Victim of Emotions
Chapter 7
Looking over a railing down onto the floor of the base below, I saw Quatre putting his Gundam onto a transport vehicle. I leapt down and walked over to him.
"Where are you going?" I asked curiously.
"I've got a mission to complete at the New Edwards base," he replied.
"Do you think the others will show?"
"I don't know I hope so. I'm not sure if I could do it alone."
He was going to meet the other Gundam pilots. He was going to meet Duo. "I couldn't come with you, could I?" I asked, although not really expecting him to let me.
"It's too dangerous. You'd be killed." I stared at the ground and didn't utter a word. "You're not going to go and do something stupid are you, like try and follow me?"
"Of course not," I said, looking into his eyes, trying not to seem disappointed. I smiled slightly, and then walked off.
I don't think he really believed me, but he didn't pursue me or try to argue with me. I heard the truck drive off behind me as I walked away. Once the sound had gone though, I instantly looked around for another vehicle to follow him in. Taking the nearest, I quickly followed him. Driving that spaceship had put me at an advantage to driving. This vehicle was so much more easily controlled than the spaceship, even although I had never driven before.
I am sure that Quatre knew I was following him from the base. It was probably extremely obvious as we were the only ones in trucks on the narrow sandy track. But he never once tried to loose me, or stop and get out. He just kept going. I guess he thought that if I wanted to go, he wasn't going to try and get in my way.
Once we both reached a port though, I lost him somewhere. But I found the destination myself pretty simply after that. I was amazed that the journey took so long. On the colony everything had seemed reasonably near everything else, even if it took a while to get there. It was strange to have to travel so far to get to a specific place.
New Edwards was huge. I arrived and got out the truck. At the far end I saw more mobile suits, and Gundams I hadn't seen before, fighting each other some distance away. Was one of them Duo?
What was I going to do now? I had, once again, got to where I wanted to go, but hadn't thought far enough ahead as to what I was hoping to achieve from getting there.
Then more mobile suits came out of the building I was next to. Seeing me as an intruder, they pointed their weapons at me. I stood staring at them, unsure what to do. Then the firing began.
I leapt behind the vehicle I had driven there in, saving myself from becoming their weapons' fodder. But the vehicle took the bullets. As the shower of metal stopped, I heard a strange pinging noise coming from the truck. Suddenly it exploded, throwing me far across the painful tarmac. Large pieces of sheet metal landed around me. I curled up, trying to ignore the pain that had shot through my body as I moved, trying to control the anger I felt building up inside of me.
What had I done to them? Why did they want to kill me? I heard the loud thud of a footstep of one of the mobile suits not far from me. Looking up, I stared up the barrel of a beam cannon. They wouldn't kill an innocent girl, would they?
I heard the hum build up inside the gun, points of light glowing around the barrel. Then the beam shot towards me.
Hate boiled up. I had done nothing wrong, and yet these people seemed content with dealing out my death with the press of one button. I no longer felt in control of what I was doing. My body seemed to climb to her knees against my ultimate wish to stay still to avoid the pain. I watched as one arm was raised as if to protect my head from the oncoming assault.
As the yellow beam came at me though, something strange happened. I watched as it came at me, reached me, then burst off in directions away from me, as if hitting off a hidden shield held on my raised arm. I climbed to my feet and faced the mobile suits. I no longer saw them as machines controlled by men, but as my enemy. They dared to try to destroy me. They would pay. They would pay for the pain they had caused me. They would be destroyed themselves.
There you go. A chapter that might be of some interest to you. I think from here on in, it should get exciting. Tell me what you think of it so far, please.