Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing…go figure!!
A/N: PG-13 for language and junk…this is NON YAOI so if that's not ur thing then move on…ok that's it!! review please though J
Arctic Blaze
By Dolfinz
CHAPTER 1
"Hey, Andraya! Hurry up with those stats!"
"Yeah, ok, I'm coming!"
Andraya Saino, her arms full of papers covered with tiny numbers and complex statistics, rushed over to the man standing in front of a line of soldiers who had called her. He looked over the immense pile of papers, only to tell her that she had missed almost half of the expected content, and send her back to the lab to retrieve them.
How Andraya hated that lab! It was the darkest room in the entire base, with only a small light bulb hanging on a chain to provide a means to see by. The computer monitors gave off a bluish light that cast an eerie glow over the entire room, creating a rather spooky effect. Andraya was always sent to retrieve the printouts made by the scientists in this room, always sent on petty chores. Not that she wasn't a formidable soldier; she had earned her weight in compliments from the highest lieutenants in the organization. Perhaps that was the reason she was still below even them: they were jealous. Over the years, the OZ Organization had become somewhat corrupt, and many potentially great soldiers never got a chance to prove themselves worthy in battle. It was something Andraya loathed, yet something she could not change.
Entering the dark lab, she nodded her hello to the scientists seated at the computers. She was never much of a people person, fearing that becoming close to anyone, even as a friend, would ruin her as a soldier. She took her chosen occupation quite seriously, and wanted nothing to interfere with it.
To her dismay, Andraya found another large stack of papers waiting for her at the printer. Attempting to keep them in order, she carefully picked up the pile and began the walk back to Colonel Ruoy. Halfway down the hall, she felt a vibration in the floor beneath her. The vibration grew to more of a shaking, and she was thrown off her feet. The stack of papers fluttered down around her, becoming out of order.
"Argh! Stupid Specials, had to land NOW of all times," she muttered to herself, used to the shaking of the ground whenever a group of mobile suits landed at the base.
However, the ground continued to shake, disrupting her futile attempts to set the papers back in order. The shaking grew in intensity, and the red warning lights in the hallways began to glow in their programmed pattern.
"What the HELL is going on here?!" she demanded of no one in particular, abandoning the once-organized pile of papers on the floor and running to the front of the base. Panic-stricken soldiers were rushing about, trying to get out of the base. Andraya calmly jogged through the crowd of amateur soldiers and through the main entrance to the base. After running a ways away, she turned back to see what the commotion was about.
"What the--BLAST IT!" she cried, seeing the cause of the panic at last. Above the base, hovering in a deadly stance, was a Gundam. "BLAST IT ALL TO HELL!" She attempted to find someone of authority who could giver her instruction, but found no one. She instead discovered an unoccupied Aries suit, and jumped inside, lowering her goggles to her eyes. She fastened the restraints around her slim body, and prepared to try and protect her base.
She took off and flew straight at the Gundam, laser cannon held high. She flew around it once first, to lure its attention away from the base and towards her. When it did not turn around, she began firing rapid shots at its back, trying desperately to divert its attention.
"What the…it's not even SCARRED!" she cried in dismay, seeing her futile attacks not even make a scratch on the more sophisticated suit. Still, she kept pummeling shots at the Gundam just to engage a battle away from the base. Her duty as an OZ Soldier was partly to protect her base, and she planned to fulfill her duty.
At last the Gundam turned around. It was mostly black and navy blue, with an intimidating ribcage-like form around its middle, making it look more like a corpse than a mobile suit. Its two sets of wings were unfolded and loomed above it as it held a green glowing scythe high in the air, ready to attack Andraya and fight to the death. Andraya recognized this suit to be the one piloted by Gundam Pilot 02, but knew little more than that. Still, she was prepared to die trying to defend her base, and intended to defeat this enemy before it could even put a dent in the steel of the roof.
The Gundam zoomed towards her, scythe ready to attack its opposition. Andraya rapidly flew in seemingly erratic movements to avoid the larger suit, all the while firing shot after shot at the Gundam's weak points that she had learned in her classes. Some of them hit home, though she did not do much damage.
Seeing that there was no way to defeat this enemy, Andraya began to slowly lead the battle away from the base. Flying above the treetops, she dodged attack after attack made by the Gundam and began to cause considerable damage to parts of it. Suddenly, the Gundam ceased attacking and flew back to the base, lowering its scythe.
Andraya knew better than to think she had won; the Gundam had hardly fought to its full potential anyway, though she hardly knew why. Perhaps the pilot wanted to keep her alive for interrogation, or just wanted to see her suffer later. Either way, her attempts to protect her base had failed, and it wouldn't matter what would happen to her now anyway.
Already knowing what she would find, Andraya flew back to the base just in time to see the Gundam hold out its arm and shoot something off of it. When the weapon made contact with the base, it immediately went up in flames, and Andraya knew there would be no survivors. She flew to a clearing in the woods, and set her Aries down. Exiting the suit, she almost turned to run away, one final attempt to avoid this hideous Gundam pilot. But after only a moment of thought, she knew she could never outrun him; Gundams had the best tracking systems of all the mobile suits in the world and the colonies.
Sure enough, the Gundam piloted by 02 landed in the clearing after only a few moments, causing a whirlwind of leaves and foliage beneath it. Andraya, still standing in the middle of the clearing in her OZ uniform, put her hands up in surrender. She had been beaten, and she knew it.
Pilot 02 came out of the Gundam, gun held in hand. He immediately pointed it at Andraya, and slowly came up to meet her.
Andraya had never seen a Gundam pilot before. She had heard about their amazing piloting skills, yes, but somehow, in her classes, she seemed to imagine these teenagers as somehow not quite real, and it was a shock to see one in person. This one was wearing all black, and had a long chestnut braid that blew behind him in the slight breeze. For some reason, he sported a minister's collar around his neck, but Andraya knew that this teenage boy could not be a priest.
"Why did you surrender?" the Gundam pilot said, glaring suspiciously at the OZ soldier.
Andraya remained silent.
"Ok, miss. Let's not make this harder than it has to, shall we?" this pilot seemed a little too carefree to Andraya, especially given the situation. Maybe he was hiding something…
"Ok, I'm gonna ask you one more time. Why did you surrender to me? You had a few good minutes to run away under the cover of all these trees!" the pilot said, gesturing to the forest around them. He still held the gun at Andraya.
"You would have found me," she said matter-of-factly. "You know you would have."
"Well, well, well! Feisty one!" the pilot scratched his head, seemingly pondering what to do with the OZ soldier. "Well, ya know, I can't let you go free."
"No shit."
"Aha. So what am I going to do with you…" he said, a smirk growing on his face.
"Are you taunting me?" Andraya said, growing angry with this carefree pilot.
"Why do you say that? I'm simply wondering--HEY!" Andraya had suddenly sprung into a fighting stance and knocked the gun out of the Gundam pilot's hand. Back-flipping neatly, she caught the gun in mid-air and now held it at the other pilot.
"Look who's in control now," she said.