Apollo awoke, the lights dazed him a bit. He looked around the room and saw unknown faces. He saw what appeared to be a young Middle Eastern man and several other people. He faded in and out of consciousness, but his time aboard was interesting as he saw new faces pass in and out of the room every day. At one point he was capable of moving around a bit, but his arms and legs felt heavy, so he rested a bit longer. The faces became clearer as his eyesight recovered. Eventually he came to complete consciousness, and awoke to see a young man his age facing him, it was the Middle Eastern one that he'd first seen upon arrival.

"Where am I," he asked, "he looked around the room and saw that he was hooked up to a bunch of machines. It frightened him at first, but he wasn't surprised. The man cleared his throat and spoke.

"You're aboard the Ptolemaios," he replied, "are you feeling better, this is the first time you've been conscious in a month."

"Yeah much better," Apollo laughed. He then came to the realization that he'd been in a coma for a month, he let it pass over him and asked, "What is your name?"

"My name is Setsuna F. Seiei," he replied, "what is yours?"

"The name is Apollo, Apollo Zala," Apollo replied.

"How, am I here?"

"We found your Mobile Suit drifting towards Earth. It was a miracle that we found you alive," he said. Apollo looked around and saw his uniform drifting around on a hanger. He tried to get up again but his body still felt heavy. "Let me help you up," Setsuna grunted as he lifted Apollo up. Apollo took his first steps and noticed something odd about his foot steps. As he lumbered around, his foot steps made a metallic clang as he stepped across the floor.

"What is this," Apollo said to himself. He lifted his leg up and noticed they were a metallic gray, and almost immediately he noticed his hands were also the same metallic gray. "My arms, my legs, " he exclaimed. He stood on his own and took a good look at both his prosthetic arms and legs.

"Your arms and legs were frozen solid and had become necrotic," Setsuna informed him, "in addition you may not notice yet but you're eyes have changed. We replaced them because you were blind." Apollo looked around and realized that his eyes had a built-in HUD. As he scanned the room, he could look at objects and grab information about them.

"What did you people do to me," Apollo cried. Then another man walked in, he had long purple hair and wore a set of round glasses. He was slightly taller than Setsuna and wore a purple button-up shirt and a lab coat. He had a pale complexion and was thin and lanky unlike Setsuna and Apollo who were much more toned and balanced in proportion.

"You were a dead man and all we did was replace the parts that were dead with better ones, " he told Apollo, "Barely anything in your body was functioning other than your vital organs and your brain, even those were at a minimal state." He adjusted his glasses, "it looked like you went through hell and back." He strode over to the side of Apollo's bed and entered some information into the holo-tablet on it.

"Who are you," Apollo asked.

"Tieria Erde, " he replied, "I was in charge of most of the procedure to replace your arms and legs with the prosthetic ones you have now as well as recovering your eyesight with cybernetic eyes you have now. You should thank me." He drifted over to another part of the room and checked the other machines and recorded their data. "Well, that and you should thank Setsuna here as he indirectly helped with the creation of your arms and legs. If it wasn't for the ELS assisting us a lot of this technology wouldn't even be possible."

"ELS," the name struck a chord in Apollo's memory. He wasn't exactly the science nerd, so he couldn't remember exactly what it was. After a moment, it him hard. "WAIT THIS IS ELS?!"

"Yes, they're helpful little metallic sprites, " Tieria added. Apollo was trying to work in his head what was going on.

"So they don't destroy humanity?!"

"What are you talking about, of course they didn't or else we wouldn't be talking right now. Setsuna, here fixed all of that," Tieria replied. Apollo looked at Setsuna and looked at his hands then back at him.

"What happened," Apollo asked. Setsuna then began retelling the events of what he called the "Awakening of the Trailblazer." The ELS had traveled across the universe and in doing so assimilated whatever material came in their way to join their ranks. They came across Earth and first transformed a secret research station on Jupiter into part of their horde. As they neared Earth, all of Earth's forces joined together for one final battle. The battle was the greatest anyone had every seen before, but Setsuna was able to communicate with the ELS and stopped the attack.

"Wait you're over a 100 years old," Apollo exclaimed. Setsuna didn't look a day over 20.

"That is the effect of becoming an Innovator," Setsuna said.

Tieria added, "more specifically, the amount of GN particles he's been exposed to have prevented the degradation of his telomeres. Essentially making him immortal as long as disease doesn't take him or he dies in combat."

Apollo dressed in his ZAFT uniform and began walking out of the room, "I need to see the Omega, " he said to the two. Tieria and Setsuna guided him to the Ptolemaios's hangar. Apollo saw three other mobile suits on the way. The first one was a blue color, mounted on it was a large shielded on its right shoulder that contained what appeared to be several blades. In fact that was the only types of arms he saw on the blue Gundam, only blades of all shapes and sizes. It shared a lot of similarities with the Mirage Frame that Zachariah piloted, but seemed a lot more majestic in the deep blue color instead of the dark purple that covered the Mirage Frame.

"That is the 00-Gundam Qan(T) Exia, that is Setsuna's Gundam," Tieria said, "it is a CQB type suit, but is outfitted with many instruments to take on foes from afar." The next one in the line was a white and black suit that carried a very large backpack unit. The backpack unit looked like it carried another mobile suit in it. It additionally carried a set of many large cannons. "That is my suit, the CB2-0002 Raphael Gundam. Over there on the other side is the sniper type suit GN-0010 Gundam Zabanya." Apollo looked over and saw the Zabanya. It was outfitted with several bit units and a long Beam Sniper. It was painted a forest green and was armed with what appeared to be several Beam Pistols, opting for range over taking a Beam Saber as a side armanent. He guessed the pilot knew his strengths and took advantage of it. The three of them walked over to the end of the hangar where he saw the Omega Gundam standing tall.

He recalled when he first saw the Omega and Alpha Gundam units. They stood tall and mighty like when he gazed upon it this time. The two units shared many characteristics with their supposed predecessor, the Destiny Gundam. The tear shaped cut-outs on the mask and the glowing wings of the suit amazed him when he took it out for the first time.

"For the record can I take an official name for your mobile suit," Tieria asked.

"ZGMF - X100 Gundam Parallel Code: Omega, is its official name, " Apollo replied, "however just call it the Gundam Omega."