Timeskip - Afternoon at 2:00 - Two days after the events of chapter one 
Chapter 2 - The Island That Bled

It had been a long and troubling search for the pirates and even though they had a lead they shouldn't have been able to hide this effectively. Stan Stone had decided to stay on the island after all and gave Mizawa, OMNI doctor and coordinator of the GUNDAM Project control over the process. However him and Welsh seem to be disagreeing on a great many things, especially where they were going exactly. Some people on the ship expected there to be a base near Taiwan others say it was a small island somewhere in the ocean. They were currently going on the assumption of the former due to Welsh's insistence and Mizawa finally deciding the captain was going to do as he was going to do. Being stranded in the middle of the ocean was another problem. If they got attacked by aqua mobile suits they were done. Calamity couldn't function in the ocean and the others were not equipped for aqua marine combat..

Richard was in the hanger as he had been for the past day or so working on his handling of Calamity. Regardless of who was right and wrong one thing was for certain....they weren't going anywhere fast and that bother Richard greatly. Richard had intensely studied Calamity and even had it's full gear installed but due to the lack of Raider Gundam being available he wasn't able to practice with it as much as he liked. Instead he relied on a manual and practiced the basic movements inside the hanger. He wasn't an artillery unit user and it was proving to be a quick and painful adjustment to the Ensign's capabilities. "Damn this thing! Who built this things modules and workings?" Richard growled angrily as he gripped the leather seat between his fingers tightly. He was angry and not without good reason after all he was stuck in with a group of frustrated men and women some of which were creepy and or arrogant to the point where even he started to dislike them after two days. Especially their glorious Captain. However Welsh did it he certainly wished someone would take over when he hit the bottle. Despite this Mia insisted on defending Welsh no matter how stubborn the man was. "Hey you need to be more careful with Calamity you know!" Complained one of the engineers as Calamity nearly smashed the walkway. "Sorry I....I'm just a bit frustrated." apologized Richard as he went back to work on the systems.