MOBILE SUIT
GUNDAM:
THE BATTLE OF ANGELS
DEADEYE
Note: I have read a good bit about newtypes at gundamxl.com, however, the way I am defining it in this story is a bit different, and by a bit I mean WAY different, but the concept is still generally the same, besides, Mobile Suit Gundam HZ, of which this story is a sequel of, took place after Gundam Wing therefore it, and this, are alternate universe stories. SO DON’T SEND ME LETTERS ABOUT MY NEWTYPE DEFENITION BEING WRONG!!!! THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL SERIES OF GUNDAM!……thankyou for listening.
It’s is the year After Colony 203, the world is at peace once more, war seems to be a thing of the past, and looks as if it will be finally overcome. Just a couple months ago there came a time of near war, a time when only one person who did not accept peace was making his own war. This person’s name is unknown, however he was given the codename ‘Plague’. The United Earth Sphere Alliance was ready for this however, and started an operation called Project: Savior, this operation churned out a boy by the name of Kertani Williams who was trained for a total of seven years. After his training was complete, he was sent to battle Plague in the Gundam Heavy Zero, a gundam class mobile suit fitted to records of his training. Plague was eventually cornered, and the world was becoming united against him, he fled to space where he met Tyler Maddison, representative of the USA for the UESA Board of Military, Plague joined their group as leader, not knowing of Tyler’s true intentions. After his plans were put into action, Plague and Kert battled for one last time, before it became apparent that Plague was simply a pawn for Tyler’s use. Using the gundam Epyon Zeta, Tyler managed to ambush Kert and disable his mobile suit to an extent, after that he went up against Plague, who was looking for revenge against the traitor. Tyler’s mobile suit was defeated, and the space fortress Barge II, his command ship was destroyed. Then there was a time of peace for the world, but this peace was destined to be shattered…once again…
Chapter 1. The Awakening
Year AC 203
The remnants of the once shining metallic silver mobile suit hurled through space, it had been about two days since the Plague Wars ended. Again the entire incident went on another rerun, the large black Gundam, the flash of yellow light, then the titanic grey hand reaching out and then…nothing…nothing at all, total darkness as he was thrown in every which way and looking down upon him, was Shinigami himself who raised his scythe and
"AAAAHHHHH!!!!" He screamed and bolted upright in his seat, he looked around, it was dark, a penetrating darkness that was only kept away from a small flickering from a broken wire every 2 seconds or so. He just sat there in a cold sweat, breathing hard. The only thing he could make out from the flashes was a cockpit around him. Of course! He slapped himself on the forehead but quickly saw why he shouldn’t of done that as the pain in the bruise of his forehead suddenly flare up anew, everything came back to him now, the battle, his Gundam that he was still inside of- at least the remnants of -, and his crushing defeat at the hands of Plague and that Kert bastard!
"I’m, I’m alive, or is this hell? Am I destined to sit here in darkness forever?" He said to no one in particular, maybe to the darkness… "Maybe.." He reached out to one of the buttons on the panel and all of a sudden the screen in front of him flared to life with static, the sudden onslaught of light was too much and he shielded his eyes. When his eyes got used to having light present once again he began to push other buttons, in hope that they would respond, not many did. "Dammit! I’m going to die out here anyway!" He said through clenched teeth as his stomach reminded him how empty it was and his throat how very dry it was. He kept searching the buttons until he found one marked, ‘STAR MAPS’.
New hope filled him and he pushed the button, the static ceased and a map came up. There was earth, the big round sphere in the middle, and there were the colonies, small green dots marked with ID tags, and there he was, a small red blip on the radar traveling at about 3 meters per second. But then there was something else, a small blue blip, coming at him, mostly by reflex rather than thought he grabbed his .45 pistol out of the compartment to his left, thankful he still remembered where it was…
"Sir, I think we’ve found it! There’s a small blip on the radar heading towards Colony Cluster L3!"
"Good work Henderson, that might be it, pilot! Head to the quardinets given by the radar!" Ordered the captain
"Yes sir!" The pilot quickly typed in a command on the console and brought the map up then set the quardinets marked by the small red blip labeled ‘Unknown’. The UESA still had not confirmed whether Tyler was dead or not, and if he wasn’t he faced major charges of treason, murder, and mass man slaughter among other things. They had dispatched a small group of people to try and locate the remnants of his suit and see if he was still alive, they knew Gundanium would most likely hold even in that size of an explosion, it’s impact tolerance was amazing. After the pilot had set the course their small exploration ship took off and was there in 10 minutes, the ship’s external camera scanned over the wreckage.
"My god! It’s nearly completely intact! Severely damaged though, I doubt it’s operational at all." Henderson reported from the images of the scarred and damaged mobile suit.
"That’s our guy, report to the search group that we’ve found him and are beginning docking procedures."
"Yes sir" Henderson nodded and began sending transmissions to the rest of the group.
"Initiating docking program." The pilot said as he typed in a command on the console. The ship started to slowly move towards the mobile suit, at about 10 feet, two extender arms came out and grabbed the suit and pulled towards the ship into the Cargo Bay. Once the cargo bay doors had closed the bay pressurized and the mobile suit was laid down on it’s back, the captain walked down the stairs from the cockpit area and walked over to the suit.
"Damn, that things is sure screwed up." He jumped up onto the leg of the suit and walked over to the cockpit. "How do you open this damn thing?" He started looking for a button or something, didn’t find one and pounded his fist on the door in frustration, it opened up to his surprise. "What the hell?!" He backed off for a moment, then peered in, there was a figure in the darkness that looked as if it was totally limp. "Looks like he’s dead," He turned around, "Send a transmission to the search group telling them that he’s been confirmed deAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" A combat knife tore into his flesh above the ankle, he fell down in pain and was dragged into the cockpit, Henderson and the pilot who had accompanied him into the cargo bay looked on in horror as his body was flung out of the door to the Gundam’s cockpit and floated slowly to the floor, leaving a trail of blood from the large deep gash in his neck which floated in the zero gravity of space, a man in an astro suit climbed out of the cockpit holding a bloody knife.
"Stay back!" the pilot ordered while pointing his MP-5 submachine gun at him, the man in the astro suit started advancing.
"You fool, you really think you are going to fire that in here? You are not wearing an astro suit, the bullet would cause a breach in the hull, and you would he splattered against the walls before you could worry about suffocating." Said the man in the astro suit, the voice belonged to Tyler Maddison.
"Tyler, this hull is bullet proof so don’t think we won’t fire!" Henderson threatened behind his .9 mm pistol.
"That makes it all the more convenient for me…" Tyler whipped out his .45 pistol before they could react and fired off two rounds which both hit in each of their head, sending a fine red spray from the back of their heads, they both fell slowly to the ground. Tyler walked by and up the stairs to the cockpit, taking a moment to glance at the gaping bloody holes in the back of their heads. He had another thing to be thankful for now, that the gun had still worked. He accessed the navigation maps and took a look around, the nearest colony was in the L5 cluster, suddenly a voice on the radio came.
"Search vessel Alpha! Come in Alpha! Respond! What have you found?!" Damn it Tyler thought to himself, he’d served in wars before he had become a representative on the board of military and he knew the procedure, if the vessel did not respond they would send another ship, probably full of other troops. He quickly put a bullet in the transmission radio and called up a connection with the ship who had contacted them. He set it up like a chatroom and typed ‘This is Search ship Alpha, we have found him, report two men down by gunshot to the head, Maddison is dead too." He waited for a moment, hoping his ploy had worked when, "Roger alpha, clever way to contact us. What happened to the radio?" Tyler smiled, they had no idea… "A stray bullet hit it during the firefight, I’m thankful it didn’t hit the cockpit glass or we would all be spread out on the walls by now." "Affirmative, what is your name?" Tyler was a bit surprised at this, he quickly ran down the stairs from the cockpit and grabbed the dogtags off of one of the bodies and typed down the name on it, "Mathew Henderson sir." "Roger, set quardinets for rendezvous." "Negative, we are low on fuel and are headed for the nearest colony." "Understood, we will meet you there."
The connection terminated and Tyler sat down in the pilot’s seat and thought. They would probably base their decision on which colony to go to by his last known trajectory, that would be the easy way, or they would go to the one they had calculated nearest his position. Yes, that’s how they would do it, so he had to head to one farther off. He took a look on the reading of the fuel tank for the boosters and saw that they had plenty left.
"It’s all so perfect, I must be destined to get away with this!" He chuckled to himself as he set course for a colony nearer to the middle of the L5 cluster and took off.
2 Months later
In San Francisco, California, two men wearing black uniforms walk up to 3423 Maple Street and knock on the door. After a while foot steps are heard and the door opens.
"Umm, hello. Can I help you?" The 16 year old kid asked, he had brown hair and was about 5 foot 9 in height.
"Yes, we are from the UESA research team, would there be a man by the name of Kertani Williams in this house?" One of the men asked.
"Your talking to him." Kert answered with less tension now that he knew who they worked for.
"We’d like you to come with us." The other man said, he held up a police badge signifying he had the power to force him to come with them. Kert eyed them suspiciously.
"What the hell for?" The tension had returned.
"A certain old man by the name of Doctor T wishes to see you." The tension drained once again, he knew Doctor T, he was the one who trained him, set him up with the gundam Heavy Zero, and provided him with assistance for much of the Plague wars.
"Oh, in that case I’ll be glad to come. What does he wanna talk about? Do you even know?" Kert asked. He knew he was in friendly hands but he still wanted to know why.
"I’m sorry kid, we’re not allowed to talk about it outside. Just please come with us." One of them said as he held up his badge once again, Kert thought this unnecessary and an attempt at pushing him around, he already knew they could take him forcibly if need be. He grabbed his hat and camouflage coat off of the coat rack by the door and walked out with one of them at each side, they were looking around as he got in the backseat of the car.
"What’s with the security? Have I been promoted to president without being notified?" Kert said, it was a joke, but he decided to leave out the chuckle at the end since they were looking dead serious.
"Don’t joke about this, it’s by Doctor T’s orders, he says you are too precious to us." One of the men said as he got into the passenger seat, the other got behind the wheel, started it up and started heading for the intersection right in front them and waiting for about 2 minutes for the stoplight to change before proceeding, after about an hour in heavy rush hour city traffic they were out of the city limits and in country where the traffic was minimal. Neither the men or Kert dared to speak a single word.
2 Months earlier
The shuttle had almost arrived, Tyler was in the cargo bay arranging the bodies to make it look as if that captain had been him, he was roughly the same size as him, had the same hair color as him too and that was enough since his face was pretty much demolished beyond all recognition from the .45 bullet he had taken to the head. Tyler then stood where Henderson had stood when he shot him and the pilot then held out Henderson’s 9mm right where he was standing, then after dodging an imaginary bullet he charged forward and gripped onto an enemy that was non existent, in his mind he took the .45 from it’s hand and shot him in the face with it.
"It’ll work, it has to work, let’s see, first he came out, then he shot the pilot, I dodged out of the way before he fired, he ran out of ammo and while he was reloading I charged him, wrestled him to the ground, and took the gun out of his hands and shot him with it. Everything is set…wait a second…" Tyler walked over and got the clip out of the .45 and emptied it then put a full clip minus one bullet from his pocket on the ground to make it look as if he had dropped it when he was charged. So far everything was going to plan, he had jettisoned Henderson’s body and had put on his uniform, giving the uniform he had been wearing to the captain. Henderson’s dog tags were around Tyler’s neck. "Yes… it will work." He said with a smirk on his face, it might not be a permanent cover up, but it was enough to keep them off his tail long enough for him to slink away from the prying eyes of the UESA. 10 minutes until he came into contact range with the colony, he put the bullets in the airlock and jettisoned them. He didn’t have to worry much about finger prints, he had been wearing gloves and the only fingerprints they would find would be the ones of the pilot, Henderson, and the captain. He sat in the cockpit listening to the humming of the engines, thankful the ship had autopilot.
2 Months later
They finally pulled into a dirt road in the Mojave desert, Kert looked around, remembering his training days there. They approached a large facility, it had no marks of who it belonged to, a precaution that no one could have discovered what the UESA was up to during project Savior. The two men got out of the car and opened the backseat door, Kert got out.
"I could’ve gotten out myself you know." Kert said, attempting at making another joke but the look they gave him immediately shot him down. As he followed them into the front gate he got a good look at them. One was about his height with grey hair, he was wearing a hearing aid (or was that a fix?) and had green eyes, the other one was a little shorter, with blond hair and brown eyes. They walked through the main gate into the facility, it was very high security, Kert could tell from the 3 check posts they had to go through before entering into the main complex which consisted of a lab, a testing facility, lunch hall, quarters, construction bay, and many other things, they stopped at the testing room and Kert was led in. The two men closed the door behind him and from the sound of it they stood at attention on both sides of the door, Kert rolled his eyes at that, didn’t they realize he was a lot more capable than actually needing this type of security?
"Well, Kert, long time no see." An old voice said from behind him, Kert turned around and a smile graced his face as he saw Doctor T sitting in the chair in front of the console.
"It hasn’t been that long, did ya miss me already? Is that why you called?" Kert said, again attempting at making a joke and suppressing a sigh of relief as Doctor T chuckled at the remark. It felt good to be in the presence of friends again rather than in the strict supervision of the two security freaks.
"Well I did miss you, but that is definitely not why I called you, the UESA has another use for you for research."
"What kind of research?"
"Newtype research."
"Newtype?" Kert said questioningly, he had never heard of the term before.
"Yes, newtype. The UESA thinks that it is another stage in human evolution, or rather soldier evolution," Doctor T responded calmly, "they have very good reason to believe that you yourself are a newtype."
"What is a newtype exactly?"
"A newtype is a human that is beyond the combat abilities of all other humans, this usually arises in soldiers in particular, since they are the ones who put their skills to the test most often. Think of being a newtype as having your own built in Zero System, you have a higher awareness and reaction time than normal."
"So you mean I won’t need the system to hallucinate?" Kert asked, Doctor T chuckled again.
"No, the hallucinations are non existent because the brain wave activity is natural. Heero Yuy, the pilot of the Wing Zero was technically a newtype, however his skill came from the mastery of the Zero System rather than his own natural abilities."
"So what makes you think that I’m a newtype?"
"The fact that during the final fight you were able to hold off Plague despite the huge advantage he had over you with the Zero System installed."
"But Tyler was able to take me down afterwards anyway, he wasn’t using the Zero System."
"First of all he ambushed you, secondly your mobile suit had been damaged by Plague making your suit unable to operate at full capacity and leaving little margin of doubt that you are a newtype, we’ve brought you here to try and confirm that, and if it is confirmed then we try to gather all the data we can about it."
"Wait a minute! I have a job I have to go to tomorrow! The rent doesn’t pay itself!"
"While you’re here we will pay for that, Don’t worry Kert I wouldn’t put a huge dent in your financial affairs just for some data that might not exist in the first place! Personally, I have no doubt in my mind that you are newtype."
"Well that answers most of my questions, but there’s one more, why are those two security freaks out there not allowed to talk about it?"
"Because people have always been afraid of things they don’t understand, if they found out that you were a superior fighter they would start seeing you as some kind of new bioweapon, a threat to them."
"Do you really not trust human nature that much?"
"Not as much as I don’t like the idea of taking the risk."
"Well, okay, I’ll go along with this, when do we start?"
"Tomorrow, you’ll be sleeping in room 23 of the quarters section, you need anything just ask those two security freaks as you call them." Doctor T said with a smirk on his face. Kert’s expression suddenly plunged into worry.
"You mean they’re gonna be watching me all the time?" Kert said in distress. "I could barely stand the ride over here!" Kert continued, Doctor T started laughing.
"Oh no they’re not gonna be around you all the time, they just have a little beeper linked up to a button on the phone in your room. Just buzz when you need to know something, keep in mind they’re not room service!" Doctor T joked.
"Ok ok, anything else I should know?" Kert asked, stepping back towards the door.
"No not right now, I’ll see your tomorrow, right now I have to continue testing this new mobile suit design." Doctor T turned back to the window overlooking the test area.
"Okay then, seeya tomorrow!" Kert walked out, relieved at not seeing the two body guards at the door anymore, he walked to his room and turned in for the night.
2 Months earlier
Tyler snapped out of his void of thought as a detail he had forgotten hit him. He got out of the cockpit and took the gun out of the captain’s cold dead hand and shot a round from another clip in his pocket on the wall where Henderson had been standing before, now that was the bullet that missed, Tyler ejected the cartridge out into space and put the gun back into it’s position. After he had gotten back into the cockpit the comm light suddenly blared on, Tyler opened up his self made chat program and awaited the colonies hail. "Search Craft Alpha, state your business here." Tyler typed in a response, "Emergency landing, Tyler Maddison killed, two men down, my name is Mathew Henderson, request clearance." He waited… "Roger Henderson, you are clear on hangar bay C-1, we will send a medic team immediately." Tyler was absolutely delighted, everything was going to plan, just one more thing… "Negative, they are already dead, I am uninjured, send a forensics team." He typed, he needed to keep them investigating long enough for him to escape. "Roger Alpha, we’ll see you there." Tyler smirked once again. The landing guides lighted up at C-1 and the autopilot took over, it aligned the shuttle with the two rows of guides then went into the hangar bay at slow speed, finally stopping when it was completely in, the doors closed behind him and there was absolute darkness for a minute or two. The lights suddenly came on and the clamps held the shuttle tightly in place, Tyler saw the message ‘HANGAR PRESSURIZATION COMPLETE’ on the console screen, so that’s what they were doing. He put the 9mm from Henderson in his holster and put his helmet back making it extremely difficult for his face to be seen. He would need that so they couldn’t track him.
The hatch opened up with a hiss as he pushed the button and walked out. He was greeted by the team there.
"Welcome back Henderson, we’re glad you made it." One of them said, Tyler gave a mute nod.
"What the hell happened in there?" Another one of them asked.
"Well when we first opened the hatch he came out and killed the captain and the pilot, the captain was in there with an astro suit on and was sucked out of the hangar after being killed, the pilot was next, he came in and got shot in the head right off, I went in right after him but dodged out of the way before he could fire, he was out of ammunition, while he was reloading I charged him and shot him with his own gun." Tyler explained, rather nervous that they would recognize that his voice was not that of Henderson’s.
"Are the bodies still in there?"
"Except the captain they are all in there, I’ve gotta go and write a report now."
"Very well, we’ll have the investigative team down here, we’ll have our escorts guard you on your way to the UESA military center."
"That won’t be necessary, have you got a ride or something I could use?"
"Er, yes, actually we do, there’s a van outside we use to deliver small cargo imports with. We can spare one."
"Thanks, I’ll be on my way." Tyler walked out of the hangar bay and walked past the team of forensics experts, after a bit of searching he found the garage, got a van, and left to try to get out of there. He already had a plan…
Tyler has successfully eluded the United Earth Sphere Alliance’s prying eyes, but on Earth it will be next to impossible to locate him. Meanwhile on Earth, the newtype testing of Kertani Williams begins and he receives a phone call from a presumed stranger, not long thereafter, a dark figure begins to stalk Tyler as he makes his move to descend to Earth. Who is this dark figure and what does he want? Find out next time on episode 2 of The Battle of Angels:
Descent to the Blue Planet