Chapter 5 The Bad News just keep coming
"Welcome to Zero G training." said a tall dark hair woman who floated in the room as the pilots sat in fake cockpits. "I am Commander Lucrezia Merquise but since you're my husband's students call me commander Noin. Now since you are the advance class you shouldn't be new to this but now let's begin."
Slowly everyone started moving around, this was one of the places were Leilani could show off, being that her cover story was a mobile suit pilot in a space mine she could fly circles around everyone and no one would be surprise.
"Very good, Ensign." said Noin as Leilani did a back flip to avoided Victor.
"Thank you." said Leilani "You have to know your place in space."
"Correct, your suit is yourself, you have to feel where it is at in space." said Noin as she looked at the girl "Zechs is right I have seen her somewhere but where?"
The next two days were the just basic shooting and simulations. Leilani was still looking through the files to find were the jump drive was. At the moment she was sitting in a flight ready room watching film of the battle of the Neo-Plants. "As you can see this suit." said Zechs as he pointed at a M-1 Astray "Is like a gundam."
"Does it have the same mobility as a gundam?" asked Victor
"Yes, but like all suits it's the pilots behind them that matters." said Zechs as an image of three people she knew very well appeared on the screen. "These pictures were recovered from the colony camera system these are the top three gundam pilots they have. Heero Yuy, Athrun Zala, and Kira Yamato."
"Crap if they have pictures of them do they have mom's." thought Leilani "If they see her they might put it together."
"I know that Heero Yuy is a natural but what about the other two?" asked Bernardo
"They are coordinators there are also five other gundam pilots however we don't have images of four of them do to damage to the cameras system onboard Peace Million and the colony." Said Zechs as an image of Mu La Flaga and the Akatsuki appeared.
"The first meeting with Relena." thought Leilani as she remembered Cagalli talking about it.
"This is Mu La Flaga and he appears to be a natural." said Zechs as the image changed to the suits. "We have confirmed the name of the pilots and their suits."
Leilani sat their watching as Zechs rattled off the names last generation of gundam pilots. "These are suits you a likely to face in the future so study them here because you will not have time when you are fighting them." said Zechs
During their lunch break Leilani and the others sat at a local dinner. "I can't believe how fast those coordinators can move." said Marena
"Scared?" asked Victor
"No, it's just something we will have to overcome." said Marena
"Personally I don't want to fight Heero Yuy; his gundam Wing Angel seams the strongest." said Victor "He seams almost invincible."
"Our father fought him a lot in the past and almost every time it was a tie, he can be beaten." said Bernardo
"Anyone can be beaten, Victor." Said Leilani "Good luck with that even with your gundams I don't think anyone really stands a chance against my dad when he puts his mind to it."
Flashback
Leilani stood beside her friends watching a live video feed. "So who do you think will win?" asked Rhyu
"It's my dad vs. Commander Yamato and Admiral Athha." said Leilani "It maybe two on one but he is still my dad, so I think he is going to win."
End Flashback
"My Dad won against the other two legendary pilots after an hour long battle." Thought Leilani "Even though it was a training section it was one hell of a fight to watch."
"Heero Yuy and their gundams do not matter." said Dimitri suddenly causing everyone to look at him.
"He is a tough warrior and any victor would be meaningless without defeating him." said Aeneas
"Those coordinators can have as many warriors as they want if their colonies are gone it will not matter." said Dimitri with a grin that made Leilani unconformable.
"How are guys enjoying your lunch?" asked a man with long brown hair in a braid similar to Victor
"Dad? I thought you were still on the moon." said Victor
"No, I have something to show you all." said Duo
"Does that mean they are finished?" asked Victor with a grin
"What is finished?" asked Leilani as she played the part of the idiot.
"Leilani there is something we have been hiding from you, the five of us have been choose to be the next generation of gundam pilots." said Marena "We didn't want you to worship us our something since we are going to be gundam pilots."
"Why would I care, just because your gundam pilots doesn't change who you are." Said Leilani as Marena, Victor and Bernardo smiled while the other two just kept blank faces.
"That is true." Said Victor
"Let's hope you guys still see me as the same when you find out that I am a coordinator." Thought Leilani as they five of them stood up.
"You too Leilani Hawke." said Duo as Leilani raised an eyebrow
"Me?"
"How many Leilani's are there here?" asked Victor with a grin only to get slapped lightly on the shoulder by Leilani. "What was that for?"
"Being a smartass." said Leilani as she stood up.
"She acts like Hilde." thought Duo as he looked at the red haired young woman next to his son. "Hilde would love it if Victor got a girlfriend."
It took them only minutes to reach the hanger. The guards looked at Duo before opening the door to the darkened hanger. Slowly the lights turned on showing five new mobile suits.
"These are it." said Duo as he looked at his son as he looked up the black mobile suit with a shield almost as big as the freedom's covering it's left arm. "That's your suit son."
"What's its name?" asked Victor
"The Omen." said Duo
"It doesn't have a gun." Said Victor
"It has an energy sword like the Epyon gundam and located under the shield is a short scythe-attached to a ball and chain capable of removing the head of a mobile suit from its shoulder." said Duo "And that is on top of its stealth system. Go ahead take a look at it."
Victor was like a kid in a candy story as he ran up to his machine and started checking out his machine. Leilani looked around at the other mobile suits. Bernardo was getting into a white mobile suit that looked a lot like the Tallgeese while his sister was getting into one that looked like a larger version of a Murasame. Aeneas had a gundam with the largest shield she had ever seen. The golden shield went from his suit's shoulder to its knees and could over its entire body and it held a large spear.
She looked to see Dimitri getting into a suit with far too many weapons on it. "He shouldn't be allowed near a hand gun but yet they are giving him that many weapons." Thought Leilani as Dimitri opened up the missiles tubes that ran down the legs, shoulders and chest. "That thing looks to have the same power as the Destroyer Buster."
"Now for you Leilani." said Duo as a light turned on showing an all black Leo. "This is the Leo mark IV. We don't have the time to totally replace all the mark III with fours so these suits are going to be used by the special forces."
"Thank you sir." said Leilani as she walked up to her suit. "This is the same set up as an M-1." added Leilani as she sat down in the cockpit.
"How do you like it Leilani?" yelled Victor from across the hanger
"It's fine." Said Leilani as she looked at the data "Crap these things are equal to the M-4, if they mass produce this we are in deep trouble."
Later that night Leilani sat at her desk looking at her computer screen still looking through the massive amounts of files on the preventer main frame trying to find the jump drives. "I wish this would go faster." said Leilani as if on command the computer beeped. "Finally I got something."
"Ok their jump drive research is located at Lake Victoria space Port." said Leilani as she pulled up the file and instantly her heart sank as she read the file. "They already have put it into production. I am too late."
Leilani rubbed her temples as she tried to figure out a way to stop what seamed to be unstoppable. "There has to be a way to stop this war from happening. Maybe if I destroy the factory, research and kill the scientists I can stop this." thought Leilani as she looked at her computer "Crap they are building them in six different places and they already have some on the lunar base. There is no way I can take all of them down and if one of them is left that is all that will be needed to build them again. I have no choose I have to inform command that I can't stop this attack."
Leilani stood up and headed out the door into the darkened night soon she was sitting in the control room back at the base sending a message to command.
"Message coming in sirs." said the operator in Orb command as Heero and Cagalli stood waiting for the report.
"I wish I was asleep right now." said Cagalli "I have to give a speech in 10 hours."
"Sorry but I can't approve any military actions without yours, Lacus or the EA president approval." said Heero as the message came in.
"Command I have located the jump dives but they have already started mass production in six different locations and it would impossible to take them all out." said Lielani's message "Also I have be given their latest standard mobile suit the Leo mark IV these suits are equal to ours. Lastly the new gundams are online and the pilots have already begun training in their suits." Said Leilani "I am requesting orders on what actions I should do."
"It's your call Cagalli." Said Heero "Since none of the nations are at war with I can't approve an attack."
"I know." Said Cagalli as she placed her hand under her chin and started thinking. "Alright order Leilani to keep on spying on them and to find out where and when they plan on attacking so that we can prepare."
"Alright, send the order." Ordered Heero
Leilani sat in the dark waiting for the orders to come in. She only had to wait ten minutes until she got the orders. "Alright that should be easy to find out. Since I am friends with the gundam pilots and they will be on the front lines of the invasion." thought Leilani as she headed back home.
The next day Leilani stood on the tarmac with everyone else when a large plan rolled up. "Ok this weekend instead of your normal time off, you will board this plane and be dropped off in the middle of the wilderness. Your goal is not to be captured the enemy." Said Zechs
"To simulate being shot down sir?" asked Bernardo
"Yes, you will be paired up with another pilot and your goal is to survive for 3 days until we pick you up on Monday morning." said Zechs "Now Bernardo you will be with Marena, Aeneas with Dimitri and Victor with Leilani."
Leilani didn't really listen to the rest of the pairing, she was to busy thinking about what she was going to do. "This would be easily if I was by myself. I can't use my coordinator skills in front of Victor." thought Leilani as she grabbed a bag of gear from a nearby table. "A standard cockpit ejection pack a hand gun, some food, knife, water and radio. I lived off less for a week during my training." With that she boarded the plane as they started head out.
I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and I ask that you keep on reviewing. Now I have something to ask of you. I always wanted to have Heero fight Athrun and Kira. Like a full out fight and I found a way. However it would mean adding another bonus chapter to Fallen Angel so what do think. Would you like to read about a fight between Heero and Athrun/Kira. Tell me what you think. Thank you Wilkins75.