Gundam Seed: Kira Reloaded Chapter 5

Kira looked at the asteroid base they had been approaching. He made his preparation for this. Thankfully at this point, he can still trust canon, and he knows how fucked up this place is.

Even when they didn't fly at the maximum speed possible, ZAFT forces didn't increase. They still only have one Laurasia-Class frigate slowly following them.

This means that Blitz won't invade, and they have to deal with this themselves…

~~~

Since Kira is not officially in the military, he doesn't have a uniform or even a rank. This is why he didn't go out to meet with the leaders of the base.

This is why he simply raised his hands when the Earth Alliance military rushed into the interior of the Archangel.

All of the ship staff, including the teenager's friends, were taken into the canteen, where everyone was forced to get on the ground.

In other words hostage situation.

BUT!

None of them noticed that Kira had an earpiece in his right ear. He simply waited for several minutes to make sure all the viruses were downloaded from Strike.

[Sir, All the relevant data has been downloaded by the Eurasian Mechanics.] Legion said to him via earpiece.

"Good. Sound the alarm."

As the teen said that, he opened his eyes and looked at the three soldiers.

That moment alarm blared through the whole of Archangel. This startled the three guards, this was all Kira needed to jump forward as he threw a punch at the closest guard's face.

It was one hit, K.O.… he was pretty sure he broke the nose of that poor Natural. However he was not through with him as he quickly threw the knocked-out soldier into the next Soldier, who already realised that there was an issue!

However, when the last one realised what was going on, two of his guys were already out! Before he can point his gun, a rifle smashed right into his face!

This made him try to defend himself, but Kira was already in front of him as he delivered a powerful kick into his face, which sent him flying into the wall and passing out.

The teen turned around and slowly walked to a struggling soldier who was trying to remove the body of a passed-out companion.

Through, he stopped doing that when he saw Kira standing next to him.

"You know I am quite pissed off how you are treating your allies. For that… I will give you your own medicine. Do you like taking hostages? I will take the whole Artemis base hostage."

As Kira said that he pressed a button on his earpiece.

~~~~~~Archangel's Hangar~~~~~~

Strike's eyes glowed as the machine booted on its own. It started to move as the cables which were connected to it were forcefully pulled out by Strike's hands.

"W-What is going on!? Why did the machine start to move!? Who is inside of it!?" The Eurasian Mechanics were confused and started to panic as they started to move away from the moving machine. Not only that, the catapult deck started to open on its own!

This was bad! The soldiers and the mechanics started to contact the command, but the radio was static!!!

"W-What is going on!?"

That moment they saw a teen rushing out through the main doors!

"Hey! Stop right there!!!"

"Are you sure?" As the brown-haired teen said that, several massive bullets landed between Kira and the soldier!

The soldier jumped back as he saw Strike looking at him! Those were CIWS!

"Strike is mine, and you trying to hack my machine…you going to get wasted today, buddy." As the teen said that, he rushed forward towards the machine who picked him up!

"F-Fuck!" The soldier realised they fucked up and made an enemy of this pilot!

"Do something! Isn't there anything you can do!?" The panicky soldier asked the mechanic.

The mechanic in question showed his laptop, which had the blue screen of death… and there is Pac-man in the background eating letters…

They have been hacked…

~~~

Archangel catapult deck opened and Strike floated out with a beam rifle in its hand.

There were several mobile armours there which Kira looked closely… his eyes stuck on the armaments of these machines… he was thinking of getting those dismantled to improve Lieutenant's machine…

Well, he can do that after he deals with the issue of getting his captain back…

Those bastards took the whole command hostage and locked them away!

"Artemis Command… you have 5 minutes to release Captain Ramius, Lieutenant Flaga and Ensign Badgiruel from whatever place you have locked her up,"

Kira said that as he pointed Strike's weapon at Command. He could see shaking people when they saw a 57mm muzzle pointed at them.

"Or, I start shooting, starting with your command. I am sure that ZAFT vessel outside of this base would be very interested in dealing with this rock," Kira said while leaning back into the seat, even putting his hands behind his back and waiting for how they would react to the reversal he had pulled.

"W-What you are doing!? If you destroy the command centre, we won't be able to deploy the umbrella!" Kira heard a thick Spanish man speak to him via comms. He sounded very panicky.

"Your issues don't concern me, old man. Now release personnel of Archangel and let us go, and I will let you be."

"F-Fine! I will let them go!"

Kira nodded and then hummed to himself with satisfaction as he continued his vigil.

A few minutes later, he heard a familiar voice.

"Kid! Holy smoke, how did you pull all that!?" He heard the voice of Mu La Flaga as he spoke from the bridge of Archangel. The ship started its powering up and is preparing to leave.

"I did say that I made preparations in case something like this happens." As the teen said that, he looked at another Moebius Zero. Strike placed the beam rifle on his hip as he floated down to the mobile armour. He then started to rip off all the cables which kept the machine in place…

Once he did that, he started to pull Moebius Zero into the hangar…

"Kira Yamato… what are you doing!?"

"Scavenging ensign Badgiruel. We need to improve the Lieutenant's combat capacities. There are multiple ways to do that with extra mobile armour."

"...This machine…"

"Is from an enemy base which pretends to be part of Earth Alliance. No ally nation kidnaps personnel of another ally and tries to steal data of their technology."

"You just pissed that they touched your Strike?" The blonde Lieutenant asked with an amused snort.

"Yes. Very. Plus, they took you guys hostage. We can always tell them to send the bill to Atlantic Federation." Kira said with no caring shrug as he pulled the machine inside the hangar deck. The hatch closed behind him…

Once Strike was inside, Archangel started to pick up speed and fly out of the Artemis base.

Seeing all this, Kira pressed on the earpiece and sofly spoke to his A.I.

"Send the message I prepared to that ZAFT vessel."

[Understood.]

~~~~~~~ZAFT Laurasia-Class Frigate 'Gamow'~~~~~~

"S-Sir, we just an encrypted message from… Artemis base?" The comms office said with a confused tone.

"What does it say?"

"... one second, it says, 'They provoked me, so I sabotaged their base. It's your choice if you want to destroy this rock or not. It's all up to you Laurasia-Class Frigate. Best regards… Kira…Yamato'." The Comms office said with some confusion. But the Gamow captain had already heard this name before. It was the pilot of Strike.

It appears something has happened inside of the Artemis…

"Sir! The Legged ship is leaving the base!"

".. just right after it sends the message…"

"What should we do? It could be a trap!"

"There is no point that Strike would destroy us if it would want to do that. No… this could be a legitimate offer for us."

'Besides, it's not a stretch. Kira Yamato is an exceptional Coordinator, according to the file given by Commander Le Creuset.'

"Captain Zelman?" His second in command looked at his captain, waiting for his word.

"Prep the mobile suits! Make a fly-by if the barrier doesn't go up. Proceed to destroy Artemis!"

"At once, sir!"

Sure enough, the mobile suits got scrambled and were equipped with anti-fortress missiles and Bazookas

~~~~~~Back with Archangel~~~~~~

The moment Kira was out of the mobile suit, the blonde Lieutenant was out to grill the teen out of the information! How did he pull this out!?

"Kid, how did you do it!?"

"Do what?"

"All of it! Get into Strike and take hostage the whole base." Mu La Flaga wanted to know what the kid had done! This was some ace move stuff right there! His reminder about taking caution was something they took into consideration but they didn't expect Laurasian forces to take them hostage and then Board the ship and steal the data so blatantly.

"Viruses, Lieutenant, I rigged Strike with viruses, and they downloaded them. This allowed me to ring the alarm, distract them and then board Strike and take them hostage." As Kira said that, the Lieutenant for a second paled as he realised what this meant…

"Artemis base just has been destroyed by ZAFT forces."

The comms officer just notified me what happened to the base behind them! He sounded utterly shocked by this abrupt development!

"...You disabled their defences…" Mu La Flaga said with a realising tone!

"Side effect of the virus. It seems ZAFT used the opportunity to attack them."

"...Kid… you are a scary one."

"Only to those who provoke me, Lieutenant. We are on the same side here." The Strike pilot said with a friendly smile.

This didn't make the blonde relax. No, because somehow Kira made ZAFT attack the moment they left the base. Yet, there were no comms of any sort from the Mobile Suit.

That's one hell of a terrifying kid!

~~~

After escaping Artemis, it was smooth 'sailing'. In the meantime, Kira finished the rifles. To test them, he needed to leave the ship.

So he launched with Strike while holding the pair of new rifles.

A beam Rifle and a shotgun. Together they form an Ulta Impact Sniper Rifle. While it still looks slightly similar to Buster's weapons, it wasn't anywhere there.

For this, he altered the Launcher Pack, he removed the Positron Canon, and instead he took that extra battery this package has as extra ammo.

"Here it goes."

"Kira, the moment you see something wrong with those guns, drop them. This is prototype tech," Murdoch said via comms.

"You do realise Strike is a prototype as well?" The teen said with a chuckle as he docked and fused the weapons. There was a notification on the screens. Kira already added the weapons to the overall systems and already did the basics of energy tests. It helps that these weapons were already in use before by a very similar system.

"I hear you. The difference is that Strike was in development for years while we did simple alterations in a mobile suit hangar…"

"That's more than enough. I did my tests, don't forget."

'And my A.I. did it test as well '

Kira said the second half to himself as he made Strike point the weapon at the debris in the distance. He activated a targeting system, another addition to the OS, it was similar to a shooter gamer, and with A.I. help, this became quite easy to use.

He pressed the trigger, and Strike did the same. Yellow energy started to gather in the rifle before it was released in a streak of yellow.

It hit debris several kilometres away!!!

Incinerating the whole thing in progress.

"Success."

The teen looked at the energy readings. It was not bad. Better than a Positron beam. That one is utterly mad with energy drainage.

'This will do until I get proper access to the workshop. Once I have that, I will start working on deuterium batteries.

If I end up in ORB, I could sell that tech…' The teen hummed to himself as he tested the rifle once more.

Sure enough, his first test was a success. Now to test the limits of this!