Chapter 7: Trapped

Kei sat in the cockpit of his mangled unit. He looked up at the dimming screen.

The cockpit was riddled with holes, and his helmet was cracked. The last of Kei's oxygen was leaking out. Time seemed to stand still.

The battle still raged on. Kei's screen was almost out of power but he could still make out shapes in the distance. The Lorelei had come under direct assault from enemy mobile suits. Kei watched as a Dom lowered in front of the bridge and opened fire. The round completely inialated the bridge. No one could have possibly survived from that range.

Kei's eyes widened. He shook with anger. Kei routed all reserve power to his Gundam's left arm. The cross hairs found the Dom square in its sights. Kei fired. The beam struck the unit in the cockpit. The air became so thin that Kei lost consciousness.

The rest of the mobile suit team responded to their team mate's death. They drew up on Kei's mangled unit. Since it was a mobile suit, they decided to take Kei beck to their Musai.

Kei woke up in one of the enemy ship's cell. He sat up and took a good look around.

"Were the hell am I? Am I alive? Where's the Gundam?"

A guard heard him and headed over to greet their new captive.

"Oh, shut up. Listen, you're not dead so don't go thinking this is heaven or nothin. Secondly you're on a Zeon battle cruiser, and your mobile suit is no of your concern anymore!"

Kei sat on the metal slab. This new information didn't seem to compute in his mind. Soon afterwards he was escorted out of his cell to who the heck new. During the one thought ran across Kei's mind. 'I have to get out, just gota get away!' Kei was lead along by two armed men, one in the front and one behind him. He had been handcuffed be hind his back. They turned and started down a narrow corridor, the perfect time to escape.

Kei turned slightly and side kicked the guard behind him in the gut. The guard fell. Kei then charged the second guard ramming him into a wall. Kei then kneed him in the stomach, and side kicked him in the face. The blow knocked the guard out. The first guard started to recover. Kei quickly kicked him as hard impossible in the head; the attack shattered the front part of the scull. Kei searched the two guards, finding a pair of keys. The keys unlocked his handcuffs. His wrists were sore. Kei decide to take one of the guns the guards carried.

Kei doubled back and headed down the hall in the direction he came. He carefully made his way down endless corridors. As luck would have it Kei wandered right into the main hanger. Over in the distance was the Gundam covered in technicians try to unlock its secrets. An off duty engineer stood in the corner with a cup of coffee. That was his chance. Kei drew up behind him and hit him with the back of the gun. He dragged him into the shadows and swapped uniforms.

In his new disguise Kei would be able to walk right up to the Gundam. Once at his unit's cockpit Kei searched around for the self-destruct system. Finally he located the device. It opened; Kei punched in its code and set the timer.

"Now I've got to get the heck out of here!"

Still in the hanger Kei searched for a way out. There was a small one man craft in the left corner. The Grattle wasn't his first choice, but it would have to do. By that time someone had realized he escaped and the siren wailed. Kei inhaled deeply. Troops burst out through one of the inner doors. Kei prayed that this wouldn't turn into a gun fight. He swift fully started toward the Grattle, careful not to draw attention to himself.

"There he is! FIRE!"

"OH CRAP!"

Kei ducked behind a crate. Bullets rang out in the hanger. Happy that he kept the guards gun, Kei returned fire as he backed toward his escape craft. He sidestepped behind one of the ships back wings. Now out of the line of fire, Kei jumped up into the cockpit and prepared for a nasty take off. Kei could here the distinct "ping" of each bullet ricocheting off the armor. He punched the controls and headed out the large opening of the bay, but his encounter was not over.