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Invalidated Fatality

Chapter One

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After Colony Year 197

Another mission. Another pained reminder of what he was, of what he was meant to be. 01 pulled on his gloves, readied his machine gun, and leaned against the wall while a group of guards walked down the connecting hall. In his mind, he regretted having to kill these poor men who were nothing more than statistics to their leader, nothing more than mere pieces in a game of Risk. But, he pulled that trigger and watched them fall without a single emotion, without a thought. He set a detonation device, attached it to the wall, and continued toward the main control room of the rebel base.

He went on like this down several more hallways, killing and setting explosives, until he heard it. It was a humming sound, a low buzz echoing in his ears, and he realized with disgust that the organization was going to sacrifice an entire base and all of the base personnel. To get rid of him. He frowned, searching out the source of the noise to no avail. 01 stood in place, unwilling to let this base be sacrificed, unwilling to allow so many unfair deaths. He had to find that noise. As he headed to the center of the base, he realized that the noise awaited him there, at the main control room. He couldn't stop it. He could leave, but he was already here, they knew it, they could prove it, and he had a mission to complete. The soldier in him wouldn't let him abandon that mission.

Preventer 01 reached the main control room. His goal: to steal important files and destroy the base. He shot the code-box, and kicked the door down. The room was deserted except for the low buzzing noise he had heard earlier. Cautiously, the young soldier entered the room. Triggered by his presence, a red light began flashing on and off, and the buzzing noise got louder and faster. He didn't bother running, although he knew what was going to happen. Standing in the center of the rounded room, 01 dropped his machine gun and smirked. He wasn't afraid of death.

The buzzing stopped abruptly.

It was a series of explosions starting with the outside corners of the base and moving inward. 01 didn't move, didn't flinch, didn't blink. He just waited. Within seconds, the main control room was history. The walls caved in, engulfed in flames, and the computers short-circuited. The initial explosion sent the Preventer sprawling, and he choked slightly on the smoke. It was then that he realized something he had forgotten: he didn't want to die. Especially like this - pointlessly. He smirked again. "I will survive," he muttered before he lost consciousness. "Relena . . ."

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"Sir," a soldier said to a man enshrouded in darkness, "we have him."

The man chuckled. "Do we? Well, fetch him. Dr. Lake will be pleased to see him."

"Yes, sir!" the soldier saluted and scurried away, shouting orders at several inferiors.

"Well, well," the man said, amused, "We finally caught him."

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