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[redcomet]

[ 1 ] - Zeon Barracks

Gentlemen, it's now or never.

[ Char's in the middle of a motivational speech. The Zeon Royal Guard has been assembled, and are standing at attention. Char is currently standing behind a desk, the Zeon flag draped in the background, along with the flag of Axis. ]

Ensign Lane may be an Earthnoid, yes. I don't deny this. But she represents something far more important than heritage, gravity or otherwise. She represents something far more dear to us as citizens of Zeon. Something none of us have enough of.

She represents a hope for our future. A willingness to see what so many warped by earth's gravity are willingly blind to. She embodies the very reason we offered a hand of friendship to the White Chalice, when its crew was made up of those who called us their enemy in the One Year War.

[ Char begins pacing behind the desk. ]

She swore an oath to stand by us, to help guide the Earth Sphere towards its destiny. By this oath, she became a spacenoid, not in birth, but in principle. And just as we are willing to give our lives to defend the Colonies, neither will we abandon a comrade in need.

[ He stops, and turns back to the Royal Guard. ]

We will save her. She deserves to see the dawn of a new era of prosperity for Spacenoids along with us. She deserves to stand at our side when we break the shackles the Titans unjustly placed upon the Colonists. No, she deserves to help us break them. Gentlemen, my fellow soldiers, get your rest while you can. The mission begins in twenty-four hours. Dismissed.

[ The Royal Guard salutes, and gives a cry of 'Sieg Zeon.' ]

Sieg Zeon.

[ 2 ] - Hangar

[ Char can be seen next to a docking Zeon Komusai II-class shuttle. It's purpose is relatively simple; a single courier hands a package to Char, before promptly getting back into the shuttle and departing.

And what's in the package? Clothes. Specifically, a new Zeon uniform, this time bearing the stripes of an officer. Anyone who has seen Cynthia Lane in her Zeon garb would recognize it as being in her size. There's also a medal: Anyone who knows their Zeon symbolism would recognize it as the Zeon Bronze Cross, which is given to rescued P.O.W.'s and MIA soldiers who didn't go AWOL.

He's planning on giving her a hero's welcome. ]

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[bulletwithgundamwings]

[[Your package inspection is interrupted by a kid with a gun. He's not holding the gun, it's actually in his pocket, but he's making no effort to hide it while he approaches.


Because the presence of Zeon, more specifically the Red Comet himself is questionable and suspicious. But he's not stupid enough to just DRAW a gun on a figure head like this...]]

So this ship even allows some of the biggest enemies of the Earth Sphere to redeem themselves?

[redcomet]

[ Nearby Royal Guard members reach for their side-arms, but Char raises his hand, and they stand down, for now. He's been in this situation... four times now? Five times? He's used to it. ]

There are far bigger enemies than Zeon in the Earth Sphere right now. [ He slowly turns to face the young boy. What is it with kids and Gundams? ] The White Chalice has a lot of enemies. They'll take allies where they can find them, especially when there is a common enemy involved.

[bulletwithgundamwings]

And what do you intend to do once those threats are neutralized?

[[That wasn't exactly a line Hiiro wanted to hear. Not something about Char himself, but, so many other forces that turned their guns towards the Chalice. That was one more irritating step between him and his mission. He didn't have all day to shoot through everyone else to get what he needed to get done, but... if that's what he had to do, he'd pull the trigger.]]

[redcomet]

I'll continue to protect the colonies. I swear an oath that I can't break.

[ That's all that matters as far as he is concerned. So long as a single threat to spacenoids exist, then his fight will never be over. ]

[bulletwithgundamwings]

You'll protect them, even if the colonists themselves become your biggest enemy?

[[It was theoretical, but, who knows what turn of events would pit every person in the Earth Sphere against one singular target.]]

[redcomet]

Yes. But that is hypothetical. Right now, their biggest enemies are the Titans. They're no better off now than they were under the Zabi family.

[bulletwithgundamwings]

The Titans are a mess. Their only threat are their numbers, but their military structure is flawed. They can't seem to mount a proper attack on larger than a peaceful country. I've studied their track record with people from this force.

The Titans aren't as big a problem as you're making them. [[But still a problem none the less.]]

[redcomet]

They are a part of the Earth Sphere Federation. That alone is all the people of Axis need to wage war on them. Their abuses against the Colonists won't stand, no matter how inept they may be at war.

[bulletwithgundamwings]

Not all the colonists want to wage war.


[[Some of them just want to squash the enemy with weapons known as Gundams so there isn't an opposing force to go to war with. Not necessarily squashing their faction, but at least their soldiers and weapons.]]

[redcomet]

I don't wish to wage war, either. But I am not naive enough to believe the Titans will simply agree to leave.