DISCLAIMER: None of the original characters from "Gundam Wing" are mine,
Sha's, Cha's or even mine! ^-^ SO don't sew me! Haha.... ha... sue.
~~* Prelude *~~ It is the year 195. The 5 gundams have already landed on earth and are attacking Oz facilities all around the world.
The Five Pilots
Heero Yuy has recently self detonated after a battle against Zechs Merquise and is under the care of Trowa Barton.
Duo Maxwell and Quatre R Winner are flying away from a midnight battle against Oz with the Maganac corps., headed for space.
Trowa Barton is still traveling around the world with his traveling circus, awaiting a new order while Catherine takes the most time watching over Heero.
Cheng Wufei is in his beloved homeland of China, fighting battles as usual.
Now begins our tale....
~~* ~~~* ~~* Episode 11: The Landing of a Beginning *~~ *~~~ *~~
A huge realm of nothing-- black skies dotted with little shimmering stars. Outer space. A space ship like craft flies at an alarming speed towards earth, leaving a red streak across the sky. From there, the earth is nothing but a shinning green, blue, and white sphere hanging like a marionette.
"I'm almost to earth, finally" said the ship's pilot, in a deep female voice.
Suddenly, a huge burst of speed and wind zips past the ship, shaking it furiously back and forth. But there was nothing but a sparkling blue streak also heading towards the earth.
"What the--?!" the pilot shouted. She pushed a button and two screens came up. A radar and a heat censor. "Nothing on radar? But, there's something... on the heat... censor."
She looked around but there was nothing. Even the blue trail was gone.
Just a comet, she thought, a wandering comet...
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Far ahead was another ship, the invisible burst. It was heading to earth, too.
"Ha! Betcha didn't see that one coming!" the pilot snickered, looking at an image of the other ship on a screen.
The invisible ship started to enter the earth's atmosphere. The pressure and gravitational pull were immense! The pilot was struggling to stay upright in the cockpit. Soon enough, as the ship entered the second highest atmosphere, red seams began growing on the ship. The invisible protection started cracking and, eventually, disappeared. A huge space-plane appeared. A suit carrier.
"Oh, no! My camouflage! What happened?!" the pilot looked at various data boxes that popped up on screens when she touched buttons.
Following not to far behind was the other ship. As it approached the farthest atmosphere, two huge wings emerged from the sides. They moved a bit until the ship was balanced perfectly. The pilot pulled the control stick all the way forward and the ship began to nose-dive towards the earth. It began to gradually speed up. The heat of the sun and the ozone combined began to heat up the nose oft he craft, turning it bright red.
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Miles and miles away, the second ship was almost completely through the atmospheres. Gently, it glided at an angle towards former Europe. The whole ship was hot from the sun and needed to hurry and get out of the atmospheres to cool off before it began to burn up. Suit carriers didn't have as awesome protection against heat as civilian jets, so they had to move faster.
Once she got to the main atmosphere of the earth, "pilot 2" had to locate the landing strip in east Germany she was to land at. That was the most difficult part.
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A small training field in former Canada was filled with Oz aries and leos. All practicing maneuvers. The commander stood atop a building, watching over his troop of soldiers.
"Okay!" he said through a huge PA system, "Everyone! Regroup at once!"
Dozens and dozens of aries and leos lined up in an order in front of the commander, ready to receive orders.
"I want all of you to take to the air. Leos! Use your flight packs! Aries, I want you to practices formations and use the leos for obstacles! Now!"
"Sir!" all of the soldiers yelped then headed off into more training.
Aries in circles and triangles, arrows and diamonds filled the skies. While the leos hovered a couple hundred feet up, zipping back and forth, making sure not to hit low flying aries.
Meanwhile....
The dark colored ship shook and rattled as it zipped through the atmospheres faster than the other had. The pilot was stiff as a board once they got through because of the adjust to a lower height and higher gravity. She pulled up an on-screen map and pin pointed her landing strip.
"Four miles east of Hudson Bay. Sounds like a plan." she murmured to herself. The pilot stepped on the accelerator and was off towards former Canada in no time. She had to pull the wings in a bit, then out, then had to flex them up in order to get the perfect resistance to stay at this overwhelming speed.
Two or three minutes later she had reached Texas and decided to slow down a bit, it wouldn't be too much longer until the base showed up screen. The ship slowed down a bit and just cruised at a, still, incredibly fast speed northeast. Vast fields of nothing, dust and grass, spanned for miles and miles. A military base and a few towns zipped by like nothing as she approached the great lakes.
"I better slow down and descend a bit" she said.
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Up ahead a hundred miles or so was the training base. All of the suits were still in flight, high above the ground. The aries were dodging leos, all in a strange formation.
The huge, black plane began to descend and tried the brakes. The ship slowed down a little, but not enough to land.
"What?!? My brakes?" the pilot looked at a red box flashing on a screen to the right. Brake failure. it flashed incessantly
The ship blasted past fields and farms and houses. And the training field was approaching fast.
"Maybe I could do a belly landing in a field" the pilot said calmly. She looked all around for a field to land in, switching camera views to every direction possible. Finally she looked back forwards. The training base was just a mile ahead.
Slowly, the Oz soldiers began noticing the oncoming ship and reported to their commander.
"What?" he looked at a computer screen that was focused on the ship.
"What is that? It can't be what I think it is.... that mobile suit self detonated!"
Before anyone could do hardly a thing, including the pilot of the speeding ship, the ship crashed through the base. Aries and leos were exploding violently everywhere. Pieces of arms and legs and people were all over the ground.
"Aaaaeeeeehhh!!!" the pilot screamed as she hit a mountain side intensely. Dirt and dust and plants flew every way imaginable. But the machine was hardly harmed, except for a bent wing. The pilot lay on the screens, almost lifeless.
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The huge suit carrier slowed down and descended and got ready to land at a huge pavement area near a hangar. As she lowered the ship, a little green jeep zipped over near where she was landing. Huge gusts of wind spread along the ground from under the ship, rocking the jeep. As the huge wheels of the ship hit the khaki cement the gusts went away and a ladder fell from the the door to the ground.
The pilot whipped the helmet off and tossed it onto the floor as she stood up to get out. Her semi- crimpy dusty blonde hair bounced a bit as it fell out of the helmet. She tugged at the collar of the brown space suit a few times before she got outside. Those things can get hot!
"Hey! Are you from the colonies!?" the guy in the jeep hollered up to the girl.
"Yeah! Are you the mechanic from the colonies?!" she yelled back.
"Sure am!" he replied. When she got down, he jumped out of the jeep and walked over to the young girl. "My name is Strichter and I'll refuel and fix up your carrier and mobile suit for ya'!"
"My name is Shanell. Please do fix it up. On the way here, my mobile suit's camouflage went out. I was using it for the whole carrier, I think I blew a fuse or something."
"Yeah, you over loaded it. But that's okay, your suit's creator sent me the info on the features. We'll have it done in no time." Strichter replied.
He pulled a little phone out of his pocket and ordered several men to come and begin work on the suit and craft. "Feel free to help out, if you're paranoid of people touching' your suit. Or you could go inside. There's a break room through that yellow door."
"Okay. I think I'll go rest. Thank you so much." Shanell said before heading towards the building. She looked inside the hangar before going into the room. There were two other mobile suits inside being refueled and reloaded. And another carrier.
When she went to reach for the doorknob she heard people talking inside of the room. They were talking about the suits she saw. Shanell turned the knob and the the talking stopped. As she opened the door, two boys were inside and looked at her.
"Oh! I am sorry, were you busy?" Shanell managed to say.
The one on the right just gave her a glare and looked back to the Television. His blue eyes were so kind yet he looked so evil at the moment. His long, sorrel braided hair made him look sweet, though. Next to him sat a boy about the same age. He had kind, blue eyes, too and short blonde hair. He looked like he was very kind boy, more than the other.
"No, not at all!" the blonde one said. "Please, come in if you like"
Shanell shut the door behind her and smiled a little at the two and immediately sat in a comfy-chair in the corner across from the two. She looked back and forth between the two and the TV.
"You don't have to be nervous! We won't bite." the blonde one said, noticing how Shanell was in the far corner.
"I will..." the long haired one said as he looked at her in the corner of his eye.
"Oh, it's not that." Shanell said jumpily "I... just... like corners! Yeah..."
"Well then, okay! I guess you'll be safe from being bitten then!" the longhaired one replied.
Both of the boys laughed a little, but it wasn't funny enough to remember.
They all sat silently with the TV on the news. They were reporting the weather in German. The long haired kid was listening intently, but Shanell doubted if he knew what they were saying. Maybe he was learning. She looked back out the window and watched the mechanics fix the camouflage mechanism.
"Is that yours?" the blonde kid snuck up behind Shanell and watched with her. Actually, he was trying to watch another suit and she didn't notice him there.
"Huh?!" Shanell almost jumped out of the chair "Oh... yes. It is." She watched him and her suit for a while "Is one of those yours?" she pointed to the other two.
"Yeah. The tall one, with the feathered shoulders." he said, pointing it out. "The one with the beam scythe? That's Duo's."
"Duo? Is that him?" Shanell referred to the long haired boy. He heard his name and looked over at the two.
"What?" Duo, as it seemed, asked.
"Okay... so that is yours" she looked at the third mobile suit over.
"Here, my name is Quatre Raberba Winner. I'll just give you that useless information." the blonde kid turned towards Shanell.
"Useless? " Shanell asked.
"Well, we might never meet again" Quatre explained.
"In that case, I'll give you some useless information. My name is Shanell" she put her hand out to shake Quatre's and so did he.
"Hey, Quatre. Can you tell if they're almost done?" Duo asked as he turned off the TV.
"No, why?" Quatre asked walking over to the counter near Shanell.
"Just wondering'" Duo put his feet up on the coffee table and relaxed. Shanell watched the two and her suit. Duo. Quatre. And her mobile suit.
Suddenly, the door burst open and Strichter stood in the doorway with a terrified face. Beads of sweat ran down his frantic face and neck.
"What's the matter?" Quatre asked quickly.
"Someone's attacking the hangar!" Strichter said as the first bomb went off outside, hitting Shanell's carrier straight on "I-I think it's Oz!"
The three looked at each other and Strichter. Shanell jumped up.
"Is the camouflage fixed?" she demanded.
"Yeah, I think" Strichter replied as Shanell pushed him aside and began running towards the brightly colored suit, towering over the room.
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The pilot of the crashed ship lifted her arm and slammed her fist on a huge green button, making a huge door open in front of her. The seat belts unsnapped and she fell to the soft grass bellow. She just lay there for a few seconds before she grabbed her helmet and launched it off to the side. Random brown hairs clung to her face and other stood up from the static. She kept her eyes closed and tried to catch her breath. When she opened her eyes slightly all she saw was a huge dark mass above her. The morning sun reflected off the silver and hit her eyes. The two half seat belts dangled aimlessly above her head as if they were to fall and klonk her on the head. An endless beeping started from the machine above her. Lights began to blink and she slammed her hands over her ears.
"Uh... no... stop beeping..." she managed to piece together a sentence. the girl stood up and wobbled around a bit with her hands still plastered to her ears. She removed her hands and walked drunkenly over to the tip of the ship. She began climbing up the long metal, hollow cylinder at the front of the ship. She managed to get up and on top the the main body of the ship pretty easily. There, the beeping was loudest and she had a hard time concentrating on finding what she was looking for.
There, on the center top, was a huge square hole. Inside was a cylindrical tube with a lever inside. It went about 3 feet down. The girl reached her arm down the hole, attempting to hit the button but the beeping and flashing were throwing her off. Finally, she grabbed a tree branch that was laying near the hole and poked the lever off. The beeping faded and the blinking ceased. The girl laid down near the hole with the branch sticking out and closed her eyes. The ominous gray clouds above her circled around the mountain range near the crash site. A cool breeze blew by, carrying little water droplets with it and hit her face.
The girl sat up after a while and headed around to the entrance to the ship. She quickly jumped over and onto a control panel. She grabbed the control stick and attempted to pull the ship upright-- crashed onto it's side. A metallic screeching sound surrounded the area as the ship slowly flipped itself over using the broken wing.
"Now what?" she asked no one as she sat in the cock pit chair "I can't fix that wing... HELP?"
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Shanell grabbed onto the ladder that lead up to the mobile suit's cockpit and climbed up. She opened the huge doors and jumped into the seat. She tapped a dozen buttons and the doors shut, the screens lit up and the engines roared on.
"Whats making that sound?" said an aries pilot outside the closed hangar doors. Quatre and Duo both raced outside to see if they could access their suits. They were at the far end and the hangar doors were going to break soon.
"Let's go.." Shanell said to herself as she began to walk the machine towards the doors. The huge gray right hand of the machine went over and hit a panel below the door. The suit became invisible instantly.
Quatre, Duo, and Strichter tried to watch her but the suit was completely invisible.
"I hope... I hope she wins because we can't help" Quatre searched for any sign of Shanell as were the other two. Duo had caught on to her. The camouflage mechanism was giving a little so he watched her walk towards the doors.
Outside, the aries suits were ramming into the unbreakable door, trying to free a little spot to pry open. Suddenly a huge dent came out of the door, towards the aries.
"What the hell?" one pilot shouted.
Another dent near the first appeared and the two dents were being pounded more. One of the dents broke a little and the aries pilots zipped up to it and began firing into the hole. Shanell barely felt the hits. She backed up a little and raised a huge lazer gun. She fired it and a huge neon green light flew out the hole, melting it bigger, and hit 3 of the aries practically dissolving them. She began to melt the door more with the gun and soon enough she could just rip it with the huge arms on the invisible mobile suit.
"What's doing that? I don't see anything" another Oz soldier yelled.
All of the aries began firing towards the hole and the bullets bounced back. They were hitting something stronger than their weaponry.
"Time to die, now, Oz!" Shanell said through the PA on her suit. The aries pilots searched around for whoever was talking but no one was there.
Shanell hit the thrusters and she went flying towards the aries and hit 5 or 6 of them, knocking them to the ground. She fired her lazer gun once more, blasting all the the falling ones, before all the energy was gone. She dropped the gun and it appeared on the ground. The remaining soldiers saw it laying there. Empty.
"Who dropped that?"
"There must be a troop of enemies in there and a few planes in the sky"
"No! That gun just fell from not to high!" a few Oz pilots said to each other.
The huge invisible machine ran towards the aries and flew up into the air. She landing right on top of an aries, squashing it and part of another flat. The explosion below her hit the camouflage panel, knocking it loose. She appeared in front of the soldiers.
"Is that a... Gundam?" one soldier said. Shanell realized that she was visible and began firing at the remaining soldier with the two tiny vulcan cannons on the head of her mobile suit.
"Yeah!! I think it is! But, I've never seen it before!!?!" another pilot replied. He pulled up a line to their base. "Sir! There's a possible Gundam attack here--" he was hit the the little cannons before the transmission could end.
Now, just one suit remained. It began to flee away to safety, thinking Shanell wouldn't see him.
"Oh no you don't!" Shanell hit the thrusters and shot down the final aries midair. Buy that time Strichter, Quatre, and Duo were in the hole Shanell had carved watching her battle. They were all wide eyed.
"Wow." Duo said in an amazed voice. Shanell landed near them and opened the door. She lowered herself down on a rope with a wide peg at the end.
"That was amazing, Shanell!" Quatre said as the 3 of them walked over to her.
"Thanks... Oh, Strichter, sorry about the door." she said.
"That's okay. I mean, after all, you saved my shop, and these two's mobile suits." Strichter replied.
Strichter finished fixing Shanell's suit by dark and she got a new carrier. Good-byes were said and she was off into the night, off to find where her first real mission would soon be.
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Meanwhile, the other pilot still lay in her machine.
"Well, I didn't think it would come to this" she said. The girl hit a panel in the cockpit and the ship started turning and moving. Four appendages unfolded and a head-like object turned and shifted forward. The wings attempted to fold in a little as the huge hollow cylinder snapped into a tunnel in the back. Two other cylinders emerged near what seemed to be shoulders.
A mobile suit.
The pilot stood the suit up and struggled to get it properly walking. She walked it off into the mountains, deep deep into the mountains so no civilian would find her before she could fix the wing and get it flying again.
Little did she know that, behind on the crash site, lay a green covered book with the words Phillipa Khushrenada engraved in gold on the cover. It lay open, face down in the grass with a few pages ripped out. One, which was facing up, contained a picture of a large group of people and the pilot to the far right. Below was the caption
My Family - After Colony 185
~~* Review *~~
Sha's, Cha's or even mine! ^-^ SO don't sew me! Haha.... ha... sue.
~~* Prelude *~~ It is the year 195. The 5 gundams have already landed on earth and are attacking Oz facilities all around the world.
The Five Pilots
Heero Yuy has recently self detonated after a battle against Zechs Merquise and is under the care of Trowa Barton.
Duo Maxwell and Quatre R Winner are flying away from a midnight battle against Oz with the Maganac corps., headed for space.
Trowa Barton is still traveling around the world with his traveling circus, awaiting a new order while Catherine takes the most time watching over Heero.
Cheng Wufei is in his beloved homeland of China, fighting battles as usual.
Now begins our tale....
~~* ~~~* ~~* Episode 11: The Landing of a Beginning *~~ *~~~ *~~
A huge realm of nothing-- black skies dotted with little shimmering stars. Outer space. A space ship like craft flies at an alarming speed towards earth, leaving a red streak across the sky. From there, the earth is nothing but a shinning green, blue, and white sphere hanging like a marionette.
"I'm almost to earth, finally" said the ship's pilot, in a deep female voice.
Suddenly, a huge burst of speed and wind zips past the ship, shaking it furiously back and forth. But there was nothing but a sparkling blue streak also heading towards the earth.
"What the--?!" the pilot shouted. She pushed a button and two screens came up. A radar and a heat censor. "Nothing on radar? But, there's something... on the heat... censor."
She looked around but there was nothing. Even the blue trail was gone.
Just a comet, she thought, a wandering comet...
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Far ahead was another ship, the invisible burst. It was heading to earth, too.
"Ha! Betcha didn't see that one coming!" the pilot snickered, looking at an image of the other ship on a screen.
The invisible ship started to enter the earth's atmosphere. The pressure and gravitational pull were immense! The pilot was struggling to stay upright in the cockpit. Soon enough, as the ship entered the second highest atmosphere, red seams began growing on the ship. The invisible protection started cracking and, eventually, disappeared. A huge space-plane appeared. A suit carrier.
"Oh, no! My camouflage! What happened?!" the pilot looked at various data boxes that popped up on screens when she touched buttons.
Following not to far behind was the other ship. As it approached the farthest atmosphere, two huge wings emerged from the sides. They moved a bit until the ship was balanced perfectly. The pilot pulled the control stick all the way forward and the ship began to nose-dive towards the earth. It began to gradually speed up. The heat of the sun and the ozone combined began to heat up the nose oft he craft, turning it bright red.
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Miles and miles away, the second ship was almost completely through the atmospheres. Gently, it glided at an angle towards former Europe. The whole ship was hot from the sun and needed to hurry and get out of the atmospheres to cool off before it began to burn up. Suit carriers didn't have as awesome protection against heat as civilian jets, so they had to move faster.
Once she got to the main atmosphere of the earth, "pilot 2" had to locate the landing strip in east Germany she was to land at. That was the most difficult part.
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A small training field in former Canada was filled with Oz aries and leos. All practicing maneuvers. The commander stood atop a building, watching over his troop of soldiers.
"Okay!" he said through a huge PA system, "Everyone! Regroup at once!"
Dozens and dozens of aries and leos lined up in an order in front of the commander, ready to receive orders.
"I want all of you to take to the air. Leos! Use your flight packs! Aries, I want you to practices formations and use the leos for obstacles! Now!"
"Sir!" all of the soldiers yelped then headed off into more training.
Aries in circles and triangles, arrows and diamonds filled the skies. While the leos hovered a couple hundred feet up, zipping back and forth, making sure not to hit low flying aries.
Meanwhile....
The dark colored ship shook and rattled as it zipped through the atmospheres faster than the other had. The pilot was stiff as a board once they got through because of the adjust to a lower height and higher gravity. She pulled up an on-screen map and pin pointed her landing strip.
"Four miles east of Hudson Bay. Sounds like a plan." she murmured to herself. The pilot stepped on the accelerator and was off towards former Canada in no time. She had to pull the wings in a bit, then out, then had to flex them up in order to get the perfect resistance to stay at this overwhelming speed.
Two or three minutes later she had reached Texas and decided to slow down a bit, it wouldn't be too much longer until the base showed up screen. The ship slowed down a bit and just cruised at a, still, incredibly fast speed northeast. Vast fields of nothing, dust and grass, spanned for miles and miles. A military base and a few towns zipped by like nothing as she approached the great lakes.
"I better slow down and descend a bit" she said.
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Up ahead a hundred miles or so was the training base. All of the suits were still in flight, high above the ground. The aries were dodging leos, all in a strange formation.
The huge, black plane began to descend and tried the brakes. The ship slowed down a little, but not enough to land.
"What?!? My brakes?" the pilot looked at a red box flashing on a screen to the right. Brake failure. it flashed incessantly
The ship blasted past fields and farms and houses. And the training field was approaching fast.
"Maybe I could do a belly landing in a field" the pilot said calmly. She looked all around for a field to land in, switching camera views to every direction possible. Finally she looked back forwards. The training base was just a mile ahead.
Slowly, the Oz soldiers began noticing the oncoming ship and reported to their commander.
"What?" he looked at a computer screen that was focused on the ship.
"What is that? It can't be what I think it is.... that mobile suit self detonated!"
Before anyone could do hardly a thing, including the pilot of the speeding ship, the ship crashed through the base. Aries and leos were exploding violently everywhere. Pieces of arms and legs and people were all over the ground.
"Aaaaeeeeehhh!!!" the pilot screamed as she hit a mountain side intensely. Dirt and dust and plants flew every way imaginable. But the machine was hardly harmed, except for a bent wing. The pilot lay on the screens, almost lifeless.
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The huge suit carrier slowed down and descended and got ready to land at a huge pavement area near a hangar. As she lowered the ship, a little green jeep zipped over near where she was landing. Huge gusts of wind spread along the ground from under the ship, rocking the jeep. As the huge wheels of the ship hit the khaki cement the gusts went away and a ladder fell from the the door to the ground.
The pilot whipped the helmet off and tossed it onto the floor as she stood up to get out. Her semi- crimpy dusty blonde hair bounced a bit as it fell out of the helmet. She tugged at the collar of the brown space suit a few times before she got outside. Those things can get hot!
"Hey! Are you from the colonies!?" the guy in the jeep hollered up to the girl.
"Yeah! Are you the mechanic from the colonies?!" she yelled back.
"Sure am!" he replied. When she got down, he jumped out of the jeep and walked over to the young girl. "My name is Strichter and I'll refuel and fix up your carrier and mobile suit for ya'!"
"My name is Shanell. Please do fix it up. On the way here, my mobile suit's camouflage went out. I was using it for the whole carrier, I think I blew a fuse or something."
"Yeah, you over loaded it. But that's okay, your suit's creator sent me the info on the features. We'll have it done in no time." Strichter replied.
He pulled a little phone out of his pocket and ordered several men to come and begin work on the suit and craft. "Feel free to help out, if you're paranoid of people touching' your suit. Or you could go inside. There's a break room through that yellow door."
"Okay. I think I'll go rest. Thank you so much." Shanell said before heading towards the building. She looked inside the hangar before going into the room. There were two other mobile suits inside being refueled and reloaded. And another carrier.
When she went to reach for the doorknob she heard people talking inside of the room. They were talking about the suits she saw. Shanell turned the knob and the the talking stopped. As she opened the door, two boys were inside and looked at her.
"Oh! I am sorry, were you busy?" Shanell managed to say.
The one on the right just gave her a glare and looked back to the Television. His blue eyes were so kind yet he looked so evil at the moment. His long, sorrel braided hair made him look sweet, though. Next to him sat a boy about the same age. He had kind, blue eyes, too and short blonde hair. He looked like he was very kind boy, more than the other.
"No, not at all!" the blonde one said. "Please, come in if you like"
Shanell shut the door behind her and smiled a little at the two and immediately sat in a comfy-chair in the corner across from the two. She looked back and forth between the two and the TV.
"You don't have to be nervous! We won't bite." the blonde one said, noticing how Shanell was in the far corner.
"I will..." the long haired one said as he looked at her in the corner of his eye.
"Oh, it's not that." Shanell said jumpily "I... just... like corners! Yeah..."
"Well then, okay! I guess you'll be safe from being bitten then!" the longhaired one replied.
Both of the boys laughed a little, but it wasn't funny enough to remember.
They all sat silently with the TV on the news. They were reporting the weather in German. The long haired kid was listening intently, but Shanell doubted if he knew what they were saying. Maybe he was learning. She looked back out the window and watched the mechanics fix the camouflage mechanism.
"Is that yours?" the blonde kid snuck up behind Shanell and watched with her. Actually, he was trying to watch another suit and she didn't notice him there.
"Huh?!" Shanell almost jumped out of the chair "Oh... yes. It is." She watched him and her suit for a while "Is one of those yours?" she pointed to the other two.
"Yeah. The tall one, with the feathered shoulders." he said, pointing it out. "The one with the beam scythe? That's Duo's."
"Duo? Is that him?" Shanell referred to the long haired boy. He heard his name and looked over at the two.
"What?" Duo, as it seemed, asked.
"Okay... so that is yours" she looked at the third mobile suit over.
"Here, my name is Quatre Raberba Winner. I'll just give you that useless information." the blonde kid turned towards Shanell.
"Useless? " Shanell asked.
"Well, we might never meet again" Quatre explained.
"In that case, I'll give you some useless information. My name is Shanell" she put her hand out to shake Quatre's and so did he.
"Hey, Quatre. Can you tell if they're almost done?" Duo asked as he turned off the TV.
"No, why?" Quatre asked walking over to the counter near Shanell.
"Just wondering'" Duo put his feet up on the coffee table and relaxed. Shanell watched the two and her suit. Duo. Quatre. And her mobile suit.
Suddenly, the door burst open and Strichter stood in the doorway with a terrified face. Beads of sweat ran down his frantic face and neck.
"What's the matter?" Quatre asked quickly.
"Someone's attacking the hangar!" Strichter said as the first bomb went off outside, hitting Shanell's carrier straight on "I-I think it's Oz!"
The three looked at each other and Strichter. Shanell jumped up.
"Is the camouflage fixed?" she demanded.
"Yeah, I think" Strichter replied as Shanell pushed him aside and began running towards the brightly colored suit, towering over the room.
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The pilot of the crashed ship lifted her arm and slammed her fist on a huge green button, making a huge door open in front of her. The seat belts unsnapped and she fell to the soft grass bellow. She just lay there for a few seconds before she grabbed her helmet and launched it off to the side. Random brown hairs clung to her face and other stood up from the static. She kept her eyes closed and tried to catch her breath. When she opened her eyes slightly all she saw was a huge dark mass above her. The morning sun reflected off the silver and hit her eyes. The two half seat belts dangled aimlessly above her head as if they were to fall and klonk her on the head. An endless beeping started from the machine above her. Lights began to blink and she slammed her hands over her ears.
"Uh... no... stop beeping..." she managed to piece together a sentence. the girl stood up and wobbled around a bit with her hands still plastered to her ears. She removed her hands and walked drunkenly over to the tip of the ship. She began climbing up the long metal, hollow cylinder at the front of the ship. She managed to get up and on top the the main body of the ship pretty easily. There, the beeping was loudest and she had a hard time concentrating on finding what she was looking for.
There, on the center top, was a huge square hole. Inside was a cylindrical tube with a lever inside. It went about 3 feet down. The girl reached her arm down the hole, attempting to hit the button but the beeping and flashing were throwing her off. Finally, she grabbed a tree branch that was laying near the hole and poked the lever off. The beeping faded and the blinking ceased. The girl laid down near the hole with the branch sticking out and closed her eyes. The ominous gray clouds above her circled around the mountain range near the crash site. A cool breeze blew by, carrying little water droplets with it and hit her face.
The girl sat up after a while and headed around to the entrance to the ship. She quickly jumped over and onto a control panel. She grabbed the control stick and attempted to pull the ship upright-- crashed onto it's side. A metallic screeching sound surrounded the area as the ship slowly flipped itself over using the broken wing.
"Now what?" she asked no one as she sat in the cock pit chair "I can't fix that wing... HELP?"
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Shanell grabbed onto the ladder that lead up to the mobile suit's cockpit and climbed up. She opened the huge doors and jumped into the seat. She tapped a dozen buttons and the doors shut, the screens lit up and the engines roared on.
"Whats making that sound?" said an aries pilot outside the closed hangar doors. Quatre and Duo both raced outside to see if they could access their suits. They were at the far end and the hangar doors were going to break soon.
"Let's go.." Shanell said to herself as she began to walk the machine towards the doors. The huge gray right hand of the machine went over and hit a panel below the door. The suit became invisible instantly.
Quatre, Duo, and Strichter tried to watch her but the suit was completely invisible.
"I hope... I hope she wins because we can't help" Quatre searched for any sign of Shanell as were the other two. Duo had caught on to her. The camouflage mechanism was giving a little so he watched her walk towards the doors.
Outside, the aries suits were ramming into the unbreakable door, trying to free a little spot to pry open. Suddenly a huge dent came out of the door, towards the aries.
"What the hell?" one pilot shouted.
Another dent near the first appeared and the two dents were being pounded more. One of the dents broke a little and the aries pilots zipped up to it and began firing into the hole. Shanell barely felt the hits. She backed up a little and raised a huge lazer gun. She fired it and a huge neon green light flew out the hole, melting it bigger, and hit 3 of the aries practically dissolving them. She began to melt the door more with the gun and soon enough she could just rip it with the huge arms on the invisible mobile suit.
"What's doing that? I don't see anything" another Oz soldier yelled.
All of the aries began firing towards the hole and the bullets bounced back. They were hitting something stronger than their weaponry.
"Time to die, now, Oz!" Shanell said through the PA on her suit. The aries pilots searched around for whoever was talking but no one was there.
Shanell hit the thrusters and she went flying towards the aries and hit 5 or 6 of them, knocking them to the ground. She fired her lazer gun once more, blasting all the the falling ones, before all the energy was gone. She dropped the gun and it appeared on the ground. The remaining soldiers saw it laying there. Empty.
"Who dropped that?"
"There must be a troop of enemies in there and a few planes in the sky"
"No! That gun just fell from not to high!" a few Oz pilots said to each other.
The huge invisible machine ran towards the aries and flew up into the air. She landing right on top of an aries, squashing it and part of another flat. The explosion below her hit the camouflage panel, knocking it loose. She appeared in front of the soldiers.
"Is that a... Gundam?" one soldier said. Shanell realized that she was visible and began firing at the remaining soldier with the two tiny vulcan cannons on the head of her mobile suit.
"Yeah!! I think it is! But, I've never seen it before!!?!" another pilot replied. He pulled up a line to their base. "Sir! There's a possible Gundam attack here--" he was hit the the little cannons before the transmission could end.
Now, just one suit remained. It began to flee away to safety, thinking Shanell wouldn't see him.
"Oh no you don't!" Shanell hit the thrusters and shot down the final aries midair. Buy that time Strichter, Quatre, and Duo were in the hole Shanell had carved watching her battle. They were all wide eyed.
"Wow." Duo said in an amazed voice. Shanell landed near them and opened the door. She lowered herself down on a rope with a wide peg at the end.
"That was amazing, Shanell!" Quatre said as the 3 of them walked over to her.
"Thanks... Oh, Strichter, sorry about the door." she said.
"That's okay. I mean, after all, you saved my shop, and these two's mobile suits." Strichter replied.
Strichter finished fixing Shanell's suit by dark and she got a new carrier. Good-byes were said and she was off into the night, off to find where her first real mission would soon be.
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Meanwhile, the other pilot still lay in her machine.
"Well, I didn't think it would come to this" she said. The girl hit a panel in the cockpit and the ship started turning and moving. Four appendages unfolded and a head-like object turned and shifted forward. The wings attempted to fold in a little as the huge hollow cylinder snapped into a tunnel in the back. Two other cylinders emerged near what seemed to be shoulders.
A mobile suit.
The pilot stood the suit up and struggled to get it properly walking. She walked it off into the mountains, deep deep into the mountains so no civilian would find her before she could fix the wing and get it flying again.
Little did she know that, behind on the crash site, lay a green covered book with the words Phillipa Khushrenada engraved in gold on the cover. It lay open, face down in the grass with a few pages ripped out. One, which was facing up, contained a picture of a large group of people and the pilot to the far right. Below was the caption
My Family - After Colony 185
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