"Use the right lever to move the right arm!" Doctor J yelled up at her.
"I am! But the arm isn't moving!!" Ikasu replied.
The Doctor shook his head and laughed. The giant mobile suit had it's right leg in the air and was kicking it back and forth like something was stuck on it's foot.
"My dear child, use the OTHER right lever."
Ikasu looked down at the control pad and laughed embarrassed. "Oh! I see it now. The little one goes to the arm and the big one is for the leg! Gotcha!!"
The LunarLancet moved its right arm and waved a sloppy hi to the embarrassed doctor. "Hello Doctor J!!" Ikasu said from inside the mobile suit.
"Ikasu can you please focus and move the gundam forward to that white line over there?"
"Yes sir!"
The new pilot of the LunarLancet furrowed her brow in concentration and thrust the right foot of the gundam forward followed by the left. From outside, the gundam seemed to walking in a marching style. Its mechanical arms were down by its side and its legs came out straight and then bent and pushed it forward.
A sweat drop appeared behind Doctor J's head as he watched the comical site. "We have a long way to go." he sighed. "A very long way.."
~~~
That night Ikasu went over the controls to the LunarLancet again and again in her head. She lay on her bed in her blue nighties and with a flashlight read the controls out to white cat Amiage.
"The large left switch is for boosters on the left side, and the small left switch is for the boosters on the back of the left leg." Ikasu sighed. "Geez Amiage there sure is a lot to remember. I don't think I'll ever be as good a gundam pilot as J wants me to be. What do you think?"
Her cat purred and rubbed up her face in reply.
"You really think I can do it?"
"Mreow"
Ikasu giggled. "Thanks Amiage." She scooped her purring ball of fur and hugged it. The cat rubbed its soft head under her chin and around her face purring louder and louder.
"Hee hee, alright time for bed. We got a big day tomorrow!"
The young girl crawled underneath her blue sheets and clicked off her flashlight, and then kicking it and the control manual to the floor, "Goodnight Amiage." she said sleepily.
"Mreow" came the reply.
Ikasu smiled and turned over on her side snuggling up into her sheets. Tomorrow was indeed going to be a big day. With that last thought in mind the young pilot closed her eyes and dreamt of how the following day would go. Well at least she hoped the way it would go.
~~~
Ikasu was awakened by the quiet hum of the hanger opening not far from her room. She yawned and stretched sitting up in her bed, and looked to her clock.
"Wow it's only 5:30, I still have an hour left to sleep." she looked to the door. "But I wonder what the hanger is being opened so early for."
The girl stood and her long brown tresses tumbled down well near her ankles. She quickly dressed in to a pair of blue jean shorts and a green tie dyed spaghetti top and quietly made her way out the door and to the hanger.
When she reached her destination she was surprised to see a face she hadn't seen in ten years. It was Heero, the grumpy little five year old boy was now 15 and well built. His messy brown pointed every which way and gently blew across his handsome face and dark blue eyes as a breeze whooshed in from outside.
"Oh my god…." Ikasu sighed. "I have never seen such a gorgeous creature in my life."
"Or a more dangerous."
Ikasu jumped hearing the voice behind her. "Doctor J!" she laughed nervously. "Good morning heh eh."
The Doctor smiled. "It's alright Ikasu. Heero is just here to see how you're fairing on the LunarLancet."
"Oh he did? Not going to be to pleased is he?" Ikasu said smiling weakly.
"I think he will be. I heard you studying last night, and when I went to check on you this morning you were moving the gundam in your sleep." the old doctor chuckled. "You were also making the noises."
A sweat drop formed behind the young pilot's head. "I did that??" she asked laughing.
The Doctor nodded. "Now get some breakfast, you've got a big day ahead of you."
Ikasu nodded. "Yes sir."