Gundam Negative Zero Chapter 03

"Mama! Mama!"
"Quiet down Masaki! This is for you and Asuka. You need to be free of this madness!"
"But mother, won't father settle this! He always has!"
"Asuka, I'm sorry to say, but you're father's dead...Listen, I'm bringing you to a place greater than Nippon. You'll be safe there. This is for you're sake."
The plane steadily flew towards the west coast of America. But suddenly, a fighter jet appeared behind it and fired its machine guns. The right wind became damaged and smoke began to rise from the engines. The plane was bound to crash.
"Mama! We're going to crash aren't we?!"
"No, not until I get you kids to America!"
"America!? Isn't that the enemy?!"
"Yes, Asuka, but don't you realize what the government was doing to you kids?"
"Yes...I understand mother..."
Right then, the plane crashed into the border of Oregon and California.
"Ugh...huh!? Where's mama and onee-chan?
"Masaki! Over here! Mother's trapped!"
He ran as fast as he could towards the transport ship. There, he saw the slightly disfigured body he could recognize as his mother.
"Kids, please, run! The plane is gonna blow!"
"What about you mom!?"
"I'll have to be left behind...please, go on. Do this for the sake of living..."
The kids stared at their mother. They understood that they must live on. They both decided to run. Suddenly, there was an explosion and a loud bang entered their ears. They both fell over and a loud ringing entered their ears. Masaki could see his sister. But his eyes were closing. Little...by little....
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Leo-Class Ship, Toronto Base, Canada, 5:44 pm EST
"Ah!"
Masaki rose from his bed. He was covered in sweat. He looked around. It was dark and the room was silent. He calmed down.
It was only a dream...
He looked towards his window and saw the full moon. He could remember every detail about the day his mother died. She ahd been piloting the plane that brought him and his sister to America.
He got up and grabbed his uniform. He slipped into his navy blue pants and jacket. He buttoned up and walked out of his room. He passed the large amount of empty rooms and wondered who used to use them. Most were locked due to the fact that the base was supposed to be under red alert. But one door seemed to be slightly opened. He looked at the small gap and saw a frame on top of a dresser. The people in the picture looked familiar. He walked in and turned on the lights. He realized that he had walked into Asuka's room.
He walked over to the dresser and picked up the frame. The picture was of him, Asuka, and their father. They were both very young and his father was formally dressed. Asuka was on top of his shoulders and Masaki was clinging to his leg. A small smile came to Masaki's face. A foot step was heard and the door creaked. Masaki dropped the frame and drew his gun. The frame hit the ground and cracked.
"Calm yourself Lieutenant Takanori."
A male soldier walked in and pulled a note out from his pocket. Masaki put his gun down and accepted the note.
"The commander would like to see you, sir!"
"Very well, let's head back."
The soldier walked out and right as he left Masaki's field of vision, he turned around and looked at the floor. He picked up the frame and looked at the picture. A crack ran along Asuka and her father's face. He placed the picture back onto the dresser and left.

When Masaki arrived into the bridge, another soldier was there, along with the commander. It was a female figure. Dark blue hair ended at the bottom of her neck and pink ribbon-type string was mixed along the ends of her hair.
"Lieutenant Takanori! I've been expecting you."
"So I've heard sir."
"Were you able to find the plans for the construction of the Gundam?"
"Yes sir, they were in the hanger."
Masaki unrolled the papers that was shoved into his chest pocket and laid it onto a table that was between the two.
"Very interesting..."
"By my guess commander, this suit has the power to overpower any mobile suit we've developed."
"I see. Well then, the timing is perfect. The Russians have just finished the blueprints for their new mobile suit. It was named blade or dagger, or something along those lines."
Right then, the alarms went off.
"Red alert! Three mobile suits approaching! One of them may be the new prototype weapon developed by The West!"
"Damn, their retaliating already?! Masaki, head off in your DaiSenshi! head off with Lieutenant Nishikawa as well!"
The female figure had been Shoko Nishikawa. Masaki had easily recognized her after he saw her face. She indeed was his future wife.
"So Masaki, will we die in battle together?"
Masaki didn't think it was funny. He changed into his pilot suit and head off to the hanger. He approached one of the DaiSenshis, but there was something different about his. His custom DaiSenshi was colored a bright orange and many of the parts were modified. Both of the shoulder armors were trimmed to decrease the weight, the arm plates were also trimmed, and the legs had added boosters for better manueverability. He did not carry any extra ammo for his machine gun, so he would only have his initial load to shoot down the three suits. His theory was that when his comrades fall, he would take what he needed from their fallen mobile suit. That way his DaiSenshi would be as light as possible, allowing him to evade better and easily confuse the enemy.
"Wait up Masaki!"
Masaki turned around and saw Shoko. She was running towards him at a rather fast pace and finally caught up with him.
"Come on, you didn't think I was serious when I said that back there?"
"It's not funny to joke around death..."
There was a silence, which was broken by more loud alarms. Red lights flashed and the intercom went on:
"Western Mobile Suits arriving in 3 minutes! Launch all mobile suits!"
They both ran towards their scissor lifts and brought themselves up to the cockpit of their DaiSenshi. When both entered their cockpit, they started up the operating system and configured the controls to their liking. Masaki's orange DaiSenshi was the first to launch. Shoko then stepped out the hanger in her dark-blue colored DaiSenshi. Her's was changed in color, but not many of the parts were changed. She prefered to use close combat weapons so she carried one of the failed prototype heat swords.
When both Masaki and Shoko both left the hanger, they started their thrusters and began to head towards the three mobile suits to intercept.
"Do you think that this is the Gundam?"
"Hopefully it is, that way we can take it" Masaki pulled off an evil grin.
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Orion, Toronto Base, Canada, 5:34 pm EST
"It can't be..." Asuka was still in shock about Masaki.
"I'm sure this is just a mistake. He's probably still in the base. Maybe he's hiding from the Eastereners." Auron rushed his sentances to try to give Asuka some confidence. But he honestly didn't think that he was alive.
Those Eastern bastards...
"Colonel Takahashi, Lieutenant Micheals and Lieutenant Hayter(David's last name?), please come to the bridge."
"Come on, Asuka." Auron tried to grab Asuka from under the armpits and lift her up, but all of her weight shifted to her bottom half when she dropped from shock. He finally got her to stand up. Auron started to walk but turend around to see Asuka still staring at the piece of paper. He walked back and heard Asuka mumbling,
"What if he's dead, where could he be, they shot him didn't they, oh god..."
Auron could feel Asuka's pain, but she was starting to get on his nerves.
"Quit moping over your brother! If he is still alive, by the time we get the chance to do anything, he'll be dead! You're wasting our time to not only find your brother, but recover the Toronto base!"
Asuka felt mixed emotions. Anger. Realization. Thankfulness.
"Fine. We're heading to the bridge." Asuka's facial expression became serious and she walked towards the bridge without any chit chat with Auron. Auron felt good inside for getting Asuka to do her job but felt a bit of regret for being tough on her.

"As you know, The East have some how taken over our Toronto Base and we have no clue what they will be using it for. I'm sending you three to take out any mobile suit defenses and corner the enemy. Their numbers are unknown and they may or may not have reinforcements coming. As for you're mobile suits, all of your ammo has been replaced with live rounds and extra ammo is available. Previous damage to your suits have been repaired by our mechanic team, which I should mention, is now under new leadership."
"Who'se the new guy?" Auron was curious due to the fact that the old mechanic leader knew just how Auron wanted his things set up.
"Evan Bitolli, Italian."
"Ah."
Auron wanted to see this guy.
"Alright soldiers, you have permission of leave."
Asuka was the first to leave, followed by Auron and David, who were talking about the new mechanic.
"Man, it just won't be the same without Pops. I guess he finally retired."
"Yeah. Figured it'd be soon. Twenty years of military service."
David whistled. He was impressed.

Asuka, Auron, and David all entered their mobile suit and walked out of the Orion. They scanned the area to check for any enemy signals.
"Looks like it's all clear." David was relieved.
"Alright then, we're heading out!" Asuka's voice was filled with sterness.
She stepped on one of the pedals and pushed the handle forward. The thrusters on the Gundam ignited and it advanced with remarkable speed.
"Hey! Asuka, wait for us!" Auron nearly got blown back by the sudden take off. Both him and David also took off in their GUN Models. The thrusters on these three units weren't very energy friendly. Although all three were powered by the technology from the SWWG, the energy they used up was burning faster than they could be supplied with. While Asuka was heading towards the Toronto Base, her thrusters suddenly stopped and the Gundam fell forward.
"Dammit. This is is disgraceful." Asuka was very serious about rescuing her brother. He was the only family that she had left and they had spent so much time together. Tears began to form at the bottom of her eye. She looekd back at the screens and some parts began to become blurry.
You're tougher than this....
Auron and David had finally caught up with Asuka and now saw their Toronto base surrounded with black mobile suits and two others launching. David was unsure about the attack while David and Asuka were both gettign ready to start their operation.
"I'm heading in!" Asuka stomped on her pedal and the Gundam flew straight towards the horde of enemies.
"Ah...women." David thrusted forward while aiming his pistol.
"Hey! Guys!" Auron stood back. He pulled out his sniper rifle and set up his position. He put the rifle together and aimed towards the enemy units.
Alright...that orange one's mine....
click
Huh?
Auron clicked a few times but nothing happened. He put aside his aiming controls and saw that his gun had jammed.
"Ah dammit!"
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"ARGGGGHH!!" Asuka was charging straight into a crowd of DaiSenshis. They all pulled out their machien guns and fired at her. Asuka pulled up her arm to her cockpit at blocked some of the bullets. Some began to pierce her upper arm, so she pulled off the cover to her arm blade and rammed it straight into the cockpit of one black mobile suits. All of the other units stopped. She pulled out the blade and a streak of blood could be seen. Right before the others could raise their weapon, four shots ahd been fired by David, all witin the chest area. They were all stunend for a monets notice and were evetually piled together by Asuka's blade. She struck two of them at the same time through the cockpits. When Asuka pulled it out, she saw that the slightly deformed body of one of the pilots. Her eyes became wide and she began to remember her mother.
"Oh my gosh...I've become a killer..."
Asuka had frozen for the second time in battle. Horrid memories of her mother's body haunted Asuka. Her hands froze on the levers and she stared into space.
"Asuka! Asuka! Do you read!?"
David saw Asuka's sudden stop and advanced towards her. There was still one DaiSenshi postioned there.
"This one's mine!"
David boosted into the air and used gravity to his advantage by kicking the DaiSenshi over. He brought his pistol to his front and shoot twice into the cockpit.
"Asuka!"
There was a sudden beeping and David turned. He could see the orange and blue DaiSenshis getting closer. He stepped aside the disabled DaiSenshi and postioned himself in front of the Gundam.
"Asuka, if you don't move you'll die!:
He fired a few shots towards them, knowing that he would miss. The two dodged the shots and were now within 100 feet of them. The Orange one had drawn his blade and was going for a stab to his cockpit. The blue one had also drawn it's blade and would be going around him to get to Gundam.
"Ah, fuc--!"
"Asuka had slightly snapped out of her trace, only to be greeted to the edge of a blade. Asuka's heart stopped. Death was meeting face to face with her. She closed her eyes.
"I'll die alone. Just like mother..."
When Asuka re-opened her eyes, the blade was nowhere in sight. Neither was the blue DaiSenshi. She looked over to the right and saw a small amount of smoke coming out of Auron's rifle.
"You can't die just yet Asuka! You need to find your brother! You need to live on!"
Asuka switched her attention to David. When she looked, she felt something crawl up here stomach. There was a blade edge that was sticking out of the GUN Model. A small amount of blood was on the tip of the blade. Asuka was in shock.
"WHAT THE HELL!?!?"
Asuka had snapped. She stomped on the pedal and advanced towards the orange unit. She reached out with her blade towards the unit, but he had dodged her stab attempt. Asuka was shocked from his movement. IT wasn't the fact that she missed. He seemed to be moving at such fast speeds. She noticed the modified armor and learned where his advantage laid. She was able to turn around and unsheathe her second arm blade. She attempted a quick swipe towards his legs. He jetted off the ground and right before firing his machine gun at her, a bullet pierced his DaiSenshi's head. The orange unit fell and hit the ground. IT eventually got up and dashed off. Auron had taken a shot. He turned over to the rest of the DaiSenshis and headshotted them as well. All of the unit were out.
Asuka turend to find the hanger and broke down the metal sliding door. Only three inactive units remained. She took her pistol and fire all of them in the head, where the main cameras lie. She also punctured the cockpits so that no one could take control of them.
"Listen up easterenrs. Surrender now or we'll wipe you all out."
Asuka looked down at the mechanics who were all running like rats. Auron came by and looked down as well. The base had been taken over once again.
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Orion, Toronto Base, Canada, 6:34 pm EST
"Nice work everyone. Today's operation was successful and we have recaptured our home base. Sadly, Lieutenant Hayter was injured and will not be able to preform combat until his wounds have fully healed. He was severely injured in the shoulder and arm and his right leg was partially cut."
Everyone held a little silence for him and Asuka returned to her room.
"Lieutenant Micheals, do you happen to know what happened to the original blueprints for the gundam?"
"I'm not sure sir. The search team couldn't find them either."
"Ah, thanks lieutenant. You are dismissed."
Auron saluted and walked out.
"Damn those Easterners...."