Running quickly toward the mobile suit hangar, Raz thought about what he had just seen. "Why? Why is she doing this?", he wondered plaintively to himself. If Raz had waited a little longer, he would have seen Lilly sink her teeth into her dancing partner's neck instead of what he presumed was going to be a kiss. Raz made it into the chain-link fence enclosed section of the compound, making his way toward Hangar 2-B, the one containing his gundam, a newly rebuilt DeathScythe Hell. Wiping tears from his eyes, he entered the building, pausing right in front of the gundam. He admired the job the crew had done on it. When he had found it, one of the wings was missing, the boosters were malfunctioning, and the beamscythe was nowhere to be found. The suit he saw before him looked just like the one in the old pictures back from the year A.C. 195, just like the one Duo Maxwell used to pilot. "Wow", he exclaimed. "I never thought I'd see it like this." He noted the beamscythe as well. "Amazing what they can recreate. Damn...."
Raz stepped toward the gundam, looking for a way to get up to the hatch. He didn't have to look, as the gundam kneeled down automatically and placed its left hand on the floor, allowing him to climb up and be lifted to the hatch. "I think its time for a test-run" Raz laughed to himself.
Lilly knew it was Raz that she saw running away, toward the hangar area. She knew that he had seen her dancing with that Lieutenant and felt that it was time to come clean with him and tell him what was really going on.
"I hope he's not going off to do something stupid again" she muttered. Her concern for him surprised her, as she had never worried over someone as much, nor loved someone even. "Knowing him, he probably won't believe what I have to say, but I've got to try." She ran at a superhuman pace, the remains of her meal still dripping from her lower lip, as she'd immediately ran after Raz, upon finishing her kill. She noted the fact that she hadn't stopped to clean herself off and remembered to bring that up to Raz when she told him everything. "He'd better appreciate this, dammit." Arriving at the chain link fence entrance, she noticed a light coming from Hangar 2-B. "He's gotta be in there" she assumed and ran over to the open entryway. She got there in time to see Raz settling into the cockpit of a large, black and gold mobile suit.
"Raz!!!! What are you doing up there??!" she yelled to him, worried sick that he was going to get himself killed. "What do you care?!?!" he angrily shouted down to her. "Did you care when you were with your little friend?!" Lilly was so hurt by this, that she couldn't form a response. She tried to get out: "But....but I...."
Raz looked down at her angrily. "I thought not" he said matter-of-factly before closing the hatch. All Lilly could do was step back as DeathScythe stood up and began to walk out of the hangar. After watching the gundam walk to the middle of the row of hangars and seeing it open its wings and start its boosters as if to fly, Lilly tried shouting:"Raz, I........". But, her words fell on deaf ears as the gundam flew away and into the sky. "I.....I love you." A wave of sadness hitting her, Lilly collapsed on the ground, feeling more alone than ever, and began to sob.
"I won't go on living like a coward", Raz whispered to himself. Odd, he thought, that the cockpit felt so comfortable. The controls came easy to him, as he flew over the base and toward the desert, banking and twisting in the air, thrilled that he actually hadn't wrecked the gundam yet. "I've never adapted this quickly before. Weird." As he flew, Raz thought back to when this all started, when all the confusion began. This is where our story truly begins.
Raz stepped toward the gundam, looking for a way to get up to the hatch. He didn't have to look, as the gundam kneeled down automatically and placed its left hand on the floor, allowing him to climb up and be lifted to the hatch. "I think its time for a test-run" Raz laughed to himself.
Lilly knew it was Raz that she saw running away, toward the hangar area. She knew that he had seen her dancing with that Lieutenant and felt that it was time to come clean with him and tell him what was really going on.
"I hope he's not going off to do something stupid again" she muttered. Her concern for him surprised her, as she had never worried over someone as much, nor loved someone even. "Knowing him, he probably won't believe what I have to say, but I've got to try." She ran at a superhuman pace, the remains of her meal still dripping from her lower lip, as she'd immediately ran after Raz, upon finishing her kill. She noted the fact that she hadn't stopped to clean herself off and remembered to bring that up to Raz when she told him everything. "He'd better appreciate this, dammit." Arriving at the chain link fence entrance, she noticed a light coming from Hangar 2-B. "He's gotta be in there" she assumed and ran over to the open entryway. She got there in time to see Raz settling into the cockpit of a large, black and gold mobile suit.
"Raz!!!! What are you doing up there??!" she yelled to him, worried sick that he was going to get himself killed. "What do you care?!?!" he angrily shouted down to her. "Did you care when you were with your little friend?!" Lilly was so hurt by this, that she couldn't form a response. She tried to get out: "But....but I...."
Raz looked down at her angrily. "I thought not" he said matter-of-factly before closing the hatch. All Lilly could do was step back as DeathScythe stood up and began to walk out of the hangar. After watching the gundam walk to the middle of the row of hangars and seeing it open its wings and start its boosters as if to fly, Lilly tried shouting:"Raz, I........". But, her words fell on deaf ears as the gundam flew away and into the sky. "I.....I love you." A wave of sadness hitting her, Lilly collapsed on the ground, feeling more alone than ever, and began to sob.
"I won't go on living like a coward", Raz whispered to himself. Odd, he thought, that the cockpit felt so comfortable. The controls came easy to him, as he flew over the base and toward the desert, banking and twisting in the air, thrilled that he actually hadn't wrecked the gundam yet. "I've never adapted this quickly before. Weird." As he flew, Raz thought back to when this all started, when all the confusion began. This is where our story truly begins.