Chapter 10 A Meal and a Threat
The room was a tense as anything could have been as Heero and Luna took their seat around a large circle table. All around the table was all of Heero's friends most of whom where now in a military he may have to do battle with in a couple of days. The entire room was a quiet as a tomb as Heero and Luna looked at the menu without a care, while the others simply looked at them waiting.
"The BLT with fries looks good." noted Luna as she pointed to one of the photos on the lunch menu, Heero leaned over and looked at the photo Luna was pointing at. "Or maybe the fish and chips we are in England after all."
"I am going with the grilled chicken," added Heero as he looked at his own menu
"Ok can we please address the elephant in the room," stated Duo loudly as Luna looked him laughing a bit.
"And what elephant is that?" asked Luna with a small laugh "I am Heero's wife what is so confusing about that? I thought it was kind of self-explaining."
"No, you can't be Heero's wife," snapped Relena as she glared at the red haired woman from across the table. Luna turned her gaze toward "I refuse to believe that."
"Your belief isn't really needed." Stated Luna forcefully as she crossed her hands over her chest as Relena's eyes locked on the diamond silver wedding band with inlays of Gundanium alloy. For a moment, the everyone was studying Lunamaria Yuy and comparing her to Relena. Luna was slightly taller than Relena in almost every way they were different. Relena had long brown hair compaired to Luna's short red one, they both had blue eyes but one was a warrior a gundam pilot and the other a woman of politics.
"How did you two meet?" inquired Hilde as she tried to break the tension in the air.
"From what I heard it was kind of like how Noin and Zechs meet." explained Mrs. Yuy as she looked at Mrs. Maxwell with warm smile. "I was a mobile suit pilot on the Zaft warship Minerva when the Legendary White Knight came onboard during the Armory One attack."
"White Knight?" asked Duo with a laugh as Heero shot him a glare which would have caused groan men to run in fear however Duo kept laughing.
"One of my nick names." Explained Heero with a slight groan "I am also called the Angel of War but most call Athrun, Kira and myself as the Legendary Three sort of like how you like to call yourself the Great Destroyer or the God of Death."
"I wish he would stop using the last one," added Hilde as she touched the crucifix that hung on a golden necklace.
"Go on." inquired Catherine as she looked toward the woman who she had just learned was a coordinator and Heero's wife.
"Well Heero was already a legend from the first war and I actually wrote my final report on him in school." Explained Luna with a slight laugh "However most knew next to nothing about him expect for his combat records."
"So you're a fan girl." snared Relena with venom in her voice as she glared daggers at the red haired woman.
"I was at first." admitted Luna "However things evolved from there as we fought side by side during the second war. Then once the war ended we started dating until one day Heero got down on one knee and asked me to marry him and I said yes."
"I can say almost the same thing," added Noin as she looked down at her own wedding ring before looking at Zech. Her husband had not said anything since they sat down but his eyes never left the two Yuys.
"I still can't wrap my mind around the ideas of old no smile here has a wife," reported Duo
"I am more interested about who else he has in his life." added Trowa "And how many of them are coordinators."
"Why would the number of coordinators matter?" inquired Dorothy as she came to Heero and Luna defense.
"He wants to know to know what Angel squadron is capable of." Explained Heero as he crossed his arms over his chest "All you had to do is ask?"
"Ok, how many Gundams do you have?" asked Wufei
"Eight if you count the Strike Rouge but that is more of a ceremonial gundam then anything else." reported Heero calmly knowing that the Preventers only had five gundams if you counted the Tallegeese III as a gundam. "Plus three warships not to mention the highly trained mobile suit and mobile armor pilots which have all have been trained by me."
"What about the ten Distory Gundams that the Earth Alliance have which they aren't supposed to have?" offered up Luna as she tried not to remember the wave of fear which took her all those years ago when for a moment she thought Heero had been destroy in Berlin against the 1st destroy Gundam.
"Well they don't know that I know they have them." Noted Heero before shrugging "But they don't know that Zaft knows about them as well, so once we smooth their wounded egos about that could get them here."
"Well either way add to that the entire military forces of Zaft, Orb and the Earth Alliance," added Luna "Also since they can't strike us at home makes a difference we can leave a smaller force behind to guard everyone's family."
"Wait a second you said something about your husband having a sister but Heero doesn't have a sister." Stated Catherine
"I have a sister," confirmed Heero as his friends blinked not really sure they heard correctly "Well the Heero orginal to that universe was killed during his training to be a extended mobile suit pilot, his twin sister Stella survived. I kind of adopted her as my sister once I found out who she was. However sometimes I wish she didn't marry Shin."
"Liking your brother-in-law all the time isn't a requirement for being a family, my sister has complained about you more than a few times," laughed Luna as the waiter came and took their orders.
"Why don't we cut to the chase," stated Lady Une as she looked at the two high-ranking officers from another nation. "What do you want?"
"We want peace." Confirmed Luna "That is what I hope we all want in the end."
"Then we agree." stated Lady Une as she looked at Relena who looked ready to strangle the woman "The real issue is how do we make peace."
"What we propose is a pathway toward peace by actually holding talks between Yzak and your government with us in the middle." Explained Luna
"Maybe we can offer a solution that will make everyone happy." added Heero as he leaned forward a bit "We are from the Orb union where naturals and coordinators live side by side in peace for years."
"And what sort of solutions would you offer?" inquired Quatre
"I see this heading one of four ways," stated Heero as he leaned back a bit in his chair closing his eyes for a moment to gather his thoughts. "First is that you just accept coordinators and let them live in peace just like any other citizen that would be the best solution. Second is that you set aside a colony or two for coordinators to have their own government."
"That solution is not as rosy an idea since in our universe having the coordinators isolated in space led to both sides looking at each other as being the enemy." noted Luna
"The third is that we convince Yzak and all the coordinators here to come to our universe and you can have your pure blue world," stated Heero as he made the words pure blue world a curse for a reason unknown to all but a few at the table.
"And the final solution is war?" asked Zechs as Heero looked into the eyes, for a moment it seemed as if the two blue eyed mobile suit pilots where having a battle with each other using only their eyes.
"Yes, and you have no idea what we are capable of." stated Heero coldly as a chill went down everyone's spine at the threat. "In fact some members of all three governments of our world wanted to just launch a strike and end you with a single move."
"A nuclear strike?" inquired Sally Po as the image of a mushroom cloud rising over a major city filled her mind. They could launch a nuclear strike and there was nothing that they could do to hit back, they had no way to reach them in a different universe. "We will stop you from sending any nukes toward us."
"If they wanted to do a nuclear strike they wouldn't have to do much, when they hacked us they got almost everything including the launch codes for all the nukes." reported Zechs as everyone looked at him.
"But we changed it didn't we?" asked Hilde
"We did." confirmed Lady Une "Besides they are encoded even inside our own network."
"1-45-29-34-19-zulu-2" said Heero calmly as Relena's eyes widened as what he said sunk in.
"That's my launch code!" exclaimed Relena stunned knowing that if they had three codes they could launch a nuclear strike "My new one, I just got it an hour ago."
"And the Angel system had it about ten minutes before you." added Luna "Do you want us to say everyone else launch code?"
"There is no way you could have broken all those codes so fast, not even Wing Zero's Zero system could break them all that fast." reported Duo as the two Yuy's shared a grin with each other.
"Angel system is 15% faster than the Zero system and my Wing Angel and Luna's Impulse Gundam Angel system decoding your files it took a lot less time than you think." added Heero
"She has mastered the Zero system?" asked Wufie stunned "I will not believe it."
Luna glared at him for a moment debating what she should say but decided against it.
"We wouldn't do a nuclear strike," reported Heero as he took a drink "An N-jammer strike, yes."
"N-Jammer?" asked Hilde confused at the word.
"N-Jammers are a weapon system which when deployed stopped all nuclear reaction in the effect area." Explained Luna as everyone's eyes widened. Over the past decade nuclear power had become the most dominate form of energy production on earth. While solar panels where the primary power source for the colonies, military asteroids like M02 and Peace Million 2 used nuclear power. Even the gundams used smaller gundanium nuclear reactors. If they were telling the truth this N-Jammer could shut down the power grid for the whole world. "As a side benefit it also limits certain form of radio and satellite connections."
"That could shut down our entire world." gulped Duo
"He is buffing his gundam runs on gundanium nuclear reactor these N-Jammers would shut him down as well." stated Wufie with a cocky grin "You may want to come up with a better bluff."
"We have N-Jammer Canceling unites on our gundams." Reported Heero as the plates of food arrived. "A N-Jammer strike is still on the table, in fact teams of engineers are hard at work preparing them if we should decide to use them. However other plans are being made instead."
"Plans?" asked Lady Une
"Yes, but before we go into that allow us to explain how we want to proceed with peace talks." explained Heero "First in two hours an interview I just finished will be broadcasted so the whole world will know that there is a way to avoid war."
"What are your terms?" asked Noin
"If you accept in 24 hours I will land in Preventer Naval base in Sicily to open direct talks with your president and whoever else you feel is needed." explained Heero "At the same time a Gundam and a small transport craft will begin their decent toward the same location. The Gundam and its pilot will then go to Malta to talk to Yzak and if need be defend him in case you decided to attack while I sit at the peace table."
"You want us to help arm our enemy?" asked Relena as Heero fixed her with a cold look.
"I want you to help yourself unless you want a war," stated Heero as suddenly a beeping sound filled the air. Heero quickly pulled out a cell phone that none of them had seen before, with a simply swipe of the thumb the screen turned from vertical to horizontal. Seconds later a man's face appeared on the screen. His salt and pepper hair was cut a short military style he had a long scar, which ran from the base of his neck to just under his lip. He screamed a soldier and one who had seen a lot of action on top of it.
"Commander Taylor." greeted Heero to the man in a formal but highly respected voice.
"Admiral we are in position, do we have a go for mission?" asked Commander Taylor. For a moment everyone's eyes were on Heero as he paused for a moment.
"You have a go Commander," ordered Heero as the man nodded his head before the screen went black.
"You're launching an attack on us when you are trying to make peace?" snapped Lady Une as Luna grinned a bit.
"We are not launching an attack but we are position ourselves for an attack if we can't agree on terms." Explained Luna "And believe me the group that is coming isn't one you want us to unleash."
"What more of your angle Squadron?" asked Relena as she glared at Luna.
"No, Angel Squadron is the hand of peace we are offering to you. But what is coming now is death, I wouldn't even want to go up against them." explained Heero as he let the words sink in "Phantom Squad is coming."
Far above the Earth a military cargo transport flew on the normal flight path between the L-1 colony cluster and the Preventer military base outside of Tokyo. The flight was just entering the atmosphere over the western Atlantic with the Europe below and to their north and Africa to the south.
"ETA to landing 30 minutes." reported the copilot as he looked out the window at the curve of the earth and the darkness of space.
Behind the cockpit in the massive cargo hold was supposed to be empty apart from ten enemy containers since they had dropped off their cargo of space Leos over four dozen men dressed in black stood in prefect formation. Each one of them had a total helmet with a black visor over their face. Multiple packs hung off their backs and strange guns. Other packs had been placed on the ships built in cargo rails.
"Gentlemen, Ladies!" yelled the lead man who stood in front of them all. Unlike the others, he did not have his helmet on but apart from that his uniform was the same as all the others in the cargo hold. Each one of them had three patches on their uniform, one on their chest with their name and rank. The other two were on their right shoulders, one of the flag of their nation be it Orb, Zaft or the Earth Federation all had members in the group. The other was the one, which marked them for what they were, it a grim reaper with a scythe raised high in the background where two crossed swords. On top of it all were the words "We are Death" On the bottom it said "We are Phantoms."
"We come from a different world from the one we are going to. The world below us is on a path which will lead toward more massacres along the lines of the Break the world and Tears of the sky." started Commander Taylor as he looked at the men and women under his command. "Admiral Yuy and the Angel core are trying to make sure it doesn't come to war but we are here in case it does. If it does we will show them what Phantoms do."
"Sir, Yes, Sir." Said all of them as they placed their slapped their chest, their first landing on their chest. With that, Commander Taylor placed on his helmet making sure it was tight before nodding to the one man standing outside the formation. He tapped on a small computer built into arm of his armor, instantly the back ramp began to open up as all the air rushed into space.
Up in the cockpit alarms where going off as the two pilots scrambled to deal with the problem.
"How is the back ramp opening up?" exclaimed the pilot as he fought the controls to stay level as the craft began to drag against the upper atmosphere.
"Must be an electrical issue causing the door to open," offered up the copilot as they turned to head up back to space to get away from the air drag.
"Then get a suit on and fix it!" yelled the pilot unaware that behind him four dozen armed figures where dropping toward Earth. Thanks to their advanced armor, they were able to stand up to the heat and since where too small for radar to track they could enter unseen. The four dozen figures began to break apart into smaller groups as they began their journey toward their targets. Some of them where bound toward Europe, other for North Africa and the Middle East however five of them armed with special equipment made their way toward Malta where Yzak and the Coordinators of this universe where under a military blockage.
Well I hope you liked this chapter and the talk between Heero and his old friends. I will admit it was kind of hard to write, now until next time please keep reading. Thanks Wilkins75