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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:
Children of the Gundam
Chapter 6: Preventer Suits Up
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Kaworu had made it to the red planet Mars, through the T-shaped visor in his helmet he could see his goal. It was amazing that he actually escaped the Silencers base the way he did. It seemed as if all of it was natural, all he had to do was think, concentrate, and it all happened the way his minds eye envisioned it. Just like the lock to his room, it opened when he thought about it, the alarms didn't go off when he thought about it, and every door opened with his thoughts. Leaving the Silencers base was actually a miracle, an act of God that he was able to leave without being followed, captured, or at the most, killed. Every mile that he crossed was a grateful one, but he became even more so when he saw the approach of a Gundam. At first he didn't know who it was, but he didn't care, if it wasn't one of the Silencers, that was good enough for him. He reached down, opened the COM channel and took off his helmet to take away that metallic robotic voice he would get when the helmet was on.
"Hail." He called, "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."
As the two mobile suits of Kaworu Nagisa and Id the Lion approached each other Kaworu couldn't seem to explain what his mind was interpreting. In the low noise of the cockpit with only the rumble of the engines underneath him he could hear Id's voice.
"What should I do if this isn't an enemy?" He said
"Don't shoot, for one." Kaworu answered back with a tone of humor in his voice
"What?" Id asked surprised, "I didn't say anything."
"Yes you did." Kaworu refuted, "You asked, what should I do if this isn't an enemy."
"I didn't say it." Id contended, "I was thinking it."
"I think we should meet face to face and talk this out."
"How do I know that your not just a singular enemy sent to kill?"
"Would they really send just one?" Kaworu asked, "Plus, how do you explain how I found you?"
Id could no longer argue, "How did you find us?"
Kaworu giggled, "Actually I was bluffing, I don't know how I found you. That's what's so strange with what's happening to me."
Id was looking at the Gundam Sentinel face to face, the distance was only a few meters apart and the two of them could if they desired blow each other to kingdom come. But, neither one drew their weapons, neither beam saber or beam gun. Id looked at his monitors and found that the Gundam in his sights had neither one of its weapons ready. The same could be said about him, he had none of his weapons ready. Id's fast beating heart that was ready to pounce if the Gundam in his sights so much as twitched. Yet in mind he sensed something trustworthy about the pilot, the same senses that he did use once a long time ago, but had lost its sharpness like a good knife that had been lost in a kitchen drawer.
"Alright." Id cooperated, "I'll take you back to my base. But remember that we are armed."
"I mean you no harm." Kaworu reassured.
* * *
Back at the base, the team that awaited Id the Lion to come back was astonished when they saw that he came back with another Gundam. One that none of them had ever seen a suit that was red from head to toe and looked as vicious as a shark with its sharp edges in its design. The first one to approach it was Kazuki who was very annoyed that an outsider had found their base. Then again, Kazuki was annoyed with Id when he showed the place to Birdy Cepheron.
"Id!" Kazuki called up to the cockpit of the Gundam Versago, "Are you out of your mind!?"
The cockpit door opened and Id came out like a rabbit from its hole, "No, I am not." He said as he came down the lift cable from the cockpit to the ground and Id had explained the situation, "The pilot of this Gundam is defecting to Preventer."
"Nah, I don't buy that." Kazuki shook his head, "In cases of enemies that can make mince meat out of our friends, then the only good enemy is a dead one."
"Kazuki." Laramee came up behind him, "Let's hear what the pilot has to say."
"I agree with Laramee." Her good brother Slayzer supported
"Same here." Hikaru Yuy joined in the discussion, "If this guy wanted to kill us while he was in here, he would have done it by now."
"She has a point." Leto agreed
"Alright!" Kazuki flayed up his arms, "Let's hear what the pilot has to say."
"Good." Id turned to the Gundam Sentinel and cupped his mouth to make a crude megaphone, "Alright, Kaworu! You can come out now."
The cockpit door opened and from it came the strangest looking individual any of them had ever laid eyes upon. He was wearing some kind of armor; it covered his body from head to toe in gray shining metal with blue lining paint. Each piece of metal covered a part of his body by plates held together by cloth. A plate covered his pecks; several plates outlined his abdominal muscles, while several others covered their legs. At his hips were twin guns, one for each hand as if he was space-age gunslinger. Still, that wasn't the end of the armor that he wore, there was still the helmet, that was domed, smooth, and had a black t-shape down its front that was its visor. Then crowning this helmet was a small antenna like a cellular phone antenna that had been extended.
The armored pilot of the Gundam climbed down to the lift cable and came down to the ground. As he looked out at the Preventer Teens, the Desbats and Id "the Lion" Kushrinada from behind his T-Shaped visor he could see the awe, amazement, and fear in their eyes. He lifted up his hands like a magician to show that there was nothing in them. He brought them to the side of his helmet and pulled it off. At first they didn't see his face as he shook his head freeing his hair from his helmet. The pilots' hair calmed down and that was when he looked out to the ones in front of him and smiled.
"My name is Kaworu Nagisa." He said as he stepped forward to the nearest person. The nearest person to Kaworu happened to be Hikaru Yuy; "I humbly make my request to defect to the Office of Preventer."
Hikaru was confused as Kaworu's gloved hand reached out to her. She looked over at her friends wondering what she should do in such a situation. She looked to the faces of the Preventer Teens who looked just as confused as the Desbats. The only one who seemed to give her any kind of conformation of what to do was Id. Slowly he nodded his head to Hikaru as he thinly smiled.
Hikaru reached out her hand to Kaworu, "Welcome to Preventer." She said
From that point on, Kaworu did quite a lot of explaining to everyone there. The details about the Silencers as well as the Dark Zodiac, it was as if Kaworu had been a spy for Preventer the whole time. He even gave them even better tactical information on the Silencers techniques. Of course Kazuki interrupted him and asked.
"Preventer already had the weaknesses to the metal, why were they defeated?"
"Easy." Kaworu answered, "Because just knowing the weakness of the metal isn't enough in the case of the Silencers. You have to know their techniques, once you know their techniques as well as the weaknesses in the metal then you have the horses as well as the cart. The only reason why Preventer acted so quickly is because the Silencers were ready to move out, they had no choice and I can't blame them. Now, I'll continue."
Kaworu had spent the rest of the day, basically briefing the new Preventers on the techniques of the Silencers as well as the weaknesses in them. He also gave some tips and guidelines on the weaknesses each member had in hand to hand combat. The thinking was that if they get them into a hand to hand situation they should be prepared in case it does happen.
At last the day came, when all of the Gundams were complete. It truly had been an arduous and tiresome process, but looking back through it the Preventer Teens did feel different about themselves. The training in mobile suit combat and hand to hand combat was extraordinary and all of it was done during the time that the Gundams were being built.
"It's time." Id said looking at the Gundams lined up like toy soldiers against the far end of the hangar next to his Gundam Versago. He looked at them from his left to the far right where the Versago sat. The first was the Mobile Suit that would be piloted by Hikaru Peacecraft Yuy, the Gundam Phoenix.
As he looked at it, the Gundam Phoenix had the body that was very similar to the Gundam Wing Zero Custom with its chest protruding out with its singular lens. Its shoulders having three plates stacked upon one another. Yet it had several differences, its wings looked very different than those of the Wing Zero Custom, each wing was composed of three pieces that when they were spread out they spread apart from each other. In other words, its wings were like those of Domon Kasshu's God Gundam. The biggest differences were the colors of the Gundam, instead of the regular red, white, blue, and yellow, the Gundam Phoenix had the colors of the flame, red, orange, yellow, and where the lenses were green they were blue like the hottest part of the flame. It did fit for Hikaru since her nickname was "Firebird" and like her father before her the Gundam Phoenix had the double barrel beam rifle, but this one had something else inside it that would surprise the enemy.
Next to the Gundam Phoenix was the suit that would belong to William Maxwell, the Gundam Shade. This one was similar to Duo's Gundam DeathScythe in how the body looked like the Grim Reaper himself with the Gundanium ribcage and the cockpit door in the center of it. It also has the colors of the old DeathScythe with black, white, and a little red even for the optics of the Gundam to give it an even scarier look. Unlike the DeathScythe, this one doesn't have the same type of wings, but rather it has the wings of the old Gundam Epyon. That aside, the Gundam Shade had a new type of active cloak, this one renders the Gundam invisible to all means, heat, radar, sonar, and the naked eye. The suit also has a new sound system called, "Infra-sound" in which it can listen to what's going on inside a building, ship, or any structure, but only to a distance of 20 meters. It does make the suit more like a reconnaissance suit, but that doesn't exactly make it weak. It does have its weapons, such as the signature beam scythe, but it also has a new weapon. It's a combination between the old shield of the DeathScythe and the Dragon Fang of the Gundam Altron. The shield looks like the DeathScythe shield, but when fired it goes right after the enemy by means of a homing system. But that's not the end of it, as it closes in, it opens up its claws and wraps itself around the enemy target and then the finishing move, a beam of energy extends from it and thus impales the enemy.
Then there was the suit that would be used by Paul Marquise, the Gundam Storm. The name was derived from the nicknames that Paul and his father, Zechs, had. The Lightning Count and the Lightning Prince, so that's how the name came about. Though the suit itself it more like a protection unit, but it is extraordinarily fast considering its bulk. It had been designed after all three Tallgeese models, such as its body and paint colors (of light blue) are much like the Tallgeese II, but its head is more like a combination of the Tallgeese I and III. In the bulk of this suit it has three "Planet Defensers", which are three large hovering disks that emit a small defensive shield powerful enough to withstand several blasts from the Wing Zero's buster rifle. Thus the creation of two beam sabers in this suit, one from its side and the other from one of the "planet defensers". For its own type of firepower, the Gundam Storm had twin sets of triple cannon gattling guns. As was suspected, it was a small feature that was added in by the Silencer, Trowa Barton.
The next two belonged to the Rodriguez twins; the first was to be piloted by Leto Peacecraft Rodriguez, the Gundam Fox. The design of the Gundam Fox both in its body and weapons were very experimental. Its body looked very similar to that of the God Gundam with the domed shaped chest over the eye that was concealed within but had wings like that of the original Wing Gundam. But in the case of the Gundam Fox, the main optical lens wasn't concealed; it was exposed like an open eye. It was in this eye where the secret weapon lay. This weapon was only known as "the Projector", what this weapon would do is that it would project very realistic holograms at certain distances from the Gundam. So when used right, the Gundam Fox would appear in one place and then appear in another. This would be used to distract the enemy while the real Gundam Fox would make the sneak attack. It does quite fit the expression, "sneaky as a fox". This suit also has another extra special weapon, it's the beam saber. It was a little larger and thicker than the normal saber, which is because of the fact that it can change into a beam boomerang. All it does is take a small 90-degree turn in its design and thus the beam boomerang is created.
Then there was the one to be piloted by Julia Peacecraft Rodriguez, the Gundam Falcon. It was a suit that was purely designed for speed, so therefor it was very light in its armaments but its engine capacity is triple that of any other Gundam. Though this does not make the Gundam defenseless. It does have its armaments, such as the shield, a beam saber, and a small singular barreled beam rifle. Especially a small secret weapon, the beam arrow in which the energy doubles when the beam rifle joins with the shield. The way it works is that the rifle joins with the shield and the Gundam uses it like a bow. Pulling back on the back part of the rifle like a draw string, the rifle gathers up twice the amount of power and when released its twice as devastating. The only catch to this weapon was that it took a long time for the barrel to cool down before it could be shot again. For if it were fired too many times back to back, it could exploded both the shield and rifle, along with the suit if the pilot didn't act quickly. The Gundam Falcon had the body of the Epyon but more streamlined, and had the wings like the Wing Zero. Yet it had triple the amount of engines and a set of reverse thrusters mounted within its chest. This Gundam also has bird mode similar to that of the Gundam Phoenix, but it moves twice as fast as when it's in mobile suit mode.
The last suit to I'd Gundam Versago was the one that had the least amount of changes to it. It was the Gundam Sentinel that was piloted by Kaworu Nagisa. The suit was repainted white, the mobile trace system was also installed into it, and Kaworu decided to call it a new name. He decided to call it the Gundam Angel. The reasons behind it weren't exactly clear to the others, but Kaworu had his own reasons, which Id had respected.
* * *
It was late at night when Id was looking up at the Mobile Suits, all of them, The Gundams Phoenix, Shade, Storm, Fox, Falcon, Angel, and Versago. All of them were ready to fight, even the Preventer Teens, in all their time that they had been on Mars they were ready to fight while their parents were still healing back on Colony L-1. Id himself had a very good idea of what it was like to be a parent, at least a parent to some very special children. Looking at the Gundams in the hangar, Id didn't heard the footsteps behind him. At least not until they were almost on top of him.
"Penny for your thoughts again?" the voice of Birdy said behind Id the Lion.
Id smiled, "You know if you keep doing that I'll probably be a millionaire before the year is out."
Birdy just came up behind him, wrapped her arms around his waist, and laid her head upon Id's back. She swayed herself trying to get Id to sway with her as if there was a slow dance going on between them in that dingy hangar. Id allowed himself to sway along with Birdy as he continued to look at the Gundams.
"I wish you wouldn't have to go into battle."
"I have to, Birdy." Id said as he continued to sway slowly with her, "I can't just send those kids out there all alone. I'm the most experienced of them all. Kaworu may be experienced from the Silencers but he's still only a boy. I have to go."
Birdy squeezed her arms around Id tighter than before. The two continued to sway as Id continued to stare at the new Preventer Gundams.
* * *
It was morning and the troops of the new Preventer were ready to mobilize. All of the Preventer Teens (including Kaworu Nagisa) were standing straight up like a military inspection line. Each one stood in front of his or her own Gundam, except for Id the Lion. He walked up and down in front of them like a General surveying his troops before battle. Yet, Id was never like those roughneck tough-as-nails types. He knew the kind of fear that goes into battle, that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach of what may or may not happen. This was more about them, Id thought.
"I have something for all of you." He said to the New Preventers, "Some were made here while the others were sent here."
The New Preventers didn't know what to make of this. They watched as Id walked over to one of the tall toolboxes and brought out an enormous briefcase. It was long enough to place a good length sword into it. He opened up the long black leather briefcase and he took out the first object from it. He walked over to Hikaru and held it out.
"Hikaru Peacecraft Yuy." He said, "I give you this, one Preventer Standard Issue Beam Saber."
Hikaru looked down into Id's hands at its long silvery shaft with the decoration of lights and one large red button towards on end of it. She reached out and took it. She held it up with the end that had a slant to it as opposed to the flat end. She pressed the button and out came a beam of blue light. She and the other Preventers were mesmerized by its light, but that was when Hikaru pressed the button again and brought the blue light back into her saber. She took the saber by the D-ring at its flat end and placed it at her side where it hung by a special clip.
By the time she placed it at her side, Id had brought out the next weapon to Paul Marquise. It was just like Hikaru's in shape, design, and in the beam color. Paul had placed his saber into his clip, while Id brought out the next weapon to William Maxwell.
William was surprised to say the least when he saw Id bring out a cloth and belt covered cross to him. He took the cross off his shoulder and handed it to William who took it feeling the lightweight in his hands.
"Damn, this thing is light." He said weighing it in his arms.
"That's because of the light metals in making it." Id had told William
"This one is designed after the one that your father has. Here." Id took the Cross-Punisher for a moment and held on of the belt clips, it clicked open, and all the belts came off of the cross and the cloth flowing behind them. Standing up from the pile of belts and canvas was a shimmering Cross-Punisher. Id held it up horizontally so that William could see his name inscribed in it side. Leaving the canvas and belts on the floor, Id handed the Cross-Punisher over to William. He knew everything that there was to know about it since his dad showed it to him once and how it was used. Duo had even promised that one day the Cross-Punisher would be handed down to him, but William didn't think that the day would come so soon. He took back the Cross-Punisher and held it at his side while Id brought the last of the weapons out.
He went to Julia Peacecraft Rodriguez, he held out the beam weapon. Julia saw that it was different in some way to the others. She noticed that the weapon seemed to be a little longer and a little thicker than the others are, but why was it?
"This one is a little different." Id explained, "This one was designed by your mother."
"It was?" Julia asked looking at the beam weapons odd design as Id handed it to her. She looked at the red button and pressed it to see a beam of purple light spring out of it. After looking at the beam she pressed the button again and brought back the beam into the saber.
"From what your mother told me," Id explained, "This saber can transform into an entirely different weapon."
"How?" Julia asked as she examined every inch of her saber.
"Turn the D-Ring." Id instructed, "Turn it clockwise."
Julia turned the beam saber over and saw the D-Ring lying against the metal. She grabbed hold of it like the ring of a soda can and twisted it clockwise. She felt a sharp click in the beam saber like the gears inside a jack-in-the-box. She was amazed as the beam saber popped open. Its casing split open as two parts rose outwards from the main saber. Both parts rose together like the petals of a blooming flower. From those parts were metallic strings that were still attached to the original part of the saber. It was then when the bow of the saber spread outward that Julia saw how the beam saber had become a beam-bow. She gripped the bottom arc that extended from the saber while in the top part of the arc Julia saw a small hole. In that hole she saw what looked like a targeting system.
"To fire it," Id instructed, "You pull back on the D-Ring as if it was a draw string. Then wait for 5-seconds as the miniature cannon in the beam emitter charges. Despite the charge wait, you can fire multiple discharges. There's also a beam control knob on the bottom arc, where you can control the thickness of the beam from being very wide to being as narrow as pencil lead."
"Nice." Julia smiled as she examined the bow, "but how do you turn it back?"
"Turn the D-Ring counterclockwise until you hear a click, then it'll go back to a beam saber."
Julia took the D-ring once again and did just as Id instructed she turned it until she heard a sharp click once again. Then he beam bow became a saber once again.
"Now, for you Leto." Id smiled as he brought out another odd looking beam saber. As Leto looked at it he saw what looked like a half-circle cut into the sabers casing. And it was located very near the beam emitter.
"What does this one do?" He asked somewhat impatiently
"This one, Leto." Id began to explain, "Was designed by your father. Twist the D-ring like Julia's and yours becomes a beam boomerang."
"Cool." Leto smiled as he activated his beam saber seeing its green color.
"Once it becomes a beam boomerang and you throw it at your target, you need to control it. Thus the reason for this." Id brought out a simple looking wristwatch.
"A watch?" Leto asked in disbelief
"Hold out your left arm." Id said
Leto complied as Id placed the watch on Leto's wrist, "This isn't just a watch. It's also a control device; it is link with your saber. That way when you throw the saber you can control it."
"Ok." Leto said as he finally understood how it all worked. "So, it transforms in the same way as Julia's?"
"Yes." Id nodded
Leto took the D-Ring and twisted it. He heard the same click, and waited as the top of the beam saber made a sharp turn downwards. That was when Leto realized what that half-circle cut in the casing was for. It allowed the beam emitter to make a 135-degree angle; he could easily see how it was a beam boomerang. He twisted the D-ring counterclockwise to bring it back to a beam saber and deactivated the beam.
"Last, but not least." Id announced, "Our latest member, Kaworu Nagisa. I give you this."
Kaworu looked into Id's hands to find his very own beam saber. He took it and looked at its color of red, much like the color of his eyes. He held onto the saber feeling the high pitched hum coming from within it.
"I thank you." Kaworu said to Id as he pressed the button that sheathed the beam.
"There is one last thing." Id announced, "Since all of you are technically acting Preventer Officers, I need you to take the Preventers Oath."
No one said anything
"Please raise your right hand." Id dictated as he himself rose his own hand, "Please repeat after me, take in the words and try to understand what they mean.
The oath began.
Id said one line at a time while the new Preventers repeated them.
I am a defender of the World Nation.
I am the protector of the people.
I will put out small flames before they become fires
I will be swift, silent, and mute.
I will protect my brothers and sisters for they shall protect me.
I will never surrender.
I will fight to the death
So that Earth and Space may live in peace.
I am an officer of Preventer.
Id had instructed…no, it was as if he was pleading them to think carefully about the words in the pledge. All of them had one part or another that seemed to strike them in a certain way.
For Hikaru, it was the line "I will never surrender". She always had known herself to be very obstinate, stubborn, as well as resilient. She never gave up until she had her way about a certain situation. Needless to say she was a rambunctious child to her mother and father. Still, it was that drive of never giving up that had kept her going.
William, on the other hand, it was the line; "I am a protector of the people". That changed something else inside him. He seemed to think more about himself as he thought back on his own life. That was his own kind of growing up, to think about the welfare of others. Perhaps, it was the enormity of seeing his father in the hospital that made him think that if something wasn't done, then it could be another kid in that same situation. It was that coupled with that line of "I am a protector of the people" that had shook William Maxwell to his core.
In the case of Paul Marquise, there wasn't a lot of growing up for him to do. He always seemed to be the most adult among them. Then Paul thought about that maturity, he thought back to his early life. He really didn't have that much of a childhood. Even as a boy he was already acting like an adult. Perhaps he was too much of an adult at such a young age to try to have fun as a boy. Still, he couldn't well on the past, he had a duty to perform, and he intended to carry it out with that last line: "I am an officer of Preventer".
Then there was Julia and Leto, and despite the fact that they were twins the oath had different effects on them. For Julia the entire oath made an effect on her because of the responsibility that she knew would go into this new role. It seemed to be such a transformation; it was only a month ago that her only big concern was school and dating. Then by a twist of fate she had become a Gundam pilot.
For Leto, the line of "I shall fight to the death" had a double impact on him. It wasn't too huge of a mystery that he didn't want to die, but to help the cause it seemed to serve the need. Plus it was that predominant memory of when he asked his father to teach him to fight, but his father refused until he understood that fighting is used to protect and defend others. Leto understood what his father meant more than ever as he took the oath.
For the newest member Kaworu, everything about his former life seemed to come back to him. He knew the sacrifices that are taken and he had already made an ultimate sacrifice before, but could he bring himself to do it again in this life? Before he could give himself an answer Id had made one last announcement.
"All of you are now Officers of Preventer." He smiled like the proud teacher that he was.
"ID!!!" A voice boomed out
Id turned quickly and looked to the back of the hangar. Above all the boxes, crates, tools, and left over parts with metal were the Desbats. All of them were crammed around a small monitor in the corner.
"What is it?" Id called out
"We've got company! Three bogies heading to Mars, their not regular traffic and scans show that their made out of Gundanium!"
Id turned around to the New Preventers
"You heard him, Officers." He smirked, "Let's move out!"
"Mission accepted!" The New Preventers all said in unison
To be continued…
