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Chapter 6- Rush

Alex calmly sat on a couch in one the waiting room of the Preventor's base, which he had helped save, and stared up at the ceiling. Meanwhile, Lady Une, Wufei, Quatre, and Duo have kept an eye on him from an adjacent observing room.

"So this is the guy who saved this base?" Wufei stated.

"Correct," Lady Une replied.

"He doesn't look like he has ever fought in battle, from looking at those eyes," Quatre commented.

"Yet, he has at least fought in three battles. There might be more," Lady Une didn't keep such a close eye as the other two though.

Duo continued to stay silent after what Alex did at the bar last night. "Its almost like he saw the robbery coming, and yet there could be no way of knowing it," Duo thought.

"What do you plan on doing with him, anyway?" Quatre asked.

"He is going to help out the Preventors, with anything involving mobile suits." Lady Une continued, "We just want to keep an eye on him, otherwise."

"Good idea," Wufei commented. "We know very little of him, and, worse still, is that he didn't fight in the Earth-Sphere conflict, nor when Mariemaea tried to rule the earth sphere. I won't trust him."

"I understand your argument, Wufei, but aren't taking it a little too far?" Quatre said.

"I'm not taking too far, just not far enough. If he has a righteous reason for not fighting in those conflicts, then he will defeat me in battle," Wufei remarked bluntly.

"Well, I would love to see this conversation continue, but I'm off to get something to eat." Duo said as he is about to head out the door, "Want anything?"

"No thanks," the others almost said in unison.

Duo walked out of the room and the doors slide shut. He walked down the hall leading to the mess hall, the thought of the events of last night still ever present in his mind. Was his friend a psychic of some type, or was it his imagination that played tricks on him? Once he has arrived there, he saw a huge line for the lunch bar stretching out as far as a block long, though instead of streets it was in hallways.

"Great... just my luck. The entire base must be having lunch, right now," Duo cringed his eyes as he got into line.

**Thirty Minutes Later**

Duo had finally gotten out of line with his meal and has sat down to eat. While he ate, he began to remember the final days of the Earth-Sphere conflict, when all five gundam pilots had acted like a team.

"Man, those were the days. But then again, we were fighting against a very powerful enemy, and had no choice," Duo thought as he shrugged. "Which makes me wonder, would we fight like that ever again?"

He got up, and promptly disposed of his leftovers. Duo then headed down the hall that lead back to the where the others were. When he got to the door, he heard some noise from the other side of the door, like they were in a kind of game, and walked in to find Wufei and Alex in the middle of a game of chess.

Alex moved his final piece, the Queen, "Stalemate."

"Our strategies have neutralized themselves," Wufei reached up for a handshake out of good sportsmanship. "Good game." Alex shook Wufei's hand.

"You guys played chess, while I was gone?" Duo raised an eyebrow.

"It was my idea, so that I could get to know another pilot a little more." Alex had a smile on his face.

"Though neither of us won, it was a good match none the less."

"Alright, I'll play one of you then. Who will it be?" Duo said while walking over to them.

"Go for it Wufei."

"No, I think you should." Wufei then thought as he got up. "I want to see if you let us tie or if that game had integrity."

"Alright." Duo sat down where Wufei played.

Alex reassembled the pieces to their original positions and Duo moved the first piece, a pawn. Alex and Duo moved more of their pieces several more times. That is until Duo had a grin on his face as his picked up his next piece.

"Check," Duo commented. "Get out of that."

Alex hesitated for a moment not sure what do, but grudgingly moved his King's bishop. He knocked off Duo's last move, "Checkmate."

"I was right." Wufei thought. "He let me tie him."

Duo in utter shock looked frantically at the chessboard. "But how?"

"Your left side was open the entire time," Wufei remarked just as Alex was about to say something. "Alex merely moved his bishop when you moved that piece into check, and he had you."

Alex got up and headed for the door.

"If you guys don't mind, I'm getting some sleep." Alex yawned a little. "I'm tired for some reason."

Quatre watched him leave from the adjacent room, while Wufei also kept an eye on Alex as he left. Duo, on the other hand, just stared at the chessboard, and wondered how Alex had gotten that by him.

"Who is that guy, really?" Wufei thought as he walked over to Duo.

Duo glanced up at Wufei with a bewildered look on his face. "I still don't get it."

"Here let me show you."

Wufei sat down and reassembled the pieces back into their designated spots. He slowly stepped through the same game that Alex and Duo had just played. He showed what Duo had done wrong, and Duo put his head in his hand.

"That makes a lot more sense. Thank you."

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**Three Months Later**

Lady Une sat in her office as she began to review some reports of the past three months, which had summaries for four outstanding events happen. She started from the most recent to the oldest of these four events.



1- Colony L1X-9G78H was attacked by rebel mobile suits which wanted the mobile suit fuel there. This rebel group managed to hold the colony for several days. Heero Yuy in Wing Zero neutralized this force in a manner of thirty minutes upon his arrival.

2- Mobile suit factory in the 1108 western sector of Russia was attacked by another group of mobile suits and was almost destroyed. The two gundam pilots, Wufei Chang in Altron and Trowa Barton in HeavyArms, arrived near the end of the battle thus successfully defended the base and pushed back the attackers.

3- Colony L2G-88710 was taken over by an extreme, colony independence rebels and demanded the colony's independence. A combined effort of Duo Maxwell in Deathscythe Hell, Quatre Winner in Sandrock, and Alex Cros in Icedig managed to free the colony.

4- Colony L2Y-89432: mobile dolls for unknown reasons attacked the Preventor base on this colony. Alex Cros in Icedig and Duo Maxwell in Deathscythe Hell protected the base from being destroyed.

"Could these incidents all be linked?" Lady Une got up and stared out of her window. "Treize, what do you think will happen next?"

A random thought came to her head, and she walked over to an electronic map of the colonies in relation to the earth. She then plotted the locations on the map, and saw a pattern, almost like a star shaped at certain times of the day. Lady Une grabbed up the official reports and skimmed through them to find the initial time of the incidents. They were all at the same time, and that meant there was certainly another attack imminent. She walked back to the map and with a red marker circled the colony mostly likely to be attacked.

"If it is going to be L3T-99012, I need to get the word out." Lady Une thought again, and then remembered an activity being held on that colony. "Quatre and Alex are going to be there."

Lady Une dashed over to her videophone.

"Connect me to the Quatre Winner immediately."

A second passed when the secretary got on receiving end.

"Hold on madam." Another moment passed. "He isn't responding."

"What about Alex Cros?"

"He isn't responding either."

A shock went over Lady Une's mind, the colony was already about to be taken over, and those two were headed there without a clue what was about to happen.

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Quatre and Alex patiently stood in line to fill out docking papers.

"I've never been on a colony that wanted docking papers filled out by everyone," Alex commented.

"That's L3T-99012 for you, but at least the concert they hold here is worth it." Quatre replied with a smile.

"Got that right."

Eventually, Quatre and Alex got through the ordeal of filling out the paperwork and headed out. They got to the streets and saw the colony daylight once again.

"For some reason, I'll never get used to this colony light." Alex looked straight up at the colony ceiling. "Even though I lived in the colonies my entire life, it is still depressing not seeing the sun. That's all."

Alex and Quatre continued on their way to the concert.

A Leo stood atop of a small building several blocks away from the concert. It has caught sight of Quatre and Alex and has them in its camera view.

"Sir, I have sight of our target," the pilot said over a communication link.

A voice replied, "Start the operation."

Quatre and Alex have arrived at the concert location and sat down where their tickets said so.

"When should this concert start anyway?" Alex glanced over at Quatre's watch.

"About five minutes," Quatre replied.

A few minutes later, the band called Green Knee came out and started the concert. The band did its usual first song named With Love Goodbye, and the audience began to cheer. Alex became annoyed with the audience, as he couldn't hear the band over them. He tried to get the crowd to quiet down, but it proved to be futile and he sat down.

"Are all concerts like this one?"

"Most of them."

"Great, remind me to begin ear plugs or not come at all next time."

Green Knee finished its first number and was about to begin its second number Stonewalled, when the building shook with a rumble. Another rumble occurred and the building began to crumble. This time the audience became quiet, and then another rumble shook the building, except this time the east wall collapsed with a Leo partially fallen through it. The audience began to scream and panicky rushed out of the building. Quatre and Alex were the only people left in the room still in their seats.



"What do you think is happening outside?" Alex calmly asked.

"I don't know, but we need to get out there," Quatre replied.

Alex and Quatre ran out of the building and caught sight of a collapsed Leo down the street. A Taurus flew out from behind another building and fired on another Leo further down the street.

"Dang it. Why do they fight in the middle of the city?" Alex said with some rage.

"It doesn't matter now. We have to get to our mobile suits."

"Figures, they are in the docking bay," Alex grumbled.

Quatre and Alex ran off to retrieve their mobile suits. The Leos continued to fight the Taurus mobile suits as they tried not to damage buildings around them. Several of the Tauruses blew up and destroyed buildings as they crashed to the ground, but the Taurus continued to charge at the Leos. Finally after several intense minutes of the battle, Sandrock and Icedig arrived on the scene to back up the Leos.

"Alright, I'll take the left side," Alex said.

"And I get the right side."

A few blocks away, a Leo crashed into the ground as it fired its rifle at a Taurus that few overhead. The Leo scored a direct hit on the Taurus's navigational system, and the Taurus plummeted to the ground. There was nothing left, but smoke, of the Taurus after it exploded upon impact. The Leo slowly got itself back up from the ground, and stood firmly on the ground again. The Leo looked around just in case there any more enemies, and then a flash of white light struck the camera for a moment. The flash was gone the next second.

"What was that?" the pilot said.

A blip appeared on the Leo's radar, but the object was behind it. The Leo turned itself around to face what caused the blip, and saw a bright, yellow mobile suit that held a green beam saber in its right hand.

"A yellow mobile suit?" The pilot wouldn't get a chance to defend himself.

The yellow mobile suit flew straight up to the Leo, and grabbed the Leo on the left shoulder with the left hand while the beam saber penetrated the cockpit with the right hand. This new mobile suit let go of the Leo, and it collapsed onto the ground. It unignited its beam saber and backed off into the city a little more.

The rubble of the fallen buildings was still for several moments as a mobile suit approached on foot. Icedig appeared from behind a building, and began to scan the area. Alex had noticed the smoke from an explosion and decided to investigate what had gone on. To his horror, he spotted the fallen Leo with a melted hole in its back, an obvious sign of a beam saber.

"What or who did this?"

The yellow mobile suit stepped out from its hiding spot, and faced Icedig down.

"A new model?"

Alex took a good look at the suit. The mobile suit was about 16.2m high and had one orange, camera lens in its head. The entire mobile suit was bright yellow, except for the black beam cannon carried on its back. It had thrusters on its back along with a jagged spike to give stability at high speeds. Its feet were very narrow but were 6m long. The bright yellow color prevented Alex from completely seeing the mobile suit, for the color strained his eyes.

Alex opened up a communication link to the pilot. "This is a danger zone. Get out of here immediately."

"I know it is," the pilot smirked with large level of cockiness. "Toteis is the reason behind it."

"What?"

"Toteis is the name of this mobile suit," the pilot said.

Before he could reply, Toteis reignited its beam saber and jetted at Icedig. Icedig ignited its beam saber just in time to block the attack. Icedig tried to counter-attack, but Toteis blocked every effort made by Icedig. These efforts would prove useless against Toteis, as this enemy started its second wave of attacks.

"What have I gotten myself into?" Alex gasped for air as he tried to catch his breath. "I can't give up, not yet."

Toteis jumped off the ground and smashed Icedig in the torso with its leg. Icedig collapsed to the ground on its back, and the beam saber it held was flung out of hand. Toteis slowly approached Icedig again, but activated its shoulder thrusters and got a good distance away. Icedig pulled out its gundanium sabre, and charged at Toteis at full speed. Alex screamed at the top of his lungs all the way.

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Several minutes have passed by since Quatre had last seen Alex, but Quatre's only concern right now was to rid the colony of the Taurus mobile suits. This he did very well. From a force of forty Taurus mobile suits, there was barely anything left of the Taurus now. As Quatre sliced through one of the last Tauruses, it dawned on him that he had not seen Icedig during most of the battle.

"Where did he go?" Quatre said to himself. "I swore he would be nearby."

Sandrock slowly scanned the area around it, but found nothing, other than Leos in the area. The gundam ran across the west side of the city and tried to locate Icedig.

"This is no time for a disappearing act."

He got more than he bargained for, and the next few moments seemed to be an eternity to Quatre. Icedig crashed into a building in front of Sandrock, and the mobile suit laid there motionless for the next couple of moments. Its right arm was partially crushed from the mobile suit's weight and the head of Icedig slowly rolled to the side that faced Sandrock. There was no sign of Icedig's weapons, and the torso along with the shoulder area had severe damage on it.

"Alex, come in. Do you read me?" Quatre shouted in vain as the communication link was nothing more than static.

A beam of energy came out of direction Icedig had crashed from and struck the cockpit of Icedig. The energy melted away the cockpit, and Icedig exploded about twenty meters from Sandrock. The head of Icedig flew by Sandrock's cameras, and Quatre looked in horror at smoke for a second; then dashed up the wreckage of Icedig. Sandrock looked to its right and saw a yellow mobile suit that held a beam cannon down the street.

"You monster!"

The pilot of Toteis smiled, as he saw one of the famous gundams from Operation Meteor, but turned around and flew up into the air with speed that Sandrock wasn't able to match. Sandrock pulled out one of its heat shotels, and flung it at Toteis. The shot wasn't even to come close to Toteis as it disappeared in the distance.

"This can't be... It just can't be!"

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An hour after Icedig's explosion, Quatre stood in front of a videophone and had told what had happened to Lady Une.

"Are you positive?"

"Yes, I saw Icedig get destroyed in front of me. There was no way that Alex could have survived." Quatre couldn't stare her in the face as he spoke those words.

"We'll get a report written up. I'll have a clean-up crew take care of the damage inflicted on the city." She looked at Quatre with sympathy. "We won't call you up for a few days. Get some rest Quatre."

Quatre nodded his head in agreement, and shut off the videophone. He slammed his fist into the wall next to the videophone and cried a little bit.

"We should not have split up like that. What a stupid mistake."

Quatre walked away from the videophone.