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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:
Children of the Gundam
Chapter 2: The Silenced
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Preventer Report:
Officer: Heero Yuy
Code-name: The Perfect Soldier
Date: April 26, A.C. 215
Report: We've discovered who has been manufacturing Gundanium, as well as Titanium and the unknown material that had been found by our operatives approximately one week ago. It has been informed to us that the organization that's manufacturing it is called "The Dark Zodiac", it consists of members that were once part of the Alliance Military, the Oz Special Forces, and the Romafeller Foundation. As far as our operatives have determined they have a group of soldiers underneath them called "The Silencers". They also have a mobile suit that is called the Gundam Sentinel. We have obtained its plans and weaknesses. We've also obtained the location of the enemies' base. We are all ready to move out as soon as the order comes in.
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On the Preventer ship Tabris, the troops were preparing themselves for battle. It was held in the same place where the meetings were always held. A great deal had changed that much in the past 15 years. All of them had gotten older, which would be seen in the features of the Gundam pilots, which had become more adult like. Though for people like Trieze and Lady Une, they had gotten a few gray hairs in time but not too many. Yet for Lady Une, Noin, and Sally Po, none of them had one wrinkle of age. All of them had aged quite gracefully. Even Hilde Maxwell had aged very gracefully with her figure growing in all the right places. The same could be said about Heero's wife Relena (who wasn't exactly part of Preventer) she had aged nicely herself as well.
Even with the age, none of the Preventers had lost their edge when it comes to Gundam piloting. There had been enemies in the past but they were pretty small and were crushed the instant the Preventers got there. It was time to discuss the strategy, which was Lady Une's job.
"We've located the enemy here." She said as the monitor showed the asteroid field. It then zoomed in and focused upon one asteroid in particular like a geologist picking up a special stone. The monitor spun the asteroid around on its axis like a dangling Christmas ornament.
"From what our surveyors have found, there are several heat plumes coming from within the asteroid. This matches our known records of mobile suit production plants. This may explain the fragments of Titanium, Gundanium as well as the unknown material found within the proximity of the asteroid."
The picture on the monitor changed from the asteroid to show a fragment of a metal that appeared both strange and unusual. It shimmered in rainbow colors in the light of the flash when the picture was taken. Its surface colors blended with the spectrum highlight and then shifted dramatically from an off white to a pure black. It was the strangest thing any of them had ever seen.
"What is it?" Quatre asked
"We have no name for it as of now." Lady Une answered, "but we've run batteries of tests on it and discovered it has the same properties as Gundanium, but it also has more properties that do not correspond to any known metal. It is both soft and strong at the same time. Its also very light weight and can stand impacts beyond laboratory testing."
"Do you think that the enemy may have mobile suits made out of this substance?" Heero asked.
"I do believe that they do." Lady Une answered, "but we have no time to figure out that if they do or not. Our scans show that they are mobilizing. We must act now."
"Agreed." Trowa stated, "Our previous experiences have taught us to always be prepared for the unexpected."
"Then it's settled." Lady Une announced, "The course has been already set. Our ETA is two hours. Prepare your Gundams for combat."
"Roger." The Preventer Gundams said in unison.
"Dismissed." Lady Une stated as all the Gundams got up and left the meeting room.
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Back on Earth, the big day had finally arrived for the Preventer Teens. All of them had waited a week in the greatest anticipation for this event. It was like seeing a preview for a great movie and waiting months for it to come to the theatres. The prom was like that for all of them; they had gotten their dresses, their tuxedos, the flowers, and the dates. All that was left was to just have the greatest times that they would ever have.
All the boys had their black and white tuxedos with a little hint of color in them. While Hikaru Peacecraft Yuy had gotten a deep red strapless dress that hugged her body at least to her hips. After that the dress flowed outward like the train of a wedding dress. She arrived much like the rest of her friends arrived. She came on the arm of her man who was dressed just like all the other men, in a black and white tuxedo with the flower on his lapel the only amount of color he wore.
Everyone had a date, William Maxwell had his, Hikaru Yuy had hers, Leto Rodriguez, and Paul Marquise had his. The only one who arrived a little late and without a date was Julia Peacecraft Rodriguez. She arrived in a purely white dress as if she herself was coming to her own wedding. Yet the dress wasn't long, frumpy or anything that could be equated with an actual wedding dress. It was something slim and simple, it was like that of a Chinese dress. It shimmered in the low light of the dance hall because of the silken fabric that was used to make it. It had a red rose embodied upon the area where the breast reached up to meet the shoulder. Its hem ran down to Julia's ankles as she walked showing off her well-developed legs from the running she did on the track team. On her wrist was a beautiful corsage that was composed of white and pink orchids. She seemed so beautiful but so sad at the same time. She was like a lone swan upon a lake without a partner.
As she crossed the sidelines of the dance floor with all the classmates dancing, she could hear people speaking in the crowd and saying things like "Is that Julia Rodriguez? Why doesn't she have a date? A guy would have to be crazy not to ask her."
It felt somewhat comforting to Julia to know that her fans in the student body did have their concerns about her. Yet, there was a truth to why she didn't have a date to the prom. It was because she was too scared to ask anyone. It was always that fear of the person that she asked would say no, not because they already had someone, but because they just didn't want to go with her. Even though she did have this popularity on her head, she still had the insecurity of being rejected. She still hoped that someone would ask her, which was why she got that white Chinese-like dress out of her closet at home. It was one of her favorites; she knew that she had a great figure and the white dress showed it off.
She came up to the refreshment table to get a small drink for herself when an instantly familiar voice spoke to her.
"Julia."
She turned and found her brother Leto standing there with his date Megan Mears who was dressed in a very short skimpy red dress.
"You don't have a date?" Leto asked, not sounding sarcastic or boasting but more concerned.
Julia shook her head.
"That's a crime." Megan stepped up to Julia and took her hands into hers as if comforting her in the way one woman does to another. "I've seen how men look at you and I think that any man who is not smart enough to try to come to you should be smacked."
Julia was very flattered, "Thank you." She said as she took her hands away from Megan's, "But I'm sure I'll be fine." She tried to smile but it seemed painful to do it, like trying to laugh with a stomachache.
"You sure?" Leto asked
"You two go ahead." Julia waved her hand as if she was shooing away Leto and Megan to the dance floor. "Have fun you two."
Leto and Megan left Julia and went to the dance floor, but Leto kept looking over his shoulder to see if Julia was truly all right. It took Megan's persuasive hands to bring his attention back to her as the two began to dance.
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Back in space, on the Preventer Tabris inside the Mobile suit bay, the Gundam pilots were getting ready. Each of them tending to their Gundams as if they were racers tending to their cars before the big race. Yet among a few of them they had their doubts about this mission. It was like crossing a bridge that looks sturdy yet only a certain kind of person could feel that there was something very wrong with it. Needless to say, most of the Gundams felt this, but only a good few of them couldn't get it out of their conscious minds. The few of them were Heero, Wufei and Johan. They came together as if they were magnetized and spoke to each other about the risks that they felt were involved in this mission.
"There's something fishy about this." Wufei said
"I know." Johan agreed, "I feel it too. Call me paranoid but I have a good feeling that unknown metal will be our downfall."
"It does feel suspicious." Heero added, "It just feels too convenient that they should be mobilizing just right after we discover the metal fragments around that asteroid belt."
"That's just it." Johan intersected, "This whole thing feels like one huge trap, but the best way to avoid a trap is to acknowledge that it is. Once we know that there might be a way to get out of it."
There was silence for a moment but Wufei added his counter point, "Aren't we being a little over-speculative? We have no evidence to back up our suspicions. We are only linking coincidences to the current situation and coupling it with paranoia."
"That may be." Johan acknowledged, "But I can't ignore my instincts and they're telling me that a storm is coming over the horizon. And this may be one storm we may not come back from."
After what seemed to be only a moment's silence, Lady Une's voice came over the PA system. "Gundam's Scramble. We have arrived at the enemies' base and the enemy is deploying mobile suits. Repeat! Gundams Scramble!"
The speculative discussion between the Star Dragon, the Solitary Dragon, and the Perfect Soldier was put aside when the order came through. All of the pilots got to their Gundams. Though they didn't use the regular cockpit system, since their trip back from the Future Century Universe where the Gundam Fight was held they decided to use the Mobile Trace System regularly. Despite the feedback of pain from the MTS, they felt that they could use the suit to its fullest potential by using that particular system. Since they were fighting in space they designed the cockpit system so that in extreme emergencies the core lander could be used as an escape pod. With the mobile trace system activated and everything within the green, the Preventer Gundams launched.
All of them came to the battlefield in space, surrounded by the asteroid field, leaving the Preventer ship Tabris far behind, and watching the target asteroid start to deploy mobile suits. All of them came out in swarms like bees coming out of a hive that had been disturbed. None of the Gundams had fear, at least until they saw them.
They saw the suits that they were using. They were using Taurus spacesuits, Space Leo Suits, Virgo's, Scorpio's, and last of all, the one suit that they had studied over. The Gundam Sentinel. Up close the Gundam Sentinel was tall, menacing looking with its slick back features as well as the deep red color of its hull. Even the singular v-shaped green eye made it look twice as menacing as if the mobile suit had been possessed by some demon ready to slay Gundams like a knight slaying dragons. The Preventer Gundams showed no fear as they saw not one, two, but four Gundam Sentinels coming right at them.
Strangely enough as the Gundam Sentinels came closer to the approaching Preventers, the rest of the mobile army stayed behind. As if they were waiting for their orders or as if the only order was to deploy and wait. It didn't cross the minds of the Preventers as their sights were set upon the approaching Sentinels. They came closer the Preventers and they heard an ominous robotic voice call out to them.
"Death to the Preventers."
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The dance floor at the high school was packed with young lovers and couples dancing in each other's arms. While at the sides where there were sets of tables, chairs as well as the refreshment table was set, there were those that were just taking a break, except for one; Julia Peacecraft Rodriguez. She watched as her friends enjoyed themselves. She saw how happy Hikaru, Leto, Paul, and William were. Yet she didn't want to complain or moan about her position. She tried to smile as she watched this take place.
Yet, in the back of her mind she felt something strange. An odd tickle that rose up like an itch that came from no where or an inexplicable headache. It was as if she was sensing something that was going on far away. A premonition…maybe. Julia tried to dismiss it, like seeing something strange in the sky and realizing that it was just a passing plane. Yet, this feeling grew deeper and deeper as the music kept thumping, people kept dancing, and lovers kept kissing. All of the noise around her seemed to be drowned by this feeling that rose within her as if she was drowning in it. It became so deep that she felt pushing and shoving within the depths of her mind as if she was experiencing someone else's misery.
BAM!
She felt something shock her to her right, as if someone had crashed a car into her side. She looked and in the dim light of the dancehall she saw nothing. No one drove a car into her side, yet she felt sore in that area like a punch she was trying to recover from.
She rubbed it with her left hand, "What in the hell is going on?" She asked herself hoping that some divine force would answer her.
BAM!
Another great crash came from her left side that snapped her out of her chair and down to the linoleum floor. She recovered and stood up, while there were a few of her classmates staring wondering what happened as she did. Yet, she looked and found no sign of any kind of great crash.
Then that deep tickle grew to be an itch, an unbearable itch that she couldn't scratch. Yet that was when something rose out of her throat that only she heard.
"Mom, Dad." She uttered as her eyes grew wide with terror and fear like looking at a car that was coming at her head on. She couldn't do anything except stare into the lights and hope the mad driver misses. "They're in danger."
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"Ahhhh!" Johan screamed as the next shot from the Gundam Sentinel was fired. In his squinted vision through the 360-degree panoramic vision of the Mobile Trace System he watched as the other Sentinels tore up his friends. Some of them were barely escaping, while others had given in to the power of the Sentinel and were being slaughtered. He watched as the Gundam Sentinels transformed themselves, similarly to the Bird Mode of the Wing Zero, yet it wasn't a bird that the Sentinels had transformed into. They transformed into claws; a short body that contained the engines while from the slim body came four claws like a twisted Gundanium crab. Johan felt the searing pain as one of the Gundam Sentinels in their clawed form sunk its grip into him. The searing pain ripped through the four points where the enemy had him. He couldn't fight back, he could only scream.
Elsewhere, Heero tried to fight back at one of the Sentinels using his buster rifle. That was when he watched as the Gundam Sentinel brought about its own buster rifle and fired. The barrel that was aimed at Heero sent out its yellow rays as the beam hit him. It tore through the Gundanium hull and the pain feedback went straight to Heero. The pain was so much that not even the Perfect Soldier, Heero Yuy, could stand it.
On the other-side of the battlefield, Haruka Tenou Rodriguez, Johan's dear wife and mother of Julia and Leto screamed out in pain as the claws of the Sentinel were sunk into her. In the shallow parts of the ocean, lobsters and crabs use this same method to catch fish and other prey. Haruka was no longer a Gundam pilot but prey to a malevolent crab claw.
When all the Preventers were disabled and under control one of the Sentinels took the opportunity to strike the greatest blow. Inside Gundam Sentinel 03, Angelina Lestat took her beam rifle and aimed it at the Preventer Ship Tabris.
"To the success of our mission!" She screamed as she fired
The beam ripped across space like a speeding boat across the surface of a lake. Within a matter of seconds it hit the target, and Angelina relished in pleasure as she watched the Preventer ship Tabris begin to explode.
"We've won!" She screamed as she lolled in the ecstasy of her victory as if it was the peak of sex. "When you send a Silencer, the job gets done and you have just been silenced."
"Not yet!" Heero Yuy shouted out in defiance as he took the last remaining barrel of his twin buster rifle and aimed it for the enemy asteroid. It charged up as the Silencers were shocked to see that the Great Heero Yuy was still fighting even though he knows that he lost. The particles charged inside the rifle and Heero fired without locking onto the target. He aimed with his left eye while the stinging blood ran into his right eye. As he pulled the trigger there were only two people running through the Perfect Soldiers mind. Relena…Hikaru….
"I SHALL NOT DIE TODAY!" He shouted, "ANGEL FIRE ZERO!" The trigger was pulled and the deed was done.
To be continued…
