Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ In The End ❯ Irene's Arrival ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I don't own the gundam pilots but I do own the girls and any other original characters that you read of in this fic.

In The End

Irene's Arrival:

It is the year AC199 and the Earth and Space colonies are at total peace. This peace is led by the former queen, Relena Peacecraft. The first eve war and the Mariemaia incident dubbed the second eve war, are forgotten by most of the human race. Only those who fight against new wars and terrorist acts remember the wars and keep them in their hearts as a reminder of all the terrible misdeeds and lost lives. Those who fight are called Preventers. These Preventers, such as Wufei Chang and Sally Po, fight to protect the peace and put out 'fires' before they start. But trouble is brewing and soon the gundam pilots will be needed again to fight and without their gundams the future is not looking too good. New fighters will be needed to help the gundams. And so our story begins…

Preventers base #1-5734000; area 1-2 ; country: China

"Wufei, there is an unauthorized object falling toward the 4-1 area." Sally Po said as she watched a blinking red dot move on her monitor. Wufei Chang, who had been going over old files looked up at Sally in surprise. His dark eyes blinked in surprise.

"An unauthorized object?"

"Yes but to be more to the point it is a space shuttle. It must have had some technical difficulties." Sally said flipping one of blonde twists over her shoulder. She turned her chair to another panel and pressed a few buttons. With her fingers flying, the screen enlarged and showed a shuttle, engulfed in flames, falling towards the area. "This is not good. We should find out if that was a manned shuttle with passengers."

Wufei swiveled his chair side ways and pressed a few keys. A screen popped up but it was all fuzzy and static to the point where you couldn't see anything. If the visuals didn't work then he would have to use the intercom. Wufei pressed the button to the intercom and leaned over to the speakerphone.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" Wufei said speaking into the microphone. He paused and waited. No answer came from the other line. He tried again and still he received no reply from the shuttle. He turned to Sally.

"Do you think they could have already ejected from the shuttle?" He asked her.

"I don't know but I think you should go over to the 1-4 area and check it out. My calculations say it is going to land at the old Asian elephant reserve by Beijing. I am going to stay here and go over a few more files. See what I find out about the shuttled and where its destination was." Sally said before turning back to her monitor. More button clicking was heard and the Chinese man knew that there was no arguing now.

Wufei sighed and propelled himself out of his chair and toward the door. He grabbed his jacket and was gone.

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Flames engulfed everything and she had no way of getting out. If she didn't find a way out soon the toxic smoke that was floating around would kill her before the fire or the shuttle crash could. Her blue hair was disheveled and hanging in her face, getting in her way. The woman held a cloth over her mouth and nose as she pounded against the doors with one fist. They wouldn't budge and every time that she hit them her hand would be scorched because of the shuttles extreme heat. The temperature was rising. There wasn't much time left.

She coughed a few times and again tried the door. Her fist didn't seem to be working so she leaned back. With one powerful kick the door flew off its hinges and revealed the sky and forest. She timidly approached the open doorway. She gasped in fresh air and looked down.

Bad Idea. As far as she could tell she was so close to the ground that it wouldn't even be worth it to have opened the door. The blue haired young woman should have been happy with fresh air. Now she wanted to live. It seemed like she was asking a lot today. She closed her honey-brown colored eyes in concentration. Her brow creased. She was in trouble. I need to think of something and fast or I'm going to die.

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A loud explosion rumbled the land and from the distance Wufei was he could see the smoke billowing heavenward from the crash site. Some pieces from the crash strayed his way forcing him to swerve a few times and test the Preventers jeeps limits. Still he sped down the dirt road toward the shuttle that had, just moments ago, crashed at the old Asian elephant reserve.

He arrived at the crash site to find pieces of the shuttle scattered about, flames erupting from some of the pieces, and a huge dent in the ground where it landed. If anything or anyone had been in there they definitely didn't survive the crash. Wufei hopped out of the jeep and walked through the rubble of the shuttle, searching for any sign of life. There is no point to this search. If there was someone alive they are dead now. He walked among the wreckage, which was spread across 2 miles of land, when he came upon a puddle of red liquid. Strange. He bent down to inspect the puddle only to find that a trail of the red liquid went toward the woods.

"Blood? How did this get here. If there was anyone on that shuttle they wouldn't have left a trail of blood leading toward the woods…unless…" Wufei trailed off and looked back towards the woods as a low, almost inaudible, rustling came from the bushes. He sprinted up and plowed his way through the bushes only to find another puddle of blood and a few foot prints leading away from the spot. The foot prints, although, seemed to disappear after a few steps.

Wufei searched for about an hour and still found no sign to the person who had left the blood and foot prints. Finally he gave up with no hope of finding anyone. He past by a large tree, the pair of eyes hidden among the leaves unnoticed, and headed out of the woods toward the parked jeep. A pair of pain filled honey-brown eyes watched him go from under her dark blue bangs that had blood clinging to some strands. She wanted to go back with the guy to heal her wounds and she could sense that his intentions were good, but she would endanger her mission here on Earth. She couldn't do that.

The young women looked down at the various wounds that littered her body. She wouldn't be able to change in this shape. She huffed. I shouldn't be able to breath or be alive let alone move or change. I guess that I'm going to have to stay here until I can heal enough to get away. My mission has yet again been delayed. First I had to get into the space port while like 50 soldiers from BLOOD chased me, then the engine in the shuttle wouldn't start, the pilots that I thought were gone snuck up on me and tried to knock me out and then I had to resort to violence with them when they wouldn't stop hitting me, then I was floating through space when more soldiers came in mobile suits and started shooting at me when I neared Earth. This thus led to me to hurling through the air in a burning shuttle and then crashing to the ground.What the hell? Why the hell didn't I DIE!

The rumble of the jeeps engine filled her ears and lifting her head, she watched the Chinese man leave, but only after he cast one more glance back at the area. She sighed and jumped down from the tree, wincing in pain as her feet touched the ground.

I am having such a bad day…

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When Wufei arrived back at the base Sally had gathered some useful information herself. She told him that the shuttle was manned by an unknown person who had taken the ship after the person had ran away from soldiers of and unknown source, knocked out the pilots, thrown them off the shuttle, and taken off. Then Wufei told her how he had found blood leading away from the crash site. Sally looked at Wufei in astonishment.

"No one could survive that crash, so how could you have found a trail of blood leading away? I think we should keep an eye on that area Wufei. Wufei, would you mind setting up some cameras around the site so we can monitor it?" Sally said to Wufei. He sighed and shook his head yes. "Good. I'll go get permission from Une to see if we can monitor the site. Then I'll get you some cameras to set up."

"Fine women, just hurry up."

"Wufei."

"Yes?"

"Shut up."

"Nuren[1]."

"Go!"

Wufei sighed in defeat. "Gone."

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Irene lay on a flat rock by the small lake she had found after wondering through the woods for an hour. The crickets chirped and animals came to the lake for a drink. She had found that the stream that flowed into the lake was pure water, something she could use when thirsty. It was also something rare at this period in time so she would have to make note of it.

Her clothes were in rags and she had wrapped some clothe around the deeper more serious wounds. Now she lay staring at the stars, the burn marks almost fully healed. She held her hand up to look at the palm. Yep burn marks almost fully healed. Good thing that I'm not a normal girl or I would have been dead already.

Irene shifted and ran a hand through her long dark blue hair that used to be splattered with blood. She had cleaned her hair in the lake to get the blood out of it. Her honey-brown eyes shifted back toward the lake. The surface reflected the stars, the moon, and the little lightning bugs that buzzed around everywhere. She sighed. This would be so romantic if I had a guy here to hold me. Irene blinked. She shook her head. Mentally thwaping herself. I can't think of that right now. I'm on a mission. Now I know why Kamori kept saying I was a hopeless romantic.

Irene crawled over to the edge of the rock and looked into the water. She missed her friends but they had been sent on different missions. She was sure, though, that as soon as she was healed and finished her mission she would meet them again.

Irene was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't see the Chinese man from earlier walk into the clearing carrying a bag full of cameras and electrical equipment. He obviously didn't see her either because he just began looking for a good spot to set up the camera, but as soon as the sound of the zipper opening reached her ears her head snapped up and a loud gasp escaped her lips. This sound caused him to look right in the direction that she was laying and when his eyes didn't leave the place she was laying she assumed that he had seen her. Still, startled by his presence Irene tumbled into the lake with a squeak.

Wufei stood there staring at the flat rock where a figure had been laying, shock evident across his face. This must be the person that he had been looking for before. The one that had lost all that blood was here, lying by the lake. The person, obviously startled by him, tumbled forward into the lake. Wufei didn't know if he should go and help the person or stay back. He decided against the latter. No I have to retrieve this person and bring him back to the base. He ran toward the edge of the lake only to find the person surfacing on the other side.

Irene surfaced on the other side of the lake after swimming over. She coughed up some water. Great now I'm deranged and wet along with hungry, injured, and surprised. My day just keeps getting better. She looked over at the side where she had fallen in. The Chinese man stood there looking at her. Her eyes widened slightly. She had to get out of there. She scrambled out of the lake and into the woods. Irene could hear the foot falls behind her. She jumped up into a tree and hid herself among the foliage. The guy ran right past her and she sighed with relief.

Great I lost the person again. I still cant tell if it was a female or a man. I know it had long hair but so does some other men I know so it is possible that it is a man even though the long hair. I really didn't get a good look at the figure it was pretty shadowed. I guess I wont know until I catch that person. Wufei thought. He circled around and finished setting up the cameras before leaving. He grabbed the now empty bag and mumbled some choice Chinese words under his breath. He was in a foul mood. That was twice that this person had gotten away from him.

~Owari

[1] I was told that this is the Chinese word for woman. Please tell me because I want to use the proper Chinese terms seeing as Wufei is Chinese not Japanese and shouldn't be using the term onna if he's Chinese. Onna is a Japanese term. Nuren is Chinese. Wufei is Chinese. Get it?