Finally I got this chapter done.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Gundam 00 T.T
2307 A.D. its been four months been Celestial Being started its armed interventions. Of the three nation groups, only the Human Reform League has something planned for Celestial Being.
Heaven's Pillar
Inside one of the many Human Reform League meeting rooms, Sergei Smirnov stood in front of the Chobu team forces lecturing them.
"Members of the CHOBU force, you represent your motherlands and are some of the finest the HRL has to offer. Our target is to find and destroy that group of worldwide interventionists. The defeat of that group will make the Human Reform League the most powerful nations in the world further elevating humanity. I expect great results from all of you," he said as he saluted and the other soldiers also saluted. Among the soldiers stood Soma, Sezuru, and Noel.
Near the Human Reform League's Orbital Elevator the Celestial Being mother ship Ptlemioas was stationed.
"Exia docking," reported Setsuna as his gundam docked in its designated container. When he climbed out of the cockpit, he was greeted by the Celestial Being mechanic Ian.
'That was a pretty nice docking Setsuna, I've already begun maintenance on Freedom," he said pointing over to Freedom whose armor was already stripped and being checked.
"I'll help you with maintenance," offered Setsuna when the older man just shrugged.
"Go back to you room and rest, give others a chance to work,"
Gathered in the bridge of the room, Allejiuah approached Sumeragi who was just watching everyone else work.
"Miss Sumeragi, what if we come under attack during our overhaul?" asked the meister and Sumeragi paused before answering.
"I'll curse God for that," she replied dusting off her clothes.
"I really don't think that you of all people should be saying that,"
Once the meeting between the CHOBU forces was finished, Noel removed the green hat and sat down on her chair and started typing into the computer.
"According to the data, Tabitha Hale was dropped and there are no records after that, the facility was destroyed by a group of unknowns," read Noel when the door opened and Sezuru walked into her quarters.
"Noel, any contact from Ai or the others?" he asked and Noel shook her head.
"Nothing new after the battle in Moralia," and Sezuru ruffled his hair.
"What the hell is going on! What about the pilot of the newest gundam? Ai said that the pilot has a high possibility of being one of us!" and Noel shook her head and she turned her head to the computer screen.
"I've looked up the most recent news of the facility but that latest news is four months ago, the day of Tabitha and Yue's selection. According to the data, the facility was destroyed by a group of unknowns," and Sezuru sat down on the bed and looked over at Noel.
"Four months ago? That's when Celestial Being started their armed interventions," and Noel paused before typing codes into the computer. After a few minutes, Noel's typing slowed down until her fingers stopped moving and her eyes widened.
"Sezuru," she called getting the boy's attention.
"What is it?" he asked and Noel's voice shook.
"Come look at this," and Sezuru walked up to where Noel sat and looked at the computer screen. When he was there, Noel replayed one of the recorded segments of the security cameras inside the selection room. Both coordinator's eyes widened as they saw Yue going beserk and killing the thirteen men in less that two minutes. Then they saw a young boy wearing a pilot suit approaching her and he caught her as she collapsed. Once the video was over, Noel and Sezuru took in the information.
"It can't be," whispered Noel and she looked at Sezuru whose eyes were wide open.
"Yue's with Celestial Being,"
As the door of the bridge opened, Litchy walked into see Christina working by herself.
"Hey where's Feldt?" he asked looking around for the pink haired tactical operator to which Christina answered for him.
"She said she wasn't feeling well and went to see Doctor Moreno,"
"So you're working a double shift?"
"Yeah you got that right," sighed Christina massaging her shoulders. Smiling, Litchy looked at the girl before speaking.
"I'll take over for a while, why don't you go get something to eat?" he suggested and Chris looked up and smiled.
"What! Really? You're so nice!" she smiled causing Litchy to blush.
"Don't mention it,"
"Its just too bad you're not really my type," and Chris walked out of the bridge leaving a heart-broken Litchy behind.
HRL Orbital Elevator
Inside the pillar, Sergei Smirnov stood behind Ming as they stared at the screen.
"Right now we're deploying thousands or communication probes. The light particles the gundams emit disrupt all types of communication. We're using that to our advantage, if communicatios are disrupted in an area, then that means that a gundam is in the vicinity," reported the Chinese soldier and Sergei smiled.
"Let's see where you guys are hiding, Celestial Being,"
Looking at the vast emptiness of space, Feldt Grace stood in the observation deck as tears flew down her face. Too caught up in her thoughts, Feldt failed to realized that the door behind her had opened until a voice caught her attention.
"Yo! What are you up to?" Lockon asked and Feldt quickly wiped the tears away from her face. But when she turned to face him, some of the tears flew across the from due to the lack of gravity. Eyes widening, Lockon paused for a second before his face turned into a caring worried look.
"What's the matter?"
Inside the bridge, Licthy sat on the tactical operators' seat as he ran a check through the system.
"GN- particles completely charged," he smiled not noticing the blinking red alarm of the E-sensor.
Inside the Human Reform League Sergei Smirnov stood with Leitantant Ming as they waited watched the screen.
"Colonel, we just lost communication with some of the comm. Devices!" alerted one of the soldiers and Sergei smiled.
"I never expected them to be this close," gasped Ming and Sergei looked up.
"Allright all Chobu members scramble immediately!"
Sighing, Christina looked up from her tray of food to the two people sitting before her. Sitting with one chair between the two, Setsuna and Tieria silently ate their meal as if nothing was wrong but there was a tense aura around.
"This is so awkward!' thought Christina when the door near her opened and Rina walked in. But when she noticed the tense atmosphere, she made a quick u-turn and tried to walked out when someone's hand grabbed her hand. Turning around, Rina saw Christina holding onto her hand and she gave Rina a desperate glance at the two meisters silently eating their meals.
"Uh-its okay I want to go and rest," laughed Rina but Chris' grip on her arm tightened and she literally dragged Rina to the table and situated her in between Setsuna and Tieria who glared at her for disturbing their quiet meal. As Rina nervously laughed, Christina happily placed a tray of food before Rina before running out of the room.
"Enjoy your meal!" yelled Christina as she ran out.
"Chris!" yelled Rina trying to run after her when Setsuna grabbed her hand and pulled her back down.
"Eat," he ordered but Rina shook her head.
"I'm fine, I'm not hungry," but Setsuna knew she was lying. During the time they were living together in Tokyo, Setsuna noticed that Rina never really ate. While she always made him his meals, she always avoided eating and that she barely slept.
'Eat," he ordered again before he started eating again. After a slight hesitation, Rina ate a spoonful of rice and realized that she was actually ravenous. After a few quick swallows, Rina realized that all of her food was gone. Suddenly, a canister full of juice was placed infront of her. Turning her head, Rina saw Setsuna also drinking the same drink and Rina smiled before taking a sip of the juice and smiled even wider at the taste.
HRL Orbital Elevator
As the order to sortie was announced, Noel and Sezuru ran out their rooms with their pilot sutis. Different from the standard green pilot suits Sezuru wore a red pilot suit while Noel was wearing a pink pilot suit.
"All pilots launch!" yelled Sergei and Sezuru gripped his helmet.
"Yue," he whispered and Noel looked over at Sezuru and grabbed his hand. Looking up, Sezuru looked over at Noel who smiled at him.
"We'll find out why she joined them, it'll be alright, we'll get out paradise," and Sezuru smiled at Noel and the two looked ahead of them.
"Yeah, we'll get it, our paradise," and his eyes narrowed.
Ptlomaois Observation Deck
Standing next to the pink haired teen, Lockon saw the Feldt was just standing quietly as tears fell down her face.
"I see, so today's the day of your parent's deaths?" he asked and Feldt slowly nodded choking back a sob. "Everyone in the organization is sworn to secrecy. Other than Rina, I don't know anything about the other meisters, but still, not telling you about your own parents," and Lockon looked at the fifteen year old girl before him. Pulling her close to him, Lockon held the pink-haired teen in a half hug. "You're following them in their footsteps, you're a remarkably strong girl," and the two stayed that way for a minute before Lockon broke the silence by speaking. "Its Neil," he whispered and Feldt looked up at him with a questioning look.
"What?" she asked and Lockon smiled at her for a minute.
"That's my real name, Neil Dylandy, I'm from Ireland originally, my family was killed by terrorists," and Lockon showed Feldt a locket filled with his family photo. "This was my sisters. I never saw her take it off until-" and Feldt looked over at Lockon
"Why tell me that?" asked Feldt.
"I thought it would be unfair for you to tell me something so personal and me not tell you anything about me," and after a pause, Feldt answered.
"You're so nice," she whispered and Lockon smiled.
"Yeah only to the ladies," when the door to the observation deck opened and Allejiuah walked in looking for Lockon, when he saw Lockon and Feldt.
"Sorry," blushed Allejiuah and Lockon looked at him.
"Hey its not like that!"
Walking out of the cafeteria, Rina headed towards her room when she felt a sharp pain on her head.
"What the!" she whispered as she held her head when Chris' voice filled the intercom.
"Enemy approaching!" she yelled and Rina snapped up and she turned around to see Setsuna looking at her. Nodding, the two headed towards the containers.
"Have Ptylomey change course, Ian, what's the gundam's maintenance staus?" asked Sumeragi changing into her suit as Ian filled her in.
"Exia and Freedom are ready to go but Dynames' armor is still stripped and it can't use its leg generators," and Sumeragi turned around and gritted her teeth.
"That's the one that I wanted,"
"Send out Kyrios and Virtue first, Exia and Freedom standby for launch!" ordered Sumeragi over the intercom as Feldt and Lockon made their way to their designated battle stations. As Feldt made her way to the bridge, Lockon stopped her.
"Hey Feldt," he called and the young pink haired teen looked over at him.
"Make sure you survive," he smiled and he tossed something to the girl who caught the object. Looking down at the object at her hands, Feldt's eyes widened as she realized that Lockon had tossed her his sister's locket. "Keep that safe for me," he stated and he turned the opposite way and headed towards the bridge. Holding onto the locket, Feldt closed her eyes.
"Mother, father," she whispered and then she quickly made her way to the bridge.
Yeah short Chapter but I didn't feel like going into all the battle scenes between Celestial Being and HRL espcially the battle between Allejiuah and Soma. I kinda added more Feldt and Lockon then in the series but I just adore that couple so I added a little more than normal.
I also realized that I barely put any Setsuna and Rina despite them living together for four months so here's a little side story thingie. This is a continuation of when Setsuna got sick.
TOKYO Economic Zone
"Setsuna's sick!" yelled Sumeragi and Rina looked at Setsuna glare at her before she turned back to her communicator and nodded.
"So for a couple of days, please pull Setsuna out of missions so he can rest," and Sumeragi paused for a second.
"I understand, Rina take care of him, I'm pretty sure he'll try to continue missions in his condition," and Rina nodded.
"Roger that," and Rina ended the communication and turned around only to hit Setsuna's chest.
"Hey! What are you doing up!" she yelled as she wrestled Setsuna to the bed. But with his full force, Setsuna pushed Rina onto the bed.
"I told you not to contact the crew member of Ptolemy," and Rina pouted.
"I had no choice, if I hadn't you would have continued mission and gotten sicker," and Setsuna glared at her before his vision became blurry and everything became black.
When he opened his eyes again, Setsuna looked around to notice that it was already sunset outside. "How long was I asleep?" thought Setsuna as he sat up and put his hand on his forehead to dull the constant pain in his head. Hearing loud noises from the kitchen, Setsuna frowned as he slowly got up and headed towards the kitchen. Once he was there, he saw Rina standing infront of the stove with a pot of something steaming. Hearing movement, Rina turned around to see Setsuna standing nearby.
"Oh, I was just about to wake you up," and Rina pointed at the pot of rice stew. As the stew was finished, Rina made Setsuna sit on the bed as he slowly ate the stew. AS he took his first bite, Setsuna realized that he was ravenous and quickly ate when a hand brushed his cheek.
"You had rice on your face," and Rina quickly retracted her hand when she saw Setsuna flinch. "Sorry," she whispered and she walked out the room. When she was gone, Setsuna looked at the remaining stew in the bowl and he quietly ate before he laid down and fell asleep. While he was asleep, Rina walked by and placed a wet cloth on his burning forehead.
"You're working yourself way to hard," she whispered and she rested her head on the bed and fell asleep.
"Why? Why are you doing this Soran?" cried a woman as she held up a shaking hand at her 10 year old son who held a gun in his hand. Soran just stood there without saying anything and pulled the trigger and as he did, the young boy did not show any emotion. No fear, sadness, or disgust.
Snapping his eyes open, Setsuna panted as the horrible memory played over and over in his head. He had killed them. Both his mother and father died by his hands. He killed them without any remorse. He killed them under the belief that the act was a sacrifice to god. Sitting up, Setsuna saw Rina's head resting on the bed and her hand holding onto his. Pulling his hand out of her grasp, Setsuna looked down at the younger girl before he stood up and grabbed his coat before walking out of the apartment.
When she opened her eyes, Rina looked around and stretched her arms. But when she looked at the bed, Rina's eyes widened as she saw that Setsuna was gone.
"Sestuna!" yelled Rina looking around the apartment when she saw that Setsuna's coat was gone. "Idiot!" and Rina ran out the apartment.
"Setsuna!" yelled Rina running around the streets and she kept yelling his name before she saw him sitting on the park bench, just gazing at the empty park. "Setsuna!" yelled Rina as she ran up to the meister and fell onto her knees. Turning his head, Setsuna saw the younger meister fall down catching her breath.
"You're sweating," he stated and Rina nodded.
"I ran around looking for you, you shouldn't walk around like that! You had me worried," and Setsuna saw the look of worry on her face.
"Sorry," and Rina looked over and smiled.
"No problem," and Setuna looked up and crimson and blue- violet eyes clashed, Setsuna had an instant flash of images run through his head. The images of the desert, bloody bodies, ruined houses, and then a girl. When the girl turned around, Setsuna's eyes met a pair of violet-blue eyes as the girl smiled and held out her hand towards him.
"Let's go home," she said and Setsuna snapped out of his trance as he saw Rina standing before him and holding out her hand to him
"Let's go home, Setsuna," she smiled and Setsuna paused for a second before he reached out and took her hand.