Disclaimer: I don't own gundam wing, only the children, the pets, and some other random stuff. Don't steal them or I'll be forced to hurt you severely.
A.N- The only real reason for this chapter is to introduce the teachers, the gundams, and some other minor details. Don't hurt me if it's short.
Runaway
By: Raven Moonshadow
Chapter 5
The shuttle ride there was relatively boring. The entire way there had been made in small talk and the movie that was shown to those who didn't have an MP3/cd player on hand. People like everyone but Tamora. She had been the only one that had packed a cd player in a bag that was accessible throughout the ride.
Well, the shuttle trip hadn't been entirely useless. The stars had been beautiful and the serene, quiet beauty of endless space had been almost enchanting. While listening to music, the auburn red haired teenager had stared out the window into space. Victor had leaned over once to peek out the window, which caused Tamora to blush at the close contact. That had been pretty much the only event that occurred on the 4 hour long shuttle ride to the moon base where their training was to take place.
When they docked, Lady Une led them off to a kind of sitting room with walls painted creamy pale color similar to Lucius' hair and a dark blue carpet. There was a screen pulled down, projector on the coffee table, dark couches around the table in a half dome and a computer in the corner at a small work desk.
"Stay here for now, get comfortable, and I'll be back soon with your instructors and the men that built your gundams." Lady Une was ready to walk out of the room but Brooke raised her hand quietly. "Yes?"
"When will we be seeing our gundams?" The blond girl asked observing the room and then Lady Une. The woman smiled, for once, since the teens had met her. It was almost startling.
"Today, after your teachers explain to you some things."
"Like what?" Derek asked for his place lounging on one of the couches.
"Who you will be bunking with, some rules, and a few other important things that I did not touch on when I explained to you the organization we're up against." Une said referring to Midnight or the other smaller facility they controlled, Garm. As they had been told, Garm, in Nordic mythology, was the Watchdog of Hel(or the Underworld) and this smaller union working for Midnight was supposed to take everything by force and hold control over the Earth and Colonies. Or, to put it simply, it was Midnight's army under three unnamed generals.
Lady Une was gone for ten to twenty minutes. Victor was playing with Oni the wolf pup. Apparently they had taken a liking to each other, while Byakko and Ieisha curled up on a couch with Tamora's sleep deprived self. She hadn't mentioned earlier that she had hardly slept last night, did she? No. Sleep was fleeting when she worried about her mother and the training she'd go through.
"Hey Tamora, do you think that you can choose who you room with?" Victor asked looking up from where he had Oni pinned to the floor while mock growling at Victor. Tamora opened her eyes and mouth. What exactly was he implying…?
Unfortunately that was when Lady Une walked in with at least 7 people behind her. "No…we may trust you saving the world, but we don't trust you to room with a member of the opposite sex." One man said cheerily. He swiped some of his chocolate brown hair out of his hazel eyes. He was kind of young looking with tan Latino skin. An Indian woman (as in from India) with a red jewel between her brows and her long black curly hair pulled back into a braid elbowed the man. He rubbed his ribs giving her the hurt puppy dog look. "What? What did I do? It's not like I said anything obscene."
The woman rolled her eyes. "For once…" He pouted.
Lady Une gestured to the group with her eyes closed and a pulsing vain beginning to come forth on her forehead. "These are your teachers…well at least the important ones." She said with a controlled voice. After that she mumbled something about them also being the most insane ones. All the teens blinked. Some of the teachers bowed. Lady Une's eyes flickered back to the group. "Well…I'll leave the introductions to you. I have some important paper work to do." And she rushed from the room and shut the door behind them. Tamora blinked. Her tiredness was starting to make her grumpy, and when grumpiness came, bluntness was strengthened.
"So what is this? Teacher, student bonding time?" She asked dryly stroking the two tiger's heads. She glanced over her shoulder at the teachers with a raised eyebrow. One man stepped forward.
"Something like that." He smiled at the end of his Italian accented sentence; or at least fragment of one. There was silence. New students meeting, new teachers was usually time used to see what you're up against for both parties. Victor shifted uncomfortably.
"So…um… yeah…my name's Victor Winner." He said hesitantly, sheepishly looking up at the teachers from his position on the floor with the wolf pup. The Latin guy smiled. Coming up to Victor he took the blonds hand in a strong handshake.
"Hey Victor! My name's Miles Silvan." The guy said cheerfully. "I'm you're mechanic. So is Armand over there. We're the head mechanics here." Miles gestured over to the Italian man. The Italian man shook his head.
"He lies. I am great soldier." The guy, Armand, puffed up and crossed his arms, looking away. Miles shook his head.
"Ignore him."
"So what are you're names and should I address you as Mr. Somebody and Miss. or Mrs. Somebody?" Tamora asked hugging her knees to herself, not even looking at them. The teachers stopped their crowding of the door and walked around to stand in front of the long half dome couch.
"Well I already introduced myself but besides being a mechanic I'll be teaching you a bit about each of your gundams." Miles said. He pointed to the man that he had referred to as Armand. The man blinked.
"I am Armand Valentino. I will be your senior mechanic." The Italian man with dark brown hair, light brown eyes, and very Italian features said. He bumped a quiet looking man with red hair, pale green eyes, and sharp Scottish looking features. He smiled slowly.
"Hello, I'm Caedmon Gavin and the main things that I'll be teaching are maneuvers and strategy." He said with a gentle Scottish accented voice. He looked at another man with chestnut brown hair and blue eyes.
"Oh? Me now? Um… I'm William Richmond and I'll be teaching you how to fly anything and drive anything: for ever situation, I say, you need a cool ride." He smiled widely as Derek excitedly said 'yes!'. An African American man stepped forward next.
"Yo I'm Roger Campbell and I'll be teaching you fighting techniques." He said crossing his arms over his chest. It seemed like an intimidating stance but his smile was anything but. The Indian woman placed a hand on his shoulder.
"You'll have to watch out for Roger's temper." She smiled. "I am Jasmine Bijan and I will teach you how to focus your special abilities. And don't lie. I know that you all have something hidden within you that was passed down from you mothers." She leveled them all with an all knowing amber gaze. Then she smiled. "That and I will teach you the art of computer hacking."
The last woman was leaning against the wall clad in a quite reveling outfit that, Tamora noticed, made Derek's eyes zoom in and lock on target. The blond woman smirked. "I'm Fay Averell and I'll teach you how to handle the big guns." She said with a smile, her words were accented by both her English accent and the hidden meaning that could be found if you decided to pay attention. Derek didn't miss it.
"Derek…would you mind not drooling on me. I'm beginning to feel defiled by your presence." Tamora said glaring at the teen who had decided a seat next to her would be in better view of the teachers. Though, she could tell that he had only snapped into complete attention when Miss Fay had begun speaking. Lucius was the first to quickly drag Derek off the couch and into a painful heap on the floor. "Thanks Lucius."
He smiled his same charming smile that had first gotten her attention at school. "No problem. I am honored to help you and, in doing so, also cause Derek some bodily harm." Lucius said. He was about to take a seat next to her when Victor slid in.
"Thanks for getting me a seat, Lu." Victor smiled. Lucius glared slightly.
"Why you're welcome, Vic, any time." The words were forced. For some reason Tamora had the strangest feeling that they were fighting over her. But why would they want to fight over her? She blinked.
Whatever…
It must just be her imagination.
"What are you're names. We were told what they were but we don't know faces." William said.
"Brooke Moonblade-Yuy." The blond haired 12-year-old said blinking Prussian blue eyes at the teachers emotionlessly.
"Derek Maxwell." The 16-year-old braided brunette said with a huge smile.
"Lann Chang." The 13-year-old Chinese-American said.
"Lucius Merquise."
"I already introduced myself, but Victor T. Winner." He said. All eyes lay on the nearly asleep Tamora. Victor touched her shoulder. "Tamora?" She snapped awake.
"Who did the what, when, where?" Tamora blinked, looking around. Victor whispered into her ear what was going on. She raised an eyebrow. "Oh. Well…I'm Tamora McHawkings and these are my friends Byakko, Ieisha, and Oni." Tamora said pointing to the animals.
"Ah I see. You're the animal linguist." Jasmine said. Tamora nodded. "We'll go over powers later. How about telling them the room assignments, Caedmon?" She asked.
The Scotsman pulled out a sheet. "Well it says here that Brooke and Tamora are sharing a room," There was a depressed sigh from Derek. "…Lann and Derek, and Lucius and Victor."
"Alright…so much for rooms. Let's get started…"
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They toured the base and every room that would involve their learning. Even the bed rooms were shown and the unisex bathroom. One unfortunate side to the base. The showers were uni-sexed but the stalls were lockable. There was a plus. Though she shuttered when Derek looked at her, then at the uni-sexed showers, and then let out a huge perverted smile, as if he were thinking to himself lots of things that could happen in an environment such as this.
The mess hall was huge. The corridors, long and confusing. And the two gyms nearly made up the entirety of the base. One was filled with weights, a track that went around the whole thing (and was also confirmed that four laps around was a mile), and various other equipment. The second one had made Tamora smile. Not because it had all the necessary gymnastics equipment, no, that had only been one triumph, but also the fact that nearly no one used this one because not many on the base did gymnastics. Tamora did, though, and knowing that she'd still be able to work on her skills was pleasing.
She had been doing gymnastics since she was four.
Now take that away from 14 and that was ten years of practice. She was damned good. Her rather loud 'yes' told everyone that this was the place she'd be spending her free time.
"And if you'd all come this way we'll introduce you to your gundams." Miles said gesturing to the far end of the hall. They followed behind him with an air of eagerness to them. Finally the moment they had waited for; their gundams.
Large doors slid open before them, flooding the hallway with bright light that caused all the teens to shield their eyes. The teachers smiled, already used to the light and shuffled forward. Tamora blinked, letting her eyes adjust to the light. Lann was already beginning to follow the teachers. She caught a glimpse of his slitted brown eyes. They reminded her of a cat's eyes when it first wakes from darkness and looks into the bright sunlight.
Then she looked towards the room and stood their stunned. Her feet began moving her forward on their own accord. She wasn't thinking, just seeing. The large metallic structures that stood before her were amazing.
The rest moved behind her, following, in the same kind of aw. Armand gestured to the giants.
"These are your gundams. You've already been assigned to one." Armand said in his Italian accented voice.
"They're huge!" Victor said loudly.
Miles nodded. "Well of course they are. They're gundams."
"Which one's mine?" Derek asked excitedly, scanning every gundam. His eyes finally landed on a black, gray, dark green, and midnight blue one with large batwings folded behind it. Miles smiled and pointed to the one he was looking at.
"That's Loki gundam. He's yours. Equipped with a double bladed beam scythe, beam cannon, retractable blades on the elbows, a cloaking device, and a psychic energy focuser. You will be code named mischief maker." Miles smiled at Derek's expression.
"It's like they knew Derek ahead of time." Lucius muttered. Derek, though, was too busy admiring his gundam to even notice.
"Lucius Merquise, you're gundam's right there." Miles pointed to a gold, yellow, blue and white gundam. "It's name is Thor gundam. It's equipped with an electronic scrambler, a beam saber, electricity whip, shoulder beam cannons, and double boosters. You're code name will be lightning striker."
"Tamora McHawkings, that's your gundam." He pointed to an ice blue, dark purple, black, and gray gundam with black angel looking wings. "Gundam Hel, she has a glaive, retractable claws that come out of the knuckles, a cloaking device, and heat seeking "feather" missiles that come from the wings. We have code named you shadow silencer." Tamora put a hand down on the foot of her gundam and felt the cool metal.
"Victor Winner, you're gundam is Ragnarök gundam." Miles patted the foot of a crimson, gold, purple, black, and white gundam. "He's got a trident/ man catcher, twin sickles, retractable claws from the finger tips, boosters, and a special device that allows for easy underwater battling. You've been code named twilight warrior." Victor nodded numbly as he stared up at the massive mecha.
"Lann Chang, you're the pilot of Nidhögg gundam." He gestured to a brown, olive green, forest green, and gold gundam with dragon headed hands (like Shenlong custom). "Nidhögg has been equipped with the dragon head/claws like you're father's Shenlong custom, a double headed beam trident, a chain and sickle, and flare missiles that are used to blind enemies. You're code name is dragon reaper." Lann's raven black hair reflected blue in the light as he stared up at the gundam.
"And last but not least, Brooke Moonblade-Yuy." The last gundam was a pale blue, lavender, white, and gold and had large white feathered looking wings. "That's Valkyrie gundam. Equipped with a beam saber, a cross bow on it's left arm, a beam cannon on the right arm, and flame throwers on it's shoulders. You were code named soul avenger." Brooke nodded with a half-smile. All the teachers smiled at the teens.
"Welcome to Lunar Base 20754. We hope you enjoy you're stay." Jasmine said smiling. "Oh…and training begins at 6. Make sure you get to the mess hall for breakfast before then."
Derek groaned.
~Owari
Raven: This chapter probably sucks but I had to introduce the gundams in and the teachers. I'll make sure that the next chapter is better.