GundamChildSix: Kaetta (revised/amended)
Chapter Three, Part Two - Soldiers With Unmarked Graves
by r-chan
Last Time in Chapter Three, Part One - Soldiers With Unmarked Graves...
"I don't think its just about stopping the fire before a full fledged battle takes over. Its as if he's testing the limits. Or rather waiting for something significant to happen."
"Its not for the soldiers to test the integrity of peace."
"I need you two over here fast. You wont believe what I have to show you."
"I'm to be placed under house arrest then?"
"You have more influential power over the people then even I do. It matters not that you no longer carry the Peacecraft name. And that, my dear is what makes you a threat."
"My name's Relena Darlian, my name's Relena Darlian, I am not a doll. My name's Relena Darlian, my name's Relena Darlian, I am not a doll. My name's Relena Darlian, my name's Relena Darlian..."
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Heero's Voice: The year has finally progressed to A. C 198. Yet the peace that was for shadowed after Operation Meteor, has been tainted red. The Earth Sphere Unified Nation is now in a flex. Two cells of influential power have formed, The Knights, lead by Kai Tskishiro, who are pushing for a new form in government with deputy foreign minister Relena Darlian as the head of their reformed Imperial government and the people who are supporting President Lee, the one responsible for funding Preventers throughout the ESUN.
In the attempt to stop the potential fire Relena's nomination could bring, Lady Une assigned Noin and Zechs to take the necessary steps in protecting the peace that was worked so hard for. Even at the coast of Relena's life. But in an unexpected appearance Relena makes her statement. She denounces Kai's mission to eliminate the false peace that had been made, right before Zechs pulls the trigger to take not hers, but Kai's life. No one knows just happened between brother and sister that night but history will see it as an arc to bring what comes. Very unsure of what the future will bring the ESUN now faces the fire Lady Une feared. As its citizens watch with apprehension, the foundation of the future is once again rocked into an unsure path.
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Zechs stepped into the empty ball room. The light cream color of the floors had turned a dying gray and were covered in dirt and dust. Broken tables with their moth bitten cloths were scattered all over the cracked hard wood like broken pieces of a doll house, too roughly handled in the hands of an uncaring child. The long and once brilliant red drapes that hung over the floor to ceiling glass doors had faded to a sick pink and had been marred with lines of black, tale tell signs of fire.
The once elaborately decorated ceiling was but a shadow of it's former beauty. The intricate patterns of molded lines and painted angels of gold and silver were cracked and wore away. Gone were many of the panels of the fantasy world he'd once stared at as a child, having fallen into chunks of plaster and faded dreams of pealing paint that littered the shattered ball room.
In the middle lay the dull remains of a crystal chandler that had at one time long ago cast a soft light on glittering men and woman that had danced under it night after cloudless night, like figures out of a fairy tale. Like most unsullied things it was now reduced to shards of broken glass and forgotten memories.
Zechs looked upon all this with a detached gaze. Though part of him that still had the mind to think about it told him he should feel something. Sadness or maybe even pity for the helpless people that had lost their lives while waltzing away their worries. Yet all he found when he looked within himself was a quite kind of acceptance.
Relena stepped out of the darkness, her hair in loose tangles around her startling white face with arcane blue eyes. Her pale dress coat with light purple trim was wrinkled badly and stained with smudges of black and drops of red. The darker purple vest under it was party buttoned and torn. A sky blue scarf around her neck was tied sloppily. The red sash around her thin waist was all but falling off and her light blue slacks were in poor condition. She folded her gray gloved hands in front of her self and stared over at him.
"Well, Zechs. You got what you asked for." Her voice was without disdain or fondness.
"What do you mean?"
She tilted her head to the side, a childish action he found disturbing
"Isn't a doll what you wanted?" she blinked "Or do you prefer the word 'symbol'?"
Zechs shook is head. "I don't understand what you're getting at Relena."
"You brought me into this war because you were too much of a coward to take on such responsibility yourself my brother. And that is why I stand here now." Her tone didn't raise above a whisper.
Relena smiled sweetly at him, like a mother who smiled at the clumsy actions of a child.
"Oh, brother, have you really forgotten already?"
"Forgotten what?" he asked
The silver glint of a blade appeared in her hand. Still wearing her smile she quickly moved the knife over the flesh of her neck. No blood fell from the ripped skin.
"I'm Relena Peacecraft now. A doll that cannot bleed. I should thank you for that I think..."
***************
Zechs sat upright in his bed, one hand reaching out into the darkness. Beside him the clock read 5:00 pm.
Preventer Air laid his head back down the pillow.
*Relena.....*
"Zechs?'
The light blond sat back up in his bed and looked toward the door. "Yes, Noin?"
"Lady Une has requested us in her office." She answered from outside.
"Very well, I'll meet you there in five minutes."
**********
Lady Une kept her hands folded in her lap as the two preventers presented them self's before her desk.
"Zechs I won't presume to know what happened in Brussels."
"I did what I needed to. I put the fire out while I still could."
"Its true, the Preventers put out fires." she admitted
"What's happened?"
Lady Une paused a moment gathering her thoughts "Relena has been placed under house arrest while the Knights are being located."
"So they've dissolved?" Noin asked.
Lady Une nodded. "That's what we're hoping for."
************
Sally and Wufei followed Howard down the all too familiar hanger of PeaceMillion in tense silence. The old brightly dressed man refused to tell them what it was he needed them see, but the electrified energy in the air and the hushed conversations of the crew as they passed were enough to make the Preventers concerned.
"As you know. "Howard started reaching up to adjust his sun glasses " I turned PeaceMillion into a transport ship for the scrap metal and other MS remains around Earth and a few of the colonies, to be picked up and taken to one of Duo's Sweeper sites. My last pickup was from the New Lunar Base. One disposal block of Neo Titanium to be melted down."
"So what was so deferent about it?" Wufei asked.
Howard stopped before a set of metallic doors the dark eye'd Preventer remembered far too vividly for comfort. " Just that one of the crew members accidentally found more then scrap metal on my deck." He pressed down a latch and the double doors slid open.
"Oh my God..." Sally breathed.
Wufei's eyes widened. " I don't believe it...where was this thing headed Howard?"
The older man looked down at the floor a moment before answering.
"MO-8...Duo's main Sweeper work site."
***********
Hildy had resisted giving up hope till five hours has passed and still Duo had not sent message to her. Chest tight with worry she shoved a pile of papers over and sat down in front of the vidphone.
Her tongue darted out to wet her lips as she typed in the communication code Duo had scribbled down before he left. One ring later steel blue eyes pierced at her soul
"There's a problem," she said after a moments internal resentment.
End of Chapter Three, Part Two - Soldiers With Unmarked Graves
Chapter Three, Part Two - Soldiers With Unmarked Graves
by r-chan
Last Time in Chapter Three, Part One - Soldiers With Unmarked Graves...
"I don't think its just about stopping the fire before a full fledged battle takes over. Its as if he's testing the limits. Or rather waiting for something significant to happen."
"Its not for the soldiers to test the integrity of peace."
"I need you two over here fast. You wont believe what I have to show you."
"I'm to be placed under house arrest then?"
"You have more influential power over the people then even I do. It matters not that you no longer carry the Peacecraft name. And that, my dear is what makes you a threat."
"My name's Relena Darlian, my name's Relena Darlian, I am not a doll. My name's Relena Darlian, my name's Relena Darlian, I am not a doll. My name's Relena Darlian, my name's Relena Darlian..."
********************
Heero's Voice: The year has finally progressed to A. C 198. Yet the peace that was for shadowed after Operation Meteor, has been tainted red. The Earth Sphere Unified Nation is now in a flex. Two cells of influential power have formed, The Knights, lead by Kai Tskishiro, who are pushing for a new form in government with deputy foreign minister Relena Darlian as the head of their reformed Imperial government and the people who are supporting President Lee, the one responsible for funding Preventers throughout the ESUN.
In the attempt to stop the potential fire Relena's nomination could bring, Lady Une assigned Noin and Zechs to take the necessary steps in protecting the peace that was worked so hard for. Even at the coast of Relena's life. But in an unexpected appearance Relena makes her statement. She denounces Kai's mission to eliminate the false peace that had been made, right before Zechs pulls the trigger to take not hers, but Kai's life. No one knows just happened between brother and sister that night but history will see it as an arc to bring what comes. Very unsure of what the future will bring the ESUN now faces the fire Lady Une feared. As its citizens watch with apprehension, the foundation of the future is once again rocked into an unsure path.
****************
Zechs stepped into the empty ball room. The light cream color of the floors had turned a dying gray and were covered in dirt and dust. Broken tables with their moth bitten cloths were scattered all over the cracked hard wood like broken pieces of a doll house, too roughly handled in the hands of an uncaring child. The long and once brilliant red drapes that hung over the floor to ceiling glass doors had faded to a sick pink and had been marred with lines of black, tale tell signs of fire.
The once elaborately decorated ceiling was but a shadow of it's former beauty. The intricate patterns of molded lines and painted angels of gold and silver were cracked and wore away. Gone were many of the panels of the fantasy world he'd once stared at as a child, having fallen into chunks of plaster and faded dreams of pealing paint that littered the shattered ball room.
In the middle lay the dull remains of a crystal chandler that had at one time long ago cast a soft light on glittering men and woman that had danced under it night after cloudless night, like figures out of a fairy tale. Like most unsullied things it was now reduced to shards of broken glass and forgotten memories.
Zechs looked upon all this with a detached gaze. Though part of him that still had the mind to think about it told him he should feel something. Sadness or maybe even pity for the helpless people that had lost their lives while waltzing away their worries. Yet all he found when he looked within himself was a quite kind of acceptance.
Relena stepped out of the darkness, her hair in loose tangles around her startling white face with arcane blue eyes. Her pale dress coat with light purple trim was wrinkled badly and stained with smudges of black and drops of red. The darker purple vest under it was party buttoned and torn. A sky blue scarf around her neck was tied sloppily. The red sash around her thin waist was all but falling off and her light blue slacks were in poor condition. She folded her gray gloved hands in front of her self and stared over at him.
"Well, Zechs. You got what you asked for." Her voice was without disdain or fondness.
"What do you mean?"
She tilted her head to the side, a childish action he found disturbing
"Isn't a doll what you wanted?" she blinked "Or do you prefer the word 'symbol'?"
Zechs shook is head. "I don't understand what you're getting at Relena."
"You brought me into this war because you were too much of a coward to take on such responsibility yourself my brother. And that is why I stand here now." Her tone didn't raise above a whisper.
Relena smiled sweetly at him, like a mother who smiled at the clumsy actions of a child.
"Oh, brother, have you really forgotten already?"
"Forgotten what?" he asked
The silver glint of a blade appeared in her hand. Still wearing her smile she quickly moved the knife over the flesh of her neck. No blood fell from the ripped skin.
"I'm Relena Peacecraft now. A doll that cannot bleed. I should thank you for that I think..."
***************
Zechs sat upright in his bed, one hand reaching out into the darkness. Beside him the clock read 5:00 pm.
Preventer Air laid his head back down the pillow.
*Relena.....*
"Zechs?'
The light blond sat back up in his bed and looked toward the door. "Yes, Noin?"
"Lady Une has requested us in her office." She answered from outside.
"Very well, I'll meet you there in five minutes."
**********
Lady Une kept her hands folded in her lap as the two preventers presented them self's before her desk.
"Zechs I won't presume to know what happened in Brussels."
"I did what I needed to. I put the fire out while I still could."
"Its true, the Preventers put out fires." she admitted
"What's happened?"
Lady Une paused a moment gathering her thoughts "Relena has been placed under house arrest while the Knights are being located."
"So they've dissolved?" Noin asked.
Lady Une nodded. "That's what we're hoping for."
************
Sally and Wufei followed Howard down the all too familiar hanger of PeaceMillion in tense silence. The old brightly dressed man refused to tell them what it was he needed them see, but the electrified energy in the air and the hushed conversations of the crew as they passed were enough to make the Preventers concerned.
"As you know. "Howard started reaching up to adjust his sun glasses " I turned PeaceMillion into a transport ship for the scrap metal and other MS remains around Earth and a few of the colonies, to be picked up and taken to one of Duo's Sweeper sites. My last pickup was from the New Lunar Base. One disposal block of Neo Titanium to be melted down."
"So what was so deferent about it?" Wufei asked.
Howard stopped before a set of metallic doors the dark eye'd Preventer remembered far too vividly for comfort. " Just that one of the crew members accidentally found more then scrap metal on my deck." He pressed down a latch and the double doors slid open.
"Oh my God..." Sally breathed.
Wufei's eyes widened. " I don't believe it...where was this thing headed Howard?"
The older man looked down at the floor a moment before answering.
"MO-8...Duo's main Sweeper work site."
***********
Hildy had resisted giving up hope till five hours has passed and still Duo had not sent message to her. Chest tight with worry she shoved a pile of papers over and sat down in front of the vidphone.
Her tongue darted out to wet her lips as she typed in the communication code Duo had scribbled down before he left. One ring later steel blue eyes pierced at her soul
"There's a problem," she said after a moments internal resentment.
End of Chapter Three, Part Two - Soldiers With Unmarked Graves