Chapter 12: the days of innocence.

Lt. Hawk: "Pillar control this is Skull 2 we are on approach, new squadron member, temporary reassign as skull 1, authorization 221. Will explain upon arrival, be advised multiple possible hostile contacts at bearing green, delta, 2, 6, just outside Ireland. 1 carrier with unknown spec matching the old Zeon prototype Dolos class from the end of the one year war."

A2 CIC: "Skull 2 this is Atlantis, pillar control has transferred control of ground teams to Atlantis 2 CIC for now, please confirm new mission redirect, change curse to Delta 2-3-Echo 2-9 and approach Atlantis 2's airfield.

Lt. Hawk: "Confirm new redirect, Delta 2-3 - echo 2-9. Course clear, on approach."

(A/N: the Atlantis II project. This facility until 1911 was a purely civilian deep sea research facility named Atlantis, used for food production to make up for a lack of resources in space, which was also used to field test new MS when they rolled off the production lines. Though a fairly large city, (similar in size to Manhattan) was covering the top of the facility making it appear as a floating city, the majority of the complex was underwater. On the bottom of the ocean were 3 large bio-dome's connected to the main facility by a large pillar. These facilities were based off the construction of the D.O.M.E. on the moon, but they lack a crazy new type living in there walls and could not fire a satellite cannon to give MS more power. Following WW1 it was decided that it was no longer safe to have a purely civilian facility in this region of on earth in general. Thus construction on Atlantis II began. Though not actually a new building, it was simply an add-on to the original Atlantis, consisting of a underwater ship anchor, capable of holding up to 20 archangel class vessels, and a airfield for the newly formed ECOAS and Phantom Pain units. it also had a direct connection to the re-construction of the JOSH-A facility in Alaska, in that the submersible units used to find and begin construction were launched form here, despite it being in the center of the Atlantic ocean and JOSH-A being in Alaska, which is in the pacific. It is the only location on earth that is known by the general population of the federation. The JOSH-A facility is still kept top secret as it holds the Phantom Pain and 13th Autonomous wings.

Despite construction on the airfield and the ship anchor beginning nearly 100 years ago, the airfield which was designed to integrate all the newest technologies for mobile suit launch and recovery was not completed until just this year. As they were returning the field took in the first team of MS other than engineers to be able to go into the base and see what it was like inside. As it was a military facility no one was allowed entry if they didn't work there.)

*Lt. hawk came in first with her F-1000S "Zaku Warrior" painted a bright shade of red, that almost seemed pink, with a large horn sticking out from its head indicating a commanding officer. Also on both its shoulders were a shield with a skull and cross bone on them with a '2' as their backround.*

*Following her was Tall, in his GAT-F105A "105 Dagger" painted blue with white accents and a gold v on its shield. His unit also had a skull and cross bones painted on its shoulder with a single large 3 as its background.*

*3rd Cagalli came in with her GAT-X105E "Strike E IWSP" painted pitch black with a skull and cross bone etched into her units shield with 3, '4's surrounding the symbol forming a triangle with a chain between them, also the unit had 2 gold antennas forming a 'V' on its forehead.*

*As lance came into the field his unit was forced to use the recovery net, as it's legs were still damaged from his attempt to capture it, along with his escape form the carrier. This was not much of a problem earlier because he did not need legs in space and could hover to fly over the water, but when the suit is turned off, these boosters would no longer operate.

Commander Kurtis Hurst: "Welcome back, now what's this about a 4th su…"

*The commander sees the damaged and now smoking legs of the MS-03 Gouf Costom and stops talking.*

Commander Kurtis Hurst: "How in the D'arvitting world did that even manage to get here!"

*the cockpit opens and lance with his old style federation 'normal suit' comes out. completely forgetting to take off his gear, as he still thinks he need to be ready for war as Zeon was still out there. And during a combat operation you never got out of your normal suit as a hole in the ship could cause instant death without air.*

Lance: "Commander Lancelot Albion EFSF 8th fleet assigned to flagship "Arc Cannon" for operation overlord reporting Sir! I am unsure where the rest of the crew got to after we went through the black hole sir, but the Zeon ship that came through with us is now somewhere out there. Requesting materials for the repair of my unit to try and follow them sir!"

Commander Kurtis Hurst: "Not a chance soldier, we lost signal from it right after you appeared and all the teams we sent haven't reported anything out of the ordinary yet." *curious of his uniform* "Might I ask you what year it is that you were last in?"

Lance: "UC79 Sir!

Lt. Hawk: "Holy smokes that's the one year war! That's nearly 700 million years ago what the heck is he doing here!"

Lance: "Operation overlord was a mission to the direct center of a black hole to see if time travel is possible, however we were unsure what would happen, and just before we entered the black hole we were intercepted by a Zeon fleet trying to do the same thing, but we did manage to take out of there 2 carriers before our own ship the Arc Cannon went down.

Cagali: *talking on the side to Tall* "You know that sounds just like that old movie "A Mission to The Rise" doesn't it?"

Commander Kurtis Hurst: "Well considering we have no way of sending you home, we'll just have to integrate you into our own systems. Since you are a federation soldier I assume your fine with that right?"

Lance: "Yes Sir!"

Commander Kurtis Hurst: "Since the old Skull 1 retired last month and this is a black ops unit, we wouldn't have any trouble integrating you here with no one being suspicious, so from now on you will be part of this squadron and assigned to the 81st autonomous unit Phantom Pain. *To the rest of the team* "NONE of you shall talk about this to ANYONE understood?"

All of the now complete Skull Team: "Yes Sir!"

Cagali: *whispering to Tall* "That's just great, now we got to get along with some stuck up old soldier boy again. Wasn't the old commander enough?"

Tall: *To Cagali* "Get over it"

*Commander walks out of the hanger, Lance drops from attention.*

Lance: "Man everywhere I go its do this, do that, why can't you find a place that's not got one of those types of commanders. You guys got a bar anywhere?"

Cagali: "You know, I take back what I just said I think we could get along just fine." *smiling as she lead them all to the officers club in town.*