Mobile Suit Gundam Fan Fiction ❯ Human Touch ❯ Memories ( Chapter 2 )

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Human Touch - CH2




Title:
Human Touch
Chapter 2: Memories
Source: After War: Gundam X
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam X or any of it's characters.
Brief description: The second chapter, this is actually where the story
starts.
URL: go here for pics and info on the character and Mecha of this story.
http://www.akurei.50megs.com/
Author's notes: I chose the title of this fic when listening to the 1st
ending song to Gundam X "Human Touch". Since this story was based
on the human struggle for survival and the need for contact in ones life, it
seemed appropriate.
It had been 5 days since
the last battle. A vacation as far as the Freeden's crew was concerned. It had
been getting colder the past few days, and that always seemed to bring out the
worst memories. After the mass colony drop there was a nuclear winter that covered
the Earth in cold darkness for several years. It was only a couple years ago
that spring returned, but for Garrod it was his whole life. His father died
during the war, most of his friends died during the long winter and the rest
along with his mother died in the spring when his village was raided by rouge
mobile suit pilots. It was a fact that the war was over, but the individual
wars have not ended. To this day pointless conflicts and battles still plague
the Earth.
Some members of the crew
sat watching light flurries begin to fall. It was always something that worried
people, they always wondered if this time the snow wouldn't stop, as it did
for so many years. Kid saw with the others taking a rest of all the work he
had been doing on the gundams. So far Airmaster was back up and running but
GX and Leopard still needed more work done. It was quiet a strain on the 12
year old but he was the only one that could get the job done in such a short
amount of time.
The Captain came to the
decision that it would be best to keep heading north toward the mountains, they
would have better cover there. With any luck they might run into other Vulture
ships and get more repairs done. Jammil walked down the halls and corridors
of the Freeden thinking of how the large land battleship had seen better days.
Soon after the winter ended the water level was still very low. Many naval ports
had lots of ships now stranded on land. The Vultures, who took every chance
to survive converted these ships so that they could move on land. Jammil could
remember the day he first saw the Freeden. It was a cold day, much like today.
Some Federal forces that were still in the area were hunting him and his small
band down for the theft of some weapons. At that time he was so eager to keep
his people safe. He managed to hide them all in an ship that had been washed
ashore and abandoned for many years. They were all so young at the time, orphaned
by the war and it's after effects, orphaned by HIS war. He was one of the Gundam
X pilots, one of the only ones that lived through the war. He never wanted anyone
to know he was involved with that, the most terrible tragedy in human history.
Witz and Roabie, the two
gundam pilots hired by Jammil pretty much kept to themselves at times like this.
They didn't really think of themselves are part of the crew, mostly since they
were freelancers. Though they had been working for Jammil for quite a while
now. Witz was off trying to kill boredom with sleep while Roabie was hitting
on every female crew member.
Tifa, still alone, was
trying to think of someway to help everyone. They had all been fighting so hard
to keep her safe. Her past was a mystery even to herself. Why were they so determined
to keep her away from the Federation? And for that matter, why did the New Earth
Federation want her for? All she knew was it had something to do with her abilities.
She knew Jammil was a newtype as well and perhaps that is why he was protective
of her. The others are just following his orders....except for Garrod. Even
with her empathic abilities she wasn't sure why he was so protective of her.
As she looked outside the falling snow reminded her of the first time she could
recall being in the Federation's custody. She was locked away in some lab and
spent each day being studied and examined. The process of creating artificial
newtypes was lost during the war. It was believed that studying a living newtype
would unlock the answers to replicating them. Whatever the reason, the thoughts
of her past made her shiver. As she was about to enter her room a sudden feeling
of dread overtook her. She nearly fell as images of a battle flooded her mind.
In her thoughts she could see the Freeden destroyed and Gundam Airmaster falling
from the sky. As soon as she could regain her composer she ran as fast as she
could to tell someone what she saw.
As she was about to enter
the bridge a sudden explosion from outside caused her to fall. The entire ship
shook with the force of the impact. "Report!" yelled Jammil as the
crew scrambled to figure out what happened. "Mobile suits detected, incoming
from the mountains. Suits confirmed, Gundam Virsago and Ashtaron." replied
one of the crew. "The Frost brothers" Jammil thought to himself. "What
is the status of the gundams?" Kid's voice could be heard over the intercom,
"Airmaster is 98% repaired but the others aren't combat ready yet."
Without order or hesitation Witz shot out of the ship in Airmaster. There were
still some light cracks in the armor but otherwise it was fine. Passing the
Freeden Witz could see the flaming hole produced by the megasonic cannon housed
in Virsago's torso. This would be no easy battle, the Frost brothers were virtually
unbeatable when working together. Their ability to read each other's thoughts
gave them a great tactical advantage over any opponent. They also had the reputation
of defeating every gundam pilot they had ever faced with the one exception of
Garrod.
As the gundams fought Tifa
could only watch and fear that her latest vision was coming to life. It was
believed that the brothers were working for the Federation but their true motives
were never known. It took about six crew members to hold Garrod back as he tried
to get into Gundam X. After punching out two of them, he himself was punched
out by Roabie, "There is nothing we can do now" he said calmly. Airmaster
dodged the two enemy suits as they double teamed him. Ashtaron attempted to
clamp onto Airmaster with it's scissor arm but missed as the variable mobile
suit changed into fighter mode and took to the sky. Witz brought Airmaster around
for an attack but only one of the gundams could be seen. Suddenly we felt a
major jolt as Virsago dug it's dragon claws into one of Airmaster's wings, causing
it's armor to rip up even more.
The gundam slammed into
the ground and crew gasped at the sight, hoping the pilot was still alive. Through
all the fighting no one had noticed that Tifa had left the battleship. Not until
Jammil caught a glimpse of her walking on the battlefield. Virsago dug it's
claws into the ground to brace itself for another shot of it's megasonic cannon.
The two gundams stopped when they noticed the girl walking toward them. To many
had suffered for her. She was determined to not let her vision of the Freeden's
destruction come true. The only thing she could think to do to save her friends
was to surrender herself.
. . . . . .to be continued
~Akurei_GX