Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam wing, or its characters. I do own all original characters though.
Note: Once again just some minor tweaks and a few more lines of dialogue. Also I’ve noticed that in the past chapters, whenever I go to a flashback, I always say flashback and end it with end flashback. I find this distracting, so from now on whenever I’m writing a flashback scene it will be in italics in between this symbol: ~
Three days later
Preventer’s HQ (Tokyo Japan)
Heero stormed into the briefing room where he saw Duo, Wu-Fei, Trowa, Quatre, and Sally all waiting for him.
“All right, what the hell is going on?” demanded Heero.
Wu-Fei looked at him grimly, “Well the video is authentic and it was made recently, this can only mean one thing, Kale Young is still alive.”
Duo slammed his fist onto the table, “BUT HOW DAMN IT, WE SAW HIM DIE!”
Wu-Fei took a deep breath, “Apparently he left in an escape pod before Zechs crashed into the ship.”
“Then why didn’t we pick it up on radar?” asked Quatre.
“Quatre, we were all focus on Zechs, we didn’t even notice it,” said Trowa.
“We also have to keep in mind that all of our Gundams were disabled in one way or another. In the condition we were in it would have been impossible to pick him up,” said Wu-Fei.
There was a moment of silence between everyone as they thought of that day. Heero lowered his head slightly and closed his eyes.
~“Heero… farewell my brother.”
A moment later Heero watched as Tallgeese slammed into the ship and erupted into a fiery explosion.
“ZECHS!”~
“Hey Heero, are you okay?” asked Sally.
Heero’s eyes snapped open, he looked up at the others, “I’m fine, so what else do you know?”
Sally stepped forward, “Well right now Kale being alive is the least of our worries. From the other videos we’ve seen he’s managed to get a massive army of mobile dolls together. And today we found out that he is currently holding over 100 Men, women, and children hostage.”
Duo’s eyes opened wide, “My god… how did he get that many hostages?”
Sally frowned, “About a week ago two civilian shuttles went missing. Nobody had any idea what happened until Kale reappeared, he sent us a video showing us his men hijacking both flights.”
“This is bad, who knows what Kale is doing to those people,” said Heero.
“I know, another problem is that we can’t tell the exact size of this army. From the videos we’ve received we know it’s large, but we don’t know how big it is. For all we know it could be in the thousands” said Wu-Fei.
Trowa looked at Wu-Fei and Sally, “So what do the Preventer’s plan to do about this?”
“Well the most obvious choice would be to find his base and annihilate it, but that poses a problem in itself. We have no idea where it is. All we know is that it isn’t on earth.”
Duo shook his head, “If it’s not on earth, than how could have Kale raised such an army?”
Wu-Fei sighed and lowered his head, “I don’t know, we’ve been sending out probes and scanning all the areas of space that we can, but who knows what that will find.”
“Suppose we do find it, then what? Where do we fit in with all of this?” asked Quatre.
Wu-Fei looked at the others, “Guy’s I know we all gave up fighting, but I feel now would be a good time to come out of retirement. We need to protect the peace, and avenge are fallen comrades… especially Zechs. You all know the risk, if you don’t want to do this than speak now.”
The other’s looked at each other, this time there was no hesitation.
“We’re in,” said everyone in unison.
Wu-Fei smiled, “Alright then first things first, Duo, are the Gundams 100% complete and ready for battle?”
“They haven’t been battle tested, but yeah, they’re ready,” replied Duo.
Wu-Fei nodded, “That’s good, now the only problem is that were all obviously a little rusty. However we do have a VR training facility on L-2. We can train in that until we become comfortable enough to do some hands on training.”
“That works for me, it shouldn’t take to long though, we’ve only been doing this our entire lives,” said Heero with a smile.
The others grinned in amusement, Sally stepped forward, “Well now that we got everything squared away, we need to concentrate on getting you and your loved ones out of here to colony L-2.”
“Speaking of loved ones, do they know about this yet?” asked Trowa.
The others nodded except for Quatre, they all looked at him.
“You mean to tell us that you didn’t tell Noin?” asked Duo.
Quatre lowered his head, “No… I was going to tell her, but she’s been ill, I didn’t want to tell her in her present state.”
“She still needs to know though; I think you should tell her when you get back,” said Heero.
Quatre nodded, “Yeah your right, but I am worried about how well she’ll take the news, this won’t be easy for her to hear.”
Sally placed a hand on his shoulder, “Don’t worry Quatre, as long as your there for her every step of the way, I’m sure she can make it through this.”
Just then the door opened and a man walked in. He was about as tall as Trowa but looked like he was in his late 40’s early 50’s. He was wearing what appeared to be a Generals suit with a sword at his side. 2 men in army fatigues with assault rifles accompanied him.
“May we help you?“ said Duo.
He looked around the room, “I’m looking for Wu-Fei Chang.”
Wu-Fei stepped forward, “I’m him, who are you?”
The man bowed slightly, “I am General Zen leader of the United Military Specialists.”
“It’s a pleasure General Zen, Is the UMS going to assist us in our operation?” asked Sally.
“Not quite, I’m here to tell you that this operation is now under UMS control.”
Wu-Fei shook his head, “Now listen, you can’t just come in here and take control, I’m in charge. Besides, the Preventer’s can handle this.”
The general sneered, “Oh we saw how well you handled Kale the last time. It was a complete disaster; over 300 Preventer’s dead including the best warrior in our history. So yes, this operation is now under UMS control. Besides we have the approval of the ESUN Council.”
“Does Miss Une approve of this?” asked Sally.
Zen smirked, “We don’t need her approval, the vote was nearly unanimous.”
He handed Wu-Fei a document, Wu-Fei looked at it and sighed, “If this is what the Council has decided, then I have no choice but to step down. But may I ask, where do we fit in this?”
Zen cleared his throat, “You and Sally shall remain on to assist the UMS. However the Gundam pilots shall go back to there homes, they will not be needed.”
Heero gritted his teeth, “Wait a minute, we’ve fought Kale before, we know his tactics, we can help you!”
Zen scoffed at him, “I highly doubt that, you and your comrades are too emotional, your past history with Kale will only interfere with the mission," He turned his back on the pilots, “This discussion is over.”
He walked out of the room leaving the group shocked.
Wu-Fei briefly looked at the document and slammed it down, “God Damn It!” He then closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
“So what do we do now?” asked Duo.
Wu-Fei looked at them somberly, “We do nothing… all of you can go home. I’m sorry guys, I wish there was something I could do.”
End Ch-1