Title: ShadowHawk's Rage
Author: Mieko Kagetaka / Meela (Meela76@aol.com)
Chapter: Part 5/?
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and all it's component aren't mine. So, don't sue me. Strictly entertainment. Although, the other original characters and gundams/mobile suits are mine.
Pairings: None for now.
Warnings: None
Notes: This is an AU with my Tiana who interes with the G-boys. She's a unique character and so is her past. Part 5 exposes OZ's plans.
Feedback: Please!!! :)
"..." = speech
//...// = thoughts
~*...*~ = flashbacks
***...*** = visionary advice
*~*...*~* = computer voice
ShadowHawk's Rage - Part 5
***Time to go, Tiana***
Tiana packed up her laptop, pulled her long dreadlocks with a leather strap and donned her black hat. She reached for her fighting staff and strapped it on her back. //Old habits die hard// She kissed Imani's forehead. Imani opened her sleepy light brown eyes and smiled. "See you later, Tia"
"Bye, cherie, tell LeeLee I'll be back later..."
* * * * * *
"Hello, S.A.S.H.A," Tiana addressed the computer after the retinal scan. She climbed up the catapult and walked over to the awaiting ShadowHawk. Her heart was beating rapidly, for what reason, she had no clue. She dismissed it and climbed into the cockpit. She started the uplink and scanned for messages. Four confirmations for the rendez-vous tonight. //Good, here we go// With that, she started up the engines - destination: Sigma 5.
* * * * * *
[On Sigma 5]
Duo, Heero, and Trowa sat together at the campfire near the lake waited for TJ to show up. Duo seemed to be the only one holding the conversation. Duo's violet eyes flashed and his hands gestured as if they were doing the talking.
"TJ needs us, you guys. Apparently, something's going down with OZ to where TJ needs our help. I wonder what OZ is up to."
Heero and Trowa sat in relatively comfortable silence as they slowly sipped the java. Both silently contemplating this quick gathering. Heero was the first to speak.
"Hn, what's this have to do with this TJ," Heero continued to stare at his laptop, completely uninterested.
"Apparently, TJ's father stumbled onto something OZ didn't want him to know. It resulted in his death as well as the other peoples' deaths. TJ is seeking revenge as well as taking out OZ." Duo spoked.
"Revenge, huh? What's that got to do with us? Is this another winless mission, Maxwell?" Heero growled from the laptop.
"What exactly did TJ's father find?" Trowa interrupted, his quiet face holding no emotion, his lip barely moved when he spoke, "Must be something big to require the assistance of all of us."
"I have no idea, but I thought we could at least help out. TJ's helped me out several times on missions. TJ's a damn good pilot - for a girl that is, and - "
"A girl?!" both Trowa and Heero looked up at Duo.
"Yeah, a girl, so?" Duo shrugged
"Hn."
"Heero, just hear her out, will ya? We can at least see this though, all right?"
"Perhaps finding out the full scenario and possible battle tactics can be easier to accept this mission," nodded Trowa, resulted in his bangs flowed over his quiet face. He took another swig of java and was silent again.
"That's what we're going to find out soon," said Duo.
* * * * * *
//Almost there...//
Tiana boosted the engines to gain more speed. Her hyper jammers kept her cloaked under the radar for the OZ space patrol near L4. Her uplink alerted a vid-conference request from Rashid.
~Mistress Tiana, how good it is to hear from you again.~ Rashid's ever present noble image graced her screen. His wise eyes looking at hers.
~Likewise, Monsieur Rashid, have you heard from Quatre at all? I need to speak with him.~
~We're on an OZ infiltration mission on Vega. I'll alert Master Quatre that you asked for him.~
~Bon, I'm on my way to the rendez-vous with the other pilots on Sigma 5. Tell Quatre it's time and I need his help and yours.~
~It would be my pleasure. It'll be good to fight along side of Dr. Jolie's daughter. Your father was a dear friend to us all.~
~Thank you, Rashid. I'll check on y'all later. Be careful on Vega. TJ out.~ Tiana ended the transmission and prepared to enter Sigma 5's atmosphere.
* * * * * *
After the Nataku pilot landed on Sigma 5, he was quickly reminded on how much he despised noise as he approached the campfire. He could hear Duo's blabberings a good 50 feet away from the fire. After getting Tiana's message, he immediately agreed to come. OZ had to be stopped for good. OZ's plan was unjust and inhumane. Wufei tightened his leather hair strap on his onyx hair and squinted his black coal eyes towards the small campfire. He grabbed his napsack and stalked over to the trio and sat down.
"Wufei! Long time, no see, old man! Good to see ya!" Duo chimed.
"Evening, Maxwell, Yuy and Barton. Pass me the java."
Trowa silently got up and handed Wufei a cup of java and a seat.
"So you all are going to fight as well, eh?" Wufei looked up from his cup.
"Depending on what exactly we are dealing with," Heero said simply.
"It's worth the fight, Yuy. Once you know everything, you'll want this done much sooner." Wufei nodded.
"Hey Wufei, you already know TJ?" Duo glanced with a confused look.
"Met up with her a couple of years ago on Beta 4. She had a lot of spunk and nerve - for a woman. We spent the first two hours arguing on a woman's place and work."
"Now that I can see," smirked Duo.
"When she told me her reason to fight and what OZ is up to, my respect for her grew. She's still a woman, but she's not as weak as some of us are." Wufei stated, taking another drag of java.
"I still need more than a woman's word on this," Heero stated bluntly.
"Yuy, we all need proof but do not dismiss her yet. I do not think she would bring us out here for nothing." Trowa looked briefly to Heero.
"Hn," Heero shrugged,"this better be good."
* * * * * *
She landed ShadowHawk in the cover of the forest and powered down the main thrusters. She gathered her laptop in her napsack and jumped onto the ground. Her heart started beating even faster as she walked towards the campfire ahead.
*** Tiana, it's time ***
She shook off the feeling as she saw four figures around the campfire waiting a little bit too cautiously. All of which looked like they really didn't want to be there. Tiana swallowed and pressed on towards them.
Wufei gestured to Duo and Duo stood up to greet Tiana, "Hey TJ! Glad you could make it!"
"Hello Duo, Wufei, Yuy, Barton" Tiana greeted them.
Trowa nodded to her briefly while Heero continued his assessment on his laptop.
She raised an eyebrow and shrugged. //Let's get started//
"Right, first of all, thank you for coming here. I won't keep you too long."
Tiana took a seat and opened up her laptop. Heero glanced up briefly from his own laptop //Hn// Tiana touched her locket and took out the jewel encased minidisk. She loaded onto a special disk drive and turned her screen towards the pilots.
"Monsieurs, this what OZ has been undergoing for a longtime. My family was slaughtered for having access to this information."
On Tiana's screen flashed "OPERATION: SCORPIO" with OZ's ensigna underneath. The screen then flashed to show DNA strain simulations and diagrams of a man spinning in a circle.
"My father was the head genetics engineer on L4 for the Winner family. He accidentally stumbled onto this OZ classified information while doing L4's DNA archival research for the nursery we had there. Mother was the genetics consultant and caretaker for the nursery before the children were adopted. This is OPERATION: SCORPIO, which has been in the making for about 18 years. OZ is creating genetically altered 'Scorpian Warrior' pilots for their new Scorpio mobile suits which are being being manufactored on Vega."
"Genetically altered? How so?" Duo asked. Heero stared at the screens flashing DNA strains and babies' stats. His eye twitched. Wufei sat with his arms crossed and stared at the screen with a look of disgust on his face. Hearing this two years ago was one thing, seeing this on-screen was another. Trowa simply nodded for Tiana to continue.
"Basically, these 'Scorpian warriors' DNA were altered to where a whole series of genes were replaced to make the pilots become heartless assassins bred from birth. Psychologically unstable, highly aggressive and hellbent on war with undying devotion to OZ." Tiana pointed out the diagrams on the screen.
The screen switched over to vid-journals showing test-tube babies being born in a nursery. Then longitudinal studies on the pilots growing up and showing their aggressive lethal combat skills.
"They're planning to attack all the colonies even Sahara Base on L4 to have them surrender under OZ's tyranny with no room for questioning. They lied about having the peace talks. They want total control of the colonies. They're planning to do this with the new Scorpio suits that are on Vega. Here are the data on the Scorpio suits. Unfortunately, it does carry the Zero System, so not only are we dealing with psychotic pilots but Zero-influenced psychotic pilots. They'll be a force to be reckoned with. That's why I need your help." Tiana nodded to the pilots.
"When are they planning to attack the colonies?" Wufei asked grimly.
"According to the data stored on this disk, which is about 6 years old, in about 8 months. Though Quatre and the Maganac soldiers, I recently found out are on Vega doing an undercover infiltration mission there for more recent developments. I'll send you all a copy of this data on a secured uplink data link Alpha-41-Zero, if you choose to fight. This is not just for me, this is for the colonies and even humankind itself. It's inhumane how the innocence of children are being used and mainpulated to be puppets for OZ."
Trowa silently took this information inside of himself. Slightly looked up at Tiana and back to her laptop,"So you are expecting us, six pilots to go against these Scorpian warrior pilots. How many are they?"
"The inital experiment had raised 75 babies. I'll find out from Quatre if there's any more. The Maganacs will fight with us as well. Also I'll be recruiting other pilots like me ont he Sahara base to help even the score. I think with 6 gundams, the maganacs and the tauruses, we have a chance. Once we get everyone together then we can cover more Scorpian data and pin point their weaknesses."
Heero looked intently on the screen for a brief moment, "When will data be available to us?"
Tiana supressed a smile before answering and started typing on her laptop, "I can hack a secure line in a few moments. Just prep for Alpha-41-Zero and I'll send it you all. So, are you game?"
"You can count me in TJ. I dunno about the rest of the silent brigade over there," Duo grinned.
"If we planned the counteroffensive wisely, our chances for success will look good. We will definitely need Quatre's strategies and the Maganacs forces with us. This is different than fighting mobile dolls,"Trowa decided matter-of-factly.
"Hai," Wufei agreed, "no room for error here. I'm in too, Tiana."
All four pilots looked at Heero. He didn't make it known of their glances. He concentrated on the stats of the Scorpios then studied the Scorpian soldiers. Heero finally looked up at Tiana and briefly nodded, "I'll accept the mission as well."
Tiana nodded, "Thank you all. If you need to reach me, I'll have the uplink and I'm on the Sahara MS base on L4. All of us will need to meet up again relatively soon to discuss strategies.
"Agreed," Wufei nodded.
Tiana got up to prepare to leave when Duo insisted that she stayed a little bit longer to get to know the others, "I'm sure Heero and Trowa proabably need more information on you yourself, TJ."
Grabbing a cup of java, Tiana sat back down,"Tiana Leandra Jolie's the name. My parents were killed 6 years ago. I've beenon my own with my two adoptive sisters ever since. My father designed Gundam ShadowHawk but wasn't completed until two years ago. I've been a pilot for OZ's Sahara base since I was 11 years old."
"Hn,"Heero raised an eyebrow briefly,"Can you fight?"
"HEERO!" Duo shot a death glare at Heero.
"I can hold my own," Tiana grinned, "You'll see, Yuy."
The 5 pilots sat at the fire for a few more hours before breaking camp. Five shooting stars flying from Sigma 5 set off onto different destinations that night...
TBC
Author: Mieko Kagetaka / Meela (Meela76@aol.com)
Chapter: Part 5/?
Disclaimer: Gundam Wing and all it's component aren't mine. So, don't sue me. Strictly entertainment. Although, the other original characters and gundams/mobile suits are mine.
Pairings: None for now.
Warnings: None
Notes: This is an AU with my Tiana who interes with the G-boys. She's a unique character and so is her past. Part 5 exposes OZ's plans.
Feedback: Please!!! :)
"..." = speech
//...// = thoughts
~*...*~ = flashbacks
***...*** = visionary advice
*~*...*~* = computer voice
ShadowHawk's Rage - Part 5
***Time to go, Tiana***
Tiana packed up her laptop, pulled her long dreadlocks with a leather strap and donned her black hat. She reached for her fighting staff and strapped it on her back. //Old habits die hard// She kissed Imani's forehead. Imani opened her sleepy light brown eyes and smiled. "See you later, Tia"
"Bye, cherie, tell LeeLee I'll be back later..."
* * * * * *
"Hello, S.A.S.H.A," Tiana addressed the computer after the retinal scan. She climbed up the catapult and walked over to the awaiting ShadowHawk. Her heart was beating rapidly, for what reason, she had no clue. She dismissed it and climbed into the cockpit. She started the uplink and scanned for messages. Four confirmations for the rendez-vous tonight. //Good, here we go// With that, she started up the engines - destination: Sigma 5.
* * * * * *
[On Sigma 5]
Duo, Heero, and Trowa sat together at the campfire near the lake waited for TJ to show up. Duo seemed to be the only one holding the conversation. Duo's violet eyes flashed and his hands gestured as if they were doing the talking.
"TJ needs us, you guys. Apparently, something's going down with OZ to where TJ needs our help. I wonder what OZ is up to."
Heero and Trowa sat in relatively comfortable silence as they slowly sipped the java. Both silently contemplating this quick gathering. Heero was the first to speak.
"Hn, what's this have to do with this TJ," Heero continued to stare at his laptop, completely uninterested.
"Apparently, TJ's father stumbled onto something OZ didn't want him to know. It resulted in his death as well as the other peoples' deaths. TJ is seeking revenge as well as taking out OZ." Duo spoked.
"Revenge, huh? What's that got to do with us? Is this another winless mission, Maxwell?" Heero growled from the laptop.
"What exactly did TJ's father find?" Trowa interrupted, his quiet face holding no emotion, his lip barely moved when he spoke, "Must be something big to require the assistance of all of us."
"I have no idea, but I thought we could at least help out. TJ's helped me out several times on missions. TJ's a damn good pilot - for a girl that is, and - "
"A girl?!" both Trowa and Heero looked up at Duo.
"Yeah, a girl, so?" Duo shrugged
"Hn."
"Heero, just hear her out, will ya? We can at least see this though, all right?"
"Perhaps finding out the full scenario and possible battle tactics can be easier to accept this mission," nodded Trowa, resulted in his bangs flowed over his quiet face. He took another swig of java and was silent again.
"That's what we're going to find out soon," said Duo.
* * * * * *
//Almost there...//
Tiana boosted the engines to gain more speed. Her hyper jammers kept her cloaked under the radar for the OZ space patrol near L4. Her uplink alerted a vid-conference request from Rashid.
~Mistress Tiana, how good it is to hear from you again.~ Rashid's ever present noble image graced her screen. His wise eyes looking at hers.
~Likewise, Monsieur Rashid, have you heard from Quatre at all? I need to speak with him.~
~We're on an OZ infiltration mission on Vega. I'll alert Master Quatre that you asked for him.~
~Bon, I'm on my way to the rendez-vous with the other pilots on Sigma 5. Tell Quatre it's time and I need his help and yours.~
~It would be my pleasure. It'll be good to fight along side of Dr. Jolie's daughter. Your father was a dear friend to us all.~
~Thank you, Rashid. I'll check on y'all later. Be careful on Vega. TJ out.~ Tiana ended the transmission and prepared to enter Sigma 5's atmosphere.
* * * * * *
After the Nataku pilot landed on Sigma 5, he was quickly reminded on how much he despised noise as he approached the campfire. He could hear Duo's blabberings a good 50 feet away from the fire. After getting Tiana's message, he immediately agreed to come. OZ had to be stopped for good. OZ's plan was unjust and inhumane. Wufei tightened his leather hair strap on his onyx hair and squinted his black coal eyes towards the small campfire. He grabbed his napsack and stalked over to the trio and sat down.
"Wufei! Long time, no see, old man! Good to see ya!" Duo chimed.
"Evening, Maxwell, Yuy and Barton. Pass me the java."
Trowa silently got up and handed Wufei a cup of java and a seat.
"So you all are going to fight as well, eh?" Wufei looked up from his cup.
"Depending on what exactly we are dealing with," Heero said simply.
"It's worth the fight, Yuy. Once you know everything, you'll want this done much sooner." Wufei nodded.
"Hey Wufei, you already know TJ?" Duo glanced with a confused look.
"Met up with her a couple of years ago on Beta 4. She had a lot of spunk and nerve - for a woman. We spent the first two hours arguing on a woman's place and work."
"Now that I can see," smirked Duo.
"When she told me her reason to fight and what OZ is up to, my respect for her grew. She's still a woman, but she's not as weak as some of us are." Wufei stated, taking another drag of java.
"I still need more than a woman's word on this," Heero stated bluntly.
"Yuy, we all need proof but do not dismiss her yet. I do not think she would bring us out here for nothing." Trowa looked briefly to Heero.
"Hn," Heero shrugged,"this better be good."
* * * * * *
She landed ShadowHawk in the cover of the forest and powered down the main thrusters. She gathered her laptop in her napsack and jumped onto the ground. Her heart started beating even faster as she walked towards the campfire ahead.
*** Tiana, it's time ***
She shook off the feeling as she saw four figures around the campfire waiting a little bit too cautiously. All of which looked like they really didn't want to be there. Tiana swallowed and pressed on towards them.
Wufei gestured to Duo and Duo stood up to greet Tiana, "Hey TJ! Glad you could make it!"
"Hello Duo, Wufei, Yuy, Barton" Tiana greeted them.
Trowa nodded to her briefly while Heero continued his assessment on his laptop.
She raised an eyebrow and shrugged. //Let's get started//
"Right, first of all, thank you for coming here. I won't keep you too long."
Tiana took a seat and opened up her laptop. Heero glanced up briefly from his own laptop //Hn// Tiana touched her locket and took out the jewel encased minidisk. She loaded onto a special disk drive and turned her screen towards the pilots.
"Monsieurs, this what OZ has been undergoing for a longtime. My family was slaughtered for having access to this information."
On Tiana's screen flashed "OPERATION: SCORPIO" with OZ's ensigna underneath. The screen then flashed to show DNA strain simulations and diagrams of a man spinning in a circle.
"My father was the head genetics engineer on L4 for the Winner family. He accidentally stumbled onto this OZ classified information while doing L4's DNA archival research for the nursery we had there. Mother was the genetics consultant and caretaker for the nursery before the children were adopted. This is OPERATION: SCORPIO, which has been in the making for about 18 years. OZ is creating genetically altered 'Scorpian Warrior' pilots for their new Scorpio mobile suits which are being being manufactored on Vega."
"Genetically altered? How so?" Duo asked. Heero stared at the screens flashing DNA strains and babies' stats. His eye twitched. Wufei sat with his arms crossed and stared at the screen with a look of disgust on his face. Hearing this two years ago was one thing, seeing this on-screen was another. Trowa simply nodded for Tiana to continue.
"Basically, these 'Scorpian warriors' DNA were altered to where a whole series of genes were replaced to make the pilots become heartless assassins bred from birth. Psychologically unstable, highly aggressive and hellbent on war with undying devotion to OZ." Tiana pointed out the diagrams on the screen.
The screen switched over to vid-journals showing test-tube babies being born in a nursery. Then longitudinal studies on the pilots growing up and showing their aggressive lethal combat skills.
"They're planning to attack all the colonies even Sahara Base on L4 to have them surrender under OZ's tyranny with no room for questioning. They lied about having the peace talks. They want total control of the colonies. They're planning to do this with the new Scorpio suits that are on Vega. Here are the data on the Scorpio suits. Unfortunately, it does carry the Zero System, so not only are we dealing with psychotic pilots but Zero-influenced psychotic pilots. They'll be a force to be reckoned with. That's why I need your help." Tiana nodded to the pilots.
"When are they planning to attack the colonies?" Wufei asked grimly.
"According to the data stored on this disk, which is about 6 years old, in about 8 months. Though Quatre and the Maganac soldiers, I recently found out are on Vega doing an undercover infiltration mission there for more recent developments. I'll send you all a copy of this data on a secured uplink data link Alpha-41-Zero, if you choose to fight. This is not just for me, this is for the colonies and even humankind itself. It's inhumane how the innocence of children are being used and mainpulated to be puppets for OZ."
Trowa silently took this information inside of himself. Slightly looked up at Tiana and back to her laptop,"So you are expecting us, six pilots to go against these Scorpian warrior pilots. How many are they?"
"The inital experiment had raised 75 babies. I'll find out from Quatre if there's any more. The Maganacs will fight with us as well. Also I'll be recruiting other pilots like me ont he Sahara base to help even the score. I think with 6 gundams, the maganacs and the tauruses, we have a chance. Once we get everyone together then we can cover more Scorpian data and pin point their weaknesses."
Heero looked intently on the screen for a brief moment, "When will data be available to us?"
Tiana supressed a smile before answering and started typing on her laptop, "I can hack a secure line in a few moments. Just prep for Alpha-41-Zero and I'll send it you all. So, are you game?"
"You can count me in TJ. I dunno about the rest of the silent brigade over there," Duo grinned.
"If we planned the counteroffensive wisely, our chances for success will look good. We will definitely need Quatre's strategies and the Maganacs forces with us. This is different than fighting mobile dolls,"Trowa decided matter-of-factly.
"Hai," Wufei agreed, "no room for error here. I'm in too, Tiana."
All four pilots looked at Heero. He didn't make it known of their glances. He concentrated on the stats of the Scorpios then studied the Scorpian soldiers. Heero finally looked up at Tiana and briefly nodded, "I'll accept the mission as well."
Tiana nodded, "Thank you all. If you need to reach me, I'll have the uplink and I'm on the Sahara MS base on L4. All of us will need to meet up again relatively soon to discuss strategies.
"Agreed," Wufei nodded.
Tiana got up to prepare to leave when Duo insisted that she stayed a little bit longer to get to know the others, "I'm sure Heero and Trowa proabably need more information on you yourself, TJ."
Grabbing a cup of java, Tiana sat back down,"Tiana Leandra Jolie's the name. My parents were killed 6 years ago. I've beenon my own with my two adoptive sisters ever since. My father designed Gundam ShadowHawk but wasn't completed until two years ago. I've been a pilot for OZ's Sahara base since I was 11 years old."
"Hn,"Heero raised an eyebrow briefly,"Can you fight?"
"HEERO!" Duo shot a death glare at Heero.
"I can hold my own," Tiana grinned, "You'll see, Yuy."
The 5 pilots sat at the fire for a few more hours before breaking camp. Five shooting stars flying from Sigma 5 set off onto different destinations that night...
TBC
