Chapter 1 A New Discovery
"Flight control final check go or no go?" inquired the female Zaft scientist as she sat in a raised platform looking out over the fifty men and women who were all manning their computers monitoring everything they could for the test one of the newest research vessel in the Plants. The team was safe onboard a modified warship while outside object of over four years of research into a new form of space travel. The ship which they had constructed, the Icarus had the first Space Fold Drive which bent space around the ship allowing it to travel massive distances almost at once. The dart like white ship had already completed six flights to the outer edge of the Solar System and back without any issues however the seventh would be the first to leave the Solar System.
"We are go." answered the male lead of the flight control team
"Life support is a go." reported another man
"Engines are all green we are ready for launch." reported the final team as the team leader nodded her head.
"Alright we are all green prepare to enter the history books with the last prototype manned Space fold Jump." Reported the team head.
"Well it isn't a manned flight." Laughed the female pilot of the Icarus as she sat in the cockpit of the ship surrounded by multiple instruments and life support equipment.
"Just a term, now let's begin." Laughed the flight leader back "Jump in three…two…one."
Hours later it was a moonless night in the island nation of Orb, most of the population was either sound asleep in their beds or on the job themselves. Just outside of the capital city located in a red brick large house at the base of a hill slept one of the legendary three gundam pilots from the First and Second Bloody Valentine Wars. Heero Yuy the pilot which fell from the sky, the natural human which could beat even the best coordinator pilot lied in his bed sound asleep however he wasn't alone using his chest as her pillow was his wife of just over a year the twenty two year old Lunamaria Yuy. The bedroom was quiet expect for the sounds of their breathing and totally dark expect for the small amount of light which came from the digital clock on the nightstand. Hanging in their closest where their white Orb military uniforms ready to be used the following morning when they reported in. Everything seemed normal until suddenly the sound of a vibrating cell phone interrupted the stillness of the night. Reacting before the second vibrate Heero Yuy grabbed the phone before sliding the touch screen unlocking it.
"Admiral Yuy." whispered Heero so not to wake the still sound asleep vice admiral who was currently using his chest as her pillow.
"Admiral stand by for a Chairwoman Yamato." said a voice as Heero slowly left the warmth of his bed and his wife and moved out of the room and toward his office as he moved a new voice came over the phone.
"Heero, so sorry to disturb you so late." apologized his friend as Heero sat down behind his large oak desk. Behind him through the gundanium laced bullet proof glass the night sky of the capital could be seen.
"It's Ok, Lacus hang on for a moment will you." stated Heero as he placed the phone into a build in slot in his desk. At once the phone call was transferred to his flat screen computer as the phone call became a teleconference. It was clear the moment that Lacus appeared on the screen the time distance between Orb and the Plants up in space as Lacus was dressed in her head council woman cloths and was sitting in her office with the noon day artificial sun in the background while Heero sat in his darkened office with only the glow of the computer screen to light it.
"Much better." Said Lucas with a smile
"Yes, now what do I owe the honor is Angel squadron needed?" inquired Heero knowing that 2 am phone calls from the head of a government normally either meant a terrorist attack or the discovery of a stash of missing small arm.
"Heero as you know two hours ago we launched our newest ship the Icarus on its final manned flight before we move on to full size ships." Started Lacus as Heero just nodded his head confirming that he already knew about it. It wasn't uncommon for the legendary gundam pilot to know more than almost everyone else but in this case all someone would have to do to know about the Icarus was watch the evening news. Already experts where predicting that within the next five years using the drive there would be humans traveling to the nearest star outside of our own Proxima Centauri and within ten humans would be colonizing other planets outside of the solar system.
"Was there an attack on the ship?" asked Heero as he looked at Lacus with his précising blue eyes.
"No, the ship had a technical malefaction and the ship remained in the same spot." explained Lacus as Heero raised an eyebrow wondering why this was a matter which required his attention at 2 in the morning. "But in another universe."
That phase caused Heero's heart to stop as the pilot from another universe turned his gaze away from the screen toward the photos on his desk. He focused on the four largest photos located on the far end of the desk. One was a photo taken by his old friend Miriallia Haw now Elsmen on the one year anniversary of the end of the second war. Standing side by side where all the friends he had made since his arrival in this universe almost seven years ago when he was 16 years old. The second photo was a close up of him, Athrun and Kira all dressed in their military uniforms with their gundams standing behind each of the pilots. The photo had made Miriallia a house hold name when she started selling off special additions of the photo. The next photo caused a rare smile to cross Heero's face as he looked at his and Luna's wedding photo, the two of them dancing with the stars above them. Luna's in a beautiful flowing wedding dress and him in his white admiral Uniform. All three photos where images of the life Heero had built but the last was a photo of where he had come from. Sitting at the far end was a photo taken by Howard all those years ago before he even arrived in this universe onboard the Peace Million Spacecraft. It showed the five gundam pilot from his old home just relaxing. Trowa Barton and Wufei were in the middle of a chess game while Due watched them. Sitting down with a drink in his hand was Quatre and there in the background leaning up against the far wall was himself.
"Is it what I think it is?" asked Heero as Lacus looked down typing on here computer.
"Given everything you have told Kira and me about your old home we believe so." confirmed Lacus "Before the ship returned the pilot was able to capture some of the TV and radio broadcasts I am sending it to you now."
"Thank you Lacus." thanked Heero as the information started to come into his computer over the Angel squadron network.
"The key bit of evidence we have is the first file." explained Lacus "We are preparing to recreate the incident which allowed for a universal jump with one of our unmanned test probes, we plan to have it jump in and record data for about an hour before jumping back."
"Sounds like a good plan." stated Heero as he opened a side screen and pulled up a file for Lacus to see. "If this is my old home then maybe there is a way to find to find out. Years ago I set up multiple hideouts on Earth and in space each with its own power source and patch into the communication network. If your probe is able to make contact with any of the hid outs we will know more."
"It's been so many years what are the olds any of them are still up?" inquired Lacus
"Not good but it's worth a shot." Confirmed Heero as he typed the old pass codes up by memory alone "I am sending you the radio single and the last passcode I used. It should gain you access if there are any hide outs still in operation."
"How do you feel about making contact with them it would be easy to record a message for them from you?" asked Lacus as Heero leaned back in his chair a bit before looking at the photo of his old friends which he hadn't seen in eight years. For a moment he thought about taking the offer but he had changed so much in those eight years he couldn't explain everything in a brief message.
"Too much a risk at the moment, we need to learn as much as possible first." explained Heero as Lacus nodded her head.
"I thought you would say something like that but I thought I would ask anyhow." explained Lacus "I will send you all the data we have the moment we get it and I have already called a meeting between the nations for 9:30 your time."
"Thank you." responded Heero as Lacus disappeared from the screen as the giant Z logo of Zaft appeared before being replaced with the seal of Angel Squadron. The seal was that of a humanoid angel in full armor holding a sword and shield appeared in front of an outline of the Earth with the words "Armed to Protect the Peace" across the top and the words "Zaft, Orb, Earth Alliance" across the bottom. The seal began to spin around to show the back side which was the same as the front side only with a female angel holding a spear with multiple space colonies in the background.
For a moment Heero just sat there looking at the spinning logo before the sound of the hardwood floorboards creaking caused him to look up only to see the woman he loves standing in the doorway of his office. She still dressed in the white tank top and black shorts which she had fallen asleep in hours earlier, her short red hair framed her face as she looked at him with those warm blue eyes.
"So are you going to open those files Lacus sent you?" inquired Luna as Heero leaned back in his chair closing his eyes as he placed his hand on his temple. "You don't want to open them because then you have to deal with that part of your life."
"Never really felt a need to think about it in years I made my choice all those years ago when Zero made me pick between here or there and I choice here with you." explained Heero as Luna walked around to stand behind her husband.
"And I am so happy you choice me but we can't run from the past so we might as well find out what happened after to them after you arrived here." explained Luna as she leaned forward clicking on the top file which Lacus had sent them. Instantly a screen opened to see a commercial for a hair product. Causing both of them to raise an eyebrow "Ok I didn't expect that."
Their confusion was short lived as the video kept playing as the logo for a TV station appeared in the corner of the screen.
"Welcome back to our special on the Gundam Pilots in this episode we will focus on Heero Yuy the Pilot of Wing and Wing Zero. This pilot was by far the most efficient in the cockpit however his story came to an end as we know it when he fired his Buster Rife at the falling Libra battleship preventing the destruction of Earth and sending him to another universe." said the TV announcer as images of the younger Heero and his multiple battles appeared on the screen. "So join us as we go inside the cockpit of Heero Yuy the lost Gundam Pilot and love of his life Relena Peacecraft. A story of love and war in this episode on the Biographical channel."
With that the screen went black before going back to the desktop image of the seal of Angel Squadron appeared.
"I guess that was when the ship jumped back." stated Heero not sure how to approach the whole love part at the end of the intro to the show considering his wife was standing right beside him.
"But it told us a lot, I think we found your old home Heero." confirmed Luna as Heero nodded his head. "Personally I can't wait to meet your old friends."
"They may have changed drastically over the years." Stated Heero as Luna smiled before wrapping her arms around the back of his neck before kissing him on the cheek. "They are not the same people I knew back then."
"Well neither are you." commented Luna as she let go before walking toward the door, stopping right at the doorway leading out of the room, before turning around to look at her husband. "Well since neither one of us is going to get any real sleep until that report from the Plants come in why don't we have some fun."
While Heero and Luna where enjoying each other company in another universe on a different version of the island nation of Malta teams of people where working around the clock on the old mobile suits. In an ideal world they would be working on Serpent mark III, Virgo mark VI and Ares mark II in closed hangers with proper equipment. Instead they were working on old Leo ground suits and old Ares mark I flight mobile suits and using duck tapes to hold some pieces in place. These mobile suits which had once been top of the line military equipment however now these mobile suits where now relegated in the normal military to either be scouts or used in the movement of equipment in the supply train where now getting ready to fight in the front line.
"How long until these machines are ready to go?" yelled a voice from the ground as the chief mechanic lifted her grease covered face out from behind a metal panel. She turned her gaze toward the ground her raven hair framing her dark eyes as she looked at the silver haired man dressed in a dark red military uniform standing on the ground. A large scar ran across his face from above one of his eyes to under the other.
"Ah…if it isn't our brave leader himself Yzak Joule what do we owe the honor today?" laughed the woman as Yzak glared at her.
"I should kick you out your uniform specialist Aadi." snapped Yzak as her crew laughed at the comment.
"I bet you want to get her out of that uniform." laughed a man in the crew as both Yzak and Aadi blushed a bit before glaring at the man "Please we all know you two are sleeping together."
"This is still a military unit so you will follow protocol." stated Yzak knowing that calling the forces under his command a military was a stretch at best. They only had a hundred mostly old mobile suits held together with in some cases literally duct tape and strings and they had to stand against the unified joint military of Earth and Space lead by the Gundams. They were considered terrorist in the eyes of the world because they had done the unthinkable sin against natural laws of nature and manmade laws by created coordinators. Surrounding their the tiny Mediterranean island nation home were fleets of warships waiting for the order to launch the attack "No mater we only have a week until the deadline and they launch their attack, will this unit be ready."
"We will be ready." confirmed Aadi knowing in the back of her mind that it would take an act of God to get even half of the suits she was tasked with fixing ready in time for a fight.
"Sir, if I may ask how are the forces on Tongo doing are they coming here or are we going to join them?" asked a voice in the crowed as Yzak lowered his head, he was half tempted to hide the truth but it would be in the news soon enough and when the base commander appeared on the TV he wouldn't be able to hid it.
"Tongo surrendered to them, we are all that is left." stated Yzak as the crew looked down knowing that the small island nation of Tongo was the only friend they had in the world and they had surrendered.
"What of the children at Tongo what happened to them?" asked a female crew member
"I am not sure but this is Relena Peacecraft we are talking about I wouldn't be surprised if they are dead." Stated Yzak as the woman cried a bit.
"Come on put on stiff upper lip." stated Aadi as her English heritage shown through for all to see "We have work to do and not a lot of time to do it."
Well I have finally returned to one of my favorite stories, now I hope that you enjoy this new working of my stories. Now until next time I hope that you keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75