Chars deleted affair:

Rendezvous With an Enemy

Disclaimer: All characters and ideas that are mentioned in this fan fiction are copyright their respective owners.

Authors Note: This fan fiction takes place between episodes 24-27 (or is it episodes 16-21? My sources seem to disagree) of "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam"; directly after commodore Blex is assonated, and up until Char returns to the Argama. This story is solely my attempt to explain what Char was up to during the above period of time. Some details in the story may be a bit different than what actually happened in the show. If you have any constructive questions or comments please leave a comment or review.

"Damn, This is the worst possible thing that could have happened." Quattro Bajeena thought as he continuously replayed the events leading up to Commodore Blex's assassination. "Blex has left me in a pinch, will I be able to lead the AEUG as Blex had requested with his last breath, or will I be a coward and let the AEUG go on without a public leader? Never mind that for now, will I even have the courage to propose Blex's idea to the leaders of the Earth Federation in his place?" Quattro thought to himself as he mulled over his conundrum in his seat at the Earth Federation senate in Dakar. "I-I have a proposition to make will the chairman yield the floor to me?" Quattro said after a while with great difficulty. "Of course I will yield to Blex's protégé." The kindly chairman said, besides the chairman thought, "I have more than a few debts that I owe to Blex". After a long, uneasy pause Quattro was finally able to summon the courage to speak. " I Quattro Bajeena have been given a task by the recently deceased Commodore of the AEUG. He was killed by none other than Jamitov Hymem in order to silence him once and for all." At this statement the whole senate was sent into a shocked whispered discussion that quickly silenced as Quattro spoke again. "However, I am not here to blame anyone, my duty which was given to me by the commodore with his final breath was to propose the following to the Senate. The Senate must consider moving its meetings as well as the federation capitol into outer space. The senate cannot hope to understand the will of the majority of the federation's population, which resides in space, without being fiscally located in outer space." With that Quattro abruptly left the Earth Federation Senate, which was accompanied by a shocked silence and a visibly greatly displeased Jamitov. Thanks to Jamitov's overwhelming influence, Quattro's proposal was shot down by the senate in a matter of minutes, just as Quattro had predicted.

"I better get out of here quick, those damn Titans must be hot on my heels by now" Quattro thought as he rushed to the parking garage of the senate where his car was parked. When he reached it, Quattro threw caution to the wind and broke through the garages tollbooth gate with a resounding crash. "Already on to me huh?" Quattro noted as he drove past some very angry looking men dressed in black suits that were skittering around apparently trying to find him. Quattro was able to escape the military checkpoint that marked the entrance to the Federation Senate by the skin of his teeth. After crashing through his second barricade of the day, Quattro was almost immediately followed by a group of cars and a team of asshimars. Quattro was forced to swerve in and out of traffic as the asshimars recklessly fired their beam rifles all over the place. Unfortunately many a civilian car was destroyed instead of hitting intended target. Suddenly Quattro saw what he had been looking for; a fuel tanker semi that was barreling down the opposite side of the street. Quattro suddenly swerved into oncoming traffic, and moments later missed the semi by mere milimeters. The cars following him weren't so lucky and they hit the semi, which in turn caused a gigantic explosion, that sent out a large fireball into the sky, that one of the asshimars had the unfortunate luck of running into. The asshimar's pilot lost control of his Mobile Suit and went spiraling out of control into a near by office building. A large explosion then issued from the office building, which caused the office building to collapse like a game of Jenga. Quattro looked through his cars rear view mirror and was quite shocked at the devastating chain reaction that he had left behind in his wake. Even though he felt sorry for the many unwitting civilians that had died in his escape, Quattro still felt relieved that he was able to throw off his pursuers no matter the cost. "Damn those Titans! If it hadn't been for them none of this would have happened, and nobody would have died today! I will make them pay dearly someday for this." Quattro thought, even if the accident was caused by him, he refused to believe it, and instead shifted the blame onto the Titans.

"Now to find a place to dump this car and get a disguise. If I remember correctly there is an abandoned warehouse around here that Stephanie Luio set up as a safe house." Char thought to himself as he drove around looking for the warehouse. After a while of driving aimlessly around in circles, Quattro was finally able to find the warehouse. When he entered the building, Quattro found a suitcase waiting for him in the middle of the room. Inside of it was a disguise, a gun, some money, and a laser communications devise. Quattro quickly put on the disguise and took the other various supplies from the suitcase. After checking to make shore that he wasn't being followed, Quattro left the warehouse and casually strolled around for a bit, just to make shore to throw off anyone that might have been following him.

Suddenly Quattro felt something tug on his lower right pant leg. Fearing that it was a Titans officer, Quattro knocked down whatever it was with a swift kick, and then he turned around quickly and pointed his gun at whatever it was. Quattro breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that he had only attacked a young boy, not a Titans officer, as he had feared. "Wagh! Mister I was only gonna ask you if I could have some of your spare change, please don't shoot me!" The young boy pleaded. Char realized that he was still pointing his gun at he boy, so he quickly put it away. "Sorry about that kid. I thought you were a mugger for a second there!" Quattro laughed as he helped the boy up and dusted him off. Quattro then noticed how ragged the boy looked, his clothes were torn, he obviously hadn't been eating well, and he smelled like he had been sleeping garbage. "You are a street urchin aren't you? Tell you what, if you come with me I will buy you a hamburger." Char asked as politely as he could. "Really? Ok, but only if you let my friend Qum come too." "Of course she can come." Quattro responded. The boy then called out for his friend Qum to come out of where she had been hiding. A similarly ragged girl then appeared from inside an upturned cardboard box. Shortly thereafter, as Quattro and the two children were eating at a fast food restaurant Quattro remembered that he had never introduced himself to the two urchins. " I nearly forgot to introduce myself, but my name is Quattro Bajeena. What are your names?" "I am Shinta and she is Qum. Thanks a lot for the food mister, we haven't eaten like this in forever!" Shinta replied in-between bites of his fourth hamburger. Quattro felt really bad for the two children. He believed that had the EFF and the Titans not been so corrupt, that poverty would be a thing of the past. That is when he decided that he wanted to take the two of them into space with him. Even if Quattro could only save two lives from the Federations corruption, it was the least that he could do. "Ok kids, now I am gonna take you shopping to buy you some new clothes." Quattro told the kids after they had each engulfed a half dozen hamburgers each. Shortly after getting their new clothes, Quattro asked them if they would like to go into space with him. They replied with a resounding yes.

Later that day Quattro and the two kids began their drive into the desert to the emergency pick up point that Blex and Quattro were supposed to go to if they ran into trouble "Shinta, are you shore this is ok? I think this guy is crazy, driving off into the desert like this." Qum asked uneasily. "Well it's better than being stuck in Dakar without anything to eat!" Shinta replied in a slightly angry fashion. Suddenly Quattro stopped the dune buggy in front of what appeared to be a large sand dune. He then proceeded to use his laser communications devise to call for a pickup. To everyone's surprise a red Rick Dias appeared out of the sand dune that was in front of them. The cockpit hatch opened and the pilot stepped out onto the shoulder of the Rick Dias. "Amuro Ray? Why did they send you to pick us up?" Quattro asked in an extremely surprised tone. "Hayato said that I was the only one that he trusted to be able to pick you up. Where is commodore Blex anyway? Who are these kids with you? Why the heck are you dressed like me!" Amuro asked almost too many questions at once. "I thought I felt a little weird in this outfit!" Quattro exclaimed as he realized that he was dressed exactly like Amuro was during the one year war." These children are Shinta and Qum. I am going to take them back into space with me. As for what happened to commodore Blex, I will tell you later." Quattro said as he helped Shinta and Qum into one of the two extra jump seats that had been installed in the Rick Dias. Once everyone was secured in their seats, Amuro closed the hatch and piloted the Rick Dias off into the night.

(( Whew! I got the first chapter done at last! This has been a long time coming; I think that I started writing this sometime last year. There is at least one more chapter I need to write. I hope that it doesn't take as long as this chapter did to write!))