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Part One
By Raven
Email: SandDruid@aol.com
Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam Wing, so don’t sue I’m begging you. On to part one of my story..
On L1, 2 days later:
Most of the Gundam pilots had already arrived to meet with the professors on the current situation.
"What the hell is going on?!"
Misty and Trowa were the last ones to disembark and come to the new station that the professors built. Morgan laughed softly.
"Nice to know your still the same Misty?"
Misty put one hand on her hip and gave everyone a captivating smile.
"Well, I do have a reputation to hold up."
Professor S interrupted the conversation.
"I know that you all have a lot of catching up to do, but we have more pressing matters."
Relena shifted uncomfortably in the chair.
"Please hurry, you were so elusive when calling us. Why won’t you tell us why we are here?!"
Relena started to get upset, Heero put a hand on her arm clandestinely. Just enough touch to calm her down. She gave a heavy sigh. Doctor J got up and walked over to a window with his back facing the group.
"Something devastating has happened to the African Compound, it came under attack a few days ago."
The room was silenced. Hilde had closed her eyes with the shocking news, after a few moments she found her voice.
"Survivors?"
With his back still to the crew, Doctor J spoke in a more soft and questioning tone.
"Most of the people in the main compound had gotten out before the major damage, except for a few. The thing that has us suspicious about the true nature of the situation is that there was no trace of Dr. Moore. It was like she disappeared."
Wufei shook his head.
"Did you ever think she might have been kidnapped?"
The Gundam pilots all thought about this for a moment. Quatre was starting to get a headache from all of this, a thought struck him.
"Hey, what about the Gundams?"
Professor H told them.
"Don’t worry about the Gundams, they are secure in the storage. It looks like the storage was untouched, by our sadallite equipment we can tell where the damage is even if we aren’t there."
Relena gave a frustrated sigh.
" That doesn’t make any sense. If the bombers knew about the African base, they knew about the Gundams. Why would they leave them intact, and blow the rest of the base up?"
Heero spoke, breaking his silent revenue.
"It looks like a message, more like a challenge. They left them there because they knew we would come, and to show us they are not afraid."
Relena got up.
"We have to leave."
Somewhere in space:
Valise was tied up and blindfolded, she knew she was a long way away from Africa.
"I can’t believe this is happening to me. I wonder what idiots I have to deal with now?"
She heard the door open and immediately stiffened. Someone came over and picked her up, they carried her for a while and sat her down.
"What the hell do you people want?"
The reply came.
"Shut-up."
Valise shook her head violently.
"Not a chance buddy."
"Shut-up."
"I will keep talking until you get someone I can speak to whose vocabulary is not limited to two words."
She heard a dry laugh.
"You’ll only be waiting a couple of seconds."
Valise heard the door open, and turned her head to the sound, even though she couldn’t see. The footsteps got closer until they stopped right in front of her. She thought to herself.
"I have a feeling this is not going to be good."
The person untied the blindfold, it fell away. Valise looked to the person, and was stunned, but somehow she managed to say some words.
"Oh shit."
In Africa:
A plane landed in the desert by the old base. The pilots walked out and looked around. Relena, Morgan, Misty, and Hilde went together to what was left of the main compound, Morgan looked at it through sad eyes.
"I can’t believe it’s gone, my first home out of prison."
Relena walked into the ruins and spotted a body, she knew it was dead but went over anyway. Everyone else was expecting the compound for any clue to the destroyers of the base. She lifted the slab of concrete that was pinning the person down and pushed it to the side. Relena knelt down and turned the person over.
"Oh god, Bradley."
She started to cry for her friend and held his head.
"Why did they do this to you?"
Relena wiped her tears, when something caught her eye. In Bradley’s hand there was a shiny object, she opened the hand and found a medallion. It was a silver one, she yelled to everyone.
"Hey guys, I found something!"
As the pilots started to come over, Relena put a rug over Bradley and promised to him she would bury him before she left. She walked away from him and met the other pilots half way.
"Look at this."
She put out her hand and showed them. Misty had a confused look.
"What is it?"
Duo looked at her a gave half smile.
"It looks like a piece of metal."
Misty gave him a death glare, Hilde smacked him on his arm.
"Stop it, don’t be a smartass."
Duo gave her an innocent look.
"What?"
Relena looked at the medallion hard.
"Where have I seen this before?"
Heero gave her a thoughtful stare.
"It does look familiar."
Trowa spoke to everyone.
"I think we should get our Gundams now, and go to the professors base."
Relena pocketed the artifact.
"Your right, I have to do something first. Give me 20 minutes."
Heero looked into her eyes.
"What do you have to do?"
She smiled at him.
"I have to keep a promise to a friend."
With that Relena ran to Bradley, Morgan sighed.
"Oh well, lets go break our friends out of eternal sleep."
They all went to the storage.
In storage, 25 minutes later:
The pilots had checked and refueled their Gundams. Misty climbed into Canic.
"I’m back again. I hope I still remember how to work you. I guess it was a good thing I never got rid of that isotope in my system that connected me to you. Canic online."
Canic turned his systems on, and Misty ran through the system check.
"All clear. Excellent."
Everyone was ready, Quatre had volunteered to take his Gundam in the plane and meet everyone at the new base. Relena got into Polartic and ran through the check also.
"Well old friend, it’s nice to know you’re here for me. Let’s get out of here."
The Gundams all left the place of bad memories behind. On the way back, Relena took out the medallion again.
"Where do I know that from?"
End of part 1
(I know it’s short, but I’m making this up as I go along, sorry! I promise it will be longer next time. I will tell you in the next part about what happened in the pilots lives after A Soul Anew.)