Disclaimer: Holy crap…long time no update on this huh? Wooooow….See a friend just got the ENTIRE boxset for GW and Sharpsnout has watched all and is so happy to see Duo goodness again that I had to start writing my GW fic again…Anyways…Now that I have started this again I hope you all enjoy this! Oh ya…I own Hawk and everyone else you don't recognize outside of this fic…Ahem I claim Duo! *blinks* I probably just signed myself up for a mobbing didn't I?....Oi…oh well…heh…
Clear Shadow: I will need the Ty back eventually… I really hate to take him from you but he's a necessary for later on in the story…
Later!
Well it was a long time waitin for but here it is CHAPTER 7 "Oz strikes!"
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When the debris began to clear it was unclear who had survived the attack. The green beam scythes were the first thing that could be seen through the dust and debris. Duo stared in shock as the dust finally cleared leaving only the Gundam, none of the Oz suits where anywhere to be seen.
Inside Phantom, Hawk was grasping the controls so tight his knuckles were turning white he had never been so scared in his life, but looking around he grinned, they had won! Not only had they taken out the 8 that had advanced on them, but the remaining 6 had disappeared from sight and off of Phantom's tracker.
"Ok, shut down thermal beams," Hawk said slowly feeling tired "A. an….and B." The two beams sizzled and crackled as they disappeared back into the scythe. "Good work Phantom, we kicked their ass," he pressed three codes and Phantom slid the staff into its holster on his back. "We did it,"
Suddenly the screen in front of him flickered on, a boy not much older then Hawk appeared on the screen. In Deathscythe Duo stared at Hawk, this kid was younger then him, he couldn't be more then 12.
"Hey man you ok?" he asked. Hawk was about to answer when a thought crossed his mind, he had to check Phantom's exterior; he had to make sure there wasn't any damage. Pulling his space helmet on, Hawk opened the hatch and crawled onto the platform.
"Phantom gimme a hand will ya?" Phantom's left hand moved and put it in front of the hatch allowing the boy to easily float onto it. "Ok lift me up a little, little more, little…ok that's good." Phantom stopped abruptly and Hawk looked around, everything looked fine at least as far as he could see, he'd have to make a more complete check back at the base. Suddenly a beeping noise erupted from inside Phantom echoing in Hawk's helmet;
"Warning, Warning, approaching enemy OZ Mobile suites, confirmed three Aries and three space Leo's and an OZ Mobile Suit space carrier estimated time of arrival, 10 seconds!"
"Shit!" Hawk said, he didn't have time too do anything as Phantom was nailed with a missile, the Gundam sprang into life and closed its fists a bit wrapping around Hawk shielding the boy from the attacks, Hawk saw out of the corner of his eyes soldiers exiting Mobil suits coming towards them, he was losing consciousness and losing it pretty damn quickly, he could barley see Phantom clearly "Ph…Phantom..." He said weakly "clo…close and lock pilot hatch, do…do not let anyone inside 'cept me, and only if I…I call out my fathers name, got it pal? No matter what, happens do…do not let anyone inside the controls, no matter what happens to me, don't let them in…" and that was the last thing Hawk remembered.
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When he finally did resume consciousness, he had no idea where he was, or what he was doing there. He was in small cell, his wrists where shackled together much better then the soldiers had back on the colony. Whoever had captured him, was good, he had too give them that. His head hurt like a bitch and Hawk was finding it hard to focus on things far away.
After a few failed attempts Hawk managed to pull himself into a sitting position, taking a few deep breaths, he slowly began too remember what had happened. Him and Phantom, they had fought OZ Mobil Suits and they had won.
Then what the hell was he doing here. Oh ya, Hawk thought we got attacked and they must've caught us, Hawk's eyes went wide, what if OZ had gotten Phantom as well. They'd use him to build their own Gundam then everything everyone had been fightin for would be all for nothing.
"SHIT!" Hawk exclaimed, how could he have been so careless, this was all his fault, if he hadn't been so hotheaded and determined to fight they wouldn't have been there and they wouldn't have gotten caught. He should've listened too Ben, who was gonna kill him if he ever got out of this.
Suddenly the door on the other side of the room slid opened and a woman dressed in an OZ Commander uniform, large round glasses, her hair in buns, and a very pissed expression on her face entered. She looked down at Hawk her arms folded across her chest, two OZ soldiers entered behind her standing on either side of her. Hawk swallowed nervously,
"Well young man, you're the reason that 8 of the militaries mobile suits were destroyed?" she asked in a tone that would make you not want to cross her. Hawk kept his mouth shut, he wasn't sayin a word to OZ. "Excuse me I believe I asked you a question." Hawk refused to look at her, the woman nodded and one of the soldiers walked over and forced Hawk to his feet,
"On your feet kid, Colonel Une asked you a question!" he said holding Hawk's arm tight. Hawk continued to stare off behind this Colonel Une as if he hadn't heard a word any of them had said, he wasn't gonna acknowledge her and he WASN'T gonna answer her damn question.
The soldier stood behind Hawk holding both his arms tight, the other soldier walked over and nailed Hawk in the stomach with a hard punch. Hawk fell over gasping for air as pain shot through his body, he coughed a little as the soldier straightened him up and the other one nailed him again harder this time. Hawk coughed again and spat out blood.
"This can stop boy, just tell us how to get into your Gundam," Hawk took a deep breath trying to recompose himself; he swallowed again and stared back out at the wall behind her. He wasn't gonna tell them what they wanted to know, he'd rather die then give up Phantom, or the colonies freedom. The soldier nailed him in the face with another punch, Hawk felt blood pouring out of his nose and the second punch brought more blood in his mouth. "Is that mobile suit worth all the pain your experiencing young man? Just tell us what we want to know and it will all cease."
Three more punches to his face and four more to his stomach followed this, still Hawk refused to speak, he was now being held up by the soldier, he couldn't stand on his own, every cough brought up more blood and he could feel himself drifting in and out of conscious. He wasn't gonna last much longer if they kept this up he was gonna die at this rate.
"Colonel, if we keep this up we're going to kill him," She shot a glare at the soldier holding him,
"Did I ask for you opinion?" she hissed then paused for a moment "fine, we'll leave our young friend here to think about his options." With that solider holding him let go of his arms and Hawk hit the floor hard, unable too support his own weight. He bit his tender lip, and wiped the blood from his face with his hands still cuffed together, every move was agony every breath brought pain careening throughout his body.
He closed his eyes and pictured in his mind the gang, Rock, Ty, Gin, Klan, and…Terr, he missed them Terr especially. He wondered if he would ever see her again, if he would ever be able too finally tell her he loved her, and his father, the father he couldn't remember who had entrusted him with Phantom, he had lost Phantom to OZ, he had managed to destroy his fathers dream of freedom for the colonies. Eventually he knew OZ would figure out how to get into Phantom, and when they did it spelt disaster for the Colonies,
"I'm sorry," he mumbled softly "I'm so so…sorry for everything," and for the first time that he could remember, Hawk cried and fell asleep on the cold, hard floor of his cell crying softly to himself, ashamed to be crying, ashamed that he had screwed up so bad, and ashamed that he was responsible for the colonies defeat.
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In the main control room, overlooking the hanger where the Gundam stood, Lady Une stood staring at Phantom her arms crossed.
"Ma'am we are still having no luck gaining entrance too the Gundam's controls" A soldier said standing behind her saluting "the system seems too have a very advanced security system, which leads us too believe that only the pilot will be allowed access into the Gundam."
"Are you telling me that, a child is the only one who can get into the cockpit?" Lady Une hissed
"We believe so, we've stopped trying to get anywhere near the Gundam, we've already had 10 sent to the infirmary with severe burns,"
"Excuse me?"
"Every time someone goes near that thing it electrifies them at first it was just going near the hatch, now no one can get near the Gundam itself, I've never seen such security measures on a mobile suit."
"That is because this isn't your average Mobile Suit, these Gundam's are extremely advanced." She looked at the three soldiers hurriedly typing on the control panels. "What about you three, do we have any idea who the pilot is?"
"No ma'am, he had no idenfication on him, the only hint we have is the Gundam, and the goggles he was wearing,"
"Goggles?"
"Yes the goggles have the initials J.M. marked into the band, we're still not sure if those are his initials," Colonel Une stood near them, her arms across her chest still baring the same pissed look she'd had with Hawk.
"That is all we have?!" she said loudly, the soldiers winced and looked at one another panicky.
"Well there is this chain ma'am, there are reports in the colonies of a gang of thieves who bare this same chain, its possible he's one of them and stole the Gundam from its true pilot. We're checking judiciary record data bases too see if we get a match on the boy, if he's apart of that gang and has a record we'll find him."
"Good," Colonel Une pressed a button and a monitor brought up an image of Hawk passed out in his cell. "I'm sure when he started this he thought it was game, now he's seeing what fighting really means."
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Deep asleep, Hawk dreamed, he dreamed of his childhood and of his father. How things where before his father was killed; things he didn't remember.
*Dream Sequence*
"Jack, we've almost completed the finishing touches on the beam scythes."
"You know what, just for the hell of it why don't we install another beam to the bottom, facing the opposite direction of the top, create a two ended scythe, you know keep Phantom here unique,"
"You know, that might work, not only could the scythe be used offensively but defensively as well, if the scythe was spun at a high enough speed it could create an impenetrable shield that could ricochet enemy fire at ease. You know what…I'm gonna put it in, I'll bring up the schematics, this could be interesting,"
"You go for it Ben," the voices, they sounded so familiar yet so strange. Slowly he began to see the scene he was hearing. A younger Ben was standing on a walkway; behind him was Phantom, not quite complete. Watching on proudly was another young man, who looked exactly like Hawk; this was his father Jack,
"Daddy?" Hawk looked sharply at the owner of the voice, it was himself three maybe four years old. The boy walked over to his father and held his arms up
"Hey there's my little man!" Jack said he reached down and picked him up. Hawk pointed at Phantom reaching out towards the massive Gundam, "yup that's Phantom someday son you're gonna pilot him too, we'll all teach you, me, Ben, Rich, Louis, and Phantom, he'll be your best teacher," Ben came up behind Jack and patted his friend on his shoulders.
"Its hard to be its almost finished, seems like it was only yesterday I first found out about Operation Meteor from Dr. G. Finding Phantom was fortunate wasn't it Jack?"
"Yes it was, considering the fact the original pilot was planning on using the Gundam against Earth and the colonies in order too obtain total dominance, ya I'd say it was fortunate, finding Phantom when we did saved a lot of lives."
"Phamom" Hawk said stretching his fingers towards the Gundam
"You know Jack, you may not be the one too pilot Phantom, by the looks of things, Hawk's getting quite attached too him,"
"I hope that freedom comes long before he is old enough too pilot Phantom, with out the use of war to obtain it,"
"I don't know, Hawk was born to fly this Gundam, its obvious he's destined too fly Phantom Hawk, after all Hawk is Phantom's namesake isn't he?"
"I wouldn't have it any other way, Hawk's got the spirit of a Gundam pilot in him, he's only 3 yet he has a warrior soul; look at him, look in his eyes Ben, they're totally focused on Phantom and nothing else." Jack held Hawk at arms length and stared into his son's eyes "what do you say Hawk? You want too fly Phantom? Fight for the colonies freedom?" Hawk smiled happily stretching his arms towards the Gundam eyes alive and sparkling with excitement
"Phamom Hawk!" he exclaimed "wanna fly Phamom Hawk!" Jack and Ben looked at him and began laughing
"I couldn't have said it better myself," Jack said hugging Hawk close to him "my son the Gundam Pilot,"
*End Dream*
"Wake up kid!" a rough voice jarred Hawk from his deep sleep; he sat up slowly and allowed his eyes too focus on the figures standing above him. It was the same soldiers from before. Great, Hawk thought feeling a wave of pain shoot through his stomach remembering the pain from his previous encounter, back for round two guys? So soon? It's like you guys don't have a life outside of bein that ladies minions, He thought, A foot connected with his stomach. Hawk yelped and hit the ground again gasping for air, he hadn't been ready for a kick to the stomach. "On your feet!" the soldier shouted and grabbed Hawk by the collar of his shirt and dragged him to his feet.
"Now you gonna tell us how to get into the Gundam?" the soldier in front of him asked. Again Hawk took a deep breath and refused to acknowledge the soldier's presence refused to answer their questions.
"Damn kid," the soldier holding him up said "just go for it," Hawk braced himself and tried to block out the pain he felt, he coughed and tasted blood in his mouth, he spat it out aiming for the soldiers shoes, but he was so weak that he easily missed.
Again this went on until Hawk felt like he was on the verge of death, he wouldn't be able to take many more daily beatings like this.
The soldier nailed him once more directly in the stomach and the one holding him dropped him to the ground,
"Kid just give up the Gundam, your body isn't going to be able to take much more of this and you know it." Hawk barley heard him; he lay there on the cold floor and heard only the footsteps of the soldiers leaving and the closing of the door.
Once they where gone, Hawk slowly and weakly climbed to his knees, walked on them into a corner and promptly threw up a good amount of blood. He coughed and gagged a little before falling back to the floor, staring up at the grey ceiling.
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In the control room, Colonel Une was not happy, the second attempt to beat answers out of the pilot had failed, he wasn't talking and it was getting clear that he wasn't planning on talking.
"Lieutenant," she said looking at her communications officer
"Yes ma'am" he said standing up
"Send word to our main base, we're bringing a prisoner there for execution."
"Ma'am" he said and saluted before sitting back down and sending the message.
"We're going to execute the boy?"
"Yes, we'll try that little tactic, see if we can loosen his vocals, he's only a child with his whole life ahead of him, he will easily crack if his life is truly threatened, then once he gives us the needed information we will carry on with the execution," The soldiers exchanged a look.
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Oooo long Chappie…and again with the famous Sharpsnout cliffhangers! Bwhahahahahaha, will Hawk get exacuted? Will Oz get into Phantom? Will Duo come back into the story? Will I ever stop putting my homework off till the last minute? Will Ty ever stop stealin random crap?
All to be answered soon in the next chapter! Heh…well all 'cept the me putting HW off and Ty…stealin stuff…me an' Clearshadow both know that'll never happen…So ya…PLEASE REVIEW!!! I hope everyone still likes this…Really I hope you do…everythin' 'cept flames are welcome….
Oh and Clearshadow? Did I fix the grammer? If I didn't me sowwy…I tried too fix it myself…ya…going now…
*bows*
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