1. Kira/Lacus (3 votes)

1. Kira/Flay (3 votes)

2. Dearka/Miriallia (2 Votes)

3. Yzak/Shiho (1 Votes)

3. Natarle/OC (1 Votes)

3. Athrun/Lunamaria (1 Votes)

Here are the polls so far, Lacus and Flay are tied for Kira's pairing, with Dearka/Miriallia are in second. When the voting is done, I'll be taking the top three or four pairing you have chosen and those will be the other pairings in the story.

Remember to keep those votes coming. If you want a canon character to be paired up with an OC that you have created please be sure to send the info of the OC to me via PM. And if there is more than one OC selected for the same canon character, I will put them into this story and let you guys decide which one is better suited for the said canon character. That way it will be more fair than for me to decide which to put in.

Well anyways, with the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam SEED or any of their machines that I may include in this story. Sebastian Connor who will appear in this story was created and owned by Storm Wolf77415. The only OCs that I own are members of the Sasaki family and one machine I have created.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Comm chatter or T.V."

Sound

Chapter 2: Encountering

Time: 6:05 AM

Date: 1/25/ 71 C.E.

Location: Yamato Residence

Beep! Beep!

"Give me a break….." Kazuma said from underneath his covers of his twin bed in the Yamato residence. His hand reached up from under the covers, placed his hand on the alarm clock on his nightstand and turned it off. He then brought the alarm clock up to his face, looked at the time and sighed.

'I better get up, otherwise the nice professor will have my head on a plaque,' Kazuma thought, while placing the clock back on his night stand, removed the covers on him, and stood up. He then went through his daily routine; shower, teeth, hair the usual for almost anybody.

After exciting the bathroom, he went back to his room and got his usual clothing. Black dress pants, light blue t-shirt, a black and gun metal grey jacket that was left unzipped, and with a pair of black and white skater tennis shoes. Once dressed he walked over to the foot of his bed, grabbed his back-pack, slung it over his right shoulder, and walked back out of his room again.

'I wonder where Mr. and Mrs. Yamato are?' Kazuma thought, as he walked down a hallway passing Kira's room and the bathroom. 'They are usually upstairs around this time,' he finished with his thoughts, going down a flight of stairs and was about to walk into the kitchen when he heard a slight snore. Curiously, Kazuma rounded the corner to see Kira sitting at a table with a bowl of cereal in front of him with a small glass of orange juice. However he wasn't eating, his face was flat on the table snoring slightly with a spoon in his right hand.

"Poor guy," Kazuma said with a small amount of sympathy while walking up to Kira's half-asleep form and tapped his left shoulder.

Kira snorted as his eyes opened back up half way, raised his head, and looked over his left shoulder. "Morning Kazuma," he said sleepily before releasing a long yawn.

"Another all-nighter?" Kazuma asked, placing his bag on the opposite side of where Kira was sitting at and walked over to the fridge to look for something cold to drink.

"Yeah," Kira replied not looking up from his bowl and finally taking a bite of his cereal. "I stopped working on it about an hour or so ago so I didn't get much sleep," he finished, looking up from the bowl to see Kazuma opening a can of soda, take two quick gulps out of the can, and pulled out a slice of bread from the bread box near the refrigerator.

"You really have to stop with these all-nighters," Kazuma said, placing a slice of bread into a toaster and pressed down the lever. "Just because you and I are coordinators doesn't mean we can be lazy-bums," he finished turning around and leaning on the counter behind him.

"Blame the professor, not me," Kira said, taking a sip from his glass of orange juice and placing it back down on the table. "He's been working me to near exhaustion with all the things he's given me. How come he hasn't given anything to you?" he finished raising an eye brow at his friend, as the piece of toast popped up from the toaster and Kazuma grabbed it in mid air.

"He has. I've just been going in early to work on it. Which reminds me," Kazuma replied, finishing off his breakfast and throwing them in the trash. "The professor wants to see me for some reason, I think he wants me to pick up some parts or something," he finished walking over to the table picking his back-pack, putting it back up on his back and walked out of the kitchen.

"Is it the stabilizers and pumps I requested?" Kira asked, hopefully looking at Kazuma. "We really need those in order to complete the project we are working on," he finished, as Kazuma picked up a black motorcycle helmet with a medieval knight's helmet painted scheme on it and black gloves from the coat rack.

"It might be," Kazuma said, putting on the gloves and then helmet with the visor up. "I'm not sure, he didn't tell me what they were," he finished, picking up his keys and walked to the front door.

"I still don't understand why he wants you to pick them up," Kazuma heard Kira yell from the kitchen as he put his right hand on the door.

"I'm the fastest motorcycle road racer on Heliopolis, The Heliopolis All Round Circuit Championship proved that. I'm not called 'The Black Crusader' just because of my helmet's paint job," Kazuma boasted, looking towards the kitchen before he turned the door knob and opened the door. "See ya at the school, " Kazuma finished as he walked out the door and into the colony, shutting the door behind him as he walked towards his Electric Motorcycle that was parked on the side of the road in front of the Yamato residence .

The motorcycle itself looked exactly like one of the old YZF-R1 sport motorcycle from the 2lst century only this one had a electric motor and had a black paint job. (1)

Kazuma walked across the Yamato's yard, mounted his bike, and placed the ignition key into its place. He then turned it on, making the cycle roar to life as he revved the engine a few time. "I love that sound," Kazuma said to himself, as he lowered the visor, kicked up the kick-stand, revved the engine once more, and shot towards the main road.

(Several hours later outside of the colony)

Two Laurasia-class frigates and one Nazca-class destroyer have just launched several drop ships and were heading straight for Helipolis, while their commanding ships waited for the infiltration teams signal to launch all mobile suits. "Doesn't look so disappointed, Capt. Ades," Rau Le Creuset said, hovering toward the planning table in zero gravity while on the Nazca-class Vesalius's bridge.

"Well, I guess it wouldn't be too late if we wait 'til we hear back from the council!" Fredrik said, while still sitting in the Captain's chair, looking at his superior officer.

"It will be to late," Rau said, picking up a picture of one of the five A.F. mobile suit prototypes in his hand. "My sixth sense is telling me so. If we let things slip now we would eventually have to pay for those actions with our lives." He stopped for a few seconds, tossing the picture pass Fredrik and continued, "The Earth Forces' new mobile weapons. We must seize them before they are moved from there."

(Back in the colony)

"Stupid Kato, making me head half way across the colony only because I was ten minutes late," Kazuma mumbled as he moved his bike around the technical college's parking lot looking for a parking space while he had two small sized boxes filled with parts Kira had requested tied up to the rear of the electric motorcycle.

Kazuma took a quick glance around and found a parking spot near the front entrance that leads inside to the main tech building where Kira and his friends should be. He then pulled into the parking spot, dropped the cycle's kick stand, locked the breaks and turned off the motor. Kazuma took out the keys and dismounted.

"Need any help Lord Sasaki?" someone asked from behind Kazuma, making him look over his left shoulder to see who it was.

It was a man that stood around 5'6" from head to toe, so he was about five inches shorter than Kazuma. He had dark brown hair with deep blue eyes, however it was hard to tell because of the silver trimmed aviator-style sunglasses that covered his eyes. He wore a pair of faded blue jeans, a grey t-shirt, with a back-pack on his back, and a large duffle bag on his right shoulder.

Kazuma sighed. "Sebastian, please don't call me that," Kazuma said in a low tone as he untied the boxes from the back of his cycle. "It makes me feel old... and what if someone heard you?"

Sebastian laughed quietly while using his left hand to scratch the back of his head. "Sorry 'Takashi', but when you've been raised to treat your superiors well it's hard to stop," he said apologetically, with a small grin on his face.

"I can understand that," Kazuma said, finishing untying the two boxes from the bike and picking up the top box. "A lot of things my mom taught me haven't been forgotten yet. But are you sure you want to help? I mean you do have a lot of stuff with ya," he finished, looking at the large bags on Sebastian's back and shoulder.

"Don't worry about it, I didn't pack that much anyways," Sebastian reassured as he walked passed Kazuma and picked up the second box off of Kazuma's Electric Motorcycle with both hands. "What's in here anyways?" he asked as he followed the Kazuma into the tech building and up a flight of stairs.

"Parts mostly," Kazuma answered stopping in front of the 5th floor and pushing a button on the left side of the door, making it open as they continued towards the lab. "Kira requested some specific ones for the exo-suit we were making, remember Storm?" he finished with his own question towards the Storm Wolf of Jachin Due.

Sebastian glared at Kazuma. "How come I can't call you by your name in public, but you can call me by my Ace name?" he pouted.

"There is something else as well," Kazuma said, his tone turning very serious.

Sebastian noticed the change in his friend's voice and turned serious as well. "What is it?" he asked equally serious as they walked closer to the labs door.

"I need you to deliver something to Lord Uzumi," Kazuma said stopping in the middle of the hallway so Sebastian could stop beside him. He then moved the box to his right arm, leaving his left arm free to reach into his pocket and pull out a small PDA. "You remember me telling you about the G-weapons right?" he finished, holding out the PDA to Sebastian who picked it up and looked at the device.

Sebastian nodded while looking back up towards Kazuma. "Yeah, you told me about them when you found out who I was," he replied as he placed the box down on the floor to look through the PDA, only to find it was locked with a 'answer a question' lock. "What is Cagalli's nickname?" Sebastian read the question aloud with curiosity as he looked at Kazuma.

"I'd tell you the answer," Kazuma started, his voice still serious. "But she said if I ever told anyone what it is; she would cut open my stomach rip out my intestine, use it for a jump rope, and then strangle me with it. After she'd kill me, she would patch me back up, resurrect me, and then do it all over again," he finished feeling a cold chill go down his spine just thinking abut the amount of pain he would be in.

"That's some threat," Sebastian said, also feeling a cold chill go down his spine.

"It was a promise," Kazuma said flatly and without emotion making Sebastian blink.

"Oh….." Sebastian said quietly as he looked back down at the PDA in his hand. He then kneeled down, took off his duffle bag, opened up one of the side pockets, and placed the PDA into it. "What's in the PDA?" he asked zipping up the pocket back up, placing the bag back on his right shoulder and picking up the box again.

Kazuma leaned over to Sebastian's right ear and whispered something to him, making Sebastian give a very low but long whistle. "So the crappy OS is just a cover up," he questioned as he and Kazuma continued to walk towards the lab.

"Correct," Kazuma replied stopping in front of the lab's door and punched in the code to open the door. "Anyways we better put our masks back on," he finished, as he saw the door slide open. When the door completely opened, it reveled the inside of the lab and most of its occupants.

Kazuma took a quick glance to see Kuzzey Buskirk behind one of the main monitoring consoles that linked to the Exo-suit in the middle of the lab; Tolle Koenig and Miriallia Haw were to his right while Kira was in front of the console. Sai Argyle was behind one of the main servers, doing some quick work. "Sorry we're late guys," Sebastian said as he passed Kazuma and walked into the lab, making everyone in the room look towards them.

"So Sebastian and the 'Black Crusader' decide to grace us with their presents," Tolle joked with a smile on his face, as the two teens started to walk into the lab. "You two have some timing, Mir, Kira, and I just got here."

"What took you two?" Sai asked looking towards them raising an eyebrow at them.

"I had to pick some things up. Oh, and Kira, Santa says 'Sorry for being a month late'," Kazuma joked before he noticed some one leaning against the wall near the door out of the corner of his eye. He could definitely tell the person was a girl around their age, she wore a brown coat and light tan pants that showed her figure slightly, she also had a big black hat that was obviously hiding most of her blond hair. She took a quick glance at Kazuma, revealing a set of very familiar set of golden-brown eyes. 'She looks very familiar… maybe the others know who she is,' Kazuma thought as he continued to walk towards the group.

''The Black Crusader' comes to this college?' Cagalli thought curiously, as she watched him walk towards the group of teens. She remembered watching several races he was in on T.V. back at Orb's mainland. He always wore a black jump suit and had a voice changer so only a select few really knew who he was, so this was the first time she had heard his real voice. 'I though he had gone pro after he won the Heliopolis All Round Circuit Championship,' she finished with her thought as she continued to watch him.

"The parts came in?" Kira asked, excited that the he requested two months ago have finally came in.

"Seems like it," Sebastian said, putting the box he was carrying onto a table near the exo-suit, while Kira, Tolle, Miriallia, and Kuzzey created a small semi-circle around the said table. "But I have to get going otherwise my shuttle will leave without me," he finished making the entire group, besides Kazuma, look at him.

"Why are you leaving?" Miriallia asked the question that was on most of everyone's mind.

Sebastian smiled sadly a little bit. "I've got a family emergency down on earth, I'm going to be there for awhile," he said while looking at the group who all had a sympathetic look on their faces. "Do you guys know where he is now?" he asked.

"He said he was heading towards Ralvey for something," Kuzzey said, disappointed one of his friends is leaving. "If you hurry you might catch up with him," he finished with a small smile, hoping the info he gave Sebastian would help.

"Be sure to call us when you get to Earth, Ok," Miriallia said, also with a small smile on her face.

"I will," Sebastian said, making his way to the door and opening it. "If you see Prof. Kato again, tell him I said, 'He's a slave driver'," he finished with a small laugh, waving good-bye to his friends as he left the lab and shut the door behind him.

"Oh! And speaking of Prof. Kato," Sai started walking up to the group, pulling out a small disk, and holding it up to Kira in his left hand. "He wanted me to give you this; I'm assuming its more work for Morgenroete?" Sai asked, curious about the disk as Kira took it from Sai.

"It's nothing special," Kira said looking over the disk. "It's regarding improving the frame setup module. It's actually just a program analysis," he finished with a smile, happy it wasn't more work.

"I would say that's a lucky break," Kazuma said placing the small box on the table, taking off his helmet, and holding it in his hands. "By the way, who's the girl?" he asked making everyone blink.

'Ok, that guy looks familiar,' Cagalli thought as she got a clear view of Kazuma's face. 'I know I've seen him some where before,' she finished her thought as she tried to remember where she had seen him.

"What girl?" they asked in unison, making Kazuma's mind go blank while Cagalli's eyebrow twitched.

"Uh… the girl leaning on the wall behind me," Kazuma said flatly, pointing toward Cagalli with his right thumb.

"How do you know that's not a guy, Takashi?" Tolle asked, looking at his taller friend.

"Well for one thing," Kazuma started, placing his helmet on top of one of the boxes on the table and leaned on it. "If she wanted to pass herself off as a guy, then she should have used baggier clothing and not something that hugs her figure a little bit. The hat is also a don't since it has so much room at the top of the cap, so she should have worn something similar to a baseball cap," he stopped taking a quick sniff of the air before he continued. "Lastly, she used Herbal Essence Drama Clean All-In-One shampoo. That brand can only be found in the Pepperidge Herbal Essence store on Heliopolis at the women's only section at the hot springs," he finished, making Cagalli loose her footing and slide slightly towards the left.

Cagalli quickly recovered from her surprise and glared at Kazuma, with a slight embarrassed blush on her cheeks. 'Is he a pervert or something?' she thought still glaring at him.

"How do you know that?" Miriallia asked crossing her arms.

"You remember his fan club, right Mir?" Kira said putting the disk on the table and making everyone divert their attention toward him. "Ever since he won the Championship and became known as 'The Black Crusader', they have been pestering him day and night," he finished, remembering a lot of nights were girls try to sing to Kazuma at night and all the notes he had to deliver.

"And it's annoying!" Kazuma said almost above a yell as he placed his left hand on the table. "I have to go by smell now, just to avoid them," he finished, as Cagalli stopped glaring at him, understanding what it was like to have a fan club that kept bothering you non-stop.

"Anyways," Sai started, making the group look at him. "We better start working on the suit. Otherwise Prof. Kato will get mad at us."

(1) Kazuma's Motorcycle image: (ww)w(dot)motorcycledaily(dot)com/100906middle(dot)jpg
Whew... That was probably the fastest chapter I've writen in a long time. Mostly character development but I hope you, the readers, like it. Remember to keep those votes coming.

So until next time, This is SPARTAN-251, signing off...(Click)