Bolmung LK: Yes, this is technically a Gundam 00 and Code Geass crossover, but I'm not labeling it as such at the moment. This is because we do not meet anyone from Code Geass for a couple of chapters. Once we meet them I will re-tag it as a crossover. I personally think that Gundam and Code Geass go together very nicely; they have the same feel to them. I honestly think that CG could've been inspired by Gundam; if that hasn't already been officially announced.
See my profile page for a picture of the main cast of Code Geass if you do not know what they look like and do not feel like looking it up yourselves. (Gundam 00 – CKP00 – Code Geass cast of the Ptolemaios 00!) I hope you all enjoy the story, it took WEEKS to finish planning…..I took this story into priority because it was eating at me so badly. I even took the July 1st surprise a break to be able to put this in it! Sorry for the title of the story being so freaking long, I wanted to make sure it got the point across that it's not a traditional CG/G00 crossover.
Celestial Knights of the Ptolemaios 00
Ch. 1 – Mission to Mars
May 3rd 2320
Location: Earth – West Africa
The enemy mobile suits encircled Tieria and Setsuna, they had them pinned together with special wires and ropes so that they couldn't move. Tieria would've shed his armor and revealed his Gundam's secondary form, but the 00 Quan[T] was bound so closely to him that he couldn't budge. Setsuna tried opening the slots on the Quanta to activate his beam swords, but the ropes kept the slots from opening. The wires and ropes became tighter and tighter and the enemy mobile suits spun around in circles and wrapped them up. This created an almost spider-web like appearance and left the two Gundam Meisters with no way out except for their allies coming to their rescue.
Lockon was trying to snipe some of the enemies down from a long distance, but his gun was suddenly knocked from his grasp when an enemy with the latest model of mobile suits, X2-Gurak, fired several particle blasts at him. Zabanya, his Gundam, tipped over on its side before launching upwards into the sky to evade further shots fired from the enemy. He halted and turned quickly to fire his smaller particle gun at his pursuing enemy, but the new model was too fast for him and rammed into him with a green particle beam sword that Lockon had never seen the likes of before. The enemy sent him crashing back to the Earth then pounced on him to pin him to the rocky ground.
Allelujah was the only Meister not tackled and restrained so everything now weighed down on him. The Harute transformed into its travel form and held its large particle sword out in front. He charged at the ropes tying Tieria and Setsuna together in an attempt to free them from their binds. Several of the enemies launched netting at the Harute and thwarted his efforts. He could practically hear the enemies' victorious laughter bellowing over the static radio.
All hope seemed lost, they were all pinned down and the enemy mother-ship was inching towards them to either deliver the final blow or capture and torture them all. Sumeragi's panicked voice surged over the radio, Feldt's cries of terror echoed into the Meister's minds and Mileina's pleas for help stung at their ears. The main enemy ship's gun-holder began to glow with a malevolent blueish-green light. At this point everything was going in slow motion for them. The clouds drifted above slowly, the sun's rays shined ironically bright and reflected light off of the mobile suits in an almost glorious fashion and every sound or noise echoed a thousand times around.
"Veda! Please! Help us!" Tieria begged as he slammed her fists on the control panel harshly over and over again. Suddenly, as if Veda was answering Tieria's prayers, his screen flashed with an unusual version of Celestial Being's symbol.
The sky turned red, the earth's ground shook violently, the area around them suddenly turned a bright shade of reddish-purple and within seconds the biggest booming sound the Meisters had ever heard ripped through the air ferociously. It was like lightning striking right in their ears or compressed GN particles exploding inside their heads. The concussion wave knocked them all around and sent them flying back towards the grounded Ptolemaios II. Sumeragi's heart was in her stomach and her fists gripped the control panel for dear life. The bright light and sonic booming sounds lasted for well over a full minute before finally slowing down.
"No!" Feldt screeched in agony as he hands pulled at the sides of her head. She never even felt the pain of her pink hair being ripped out strand by strand.
Mileina collapsed to the floor on her hands and knees in tears. "Th-this can't be happening…Erde-San…." She sobbed miserably.
"Gundam Meisters! Do you copy?" Sumeragi called out frantically, but heard nothing but the explosion itself blasting through the sound system. She prayed inside her own head; prayed that at least one of them was still alive somehow.
After a couple minutes of nothing but the strangely depressing silence of debris falling to the ground, rocks pelting the Ptolemy and the sounds of sniffling and crying; a soft noise caught Sumeragi's attention. She listened tentatively as the clear voice of Lockon's Haro began chirping.
"We're alive! We're alive!" it squeaked. Everyone on the Ptolemy's observation and control deck breathed the biggest sigh of relief.
"Role call check! Everyone report in!" she commanded as she recomposed herself.
"Tieria Erde, I'm alright." Came Tieria's voice.
"Allelujah Haptism, not a scratch on me!" Allelujah smirked from his cockpit.
"Setsuna F. Seiei, alive." He said calmly, even though he was actually a tad shaken.
"Lockon Stratos! Alive and kicking!" cheered the man with a grin.
"Oh thank goodness!" Feldt cried out.
"What's it like out there? What exactly did that massive blast hit?" Sumeragi asked as she tried to zoom in on the battle-field, but there was too much smoke and debris still floating around.
"Oh wow….." Allelujah mumbled as he took his first glimpse out of his screen. It was much clearer from his view.
"What the hell did this?" Lockon's emerald eyes went wide with astonishment.
"Well I'm more than sure the enemy didn't do this." Tieria answered with the best of his current knowledge.
"It came from the sky." Setsuna said as he looked up to see the pool of crimson and lavender slowly dissipating from the clouds.
"What's the enemy's status?" Sumeragi asked curiously as she noticed that all of the enemies had vanished from her radar.
"They're gone, all of them. That blast took them all out." Lockon replied in amazement as he further scanned the area. There were bits and pieces of debris of the enemy mobile suits everywhere, yet the Gundam Meister's weren't even touched.
"Everyone! Look at the ground!" Tieria shouted. There on the ground was a giant squiggly line of where the blast has hit and maneuvered around to hit all of the enemies while avoiding the Gundams.
"What the….? Everyone, dock with the Ptolemy immediately." Sumeragi commanded.
"Roger!" they all said.
After they had docked and everyone entered the control room Sumeragi replayed the pre-recorded footage of the blast on the main screen several times in awe. Feldt forcefully hugged Setsuna in relief, she was unable to hide her joy that he was alive. Mileina withheld the urge to do the same to Tieria knowing that he would likely push her away. Setsuna put a reassuring arm around Feldt's shoulder and told her that everything was okay. She calmed down and politely pulled away from him smiling shyly.
"So Setsuna was right, it did come from the sky." Tieria noted as the screen perpetually showed the red and purple beam firing down onto the battle-field.
"Yes, but I'm getting absolutely no signal from anything in that direction. Whatever the hell fired that blast was no mobile suit. It must be easily the size of the Momento Mori; if not bigger. If we leave now we can catch up to it and make contact. There's no way something that big could possibly move fast enough to get away from us." Sumeragi told them as Feldt and Mileina retook their stations and began the process of preparing the Ptolemaios II to leave Earth's lower level of the atmosphere.
"If my calculations are correct it should be somewhere between fifty-eight seventy-two and fifty-six ninety-seven." She said as she began coding the ship's coordinates.
"What if it's not an ally that fired it? What if it attacks us once we catch up to it?" Allelujah asked nervously.
"Non-sense. You saw the patterns on the ground. It purposely missed us. Had this thing had any intention of killing us, it would have of done so back there." Sumeragi reassured him.
The ship lifted off the ground and rocketed toward the heavens. Everyone was eagerly, and nervously, awaiting their meeting with the new ally. Much to their surprise after four hours of searching the higher level of altitudes, they found nothing. They climbed higher and higher until they had successfully left Earth's atmosphere entirely. It wasn't until Marie came dashing into the room with a hand-held television that they realized what they were getting themselves into.
"This just in! A mysterious and ominous blast rips through the Earth's atmosphere! The red and purple light is believed to be a GN particle blast from space! As we see here on our satellite's replay footage the blast not only came from space, but it came from another planet! We're still investigating this, but it is believed that the horrifying beam of light came from the planet Mars. There are no known colonies on Mars, bu-"
"Wow! So this thing came from Mars?" Mileina asked in her usual cheerful voice.
"It appears so…." Lockon nodded in slight worry. Why was a blast from Mars helping them?
"H-how….How in the hell would a weapon from so damn far away be able to fire at tiny mobile suits on Earth and hit only its target without hitting us? That is impossible!" Ian's whole facial expression was pale and read 'scared and horrified' all across it.
"Not to mention it would take over three minutes to reach Mars traveling at the speed of light! This beam only took a couple of seconds!" Tieria's mind was officially blown.
"No idea, but we're going there!" Sumeragi commanded boldly.
"Are you nuts?" Ian bellowed as he balled his fists up and held them firmly at his sides.
"No, but we are if we don't go. This is obviously a powerful ally and I intend to find out who they are and what type of machinery they possess." She stated and began coordinates for Mars. Ian groaned in agony and Mileina tried to assure him that Sumeragi was a good tactical forecaster, not a crazy one.
It took them a total of two days and six hours to reach Mars' atmosphere. Since the Ptolemaios II was a much better engineered space ship than anything else known to mankind they could reach extreme speeds. There was no reason to fear being beaten by Earth's forces to get here, they were far faster than any of them. They did a visual scan of the side of Mars that was facing the Earth at the time of the blast and saw nothing. They decided that they would have to get a little closer to find any details.
"Alright, meeting commencing in the panel room in ten minutes!" came Sumeragi's voice over the entire Ptolemy.
Within the time frame given every crew member on the Ptolemy, besides Feldt and Mileina who were watching their surroundings, was inside the fairly large room awaiting the meeting to begin.
"What's the meaning of this?" Ian asked perplexed.
"Let's start off with the main point." She began and everyone stopped chattering among themselves. "We need to land on the surface. If we don't then there's no other way to find the source."
"Woah! Slow down now! You mean to say you want the Gundam Meisters to waltz out there?" Ian screeched.
"But why?" Allelujah's expression change from content to worried.
"Over the last two days I've had Mileina and Feldt hack into official files from Earth. They got a magnification of the massive gun that fired the blast and it's mounted directly on the surface of Mars itself. It is not a wandering mobile ship, it is a large gun mount." She explained and pulled up the pictures that the girls stole.
There on the surface of Mars was an all black bazooka gun mount that had the words "Black Beauty" in English written on across it in what appeared to be spray paint. Some crew members look skeptical, but others looked on in awe.
"Also, ever since-" Sumeragi was cut off by Feldt's voice calling in over the loud speakers.
"Everyone to the observation deck! We've got a problem!"
Everyone piled into the smaller room and took a good look around. Nothing seemed out of alignment or ordinary.
"Feldt, what was the meaning of that?" Sumeragi asked annoyed.
"We're getting weird signals from Mars!" the pink haired girl said as she typed away at her keyboard.
"Mobile suits approaching?" Sumeragi asked, it was the first thing that came to her mind.
"No!" Mileina chipped in. "They're….computer signals. Like there's a laboratory or a secret base inside of Mars!"
"A what inside of where?" Sumeragi asked dumbfounded as she gawked at Mileina's screen.
"I think you should send the Gundam Meisters down there to find out where it's at." Feldt suggested.
"I was going to do that anyways. Well guys, it looks like that commences the meeting. Suit up boys, you're going to Mars." Sumeragi said solemnly.
Suddenly the main screen flickered on and off a couple times and went all grey and static. Mileina attempted to reset the screen, but something prevented her from altering it.
"Sumeragi, I think we're being hacked!" the brunette called out.
"Hello fellow members of Celestial Being."
The screen then changed over to a picture of an older man in a suit sitting down in a chair inside of a very old looking office.
"Who the….my god! Aeolia Schenberg?"
"This is a pre-recorded message from Celestial Being's base on Mars. If you are receiving this message then you must have the GN drives of the Gundams in your possession. If you are not a part of Celestial Being then I highly recommend you pre-meditate your plans of how you intend to use those machines properly. I welcome you to dock with us so that we may converse about a possible alliance with you. The Gundammmssshhhhhzzzzt…errrr….."
The message became static and unintelligible as it cut off. It was obviously old and has lost its original resolution. The crew sat in silence full of disbelief and great concern for a few moments before Feldt spoke up.
"Sumeragi, I think the base has been abandoned. We're getting absolutely no return signals when I try to communicate. Also I hacked into one of the surveillance cameras and it shows nothing but absolute darkness." Feldt told her.
"Gundam Meisters, prepare to land. I have a bad feeling about this." The redhead said flatly. She was trying to suppress her fear form reaching her voice, but she still felt it burning inside her chest.
The four Gundam Meisters touched down on the crumbling surface of the dreary planet. They agreed to split up and call in once they found the entrance or anything unusual. Finally after two hours of searching Tieria had located a strangely formed square on the ground that was large enough to fit the entire Ptolemaios II inside.
"This is Tieria Erde, do you copy Sumeragi?" he spoke into the radio.
"Yes, did you find anything?" she asked.
"Yes, I think I've found the entrance. I don't know if it'll open, but I'm sending you the coordinates now." He replied then several numbers on a map appeared on her screen.
"All Gundam Meisters, get to Tieria's location."
"Roger!"
"Feldt, Mileina; move the ship to Raphael's location stat." she commanded.
"Aye aye captain!" Mileina cheered.
As they all gathered around Tieria's location they began chipping away at the square lines on the ground. Allelujah used the Harute's grips to pry the lines apart and bust open the hatch. Once they'd removed the panels from the entrance they re-docked with the Ptolemaios II and shuttled into the entrance.
"Feldt was right, I too think that this place has been abandoned." Lockon agreed.
"No, it is wasn't abandoned." Setsuna said abruptly. "It was attacked and destroyed."
"What makes you think that?"
Setsuna pointed to a floating rotten corpse wearing human clothing. Lockon shuddered in disgust at the sight of the frozen body floating passed the Ptolemy. Allelujah joined Lockon in synchronized shuddering, he had seen his fair share of gruesome images in his lifetime, but there was just something chilling about the sight of a former Celestial Being scientist floating around the surface of Mars all butchered and frozen that made his skin crawl.
When the Ptolemaios II docked, the four Meisters went out in their piloting suits without their Gundams and into the base. They each brought an assortment of weaponry to protect themselves from whatever dangers that may lie ahead. They drifted inside at near no gravity pressure and prepared themselves mentally for the worst.
"If the blast of light was fired from this place with such precision and accuracy, then someone inside that base is alive." Sumeragi speculated and Feldt and Mileina agreed.
(Bolmung LK: Insert creepy Silent Hill music here for a better reading pleasure! Sorry, I fail so hardcore at writing horror….bare with me through the fail….Also the gravity on Mars is not "zero gravity", it is 4/10 of Earth's. AKA if you weight 100lbs on Earth, you weigh 38 on Mars. But for the sake of this story it is almost completely zero gravity. Please excuse the lack of gravity.)
The first thing the four boys noticed when they entered the base was that everything was pitched black. The darkness enveloped everything and they were forced to use the lights at the tips of their guns to see anything. As they dodged random floating dead body hacked into pieces after floating bits of debris they made it into the main hallway that stemmed out into four different directions. They split up and each took a different hallway. Lockon went into the far right, Allelujah the middle right, Setsuna the middle left and Tieria into the far left.
Lockon continued down his hallway and grimaced at every dismembered part of body that he had to gently push out of his path. It wasn't just the darkness or the dead bodies that were getting to him, it was the eerie sounds of metal clicking against metal all around him. None of those three things were as bad as the constant reminder that these were all members of Celestial Being at one time. He tried to steer his mind away from bad thoughts and decided to check in on everyone else.
"Setsuna, Allelujah, Tieria, do you guys copy?" he said as calmly as currently possible.
"Yes." They all said in near unison.
"Anyone found anything yet?" he asked pensively.
"No." they said.
"Do any of you hear strange metallic clanking sounds?" Lockon asked.
"Yes." Allelujah replied.
"No." Tieria and Setsuna said.
"Then it must be only in the right wing. Allelujah, keep your guard up." Lockon said bravely.
"Got ya."
Suddenly a loud crashing noise in the right wing caught Allelujah and Lockon by surprise and they jumped slightly out of adrenaline rush.
"The hell was that?" Allelujah asked as his breathing speed increased.
"I don't know, but it came from in between us. I think there's a room between my hallway and yours. Something must be moving around in there." Lockon said as he spotted a door just a few feet down.
"I'm honestly a little scared to go in there…." Allelujah admitted with a shiver in his voice.
"I'll go in with you if you find a doorway." Lockon reassured him.
They both found doors that lead to the middle room of their hallways and entered them. Much to their disappointment, and fear, the rooms did not connect. The rooms were divided by a thin wall that was made of some sort of sheet metal. Lockon pressed a gloved hand to it then pulled away quickly when it started to melt his suit.
"Allelujah! Don't touch the walls!" he shouted into the radio.
"Why?"
"I can't tell if they're hot or covered in an acid, but they nearly burned a hole in my suit!" Lockon explained as he examined his burnt glove.
"Tieria, Setsuna…are the walls in your hallways a silver-ish yellow color too?" Lockon asked.
"Yes." They both replied.
"Then don't touch them, this isn't normal metal."
"It's…Plutonium…" Tieria said slowly as he examined the ball beside him.
"What's Plutonium?"
"It's a radioactive metal that's normally hot in temperature and silver in color, but when exposed to oxygen it turns yellow and gets hotter. I think there's air in here!" Tieria explained wisely, knowing every element on the table of elements came in handy quite often.
"I see." Was all Lockon said.
"Well I'm still not taking my helmet off, even if it is safe." Tieria added.
"Why in the hell would they make a base out of Plutonium?" Allelujah pondered as he brushed the tip of his gun against the wall to see it flare up in smoke.
"Not a clue. Do you think it lead to their cause of death?" Lockon asked as he left the middle room and continued down his hallway.
"No, something's off about the Plutonium…..For starters Plutonium is one of the rarest metals in the known universe. Also having every wall, even ceiling and floor, made of it would make this place hotter than the human body could withstand. Yet all of these dead bodies don't have suits on, just lab coats." Tieria said as he pushed a dead body against the wall to see if it would burn. The corpse sizzled and blistered harshly as it made contact with the silver metal.
"Maybe they ran out here when they were under attack and died from it?" Allelujah speculated.
"I don't think so." Setsuna spoke up. "I think…no…..I know that they had a way of controlling the Plutonium. I'll send you all a picture of what I'm seeing right now."
Setsuna took a picture of the room he stood in and sent it to all three of them. The picture was of an all silver-metal room with a blue light reflecting off of every wall and Setsuna's hand pressed against it without burning.
"So that blue light stops the Plutonium from getting hot and burning?" Lockon asked.
"I see what they did here…." Tieria suddenly said.
"Do explain." Setsuna requested.
"Plutonium must be able to absorb GN particles and hold their charge. If they could make Plutonium touchable to the human hand then they could use it to make weapons and armor. I can only begin to imagine how far the old Celestial Being developed this theory." Tieria said in awe, why didn't he think of that before?
"Damn, looks like the old Celestial Being had some top notch scientists working for them!" Lockon made a whistling sound.
Setsuna removed his helmet boldly and took a deep breath. It was a little muggy and humid, but nothing unbearable. The smell reminded him of the one-time his parents had taken him to the doctor's office when he was very small. It was sterile, clean, light and god awful. It brought back bad memories along with a flood of emotions that he bottled up as he put his helmet back on.
"Confirmed; it is safe to breathe in here." He stated.
"Y-you took your helmet off?" Allelujah gasped out.
"Well in the case of an emergency where your helmet needs to be removed you now know that it is safe to do so." Setsuna reasoned.
Tieria found himself standing in front of a large doorway where the door had been pried open by either a crowbar or a metal rod of some sort. He pushed the broken door open and stepped inside cautiously. Suddenly a wave of pure force and pain hit his entire body from beyond the darkness of the room and he let out a blood curdling scream of pain that echoed far enough for even Lockon to hear without the use of the headset-radios.
"Tieria? Are you okay?" Allelujah called out over the radio, but he got no response.
"Tieria, please tell me yo-"
Lockon was cut off by a loud banging and booming sound that shook the entire base to its foundation. Setsuna made his way back from his hallway and tried to get into the hallway that Tieria had originally gone down, but it was blocked off by heavy machinery falling through the walls. He fired several shots at the machine in an attempt to break it down into pieces and push it out of the way. Sadly behind the machine was another heavy metal machine and so on all the way down the hall.
"It appears as though the entire wall in Tieria's hallway collapsed in on itself." Setsuna said as he ceased fire.
"Is he alright?" Lockon asked frantically.
"Not sure, but it'll take me some times to break through it all to get to him. You two go on ahead and investigate, I'll bring Tieria back alive." He reassured them.
"R-roger….." Allelujah mumbled. Lockon remained silent; he was unable to say anything.
Suddenly static from Tieria's radio began to play very odd sounds. It was like his mic was out in the middle of a windy field with a bunch of children chirping madly and unintelligibly. The three of them each took turns calling out to him, but he never replied. It was always just the odd sounds of static, wind, high pitched chatter and electronics functioning in the background.
Twenty minutes later and Setsuna had finally blasted his way through the fallen machinery and was now making his way down Tieria's hallway. He made sure to open every door and peek inside before passing it up. This may seem tedious, but there were very few rooms in his hallway. He reached a dead end where the only way to go was straight down where there was a large hole in the ground.
'Maybe he fell in….even in near zero gravity it's possible.' He thought as he jumped down into the hole gently. He slowly drifted downward for about twenty or so feet before finally touching the ground and he used his gun to scan the area. He let out a small gasp and his eyes slightly widened in awe at the sight.
"A-…..amazing…" he whispered to himself.
"What's amazing Setsu?" Allelujah asked.
"Don't call me that." Setsuna's moment of awe was ruined by the cutesy nickname.
"Sorry….it just slipped out." Allelujah sighed. 'Why was Setsuna being so picky?' Allelujah thought pouting.
"Anyways, I've just discovered the room I believe to be—Who's there?" Setsuna barked as he pointed his gun to the far left corner of the room where he'd heard a noise.
"Meow! Meow!" came a child-like voice.
"That's a bad cat impersonation. Show yourself!" Setsuna demanded.
"Meow! Meow!" the voice chirped happily again.
"I'm not amused."
"Meow! Meow!" the voice now became slightly angry, but still childish. The person in question making the sounds suddenly appeared about ten feet away from Setsuna. The sight of the stranger with a familiar face made him quiver and his hair stand on end.
'So this is why Tieria screamed….' Setsuna thought as he prepared himself for the likely oncoming attack.
"Setsuna, what's going on?" Lockon asked.
"I'll tell you in a minute. If only you could see this, Lockon….." the younger male said with obvious distress in his voice.
Lockon frowned, was that a good thing or a bad thing?
After having heard nothing further from Setsuna, Lockon and Allelujah kept going in their respective directions. Lockon met the dead end of his hallway and groaned. He was hoping for a good surprise somewhere, but was just glad that he wasn't attacked like Tieria. A suddenly flash of light to his right caught his attention and he wandered into the room. The main light for that room was flickering on and off at random.
'So there's a power supply in this base still? I wonder why all the lights are out then…'
He would've continued thinking of reasons why the lights weren't working, if they hadn't suddenly turned on. The lights were incredibly bright, so bright that he could hardly see anything. He tried to shield his eyes from the source of the light, but it hardly helped. The only thing he could see was what he imagined to be the lower half of a person slowly walking towards him. He panicked and pointed his gun at the person.
"I'll shoot you if you don't tell me who you are!" he threatened.
"I don't think you're in any position to threaten me, Lockon Stratos." Said a familiar voice. As familiar as the voice was, he couldn't place who it belonged to.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"Look me in the eyes and tell me if you recognize me." The feminine voice said then stopped mere feet away from him.
Lockon tried his best to look up, but the blinding blue light prevented his from see much. The figure grabbed Lockon gently by the shoulder and gave him a soft push back into the hallway. The hallway was being illuminated by the light from the room pouring out, but it wasn't nearly as bright. He reopened his eyes to try and identify the woman that he supposedly knows.
"R-Regene Regetta?" Lockon gasped. Tieria's genetic twin floated ominously in front of him. He wasn't wearing a helmet, but he had a dark purple space suit on.
"How fortunate for me that Celestial Being decided to show up!" he grinned wickedly.
"Why're you here?" Lockon's much deeper voice demanded.
"Well it's too long of a story to tell you now, but Ribbons was here as well. Sadly he abandoned me here alone…"
"I thought the two of you were dead!" he pointed his gun at the smirking man.
"Yes, we did die. Luckily we used to be stationed on this base before he went postal and the whole place was evacuated. Thus why both of us have replacement bodies up here." Regene gave Lockon a funny look, the brunette wasn't sure if it was one of lust or mischief. With Regene that could go either way…He prayed it was just mischief.
"When did you reactivate?" Lockon asked trying to shake the previous thought out of his head.
"I'll make you a deal, get me out of here and I'll tell you everything you'll ever need, or want, to know about this place."
"Sumeragi, do you copy." Lockon spoke into his radio. There was no reply.
"Ptolemaios, can you hear me?" he repeated. Regene snickered.
"That won't work."
"Why not? It worked earlier."
"Yeah, earlier. Earlier before the GNO particle lights were activated."
"What's GNO particle light?" Lockon blinked, he knew what GN particles were, but GNO?
"Like I said, get me out of here and I'll explain everything." He repeated as his smirk fell into a normal expression.
"Setsuna—oh wait…Well, it looks like you're coming with me for now. I'm not leaving this base without the others, so you're stuck with me until then. We'll decide later if we should let you out or not." Lockon sighed in defeat.
"Groovy." Regene said sarcastically and followed Lockon into the lit up hallway. The walls were now safe to touch due to the particle light deactivating the Plutonium walls.
"You're not wearing a helmet, I'm assuming that means it's safe to breathe in here."
"Oh yes, but I don't recommend a human breathing this stuff in. Plutonium is radioactive you know. Innovades were created much tougher, I'm able to withstand it. You would burn to a crisp!"
The rest of the trip down the hallway and into the main corridor was silent and uneventful. Lockon was about to go down Tieria's hallway when Regene pulled him back.
"Not that way." He said sternly.
"But this is the way that Tieria and Setsuna went in. I need to go help find him." Lockon frowned.
"Oh good god. You mean Tieria went this way?" Regene sighed out.
"Yes, is that bad?" Lockon looked worried.
"Yes, very. That thing is in there!" he said with a silly pouting expression.
"What thing?" Lockon eyed him suspiciously.
"Was Tieria attacked?"
"I believe so. He screamed in agony then we heard some explosions." Lockon explained as he pointed to the debris of machinery that Setsuna had gunned down.
"Better go get him then…can't leave dear ol' Nii-San alone down there!" Regene cackled and propelled himself into the shattered hall. Lockon cringed at the sound of Regene calling Tieria brother and followed him reluctantly.
Allelujah had met the dead end of his own hallway and sighed in both relief and irritation. He was relieved he made a full investigation of his hallway without running into any real issues, but was agitated that he made no discoveries. He turned around to go back up the length of his hallway and then pressed his radio button.
"Guys, I'm done with my hallway. I'm heading back up, who wants me to come down their hallway?" he said then waited for a reply. After thirty seconds of no reply he became slightly worried.
"Can any of you hear me?" he asked as he firmly held down the 'talk' button. Once again there was no reply and his heart began to race.
He made his way down the hallway at a faster pace, but a blinking blue light to his right caught his attention and he stopped. He hovered in the doorway and witnessed the blue and white box with a strange proto-type light bulb blink a blue light.
'It must be that blue light that deactivates the Plutonium. This light wasn't on when I passed by here on my way down, so how and why did it turn on suddenly?' he thought as he cautiously approached the box. He touched it with his gloved hand and nothing significant happened. He slung his strapped gun around his shoulder and placed his hands on both sides of the twelve by twelve inch light-box. He lifted it to find that it was stand alone and required absolutely no cords and attachments to operate itself.
'Now that's really odd, I can understand a light turning on in a room via software malfunction from the base's database malfunctioning, but this thing isn't connected at all. That means that someone was in here….or still is!' he quickly set the box down and pointed his gun all around the relatively small room.
A clicking sound to his left made him turn in surprise and fire a single shot in that direction. Nothing other than the sound of the sizzle of his laser connecting to the Plutonium wall made it to his ears. He waited several more seconds before hearing the same metallic clicking directly above him. He pointed upwards, but this time he did not fire. He examined the flimsy ceiling metal as it bent and unbent from the weight of a mysterious object from above pounding on it. He shuddered in slight fear and his breath was ragged for a few moments, but he regained composure and took a couple steps backwards.
He fired a single shot to the ceiling and it buckled greatly, but did not collapse. He fired twice more and a small hole penetrated the ceiling. A small robotic eye glared down into Allelujah's from the hole.
'It's a robot….god damnit…' was the last thing he thought before the entire ceiling collapsed down onto him and knocked him unconscious.
The shockwave and sound of the ceiling collapsing onto Allelujah could be heard by even Setsuna who was now face to face with a very similar enemy on the entirely opposite side of the base.
'I hope that last explosion didn't hurt anyone…..because we're screwed if we lose anyone else. I just have to survive….this thing.' Setsuna grimaced as he pointed his gun at his foe.
"There's no use talking to you, you probably don't even respond to words anyways-"
"Meow! Meow! I shall assist you! Assist!" the enemy said.
"Wait, you're not the enemy? Were you not the one to attack Tieria Erde?" Setsuna lowered his gun slightly.
"Meow! Meow! Who is Tieria Erde? Tieria Erde?"
"The man with purple hair that came through here earlier."
"Meow! Meow! Tito was apprehended for his crimes! Tito was punished!"
"Tito? Take me to this Tito person." Setsuna demanded.
"Meow! Meow! Follow me! Follow me!"
"Hey Setsuna!" Lockon called out from the hallway.
"I'm down here! There's a hole in the floor, jump down." Setsuna instructed and Lockon obeyed followed by Regene.
"Long story short, Regene is helping us and we need too—dear god! What is that!" Lockon froze in either fear or excitement, he wasn't sure which he should be feeling at this moment.
There in the middle of the room stood a massive twenty five foot green Haro. Lockon loved Haro, but he wasn't sure this one would fit into his Gundam cockpit….
"Meow! Meow! I said follow me! Follow me!" it cried out and began rolling down a very large hallway.
"H-holy shit…" Lockon mumbled.
"I don't wanna go near it…" Regene sobbed slightly.
A calm Setsuna, an amazed Lockon and a trembling Regene followed Haro down the hallway that was fit for a Gundam to waltz down. Along the way Setsuna noticed small droplets of blood leading from down the hallway, heading towards him, and into the room to his right.
'Someone was bleeding and walked into that room recently… I wonder if they're still in there.' He thought then pushed the door open. No one was inside so he shrugged and continued to follow Lockon, Regene and the massive Haro to an enormous door.
"GUNDAM MEISTER"
"Gundam…." Setsuna read out loud. He looked at the door to see a small metal object penetrating the space between the two doors and reached to pull it out. It was a broken knife. He then looked at the walls to see a large blood splatter stain.
'So that's where all the blood came from…'
"So is this like the Mars' version of the Gundam launching pads?" Lockon asked slightly nervous to enter.
"Meow! Meow!" the Haro wailed as it began rolling viciously into the doors and smashed them open forcefully. Setsuna and Lockon looked on in awe at the room while Regene glanced around in confusion.
"Wh-what? It's not here! H-how is that possible?" Regene hissed and ran into the room.
XxXxX
Allelujah coughed and gasped as he felt the weight of what he could describe as a thousand dumbbells sitting on his chest. Well, he was awfully close…..
"Moo!"
"Chirp!"
"Bark!"
"What in the hell?" Allelujah sat upright and all of the colorful Haro fell off of him.
"Follow us! Follow us!"
"The Chosen one! The chosen one!"
"Not the chosen one! Not the chosen one!"
"What's going on?" Allelujah asked in amazement as the swarm of at least thirty Haro bounced around and rammed themselves into him gently. He now understood that the crash from earlier was all the Haros attacking him at once, but now they seemed more friendly.
"Follow us! Follow us!" an all white one said and drifted off to the ceiling that had collapsed earlier. Allelujah lifted himself off the floor with ease due to incredibly light gravity and drifted up to the ceiling along with the Haros.
They lead him into a hallway and down several corridors where they stopped in front of a room.
"PROJECT FEM"
"What's this supposed to be?" he asked.
"Your destiny! Your destiny!"
"Moo!"
"Riiiight…." he smiled gently at the white and black splotched Haro with horns. 'The old Celestial being must've had a lot of fun creating these little guys. Maybe I should ask Ian for a cat-Haro for Marie…'
The Haros used their tentacle-like wires to connect to the access panel to the room and opened the electronic doors. Once they slid open Allelujah gasped at what he saw.
(((Bolmung LK: Intermission time! If you hate author's notes then you can skip this and continue reading. If you are confused about the layout of the base then keep reading. The four meisters started out at the middle level, just in separate hallways. Tieria is M.I.A., Setsuna, Lockon and Regene went to the very bottom floor and Allelujah went to the very top floor. No one is left on the original middle floor. I just don't want anyone to be confused about where our cast is stationed, that can ruin a story!))))
Regene grumbled on and on about something incoherent while Setsuna and Lockon ogled the six beautiful and glorious Gundams.
"I don't believe it! Ribbons you traitorous bastard!" Regene yelled loudly.
"What's your problem?" Lockon asked only mildly interested in the lunatic's affairs.
"Me and Ribbons were supposed to share it! But he stole it and ran off!" Regene growled and slammed his fist onto the empty Gundam dock.
"I thought you already knew that. You told me Ribbons abandoned you earlier…" Lockon scratched the back of his head.
"Yes, but I didn't know he took that fucking project with him! If he thinks I'll work for him again, he's a complete moron!" Regene picked up a wrench from the floor and began bashing it loudly onto the metal frame of the dock.
"Take a chill pill, explain to us what this project thing is you're after."
"Well, I Guess you'll find out sooner or later….wait, I have an idea. There are six Gundams left! We can use these and go….woah…" Regene's rage suddenly stopped and he backed up and began making odd hand motion and mumbling to himself as he eyed each of the Gundams.
"Something wrong? I mean other than being a complete basket case?" Lockon arched his eyebrows.
"Yes, there are only six Gundams here. There were nine….Ribbons surely took one for himself, but what happened to the other two?" he pondered.
"Maybe two more people took them?" Setsuna tried to reason logically.
"No, only me and Ribbons were alive on this damned base until you four showed up. That can only mean three things…One, Ribbons has been coming back with the other innovades and has been stealing Gundams. Two, Tieria took a Gundam also, I can't explain the third missing Gundam…. or three;…..they have awoken." Regene said solemnly.
"They?" Lockon asked. Lockon did not like the look of pure disgust plastered across Regene's face.
"I'm going to go find Tieria Erde. Haro, where is the purple haired man?" Setsuna asked.
"Meow! Meow! Tito is right there! Tito is right there!"
"I am not Tito nor Tieria! Now tell us where Tito is." Regene frowned, he truly did not like talking to robots with the personality of a five year old human.
"Incubation room! Incubation room!" it chirped.
"So on the top floor then." Regene noted.
"Regene, do you know the layout of this base well?" Lockon asked.
"Yes, I used to be stationed here before me and Ribbons made our emergence. Why do you ask?"
"Take me to Tito, maybe he can help us find Tieria." He said sternly. Regene sighed then smirked and chuckled villainously.
"Oh, I suppose. Although, you'll be in for quite a surprise. Anyone who goes to the top floor will be in for a big surprise or two." Regene cackled then motioned for them to follow.
"I'll stay here and take pictures and samples of the Gundams." Setsuna said calmly.
"How do you take samples of Gundams?" Lockon asked perplexed.
"Get inside and turn it on basically." Setsuna replied flatly then kicked off against the floor and floated up to the cockpit of a Gundam. Lockon would never understand Setsuna's undying flame for Gundams, but what he did understand was that it was unwise to come between Setsuna and a new Gundam.
Lockon nervously and cautiously followed Regene through dimly lit hallways and down dark, lifeless corridors. They passed by a room that exuded gurgling and bubbling noises. Regene thoughtlessly passed it up, but Lockon paused and tried to peer into the darkness. His puny human eye sight wasn't enough to make out any distinguishable objects in the room so he used his gun light.
"Lockon! Don't fall behind!" Regene's voice called out from over ten feet away.
"Sorry, I was just examining this room. What's in here?"
"That's not important, just come with me. Trust me, you do not want to get lost in this place." Regene warned sternly and Lockon nodded. He began making his way back to Regene's side without ever having peeked into the room with his light, but he did however catch a glimpse of the number on the door frame.
'I.M – 1146' he said over and over again in his head while trying to memorize it.
Once they reached the stairwell that lead to the top floor Regene stopped moving and turned to face Lockon. Regene's red solemn eyes bore into Lockon's green ones with intensity.
"From this point on I cannot guarantee our safety. The top floor of the base holds the utmost secretive of computers, files, laboratories, incubation tanks and even weaponry. The top floor is easily the most heavily guarded by the Haro's defense mechanisms. Celestial Being did not want any of their secrets to escape this place should it be left unguarded by humans. Haro is not only a computer for operating and storing data, it is a terrifying monster if programmed to be so."
"Roger that." Lockon replied and they proceeded up the stairs.
The first thing Regene did was pick up a shard of broken glass and toss it down the hallway. It clanked against walls until it finally stopped. Regene gave the 'good to go' hand sign and they continued forwards and into the massive hallway.
"Strange…" Regene whispered curiously to himself.
"What's strange? It looks the same as the other floors to me." Lockon frowned.
"Not only are most of the GNO lights on in this part of the hall, but the Project Fem door is open. Me and Ribbons were unable to open that door if our lives depended on it. Don't tell me….." Regene gasped then bolted for the door.
XxXxX Back in time to Allelujah XxXxX
Inside the Project Fem room Allelujah gasped in awe, but shivered in fear. He was impressed, but also very terrified by what he saw. He inched into the room slowly and a Haro flew by him and into the very back of the twenty five by twenty five foot room. The orange Haro then plugged itself into a computer on the back wall.
"Activating Meep! Activating Meep!" it chirped happily.
Allelujah wasn't sure if it was activating something called 'Meep', or just activating the computer and squeaking at the same time. Suddenly a broad and low sound echoed throughout the room.
The room consisted of several innovade incubation tanks full of disembodied humans, a computer pressed against the back wall, several surgery operation tables with supplies and EKG machines and then a massive incubation tank in the middle of the room. The tank in the middle was a giant glass tube that connected from ceiling to floor and was about twelve feet in height and five feet in width. The middle of it was smashed out and its liquids lay in puddles on the floor.
'This happened recently…that tank was smashed into either today or yesterday…there's no way in hell that stuff wouldn't of dried up by now had it of been an older incident.' Allelujah thought as he carefully walked into the middle of the room to take a closer look at the tank.
He encircled it once before moving on to look at all of the other specimens inside the other smaller tanks along-side the walls. One had the deformed head of a human, the next had a torso of a child that was ripped open and bleeding into the yellowish liquid and the others were an unidentifiable mess.
Suddenly the sounds of the Haro activating something from the computer began to increase in volume and the room vibrated gently. The fear inside Allelujah chest began to spread like fire to a patch of dry leaves and grass. He could literally feel the heart beat in his neck and palms of his hands. A violent shake nearly knocked him off of his cold feet and he stumbled back into a tank. His butt hit the keypad on the side of the tank and it began to make a soft beeping noise. The locks on the tank opened and the inside of the tank spilled forth onto the floor and the waist down on Allelujah. He scrambled to get away, but slipped on the entrails of the lab experiment and fell on his hands and right thigh in the sloppy mess of slime.
He gagged and choked back the vomit even though his mask and oxygen tank prevented him from smelling any of the vile ooze. He hissed in pain once he realized that a massive shard of glass had been thrust into his right thigh. Even though blood squirted from the wound, the yellow and red liquid seeped into the open cut causing it to burn intensely. He groaned in agony and pressed on the wound with his gloved hand. He struggled to crawl out of the pile of slime, but could only slide across the floor in a yellowish bloody mess. He was able to grab onto the broken glass of the massive tank in the middle of the room and hoist himself off the floor.
The hand used to uphold his weight on the glass only received a couple minor slices, nothing more than a large paper cut in his book. He balanced himself and shuddered in nausea. He tried his best to slow his breathing and calm his churning stomach. He let go of the middle tank and hobbled over to the spot where he fell and picked up his slime encrusted gun.
"Auuuughh…." He groaned as he peeled the yellow and red slime off of the handle of the laser gun.
"Meep activated! Meep activated!" the orange Haro exclaimed then flew back to Allelujah's side.
"What exactly is Meep?" he asked as he pulled another glop of sludge off.
"Brother! Brother!"
"So Meep is another Haro correct?" He said as he slung his gun around in hopes it would create a gravitational pull and thrust the remainder of the slime off.
"Correct! Correct!" the orange Haro chirped then flew off and out of the room. Allelujah would of followed it had a thought not crossed his mind.
He felt heavy.
'Wait….gravity!' his eyes widened. He jumped in place to test the level of gravity and determined that it was the same as on Earth. He forgot he was still standing in the slime and slipped once again. He managed to get back up and leaned against the wall for support.
'Okay, I'm going to go back down stairs and go down Tieria's hallway to see if I can find the others.' He thought.
He walked out of the room and his feet left the ground. He then found himself trying to walk on thin air. He looked back to the room where it clearly still had gravity and groaned. He had figured out that it was only the room that had gravity, not the hallway. He shrugged it off and proceeded to go back to the middle floor where he found random Haros floating about chattering here and there. The blue GNO lights were now flickering on and off in several more rooms that he passed by.
'I wonder if there's a power surge going on. Why else would the lights be flickering like this?' he thought as he passed by yet another room that was lit up. Suddenly all of the lights turned on and a voice over the loud speaker system spoke.
"Black Knight Mission To Mars! All systems activated!"
XxXxX Rewind to Tieria XxXxX
Tieria's mind was foggy and he had developed a bit of a headache, but other than that he felt fine. He opened his eyes to see nothing but absolute darkness. The only light source was a strip of light rather far away. He assumed he was on the floor in some room and there was an old fashioned door across the room with a light in the hallway on. He sat up and struggled to his feet.
'I must be back on the Ptolemaios II somehow. There's gravity here…..wait…if I was on the Ptolemy, why am I laying on the cold hard floor? Why wouldn't I be in my bed? Not to mention I'm still in my space suit and have my helmet on. Curses, I'm still in the damned abandoned base. Who the hell knows how long I've been unconscious and lost?'
"Lockon, Allelujah ,Setsuna, do any of you copy me?" he said calmly into his headset. No reply. He repeated his request several times before giving up.
'I hope nothing happened to the others….' He thought and began to feel his way around the room. He noticed a couple of odd things while maneuvering around the room. One; his gun was gone and two; there was a large metal ring around his neck. He began fussing with it in an attempt to figure out what it was, but came to no specific conclusion. His first thought was it was attached to a chain to hold him in place, but there was no chain. It seemed the ring held no purpose that he could track at this moment.
He then tried to ignore the metal ring and continued his search for an exit from the darkness. He stumbled upon a strange object that he could not identify. He fiddled with it for a moment, but realized that it was a moving table with surgical supplies on it. This stirred a bit of fear in his heart for a moment, but did not feel threatened due to being alone at the present moment.
'Was I thrown in here to be experimented on?' he grimaced. 'Mars alien probing? I hope not…'
He made his way over to the source of the light strip that lay on the floor and searched for the old fashioned door knob that he'd only seen used one or twice in a movie. The world had long since done away with the Stone Age technology, but clearly not this ancient base. He found no such knob and began searching for a touch pad that unlocked doors in this era. He did not find that either. He then found that there were no door hinges or 'lines' where the door frame would be. He frowned upon his next thought.
'It's not a fucking door is it?'
He let out a very irritated growl and proceeded to place his hands on the wall and slide the sideways as he walked around the room. Finally he found the real door and was able to pry it open with his fingers. There was a wave of relief that washed over his entire chest and neck as he floated out into the hallway. He was both glad to be out of that room and happy that it was back to zero gravity. He turned back around to look into the room that was now lit up with the light of the hallway. Apparently the strip of light was a flood light.
He chose to forget the little embarrassing moment and looked down the hallway. To his right was a long hallway with doors and less debris that the hallway he'd been in before he was mauled by a massive Haro.
'I wonder why that giant Haro called me by the name 'Tito'…' he thought as he turned to his left to see an enormous door.
"GUNDAM MEISTER"
'I must be going in the right direction….' He smirked then tried to open the door with his bare hands. He tried to pry the door apart, but even in zero gravity they wouldn't budge. He was hoping his primitive tactic from earlier would work, but not on these doors, they appeared to be locked. He was desperate to get into that room, but did not have the means to do so.
An idea hit him and he went back into the half lit room he'd awoken in. He scoured the room for his gun, but did not find it. He cursed audibly at this and began to look for a different weapon. He chose a surgical knife of about ten inches long and went back to the massive door. He rammed the knife into the crease of the door and pulled sideways. The knife snapped in half with the blade stuck inside the crack. He pulled his hand away bleeding and snarled at the new injury. The side of his right hand had a three inch gash connecting from the middle of his thumb and index finger up to his wrist.
He threw the hilt of the knife to the side in anger and turned around to go down the hallway to find a better idea. About halfway down the hallway Tieria stopped in front of a door to his left.
"Medical Supply"
He opened the door slowly and was thankful that a blue light was shining inside. He wasn't sure exactly what the blue light consisted of, but he was glad it was there. He opened several medical supply boxes and wrapped up his bloodied hand. After his patchwork was done he glanced to the other side of the room to see a laser gun. It wans't his, but it would suffice. He grabbed it and fired it once to test it. It fired a redsidh-purple beam of energy and he slung it around his shoulder with the strap. A sudden noise from behind his caught his attention and he hid behind the wall on the opposite side of the door. The door swung open then closed a couple of seconds later.
'Someone's here! Maybe it's one of the others!' he thought then slowly peeked his head out of the door. He was tempted to call out to Setsuna and Lockon, but they were accompanied by that evil Haro and…and….
'Regene Regetta?' his eyes widened. 'Why're they with him?'
He watched as the Haro rammed the doors down and they proceeded inside. He propelled himself up to the doorway of the Gundam Meister room and watched as Regene threw his hissy fit.
'The top floor eh? So that's where this Tito guy is. I'll beat Regene up there!'
Tieria quickly propelled himself back down the hallways long before Regene and Lockon actually left. He quickly made his way to the top floor and paused in front of a door.
"PROJECT FEM"
'This must be the project that Regene spoke of.' He thought then fired his gun at the doors. They didn't receive so much as a scratch. He huffed angrily and heard another noise from behind him.
'Shit, they shouldn't be here so fast!' Tieria scowled then took off down the top floor hallway again.
Unknown to Tieria, this wasn't Lockon and Regene, it was Allelujah entering the top floor before going into the Project Fem room.
He finally found the incubation room and found that the door was wide open. He cautiously entered and tried to scout around the completely dark room, but failed to see much of anything. The end of this portion of the hallway had very little light in the hallway and none in the rooms. He fidgeted with the gun to see if it had a spot light on it, but couldn't find the switch. He floated cluelessly in the dark room that strangely had no gravity.
Suddenly, the metal ring around his neck began to vibrate violently. This didn't cause pain, but it scared him half to death. He released his gun and it floated off into the darkness as he tried to rip the ring off. He wasn't foolish enough to yank so hard that it hurt him, but he did manage to claw himself with his ungloved, injured hand. Without warning the metal ring shrunk in size and began to choke him painfully. His legs flailed out and he was propelled backwards and into a wall with many buttons and levers.
In his struggle to breathe he hit many switches and buttons with his elbows, backside and feet. Suddenly a sound to his right spoke up and began making odd sounds.
"Meep! Meep!"
"Nnnggnchhnnnn" Tieria gurgled helplessly.
"Tito! Tito!"
The metal ring relaxed and Tieria gasped for air as he felt life returning to every cell of his air starved body. He panted and huffed for a couple of minutes before a small blue light lit up a red and purple Haro.
"Meep! Meep!"
"What the hell are you?" he asked aggressively even though he knew damn well what a Haro was.
"I'm Meep! I'm Meep!" it exclaimed delightfully. "Innovade I.D. number 0988 – 1146! Innovade I.D. number 0988 – 1146!"
"Zero, nine, eight, eight is indeed my Innovade genetic type, but that may I ask is the one, one, four , six all about?" he questioned.
"Specific consciousness code! Specific consciousness code!"
"You know what, you're coming with me." He said sternly then tried to leave the room with the Haro in hand.
"Wait! Wait!"
"For what?"
"Must complete mission! Must complete mission!"
"I'm terribly sorry to inform you that your mission is rendered invalid due to the fact that the entire base has been destroyed."
"Mission still necessary! Mission still necessary!"
"Fine, but don't take too long."
He released the red and purple Haro and it flew out into the hallway. Tieria followed it as it flew into a another room.
"Operations and Observation Deck"
He gasped in awe as the Haro opened the door and landed on a computer panel. He entered the room and closed to door to ensure not being found by Regene just yet. Haro plugged itself into a computer and began turning on every light in the room. Once everything in the room was activated the main screen lit up.
"Black Knights – Mission To Mars –Access Logs Activated" read the screen.
"What are you doing?" he asked simply.
"Celestial Being! Celestial Being!" it chirped them suddenly every light in the base turned on.
"Black Knights Mission To Mars! All systems activated!" said a loud voice.
"Did you just….reactivate the entire base?" he gasped out.
"Base activated! Base activated!" it did a jiggle.
Tieria watched as the main screen turned on and the security cameras in nearly every room flashed across the screen. He could see Allelujah in middle floor, Lockon and Regene heading up to the top floor and Setsuna in the Gundam Meister room. That wasn't all he saw though, he saw the incubation room he had just been in with several active incubation tanks and even recording of Gundams launching. Scenes from the base's past flashed across the screen. The crew, the meisters and even the Gundams themselves in heated battle were played over and over again.
One of the meisters greatly resembled him and Regene. Ribbons was there as well along with many other innovades.
"Mission complete! Mission complete! Meep!"
XxXxX Alleujah XxXxX
Allelujah was surprised to say the least, but the Haro were seemingly overjoyed.
"To Project Fem! Moo!" a Haro cheered.
"Project Fem! Project Fem!"
"Must protect Project Fem! Must protect Project Fem!"
The flood of thirty Haros then swarmed quickly up the hallway and grabbed onto Allelujah's suit dragging him along with them. He protested, but the Haros were fast little buggers and carried him all the way back to the Project Fem room in no time at all. The Haro effectively slammed him into a wall in the hallway before the project Fem room. He grunted in pain and he pulled a Haro out from between his belly and the wall.
"That was painful…" he groaned and rubbed his stomach.
"Sorry! Sorry! Moo!" it said.
"Hey, do me a favor."
"Anything for a Gundam Meister! Anything for a Gundam Meister! Moo!"
"Go back downstairs to the middle floor, exit the base and fly up the big space ship called the Ptolemaios two. Alert Miss Sumeragi that we need a back up, things might have just gotten hairy in here." He commanded.
"Roger that! Roger that! Moo!" said the white and black splotched horned Haro. It then flew off down the stair well and out of the base. It flew up to the Ptolemaios II and began slamming itself into the main observation deck windshield.
"Sumeragi! We've got something!" Feldt called out.
"Oh thank god! It's been hours!" she cried out and ran into the control room to see the black and white Haro tapping on the glass panel.
"It's not one of ours, but it seems to want our attention." Mileina giggled and opened a chat line with the Haro.
"Miss Sumeragi! Miss Sumeragi! Moo!" it screeched.
"That's me." The redhead replied.
"Gundam Meister in danger! Gundam Meister in danger! Send back-up! Send back-up! Moo!"
"What? We don't have anyone else to send in! Saji, Louise and the rest of the crew are on Earth. I'll have to send Marie." She sighed.
Marie put on a white space suit and allowed the Haro to lead her back to whichever Gundam Meister sent it. The first thing she felt upon entering the base was fear and disgust. She reluctantly followed the Haro down the far left hallway full of debris and corpses.
"At least there's light in here…..Mileina, Feldt do you copy?" she said into her mic, but got no reply.
"That won't work in here! That won't work in here! Moo!"
"Why not?" Marie asked fearfully.
"GNO particle lights! GNO particle lights!"
"What are GNO particles?" she gasped.
Haro gave her no reply, but lead her to the stair well that lead to the top floor. Unfortunately their path was blocked by something completely unexpected of both Marie and the Haro. An army of Innovades armed with laser guns stood in front of the stairwell and aimed at Marie.
"Protect Project Fem!" they chanted.
"Don't' shoot! Don't shoot! Moo!"
"Yeah seriously, don't shoot!" Marie pleaded.
"She's part of Celestial Being! She's part of Celestial Being!"
"Name 'Marie' not recognized by VEDA. Now terminating intruder!" they said in unison.
"Run! Run! Moo!" the Haro screamed and latched onto Marie's suit and drug her easily out of the hallway. The innovades fired several times at her, but missed every time. Haro threw her into a room and electronically locked it. Thankfully the innovades did not see this and continued down the hall to find them.
When the hallway was cleared Haro and Marie made a break for the stair well and made it to the top floor. Marie sighed in relief, but her hope dwindled again as a solo innovade pressed his gun against her forehead.
"Stop! Stop! Moo!" Haro cried out.
"Why? She is an intruder." The red haired Innovade asked flatly.
"She's part of Celestial Being! She's part of Celestial Being! Moo!"
"Data scanning….life form not recognized by VEDA." He said.
"That's not true! I work for Celestial Being and VEDA damn well knows who I am!" Marie retorted, she really wished she had a gun at this moment. Why she didn't bring a gun was beyond her imagination….
The gun fired and Marie screamed as blood splattered across the walls around her. She herself was pelted with blood as well. She opened her eyes to see that Allelujah had killed the innovade.
"Oh Allelujah! Thank god!" she jumped up and hugged him.
"Don't feel safe just yet. These innovades weren't here until now. I wouldn't of requested back up had I of known the base was crawling with these guys. I think whoever activated the base again is sending out armies to kill the intruders, A.K.A. us. It's clearly not a Haro doing this because the Haro here like us. The leader must be—"
"Oh hey Allelujah, there you are—Marie?" Lockon tilted his head.
"I called for back-up and Marie came. I had no idea we were under attack…" Alellujah explained.
"Neither did I." said a feminine voice from behind Lockon.
"Oh Tier- Okay, why is Regene here?" Marie pointed and gasped.
"Long story." Regene and Lockon said in unison.
"We were on our way to the incubation room when we stumbled upon the Project Fem room being wide open. We saw the hoard of Haro flock this way and the new found you guys." Lockon said.
"Allelujah, do you know anything about the Project Fem door opening?" Regene asked bluntly.
"Yeah, this little Haro here opened it."
"So Haros can open the doors in here via a link."
"Or smash them down." Lockon chuckled.
"Not funny, I hate that thing." Regene grumbled then turned to go back to the Project Fem room. On his way back he roughly snatched a floating Haro and took it with him.
"How many other enemy innovades are in here?" Marie asked.
"Not a damn clue, they didn't activate until about….ten minutes ago." Lockon explained.
"Seriously? You guys have been in here for seven hours! Why're they just now activating?" Marie sighed in frustration.
"I want to know who or what activated the base." Allelujah grit his teeth.
"We can try finding the main control room and find out." Lockon suggested.
"Good idea. I'll head there with Marie, you keep an eye on Regene in case he tries anything sneaky."
"He's not gonna do anything. The guy has no means of escaping or attacking us. He's just tagging along because he's stranded and promises to give us information."
"Still, it's not the wisest idea to trust him…" Marie bit her lower lip unsurely.
"There's four of us versus him. He's an intellectual type innovade, not a battle type like Tieria. He's not very good at combat." Lockon waved his hands dismissively.
"Still, keep an eye on him anyways." She commanded and he caved.
While Lockon watched Regene patter around the Project Fem room with the Haro accessing all of the data on the computers, Marie and Allelujah located the operation room. They tried to open the door, but it was locked.
"Haro, open this door please." He requested and the Haro obliged.
Inside the room Meep began to struggle.
"What's wrong?" Tieria asked.
"Intruder! Intruder! Meep!" he flailed then activated another army of innovades.
Before Alellujah's Haro could open the door the Innovades in the next room over activated and charged them.
"Allelujah run!" Marie shouted and she took off down the hall. Allelujah bravely held his place and took out all seven of the charging innovades with ease. He shot the first one directly into the forehead, the next two in the chest area and the last were pelted in the abdomen quite a few times. Marie turned around sheepishly and sighed.
"I guess there's no reason to be afraid when you're with a Meister…" she said breathily, almost as if it turned her on.
"That's not for certain. Haro, try to open the door again."
"Moo!" said the Haro as it reconnected to the door.
"Not again! Not again!" Meep cried out and tried to defend, but there we no other innovades nearby to protect them.
"I'll go out there, you keep activating the base. See if you can get a Gundam in the docks operational."
"Roget! Roger! Meep!"
Tieria opened the door from the inside and waited for signs of movement before firing. He wasn't looking out of the door, instead he was on the inside the room pressed against the wall waiting for his enemy to approach him.
"Shh…stay here, I'll check it out." Allelujah whispered to Marie who nodded.
He approached the door as quietly as possible and slid alongside the wall until he was near the edge of the door. Allelujah and Tieria were now only inches apart separated by nothing but a Plutonium wall. Tieria extended his arm until the tip of his gun protruded from the doorway. Allelujah did the same thing at the same time and they both jumped in surprise at the tip of their guns made contact.
In an instant both meisters jumped in front of the door way, dropped to their knees on the floor and fired upwards. It took them a couple of awkward seconds before they recognized each other's pose and face. Alellujah giggled nervously and Tieria sighed in relief. They had both effectively performed a move they were taught by Celestial being; drop down and fire upwards because your enemy is likely to fire straight ahead. Miraculously this same tactic stopped two teammates from killing each other because had they not of been taught that they would of blown each other apart.
"It's Tieria." Alellujah sighed in relief. Marie would of liked to join Allelujah in relief, but she abruptly floated over and grabbed Tieria by the shoulders and ripped his helmet off.
"Why're you sending innovades at us?" she demanded.
"I'm not the one doing it, that Haro is and I thought you were Regene. He was coming up here with…..oh god…what if I had shot Lockon?" he sunk back in realization that Lockon was supposed to be with Regene. He was so focused on stopping Regene from whatever ploy he had that he forgot that Lockon was with him.
"No shit. Now come on, which Haro is trying to kill us?" Marie pushed Tieria out of the way.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Meep!" the red and purple Haro cried out rather miserably.
"I think it thought I was the only Celestial Being here. Meep you can stop now, clearly no one else here is the enemy." Tieria commanded and Meep unplugged itself.
"Guren MK-II activated! Guren MK-II activated! Meep!"
"I assume you successfully activated a Gundam then?" Tieria asked.
"Correct! Correct! Meep!"
XxXxX Setsuna XxXxX
Setsuna has hopped into the cockpit of a red and silver Gundam and was examining the buttons and switches for a good twenty minutes before every light in the room switched on and the loud speaker announced the base's activation.
'Lockon and Regene must've found the control room. I wonder if…' Setsuna's thoughts were interrupted by the main screen of the Gundam turning on.
"Guren MK-II"
Even though his facial expression didn't show his excitement, his eyes gleamed with joy. Inside his mind as grinning with curiosity as the Gundam awoke under his control and he quickly pressed some of the buttons with his eager fingers. He closed the cockpit and hit the launch sequence. The Gundam jerked, but did not take off. He halted the launch and opened the cockpit to peer down at the launching pad. He quickly noticed that it was tethered by giant chains and was not going anywhere without VEDA or whatever computer system operated its permission. He frowned in disappointment and went back to the cockpit. He opened the communication system and tried to contact the Gundams' main base which he hoped was the control room.
"Launching Guren MK-II! Launching Guren MK-II! Meep!"
"What? What did you just say?" Tieria asked with furrowed brows.
"Launching stopped! Launching stopped! Meep!"
"Was a Gundam being launched?" Allelujah asked.
"It's probably Setsuna. He was left down there as Regene and Lockon came upstairs." Tieria explained.
"How did you know that?" Lockon asked as he hovered in the doorway.
"I saw you going down the hallway to the Gundam Meister room, I was in the room one of you opened."
"Setsuna did open a door, but he said no one was inside." Lockon peered at Tieria almost as if challenging his authenticity.
"I chose not to reveal myself because Regene was with you and I wanted to beat him to this room so he couldn't do any misdeeds." Tieria explained.
"I see, so you're avoiding your own brother. I'm hurt…." Regene half cackled half faked sadness. It was truly an odd combination. Tieria was about to retort when the loud speaker suddenly erupted with the most dreaded of words.
"SELF DESTRUCTION IN FIVE MINUTES!"
Bolmung LK: To think that the inspiration for this fanfic derived from a dream of me kissing Tieria's cheek at a photoshoot…..don't ask. I need to stop having acid-trip dreams….
Okay during the Marie scenes inside the base, I'm sorry if her name pops up as Sumeragi. If you see that, let me know and I'll hotfix it.