Wyvern Gold: Chapter 6

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Kai knew what to expect now when passing through the portal. The wave of nausea didn't hit her as bad, and Jeremy seemed to control it better also. Dei was too far in shock to care. As soon as they settled into their own dimension, the Virgos guarding the gate approached slowly.

"DON'T JUST STAND THERE STARING!!!! HELP US TO COLONY X74! NOW!!" Kai screeched. She banged her fists on the controls and started in on a wave of cursing.

The pilots grimaced and grabbed the arms of DragonSilver. X74 was only five minutes from the Mystic Gate if a mobile suit traveled with its rockets on full blast. Somehow the four suits managed to get there in three. During that time, Jeremy sent a message to have two ambulances ready. Once the docking port accepted them and Kin no Tatsu landed, it collapsed at the seams. WyvernGold fell away from DragonSilver, WyvernGold's burned face plating fell off, and DragonSilver's Gundanium armor was scratched down to the mechanics inside. Kai practically kicked the door open and screamed. Jeremy held Dei in his arms and used the lessened gravity to leap from the cockpit door to the control station and main hallway.

"Take her to the nearest hospital! She's lost a lot of blood!"

"And what about me, huh? I still don't understand how she got my shoulder!" Kai landed beside them and winced. "There's something up with that little brat."

"Get in the other ambulance. I have some things to discuss with you on the way to the hospital." He had a clearly disturbed look on his face and resisted the urge to wipe his bloodstained hands on his pilot suit.

"Hey. Nobody important died. We'll file the report, go back to Earth, and you'll be reassigned in a few days. Mission complete. Don't start in on me." Tyson grumbled and pushed one of the medics out of her way.

"It's not about that. It's about the girl. Something IS up."

"Just how much information do the scientists have on these people?"

"A bit. Aside from what we're learning through the talks, they're succeeding about keeping themselves a secret." Jeremy helped Kai into the ambulance and closed the door.

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-- AC 224: 4.30 --

Scientists on Earth had finished working on technology that would enable them to travel to other dimensions, but only as far as Earth itself. The experiment was a success, so the TD (Trans-Dimension) was launched into space to see if anything was different out there. This is how they found Gaea. At first, the scientists thought that something had gone wrong and they were caught between dimensions, but when they were able to return, they found that Gaea and Earth were directly related beyond the dimensional rift.

Setting up their first major project, they managed to send a team to Gaea to learn about them, and vice-versa. The two worlds were peaceful and relations went well until Earth decided they want to share their advanced knowledge with Gaea in return for colonization to combat the over crowded Earth and numerous colonies. Gaea refused, still holding onto their belief that the ones of the Mystic Moon had a curse upon them (which is quite true in a way). Earth leaders were insulted, and removed themselves from negotiating further with the Gaeans. Humans, being generally distrustful and fearful of anything that doesn't cooperate exactly they want it, grew to hate the other world and attacked it, eventually building up into a full-scale war. The designs of mobile suits and Gundams were reborn and thought the best course to combat Gaean Melefs. In order to combat the Mystic Moon, Gaeans relied on heavily on their hybrid of technology and magic. Up to present day, some talks go on in secret between the two worlds, but it's obvious that no progress is being made. Not much beyond basic information was learned about each world before the incidents.

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The doctors on X74 didn't have a clue of what to do with Dei. She was a humanoid, that was sure, but wherever they tried to reconstruct her face or operate on her, the injuries wouldn't cooperate, either opening again or not responding to their technology. After the fourth hour, she was stable, but still resisting their treatment.

Doctor Vlad stared at the machine. The screen fluctuated wildly, and then cut off.

"She's broken another one...." He growled as he unplugged the machine and rolled it into a corner with 2 others.

"Something's not right. Bring it back and reconnect it. We can't keep bringing in new machines. Nurse, clean the wound in her hand, she's bleeding all over the floor again..." Doctor Sun worked on Dei's shoulder and did his best trying to reconnect the broken bone fragments.

"It's like she doesn't have the ability to heal. The burns on her arms and chest only seem to be getting worse." The nurse put new bandages on Dei's hand only to see more blood build up on it.

Vlad sighed. "This is ridiculous. She should be dead by now."

"But she isn't. I'm also interested in why machines won't read her vital signs." Sun sounded especially annoyed at the first statement, but kept working anyway.

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"How about it was a coincidence? She hit her head when Silver was merging with Gold." Kai picked at the stitches in her shoulder before looking back at Jeremy.

"Then explain why she stopped when our BeamSaber hit WyvernGold in the face."

"I told you when I measured the energy levels of Tatsu. She had spent that thing down to where she only had enough for life support."

Jeremy put his hand on his forehead. "Okay. Then where would that much energy go? The Gundam was only gone for a month. You and I, studying that thing since it was developed 4 months ago, took another month and a half to actually grasp the OSZERO system and not die. The way they outfitted that thing with their technology, and the way she kicked our ass the first few minutes, she had to adapted to it IMMEDIATELY, and not wasted any time or energy trying to figure out the controls. Mobile Suits are supposed to be able to last a year without replacing the Uranium cartridges."

"So you're saying she's like one of the ancient NewTypes?"

"No, I'm saying she's something else. It makes no sense."

"It's not like Gaeans don't have mobile suit technology. She could have applied whatever she knew about those into this suit." Kai tested her shoulder and stretched it almost enough to break the stitches.

"Their suits are NOTHING like ours. Their own movements drive those. And stop that. You're only making it worse."

"Did you get to see what happened to the inside of the cockpit? Maybe they changed that too. Or were you too busy looking after the brat?" she sneered.

"It's hard to notice what pictures she has up next to her consoles when she's right next to you bleeding all over you."

Kai flexed her arm and shoulder a few more times and winced. "Then lets go get a look." She hopped down from the hospital bed and made her way back out to the street.

"This keeps getting better and better." Jeremy thought to himself.