Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Future's End Game ❯ Message from the Ruins ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Chapter 1: Message from the Ruins

It is the year After Colony 205 and the location is the Cinq
Kingdom in the dead of night. Within an abandon alleyway where the
forgotten are lost and safe from the outside world, a ball of light
emerges and out comes a soldier clad in futuristic armor with his
helmet held under his arm and a 40 mm plasma pulse assault rifle with
army knife bayonet, grenade launcher and laser/computer sight hung on
his shoulder, utility belt with an assortments of gadgets and on his
arm was a hologram computer. His face was obscured from the shadows
and in his pocket was a photograph aged by time. A photograph given
to him by his superior in his mission in case if the Bio Weapons'
mission was to destroy the person within the photograph and her
companions. He pulls the photo out and studies the girl with honey
colored hair and Aquarian eyes and takes him several moments before
he finally blurted out. "What's her name again. It was Rel- something
Peace.....Door. No, I'll figure it all out later." The figure pulls
out an equally aged map and starts to fiddle with the relic of Pre
Bio Weapon Era. "I can never get used to these 2-D Maps. What did
Pops say about her general location? Something Castle. Well, if it
is a castle, might as well look for one that looks like a castle."
The soldier continues to fiddle with the map, trying to make sense
of what the map is showing him.

It was in the mid-afternoon and a group of friends gather at
an outside diner with the exemption of a Chinese Preventer pulled into
the fray by his partner.

"It's good to see you all after all this time." Relena Peacecraft
greeted the group as they arrive.

"As if I had a choice Onna." Mumbled Wufei. Sally Po sharply
elbows him in the ribs.

"Wufei, be nice." Just about everyone sat down around the table
with the exemption of Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton and Chang Wufei whom either
stood or leaned against a street lamp. Each one of the people sitting at
the table continued to talk about what they have been doing with their
lives and what was happening and hardly notices the soldier slowly walking
up to them holding the map that was the cause of his frustration. Soon he
was standing beside the group and silently mumbled to himself while fumbling
with the ancient map. Heero was the first to notice the soldier fumbling
with the map when he notices the strange rifle with the army bayonet. After
a short while, everyone changed their direction when the soldier finally
blurted out.

"Geez, I can never figure out these stinking 2-D maps." After much
deliberation, Duo Maxwell was elected to see what the soldier was looking for.

"Can I help you?"

"Is it okay if I place my helmet on your table? It takes two hands
to handle this stupid thing."

"Well, okay." The soldier placed his helmet upon the group's table
and everyone was dumbfounded when they saw the helmet, it was nothing that
they ever seen before.

"Oh, and would you be so kind as to not touch it. It's really quite
sensitive and it took me a while to build it from the scraps I could find."
The soldier added.

"Oh, what is it?" Duo asked the soldier.

"From the blue prints that Pops gave me, it's a Winner Enterprise
Smart Soldier Helmet Mark 4 with holographic projection screen and online
combat computer software. Don't know when it was first built though." The
group then turned towards Quatre whom shrugged at what they heard.

"So what are you looking for?"

"I can't remember exactly. Rel-something Peace...Door...something
like that." The soldier continues to fiddle with the aged map. "I got her
picture right here." He pulls the picture out without leaving the gaze
of the map and hands it to Duo. "You might be careful with the thing, it's
quite old." Duo looks at the photograph of Relena Peacecraft which looks
as if it had been aged by decades and turns the photo over and looks at
the year.

"AC 195!!" Duo exclaimed.

"Yah, that thing is 44 years old, almost as old as this stupid map."
Just about everyone gasped at the picture that was in Duo's hand was dated
10 years ago had aged over four decades. "Oops, I'm sorry, I forgot to
introduce myself. My name's Adin Lowe III." Adin Extended his hand without
moving his face from the map. Only Heero was startled from the soldier's name.

"So um, why are you here in the first place Adin?" Duo asked after
several moments of confusion and handing the photo back to Adin.

"Pops sent me through the time displacement gate to this era,
whatever it is, and prevent the Bio Weapons from altering history."

"Bio Weapons?" Duo didn't understand a thing that Adin was talking
about but would want to start somewhere.

"Genetically created life forms breed for combat. They began the war
in AC 215 when they launched an all out nuclear attack and then began the
extermination of all Earth-Bound Humans. They are ugly, ruthless, smart,
strong, deadly, emotionless, the works. Lasted until we hit their main hive
in AC 239 because of the Time Displacement Equipment and I was sent here to
stop them. It wasn't a pretty war and Pops tells me that there hasn't been a
war like it since World War III of the old calendar. Soldiers dieing from
deep wounds, explosions, battles in the ruins of ancient cities, stuff like
that. You probably be long dead before then."

"Who's this Pops that you keep referring to Adin?" Duo asks.

"He's the leader of the Liberator Militias of mine. I call him Pops
because he's like a father to me...in a way. I think his name is......Heero
Yuy that it. Heero Yuy." Duo looks back at Heero and shrugs.

"So, what's this Heero Yuy like in AC 239?" Duo asked.

"Pops? He's really unemotional, uptight, antisocial. And in the words
of Duo and excuse my French but he 'Has a rusted pole shoved up his ass'
and again excuse my French." Heero flashes Duo with his patient Death Glare.
Duo shivers and Adin continues. "Duo and Pops argue so much it makes me wonder
why Pops didn't shoot the guy in the first place."

"Anything else?" Duo asks changing the subject.

"Just help me find Relena Peacecraft. After that and I'll be on my way.
I know that Pops told me not to reveal the future, but since most of Earth's
population is going to be killed and no one knows what caused it, I see no
consequences out of it." He finally reveals his face when he sets the map
upon the table and continues to look at it. The entire table was shocked to see
that Adin had the form of Heero Yuy but had the honey colored hair and Aquarian
eyes of Relena Peacecraft. "And I need some help since I can't make heads or
tails out of this stupid 2-D map. 3-D hologram maps are so much easier."
Just then, a dark shelled creature with arrowhead-shaped head with red eyes,
dog hind leg jointed legs, huge three fingered claws with a pulse gun thing
on its wrist and made a liquid growling noise. Adin saw the thing and quickly
grabbed his rifle and shouted. "BIO WEAPON!!!!!" The rifle fired plasma
discharges that shredded through the flesh of the creature now confirmed
as a Bio Weapon. He continued to fire
until it was unrecognizable as a life form, but a bloody pink mass of charred
and shredded flesh lying in a pool of pink/lavender blood. "Shit, that thing
could have blown my brains out. Well, it's been nice talking to you, but could
you-" Adin then notices Duo and Heero. "Duo? Pops?! I am in so much trouble."