A Time of Need for Peace Legacy
A Mission Needing Assistance

Karen turned away from the video screen. It was three weeks after Heero and Duo had attacked the base. Since that time, the agents had gotten word from many different allies in different countries around the world that a new rebel group was forming, called Revelation. The group centered in Russia, but there were other branches in Iraq, where Kassy was living, and in Korea, where Angelina was at college.

"How do we get to all three of these places?" Leigh asked.

"I suggest we divide into three separate groups…but that wouldn't work too well, seeing as to how we only have five agents," John suggested.

"You can go alone," Karen teased. "But I'm sure you would die without your precious Rachel, so…"

Rachel glared at Karen, and John just looked hurt, "What was that, Karen?" Rachel taunted. "I thought I heard you say something…would you mind terribly if you repeated it?" She gave Karen a look that could kill.

"Err…umm…sorry Rachel!" Karen yelled out meekly. No one wanted to be near Rachel when she got mad.

John cleared his throat in an attempt to get everyone's attention. It didn't' work. So took in a lung-full of air, and then yelled uncharacteristically, "Would everyone SHUT UP?!" Everyone turned around, and looked at him. He blushed, "Umm…now that I have your attention, can I suggest a form of attack?"

Karen nodded, "Go ahead."

"Well, since there are five of us, two can go to one base, three can go to the other base, and we can all hit the main base together."

Leigh nodded thoughtfully, "That could work…"

"Hey! A good idea coming from an idiot!" Emily exclaimed in a teasing voice.

John stared at her, and replied matter-of-factly, "I am not an idiot."

"You sure do act like one every time something like this comes up," Rachel muttered.

"I just don't want anybody getting hurt on these missions. I mean…you remember what happened last time we had a mission to do something kind of like this…it wasn't all that successful," he replied, getting quiet all of the sudden. That comment made everyone shut up for a minute.

Rachel and Leigh had known Keli—they had almost been as close to her as the others. The two had only learned of her death after they joined Peace Legacy. "Yeah…I remember what you told us happened," Rachel mumbled.

"That's not gonna happen again," Karen explained quickly. "We'll make out a planned attack."

"Good idea," Leigh told her. "But who gets paired up?"

"How about me and Rach—" John began. He was cut off by a chorus of NO!'s, including one by Rachel.

"How about John, Emily, and me, and Rachel and Leigh?" Karen suggested. The whole group nodded, minus John. "Then it's settled. John, Emily, and I will go to Iraq, and we'll let the two new agents handle the less-threatening Korea."

~~~*~~~

Back on the Colonies…

Heero was in the office of the apartment that Quatre had loaned him the money to rent out, and surprised to receive an e-mail from Karen that read:

Heero:

The Peace Legacy organization is going to be attacking the new Revelation group that has sprung up, next week. I would like to enlist you to help us, along with anyone else you can get in contact with. You can meet up with our group in Iraq, at 1300 hours, in exactly a week. The two new recruits will be at the new base in Iraq. If there is anything you need, please contact me.

Karen

Heero yelled out into the other room, "Keli! I just got an interesting e-mail."

She walked into the room, "Nani, Itokosan?" She looked at the computer, drawing a complete blank. "I don't remember Karen…"

He glanced up at her, "She's short, with long blonde hair and blue eyes…"

Keli thought for a minute, "Matte (Wait a minute), I think I remember…I DO remember!" She read the e-mail. "Why did you call me in here to read this?"

"Because, you may be able to remember more things if you're on a mission."

"You want me to go with you as backup?"

"Hai. I'm going to contact the other four Gundam pilots as well. I can also just tell Karen to put your own Gundam on a carrier, and land it away from the battlefield."

"I don't think I'd be of much use to anyone in a battle."

'If certain sentences can activate her memories, then a battle is sure to trigger her entire memory.' Heero thought to himself. Instead, he said, "You can still fight, if you say you passed all of those mobile suit tests they gave you at that military camp. And from what I've seen in the past, groups like this usually have heavy security. We could use the help."

Keli nodded, "All right. But I'm telling you right now; I won't be of much use to you."

~~~*~~~

On Earth, Karen was busy working on her mobile suit, when an e-mail came through for her. She walked over to her laptop, and looked at the screen. "User unknown?" She asked herself. 'Must be Heero.'

She opened it, and a message popped up:

Karen,

I will contact the other four Gundam pilots for their assistance as well. But in the meantime, I need you to do something for me. Would you bring the Gundam ShootingStarr with you to Iraq? It may be needed as backup. I'll get Duo to come with me to Iraq, and Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei can attack Korea's base.

Heero

She stared at the e-mail. And replied.

Heero, have you forgotten that there's a lock on it? Jenn got lucky that one time b/c she didn't have it locked, but now it's been locked by Ichemei. The only person that could possibly open it now is Keli, and she's dead. I can't do anything about it.

A few minutes later she got one back that read:

That doesn't matter. We can still use the mobile suit.

Karen sighed, and replied, talking as she typed, "Okay Heero. I'll bring the Gundam to Iraq."

~~~*~~~

A week later, the agents were ready to go and at the airport. The group had been outfitted yet-again—this time in matching outfits that consisted of: a jacket of each one's choosing with the organization's logo on it, a pair of white military-style pants, a white shirt, and black boots.

"Hey, these are better than the last uniforms we had," Karen commented, speaking of the ones they had had since the beginning of the rebel group known as Peace Legacy.

"Welp, this is the first uniform I've had," Leigh commented, "and I'm not complaining."

"Me either," Rachel added.

Karen stared at the two, "Whatever. Now, we're sending you two on a mission all by yourselves—but Angelina will be there as well. She's going to aid in the attack as best she can without her own mobile suit, as will Kassy in Iraq. Should you need any help, contact us."

The two nodded, and walked away to the air carrier that had their mobile suits in it. The other three walked off to the area where the other two carriers were. One was for their own suits, and one was for the still-unusable Gundam.

"Bye guys!" Leigh called out. "Our mission will go off perfectly, so you don't have to worry about us!"

~~~*~~~

Back on the Colonies, Heero and Keli were ready to go to Earth. Keli had found some clothes in a store that Heero had said were like the clothes she used to wear, so she had gotten them. She was now wearing a pair of baggy black pants; an ankle-length silver trenchcoat; and a black halter-like top that was bound at the neck, with no sleeves. A pair of Nike Runners were on her feet, and her hair was left down.

The two ran through the plan again. "I'll help the three with attacking the base, and so will Duo, if he gets there on time. In the meantime, you'll have to make a break for the carrier, and get the Gundam out. You don't have to worry about the carrier, just destroy it," Heero instructed. "I'll contact you through the communications' unit if we need your backup."

"All right," Keli told him, "I get it. So, we head for the earth now?"

"Hai," Heero stated as the two boarded the carrier Heero had been using for his Gundam.

~~~*~~~

Back on Earth, the three carriers were flying high above the Pacific Ocean, ready to break off onto two different courses. Leigh and Rachel were in a carrier, John and Emily were another, and Karen was alone in the Gundam's carrier. "We're flying over Korea," Leigh stated, coming on the communications unit in the other two planes. "We'll split off from you now. Bye!"

Their plane began descending, and the other two continued on. Leigh and Rachel landed the carrier, got out their mobile suits and then proceeded to fly to the base. It was about ten miles from their landing area, so it wouldn't take them long.

**

When they got to the base, the place was in a state of panic. Angelina was already there, and she was making herself known. There were small fires all over the place. Rachel centered in on the tall Korean girl.

Angelina waved, and then said loudly, "I've taken care of the main security! But they've called in their mobile troops, and there's only so much I can do without a suit! I'm gonna get out of here!"

Rachel nodded, even though she knew she couldn't see her. "Okay! Me and Leigh can handle it from here! See ya later!" Angelina ran over to a fallen motorcycle, picked it up, and roared off into the black night.

"Hey Rachel, I can see some mobile dolls coming into view!" Leigh yelled out, coming into view on a corner of Rachel's screen. "We'll have to take care of them before we can get inside to get rid of the base."

Rachel nodded, and prepared for battle. On her monitor, at least one hundred mobile dolls were heading their way. When they were no farther than 100 yards away, they attacked.

Three of them charged at Rachel's green suit. She hadn't been in a battle before, but she knew what to do. The flame throwers flashed, and the suits were reduced to ashes. She began shooting at some other suits coming her way.

Leigh powered up the gattling, and fired, charring two dolls beyond recognition. She pulled out the beam saber and swiped it across the middle of another.

After a few minutes of battle, the two were getting tired, and more dolls kept coming. There were still about fifty left. The two Gundam-like suits were damaged, but they were still operable. As they fought, Rachel's suit was shot through and through by bullets, and Leigh barely escaped a blast from a beam rifle.

"I can't keep this up!" Leigh yelled out to Rachel, "I can't stand it for much longer!"

"Same here! And only half of the troops have been eliminated!" Rachel called back.

The two suits both flew backwards, and landed back-to-back. Too fast for them to get out of the defensive position, the mobile dolls had completely surrounded them.

"I'm out of ammo," Rachel muttered.

"Same here," Leigh replied. "This sucks."

The mobile dolls began to power up. "Bloody hell!" Rachel screamed out as the suits fired. Both of the girls shut their eyes tightly.

Nothing happened to the two, and Rachel opened one of her eyes slightly. She then yelled out, "Leigh!! People came to help us!"

It was true. The mobile dolls now had three real Gundams to worry about. The Gundams Sandrock, Heavyarms, and Altron.

Quatre appeared on Rachel and Leigh's monitors, "Are you two all right?" He knew who they were by recognizing the mobile suits, but he had never seen the two in person.

Leigh nodded, "Yup. We're okay, but our suits are all outta ammo."

He nodded, "Heero was the one who told us to come here. He and Duo are in Iraq. It's lucky for you that we got here in time."

Wufei came onto his screen, "Quatre. The dolls have been eliminated."

He nodded, "Thanks, Wufei."

Rachel glared at the blonde boy, "You're Quatre, right? And the one in the orange suit is Trowa, and Chinese boy is Wufei?"

Quatre nodded, "Hai. You're Rachel, and Leigh is in the other suit, I presume?"

"That's right. Now, are we gonna take over this base or are we gonna sit here and talk all night?" Leigh asked, coming onto both of the screens.

Rachel grinned evilly, "I wanna blow stuff up!"

The group of five abandoned their mobile suits, not having to worry about them anymore. The group entered the base, heavily armed.

As soon as they did, a massive number of solders bombarded them. The group was ready. Wufei drew a katana and began slicing a dicing, and the rest drew guns and fired.

Ten of the soldiers went down in the first few seconds, and the other twenty were quick to follow. "Hey Rach, you think it would be a good idea to stock up on weapon ammo while we're here?" Leigh asked.

"DUH!" Rachel yelled as a reply, running down a hallway. "It would be best if we all split up, make sure all of the soldiers are taken out, meet up back outside, and then torch the place."

"I'll see you all later then!" Trowa called out, going into an adjoining hall. The other three departed into different areas too.

**

Rachel was alone in the hallway. She walked calmly, opening doors as she went, making sure that no one was there. All of the sudden she felt a gun at the back of her neck.

"I guess I'm caught," she stated, a little too happily.

"I guess you're right," an older voice stated. "Now, just turn around nice and slow." Rachel complied, and faced the soldier. His gun was aimed straight at her. "Don't try anything stu—"

Before he could finish his sentence, Rachel had reached into her pants, grabbed a gun, and had it pressed against his head. "Here's a little tip," she began, cocking the gun, "Don't fuck with me." She pulled the trigger, and he slumped to the floor.

Leigh came in on her communication watch. "I heard a gunshot! Did someone catch you? Where are you?"

"I got caught by a soldier," Rachel replied simply.

"WHAT?! Where is he?!"

"Dead," Rachel told her, with a devilish grin on her face.

"You killed a soldier?"

"Yup." She continued merrily down the hallway.

**

Leigh was having less trouble. No soldiers could be found in the hall she was in, so she continued back to the place the group had gotten in. She proceeded to go and get her suit's ammo replaced.

**

Trowa, Wufei, and Quatre had no complications either. The base was completely under their control now.

**

The entire group met back outside, and the two girls replenished their ammunition. The Gundam pilots stood around and waited until they were ready.

In a few minutes, the two suits flew into the air, and the five of them powered up. They all fired their main weapons at the same time, demolishing the base in a huge burst of light and sound.

"Now what do we do?" Trowa asked.

"Now we wait for the others to contact us, and then we head to Russia to rendezvous with the other Legacy agents," Rachel told him.

~~~*~~~

The three agents landed the planes a ways away from the base, knowing that mobile suits would be scanning the area. Their own suits were unloaded, and ShootingStarr was left alone in the carrier. The three blasted towards the site.

As with Korea, the base had already been attacked. Kassy was busy with launching bombs at almost anything that moved for the moment. No mobile troops had been called yet.

Kassy looked up as the three suits flew by overhead, and grinned, "Hey guys! Haven't seen you in awhile! They've called in mobile troops, so I'll get outta here while I still have a car!" She waved, leapt into a small sport's car, and drove out of the parking lot with a trail of smoke coming up.

"We can take care of the rest of this lil problem," Karen stated, putting on a fake southern accent.

"Yeah, it can't be that hard to take out a base that doesn't even have any suits guarding it," John added.

"Err…John?" Emily inquired. "About two hundred of them are showing up on my radar."

"WHAT?!" He and Karen yelled at the same time. "Are you sure?" Karen finished.

"Yup."

"Oh shit…" Karen mumbled, as the suits came into view on her screen. She leveled the gun on the right arm of her suit, and took aim.

"This isn't good…" John muttered, pulling out the beam saber on his own suit.

"Three against two hundred is usually considered bad odds," Emily added, adjusting the blades in the suit's hands.

The mobile dolls launched themselves at the three. Karen took down a total of thirty before she ran out of ammo; Emily knocked about five down, and began firing at the rest; and John had taken out about ten so far. They weren't doing too good.

**

"I'm out of ammo!" Karen yelled out, throwing down the big rifle.

"Me too," Emily replied.

"Same here," John stated. "We're screwed." His suit flew back to the other three, and they got into a defensive circle. "We've only taken out about 45 dolls. There are still 77.5 percent of them left."

"That's not good," Karen muttered. The mobile dolls closed in on the three, and powered up their weapons.

"It doesn't end like this!" Emily screamed out as they fired. The shot of energy didn't hit her suit. As a matter of fact, it didn't hit any of the suits.

**

"It looks like we got here just in time, huh?" the group heard Duo's voice say arrogantly.

"Hai," Heero replied.

The two suits were standing in front of the other threes', and had blocked the blasts. "Heero! Duo!" Emily yelled out. "For the first time I'm glad to see you two!"

"Don't be glad yet," Heero muttered, "We've still got to destroy over a hundred mobile suits." His Gundam blasted at the dolls directly in front of him, drawing his beam saber as he did. He struck two of them and swept past. The two suits blew up behind him. "You three are out of ammunition, but you still have your hand-held weapons, so you should still be able to fight."

The agents nodded, and blasted into the air.

**

A few more minutes in battle, and things weren't getting much better. A lot of the mobile dolls still remained, and now there were mobile suit troops out as well, which made the troop count go up to over a hundred left—even after they had taken out a hundred of the original.

"This isn't a very fair fight!" Duo yelled out as he destroyed three mobile dolls in a row.

"This really sucks!" Emily cried out.

Heero pulled up his communications' screen, and called the other Gundam. "Keli, now might be a good time for you to make an entrance!"

**

The girl sitting in the dark mobile suit smiled to herself as she got a message from Heero. It was time for her to come back to life. She pressed a few buttons on the keyboard. The suit's eyes glowed once, and the computers started up. Supply the password, appeared on the main screen.

Keli thought for a moment, then stated, "A soldier's life that ends in battle will never rest if his side lost. A soldier's life that ends after a battle at least knows victory or tastes defeat."

Password verified, appeared on the screen, and the suit's controls began to work. The Gundam sat up, and blasted out of the carrier. It headed in the direction of the smoke.

**

Back on the battlefield, the Gundams were all in a bad spot. Heero and Duo still had ammunition, but not a lot of it, and their suits were not in the best shape anymore. The other three had resulted in using their weapons at about half-power.

'Keli, where the hell are you?' Heero asked himself. He got his answer in a few seconds.

**

Karen screamed out as three of the troops launched at her, beam cannons ready. She couldn't avoid or get away from any of them. She squeezed her eyes shut as the suits edged closer.

A huge blast sounded out from above her and a loud yell of "get away!" was heard, which came from Emily. Her suit hit the dirt as an even bigger blast vaporized the place she was just floating in.

She flipped the suit over, and saw the ShootingStarr Gundam high in the air, with its wing cannon aimed at another bunch of suits. The Gundam fired, and ten more suits were vaporized. ::Think really cool battle music. ((Karen, Rachel, and Kassy; think "Exaltation"))::

"Who the hell is that?!" John yelled out, landing his suit on the ground.

Heero smiled to himself, and shot into the air, stopping when he was right beside the other suit. The two fired their main weapons at the same time. Each of them took out another thirty.

"Fifty suits left," Heero told Keli.

"Wakari Masen,"((I understand)) she stated. Her voice sounded a little strange. Lower, and not as confused as it had before--more like her old voice.

**

Inside the Gundam, Keli was fighting inside her mind. She was reviving old memories—mostly memories of battles, and they were surfacing at the same time. It was hard for her to pay attention, but as she fought in her mind, she began to remember.

She blasted down into the mass of mobile suits, and pulled out the double-edged beam saber. She swiped it past five suits, destroying them all. Heero was still in the air, firing as soon as his Gundam's power could handle it.

The last fifty suits were taken out in less than five minutes, and the original five suits that had been in the battle flew into the air as a bunch of soldiers ran outside, armed with missile launchers. ShootingStarr landed.

Six missiles launched themselves at the suit, and it stood there as the weapons connected. They didn't even make a scratch in the paint of the Gundam.

Its lower-class ammunition took out the launcher, but left the soldiers in tact. They gaped at the huge suit.

Keli stood up inside the Gundam, opened the cockpit hatch, and stepped out into the night. The wind blew her hair and coat all around. She stood with one hand in a pocket, and the other hand left hanging down, balled into a fist. The whole look made her appear almost inhuman.

Immediately, one of the soldiers recognized her. "It's that Akutenshi bitch! She's still alive!"

The girl stood there, with a smirk on her face. She called out to the soldiers, "The Akutenshi Bitch has been on a long trip to hell!" She pulled a gun out of her pocket, and fired, killing one of the soldiers on impact. "But I'm back now, and anyone that gets in my way has their own ticket to hell."

She threw off the coat, and it floated to the ground in a trail of silver. The all-black outfit that she wore made her look a little creepy. Her hair was still blowing all around, and the gun was reposed at the soldiers. "I believe you four soldiers have had a good life, so I'll let you go ahead and see hell now."

The gun fired four more times. The soldiers stayed standing for a moment, but then all four of them fell simultaneously. Keli stood there for a few seconds, then put the gun up, and leapt to the ground. She landed gracefully, and then looked up at the Gundams high above her.

**

Karen stared down at the girl in all black, and almost passed out. Everything about her was the same, only her hair was longer. Keli Akutenshi was the one standing on the ground; she was the one that was inspecting the soldiers to see if they had any weapons on them that she could steal.

Emily came onto her screen, "It can't be her! It's impossible!"

"It's true," Heero began, appearing next to Emily's picture on Karen's screen. "Duo and I found her at the base we attacked. She was working as a commanding officer."

"Yeah," Duo added in, "She's got amnesia, so she didn't remember how to contact any of us."

"What do you mean by amnesia?" John questioned.

"She remembers very little," Duo stated bluntly.

"That sucks," Emily muttered. "But this is awesome! Keli's still alive! She's missed two years of her life, but—"

"She's alive," Karen finished for her.

Emily nodded, and then rushed down and landed beside ShootingStarr. She leapt out of the mobile suit and practically tackled the taller girl wearing completely black. "Keri-chan! You're alive!"

~FLASHBACK~

OK, picture the entire other series here.

~*****~

Keli looked down at the girl, "Emiry-chan? I remember…"

Emily got a confused look on her face, "Keri-chan? Nan des ka?(What is it?)"

Keli backed away from Emily, and glanced down at the ground, "Wa-Wakarimasen (I don't know). I remember everything now. Bu-but why do I feel so—so weird?"

The other four landed and ran to Emily and Keli. The two other Legacy agents hugged her. "Umm…umm…guys, I can't breathe!" She yelled out, pulling away.

"I can't believe this," John stated.

"Me either," Karen added in.

Keli looked confused when she heard the red-head talk. "Karen-chan?"

Karen looked up, "Huh?"

"What happened to your hair?"

She laughed, "I got it cut and died. But we should finish our job first. Then we can talk about what's been going on."

"Hai. Where are Kassy and Angelina?"

"Well, Kassy lives in this country now, and Angelina lives in Korea."

"What? They left Dothan?"

"Hai."

Heero stared at the group that was trying to catch up, "We don't have time for this. We have to destroy the base."

Keli looked up at him, "Oh yeah. Gomen."

The group of six walked into the base. No soldiers were present. Most likely, it had been guarded by the mobile dolls, or all of the soldiers had died in the mobile battle. After the group explored the entire base, they left it.

A small blast from Zero's beam gattling reduced the base to little more than rubble.

Rachel came in on Karen's communications link. "The base is a buncha scrap metal now. How are you guys doing?"

"Well, we found out that Keli's still alive," Karen replied.

"WHAT?!"

"Yup," Karen answered, "Heero had asked me to bring ShootingStarr to Iraq, so I did. Duo and Heero came to help us out at just the right time, but we were still outnumbered, and then ShootingStarr appeared. Keli was in the cockpit."

Rachel's jaw dropped, "I don't believe this."

"You should. Listen, I'll give you the link number for her suit, and you can talk to her yourself." Karen gave her the coordinates.

"I wanna see how bad Karen's hallucinating…" Rachel mumbled to herself as she dialed up the number. A piece of her screen blocked the scenery. Instead, it showed Keli, just as Karen said.

"Huh?" Keli turned and looked at the screen to the side of her, where Rachel was on the screen. "Rachel?"

"Bloody HELL!" Rachel screamed out, scared out of her mind.

"What are you doing using this link to contact me, and why is your link coming to me from Angelina's mobile suit?"

Rachel sighed, "This is a looong story. One that I would rather share over tea and a pool. Just know this: Kassy and Angelina picked me and Leigh to be in Peace Legacy."

"This is incredibly confusing," Keli muttered.

"Then I'll let you go," Rachel said, dropping the line.

**

Meanwhile…

Heero had contacted Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei. "Tell the Legacy agents with you that the plan is to meet at the old OZ base in Mongolia. We'll refuel and replenish our supplies, then attack the Russian Revelation base."

"Hai," all three of them stated at the same time.

******~*****

::Really annoying 'Next time' music begins to play. NHS concert band people; think "Activity March"::

Keli: Ohayoo minna! Next time Peace Legacy and the Gundam pilots team up and attack the Revelation base in Russia! The final battle is in the next chapter! Stay tuned!

Jenn: (Sarcastically) Woohoo. That sounded like a TV commercial.

Keli: Shut up. I can make you do whatever I want…remember?

Jenn: (Shuts up for fear of being made pregnant)

Karen: That was mean, Keri-chan.

Keli: But it was called for. C'mon, give me a lil credit. I do what I want.

Emily: (Sighs) Stop the fighting, please.

Rachel: (Bouncing up and down) Yay! I was in it! I was in it!

John: Yup. So was I. It was mainly about us, too.

Leigh: I like it when the story's about the supporting cast. It makes it cooler.

Keli: That's why I did it. I wanted you guys to be able to do your own little thing, without the main character.

Karen: Yeah, but YOU'RE the main character.

Keli: (Beams) I know.

John: You're too egomaniacal. And you have too much power.

Keli: Look at you, Mr. I'm too good to sing! ((Umm…for those of you that don't know, it was a long story…)) You should be happy for me doing this! (Grins evilly) If you piss me off, I'll make you and Rachel screw…I'd find that funny.

John: (Stares) You wouldn't dare.

Keli: Watch me.

John: No! (Lunges at Keli) You're not making me a hentai freak!

Keli: (Laughs evilly) You're not the hentai freak, your kinky sex-obsessed girlfriend is!!

Rachel: HEY!!! (Joins in on the chase)

(Leigh, Karen, Jenn, and Emily stare at Keli running from Rachel and John. Karen grabs some popcorn out of a microwave that appeared from nowhere.)

Karen: Who wants popcorn with their movie?

Everyone else: Me! Me! Me!

(Karen passes out popcorn. The little group sits down in lounge chairs and watch Keli go running by screaming.)

Leigh, Karen, Jenn, and Emily: We'll see ya next time! Ja-ne!

Next on my agenda, ShootingStarr 2! Chapter 3