You have Niban to thank for me ever getting this up. For me even working on it. And you have my mom to thank for the long delay. Thank you.

Gundam R
3: Burning Eve
Lyra Bardock

Ordinarily the situation would have been simple to remedy. Simply get Sean's parents, or one of the others' parents, to sign for him. Except Sean's father was somewhere near Mercury, his mother hadn't been seen for years, and the others didn't have any useful parents. Niban's mother hated the girl, and her father had been killed by her older brother… Who had died when the father shot back. Lynna's dad could be convinced to sign it once drunk enough, but his signature never matched his standard one when he was that out. Eri's parents had thrown him into the job market when he was 16, and told him not to come back looking for favors, so they were out too. And Mayonaka was from an orphanage, and had no guardian.

Not that any of that mattered with the other minor detail that the one signing was required to be the legal guardian of Sean.

Thus, their plan was simple. Crash into the back of the jail—nicely located on Europa as opposed to a colony, and thus not the same amount of risk—and then get him out before anyone noticed. No one get hurt, except maybe Sean from falling debris, and no one would be able to track him down, since, as the monitor Niban had seen revealed, they still thought his name was Shawn Johnson, the fake name he used every time he got arrested. Another wards, the name that had all his criminal record on it. Meaning this whole thing could have been avoided if he'd just admitted to being Sean Zeus.

This would have involved problems with his parents though… Currently they only had two problems. One was that they had to put the plan into operation before they did get Sean's real identity. It was upon this moment that the others had found out that, while he couldn't install new parts that well, Eri was quite probably better than Ly at fixing things in a fix. The second was who was going to fly it to put the plan into operation.

Automatically Eri had been involuntarily volunteered… he was the best pilot this side of the asteroid belt, everyone knew that, but there was the matter of the confusing controls in the century old cockpit.

"If nothing else, I'm at least not piloting it because Sean would kill me for touching his RS without his permission," he added when Niban had brought up the previous point.

"See? It's hazardous to his health, too! I think that Mayo-kun should do it!!" she paused for a moment and had an intrigued yet disgusted look on her face, an expression the others had learned to fear, before the standard response came from the wall behind her.

"DON'T call me –kun," he stated calmly, stepping forward to meet the others.

"And I couldn't care one way or the other. I understand the controls, I've studied the blueprints enough… I could fly it myself, or teach one of you just as easily." He went back to his standard silence to ponder his statement. "But I doubt any of you are strong enough to use those controls. So I'll do it, but seeing as how this is your friend not mine, it'd better get me some kind of discount while you're building DarkFox."

"DarkFox?! What the blazes it that?" Ly complained, mostly to break the monotone he tended to create.

"Its what I plan to call my Gundam. Is that a problem?" he responded calmly, but the gaze that fell on Lynna should have burned through her like a laser.

"No," she winced in response. She whimpered lightly as he walked back away and sat in the corner.

"Back to work…?" Eri suggested, again to break the monotone.

"And… to Ginger Snaps!!" Niban grinned before running off to continue where she'd been working earlier. Another whimper came from the other two who actually cared.

*********

Sven opened his eyes slowly as a rock dropped on his head. A stone, actually. He looked at curiously before realizing it was a piece of the jail… the jail he was a guard at. And had fallen asleep in, next to Sean's cell. He wondered for a brief moment why a piece of the ceiling had just connected with his head, and started to yell for the other guard…

But by the time "hey" left his mouth, it was too late.

The side wall of Sean's corner jail cell erupted open, an enormous metal foot shoving the stone and mortar aside effortlessly. Sean blinked as fresh air and dwindling sunlight hit him, then started yelling as he recognized the foot to belong to his Gundam.

"What the hell is SOMEONE doing in my Gundam?!"

"Wonderful thanks," Mayo snarled back through Wing's speakers. Sean blinked, realizing his rival was not in the cockpit, and shrugged before making a run for it. Sven, acting on instinct, pulled his gun out and began shooting at the mechanical thing that was ripping the jail to shreds, ignoring the rapidly escaping inmate and the other prisoners' pleas for help. The other guard, on impulse, began doing the same… Mayonaka grumbled something under his breath, speakers off, and, not wanting to waste ammo, simply slammed his fist into the remaining roof over the guards' heads, crushing them both.

Sean took the opportunity and began scrambling up his Gundam's leg, screaming for Mayo to open the hatch. Sirens blazed over the horizon as the hatch closed again, Sean fwumping down in the back of the cockpit, as the thrust fired and Wing took off, quickly escaping Europa's atmosphere. The wreckage of the jail slowly went up in flames as the electrical system was severed by the collapsing walls…

Sven never knew what killed him.

**********

"I would have expected you not to kill anyone!"

"I would have expected you to kill them all. They're witnesses, after all!" Niban chattered, in stark contradiction to Eri's previous comment. She was more hyper than usual, if that was at all possible, and after visiting her great-grandfather on the Maxwell side, she seemed to have killing things on her mind.

"Well, quit expecting," Mayo snarled. "Start to work on the other Gundams. Sean, come with me, we'll have to repaint Wing now since they'll be looking for it."

Ly froze and looked up from her blueprint. "Oohhhhh shite. I didn't realize that before, they'll be seeking it out, and probably checking every large hanger or shop in the orbit first…"

"And we're in what, the third largest hanger/shop combo in the orbit?" Sean said sarcastically.

"Actually, that's exactly where we are."

"Oh."

"…Kuso. NIBAN! We need a new local, rich girl!"

"Gotcha!" Ni shoved her bag back into her pocket and started for the phone. Mayo sighed and headed the other way to start programming the cloak he'd partially installed.

Sean flipped on the television, telling it to turn to the News channel. The other two who had still been unoccupied joined him and together they stared as the top headlines began… and pictures of Wing flashed across the screen.

"…Feared to be related to the brewing conflicts in near-sun territory, a 'mobile suit', similar to one of the 'Gundams' seen in the war of 195, attacked a prison on Europa late last night-"

"Couldn't you bunch of come up with a quieter way to break me-"

"No, Sean, not before your parents would have found out."

"-The images you see now were captured on surveillance. Two prisoners and one guard were injured, and another guard was killed. One more prisoner, captured at an illegal race earlier this week, is missing and presumed dead or escaped."

"Oooo, I'm famous."

"Shut up and let us watch."

"It is feared more attacks will follow, and thus a reward of 1000 units is being offered for information leading to the capture of this craft or its pilot."

"Damn't," Ly kicked at the wall for punctuation before yelling for the TV to mute. She then stormed off to help Mayo with the wiring, ignoring the slightly dumbstruck other males.

"NOW who's not letting us watch, huh Ly?" Sean taunted after her, earning a raised middle finger from the retreating girl and a sigh from Eri, who then had the TV unmute as the story changed.

"In other news, Prince of Earth Alan Yuy-Shintai has officially vanished. Extensive searching has been accomplished and no evidence of a kidnapping or assassination has been found. Stay tuned for further information."

Eri sighed and re-muted the television, looking at where the blueprints for his and the other Gundams lay. "Why do I have a feeling this whole things gonna turn into a war?" Sean grumbled, motioning to tapes of an attack near Venus. Eri shrugged and continued to eye the blueprints.

War…? …That's what these were originally designed for…

**********

Niban waved to some of the bearded guys carrying large boxes, skipping off to go find more ginger snaps, or Mayo, whichever she found first. A rather large shipment of Gundanium had arrived at the "undisclosed location" that Niban had found for them to move their operations to. Sean stood there, tapping his foot, looking unsure about the large amount of the rare and illegal material.

"Sooooo… you DID make sure that they thought this was going to Earth, right?" The guy standing beside him, sipping a coffee, nodded.

"We did everything we could to make sure this looked like it was going to that rebellion going on down at Mercury," he confirmed in a thick Arabic accent.

"Ahh… perfect," Sean grinned. Ly made a grunting noise and wacked him with a wrench lightly.

"Quit acting like you know what you're talking about, baka," she grumbled and wandered towards where Eri was helping stack boxes.

"Tempermental, that one," the Arabic guy chuckled and wiped off his beard, then walked off to return to his work. Sean glanced around, looked nervously towards Mayo, working on a control system, then winced at the sight of a braid disappearing behind one of the ships. He turned his attention to the opposite direction, where Eri and Ly were digging through some boxes that contained parts instead of Gundanium. Eri popped a box and sniffed curiously as Sean walked towards them. He glanced into the crate, looking a bit irritated at its contents.

"You've got to be kidding me…"

"What?"

He pointed into the box, they both sighed, then, in perfect unison and exactly on cue, they both yelled. "NI-BAKA! KITTE!" came the echoing, irritated, Japanese phrase of idiot and demanding for her to come there. She reappeared from behind another bunch of crates, intrigued, then grinned wildly as she realized what they must have found.

"Oh!! My ginger snap shipment!" she babbled enthusiastically, rushing over to join her now further disgruntled friends. "I thought it should be in here somewhere…" she continued, peering into the box. "Yep, yep, one weeks worth, right here!"

"One… w-week?" Eri stuttered, blinking at the overwhelming amount of cookies. "For you and what army?"

"Breath in… breath out…" Ly grumbled beside him, before going on the move again. Anything, anything at all, would be less irking.

"No! They're all mine! You can't have ANY!!!"

Considerably so.