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Chapter One- The Past: A bitter, sweet memory
Date:
01, 09, AC-194
On the L1X-06881 Colony in the L1 Sector, the sun set for the sixteenth time that day and a glimmered of light reflects off of a shuttle that was headed toward the colony; it carried a shipment of mobile suit parts along with a prototype Leo on board. This shuttle also had Rio Cros, the head official of the Zucast mobile suit facility based on the L1X-06881 Colony, onboard, along with a crew of five on board including the pilot and co-pilot of the shuttle. Rio was a promising employee for the Earth Sphere Alliance, especially within OZ. He stood 5'8" and had friendly brown eyes, along with black hair and glasses that came to his nose. The man also wore his brown space suit to most places, except for work, home and leisure.
Meanwhile in a house located on the southern end of the colony, a fourteen-year-old boy sat in an armchair and was bored out of his mind; he had brown hair, aqua blue eyes, slightly built up from exercise, a solid red shirt, and blue jeans on. The boy got up and walked through a small arched hallway. Once through the hallway, the boy walked into the kitchen and grabbed an apple from the basket next to the refrigerator; he shined up the apple and promptly began to eat it. The apple was delicious in his heart, and smiled every time he is about to bite it. A small buzzing sound caught the boy's attention and he headed back into the living room. The brown haired boy then walked over and answered the videophone.
The boy saw his older brother, Rio, on the other side of the screen and a smile came over his face.
"Rio, it's good seeing you again," the teenager was cheerful and took another bite out of the apple.
"Its good to see you again, too. Alex,"
"When will you get in?" Alex glanced at a nearby clock.
"We are about ten kilometers from the colony and should get in at about ten o'clock."
"I'll see you then..." An explosion in the background on Rio's side cut Alex short. He hesitated for a moment and tried to think of something to say, but the words "Rio, what was that?" came out of his mouth
"Hold on I'll find out..." Rio left the screen.
Alex barely heard some of the conversations that went over the next few minutes.
"What's happening?"
"Five OZ Leos are attacking us..."
"OZ? ... But that can't be..."
"They will let us live if we get out of the shuttle now..."
"What?! You fools... Don't go out there..."
"Do what you want, but we are out of here..."
A few moments later, a light filled up the screen of the video camera and Rio reappeared on the screen soon afterwards. Rio had only one expression on his face, that of fear. He tried to keep it hidden, but wasn't very successful.
"What's happening?" Alex was very concerned while being very confused.
"I don't know why, but there are five OZ Leos just outside. But, that doesn't matter now though. I need you to get out here now," Rio commanded in a blur of words.
"What are you talking about?" Alex was confused and dropped his apple onto the floor.
"Please listen, I need you to the garage and push back the shovel in the closet," Rio acted very serious. "It should lead you to a hangar with a mobile suit inside. I have been working on that mobile suit for the past couple of years. Please go now!"
Alex heeded his brother's words. He ran out of the house, and headed into the garage to the right of the house. He saw the shovel in the closet, and thought to himself "this better not be a prank." This couldn't be though, since he knew Rio wasn't one to joke around with a subject like this. Once he pushed the shovel, the door slammed shut and the floor descended, darkness was the only thing above Alex's head. The floor stopped after a few moments, and a new door opened up. This revealed a hallway with rails at the end. Alex walked down the hallway, he had no idea what to expect until he got to the rails and saw the mobile suit Rio had talked about.
The mobile suit seemed to dwarf Alex, from the head to ground height of 16.2m. The black head had one camera lens along with a rounded top and two radio antennas sticking out of the head. The upper, tan torso area bulged out about five meters and curved down to where the cockpit is in the lower, blue torso area. The tan, lower legs of the mobile suit had bulkiness to them, but curved down and up toward the leg joint and feet. The feet were six meters long, with a narrow point at the end of the feet and made the feet look like triangular based pyramid with a working joint where the leg and feet met. The upper leg section consisted of black armor, which formed to the wiring underneath; the upper arm area was about the same way. The lower, blue arm sections had a bulky wrist area and narrowed toward the elbow joint, and the hand was a regular. The tan shoulders have jet vents that measured two meters in diameter, and the shoulders narrowed out to a point about halfway between the shoulder joint and elbow. Attached to the wall next to the mobile suit was a nine and a half meter long gundanium curved sabre, which had the width of about two and a half meters.
A feeling of awe flooded Alex as he saw the mobile suit, but he didn't know why. He had never seen a mobile suit outside a blueprint, and thought that maybe the whole thing was a big prank for a moment.
He breathed a sigh of grief, and anxiety, and headed toward the mobile suit, with wonder and confusion of how Rio kept it from him. "Maybe those Saturdays weren't spent on work after all... "
Finally he reached the mobile suit, Alex realized he had no idea how to open the cockpit let alone pilot such a thing. He looked around and saw a control panel by the mobile suit. He promptly pushed the open button. The cockpit door opened and Alex rushed after he remembered that his brother needed him. He looked at the controls and didn't know what did what. Alex pushed a flashing red button and the cockpit closed. He pulled the lever on his right and the mobile suit crashed back into the colony wall. "Um… yeah, mustn't do that again."
After another few moments, Alex got the hang of movements of the mobile suit and grabbed the sabre from the wall. He then proceeded out of the hangar and headed toward his brother's location.
After ten minutes, Alex in his mobile suit saw a battle ahead and maximized his thrusters. He saw five Leos on the attack against another Leo, but didn't catch sight of the shuttle. The mobile suit then went through a debris field, and Alex put two and two together about the shuttle.
"Rio, where did you go?!" Tears floated away from him. "Wait... I count six... but there was only... five..."
The mobile suit went a little further, and then a communication link popped up in the cockpit.
"Good to see you got it, Alex," Rio commented as he was being thrown about in the cockpit of the experimental Leo.
"What do you mean, it?" Alex was again confused.
"You got the mobile suit, Icedig. I know you can take them out..." Blood spat out of Rio's mouth.
"Who are they?" Alex grew more and more concerned with each moment.
"Its not OZ.... Don't be deceived by them..." Rio attempted to attack back but failed. "There is something else though…" The five Leos finally struck the fuel containers of the Leo and it exploded from cockpit to head.
The five Leos put down their Leo rifles and began to relax.
"I say our mission is complete," the leader said with calmness while he wiped sweat from his head.
"Wait, there is mobile suit heading our way on radar sir."
"Is it a Leo or Aires?" the leader had his Leo's camera lock onto the mobile suit.
"No, its unidentified."
"That can't be."
Before another word could be spoken, Icedig reached the five Leos with the gundanium sabre wielded. It did an upper slice through one Leo, then a downward slice through a second. The two Leos exploded after each half separated into clean pieces.
"You killed my brother!" Alex yelled and then gasped for air. His anger was gone beyond comparison with the death of his brother flooded his head.
The three remaining Leos fired their Leo rifles at Icedig, but the bullets did nothing. Icedig slammed into one of the Leos while stabbed through the cockpit with the sabre. The two Leos began a retreat while they fired on Icedig, but Icedig threw the gundanium sabre at the Leo on its right; it impaled the Leo through the cockpit. He breathed in and out at feverous rate, and sweat poured down his back. After a few moments, Alex brought his breath back into order and saw the last Leo in focus. Alex, after he realized he needed more weapons, typed in a search for weapons and got only one other weapon, a beam saber stored in the side of Icedig's torso.
"I'll never forgive you for what you have done," Alex said as Icedig ignited the beam saber and charged at the remaining Leo. "Never!"
"It has to be him... no doubt about it..." the leader made a realization about his mission at the last second, but couldn't do anything about it.
Icedig sliced through the lower torso area and backed off to see the Leo split into two while it exploded. Icedig retrieved its gundanium sabre from the Leo that got impaled. Icedig's camera focused on the sabre, and saw little damage aside from scorch marks. Alex had the camera look at the all of the debris around him and saw nothing but carnage in his mind.
"Was this actually combat? How come... " Alex looked at his trembling hand and in a quiver came over his voice, "I feel better, yet I lost Rio... What have I become..."
Alex looked at the debris of the last Leo in front of him, and laid his head in his hands. He began to cry, and as he did the tears floated in the low gravity.
He looked back up at the colony and saw light that bounced off the colony. The debris became shadows in the light as they blurred from Alex's tears.
"NO!"
Date:
10, 11, AC-197
Location: L2Y-89432 Colony, Riggs Motel Room 141
Alex woke up in a cold sweat and sat up on the bed; half of his bed covers lay on the ground next to him. He reached down and pulled them back over him. His eyes seemed to almost want to cry, but couldn't manage to do it.
"I can't forget that day... the day my brother died..." Alex mumbled in a low mournful voice. "It haunts me even in my dreams."
Alex then lied back down and closed his eyes.
Chapter One- The Past: A bitter, sweet memory
Date:
01, 09, AC-194
On the L1X-06881 Colony in the L1 Sector, the sun set for the sixteenth time that day and a glimmered of light reflects off of a shuttle that was headed toward the colony; it carried a shipment of mobile suit parts along with a prototype Leo on board. This shuttle also had Rio Cros, the head official of the Zucast mobile suit facility based on the L1X-06881 Colony, onboard, along with a crew of five on board including the pilot and co-pilot of the shuttle. Rio was a promising employee for the Earth Sphere Alliance, especially within OZ. He stood 5'8" and had friendly brown eyes, along with black hair and glasses that came to his nose. The man also wore his brown space suit to most places, except for work, home and leisure.
Meanwhile in a house located on the southern end of the colony, a fourteen-year-old boy sat in an armchair and was bored out of his mind; he had brown hair, aqua blue eyes, slightly built up from exercise, a solid red shirt, and blue jeans on. The boy got up and walked through a small arched hallway. Once through the hallway, the boy walked into the kitchen and grabbed an apple from the basket next to the refrigerator; he shined up the apple and promptly began to eat it. The apple was delicious in his heart, and smiled every time he is about to bite it. A small buzzing sound caught the boy's attention and he headed back into the living room. The brown haired boy then walked over and answered the videophone.
The boy saw his older brother, Rio, on the other side of the screen and a smile came over his face.
"Rio, it's good seeing you again," the teenager was cheerful and took another bite out of the apple.
"Its good to see you again, too. Alex,"
"When will you get in?" Alex glanced at a nearby clock.
"We are about ten kilometers from the colony and should get in at about ten o'clock."
"I'll see you then..." An explosion in the background on Rio's side cut Alex short. He hesitated for a moment and tried to think of something to say, but the words "Rio, what was that?" came out of his mouth
"Hold on I'll find out..." Rio left the screen.
Alex barely heard some of the conversations that went over the next few minutes.
"What's happening?"
"Five OZ Leos are attacking us..."
"OZ? ... But that can't be..."
"They will let us live if we get out of the shuttle now..."
"What?! You fools... Don't go out there..."
"Do what you want, but we are out of here..."
A few moments later, a light filled up the screen of the video camera and Rio reappeared on the screen soon afterwards. Rio had only one expression on his face, that of fear. He tried to keep it hidden, but wasn't very successful.
"What's happening?" Alex was very concerned while being very confused.
"I don't know why, but there are five OZ Leos just outside. But, that doesn't matter now though. I need you to get out here now," Rio commanded in a blur of words.
"What are you talking about?" Alex was confused and dropped his apple onto the floor.
"Please listen, I need you to the garage and push back the shovel in the closet," Rio acted very serious. "It should lead you to a hangar with a mobile suit inside. I have been working on that mobile suit for the past couple of years. Please go now!"
Alex heeded his brother's words. He ran out of the house, and headed into the garage to the right of the house. He saw the shovel in the closet, and thought to himself "this better not be a prank." This couldn't be though, since he knew Rio wasn't one to joke around with a subject like this. Once he pushed the shovel, the door slammed shut and the floor descended, darkness was the only thing above Alex's head. The floor stopped after a few moments, and a new door opened up. This revealed a hallway with rails at the end. Alex walked down the hallway, he had no idea what to expect until he got to the rails and saw the mobile suit Rio had talked about.
The mobile suit seemed to dwarf Alex, from the head to ground height of 16.2m. The black head had one camera lens along with a rounded top and two radio antennas sticking out of the head. The upper, tan torso area bulged out about five meters and curved down to where the cockpit is in the lower, blue torso area. The tan, lower legs of the mobile suit had bulkiness to them, but curved down and up toward the leg joint and feet. The feet were six meters long, with a narrow point at the end of the feet and made the feet look like triangular based pyramid with a working joint where the leg and feet met. The upper leg section consisted of black armor, which formed to the wiring underneath; the upper arm area was about the same way. The lower, blue arm sections had a bulky wrist area and narrowed toward the elbow joint, and the hand was a regular. The tan shoulders have jet vents that measured two meters in diameter, and the shoulders narrowed out to a point about halfway between the shoulder joint and elbow. Attached to the wall next to the mobile suit was a nine and a half meter long gundanium curved sabre, which had the width of about two and a half meters.
A feeling of awe flooded Alex as he saw the mobile suit, but he didn't know why. He had never seen a mobile suit outside a blueprint, and thought that maybe the whole thing was a big prank for a moment.
He breathed a sigh of grief, and anxiety, and headed toward the mobile suit, with wonder and confusion of how Rio kept it from him. "Maybe those Saturdays weren't spent on work after all... "
Finally he reached the mobile suit, Alex realized he had no idea how to open the cockpit let alone pilot such a thing. He looked around and saw a control panel by the mobile suit. He promptly pushed the open button. The cockpit door opened and Alex rushed after he remembered that his brother needed him. He looked at the controls and didn't know what did what. Alex pushed a flashing red button and the cockpit closed. He pulled the lever on his right and the mobile suit crashed back into the colony wall. "Um… yeah, mustn't do that again."
After another few moments, Alex got the hang of movements of the mobile suit and grabbed the sabre from the wall. He then proceeded out of the hangar and headed toward his brother's location.
After ten minutes, Alex in his mobile suit saw a battle ahead and maximized his thrusters. He saw five Leos on the attack against another Leo, but didn't catch sight of the shuttle. The mobile suit then went through a debris field, and Alex put two and two together about the shuttle.
"Rio, where did you go?!" Tears floated away from him. "Wait... I count six... but there was only... five..."
The mobile suit went a little further, and then a communication link popped up in the cockpit.
"Good to see you got it, Alex," Rio commented as he was being thrown about in the cockpit of the experimental Leo.
"What do you mean, it?" Alex was again confused.
"You got the mobile suit, Icedig. I know you can take them out..." Blood spat out of Rio's mouth.
"Who are they?" Alex grew more and more concerned with each moment.
"Its not OZ.... Don't be deceived by them..." Rio attempted to attack back but failed. "There is something else though…" The five Leos finally struck the fuel containers of the Leo and it exploded from cockpit to head.
The five Leos put down their Leo rifles and began to relax.
"I say our mission is complete," the leader said with calmness while he wiped sweat from his head.
"Wait, there is mobile suit heading our way on radar sir."
"Is it a Leo or Aires?" the leader had his Leo's camera lock onto the mobile suit.
"No, its unidentified."
"That can't be."
Before another word could be spoken, Icedig reached the five Leos with the gundanium sabre wielded. It did an upper slice through one Leo, then a downward slice through a second. The two Leos exploded after each half separated into clean pieces.
"You killed my brother!" Alex yelled and then gasped for air. His anger was gone beyond comparison with the death of his brother flooded his head.
The three remaining Leos fired their Leo rifles at Icedig, but the bullets did nothing. Icedig slammed into one of the Leos while stabbed through the cockpit with the sabre. The two Leos began a retreat while they fired on Icedig, but Icedig threw the gundanium sabre at the Leo on its right; it impaled the Leo through the cockpit. He breathed in and out at feverous rate, and sweat poured down his back. After a few moments, Alex brought his breath back into order and saw the last Leo in focus. Alex, after he realized he needed more weapons, typed in a search for weapons and got only one other weapon, a beam saber stored in the side of Icedig's torso.
"I'll never forgive you for what you have done," Alex said as Icedig ignited the beam saber and charged at the remaining Leo. "Never!"
"It has to be him... no doubt about it..." the leader made a realization about his mission at the last second, but couldn't do anything about it.
Icedig sliced through the lower torso area and backed off to see the Leo split into two while it exploded. Icedig retrieved its gundanium sabre from the Leo that got impaled. Icedig's camera focused on the sabre, and saw little damage aside from scorch marks. Alex had the camera look at the all of the debris around him and saw nothing but carnage in his mind.
"Was this actually combat? How come... " Alex looked at his trembling hand and in a quiver came over his voice, "I feel better, yet I lost Rio... What have I become..."
Alex looked at the debris of the last Leo in front of him, and laid his head in his hands. He began to cry, and as he did the tears floated in the low gravity.
He looked back up at the colony and saw light that bounced off the colony. The debris became shadows in the light as they blurred from Alex's tears.
"NO!"
Date:
10, 11, AC-197
Location: L2Y-89432 Colony, Riggs Motel Room 141
Alex woke up in a cold sweat and sat up on the bed; half of his bed covers lay on the ground next to him. He reached down and pulled them back over him. His eyes seemed to almost want to cry, but couldn't manage to do it.
"I can't forget that day... the day my brother died..." Alex mumbled in a low mournful voice. "It haunts me even in my dreams."
Alex then lied back down and closed his eyes.
