DxH Addiction

DxH Addiction Soul Anew
by Raven
Disclaimer: These gundam characters are not mine and I have no rights to them only to my characters which are to many to name.
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Chapter One

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."

Chapter Two

(2 Years later………)

At the Gundam Hanger Somewhere in the Forest:

The Gundam pilots are all in the main corridor. Duo walked to the window of the room. "Man, I wish we would see some action around here, we've been sitting around waiting for the CWD's to strike when we should be going out to find THEM!!" Wufei took a break from doing Tai-Chi and turned to Duo.

"You sound like a woman, would you stop complaining." Duo turned to him angrily.

"Hey you better watch it Wufei, the God of Death does not appreciate being insulted." Wufei took a threatening step forward. Duo and Wufei were inches from each other, but Quatre stepped between them.

"Guys, we must save our strength for the enemy on not use it on each other."

Trowa looked up from the book he was reading. "Quatre's got a point." Duo and Wufei stared at each other for a moment, then Duo broke into a grin.

"Hey Wufei, no hard feeling's huh?"

"Humph…" Wufei walked away from Duo and started his Tai-Chi again.

The professor's walked into the room. "It's time to train in battle sequences again. Meet us in the storage facility so we can get your Gundams out into the field." Heero was the first to leave, followed by the others, Duo last.

"All we do is train and practice, I wish we could put are talents to good use."

In Hell's Prison:

Relena, Maci, Adrian, Misty, and a new girl named Morgan were sitting outside in the enclosed space with the other inmates, who were walking around but mostly getting as far away from the prison walls as possible. Relena was staring at the guards when Adrian noticed her not joining in the conversation. "Hey, Sage what's wrong?"

"Everything's wrong, but I am going to make it right?" Maci stared at Relena with a funny look.

"What in the hell are you talking about?" Relena looked at the group.

"Did you notice that when we go back inside that all the guards that are on duty in our sector are out here in the open with us?" Morgan sat up straighter.

"What are you getting at?" We could kill all of them and make a run for it. Misty stood up.

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, hold on a minute Joan of Arc, even if we do there is an automatic alarm system that activates when none of the guards check in." Relena stood up with a determined face.

"Misty, you're a computer hacker right? You can deactivate the systems, and Maci, Adrian, and I can hold of any other guards we come across……" Relena walked in front of the group. "…… and Morgan you are a pilot, when we get to a ship you can fly us out of here." Misty shook her head.

"Sage this is such a big risk, this happens if, I mean if, I can get past their computer defenses, and if something happens to me, Sage you're the only one besides me that can do it."

"Misty you taught me what you know, in theory. I'll make sure nothing happens to you, because I might make a mistake." Adrian looked at every face then turned to Relena.

"Let's do it." Relena smiled at the group.

"Thank you, let's plan it for tomorrow." The siren went off to let the girl's know it was time to go back in.

The next day in Hell's Prison:

The group were outside and finalized their plan. The siren went off and all the guards started to gather up the prisoner's. Relena stared at the group. "Here goes nothing." Morgan started to shake.

"Wait! They have guns, what if we get killed?" Adrian took Morgans hand.

"Morgan getting killed is worth our freedom, to do nothing because your scared is no way to live. I am tired of being tortured and abused, if I go down, I'm going down fighting, it's the honorable way to go…" Morgan wiped her teary eye's.

"You're right, let's get out of this place."

Adrian smiled and turned to Relena and Maci. "Hey guys, Let's go pick a fight." The twelve guards on duty came to the group, since everyone else was in their cells.

"Get walking if you don't want to bleed." Relena turned to the guards and gave them a beautiful smile.

"I think that we are not the ones who are going to bleed." Without the guards knowing Maci and Adrian went off to the side as all the guards were focusing on Relena. Relena looked at each guard. "The first rule of fighting you guys have already failed." A guard looked at her and laughed.

"What rule have we failed?" The smile disappeared from Relena's face.

"Never lose sight of your enemy." The guard stopped laughing and got a confused look, just then Maci and Adrian attacked them from behind, and Relena went after the surprised guard. All the girls got into the attack. In the past two or so years, Relena got to be the best fighter, she had even beat Maci many times. Maci delivered a strong blow to a guard and he went down unconscious, Adrian got a guard from behind and broke his neck. Relena got caught in a bear huge by a huge guard, she got out of it by head butting him in the face and grabbed a knife from his belt while he was still dizzy and cut his throat. Pretty soon all the guards were either dead or unconscious. Relena and the girls were covered in blood either from the guards or their injuries. Misty grabbed the guards keys and all the girls followed pursuit to the prison, when they got inside Misty locked the door to the outside. They ran down the hall to the guards station, all the while the girls in their cells were screaming at them to let them free. Misty looked at the computer.

"DAMN!! I only have three minutes to break the code before the alarm goes off." Relena stood beside Misty.

"Do your thing Misty, and hurry."

"Okay, Okay, Okay here goes nothing." Misty started to type in sequences to break the code. Morgan looked down the hall the other parts of the building nervously.

"Hurry up Misty!" Misty never broke her eyes from the screen.

"I already have enough pressure right now thank you." The screen read 30 seconds left. Adrian pulled out a gun she got from the guard.

"Tick, tick Misty." Sweat broke out on Misty's brow.

"Okay, ……I got it, I broke it, the sequence stopped." Relena smiled.

"Great, now look for map of this place and find an exit."

"Got one, Oh No!" Maci came over.

"What now?" Misty leaned back.

"To get out we have to pass the main chamber." Relena closed her eyes.

"You mean the one with the Captain."

"Yup!" Morgan slapped the wall.

"Great! Just great! What are going to do know? We can't go back, all of us will die!" Relena studied the screen and looked up."I don't know about you guys but I'm going. If I get killed, I'll have to face that, but I can't make you guys go. I don't want to be responsible for any of you dying." The girls looked deep in thought. Adrian spoke up.

"I'm going." All the girls agreed. They unlocked the door to the hallway, Maci, Adrian, and Relena went first since they were armed and the best fighters. The group took cover a couple of guards passed by. As they passed where the captain and his guards were Adrian stopped for a second and looked at the room. Relena looked back at Adrian.

"Come on Adrian!! We don't have much time."

"Coming!" Misty stopped the group.

"We need to go through the air vent above us the rest of the way, it should take us to were they keep the planes." One by one the girls go into the air vent and start to crawl to the airplane zone. About half way Adrian stopped. Relena looked behind her past Maci to Adrian.

"Adrian, what are you doing?" Adrian looked at Relena with a sad look.

"I'm sorry Sage there is something I must do, or I can't face myself." Adrian turned back and crawled away.

"ADRIAN! Come back! " Maci looked at Relena.

" I'll go after her, just get to the airplane we'll meet you in 20 minutes, if we are not there, leave without us. Got it?" Relena looked frightened.

"NO! NO! I won't leave you guys."

Maci shook her to stop Relena's rants. "Sage! Stop it you still have other people to get out of here." Relena looked at Maci.

"You're right."

"See ya soon!" Maci went back as Relena told the group to move on. Adrian eased out of the air vent and jumped to the ground softly. She looked around for guards, seeing none she went to the room where the Captain is and pulled out her gun. She walked up to his chair and started to look around the huge room. Adrian went behind some columns and as she turned a corner, she heard movement behind her. She quickly turned and came face to face with the barrel of a gun.

"I should have known you would come from behind, you would never face your enemy honorably."

"That really hurts, but it doesn't matter because you are going to die." Maci ran into the room where Adrian and the Captain were. Adrian accidentally took her eyes of the Captain and looked at Maci, it was too late. The Captain fired and Adrian fell to the ground. Maci came running toward the captain.

"NOOOO!!" Maci slid feet first to the Captain and kicked the gun out of his hand and tripped him. The Captain fell to the ground knocked out. Maci ran to Adrian who was bleeding badly.

"Maci, I can't believe this what a way to go." Maci looked at Adrian and helped her up. With Maci supporting her they quickly made their exit. The guards heard the fight from down the hall and were coming to the Captain's aid.

"You're going to be alright Adrian." Adrian looked at Maci and smiled sadly.

"Liar." The two didn't even bother going through the air vent since the guards were probably at the room where the Captain was.

"Maci we don't have much time they will be looking for us."

"We're almost there." Maci and Adrian reached where the airplane was. Misty looked out of the small plane.

"Oh my god! Sage! I think Adrian's in trouble." Relena ran the open door and down the stairs to help with Adrian.

"What happened Maci?!"

"She tried to kill the Captain but he got her instead." Relena and Maci were helping Adrian to the ship when a couple of guards found them and started to shoot. Maci looked at Sage.

"Sage get Adrian to the plane."

"Wait!, Maci where are you going."

"I going to stop them, just get out of here!"

"You'll be killed!!" Maci half smiled and thoughtfully looked to the guards, then turned back to Relena.

"I know, promise me that whatever you do, remember me and defeat the enemy. Now Go!!!" Relena started to tear up.

"I will avenge your death Maci." Relena got Adrian to the ship and closed the hatch. She helped Adrian lay down and walked to where Morgan was.

"Get out of here!" Morgan looked up surprised.

"We're leaving Maci?"

"Yes! Now Go!" Morgan started to lift off and as they flew away Relena stared at Maci still holding the guards. Maci looked at the planes retreating form.

"Good-Bye my friends." Relena looked at Maci one more time.

"Good-Bye Maci."

One hour later:

Adrian looked at Relena, who was trying to stop the bleeding coming from Adrian's stomach. "Sage, I going to die."

"Stop talking like that, your going to live!" Relena kept dressing the wound but Adrian's hand stopped her. Relena looked up with quiet tears running down her face. "Please you can't die, I can't lose you and Maci."

"I'm sorry Sage, I want you to grant me a request." Relena stared at Adrian.

"I'll do anything."

"Go to Africa to a village called Gana and find a woman named Valise Moore. She is the one who trained me, she built one of the Gundam's for me to operate, but I'm going to die so I want you to pilot it for me." Relena shook her head.

"I don't know how to pilot, I won't be of much use."

"She will teach you, please if I can't pilot then you are the only one I want to fly it. Please?"

"I will." Adrian smiled.

"Thank you. Good-Bye friend." Adrian closed her eyes, and Relena laid her head on her shoulder and cried. Twenty minutes later Relena made her way to the front of the plane. Morgan and Misty looked at Relena's tear streaked face and they knew. Morgan turned back to the windshield.

"Where to boss?" Relena straight ahead at nothing. Misty waved her hand in front of Relena.

"Hello? Where to Sage?" Relena broke from her trance and looked to Morgan.

"Africa, to a village called Gana."

Chapter Three

On a training field:

"Ease up Heero, this is not a real fight. Damn!"

Duo struggled to get his new Deathscyth off the ground after new and improved Wing Zero had punched him unsuspectingly. Wing Zero backed off.

"You should always be alert Duo, if this was a real battle you would have been dead."

Duo rolled his eyes.

"Gee, thanks for the pointer. I needed to remember how a battle works."

Heero narrowed his and said nothing. By that time the others had started attacking each other. Wing Zero flew toward SandRock and took out his saber, while the Deathscyth and the Heavy Arms were busy fending off the Shen Long.

At the Gundam's Hanger:

The professors were taking statistics on the Gundam performance.

"They are doing remarkably well for having been retired from piloting the Gundam's for a couple years."

"Yes, they are...............I still wish that Moore could of helped."

Professor J turned to professor S.

"Don't mention that name again, even though Moore helped with the enginnering and design of the past Gundams, that person left us at the first sign of war."

The professor's turned back to watching the Gundams.

At Duo's Junkyard:

Hilde sat on the sofa watching the news on T.V. She turned to look at a picture of Duo and her, the picture was taken after they had washed a car. Duo had just dumped a bucket of soapy water on Hilde by surprise. Hilde found herself smiling at the memory, but her smile quickly turned to a frown when she remebered the argument they had before he left to start retraining.

Flash back:

"Duo! I don't understand why you have to go now!"

"Will you leave it alone Hilde, the CWD organization can come at any moment and I have to be ready."

Duo started packing some clothes from his room all the while Hilde was trying to convince him to stay.

"Fine! I'm going with you, if the professor's can rebuild your gundam they can build one for me and I can help fight!"

Hilde walked to her room not giving Duo a chance to say anything. She started packing her things when Duo threw her bag back into the closet. Duo grabbed her by the arm and made her sit down in a chair and pointed his finger at her.

"Now you listen to me! Your going to do as I say, because it's for your own saftey. I don't want to be responsible for your death, your going to stay her like a good girl and not get involved. Understand?"

Hilde said nothing and did nothing but stare at him. Duo became angry.

"UNDERSTAND?!"

Hilde flinched at the power of his voice. She spoke in a weak voice.

"Yes."

Hilde looked away so he couldn't see her tears. Duo stormed out the door, grabbing his bag on the way out. Hilde looked at the door.

"I'm sorry Duo."

Present Time:

Hilde stood up and walked to the photo and touched it with the tips of her fingers. She thought that if she lost him, she would regret not telling him that she loved him, but instead the last words they said to each other were words of anger.

"Duo, what am I going to do with you?"

Africa somewhere near Gana:

Relena stood by the side of the plane.

"Can you fix it?"

Misty looked up from the engine of the plane, she signed.

"Not without a new fuel line, it's busted."

Relena looked away towards the forest.

"Great."

Morgan looks up from a map.

"Okay, since Gana is not on this map, probably because it's a small village, and we landed going in the direction that the plane was taking us in so............"

Morgan walked toward Relena and Misty twisting the map this way at that. She looked up and pointed toward a dense part of the forest.

"...........it should be that way, about a couple hours walk."

Relena looked at the girls.

"There is something we have to do first."

Relena walked to the plane and came back carring Adrian's body. Relena looked at the girls.

"You guys, go find some firewood okay?"

Misty looked at Adrian and closed her eyes.

"Okay."

About twenty minutes later they gathered enough wood, and Relena layed Adrian's body on a flate section of the wood. Misty and Morgan stood behind Relena as she lit a match.

"Good-bye Adrian, I hope you've found your freedom."

With that Relena threw the match into the fire and watched it set ablaze. She looked for a moment then turned away.

"Let's go."

Misty stopped walking and looked back to the fire, she stood for a moment then smiled sadly.

3 hours (about 8:00 pm) later in Gana:

"Man, what a dump."

Morgan said as she watched some drunken people get into a fight. The village looked like a town that never excelled with the rest of the world in technology. It was very primative. Relena payed no attention to the calls and whistles as the three pretty girls passed a group of men. Misty looked around.

"You know Sage, I find it hard to find any intelligent life around here. Let alone a Gundam engineer."

Relena stopped walking.

"There, straight ahead we'll ask if they know anybody named Valise Moore."

Misty and Morgan looked to where Relena indicated, it was a bar. Morgan slowly turned to look at Relena.

"Your joking right? Sage, I think you need to get your head checked."

Morgan pointed to the bar.

"The bar, you want us to go into a bar, where most of those drunken idoits are coming from."

Relena looked at Morgan with a small smile.

"You scared Morgan?"

Morgan looked serious.

"Yeah, a little."

Relena laughed and started walking. Misty touched Morgan's arm.

"Don't worry I'll protect you Morgan."

Morgan smacked Misty's hand away.

"Oh shut up!"

Misty followed Relena laughing. The girls entered the bar and found it mostly occupied with men that looked like they needed a couple of baths each. Relena went to the bar and asked the bartender.

"Do you know a person named Valise Moore?"

The bartender didn't even look up to answer her.

"Nope, no one by that name here."

Misty muttered under her breath.

"People are so cooperative here."

Relena started to get angry.

"Think harder."

This time the bartender looked at her.

"I said there is no one by that name here."

Morgan looked at Relena.

"Let's go Sage, even if they knew, they're not talking."

A figure in the corner stared unnoticed at the girls. As the girls were passing a table on the way outone of the men at the table put his foot up so Relena couldn't pass. Relena looked up to the ceiling.

"Come on, not now."

The man smiled at her.

"Where are you pretty little things going? Why don't you sit down and we can talk. What do ya say?"

Relena looked at his dirty face.

"What do you say I slap you around for a while?"

The man got up.

"No need to get angry, I was just being friendly."

Misty and Morgan tried to intervene only to be blocked by the guys friends. Relena looked to the man.

"I don't need any friends, most of all not one like you."

She tried to walk past him but he grabbed her arm.

"You're gonna sit with us one way or the other."

Relena looked at the arm that was holding her then she looked at his face.

"I strongly suggest you let go of my arm, unless you want something bad to happen."

"What is a little thing like you gonna do?"

Misty and Morgan looked at each other and they both said at the same time.

"Uh oh."

In the next moment they say the guy fly across half of the room, Misty and Morgan took this advantage while the man's friends stood dumbfounded and quickly punched them hard enough that they doubled over. The figure in the corner that watched the whole exchange started to laugh and followed the girls out. Relena was slightly limping.

"Sage are you okay?"

"Yeah, I just underestimated the guys weight, it felt like I slammed foot into a Mobile suit."

Misty laughed at this, they were half way down the road when the cloaked figure caught up with them.

"Excuse me, I saw your little display at the bar"

The girls turned to the person in the cloak and Morgan spoke up.

"Look we're not looking for trouble."

The person shook her head.

"No you have me pinned wrong."

Misty looked aggravated.

"I don't mean to be rude but we really have to get going."

The girls turned to start walking down the road when the cloaked figure stopped them.

"I'm just curious."

Relena turned to look at the figure.

"Curious about what?"

The figure took her hood off and revealed a woman about the age of 55. She was not ugly or beautiful either, but she had a strong character about her.

"I was curious why you were looking for me."

At The Gundam base:

Duo was sitting on the bed in his room, listening to music. He looked at a picture of Hilde and him on a dresser in his room, which was on top of one the few pieces of furniture that the pilots had in their room. He was interupted by a knock at his door.

"Come in!"

The door opened and Quatre stepped in.

"Hello Duo."

"Hey......can I help you with something Quatre?"

"Just wanted to say hi, I noticed that you've been on the edge lately."

Duo laughed.

"Just me?"

Quatre smiled.

"It's just that you are always joking around and you have been so irritable lately."

Duo looked at Quatre tiredly.

"I'm sorry I'm not all laughter and fun lately."

Quatre shook his head sadly, and spotted the picture of Hilde and him.

"You miss her don't you?"

Duo didn't even bother looking at Quatre.

"Yeah."

"Don't worry Duo you'll see her again."

Quatre walked out of Duo's room. Duo looked at the door as it closed.

"I hope you're right Quatre."

Africa, in Gana:

The girls and Valise were sitting by a dock far away from the rowdy crowd in the town.

"How do you know me?"

Misty and Morgan kept quiet so Relena could tell her, they thought that she should be the one to do it.

"I met a girl in prison, she was my cell mate after I got captured. We became friends and told me everything about herself, because she thought that she would never be free of the place. Her name was Adrian and the prison we were at was called the CWD Hell Prison."

Valise did not even flinch when Relena told her this.

"How do I know your telling the truth and that you meet her in this prison."

Relena looked at Valise for a second then got up, she took off her coat, turned her back to Valise and lifted the back of her shirt to reveal the many scars of the whips and anything else the guards had used."

Valise looked at her back then looked away.

"Okay so you're not lying about the prison part. What did Adrian tell you?"

Relena put her coat back on and sat back down, and told Valise about the Gundams that Adrian told her about how she tried to blow up the CWD base.

"Adrian taught me everything I know now, and another friend named Maci."

Valise put on a confused look.

"What happened to Adrian?"

Valise could see the tears in Relena's eyes as she turned to her.

"I couldn't save her."

Valise's face softened. Relena felt that she might not be able hold her composure much longer, she looked toward the water and took a deep breath.

"There's something else."

Valise leaned back.

"What's that?"

"Adrian wanted me to do something for her, her last request. She wanted me to fly her Gundam."

"Hold on a minute. Are you a pilot?"

"No, and I probably wouldn't know which end was up."

Valise got up from the bench.

"I thank you for coming here to tell me about Adrian, and it's very noble of you to follow Adrian's request. You have to understand that Adrian went through a lot of training to even qualify to fly one of my gundams, their more advanced then the Gundams you have ever seen and the pilot has to go through some things that can be dangerous."

Relena stood up next to Valise.

"And I appreciate Valise that you hold your Gundams to a high standard, but I am going to fly Adrian's Gundam even if I have to follow you to the ends of the earth. You won't get rid of me, I'm a fast learner and you are going to teach me to fly it."

Valise studied Relena for a moment.

"What did you say your name was?"

"Sage Mason."

Valise gave off a big smile.

"Adrian taught you well."

She offered her hand and Sage shook it. Valise looked behind her to Misty and Morgan.

"What about your friends?"

Relena tilted her head at her friends then looked at Valise.

"Say......I remember Adrian telling me that you have three gundams right?"

Valise shook her head.

"Be thankful I'm letting you join, your friends will have to go."

Misty and Morgan looked at each other then at Relena.

"They have to come, there is no where else they can go and where can you find Gundam pilots for the other two. Morgan and Misty do well under pressure and they have been in a prison where you have to fight to stay alive, so they aren't liable to give up. Now can you say that for the people that you think are qualified to fly the Gundams, there is more that reflects in battles than good piloting skills, if those people come across a situation where they have to use survival skills instead of piloting skills, I bet you that their strategic plan will go to total shit. All you have to teach us is to fly. "

Valise looked impressed, and even Misty and Morgan looked impressed.

"You bring up good points."

Valise looked at Misty and Morgan.

"Welcome to the team, follow me."

As Valise lead the way, Misty leaned close to Relena.

"Wh...whe...where did you learn to speak like that?"

Relena looked at Misty with a funny look.

"It's a long story."

Morgan shook her head, and said to no one in paticular.

"Yeah I bet it is. Hell, I though me and Misty were going to have to get really good at saying 'Say mister, could you spare some change?' I'm glad it turned out this way."

At the Gundam base:

Heero was sleeping when a feeling woke him. He sat up and looked out the window in his room at the sky.

"Relena."

Somewhere in Africa:

The group was walking in the forest, everyone keeping company with their own thoughts. Relena slowed down, and Misty was the first to notice that Relena had stopped and saw her looking to the sky. Relena closed her eyes.

"Heero."

Misty walked to where Relena was standing.

"Are you okay Sage, is something wrong?"

"No, nothing is wrong. Do you ever get that feeling that at one moment you feel the need to look at the sky and that you feel somewhere, someone far away is looking up at the same exact time you are?"

Misty looked at Relena with a blank look.

"No, not really."

Relena smiled sadly at Misty and started walking again.

"Come on Misty we have some Gundams to meet."

Chapter Four

In Africa:

The girls and Valise were walking toward an open clearing. Misty jogged up to where Valise was.

"I don’t mean to be the pain in the ass, but how much longer? We’ve been walking for three hours?"

Valise gave Misty a look that revealed nothing.

"Soon."

Misty stopped walking so Morgan and Relena caught up with her and she turned to them.

"She said that one and a half hours ago."

Relena spoke to Misty.

"Patience Misty, pass the time thinking about battle strategies and most of all how we can crush the CWD’s."

"Personally, I don’t want to think about war, because I’ll start thinking about dying, and I don’t want to think about dying."

Relena just shook her head and kept walking. Morgan walked next to Misty, and looked at her with a serious face.

"You know you could trip on a rock and die tomorrow."

"Thanks, that makes me feel a whole lot better about going into war."

Morgan smiled.

"You're welcome."

As Morgan and Misty were bickering, Valise and Relena were quietly walking next to each other.

"Do those ever stop fighting?"

Valise caught Relena off guard, since her thoughts where elsewhere.

"I’m sorry, what?"

Valise kept looking straight ahead.

"You must be thinking about something important…or someone?"

Relena turned her head quickly to look at Valise when she said this statement.

"Ah, looks like I hit the target."

Relena laughed nervously and turned back to looking at the sunrise.

"What’s his name?"

Relena remained stubbornly silent for a few minutes until she realized that Valise was probably not going to let up.

"Heero."

Valise smiled at Relena.

"Do mind me asking why he’s not with you?"

Relena turned away because she felt tears threatening to spill on to her cheeks. She looked at Valise and spoke in a shaky voice.

"He……he didn’t want me."

Valise looked surprised and smiled sadly.

"I sure it was for the better, my dear."

Relena smiled.

"I’m sure it was."

Valise turned back to Morgan and Misty.

"You guys can stop your complaining now, we’re here."

At the CWD base:

The captain of the prison base was talking to the leader of the organization.

"I'm sorry sir, it looks like three prisoners escaped."

The leader was a handsome man, at the comment he waved his hand.

"No matter, I want you to organize an attack in one week. I want you to attack a meeting that the New Kingdom is conducting on colony L1. Milliardo Peacecraft’s right hand man or should I say woman is going there, to help the colony slowly get back under control. I want you to let them know we’re here. Send out the Mobil suits from the old war, I don’t want them to see our new ones yet, we must give the impression that we are under equipped. Oh, and kill the woman. Her name is Noin."

The Captain looked to the floor than back up at the monitor.

"Sir, are you asking me to send some men on a suicide mission? You know the Gundams might show up."

The leader thought for a moment.

"I would say that it would be a suicide mission after they killed Noin. As for the Gundams, we’ll deal with them when they come. Why do you think I’m sending out the old suits instead of the new ones? It will be nice to know what we are up against. Do you understand?"

"Yes sir, I‘ll get them ready in exactly one week."

"Excellent."

The leader cut the transmission, and the captain sighed heavily.

In Africa:

Misty, Morgan, and Relena all had their jaws dropped open. They were looking at a quite small house. Morgan recovered first.

"I’m sorry, is that where you keep the Gundams?"

Valise looked at her like she was stupid.

" Yes, where else would I keep them? "

Misty looked at Relena.

"I think we got a loony toon on our hands."

Relena looked slightly irritated.

"Hold on, I think there is something else."

Meanwhile Morgan was talking to Valise.

"I don’t understand, aren’t Gundams……oh, I don’t know……like THREE HUNDRED FEET TALL."

Valise gave Morgan a smile.

"Morgan…looks can be deceiving."

With that she opened the house and they walked inside. Valise lead the way to a bedroom. The girls followed, and Valise walked over to statue she had on a dresser and twisted the body, she then went to the closet and walked inside all the way to the back, she placed her hand on the back wall of the closet. The closet wall opened and revealed an elevating platform. The girls were dumbfounded again. Valise walked onto the platform.

"Come on, you want to see them don’t you?"

One by one the girls climbed on and with a jerk the platform went down. As they went the closet closed and light exploded around them, when their eyes adjusted they saw the biggest place they could ever imagine underground. As they landed on the floor, they saw many people, children, adults just living around the grounds. Relena looked at them.

"Oh my God, what happened?"

Valise walked off the platform and the girls followed.

"These people’s homes were destroyed from the war, they have no place to go, I could only fit about 75 here."

Morgan was almost crying.

"You’re a good person, Valise."

Valise smiled at Morgan. As they made their way through the underground house. The people were openly staring at them. Finally as they walked farther on, there started to be less light and people. They stopped in front of a door. Valise put her eye close to the identification system and her hand on the print identification. The door opened and she ushered the girls inside. They were faced with another wall which she typed in a code. Misty looked surprised.

"Do you think you have enough security?"

"My gundams are very important to me."

"No kidding."

The door opened to reveal another huge space. Valise walked forward followed by the girls. It was a huge room with 4 hallways around them.

"This is where you’ll live, your rooms are down the south hall. The food is down the west. The exercise and anything else is down the east hall."

Relena looked at the fourth hallway. "Let me guess the Gundams are down the north hallway."

Valise pointed her finger at her. "Good guess."

Relena started to walk down the north hallway. "I want to see them."

Valise and the girls followed Relena. "Naturally."

They walked about two minutes when Relena came to a complete stop and stared in amazement. Three beautiful Gundam’s were enclosed in a metal casing. Morgan walked to one at the end. It was maroon and a deep brown.

"Unbelievable."

Valise walked to Morgan.

"That one Morgan is called Meltam."

"He’s beautiful."

Morgan was gazing at the Gundam. Valise leaned against the railing to and explained what Meltam could do.

"He has a beam cannon, a bow saber, machine guns connected to the shoulders and helmet, double thrusters, and flying capability."

Morgan looked at Valise and smiled. "I want him."

"Then he’s yours."

They walked to the next one that Misty was at. This Gundam was red and black. Valise stood next to Misty.

"Now this one is called Canic. He is almost identical to Meltam but instead of a bow saber I gave a saber sword. This one is where I started to experiment. If you ever get into trouble all you turn the heat magnetic attachment."

Misty gave her a funny look. "The what?"

Valise thought for a moment on how she was going to explain it.

"Uh, there is a mechanism inside when activated to brings all energy substances to your gundam at close range very quickly. All you have to do is hold on to the enemy and Canic will bring the temperature of his body to extreme heat and melt your enemy."

"Hold on a minute if that happens, I’ll be barbecue, right?"

Valise looked at Misty. "Theoretically………yes, but don’t worry that’s where my experiment comes in."

Misty raised her eyebrows and Valise made her way quickly to Relena.

"Now this………this is my baby."

Relena was staring at a Gundam that was white and ice blue.

"I’ve never seen something that I felt so needed to have and so connected to right away. What can he do?"

"I’m glad you asked. He is called Polartic. The most powerful beam cannon I could put on him with a tracking system, twin machine gun lasers on the arms and shoulders, and two sword sabers."

Relena walked closer to Polartic.

"He does something else doesn’t he?"

"Yes, he does. As you can guess from the name he can create anything to drop to a sub-zero temperature and freeze all you have to do is touch it."

Relena was almost entranced with the Gundam, she couldn’t take her eyes off it. Valise turned to Misty and to Relena.

"There is a catch. The melting and freezing system will only work for a couple of minutes, you have to power up the system each time you use it."

Misty walked to Relena.

"Hey Sage, she told us that in order for me to not to look like I came out a oven and I’m guessing also in order for you not to become a meat Popsicle , that she has an experiment to help us out. What do you think about that?"

Relena spared Misty a glance away from her Gundam. "I don’t know what to think, all I know is that I have to fly this Gundam."

Valise talked to the girls. "We have a lot of work to do, you girls should get some rest."

As they were walking out, something caught Relena’s eye. A large figure as tall as the Gundams in the corner. "Valise……is that another gundam?"

Valise looked to the corner. "Yes, it was the prototype for these three. It’s not as powerful but powerful enough."

Relena gave her a sly look. "It still works right?"

"Yes, why? I don’t know of anyone else that could fly it, they have to be familiar with the old models. Do you have someone in mind?"

Relena smiled. "I might, this person was an ex-soldier."

Valise walked to Relena. "Well, if you think they are good enough, I’ll welcome them, just don’t give me a speech on how wonderful and desperate this person is okay?"

"Sure, I’ll contact the ex-soldier right away."

Valise walked off and Misty and Morgan looked at Relena. "Who is this person Sage?"

Relena looked at her Gundam. "An old friend."

At Duo’s Junkyard:

Hilde had just got up from sleeping and notices her computer screen blinking. "I wonder who that could be, I hope it’s Duo."

Hilde sat down and started to read the message. "Relena?"

Hilde couldn’t believe it, she thought that Relena was gone forever. She went on reading the message. She suddenly stopped. "WHAT?!"

In Africa, the next day, 4 o’clock in the morning:

Relena was in her room staring at the ceiling thinking about her life and how she turned out the way she did. "Relena what are you doing? How can anyone ever love you now? God, I'm so pathetic."

Relena got up and walked out of her room and down the hall to the cafeteria. Misty and Morgan were already there. Relena looked at them and smiled. "Couldn’t sleep either?"

"No, I came here about four hours ago, and Morgan just came about two hours ago. It’s just a lot to think about. I mean Sage, we are going into battle and we might not come back out alive."

Relena sat down at their table. "I know, but I have to do this. If you guys have any doubts, then you should go."

Misty stared at Relena for a moment then broke into a grin. "You're not getting rid of us, I said I was just thinking."

Relena laughed at her. Valise walked into the cafeteria. "I thought I heard you guys. Couldn’t sleep?"

Morgan stood up. "I guess you could say that we’re a little anxious."

Valise sat at their table. "While you're all sitting here so I might as well tell you about this experiment that Sage, you and Misty will have to go through."

The girls were all silent to let her continue. "This experiment connects you to your Gundams through your mind and body. It’s an enzyme that goes through your bodies and when your Gundams are activated you can almost become it."

Misty got a confused look. "Wait a minute you lost me."

Relena looked at Valise. "It’s like the zero system isn’t it?"

Valise was very surprised. "You're familiar with it."

Relena leaned back in her chair. "I’ve heard of it."

"I designed that system, until that good for nothing Professor J took the credit after I left."

Relena hid her surprise but a million thoughts were going through her head. She had no idea that Valise and Professor J knew each other. Morgan interrupted. "You were saying."

"Oh yes, what I trying to say is for instance Sage your body will drop to sub-zero temp so you can survive the attack that your Gundam creates and basically even if you are not in the gundam it will obey your command. There is a down side, I don’t advise you to fire or fight outside of your Gundam, since you have to be able to see it to fight it, if the enemy finds you and kills you they can activate it to themselves. It has a cleaning mode that when their pilot dies basically anyone can configure it to themselves."

Relena thought hard. "So you're saying by activating our Gundams we can just give them the command to fire and they will?"

"Yes, and if there is a malfunction in the system you can check the system through your mind. Just concentrate on where the malfunction is and you’ll find it, the Gundams will basically be an extension of yourselves."

Morgan spoke up. "Then why do they even need to learn to pilot their Gundams? All they need to do is tell their Gundams to fight right?"

"That’s half correct, the Gundams need them as much as they need the Gundams. Just like if your doing a puzzle for a long period, your minds will get tired and so you should only connect your mind to the Gundam only in trouble or if your Gundam has a malfunction. It will be very dangerous and powerful to use your mind, you’ll like being connected so much that you wouldn’t want to leave. So, when you fight you have to do that based solely on your skill."

Misty’s eyes widened and Relena stared at the table. Morgan looked at both of them. "God, sucks to be you."

Valise looked at the girls and Relena looked up to her eyes. "When do we get started?"

Chapter Five

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.