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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:

Children of the Gundam

Chapter 5: The Defector

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A few weeks later…

So far, the Silencers hadn't made a whole lot of activity since the Preventers had been taken out of action. It was as if the whole organization had gone into a slight dormancy. But they weren't like James Bond villains where they allow the enemy to escape or recover. The Silencers and the Dark Zodiac knew that they had won. The Preventers were out of the picture and revenge was fulfilled. The only thing that was left was to take whatever they wanted. As a mater of fact they did pull off one job.

It was about a week ago, there was a very tight shipment of gold, jewels, and precious metals. The total load was worth several billions dollars and it was a load that neither the Silencers nor the Dark Zodiac could pass by. So, the order was sent and the Silencers attacked. They came, they saw they reeked havoc, they conquered, and came back to the base with several billions dollars worth of materials. Except, there was one thing that was missing. It wasn't on the surface of matters. The thing that was missing was within one of the Silencers. It was the young one, Kaworu Gavrich.

Inside the Silencers base within an asteroid belt between the colonies and Mars, and within the room of Kaworu Gavrich, he was struggling with himself. Normally he would always be calm, cool, and clear minded. Yet, there was something very different. It had happened back on that mission as Kaworu was fighting, or for a more appropriate word, slaughtering the ones guarding the cargo. Kaworu couldn't help but hear the screaming of the pilots as they begged for their lives.

"Please, don't kill me!" They screamed

It was that phrase, that pitiful last-ditch effort for life that seemed to spark something in Kaworu's heart. A familiarity in that one phrase that was the same as hearing as song that was once forgotten. In the back of Kaworu's mind he heard the voice of a young boy. His name was on the tip of his tongue but he couldn't bring himself to say it. That boy's voice kept ringing through the canyons of his mind. As he kept enthralling himself into those memories, the mission went on without him.

"What the hell's wrong with you?" Ivan demanded, but Kaworu could not answer. He only remained at his controls, and drifted through space while the mission went on.

"This is not me." Kaworu whispered, "This is not me." That was when a single memory came to him. It rang loud through him as if he was a tuning fork being banged on a table. He was feeling pressure from all around as if a great hand had wrapped itself around him like a child's toy. He looked up to see the face of a monster looking out with its great white eyes. Yet, Kaworu had no fear, no fear at all. Much to his own surprise, he was smiling up at the great best that held its grasp around him.

"Now, kill me." He said to the beast, "Otherwise you will be killed and you are not the existence that should die. Good bye…." He couldn't hear the name. He thought he could but it wasn't there it was as if it was censored out of his mind, but he heard the last phrase, "My life was meaningful because of you."

And Kaworu died…but he didn't. He was still alive in the cockpit of his Gundam Sentinel provided by the Silencers and the Dark Zodiac.

"I shouldn't be here." He said.

It was during that whole time that Kaworu became unresponsive. To everything, when he was brought back to the base. Nothing seemed to snap him out of his daze. He had become catatonic; unresponsive to drugs, stimulants, and even the feminine wiles of his female teammate, Angelina Lestat. She was quite gorgeous when she game to him basically wearing nothing except a bath towel. Even that wasn't enough to bring Kaworu back to reality. So, the poor boy was left in his room while his teammates pondered upon what was wrong with him and the superiors thought about what to do with him.

Kaworu on the other hand, inside his mind, the memories kept coming back little by little. The first memory was being in the grip of that monster with the great white eyes, but even that memory grew. The monster wasn't just a hand around his body and a pair of white eyes. It had purple skin, like some kind of imaginary monster. Then the next memory that came back was he was sitting upon a rock. He was sitting upon a rock formation near a lake watching the sun set. He was humming the Beethoven classic, the 9th Symphony, 4th movement, Ode to Joy.

"Singing is good." Kaworu had said as if he was speaking to someone, "I think that song is the single greatest human achievement. Wouldn't you agree, Shinji Ikari?"

That's his name! That's his name! But who am I? I died but I'm still alive!

"Really?" Shinji asked, "And you are?"

"I am Kaworu. Kaworu Nagisa." Kaworu answered

That's my name! That's my true name! I had died, but I am alive! What am I?

"What are you, Kaworu?" Shinji had asked in another memory, "I don't understand." His voice sounded so full of sorrow as if he was about to loose Kaworu.

Kaworu grabbed the sides of his head, tossed and turned in his bed. His sheets crumpling from the seizure of his memories. He moaned and groaned as his mind tried to grapple the answers of his dual life.

"I lived once!" Kaworu Gavrich told himself, "I died, I know I died and that's the truth! What am I? Why am I living again?"

As he moaned and groaned he came to an answer.

"I…am…an…" The answered bolted through him like an electric shock, "Angel!"

That was the truth, he lived once, died once, and lived once again in this new time and place. He had been given a new lease to live. He lived once again in this place, but what he was doing felt wrong.

"This isn't right." Kaworu said as he took his hands away from his grayish hair, "I shouldn't do this."

He got up from his bed and went to the locked door of his cell. He knew that it was locked from the outside and can only be opened from the outside. He looked down at the lock and.…it opened.

The door had opened for him. As Kaworu stepped out the door he made his declaration.

"I am not Kaworu Gavrich!" He shouted out, "I am Kaworu Nagisa!"

And thus he left the Silencers.

* * *

Back on Mars, in the hangar underneath the La Quinta bar, work had gone on like it had for the past few weeks. Building the Gundams from scratch, training the Preventer Teens, and so on. Kazuki Peacecraft had mentioned that there would be something that he had a back up plan for making the new Gundams and it was under the tarp canvas at the end of the hangar. Kazuki had three worker mobile dolls in that place, which was a great help in refining the Gundanium into parts. As for some of the parts, Kazuki had to make a call to a man who delved in black market matters. It was true not to ask too many questions in matters like that.

Within all that time the Preventer Teens had come quite a very long way in matters of combat. Though they all had to learn something when it came to combat, either they had to kill or die. It was as simple as that. Preventer may have different points of view, but they are out of commission and new methods of combat have to be used.

Even though it was revealed that there were worker mobile dolls under those tarps there was one more that was left unrevealed. When it was revealed was about a few days after construction began and the worker mobile dolls had been revealed. The inquisitive and snooping William Maxwell couldn't help himself, as the Desbats and the Preventer Teens were working on their Gundams he walked over to the last tarp-covered object. He had the enormous suspicion that it was a mobile suit, since the shapes coming from the tarp were roughly the same size as the others. But why was it hidden?

William inched his way near the tarp under its thick heaviness, he found a way to get a part of it open. As he did he saw something metallic, shinning, and it was also red.

"What are you doing there?" A deep demanding voice called out at him

The hairs on the back of William's neck underneath his thick ponytail stood up on end. His body felt stiff as if he had been frozen in place where he stood. Yet somehow his head turned around and found who was standing behind him. Over his shoulder, was a shadowed body that was blocking the lights, yet the frightened stiff William knew who was standing behind him.

"Id." William's voice uttered with a slight crack from his dry throat.

"What were you doing there?" Id asked, his red eyes looked down at him.

William didn't want to show fear, especially in Id's face. He stood straight up with the wobbly shaking feeling in both his knees and his stomach.

"What's under this thing?" William asked

Id did something that made William's stomach shiver even more. Id was smiling; it was such an odd thing to see that William wasn't sure how to react.

"Do you want to see it?" Id asked

William hesitated for a moment, "Sure." He said

Id used the cranes that were built into the ceiling. They were configured much like the prize machines with the singular claw at an arcade. The cranes pulled away the tarp from the mysterious machine that Id was unveiling to William Maxwell. The tarp came away as easily as a magician pulling away his handkerchief to show a white rabbit in his hand. Id had unveiled a Gundam.

The Gundam that Id had revealed to William was incredible. It stood at a height where the tops of its yellow spikes were nearly touching the ceiling. It was painted in colors of red, black and yellow. Upon its arms were claws, very similar to the Dragon Fangs on Wufei's old Gundam Altron. Yet they looked more like the claws of a bird.

William, as well as everyone else in the hangar, looked and saw something similar about the suit. To William it was the head that attracted the most attention. It had swept back features, giving it a very devilish look coupled with its red, black, and gold paint.

"Epyon?" William uttered

"Not exactly." Id corrected, "I did once pilot the Epyon though, since my father was the one who designed it. But this one I designed on my own incorporating new technologies, such as the new cockpit system."

"You mean you put in the MTS into this thing?"

"Yes, I did." Id looked up at his machine proudly like a sculptor admiring his statue. "This is the Gundam Versago."

* * *

Kazuki Peacecraft and Id owned the whole block where the La Quinta bar was located. That was how they were able to build the hangar underneath the whole block. It was rather brilliant since the rest of the block only consisted of run down shops, stores that had gone out of business, and empty alleyways. The La Quinta bar only constituted about one-forth of the block. While with the rest was run down shops, they simply acted as covers for what lie beneath the block as well as within. Behind those run down shops were bedrooms, almost like a miniature hotel. It was all kept secret from those on the streets and it's gotten to by a door that only the Desbats know about.

It was inside the miniature hotel adjacent to the La Quinta bar, Kazuki and Laramee were "getting busy" in one of that special room that he designed. They two of them were lying in bed under the warm covers and covered in a film of sticky sweet sweat.

"Wow." Kazuki exhaled as he lied on his back

"I never get tired of hearing that form you." Laramee cooed as she cuddled up to her man, Kazuki.

"Wow." Kazuki laughed as Laramee laughed with him.

"You are incredible." Kazuki complemented as Laramee continued to giggle, "with that thing you do with your hips. I never knew a woman could do that."

She hugged Laramee tighter feeling his bare skin against hers. She laid her head against his bare chest allowing her hair to splay out across the landscape of his chest.

It was only a matter of time before those two would ever get together. After all they had known each other for most of their lives. Ever since Kazuki was rescued from the attack on the Sank Kingdom and then raised to be a pirate preying upon the Alliance, Oz, and Romafeller. He had Laramee at his side like all the Desbats. Then after he met Preventer, things changed, but they had changed for the better. He no longer had to steal anymore and he had the woman that he loved. Though Laramee's brother, Slayer is a little protective of his sister, but seeing as how it was his commanding officer and his friend, Slayzer could see how the relationship would work.

* * *

Everyone else down in the hangar working on the new breed of Gundams and Kazuki and Laramee were in the back bedrooms, Id sat at the bar drinking down his second glass of whiskey. He kept looking down into the depths of ice with the alcohol and thought only of his family. His mother Lady Une, his father Treize Kushrinada and how they were all injured.

Each moment that he thought about it the more enraged he became. It became like a fire that burned in every inch of his body. It was so much that Id wanted nothing more than to take his Gundam and find the ones whom did the heinous act. It began to burn even deeper that he wanted to just throw his glass against the wall, but he couldn't.

Staring down into his glass, Id had failed to notice who had just walked into his bar. He was so deep into his thoughts that his specially trained ears could pick up the creeks of the doors and the taps of the footsteps. He still continued to stare down into his glass of ice and whiskey.

"Penny for your thoughts?' A very sweet young voice asked

Id turned his head and found a very familiar, friendly and lovely face. It was Birdy Cephon or Birdy the Mighty as she's called on the Streets. She had a very pleasant heart-shaped face with slightly shallow eyes that were a light cool shade of blue that sparkled in the harsh light that flooded the bar. Her hair was long and smooth as it flowed down to the middle of her back. Yet, her hair came down in short bangs over her eyebrows and down the sides of her face. Yet her hair was similar in the odd hue to Id's red color. Birdy's hair was a mixture of white and purple on her right side, while her left side was a light red. She wore very skimpy clothes with a white PVC shirt that was like a tank top that complemented the skintight white PVC pants.

"Birdy." Id smiled as he hugged his love.

It was actually funny how those two met. It was several years ago, in the year After Colony 208. Id the Lion was walking back to the La Quinta bar. Id thought back to that warm Mars summer night, he didn't remember exactly where he was before going back home. Perhaps he was coming back from a restaurant or maybe from a movie theater. He couldn't think of what he did before those events, but it was the events of that night that Id remembered the most.

He walked on the sidewalk with the streetlights glaring above him and store signs were flashing. It was late at night and the streets were empty as if the city had become a ghost town. It was within viewing distance of the La Quinta bar. He was on the street corner that was across from it and that was when he heard noises from a nearby alleyway. It was between a small convenience store and a very small selection video store. The noises sounded like grunts and fists slamming. Hearing those noises, Id had several thoughts running through his mind, but his instincts told him to follow them.

As he followed the noises, he heard them grow louder and more intense. That was when Id's mind made the immediate connection that a fight was going on. His pace made a leap from a stroll to a sprint as he made his way to the noises.

He came to the alleyway where he heard them. From the lights coming from the streets he looked down and saw a group of people. It was hard to tell whether it was men or women down in that canyon of brick and mortar. The collection of them were in a circle around something or perhaps someone. He walked down the alleyway, his shadow creeping up the wall and blocking out the thugs' light.

Approaching them, Id's shadow stopped the thugs. They all turned to look at Id face to face. In the center of the circle of thugs Id saw a beautiful woman with her clothes ripped up like tissue paper. Her face was bruised and bleeding as she looked up to see the face of her own savior.

One thug looked to Id, "What?" He asked demandingly, "Are you going to try to be a hero?"

Id knew his abilities, he giggled, "Beating all of you would be too easy for my talents."

"Oh, a wise ass huh?" The thug said as he reached into his pocked and pulled out a very decorated switchblade. It bounced the light from the streets back to Id's face. As the first thug brought out his weapon, the other thugs brought out their weapons of choice. Some had knives, others had metal pipes, and the rest had baseball bats. Their sights were set like cruise missiles already locked onto their target and the first button was pushed. The thugs charged after Id like a stampeding heard of wild bulls.

In the instant before they attacked Id saw the woman; she seemed so helpless to him. She lied upon the dirty alleyway floor, having old chewing gum, broken pieces of glass, and other trash against her face, clothes and hands.

The next instant Id was fighting, the first thug who had his switchblade out dove for the curious bystander, but Id was about to prove himself as a fighter. He ducked away from the attacker and fought back with a good solid blow to the back of the thugs' head. He was as swift as a Martian sandstorm, and the thugs were all down within only a few moments. They lay upon the floor of the alleyway like washed up fish on a shore or beached whales. He brushed off his hands and went to help the woman on the ground. As soon as he helped her up, he was taken aback by her beauty (despite her being beaten up) as well as her odd hair color).

This was how Id the Lion met Birdy Cepheron. As it turned out, Birdy was a police officer for the RSPD, the Red Sky Police Department. The thugs who attacker her were just a hooligan gang, whose leader was sent to jail by Birdy. So, they just wanted a little revenge for their leader, but they didn't count on the part of Id showing up. After that, the two of them had hit it off quite nicely. Except, Id hadn't told her everything about himself, so it was a few weeks after they had met that Id confessed everything. He told Birdy everything about himself, his past, and his ties with the office of Preventer, but that still wasn't the whole story. That was when Id had shown Birdy the underground hangar.

He could still remember the look on Birdy's face when she saw the hangar, her eyes were wide as could be and her jaw dropped down to her chest. She was even more surprised when she saw the Gundam Versago that Id had built. Birdy did have a small liking for Mobile Suits, but she had to put it aside especially in such a time of peace among the Colonies, the Earth, and especially Mars. If Id weren't a part of Preventer, then Birdy would have had to make a call for an arrest on him. Yet, Id was part of Preventer, in a very small way so there was no need for such an arrest.

That was their relationship, as the two of them hugged in the middle of the La Quinta bar they were completely tuned to one another and only each other. They didn't hear anything, not even the door to the pantry that blasted open. At least they didn't hear it until it made a hollow bang against the wall that made it sound like a shotgun.

Id and Birdy snapped out of their daze, broke their own embrace, and looked toward the pantry. Standing in the doorway was Valos, panting as if he had run the mile, or at his age, the quarter mile.

"Id." He panted

"Calm down." Id said, "What's the problem?"

"We need you and Kazuki downstairs." He said brushing away the sweat from his face, "We got an incoming bogie, its made out of Gundanium with an unknown metal, and its not one of ours."

The sparks in Id's brain snapped, he leaped off of the barstool as fast as a lizard on speed. He dashed into the pantry giving Valos one last instruction:

"Get Kazuki."

…And the elevator door closed….

* * *

Down in the hangar, the Preventer Teens and Slayzer had their eyes glued to a small crude system that was set up. It consisted of several monitors and wires that ran everywhere like a maddening type of spaghetti, all connecting to different modules for different functions. Among this mess of wires, monitors, and controls the Preventer Teens were fixated upon one green dot that moved across a black background in the screens that were set next to one another. The little green dot moved across the screen like a point of light from a lazer pointer. It moved to the farthest right of the screen where a section of a great red sphere took up a part of the screen.

Slazyer had explained that the green dot was the incoming bogie. Unfortunately they don't know whom it belongs to or where it came from. All they know is that its composed of Gundanium, Titanium, one other unknown metal, and most of all, its not theirs.

The elevator doors opened and the first one to come out was Id the Lion. He came over and looked at the screens that Slayzer had set up.

"How long 'till it gets here?" He asked instantly

"From what I'm reading," Slayzer reported, "Approximately 5 minutes."

"If it is a mobile suit, then it's probably from the ones who attacked the Preventers."

William spoke out, "If it is, I say we go out there and kick its ass."

"Wait a minute." Julia interrupted, "If it was the enemy, then why send just one?"

"You've seen what they can do." William refuted, "All they'll need is just one to finish us off."

"But it leaves something out." Id pointed out to the Preventer Teens, "How do they know that we're a threat, if in fact they do see us as a threat? Even if that does hold up, how do they know that we're here?"

"That doesn't matter." William said, "We should go after that one."

"But you're forgetting something." Leto added

"What's that?"

"Our suits aren't ready."

"But mine is." Id volunteered, "I'll go out to meet it myself."

"Are you sure that's wise?" Slayzer asked

"If it is going to attack then I'll face it myself." Id said as he walked towards the unveiled Gundam Versago. "All I need you to do is open the hatch."

"Ok."

Id had climbed into his proud achievement of Mobile Suit engineering, the Gundam Versago. It was true that he had added in the Mobile Trace System and had created his own jumpsuit. He began to shed his clothes within the cockpit feeling the cool air on his body coming from the hangar. Putting his clothes aside, Id had closed the cockpit door and started up the MTS, he watched the computer screens come on and he witnessed the three rings above him spin and began to come down over his head. He pushed his head through the hole in the rings that came down over him. His hair pulled through the ring and flowed down over the material of the suit. He felt the rubber/latex feeling of the suit against his skin as he pulled his arms and legs through it. The suit itself was completely black, except for the silver parts that adorned his shoulders and around his neck like a medieval knight. Then streaming around his body were bands of gold like decorative flames on the sides of a car.

He took in a deep breath as the computer began to boot up and Id had tested out the system of the Versago, moving his arms left and right along with his legs.

He opened up the COM system,

"Slayzer." He called, "I'm ready. Open the hatch."

"Roger that." Slayzer said from the ground as he reached for a great handle that was situated on the same wall as the elevator, but was several feet away. He used all the strength in his right arm to pull it. As he did, the whole of the hangar was filled with the noise of gears moving like in belly of some great machine. Looking up Slayer watched as the ceiling shifted and sent down handfuls of the red dust of the Martian soil like rain. The ceiling opened up like a great garage door to the surface and from that came down the glorious sun, its rays of yellow showing through the red handfuls of Martian dust. As the doors opened, the eyes of the Gundam Versago blazed its green flames. It looked up and its engines blazed as it went up and up to the sky beyond.

Slayzer shoved the lever back up and closing the hangar doors back up. He then brushed the grime off of his hands.

"Let's get back to work." He said.

* * *

In the skies above the Martian surface, the Gundam Versago was flying at the greatest speed his engines could put out towards the incoming bogie. He couldn't help but run through scenarios in his mind. If this approaching bogie were an enemy coming to kill him then he would have to react with force. The force of the Gundam Versago in the attack he had installed into that machine. If, on the other hand, this approaching thing was friendly, what then? It seemed so much easier to Id if it was an enemy at least it would give him a more clear cut course of action. Still, he had to be open to the possibilities that lay before him.

He was coming close to the approaching object. He saw it as a tiny speck in the distance. The MTS magnified it and it was definitely a mobile suit, a model that Id had never seen before. His instincts told him to shoot and ask questions later, but something happened before he could even react. The approaching object spoke first.

"Hail." A very young voice said, "this is Kaworu Nagisa, formerly of the Silencers. I have a request to make."

"This is Id "the Lion" Kushrinada." Id responded, "Of the office of Preventer. State your request."

"I request to defect to the office of Preventer."

To be continued…