Infinite Battle

Mission 3 - They Call It...Ignis

(Narrator: The year is After colony 218. Peace has been achieved between the colonies and Earth. Machines once known as 'mobile suits', no longer exist in this world of unending peace, or so it was to be. Although the war twenty-two years in the passing still make people quiver in their own stupidity, there are still people who believe that war is in the human nature and without war, mankind can no longer exist.

In an effort to destroy anyone who may oppose them, the Pheonix rebel faction decided to go after anyone deeply involved in the Great War. These attacks were staged at individuals who, until now, had no idea their own parents were truly the venerated Gundam Pilots. Now as these once brave warriors disappear one by one, their children must help protect the peace that has been loved for so many years. Only one thing changed the course of the fight...the return of the atrocious mobile suits.)

"This sucks."

"Solo...please! Don't make it worse than it already is!"

"Well, Reiao, have an escape plans then?? It can't get much more worse than this!"

The three boys sigh together as they sit in a musty old cell. It was disgusting. The smell was even worse...it smelled like death. How'd they get here? Well they were caught. How'd they get caught? Solo's big mouth. he'd gone blabbing about the situation in the old base and someone had must've heard him. At this point, the three figured they'd get to see their parents soon.

"At least it isn't as bad as it could be...perhaps...we'll see Relena soon." Reiao said, leaning back onto a moldy old wall. Shinlou looked very calm as he looked up towards the blonde.

"But-"

"Solo, can you keep your yap shut? It's your fault we are here in the first place!" Shinlou snapped, though his calm demeanor was still in perfect condition. The Winner boy just scratched the back of his head, then glanced at Solo. His eyes showed that he would listen to him, even if Shinlou would not.

"Well...I was going to say before I was so rudely interrupted..." Solo sneered at the raven black-haired one, "That if Relena and the others were here, don'tcha think that they'd put us together?"

"That could be true...unless they wanted to keep us an them separated?" Reiao suggested. Shinlou, who'd been listening, shook his head.

"If that were the case, why didn't they separate us three?" he said closing his eyes, "This doesn't make any sense."

"Unless there are more nuts in this world then we though..." Solo sighed, plopping down onto the only metal chair in the room. There was a knock on the door, which made the three boys glance up to it. Through the air vent on the bottom of the door, Solo could see large bulky legs, hairy too. The guy on the other side must have been huge, like an ox.

"Come along yeh pansies. Boss wansa word with yeh." bellowed a gruff voice. The door opened and three men stepped in, a particularly large one in the center. The three cringed as the room suddenly smelled like sweat and horrible body odor. Each man grabbed one of the boys' arms. They looked like twigs in those giant hands. Unfortunately, Solo ended up with the one that smelled the most. Did this man ever shower?0o Eww...

As they were pulled up the halls, Solo looked at a few things. There was large blood stain right out of the block of cells. It was deep brown, very old, and the wall around it was starting to rot. Around another corner, the Maxwell noticed that each door was off it's hinges. He dared not look into them, though. Where they the horror of long past suffering. It made Solo wonder...would one of those lost voices, still grasping for a speck of life become theirs? It sure seemed like it. Would they die here? He did not know what it was that made him think this way...there was a lingering feeling of disaster in this place. What'd happened here before they had come?

"Welcome..." said a mystical voice as Solo realized that the three smelly men and the looming demonic halls were gone. They were standing in a large hall. In the darkness behind the tall, lanky man was shadowed figure. It looks proud like a murder who'd just slain their victim... The walls too, they were painted with blood of lives past and inked in a dreary blue coat of melancholy depression. The light from the door had disappeared. "You don't need to worry my friends...I'm not part of Pheonix. This organization is called Black Anubis. You can trust us..."

"Trust you?? You treated us like criminals! Why would we trust you??" Shinlou growled. The lanky man snapped his fingers and shook his head. One of the large men walked back into the room, grabbed Shinlou and dragged him out. The door slammed and the two boys knew he was gone.

"Where are you taking him?" Reiao asked, trying not to raise his voice. If he did then...Solo'd be alone with this nut case. The man waved his head with a grin.

"He'll be fine. We do not intend to harm you three...you are much too important to us..." theman said. That grin turned into a smirk and Solo lowered his head. Important...? "Follow me, your destiny awaits you..."

"Destiny...?"

The man lead the boys towards the large imposing figure. The ceiling grew higher and there were black figures...engineers...going every which direction. That's when he could see what it was. Light shined onto the monster as if it were a divine creature. That...was not a divine creature.

"We call it Ignis Epopis. It is the first gundam built in nearly twenty -two years and took no more than a year to create." he paused. Solo saw the mischievous smirk and Reiao balled his hands into fists, "And it is yours. We are giving it to you..."

"No! NO! This isn't right!" Reiao yelled and shook his head, running to the base of it'sfoot and turning around, "These...These machines!! They should not exist!"

"He's right!" Solo said, narrowing his eyes at that man with the cold eyes, "You may want one, but we don't want another war! It's wrong!"

"War is necessary to stimulate the human soul. We are not peaceful. There will always be war...HIM!" he man laughed, pointing at Reiao, "He will pilot the Ignis!"

At that the three smelly men returned to the room. Two grabbed Solo and bent his arms backwards. The other one ran to Reiao and literally threw him into the cockpit, and closing it. The Winner boy shouted incoherently towards Solo. There was only one thing he thought it could of been. At that first thought, Solo bit down hard on the hand of one of the men then kicked the other heading up the hallway. The doors with no hinges...he ran past them. In his mind, he could hear muffled voices calling to him, but he had to keep right of running. The wall with the blood. A turn there and he came to Shinlou's cell.

"Shinlou! Shinlou!" he yelled through the air vent. Shinlou recognized the chatter box's voice. He was slightly glad that it was not one of those guards. "We need to help Reiao!"

"What is it?" the boy on the other side asked, kneeling down to the air vent. He was not pleased to see the frightened expression on Solo's sweaty face. "What's wrong...?"

"They...those...They are forcing...Reiao to pilot a mobile suit!" Solo yelped and Shinlou's eyes widen as he stood up. He leaned onto the rusted door and mumbled softly, "Pull it as hard as you can..."

Solo tilted his head, but did not hesitate. Those bulky guys could be right on his tail... He grabbed the handle of the door and pulled. He feel and hear Shinlou's desperate bangs from the other side. Something gave away, whether it be the lock on the door or his hope, he did not know, but the door broke and Shinlou jumped through it. His calm face was...no longer calm.

"I knew they were no good. I knew it..." Shinlou growled, his eyes lit up with fire, "If they had really wanted our help, they should have treated us better! DAMMIT! We need to find Reiao and get him out this place...if he goes unstable, I don't know what to do."

"Unstable...?"

"His family curse...you could say." Shinlou said running up the hall. They'd nearly make it out of the cell block, when the broad-shouldered men blocked their way. The floor started to shake...an earthquake? No...he'd felt this before and it was no earthquake. The Gundam Ignis was moving. The men, with their enormous size and weight had toppled off balance and crashed into that rotted wall. The two boys blink at each other, then shrug, and dashed up the hall.

They'd reached the room where Ignis had been to find that it was no longer there, as Solo had figured. the wall was broken. No sign of the Gundam OR the man who'd forced Reiao to pilot it.

"This is bad..." Shinlou said, looking up, "It must have taken off...I wonder how Reiao knew how to pilot it..."

"There's a jeep!" Solo exclaimed. It was there. Conveniently located. The two run up to it and jump in. Shinlou hot-wires it and sighed. Thank god. there was plenty of gas.

"LET'S MOVE IT!" he yelled, hitting the gas and giving Solo whiplash. The jeep was going so fast it was as if it ere flying, soaring through the sky. The town was dead ahead and Solo could hear explosions.

"Faster!" Solo yelped as the jeep continuously zoomed up the street. In the distance was four Aires suits facing the monstrous Ignis Epopis. One of the Aires suit raises it's gun at the Ignis. there was...alot of smoke.

"Surrender your weapon at once!" came a man's voice from the leading suit. The Ignis did not move at all. "I said SURRENDER!" At that the Ignis did move, but contrary to what the man had asked. It raised it's plasma gun and blasted the head right of the leading Aires suit then another at the body. The entire suit blew up. "RETREAT!" yelled another Aires and they made off for the sky. Ignis's gun was yet again raised and shot down all of the suits.

"Now way...Reiao...he wouldn't...!" Solo yelped as Shinlou screeched to a stop. He shook his head. There was something horribly wrong with this picture. He wouldn't know how to pilot a mobile suit. Then...no...

"It's the system..." Shinlou said warily. The Maxwell child blinked at him, "During the war, Solo, Heero Yuy, one of the gundam pilots, piloted a Gundam with the capability to control the pilot's mind if they were not strong enough to mentally withstand it."

"You mean Aeni's father?"

"Yes...I believe that in there is a system similar to the Zero system. They choose Reiao to pilot it because his beliefs are so strong compared to ours. The system could take advantage of that..." Shinlou said, jumping out of the car. he ran closer to the scene and Solo followed him. Why is everything so messed up? Both collapsed as a Leo suit landed to the ground, machine gun pointed at the Ignis. Friend or foe? "Good...everything's should be okay now..."

"What the hell are you talking about?? Have you lost your mind Shinlou!?" Solo yelped.

"You ask too many questions...quiet Maxwell...for once."

The Ignis pointed it's gun at the leo. The Leo suit did not move even just an inch. "Reiao-kun, you are being controlled...lower your weapon or you'll regret it. I will not repeat myself, Reiao..." At that the Ignis lowered it's gun and drops it. Solo sighed but Shinlou nudged him. It wasn't over yet...

"Aeni-chan...We cannot fight! Fighting isn't right!" sounded a voice from the Ignis. It was...Reiao's voice...but it sounded maniacal.

"If it isn't right, then why are you fighting?" Aeni said, not lowering her gun.

"Aeni-chan, if you want to fight me, then you will have to die. If I kill everyone that wants to fight, then there won't be another war!" Reiao said.

"Reiao-kun, you are being controlled by the machine. Get out of the Gundam now or I will pry that cockpit open to get you out." she said. her voice was still, beautiful, and calm. The Ignis reaches back and pulled out a metal sword slowly. It detaches into segments and lashed out into a whip. The metal whip wrapped around Aeni's Leo and flung her towards the town. Aeni tried to use her boosters to slow herself down but crashed into a building. It clanks as it gets up. "I didn't want to do this...but I need you to wake...up!" She pulls out a plasma sword and blasted towards Ignis. It lashed out the whip, but the Leo dodges and slams the sword into the wrist of the hand that was holding the metal whip. "NOW!" she yelled, the cockpit of the Leo opening. A sandy blonde with cobalt blue eyes, pierced up at the Ignis.

The Ignis goes to slice down on to the girl but some an unseen force held it back until it stumbled backwards, a blonde haired boy sailing out of the cockpit towards the ground. Aeni jumps down, catching Reiao and skidding onto the ground. The two spectators dash over, helping her up. "Get him to the hospital! Don't worry about me, I can handle myself fine." she said to Solo, putting Reiao gently into his arms.

"You...didn't get caught I see." Shinlou said with a smirk and Aeni just smirked back. "Well...you'll be fine. Those bruises are probably nothing to you."

"Nope, they aren't..." she grinned and Solo scratched the back of his, glancing at the fallen Leo suit. He then looked back at the girl.

"Hey? How'd you get that thing?" Solo asked, cocking his head towards the Leo suit. Aeni walked over to the boy and gave him a sweet smile...almost too sweet.

"That...dear Maxwell...is a Yuy secret." she said in a sing songy voice. Suddenly her expression changed entirely, "And so...did I tell you...to bring Reiao-chan to the hospital?!"

"EEP! YES MA'AM!" Solo yelped running back to the jeep. Shinlou laughed slightly.

"Refrain from scaring the Maxwell boy."

"Sorry, it's tradition." she said sweetly again.

-----------------------Author Comments-----------------------

Heh heh, well I finally have another chapter up. Sorry, school's been in the way and my computer's been busted. In this chapter I intoduced a very interesting character, Aeni Yuy. You'll soon see that she has a habit of scaring the habjebes outta Solo. I hope that you loved this chapter and will continue to read the story as it advances. Ja Ne until next chapter!