As of right now it has no name! Please help!
The commander took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. He opened them and studied the boy of 15 with messy brown hair that stood in front of him in his office.
"You shot a fellow officer, is that correct?"
"Yes sir, that is correct." Heero replied.
"Why?"
"He was in my way."
"What kind of answer is that?" The commander stood up and knocked his chair over in the process, startling Heero.
Heero stood quiet.
"What kind of soldier shoots a fellow soldier because he was in his way?" The commander paused, "I really hate to do this but, I'm sending you to the patrol ship, Z-83, for 1 months time."
"What? A "Z" ship? Those things are ancient! I heard there were only 5 left, what makes you so sure that this thing even works?" Heero asked.
"We have managed to restore one of the "Z" ships for use. It is not as good as any of the other ships we have but we need a crew for it and since there is no war at the present time we are sending in our problem soldiers. There will be others on the ship with you. Your commanding officer will be captain Davis and your job will be the same as it was on this ship. You will take care of navigations and the main computer. Is this clear?"
Heero breathed slowly and paused before he gave his answer,
"Yes sir. It is clear."
"Officer Maxwell."
"Yes sir?"
"Please tell me why you are in crutches."
"Well sir, I was shot."
"Shot? Shot, how?"
"With a gun, sir."
The other officers in the room laughed, the commander didn't.
"That was not funny."
The laughter stopped.
"You did not follow orders, did you?"
"No sir."
"You were told to stand there and you moved. The suspect shot you in the leg and ran away, is this true?"
"Yes sir." Duo sighed and shifted on his crutches.
"Officer Hill was waiting to back you up. He was going to step in and take the suspect down just before you pulled your little stunt."
Duo interrupted, "**** officer Hill! He wasn't going to back me up! He would have rather seen me dead!"
"Officer Maxwell! Calm down! Now, you will be sent to the ship, Z-83 for a period of 1 month."
"An old "Z" ship? How old are those things anyway? Does one even work?"
"One has been restored and you will be sent there with other officers from other ships. You will take care of co-piloting the ship and any maintenance work."
"Sir, I think you should know…"
"I don't want to hear it. Your commanding officer will be captain Davis. Do you understand?"
"Yes sir."
"Good, now get out."
"Officer Barton, what you did was stupid!"
Trowa said nothing.
"You put lives in danger and you got some officers hurt. If you had followed orders then everything would have gone much smoother."
"The plan was a failure. You knew that as well as I. The only reason you went along with it was because the Head Chief was on the ship and you wanted to impress him."
The commander let Trowa speak.
"You know that if I didn't do what I did then a whole lot more people would have been hurt."
"You may be right but we will never know and what is important right now is that I follow the Chief's orders. I'm sending you to Z-83 for a month until the chief leaves. You commanding officer will be captain Davis and you will be primarily in charge of communications. You will also be required to do some maintenance, and computer work. Is all this clear?"
"Yes sir." Trowa turned to leave.
"Oh, and officer Barton, if it was me out there, I would have done the same thing."
Trowa nodded.
"Please explain to me why there is a large lobster tied to your ship, captain Winner."
"I don't know sir."
"It's your ship, you are the pilot, are you not?"
"Yes sir I am the pilot of the ship."
"Then please tell me why there is a large, inflatable lobster tied to your ship."
"As I have said before I don't know how the lobster got there. I came up to the ship this morning and found it the way you see it now."
"Well some of your officers think that it was you who put it there."
Quatre looked up in surprise.
"They say they came to the ship and saw you tie the lobster to the ship."
"But that's not true! I swear! I was trying to untie the lobster when the officers came aboard this morning."
"Where were you last night?"
"I was in my hotel room, asleep."
"Other officers said they saw you in a bar as drunk as hell."
"But that's not true. I don't drink. My officers were just trying to play a practical joke on me, that's all!"
"Well I'm sorry but it has been decided that you will be sent to the restored "Z" ship, Z-83, to be a secondary pilot to captain Davis. She will be your superior for the month you are there. Is this understood?"
"Yes sir."
"I have it confirmed, officer Wufei, you will be sent to the "Z" ship, Z-83 for 1 month."
"Injustice! **** you! You did this didn't you?" Wufei said to the commanding officer standing beside him.
The commanding officer smiled evilly. "No one breaks my nose in a bar room fight and gets away with it."
"I would have broken more if your little, puny officers hadn't stepped in." Wufei spit back.
"Well at least it's better than an old "Z" ship!" Coleman said under his breath.
"Is this understood?"
"Yes sir."
"Yes sir."
"What? I have to pilot a "Z" ship? What is this, some kind of punishment?"
"Captain Davis, you are the only one that was ever given proper training on how to pilot a "Z" ship. And to answer your other question, the Chief was a little angry to find out about that night at that bar a few weeks ago. I think that finally pushed him over the edge."
"This is just great! I get to go pilot an old, barely working "Z" ship with a bunch of officers being punished! Life sucks!"
"Well I'm glad we're in agreement."
Well this is end of chapter one! In the next chapter the pilots will all meet each other and I'm also asking for people who want to be in the fic! I'm looking for about 2 more people to put in (and so far all of the others are girls so it would be nice to have a guy!) so if you want to be in the fic, email me, Christian.m.hall@att.net and tell me the name you want to be called by, why you are being sent to Z-83, and what you will do there. If I have any questions about the character I'll email them to you after I get your email. First come first serve. Reviews are needed! If I don't get any reviews I'm not going to finish!
~Bishonen Chaser~