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After Eve Gundam Wing: A New Heero

Chapter Twenty Six

"Colonel, what are you doing here?" asked Max sharply as he deactivated his beam sword.

"Stopping you from making a mistake Max," replied Vance. "I'm taking these pilots into custody, along with their Gundams."

"You won't do any such thing," shot Anita. She and her compatriots showed no signs of lowering their weapons.

"I'm afraid you don't have a choice, unless you want me to allow the Commander here to tear you apart," said Colonel Vance. There was a pause of silence. Though the choices sucked, he was right. They had to go along with Vance's instruction.

"Follow me to the hangar," continued Vance. "Max, you are dismissed for now. We can talk later."

"Yes sir," said Max quickly, the obvious annoyance in his voice. The Scorpion Mobile Suit lifted from the ground and flew towards the base again.

In the OZ base...

"What are you doing?!" yelled Stephen as he leapt from Deathscythe's cockpit and ran at several guards. They were pulling Jin out of the battered Wing Zero's cockpit and placing him on a long white stretcher. Stephen grabbed one of the guards and wrenched him aside.

"Kindly take your hands off of my medic," said Vance coolly as he approached.

"What are you doing with him?" asked Stephen through gritted teeth.

"Jin is in very bad shape," said Vance as he stopped in front of the stretcher. "He needs to be taken to medical care right now. If he doesn't get help, his injuries could become worse, though they aren't severe now."

Stephen looked at him hard for a minute, and then let go of the medic, though seemingly painfully. "Thank you," said Vance. He waved an arm, dismissing the medics to take the unconscious pilot away as his comrades watched helplessly.

Kreed would have liked nothing better than to punch Vance's lights out at the moment, but he had armed guards with him and thought better of it. "What are we doing here?" he managed to snarl. Vance fixed his eyes on his son.

"You are safe," said Vance. "As long as you keep your head and mind your place here, no one will be harmed."

"How can we know?" asked Anita quickly. "Just what are your intentions for bringing us here?"

"Believe me," began Vance. "I'm only trying to help your friend. He will be fine soon. They're only fixing him up. As soon as Jin is okay, you may leave freely."

"I don't believe you," said Kreed.

"You wouldn't believe your own father, Kreed?" asked Vance. Anita and Stephen looked at Vance, then at Kreed, then to Vance again, questioning looks on their faces.

"My father died a long time ago," said Kreed quietly, though the anger evident in his voice as his eyes continued to stay locked with Vance's. "He is dead to me."

"Hold on a sec," said Stephen. "You...are Vance's...son?"

"By blood," said Kreed quickly, never removing his eyes from Vance's. "Only by blood."

"Then that means..." began Anita. She and Stephen turned their gaze to Rachel. "You are Vance's daughter?"

"You haven't told your friends, your comrades, that I'm your father?" asked Vance cruelly. "Well I guess the cat's out of the bag now, isn't it?"

"I'm sorry guys," said Rachel softly, almost inaudibly.

"Well, it doesn't matter anyway," said Vance as he turned to walk out of the hangar through a door. "I have business to tend to. You may roam about the hangar as you please, but be warned that you are being watched. Don't try anything stupid."

"We want to be taken to Jin now," demanded Rachel quickly. Vance stopped in his tracks. "Lead us to Jin's hospital room, or wherever it is you're keeping him."

"Very well," said Vance as he continued to walk. "Follow me."

They walked silently down many corridors of the OZ installation. No one dared talk, or especially bring us the relation between Vance and Rachel and Kreed. It took almost ten minutes of riding elevators and walking until they arrived at sick bay.

"This is our infirmary," said Vance as he opened the door. "I'm afraid I cannot stay any longer, so I must bid you farewell." He turned to leave, and Rachel looked down at her feet, battling inside herself whether or not she should say anything as they stood in the doorway.

"Vance!" she called. He stopped again in his tracks and turned to face her.

"What is it?" he asked kindly with a smile. This smile actually startled them all.

"Will...you consider," she began uneasily. "Would you consider...stopping this war?" The question seemed really dumb. It wasn't even worded very well, but it was all her numb mind could come up with. Vance closed his eyes and chuckled.

"I'm afraid it's far too late for that Rachel," he said as he turned and walked away, disappearing behind a sliding door. Rachel looked defeated, but not surprised at his answer.

"Come on," said Kreed. "Let's see Jin."

They all marched into the infirmary, lined with beds full of various sick or injured people. They were able to find Jin easily. He was the only kid in the entire place. They walked quickly up to his bedside, and saw him lying strait on his back with an oxygen mask over his face

"He's fine," said a doctor as he noticed their concerned faces. "Merely a few scratches and he got the wind knocked out of him. That's all."

They all still looked concerned, but the doctor's words obviously eased their minds. They found seats around his bed to sit at.

Jin woke up in almost an hour. He looked up through squinted eyes as the room slowly came into focus. What in the world had happened to land him in bed? He immediately sat up and pulled the mask off his face. It was only then that his fellow pilots noticed him being awake, and they immediately arose from their chairs.

"Jin!" shouted Stephen immediately. "You're awake!"

"What ever gave you that idea?" asked Jin sarcastically. He looked around at his surroundings. "Where the hell are we? This doesn't look like an Alliance base at all."

"We're still at OZ's base," said Rachel. "This is their infirmary. Vance took you here."

"What?" asked Jin. "You're joking."

"No, she isn't," said Vance as he walked up to his bed. "How are you feeling Jin?" he asked.

"Peachy-keen," said Jin through gritted teeth. He got up and dusted off his clothes. "Let's get out of here now," said Jin.

"I'm with you buddy," said Stephen.

"You'll be needing a Mobile Suit transport truck," said Vance. They stopped what they were doing and looked back at Vance. He was right. Wing Zero was absolutely incapable of any flight.

"I won't be taking any more of your help Vance," said Jin as he left. "I'll figure something out."

"I'll give you five minutes in that hangar before you come to your senses," said Vance. They walked out of the infirmary, and the pilots led him to the hangar where Wing Zero was.

Five minutes later...

"Colonel Vance, did you approve a plane launch for now?" asked an officer from the control tower. Vance turned to face him and looked questioningly at him.

"No, why?" replied Vance as he looked at the monitors in front of the officer.

"Someone's taking off in a Class C military transport at this moment, and we can't get through to him on the radio."

Vance looked out at the runway, where a large jet-plane with a large cargo-hold was building speed to take off. Four Mobile Suits jetted out the hangar can caught up with it, and they were soon airborne.

"That's Jin," said Vance grinning to himself. "I figured he'd do something like that."

"Should we shoot him down?" asked the officer.

"Nah," replied Vance. "Let him go." Jin's face appeared in a monitor. He was sitting in a large cockpit.

"Greetings OZ retards," he said with a smile. "Sorry Vance, but I just had to turn down the offer on your truck. Planes are much faster. I also can't drive. Ironic eh? I can pilot a plane, but I can't drive a car. Oh well. I'll just be dropping my Gundam off, and I'll set the auto-pilot to return the plane back to your base. You'll get it back. I promise you. See ya' later!" Jin disappeared along with the plane and Gundams on the horizon.

End Chapter Twenty-Six

Jin's escape from OZ. Not much plot of course. Sorry about that. But now everyone knows about Rachel and Kreed's secret. How will they take it I wonder? Well, we'll all find out soon enough.