Wyvern Gold: Chapter 7

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Back in the docking bay, mechanics were working feverishly to get the two Gundams out of the way before any others or ships were due in. Cranes had pulled them to opposite corners of the hangar, with Wyvern coiled up in the far corner and suspended by the wings, and Dragon standing right beside the catwalk Kai and Jeremy were on.

"News is probably all over the station by now." Kai stared down at their marred Gundam.

"No doubt. But that's fine. We have the armor back and that's what counts." Major Or walked up to one of the guards and flashed his ID. "Survey the damage done to Dragon Silver. I'll inspect WyvernGold. We have to do this for the report to Willis anyway."

Kai leapt over DragonSilver's shoulder and peered over its back. "The armor scorched the back of the suit! The Gundanium on the arms and back are worn completely off. Any more damage and this suit would be unusable. What did you find?"

Jeremy finished talking to a few mechanics and opened the cockpit door. "The same burns are on this suit, especially where the Gaean metal is. ... What is this thing?"

Jeremy motioned Kai over and pointed to a mechanism that stood out from the armor. A silver claw stood out over the door, which held a blood red stone. He tapped the jewel and the whole area began to glow red and shimmer. When it stopped, WyvernGold shuddered and raised itself on its claws and pulled its wings from the crane to drop them on the floor. The floor bent slightly under the force of the blades, but stayed steady.

Kai poked it. "Ugh. It's not solid. It feels disgusting; like warm gelatin. And there's something in here!!" She pulled out a grayish-red rock, which pulsed quickly in her hands, then stopped abruptly.

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*beeeeeeeeeeeeep...*

"What the hell?!" Dr. Sun rushed back across the room.

"She's flat-lining!" Dr. Vlad grabbed Dei's arm for her pulse.

"But we just stabilized her vital signs!!!"

"What's the cause?!"

"I don't know!"

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WyvernGold tilted until the pressure from the wing blades cut through the floor. The armor swayed violently, and its head bent over and almost seemed to look at them menacingly.

"PUT IT BACK!! PUT IT BACK!!!" Jeremy struggled with his balance on the cockpit door.

Kai slammed the rock back into the bright red jewel and tried to brace herself against the doorframe. Her arm was stuck in the Energist capsule as if the armor was thinking about what to do with her. When it did decide, Major Tyson found herself pinned to the other side of the hangar by a bolt of electricity. The suit let her fall to the ground a few seconds later, then righted itself and balanced on its claws again as if in standby mode.

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"Doctor Vlad, her vital signs are stable again!" Sun watched over a new machine and sighed when it broke again.

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"Major Tyson! Are you alright?!" Jeremy rushed over to her and propped her head up. The bolt didn't pierce through her clothes, but left a large burn mark over her heart.

Kai lay there lifeless for a while, but her breath did return to her. She simply stood up, put her hand over the burn mark on her chest, and growled a few curses under her breath. "We go see the little bitch. And she's going to disarm that thing for us."

Jeremy shouted over to the technicians and mechanics inspecting the suit. "Do what you can to fix these suits! And whatever you do, don't touch that stone or remove the armor!!

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In a few days, it was all over the colony that a girl from the other world was captured and on this side of the portal. Had it not been for the Preventers, the colonists would have gone into riot mode and torn the colony apart. A lot of people took it upon themselves to gather outside the Military Hospital and demand that she be sent back, even though they didn't know whether she was harmless or not. A group consisting of militants and peacekeepers had been sent from Earth to deal with her, and orders had been sent out that Dei was to be put into isolation until they got there.

"Yeah right. We need her now, not after those idiots are done double-talking her!" Major Tyson yelled at one of the guards in front of Dei's hospital room.

"We have our orders." The other guard muttered. It was almost like he was slightly afraid of Kai.

"And we have ours. To investigate what's happened to the Gundam we brought back. And the girl is the only one who can disable that machine." Major Or was still keeping calm despite the events getting more and more complicated.

"Even so, you can wait the three hours until the group gets here. You may enter with them."

Kai's eyes rolled up in her head and she started to shake with anger. Recognizing her actions, Jeremy decided to step aside. Ever since he had met with her over the qualification test to pilot the Gundams, he saw that she had serious anger issues. He had gotten in her way once before, and almost received a broken neck. Either she had forgotten, or she had gotten over his insult as easily as she had gotten upset. It was a miracle to him that she hadn't been court-martialed yet with that temper.

The two guards were close enough that Kai could grab them both by the neck and smash their heads together and knock them out cold. She took a deep breath and went back to normal.

"I hope I wasn't in that shot..." Jeremy pointed up at the video camera a little bit up the hallway.

"Not in the mood..." Kai grabbed the keys and a handgun off one of the guards and opened the door.

"You never are, Major."

The view of Dei when anyone entered the room was completely obscured by the machines that were attached to her. Five were devoted to her life-signs alone. It was hard to match which beeping signal went to which machine. Dei was locked in a deep sleep which almost matched death.

Kai looked out the window for a few minutes and made several calculations. "Grab the girl. We're only on the 15th floor."

"What?! Only? What are you going to do?!"

"We're leaving."

"Are you insane? She's comatose! She's useless! And kidnapping a POW is going to get us put in prison!"

"You said OSZERO does freaky stuff to ya." Kai grinned and clicked the hammer on the gun.

"But you mastered OSZERO! And we have to get out now!" Jeremy heard the MP coming up the hallway and locked the door. "Never mind, too late."

"I did master it. OSZERO plus whatever crap was in that stone I didn't master. NOW GRAB THE GIRL AND JUMP."

"... You're not serious, Major."

"Of course I am." She almost smiled as she took aim.

"OPEN THE DOOR, TYSON!!!" The Military Police shouted and tried to force the lock.

Jeremy closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead. "The girl has so many machines in her, she's a cyborg now. If we disconnect her, she'll probably die. We're about 160 feet off the ground. Unless you have a plane, we're not going to get out of here by jumping out of the window. And even if you do have some ingenious plan, there's about 200 people gathered around the hospital. There's no way they wouldn't see us. Do you understand?"

"Yes." she sighed.

Kai put two shots on either side of the door and felt satisfied as she heard two grunts of pain and bodies falling. Then she looked over all the machines attached to Dei and started pulling out any needle or sensor she found.

"I can't believe you just did that..." Jeremy's jaw was practically dragging the floor.

"We are in a war ya know." She grimaced as one of the monitors flat-lined so she shut it off with her fist.

"Okay. Suppose we do get out of here. Where are we going to go?"

"One thing at a time!" She grabbed an IV that connected Dei to a bag of some grayish solution and yanked it out. All the machines either shut down or flat-lined at once.

"God, what did I do to deserve this today?" Major Or thought of several possible solutions to the MP outside the door and the psycho standing across from him. Unfortunately none of them worked well.

Kai waited a few seconds then opened the window. The protesters were directly below. She grinned at them and waved. "Those idiots haven't a clue..." She pulled a remote out of her pocket and traced her fingers around the buttons. "Have a good grip on the girl?"

"This had better be real good. Like, "we don't die" good. That's all I ask right now." He wrapped Dei up in the sheet and scooped her up into his arms.

"That I can do!" She took two large black plates out of her pocket and slid one over to Jeremy. "Slide your foot over the plate and press hard!"

Kai placed her foot on her plate, and several thin plates slid out of the sides to make an air foil. Jeremy followed suit and prayed the slender pieces of metal would sustain their weight for their 'flight.' Kai pushed them towards the window and didn't have any trouble getting Jeremy to jump since she still had the gun in her hand. She followed them out of the window and leaned forward to catch the wind current and up to Or.

"WHOOOOO!!!!" She shouted and made sure to watch their descent carefully. If there were MP outside, they wouldn't be foolish enough to open fire on them while they had the girl. Once they hit the ground, they would have a completely different problem of dodging them and the mob. Hopefully her skills as a hacker weren't out of date yet...

Jeremy wanted badly to close his eyes and start praying for God to save him, but he knew the second he closed them, he wouldn't open them again. He hugged Dei tightly and tried to mimic the movements that Tyson made. 'What the hell was wrong with her? She said something about OSZERO and whatever was in WyvernGold. Did they have conflicting systems? Then why could the girl operate it?' He looked down at Dei. Instead of dying, she seemed to be returning to life. She stirred and took a deep breath but froze up again and growled something in another language. And the girl was an even bigger mystery. She managed to master OSZERO plus whatever system was attached to the Gundam. And the stone and crystal over the cockpit was supernatural. It controlled the Gundam like a mobile doll system, and was able to sense and attack Major Tyson without killing her.

The air foil did slow their decent, but they hit the ground hard. The pain wasn't enough to make them stop though, since the crowd decided they would try to catch them as they landed. Jeremy switched Dei to a more comfortable position by hefting her over his shoulder as they ran up the street.

"COME ON, TYSON! WHAT'S YOUR PLAN BESIDES US RUNNING FOR MAYBE A BLOCK AND A HALF BEFORE THE MP DRIVE UP AND DRAG US AWAY!?" He puffed.

"Down this alley, quick! I know where we are!" Kai ducked into the alley on the left and into a building.