Gundam Wing: Dancing the WALTZ
Transmission Four: A Plan to Replace
Heero looked over to Quatre to find the small blonde sleeping happily, his head buried in his arms on the table, and in one of his small hands was a cold cup of coffee. He let out a smirk and shook his head, their first night on duty and they were already pulling all nighters. He could hardly believed it had been two years since he'd last seen Quatre, Trowa, Duo and yes – even Wufei. They were the closet things he really had to family. Dr. Jay, he was just an old crone with a bad hair day. Sure the man raised him, but he was never human. He never allowed Heero to see anything but the focus on the mission, nothing else, no emotions, no nothing, maybe that's why he loved – even admired – them all, of course, he'd never tell them that. They were human, they made mistakes, they had squabbles and but they still went on, got past what was to move on. With a sigh, Heero shook his thoughts away, as much as wanted to dwell on those thoughts; he still had to complete that damn decoding project. And then he thought of Jo, for some reason she reminded him of himself before he'd met his four comrades. He prayed for her sake she'd get over being so damn hallow.
His eyes floated to the clock that was some where above Quatre's head. It blinked in an annoying type of fashion that caused Heero to look away with a frown. He sipped his cup of coffee and found to his dislike that it was stone cold. Not bothering to get up he turned to the blue prints scattered on the table and went back to racking his brain.
##
It was still early in the morning when Jo stirred from her slumber. The blonde's hair was looking pretty atrocious, there were slight circles under her eyes, and she didn't feel like she'd gotten a wink of sleep. Jo was actually a well-toned woman, for her size, but not for her attitude. She was a vicious person at times; she hardly gave a damn about anyone. Not even those she worked with got a shred of sympathy, they could die for all she cared, as long as they got the mission done then, then maybe they deserved to live. She could cuss like the best of sailors and insult even the best of them with mind-boggling sense. She was given X to pilot because she was so much faster in the cranium than even Heero! It was, to say the least, very scary.
Standing, she walked to the showers to wash away the droopiness she felt. As she dressed she fingered the locket around her neck; it was the one shred of humanity she still had in her life, if it was anything at all. The bloodied mess that danced her dreams crossed her mind for a brief moment. For only a moment Jo relived her parents death, watching them being slaughtered in front of her very eyes, and in the moment she looked like a lost little girl. But as quickly as it came the look went away as Jo shook her head. When she looked back in the mirror there stood the callous warrior she had become.
Feeling highly irritated, Jo stomped to the Mau's room across the hall and banged on the door.
"Carroll! Get your ass up!" Jo called through the door, she then walked away to get a little morsel of food.
Mau looked to the door and grumbled incoherently as she stuffed a pillow over her head. She wasn't the most cooperative person in the morning. In fact she hated morning, she'd rather sleep till the after noon and then stay up into the wee hours of the dark night and THEN go to bed. The down fall to being a Gundam pilot was the fact she had to get up at respectable hours and then stay up all night. Rarely getting more than like 5 hours of sleep or no sleep at all. So she ignored Jo and her wake up demand and went back to sleep.
Jo of course did not like this turn of events; she marched back to Mau's room after finishing her muffin and kicked the door open and proceeded to beat the shit out of Mau. The American girl was awake in snap. She darted away from Jo's not so idol threats, to her bathroom.
"You'd better be in the workroom in less than an hour, or I'm dragging you out there whether you like it or not!"
Mau rubbed her chin where Jo had cocked her one, "Damn, she's like a constant PMS case."
Of course Mau complied with Jo's request to be in the workroom in less than in hour. After snatching a muffing or two she meet Jo.
"Get the other bases on the line, I want to see what they've got done."
"Don't you think..." She didn't complete her sentence, Jo was glaring at her.
"Now Carroll."
"Alright! Alright, don't get your panties in a twist!"
She set up the connection and eight weary faces glared at her, "I'm only taking orders."
"It's freakin' six in the morning!" Ling grumbled, "I had just fallen asleep!"
"I know the feeling," Quatre agreed with Ling.
"Enough idol chitchat, did you all find anything?"
"Quatre and I got the first to pages, They look like some kind of instructions," Heero replied wearily.
"Me an' Jade got the last page plus structure," Ling looked at the sleeping girl in the back ground with an envious glare.
"And?" Jo waved them on.
"Chang and myself, managed to decoded the fifth and sixth pages...If I'm not mistaken," Trowa rubbed his tired eyes.
"Basically," Wufei continued, "They are going to replace earth and the colonies."
"After they destroy them," Heero added.
"Huh? So what is this structure?" Jo turned to Ling, everyone else also turned to Ling, and she went to speak, "Basically its constructed sphere that will be able to store as many human and animal life as 60 or so colonies plus one earth. Its has multiple levels, a very delicate and detailed life support system, an atmosphere for those who want to live on the topside, natural habitats for any and all life forms. This has been well planed and it's going to TAKE the place of earth in EARTH'S orbit around the sun. So those topside will live just like they did on earth."
"As good as it sounds, we can't allow these people to do that! To destroy what we've built and fought so hard to maintain, that's like blasphemy," Dhirdre spoke for the first time that morning, rubbing sleep from her eyes.
"Agreed," Heero nodded, "If he thought it was a good move, then he should have taken it to the world council."
"Yup, so what are we gonna do about it?" Duo asked.
"The unfortunate thing is that we don't know the location of this thing, so we can't destroy it," Mau added.
"Yes, but we do know where the organization W.A.L.TZ is located, so we can take down some main people," Jo spoke.
"Hum, So you all want to try and infiltrate the main base and kill the leader?" Heero asked as he poured himself a hot cup of fresh brewed coffee.
"We can do that, I say we meet in the neutral zone, sector 3025 mark 091," Jo called back, "I will see you there."
"Hold it, we aren't leaving yet," Heero called to Jo, "There is one more thing I have to pick up, we'll meet there in three days."
"What do you have to pick up?"
"Don't worry about it McCaller, you just keep your nose to your self before it gets caught in a door."
Jo glared, "Fine, three days."
Heero nodded, "Good, over and out."
The transmission from the Canada base cut and the others followed suit, and most found the nearest soft bed and crashed.
##
In three days just as planned eight Gundams arrived in sector 3025 mark 091. They were a little taken back by a huge ship that appeared on their sensors.
"Jesus Christ!" Duo whistled, "Hope it ain't our enemy."
"No, Duo, This is the Peacecraft (he's having Relena withdrawals)," Heero's voice floated over their private com-channel, "She is ready for you to dock, go to her belly there you'll see the eight openings. Things will proceed from there once you're all on board."
After the eight docked Heero and Quatre were there to meet them. The eight nearly got ran over from the flock of mechanics and technicians that were there to make sure the systems were in top performance levels.
"So this is ours?" Dhirdre asked, dodging a running mechanic.
"Well, you're using it, It's actually mine, and don't ask," Heero waved for them to follow him.
Everybody took his advice and didn't ask. When they arrived in a sitting area Heero presented them all with uniforms.
"Oh... to infiltrate?" Mau nodded knowingly, then she frowned. Skirts, she hated skirts.
"Indeed, Now we leave in ten with or without you."
"Docking bay three," Quatre said after Heero walked off with his own uniform. The others took their assigned uniforms and went to change.
So in ten minutes the ten pilots left on a shuttle to a base deep in WALTZ territory.
End Transmission...
Transmission Four: A Plan to Replace
Heero looked over to Quatre to find the small blonde sleeping happily, his head buried in his arms on the table, and in one of his small hands was a cold cup of coffee. He let out a smirk and shook his head, their first night on duty and they were already pulling all nighters. He could hardly believed it had been two years since he'd last seen Quatre, Trowa, Duo and yes – even Wufei. They were the closet things he really had to family. Dr. Jay, he was just an old crone with a bad hair day. Sure the man raised him, but he was never human. He never allowed Heero to see anything but the focus on the mission, nothing else, no emotions, no nothing, maybe that's why he loved – even admired – them all, of course, he'd never tell them that. They were human, they made mistakes, they had squabbles and but they still went on, got past what was to move on. With a sigh, Heero shook his thoughts away, as much as wanted to dwell on those thoughts; he still had to complete that damn decoding project. And then he thought of Jo, for some reason she reminded him of himself before he'd met his four comrades. He prayed for her sake she'd get over being so damn hallow.
His eyes floated to the clock that was some where above Quatre's head. It blinked in an annoying type of fashion that caused Heero to look away with a frown. He sipped his cup of coffee and found to his dislike that it was stone cold. Not bothering to get up he turned to the blue prints scattered on the table and went back to racking his brain.
##
It was still early in the morning when Jo stirred from her slumber. The blonde's hair was looking pretty atrocious, there were slight circles under her eyes, and she didn't feel like she'd gotten a wink of sleep. Jo was actually a well-toned woman, for her size, but not for her attitude. She was a vicious person at times; she hardly gave a damn about anyone. Not even those she worked with got a shred of sympathy, they could die for all she cared, as long as they got the mission done then, then maybe they deserved to live. She could cuss like the best of sailors and insult even the best of them with mind-boggling sense. She was given X to pilot because she was so much faster in the cranium than even Heero! It was, to say the least, very scary.
Standing, she walked to the showers to wash away the droopiness she felt. As she dressed she fingered the locket around her neck; it was the one shred of humanity she still had in her life, if it was anything at all. The bloodied mess that danced her dreams crossed her mind for a brief moment. For only a moment Jo relived her parents death, watching them being slaughtered in front of her very eyes, and in the moment she looked like a lost little girl. But as quickly as it came the look went away as Jo shook her head. When she looked back in the mirror there stood the callous warrior she had become.
Feeling highly irritated, Jo stomped to the Mau's room across the hall and banged on the door.
"Carroll! Get your ass up!" Jo called through the door, she then walked away to get a little morsel of food.
Mau looked to the door and grumbled incoherently as she stuffed a pillow over her head. She wasn't the most cooperative person in the morning. In fact she hated morning, she'd rather sleep till the after noon and then stay up into the wee hours of the dark night and THEN go to bed. The down fall to being a Gundam pilot was the fact she had to get up at respectable hours and then stay up all night. Rarely getting more than like 5 hours of sleep or no sleep at all. So she ignored Jo and her wake up demand and went back to sleep.
Jo of course did not like this turn of events; she marched back to Mau's room after finishing her muffin and kicked the door open and proceeded to beat the shit out of Mau. The American girl was awake in snap. She darted away from Jo's not so idol threats, to her bathroom.
"You'd better be in the workroom in less than an hour, or I'm dragging you out there whether you like it or not!"
Mau rubbed her chin where Jo had cocked her one, "Damn, she's like a constant PMS case."
Of course Mau complied with Jo's request to be in the workroom in less than in hour. After snatching a muffing or two she meet Jo.
"Get the other bases on the line, I want to see what they've got done."
"Don't you think..." She didn't complete her sentence, Jo was glaring at her.
"Now Carroll."
"Alright! Alright, don't get your panties in a twist!"
She set up the connection and eight weary faces glared at her, "I'm only taking orders."
"It's freakin' six in the morning!" Ling grumbled, "I had just fallen asleep!"
"I know the feeling," Quatre agreed with Ling.
"Enough idol chitchat, did you all find anything?"
"Quatre and I got the first to pages, They look like some kind of instructions," Heero replied wearily.
"Me an' Jade got the last page plus structure," Ling looked at the sleeping girl in the back ground with an envious glare.
"And?" Jo waved them on.
"Chang and myself, managed to decoded the fifth and sixth pages...If I'm not mistaken," Trowa rubbed his tired eyes.
"Basically," Wufei continued, "They are going to replace earth and the colonies."
"After they destroy them," Heero added.
"Huh? So what is this structure?" Jo turned to Ling, everyone else also turned to Ling, and she went to speak, "Basically its constructed sphere that will be able to store as many human and animal life as 60 or so colonies plus one earth. Its has multiple levels, a very delicate and detailed life support system, an atmosphere for those who want to live on the topside, natural habitats for any and all life forms. This has been well planed and it's going to TAKE the place of earth in EARTH'S orbit around the sun. So those topside will live just like they did on earth."
"As good as it sounds, we can't allow these people to do that! To destroy what we've built and fought so hard to maintain, that's like blasphemy," Dhirdre spoke for the first time that morning, rubbing sleep from her eyes.
"Agreed," Heero nodded, "If he thought it was a good move, then he should have taken it to the world council."
"Yup, so what are we gonna do about it?" Duo asked.
"The unfortunate thing is that we don't know the location of this thing, so we can't destroy it," Mau added.
"Yes, but we do know where the organization W.A.L.TZ is located, so we can take down some main people," Jo spoke.
"Hum, So you all want to try and infiltrate the main base and kill the leader?" Heero asked as he poured himself a hot cup of fresh brewed coffee.
"We can do that, I say we meet in the neutral zone, sector 3025 mark 091," Jo called back, "I will see you there."
"Hold it, we aren't leaving yet," Heero called to Jo, "There is one more thing I have to pick up, we'll meet there in three days."
"What do you have to pick up?"
"Don't worry about it McCaller, you just keep your nose to your self before it gets caught in a door."
Jo glared, "Fine, three days."
Heero nodded, "Good, over and out."
The transmission from the Canada base cut and the others followed suit, and most found the nearest soft bed and crashed.
##
In three days just as planned eight Gundams arrived in sector 3025 mark 091. They were a little taken back by a huge ship that appeared on their sensors.
"Jesus Christ!" Duo whistled, "Hope it ain't our enemy."
"No, Duo, This is the Peacecraft (he's having Relena withdrawals)," Heero's voice floated over their private com-channel, "She is ready for you to dock, go to her belly there you'll see the eight openings. Things will proceed from there once you're all on board."
After the eight docked Heero and Quatre were there to meet them. The eight nearly got ran over from the flock of mechanics and technicians that were there to make sure the systems were in top performance levels.
"So this is ours?" Dhirdre asked, dodging a running mechanic.
"Well, you're using it, It's actually mine, and don't ask," Heero waved for them to follow him.
Everybody took his advice and didn't ask. When they arrived in a sitting area Heero presented them all with uniforms.
"Oh... to infiltrate?" Mau nodded knowingly, then she frowned. Skirts, she hated skirts.
"Indeed, Now we leave in ten with or without you."
"Docking bay three," Quatre said after Heero walked off with his own uniform. The others took their assigned uniforms and went to change.
So in ten minutes the ten pilots left on a shuttle to a base deep in WALTZ territory.
End Transmission...