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Gundam Wing: A New Threat
By: timaru2003 (Revised by HeeroYuy1995, a.k.a. Matt-chan)
Chapter 5
Myth Island – Fuji Islands region, Pacific Ocean
"Well, they named this place right," Tim said to Matt as they walked to the meeting area of the island. "I mean, this is way too much."
The Gundam team had just finished giving Tim the tour of the entire island, with a stop at the hangar that housed Tim's Gundam, named Janus. Tim almost fainted when he saw the Gundam he had dreamed about building standing proudly before him, to be piloted by him.
The entire team was pleasantly surprised that the doctors had installed simulators for both mobile suit and hand to hand combat, which would allow them to get Tim up to speed in a hurry. They also meet Tim's Trainer, Q. He gave Tim a once over and Q said, "He'll do."
They reached the conference area. Matt turned to Tim and said, "This is your show now and you're going to be asked a lot of tuff questions, so respond with some serious answers," as he opened the door.
Seated around the conference table were Col. Une, Sally Po, the original Gundam team, Relena, the doctors, and the rest of the American Gundam Team.
After brief introductions were made, Col. Une got right to the point.
"Mr. Rau, can you tell us just who is the Regent, and what kind of organization is the Invid?" Une asked.
Tim looked as if he had been slapped silly.
"Well, since you mentioned the Invid and the Regent, I have only one thing to say: we are so screwed. The Invid are a race of space-faring parasites that thrive on a substance called Protoculture; they capture a planet with any significant source, and exhausting the supplies, move on to another source. Now in the series Robotech: New Generation, earth was invaded by the Invid Regise, who took a different approach to everything that the Regent did. They were eventually convinced to leave the planet, which they did. The Regent, on the other hand, which appeared in the follow up series, The Sentinels, which was 4 partially complete episodes of a series that was never finished, has a serious inferiority complex, and a real short temper. We need to be extremely cautious if bin Laden is involved with this dude," Tim explained.
"What about tactics and weapons?" Trowa asked.
"Tactics wise, they act like a hive of insects, swarming any opponent until it is no longer a threat. As for weapons, they generally have three classes: Scout, Trooper, and Enforcer. The scout looks like a flying crab; it is generally unarmed and just tears it target to pieces with its claws, and if it's armed it generally has two plasma launchers. The Trooper, like the Scout, looks like a giant crab. However, it's larger and has a meaner temper; mostly a ground type, it is usually unarmed except for sharp claws, unless it is a Shocktrooper, which then adds even stronger plasma launchers. And finally, the Enforcer is armed with dual laser cannons, and is at home on the ground and in the air, it is heavily armored and defiantly not to be messed with. However, they all share a single weakness, their eye, which the pilot sits behind. If you can get to the eye, they're done," Tim answered. "That's all I know."
"Well this definitely gives us an edge, so now we can reprogram the simulators so we will be ready if we have to face these horrid creatures," Q injected.
3 days later…
"Man, what a day," exclaimed Matt as the team finished another day in the sims, honing their skills and getting Tim ready for combat. "If I had known he would have taken to piloting so easily, I wouldn't have been so soft on him." They watched as Jason climbed out of his simulator.
"Twice in one day is all I can bear!" exclaimed Jason.
"Did they get you again?" asked Nikita.
"Uh-huh, he even used the same trick that he used last time," Jason replied.
"Which one was that?" asked a bemused Hilde as she took Jason's arm.
"Oh, the one where I fire a whole load of missiles at him in a urban setting and he take his Alpha and turn it into the guardian mode, flies behind a building with my missiles behind him, comes right at me, dodges me, and watches as my missiles that are still trailing him, crash into me. Then he links up with the Beta, goes armored and proceeds to hose me down with every weapon he has. End of story." Jason lamented.
"Yeah, he seems to have a lot of tricks up his sleeve," pointed out Trowa, who also had become one of Tim's victims. "While his suit lack power for a direct toe to toe encounter with a Gundam, he does gain an edge when you add his maneuverability and variety of weapons to what appears to be a brilliant tactician, I would say he would have a fighting chance against even Black Death."
Matt turned his head as Dr. J and the others came walking up.
"I have good news: we have a mission for you." Dr. J said. "It appears that a company that the Preventers have been investigating for terrorist activity is actually a front for Osama and Treize. The owner of this company is having a party tomorrow and we believe this is an opportunity to gather data that shouldn't be missed. Miss Catalonia has been invited as a guest and has offered to take one of you along as a date to allow us to gather the necessary data. We believe that by having one of you visible at the party that will have their security watching the party extremely hard, which means we hope that the data cores will be lightly guarded."
As he finished, Tim got out of his simulator and walked up.
Q then spoke up. "While their attention is directed on the decoy, a small team should be able to penetrate their security and remain undiscovered long enough to gather the intelligence we need and escape. In other words, a simple milk run."
Tim who had gathered up what he could about this mission the spoke up.
"So who gets to be the decoy?" he asked.
Q turned to Tim, "Well, since you asked, I have one thing to say: congratulations, you have just won a date with the lovely Dorothy Catalonia, so I hope you can dance and like tuxedo's and you had better know you manners."
"Great, so when do I leave?" asked Tim.
"Tomorrow morning, after we finish briefing and issuing your mission equipment." answered Q.
"What have I gotten myself into now?" murmured a downfallen Tim as Q and the rest of the doctors walked away.
"I'll probably get myself ran through by Dorothy in 30 seconds flat with my luck with women," Tim mused as he waked for his room. "But hey, it's only the first date, so maybe I'll get lucky and our cover will be blown and we have to get dodge before she gets me," he pondered as he headed to his room, to get what he believed, his last full night of sleep for a long time.