Wing Warriors
Author: Abby Ebon
Beta: Alara Moonrunner
-Last Time-
So it was with both a heavy heart and lighter burden Quatre stepped foreword and held out a hand. "You've convinced us. Take us to our Gundams." Dawnfire and Tre'valen shared triumphant smiles and, reaching out a hand Tre'valen gripped Quatre's and the eight disappeared from the Moonpaths, to re-appear deep underground in The Mage of Silence, Untho's Tower.
The first thing the pilots noticed was the huge chamber they stood in. The floor was smoothly polished stone white but for the rose-granite compass rose. This was a round room with white stone walls that rose to point about two stories above their heads.
Hanging down from the center by a silver chain was a large crystal sphere. There was an entrance to another chamber, but the Avatars didn't seem to want to go in there, which was just as well because the two Avatars were the only source of light.
The second thing they knew with certainly was that it was deep underground; this was made obvious by the fact that there were no windows to let in the light, as would be the norm in any other chambers as this one on the surface. For most large structures needed such openings, or windows, as they released the pressure the building would be under.
Unless of course, Quatre mused, the chamber is inlayed with magic, which was just as likely.
There was no exit, and this more then anything worried the pilots.
As far as the pilots knew, they were the only ones here. This was good, as far as they were concerned; meeting their descendents (if they had any) might change things. Duo for one, didn't want to end up hitting on Wufei's great-something-or-other.
"The war-machines lay in the walls here." Tre'valen answered their unspoken question, as despite the size of the chamber, there was no sight of a Gundam. Duo looked doubtfully at said walls.
"I don't know they look pretty solid to me." Duo turned to get the Avatars reactions, but they were gone. Yet the light remained, somehow the sphere crystal was giving off light as a lantern might. Duo sighed, and shook his head, the others who had been looking around, turned to see they were alone but for each other.
"Just great, any idea on how you would go about getting them out of the wall?" Wufei asked the air in disgust. Trowa frowned while staring at the compass rose, preoccupied with a thought. As the others watched he went to stand in the middle of the compass rose.
Each of the four main points pointed to a wall.
"I have an idea." Trowa murmured softly, although all four heard him. Duo and Quatre, curious, went to his side. "What is it Trowa?" Quatre asked, Trowa pointed to one of the main points on the compass, the west, and the wall.
"Check that wall for…something." Trowa requested of them, Duo and Quatre glanced at each other; Duo shrugged and went to the smooth wall. The room was circular, and there were no edges, what happened next… shouldn't have happened. The white wall reflected Duo's image… and then slid upward into the ceiling, disappearing.
"I'd say this is a little more then something Trowa." Duo chuckled, spinning around to grin at the other pilots.
Behind him, kneeling was Deathscythe Hell, looking like a giant knight out of a fairy tale. It was made entirely of smooth black Gundanium alloy and elegant in its design, the 'glass' that made up his Gundam's eyes glowed an eerie green.
Its main weapon, the lethal beam scythe, was still held in its hand, as if to support it while kneeling. It didn't look like it, but it featured a radar-absorbing, beam-deflecting "active cloak," which not only enhanced its stealth features but also protects it from enemy fire. The cloak was located in its bat-like wings.
Duo gave an excited woot, and ran for his Gundam, looking like a kid in a candy store. The rest of the pilots quickly caught onto Trowa's idea.
Assuming that West was for "two", Wufei went to the East for "five" wall and once the white 'stone' reflected his image it too disappeared into the ceiling, revealing the Altron Gundam, his Shenlong's successor, also kneeling, as it was the only way for the Gundam to fit.
It was like the rest made of Gundanium alloy; Altron was mainly green in color. With a double-ended twin beam trident in one hand, and a pair of oversized, highly extendable dragon fang claws on the other hand, the Altron is unmatched as a close-range fighter.
Following the pattern, Trowa went to the North and "three", and Quatre to the South or "four". After showing their reflections, the walls revealed their Gundams.
Trowa's Heavyarms, a walking arsenal of two machine cannons, 52 micromissiles, 36 homing missiles and is capable of delivering devastating firepower at any range. It was also outfitted with a pair of hand-held double-barreled gatling guns, and four gatling cannons. Though it lacks melee weapons, Trowa's combat skills make the Heavyarms a lethal opponent even in close combat.
Quatre's Sandrock was the Heavyarms opposite. It had a light blue body and silver arms and legs. Sandrock is essentially a close-combat mobile suit, designed primarily for ground combat in desert regions; its only significant weapons are its huge, armor-melting heat shotels. To protect it from long-range attacks, the Sandrock Custom can don a protective set of optional armor, which also shields it from the heat of atmospheric re-entry.
All that was left was to find Heero's Wing Zero Gundam. Heero had moved to stand in the center of the compass rose. Suddenly the floor shuddered, and Heero crouched down, convinced they were about to have a cave-in. Instead Wing Zero seemed to emerge out of the floor. Heero found himself crouched on the shoulder of a kneeling Wing Zero.
"Well that was easy." Duo's voice echoed from the Deathscythe's speakers, you didn't need to see the braided boy to hear the humor in his voice. Even Heero smiled slightly.
As all the pilots knew, the Wing Zero's most powerful and dangerous feature is the Zero System, a control interface that feeds tactical data and combat simulations directly into the pilot's mind, making Wing nearly invincible, the only weakness being the pilot.
Other then the Zero System, Wing's primary weapon is the devastating twin buster rifle. It's also equipped with two beam sabers and two machine cannons. It also has two 'feathered' wings that enable it to survive re-entry from space and glide through the atmosphere.
Heero and the rest of the pilots had gotten into their Gundams and something unexpected happened…again. As one the Gundam's seemed to relay an ancient voice message to their pilots, a message that echoed in the chamber.
"I am Untho. You probably do not know me, and I apologize. If you receive this message you have claimed what is yours, what you hear is magic and set to speak when all five creatures carry a presence within, whatever your shape. For these…metal creatures do not answer to anyone, nor allow anyone else their magic then their masters, and perhaps their makers. They are sentient, for the magic they store makes them so, the magic in them is vaster then any node I have touched or any Heartstone the Kaled'a'in have made, and they are ancient… If this message is heard then I am dead, they're with you, or someone is coming to see what has occurred in my Vault to alert my wards. I've taken care of your creatures, perhaps they are your familiars... No matter, as best as I can. Good luck if you mean us no ill-will, and if you do…well then we'll see. If the proper words are not spoken after this message is done, I have set a Gate that will take you to my enemy. He will perceive you as a threat and hopefully kill you, for I know to destroy your creatures is impossible."
"Shit!" Duo had time to curse, before all five Gundams with their pilots inside, disappeared, Gated by ancient magics far away from the Dhorisha Plains.
Hours later the walls receded into the proper formation and the crystal sphere went dead. Then a part of the wall that hadn't had a Gundam behind it gave way, and the Sword-Sworn had finished their task of digging into the Vault as their Goddess had willed.
Later people and other sentient creatures would enter the Vault again. As had not occurred in well over nearly two thousand years…. or so they thought.
Friday, April 13, '07- Reposted with corrections made by Alara Moonrunner
AN: -snickers- The pilots just can't catch a break can they? Well we all probably know where they'll end up… Well the Gundam information I got off h t t p / w w w . g u n d a m o f f i c i a l . c o m / years ago. And the descriptions for The Mage of Silence Untho's Tower are in the second book of the Mage Storm trilogy.
Pretty much copied word for word, if you can condense nearly two pages into not even three paragraphs. Well I don't own either of those things and humbly beg pardon for 'stealing' it, as I don't have the words to describe what needed to be described without the barrowing/stealing.
PS, My thanks goes out to FieryYunJen, for helping me with some spelling.