Chapter Seven: Allies
As if some divine being had heard his prayers, just as the sword was about to make contact with the Tallgeese III the suit burst into flames leaving the Tallgeese unharmed. Noin cried for some kind of response from Zechs but none came. Three more mean looking Gundams stood behind the destroyed suit. In a matter of minutes they evened the score and annulated the enemy. Noin cried with joy, as all the news came that the Gundams has won the day.
As all the Gundams landed back at the base the ground forces prepared to meet with the new pilots. Taking every precaution the guards pointed their weapons in the direction of the new pilots. Lady Une stepped forward and spoke with the pilot in front.
" Thank you for your assistance in the battle. However we're all curious to find out what you how you built your Gundams and why you helped us." The three pilots stepped forward to meet Une, removing their helmets. Erick, Arron and Aries stared back at Une and Arron stepped closer to speak. But before he could get the words out Duo joined the group and exclaimed at Aries.
"You pilot that gundam?" he asked in shock. Aries flicked her black hair behind her and walked up to Duo poking him in the chest.
"Yes I pilot that Gundam. And I do better job at it than you thank you very much."
"Hey, we're supposed to be on the same side here. Not criticizing like that; you need to focus on our objective." Erick said from his position behind Arron. Aries glared at Erick then walked over to her Gundam and leaned against it. With a few moments delay Erick walked over to Aries and stood next to her wearing the same the same expression as her.
"Excuse me you never answered our question." Une repeated and the three strangers were faced with a room full of eager to know people.
"Sorry. We'll be glad to tell you as soon as I attended to one matter of business." Arron apologized.
"One matter of business what do you think this is a bank or something?" Une said spitefully.
"Une, they saved our asses back there they deserve that at the very least," Commented Trowa. "What is your matter of business?"
"I need to contact my-" Arron began but was cut of by the loud buzz of the door opening and a man running in winded.
"I'm sorry ma'am. but there's a woman. at the front who is insisting on speaking.. with one of the new Gundam pilots." the security chief interrupted. " We invited her inside under escort to go and look for the person she needs to speak with but she refused. She won't do anything but pace outside of the complex. And she has parked her ship right in front of the entrance."
" Ahh.That sounds like my Melanie, I'll go get her." Arron added hoping the false name he had used was the right one for referring to Amanda.
" You stay here and I'll go escort her to the briefing room where we conduct the rest of this meeting." Zechs offered, feeling the need to get out of the room. For the female pilot seemed to not be able to take her eyes off him and it was making him very uncomfortable.
"Well then I'll have to insist that I come with you, because Melanie is claustrophobic. She won't come inside unless I am with her. Your briefing room has windows right?"
" One I believe." Zechs replied. And began to walk to the door gesturing for Arron to follow.
Leading Arron to the front of the base he saw their large ship settled right in front of the entrance making it almost impossible to get out and a woman with light grayish hair and blue eyes run up to Arron and hug him tightly, almost knocking him off his feet.
"Hey babe how you doing did you get here all right?" he said to her.
" Yea I got here ok. Arron I was so worried that something happen to you, how did the fight go, how are the others?" she spat all at once.
"All in a minute, but first you have to move this tub of lard over there onto the grassy area." He smiled when she pouted, silently asking him to do it for her. Narrowing his eyes at her for a second he stepped over to the open door of the ship and began to reposition the craft. Feeling awkward but excited to see her father evaluate her Amanda figured it would break the ice if she introduced herself as much as she could without spilling too much of the information that was doing loops around her brain.
"Hi, my name is Melanie." She held out her hand for him to shake and he took graciously.
"Hello." He was going to say more but became unnerved when Amanda wouldn't let go of his hand. Walking up to the silent pair Arron saw the situation unfolding. Almost snatching his hand back Zechs instructed them to enter the building when he observed all the color drain from Amanda's face.
"We're not going in there?" the young woman pointed fearfully.
"You know we are honey so why even ask."
"Because your sick if you think I'm going in there." Amanda protested.
"Then you busted me I'm sick."
"But in there..." she whispered.
"Well there isn't any place else place else Mel, you can do it I'll be right here with you." he intertwined his wife's arm with his and let her bury her face in his chest. Slowly and tremulously Amanda walked cradled by her husband to the roomy conference room where she sat down next to the conference room where she sat next to Arron and Aries.
"Hey sis, you alright?" Amanda asked her sibling but she just nodded and smiled. There was a moment of silence mixed with curiosity as the whole room noticed that except for the hair and eyes the two young women were exactly alike. To the relief of the newcomers no one voiced or pursued the line of thought.
Lady Une took to the head of the table once again and began to speak. " This was a very important victory for us. I must thank our guests for assisting us in the fight. But I must also ask who are you and where did you come from because we had no ships on radar at the time of your appearance and the material of you Gundams appears to be highly advanced." Since it looked like every one of his companies had come down with lockjaw Arron decide to answer the lady's question.
"Well then let me introduce ourselves. My name is Arron, this is my wife A- Melanie," he had almost forgotten the alias' the two women had to go by. "Then we have my sister in law "Arron had also forgotten Aries' assumed name "And then Erick. We are on the same side let me assure you we don't want there to be another war. Where we came from is difficult to explain since we are forced to secrecy but let me say we did not come from anywhere too many light years away."
"How did you know where the fight was then and just when to get involved?" Une asked sitting down in a chair to stop her feet and back from aching and throbbing painfully.
"Luck I suppose,"
"Well let me just say that while we have won this time our work is not yet done. I have come to learn that there is a rebel colony on Jupiter that is stockpiling weapons and soldiers in preparation for an invasion. A new mission has been set to go in quietly and sabotage their base and destroy their base. Any volunteers?"
"We'd be happy to go provided that you keep my wife on this base so she is not in any danger." Arron said.
"No way, I'm going with you. I'm sick and tired of being left out especially since this will be our last fight?" She looked somberly at her companions and they slowly acknowledged the fact.
"Hopefully this will be the last fight there is. Zechs and Noin would you accompany our new friends on the mission?" Une spoke the phrase lightly for she was now getting dizzy.
Zechs looked at Noin for a brief moment then answered 'yes' to the ex colonel knowing she had picked them to keep an eye on their new 'friends' and to if need be get the job done.
"Alright then, we will depart tomorrow morning to a ship that will take the team and a few others to Jupiter. You are dismissed. " And Lady Une curtly walked out of the room quickly following by the chief medical officer. Noin tried no to notice but through out the whole briefing the two female strangers had been staring at her husband the whole time, their eyes only leaving him once when one of them spoke. And not only the fact that they seemed to be staring at him bothered her, it was also that one of the women had a look of pure disgust while she was staring at Zechs. As soon as Une had dismissed them everyone started to get up and exit the room and Noin figured that now was the best time to introduce herself to the new acquaintances and find out what was the deal with them.
" Hello, name is Lucretzia Noin, I just thought I would come over here an introduce myself." She said as she walked up to the group.
"Hi, I'm Sarah; this is Erick and my sister Melanie and her husband Arron." Aries tired to stop her voice from shaking while introducing herself and her sister to their own mother. Erick and Arron smiled warmly at Noin while Amanda sat back in the chair closing her eyes "Please excuse my sister, she's not trying to be rude it's just she is very claustrophobic." As her attention turned towards Zechs Noin noticed the fraction of a second look of pure disgust and a look of guilt crossing it a moment later.
"Oh, that's a shame could you think of a reason why she would be like that?"
"Um.not really." Aries lied to her mother. As she finished her sentence Zechs walked over to where his wife stood. Then the ex Lt. became aware of the same look of revulsion crossing Sarah's face.
"This is my husband Zechs."
"How nice." Aries set a fake smile on her face. Noticing the expression his wife had Erick thought it would be best if they left. Hearing the fake tone of happiness and the deep rooted sarcasm Aries was so good at he walked up behind her, trying to tell his lover to drop the bitterness she seemed to harbor for her father for someone reason he could not fathom.
"A-Sarah, why don't we go back to the ship for the night wouldn't want to keep these nice people from their family. It was nice meeting you Miss Noin and you too Zechs we'll see you in the morning." Taking hold of her hand Erick half pulled Aries out of the room Arron and reluctantly Amanda following.
"I don't think they liked us Zechs." Noin said as she walked back to the quarters where the little Aries and Amanda slept.
"Lucretzia it wasn't you who they didn't like. But that better not be enough of a problem to keep us from completing the mission." Zechs slid the card key through the scanner and then door opened. Sitting down he sipped the coffee that Noin had just made a peculiar bit of information cropped out that she hadn't noticed before.
"Zechs, when we were talking to those new people one of the guys did say that he shouldn't keep us away from our family anymore didn't he?" Zechs thought back to an hour ago.
"Yeah he did, why does it matter?" he questioned, brushing strands of hair from his spouse's face.
"Well I mean I don't know about you but I have never seen them before in my life therefore how do they know that we have a family other then you and me. I mean the girls were here sleeping and we didn't talk about them and there was no reference made to them by the others, so how would they know?"
"Hmm, that is a good question. You're right they shouldn't' really know that we have children." He added
"Well they did say they were going back to their ship I'm pretty sure it can't be too hard to find." Lucretzia's voice trailed off.
"Uh oh, I think I know where this is going." Knowing that one of his wife's 'sneak around until you've found out everything' plan was coming on.
"Ahh come on you can stay here and I'll just go, I won't be too long. " She pleaded.
"If you think I will let you go alone then you don't know me as well as you should. "Zechs' face lit up with mischief and Noin chuckled as she put her cup of coffee on the table. Being struck with a hint of inspiration Zechs fumbled around in a bag at the side of the couch and took out the pair of baby monitors they used to use when the twins were younger.
"Here we'll use these." He handed one to his partner and took the other one inside the room where the girls slept serenely.
"I like the way you think."
"Isn't that part of why you married me?" Zechs drew her close and began to kiss her neck. Despite the overwhelming urge to take this further her curiosity had been peaked and at this moment it over rode her libido.
"We can do that later." She pushed herself away from him and exited the room Zechs close behind her.
To be continued.
As if some divine being had heard his prayers, just as the sword was about to make contact with the Tallgeese III the suit burst into flames leaving the Tallgeese unharmed. Noin cried for some kind of response from Zechs but none came. Three more mean looking Gundams stood behind the destroyed suit. In a matter of minutes they evened the score and annulated the enemy. Noin cried with joy, as all the news came that the Gundams has won the day.
As all the Gundams landed back at the base the ground forces prepared to meet with the new pilots. Taking every precaution the guards pointed their weapons in the direction of the new pilots. Lady Une stepped forward and spoke with the pilot in front.
" Thank you for your assistance in the battle. However we're all curious to find out what you how you built your Gundams and why you helped us." The three pilots stepped forward to meet Une, removing their helmets. Erick, Arron and Aries stared back at Une and Arron stepped closer to speak. But before he could get the words out Duo joined the group and exclaimed at Aries.
"You pilot that gundam?" he asked in shock. Aries flicked her black hair behind her and walked up to Duo poking him in the chest.
"Yes I pilot that Gundam. And I do better job at it than you thank you very much."
"Hey, we're supposed to be on the same side here. Not criticizing like that; you need to focus on our objective." Erick said from his position behind Arron. Aries glared at Erick then walked over to her Gundam and leaned against it. With a few moments delay Erick walked over to Aries and stood next to her wearing the same the same expression as her.
"Excuse me you never answered our question." Une repeated and the three strangers were faced with a room full of eager to know people.
"Sorry. We'll be glad to tell you as soon as I attended to one matter of business." Arron apologized.
"One matter of business what do you think this is a bank or something?" Une said spitefully.
"Une, they saved our asses back there they deserve that at the very least," Commented Trowa. "What is your matter of business?"
"I need to contact my-" Arron began but was cut of by the loud buzz of the door opening and a man running in winded.
"I'm sorry ma'am. but there's a woman. at the front who is insisting on speaking.. with one of the new Gundam pilots." the security chief interrupted. " We invited her inside under escort to go and look for the person she needs to speak with but she refused. She won't do anything but pace outside of the complex. And she has parked her ship right in front of the entrance."
" Ahh.That sounds like my Melanie, I'll go get her." Arron added hoping the false name he had used was the right one for referring to Amanda.
" You stay here and I'll go escort her to the briefing room where we conduct the rest of this meeting." Zechs offered, feeling the need to get out of the room. For the female pilot seemed to not be able to take her eyes off him and it was making him very uncomfortable.
"Well then I'll have to insist that I come with you, because Melanie is claustrophobic. She won't come inside unless I am with her. Your briefing room has windows right?"
" One I believe." Zechs replied. And began to walk to the door gesturing for Arron to follow.
Leading Arron to the front of the base he saw their large ship settled right in front of the entrance making it almost impossible to get out and a woman with light grayish hair and blue eyes run up to Arron and hug him tightly, almost knocking him off his feet.
"Hey babe how you doing did you get here all right?" he said to her.
" Yea I got here ok. Arron I was so worried that something happen to you, how did the fight go, how are the others?" she spat all at once.
"All in a minute, but first you have to move this tub of lard over there onto the grassy area." He smiled when she pouted, silently asking him to do it for her. Narrowing his eyes at her for a second he stepped over to the open door of the ship and began to reposition the craft. Feeling awkward but excited to see her father evaluate her Amanda figured it would break the ice if she introduced herself as much as she could without spilling too much of the information that was doing loops around her brain.
"Hi, my name is Melanie." She held out her hand for him to shake and he took graciously.
"Hello." He was going to say more but became unnerved when Amanda wouldn't let go of his hand. Walking up to the silent pair Arron saw the situation unfolding. Almost snatching his hand back Zechs instructed them to enter the building when he observed all the color drain from Amanda's face.
"We're not going in there?" the young woman pointed fearfully.
"You know we are honey so why even ask."
"Because your sick if you think I'm going in there." Amanda protested.
"Then you busted me I'm sick."
"But in there..." she whispered.
"Well there isn't any place else place else Mel, you can do it I'll be right here with you." he intertwined his wife's arm with his and let her bury her face in his chest. Slowly and tremulously Amanda walked cradled by her husband to the roomy conference room where she sat down next to the conference room where she sat next to Arron and Aries.
"Hey sis, you alright?" Amanda asked her sibling but she just nodded and smiled. There was a moment of silence mixed with curiosity as the whole room noticed that except for the hair and eyes the two young women were exactly alike. To the relief of the newcomers no one voiced or pursued the line of thought.
Lady Une took to the head of the table once again and began to speak. " This was a very important victory for us. I must thank our guests for assisting us in the fight. But I must also ask who are you and where did you come from because we had no ships on radar at the time of your appearance and the material of you Gundams appears to be highly advanced." Since it looked like every one of his companies had come down with lockjaw Arron decide to answer the lady's question.
"Well then let me introduce ourselves. My name is Arron, this is my wife A- Melanie," he had almost forgotten the alias' the two women had to go by. "Then we have my sister in law "Arron had also forgotten Aries' assumed name "And then Erick. We are on the same side let me assure you we don't want there to be another war. Where we came from is difficult to explain since we are forced to secrecy but let me say we did not come from anywhere too many light years away."
"How did you know where the fight was then and just when to get involved?" Une asked sitting down in a chair to stop her feet and back from aching and throbbing painfully.
"Luck I suppose,"
"Well let me just say that while we have won this time our work is not yet done. I have come to learn that there is a rebel colony on Jupiter that is stockpiling weapons and soldiers in preparation for an invasion. A new mission has been set to go in quietly and sabotage their base and destroy their base. Any volunteers?"
"We'd be happy to go provided that you keep my wife on this base so she is not in any danger." Arron said.
"No way, I'm going with you. I'm sick and tired of being left out especially since this will be our last fight?" She looked somberly at her companions and they slowly acknowledged the fact.
"Hopefully this will be the last fight there is. Zechs and Noin would you accompany our new friends on the mission?" Une spoke the phrase lightly for she was now getting dizzy.
Zechs looked at Noin for a brief moment then answered 'yes' to the ex colonel knowing she had picked them to keep an eye on their new 'friends' and to if need be get the job done.
"Alright then, we will depart tomorrow morning to a ship that will take the team and a few others to Jupiter. You are dismissed. " And Lady Une curtly walked out of the room quickly following by the chief medical officer. Noin tried no to notice but through out the whole briefing the two female strangers had been staring at her husband the whole time, their eyes only leaving him once when one of them spoke. And not only the fact that they seemed to be staring at him bothered her, it was also that one of the women had a look of pure disgust while she was staring at Zechs. As soon as Une had dismissed them everyone started to get up and exit the room and Noin figured that now was the best time to introduce herself to the new acquaintances and find out what was the deal with them.
" Hello, name is Lucretzia Noin, I just thought I would come over here an introduce myself." She said as she walked up to the group.
"Hi, I'm Sarah; this is Erick and my sister Melanie and her husband Arron." Aries tired to stop her voice from shaking while introducing herself and her sister to their own mother. Erick and Arron smiled warmly at Noin while Amanda sat back in the chair closing her eyes "Please excuse my sister, she's not trying to be rude it's just she is very claustrophobic." As her attention turned towards Zechs Noin noticed the fraction of a second look of pure disgust and a look of guilt crossing it a moment later.
"Oh, that's a shame could you think of a reason why she would be like that?"
"Um.not really." Aries lied to her mother. As she finished her sentence Zechs walked over to where his wife stood. Then the ex Lt. became aware of the same look of revulsion crossing Sarah's face.
"This is my husband Zechs."
"How nice." Aries set a fake smile on her face. Noticing the expression his wife had Erick thought it would be best if they left. Hearing the fake tone of happiness and the deep rooted sarcasm Aries was so good at he walked up behind her, trying to tell his lover to drop the bitterness she seemed to harbor for her father for someone reason he could not fathom.
"A-Sarah, why don't we go back to the ship for the night wouldn't want to keep these nice people from their family. It was nice meeting you Miss Noin and you too Zechs we'll see you in the morning." Taking hold of her hand Erick half pulled Aries out of the room Arron and reluctantly Amanda following.
"I don't think they liked us Zechs." Noin said as she walked back to the quarters where the little Aries and Amanda slept.
"Lucretzia it wasn't you who they didn't like. But that better not be enough of a problem to keep us from completing the mission." Zechs slid the card key through the scanner and then door opened. Sitting down he sipped the coffee that Noin had just made a peculiar bit of information cropped out that she hadn't noticed before.
"Zechs, when we were talking to those new people one of the guys did say that he shouldn't keep us away from our family anymore didn't he?" Zechs thought back to an hour ago.
"Yeah he did, why does it matter?" he questioned, brushing strands of hair from his spouse's face.
"Well I mean I don't know about you but I have never seen them before in my life therefore how do they know that we have a family other then you and me. I mean the girls were here sleeping and we didn't talk about them and there was no reference made to them by the others, so how would they know?"
"Hmm, that is a good question. You're right they shouldn't' really know that we have children." He added
"Well they did say they were going back to their ship I'm pretty sure it can't be too hard to find." Lucretzia's voice trailed off.
"Uh oh, I think I know where this is going." Knowing that one of his wife's 'sneak around until you've found out everything' plan was coming on.
"Ahh come on you can stay here and I'll just go, I won't be too long. " She pleaded.
"If you think I will let you go alone then you don't know me as well as you should. "Zechs' face lit up with mischief and Noin chuckled as she put her cup of coffee on the table. Being struck with a hint of inspiration Zechs fumbled around in a bag at the side of the couch and took out the pair of baby monitors they used to use when the twins were younger.
"Here we'll use these." He handed one to his partner and took the other one inside the room where the girls slept serenely.
"I like the way you think."
"Isn't that part of why you married me?" Zechs drew her close and began to kiss her neck. Despite the overwhelming urge to take this further her curiosity had been peaked and at this moment it over rode her libido.
"We can do that later." She pushed herself away from him and exited the room Zechs close behind her.
To be continued.