Episode 12: Female Pilots
The huge white carrier that Shanell ahd taken flew gently in the Atlantic breeze. Even thought flying at night was quite a task, especially with such a luge cargo, Shanell wassonfident that she could make it across the ocean to North America before day break. Once there, she would hide the carrier somewhere safe until she recieved a mission from the colonies.
The giant teal waves whipped aroundm the wind was stronger on the ocean surface. The full moon shone right into the carrier's windshield, making seeing a little harder. There was no sign of the sun over the horizon, luckily. It was getting early. 3AM. Still, Shanell sat with her head held high watching for any sign of anything unusual. But the skies were serine, as always.
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The shinning metal suit fell backwards onto it's behind in the middle of a vast sea of trees, lightly dusted with snow. The morning sun was far from rising over the mountains when the girl jumped down to the snow covered earth from her mobile suit. She walked over to the suit's ankle and hit a lever, shutting the 3 huge doors from which she exited. The girl had ditched her space suit and was covered in a long black jacket and a black hunter hat. She started walking towards her original direction, trudging through through the heavy snow. The moon cast shadows from the trees everywhere giving the area an eerie feel. Every so often the girl would look back, making sure no one ewas touching her mobile suit. But there never was another soul in sight or near.
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The sun was barely beginning to rise when Shanell caught sight of land. It was only 4:30AM by her clock. She didn't care too much about time zones at this point. The sunrise cast an orange glow across small towns and approaching countrysides.
A half hour or so later, Shanell passed over a huge body of water and was headed for a small mountain range. She looked dow nand was awe struck. There, on the ground, lay decapitated aries and leo suits! The grass was singed black and a giant dent was bore int oa nearby hillside. Smoke still rose from a small fire on an aries suit.
"What happened here?" she asked herself quietly. Up next to the dent were giant ditched and pieces of black and forest metal. "Probably just a battle between the militaries." Shanell just kept flying towards the mountains, in search of a safe base to hide before the sun totally engulfed the vallies.
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The girl walked on into the mountains, through prickly bushes and low branches. Twigs that even just abrely touched her stung like bees on her bright pink, numb cheeks. Her bright white pants turned gray as the snow melted from her body heat. The high-calf boots, similar to that of the army's, didn't do much against the wet either. She stopped and looked up into the rising sun for a moment. Then bent over andtucked her pants into her high boots.
"Water-proof leather boots, my ass!" she mumbled as she felt her damp socks. The horrible silence of the wilderness sent a cold shiver down her spine as she listend for any sign of civilization. Anything that could be of help to her.
Miraculously she heard something. A mobile suit carrier! She looked up around the sky, in all directions, for the carrier. Soon enough, it appeared over a mountain top, flying west towards her suit.
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Below her, forests and hills spread for miles, but Shanell noticed something out of place. A little bit ahead lay a mobile suit! It was banged up and was turned off. The snow around it had melted and there were giant footprints leading to it.
"Holey shit! What is that?" Shanell said as she approached it. "It looks like amobile suit...kinds like mine.." She decided to land and investigate what had happened. She searched for an open spot to land in and found one not too far, just big enough. Shanell gracefully landed the carrier, without hitting any trees. She jumped out of the chair, threw on her jacket, and lowered the ladder to the frozen ground. Down the rickety ladder and towards the suit she went. The snow was quite an obstacle, as Shanell found out, it was making reaching the suit a problem.
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Whats someone doing all the way out here? the girl thought as she saw the carrier landing. The girl made a mad dash towards where her suit was placed. Low branches from trees whipped at her numb limbs and snow found itself into her boots and jacket. Finally, the girl ws only hidden from Shanell's view by a single layer of trees.
She slowly crept up behind Shanell, following her every move. The girl pulled a rather large pocket knife out of her jacket pocket and opened it up.
She may not be from Oz, but I can't take that chance she thought.
"Those who have laid eyes on a gundam" the girl said, "shall not live to tell about it" Shanell jumped and let out a yelp. She turned and saw the girl raise the knife high.
"What? A-a-a-a gundam?" Shanell stuttered "You're this thing's pilot? NO!! Don't hurt me!"
"Why shouldn't I? Youre then enemy" the girl said, preparingto stab Shanell.
"N-no! I'm not! I-I-I can help you fixe this thing up! I'm from the colonies! I'm not from Oz...or the alliance" Shanell explained quickly. The other girl just stared at Shanell, thinking, before she lowered her arm and shut the knife.
"I'll have to trust you, I guess" the girl said, lookign up into the eyes of her gundam. She shoved the knife back into her pocket. "I need to get this thing out of here."
"Well, I only have a single suit carrier and..." Shanell said looking back at it. The cargo end was tipping down a little. "But I can get a good mechanic out here in no time."
The other girl gave Shanell a quick blink then looked at the carrier and back at her mobile suit.
Should I trust her word? she thought.
"Does id still work?" Shanell asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Just asking. Since it does, maybe we can hideit in a thicker section of the woods?" Shanell explained "We could come back and fix it tomarrow."
"Yeah, okay." the girl replied. "You just go start up your carrier, I'll be okay."
As Shanell walked back to her carrier the girl walked to her gundam. She hit the open switch and hopped in. The huge metal doors slammed shut as her seat belt was fastened. Her hands whipped past dozens of buttons, turning the machine on. Al very low roar echoed through the woods and the huge mecha stood up and began walking towards the denser area. The carrier's huge engines bursted on as Shanell buckled up and watched meters.
The gundam, glittering silver, black, and forest in the sun, tossed a huge space lazer, 4 beam sabres, and a beam glaive to the side. it folded in it's one able wing and layed down on it's back. The pilot hit all the same buttons, shutting the machine down. She hopped onto the machine's grates and slammed the doors shut. The girl jumped down and ran to the carrier. A set of rickety brown rop-ladde stairs hung out the door, awaiting the girl's arrival. She immediatley climbed the ladder, pulling it up and shutting the door behind her.
The carrier's interior was a dull gray, but was warm nonetheless. The girl hauked her coat and hat into a small storage closet and made her way to the co-pilot seat.
"Took ya' long enough!" Shanell said to the girl. She just looked out the window as they lifted off above the trees and her mobile suit. "Are you sure you just wanna leave that here?"
"Yes. I don't think many people fly to Canada in the winter anyways...anymore" the girl replied.
Shanell glanced over to the other girl. She looked like an out-of-whack Oz officer. The hight, black boots, with white pants tucked into them. An army green shirt, buttoned all the way to the top and tucked in with a black tie, tight, around her neck. What a strage lool, for a colonial girl. Her dark mahogany hair stuck up a little from static, but the rest was neatly puleld taut into two braids falling onto her shoulders. And the long, various lengthed bangs hanging in her pea eyes gave her just the final look of a fighter.
"So...who are you?" Shanell asked, breaking the serine silence.
"What is that supposed to mean? I am a pilot!" the girl snapped back viciously.
"Oh, sorry...I meant your name" Shanell looked back towards teh girl a second time "My name is Shanell."
The other girl stayed silent for a moment as they passed the trashed Oz suits and approached the bay.
"It's not to important, just...call me Pippa, okay?" she said on a wandering voice.
"Pippa, huh? A little on the cheery side, don't ya think?" Shanell chuckled. But the girl, Pippa, didn't answer. "I'm sure theres a good reason."
Pippa looked over at Shanell. Shanell looked so much like a civilian more than a pilot. The blue jeans and denim jacket. Her light colored tanktop. The soft look in her golden eyes and curly, sandy colored hair. She just looked too much like a kind hearted sister or friend that you'd have know for years and years.
"So...your really that gundam's pilot?" Shanell asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Pippa replied "Are you really that one's pilot?" she said referring to the suit in the cargo.
"How'd know it was a suit?" Shanell asked.
"Intuition."
"Oh, well, in that case, yes. Just fixed it up and headed down from the colonies yesterday" Shanell explained.
"Me too" Pippa said, looking out the side window again, at the now calm ocean. "It was a rough ride here. I was almost hit... then crash landed."
"Oh, wow" Shanell said, remembering her trip to earth. Passing a ship so spedily, almost colliding.
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"The whole troop was destroyed....by one suit?" said a woman, sitting behind a large desk. Her sorrel hair was tied into buns and wore a fuschia Oz uniform. Lady Une.
"Yes, ma'am! We got a partial transmission from a soldier. They said it might've been a gundam, but it wasn't on any of our records." a soldier stood infront of Une.
"Well, I am sure it has left by now. Send another troop down there. If someone from the colonies is housing enemy mobiley suits in that hangar, we must destroy the whole place. Got it?" said Lady Une in an unusually calm voice.
"Yes, ma'am!" said the soldier as she saluted and left.
"It won't be long, gundams, til lyou are dead and we win the war" Une said to herself.
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It was late afternoon in Germany, and Shanell adn Pippa were just arriving. She gently landed the carrier on the asphault field. Another carrier sat parallel with the cargo door open. It was a double carrier.
Shanell crawled down the ladder and towards the building.
"The mechanic that works here can help you. He'l leither come or send come of his top mechanics out" she told Pippa as they neared the other carrier. A low, flat truck carrying a huge object covered in a tarp degan driving into the cargo. "I woner whose that is?"
Out of the breakroom door came Duo, hands in pockets, walking as usual, totally unaware of Shanell and Pippa. The second Shanell realized who had came outside, her eyes widened and her face turned a little pink.
"Oh! Wow! It's Duo! I thought they had left allready!" Shanell said as she hurried up to the carrier Duo was heading for.
"Who? Who is Duo?" Pippa asked as she watched Shanell hurry to the long haired boy.
"DUO! HEY! I'M BACK!!" Shanell yelled at him "I THOUGHT YOU ALREADY LEFT?!"
"Huhm? Oh..." Duo noticed Shanell "No, they forgot to attach one of Quatre's vulcan cannon feeders."
Shanell ran up to Duo as he walked up the ramp.
"A-are you two gonna leave soon? I-I ws hoping to chat for a while?" Shanell stuttered.
"Oh? Well, I'm not the one whose flyin'. You gotta ask Quatre" Duo replied.
"Oh, thank you!" Shanell jumped off the ramp and began walking to the builing "Hurry up, Pippa!"
Pippa hurried upa bit and slowed next to Shanell before they headed to the building.
"Oh, Shanell? Thanks...for the lift" Pippa said quietly "Who wa that?" she asked, looking back at Duo.
"Oh! No problem at all! Un..He's a friend, a mobile suit pilot. His name is Duo Maxwell" Shanell replied, smiling.
They kept walking towards the building. Quatre walked out the door and Shanell waved. Not too far behind was Duo, sneaking as quietly as possible. Quatre saw Duo tell him to be quiet and he did. Pippa noticed Quatre nodding and looked back. SHe saw Duo touch his finger to his lips and she too nodded. Pipap looked back at Quatre, trying not to laugh.
"Something wrong?" Shanell asked as she noticed Pippa slightly convering her mouth.
"N-no...no problems here" Pippa replied, smirking.
Pippa looked at Quatre, who was about to explode laughing.
"H-hi Shanell! Your back?" Quatre asked to distract Shanell.
"Oh, I just need to see Strichter" Shanell replied.
Slowly, Duo snuck up behind Shanell and jumped up and punded his feet to the ground as he yelled
"BOO!!!"
Shanell jumped and turned towards Duo. At the same time, a bomb went off in a cluster of trees not too far away. Shanell, Pippa, Duo, and Quatre all jumped and yelled. They looked over into the trees. There stood 15 or so leo suits.
"Oh, No! Leos! Oz is attacking...again!" Shanell shouted.
All of the mechanics heard the bomb and immediatley began locking up the doors. They lined up a bunch of scrap mobile suits infront of the hole in the hangar door.
"Hurry! You three go inside! I'll take'em!" Duo shouted as he began running towards his carrier and suit.
Shanell looked back at Duo and few times as Quatre led her and Pippa into the building. They all raced to the windows to watch. Shanell wanted to help so bad but the leos were already to close for her to board her suit.
"Okay! Lets destroy this base!" said an Oz pilot to the others.
Suddenly a flatbed truck went flying out of the single carrier. A flash bomb followed, blinding the leos.
"W-w-w-what is this? I can't see!" a soldier said.
Out of nowhere a huge green flash flew by the leo, slicing it in half. It flew by 3 more leo suits, making them explode. The Gundam Deatscythe appeared.
"I-i-its a gundam!" an Oz officer yelled as he sent an image to his base. Immediatley after the gundam shot the leo into pieces with the two vulcan canons on it's head.
"Looks like someone's not gonna please ol' Trieze!" Duo taunted the soldiers. The moment Pippa heard Trieze's name her eyes widened and she froze,but no one noticed. Duo swung around only to find 5 leos friring at him, inflicting no damage. HE swung his beam scythe at the leos, slicing all in half.
"C'mon Duo! Your almost done!" Shanell said to herself.
Duo sliced another leo and began shooting down the last 3 leos. Two of them used advanced mobility packs and flew above Duo.
"Oh, so thats your game, huh?" Duo said as she hit the gundam's thrusters, flyingup above the leos. He shot down a leo above him and jumped down ontop the other, crushing it flat. "That takes care of that!"
"Oh! He won! I'm...so happy!" Shanell said, relieved.
"N-no! No he's not! There were 3 left, he only destroyed 2!" Pippa said quickly.
"But, I don't see any others" Quatre noted.
Realizing this, Shanell scrambled for the PA speaker as Duo headed towards the building.
"Duo! Duo, your not done! There's one more left! hurry up and get it!" Shanell called to him.
"What?" Duo said through his PA "Were is he?"
"We don't know just get your butt out there and kill him before he finds us!" Pippa yeleld taking the mic from Shanell.
"Who was that? Never mind! Where is that leo?!" Duo said to himdelf. He looked all around but there was nothing. finally, Duo pulled up a heat censor image. There, behind the hangar was a leo suit, get ready to fire at a wall.
"No!!" Duo hollared as he dashed towards the hangar.
"Where is he going?" Quatre said as the yall watched Duo run near them.
Duo saw the very edge of the leo's main camera and charged towards it. The leo saw Duo and stopped in it's tracks. Duo ran through the hangar and chopped up the leo. The huge black gundam stood in teh blazing afternoon sun, surrounded by flames and charred cement. All of the mechanics ran out and began complaining about the hangar. Quatre and Shanell started runnind towards Duo and yelling his name. The huge gundam sat down and duo jumped out and walked to his friends.
"Wow! Great job, man!" Quatre said, hitting Duo's back.
"Duo, thank you for fighting and..winning" Shanel said, turning bright pink.
"Oh, shut up! I wasn't that good!" Duo said, whacking Quatre's back and knocking every bit of air out of him. Duo walked over and gave Shanell a 'half-hug'. Thye both felt akward, Shanell turned even pinker. Pippa just stood off to the side, looking a little bored and ticked.
"Hey! Whats your problem?" Duo asked Pippa.
"Hmm? Oh, nothing. I'm just waiting to leave for my mobile suit" Pippa said, looking at Duo.
"Hel-lo?!?! I just saved your life!!" Duo said, turningtowards Pippa.
"Yeah, only because of me! Now, Shanell? Can we get a mechanic over to my mobile suit?" Pippa replied walking towards their carrier.
"Well, Pippa. We can't take my carrier. It is only a single. If we're goingto fix u pyour suit, there's not enought room!" said Shanell in a ticked tone.
"Well, Shanell, were do you need to go?" Quatre sugested "We can give you a lift!"
"You can?" Shanell asked.
"Yeah, our carrier can hold up to, like, 6 suits." Duo interupted, walking towards Shanell, giving Pippa a look.
"Oh, man! Wow! Thank you so so so much! Pippa, you okay with that?" Shanell said happily.
"Yeah, as long as this thing isn't a slug" Pippa replied walkingto Quatre and Duo's carrier.
"Okay then" Quatre said.
All four of them headed for the carrier as a few mechanics bloaded Shanell's suit onto the carrier. Shanell and Duo sat in the cockpit, talking. Shanell turned bright red as Duo tried to hold it in. Pippa sat looking out a window down to the khaki earth, adjusting her fingertipless gloves. Quatre tried to make conversation but only got the occasional glance from Pippa.
Off into the sunset flew the carrier, chugging along. A small plane followed, carrying the mechanics. Off to Canada, to a hidden spot near a bay, they went, with every worry at mind.
The huge white carrier that Shanell ahd taken flew gently in the Atlantic breeze. Even thought flying at night was quite a task, especially with such a luge cargo, Shanell wassonfident that she could make it across the ocean to North America before day break. Once there, she would hide the carrier somewhere safe until she recieved a mission from the colonies.
The giant teal waves whipped aroundm the wind was stronger on the ocean surface. The full moon shone right into the carrier's windshield, making seeing a little harder. There was no sign of the sun over the horizon, luckily. It was getting early. 3AM. Still, Shanell sat with her head held high watching for any sign of anything unusual. But the skies were serine, as always.
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The shinning metal suit fell backwards onto it's behind in the middle of a vast sea of trees, lightly dusted with snow. The morning sun was far from rising over the mountains when the girl jumped down to the snow covered earth from her mobile suit. She walked over to the suit's ankle and hit a lever, shutting the 3 huge doors from which she exited. The girl had ditched her space suit and was covered in a long black jacket and a black hunter hat. She started walking towards her original direction, trudging through through the heavy snow. The moon cast shadows from the trees everywhere giving the area an eerie feel. Every so often the girl would look back, making sure no one ewas touching her mobile suit. But there never was another soul in sight or near.
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The sun was barely beginning to rise when Shanell caught sight of land. It was only 4:30AM by her clock. She didn't care too much about time zones at this point. The sunrise cast an orange glow across small towns and approaching countrysides.
A half hour or so later, Shanell passed over a huge body of water and was headed for a small mountain range. She looked dow nand was awe struck. There, on the ground, lay decapitated aries and leo suits! The grass was singed black and a giant dent was bore int oa nearby hillside. Smoke still rose from a small fire on an aries suit.
"What happened here?" she asked herself quietly. Up next to the dent were giant ditched and pieces of black and forest metal. "Probably just a battle between the militaries." Shanell just kept flying towards the mountains, in search of a safe base to hide before the sun totally engulfed the vallies.
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The girl walked on into the mountains, through prickly bushes and low branches. Twigs that even just abrely touched her stung like bees on her bright pink, numb cheeks. Her bright white pants turned gray as the snow melted from her body heat. The high-calf boots, similar to that of the army's, didn't do much against the wet either. She stopped and looked up into the rising sun for a moment. Then bent over andtucked her pants into her high boots.
"Water-proof leather boots, my ass!" she mumbled as she felt her damp socks. The horrible silence of the wilderness sent a cold shiver down her spine as she listend for any sign of civilization. Anything that could be of help to her.
Miraculously she heard something. A mobile suit carrier! She looked up around the sky, in all directions, for the carrier. Soon enough, it appeared over a mountain top, flying west towards her suit.
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Below her, forests and hills spread for miles, but Shanell noticed something out of place. A little bit ahead lay a mobile suit! It was banged up and was turned off. The snow around it had melted and there were giant footprints leading to it.
"Holey shit! What is that?" Shanell said as she approached it. "It looks like amobile suit...kinds like mine.." She decided to land and investigate what had happened. She searched for an open spot to land in and found one not too far, just big enough. Shanell gracefully landed the carrier, without hitting any trees. She jumped out of the chair, threw on her jacket, and lowered the ladder to the frozen ground. Down the rickety ladder and towards the suit she went. The snow was quite an obstacle, as Shanell found out, it was making reaching the suit a problem.
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Whats someone doing all the way out here? the girl thought as she saw the carrier landing. The girl made a mad dash towards where her suit was placed. Low branches from trees whipped at her numb limbs and snow found itself into her boots and jacket. Finally, the girl ws only hidden from Shanell's view by a single layer of trees.
She slowly crept up behind Shanell, following her every move. The girl pulled a rather large pocket knife out of her jacket pocket and opened it up.
She may not be from Oz, but I can't take that chance she thought.
"Those who have laid eyes on a gundam" the girl said, "shall not live to tell about it" Shanell jumped and let out a yelp. She turned and saw the girl raise the knife high.
"What? A-a-a-a gundam?" Shanell stuttered "You're this thing's pilot? NO!! Don't hurt me!"
"Why shouldn't I? Youre then enemy" the girl said, preparingto stab Shanell.
"N-no! I'm not! I-I-I can help you fixe this thing up! I'm from the colonies! I'm not from Oz...or the alliance" Shanell explained quickly. The other girl just stared at Shanell, thinking, before she lowered her arm and shut the knife.
"I'll have to trust you, I guess" the girl said, lookign up into the eyes of her gundam. She shoved the knife back into her pocket. "I need to get this thing out of here."
"Well, I only have a single suit carrier and..." Shanell said looking back at it. The cargo end was tipping down a little. "But I can get a good mechanic out here in no time."
The other girl gave Shanell a quick blink then looked at the carrier and back at her mobile suit.
Should I trust her word? she thought.
"Does id still work?" Shanell asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Just asking. Since it does, maybe we can hideit in a thicker section of the woods?" Shanell explained "We could come back and fix it tomarrow."
"Yeah, okay." the girl replied. "You just go start up your carrier, I'll be okay."
As Shanell walked back to her carrier the girl walked to her gundam. She hit the open switch and hopped in. The huge metal doors slammed shut as her seat belt was fastened. Her hands whipped past dozens of buttons, turning the machine on. Al very low roar echoed through the woods and the huge mecha stood up and began walking towards the denser area. The carrier's huge engines bursted on as Shanell buckled up and watched meters.
The gundam, glittering silver, black, and forest in the sun, tossed a huge space lazer, 4 beam sabres, and a beam glaive to the side. it folded in it's one able wing and layed down on it's back. The pilot hit all the same buttons, shutting the machine down. She hopped onto the machine's grates and slammed the doors shut. The girl jumped down and ran to the carrier. A set of rickety brown rop-ladde stairs hung out the door, awaiting the girl's arrival. She immediatley climbed the ladder, pulling it up and shutting the door behind her.
The carrier's interior was a dull gray, but was warm nonetheless. The girl hauked her coat and hat into a small storage closet and made her way to the co-pilot seat.
"Took ya' long enough!" Shanell said to the girl. She just looked out the window as they lifted off above the trees and her mobile suit. "Are you sure you just wanna leave that here?"
"Yes. I don't think many people fly to Canada in the winter anyways...anymore" the girl replied.
Shanell glanced over to the other girl. She looked like an out-of-whack Oz officer. The hight, black boots, with white pants tucked into them. An army green shirt, buttoned all the way to the top and tucked in with a black tie, tight, around her neck. What a strage lool, for a colonial girl. Her dark mahogany hair stuck up a little from static, but the rest was neatly puleld taut into two braids falling onto her shoulders. And the long, various lengthed bangs hanging in her pea eyes gave her just the final look of a fighter.
"So...who are you?" Shanell asked, breaking the serine silence.
"What is that supposed to mean? I am a pilot!" the girl snapped back viciously.
"Oh, sorry...I meant your name" Shanell looked back towards teh girl a second time "My name is Shanell."
The other girl stayed silent for a moment as they passed the trashed Oz suits and approached the bay.
"It's not to important, just...call me Pippa, okay?" she said on a wandering voice.
"Pippa, huh? A little on the cheery side, don't ya think?" Shanell chuckled. But the girl, Pippa, didn't answer. "I'm sure theres a good reason."
Pippa looked over at Shanell. Shanell looked so much like a civilian more than a pilot. The blue jeans and denim jacket. Her light colored tanktop. The soft look in her golden eyes and curly, sandy colored hair. She just looked too much like a kind hearted sister or friend that you'd have know for years and years.
"So...your really that gundam's pilot?" Shanell asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Pippa replied "Are you really that one's pilot?" she said referring to the suit in the cargo.
"How'd know it was a suit?" Shanell asked.
"Intuition."
"Oh, well, in that case, yes. Just fixed it up and headed down from the colonies yesterday" Shanell explained.
"Me too" Pippa said, looking out the side window again, at the now calm ocean. "It was a rough ride here. I was almost hit... then crash landed."
"Oh, wow" Shanell said, remembering her trip to earth. Passing a ship so spedily, almost colliding.
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"The whole troop was destroyed....by one suit?" said a woman, sitting behind a large desk. Her sorrel hair was tied into buns and wore a fuschia Oz uniform. Lady Une.
"Yes, ma'am! We got a partial transmission from a soldier. They said it might've been a gundam, but it wasn't on any of our records." a soldier stood infront of Une.
"Well, I am sure it has left by now. Send another troop down there. If someone from the colonies is housing enemy mobiley suits in that hangar, we must destroy the whole place. Got it?" said Lady Une in an unusually calm voice.
"Yes, ma'am!" said the soldier as she saluted and left.
"It won't be long, gundams, til lyou are dead and we win the war" Une said to herself.
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It was late afternoon in Germany, and Shanell adn Pippa were just arriving. She gently landed the carrier on the asphault field. Another carrier sat parallel with the cargo door open. It was a double carrier.
Shanell crawled down the ladder and towards the building.
"The mechanic that works here can help you. He'l leither come or send come of his top mechanics out" she told Pippa as they neared the other carrier. A low, flat truck carrying a huge object covered in a tarp degan driving into the cargo. "I woner whose that is?"
Out of the breakroom door came Duo, hands in pockets, walking as usual, totally unaware of Shanell and Pippa. The second Shanell realized who had came outside, her eyes widened and her face turned a little pink.
"Oh! Wow! It's Duo! I thought they had left allready!" Shanell said as she hurried up to the carrier Duo was heading for.
"Who? Who is Duo?" Pippa asked as she watched Shanell hurry to the long haired boy.
"DUO! HEY! I'M BACK!!" Shanell yelled at him "I THOUGHT YOU ALREADY LEFT?!"
"Huhm? Oh..." Duo noticed Shanell "No, they forgot to attach one of Quatre's vulcan cannon feeders."
Shanell ran up to Duo as he walked up the ramp.
"A-are you two gonna leave soon? I-I ws hoping to chat for a while?" Shanell stuttered.
"Oh? Well, I'm not the one whose flyin'. You gotta ask Quatre" Duo replied.
"Oh, thank you!" Shanell jumped off the ramp and began walking to the builing "Hurry up, Pippa!"
Pippa hurried upa bit and slowed next to Shanell before they headed to the building.
"Oh, Shanell? Thanks...for the lift" Pippa said quietly "Who wa that?" she asked, looking back at Duo.
"Oh! No problem at all! Un..He's a friend, a mobile suit pilot. His name is Duo Maxwell" Shanell replied, smiling.
They kept walking towards the building. Quatre walked out the door and Shanell waved. Not too far behind was Duo, sneaking as quietly as possible. Quatre saw Duo tell him to be quiet and he did. Pippa noticed Quatre nodding and looked back. SHe saw Duo touch his finger to his lips and she too nodded. Pipap looked back at Quatre, trying not to laugh.
"Something wrong?" Shanell asked as she noticed Pippa slightly convering her mouth.
"N-no...no problems here" Pippa replied, smirking.
Pippa looked at Quatre, who was about to explode laughing.
"H-hi Shanell! Your back?" Quatre asked to distract Shanell.
"Oh, I just need to see Strichter" Shanell replied.
Slowly, Duo snuck up behind Shanell and jumped up and punded his feet to the ground as he yelled
"BOO!!!"
Shanell jumped and turned towards Duo. At the same time, a bomb went off in a cluster of trees not too far away. Shanell, Pippa, Duo, and Quatre all jumped and yelled. They looked over into the trees. There stood 15 or so leo suits.
"Oh, No! Leos! Oz is attacking...again!" Shanell shouted.
All of the mechanics heard the bomb and immediatley began locking up the doors. They lined up a bunch of scrap mobile suits infront of the hole in the hangar door.
"Hurry! You three go inside! I'll take'em!" Duo shouted as he began running towards his carrier and suit.
Shanell looked back at Duo and few times as Quatre led her and Pippa into the building. They all raced to the windows to watch. Shanell wanted to help so bad but the leos were already to close for her to board her suit.
"Okay! Lets destroy this base!" said an Oz pilot to the others.
Suddenly a flatbed truck went flying out of the single carrier. A flash bomb followed, blinding the leos.
"W-w-w-what is this? I can't see!" a soldier said.
Out of nowhere a huge green flash flew by the leo, slicing it in half. It flew by 3 more leo suits, making them explode. The Gundam Deatscythe appeared.
"I-i-its a gundam!" an Oz officer yelled as he sent an image to his base. Immediatley after the gundam shot the leo into pieces with the two vulcan canons on it's head.
"Looks like someone's not gonna please ol' Trieze!" Duo taunted the soldiers. The moment Pippa heard Trieze's name her eyes widened and she froze,but no one noticed. Duo swung around only to find 5 leos friring at him, inflicting no damage. HE swung his beam scythe at the leos, slicing all in half.
"C'mon Duo! Your almost done!" Shanell said to herself.
Duo sliced another leo and began shooting down the last 3 leos. Two of them used advanced mobility packs and flew above Duo.
"Oh, so thats your game, huh?" Duo said as she hit the gundam's thrusters, flyingup above the leos. He shot down a leo above him and jumped down ontop the other, crushing it flat. "That takes care of that!"
"Oh! He won! I'm...so happy!" Shanell said, relieved.
"N-no! No he's not! There were 3 left, he only destroyed 2!" Pippa said quickly.
"But, I don't see any others" Quatre noted.
Realizing this, Shanell scrambled for the PA speaker as Duo headed towards the building.
"Duo! Duo, your not done! There's one more left! hurry up and get it!" Shanell called to him.
"What?" Duo said through his PA "Were is he?"
"We don't know just get your butt out there and kill him before he finds us!" Pippa yeleld taking the mic from Shanell.
"Who was that? Never mind! Where is that leo?!" Duo said to himdelf. He looked all around but there was nothing. finally, Duo pulled up a heat censor image. There, behind the hangar was a leo suit, get ready to fire at a wall.
"No!!" Duo hollared as he dashed towards the hangar.
"Where is he going?" Quatre said as the yall watched Duo run near them.
Duo saw the very edge of the leo's main camera and charged towards it. The leo saw Duo and stopped in it's tracks. Duo ran through the hangar and chopped up the leo. The huge black gundam stood in teh blazing afternoon sun, surrounded by flames and charred cement. All of the mechanics ran out and began complaining about the hangar. Quatre and Shanell started runnind towards Duo and yelling his name. The huge gundam sat down and duo jumped out and walked to his friends.
"Wow! Great job, man!" Quatre said, hitting Duo's back.
"Duo, thank you for fighting and..winning" Shanel said, turning bright pink.
"Oh, shut up! I wasn't that good!" Duo said, whacking Quatre's back and knocking every bit of air out of him. Duo walked over and gave Shanell a 'half-hug'. Thye both felt akward, Shanell turned even pinker. Pippa just stood off to the side, looking a little bored and ticked.
"Hey! Whats your problem?" Duo asked Pippa.
"Hmm? Oh, nothing. I'm just waiting to leave for my mobile suit" Pippa said, looking at Duo.
"Hel-lo?!?! I just saved your life!!" Duo said, turningtowards Pippa.
"Yeah, only because of me! Now, Shanell? Can we get a mechanic over to my mobile suit?" Pippa replied walking towards their carrier.
"Well, Pippa. We can't take my carrier. It is only a single. If we're goingto fix u pyour suit, there's not enought room!" said Shanell in a ticked tone.
"Well, Shanell, were do you need to go?" Quatre sugested "We can give you a lift!"
"You can?" Shanell asked.
"Yeah, our carrier can hold up to, like, 6 suits." Duo interupted, walking towards Shanell, giving Pippa a look.
"Oh, man! Wow! Thank you so so so much! Pippa, you okay with that?" Shanell said happily.
"Yeah, as long as this thing isn't a slug" Pippa replied walkingto Quatre and Duo's carrier.
"Okay then" Quatre said.
All four of them headed for the carrier as a few mechanics bloaded Shanell's suit onto the carrier. Shanell and Duo sat in the cockpit, talking. Shanell turned bright red as Duo tried to hold it in. Pippa sat looking out a window down to the khaki earth, adjusting her fingertipless gloves. Quatre tried to make conversation but only got the occasional glance from Pippa.
Off into the sunset flew the carrier, chugging along. A small plane followed, carrying the mechanics. Off to Canada, to a hidden spot near a bay, they went, with every worry at mind.