THE HIDDEN PILOT ASSET
CHAPTER 1
THE GIRL
In a quaint little bar just off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico about five miles from an OZ military base, Duo Maxwell is seen chatting with the bartender. Bartender says to Duo while wiping off the bar. "Some strange times we are liven in ain't they kid?" Duo smiles out of the corner of his mouth replying "In what way Mac?" "What, you haven't heard? Apparently these super powerful mobile suits called Gundams came from the colonies and attacked Earth's OZ bases." The bartender said while pouring Duo another drink. Just then an unknown person in a black hoodie pays their tab and walks out. Duo continues his conversation with the bartender. Duo smiles and snickers to himself "Is that so? Well then that means we gotta be more careful, huh?" The bartender chuckled in his throat. "Dat's right! You never know where the next attack could be, hell it could be that military base just a couple of miles from here." Duo chuckling out loud a little. "It just could be couldn't it?"
Duo tosses a few coins in the bartenders direction, sticks his hands in his pockets and heads for the door. The bartender shakes his head and collects his pay. He realizes that he's been underpaid, and starts yelling and shouting while running after Duo. By the time he is outside Duo has disappeared. The bartender grumbles and stomps back into the bar while a happy Duo is rolling over in laughter in a nearby alley. Duo wipes tears from his eyes from laughter. "Sorry man, but right now I'm a bit tight on cash these days, and getting sore over a measly buck, gees. Well now, I have a date that I really can't afford to miss."
He strolls off while whistling towards his bike and speeds down towards the OZ base. He climbs into Deathscythe and rubs his hands together. As he gets in his Gundam he says with an evil grin, "we're gonna blow things up today buddy!"
He easily penetrates the base and just as he's about to make his way towards his main target it blows up right in front of him.
"WHAT THE HELL!" He shouted out loud while blocking his eyes.
He spots a fleet of Leos fighting off an Aries. The pilot of the Aries manages to destroy the three Leos that were following it but the Aries itself was considerably damaged. "WHAT'S THIS?" Duo thinks to himself. He steals away to a location away from the apparent civil war and watches as the pilot evacuates the Aries and remote controls it towards the oncoming fleet. A button is pressed and the Aries explodes. The pilot jumps on a bike and escapes. Duo decidedly follows the pilot to a nearby beach. The bike is left to rest on some sand dunes. Duo, who had continued his pursuit on his own bike parks it not too far from his Gundam, well hidden in the shadows and walks towards the abandoned bike.
Duo says out loud to himself looking around for the Aries pilot. "Now where did he go?" Suddenly he's attacked from behind. The offender pulls one of his arms backwards and sticks a gun to his temple. "Who are you?" The offender says in a deep voice while sitting on top of Duo with the offenders knees pinning down one of Duo's arms with the other twisted behind his back.
Duo starts to shout and tries to fight his way free. "Hey, leggo! What'd I do to you?"
The grip on his twisted arm tightens. As a response, Duo manages to trip the offender and slam him to the ground. Just as he is about to give the offender a punch in the face he freezes.
"You're a girl?" He says while lowering his fist.
While pulling the rest of her hood off from her hoodie she replies with a sarcastic comment. "What did you think I was an elephant?"
She pushes him off of her and grabs the gun that flew out of her hand; she points the gun right at Duo.
With never taking her eyes off Duo she gets right to the interrogation. "Who are you and why are you following me?"
Duo sticks his hands up. "Duo Maxwell, I'm a citizen of the colonies."
She starts to lower the gun after hearing who he is. "Good, wait I saw you at the bar. Now why were you following me?"
Duo realizing who she was, was just as shocked. "Wait! You were the person in the black hoodie who left just before I did."
"Good guess. Now once again why were you following me?" She asked again knowing Duo is trying to stall.
"I dunno! Why did you attack that OZ base?" He replied with a big smile on his face. "Stop stalling and ANSWER THE QUESTION." She shouts and raises the gun again and puts her finger on the trigger.
Duo raising an eyebrow says back to her. "You don't really need to know."
Duo turns and starts to walk away.
"Wait, I have some more questions I want to ask you." Duo isn't worried about her shooting him and continues to walk away and she lowers the gun.
"Yeah well that's too bad because this interview is over." He replies back while waving a hand in the air.
Duo continues to walk away and the girl decides to leave the matter alone for now. She smiles and walks to her bike and 10 minutes later a loud crashing sound is heard and she looks in the direction the noise is coming from. A large mobile suit appears before her eyes; on the loudspeaker Duo's voice is heard.
"SEE YA LATER BABE!"
The girl jesters to him in the form of a middle finger. The skies begin to cloud over and a light rain begins to fall. The girl takes her gun and puts it in the pocket of her hoodie and climbs on her bike.
She starts the bike, as the raindrops fall harder she sits there staring as the gundam departs, before driving off she cups her hands and smiles and thinks to herself while throwing the water in her hands in the air. "Finally, the feel of real rain."