Jonathan looked questioningly at this honorable man sitting in
front of him, though zechs was a wreck at the moment he had the most dignified
look about him, as he always did, zechs's face was whiter than a sheet "I cant
believe that he could have made it out in space after that" Jonathan thought
about all that zechs had just said "Whoaaaaa now wait just a minute, ONE DEAD
MAN IS ENOUGH~~~~ you mean to tell me treize could still be alive?" zechs closed
his tired eyes, "Jonathan, right?" janathan gave a nod to the question, and
zechs continued "You said you wanted to help me right?" jonathan gave another
nod "Well do you think you could give me the recent readouts from the preventers
lists of activity for shipments of alloys whether titanium and gundanium or any
other mobile suit types of materials, give me the readouts on where the
shipments have been made and also the readouts on where the head of preventers,
lady une has been going when she makes trips to space, could you do this for
me,..... captain...jonathan?" Jonathan blinked and stared at zechs who's face
had changed dramatically jonathan felt an overwhelming swirl of emotion rise, 'I
cant believe this, its the old zechs that I know, he's really alive again, I
think it was the thought of trieze being as outwitting as he was that kept zechs
going.' jonathan soluted zechs in quite a formal fashion and a smile brimmed
across his face "Yes sir I can do this for you, where will I find you when I get
the information that you have required" he put his hand down when zechs face
went to an almost intent grin "I guess you do know me quite well, in fact you
remind me of a man that served under me once who was quite dear to me, mayby I
can trust you you will find me at the arms motel just come to room 19 I'll be
there tomorrow when you have the info. Now please do not follow me, I need to
tend to a few matters" Zechs got up and left the room, jonathan watched as the
man he looked up to left him sittingh there he imagined what he was back in the
days of the war "Father you would be proud, he accualy, I think remembers you. I
hope I can live up to your name!"
"Well I guess the rumors are true" the
young queen said while watching the large squad of security start serching the
grounds, they had reason to believe that a man impersenating zechs merquise was
trying to get into the sank kingdoms residence for the royal family. she was
sitting in her chair facing the window when the door silently opened behind her.
Without even turning she spoke up "Well I think this is the first real time
we've been in the same room together let alone peacefully and without others
there also, greetings milliardo,or is it zechs?" she turned to see the face of
her long wanted brother. she tryed to hide the emotion that she felt but she
still felt tears well in her eyes. Zechs who was strong when it came to hiding
emotion even had a softer look about him in this situation. He looked down with
a sneer "So you knew it was me, I quess you are truly my kin if you have such a
natual abuility to be able to tell the things going on around you. relena..."
his words drew out in his familiar eastern bit of an accent 'such a formality to
his voice' relena thought Zechs finaly said, "You may call me zechs, for
milliardo peacecraft is a name for a man that has destruction for his backing
and knows not the needs and beliefs of his sister, Zechs merquise knows the will
of the queen and wants nothing more than to see it acheived, but relena how
youve grown" Zechs got alittle emotional which wasnt like him at all. Mayby it
was the thought of himself fathering a child that has made him this way or being
alone with the only link to his past with the sank kingdom that brought it out,
but zechs accualy say down and looked at relena. Relena spoke up "Please, if you
dont mind me asking the way that you've been always hiding in the way that you
do leaves me open to ask you many questions, Why exactly did you come back
zechs? you cant tel;l me it was to strengthen family ties. and there isnt a war
right now, Is something wrong with the colonies that I dont know about or is it
noin, how is she, is that the problem." Zechs didnt quite know what to think, it
seamed that eveyone knew that he and noin had gone to space together, so they
emidiatly brought her name up "How did you know that was the problem," he could
sense the toone in her voice that she knew she had hit the nail on the heda she
answered him briefly "She was the only person you;'ve alowed to stay close to
you, and its not like you to alow that, without pulling away from them, or else
you'd have let me stay by your side also." zechs thought about her reply and
went to the window to look out upon the sank kingdoms village. "The kingdom has
really done great since youve been ruling over it, boy this sure does bring back
the memories" zechs stared out at the hills, as memories came flashing back,
some happy but they all seamed harsh to him he saw himself running through the
hills as a child and walking about in courtyards with his father and mother,
they were so dignified and he saw his baby sister who he was quite proud of, he
would hold her and take care of her, and how devestated he was when he had to be
separated from her in growing up 'Hmm I wish she knew that she wasnt alone, even
though I couldt be there to watch her grow up I thought of her always, and
wanted to protect her more than anything. "Relena do you you remember anything
about growing up here?" she was quite taken back by the question and stammered
when she answered him. "Welll, no,,, I guess....I really was to young, my
earliest memories were only with the darlins" zechs was quite sure that he had
already known the answer to the question "Yes...I see, I just waqs wondering if
you had rememberede anything, because, I do quite well in fact, I remember
taking care of you and all my lessons in the great hall and I remember seeing
father killed befor my very eyes and finding mother dead and hearibng your
cries, your scared wail, when the soldiers were questioning minister darlin, he
claimed that you were his child so as to save your life, but I was old enough
that everyone knew me quite well so he dared not claim me as to threaten your
existence, I wanted more than enything for you to live I was so worried when I
heard your cries, I ran frantically searching for you, but when I knew you were
safe that was only when I went back to try to save father and mother but thats
when I found mother was already gone and father was being pulled out by a group
of the soldiers. They tryed to make him get on his knees and beg for mercy but
even when he got down he refused to beg anything of the soldiers for they were
cold blooded murderers and he knew that as did all of the sank kingdom at that
time, and thats why they chose to put an end to the peace loving kingdom. I saw
them shoot father in cold blood right in front of my eyes. I screamed, the
soldiers came after me when they heard me I barely made it away, but with father
and mother lost I worried only of your saftey, my dear sister. I did not worry
for my sake, it was only by chance that after being passed from family to family
that I ended up in the hands of the nobilities, the Kushrenada's. triezes family
put me up and sent me to train as soon as I was old enough to be a soldier. thus
creating who I am today. through it all I knew you were safe untill your father
got in the way of OZ's plan and they decided to execute him I dont know where I
would be today if I had stayed by triezes side." Zechs looked up at relena who
had stood quietly through his whole speach. Relena's face was stained by the
tears which were streaming down it. "I do not normally cry in fact I havent
since the day father, minister darlin died, I never knew about the truthful past
that happened to myself and you and our parents, ohh, zechs I am so sorry"
Relena flung herself at her brother, who emidiatly wanted to back away, he
tensed up when she flung her crying arms about him, but knowing he was her only
comfort at the time he held her, "Dear sister I am sorry what I have put you
through, you are safe now" he held her tight as her tears soaked his shirt "and
I am sorry I could not be a true brother and be there when you need me but I
still must learn who I am befor I can really be there for anyone" He pulled her
away to face him "I do not know what I will do right now, because if I am
correct I think that trieze is still alive, and I have things to take care of I
came to earth to try to escape what I thought was pain, I was afraid to love and
now I find there is something that I can do for you and for the colonies and for
the earth, I must go befor your security finds me, but please stay safe relena,
my sister" Befor relena could say a word she watched as her brother silently
made his way out the door, she was left standing not knowing quite what to do,
"What is wrong with me I never get this emotional, and I hardly even know him,
Is it because he is my brother? Mayby subcontiosly I do remember him when I was
young and remember him holding me that I felt so comforted by him and so
safe.....Will I ever know" relena sat down in the chair hugging her shoulders
she closed her eyes and fell fast asleep.
"Well the morning isnt getting
any younger and neither am I" said noin, 'I cant believe that I could feel so
sorry for myself as I was this morning I'v got to try to keep focused on the
task at hand' "Hey sally did you bring a crew?" Sally grabbed a cup of coffey
from the machine she was standing in front of "Yea, not a big one though" "Well"
Noin said "You can bring them, the headquarters have been sending us
information, you've probably received it also, theyre worried about the unusual
activity of shipments of alloys and there seams to be a few too many fires we've
had to stop, that is except for the sector I'v been sent to take care of today,
everyone is trying to baby me, I swear," sally looked up from her cup, "Well
noin I cant believe this, you arent afraid of people helping you now are you? I
know your independant but common have you been around zechs too long?" she
laughed at the reaction that noin gave her "I will not be a laughing stock" noin
said playfully, "Boy this seams like old times" but befor noin could finish she
saw that sally was walking towards the corridoor "Hey sally what's up?" sally
turned with a smile on her face "Well you say it's like old times, but what
would it be without the gundam piolets?" sally pulled one of her tails forward
and toyed with it in her fingers "What do you mean sally?" noin asked of her.
"Meet my friend and comrad, he took your place when you took off with zechs into
space" Sally motioned to the figure coming towards them at that very moment
"Sally?" asked the voice "Are we going to be staying in this sector?" noin
strained, trying to see the figure in shadow 'I know that voice!' "Noin, meet
wufei!" exclaimed sally with a grin, and out strode a calm, young, yet confident
wufei. Noin denyed "No way, it cant be.....ohh my!!!.......so, we meet again
wufei!" Wufei's passive expression turned to somwhat of a scowl "Hello, woman"
he said then gave a chuckle befor shaking noins hand "How are you noin" a smile
brimmed across his face. "Phew.... I thought you still were the same as you used
to be and I was about to question sally on her choice of comrads!"noin gave
wufei a relieved nut happy smile. Sally looked at wufei then at noin "Well, next
time see how much better you can do when there was just a war and your right
hand man, or in this case woman, decides to take off with a guy into outer
space!!!~," wufei gave in and gave a chuckle befor accualy catching on to the
joke that sally had made. he then saw the two intent faces of noin and sally
looking at him waiting for his reaction "Hey, I resent that..... so anyway,
sally, back to the task at hand?~~~"sally handed him one of the folders she had
in her case "Yes wufei, we will be going on rounds with noin, then we will bring
in the new recruits ok?" Wufei gave a nod "Yea shall I prepare the ship for
rounds?" "No" sally replyed "We will be following Noins orders and will use her
ship" Noin watched the two as they went over theyre paper work and discussed
things that were happening with their own sectors, 'Hmm it seams surreal to see
a Gundam piolet working along with a former alience general, and gurrilla, let
alone wufei who had taken the lives of many of my former trainees at the
victoria base yet he seams to have been affected by the peaceful times, he
surely has changed, ohh zechs why cant you change too.' noin took a deep breath
in "Well lets go to gate 12 you can send for others if you wish and I'll get my
ship ready" just then one of the young officers came running up to noin he
soluted her and noin spoke to him "At ease, what is it private?" the young man
relaxed and let his arm down "Well the captain said that there was some activity
in the area you've been sent too which is sector3 am I right?" noin gave a nod
and he continued "Well the scanners picked up some form of flight merging in the
area, if our information is corect it accualy seams like some mobile suits are
gathering there!" noin stood in thought then spoke up "Well lets get on our way
sally!, thank you scyie, will you be joining us on this excersion?" the private
gave a little smile "Do you mean that noin? I know I've been meaning to welcome
you back all morning and I havent worked with you for a long time" noin gave a
passive smile meaning her OK to his tagging along "Thank you miss noin, I'll go
suit up now!" he soluted her again and hedaed quickly back the way he had come
"What was that all about" said a couriouse sally "Well" noin replyed "he was a
young soldier under my training in the past and I think he's taken a fancy to my
way of running things, he always enjoys tagging along on my missions plus he is
a great help though he is inexpirienced compared to you and I he is quite a good
preventer and he would have made a good mobile suit soldier, he gains more and
more expierience on each mission, so I humor him!" with that said wufei's face
told that he was getting anxiouse and sure enough he spoke up "Hey you guys if
were done reminecing and talking abouit young inexpierienced soldiers could we
get back to this mission, we might have someone out there trying to get
something started with mobile suits again if this data is correct," he held up
some paperwork he had been figuring on his hand held scanner "Then we have some
seriouse suit activity, boy theyre popping up like weeds latley" noin agreed
"Yea, and this is really something, for it to be happening in this area, this
sector is so close to the moon base that no rebels or enamy's have been brave
enought to try to pull anything right near a military base although not heavily
armed, the base still has its lasers and the main cannon, so your right wufei
lets get the ship ready and scyie will be right there to meet us soon" sally
turned to noin and wufei "And I just called a couple people from our crew to
join us"
"Alright, is everything in order?" noin asked her new crew
"Everybody's aboard?" everyone nodded "Ok then this is preventer air we are
ready for take off, request laser guidence from head room" noin heard a crackle
on the other end befor a man replied "Yes preventer air 19049 you are cleared
for the following sector, 3 laser guidence initiated now, goodluck preventer
noin" noin gave a small solute to the man in the overlooking room above the ship
"Alright guys we're off, our E.T.A. is about 20 minutes I suggest you get your
info correct and get the holding cells in order as well as the firing blocks, if
there is as many suits as predicted we'll have to use all of them" she walked
out of the room and went to a back compartment to get soime of the info that was
given her, but was stopped in her tracks with a shot of pain, 'no my work comes
first, dont think about it noin' but this time she was wrong it wanst here self
consiouse thinking about zechs, there was something wrong with the baby but she
didnt know it. she tryed to grit her teeth and deal with the pain but it only
stayed if not worsened, she slid her hand along the wall to brace herself as she
went to the loading compartment in search for the file. she had only just made
it into the room when she colapsed on the floor. tears came to her eyes for the
pain was unbearable "no~" she wimpered. just then someone else entered the
compartment 'No I dont want anyone to see me this way' she thought but it was
too late wufei already spotted her. He came running to her side and with such
concern he asked "Noin! are you all right?" he gently picked up her head, but
she couldnt answer him she only gritted her face in more pain, she tryed hard to
speak "It just..........Isss......" she was stopped by wufei he placed a finger
on her lips "Shh dont try to speak, I'll get you into a room to lie dow," He
picked her up carefully over huis shoulders, and noin felt herself slipp into
blackness. wufei set her in the room and called the others over "Sally come
quickly, comon guy's noin needs help" then he looked down at her "she's blacked
out" sally came over to her freinds side "What happened?" wufei grabbed a cloth
and rubbed it on noins head "I found her on the floor laying in pain I picked
her up and carried her hear and she blacked out I dont have a clue whats wrong"
sally felt of noins head and then said "ok guys can you leave us alone, she's
waking up, I'll take care of her, you all keep us informed of the happenenings
outside and KEEP track of those readouts they keep fluctuating, leave.." wufei
tryed to protest but saw that sally was concerned for noin and knew that she kne
more about noin than he so he left them......Sally Rubbed the cloth over noin's
head again as she began to come-to. "What were you thinking, you cant take off
alone again noin, your not exactly in the right shape for any missions" noin
almost groaned when sally finished "Right....and when was the last time I called
you mom huh..." she said grogily. "I'm ok, really...." she sat up and looked
around with foggy unclearing eyes. 'Everythings a blur' she grabbed her stomack
'You ok in there little one....you got it rough huh' she closed her eyes when
the room started to spin again "OK!!!!!" she shouted "Lets get a grip on
yourself.....you can make it through everything" she tryed to stand up but was
stopped by sally "Alright noin, now as I was saying.... you cant be goining off
alone like that and your not going to be doing anything but leading us with data
in this mission we'll do the hands-on work" sally got up to make her piont clear
and grabbed the mission key from noins belt loop "I'll hold onto this and I"LL
be the one to release the mobile suits IF theyre needed" noin sat without sayig
a word and nodded sitting feeling defeated 'When will I be able to keep up with
things again, let alone be able to find zechs again'
The morning sun was
shining in the brilliance of the summer breeze that complimented each other. The
lone figure walked in the first shining rays of it's glory. No one else was on
the streets at this time of the day except for the occasional muorning dove
which cryed out in its saddness for companionship. The man recalled the words
that had been told to him the day befor........"You remind me of a man I once
knew who was quite dear to me,,,,mayby I can trust you, you can find me at the
arms hotel, room 19"........ "Alright, be brave jonathan, this is your chance to
realy prove that he CAN trust you, this is it!" he stopped and looked up at the
sign which hung in front of the run down hotel 'Arms hotel' "this place was
quite a famouse place during the wars" he looked up at the sky which showed no
sign of clouding over, he took a deep breath in in a sigh. The gate whichled to
the door of th4e hotel was old and rusted. It squeeked, and almost made janathan
loose his breath for he was tryting to be quiet and make his way to the man he
loked up to in a respectiful way 'I want him to be proud of me like I would want
you to be father' he thought. Jonathan walked up to the door which led to
hallway and the room doors he looked up at the building and again at the sky
with almost a tear in his eyes 'I will live up to your name father, and I WILL
make Zechs Merquise proud of me!" he had made a fist in determination, to try to
get up the will again to aproach his role model.
The space station was
quite busy for a change with new tourists coming every day more and more with
the feeling of safety. Two girls stood alone on the sideline of the crowd "Even
though there are a lot of people here theres a sence of serenity and unusual
comfort and safety with it being a smaller area than on earth" the one girl
looked at the other who's mind was elswhere "Common jade quit swooning over the
guys working in this station and focus on our task at hand" jade looked up at
the girl who had spoken to her "Yea well for your information Kira I'm not
swooning I simply was watching them work. Anyway when did sally say that she'd
come by to pick us up huh?" Kira rolled her eyes sometimes her younger sister
annoyed her but she was quite understanding for someone younger than herself.
"Dont you remember......sally said to find the base here on the colony and wait
for her there. they know were coming" Kira looked up at the signs hung on the
wall of the station 'welcome to colony L3' "Well were here arentv we jade, mayby
we'll have a future after all" jade looked up at kira 'Ohh kira, we are who we
are, you dont need to keep trying to be someone your not' she thought of the way
that kira always was trying to be a soldier to try to cover up for theyre past
'sure we were orphans......but we grew up and we're our own person now' she
shook her thoughts "Well I cant wait to meet noin, that is who she said would be
training us right? I'v heard alot about luitenant Lucretzia Noin she sounds like
a good person" Kira nodded and pointed at the car sitting in front of the
station "Lets catch a ride to the headquarters here, do you have all the
documents that sally requested?" jade nodded "How come we werent supposed to
come in uniform?" kira was picking at the edge of one of the folders she carried
"Because we had to come by public transport and they dont want anybody worriyng
about another war by seeing all sorts of soldiers and preventers walking about
in uniforn, it makes the public uneasy you understand" "Yup!" the cheerful girl
replied "Lets go!" she headed quickly out the door with her sister close
behind.
