Chapter 17 The Star's Above Me.
"Get on." said Leilani as she got onto her black and red motorcycle.
"Isn't it normal for the guy to ride up front?" asked Victor
"Well do you know your way around Orb?" asked Leilani
"No." said Victor
"Then you don't know the wear we are going and the fastest way to get there?" asked Leilani
"No." said Victor
"Then slowly your pride and get on the back." said Leilani as she started up her bike. Victor slowly got onto the bike as he and Leilani drove away.
Meanwhile Bernardo sat in the lunar base watching the video of the massive beam weapon. "What is this weapon?" asked Bernardo
"It's a gamma ray gun." said Dimitri as he walked in.
"Gamma radiation?" asked Bernardo "We have no defiance against something like that."
"That is the point of any super weapon." said Dimitri "There is no defense."
"Do we have any idea what would happen if they hit the earth?" asked Bernardo
"Well they appear to be out of range at the moment but if say the beam hit New York city people 3,500 miles away in London would be killed by the radiation." said Dimitri as Bernardo's eyes widened.
"How far would they have to go to get into range?" asked Bernardo
"The L19 colony." said Dimitri
"That is Quatra's colony." said Bernardo "We have no forces over there and they have no weapons to stop them."
"Also we have only a few patrols over there so we may never know about it until they are within range." said Dimitri
"Then we have to move some forces there to stop them." said Bernardo "We can't let fire that weapon at Earth."
"President Darlian if talking to Governor Quatra as we speak holey he will set aside his crazy ideas for the greater good." said Dimitri
"Are you crazy!" yelled Victor as Leilani dogged and weaved her bike between the cars.
"I am a Yuy." Said Leilani as she turned off onto a side road and drove along the ocean side highway until she came to a stop near a grass covered field. "Well we are here."
"Were is here?" asked Victor as Leilani led him into a grassy field.
"I thought you would want to see this." said Leilani as Victor looked out to see the port, the lights from the city shimmered off the surface of the water as boats traveled in and out of the port. Along with the lights from the city the moon and star light also shimmered off the water.
"Its beautiful." said Victor
"Ya, it is." said Leilani "I always like to come here and think."
"I can understand why it's so relaxing, where are we anyhow?" asked Victor
"My backyard." said Leilani as Victor looked down the small hill only to see a good size beachside house.
"Nice back yard." said Victor
"Ya, my family spent a lot of war summers night out here just watching the stars." said Leilani
"It hard to imagine that Heero Yuy, the legendary gundam pilot would just sit outside and watch the stars." said Victor
"He isn't a legendary pilot to me, he is my dad and if you take him out of his suit he is a normal human being who loves to spend time with his family." said Leilani as she sat down on the grass. Victor sat down beside her just looking up at the night sky.
"Just like my dad." said Victor "People say he is a living legend but he is the guy who falls asleep in his chair with the TV on."
"My dad did that once when I was little and my brother and I tried to get the jump on him but right before we could my mom's cat jumped up waking him up." said Leilani with a laugh.
"I did the same thing with my dad." said Victor as both teens broke out laughing.
In another universe Athrun, Kira and Admiral Keys stood around a table. "I really don't like the idea of launching an attack like this." said Kira
"Right now they wouldn't dare attack us." Said Keys "Now is the time to hit them hard at their main base."
"But as you know that we wanted to do some upgrades to the gundams during this break in the war." said Athrun "All our new gundams are down at the moment and we should keep the older gundam here incase they attack again."
"You guys and your mobile suits." said Keys "The EA's newest mobile armors will deal with the preventers. You can't have all the honor for yourselves."
"Thus isn't about honor, so far we have attacked we have only responded to their attacks." Said Kira "And so far it seams that the people in this universe are starting to turn against Relena and toward us. It might turn again and this time against us if we do this."
"I respect you but you have no authority to stop me from giving this order." said Admiral Keys "It will be my man and my machines Zaft and Orb will have their hands clean of this."
"This is still a very bad idea what happens if we fail?" asked Athrun
"We will not fail just watch." said admiral Keys as he put his plan into effect.
Meanwhile Leilani sat on the grass beside Victor looking up at the star filled sky. "It looks the same." said Victor
"What does?" asked Leilani
"The stars, they look the same as they do back home." Said Victor "No matter how different our universes are the stars are the same."
"Ya, I had the same feeling when I was in your universe." said Leilani "But you know deep down our universes are not so different."
"We share a different history, culture and we are religious your not." Said Victor as he remembered it was Sunday. "You know what my mom will be pissed that I missed churched."
"Just because I or most people in this universe don't go to a church doesn't mean we don't believe in a God." Said Leilani
"What do you believe Leilani?" asked Victor
"I believe that if you look out at the complexity of the universe how everything is balanced that there has to be someone or something at work." Said Leilani
"Relena said that coordinators are demons out to destroy everything good." Said Victor as Leilani rolled her eyes
"Do you really think I am a demon?" asked Leilani as she pushed herself up on one elbow to look at Leilani
"No." said Victor as he went up on an elbow and looked at Leilani "You're more of an Angle then a demon."
"Sir, we have an incoming object." said an Preventer officer at the Lunar command center
"What kind of object?" asked Zechs
"It's huge almost as large as Peace Million." Said the operator
"How could it get in this close?" asked Zechs
"It used a passing astounded as cover." said the operator "Mobile suits also incoming."
"What kind?" asked Zechs
"From our source on mars they are classified as belonging to the Earth Alliance." said the operator
"Launch all mobile suits." Ordered Zechs "What are you trying to do Heero, an attack here is suicide we have all our forces here."
"Looks like trouble." Said Marena as the Sorra took flight.
"Is there anything else these coordinators bring?" asked Bernardo as they entered visual range of the large black disk. "What is that?"
His answer came when dozens of large beam cannons opened up from the disk.
"Wow, that was corning." said Leilani
"Ya, it was." Said Victor with a laugh
"But it was also sweat." said Leilani with a smile.
"It's coming closer." said Bernardo as he fired at the disk only to have it bounce of an energy shield.
"It's shields are too strong." said Aeneas as he destroyed a smaller mobile armor.
"Wait it's stopping." said Dimitri as the giant disk came to a stop. Out of the bottom two giant feet deployed tucking down on the lunar surface.
"We are all green for deployment." Said one of the three EA pilots inside the machine
"Deploy." said the commander.
"Yes, sir." said the pilot as he pushed a bottom.
"You know the newspapers around here has nicknamed me the Angel of Peace." said Leilani
"Well you know what I go by." said Victor
"Ya, Mr. Angel of Death." said Leilani
"Sir, the ship is transforming." said an operator as Zechs looked at the screen and before his eyes the ship started to transform until it took on the form of a mobile suit.
"Destroyer Mark II has been deployed." Said the EA pilot
"Good, let's destroy the base." Said the Ea Commander
"It's a mobile suit." Said the stunned Preventor officer
"No…it's a gundam." said Zechs as he headed out the door toward his mobile suit "Launch all mobile suits take that down. I will take command from the field."
"Heero what are you thinking this will only make the people more afraid of you and then they will fight harder to keep you away." Thought Zechs
"Leilani have you ever thought about what will happen after the war?" asked Victor "I mean if we want to keep this going between us?"
"Ya, I have." said Leilani as Victor looked at her "From what I can gather there are only a few options."
"What are those?" asked Victor
"Well one is that one of us quite being a gundam pilot." Said Leilani "But both of us have worked to hard to give that up."
"What are the others?" asked Victor
"Either an exchange of officers in the short term." said Leilani
"So I would be a Preventer pilot living here or you would be an Orb pilot living with the preventers." said Victor "That could work."
"Yes, that is how my parents did it in the short term." said Leilani
"How about the long term?" asked Victor
"One of us leaves the preventers or Orb and joins the other in their nation's military." said Leilani "Again that is what my parents did before they were married. My mom transferred from Zaft to Orb."
"Swarm the target!" yelled Bernardo as he lead a squad of Leo's against the massive mobile suit no destroying the Lunar base but nothing seamed to stop it.
"Fire." said the Ea Pilot as the destroyer's powerful chest cannons fired destroying a field of landed mobile suit carriers.
"Sir, we have a problem." said the engineer "All the attacks are wearing down our shields; we have maybe five minutes before our shields fall."
"How, they have no weapon that can hurt us, so why are our shields failing?" asked the commander
"It's all the constant little attacks they add up." said the engineer
"No matter we will have the base destroyed in under five minutes." said the commander
"All forces this is Commander Zechs." said Zechs as the Tallgeese flew out of the hanger "I want all your fire located right above the cockpit."
"Dad?" asked Bernardo
"Just trust me." said Zechs as all the Leo's and all the base defenses turned and fired at the same point just above the cockpit.
"Sir! Our shields are down!" yelled the engineer.
"What we have five minutes!" yelled the commander
"They concentrate their fire and brought down our shield." said the engineer
"Get us out of here." ordered the commander as rounds started to exploded on the armor.
"Now it's my turn." said Zechs as he pulled his sword and charged forward. It took only a second for the Tallgeese to close the distance. The mobile suit filled the screen of the destroyer as Zechs plunged his sword into its chest just as Heero had done all those years ago.
The pilots inside the giant mobile armor covered their faces as the cockpit exploded as the entire suit went up in a gain fireball.
"Ya, we won!" yelled Bernardo as Zechs flew out of the fire ball
"But at what cost." said Zechs as he looked at the half destroyed base.
Meanwhile Leilani and Victor laughed as they lied on the grass unaware that they were being watched.
"Your taking this better then I thought." said Luna as she looked at her husband watching the young teens out their bedroom window.
"I know if I tried to break it up, Leilani would never forgive me." said Heero as he watched his daughter laugh at one of Victor's jokes.
"She would but she would be upset with you for the longest time. Besides admit it you like Victor." said Luna as she joined her husband in looking out the window.
"Yes." said Heero "He reminds me of Duo. He may be a goof ball sometimes but he would never put anyone at risk if he didn't have too."
"And when ever have you seen her so happy." added Luna as she looked at her daughter
"To long ago." said Heero
"Don't worry Heero; she is still your little girl." said Luna "Nothing can ever change that."
"I know but I want to protect her." Said Heero
"And you're a great father because of that but there are times when she just has to learn things for herself." Said Luna as she raised her hand and turned her eyes away from watching over their daughter to looking at her "And love is something she has to learn for herself and yes she may get hurt or she may find something like we have."
"What did I do to get someone like you?" asked Heero softy in a voice he would only let Luna here.
"I ask myself how I got you." Said Luna as the two of them kissed. "Now let's leave our daughter alone."
"Sir, we a locator beacon." said an Preventor officer
"One of ours?" asked Zechs
"No." said the officer "It's one of theirs."
"I got it." said Marena as she found the body floating in space. "His suit seams to be intact."
"Do you have a name?" asked Zechs as Marena's computer zoomed in on the name located on the chest.
"Commander A. Keys." said Marena
"Wait…isn't the admiral in charge of the EA's forces an Admiral Keys?" asked Bernardo
"Yes." said Zechs "That could be a son or relative. Bring him in."
"Why not kill him?" yelled Dimitri
"We don't kill Prisoners of War Dimitri." Yelled Zechs "Now bring him in."
Out in the field Leilani laughed once again at one of Victor's jokes. Suddenly rays of light started to appear over the horizon. "Looks like our time is almost up." said Victor as the sky began to brighten with the rising sun. "Time for me to go to prison."
"Ya." said Leilani sadly as Victor stood up.
"Well I guess we should head back to your bike." said Victor
"Yes, but first there is something I want to do." said Leilani
"What?" asked Victor as an as an evil grin crossed Leilani's face.
"This." said Leilani as her hand shot up faster then Victor could see. She grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him back down on top of her. Then before Victor could even move she pressed her lips against his. Instantly both teens closed their eyes. When they pulled apart both of them smiled.
"That was amazing." said Victor with a smile "Why didn't you do it earlier?"
"It didn't feel like the right moment." Said Leilani with her own smile as Victor moved to kiss her lips.
"You two done?" asked a voice suddenly as both teens looked down the hill. To see Heero standing there with a cup of coffee in his hands.
"Dad!?" said Leilani wide eyed
"Mr. Yuy." said Victor fearing for his life.
"Leilani I am going to change into my uniform and then I will take Victor to the MPs." said Heero as Victor lowered his head. "However until then you may carry on."
"What?" asked Leilani stunned by her dad's actions
"You only have about five minutes." said Heero "I suggest you use them."
"Thank you sir." said Victor as he started to feel safe
"Oh and Victor one more thing." said Heero
"What is it sir?" asked Victor
"If I come back and you two have done anything more then kissing I will kill you." said Heero so coldly that it put the fear of God into Victor
As Heero walked back inside Leilani looked at him "He must like you."
"Why do you say that?" asked Victor
"He didn't shot you right away." Said Leilani
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I have a very busy quarter in front of me so I don't know how often I can update but I will try me best. Now I thank you all and please read and review. Thanks Wilkins75.