Chapter 16 Welcome to Orb
"So your telling me in less then half an hour we lost 1/10th of our total space force?" asked Relena as she glared at Wufei
"Yes." said Wufei
"And yet we won nothing." snapped Relena "I wanted you to remove the coordinators from mars and you go off after Heero leaving no one in command of the fleet."
"They were after the moon base." said Wufei
"No he wanted you to chase him." said Zechs as he walked in "That way there would be fewer forces attacking mars."
"I made the call I saw fit, you and Duo were assigned to the lunar base. If he had attacked it, you would be asking me why I hadn't come to save you." Snapped Wufei
"We need to know more." said Relena "Do we have any of our stealth ships equipped with a jump drive?"
"Ya we have one of the small one man ships." said Wufei "Who are you thinking of sending?"
"I have a person in mind." said Relena with a grin.
Meanwhile a doctor was looking at Leilani's arm. "Yep you have a small break in your Humerus." said the doctor "It will not take long to heal but while it does you will have to keep your arm in a air cast for at least week and it will take a while for it to fully heal."
"After that week can I pilot a mobile suit?" asked Leilani
"Pilot yes, fight in on no." said the Doctor "If you got hit there hard again it might need a cast and then you would be out for months not weeks."
"She will take it easy." said a voice from the doorway. Leilani knew that voice.
"Hello Dad." said Leilani as she turned to see Heero standing in the doorway the Doctor walked out to get the sling for Leilani arm "I'm guessing you're here to yell at me for what I did."
"No I am not." said Heero "I know why you did it; I am here to make sure your ok that is all. Also until you are healed your are heading home."
"But Dad." said Leilani
"No buts Leilani Talia Yuy." said Heero as Leilani shut up she knew if her parents used her middle name that she couldn't change their mind. "You need to heal up and your suit needs to be repaired so you are going home."
"Alright Dad." said Leilani as the doctor walked back in with an air cast in hand
"What?" asked Victor as he looked at his dad.
"Relena has decided to send you in one of our stealth ships to spy on the enemy." Said Duo
"But why me?" asked Victor
"I don't know but you leave within the hour." said Duo
An hour and half later Victor stood in line to board a shuttle but it wasn't even in his universe. He had jumped in and boarded a colony away from the plants. After hiding the shuttle in a storage area, he hacked into the civilian computer frame and got shuttle tickets, fake passport and even some money. It took another hour for the shuttle to land at the Kaguya space port. The huge new mass driver stood outside the window as Victor walked toward the entrance. However suddenly another larger shuttle landed as it rolled up news people started getting ready.
"What is going on?" asked Victor to a nearby camera man.
"Wounded from the battle over the other universe Mars is coming home." said the camera man as the door opened and people started coming off. Even though Victor stood near the back of the crowd he could still see the injured men and women get off the shuttle. His heart stopped when he spotted Leilani walking off. Her arm in a cast.
Leilani pushed pass the massive amount of cameras all going off in her face but soon she saw someone she didn't expect. An older woman with graying black hair reaching mid back. "Grandma?" asked Leilani as she looked at the six five year old Aaliyah Hawke
"Yes, with your parents off protecting two universes who did you think was going to keep an eye on you while you heal." said Grandma Hawke with a smile.
"I am sixteen and a gundam pilot Grandma I can take care of myself." said Leilani
"I have seen how you take of yourself young lady." said Grandma Hawke "If no on stopped you, you would jump into a mobile suit and fly off into battle."
"What can I say I am a Yuy." said Leilani with a grin as Aaliyah Hawke smiled.
"Yes, you are. However before you decide to do another crazy stunt you need to rest up." said Aaliyah Hawke "Now come on I'll make you some super."
"Alright grandma." said Leilani as they headed out the door and to a car. Victor watched the whole scene form a distance. He moved toward a window and watched and Leilani and her grandma got into a car before driving away.
"Great, if this wasn't hard before now she is back." moaned Victor as he rubbed his temples.
"Now you just sit there while I make so super." said Aaliyah Hawke from the kitchen as Leilani sat down on the couch. "And don't try sneaking off."
"I won't." said Leilani as she turned on the Tv and switched it to the news. "I see they are talking about me coming home."
"Yes, well you are a gundam pilot." said Aaliyah Hawke
"Yes, I am." said Leilani as she watched the video of her coming home Suddenly Leilani's eyes widened as she noticed someone standing between two camera man in the distance. "Victor?"
"Who?" asked Grandma Hawke
"Never mind Grandma." said Leilani "What is he doing here?"
Hours later Victor hid in the bushes overlooking over the mass driver taking photo with his long range camera but he just couldn't stop thinking about the fact that Leilani was hurt. "Note to self punch Dimitri when I get home." Thought Victor as he took another photo as a shuttle launched. "But first I better get something to eat."
With that he stood up and walked toward the car he had rented with some of the money he had stolen from the computer system. "Well since I am here might as well see some off the night life." said Victor as he got into his car and headed down town unaware of what he would find.
"You know I missed you Leilani, all my friends have gone off to war leaving me no one to talk too." said Lenore Athha as the two of them sat in a booth at a local dinner.
"Well I have been on the battlefield." said Leilani to her best friend. "Besides haven't you been following your mom around training to take her shoes?"
"Well someone has too, we both know my brother doesn't want the job." said Lenore
"I would rather fight in a mobile suit then deal with all the bull that you have to deal with in public office." said Leilani
"You fight on the battlefield and I'll take care of bull." Said Lenore
"Fine by me." said Leilani as she took another drink.
"My brother told me you have a friend over there…a Victor Maxwell." said Lenore as Leilani tried not to blush.
"So…I am also friends with Marena and Bernardo Merquise." said Leilani
"They are your friends but let me guess Victor is something more then a friend." said Lenore with a grin.
"No he is just a friend." said Leilani as she looked at the table.
"But you wish it was something more don't you." said Lenore
"Yes." Said Leilani softy but Lenore could still hear her "And when I was watching the news of me coming home I saw him in the background. He is here in Orb."
"If he is here then he is a threat to this nation." said Lenore "Are your sure you're not just imagining it?"
"I am not imagining it." said Leilani as suddenly the door to the dinner opened and in walked someone Leilani wasn't expecting. There was Victor Maxwell.
"This looks like a small out of the way dinner; I shouldn't run into Leilani here." Thought Victor as he walked up to the bar and ordered a soda and a sandwich.
"That's him?" asked Lenore as he looked at Victor
"Ya." said Leilani as Victor got his sandwich
"He is cute." said Lenore as Leilani glared at her "Now I suggest you go spend some time with him and then turn him into the MP's in the morning."
"My Grandma will kill me if I don't come home." said Leilani "And that is nothing compared to what my parents will do."
"I'll handle things on that front." said Lenore as Leilani smiled as she walked up and headed toward Victor.
"So Victor what are you doing in Orb?" said Leilani as she sat down beside Victor.
Victor's heart stopped as he heard her voice. "God Damn it, what are the odds she would find me on my first night here." thought Victor as he looked up into Leilani's blue eyes.
"You got me on the first day, Leilani." said Victor "Can you at least let me finish my supper before you take me in."
"Sure, how about after that I take you out on the town for a bit." Said Leilani
"Wait aren't you going to hand me in…lock me up to keep me safe until it is all over just like you said." said Victor
"I'll do that but you did show me around your universe when I was undercover, might as well returned the favor. I can turn you in, in the morning." said Leilani
"That would be a strange date." said Victor
"Do you want this to be a date?" asked Leilani with a grin as Victor blushed before he grinned.
"Do you?" asked Victor with a bigger grin.
"Yep, those two so like each other." thought Lenore with a grin before she walked out.
"I should thank you for saving our asses from the Neo-Genesis cannon." Said Victor as he finished this sandwich "And I am sorry for what Dimitri did to you."
"It's a war people get hurt." said Leilani "Besides I will be ready to go in a week, now my mobile suit will take a little longer but not much."
"Lei I just wanted to say I didn't want to fight against you but if I hadn't then they would have known that I know the truth about what happened at the colony." said Victor
"And then they would of hurt your family. I understand and I don't blame you or the others." said Leilani "Well maybe not Dimitri."
"I don't really think that he would care that much anyhow." Said Victor "He is crazy I have no idea why he is even a pilot."
"Because he is crazy I guess." said Leilani as Victor laughed a bit.
"Makes sense." said Victor as he finished his food and paid for it. "Now what?"
"I am going to show you around town." said Leilani "Now your ride or mine?"
"You can drive with a broken arm?" asked Victor
"It's an Air cast, I can still ride." said Leilani as they walked out the door.
"You knew!" yelled Kira as he glared at Heero
"Yes, I did." said Heero
"And you didn't stop it?" asked Kira
"I asked Admiral Keys not to use it unless it was needed but maybe it might force them to give up." Said Heero
"Kira, I don't like it any more then you but we have to face the facts." said Luna "They outnumber us and we have to use everything possible to force them to the table to save lives."
"But that weapon killed so many people." said Kira before looking back at Heero "You have seen what it is like being on the other side of that thing."
"Yes, I do." said Heero
"Then why would you allow this to be used?" asked Kira
"Kira…" said Heero "You just don't understand wars do you."
"What?" asked Kira stunned that Heero would say that he didn't understand war.
"Kira, you see war though the eyes as if there are rules that no one should break." said Heero "That isn't the case."
"And what is the case?" asked Kira
"That there are no rules in war and either side will do anything to destroy the other." Said Heero "As the father of total war General Sherman said "War is cruelty there is no use trying to reform it. The cruller it is the sooner it will be over."
"I just don't like the idea of using that thing." Said Kira
"Join the club." Said Luna as Heero nodded.
"We better get going Kira, it's our turn for leave back home." said Heero
"I know, Athrun and Stella should arrive soon." Said Kira as he watched the two Yuy's as they walked toward the shuttle bay.
I am sorry for being late but for some reason the computer wouldn't let me load up the chapters. Well I hope you like this chapter, I am back at school. As such I plan to take a week or two to get back into school. So I will not be updating, sorry. However I would like to thank everyone who reads this story and reviews. Thank you Wilkins75.