Hi Guys I wrote this story to get over writers block and depression for a bit, after uploading my last chapter of Gundam Agito Unicorn, I felt as if I had lost touch with writing when I tried to write again. It was like it has last the fun that it was back when I started in 2015. This chapter and idea for this story was able to get me past that. I'll be writing this story a bit more because I feel it is more fun to write a less developed character than it is to write a full developed character.
Also I wanted to see how much I had grown since I started Gundam Agito SEED.
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Prologue
"Things never happen the same way twice, dear one." Aslan, (Prince Caspian)
First there was that crazy things going on with system that made some hard A Boa Qu with heaps of Mocks that were more difficult than what it should have been. Then there was that light, oh wait I forgot to bring up the fact that Reiji is come alien prince I think? The entire of the Gunpla system being based of some alien technology and the head of it also being an alien. So now I voice my concerns as I say "Aliens that look just like humans, that goes against most things I have heard or read about aliens, that is not science fiction or science fantasy?"
It was hard to take in all of the alien stuff, but then again when you see a guy teleport, it is hard not to believe. That and he did seem to come from a very sheltered background, but the game is over now, I am not sure what happened but as A Boa Qu was meant to fade. Light began to shine around me and then there was nothing, just the black void, almost as if I was in outer space. It is at this point that I think to myself that at least Sei, Reiji, Keith and everyone else who was in that last game should be able to hear me? So now I call out to them "Hey Sei you there, Reiji can you hear me, Keith did you guys leave already?"
I hear no reply, but I now feel the sudden urge to go take a piss, perhaps the 4 litres of that I drank might not have been a good idea. It is at this point the visions seems to clear and it would appear I am still in the game, but the setting has changed. It appears to be some type of debris field, It does look familiar, but I can't place where I have seen it before. It is at this point I hear the sound of gun fire and the explosions, not to mention the noise that comes with MS battles.
A sudden movement and I see two MS, one was clearly kicking the tail of the other, my Gunpla seems to bring up and zoom in on the two of them. If memory serves that is the MS Gaia in its dog mode and it is taking on a MS Zaku II, is this some sort of encore battle, I though that the system was broken? I now have my view focus and zoom right in on those two MS, what I thought was a MS Zaku II is actually a MS Gunner ZAKU Warrior from Gundam SEED Destiny. If this is someone's idea of a joke I am not laughing. Okay now I am going to just head out and go to the loo, I really need to pee and I don't want to know the fine for pissing in here. So now as I try to exit this, I see a small sign pop up on one of the many screens that I have up here. It clearly says "Warning, do not exit!"
I was going to wonder the heck was going on, Zero-System that I had designed and put into this Gunpla of mine suddenly gives me the noise that warns me of an incoming enemy. So they can see me and this is a simulation, not a some video for people to see. Now while I do want to go take a leak, if that thing does come at me, I am not going to back down. So now as I quickly take a seat back down in my chair or rather my Pilot's Throne, yeah I quite like the ring of that. Well whoever this person is or if it is a Mock, it was going to go down and hard. None of this make sense, but at least one thing that does, is that I should be able to beat this MS Gaia.
My specs for me MS are better and my specs as a Gunpla player, 20 years worth of experience, been at this since I was 7 years old. But I will have to admit, I have never needed to take a piss during the a game, nor have I ever had this much sugar just before I took part in a game and then ended up in another simulation. So right now I am not at my best, I can feel the sugar low starting to take effect, I will need to hold in my pee as well. Perhaps if I beat this MS Gaia then it will end and I can just get out, I will have to ask Sei and Reiji why I got stuck in some Destiny simulation. It is not that I dislike Destiny, okay I lie, I do dislike Destiny. Now the real question is should I hold back or go all out with the psycho-frame, the GN-Drive and the Zero-System. I will not lie I do feel a little excited as I now say "Let's roll the dice!"
With Lunamaria
Lunamaria Hawke who had up till now been fleeing from the MS Gaia, while losing her fight against the more advanced MS another MS had appeared. It had the look of a G.U.N.D.A.M, but she was sure she had never seen a MS with that colour scheme or that design before. A white head with some sort of golden bird symbol for a V fin, a black torso with a golden trim. Cream legs with a red or was it Crimson cape on its back, it appeared to be unarmed and had yet to move when she saw the MS Gaia break off its attack on her to attack it instead. Whoever was the pilot of it, either was mad or had a plan. Lunamaria did not know which, but now as the MS Gaia got ever closer to it she saw a some sort of red light start to glow from the strange MS.
In a flash of red, the MS Gaia was sent spinning back as Lunamaria's eye were unable to follow what the strange MS did. It would appear from what she could see of the damage done to the MS Gaia, that the strange MS had punched it right on the dog mode's face. A MS that did hand to hand combat, Lunamaria did not even want tot think how hard it was to get the MS to move like that. Sure in the years since the Bloody Valentine War, MS had come far, but not this far? Was this MS and its pilot a friend or were they a foe, seeing as the MS Gaia had chosen to break of its attack on her and go for it, Lunamaria chose to put a little faith in this pilot and tried to hail him.
She did a voice link without video first, just because of well, it is one thing to talk to him. It is another thing to show a total stranger who you are, especially on the battle field. So now as she fired on the MS Gaia which had managed to now regain control of itself, she said "Hey thanks for that, I don't know who you are, but our you on our side?"
There was a pause now as the MS Gaia fired back at the MS Gunner ZAKU Warrior, but was cut off now by vulcan fire from the strange MS. As she got a reply, she was able to tell that the person on the other end was tired and a little bit confused, not to mention that it was a young man. He said to her "Sorry what was that?"
Now as the two MS began to push back the MS Gaia Lunamaria said "I was asking you if you are one our side?"
Anthony's POV
I give a pause, I could swear that was the voice of Lunamaria Hawke on the other end and it seemed to be saying lines I do not recall her saying. Is this some sort of advance program or is there more to this, am I in a dream or is this just another simulation or what? All of this is so confusing so I now just say to her "Well for the moment Lunamaria, we should just get on with this battle."
Was that the best thing to say to her, oh shit I said her name to her without her giving it to me fuck! Wait she is just a program, so I guess it is alright, unless she is programmed? In any case, I don't think need to worry about what I say, after all this is all just some sort of simulation. All I need to do is finish this, find an exit and then I can take a leak, man I need to lay of the coke after this for awhile. I think I can wrap this up here and now I say to her "Stay back, I'm going to take them out, TRANS-AM!"
Now as I have my own MS Agito Zero go Trans-am I hear her voice say to me "No don't destroy it, our mission is to recover the suit!"
That is right, it is there goal to capture the suits, but thing is I have don't like ZAFT, so even in this simulation I am not going to do anything that they like. But it is now as I manage to clash and overpower the Beam Sabres mounted in the mouth of the MS Gaia, I manoeuvre the MS Agito Zero to grab it and crush it. I damaged the head of it already and now have clipped on of its weapons. I throw it back now and see it spin, I have to say that it is rather realistic, I mean sure I made sure the MS Agito Zero was literally the best thing I have ever built.
Something about this is not right, I mean if this is all a simulation, it is one hell of a simulation. Perhaps I am asleep and this is all a very bad dream. Wait if that is the case I need to wake up and take a leak otherwise I am going to wet myself and that would not be good. At this point in time, if I contact that Lunamaria if she is just part of the simulation, if I give her a direct command she'd not respond. But if this is real, I guess she would respond why or tell me to shut up, it is as good a guess as any so lets see what the dice rolls this time.
With Lunamaria
Lunamaria had to admit, that MS did have a very strange way of fighting, but it was effective none the less. But the words she heard next pissed her off to know end. They were "Listen, kid you need to pull back your MS is not able to keep up with that one."
So even though she was still very much part of the battle raging on Lunamaria chose rage at the person who had just insulted her pride as a Red Jacket. So now she replied "Oh and just who the hell are you, I am Lunamaria Hawke, I earned my Red Jacket, who are you and where did you come from!"
After she said that, all Lunamaria heard was a chuckle from the other MS pilot who simply said to her "Is that so?"
Was that condescending or was that generally humorous to him, Lunamaria was not sure, but then again he was a total stranger in a strange MS. So if she was unable to tell the motives of a person from only hearing their voice, that was reasonable. If it had been Shinn on the other hand, she should have been able to tell, but that was not the case right now. So now she chose to ask him "What is this all a game to you?"
There was a pause now as Lunamaria waited for a response, the one she got caused a shiver to run down her spine for they offered a promise to her. "It would appear that I have offended you Lunamaria Hawke, as an apology I shall bring this combat swiftly to a close."
There was no arrogance in those words, no confidence no boast in his words. If she had to prescribe some emotion to what this man had said, it was that he was very tired. It was almost as if the fact that he was in a MS battle did not matter to him at all, that there was no chance that he could perish here. What Lunamaria saw next did scare her for it was truly a sight that she was sure she would not see for a while!
Anthony's POV
The ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam or MS Gaia for short, it has a MA mode that is like a dog, its weapons consist two type Vajra Beam Sabres. A High-energy Beam Rifle, basic CIWS for this era, four smaller CIWS that are mounted on the head I MA mode. Two Griffon 2 Beam Blade that are mounted on the wings in MA mode and a High-energy Beam Rifle. Not all of them can be used due to them requiring it to be in MS or in MA form to access some of them, that aside I cannot let my guard down.
I have two Beam Sabres, one is an After Colony model, the other is one of the MS Unicorn models Beam Sabres, both are mounted in the Agito Zero's forearms and can be used as arm blades. I do have a CIWS but I rarely use those ever, my three ace in the hole weapons are the Hype Beam Sabre, the High Mega Cannon and the Twin Buster Rifle. The last one I can only use once Agito Zero is in NT-D system. I have the regular Vulcan Gun that comes with all UC era suits that trace their lineage back to the RX-78-2 Gundam.
That is about it in terms of weapons, is more versatile than I, having more far combat that the Agito Zero, a flaw that is really coming back to bite me now. I do have features from AC like the Search Eye that I can use to gather data in combat, but I am not sure I need that yet. But it in terms of power I have GN-Drive, the Zero-System and the Pysco-frame, thus I do have I-Field Generator that allows my suit to form I-Fields, though so far that does nothing to the GN-Drive or Trans-am. I guess I will have to pray that issue never crops up, if it does I might be in trouble if it happens while I am in combat or not.
The Gaia Gundamhas a Variable Phase Shift armour, but that is about it, Agito ZeroI took great care to make sure the parts when I sculpted them were meant to be from the After Colony Gundams. Meaning that my suit is made out of Gundanium Alloy, being tougher than most suits in the Cosmic Area. Simulation or not, I should be fine and good to go against the Gaia Gundam. With the Zero-System in front of me, I can see so many ways to take this foe down, I don't have much time, so I need to act quickly, but which path do I choose? Oh how could I forget, I can switch to Mobile Fighter controls, this is going to go very quickly.
Lunamaria POV
What I saw was just ridiculous, I had never seen anything like it, the MS glowed red once more but this time its movements were more fluid. It was almost as if I was watching a person move in some sort of martial art now as the strange MS over took the Gaia Gundam who was now attacking with its deadly Beam Blade. But that suit it was way too fast and moved right out of the way just in time.
But that was not all, for now in a flash of blinding purple light, I see the MS Gaia spinning as it crashes into nearby debris, with a wing missing? No both its wings are missing, I did not see it, but that flash of light must have been as both wings from the Gaia Gundam MA mode had its wings clipped.
The suit that did this now stands there as the red light fades from it, with no weapons out. Did it use weapons and then put them away before I could look? Or did it do it with its hands and that red light is more than just for show? That is not even taking into account that the Gaia Gundam now as it's VPSA powering down, just who is this guy?
Anthony's POV
I was able to move under the MA mode of the Gaia and clip both its wings with my forearm mounted beam sabres as it moved past. The trick was that I had to get it just right, I had to only activate them after the own beam of the Beam Blade had passed. That small gap between beam and metal was where I had to strike and I was able to pull it off, I was tempted to use the Hyper Beam Sabre but chose to keep that was one of my 3 Aces in the hole. The 4th ace I also hold which is the NT-D, a mode that enhances the power beyond that of Trans-am, just what would that power be like?
I have to wonder what would occur if I were to combine the two of them but that is for another time. Right now I choose to contact this Lunamaria, real or digital and treat her as if she is real. So now as I choose my words I say to her "So is that to your liking, if you were to recover it, it would need a serious haul out, but you can still salvage it."
Any words that she might of said were cut short as the Agito Zero detected an incoming MS, it was the ZGMF-X24S Chaos Gundam. It too has an MA mode, but if I were to say the only feature on it that makes it stand out is its Mobile Weapon Pod. Similar to the UC timeline Funnels, these pods are using the improved Disconnect Rapid Armament Group Overlook Operation Network or the DRAGOON system for short. In short it is their own version of Funnels, though if I had to say it, the DRAGOON System can been taken as inferior due to the lack of Newtypes in the Cosmic Era
It does have flaws though, the power consumption for one, not to mention that the user has to have a great spatial awareness on top of that. But I do believe that this is the 2nd generation of it so it is able to overcome most of that. If Aila Jyrkiäinen is any thing to go by as far as an Ace is concerned, then I should have no issues here. He only has two pods as it were, meaning that he won't have enough to cause me any worry. If I have to say it, my only real problem is that I need to go to the toilet and take a piss real bad, I can only hold it in for so long!
Lunamaria POV
This guy and his suit were really something else, I mean if I look at it, now he is taking on Chaos Gundam and is not only able to avoid the Mobile Weapon Pods, he was been able to shut them down as well. This guy really is on another level to me and I'd dare say everyone on board the Minerva. His skills, I have no idea how long he has trained for, but he has to be a Coordinator! But something was not right, just where had this guy come from, was he with the enemy, there was no other ship in sight so he had to of come from the enemy.
That did not add up though, that suit he was piloting was clearly superior to the stolen suits, it doesn't add up. I am not sure about it, but he is not an enemy, I just will have to ask him what he was doing out here, after this battle. It is now as I move my own suit back I hear his voice now over the channel call out to me. "Hey don't stare in awe, you are still in the middle of a sortie, secure that other mobile suit and make sure its allies cannot link up with it!"
His voice spoke with enough authority that I felt obliged to do as he said and now I saw the Chaos Gundam pull back the mystery mobile suit now groups with me. I am in the process of grabbing hold of the Gaia Gundam now as he asks, no more like states "If you have a ship close by, you should return to it, no doubt that they will be glad with what you have, I'll cover for you for now in case any more of their friends are around who may try to come back to get this suit."
I guess I'll have to trust him to cover my back as I try to find and regroup with the Minerva. I have no doubt that the Captain and even the Chairman will be glad to at least get one of the stolen Suits back. I guess they have to thank this guy for that, it would not have been possible if it were not for his cooperation. So now as I do as he suggests I do, I say to him "Hey thanks for all the help that you've done for me and for us."
He was about to reply, when suddenly we are under attack, no to be more precise he is under attack from the Impulse Gundam. Shinn is now saying "You there get away from here!"
He is able to avoid the shots fired by Shinn with ease, no it is almost as if he knew that this would happen. Oh no shit this is not good, before I can even contact Shinn I hear the guy from the mystery mobile suit say "Ahh so the pilot of that mobile suit is a girl and dear to you."
I now just as he moves to take on Shinn say "Both of you cut it out, we're all on the same side here! Shinn this guy helped me capture the Gaia Gundam, chill out for a second and just think, if he were an enemy would I be here?"
The mystery mobile suit was able to break off from Shinn, though to my shame I cannot say the same for Shinn. He was about to follow up on his attack, but now was off course and sped past his target. And now turned around as he asked me "Are you sure Lunamaria, he looks like one of them, it could be a trap, he'll kill us when our guards are down!"
As I hear this I want to face palm, sure all that Shinn has said is valid, but fact is if he wanted us dead, we'd be dead. I am very sure that no force could possible make a single suit like his and not make more of them. As it stands, I hope he is not with the people who attacked and stole from Armoury One. It means that we have a chance, a chance to get back all of our stolen suits, also it means the enemy doesn't have a suit and a pilot, both which are better than what we have.
Anthony's POV
Just give me three reasons Shinn, just three and I will blow that piece of shit Strike Gundam rip off out of the sky. Fact that we are in space aside, just give me three reasons Shinn you have already given me one of them. I'd say two, but the first would be discrimination against you personally. Which I am more than happy to do, but I am not really going to do so because of many reasons, most of which have to do with responsibility.
Such reasons as I am a good seven to nine years your senior and need to be the bigger man since I know better. Sure he has a reason to be an asshole, but then again the way he puts it across as if he is the only human in the universe. I am not sure why but there are some aspects of him that remind me of Chairman Mashita. I'm not sure where I can find the connection but something about both of them rubs me the wrong way, I since that is the case, that is my fault.
Now as I just shake my head at this situation I hear the voice of Lunamaria Hawke now speak to me once more. Either this simulation is going to end, or I need to get on their ship and use their loo. Perhaps that is why Shinn is rubbing me the wrong way, I need to take a piss very badly, well I can hope that is the case. But now I tune in and listen to what Lunamaria has to say "Hey you, I'm not sure what you were doing out here, but you must be low on power and you did help us out, I can put in a good word to the Captain for you?"
I now give a nod as I pull her up on camera for the first time and say "Yeah that'd be great thanks if you could do that, but don't worry about my power, its not going to run out any time soon."
She raises an eyebrow at this or is she raising her eyebrow because she now can see my face. Her response confirms the latter when she says "Hey you don't look that old, what uniform is that you're wearing?"
I suddenly feel my eyelids fall and drop to cover half of my eyes, if this is a simulation then it really knows how to piss me off. But I now take in a deep breath and try to play off what she just said with a bit of humour "You can try to guess my age if you want to, doesn't bother me all that much."
Clearly from the face she is making, she has no idea what to make of what I just said but now chooses to ask something she should have a while back. So no as she tries to amend this she asks me "Um sorry I didn't get your name, though I gave you mine, could I ask your own?"
What should I let them call me, my stage name or my real name? It is a good question, sure it would not hurt to use my real name, but then again I am more used to strangers calling me by my stage name. Then again I do not wish to forget my own name if goes too far? No in the end I am more at ease with others calling me by my stage name rather than my actual name so I reply to her. "You may call my Hitoro, Anthony Hitoro."
To that she just replies "That is a strange name you know?"
I now dryly comment back stating "Oh yes, Anthony is a very strange name, not as common as Lunamaria, whose name is the name Luna and Maria put together and pronounced differently if not flatly wrong, lets just not go into names shall we."
Lunamaria now bit back at me stating "I was talking about the names Anthony and Hitoro making Anthony Hitoro, it just sounds weird as if you were trying to fuse a western and eastern names into one name."
She has a point, I have never thought about it at once, I guess back when I was 18 years old and chose it as my stage name I thought it sounded cool. So I now tell her "You have a valid point, I've never thought about it like that before."
Minerva Bridge
Having sustained heavy damage to their right side guns, thrusters and hull, Captain Talia Gladys was not in the best of moods. So when Meyrin Hawke now reported that Shinn and Lunamaria were now returning with the Gaia Gundam it was able to lift her spirits and that of the crew a little. But now Meyrin reported to her something she did not expect "Captain Gladys, there is another mobile suit of an unknown model with them, Lunamaria is requesting to speak with you on that?"
Talia now paused for a moment then gave a nod and said "Patch her through, let us hear what she has to report."
Meyrin gave a nod and now patched her sister through so that her video popped up on the bridge's interface. As soon as she appear on the screen Lunamaria gave a salute to Talia who gave a slight nod in kind before she asked "Lunamaria Hawke, report your status?"
Lunamaria now put down her salute as she reported "We were ambushed and lost two of our pilots in the initial attack, Shinn and I were able to hold them off for a while, but we were both hard pressed for a while."
Talia took that in before she gave a nod again for Lunamaria to continue who said "But during the battle, the Gaia moved off to attack this other strange mobile suit that appeared almost as if out of no where, so far he's proven to be a friendly and even disabled the Gaia for us."
Talia gave a blink before she asked "He did what, did you just say that he was the one who disable and capture the Gaia?"
Lunamaria gave a nod before she said "That is correct, I do not believe he is one of them, his mobile suit has capabilities that ours do not, due to this I do not believe that he is from this team that attacked Armoury One, the name he gave me was Anthony Hitoro, Captain from what I can gather from when I spoke to him, he has to be a Coordinator."
Talia took in a deep breath to her all of this was news and the fact that a new mobile suit was on the scene, one that was better than their own was troubling. He had assisted them, but she was not going to just trust this stranger out of the blue. So as she was able to tell Lunamaria to ask him to leave this area, Chairman Gilbert Duranal spoke "I would like to speak to this man if that were possible, he did assist us so it is only natural for us to convey our thanks to him."
Talia turned around to look at the man she had been in a relationship with, a man she still cared for and now said to him "But Chairman, we are in a desperate situation as it it, we can't afford to risk the crew and ship by taking in a rouge pilot now?"
To this Gilbert just shook his head as he said to her "We do not know if he is a rouge or not, but fact is that without his assistance we would not have the been able to retake the Gaia without him, we should at very least convey our thanks to him for such a feat and offer what little hospitality that we can right now."
Talia clearly did not wish to do this as she found it to be a direct threat to their own mission if they did so. But fact was that she not going to oppose the Chairman in front of her crew, even though it was her ship. So now with a sigh she said "Lunamaria can you ask him to contact us so that the Chairman can speak to him, that will be all?"
Lunamaria now gave a salute as she said "Yes Captain" and her link went blank. Talia was not happy about this and clearly wanted to know what Durandal was going to say, but the look he gave her told her not to ask him about it. It only took 15 seconds for the face of the mystery pilot to appear on screen. But to Talia that 15 seconds seemed to be much longer. Finally when the face of a tanned young man with bright red hair appeared on the screen all Talia managed to say was the simple question that Lunamaria had not asked "Where is your pilot suit?"
There was a pause before Durandal decided to say "That aside, I believe we owe you are thanks for being able to retrieve the Gaia for us, Lunamaria did not say how you were able to take it down, just that you were able to do so."
The man, Anthony Hitoro as Lunamaria had called him gave a slow nod before he now said to Durandal "That I did, I do apologise that it was unable to do so without clipping its wings, but I did not do such a thing freely I would like an exchange for what I did as it were."
To this Durandal now asked before Talia could get any words in "And what would those terms be, a mobile suit is not a cheap item?"
To this the man said with no shame and no deception in his voice "I need to take a leak, real badly so I was wondering if I could use your lavatory, loo, bathroom, toilet, restroom, latrine whatever it is called now."
Everyone on the bridge looked surprised at such a strange demand, except Durandal who had his usual face once. But it was not him who got to speak next but Talia who said "I am sure that is not the only thing you would ask in return for a mobile suit, how foolish do you think we are."
To this Anthony did not hold back when he stated "From what I gather, the enemy your pursuing stole 3 of your best mobile suits, from highly secure facility, you're chasing an elite team that was able to do this, into a place that is ripe for an ambush, my opinion of you as a commander is very low."
Talia was about to bite back against that, but Durandal now chose to mediate the situation before that happened. So now he calmly "If our ally wishes to use our loo in return for a Mobile Suit, who are we to deny him, Captain Gladys I'd like to welcome Anthony Hitoro onto the Minerva."
Anthony in reply to him said "You have my thanks, for what it is worth." Then the line went dead and Talia turned to look at Gilbert, she was very unhappy about this, which Gilbert knew. But he had an explanation for his actions, one he was sure that Talia would listen to. "Captain Gladys, I would ask you to try not to be so hostile, he clearly has a better grasp on mobile suit combat that we do."
Talia gave a nod but chose to counter this now as she said "But Chairman, it is too dangerous to just let some stranger onto our ship, I don't believe for a minute that he just wants to use our restrooms."
In reply to that Gilbert said "Leave the judge of his character up to me, if what I suspect is true, there is a chance he might assist us further if we can convince him to do so, also I am interested in his mobile suit. To go into space without a pilot suit means that he either has confidence in his skills as a pilot or the power of his mobile suit."
The Chairman of the plants now went on to say "If we were able to secure such power on our side, the there is no doubt in my mind that we would be able to recapture our mobile suits at the cost of less lives. We have taken a major blow this day, many of our captains, pilots and cadets were lost, we need all the help we can get."
Talia gave a slow nod but chose to voice one last concern to the Chairman before she let this go "Can we really trust someone who we just met in the debris belt, sure he may have fought on our side, but how do we know this is not a trap for him to come aboard and damage the ship and harm the crew?"
To this Chairman Gilbert Durandal only shook his head as he stated "There are some things that you learn when you take the office of Chairman, needing to build trust with total strangers is among them."
Now getting up from his seat Durandal said "I shall go to the Mobile Suit Hangar to greet him, at least to let everyone know to stay out of his way."
Talia now got up and said "With all due respect Chairman, I cannot allow you to go down to the Mobile Suit hangar bay with a rouge element that I cannot account for down there, please go take some rest use the Captains Cabin, I shall go and see to this ally."
There was total silence for all of a few seconds before Durandal gave her a slow nod and said "Very well that is true, but I ask that you maintain the level of etiquette befitting one of ZAFT Captain."
It was not a question, it was not a request, it was an order that Talia was to follow out to the letter. With a salute Talia said "I will do what is befitting of my rank and of ZAFT Captain."
Durandal now looked to Cagalli and Athrun as he now said Chairman Durandal "Representative Atha, my apologies for today and for not being able to close the door on the matter, I regret to inform you that we will be delayed in returning to Armoury One and to the PLANTS."
Anthony's POV
Durandal was true to his word, a trait not often found in many a politician, but fact was it was Talia Gladys who I met me and Rey who showed me the way to the toilets. Fun fact he also stayed near to the toilets while I took my leak, he has to be under orders to be close by in case I try anything. That aside if this is a simulation I am going to face one big ass fine for taking a leak in wherever this is. One the other hand if this is real it is all okay, except for the fact that I am somehow in an anime so far from home and in an era I'd rather not be in.
Why can't it be the UC timeline or After Colony, even Gundam 00 is more appealing than this and I'd have to fight aliens there. But now as I wash my hands I have to exhale loudly as I say "Now, that feels so much better."
It does feel good to be relieved like that, but now I have to ask but not out loud, where am I going to go next? It is not like I can just go home, well it doesn't appear that I will be able to. As I now dry my hands Rey asks in a neutral tone "So where are you planning to go to next?"
I turn to look at Rey and now have to ask him what Professor Oak asks all starting Pokemon trainers "Are you a boy or girl?"
He did not look impressed by that question, but he clearly was able to grasp why I was asking it. So now as he sighs, he tells me "I am a man."
I give him a nod as finish drying my hands and proceed to walk out and he only doing as he was ordered follows me. I manage to walk all the way back to the hangar to see that some extra from the crew was checking out Agito Zero. I hear one with a red dash in his hair say "If you look past the bad, I mean strange colour scheme it's actually pretty cool mobile suit."
I roll my eyes at that and just continue to walk towards Agito Zero, no one seems to be trying to stop me at this point so that is a good thing. I'm a bit tired, I'll fly out to where no one is take a nap, then worry about food later, at this point in time all I want is for this to come to an end. Why am I hear, what happened to literally everyone else back home?
I think the kid who was checking out my suit was named Vino Dupre, but he has a friend who is usually with him. Yolan, Yolan Kent if my memory serves that's the other guys name and I now hear him call out. "Vino, this suit has place to charge it from, what does it run off, nuclear power, I thought the treaty meant you couldn't have suits like that."
At this point I ignore the fact that they are trying to figure something out about Agito Zero and decide to just go ahead and begin to scale it. As I begin to do this I now hear a voice that I would rather not hear, it is the voice of Lunamaria and she says to me "That sure is a unique mobile suit you have there Mr Hitoro."
I cringe at the fact at being called Mr Hitoro, but it would be rude to just keep my back turned right now when she is clearly trying to engage in conversation. So now I turn around to look down at her as I say "In a way yes, but if I were to say it, my Mobile Suit has a different Standard Template Construct to your own."
All of a sudden I am glad that I was able to recall what STC meant and the fact that it is true that Agito Zero is based of a different design to all Cosmic Era Mobile Suits. My reply did cause Lunamaria to raise an eyebrow at what I said, it can be confusing for people who don't know Gunpla to understand. So it is no surprise to me when she asks "A Standard Template Construct, what is that?"
I can't very well give her the explanation from Warhammer 40K, so I will have to say something else and just have to run with it for now. "It is not that hard to understand, the Mobile Suits you build are all based off a Standard Template Construct, STC for short. It is quite possible that the STC of my Mobile Suit and that of your own are not the same, thus the differences between the two of them are obvious."
Vino who now seems to have gotten a little shock from the fact that I had returned managed to say "I know, it is like the design of your Mobile Suit is different to ours since you did not use the same basic design that we do?"
Now as I give him a nod he seems rather proud of what he was able to deduce. Fact is that he is right, I did not use the Cosmic Era template for the Agito Zero, rather its inner frame is based of both the Unicorn and Banshee Gundams.
Unlike theirs that are based on who knows what, probs another UC Era rip off, I mean Sunrise got really bored when they made the Cosmic Era. But here I am just letting them talk to me, when I should just try to get back on track to getting the Agito Zero in order to leave this place behind. Perhaps when I return to my suit it will all be all, I might have to pay a hefty fine though for urinating in public, but at least it will all be over.
So now I give Lunamaria a nod as I turn my back to her and make my way to the cockpit. At first it seemed as if I would be able to get up there without anyone trying to talk to me or stop me. But that is not the case as a calm voice now states to me "It is as you state, that suit of yours is definitely of a different origin to the ones we have here in ZAFT."
That is the voice of Gilbert Durandal, current Chairman of the PLANTS, but above all else, friend and Doctor to Rau Le Creuset, no rather Ra La Flaga. Sure he has his oath as a doctor to uphold, but if this guy had died, Rau would have been had a harder time being evil and pulling off his plans. Sure Rau was just a fictional character, but the guy was made so you could hate him and that is how I felt towards that character.
Durandal gave off a different feel, though I am pretty sure that it was never confirmed but alluded to the fact he was the one responsible for the assassination attempt on Lacus Clyne. The fact that Meer Campbell was around to be his 'fake Lacus' and the fact that he tried to have the 'real Lacus' killed at least twice gave me the feeling he's evil. That and though I did not care for Shinn as a character, what he and Rey did to manipulate him was just evil and nothing else.
So now as I turn around to face this man, I choose my words carefully when I say "So to whom do I owe the pleasure?"
There are a few murmurs and blank looks all towards my direction, smooth I just screwed up big time and not in the Big Time Rush way. At least he seems to take it well and introduces himself "Oh where are my manners, I am Gilbert Durandal, current Chairman of the PLANTS."
That was creepily polite of him, but the proper code of conduct now demands that I give him my name at the very least. So now I state to him "The name's Hitoro, Anthony Hitoro."
I now look over to where the Gaia Gundam is being held and note that they are still getting it open. Must be some code that Neo put up just in case this happened. My bet is Auel and Sting are not happy with this not to mention Neo who is probably pulling his bad Char Clone mask of in frustration. That aside I choose to say "It would appear that despite your efforts, you are unable to open your suit."
Durandal now raised his eyebrow at me as he now asked "Are you saying that you can open it Anthony Hitoro?"
I look over to the Gaia Gundam and then to Durandal, then back to the Gaia Gundam then back to Durandal. I now shrug as I answer him "Could I open it, perhaps I could, will I open it, no it's not my place to do so, this is not my fight."
Durandal now asked me "If I may ask, where is it that you are going to go?"
In reply to him I state "With any luck Alpha Centauri, but I'll settle for Mars, Jupiter or Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or perhaps Pluto."
I was not looking at him as I now opened up the Agito Zero, but I do believe that he was raising his eyebrow at me when he asked "Mars I can understand, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto, I was unaware that we had colonies out that far?"
Now as I get into the Agito Zero I call out "Thanks for reminding me, scratch Mars off the list, I''l just be going to Alpha Centauri then, perhaps I'll meet Spock and the Vulcans, wait Spock was half human, so I can't?"
I think just said something that I probably did should not have as I hear voices asking what the hell was I talking about. Such a shame that Star Trek is not here in the Cosmic Era, I wonder what else is missing, Mobile Suit Gundam should also be on that missing list. Now as I close Agito Zero I have to wonder if they simply did not exist or they were taken by the endless flow of time? Now I hear through the Agito Zero Durandal ask me "Is there any way I could possible be able to convince you to stay?"
Truth is I got no food, no friend and if this is not a simulation, so I should try to play it safe for now "Okay I'm listening?"
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