Revenge of The Lost (A Gundam Wing Fanfiction Novel)

Chapter 3: Crummy Letter

A Secret Old Military Base

"When it's all done, they'll all get it. They'll all understand." The leader Crystalia looked toward her other members. "Every one of them will understand."

"Crystalia?" One of her subjects asked aloud. "Some of them are too close to the targets. Word is, Duo Maxwell already knows. He didn't drop her like everyone assumed would happen. He even came to Earth. She will be watched extra close. What will we do?"

"We stick with the plan," Crystalia said. "He'll break."

"I can understand . . ." One of the women in the group started to speak up. That woman was called Jewel. A codename, no one used their real names. She had been the one to take part in the event of Hilde Schbeiker. Her purpose, she had known it. Understood it. She wanted it, but Jewel had found out that the ones being used in the plan had not even taken a single life. Three of the women in the plan? Hilde was responsible for things, yes, she killed and committed atrocities. Middie Une was the worse, she was a known spy, getting others who had trusted her killed. Those were good individuals to use, but three out of five? "This is about justice, Crystalia," she said. "Why are we picking three innocent women?"

"Dorothy Catalonia instigated war. She loved war, it's a known fact," Crystalia said. "If she had a chance to see war or be in it, she would have taken a life without qualms. Even her descendents, it was destiny she would be a bad person."

That wasn't a strong enough reason. She never took lives. "Mei-Lin Wang?"

" . . ."

"Her situation, and her close name. Is that really it?" That wasn't good enough. "Who added the death of someone too? That wasn't us, was it?"

"In order to get things done, we've had to ally with another group," Crystalia was slower in the explaining. "Their presence have influenced some mechanics, but the message is still the same."

"An innocent man is dead, she is being hunted for that, how is that the same message?" Jewel pushed on. "This group has lost its way choosing these women. There was no reason, and the former Queen of Earth?"

Crystalia smirked at her. She smirked? "She is a good leader, who has always been there for everyone. She wants to make everyone happy, and make up for everything that she can. Call her a sacrificial lamb, she'll willingly do it."

"That's not fair," Jewel continued to yell. "These choices, they are by the other group! Who is influencing our group?"

Crystalia walked closer to her. "Honestly? When I said we had to ally with another group? I was talking to the group, not you. You are part of the other small group."

What? More than Jewel started to complain.

"Easy, ladies," Crystalia tried to calm them down. "Every single one of you could be implicated right now in all of this." She looked straight at Jewel. "One phone call and Duo Maxwell would be at your door, ready to murder you and everything you hold dear."

Everyone started to go stark quiet. "Used," Jewel whispered. "We were used."

"The world is about being used. The world is about a lot of pain. It's time for the ones who brought this suffering into the world, to bear that pain." Crystalia looked toward the crowd. "Our groups are similar. Not exactly the same, no, but the mission hasn't changed. The man who died? Deserved death. Classified reasons and Mei-Lin will be freed of those charges. She'll be fine." Crystallia pointed at Jewel. "Do you want to destroy all of the work we've all pushed together for?"

"For the lives of . . . three innocents." Jewel stared at Crystalia.

"The rewards are still the same, and it's not like the Mei-Lin woman was well liked."