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Author's Notes: Well here's another chapter that Turles and I whipped up together again, so enjoy the fic.
Chapter 7: Secrets Below
After Colony 204, nine years later,
Somewhere on Planet Earth,
Kamui sat at the base of the Sakura tree that rained down its pink petals like snow. The pink petals seemed to contrast against his Sank Kingdom uniform. His uniform wasn't like the others, this particular one was black and red. It had belt straps for buttons as well as that same belt strap that came over his left shoulder to his right side. On his left arm he wore an armband to signify both the Enders success as well as his return to the Sank Kingdom.
This was also the very same uniform that he wore to the awards ceremonies. Apparently ever since the World Nation got involved they found out about the small resistance movement that the Enders had been waging. It had to be done, the Enders had to be rewarded in the best of fashions that the World Nation could offer. The Enders were waited on hand and foot in the best of hotels in New Port City. To add onto that the Enders were given medals of the highest decoration for their ongoing war.
"It's about time" Faye Valentine had commented to Kamui, "that they recognized our hard work in all of this."
Faye did have a point that the Enders had been going on this long without being recognized for their efforts. It was the right time for them to receive their just rewards.
Those memories came to Kamui as he looked out over the courtyard of the Sank Gabriella Institute. He then thought back to those days when he was fighting that private war on Mars. It has already been several years had passed since that faithful day on Mars. Yet, to Kamui it seemed only yesterday that he made that blow that separated the Senators head from his neck. Now time has already taken its effect on him, the Enders as well as the Gundams.
As the Sakura tree continued to rain down its petals Kamui looked to his right. He saw Odin Lowe Jr. (Heero Yuy) and Relena Darlian Yuy sitting next to him. The two were now happily married, then again so were the rest of the Enders and Gundams.
Duo Maxwell and Hilde Schbeiker were already married and were actually expecting twins. It seemed funny to Kamui that a boy whose name means a pair or two of the same kind would have twin children.
On the other hand, Faye Valentine had hooked up with Trowa Barton while Trowa's "sister" Catherine Bloom had become quite attached to Vincent Valentine. Unfortunately for both married couples, neither one of them were planning children.
Quatre Raberba Winner and Dorothy Catalonia had gotten engaged a couple of years back. Though the two of them had been busy in other parts of their lives. So busy that Kamui was wondering if the two had forgotten that they were engaged. Then again, with the kind of ring that Quatre got Dorothy, Kamui thought that it would be hard to forget.
Sally Po and Wufei Chang… they were a different story all together. There were some disputes about whether the two should even be together purely based upon their age. However, that was only the beginning of their problems. Sometime during their relationship, Sally and Wufei found out that there were some "problems" in the below the waist region. Kamui didn't even want to think about it because he remembered the angered expression on Wufei's face when he tried to talk to him about it.
Milliardo Peacecraft a.k.a Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Noin who is now his wife were setting up a picnic with their son that Lucrezia named when the boy was born, Casval Peacecraft. He had the same features from his father and same color hair from his mother too. Casval was playing with other children and was having a good time of his life. Kamui smiled to that and was happy that Milliardo and Lucrezia finally admitted their love for each other.
From where Kamui sat he looked across the green grass. There he saw a young girl, She was a young child nearly reaching her early teen years. To Kamui, he knew that no parent has an ugly child. Especially this one, with her Prussian blue eyes, light brown hair and fair skin without a single blemish upon it. Kamui watched this young girl prance all over the courtyard like a Kangaroo without direction.
"Selena" Kamui heard Relena call to her, "Selena Darlian Yuy."
Kamui smiled because he knew that Relena could always get her daughters attention by using her full name. He looked to Selena who stopped prancing all over the courtyard and came by her mother and fathers side under the Sakura tree. Even when Selena was born, Relena had asked Kamui to be the Godfather of their child. Yet, to Kamui in a way Selena was already a family member of his. At least on a certain level.
Kamui's vision shifted over to a sidewalk table with three chairs in it. There he saw his reverend, the priest of the Enders, Billy Lee Black. Sitting next to Billy Lee was Sylvia Noventa, the granddaughter of the Alliance Pacifist who died in a careless attack by Heero. Kamui gazed at her beauty from head to toe of her womanhood, he realized why Billy Lee chose her as his wife. On the last chair at that table was a little girl, this was Amanda Noventa Black. The little toddler was already trying to speak with her father and mother trying to coach her by pronouncing each word.
"Life truly is peaceful." Kamui thought but he knew what happened after the Mars Mobile Army had fallen. The United Earth Sphere World Nation got involved and launched an investigation that they had ignored. It was probably because the Senator had power within the U.E.S.W.N. that prevented an investigation. The powers to be, after the investigation, knew of the Senators activities and why the Enders were launching their attacks. Now that the tyrant was gone, the U.E.S.W.N. had set up a new government for the people.
Yet there was only one loose end to tie up, Preventer had asked the Enders to destroy their Gundams. Kamui had refused to do it. He said in his own words;
"No, I can not." He said, "The suit and I have bonded together, if the suit is destroyed, I go along with it."
It was agreed that the Enders mobile suits would stay within the care of Preventer to make sure that they didn't fall into untrusting hands. Kamui respected this decision and allowed his Gabriel to be taken care of experienced people of Preventer. Except it was more of a time to settle down.
Kamui looked down to the movement in his lap and saw his love and wife, Viola Hyuga still lying lazily in his lap at the base of that Sakura tree. He looked at the pink petals falling down onto Viola's face. He even watched on fall on her nose, he reached down and gently flicked it off making sure not to hurt his love in any way. He saw from his upside down angle that Viola was smiling at him while Kamui just laid back against the trunk of the old blossoming Sakura tree.
* * *
Kamui stood inside the Sank Kingdom's mobile suit bay. Here all of the only remaining mobile suits lay. The Wing Zero Custom, the DeathScythe Hell Custom, the Heavyarms Custom, the Sandrock Custom, the Nataku, and all the suits from the Enders. Kamui felt his eyes go back to his old suit, the Gundam Gabriel. It was hard to find it in such low lighting within this mobile suit bay.
"Lights." He called
The lights came on and illuminated the Gundams, even the dark colored Gundam Gabriel looked luminescent in this place. Kamui couldn't help but smile at his "partner in battle". As he looked at it, his eyes were drawn to something away from the Gabriel.
It seemed like something that was out of place. Like finding a hold in the wall that one could swear wasn't there. Kamui took the elevator to the catwalk and went to where he saw that something. Kamui stood in front of the wall and he saw that it was a door. He looked at the enourmity of it, it looked large enough for a person the size of a Gundam to squeeze through, but what was it for?
"UNSEATH YOUR SWORD." A voice called out
"What the hell was that?" Kamui asked as he went to his side to pull out his sword. He looked to his left and then to his right and found nothing in any direction until his vision came back to the door. There he saw a beam of light come from above the door, it came down to the sword. The beam began to pan the letters on the side of the blade from Kamui's left to his right and then back again.
"AUTHORIZATION APPROVED." The voice said as the doors opened.
Kamui watched as the tremendous doors opened, letting loose all the dust and soot from its cracks. The debris from it opening came down in front of Kamui like rain and snow at once. Through this rain and snow of dust and soot, Kamui saw something.
The dust had settled and Kamui walked in, all was dark but from the light of the mobile suit bay that he had left. The lights were shining in and revealed only shaped of objects that Kamui couldn't make out. He stepped further into this dark place and the darker it became the more wary Kamui became. He held onto his sword tightly as if it were some kind of security blanket.
BHHH!
The lights came on.
Kamui's eyes were trying to adjust to the blinding white fluorescent light after his eyes had already adjusted to the darkness within this place. As soon as the pain began to fade from his eyes and his pupils adjusted to the brightness he saw where he was standing.
In each direction Kamui saw mobile suits, thousands upon thousands of mobile suits. Each of them stacked as if in a beehive, an insect hive of mobile suits. Kamui recognized them, these were the mobile suits he read about that defended the Sank Kingdom. Then his logic kicked in and said that these couldn't be them because memory says that all of them were destroyed when the Alliance took over. Yet, there was the concrete contradiction standing in front of his two eyes. It was true, he looked in awe from his left to his right and seeing the endless stacking of mobile suits. It was like being a kid in a candy store and being overwhelmed by all that lay before him.
As he continued he looked to his front and saw something there that seemed a little out of place. It looked like a cone that had its top cut off. It sat in the middle of the floor, its flat top and its slanted rounded edge sinking into the floor. Around its slanted surface, Kamui could see a myriad of controls that he couldn't understand right off the top of his head. It was mostly because he was trying to figure out what this object is. He came closer to it and noticed that its top flat surface had a small hole in it. A hole that resembled what his sword would look like from point view. He held up his sword and looked at it and made a logical deduction. If the sword got him in here then the sword might work in that hole. He twisted the sword so that its point was facing the hold and he shoved it in like a pen into its cap.
WRRRRR!
The noise came from all around Kamui, and it sounded like a loud hard drive spinning its disks. At the same time he saw that the cone table looked a little like the Arthurian tale of the Sword within the stone. The cone table began to light up like an enourmous city with its switches, lights and knobs. As it did a figure began to appear above it in a beam of yellow light. It didn't come out quite well at first with it shaking and the light scattering as well as the sound trying to match up with it.
"My…" Kamui heard, "M…."
Seeing this machine trying to do its function, Kamui decided to resort to the last alternative "fix-it" idea he had. He lifted his boot and gave the cone table a nice kick. That sent everything into perfect working order. Kamui looked at the projection above the table and saw that the projection was a man. The man looked oddly familiar, but Kamui couldn't exactly put his finger on which it was. He heard the sound come of with a few crakles in its noise.
"My son." The projection man spoke, "Kamui."
Suddenly the pieces came together at last, Kamui knew who this man was. It was his father, Commander Liu Hyuga. He was dressed in the same kind of Sank Kingdom uniform that Kamui had on. Though because of the yellow projection light it did seem to make a difference to Kamui's red uniform.
"My son, Kamui." The projected Commander spoke again, "If you've received this then I am already dead because of the resistance I had put up against the Alliance. This is my last will and testimony to you, my son. You're probably wondering how you got in here; your sword is what got you here. It is a key as well as a symbol of those of us who still fought even though the good King Peacecraft forbid us to fight. I have only this to give to you, this hangar that you see is the last of our resistance, I bequeath it to you. Build yourself an army, my son and take back the Kingdom that is yours. I do not know if there any other survivors of the Peacecraft family, but I do know that you are the only one I know of. This is my dying request of a dying kingdom, rebuild it my son, for the sake of your heritage and me. You're the only hope that's left."
The hologram projection faded out as did the lights of the cone table. Kamui reached over and took the sword out of the table and placed it back into his sheath.
"Don't worry, Father." Kamui whispered, "I may not be the one who restored this place, but at least it is still here in this era of peace. Now you may rest for eternity knowing that your death wasn't in vain."
***
Kamui sat upon a bench next to Viola as they looked out into the setting sun over the sea. Viola laid her head on Kamui's shoulder as the two joined hands. The two of them had that same relief that their war on Mars was over. It was the same feeling of relief after sitting down after a long walk or coming home after a very long journey. The feeling of being home, completion and finality.
Viola looked into Kamui's face, "What are you thinking of, love?" She asked
"I was thinking of," Kamui said, "about how good it feels to finally be here with you."
Viola huddled up to Kamui as if he was her only source of heat, "And to have our long mission done, right?" Viola asked
"That's right, Viola." Kamui agreed, "We and the rest of the Enders can now rest knowing that what needed to be done has been done."
Kamui looked at his hand being held by his dear Viola and then looked out into the setting sun. He watched as that enormous globe of light rested into the deep blue sea. He looked at it with that same expression on his face: contentment and happiness.
"I'm home." He thought.
Enders Report:
Name: Kamui Hyuga
Code Name: None
Date: June 22, AC 210
Report: It's been 10 years after the war that was held on Mars, I intend to lead my troops and protect the outer Colonies while the Preventers protect the Inner Colonies. There are a few terrorists to deal with; space is a dangerous place. I have heard reports of a terrorist organisation beginning to mobilize on Colony X-12754, code named Babylon. I intend to make it safer by eliminating the terrorists organisations one by one. This is my personal crusade to wipe them all out, no matter what will get in my way. With my friends of the Enders at my side we shall be a force to reckon with. The Enders and I will not tire, we not falter, and we will win.
The End.
All copyrights belong to their respective owners.
Author's Notes: Well here's another chapter that Turles and I whipped up together again, so enjoy the fic.
Chapter 7: Secrets Below
After Colony 204, nine years later,
Somewhere on Planet Earth,
Kamui sat at the base of the Sakura tree that rained down its pink petals like snow. The pink petals seemed to contrast against his Sank Kingdom uniform. His uniform wasn't like the others, this particular one was black and red. It had belt straps for buttons as well as that same belt strap that came over his left shoulder to his right side. On his left arm he wore an armband to signify both the Enders success as well as his return to the Sank Kingdom.
This was also the very same uniform that he wore to the awards ceremonies. Apparently ever since the World Nation got involved they found out about the small resistance movement that the Enders had been waging. It had to be done, the Enders had to be rewarded in the best of fashions that the World Nation could offer. The Enders were waited on hand and foot in the best of hotels in New Port City. To add onto that the Enders were given medals of the highest decoration for their ongoing war.
"It's about time" Faye Valentine had commented to Kamui, "that they recognized our hard work in all of this."
Faye did have a point that the Enders had been going on this long without being recognized for their efforts. It was the right time for them to receive their just rewards.
Those memories came to Kamui as he looked out over the courtyard of the Sank Gabriella Institute. He then thought back to those days when he was fighting that private war on Mars. It has already been several years had passed since that faithful day on Mars. Yet, to Kamui it seemed only yesterday that he made that blow that separated the Senators head from his neck. Now time has already taken its effect on him, the Enders as well as the Gundams.
As the Sakura tree continued to rain down its petals Kamui looked to his right. He saw Odin Lowe Jr. (Heero Yuy) and Relena Darlian Yuy sitting next to him. The two were now happily married, then again so were the rest of the Enders and Gundams.
Duo Maxwell and Hilde Schbeiker were already married and were actually expecting twins. It seemed funny to Kamui that a boy whose name means a pair or two of the same kind would have twin children.
On the other hand, Faye Valentine had hooked up with Trowa Barton while Trowa's "sister" Catherine Bloom had become quite attached to Vincent Valentine. Unfortunately for both married couples, neither one of them were planning children.
Quatre Raberba Winner and Dorothy Catalonia had gotten engaged a couple of years back. Though the two of them had been busy in other parts of their lives. So busy that Kamui was wondering if the two had forgotten that they were engaged. Then again, with the kind of ring that Quatre got Dorothy, Kamui thought that it would be hard to forget.
Sally Po and Wufei Chang… they were a different story all together. There were some disputes about whether the two should even be together purely based upon their age. However, that was only the beginning of their problems. Sometime during their relationship, Sally and Wufei found out that there were some "problems" in the below the waist region. Kamui didn't even want to think about it because he remembered the angered expression on Wufei's face when he tried to talk to him about it.
Milliardo Peacecraft a.k.a Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Noin who is now his wife were setting up a picnic with their son that Lucrezia named when the boy was born, Casval Peacecraft. He had the same features from his father and same color hair from his mother too. Casval was playing with other children and was having a good time of his life. Kamui smiled to that and was happy that Milliardo and Lucrezia finally admitted their love for each other.
From where Kamui sat he looked across the green grass. There he saw a young girl, She was a young child nearly reaching her early teen years. To Kamui, he knew that no parent has an ugly child. Especially this one, with her Prussian blue eyes, light brown hair and fair skin without a single blemish upon it. Kamui watched this young girl prance all over the courtyard like a Kangaroo without direction.
"Selena" Kamui heard Relena call to her, "Selena Darlian Yuy."
Kamui smiled because he knew that Relena could always get her daughters attention by using her full name. He looked to Selena who stopped prancing all over the courtyard and came by her mother and fathers side under the Sakura tree. Even when Selena was born, Relena had asked Kamui to be the Godfather of their child. Yet, to Kamui in a way Selena was already a family member of his. At least on a certain level.
Kamui's vision shifted over to a sidewalk table with three chairs in it. There he saw his reverend, the priest of the Enders, Billy Lee Black. Sitting next to Billy Lee was Sylvia Noventa, the granddaughter of the Alliance Pacifist who died in a careless attack by Heero. Kamui gazed at her beauty from head to toe of her womanhood, he realized why Billy Lee chose her as his wife. On the last chair at that table was a little girl, this was Amanda Noventa Black. The little toddler was already trying to speak with her father and mother trying to coach her by pronouncing each word.
"Life truly is peaceful." Kamui thought but he knew what happened after the Mars Mobile Army had fallen. The United Earth Sphere World Nation got involved and launched an investigation that they had ignored. It was probably because the Senator had power within the U.E.S.W.N. that prevented an investigation. The powers to be, after the investigation, knew of the Senators activities and why the Enders were launching their attacks. Now that the tyrant was gone, the U.E.S.W.N. had set up a new government for the people.
Yet there was only one loose end to tie up, Preventer had asked the Enders to destroy their Gundams. Kamui had refused to do it. He said in his own words;
"No, I can not." He said, "The suit and I have bonded together, if the suit is destroyed, I go along with it."
It was agreed that the Enders mobile suits would stay within the care of Preventer to make sure that they didn't fall into untrusting hands. Kamui respected this decision and allowed his Gabriel to be taken care of experienced people of Preventer. Except it was more of a time to settle down.
Kamui looked down to the movement in his lap and saw his love and wife, Viola Hyuga still lying lazily in his lap at the base of that Sakura tree. He looked at the pink petals falling down onto Viola's face. He even watched on fall on her nose, he reached down and gently flicked it off making sure not to hurt his love in any way. He saw from his upside down angle that Viola was smiling at him while Kamui just laid back against the trunk of the old blossoming Sakura tree.
* * *
Kamui stood inside the Sank Kingdom's mobile suit bay. Here all of the only remaining mobile suits lay. The Wing Zero Custom, the DeathScythe Hell Custom, the Heavyarms Custom, the Sandrock Custom, the Nataku, and all the suits from the Enders. Kamui felt his eyes go back to his old suit, the Gundam Gabriel. It was hard to find it in such low lighting within this mobile suit bay.
"Lights." He called
The lights came on and illuminated the Gundams, even the dark colored Gundam Gabriel looked luminescent in this place. Kamui couldn't help but smile at his "partner in battle". As he looked at it, his eyes were drawn to something away from the Gabriel.
It seemed like something that was out of place. Like finding a hold in the wall that one could swear wasn't there. Kamui took the elevator to the catwalk and went to where he saw that something. Kamui stood in front of the wall and he saw that it was a door. He looked at the enourmity of it, it looked large enough for a person the size of a Gundam to squeeze through, but what was it for?
"UNSEATH YOUR SWORD." A voice called out
"What the hell was that?" Kamui asked as he went to his side to pull out his sword. He looked to his left and then to his right and found nothing in any direction until his vision came back to the door. There he saw a beam of light come from above the door, it came down to the sword. The beam began to pan the letters on the side of the blade from Kamui's left to his right and then back again.
"AUTHORIZATION APPROVED." The voice said as the doors opened.
Kamui watched as the tremendous doors opened, letting loose all the dust and soot from its cracks. The debris from it opening came down in front of Kamui like rain and snow at once. Through this rain and snow of dust and soot, Kamui saw something.
The dust had settled and Kamui walked in, all was dark but from the light of the mobile suit bay that he had left. The lights were shining in and revealed only shaped of objects that Kamui couldn't make out. He stepped further into this dark place and the darker it became the more wary Kamui became. He held onto his sword tightly as if it were some kind of security blanket.
BHHH!
The lights came on.
Kamui's eyes were trying to adjust to the blinding white fluorescent light after his eyes had already adjusted to the darkness within this place. As soon as the pain began to fade from his eyes and his pupils adjusted to the brightness he saw where he was standing.
In each direction Kamui saw mobile suits, thousands upon thousands of mobile suits. Each of them stacked as if in a beehive, an insect hive of mobile suits. Kamui recognized them, these were the mobile suits he read about that defended the Sank Kingdom. Then his logic kicked in and said that these couldn't be them because memory says that all of them were destroyed when the Alliance took over. Yet, there was the concrete contradiction standing in front of his two eyes. It was true, he looked in awe from his left to his right and seeing the endless stacking of mobile suits. It was like being a kid in a candy store and being overwhelmed by all that lay before him.
As he continued he looked to his front and saw something there that seemed a little out of place. It looked like a cone that had its top cut off. It sat in the middle of the floor, its flat top and its slanted rounded edge sinking into the floor. Around its slanted surface, Kamui could see a myriad of controls that he couldn't understand right off the top of his head. It was mostly because he was trying to figure out what this object is. He came closer to it and noticed that its top flat surface had a small hole in it. A hole that resembled what his sword would look like from point view. He held up his sword and looked at it and made a logical deduction. If the sword got him in here then the sword might work in that hole. He twisted the sword so that its point was facing the hold and he shoved it in like a pen into its cap.
WRRRRR!
The noise came from all around Kamui, and it sounded like a loud hard drive spinning its disks. At the same time he saw that the cone table looked a little like the Arthurian tale of the Sword within the stone. The cone table began to light up like an enourmous city with its switches, lights and knobs. As it did a figure began to appear above it in a beam of yellow light. It didn't come out quite well at first with it shaking and the light scattering as well as the sound trying to match up with it.
"My…" Kamui heard, "M…."
Seeing this machine trying to do its function, Kamui decided to resort to the last alternative "fix-it" idea he had. He lifted his boot and gave the cone table a nice kick. That sent everything into perfect working order. Kamui looked at the projection above the table and saw that the projection was a man. The man looked oddly familiar, but Kamui couldn't exactly put his finger on which it was. He heard the sound come of with a few crakles in its noise.
"My son." The projection man spoke, "Kamui."
Suddenly the pieces came together at last, Kamui knew who this man was. It was his father, Commander Liu Hyuga. He was dressed in the same kind of Sank Kingdom uniform that Kamui had on. Though because of the yellow projection light it did seem to make a difference to Kamui's red uniform.
"My son, Kamui." The projected Commander spoke again, "If you've received this then I am already dead because of the resistance I had put up against the Alliance. This is my last will and testimony to you, my son. You're probably wondering how you got in here; your sword is what got you here. It is a key as well as a symbol of those of us who still fought even though the good King Peacecraft forbid us to fight. I have only this to give to you, this hangar that you see is the last of our resistance, I bequeath it to you. Build yourself an army, my son and take back the Kingdom that is yours. I do not know if there any other survivors of the Peacecraft family, but I do know that you are the only one I know of. This is my dying request of a dying kingdom, rebuild it my son, for the sake of your heritage and me. You're the only hope that's left."
The hologram projection faded out as did the lights of the cone table. Kamui reached over and took the sword out of the table and placed it back into his sheath.
"Don't worry, Father." Kamui whispered, "I may not be the one who restored this place, but at least it is still here in this era of peace. Now you may rest for eternity knowing that your death wasn't in vain."
***
Kamui sat upon a bench next to Viola as they looked out into the setting sun over the sea. Viola laid her head on Kamui's shoulder as the two joined hands. The two of them had that same relief that their war on Mars was over. It was the same feeling of relief after sitting down after a long walk or coming home after a very long journey. The feeling of being home, completion and finality.
Viola looked into Kamui's face, "What are you thinking of, love?" She asked
"I was thinking of," Kamui said, "about how good it feels to finally be here with you."
Viola huddled up to Kamui as if he was her only source of heat, "And to have our long mission done, right?" Viola asked
"That's right, Viola." Kamui agreed, "We and the rest of the Enders can now rest knowing that what needed to be done has been done."
Kamui looked at his hand being held by his dear Viola and then looked out into the setting sun. He watched as that enormous globe of light rested into the deep blue sea. He looked at it with that same expression on his face: contentment and happiness.
"I'm home." He thought.
Enders Report:
Name: Kamui Hyuga
Code Name: None
Date: June 22, AC 210
Report: It's been 10 years after the war that was held on Mars, I intend to lead my troops and protect the outer Colonies while the Preventers protect the Inner Colonies. There are a few terrorists to deal with; space is a dangerous place. I have heard reports of a terrorist organisation beginning to mobilize on Colony X-12754, code named Babylon. I intend to make it safer by eliminating the terrorists organisations one by one. This is my personal crusade to wipe them all out, no matter what will get in my way. With my friends of the Enders at my side we shall be a force to reckon with. The Enders and I will not tire, we not falter, and we will win.
The End.
