Disclaimer: I do not own anything that is related in anyway with the popular Japanese Anime known as Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, including its sequel Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. I only own my own story, the plot of said story, and any characters that I have created. So please no lawyers I have no money to give them.
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Resolution
A Mobile Suit Gundam SEED AU Novella
Written and brought to you,
by William R. Woods
aka "Deathzealot"
With input and ideas from SethMKlein
Chapter BGM is Time To Bring The Pain by Krypertia
Phase One: Party Crashers
When I took command of the Peacekeeper Faction all those years ago, I was both excited and scared out my mind, excited because I now commanded one of the most powerful forces in the Earth Sphere at the time but scared for it was a lot of power to place into the hands of one man like myself. Even then however how I felt in the end, I knew we could take on just about anything that either the Earth Alliance or ZAFT could throw at us. We went on to prove it at the Battle of The Factory…
Quoted from an Interview with Vice Admiral Henry Gloval (Retired)
Circa. March, CE75
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Admiral's Office
The Factory
Deep L4 Zone
July 21, CE71
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The Mobile Dock Mulciber, better known as The Factory by its inhabitants and crew, floated almost peacefully in the center the large debris field that is know to many as the Deep L4 Zone. Its flower like outer appearance giving it an almost ethical beauty of its own right, but at the same time making it look ugly as hell. It was one of a kind and the home to the newly organized Peacekeeper Faction, a third-party moderate force wanting to bring a quick and peaceful end to the war. In one of the many offices alongside the main dock of the ship the Faction Commander stood behind a large window that looked down at the massive harbor dock that the ship was built around. The commander watched as the various ships of the faction were painted in a new white and silver paint scheme. All of the ships were being repainted, all but a handful noted expectations for whatever reason. The reasoning behind this was that many of the ships in the faction had been once part of either the Earth Alliance or ZAFT fleets therefore needed to be clearly marked as being allied vessels to other ships of the Faction during a heated battle. A few ships however were not being repainted for it was either being repainted in a completely different paint scheme for some reason like the Faction's Flagship Eternal which was being painted in a similar white and silver scheme as the others just with some gold added thanks to it being the command ship, or there was a good reason for the normal paint scheme on the ship like the Special Assault Ship Loki which needed such a dark paint job to help its stealth abilities. Even the ship of the Serpent Tail Mercenaries the Laurasia Class Frigate King Cobra, though its sport a trim color of blue instead of the normal silver of the other ships. The Dominion, the Faction's Second Archangel Class ship, meanwhile was painted in a whole new paint scheme, replacing the depressing dark colors it originally sported with a light gray, white, and black paintjob completing the ships introduction into the group. The commander of the Faction, one Vice Admiral Henry Gloval, could only smile proudly at the display before turning his attention to his single guest who sat in one of the office's many guest chair with an amused look on his face.
"So Mister Weaver I hear you have some news to report to me?" the Admiral asked turning away from the window to look at the mentioned guest, one Jose Weaver the generous host and overall chief engineer of the Faction. He was the one who technically owned the Factory, as well as designing and later building it. With a shake of his the head the younger man sat up and retrieved a small data-pad from one of the many pockets of the simple Technician Jumpsuit he wore almost always.
"Well sir you should be pleased to know that all the repairs and small medications requests have been finished. We only need to finish the painting and the Peacekeepers can start missions against the Alliance and ZAFT. However I do have one piece of news that I am sure you are going to quite happy about," the engineer reported looking up at the Admiral who only nodded at this before raising a single eyebrow at this so called happy piece of news before waving almost impatiently at the engineer to go on who could only chuckle quietly before turning his attention back to the data pad.
"As you know sir, there are two more Sheppard Class Light Cruisers being built in the Factory's Construction Yard. Well I pulled off the men from the second of these two ships to see about finishing the other faster since we need every ship we can get our hands on. Well it just happens that I was right and the Mediator shall be finished in another two to three weeks give or take a day or two. When she is finished it shall give us one more ship to add to the Faction," the engineer reported with a small grin at the older man who blinked in surprise at this piece of news but soon smiled and nodded at the engineer.
"What about that Drake Class derelict your men brought in the other day?" the Admiral asked mentioning the almost intact Drake Class hulk that now laid in one of the Factory's four sub-docks that a work party brought in from the surrounding debris. Since the Factory used the surrounding debris as a source of materials to not only repair the ships inside the dock, but build new ships like the Sheppard Class. In fact that is where the materials came from to build the ship in the first place. Jose meanwhile only blinked in surprise at the question, before shrugging.
"Well it is relatively intact, I am going to see about patching it up and repairing it, but I may go further and modify it further then a normal Drake Class. I have a few ideas to make it far better then your average Escort, but that maybe a week or two away," he reported after a quick look down at his Data pad. The Admiral simply nodded before turning to look back at the window and the ships beyond laid peacefully in the docks bellow. After a few moments of looking the Admiral turned back around to look at the engineer with a thoughtful look.
"How are we going to crew the new Sheppard Class ship, and this Drake Class when you get it up and running? I don't think we have the personal to man them. The Sheppard and the Vindicator only have a light crew each not to mention none of the other ships of the Faction even has a full crew. So we can't pull men off any other ship to crew the new ships," the Admiral stated with a heavy frown looking over at the engineer who looked shocked at the others statement. After a brief moment the engineer sighed before slipping the data pad back into the pocket from were it came from before looking at the other man with a frown as well.
"Well sir I know you still have some people of the Valkyrie Faction still in the Earth Forces, and it is the same with the Clyne Faction. There also many Orb Defense Force personal who are at the Space Station of theirs or at Copernicus City protecting the Orb refugees located at those two places. We most likely won't have enough personal to scratch crews together of a single individual faction; we are going to have to do mixed crews. In fact I was looking into Commander Hayes being the commander of the Mediator when she is finished, and there a few others I can think of to be her officers who from the other factions. That is only a single idea, I am sure the other Commanders have some other ideas as well," the engineer replied with a shrug. Admiral Hayes simply shook his head in surprise before nodding in agreement with the other man's response to his one major problem he had been thinking of the for the past few hours.
"Yes thank you Jose. I think I shall discuss this idea of yours with the rest of the Command Council. Is there anything else you need to report?" he asked mentioning the Command Council, or just the gathered commands of the single individual sub-factions of the Peacekeeper Faction. While the Admiral was in overall general command, some decisions were discussed between each other hence the reasoning of the Command Council. Jose just nodded at the older man before got up from the chair and stretched his long arms out. After a moment of this he looked over at the Admiral with a nod.
"No sir, and with your permission I shall get back to work. There are so many projects that need my expertise," he said with a bow of his head at the older man.
"Very well I shall see you at the next Council Meeting, I have to get going on this damn paperwork that my aides left for me to do," the Admiral responded with a wave of his hand at the office's door, and looked down at the desk with the mentioned paperwork spread across it. With a light laugh the engineer was out of the door leaving the Admiral alone in his office, who after sighing went to work on the dreaded paperwork that he hated so much.
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Harbor Observation Room #3
The Factory
Deep L4 Zone
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In one of the smaller observation rooms situated just above individual berths, in this case Berth Three, two women stood watching through the room's single large window as the ship bellow was repainted. The two wore different uniforms, one the blue and white uniform of the Orb Union Military, and the other the sleek black uniform that was adopted by the Valkyrie Faction. These two ladies happened to be Captain Murrue Ramius, Captain of the Archangel and Captain Natarle Badgiruel, Captain of the Dominion. Both were watching as the ship, the Dominion, in the berth was being repainted.
"So Natarle what made you choose this paint scheme instead of a similar one to the Archangel?" Captain Ramius asked breaking the silence between the two fellow Captains. Natarle looked over at her counterpart and friend before looking back at her ship before responding.
"Basically that was the originally the idea, but it was suggested by a few of my crew that we need a paintjob that was the opposite of the original hence I choose this," she answered with a frown. The other woman could only nod at this as she continued to watch the near copy of her own ship being repainted. However suddenly Natarle got a small grin on her face and turned to look her friend who did not notice the grin.
"Anyways were did Mu run off to?" Natarle asked with a grin as Murrue's cheeks reddened at the mention of the other's boyfriend.
"He is with the rest of the Mobile Suit pilots running drills through the debris field on the other side of the ship," the other woman responded with a small smile. Natarle nodded for she had heard that many of the Faction's Mobile Suit pilots had been planning various live drills and sessions so the assorted pilots could work better together. It was something everyone needed for the pilots were from three different factions, not including the Factory's Defense Pilots.
"Anyways how is Flay settling back in?" Natarle asked after another few moments of silence, mentioning the former refugee turned crewmember of the Archangel who had been captured by a ZAFT pilot during the disastrous Battle of JOSH-A. She had been returned during the Battle of Mendel by Commander Rau Le Creuset who had captured her in the first place. After spending some time on the Dominion she was returned to the Archangel as her new COMM Officer after the past COMM officer returned to piloting mobile suits.
"She is settling back in nicely, Sai and Miri have gladly accepted her back as well as the rest of the crew. But I am kind of worried about her she has changed a lot since Alaska," she said with a frown looking over at Natarle who only sighed before turning from the window and taking a seat in of the comfy chairs arranged around the room.
"We all have changed since that faithful day on Heliopolis Colony Murrue war does that, especially this war, but I understand your worry and I am sure she is fine. In fact that reminds me how did her meeting with Kira go?" Natarle asked after Murrue joined her in another chair across from her own. As she sat down Murrue only smiled at the question but nodded.
"It went fine the two cleared away a lot of issues between them, and now are better friends then they were before. The two of them would never have another romantic relationship with another, especially with how close Kira and Lacus are now. Kira is quite glad that she is alive and that the two of them managed to talk about everything. In fact Flay and Lacus are now great friends and Flay actually helped Lacus out with understanding Kira better. So everything is very great between the entire group of them which is good," Murrue replied with a soft smile thinking of the various young people on her crew. Natarle smiled as well thinking about them as well, before she suddenly remembered something.
"Speaking of the kids, I heard something about Miri is seeing the Buster pilot is that true?" she asked with a thoughtful frown on her face. Murrue blinked in surprise at the question but chuckled lightly in response to it.
"Yes they are seeing each other which is very surprising. From what I heard from Mu Miri has the poor guy wrapped around her finger already, but even then the two are very cute together. In fact Kira and Mu teamed up on the poor guy acting like her older brothers. What is really funny is that Miri is actually older then Kira by a few months, and when she found out about the little talk she was not happy with the two goofballs but she was touched that the two think of her as a little sister," Murrue reported with a chuckle which was soon followed by Natarle for she could see the two doing that. She was glad that she could sit here and talk with her old commander. The two Captains in the days since the Dominion arrived at the Factory had only became far better friends then ever before. In fact the two were almost like sisters now, with them sharing everything together.
"Anyways Mu should be heading back about now I promised him we would head for the bar in the City Section. You can come along with you want Natarle for we are meeting with Commander Waltfield, Captain Grant, and a few other of the other ship captains," she said after a few moments of the two laughing over the story, inviting the other woman along. She mentioned the tiny city section that took one large section of the large mobile dock. It was the home for the majority of the crew of the ship and their families, for the crews of the various Peacekeeper Faction ships it was a much needed place to relax and unwind. After a few moments of thinking about it Natarle nodded and got up from the chair.
"Sure Murrue we can exchange some stories and get to know one another," she said with a smile knowing that while she meet every single ship commander, she still did not many of them very well, especially the commanders of the Clyne Faction ships. After a few more moments the two left the small observation room behind and headed for the Mobile Suit hanger to meet up with Mu La Flagga.
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Central Command Room
The Factory
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Once more the main control room of the ship known as The Factory and the stations in the mentioned room abandoned as the various members of the command crew were gathered around a table playing card games. This time it was Black Jack unlike the poker they had been playing when the Valkyrie Faction arrived. Like then a single crewman manned the radar station, and he constantly looked behind him at the crew's game of chance became ever more rowdy as it went on. With a sigh the young radar technician on-duty just blocked out the noise he went back to staring at the radar screen. However there was nothing to watch besides the constant returns from debris and the odd patrol group moving along the mentioned debris. However that was about to change as a red light started to blink at the station next to the radar station, the technician blinked in surprise at seeing this before he leaned forward to fiddle with a few controls on his station before he really blinked in surprise at the results now being displayed on one of the smaller secondary monitors next to the larger main radar monitor.
"Shit!" he cursed as he hit a large red button and just like before with the Valkyrie Fleet arrival the alarm started surprising the card-players. Before long every member of the command crew were back at their assigned station as the lights started to dim in preparation for a battle. Once more the man in charge of the control room walked over to the radar station and leaned over the younger man's shoulder.
"What do we have Simmons?" the commander asked with a frown starting down at the radar screen.
"Nothing sir I can not see anything, the only thing we know is the N-Jammer levels started to go way up and I don't think it is some sort new ally this time sir," the younger man responded with another curse. The commander narrowed his eyes at this before nodding and looking over at the man manning the station next to the radar station.
"How high are the levels now?" he asked the other tech who after studying his own readings for a long moment shook his head.
"Very high sir and they are only going higher," the tech responded with gritted teeth making the commander to curse as well. With a snarl he turned to look at yet another station whose operator was already turning to look at him as he did so.
"Sir the Laser Sensors are going crazy, I think we have around ten to twelve ships approaching," this tech reported with a white face, as it began to sink in that this was the real deal.
"Commander Drake! Patrol 2-A reports that they have sighted a large formation of ZAFT ships approaching us and are now returning," the Mobile Suit Operator reported from her own station making a few others in room groan. The commander, one Commander Jacob Drake the man who is Jose Weaver's sort of executive officer, could only stare at the main screen now showing a combined image from the radar, and laser sensor stations which showed the approaching formation of ships.
"This is just great the party crashers have arrived! Someone hit the master alarm! It looks like we are going to war ladies and gentlemen let's make it count," Commander Drake said with a growl as the lights went red as the master alarm was tripped and knew that the alarm was sounding through out the Factory sending various crewmen and pilots to battle. It did indeed looked like the gathered Peacekeeper Faction was now going to have their first battle as a combined group. However to the battle-hardened crews and pilots of the Faction it was time to teach these party-crashers a thing or two, though unknown to the group the approaching forces had a few surprises of their own to spring. It was time for war once more.
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Post-Chapter Notes:
Whew! I am a bit late with this, but I hope to catch up this weekend. Now we see how the new Peacekeeper Faction had been settling in and getting ready for the battles ahead of them. The idea of repainting the ships came to me when I realized that including Laurasia, Nazca, and Washington Class ships so similar to those of the enemy forces that it would be smart to have other Peacekeeper ships easily identify their allies in the general melee of a battle. As for the Drake Class mentioned to be scavenged by Jose Weaver's crew, well I am only going to say I have some very big plans for it later in the story. I only going to say that I am one evil bastard and leave it at that.
Now I am sure some are wondering about the bit about the crews and personal in the first scene between Jose and Gloval. Well I wanted to make it clear that I am not going to ignore the idea of finding crews for new ships. So there are not going to be any glazing over this sort of thing and having just crews appear out of no where the Peacekeepers will find some crews somewhere. As for the second scene I wanted to expand on the relationship between Natarle and Murrue showing they are far better friends then they were in the series. I may add another scene between that one and the final scene displaying the dinner/party between some of the ship captains, and how they all interact with one another. But I really needed to get this chapter out so it got cut out in the end. I may do an Omake later with it. Also according to their profiles on Gundamofficial Miri is indeed older then Kira, with her birthday set at February 17 and Kira's set at May 18 so Miri is a few months older.
As for the Sheppard Class ships I really need to get around to finishing the specs for it and posting it somewhere. Therefore I promise it shall be attached to the end of the next chapter. Till the enjoy this.
Anyways that is about it folks lets find out what sort of Omake I have for you all before I leave you all. Next time, we have the Battle of The Factory and it is going to have a few surprises.
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Omake #2
Big Brother Kira
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In one of the various leisure lounges located throughout the large ship known as the Factory Dearka Elsman, pilot of the Buster G-Weapon looked up from his book to see two men entering the room staring at him and started to move towards him. He blinked in surprise when he noticed that the two were Kira Yamato and Mu La Flagga and wondered what they wanted. With a shrug he put a bookmark into the book he was reading before setting it down on the table in front of him wondering what this was all about.
"Yeah Kira, Old Man what can I do for you two?" he asked with a smile, one that fell when saw the serious expressions on their faces as they sat down in front of him.
"Hello Dearka we noticed that you and Miriallia have gotten closer recently, since she does not have any other siblings we thought we sit down with you and give you a big-brother talk," Kira said with a frown, and Dearka's eyes suddenly widened in fear at the other teen's statement for the one thing Dearka ever feared when dating any girl was either the talk with the Father or big brother, or even the odd older sister. Granted Dearka and Miriallia were not technically dating yet but it was heading there.
"Oh crap!" he said before passing out right front of his two fellow G-Weapon pilots that made two of them blink in surprise before smirking in unison.
"Heh. Still go it! Let's get him back on the couch and wake him up Kira," Mu mentioned with a chuckle looking over at his partner in crime who could only nod in response. He was sure that if Miri, Lacus or even Flay heard about this the two of them would be dead, but Kira did need practice for when Cagalli started to official dating Athrun. With a large smile and a shake of his head he leaned forward and slapped Dearka across the face to wake him up. This was going to be a lot of fun!
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/laughs/ Dear God! Poor Dearka! Anyways some may think that the older sister doesn't really care who her little sister dated, but let me tell you I think the older sister talk is hell lot more scary then the one from the older brother. For my fifteen month younger sister had the talk with our seventeen year old younger sister's boyfriend and the poor guy was ready to pass out. /shakes head/ Anyways this is Deathzealot signing off! See you guys around. /falls down and goes asleep/