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Achilles

By Sabersonic

Chapter 9

He had the feeling, he had the feeling that it wasn't over yet. It was a dark premonition that warned him that the threat was still present in the Aslanta System. Across his fleet, his subordinates were celebrating the defeat of the unknown Tyrolian Armada. Inside, he feels the shadow of the thread still covering the Aslanta System, the threat that he had not encountered yet, but willing to face the threat. Even if it means death. The Admiral had just returned from the battle, greeted by his aroused soldiers, but he himself was not pleased with the victory, an element still roamed free and plotting its revenge.
"Sir?" The Admiral was broken from his train of thought by his Number One. "Sir, what is troubling you? We have become victorious in this battle."
"But the enemy still remains." The monotone warning flowed from the Admiral's lips as he exited the throng of his subordinates. Number One was a person who never took threats lightly, especially from his Admiral, but faced them without fear. This threat was no mere threat, it was a prediction. The enemy had survived the battle and are readying for a counterattack. Secretary General Lisa "Hayes" Hunter and Admiral Rick Hunter then finds that the Admiral's fleet was being armed for some unknown reason. They then decided that they should get an explanation of this arming of the fleet. "The enemy still remains in the system." The Admiral explained to the Hunters.
"Are you certain that what you are saying is true?" Secretary General Lisa "Hayes" Hunter asked the Admiral.
"My engineered ability from Project Achilles has granted me unique psychic abilities and they are telling me that the enemy still remains and is still a threat to us."
"Just keep the arming to a minimum. Just in case if the enemy isn't too large to need an Armada to face them. RDF Intelegents will try to find the enemy as soon as possible. Over and out." The vid-screen was blank. The Admiral can cense that it was a single individual, but it was very powerful, using some sort of power that is beyond his current reasoning of reality. He will have to train his brother into using the engineered powers if they were to contain the threat. The Admiral then went off to find his brother and take him to the training facility. After some time has past, the Admiral has found his brother at a vacant corridor with windows facing the ringed planet. With Heero was Relena Peacecraft, two people he hoped and hated to see together. He marched up to Heero and they both saluted to each other.
"Lieutenant Colonel Yuy, you are to report to training facility G-109 for special training. I will meet with you there later." The two saluted and Heero marched towards his destination. Heero was outside of hearing radius and then the Admiral sharply turned towards Relena, once again anger, hatred, and blood were in his eyes. "I though I told you to stay away from my brother!"
"What do you mean I can't see Heero? I have every right to see him."
"He does not need human emotions. They will distract him on the battlefield and that will lead him to death."
"Just because Heero was bred for war doesn't mean that he should live out his life as a soldier-"
"Heero was meant for the battlefield. It in his blood and it is his fate, you cannot change that."
"Heero doesn't deserve that kind of existence. He should be living a peaceful life without war. You're only making it worse for him-"
"No, you are making the situation worse and more life threatening. Lately he has been distracted and right now, I can see that he is distracted by your presents on my ship. I want you off of my ship and back to your homeworld. Your presents will only result in a foolish demise."
"That is no excuse-" Relena was backhanded by the Admiral, strongly. It hit her with a force strong enough to knock her off of her feet. The impact made her teeth cut the insides of her cheek and blood trickled from the corner of her mouth as she landed on her side. The Admiral looks down upon the Vice Foreign Minister.
"Leave my brother alone. Emotions only bring death." The Admiral marches away towards the training facility, not caring as to whoever saw the argument. Hilde and Noin came to find a bruised Vice Foreign Minister.
"Relena are you alright?" Hilde asked as Noin helped Relena onto her feet.
"I-I'm alright." She answered.
"Are you sure Relena?"
"Yes." Relena sees the Admiral's intentions quite clearly. He did not want her to fraternize with his brother just because they might corrupt his thinking during a battle. Relena had waited years to see Heero again and she won't let an overprotective brother stop her. She figured that this might be what Heero had to go through from Milliardo.
Admiral Rick Hunter has looked over previous reports of the Admiral and didn't like the idea of the Admiral going out and fighting when he should be back on the bridge. The idea sounds a bit old school, he himself has always wanted to return to the days when he was a Veritech Pilot. But Admirals are hard to come by in the modern Third Earth Government. Many of them were all killed during the infamous Third Invid War and the Fourth World War. Currently there is only three Admirals in the entire Robotech Defense Forces, including himself, and being in charge of at least one-third of the entire Space Forces is somewhat too much for him to handle.
"Maybe this is what that Darlian girl feels like back in her Earth." Rick says to himself. Rick then concludes that the Admiral should be restricted from actual battle and stay upon the bridge of his flagship, the Agamemnon, during ship-to-ship battles. Admiral Rick Hunter then goes to his wife, Secretary General Lisa "Hayes" Hunter, to speak of his proposal.
The Admiral was not happy. Relena Darlian, as to what the Admiral had found, was seducing his brother into useless human emotions that would kill him; either quickly or slowly. Despite his actions, the Admiral deeply cared for his brother. One reason was that they've been apart for nearly twenty-one years, so it was natural for him to be overprotective. Heero was the Admiral only family, and he to Heero. The Admiral wasn't going to lose him again like he lost him twenty-one years ago at the crash. The Admiral wasn't going to be separated from his kin from anything, not even a young lovesick politician who, in his mind, only wants Heero to warm her bed at lonely nights. The Admiral has learned from observation that emotions, especially love, only cause pain, physical depression and ultimately, death. The Admiral did not want his brother, his kin, his only family, to go down that death road. They were family, the Admiral and Heero, the only one that either of them could count on. They were born the same way, their destiny was the same, their purpose in life and DNA were the same. They were family.
There was a buzzing at his private quarters within the Agamemnon. The Admiral wasn't used to having his train of thought disturbed. It was a basic rule in the REF Armada, never disturb the Admiral while he was in deep thought. For it will only invoke the wrath of the Admiral.
"Who is it?" His voice almost boomed. The hatch gave way mechanically and behind it was his Chief Intelligents Officer, Midii Une. The Admiral has researched her past and finds that she'd experience with intelligents gathering, infiltration, espionage, twisting of enemy propaganda and the one thing, among many, that he has distrusted the most, betrayal. He has read over her first spy mission; infiltrate a mercenary group. The former Alliance military would handle the rest. The reasoning that Chief Midii Une accepted the mission was because of her sickly father and two brothers that she had to support. It was unfortunate of her to lose her only living family because she let a rebel mercenary escape. The nameless soldier who would become the 03 Gundam Pilot Trowa Barton.
"Sir, I have the reports that you've requested earlier."
"Yes. Thank you." Midii Une hands the report to the Admiral.
"Sir, may I ask you something?"
"What would that be?"
"Why do you want to know so much about Relena Darlian?"
"Just something that is between myself and the Vice Foreign Minister. Nothing of your concern."
"Whatever you say sir." Midii Une turns around, but then. "Before I forget, Chief Officer Sylvia Noventa wishes to speak to you later this afternoon."
"Why dose she want to talk about?" The Admiral asked with an unsure tone.
"She just wants to sir." And then Midii Une left. The Admiral was dumbfounded. He could never understand the females of his ancestor's species. Two of which were Relena Peacecraft and the granddaughter of the late Marshal Noventa. He could never understand either of the two's path of thinking. Sylvia Noventa was a constant confusion to him. She wasn't a trained soldier, she had an excellent career as the reporter of the Earth Sphere National Network, yet she joined his REF. She had a wonderful, yet enclosed life and had family of her own, but she had forsaken that and became his Chief Communications Officer for the Agamemnon. And his latest confusion and frustration, Relena Peacecraft. She has been known for her infatuation towards his brother, some may call it a crush, others love. Whatever it is, it was unnecessary for his brother's survival. Relena has faced the threat of death before, yet she didn't waver. Relena has followed his brother everywhere and she even manage to have Heero follow her. A seductress, the Admiral figured. Only a seductress could have that kind of hypnotic control over one that was heavily trained to avoid such enslavement to the mind. And she did it all under a mask of an innocent little school girl looking for human compassion.
'Females....' The Admiral thought. 'They're a constant confusion of my original parent species. Only a female could understand the reasoning of a female.' Then the Admiral looked at the intelligents report of the conflicting Foreign Minister. 'But soon, I will defeat this obstacle. Soon I will break her hold over my brother and free him of emotional enslavement.'
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