Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ In the Name of Gundam and Love ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

This portion of our story will be focused mainly upon Quatre. After Anastasia left, he remained with his father for a couple of days. He then left, this time his departure was not on a sour note.

They managed to infiltrate Oz, but Oz was a tricky card. They detected the infiltration but were uncertain as to who the conspirators were. The granddaughter of the founder of Oz, Marimaia Catalonia, led the search for the conspirators.

Marimaia was a tall longhaired blond with cold blue eyes. She lost her parents when she was very young, thus growing up under the protective wing of her grandfather. Unfortunately, this gave her a first hand view of wars and she became very aggressive and bitter.

One day, before Oz detected the pilots, Marimaia accidentally bumped into Quatre.

"Oh, excuse me sir" she mumbled as she gazed into Quatre's aquamarine eyes.

"Oh, that's no problem, miss" he replied as he smiled at her. "My name is Quatre Raberba Winner."

"Nice to meet you Quatre. I'm Marimaia Catalonia, granddaughter of the head of Oz."

"Ah, I see. Well, I'll see you around" he replied and walked away.

Quatre didn't turn back or he would have seen Marimaia gazing at him with a certain look in her eyes. The same look that he had in his eyes whenever Anastasia was around. Marimaia, upon their first meeting, had fallen head over heels I love with Quatre.

"That boy," she thought. "That boy is the crowned prince of Persia, a pacifist nation. I think I found our infiltrators. I'm sorry my love, but the glory of battle comes first."

"I better watch my back around her" thought Quatre as he walked away. "She could report us and we'll be doomed." Quatre literally raced down the hall to tell the guys.

"I have big news guys!"

"What is it now Quatre?" Heero asked.

"I met a girl!" he cried.

"Quatre, this is really no time to be thinking about girls, love or anything associated with it!" Duo cried.

"No, no, no! Her name is Marimaia Catalonia. She's the granddaughter of the head of Oz. She seems tricky; just watch your back around her. And anyway, the only woman for me is Anastasia!"

There wasn't much sign of Marimaia of the following weeks, until Quatre receive a secret admirer's note.

"What's this?" he asked as he pulled a note out of his locker.

"Looks like Quatre got a love letter!" Duo said with a evil grin.

"Read it, Quatre" Heero commanded.

"This is what it says" Quatre began.

Dear Quatre,

From the moment we bumped into each other in the hall, I fell in love with you. I will remain your secret admirer for now. If you want to find out who I am, meet me at colony L4 tomorrow in their central park to find out who I am. I'll be under the biggest tree by the pond. Until then.

"L4, isn't that your birthplace, Quatre?" asked Trowa.

"Yeah, my parents were on a trip when my mother's water bag broke. So she was forced to give birth to me there."

"Are you going?" asked Wufei.

"I love Anastasia, but I might as well."

"Leave early and return early" advised Heero.

"Well, I'll be off. Remember what you have to do."

Quatre left the lunar base and headed towards L4. Many thoughts were running through his head as he went to the colony. Mainly the thought of who was the secret admirer.

Quatre reached the colony late in the night. He checked into a hotel for the night. The next day, he went to the park to meet his secret admirer.

As he approached the tree, he stopped midway in terror.

"Why hello Quatre!" called Marimaia.

"Why, Ms. Marimaia, what are you doing here?"

"Why, I'm you're secret admirer Quatre" she cried.

"Oh! I'm sorry to let you down, but, I'm in love with someone else. Her name is Anastasia Le Barbaraq."

"Oh Quatre! Don't be silly; come let's chat!"

"Well, I guess it's okay."

"I made sandwiches. I knew L4 was your birthplace, Prince Quatre."

"What! How do you know that?"

"My dear Quatre," she said stroking his face. "The Winner family is a very famous family. They're well known for their pacifism. You expect me, Marimaia Catalonia, not to know whom the crowned prince of the biggest pacifist nation is? Now why are you in Oz?"

"My father and I had an argument and I wanted revenge, so I joined Oz."

"Hmmm", thought Marimaia, "He's lying. This hypnotic formula will work to give me my information."

"Look at that butterfly!" Quatre cried. As he was looking at the butterfly, she put the formula in his glass. Quatre then took a sip of his drink and was immediately affected.

"So why did you really join Oz?"

"To destroy it!" he cried in a robotic voice.

"How?"

"I am a Gundam pilot as well as Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton and Wufei Chang. My Gundam is Sandrack, or better known to Oz as 04."

"Thank you for your information Quatre!" she cackled and then left.

Quatre finally came out of the trance and realized what he did. "Oh no! I've got to radio the guys!" Quatre ran back to the hotel.

Before Quatre could radio the guys, the guys radioed him.

"What the hell did you do? Oz now has 01 and 04 and they're coming after your Persian behind!" Heero cried in anger.

"Marimaia drugged me and made me confess. Where are you guys?"

"We're headed back to Persia. Meet us there!" commanded Heero.

Quatre managed to get a flight out to Persia without Oz knowing. Before the shuttle landed properly, Quatre jumped out and ran to meet his father.

"Father! Father!"

"My son, what have you done? Oz is making an announcement. The guys are in the library."

Marimaia was on the television screen. "There are many traitors in Oz. The group I speak of are 5 boys. You know who you are. Surrender yourselves or pay!" With that the transmission ended.

"Quatre, I must go to outer space to attend a conference."

"Very well, father. At least allow me to somehow try to guard your plane."

"No. I'll be fine. Farewell, my son."

"Good - bye father." His majesty left for outer space. Meanwhile, Ana heard the transmission and realized Quatre was in trouble.

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"Andrew, Quatre is in trouble. I must go help him."

" Ana, we're in the farthest region of space. It'll take us days to return to earth."

"I don't care! Let's go!" So Ana and her crew started back for earth.

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Oz saw Lord Winner's plane on the their radar. Being the conniving ones that they are, they called it an enemy aircraft. Dorothy ordered the lunar base to shoot at the aircraft and blow it up. Master Winner was killed instantly.

One of the crewmembers saw this and hurried to tell Quatre.

"Master Quatre, we have a problem."

"What is it?"

"I'm afraid it's your father."

"What about father?"

"Oz shot at his plane under the pretense of it being an enemy aircraft. I am sorry. He's dead."

"Nooooooooooo! " he wailed and started to sob. It was as though something inside him snapped and he got a crazed look in his eyes. "Oz and every one else will pay. Yes, they will."

The next day, he ordered a new suit to be built. Ana, having heard of Master Winner's death, wept. But she knew she had to be strong For Quatre's sake.

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In the next few days, the suit was completed. It's name, zero. It's system was deadly to both the pilot and the enemy. The system takes over the pilots' brain and makes him invulnerable. This would prove nearly fatal for Quatre.

Quatre didn't want anyone to know what the purpose of the new suit was. He ordered the completion to be a secret. In the middle of the night, he took the suit and blasted off into space.

"Now, to destroy Oz and the colonies!" He took his buster rifle and separated it into two parts. "Good-bye colonies!" he shouted and laughed a laugh of hysteria.

Anastasia, having seen this foreign suit on radar knew right away that it was Quatre.

"Full speed ahead, we have to stop him!"

"Who?" asked Andrew.

"Quatre" she said darkly.

Just as Quatre was going to fire his rifle, Anastasia flew at the speed of light and grabbed it out of his arms.

"Don't do this Quatre!"

The zero system was playing on his grief and caused him to see Anastasia as his enemy.

"Die Oz!" he cried as he took out his beam saber.

"No Quatre!" she cried and jumped out of her suit. She then floated towards Quatre.

"Anastasia, in the name of God, what are you doing? Get yourself back in your suit" screamed Andrew.

However, Anastasia did not hear him.

"Quatre, stop this now!" Quatre then took a swing at her. But at that very moment, time seemed to be in suspended animation. Then all of a sudden, Anastasia saw her parents.

"Anastasia!" cried her mother, "My child, you were born blessed with powers. Extraordinary powers. Protect yourself by using them! Take care, my child" They then vanished.

Time seemed normal again and Anastasia realized the saber was aimed at her. She then closed her eyes and held up her hand. A strong force was emitted from her that caused the saber to be knocked out of wing zero's hands.

"Whoa! I have powers." Quatre then shot at her. But she created a force field around herself using her powers. The bullets bounced off the force field and headed back to Quatre. They hit the Gundam with so much force that Quatre hit his head and became unconscious.

"Oh, no! Quatre!" she cried and floated towards the suit. The door of the cockpit opened and allowed her to enter. "Oh God! Quatre, are you all right?"

"Anastasia, what are you doing here?" he said groggily coming to.

"Stopping you from killing the wrong people as well as my self."

"I'm sorry. It's the system." He said bowing his head in shame.

"It's okay" she replied smiling at him and lifting his head up. "Quit moping, go get your buster rifle and beam saber and let's kick some Oz butt!"

"Yeah!"

"We'll head for the main headquarters, the lunar base!" Quatre received his weapons and they went.

Quatre blew the suit manufacturing building up as well as the other piloted and mobile doll suits that were attacking them.

"Anastasia, take care of things here. I'm going for my sandrock. Contact Heero Yuy. He will take zero back to earth. When you're finished, come in and round up the officials. I have a score to settle with a certain blonde."

"Got it!!" she said. She then radioed Persia. "Heero Yuy, come in Heero Yuy!"

"Heero Yuy here. Speak."

"Anastasia Le Barbaraq, here. I have a message from his majesty, Prince Quatre Raberba Winner. He wants you to come to space and retrieve Wing Zero. A word of advice, don't let the system get to you."

"Got it. Where is it?"

"The Lunar Base."

"The guys are coming as well."

"Good, the more, the merrier. This is Anastasia Le Barbaraq signing off."

Anastasia continued to fight Oz while Quatre snuck inside. He was armed with a machine gun.

He managed to bypass the guards and get to sandrock. "My dear sandrock, it is time. I will be back."

Meanwhile, Heero had arrived and was handling the zero system well. Anastasia took some of her men and went inside. Heero and Andrew, as well as the other Gundam pilots were defeating Oz with great success.

Anastasia found the Oz leaders. Most of them were unarmed. Those who were armed, saw that they were outnumbered and dropped their weapons.

"Your tyranny has come to an end. I am your worst nightmare. Don't even try to move. You filthy morons! You killed my parents. But you've killed so many people, you wouldn't remember. I am Anastasia Le Barbaraq. Princess and sole heir of the Barbaraq monarchy." Upon hearing the name, the leaders' faces expressed shock and humiliation.

"That's right! Cower before me. You have every right to be humiliated. When I'm finished with you, you won't be able to look anyone straight in the eye. Guys, tie them up."

The Oz officials were tied up and the fighting outside had stopped. Anastasia then rushed to find Quatre.

Quatre went down the corridors looking for Marimaia. He finally came to a door that was ajar.

"Well, well, looks like you've made it!" Marimaia said. She then threw him a fencing sword. "Fight me!" she screamed.

"With pleasure" said Quatre wearing a sneer.

"You are a weak fool! I loved you, but you were in love with someone else. If I can't have you then no one will!" screamed Marimaia as she swung at Quatre.

"You are too cold to understand love! You never will!" Quatre cried as he swung back.

Marimaia caught Quatre off guard and stabbed him in his side.

"Ahhh!" screamed Quatre in pain. Anastasia heard this and ran towards the sound. She entered the room and saw Quatre slumped over in a heap.

"Nooooo! Quatre, don't die on me!" she cried as she tended to him. "I have to save him" she thought desperately. Maybe, my powers could help me. Please, I can't let him die. I love him." "I love him?" she thought confused. "No time think about that right now. I have to save him"

She then placed her hands over the wound, shut her eyes and felt warmth radiating out of her palms. "Yes! It's working" she thought gleefully. She opened her eyes to find that the wound had been completely healed. She then looked up to see Marimaia standing over her with mixed looks of anger, jealousy and curiosity in her face.

"Who are you?" asked Anastasia, standing up and furiously staring at Marimaia.

"Why I'm Marimaia Catalonia. Who the hell are you?"

"I'm Anastasia Le Barbaraq, sole heir of the Barbaraq nation."

"Well, well, looks like I've met the person who stole Quatre away from me. Prepare to die!"

"That's what you think!" she cried as she grabbed a sword off the wall. "Quatre is my best friend. I'm not going to let a witch like you hurt him!"

"Come on, let's fight" They engaged in one of the most violent sword fights ever. Anastasia swung at Marimaia and cut her suit.

"You have powers, why don't you use them?"

"I am not a coward like you!"

"Big words for a small minded imbecile." she cried. She then grabbed another sword and headed towards Quatre and Anastasia.

"Stop" cried Anastasia as she held up her hand to create a force field that protected her and Quatre. Not knowing what was happening, Marimaia ran into the force field and was propelled backwards by it.

"C'mon Quatre. Let's go."

"Huh?" said a groggy Quatre.

"Let's get out while we can" and with that, she placed Quatre's arm around her shoulder and together they floated out of the room.

"I will haunt you and hunt you down for the rest of your life! Mark my words!" screamed Marimaia.

Anastasia, carrying Quatre, paid no attention to Marimaia. Little did she know that Marimaia would stay true to her promise.

"Anastasia put Quatre in his Sandrock. "Do you feel up to piloting today?" she asked with a grin.

"Yeah. What happened to my wound?"

"I'll explain later. Right now, we have to get out of here if we want to stay alive. My have evacuated everyone or are evacuating everyone. Once the signal is give, Heero is going to blow up the base."

"Okay, but how are you going to get out?"

"Don't worry about me! I'll be fine" and with that she disapparated into her Gundam.

"It's good to have powers."

"Anastasia, have you completed your mission?" asked Andrew.

"Not as yet." Just then, one of Ana's soldier's gave the signal that the base had been evacuated.

"Heero Yuy, I believe that is your cue."

"Mission accepted." He then took out his rifle and shot at the base. Moments after impact, the base exploded into a million dust particles.

"Mission complete." There was a loud cheer amongst the pilots. Oz was finally defeated. The world would be safe at last. Or would it?