I looked at the stars through the window of my cabin and thought about the consequences of the war. The Coordinators don't have a reason to push us off this world. It is ours and it will belong to everyone. I thought absently, sinking in sorrow. I looked at the black uniform I was wearing and locked on the logo on my chest. I don't think I'll ever get used to it...I hate this stupid uniform. I let my body wander in the room, walking stressfully. The white boots I was wearing made a squeaking noise that ultimately got on my nerve. I sat on my bed and rested on my back for a while. I closed my eyes and remembered.
Heavy snow feel on my head as I looked at the bloody ground. My parents were lying on the ground, dead. I touched my mother's forehead with my tiny white hand and it felt cold. Tears escaped my green eyes and I looked at the horizon. I saw something huge, an enormous metal man with a blue sword. It was so big I had to push my head far back to see its head. Its shiny blue eyes looked at me and it walked to me slowly. My red coat was soaked in blood and my hands were cold. I was freezing, but I stayed silent, my mouth opened in awe before that amazing machine. I hovered to me and landed in a heavy blow. I blocked the rocks from hitting my face, but the wind pushed me in the air and I fell on my back. I looked at the grey sky and wept in silence. Smoke covered the beautiful blue sky and I closed my eyes. I am going to die here, like my parents... Maybe if I don't move, it will hurt less. I thought. I looked besides me and I saw that monstrous machine kneeling to me. The cockpit opened and a tall man got out of it and he descended from that machine with only a cord attached to him. He gracefully landed on his feet and walked towards me. I opened my eyes wider to see his face. The man stopped beside me, kneeled and simply said:
"It's cold here, isn't it?" I nodded silently. He patted my head and turned his head towards my parents' bodies. "What happened here?" he asked calmly. I tried to avoid crying, but I understood it was impossible for a mere seven year old to do so when she witnessed her parent's murder.
"Some strange man came in red uniforms and they killed mommy and daddy with guns..." I said in French, weeping. The man took my hand and I looked deep into his blue eyes.
"Don't cry anymore. I will take care of you, now." Was all he said. He took my hand and we walked towards his machine. I looked up to face his metal monster and I looked behind me, back to my parents.
"It's not like you have a choice here, girl. Do you want to die?" I shook my head and he smiled.
"Do you understand what I am saying to you?" I nodded. I always understood English, but I never spoken the language.
"You'll have to learn English if you're to come with me." I nodded and opened my mouth, but closed it immediately.
"What were you about to say, girl?" I opened my mouth hesitantly once again and simple words came out of it.
"What is...machine?" I said, pointing at his enormous possession. He smirked and looked at me.
"It is called a GUNDAM. Code name X120-09, it's GUNDAM Vengeance." I ran to the metal machine and stared at it. The man put a hand on my shoulder and asked me what my name was. I didn't answer.
"Maybe I should tell mine first. Commander Charles DuFlamme is what you'll call me." I pointed at myself and said: "Kim." We shook hands like adults and he took the cord in his right hand and put a foot on the little platform attached to it. He handed me his hand and I hesitated. "Come with me and you'll get to ride one of these one day, I promise." I have made my mind. I would follow this man until the end of time. I gripped his hand firmly and we elevated in the sky, re-joining the cockpit. I looked back one more time and I waved goodbye to my parents, letting a tear fall on my cheek. We got in the cockpit and he made me sit in the back, on a little blanket he had put there. He sat in his seat and pushed a red button and the machine moved. On the screen, it was written in big letters GUNDAM and other stuff I couldn't read. The complexity of this machine was astounding and I was simply content to sit and look at it. I just looked at the symbols on the monitor and the machine hovered slowly.
"Don't be scared, we're going home now. It might be a little rough, so don't worry… I have to protect both of us, now. We don't want ending up killed by those mean people, right?" I nodded and stayed silent for a while, still looking at the computer. I knew the man had a strange accent, much like Englishmen, not like Americans. Suddenly, I saw a red spot on the 3D map, next to the screen. My eyes immediately locked onto it.
"Looks like we already have company, Kim. You stay calm while I take care of these, alright?" I nodded and smiled. The Commander smiled back and something placed itself in front of the man's face, making him even more powerful with his shots. I would later learn that it was a visibility enhancer. Green beams were shot from the Vengeance and the other mobile suits exploded in dark clouds of smoke. I looked at the monitor and concentrated on the red spots that had appeared on it. There were so many! I tried to establish a map in my head of all the red dots and tried to link them together. The Commander saw me looking straight at the rotating map.
"Do you understand what you see?" he said calmly. I nodded and pointed one dot in particular.
"This one...middle is one that is attack first because others placed themselves in protective mode." I said with a lot of difficulty. He nodded and shot the one in the middle and the others dispersed rapidly, not knowing what to do since the leader was obviously dead. To put it simple, they were just backing up the front machine. Now that their plan was messed up, they had no idea what to do. Some scattered in the sky and others retreated.
"Good move, kid." Was all he said to me. I smiled to him and he press on the lever he was holding. Three buttons were on that handle: a red one, a green one and a blue one. He pressed the green one and multiples rays of green hit the remaining machines with power. They landed on the ground and exploded. The Commander was breathing normally again and turned to face me.
"Maybe you have what it takes to ride a GUNDAM. You're a weird child; I'll give you that… You can easily read the enemies attacks, yet you're a just a little Natural girl..." He was in deep thinking, which I could tell. His eyes focused on one point and his forehead was bent in a deep frown. I gave him a puzzled look and he laughed.
"It means your mother gave birth to you naturally." I smiled and nodded silently. I couldn't possibly understand what he meant, at that time. I touched one button by accident and a shot of red beams was launched in the air, creating a big explosion. I gasped and apologized several times.
"You didn't do it on purpose, so it's okay. Make sure you ask me first when you touch a button. That's an order." He said with a smirk on his face. "You have to act like a soldier, now. For both of us."
I nodded and cried on my blanket. I wasn't crying because I was sad, I was crying because I was scared. What if I had hurt the Commander and damaged the Vengeance...? He would never forgive me to damage such a fine piece of technology! I never missed my mother so much… my poor mother who died not too long ago, her long hair on the red snow. I missed the comfort of my father's embrace and I would never experience it again. It made me realize that the pain of losing my parents could have been greater if their deaths would have been long and agonizing.
"Why are you crying? You haven't done anything wrong." He said to me, whipping the tears on my face. I smiled and timidly looked at the screen. My eyes widen in fear as I saw in the cockpit's window a machine equipped with a laser sword aiming at us.
The Commander failed to see it because of me and I jumped on his knees, taking in my hand the lever and pressed the red button. The red beam directly hit the metal man in front of us and I gripped the lever once again, making the Vengeance equip his right hand with a long knife. I looked at the 3D map and the red dots were approaching us fast...maybe too fast for me to remember all the commands. I knew in this instant that something in my head just unblocked. I connected somehow with my surroundings and I knew what to do. I grabbed the other handle and a shield blocked us from the laser shots that were aimed at the Vengeance. I pressed the blue button and a powerful blue beam hit two enemy mobile suits in the guts, making them explode. The Vengeance trembled under the assault and the Commander clicked on another button and pressed with his feet on the speed pedal and the Vengeance took a greater flight in the air, outpacing the mobile suits.
"Shoot, Kim, shoot!" I pushed the red button and the same red beams shot the rest of the mobile suits. My instinct told me to look behind me and shoot blindly. Glad to see that my reflexes weren't wrong! Another mobile suit was coming our way with a laser sword, but the green beam hit it hard and I didn't miss. The assault stopped and I took a deep breath, relaxing my muscles.
"You've done a great job, Kim...You're tired. You rest in the back, I will take care of you now..." I closed my eyes, exhausted by the sudden effort that those mobile suits caused me. I could feel the turbulences the battle was causing and I feared for the destruction of the Vengeance. I couldn't open my eyes because I was so tired but I could hear everything and I could feel everything. I knew in that moment that I was born to do this. I would do this until the end of my life and I would protect my savior… I would always be prepared… I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard the alarm ring.
"Kim! There's a problem! We need your help! ZAFT attacked a neutral ship! Get out of here and fight!" Said Sergeant Ruck out on the intercom. I ran to my bedroom door, opened it with a hurry and ran in the corridors of Star-Strike, the Division's mother ship. I rapidly took the elevator and descended to the third floor, where the Mobile Suits were in storage. I crossed paths with Seth, my backup in the battlefield and he screamed at me.
"Where were you? Did you go deaf or what?" Give me a break! I've been on patrol all week! Can a girl catch a break around here?
"Shut up Seth, I don't have time for your complaints." I said calmly, while running with him to the lower grounds. The engineers rushed on finishing the final touches to our equipment and they gave us the signal that we could access our Mobile Suits. I ran the stair to get to that damn machine and jumped in it, like it was a second nature to me. It was the closest thing I had to a home, after all. I started the engine and my mobile suit moved behind Seth's. The wires let go of our machines and it was time to go. The platforms elevated Seth and prepared him to launch. The voice rang in our computer screen. Preparations done! System all green! I heard Seth's voice through my monitor saying the usual content:
"Seth Yoshiro, Outpacer, let's go!" His Outpacer was ejected into orbit and I was next.
"Preparations all done! System all green! Show them! My mobile suit followed the track and elevated too. It was time for that ultimate sentence that would end up killing me one day:
"Kim Desjardin, Valliant, I'm taking off!" My breathing was faster and I tried to calm myself, but I was ejected from the Star Striker as fast as I had come in. I was projected into the black, the immense space, alongside Seth and the Outpacer.
"Are you stressed out, Kim?" he asked through the communication system.
"Just a bit... Don't worry about me, Seth. So, what does ZAFT want now?"
"They attacked a mother ship by the name of Archangel, an Earth Forces battalion ship...There is only two mobile suits on that unit, so the Captain thought it's be good for our image to show off there with our skills and kick some butts." I smirked at his comment and he laughed.
"Let's go Seth, they're in trouble." I was the one with a head on this team."Yes!"
Both the Outpacer and the Valliant went at the speed of light through the debris of the previous fight in that area. We couldn't see anything due to the lack of light so we putted on our mobile suits in radar mode. We were guided by the arrays of lights far away, which must be the battle between ZAFT and that so-called Archangel ship.
"Seth, I'm counting on you again. I'll protect you, just don't let me down."
"Never, Kim. You're too much of a good friend for that to happen!" He said, smiling.
"Thank you..." He had always been so supportive of me and my choices and thus it was the only thing to say.
"We better hurry up! I don't want to see any more deaths today!" said the enthusiastic teen. I rolled my eyes, knowing I had no choice either. We put our mobile suits on high gear and dashed through space, the light in the horizon getting clearer by the second. I prepared my laser sword and put it in the Valliant's right hand. A shot of green almost hit Seth in the face, but he evaded at the last minute and I glared at him mentally.
"Watch out, Seth! You almost got that one right in your teeth!"
"Yeah! Yeah! I was just napping a bit...They never let us rest, do they?"
"Nope, never. But it's our duty to be alert whenever they need us, Seth, so move your ass!" He laughed and nodded happily. That Seth was just so much fun even thought I was not in the mood for a laugh. He always made me happy whenever something was wrong. Suddenly, we saw through the window of our cockpits four mobile suits fighting a mobile armor and a white GUNDAM mobile suit. They seemed in difficulty with the armor releasing a dark grey smoke from its left wing.
"Seth, backup the mobile armor! I'll take care of the mobile suit!" I said to him. He nodded silently and we separated our ways. If my radar and vision was correct, there were four other mobile suits attacking the mother ship and both the armor and mobile suit. I pressed the blue button on my left handle and a powerful nuclear beam shocked a red mobile suit. It turned around and I flew past him at the speed of light. Passing the three others, I approached the Archangel and flew behind it to make sure it wasn't damaged severely. I put the communication on and I could hear the confusion of the other pilots around me.
"Who is that? Wait, there are two of them?" said the first voice.
"Calm down Yzak, you have to keep your head cool here." Said a second voice, only putting oil on the fire.
"Shut up, Dearka! Let's get the bastards right now!" said the man named Yzak. While they were fighting, I flew the Valliant to the white mobile suit and established a radio communication. I spoke through my helmet with a sure voice.
"My name is Kim Desjardins, I am here to back you up. What's your name, pilot?" It took a while for the pilot to contact me, but I finally heard a voice in my helmet.
"My name is Kira Yamato...! I'm the pilot of the Strike!" was all he said. I had to establish a communication with the Archangel before I went out there and fight. I looked in the distance and I saw Seth, very subtitle, carrying the armor pilot into the Outpacer. I linked the Valliant communication system with the Archangel's and I spoke.
"My name is Kim Desjardin! I am from the Division, here to help your troops! My subordinate and I will protect both your pilots and the Archangel, if you have no objections. Sorry, got to fly!" I cut the communication with their mother ship and flew back to the battlefield, siding with that boy, Kira Yamato and his mobile, the Strike. I gave him a quick glance through the window of my cockpit and dashed to the other mobile suits, Seth backing me up, as usual.
"Let's get them, Kim! It's time we act tough. Well, I say that for you...of course!"
"Seth, behind you!" I screamed. He blocked the laser attack of that boy, Yzak's mobile suit. I breathed and looked around me. My instincts suddenly told me to attack from behind. I knew that sixth sense was very reliable since it never did mistrust me. I was right on the spot yet again! A black mobile suit was flying directly to me and I shielded the attack with my thick special shield. Someone was trying to establish a communication with me, but it was hard to handle elite and talk with someone!
"Pilot of the indigo mobile suit! Answer me right now!" I pushed back the black mobile suit and answered.
"Tell your teammate to stop attacking me and I'll agree to talk to you, pilot." I heard another voice telling to the pilot of the black mobile suit, who was named Nichol, to retreat from his attacks towards me.
"I have done what you asked for, now answer my question! Who are you and what is your purpose here?" said the masculine voice coming from the red mobile suit. I ran an analysis on his mobile suit, which is named Aegis.
"Pilot of the Aegis, you must be the leader of this operation. My name is Kim Desjardin from the Division and I came here for backups with my ally, the pilot of the Outpacer, Seth Yoshiro to protect the assaulted Archangel and the Strike! I suggest you leave this place before..." I stopped my sentence half way through because I thought they would understand the meaning of my threat, but then again I have been surprised many times before.
"And before what, Kim Desjardin? What will you do?" said Yzak, obviously pissed.
"… Before you meet your doom." I finally said. I could hear a laugh in my monitor. I looked to my right and saw another mobile suit. It was green and beige and had three big powerful laser guns. It was in defense mode and the pilot established a communication with me.
"Honey, I don't think that's possible..." I glared at his machine and simply said.
"Don't you dare tell me what's possible and what is not!"
"Sorry, honey. Are you sure you're not part of the Earth Forces? If you aren't, I see no reason to shoot you down. Besides, you really have a cute accent, are you Spanish or something?" His comments annoyed me and I broke the communication. I threw a last warning to the ZAFT soldiers and if they weren't going to listen to me, I would have no choice.
"This is the last time I repeat myself, Z.A.F.T. soldiers. I will not fall in the hands of you Coordinators. The world is not going to fall to you. I will not let that happen for anything in the whole wide universe. Be prepared to lose when we start the assault! You have been warned!"
"Kim, let's go. They won't listen. Let's protect that ship and go back to the Star Strike!" said Seth, charging at the Duel, Yzak's mobile suit. He unleashed his laser sword and the combat began seriously. Yzak didn't see it coming and got his shield ripped off. He swore under his breath and the Duel got out a green laser beam and began shooting in Seth's direction. The black mobile suit that attacked me earlier went to back the Duel up and I dashed to him, hitting with the Valliant's fist behind Nichol's mobile suit head. It destabilized him and I took out my sniper gun, shooting in vital places such as legs and arms of his mobile suit.
"You won't get to that damn ship, ZAFT soldiers!" I got out my laser blade and slashed Nichol's mobile suit's arm off. Athrun and the Aegis came flying to me, sending me its shield as a throwing weapon, but he missed and the shield returned to him like a boomerang. The Buster waited long enough behind me and shot a deadly beam in my direction. I looked back and back flipped the Valliant, now upside down, evading the mortal blow. My heart was beating faster and my hands were getting wet from the anxiety. I tried to fly closer from the Archangel, but the Aegis stepped in my way. From my right, I saw Nichol retreating and I heard Yzak shout:
"Where's Nichol going? We're not done here!"
"He was almost shot down, Yzak! Another hit from that Valliant mobile suit and he was fried, don't you get it?" said Athrun, angrily. Yzak shot a green laser beam at the Outpacer, but obviously Seth was playing with him, which seemed to infuriate Yzak even more.
"Get back here and attack like a man, god damn it!" They chased after each other, but the Outpacer was a fast mobile suit and the Duel couldn't match its speed at all. I could almost hear Seth laughing in joy from this battle. He was a very good pilot with a similar past than me. He evaded every attack that the Duel sent him and was doing circles around the battlefield, checking if the Archangel was all right. The Strike, on the other hand, had some difficulty stopping the Buster. I could sense he was a beginner at this so I flew to him and charged with all my strength to the Buster. I arrived from the back and knocked its head off, letting it hover in space.
"Dearka, are you alright?" screamed Athrun. Dearka's voice seemed a bit rough, but he answered.
"I got to retreat too, Athrun...! If I take more damage, I'll end up dead and a dead solider is no use in the military. Get back too, Athrun! We tried our best, but this mission is a failure." The Buster flew far away, followed by the Aegis. Seth and the Outpacer re-joined me and Kira and we all heard through our monitor: "Preparations has been made for your getting back, Kira. We wish that the two ally mobile suits follow him. The captain wishes to talk to you."
"Is this a good idea, Seth? What if it's a trap?" he laughed and followed Kira into the mother ship. I sighed and shook my head in disbelief. Why do I have to be in this mess? I followed Seth and Kira in the hangar of the Archangel and we three landed one after one. Seth and I got out of our cockpits at the same time, landing on the floor with shaking feet. The pilot of the armor was directed to the first aid room, not far from here. We kept our helmet on, keeping them from seeing our face. The head mechanic had a puzzled look on his face, the same as the rest of the mechanic crew. Kira got off his helmet and his brown hair was let loose. He looked at us with his kind indigo eyes and said to us:
"Follow me, I'll bring you to the Captain right away." His voice seemed sincere and Seth immediately followed him. I had no choice but to tail Seth's shadow. We took the elevator and we got to the fifth floor of the ship. Kira seemed hesitant at first to talk to me since I didn't even look at him from the start, but took his courage and finally asked.
"Are you going to get your helmet off? After all, you saved my life out there, Kim." I shook my head and sighed.
"I can't until I see your captain. Sorry Kira." Seth nudged my arm and whispered to my ear:
"What are you doing, Kim? He's not an enemy! Why do you have to keep us secret?"
"Because I am your Commander Seth and don't make me act like one for once and punish your carefree actions." That seemed to shut him up and we all kept the dead silence. Then, the sliding doors opened and we got into the Archangel's cockpit floor. Everyone turned around to see us and Kira smiled.
"Here they are, captain. Can I go rest, if it's possible?" The woman captain smiled at him and nodded. Kira disappeared behind the sliding door, leaving us in front of her. She looked at us and handed her hand.
"My name is Murrue Ramius. I'm the captain of the Archangel and I thank you from all of us for your heroic actions… It's okay; we're not going to ambush you so you can take your helmets off." Seth sighed of joy and got his black helmet off. His striking blond hair and blue deep blue eyes greeted the captain cheerfully. He shook her hand and presented himself.
"My name is Seth Yoshiro. I am the pilot of the Outpacer. Here is my Commander Kim Desjardin, pilot of the Valliant." He said, insisting on the word commander. I guess I had no choice but to get my helmet off too. I expected a surprised look on their faces for I was a rare sight.
"You're a Commander? But...you're so young...!" said Captain Ramius in amazement. I sighed and shook her hand too. I looked around me and saw a girl my age. I smiled at her and I looked at Seth and the sliding doors opened, letting a tall man with dirty blond hair and royal blue eyes appear.
"Ah! There they are! I lost those two when I went to the medic room to get my head fixed!" said the man, obviously surprised. I sighed and crossed my arms. I was trying to understand the situation, but I guess it's couldn't be helped. Seth saluted him and the man saluted him back.
"Thanks kid for helping me back there...I guess I owe you one." Said the armor pilot.
"That was part of my assignment. I completed my mission, nothing else, sir. I'm glad you're alive."
"Commander La Flaga, I wish to present you the Outpacer's pilot, Seth Yoshiro and the Valliant's pilot, Commander Kim Desjardin." Said Captain Ramius, saluting him. I hated the military because everything was so formal all the time. The salutation, the presentation...it was so stupid and really good for nothing. Mu smiled to me and gave me a wink. I frowned and cleared my throat.
"Nice job out there, Commander Desjardin. You really showed them good." I nodded and excused myself. Seth stayed there to talk with Commander La Flaga and the rest of the piloting crew. The sliding doors opened and closed behind me. I pressed the "down" button on the elevator and pressed the fourth floor. Seconds later, the elevator doors opened on a long stretched corridor and I stepped out. Where...am I? I'm all messed up with the floors! Where did I land, exactly?
I slowly hovered around and looked from right to left. I opened one door and looked inside the room. It was a bedroom and someone was sleeping on the main bed. That person was a girl and she had long raspberry hair. She was muttering in her sleep some strange words. She is having a bad dream, obviously...Should I wake her up or let her be? Ah man...What a drag! I tried to wake her up with a little clap on the shoulder, but she wouldn't bulge. She kept trashing about and I tried to wake her up with my voice instead of continuously hitting her.
"Please wake up... You're having a bad dream...!" Her dream was getting much more violent from the looks of it and her hands were now searching about, trying to grab some objet to hit. I took her hands, but she got them away and slapped me in the process. She woke up in sweats after hitting me and I seized her arms and pinned her down on her front body side and got on her back, trying to immobilize her.
"Kira! Kira! Help me, Kira!" I remembered the face of that boy, Kira. She was now raging with fear and pain and squirmed under my weight, trying to let me go of her. Instead, she made me lose patience and I pinned her down even tighter, making her back arch in pain.
"I don't want to hurt you! Stop moving or else I'll have to do so!" But the girl punched me in the face, surprising me so I let her go. My lips turned red and a fine line of blood ran down my chin.
"What are you doing, Commander Desjardin?" said Kira out of breath, opening the sliding door to face the girl and I. She got up trembling and ran to the teenage boy. "She...she attacked me!"
I rolled my eyes, sighed and whipped off the blood on my face. "Calm down, Jesus Christ! I just wanted to wake you up because you were having a bad dream. It's not like you could put up a fight, anyway." I saluted Kira and angrily left the room, rampaging my own way in the corridor. I heard Seth laughing with the others teenager group in the adjacent room, telling false stories about his heroic actions in the battlefield. I opened the door and everyone looked at me with happy faces, but I couldn't give them back the feeling.
"We're leaving, Seth. Be in the hangar in five minutes."
"But, why? Kim, what happened to your face? Who did that to you?" screamed Seth, surprised.
"Don't bother because I said we're leaving. I'll go and salute the captain while you go and prepare the mobile suits."
"...Right. I'll see you in five." He said, running out of the room, leaving those young people speechless. I saluted them quickly and walked out of the room, hovering with my right hand on the wall to keep balance. I looked at my watch and pressed the red button. The electronic device was now on speaker mode and I talked in a very formal voice into the intercom:
"Star Strike, I am sorry we're late. We ran into...a distraction along the way." A couple of seconds later, a rusty voice could be heard in the corridor. Commander Ruck was very pissed about our situation.
What the hell happened, Kim? I want you back here immediately, do I make myself clear? What if we're attacked while you're away? ZAFT is not far from our location! Come back to protect the ship!
"Yes, Commander. Seth and I are going now." I closed the communication and I heard a chuckling voice behind me. I turned around to face the tall Mu La Flaga. I quickly saluted him, apologizing for my commander. "I guess you have to go. It can't be helped, now can it?"
"No, Commander. It's been nice meeting you all. If you ever need assistance, look for me and I shall be there." I said, giving our distress radio signal code. He accepted it with joy and saluted me.
"I have to go now." I said, leaving him alone in the corridor, descending in the elevator at the hangar level. I got out running in the enormous storage room. The mechanic team wasn't done preparing the Valliant and Seth was arguing with the mechanic chief.
"We can't let you out yet! The preparations aren't done and the damage hasn't fully been fixed!"
"I don't care, if you don't let us go, it'll be like you're keeping us hostages and this, my friend, is going to be the death of you!" I ran to Seth and gripped his shoulders. "What the hell are you saying? We don't want them as enemies, idiot! Stop your blabbering and get your ass in your cockpit."
"But they don't want to let us..."
"I don't give a damn, I'll fix this, now do what I say! Commander Ruck is in a hell of a mood and if you want to live long enough to see the end of the war, you better do what I say. You really want to follow my advice!" Something in Seth's face told me he was indeed scared and ran back to the Outpacer, the mobile still attached to wires.
"Miss, you don't understand! I don't want you to die out there, this is dangerous if you go out like this!" I shook my head, saying to him it was impossible for us to stay but he clearly insisted.
"I won't let you out!" I gave him a glare. Is that a challenge you're giving me, asshole?
"Listen, you low life! I don't have time for your reasons, we have to go! If you don't let us out, we'll break the ship we protected earlier! If you don't want to be destroyed, let us go!" I took out my gun and pointed it at his forehead. He gave me a frightened look and I understood he would do it.
"Thanks for your comprehension. Now open the gates!" I said, running to the Valliant. I pressed the automatic button on my watch and the cord got down, letting me step on it and ascended into my cockpit. I looked at my right, Seth showing me his thumb, positive about being ready. I started the engine, showing on the monitor G.U.N.D.A.M. The gates opened and the Outpacer was put on the moving platform that would expulse us out of the Archangel. Seth was hurried on the platform first and expulsed very quickly.
"What's happening here?" Said the captain throughout the hangar, her voice echoing.
I was next to go on the platform. I looked at the mechanic crew from upper level and a guy received orders to close the gates that lead to outer space. I swore under my breath and moved the Valliant out of the wires and cordages. Screams could be heard from all over the hangar as I walked to the gates.
I closed my eyes and made the Valliant hit the gates with at its strength. The door cracked, but didn't open. I punched again but the gates wouldn't budge an inch. I took out my laser sword and slashed my way out of the hangar very quickly, joining Seth in a couple of seconds.
"What kept you, Kim? What happened?" said Seth.
"I had...to force my way out."
"What? You broke the gates? Are you fucking mad?"
"I had no choice." I finally said after a long silent pause. "Let's go, we put the Star Strike in danger."