b**DISCLAIMER**/b
I DON'T OWN GW, DAMN IT! lmao. I do own Shou Angela, Shou Chen, the Beijing, Lightfeather Gundam, Diablo/Diablo Custom, Phantom Custom, Lady Wong Shi, and Poseidon Custom, though. XD I think that covers it. Enjoy. :D
bMisplaced in Space - Chapter Four; That Gundam!/b
"Bye everyone!" Mei called from the doorway. "See you later, Auntie!"
"Bye!" called back her new friends, waving her off from their table. The smaller girls' farewells were much more muffled, as their mouths were stuff with eel.
She exited the small building, jogging down the street. She was due back at the Beijing, so she had to hurry. Her father would be utterly pissed if she were late for check in. She turned the corner and broke into a loping run towards the docking bay. It wasn't long before she spotted the Beijing's sleek ebony and silver body and ran down the gangway, into the belly of the ship.
Once inside she slowed her pace, heading down the long ribbed hallway towards the bridge. She was halfway there when she began hearing shouts through the doorway. She distinctly recognized her father's booming voice.
In response she quickened her pace once more and barreled through the doors. "Father?!" she cried, "What's the matter?"
Her father's large, black chair swiveled about to face her. Shou Chen towered above her, his face carved in fury. He was a tall, commanding man, broad of shoulders and thin of hip, built much like an ox. His gray and black hair hung haphazardly about his shoulders, his balding head shining with tiny beads of sweat. His brown eyes blazed with outrage.
"My daughter, it's here! I've found it! I've found the ship!" his voice boomed, gesturing with his arms out the large window ahead.
Outside flew five custom gundams, some sparring together, some flying this way and that in lazy loops. Chen pointed to one in particular, one that Mei knew quite well.
It was THE gundam.
***
"Mommy!" cried a toddler, waddling across the courtyard to her mother. All around grew shoots of bamboo, and before the child and her mother stood a massive oriental-styled building.
"What's the matter, Mei?" her American mother asked, hefting the little one into her arms.
The child squirmed in her arms, pointing to the sky with both hands. "I saw them, Mommy! Look! I saw the robots! ...Someday I wanna ride the robots, too, like you and Daddy!"
The blonde woman laughed. "Someday you will, Mei. We'll teach you how." She gazed up, following the direction her daughter pointed. She then narrowed her eyes. "Mei, go tell Grandmother, okay? I need to get your daddy. These are bad robots." She kissed her daughter and set her down, who nodded and ran off.
Once her daughter was gone, she ran up the steps into their home, calling for her husband. "Chen! Chen, where are you?"
"Angela? Is something wrong?" He poked his head out of his study, blinking at his wife's urgent cries.
"Chen, it's the gundams! They're back!" The young Chen nodded, tossing away his glasses and running out the door.
Once outside, it was quite obvious that news of the enemy gundams had spread. The people of 05 had begun to panic, running towards their shelters. Chen raced towards the fighter docks, his wife hot on his trail. Most citizens parted for their emperor, though some were too frightened to notice.
Just as he'd reached the freight elevator to the fighter hanger, the first shot hit.
BOOM!
The whole colony ship jarred at the impact, sending a few people to the ground. Chen dashed within the elevator with his wife, quickly entering the code for his desired location. Moments later he and Angela were in the hanger, running for their own gundams.
"Fong!" he shouted to one of the mechanics, "Throw us our suits!"
The man nodded, throwing them a couple of space suits and helmets, both of which the couple quickly worked their way into. After that, Lightfeather Gundam and Diablo Gundam were off the ship, along with a few other 05 fighters.
The routine battle ensued, and soon all but one Gundam remained, which was unusual. This gundam was one the colony pilots had never seen before; large, white machine, with bird-like silvery wings. This one was new and seemed to be the leader of the pack now.
"Angela," Chen said, his face appearing on her screen, "I'm going to engage head-on. Go for the rear, okay?" She nodded as her face fizzled off the screen. He turned his attention back to the enemy craft, raising his twin swords menacingly.
The new gundam, unfazed by the Diablo's display of the cutlery, thrust itself forward, colliding with the chest armor of its black-colored opponent. The Diablo was thrown backwards, nearly hitting the bio-dome that defended the colony. Instead the gundam stopped short before rebounding back at its aggressor, slashing repeatedly with the large katanas.
Again, his attempts were in vain, though, as they were batted from his grasp. In place of the swords, he drew a machine gun, firing a volley of shots at the other gundam's visor, which caused the glass to visibly crack open.
As a reply, Chen's damaged opponent kicked one of its large feet back at him.
Annoyed by this childish attack, he opened his vulcan cannon. He quickly powered, firing directly at the blinded gundam.
But then, the gundam powered its thrusters and motored up and away, out of the cannon shot's path. Instead, to Chen's sheer horror, the blast of energy crashed into poor, lilt Lightfeather. The angelic gundam exploded into bits.
Angela was gone.
"NO!" Chen screamed, shielding his eyes from the blindingly bright light. "ANGELAAA!!! YOU SON OF A BITCH!! YOU KILLED HER!!!"
After Angela's death, Mei's father seemed to slowly loose his mind. He began constantly muttering to himself, became prone to fits of violence, and continually spoke of, 'The Gundam.'
Years went by and Emperor Shou's mental illness became more apparent to his daughter, though no one else even seemed to notice. Eventually her father married again and to a true succubus, a pilot warrior called Lady Wong Xi. Xi coerced her father into marriage, sponging off of his mental instability, or so it seemed to Mei. Xi's daughter, Ping, was the same way. Thankfully, Ping married some nobleman and left the 'family' before her stepfather began his most insane project. However, Xi's younger daughter Hebi... oh, Hebi.
A few days after Mei's twelfth birthday, the emperor had ordered a ship to be built, which he would call the Beijing. Chen had become hell-bent on finding that gundam, and the Beijing would be his doorway to finding it. He had the Diablo improved upon, along with Xi's precious Poseidon, and ordered a gundam built for his trainee daughter, which she dubbed Phantom for it's sleek, ghostly appearance. With those he brought along several of his fighter comrades' gundams, along with their pilots.
Once the ship was complete, Emperor Shou took his family and hundreds of 05 army unit gundams (along with their pilots) into space, questing to find that gundam. Four ticked by on that ship, battling whoever contested it, the gundam continuing to elude Chen. Some of his subordinates began to doubt its very existence.
***
"It's there!" Chen cried, staring at the winged gundam, holding his arms up towards it. "Now! Now, it will be destroyed!" he shouted, clenching his fists. "Mei, suit up! Release war unit regiments 'A' through 'E'!"
The princess obediently padded toward the hanger, her father on her heels. Ahead of her there was a swarm of soldiers pouring into the halls ahead of her.
"Now..." she heard him mumble, "Now you're mine, murderer!"
***
Just as the five pilots-in-training had returned to the Peace Milion, the alert sirens had begun to wail. Relena's voice was shouting over the intercoms, "We are under attack, I repeat we are under attack! Do not panic! Gundams 01 through 05 are already out there! Please, report to the mass hall and await further instruction! I repeat..."
"Why the hell are we being attacked?" Ash shouted over the sirens, clamping her ears shut.
Nick shrugged and yelled, "Should we go to the mass hall?" The girls all nodded.
Upon arrival they made a beeline for the window, which revealed the whole fight to them. Several small crafts that resembled doll units were swarming the huge gundams, and several custom gundams, which had already done a number on Sandrock. A red and black gundam, which seemed to be the leader, had just engaged Wing Zero while the others were tangled in with Altron, Deathscythe Hell, and Heavyarms. Two more had begun closing in on the Peace Milion. It was pure chaos, and the G-boys had next to no chance of winning.
Ashley contemplated the situation for a moment before pulling aside her friends. "They need help," she said simply, biting her lip.
"No duh!" Kriss squeaked, wringing her hands nervously, looking back and forth between her friends and the battle outside. Those two gundams were getting awfully close...
Nicole was staring with a great amount of concern at Sandrock's somewhat-mangled form. She tore her eyes away for a second to give her older friend a hard stare. "So, does that mean you're thinking what I'm thinking?"
Ashley replied with a rather psychotic grin. "Exactly. Kriss, do you think you can hotwire a few of those Aries for us?"
The blonde girl's face broke into a grin and she nodded enthusiastically. "I think so! Shouldn't be too much different from hotwiring a car."
The three took off, leaving the two siblings left in the dust. Anna and Nick stared after them, back at each other, then after their friends once more.
"...Are they going to steal some Aries and go out there?" Anna asked, quite confused.
Nick nodded slowly. "I think so..." The two obviously had taken a different train of thought to reach that conclusion.
A few seconds more went by before they screamed for them to wait up.
***
Kriss, Nicole, and Ashley were already outside by the time the two got down to the hanger. Since they sure as hell couldn't figure out how to hotwire some Aries, they went to the weaponry hold. Inside they found a large console with a huge window in front of it. They could see the three tiny Aries motoring towards the battle site from their vantage point. Outside of the console were two very large sets of guns and cannons.
While the two began figuring out the weapons consoles and firing on the enemy gundams, outside the girls had just breached into ground zero. Shots flew this way and that, and the gundams were much larger than the robotic suits the trio had hijacked.
Ashley's face appeared on screen in her friends' Aries. "Are you guys ready?"
Both nodded. "Ready."
And thus, they plunged into the middle of the war zone, each blasting into a different direction. Nicole flew to Sandrock, whom was being pummeled all over again by a large, pink gundam. A high-pitched giggle from Gundam Barbie's pilot picked up on the brunette girl's communications. The sadistic little bitch clearly wasn't very careful about her comm. lines.
Well, now she would make the bitch pay for hurting her favorite bishie, damn it! She fired off a round of explosives, which blew up in the face of Sandrock's torturer. Quickly, she took the opportunity to begin dragging the bashed up gundam back towards the Peace Milion.
Whilst she was going fast as she could tote the behemoth with her meager Aries, Quatre's face appeared on screen. Several cuts and bruises were all over the place and he twitched in pain. Despite his pain, he tried to manage a commanding voice. "Who are you? Identify yourself!"
Nicole sheepishly allowed herself to appear onscreen, waving a bit. "Hi, Quatre. It's just me, Nicole."
"NICOLE!?" the Arabian boy screeched, "What in the name of Allah are you DOING out here? You're not even a real pilot! How'd you get out here? Are you insane? Do you want to get yourself KILLED?!" A strange mix of anger, concern, and gratitude seemed to shine in his eyes.
"Um, well..." she began, "Me, Ash, and Kriss saw you guys out here, and you guys were really getting your tails whipped. No offense, but it's true. So, we stole a few Aries and came out here. I was worried about you, so I came to get you... I'm sorry. Are you mad?"
"...A little," he replied, wincing in pain. "But since you're here, do you think you could go a little faster, please?"
She huffed, "I never! I'm going as fast as I damn well can, it's not my fault that Aries are so tiny and Sandrock is so heavy!"
"Sandrock's not heavy! He's the perfect weight for his size!" the 04 pilot pouted, quite defensive of his gundam.
Above the quibbling pair, Mei flew stealthily. She had spotted the exiting pair and thought they'd make a nice target. The other gundams of the ship were all caught up with one of Beijing's pilots, so she would play with them a bit. Without warning she swooped down, Phantom's huge lance drawn. She delivered a few quick slashes from her black and silver gundam's arms, creating several large gashes in both the gundam and the tiny craft that drug it back towards the ship.
Nicole screamed as the phantom gundam slashed open her Aries as if it were a can of sardines. A red light began blinking frantically within the cockpit, screeching about leaking fuel. The damn gundam must have slashed her fuel tanks! "FUCK!" the imp shouted over the warnings that screeched within the cockpit, almost completely drowning her senses. She whirled around and aimed her arm cannon in the belly of the black machine and fired, sending the mechanical monster flying back several yards, more from surprise than the strength of the cannon's beam. She turned once more and continued motoring towards the ship, the Aries speed dwindling. Ahead of her she spotted a collection of guns on the ship firing past her. It had to be Nick and Anna covering her!
Under their cover fire, she hauled herself back to the hanger of the Peace Milion. The airlock opened up and allowed her in and once the bay door closed she was allowed within the hanger. She pulled the broken Sandrock as far as she could, then opened the cockpit and jumped out. She climbed up the huge gundam to the cockpit, to which Quatre had already opened the door.
"Quatre, Quatre, are you okay?" she cried, gingerly pulling him out of the tiny space. He was damaged much, much more than the communications screen had allowed her to see. "Oh Gods, there's so much blood..." She held him in her lap, some of his blood spilling over and soaking her Capri-length baggy, black shorts, onto her vibrant orange shirt.
Weakly, Quatre lifted a bloodied hand to her face, touching her cheek. "You saved me..." he whispered, before blacking out.
"Quatre!" the short girl screeched. "Quatre you better not die on me!!" As she called for him to wake up, medical personal came and took him away. Behind them were mechanics, ushering her off of Sandrock and using large machines to replace him in his restraints, along with the Aries. The girl was whisked away from the hanger and locked in her room. Behind her soon followed Kriss, Ashley, and Anna, along with promises that they would be dealt with the next day. Shortly after all the explosions outside ceased as that familiar multi-colored light appeared. They'd jumped to somewhere else, away from that gundam-loaded ship.
Once the roommates were left alone for the night, each took a shower in turn and dressed in fresh pajamas before piling on Ashley's bed to discuss the battle.
Nicole shared with them her rescue of the Winner boy and her encounters with the two gundams after Kriss and Ashley spoke of their battles and rescues of more injured pilots. Anna talked about how Zechs had stumbled upon she and Nick in the weaponry hold using the cannons.
"Oh," Ashley added, "Also, I heard what Heero was talking about with that red and black gundam. The red and black one was saying something about how he would have his revenge and that Heero would die for killing his wife twelve years ago."
"That's kind of strange, considering Heero was like three frickin' years old then," Anna said.
"Yeah, I thought so, too," the taller girl agreed.
***
To be continued, yet again! :D
I DON'T OWN GW, DAMN IT! lmao. I do own Shou Angela, Shou Chen, the Beijing, Lightfeather Gundam, Diablo/Diablo Custom, Phantom Custom, Lady Wong Shi, and Poseidon Custom, though. XD I think that covers it. Enjoy. :D
bMisplaced in Space - Chapter Four; That Gundam!/b
"Bye everyone!" Mei called from the doorway. "See you later, Auntie!"
"Bye!" called back her new friends, waving her off from their table. The smaller girls' farewells were much more muffled, as their mouths were stuff with eel.
She exited the small building, jogging down the street. She was due back at the Beijing, so she had to hurry. Her father would be utterly pissed if she were late for check in. She turned the corner and broke into a loping run towards the docking bay. It wasn't long before she spotted the Beijing's sleek ebony and silver body and ran down the gangway, into the belly of the ship.
Once inside she slowed her pace, heading down the long ribbed hallway towards the bridge. She was halfway there when she began hearing shouts through the doorway. She distinctly recognized her father's booming voice.
In response she quickened her pace once more and barreled through the doors. "Father?!" she cried, "What's the matter?"
Her father's large, black chair swiveled about to face her. Shou Chen towered above her, his face carved in fury. He was a tall, commanding man, broad of shoulders and thin of hip, built much like an ox. His gray and black hair hung haphazardly about his shoulders, his balding head shining with tiny beads of sweat. His brown eyes blazed with outrage.
"My daughter, it's here! I've found it! I've found the ship!" his voice boomed, gesturing with his arms out the large window ahead.
Outside flew five custom gundams, some sparring together, some flying this way and that in lazy loops. Chen pointed to one in particular, one that Mei knew quite well.
It was THE gundam.
***
"Mommy!" cried a toddler, waddling across the courtyard to her mother. All around grew shoots of bamboo, and before the child and her mother stood a massive oriental-styled building.
"What's the matter, Mei?" her American mother asked, hefting the little one into her arms.
The child squirmed in her arms, pointing to the sky with both hands. "I saw them, Mommy! Look! I saw the robots! ...Someday I wanna ride the robots, too, like you and Daddy!"
The blonde woman laughed. "Someday you will, Mei. We'll teach you how." She gazed up, following the direction her daughter pointed. She then narrowed her eyes. "Mei, go tell Grandmother, okay? I need to get your daddy. These are bad robots." She kissed her daughter and set her down, who nodded and ran off.
Once her daughter was gone, she ran up the steps into their home, calling for her husband. "Chen! Chen, where are you?"
"Angela? Is something wrong?" He poked his head out of his study, blinking at his wife's urgent cries.
"Chen, it's the gundams! They're back!" The young Chen nodded, tossing away his glasses and running out the door.
Once outside, it was quite obvious that news of the enemy gundams had spread. The people of 05 had begun to panic, running towards their shelters. Chen raced towards the fighter docks, his wife hot on his trail. Most citizens parted for their emperor, though some were too frightened to notice.
Just as he'd reached the freight elevator to the fighter hanger, the first shot hit.
BOOM!
The whole colony ship jarred at the impact, sending a few people to the ground. Chen dashed within the elevator with his wife, quickly entering the code for his desired location. Moments later he and Angela were in the hanger, running for their own gundams.
"Fong!" he shouted to one of the mechanics, "Throw us our suits!"
The man nodded, throwing them a couple of space suits and helmets, both of which the couple quickly worked their way into. After that, Lightfeather Gundam and Diablo Gundam were off the ship, along with a few other 05 fighters.
The routine battle ensued, and soon all but one Gundam remained, which was unusual. This gundam was one the colony pilots had never seen before; large, white machine, with bird-like silvery wings. This one was new and seemed to be the leader of the pack now.
"Angela," Chen said, his face appearing on her screen, "I'm going to engage head-on. Go for the rear, okay?" She nodded as her face fizzled off the screen. He turned his attention back to the enemy craft, raising his twin swords menacingly.
The new gundam, unfazed by the Diablo's display of the cutlery, thrust itself forward, colliding with the chest armor of its black-colored opponent. The Diablo was thrown backwards, nearly hitting the bio-dome that defended the colony. Instead the gundam stopped short before rebounding back at its aggressor, slashing repeatedly with the large katanas.
Again, his attempts were in vain, though, as they were batted from his grasp. In place of the swords, he drew a machine gun, firing a volley of shots at the other gundam's visor, which caused the glass to visibly crack open.
As a reply, Chen's damaged opponent kicked one of its large feet back at him.
Annoyed by this childish attack, he opened his vulcan cannon. He quickly powered, firing directly at the blinded gundam.
But then, the gundam powered its thrusters and motored up and away, out of the cannon shot's path. Instead, to Chen's sheer horror, the blast of energy crashed into poor, lilt Lightfeather. The angelic gundam exploded into bits.
Angela was gone.
"NO!" Chen screamed, shielding his eyes from the blindingly bright light. "ANGELAAA!!! YOU SON OF A BITCH!! YOU KILLED HER!!!"
After Angela's death, Mei's father seemed to slowly loose his mind. He began constantly muttering to himself, became prone to fits of violence, and continually spoke of, 'The Gundam.'
Years went by and Emperor Shou's mental illness became more apparent to his daughter, though no one else even seemed to notice. Eventually her father married again and to a true succubus, a pilot warrior called Lady Wong Xi. Xi coerced her father into marriage, sponging off of his mental instability, or so it seemed to Mei. Xi's daughter, Ping, was the same way. Thankfully, Ping married some nobleman and left the 'family' before her stepfather began his most insane project. However, Xi's younger daughter Hebi... oh, Hebi.
A few days after Mei's twelfth birthday, the emperor had ordered a ship to be built, which he would call the Beijing. Chen had become hell-bent on finding that gundam, and the Beijing would be his doorway to finding it. He had the Diablo improved upon, along with Xi's precious Poseidon, and ordered a gundam built for his trainee daughter, which she dubbed Phantom for it's sleek, ghostly appearance. With those he brought along several of his fighter comrades' gundams, along with their pilots.
Once the ship was complete, Emperor Shou took his family and hundreds of 05 army unit gundams (along with their pilots) into space, questing to find that gundam. Four ticked by on that ship, battling whoever contested it, the gundam continuing to elude Chen. Some of his subordinates began to doubt its very existence.
***
"It's there!" Chen cried, staring at the winged gundam, holding his arms up towards it. "Now! Now, it will be destroyed!" he shouted, clenching his fists. "Mei, suit up! Release war unit regiments 'A' through 'E'!"
The princess obediently padded toward the hanger, her father on her heels. Ahead of her there was a swarm of soldiers pouring into the halls ahead of her.
"Now..." she heard him mumble, "Now you're mine, murderer!"
***
Just as the five pilots-in-training had returned to the Peace Milion, the alert sirens had begun to wail. Relena's voice was shouting over the intercoms, "We are under attack, I repeat we are under attack! Do not panic! Gundams 01 through 05 are already out there! Please, report to the mass hall and await further instruction! I repeat..."
"Why the hell are we being attacked?" Ash shouted over the sirens, clamping her ears shut.
Nick shrugged and yelled, "Should we go to the mass hall?" The girls all nodded.
Upon arrival they made a beeline for the window, which revealed the whole fight to them. Several small crafts that resembled doll units were swarming the huge gundams, and several custom gundams, which had already done a number on Sandrock. A red and black gundam, which seemed to be the leader, had just engaged Wing Zero while the others were tangled in with Altron, Deathscythe Hell, and Heavyarms. Two more had begun closing in on the Peace Milion. It was pure chaos, and the G-boys had next to no chance of winning.
Ashley contemplated the situation for a moment before pulling aside her friends. "They need help," she said simply, biting her lip.
"No duh!" Kriss squeaked, wringing her hands nervously, looking back and forth between her friends and the battle outside. Those two gundams were getting awfully close...
Nicole was staring with a great amount of concern at Sandrock's somewhat-mangled form. She tore her eyes away for a second to give her older friend a hard stare. "So, does that mean you're thinking what I'm thinking?"
Ashley replied with a rather psychotic grin. "Exactly. Kriss, do you think you can hotwire a few of those Aries for us?"
The blonde girl's face broke into a grin and she nodded enthusiastically. "I think so! Shouldn't be too much different from hotwiring a car."
The three took off, leaving the two siblings left in the dust. Anna and Nick stared after them, back at each other, then after their friends once more.
"...Are they going to steal some Aries and go out there?" Anna asked, quite confused.
Nick nodded slowly. "I think so..." The two obviously had taken a different train of thought to reach that conclusion.
A few seconds more went by before they screamed for them to wait up.
***
Kriss, Nicole, and Ashley were already outside by the time the two got down to the hanger. Since they sure as hell couldn't figure out how to hotwire some Aries, they went to the weaponry hold. Inside they found a large console with a huge window in front of it. They could see the three tiny Aries motoring towards the battle site from their vantage point. Outside of the console were two very large sets of guns and cannons.
While the two began figuring out the weapons consoles and firing on the enemy gundams, outside the girls had just breached into ground zero. Shots flew this way and that, and the gundams were much larger than the robotic suits the trio had hijacked.
Ashley's face appeared on screen in her friends' Aries. "Are you guys ready?"
Both nodded. "Ready."
And thus, they plunged into the middle of the war zone, each blasting into a different direction. Nicole flew to Sandrock, whom was being pummeled all over again by a large, pink gundam. A high-pitched giggle from Gundam Barbie's pilot picked up on the brunette girl's communications. The sadistic little bitch clearly wasn't very careful about her comm. lines.
Well, now she would make the bitch pay for hurting her favorite bishie, damn it! She fired off a round of explosives, which blew up in the face of Sandrock's torturer. Quickly, she took the opportunity to begin dragging the bashed up gundam back towards the Peace Milion.
Whilst she was going fast as she could tote the behemoth with her meager Aries, Quatre's face appeared on screen. Several cuts and bruises were all over the place and he twitched in pain. Despite his pain, he tried to manage a commanding voice. "Who are you? Identify yourself!"
Nicole sheepishly allowed herself to appear onscreen, waving a bit. "Hi, Quatre. It's just me, Nicole."
"NICOLE!?" the Arabian boy screeched, "What in the name of Allah are you DOING out here? You're not even a real pilot! How'd you get out here? Are you insane? Do you want to get yourself KILLED?!" A strange mix of anger, concern, and gratitude seemed to shine in his eyes.
"Um, well..." she began, "Me, Ash, and Kriss saw you guys out here, and you guys were really getting your tails whipped. No offense, but it's true. So, we stole a few Aries and came out here. I was worried about you, so I came to get you... I'm sorry. Are you mad?"
"...A little," he replied, wincing in pain. "But since you're here, do you think you could go a little faster, please?"
She huffed, "I never! I'm going as fast as I damn well can, it's not my fault that Aries are so tiny and Sandrock is so heavy!"
"Sandrock's not heavy! He's the perfect weight for his size!" the 04 pilot pouted, quite defensive of his gundam.
Above the quibbling pair, Mei flew stealthily. She had spotted the exiting pair and thought they'd make a nice target. The other gundams of the ship were all caught up with one of Beijing's pilots, so she would play with them a bit. Without warning she swooped down, Phantom's huge lance drawn. She delivered a few quick slashes from her black and silver gundam's arms, creating several large gashes in both the gundam and the tiny craft that drug it back towards the ship.
Nicole screamed as the phantom gundam slashed open her Aries as if it were a can of sardines. A red light began blinking frantically within the cockpit, screeching about leaking fuel. The damn gundam must have slashed her fuel tanks! "FUCK!" the imp shouted over the warnings that screeched within the cockpit, almost completely drowning her senses. She whirled around and aimed her arm cannon in the belly of the black machine and fired, sending the mechanical monster flying back several yards, more from surprise than the strength of the cannon's beam. She turned once more and continued motoring towards the ship, the Aries speed dwindling. Ahead of her she spotted a collection of guns on the ship firing past her. It had to be Nick and Anna covering her!
Under their cover fire, she hauled herself back to the hanger of the Peace Milion. The airlock opened up and allowed her in and once the bay door closed she was allowed within the hanger. She pulled the broken Sandrock as far as she could, then opened the cockpit and jumped out. She climbed up the huge gundam to the cockpit, to which Quatre had already opened the door.
"Quatre, Quatre, are you okay?" she cried, gingerly pulling him out of the tiny space. He was damaged much, much more than the communications screen had allowed her to see. "Oh Gods, there's so much blood..." She held him in her lap, some of his blood spilling over and soaking her Capri-length baggy, black shorts, onto her vibrant orange shirt.
Weakly, Quatre lifted a bloodied hand to her face, touching her cheek. "You saved me..." he whispered, before blacking out.
"Quatre!" the short girl screeched. "Quatre you better not die on me!!" As she called for him to wake up, medical personal came and took him away. Behind them were mechanics, ushering her off of Sandrock and using large machines to replace him in his restraints, along with the Aries. The girl was whisked away from the hanger and locked in her room. Behind her soon followed Kriss, Ashley, and Anna, along with promises that they would be dealt with the next day. Shortly after all the explosions outside ceased as that familiar multi-colored light appeared. They'd jumped to somewhere else, away from that gundam-loaded ship.
Once the roommates were left alone for the night, each took a shower in turn and dressed in fresh pajamas before piling on Ashley's bed to discuss the battle.
Nicole shared with them her rescue of the Winner boy and her encounters with the two gundams after Kriss and Ashley spoke of their battles and rescues of more injured pilots. Anna talked about how Zechs had stumbled upon she and Nick in the weaponry hold using the cannons.
"Oh," Ashley added, "Also, I heard what Heero was talking about with that red and black gundam. The red and black one was saying something about how he would have his revenge and that Heero would die for killing his wife twelve years ago."
"That's kind of strange, considering Heero was like three frickin' years old then," Anna said.
"Yeah, I thought so, too," the taller girl agreed.
***
To be continued, yet again! :D