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Chapter One
By Raven
Email: SandDruid@aol.com
Disclaimer: These gundam characters are not mine and I have no rights to them only to my characters which are to many to name. Flames are not welcome, be kind this is my first fanfic.
Part 1
Relena was standing on the balcony of the new Kingdom that she had built after the fight with OZ in A.F. 196. As she stood there she thought of all the Gundam pilots and she had gone through. Relena backed away from the railing of her Kingdom.
"I am so sorry for what I am about to do" she whispered.
She turned and walked to the glass doors of her room. Relena sat down to her computer and thought about the newly rising force, a more powerful force than OZ or anyone had seen before and started to tape her resignation from her power.
"Dear people of my kingdom, I regretfully inform you that I am standing down from my position and have given it to my brother. I feel that I can not lead you correctly anymore, please understand. By the time the appropriate people have seen this message I will be gone, try not to find me. I must find my true destiny and I think that the position I am in right now is not. Grant me this one wish."
The disk ejected from her computer and Relena marked the disk and a letter . Relena opened the door to the hallway.
"George? George?" George walked in.
"Yes, Miss Relena?"
"Please send this off right away."
The butler bowed "Gladly."
She watched George walk out and quickly went her room only to grab one change of clothes and a cape. Relena looked at the kingdom one last time.
"My home, I will always love you," and left. The distance to the plane was short.
"I am so glad you have an auto pilot other wise I would be in trouble."
Relena started the engine and turned on the auto pilot to destination unknown.
In the conference room:
A man stood up fast, (which was quite surprising because of being over weight) after watching Relena's video on the huge screen in the auditorium with the other leaders of the military
"This is unbelievable!! She just can't run away from her duties."
The director for military forces looked at the over weight man.
"Well, she did run away didn't she. There's nothing we can do about it Johnson but notify her brother."
Johnson calmed himself.
"We can look for her and bring her back."
The first in command for Diplomatic problems for other countries and space stations looked at Johnson.
"We will not do that. For all the princess has done for us we will not disregard her last wish, and even if we did bring her back she wouldn't want to lead us. Like she said she needs to find her own way, I just hope it's back to us. Commander Mace?"
"Yes, Gerald?"
"Please get her brother here, we need a leader for this nation."
Two days later in a forest:
"Well, it looks like I landed in a nice area."
Relena jumped out and looked around for a bit, as she wandered deep into the woods she had a certain feeling something bad was going to happen. When she turned to leave she collided with a wall or what felt like a wall. She looked up into the eyes of a cold person, his uniform was one she recognized, it was of the CWD's the new group more powerful than OZ ten times over. (CWD's stand for to Conquer World Domination)
"Who are you and what are you doing in this place?" The man's voice was overbearing.
"I am sorry, I was just leaving." Relena turned to make a hasty exit.
"Hold it right there!"
Relena stopped, the man approached and grabbed her arm to turn her around.
She franticly tried to convince the solider that she was no one of importance.
"I am just a traveler that got lost."
The soldier was not convinced he looked her up and down until he spotted the symbol of her Kingdom.
"I think I just caught someone very important and useful for our organization, you are under arrest for trespassing, come with me."
The soldier tied her hands together and started to drag her along. Relena struggled so much that the soldier slung her over his shoulder.
"NO, NO, someone help me!!"
Back at the Kingdom:
Zechs was sitting among the other leaders and with Noin.
"I'll accept the responsibility of being the leader, and I hope that my sister will come back to us eventually."
Gerald looked at Zechs.
"Sir, the space colony L1 is having some civil problems and they are creating some riots, we need to suppress them."
Zechs turned to Noin.
"I feel that you can complete this mission in creating the order back to that colony."
"Absolutely, I won't disappoint you."
Noin walks out of the room with a couple of soldiers. Zechs stares at Johnson.
"Johnson, what is going on with this new movement the CWD's which is to be more feared by OZ?"
"They are laying quiet for now, probably to gather their forces."
"Can we pin point their location?"
"I am sorry sir but we can't even find one member. Their very good at hiding, it could be twenty years or two days until they strike."
"Then we will have to be ready at any possible moment. Start putting a call out for soldiers."
Johnson stands up and walks out of the room. Zechs stands and goes to the window.
"Sister, where are you?"
At the underground command center for the CWD's:
"Captain Sir, I found this girl around the outer rim of our zone. She claims she's a traveler but she carries the symbol of the New Kingdom."
The solider pushes Relena to the Captain. She starts to stumble but catches herself, and looks up proudly. The Captain laughs.
"She is a proud one. What is your position at the New Kingdom?"
Relena stays stubbornly quiet. The soldier comes to her and punches her in the stomach.
Relena falls to the ground and coughs from the blow.
"The Captain asked you a question. Answer it !!!"
Relena pulls herself up.
"I am just one of the keepers of the Kingdom."
The Captain comes close to her.
"What is your name?"
Relena hesitates then answers him.
"My name is Sage Mason."
"There that wasn't so hard now was it, you're are a pretty thing."
The Captain comes within a breath of her. Relena becomes angry and spits into the Captain's face.
"YOU WITCH!!! Sargent!!"
The soldier comes to his side.
"Put this disrespectful girl into the prison for a sentence of fifteen years."
Relena remains stone faced through the sentence. The soldier grabs her arm and pulls her along.
In the Prison:
Screams come from the end of the hall where all the cells are located. Relena becomes teary eyed when she hears all the screams of the people. The soldier looks at her.
"That's the black room down there, all the fun starts in that room."
Relena visibly swallows. The soldier opens a cell and throws her in.
"Nice seeing ya Sage, hope you have a nice stay here at Hell's Prison."
Relena runs to the bars of the cell.
"YOU CAN'T KEEP ME HERE!!!!!"
A voice from the darkness of the cell calls out to her.
"It's no use, you can scream and cry all you want, nothing works. You might as well sit down and relax..... for now."
Relena turns around and try's to make out a person but the cell is too dark.
"Who are you?"
A pretty girl with red hair and silver eyes comes forward.
"My name is Adrian. What's yours?"
Relena puts her hand out, and is accepted by Adrian's.
"My name is Sage. What are you here for?"
Adrian leans against the wall and smiles.
"I'm a murderer."
She turns to look at Relena who backs away. Adrian suddenly laughs.
"Just kidding, I came here when I found out about the CWD's to blow up the base. As you can see there were some complications and I failed my mission."
Relena sits down on a crate in the cell.
"A mission? Are you an agent or something?"
Adrian looks at her about to speak but stops.
"Aw, what the hell. I might as well tell you since it looks like I am not going break out anytime soon. During the war of 196 I was a student of an engineer who built Gundams. I guest you heard of the one's who fought the war?"
Relena leans back.
"Yes, I guess you could say I know them."
Adrian looks down.
"The engineer I worked for was the best and she made Gundams, three of them, the problem was that she completed them after the war. She said you never know when another war will turn up. So they are in storage for now but they're like nothing you have ever seen. The Gundams those pilots used will look like toys compared to the new ones."
Adrian stops talking and looks at the floor.
"I've been training, for all these years until a war would finally come. Then the first mission my trainer sent me on was just to watch the base and report back. I got a little excited and decided to blow it up. Boy! Did that ever back fire, and now I have been here for about a year and a half. Enough about me, where did you come from?"
Relena looks away.
"That is a long story, I can tell you some."
Relena stares at the floor. Adrian moves next to her.
"That's okay you can tell me whenever you want."
"Thanks, everything has just happened so fast."
From across the cell a voice calls out.
"Will you two shut up! Your voices are ringing in my head, I am trying to get some sleep!"
Adrian smiles and turns to Relena.
"That there is Maci. She's the best hand to hand combat fighter you'll ever see. She puts on a 'don't bother me or I'll kill you' act but she's a good friend."
Relena looks doubtful.
"She sounds charming."
Maci comes to the bars of her cell and calls to Adrian.
"Adrian! Who's the fresh fish?"
Relena calls out.
"My name is Re..Sage Mason what's your name?"
Maci smiles.
"Maci Hallowell, at your service."
Maci bows to the girls, Adrian laughs at her.
"Goodnight Maci I'll see you outside tomorrow."
Relena goes to one of the beds of the cell.
"How can you see her outside when we are in here."
Adrian sits on the other bed.
"They let us outside in the afternoon for a while every day. They say it's because of their kindness. I say that's bullshit, they probably don't want us to have any medical problems so exercise will help us and so they can keep prisoners to torture to pass the time."
Relena lays down.
"Hey Adrian?"
"Yeah?"
"What kind of torture do they do?"
Adrian stayed quiet. Relena looked up from her pillow to Adrian's.
"Adrian?"
"Sage, you really don't want to know."
Relena left it at that and quietly cried herself to sleep.
Professor J's building:
"Hiyah!"
Heero easily dodged the blow and knocked the other agent to the ground with a side kick,
"Enough! Heero I need to talk to you."
Professor J waited while Heero bowed to the agent and walked over to Professor J.
"What is it?"
They started to walk toward the lab.
"I just got word that the New Kingdom is looking for soldiers."
Heero looked at Professor J.
"The CWD organization?"
"Yes, I think the Kingdom is being cautious but, never the less I think we should start getting a new Gundam ready. I have already talked to the other professor's and they have started. That means you will be working with the other pilots again."
"That doesn't matter, I'll do my job, just make sure they do theirs. Is that all?"
Professor J sighed.
"No, it isn't. The New Kingdom is under Zechs rule now."
Heero looked at Professor J in the eyes.
"What happen to Relena ?"
"She disappeared. It was on her own, some people have tried but they can not find her, because she does not wish to be found."
Heero walks away and goes to his quarters. He looks a little different now, since he is twenty years old now. Heero is taller and more muscular although everything else is the same. He thinks to himself.
"Relena if you don't wish to be found I'll honor that wish. Just be careful."
Heero lays down and falls asleep.
In Hell's Prison:
A circle of woman inmates have formed a circle around two figures.
"For Christ sake defend yourself Sage."
"I'm sorry I've never been the fighting type."
"God! Your gonna have to learn to fight if you want to survive the torture."
Relena stopped trying to defend herself. Maci took a relaxed stance.
"Sage, I know that this is a lot to swallow. Your just lucky that I'm good friends with Adrian, otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered to help."
Adrian laughed from the sidelines.
"Maci you would have helped, you're a sucker for helpless people."
Relena's head shoot up.
"Hey! Who are you calling helpless?"
"Sage whether you like it or not....you're helpless."
Relena gave Adrian a sarcastic look.
"Gee thanks."
Maci took her stance again.
"Alright now as I very slowly punch you toward the face...very slowly...you lift your left arm and as I come toward you...very slowly...counter attack it. You do this by first dodging the punch and grabbing my arm with your left hand...very slowly... and using the weight from your shoulder and your hand push upward to break the elbow. Got it?"
"Yes."
Relena did as she was told and completed the exercise, she stepped back and took a long look at Maci.
"Maci, how did you get into this prison?"
"Oh, I picked a fight."
"Why?"
"One of the soldier's came to my small village and raped my sister, I thought that was reason enough. I found the soldier at this camp and killed him, I just forgot to realize that this particular soldier has friends."
"I sorry, I don't mean to pry."
Maci looked from the ground to Sage.
"I think that's enough for today Sage."
"I couldn't agree more."
Relena and Maci start to walk back to Adrian, and spot her with a dark haired girl.
"Hey Maci who's that?"
"Oh, that's Misty, before you even bother asking me she got in here by accidentally hacking into the CWD's network. They killed her family and took her, I guess they figured that she would be of some use or that they needed more test dummies for new torture tactics."
Relena looked away so Maci couldn't see the tears forming in her eyes. Pretty soon they got to Adrian and Misty. Misty looked up and smiled at Relena.
"Your name is Sage right?"
"Yeah that's right."
"Your new here so mustn't have gotten to you yet."
Relena knew they were talking about the torture and looked solemn.
"No they haven't."
A siren alerted all the prisoners that they have to go back to their cells.
In a bunker somewhere:
"Hey Heero, long time no see!"
Heero sighed as he turned to look at Duo running up to him. They shook hands.
"Hello Duo."
"Guess you heard about the CWD's, huh?"
"I'm here with my Gundam aren't I?"
Duo got a funny look on his face and rubbed the back of his neck.
"Ouch! I'm getting freezer burn,.... anyways Trowa, Quatre, and Wufei are going to be coming to this bunker pretty soon so we can complete all the Gundam's here."
If Heero heard him he didn't answer. They both stared at Duo's half completed Deathscythe and Heero's new Zero.
"I've got a feeling Heero, that this war is going to be like nothing we have ever seen before."
Heero turned to leave. Duo looked after him and yelled.
"Nice seeing you too."
At the New Kingdom:
"Sir! The latest report is in, and it confirms that there is no CWD activity anywhere. If they are out there they are laying low."
Zechs looked at the Lieutenant and walked to the main conference table.
"Thank you Lieutenant, you know your way out."
"Yes Sir!"
The Lieutenant walked out and on a portable panel Zechs called Noin.
"Yes Zechs?"
"I just received a report that there is no activity."
"I think it is wise Sir, to keep the recruits ready and keep enlisting people."
"I agree, would you mind Lieutenant Noin joining me for dinner?"
Noin gave off a dazzling smile.
"I would love to Sir."
Hell's Prison:
"HEY YOU!, the blond one, GET UP!"
Adrian and Relena were both startled. Relena backed against the wall.
"NO!, I'm not going!"
Adrian got up from her bed.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size!"
The soldier back handed Adrian across the face and grabbed Relena. Adrian new it was useless to fight the soldier, her trainer always taught when it's a no win situation, never fight unless one is insinuated.
"NO! Help me please."
Adrian looked at Relena's retreating form into the torture room and whispered to no one in particular.
"I sorry, I can't."
Three hours later
"Ha, Ha, Ha .....you were fun."
The soldier threw Relena into the cell and Adrian ran to her. As she came close she could see the cuts of a whip on her back and it looked like she had broken ribs by the way Relena held her stomach.
"Oh God, Sage, are you alright?"
"I feel like I can't move or I'll break something else."
Maci goes up to the bars of her cell.
"Hey, Adrian how is she?"
"Pretty bad."
Maci slapped her hands against the bars .
"What I wouldn't wish to get my hands on those creeps, they can't do this to us anymore."
From way down the hall someone called to Adrian. She recognized it as Misty.
"Adrian, she got the whip right?"
"Yeah, she did."
"Make sure you keep the wounds open but don't let any dirt get into them. A loose shirt would be good."
"Okay."
Adrian rummaged through the meager amount of clothes they were allowed to have, and grabbed a shirt. Relena was in such pain she passed out. When she came to, a wash of new pain came all over her body. Relena whispered to herself.
"Oh yeah, I forgot I got the shit beat out of me."
Adrian came over to her bed and helped her up.
"How do you feel Sage?"
"How do you think I feel?"
Relena looked down at herself and saw that she has a different shirt on and her ribs were bandaged with some cloth.
"You helped me."
It was a statement not a question.
"Yeah I did, you sure couldn't help yourself."
"Thank you Adrian."
"No problem."
Maci called out from her cell.
"Misty and I want to know how your doing."
"It hurts like hell."
"That good huh?"
Relena laughed, but winced as the pain grew. Adrian sat on her bed.
"Now you know what we go through."
"Yeah, Adrian I want you and Maci to do something for me."
"What's that?"
Relena laid down and looked at the ceiling.
"I want you to teach me everything you know."
"Sure, Can I ask what brought on this inspiration?"
Relena turned to look at Adrian and said it so low that Adrian had trouble hearing her, but she did hear her.
"Hate."
Relena closed her eyes, and Adrian soon followed after thinking to herself.
"I think you Sage are going to surprise everyone."
END OF PART 1