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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED AU: Raising the Black Flag
An Alternative Universe Story, based on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Written by,
William R. Woods
Aka "Deathzealot"
Or, "Deathzealotzero"
With some ideas and support from,
Seth M. Klein
Aka "Persistent Dreamer"
Phase One: Betrayal
The Earth Alliance's G-Project, an attempt to develop their own mobile suits for use against the superior GINN of ZAFT. It was originally planned by then Commodore Lewis Halberton of the Atlantic Federation Orbital Fleet in early CE69 but was rejected due to the general belief of several senior commanders of the Allied Sponsor Nations that the superior number of Mobile Armors would win any direct conflict with ZAFT. This would prove to be false during the first months of the war, and the plan would be put forth once more. However, it was shown that something more was needed. This would be found when someone higher-up in the Atlantic Federation government managed to secure the support of Morgenroete Incorporated and its facilities on the neutral Heliopolis Colony. However, the now Rear Admiral Halberton and his superiors didn't want to have everything in one small basket, sort of speak. Therefore they would introduce a second phase of the project based at the nearby Eurasian Artemis Space Fortress which became the Joint Earth Alliance Operated Base Artemis soon after. This so-called second phase would receive backup data from the first phase at Heliopolis via a high-end communication laser link between the two locations. It would be using this data that the second phase would develop the prototype G-Weapon GAT-X101 Rubicon and its pre-production GAT-00D Long Dagger counterpart a month before the official G-Project prototypes wererolled out. This would be very helpful for the Earth Alliance for when ZAFT's elite Le Creuset Team found about the project and attacked Heliopolis Colony much of the data from the G-Project was safely stored at Artemis allowing the Earth Alliance to start developing their own mass produced mobile suits as soon as possible…
- Taken from The Mobile Suit: A Historical Overview
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Bridge
AFS Archangel
Heliopolis Nearspace
Lagrange Three, Earth Sphere
On the bridge of the assault ship known as the Archangel,the gathered crew could only look on in shock and horror at the expanding field of debris which had once been a peaceful space colony only moments before. The Colony Heliopolis was not the first nor the last colony to be destroyed or damaged during the brutal dance of war over the last several months but still shocking for this colony did not support their own Earth Alliance nor ZAFT of the PLANT Colonies it was a neutral colony wanting to stay out of the brutal war. However, thanks to some influential people in both the Earth Alliance and the colony's supporting country the United Emirate of Orb it was the site of the Earth Alliance program to development their own mobile suits, equal to those in the use of the ZAFT organization. This program brought ZAFT to the colony who did not want to give up their advantage against the Alliance and attacked the colony. The resulting battle saw the colony now this expanding field of debris with only the large resource asteroid that once anchored one end of the destroyed colony still intact.
The various crew manning the stations on the bridge of the Archangel could only stare in shock at the view, while the three remaining senior officers of the ship floated over to the front of the bridge as they stared in shock and horror themselves at the new debris field that had replaced the colony. One of the officers a blond-haired man shook his head at the sight before turning away with a soft curse.
"It was so fragile," the ship's new captain, one Lieutenant Murrue Ramius, managed to murmur softly. Making a few across the bridge nod in agreement while the man, Lieutenant Mu La Flagga, took a breath before turning to the third officer a black-haired woman who had come out from the small CIC located just below the bridge.
"What about the Kid? Did you manage to get in contact with him Ensign?" the man asked the woman who had been looking in total shock at now dead colony quickly tore her eyes from the view to look over at him knowing by Kid the Lieutenant meant Kira Yamato, the current pilot of the prototype G-Weapon Mobile Suit Strike.
"Yes Sir, Mister Yamato is now on his way back to the ship though he managed to get a bit far from the ship in the Collapse. Therefore, it may take a few minutes," she reported making Lieutenant La Flagga nod in relief. He then turned his attention back to the Captain but was distracted like the rest of the bridge crew when the sensor station started to beep harshly. The crew member at that position looked down at his station in confusion before blinking in surprise and looking back up at the officers who were looking at him in confusion.
"We are detecting two heat sources which are now moving away from the colony's Nearspace and on a course back to Lagrange Five. It looks like ZAFT is retreating," the man reported making the officers look at each in shock before Lieutenant La Flagga pushed himself over to the sensor station to look down at the readings himself.
"This isn't like Le Creuset for he is like a dog with a meaty bone and he won't quit like this," the man mentioned with a frown eying the readings himself and seeing that the younger man was entirely correct. Two heat sources were now heading away from the remains of the colony and a course back towards their homeland.
"Well if I remember right Lieutenant we did take out all of their GINNs between that first battle and the fight inside the colony, therefore, wouldn't he retreat since he had little combat power left after all," the black haired officer Ensign Natarle Badgiruel mentioned with a shrug of her shoulders. Making the Lieutenant shake his head with a deep frown on his face.
"No, he still had the four G-Weapons he took from us along with some real pilots for them, therefore, I don't know why he left like this," the man replied as he eyed the sensor display before turning to stare out the viewport before shaking his head.
"The only thing I can think of is that something most likely spooked him but what is the question," he stated with a confused look on his face before turning to look at the younger enlisted man seated at the sensor station.
"Chief is there anything else out there which could have spooked him like that?" he asked the man who only frowned before leaning forward and started going through different readings.
"Well our sensors are still kind of blocked by the soup from the collapse of the colony but from what I see there is nothing..." the man mentioned with a shake of his head making the officers look at each other in some confusion. Before the sensor officer cried out in shock as another harsh beeping started to come from his station, "Wait! There are three more heat sources fast approaching us...Orange Seven! Jesus! They are right on top of us."
The three officers look at each other in shock before whipping around to look through the main viewport just in time to see three forms pushing their way through the debris and into the almost clear space that surrounded the large assault ship. The officers relaxed slightly when they saw two of the ships having the familiar forms of Drake Class Missile Frigates thought two of the officers were confused at the appearance of the third and lead ship of the small taskforce. It was clearly related to the Jutland Class Cruiser which had been the mainstay of the Eurasian Federation Space Fleet for a few years before the start of the war. However, that was confusing the two for the majority of the Jutland Class ships that had been taken into the overall larger Earth Alliance Fleet were destroyed at the Battle of Nova. Lieutenant La Flagga, however, did recognize the design and let out an impressed whistle attracting the attention of the two female officers at his side.
"That is a Salamis Class Cruiser Carrier heavily based on the Eurasian Jutland Class Cruiser which had been originally designed to carry a large number of mobile armors to counter the Eurasians going for the all-gun space navy with little support for mobile armors unlike the Atlantic Federation. However, by the time I saw one at the Battle of Nova, it was carrying six mercenary operated mobile suits. From what I found out after Nova is that while they were initially designed to carry mobile armors, the Earth Alliance converted it mid-design to carry, as well as support, mobile suits using data from the early development of this ship if I am not mistaken. Therefore, that does kind of explains why Le Creuset ran for he took part in the Battle of Nova and three of those Mercs almost killed him along with heavily damaging his ship," La Flagga explained with a nod of his head making the two other officers relax fully beside him. A beeping soon attracted their attention over to the station that mirrored the sensor station behind the captain's chair. The enlisted man at that station looked up at their curious looks with a small smile on his face.
"Ma'am I am getting a communication from the lead ship which is identified as the AFS Mycale. Do you want me to put it up?" the man asked making the officers look at one another before Captain Ramius shook her head with a smile and turned to look at the communication officer.
"Yes Petty Officer put it up," she ordered waving a hand at the screen mounted above the bridge's main viewport. The man only nodded before entering a few commands into his station which was followed by the screen flashing to show the seated figure of an Earth Alliance officer. One that both Captain Ramius and Ensign Badgiruel knew well making the two look at each other in shock before turning their attention back to the man.
"Captain Koopland sir, this is a surprise. I didn't know you were transferred from the Montgomery," Captain Ramius managed to say with a salute which the man returned with a small smile on his face as he eyed the three of them before nodding.
"Lieutenant Ramius, Ensign Badgiruel it is nice to see the two of you again but yes I ordered to take command of the Mycale about a week ago leaving the Montgomery in the hands of Commander Reed. Now if you please can you tell me what happened here Lieutenant Ramius?" the man asked with a hard edge to his voice making Captain Ramius sigh before quickly explaining to the man what had occurred in the last six hours. The man frowned deeply at this before leaning back in his seat and quietly speaking to someone off screen for a moment before turning back to look at the camera.
"Very well Lieutenant, I am sorry to say I am going to have to take you and what remains of your crew in custody including the young man you have piloting the Strike G-Weapon. I shall send over a Marine Detachment and a prize crew lead by Lieutenant Commander Andrews in a bit," the man said shocking the three officers and their bridge crew. Lieutenant La Flagga angrily gritted his teeth before looking at the two shocked women at the corner of his eye before looking up at the screen.
"On what charges sir?!" he asked with an angry glare on his face. The man blinked at this before turning his attention to La Flagga.
"Lieutenant La Flagga I presume?" the man asked with a frown making La Flagga blink before nodding in answer before the Captain nodded himself before continuing on answering the pilot's question, "The Charges? Well, that is easy. First, you allowed ZAFT to find out about the G-Project, and while Captain Ray did back up his data to the secondary site at Artemis, we still lost four of the G-Weapons. Secondly, you allowed a Civilian, a Coordinator at that, into the cockpit of the classified Strike G-Weapon. Third, you allowed him to pilot the said G-Weapon, and while his performance against the enemy GINNs is remarkable, he shouldn't have been in the cockpit in the first place. Lastly, you let more civilians, along with employees of a non-Alliance based organization, to embark on the also classified Archangel. Does that answer your question Lieutenant?" the Captain explained making Captain Ramius start to grit her own teeth in anger at this while looking over at the shocked face of Ensign Badgiruel. Those charges were bogus considering it is not their fault that ZAFT found out about the G-Project, nor was it their fault for ZAFT capturing four of the G-Weapons. Not to mention if they hadn't let Kira pilot the Strike all of them would be dead right now along with the refugees they took onboard.
"I am quite disappointed in you Ensign Badgiruel for while I could expect all of that from Lieutenant Ramius. I don't believe that you could have gone along with all that in the first place," the Captain mentioned with a frown. Staring at the young Ensign who shook her head with an angry look on her face staring up at the man who had been one of the handfuls of her superior officers she had actually respected. However, before she can say anything in response, she noticed some commotion from the Captain's side of the communication link which was soon somewhat repeated by one of the crewmembers in the CIC behind the three officers make them look over in confusion.
"...What the hell does that boy think he is doing?" the Captain angrily asked at someone off-screen while Natarle looked over at the other officers before turning to look down into the CIC.
"What is going on Petty Officer?" she asked one of the two men manning the CIC who only looked up with a sigh before turning back to his console for a moment.
"It's the Strike Ma'am. I am putting it up on the monitor alongside the Captain's communication screen," the man replied making Natarle frown slightly before looking back up at the screen just in time to see a smaller screen appear on the monitor at one corner of the Captain's communication screen. It showed the Strike approaching what looked to be a damaged Heliopolis Lifepod along with another he already carried under one arm of the mobile suit. This made all three officers frown before turning their attention back to Captain Koopland who looked all out angry at what is going on.
"...I do not care. Get him on my screen now Ensign!" the man bellowed off screen. Before the smaller screen showing the Strike blinked once before showing its own communication screen with the face of Kira Yamato pilot of the Strike who blinked in some surprise at the camera before shaking his head with some annoyance clear on his face.
"Kira Yamato I am Captain Koopland of the AFS Mycale I need you to cease and desist with your current rescue operation for we are not here for Search and Rescue. Ships are already in route to do so," the Captain ordered quite calmer than he was before making Natarle sigh and rubbing her forehead already knowing that won't work with the young man while Mu La Flagga just grinned.
"That may be true sir, but both of these life pods are damaged with this one more seriously than the other. Therefore, I am retrieving this pod before returning to the Archangel," Kira calmly replied as he turned his attention back to his piloting while the Captain's face went red in anger before he leaned forward into his pickup with an angry snarl.
"I don't care that they are damaged. I need you onboard the Archangel now so I can take you and your friends into custody!" the man angrily declared making Kira blink at him in shock before he shook his head and cut off the communication feed making the window revert back to the image showing the Strike now reaching for the Life Pod. Captain Koopland snarled in anger once more, and all three officers looked worried for the man now looked downright furious, and he leaned outside the pickup field and growled an order to someone off screen making them all frown. Suddenly the sensor officer cried out in shock as his station started to beep harshly.
"Ma'am! The Mycale is powering up one of its turrets and aiming for the Strike!" the man reported. Making the trio of officers look over at him in shock and could only say a single collective "What" in response before the screen went white as the Mycale fired one of its small secondary beam cannons at the life pod the Strike now had a hold of with one hand. The green beam from the Mycale sliced through the Lifepod like it was nothing, barely missing the Strike as it exited. However, the Strike was not entirely scot free as the unarmored Lifepod exploded shredding the mobile suit's hand and peppering the mobile suit with debris which sent the machine spiraling away. While the other life pod was sent into a spiral as well almost hitting a piece of debris before it managed to come to a stop due to one of the pod's damaged thrusters firing correcting its spin before it sputtered and died. The Strike meanwhile steadied itself grabbing a piece of debris and firing off its own thrusters to steady itself. However, no one else noticed this as all eyes were on the growing cloud of debris that once been a life pod and many innocent civilians who perished in the explosion.
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Cockpit
Strike G-Weapon
Heliopolis Nearspace
Lagrange Three, Earth Sphere
In the cockpit of the Strike, its pilot one Kira Yamato could only stare in shock at his cockpit's main screen and the cloud of tiny pieces of debris that once been a Space Colony's Lifeboat. Which carried eighty civilians, people, similar to him if he hadn't been pushed into the Strike several hours before. Unlike the other lifeboat that he had retrieved which had its communication system damaged along with its thrusters that one actually had communications and therefore he had been talking to someone on that pod only seconds before it was destroyed, a someone that he actually knew. The man Davis Koenig had been the father of his best friend Tolle and a volunteer emergency worker. Therefore he had been reasonable for everyone on that lifeboat. He also knew thanks to the man that several others including his own father had managed to make it to that pod. Now all of them were dead thanks to a ship he had thought to be an ally.
Kira could only sob in anguish at this as his shaking hands started to rub his face as he began to cry both in sorrow and anger at what had happened. He never got along with his father all that much, but lately, it seemed like the two of them were actually on the way to having a better relationship in the end. Therefore, it felt like a piece of his heart had been ripped out of his chest. Then there was the news that several of the others onboard that pod he knew as well which made things even worse off. As he sat there, he could only stare at his hands as tears started to float around his head in zero-gravity.
Suddenly a beeping from his controls made him look up in confusion at the screens that surrounded his cockpit chair wondering what is going on before he noticed the screen zooming on the large ship at the center which had destroyed the life pod moments before. The window zoomed all of the ways to one of the hanger pods that ran alongside the ship and that the door to the pod was opening to launch something. He also noticed that two of its turrets had lined up on the Archangel, a ship that still carried his friends onboard.
His eyes had widened at this before they narrowed in anger and he didn't even notice as a purple colored seed spin in his vision before exploding in harsh light. He suddenly snarled in rage and grabbed the controls. Outside the cockpit, the Strike's intact hand rose up and grabbed the large sword that was stored over one shoulder before the machine's thrusters flared pushing the mobile suit towards the three ships facing off against the Archangel and he promised not a single of his friends was going to die here. Not if he could help it.
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Bridge
AFS Archangel
Heliopolis Nearspace
Lagrange Three, Earth Sphere
Onboard the Archangel the three senior officers, the bridge crew and everyone watching the exterior video feeds piped throughout the ship could only stare in shock and horror at what happened in the last few seconds. An Atlantic Federation warship had fired on innocent civilians and killed them in cold blood. The majority of them knew that the regular Colony Lifeboat like that one destroyed could carry up to hundred people who were only the drop in the bucket compared to other tragedies like the Bloody Valentine Disaster, HS Mercy Incident during the Battle of Nova, and a couple another similar incidents. Still, that was around a hundred innocent people dead right in front of their eyes. That didn't include anyone that were killed when the other lifeboat held by the Strike was sent flying along with the mobile suit.
On the screen the figure of Captain Koopland stared off-camera for a moment, most likely through his own forward viewport before he shook his head with a frown before turned his attention away from the viewport and looked to the side towards someone off-screen. Both Mu La Flagga and Natarle Badgiruel had shaken off their shock and was now staring up at the screen with anger clearly displayed on their faces. However, before the man started to speak Lieutenant La Flagga shot a look to the woman next to him who only nodded before starting towards the CIC snagging her wayward headset along the way.
"Well, that takes care of that. Operator have our ready team launch to retrieve the Strike and have another team prepare to launch behind them," the man ordered which the camera's microphone managed to pick up making Lieutenant La Flagga look up with an interested look for that sounded like the Mycale was carrying mobile suits but what is the question. His orders done he turned his attention back to the pickup and leaned forward with a frown.
"Now Lieutenant Ramius are you going to have your crew stand down or am I going to have to disable your ship and tow it back to Artemis?" the man ordered staring down the camera at the two officers. Not evening caring about the anger and disgust displayed on the face Lieutenant La Flagga, and the growing anger displayed on the face of Lieutenant Ramius.
"CAPTAIN! You just killed innocent civilians, and that is the only thing you can say!" she finally said exploding with anger making the Captain reel back in shock before his face went in red anger himself and he leaned back down towards the camera with a snarl.
"Yes, Lieutenant for they don't really matter for I did warn that young man, and even then I was trying to target the Strike to disable it not the Lifeboat. This ship and crew are still new therefore there should be no surprise that there is still some bugs that need to be worked out. Besides Lieutenant I don't have to answer to you about this," he replied making Murrue only shake her head in shock at this. Before the man raised a hand to signal something and everyone on the bridge gasped as they saw two of the main guns on the Mycale swivel around to target the Archangel with one actually pointing up at the bridge of the ship where they currently are standing. While just as this happened, the doors to the ship's hangar pods started to open showing that two unknown mobile suits were standing there ready to be launched making Mu narrow his eyes in some understanding. The mobile suit looked quite similar to the Strike itself or any of the other X100 Series G-Weapons but sporting smaller shoulders and what looked to be a pair of beam sabers on the waist. They also carried a shield and rifle similar to what the Strike carries in its Aile Form. Those two mobile suits were apparently based on the G-Weapons. Therefore, they would have to be in development for the past few months alongside the G-Weapons themselves which explains the G-Project Second Phase did more than just backing up data from the Primary Phase at Heliopolis. The Lieutenant could only frown at this before turning his attention back to the communication from Captain Koopland.
"Now Lieutenant I shall ask again are you going to stand down or am I going to have to get a little rough and disable your ship directly," the man mentioned making the two officers glare up at the screen however before they could do anything Captain Koopland was distracted by a shout from off-screen.
"Captain! The Strike is heading directly for us! I think it is going to attack us!" the officer shouted making Captain Koopland looking off camera in some confusion as the two unknown mobile suits launched from the ship already heading for the Strike rushing towards the Mycale.
"What! You mean that hit didn't disable it?" Captain Koopland shouted in shock before noticing the still open communication channel and sliced his hand across his throat in the universal gesture for cutting off communication. The channel remained open just enough for the Captain to turn and start shouting out orders. Already another pair of the unknown mobile suits were launched from still opened hangar doors. Meanwhile, the Archangel crew could only watch the next few minutes in shock as the Strike started its attack.
First, the Strike raised its shield towards the first mobile suit before firing off the attached "Panzer Eisen" rocket anchor which slammed into the mobile suit drawing it into a shot from its partner mobile suit destroying it. The other mobile suit paused in shock before a swipe from the large "Schwert Gewehr" sword held in the Strike's remaining intact hand cutting the other mobile suit in half as the Strike flashed past destroying it as well. The fresh pair of mobile suits soon found themselves the G-weapons next victims and soon were killed as well similarly to the second mobile suit. The three ships then started to fire their close in weapons as the Strike rapidly closed in on the Mycale,but the Strike is equipped with Phase Shift Armor and the CIWS rounds just harmlessly bounced off the mobile suit like nothing. A moment later saw found the Strike right up in front of the bridge of the Mycale and with a single swipe of the large blade cut straight through the bridge window and into the bridge itself destroying it. The Strike then turned and fired off its Rocket Anchor at one of the flanking Drake Class Frigates destroying its own bridge with a great crunch of metal. The wire attached to the anchor was cleanly sliced through by the sword freeing the Strike from pulling in the now damaged form of the anchor.
The Strike then turned and boosted past the smoldering remains of the Mycale's bridge before stabbing the blade into the hull of the Mycale slicing as he went hitting the ship's reactor a moment later. The Strike then rushed towards the remaining intact Drake Class as the Mycale exploded behind it sending its intact portside hangar pod spiraling off. The last Drake tried to move away from the demon given form in the Strike while firing its CIWS guns almost pitifully in response to the rushing mobile suit. Like before, to no avail and with two clean slices from the large anti-ship sword the Drake was now a smoldering wreck with one side of its hull completely open to space while the ship's small bridge tower floated free from the ship. Then with one last move, the Strike sent its anti-ship sword spinning towards the first Drake as it tried to retreat from the battle piercing through the Frigate's hull like butter destroying it in a massive explosion as its own reactor went up. The three ships of the Mycale Taskforce where now a large cloud of debris and the flaming wreck of one of the Drake Class ships. The Strike then stopped moving as its armor lost color as it lost power for its Phase Shift Armor. This battle was now over.
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Post Chapter Notes
Well that was a giant boulder into the waters of the canon story, wasn't it? Well, I did warn you all in the foreword that this was going to happen. You still here? Good. That isn't going to the last of the so-called boulders and yes you can expect the ripples from this to continue all the way to the end of the story.
That said this chapter covers the major break of the Archangel from the Earth Alliance similar to the Battle of JOSH-A and Cyclops did in canon. This time, I had Kira doing the "break-up", but you can expect that the majority of the crew of the Archangel agreeing with him, especially since I have much of the discussion between the officers and Koopland piped through the entire ship so everyone heard everything. And many also saw the destruction of the Lifepod on the screens as well.
As for the second Lifepod seen here and destroyed by the Mycale in this chapter I figured it would be a good way to help the break along. Not to mention having Haruma Yamato onboard the Pod along with Tolle's Dad and several other people Kira knows. This is, of course, is to force Kira into his SEED mode a bit early, but allowing Kira to slaughter the Mycale and its taskforce far easier than he would usually at this point of the story. Also, I made the Strike go Phase Shift Down at the end of this chapter thanks to the power issue with the Strike since it already fought a battle with Miguel earlier. Therefore, I don't think it would have the power to do another full on battle. However, with the Strike being equipped with the Sword Pack which doesn't have a Beam Rifle to help drain its battery faster would make its power last a bit longer.
The Mobile Suits mentioned in this chapter are canon unlike some others I am going to introduce into the story shortly. However, they have only introduced a bit earlier in this story than the official story thanks to the G-Project having its Second Phase based at Artemis which allowed the Earth Alliance to deploy mobile suits earlier. This is the first time they are officially used by the Alliance having to rely on mercenary piloted mobile suits before this, and the Alliance will use them in several other places besides here. So you can expect them to appear elsewhere in the story before the general introduction of other mobile suits.
The Jutland Class mentioned here is actually based on the Salamis Class cruiser from UC Gundam. Here it is a Eurasian designed ship to counter the Atlantic Federation designed Nelson Class. However, thanks to the Eurasian Space Forces going with an "all gun" fleet instead of focusing on mobile armors kind of gave them a big kick in the pants during a few intense skirmishes that happened before the start of the war between the Atlantic Federation and Eurasian Federation. Not to mention the Jutland Class ships taken into the larger Earth Alliance fleet suffered horribly against ZAFT ships and mobile suits, both during the CE69 Blockade and the space battles of the Bloody Valentine War. The Salamis Class mentioned here was a project that was started by the Eurasians to counter this but was a bit too late and was gobbled up by the Earth Alliance itself. Therefore, the Nelson Class of the MSV-R becomes the Salamis Class in this story.
Before I close these notes, I like to mention that there were a few different scenes I had in mind for the battle between the Archangel and the Mycale Taskforce. A couple had the Archangel itself being the one reasonable for the destruction of the Mycale and its taskforce. With one of them having the Mycale and escorts firing on the ship but to no effect thanks to the laminated armor and the ship returning fire which destroys the other ships. Another almost mirrored the Artemis scene in the series where the ship is taken over by an opposing force before the crew managed to somehow get control of the ship back before destroying the escorting Mycale. The last one had the taskforce destroying life pods as they went for some stupid reason of leaving no witnesses or something like that. That said I like this scene better for Kira is not part of the Atlantic Federation military, therefore, had no real hesitation with going after allied ships like that. Not to mention it shows the SEED mode a little earlier. However, I do admit it was kind of hard trying to make things interesting with the Strike only sporting the Sword Pack. I do admit I almost used an author hand-wave to have the Strike equipped with the Aile, but I did not for it would have been lazy. That said I like to mention I did write out a few of these mentioned scenes and may have them showing up as omakes in later chapters.
Alright, all of that said folks that is it for this chapter and I shall see you in the next chapter which shall be next Thursday sometime. And no it is not a coincidence that this is the same day that the newest episode of G-Reco comes out. Till then Ja ne!
