Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Angels Take Flight ❯ Angels Take Flight Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Angels Take Flight

By Sabersonic

Chapter 4

During the 3 day voyage from the Earth to Island One, the passengers used several objects and done several things to pass the time. The shuttle was being escorted by the old, but still combat capable Aurora Starfuries <http://de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-B5-Ships/Earth_SA-23_Aurora.htm >, though there were times when the newer Thunderbolt Starfuries <http://de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-B5-Ships/Earth_SA-26_Thunderbolt.htm< /FONT> > passed by for a moment or two. It was explained that their rout was pillaged and attacked by several Space Pirates and the Anti-Earth Alliance Union. Relena took a pretty good picture of one of the G.O.D. Earth Defense < http://de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-B5-Ships/Earth_GOD.htm> while the shuttle was refueling for the long flight to Island one. They were the first line of defense from any attack to the Earth from space, though there was a failed attempt to hijack the satellite by Londo Bell, the G.O.D.s were reliable protection to the Earth.

"Man, this is what I hate. The waiting!" Milliardo fussed. "It's been like what? 60 hours since we left the Earth?" Lucrezia tried to calm her fiancée down.

"Relax Zechs, we only have 12 more hours to go until we reach Island One." Meanwhile, Relena was looking out the window, watching the earth get smaller and smaller as time goes by. Heero sat beside her and placed a hand upon her shoulder.

"You miss the Earth, don't you?"

"Not really, I just miss the people on the Earth. My friends......Dorothy....Catherine....Quatre....Duo surprisingly."

"All losses are painful and regretful, no matter the reason."

"You know Heero, you'd make a great-" Then an explosion rocked the shuttle. Outside the shuttle's hulls, Pirate Space Craft fired upon the convoy.

"Gamma 1, 4, 2, 9, protect the shuttle. The rest of you, intercept the pirates!" The majority of the starfuries broke away and attacked the pirates. A space battle erupted then and each starfury had three pirate space craft to destroy. Though the pirate space crafts were twice the size of the starfuries, they were limited in mobility and defense and so they became easy pickings for the starfuries. Soon the pirate space crafts were destroyed, but then the huge command craft of the pirate group appeared and attacked them. The Command Craft was a stolen Olympus Corvette <http://de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-B5-Ships/Earth_Olympus.htm > with docking clamps, possibly for the smaller space crafts, and several more Plasma cannons.

"This is Delta Wing Commander Alfred Delaney to any responding ships, we have a stolen Olympus Corvette attacking us! We need reinforcements! I repeat, we need reinforcements!" The Wing Commander called out, hopping that there were nearby ships to assist them.

"This is Captain Lana Colander of the Gettysburg to Delta Wing Commander, We'll help you out with this trash." The Gettysburg, a Nova Battle Cruiser <http://de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-B5-Ships/Earth_Nova.htm>, fired a barrage of plasma fire upon the pirate ship, disabling their engines and most of their weapon systems.

"This is Delta Wing Commander Alfred Delaney to Captain Lana Colander of the Gettysburg, thank you for the assistance."

"No problems there Commander Delaney. We'll take care of things here Commander, you better take care of that shuttle."

"Affirmative. Over and out." The shuttle was cleared to continue onto its journey to Island One without any incidents.

~*~

At last, the shuttle reached the space zone of Island One. Island One was a massive colony; the central habitation sphere was approximately 400 meters in diameter, the torus rings of the Agricultural sectors in front of and behind the habitation sphere were each approximately 350 meters in diameter 25 meters in diameter of space within them. Huge mirrors reflected sunlight into both the habitation sphere and the agricultural sectors and radiation collectors used to process primary power to the colony and a nuclear reactor for secondary energy. Also there were some small torus satellite stations near Island One that were once used to house the construction workers of the space colony that would also be used later on as a place for colonists who could not find residence upon Island One. These satellite stations are currently being refitted to house future colonists. The shuttle heads for one of the many commercial space hangars upon the aft sun pole of the habitation sphere. Cargo freighters could be seen transporting goods from behind the colony area.

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The passengers were being unloaded in the currently renovating space port and have gone to the space luggage claim since there is little gravity, or micro gravity, for normal earth bound luggage claim belts to be used effectively. Once their luggage has been found, the new colonists then go outside and go to designated vehicles that will take them to their new residence. Since the first colonists had the freedom of choosing where they will be living, many have chosen the equator sector of the habitation sphere since it was most likely to have earth-like artificial gravity and feel more like the Earth.

"Okay now, this is our new home." Milliardo announced as they reached their new residence. The house was almost similar to the old house back upon the Earth. The movers unloaded all of the furniture within the trucks and began loading them within the house. Rooms were picked out and soon the house became a home.

"Phew, I am so tired!" Relena said as she landed upon the sofa.

"Ditto for me, I never thought that moving in 1/3ds of the Earth's Gravity would be that hard." Milliardo plopped down upon the lazy chair.

"Unfortunately for me, I still have my house to fill up." Milliardo was rising from his chair.

"I'll help you Noin." Lucrezia set him down again.

"Don't worry Zechs, I can handle myself." Lucrezia and Milliardo kissed as she left to oversee the movers in her home.

"So when does school start anyway Zechs?" He pulled out some sheets of paper and scanned them.

"Well school starts three days from now, so you don't have to worry much." Then Milliardo turns to Heero, a question that suddenly popped into his mind. "Say Heero, may I ask you something?"

"You may."

"Well I was wondering where do you're wings come from. I know that it comes out of your back and all, but I never noticed Relena having any evidence of wings-"

"They come from within." Heero points to his heart. "'The wings of the soul' as you may call it."

"The Universe has given all kai wings to fly to the eternal realm, the universe has granted us use of our wings within the physical realm." Milliardo, as almost always, is completely, utterly, lost.

"……………..you mind running that past me again?"

"Zechs, I'm going to go out for a walk around the neighborhood for a while. You know, to familiarize myself."

"Okay, just be back before 2, I'll have to report to the base by then."

"Okay, I'll see you all later." Relena leaves the house. As she leaves the front lawn, she can't help but admire the new, alien scenery. She could see almost the entire habitation sphere. Relena could see other neighborhoods, the central city area, the factories, parks, lakes, grassfields, it almost seemed as if she could see for miles from her view point.

"It sort of takes a while to get used to." 'Relena looks to her left and sees a girl about her age with blond hair clipped to the sides of her face and blue eyes. "Hi, my name is Sylvia Noventa. I'd like to welcome you to Colony Island One."

"Thanks, my name is Relena Peacecraft. Are you, by any chance related to Field Martial Noventa?"

"Yes, he's my grandfather. And are you related to Milliardo-"

"Yes, he's my brother. He just got transferred here."

"Same with my grandfather, though he was a bit ticked off that he was relocated from the Earth Alliance Space Headquarters in Earth Orbit. He said that he liked the view." The girls walked down the street, talking about their families. From what Relena learned, Sylvia's father was the new governor of Island One and that he was once a State Governor for Florida. Sylvia also learns of Heero and Alia.

"And that's how we ended up together." Relena said with a smug face. Sylvia was wide eyed, unsure of what Relena has said.

"You're pulling my leg aren't you? Real Draconians?"

"Nope, I'm telling you the Truth."

"And you're half Draconian too?"

"Hn…something like that."

"Wow..it must be wonderful to be able to fly like that…"

"Well I bet that you can fly around the colony as well, with the gravity being so low and all."

"Yah…I've always wanted to fly. I loved flying, ever since Grandfather took me up in his Jet when I was little."

"They actually let you do that?"

"Well we never got caught about it." Then Relena looks at her watch.

"Oh no…look I have to get back home. We'll talk later all right?"

"Okay, here's my phone number." Sylvia hands Relena a slip of paper with her phone number on it.

"Thanks, I'll call you later." Relena runs off towards her house.

"All right!" Sylvia waves back, already feeling alone.

~*~

In the Earth Alliance Island One Military Headquarters two hours and twenty minutes later, Milliardo and Lucrezia meet up with the second in command of the Space Forces of the Lagrange 5 area.

"Lieutenant Colonel Peacecraft and Major Noin reporting for duty sir!"

"At ease colonel. Anyway you know the situation. The Anti-Earth Alliance Union and Londo Bell are becoming too powerful. The two terrorist groups are attacking space lines to and from the natural resource satellites and Luna. Our purpose here is to effectively protect those ships from the terrorist and the colonies as well. This will be more difficult then the first War against Terrorism back in the early 21st century. We cannot lose our ground here in L5 or we'll risk losing space. Now then, you two are to report to your new Thunderbolt Squadron in Hangar bay 15. Dismissed." Milliardo and Lucrezia salute and leave for the lift elevators near the back of the control room.

"I knew the Earth Alliance had something more then to establish orbital colonies." Milliardo said as soon as the doors closed.

"Yes well what can we do? We have a job to do."

"True, but that doesn't mean that I have to like it." The elevators stop at the hangar bay 15. They wished that they had a better assignment.

The Thunderbolt Squadron stationed at Hangar bay 15 was none other then the infamous 125th Black Star Eagle Thunderbolt Squadron, the most misfit, dysfunctional and virtue-less group of mavericks in the entire Earth Alliance Military.

"T-The 125th?" Noin was very surprised by their new assignment.

"Aw fuck! Just when things were going good, this had to happen…." Then a man with a huge scar that looked as if it reached from the forehead, across his neck and back and to his left arm floated up to the two.

"Hi, you two the new bosses?"

"I believe that when someone meets a superior officer, one should-" Milliardo interrupted her.

"Forget it Noin, I don't think that they'd ever saluted an officer in their entire careers. Makes me wonder how they'd get that far in the first place. Name please?"

"Um…2nd Lieutenant Bossly Arwack sir!" He salutes. "Sorry about that sir, I sort of forget that."

"Well that's a first. What about the rest?" Noin asks.

"I think it's rather self explanatory ma'am."

"I see, then how come you're still in the squadron Lieutenant?" Milliardo asks.

"Some complications in which I can't fully understand." Milliardo nods.

"I know exactly how you feel Lieutenant."

"So are you going to address the squadron sir?" The three float towards an office.

"Why bother? Half of them don't listen and the other half don't care." They reach the office.

"Hey guys look! Newbies!" One of the 125th says as he works on his Thunderbolt.

"I bet yah a week that they'd break!"

"I say four days!"

"Let me guess, they're always like this Lieutenant?" Milliardo asks Lieutenant Arwack as he opens the office door.

"Only around new commanders I'm afraid sir." The three of them enter the office. Arwack hands Milliardo a Digital Disk. "This contains all the data on the 125th so far sir."

"Thank you." Milliardo activates the computer console and inserts the disk. He then opens the files and looks upon the holo-screen. "Let's see what kind of people we got here…"

Milliardo first looks at Lieutenant Bossly Arwack's information. He is around the age of 35, unmarried and has two sisters and other miscellaneous information. Arwack is classified as a Maverick class pilot because of his forgetfulness of military conduct, unstable temper and has the personal hit ratio of 245/1, the highest of any maverick class pilot and a few hits closer to Milliardo's hit ratio. He was sent to the 125th on the count of hitting a superior officer, numerous times, because of a General's orders to him. Milliardo looked at Arwack. Arwack raised his hands and slowly shook them.

"It's not really my fault sir, the general wanted me to blow up a civilian transport."

"I remember that, you got yourself in a fist fight with the general. You're very lucky Lieutenant to be able to keep your rank." Milliardo told Arwack.

"Aww….thanks sir." Then Milliardo goes to the highest ranked pilot of the 125th, an African decent named Electra Carmen. Her rank was Major and is also classified as a Maverick pilot. The file reads that she was raised in the slums of the Los Angeles area and was sent to the 125th because she started a bar fight in Tokyo. Similar pilots have gone through the same kind of trouble and wound up in the 125th. Bar fights, not following orders, absence without leave, physically harming a superior officer, putting friendly forces in a life threatening situation, firing at friendly forces and to top it all off was that three officers were charged with adultery with a minor.

"And all of them are under my command? What did I do to deserve this?"

"Don't forget Colonel, I was assigned here also." Noin reminded Milliardo of their current situation.

"Yah, sorry about that Noin."

"So um…what are today's order sir?" Lieutenant Arwack asked the Lieutenant Colonel.

"Frankly, I have no idea why I was assigned to the worst Squadron in the entire Earth Alliance. I guess dad won't be happy that his son is the squadron commander of the most pathetic group of pilots known to man." Charles Peacecraft, Relena and Milliardo's father, was a third generation space Captain in the Earth Alliance Space Forces and one of the most famed space leaders in the entire military history of the Earth Alliance. He was one of the heroes of the Second Space War against the terrorist organizations and renegade armies known as the Star Inter-colony Independence Organized Union of Space, or SIDIOUS for short and the Lagrange Point Revolutionary Armada, LPRA for short. His space ship, the http://de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-B5-Ships/Earth_Omega.htm Omega Class Destroyer Algernon that was the second ship of the Omega Class to be built, has made Captain Peacecraft so famous. But then ultimately near the end of the war, the Algernon exploded due to a suicidal attack from a SIDIOUS Frigate.

"Permission to speak sir?" Lieutenant Arwack asked Milliardo.

"Go ahead."

"I think that your father, Captain Charles Peacecraft, would have been proud that you have taken responsibility for command of the 125th and that he would be more proud if you changed us into a dedicated, hard core squadron."

"Thanks for the compliment, but one problem; I didn't volunteer to accept this assignment. And frankly I don't think that I would turn this bunch of rejects, no offense, into a professional military squadron." Milliardo sighed before he continued. "At least it couldn't get any worst then this right?"

"True, we could have had the Bounty Head as our new command." Noin added.

"Yes, no one would be crazy enough to want to command that ship." The ship that Lieutenant Arwack and Major Noin were referring to was the http://de_vos.tripod.com/Rifts-B5-Ships/Earth_Roosevelt.htm Roosevelt class Heavy Cruiser Bounty Head, a Space Force Navy ship that was even worst then the 125th Thunderbolt Squadron. There are many rumors roaming around the Bounty Head, one of being is that the ship was cursed and that once you step onto the Bounty Head, you will soon die a horrific death. But mainly the Bounty Head is nothing more then another spot to place the rejects of the Earth Alliance Military to disappear.

"Yah well we'd better get going. They're probably expecting a speech from the new commander." Milliardo rises from the chair and the three of them exit the office space, minding the dripping mess of oil upon the door.

~*~

Almost two months has passed and the Peacecraft Residence are still getting used to Space Colony Life. Although the colony they are now living upon is made to be like life back upon earth as close as possible, but there were some elements in which the Colony cannot replicate. For instance, you didn't see buildings in the sky like on a colony. Stars do not shine like they do on earth. Wind blows differently on a colony then it does on the Earth. There is no north or south, no east or west. Only sectors and quadrants, district and zones. And there was certainly gravity on the Earth, not a technological imitation produced by the spin of Island One and birds singing in the distance.

Relena was sitting on a stone bench in the back yard and looking up into the so called "sky" of the colony. She missed the Earth already, being able to look up into the sky with the clouds and the stars at night. Then Heero walked towards Relena.

"You miss the Earth, don't you Relena?" She nodded.

"Yah, I miss everything about the Earth. The sky, the stars, my friends, everything about the Earth I miss." Heero walked up to her.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that you will return to your homeland soon. They can't keep you upon this artificial world indefinitely." He places a hand upon her shoulder, and Relena responded by placing her hand upon his and squeezing it gently. Then she turned towards Heero and looked deeply into his eyes.

"Heero…." She whispered before pulling Heero close for a long and passionate kiss, tears streaming down her face. The two embrased for some time before Milliardo called out to his sister.

"Relena, your friend Sylvia's here for a visit!"

"Coming!" Relena called back as she pulled Heero with her so that he may meet her new friend. Outside of the colony, hidden within the debris of the previous colony construction, an Anti-Earth Alliance Union war fleet had begun to mass in preparation for their battle against their enemy that dared to turn space into their military play thing.

~*~

It might have taken forever to work through the writer's block, but I finally have the fourth chapter done. I apologize for the length of time it took me to write the chapter, with the block and school and all. Please enjoy this for it may be some time before I'll be able to send out another chapter. Sorry L , now I have to get back to finishing these fanfics still in the works, I have some fanfic ideas that you readers just might enjoy. *turns and sees piles of paper upon desk.* Oh how I hate my life……..-_-'