Leftovers
Chapter Summary: Howard finds something interesting on Colony X-18722.
Pairing(s): Mention of Wu Fei and Sally.
Rating: T+
Chapter Warnings: Spoilers for Gundam Wing Endless Waltz Side Story: Tiel's Impulse.
Opening up the now-abandoned OZ warehouse on Colony X-18722 in the L3 cluster, the first words that came out of Mike Howard's mouth were "Holy shit" as he found himself looking at row upon row of cheap, mass produced, piece of crap Gundam knock-offs. The numerous variant versions of Wing Zero, Deathscythe, Heavyarms, Sandrock, and Shenlong Gundams, were "designed," or rather stolen, by OZ's "chief engineer," Ken Tsuberov, but were later abandoned to one of his underlings, some idiot named Bishop, in favor of his damned Mobile Dolls.
That little girl Sally found last month was right on the money after all, the bald-pated engineer mused as he adjusted his sunglasses, referring to the fourteen-year-old girl named Tiel Noenbleux, who was found in the wreakage of a Wing Zero knock-off. It was she who told Lady Une, the director of the newly-formed group Preventer, on which colony to find the mass produced Gundams, and the Lady passed that information on to Howard. She'd also informed him that any former OZ forces would not be a problem, and so far, they weren't. In fact, they'd been more than helpful, getting the suits loaded in the MS carriers. Some even asked to join the Sweepers.
The head of the Sweepers knew something was going on between Sally and Zhang Wu Fei, pilot of the Gundam Altron, but he wasn't about to butt in. Any relationship they were having was their business, not his. Howard's business was to get these hunks of junk off this colony and on to the Sweepers lunar base. A long as humans existed, there would always be war, and though they were at peace right now, that could change at any moment and a new batch of Gundams would be needed someday. He and the other five had work to do.
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Author's Note: According to the entries on Gundam Wing based resource out there, Tiel's Impulse starts in January AC 196, but the first panel of the first page of the comic says it's late December, AC 195, so that's the date I used. I consider it canon because it's the first time the Mariemaia Army and Dekim Barton being revealed as the real mastermind behind Operation Meteor are mentioned.