Dog of War part 6
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Don't own em, don't want to. They belong not to I (sigh) but to those nice little CPA's at Bandi (action satisfaction) and Sun coast Anime. No Yaoi, no Slash, no Yuri (what a boring story this is! J)
3 weeks after his attack on Victoria Base, Wu Fei saw
the contact from Lady Une. He had hidden Shenlong in one of the deep lakes of
Xichin, a nation-state that had once been part of China before the country
collapsed into competing provinces.
On his way back from a produce shop,
he saw a green piece of electrical tape on a flagpole. 2 days latter he saw the
confirmation sign; a glass juice bottle placed near that pole.
While in the hospital recovering
from the wounds he had received from her, Lady Une had given him a series of
dead drop signals that she would use to contact him. "We can't just call you on
the phone" she explained to him, "for obvious reasons, neither of us can have
any public contact. Nor can you just waltz in and talk to me. More then one
undercov… I mean solder, has been exposed by louse lipped guards. You will have
to sneak in again. I'll see if I can loosen security any, but for the same
reasons, I cannot be to obvious."
And so Wu Fei had to travel back to
OZ headquarters in Normandy. "This is taking to long," he thought as he stood
staring at the bottle. "I can't just keep playing the role of Une's lap dog,
going were she wills, destroying what she points at. I will take Shenlong to
France. If Une doesn't give me an opportunity to strike at Treize, I will attack
then are there."
But as it did every other time Wu
Fei contemplated a suicide mission, the little kernel of self-doubt took over.
"The base is guarded by over 100 Leos and the base its self can be lowered into
a 120 meter tunnel, were it is shielded by 3, 5 meter screens. What is the
point of avenging Nataku if it means that Phase 1 will be carried out, and the
ultimate injustice preformed? Is that what Nataku wanted when she charged me to
protect the weak, as she did for me?"
"Coward!" he screamed at himself,
but he knew there was truth in what he had just thought. Stopping Phase 1 was
definitely more important then his own life, maybe even more important then
Nataku's sprit. He knew he had to survive, even if it meant dishonoring his own
name by not avenging Nataku.
"If
I kill Treize I must do it as a coward, then I must do it. Just as long as he
knows who killed him and why. While I'm in the base I will disable the support
struts that allow the base to hide underground. I will mine the mobile suit
barracks. Then if Une doesn't present me with the opportunity, I will kill
Treize then and there.
Wu Fei crouched in the air duct,
studying Une through a vent. She was standing in a map room, he hand clenched
behind her back as if trying to restrain themselves from slapping the young
officer she was berating, for what he thought was his failure to move a
Federation mobile suit corps on to the inactive/repair schedule.
"Because the 5th Corps is
still operational, our tactics for Estonia are no longer valid. Because of you
we must 9 mobile suit carriers and their mobile suits to that region. Because
of you failure, we must move over 1000 people from out Pacifica Theater to your
section." She yelled.
"I'm sorry Lady Une. The 5th's
general complained loudly, an I didn't want to endanger operational security by
pressing to hard." The officer responded sheepishly.
"I don't want excuses, just results.
Fix the problem and report back."
The officer came to attention and
saluted. "Yes Mamm!" he called out and turned on his heel and marched off.
Wu Fei studied Lady Une as an
assassin would study a target, because he knew that someday he would most
likely have to kill her. He thought that it was a shame, there were far to few
strong women in the world. "They seem to always die the soonest." He thought as
he noted that Une looked over her left shoulder every time she heard a sound.
"They die because they defend the weak, as you did for me, Nataku."
But that was in the future, today Wu
Fei had to meet with Lady Une, not kill her. He silently unscrewed the vent and
fell the 10 feet from the ceiling to the floor, landing with only a small
'umph' as he shifted his mussels in a precise fashion that absorbed most of the
sound.
But the small noise announced to Une
the boy's presence as if he had walked in the front door. "Hello Wu Fei," she
said with out looking up at the child, "sit down."
She typed a command into the
computer, which caused the room to darken, and a holographic projection of the
globe to appear in the center of the room. The globe was covered in red and
blue dots. "The blue dots represent OZ bases and tactical assets. The red dots
represent the same for the Federation." She said as she typed in more commands
into the computer.
Now blue lines came out of the blue
dots, heading for the red ones. When a blue line came to a red dot, the dot
would become blue, and a new line would come from it, heading for the next
Federation base. A small timer near the floor said that all of this was
supposed to occur within 92 hours.
"You're planning a coup! Wu Fei
shouted out as he watched the globe turn, each rotation becoming bluer.
Une typed one more command and
looked up. "Smart boy."
The globe disappeared and in its
place a giant spreadsheet came up, detailing the projected strength of both
sides and OZ's expected expenditures. Wu Fei was used to these kinds of
projections from his time as a scholar on L5. He touched a cell and the data
behind the projection would appear. After studying it for a few moments he
looked up and said, "You project losing only 500 mobile suits, compared to your
estimate of destroying over 25,000 federation armaments. Someone must have lied
and downplayed their projected loses and it snowballed into this, its like your
analysts are in a fantasy world."
"No" Une replied, "Those are the
Federation's own estimates. Last year they did an investigation as to what they
would suffer if they launched an attack on OZ and the Specials. That's why we
are rebelling, the Federation wants to destroy us, and if we let them build up
their armaments, they will destroy us. We have superior pilots and equipment,
but they are gaining on us Wu Fei."
He thought about this for a while.
"Why are they doing this? Obviously the Federation will never attack them, OZ
is too entrenched in the Federation's command structure for them to just throw
OZ out. There must be some other reason. Is this Rommerfeller's doing? Are they
behind OZ? Are they just using it as a military wing? But Treize is a member of
Rommerfeller, would he let his own be used like this? Or is Rommerfeller giving
him something that OZ cannot?"
"But the shift in power could work
to my advantage. When the coup occurs the federation will be thrown into
disarray. If I could then kill Treize OZ would be in the same situation. I
could destroy both organizations and move on to preventing Phase 1."
"What do you want of me?" he asked.
"There will be a top secret meeting
of top Federation officials at the New Edwards Base in 12 days. They will be
there to discus the problem that you and the other Gundam pilots present." Une
explained. "We need you to spread the information about this meeting to your
compatriots and encourage them to disrupt this meeting. There they will engage
our defenses. The Federation officers will be evacuated with a plane with OZ
markings. Intelligence suggests that one of the pilots will destroy this plane.
Treize, I and a Federation General by the name of Spetiem will evacuate in a
plane with civilian markings to an OZ armada off the coast of Senegal. The loss
of their leaders will but the Federation at a disadvantage, which we will use
to launch our coup."
Wu Fei didn't hear the last sentence
that Lady Une said. When she revealed Treize's location, time stood still for
him. He immediately started calculating variables. "NEB is in Kenya. If I steal
a mobile suit carrier I can be in Senegal in 45 minutes. He will have defense
forces though. I must contact anther pilot and have him create a diversion.
Treize will be on the flagship. I will find him and kill him. The hard part
will be finding another pilot and contacting him beforehand to get his
cooperation."
"I agree on one condition." he said.
"What?" Une asked.
"I need to have access to your
intelligence networks, to contact the other pilots."
"Done. Your username is sutmp575,
your password is mnth92=@."
Wu Fei gets in contact with Trowa, attacks Treize, louses and sulks.
The episodes out there, watch it.
And guess
what…To Be Continued.