Chapter 3 The plan
The days seem to pass in a whirlwind of activity as the militaries of the world went into overdrive to prepare for the military intervention, which was coming. The mobilization of the gundams was always front-page news and there was no way to contain the movement of all the gundams from the press. Within the hour the news had leaked out and multiple debates where taking place between so called experts and pundits on all the 24 hour news networks in Earth and Space.
"Yes, I understand that this could be seen as a personal mission but the events going on in my old universe is almost step for step in line which led to the first bloody valentine war between Earth and Space." explained Heero as he sat in front of a TV crew in Kira's office in the Zaft Armory One. His imagine was being broadcasted live over the Sunday morning talk shows as he took questions from the three most popular news anchors from Orb, Zaft and the Earth Alliance. "And with only a handful of mobile suits we can turn the tide and allow everyone to see that there is a different path."
"But what if they find a way to launch an attack here?" inquired the Zaft News woman "You could put the plants and the world at risk for another war."
"At the moment the odds of that are very low, while they are near the same level of us in technology they lack key technologies that we have here." explained Heero "It took the best Zaft have to create the space drive and even then it took an accident for them to discover it could jump to another universe. We have that technology they don't so a strike here would be unlikely."
"So you are saying it is impossible for them to hit us?" inquired the Orb reporter
"Nothing is impossible and I do not know what technology they are developing in secret, we are still in the process of gathering information." rebutted Heero getting tired of explaining the same thing over and over again "What we know for sure is that if we don't act then thousands of coordinators most of whom are only guilty of being born will have and unknown fate and their parents will likely be killed or at the best imprisoned."
"Well we are about out of time, Admiral Yuy we thank you taking the time to answer some of our questions." confirmed the Earth Alliance News men as Heero nodded his head and put on the warmest smile he could for people who drove him up the wall.
"I thank you all for having me today." said Heero as the cameras went off as the crew packed things up while Heero placed his head in his hand. He was so focus on the migraine headache, which was forming that he did not hear anything until the glass of water hit the table. He lifted his head to see Luna sitting on the edge of the desk with a glass of water beside her and a headache pill. She wasn't dressed in her vice admiral's uniform instead she had on her favorite red dress
"I brought some medicine since I know you just love to do news interviews." laughed Lunamaria Yuy as Heero shock his head as he took the pill before taking a drink of ice water.
"How was your shopping day with your sister and mom?" inquired Heero wanting to hear about something that was not related to his military life.
"Good, mom wants to have all of us over for dinner once this whole thing is settled and my sister is dating Yolan Kent." Reported Luna as Heero leaned back a bit as mind racing trying to put a face to the name.
"Yolan Kent, sounds familiar but I can't place him." admitted Heero
"He was the head mechanic on the Minerva when I was still piloting a Zaku." Reported Luna as Heero nodded his head as he recalled dark skinned blue-eyed black haired man from his memory of his days on the Minerva. "You would like him, he is now head of all mobile suit repair teams for Armory One. You two would have a lot to talk about."
"First let's see how long this boyfriend lasts." Reported Heero as Luna glared at her husband who instantly went on the defensive to explain his words before he had to pay for them "No offense but your sister has had three boyfriends in five months."
"Well most of the time, it is the guy asking her out so that they can meet the great Heero Yuy and the Legendary three." rebutted Luna knowing that being related to someone famous was often a curse "This time she asked him out."
"Well that is different than the last one," hoped Heero as he placed his head in his palm remembering. "He only wanted to talk to Kira, Athrun and Me."
"True, also this time don't run a background check on him." ordered Luna as Heero nodded his head confirming his wife's order. She stood up before walking toward the large window which looked out over the Zaft military base of Armory one, directly below her was her old ship the Minerva. The crews were working around the clock preparing her and installing the jump drive but the deadline was now only five days away. "Do you think she will be ready in time?"
"Well we had some good news in that front the drive fit in perfectly on its first go so we didn't have to try multiple times but we are still 6 days out from the nearest launch time." Explained Heero as he stood up and moved beside his wife
"Wing Angel and the Impulse are loaded onto the jump ship we should be ready to leave within the hour." reported Luna as she leaned back a bit into Heero's chest watching the artificial sun light outside the window. "By the way I got that thing you wanted when I went shopping."
"Good that is key to the first part of my plan." confirmed Heero as he kissed the back of her head as the door to the office opened as a young man no older then Luna was when they meet walked in. He was dressed in a red Zaft pilot uniform and his blue spiky hair was pulled back and stylized.
"Sir, Ma'am Commander Yamato has called a meeting in the war room." explained the Zaft pilot as he snapped to attention.
"Thanks." replied Luna as the Zaft member tapped his heals together before leaving. "I guess I better change into my uniform."
"Everyone there will be our friends, it isn't needed." Offered up Heero as the two of them walked out of the office before taking the short elevator ride to the very heart of the Zaft military. They walked past several high ranking commanders as they journeyed into the war room. From the outside, it seemed like a basic room with the only thing standing out being a strangely shaped metal table located in the center of the room. The room was currently crowed with their friends most of whom were dressed in their military uniforms, only Luna and her sister Meyrin where in civilian outfits having come from a day of shopping.
"Nice of you to join us." laughed the cocky black haired red Zaft gundam pilot Shinn Asuka as he looked toward the man he had blamed for the death of his family for so many years.
"Shinn…be nice to brother." stated Shinn's wife and sister of Heero, Stella. For a moment Heero looked at the woman he had somewhat adopted as his sister. In reality, her brother was this universe's version of Heero but he had been killed while they were both in the Earth Alliance Extended pilot training center. Once he had learned the truth he had taken over the role as her brother.
"Alright." confirmed Shinn "Sorry Heero."
Heero said nothing as he moved around the table past, Athrun and Dearka until he stood at the center of the table.
"Alright as you know we are days away from launching an operation in my old universe." Reported Heero as he tapped at a small keyboard built into the table. Instantly the table began to glow as a holographic image of the Earth appeared. Seconds later different looking colonies filled the space around Earth, these colonies where not the hourglass shape like the plants instead they were like giant wheels, after the colonies appeared more details came into view such as satellites. "With the unmanned probes we have been able to map space and most of the Earth. Yzak and his forces are located in Malta but since the Minerva can't jump into the atmosphere if the war comes you will jump here and descend to Earth."
With that, a green dot appeared in the middle of space over the ocean before line arced down toward Malta in the Meditation Sea.
"Before that Luna and I will jump into my old universe here on the dark side the moon." Reported Heero as a red dot appeared. "Hopefully we will be able to stop the war from happening
"Why there?" asked Dearka as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Nothing seems to be there."
"One of my old hid out is located nearby and it is the best chance we have to establishing a forward operation base for scouting and even possible retreat if needed." reported Heero as he pressed a bottom only to show a crash landed cargo ship halfway buried into the moon.
"If we have all this time why don't we send in more forces by jumping them in one at a time?" inquired Shinn
"Because if we did that how would we retreat out of that universe if needed?" asked Kira as Shinn nodded his head clearly he had not considered that.
"What is that thing?" inquired Dearka as the pilot of the Buster Destroyer gundam pointed toward the massive shape hovering over the Earth. Heero said nothing as he raised his hand tapping the shape. Instantly the image expended to show a strange looking ship. It had three diamond shapes coming out from a central location with a spot where it would seem a fourth diamond would go bare. A large half circle ship seemed to have crashed into the central part of the larger ship. Floating all around the remains where remains of thousands of mobile suits.
"The Remains of Libra and Peacemillion." reported Heero as the memories of the massive Christmas eve battle filled his mind, thousands of beam weapons firing at once as the battle raged across space before he faced off with Zechs on and within Libra.
"That's the battle which brought you to me." stated Luna as she zoomed in on the battle scared spaceship. Openings in the haul could easily be seen as remains mobile suits flooded the screen, for a moment she wondered how many dead bodies where still inside the massive warship. It had taken years for them to clean up from the battles from the first and second wars and bodies were still being found from the Break the World when Junius Seven was dropped on Earth by coordinator extremists killing millions around the world.
"Yes." Confirmed Heero as he looked at the old battlefield "But I thought they would have cleaned it up by now."
"Looks like they are, I see teams of mobile suits cleaning it up." reported Luna as looked at the still images of some basic looking mobile suits equipped with torches and cutters tear into the armor of the space battleship. Suddenly a small screen appeared in front of her giving her information from the data core.
"Space Leos." read Luna as the mobile suit teams where loading the pieces up onto large flat barrages before being tied down. There were a few different mobile suits standing around with regular weapons in hand.
"I don't see any warships around where are they?" inquired Kira
"They have a different military doctrine there." explained Heero as the others looked at him "Mobile suits are brought in number to a single location by unarmed carriers and are then deployed to attack in mass, they don't use the warships we are used to."
"How many are we talking about?" inquired Athrun
"At the battle final battle here there was four times as many mobile suits taking part then there was in the battle against the Messiah space station during the last war." Reported Heero as everyone's eyes widened knowing that the battle of Messiah was the largest battle in the history of their world, to image four times the mobile suits going at each other was almost unthinkable to everyone apart form him. "I would estimate their total number of mobile suits to be at least three times our number."
"So we are going to have to deal with a ton of enemies?" inquired Kira
"We hit them so hard in the teeth that they back down," explained Heero as he took a breath "One on one I would put any of our pilots against theirs but when it is three or more to one we would be overrun."
"So apart from blowing them all to kingdom come do we have a plan?" inquired the Captain of the Minerva Meyrin Hawke as she looked at her sister and brother-in-law.
"In a way, they are preparing for what they believe to be an easy fight against Yzak and we will use that against them." reported Luna as she took a deep breath "Heero and I will go in and try to force them either back off from their current path or delay them enough for you all to arrive in the Minerva."
"And how do you plan to do that?" asked Athrun
"By a mixture of talking to them and explosions." confirmed Luna
"The plan isn't the problem it is who we will be up against," reported Heero as he placed his hand under his chin "We are going up against some of the best pilots who I have ever fought beside with."
"They can't be as good as us." stated Shinn with a cocky smile on his face but the look on his brother-in-law's face told everyone that Heero wasn't joking.
"They are." Rebutted Heero as the map disappeared only to be replaced by the image of a platinum black shorthaired woman. Luna knew that this part of the report was possibly the hardest battle plan her husband had ever drawn up, he had to give detailed plans about how to kill his own friends. The people who had been his first friends and now he had to take up arms against them. She knew under that seemly cold calculating Admiral his heart was breaking. "This is Lucrezia Noin Peacecraft but she answers to Noin, she is a highly skilled pilot the equal of any of the gundam pilots however she has never piloted a gundam. She pilots a white space Taurus mobile suit and is among the best I have ever seen in space combat. I would expect her to be in command of either the space forces or the reserves."
"The next person is Sally Po." reported Heero as the image of Noin disappeared Brown haired woman appeared all around him his friends where watching and listening. Not only because they would soon go into battle against these people but because it proved a rare view into their friend's past "While she rarely goes into mobile suits she is a highly skilled pilot and brilliant military planner, she will likely be acting as command and control for the different forces, she actually captured me once. Now we have the gundam pilots."
Heero paused for a moment as he flicked his wrist as the image of Sally Po disappeared only to be replaced by a man he knew all too well. For the longest time, Heero just stood there looking at his friend dressed in the deep navy blue uniform of the Preventers.
"Chang Wufei pilot of Altron Gundam." reported Heero as the image of a mostly green and white gundam with large dragon looking arm guards. "Like all the other gundams they have upgraded since I left but judging from the set up and what they used to have I can predicts its abilities."
"The Altron is a short to medium range combat with twin dragon fang extendable arms which are equipped with flame throws strong enough to burn mobile suits into nothing but molten metal and twin trident beam saber." explained Heero "If you have to engage him in combat do so at a distance."
'What about the Pilot Chang Wufei?" inquired Athrun
"Highly skilled martial artists and highly honorable, likes to engage in one on one combat." reported Heero before creaking a rare grin as a memory of something Trowa told him came back "Once he got out of his gundam to engaged the leader of Oz in a sword duel because he was challenged to it."
"He really got out of his gundam to duel with someone?" inquired Dearka as Heero nodded his head. "He is crazy."
"You have to be a little crazy to be a gundam pilot." Explained Heero as he slide his hand across the table as Wufei disappeared only to be replaced by a man with deep blue eyes and golden blonde hair. "Moving on this is Quatre Raberba Winner heir to the Winner fortune and pilot of Sandrock gundam. Quatre is the most peaceful of the gundam pilots and is overall is the most likely not to take part in any military action and may be key to making a peace. Even though he is the most peaceful he shouldn't be underestimated, he is has endurances which I have never seen before."
"What about his gundam?" asked Kira as the image of an Arabic inspired gundam appeared with twin metal swords.
"Sandrock gundam is perfectly set up to operate in the field behind enemy lines with little to no support; it is armed with twin heat curved blades which are super-heated to be the equal of any energy blade." explained Heero "It can also carry multiple heat seeking missiles and a special cloak which can hide it from detection. If Noin isn't in command of the reverses force I believe Quatre and Sandrock gundam will be."
"Moving on this is Trowa Barton." stated Luna as she took the lead from her husband as the image of a young man with deep brown hair part of which covered one whole side of his face replaced Quatre. "He is quiet and calm in any situation but do not let that fool you he packs a punch and so does his Heavy Arms gundam."
"That gundam looks a lot like mine." Reported Dearka as he studied the blue gundam with two twin mounted Vulcan guns on each arm, a feature he had on one arm on the Buster Destroyer.
"Should I based the design of your gundam off it." confirmed Heero
"However mine is better since mine is equipped with beam weapons instead of just regular bullets." expressed Dearka
"Remember your beam Vulcan gun overheats in atmosphere a lot faster than regular bullets." corrected Luna "And Trowa has an estimated two times the number missiles launchers then the Buster Destroyer however he lacks any close range weapons. So if you get in close you have the edge."
"There are only two other mobile suit pilots you have to worry about." Reported Heero as the image of a brown haired man with a long brad appeared "Duo Maxwell Aka the God of Death, seemly a joker and lied back it hides the fact that he is a true warrior and for the lack of a better term he is my best friend."
Kira and Athrun both looked at Heero slightly surprised by the comment.
"He pilots the Deathscythe Hell gundam." said Heero as he kept going as the image of a black gundam with giant bat like wings and a beam scythe "Unlike Sandrock which has additions to hid itself from sensors the Deathscythe is designed for that, it is perfectly designed for close quarter combat and has the best speed over a short distance of any mobile suit allowing it to close distances between itself and it's target."
"So keep your distance," confirmed Luna as the image of Duo disappeared only to be replaced with an image of blonde hair blue eyed man "The last one you have to worry about is the Lightning Count Zechs Merquise."
"You don't have to worry about Zechs." interrupted Heero as he looked down "None of you will be facing him and if he has the zero system onboard he will be the equal of myself in Wing Zero and he will have no problem killing you. I know his moves and I know what he is capable of doing and he will have no experience against the new technology and tactics I can use in Wing Angel."
"Heero…" said Luna sadly knowing where her husband was going.
"If he faces me he will hold back for Relena's sake which means I can bring him down." explained Heero as he looked up into the eyes of his wife "Which means I can take him down and end the Lightening Count."
I hope you liked this chapter, I have posted a poll asking my readers to pick their favorite stories and I will post my own list one my top five favorite's stories one story every time I post starting next post. Now I hope you will forgive any mistakes in this chapter I have been working between 60 to 70 hours over the past three weeks at my job. Thanks Wilkins75