Chapter 5 The Night of the Angels Part 1
The sun had set over Heero Yuy Preventer Base and the base slept; only the guards manning their posts and the ones keeping an eye on the radar remained at their posts. Most of the cadets where either sleeping in their bunks inside their barracks or they were coming back onto base after drinking a little too much before their graduations ceremony in the morning. A few Leo mobile suits did patrol but most stayed in a single spot and waited for orders to move. They had become so lax in their readiness that most of the pilots slept within their cockpits.
"Another boring night isn't it Stanley?" asked a guard to his German shepherd guard dog as they walked around the outer perimeter fence. The dog's only replay came when he lifted his leg up and marked one of the metal fence post.
"Still better a boring night then an active night." stated the guard as he looked down at his watch before hitting his radio.
"This is guard 1457 at checkpoint east 4 I am going to step inside for a cup of coffee." Radioed the guard as he looked toward a small outbuilding where the guards could warm up in the winter months or get a cup of coffee in the middle of the night. It also severed as a pillbox/machine gun nest incase of an attack.
"Understood." radioed back the half-asleep head guard.
The guard with his dog Stanley did not wait as they walked into the bunker pressing the combination code to gain access. The two of them stepped into a darkened room the only light coming from the digital clock on the microwave and the exit sign above his head. As he went to turn on the light he heard a slight pop like air escaping, followed seconds later by a soft thud.
"What the?" asked the guard as he turned on the lights only to see Stanley lying on the ground with a small dart in his neck. Reacting on instinct for his animal he bent down to make sure the dog was still breathing only to feel a pain in his neck as a second sound of escaping air reached him. He looked up only to see a figure dressed in black camouflage, he was covered in all black with military boots on and a bulletproof vest over his chest. Even his face and hair was covered only his blue eyes where visible and above them where some goggles. He had a small pack on his back as he moved toward him. The figure had a strange looking pistol in one hand with a second one on his hip along with a knife across his back hung a strange looking bullpup assault rifle with a silencer at the end of the barrel.
"So nice of you to come in and here I thought I would have to go out and get you." Reported the dark figure as the guard tried to reach for his weapon only the room was spinning and his head was hurting. "Don't worry it is only a tranquilizing agent but you will probably be punished for falling asleep on the job."
"Stop…who ev..er." slurred the guard before falling flat on his face.
"I have to talk with RND about this gun, they aren't supposed to last that long before passing out." said Heero as he pulled the guard up before carrying him over to a small recliner in the corner of the room. Almost gently, he placed the guard down and put his feet up to give the allusion that he had fallen asleep to whoever found him. Next he moved the dog to the corner and removed the dart from him. Once all that was done, he grabbed the guards' key and placed it on top of a small palm size scanner. The scanner quickly did its work as the image was scanned and a timer appeared.
"Five minutes perfect." reported Heero as the small 3D printer inside the scanner went to work to print out the key.
While Heero was breaking into the base which bore his name Lunamaria sat in a small dinning room dressed in a preventer navy blue uniform with a book in her hands. She had snuck into the Preventer Space monitoring and resupplying base in Dayton Ohio. She looked up at the clock on the wall only to see that it was 5:30 her time.
"Which means it is 11:30 in France where Heero." Thought Luna as she closed her book just as a group of men walked into the dinning room for their cow time. More than a few looked at the red haired woman not realizing that her green eyes were caused by colored contacts to hide her blue eyes.
"Why are you leaving? Sweetie?" asked one of the younger men as Luna looked at him only to raise her hand and pointed toward her golden wedding ring.
"Sorry boys I am taken." reported Luna as she walked out of the room and moved down the hallways, most people either paid her no mind or gave a few looks to the new woman walking down the hallway however with a base as massive as this new people where common event.
"I have twenty minutes to reach the computer core," thought Luna as she slowly walked down the hallway with her book in hand. She had picked up a copy of her husband's biography as written by some so called historian, she had started a mental list of the errors but had stopped at 75 before finishing the first chapter.
Far away from the massive space port in Dayton a dark figure dressed in all black ran from cover to cover holding tightly to his silenced assault rifle. He paused for a moment as he waited for a pair of rather noisy guards to past him by before bolting across a raised road toward a steel door located in the side of a five-storied building. Heero took a moment to gather himself before he placed the newly finished 3d printed key into the hole before turning. The door gave way at once allowing him to enter and close it all up before another patrol passed by in an armored vehicle.
Heero raised his rifle as he scanned the massive warehouse where the extra parts for the mobile suits where kept. Just as he expected the warehouse was empty and the only movement came from some rat moving around in the dark. As quickly as he could he moved up one of the stairs, which ran around the side of the building leading to multiple leaves full of extra parts ranging from simple screws to whole arms and legs. Finally, he reached the roof entrance and with one more key turn, he stepped out onto the roof. He stayed low just in case but no one saw him as he moved to the edge of the roof, across the road from him stood the ten floored office building which housed the main offices for the base.
"If they were smart they would have placed the offices underground instead of behind glass." thought Heero as he looked up at the giant office building, which looked like it belonged more in the middle of a city then a military base. Almost all the windows where black with only a few light on, Heero could see cleaning crews going from room to room collecting trash and sweeping the floor. Quickly and quietly, Heero pulled out the supplies that he would need from the pack on his back. The sudden rush of a column of vehicles on the street below caused him to stop and go for his rifle as he waited for them to pass. Within seconds, they had passed but the thing that caught Heero's eye was that in the column was a pink limousine in the center.
"Relena isn't supposed to be here for another six hours," thought Heero as the roar of an engine filled the air as an aircraft came in for a landing on the nearest of the four runways. The aircraft was not a military transport instead; it had a long narrow body with swept wings for supersonic speeds. Even from this distance, Heero could make out the seal of the royal family of the Sanc Kingdom.
"Shit." said Heero as he quickened his movement tying a tactical rope around a nearby AC ceiling unite before putting the other end into a small launcher located under the assault rifle. The line shot forward sticking into the wall on the other building.
Just down the road from Heero the personal white with pink highlights to Relena's personal aircraft shinned in the darkness as it came to a stop on the tarmac. A line of Preventers formed up as an honor guard for the Secretary of State of the world nation. Standing in the middle of the formation with her hands at her side was an old friend of both Heero and Relena, Sally Po. The older woman stood with her long brown hair partly hidden under her cap. The moment the plane stopped a mobile staircase came up allowing the people inside to disembark. First came some security members before finally Relena stepped out of her plan with her sister-in-law/body guard Noin at her side. As the two of them began their decent, the soldiers went to attention.
"Welcome to Heero Yuy military base Secretary Peacecraft." Greeted Sally with a slight grin knowing that the three of them where beyond the former greeting but it still had to be given. "I must apologize Duo and Wufei couldn't be here to great you, Duo is making some last minutes preparation for the meeting."
"And Wufei?" inquired Relena with a slight smile
"Is being Wufei, likely he either training with his sword or working on his gundam," explained Sally Po as the three women laughed a bit
Across the world, the sun was still shinning in the sky as a men and woman rode across lush green fields on a massive horse ranch in the green fields of Kentucky. A giant old fashion mansion with a large colonnade in the front could be seen in the distance, it's wood and brick frame highlighted by the setting sun. Standing over the whole seen unmoving was one of four gundams in the Preventer force, the twin-curved swords on its back marked it as the Sandrock gundam.
"Such a lovely evening for a ride," stated Dorothy Catalonia as she rode across her family's giant horse ranch on top of her blonde purebred mare, it was almost as blonde as her hair.
"Yes, it is." confirmed her fiancée Quatre Winner as he pulled onside Dorothy on his black Arabian stallion. Quickly he pulled out a golden pocket watch from his riding vest. "Dinner should be ready in about ten minutes we should head back to the house."
With that, the two of them turned their mounts toward the house where Sandrock Gundam stood by the house. Within a couple of minutes, the two of them reached the horse barn where an old horse trainer waited to take their horse.
"Enjoy your ride?" inquired the man as Dorothy smiled at the white beard man.
"Yes, thank you Frank for getting our horses ready on such short notice." thanked Dorothy to the man who had lead her pony around the yard when she was first learning to ride.
"If there is anything I have learned from my years of working for your family is that you love to ride and tend not to give notice," laughed the old man as he took the two horses to be wash down and brushed. Together the two of them headed up toward the house only to have a large man deep brown hair and a bread that went into two side points.
"Master Quatre." reported the leader of the Maganac Corps Rashid Kurama "We have a situation."
"What kind of situation?" inquired Quatre to his old friend.
"A package arrived for you in the mail today." Explained Rashid all three of them knew that like all the Gundam Pilots Quatre got thousands of letters each day most where handled by a small team of staff members "It had your personal by pass code written on the side."
"So it's from on of our friends?" stated Dorothy knowing that the by pass code was designed for personal letters from their ring of friends to go around the screeners and which meant it only had to go through bomb checks nothing more.
"That is the thing; it has no name on it," added Rashid as the three of them entered the large grand hallway located right inside the house. Sitting on a small table was a small brown package tied with some string. Written across the top where the address should have been were the words "From an old Friend."
"An old friend." read Quatre out load as he opened the package only to find a picture frame with a screen in the center.
"It's one of those digital picture frames." stated Dorothy as she took it from her future husband's hands and turned it on by pressing a button on the back. Instantly the image of Duo appeared on the screen with the first Deathscythe gundam standing behind him. His name could also been seen along the bottom along with Deathscythe.
"Interesting this is almost like something from the gift shop at the mobile suit museum in ." stated Quatre as the images moved to Duo and all of his upgraded gundam; he expected to see the latest version of the Deathscythe come up next however instead Wufei came up, the Trowa and then himself.
"Who would send us this?" asked Dorothy as the words "The Legendary Three" flashed across the screen.
"The Legendary three?" asked Quatre as confused as everyone else did as image of Heero in his green sleeveless shirt appeared with Wing behind him. A few seconds later the image of Heero in a black flight suit appeared with Wing Zero behind him however there was something else, behind Wing Zero was a strange white ship.
"What is that?" asked Quatre as the image changed however it wasn't Zechs that appeared but Heero again this time dressed in a white uniform with a strange mobile suit with two large angel wings. It was clearly a descendant from Wing and Wing Zero but it was its own beast.
"Admiral Heero Yuy, Orb Union Angel Squadron." read Quatre stunned for words as he looked back at the writing on the package.
"Can this mean?" inquired Dorothy as the image changed to another man with dark brown hair and purple eyes. Standing behind him was a blue, red and white gundam, neither one of them really paid attention to the following images. That is when the two of them noticed a small envelope on the bottom of the package. Slowly the two of them opened only to find a handwritten letter however in the corner of the page was a seal neither one of them had seen before with an Angle holding a sword with the world behind it. Typed out on the top of the page where the words.
"From the Desk of Admiral Heero Yuy Orb Special Forces Angel Squadron."
The rest of the page was hand written.
"Quatre, it has been almost nine years since the last we saw each other before I went out to save Relena from her brother onboard Libra. During those years so much has changed I fought in two others wars and is now charged to prevent another war from happening. I send you this in the hopes that we can prevent another war from happening if you want to stop this conflict between Naturals and coordinators meet at the following coordinates at 7pm local time. Do not inform the others about this meeting, only you and Dorothy if you feel she is needed can come." Read the letter before it was signed "Admiral Heero Yuy"
"Heero's alive?" confirmed Dorothy as Quatre nodded his head as he picked up his cell phone and typed the coordinates that Heero had left in his letter into the map. The coordinates came up to a small island located off the shore of Northern Ireland. "I better call the airport to get our plane ready and get some bags packed."
While Dorothy and Quatre where packing and preparing to leave Heero had finished his rope climb from one building to another and had carefully opened the roof access to enter the top floor of the building. He looked down at the small computer pad located on his arm as a map of the building came up. He was currently standing in the east wing staircase and now only had to move down the hallway to the computer mainframe room across the hall from the base commander's office. The hallways lights where on but all the doors where closed with no light coming from under them. The only one with light coming from them just happened to be the commander's offices.
"Time to computer 30 seconds." whispered Heero into his radio as pressed a button on a small box on his belt; the box was another piece of equipment from the Special Forces. Suddenly his skintight black suit began to glow as the black panels began to show what was behind Heero making him almost invisible. The suit did its job as the cameras saw nothing and the guards who stood by the elevators say only a shimmer which they passed off for needing some coffee. They never even noticed the door to the computer core open and close. The moment Heero found himself inside the room he turned off the active cameo and all but ripped the skintight black mask off his face. Some steam actually came off his skin as he sweat poured off his skin.
"Damn that active cameo." complained Heero as he moved through the small maze of computers which went up around him like a forest of trees from floor to ceiling. Finally, he stopped in front of one of the computers before going down on one knee, quickly he opened built in laptop on the Preventer computer. Once he opened the computer, the preventer logo appeared.
"At the computer," reported Heero over his radio link as suddenly the sound of movement from his right caused his head to snap toward the source only to see two preventers lying in the corner their cloths partly off. One was a woman with short dirty blonde hair with her top partly off and the black haired man had his pants off to show his boxers. As Heero's eyes meet theirs they simply blinked at each other, then as fast as he could Heero pulled his pistol as the woman reached for her radio and the man for his gun.
Heero aimed and fired as the knock out dart flew from this barrel hitting the man as he undid the safety on his pistol.
"Code Red intruder in the computer core!" yelled the woman into the radio as Heero pulled the trigger knocking her out as well. Moments later the alarm went off.
"Shit." cursed Heero as he slammed a flash drive into the computer core before typing in the commands. "Luna I have been discovered we have to do this loudly."
"Understood," reported Luna back as Heero put away his knock out pistol since it took too long to effect, meaning he had to pull out his regular pistol and combat knife. Heero moved toward the door and waited knowing who would be coming through that door.
Thousands of miles away in the Space commander center in Dayton over a dozen people sat behind desks monitoring all the different radio broadcasts coming into the Preventer HQ in space at MO2, the centurial command in London and the President's palace in Prague.
"Anything going on?" inquired a woman as she walked up to one of the men who were currently manning one of the multiple computers.
"Nothing much Relena Peacecraft has landed at Heero Yuy base in France and the Coordinators haven't made a move yet." Reported the man who was board out of him mind as he made sure all the communication satellites where lined up for communication. All the transitions come from earth and space would pass through this center.
"I see, that is unexpected I thought she wasn't supposed to be until morning." stated the woman as the man shrugged before turning around to see that the woman had two small items in her hands. One was a small ball with the other was a square piece with a mouthpiece in the center.
"Sorry about this." apologized Luna as she pressed the button on the ball as a thick gas began to spray out from the ball. Instantly she placed the respiratory up to her mouth and took a deep breath of clean air as the gas filled the air. The gas spread fast and was even faster acting as the men in the room passed out slumping over in his chair. Quickly Luna pushed the passed out man out of his chair before sitting down, with one quick jab, she put a small flash drive into the port. A few quick keystrokes and the Angel Squadron symbol appeared in a pop up in.
Using all the speed, she had gained by years of practice her hands danced across the keyboard typing in commands. When she finished she pressed enter as the download upload began. With Heero being discovered they did not have time for a soft download that could be hidden, they had to do a hard download, which could be traced. Since it could be traced, they did not have time to stay around instead they just uploaded all the information onto the public internet to be downloaded later.
"Five minutes." Thought Luna as she stood up removing her respirator and walked out of the room. She had to get to the extract point before they traced it to her.
The sound of alarms filling the air caused Duo's heart rate to pick up as he pulled his pistol from his desk and moved across the hallway, he positioned himself outside the door to the computer core. His old training took in before he kicked in the door. The moment he entered the room his heart seamed to stop as the light from the hallway entered the room.
Time seamed to stand still as Duo looked down the barrel of his own pistol and down the barrel of an intruder pistol; just from looking at the size of the barrel he could tell that it was a 45-caliber gun. Duo looked past the modernized 1911 pistol past the arm of the man, past the second hand, which the enemy held close with a blackened steal combat knife pointed down to the man's face. Duo's eyes widened as he saw the man's face, it was a face that he thought he would not see again. Those deep blue eyes which seemed to look straight through him and the deep dark brown hair, it was a face from his memories.
"Heero?" gasped Duo in surprise as he lowered his pistol over so slightly out of surprise.
"Duo." greated Heero in a tone that revealed he was not surprised to see him. His tone of voice was as if the two of them where sitting across the table from each other in the middle of a friendly chat over coffee instead of pointing guns at each other while guards where rushing up toward them "It's been a while hasn't it?"
Well I hope you liked this chapter, I wanted to have a chapter that would show Heero's skills outside of a mobile suit. I know some may be a little upset about having Quatre with Dorothy however for some reason I always liked those two together. Also I wanted the first meeting between Heero and his friends to be face to face. Now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75