Apollo stared up at the ceiling of the Ptolemaios, they spent a lot of time in space and in the low gravity environment, but hadn't been down to Earth. He walked around his living quarters on the Ptolemaios and realized he had nothing better to do so he went over to the bridge to see what was going on. "Oi Captain Sumeragi, what are we doing," Apollo said as he got on the bridge and took a seat behind her. Captain Sumeragi Kari Morales, the grand daughter of Sumeragi Lee Noriega, took on her grandmother's maiden name as a code name when she joined Celestial Being. Unlike her grandmother who was a great tactician and strategist, she is much more well studied in the operations of the ship and acts more along the lines of instinct and reacting to situations as they come. She leaves a lot of the foresight to battle plans to Tieria who is just as experienced now in battle tactics as her grandmother was.
Kari shares a lot of her grandmother's looks. Long brown hair but prefers to have it down instead of curled, slightly large bust, and hour glass figure. While on the bridge she wears a white space suit like the rest of the crew, but anywhere else she wears a set of white pants, a green v-cut blouse with a black loose fitting undershirt beneath. She has on her right hand a pair of gold bracelets that were from her mother.
"Hi, Apollo," Sumeragi said happily, "we're planning on going back down to Earth soon, just get ready for the descent."
"Yes, ma'am," he replied, "why were we in space for so long?"
"We had to wait for our contact on the ground to be ready, " she replied, "we're selecting the final pilot to join our squad of Gundam Meisters, and there are a lot more applicants this time around. So while the guys on the ground were busy sorting them out, we waited up here."
"I see, but why did we have to wait up here," Apollo asked, "can't we just go down to Earth freely."
"Well its not that simple," Sumeragi stated, "we currently aren't on great terms with the governments of Earth. Celestial Being has been known to defy the government especially when it comes to protecting humanity from itself."
"What do you mean?" As Apollo asked this Mileina conveniently came aboard the bridge only to find Apollo already there talking to Sumeragi. She picked up on the gist of the conversation and began explaining to Apollo why they have to take extra precautions when approaching Earth.
"Apollo," Mileina said, "whatever happened out there, how you came here and what your suit is powered by, the governments of Earth are after. You see you suit is somehow linked to a near catastrophic event that occurred a couple months ago."
"What," Apollo was confused. He continued listening to what Mileina had to say.
"Two months ago a breach in space-time opened up outside of Earth's orbit. This was the first observable event of its kind in history and us like many others were interested in the inner workings of it and wanted to do research on it. All the scientists from Earth gathered there carefully observed the event, and then you and your mobile suit popped out of the event horizon. You were immediately rescued by Setsuna and the 00, but Apollo, you managed to do the impossible, and we think your mobile suit has something to do with it."
"The Gundam Parallel? What about it?"
"We think that somehow the event we saw that day was linked to your mobile suit because your suit is powered by the same space-time event that brought you here. The wormhole core is more than just an artificial black hole generator. That kind of technology is still miles ahead of what we can pull out here, but to create a traversable wormhole inside a suit that is outrageous. In short we think that your mobile suit has the ability to travel on another plane of existence."
"Can you put this in simple terms, Mileina," Apollo said.
"At its maximum power output, the Gundam Parallel Omega has the ability to travel between your world and ours. With this power, it is possible that we might be able to get you back."
"Well then, let's do this, I need to get back as soon as I can."
"That's the thing, Apollo, we need more power," Mileina replied, "in order to achieve that level of energy we need more than just the Original GN Drives we have on the Ptolemaios, and we don't have a way to produce more."
"Well give me an estimate on how many we'd need," Apollo said inquisitively. He was curious about the power source of the GN Drives.
"To create the rift that brought you to our world we'll need the power of several GN Drives working in perfect synchronization.A rough estimate would put us around four. We currently only have 5 Original Drives but those aren't enough, two that power the 00-Qan(T) Exia, one for the Zabanya, one for the Ptolemaios, and another for the Raphael. But we need those to power those suits, so those are off the table."
"Good how do we get them?"
Sumeragi butted in, "we have to take materials from each of the respective nations of Earth: The AEU, The Union, and the HRL, in order to get their GN Drives. Though we have the ability to produce additional GN Drives aboard the Ptolemaios we need access to their materials which are currently in their hands. We also have other business to attend to with the ESF that we need your help in resolving. "
"The three nations already figured this out, so they've buffered up their defenses to make sure we can't get close. But currently what they don't know is the current power of our team and with your Omega Gundam we should have the strength to break past them," Mileina added, "also another objective for them is to capture your suit and dissect it and reverse engineer it, so we are currently a target for the entire world."
"Once we head to Earth, our operations will begin," Sumeragi added, "will you help us."
"It's not like you have a choice, young man," Mileina said starkly, "you're with us to the end by default. So what is your choice, are you willing to fight to get home or not." Apollo nodded and awaited for further instruction.
"You are now officially a member of Celestial Being, Apollo," Sumeragi stated, "We'll be departing tomorrow and heading towards Union territory. Meet up with Tieria in the briefing room, he'll fill you in on our current plans."
"Yes ma'am," Apollo saluted. He departed from the bridge and headed toward the briefing room aboard the Ptolemaios. In the room was Setsuna and Tieria patiently waiting for his arrival. Tieria was dressed in a purple Celestial Being uniform which was a purple coat with a corresponding button-up shirt beneath it on top of a white pair of pants. The shirt was purple from the chest up with a aquamarine diamond shape on the center and the rest was white. Setsuna wore a similar uniform but with the purple parts of it replaced with blue.
"Apollo," Tieria said in an authoritative tone, "here is your new uniform." Tieria walked over to the other side of the room to a box and picked it up. He walked back and handed the box to Apollo. Inside the box was an orange colored version of the same uniform, Apollo walked out briefly and replaced his ZAFT Elite Uniform with his new outfit. He looked at himself briefly in the mirror, he realized he hadn't cut his hair in a very long time and now his bangs covered his left eye. It didn't bother him too much, and he preferred the new look. Apollo walked back into the room with the new orange uniform on.
Tieria was impressed, he shared a lot in common with the former pilot that wore that suit. Apollo was slightly shorter than Hallelujah, but they shared a lot of the same features, brown eyes with long hair covering one, a thin but toned body, and a sort of aura of cockiness intermixed with a level of deadly skill to back it up. Tieria snapped out of his slight flash back of when Lockon, Setsuna, Hallelujah, and himself worked together. "Are you alright, Tieria," Apollo asked.
"Yes I'm fine," Tieria said as he adjusted his glasses, "We'll be covering today our plans on getting to Earth. Thanks to Mileina's help and the technology aboard the Omega Gundam, we replicated what is called in Apollo's universe a 'Mirage Colloid' system which is frankly the most advanced stealth system we've seen to date. It will mask our presence to sensors and to the eye. With that in place the Ptolemaios will be able to go where it needs to be without being seen. In the case that our presence is discovered, the three of us will deploy to counter whatever the Union has in store for us. Understood."
"Yes, we got it," Apollo affirmed, "but why are we going to the Union first."
"Because we will be picking up our fourth member of our mobile suit team from there," Tieria replied, "he's an expert marksman and is a perfect fit for what we need on the team."
"What's his name," Apollo inquired.
"Kira Yamato," Tieria replied, "he's a Japanese immigrant to the Union but is renowned for his skill with the rifle." Apollo's jaw dropped.
"Kira Yamato..." The name went through his head then he realized who he was. Kira was Shirou's great-grandfather that died during the 3rd Valentine War. His mind was absolutely blown, but he tried to keep it to himself.