Gundam Seed: Fate

[Kasawa Lanford]

Welcome

This story is a collaboration between myself and Dark Alpha.


Summery:

Almost a year has gone by since the new peace treaty was signed between ZAFT and the Earth Alliance; nuclear weapons have been disposed of, most of the gundams owned by both sides are scrapped for their parts to be used in civilian transports. Kira, Athrun and Lacus return to ORB to help Cagalli, while Shinn and Luna stay with ZAFT, but main a professional relationship while on duty.

The Eternal and Archangel once again disappear from the scene, along with their respective crews minus those who have already returned.

However, peace isn't something that will be kept. Unbeknowst to either faction, a splinter group of combined Cordinator and Naturals have been bidding their time - waiting for the perfect moment to bring the war back and remove the two governments who stand in their way.


Bios:

Name:Kitan
Age: 16
Race: Coordinator
Occupation: DNO Gundam Pilot
Rank: Colonel
Gundam/Mobile Armor: KDMA-009

Description: Kitan is a coordinator who believe's strongly in a world that needs change, he's watched the previous two wars bring nothing more than a fragile, uncertain peace. He doesn't know who his real mother and father are, nor is he even aware if he has any family left. He found himself in the hands of the DNO at the young age of five and has since been trained as a Gundam Pilot. During the two wars, however, he worked as a spy within both ZAFT and the Earth Alliace. Shortly after the second war, he was made colonel of the intelligence division and now serves as a front line soldier aboard his specially modified Maganest Gundam, with a personel OS he developed.


Details: Gundam KDMA-009
Weapons:
MMI-GAU27D 31 mm CIWS x2 , fire-linked, head-mounted
EQFU-3X Super DRAGOON mobile weapon wings x12 (Each carry MA-80V beam assault cannon x2, plus a single missile launcher with four missile payload)
MGX-5335 "Minus" multi-phase beam cannon x2, located on the shoulders.
MD-M21KF combinable high-energy beam rifle x2, located on the back. Can be made into a single beam rifle for us in long range combat, or kept as two cannons for use in short range.
MA-M02G "Lancete" beam saber x1, the Lacent is a weapon made by the DNO. Similiar to the beam sabre on Shinn's first gundam. The difference in this one is that it can be remotely controlled on a whime, as in if it gets blown off the users hands.
Systems:
Ultracompact Hyper-Deuterion Nuclear Fission Reactor.
Variable Phase Shift Armor
Special Systems:
Mirage Collde Cloak System

Description:

The KDMA-009 was originally designed to be used by the ZAFT Special Forces unit 937. However, during the second war a group of DNO commando's infiltrated the assembly plant and stole the suit. The plant was then destroyed and made to look as if the plants own nuclear reactor melted down, it succeeded, and ZAFT never realized that the unit was destroyed.

In a DNO base on Earth the unit completed with the help of another construction team. It's weapon are mark improvement over those typically found on a suit it's type, but the installion of a special OS meant it didn't have the same weakness that the Impulse and Freedom, along with the Strike Impulse had. With several special arrays set up, the nuclear reactor can feed power into various systems, plus the arrays can store the power for instant recharge of its weapons.

Twelve small 'wings' are planted across the chasis, made to look like an angel, these wings hold the DNO's most smallest, and most powerful, beam weapon. The beams are capable of being 'curved' allowing the mobile weapons to fire on targets not directly within their firing line.

While the ZDMA-009 appears to be one seated; it can actually fit two pilots. The difference is that one pilot is responsible for communications and sensors, while the other pilots and fires the weapons. The pilot 'pod' is armored up, making it difficult to destroy.

The Unit is also equiped with an MCCS, another form of DNO technology that allows the unit to appear as something else. the MCCS is requiped on all DNO ships, which is why they are able to look like ZAFT or Earth Alliance vessels. The 'holographic' field is made in such a way that the firing of weapons, or swiveling of turrets doesn't disrupt the field.

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Name: Xion Michael
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Genetic Type: Natural
Appereance: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Emperor01.jpg
Description:
 
Biography: Xion was once a happy-go-lucky 13 year old kid from ORB who is celebrating his 13th birthday with his parents, in which begins his years as a teenager. However that was short lived when mobile suits from both ORB & ZAFT destroyed his neighborhood thus killing his parents along with everyone else there. Xion was the only one who survived at that time, and was devastated by the loss of his parents. From that day, Xion's teenage years had to be replaced by being a mercenary pilot in order to make money for a living & learn how to survive on his own. Three years passed from that day, and now Xion is now a famous mercenary for hire to rich clients. What will Xion's fate be? What kind of outcome will he bring to the Third Valentine War? Only time can tell....

Code Name: Strike Noir
Appereance: http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o81/kyko_shauran/gundam/StrikeNoir.jpg
 
Fixed Armaments: 2 x M2M5 "Todesschrecken" 12.5mm automatic CIWS, fire-linked, mounted in head; 2 x M8F-SB1 "Shorty" beam rifle, mounted on hips, hand-carried in use; 2 x MR-Q10 "Fragarach" beam blade, mounted on Noir, hand-carried in use; 2 x MAU-M3E42 linked linear gun, mounted on Noir Striker

Additional Equipment/Armaments: Noir Striker; 2 x 57mm high-energy beam rifle w/175mm grenade launcher x 2

Serial Number: GAT-X105E+AQM/E-X09S
Biography(Optional): Like the original GAT-X105 Strike Gundam, the upgraded GAT-X105E Strike E is designed to use several interchangeable Striker packs. It most commonly uses the AQM/E-X09S Noir Striker, which combines various armaments. The Noir Striker's "wings" house a pair of linked linear guns, as well as a pair of beam blades and a rocket anchor. The Strike Noir is assigned to Phantom Pain pilot Sven Cal Bayan and serves as his personal unit during the Second Earth/ZAFT War that begins in late C.E. 73 with the "Break the World" incident. Separated from the regular Earth Alliance command structure, Sven's Phantom Pain unit includes Mudie Holcroft's GAT-X1022 Blu Duel and Shams Couza's GAT-X103AP Verde Buster. During the course of the war, Sven is assigned to lead a group of Orb pilots using GAT-01A2R Slaughter Daggers in the hunt for the Martian ship Acidalium and Ergnes Brahe's GSF-YAM01 Ä Astray.

In early C.E. 74, Sven's unit is assigned to protect Phantom Pain's land carrier Bonaparte, as well as the massive GFAS-X1 Destroy Gundam. The Bonaparte comes under attack from ZAFT forces, resulting in Mudie's death. Soon after, Sven and Shams are sent to space as part of an attack on the Deep Space Survey and Development Organization (DSSD) to seize control of the AI-equipped GSX-401FW Stargazer. During that battle, the Strike Noir is damaged by the Stargazer. In a last-ditch effort to defeat Sven, Stargazer pilot Selene MacGriff uses the Stargazer's "Voiture Lumiere" interplanetary propulsion system to send both suits out to Venus. Afterward, Selene rescues Sven and uses the Strike Noir's remaining energy to recharge the Stargazer for its long journey back to Earth.

After the Second Valentine War, Xion recovered the damaged Strike Noir which finally returned to ORB's airspace from Venus. He salvaged & repaired it accordingly how the Strike Noir originally is, the only difference are the absence of its rocket anchors & the powerful security Xion installed to ensure that no one else can pilot it but him, plus the fact that Strike Noir's controls are reconfigured & redesigned according to Xion's liking & convenience. Xion currently uses it for his missions as a mercenary pilot even until now.

[Kasawa Lanford]

December 24th, CE 73

PLANT Colony - January 9th, ZAFT Military Refueling Depot

A subtle breeze blew across the parade grounds of the Zaft Military Base located on January 9th, a newly constructed PLANT built to replace the January lost during the war. Equiped with special 'blast doors' to help prevent such an attack from causing wide spread damage, it was effectively difficult to bisect this colony.

On the Parade Grounds, a young boy in his middle teen's watched as ZAFT Mobile Suits made their daily patrols. Two of the suits glanced his way, but then returned to patroling.

"How much longer?" The teenager said into a hidden mic. As he listend to someone on the other end his attention shifted to several large fuel tanks in the distance. Each tank carried enough fuel to keep the Zaft ships active for months.

With a cursory nod he stuffed his hands into his pocket and headed off into the hanger bay. Inside he meet a mechanic who thumped him toward an elevator, while he ascended through the depot his mind raced with many concerns: Will this work? What will happen? And will this mark the beginning of the new war.

The Elevator stopped and he disembarked, then took a flight of stairs down into a hidden section of the base. There he found a young girl, somewhere in her early teens, coming out of a vent shaft. "It's done Kiten," the girl said.

Kiten smiled and helped her out of the shaft. "Great Sakura, now let's board the Majesty and get going," he said. They made their way down the corridor until they came to a set of airlock doors. Sealing up their uniforms and making sure htey had freeze oxygen, they cycled through the airlock until it opened. They were on the bottom of the colony, below them for some distance was a ZAFT patrol vessel.

They floated in space until they came across a mobile suit that was attached magnetically to the colony. It's cockpit doors opened, they boarded. Kiten ran a check list of the mobile suits systems, then checked his mission clock. "One hour to go, before the whole world knows who we are,"

"Let's just hope the other group is doing their job setting up explosives on the Earth Alliance station," Sakura said as she ran her own checklist ."Everything's clear back here," she added

He nodded. "Great, let's hold off just a few more minutes," he said. The girl nodded and pressed her back against her seat, then closed her eyes to get at least a couple seconsd of rest.

[Dark Alpha]

Xion was in the abandoned space station busy preparing his Strike Noir for an incoming mission he was hired for, and its a pretty big one to miss out of. As he continued on preparing Strike Noir, he soon came to a thought regarding his Gundam.

"Its just a shame that the pilot Sven Cal Bayan couldn't live to see his favourite Gundam in one piece, which is now mine, right Strike Noir?" asked Xion to himself as he chuckled for awhile and finally finished preparing it.

"Right, now to inform my client that I'm ready." said Xion as he took out his Amethyst Purple cellphone and began dialling in a number. With that done, he placed the cellphone by his ear and began speaking to his client when he responded.

"I am ready now, care to brief me my mission once more?" asked Xion professionally.

[Kasawa Lanford]

The wait had been long; roughly ten minutes to be exact, when the message came for him to disengage, he did so silently. "Disengage magnetic clamps," he told Sakura, whom nodded.

Majesty suddenly began to float away from the bottom of the colony. Below it the ZAFT Patrol Vessel apperently had yet to notice them, "Sakura, power up the beam sabre, we have our first target," Kiten said.

They both heard a hum envelop the suit as the beam sabre came online; it's metal blade hadn't yet warmed with a dull red glow just yet as it was under stealth power, meaning the patrol vessel wouldn't pick up the start up of the blade until it was to late.

***

Inside the depoy, Kira and Shinn were tending to some of their own duties. "Hey Kira?" Shinn said as he worked on his mobile suit. "It's been.. several months since the end of the war, you think it'll remain peaceful?" he asked.

Kira didn't look at him as he tended to Shinn's OS. Making changes to the base code, and making sure the code he put in would work. "I hope it does, I made the mistake of assuming that we would have a long lasting peace after the last war," Kira said. "We'll just have to pray," he added.

[Dark Alpha]

Just as Xion made contact, a mysterious person responded.

"Yes. Your mission is to create a ruckus at the Colony, enough to draw a few suits out. I don't care what it takes, just stall them for a while. After that, our Mobile Suits will come and take care of the job." explained the mysterious person.

"Right, and I expect the payment to be made right after I finished my job." said Xion, ensuring that the client still hasn't forget their contract's reward payment.

"Naturally." replied the mysterious person in an ensuring tone, as Xion closed his cellphone and put it back inside his pocket. He then entered Strike Noir and began activating its systems.

"Right, lets go Strike Noir!" said Xion as Strike Noir's thrusters activated thus causing it to fly out of the space station in a 360 degree flip while activating its Phase Shift armor at the same time. With that, Xion flew Strike Noir towards their target area as stealthly and quickly as possible.

[Kasawa Lanford]

Minutes ticked by on his mission watch; then at the thirty minute marked was reached and his distance counter went down to only a mere one hundred feet from the stationary patrol vessel, the Majesty came to life. It's phase shift armor came online with a goldish/bluish brellence.

The arm of the Gundam pulled back and grabbed a beam sabre that was on it's back; wiping it out like it was no heavier than a feather. The blade glowed to a dull blood red hue before the suits thrusters pack's came online, rocketing it toward the patrol vessel.

They struck so fast; so precise, that the patrol vessel wasn't able to send out it's compliment of mobile suits. The sabre cut cleaning into the top of the vessel, bisecting it in the center, then continueing down through the bottom. As Kiten piloted his suit away, a blinding explosion rippled through space, rocking his suit as the reactor of the vessel chained reacted.

"One down," Kiten said as he saw reinforcement appear on the sensor display. "Count?" he asked his co-pilot.

"Two, no...make that four," Sakura said as she flipped a switch. "All are Zaku class," she said, her voice amused by the lack of more powerful weapons to be thrown against them.

Kiten nodded. "I'm almost certain we'll get a heavier response once those charges go off, which should be in another twenty eight minutes," he said as he flew toward a peice of debris that was once the Zaft patrol vessel.

[Dark Alpha]

No sooner did a large number of Zaku class groups began acting in defensive measures, flying towards the Gundam that destroyed one of their patrol vessels. However their attempts were soon thwarted when Strike Noir flew towards them from above, firing its two beam rifles rapidly at them at a machine gun's speed rate, destroying them at a quick pace, as Strike Noir then stylishly changed directions and flew towards the original target area.

More and more Zaku class groups began flying towards the Strike Noir, intending to take it out. However, they only proved to meet the same fate as the Strike Noir's two beam rifles begun performing its job again; destroying any Zaku's that are interfering in its pathway.

[Kasawa Lanford]

Kiten ignored the mercenary as hide behind the debris. "We'll have to blow early," he said as he reached for the remote detonator. "Fire a message off the merc to get clear of the blast zone!" he shouted, waited fifteen seconds, then depressed the trigger.

A rippling explosion chained through the refueling complex as the explosives afixed to the various fuel lines detonated. The bottom of the colony suddenly warped as explosion chained across the bottom and toward the glassy structure of the colony. Cracks appeared on the glass and spread in various directions.

Kiten watched as the bottom half ot the colony began to float away; explosions still chainingacross the depot. "Mission complete," Sakura said before a warning light came on. "Detecting three mobile suits, checking ID's... It's the Destiny, Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice," Sakura said as she brought it up on another display for Kiten to see. He naturally scowled at the presence of three coordinators, veterans of the last war, willing to take them on.

"Keep an eye on them," he said.

"Infinite Justice is breaking off and heading toward the Merc, Destiny and Freedom are headed toward us," Sakura said. Her voice was calm and collected, as if she had been expecting this all along and was waiting for the moment. 

[Dark Alpha]

'Looks like it took the bait, that Gundam should be able to handle the other two, especially the Destiny pilot.' thought Xion, as he flew above all of the sudden, which will cause Infinite Justice to loose track of Strike Noir's location. The out of the blue, Strike Noir unexpectedly flew towards Infinite Justice from above & behind, firing its two beam rifles rapidly at Infinite Justice, remaining in an admirably accurate manner even though being in a hard position to do so.

Once Strike Noir got close enough, Xion switched from its two beam rifles to its two beam blade, being ready to clash against Infinite Justice's beam saber if it is in position, otherwise Strike Noir would have made a swift V-cut at Infinite Justice's torso.

[Kasawa Lanford]

The Majesty easily avoided a sabre from the Destiny; Kiten flew the gundam like it was an extension of his own body. Causing it to dive cleanly away from the bladed weapon.

"Annoyance," was the word Kiten used to describe the Destiny. As he flew downwards he quickly reversed thrust and brought his blade up toward the Destiny, he was to quick for the pilot to evade and easily removed the head of the gundam, which flew off into space somewhere.

"One down," Kiten said coldly as he turned his attention to the Strike Freedom, he knew even from a distance that it would prove an interesting battle.

***

Infinite Justice screamed toward the unknown gundam; it's blade outward and ready for battle. The onboard pilot could already feel this battle would be intense, not only from the wreakage he saw floating around, but also by how the gundam ahead looked.

"Why are they here? Who are they?" Athrun asked himself as he approuched the gundam. "Why are these people attacking?" he shook his head clear of the questions, knowing they would be nothing more than a distraction.

[Dark Alpha]

As both Gundams approached close, Strike Noir's two beam blades and Infinite Justice's beam saber clashed intensively, with seemingly neither having the upperhand. However just as the clash continued on, Strike Noir stealthfully readied its beam blade while the other continued clashing, and in unexpectedness its readied beam blade proceeded to perform a swift stab at Infinite Justice's cockpit, intending to hit it.

[Kasawa Lanford]

Athrun scowled when he saw the approuching blades and brought his own up; skillfully avoiding the attack and flying upwards to gain an advantage. When he was a short distance up he brought his beam rifle to bear on the gundam, and opened fire.

***

"This pilots good," Kiten said as the Striker avoided his attacks; of course, he was just toying with the Strike and it's pilot until the appointed time. That time came faster than he expected, in the distance just beyond the moon, a massive explosion took place in high orbit. It was noticable even their location near the PLANTS.

A grin formed across his face as he knee'd the Strike in the chest. "Merc! We move!" Kiten blasted the transmission to Xion. "Rendezvous with second carrier group, location coordinates are being sent to you now," he said. As he flew away from the Strike he noticed it's pilot was still chasing him.

"Ok boy..." he said and spun the Majesty around and aimed the beam rifle at the colony. "Let's give you something to worry about," with a press of the trigger, a beam of angry red light shot out of the rifle and connected with the armor plating of the colony - it was an unexpected event. Kiten generally looked surprised, but then grinned and pumped more power into the beam rifle, after several seconds the armor plating over the colony's exterior windows shattered and a hole appeared. The Strike Freedom instantly stopped and made it's way toward the colony.

As he flew away his interception gear picked up a burst transmission from the gundam - 'Athrun! Get back to the colony!' Kiten looked to his right, as if he could see the Strike's pilot clearly. "Athrun?" he said to himself and continued to fly.

"Something wrong?" Sakura asked him, but Kiten shook his head. "No, nothing," was all he said.

[Dark Alpha]

Strike Noir stylishly evades the incoming beam shots, while returning fire with its own two beam rifles. Just as Xion was attempting to land a critical move at Infinite Justice, the transmission from Kiten prevented that.

"Alright." Xion blasted the transmission back to Kiten, flying Strike Noir towards the second carrier group, as he soon arrived at there.

[Kasawa Lanford]

Kiten's gundam floated ahead of the lead battleship, a class of ship unknown to the Zaft and Earth Alliance. The ship had eight ship to ship based cannon's similiar to the one's used on the Minerva. Affixed to the front of the ship was a Genesis like beam weapon, capable of spliting a station in half.

As he watched Xion's Gundam move slowly onto the ship; he turned his attention to the calamity in the distance. Even though they weren't far from the colony, it was still far enough to where he couldn't see the hundreds upon hundreds of mobile suits working furiously to rescue people from the colony.

At the same time he had the communication's network open and was listening to the hasty new's reports now flooding in from Earth and the PLANTS. With a grin on his face he looked at Sakura, who nodded. "Captain Monikor..." he said.

Aboard the battleship, Captain Monikor was sitting, his hands clasped in his hands. "Here Sir," he said.

"Match my visual and audioable signal into the battleships communications system, then beam it to every PLANT, every Earth based city, even Lunar." Kiten ordered, he waited several seconds before a series of green lights appeared on his communication's console.

With a deep sigh he flipped on a switch; instantly the radio chatter on the news networks ceased and his voice flooded the airways. "As you whelps have seen; January 9 and the Earth Alliance station 'Delphious' lie in ruins," he said, his voice cold and unsympathic.

"This attack's will continue until the governments of both nations surrender to the might of the Dark Nebula Organization, we will not stand for the petty squibbles that went on between these two nations," he glanced to his right just as two of his escort mobile suits came up along side him. "The ZAFT High Council, the Earth Alliance Military, and the group known as 'Blue Cosmos' will begin to feel the wraith of the DNO, as we cleanse both land and space of these abomanations!" he shouted, his voice singing in the ears of anyone who might've been wearing a headset.

He lay silent for several minutes, then his voice crept back up. "What you've witnessed today, is but a prelogue to the real battle's ahead. We will continue our act's of aggression against both nations," he said before relaying images of the explosion at the colony and station. After several minute's he killed the connection and clasped his hands in his lap and looked up at the monitors, "let the third war begin...."

***

"Damn it..." Athrun growled after listening to the message. "Only a few months of peace.. and now we have another act of aggression on our hands," he said as he piloted his Gundam over to the colony to help in assisting.

[Dark Alpha]

Xion then look at the countless units attempting to assist the civillians inside the colony, as he noticed how similiar these disasters are to those back in ORB years ago. However whatever he felt about these actions, isn't his problem to interfere or say anything. He is a mercenary pilot, that was it. He needed to fight for a living, as he knew how harsh life can be. With that, he proceeded to keep watch of his Strike Noir, ensuring that no one attempts to sabotage it, even though its security is very impossible to break through.

[Kasawa Lanford]

Onboard the battleship, Kiten tended to the maintenance of his gundam. Stripping apart it's arm and repairing some of the damage that his opponant dealt.

"The pilot was good; he managed to damage your suit," Sakura said as she floated over to the arms casing.

Kiten nodded. "I will give him some credit; but he won't succeed next time," he said. He pulled out some of the burnt wires, discarding them in the air and then replacing them with freeze ones. "Can you get Xion for me?" he asked Sakura.

"Sure, he should be landing any moment now," Sakura said and went to retreive Xion.

[Dark Alpha]

Xion made sure no one was too close enough to Strike Noir's cockpit when repairing it, however his attention shifted when he noticed Sakura. He knew that Kiten wanted to see him right now, so did not hesitate to say no.

"Very well." said Xion to Sakura, as if he knew what she was going to say. With that, he began heading to where Kiten is.

[Kasawa Lanford]

A wrench floated out of the Majesty's cockpit. Sakura grabbed the wrench and then floated into the cockpit, "brought Xion as you asked," she said and grabbed onto her console and used it to get into her pilots seat.

"Nice flying out there," Kiten said, not turning toward Xion. "What's your impression of that Infinite Justice and it's pilot?"

[Dark Alpha]

"I can't really comment my impression towards them much of yet, due to our battle being cut short. Though I had to admit, the Red Knight's skill towards close ranged combat is plausible, as his pattern of attacking tends to be unpredictable yet straightforward once discerned of." commented Xion in a formal tone, showing an emotionless expression for the entire time.

[Kasawa Lanford]

"You may get your chance to fight him again, but not today," Kiten said. "Sakura, how's the power flow to the arm?" he asked.

Sakura looked at the power meter and smiled. "It's good, looks like that was the problem," she said.

"Good," he said and closed the arm's casing, then locked it into place. "Xion, we'll be returning to base soon, get your gundam squared away. While you don't have to worry about any of crew trying to steal it, we are docking at Lunar base, best to be on the safe sid," he said to Xion.