The Quantum IS

"I am Gundam" Speaking

"Targeted and firing" Radio speech/Tieria speech

'Eliminating targets' thoughts

'Young man' communication via Quantum Brainwaves

I own neither Gundam 00 nor Infinite Stratos, both properties are owned by their respective owners.

Chapter 1: Arrivals

Upon quantizing to the appointed destination of Lagrange 1, Setsuna and Tieria were greeted with the familiar sight of the Earth, what stood out to them as they observed the earth was that the orbital elevators, nor the solar array were anywhere to be seen, another issue, one that was far more concerning and puzzling to Tieria, was that the Qan[T] was unable to connect to Veda, an issue that was promptly stated by the former meister.

"How odd. Setsuna, it appears that I am no longer able to connect directly to Veda, it is as if it no longer exists, or is being shielded in some way."

"Why? And more importantly, how are you still within the Veda terminal without a connection?" asked Setsuna.

"Why the connection was lost is still unknown, however, the answer to your second question is that I has the majority of my consciousness data transferred to the Veda terminal, with the rest being provided by Vede itself. When the ELS' merged with the Qan[T], they upgraded the system to have more data storage and processing power, after this point I had the rest of my data copied and transferred into the unit. That however is irrelevant, we should head planetside and investigate what has happened to the elevators." Answered Tieria, with the latter part being spoken in a more serious tone of voice.

"Roger." was all that Setsuna replied with, before proceeding towards the Earth.

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Upon beginning to enter the Earth's atmosphere, the Qan[T] released a GN Field around itself in order to eliminate any possible damage from the aerodynamic heating of reentry. The angle of reentry was a smaller one which allowed for a partial orbit across a third of the planet before the mobile suit would land in the waters off of the coast of the North American country of Canada which was once a part of the Union and was now a large agricultural powerhouse for parts of the Earth-Sphere Federation, this location was decided upon as a large government server facility was located inland British Columbia, making access via hacking or actual visit much more simple than in some other places.

After splashdown 32 kilometers from Vancouver Island, the Qan[T] quickly submerged to a depth of approximately 91 meters before it reached solid ground. Setsuna prepared to leave the Gundam, taking with him a ear-piece that would allow him to communicate with Tieria when he reached the island. After he had what he needed he opened up the cockpit which proceeded to flood with the seawater at a pressure that would kill most people if exposed to the sudden change, luckily for Setsuna that he was not most people, when he had become an Innovator his body had changed to become more resilient to harsh conditions such as these, and, with his body becoming assimilated by the ELS, he had gone through more extreme changes, ones that would allow him to exist in even the most harsh of places with relative ease. The reason he had become even more resilient was because his fusing with the ELS had changed his body into that of an ELS on a fundamental level, though he retained his shape as well as his consciousness, he no longer needed to eat or breath and could survive temperatures and pressures that would be dangerous for even Innovators, he was also capable of changing his form slightly to allow for him to better blend in to his surrounding, the changes were not that great, many of the changes only had a cosmetic effect, such as changing eye, hair and skin color, as well as slign alteration of his height and clothes.

Upon reaching the shore Setsuna shifted into the form of a young Middle-Eastern boy with black hair and hazel eyes that seemed red at certain angles, the boy wore a simple white tunic with a black belt at the waist, he also wore black dress pants and simple black leather shoes, around his neck he wore a long muffler which was a subdued crimson color. The sun was just beginning to rise over the horizon allowing Setsuna to observe himself in one of the puddles left behind by the high tide. The face that looked back at him in the puddle was one that brought a sense of nostalgia to Setsuna, the face was his from 57 years prior when Celestial Being fist started its armed interventions, although he did notice some differences in his face now than what it looked like when he was younger, his eyes lost their inherent rage and appeared to be more calm and relaxed, and his face had changed from the perpetual frown that was there to a more neutral expression that almost bordered on a smile.

'It's a bit odd to see that face looking back at me again, especially with such a different expression then what it used to wear.' Thought Setsuna before he stood up from the puddle and pulled out his old multi-com device to look at the map to try to find a nearby town or city from which he could begin to look up the events that transpired since he had left.

The device was unable to connect to any of its GPS satellites but the map still had the data of various locations around the globe. Setsuna recalled where he had landed the Qan[T] and the direction that he had swam to approximate the closest populated area that he could easily walk to, the map had shown the name of a large town called Tofino which was around 80 kilometers from him, he found the direction that he needed to go to get there and began to run to his destination.

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After 2 and a half hours of running Setsuna final made it into the town, it was smaller than his map had shown, but he figured that was due to the town having little to no strategic importance. As he walked into the town square, he was greeted with the sight of two young women clad in some form of personal mobile armour that looked be be a mix between exo-armor and a mobile suit, having the limbs protected by armor but leaving the pilot exposed, there were also floating wing-like structure that looked as though they helped with propulsion. The two women were fighting in what looked like some form of competition.

One of the the women had dark skin and light green hair that was styled into a swept back mohawk with the sides of her head being shaved nearly all the way to the scalp, her eyes were an interesting shade of eggplant purple that looked ocean blue when the light hit them at times. Her armor was mostly a dark crimson with parts near the joints and surrounding the soles of the feet being white, the wings carried on this design by having the larger lower wing parts red with white on the edges while the upper wing that was connected to the small red and white diamond shaped thruster being completely white. The hands of the unit were a dark grey and had what appeared to be claws on the fingers. Grasped in each of the hands of the suit were what looked to be oversized half claymores with the blade being about 2 and a quarter meters in length with the bladed half ending in a wedge shape and the back of the blade having large surations on them. The woman's forehead was protected by a jagged looking plate that sported a single equally jagged horn. On the bottom left of the screen was the a half filled circular gauge, next to the gauge was the name 'Tessa Eissendottir' over the words 'Rautt Fangi', the latter of which Setsuna assumed was the suits name.

The other woman had pale skin and short red hair that was done in a warrior's wolf tail, her eyes were an emerald green color. The armor that she dawned was large and heavy looking, it honestly reminded setsuna of the Virtue in its design, the armor was a dark ash grey with the accent color being a neutral grey, the wing parts on the back took the form of solid dark grey shields with small circular cutouts being surrounded in light grey and the edhed of the verniers being a dull bronze color. It the hands of the suit was what looked to be a large dark grey railgun that was about 6 meters in length, the gun has handles mounted on both sides to help the user hold it. On the woman's head sat a plain dark grey V-fin. On the bottom right of the screen was a mostly filled circular gauge with the name 'Nora Meijer' over the words 'Stille Moordenaar'.

The fight had Tessa launching herself at Nora to take some swings with her swords, chipping away at her gauge, before she was forced to retreat from a small beam gun under each of Nora's wings. The fight went on like this for a few minutes before Nora used her gun to hit Tessa away, stunning her, before firing two consecutive shots that dropped Tessa's gauge into emptiness, it was then that a loud buzzer sounded.

"And that's the match folks." Spoke an announcer. "Nora Meijer in her IS the Stille Moordenaar has knocked Tessa Eissendottir and the Rautt Fangi out of the running for the preliminaries for the fourth Mondo Grosso tournament that will be held in London in two years, it's starting to look as though Italy may have some competition in their fight to hold onto the title of 'Brunhilde' this time around."

'IS. What exactly are you?' Thought Setsuna, as he left the square in order to find a library to find out information about the IS's.

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Accessing computers in the library had been easy, all setsuna had to do was sign a release form and he was free to use them. After finding a computer in the far of cubical, setsuna synced his Multi-com and earpiece to the computer, planning to collect himself, just as he was about to begin he had an idea.

"Tieria, would it be possible for you to access the internet through a computer synced to the Multi-com?" asked Setsuna.

"I suppose it should be doable, just give me a moment… Connection established. Anything I should specifically be looking for?"

"Look for something called IS, as well as what happened to the orbital elevators." Answered Setsuna as he began to look for data as well. They continued searching for a few minutes before Tieria's voice played over the earpiece.

"Setsuna, we may have a problem."

"What is it Tieria?" Questioned Setsuna.

"I was able to find out about the IS system, IS stands for Infinite Stratos, it was created 10 years ago by a Tabane Shinonono to be an exoskeleton for space exploration, however its technology and fighting ability threatened to destabilize the world especially after the 'Shirokishi incident' when 2341 ballistic missiles were hacked and all launched towards Japan, all of the missiles were intercepted by a sole IS, which shocked the world into signing a treaty to ban their use in military conflicts as well as distributing the technology to all the countries on the planet."

"So, what is the problem? A new technology was developed and the government had the foresight to ban its use in war." Questioned Setsuna, as he was not seeing anything wrong with these course of actions.

"I was getting to that. The problem, Setsuna, technology was developed in 2041, meaning that right now is the year 2051, not 2364 like it should be. This means we either quantized back in time, or we jumped from one reality to another on entirely. I myself am leaning towards the latter as i have never once heard of Infinite Stratos ever. Either way, this may prove to be a serious problem." Stated Tieria before he began to explain the issue at hand.

"Oh." Was Setuna's only response.

"Yeah, Oh. Anyways I suggest that we find this Tabane Shinonono before we do anything else."

"Agreed."

There it is, chapter one done,. I hope you have enjoyed what has been done so far and will like what is up next.