Chapter 15: "When Am I?"

*Lt. Tall is leading a practice run for the new recruits back on earth. Soon to be transferred to the 13th autonomous unit, they will need to be ready when there old ship launches. *

Tall: "Alright boys, let's see if you can follow me through this. Try and keep up!"

*Tall's 105 dagger dives strait down, then pulls up at the last second rushing at treetop level all the way across the Fowl property. As this happens LaFlaga notices his unit, and begins his radio transmissions.

Flaga: "This is Flight Commander Mwu LaFlaga, of the EFSF Arc Cannon, my suit is severely damaged, and I am unable to return to Jaburo. I don't know what happened to the rest of my flight, any federation forces in the area please respond."

Tall: *Talking to himself, before he turns on the radio* "Arc Cannon, I know I've heard that before. Oh well I'll remember it eventually," *switching to the Squadrons radio* "Squadron follow me to the coordinates in the signal, no one on earth should know this frequency." *switching to Flaga's frequency "This is Lieutenant Tall, Earth Federation ECOAS, confirmation we are coming in for evac."

Flaga: "Confirm Lt. Tall co-ordinates green 7, delta 4, 111-82-19292."

Tall: "Unable to confirm, there are no locations with those co-ordinates, find another way for us to find you."

Flaga: "I can see you, turn your main camera to the right and you should see me, I'll deactivate mono-phase for 15 seconds."

Tall: "Negative, do not deactivate mono-phase, I think I can see you from the smoke."

*When the squadron land near the smoke and get out they are able to see the badly damaged Zaku, when they did, they adjusted their suits cameras for the type of phase shift that he had active, so they could see the unit. Flaga had managed to repair the unit to a decent degree, but it would not be going anywhere on earth unassisted."*

Tall: "Josh-A this is skull 3, are there any freedom bursts in the area for the recovery of a Zaku II FZ (EFF)?"

(A/N: From MSV Gundam Seed. The ZGMF-X10B freedom burst, is a transformable mobile suit with the weapons and flight systems of the freedom, only it had an atmospheric flight mode, to increase its speed even further. This systems also allowed it to dock with other mobile suit like a G-Flacon to increase their firepower and maneuverability. Since there have been no wars on earth with the need for mobile suits, they have been used for recovery of damaged units instead of their original purpose of blasting anything in sight to bits.)

JOSH-A: "confirm, there are 2 freedom burst in the area, changing flight path to receive your unit."

Tall: "Alright" *changing to external comm. Lines* "Ma'm I'm sorry but were going to have to ask for you and your companions to come with us, this incident must remain a secret." *he bends his suit down to pick up Mr., and Mrs. Fowl, and Butler. Despite the size of the unit, the 3 of them are unable to move as they are slowly and carefully picked up. Surprisingly to all 3 of them none of them even get scratched by the unit.*

Flaga: "What's going on lieutenant? I see no need to hide something as common knowledge as mobile suits?"

Tall: "Now I know where I heard of the ship Arc Cannon, you must have been part of commander Albion's unit"

Flaga: "Yeah, do you know where he is?"

Tall: "for now let's just get you guys to Atlantis"

*The freedom burst arrives, tall and another member of their squad helps the Zaku upright, while the freedom burst docks with the Zaku. After they docked, the freedom deployed its 4 wings on the Zakus back in the same format of the HiMAT allowing for high speed maneuverability and the ability to hover over the earth, making it possible for the unit to move without the arm and leg that were now being carried back by the recruits.*

Tall: "A2, this is skull 3 I have a damaged unit, requesting course to bring it back along with its pilot and company."

A2: "Negative Skull 3, as of right now, your unit will be a part of the 13th autonomous wing, including the person you picked up, we have already sent the data we have on him to their commander, sending co-ordinates now."

Tall: "… confirm mission directive change, alright you heard them, let's move."

*The 5 units move our over the ocean, with the fowl personnel now in separate cockpits, with the controls locked. As they go over the ocean they approach the co-ordinates sent to them they see a large ship on the water. It was extremely large, 2 legs stretching out for a few hundred feet in front of the ships bridge. It had 4 independent catapults on each leg, with black painted mobile suits on each. Extending out behind the bridge were 5 large boosters and 16 small engines with 6 large wings 3 extending on each side. As they approached 5 doors opened behind catapults with landing light extending to each of the mobile suits.*

Albion AI: "Welcome Back Commander, Please Proceed To Docking Station 6 When You Have Finished Landing Operations. Again Welcome Aboard The EFSF Albion."

LaFlaga: "It may have changed a bit, but this is definitely still the good old Albion. Last time I saw her was when we were leaving earth. Man I wound how many battles she's been in now." *switching to Talls radio signal "so when am I? If the federation exists then it's definitely the future and not the past, but how far?"

Tall: "You're probably not going to like this but your about 700 million years in the future."

LaFlaga: "uh-huh…" *faints