Gundam Wing and everything associated with it belong
to their respective owners.
Chapter
4 – A day to remember
Mars
Today
was the day that everything fell into place. The first habitable environmental
domes were set and the technology that would fulfil its duty to make this
planet habitable operating.
So
far, her project was right on schedule after 5 years of planning. Yet she still
couldn’t stop herself from feeling the emptiness inside her. It was the biggest
achievement that she had so far and she had no one to share it with.
Although,
she knew that Noin and her brother – Milliardo were close by overseeing the
security. She was still alone as her brother couldn’t see her or even talk to
her without making his presence known. Being the most infamous person newly
added to history textbooks and written in the same lines as Hitler and a
certain middle-east terrorist did not help matters either. However, thanks to
the efforts of Lady Une, his pictures were not found on any of the war archives
or textbooks.
Everyone
in Preventer knew who he was and they had still managed to keep his existence
from the people of ESUN.
Just Barely.
Her
political enemies had already gotten wind of who could have possibly been the
pilot of the mysterious blue and white mobile suit that suddenly appeared
during Mariemeia’s coup.
Politics
is about power and power came from the people. The more popular a person is,
the more enemies they make. Being the most popular person in the ESUN
government had made her open game to just about every power hungry politician
there was.
Just
one small slip and they would make mincemeat out of her.
With
the passing of each day, she could feel her courage and strength to carry on
dropping. There were not many people around her that she could trust and she
was finding herself trapped between a rock and a hard place. Letters, e-mail
and any other forms of communication were secretly tapped into. Conspiracy were
all around and all of them rearing their ugly head at her.
She
had made formal complaints to the President of the ESUN, only to be rebuffed
and told that she had been working too hard.
Even
the President of the ESUN was afraid of her growing influence.
The
reason why she was even part of the ESUN government was because she was thought
to be useful. A tool that they could use to get support from the people.
At
first, she was used as a way to remove tension and attention from the financial
status of the ESUN. When Treize Khushrenada had lead the war to fight against
the White Fang, he had effectively left the ESUN all but bankrupt in his rush
to manufacture as many mobile suits as he could to join in the battle.
Which
was the reason why she had spent the few years in office rushing like crazy to
get the entire ESUN to be patient while they were still recovering from the
wounds left by war.
Eventually,
leading her to going to colony L3-X18999.
Heero had left after that and since then she haven’t
had any news of him.
He had covered his tracks very well and all searches
for him had given only her information of Heero Yuy – the man whose name had
been used as his code name. It seemed that information that had somehow been
“misplaced” had been found again.
No doubt, it was Heero’s way of repaying the man.
She had also tried asking the other gundam pilots,
but to no avail. Not even Duo knew where he went.
She even went to the extent of faking a kidnapping,
only to end up with Wufei almost hauling the rest of the other gundam pilots to
jail.
After that, she just buried herself with her work.
Only, to find herself missing him even more. She had even at times,
contemplated jumping off the window of her 55th storey office, just to see if
he would come whisking her away to safety or at the very least end her misery.
It eventually took the love and encouragement of her
friends, before she decided to continue on with her life. They had sworn to
hunt Heero down for her and make sure he gets what he “deserves”.
So far, she was still waiting for them to fulfill
their promise.
“…and
now, I bring to you Foreign Minister Relena.”
Suddenly,
she was brought out of her musings as she heard her name being announced by the
President of the ESUN.
She
walked up to the podium, gave her thanks to the President and began her speech.
“Ladies
and Gentlemen, today will mark a new era for humanity. The next logical step
for humanity since the colonies were created….”
Later,
at the reception
She
tried to cut down her obligatory introductions to everyone on the project by
taking the initiative to introduce herself first, so that she could leave
early.
She
had yet to ask her brother or Noin if they had any news at all.
Relena
was about to leave when she saw someone new in the reception.
Gave last minute
instructions and made him late, I suppose. Might
as well get it over with.
“I
am Relena Darlian and you are…” was the farthest she could get when she saw him
turn around and recognized the man she had almost left off without meeting.
At
first, he was shocked. But he quickly composed himself and finished off their
introductions.
“Lowe,
Dr Adin Lowe.”