Mobile Suit Gundam Higurashi
Chapter 1 Photograph
The year AC 180 Earth Year 2446 Location: space colony 2, 80mi from Earth
Keichi Maebara now 27 years old has been living and working on space colony 2 for about 10 years prior to his incident at Hinimizawa. For the first 5 years of his new relocation Keichi learned military tactics from Heero Yui quite specifically the tactics that Black ops would use. Keichi woke up in bed in his room in a colony apartment at 9:00a.m. He proceeded to get up take a shower and after wards made coffee as he watched the morning news. The report on television states that the occupation of colony 1 is still in control of ESU but upon watching the television Keichi received a phone call via mobile,
"Yes." Keichi answered after a few seconds of silence, while he was listening on the phone he then replied, "I see, alright I'm on my way Heero" he turned off the T.V. changed out of his tank top and boxer shorts to put on his military suit complete with hat.
He then shut off the television, and walked out the door with his brown leather suit brief case. As Keichi was walking out the door he passed by a photo of himself and a team of what looked like engineers with a Gundam in the background, "the Wing Gundam." Keichi then walked down the street to the bullet train. As he was traveling to his destination Keichi pulled out a photo of him and five of his friends all of whom were girls, in the picture it had a young girl with light brunette hair around 17, two twin girls with dark green hair except one had a pony tail both 18, a girl around 10 with long black hair and another girl with blond hair around the same age as the black haired one. Keichi then thought to himself,
"I wish they were still alive" Keichi said, and then he muttered their names in the order of the description; "Rena Ryugu, Mion & Shion Sonazaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Hojo."
As Keichi was sitting back pondering his thoughts the train came to a complete stop in front of where Keichi needed to be, a large building entitled Colonial Embassy. Keichi then entered the building as the secretary said with a smile,
"Good morning Mr. Maebara" Keichi then looked at her with a smile and said,
"Ann I told you, Mr. Maebara is my father call me Keichi"
"oh but Mr Maebara" replied Ann "As the Captain of Colonial Marines you deserve more admiration than just your first name"
"well whatever floats your boat Ann" replied Keichi.
Keichi had been captain of the colonial marines for about 5 years since his promotion from his last assignment in AC 175 Earth year 2239 but that will come another time of explanation. As Keichi walked to the elevator he pressed the button that would take him to the lower floor but also proceeded to insert a card key into the slot next to it after a few seconds a sound went off and the elevator went moving down. As the elevator came to a complete stop the doors opened and he stepped out into a room of what looked like a hanger among that hanger standing as tall as a mobile suit was a Gundam, A Gundam is the same built structure as a mobile suit only this was made out of the rare asteroid material known as Gundainium and it is equipped with a red rectangular shield and a laser rifle. Keichi then walked down to the controls where Heero was,
"You're late" Keichi then sat down on a chair and proceeded to roll his eyes,
"what is it?" asked Keichi,
Heero then tossed a manila folder at Keichi's lap "take a look" Heero said.
As Keichi looked at the folder contents it was filled with black and white photos he was then shocked at what he saw, a mobile suit with the same structure as his own Gundam, face, and body type. It was clear it was another Gundam and there were 2 of them, the pictures showed both Gundams destroying mobile suits in space on every photo.
"When were these taken?" asked Keich as he was looking through all of them.
"Yesterday." Replied Heero.
"I don't understand" asked Keichi, "I thought we were the only colony with a Gundam and all its material research?"
"Apparently not" replied Heero "we had a mole in the ESU military, he warned colony 1 about the possible occupation and they had their Gundaniam material and all its research delivered to us; colony 2 to ensure ESU will never get their hands on it."
"Who else got a hold of the research besides colony 2?" replied Keichi.
"No one" Heero said.
"could there be a spy amongst colony 2?" Keichi asked. Heero then replied,
"wouldn't doubt it but let's hope that's not true so here's your mission, the Gundams have been hanging around the outskirts of colony 1 destroying ESU mobile suits I need you to take the Wing Gundam to the outskirts, you are to capture them alive and bring the pilots and their Gundams here to colony 2 for questioning if were in luck they're on our side"
"alright, so what's my back up?" asked Kecihi.
"None" replied Heero "if are suspicions as those being legit Gundams are true then sending in mobile suits is going to be a waste of time because bullets and rockets can barely put a scratch on the Gundainium and I'm not going to risk anymore causalities in the colonies against something that can't be fought"
"So in short I'm all alone?" replied Keichi, "but I have never fought a Gundam, I have only had 2 years' experience with the suit and this would be my first real live space combat exercise I don't know if I can…"
"Hey none of that!" interrupted Heero, "I don't like the idea any more than you do but aside from myself you are the only one here who can pilot that suit with ease and not succumb to deep space stress disorder, Keichi eventually you're going to have to see combat in space sometime in the near future and what better time than now especially since this one can give you a challenge."
Keichi then paused for a moment and sat there thinking about this and after a few seconds he reluctantly nodded his head indicating he will do it.
"Good" replied Heero "now suit up, you leave in 5 minutes."
Keichi nodded again and went to the locker room to change out of his colony military uniform and into a flight suit complete with a space helmet he then headed out of the locker room in his flight suit toward the Gundam, he then proceeded to fire his fiber optic grappler at the base of the Gundam's chest cavity where the cockpit was located. The cable hit the base and it proceeded to move and lift him up off the ground toward the chest of the Keichi reached the chest the front of it opened forward like a drawbridge, he then stepped inside and sat down, the controls all lit up as he was programing the Gundam. The visual monitors came on and the control levers on each side that represented the left and right arms started to adjust. Keichi did a series of checks,
"Visual monitors; go flight, arms; go flight, hands; go flight, legs; go flight, feet; go flight, head; go flight, Gundam status all green and ready for takeoff." Said Keichi too the mission control tower.
"Affirmative opening hanger doors standby to engage" said mission control.
The alarms went off as the hanger doors to the airless vacuum of space started to open up.
"Doors are opened step forward to the magnetic jump pad."
Keichi then moved his Gundam toward a pad that simulated how a jet would take off from an aircraft carrier. Hei made the Gundam plant its feet firmly on the pad. Mission control then started to say via radio to Keichi,
"you'll be launched at 80 miles per hour transform your Gundam when your reduced to 60 other wise your heart will rip out from your chest from the intense pressure if you transform to early, alright Keichi countdown in 3…2…1 LAUNCH!"
the rockets on the jump moved forward with lightning speed as it hurled the Gundam into space. Keichi was looking at his speedometer as it was starting to decrease from 80 to 70 the intense speed was so fast his eyes started to water, when it reached 60 he then hit the switch and the Gundam transformed into the plane, it then headed off to the direction where colony 1 was, the trip would take an hour.