Chapter 6: Resurrected

"State your name and how you came across this base." An armed military officer demanded holding a gun at the three as they stood inside one of the entrance rooms. Beyond the door behind them were their ship and the only way out.

"My name is Aka Akiko, this is Motono Mori, and Amada Amura." She replied taking a small step forward. "If you really must know how we found this place, I came across Dr. Entrada's briefcase and met with him the day he was killed by Blue Cosmos." She went on in her cool, collected, indifferent tone. "I want to join the RPC." She finished bluntly. "I think I owe it to my parents."

"Put your gun down I've been expecting her for a few months now." An old man said with clear anticipation in his voice as he walked up behind the group of officers and stood in front of Akiko. "Your voice is just as he described. Eerily calm. Well then follow me I already have an assignment for you." He gestured for the three of them to follow him and they did. He lead them to a huge holding bay that contained ten mobile suits.

"So you're just going to trust us to run around here and see all of this stuff?" Amura wondered looking at the mobile suits wide-eyed.

"Indeed. I know why she's here and I figure if she trusted you enough to bring you along you must be pretty trustworthy indeed." The doctor went on as they stopped in front of one of the mobile suits. "This is the RPC preemptive strike force. Just recently completed with one minor problem." He turned and looked at Akiko and smiling. "Dr. Entrada encrypted the OS so we can't even turn them on. Now he's dead and we can't get them operational."

"And since I hacked his disk you think I can hack the lock he has on them?" She asked looking at the machines.

"Indeed. In exchange for your help we let you go alive."

"So then Amura shall we?" She asked looking at her friend. He nodded and they hopped off the railing and floated over to the mobile suits. "Pretty much standard procedure if it's anything like the last one. Couple of over-rides and backdoor trap." She explained over the intercom.

"Yeah piece of cake I think I can crack this in an hour easy." He replied cockily.

"Chances are it's different on every machine."

"No doubt but there's probably a common trick. He'd have to be an encryption genius to not have a common trick." Amura protested over the clacking of keys.

"I don't think he would be an ordinary computer genius if he was working for a covert secret organization." Akiko quipped with the same indifferent tone she had since before they got off the ship.

"Good point. So say we make a race of this? Whoever unlocks more or faster buys the other dinner when we get back?" He suggested smugly.

"You're on."

"Please I thought you everything you know!" He replied mockingly.

"Three years is a sizable amount of time to pick up some new tricks."

"Have they always been like this?" The doctor wondered looking at Mori.

"I've only ever seen them together today. I'm beginning to think they are when it comes to flexing their intellect though." She replied smiling. The doctor simply nodded and watched them intently.

"I thought this was going to be hard! It wasn't so hard!" Amura whined as he climbed out of the firs cockpit and into another after about 45 minutes. The doctor looked a bit surprised but just smiled. Akiko had changed machine 5 minutes ago.

They sat in the last two machines almost finished when an alarm started buzzing. "What is that?!" Mori screech frightfully as she looked at the Doctor worried.

"ZAFT..." He hissed running to the end of the platform. "GET THE PILOTS READY!!!"

"We can't send them out! It's suicide! They haven't had time to train in those things or get used to the OS!" The Squadron Captain called back over the intercom.

"Amura, have you been doing what I've been doing?" Akiko asked on the inter-suit intercom.

"Going through the machine's OS and set-up bit by bit before moving on?" He wondered slyly.

"Think we can handle it?"

"Probably." He responded taking up her indifferent tone.

"Think we should handle it?"

"Is it really our concern?"

"Doctor! Can this base survive a strike!" Akiko called over the main intercom.

"Half of it is heavily fortified the other half would be obliterated." He answered looking in her direction wide-eyed.

"And everyone not evacuated would die?" She wondered.

"Yes."

"Get my a flight suit." She crawled out of the cockpit and stood waiting for the suit.

"Me too." Amura said climbing out and looking across to her.

"You can't your just kids! And you don't know how to operate those things!" He yelled doubtfully.

"Doc. I don't know about you but I'm a Coordinator. I'm a real fast learner." Amura smirked.

"Amura?!" Akiko gasped.

"I was going to tell you one of these days Akiko I just need to be sure first. But oh well now's as good of a time as any other."

"Get them some suits." The Doctor muttered to one of the officers.

"Sirs?"

"I said get them some damn suits!" The officer nodded and took off as fast as he could. Akiko floated down on to the platform and whispered in Mori's ear.

"Pay attention to the intercom. If I say good-bye at any point in time I want you to climb into one of those suits and find the button that says hatch function. Do you understand Mori?" Mori's eyes welled up and she simply nodded. "I'll transmit all of the operation data as I figure it out so you'll know how to operate it to escape." She nodded again and Akiko walked off and climbed into the flight suit they handed her.

"Come back ok?! You better come back safe!" Mori shouted as she wiped her eyes.

"Remember what I told you!" Was all she said as she hopped back into the cockpit. The door closed and the Doctor pulled Mori out of the launch bay.

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"Sir we're approaching the RPC base. If our data is correct we should be in and out easy."

"Very good. This shall send the clear message to everyone who is truly superior. Coordinators will have our free run of space and Earth without fear of persecution and discrimination." The Captain of the huge warship replied in a grave tone. "And first we'll start with this sorry excuse for a prevention agency. Launch the mobile suits. No need to start an all out offensive for a chunk of rock.

"Yes Sir! Launch offensive Jin units 1,3, and 5. Orders are fire at will." The First mate commanded.

"Make sure to remind them to destroy the whole base."

"Yes Captain. Orders are to destroy everything!"

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"Are you sure you want to do this Amura?" Akiko wondered as they stood in the launch tubes preparing to go out.

"If we can stop this before it starts, yes let's go." He replied.

"Pilots! Prepare to launch." A woman's voice beamed over the intercom. "Systems all green commence launch!" A green light flashed in the cockpits and they took off.

"Yorutaka launching!" Akiko shouted as she zipped forward.

"Raimeitaka launching!" Amura shouted as he sped out of the tube. "This is it. This is where it all starts." He thought as dark expanse of space opened up on the screen in front of him.