Chapter Five

By Raven

Email: SandDruid@aol.com

Disclaimer: You guys know the drill…I don’t own gundam wing blah, blah, blah, blah,so don’t sue me blah, blah, blah, and blah. I don’t even own the characters or anything in the gundam series. Part 5 is up to bat.

On L1, one week later:

Noin was addressing the colony on trying to keep the civil battles very low or non-existent. "Dear people, under the circumstances the leader of the New Kingdom, Milliardo Peacecraft has asks the inhabitants of colony L1 to not fight against each other. As you know the new organization called CWD is beginning to a threat to our world.."

Noin was interrupted by people in the audience gasping and yelling. She looked up to see a shadow covering the windows of the building. One of the soldiers that went to the colony with Noin spoke out. "What is that?"

Noin looked confused until it dawned on her. "Oh, my God!" Noin turned to the soldiers. "Get these people out of here."

The soldiers ran off to do as she asked. Noin ran out of the building to see it with her own eyes, but she already knew what it was. When she ran out of the door she saw the old model Mobil suits around the city. The Mobil suits were scanning the people, until one rested on her. The pilot inside of the Mobils contacted his commander. "Sir! I have Noin in view."

The commander who was on a space ship circling the colony returned a message. "You know what to do………"

The commander was interrupted by one of his men. "Sir! I think you should see this on the radar."

Back on L1:

The Mobil suit walked closer to Noin and the pilot inside targeted her. Noin realized what was going to happen, and she thought she would rather face the enemy that was bringing her death instead of running. She waited. "I’m sorry Milliardo."

The pilot noticed something to the side of him. "What the hell?!"

The Mobil was blown away, Noin opened her eyes to see the new SandRock in front of her. Noin smiled. "Miss Noin, are you alright?"

"Quatre!"

"Miss Noin, you better get out of here while we finish these Mobil suits."

"Thank you, I owe you one."

"That’s okay, I’m happy I got here in time, sorry for cutting it close."

One of the soldiers came from behind SandRock. "Miss Noin, we have to get you out of here."

Noin and the soldier went back to the shuttle that would go back to the New Kingdom. Noin thought to herself as they ran to shuttle.

"Oh Quatre, thinking always of other people."

The new Gundams were fighting the Mobils. The Deathscythe split a Mobil and the one behind it in half at the same time. "Woo hoo! The God of Death once again the victor. No one stands a chance against me."

Meanwhile the new Zero got surrounded by five Mobils. Heero looked at them and gave a very slight smile. "Now this is more like it."

The Zero kneeled on one knee as it took out its saber. Heero turned on one of the thrusters on the foot of the gundam. As one foot was anchoring the gundam the other was pushing the Gundam around in circle. It went around and Zero cut the enemies in half. Heero glanced at the destroyed Mobils. "Hmmm………worthless."

The Shen Long destroyed two Mobils with the laser attached to his back. "You can never destroy me, I work with justice on my side."

Heavy Arms was finishing the rest of the Mobils. "That’s the last one, we should get back to the base. Other Mobils might be on the way and we don’t want the colony to suffer, if they want to fight let’s fight in space."

Heero’s Gundam scanned the colony one last time. "Agreed."

Each of the Gundams went out of the colony and turned into flight mode to go back to their base.

At the New Kingdom:

Noin gets off the plane and is met by Milliardo. "I’m sorry I couldn’t complete the mission."

"No matter, things have changed since CWD initiated war. I'm glad you're safe."

"I’m glad to, I would be dead if it wasn’t for the Gundams."

"Is it the same pilots?"

"Yes, I’m sure of it."

Milliardo and Noin go inside the kingdom. Noin thought for a moment. "Sir, I think it would be wise to support the Gundams and make it known that the New Kingdom stands behind them."

"Lucrezia, I want to make sure that they are fighting for our cause and not just their own."

Noin looks at Milliardo with a smile.

"Understood sir."

In Africa, 5 days ago:

Relena and Misty were sitting on a table in Valise’s lab. They had to wear a skin tight clothes so heart monitors and other various machines could be hooked up to make sure their vitals would be okay. Misty looked apprehensive.

"I don’t know about this Sage."

"Relax, what’s the worst that can happen?"

Misty gave Relena a look. "We could DIE!………and besides I feel so naked, I wish we could wear normal clothes."

Relena just shrugged her shoulders. "Don’t worry we only have to wear these clothes when we pilot, other clothes might interfere since they usually have metal or something on them………I don’t know………as for dying, going through torture is a lot harder than a quick death."

"What makes you think it will be quick?"

Valise walked in as Relena was trying to get Misty calm. "Are you two ready?"

Misty was starting to get nervous.

"Ready as we’ll ever be."

Valise walked to a compartment and by passed security to open it. She took out two shots and walked to the girls. She went to Misty first because she looked like she was going to jump out of her skin. Valise took Misty arm, and Misty looked to the ceiling and closed her eyes when she felt the needle go in. Valise injected the enzyme, then took the shot out and repeated the same thing to Relena with the other shot. After a couple of minutes Misty looked confused.

"I don’t feel any different."

Valise smiled and was making sure the monitors that were hooked up to the girls were working correctly. "That’s because your gundams aren’t online yet."

Relena and Misty exchanged a look before Relena turned back to Valise. "How do they get online?"

"Now that both of you are connected to your Gundams all you have to do is give the word."

Misty looked at Relena. "You go first Sage."

Relena looked taken back. "No way."

"Okay, we both do it at the same time."

"Okay."

Relena and Misty looked at each other and at the same time said.

"Polartic online."

"Canic online."

Relena felt something funny inside her, she looked at Misty and saw that she was going through the same feeling. The pressure started to build, it felt like the walls were closing. Relena grabbed her stomach and fell to the floor, the heart monitor was starting to beep faster. Valise leaned close to Relena.

"Sage! Concentrate on your Gundam."

Relena could barely hear the words, they seemed so far away. Her hands started to feel cold. As fast as the pressure came it went. Relena got up and looked at Misty, her eyes widened. Misty looked normal except her eyes were all black, they looked like deep pools of space. Misty was also staring at Relena and at the same time both said, "Oh, my God!"

Misty went to a mirror. "I’m not human, is it warm in here?"

Valise spoke to the girls. "You're still human. Just a different kind."

Misty got angry. "This is not human, I look like I belong in hell. I freaking myself out, look at my eyes."

Relena spoke to Misty. "Misty, it’s just your eyes, nothing changes inside."

"Thanks for the advice Yoda."

Relena turned to Valise. "Is this permanent?"

Valise shook her head. "No, only when your Gundams are online."

Misty was more than happy to stop looking like this. "Canic offline."

She felt the pressure but it wasn’t so bad this time. She looked in the mirror again and found her eyes were their usual color. Misty looked at Relena and Valise. "I’ll see ya later."

Valise looked at Relena. "Maybe it was a mistake doing this to her."

Relena gave her a half smile. "Don’t worry I know Misty, and all that happened was she just got a little scared. Give her a couple of hours and she’ll be fine."

Valise walked to Relena. "Don’t you want to see yourself?"

Relena walked slowly to the mirror what she saw was her normal self except her eyes, they were white as a ghost, the violet was long gone. "I have no eyes, but I can see. That’s so strange." Relena laughed at the sight. "I feel like I should be a super hero or something."

Valise walked next to her. "Go ahead, do a test on Polartic’s system."

"I just have to ask it right?"

"Yes."

"Polartic system check."

Relena immediately saw all of the Gundam’s engineering, it was like she was right there looking at the system check through the eyes of the computer, if that was ever possible. Relena laughed. "I can’t believe it, it’s like I feel him right behind my eyes, it’s so comforting and ………the power."

Valise brought Relena out of it. "Sage, remember don’t get lost in the system."

The system test was complete with no problems. Relena was reluctant to go back to her old self, but she did. "Polartic offline."

The pressure came back as the enzyme was reverting back to a neutral state. Relena’s body felt normal again and her eyes were back to the violet color. Valise smiled. "Why don’t you get some rest, we’ll try out the Gundams tomorrow in training."

Relena nodded her head and went to look for Misty. She stopped and turned to Valise. "Valise, are we free to go anywhere in the compound?"

"Yes, I changed the security to also let you girls go anywhere."

Relena nodded her head and left to find Misty. She found her looking at Canic. "Misty?"

Misty was crying as she leaned against the railing. "I had to get out of there, I couldn’t comprehend that it was actually happening, you know. All my life I was told that I would never be important. Then all of a sudden I’m going into war with a gundam and I have all this responsibility on my shoulders. I don’t know if I can handle it Sage. What if I get a nervous breakdown and go crazy or my Gundam falls into the hands of the enemy, so many people will die."

Relena leaned against the railing beside Misty. "Someone once told me that either you give up fighting and many people will die or you keep fighting which many people will die too." Relena looked at Misty. "It doesn’t matter if you make a mistake, what matters is if you're going to do anything to correct it. Yes, people will die, but if you give up they will die without reason."

Misty stayed quiet and kept looking ahead.

"Stay strong Misty."

Relena walked out of the Gundam storage. Misty spoke to herself. "Stay strong……hmm."

Relena walked back and as she passed Morgan’s room, she found her sitting reading book. Morgan looked up to see Relena almost pass her room. "Hey Sage!"

Relena took a step back and looked at Morgan. "Yeah?"

"Is it over?"

" Yes, Misty and I are officially connected to our Gundams."

"Wow, I wanted to ask when is your friend coming?"

"Hilde? She should be here any day now. I’m going to look around this place, want to come?"

"Nah, I’m at a good part in this book."

Morgan went back to the book, as Relena walked away. She went to her room first to change into decent clothes, then went on to the cafeteria and grabbed some fruit to eat on her way. She decided to go to the main part of the building where all those people were, Relena had a need to see them. She passed through security and walked through. Seeing the people still had a saddening effect on her, even though they had a certain amount of food that Valise helped with, she could see many people were still hungry. Relena walked passed a little boy, who was sitting alone, she walked over to him. "Hey there, what’s your name?"

The little boy was weary of her, until he saw the fruit she held in her hand. Relena looked at her hand and smiled. "There you go, go on and take it."

The boy didn’t waste any time in grabbing the fruit. After he was done, he spoke in a hushed tone. "Damon."

Relena sat next to him, Damon was surprised at this. No one ever paid any attention to him before, he was always on his own. He didn’t know what to expect.

"Well Damon, my name is Sage."

Damon spoke to her getting a little bolder. "Why are you here?"

Relena thought about this for a moment. "I’m here with Dr. Moore, and she asked me to help take care of you."

Damon was surprised. Relena thought the lie was worth getting to know the boy.

"Of me?"

"Yes, I going to come back every day to see you."

"Really, you will?"

"Uh huh."

Damon smiled at Relena. She thought to herself.

"This poor kid, he has no one just like………"

Relena closed her eyes for a minute and told herself, "No I’m not going to think of him." Relena was brought out of her thoughts. "Hey, Damon want to show me around?"

"Oh, yes."

In Africa, the next day:

The girls were walking to their Gundams with Valise. Morgan was smiling, Misty was frowning, and Relena was thinking. Morgan looked at her gundam. "Whew, let’s kick the tires and light the fires."

Misty gave her a bored look. "Don’t you ever quit being so cheerful?"

Morgan gave Misty a wise look. "You know Misty I think you need a puppy."

Misty rolled her eyes and climbed into her gundam. The other girls did the same. Relena sat in the gundam and looked around the cockpit. "Okay, just don’t break anything Relena, you're not a princess anymore so you can’t pay for it."

Valise contacted the girls through a communicator in their Gundams.

"Go ahead and activate your Gundams, I’ll open the ground above you, wait experimenting with them till your fully up on the surface."

Relena and Misty activated their Gundams, the pressure came back but it wasn’t so strong this time. Valise told Morgan how to start hers, Morgan talked to the other girls.

"Hey, this isn’t so hard."

Misty talked back. "You haven’t done anything yet!"

"Picky." Morgan strapped herself in. "Hey, I wonder what this does?"

She looked at a clear button and ran her hand over it. The platform lurched to go up top and Morgan hand accidentally pushed it. A red light came on in the cockpit.

Computer voice: "Self destruction will immense in two minutes."

Morgan’s eyes got wide. "OH! SHIT!"

Valise noticed Morgan’s heart rate go up.

"Are you okay Morgan?"

"Just fine, ran into a little glitch."

Morgan cut the communication.

"Come on, come on, you have to have a cut off switch."

Computer Voice: "One minute."

Morgan got upset. "COME ON!!!"

She pounded her fist on the consul.

Computer voice: "Count down, Deactivated."

Morgan leaned back in her pilot chair. "That was close."

The Gundams came to the surface, the girls looked around the desert. Relena activated the thrusters on her gundam. "Let’s see what you can do."

Polartic flew off in a second. Canic activated her thrusters too. Meltam was left behind. "Hey! Wait for me, just because I’m the pilot of the group doesn’t mean you guys leave me to go off in your little club."

Meltam went of after the others.

Hours Later: "That was amazing!"

Morgan didn’t stop talking all the way to where Valise was standing. "You girls did very well. I’m pleased. Go on and get some rest."

As the girls walked out, Valise spoke to Relena. "Sage, can I have a moment of your time?"

Relena nodded, Valise waited till the other girls went down another hallway. "I wanted to commend you on your performance, I never believed that Polartic could reach the levels he did, and in just one day."

"He’s an amazing machine."

"Misty’s levels were not as high as yours, I think it’s because of her reluctance to fully cooperate."

Relena looked at Canic before turning back to Valise. "She’ll come around."

5 days later, right after the battle on L1:

"We missed it, we should have been there."

Relena looked away from the TV that all the girls were watching.

"We weren’t ready. We would have become part of the problem, not a help."

Misty sighed. "I guess you're right."

Valise walked into the living area. "Sage, there is someone here to see you."

Relena smiled as Valise stepped aside to reveal Hilde. "Hi…Sage."

Hilde smiled at Relena’s happy face. She knew that she had to call her by an alias and not to talk of anything from the past by the message Relena sent to her. "Hilde……It’s so good to see you."

Relena walked to her a gave her a hug which Hilde returned. Relena then introduced her to the others. "This is Misty and Morgan, the other pilots of the Gundams………you guys, this is Hilde a good friend."

They all said hi to each other. Hilde turned to Relena. "We have a lot to talk about, can we go somewhere?"

"Yeah, follow me."

Relena lead Hilde to the Gundams storage facility.

"Wow! These are the Gundams? They're awesome."

"They are wonderful, yours is over there."

Relena walked to the corner where it was. Hilde looked at it.

"Nice, it will be a great asset to the alliance. Uh………Relena mind telling me what’s going on?"

Relena gave her a sad smile.

"Things change."

"They don’t change that much."

"Trust me you’ll be surprised, why don’t we sit down and I’ll tell you the long tale."

About two hours later:

Hilde was quiet through the whole story.

"No wonder you changed to a different life. I’m wondering how you survived."

Relena rubbed the back of her neck. "I wonder that myself. Okay, so tell me how is Duo and the others?"

"Well, you can see by the news that they are back to fighting. Duo is Duo, you know."

Relena could see by Hilde’s face that things were not alright.

"I’m sorry Hilde."

"Don’t worry about it, if it was supposed to happen, it would have happened right?"

"There is still time."

Hilde looked at Relena and searched her face with her eyes. "There is also time for you Relena."

Relena looked at the ground. "I don’t think so. I’m not the naïve, and pampered rich girl anymore. I don’t know who I am anymore. Anyways, enough reminiscing. We have a lot of work ahead of us."

At the CWD base:

The directors of the organization were having a meeting.

"Sir, the attack on L1 was a failure, Noin is still alive."

The leader did not look at all worried.

"I don’t think so, we know that the Gundams are fully operational, and we know now that they think we are not equipped with good Mobil suits. The next plan………is the destruction of the base of where the gundams are. I want the structure that they stand on shattered, I want their support gone. I want to see them suffer. We will lure them out to a meaningless battle and crush their means of support."

A man stood up in the audience.

"Sir! We don’t even know where they are."

The leader laughed. "On the contrary, we do. When the battle took place on L1, one of my undercover soldiers placed a tracking device on a gundam. We know exactly where they are."

A soldier was watching from the balcony, it is the one that helped Noin go back to the New Kingdom. He watched as another man stood up to address the leader.

"Then sir, if we know where they are why don’t we conduct an airial attack on them while their unsuspecting with the new mobiles."

The leader looked irritated. "Has anyone been LISTENING TO ME!"

The leader calmed down before explaining. "The reason is, if we attack them directly on home turf it would be to risky, these pilots are taught to always be ready. So, we give them a battle to fight while we destroy their base. We defeat them slice by slice."

END OF PART 5