Chapter 4 Lets Begin
"This is Raptor flight leader checking in to MO2." Reported the lead pilot in a flight of Preventer Space Taurus mobile suits as it did a daily patrol around the dark side of the moon. Very few ships followed this route so it was not a hotbed for pirate raids so there was no reason to have constant patrols.
"This is MO2." answered a voice over the radio as a board man in the space command center of the Preventers deep within the heart of a former resource asteroid MO2. "Anything happening out there?"
"No." answered Raptor Flight leader in a boarded voice "We pasted the wreck site and are on our way back home with nothing seen yet again."
"Well we will have a docking bay waiting for you." Confirmed the radio operator as suddenly an alarm went off. "Hold on a second we just got a radiation spike from your area."
"A radiation spike?" asked Raptor leader as the Taurus kept moving through space.
"Yes, location is in grid 97, directly to your right." Reported the Radio operator as the pilot of the Taurus pressed a few buttons as his suit changed out of the faster flight mode to its human form. The other five Taurus transformed as all of them trained their beams weapons toward the source of the energy spike. The computers zoomed in on the site of the energy spike only to see the remains of an armless space Leo floating dead in space with its head was gone and chest ripped open from a recent explosion. The pilots saw a small asteroid maybe the size of a mobile suit transport located beside the Leo.
"Stand down." ordered the Raptor flight leader as the Taurus lowered their weapons before the leader began broadcasting back to MO2. "MO2 that radiation spike was some energy core of an old Leo going critical from hitting an asteroid. Likely another left over from the Christmas battle."
"Understood we will mark the location and send a team out to recover the suit for proper removal," confirmed MO2 as the Taurus transformed back into flight form before going back on their planned patrol path unaware of what was lurking behind the asteroid. Behind it sat a small dark like white ship with the red Zaft logo painted on the side.
"Jump completed." reported the pilot in the cockpit as she pressed a few buttons as two giant doors opened up behind the cockpit as a legendary gundam with two long white angel wings emerged from cargo bay.
"Wing Angel is cleared," reported Heero as Angel's powerful senor systems scanned space. The improved Zero system quickly detected the Taurus mobile suits as they made their way back around the moon.
"Haven't seen those readings in a while." thought Heero as he looked at the readings coming off from the Taurus' it was almost like seeing someone you didn't think you would see ever again.
"Impulse launching." reported Luna as the Impulse launched in its multiple parts until it quickly joined into the Force Impulse gundam.
"Alright good luck you two." Reported the Zaft pilot as Heero and Luna moved away from the ship before it jumped away in a flash of light.
"This feels weird," commented Luna as she flew behind her husband dressed in her white Orb space suit.
"Now you know how I felt all those years ago." Commented Heero as he turned his gaze toward the horizon of the moon, there poking it's self out from behind the surface of the moon was the Earth. He knew that he should feel something at the sight of seeing his old home but the world seemed strange and alien to him. "And how I feel now again."
"Hopefully we will not be here long." commented Luna as the two of them began their decent down to the surface of the moon.
"It seems to still be intact." reported Heero as he scanned remains of crashed cargo ship, the ship had a long neck which connected the cockpit to the engines. The long neck allowed for multiple cargo pods to be attached to the ship and changed out at will.
"How old is this ship?" inquired Luna as the two mobile suits landed on the moon, kicking up dust as their engines died down.
"One of my first mission was to bring it down, I stole the gundamian alloy that would build my first gundam from this ship." explained Heero as he moved forward toward one of the cargo containers, the container had a large door built into it. Quickly he pressed the buttons on the side as the door began to open. "Luckily for us it was also carrying mobile suits so we have access."
As the doors opened bright lights activated on Wing Angel and the Impulse flooding the container with light revealing multiple mobile suit docking stations. A few of those stations still had the remains of the space Leos that had been too far damaged to recover sitting there. Quickly the two of them walked into the container closing it behind them, as two of the most advanced mobile suits in either universes docked side by side with the broken remains of space Leos. The two mobile suits powered down before the cockpit doors opened.
"Clear." reported Heero through the built in radio system in his white space suit, the flashlight attached to the barrel of his assault rifle piercing into the dark stillness of the crashed ship.
"Same here." responded Luna as she scanned the darkness with her own assault rifle. "Now where is your base in this wreck?"
"Follow me," said Heero as the two of them jumped off their gundams and floated toward the door. Quickly they forced the rusty door open only to get a rush of stale air from the corridor flooded the mobile suit bay. The two of them moved into the long narrow corridor only to see floating pieces of trash multiple cables ran across the side of the corridor. Without saying a word, the two of them crossed the corridor and entered another container only to see a series of five-foot high super computers sitting in a perfect row. Along with the computers was a desk, a sleeping cot and some canned food.
"I am betting that food is bad," reported Luna as Heero nodded his head before sitting down at his old computer, a fine layer of dust had settled over everything as Heero brought the system back online.
"I haven't been here since Doctor J and I launched Gundam Wing to Earth," commented Heero as powered up the solar cells as the ships systems came back online. "All the seals are good."
With only a few quick keystrokes, the air system came back to life as clean air began to flow within the ship. The gravity plats came back online as the pieces of metal and dust, which had been floating in midair for years, fell down covering the ground in a fine layer of dust.
"We are good." Reported Heero as he pressed a button on his helmet allowing him to take it off, Luna did the same. She shook her head trying to get rid of the helmet hair.
"Well the air is stale." coughed Luna
"I know but we will not be hear long I just need to gather some information and access to the computer networks," explained Heero as his fingers danced across the dusty keyboard at a speed as he accessed the different databases. He was creating multiple fake IDs and transferring funds which had spent years collecting interest in multiple bank accounts into new ones which he had just made.
"Well while you take care of this I am going to go grab us something to eat," reported Luna as she moved back toward their mobile suits. "The usual?"
"Yes, thank you." Confirmed her husband with a chuckle as he took her hand and kissed it even though she couldn't feel it through her flight suit.
Far away from the dark side of moon the streets of New York City were full of people shopping in Times Square and the subways where crowed with people heading into work. The shoppers and workers had no idea what was happening on the top floor of one of the multitude of skyscrapers, which shot out of the concrete island and into the sky. Standing by the window with a cup of tea in her hands was a tall woman with long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, her violet eyes looked out over the city.
"So when does the aircraft take off?" inquired the woman as she turned back away from the window toward the long conference table where over a dozen other men and women dressed in business suits.
"Mrs. Frasier, the aircraft is taking off as we speak on its way to Edwards Air force base in California with all the coordinators that surrender when Tongo yielded." answered a man with a red tie. As he spun around to face a large screen on the interior wall as a map of the globe came up showing the path from Tongo to California. "Once the plane passes Hawaii the pilot will report an uprising by the coordinator's parents and then all radio and radar contact will end."
"And that is when all of the coordinators and those traitors to their race which gave then life will die?" asked Mrs. Frasier as she looked down at her golden wedding ring.
"We have gas canisters in place to kill them while they are restrained in the cargo hold," reported a woman before taking a drink of water. "It will be a peaceful death, once they are dead the guards and pilots will bail out and be picked up. For their work to our cause they will be given new IDs and three million dollars each."
"It should be painful." Rebutted Mrs. Frasier her violet eyes burning with hate "Oh well in the end as long as they die and Miss Relena Peacecraft along with the rest of the world believes it was an accident that is all that matters."
"We should bring Miss Relena into our organization," added another woman as she drank some tea.
"Miss Relena Peacecraft may have the same goals we have of a pure coordinator free world but she doesn't have the stomach to kill children even if they are an ad front to all the laws of God and men," resounded Mrs. Frasier as she stirred her tea. "No, she must see us only as a political support group putting money into her future campaign for President of the World Government."
Night was beginning to fall over the coastline of Southern France as Heero Yuy stood before the sea. It had taken him only a few hours to plot the decent path, which would lead him to this beach, and only half an hour to find the hiding spot for Wing Angel. As he stood looking out over the waters of the Mediterranean Sea his mind went back to when he woke up on this beach all those years ago and the chance encounter with then Relena Dorland when Wing sunk to the bottom of the ocean.
"How far I have come," whispered Heero to himself as he turned toward what appeared to be a shrine to of all things him. The once sandy beach now had a raised concrete section to protect it from the tides and on the raised platform stood a seven-foot statue of himself dressed in a flight suit with Wing Zero on his right and Wing on his left.
"To Heero Yuy, the Hero which disappeared after saving the entire world, we will never forget what he did to bring peace to all of Earth and Space." -Relena Peacecraft read the inscription on the stone pedestal below the towering statues.
"Hero." laughed Heero to himself as he looked up at the statue of himself, there were other people moving around the monument looking at the statue and the displays telling his life story. None noticed him dressed in a black jacket and hat with sunglasses over his eyes and it helped that none were looking for him.
"They call this monster a hero." spat an older woman as she walked up stand beside Heero "My son and daughter-in-law both died during his attack on New Edwards and I had to raise my granddaughter."
"I am sorry to hear that," said Heero
"Ah what are you sorry about you had nothing to with it." said the woman
"He did save the world," added a new voice as a younger man about Heero's own age walked up "We wouldn't be here if he didn't do what he did."
"And that didn't bring back any of the countless numbers of people who he killed, those that orphans." Snapped the woman as people began to look at the two arguing people. Slowly Heero moved off disappearing into the crowd but remained close enough to listen. "No one who made that many orphans should be considered a hero."
Heero turned his gaze back up to the statues; he knew that he was considered a hero not only in this world but in his own world. He was a hero for what he did on the battlefield and he had played a part in saving two different versions of the world but he had created untold number of orphans.
"I wonder when I die what will I be judged upon the lives I saved or the people I killed and orphans I made ." thought Heero as the lights turned on around his statue bathing it in light, most of the people then started taking photos of his statue. While they people were, taking photos Heero turned his gaze across the bay to a rather large island where a large mobile suit base was.He could see a line of those new Scorpion type suits standing in a perfect line by the coast along with some Areas flight model suits.
"Heero Yuy preventer base." said Heero to himself as he looked at the base which was named after him and which he would be breaking into. Slowly he turned away from the base before walking past the statue of himself and up a flight of stairs and toward his black motorcycle. He had stored it along with other items he could possibly needed inside Wing Angel and that his trip down memory lane was over it was time to get to work. As he strapped on his black helmet he tapped a built in radio, which atomically connected to the same radio network used by the Preventers however on an isolated network, which only he and Luna could get on.
"Luna, I am on my way to begin the operation," reported Heero as his voice went out using the very network inside the base he was going to break into. "Has the package been delivered?"
"It has and I am on my way to my own target." Reported Luna's voice over the radio as Heero felt his backpack to make sure he could feel the tools inside before starting the bike's engine.
"Operation begins at 23 hundred hours," said Heero knowing that 23 hundred hours was 11 at night
"I know." Confirmed Luna as Heero paused for a moment.
"Be safe Luna." said Heero in a soft tender voice "I love you."
"I love you to my White Knight." Replied Luna as she used her nickname for him.
While Heero was talking to his wife as both of them preparing for their missions across the harbor from him inside the main command building of the Heero Yuy Preventer base a fellow Gundam pilot sat behind a large oak desk. The man was dressed in a dark blue preventer military uniform however his long brown braided pony tail made him stood out.
"I am sorry that I can't make it home tonight." Apologized Duo Maxwell into his phone as spoke to his wife Hilde Schbeiker Maxwell. "Relena is coming in at midnight tonight so that she can visit Heero's monument before having a meeting for the attack on the Coordinators before speaking to our graduates during their graduation breakfast."
"I understand Duo." confirmed Hilde "Just make sure you talk to her about your vacation next month, we can't put off getting the tickets for the cruise till the last minute like last time."
"I will." confirmed Duo "Will you make it to breakfast?"
"A chance to talk to Relena, Noin and Sally, I wouldn't miss it." confirmed Hilde with a laugh "I will even deal with Wufei to talk to them besides we need to plan Dorothy's bachelorette party."
"Isn't she having one of those fancy balls?" inquired Duo as he thought about it for a moment.
"Yes, but having a society dinner isn't a bachelorette party, you guys are throwing a card night for Quatre we are planning something for Dorothy." explained Hilde as Duo nodded his head even though his wife could not see him. The sound of a doorbell caused the conversation to came to an end. "Well my dinner is here."
"Let me guess Chinese food?" asked her husband with a laugh, knowing that his wife loved Chinese food while he hated it.
"Of course." Laughed Hilde
"Well I better get some food myself, love you." said Duo
"Love you too." Resounded Hilde before both of them ended the conversation and both of them went back to their lives unaware of what was going to happen in the night.
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