Hi's. Just a quick note on the slight Au I'm writing in. Not much is changed. The war went as it went in the show and EW happened. However, the gundams were not destroyed at the end of the coup. Instead they were remodeled and turned over to Preventers for safekeeping. So yes, the gundams will pop up later in my story. That's all! Have fun!
Chapter 3
"We have a situation. As we speak, 500 mobile doll carriers with 100 mobile dolls each are approaching the L5 legrange point. I'll give you more details on them later on, after the briefing. The faction sending these ships is the black sun. Its bases of operations are scientific outposts in the belt. Originally, Romafeller created the outposts during the Alliance. They were created as places to do top-secret research that was either highly illegal or highly dangerous, with the idea that of the projects got out of hand, the bases could be blown with little or no effect on or damage to a particular person's political standing. These researches included mobile doll control, new metals, better bombs, information gathering from unwilling people, computer hacking, and human genetics, especially bioengineering and viral warfare…"
"Viral warfare?!!" Duo's angry voice interrupted the grim briefing "As in killing people through plagues?"
"Yes, Duo" Une replied. "We don't know if the L2 plague was intentional or not, but it definitely originated in a lab in the belt.
"God Damn!" Duo started swearing a blue streak and all of the pilots looked mad. They were all familiar with Duo's history and all agreed with his sentiments. The cursing continued for a while, the Heero went to Duo, who by this time was pacing around the room, and put his hand on his arm. Duo stopped his diatribe, startled, and Heero interjected into the sudden silence "Why weren't we informed of this before?"
Lady Une sighed. "We've been clearing the belt slowly, arresting those who deserved it, freeing those scientists who were under coercion. After removing the people from the stations, we've been detonating the unsafe ones and dismantling the others. The parts have been used to rebuild those colonies that were destroyed during the war. As the operations were proceeding smoothly, we haven't needed to call you in. But sometime during the last month, five of the largest remaining stations managed to get through the communications blackout and form an alliance. And this alliance has sent 5,000 mobile dolls to the colonies."
"Then we should get moving if we're going to stop those dolls with our Gundams," said Wufei.
"Yes, but there's unfortunately more that you need to know about this mission. The five scientists in charge of the black sun were on our list of people to arrest and throw away the key. The first, Akron, is a mecha builder. All of the Oz suits were his work, and before you disparage it, they were greatly altered in order to be cheaply mass produced by idiots who don't know the first thing about mobile suit production. The original prototypes that I saw were a lot more deadly than the ones you routinely fought. It was always a sore point with Akron and the leaders of Romafeller. And he has had five years to improve his designs."
"The second scientist, , is a metallurgist. His last assigned project was to find a metal that would allow beam energy to pass through it unharmed. If this were to happen, only direct contact from bullets, Trowa's knife, or Quatre's scimitars would be able to destroy them."
"The third scientist, , was the one who created the Epyon system. He's a genius and could hack through anything electronic with a computer made from tape and paper clips. It's a sure bet that these suits have a much updated command unit, which will behave in unpredictable ways in battle."
"The fourth, Creegan, was the scientist who most likely created the L2 plague."
Duo's hackles again came up at the very mention of this man and a fierce determination could be seen shining in his eyes.
"Not much is known about the last one, Nero. We don't even know what Nero, was working on except for the fact that it involved human experimentation."
"Sheeeit," was Duo's comment. All of the pilots looked mightily disturbed by the list of talents running the opposition.
"And that's not the worst of it," Une continued, her voice going hoarse from all the talking and tension. "The information on the fleet of mobile dolls came far to easily. We know for a fact that was working to duplicate 02's stealth measures and improve them. So it the fleet was the main point of the attack, we shouldn't know they were coming."
This time it was Wufei who started swearing. It sounded like he was halfway to a full-blown justice rant when again a lover intervened. After calming his love, Trowa asked Une "If these scientist were so dangerous, why weren't they dealt with first?"
Here a rare sight presented itself to the Gundam boys as Lady Une began to squirm in her chair. "We knew from the start that it was going to be difficult to bring these five in. The plan was to reduce the number of possible allies these kingpins would have by reducing the other scientific bases. Then we would go after the hard core. Unfortunately, this appears to have backfired as we have also removed all the competition and people who were keeping an eye on the actual space these people were working in. At any rate, they've played us rightly and we don't have any choice but to follow the rules of their game. I've sent most of the forces and Preventers staff to do with the mobile dolls and ships. What I want you five to do is to return to your legrange points and act as a last line of defense. We have no idea how or what these dolls are going to do. I know you would rather be at the front line destroying the dolls, but it's at this last line that the colonies need your reflexes. Zech's is protecting the moon and Earth won't fall to a single mobile doll, but all it takes is one doll and a colony could die…….. or worse……… Do I have your agreement?"
"Hell Yah!"
"Nimnu Ryoukai"
"Agreed"
"…..Yes….."
All five pairs of eyes turned to look at the one person who hadn't spoken during the entire briefing. Quatre Rebarba Winner closed his eyes and held them that way for a moment before opening them and saying, "Yes."