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Gundam Seed: A Retelling

Phase One: False Peace

January 25 C.E. 71

Aboard the Vesalius

Outside Heliopolis

Saul Kessel put on his red helmet. He heard a click, signaling that the suit was sealed.

He turned to close his locker and caught his reflection in the small mirror on the locker door. Brown eyes, half obscured by messy locks of black hair. His parents always complained about his messy hair. However, he really didn't care how he looked. Another source of annoyance for his parents. But then he was always the black sheep of the family.

But most of his thoughts revolved around this mission. Orb was suppose to be neutral and yet they were apparently making new weapons with the Earth Alliance. Wasn't Orb suppose to be neutral? So why were they helping the EA? It just didn't make sense to him.

Yet they were. And now he and the rest of the team were suppose to attack a colony of a neutral nation and steal said weapons so they could be studied and eventually used against-

Yzak shouted something at him, bring him out of his thoughts.

"What was that Yzak?" he asked his teammate.

"Jeez! How the hell did someone like you become a red coat?!" Yzak shouted at him. "I said, hurry up and get the rest of your gear on!"

Yzak frequently asked him how someone like him became a ZAFT red coat as he usually didn't act like one. And it was kinda true. He tended to be rather lazy when he wasn't in a combat situation. But he was a skilled and unlike Yzak, a level-headed pilot and probably the best hacker on the entire team.

"Yeah, yeah. Calm down Yzak." he said in a lazy tone as he put on his jetpack and his combat gear.

"It's no wonder, that with all that shouting, you're hair turned white." he added, earning chuckles from Rusty, Nicol and Dearka as they started leaving for the hanger.

Yzak scowled at him and was about to say something, when Athrun intervened.

"Enough. Save your bickering until after the mission is over."

"Sorry." Saul politely said.

Yzak grunted and made his way towards hanger with the others.

"One of these days, he's gonna piss off the wrong person." he said to himself as he and Athrun followed the rest of the team to the hanger.

"What?" Athrun asked.

"Just talking to myself." he replied. "Good luck out there, Athrun. Let's hope this mission goes off without a hitch. There's way too many things that could go wrong."

Athrun nodded. "Same."

Inside Heliopolis

Kira Yamato sighed as he typed away at his laptop. Profeesor Kato had given him a lot of work do and the guy who was suppose to be working with on this had decided about thirty minutes ago to take a break and had yet to resume working.

"You know, you could actually start working again." he said as he looked up from his work and at the only other person in the gazebo.

The other person, a Coordinator named Christopher Dante, was currently playing his guitar. Chris, as he preferred to be call, was sixteen years old and a few inches taller than him. He had grayish-green eyes and dark brown hair that was styled into short, slicked back spikes. He was wearing blue jeans with a simple leather belt, a black t-shirt, and a gray unzipped hoodie. A pair of dog tags hung around his neck

Kira had only known him for a couple of months. And he was actually a bit surprised when he met him. Kira had heard rumors that Chris frequently picked fights with people. Leading Kira believe that he was violent person. Something that Kira would later learn wasn't true. Though he did get into fights, he had never seen Chris start a fight. Rather, all of the fights he did get into were in the defense of someone getting bullied by someone else or to protect himself.

"I could." Chris replied as he continued playing his guitar. "But you're so much better at this than I am."

"Professor Kato asked for us both to do this. So could you please get back to work."

"Alright, alight. Tell you what. You finish that page your on and then I'll take over for awhile and you can take a break. Deal?"

"Deal." Kira replied as he resumed his work.

A news report came on about the ZAFT invasion of Kaohsiung as Birdy landed on Chris's head.

"Birdy. Birdy." the mechanical bird chirped from it's new perch.

"Hey! Get off of there!" Chris shouted as he tried to brush Birdy off of his head.

Kira chuckled at the scene as he half listen to the news report.

"Hey Kira! Chris!" they heard Tolle shout.

Both of them turned their heads to see Tolle, Miriallia, and Chris's younger sister, Elizabeth. (Also a Coordinator and one year younger than Chris.)

Elizabeth was an inch shorter the Mir and had green eyes and light brown, almost dirty blond colored, shoulder length hair. She was wearing faded blue jeans with a rip in the left knee, and a bizarre purple and black stripped hoodie.

"Hi guys." Kira greeted as they walked up to the gazebo.

"Yo Tolle, Mir, Liz." Chris greeted as Birdy flew off his head and landed on Kira's shoulder.

"So this is where you two are hangin' out." Tolle said. "Professor Kato was looking for both of you."

"Don't tell me he's got more work us to do for him?" Chris asked in an annoyed tone as he set aside his guitar.

"I think so." Mir replied. "He's asked us to bring you both to him right away."

Kira sighed. "We're not even done what he dumped on us yesterday."

"Yeah." Chris said in agreement. "Why can't the professor do some of this himself?"

"Why are you complaining? Chances are, you would have had Kira do most of it anyway." Elizabeth said as she sat down next to her brother.

"Well, he should give it to Kira. He's the tech savvy one." Chris said in his defense.

Tolle and Miriallia sat down beside Kira, watching the news broadcast on Kira's laptop.

"Looks like there's heavy fighting Taiwan now." Tolle commented as he watched the news.

"Yeah. Looks like ZAFT has it's eyes on Kaohsiung and it's mass driver, if they haven't already taken it over." Chris said as he started playing "Imagine" by John Lennon on his guitar.

"Taiwan. That's not far from Orb. Will the homeland be safe?" Mir asked with concern.

"Don't worry Orb is neutral. ZAFT isn't gonna attack it. And the Earth Alliance isn't gonna do anything either. At least, as long as they don't lose Panama and Victoria." Chris answered. "But even then, Eurasia will keep the Atlantic Federation and those Blue Cosmos bastards from doing something crazy."

"Yeah. I have to say we're pretty safe." Liz said in agreement with her brother. "Especially here in Heliopolis. After all, why would anyone want to attack Heliopolis? We're neutral and there's absolutely nothing here."

Elsewhere

The Creuset team silently moved through the bowels of Heliopolis, heading towards the secret hanger of the Archangel.

When reached the hanger, Athrun performed a series of handsignals. But it was unnecessary, they already knew what they were suppose to do. They quickly and silently separated, spreading out throughout the hanger and began planting explosives throughout the hanger.

They quickly regrouped and made their way towards the interior of Heliopolis. It was time for phase two.

Aboard the Vesalius

Rau Le Creuset glanced at his watch and smiled. It was time. By now, his team should have successfully infiltrated Heliopolis, planted the explosives, and were ready for the second phase to begin.

"It's time." he said to Captain Ades.

"Weigh anchor!" Ades ordered. "Vesalius launch!"

The instant the Vesalius and Gamow moved towards Heliopolis, alarms went off in the Heliopolis's Dock Control room, in the bridge of the recently docked Earth Alliance ship and in the hanger control room of Archangel.

While Heliopolis scrambled it's defenses, the crew of the Archangel prepared it for take off if needed. When explosions tore the Archangel hanger, killing the crew members in the hanger, the entire command crew and the pilots of the G-Units.

Morgenroete Factory District

Heliopolis

Lt. Murrue Ramius braced herself as tremors from an explosion shake the colony.

"What the hell?! Did ZAFT fire at the colony?!" Nick Dante shouted as the tremors subsided.

"I don't know! But we have to get the G-Weapons to the Archangel, now!" she replied to the Morgenroete crew chief.

"The Surge, the Blitz, the Buster and the Duel are all ready to go! But we need more time to prep the Aegis, the Raven, the Strike and the Striker Packs for transport!" Chief Dante replied.

He turned to several of Morgenroete crew members. "Mendez, Carter, take your crews and get those four machines out of here and to the Archangel!"

"Aye chief!" the two men answered.

He then turned to several other Morgenroete workers. "Jenkins, Riley, Johanna, get the rest of the crews and get remaining teams and get those machines ready for transport!"

The two men nodded and quickly went about their tasks while the woman, Johanna Dante, looked at her husband with concern.

Nick put his hands on his wife's shoulders. "I know you're worried about the kids, but they're smart. They're probably already on their way to a shelter as we speak. They'll be fine. We have a job to do. We'll find them when we're finished here, I promise."

Johanna weakly nodded and joined the rest of the crews working on remaining mobile suits.

He turned to Lt. Ramius as drew his sidearm. "How the hell did ZAFT find out about this?"

Murrue shook her head. "I have no idea. Though I don't think it matters anymore."

Professor Kato's Lab

Tremors shook lab, sending various equipment falling to the ground.

'What was that?' Chris thought as steadied himself by grabbing the edge of the desk that he, Kira, and Sai were at.

Once the tremors died down, he called out, "Is everyone alright?"

"Yeah." Kuzzey said weakly.

"I'm okay." Mir answered.

"Same." his sister said.

"I'm fine." Tolle said.

The blond haired guy that was waiting for the Professor, nodded.

"Did a meteor hit the colony?" Sai asked.

"I don't know, but we should get to the shelters just in case." Liz said.

"I have to agree with Liz." Chris said. "We don't know what's going on. The smartest thing to do is to get to the shelters."

Elsewhere

"That's it." Yzak smugly said as he looked through his binoculars. "Just like Commander Le Creuset told us."

"What? That if prod them enough, that they'd come out of their hole?" Dearka replied.

"Of course." Yzak replied in a cocky tone. "After, the Naturals are stupid and pathetic."

Saul shook his head at Yzak's comment. "Don't underestimate your enemies Yzak. That will get you killed. And remember, the Naturals were the ones to create us."

"Natural lover." Yzak shot back.

"I don't love Naturals." he replied. "Nor do I hate them. They're simply people, just like us. But that enough of the philosophical debate. We still have a job to do. Miguel and Matthew will soon be here."

A moment later, two GINNs appeared over the nearby Morgenroete factory district and opened fire, destroying many of military vehicles that were escorting the mobile suits.

They activated their jetpacks, flying towards four of the six machines while the GINNs systematically destroyed the remaining escort vehicles.

"Destroy the parts we can't carry and the factories." Yzak ordered over the comm. "According to the intel, there should be six machines."

"There's four here which means the other two must still be in factory." Saul said over the comm as he opened fire on the guards below.

"Rusty and I will continue on to the factory." Athrun said. "Yzak, you guys take these four."

"Alright." he replied before turning to the rest of the team. "Listen up, those who take the one of those machines, disable the self-destruct first."

Saul, Yzak, Nicol, Dearka and half of the ZAFT soldiers landed near the transport vehicle of the first machine and quickly wiped out the guards closest to it.

"I got this one!" Saul shouted as he climbed into an open side hatch on vehicle. "You guys get the other three!"

'Let's see what Orb and the Earth Alliance has come up with.'

Elsewhere

More tremors shook the build as Chris and everyone else from Professor Kato's lab reached the elevators and stairwell.

"What is going on here?" he said to no one in particular.

"Let's worry about getting out of here first, then we worry about that." Sai replied as he pushed the elevator call button.

The second he did, the power failed.

"Well, it looks like we're taking the stairs." Tolle said as he opened the door to the stairwell.

There other people climbing the stairs towards the surface and shelter pods.

"Hey! Do you guys know what's going on?" Tolle asked them.

"I heard we're under attack from ZAFT." one man said.

"Yeah, there's mobile suits inside the colony." another said.

"What?!" Chris shouted disbelief. "Why the hell is ZAFT attacking us?!"

Suddenly, the blond haired guy that had been waiting for Professor Kato, took off down a hallway.

"Wait! Come back!" Kira shouted as chased after the guy.

"Kira!" Tolle shout at his friend.

"I'll go after them, you guys head to the shelters. We'll meet you there." Chris said as he took off after the two of them before anyone could object.

It didn't him long to catch up with the two of them. Unfortunately, the second he did catch up with them, part of the hallway behind him collapsed. Sending him stumbling to his hands and knees.

"You're a girl!" he heard Kira shout.

Chris looked up to see that person he thought was a guy, was indeed a girl.

"Yeah. What'd you think I was?" she rudely said.

Kira, looking embarrassed, said in his defense, "I...ah...just thought that-"

A tremor shook the building, interrupting him.

"I think we should get out of here, now." Chris said as he picked himself up.

I agree." the girl said. "You two go back. I need to check on something. By myself."

"Are you kidding? The entire hallway has completely collapsed. We can't go back that way." Chris said.

"Yeah, there's no way for us to go back now." Kira said. "But there should be more shelters in the factory district. C'mon!"

Morgenroete Factory District

Athrun, Rusty, and the ZAFT soldiers with them, were near the hanger of the two remain EA machines. They had for the most part, avoided combat, thanks in part to the distraction caused by Miguel and Matthew in their GINNs.

They had quietly moved around to one of the smaller side entrances of the now heavily guarded warehouse.

Athrun slowly cracked open one of the side doors and he and Rusty tossed in grenades. A few seconds later, there was a pair of explosions.

"Go go go!" he ordered to the rest of the team.

They charged into the warehouse, guns blazing.

Elsewhere

Saul sighed as finished rewriting the machine's OS. He couldn't help but wonder about this rather crappy OS. You'd think that Orb and the EA would have been able to come up with a proper OS for these things.

"Well, I'm done." he said over the comm. "How are you guys coming?"

"What?! Already?! How the hell can such a lazy ass like you, be done so fast?!" Yzak shouted in disbelief.

Dearka chuckled. "Figures you're the first one done."

Nicol said, "You always were the fastest at this kinda thing."

"What can I say, I know the language of computers." he replied. "You guys better hurry up."

Of course, Saul knew it was gonna take them a few more minutes before they were done. The only reason he was done so fast was that he was gifted when it came to computers.

He decided to pass the time while he waited for the others to finish by looking over the specs of this machine.

'The GAT-X209 'Surge'. Hmm...Phase Shift Armor. That sounds impressive. Let's see what this thing's got for weapons. Wow! I'm starting to like this thing. I hope I get use this baby after the mission is done.'

Morgenroete Factory District

Athrun fired off a burst of rounds at an armed Morenroete employee. The man fell to the ground while he heard a woman cried out, "NICK!!"

"Hey Athrun! We got a problem here!" Rusty shouted. "Someone screwed up! There's three machines here!"

"What?!"

"Take a look."

Athrun took a glance at the Earth Alliance mobile suits. With all the fighting, he hadn't really payed any attention to them. But now he realized that someone had made a major mistake. There were three prototypes in the warehouse. Meaning that there was seven machines, not six like their intel had said.

'How could our intel be that off?'

"We have to destroy the third machine!" he ordered. "Someone has to get into that machine and activate it's self-destruct!"

When Chris, Kira and the blond girl reached the factory district, they found a warzone. Armed Morgenroete employees and Heliopolis security forces were fighting off ZAFT soldiers around three mobile suits.

The mobile suits were unlike anything he had seen before. ZAFT's mobile suits tended to bulky and simple looking things while these ones were slimmer and more elegant. They remained him of a sci-fi version of an ancient samurai warriors.

"Father, I knew you betrayed us all!!" the girl shouted, bringing Chris from his thoughts.

Suddenly, an armed, female Morgenroete employee spun around and aimed her rifle at them.

"C'mon!" Kira shouted as he grabbed both his and the girl's arms and started running. "We have to get out of here!"

They quickly reached the nearest shelters. Two of them were full, but the third had a green light over the door, signaling that there was still room in that shelter.

Kira pushed the call button and a voice came over the intercom.

"Is there someone out there?" the voice asked.

"Yes. My friends and I need to get in. Please open the door." Kira answered.

"Friends? As in more than one?"

"Yes."

"Sorry but we're full to capacity as it is. Try the shelters in the left block."

"There's a girl with us." Chris said. "At least take her."

The man sighed and said, "Okay, we'll take her."

The door opened and both he and Kira shoved her in.

"Hey! What are you doing?! Let me-" the rest of her cries were silenced when the door closed, sealing the shelter.

"Well, let's get going Kira."

They quickly ran back to the warehouse. They were halfway across the catwalks when they spotted a ZAFT sniper on another catwalk, aiming at that woman from earlier.

"Look out! Behind you!" Kira shouted.

The woman spun around and fired at the sniper, killing him.

"CHRIS! KIRA! What the hell are you two doing here?!" the voice of Chirs's aunt, Johanna, called out from on top of one the mobile suits.

"Long story! Don't worry about us! We're heading to the shelters in the left block!" Chris shouted back to his aunt.

An instant later, there was an explosion coming from the left block.

"Both of you! Get down here now!" the woman they had saved, ordered.

"Doesn't look like we have much of a choice Kira." he said. "Now the question is, how are we gonna get down there?"

"I got an idea." Kira replied before he leap over the railing and onto the middle mobile suit that the woman was on.

"I know I'm gonna regret this." he said before jumping off the other side of catwalk and onto the machine his aunt was on.

He landed on the machine's left shoulder. A little sore but otherwise alright.

"What's going here?! Why is ZAFT attacking us?!" he shouted as his aunt fired off rounds from a pistol at a ZAFT soldier.

"Long story! Basically, ZAFT wants the machines we've been building!" Johanna replied as she fired the last rounds in her handgun, killing the soldier.

"Isn't that a treaty violation?!"

Johanna was about to reply when an explosion tore through a part of the warehouse. Flames quickly spread across the warehouse.

"Damn! This place isn't gonna last much longer!" she said. "Get in the mobile suit! We need to get out of here!"

Chris nodded. The whole warehouse was going up in flames. He quickly scrambled into the cockpit, followed by his aunt.

A massive explosion tore through the warehouse as the GAT-X303 Aegis, the GAT-X305 Raven, and the GAT-X105 Strike broke through their cradles and stood up.

So what do you think?

I haven't decide yet whether I should it Kira/Flay or Kira/Lacus. Though either way, Flay won't be all crazy like she in the first two-thirds of the series. I couldn't stand that in the series.

Also if anyone comes up with a better title, feel free to tell me.

Please review.