The Weapons
It's the year 57 A.L. (After LEAF), peace reigns between the space colonies and Earth thanks to the creation of LEAF, an organization created between the Earth Alliance and the colonies. Sadly the calmness is being the disturbed by the terrorist organization SOUND, which has gained enough power to pose a major threat to both Earth and the colonies. To fight SOUND, LEAF has started the G-weapons project, with the objective of creating more powerful mobile suits. LEAF's plan is to use the G-weapon together with the mysterious Project 'J', started seventeen years ago, in hopes to create a weapon powerful enough to defeat SOUND.
A girl sighed; she couldn't believe how boring one could get inside of a military spaceship. "So much for the great ship, Raikiri" The girl thought as she looked at the countless stars in space. Her name was Haruno Sakura; she was fifteen years old, she had short pink hair just right above her shoulders, and emerald green-eyes, she was daughter of one of the most important men in LEAF.
She wanted to get to Earth as soon as possible, but being an important public symbol such as her, made the trip a lot harder. Her father had insisted that she would have to be ushered back to Earth by a military escort, at least she had manage to convince her father in sending her in just one ship, instead of a hole caravan. And here she was the famous space-ship Raikiri, seating in one of its observatories bored out of her mind.
Sakura snapped out of her thought when she heard the door slide open, a man in his late twenties, with silver hair, and a headband with LEAF insignia across on of his eyes, walked into the observatory. "Yo," The captain of the ship greeted the pink-haired girl. "Kakashi-san," Sakura acknowledged the greeting. "What are you doing here?" the girl asked. "Killing some time off, I got bored at the bridge, so I decided to take a walk around the ship."
The girl sighed, she had know the captain of the Raikiri since she was seven, he was a close friend of her father, so she knew him enough to not being surprise by his laziness, "It figures, he left all the work to the crew while he sits around doing nothing, how he became the captain of this ship I'll never know."
"So, what are you doing in here? Sakura-chan." The silver-haired man asked, Sakura just looked out of the window and sighed once again. "I'm just bore out of my mind. You know, one will think that it'll be a little more fun in here, since more than half of the Raikiri's crew are teenagers, but this has been the longest three days of my life." The pink haired girl whined.
Now it was Kakashi's turn to sigh. "Sakura you have to understand that even if a great part of the crew is your age, everybody here except for you is a soldier, and as soldiers they have to attend their duties before they can't relax." The captain explained. "What about you? You practically don't do anything except boss everybody around, and take breaks every fifteen minutes." Sakura protested, Kakashi just shrugged of and answer lazily. "My duty is to lead the crew of this ship, that's why I boss them around, and I'm only needed in the bridge if there's an emergency, or if we're under attack."
The girl was beginning to get angry with the captain, it was normal for her to get frustrated when in company of the silver-haired man; he tended to do that to people. "Don't worry once we make the 'pick up' we can set course to Earth, everybody in the crew will have some more spare time," The captain started. "Remember that the only reason that they have to work so hard is because, right now this ship is too vulnerable to enemy attacks."
"But why do you have to wait for them? Why can't anybody else pilot those things?" Sakura asked. "It's because they where specially trained to pilot those mobile suits, no one else will be capable of use them." Kakashi waited a moment before he continues. "But no matter, they'll be here pretty soon, and then I'll reveal the new mobile suits."
"Ok, I understand that they are the only one that can pilot those things." Sakura started. "But why do you have to wait until they get here to reveal them?" the girl asked, Kakashi gave a lazy glance to the teenager before he answered her question. "Nothing special really, is just that is so anxious to see the new mobile suits, that I just thought it'll be funny to make them wait as long as I can." The captain said and started to chuckle.
Sakura was really angry now; everybody in the ship was really excited with the new mobile suits, and the fact that they were kept a mystery from most of the crew didn't help the matter, but here she was, hearing that the only reason for the commotion was that the captain of the ship found the whole thing amusing.
Sensing the girl's anger level rise Kakashi decided to stop his chuckle. "It doesn't matter now really," Kakashi started. "Those two will be here in no time." The captain finished cheerfully. "Wait a minute, two? I thought that there where three pilots and three mobile suits?" Sakura wondered.
Immediately Kakashi's expression changed into a mix of sadness, regret, and anger. "Something happen to the third pilot, and the mobile suit that was assigned to him." The captain said, trying to keep his tone even. "But that's unimportant right now." The silver-haired man continued, managing to go back to his lazy tone of voice, "Any moment now, we will get word of their ship approaching."
As if on cue, the doors of the observatory opened revealing one of the crew members, the girl wore a pink uniform with the LEAF insignia on both shoulders, she had long blue hair that reach below her shoulder, she had pale-white skin, and pupil-less white eyes. Sakura recognized the girl without any problems; after all she had spent the last three days sharing a room with the girl. It was Hyuuga Hinata, she had been really nice towards Sakura during the pink-haired girl's stay in the Raikiri, but she had problems dealing with her shyness. The Hyuuga family was as famous as the Haruno, almost every member of that family, it's so big is almost a clan, was involve with LEAF, mainly in its military branch.
"Kakashi-san, I've been looking for you." Hinata directed a smile towards Sakura before addressing to her superior once again. "We have confirmed the approaching of their ship, they will be here in about fifteen minutes." The lazy captain nodded in acknowledgment. "Thanks Hinata-chan, I'll head over to the hangar." Kakashi started to make his way towards the door, before he was at the threshold Hinata's voice interrupted stopped him. "Sir, I was wondering if I could go with you to greet them."
Kakashi turned around grinning, "You really can't wait to see them again, can't you?" The blue-haired girl's face turned deep red, almost crimson, the silver-haired captain chuckle at the girl's reaction. "Of course you can come with me Hinata-chan." The man started, giving a smile toward the shy girl. "Are you coming with us Sakura-chan?" Kakashi asked the pink-haired girl. "Yep" Sakura Replied happily as she follow Hinata and Kakashi towards the hangar.
As the three of them got closer to the hangar, Kakashi spotted a boy just looking at a window that leaded to the platform; the teenager had black hair tide up in a spike ponytail, in a way that made his head look like a pineapple, "Shikamaru what are you doing here?" The captain asked the black-haired teen, "I just wanted to greet my friends." Shikamaru answered, his laziness could compete with Kakashi's. The response seemed to be sufficient for the captain since he didn't press on the subject.
Suddenly, noises were heard as the hangar's door opened, all four looked into the window as a small ship made its way in. once the hangar's door where close, Kakashi lead the three teenagers to the platform.
They arrived at the hangar just as the ship's door opened. First came out a man, he seemed to be in his mid- late-twenties, he had brow hair tied up in a ponytail that resembled Shikamaru's, and according to the insignia on his white LEAF uniform, he probably was the ships pilot.
The man nodded to Kakashi and walk towards the group. "How was the trip? Iruka." The captain asked. "Surprisingly calm, it seems as anxiety got the best of them." Iruka responded as he turned around to look back at the ships exit.
Sakura turned her gaze from the brow-haired man to look at the ship. Now in the ships threshold, two young men were standing both wearing white LEAF uniforms. The tallest one had long black hair that went all the way down his back, but what caught the pink-haired attention were his pupil-less white eyes, just like Hinata's. Sakura shifted her gaze to examine the other boy standing next to the black-haired one, this one was slightly shorter than his companion, he had spike-blond hair, and sapphire-blue eyes. Sakura shook her head a little when she realized that she was staring at the blond for more that it was needed.
"Kakashi-sensei" The blond one exclaimed. "Why did he call you sensei?" Sakura asked in confusion. "I was sort of their teacher, back when they were in the academy." Kakashi answer with a low chuckle. Both teenagers started to make his why towards the other five, Kakashi and Iruka both had grins on their faces, Hinata's face had gone crimson and was fidgeting whit here fingers, and Shikamaru had a smirk on his face.
"It's nice to see you two again." The captain said happily, the two teens stopped in their tracks, the black haired one gave half a smile to the five in front of him, while the blond gave the a fox-like grin. "Neji-san, Naruto-kun." Hinata said shyly, the blond boy took notice of the girl's presences and directed his gaze towards her with another grin on his face. "Hinata-chan longtime no seeing you, how have you been?" The blond said as he started to get closer to the timid girl, it surprised Sakura that Hinata's face was able to turn redder, the blond teen seemed to notice that something was off. "Hinata-chan, are you ok? You look red." The boy asked with a concerned look on his face.
It was at that moment that the two boys notice the pink-haired girl in the group. "Who is she?" the blond asked, his face going from concern to curiousness. "Oh I almost forgot," The captain started, Sakura noticed that the black haired on rolled his eye. "This is Haruno Sakura, Haruno-san's daughter." Kakashi said, at that moment the blonds face brightened. "You're Haruno-san's daughter, your father is pretty cool, his one of the few council members that I like." The blond exclaimed. Sakura gave him a smile and Kakashi low chuckle.
"Nice to meet you Sakura-san, my name is Hyuuga Neji." The black haired teen said stepping forward, "And I'm Uzumaki Naruto." The blond exclaimed. "It's nice to meet you." Sakura whispered in a low voice.
The boy turned towards Shikamaru and started to talk excitedly, in the three days that Sakura had been in the Raikiri she had never seen the lazy boy so awake. The pink-haired girl turn to look at Hinata, the shy girl's face was still red, but a big smile was adorning her face, "Hey Hinata, that guy Neji, is he related to you?" Sakura asked, Hinata seemed to snap out of the trance she was in and looked at Sakura. "Oh, yes his my cousin, but he acts more like my niisan." The blue haired girl responded, blushing a little more.
Kakashi thought that he had given enough time for them to catch up and decided to interrupt their conversation. "Ok, I think is time to revel the new mobile suits." The captain said trying to make the matter sound unimportant, immediately the three boys turn around toward the silver-haired man, excitement showing in each of their faces as they follow Kakashi to the Raikiri's storage area.
None of the boys was able to contain their excitement as the gates for the storage area opened. Once the group stepped inside all three boys, Hinata, and Iruka went silence in awe, even Sakura could appreciate the sight in front of her. Right there standing in the storage area were the two mobile suits the had been in the minds of everyone in the Raikiri for days, even an amateur in the field would know that the two mobile suits were beyond especial, both suits were grey-color, Sakura new that it was their armor wasn't activated.
"This is way better that seeing the graphics." Naruto exclaimed while his eyes shine like a little kid in Christmas. "These are the new mobile suit or as they're called Gundams, the first one is the ZGY-X77 Luster." Kakashi said pointing to the one on his right, the most notorious aspect on the Luster were its arms, "Its main weapons are its arms, since each becomes a saber, a blaster, and a missile launcher, The Luster specializes in close and mid-range combat. Neji this mobile suit was assigned to you." The black haired boy just looked up at his Gundam and smirked.
"The other one is the ZGY-X79 Demon," Kakashi continued pointing to the Gundam at his left; Sakura noticed that this one had some sort of wings on its back. "it contains a plasma beam cannon on its back, it has a double beam rife, a double energy saber, and a 16 meter-long anti-ship sword, and its 'wings' enable it to 'fly' on earths atmosphere. The Demon specializes in close and long-range combat, and it can still hold its own on mid-range situations."
Naruto looked up at the mobile suit and sad smile spread to his face. "It's a shame that I won't be able to pilot it."
ZGY-X77 Luster – Inspired on the GAT-X207 Blitz, the different is that it contains a weapons on each of its arms instead of just one; also it doesn't have the cloaking device.
ZGY-X79 Demon – Inspired on the ZGM-X10A Freedom, the only difference is that it's a little less powerful, and it contains a double rifle, and a long sword.