Chapter 3 The First Steps are always the Hardest
"Colony L19 this is shuttle M002 in route from colony L4 requesting permission to enter." said Leilani
"This is colony control you have permission to land in hanger seven." Said the controller
"Thank you I am approaching now." said Leilani as she pulled the shuttle into the colony. As she landed her shuttle was lowered down into a large bay. Outside stood two men, a tall man about her father's age with blonde hair and blue eyes wearing a white shirt with tan pants. Beside him stood an older man with a full face beard. Slowly Leilani walked out of the shuttle making sure to lock in the controls to her personal code.
"Are you sure this is a wise thing to do Master Quatre?" asked the older man as they waited for the shuttle doors to open.
"Rashid, it may be the only way to keep the peace old friend." Said Quatre as the shuttle door opened and a young woman with red hair and bright blue eyes walked down.
"Hello Mr. Winner." Said Leilani
"Hello Ensign Yuy." Said Quatre
"Please call me Leilani or Lei for short." Said Lei as she walked up and shook hands with the older gundam pilot.
"You are friendlier then your father." Said Rashid
"He is only like that to people he doesn't know." said Leilani "He can be very caring when he wants to be."
"You look like your mother but with your father's eyes." said Quatre
"Well that is how they designed me." said Leilani with a grin "I still have a few inches to go and to mature some more before I finish growing."
"That is the one thing I don't like about coordinator." Said Rashid as Leilani eyed him "If you know how you will look when you are older it takes all the fun of growing up."
"Well we have the choose to learn what we will be like, I wanted to know but my cousin Mayu doesn't know." said Lei "However I am here to stop a war not talk to you."
"True, we have set up a false history for you." said Quatre as he handed a file to Leilani. She opened it and scanned the file.
"An orphan...good…and 2 years as a mobile suit construction worker in a mine…not bad." said Leilani "Leilani Hawke very nice. I was going to suggest that."
"I was a gundam pilot I know what makes a good cover story." said Quatre "We have also arrange for you to enter flight school at New Edwards tomorrow morning."
"Good any idea who I be dealing with?" asked Leilani
"Ya, the kids of your father's friends like Duo Maxwell and Zechs Merquise." said Quatre as Leilani eyes widened "And those two will likely be your flight instructor."
"Good, I always wondered how those two compared to dad." Said Leilani as she reached into her pocket and pulled out the color changing contacts. She changed her eyes to a shade of green. "I just hope that they don't realize who I am or else it might cause problems."
"We will keep your ship locked up here until you need it." said Quatre
"Thanks." said Leilani "Now I better get ready to stop a war."
"Your shuttle leaves in 10 minutes." said Quatre
"This feels so strange." thought Leilani as she stood in a line the next day being checked into the Preventer military base. "Now I understand why people say it feels weird being in another universe."
"Hello there." said a young woman about her age as she walked up. She had short blonde hair that covered one of her blue eyes. She was already in Preventer uniform "New reutic?"
"Yes, I just got here from Colony L19." said Leilani
"L19." said the woman "My father's friend runs that colony."
"Your father knows Mr. Winner?" asked Leilani
"Yes, but where were my manners. Marena Merquise." said Marena as she held out her hand.
"Leilani Hawke." said Leilani as she shook hands with the pilot. "Merquise isn't that same last name as the Lightening Count?"
"Ya." said Marena with a smile "He's my dad."
"Wow first day on Earth and I meet the daughter of a legendary mobile suit pilot." said Leilani "I watched video's about his battles when I was working as a miner." "It's not totally false Zechs is in chapter 7 of the Angel school book." added Leilani to herself.
"So you already know how to pilot a mobile suit?" asked Marena
"Ya, I am here to learn more advanced move." said Leilani as Marena started laughing a bit.
"Then you are in the wrong line, this is basic school come on you will be with me in advance training." said Marena as she lead the way for Leilani.
"I hate playing dumb but I have to act like a natural no showing off." thought Leilani as followed Marena into a small side room with nine other people standing or sitting waiting.
"Found a new friend sis." said a boy about Marena's age but with dark hair and dark eyes.
"Yes Bernardo." said Marena "I found a lost pilot."
"Hello I am Leilani Hawke." said Leilani as she held out her hand.
"Bernardo Merquise." said Bernardo as he took her hand.
"I was just luckily that your sister found me or else I would have been waiting there forever." said Leilani
"Well that is the military for you they can't even give out orders right." Said a boy about her age with black hair braided back in a long pony tail. "I'm Victor Maxwell the Angel of Death."
"For an angel of death you haven't killed anyone." Said another boy with brown hair in a short buzz cut but it was his brown eyes that got to Leilani, they had no warm and seamed lacking of any sign of a emotion.
"Oh shut it Dimitri, you haven't either." said Victor as the young boy grinned.
"As far as you know." said Dimitri
"I hope those deaths were honorable." said a young man with olive skin and curly black hair. "Because life and death is meaningless without honor."
"Well Aeneas, those coordinator have no honor in life I will grant them none in death." said Dimitri
"Ensign Dimitri Petrenko you are too young to know anything about what really happens on a battlefield." said older man with long blonde hair and deep blue eyes.
"Zechs Merquise." thought Leilani as she looked at the legendary pilot.
"Who are you?" asked Zechs as he looked at the red haired pilot before him.
"Leilani Hawke, sir."
"You are out of uniform." said Zechs
"Dad, she was in line for basic flight by mistake." Said Marena
"Yes, I already know how to pilot a mobile suit sir, I worked in a mine." Said Leilani
"I see, so you need a uniform and a room assignment?" said Zechs
"Yes, sir." said Leilani
"You are really considering living on base?" asked Marena as Leilani nodded "None of the advanced pilots live on base."
"I don't really have a place to stay; I don't know people on Earth." said Leilani
"Your parents could help." said Victor
"I'm an orphan." said Leilani
"Sorry." said Victor as he lowered his head.
"Dad she could stay with me, you and mom keep telling me I need a roommate." said Marena
"I don't want to impose." said Leilani
"No please it will give me a girl to talk to instead of these idiots." said Marena as she pointed at her brother.
"It's fine by me." said Zechs "But first get her into uniform."
"Yes, sir." said Marena as she lead Leilani off.
"Is something wrong father?" asked Bernardo as his father placed a hand under his chin.
"It's just, she looks familiar like I've seen her before but I can't think of were." said Zechs
An hour later Leilani stood in a perventor uniform on the tarmac with the rest of the pilots. Zechs walked in front of them looking at each of them. A few of them knees shook as his eyes fell on them. Finally he stopped at her.
"Leilani Hawke."
"Yes, Sir." said Leilani
"Tell me the differences between a Leo mark II and a mark III?" asked Zechs
"The Leo mark III has a beam gun instead of normal armor piercing rounds and then there is the energy shields located inside the shield." Said Leilani
"Very good." said Zechs "Now you will all go into hanger three and memorize every difference between the Leo mark II and III. Because if you don't know your mobile suit how can you fight in it?"
"So Leilani." said Victor an hour later as Leilani sat inside a mark III Leo forcing her self to move slowly so not to show off any of her coordinator enhancements.
"Call me Lei."
"Ok, so what was your life like before this?" asked Victor
"Just working for next to nothing, days blending together into one long day." said Leilani "Maybe this will be more interesting."
"Maybe but like my dad always says sometimes you just have to make things interesting by yourself." said Victor
"Some things you just can't make interesting." said Leilani as she scanned the data of the mobile suit. "This thing is barley up to an old M2 Astray it wouldn't last five minutes against a M4 Astray in a one on one fight. Then again they could overwhelm us with numbers. I need to learn how many suits they have."
"Lei?"
"What?" asked Leilani as she looked up at Victor
"You just didn't answer my question, have to learned the differences between the suits?" asked Victor
"Sorry, I was lost in thoughts." said Leilani "But ya I found some major differences."
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"Your back from the moon earlier Duo." said Zechs as Duo walked up to his fellow pilot as they stood in a upper room looking out over the new students
"Well the load up went faster then normal." said Duo "So when do you plan to show them their new gundams."
"Let's wait a bit." said Zechs as he looked at the red haired pilot.
"Is something up Zechs?" asked Duo
"It's the new student Leilani Hawke it's like I've seen her before." Said Zechs as Duo took a look at the red haired young woman talking with his son.
"She seams normal, she probably just reminds you of someone else." Said Duo "Who do you know who has red hair?"
"No one." said Zechs
"Maybe a face you saw in a crowd once." said Duo
"Maybe but I have a feeling it's something more then that." said Zechs
A couple of hours later Leilani rode with Marena up an evaluator of a sky scrapper that stood just outside the base fence. "Thanks for this." said Leilani
"No problem, most people would freak out talking to me, my brother or Victor because of who are parents are. You act as if we are normal." said Marena with a smile "Besides it is nice to have a girl to talk too."
"It must be hard being famous." said Leilani already knowing what it was like for her growing up as the daughter of two of top gundam pilots in the world.
"Ya, people look at me definitely once they learn who my parents are." said Marena
"Sounds like me; too many of my early friends only cared about being near the famous Heero Yuy but to me he is isn't famous he is just my Dad." Thought Leilani "That is why I stay with my close friends like Siegel, Umizi, Mayu and Rhyu. They are some of the few people who understand what it is like. I may be on a mission but it is nice to be a normal personal, I just wonder what they will think once they learn the truth."
"Well we are here." said Marena as she opened the door "My brother and his friends are across the hall."
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