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Chapter one- Cadet Training
The Australian desert stretched onward for hundreds upon hundreds of miles as the horizon blurred with a tanish-brown color. Kangaroos hopped around as they tried to find a water hole to drink from, and dingoes followed them to get a meal. One of the kangaroos hopped on a rock to escape the dingo. The rock rose up until the kangaroo slid off the sheet that was the rock. The dingo and kangaroo looked up and saw a Leo mobile suit and instinctively ran away like mad. The sixteen-year-old pilot looked at the two animals that ran away from him and sighed.
"Those animals ruined my hiding place. I better find a better place to ambush her."
A blip appeared on the radar of the Leo.
"Too late."
A Taurus jetted at full speed toward the Leo and fired a direct hit to the cockpit.
"This guy is still weak." The girl let out a big sigh.
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Date: 20, 5, AC-199
Time: 10:00AM
Location: San Jose, California
Preventor Combat Training Facility
Combat Simulation Room U01
Cockpit pod #10 opened and the pilot of the Leo walked out. He had semi-short red hair, green eyes, and wore trainee pilot clothes. He was about 5'8" tall. He looked up and saw a superior officer. He immediately saluted and acknowledged his superior.
"Ensign Misao Okita, that was pathetic." The officer said right in his face.
"Sir, I didn't mean to get distracted. Sir."
"It was a computer simulation, you shouldn't have been distracted."
Misao kept a straight face while the officer yelled at him, but inside he panicked over his pilot position.
"You have yet to win a single match against anyone. How do you expect to become a pilot at this rate?"
"Sir, I don't know. I just fought the best cadet. How am I supposed to think? Sir."
"Don't say that Ensign. You might have fought our best cadet, but it doesn't matter. If you have the spirit to win, you will."
Cockpit pod #11 opened up and the girl pilot who had beaten Misao appeared. She was 6' tall and had short dirty-blonde hair, gray eyes and wore pilot trainee clothes. The pilot saluted the officer.
"Good work, Ensign Kaori Enoki. You have proved yourself yet again."
"Sir. Yes sir."
The officer saluted again and walked out of the room. Kaori and Misao lowered their arms, and Kaori glanced over at Misao.
"You're pathetic. You call yourself a pilot."
Misao looked up at her. "I'll prove that I'm a pilot. I challenge you another simulation tomorrow."
"Fine by me. It can't hurt my record by winning another one." Koari walked out of the training room and left Misao to his thoughts.
Misao sat down on the floor and stared blankly on the ground.
'What have I done? She is so much better than me.'
A janitor walked in while he carried his mop and bucket. He looked down at Misao and gave a sympathetic look. The janitor crouched down while he laid his mop down.
"What's the matter, cadet?"
Misao looked at him seeing the traditional, light blue, custodial uniform on him with a blue hat and had an ID tag on his right pocket. The name said John Nash. He also looked at the janitor's face and saw they had aqua blue eyes with some brown hair that popped out of the hat.
'Great even a janitor has sympathy for me...'
"You going to answer me or do I have to salute?"
"Um.... Saluting won't be necessary. My mind trailed for a second."
"Ok. What's the matter, then?"
"Well, I challenged another cadet to a simulation match."
"What's wrong with that?"
"I got beaten by her today, pretty badly as well."
"Oh, so you were the one I just watched a few minutes ago."
"Watched?"
"Yeah. There is a monitor in the control room that I watched as I was cleaning the floor there."
"Great. You saw me get humiliated."
"I wouldn't say that. It was a good tactic that you tried, but you were too jumpy for it."
"Huh? You're the first one that has even given a positive review.... I wish I could get more."
"With that negative attitude, how do you expect to win?"
John Nash stood up and picked up his mop. He turned to walk out the door, but stopped just short of the door.
"Ensign Misao Okita. She isn't as good as she thinks. You can beat her quite easily."
Misao had a look of shock on his face as he heard the statement from the janitor. He rose out of confusion and looked straight at him. Misao just now realized the janitor was about 6'2" tall. He shook his head and came back to reality.
"What do you mean? Easily?"
"I saw your match, remember? Well, she has a flaw in her technique and I suggest you use it against her."
John Nash walked out the door and turns the corner, but stuck his head back into the doorway.
"Ever hear of a tactic called 'Divide and Conquer'?"
Date: 21, 5, AC-199
Time: 10:00AM
The Arizona landscape looked as vibrant as ever with many huge rock plateaus and a seemingly endless desert below it. Only cacti disrupted the desolateness of the setting along with a Taurus that flew up in the sky. The Taurus mobile suit continued to move onward and tried to pick up its Leo opponent on radar. Kaori became irritated as she looked at the desert and plateaus below as nothing appeared on her radar or scanners.
"I wish he would come out and fight like a man."
She had the Taurus lower its altitude, and leveled off at one hundred feet above the ground. The Taurus' camera picked up a plateau it was approaching at fast speed. Suddenly, a dust cloud appeared at the base of the plateau, and Kaori had a smile on her face at the sight of it. The Taurus grinded to a halt and it hovered above the dust cloud. It fired its beam rifle toward the dust cloud; it fired a total of five shots. The Taurus descended downward and landed by the dust cloud. Kaori also noticed several patches of disturbed desert soil by her mobile suit, but thought that the dust cloud had done that initially.
'The fool shouldn't have tried using the plateau.'
The Taurus fired another shot into the dust cloud right where Kaori thought that the Leo was.
"I win." Kaori chuckled.
The dust cloud dispersed and to Kaori's surprise there wasn't a scrap pile of a Leo in sight. The desert soil rose up behind her and the Misao's Leo jumped out as it fired its rifle at the Taurus. The rifle's bullets nailed the Taurus in the rear torso area and sent the Taurus to the desert floor.
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Cockpit pods #10 and #11 opened up. Misao walked out of the pod with gladness in his heart and a smile on his face, as he knew that he had beaten the best cadet. Koari on the other hand had the look of being extremely pissed off almost to the degree of killing someone. An officer walked into the room both cadets saluted to respect their superior.
"I'm impressed, Ensign Misao Otaki. That was a brilliant plan. I hope to see that out of you more often."
"Yes sir."
"Ensign Kaori Enoki, you did well, too. Let this be a lesson, and you should do better next time."
"Yes sir."
"Good job to both of you. Good day." The officer walked out of the room.
Both Ensigns walked out of the room shortly afterward and proceeded down the hall together. John Nash mopped the hall and headed toward the two from the opposition direction.
"How did you do it?" Kaori grumbled.
"Do what?"
"Beat me." Kaori tried to hold back her anger.
"Oh yeah, well I simply used a decoy maneuver when you got in range of my radar."
"I could tell that, but how did you know to use it at that spot and no where else?"
Meanwhile, they came up on John while he mopped and he looked up; he nodded his head on a job well done. The two passed him and he continued to mop.
"Well, I got inspiration from Napoleon."
"The real reason!"
Kaori and Misao stopped in the hallway as John Nash entered the training room as he continued to mop.
"You shouldn't have been able to pull off a move like that, unless you had help. Spill it. Who told you!"
"Um…."
"Was it the officer?"
"No...."
"Was it one of the simulation operators?"
"No…."
"Who was it?"
"The janitor that just passed us."
Kaori turned around and didn't see the janitor anymore. She looked back at Misao.
"You mean a janitor, that has no combat experience, told you something and you acted on it?"
"That is correct."
Kaori backed up a little bit and was extremely angry, but didn't want to make herself out to be a fool at the same time.
"Ok, I want to meet this janitor. Who is he?"
"His name is John Nash." Misao was not about to protect his new friend. Especially with how Kaori responded to things she didn't like. One cadet was lucky to be alive after he pulled a prank on her. "Shoot its almost class time." Misao laughed, but was practically frightened at what Kaori might have done otherwise.
"That's right. I forgot about class."
The two of them ran off toward classroom section of the complex. The simulation training room door opened as John walked out while he mopped away. He looked up to see both of the cadets as they ran and shook his head while he continued to mop.
**Several minutes later**
Classroom 221 was in a furry of activity as word of Misao's victory had spread through the ranks of the facility. Misao stood near the back as he tried to act naturally about it, but some of the other cadets mobbed him for questions of how he beat Kaori.
"How did you do it?" "Did you catch her off guard?" "How'd you win against Kaori?"
These questions blurred in Misao's mind and he glanced over at Koari, who gave a death glare. Misao knew that if he told them an ordinary janitor showed the way, he and Koari would have been in humiliation. So he gave the most blunt answer he could.
"Just luck I guess."
The professor walked into the room and grabbed the class' attention by a shout. The cadets dispersed to their assigned positions and left Misao near the back of the room along with Kaori by him. Misao looked at her again, but to his dismay she still gave the death glare. In his mind, the answer he gave to the others was inadequate to Koari, but he couldn't take it back. Misao walked over to his seat, which happened to be right next to Kaori. Kaori sat down promptly as well, but still gave a death glare to Misao. She finally let go of the look and glanced over at the person next to her. The cadet next to her typed on his laptop computer, and hadn't paid attention to his surroundings.
'Figures. Only Toki would be uninterested in what happened earlier. Does he ever get off that laptop?'
Toki's gray hair shined from the glow of the laptop, with his blue eyes that reflected the screen in front of him. He wore a red cadet suit, which only meant that he was a technician trainee. He only came to the class, because he needed to know how pilots reacted to various conditions of mobile suits.
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Several minutes after class ended, Toki sat at table #10 in the academic library in the facility, but he wasn't alone. Koari and Misao hid at a table behind him, while they observed him and talked at the same time.
"Will you give it a rest already?".
"Not until I know how he figured that out."
"You're hopeless and stubborn."
"I might be, but I wouldn't be saying that if I were you." Kaori gave another glare at him.
"Gotcha." Misao smiled out of fear for his life.
Kaori rose out of her chair and walked over to Toki's table. Misao frantically got up and followed her. Each one picked a side, and kind of surrounded Toki to prevent him from any attempt at escape.
"Toki Watari."
"What do you want? It better be important."
"Well...."
"I want you to look up something for me." Kaori continued. "I have a vendetta against someone, and I want to find out what could have driven him to tell wonder boy here how to beat me."
Toki looked at Kaori's face; "Misao beat you in a simulation? You're kidding, right?"
"No, she isn't." Misao turned away.
Toki was about to burst out in laughter, when he saw Kaori's eyes as it glared at him. He decided not to laugh, and turned back to his laptop.
"Ok. Who is this guy? What is his profession?"
"John Nash and he is a janitor."
Toki heard the statement and hesitated for a moment. 'A janitor?' He entered it as he thought that he might have heard it right. He scanned the facility's directory and a dossier of John Nash popped up. Toki looked at the screen for a second and shook his head.
"Well, here is John Nash."
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Employee: John M. Nash
Job: Custodian
Employer: Preventors Corps
Bios: Sex: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 150lbs
Eye Color: Aqua Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Blood Type: AB
Age: 19
Employment History:
New Edwards Military Base
AC-194 - AC-196
Phoenix Military Base
AC-196 - AC-198
Preventor Combat Training Facility- San Jose
AC-198 -
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Kaori looked at the data for little bit, and then a picture loaded of John Nash.
"That's him."
"Well, he might have simply overheard mobile suit pilots talking to one another."
"I hate to say it, but it looks like a fluke on his part." Kaori backed off from the two.
"Could be... except how does a fourteen year old become a janitor at military base?" Toki had a suspicious look on his face.
All three look at the screen, and nodded their heads.
"I think we need to keep an eye on this guy." Toki thought they had a conspiracy on their hands.
Chapter one- Cadet Training
The Australian desert stretched onward for hundreds upon hundreds of miles as the horizon blurred with a tanish-brown color. Kangaroos hopped around as they tried to find a water hole to drink from, and dingoes followed them to get a meal. One of the kangaroos hopped on a rock to escape the dingo. The rock rose up until the kangaroo slid off the sheet that was the rock. The dingo and kangaroo looked up and saw a Leo mobile suit and instinctively ran away like mad. The sixteen-year-old pilot looked at the two animals that ran away from him and sighed.
"Those animals ruined my hiding place. I better find a better place to ambush her."
A blip appeared on the radar of the Leo.
"Too late."
A Taurus jetted at full speed toward the Leo and fired a direct hit to the cockpit.
"This guy is still weak." The girl let out a big sigh.
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Date: 20, 5, AC-199
Time: 10:00AM
Location: San Jose, California
Preventor Combat Training Facility
Combat Simulation Room U01
Cockpit pod #10 opened and the pilot of the Leo walked out. He had semi-short red hair, green eyes, and wore trainee pilot clothes. He was about 5'8" tall. He looked up and saw a superior officer. He immediately saluted and acknowledged his superior.
"Ensign Misao Okita, that was pathetic." The officer said right in his face.
"Sir, I didn't mean to get distracted. Sir."
"It was a computer simulation, you shouldn't have been distracted."
Misao kept a straight face while the officer yelled at him, but inside he panicked over his pilot position.
"You have yet to win a single match against anyone. How do you expect to become a pilot at this rate?"
"Sir, I don't know. I just fought the best cadet. How am I supposed to think? Sir."
"Don't say that Ensign. You might have fought our best cadet, but it doesn't matter. If you have the spirit to win, you will."
Cockpit pod #11 opened up and the girl pilot who had beaten Misao appeared. She was 6' tall and had short dirty-blonde hair, gray eyes and wore pilot trainee clothes. The pilot saluted the officer.
"Good work, Ensign Kaori Enoki. You have proved yourself yet again."
"Sir. Yes sir."
The officer saluted again and walked out of the room. Kaori and Misao lowered their arms, and Kaori glanced over at Misao.
"You're pathetic. You call yourself a pilot."
Misao looked up at her. "I'll prove that I'm a pilot. I challenge you another simulation tomorrow."
"Fine by me. It can't hurt my record by winning another one." Koari walked out of the training room and left Misao to his thoughts.
Misao sat down on the floor and stared blankly on the ground.
'What have I done? She is so much better than me.'
A janitor walked in while he carried his mop and bucket. He looked down at Misao and gave a sympathetic look. The janitor crouched down while he laid his mop down.
"What's the matter, cadet?"
Misao looked at him seeing the traditional, light blue, custodial uniform on him with a blue hat and had an ID tag on his right pocket. The name said John Nash. He also looked at the janitor's face and saw they had aqua blue eyes with some brown hair that popped out of the hat.
'Great even a janitor has sympathy for me...'
"You going to answer me or do I have to salute?"
"Um.... Saluting won't be necessary. My mind trailed for a second."
"Ok. What's the matter, then?"
"Well, I challenged another cadet to a simulation match."
"What's wrong with that?"
"I got beaten by her today, pretty badly as well."
"Oh, so you were the one I just watched a few minutes ago."
"Watched?"
"Yeah. There is a monitor in the control room that I watched as I was cleaning the floor there."
"Great. You saw me get humiliated."
"I wouldn't say that. It was a good tactic that you tried, but you were too jumpy for it."
"Huh? You're the first one that has even given a positive review.... I wish I could get more."
"With that negative attitude, how do you expect to win?"
John Nash stood up and picked up his mop. He turned to walk out the door, but stopped just short of the door.
"Ensign Misao Okita. She isn't as good as she thinks. You can beat her quite easily."
Misao had a look of shock on his face as he heard the statement from the janitor. He rose out of confusion and looked straight at him. Misao just now realized the janitor was about 6'2" tall. He shook his head and came back to reality.
"What do you mean? Easily?"
"I saw your match, remember? Well, she has a flaw in her technique and I suggest you use it against her."
John Nash walked out the door and turns the corner, but stuck his head back into the doorway.
"Ever hear of a tactic called 'Divide and Conquer'?"
Date: 21, 5, AC-199
Time: 10:00AM
The Arizona landscape looked as vibrant as ever with many huge rock plateaus and a seemingly endless desert below it. Only cacti disrupted the desolateness of the setting along with a Taurus that flew up in the sky. The Taurus mobile suit continued to move onward and tried to pick up its Leo opponent on radar. Kaori became irritated as she looked at the desert and plateaus below as nothing appeared on her radar or scanners.
"I wish he would come out and fight like a man."
She had the Taurus lower its altitude, and leveled off at one hundred feet above the ground. The Taurus' camera picked up a plateau it was approaching at fast speed. Suddenly, a dust cloud appeared at the base of the plateau, and Kaori had a smile on her face at the sight of it. The Taurus grinded to a halt and it hovered above the dust cloud. It fired its beam rifle toward the dust cloud; it fired a total of five shots. The Taurus descended downward and landed by the dust cloud. Kaori also noticed several patches of disturbed desert soil by her mobile suit, but thought that the dust cloud had done that initially.
'The fool shouldn't have tried using the plateau.'
The Taurus fired another shot into the dust cloud right where Kaori thought that the Leo was.
"I win." Kaori chuckled.
The dust cloud dispersed and to Kaori's surprise there wasn't a scrap pile of a Leo in sight. The desert soil rose up behind her and the Misao's Leo jumped out as it fired its rifle at the Taurus. The rifle's bullets nailed the Taurus in the rear torso area and sent the Taurus to the desert floor.
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Cockpit pods #10 and #11 opened up. Misao walked out of the pod with gladness in his heart and a smile on his face, as he knew that he had beaten the best cadet. Koari on the other hand had the look of being extremely pissed off almost to the degree of killing someone. An officer walked into the room both cadets saluted to respect their superior.
"I'm impressed, Ensign Misao Otaki. That was a brilliant plan. I hope to see that out of you more often."
"Yes sir."
"Ensign Kaori Enoki, you did well, too. Let this be a lesson, and you should do better next time."
"Yes sir."
"Good job to both of you. Good day." The officer walked out of the room.
Both Ensigns walked out of the room shortly afterward and proceeded down the hall together. John Nash mopped the hall and headed toward the two from the opposition direction.
"How did you do it?" Kaori grumbled.
"Do what?"
"Beat me." Kaori tried to hold back her anger.
"Oh yeah, well I simply used a decoy maneuver when you got in range of my radar."
"I could tell that, but how did you know to use it at that spot and no where else?"
Meanwhile, they came up on John while he mopped and he looked up; he nodded his head on a job well done. The two passed him and he continued to mop.
"Well, I got inspiration from Napoleon."
"The real reason!"
Kaori and Misao stopped in the hallway as John Nash entered the training room as he continued to mop.
"You shouldn't have been able to pull off a move like that, unless you had help. Spill it. Who told you!"
"Um…."
"Was it the officer?"
"No...."
"Was it one of the simulation operators?"
"No…."
"Who was it?"
"The janitor that just passed us."
Kaori turned around and didn't see the janitor anymore. She looked back at Misao.
"You mean a janitor, that has no combat experience, told you something and you acted on it?"
"That is correct."
Kaori backed up a little bit and was extremely angry, but didn't want to make herself out to be a fool at the same time.
"Ok, I want to meet this janitor. Who is he?"
"His name is John Nash." Misao was not about to protect his new friend. Especially with how Kaori responded to things she didn't like. One cadet was lucky to be alive after he pulled a prank on her. "Shoot its almost class time." Misao laughed, but was practically frightened at what Kaori might have done otherwise.
"That's right. I forgot about class."
The two of them ran off toward classroom section of the complex. The simulation training room door opened as John walked out while he mopped away. He looked up to see both of the cadets as they ran and shook his head while he continued to mop.
**Several minutes later**
Classroom 221 was in a furry of activity as word of Misao's victory had spread through the ranks of the facility. Misao stood near the back as he tried to act naturally about it, but some of the other cadets mobbed him for questions of how he beat Kaori.
"How did you do it?" "Did you catch her off guard?" "How'd you win against Kaori?"
These questions blurred in Misao's mind and he glanced over at Koari, who gave a death glare. Misao knew that if he told them an ordinary janitor showed the way, he and Koari would have been in humiliation. So he gave the most blunt answer he could.
"Just luck I guess."
The professor walked into the room and grabbed the class' attention by a shout. The cadets dispersed to their assigned positions and left Misao near the back of the room along with Kaori by him. Misao looked at her again, but to his dismay she still gave the death glare. In his mind, the answer he gave to the others was inadequate to Koari, but he couldn't take it back. Misao walked over to his seat, which happened to be right next to Kaori. Kaori sat down promptly as well, but still gave a death glare to Misao. She finally let go of the look and glanced over at the person next to her. The cadet next to her typed on his laptop computer, and hadn't paid attention to his surroundings.
'Figures. Only Toki would be uninterested in what happened earlier. Does he ever get off that laptop?'
Toki's gray hair shined from the glow of the laptop, with his blue eyes that reflected the screen in front of him. He wore a red cadet suit, which only meant that he was a technician trainee. He only came to the class, because he needed to know how pilots reacted to various conditions of mobile suits.
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Several minutes after class ended, Toki sat at table #10 in the academic library in the facility, but he wasn't alone. Koari and Misao hid at a table behind him, while they observed him and talked at the same time.
"Will you give it a rest already?".
"Not until I know how he figured that out."
"You're hopeless and stubborn."
"I might be, but I wouldn't be saying that if I were you." Kaori gave another glare at him.
"Gotcha." Misao smiled out of fear for his life.
Kaori rose out of her chair and walked over to Toki's table. Misao frantically got up and followed her. Each one picked a side, and kind of surrounded Toki to prevent him from any attempt at escape.
"Toki Watari."
"What do you want? It better be important."
"Well...."
"I want you to look up something for me." Kaori continued. "I have a vendetta against someone, and I want to find out what could have driven him to tell wonder boy here how to beat me."
Toki looked at Kaori's face; "Misao beat you in a simulation? You're kidding, right?"
"No, she isn't." Misao turned away.
Toki was about to burst out in laughter, when he saw Kaori's eyes as it glared at him. He decided not to laugh, and turned back to his laptop.
"Ok. Who is this guy? What is his profession?"
"John Nash and he is a janitor."
Toki heard the statement and hesitated for a moment. 'A janitor?' He entered it as he thought that he might have heard it right. He scanned the facility's directory and a dossier of John Nash popped up. Toki looked at the screen for a second and shook his head.
"Well, here is John Nash."
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Employee: John M. Nash
Job: Custodian
Employer: Preventors Corps
Bios: Sex: Male
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 150lbs
Eye Color: Aqua Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Blood Type: AB
Age: 19
Employment History:
New Edwards Military Base
AC-194 - AC-196
Phoenix Military Base
AC-196 - AC-198
Preventor Combat Training Facility- San Jose
AC-198 -
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Kaori looked at the data for little bit, and then a picture loaded of John Nash.
"That's him."
"Well, he might have simply overheard mobile suit pilots talking to one another."
"I hate to say it, but it looks like a fluke on his part." Kaori backed off from the two.
"Could be... except how does a fourteen year old become a janitor at military base?" Toki had a suspicious look on his face.
All three look at the screen, and nodded their heads.
"I think we need to keep an eye on this guy." Toki thought they had a conspiracy on their hands.