Gundam SEED: Fateful Encounters
Chapter 3: The story
"We found them Commander" a male voice report to his communicator. "Thank you, bring them here". The man carried the two unconscious being into his vehicle and started driving to.
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ALLIANCE MILITARY
Kira waked up and found himself on a room where everything is unknown to him. He felt a small headache that he touch his forehead and found out it was wrapped in bandages. His lower part of his mouth is also bandaged.
"Where am I?" that is his first word that he muttered after he wake up.
He looked at the white ceiling and started rolling his eyes on the sides. There was a flat screen pinned in a wall on the upper right of his bed. There was a newly furnished empty brown table with a wooden chair in it.
What is this place?
He heard some footsteps from the other side of the white sliding door. The footsteps stops and the door slides to the right revealing a brown haired woman around 20s maybe. The woman steps in carrying a tray of burger and a cup of orange juice. She put the tray to the brown table and sat on the wooden chair. She faced him.
"Hi, how's your sleep" she asked him.
Feeling embarrassed "I'm okay"
"You don't have to be afraid. This is the Earth Alliance Military Infirmary. You're safe here. "She response with a smile.
Remembering something, Kira open his eyes wide. "Uhmmmm, Miss-"
"Don't call me Miss, just call me Murrue" she correct him.
"I, uhhhh, Murrue, have you seen-"
"Oh, the cute little girl you are with? Don't worry, she's on the other side of this wall"As she pointed at the wall opposite to Kira's bed.
"Thanks"
"Kira"Murrue's face turned serious that made Kira sit still.How did she knew my name?
"Y-yeah?"
"Are you the one who pilot the FREEDOM?"
Confused by her question, he asked. "FREEDOM?"
"Yes, the GUNDAM you're piloting"
GUNDAM? He remember that word when he was on that machine.
" Y-yes, I'm the one who pilot that thing."
"That girl with you…?"
"Ahh, Lacus, uhmmm, if I say the answer, uhmmm, you might think that I'm making weird stuffs"as he rubbed the back of his head using his right hand.
"I'm prone to jokes Kira"
"err, That girl, when I was on that mecha, she appeared to me with her body is transparent. I mean, she's like a spirit glowing infront of me"
Murrue drew a small smile in her lips.
"Say, did you know anything about this incident ? "
Kira shook his head in affirmation.
"No, Murrue-san"
"I'm sure, you have tons of question printed in your mind that you want to ask"
He nodded.
"If you're wondering about those GINNs, the one you fought with, they are like the machine you're piloting a while ago. "
"GINNs…"
"They are celestial beings that came from an unknown planet far, far away from our planet. They are called 'Living Ones' a race of mechas that live peacefully in their planet, CYBER."
CYBER…
"This Mechas are not ordinary robots for they possess powerful weapons compared to our earthly mobile suits. They can shape shift. They can turn into humans like us. I don't really know if they have some kind of weird genes. Lacus, the pink-haired girl you're with, she is one of them…"
"Lacus…is one of….them? So, she really is telling the truth. "
"So she told you"
"And… I didn't believe her… I feel so disgusted…"As he bows his head covering his purple eyes with his bangs.
"Don't worry, at first, I didn't believe this. I even laugh in front of my commander while saying it's only a fairy tale made up to lure people. As a result, he let me locked up at a room for a week. "As she chuckles.
Kira smiled little.
"Now Murrue-san, can you tell me who Lacus really was? "
"I'll tell you. Can we go outside and get some air? Don't worry about her. She will be really safe here. "
Kira nodded. "Sure"
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The two went outside and go to a garden near a pond. Birds came out flying, making noises. Green leaves swaying along the strong wind. Kira's bangs also sway with the wind also Murrue's split bangs. Kira place his right hand above his eyes to cover from the rays of the sun.
"Let's go to the kiosk"as she point to a hut.
Kira followed and they both seating face to face. Kira looks at his right watching some birds hopping on the edge of a fountain… he smiled.
Murrue followed his gaze and also smiled."You like the place? " Kira face Murrue and nodded "Yes " With a table infront of them, Murrue clasp her hands and let it relax on the table.
"Lacus, she is actually a princess from her homeplanet. "
Kira lift his head a little.
"She is not like the other Mechas, she is a special one. She was gifted by their gods the strength to rule over their planet. She is a very kind one that all her people loved her. She is the princess while her father is the first King. They reign over and the peace last for many years until the Blue Cosmos, their enemy, conquered them suddenly that their soldiers are unaware of them. The Blue Cosmos' ultimate gundam, the DESTROY, tries to break the wall. Lacus' father, who was the strongest of all mechas not counting the Destroy, fight the entire battalion with his Gundam form, the STRIKE FREEDOM. He used all his strength to shield his kingdom, but the Destroy is too powerful to overcome with. Lacus was hiding at her room at that time. She was crying praying for her father's safety. Not until she feel the entire castle shaking. The ceilings were cracking and falls into pieces. She was about to hit by the falling rocks when Strike. Her butler and guardian quickly grabs her away from her crumbled room. She was stunned. Her eyes were wide open.
FLASHBACK
"Princess, let's get out of here! "While Strike grabs her by hand.
"Father…" her tears started to fall when they passed by a broken window. She had witnessed that her father is still fighting near the wall against the big monster (The Destroy). Her father barely stands in his gundam form but the monster is 3 times larger than him. His mechanical wings on the back tried to flip that he manages to stand somehow. He's gotten more weaker when his enemy fires 3 beam towards his chest making him fall back to the ground. Her father's soldiers, the strike daggers, were completely destroyed thanks to the Blue Cosmos GINNs. Her father communicate with Strike during the battle.
"S-sstri…ke…"He manages to call lacus' guardian.
"Sire!" Strike, still in human form holding the crying Lacus, responsed quickly.
"T-take La…cus…aw…ay fr…om he..re "
"Sire…"
"Go to a sa…fe place wh…ere she cou…ld sta…y awa..y from here… "as he stand confronting the enemy.
"Sire!, Don't tell me! "
"Thi…s is out only cha…nce ARRRGGHHH "as he was punch by the destroys hand on his face.
"SIRE!"Strike calls him
" She will be my succ…essor wh…en I'm gone. I won't allow this punks to ta…ke over the kingdom… " as he stands again firing his gun to the Desroys elbow.
" She will be the next ruler… But first let her ARRRRGHHHH stay away from here. Tsk. Give her my necklace which was in your pocket. " he continues to fight even he was counter attacked.
Strike was shock that there is really a necklace. This necklace possess the power to travel between planets even the farthest.
"HURRY UP! STRIKE! TAKE HER TO THE SPACE NOW! "
Strike, without doubts, takes on his gundam form and holds Lacus tighter.
"FATHER!"
One of the GINNs saw their sudden flight and tried to catch up but one of the beams blast its back and burst. That red with white streak beam came from the STRIKE FREEDOM'S chest.
"I'll be your enemy! "Lacus'father still in STRIKE FREEDOM form still fires all the flying GINNs that tried to catch his child.
The Destroy throws another beam to the brave STRIKE FREEDOM.
"Äaaaaarrrrghhhhh! " Her father's cries in deep pain.
"You! Aaaarggggghhhh" He didn't notice two GINNs charged to his back that he was completely thrown to the ground.
His energy slowly drained.
I don't have…much time left he thought
He stands and flew to a distant and again face the whole enemy includingthe Destroy who are infront of him. He even witnessed the castle completely crumbled.
Because of what he witnessed. His mechanical eyes once flashed again and his two elbows goes a bit backward, his wings all flipped like he was charging to blow.
" WINGS OF…. LIGGGGGGGHHHTTTT!" as he shouts, several lights from its feet, its gun attached to its waist, from the sides of the head and from the tip of each mechanical feathers are starting to charge of as he archs his back. Then, all the charging lights all suddenly shoots at multiple enemies. The colourful beams with white streaks shoots at some parts of the GINNs including the Destroy's chest and engines that suddenly smokes and completely fall to the ground.
At last, he win but still he lose. He lose many soldiers no, ALL soldiers. His people. As he pants he descended from air.
At last… as he change back into human form. He has scratches in every part of his body.
"SIRE!" he turned around and see the STRIKE descending from the sky.
The father's eyes grew wider. "Why are you here! You must be with the princess. What happen to her? "
The STRIKE change back to his human form and bowed down before King Siegel, Lacus'father
"Sire, I apologize for not being able to travel together with your daughter but rest assured, I contact with the former STRIKE DAGGER's Captain, Strike Noir, she willingly accepts and promise to guide the princess safely while on Earth."
"Earth, huh, what a coincident, she will met her other SEED sisters, the JUSTICE and the DESTINY. "
Strike smiles "I intentionally let her go to earth to bond with her other sisters."
Siegel's eyes grew wide. "As expected of my right arm man… You never failed to surprise me. "
Strike rubs the back of his head.
"I wonder what will be the fate of the 3 princesses in Earth. " as he looked at the sky.
Strike also looked at the red sky. "I hope they will be find"
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End of Flashback…
" I…. uhhh " Kira slowly bend down .
" Hmmm? "
"How do you know all of this? "
Murrue chuckles
"It's because I'm the Strike Noir that we were talking about"
Kira raise his head up with shock.
"You!? "
She nodded.
The strong wind passed again and their bangs sway with it.
A little paused until Kira and Murrue heard a siren in the building.
"What!? " Murrue quickly goes down the kiosk and rush over the command center of the building.
Kira, aware of the situation, also runs following Murrue from the back.
"Murrue-san!" kira shouts as they run through the stairs.
Murrue, without turning to kira who was still running from the back answered "Another enemy "
Kira suddenly stops by the hallway . Murrue continues to run until her figure is getting smaller and smaller in the hallway.
Lacus! He remembers her and rush to the other side of the hallway which the Infirmary Lacus slept in is located.
He stops at the door and press something beside it and the door slides revealing the sleeping Lacus.
He slowly walk towards her bed and slowly carry her. His right hand is on the back of Lacus'head while his other hand on the back of her knees. He then slowly walked towards the door. Lacus'head is leaning at his chest. He started to run down to the hall and goes outside where the kiosk they sit was.
As he about to go to the kiosk, he was shock when a red GINN pointing a gun at the two, jumped infront of them causing the garden to crush.
" Say your prayers boy…"the GINN laughs.
Kira gritted his teeth.
Tsk.
The chapter ends with a picture of Kira carrying the sleeping lacus confronting the red GINN…