Gundam Seed: Kira Reloaded Chapter 4

Kira and Mu La Flaga returned before the colony fully collapsed upon itself.

Since it's a mining colony at its very core. It old styled colony shaped like a cylinder.

Simply put, an asteroid and a cylinder stuck on it. The cylinder spins and generates gravity. However, inside of it, there were huge cables which made the cylinder spin.

What ZAFT GINN did is simple, they damaged the cables, which broke down the colony. Sure enough, the atmospheric pressure from inside the colony broke, and the colony broke down like a cracked egg.

While the colony breaks down, Strike is stored in its place. Moments later, a walking bridge is lowered in front of the 18-metre-tall machine.

The hatch opened, and Kira walked out of the chest piece. He was holding the helmet over his shoulder as he looked at the loot, which was already being arranged by the onboard mechanics.

"Kid! How are you feeling?"

"Hmm? Lieutenant? What do you mean?"

"It was your first battle, and you destroyed two GINNs…"

"...its war Lieutenant, while it pity, it was either me or them. Those idiots were carrying anti-fortress missiles. I needed to take them down." Kira said that while taking a deep breath. It is annoying, but it has to be done.

"...I know it's hard, but we do what we must."

"Indeed. This is why I took those parts. People, can I get your attention?" Kira asked the mechanics.

"Those Buster's parts, the weapon it was carrying, I want to add it to the Strike."

Mu La Flaga looked with some wonderment. The kid already thinking about the next battle!?

"Kid you mean the Hyper Sniper and the shotgun? I read in the manual before the whole incident."

The head engineer looked at large guns while trying to recall what he read.

"Indeed! Let me show you something." Kira, with some enthusiasm, went back into Strike and pulled out his backpack.

He then quickly went down to feet level…

Then gravity was gone, and everyone started to float. It was a reminder to everyone that the colony was gone…

The teen pulled out his laptop and turned it on. He quickly accessed the data he had and started to show it to everyone.

"You see the way the weapons dock is sniper first and then the shotgun.

Making it into a large beam weapon which, according to my calculation, could take out Archangel."

"Damn… thank god you took it out." Mu La Flaga said as he was listening to this as well.

"Yeah, it was loot I can't ignore," Kira said with a grin.

"That's why you targeted Buster first?" The blonde Lieutenant said with a realising look.

"Indeed. The weapons were far too good to miss. Anyway, I have had Buster weapons schematics for months now, and I have been tinkering with the designs.

I have been working to make the beam not spread out as much and instead to make it a single line with incredible piercing power. " Kira showed the design to the mechanics.

"...damn… kid… are you sure you must be a civilian?"

The group of mechanics floated around and looked at the designs.

This looked like professional design instead of some kid doodling they expected!

"... I can see that you designed this yourself, but we still need to test it out. I never worked at anything which is still in development."

"Yes. This is why we can test it out in space. We are in space as we speak. Anyway, I need those rifles because the current ones are dodgeable by those stolen units." Kira explained as he picked up his laptop.

"Besides I will be helping you guys to customise my Strike."

"Hold it! Hold it there, kid!" Lieutenant chipped in.

"Hmm?"

"If you customise your machine, what about mine!?"

"Sure. I can check out the OS and see what I can do. Besides, I was thinking of getting one of those GAT units for you."

"...For real?"

"For real. Pity that those guys have quite high instincts for survivability. Otherwise, we would have been fixing the Duel for you." Kira said with some pity in his tone. He recalled the fight…

"Kira Yamato, Lieutenant Flaga, please come to the bridge."

"It appears our chat here is done." The blonde Lieutenant sighed.

The kid is seriously something else. He was already thinking of getting a machine for him!

"I suppose. I will see you guys later. I will come back here after I am done." Kira said that with a smile. He can't wait to start working on his first proper project!

~~~~~~Archangel's Bridge~~~~~~

As the pair entered the bridge, they saw the ruins of Heliopolis and the void of space.

"You two are finally here."

"Captain, what's the situation?"

"Thanks to Kira's efforts, the Nazca Class ship is retreating while the Laurasia one is still following us. It is keeping the distance, however."

"That's most likely because it doesn't have the firepower. Those new machines are going to PLANTs for repairs. This means that Laurasia class ship only has… around 5 to 4 GINNs." Kira said from the side as he was thinking about the situation.

It's much better than he thought. The masked Nihilist is in retreat. That is good. But it's bad for him as he still wants to get some pieces of Blitz. The Mirage Colloid technology. He needs that tech. He might have the blueprints for the machine, but he doesn't have working tech and starting from scratch takes much longer than he wants.

"Indeed. My thoughts exactly. With Archangel speed, we can outrun it and go directly to Artemis base." Natarle Badgiruel said with an agreeing tone. She was impressed with Kira's ability and now with his analytic abilities. The teenager to her looks more and more like a tactical genius! She saw his fighting methods which are ruthless with tactic precision.

"Artemis? Isn't that Eurasia's pet project?" Mu La Flaga said with a frown.

"It's the closest Alliance base, and we are low on supplies," Captain Ramius said with a sigh.

"We could get into problems there. This ship doesn't have ID, and we have a prototype tech. I suggest caution." Kira said with a frown.

"...I will consider that."

"Kid is right. We are from the Atlantic Federation, and they are the Eurasian Federation. We might have a common enemy in ZAFT but we still are individual nations. That resurfaces when greed is involved." The blonde Lieutenant said with a frown as he agreed with the kid.

"Indeed… I will make sure Strike is ready for 'unexpected' events." Kira said with a smirk.

He already has some ideas.

"Good, then you two are dismissed. Get some rest."

The pair of pilots nodded at their captain. While Lieutenant left, Kira stopped and scratched his hair from embarrassment.

"Umm…where are my quarters? And still have some of my tech which I use to boost the Strike for future fights."

"Oh, right. Natarle?"

The woman nodded and motioned for him to follow her.

"I will give him one of the pilot quarters. It's close to the Hangars." The military woman told to him, who nodded with a small smile.

~~~

Kira looked at the basic quarters, bunk beds, and a shower area next to it… and… a computer terminal!

"Hoh… bingo…"

He quickly put his stuff down and opened the backpack. There were three laptops. And quite a bit of external hard drives.

As someone who has an AI, he needed to store it before Heliopolis collapsed on itself. He already lost any information he has in Heliopolis terminals. That's why he stored everything he could in his external hard drives beforehand.

Now the reality he lives in doesn't have proper internet. This is because of powerful N-Jammers, which negate Nuclear power through radio waves, so any regular radio waves get disabled. Because of that, people use laser communication, and because of that, the internet is limited to an extreme level.

The way he is in Archangel, he can't access his backdoors in PLANTs. He has no idea if it worked or not.

Those four machines are carrying a lethal virus he coded in the OS of those GAT units.

However, for now, he can work on his Strike. He needs to improve battery usage and beef up linkage because Strike is lagging with his reaction speed. He needs to rework the thrusters as well as the 360-view cockpit.

Another array of stuff before his machine is perfect for him.

As he thought about that, he pulled out all his stuff, opened all the laptops and connected the hard drives.

The moment the boot-up was done.

"Sir? I lost connection with you some time ago." The AI said as it showed the logs specific logs.

"Do you have any evidence of ZAFT destroying the colony?"

"Searching…"

Second, later he saw the security camera footage of ZAFT GINN shooting anti-fortress missiles at the support cables.

As well as an array of pictures of several GINN doing the same thing.

After he saw that, he could only smirk as it was worth it to hack pretty much all of the surveillance devices in Heliopolis.

"Nicely done, Legion. Now pull me up the designs and upgrades for Strike. It's time for me to start working."

Sure enough, files had been pulled up for him as Kira started to transfer them into a flash disc.

While some time he looked for mechanic clothes. His resting is upgrading and making his Strike more powerful!

~~~

Time-wise, it was the next day; however, when one is in space, everything is the same. However, people like Mu La Flaga are already used to living without seeing the daylight from Earth's surface.

However… what he never saw was someone like his new fighting teammate.

The kid is constantly impressing him with his working ethic. According to his friends who are aboard the military vessel, Kira is always tinkering or programming.

It's like.  He doesn't mind destroying things… but same time he creates things! It's strange… because most of the time… you are either good at blowing up or good at creating things.

But this kid… is extreme at both… he saw him blow up GINN and rapidly establish dominance and smash those stolen units…

Yet, now he is already improving his Strike… battery usage improvement, OS adjustments, and analysing the previous battle performance. And working on those Buster's rifles… all of that at the same time.

Most of the mechanics were working on his machine at the same time.

"So, how's it going, kid?"

"Lieutenant? Oh, it's going fine. Been working on the battery efficiency and improving the OS reaction time. So far, the improvement is around 3%. I could squeeze out to 4% if I rework some sequences. " the teen said as he looked at the Strike.

"I see not bad. And the rifles? What about them?"

"With some spare parts of Strike, it's feasible, we are reworking the frame, and while it won't be done by the time we reach Artemis, it should be done after we leave it."

Internally Kira was thinking about grabbing some Mobile Armours from those idiots before leaving it for ZAFT vultures, who will destroy it after he leaves it defenceless.

He has no doubt they will try to touch his Strike and steal the data available… he will, of course, be infected with viruses before making it non-available to defend itself…

And then… after tipping ZAFT, they will destroy it. Easy as that. Kira won't allow anyone to mess with his stuff!

Nope, that's just lazy effort by those lazy asses who are bunkering down in a heavily defended asteroid turned into a fortress.

They are proud that they have this base close to PLANTs but what of it? They don't try to stage attacks or anything like that!

The best part… ZAFT, ignore them! They just fly around this because the Artemis base doesn't even have offensive capacities! It doesn't attack… it's just there!

And they even think of touching his stuff?

Are you for real?