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The DarkTower

Anime's Unite

Chapter 21: The Priming

000

In the clouds over the Lands of Mydar, King Talbot Kyros flew like a superman with the injured Gundam pilot, Johan Peacecraft Rodriguez in his arms. He had already passed over the lake and saw how much Johan was bleeding. Seeing that he couldn't let him die, his mind searched for the others and found them. He flew up higher into the clouds feeling the iciness all around him before he took the direct nose dive down through the clouds, down over the skyline to the City of Nash and down to the ground to the loading dock of the Happy-Go-Lucky doll factory. Right before hitting the ground he made a mid-air summersault and landed upon his feet. He looked up at the side of the doll factory and carried Johan in his arms up the stairs to the third floor. Talbot kicked open the door to the third floor sending those inside into a great flurry of battle readiness.

"Hold everyone!" Talbot shouted as he came through, "Johan's been struck!"
All the members in the Fellowship of the One dropped their guard as they heard the news. Even the Seven guards stopped dead in their tracks when they saw their kings face as he laid down Johan on the floor. He brought him in like a paramedic bringing in a patient into the emergency room that desperately needed care.

Everyone gathered around and saw the terrible truth: Johan was dying, it seemed unthinkable, even to his family who gathered closely. His wife knelt beside him her hand on his bleeding chest and her lips to his forehead.

"Don't leave, Johan." She began to cry

"I can save him." Talbot interfered

"How?" Haruka asked through her tears

"Stand back." Talbot instructed as he vigorously rubbed his hands together. He rubbed his hands as if he was warming them through friction or like a monk rubbing prayer beads between his palms. As soon as he stopped he laid both hands one on top of each other like a lifeguard giving CPR. As the blood began to ooze even more, the Fellowship of the One saw that the blood stopped, not only stopped but began to flow in reverse back into the wound in Johan's chest. The wound itself began to close up with the blood coming back to it like a hungry mouth receiving food. At last the wound was closed leaving the blood stains on his clothes as he coughed back to life.

"Johan!" Haruka shouted as she took her husbands hand in her arms and stroked his black hair.

Johan opened his eyes, "Haruka?" He asked, his vision blurry but slowly coming back, "Julia?...Leto?" He called to his children.

We're here, dad." Leto said, "Everything's going to be just fine."

"I know, meho." Johan wheezed, "I did it…I returned all the items to the true king…mission…complete."

Talbot placed his hand on Johan's shoulder and advised like a good doctor, "You'll need to rest. You've lost quite a lot of blood."

Johan silently nodded as he fell asleep.

Talbot stood up and turned to face the other members of the Fellowship. Most of them didn't know what to make of him, even the most primitive (namely the Kenshin-gumi) who thought that Talbot was some kind of god or maybe a half-god. At least that was only a few of them, while the Seven Guards approached and all knelt before him just like the king that he was.

"Master." They all bowed and groveled

"Please, get up my friends." Talbot said with a good smile on his face

The seven guards got to their feet and all of them were so elated to see their friend returned and just like how they had remembered him. Of course with their kings orders they still wanted to kneel as well as hug him, but when they couldn't' do that something else was done.

"Welcome back, Talbot." Callina smiled

"It's good to be back." Talbot answered, "And to be in one piece again."

The other members of the Fellowship did feel left out. After all this man whom the Seven Guards claimed was their king, made them feel annoyed. Mainly because they had come so far and that they weren't getting any of the credit they justly deserve. Someone had to bring this up and there were several members who did think alike in this respect.

"Excuse me." Lupin stepped in and added arrogantly, "I think some credit is due to the rest of us."

"He's right." Sanosuke Sagara added, "We busted our asses getting here and a little gratitude is needed."

"Along with some gold." Gene Starwind finished

"Mind your tongues! All of you!" Gandalf shouted

"No, Gandalf." Talbot said trying to calm the fight amongst them, "They are quite right." He then addressed all the members of the Fellowship. "All of you have done so much and for this I am eternally grateful, and for what you have done, I shall return you all home, as well as give you generous portions from my personal vault."

"Do you promise that?" Jim Hawking asked

"The kings' word is his bond." Talbot promised but his voice then took a very sharp turn as he began again, "But we are not completely out of the woods just yet."

"What do you mean by that?" Misato Katsuragi asked

"I think we should sit." Talbot answered and then looked around, "Does anyone have any paper?"

"I do." Quatre Raberba Winner responded as he rummaged through his knapsack, "I've been keeping a journal so that I can make some reports when this is all over."

He brought out a yellow lined spiral notebook that had the creases all over its cover from rolling around in the knapsack. As well as some stains upon the pages from when they trekked across rivers and into the dark Mines of Midas. He handed the notebook over to Talbot who flipped through the pages glancing at the things Quatre wrote about.

"Ah, you went through the Mines of Midas." The King observed, "That crazy man."

"We were told." Leto Rodriguez asked, "That Midas asked and begged you for that power. The power of the Golden Touch."

"Yes, he did." Talbot said as he continued to flip through the pages, "Midas was one of the Obsessed, he swam in the riches of my vault but it wasn't enough so he begged, asked, and pleaded for the power. And this is while I was slaving for Dark Eagle. So after three weeks of him begging every day and night, I granted his wish. And by the looks of your report, you know the rest."

Talbot flipped right to the end of the notebook where there were some blank pages. From within his tattered clothes he pulled out a very ordinary looking black pen. He sat down on the floor and began to write.

"I know many of you have questions." Talbot started, "First, the tears."

"Whose been controlling them?" Heero Yuy asked

"I have…" Talbot answered, "My reason was that I was captured around the time of the first tear. The one where the Sailor Senshi and the Preventers met."

"I remember that." Ami Mizuno (Sailor Mercury) recalled how they found out that Johan's wife Haruka (whom he thought was dead) was still alive and being held prisoner by Trieze Kushrinada who was possessed by a demon.

"All of the tears." Talbot continued, "Were to train all of you."

"Train us?" Shinji asked rather surprised

"Aren't we strong enough already?" Domon Kasshu asked

"On your own, I would agree." Talbot said as he continued to scribble in the yellow spiral notebook. "But you needed to know that there are other worlds than your own. Thus the reason for the tears and I waited until the time was right to bring you all here."

"And our new powers?" Sailor Mars asked

"Call that a perk for being here." Talbot answered as he finished his writing in the notebook. He stood up with his fingers on the corner of the page ready to rip it out.

"Everyone stand back." He advised, "Against the walls."

While everyone followed Talbot's instructions, he took his pen and made one last mark on the paper as if it were his signature. As soon as he did that he ripped the page cleanly out of the notebook and threw it into the air. It floated for a while and came softly to the ground. Nearly every member of the Fellowship felt a little confused, but the Seven Guards stayed back, and before anything could be asked, their answer came.

The paper began to fold in upon itself and again and again almost like an origami bird, but it didn't stop there. It continued to fold as well as grow outward and upward. The very form of it became more and more familiar as the seconds passed. The paper folded outward to a flat circle and then began to rise from a central pillar that sat upon four outward legs. That's when it became clear to the Fellowship that the paper that Talbot threw to the floor was becoming a table, but that wasn't all. From around its enormous edge came little pieces of paper that dropped like pieces of fruit from a tree. Each piece that fell began to fold into squares that soon sprouted four legs, backs, and arm rests. As the table and the chairs took their final form a veneer of finish and upholstery came over them all making them into solid oak, steel, and cushion.

The Fellowship stood in awe of it.

"Cool." Hikaru uttered

"There are many things that are within my masters' power." Vash said, "That's what you told us, right Jake?"

"I did say that." Jake confirmed

Talbot addressed everyone, "Please, take a seat, all of you."

As the members of the Fellowship of the One sat, they found that there were enough chairs for everyone. It wasn't until everyone sat down that each of them had realized how large the table was, but as each of them sat (including Johan who had made quite a great recovery in just a few short minutes) they felt like that story about the Knights of the Round table. In that story of how each knight was equal to the king. Just as they all took their seats the council began.

The king took his seat, "Now, as I mentioned before we are not quite out of the woods just yet. I may have returned with my powers intact, but the Obsessed still occupy the lands of Mydar. As long as they occupy this world, it will never be free."

"And none of us will return home." Minako Aino (Sailor Venus) mentioned in a rather mournful tone

"Exactly." Talbot agreed

"So, what do we do then?" Shinji asked

"Are you stupid Third Child?" Asuka asked in her blatant arrogance, "We strike back."

George DeSand shook his head, "With all do respect Madame Asuka, that plan of attack is a little fool hearty."

"What did you say, Frenchman?" Asuka shouted back

"Actually, both George and Asuka are right." Loki interrupted

"How so?" Bartleby asked

"If we attack head on, the Obsessed wouldn't suspect a thing, because they too would consider it fool-hearty."

"We may have a plan, but we need resources." Jim Hawking pointed out, "When we came here our ship, the Outlaw star was trashed in a crash landing."

"Added to that, we also need our Gundams." Chibodee crocket also brought up.

"And there is something else." Bartleby added to the discussion, "If we attack the Obsessed here, their reinforcements will arrive from space."

"You mean there's more of them?" Miss Kaoru asked, "Among the stars?"
"That's just it." Jake Chambers confirmed, "And what all of this boils down to is resources and a base of operations."
Talbot began to give off a very sheepish smile

"What's so funny?" Duo Maxwell demanded from Talbot

"The base of operations and resources I'll take care of, but right now we need to make sure we're safe. Bartleby, scan the present, have the Obsessed caught onto us?"

Bartleby sat in his chair with his eyes dashing left and right as if he was thinking his hardest or if someone was watching him. Then after a few moments of deliberation he came back with his report.

"Nope." He said as he shook his head, "They're searching high and low but they haven't caught on, but it's a safe bet that they'll find us if we stay too long."

"Good." Talbot nodded, "But by the time they search this place, we'll be long gone."

"What about our ships and Gundams?" Quatre Raberba Winner asked with great concern

"No ones found them yet, but I don't believe that they'll remained hidden for long." Bartleby answered Quatre's inquiry.

"Don't worry about it." Talbot advised, "You'll soon have them all back, in the mean time, Loki work with Rally and Minnie May on setting up traps and early alarms on the roof and the first floor, we don't want any unwelcome guests."

"Right." Loki smirked

"Armand." Talbot ordered, "I need you to draw up some plans for a mobile suit assault carrier, one that can take off and land on a planet and the other details I'll leave to your imagination."

"Got it." Armand nodded

As the ones who were given their orders set about their task, the rest of the Fellowship felt a little bewildered.

"What should we do?" Misato Katsuragi asked

"Just sit back and wait." Talbot advised as he came to another piece of blank paper, "But I imagine that all of you are very hungry, hold on for a sec."

The remaining members of the Fellowship watched as Talbot Kyros scribbled furiously into the notebook. His hand going from left to right and back again until at last he ripped the page out and made that curly-q signature. He raised the paper above his head and blew it into the air like a paper airplane. The paper floated into the air and as it descended onto the table it began to glow like a firefly in summer until it gave out one last flash of light. IT was the kind of brilliance that made the Fellowship close their eyes at least for a moment.

When their eyes recovered from the flash they opened them to see such sights that made their mouths water. All around the table were all kinds of food. Foods from all nations, there was sushi and all kinds of things that the Kenshin-gumi knew that they couldn't afford to eat back home. There was also all kinds of sweets and deserts including some doughnuts for Vash the Stampede. While in front of them were plates for them to pile their food.

"Well." Talbot shrugged, "Dig in everyone."

They needed no further instructions and they reached out for the food of their choice and they feasted like they never had before.

Sanosuke took one bite of the sushi, "This is really good."

"That's you, Sanosuke Sagara." Talbot smiled, "When there's good food, you'll be found."

Down the table Vash was humming to himself as he savored every bite he took of the doughnuts off of the desert tray.

"These are so good." Vash moaned in the pleasure of the taste

"Glad you like them." Talbot said as he wrote into the blank pages of Quatre's journal. As he did many of the Fellowship members were curious about what he was doing. Similar to how people become curious about something that's out of the "ordinary".

"What are you writing?" Michiru Kaoih (Sailor Neptune) asked

Talbot looked up to the Sailor Senshi and answered, "I'm writing up our new base of operations."

"How are you doing that?" Fujiko asked as she sipped a little bit of champagne

"You had witnessed my power with this table, these chairs, and this feast." Talbot explained

"He does have a point." Millie Thompson said as she munched on a little bit of bread

"But what he did is almost like magic." Sanosuke spoke his superstitious mind, "Some kind of sorcery." On the other hand when an opportunity presents itself (Usually if it involves food or money) he was willing to overlook his own superstitions.

"There has to be an explanation for all this." Miss Kaoru said in her own self-assurance

"There is actually." Talbot said as he multi-tasked with writing, a little eating, some drinking, and talking, "Because I created this world, I am aware of the rules I placed and I can ignore them or redefine them as I see fit."

"But what about the whole writing thing and the paper?" Jigen asked as he munched away on his food.

"It's a power that I as well as other like me have." Talbot explained, "There are others like me but they live in a place that not very many people in Mydar have seen."

"What's it like there? That place that you come from?" Sai-Saici asked as he continued to eat the wonderful bounty of food.

Talbot continued to write as he went on to talk about the place that he came from, "It was a place filled with just as many beautiful dreams and horrible nightmares as your own worlds. I once started to think that we saw more nightmares than dreams. Then I saw the lands of my home world, lush green hills, blue oceans, and white capped mountains that reached up to the sky, and that was when all my thoughts seemed to vanish in the beauty around me. And there are also the cities that were wondrous as well as overwhelming at the same time."

He continued to write as what he told the members of the Fellowship sunk in. It seemed incredible that the man sitting at the round table came from a place that was like theirs. It just seemed unfathomable that he was a mere mortal with all those god-like powers that he had demonstrated in the past hour or so, turning paper into tables and food.

"I'm almost done writing up our new base." Talbot announced to the Fellowship.

"Master." A familiar voice called out

Everyone at the table looked to see Loki, Rally, and May had returned.

"Welcome back, Loki, May, and Rally." Talbot said to them as they took the empty seats and filled their plates with food.

"We've finished setting up some perimeter traps." Minnie May reported as she took a bite of some Chinese food that was readily available.

"So, if anyone comes close to us, we'll hear about it." Rally smiled with confidence.

"Good." Talbot nodded as he continued with the writings in Quatre's journal, "Just a few more things and our base will be finished."

000

The night came over the lands of Mydar, the feast on the third floor of the Happy-Go-Lucky doll factory came to a close. The Fellowship of the One sat back enjoying a full stomach, which was something that they hadn't done in quite a long time. Though Talbot Kyros hadn't taken his pen out of the yellow notebook that was Quatre Raberba Winner's, but he kept that respect for what was already written and just used blank pages. Yet, that whole time through the feast he was like a full blooded scholar, and though the Fellowship had a vague idea of what he was writing, nothing could prepare them for seeing it themselves.

"Just one last piece…" Talbot announced as he mad his last punctuation, "There. Now to take the pages out, make the mark, and our base will be finished."

Usagi yawned gently from all the excitement of the day and all the food she had, "Will there be beds there?"

"You said it, sister." Sanosuke stretched and patted his stomach, "After a long day and a great meal, a good night sleep is what we will need."

"Most certainly." Talbot answered as he began to carefully rip out page after page of what he wrote. He did it in such a way so that he wouldn't tear up the pages. By the time that he was done he must have torn out over fifteen pages of written material. After he tore the last page out he began to collect them neatly like a bureaucrat, he set the papers aside and pulled out a small paper clip from inside his tattered clothes. He slipped the paper clip on, flipped to the last page, and made that signature curly-q symbol. As quickly as he wrote the symbol, he tossed the paper clipped stack into the air.

The Fellowship watched like children at a spectacular magic show as the paper began to glow from within the black ink written upon it. The stack didn't even come down, it floated there as it grew in its luminosity that was so bright that it light up the entire floor of the Happy-Go-Lucky doll factory. At the pinnacle of the lights intensity it vanished, as if the light was water flowing down a drain, the papers and light were sucked into nothingness.

There were a few seconds of silence until the brash Gundam Fighter Chibodee Crocket had broken the icey silence.

"What the hell was that?" He asked still trying to recover from what he had just seen.

"That means that the base is made." Talbot explained, "Now, we just need to get there."

Jake began to get a smile like the kind a lot of kids get when they have something good on their minds.

"I believe that's my area." Jake smirked as he brought up his backpack to the table and allowed it to come down with a huge clunk. He opened it up and dug right into it sending out sounds of metal clinging against one another. After rooting around Jake brought out a key, just a regular looking garden variety key. That was until Jake brought out a small pocket tool kit, from that he used a file and began to make some more grooves and edges in the keys design. He filed away sending metal filings to the table and metal dust into his fingernails. The filings and dust collected very quickly as Jake worked the key, until he was finished and blew away all the unnecessary metal.

"Ready." He said to the Fellowship

"Wait a minute." Sanosuke stopped the proceeding acting very skeptical about all of it, "How can you know about this kid? You haven't even been there."

"There's always another way." Jake answered while he was putting away his pocket tool kit. He then turned to his master Talbot and reported to him, "The key is ready, master. We'll be able to get to the base very soon."

"Good, Jake." Talbot said as he rose to his feet and addressed the Fellowship, "Allright everyone, we'll be going to the new base that I had just created, get your things ready."

The Fellowship wasted no time in getting their belongings together as if they were going on a long trip. As they were, the ones who were rather preoccupied were Haruka, Julia, and Leto who were very concerned about Johan. It was rather odd that he made such a fast recovery especially from such a wound that he had in his chest, but there he was as if nothing had ever happened to him.

To Johan, on the other hand, he too was feeling very, very strange. Only over an hour ago he was drying on the floor in the Dark Tower only to be brought back to life once again. As he thought about his encounters with death, he wondered if they were a lot closer than how Heero had come to it. He wanted to put it aside but couldn't' because of something that felt so drastically different. It was something that was more potent, more concentrated than what he felt in his pull to the Dark Tower. He felt more aware about the events around him like he was listening device and he was set to super-high sensitivity. However, he couldn't sit and ponder upon it any longer because he and the rest of the Fellowship were about to be brought to a new base.

"Are you alright, Johan?" Haruka asked

Johan turned to look at his wife and children. He knew that he couldn't' answer truthfully because he couldn't' figure out what was wrong himself. So, he had to give Haruka the best possible answer that he could give her.

"I'm fine." He said trying to sound sure of himself

"I know you're not find, Johan." Haruka said laying her hand upon his shoulder, but before her husband could even give an answer they were interrupted by the matter at hand.

"Alright everyone." Jake announced as he approached one of the many closed doors with the rest of the Fellowship behind him. Even though Jake had exuded his confidence in his abilities, but why shouldn't he? It was a great gift given to him by his master, so without any doubts he inserted the key into the lock and turned the knob. He opened the door and beyond was a great high ceiling steel room.

The Fellowship stepped through one by one completely awed by the size of the place. To the eyes of the Gundam pilots it seemed like the Preventer Ship Relativity would only take up a small fraction of that place.

"Wow…" Duo Maxwell uttered, his voice echoing through the steel room.

"Is this where we will be living?" Fujiko asked, her voice and clicks of her high heels echoing throughout the steel room like Duo Maxwell's voice.

Behind them, Talbot Kyros was closing the door, he knew that this was the best way to cut off the Obsessed completely. After all, it would be obtuse to trek all across Mydar, waste valuable time, and risk getting caught in getting there. As the door was shut, the wooden door and brass handle gave way to a new door that was silvery and split down the center with words written upon a small tag on the right side of the door:

The Rabbit Hole

Repair Bay

"This won't be the place where you'll live." Talbot answered Fujiko's question, "This is where the ships and mobile suits will be held and repairs will be made. Your quarters are this way."

Johan brought up something to Talbot that Quatre mentioned a while ago, but he didn't even think about until the ships and Gundams were mentioned.

"What about them now?" Johan asked just as Talbot was about to show them the way to their new sleeping place.

Talbot smiled, "An excellent opportunity to try out this feature of our new base that I've called The Rabbit Hole."

Talbot walked the long way to the far end of the Repair Bay and as he made the small journey, William Maxwell had to ask the most purtanent and obvious question."

"Why do you call it, the Rabbit Hole?" He asked

"Because," Talbot explained, "This base is located in the Northern Wastleands past the Threnody Mountains, about a hundred miles or so from the Dark Tower and the City of Nash. And this base itself is underground as well."

The Fellowship must have walked the same distance as about half a mile and they came to the center of the Repair Bay to where a small panel stuck out of the floor and rose about to Talbot's waist with an incline to it. He looked at it and the Fellowship already figured that there were no buttons on that panel. It was as smooth as glass with lights that illuminated rectangular buttons with rounded corners and had print written into each light button.

Talbot tapped the smooth glass-like panel, his fingers touching the light up buttons, he seemed to do it as if he had been using it his whole life, even though it seemed like he was using it for the first time.

"Alright." Talbot said to himself, "I got a lock on them, and now to energize."

His hand came to an area of the panel that seemed blank at least for a moment until he ran three fingers up the incline and three bright yellow bars followed the path of his fingers to the top of the panel and then back down again. As he brought his hands down again, the Fellowship looked and right before their eyes they saw shapes appear.

The Shuffle Alliance saw the shapes of their Gundams, the Preventers saw the shape of the Relativity, and the Outlaw Six saw the shape of the Outlaw Star lying on its side. The shapes of all these things began to materialize into the actual things themselves. To their eyes as well as the eyes of the rest of the Fellowship it was incredible to see the things happen before their very eyes like an amazing magic trick. At least that's what it seemed like when the process was done and the Shuffle Alliance Gundams, the Preventer Ship Relativity, and the Outlaw Star were all there when just a few minutes ago they were sure that they were all left behind somewhere.

As the Fellowship took in what had just happened, the Mobile Suit Bay door of the Relativity opened and out came the leader of the Office of Preventer, Lady Une. She came out looking very shocked and overwhelmed by what she was seeing.

"Lady Une!" Quatre called out as he waved to her coming to the front of the Fellowship

"Quatre, can you tell me just what's going on?" She asked very puzzled to see the inside of the repair bay as well as all her Preventers. Who could blame her? One moment she was on the plains wondering when the Gundams would come back and then to suddenly be in a place where they were all there, it was enough to knock someone's perceptions out of order.

"It'll all be in my report, Lady Une." Quatre explained as he held up the yellow notebook that Talbot gave back to him.

"I look forward to reading it." Lady Une smiled.

000

Preventer Report

Officer: Quatre Raberba Winner

Code-name: The Noble in the Desert

Date: June 23, A.C. 216 (according to onboard clocks)

Report: So much has happened in the past week. It had begun on June 15, when the Office of Preventer had received notice that another tear had opened. Following instincts the Office of Preventer with a few select officers headed into the tear and arrived at a place called "Mydar". Most of the events of when Preventer arrived and when the Gundam pilots were reunited with our ship Relativity, are already in previous reports.

It has been about three days since the Preventer Gundams were reunited with the Preventer Ship Relativity, as well as a few other reunions. Such as the Outlaw Six with their ship, the Outlaw Star, and the Shuffle Alliance with their Gundams, and we have all come together in this place that the latest edition to our Fellowship (named Talbot Kyros) calls "The Rabbit Hole". He calls it that because of the fact that this new base is subterranean.

Repairs have already been made to the ship, the Outlaw Star thanks to a series of robots at the disposal of Talbot Kyros. These robots were called "Exocomps", which were self-sustaining, as well as self-learning machines that took care of several problems with the Outlaw Star almost like Mobile Dolls in space combat. Yet, these little machines are only the tip of the iceberg of the technology that Talbot Kyros had installed in this new base. There is another system that he has at his disposal that he used to bring the Shuffle Alliance Gundams, the Relativity, and the Outlaw Star here. It is a technology called a "Transporter System", which was explained (in a nutshell) to take solid matter, transfer it into energy and send it along a concentrated beam of information to its new location and reconstruct the solid matter in that new location. It is quite a marvelous technology in my opinion, though I'm sure that there are those among our new Fellowship that wouldn't like the idea of being deconstructed on such a level.

Another piece of very valuable technology that has been introduced to us is in an area called, "The Learning Center", in which there are chairs that are set up much like dentist chairs, except that beside them they each have a small screen. The way that they work (as it was explained) is a person can learn anything they choose. The screen sitting next to each chair would allow the user to choose whatever subject that they wanted to learn. Then by choosing it transverse magneto energies would surge through the human brain transferring digital data into electrochemical impulses in the human brain. However, Talbot said that he did not want to disrupt our universes anymore than what he has already done, and so none of us have used them.

"We have to stick to what we each do best." As Talbot had put it.

In the three days that our Fellowship has been here, there has also been a new construction on a ship that has been decided to be called, "The Novastorm". Talbot Kyros had explained to us all that it would serve as a mobile suit assault carrier. As it turns out, this ship would be able to carry all of the mobile suits in our Fellowship as well as carrier small one man fighters that Talbot has also called, "The Arrowheads" mainly because of their triangular shaped design.

The tensions amongst the Fellowship have been growing strong, because we all know that when the Novastorm is finished, we will all begin the attack. I only hope that we can all make it together.

000

It had only been three full days since the true King of Mydar had been freed, but as he himself stated that they weren't completely out of the woods just yet. He spoke of the Obsessed, the ones who had imprisoned him in his own tower, as long as they existed in the lands of Mydar, it would never be free. The King, Talbot Kyros, stressed this point very clearly. So, in the three days that they spent in the massive underground base called, "The Rabbit Hole" they prepared for the coming war for the Tower. It was as if they were all knives, swords, and guns being sharpened and greased up for their best performance, thanks to the equipment available to them.

The base, "The Rabbit Hole" was massive, stretching down and outward like the roots of an ancient tree, each branch containing all the amenities that they would need; the Repair bay where the Preventer Ship Relativity, the Outlaw Star, and the Gundams were situated for their repairs and maintenance. There were also the personal quarters that were quite "cushy" especially to the Peace Guns and the Kenshin-gumi who usually slept on the floors and very uncomfortable mattresses. The rooms even had view screens as large as windows that would allow a person to see what they wanted, a forest, a mountain, a river, or a beach. Talbot had even shown them all a device called a "replicator" which when activated and given a command can create food, clothing, even weapons if so desired. Yet, there was no need for making more weapons since Talbot had such a ready supply of weapons.

Though most of the activity over the past three had had been in the repair bay, there Talbot as well as his guard Armand the Weapon Smith were busy building the mobile suit assault carrier that Talbot had christened, "The Novastorm". IT was the morning of the first day that Armand brought Talbot the plans for it, that was when Armand lived up to his reputation of being a great weapons designer.

He demonstrated his weapon-making skills in practicality when he built a new beam saber for Johan to replace the one that he had lost. It was built to be just like Johan's old saber, a curved casing for faster parries and a green blade. As far as the Novastorm and Arrowhead fighters construction, that was left in the hands of Talbot's magic. All he did was copy what Armand had designed onto lined paper. He did it in the same way that he materialized the table, chairs, and feast for the Fellowship. Simply wrote it out and used his magic symbol to make it a reality.

The Novastorm itself was roughly the same size as the Preventer ship Relativity except that it was a lot more streamlined with a great long nose that was almost needle-like coming from its oddly short triangular body with its swept back wings and large engines. The long needle-like nose, as Armand explained, was a ship launcher. It could launch out mobile suits as well as ships as long as they fit through the long accelerator shaft. The nose of the Novastorm also had a second shaft directly beneath the first one so that more ships and mobile suits may be launched at the same time. Loading the Novastorm up was like loading a gun, load from behind and shoot through the front. The Novastorm was also equipped with a cloaking device which would allow the ship to be invisible to the naked eye, radar, and heat. All of this was done on the first day of the "Rabbit Hole".

After the Novastorm and Arrowheads were built and the Outlaw Star repaired within those three full days, it seemed that the attack would be soon but a plan would be needed and a very good one too. Armand, Loki, Bartleby, and Talbot met with the rest of the Fellowship to device their ingenious scheme. While it was happening, and the Fellowship steeped in debate about how to proceed with this plan, one of them was severely distracted.

Johan sat in his seat in the meeting room as the debating continued around him, he simply shut it out like background noise. It was the awareness that was starting to get to him. Ever since he came back from the Dark Tower he felt changed, just like Princess Zelda's tarot reading. He had changed, he could feel it but how was still eluding him like a memory that he was long since gone. It simply drove him to his wits end as he would wander the vast halls of the Rabbit Hole on the first day.

He was slowly brought back to reality when his name was called.

"Johan?" The voice called to him, "Johan?" A pair of fingers snapped and Johan was brought back.

"I was asking you what you thought." Duo Maxwell explained

"About what?" Johan asked back

"About our attack plan." Loki reiterated, "Haven't you been listening?"

Johan shook his head, "I've been preoccupied lately."

"With what?" Haruka asked as she laid her hand upon her husbands shoulder

Johan looked down at the conference table and then back up to all his family and friends. He could see in their eyes that they all had their concerns about him. Almost like at a support group when everyone assumes the worst and really listens to the person that they think is dying. Johan looked and decided that there really no use in trying to hide what was bugging him. He took a deep breath to spill out everything.

"I'm not sure…how to explain it." Johan began, "…I think…the best way I can describe it is that I've become aware of things."

"What kind of things?" Bartleby asked

Johan looked at the guard knowing full well that he couldn't lie because he would definitely know.

"This morning" Johan explained, "Even though I was asleep I knew that Haruka was in the shower while Julia and Leto were still in bed. I could even see them as if I were awake."

"It could have just been a dream." Relena counseled

Johan shook his head, "I know that it wasn't…in a dream you aren't very…lucid. What I saw I knew for certain was happening."

"What could have caused this?" The inquisitive Ami Mizuno (Sailor Mercury) asked

"I already know what caused it." Johan responded

"Then what?" Duo Maxwell asked

"It was when I had brought the items to the Dark Tower." Johan went on to explain, "And when Talbot merged with the them, an arch of his power went through my chest and after I was revived I became slowly more aware of this world, like coming out of sleep. What I think happened is that while Talbot was merging with this items, some of his power spilled into me. I have also started to manifest more powers. Such as I can move objects purely by will."

"So can the rest of us." Rain Kasshu pointed out

"But that's not all I can do." Johan reported

"Master, can this be true?" Gandalf asked

"I'm afraid so." Talbot responded, "Johan, you've been able to absorb some of my powers while I was merging with them. You can bend the laws of reality itself to your whim, but these powers will only function in Mydar. That goes for all of you, once you return home, you will no longer have these abilities."

Lupin snapped his fingers, "Damn, and I was hoping that they would help my thieving career."

"Would have been nice." Jigen agreed

"And I would have caught you even quicker." Zenigatta added

Talbot got back to the matter at hand, "With these abilities, Johan, I believe that you will be a great asset on the battlefield against the Obsessed, which means that you and the rest of Preventer would stay here on the ground while another team would fight in space."

"But we still need a plan of attack." Trowa brought up, "Without a plan there's no attack, and no attack there will be no victory."

"I have something worked out." Bartleby announced as he tapped the side of his head, "From what I've spied, I have found a weakness in the Obsessed structure. The weakness lies in the City of Nash, which has gone under Martial Law because of the Obsessed looking for us. It is in the city where a building stands called the Troy Tower, that looks like this."

Bartleby waved his hand over the conference table and from the center came a projection of a great tower that was only dwarfed by the Dark Tower itself. It seemed familiar to some members of the Fellowship who had seen the skyline of the City. The tower itself seemed like a needle or like an inverted icicle with its wide base at the bottom and coming to the sharp point at the top.

"Inside the Troy Tower on the 45th floor," Bartleby continued, "There's a communication hub that relays orders and information to the other Obsessed forces both here in Mydar and in Space."

"So, if we knock it out, the Obsessed won't be as formidable." Sazuka deduced

"That's right," Bartleby confirmed, "Except this tower is heavily guarded by the Obsessed Elite, Agents, Wraiths, Cyborgs, and so on."

"Then what do we do?" The Elvish warrior Link asked

"Here's what I propose." Loki the Warrior spoke up, "We take our forces and split them into two groups. First will be the Earth Forces which will consist of the Preventers, the Lupin Crew, the Kenshin-Gumi, the Sailor Senshi, the Peace Guns, myself, Armand, the Gunsmith Cats, Link, Gandalf, and Draco. The second will be the Space Forces, which will consist of the Shuffle Alliance, the Outlaw Six, the Novastorm, the Preventer Teens, and the Evangelions.

"The first part of this operation will consist of a shuttlecraft called the Defiant." Loki waved his hand over the table and the image of the Troy Tower changed to an oddly shaped craft, "We will outfit it with a cloaking device and launch it from the cloaked Novastorm straight into the City of Nash, which as Bartleby has reported has gone under Martial Law. With the cloaking device activated we land in the city at the doorstep of the Troy Tower."

"And with that device on both the Defiant and the Novastorm it'll give us the element of surprise." Gandalf stated

"Right." Loki nodded, "And the ones that will be on the Defiant will be all of the Earth forces, with the exception of the Preventers, who will stay behind and wait for the conformation to attack. After the Defiant lands, the first ones out will be the Kenshin-Gumi, the Sailor Senshi, and Draco. All of you will serve as the distraction for the Obsessed guards of the Troy Tower. While the rest will enter the tower and disable the hub."

As soon as Loki stated this plan there were a lot of low whispers amongst the Fellowship thinking that the plan was oddly dangerous. Especially amongst those who were assigned to go on this mission.

"After the hub is disabled," Loki began again, "the attack can begin in which the Novastorm will launch to space where it will launch the Outlaw Star, the Arrowhead fighters piloted by the Evangelions, the Shuffle Alliance, and the Preventer Teens. As far as reinforcements on Mydar, I have sent messages to the Fremin in the Gunsmoke Desert as well as the Elves of Riverden. They've already dispatched themselves and will start the attack the same time we do, which will be in two days. Any questions?"

Misato Katsuragi rose her hand, "Who will command the Novastorm?"

"That job would normally be mine." Talbot spoke up, "But I have to face Dark Eagle myself, which is why I'm going on the Defiant with the Earth Forces."

"As far as who would command the Novastorm" Loki stated, "That job will be yours, Major Misato Katsuragi. You do have command experience, right?"

"Yes, I do." Misato answered, "And I will command the Novastorm."

"Then we're all in agreement on the plan of attack." Gandalf stated, "In two days we will be fighting our greatest battle yet, a war that no one in Mydar will forget."

"No doubt about it." Talbot quietly agreed

Johan and Heero looked at each other and nodded to say, "Mission Accepted."

And so it was that two days later the Fellowship of the One would fight for the Freedom of Mydar.

To be continued…