Gundam Wing: Desecration
A Kitty-Chan Production
By Mystical Star
Disclaimer: I, Mystic, do not own Gundam Wing. If I did, I'd actually have money...but I don't. So there! I do, however, own the new characters--with the exception of Severina's name, which came from Zero. Any characters that dissapear/die are for plot development. I don't hate any of them except...*sicks flying monkeys on Wufie and Dorothy*
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Part V~Extreme Measures
Preventer Housing Facility-11;30 AM-Severina's Room
"Where did I put that damned system update?!" Severina growled at herself as she threw everything out of her drawers. She pulled at her hair in frustration as she realized her drawers had no system update. "Closet...maybe it's in the closet-" But before the Darksaber pilot could proceed to tear up her closet, her communicator went off in her back pocket. She whipped it out.
"Yamato," She answered. Lt. Noin's face flashed on the screen.
"I don't have a lot of time to say a lot, but read this file and then meet in conference room eight in the Executive building in thirty minutes," Noin explained. Severina nodded as the Lieutenant blinked out and a different screen with words popped up.
"Holy shit, you're joking!"
Preventer Executive Building-Same time-Meeting room 20
"As you can see, even though we are a majorly pacifist organization, we would like your aide in fighting this foe for the good of the colonies," Zechs finished presenting to representative from the colonies.
"I see, well I-" before the man could finish, Noin burst into the room.
"Noin?" Zechs questioned, it was very unlike his wife to just burst in like that.
"I'm sorry, but Zechs," She appeared to be out of breath as she paused to breath heavily, "It's about Relena,"
The Preventer Wind's eyes widened and he stood up, hopeful for a minute, and very curious. "Noin, is she-"
"We need to talk about this privately, go ahead and finish this first," Noin instructed. Zechs sighed through his nose.
"I hope I'm not getting in the way--" The representative began.
"By all means, no, we can continue this--" Zechs was interrupted
"At a later date, I believe that family should always take priority over work," The man said, raising his hand and smiling at Zechs. Preventer Wind nodded. "Thank you," He said.
"We shall continue this talk tomorrow, same time?" The man proposed. "Yes, tomorrow is fine," Zechs confirmed. The colony representative nodded and left the room after saying his goodbye. After he cleared the room, Milliardo Peacecraft turned to his wife.
"Noin?"
"Zechs, they think she's alive,"
Preventer Executive Building Room Eight-12:00 P.M.
Heero, Duo, Quatre, WuFei, Katsumi, Severina, Tom, Li, and Kenji piled into meeting room eight, hearts beating with excitement that Relena may still be alive.
"Please, sit," Lady Une motioned to the pilots from the head of the long meeting table.
"Hey, where's Trowa?" Quatre asked as he noticed his friend was missing.
"Preventer Barton is AWOL at the moment, I have Sally Po searching for him." Une assured Quatre. "So, is Miss Relena really alive?" Katsumi asked, curious.
"Let me clue you in," the Lady began. "Lately, White Fang has been assembling their troops in different places without any rhyme or reason, which would lead one to believe that they are rather disorganized but we all know that this is not the case. Duo Maxwell received information from an unknown source earlier today that leads me to believe that this scattering is a transport plan to take a hostage from the L3 colony closest to earth to the main White Fang base,"
"And the hostage is?" Severina asked,
"Miss Relena," Une finished. Duo peered over at Heero, whose eyes were wide.
"After studying the path of their erratic movements, Sally Po and I discovered that while the majority of the troops move in different directions, a small convoy is moving towards the base colony, adding and subtracting at each stop they make. I believe that this is the convoy holding Vice Foreign Minister Dorlian."
"So, let's get ourselves over to L3 and snatch her back, shall we?" Duo suggested, carelessly as usual.
"I'm afraid there is a problem," Une sighed. The pilots looked at her quizzically. "The mass of troops moving about the outer rim of the colonies is preventing anything from coming in uninvited," Lady Une said as she switched off the lights and turned on a projector screen showing the movement of White Fang troops.
"There's a gap on the Earth side of those colonies, see? We could get through that way, I mean, sure it'd be out of the way, but it would save a lot of firepower," Tom pointed out on the screen.
"Very good point, Mr. Parks," The brunette complimented. Wufei glared at Thomas, who shrugged in a show-offy manner.
"I believe it would be wise to send all nine of you pilots just in case you run into trouble, do you agree, Heero?" the Lady asked pilot Zero-One. Heero nodded and looked up at the screen to the small convoy believed to be carrying Relena.
"Alright then, pilots, you have your orders. You will leave in four hours, please make the appropriate preparations and be in the hangar twenty minutes before departure for further debriefing. Remember, this operation is top-secret. It is only to be discussed with compatriots, Preventer Wind, Noin, Po, and I. Good luck," Une concluded.
The pilots rose and exited the room.
"So, Maxwell, where'd you get that information?" Severina asked. Duo blushed. "Well, I sorta accessed it from your Gundam--"
"You WHAT?!" Yamato exclaimed.
"An alarm went off! I can't help it if I'm curious!" Duo defended himself.
"You tapped into my system into my confidential files?!" The woman boomed in her compatriot's face.
"Hey, are we fighting on the same side or--"
"I have files in that Gundam that are so confidential I'd have to kill myself if I was ever held hostage, okay? That stuff is supposed to only be accessed by one person: ME! You got it?"
Duo found himself against the wall and held up his hands. "Okay, sorry. Look, I only accessed that one file and here's the disc I loaded it onto." The braided American reached into his pocket and pulled out a small disc. Severina glared at him and snatched the disc from him.
"You do that again, bastard, and it'll be the last computer screen you ever look at." The fiery woman muttered as she walked down the hall. These files are all that I know about myself; I don't want these leads to fall into the wrong hands so even more of my past becomes fog.
"Whoa, talk about atomic bombs..." Tom said quietly.
"I heard that Parks!" Severina called back. Tom backed up a little. Katsumi stood there holding in her laughter as she watched Duo and Tom get the lectures of their lives.
Space-Same time
Trowa Barton stared out into the void of stars and planets, hoping to take the information from the new Gundams' computer systems and find one of the instructors or doctors and get some answers.
I've only heard of SIA once, and that was when I was working for Mariemia. I wonder if the test subjects were the new pilots, but how would the Gundam engineers get a hold of them?
Preventer Hangar-Twenty Minutes before Operation
Lucrezia Noin Marquis stood near the entrance of the hangar with her husband as they watched cargo being loaded into two large refugee barges.
"I hope this information is correct," Zechs' wife said. Preventer Wind nodded, never taking his eyes from the barges.
"Is Trowa Barton still missing?" Zechs asked.
"Yes, but I think that nine pilots with their Gundams will be enough to take on White Fang. Something about them makes you feel so secure that everything will turn out for the better," Lucrezia said. Her husband put his arm around her shoulder.
The door to the hangar slid open behind the couple to reveal nine Gundam pilots, in space suits ready to go. "Alright, let's get this show on the road!" Li cheered, holding up his space helmet. Wufei huffed and turned his head.
"Stupid Lion," He muttered.
"I'm ready to kick some White Fang ass, what about the rest of ya?" Tom joined in. Quatre chuckled at the new pilots.
"I could go for some destruction today," Severina pitched in.
"Gundam Pilots, this is a one time mission, I don't think we'll get the chance to do this again," Zechs said as he turned around. The chatter of the pilots stopped.
"If you are contacted, you are to speak through vocal transmissions only, not visual. You are to tell any contacts that you are refugee ships and you have been having some technical difficulties and have drifted off course. Do not accept any help and do not leave the ships with your Gundams until the convoy is in sight." He continued.
"How are we supposed to tell if Relena is actually in one of those ships in that convoy?" Duo asked.
"The strategy is that six of you will surround the convoy while the other three check the ships for the Vice Foreign Minister. I will be in the communications center with Lady Une and Sally Po to give you orders from there." Noin answered.
"Now, get your Gundams into those two ships and prepare for departure." She finished.
"Gotcha! Mission underway!" Katsumi said as they began to walk off. Heero stopped before he went off to retrieve his Gundam and stared at Zechs, as if the two were communicating telepathically or something.
"Good luck, and Godspeed," Zechs said.
"Hn," was Heero's reply.
Open Space-3:00 Preventer Time-Gundam Convoy
Kat and Duo, who were in charge of watching the monitors this shift, were nearly asleep on the job.
"Oh God this is BORING," Katsumi sighed as she put her feet up on the computer board. "You know what Wufei'd say if he saw you doing that," Duo noted.
"WEAKLING! Remove your feet from the panel, NOW!" Kat imitated. Duo chuckled. "Hilde used to do stuff like that. She'd laugh the living shit right out of me," he admitted, looking down.
"Duo, I'm sorry. She really was special to you, wasn't she?" The young woman said, taking her feet from the computer board and facing Duo.
"She...she was the only person I had left, after Solo, and the Maxwells...She was the only person left who cared for me." The braided American lamented as he folded his hands and held them tightly.
"Duo, I-"
"I want to get Relena back for Heero, so Heero has someone left." He broke in. "I don't know anything about the guy, but he's like a friend, and I know what it's like to be the only one. Heero needs her." Duo began to choke on his words.
"Oh, Duo," Kat sighed as she reached out and hugged him for comfort. "Never forget her, Duo. Memories are the most precious things you'll ever have, treasure them," The young woman said. Shinigami snorted.
"Yeah, all they do for me is cause me pain,"
"No," Kat said firmly as she broke their embrace and stared into Shinigami's eyes. "However few they are, good memories are like gold. Trust me,"
"Sure,"
"Pretty big words from someone who has memories,"
Duo looked at his compatriot with a puzzled look upon his face. "What?"
"I don't remember a thing. Not a Goddamned thing. Not my parents, my family, friends, anything. All I know is Angel*, and how to kill," Katsumi gulped down the lump in her throat.
"Keep Hilde with you, always," Kat whispered.
Meanwhile
Severina, who had since found her system update**, was in the hangar of the ship, installing her update while Thomas just happened to be passing by.
Please enter access code The ship's screen read. Severina typed in a word.
Access denied
"Oh yeah?! Access denied this!!" Severina yelled at the machine as she punched the seat, frustrated with her Gundam.
"You alright up there?" Tom's voice asked. The young woman poked her head out of her cockpit.
"Yeah, sort of, I just need a break." She said as she floated out of her suit using the low gravity to her advantage. As she passed her ship's double beam saber, she ran her fingers over the words painted on it. Tom noticed this.
"Hime no Kurayami?" He asked.
"Hm? Oh! That," Severina said, pointing to the words. "It means Princess of Darkness in Japanese. That's what some of my friends from training called me because I wore all black,"
"Hmm...Hime no Kurayami...interesting," Tom repeated.
"Well, a close friend of mine started calling me that and it just stuck. Before he...before he left, he painted that on my Gundam."
"Where'd he go?"
"I don't know," Severina sighed. "Of the few things I actually remember from the past...that has to be the worst memory..."
Severina was cut off by the sound of an alarm.
"Attention everyone!" Duo's voice came over the intercom. "T-minus thirty minutes until contact with the target!"
To Be Continued...
Next Time: Will Relena be rescued? Is Relena really alive? Or is she even in the convoy?! And what about Trowa? Where the heck is he off to? What is SIA? *Most* of these answers in Chapter Six: On To Battle
*Angel is Kat's Gundam. It got its name from the angel-like wings it sports.
**See the last chapter