go out like this?" The captain nodded and said, "They are young they will be better suited to fitting in than two old war dogs like yourself and I." Mu laughed and nodded. he stared out the window of the office.

Vesalius Bridge:

"It is time Ades," Said Commander Rau Le Creuset, "Launch the Vesalius." An older man nodded and said, "Vesalius weigh Anchor and launch." The Nazca-class ship pulled away from the hangar and proceeded towards Heliopolis, while launching a few GINNs. The GINNs made their way towards Heliopolis to distract the escort ships and their mobile armors.

Heliopolis command center:

"Captain we have detected a ZAFT warship in the area," said a radio operator. The captain shook his head and Mu said, "I will head out in the zero to help protect the colony," as he ran from the room to launch. Mu launched his Zero and began to fight off the attacking GINNs.

Morgenroete:

The factory was in full swing as the completed Mobile Suit's The Duel, The Blitz, and The Buster were already ready to be delivered to their ship. The truck drivers climbed in as they prepared to deliver their precious cargo to it's destination. Suddenly an explosion tore through the colony's interior shaking the colony badly. Murrue Ramius yelled, "Get those machines to the Archangel while we prepare the other four machines for Transport." The convoy of trucks started towards their destination.

Yzak laughed and said, "It looks like the commander was right." He watched as the trucks came into view. Dearka said, "About what?" The dark skinned blonde didn't know why this was funny. Yzak said, "If you prod they will scurry out of hiding. Naturals are nothing if predictable." Eric shook his head and said, "There you go underestimating your enemy and that is going to get you killed one day." Yzak growled, "Shut up you natural lover." Eric grit his teeth and said, "I do not love naturals, nor do I hate them. They are people just like us." Athrun shook his head and said, "Enough. Yzak, Dearka, and Nicol you get these three machines. While Eric, Rusty, and Myself get the other three machines. Remember to disable the self destruct as soon as you get in." Everybody nodded and set off for their targets.

Kato's Lab:

The lab shook as everyone tried to brace themselves from falling. "Is everyone okay," asked Kira as Tolle said, "What was that a meteor strike?" Sai shook his, "I don't know but I don't think so." Mirillia was visibly shaken and Kira said, "We should get to the shelters." Everybody nodded and left the room as the power went out. "I guess we have to take the stairs," groaned Tolle as they entered the hallway. Miriallia said, "What's going on," as a group of people walked by. A man said, "ZAFT is attacking their are Mobile Suits in the colony." Everyone gasped and the blonde haired person took off down the hall. Kira yelled, "Hey come back." He said, "Get to the shelter you three." They nodded as he took off after the other person.

"Come back," He shouted at the person as the roof to the hall collapsed behind him blowing the hat off revealing the person to be a girl. He gasped in shock and said, "Your a girl?" The girl snapped, "What did you think I was? Well out with it." Kira shook his head and said, "I just thought... Nevermind. I guess we can't go back that way. Come on." he grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the factory to go to a shelter.

Morgenroete's secret hangar:

James Black ran into the hangar housing the Black Hawk and the Shadow. He had his rifle at the ready and looking around, he knew he couldn't board the Shadow yet. Black was standing in cover. He knew they would come in here.

With Duel, Blitz and Buster:

Miguel Aiman took aim at the escort trucks and easily destroyed them blocking the convoy's path. Yzak, Nicol, and Dearka boarder their respective machines. Disabled the self destruct and began to look over the machines. "How can they expect to run these machines on this OS," Yzak noted and laughed lightly. He began rewriting the OS as the other two did the same. They activated their Phase Shift Armor and said, "Athrun we have the three machines hurry up so we can get out of here." Athrun said, "Okay we will be a few more minutes." The three soldiers nodded and started going over the specs of their machines. Miguel moved forward a little in case he was needed.

In the Factory District:

A fire fight broke out as Athrun, Rusty, and Eric proceeded to move towards the three machines. Athrun said, "Eric the Black Hawk must still be inside that hangar, go get it." Eric nodded taking several shots and rushing towards the hangar weaving in and out of cover. Athrun and Rusty continued to attack the EA soldiers and Morgenroete workers trying to uselessly protect the remaining machines.

Kira led the young lady out and they saw two Mobile Suits in their carriers. The girl fell to her knees and cried out, "Father I knwew you betrayed us all." Suddenly Murrue noticed them and fired at them. Kira pulled the girl out of the way and towards the shelter. He pushed a comm button and said, "Let us in. My friend and I need to get to safety." The response came and said, "Were full to capacity but we can take one more." Kira nodded and shoved the girl, she protested and said, "What are you..." The doors closed and Kira started to run to the other side. he noticed a ZAFt sniper and yelled, "Look out." The woman from earlier turned and killed him then looked at the young boy and said, " What are you doing here?" He said, "Im heading for a shel..." Suddenly an explosion tore through the left side of the block showing that there was nothing left there. Kira gasped and Murrue yelled, "Get down here." Kira nodded and jumped landing on the strike and rolling safely. He walked towards the woman as a bullet tore through her shoulder and she fell. Kira ran towards her.

Athrun fired a shot and noted it missed his intended mark by mere inches as he glanced at Rusty and saw a bullet tear through him and appear to kill him. He yelled out, "Rusty nooooo!" He turned his weapon and killed the offender that just killed his friend. He turned back to the current target and pulled out his knife rushing forward. He was about to strike when he frozeand whispered, "Kira?" Kira looked up and gasped as the EA officer fired several shots wide of her target due to her injury. Athrun jumped away and climbed into the Aegis. He set to work as he watched the woman push the kid into the cockpit of the strike. Unseen to Athrun a group of men began pulling one of the fallen bodies away from the battle and into a hangar.

The woman stood the strike up as Athrun began to rewrite the OS on his machine. He reported back to the other three, "Rusty has been killed, the strike was boarded by an Earth Forces officer. Eric hurry up and get the other machine." Miguel rushed forward, "I'll get that machine and escort Eric out you guys go back to the ship." Athrun and the others nodded and took off.

In the Secret Hangar:

Eric rushed through the door after setting off grenades and took out what seemed to be the other men. He rushed into the cockpit not noticing there were two machines in here. The black haired man set to work rewriting the OS. James Black got into the Shadow and deleted the original OS bringing up his hidden one that took the place of the other and finished his adjustments on the OS before activating it's phase shift armor turning the machine black with red trim and white joints. Eric looked out the cockpit and said, "Oh shit, guys we have a problem there is an unknown machine here and it's been activated." Athrun's voice came over the line and said, "Take it out if you can. If not get out of there and get back to the Vesalius." Eric nodded and decided he better not test his luck. He lanched and burst through the hangar door with the Shadow on his tail. James opened up with his igelstellungs. The Black Hawk dodged and took off for the exit.

Outside The Hangar:

James' pursuit was halted by three GINNs. He pulled out his dual beam sabers and took off towards the GINNs. He grit his teeth in frustration. "Why the hell is this happening," he asked rhetorically? The strike turned towards him and clumsily stood in attack position. "Pilot of the GAT-X 606 Shadow identify yourself," Murrue demanded. James said, "Lt. Ramius is that you? It's me James. Don't shoot." She sighed and said, "Why are you in that machine Mercenary?" James shook his head and said, "Protecting it from ZAFT, same as you. It's part of my job to ensure you get these machines to the EA." Murrue nodded and turned on the four GINNs bearing down on the two machines. James finished the touches of locking his machine and its OS from unwanted guests. He smiled and quietly said, "Thank you Kato." The mercenary than said, "Murrue Take the GINN on the left I'll deal with the other three." Murrue nodded and started clumsily walking towards the GINN. James shook his head as he smoothly took off for the other three firing his Igelstellungs causing the three to dodge and break their formation. Kira grit his teeth as Murrue was trying, but failing to control the strike. Miguel's GINN fired on the strike and murrue quickly activated the Phase shift but took a direct hit and was knockedoff balance due to the poor OS. Kira gasped as he saw Miriallia, Tolle, Kuzzey, and Sai running through the street.

"Move out of the way please," He said. Murrue hesitated and Kira said, "Move or we will die." She moved out of his way and he sat down rewriting the OS for the Strike and checking the weapons that he had to deal with and gasped as hesaw it was just Armor Schneider knives. He stood the Strike up and fired the Igelstellungs at the attacking GINN which stopped and said, "What's with this guy. He is suddenly moving better." He put his rifle away and drew his sword and started charging again. Kira drew his knives and ran towards the GINN as it came at him. The GINN swung his sword. Kira ducked under the swing and drove his knives into the GINN disablig the hydraulic drive in it. Miguel set the self destruct sequence and got out of the cockpit. Murrue noticed this and said, "Get away from that machine." Suddenly it blew up causing her to hit her head on the cockpit and get knocked out. Kira was breathing heavily as he braced for the explosion.

James stared at his three opponents beam sabers at the ready. The first GINN fired his rifle at the Shadow and James easily stepped a side before bursting forward towards the enemy GINN. Just before he got in striking distance he tried to sidestep and get to the side, but he wasn't used to a Mobile Suit yet and he boosted to far. He grit his teeth. "Dammit to much thrust." He backed off a bit and let the GINN come to him. The GINN seeing the more than happily accepted the duel and put his rifle away drawing his sword. He stepped up to the Shadow and took a fighting stance. James smirked and muttered, "Big mistake buddy, your in my area of expertise." The GINN without hesitation swung his sword towards the cockpit of the Shadow. James parried it as he was starting to get used to the controls somewhat. James returned the attack with his right beam saber and the GINN boosted back as the saber swung where he had been a second before. The two continued to exchange blows and pushing one another back. Black suddenly smiled and saw an opening. He headbutt the GINN shaking the pilot as a swift kick was delivered to its torso. James assaulted the GINN and took off it's left arm with his left saber and swung the right saber through the Ginns head. The pilot although blind with out it's camera began swinging violently and James cut the cockpit swing his sabers in an x dissecting the GINN. The other two pilots swore and fired potshots at the Shadow as they began to retreat back to the Vesalius. "Olor lets get back to the ship and regroup, we have no chance right now," Said Matthew. Olor nodded and continued the retreat. James fired one shot with his beam rifle and missed the GINN by a hair, leaving a singe mark on it's shoulder. He grit his teeth and looked around.

James sighed as he followed the Strike to the park. "You okay," He asked? Kira responded, "Yeah but the lady has been knocked out." Black nodded as they stopped there and he climbed out. "Hey kid open up and get down here." Kira nodded and climbed down as Miriallia, Sai, Tolle, and Kuzzey showed up. "Kira what were you doing in that thing." James said, "This can wait, we have to get her out of the cockpit." He pointed to Sai and Tolle. "Help Kira get her out so I can tend to her wounds." They nodded and three carefully and quickly got her out of the cockpit and James tended to her wounds. "Im going to go see if their are any striker packs for the strike, but before I do. I need some introductions." Kira nodded, "I'm Kira Yamato." Sai said, "Im Sai Argyle." Tolle said, "Im Tolle Koenig and this is my girlfriend Miriallia Haw." James nodded and Kuzzey said, "Im Kuzzey Buzkirk" Black looked around and said, "Its nice to meet you all. Although I wish circumstances were different. Sai come with me. I need you to get the truck with the two Shadow Packs." Sai nodded as the two took off.

A little while later Murrue woke up and groaned. She looked around as she stood up and took in the scene. She yelled, "get away from them machines." The kids got away from them as she pointed her gun at them and said, "What do you think your doing touching them." Suddenly James pulled back up in a truck followed by Sai in another. James and Sai climbed out and walked over. Sai joined his friends and James put his hand on Murrue's left shoulder and said, "it's okay. These are Sai Argyle, Miriallia Haw, Tolle Koenig, Kuzzey Buzkirk, and you met Kira already." She turned her gun on him and said, "I dont care and you had no business piloting either. Your a mercenary." James shook his head,narrowed his eyes, and said, "If I hadn't, you would be dead already." Murrue lowered her gun in defeat. "We can not let them leave yet," She said. James nodded, "I know and we can expect more fighting. ZAFT isn't just going to go away yet. Help Kira get the Launcher Striker on the Stirke." She nodded as they went to the stirke.

Suddenly an explosion tore a small hole in the colony wall and a moebius zero and a CGUE came in. Apparently they have been in a vicous dog fight as the Moebius was missing all of its gun barrels. James was on his way to the cockpit of his machine as soon as he heard the explosion. He climbed in and started it up. "Lets go Shadow we have work to do" He took off and started towards the battle not worrying about the Shadow Packs yet. He thought he had enough power left. He fired his igelstellungs at the CGUE and it broke off its attack. It stared down the Shadow. Rau grit his teeth and said, "So this unknown is what gave us trouble ensuring success of this mission. I'll deal with it in a moment." With that Rau cut off the linear guns, gun barrel leaving Mu defenseless. James sped between the two machines and stopped Rau's pursuit of the Zero. "Thanks whoever you are," Mu said. James smiled at the sound of Mu's voice. "Your welcome. My name is James Black," He said as Mu's eyes widened and muttered it can't be as he recognized the voice. He shook it off to let him concentrate on his current battle. James said, "Kira when you get a shot take it." Sitting in the cockpit Kira said, "Got it James."

Rau's CGUE took off towards the strike and raised his rifle firing off rounds at the group there. Kira knelt the Strike down blocking the shots. James grit his teeth and charged at the masked man. He swung his sabers at the machine and Rau deftly dodged and turned back to the Shadow. He drew his sword and charged swinging his sword at James. James parried the attack and delivered a kick to the mobile suits torso. Suddenly a massive explosion was set off as a ship came into sight. Rau sighed in frustration and said, "Not bad kid." Rau looked at the ship and muttered, "So they failed to sink the ship as well." James smirked and his eyes flashed angrily. He swung again at Rau and then heard Kira say, "Move James." James swung again as Kira fired the agni at Rau, James boosted to the side as Rau barely managed to dodge losing a leg and his left arm in the blast. Rau quickly fled the scene and returned to the Vesalius.

A/N I hope you liked it. I know the battles werent that good. they will get better as I get used to writing stories. Anyway. Why would Kato help James, What did James whisper to him, Why does Mu know James' voice, who is James, Why did ZAFT not know about the Shadow, and finally whose body was drug into the hangar and who drug the body. All this may be explained in the next chapter well at least maybe why Mu knows James anyway. As to why the two pilots took off despite outnumbering him two to one would be because they needed to regroup and think of a strategy. Please review. it will help me grow as a writer.