Return of the Exiles (SW/ Gundam SEED crossover)

[Skywalker_T-65]

I am just posting this here to see if anyone will read it. And fair warning, I gave the SEED weapons more power on SW ships than they actually would have, reason being it would be no fun if a half-destroyed Carrack could walk over the entire SEED navy. I am well aware that any SW ship would win against every SEED ship, but this is a crossover, not a Vs. so neither side will own the other. Plus this way the SEED people will actually have an effect of the Civil War, since otherwise Earth would just be a backwater planet with no worth to either side. So please no flames on how the SW ships are weaker than they should be. And I will answer any questions anyone has.

Chapter 1

Commander Yzak Joule was a man on a mission. Not an important mission, but a mission none the less. His team was the most elite one in ZAFT, but he still got some menial missions. Take for example this one; he was relegated to patrolling for pirates at L5. He could understand why, a lot of pirate groups had popped up following the Second Bloody Valentine War. But that didn’t mean he liked this. Yzak thrived on action and difficult missions.
So it was that he was actually happy when the Voltaire’s sensors picked up an old freighter of pre-Bloody Valentine vintage.

“Watch the bridge, I’m launching too.” Yzak told his Captain, who nodded in response.

Once Yzak launched in his Green Frame Astray, he was joined by the rest of his team. Dearka Elsman was in his Blast Buster; Nicol Amalfi was in the Gold Frame, Tanya Alexandrof was in her Blaze ZAKU Phantom, while Dmitry Smith was in his GUAIZ R, and finally Yuki Abarai was on loan from Orb with a custom Murasame.

The transport across from this formidable group had stopped and sent a code identifying itself as the Mary Rose.

“Transport Mary Rose this is Yzak Joule of ZAFT, stand by for boarding.” Yzak ordered.

The transport did stop, but something was off. That was proved correct soon enough.

“Hey Yzak, something’s wrong here, this ships hull looks off.” Nicol said, the Gold Frame being under Mirage Colloid.

“Yeah I noticed that t…” Yzak started. But before he could finish the hull of the Rose broke apart, revealing a dozen Windams! That marked this as a well off pirate group… most only had Daggers or GINNs. But Windams or not, they were still up against the best team ZAFT had.

Without even needing to be ordered, the Joule team split, each machine picking a target. Dearka locked onto two of the Windams, and used the Busters cannons to take them down. Nicol fired his riffle into the rose, the repeated shots taking out the ship. The mass produced suit pilots of the team formed a circle and shot anything that got close.
Yzak for his part, charged right at the Windams. His first two shots were incredibly accurate and took down two of the Windams. Once of the Mass Produced machines tried to get behind him, but Yzak pulled a one-eighty and threw a boomerang, the pink blade carving through the Windam destroying it.

Yzak then chased another Windam. The enemy machine copied Yzak’s move and pulled a sharp turn to shoot him, forcing Yzak to dodge. The silver haired pilot fired back, but the Windam just dodged. The two machines started to circle each other, both pilots looking for an opening. Yzak charged first, saber drawn. The Windam countered with its own blade. As the two machines clashed together over and over again, Yzak finally found an advantage to exploit. Faster than the eye could follow, the Windam was reduced to a floating torso, limbs scattered everywhere. When he looked around, Yzak saw two other Windams in similar shape, with only wreckage to mark the others.

“Damage reports?” Yzak asked.

“I’m okay, out of missiles though.” Dearka reported. “Same here.” Tanya said. “I took some hits, nothing serious though.” Dmitry said. “Okay here, no hits.” Nicol and Yuki reported.

“Okay then, Dmitry get you’re machine checked out, the rest of you get back to the Voltaire, and someone grab those Windams.” Yzak ordered. His team complied, though Dmitry grumbled at being singled out. After a while the Voltaire continued on its patrol.
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Cardooine System, 1BBY~
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The Rebel Star Destroyer, Redemption was fleeing an attack. After picking up a group of Jedi refugees it was ambushed by a Victory class Star Destroyer, Mauler. This wouldn’t have been a threat if not for the fact that the Redemption was an old Venator that hadn’t had any upgrades since the Clone Wars. The Mauler was an up to date Victory II class ship, so it was much better off. So the Rebels had no choice but to flee. On the bridge it was a scene of chaos.

“Shields are down to 75%!” the tactical officer yelled.

“Engines are at 110%! If we push them any harder they’ll blow!” the engineering officer yelled.

“Are we losing them at all?!” Sunri Oceanrider the Captain asked.

“We are for now, but our shields can’t take this forever!” the tac officer yelled back over the din.

“What about our fighters?” Sunri asked.

The other officer shook his head. “No good, the first shot hit our hanger and wrecked the fighters.”

When he said that, a particularly violent tremor shook the Redemption.

“Shields down to 50%!” another officer yelled.

“Is our fire doing anything to them?” Sunri asked.

“Their shields are going down too, but we just don’t have enough weapons to properly fight back!” the tac officer replied.

“Why haven’t we gone to hyperspace yet?” a Jedi asked as he entered the bridge.

“General Skywalker, we can’t without a proper plot.” Sunri said.

“Well my droid has one.” Anakin Skywalker said.

“Why didn’t you tell us sooner?!” Sunri yelled as R2-D2 rolled up to plot a jump. As the droid was though, a tremor shook the ship.

“The Hyperdrive just took a hit!” an officer yelled.

“Can we jump?” Sunri asked.

“Yes but only once till we make repairs.” The engineer yelled.

“Then jump already!” Sunri ordered.

“Wait! R2 isn’t done yet!” Anakin yelled, but it was too late, the Redemption made a blind jump.
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Voltaire~
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Yzak was on the bridge of the Voltaire.

“Anything out of the ordinary?” he asked.

“No sir, scopes are cl… wait something just appeared.” The captain answered.

“What, but the scopes were clear? Maybe they have an MC cloak?” Yzak said.

“No idea sir, do you want to check it out?” the Captain asked.

“Of course, we can’t leave a Cloak in the wrong hands.” Yzak replied irritably. And with that that ZAFT team started on a meeting with destiny.
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Redemption~
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“Where are we?” Sunri asked as the power was slowly restored.

“Judging from the stars, somewhere in Wild Space.” Anakin answered after checking the Nav console, “And it looks like we stumbled on a new space race. There are satellites and ships all over the place, along with some sort of interference.”

“Did we lose the Imperials though?” Sunri asked.

“For now…” Anakin sighed, “but who knows for how long.”

“How are our shields and weapons?” the Captain asked.

“Not good, we only have 35% shields and a handful of Turbolasers.” Anakin answered.

“Any signs of another ship close by?” Sunri asked.

“Yeah, I’ll get a visual now.” Anakin answered.

On the viewscreen a blue vessel appeared, unlike any known design.

“It doesn’t carry any weapons we recognize but it appears to be the size of a small frigate.” Anakin said.

“Can we contact it?” Sunri asked.

“Not yet, our communication is still down.” Anakin answered.
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Voltaire~
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“That is a big ship.” Dearka said.

That was an understatement to an extreme. This dagger ship was bigger than the Gondwana and dwarfed the Voltaire.

“Look how damaged it is though.” Yzak said.

The other ship had several massive rents in its hull, and there were fires everywhere.

“Are we able to hail it?” Nicol asked.

“We’re trying but there’s no response.” The Captain said.

Before they could try again, another dagger ship dropped into view, the slate grey vessel immediate firing what looked like beam weapons on the other vessel, which shot back.

“Where’d that ship come from?!” Yzak yelled.

“I don’t know!” Dearka replied form sensors.

“We need to launch and stop this!” Nicol said, and the others agreed with him.
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Redemption~
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“They tracked us!” Sunri yelled angrily.

“We’re firing back, but a good portion of our weapons are still down!” Anakin said.

“What about the other ship?” Sunri asked.

“Their not doing anything, fat lot of help they are.” Anakin said bitterly.

Just then the vessels communications came back up.

“This is Yzak Joule of ZAFT. Both vessels cease firing at once!” the voice said.

“What in the galaxy is ZAFT?” Sunri said.

“Don’t know, don’t care. Maybe now they’ll help us.” Anakin said.
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Mauler~
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“Ha! That pitiful ship thinks they can tell us what to do! What fools.” The Imperial captain said.

“We need to teach them a lesson.” The Vice-Captain said.

“Very true. ZAFT vessel this is the Star Destroyer Mauler of the Galactic Empire! Stand down, and prepare to bow down to your new Emperor.” The Captain said.
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“He wants ‘us’ to stand down?” Yzak said.

“And what’s the ‘Galactic Empire?” Are these guys’s crazy or something?” Dearka said.

“You would know that wouldn’t you Elsman.” Dmitry said.

“Cut the chatter!” Yzak said to his team, and then to the Mauler he said, “Mauler this is Yzak Joule. You stand down and prepare to be boarded. This is your final warning!”

“That brat thinks he can order me around?!” the Maulers Captain said angrily, “Launch the TIEs! That should be more than enough for that pitiful excuse for a ship!”
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“That ships launching something! Looks like Mobile Armors!” Nicol reported, again under his cloak. It was hard to believe the things coming after the ZAFT ship were fighters though. They looked more like flying eyes.

“Everyone launch now!” Yzak ordered.

And launch they did, preparing to fight the Armors.
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“Did that ship just launch giant droids?” Sunri asked, not believing his eyes.

“Looks like it.” Anakin said dryly.

Most of the ‘droids’ looked vaguely like images of ancient Jedi armored up for combat, even having eyes. But two of them had only a single eye, one of which was hanging back, apparently damaged.

“Are you sure all our fighters are gone?” Anakin asked.

“Your Eta made it, but we can’t afford for you to launch.” Sunri answered.

“They need help! Those droid’s are barely as fast as a Y-Wing!” Anakin yelled.

“I wouldn’t judge them so soon.” Sunri said.

And with good reason, too, for when Anakin looked he saw the first wave of TIEs fire. But the droids took the shots on their shields and returned fire with what looked like massive blaster rifles. And every time one of those blasts connected, a TIE died a fiery death. But that didn’t change the TIEs speed advantage.
Three of the Imp fighters chased the green machine, looked to be trying to make a run on the Mauler. But before the TIEs could fire, the droid pulled a one-eighty and threw a pink blade at them. It curved straight through two TIEs and clipped the third.

“That can’t be a droid. There must be someone in it!” Anakin said, years of fighting droids giving the Mobile Suit away for what it truly was.

“They are doing far better than we would.” Sunri said.

Anakin nodded (though he felt he could do better) and both men continued to watch the battle.

“Man these things are fast!!” Dearka yelled, since the Buster was moving at a crawl compared to the speedy TIEs.

“They may be fast but; their still just Mobile Armors!” Yzak said.

And that was painfully true for the Imperial pilots. Fast or not, the TIEs were still predictable to the Joule team, and nowhere near as maneuverable as a Mobile Suit.

“Dearka, Tanya, go for the gray ship!” Yzak ordered.

His team nodded and moved in on the Mauler. Dearka and Tanya fired first, but their shots dissipated before hitting the ship.

“What the?! It has a beam shield?!” Dearka yelled in surprise.

“Just keep shooting, it won’t last forever!” Yzak yelled back.

“Yes Sir!” his team yelled back.
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“Sir we just lost our last TIE! And that ship and its machines are starting to drain our shields!” the Vice-Captain yelled.

“Double our fire, we at least need to destroy the Rebels!” the Captain yelled.

But before any action could be taken, the Rebels broke into the communication lines.

“This is Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker! ZAFT vessel, the domes on the tower are their shield generators! Destroy them and that ship is defenseless.”(1)

The Maulers Captain looked absolutely horrified. “Cover the Generators!!!” he yelled.
But it was far too late, as a violent tremor testified. A gold machine appeared out of nowhere in front of the bridge, holding a pink blade. The Imperial Captains last thought was what the blade was.

‘Lightsaber.’
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As they watched the reduction of the Mauler from a proud man of war, to a floating hulk, Anakin and Sunri wondered what they had gotten themselves into, along with the rest of the crew. The green machine was hovering in front of the bridge, with a pink blade that Anakin immediately recognized, being as he had one on his hip. It was a lightsaber, right down to the hilt and emitter, just massively scaled up.

“This is Yzak Joule, stop operations and prepare for boarding, and maybe we can work something out.” The pilot of the machine said.

“We copy that, we’ll meet in the hanger.” Sunri replied.

“Well here’s where the fun begins.” Anakin said.
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Meanwhile in separate corners of the galaxy, two Jedi Masters smiled, feeling a shift in the Force towards the light side. While on Coruscant two Sith Lords were angered by the change and immediately set out to find the source of the disturbance in the Force and destroy it.
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1: Yes I realize those are actually sensor domes, but when I wrote this I didn't know that, and it is easier to keep it the way it is. As you can tell, in this Anakin never went darkside. The Jedi Purge still happened, but not because of him. I will introduce the new Apprentice later on. And as far as the Astray's go, this is a story based on my SEED story Archangel of ZAFT on FF.net. If anyone has questions just ask, but don't flame.