Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Angels Take Flight ❯ Angels Take Flight Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Angels Take Flight

By Sabersonic

Chapter 2

Morning came and all seemed peaceful from the eternal conflict of the Arachnids and the Draconians. No activities were reported by the news media and Heero was adjusting to life outside of constant war and endless battles. Though it was enjoyable at times, he sill was having difficulties adjusting to peaceful life, including the handicap of not being able to be with his family again. With morning came the start of the school week and Heero asked the reasoning for going to a "school".

"It's where we go to learn. You know, Mathematics, Grammar, Science-"

"Draconians gain that knowledge from our elders that was passed from generation to generation. Why not learn by that?" Heero interrupted with his information of daily Draconian life.

"Well we humans don't do that sort of thing to learn. Simple enough." Relena said.

"Well, it's still puzzles me to no end." Then something pops up in his mind. Since he doesn't have to fight anymore, he has absolutely nothing to do. "What am I to do while your family's away?" That also popped into Relena's mind.

"I don't know. Just try not to make a mess in the house okay?" Heero nodded, only half understanding what she meant, but was enough to conclude that Relena didn't want Heero to have the house dirty. Relena, Quatre, Trowa, Wufei, Hilde, and Dorothy were carpooled by Milliardo and Lucrezia, leaving a Draconian with noting to do. Heero then walked to the couch but did not sit as he thought up a way to spend the day. On the way, the carpool was stuck in traffic that seems to go nowhere. Several members were getting frustrated as to what was keeping up the traffic and the knowledge of the punishment of being tardy to high school. Relena, meanwhile, thought of her new acquaintance Heero Yuy. She couldn't stop thinking about that lost Draconian, how his brown hair hung over his eyes, the lightly tanned skin which showed off well toned muscles, his deep Cobalt Blue eyes glowing from an internal warmth, which made her feel calm, at ease. The way his kindness made her warm and-

"Relena?"

"Huh?" Relena was broken from her train of thought by Hilde tapping on her shoulder.

"You've been staring out that window for about an hour now. Is it because of that guy Relena?" Hilde asked.

"Well...."

"God Relena, you got it bad." Then Hilde saw Duo leaning towards them.

"Who got it bad?" Asked the braided boy.

"Go away Duo. This has nothing to do with you."

"Hey Hilde, babe, you know how much I love to hear the latest gossip-"

"And turn it into a god damn fucking rumor. Just go away Duo."

"Oh I see Girl talk."

"Go away!"

"Alright, alright, you don't have to go crazy on me." Duo returned to his spot on the large vehicle. Hilde then return her attention to Relena.

"So?" Hilde asked.

"So what?"

"What do you think of him? You know, the wing boy."

"What are you getting at Hilde?"

"I'm just asking. But since it's obvious that you got it bad for him."

"I do not."

"Okay then prove it that you don't." Relena then gives Hilde a questionable eye. "Try to describe him." Relena shrugged, thinking that it was a simple task.

"Well, Heero's about five foot five, possibly six. He has white angel wings protruding from his back. Untamed brown hair than hangs in front of his face," Relena then dreamily thinks of Heero as she continues. "The way that it hides his deep Prussian Blue-"

"Hah! I knew it."

"What?"

"You're in love with him, aren't you."

"Who is?" Duo poked into their private conversation again.

"Get away Duo!" Then Milliardo's cellular phone rang. He picked it up and answered the call.

"Peacecraft here.......what? Someone stole the armory and some JSF-Ms?.......No, I have no idea as to who-..........I'll be there a soon as possible.......why not now? Because of traffic......Right, thanks Otto. I'll be there soon enough." Milliardo then turned to the group. "Sorry, guys. Something just came up at the base. You'll have to use the busses-"

"There is no way I am going on the bus. Do you know how many perverts, sickos and madmen go on those things?" Dorothy roared.

"Yah, and we got one of them right here." Duo then finds Dorothy's face right in front of him.

"WHAT WAS THAT!!!"

"Nothing." Relena then saw some Arachnids in trench coats walking in between cars and then they pulled out semi-automatics and bazookas from their trench coats and aimed them up in the sky. She looked up and saw a flock of birds, no Draconians, flying in the area in which the Arachnids were aiming. Suddenly two JSF-Ms fired missiles and Vulcan cannons and the Arachnids fired upon the Draconians. They fell to the ground and the Arachnids then unsheathed their swords and daggers and dashed to butcher their kill. "What the fuck just happened?" Duo cursed, Relena was horrified as the weapons of anarchy, chaos and blood of humanity were in the hands of Heero's enemies.

It was all over the news. Arachnid soldiers using stolen weapons and JSF-Ms to turn the tide of the war against the Draconians. Draconians were shot out from the air and then stabbed to death on the ground as the Arachnid won skirmish after skirmish and gained victory, something that has been missing since the star of the war. The Draconians had no idea what was happening, but they must act fast or they will lose the war and become extinct. Soon a group of Draconians found some hand guns from a street gang that ran from them and soon there was a firefight in Chinatown between Draconians and Arachnids. The war escalated into a more horrific reality, from medieval combat to modern human combat. There were police officers at the High School to guard the students from this ancient war that became a bloody massacre. Both sides, not knowing how to use the weapons properly, may soon kill all deity forms in the war.

"Just like World War I..." Relena whispered as she looked out the window of her American History Class, remembering the brutality of humanity's bloodiest conflict of the twentieth century. Outside, the carnage of the Draconian/Arachnid War could be easily seen from the fireballs and flashes of spraying bullets. Relena could see that there would be more deaths from this change then before. JSF-Ms Stealth Jet Fighters and Comanche Stealth Helicopters battled one another in the sky, armored cars and military cycles clashed in the streets. Soon the school day was officially over and they returned home. Quatre, Trowa, Wufei, Hilde, and Dorothy, along with Trowa's cousin and class president, Catherine Bloom, met at Relena's house. The group explained to Catherine about the Draconian/Arachnid issue while en route to the Peacecraft house. They arrived to see Heero tending to two wounded Draconian soldiers; one that was male with red hair and wearing what looked like armor that was a mixture of a knight and a roman foot soldier with multiple cuts, the other was Heero's twin sister who was at the moment unconscious and bleeding heavily upon the couch. "Heero, what's going on?" Relena asked the young Draconian.

"I am not sure, my uncle said that the Arachnids found a new weapon and they attacked them. They do not know what it was, but it heavily wounded most of my family. My uncle and sister found their way here."

"Poor things." Catherine and Hilde sighed as they went to Heero's sister's side.

"And this all happened because a stinking Arachnid had to find a gun, shit." Duo cursed.

"What are their names?" Trowa asked.

"My uncle is Trieze of the clan Kushrenada and my sister is Alia." Alia groaned in pain and Heero rushed to her side to try and calm her.

"The war has escalated and we do not know what to do. The Elders are clueless as to how to control the soldiers. These weapons have caused unrest in the ranks and are fighting blindly." Treize reported. Outside the house and on the street, gunshot were heard as Draconain Soldiers faced Arachnid Shock Troopers with semi-automatic, automatic and shotgun rifles. The group could only watch as the two sides fought one another with horrific human hand weapons. In the sky, Draconians armed with bazookas and glaus magnetic coiled rifles fired upon missile armed JSF-Ms and were loosing greatly, the war had turned for the worst. The battle shifted from San Francisco towards Los Angeles with the weapons that they have inherited from humanity. The news was all over the battle and some showed images of Arachnids in hover tanks and Draconians making counter strikes with military armored motorcycles. Heero, Trieze and Alia, with no family to return to, stayed at San Francisco. The three displaced Draconians have no idea how to live in the modern human world of peace and happiness as the rest of their species fought elsewhere in a war that had lost its meaning billions of years ago.

Relena had received a call from her History teacher, Miss Anne Une, for her to baby-sit her adopted daughter Marimeia on Saturday. Relena agreed and work on her project for that class on the Balkan Conflict of 2020. Trowa and Duo then watched videos of one of their favorite genre, Gundams, and with it sparked a debate between the two Gundam fanatics.

"I'm telling you Trowa, the Airmaster is better than the Ashtaron."

"No, the Ashtaron is better. It has those beam cannons and claws with it and that beam saber and the only thing the Airmaster has is those Buster Rifles, I mean their basically beam rifles so why give them the name Buster?"

"Its because it's part of the transformation sequence of the Airmaster. You should know that Buster Rifles are special because they are designed specifically to be used for Gundams."

"No, the name Buster is just a name, it has no special meaning. It's just something that the writers put in because it sounded interesting."

"Hey, they don't call it a buster rifle for nothing."

"Would you two shut up, I have a calculus assignment that's due tomorrow." Treize then walks up to the two fanatics.

"What are those?" Treize asked about the animated mecha on the television screen.

"They're mobile suits called Gundams." Trowa answered.

"Do they exist?" Treize asked fearful.

"Sadly no, they don't exist."

"Then why do you argue about something that doesn't exist?"

"You may want to sit down for this one. It may take a while to understand." Duo said as Treize sat down and time consuming it was. They told Trieze everything they knew of the Gundam Universes from the basic Minovsky Physics to the history of the Original Gundam Universe and it's alternative storylines to the type of weapons used by mobile suits. "And the most interesting part of this is that the physics of Mobile Suits were real enough and many fanatics like us dream of a day when the first Mobile Suit will be build and ready to be piloted."

"Well from what I experienced, I fear that day." Treize said.

"Why's that?"

"Because they can destroy all life in the universe."

"Well there's a down-side to everything."

"True to that." Trowa agreed. Time passes and the Draconian outsiders are trying their best to fit in this unknown environment that is called modern life. Before, the three Draconians have lived in a world of medieval weaponry, wild terrain, and constant warfare and loss. This current world of humans is filled with technology controlled warfare, tamed landscapes and almost no violence and limited loss. They have now become what is known as "Fallen Angels"; Draconians who have lost themselves from the battlefield and are unable to return under certain circumstances that have placed them within the world of humans. Many fallen angels have been produced in the following centuries of human existence. Some have become wanderers who produce good deeds in the return of supplements of food for survival, others are scorned by frighten humans and are forced into hiding, while many have found themselves a foot hold upon the human society of the era. Whatever the reason or result, the fallen angels have lost their only view upon life, the live of a Draconian Soldier.

The days pass and still the Draconians are trying their best to fit with current human lifestyles, many of which they learn the hard way.

"Treize, don't hold the knife like that!"

"Alia, that's not how you wear a bra...."

"Heero, don't put that in the water!!!"

"Alia, that's not a water dish...."

"I guess you should stick to flying Heero. Driving is not for you."

"For god sake's Trieze!!! Put that shot gun away from my face."

"Heero, that's not war paint...."

"Alia, are you alright?!"

"Treize, it's only a television show....."

"Treize!!!! Don't go there, that's what the bathrooms for!!"

"Alia, shut the door, NOW!!!!"

"You're not suppose to drink that Heero, that'll kill you if you do."

"I'm not sure if that's the right way to boot up a computer Alia."

"Treize, how the fuck did you get your hand stuck in the VCR!?!!"

"Heero, that's not a balloon.."

"Alia, you're suppose to wear your underwear under your pants. That's why they called it underwear." Despite the difficult adjustment, the Draconians have manage to live in the modern human world. Each and everyday, they look upon the television set to see what is become of their kin species. Last they've heard of the Draconian/Arachnid War, it has shifted to the Eastern Coast of the United States. The war has taken a turn to the worst as the two sides have learned how to build the weapons they've found in San Francisco. The two sides have also learned of biological and chemical weapons. The death toll has risen greatly ever since the two sides have ever touched modern human weapons.

Heero was trying to fix himself of a bowl of what humans called "Cereal", a type that is entitled "Frosted Flakes.", without success. So far, he couldn't get the milk from escaping the box that it was contained in. Alia was searching the fridge for something to eat for breakfast also. Just then, Relena entered the kitchen.

"Heero, what are you doing?"

"I'm trying to get myself a bowl of cereal, but the milk just won't stay in the box."

"Heero...." Relena gently shakes her head and giggles a bit.

"What's so amusing."

"Didn't anyone ever show you how to make one?" Heero shakes his head. "I guess I should show you." Relena proceeds to show Heero how to properly make a bowl of cereal. Alia finds some eggs in the refrigerator and tries to eat them whole, unsure of how humans eat eggs. As she bites into it, she has a sulfuric taste in her mouth and she immediately goes to the sink and spits the fowl flavor from her mouth.

"What is wrong with those eggs? They're so sulfuric." Alia said in disgust as she continues to spit the raw egg white.

"Alia, we normally cook our eggs before we eat them." Relena said.

"But they still taste sulfuric." Heero commented. Then they heard the television come on from the living room.

"-the unknown factions, Code-named Army of Light and Army of Darkness by Earth Force, have shifted their war towards the Asian Continent, primarily the southeastern area. Earth Alliance peacekeepers have been sent to the area to protect the populous from any stray fire from stolen military weapons, though the need has not arisen yet. Also, the Island One Colony, named 'Island One' after it's construction design, is lacking colonists. So far, only 47% of the total expected number of colonists have arrived upon the colony, the majority of them were the colony's construction crews and their families. This trend of colonization is unacceptable to the Earth Alliance, since three more Island One Colonies are expected to be completed and house colonists later this year. So the Earth Alliance Senate in Senate Capital of Geneva have announced that they will draft colonists to the new colony. These colonist draftees would be families of agricultural communities, scientists and others who would benefit Island One in Agricultural and Industrial terms. There is also rumors that Alliance Police Forces would also capture homeless residence of major cities and reeducate them in camps. Island One is also the home of Earth Force's new Lagrange 5 Defense Fleet. It is expected that several members of Earth Force and their families would be relocated there to defend Island One from Space Bound Anti-Earth Alliance Terrorists , the most infamously known are Londo Bell and the Anti-Earth Alliance Union, from their unknown outposts and bases. Next is- Excuse me for a moment." There was a pause as the occupants of the house listened carefully to the television. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just received word that the Army of Darkness has just left Earth. I repeat, the Army of Darkness has left the Earth. We assume that the Army of Light will also leave soon. We got to you live to our correspondent Honchi Caun at the Earth Global News Network Station at Ho Chi Mine City. Caun, how is the situation currently?"

"Well it is an awesome sight. A huge army, possible in the billions, of the Army of Light have assembled here and wait.....something seems to be happening. There seems to be some kind of light radiating from the army and- I can't believe it! The Army seemed to change into a column of light and exploded into the sky like a phoenix. I've never seen anything like it! The column of light is so beautiful, it is awe inspiring. We've got to get a better picture-" The transmission begins to fuzz.

"Caun, Caun are you still there? What's going on?" The reporter asked around and then he was given an answer. "Ladies and Gentlemen, you don't have to worry. There was an energy spike that either short circuited or is interfering with the transmission. We are attempting to- Wait a minute. We've got the transmission back."

"Did you see that? That has to be the most beautiful sight I could have ever seen! I can't believe it. Did we get it on tape?"

"I'm sorry, but we are unable to get the picture at the-"

"You got it? Are you sure? Are you sure we've got it on tape? Great! You can switch to Headquarters now-"

"Well there you have it Ladies and Gentlemen. Both the Armies of Light and Darkness have left the Earth. Our problems associating with the two Armies have ended for now. But who knows when they will return, nor of what world they will be battling upon." The Television was ignored as the telephone rang. The set was turned off as Milliardo answered the phone. Then after a few moments, he placed the phone down.

"What is it Milliardo?" Relena asked, unsure of what the call was for.

"Well Relena, I'm not sure how to say this......We're moving to Island One."

~*~

Well that was the long awaited Chapter 2 of "Angels Take Flight". I apoligize for the time it took to write this. Please review and/or e-mail me at Sabersoni@Hotmail.com

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing, the Universal Century Gundam Series or Babylon 5. Get it?