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Chapter Eight
By Raven
Email: SandDruid@aol.com
Disclaimer: I don’t own Gundam or anything like it, I just own my characters. Let me know what you think of this next part…
In the Living Hall, the next day at around 6:00 a.m:
The Gundam girls were sitting with Valise and talking about one of the commanders of the CWD’s. Valise was filling the girls in on the information about the man.
"This commander is supposed be undercover, he is going to this meeting that the New Kingdom is holding for all the peace leaders of the colony’s. Milliardo Peacecraft will be there talk to the leaders to help them understand that they have to reject the CWD’s ideals, no matter how good they sound."
Morgan took a sip of her drink. "So, what does this have to do with us?"
Valise looked at each of the girls.
"I don’t know but this commander is going undercover for a reason, either just a bystander or going as far as to assassinate someone."
Hilde shook her head sadly. "By assassinate someone you mean Milliardo Peacecraft…this doesn’t look good."
Meanwhile in the Gundam Storage:
Mary and the girls came back to the Gundam storage to fly Polartic. "Stop! Don’t do this, I think it’s going to have a bad result."
Mary pulled her arm away from her. "I didn’t ask for your opinion."
Sam looked at Polartic. "Mary, that one looks……I don’t know, something about it, it’s like it sees us and it knows what we are about to do is wrong."
Mary turned sharply to Sam. "If I have to fly this thing to get Heero to notice me well, then I’m going to. Out of my way!"
In the mess hall:
The Gundam boys were sitting and talking amongst themselves. Heero had just gotten a message from Doctor J.
"When are the professors going to meet us here, Heero?"
Trowa was standing by the table leaning against the wall. Heero spoke in his usual monotone voice. "They will be here tomorrow."
Duo leaned back in his chair and crossed his arms behind his head. "It took them long enough."
Heero didn’t move his eyes from the table. "They had to be careful, you know what happened last time they were captured by the enemy."
Duo muttered under his breath. "I wish we could give those new girls over to the CWD’s. They won’t leave us alone."
At the Gundam storage:
Mary had gotten up to the platform and opened the cockpit, immediately cold air brushed her face. "It’s like an ice cube in here."
Mary stepped in, the hatch door was still open. A light surrounded her and started to scan her body.
Computer voice: "Scanning pilot gene sequence." Mary took a step back toward the hatch.
In the Living hall:
Misty asked Relena a question. "Where is Damon?"
Relena smiled. "He’s visiting Brad…"
Relena face became distorted. Valise looked worried. "What’s the matter?"
"Someone’s in Polartic." Relena, Valise and the rest of the girls went running out of the living hall.
At the Gundam storage:
Computer voice: "Scan complete, gene code not recognized, intruder!"
Mary got very frightened quickly jumped out of the cockpit and back on the platform. She did this just in time, the hatch closed to the cockpit.
Computer voice: "Self destruction activated, countdown T minus, 2 minutes."
Mary came back down to the ground level and joined all the other girls. "What did I do? I didn’t mean it."
The girls started to get hysterical, and even more so when the security system activated and it earned the people through out the whole facility.
Computer voice: "Explosion imminent. Please get to safe distance."
In the mess hall:
The boys had just finished hearing the security message. Wufei looked confused. "What the hell?"
Duo went over the computer and asked the security. "Where is the explosion going to some from?"
Computer voice: "Storage facility."
Quatre got a very worried look on his face. "Our Gundams, it must be them."
The boys started to run toward the storage.
In Gundam Storage:
The Gundam girls had gotten there. Relena already had connected to Polartic. Morgan was trying to find out if everyone had evacuated to a safe distance. "Valise, even though people are evacuating, they won’t get to the safe distance in time."
Valise turned to her with a frantic gaze. "I never expected this to happen."
The boys had arrived, they came up to valise and the girls unknowingly. Duo spotted Hilde first. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE HILDE?!"
Hilde didn’t suspect him behind her and she screamed and turned around, so did Relena who was next to her. Relena stared at Heero, who just stared back. "Uh oh."
Relena said something before any of them could. "I’ll explain later, right now I’m just trying to save all of our lives before we end up as fish food." Relena turned back to the computer and Hilde put some distance between her and Duo.
Computer voice:
"One minute, and fifteen seconds until self destruction."
Relena pounded her fist on the main consul. "GOD DAMN IT! He’s not listening to me, I have to get into the cockpit."
Misty came to her. "What are you going to do?"
Relena turned to Valise and looked at her for a moment, then to Polartic. She ran from behind the consul and onto the platform, she manually opened the cockpit and strapped herself into the pilots chair. Trowa asked no one in particular. "What is she doing?"
Computer voice: "45 seconds until self destruction, please get to a minimum safe distance."
Relena voice came onto the computer consul. "Valise I’ve only broken some security codes, I’m only half way there."
Valise talked back to her, but everyone was listening to the conversation. "What are you going to do?"
Relena looked around the cockpit, then thought for a second. "I know what I have to do."
The group on the ground watched as Polartic’s thrusters came on. Valise looked up at Polaric, she realized what Relena was doing and opened the hatch above it. "Good luck, my friend."
Relena half smiled. "I’ll need it."
Morgan stepped forward and asked Relena on the communicator. "Sage, where are you going?"
"There’s no use in having a hundred people get killed if this doesn’t work, it would be better if I was the only one. Just hope I can deactivate this thing."
Morgan turned melanchollie and whispered, "Oh Sage."
Misty looked toward the group of girls. "Which one of you activated the system?"
Mary cried hysterically, "I didn’t mean it, it was an accident."
Misty walked over to her and leaned down to whisper in her ear. "You had every intention of flying that gundam, that is not an accident. If Sage dies saving our lives you can be sure that you will also suffer her fate."
Misty walked back over to Valise, and waited. Everyone was waiting for the countdown to stop.
Computer voice: "20 seconds until self-destruction."
On the African plains:
Polartic had stopped far enough away, so the explosion if it happened to go off, would not hurt anyone. Relena had already connected her mind to Polartic and was trying to find the deactivation code.
Computer voice: "Fifteen seconds until self-destruction."
Relena tried harder. "Found it!" She typed in the code to the computer in the cockpit.
Computer voice: "Self-destruct system, deactivated."
Relena leaned back in her pilots chair and closed her eyes.
At the Gundam storage:
Everyone gave a sigh of relief, except for Heero, who had the same stone gaze before any of this started. Morgan spoke to Valise. "I knew she’d do it, I don’t know why everyone was so worried."
Misty turned to her. "You lie, I saw your eyes closed waiting to get blown to pieces."
Morgan gave her a look like she had punched her. "You wish, I had full confidence."
Trowa, Quatre, and Duo smiled at Morgan and Misty’s exchange. Wufei spoke to Valise. "The girl that started this panic should be punished."
Valise turned to look at Mary. "I know, I will find a punishment suitable for her."
Mary shrunk back into the group of girls. Everyone looked up, and saw Polartic come back into the storage. Valise turned to the group of girls. "You girls go back to your rooms, I will decide what to do with you later."
As Relena came down from Polartic, she saw the Gundam boys and the girls waiting for her. She thought to herself. "I should have self-destructed, it would have been an easier way out."
Duo already had pulled Hilde aside and was yelling at her. "What are you doing? I specifically remember telling you to stay home."
Hilde looked at him with a determined face. "I was trying to help."
Duo gave her a funny look. "You can’t help, you are going back home first thing tomorrow."
Hilde started to tear up as he was yelling at her. "You know Duo you can be such a jerk sometimes."
With that she ran off down the hall. Relena came down to face the Gundam boys. "Don’t yell at her Duo, it was my fault I asked to her to help me."
Quatre looked at Relena and got a confused look. "What’s…what’s wrong with your eyes?"
Relena gave him a funny look, then realized what he meant. "I’m sorry, it’s nothing, hold on. Polartic off line."
She closed her eyes as she said this then reopened them, her violet eyes replaced the white. Trowa asked her the question that was on everyone’s minds. "What are you doing here? And why are you flying a Gundam?"
Relena looked at the group not focusing on anyone, especially not Heero. Even though she could feel his eyes never leaving her face. "It’s a long story, and many things that I couldn’t change."
Heero looked at her for one more moment, then turned and walking away from the storage. Relena sighed heavily. Morgan walked up to her. "Let’s go Sage, I think Damon is waiting for you."
Duo gave Morgan a funny look. "Sage? Her name is Relena."
Misty walked toward them. "No, her name is Sage Mason. Right Sage?"
Relena didn’t answer her. Morgan looked hurt. "You lied to us. Why?"
Relena looked at Misty and Morgan. "It’s complicated, but does it matter, does it change who I am?"
Misty smiled. "No."
The Gundam girls walked out of the storage with Valise. The boys stood where they were. Wufei looked at Zero. "Where do you think Heero went?"
Duo half smiled. "I don’t know, but he looked mighty angry. I better go see Hilde." Duo and the guys walked back down the hall.
In Space:
The captain of the last cruiser pulled into place. He contacted the leader. "Sir, we are in position. All ships have reported in sir."
"Excellent, you will for orders."
"Yes Sir!"
The leader turned to the first in command.
"Make sure that Milliardo Peacecraft does not leave that meeting with the leaders of the peace colonies alive. Understood?"
The first in command nodded. "Yes sir, I have the best man going to do the job."
The leader stared at the first in command. "I will not tolerate failure."
"Don’t worry sir, he will die."
END OF PART 8