Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and all other forms of life and creature alike, welcome to another epic tale from lyokoMARVELanime Productions! And now, here's your host, the legend himself, lyokoMARVELanime!

AN: Thank you announcer dude! Hey guys, lyokoMARVELanime here, and we're coming at you with another crossover tale featuring the world of Gundam SEED!

Kira: You know, I didn't think we'd be doing another crossover with you so soon.

Cagalli: No kidding. I mean, even though the Gundam SEED Prime series isn't finished yet, I figured that after it was, you'd want to take some time off from dealing with us.

AN: Well what can I say? This idea has an impressive amount of merit, but I can't take all the credit for this one.

Yzak: Why don't you just get on with it already! Some of us don't want to wait around all day to read about how in this story, while the Archangel's in Orb, you have them...

AN: DAH! SPOILER! AND IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF A NEW STORY! SPOILER PREVENTION!

AXL999: I've got it! [hits Yzak with a taser]

Yzak: [Collapses in an unconscious heap, twitching uncontrollably]

AN: Ah, that's better. Anyways, allow me to introduce my partner in forming the basic founding blocks, and also the guy who is helping me to beta this story, AXL999, a self-proclaimed average Joe who has a good idea every now and then. Although, I'd say that this idea was more than simply good, but that's just me.

AXL999: You're too kind, lyokoMARVELanime. Now shall we?

AN: We shall.

Neither myself nor AXL999 own anything from any of the Gundam or MARVEL franchises or any other franchise mentioned in this story

Chapter 1: A Living Legend's Return

The destruction of entire cities, whether it is through a natural disaster or some other cause, is a sight that many are lucky enough to have never seen in their lives, and that fact is especially true in a time of war, a time which the world finds itself caught up in once more in the year Cosmic Era 71. The fact that war can tear apart an entire nation and bring entire cities into a state of non-existence right before a person's eyes is something that no one would ever wish to see, and one would think that such a thing was avoidable if the city was out in space, but one young man had quickly found that was not true as he witnessed an entire space colony collapse right before his eyes. Kira Yamato was beyond simply horrified at what had happened to the space colony of Heliopolis, a place that he had called home for many years now, and he could still barely believe that his eyes were telling him that the colony was now nothing more than scattered rumble floating through the vast expanse of space. The colony was not even supposed to be involved in the war between Earth and the PLANTs since it was affiliated with the neutral nation of Orb, and yet the Z.A.F.T. forces had attacked it after learning that the Earth Forces were developing their own mobile suits, one of which Kira was now piloting due to a series of circumstances. He had honestly hoped that since Orb was neutral, neither he, his friends, or his family would be dragged into the horrors of the conflict that resulted from the disputes between Naturals and Coordinators, but now Kira could see clear as day that it required an insane amount of luck for people to truly remain unaffected by a war.

Kira was suddenly brought out of his musings on the matter when he finally registered that the Earth Forces vessel, the Archangel, which his friends were all on after being saved by its crew, was calling out to him asking if he was alright, and he quickly responded that he was before slowly beginning his journey through the debris and back to the ship. As he was heading back though, the scanners in the mobile suit that Kira had ended up being forced to pilot, X105 Strike, suddenly began to ring out in alarm, and quickly pointed him towards a damaged Heliopolis lifeboat. Feeling that he could not leave the people inside there in the hopes that someone would come along and rescue them before something happened, Kira immediately guided the mobile suit over to the lifeboat and scooped it up in the Strike's arms so that he could bring it back to the Archangel as well, only to stop when he picked up another signal.

Turning towards the source of the new signal, Kira was greeted with the sight of a smaller pod, which seemed to only be big enough to hold one person inside of it, and a moment later, he spotted the Earth Forces' logo on one side of said pod while on the other side there was some faded wording that Kira could barely read from his current position due to how worn it seemed to be. As soon as he had the Strike grab this object as well, Kira could tell that the pod was very old, technologically-wise, and even though he was now closer to it, the only thing he could make out in relation to the faded words was the word "Stark", a term that he was very familiar with, seeing as it was the industry of Stark Solutions that had helped in the development of many different modern day technologies, including the Mass Drivers and space colonies. Taking the fact that the name of one of the most famous technology development companies in history was printed on the side of this capsule as a sign of its importance, Kira figured that he definitely should not leave it floating aimlessly around out in space and elected to bring it back to the Archangel as well, hoping that there would not be too much trouble because of his choices.

As Kira continued moving as carefully as he could through the debris from Heliopolis, he glanced at the pod he was carrying out of the corner of his eye and wondered aloud, "Just what is this thing anyways? Or for that matter, what was it doing way out here?"

It turned out that Kira's decision to bring back both the lifeboat and the pod had caused a small dispute between him and the Archangel's acting second in command, Ensign Natarle Badgiruel, but thankfully, Lieutenant Murrue Ramius, the acting captain of the ship, silenced all arguments between the two when she pointed out that they did not have time to argue over such small things in their current situation, given the fact that Z.A.F.T. was still close by and was likely to attack at any moment. When Kira had informed them of the additional pod that he had found among the debris, both women were quick to tell him to hurry aboard with the pod, and from their tone of voice when they did so, Kira could tell that they considered this object to be very important.

It was not until after Kira had reunited his friend Flay Allster with the rest of their friends from Heliopolis that Kira was able to finally inquire about the pod, at which point both Murrue and Natarle had already gathered around it along with Mu La Flaga and Kojiro Murdoch, the latter of which was checking the status of the pod. "What's the big deal with this thing anyways," Kira asked when he approached the four soldiers. "When I told you about the lifeboat that needed to be brought aboard, you made a big fuss, but when I mentioned this thing, you acted like it was some kind of important treasure."

"Well that's because in a way it kind of is," Mu replied with a smile. Kira just looked at the blonde man in confusion, leading Mu to elaborate, "Kira, it's not the pod that's important but what's inside of it. Or should I say who's inside it."

"And who would that be," Kira asked.

"One of history's greatest heroes and soldiers," Murrue replied in a near reverent tone that was reserved for honored soldiers of history. She then looked to Kira and asked, "What do you know about the heroes of the Twenty-First Century?"

"Nothing much to be honest," Kira admitted. "Most of it just seemed like the stuff of comic books really, at least in terms of what I do remember. Like all that stuff about the legendary Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. The only thing that I never considered to be like that would be the history of Stark Solutions back when it was known as Stark Industries. Just about everything else I ever learned about that time just seemed like a total myth to be honest."

"A lot of people would like to think that," Natarle informed the young Coordinator. "The truth is all of that actually happened, and this thing here is living proof of that, at least for the moment."

Kira then glanced at the four, still feeling confused, which led Murrue to sigh and wave a hand towards the pod, indicating that she wanted Kira to approach it. Kira did as he was offered to, and upon seeing that there was some frost on the glass of the pod's casing, he slowly wiped it away, gasping in shock the minute after he had for his eyes were greeted with the sight of a white star on a red, white, and blue uniform, worn by a blonde haired man who appeared to be sleeping. "No way," Kira gasped. "That looks like…but it can't be. Is that really…?"

"Yep, it is," Mu replied. "Kira, this is Steven Rogers, aka Captain America, the First Avenger himself."

Kira was now most certainly shocked beyond belief. Captain America was a legend in the old comic books alone, and even more so in the history books, but to hear that the man himself was actually right in front of him was another matter entirely, one that words could not describe. After taking another glance at the sleeping man in the pod, Kira had to ask, "Why is he here, or how is he even alive?"

"Guess you don't know you're history that well," Mu shrugged.

Natarle then took the lead in the conversation, having thoroughly read up on Captain America and the exploits of other Twenty First Century peace keeping forces growing up, and explained, "Sometime near the end of that point in the Twenty First Century's history, during the event known as the Ultimate Battle of Heroes, it was discovered that the Super Soldier Serum that was used to make the captain who he is now had a serious defect: cellular degeneration. Even though he had incredible strength and skills, the serum was slowly tearing him apart from the inside, or to put it more simply, Captain America was dying. There was one way to cure him, but unfortunately neither the technology nor the exact procedure existed at that current time, so in order to preserve the captain's body until such a time came, Tony Stark placed Captain America in this cryogenic stasis pod so that the captain would still be alive. Unfortunately, a number of circumstances prevented further research from ever happening, and in the end, the procedure necessary to revive Captain America to full health remained undiscovered until Cosmic Era Fifteen."

"When George Glenn revealed the existence of Coordinators and released the information on the genetic engineering techniques for creating them onto the internet," Kira filled in for the ensign. "What does that have to do with Captain America though?"

"Despite the high levels of dispute and controversy against Coordinators, many people believed that something in the process used to give birth to said humans could be used to restore Captain America to full health, effectively bringing him back to life," Murrue replied. "In other words, in order to save the captain's life, he would have to be remade into a Coordinator, or at least something close to it. That's part of the reason why he was in Heliopolis, because the Atlantic Federation and all of its allies were doing everything they could to secretly bring Captain America back to life and make sure that he's ready for combat, should he decide to participate in this war."

"In other words, you were only doing all this just so you could attempt to get another soldier, not because you wanted to save a man's life," Kira accused the soldiers, throwing them an equally accusing glare as he did, showing just how little he approved of taking such an action.

"That may have been the intention, but we were still more than willing to let Captain America choose whether or not he became a soldier again, and we wouldn't force him to choose until after he heard all arguments on this matter," Murrue immediately reassured the young Coordinator. "The problem is, we weren't able to get the chance to even make an attempt at the process because of the Z.A.F.T. attack on Heliopolis, and the doctor who was supposed to perform the procedure had died in the attack. Even if we wanted to bring Captain America back, we wouldn't be able to because we don't have the necessary facilities on the ship or even anyone that specializes in the field to oversee the operation."

Kira fell silent at this point, thinking hard over all that he had just heard. The fact that such a great person had a chance to live again and have a peaceful life after everything he had been through only to have that chance snatched away was heartbreaking to say the least, and the fact that the genetic engineering used to create Coordinators could possibly save the captain's life also had the chance of showing people that the whole reason for the war between Earth and the PLANTs was foolish was also an added bonus. Kira soon found himself wishing that there was something he could do to help, but he knew nothing about medicine or genetics beyond the mere basics that just about anyone could know, so it was hard for him to find a way to help. That is until he thought of one thing in particular. "You said that something involved with creating Coordinators could save him, right," Kira asked, just to make sure he heard right.

"That's right," Murrue confirmed.

"Well then, what if I were to help," Kira offered. When he received looks of confusion, Kira quickly explained, "What if we used my blood to revive the captain?"

"A blood transfusion," Natarle exclaimed, a little shocked that Kira would suggest such an idea. "I'm not so sure that something as simple as that could work, even if it weren't for the fact that you are a Coordinator, Kira. I mean, there were only a few parts of the genetic engineering involved in creating Coordinators that pertain to reviving the captain, so I'm not sure that such a course could be any more successful."

"It's not like we have a choice at this point," Kira argued. "Like the commander said a minute ago, he and I are the only ones able to protect this ship, so if there's some way that Captain America could help, even if it's later on down the line, why not at least try to save his life?"

Kira did make a good point, but there was still one problem with his suggestion. "I'm no medical expert, but isn't it dangerous to give a blood transfusion to someone when you don't know if the two blood types are the same," Mu asked. "We don't know if Kira has the same blood type as the captain, so can we really take such a chance?"

"I'm Blood Type A," Kira then informed the group. "If that isn't at least close to an exact match, then we can forget I even suggested it. Otherwise, we should at least try."

Murrue and Natarle glanced between themselves before they finally agreed with Kira's suggestion, telling him they would check if it was possible after they were certain that they had escaped their pursuers, since they did not want the young man to be weakened due to having given blood if he had to launch in the Strike once again. It turned out that their hunch on that was correct, and Kira was forced to fight against the Z.A.F.T. Forces, who were now piloting the stolen G-Weapons, but thankfully, they somehow managed to make it through in one piece thanks to both Kira and in some small part to Kira's friends who had volunteered to help out on the Archangel since the ship was short-handed at the moment. After the battle was over and Kira was given the chance to calm down from the rush he had felt from fighting in it, Kira and the Archangel's commanders visited the doctor that had come aboard with the refugees to see if Kira's idea of using his blood to revive Captain America had any chance of working.

When the doctor confirmed that it would work, at least in theory, Kira did not hesitate for a minute to let them take a bit of his blood to inject into the captain. When they finally moved to do so, the doctor was insistent on being close at hand in case something went wrong and so they opened the cryo-pod and injected the captain with the sample of Kira's blood. At first nothing seemed to change, as there were still signs of the cellular degeneration taking place, but a few minutes later, the process halted completely, and all of the captain's vitals became stable, indicating that it probably worked. Sadly, they would not know for sure until Captain America woke up, so they left him to rest, knowing that they would have to deal with any matters that arose at Artemis for the moment.

Unfortunately, it did not seem that business at the Eurasian Federation base would go so smoothly, as a moment after they had docked, the ship was locked down by Eurasian soldiers, and Murrue, Mu, and Natarle were brought to meet with the commander of Artemis. Though the allies of the Atlantic Federation claimed that they were taking these actions because the Archangel did not have a proper identification code, it did not take a genius to figure out that they were only using that as an excuse for some reason. As soon as Commandant Garcia had confirmed the identities of the three commanding officers, he put up the appearance of being more than happy to try and resupply the ship as quickly as possible, but when Murrue warned him about the Z.A.F.T. ship that was still pursuing them, Garcia just waved it off and showed the three an image of the Laurasia-class ship as it floated just outside of Artemis's firing range, confidently stating that there was no chance of the Z.A.F.T. ship being able to get through Artemis's Lightwave Barrier, known as the Umbrella of Artemis.

After doing his best to reassure Mu and the two women of their worries that Artemis would be damaged should the Archangel remain there for too long, Garcia summoned one of his other soldiers to escort the three to another room for the time being. Before they left though, Murrue thought that she should mention something important. "You should know that there's one other person aboard our ship that could help change the tide of the war," the female captain stated.

"And who might that be," Garcia asked.

"Captain America, and we have reason to believe that a recent operation has likely restored him to full life."

Garcia's eyes became nearly as large as small dinner plates when he heard that, and he finally rose up from his chair as he asked, "You're sure of this? You're absolutely sure that whatever operation was performed on him has brought Captain America back?"

"We can't be entirely certain at the moment seeing as he is still resting, as per doctors orders, but there is a very strong chance that is the case," Murrue nodded in reply.

Garcia looked Murrue dead in the eye, searching for any sign of deceit on the matter, and when he found none, he nodded in return and tapped a control on his intercom before saying, "Prepare to transfer the unit to the Atlantic Federation vessel, the Archangel. I want it onboard that ship with all of its armaments as soon as humanly possible." He then looked back at the three confused officers before he smirked and asked, "You didn't really think that you were the only ones preparing for the return of the great Captain America, did you?"

The three just nodded in acceptance of that and then allowed themselves to be led out of the office and to another room in the base, indicating that Artemis's personnel had no intention of allowing them to leave anytime soon, and leaving the commandant to think over the recent developments that he had been witness to.

A short while later, it seemed that the Laurasia-class ship had given up and left, giving them reason to shut down the barrier as soon as the ship was a good enough distance away, leaving Garcia to deal with a new problem that had arisen in regards to the Strike. Apparently, the pilot of the mobile suit had put a lock on its activation program, keeping anyone other than the pilot from using the suit. That was why Garcia and some of his men were now on the Archangel looking for the pilot. "Who among you are the pilot and mechanic of the mobile suit aboard this ship," Garcia asked the people that had been rounded up into the common area. When no one replied, Garcia just smiled and said, "There's no reason to be so secretive. We simply feel privileged to be granted the opportunity to see it before it's officially announced. Now who's the pilot?"

"It's Lieutenant La Flaga," Murdoch then said after he pushed Kira down when the boy tried to stand and speak up. "If you have any questions then why don't you address them to him?"

"We've been carefully monitoring all the previous battles you've fought. Somebody was handling the Zero and its gun barrels. There's only one person capable of such a feat and that's him," Garcia then revealed before his gaze moved to Kira's friend Miriallia. The commandant then roughly pulled Miriallia to her feet and commented, "I never imagined a woman to be assigned to pilot such a mobile suit, but it occurs to me the captain of this ship is a woman, so…"

"Ow," Miriallia cried out as the commandant pulled on her arm a little more, giving Kira more than enough reason to finally shrug off Murdoch and stand up.

"Cut it out! You're just a bully," Kira shouted. "You want to know who was piloting it? It was me!"

Garcia looked Kira up and down for a minute before he finally released his hold on Miriallia and walked over to Kira as he said, "Well young man, I admire your sense of duty in protecting the girl, but that machine wasn't made for someone like you to operate. Get serious twerp!"

Garcia then took a hard swing at Kira, but the younger man was quick to react to Garcia's attack, and dodged the blow before grabbing the offending arm and throwing Garcia over his shoulder, onto the floor. "I haven't done anything to deserve you getting angry and hitting me," Kira told the Eurasian soldiers as they started to move and attack him in retaliation.

Kira's friend, Sai then tried to intervene, but ended up getting bashed aside into Flay's arms for his efforts. Seeing Sai hurt caused Flay to speak up as well, saying, "Would you stop it? He's telling you the truth! That boy is the pilot!"

"Would you kids give it a rest," one of the soldiers told the redhead as he grabbed Kira by the scruff of his shirt.

"I'm not lying to you," Flay said, despite any protests that Sai or the others gave to her. "If you really must know, that boy is a Coordinator!"

That was all it took for Garcia and his men to stop in their assault on Kira, while also eliciting groans of disbelief from the Archangel crew and Kira's friends at how clueless Flay's choice of actions were. After that, Kira was lead by Garcia and the other Eurasian soldiers to the hangar where the Strike was secured, and where the pod that Captain America was in was resting close by. As he approached the Strike, Kira noticed that a second mobile suit had been brought aboard the ship. The suit in question had a similar design to the Strike's but instead of being dull grey, it appeared to be colored in a red and blue color scheme with some white in a few areas, such as on the handles for the beam sabers that were held on either side of its waist. The suit's head also had a red, v-shaped antenna over its eyes, while the helmet of the machine was also colored white, and right in the center of the machine's chest was a silver, five-pointed star.

Kira filed the questions on the new mobile suit away for later as he stopped in front of the Strike and asked, "You want me to remove the lock on the OS, right?"

"For starters," Garcia smiled as he tuned out the confused mutterings of his people that were in the hangar, which had started up as soon as Kira had spoken. "But I'd imagine that you're capable of doing many other things. For example, you could analyze this machine's design and build more like it, or perhaps you could even come up with a weapon that's effective against this type of mobile suit."

Kira did not take more than a second to realize what Garcia was implying, and he immediately argued, "Look, I'm nothing more than a civilian student. I'm not a soldier and I'm not some military contractor like Stark Solutions used to be years ago. There's no reason why I'd have to do any of those things!"

"But you're already a traitor to your fellow Coordinators, are you not," Garcia then countered, immediately silencing any protests or arguments Kira had after he had said that. "I have no idea what your reasons were, but regardless, you did betray your own people, didn't you, and so by rights…"

"You're wrong," Kira interrupted, finally finding his voice again. "I did it because…"

"A Coordinator siding with the Earth Forces makes you very valuable," Garcia then interrupted the boy. "There's nothing to worry about. I assure you that someone like yourself will be made welcome, even in Eurasia."

Kira then glanced at the new mobile suit before he asked, "If you really need me to make more of the Strike, then what's the deal with that red and blue suit over there?"

"That's not something you should concern yourself with at this time," Garcia waved off before he motioned to one of his men.

Kira was not given the chance to say anything else, as he was soon strong armed into the Strike's cockpit. With no other option, Kira simply started working on his machine while a soldier held a gun to him. Kira was deliberately working slowly as a way of stalling until the entire base suddenly began to shake under the force of an explosion, immediately grabbing Garcia's attention. Seeing his chance, Kira immediately kicked the soldier who was holding a gun to him away before hitting the control to close the Strike's cockpit, but unfortunately, it did not close quickly enough, as another soldier was quick to grab him and then pull him out of his machine, throwing him to the floor as soon as he did. "You little traitor," Garcia snarled as two of his men restrained Kira.

"Let me go," Kira shouted. "Don't you see that we're under attack? I don't have time for your nonsense, just get these guys off me and let me get in the Strike!"

Garcia was not about to hear any of it, and instead hit Kira across the face, and since Kira was unable to stop it this time, all he could do was cry out in pain. Garcia then slammed another fist into Kira, not caring about anything other than taking his problems out on someone else at the time, but he immediately stopped when he heard someone other than Kira cry out in pain. Everyone then turned their attention to see, much to their shock, that one of Garcia's men had moved over to the pod that Captain America was inside of while no one was paying attention, and that same man was now unconscious at the feet of none other than said captain himself. What was also clear was that not only was Captain America now awake, he was very pissed off. Garcia's men were still frozen in their surprise, so they were easily dealt with when the captain suddenly lunged and took down three of them with a swift combination of attacks. When Garcia and his soldiers finally did react, they found that they should have been smart and ran off instead of trying to attack the captain, for they were soon either knocked out or sent flying across the room in response.

Cap then leapt back over to the pod, reached inside a compartment that was just above where his head was resting, and pulled out a circular, red, white, and blue shield with a silver star in the center, which he then threw at all of the soldiers that were just switching the safeties on their guns off. Garcia then tried to placate the captain by talking him down, but the blonde man was not going to hear any of it, and instead slammed his shield into the commandant and held him down and said, "No one likes a bully, especially me."

The captain only caught a quick glimpse of Kira floating up to the Strike before said mobile suit had started up and then moved to the launch deck, and it was not until all that was done that he finally released Garcia and kicked both the commandant what few of his men that were still onboard off the ship. As he was floating away, Garcia threw a small glare to the captain that hid just a small amount of joy as he said, "I sincerely hope that you do enjoy the Patriot, Captain. After all, it was designed for you."

Cap was not entirely sure what the commandant had meant by that, but he did not have time to think on it when he felt the ship suddenly shake under another explosion. Looking around, it did not take long for him to locate the three commanding officers of the ship, running through the hangar and up to some other point on the ship, and he immediately called out, "What's going on out there?"

When the three heard him, they all looked at him in surprise for a moment until Mu shook himself out of it for a moment to say, "The base our ship's currently in is under attack by enemy forces."

"Is there any way I can help," Captain America then asked.

"Not unless you can figure out how to pilot that red and blue machine over there in a few seconds," Mu replied as he and the two ladies resumed their trip back to the bridge.

The former World War II soldier looked up at the machine Mu had indicated, thinking that it was what Garcia was referring to when he mentioned the Patriot, and quickly leaped towards it, allowing the zero gravity environment to carry him up to the cockpit's hatch, which he quickly climbed through. Cap looked over the controls of the machine for a minute, testing out a feature or two here and there before he smiled and said, "Seems a lot like the controls for the Quinjet." He then turned on the machine completely, which brought up a series of words on the main screen, but Cap only found he had time to read what the first letter of each word spelled out. "Gundam?"

Feeling that it was a detail he should not worry about at the moment, Steve just guided the machine over to where the Strike had disappeared to and fired the Patriot's thrusters so that he could fly up to where Kira was currently fighting the Blitz. As soon as he was close enough, Steve had the Patriot throw a powerful left hook that knocked the black mobile suit away from the Strike, effectively throwing the pilot of said machine into confusion both due to the blow and the appearance of the new mobile suit. "Where did that one come from," the Blitz's pilot asked in bewilderment.

The only answer he received was the Patriot pulling out one of its beam sabers and charging in along with the Strike, as the latter readied the Anti-Ship Sword it was carrying for another attack. The battle quickly became very easy for the Strike and the Patriot, seeing as they had their opponent outnumbered and thrown off-guard over the fact that the Archangel had a second mobile suit aboard it, and it was not long until the Blitz was forced to finally retreat when an explosion in the base gave him more than enough reason to pull back for his own safety. Captain America was about to give chase when a female voice called out, "Kira, Patriot, come back! The Archangel is launching!"

"Roger that," Captain America replied as he fired a few rounds from the Patriot's Vulcan guns on the Blitz as a way of discouraging the pilot from getting any ideas, before he followed the Strike back to the ship, already preparing the list of questions he had about his current situation for when he returned.

After Kira had brought the Strike in and secured it in the hangar, he found that all he wanted to do was return to his room and be alone for a while. Garcia's words may not have technically been true, but they still rang out in his mind enough to cause Kira a lot of grief, so it was understandable when Kira did not stop to acknowledge Mu when the mobile armor pilot had called out to him. Kira was just at the door that led out of the hangar when he felt a hand on his shoulder, prompting him to finally acknowledge someone else's presence and turn to said person, only to gasp in surprise when he saw who that person was.

There, standing before Kira with a comforting smile on his face, was none other than Captain America with his mask down, revealing his blonde hair underneath it. Kira only looked at the captain in surprise for a few more minutes until said soldier finally said, "You did good work out there, son. It may not have been easy, but if it weren't for you, this ship would've been in real trouble. Nice job."

Kira allowed a small smile to grace his face at the captain's compliment before he nodded in thanks as Mu floated over to them. "I don't mean to interrupt, Captain, but I think you should speak with our ship's captain as soon as possible," Mu informed his fellow blonde.

"I was just about to ask about that actually," Cap said. "But first, perhaps you can tell me how long I had been asleep for this time around. I really hope it was just seventy years like the last time."

Mu had to shake his head in the negative as he revealed, "I'm afraid it's a lot longer than that, Captain. The Twenty-First Century has been over for much longer. You've woken up to the year Cosmic Era 71."

Captain America showed no outward sign of how he felt about this information beyond simply nodding and requesting that Mu lead him to where the Archangel's captain currently was, leaving Kira to continue on his journey to his room with his thoughts still ringing with Garcia's words the entire way.

AN: So there you have it. Captain America is back and is already kicking butt and taking names in the Cosmic Era. Even though this did not help Artemis survive, it was not really planned for it to survive, mostly because I never did like the guy who was running Artemis. Like Kira said, he is a bully, and he was also an overconfident punk who decided to pick on a nice young girl, ie Miriallia, just because he was being a little greedy. Hence the beat down that he was dealt by Cap.

Kira: So, what's the deal on the Patriot Gundam? You know armament-wise and all that?

AN: Well in terms of appearance, you'll find an image of it in the cover art for this story. As for armaments, we'll be going into that in the next chapter. Until then, Onto the Preview!...

The captain is brought up to speed on the events of the present day, as members of the Archangel crew all brief him on the events leading to where they currently are from their points of view, and quickly decides to join Kira as the ship's second mobile suit pilot, effectively becoming soldier once again. When the Archangel travels to the Debris Belt, they all find themselves in the ruins of one of humanity's darkest days, which would lead anyone in Captain America's position to truly wonder if they had made a difference. Next time on Shield of the Cosmic Era…Chapter 2: Histories and Songstresses. Brace yourselves for the knowledge you are about to acquire Gundam and Captain!

Please read and review, and I'll see ya next time, Gundam believers!