Gundam Seed: Freedom First Launch

"Okay, so this next one is tiny bit different. Because, we'll be watching a personal favorite of mine." Saber said, pulling a magenta crystal from the void.


"What'll we be watching anyways?" Roman asked, bored as hell.


"Wanna watch giant robots?" Saber raised an eyebrow at the kids.


"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Ruby yelled, jumping up and down.


"Ruby, calm down! We don't even know what its about yet." Weiss said trying to calm the excitable girl down.


"But Renny! Giant robots!" Nora whined, while Ren tried to hold her down.


"Nora, put the chair down. Very carefully..." Ren tried to reason with his partner.


"See? This is why we don't just randomly announce to people about showing giant robots." King pointed out, dodging a chair.


"Okay! Calm down you two. We'll begin now, yeah?" Saber said freezing the two overexcited teenagers and placing them back in their seats.


"See, simple as that. Now as I was saying..." Saber unfroze them.


"Okay, so what you'll be viewing is the Alliance-PLANT War, fought between the Naturals of Earth and the Coordinators of the PLANTS." Saber explains.


"Coordinators? Naturals? The heck?" Qrow squinted his eyes.


"Well okay, so. The Naturals are basically just your average human hence the term. Coordinators on the other hand, are genetically enhanced humans with better everything and are virtually immune to diseases. And boy are they both racist." Saber explained.


"Aren't they both human? Why are they even racist?" Blake asked a bit put off.


"Because the Naturals have an inferiority complex, so they cope real hard by being racist. And the Coordinators think the Naturals are just subhuman trash and are all around arrogant fucks... Yes I know its retarded." Saber continued.


"Now you'll be watching one of the most important events of the war, the Battle of JOSH-A in where the Freedom made its first appearance... And well, you'll just have to see for yourself." Saber finishes, loading up the screen.


Ruby and Weiss stood on the bridge in front of the stolen ZGMF-X10A Freedom.


"A Gundam!" Ruby exclaimed in astonishment.


"Ladies and Gentlemen the ZGMF-X10A Freedom. One of the most powerful mobile suits to exist in this universe." Saber explained.


"It looks so awesome! Is it mine!" Ruby exclaimed with glee.


"No fair! How come Ruby and Weiss gets giant robots but I don't." Nora sulked in her seat.


"Neither will alone... Nor strength alone... Will be enough. That's why. Will this take you where you wish to go? Will it help you when you get there?" Weiss asked the girl beside her.


"That's quite a philosophical question..." Weiss remarked.


"Doesn't make it any less true or valid." Ozpin answered.


"A question that will need personal reflection for us as well." Salem agreed.


The scene changes to Ruby's perspective inside the Freedom's cockpit. As the Freedom came to life, its once grey and bleak color changed to white and black as the wires keeping it stable detached.


"Woah! It changed color!" Jaune exclaimed, amazed at the sight.


"So cool..." Nora eyed the mobile suit.


"Ms. Saber, what exactly prompted the robot to change its colors?" Ironwood asked.


"Glad you asked. That right there is call Phase Shift Armor or PS Armor for short, it makes the mobile suit virtually immune to all physical attacks for a period of time until it runs out... Think of it as like aura for robots." Saber explained.


"Interesting... Aura on robots... Surely a development like that would take a while." Ozpin wondered.


"Ehem..." Penny coughed out. While Ruby avoided eye contact.


"Neither will alone. Nor strength alone."


The air locks above the Freedom opened, and the blue hues of the Freedom's boosters signalled its departure. And in mere seconds the Freedom launches, leaving only the blue fires of its booster in its wake.


As Ruby and the Freedom exit the station, two GINNs attempt to intercept firing their 76mm Machine Guns at the rogue mobile suit.


With Ruby at the helm, the Freedom effortlessly dodges the GINNs attacks and successfuly closes the distance. And with two swift strokes, the Freedom disables them and pushes forward.


"Holy... Shit. Kid's got skill." Qrow said, as he watched the Freedom dodge effortlessly.


"Yes. But the machine she has, had demonstrated its elegance in battle. Quite a rare trait for something so grueling such as war." Willow said.


"Woah... Weiss did you see that!? I was all... Zoom! And-And then, I was like woosh! Then I went slash on those suits." Ruby said flowing with excitement.


Once the threat was dealt with, Ruby pushed onwards to the Earth's atmosphere, coming across a passenger ship. And for a split second time seemed to slow, as the Freedom passed beside one of the windows of the ship, revealing Yang wearing a ZAFT Ace uniform, cluelessly staring at the passing mobile suit.


"Awesome! Me and Ruby are on the same side!" Yang cheered seeing her other self on screen.


"Not really. Since Yang is still with ZAFT and Ruby has gone rogue after their confrontation earlier which led to the both of them almost dying." Saber said.


"You mean, we're enemies..." Ruby frowned.


"Aww, relax Ruby its just another world. We're closer than we've ever been." Yang said swinging her arms around her sister to cheer her up.


The scene changes to Glynda and the crew of the Archangel, back at JOSH-A.


"Captain!"


" Port 20! Go around!" Glynda ordered.


"A group of mobile suits ten o'clock." Fox reported.


"Shit, Glynda the hell happened to you guys?" Qrow asked, with a hint of concern.


"It would seem we're now in the thick of the battle. And we are losing." Glynda said calmly.


The scene went back to the Freedom as it entered the planet's atmosphere, turning red as its descent continued to accelerate.


"Rurik Immobile!"


"Rollo's been sunk!"


Fox continued reporting, before being cut off by an explosion hitting the Archangel, causing the crew to brace themselves.


"Block 64 to 72 has been closed! Ships operation down to 43 percent!" Jaune reported. While the Archangel's hangar was rocked with explosions.


On the outside GINNs onboard GUULs and equipped with different missiles and ion cannons continued firing at the Archangel's bridge.


"Come on... Ruby, you need to make it..." Yang hoped.


"Just a little while longer..." Summer murmured with concern.


"They'll be destroyed at that rate... I wonder why they won't just fall back, they're clearly at a disadvantage. Or reinforcements at least..." Winter sighed with frustration, seeing the hopeless situation before her.


"Because they're the rear guard meant to hold off the ZAFT forces from entering the base in an event that will be explained later." Saber responded, making Ironwood grimace in realization.


"So regardless... It is their fate to die." Cinder said calmly.


"Perhaps. Perhaps not, Ms. Fall..." King responded.


"We're finished!" Neptune panicked


"Calm down, you fool!"


"Wombats! Fire! Increase engine to maximum! We're getting out of here!" Glynda gave the order, with the Archangel unleashing several missiles before the missile tubes were hit.


Seeing the Archangel's situation below him. Ozpin attempts to maneuver his Skygrasper, to no avail. The Duel intercepts him, firing several beams at the Skygrasper as Whitley closes in on it.


"Whitley! What's he doing there!?" The Schnee sisters exclaimed in surprise as the Whitley onscreen tried to kill Ozpin.


"Dear Oum, not my baby boy too!" Willow exclaimed in worry, after noticing the scar across his face.


"Ladies and Gentlemen. This as you already guessed, is Whitley Schnee, CO of the Schnee Team and pilot of the GAT-X102 Duel." Saber informed them.


"It would seem the young Schnee is already an adept combatant. Though whether my assessment is right remains to be seen." Ozpin said after observing the movement of the Duel and comparing to the Freedom earlier.


"Dammit!" Ozpin cursed, being forced to evade.


"Propulsion decreasing! The ship can no longer maintain balance!" Yatsuhashi warned, as the Archangel continued to plummet. GINNs with their 76mm's saw the situation of their foe and began closing in for the kill. The Archangel opens fire with its remaining weapon taking out several before one manage to close the distance. Right in front of the bridge.


Time once more seemed to slow. As the GINN aimed its weapon right in front of the Archangel's bridge. The Archangel's crew, most stilled themselves for the worst. While Neptune desperately tried to get to cover.


"Shit..." Qrow spat out his drink in shock as hr saw what was about to happen.


Many in the audience, braced themselves for the inevitable death that they were about witness. Knowing full well this was the end of the line for the Archangel.


As the GINN pressed the trigger, a beam from the sky hit its machine gun destroying it just in time.


"What?" The pilot said in surprise as he looked up.


"Lucky bastard..." Qrow voiced out, after overcoming the shock.


"That... Was quite intense..." Willow remarked after holding in her breath for so long.


The Beacon students cheered after overcoming the initial shock.


"Hell, yeah! Ruby made it!" Coco cheered.


"Quite the timing, huh Rubes." Yang smirked at her sister.


"Hey! Its not everyday Ruby is on time, but damn if she doesn't make an entrance." Jaune chuckled in amusement.


"I resent that!" Ruby pouted at her fellow team leader.


The Freedom at high speed, pulled out its beam saber cutting of the GINNs head before reemerging in front of the Archangel's bridge.


"What?" Ozpin looked at the sudden interruption in surprise.


"What's that mobile suit?" Whitley asked in confusion, briefly stopping in pursuit.


"Wait. What? Isn't it one of ZAFT's how does Weiss's brother not know this." Jaune asked confused at their confusion.


"Because the Freedom was stolen by Weiss's faction. And the reason no one knows of its existence is because its kept top secret by Chairman Xiao Long because its equipped N-Jammer Cancellers." Saber explained.


"N-Jammer what now?" Sun looked lost on the topic.


"N-Jammers. Were made to deactivate and prevent the usage of Nuclear Weapons as a contingency against the Earth Alliance after the Bloody Valentine Incident. While the N-Jammers Cancellers, on the other hand was made to negate the effects of the N-Jammers on mobile suits like the Freedom." Saber explained.


"The real question here is what's a nuclear weapon. That it warrants such a response." Winter asked.


"Nuclear energy or Nuclear power, is created through a process called nuclear fission. And long story short, Nuclear Weapons kill thousands on impact over a very large radious and the radiation that follows will poison anything for thousands of miles with a duration that could take decades. I wager atleast 6 of it could probably end the threat of Grimm permanently." Saber explained to the Specialist.


"Incredible... With that we could possibly end the grimm once and for all." Ironwood's eyes widen.


"Are you insane!? Did you not hear the part where she said that it poisons anything for thousands of miles!?" Qrow yelled in disgust.


"Well on a lighter note, Nuclear Energy can power entire continents if it was correctly placed and maintained. That is the power of Nuclear Energy." Saber finished, ignoring the two bickering men.


"So its a double-edged sword. It can be used to end wars and provide people with limitless energy, yet can destroy just as much." Ozpin summarized.


"A shame, I don't want to disclose information on world ending weapons. Besides who knows what dumbass in Atlas would use it for..." Saber nodded, snidely looking at Ironwood.


"So to summarize the information you gave us. ZAFT uses N-Jammers after an incident involving the Earth Alliance, however ZAFT had secretly developed N-Jammer Cancellers in hopes of completely turning the tides of war. The Freedom is one such weapon..." Summer said, to their host.


"Wait a minute, Ruby's sitting on a literal world ending device if it gets destroyed!" Weiss realized, after looking at her partner.


"Its also really powerful weapon, which my other self is quite capable of using." Ruby reasoned with her.


"And you're a very excitable person, that's sitting on a device primed to explode and kill everything for miles. Sorry if I worry a bit." Weiss glared at her team leader prompting the other girl to hug.


"Aww. I knew you cared! And besides clearly my other self is quite capable." Ruby reassured her partner.


"Ahh, what the hell. Any version of you is likely to find something to blow us all up anyways." Weiss giggled.


"This is Ruby Rose! I'm here to help! Please get your ship out of here." Ruby informed the crew of the Archangel.


"Ruby!?" Blake muttered in surprise.


"It is Ruby!" Jaune said with a smile.


"Our Ruby?" Glynda muttered in disbelief.


Ruby continued to stare down on the Freedom's controls. While the GINNs  continued their attack, firing their machineguns at the Freedom.


The Freedom flew forward, when the scene changed to a view of its Multi Lock-on System picking out its targets, Ruby fires all available weapons on the Freedom in one go.


In the barrage of plasma, beam, and railgun fire. Multiple GINNs are disabled including one's that are still far off.


"That... Was... Awesome!" Nora yelled in excitement.


"An impressive display of combat prowess..." Ozpin nodded.


"She might actually turn this thing around..." Ironwood acknowledged.


An aerial view of the Archangel showed continued fire from its flak batteries. As the Duel looked at the Freedom with panic.


"Damn! What the hell is that?"


"Ms. Glynda, get out of here!" Ruby warned the Archangel.


"Ah, but... Um. There's a Cyclops System below Headquarters... And we've been made decoys...! They planned it all! We had no idea! So we can't withdraw!" Glynda informed the pilot. While Ruby continued to fend of attacks on the Archangel.


"What!?" The audience all flinched.


"That means... With ZAFT in front of them and a trap for the enemy behind them, they won't be able to escape." Winter said, after realizing the situation.


"Shit..." Qrow muttered.


"We must get the ship, further from the base!" Glynda informed Ruby.


"I understand!"


"ZAFT! Earth Forces! I call upon both forces! Any moment now, the Cyclops System, underneath the Alaska base... Will self destruct." Ruby attempted to warn both sides through all channels. ZAFT commanders react in confusion, while most react with disbelief.


"I ask that both forces cease battle at once and retreat from this area." Ruby requested. While the Freedom continued to fire in burst mode at multiple targets, lighting the the sky in fiery explosion.


"Piece of advice kids, when you're trying to get someone to retreat or surrender. Maybe, don't fire on them with every weapon you have." Roman said.


"I repeat: Any moment now... The Cyclops System will activate and the Alaska base will self-destruct. At once retreat from this area."


"That kid." Ozpin muttered in disbelief.


The Duel fired its beam rifle as it closed in on the Freedom.


"I'm not falling for that!" Whitley screamed in a rage.


"The Duel!" Ruby said, as flashes of Ruby on the strike emerged. The Duel pulls out its beam saber preparing to strike, but the Freedom parries the blow with its shield.


The Duel tries to punch the Freedom,but was stopped when its fists were caught by the Freedom's other arm. Locking both in a stand still.


"I told you to stop! Do you want to die?" Ruby told its pilot.


"What?" Whitley asked in worry. While the Duel aimed its Shiva railgun directly at the Freedom's head.


"Uggh. Typical, prideful Whitley." Weiss murmured.


"Weiss..." Willow said in a warning tone.


"What? Its true! One of these days, that's going to get him hurt or maybe worse!" Weiss argued.


"Weiss. Enough." Winter glared a warning at her sister making her back down.


The Freedom tilts its head to dodge the railgun making it lose its grip on the saber and forcing Ruby to disengage through a back flip and pull out its Saber.


The Freedom charges back towards the Duel, as bright light filled the Duels cockpit for a split second as the beam saber hit the Duels legs.


"Aarrrgh!" Whitley screamed only to realize nothing happened.


"Get out of here! Stop fighting!" Ruby told him, as the Freedom kicked him into the ocean.


"Ruby you dunce, you kicked him into the ocean! He's gonna drown!" Weiss exclaimed in frustration.


"Whitley, no!?" Willow screamed as she watched the Duel continue to plummet.


The Duel continued to plummet. Only for one of the reconnaisance GINNs catch it mid descent as it retreated.


"Why... Did he?" Whitley muttered in shock.


"Oh, thank goodness..." Willow breathed a sigh of relief.


Underwater a small flotilla of Submarines lie in wait. As an officer of the Earth Alliance enter a room filled with launching devices.


"Its about time. Shall we?" The commander asks. The two officers nodded, taking off the keys on their necks and inserting it onto the device.


"I sincerely hope that this sacrifice will lead this war to a quick end." One of them says.


"For the preservation of our blue and pure world. Three... Two... One..." The other affirms, as they both activate the Cyclops System.


Underneath the base several disc like devices began producing electricity as red sparks turned into massive beam of electrical energy that seeped its way into the surface. Crushing anything in its radius.


Ome ZAFT pilot is briefly seen as his mobile suit is caught in the blast. The pilot's body briefly bloats itself then exploded into a mess of blood alongside the mobile suit


"What have they done..." Ironwood looked at the devastating effect of the Cyclops System.


"That... Is no longer a battle..." Ozpin looked away briefly.


Several ZAFT mobile suits were caught in the blast, destroying them utterly. Even the Earth Forces still inside the base was not spared, as their bodies exploded upon contact with the Cyclops System.


"Tremendous energy radiation confirmed from within the Alaska base! Why, this is!" A ZAFT officer confirmed in shock.


"The Cyclops System has been activated!" Jaune yelled over to Glynda.


"Engines to maximum speed! Evade!" Glynda orders, and puts the Archangel's boosters to full speed. While the blast keeps getting closer and closer, affecting and killing many more outside of the base itself.


"Bastards, they're even killing their own soldiers..." Ironwood glared at the carnage.


"At this rate they should all retreat. Hopefully with ZAFT in chaos and in retreat themselves it would allow Ruby and the Archangel to break out." Summer said.


Several more Alliance warships explode in chaos of the Cyclops attack, while ZAFT mobile suits all hurry to safety. The Archangel continued to flee away from the blast, when one of the GINNs GUUL platform exploded plummeting the GINN pilot towards the ocean.


"Fucking hell, they're actually gonna make it..." Qrow said in disbelief.


"We're gonna live..." Jaune cheered.


"That pilots not going to make it!" Ruby yelled pointing at the fallen GINN.


"You can't save everyone Ruby..." Tai sighed, pitying the pilot.


"Well someone should try!" Yang argued.


The Freedom catches the arm of the falling GINN just in time, as Ruby made her escape.


Inside the base, everything was exploding. As the Alaska base self-destructed from within as  the ground above the Cyclops System gave way for a massive explosion that rocks the entire base.


The shock of the attack leaves ZAFT command paralyzed to act.


"This can't be..." One of the commanders said in shock.


"We've been had by the Naturals." Salem said, hiding her smirk.


"This tragedy has cost the lives of many and yet. You're smirking?" Ozpin eyed his ex-wife.


"I must admit. I did not expect such a reaction from my admittedly more mortal counterpart." Salem said calmly.


In the aftermath of the explosion hundreds of mobile suits lay scattered on the lands near the base. As the Archangel and Freedom are seen docked on nearby landmass, the crew of the Archangel including Ozpin breathed a sigh of relief.


"They made it!" Jaune said wiping sweat from his forehead.


"That ship must be magic..." Taiyang laughed.


"Still, they just disobeyed orders. I doubt they'll be welcomed back into the Earth Alliance..." Ironwood said.


"Pssh. Who needs them, fuckers sent them to die for nothing." Qrow waved off Ironwood's concerns.


"Regardless, they are all potentially wanted for treason and other charges." Winter said with concern.


"They have a giant space ship and the most powerful mobile suit to exist. What's your point." Roman pointed out.


"Try to stay awake. Are you alright?" Ruby asked the pilot she rescued.


"Were you... In that mobile suit?" The pilot weakly asked.


"Yes."


"Why. Did you save me?"


"Because I wanted to." Ruby replied truthfully.


"You would have saved yourself time... If you let me die back there..." The pilot said weakly, before passing away.


"Damn!" Ruby punched the ground in frustration.


"As much as I'd have love to agree. It really wasn't that much trouble considering he crashed into the Freedom's path anyway." Raven admitted.


"Or maybe, you're just getting soft." Qrow teased his sister.


"Tell that to my face one more time." Raven challenged Qrow.


"Okay, that's enough." Saber said getting in between them.


••••••••


"Wait. That was it?" Jaune raised an eyebrow realizing the screen turned black again.


"Tbh. That went looking nger than expected, but let's move on shall we?" Saber said.


"Wait for me, I'm gonna go get a refill of the snacks." King waved off, exiting the theater.


"We'll hurry up then." Saber said in annoyance.


"Now then. This next one is the story of the wives of one English monarch. In song, of course. And oh boy am I glad no one in Remnant did this" Saber explained taking a number of recording crystals from thin air.


A/N: So this will be the last chapter for a while as exams are coming up.


So the next few chapters will be Six the Musical the whole thing. This should hopefully give me enough time to reorganize the old and new requests that got deleted.


Well... Till, next time then guys.


Have a nice day/evening/afternoon.






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