Episode 1: Regenesis
Outside the ruins of Heliopolis, several junk guild ships were scrounging around the colony for parts or materials, which might be sellable. At the southern tip of the colony, an old, outdated Lesseps class carrier ship, refitted with cranes and rigs as a junk guild ship, was combing through the small field of asteroids. What was notable about this ship was the fact that there were no less than three Mobile Suits working around it. While the other ships cannibalising the colony used mass-produced, and in many places customized, Chimera mobile armours, this ship had an entire, fully operational GINN Mobile Suit (albeit one modified and stripped of excess armour), a BUCUE, with a strange jet pack salvaged from discarded ZAFT flight packs, resting on the rear deck beside the crane and most conspicuously of all, a red and white ASTRAY model GUNDAM standing on the front right platform of the ship beside a heavy ordinance crane.
"Remind me why we're just roaming the debris belt when there's a shitload of booty inside the actual colony?" the cocky, bored voice from Red Frame's natural pilot broke the radio silence between the ship and the three Mobile Suits.
"Lowe's right." the female pilot of the BUCUE said. "Heliopolis hasn't been completely dismantled. There's got to be a lot of valuable tech and stuff in the labs and hangers." Not to mention it's safer in there too.
"Hold on Lowe, Kisato." the only person in the ship it self spoke up, a thirty-something natural who insisted everyone just call her 'the Professor'. "There could very easily be some more secret factories concealed in the colony's base too."
Lowe sighed from the cockpit of Red Frame. He turned his GUNDAM back around to the GINN standing on the central deck just below the bridge. "What do you think Liam?" he asked.
The GINN shifted so that its single red eye looked up at Red Frame. "I think you, Kisato and the Professor have pointed arguments on both counts, but in this case I think we should at least explore the asteroid." The voice of Liam, the only coordinator of the group, drifted out of the speakers of the other two Mobile Suits and the ship's bridge. "If we do happen across a secret warehouse or something similar, then we'll be the only ones there to plunder it. And then we could round up a bit extra inside the colony."
"Whatever." Lowe grumbled.
Kisato just slumped in her pilot seat and folded her arms disappointedly.
"Kisato," the Professor radioed in, "can you scout ahead on the asteroid surface to find the nearest hanger door?"
"Sure thing ma'am." the young, blonde natural started booting up her MS's motion systems, the thought of a job seeming to motivate her. The quadruped Mobile Suit leapt off the ship and drifted down to the surface of the asteroid, using the jet pack to slow it's decent. "Lowe, this pack may be ugly, but it works beautifully!"
"Of course. You expected anything else?" Red Frame's pilot answered.
Kisato smiled at Lowe's reply. The guy was cute, but she thought she could never adjust to his thrill-seeking persona. Kisato's MS hit the ground and she immediately powered forward, using the topside jets of her pack and the BUCUE's high-speed crawler treads on its feet to overtake the ship high above her. The suit's engines rumbled through Kisato's insulated cockpit as the BUCUE sped ahead over a slanted rock formation. The MS flew out over empty space, the great maw of an open hanger below it. "Well, I guess we found our entrance." Kisato said weakly.
"Nicely done Kisato," the Professor said. "Now move your ass back to the edge of the hanger and wait for Lowe and Liam to join you."
"Right." replied Kisato. She rotated her central thrusters and ignited them, too fast and too hard. Kisato screamed as her BUCUE spun laterally and rocketed, upside down, into the hanger. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! HELP MEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Kisato! Shut off your right side jet and fire it again!" Liam called in through the BUCUE's radio. Kisato did as she was told, but the MS clipped the corner of a wall as it spun around again and sent the BUCUE flying across the hanger where it hit a disused shuttle clamp and collapsed to the floor. Inside the cockpit, Kisato's world was chaotically thrown around so when her MS collided with the shuttle clamp, Kisato was hurled against the exit hatch above her and everything suddenly went black for her.