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01 – The Shooting Star She Saw
Duo and I didn't have any troubles as we were landing on the Earth with our Gundams. We had very similar looking Gundams, both depicting something to do with death and justice. His had a thermal energy scythe, something like death would wield, thus the name of his Gundam being Deathscythe, and mine had a thermal energy sword like the images you would see in a church of an avenging angel, making me name it Archangel.
I grew up on colony V-08744 in the L2 colony cluster. I was dumped there by my father, who I now don't have any memory of. I was wandering around trying to find him when Duo and Solo found me. They took me under their wing, despite being the same age as Duo, and they helped me hide the fact that I was a girl. Being a girl on the streets of that particular colony was not a good thing. When Solo dies from the plague that went through the colony, we were taken in by the church run by Father Maxwell and Sister Helen. When Duo and I were not taken in by foster parents, Father Maxwell and Sister Helen adopted us, making Duo a Maxwell. Me on the other hand? I kept the only thing that I could remember about my past; Raberba. I had no idea what it meant but I was determined to keep it.
Let's just say that some things happened that lead to the two of us becoming Gundam pilots that I shall not go into as they are a part of a horrible time in our past that I do not like to look back on.
We received our first mission a day after arriving on the Earth.
We snuck into the mobile suit factory we were to infiltrate. The good thing abouot our Gundams is that they were equipped with cloaking technology and were able to enter the base undetected.
Duo sent up a light bomb that would take the soldier's focus off of us before it blew up.
After it blew up, I sliced my sword through a truck with a mobile suit on it.
I faintly heard someone in the factory ask if they were being attacked before the two of us started slicing through mobile suits, standing and on trucks alike.
"This is Duo and Ari here," Duo said. "We've destroyed the main monitor."
"Now we just have to slice our way out of this battle," I said.
It didn't take long for us to get out of there, slicing and blowing things up on our way.
"Is it me, or was that mission too easy to complete?" I asked that night when we were laying on the bed in our hideout.
"Not really," Duo replied. "Don't forget it was only a factory."
"I know that. But I was thinking that it would have been slightly harder than that, even though it was our first mission. But I also thought that there might have been more soldiers protecting the suits. I mean they were building suits there for crying out loud."
"I see your point." He paused, put his arm around me and pulled me close. I lay my head on his chest and closed my eyes. "We'll just have to see what the next mission will bring us."
I hummed. "Good night, Duo."
"Good night, Ariel."