Chapter One

Captured Beginning

"GET IN THERE!"

Two Zeon soldiers threw a boy inside a cell, a barrier of energy forming at the entrance of the cell. The boy had hit the wall and slid down it, sitting on the floor. He had a coat around him so that he couldn't use his arms, which were wrapped around his chest. by extra long sleeves. One of the guards grunted, standing at the side of the cell, keeping an eye on the boy, eyeing him from time to time. The boy looked up, giving a glare at the soldier.

"What? You like boys or something?"

The soldier didn't say anything, turning away. The boy's eyes were unnatural to him... the boy had blood red eyes with dark silver hair that would go down to his eyebrows, but was spiked up. He looked like he was 16, yet his appearance sent a shiver through the Zeon guard each time the boy would glare at him. He started when he heard foot steps coming towards them. He quickly straightened, watching a scientist in a white lab coat stop in front of the boy's cell, holding a clipboard in his hand. He peered in through the energy wall, then down to the clipboard as another person in a white coat came up to them. The first person in the coat spoke.

"Re Hoshi, age: 16. Sex: Male. Weight: 152 lbs. Parents: Unknown. DOB: Unknown-"

"Wait... his name. Doesn't that mean "Love Star" or "Romance Star" in English?"

They both began to chuckle to themselves, Re glaring at them through the energy gate. The second scientist stopped the first with a confused look on his face after a moment.

"You know his age, but not his date of birth?"

The first scientist shrugged at the second.

"His DOB was erased from the systems somehow. All he would give us about it was his age. Anyway..."

He looked down at the clip board once again.

"Race: White. Place of Birth: Earth..... huh?"

The fist scientist had an eyebrow raised, while the second gave him a strange look.

"He... he has piloting skills... ahem, Piloting Ability:.... A-advanced!? But... he's just a..."

"A boy, sir?"

The guard spoke up now, turning his head to the scientist, who both began to stare at him. He gulped, trying to remember all that he heard about him.

"Well, he was with the Earth Federation's Forces, leading a squad of other Mobile Suits. I have heard that he and his squad were ambushed by our troops. They say that Re... well, that he took down 12 of them with his rifle-"

The second scientist chuckled, crossing his arms.

"That's all good, but any soldier could have done tha-"

"Excuse me, but he did it by bashing his rifle into 12 of our Zakus and easily dodging the bullets, like he was... dancing through them. That was the best description I heard of it."

The scientists were silent, turning to Re, who was just grinning at them through the cell. The second scientist scowled, taking the clip board from the first. He began to write down a few things onto it, clearly thinking, then walked off without another word. The first quickly followed...

About an hour later, a group of soldiers walked past Re's cell. In the midst of them was another man, in his late 20s. He was bounded just like Re was, but had some wounds on him, barely able to walk. They stopped a few cells away, tossing the man in it and turning the energy gate on. Re watched them stop in front of his cell next, only moving his eyes. They turned off the gate, guns ready in case Re tried anything.

"Re Hoshi."

He glared up at them with his blood red eyes, seeing a couple of the soldiers shiver a bit from it. Two of them walked toward him and scooped him up from under his arms.

"It's time for interrogation..."

Re did not say a word, just let them take him to it...

After about another hour, Re was thrown back into his cell, hitting the back wall hard and falling to his side. His right eye was a deep purple and was swollen shut, while his lip was busted. His nose was bleeding, clearly broken. He glared up at the soldiers, walking away out of his sight. He slowly sat up, then moved the muscles in his face as much as possible. He grunted as a loud pop was heard, his nose going back in place from his muscles. He gave a sigh, closing his eyes as he thought to himself in silence. He knew that he would never tell the Zeon forces where his allys were, and he doubted the other man would, IF he was also with them... but...

How the Hell can I get out of here...?

He gave another sigh, getting on the cott/bed, sitting while he thought.... and remembered what happened... groaning a single name quietly as he did...

*The other day...*

"GET OUT OF THERE, RICHARD!!!"

Re grunted as he heard an explosion to his right.

"DAMN ZEON!!!"

He was inside a RGM-79, the piloet seat somewhat rusted from age. He wore jeans and a torn white shirt, a black leather jacket over his shoulders. He was inside a small building, a hole in one of the walls from the earlier explosion. He turned the suit as quickly as it could turn and fired into the dust cloud with his rifle. He saw some flying green metal in the air, then grinned, knowing he was hitting them. Then the return fire came. another 79 that was next to him was hit, exploding in a few seconds. Re growled, running his suit into cover.

"Damn these cheap suits!"

He slammed his fist into the arm of the chair he was in, hating how slow the suits felt to him.

"Just a few hits will make them explode! How are we supposed to win this war if we don't have the proper weapons!?"

He exhaled through his nose, turning his 79 out of the cover to shoot a few rounds, hitting more of the incoming Zakus, then went into cover again to reload. That was when an older man, in his late 30s, appeared on his monitor. He had soft blue eyes and blond hair that was combed back. Re started.

"R-Richard! Did you manage to escape!?"

Richard chuckled, closing his eyes. Re grunted as part of the wall he was hiding behind fell to the ground. He quickly began to fire back, shooting five shots, each one head shots. He grinned as he took cover again, letting the Zakus waste their ammo. He then noticed that he was out of bullets. He scowled from that, thinking of what else to do.

"I don't think we can have that stew you promised to make us..."

Re start another start, slowly turning to face him in his monitor.

"............. What are you..... talking about, Richard....? Of course we will. After we win-"

Richard shook his head, opening his eyes again to look at Re.

"No... there's no way we can win this, Re... listen... listen while I can still stay this..."

Re gulped, staring hard into the monitor, his face blank as Richard spoke.

"You are a good person, Re. Despite your scary glares and your attitude, you care for your troops and for other people. You just hide it so you won't have a chance of having it hurt you. That's because you had no parents-"

"Richard.... stop it...."

"-You hide your true self and feelings behind that scary image that everyone that did not understand you gave you. But you proved your loyalty to the Earth and rose through the ranks, becoming the leader of your own squad, at only the age of 16...-"

"Please.... stop it...."

"Re, you were the most enjoyable, if not the most stubborn, student I had to teach to piolet a Mobile Suit. I remember it like it was yesterday..., you were 12... I don't regret any choices I've made, Re. I-"

"STOP IT, RICHARD!!!"

Richard was quiet as he saw Re, looking down at the floor of his cockpit, his eyes covered by shadows, explosions going off in the background.

"You... you ARE coming back, Richard! We ARE winning this battle! We will destroy all of the Zakus here and take care of our wounded and dead! And when we are finished with that, I'll make my stew that everyone loves so mu-much for everyone... and.... and..."

A drop of water hit the floor... a tear... tears running down Re's face. Richard blinked in shock, then chuckled.

"My my, I have seen you do a lot of things, but NEVER cry..."

"Richard..."

"Listen, my student... don't ever change for the worse from this lose. In fact, grown stronger from it, and make sure this doesn't ever happen to another one of your friends ever again... can you make that promise for me, Re? As a last wish for a dead man?"

Re slowly looked up, his tears like waterfalls from his eyes.

"...... Y-yeah.... Richard.... I.... promise...."

Richard smiled at him, then gave a salute.

"Well... see you on the other side one day, Lovey Star!"

The monitor was suddenly filled with a bright yellow light.... then the signal was lost... the screen full of static. Re stared at it for a long moment.

"R-Richard....?"

He slowly reached out with his hand and touched the screen.

"Richard?"

His hand dropped as his body started to shake. Then, in a strong roar of sorrow and pain...

"RICHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRDDDDDDD!!!!!"

"FREEZE!!!"

A Zaku appeared to his side, Re's allies' suits on the ground... all dead... the person piloting the Zaku spoke through the suit as other Zakus started to enter the building.

"Give up now! Slowly get out of your cockpit with your hands raised!"

There was no reaction, Re's 79 completely still. The Zaku raised its machine gun at it.

"I SAID GET OUT NOW-"

He was interrupted by the 79's hand grabbing the Zaku's head, quickly lifting it up. The person began to scream, the arms of the Zaku trying to grab trying to get the grip off. Re moved the 79 forward, walking slowly. The other Zakus started to back up, a strange aura covering the 79. Inside it, Re was still shaking, tears streaming down his face. His voice came out of the suit so the other Zakus could hear him.

"You.... bastards..."

The parts in the 79's arm began to grind from the weight of the Zaku, but unnaturally stayed together.

"You killed... all of my friends... all of them... my squad... EVERYONE!!!"

The 79 then tossed the Zaku into the air and through the roof... and it kept going... while they were watching that, Re appeared in front of the nearest Zaku, then stabbed his rifle through the cockpit of it. Sparks began to engulf it as he pulled his gun out, boosting back as the Zaku exploded, catching the attention of the rest.

"Shoot him! Shoot him!!!"

They began to fire their machine guns at Re... he ducked his suit down and made the 79 dash as fast as it could toward the nearest one again, giving a blood lust roar, his eyes blood shot, connecting to his pupils. He bashed down with his rifle, crushing the chest and pilot. He then tackled it into another Zaku, pinning the two suits together. Re then dashed back, his thrusters red from the heat. He did so just as the crushed Zaku exploded, destroying the other one. Re turned to the rest, the eight of them. The right eye of the 79 was busted open, but instead of green, it was red now, the left eye brown from the red eye under the green glass. The Zakus began to back away as they reloaded. Re snarled in his seat, his knuckled white from the grip he had on them.

"None of you... are GETTING AWAY!!!!"

This time, he dashed toward the Zaku furthest away, hitting it hard with his rifle, like a slash with a sword, sending it flying through the wall. Re quickly spun his 79 around, dodging through the gunfire like it was air. He stabbed his rifle through the nearest one, through the head down to the cockpit, then pulled it out as he knocked it to the side.

"Six..."

He thrusted into the air, making the 79 do a front flip, and drop kicked the next Zaku, crushing it like paper, but also damaging the let of the 79.

"Five..."

He boosted to the side and threw his rifle into the furthest Zaku, into the cockpit. It made an explosion, while made half of the building fall, filling the air with a thick cloud of dust. Re gave a roar, burying the 79's hands into the cockpit of another Zaku, then picked it up over his head, the damaged leg groaning violently. He tossed it into another suit, both of then exploding.

"Three..."

He dashed through the cloud toward the last three, which were in a line, firing at him with their machine guns. The 79 dashed low to the ground as Re gave a blood lust roar, then jumped in the air, landing on the Zaku that was in the middle, crushing the chest of it with the 79's weight. While the last two Zakus began to turn around, Re quickly grabbed the arm of the Zaku he just defeated and swung hum around, hitting the last two, defeating them.....

Then silence... the only sound was Re panting and sweating, not able to cry any more... He leaned back in his seat as he heard the leg and arm of his 79 groan from damage as it stood up. He had his eyes closed, thinking about his lost friends...

"Richard..."

He gave a sigh, cried out.

"I.... need to get out of here..."

He looked down at his monitor and made the 79 walk out of the building... he then stopped the 79, baring his teeth.

"Son of a..."

He was surrounded by Zakus, over two dozen of them, a squad having rocket launchers pointed at him. Re roared through the intercom of his suit.

"Come and get me, Zeon!!! I swear I will kill each and every one of you for what you have d-"

He was interrupted... by a beam shooting down from the sky, blasting through the upper chest and up of his 79.... the cockpit and everything below it stayed together, and fell to the ground...

"No... no.... no!"

He tried to get the suit to move, but to no use... he was lucky just to be alive from that attack, but he wanted... no.... needed to kill them.

"Damn it to HELL!!!"

He slammed his fists into the arms of his chair.

"What the Hell hit me, anyway!?"

As if to answer, the cockpit of his suit was turn open by a Zaku... in the back was something which made Re's eyes grow wide with shock...

Big Zam, all if it's beam weapons pointed at him, was standing near him, looking like a green demon... Re gulped, then closed his eyes, knowing one thing as the Zeon soldiers surrounded him, pointing their guns at him...

We.... lost....

**********

"Bah..."

Re layed down on the cot in his cell, staring blankly at the ceiling.

"Damn it, Richard... you should have ran... not fight in an area where you have no chance..."

He rolled onto his side, silent down... all of his men were dead, the Earth Federation thinks that he is dead, too... but, right then, he needed to do one thing...

I need to get out of here...

Meanwhile...

In a room near the hanger of the building, five men stood around a table with some blue prints on it. One of the men, the leader of the area, spoke. He was very over weight and bald, having a mustache that looked like a 'V'. He had really dark skin and small eyes...

"O.k, when will this be done?! I have spent much money into this project for this."

A soldier at the table sighed, having long black hair and tanned skin.

"We are sorry, sir, but that battle the other day delayed us a small amount. They... well, they destroyed the parts that were being shipped here, along with half of the Mobile Suits guarding it..."

"Bah, excuses!"

The leader slammed his fist into the table, now yelling.

"I don't want any more excuses! I was results on the project! It will change the tides of this very war!"

"Now now, Escure, these things happen. The war isn't going anywhere, so just be patient."

The leader quickly turned around, his face red from anger.

"Who just said that!? Oh!"

He gave the quickest bow he could, his face suddenly pale when he saw who said that... it was none other then Char Aznable himself, grinning with a hand holding his helmet on his head.

"I did... now, this... project...the only reason why you would be like this is if it could impress me. I can't wait until it's done. But I am not here for that. You remember that boy who was the leader of the Earth's squad that took out 12 of our Zaku's nearly bare handed, having only an empty rifle?"

Escure straightened up, going over to the table, Char following him to it. He rolled up the blue prints and put them to the side. He then tapped the table, a monitor under it turning on. He traced his finger around, bringing up a file.

"Ah, you mean that kid, Re Hoshi... yes, we have him in the prison blocks right now. He was damn lucky to have done what he-"

Char waved his hand, interrupting Escure.

"Have you checked out the suit he was using? To see if it had some sort of enchantments on it?"

Escure nodded, bring up the file on it.

"Yes, it was just a normal RGM-79. It was actually starting to rust in some limbs, we were surprised that it even could still move!"

Char nodded, silent as Escure continued.

"It had no saber, only a rifle, which ran out of ammo. The limbs were damaged, the leg fell off while we were bringing it over here... he piloted the suit, though, like he would a gundam, almost... hmmm..."

Char began to think with Escure, looking at Re's file.

"This kid... he could be special, different... keep him in the cells here until I saw otherwise. He could be an Ace pilot for use one day..."

Escure gave Char a bow.

"Yes, sir."

In front of the table was a wall of windows... outside of that was the hanger, where the Zakus were kept. One whole side was dedicated to one thing, the project. All it was was the skelliton of a suit, but it already had dark red eyes...

End of Chapter One...