Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Broken ❯ Chapter 4

Title: Broken

Author: Skeren Dreamera

Archive: http://www.gundam-wing-fanfiction.net/

Category: Yaoi/Shounen Ai, Fantasy, and Partially AU

Pairings: 4+1, 2+6

Disclaimers: I do not own Gundam Wing! I do however own all original themes, names and characters created over the course of this story! Well, I do not own Relena's lunacy... I don't own any gods or goddesses mentioned here, no matter if I might like to. I do however, own my interpretation of this story line!

Rating: R until further notice.

Warnings: Supernatural themes

Spoilers: Endless Waltz, End of the main series

Feedback: Mickeofas@yahoo.com

Notes: Hi! I've gotten this chapter all done just for you people out there that seem to like it so much! I've noticed this is one of the most popular among my stories so I'll oblige you guys and keep working on it.

Quatre woke with a low groan, his hand clutching to his chest as a swirl of feelings slammed into him. Usually it didn't hurt like this for him... It was a couple minutes more before he felt someone wake up next to him. This made him frown in confusion as he realized he didn't hear a change in breathing. He didn't see anything because his eyes were closed and he didn't touch the other person. So how could he have felt that this other person was awake? His fingers rubbed at his chest a little more and he let out a whimper as a wash of concern flooded over his senses. This was immediately followed by a large amount of shock. Enough was enough, time to open the eyes.

"What happened?" He blinked his eyes open, and made a slight face as he heard his voice. It sounded absolutely weird. It sounded like he was talking in tune with a woman actually. Not a good thing. Not good at all.

"Quatre?" It was Heero. And he sounded odd. A phantom feeling whispered through him telling him to remember why. Certainly he hadn't forgotten anything. But when Quatre finally looked over to Heero he could only stare.

"Heero..." It was a reverent breath of air, but the ever intense blue eyes snapped up to meet Quatre's in an instant, making him catch his breath. He looked deadly. And beautiful at the same time.

The modifications Heero had made to his hair looked redder among the dark chocolate strands, almost shifting a little like fire. His entire body was in a formfitting armor of scales that where patterned between the fierce blue of his eyes and the shifting red of his hair, making him seem to flicker like fire whenever he moved even a little, his attention drifting back over Quatre while he was studied. He had a long sword at his hip, and a device that could only have been a hand crossbow, though when Heero spotted it, he quickly tucked it away wherever it was his gun went. The last thing that gained attention was something that moved from behind him. It was a tail. It was the same fire red as the scales that shimmered on his armor and it had a blade that snapped open and closed on the end as Heero studied his new limb with curiosity, having deemed whatever he saw in Quatre acceptable.

It was only after Heero turned his attention away from him that Quatre realized the radio was no longer doing it's broadcasting, but rather was playing something from the oldies group called the Goo Goo Dolls. He reached out to shut the radio off. It was then he realized he was dressed all in gray. All different kinds of gray, and that he was wearing a cloak. This sent him hurrying into the bathroom, waking Duo in his passing as he nearly stepped on the sleeping boy in his haste.

The moment he reached the mirror all he could do was stare at himself. He couldn't seem to get a clear picture of what he should be looking like. He blinked a few times and saw the same thing. He was glowing and flickering all over. Odd. His eyes each had a light or a shadow, but seemed to alternate every minute or so, switching back and forth. His eyes themselves no longer were aquamarine at all. As the dark and light alternated so did the colors of his eyes, though the color stayed longer than the lights and he only saw it flip once. One eye was blue, and the other was green. It was blue like Zechs had and green like Trowa had. Interesting. He moved his gaze up from his face to his hair, which was shimmering in an earthy brown with gold glimmering whenever he moved. Again, interesting. He ran his hands down and found knives tucked away hidden in his clothes. Then he looked at the last detail, utterly perplexed by how completely different he looked while the other three only had minor changes. He had one black wing and one white. The white was scaled like a dragon's while the black was a mess of soft feathers.

"Erm, Quatre?"

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Duo had one thought as he followed Quatre to the bathroom and watched him stare at himself. He got off easy, he still looked like good ol' Duo Maxwell. "Erm, Quatre?"

The flickering gaze swung around to Duo and the boy couldn't help but be slightly impressed. "Ya know. I think I like my get up better, no offense, but you look kinda flashy."

"Heero too. By the radio." Quatre moved his hand to his chest, trying to soothe the flare of amusement and worry that spilled off of Duo as the other boy heard the confused tone in his voice. Everything was so much stronger and clearer now with his ability and he didn't know how to mute it anymore. It hurt to feel everything so strongly.

Duo nodded, seeing the slightly pained look that crossed Quatre's face and heading off in the indicated direction. He stopped when he saw Heero holding his tail while he opened and closed the tri-blade at the end, keeping it where he could see it. "Y'know buddy, I never took you for a scales sort of guy, I always thought that was Fei's department, you know?"

"I like it. Even disarmed I'll still have this added weapon. With the blades closed it's almost as delicate as a hand. I remember a couple other lives now. I'd prefer to be called Enurta, (1) I liked that name the best, really. I remember you being Xi Balba though. You and Zechs were good to have around when I went as Balac. (2) I never remembered the other lives before now. Did you?" Heero finally released his captive tail at the end of his monotone speech, tilting his head to look at Duo, a slight smirk on his lips. He seemed more alive than he had, like all those emotions he'd been missing finally decided to come back home.

"I didn't remember before, no. I remember that I'd forgotten. So, are you waiting to show the other three? I can get em for ya if you want me to. It'd be my pleasure to jump on Wu baby first thing in the morning just to hear him squeak. You have no Idea the noises he makes when you startle him awake." Duo grinned, turning around instinctively as Quatre came back into the room, his hands held close to his chest like he was trying to shield something away.

Heero look one glance and moved to Quatre, lifting him from the floor and bringing him to sit down where Duo was watching in concern. It was a good plan until Quatre noticed everything was suddenly muted again while Heero was touching him. This was wonderful! He'd been trying to get closer to the former Wing pilot for months now. With the real excuse, Quatre dug his fingers into Heero's arm when he tried to move away. "It hurts when you aren't touching me Heero. Please, help me."

Duo nodded slightly, a faint grin curving his lips as he caught a blush streaking over Heero's face while he settled down next to the flashing boy. He thought they looked good. One pulsing light while the other was fairly flickering in place. Duo gave himself one nod before turning around and running into the other room. One goal: Wake companions. He didn't even pause as he ran, taking a flying leap and landing solidly on Wufei. "Morning, Fei-chan!" Wufei didn't have the breath to rant, having lost it all in the waking process. That didn't stop him from glaring all he was worth though. No, rather making his glare almost burn holes in the braided teen. "Oh! Quatre with wings and Heero with a tail are in the other room."

Duo didn't say anything else as he proceeded to "wake" the other pilots.

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The sleepy three entered the room, Wufei and Trowa trailing last behind Zechs as the tall man was dragged in by Duo. "Look! See? I told you! I was right, everyone has something going on inside them!"

Zechs tugged himself free of Duo, giving him an amused look. "Calm down. We can see for ourselves that they aren't exactly human looking at the moment."

Trowa blinked a few times and raised an eyebrow at Quatre where he was sitting huddled up against Heero.

Quatre looked back at Trowa and blushed once he saw the curious look his best friend was giving him. It was a more than obvious expression of 'what's this'.

"I can't be parted from Heero for a while. It's painful. You can't say everyone either Duo, those two haven't changed shapes or clothes magically as of yet, and it is best not to presume about it." Quatre looked around the room, then rested his gaze on the hand that Duo still had possessively wrapped around Zechs' wrist. He really could have let go already.

Duo noticed the look and turned slightly red, defiantly holding on to the taller man's wrist even in the face of Quatre's amusement. "Well, it's not like I'm sitting in his lap!"

This comment drew the attention of both Wufei and Trowa, who had been focused on Heero and Quatre before Duo had spoken up.

"Err..." Duo looked over at Zechs from under his lashes, taking in how he was taking the fact that he had yet to let go of him.

Zechs looked back, a slight smile curving his lips as he turned his hand around, his fingers wrapping around Duo's wrist like his own was being held. "I don't mind, just no smacking me with your wings."

Duo turned red as he read into the joke that left the others puzzled. Clearly it was something that the two of them shared only, much like Trowa invoking the goddess name Muta the day before.

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After another round of teasing on Duo and Quatre the entire group moved into the kitchen for breakfast, and determined that the timing for their transformations seemed to somehow be related to what was going on in the outside world.

Duo rested his head on the table, his empty plate barely missed. "You know, I think it's rather clear why me an Zechs got bumped up first. Hel, you know we've got all kinds of death and destruction under out belts. I don't know why now seemed to be the best time for this to happen though." All this was muttered in a disgruntled tone through his hair.

Zechs reached over and patted Duo's back. "Maybe you and I had to be on the same side and in the same place for it to happen."

Quatre was shaking his head before Zechs even finished talking. "No, me and Heero have been on the same side the entire time and this never happened before, there had to be something else triggering this. Not to mention the fact that this seems to be happening in the pairs that Trowa suggested to us."

"Alright, what were you doing when you suddenly got your powers?" Trowa looked around the table, looking for reactions to Wufei's question.

Duo and Heero spoke at the same time. "Radio." And "Listening to the news." Crossing each other in the air.

"Was there anything special about the reports though? We heard a whole bunch of others before this happened to us." Duo looked at the other three, knowing that there was a slight significance to him, but it had mostly affected Zechs when the changed were brought around. He seemed to have just followed after a brief consideration.

"Yes, my colony is joining in a petition for war on Earth sphere. They are one of the two leading colonies out for blood." Quatre's voice was sad, and he looked over at Heero. "I remember Heero catching me as I passed out, that might be why I have to touch him for reprieve, because he was touching me when it happened."

Zechs nodded a little. "I'm sorry that it hurt you, but I think I understand why I hmm, switched over. I lost my temper over the fact that lives were being senselessly invaded. I've always had a problem with that happening."

Duo suddenly grinned, looking over at Trowa and Wufei. "I'm gonna get the radio for the lunch announcements and lets see if we can't get Those two to show us what'll happen to them!" He sounded far to eager, but none of them could really protest. It was just far too logical to ignore. Duo was quick to scamper off to get the radio, placing it on the table and turning on the news channel they had decided was the most reliable, and the most likely to tell them something that they would need to know in a tough situation.

They were too early and went through about ten songs before the announcer finally got on the air, the familiar smart assed voice that they'd come to rely on setting in to his pre announcement comments. "Alright you living listeners, you have heard the best and the worst so far. The best being that anyone out there who needed a little chaos to go underground, got it, the worst being that the chaos mess was created in the first place. Things are going downhill and fast. Where are our warriors people? Relena managed to get rid of them. We all know that, but we still hope."

There was some shuffling around and then the lighter voice that never got a name was once again speaking. "Queen Relena has caused a most unfortunate circumstance among the colonies with her actions and subsequent deception. Apparently the colonies want to do away with the current leader of Earth sphere and have declared war. In reaction to this declaration, Queen Relena called a boycott on all colony made items. If you get caught buying a colony item now, you will get thrown into a jail cell until your loyalties have been assured. It is considered in the best interest of all that should any unattainable items come under your possession in the near future, that you turn them in to any proper authorities."

There was the normal post announcement shuffle that they'd all become accustomed to, and then their announcer was back. "You heard it people. War. That evil that we can't seem to get rid of no hard we try. And try we will. All of you out there, you show them that you won't stand for the destruction of peace like this, and you show everyone what they are doing wrong. Good luck. This is Rat Stone, signing off on your newest Evil." There was a click and then music started back out of the radio.

In the wake of the announcement there seemed to be just one reaction; the four pilots that had already transformed turned to stare at Wufei and Trowa.

To be continued.

(1) Enurta- Babylonian god of war.

(2) Balac- Mayan god of war.