Previously:

Taka Zetsume was given orders to take her Dark Class Unit to Earth and capture the

remaining six Gundams. However, she was slowed as a group of Radicals took her and the

other Pilots prisoner. Taka managed to excape with the location of a secret base locked away

in her gundam. She may have excaped but it didn't look so good for her fellow pilots as when

she saw them last they were on the losing side of a fight with the Radicals...

Episode two: Blind Run

"Raaaaagh!!!"

A young woman with curly burnt blonde hair screamed in frusteration while kicking the machine she

was standing on.

'Avi, it's just a game...'

a shorter woman chuckled, pulling her autumn red hair out of her eyes and taking deep breaths.

"I...Don't...Care...Miho!"

Avi replied as she booted the machine with each word she said.

'Don't break the machine! I haven't had a go yet!'

called a young man with sleek black hair, he sat at a table with a canned drink in his left hand.

'heh. don't worry about it,Kyo.'

replied a second young man with blonde hair and icey blue ends, he was leaning against a wall and

casually looking over at the clock to see what time it was.

'RYDER! KYO!Come play!'

Miho yelled at her friends while waving both hands frantically in the air, trying to draw them over

to the loud machine, Ryder rolled his eyes and let out a small sigh as Kyo jumped to his feet and

downed the last of his drink.

'Just Wait!'

'better hurry, or Miho'll play double...'

smirked Ryder watching Kyo walk over to the other two and hearing Miho squeel about playing

double and Avi's groan of pain from hurting her feet.

'No, she'll make me play double.'

Kyo called as he glared at Miho who lept off of the platform and laughed like a hyena. Ryder was

getting a headache from the loud music from the arcade, he hadn't felt that good when he woke up

that morning but with nothing better to do he went out to visit with his friends anyways. He walked

outside and pulled his jacket around him tighter, it was chilly in the small partially abandoned town.

Nothing to do, but live day by day and wait for the news that the war was over, they had been one

of the first places hit in the beginning of the war and very few dared to stay as there were many

rumours about the town. thinking back, Ryder had lost almost everything he had ever wanted,

leaving him with a now empty house and a group of friends who still hadn't accepted the cold truth

that they would have to leave this place soon or die there.

'Damn war...'

Ryder kicked a old brick that had fallen from a building close by, he was feeling hatred towards the

Nexis Union as he went to kick the brick again-something in the sky caught his eye. Looking up he

saw it, something was falling from above the clouds and heading straight towards the hills were it had

once been a threshhold of life, now it was barely livable for fungus. It zoomed right over the building

and Ryder decided to go check it out, looking back to see if any of the others had noticed it, they

hadn't so he dashed off on his own. He knew it would be something dangerous and that it was best

that his friend weren't there anyways, he ran along the empty highway until he reached a peak in the

road. As he ran he thought that maybe what ever this object was had been sent from allied forces to

save those few that were left in this city, or it could be another attack, either way it was better then

playing a silly dancing game. he had heard from a traveller that the war was growing very close to

this city again and some said that it would be the spot that the war had began and would end. Foolish

and hopeful rumours of those who had yet to see the bitter truth, or that's what Ryder had thought,

until now. This could change everything, and he would love to be the one to help with that, he didn't

notice that he was still running along the road until voices jogged him from his thoughts and he came

to a slow stop.

'RYDER--WAIT UP!!!!!'

He turned to see his three friends jogging to try and catch up with him, they had seen him run off and

followed him worried that something might happen to him.

"Ryder I'm going to kick your Ass for trying to ditch us!"

bellowed an already breathless Avi-Ryder just shrugged and continued in a quick pace he knew the

others would be able to catch up to him in a few moments. He didn't want to stop, he was so close

to finding out what the object had been that fell from the sky, and tried to keep his resentment of his

friends showing up at bay, but hearing them shout profanity and threats at him made it incredibly

hard. Miho had just said something stupid and Ryder was about to yell at her to shut up when

suddenly the Earth around them began to shake violently, this was not good at all-Ryder was sure

he heard the soft sound of something mechanically moving nearby.

'It's an EarthQuake!'

Miho yelled, trying to find a door frame or something like they had all been told to do from childhood,

but Kyo grabbed her arm and shook his head, he then saw something in the distance and yelled to

the others.

'Look over there!'

Ryder turned to see what Kyo was pointing at, he was blinded for a moment from the sun reflecting

off of the fast moving object as it raced towards them-then it moved so that the sun was no longer

shining on it and Ryder nearly fell back in surprise.Kyo had already grabbed Miho and Avi by the

arms and was trying to drag the two girls away as fast as he could, Miho looked over her shoulder

and was clearly confused about what was going on and why Ryder was still a good distance from

them.

'It's a Gundam! Get the Hell out of here, Now!'

Kyo was yelling, his voice soon drowned out as from the air above them shot a large scythe which

extended all the way to where the now stopped Gundam was-with one quick slice the Gundam's

arm was sliced off. The four were frozen in shock and fear, they couldn't see where the scythe

had come from and knew of nothing strong enough to damage a Gundam like that. the scythe

disappeared above Kyo and the girls, there was something there using stealth mode and for some

reason the Gundam hadn't been able to pick it up on it rador-Ryder didn't like the thought of

something that a Gundam couldn't see.

'What the hell was that?'

Kyo mouthed to Ryder who shrugged in reply, all he knew was they were in the middle of a battle

between two giants and neither one would care about four careless kids that were in the way. he

looked over and saw that the gundam was still coming and was firing off rounds of bullets. all

missing its target, the pilot was shooting blind and Ryder knew that if he and his friend stayed there

they would surely get hit by the Gundam's missed shots.

''MOVE!!!!!!''

Ryder yelled as he took a mad dash towards his friends, he could feel the heat of the bullets all

around him-he lept over a broken wall as it exploded from the impact of beingh it by something.

He made it and shoved Kyo behind another wall just as a bullet landed where Kyo had been standing.

They didn't move for a moment, keeping their heads covered and then looking at each other they

lept to their feet and dashed towards the girls who were hiding by a building. they were out of the

innitial battle area, but that could all change on a seconds notice, they had to get farther away from

this fight. Ryder paused at the corner of the building to see the damaged Gundam ram into something-

a black Gundam appeared instantly and swung the scythe around for the killing blow to the other

Gundam. Ryder was in awe as he had never seen anything like that before, the poor pilot of the

other Gundam didn't have a chance as his gundam exploded with a rain of fire and sparks-causing

small fires to break out all over the place. the black Gundam disappeared again, like some sort of

phantom of death. There was a final explosion that rocked the surrounding area, sending Ryder

and his friends off balance and onto the ground, he had landed on some shattered glass and cut

open his left arm, pain surged through him as he tried not to yell out in pain.

'Crap, whatever that thing was took down that Gundam and took no damage at all...'

Ryder thought as he pulled himself back to his feet and stumbled towards the other three who looked

dazed and confused.

'Everyone okay?'

Kyo asked, helping Avi to her feet with little result as Avi had twisted her leg when she had fallen.

Miho and Ryder just mummbled their responses.

'time to go home...'

Miho sighed pulling dirt from her hair.

''FREEZE!''

'what now!?'

Avi growled as the four turned to see a group of soldiers approach, all holding large guns that would

easily tear a good hole in any of them if they made any quick moves. It wasn't until they were being

handcuffed and blind folded that they realized that they were in more trouble then they had thought

they would have been, for these soldiers were of the Nexis Union.

'Stupid Kids.'

yelled a man as he walked around them, his griseld features making him looking ten years older then

he was, he also had greying hair and large eyebrows, but other then that he was fit and a strong

soldier. He got a look of disgust as he sized up each of them, shaking his head as he tried to figure

out what four kids were doing running around in this area anyways.

'Take them to the base, we'll deal with them there.the Lady will want full reports from us all.'

the man said in his deep and rough voice, watching as the four were lead to the truck that the men had

arrived in. Ryder remained silent as the others blabbed to each other and made rude comments to

the soldiers and in general. Once in the truck it was roughly a fourty five minute drive from the town

to the base, the truck came to a stop finally and Ryder was trying to listen to what the men were

saying in case they revealed anything that may come in handy later on...if there was going to be a

later on...

'Access code 99257109-20....'

'Did they take Ryder? where's Ryder? you there...Ryyyyyyyddddder!?'

Avi called out, Ryder growled frusterated that she had drowned the end of the access code to get in

and out of the base.

'maybe he fell asleep?'

miho replied rather cheerily even though they were in a very serious situation. Ryder wasn't impressed

at how thick his friends were being at the moment, at least Kyo seemed to understand why Ryder

was silent.

'Ryder...wha'

'Get out!'

the four were grabbed by the soldiers and dragged out of the back of the truck-Miho had tripped and

fell flat on her face as she screamed in pain.

'Get up!'

one of the men yelled at her, trying to pull her to her feet, but it was in vain as she had become dead

weight and this seemed to frusterate the soldiers. Ryder couldn't help but smirk as he imagined Miho

being stubborn, but this wasn't the time or the place for her to play these kind of games as he was

sure she would be killed without hesitation.

'Let me down!'

miho cried as she was picked up by two soldiers and carried off like a wounded animal.

'c'mon, lets get these kids into the cell's before the lady see's us struggling with them.'

one man said as they began to shove the four down several halls and a steep staircase until the air

became almost freezing and it was deathly silent all that was heard was the sounds of their feet hitting

the cement. Each one had been shoved into a seperate cell and uncuffed before the soldiers locked

them away.

'I'll let Delia deal with you four...she'll have fun thinking of a way to....'

a balding soldier sneered as he shut the outer doors, leaving the four in a dim light and

cold perdicament.

'what do you think they'll do to us? they wouldn't kill us would they?'

Miho asked, obviously worried about who or what Delia was and she had a feeling she already knew

what would happen to them. she had already pulled her blind fold off and leaned against her cell

door, Avi and Kyo was doing the same, the only one not there was Ryder. the other three looked

at each other worriedly, but that man had said 'four' so Ryder had to have been there.

'where's Ryder?'

Avi asked, concern rising in her voice as she looked at the long rows of cells on each side of the long

hallway.

'He's here, somewhere, I heard four cell doors slam...'

replied kyo-turning to see Miho looking like she had just found out her pet gold fish had died.

Ryder was in the cell at the very end of the hall, sitting at the back of the dark cell and listening

to his friends jabber on. He didn't see the need to dangle half his body out of the cell and making

himself look like a fool.

'They go's yas too?'

Came a old shakey sounding voice at the corner of Ryder's cell-he turned sharply and stood to his

feet, not wanting to be on the ground incase the strange man attacked him. The older man stepped

into a slight crack of light and looked at the shadowed form of Ryder, this man looked like he had

been in the cell for years. his hair was long and matted and his torn clothing were three sizes too

large.

'Who are you?'

Ryder demanded, feeling nervous with the strange man eyeing him like that.

'my name is unimportant, what is importants is that these people don't get their hands on the last

four Gundams.'

Ryder shifted his weight, this man must have been mistaken, there was only two Gundams in

existance, but he would listen on of what this man had to say.

'you saw it...didn' you? The Dark Class Unit...it destroyed that last Gundam...'

'how did you...wait, did you say Dark Class Unit!? I thought they were only a myth, made to scare

civilians and the Earth forces alike.'

'Ha! If only..it's true...and the only thing strong enough to stop them are the Ronin Gundams.'

Ryder raised an eyebrow, he had never even heard of that class of Gundam before, but kept

quiet as he wanted to hear more of these gundams.

'they have been hidden in secret locations, I've searched for a long time but have never found those

worthy of their secrets and power. that is...until now...my time is short, but if you accept I know

that I have made a wise choice. here, take this...its all up to you now.'

the man shoved a small chip into Ryder's hands, before Ryder could react the cell door was thrown

open and two soldiers shoved Ryder to one side and grabbed the old man with ease.

'Markus Peacecraft, you are to come with us and finish your term.'

'FOOLS! YOU'RE ALL FOOLS!'

the man yelled , forcing the guards to shove him into the wall of the cell and making the man gasp for

breath. while the soldiers were dealing with the old man Ryder silently managed to grabbed a set of

keys from the closest soldier.

'YOU ALL WILL PERISH!'

the man called out as the soldiers dragged him away and slammed the cell door shut, that rattled the

rest of the cell doors.

'Ryder are you alright!?'

Kyo asked, reappearing at his door looking over to see if Ryder had been injured by those men that

had just left his cell. Ryder finally and slowly came to the cell door with a slight grin on his face.

'What is it?'

Miho asked, joining the others at the doors and staring at Ryder, she was the first one to notice

the strange look on his face, and was worried. Kyo and Avi also noticed that Ryder was acting

strange-not like his normal impartial self.

'Those guys didn't hurt you, did they?'

Avi asked, kicking the base of her cell with the tip of her foot.

'No....but we'll be out of here before you can blink.'

replied Ryder, enjoying the confused expressions on his friends faces, they all looked at him then

at each other.

'what do you mean?'

Ryder grinned at Avi's question, he didn't reply but just winked at them, then turned so that his back

leaned against the door and very slowly it began to open, the others looked at him with their mouths

wide open in shock-Ryder rolled his eyes and held up the keys that he had stolen from the soldier.

Next Episode....

Ryder and friends make a break to escape the base and to go find the hidden Ronin

Gundams. Meanwhile, lady Zetsume finds that she's just not ment to have a break just yet,

but in the end she is greeted with several surprises....

Episode Three: Break towards Freedom