Disclaimer: I do not own Love Hina. Tokyo Pop and Ken Akamatsu do. I also do not own Gundam. Bandai does.
WARNING: Contains scenes of intents bloody violence and "choice" words. Reader discretion is advised.
Gundam Hina
Chapter 1: Invasion
Date: Universal Century 0079 September 20th. The war between the Earth Federation and Zeon has gone on for just over 9 months and is now at a stalemate. Earlier in the year Zeon forces invaded Earth to take control of as many of its natural resources as possible, and in the process take control of as many governments as possible.
One of the commanders chosen for this job was Commander Raphol of the 134th Zeon mobile brigade. With his forces he ruthlessly concurred the mineral rich nations of Indonesia, Vietnam, The Philippines, Guam, New Guinea, The Solomon Islands, parts of China, and Thailand; where his base is now located. Commander Raphol is a strong and bullheaded leader that ruthlessly attacks his enemy with hardly any mercy. But he is also a wise and cunning commander, once taking a small squad of Zaku I's against 6 Federation battlecrusiers and coming out victorious.
He is an old vet of the war surviving all the way from "The Battle of Loum." His experience has given the Zeon Forces a much needed boost in the invasion of Earth. However, with the rumor that the federation has developed its 1st Mobile Suit the Zeon Forces are looking for a way to break the stalemate. So they decide that taking over a few more governments is necessary.
Commander Raphol has been chosen to lead the invasion of Japan. Not seeing any action for about 2 months he eagerly accepts the mission. Calling it Operation: Pagoda; Raphol sends his entire huge invasion force to Tokyo and other major cities of Japan. In his invasion force of Tokyo alone he has several squads of Zaku I's, and almost all the rest are made up of different model Zaku II's, But also included is 1 newly formed squad containing the newest model Mobile Suit, the Rik Dom.
Not wanting to put his best mobile suits on the front line just yet he sends them to the outlying town of Hinata Town to see how they perform. He also sends a squad of Zaku I's and another squad of Zaku II's for support. This is where our story begins.
It's a warm brisk late summer Saturday in Hinata Town. Everyone has noticed that fall is just about here because the days are getting shorter and the air has a slight coolness to it lately, but still the afternoons are warm and comfortable enough to take a nice nap in. School has started back up. But since it's a Saturday and about 2:00 p.m. the Schools have all let out.
It's also a time of joy at Hinata Sou. Kietaro and Seta have just come back from their tour of duty in America for a much needed time off from between deployments. They enlisted for the Earth Federation forces back in March when the Zeon forces started to invade Earth. This is the 1st time they've been back since they went off to boot camp. They aren't part of the front line army but are rather communications officers and translators at Fort Bailey in Virginia. (FB is made up BTW)
Naru is now part of the Japan National Guard and is now on standby incase she is needed. Kitsune, always looking for a buck, entertains the troops when they come home. Mutsumi and Haruka both still work at the tea house where Kitsune entertains. Motoko has decided to stay out of this war because she thinks this is another problem brought on by men. Sara, still to young for war, stays at Hinata Sou during the day and cleans up where ever she can. Su has been depressed ever since she learned that her brother was killed when Zeon forces tried to invade her country. They were able to push them back but not before the palace took a direct hit, killing her brother. But lately she has been disappearing into the secret passageways more than usual. Kanoko had been running things at the inn in her brother's absents until he came back. Shinobu has surprisingly gone out and gotten herself a job, believe it or not, at a local construction site piloting a construction suit because most of the men have gone off to war, and she is quit good at it too.
Shinobu, Sara, and Motoko have just returned from school. Motoko has changed into her traditional training cloths and is now on the roof doing her exercises. Sara is in her room beside Naru's, playing with Tama-chan. Shinobu is in her room wondering what to fix for dinner, but she is also a little sad that she can't be with Akiko and her other friends at their after school activities. Naru is in her room studying for her next test at Toudai. Kitsune is in the hot springs relaxing away another busy night of entertaining and getting drunk. Su is surprisingly in her room taking a nap. Seta, Haruka, and Mutsumi are busy in the Tea House. Kietaro is in his room pressing his uniform, because it could be at any time when he and Seta get orders to ship out again.
"Man this has been one looong year." says Kietaro to himself as he lays out his uniform shirt on his bed after ironing it. "It feels so good to be back here, even if it's just for a little while." he adds with a smile as he goes to iron his pants. Suddenly alarms start to blare loudly all over Hinata Town.
Everyone in Hinata Sou stops what they are doing wondering why the alarms are going off. A few of them think that it's the Tsunami alarm. It's happened a few times already during the year but is soon turned off after about 15 to 20 minutes so they just ignore it. But then after about a minute a rumble comes from the ground and starts to shake Hinata Sou and then a loud boom comes from the distance.
"What the hell are those things!" shouts Motoko from the roof. Kietaro runs to the window to look out and is horrified at what he sees. He sees a mobile suit landing in Hinata Town. A ZEON Mobile suit! He looks around and starts to see more and more of them landing in town. He sees one of them aim their Zaku Machine gun at something and open fire on it. Several large dust clouds bellow up from behind some trees at what ever it was aiming at and them a huge ball of flame erupts from the ground followed by a delayed sound of an explosion.
"Those are Zeon Mobile suits!" shouts Kietaro. He recognizes the shape of the monstrous Zaku II's from pictures taken of them in battle at Fort Bailey from Federation pilots. He also sees several older model Zaku I's and one mobile suit he doesn't recognize. "Is that a new model?" he says to himself. He watches in horror as the other mobile suits start to open fire on the town destroying building after building.
Kietaro's door opens. "Sempai. What's going on?" Kietaro turns around as sees Shinobu in his doorway looking a bit scared. "Shinobu get back to your room!" Kietaro shouts at her in a bit of panic.
Shinobu jumps in shock at being yelled at. She looks at him and sees he's serious. She is just about to close the door when a bright orb goes by the window and a huge explosion can be heard from outside. Kietaro quickly turns around and is horrified to see a big hole in the ground where the tea house use to stand with debris and body parts still falling from the sky.
"PAPA!" screams Sara from her 2nd floor room. Next a thud can be heard from her room as she faints.
Kietaro meanwhile is just staring on in shock as he looks at the creator made by the explosion. "Mutsumi…..Seta…….Aunt Haruka……" he can just barely say. "Sempai! What happened!" says Shinobu as she begins to walk toward him.
Some movement out of the top of his eye catches Kietaro's attention. He looks back up and is horrified once again to see a Zaku I aiming a Zaku Bazooka right at Hinata Sou. Then a blast of white smoke shoots out from the front of it.
Without thinking he turns around and grabs Shinobu by her hand, does a 360 and literally throws her back into her room. She lands a little hard on the ground beside her bed. "EVERYONE GET DOWN!" he shouts at the top of his lungs. With in a split second he has hit the floor covering his head.
A second later the bazooka shell slams into the far left side of the main building and explodes with a mighty blast! (Left side if you're facing Hinata Sou from the steps) The shockwave and flames send Kietaro into the door of his closet hard and he lands on his stomach! Then he feels stuff falling on top of him and then he feels something heavy land hard on his left arm.
After a moment Kietaro slowly opens his eyes and sees that he is still alive somehow. He starts to cough a bit as dust and smoke fill his room. He tries to get up but then yells loudly as pain shoots up his left arm. He looks over and sees his table with other various pieces of debris on top of it pinning his arm down. He reaches over with his right hand and tries to lift it. But it's no use it's too heavy.
"Kietaro! Are you ok!" comes a shout from what is left of his ceiling. "Naru! Is that you?" he shouts back. "Yes!" she answers back. "Are you ok?" he asks her back. "I'm ok. I have a few cuts and scraps but im fine." she answers. "What about you?" she asks again.
"I'm alive, but I think my left arm in broken! It's pinned under some debris and I can't get up!" he shouts. "Ok! Hang on. I'll be right down!" she shouts.
He hears her coming through the (1st) hole in the ceiling and land in his room. He tries to look over but the debris and the way he is laying in getting in his way. With in a couple of seconds he hears her pulling stuff off of him. She tries to lift the table but it's very heavy. She pulls with all her might until she lifts up just enough for Kietaro to pull his arm out. He stands up and looks at his arm that looks like his leg when he broke it; all twisted backwards and very painful.
He grabs a piece of wood and puts it between his teeth and then grabs his arm and quickly twists it back around. He cries out loudly in pain as he does. "Why the hell did you do that!" shouts Naru as Kietaro puts his arm into a homemade sling. "Had to otherwise it won't heal properly." he answers.
"GASP! Naru gasps loudly. Kietaro turns around and sees Naru's pale face looking at something. He looks over and sees what Naru is looking at. He is sickened to see the severed, smoldering arm of someone. He slowly goes over closer. He looks up and sees a huge hole in the upper cattycorner of his room and sees blood running down it. He goes over to it and it sickened once again when he sees Sara's body, or at least what is left of it. "Naru…..I'm sorry,…..but it's Sara." he says with sadness in his voice. He hears Naru begins to cry.
Kietaro can only look at he ground looking very upset at this. "She was only ten! DAMNIT!" he says to himself. "At least she wasn't separated from Seta for too long." he adds.
Suddenly he looks up remembering something. "Shinobu!" he says. He runs over to his door and tries to open it, but it's stuck. "Naru! I need some help." he calls to her. Naru comes over and they force the door to open. What they see horrifies them.
The whole left part of Hinata Sou is gone in a fiery mess! The Kitchen, washroom, dinning room, half of the living room, and…, "The Hot springs!" shouts Naru. They both look over and see strait to the hot springs. There they can see Kitsune's body floating in the now very red water. Obviously she is dead as they can see large chunks of debris sticking out of her body. Suddenly a rustling noise to their right gets their attention. They walk over to Shinobu's door and force it open.
"Shinobu are you ok!" shouts Kietaro. After a couple of seconds they hear her call out. "I'm ok. But can you help me get this door off of me!" she shouts. They look over beside her bed and see part of a door with a lot of debris on it. They go over and clear the debris off of it and then lift the door off of Shinobu who miraculously stands up on her own.
"Are you sure you're ok Shinobu?" asks Naru. "Yes I'm fine. I may have a few bruises and a bump on the head but I'm fine. What about everyone else?" asks Shinobu. Both Kietaro and Naru lower their heads. "What?" asks Shinobu.
"I'm sorry Shinobu, but Sara and Kitsune are both dead…..we don't know about Motoko or Su yet." answers Kietaro. Shinobu drops to her knees in shock. Surprisingly she doesn't start crying; rather she looks to be in utter shock.
Suddenly a scream of agony can be heard from upstairs snapping the others out of their depression. The scream comes again. "Oh God someone please help me!" comes a shout. They instantly recognize it to be Su's voice. "Hang on Su we'll be right there!" shouts Kietaro. All 3 bolt out the door and go up the back stair way on the far right side of Hinata Sou.
They reach the half-destroyed 2nd floor and run to Su's room. But along the way they see Tama-chan lying on the floor with a 1 foot long piece of wood sticking out of her right front fin. "Tama-chan!" shouts Shinobu. She picks up Tama-chan and looks at her. Tama-chan has been knocked out, but she is still alive. They head on to Su's room.
All 3 of then have to force open Su's door. They walk in a see almost all of her trees have been blown over or are on fire. "Ahhhh!" comes a scream of agony from across the room. All 3 run into the room where they see Su under one of her fallen trees.
"Su hang on. Where going to try to lift the tree off of you." says Kietaro. Kietaro and Naru try to lift the tree off of Su, but try as the might it isn't budging. "Shinobu we're going to need your help!" orders Kietaro. Shinobu gently lays Tama-chan on the floor and goes over to the tree and grabs a hold of it.
All 3 of them lift with all their might. Slowly the tree begins to lift off of Su. 1 inch, then 2 inches and finally 3 inches! "Ok Su! Move!" orders Kietaro. Su, using her arms, slides herself out from under the tree. As soon as she is clear the other let go of the tree and it lands with a thud. Shinobu goes back over and picks up Tama-chan again.
"Su. Are you ok?" asks Kietaro. "I think so." says Su. She tries to get up but can't seem to. "Oh God! I can't feel my legs!" shouts Su. She begins to panic. "Calm down Su!" says Kietaro. He has Su lay on her stomach. He then lifts up the back of her shirt and lowers her skirt down a bit. What he sees upsets him.
He can plainly see even without an x-ray that her back has been broken. "I'm sorry Su. But it looks as though the tree has broken your back near your waist. It looks as though the spine has also been severed. We won't know for sure until we get you to a hospital." says Kietaro.
Suddenly several loud explosions can be heard exploding all around the rest of Hinata Sou. Kietaro covers all the girls' heads as the building shakes wildly but surprisingly doesn't collapse the rest of the way. "We have to get out of here!" shouts Naru in a panic. "And go where? These things are all over the place! There's no way that we could get away!" shouts Kietaro over the explosions.
"We need to get to my lab in the back of the room!" shouts Su. "Why?" asks Kietaro. "No time to explain! Just go!" shouts Su back. Naru picks up Su and all 4 of them head to the back of the room. They reach her lab.
"Ok. Now take me over to that control panel over there." says Su as she points to a large control panel. Naru carries her over to it. Su leans over and lifts up a clear plastic cover that is over a large red button and she presses it. After a second the lab begins to go down like an elevator!
"Su! What going on!" shouts Shinobu in surprise. "Hinata Sou has a large underground bunker that I have been using lately. We should be safe there." answers Su.
The elevator ride doesn't take long and before they know it, it stops in a large open hanger like room. Lights start to flip on and they shine onto a large research table and many more control panels.
Su has Naru take her over to one of the large control panels. She leans over and starts to type on the large keyboard. After a couple of seconds the large viewing screen turns on showing multiple views of Hinata Town. They watch as many ZEON Mobile Suits attack Hinata Town destroying building after building.
Shinobu spots her parents old restaurant already destroyed and burning. Then she sees another viewing screen showing her high school still standing. "I guess their not targeting schools. But still, I hope Akiko is ok." she says to herself. But then to her horror she watches as 4 bazooka shells smash and then blow up her school causing it to collapse to the ground in a fiery mess.
"AKIKOOOOOOOO!" screams Shinobu. She collapses to her knees and begins to weep bitterly as she thinks she has just witnessed her best friend's death. Kietaro looks up at the viewing screen that Shinobu was just looking at and can just barley recognize the place where the high school used to be. Knowing that Akiko has some after school club meets on Saturdays, he understands why Shinobu is now weeping heavily.
Kietaro bends down and wraps his arm around Shinobu who immediately turns and buries her face into his chest. "Don't worry Shinobu. I'm sure Akiko and the others there at the school found shelter before that happened." he says while trying to comfort her. Shinobu keeps on crying heavily. After rubbing Shinobu's head some Kietaro turns and faces Su.
"Su. Tell me what all the stuff down here is about." commands Kietaro. "Ok." answers Su. She takes a deep breath. "Truth be told; shortly after my brother was killed I went to work for the Earth Federation. They had me examining different ZEON weapons and mobile suit parts and researching battle strategies. They also had me to develop various weapons and even help design and even assemble parts for their 1st mobile suit; the Gundam." she explains.
"Gundam?" asks Naru. "Yes. I'm sure you have seen those ZEON Mobile suits before on the news right?" asks Su. "Yes. I think they are called Zakus right?" answers Naru. "Right." answers Su.
"Anyway the federation has just started to produce mobile suits. So after my assistance in developing their 1st mobile suit they had me secretly working on another large project." says Su. "What kind of project?" asks Kietaro. "A big one." answers Su.
She leans over and begins to flip some switches in the control panel. The sounds of some large spot lights can be heard turning on behind them. They all turn around and see something that takes all, but Su's, breath away.
End of Chapter 1
To be continued in Chapter 2- 1st blood.
Author Note: Now you must be thinking, 'Why am I coming out with another story when I haven't even finished "Minds Within a Mind" yet.' Well consider this a preview of what's to come. This story probably won't officially start I finish "Minds Within a Mind" 1st. Anyway I hope you liked the 1st chapter.
Story Note: WHAT HAPPENED TO MOTOKO? You'll find out in another chapter along with the fate of Akiko. BTW Please forgive me if your favorite character was killed. Also all of you had better read up on your Gundam knowledge as I will be using a lot of Gundam terms in this story. Need some help then just go here to find out what you need to know about everything Gundam (just make sure to close in the spaces) http// www. escaflowne online. com/ gundam/.