Chapter 22 Master of War
Leilani stood looking out of one of the windows that lines the outside halls of the Seraphim, she was still getting used to the artificial gravity that had been developed. It wasn't has strong us being on Earth or a colony but they couldn't float. For over two weeks nothing had really happened Relena was gathering forces around the moon base preparing for their counter attack on Quatra's colony.
"Leilani." said Victor as he walked up in a preventer uniform.
"Is something going down Victor?" asked Leilani
"Not really, it's just I heard you got cleared by the doctors today." said Victor
"Ya, how are you settling in?" asked Leilani
"Well apart from the stares I am getting its fine." said Victor
"That is to be expected you are wearing the uniform of our enemy." said Leilani "Just give them time."
"I know, I just wish I could do something but without my suit I can't really do anything." Said Victor
"Well I am going to go see my Dad about that but this just came over the news link." said Leilani as she handed a computer pad to Victor. "Congratulation Victor Relena has declared you to be dead."
"This will kill my parents." said Victor
"I don't think so; I think your father is smart he will see that Relena is lying again." said Leilani
"Maybe, what about getting my folks and my sister out?" asked Victor as Leilani shook her head.
"No, not right now." said Leilani "Your Dad is currently in the middle of preparing the attack against us. It would be suicide to try and get him out."
"And if we get my mom and sister out then Relena would kill my dad." said Victor
"Yes, she would." said Leilani "That is why we should wait."
"I understand." said Victor
"What I am worried about is Marena and Bernardo will believe the reports." said Leilani
"True." Said Victor "Are they on the moon too?"
"No, the gundams minus Duo are being upgraded at New Edwards." said Leilani "That is why they haven't attacked us; they are waiting for their gundams to be upgraded."
"Is that were my gundam is?" asked Victor as Leilani nodded her head.
"Yes, they are training a new pilot to take your place." said Leilani
"I see." said Victor
"Don't worry, I have a plan." said Leilani with a grin.
Two days later Marena and Bernardo sat looking at their gundams being upgraded in the hanger. "It's hard to believe that Victor is gone and that it was Leilani who killed him." said Marena
"Ya, but you saw the video." Said Bernardo
"Ya, but what about the video that showed Dimitri firing first?" asked Marena
"That is faked." said Dimitri "The coordinator and their supporters are trying to make us turn against our president."
"Well then it is working, Hell even Senator Mariemaia Khushrenada has come out against the war." said Bernardo
"Have you guys forgotten the weapon they have?" asked Dimitri "They can now fire that Gamma ray cannon at the Earth killing us all."
"But they haven't moved that battle station since they took over that area over two weeks ago." said Marena "So they may have no intention of kill us."
"Why would they do that when at the moment they are winning?" asked Dimitri "However the moment it looks like they will lose they will launch their attack on the Earth whipping out all naturals here."
"Dimitri you are wrong." said Bernardo as Marena looked at her brother and Dimitri glared at him "However we can't take the risk that you are right, we have to take back that colony so that they can't hit the Earth."
"Well our gundams are the last two to get upgraded with the tech we got from that giant gundam that attacked the Lunar base." said Marena as she looked back at their gundams "And it looks they are almost done."
"They are only a couple of hours away." said Aeneas as he walked in "They say it should be done by this time tomorrow and then we will head back into space to revenge our fallen comrade."
"How is Victor's….replacement doing?" asked Bernardo "Marcus Right?"
"Yes, he is still getting used to the machine but he will learn fast or he will die." said Dimitri
"He just passed the simulator and will be getting into his new machine tomorrow." said Aeneas just then an alarm went off.
"What is going on?" yelled Bernardo as Marena ran over to the computer terminal at sat nearby
"It's the Omen its powering up." said Marena
"Can you get us an image?" asked Bernardo as his sister brought up an image of the Omen standing in a nearby hanger. His eyes widened as he saw who was sitting inside the cockpit. Sitting there in a black flight suit was Victor.
"I can't believe they didn't take away my access code." said Victor with a grin as he remembers how he just ran his card over the scanner to open the hanger door. "Well it's time to make our exist."
"How is he alive?" asked Marena as she watched Victor close the cockpit door and the Omen's eyes flashed green as it's systems came online. "I thought Leilani killed him?"
"Open a channel!" yelled Bernardo as Marena opened a link and Bernardo's face appeared on Victor's screen.
"Well I didn't think you guys would be up at 2 in the morning." Said Victor with a grin as the Omen left the docking station "What is up?"
"Victor is that you?" asked Marena
"Who else would it be?" asked Victor as he walked out the door, the guard's rife bullets bouncing off the Gundamiun armor of the Omen.
"What are you doing?" yelled Bernardo
"What does it look like?" asked Victor as he ran his hands across the keyboard. "I am taking my suit."
"He just changed his IFF!" yelled Marena
"Too what?" asked Bernardo
"It says he is a member of their Angel Squadron." said Marena
"What!" yelled Bernardo
"Leilani talked her dad into letting me join." said Victor with a grin "One of the perks that come from dating the daughter of an Admiral."
"You and Leilani?" asked Marena as Victor smiled and nodded his head.
"Where are our Leo's!" yelled Dimitri
"Well Leilani and I locked all the pilots into their quarters and sealed the hanger doors for the Leo's and your gundams, minus mine of course." Said Victor
"You are betraying all Naturals by working with coordinators!" yelled Aeneas, Victor just broke out laughing.
"I hate to tell you Aeneas but you are working with a coordinator as well." said Victor "Relena's personal killing machine coordinator Dimitri."
"What!?" asked Bernardo as he looked at Dimitri
"He is a coordinator and that is the tip of the ice burg." said Victor "We nuked the colony and tried to nuke them. It is Relena who started this war not them."
"That can't be true?" asked Marena
"It is true." said Victor as his watched beep "Well I have to get going." With that he raised the Omen's arm in the air. Just then Leilani can flying over in Wing II in jet mode. Victor grabbed onto one of Leilani's arms as she flew them out of the base toward the hills that lied just outside the city that had grown out of the base.
Once they were a safe distance Leilani hovered above a small clearing miles away from the base. Victor dropped down into the field; he quickly headed over to the small pod that had brought Leilani and him to earth.
"Victor do you know what you doing?" asked Leilani as she landed.
"Ya, it is simple isn't it?" asked Victor as he pulled an item that took up most of the pod. It looked like a giant mushroom that was taller then his gundam. It had a giant rocket engine on the very bottom.
"Ya, the EA designed it so that they could send mobile suits into orbit if all the mass divers are taken over our destroyed." said Leilani as Victor brought the system online.
"Any sign of preventers?" asked Victor
"They have just launched some Aries." said Leilani "How much longer."
"Around 30 seconds." said Victor as he backed the Omen up into one of the four strapping in points. "Get on."
"Alright." said Leilani as she walked Wing II into its spot.
"We have a large heat source." said an Areas pilot as he flew over the massive forest. "Heading toward it." Just as he said that a rocket flew out of the clearing. A large explosion also came from the clearing as Leilani's pod exploded.
"Sir what is that?" asked his wing man
"I don't know but shoot it down!" yelled the areas pilot as he opened fire on the rocket.
"They are firing at us." said Victor as the rocket flew higher and faster but still the tracers from the bullets came ripping by.
"Well just hold on and pray, we should be out of their range in a few seconds." said Leilani as the second buster kicked off sending them rocketing out of the Area's range and into space.
"Were are they going?" asked Wufei as he stormed into the command center after being awoken in the middle of the night only to find out that one of their gundams was stolen.
"They have just entered lower orbit." said an aid "We have ships between them and the enemy fleet near Quatra's colony. We have them trapped."
"Good." Said Wufei "Move in and destroy them."
"Sir, enemy ship on radar above our location." said an operator as the Seraphim jumped into the universe just above the Earth.
"There is our ride." said Leilani as the hanger doors opened.
"Get in you two, we have enemy ships coming at us." said an Orb officer on the seraphim
"Once they are aboard jump us back to our universe." ordered Murre Flaga
"Sir, they are gone." said the preventer operator as Wufei slammed his fist against the wall.
"Inform the President." ordered Wufei
The next day Admiral Heero Yuy looked over the map "What is the news of the Preventer fleet?" asked Heero
"Reports say that they are preparing to launch their attack on us sir." said an Orb officer "Their gundams have joined their fleet."
"I see is everything in place?" asked Heero
"Sir Admiral Athrun Athha and Commander Kira Yamanto are in place and so is everyone else." said the aid
"Good, lets just hope this is the final act of this pointless war." said Heero "Send the order out. We must launch our attack before they hit us."
"At once sir." said the aid
"I can't believe I am going to do this." said Victor as he sat in the Omen.
"You scared?" asked Rhyu with a grin.
"Rhyu do you remember yesterday when I told you to shut up?" asked Umize
"Yes." Said Rhyu
"Consider that a standing order." ordered Umize
"Don't worry Victor it is just like those space carrier jumps we did in simulators during training." said Leilani as she felt the ship jump away.
"Sir, we are ready to launch our attack on the enemy forces around the winner colony." Said a preventer officer as Wufei smiled.
"Good order our fleet out." ordered Wufei as suddenly another aid came running in.
"Sir, we have an emergence message from command!" yelled the aid
"What is it?" asked Wufei
"Another enemy battle fort just like the one over mars and a massive fleet has just appeared over Earth." said the aid as Wufei's eyes widened.
"As Sun Tzu says in the art of war "Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions." said Heero as he quoted once again from his favorite book. "And Wufei you and Relena have left the Earth defenseless."
"Sir we are coming into range." said an EA officer
"Good once we are range drop the suits." Ordered Heero
"How long to we are over the target?" asked an officer
"Over the target in five." said the drop control officer.
"Good."
"Sir, we have target lock, Washington DC Capital City of the Earth United Nation." said an aid as Heero nodded his head.
"Launch the attack." said Heero
"Launch all pods." ordered the aid as more mobile suits pods then that took part in operation spit break and the attack on Heaven's base combine started falling toward the Earth.
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I have to updating early because I will not be able to update tomorrow. Sorry if it seams that I am using the Art of War a lot, I had to read it for a class. Also I didn't know were the capital of the Earth Nation was so I just went with Washington. Well I have a poll up so would you please go do that and please keep on reading and reviewing. Thanks. Wilkins75.