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Author's Notes: I had help from Turles with this Episode Zero fic. I'd thanked him for his help.
Gundam Wing: Zone of the Enders: Episode Zero
"Someone once said that we all have our beginnings, an episode zero that I think it's called. How many of you have your own episode zero?"
Chapter 1: Kamui Hyuga
The year is After Colony 182. The OZ organization, under the command of the Romafeller Foundation has been using its high-level military weapons called Mobile Suits to exert its control over the surrounding Space Colonies that had established themselves in the deepest reaches of the solar system. Calling themselves the United Earth Sphere Alliance, the colonies are subjected to a forced peace through a force of arms.
The colony citizens once part of the Earth had fled to space to escape the wars on Earth. This gave way to them being pacifists, thus they had no way to defend themselves against the U.E.S.A. In the year A.C. 175 there was one man who was the voice of all the colonies, his name was Heero Yuy. Unfortunately in that same year he was assassinated and this sent the colonies into chaos which is why they gave up so easily to the U.E.S.A. Yet, there was another side to this, on Earth there was a counterpart to Heero Yuy's philosophy of pacifism, the leader of the Sank Kingdom and head of the Peacecraft family, King Peacecraft.
The Sank Kingdom; A.C. 182
Kamui Hyuga scampered along the grassy hills of the garden outside the palace. From his young eyes he could see the vastness of the garden with all of its flowers, hedges trimmed to different shapes and colours that were like a kaleidoscope. He took in a deep breath and smelled the air brushing in from the sea off the shores of the Sank Kingdom. He turned sharply around and looked down to see the Peacecraft siblings trying to catch up to him.
There was the young blonde Miliardo Peacecraft smiling up at Kamui without a care in the world. Trailing being him was his younger sister, Relena.
"Come on you two!" Kamui called, "You'll miss the view!"
"Coming!" Miliardo called
As the two ran up the hill Kamui looked towards the mansion and from the distance he could see his father, Liu Hyuga, Dr. T, and King Peacecraft himself all having tea. What they were talking about Kamui didn't comprehend being the age he is. Yet, he didn't have a care in the world, not knowing of the evils that were brewing across the Earth Sphere. He continued to play with the Peacecraft siblings while there was a frank discussion back at the mansion.
"But, your majesty." Liu pleaded
"I gave you my answer, Liu Hyuga" King Peacecraft stated, "my answer is no. We must not allow ourselves to possess weapons, especially these new ones called Mobile Suits. Another thing, why would the Alliance attack us? We are of no threat to them?"
King Peacecraft was a very old man with a main of white hair and a grey beard reaching down to his chest. He looked across the table at his close friends as well as members of the Peacecraft guard.
Beside King Peacecraft was the butler Pargan, who looked past his shaggy eyebrows at the concerned faces of those sitting around his majesty. There was the chief knight of the Sank Kingdom, Liu Hyuga. A young masculine man with his hair spiked up away from his skull and looking with kind brown earnest eyes. Beside Liu was the scientist, Dr. T, a young woman with wire framed glasses and carefully combed hair into a bun at the back of her head. Both Liu and Dr. T seemed so worried that they could rub a worry stone to dust in minutes.
"It's not us that's a threat, your majesty." Liu Explained, "it's the ideals we uphold, that is what's a threat to the Alliance. Anything that doesn't agree with them they must neutralise. That's why I plead with you, let us build mobile suits to defend against the Alliance when they attack. Let us have a fighting chance before everything we hold dear is destroyed."
"That's enough!" King Peacecraft asserted, "I won't do that, it will betray everything that this family has held dear. You've heard my answer Liu Hyuga, Knight of the Sank Kingdom and its final."
***
Alone in his room Liu Hyuga looked out at the sea watching the sun cast speckles across its surface. The view looked like a whole mess of diamonds tossed onto a piece of glass. Liu's eyes looked sad and at the same time frustrated.
"You were both right." Dr. T said from behind Liu. From behind Liu looked like a man who has lost so many battles that he just wants to give up.
"I know that." Liu responded, "I am right and so was he, it's this pacifism that I find annoying. Its so contradicting, he won't lift a finger to defend the Sank Kingdom while at the same time people are dying all around the world because of the Alliance. Pacifism is supposed to hold up the ideal that life is precious. So why isn't he doing anything about the Alliance?"
Liu's voice sounded like he was about to shove his fist through the glass window out of the fit of frustration that he had building up inside. Yet he looked down from his window at the children, the Peacecraft siblings and his son Kamui. How would he explain this to his son that nothing could be done about the worlds suffering because of the ways of pacifism?
"Liu." Dr. T called, "I have a gift for you."
Liu turned around to look at the young beautiful Dr. T.
"Follow me." She said
Liu followed Dr. T, through all the hallways within the mansion of the Sank Kingdom. Until at last the two of them came to a small elevator that lead them down and down further into the ground. Liu had a first hand idea of what it was Dante must have felt like when he made his tour of Hell.
At last the elevator doors opened and Liu was greeted with a sight that he would have never expected after this mornings discussion. He saw rows upon rows of mobile suits, stretched out in front of him. He felt as giddy as a kid in a candy store.
"You did this?" He asked Dr. T,
"Yes, I did." She said, "I knew that King Peacecraft wouldn't approve of it, but I went ahead with it. The Alliance will be coming after us, we must be prepared."
Liu reached around his side and felt his sword. It was a decorative piece. A long blade with a hilt that was double handled and a guard like a fencing foil. All gold and intricately detailed down the last scratch.
"Liu," Dr. T called, "There's something else, this place can be accessed by your sword. I took the letters and made them into a make-shift barcode. These suits are all at your command when the Alliance makes their attack."
"This will be my army against the Alliance." Liu said to himself, "My army, the Grandia Forces."
Just then there was a great crash and a rumbling all around them with flecks of dust coming down on them like rain. Liu knew what was going on, the Alliance was attacking the Sank Kingdom. All of his worst fears were now coming true before him.
"Dr. T." A voice called through the COM, "Enemy mobile suits spotted off shore. We are engaging the enemy."
Liu knew that something had to be done, and when that thought came the only thing that was on his mind was his son, Kamui. He reached for his sword and yanked it away from his belt. He handed it to Dr. T,
"You said that this sword is a key to this place." He restated, "Take this sword and give it to my son. Take my son away from this place, I don't want anything to happen to him."
Dr. T felt the weight of the sword in her arms, "What are you going to do?" She asked
Liu went to the nearest mobile suit, "I'm going to fight the alliance."
Dr. T looked at the sword and back at Liu Hyuga, who was now shouting, "Go, please!"
She dashed into the elevator and frantically pressed the button to go back up. The caught a last glimpse of the proud man as the doors closed.
"Good luck." She said as the elevator went straight up.
Back in the mobile suit garage Liu was making a message to Kamui, "My son," He said sombrely with the ground shaking around him, "If you've received this then I am already dead because of the resistance I had put up against the Alliance. This is my last will and testimony to you, my son. You're probably wondering how you got in here; your sword is what got you here. It is a key as well as a symbol of those of us who still fought even though the good King Peacecraft forbid us to fight. I have only this to give to you, this hangar that you see is the last of our resistance, I bequeath it to you." He thought of the last thing he wanted for his son to do, "Build yourself an army, my son and take back the Kingdom that is yours. I do not know if there are any other survivors of the Peacecraft family, but I do know that you are the only one I know of. This is my dying request of a dying kingdom, rebuild it my son, for the sake of your heritage and me. You're the only hope that's left."
Liu Hyuga glanced at his troops and back over to the battlefield that was no doubt going to cost many lives of the brave young men that stood on either side.
"The scourge of the Alliance is upon us friends!" he announced pointing to the other army of Mobile Suits with his Mobile Suits' hand, "Let us die like heroes, lest we live like slaves tomorrow!"
The soldiers shot nervous glances at one another as their leader continued.
"Ready thy arms!"
Liu raised his mobile suits hand that held a machinegun in the air roaring, "For Sank Kingdom!!"
The troops cheered, and followed their leader into the deadly battle that would decide the fate of the Sank Kingdom.
The Alliance made its attack against the Sank Kingdom as if it were an easy target like shooting at fish in a barrel. That was until Liu Hyuga lead his troops of mobile suits against the alliance. The fight seemed to shift in the balance from the Alliance's side to the side of the Sank Kingdom.
"All units report!" Liu shouted into his COM
"Red Team here, already engaged enemy forces, taking some serious damage."
"Blue Team here, we've taken out most of the enemies Mobile Suits Leos and Tragos, but the Aries Suits are wiping us out clean."
"Green Team here, we're going to show the Alliance soldiers who they should not mess around with."
Liu knew that the fight was against him but he had the determination to fight until his last breath. He made the call to the troops who were already on the ground defending the Sank Kingdom.
"Continue fighting." He called, "I'll join you in a moment."
***
The Alliance was watching the attack on the Sank Kingdom safely away at sea from their aircraft carriers. The leader of this attack was General Diego O'Neil. He watched his forces move in on the Sank Kingdom like watching a strategy video game. He couldn't help but smiling that his forces were so easily taking over the Sank Kingdom. Even with the enemy having mobile suits of their own they still couldn't break through.
That was until a loud beeping was heard from one of the consoles.
"General." The operator called, "Unknown enemy mobile suit approaching at 125 Kph from 12:00. There's a message coming through."
"Let's hear it." The General ordered
They heard a loud rasping voice shouting, "I won't let you take the Sank Kingdom!"
The general saw the mobile suit coming closer and closer towards his carrier but he still stood his ground like a fool facing a storm.
"Just who do you think you are?" General Diego asked
The voice responded instantly, "I am Liu Hyuga, Knight of the Sank Kingdom and Commander of the Grandia forces."
In the rear view screen within Liu's mobile suit he saw the Sank Kingdom begin to burn to the ground. He felt pain in his heart that he and the good King Peacecraft had parted on such bad terms. But in the blazing red fire he saw three pods escape, he only knew who was in one of them, Dr. T, and his son Kamui.
Inside the escape craft, Dr. T piloted it while Kamui Hyuga slept in the seat next to her. He was only sleeping because Dr. T had to sue a gaseous sedative to knock him out. The reason for that was because Kamui was very resistant to come with her because of the attack.
She too looked back at the burning Sank Kingdom, the other two escaping pods. She knew that the last of the Peacecraft family were escaping from the destruction of their homeland. In the rear view screen she too saw the fighting mobile suits that she had built. She knew what she had to do.
She knew a man who called himself Dr. J, a scientist much like herself. She had heard of him designing a mobile suit that was to be called Gundam. She even saw the plans for it and feeling that they might come in handy she copied them. With the plans in her possession her mission was set, build a Gundam.
***
Year A.C. 195
Milliardo Peacecraft lay asleep in the damaged and adrift Epyon. He had been this way for several weeks since Libra was destroyed and the last Great War between Earth and the Colonies had come to an end. However with the Epyon destroyed beyond repair, Milliardo was left with no way to get back to Earth or to call for help. The first few weeks were the hardest since not only would he have to remain in space like this but there was no way to self-destruct either. The only things that would work on this irrepressibly damaged mobile suit were the life supports systems and the radar.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
That noise was the first sound Miliardo had heard in months. He looked out his window and saw what it was that was coming toward him. He saw the object that was coming towards him. It was a Gundam. It had the same features as one that Miliardo had fought several weeks back. That fight still resonated in his mind thinking over and over whether that fight had truly come to an end or not.
He looked out at the Gundam as it came closer expecting it to be of its bright colours, red, yellow, green, blue, and white. When it came closer, he saw that it was black, the only thing that made it even slightly visibly was the brightness of the Earth contrasting against it. He saw something else too; he was dragging something behind it. Miliardo could barely recognise it, but he saw recognisable parts. It was the Tallgeese Mark 2.
"What is that pilot doing?" Miliardo wondered
In a flash Miliardo saw something whip out from the black Gundam. He felt himself being pulled along. He knew that he could always jump out and try to take over the black Gundam. Then he thought that it wouldn't work and he thought of an even better plan. He would simply sit in the damaged cockpit and wait for whoever is saving him to open it and then he would make his attempt to escape. Then again who's to say that this unknown Gundam isn't there to help him?
He waited and waited until the black Gundam came to a place that Miliardo recognised as a resource satellite. His heart raced with anticipation as he waited for the unknown pilot to open the damaged cockpit door. Even with this plan in mind Miliardo couldn't help but wonder that this person was. After all, this pilot did go to the trouble of finding him. Then a puzzling question came up, how would this pilot know if the cockpit were occupied?
CRRRRKK!
Miliardo heard the cockpit door being forced open. This was his opportunity. He unbuckled his harness and waited for whoever was on the other side to open their prize. Slowly the cockpit door began to budge and then in one quick shove it gave way and it opened entirely. Miliardo didn't looked he simply jumped out at whoever was there, the entire world was a blur when he made his attack. The person he jumped on was in his/her space suit with a helmet that seemed robotic like at the best with black eyes.
Then the world began to clear up and Miliardo saw whom it was that he pounced on. He was holding this stranger against the rail almost to the point of where this person was bending over backwards. He heard a loud groan that sounded masculine from this person. Then the first words were spoken.
"Could you please get off of me, Miliardo?" The groaning voice spoke
Miliardo became confused, how did this person know his name? Especially when everyone thought that he was dead? He wanted to know and he wanted it from this unknown pilot.
"How do you know my name?" He snarled.
The unknown pilot reached up to take off his helmet. There was a loud snap and a hiss of air coming from the helmet as the unknown pilot took his/her helmet off. He saw it; it was a boy younger than Miliardo with black hair and large brown eyes. The boy spoke,
"My name is Kamui Hyuga, son of Liu Hyuga knight of the Sank Kingdom."
"You lie." Miliardo hissed
Kamui reached to his side and pulled out his sword. He showed it to Milliardo with its golden hilt and Hebrew letters written down the golden center of the sword.
"Do you know this sword?" He asked, "It belonged to my father and is a symbol for those who are knights of the Sank Kingdom. You really don't remember me do you? When you, Relena and I were children?"
Suddenly within the deepest canyons of Miliardo's mind he could remember something. He remembered a boy that looked like the one he had pounced upon. A grassy hill, his younger sister at his side as well as a boy standing on top of that grassy hill like a king. Miliardo couldn't remember his face but he knew the hair and those eyes. Those kind eyes like those of that boy that lay beneath him.
Miliardo backed away from the boy and took off his own helmet. He allowed his own silver coloured hair to flow out of it as he looked at this boy that was now confirmed as an ally.
"How did you know that I was still alive?" He asked
"I knew that you were a tough pilot, so I had a feeling that you were alive." Kamui smiled as he got back to his feet rubbing his neck and back.
"What do you intend to do with the Epyon and the Tallgeese 2? Both of them are damaged beyond repair."
Kamui stretched his back, "I don't plan to repair them, I plan to combine them."
"Combine them?" Miliardo asked
"Yes, combine the best features of both the Tallgeese Mark 2 and the Epyon into one mobile suit. I have the resources here, how about it Miliardo?"
Miliardo looked behind him at the damaged Epyon and then to his left to see the damaged Tallgeese Mark 2. He felt that this was a great opportunity to combine the best suits that he's ever piloted. He couldn't argue with it.
"Why not?" He asked
***
12 months later; Christmas Eve A.C. 196:
Kamui and Miliardo wiped their hands clean of the oil and dirt from their work. They looked up at the completed mobile suit, the Tallgeese Mark 3. It stood tall over them like a Gundanium giant, with its enormous shield mounted on its left arm with a piece of the Epyon's heat rod peeking out of it. Lying on the ground at its feet was the cannon; an enormous weapon designed to fire a beam equal to that of the Wing Zero. It was completely white like the original Tallgeese but parts of it were blue, like its engines and part of the shield, yet its head was changed. Upon its crown were its spikes that were like those of the Tallgeese Mark 2 and the Epyon.
Both Kamui and Milliardo were proud of what they did along with the help of the Enders, Billy Lee Black, Faye and Vincent Valentine, Viola Nettie, and Dr. T.
"Kamui!" A voice called, "There's a broadcast coming through from some girl named Mariemea, I think it's a declaration of war."
Kamui looked up to the ceiling, "Not another war."
Both he and Miliardo watched the nearest screen as the tyrannical eight- year-old made her statement.
"Attention, people of the Earth Sphere! We at Colony X-18999 seek independence and declare war against the United Earth Sphere World Nation! I am the true heiress to the World Nation, the daughter of Treize Kushrinada. Mariemea Kushrinada!"
Milliardo turned to Kamui, "I need to go to Earth." He said, "I'm going to have to make a call to someone, I need to take the Tallgeese 3."
"It's your mobile suit, Milliardo." Kamui stated, "I simply helped you get it back on its feet."
Miliardo had an idea, over the past few months he's come to know Kamui almost as if they did grow up together. Even with the Sank Kingdom destroyed all those years ago, he still felt that bond with him.
"Why don't you come with me and fight Mariemea along with the Preventers?"
Kamui turned to look at Miliardo with his kind eyes. He shook his head, "I can't" He said, "I wish I could old friend, but this isn't my fight. It's yours Miliardo."
Miliardo smiled, "Thank you for your help Kamui, I must go to Earth, in the name of peace."
He jumped up into the Tallgeese 3 cockpit as Kamui watched him from the floor. He looked up at the Tallgeese 3 and he thought of all that time he spent working with this mobile suit. It reminded him of the days when he and Dr. T were working on the Gundam Gabriel and when they even upgraded it with its Gundanium feathered wings.
"Good luck, Old friend." Kamui spoke softly as he tossed his handkerchief over his shoulder and walked out of the mobile suit bay.
Next time on Episode Zero: Billy Lee Black
Author's Notes: I had help from Turles with this Episode Zero fic. I'd thanked him for his help.
Gundam Wing: Zone of the Enders: Episode Zero
"Someone once said that we all have our beginnings, an episode zero that I think it's called. How many of you have your own episode zero?"
Chapter 1: Kamui Hyuga
The year is After Colony 182. The OZ organization, under the command of the Romafeller Foundation has been using its high-level military weapons called Mobile Suits to exert its control over the surrounding Space Colonies that had established themselves in the deepest reaches of the solar system. Calling themselves the United Earth Sphere Alliance, the colonies are subjected to a forced peace through a force of arms.
The colony citizens once part of the Earth had fled to space to escape the wars on Earth. This gave way to them being pacifists, thus they had no way to defend themselves against the U.E.S.A. In the year A.C. 175 there was one man who was the voice of all the colonies, his name was Heero Yuy. Unfortunately in that same year he was assassinated and this sent the colonies into chaos which is why they gave up so easily to the U.E.S.A. Yet, there was another side to this, on Earth there was a counterpart to Heero Yuy's philosophy of pacifism, the leader of the Sank Kingdom and head of the Peacecraft family, King Peacecraft.
The Sank Kingdom; A.C. 182
Kamui Hyuga scampered along the grassy hills of the garden outside the palace. From his young eyes he could see the vastness of the garden with all of its flowers, hedges trimmed to different shapes and colours that were like a kaleidoscope. He took in a deep breath and smelled the air brushing in from the sea off the shores of the Sank Kingdom. He turned sharply around and looked down to see the Peacecraft siblings trying to catch up to him.
There was the young blonde Miliardo Peacecraft smiling up at Kamui without a care in the world. Trailing being him was his younger sister, Relena.
"Come on you two!" Kamui called, "You'll miss the view!"
"Coming!" Miliardo called
As the two ran up the hill Kamui looked towards the mansion and from the distance he could see his father, Liu Hyuga, Dr. T, and King Peacecraft himself all having tea. What they were talking about Kamui didn't comprehend being the age he is. Yet, he didn't have a care in the world, not knowing of the evils that were brewing across the Earth Sphere. He continued to play with the Peacecraft siblings while there was a frank discussion back at the mansion.
"But, your majesty." Liu pleaded
"I gave you my answer, Liu Hyuga" King Peacecraft stated, "my answer is no. We must not allow ourselves to possess weapons, especially these new ones called Mobile Suits. Another thing, why would the Alliance attack us? We are of no threat to them?"
King Peacecraft was a very old man with a main of white hair and a grey beard reaching down to his chest. He looked across the table at his close friends as well as members of the Peacecraft guard.
Beside King Peacecraft was the butler Pargan, who looked past his shaggy eyebrows at the concerned faces of those sitting around his majesty. There was the chief knight of the Sank Kingdom, Liu Hyuga. A young masculine man with his hair spiked up away from his skull and looking with kind brown earnest eyes. Beside Liu was the scientist, Dr. T, a young woman with wire framed glasses and carefully combed hair into a bun at the back of her head. Both Liu and Dr. T seemed so worried that they could rub a worry stone to dust in minutes.
"It's not us that's a threat, your majesty." Liu Explained, "it's the ideals we uphold, that is what's a threat to the Alliance. Anything that doesn't agree with them they must neutralise. That's why I plead with you, let us build mobile suits to defend against the Alliance when they attack. Let us have a fighting chance before everything we hold dear is destroyed."
"That's enough!" King Peacecraft asserted, "I won't do that, it will betray everything that this family has held dear. You've heard my answer Liu Hyuga, Knight of the Sank Kingdom and its final."
***
Alone in his room Liu Hyuga looked out at the sea watching the sun cast speckles across its surface. The view looked like a whole mess of diamonds tossed onto a piece of glass. Liu's eyes looked sad and at the same time frustrated.
"You were both right." Dr. T said from behind Liu. From behind Liu looked like a man who has lost so many battles that he just wants to give up.
"I know that." Liu responded, "I am right and so was he, it's this pacifism that I find annoying. Its so contradicting, he won't lift a finger to defend the Sank Kingdom while at the same time people are dying all around the world because of the Alliance. Pacifism is supposed to hold up the ideal that life is precious. So why isn't he doing anything about the Alliance?"
Liu's voice sounded like he was about to shove his fist through the glass window out of the fit of frustration that he had building up inside. Yet he looked down from his window at the children, the Peacecraft siblings and his son Kamui. How would he explain this to his son that nothing could be done about the worlds suffering because of the ways of pacifism?
"Liu." Dr. T called, "I have a gift for you."
Liu turned around to look at the young beautiful Dr. T.
"Follow me." She said
Liu followed Dr. T, through all the hallways within the mansion of the Sank Kingdom. Until at last the two of them came to a small elevator that lead them down and down further into the ground. Liu had a first hand idea of what it was Dante must have felt like when he made his tour of Hell.
At last the elevator doors opened and Liu was greeted with a sight that he would have never expected after this mornings discussion. He saw rows upon rows of mobile suits, stretched out in front of him. He felt as giddy as a kid in a candy store.
"You did this?" He asked Dr. T,
"Yes, I did." She said, "I knew that King Peacecraft wouldn't approve of it, but I went ahead with it. The Alliance will be coming after us, we must be prepared."
Liu reached around his side and felt his sword. It was a decorative piece. A long blade with a hilt that was double handled and a guard like a fencing foil. All gold and intricately detailed down the last scratch.
"Liu," Dr. T called, "There's something else, this place can be accessed by your sword. I took the letters and made them into a make-shift barcode. These suits are all at your command when the Alliance makes their attack."
"This will be my army against the Alliance." Liu said to himself, "My army, the Grandia Forces."
Just then there was a great crash and a rumbling all around them with flecks of dust coming down on them like rain. Liu knew what was going on, the Alliance was attacking the Sank Kingdom. All of his worst fears were now coming true before him.
"Dr. T." A voice called through the COM, "Enemy mobile suits spotted off shore. We are engaging the enemy."
Liu knew that something had to be done, and when that thought came the only thing that was on his mind was his son, Kamui. He reached for his sword and yanked it away from his belt. He handed it to Dr. T,
"You said that this sword is a key to this place." He restated, "Take this sword and give it to my son. Take my son away from this place, I don't want anything to happen to him."
Dr. T felt the weight of the sword in her arms, "What are you going to do?" She asked
Liu went to the nearest mobile suit, "I'm going to fight the alliance."
Dr. T looked at the sword and back at Liu Hyuga, who was now shouting, "Go, please!"
She dashed into the elevator and frantically pressed the button to go back up. The caught a last glimpse of the proud man as the doors closed.
"Good luck." She said as the elevator went straight up.
Back in the mobile suit garage Liu was making a message to Kamui, "My son," He said sombrely with the ground shaking around him, "If you've received this then I am already dead because of the resistance I had put up against the Alliance. This is my last will and testimony to you, my son. You're probably wondering how you got in here; your sword is what got you here. It is a key as well as a symbol of those of us who still fought even though the good King Peacecraft forbid us to fight. I have only this to give to you, this hangar that you see is the last of our resistance, I bequeath it to you." He thought of the last thing he wanted for his son to do, "Build yourself an army, my son and take back the Kingdom that is yours. I do not know if there are any other survivors of the Peacecraft family, but I do know that you are the only one I know of. This is my dying request of a dying kingdom, rebuild it my son, for the sake of your heritage and me. You're the only hope that's left."
Liu Hyuga glanced at his troops and back over to the battlefield that was no doubt going to cost many lives of the brave young men that stood on either side.
"The scourge of the Alliance is upon us friends!" he announced pointing to the other army of Mobile Suits with his Mobile Suits' hand, "Let us die like heroes, lest we live like slaves tomorrow!"
The soldiers shot nervous glances at one another as their leader continued.
"Ready thy arms!"
Liu raised his mobile suits hand that held a machinegun in the air roaring, "For Sank Kingdom!!"
The troops cheered, and followed their leader into the deadly battle that would decide the fate of the Sank Kingdom.
The Alliance made its attack against the Sank Kingdom as if it were an easy target like shooting at fish in a barrel. That was until Liu Hyuga lead his troops of mobile suits against the alliance. The fight seemed to shift in the balance from the Alliance's side to the side of the Sank Kingdom.
"All units report!" Liu shouted into his COM
"Red Team here, already engaged enemy forces, taking some serious damage."
"Blue Team here, we've taken out most of the enemies Mobile Suits Leos and Tragos, but the Aries Suits are wiping us out clean."
"Green Team here, we're going to show the Alliance soldiers who they should not mess around with."
Liu knew that the fight was against him but he had the determination to fight until his last breath. He made the call to the troops who were already on the ground defending the Sank Kingdom.
"Continue fighting." He called, "I'll join you in a moment."
***
The Alliance was watching the attack on the Sank Kingdom safely away at sea from their aircraft carriers. The leader of this attack was General Diego O'Neil. He watched his forces move in on the Sank Kingdom like watching a strategy video game. He couldn't help but smiling that his forces were so easily taking over the Sank Kingdom. Even with the enemy having mobile suits of their own they still couldn't break through.
That was until a loud beeping was heard from one of the consoles.
"General." The operator called, "Unknown enemy mobile suit approaching at 125 Kph from 12:00. There's a message coming through."
"Let's hear it." The General ordered
They heard a loud rasping voice shouting, "I won't let you take the Sank Kingdom!"
The general saw the mobile suit coming closer and closer towards his carrier but he still stood his ground like a fool facing a storm.
"Just who do you think you are?" General Diego asked
The voice responded instantly, "I am Liu Hyuga, Knight of the Sank Kingdom and Commander of the Grandia forces."
In the rear view screen within Liu's mobile suit he saw the Sank Kingdom begin to burn to the ground. He felt pain in his heart that he and the good King Peacecraft had parted on such bad terms. But in the blazing red fire he saw three pods escape, he only knew who was in one of them, Dr. T, and his son Kamui.
Inside the escape craft, Dr. T piloted it while Kamui Hyuga slept in the seat next to her. He was only sleeping because Dr. T had to sue a gaseous sedative to knock him out. The reason for that was because Kamui was very resistant to come with her because of the attack.
She too looked back at the burning Sank Kingdom, the other two escaping pods. She knew that the last of the Peacecraft family were escaping from the destruction of their homeland. In the rear view screen she too saw the fighting mobile suits that she had built. She knew what she had to do.
She knew a man who called himself Dr. J, a scientist much like herself. She had heard of him designing a mobile suit that was to be called Gundam. She even saw the plans for it and feeling that they might come in handy she copied them. With the plans in her possession her mission was set, build a Gundam.
***
Year A.C. 195
Milliardo Peacecraft lay asleep in the damaged and adrift Epyon. He had been this way for several weeks since Libra was destroyed and the last Great War between Earth and the Colonies had come to an end. However with the Epyon destroyed beyond repair, Milliardo was left with no way to get back to Earth or to call for help. The first few weeks were the hardest since not only would he have to remain in space like this but there was no way to self-destruct either. The only things that would work on this irrepressibly damaged mobile suit were the life supports systems and the radar.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
That noise was the first sound Miliardo had heard in months. He looked out his window and saw what it was that was coming toward him. He saw the object that was coming towards him. It was a Gundam. It had the same features as one that Miliardo had fought several weeks back. That fight still resonated in his mind thinking over and over whether that fight had truly come to an end or not.
He looked out at the Gundam as it came closer expecting it to be of its bright colours, red, yellow, green, blue, and white. When it came closer, he saw that it was black, the only thing that made it even slightly visibly was the brightness of the Earth contrasting against it. He saw something else too; he was dragging something behind it. Miliardo could barely recognise it, but he saw recognisable parts. It was the Tallgeese Mark 2.
"What is that pilot doing?" Miliardo wondered
In a flash Miliardo saw something whip out from the black Gundam. He felt himself being pulled along. He knew that he could always jump out and try to take over the black Gundam. Then he thought that it wouldn't work and he thought of an even better plan. He would simply sit in the damaged cockpit and wait for whoever is saving him to open it and then he would make his attempt to escape. Then again who's to say that this unknown Gundam isn't there to help him?
He waited and waited until the black Gundam came to a place that Miliardo recognised as a resource satellite. His heart raced with anticipation as he waited for the unknown pilot to open the damaged cockpit door. Even with this plan in mind Miliardo couldn't help but wonder that this person was. After all, this pilot did go to the trouble of finding him. Then a puzzling question came up, how would this pilot know if the cockpit were occupied?
CRRRRKK!
Miliardo heard the cockpit door being forced open. This was his opportunity. He unbuckled his harness and waited for whoever was on the other side to open their prize. Slowly the cockpit door began to budge and then in one quick shove it gave way and it opened entirely. Miliardo didn't looked he simply jumped out at whoever was there, the entire world was a blur when he made his attack. The person he jumped on was in his/her space suit with a helmet that seemed robotic like at the best with black eyes.
Then the world began to clear up and Miliardo saw whom it was that he pounced on. He was holding this stranger against the rail almost to the point of where this person was bending over backwards. He heard a loud groan that sounded masculine from this person. Then the first words were spoken.
"Could you please get off of me, Miliardo?" The groaning voice spoke
Miliardo became confused, how did this person know his name? Especially when everyone thought that he was dead? He wanted to know and he wanted it from this unknown pilot.
"How do you know my name?" He snarled.
The unknown pilot reached up to take off his helmet. There was a loud snap and a hiss of air coming from the helmet as the unknown pilot took his/her helmet off. He saw it; it was a boy younger than Miliardo with black hair and large brown eyes. The boy spoke,
"My name is Kamui Hyuga, son of Liu Hyuga knight of the Sank Kingdom."
"You lie." Miliardo hissed
Kamui reached to his side and pulled out his sword. He showed it to Milliardo with its golden hilt and Hebrew letters written down the golden center of the sword.
"Do you know this sword?" He asked, "It belonged to my father and is a symbol for those who are knights of the Sank Kingdom. You really don't remember me do you? When you, Relena and I were children?"
Suddenly within the deepest canyons of Miliardo's mind he could remember something. He remembered a boy that looked like the one he had pounced upon. A grassy hill, his younger sister at his side as well as a boy standing on top of that grassy hill like a king. Miliardo couldn't remember his face but he knew the hair and those eyes. Those kind eyes like those of that boy that lay beneath him.
Miliardo backed away from the boy and took off his own helmet. He allowed his own silver coloured hair to flow out of it as he looked at this boy that was now confirmed as an ally.
"How did you know that I was still alive?" He asked
"I knew that you were a tough pilot, so I had a feeling that you were alive." Kamui smiled as he got back to his feet rubbing his neck and back.
"What do you intend to do with the Epyon and the Tallgeese 2? Both of them are damaged beyond repair."
Kamui stretched his back, "I don't plan to repair them, I plan to combine them."
"Combine them?" Miliardo asked
"Yes, combine the best features of both the Tallgeese Mark 2 and the Epyon into one mobile suit. I have the resources here, how about it Miliardo?"
Miliardo looked behind him at the damaged Epyon and then to his left to see the damaged Tallgeese Mark 2. He felt that this was a great opportunity to combine the best suits that he's ever piloted. He couldn't argue with it.
"Why not?" He asked
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12 months later; Christmas Eve A.C. 196:
Kamui and Miliardo wiped their hands clean of the oil and dirt from their work. They looked up at the completed mobile suit, the Tallgeese Mark 3. It stood tall over them like a Gundanium giant, with its enormous shield mounted on its left arm with a piece of the Epyon's heat rod peeking out of it. Lying on the ground at its feet was the cannon; an enormous weapon designed to fire a beam equal to that of the Wing Zero. It was completely white like the original Tallgeese but parts of it were blue, like its engines and part of the shield, yet its head was changed. Upon its crown were its spikes that were like those of the Tallgeese Mark 2 and the Epyon.
Both Kamui and Milliardo were proud of what they did along with the help of the Enders, Billy Lee Black, Faye and Vincent Valentine, Viola Nettie, and Dr. T.
"Kamui!" A voice called, "There's a broadcast coming through from some girl named Mariemea, I think it's a declaration of war."
Kamui looked up to the ceiling, "Not another war."
Both he and Miliardo watched the nearest screen as the tyrannical eight- year-old made her statement.
"Attention, people of the Earth Sphere! We at Colony X-18999 seek independence and declare war against the United Earth Sphere World Nation! I am the true heiress to the World Nation, the daughter of Treize Kushrinada. Mariemea Kushrinada!"
Milliardo turned to Kamui, "I need to go to Earth." He said, "I'm going to have to make a call to someone, I need to take the Tallgeese 3."
"It's your mobile suit, Milliardo." Kamui stated, "I simply helped you get it back on its feet."
Miliardo had an idea, over the past few months he's come to know Kamui almost as if they did grow up together. Even with the Sank Kingdom destroyed all those years ago, he still felt that bond with him.
"Why don't you come with me and fight Mariemea along with the Preventers?"
Kamui turned to look at Miliardo with his kind eyes. He shook his head, "I can't" He said, "I wish I could old friend, but this isn't my fight. It's yours Miliardo."
Miliardo smiled, "Thank you for your help Kamui, I must go to Earth, in the name of peace."
He jumped up into the Tallgeese 3 cockpit as Kamui watched him from the floor. He looked up at the Tallgeese 3 and he thought of all that time he spent working with this mobile suit. It reminded him of the days when he and Dr. T were working on the Gundam Gabriel and when they even upgraded it with its Gundanium feathered wings.
"Good luck, Old friend." Kamui spoke softly as he tossed his handkerchief over his shoulder and walked out of the mobile suit bay.
Next time on Episode Zero: Billy Lee Black
