That one foolish man
One foolish man can change the world, like the person found in the escape pod that Kira picked up after Heliopolis went down. SEED X Wing.
Disclaimer; Lancaster is not of my own creation he is however the intellectual property of Sunrise and Bandai. Yeah I know I don't need to put this up but I just want to make it clear who came up with him AKA not me.
Prologue: the beginning of the end
"You never know if some fool is going to change the future."
-Odin Lowe giving one last piece of advice to the boy later known as Heero Yuy
"Minister Darlian this way if you may," said the porter who had just informed her of a call. He led her to some old-fashioned style telephone that had a separate earpiece and microphone, the only reason she knew it was a replica was because it had a video display. A regular phone would have been cheaper for the Earth Sphere Unified Nation (or ESUN as it was more commonly referred to) to maintain on the moon. Someone with eccentric tastes and no understanding of how gravity effected features and fittings must have 'found' the funding, no doubt from something 'pointless' like health care or road maintenance.
"Thank you," she said, when they reached the phone as a way of excusing the porter. Its screen was blank except for the words 'no video input'. This raised her suspicions straight away. If it was work related then the video screen would be on as a matter of courtesy. Someone didn't want to be seen.
When the porter was out of earshot, she pulled out a small device with a loop of wire that 'he' had left behind after his supposed death all those years ago. Supposed, because all they found was an arm, not to mention General Une's supposed mission report that she found on her desk along with a spare set of nappies for them. The device was an external wire tap used to record suspicious phone calls without arousing suspicion from the other end. It had its uses when oddballs called her from very important meetings as this one just had.
"Hello, Foreign Minister Darlian speaking" she said calmly as she looped the wire around the receiver.
"Hey ma-lady long time no see!" Came an all too familiar hyperactive voice that had the little recorder on the floor before she knew that she had let it go, quite an achievement in low gravity.
"Duo?" Relena said in surprise. Like the others, Duo was listed as dead after someone had, within 24 hours targeted and killed all five Gundam pilots. The attack on Duo had been horrific, with a bomb planted on the outside of the colony directly under his house. The explosion had rendered the colony uninhabitable and the remains had been blown up by the Preventers to prevent an accidental operation meteor.
"Yip sorry I can't stay and chat about old times, but I got word of an attack so I thought I'd best pass it on to ya."
Relena stiffened. Of course Duo would not have risked calling her with his assassins still at large, except in some sort of world threatening incident, maybe one involving meteor. Her heart fell as that thought hit her. Duo was not her guardian angel who would call her up out of the blue to warn her, or crash through a window to take down an assassin. That man had left his 'last report' on General Une's desk and an arm in the morgue. There was only one way he would not have called and that was if the rest of him was now in some morgue or in a grave under a false name.
"Well you see, someone big is trying to knock off the head of the ESUN during these talks with those new PLANT class colonies over at L5," Duo continued as if he was talking about the weather.
"How?" she asked snapping back to reality. The Preventers were not the same as they used to be, but something like what Duo was saying was just absurd. 'Absurd? Wake up Relena how many times have you been kidnapped?' she thought mentally counting the times Duo and co had had to step in.
"Well as far as I can tell, one of the diplomats has some explosives on their person and of course they're only asked to go through a metal detector these days. I swear the local Wal-Mart has better security than the Preventers these days, and the miners are better armed." Duo said rambling on about how much better OZ security was despite the fact he was stealing Leos as a child.
"Duo!"
"Yeah?"
"Who is it and how do we stop them?" she asked remembering how off topic he could get.
"Don't know" he said sounding as if he was shrugging. "I delayed them by tampering with that Cline guy's shuttle, so they will wait until he gets there if that helps. Call the General, she might have an idea. I can't find her number in the Preventers' database. Damn, the wicked witch of OZ has some nice toys in that HQ of hers," which she did as she had turned the 2nd armoured into something vaguely resembling an OZ division.
She was about to ask if he knew anything else that might help but the conference room down the hall erupted in a fire ball.
Relena would wake about two weeks later and would pull the Sanc Kingdom out of the newly formed alliance that had risen from the ashes of the ESUN. She would set up her own temporary government to keep her country out of the conflict which would become known as the Bloody Valentine War. George Allster, a senior civil servant, filled the position of Vice Foreign Minister after Relenas own Vice Minister took her place in the Eurasian Federation. Those who had planned this had expected Relena to die, but it didn't matter she was out of the way now and after all how much trouble could one Queen of a pacifist country cause.
A/N I know very original a cross over between Gundam Wing and Seed but this is a side project I have been working on whilst my beta was ill with double pneumonia. I am still working on Turn A SEED for all one of you that care.