I don't own Gundam: The dark era... Oh, wait! Yes, I do! It's any other Gundam that I don't own!
Gundam:
The dark era:
Chapter 16:
Retracing the tracks:
Fex felt as though he had been sitting in a chair, although in actuality he was laying in leaves in the forest.
"Tell me what happened next..." The hooded man sitting in the leaves behind him asked. Fex scratched his head.
"My memory isn't... I can't remember too well..."
"Try..."
Fex inhaled, the exhaled deeply.
? ago...
It was here...
A leo, dropped from a plane crashed into the center of town. The force of the impact knocked everyone 200 feet from the square to the ground. The leo itself bent to it's knees upon landing. This sent the townspeople into a state of shock for a second...
The leo began to rise up off of it's knees. The townspeople panicked and started fleeing. Fex tried to run as well.
It was huge. The townspeople had never seen something so big in their entire life. It was hundreds of feet tall, easily. As the townspeople ran, they turned back to look at the leo, both in fear and awe.
A delusional man caught Fex's attention. He was standing next to a car, pointing at the leo and screaming.
"OH, GOD! WE'RE ALL GONNA' DIE! THEY COMING TO KILL US!" He turned and looked Fex in the eyes, briefly. "EVERYBODY, RUUUU-!"
A second leo came smashing down on that man and the car next to him. Fex was knocked to the ground, but he got immediately back up. He started running again. The next step of the leo could be his last...
Fex saw a family going into a bomb shelter. They noticed Fex and called for him.
"COME ON! GET IN!"
Fex sprinted towards the shelter.
"COME ON! THEY'RE COMING! THEY'RE GOING TO-!"
There was an explosion inside the shelter and it expelled flames out the door. Fex shielded his face.
? later...
Fex opened his eyes.
"Is this really necessary?" He asked the hooded man.
"Yes." He responded. "Tell me... What was the insignia on the leos?"
"I... I... I don't know. I couldn't see."
"Oh, I think you know..."
"How do you know that?"
"Not yet... Not until you tell me everything..."
Fex propped himself up on his elbow. "DID A CLOAKED WOMAN TELL YOU I WAS COMING THIS WAY? TELL ME NOW, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!"
"Fex..." Said the hooded man, calmly, his voice almost a whisper. Fex knew he knew something now, seeing as he had called him by name. "...Tell me what happened after the explosion..."
"Fine. But after that, you ARE going to tell me whatever the fuck I wanna' know..."
"...Agreed..."
? ago...
Fex woke up and picked himself up from under the thin veil of debris. He brushed himself off and noticed the fleeing crowd was gone. But then he realized that was wrong.
...They weren't gone. Their body parts were all over the place...
Fex heard an engine noise. He turned and saw a C.A.T.E.R.P.I.L.L.E.R. already turning the corner. Fex hustled behind the building to his right into the alley.
He heard the C.A.T.E.R.P.I.L.L.E.R. come to a stop around the corner. He heard people get out and talk to each other. He was hoping the wouldn't come his way...
From another part of the alley, another towns person scurried towards him.
"GOD SAVE US!" He screamed, hysterically. "GOD, FUCKING SAVE US!" This man was gonna' get them killed. Fex ran past him down the alley.
A moment later, he looked back to witness the man enter the street. His leg's were chopped up in an invisible meat grinder...
Fex ran into the woods. He turned back to look upon the town he had abandoned. The military force was still massacring the civilians. Once their savior, he was now a traitor...
"Hold it right there..."
A man was holding a submachine gun to his head.
"It's not smart to pull a weapon on somebody you don't know..." Fex said.
"Why?"
Without thinking, Fex elbowed the man's submachine gun straight up, flipping, into the air. Then he got close and jerked the man's head violently to the left, snapping his neck. As he fell to the ground, Fex answered his question.
"...You don't know good they are at fighting back."
Fex grabbed the submachine gun as it fell back to earth. He checked the magazine. It had bullets in it.
"Mother... Where are you?"
He put the magazine back in. Then he headed off into the woods.
? later...
"That's it?" The cloaked man asked.
"That's it."
"Good."
"Now you tell me what I want to know."
"We shall see..."
"Who told you I was coming here?"
"I'll tell you one thing... It wasn't a cloaked woman..."
"Okay. How do you know me?"
"I'll let you in on that later. Next question."
"Do you know the cloaked woman?"
"Perhaps. You never know..."
"Why haven't you given me a single straight answer?"
"Because you don't need any..."
Fex shot up. "WHAT? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO DECIDE WHETHER I GET STRAIGHT ANSWERS OR NOT?"
The cloaked man stood up slowly and calmly. "Because your quest is futile. What are the chances of you finding this cloaked woman? Better yet, what are the chances it's your mother? We both know she died about a decade ago."
"Don't know. THINK! WE THINK SHE DIED! BUT MAYBE SHE DIDN'T! MAYBE SHE'S STILL ALIVE AND TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHING!"
"It doesn't matter anyway. That's not the reason I came here..."
The cloaked man turned around. Underneath the hood, it had been Howie all along.
"I came here to take you back."
Been a while, but what do you think? I'm getting ready to start the final and third act. SO GET READY!