I don't own Gundam Seed, just my OCs. thanks.
CHAPTER START.
Rau Le Creuset couldn't believe it. He had been drag before the High Council when he arrived at the plants and publicully court marshalled for the attack on Heliopolis colony.
At first he had though it would be simple to paint Orb and the Alliance as the bad guys in all of this and he be off the hook for wreaking the colony, he couldn't have been more wrong. Chairman Clyne was in no mood to be forgiving and had pulled out all the stops to lay a smackdown on Le Creuset for almost gaining the Plants another enemy. Rau's only ally was councilman Zala who was a known warhawk. Even councilwoman Joule and councilman Elsman came out aguinst him this time, and it didn't take long for him to realize that he was in big trouble.
First Zaft Central Intelligence replayed data and video from several of the Combat Data Recorders carried by all Zaft ships and Mobile Suits, then they played the secondary records that were unaccessable by the pilots. With this they showed the Le Creuset's CQUE had its primary recorder purged while returning from Heliopolis and that the purge had been done by the pilot using Commander Le Creuset authorization code.
Then the remaining pilots and then captians of the Gamow and Vesailius presented both a written report along with testimony infront of the panel of judges, where they were all rigorusly cross examined by both the defence and the prosecution.
Finally ZCI presented evidence from sources in Orb which cleary showed that most of Orbs goverment hadn't even known about the secret factories until very recently and that they were going to shut them down as soon as they had hard evidance as to what they were doing. By attacking, Le Creuset not only destroyed Heliopolis he had also weakened Orb's chances to flush the Blue Cosmos supporters from its goverment and from Morgenrate.
After a little more descussion the judges left to come to a verdict. It only took them forty minutes before they returned.
"After reveiwing all the evidance we the panel of Judges find the defendant, Rau Le Creuset, guilty of all charges," the Judge who was speaking had to what a bit as crys of joy and outrage swept the room (and the Plants as a whole) before he continued.
"While taking into account Commander Le Creuset's preveous record of brilliance in the service of Zaft and the Plants on the tactical level, we most question his Strategic abilities and as such we hand down our punishment." everyone in the Plants and on Earth waited with baited breath on what the Judge would say next. "Rau Le Creuset we here by freeze your rank until further notice, seventy five percent of any pay you receive shell be used to help pay for a replacement colony for Orb and to the families of thoughs who lossed loved one there. The Le Creuset team is here by transfered to the Home Fleet and will be under the supervision of the Rex team until further notice, and the captured Allaince mobile suits and their pilots will be transfered to the Bletchly team of the Second Orbital Fleet." with that the Judges all stood and filed out of the room, leaving a very pissed off councilman Zala and Le Creuset and one mildly happy Chairman Clyne.
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Around the entierty of Earth's space men and women were celerbrating the public hamiliation of 'That mask wareing bastard!'.
The news even made its way to the Archangel safely tucked into the debre belt.
Commander La Flaga and Nami were in the middle of a pretty intense lecture on the tactics and technologys of the Zaft space forces when they were interupted by an unholy racket from down the hall. Mu just tried to push through his lecture, though his left eyebrow developted a serious twitch. Nami didn't even try to hide her annoyance as the yelling got louder until she finally snapped and stormed towards the door.
"SOMEBODY BETTER HAVE A DAMN GOOD EXPLINATION FOR ALL THI-!"
"TURN THE NEW ON!" Nami was tackled back into the room by Chief Petty Officer Iana Macarov, a tall, blond woman who served as the chief mechanic for the Dragoon mobile suits aboard. Iana had the smaller girl pined to her double D chest and was spinning her around like Nami was some Kindergardener who just brought home her first A+ home. Nami and Mu exchanged confused looks before Mu reach for the remote and brought up one of the news channels, allowing them to catch a repeat of the sentancing of Le Creuset.
Within seconds it was Nami swinging Iana around like a rag doll while Mu was doing a little jig with Kira and Miriallia, who were mildly confused until a dizzy Iana managed to explain to them who Rau Le Creuset was, then Mir broke down completely, clinging to Kira as the happy tears poured.
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On the Archangel's bridge, Lt. Ramius was just as happy as everyone else but she still had a ship to command, so she activated the intercom.
"Alright everyone, as much as we're all liking the sight of 'Le Crusty ass' getting his come up pance' she had to stop for a moment as a roar of approvel rattled the whole ship,' lets not forget that we are currently flying through a high colision zone. All on duty personal are encuraged to save the partying for later" she was answered by a thunderous 'Yes MA'AM!' from her crew before those that were off duty went back to partying.
Murrue let herself chuckle at the antics of her crew for a moment before she went back to her watch, but before she could settle in one of the sensor operators let out a contact warning.
"Ma'am! Heat source detected twenty degrees at two twenty klicks! matching. . . heat source confirmed as the Smuggler's Delight!" the operator shouted.
"Comms, get me an open line to the Smuggler." Murrue then snatched up the intercom phone aguin "could Dragoon Nami please report to the Bridge immediatly!" Murrue then sat back and waited for everything to fall into place, and maybe she could return to the Alliance soon.
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Nami stepped onto the bridge of the Archangel to find it one of the few quiet places on the ship at the moment, though she found the party going on below to be very intertaining. She had changed into her Dragoon uniform, which was simple a gray jumpsuit with a wolf howling to a star on the left breast pocket with gray combat boots, before she came to bridge.
"You called Lt. Ramius?" Nami asked as she floated down next to the captains chair.
"Yes" Murrue answered, thou she never took her eyes off the forward veiw screen, "the Delight's here, I was wondering if you know anything about it?" from the confused look on Nami's face Murrue dedused that she didn't. Just as they were about to start bouncing ideas off each other the communications officer reported that he had a link with the Delight.
"Archangel, this is the Smuggler's Delight, do you copy over"
"Roger Delight, send your traffic" Nami said into the bridge phone.
"Archangel be aware that we are leading an Alliance Agimemnon class ship to meet up with you for unknown purpose, please stand by at high alert until further notice. Smuggler's Delight out" the bridge of the Archangel was silent for a moment before Nami snatched up the interphone and started shouting orders into it.
"ARCHANGEL IS NOW ON RED ALERT! ALL PILOTS REPORT TO THE FLIGHT DECK!"
"Nami whats going on?" Murrue asked loudly as the sounds of the party below stopped.
"Hopefully nothing" Nami said before heading for the lift to the flight deck herself.
"Hopefully nothing"
END CHAPTER.
Sorry for the delay, but my computer breathed its last and I had to rewrite this chapter from scratch. Please enjoy and review.