A/N: I do not own Gundam SEED, SEED Destiny, or any factors of Elements of the Gundam Franchise.

First off Im sorry that I havent updated this fic in a while for those who read it, but heres the next chapter.

The Character of Clair, Anton Walker, as well as a few other character are mine.

A few days after Mendal

Via was still unsure fully of what had happened since she was taken out of suspended animation. At this moment she was now back on earth, and was taken by Clair and the rest of the team she was with as the ship they were on descended into the atmosphere, and arrived at an island in the middle of the ocean.

It was a strange place for her to view. There were docks for battle ships as well as warehouses and other buildings along the landscape. The island looked more like a small, yet large land mass that was probably privately owned. The only other area that seemed unusual was a castle structure that was on the highest hill area in the center of the island. After the ship landed, Clair had her follow her into a car that came to pick them up.

As the car began heading towards the castle structure, Via took her time looking out the windows of the car. They passed many areas of observance.

There were residential areas that were simple apartment buildings, large fields where crops were being grown, and what caught her attention most, where the mobile suits being constructed.

"Are all these people around here extendeds?" Via asked Clair.

"From her seat opposite her, Clair replied, "Yes, all of us are. Frankly, other than our leader, you're the first non-biologically enhanced human being on this island at the moment."

"What island are we on anyway?" asked Via, "Are we anywhere near ORB?"

Clair looked at her, "Actually, no one on the outside world knows about this island, so it's the best place for us to hide, given how over the years people have judge our, …..physiology."

"I see, so then this island doesn't have a name?" said Via.

"Well, when we first started setting up our operations here, the only place that looked like anything had ever been on this island was that castle," said Clair as she pointed at the castle that was getting closer, "we fixed it up and made it our main base, but the design of the castle as well as the location of this island reminded some of us of an old legend, and we gave the island a name from that legend."

"What was that?" asked Via.

"Avalon," replied Clair.

"I see," said Via, "wait, what does the location of this island have to do with that?"

"Well, it had to do because this land mass is in the middle of the Bermuda triangle," said Clair, "lets just say that those legends of people disappearing were greatly exaggerated. Plus the weather patters around here made the perfect way to stay hidden, but we as well used a powerful cloaking device to hide ourselves from being picked up by satellites. "

Via gave a small sigh, "I've only been back on earth a few minutes, and already I learned more than I thought I would."

"Its not over yet Mrs. Hibiki," said Clair as the car stopped in front of the walkway of the castle and they both got out, "Your about to learn a lot more that you could expect."

Via noticed that Clair has a small smirk as she said that, and they both went into the castle.

After taking an elevator and going through some corridors, Clair brought her to twin doors and knocked on them.

"Who is it," said a voice from the other side.

"Its me mama," Clair said through the door, "I have brought Mrs. Hibiki as you requested."

There was no reply and then a silence, then a reply, "sends her in please."

Clair nodded even though no one could see her through the door and opened it, gesturing to Via to go in. Via went in as Clair closed the door behind her.

Upon entering the room, Via could see most of the room was slightly dark, though some light was coming from some lamps and through the window curtains.

Via saw a sitting area with some armchairs and a table in the middle with a tray of hot tea already waiting.

"Please, have a seat," said a voice.

Via turned to the desk she had not taken full notice of and saw a young woman with black hair in a wheelchair turn around. She had some scars on her face, a heart shaped necklace around her neck that had a crack going down the middle, and she seemed to be using a self propelled wheelchair.

Via saw her wheeling herself over to the sitting area around the armchairs and Via took a seat.

"I am guessing that you are the one I should be thanking for saving my life?" asked Via.

"I was just returning the favor," said the woman as she brushed her black hair out of her face.

"Returning the fav,…..I don't understand." Said Via.

"We have met a long time ago, but I guess that you wouldn't recognized me anymore, it has been a while," said the woman as she served tea for both of them.

"Oh,…I'm sorry then," said Via.

"Its ok," said the woman as she handed Via a cup of tea. Via took the tea and began to drink it, it was refreshing for her who has just been in cryo for the last 17 years. She sipped some more and then choked on it.

"Are you alright?" asked the woman as she handed Via a napkin.

Via took it and cleaned her lips, "yes, I'm fine. Its just that I didn't notice your,….condition." said via as she pointed to the woman's stomach.

The black haired woman smiled a bit as she place her hand on her belly, "Yes, this little one just keeps growing all the time. I begin to wonder when its going to decide to come out."

"Huh?" said Via.

"Its nothing," said the woman as she turned back to look at Via, "Furthermore, I would like talk to you about working with us."

"What," said Via, "um, look. I appreciate the offer, but I'm still just trying to understand the situation I'm in. I just got released from a stasis pod that my husband put me in, and I still don't know where my children are."

"Ah yes. I almost forgot about that," said the woman as she pressed a button on the table and a monitor on the wall came to life, showing a press conference in ORB. A blond haired woman was giving a statement and the captions at the bottom of the screen read:

ORB Chief Representative, Cagalli Yula Attha.

"Cagalli?" Via said, this young woman on the screen, the one who was being described as a political figure, was her daughter who the last time she had seen she was still in diapers.

"Yes, that's your daughter," said the woman next to Via, and then pressed another button, which on the same monitor was zoomed in behind Cagalli on a brown haired young man who was standing next to a pink haired girl and another man with blue hair.

"And the man there is your son, Kira." She said to Via.

Via gave some tears, and then smiled, "There both alive, and ok. I'm so glad."

"Both your children became key figures in ending a recent war, especially your son, with his abilities as the ultimate coordinator," said the woman as the monitor changed to show the Freedom battling the Providence at Jachin due just before the GENESIS fired on them.

"My son is piloting that?" asked Via, as she stared at the Freedom on the monitor.

"Yes, he is," said the black haired woman.

Via kept starting at the monitor a bit, then turned to face the woman in front of her.

"Clair said that you wanted my help with…" began Via.

"Yes, I do wish to ask of your help. You have a great knowledge of the ultimate coordinator process, knowledge that I need to know about. You need a place to be, as your records has stated you are deceased, and if the wrong people, like Blue Cosmos found that you are still alive, you will be targeted.

What I am offering is this; I will provide you with protection and whatever you may require to live your life from now on. In exchange, I would like you to work with us to better perfect a cure for much of the extendeds we have here, in order to rid them of requiring drug and mental treatments that people like the EA placed in them, as well as sharing you knowledge of the Ultimate coordinator research."

Via thought through all of this. Her children were alive, but this woman was right. She couldn't go and just see them. She would be targeted or arrested for the experiments at Mendel, plus she could end up making her children targets.

She had nowhere to go, and yet here she was being offered a chance to start over and atone for her sins.

"I guess,…..that I will take your offer." Said Via.

"Thank you for considering this Mrs. Hibiki," said the woman.

"Please call me Via," said Via.

"Very well, Via it is," said the woman.

"By the way, I didn't get your name," said Via.

"Well, to be honest, my name in the real world would be just as much as a target as yours would be now. But after we get to know each other more, I think we can fully trust each other with our secrets.

But for the time being, call me….….Shroud."

4 Years later

Now that the second war had ended, with the aid of the Clyne faction and ORB, the world was beginning to rebuild itself. Cagalli and Lacus held a conference in ORB to gather together world powers to aid in this task. Many people showed up to hear what the former songstress was to say.

However, the conference as attached by an unknown group who took Lacus Clyne hostage. They took her and before long announced a broadcast telling the world who they were.

The group was calling themselves Checkmate, and were made up of the regments of Blue Cosmos and LOGOs, led by a coordinator hater named Anton Waller.

In response, the archangel was send out to rescue lady lacus. The kinappers at the moment had taken control of one of ZAFT's island bases, and no one dared to make a move as to avoid the group deciding to kill her in response to any attacks.

Now all rested on who did what first.

In the office of the base, a man with dark hair observed the monitors as a small ORB fleet was just outside of the territorial waters of the base his group had taken over.

His name was Anton Waller.

He was just as mad as his predecessors, and hated the coordinator race to the core.

"Sir, more ships have arrived behind the ORB fleet," said his assistant.

"Have they made any move?" asked Anton.

"No sir, they are still no willing to do so," was his reply.

Anton laughed at that statement, "Of course they haven't, not as long as we have our insurance.

He flipped another monitor to show a cell where Lacus was imprisoned.

"This would be so much easier if you just listened to reason," Anton spoke into a microphone, which was broadcast into the cell.

Lacus replied, "Your reason of judgment is not justified. Coordinators have just as much right to live as naturals do, you have no right to do the actions of attacking the peace rally in orb. Innocent people, including naturals were caught in that explosions."

"Scilence coordinator abomination," said Waller, "we will correct this world and purge it of your kind soon enough." As he cut the signal off

"She's quiet a handful," said Anton as he chuckled at lacus attempt to reason with him.

Back in her cell, lacus was sitting on a chair wondering about everything that had happened.

She was going to give a speech at ORB, then there was gunfire and smoke grenades. Before she knew it, she was knocked out and taken. She wondered just how many people had been injured in that event.

Anton Waller, you will not win. Because he will come for me, wont you Kira, she thought to herself as she played with the necklace of a small gold heart she was wearing, a gift from Kira.

Meanwhile on the archangel, which was stationed just outside the area of the island base, the crew was discussing how to rescue lacus.

"We have to be careful," said Kira, "They won't hesitate to kill her if we make a mistake."

"We know that, if lacus is killed, it will cause a great riot in the PLANTs, and we'll have another catastrophe on our hands."

"They're probably aware of that, that's mostly why we haven't made any attempt yet to do anything," said Athrun.

"I thought that Durandal ended up getting rid of all the Logos members, hard to believe that there was still one left.

"We'll keep watch for now, and see if we can find a way into that base. At the moment, his group has taken control of all the mobile suits in that base, and we don't know where in that base lacus is," said Cagalli.

The entire group broke, and Kira looked out to the island base with guilt.

"How you doing Kira," asked Athrun as he came up with Cagalli.

Kira didn't turn to face him, merely said, "I should have protected her."

"Kira, you couldn't have known that there was going to be an attack," said Cagalli.

"But I should have protected her, I was less than ten feet away from her, I should have gotten to her soon, but I failed just because of a tranquilizer dart" Kira said with guilt, "No matter what, I'm going to get her out of there."

Kira then left and went on towards the hanger, probably to get ready for possible battle in the Strike Freedom.

After he left, Cagalli turned to face Athrun, "well this couldn't have happened at a worse time."

"I know," said Athrun, "everyone was looking forward to this peace and now….."

"Its not just that," said Cagalli, "They both just got engaged, and now that won't matter if lacus is killed."

"Kira and lacus got engaged? When did this happen?" asked Athrun.

"Right after the second war ended, so about a few weeks ago," replied Cagalli, "Didn't you wonder why lacus started wearing that necklace she has, Kira gave it to her as an engagement gift."

"I didn't know that," said Athrun, "This whole situation must be tearing him up inside."

"I'm sure it is, I just hope that we can get lacus back for both their sakes," said Cagalli.

Having gotten far away enough from the bridge, Kira slammed his fist into the wall of the ship.

"%&$* it," he said with anger. How could this have happened, lacus was in danger and he was useless to do anything.

He may have been the ultimate coordinator, but that alone was not enough to change anything here.

All he could do now was hope that lacus, his fiancé, the woman he loved, was alright, and that he would see her again soon.

I'll get you back lacus, he thought to himself, and then we can get back to our lives.

Bermuda Triangle, Avalon

In the castle on Avalon, in a room that was a large lab, a single woman was sitting at a desk and placing a microscope slide into the microscope.

Via Hibiki may in terms be about 47 years old, her body was only in the state of being 32, thanks to being in cryo for over 16 years of her life.

She had come a long way over the last 4 years of working with the Isis foundation, and managed to find a cure in time to cure the extendeds of the foundation from all their flaws and satiability issues that had been placed in them by the EA.

But that had been done just about a few months after coming to work for Isis. At the moment, she was working on another project that she wanted to resolve.

Looking up from her microscope, she picked up a tape recorder and spoke into it, "Test trial 0194 has been unsuccessful. My theory is that the genetic samples I am using have evolved too far to be able to isolate the changes to repair the genes to their original state. Will attempt to try to split the samples back into their original source DNA and keep trying."

Via placed the tape recorder down and picked up her bottle of water, took a gulp, and then rested her eyes a bit.

Its hard to believe how much has changed in this world these past few years, she thought.

She opened her eyes again and reached for her water bottle again, only to find it gone.

That's weird, I know I put it right here, Via looked around to find her bottle on the opposite side of the lab table she was working at.

She took another sip from it, and then put it back on the table.

She observed the data from the microscope again, jotted down some notes, and again reached to take another sip from her bottle, only to again find it no where she put it last. She saw it now on the other side of the table.

Ok, what's going on, I know that I,….., thought Via, and then something ringed in her mind.

She pretended to close her eyes a bit, and waited.

In a few seconds, her water bottle began to levitate in the air, and began to travel to another place on the table from where she put it.

Via immediately opened her eyes, and when she did the bottle fell down.

Via caught it in mid air and gave a sigh, then stood up and said out load,

"Alright you two, don't bother hiding, I know you're in here."

A few seconds of silence, and then two young twin girls poked their heads out from the under the table. They giggled as they saw how Via was confused when she didn't know how her water bottle was moving around.

Via sighed and bent down to their level, "You two know you're not supposed to be in here, what if something happened, your mother would have my head."

"Sorry," said the two twins with a smile on their face still.

"What's more is that you know you're not suppose to use your abilities like that. Abilities like that aren't toys, and your mother said that you shouldn't use them unless she's watching you," said Via to the twins.

"Sorry," said one of the twins.

"Are you going to tell mommy," asked the other twin.

Via saw how they were putting on the "puppy eyes" look at her. Via just sighed and smiled at them, "It'll be our little secret," she told them with a smile.

Both twins laughed and then ran out of the room, leaving Via looking at where the two young telepaths had just been.

"Those two….," said Via as she got up.

But she didn't get to think anything else, as an alarm sounded throughout the castle.

What now, thought Via. The alarm only sounded when something was very wrong.

She ran out of her lab and just barely missed running into a now older Clair.

"Clair, what's going on," asked Via.

"I don't know, I just got word to head to the boss's office," said Clair as Via followed her.

Both of them arrived at Shroud's office doors, and went in.

The main monitor was already on, showing the plaza in ORB having been attacked by Checkmate earlier that day.

Shroudwas watching from her wheelchair, and turned to face Clair and Via.

"The chairwoman of the PLANTs has been taken hostage, Isis will intervene," she said.

"What are your orders mama," asked Clair to Shroud.

"Have a squadron ready to move out, they are to go to aid the archangel in the rescue operation of the PLANTs chairwoman, Lacus Clyne," said Shroud.

Both Via and Clair gave a surprised look, they had certain reason to.

"Are you sure mama, we would be revealing to the world that we exist," said Clair.

"I'm sure, get going please," ordered Shroud.

Clair began to leave, when she heard, "And Clair, take the Red Fang with you."

Clair looked back and nodded and headed out the door.

Via was left and turned to face shroud, "Are you sure about this? "

"Yes, I'm sure, said Shroud as she moved her wheelchair to the window, where she could see down to the docks where countless mobile suits were stationed, as well as many battle carriers.

"I have kept us hidden for a long time now, it's time we made a statement that we are not going to let the regiments of LOGOs do as they please," said Shroud.

On the dock of the island, ships were being loaded with mobile suits as well as a few gundams.

Clair's own gundam, the Neo-Striker, which was a duplicate of the Strike Noir, but with some modifications and a while PSA color, was loaded. A red sword was loaded onto the back of the Neo-Striker then.

"Red Fang has been loaded," said Clair's voice.

The ships began to head out, and as they did, a mobile suit was hovering above the island in cloaking mode, watching the ships leave.

"This is world seven, two more worlds remain," said Hibiki.

Then flew off to follow Isis's fleet.

I will take this moment to say that many names for things in this story, like the organization Isis, were inspired by the names of things in the television series, Smallville.

Isis was borrowed from Lana Lang's Organization called Isis which was meant to help people who had meta human powers due to kryptonite infection learn to deal with their powers to live normally.

For this story, the similar purpose for Isis in this story is the same, except that it is an organization meant to help people who were the result of genetic alteration, like the Extendeds that were created by the EA, and in this story Isis helps the Extendeds who want to live normally.

Other parts of this story were named by similar things that also came from the Smallville TV series, mostly from the resent season 9 of the show.

Anton Walker was inspired from the villain from season 9, Amanda Walker, as well as why Anton's faction is called Checkmate as well, but since he is a man, and to signify that he is the villain, his code name is the Black King.

Durandal once referred to Lacus as the White Queen, as due to his method of using his chess board while thinking, so I have decided to do the same for Anton, and refer to her as the White Queen,

And it adds to the plot as his organization is called "Checkmate", again to refer to the chess board obsession he shares with Durandal.

As for other factors, like the two twins that have telekinesis, I will explain details about that next chapter possibly.

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It lets me know I am doing a good job on this story, as well as any future suggestion you would recommend for the story.

Hope to have the next chapter up soon once I get around to writing it.