THE SEVENTH GUNDAM PILOT: THE JOURNEY OF MISTY
THE AWAKENING
Days turned to months as the women waited for the recovery and went on with their own lives. It was not till later that they received a call from the hospital saying that they have completed the reconstructive surgery and restored her bone structure. Dorothy informed the other women of what is going on during that time till the end where the surgery was completed. When the surgery was finally completed the women had gone back to L4 and gasped for what they saw. The woman was good looking but not beautiful her features where still sunken in with malnutrition but her figure was restored. "The doctor had to flush out all the drugs that were in her system as well as repair the damage done to the spine. It was a good thing that we also specialize in neural surgery." Said Dorothy as they gazed on the figure before them her body filled with tubes ranging from breathing to IV and nourishing liquids. "She must recover for the sake of the gundam pilots she must recover." Said Hilde as the women looked at the dead figure on the bed. While they are talking at the same time something else is going on in the mind of the young woman in the bed during the whole experience remembering.
FLASHBACK
Misty just entered her class when the blue light came and sucked her up. When she emerged she found herself in another world completely different from her own. Wires and different equipment then the one in a science lab where everywhere as technicians went this way and that and people yelling from another room. Misty was stunned at first by the sight, "Sir Subject appears to be healthy," said a woman's voice and Misty turned to find several people surrounding her. She began to get an uneasy feeling in her gut telling her to run but she was held down before she could do anything. Misty was very scared, "Secure the subject to the generator." Said a cold voice and Misty was struggling to get away when suddenly, "OWWW!!!!!" One man called as Misty saw him struggling with something funny like electricity as she ran. She was again cornered and taken down. This time she felt something on the back of her head then darkness.
When Misty woke she found that she was strapped to something not only that but she was naked also. "Is the test subject ready," said a voice, "Yes sir she is ready but the thing we noticed is she needs to experience extreme stress or pain to produce energy." Said another and Misty looked around her only to find that people are treating her like some kind of experiment. Then she felt it, pain unlike anything she felt before. Misty screamed unlike she ever did before for the pain was unbearable. She tried to get free but she could not. She felt the whip beat her from behind. While she was in pain she felt something leave her a power she could not control. Misty was in so much pain that she collapsed into the shelter of the abyss.
When she woke again she found herself still strapped but she was also bleeding and she could feel the blood flow from her head and her back. "Experiment was a success sir all mobile suit units have been deployed into reality," said a technician. Misty could barely make out the voices that where speaking in front of her, "I know that but just beating her is not enough we need another way to make sure that she keeps the gate open. Keep her healthy also and alive for we need to keep that gateway operational. Find a way to cause more energy to come out I want to know more about it later in my office." With that Misty could hear the man leave. Then she could hear footsteps and a technician gave her a look. "Why are you doing this to me I have done nothing to you." She said and the man gazed at her wrote something down, "Answer me damm it!" Misty shouted, "We need a power source and your it so don't complain for you will be like this for a very long time." It was then that he came on to her and undid his pants. Misty closed her eyes for that pain of his entry was unbearable, "Look at me bitch!" he screamed and Misty did not look at him he hit her. She still did not look up and his humping became more violent and tears began to fall from her eyes. It was then that she felt the power again she felt it rise and boil over. When it did the man stopped his dirty play and Misty began to cry as it built up even more.
Days passed into weeks when they inserted a tube into Misty feeding her liquids to keep her alive as she went through the same torture. She did not know how long she was like that she could no longer feel her body. Her arms where broken, she knew for a fact that her legs where the same way as well as her back. Her face was way to swollen for her to see properly. Misty did not know how long she was going to live like this until some time later when they brought those new prisoners to be killed by the so called power that she could produce. It was then that she knew that enough was enough.
Eyes opened for the first time in four years to a room unlike anything she ever saw but to her she was in heaven. She could hear the beeps of monitors the white ceiling of a hospital. But the thing that caught her attention was that there are flowers on her bed. She tried to mover her hands but felt a shooting pain go up her arm and into her body. Tears stung her eyes for a long time but she was not crying in pain but in joy. I am alive I have been saved! She thought and a nurse came in to check on her. "Oh I see you are awake," said a cheerful voice and Misty tried to get up to see her but she moved to her instead. "You must not move the surgery to restore your spine may not have been that far in the past but you need to rest not. You are lucky the preventers found you. It is a wonder that you lasted for four years with all that torture. "Ack!" Misty tried to talk but found that she has no voice. "Your vocal box suffered as well but in time your voice will return. Rest now I will call Lady Une." With that the nurse left and Misty began to cry again with joy. I am alive and safe she thought again. The roof was unfamiliar yet it carried an air of sanctuary to Misty. She fell back into a peaceful slumber one she has not felt in a long time.
"Yes Mrs. Winner she is awake at the moment but I think she went back to bed but she is conscious right now," said the nurse and Dorothy along with her son Kasim who trailed after his mother. He was the splitting image of his father Quatre but he was more energetic being a three year old. Dorothy led her son down the halls of the hospital towards front desk. She was in deep conversation so deep in fact that she did not notice Kasim sneak away.
The three year old walked down the halls unnoticed by any of the staff his mind kept telling him that there is someone down the hall that needs him. He finally found the room that his instincts where telling him. Slowly he reached for the door and went in. the room was dark except for the monitors that beeped to show that someone is in the room. He slowly crept over to the bed to where the figure laid. When the young boy found the window he opened them to let the light in. It was his surprise to find a young woman on the bed her face sunken in with malnutrition and pasty white skin. He walked over to her and held her hand.
Misty began to stir when she felt something warm on her hand. Slowly without causing much pain she gripped the hand that held hers. It was small like a child's hand. Slowly she opened her eyes to gaze into light blue green eyes. At first Misty was shocked till her eyes focused on three year olds face his bright expression glued to his face. "Hi! I am Kasim Winner," he said and Misty tried to get up but he put his small hands on her, "You should not get up the lady said that you should rest." He said and Misty did as she was told. He smiled again at her, "Mama is coming to see you as well as my aunts. You are that girl that Aunty Sally and Aunty Lucretzia rescued yes?" he said and Misty tried to talk only to say "Ack!" again and the boy laughed. "You can't talk yet for you have tubes in your mouth to help you breathe." He said and Misty smiled. "You where crying I can tell you got tear stains on your face." He said and brushed a finger on her cheeks. He sure is mature for his age, she thought. Suddenly the doors opened to reveal a lady with long blond hair and light blue eyes. Her eyebrows are what caught Misty's attention for they where like forks but she would not comment on that. Her dress is of a lady that came out of a business office. She looked tired but she was all business. "That is my mommy," said Kasim who ran up to her.
Dorothy could see the girl's eyes watching her as she came into the room. Her sunken features hid away a very intelligent person who can analized a person by their appearance. To this she was curious about her the more she wanted to find out the more she wanted to know about her husband's whereabouts.
Misty watched the woman with wonder as their gazes met challenge was in them. She also could see a bit of sadness and curiosity as well. "I know you can't talk yet but let me introduce myself, I am Dorothy Catalonia Winner the wife of Quatre Reberba Winner." Misty only nodded her head in acknowledgement. "Have you heard of the Winner family?" Dorothy asked and she received a slight shake in the head from Misty told her that she had not. "Well the family owns this hospital and you where lucky that my closest friends found you and saved you for if not you would be dead right now." She said and Misty's eyes began to water again, "Don't cry," said Kasim as he got some tissues.
Dorothy's eyes softened at the sight even looking at the girls state with tubes feeding her liquids and nutrients to her body and even helping her breathe made her want to cry as well. "While you where at the base did you see a man that looks like this?" she said as she took out a picture of Quatre and once again Misty shook her head saying she did not. Dorothy looked to the ground also fighting back the tears, "Mommy are you going to cry too?" Asked Kasim and Dorothy shook her head, "No son I was thinking about your daddy again." She said and Misty watched as the boy came back to her, "My daddy vanished before I was born." He said and Misty gazed at Dorothy. The woman excused herself and left the room. Kasim stayed with Misty, "I wish I could meet my daddy but mommy said he vanished before I was born. I don't know where he went not even mommy she still cries for him at night I hear her when I try to sleep." Said the three year old, "She also says that I look exactly like him." Misty looked at the boy and indeed he looked like the kind man in the picture that Dorothy showed her.
Dorothy was outside when Catherine and Midii showed up at the hospital. "Dorothy what is it?" asked Catherine, "Nothing just remembering Quatre that is all." She said and wiped the tears from her face. Catherine let Dorothy lean on her and gave her comfort while Midii went into the room where they kept the girl.
When she entered she found Kasim already there comforting the girl. "So you are the one that powered the Machine that took my Trowa away from me." she said and Misty met her eyes confusion on her face. "He was all that I have and you took him away you bitch!" Midii said taking her pent up anger on her. "Aunty Midii why are you mad?" Kasim asked her but she ushered him out of the room. "It is all your fault that I lost my Trowa again." She could see the tears build up on her face. Misty was more confused then ever. "Midii are you ok?" said another voice and Catherine poked her head in, "It is all that fucken bitches fault that I lost my fiancé she probably fucked him too!" she yelled and Catherine showed her out before turning to Misty, "Forgive her she misses Trowa very much. Kasim and Dorothy told me about you and the look of confusion on your face. I know it is hard when something you didn't do gets put on your shoulders and you get the blame. It was four years ago when the men we loved the most disappeared from our sights. I think that is when you came. From what Sally found on the computer base before the explosion and from that Lopez guy you came right after they got rid of our men." Explained Catherine shouts from Midii could be heard from down the hall and she excused herself.
When Catherine arrived in the waiting room Midii was throwing a fit and Dorothy tried to control her but it turned into a feud when Midii accidentally kicked Kasim into the wall which made Dorothy furious. She ran to the group of fighting women and held Midii back and Sally who arrived with Relena was holding back Dorothy. Hitomi and Kasim ran back into the room when the women settled themselves.
"So tell me how you came across this Gundam again Howard?" Lady Une said to the old mechanic. "Well when we did a sweep on the lunar base it was by pure chance that we came across the mobile suit. It was buried in a hidden lab strange thing about it is the logs that the scientists made. According to the records that these guys had the cockpit is worse then the wing zero." He said and Lady Une sighed, "Why is it worse?" she asked, "For one thing instead of feeding data to the brain it gives the pilot a perspective of being the machine itself. But the side effect is when the machine takes damage the pilot can't handle the pain that the machine emits to make a person feel the damage. It is all neural and it was the prototype for the zero. I think it was called Thunderbird." Said Howard as he stared at the odd looking Gundam it was a cross of all the Gundams the only difference is that its shield and buster rifle is shaped like a birds head. It had Altron's lengthy arms, Deathscythe's beam scythe and jammers allowing stealth but at a smaller scale, Sandrock's desert shielding allowing travel in rough terrain, Heavyarms's chest guns, and Epyon's tail whip. The colors where light blue against grey and black giving it a fearsome look. The head of the gundam looked like that of the Wing Zero and the wings looked like the Wing Zero Customs except that there where only two not four. It was more bird like making it a formidable gundam indeed.
"I tried it out with the best of our pilots all are in the hospital now." Said Howard as he walked towards the gundam's cockpit. "So in other words this thing is totally dangerous," said Lady Une. "I believe so," replied Howard, "Then it is of no use to us in this war against Neo Oz." "It is kind of hard to believe that they are invading another world," said Howard, "It is hard to believe but it is true and from the notes we got from the wreckage in Antarctica or what ever was left of the computer systems that survived the blast the gateway needed a powerful source of energy one that our technology could not produce so they resorted to using a human. And according to this report the so called Reality is the place they went." Said Lady Une suddenly her cell phone went off and she picked it up, "Lady Une here," she said and Howard listened in, "Yes, alright I will be there and try to keep Midii under surveillance Lady Une out," with that she hung up and placed it back on her holder. "Sorry about this Howard but that was the Winner Corporation Hospital saying our patient has awakened and I am needed." She said with a smile, "What is this about keeping Midii under surveillance?" asked Howard, "Oh nothing except that she and Dorothy got into a bit of a fight," replied Lady Une and she walked away towards the nearest transport.
Hours later Lady Une entered the hospital to see a fat faced Dorothy and a bleeding Midii. "From what the people at the hospital told me you two nearly murdered each other." She said in good humor. Relena was holding her eye and Sally was applying ice to it she then left the waiting room to the designated room. When she entered she found the two children reading to the amusement of the patient.
Misty raised her eyes to the presence of Lady Une, "I did not know you where here as well Lady Une sir," said another voice and Lucretzia walked in, "I just arrived," replied Lady Une, "I did as well sometime after you did," replied the other woman. Both turned to Misty, "Well it looks like someone is having fun with the children," said Lucretzia in good humor. Hitomi stopped reading and ran to her Aunt. Picking the child up her gave her a hug. "Looks like the children where the ones taking care or you girl," Misty nodded slowly Kasim stopped what he was doing, "Did you talk to Aunty Midii she was being mean to me and my new friend." He said, Lady Une then noticed the bruise on the side of his face, I can see why Dorothy got into that fight with Midii poor kid, she thought.
Misty turned her head to get a better view of her visitors and tried to sit up Lucretzia then moved to the side of the bed and pushed some buttons. The head side of the bed rose up to allow Misty to look at her viewers better. One she recognizes as the mother from the feelings she has been getting. Slowly she raised her cast hand to Lucretzia and pointed as best she could. Kasim and Hitomi took this time to leave and search for their mothers being as intelligent as they are. Lucretzia pointed to herself and Misty nodded unable to speak. She then slowly pointed to herself. "What are you trying to say?" said Lucretzia in confusion. Slowly Misty made a motion with her hands as best as she could. Lady Une caught that gesture, "Are you asking if my friend here is a mother?" Misty nodded again, "How did you know did the kids tell you?" asked Lucretzia, Misty shook her head again and pointed to her heart or tried to. Lucretzia smiled as did Misty.
"I can't believe you Midii losing your temper like that the poor kid do not even know Trowa nor did she know about him disappearing." Catherine scolded the other woman who at the moment is applying ice to her swollen lip. "And worse yet you hit poor Kasim now the boy is probably afraid of his aunt right now," Midii looked at the ground in shame. Sally came over to them after attending to Relena, "Midii I don't know what has gotten into you but I can understand but next time save your temper for something else." She said and Midii's eyes began to water, "I am sorry I guess I was so angry that Trowa disappeared that I lost it and blamed the girl." With that she put her hands to her face and cried Catherine held her and comforted the other woman. It was also at this time that Lady Une and Lucretzia came out of the room, "How is she?" Sally asked and Lady Une was baffled, "She recognized Lucretzia as a mother even though she did not bring Michael over." She said, "It seems as if she can feel us and tried to communicate but it will be difficult for all of us." They all nodded there heads in agreement.
TBC
