The Blazer pulled up to the edge of a forest. Katja jumped out, grabbed her bag, locked the doors and began her trek into the woods. Every once and a while she looked at her watch that had a compass that would blink the direction she had to go like a homing device.
About fifteen minutes later she had arrived at a beautiful clearing near a river.
The river was fed by a waterfall, which was about as tall as a small office building. Everything was lush and green. And standing out like a sore thumb was a large black bulletproof box, sitting in front of a tree near the river.
Katja walked over to investigate but was relieved when, on top of the box, she read the symbols, OO6 Katja It was her name in Greek symbols.
Katja typed her code into the keypad on the side of the box and opened the lid.
When the lid was fully opened it revealed a computer screen with a prerecorded technical information and video of Professor G, who spoke to her.
"Katja, we've finally equipped you properly," joked the recording.
"The Gundam Guardian Angel is hidden with in the cave behind the falls. Be cautious when piloting it. The cockpit system, called The Mercy System, is stronger then the Zero System. But I believe Dr. J has cured you of any fears you had for that system," Professor G chuckled then continued. "In the box are some tools and supplies you will need.
"Be careful and good luck."
The screen went blank.
Katja, not caring at that moment what was in the box, closed the lid and began to climb a rocky path that lead behind the falls.
She slipped behind the water to the opening of a deep cave. The light from outside shone in far enough that she could see something further ahead.
Cautiously she made her way back to it.
When she arrived in front of it she couldn't make out what it was, except that it defiantly wasn't a stalactite.
Katja reached for her keys, where she kept a small flashlight.
She squeezed the flashlight and pointed the beam up towards the ceiling.
The small circle of light fell upon the head of a Gundam.
With a sigh, Katja identified it as the Gundam Deathscyth Hell.
"Duo, what are you doing here?" said Katja quietly to herself, turned to the right and continued to walk further into the cave.
Just as she approached the left arm of the Gundam, it rose and the thermal beam on the buster shield came on merely inches in front of her.
"HOLY GOD!" she shouted in surprise as she jumped back with her hand over her heart.
Still stunned at her brush with death, she regained her composure and glared up at the machine she didn't hear as someone come up behind her. She took a step back to look up into the cockpit. She felt the barrel of a gun jab her in the back.
Her first reflex was to step forward, but a hand fell upon her shoulder and held her in place, the gun pushed further into her back.
Katja again tried to move, but the hand squeezed tightly against a pressure point, and a tired, husky voice spoke near her right ear.
"Don't move," hissed the voice.
Following orders, she froze. Then recognizing the voice, she took a chance and turned to face Duo.
She moved fast enough that, due to her black clothing, he couldn't tell what was a shadow, and what was her.
The serious, yet evil, look on his face melted away to slack-jawed awe when he realized it was her.
Katja just smiled at him and he snapped out of his standing coma and started yelling.
"What the heck are you doing here?" he exclaimed.
"Turn off your mechanical pit bull and I'll tell you as I go," said Katja, referring to the Deathscyth.
Duo climbed back up into the cockpit and shut off the buster shield. He then came back down to find Katja gone.
"Damn it! Where'd ya go?" he shouted.
He heard a female laugh and saw a faint glow further down into the cave. Figuring it was Katja, he ran after it.
As the light got brighter he found himself in an enormous cavern. And in the center, there was a Gundam that looked like a doll from his vantage point.
At the foot of the gundam was the source of the light.
Katja was standing on a small boulder staring up at the Gundam with a thermal flare in her hand.
Duo started the rocky climb down from the tunnel opening and made his way towards Katja.
A few moments later he joined Katja on the boulder.
"What took you so long?" asked Katja jokingly, as she turned to face him.
Duo just gave her an agitated look and was cut short from speaking when a gleam of light that bounced off the Gundam, caught his eye. And he realized why she was staring at it.
The overall color of the Gundam was a smoky gray and silver. Yet it closely resembled his new Deathscyth, but also the other four Gundams as well.
He could identify the stealth components that dotted the immaculate machine.
It was amazingly armed to the teeth, yet it concealed it well, much like the pilot, did with her strength.
Duo stepped off the boulder to take a look at it from afar.
Everything about it was ever so slightly smaller in scale then the other Gundams. Truly what he thought a girl's Gundam would look like. It was built to be nimble and quick, yet strong as an ox, again much like the pilot.
It had the same type of "wings" as the Deathscyth Hell and a staff strapped to its back, but its left arm was made like the "Dragon" arm of the Altron.
Along with the buster rifle, strapped to the back as well, attached to the right arm in the same fashion as his buster shields in that he could still use the hand, was a combination shield and gattling gun.
What was most impressive was the different concealed compartments all over the machine, which he knew contained explosives and other neat toys.
All together it was a very intimidating machine, even when it wasn't being operated.
Kajta, who was still on the boulder, got tired of waiting for him, dropped the flare on the boulder and crawled up underneath the wings.
Awquardly backwards, she climbed a built-in ladder to the cockpit.
She hooked her left arm around a rung, reached over to a keypad and typed in her number. 006KATJA
The doors opened slightly, with the hissing of the air locks, but couldn't open fully due to the wings being in a locked position. Katja reached with her left foot over to the small opening and slid her way through the crack.
She got nearly all of her body through when her right foot got caught in the crack. She slid her leg up to where the crack was a little wider and pulled her foot through. As she did so, Katja lost her balance and fell into the control chair. Upon dropping into the chair, the gates closed and a dim light came on. Katja typed in her number again, there was a slight pause, then the main computer came on and all of the screens came to life with pictures of her surroundings and Duo in the center screen.
On the screen the words Hallo Katja. Wie Gehts?* came up. Pleasantly surprised to see the machine communicating in her native language, German, she responded by typing in her startup commands in German. Once downloaded into the computer, Katja placed her hands on the control sticks.
Outside Duo was still looking over the Gundam when the eyes flared to life in an eerie deep blue color and the wings unlocked and spread.
Startled by the sudden movement, Duo ran a good distance away from it and stopped to watch it move from a safer vantage point.
Inside Katja saw Duo on her screen and walked the Gundam over to him. The gates opened and she stepped out.
"So what do you think?" she asked like a guy showing off his hot rod.
Duo smiled and took a sigh of relief when he saw that is was her piloting, and not the Gundam moving on it's own.
"It'll do, I guess," he responded jokingly.
Katja smiled at him, then went back to the cockpit and shut it down.
* translation ->"Hello, Katja How are you"
