I'm reworking a few chapters from an old story I had and hopefully they'll be better than before. But you're gonna have one or two chapters that aren't set in the Cosmic Era; this because one of the units in the Coalition didn't come from the Universal Century or the Cosmic Era. I promise the back story won't long at all. All of the chapters will be in first person view.

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters or story elements of any Gundam series. Sunrise owns all characters and story elements of the Mobile Suit Gundam saga.

Chronicles of the Coalition

Formation of the Sky Girls

Neyla Kaiou, Strike Force Commander of the Trident Tsunami Special Forces

I had hoped to return to Earth in 2006, but it turned out to be 2084 and it had changed completely. From my command ship the Tiger Roger, I could hear the Earth agonize in pain for the injuries it had. Against Roux's advice, I went down to Earth without mobile suit support and went to take a look at the damage. Roux guessed that I would go to Japan as she knew that I considered Japan to be my home country despite being born in the Ocean Kingdom of Neptune.

Summer 2084, Seto Inland Sea, Japan

It felt great jumping into a crystal clear sea or so I thought. When I dove into the ocean leaving Foehammer protesting my unnecessary dive into the ocean, I saw ruined buildings… no a ruined city. It gave me sick feeling and I almost wanted to swim away and radio for a transport back to the fleet. But within me Fujitaka whispered that I should learn about what happened here to prevent wars from ending up like the ruined city and possible others like it. I sighed and went back to exploring the ruined city. I didn't find much that would help me learn until I saw a girl about my age. It looked like she was diving for something because I could tell she carried a medium sized bag for carrying something. I carefully swam close enough for her not to notice me and observed what she was doing; she pulled out long knife and thrust it into the back door of a truck. I decided to go see if she needed help finding whatever it was she looking for. When I approached the girl she turned and brought her knife back to her preparing to defend herself. I smiled and pulled my Butterfly Edge sword and sliced the doors open for her. She turned and noticed that I sliced the doors open for her. The girl then turned to the truck and motioned for me to help her, in which I did after sticking my sword in the ground for a minute. After helping her gather oysters into her bag, she motioned for me to follow her and I followed her to a motorboat. As we reached the surface, she put her bag of oysters in her boat and I began to swim away until she called out in Japanese, "Wait, don't go! Please come back." I went back to the boat and got in as she invited me.

"My name is Otoha Sakurano," the girl said as she introduced herself and bowed to me, "thank you for helping me with my catch."

I replied in Japanese, "Please don't bow to me; I really hate it when people bow to me."

Otoha huffed in annoyance and said under her breath, "Excuse me for trying to be polite."

"I'm sorry," I said as I bowed to her as a courtesy.

"So, um… what's your name?" Otoha asked me.

"Neyla," I answered Otoha, "Neyla Kaiou."

Otoha stood up and fell backwards into the water as the boat swayed from Otoha getting up uneasy and nervous. I smirked and was going to dive in and get Otoha out when she climbed back in. I had to explain that the military group I came with came through a bright flashing light as we approached Earth. Otoha was confused by what I told her so I had to explain it again to her in terms she could understand. Otoha still looked confused and said it sounded like something out of a science fiction story. Otoha was kind enough to allow me to stay with her until I could make contact with Admiral Whitcomb and the fleet. After spotting a military airplane, we raced back to Otoha's hometown and found the airplane had landed near the dock. After Otoha changed out of diving gear, I followed her to her home. She showed me where the home phone was, but I told her that already had something else to use in order to contact my commanders. Otoha went upstairs to get ready for her lesson and I finally made contact with Admiral Whitcomb.

"I've made contact with the locals here on Seto Island," I reported to Admiral Whitcomb, forgetting that he didn't understand Japanese.

With my face turning red from embarrassment, Lieutenant Hikowa translated what I reported to him into English. I apologized to the Admiral but he said not make a big deal out it. After about ten minutes Otoha came downstairs with her mother following her noticing that Otoha had me as a guest. Otoha's mother was about hurry and make tea but I politely declined as I followed Otoha to her grandfather's dojo. When Otoha and I entered the dojo, Otoha's grandfather took one glance at me noticed that I was an important figure at one time. After glancing at me for a few seconds, he regained his composure and went into a professional state and had both of us enter his dojo. Otoha's grandfather took another glance at me but this time he noticed that I had two swords, Ragnarok and my Butterfly Edge and quickly went back to his professional stance as an instructor. I spent time with Otoha trying to gang up on her grandfather but he was too strong for Otoha and he then turned to begin and overpower me. The thought of pulling out Ragnarok came to my mind as I began to reach for it but decided against it because it was too powerful and it tended to howl for blood. Otoha's grandfather saw me reaching for Ragnarok, threw his bamboo training sword down and dashed for one of his samurai swords. I quickly took Ragnarok off my back and pulled out my Butterfly Edge. He was surprised to see me taking Ragnarok off my back and pulling out Butterfly Edge instead.

"Why did you take your longest sword off your back?" Otoha's grandfather asked in his best educated English.

"It's too powerful," I replied in Japanese rather answering him in English. "When I use Ragnarok for training purposes, it has a tendency to howl for blood." I then pointed to Ragnarok and motioned to Otoha's grandfather to listen to my sword and heard it howling. Otoha's grandfather then turned and charged at me. His charge caught me off guard and I had dodge a swing from his sword and quickly pulled out my Butterfly Edge and countered back with my own attack and easily countered back knocking him off balance. Otoha was impressed with my swordsmanship as was her grandfather.

"You're really skilled with the sword," complimented Otoha's grandfather as he got up from the floor.

"Domo," I said as I bowed to him. "The sword was the first weapon I learned to use before I learned to use guns. Ha ha! Father taught me to use them and the way of the sword."

"Then he must be a really good father to teach you the way of the sword," replied Otoha's grandfather as he picked up Ragnarok and was about to hand to me when he noticed two military officers entering the house's courtyard.

Otoha had gone for a walk to place where watched the sunset, while I stayed back and talked with Admiral Whitcomb. I told the good admiral that I would stay here on Earth and after talking to Lieutenant Hizuki, I told him that I was demoting myself to private. Admiral Whitcomb and Major Silva were shocked and about had a heart attack when I dropped the news on them. I explained that I felt that my rank was given to me instead of me earning that rank.

"I'll work my way up and prove to you and the other commanders that I can lead the Shadow Marines and not have ranks given to me," I said to Admiral Whitcomb.

"All right," said Admiral Whitcomb, "but I'm sending Miss Louka down there to back you up. And I want you be in contact with Doctor Halsey every week."

"Yokai," I acknowledged to Admiral Whitcomb. The admiral just nodded and snapped off the COM.

Just as I was going to talk to Otoha's grandfather about holding on to Ragnarok, my communicator came on with Doctor Halsey's face. I sighed as Doctor Halsey said she had gotten information about possible technology that could be useful for unit. My guess is that she hacked into a satellite and just randomly "discovered" technology that could be useful for her unit. Fujitaka told me that she thought that it was Doctor Halsey's idea to send Roux down and support me just so Roux could gather Intel on the technology for her. 'Damn bitch,' I thought as Doctor Halsey finished briefing me on her "discovery." As I shut off the communicator I hurried off to find Otoha's grandfather and I asked him to hold onto Ragnarok for me. He was gracious enough to hold onto Ragnarok for me until Otoha and I were done with the testing for the military and promised that I would watch her back.

Otoha Sakurano [Translated from Japanese]

Yokosuka Base, Oppama Testing Facility

Neyla-kun and I set off for Yokosuka to be test pilots for the military. I didn't understand why she wanted to be a test pilot since she's already a soldier with the Royal Tsunami Defense Forces. But ever since she became my friend, she's like a big sister to me. Mother told me that she promised Grandfather that she'd look out for me. I feel really lucky to have her as a friend. After getting off the boat, we boarded on a train to Yokosuka to begin our training. I fell asleep after a few hours while Neyla-kun got out a knife and twirled it on her fingertips. She told me that if she doesn't train herself, that she gets antsy and has to twirl a knife in order to stay level-headed. It seemed strange to me but she told me a secret that I promised not to talk about to anyone. It seemed that her secret was the reason why she joined the military at such a young age. It looked like she hadn't been in the military at all because she acted childish and playful but serious when it came time to battle. She was a mystery at first, but I warmed up to her easily because in some sense I act like a child too. I felt the train stop for a few minutes as the conductor allowed passengers to get on the train. A girl got on the train and sat next to me and Neyla-kun; she looked frightened by Neyla-kun's Butterfly Edge sword and Neyla-kun reassured her that she wasn't going to kill anybody. I was still asleep even as the train stopped at Yokosuka when Neyla-kun flicked my ear to wake me up. I got off the train and followed Neyla-kun outside along with the girl that she met and chatted with on the train. Then Neyla-kun strapped her Butterfly Edge sword to her back instead of leaving it on her waist. I noticed that she had what looked like jewels in her sword and was going to ask her about them when we heard a woman screaming at a thief to return her purse to her. I took my wooden sword still in the bag I kept it in and stepped in front of the thief blocking him from escaping.

"Why don't you get out of my way little girl," the thief said to me as he began pulling out a knife to stab me with. The girl with us, Karen Sonomiya, threw her bag at the thief and Neyla-kun swiftly came in with her sword and cut the thief at his limbs forcing him to drop the purse and scream in pain. Neyla-kun looked at the thief and sighed.

"What kind of thief steals from common people?" Neyla-kun asked the thief as she stood over the thief. "There's no honor in that."

"Why don't you let me show you honor?" challenged the thief as he tried to get up before I slammed my wooden sword on his head and caused him to fall back down.

The people around applauded us for taking down the thief. I introduced myself to Karen-chan and Neyla-kun did the same. Just as we were talking a jeep came by and the driver honked the horn to get our attention.

"Hey, do you three know each other?" asked the driver.

We stopped our conversation and got in the jeep with our bags. The driver drove us away from the Yokosuka base towards another base called Oppama Testing Facility. On the way to the facility I saw Neyla-kun using a PDA typing a message to someone.

"Hey, who were you sending a message to?" I asked Neyla-kun.

"I sent it to Lieutenant Akira Hikowa," Neyla-kun-kun answered as she put her PDA away into a pack on the back of her waist. "Uh, it was just a personal message in Japanese; I gotta make sure that I don't my Japanese."

Karen-chan and I smiled at Neyla-kun; we certainly didn't want her to forget her Japanese. The driver introduced himself as Lieutenant Colonel Togo. Neyla-kun thought the man was joking because he didn't look like a Lieutenant Colonel; I was puzzled by why she thought Togo-san didn't look like a Lieutenant Colonel. Well the saying goes, "Appearances can be deceiving." We reached Oppama and met someone who had already arrived before we did. Her name was Eika Ichijo and she was very anti-sociable with us. It didn't seem that she cared who we were. Neyla-kun gave a smirk and ran after Eika-san. She looked very happy to have an open field to run in or was it she was scouting the area so she could set her training regime up to her style. After getting squared away and Neyla-kun undergoing several tests for psychical and athletic survival abilities. During each test, Neyla-kun just went through the tests like they were nothing more than a simple exercise. Lieutenant Hizuki was impressed at Neyla-kun's test scores; apparently they were off the charts.

The next morning Karen-chan and I awoken by loud music out in the field as we saw Neyla-kun go through a training course. She leapt off a building with her face concealed by both arms while she held ninja knives between her fingers. A few seconds she slowly threw a two ninja knives at two wooden blocks with a bull's eye painted on them. Once they fell, Neyla-kun made a silent charge at the wooden blocks and threw more ninja knives at them. By the time song reached the chorus she had thrown her knives on the ground and dashed for her Butterfly Edge sword. Once she grabbed her sword, she quickly chopped the heads of the wooden blocks off in one quick motion on each wooden block and turned towards other wooden blocks and worked on chopping those blocks. By the time the song reached the second chorus, she had put sword away and dashed for a bow and quiver of arrows. She picked up the bow and quiver quickly and began shooting arrows at the heads of wooden blocks that hadn't been sliced by her sword or hit by a knife. Karen-chan commented about Neyla-kun's accuracy with the arrows she shot. Karen-chan and I then saw Neyla-kun running on a wall, literally running on a wall and still shooting arrows at more wooden blocks when the music transitioned to nothing but an electric guitar solo. Then when the song went to the last chorus Neyla-kun was already in the air destroying falling debris with her sword while running and leaping on it as well. Once the song was done, Neyla put her sword back in it's scabbard on her back and wiped the sweat off her face. She came back in after snapping her fingers making her training course disappear like magic. Neyla-kun came in and took a shower and changed into the uniform provided for her. Our uniforms were standard military uniforms; a skirt down past an inch past our knees, long sleeve shirt of course and the military unit insignias with a patch on both shoulders that had a girl with long hair flowing away from her body and wings on her ankles. Neyla-kun said it looked like a female version of a god named Mercury; apparently Karen-chan said that Mercury was a messenger god. 'Were we some sort of messenger for a god?' I wondered as I put on my uniform. After we all changed into our uniforms, the three of us headed to Lieutenant Colonel Togo's office. No, Togo-san, didn't have an office, it was just a classroom. All four of us sat down at the desks as Nanae began the orientation. Lieutenant Hizuki noticed Neyla-kun had some sort of large sleeve with a metal shoulder pad covering her left arm and a ninja headband on her forehead. He approached her and tried to take off the headband, which caused Neyla-kun to pull his arm and throw him to the ground while throwing the desk away from her.

Karen Sonomiya [Translated from Japanese]

Neyla quickly pulled out a kunai as Lieutenant Hizuki hit the ground startling everyone. Once Lieutenant Hizuki hit the ground, Neyla put the kunai to Lieutenant Hizuki's throat.

"Touch it and you'll die," threatened Neyla. "As for this sleeve on my arm, touch IT and you'll die." Lieutenant Hizuki smirked as he got himself up and brushed himself off. Otoha was surprised to see Neyla throwing Lieutenant Hizuki to the ground. Eika thought Neyla was just trying to act tough and the threat was empty. Neyla took offense to this and challenged Eika to fight out in the field after orientation. Eika just brushed off Neyla's challenge and Neyla called her a coward. Eika then turned to Neyla and accepted her challenge.

After orientation, the four of us headed to the open field for Eika and Neyla to fight each other.

"Let's just get this stupid fight over with," Eika said just standing looking bored.

Neyla cracked her knuckles with an evil smirk on her face and hearing her evil snicker.

"Are you sane?" Eika asked sarcastically.

"Who needs sanity in battle?" asked Neyla as her eyes began glow aqua blue. "Luckily, when I go into battle, I never have sanity."

Eika's eyes widened as Neyla charged at her with a fist raised and about to strike her when she dodged. Neyla then tripped her and was about to put her fist in Eika's face when she stopped just a millimeter from her face. Eika shut her eyes waiting for Neyla to put her out of her misery but Neyla never did. She stood up and grabbed Eika's hand and got her off the ground. Eika opened her eyes and saw Neyla walking away back to our room. Later Neyla told Otoha and I that she normally has sanity in battle except when she face overwhelming odds and opponents that are stronger than her. Neyla turned back towards Eika and held her hand out to Eika hoping she would forget about the scuffle and become friends. Eika took Neyla's hand and shook it; but I could tell that Eika was a little suspicious of Neyla but shook her hand anyway.

A few months past and we finally began encountering cybernetic enemies called WORMS. Another event that happened was that we received a new member to the Sky Girls unit, Elise von Dietrich, a German girl who was also a Sonic Diver pilot like us. Oh, Sonic Divers are units used for combat against WORMS, until Neyla and I began researching more use for the Sonic Diver into use with other combat machines called mobile suits. The research was very secret and only myself, Eika-san, Roux and Neyla knew about it. The only reason why Roux knew about the research was because we had used her Zeta Rouge as a model, not to mention we had mobile suits secretly constructed for testing. Otoha was also in on the project on a voluntary need to know basis as well as Elise. Neyla knew that Otoha couldn't keep quiet with most secrets and the project was one of them. Elise, Neyla thought, was a little blabber mouth and Neyla didn't trust her because she was German. I think that came from her secret. Our research progressed smoothly until Lieutenant Hizuki found out about our research. We were lucky that he allowed us to continue our research because he wanted to see if our research produced any military applications for fighting the WORMS.

Two months later

Lt. Commander Eika Ichijo

On board the Tiger Roger

With help from the combined International Force, we were able to defeat the WORMS once and for all. After the battle was over, the commanders of the Trident Tsunami Special Forces, promoted Neyla back to Commander of the Trident Tsunami Special Forces. Once she received her promotion back to commanding her military force, she promoted myself, Otoha, Karen and Elise to Lt. Commander and incorporated the Sky Girls unit by purchasing the Sonic Divers and some Vic Viper fighters implying that they could be used for defense against mobile suits. I guess because she saw the OPTIONS package the Vic Vipers had. Being from a military family, I could see she saw potential in the Vic Vipers for use in the Royal Tsunami Defense Force. For the first time in three months, I felt that I could trust her . Neyla named me as the unit commander of the Sky Girls, but she put Karen and Otoha in charge of recruiting and Elise was in charge of the civilian Sky Girl unit for the time being. I feel that the Sky Girls are going to be an intricate part of the Trident Tsunami Special Forces; I mean the AEUG.