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Gundam Seed DX

By EmperorDraco7

'Cosmic Era (C.E.) 70. Tensions between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT had reached an all-time high. With the event of the Bloody Valentine Tragedy, the strained relations hit their breaking point and escalated into a full-scale war. Initially, it seemed as though the superior numbers of the Earth Alliance would bring a swift end to the vicious war, but these predictions were soon proven false. Eleven months after the first shots of war, the fighting between the two armies continued, and there seemed to be no end in sight...'


Mu La Flaga stared out the window of his ship. Today was the day that the Earth Alliance would prepare their counterattack against ZAFT. The Hawk sighed as he remembered the Battle of Endymion, the battle he wished he could forget.


Flashback


"Alright, this is it. Today we make our stand right here and right now; let's do it!" said the Hawk , his TS-MA2mod. 00 Moebius Zero launching from the Agamemonn-class carrier that he had been assigned to. Joining him in the battle was a squadron of TS-MA Moebiuses led by a group of Zeros which made up the elite Moebius Zero corps.

Mu detected five ZGMF-1017 GINNs approaching, and while dodging a fire of bullets, he activated his mobile armor's gunbarrels and fired them from different angles. The GINNs didn't stand a chance, and they were torn apart and destroyed with ease.

Unlike the original Moebius, the Zero was considered a dangerous armor against the mobile suits ZAFT was deploying. However, it wasn't unstoppable. A single GINN, armed with a recoilless rifle, flew above the Zero and was about to fire until it was hit from behind by a linear gun. The blue and silver Moebius that had fired the shot wasted no time in finishing the damaged mobile suit off.

"You really should pay more attention in combat," said the pilot of the blue and silver unit as her face appeared on Mu's screen. "One hit from that GINN and you would have been taken out of action."

"I can handle myself just fine, Rena, but thanks for you assistance."

"Just watch your back!" snapped Rena, flying off to fight against another ZAFT mobile suit and leaving her ally to help some of his fellow Zero pilots against many of the enemy forces. Hopefully, Mu would remember that even he was vulnerable to the weapons they used against him.

As soon as he pierced the cockpit of an ion cannon-equipped unit with a shot from the linear gun, he felt a strange sensation throughout his entire body and he turned around to see a Zero being destroyed by a ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type not too far away from him.

"Damn," he cursed before firing the linear gun at the enemy. He gritted his teeth in frustration as it dodged the shot. "Let's see this guy try to avoid this."

The gunbarrels activated and began to fire at the GINN HM; Mu hoped that one of them would be able to land a hit. Unfortunately, as he watched it used its speed to its advantage and sliced one of the units in half with the heavy sword mounted onto its assault rifle.

"You'll have to do better than that," he heard a smooth male voice through communications.

"Who exactly are you?!" demanded the Hawk, sending his three remaining gunbarrels at the enemy mobile suit while firing the linear gun. "I can tell you're not an ordinary pilot, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to sense you, but why do you feel so familiar?"

"Maybe it's because we met years ago, Mu La Flaga," this caused him to freeze in shock. Mu snapped out of it upon seeing his foe firing at him, and the Zero pilot barrel rolled out of the way just in time. How did that guy know his name?

"What do you mean we met before?"

"You will find out when the time comes, but for now call me Rau Le Creuset."

Mu remained silent as he continued his assault on the enemy pilot, determined to do whatever it took to bring that GINN HM down. He knew, however, that his foe had the same objective. It was then that the Hawk heard one of his fellow Zero pilots contacting him.

"Lieutenant La Flaga, we have trouble. The radiation levels here are going up and fast."

"What are you saying?" he asked in surprise, and then cursed at losing another of his gunbarrels to that damn GINN HM.

"I don't know but… Oh my God!" he heard a loud scream as below the crater, the Cyclops System began activate, killing ZAFT and EA forces almost instantly. Everyone who was present began to flee from the area as an explosion suddenly occurred and began consuming every ship, MA and MS in its path, including the Moebius Zero corps themselves.

Inside the GINN HM's cockpit, the man known as Le Creuset, once he was far enough from the blast zone, began grinning at the sight of lives ended, and the sounds of their screams were like music to his ears. He then noticed a single damaged Moebius Zero, having barely managed to escape during the chaos that had taken place, and contemplated taking aim at it with his assault rifle and ending the pilot's life once and for all.

He never fired a single shot, however, as he knew that now wasn't the day to kill Mu. "We will meet again, Mu La Flaga."

With that, the GINN HM jetted away and left the scene. In the Zero's cockpit, the Hawk passed out from the injuries he had just received from the destructive blast, but not before muttering a single name. "L...Le Creuset…"


End of Flashback


"Dammit!"

Mu punched the wall with his eyes shut; he was the only Moebius Zero pilot still alive after that battle; the rest had been completely annihilated, and if it hadn't been for Rena finding him he would have died in space.

He never would have thought that the Earth Alliance would use a Cyclops System, even as a last resort in battle. On the other hand, the N-Jammers that had forced the use of the microwave weapon also prevented nuclear explosives from being used, which at least meant that there wouldn't be any nukes being fired at the PLANTs. One Bloody Valentine Tragedy was enough, and he couldn't stomach the thought of any more of them ever happening.

However, his thoughts soon went back to the GINN HM he had battled against and he began wondering about why he had felt familiar. Not only that, but the the fact that strange pilot knew who he was. Of course, it was because of this strange connection that Rau Le Creuset had spared his life instead of finishing him off.

"Lieutenant?"

Mu turned his attention toward his friend Gale. "What is it?"

"I was wondering why you were alone in the halls, so I wanted to make sure that you were feeling okay."

The Hawk sighed and looked out at space once again. "I'm not in the mood to talk about it right now."

"I see," said Gale. "Well I should be heading for the hangar. Luke probably needs help with his Moebius unit, and you never know when ZAFT will strike."

With that, he floated away from Mu.

"Gale, you and the others would never understand how I feel about this..."


Three ZAFT ships were wandering through the depths of space. Two of the ships were Laurasia-class frigates and the third was a Nazca-class destroyer. They had been drawn to this particular region of the void by rumors that the Earth Alliance was creating a new weapon...

"So, the Earth Alliance is planning to create their own mobile suits to go up against ours," The ZAFT commander sighed behind the white mask that hid his face. "This is something we cannot allow," he added.

"Sir?" asked the ship's captain, looking at the commander.

"Prepare the mobile suits! The Galvani, Gamow and Vesalius will head for the colony Heliopolis!" The commander ordered.

"Heliopolis? But it belongs to the Orb Union, which means it's neutral!" The captain argued.

"That may be so, but Orb is helping the Earth Alliance create these mobile suits, Ades! Miguel already scouted the area around Heliopolis and he confirmed it to be true," said the commander.

"But still…" Captain Ades was interrupted by the commander.

"If we were to capture both these new mobile suits and the Morgenroete facility in Heliopolis, then ZAFT could create new, more advanced mobile suits to use against the Earth Alliance," said the commander. "Don't you wish for the war to end?" he asked.

"Yes, sir," said Ades, nodding his head.

"Then we have no choice; we must capture these mobile suits before the Earth Alliance can secure them," said the commander.

"But what if the colony is damaged?" asked Ades.

"Then so be it," said the commander in an emotionless tone. With that said, the three ZAFT ships made their way to Heliopolis to prepare for the capture of the G-Weapons.

A/Ns: Expect a darker and colder version of Rau Le Creuset here than in the canon. But not too dark and not too cold either.