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Gundam Wing
Gundam Pirates
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Chapter 2:
The Clockwork and The Vindicator
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On the Eldridge some of the senior officers met in the pool hall, which was a large room with Greek columns and a few pool tables. Not only were there pool tables there was a 20 foot bar on the far side from the hydraulic metallic doors. The room itself seemed as majestic as something out of The Great Gatsby but the only difference was the hydraulic door that was large to push a bulldozer through and not make one scratch on it from the doors. The doors would open and close with a great escape of gas from the hydraulic gears closing and opening them.
The room also had a great deal of chairs and couches, and on two of these chairs were Miss Noin and Haruka Tenou, tied down to the chairs. At the same time Gandor and Slayzer were having a friendly game of pool while Kazuki was arguing with Gandor on what happened on the battlefield.
"What the hell were you doing Gandor?" Kazuki shouted
"I helped win the battle." Gandor answered calmly as he went to shoot the cue ball at the 13th ball into the side pocket.
"Have you no honor anymore?" Kazuki asked as he slammed his fist on the side of the pool table, "You taught me to fight honorably when we were becoming pirates and now today you go and do one of the dirtiest tricks of all."
Gandor stood up from his hunched over position after he shot his target down into the side pocket. He looked at Kazuki in his good eye, "What are you complaining about?" He asked, "We defeated the most feared group of all, the Gundams. We will be known throughout the Earth Sphere and the Colonies as the Desbats, the only ones who defeated the Gundams."
"Yeah," Kazuki sneered at Gandor's statement; "We defeated them using the dirtiest tricks."
"All's fair in war." Gandor shrugged as he went over to the tied up Miss Noin and Haruka. He bent down and ogled at both Haruka and Noin like two calendar girls, "And we got two pretty ladies out of it."
Gandor lifted his hand to Miss Noin's and tried to tickle under her under her chin as if she were some kind of cat. Although she wasn't going to stand for this she wouldn't let anyone else touch her except Milliardo. So she snapped and tried to bite at Gandor's finger, thankfully Gandor pulled away with a playful look on his face. It was a face that was rare to Kazuki's eye.
"Oh." Gandor cooed, "She's a feisty one, isn't she? I like that in a woman." He then set his sights on Haruka Tenou, "I really like blondes too." He whispered as he tried the same touch on Haruka. This time Haruka allowed it but at the same time she couldn't stand it. Her legs were still free and she reached up and kicked Gandor in the groin.
Gandor dropped the pool pole and hunched over in excruciating pain, he looked up at the others with a face that looked nearly as red as a cherry tomato.
Gandor looked at the others; "She's no woman." He said in a wheezing out of breath voice.
"You had that one coming." Slayzer pointed out while leaning against the pool table.
"Shut up." Gandor wheezed as he hobbled his way out of the pool hall.
"Where are you going?" Kazuki called,
Gandor stood at the great hydraulic doors and turned around still hunched over and wheezed out, "I'm going to find a lot of ice."
He turned around and walked out the doors as the hydraulic doors gave a gust of air and closed.
Slayzer did agree with Kazuki on the fact that taking hostages was a little dirty. It did go along with the philosophy that if shit happens take a hostage.
Kazuki turned to their hostages (or guests as he thought of it) and tried to be hospitable.
"I apologize." He bowed to the guests, "We didn't intend to take hostages."
Miss Noin's eyes narrowed as Kazuki, "But you were planning to steal, weren't you?"
"You have to realize that in times like these of the Alliance, OZ and Romafeller in control and the Gundams waging war we have to survive in our own way."
This statement confused both Haruka and Miss Noin as the two of them looked together, one of them had to ask Kazuki something.
"You think that the Alliance, Oz and Romafeller are still in control?" Miss Noin
"Yeah, that's why we've been fighting on our own and now it seems that the Gundams are after us."
Haruka scoffed, "The Alliance has fallen. Oz and Romafeller aren't around anymore. Haven't you been following current events?"
Kazuki's good eye looked at Haruka a little angrily, he did have a short fuse but he had to keep it under control in front of his guests.
"No." He huffed, "I haven't."
"The only powers that are on Earth is the World Nation." Miss Noin explained
Kazuki's face scrunched up as if he was being extremely disgusted with the explanation.
"World Nation my ass!" Kazuki shouted, "Humanity is too stupid to be one nation!"
Miss Noin looked down at her legs; "Milliardo thought the same thing when he became the leader of a rebel group against the World Nation."
At the sound of Milliardo's name Kazuki's face seemed to turn to a wondering curious look "Milliardo." He whispered.
Miss Noin looked up at him
"Why does that name sound familiar?" Kazuki whispered to himself
The whisper was loud enough for Noin and Haruka to hear it.
"Milliardo Peacecraft." Haruka stated
Kazuki snapped, "How do you know that name?" his face was right in front of Haruka's (so much for hospitality).
"Milliardo is my husband's uncle."
"Your husbands uncle?"
"My husband's name is Johan Peacecraft Rodriguez."
"Liar!" Kazuki shouted as he stood back up, backing his face away from Haruka's, "How can there be other Peacecrafts still alive?"
Miss Noin was extremely confused by Kazuki, "What do you mean by that?"
Kazuki stood proud and told the truth, "I'm the only living Peacecraft! Me! Kazuki Peacecraft!"
Haruka scoffed, "I personally know three Peacecrafts. Milliardo, Relena and Johan Peacecraft."
Kazuki shouted again, "You're still lying! There's no way that a Gundam could be a Peacecraft! It's incomprehensible!"
Miss Noin shoved the same thing down Kazuki's throat, "There's no way that a Peacecraft could be a pirate either."
"Shut up! I've had enough of this! Slayzer!" Kazuki called
Hearing Kazuki's voice at that high of a shout (so loud that it echoed through the pool hall) Slayzer stood at attention like a solider standing before his superior.
"Yes sir?" Slayzer asked
Kazuki stepped over to Slayzer, "Put them in their rooms and lock the doors."
"Yes sir."
Kazuki stomped out of the pool hall with anger, mistrust, frustration and confusion all in the same over boiling as well as over flowing melting pot.
"More Peacecrafts?" He thought, "All lies, especially that Johan. The bastard blew off the legs of my Waterproof and he dares call himself a Peacecraft? The next time I see him I'll break him like a baby's little finger!"
He tried to demonstrate to himself by bending back the small finger on his left hand but he made an error in judgement and he put too much muscle in it and he broke his own finger.
"OW!" He yelled out in pain.
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The Preventer Ship Peace Million:
"Damn it!" Johan shouted as he slammed his fist against the steel wall of the meeting room.
All of the Gundams were there, including Milliardo and there was also Lady Une who wanted to know what happened. The ones that were closest to Johan were Duo and Quatre who saw Johan's knuckles scrapped and red and started to ooze ever so slightly with blood.
"Calm down Johan." Quatre advised
"I know that Quatre." Johan said with his arm still outstretched at the wall with his green eyes looking over his arm at Quatre, "I told Haruka that this mission would be dangerous, but she still came along."
It is true though, Haruka did want to come along and see the Gundams in action again. She did still have that soft spot in her heart for the Gundams. Always did ever since she heard of the Gundams and she still does after meeting all of them. Johan did warn her that she might be killed and he couldn't stand the though of it. Haruka argued that Johan had become too cautious of her.
"I told you that I didn't want to loose you again." He told her before the mission started, "I didn't want to loose you ever again."
Unfortunately Johan couldn't keep that promise, but this wasn't the time to just sit and wallow.
"We need to figure out a way to get after the pirates right?" Quatre asked
Johan took his fist away from the wall and didn't cradle it; the swelling pain in his hand didn't matter to him so he shoved into his pocket. Needless to say the rubbing of the material of the jeans and the material within the pockets didn't help it.
The Gundams did agree with Quatre.
"That's true Quatre." Johan did calm down, because he knew that if he was calm he would fight more efficiently, "But there are a few things that we need to do. One we need to find the pirates base or ship and how to get in. Two we need a new Gundam for Heero since the Wing Zero is nothing less than scrap metal and it will take to long to either rebuild it or make a new one. Third time's not a luxury that we have. Who know when the pirates might strike next, if we have to act we have to act now. And last of all we can't forget that they have Haruka and Miss Noin."
Milliardo, who stood on the other side of the room with his silvery blond hair over his shoulder, he too thought about Miss Noin just as much as Johan thought about Haruka.
"That means." Milliardo added, "That one or two of us are going to have to infiltrate the Pirates base or ship while the rest of us keep the pirates occupied."
"We have the strategy to do that but how are we going to find it?" Quatre asked
"Simple." Lady Une said, "Every Preventer ship has a tracking beacon, we'll just follow it to the source."
"Next." Johan said leaning against the steel wall, "How powerful is their ship so that one of more of us can get in?"
"While you were in combat." Lady Une explained as she went over to the screen at the front of the room, "I've collected data on the enemy main ship. Through some of our scans we found some weak points which can be used as entrance areas. I'll load that data to all of the suits, the question is who will get into the ship."
"I'll go." Johan volunteered
"Anyone else?" Lady Une asked
"I'll go." Heero volunteered, "I'm going to kill that man who destroyed Zero."
"Very well." Lady Une she looked at the two volunteers of this mission, "We can't let anyone else go, only you two can go. The rest will concentrate on the enemy mobile suits."
"Understood." Johan and Heero said in unison.
"But Lady Une." Johan said, "There is just one more thing, we need a mobile suit for Heero."
"Heero, Johan." Lady Une called, "Come with me please."
Johan and Heero followed Lady Une through the many hallways of Peace Million. Until the three of them came to a door that had a phrase written on it in black and yellow-stripped letters.
Restricted, Authorized Personnel Only.
At the side of this peculiar door was a card slide through. Lady Une reached into one of her pockets and pulled out her Preventer card and slid it through the card slide. And the door opened, but there was only darkness beyond the door.
Confusion.
Why would lady Une bring them to a place like this? Heero needed a mobile suit, not just any old mobile suit he really needed a good ass kicker of a mobile suit like his Wing Zero. Would there be a spare mobile suit beyond this door?
The three of them walked in and as soon as they walked in the door shut behind them and they were standing in pitch-black darkness. But only for a second because the lights then switched on and the first thing that greeted their eyes was a mobile suit probably 100 feet away from them. It stood against the wall on the far side of this spare mobile suit garage. The suit itself looked like the Wing Zero, but at the same time it didn't. Heero and Johan saw the differences in it, for one it didn't have the Gundanium feathered wings. It's wings looked very much like the original Wing Gundam but at the same time they didn't. They looked sleeker, sharper, and jagged.
At it's feet were it's weapons, only two a Buster Shield and a Buster Rifle, both of them had that same look to them as the Gundams wings. Both of them looked sharper, sleeker and jagged with flat spikes of Gundanium sticking out of their sides like fins of some kind of alien fish.
The unknown Gundam stood with it's lifeless eyes looking outward while Johan and Heero looked at it with that same face of surprise as the day Heero first laid eyes on the Epyon.
"What is it?" Heero asked
"This is a Gundam that we've built." Lady Une explained, "In the days of the Alliance and Oz we were trying to create Gundams very similar to the Wing Zero, unfortunately that was when the mobile dolls were already in use and the Battleship Libra was being built. So all the resources and manpower were taken away from it to work on it.
"After the defeat of the Colony Federalists we at Preventer confiscated the incomplete Gundam mobile suit and continued it's construction for such an occasion as this. And we've given it the name Gundam Vindicator."
"Does it have the Zero system in the cockpit?" Heero asked hoping that this would have the same effect as the Wing Zero.
Lady Une looked at him, "No." She said, "We've developed a completely different cockpit system. Although it is similar to the Zero system, but it doesn't have the mind warping effects of the Zero system. It can speak directly to the pilot during battle and tell the pilot the weak points of the battle field and give the pilot hints of where to go."
Johan looked at it curiously, "You've had this the whole time and you could have used it against us during the time of Oz?"
"We could have. We were building this Gundam right after we've developed the Murcurius and the Vaeyate. The scientists were working on it roughly around the time that the Murcurius and Vaeyate were completed. But at the time I had freed the prisoners this Gundam was lost up until a few months ago and we've resurrected it and brought it here to continue building it."
"If the cockpit system is different than the Zero," Heero postulated, "Then I won't go out of control in it."
"That was the whole point of it." Lady Une pointed out, "Give it a try."
Heero stepped up to it and as he did, the chest opened and along came the cockpit's lift cable. Heero stepped into it and was lifted up to the cockpit, and it looked so familiar, like the Wing Zero. Except there was still one more thing that was different from the Wing Zero, and that was at the front of the cockpit was a lens, a red lens like the eye of some monster. But Heero immediately knew that it was simply a camera.
He reached for the starting switch and the blinking and beeping lights and knobs blinked on like a Christmas Tree. As it did a voice was heard that wasn't his own, nor Johan's or Lady Une's. It was a female sweet voice, almost like Relena's.
"Good…" The voice stammered, "Good evening."
"Who was that?" Heero asked as he looked forward at the red lens
From the outside was Lady Une who made the explanation, "The voice you're hearing," she shouted, "Is the cockpit system."
"Oh really." Heero thought
"Registering pilot." The cockpit system said, "Recognizing pilot as Preventer Officer Heero Yuy…" The system paused for a brief moment, "Registering complete, Heero Yuy is now the registered pilot of the Gundam Vindicator."
"Who are you?" Heero asked
"I can't not fully answer that question, Heero Yuy." The system responded, "For I have not been given a proper designation, even though this mobile suit has a name. The cockpit system does not have a proper designation, though the name that has been given to me is MIDAS."
"Then that will be what I shall call you, Midas."
It was a real complementary pairing between the cockpit system known as Midas and Heero Yuy. Because the voice of Midas sounded blank and cold very much like Heero himself. Now that they know each other in this way, now all that was left was to see how this cockpit system does in battle situations. That would remain to be seen.
"What are your characteristics and weapons Midas?" Heero asked
As he asked this a list of technical babble scrolled up and down the screens around him while Midas was telling him what the Vindicator had in store.
"Characteristics of the Gundam Vindicator are similar to that of the Gundam Wing Zero Custom." Midas stated in that same cold calculating voice like a combination of coolness that of Trowa and Heero and the pitch of Relena, "But its weapons are very different from that of the Wing Zero. The Gundam Vindicator has the following weapons in stock."
Midas explained the weapons while the schematics and more technical data flashed and scrolled all around him.
"4 machine cannons mounted in torso.
4 Vulcan guns mounted in head.
4 cannons mounted in head
2 beam saber, stored in recharge racks in shield
2 99-tube micro missile launcher system mounted in shoulder armor;
2 6-tube micro missile launcher mounted on hip armor;
4 wing Vulcan gun mounted in wing binders,
2 Gattling gun mounted in chest;
2 4-tube grenade launcher, 4 rounds per tube, mounted in forearms,
2 Gattling gun mounted in torso;
And 2 Twin Laser-guided mortars mounted on legs"
"Hmm," Heero hummed, "This is more equipped than Trowa's Heavyarms."
"Yes," Midas agreed, "This is the most efficient and heavily armed Gundam ever built."
Heero had an odd thought to this statement
"That's pretty egotistical isn't it for a machine."
"It's a fact, Heero Yuy."
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As the three of them looked at the Gundam Vindicator a call came through. The voice was that same familiar scruffy voice of Howard, Peace Million's Chief Engineer.
"Lady Une." A voice said, "She's arrived."
Johan turned sharply to Lady Une who was looking at her watch, "Just in time." She said
"Who's here?" Johan asked
"Another pilot, we figured you might need someone extra to help you in this mission."
Johan's jaw loosened as he thought about this newest development. "This case keeps getting better and better." He thought
"Another pilot?" Johan asked, "We already have 7 pilots including the Tallgeese III, shouldn't that be enough?"
"It may be enough though but two of you are going into the pirate ship, so that leaves only five on the battle field. We did take a mobile suit count, there are nearly 100 suits there and each one probably has a very good pilot. So that means that five Gundams won't be enough for it."
"I see your point." Johan shrugged while crossing his arms across his chest, "What's the mobile suits name?"
Lady Une looked at Johan and spilled out the details of this arriving pilot, "The Gundam Clockwork."
"Another Gundam like this Vindicator?!" Johan shouted, "You had these dangerous weapons against us and you could have used them at any time."
Lady Une shrugged, "It was all a matter of the right time and place. At the time the Clockwork and the Vindicator were built the time was wrong to use them. It wasn't the time to come on stage, that's what Mr. Treize would say about this."
Johan smirked, "Yeah, that sounds like Treize alright."
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The officers of Preventer waited in the Mobile Suit Bay Observation Room, which was basically a waiting room with a plate glass window looking out into the crummy, dirty and oily atmosphere of the Launch Bay. On the right side from where Johan stood looking out at it, he saw his and his co-workers Gundams at least the ones that survived. His Ryu, Heavyarms, Sandrock, DeathScythe, Nataku and the Tallgeese III, but Johan's view was taken away from that to what was coming in from space.
He looked forward at the rectangular bay door and saw a mobile suit fly into it. The suit looked odd to Johan, because at the first glance this suit looked a lot like Duo's DeathScythe. But at the same time it didn't because underneath the Gundanium batwings that covered it's front Johan saw one of it's arms look like the gattling gun from Trowa's Heavyarms. In the Gundams other hand (which was probably the right hand) was a beam Scythe. Yet at the same time there were extra gattling on the Gundams back, possibly back ups when the gattling on the Gundams arm runs out. That's what this machine was like, a cross between the DeathScythe and Heavyarms. Although the suit was a dark navy blue (dark enough that one could say that it was black) all over, but there were some traces of white and red, but it was mostly that same dark blue.
"This is the Gundam Clockwork?" Johan asked to himself
Apparently Johan asked this question loud enough for Lady Une to hear him.
"That's right, this is it. Shall we go and meet the pilot?"
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The officers of Preventer came up to the kneeling Gundam Clockwork. In the echoing silence of the launch bay, the chest opened and out stepped a figure that had a space suit onto the Gundams cockpit platform. With the lights as they were in the launch bay it was difficult to see this new pilot. One of the lights was shinning onto the pilots visor so that it's glare was right into the Gundams faces. Until the pilot reached up and took the helmet off and the first thing that was revealed was hair, hair that was of a light green color and it pulled out of the helmet and then set itself down onto the pilots shoulders.
Then the face of the Gundam Clockwork's pilot was revealed. It was a woman, of a light complexion and thin face with marine blue eyes. She held her helmet in the crook of her arm as she looked down from the platform at the Preventer Officers and smiled. Her smile seemed both gentle and yet somewhat sadistic at the same time. Some would say that it's hard to be both gentle and sadistic at the same time but somehow this woman pulled it off.
She looked directly at Lady Une, "Well, Well, well." She said smiling, "Long time no viddy me droog, Lady Une." She then began to salute her in a very odd and yet silly way, "Preventer Officer Alexandria DeLarge reporting with the Gundam Clockwork, as requested. Shall we get going with the session of Ultra violence?"
To be continued…
Author's Notes: The Gundam Vindicator that was described in this story was actually the brainchild of Fanfiction.net author Shadow Hawk. He told me about it and I found a way to work it into the story, however the Gundam Clockwork and Alexandria DeLarge was another story. That was the brainchild of another Fanfiction.net author named "Clockwork Pilot", she had told me of an idea she had for a different pilot and I saw the chance to use her and I had asked her if I could use Alexandria DeLarge in my story, she agreed to it. However to make Alexandria believable I had to study the movie, "A Clockwork Orange" in great detail to make sure I'm getting the dialogue right.
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