(fic) Peacecraft 1 - Gundam Wing - WIP
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AU, Sci-Fi ~ 1+2, 3+4 ~ The GW boys are pilots of the ship Peacecraft 1 on their way to the Sanq 1 colony.
Prologue
The five doctors were sitting at a large table in the dark briefing room, watching silently as the army of Romafeller destroyed their space station, their actions all displayed on the big screen in front of the room. It wouldn’t take long till the soldiers arrived there, in the heart of the station.
Doctor J sighed heavily and pushed a small button on his console. All of them knew what they have to do. They didn’t like it at all, but there was no acceptable alternative.
"Relena," J called silently.
Suddenly a bright hologram appeared in front of the screen. It was a young girl, looking no older than sixteen with long light hair, dressed in a simply white space suit, calm expression on her face.
"You called, Doctor J?" Her voice was gentle and relaxed.
"Yes. I’m giving you the strict order to take the Peacecraft out to space. To leave the docks and head to your planned destination." He was saying it with a heavy heart. Their hopes and expectations they had put in this project destroyed.
"And the colonists?"
Her asking this question surprised nobody. She was an AI, but the best they have ever created. The best program for the best ship. The Peacecraft 1 was the biggest and fastest ship ever, filled with technology that cost them millions of credits. And for nothing.
"There won’t be any colonists coming, Relena," Doctor G, who was sitting opposite J, whispered and pushed a small disc into the console in front of him transferring the data into the Peacecrafts main computer.
Relena cocked her head to one side while reading the informations as they kept flowing into her brain. Death, so many dead people. All just because the Romafeller organization couldn’t take it, that they had been excluded from this project. The Oz project started as an idea for peace and not for the war plans the Romafeller had with their ship and AIs.
"So all the colonists are dead..." It was a statement delivered in a quiet and sad voice.
"Yes, Relena. And we can’t allow for the Romafeller to get hold of you, the ship or the pilots with their dirty hands," J explained. The other only nodded in agreement. "We can’t destroy you - you are our child. So the only way to rescue you all is for you to escape. The pilots and the captain are on the ship, aren’t they?"
She nodded. "Yes, they haven’t woken up from their cryogenic sleep yet. Shall I speed the process of their recovering?"
G shook his head. "No, quiet the opposite. We want you to freeze them deeper again. The flight to your destination, the Sanq 1, will be very long. There shouldn’t be any problems. You should be able to manage the navigation and everything by yourself."
She nodded again seeing the logic in it. The pilots had become a part of the program because of the thousands of colonists who should have been on the ship in this very moment. The six pilots should have been responsible for the humans on board. Relena was a very capable being but still, as an AI her abilities were limited.
"I understand. But what should their mission be? Seven of them on a ship that had been built for almost five thousand people? It’s obvious that this station will be destroyed soon," pointing at the screen behind her, "and along with it all your knowledge, data, everything. The goal of this mission was to build a new colony in deep space. A new colony that should have represented a clear start for all the people who wanted to leave this war stricken galaxy... But without colonists - why bother with building a colony?&quoot;
"I understand your arguments, Relena... but we don’t know if there won’t be another ship built and another group of colonists sent out in a matter of years. Or maybe it won’t even be colonists, but soldiers...And the planet has to be ready for them - for the colonists to welcome them and for the soldiers... the planet has to be able to defend itself. The pilots have been trained in these things and it will easily become their new mission."
She nodded but it was obvious she didn’t like the prospect of fighting and killing. She has been created as a tool of peace therefore she despised violence.
"As you wish, Sirs," she bowed slightly. But before disappearing back into her ship she looked around at all of them. Had she been a human, they would’ve guessed that she had tears in her eyes. "It was a privilege to know you."
J smiled slightly. "It was our pleasure, Miss Peacecraft," answering with a bow of his own.
She then disappeared, leaving the room dark again.
Using a remote control J switched the channel on the screen. They could see the magnificent ship leaving the docks slowly. Almost immediately all the fighters outside turned their fire on it and the doctors had to hold their breath. They relaxed once they saw that the shields were able to withstand all of the damage being caused by the soldiers. In seconds the Peacecraft 1 vanished with a light speed jump into the cold space.
There was a hammering on their doors before they slid open; thanks to a short-circuit one of the soldier created on the panel next to the door. A group of men rushed immediately into the room and surrounded the scientists. One of the men - obviously the commander - stepped forward and with a cold smirk ordered them to come with them.
The doctors smiled to each other. It was over now.
"It was nice to meet you all," J said to his fellow doctors with a salute and a smirk of his own. The other answered in the same way. And then J pulled out a small black box from under the table and with a silent click he pressed the red button on the top.
No one in the room had a chance to scream before the station exploded.
1
---Name: Yuy, Heero---
---Age: frozen at the age of 16---
---Status: Pilot---
---Number: 01---
---Thawing Process Initialised---
====
"Common, Heero." Duo tried to drag Heero away from his laptop. "Heeeeeerooooooo," he wailed trying to get his attention.
"Hn," Heero remarked, not even taking his eyes from the screen.
Duo tugged on his hand again. "I want to show you something! You don’t have to go crazy over this toy of yours, even here." Seeing that Heero didn’t show any signs of getting up in the near future Duo pouted. "I’ve discovered a nice lake just behind the woods. You’ll like it!"
This time Heero did look up. "Duo, this is a dream world. Something our imagination created to keep us occupied during our flight to Oz. I don’t know how it is possible that we are even here together but you can’t discover here anything. It’s enough just to think about it and it will appear!"
Duo was getting exasperated. "I know where we are, dear lover of mine. And that’s why you shouldn’t be sitting here typing away on this damn thing," he shouted pointing at the computer. "What are you doing on there anyway?" Duo was trying to look on the screen that Heero was hiding so obviously. "Did you lock your mind into the board computer or what? As you said - this is an imaginary world. You can’t get any new information here!"
With a triumphal "ahhah" Duo got a peek on the blinking screen. "WHAT? You are playing cards? You prefer to play cards than play with me?" This said with a really wounded expression on his face.
Heero sighed and turned off the laptop. Standing up he drew Duo closer and hugged him. "Of course not, koi. I just... I think I get withdrawal signs or something when I’m away from my computer too long."
Duo giggled. "Yeah, that’s more likely, I wouldn’t put it past you. But will you go with me now?" His eyes were pleading with Heero. "I created this wonderful lake just for us to play within."
"Okay, okay, I’m going, I’m going." Heero sighed exasperatedly, he knew from experience that he would give in. It was impossible to resist Duo’s puppy eyes and pouting lips.
Duo laughed and threw himself onto Heero. But instead of hugging his koibito he fell to the ground as Heero disappeared suddenly leaving the room and Duo alone.
Duo sat up feeling the panic rising in his chest. "Heero?" he called out knowing that although it was possible to change destination with a blink of eye in this reality Heero wouldn’t scare him like that.
So that meant that somebody - probably the doctors - woke Heero up. But then they would wake him up too, right? And that was not happening. So that left only one possibility behind... Something had happened to Heero...
Duo could feel tears burning in his eyes. From the pit of his heart he screamed Heero’s name.
===
Heero woke up with a gasp, filling his lungs with the relatively fresh air of the ship. He fell into a coughing fit as the stale air of the cryogenic tube left his lungs. Then he sat up slowly running a hand through his already tousled hair then wiping the sleep from his eyes with his fingers. He shivered as the cold air of the room touched his naked skin.
The overhead lights blinked a couple of times before they switched on bathing the empty room in white light. Heero looked around and frowned when he found out that his imaginary world, the room and Duo himself were replaced with the sterile surrounding of Peacecrafts cryo-chamber and that he was the only one awake. All the other pilots were still sleeping peacefully in their boxes.
"Relena?" he called, the confusion evident in his voice.
The hologram switched on. This time Relena had her hair plaited in two thick braids and was dressed into black and white school uniform.
"Heero!" she cried out excitedly, smiling happily at him. "You are awake! Finally!"
"Relena, why am I the only one awake?" Heero’s frown deepened when Relena’s smile disappeared. "What’s going on? Where are the doctors?"
"The doctors are not here, Heero," she admitted quietly.
"Why?" he asked in confusion and shivered again in the cold air.
Relena noticed his shiver and hurried to help him. "Oh, sorry, Heero. I didn’t realize... I will take care of the temperature immediately."
As soon as she said it he could feel the sudden rise of heat in the room. His frown smoothed out and he nodded his thanks.
"Now, why are the doctors not here? And where are my clothes?"
A small box slit out from under the cryogenic tube and Heero reached down taking out a pair of green and white sweats.
"There was an incident, Heero..." she whispered in such a low voice that he almost missed it.
Her proclamation made him frown again. "What incident?" He moved his feet over the edge of bed and started to pull on his sweats.
She looked at her feet and proceeded to explain what happened back there at the station, how the Romafeller army had been trying to get their hands on the ship and her, how she had received the order to send the ship on its way and how the doctors had self-destructed.
Heero dressed while she was telling him the story and now was standing frozen next to the cryogenic bed. "They are dead? All of them?"
She nodded, sadness evident in her eyes. "Yes."
Heero looked at the opposite site of the big room where rows and rows of empty cryogenic beds were hiding in the wall. He knew that there were 10 other rooms like this one on the ship - a lot of beds for a lot of people. People who will never use them now.
He walked to the panel situated on the wall over his bed typing a code on it and let the bed slide back into the wall again. Then he moved to the bed next to his tracing the number 02 written on the label next to the panel with the tips of his fingers. He entered another code into the system and let the bed slide out. He then stepped into the head of it looking down at the boy sleeping peacefully under the artificial glass. Heero raised his hand, laying it on the glass over the other pilot’s head. Duo Maxwell, his koi...
He looked just the same as he had the last time he had seen him. It was the day when they had deep-frozen them on Earth before sending them on their way to the Oz space station. Their trip shouldn’t have taken more than 10 months. But obviously it had taken more time...
"How long, Relena?" he asked his eyes not leaving the beautiful face of his koi.
When Relena was silent for too long Heero finally looked up and his eyes narrowed when he noticed she didn’t meet his eyes. "How long???"
She raised her eyes meeting his hesitantly. "17 years, 5 months, 18 days and 3 hours since we left the Oz."
TBC
AU, Sci-Fi ~ 1+2, 3+4 ~ The GW boys are pilots of the ship Peacecraft 1 on their way to the Sanq 1 colony.
Prologue
The five doctors were sitting at a large table in the dark briefing room, watching silently as the army of Romafeller destroyed their space station, their actions all displayed on the big screen in front of the room. It wouldn’t take long till the soldiers arrived there, in the heart of the station.
Doctor J sighed heavily and pushed a small button on his console. All of them knew what they have to do. They didn’t like it at all, but there was no acceptable alternative.
"Relena," J called silently.
Suddenly a bright hologram appeared in front of the screen. It was a young girl, looking no older than sixteen with long light hair, dressed in a simply white space suit, calm expression on her face.
"You called, Doctor J?" Her voice was gentle and relaxed.
"Yes. I’m giving you the strict order to take the Peacecraft out to space. To leave the docks and head to your planned destination." He was saying it with a heavy heart. Their hopes and expectations they had put in this project destroyed.
"And the colonists?"
Her asking this question surprised nobody. She was an AI, but the best they have ever created. The best program for the best ship. The Peacecraft 1 was the biggest and fastest ship ever, filled with technology that cost them millions of credits. And for nothing.
"There won’t be any colonists coming, Relena," Doctor G, who was sitting opposite J, whispered and pushed a small disc into the console in front of him transferring the data into the Peacecrafts main computer.
Relena cocked her head to one side while reading the informations as they kept flowing into her brain. Death, so many dead people. All just because the Romafeller organization couldn’t take it, that they had been excluded from this project. The Oz project started as an idea for peace and not for the war plans the Romafeller had with their ship and AIs.
"So all the colonists are dead..." It was a statement delivered in a quiet and sad voice.
"Yes, Relena. And we can’t allow for the Romafeller to get hold of you, the ship or the pilots with their dirty hands," J explained. The other only nodded in agreement. "We can’t destroy you - you are our child. So the only way to rescue you all is for you to escape. The pilots and the captain are on the ship, aren’t they?"
She nodded. "Yes, they haven’t woken up from their cryogenic sleep yet. Shall I speed the process of their recovering?"
G shook his head. "No, quiet the opposite. We want you to freeze them deeper again. The flight to your destination, the Sanq 1, will be very long. There shouldn’t be any problems. You should be able to manage the navigation and everything by yourself."
She nodded again seeing the logic in it. The pilots had become a part of the program because of the thousands of colonists who should have been on the ship in this very moment. The six pilots should have been responsible for the humans on board. Relena was a very capable being but still, as an AI her abilities were limited.
"I understand. But what should their mission be? Seven of them on a ship that had been built for almost five thousand people? It’s obvious that this station will be destroyed soon," pointing at the screen behind her, "and along with it all your knowledge, data, everything. The goal of this mission was to build a new colony in deep space. A new colony that should have represented a clear start for all the people who wanted to leave this war stricken galaxy... But without colonists - why bother with building a colony?&quoot;
"I understand your arguments, Relena... but we don’t know if there won’t be another ship built and another group of colonists sent out in a matter of years. Or maybe it won’t even be colonists, but soldiers...And the planet has to be ready for them - for the colonists to welcome them and for the soldiers... the planet has to be able to defend itself. The pilots have been trained in these things and it will easily become their new mission."
She nodded but it was obvious she didn’t like the prospect of fighting and killing. She has been created as a tool of peace therefore she despised violence.
"As you wish, Sirs," she bowed slightly. But before disappearing back into her ship she looked around at all of them. Had she been a human, they would’ve guessed that she had tears in her eyes. "It was a privilege to know you."
J smiled slightly. "It was our pleasure, Miss Peacecraft," answering with a bow of his own.
She then disappeared, leaving the room dark again.
Using a remote control J switched the channel on the screen. They could see the magnificent ship leaving the docks slowly. Almost immediately all the fighters outside turned their fire on it and the doctors had to hold their breath. They relaxed once they saw that the shields were able to withstand all of the damage being caused by the soldiers. In seconds the Peacecraft 1 vanished with a light speed jump into the cold space.
There was a hammering on their doors before they slid open; thanks to a short-circuit one of the soldier created on the panel next to the door. A group of men rushed immediately into the room and surrounded the scientists. One of the men - obviously the commander - stepped forward and with a cold smirk ordered them to come with them.
The doctors smiled to each other. It was over now.
"It was nice to meet you all," J said to his fellow doctors with a salute and a smirk of his own. The other answered in the same way. And then J pulled out a small black box from under the table and with a silent click he pressed the red button on the top.
No one in the room had a chance to scream before the station exploded.
1
---Name: Yuy, Heero---
---Age: frozen at the age of 16---
---Status: Pilot---
---Number: 01---
---Thawing Process Initialised---
====
"Common, Heero." Duo tried to drag Heero away from his laptop. "Heeeeeerooooooo," he wailed trying to get his attention.
"Hn," Heero remarked, not even taking his eyes from the screen.
Duo tugged on his hand again. "I want to show you something! You don’t have to go crazy over this toy of yours, even here." Seeing that Heero didn’t show any signs of getting up in the near future Duo pouted. "I’ve discovered a nice lake just behind the woods. You’ll like it!"
This time Heero did look up. "Duo, this is a dream world. Something our imagination created to keep us occupied during our flight to Oz. I don’t know how it is possible that we are even here together but you can’t discover here anything. It’s enough just to think about it and it will appear!"
Duo was getting exasperated. "I know where we are, dear lover of mine. And that’s why you shouldn’t be sitting here typing away on this damn thing," he shouted pointing at the computer. "What are you doing on there anyway?" Duo was trying to look on the screen that Heero was hiding so obviously. "Did you lock your mind into the board computer or what? As you said - this is an imaginary world. You can’t get any new information here!"
With a triumphal "ahhah" Duo got a peek on the blinking screen. "WHAT? You are playing cards? You prefer to play cards than play with me?" This said with a really wounded expression on his face.
Heero sighed and turned off the laptop. Standing up he drew Duo closer and hugged him. "Of course not, koi. I just... I think I get withdrawal signs or something when I’m away from my computer too long."
Duo giggled. "Yeah, that’s more likely, I wouldn’t put it past you. But will you go with me now?" His eyes were pleading with Heero. "I created this wonderful lake just for us to play within."
"Okay, okay, I’m going, I’m going." Heero sighed exasperatedly, he knew from experience that he would give in. It was impossible to resist Duo’s puppy eyes and pouting lips.
Duo laughed and threw himself onto Heero. But instead of hugging his koibito he fell to the ground as Heero disappeared suddenly leaving the room and Duo alone.
Duo sat up feeling the panic rising in his chest. "Heero?" he called out knowing that although it was possible to change destination with a blink of eye in this reality Heero wouldn’t scare him like that.
So that meant that somebody - probably the doctors - woke Heero up. But then they would wake him up too, right? And that was not happening. So that left only one possibility behind... Something had happened to Heero...
Duo could feel tears burning in his eyes. From the pit of his heart he screamed Heero’s name.
===
Heero woke up with a gasp, filling his lungs with the relatively fresh air of the ship. He fell into a coughing fit as the stale air of the cryogenic tube left his lungs. Then he sat up slowly running a hand through his already tousled hair then wiping the sleep from his eyes with his fingers. He shivered as the cold air of the room touched his naked skin.
The overhead lights blinked a couple of times before they switched on bathing the empty room in white light. Heero looked around and frowned when he found out that his imaginary world, the room and Duo himself were replaced with the sterile surrounding of Peacecrafts cryo-chamber and that he was the only one awake. All the other pilots were still sleeping peacefully in their boxes.
"Relena?" he called, the confusion evident in his voice.
The hologram switched on. This time Relena had her hair plaited in two thick braids and was dressed into black and white school uniform.
"Heero!" she cried out excitedly, smiling happily at him. "You are awake! Finally!"
"Relena, why am I the only one awake?" Heero’s frown deepened when Relena’s smile disappeared. "What’s going on? Where are the doctors?"
"The doctors are not here, Heero," she admitted quietly.
"Why?" he asked in confusion and shivered again in the cold air.
Relena noticed his shiver and hurried to help him. "Oh, sorry, Heero. I didn’t realize... I will take care of the temperature immediately."
As soon as she said it he could feel the sudden rise of heat in the room. His frown smoothed out and he nodded his thanks.
"Now, why are the doctors not here? And where are my clothes?"
A small box slit out from under the cryogenic tube and Heero reached down taking out a pair of green and white sweats.
"There was an incident, Heero..." she whispered in such a low voice that he almost missed it.
Her proclamation made him frown again. "What incident?" He moved his feet over the edge of bed and started to pull on his sweats.
She looked at her feet and proceeded to explain what happened back there at the station, how the Romafeller army had been trying to get their hands on the ship and her, how she had received the order to send the ship on its way and how the doctors had self-destructed.
Heero dressed while she was telling him the story and now was standing frozen next to the cryogenic bed. "They are dead? All of them?"
She nodded, sadness evident in her eyes. "Yes."
Heero looked at the opposite site of the big room where rows and rows of empty cryogenic beds were hiding in the wall. He knew that there were 10 other rooms like this one on the ship - a lot of beds for a lot of people. People who will never use them now.
He walked to the panel situated on the wall over his bed typing a code on it and let the bed slide back into the wall again. Then he moved to the bed next to his tracing the number 02 written on the label next to the panel with the tips of his fingers. He entered another code into the system and let the bed slide out. He then stepped into the head of it looking down at the boy sleeping peacefully under the artificial glass. Heero raised his hand, laying it on the glass over the other pilot’s head. Duo Maxwell, his koi...
He looked just the same as he had the last time he had seen him. It was the day when they had deep-frozen them on Earth before sending them on their way to the Oz space station. Their trip shouldn’t have taken more than 10 months. But obviously it had taken more time...
"How long, Relena?" he asked his eyes not leaving the beautiful face of his koi.
When Relena was silent for too long Heero finally looked up and his eyes narrowed when he noticed she didn’t meet his eyes. "How long???"
She raised her eyes meeting his hesitantly. "17 years, 5 months, 18 days and 3 hours since we left the Oz."
TBC
