Gundam SEED Fan Fiction ❯ Gundam Seed Shadow ❯ Episode 10 ( Chapter 11 )
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By: Hcps 
Anime/Manga: Gundam SEED Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 12.30.2011 | Pages: 6 | Words: 7.1K | Visits: 170 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Gundam SEED Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 12.30.2011 | Pages: 6 | Words: 7.1K | Visits: 170 | Status: Completed
Episode 10
The episode opens up inside a house, there's one table with four chairs that appear to be made out of metal, there's also a metal tool cabinet in the corner, on top of the cabinet is three pictures. The picture to the left is of a man, a women and Tom smiling as they work on a Gundam, the man and women look similar to Mark and Jack.
The middle picture is the man and the woman holding a baby in their arms, we can see young Mark (maybe 6) standing next to them, they’re all smiling and basically happy. The picture to the right is of Mark and a young Jack (maybe 12) Mark is smiling and has a peace sign up while he's messing up Jack's hair, Jack is looking at Mark annoyed. The door opens and Jack walks in, she turns on the lights
Jack: Welcome to my house, make yourself at home not that I've got a choice.
Cagalli, Roxas, Nick, Kenny and Shadow walk in after her. Jack walks over to the tool cabinet and begins to put her tools away.
Shadow: Nice place.
Kenny goes and sits down at one of the chairs. Kenny turns to look closer at the chair
Kenny: Are these chairs made out of metal?
Jack done putting her tools away turns to glare at him
Jack: Yea, so?
She says challengingly, Kenny cowers under her gaze but Nick taking a seat across from Kenny turns around and says
Nick: She's a mechanic mate, and she probably built this whole house and everything in it.
Jack doesn't comment. Roxas starts to walk to the kitchen
Roxas: I'm hungry, where's the kitchen?
Shadow follows Roxas
Shadow: It's impolite to let a lady eat alone so I will come with you.
He says this in a grand manner. Cagalli who's leaning on the wall rolls her eyes
Cagalli: More like you just want another chance to hit on Roxas.
Shadow turns to glare at her
Shadow: NO, well maybe yes, but I am hungry.
Roxas and Shadow walk into the kitchen. Jack starts to chase after them
Jack: Wait a minute, don't just go and rummage through other people's houses without their permission!
She yells at them as she chases them into the kitchen, Nick turns to Cagalli, and Kenny as he pulls a deck of cards out of his pocket
Nick: Want to play a game of cards mates?
The scene cuts to the Kitchen; Roxas is eating a steak at the table once again reminding us of some kind of animal with the way she's just ripping it apart with her teeth and gold claws. Shadow is waiting by the microwave for his food to finish; Jack burst in takes one look around and gets really red with anger.
Jack: What the hell do you think you're doing!
Shadow is unmoved
Shadow: We're eating.
That just pisses off Jack even more
Jack: I can see that, what do you Jackasses think you're doing eating my food?
She yells at them, Jack goes to take the steak from Roxas but Roxas snaps her teeth and barks at her, then growls at her when Jack backs off momentary taken back. Shadow looks amuse and a little afraid.
Shadow: Yea, I won't do that again.
Roxas goes back to ravaging the poor steak. Jack is still a little shocked
Jack: Is she always like this?
The microwave beeps and Shadow grabs his food.
Shadow: Yup, we found her in the woods so she sometimes acts more animal like than human.
Shadow begins to eat his food while Jack continues to stare at Roxas.
Jack: Interesting.
Shadow looks at Jack surprised.
Shadow: I didn't know you were into that kind of thing.
Jack kicks him hard in the knee
Shadow: OW!
Jack still focus on Roxas takes out her PDA from her pocket and begins to write a bunch of notes down.
Jack: Watching her gives me an idea on how to perfect a new design for the rapture system on the left knee of a Gundam.
Shadow looks at Jack like she's speaking a foreign language.
Shadow: Um, Ok.
Jack is getting excited
Jack: This is great I haven't had a breakthrough on this design for months!
Shadow is watching her closely, but Jack is now paying complete attention to her PDA. He begins taking slowly
Shadow: You know, Roxas isn't the only interesting person on my Gundam Team, I'm sure if you came with us you'll be able to find lots of inspiration.
Like a switch that was press, Jack's face changes from one that is excited to one that is extremely annoyed. She stops writing on her PDA and turns to glare at Shadow
Jack: I said NO!
She puts her PDA back into one of her pockets.
Shadow: Why not?
He says pleadingly, Jack snaps back
Jack: Because I said so and stop eating my food!
She yells at Shadow as she grabs the food from him.
Shadow: Hey I was still eating that!
Jack puts the food back in the refrigerator. Roxas has finish her steak, she licks her lips and burps.
Roxas: Not anymore apparently.
Shadow turns to Roxas annoyed
Shadow: Thanks Roxas.
Roxas smiles playfully
Roxas: Anytime.
Jack starts yelling at them
Jack: Both of you out of my kitchen now!
She takes out her wrench and starts swing it at them, Roxas meows at Jack and dodges the wrench the same way a cat would and Shadow also dodges. Roxas and Shadow start retreating from the kitchen, they head back into the living where Cagalli, Kenny, and Nick seem to be playing a game of poker.
Shadow: Man Jack sure has a temper.
Roxas nods her head
Roxas: I agree she needs to get laid.
Cagalli looks up from her cards
Cagalli: I don't suppose you idiots would consider that Jack has a right to be mad, after all you did come into her house and start eating her food without her permission.
Shadow shrugs it off
Shadow: Details, Details, Details.
Cagalli gets tick off by Shadow's comment
Cagalli: Were you raised in the jungle!
Roxas goes to answer but Cagalli snaps
Cagalli: Don't answer that Roxas!
Roxas blinks in surprise
Roxas: Well excused me.
Roxas walks over to the corner on all fours, circles three times then sits down, Shadow doesn't take offense.
Shadow: Don't take it personally Roxas; Cagalli is just mad because she's getting her ass kick in poker.
Shadow walks behind her and looks at her cards, Cagalli looks at Shadow annoyed. Nick looks up from his cards they seem to be playing Texas hold em.
Nick: All right show your cards.
On the table is an A of spades, 10 of jacks, 3 of diamonds, 8 of hearts, and a King of hearts, Kenny puts a 2 of heats and a queen of diamonds on the table
Kenny: Queen high
Cagalli smiles and puts a King of diamonds and a 7 of spades
Cagalli: Pair of Kings
Cagalli smiles thinking she's got them beat, Nick smiles kindly then puts down his card, A of jacks, and A of hearts
Nick: Sorry miss, but that's three A's mates, I win.
Nick collects the cards and starts shuffling,
Cagalli: Damn!
Shadow: Texas Hold em, isn't that kind of boring without actually gambling?
Kenny: We are, we have it work on a point system with each player starting at 100 points, we bet the points instead of money.
Shadow nods in understanding
Shadow: So who's winning?
Kenny sighs
Kenny: Nick with 276 points. I've got 34 points.
Shadow nods towards Cagalli
Shadow: How many does Cagalli have?
Cagalli sighs depressed
Cagalli: I'm out.
Nick smiles kindly at her
Nick: Aw don't be like that mate; it was your first time playing cards.
Cagalli still depressed replies
Cagalli: It was my first time 20 hands ago.
Shadow looks at Cagalli then takes a seat next to her
Shadow: Put me in with a 100 points, Cagalli and I will act as Team.
Cagalli looks at Shadow surprise
Cagalli: Team?
Shadow shrugs
Shadow: Yea, I figure I'll give you some tips on how to play, that and if you just sat there waiting for the game to end you'll mess up my concentration.
Cagalli is slightly offended
Cagalli: Fine, I bet you can't even play anyways.
Shadow is annoyed by her comment
Shadow: I'll show you!
Nick starts dealing the cards
Nick: I don't mind, two bad players equal one good player.
Shadow’s offended
Shadow: Wait and see I'll school you all in poker!
The camera cuts to the hallway, we see Jack walking towards the living room.
Jack (Those guys sure made a mess in the kitchen, better go see what they're up to.)
She turns in to the living room to see them playing poker, we see Shadow and the others laughing, smiling and basically having a good time. It gives off a warm friendly feeling. The camera turns to Jack to show she's in a deep state of shock.
The camera turns back to the others only to show them replace with a bunch of mechanics, we see Mark in the seat where Shadow was sitting. They settle down from their joke, Mark turns and notices Jack standing there.
Mark: Oh Jack why don't you come play poker with us?
He says with a smile and friendly voice, Jack is still deeply shock, Mark starts looking at her concern.
Mark: Hey Jack you alright?
Suddenly Mark's face begins to fade and gets replace by Shadow
Shadow: Jack you alright?
The other faces go back to normal; Jack blinks then shakes her head
Jack: Huh, what?
Shadow still a little worried asks
Shadow: I was asking you if you wanted to come play poker with us.
Jack suddenly snaps
Jack: NO, I'm heading to bed!
She marches off; the others all have surprise looks on their face
Kenny: What's her problem?
Shadow shrugs; Jack calls out to them still in the hallway
Jack: And if you bastards go anywhere us other than that living room I'll beat the shit out of you all.
They all exchange looks of fear, the camera cuts back into the dark hallway, Jack takes her fist and hits the wall.
Jack (Damn it, why does he have to be so similar to him!)
The scene end with Jack walking off into her bedroom. The next scene opens up in the living room, the lights have been turn off and everyone seems to be asleep. Roxas is still in the corner curled up, Nick is sitting down in the chair with his feet on the table; his hat is down low covering his eyes, Kenny has taken the other three chairs and is laying down on them, Shadow and Cagalli are on floor leaning on the wall across from one another. Jack burst into the room, she's fully clothe but her hair is a little wet like she just came out of a shower.
Jack: Wake up you free loaders!
She calls out, and walks over to her tool cabinet; on her way over there she kicks the chair out from under Kenny and sends it flying into Shadow. Kenny crashes to the ground as the chair hits Shadow in the chest.
Shadow and Kenny: OW
Cagalli and Nick are starting to wake up, Cagalli rubs her eye.
Cagalli: Huh, what's going on?
Nick yawns and stretches
Nick: G'day mates, morning all ready?
Jack still taking tools from the tool cabinet replies
Jack: Yup, I've got to get to work and I'll be damn if I let you free loaders stay by yourself in my house, so you're coming with me.
Shadow pushes the chair off himself; he is very tick about being woken up.
Shadow: What time is it?
Jack replies without hesitation
Jack: Early, now get your lazy bums up and you stop sleeping right now!
She says the last part at Roxas and throws a wrench at her hitting her in the chest, Roxas jumps up and hiss like startle cat. Jack finishes getting her tools and walks over to the door and opens it.
Jack: Alright come on slow people let's get going.
Kenny getting up looks at Jack annoyed
Kenny: Don't we at least get a shower?
Cagalli also getting up adds
Cagalli: And breakfast?
Jack says in a hurried voice
Jack: There are normally a couple of food benders in the warehouse, so I'm sure you can buy something from them.
Nick is already heading towards the door and Cagalli seems to becoming more awake. Kenny and Shadow are still trying to shake sleepiness from their eyes, and Roxas is laying down trying to get back to sleep.
Cagalli: And what about the shower?
Jack laughs
Jack: Hahahah like I would let you use my shower.
Nick, Cagalli, and Kenny exit, Shadow walks over to Roxas and grabs the collar of her shirt and begins to drag her towards the door. Hissing Roxas begins to try and grip the floor with her nails unsuccessfully, Shadow still unhappy about being woken up says.
Shadow: Come on Roxas; if I have to suffer so do you, and you why do you look so damn relaxed!
He says the last statement to Nick as he walks out the door still pulling Roxas, it's still dark outside. Nick smiles at him
Nick: This is the time I used to get up and start work on the range with the mates, mate.
Kenny rolls his eyes as Jack closes and locks the door.
Kenny: Figures cowboy.
Jack turns to face them and puts the keys in her pocket
Jack: What are you guys standing there for MARCH!
Jack barks at them, the scene cuts back into the warehouse in front of Nightwing. The camera moves over top of Nightwing to see Jack once again working on Nightwing, the camera moves over to the side to show Shadow and the others leaning against the wall looking bored.
Shadow: I'm so bored.
Shadow complains, Cagalli turns to look at him annoyed
Cagalli: And you complaining about it for the fifth time in 10 minutes will make it all better.
Shadow and Cagalli start glaring at each other,
Nick: Well it's not like we can do much more mates, it's too loud in here to get some sleep with the exception of the miss.
He nods towards Roxas, who is curled up sleeping like a log. Cagalli looks at her
Cagalli: Are we sure she's human?
Shadow smiles at her
Shadow: Well pretty sure although I do wish I could fall asleep in this ruckus.
Kenny gets off the wall and starts walking towards Nightwing. Shadow turns to him surprise
Shadow: Where are you going?
Kenny doesn't turn around
Kenny: I'm going to go check out the programming in Nightwing.
Shadow smiles at him
Shadow: If you're going to check it out you might as well upgrade it.
Kenny just waves at him, Shadow leans back against the wall
Shadow: I'm so bored.
Cagalli jumps off the wall
Cagalli: That's it I'm getting some air!
She shouts out very annoyed by Shadow's comment. She walks away, and Shadow surprise turns to Nick
Shadow: What I say?
The camera cuts to Cagalli who's walking towards the exit of the Warehouse
Cagalli (Arg that stupid Shadow Zoomarey is such a pain constantly talking and saying stupid jokes, if I hear him say he's bored one more time I'll…I'll….)
She stops her train of thought as she walks outside an exit just in time to see the sun rise. Her eyes open wide in surprise, the camera turns and moves behind Cagalli so that we can also see the view.
We can see different mountains of Junk of different sizes spread out, but as the rising sun hits the metal and the light reflects off it onto other metals and the lights reflect off those metals and so on, giving the effect of thousands of light beams crisscrossing one another, the whole scene is considerably beautiful.
Cagalli is stun by its beauty, her eyes are wide open and her mouth has slightly dropped. Tom walks up behind her, he's smiling at her
Tom: So what do you think?
Cagalli startle looks behind herself to see Tom. Once she sees its Tom she goes back to looking at the scenery.
Cagalli: It's beautiful.
Tom smiles at her and goes to stand next to her
Tom: It sure is I come here every morning to take a look at this view before I start my days work. As I'm sure you know Junk City isn't known for its beauty.
Cagalli looks to the ground embarrassed, Tom notices but continues anyway
Tom: Or rather it isn't known for the beauty rich people look for when they think of beauty, but Junk City has its own unique beauty, a beauty that can only be find here like this sunrise. It's just ashamed that most people consider Junk City a landfill and not even bother to look for its own beauty.
Cagalli lowers her head ashamed
Cagalli: I'm sorry; I'm one of those people who just thought this City was a landfill.
Tom laughs
Tom: HAHAHAH, there's nothing to be sorry about, I have yet to meet someone who wasn't born in Junk City come here and not think right off the bat that Junk City is just a landfill.
Tom laughs some more but Cagalli cuts in
Cagalli: You're wrong.
Now Tom looks at her surprise, Cagalli has a quick flashback to Shadow asking her if that was all she could see.
Cagalli: Shadow could see instantly from the moment he step foot in Junk City its beauty.
Tom takes this in for a moment than slaps Cagalli on the back
Tom: Well you're not Shadow and the important thing is that you can see the beauty now, so let's head back in to see how Jack's doing on the Gundam.
Tom turns around and heads back into the Warehouse. Cagalli lingers for a moment more than also heads back in.
Cagalli (He's right the important thing now is that I can see the beauty of Junk City too.)
The scene cuts back to Nightwing, Jack lifts her head up from the spot she had been working on, she puts the wrench and drill she was working with back into her pockets. She wipes sweat from her forehead and thinks out loud.
Jack: Alright now that I finish improving the Geo system I'll move on to, Hey what the hell do you think you're doing!
She shouts the last part at Kenny, who she notice when she turn to look for the new system. Kenny has a laptop hook up to a bunch of cables hook up to Nightwing. He was typing pretty fast when Jack interrupt, when Jack shouts at him he jumps up startle.
Kenny: I…I was improving the programming on Nightwing.
Jack looks at him surprise
Jack: Programming, you're a programmer?
Kenny is a little offended and momentary forgets his fear of Jack
Kenny: That's right I'm the official programmer of the Gundam Team, and since it was made a point that the Warehouse doesn't do programming I figure I do it now while I had the free time.
Jack starts to glare at Kenny, causing him to step back slightly afraid, but then Jack sighs and says.
Jack: Fine, but don't get in my way.
Before Kenny can comment Shadow calls up from the bottom of Nightwing
Shadow: Hey Jack how much longer is this going to take?
Jack jumps down to him; Kenny turns back to the computer and continues his work
Jack: I've got about 83 percent of it done give me another 3 hours and it should be completely finished by then.
Shadow nods his head
Shadow: And when you finish it, it should be as good as new right?
Jack gives a short laugh and brags
Jack: HA, when I finish it, it will be better than new; it will be operating a 100 times better.
Shadow looks at her deeply impressed. While they've been talking Tom and Cagalli have walk up behind them and Tom laughs when he hears her say 100 times better
Tom: HAHAHAH, 100 times better I like to see it but I figure it would have to be three times the size of the Basic Original and with four times the fire power!
He smiles at Jack, it's one of those friendly smiles a father gives to a son when he catches him boasting BS, and Jack blushes in embarrassment at being caught.
Jack: Well I might have exaggerated a little bit.
Tom: Jack a professional mechanic doesn't lie about the performance of the Gundam.
Tom gently scolded but Jack still gets defensive.
Jack: Oh come on that guy's an idiot, he was eating every word I said; couldn't we go on letting him believe he was getting such a good deal?
Jack points to an annoyed Shadow when she says that guy. Tom rolls his eyes while Shadow highly annoyed says
Shadow: Hey I'm still here!
Jack turns to him now slightly annoyed
Jack: And why are you here? I already told you it will be another 3 hours so shoo.
She waves her hand at him to go. Shadow is annoyed by the comment but lets it go, he smiles at Jack and says.
Shadow: I'm not going anywhere until you agree to become our Gundam Team mechanic.
The mood changes instantly, before Shadow made the comment the mood can be describe best as light hearted and easy going. The moment Shadow makes the comment; the mood goes south, Jack very tick off now turns around and yells at him
Jack: God what will it take to get through your thick skull that I do not want to be a part of your Gundam Team!
She shouts out loud, Nick, Kenny, and Roxas come over to see what's going on. Shadow is surprise by her anger; Jack turns around and marches off to finish Nightwing. Tom starts glaring at Shadow
Tom: You had to go there didn't you!
Tom starts yelling at him
Tom: You couldn't let it go! You had to push it!
His voice takes on a threatening tone
Tom: Now I'm telling you to drop it!
Tom takes on a threatening pose, Kenny and Cagalli are obviously intimated, Nick and Shadow are staring at him evenly, and Roxas is on the ground playing with some kind of shiny bolt thing, but her eyes occasionally glances upwards showing mild interest. Tom thinking he made his point begins to walk away.
Kenny: Hey Shadow maybe we should let this go, I'm sure we can find another mechanic.
Cagalli nods her head in agreement
Cagalli: Kenny’s right, there’s no reason to be a jerk and keep bothering her when she obviously doesn't want to be on this team.
Shadow is still staring intensely at Tom
Shadow: Yea, I guess that would be the smart thing to do but since when have I ever been doing things based on what's the smart thing to do. Nick?
He turns to Nick, Nick nods his head, he also has a determine look in his eye
Nick: Don't worry mate, I also have a couple of questions to ask.
With Shadow in the lead and Nick following behind him, they head after Tom. Cagalli and Kenny are stun.
Cagalli: Hey w-wait a minute what are you guys going to do?
They ignored her and continue walking towards Tom. Cagalli turns towards Kenny
Cagalli: What the hell could they be thinking?
Kenny shrugs his shoulder
Kenny: Most likely something stupid and impulsive, well we better good to see what's up.
Roxas adds
Roxas: And to back them up if needed.
Cagalli and Kenny look down at Roxas surprise. Roxas eyes have change from playful to one of a watchful animal waiting to see what might happen in her territory. Kenny nods his head also growing more serious.
Kenny: Yea that too.
Kenny, Cagalli, and Roxas chase after Nick and Shadow. Shadow and Nick have caught up to Tom.
Shadow: Hey wait a minute, do you think you can just tell me to drop it and walk away without giving me any reason whatsoever.
Tom turns around very angry
Tom: I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU ANYTHING!
Shadow glares at him as Nick steps forward.
Nick: Then you can listen mate, you see I have my own theory is to the mystery of Jack.
Tom is growing even angrier
Tom: Shut up.
Nick: You see when Jack first said no at first I thought it was because she didn't want to get separated from her family.
Tom: Shut up!
Nick: But when we went to her house it was empty, it's true that she could have been an orphan and built that house herself like most of the residents of Junk City but that wouldn't make sense since it’s a large four bedroom house, so most likely her parents built it and she simply inherented it.
Shadow puts it all together
Shadow: So the real question is what happened to her family?
Tom: I SAID SHUT UP!
Tom punches Shadow in the face; Shadow goes flying and hits the ground hard a meter or two away.
Cagalli and Kenny: Shadow!
Roxas and Nick move between Shadow and Tom as Tom begins to shout at them
Tom: Who the hell do you think you are! You think you can come in here and just jump into people's most private matters and for what! So you and your buddies can have a laugh later at a little girl's expanse or maybe to show her some pity like she doesn't get that enough from the mechanics here, come on tell me why! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO KNOW!
Shadow rubs his chin where Tom punched him and spits out some blood. Shadow gets up slowly and looks Tom straight in the eye, his green eyes haven't lost their intense gaze. He replies in an even voice.
Shadow: I want to know so that I can understand her better.
Tom has calm down a bit
Tom: So you can manipulate her into joining your Gundam Team?
Tom asks suspicious, Shadow answers evenly
Shadow: So I can understand why she doesn't want to join my Gundam Team.
Tom and Shadow continue to stare at one another, finally Tom seems to fold.
Tom: If I tell you will you stop asking Jack to join your Gundam Team?
Shadow nods his head
Shadow: You have my word as the soon to be greatest Gundam Fighter this world has ever seen.
Tom gives a short sad laugh
Tom: HA, you know you're like Mark in so many ways it's almost scary.
Shadow is confused
Shadow: Mark?
Tom sighs
Tom: Jack's older brother, you see when Jack was very young she and Mark lost both their parents to raiders. Mark was 12 when it happened, but even at such an early age Mark decided to take care of his little sister. I help them out here and there but Mark did a lot of work on his own, he got a job here at the Warehouse and began working as a mechanic. You know it was his dream to become the greatest mechanic this world has ever seen.
Shadow nods his head
Shadow: Sounds like a good dream.
Tom: It was, and even with so much sadness in his life he never gave up on his dream. He raised Jack all on his own after their parents died, he taught her to read and write, he even started to teach her basic mechanic skills. At the Warehouse his own mechanic skills were improving constantly, he was always playing around with system designs trying to improve them in any way he could. HAHAH, he use to get in so much trouble when he experimented on customs Gundam's, but make no mistake he had all the necessary talents and skills to become a first rank mechanic.
While Tom is talking we should have a couple of flashback pictures of Mark, one of him holding Jack's hand at a funeral, a couple of him working at the Warehouse, and a couple of him with Jack.
Shadow: So what happen?
Tom looks at him for a moment deciding how much to tell.
Tom: It happen 3 months after Jack started working here, I remember it well; it was pouring that day. I had just been told anyone's worst nightmare; that the S-generator was failing.
We enter a flashback, Tom is surrounded by mechanics, and one of those mechanics just told him something unpleasant
Tom: What?
All of the mechanic appear scare
Mechanic A: It's true Tom, the S-generator is out of control the power levels are off the charts and they keep rising, at this rate the S-generator is going to explode!
Mechanic A is very panicked, all of the other mechanics look very scare now. Tom trying to keep people calm asks
Tom: Calm down, now tell me exactly what happen slowly.
Mechanic A on the brink of a nervous breakdown
Mechanic A: I….I don't know one minute everything was fine the next everything is going hay wired.
Mark who's been listening to everything carefully asks a question
Mark: What about the safely devices?
Mechanic A: They're all not responding.
Now Mark looks surprise
Mark: All of them!
Mechanic A loses it
Mechanic A: Yes all of them! We don't have time for this we need to evacuate now; we need to get people as far away from Junk City as possible now! Oh my god we're all going to die!
Tom goes up and slaps him
Tom: Get a grip on yourself!
But its obvious Tom's scare too, he looks around himself to see a bunch of scare faces. Tom takes a breath to calm himself down and then shouts out
Tom: Alright everyone you heard the man let's get moving, Rick, Jim you guys grab some people and start telling the Gundam pilots to get out of here, if a Gundam can move then it's good to go. Jacob start asking the ship's captains if we can get a lift out of here, everyone else go home to get your families and hurry to get out of town.
People start running to get what they needed done. Tom starts walking and thinking while Mark follows him, neither of them notices Jack following the both of them.
Mark: If the S-generator does explode it's going to level Junk City, there's no way everyone is going to make it out in time.
Tom: I know but unless you can suggest something we don't have any other choice.
Mark: There is another option.
Now Tom stops and looks at him
Tom: What?
Mark seems to think about it for a moment then smiles a sad smile
Mark: We're mechanics Tom; we repair things, so of course the best option is to repair one of the safety devices on the S-generator.
Tom is shocked
Tom: Are you nuts, the S-generator can't be turned off so if you try to get anywhere near it you'll either be killed by the extreme heat or one of the electrical discharges.
Mark goes to argue
Mark: But I should still have enough time before I die to fix at least one of the safely devices.
Tom just stares at Mark
Tom: Mark
Mark gives another sad smile
Mark: See you Tom.
He begins to walk away leaving a stun Tom behind, Jack begins to follow him. She begins to plead with her older brother, a desperate and sad plead of one trying to stop a person who's going to jump.
Jack: Mark come on let's go, one of the ship's captains I worked with agree to let us ride on his ship, so if we go now we should be able to get out of the city in time, so let's GO!
She grabs his arm and try's to pull him by force. Mark doesn't budge; he smiles a sad smile at Jack.
Mark: I'm sorry Jack not this time.
Jack is beginning to cry. Mark turns away again and begins to walk away when Jack shouts
Jack: Damn it why are you risking you’re life to save this stupid excused of a landfill, its better off just disappearing!
Mark turns around and slaps Jack. Tom and Jack are stun
Tom (I've never seen Mark hit his sister before!)
Mark angry now
Mark: Don't you ever call your home that!
Mark takes a breath
Mark: Jack, this city is a lot more important than people realize. If a Gundam's life came be describe as a circle, then this city is beginning and ending point of a Gundam's circle, this is the place where Gundam's come to die, this is also the place where Gundams are born, a place where old broken down Gundams are brought to be reborn into new more powerful Gundam's and if this place where to disappear then it would be like someone taking a piece out of the circle making it incomplete and I am sure that this disaster would be felt by all the world. That's why as long as I live I can't let this city be destroyed.
Jack has gotten up, Tom has put a reassuring hand on her shoulder as Mark takes a knee and puts his hand on her other shoulder. Jack is crying uncontrollably
Mark: Goodbye Jack.
With that he gets up and begins to run towards the place with the S-generator. We come back to the present.
Tom: Mark lost his life on that day but he manage to fix one of the safely devices and saved the whole city.
Everyone is quite taking this in
Shadow: Thank you for telling us, I believe I understand Jack better now and a deal's a deal so I will not bother her again.
Tom nods his head
Tom: Well I've got work to do so bye.
Tom walks away. There's an awkward silence as they think of what they learned then Kenny speaks.
Kenny: Well I should get back to the programming of Nightwing.
Kenny begins to walk away
Nick: I could use some air mates.
Nick walks away, Roxas stretches
Roxas: I need a nap.
Roxas walks away; Shadow turns towards Cagalli and smiles his normal smile.
Shadow: Well I'm hungry so I'm going to see if I can catch one of those food benders.
Shadow walks away but Cagalli chases after him.
Cagalli: Hey wait a second, there's still a couple of things I don't understand about the story.
She catches up to Shadow, they continue walking together
Shadow: Like what?
Cagalli: Well for starters I don't understand the whole S-generator thing; don't they only power the Gundams?
Shadow is still looking for a food bender but he answers Cagalli's question.
Shadow: There are two kinds of S-generators, you would have to ask a mechanic or a specialist on what exactly is the difference between the two, but from what I know one is smaller than the other.
Cagalli is a little annoyed by his lack of information
Cagalli: So wait all you can tell me is that S-generators come in different sizes.
Shadow shrugs and looks at her slightly offended
Shadow: What do I look like, a mechanic?
Shadow finally spots a food bender (Just think hotdog stand) he signals the food bender
Shadow: Hey guy, two hotdogs please
He also adds with a devilish smile
Shadow: and put it on Tom's tab.
The bender nods his head and gets two hotdogs ready, Cagalli rolls her eyes
Cagalli: I'm pretty sure it's a crime to use someone else's tab without their permission.
Shadow: Um no on Sora it's perfectly legal.
He's lying obviously; we can tell that Cagalli knows he's lying by the way she's staring at him and folding her hands. Shadow tries a different approach
Shadow: Well Tom did say we were special guests and I'm sure Drake will pay him back.
Cagalli is still eyeing him disapprovingly. Shadow rolls his eyes
Shadow: And if all else fails then I'll pay Tom back myself once I make some money in the Gundam Fights.
Cagalli nods her head
Cagalli: That's better.
The food bender gives Shadow the hotdogs. Shadow turns to him
Shadow: Thanks.
He hands Cagalli one of the hotdogs
Shadow: Here you haven't eaten much today.
Cagalli takes the hotdog
Cagalli: Um thanks.
Shadow starts eating his hotdog without hesitation. Cagalli is eyeing the weird color sauce.
Shadow: Anyway where was I with the S-generators?
They start walking aimlessly
Cagalli: They come in different sizes.
Shadow remembers
Shadow: Right, Right, like I was saying the S-generator comes in two sizes, as you already know the small S-generator powers the Gundams, but what you didn't know is that most Cities' use the larger S-generator as the main power source for the whole city.
Cagalli nods her head in understanding. She’s still eyeing the weird color sauce; Shadow finally notices she's not eating the hotdog. He smiles at her
Shadow: What's the matter princess food not good enough for you?
Cagalli is annoyed by the comment
Cagalli: NO, it' just….do you know what kind of sauce this is?
Shadow is surprise the kind of surprise like “I've never thought about it” he begins to look at the remainder of the sauce on his hotdog more closely.
Shadow: Hmmmm, no idea.
He shrugs then takes another bite of his hotdog
Shadow: But it's delicious.
Cagalli rolls her eyes
Cagalli: Thanks that was helpful.
Shadow rolls his eyes
Shadow: If you're too scared to eat it then give it to me.
Shadow goes to grab the hotdog, but Cagalli moves it out of his reach
Cagalli: I'm not scared!
She brings the hotdog to her mouth, she sniffs it, and then hesitantly takes a bite of the hotdog. She begins to chew it her eyes pop open wide
Cagalli: Mmmm, this isn't bad.
Shadow smiles at her
Shadow: Told you so.
She finishes chewing then sticks her tongue out at him, and then she continues eating the hotdog.
Cagalli: Alright you told me what you know about the different S-generators, but you haven't told me about what happens when an S-generator fails.
Shadow: Well the S-generator is a massive power source and like all power sources it can fail or go out of control.
Cagalli nods somewhat understanding
Cagalli: Ok, so what makes this power source so dangerous?
Shadow says in a surprisingly sober voice
Shadow: Because when an S-generator fails it normally explodes and an S-generator explosion is equal to 3 nuclear bombs minus the radiation.
This shocks Cagalli and she starts looking around nervously.
Cagalli: What? And you people let something so dangerous in every city!
Shadow rolls his eyes
Shadow: Oh relax, there are over a dozen safety devices in place to make sure that in case the S-generator fails the energy is dispenses evenly preventing an explosion.
Cagalli: Ok but what happens if all the safety devices fail at the same time?
Shadow takes on a serious look
Shadow: It's impossible for all the safety devices to accidently fail at the same time.
Cagalli: But wait Tom said that all the safety devices fail…
The word accidently finally makes its way into Cagalli's brain, she stops talking as the realization hits her
Cagalli: You…You think someone
Shadow still with the serious look on his face finishes her statement
Shadow: Try to eliminate Junk City, without a doubt.
The episode ends with Shadow continuing to walk while Cagalli stops in her tracks stun.
The episode opens up inside a house, there's one table with four chairs that appear to be made out of metal, there's also a metal tool cabinet in the corner, on top of the cabinet is three pictures. The picture to the left is of a man, a women and Tom smiling as they work on a Gundam, the man and women look similar to Mark and Jack.
The middle picture is the man and the woman holding a baby in their arms, we can see young Mark (maybe 6) standing next to them, they’re all smiling and basically happy. The picture to the right is of Mark and a young Jack (maybe 12) Mark is smiling and has a peace sign up while he's messing up Jack's hair, Jack is looking at Mark annoyed. The door opens and Jack walks in, she turns on the lights
Jack: Welcome to my house, make yourself at home not that I've got a choice.
Cagalli, Roxas, Nick, Kenny and Shadow walk in after her. Jack walks over to the tool cabinet and begins to put her tools away.
Shadow: Nice place.
Kenny goes and sits down at one of the chairs. Kenny turns to look closer at the chair
Kenny: Are these chairs made out of metal?
Jack done putting her tools away turns to glare at him
Jack: Yea, so?
She says challengingly, Kenny cowers under her gaze but Nick taking a seat across from Kenny turns around and says
Nick: She's a mechanic mate, and she probably built this whole house and everything in it.
Jack doesn't comment. Roxas starts to walk to the kitchen
Roxas: I'm hungry, where's the kitchen?
Shadow follows Roxas
Shadow: It's impolite to let a lady eat alone so I will come with you.
He says this in a grand manner. Cagalli who's leaning on the wall rolls her eyes
Cagalli: More like you just want another chance to hit on Roxas.
Shadow turns to glare at her
Shadow: NO, well maybe yes, but I am hungry.
Roxas and Shadow walk into the kitchen. Jack starts to chase after them
Jack: Wait a minute, don't just go and rummage through other people's houses without their permission!
She yells at them as she chases them into the kitchen, Nick turns to Cagalli, and Kenny as he pulls a deck of cards out of his pocket
Nick: Want to play a game of cards mates?
The scene cuts to the Kitchen; Roxas is eating a steak at the table once again reminding us of some kind of animal with the way she's just ripping it apart with her teeth and gold claws. Shadow is waiting by the microwave for his food to finish; Jack burst in takes one look around and gets really red with anger.
Jack: What the hell do you think you're doing!
Shadow is unmoved
Shadow: We're eating.
That just pisses off Jack even more
Jack: I can see that, what do you Jackasses think you're doing eating my food?
She yells at them, Jack goes to take the steak from Roxas but Roxas snaps her teeth and barks at her, then growls at her when Jack backs off momentary taken back. Shadow looks amuse and a little afraid.
Shadow: Yea, I won't do that again.
Roxas goes back to ravaging the poor steak. Jack is still a little shocked
Jack: Is she always like this?
The microwave beeps and Shadow grabs his food.
Shadow: Yup, we found her in the woods so she sometimes acts more animal like than human.
Shadow begins to eat his food while Jack continues to stare at Roxas.
Jack: Interesting.
Shadow looks at Jack surprised.
Shadow: I didn't know you were into that kind of thing.
Jack kicks him hard in the knee
Shadow: OW!
Jack still focus on Roxas takes out her PDA from her pocket and begins to write a bunch of notes down.
Jack: Watching her gives me an idea on how to perfect a new design for the rapture system on the left knee of a Gundam.
Shadow looks at Jack like she's speaking a foreign language.
Shadow: Um, Ok.
Jack is getting excited
Jack: This is great I haven't had a breakthrough on this design for months!
Shadow is watching her closely, but Jack is now paying complete attention to her PDA. He begins taking slowly
Shadow: You know, Roxas isn't the only interesting person on my Gundam Team, I'm sure if you came with us you'll be able to find lots of inspiration.
Like a switch that was press, Jack's face changes from one that is excited to one that is extremely annoyed. She stops writing on her PDA and turns to glare at Shadow
Jack: I said NO!
She puts her PDA back into one of her pockets.
Shadow: Why not?
He says pleadingly, Jack snaps back
Jack: Because I said so and stop eating my food!
She yells at Shadow as she grabs the food from him.
Shadow: Hey I was still eating that!
Jack puts the food back in the refrigerator. Roxas has finish her steak, she licks her lips and burps.
Roxas: Not anymore apparently.
Shadow turns to Roxas annoyed
Shadow: Thanks Roxas.
Roxas smiles playfully
Roxas: Anytime.
Jack starts yelling at them
Jack: Both of you out of my kitchen now!
She takes out her wrench and starts swing it at them, Roxas meows at Jack and dodges the wrench the same way a cat would and Shadow also dodges. Roxas and Shadow start retreating from the kitchen, they head back into the living where Cagalli, Kenny, and Nick seem to be playing a game of poker.
Shadow: Man Jack sure has a temper.
Roxas nods her head
Roxas: I agree she needs to get laid.
Cagalli looks up from her cards
Cagalli: I don't suppose you idiots would consider that Jack has a right to be mad, after all you did come into her house and start eating her food without her permission.
Shadow shrugs it off
Shadow: Details, Details, Details.
Cagalli gets tick off by Shadow's comment
Cagalli: Were you raised in the jungle!
Roxas goes to answer but Cagalli snaps
Cagalli: Don't answer that Roxas!
Roxas blinks in surprise
Roxas: Well excused me.
Roxas walks over to the corner on all fours, circles three times then sits down, Shadow doesn't take offense.
Shadow: Don't take it personally Roxas; Cagalli is just mad because she's getting her ass kick in poker.
Shadow walks behind her and looks at her cards, Cagalli looks at Shadow annoyed. Nick looks up from his cards they seem to be playing Texas hold em.
Nick: All right show your cards.
On the table is an A of spades, 10 of jacks, 3 of diamonds, 8 of hearts, and a King of hearts, Kenny puts a 2 of heats and a queen of diamonds on the table
Kenny: Queen high
Cagalli smiles and puts a King of diamonds and a 7 of spades
Cagalli: Pair of Kings
Cagalli smiles thinking she's got them beat, Nick smiles kindly then puts down his card, A of jacks, and A of hearts
Nick: Sorry miss, but that's three A's mates, I win.
Nick collects the cards and starts shuffling,
Cagalli: Damn!
Shadow: Texas Hold em, isn't that kind of boring without actually gambling?
Kenny: We are, we have it work on a point system with each player starting at 100 points, we bet the points instead of money.
Shadow nods in understanding
Shadow: So who's winning?
Kenny sighs
Kenny: Nick with 276 points. I've got 34 points.
Shadow nods towards Cagalli
Shadow: How many does Cagalli have?
Cagalli sighs depressed
Cagalli: I'm out.
Nick smiles kindly at her
Nick: Aw don't be like that mate; it was your first time playing cards.
Cagalli still depressed replies
Cagalli: It was my first time 20 hands ago.
Shadow looks at Cagalli then takes a seat next to her
Shadow: Put me in with a 100 points, Cagalli and I will act as Team.
Cagalli looks at Shadow surprise
Cagalli: Team?
Shadow shrugs
Shadow: Yea, I figure I'll give you some tips on how to play, that and if you just sat there waiting for the game to end you'll mess up my concentration.
Cagalli is slightly offended
Cagalli: Fine, I bet you can't even play anyways.
Shadow is annoyed by her comment
Shadow: I'll show you!
Nick starts dealing the cards
Nick: I don't mind, two bad players equal one good player.
Shadow’s offended
Shadow: Wait and see I'll school you all in poker!
The camera cuts to the hallway, we see Jack walking towards the living room.
Jack (Those guys sure made a mess in the kitchen, better go see what they're up to.)
She turns in to the living room to see them playing poker, we see Shadow and the others laughing, smiling and basically having a good time. It gives off a warm friendly feeling. The camera turns to Jack to show she's in a deep state of shock.
The camera turns back to the others only to show them replace with a bunch of mechanics, we see Mark in the seat where Shadow was sitting. They settle down from their joke, Mark turns and notices Jack standing there.
Mark: Oh Jack why don't you come play poker with us?
He says with a smile and friendly voice, Jack is still deeply shock, Mark starts looking at her concern.
Mark: Hey Jack you alright?
Suddenly Mark's face begins to fade and gets replace by Shadow
Shadow: Jack you alright?
The other faces go back to normal; Jack blinks then shakes her head
Jack: Huh, what?
Shadow still a little worried asks
Shadow: I was asking you if you wanted to come play poker with us.
Jack suddenly snaps
Jack: NO, I'm heading to bed!
She marches off; the others all have surprise looks on their face
Kenny: What's her problem?
Shadow shrugs; Jack calls out to them still in the hallway
Jack: And if you bastards go anywhere us other than that living room I'll beat the shit out of you all.
They all exchange looks of fear, the camera cuts back into the dark hallway, Jack takes her fist and hits the wall.
Jack (Damn it, why does he have to be so similar to him!)
The scene end with Jack walking off into her bedroom. The next scene opens up in the living room, the lights have been turn off and everyone seems to be asleep. Roxas is still in the corner curled up, Nick is sitting down in the chair with his feet on the table; his hat is down low covering his eyes, Kenny has taken the other three chairs and is laying down on them, Shadow and Cagalli are on floor leaning on the wall across from one another. Jack burst into the room, she's fully clothe but her hair is a little wet like she just came out of a shower.
Jack: Wake up you free loaders!
She calls out, and walks over to her tool cabinet; on her way over there she kicks the chair out from under Kenny and sends it flying into Shadow. Kenny crashes to the ground as the chair hits Shadow in the chest.
Shadow and Kenny: OW
Cagalli and Nick are starting to wake up, Cagalli rubs her eye.
Cagalli: Huh, what's going on?
Nick yawns and stretches
Nick: G'day mates, morning all ready?
Jack still taking tools from the tool cabinet replies
Jack: Yup, I've got to get to work and I'll be damn if I let you free loaders stay by yourself in my house, so you're coming with me.
Shadow pushes the chair off himself; he is very tick about being woken up.
Shadow: What time is it?
Jack replies without hesitation
Jack: Early, now get your lazy bums up and you stop sleeping right now!
She says the last part at Roxas and throws a wrench at her hitting her in the chest, Roxas jumps up and hiss like startle cat. Jack finishes getting her tools and walks over to the door and opens it.
Jack: Alright come on slow people let's get going.
Kenny getting up looks at Jack annoyed
Kenny: Don't we at least get a shower?
Cagalli also getting up adds
Cagalli: And breakfast?
Jack says in a hurried voice
Jack: There are normally a couple of food benders in the warehouse, so I'm sure you can buy something from them.
Nick is already heading towards the door and Cagalli seems to becoming more awake. Kenny and Shadow are still trying to shake sleepiness from their eyes, and Roxas is laying down trying to get back to sleep.
Cagalli: And what about the shower?
Jack laughs
Jack: Hahahah like I would let you use my shower.
Nick, Cagalli, and Kenny exit, Shadow walks over to Roxas and grabs the collar of her shirt and begins to drag her towards the door. Hissing Roxas begins to try and grip the floor with her nails unsuccessfully, Shadow still unhappy about being woken up says.
Shadow: Come on Roxas; if I have to suffer so do you, and you why do you look so damn relaxed!
He says the last statement to Nick as he walks out the door still pulling Roxas, it's still dark outside. Nick smiles at him
Nick: This is the time I used to get up and start work on the range with the mates, mate.
Kenny rolls his eyes as Jack closes and locks the door.
Kenny: Figures cowboy.
Jack turns to face them and puts the keys in her pocket
Jack: What are you guys standing there for MARCH!
Jack barks at them, the scene cuts back into the warehouse in front of Nightwing. The camera moves over top of Nightwing to see Jack once again working on Nightwing, the camera moves over to the side to show Shadow and the others leaning against the wall looking bored.
Shadow: I'm so bored.
Shadow complains, Cagalli turns to look at him annoyed
Cagalli: And you complaining about it for the fifth time in 10 minutes will make it all better.
Shadow and Cagalli start glaring at each other,
Nick: Well it's not like we can do much more mates, it's too loud in here to get some sleep with the exception of the miss.
He nods towards Roxas, who is curled up sleeping like a log. Cagalli looks at her
Cagalli: Are we sure she's human?
Shadow smiles at her
Shadow: Well pretty sure although I do wish I could fall asleep in this ruckus.
Kenny gets off the wall and starts walking towards Nightwing. Shadow turns to him surprise
Shadow: Where are you going?
Kenny doesn't turn around
Kenny: I'm going to go check out the programming in Nightwing.
Shadow smiles at him
Shadow: If you're going to check it out you might as well upgrade it.
Kenny just waves at him, Shadow leans back against the wall
Shadow: I'm so bored.
Cagalli jumps off the wall
Cagalli: That's it I'm getting some air!
She shouts out very annoyed by Shadow's comment. She walks away, and Shadow surprise turns to Nick
Shadow: What I say?
The camera cuts to Cagalli who's walking towards the exit of the Warehouse
Cagalli (Arg that stupid Shadow Zoomarey is such a pain constantly talking and saying stupid jokes, if I hear him say he's bored one more time I'll…I'll….)
She stops her train of thought as she walks outside an exit just in time to see the sun rise. Her eyes open wide in surprise, the camera turns and moves behind Cagalli so that we can also see the view.
We can see different mountains of Junk of different sizes spread out, but as the rising sun hits the metal and the light reflects off it onto other metals and the lights reflect off those metals and so on, giving the effect of thousands of light beams crisscrossing one another, the whole scene is considerably beautiful.
Cagalli is stun by its beauty, her eyes are wide open and her mouth has slightly dropped. Tom walks up behind her, he's smiling at her
Tom: So what do you think?
Cagalli startle looks behind herself to see Tom. Once she sees its Tom she goes back to looking at the scenery.
Cagalli: It's beautiful.
Tom smiles at her and goes to stand next to her
Tom: It sure is I come here every morning to take a look at this view before I start my days work. As I'm sure you know Junk City isn't known for its beauty.
Cagalli looks to the ground embarrassed, Tom notices but continues anyway
Tom: Or rather it isn't known for the beauty rich people look for when they think of beauty, but Junk City has its own unique beauty, a beauty that can only be find here like this sunrise. It's just ashamed that most people consider Junk City a landfill and not even bother to look for its own beauty.
Cagalli lowers her head ashamed
Cagalli: I'm sorry; I'm one of those people who just thought this City was a landfill.
Tom laughs
Tom: HAHAHAH, there's nothing to be sorry about, I have yet to meet someone who wasn't born in Junk City come here and not think right off the bat that Junk City is just a landfill.
Tom laughs some more but Cagalli cuts in
Cagalli: You're wrong.
Now Tom looks at her surprise, Cagalli has a quick flashback to Shadow asking her if that was all she could see.
Cagalli: Shadow could see instantly from the moment he step foot in Junk City its beauty.
Tom takes this in for a moment than slaps Cagalli on the back
Tom: Well you're not Shadow and the important thing is that you can see the beauty now, so let's head back in to see how Jack's doing on the Gundam.
Tom turns around and heads back into the Warehouse. Cagalli lingers for a moment more than also heads back in.
Cagalli (He's right the important thing now is that I can see the beauty of Junk City too.)
The scene cuts back to Nightwing, Jack lifts her head up from the spot she had been working on, she puts the wrench and drill she was working with back into her pockets. She wipes sweat from her forehead and thinks out loud.
Jack: Alright now that I finish improving the Geo system I'll move on to, Hey what the hell do you think you're doing!
She shouts the last part at Kenny, who she notice when she turn to look for the new system. Kenny has a laptop hook up to a bunch of cables hook up to Nightwing. He was typing pretty fast when Jack interrupt, when Jack shouts at him he jumps up startle.
Kenny: I…I was improving the programming on Nightwing.
Jack looks at him surprise
Jack: Programming, you're a programmer?
Kenny is a little offended and momentary forgets his fear of Jack
Kenny: That's right I'm the official programmer of the Gundam Team, and since it was made a point that the Warehouse doesn't do programming I figure I do it now while I had the free time.
Jack starts to glare at Kenny, causing him to step back slightly afraid, but then Jack sighs and says.
Jack: Fine, but don't get in my way.
Before Kenny can comment Shadow calls up from the bottom of Nightwing
Shadow: Hey Jack how much longer is this going to take?
Jack jumps down to him; Kenny turns back to the computer and continues his work
Jack: I've got about 83 percent of it done give me another 3 hours and it should be completely finished by then.
Shadow nods his head
Shadow: And when you finish it, it should be as good as new right?
Jack gives a short laugh and brags
Jack: HA, when I finish it, it will be better than new; it will be operating a 100 times better.
Shadow looks at her deeply impressed. While they've been talking Tom and Cagalli have walk up behind them and Tom laughs when he hears her say 100 times better
Tom: HAHAHAH, 100 times better I like to see it but I figure it would have to be three times the size of the Basic Original and with four times the fire power!
He smiles at Jack, it's one of those friendly smiles a father gives to a son when he catches him boasting BS, and Jack blushes in embarrassment at being caught.
Jack: Well I might have exaggerated a little bit.
Tom: Jack a professional mechanic doesn't lie about the performance of the Gundam.
Tom gently scolded but Jack still gets defensive.
Jack: Oh come on that guy's an idiot, he was eating every word I said; couldn't we go on letting him believe he was getting such a good deal?
Jack points to an annoyed Shadow when she says that guy. Tom rolls his eyes while Shadow highly annoyed says
Shadow: Hey I'm still here!
Jack turns to him now slightly annoyed
Jack: And why are you here? I already told you it will be another 3 hours so shoo.
She waves her hand at him to go. Shadow is annoyed by the comment but lets it go, he smiles at Jack and says.
Shadow: I'm not going anywhere until you agree to become our Gundam Team mechanic.
The mood changes instantly, before Shadow made the comment the mood can be describe best as light hearted and easy going. The moment Shadow makes the comment; the mood goes south, Jack very tick off now turns around and yells at him
Jack: God what will it take to get through your thick skull that I do not want to be a part of your Gundam Team!
She shouts out loud, Nick, Kenny, and Roxas come over to see what's going on. Shadow is surprise by her anger; Jack turns around and marches off to finish Nightwing. Tom starts glaring at Shadow
Tom: You had to go there didn't you!
Tom starts yelling at him
Tom: You couldn't let it go! You had to push it!
His voice takes on a threatening tone
Tom: Now I'm telling you to drop it!
Tom takes on a threatening pose, Kenny and Cagalli are obviously intimated, Nick and Shadow are staring at him evenly, and Roxas is on the ground playing with some kind of shiny bolt thing, but her eyes occasionally glances upwards showing mild interest. Tom thinking he made his point begins to walk away.
Kenny: Hey Shadow maybe we should let this go, I'm sure we can find another mechanic.
Cagalli nods her head in agreement
Cagalli: Kenny’s right, there’s no reason to be a jerk and keep bothering her when she obviously doesn't want to be on this team.
Shadow is still staring intensely at Tom
Shadow: Yea, I guess that would be the smart thing to do but since when have I ever been doing things based on what's the smart thing to do. Nick?
He turns to Nick, Nick nods his head, he also has a determine look in his eye
Nick: Don't worry mate, I also have a couple of questions to ask.
With Shadow in the lead and Nick following behind him, they head after Tom. Cagalli and Kenny are stun.
Cagalli: Hey w-wait a minute what are you guys going to do?
They ignored her and continue walking towards Tom. Cagalli turns towards Kenny
Cagalli: What the hell could they be thinking?
Kenny shrugs his shoulder
Kenny: Most likely something stupid and impulsive, well we better good to see what's up.
Roxas adds
Roxas: And to back them up if needed.
Cagalli and Kenny look down at Roxas surprise. Roxas eyes have change from playful to one of a watchful animal waiting to see what might happen in her territory. Kenny nods his head also growing more serious.
Kenny: Yea that too.
Kenny, Cagalli, and Roxas chase after Nick and Shadow. Shadow and Nick have caught up to Tom.
Shadow: Hey wait a minute, do you think you can just tell me to drop it and walk away without giving me any reason whatsoever.
Tom turns around very angry
Tom: I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU ANYTHING!
Shadow glares at him as Nick steps forward.
Nick: Then you can listen mate, you see I have my own theory is to the mystery of Jack.
Tom is growing even angrier
Tom: Shut up.
Nick: You see when Jack first said no at first I thought it was because she didn't want to get separated from her family.
Tom: Shut up!
Nick: But when we went to her house it was empty, it's true that she could have been an orphan and built that house herself like most of the residents of Junk City but that wouldn't make sense since it’s a large four bedroom house, so most likely her parents built it and she simply inherented it.
Shadow puts it all together
Shadow: So the real question is what happened to her family?
Tom: I SAID SHUT UP!
Tom punches Shadow in the face; Shadow goes flying and hits the ground hard a meter or two away.
Cagalli and Kenny: Shadow!
Roxas and Nick move between Shadow and Tom as Tom begins to shout at them
Tom: Who the hell do you think you are! You think you can come in here and just jump into people's most private matters and for what! So you and your buddies can have a laugh later at a little girl's expanse or maybe to show her some pity like she doesn't get that enough from the mechanics here, come on tell me why! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO KNOW!
Shadow rubs his chin where Tom punched him and spits out some blood. Shadow gets up slowly and looks Tom straight in the eye, his green eyes haven't lost their intense gaze. He replies in an even voice.
Shadow: I want to know so that I can understand her better.
Tom has calm down a bit
Tom: So you can manipulate her into joining your Gundam Team?
Tom asks suspicious, Shadow answers evenly
Shadow: So I can understand why she doesn't want to join my Gundam Team.
Tom and Shadow continue to stare at one another, finally Tom seems to fold.
Tom: If I tell you will you stop asking Jack to join your Gundam Team?
Shadow nods his head
Shadow: You have my word as the soon to be greatest Gundam Fighter this world has ever seen.
Tom gives a short sad laugh
Tom: HA, you know you're like Mark in so many ways it's almost scary.
Shadow is confused
Shadow: Mark?
Tom sighs
Tom: Jack's older brother, you see when Jack was very young she and Mark lost both their parents to raiders. Mark was 12 when it happened, but even at such an early age Mark decided to take care of his little sister. I help them out here and there but Mark did a lot of work on his own, he got a job here at the Warehouse and began working as a mechanic. You know it was his dream to become the greatest mechanic this world has ever seen.
Shadow nods his head
Shadow: Sounds like a good dream.
Tom: It was, and even with so much sadness in his life he never gave up on his dream. He raised Jack all on his own after their parents died, he taught her to read and write, he even started to teach her basic mechanic skills. At the Warehouse his own mechanic skills were improving constantly, he was always playing around with system designs trying to improve them in any way he could. HAHAH, he use to get in so much trouble when he experimented on customs Gundam's, but make no mistake he had all the necessary talents and skills to become a first rank mechanic.
While Tom is talking we should have a couple of flashback pictures of Mark, one of him holding Jack's hand at a funeral, a couple of him working at the Warehouse, and a couple of him with Jack.
Shadow: So what happen?
Tom looks at him for a moment deciding how much to tell.
Tom: It happen 3 months after Jack started working here, I remember it well; it was pouring that day. I had just been told anyone's worst nightmare; that the S-generator was failing.
We enter a flashback, Tom is surrounded by mechanics, and one of those mechanics just told him something unpleasant
Tom: What?
All of the mechanic appear scare
Mechanic A: It's true Tom, the S-generator is out of control the power levels are off the charts and they keep rising, at this rate the S-generator is going to explode!
Mechanic A is very panicked, all of the other mechanics look very scare now. Tom trying to keep people calm asks
Tom: Calm down, now tell me exactly what happen slowly.
Mechanic A on the brink of a nervous breakdown
Mechanic A: I….I don't know one minute everything was fine the next everything is going hay wired.
Mark who's been listening to everything carefully asks a question
Mark: What about the safely devices?
Mechanic A: They're all not responding.
Now Mark looks surprise
Mark: All of them!
Mechanic A loses it
Mechanic A: Yes all of them! We don't have time for this we need to evacuate now; we need to get people as far away from Junk City as possible now! Oh my god we're all going to die!
Tom goes up and slaps him
Tom: Get a grip on yourself!
But its obvious Tom's scare too, he looks around himself to see a bunch of scare faces. Tom takes a breath to calm himself down and then shouts out
Tom: Alright everyone you heard the man let's get moving, Rick, Jim you guys grab some people and start telling the Gundam pilots to get out of here, if a Gundam can move then it's good to go. Jacob start asking the ship's captains if we can get a lift out of here, everyone else go home to get your families and hurry to get out of town.
People start running to get what they needed done. Tom starts walking and thinking while Mark follows him, neither of them notices Jack following the both of them.
Mark: If the S-generator does explode it's going to level Junk City, there's no way everyone is going to make it out in time.
Tom: I know but unless you can suggest something we don't have any other choice.
Mark: There is another option.
Now Tom stops and looks at him
Tom: What?
Mark seems to think about it for a moment then smiles a sad smile
Mark: We're mechanics Tom; we repair things, so of course the best option is to repair one of the safety devices on the S-generator.
Tom is shocked
Tom: Are you nuts, the S-generator can't be turned off so if you try to get anywhere near it you'll either be killed by the extreme heat or one of the electrical discharges.
Mark goes to argue
Mark: But I should still have enough time before I die to fix at least one of the safely devices.
Tom just stares at Mark
Tom: Mark
Mark gives another sad smile
Mark: See you Tom.
He begins to walk away leaving a stun Tom behind, Jack begins to follow him. She begins to plead with her older brother, a desperate and sad plead of one trying to stop a person who's going to jump.
Jack: Mark come on let's go, one of the ship's captains I worked with agree to let us ride on his ship, so if we go now we should be able to get out of the city in time, so let's GO!
She grabs his arm and try's to pull him by force. Mark doesn't budge; he smiles a sad smile at Jack.
Mark: I'm sorry Jack not this time.
Jack is beginning to cry. Mark turns away again and begins to walk away when Jack shouts
Jack: Damn it why are you risking you’re life to save this stupid excused of a landfill, its better off just disappearing!
Mark turns around and slaps Jack. Tom and Jack are stun
Tom (I've never seen Mark hit his sister before!)
Mark angry now
Mark: Don't you ever call your home that!
Mark takes a breath
Mark: Jack, this city is a lot more important than people realize. If a Gundam's life came be describe as a circle, then this city is beginning and ending point of a Gundam's circle, this is the place where Gundam's come to die, this is also the place where Gundams are born, a place where old broken down Gundams are brought to be reborn into new more powerful Gundam's and if this place where to disappear then it would be like someone taking a piece out of the circle making it incomplete and I am sure that this disaster would be felt by all the world. That's why as long as I live I can't let this city be destroyed.
Jack has gotten up, Tom has put a reassuring hand on her shoulder as Mark takes a knee and puts his hand on her other shoulder. Jack is crying uncontrollably
Mark: Goodbye Jack.
With that he gets up and begins to run towards the place with the S-generator. We come back to the present.
Tom: Mark lost his life on that day but he manage to fix one of the safely devices and saved the whole city.
Everyone is quite taking this in
Shadow: Thank you for telling us, I believe I understand Jack better now and a deal's a deal so I will not bother her again.
Tom nods his head
Tom: Well I've got work to do so bye.
Tom walks away. There's an awkward silence as they think of what they learned then Kenny speaks.
Kenny: Well I should get back to the programming of Nightwing.
Kenny begins to walk away
Nick: I could use some air mates.
Nick walks away, Roxas stretches
Roxas: I need a nap.
Roxas walks away; Shadow turns towards Cagalli and smiles his normal smile.
Shadow: Well I'm hungry so I'm going to see if I can catch one of those food benders.
Shadow walks away but Cagalli chases after him.
Cagalli: Hey wait a second, there's still a couple of things I don't understand about the story.
She catches up to Shadow, they continue walking together
Shadow: Like what?
Cagalli: Well for starters I don't understand the whole S-generator thing; don't they only power the Gundams?
Shadow is still looking for a food bender but he answers Cagalli's question.
Shadow: There are two kinds of S-generators, you would have to ask a mechanic or a specialist on what exactly is the difference between the two, but from what I know one is smaller than the other.
Cagalli is a little annoyed by his lack of information
Cagalli: So wait all you can tell me is that S-generators come in different sizes.
Shadow shrugs and looks at her slightly offended
Shadow: What do I look like, a mechanic?
Shadow finally spots a food bender (Just think hotdog stand) he signals the food bender
Shadow: Hey guy, two hotdogs please
He also adds with a devilish smile
Shadow: and put it on Tom's tab.
The bender nods his head and gets two hotdogs ready, Cagalli rolls her eyes
Cagalli: I'm pretty sure it's a crime to use someone else's tab without their permission.
Shadow: Um no on Sora it's perfectly legal.
He's lying obviously; we can tell that Cagalli knows he's lying by the way she's staring at him and folding her hands. Shadow tries a different approach
Shadow: Well Tom did say we were special guests and I'm sure Drake will pay him back.
Cagalli is still eyeing him disapprovingly. Shadow rolls his eyes
Shadow: And if all else fails then I'll pay Tom back myself once I make some money in the Gundam Fights.
Cagalli nods her head
Cagalli: That's better.
The food bender gives Shadow the hotdogs. Shadow turns to him
Shadow: Thanks.
He hands Cagalli one of the hotdogs
Shadow: Here you haven't eaten much today.
Cagalli takes the hotdog
Cagalli: Um thanks.
Shadow starts eating his hotdog without hesitation. Cagalli is eyeing the weird color sauce.
Shadow: Anyway where was I with the S-generators?
They start walking aimlessly
Cagalli: They come in different sizes.
Shadow remembers
Shadow: Right, Right, like I was saying the S-generator comes in two sizes, as you already know the small S-generator powers the Gundams, but what you didn't know is that most Cities' use the larger S-generator as the main power source for the whole city.
Cagalli nods her head in understanding. She’s still eyeing the weird color sauce; Shadow finally notices she's not eating the hotdog. He smiles at her
Shadow: What's the matter princess food not good enough for you?
Cagalli is annoyed by the comment
Cagalli: NO, it' just….do you know what kind of sauce this is?
Shadow is surprise the kind of surprise like “I've never thought about it” he begins to look at the remainder of the sauce on his hotdog more closely.
Shadow: Hmmmm, no idea.
He shrugs then takes another bite of his hotdog
Shadow: But it's delicious.
Cagalli rolls her eyes
Cagalli: Thanks that was helpful.
Shadow rolls his eyes
Shadow: If you're too scared to eat it then give it to me.
Shadow goes to grab the hotdog, but Cagalli moves it out of his reach
Cagalli: I'm not scared!
She brings the hotdog to her mouth, she sniffs it, and then hesitantly takes a bite of the hotdog. She begins to chew it her eyes pop open wide
Cagalli: Mmmm, this isn't bad.
Shadow smiles at her
Shadow: Told you so.
She finishes chewing then sticks her tongue out at him, and then she continues eating the hotdog.
Cagalli: Alright you told me what you know about the different S-generators, but you haven't told me about what happens when an S-generator fails.
Shadow: Well the S-generator is a massive power source and like all power sources it can fail or go out of control.
Cagalli nods somewhat understanding
Cagalli: Ok, so what makes this power source so dangerous?
Shadow says in a surprisingly sober voice
Shadow: Because when an S-generator fails it normally explodes and an S-generator explosion is equal to 3 nuclear bombs minus the radiation.
This shocks Cagalli and she starts looking around nervously.
Cagalli: What? And you people let something so dangerous in every city!
Shadow rolls his eyes
Shadow: Oh relax, there are over a dozen safety devices in place to make sure that in case the S-generator fails the energy is dispenses evenly preventing an explosion.
Cagalli: Ok but what happens if all the safety devices fail at the same time?
Shadow takes on a serious look
Shadow: It's impossible for all the safety devices to accidently fail at the same time.
Cagalli: But wait Tom said that all the safety devices fail…
The word accidently finally makes its way into Cagalli's brain, she stops talking as the realization hits her
Cagalli: You…You think someone
Shadow still with the serious look on his face finishes her statement
Shadow: Try to eliminate Junk City, without a doubt.
The episode ends with Shadow continuing to walk while Cagalli stops in her tracks stun.