Chapter 8
Von Braun City, Luna
Universal Century 0081...
"Fire, this is Preventer, I've spotted the target," says Preventer into his radio, which is pinned onto his shirt collar. The two had split up right after arriving in the city in order to more quickly track down their three targets.
"You see him? Good, I'm on my way," replies Fire silently. Preventer continues to follow his target through the sea of people that is trademark of the Von Braun nightlife. For a moment, he thinks he'd lost them, but then spots his target and his cohort entering a club.
"Fire, they've entered some club called the "Blue Horizon". I am continuing pursuit," says Preventer as he casually enters the club.
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"Come on, Amuro!" complains Frau, pulling on Amuro's left arm and trying to drag him towards the bar.
"Stop it, Frau! We don't have time for this!" replies Amuro, trying to keep it down so they don't attract attention.
"Come on, we never spend any time together anymore," says Frau, noticing that some people are looking at them.
"That because you're going out with Hayato now," says Amuro, interrupting her.
"Just one drink! It'll only take a few minutes," continues Frau, beginning to let go of his arm.
"But what about Hayato and the kids?" he asks, hoping she would change her mind.
"They can wait, who's to know?" replies Frau. Defeated, Amuro nods and walks Frau to the bar. Its only now that he notices what kind of club they walked into, one of those smoke-filled thug hangouts you'd never go into. The two walk up to the bar next to two more respectable people, probably just stopped in to grab a drink, like them.
"Now, Nina, I know you don't mean that..." says one of them, a tall blond haired man, in his early twenties.
"Yes, I do! If you go join them I swear we're finished, Anavel!" interrupts the other, a shorter, younger woman with blonde hair. She grabs her drink and takes another swig of beer.
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Preventer takes a seat at an empty table a short distance from the bar. He can barely hear what they are saying, but he can recognize them all.
"Amuro Ray, Frau Bow, Anavel Gato, and Nina Purpleton. Who would've guessed they happened to meet in some bar on Luna?" whispers Preventer.
"Preventer, this is Fire, I have a visual on my target. He is heading for your position," says Fire over the radio.
"What?!" says Preventer, trying not to attract attention. Realizing he needs to get to the exit in order to rendezvous with Fire, Preventer immediately jumps out of his seat and toward the door...only to run into the biggest and ugliest thug he'd ever seen.
"HEY!" he yells, grabbing Preventer by the throat and lifting him off the ground.
"S..Sor..ry...." gasps Preventer as he can hear his own neck begin to snap.
"Put him down!"
Preventer, out of the corner of his eye, sees the last person he EVER thought would come to his rescue: Amuro Ray. With strength he didn't know even existed, the thug throws Preventer across the club at Amuro, who ducks causing him to fly over the bar and into the liquor behind the bartender.
"NO ONE TELLS ERIK BLAKE WHAT TO DO!!!" howls the thug, charging the helpless Amuro, effortlessly knocking him into a nearby table.
"You're a lot stronger than I thought..." says Amuro, trying to get up, but finds that psycho Blake is standing right above him. Suddenly, a chair flies into Blake's face, slightly dazing him. Amuro looks up to find that his savior is none other than the man who was sitting next to him. The man quickly pulls Amuro to his feet as they are surrounded by four more thugs similar to Mr. Blake.
"Great...I knew I shouldn't have come on this vacation..." mumbles Amuro.
"What's your name, kid?" asks Gato.
"Amuro Ray,"
"Anavel Gato, Its a pleasure to meet Amuro," says Gato, lunging at the nearest thug and giving him a solid right hook. An all-out bar brawl breaks out, almost no one knows what the hell is going on in the chaos. People litterally fly across the room as the drunk thugs plow down all comers with near-superhuman strength. Lucky for Amuro, his newtype abilities allow him to dodge their every move, while Gato's own strength and stamina makes him an equal to any of them.
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"Uhh...what happened?" mumbles Preventer, rubbing his forehead as he begins to wake up.
"Oh good, you're alright! I was worried for a moment," replies Nina, helping him sit up.
"You've been out for a few minutes," says Frau as another man flies over their heads and into the bottles of liquor.
"What the hell's going on?!" yells Preventer, as a spray of glass flies into them.
"There's a riot going on...ever since you were knocked out," says Nina. Preventer, shaking his head again to get the last of the blurriness out of his eyes, quickly jumps onto the bar. Spotting Blake, who is currently engaging some other thug who is trying to hold him off with a table leg, Preventer jumps from the bar and plows both of his feet into the side of Blake's head..
"How do you like that, asshole?!" yells Preventer, kicking Blake in the gut, just before his adversary bolts to his feet. Another effortless swipe and Preventer is blown across the room again, this time right into Amuro.
"Get off of me!" yells Amuro as three thugs surround them. Preventer rolls off, bolts to his feet, and kicks one of the thugs in the face. Amuro also jumps to his feet, dodges a left hook and punches a thug in the gut. As he hits the ground, Amuro looks up to see someone he was sure was dead.
"Its...CHAR?!" says Amuro, as Char stands in the doorway, equally dumbfounded at seeing Amuro and finding a riot inside compared to the relative calm outside. Of course, Char isn't dressed in his Zeon military uniform, but as a civilian. Quattro Bajina to be exact. Suddenly, three gunshots go off and everyone stops in their tracks, looking back towards the bar to see Agent Fire with his gun pointing at them all.
"All of you, get out. NOW!" says Fire, firing another shot at one of the thug's feet. None of them have to be told twice, and almost everyone rushes out of the room. Except for seven people.
"What is this?" says Char looking behind him at Preventer, his gun pointing at him.
"You three are coming with us, Nina and Frau can go," says Preventer motioning toward the door. When neither of them will move, Fire points his gun at them.
"Didn't you hear him! Leave us!" orders Fire. Reluctantly, Frau leads a dumbfounded Nina out of the club, leaving the five men.
"Who are you people?" asks Gato, making sure not to move in a suspicious way.
"Probably from Manhunter...the Federation government," says Amuro, fixing his eyes on Char.
"We have nothing to do with the Federation," says Preventer, pulling out his palm pilot, "But all three of you will be put back into service for us!"
Activating the beacon, in a flash the club is empty, no trace of the pilots ever being there.
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The Mysterious Member's Lab...
The flash subsides, Preventer and Fire are back in Gundam Project, along with their three prisoners. Fixing his sunglasses, the mysterious member walks over to them from his computer terminal and looks them over.
"Ah, yes, this is perfect. Now, our invincible force is complete," he says as Fire, the hypnotized Heero, and himself quickly place mind-control devices behind their right ears.
"Invincible force? What are you talking about?" asks Pkmatrix from his own computer. But before anyone can answer, a noise is heard up in the catwalks above them. Quickly, the mysterious member runs to his desk and turns on the lights that go along the catwalk.
"So who is useless and expendable now, Preventer?" says Assistant Falken, pointing his gun down at his former master.
Von Braun City, Luna
Universal Century 0081...
"Fire, this is Preventer, I've spotted the target," says Preventer into his radio, which is pinned onto his shirt collar. The two had split up right after arriving in the city in order to more quickly track down their three targets.
"You see him? Good, I'm on my way," replies Fire silently. Preventer continues to follow his target through the sea of people that is trademark of the Von Braun nightlife. For a moment, he thinks he'd lost them, but then spots his target and his cohort entering a club.
"Fire, they've entered some club called the "Blue Horizon". I am continuing pursuit," says Preventer as he casually enters the club.
_______________________________________________________________________
"Come on, Amuro!" complains Frau, pulling on Amuro's left arm and trying to drag him towards the bar.
"Stop it, Frau! We don't have time for this!" replies Amuro, trying to keep it down so they don't attract attention.
"Come on, we never spend any time together anymore," says Frau, noticing that some people are looking at them.
"That because you're going out with Hayato now," says Amuro, interrupting her.
"Just one drink! It'll only take a few minutes," continues Frau, beginning to let go of his arm.
"But what about Hayato and the kids?" he asks, hoping she would change her mind.
"They can wait, who's to know?" replies Frau. Defeated, Amuro nods and walks Frau to the bar. Its only now that he notices what kind of club they walked into, one of those smoke-filled thug hangouts you'd never go into. The two walk up to the bar next to two more respectable people, probably just stopped in to grab a drink, like them.
"Now, Nina, I know you don't mean that..." says one of them, a tall blond haired man, in his early twenties.
"Yes, I do! If you go join them I swear we're finished, Anavel!" interrupts the other, a shorter, younger woman with blonde hair. She grabs her drink and takes another swig of beer.
_______________________________________________________________________
Preventer takes a seat at an empty table a short distance from the bar. He can barely hear what they are saying, but he can recognize them all.
"Amuro Ray, Frau Bow, Anavel Gato, and Nina Purpleton. Who would've guessed they happened to meet in some bar on Luna?" whispers Preventer.
"Preventer, this is Fire, I have a visual on my target. He is heading for your position," says Fire over the radio.
"What?!" says Preventer, trying not to attract attention. Realizing he needs to get to the exit in order to rendezvous with Fire, Preventer immediately jumps out of his seat and toward the door...only to run into the biggest and ugliest thug he'd ever seen.
"HEY!" he yells, grabbing Preventer by the throat and lifting him off the ground.
"S..Sor..ry...." gasps Preventer as he can hear his own neck begin to snap.
"Put him down!"
Preventer, out of the corner of his eye, sees the last person he EVER thought would come to his rescue: Amuro Ray. With strength he didn't know even existed, the thug throws Preventer across the club at Amuro, who ducks causing him to fly over the bar and into the liquor behind the bartender.
"NO ONE TELLS ERIK BLAKE WHAT TO DO!!!" howls the thug, charging the helpless Amuro, effortlessly knocking him into a nearby table.
"You're a lot stronger than I thought..." says Amuro, trying to get up, but finds that psycho Blake is standing right above him. Suddenly, a chair flies into Blake's face, slightly dazing him. Amuro looks up to find that his savior is none other than the man who was sitting next to him. The man quickly pulls Amuro to his feet as they are surrounded by four more thugs similar to Mr. Blake.
"Great...I knew I shouldn't have come on this vacation..." mumbles Amuro.
"What's your name, kid?" asks Gato.
"Amuro Ray,"
"Anavel Gato, Its a pleasure to meet Amuro," says Gato, lunging at the nearest thug and giving him a solid right hook. An all-out bar brawl breaks out, almost no one knows what the hell is going on in the chaos. People litterally fly across the room as the drunk thugs plow down all comers with near-superhuman strength. Lucky for Amuro, his newtype abilities allow him to dodge their every move, while Gato's own strength and stamina makes him an equal to any of them.
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"Uhh...what happened?" mumbles Preventer, rubbing his forehead as he begins to wake up.
"Oh good, you're alright! I was worried for a moment," replies Nina, helping him sit up.
"You've been out for a few minutes," says Frau as another man flies over their heads and into the bottles of liquor.
"What the hell's going on?!" yells Preventer, as a spray of glass flies into them.
"There's a riot going on...ever since you were knocked out," says Nina. Preventer, shaking his head again to get the last of the blurriness out of his eyes, quickly jumps onto the bar. Spotting Blake, who is currently engaging some other thug who is trying to hold him off with a table leg, Preventer jumps from the bar and plows both of his feet into the side of Blake's head..
"How do you like that, asshole?!" yells Preventer, kicking Blake in the gut, just before his adversary bolts to his feet. Another effortless swipe and Preventer is blown across the room again, this time right into Amuro.
"Get off of me!" yells Amuro as three thugs surround them. Preventer rolls off, bolts to his feet, and kicks one of the thugs in the face. Amuro also jumps to his feet, dodges a left hook and punches a thug in the gut. As he hits the ground, Amuro looks up to see someone he was sure was dead.
"Its...CHAR?!" says Amuro, as Char stands in the doorway, equally dumbfounded at seeing Amuro and finding a riot inside compared to the relative calm outside. Of course, Char isn't dressed in his Zeon military uniform, but as a civilian. Quattro Bajina to be exact. Suddenly, three gunshots go off and everyone stops in their tracks, looking back towards the bar to see Agent Fire with his gun pointing at them all.
"All of you, get out. NOW!" says Fire, firing another shot at one of the thug's feet. None of them have to be told twice, and almost everyone rushes out of the room. Except for seven people.
"What is this?" says Char looking behind him at Preventer, his gun pointing at him.
"You three are coming with us, Nina and Frau can go," says Preventer motioning toward the door. When neither of them will move, Fire points his gun at them.
"Didn't you hear him! Leave us!" orders Fire. Reluctantly, Frau leads a dumbfounded Nina out of the club, leaving the five men.
"Who are you people?" asks Gato, making sure not to move in a suspicious way.
"Probably from Manhunter...the Federation government," says Amuro, fixing his eyes on Char.
"We have nothing to do with the Federation," says Preventer, pulling out his palm pilot, "But all three of you will be put back into service for us!"
Activating the beacon, in a flash the club is empty, no trace of the pilots ever being there.
_______________________________________________________________________
The Mysterious Member's Lab...
The flash subsides, Preventer and Fire are back in Gundam Project, along with their three prisoners. Fixing his sunglasses, the mysterious member walks over to them from his computer terminal and looks them over.
"Ah, yes, this is perfect. Now, our invincible force is complete," he says as Fire, the hypnotized Heero, and himself quickly place mind-control devices behind their right ears.
"Invincible force? What are you talking about?" asks Pkmatrix from his own computer. But before anyone can answer, a noise is heard up in the catwalks above them. Quickly, the mysterious member runs to his desk and turns on the lights that go along the catwalk.
"So who is useless and expendable now, Preventer?" says Assistant Falken, pointing his gun down at his former master.