Chapter 14 The Sound of Silence
"Still no word from Victor?" asked Duo as he stood at the New Edward's command center.
"Sorry but no." said Zechs "We think his transport went down in the storm, we have the single from his suit but the weather is still too bad to launch a rescue."
"But still no word." said Duo
"His radio transmitter may have been damaged." said Zechs trying to make Duo feel better. "Don't worry he will be fine."
"Tell that to Hilde she is worried sick." said Duo as he looked at the weather report again. "Well the storm should lift within the hour."
Meanwhile Leilani jumped into Wing II and closed the cockpit door to keep in the heat. "You there Leilani?" asked Umize
"Yes, but lets change it a different frequencies this one has been tapped." Said Leilani as all the gundam pilots changed the radio frequencies.
"All right so have you hit your targets?" asked Umize
"Yes." Said Siegel as Mayu nodded her head.
"Sorry but no." said Leilani as the others looked at her. "There is a massive storm over the target and it brought be down."
"I see, no matter we will hit that later." said Umize "The Seraphim is coming to pick everyone up it is time to move to the next phase."
"Alright I'll be ready." said Rhyu
"Me too." Said Siegel as Mayu nodded.
"I need to weather to clear but it looks like it will clear within the hour." said Leilani as she looked at the same weather report as Duo.
"Alright once the weather clears head toward the Seraphim." said Umize
"I will." said Leilani
"I have a question?" asked Rhyu as he looked at Leilani "How did you go down, your machine could just fly over the storm."
"Well I cam across a transport, I shot it down. When I did one of my friends ejected in his gundam." Said Leilani
"And you saved him?" asked Siegel
"He may be fighting against us but he is still my friend." said Leilani "They have just been lied to since they were born it isn't their fault."
"No one ever said you did anything wrong Leilani." Said Siegel
"Let me guess, Victor Maxwell." said Rhyu
"Does it matter?" asked Leilani as she glared at Rhyu
"This sounds almost like what happened with my parents." said Umize Athha with a small laugh.
"Ya, No wonder Rhyu wants to know who Leilani is with." said Siegel with a laugh.
"Well we will take about his later, just get ready to move out." said Umize as they cut the link.
Victor sat in the cave looking at the computer file reading about originals of coordinators. "It is strange how similar yet different our universes are." Thought Victor as he kept reading the on about the first and second war. Then he came to a part that made his eyes widened "What?"
"I see you got to the part when our universes clashed the first time." said Leilani as she appeared out of the snow storm.
"Ya, this is totally wrong." said Victor as he looked at the file. "We didn't nuke them you guys did."
"No…we didn't." said Leilani "We lost billions of people because of a nuking of a single colony do you really think we would do that to someone else?"
"No." said Victor as he lowered his head "However I refuse to believe that we would do that to a colony who was surrendering."
"Victor, they didn't surrender that is another lie made up by Relena in order to drive your world into war." said Leilani "I am sorry Victor but you have been lied too."
"But my dad he was there he would of said something." said Victor
"Victor I looked into the files all the gundam pilots who know the truth are under Relena's control." said Leilani "Zechs and your dad were threatened with being fired and their lives along with the lives of everyone in their family being ruined or killed. They kept silences in order to protect you."
"This is just too much to take in." said Victor as he closed the file on the computer pulling up the desktop. To his surprise it was an image of them at their graduation. However it wasn't just them. There stood the Gundam pilots who he had been fighting against along with himself, Marena and Bernardo with Leilani standing in the middle.
"I had one of my friends put the image together." said Leilani
"You really do think of us as your friends." Said Victor
"Why wouldn't I?" asked Leilani as the weather started to lift. "Maybe once this is over I can show around my universe."
"Maybe." said Victor as he handed her computer back. "You better get going; if they find you they will kill you."
"Ya, just be careful." said Leilani
"You too." said Victor as he watched Leilani walked toward her gundam. As she entered the cockpit she turned around to see Victor standing their. For a moment their eyes looked before she entered her suit.
Victor raised his hand to shield his eyes from the small snow storm that Leilani's engines kicked up. He stood their watching as Leilani rose up from the ground for a moment she hovered above him before transforming into her flight mode and flying away. A half hour later choppers showed up to bring him and his suit to the Iceland base.
"Duo we have your son, he is safe." said Zechs as Duo smiled.
"Thank God." said Duo
"It turns out that Leilani Yuy shot down his shuttle and saved him from crashing into the ground." said Zechs "They were forced to spend time together while they waited out the storm.
"This just had to happen." said Duo "It will be harder for both of them to go back to fighting each other."
"I am just wondering what all Leilani told him." said Zechs
"He may know the truth then." said Duo
"He may." Said Zechs
"If he does it will just make it harder for him to fight against Leilani." Said Duo
"I know." said Zechs
The next day Relena sat behind her desk looking at her top three commanders Wufei, Zechs and Duo. "Have we found the enemy mobile suits?" asked Relena
"No, there hasn't been an attack in the past day." said Wufei "We have them on the run."
"Good." said Relena with a smile.
"Don't fool yourself Wufei we don't have them on the run." said Zechs "This is the calm before the storm."
"I agree with Zechs." said Duo as Relena glared at the two.
"Why do you ignore the fact that they have not attacked in 24 hours." said Relena "They haven't attacked us since we moved the forces into the area they were operating."
"Relena, these are gundam pilots." said Zechs "We may not want to admit it but these pilots were trained by the best gundam pilot in both universes, Heero Yuy. They could take down a few more mobile suits."
"I think you are overestimating the power of their suits." said Relena as she glared at her brother "And be warned Millairdo you are walking on thin ice."
"Relena we can't underestimate our enemy, last time we did that we lost a lot of people died." said Duo "We don't want to lose more lives."
"Those lives were given for the greater good." said Relena "We need to remove these godless inhuman coordinators from both universes. No matter what the costs. Now if you have any ideas on when and how they will strike speak now."
"I can't know how without knowing what forces Heero has at his command but it will be coming soon." said Zechs
"Zechs it would take weeks to plan out an invasion and even longer to get everything ready." said Wufei
"We are estimating Heero again." said Duo "It will cost us even more this time around."
Far away from the presidents meeting room Umize Athha stood across a table from an older man with so much dust in his beard it made it red.
"I am not sure about this." said the man
"How so, Mr. O'Neill?" asked Umize
"We have been fighting for years to free our home from under the Earth nation control." said O'Neill "Am I just trading their rule for yours."
"I understand your worry sir." said Umize "And maybe this will make you feel better. The Plants used to under the control of the EA, they used coordinators to make there machines and supply them with material. We know what it is like to be under something else's control. We will not do that to another."
"Alright." said O'Neill "When will you launch the attack?"
"Within the hour." said Umize
"We will be ready, we may only have a few outdated Leo's but we know how to use them." said O'Neill
"There will be deaths on both sides." said Umize
"We know and we are willing to take those deaths for freedom." said O'Neill "Now I better get cleaned up for my speech. Don't want to look bad as I make history."
An hour later Relena looked up from her paperwork at the TV that she kept on the 24 hours new networks. "What is this?" asked Relena as she turned on the sound.
"We are expecting the releases of a video tap from the leader of the Mars Liberation Front." said the Newsman "The rebels have been fighting for freedom from the Earth Nation for 13 years and has local great support."
"I don't have time to deal with one of those weak uprisings on Mars. Even with our forces moved around the bases there is no way they can hurt us." said Relena.
"And here is the video." said the newsman as they cut to the video of a man standing in front of a red and black flag.
"For years we have been fighting for our freedom from the Earth Nation. We have tried peaceful protests which were meet with bullets. So we returned the bullets and became fighting against the much stronger Earth Nation." said O'Neill "We have given blood in a to drive them from our homes but those days are over."
"So they are giving up." said Relena with a smile.
"I know now, that we can not defeat them alone. So to drive the Earth Forces from our homes, The Mars Liberation Front has made an alliance with the nations of ORB, Plants and the Earth Alliance." said O'Neill as Relena's eyes widened.
"No." said Relena as her pen hit the floor.
"I ask all the people of Mars to please remain at home as we remove the Earth Nation from our home." said O'Neill as the message came to an end.
"President Dorland!" yelled an aid as he ran into the room.
"I already know, send some mobile suits up to mars before they can get there." said Relena
"It's too late." said the Aid "Deep space radar detected a large gathering of ships and a new asteroid that is three times larger then M02."
"Why would I care about an asteroid?" asked Relena
"Because it appeared in the middle of the fleet and ships are taking off from it." said the Aid
"A battle station?" asked Relena
"It would appear." said the Aid
"What is our force on Mars like?" asked Relena
"Around a hundred suits." said the Aid. "It's far too small to stop a force like this."
Meanwhile on Mars, preventers ran toward there mobile suits. Only to have the hangers exploded as flights of the Improved Murasame came flying down into the now earth like atmosphere of mars. Leilani's Wing II leading the way. At the same moment Drop pods filled with Zaft, Orb and EA mobile suits came down landing all over the blue and green planet.
"It's amazing how they have this." said Siegel as he and Umize looked out over a captured space port; luckily the dozen preventers had surrender without a fight after their mobile suits were destroyed in their hangers.
"Ya, it's almost like Earth." said Umize
"Ya, I can see a lot of dust but give it some time and that will be gone." said Siegel "Maybe we can ask for their help with our Terri forming project."
"Maybe." said Umize
Across the planet at the key Samarium mines the largest battle was going on between the two forces. However the preventers were fighting a losing battle and with three out of the five gundams leading the charge.
"People are dancing in the streets." said the news woman as behind her people threw flowers and ribbons at the nearby Zaft mobile suit. Zaft, EA and Orb soldiers were getting their pictures taken by the free people. "It would seam that Mars is welcoming Coordinators without a worry."
"Very well played, Heero." said an older man as he sat in a small dinner with a cup of coffee in one hand and a paper in the other. "First step send the gundams to Earth to get Relena to move her forces away from your real target. With the forces out of the way you attack and liberated an entire planet dealing a political blow to Relena and a blow to the Earth Nation economy. However the question remains will they be ably to stop the attack that is sure to be coming."
"More coffee Mr. Barton?" asked a waitress
"Yes, please." said Trowa as he held out his coffee cup while it was refilled.
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