Episode 18: Gundam Recall

A/N: Sorry it's so late. Cute Lil' Red Head hasn't edited this yet, but when she does it will be put up. Here's the chapter as I wrote it.

Deathscythe was lying down on its back. Duo fiddled nervously with the controls of Deathscythe. Something told him that somewhere amongst his friends and loved ones there was something amiss. Skye knelt beside the cockpit and leaned over to look at Duo. He didn't even need to look up to know she was there.
"Are we almost there?"
"Caspian says well be there in a few hours."
He nodded and continued the work until a familiar picture fluttered down in his lap. Carefully as if the picture was glass he looked at the smiling face of his girlfriend and lover. Relena has sent the picture to him a week before she left to go join up with Heero. He smiled softly as he looked at the picture. Melanie and her recently adopted German Sheppard Hunter sat on a hill side watching the sun set. He vowed to himself that he'd find her by any means necessary. Focusing again on his partner he set to work.

In the cockpit

Skye sat down heavily beside Caspian in the cockpit. The girl seemed distant and sad for a moment and that was odd even for her.
"So what exactly did they do to my sister?"
"Skye I told you before I'm not going to say anything about it."
"Caspian," she growled dangerously.
He saw the familiar glare heat up her eyes and that was more like the girl he knew.
"All right, Ill tell you what I know."
He divulged everything that he knew had happened to her older sister. Tears glistened in the younger siblings eyes. "I didn't want you to know"

"Skye at least not yet."
"Are you sure about..."
He seemed to know what she wanted to know without her finishing her sentence.
"Yes, I'm sure of it. Trieze sent in one of his doctor spies to make sure that the deal was kept. Of course Lucian failed in that manner. So the spy is trying to get Melanie out of there with Franks help."
"She hasn't been much help."
"At least she and Frank are trying to help Skye. Frank tried to stop him, but you know how Lucian gets when it comes to Melanie."
"Yeah," she muttered. "I know all to well."
She just thought of something right then and her anger level skyrocketed.
"Skye?" he asked softly.
She reached out and slapped him and again another time, but on the third hit his hand shot up and stopped the onslaught. His grip on her wrist was firm yet gentle. He'd never admit it but the tears standing in her eyes made his heart clench.
"Skye, don't hit me again. Hitting me won't undo what's been done to Melanie."
"You could have helped her," she cried out.
"I would have," he said softly. "Frank wouldn't let me anywhere near her after the first time. I saw the blood and damage. I wanted to rip Lucian to shreds for hurting your sister."
He went quiet as she launched herself at him. The sobbing girl was nestled in his arms. Her nose was buried in his chest. He reached up trying to decide what to do, he just settled for stroking her hair and whispering comforting things in her ear. Once the sobs quieted to soft sniffling her red eyes looked up into his.
"This doesn't leave this plane," she growled.
Caspian had to hold back the laugh that was threatening to escape at the non-threatening look in her eyes.
"I wouldn't dream of it Skye."
Skye began sobbing again against his chest. His shirt was getting darker due to the tears his ex-girlfriend shed on him. It didn't take to long before the girl cried herself to sleep.

In the cargo bay

Duo was sound asleep in Deathscythe's cockpit. A groan would escape his mouth ever now and then while he slept. Suddenly he came shooting up cracking his head against the screen he forgot to put back in place. Rubbing his head he tried to fight against the images that were swirling in his head. Pain and fear were the most predominate feelings at the moment. It took a few moments before the pain in his head to clear enough to try and focus on what he had dreamed about. The dream itself had been so vivid that it shook him to the core. Leaning back he stared up into nothingness as he let the dream wash over his memory again.

Dream

He stood in the middle of a battlefield. There were pieces of Aries' and Leos all over the ground. His movements were slow as he walked through the battlefield. There was something calling to him from somewhere. A person stood all alone on the battlefield. A cape whipped around the figure. There was something inside him that knew who the person was.
"Melanie!" he called out.
The person turned to face him. His heart clenched. Her eyes were distant and sad. The wind stirred her cape and it drew his attention down. In her arms was a bundle of some sorts. Realization hit him like a tidal wave. He could feel a grin spreading across his features. It soon vanished as a large menacing figure rose up behind her. The dark figure brought up a large scythe ready to strike.
"NO! DONT!"
It was too late. Her blood splattered all over his clothes staining them an even darker shade than before. Sinking to his knees he watched as his lover and baby died in a sickening pool of their own blood.

End Dream.

The dream still had its grip on him. Leaning back he tried of think of something happier. A smirk crossed his features as he remembered the time he spent with Melanie.

Somewhere in Russia

Relena and Heero were backed up back to back in their gundams. They were surrounded by an attacking group of Leos.
Heero were surrounded.
"You really think that matters?" he growled.
Relena watched as Heero launched himself into the sea and disappeared.
"No! Heero!"
She was forced to turn her attention away from her boyfriend to the sea of Leos. Drawing the heat blade she leapt forward to finish the onslaught of them. Once her area was clear she looked around trying to locate Heero. Moving forward she went looking for him. Over the next rise she found Heero locked in combat with an odd looking mobile suit. She was frozen to the spot not being able to move. Her computer analysis kicked in. The mobile suit was composed of titanium and it wasn't listed among the suits registered in the OZ files.
"Relena get out of here!" Heero snapped over the com link.
"I'm not leaving my wingman."
"Relena, get out of here this is between me and him."
"Heero, I..."
"Get out of here!"
Relena ignoring Heero's command leapt forward. She over shot the white mobile suit and plowed into an advancing Leo. There was another regiment on their way. It only took her ten minutes to take out the entire group. Turning back Heero and the strange mobile suit were still locked in combat. Suddenly Sakura popped up on her side screen.
"What is it Sakura?" she asked without looking at the woman.
"Quatre and Trowa have informed me that all the pilots have been recalled to the Sanq Kingdom."
"Why?"
Relena was focused on the battle before her.
"Are you listening to me?"
"Heero's locked in combat and yes, and I'm listening."
"The reason is unknown but Quatre said it was urgent."
"Has something happened?"
"Quatre says what ever it is its bad."
"All right. Where are you?"
"Currently in route to your location."
"See you in a few Sakura. Inform Heero."
"Will do."
She never did get the hang of military lingo. Relena watched as Heero leapt backwards. Turning he leapt into the sky. Wing's burners on full blast as he flew to where the plane was. He turned his gundam into its plane form and jetted off towards the Sanq Kingdom. Relena watched as the white mobile suit turned towards her. Without warning the suit engaged her. To avoid the attack she leapt backwards and up. She easily made it to the plane leaving the white mobile suit behind.