Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Irony at it's best ❯ To meet again ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 1

(a/n: The beginning of this fic takes place at the end of Endless Waltz.)

Duo, Trowa and Quatre stood on the crest of a hill and watched as Duo pushed the button that would destroy their gundams for good.

"Well, so long Deathscythe." Duo said with a slight sigh observing what remained of his gundam.

"Bye Sandrock." Quatre also said, glad that the gundams were finally gone.

Trowa merely nodded to his and they stood in silence for a few seconds, still looking at the remains of their gundams, "Well I guess I'm back to being No Name again." Trowa finally commented.

"I think Trowa suits you." Quatre objected tearing his eyes away from the wreckage.

"Yeah you should keep it." Duo interjected as the three slowly turned and started heading back to their cars where they would then go their own separate ways.

Wufei pushed the detonation device, "Rest in peace Nataku." He whispered looking at the remains of his gundam for a moment before turning around to see Sally looking at him and holding a jacket in her hand that he recognized as the same one she was wearing.

"Preventers?" Sally asked simply as she held up the uniform jacket.

Wufei nodded and took the jacket from her and they both walked away.

Heero walked through the middle of a bustling cross walk still a little banged up from the battle two weeks ago. He continued to walk and couldn't help but feel a little happy, something he was sure he hadn't felt in a while if not ever. `Wing is finally gone for good, Mariemaia is being taken care of by Lady Une, and Relena has finally recognized that I need some space.' He thought and smirked a little. `It's finally over with, no more zero-system, no more fighting.' He continued to think as he adjusted the bag on his shoulder that was holding his school things.

Three months after the Mariemaia incident the pilots all found them selves on earth. Duo's junk yard business had fallen through and he had ended up staying with Quatre in one of his mansions on earth, a week after that Heero had come, intent on lecturing Duo about failure but had somehow ended up agreeing to also stay with Quatre. Wufei had shown up next insisting that his training dojo was not the worth the frustration, so Quatre had let him stay. Trowa showed up a while after that and was only visiting them because the circus was in town for that week, but because of the shows popularity had decided to stay and so Trowa also ended up sharing a house with his fellow ex-pilots.

A couple months later Heero was going through another routine morning of Duo walking down the stairs being lectured by Wufei and, Quatre and Trowa basically making a bet to see how much longer the circus would stay in town, when the door bell rang. Seeing as how Heero was the only person no occupied by some sort of conversation he reluctantly answered the door.

Three girls approached the door to the Winner mansion and rang the doorbell two of them bickering and one perplexed by the map in her hands.

"There's a time and a place for everything, here and now isn't it." Leslie said to Ally as Heero opened the door.

Heero opened the door to see three girls standing there all of them about the same height, one with short blonde hair another, who was holding a map had dark brown hair which was tied back and another girl with long dirty blonde hair that went almost down to her waist. The one with short hair and the one with the hair almost down to her waist seemed to be having some sort of argument. Noticing that the door had been opened the dark haired one with the map asked, "Is this the Winner mansion?"

"Who wants to know?" Heero asked warily eyeing all of them.

"Well, I would and I'm pretty sure they would." The blonde girl answered discontinuing her argument with the other girl.

Heero nodded reluctantly, "Yes."

"Wing-zero at your service." The blonde girl said offering a hand.

Heero raised an eyebrow and shut the door.

The dark haired girl looked up from her map for a moment, "Well that's rude." She commented before once again becoming interested in the map.

The long haired girl once again rang the door bell, and Heero opened the door again.

"Lets try that again." The blonde said reaching forward to stop Heero from once again closing the door. "I'm Leslie, this is Ariel, and that's….Ally." she said gesturing to the one holding the map and the long haired girl standing behind her.

"Why'd you hesitate to say my name? huh? Do you wanna start something Wing?!" Ally threatened.

"….Not now." Leslie replied not turning to look at her.

"What do you want?" Heero asked now pulling his gun out.

"Nothing, we're here to protect you." Leslie answered seeming unfazed by the fact that there was a gun pointed at her. "Well, actually, I'm here to protect you, she's here to protect Duo," She said pointing to Ariel, "And she's here to protect Wufei." She finished pointing to Ally. "But I'm sure Ally would rather be protecting Duo, because she likes him--"

"You said you wouldn't tell!" Ally yelled.

"Ally likes Duo?" Ariel asked prying herself away from the map for a moment.

"I don't recall agreeing to anything." Leslie said while attempting to step past Heero, who blocked her way.

"But you said, you traitor!"

"I don't recall `go on' to mean I promise I won't tell a living soul."

Heero was still standing there with his gun out and wondered if they would notice if he closed the door when he heard Ariel who was looking closer at the map say while practically pressing her nose to the paper, "I think this is the right house."

"Ariel you idiot you're not holding the map right!" Leslie said looking at the map in the other girls hands. "No wonder it took us a week to get here." She added, "Man why did I have to get stuck with these incompetent idiots?"

"What!" Ally said giving off enough anger to cover for Ariel who didn't seem to hear. "You wanna start somethin Wing?" She asked threateningly.

"We're already in the middle of something." Leslie replied flatly.

"Insult me again and I'm gonna set your laptop on fire." Ally threatened.

"You do that Shenlong and I will interpret that as an act of hostility and therefore be able to eliminate you." Leslie answered threateningly.

"Ally, Leslie, focus." Ariel ordered finally looking up from the map. "We have a mission-"

"It was a mission?" Leslie interrupted.

"No, it was a request…of course it was a mission." Ariel replied sarcastically.

"Well if I had known that I would have ditched you two a long time ago." Leslie commented.

Ariel and Ally just shook their heads and mumbled, "And she says we're incompetent."

"Do you think we could come in?" Ariel asked abruptly changing the subject, "'Cause I'm kinda hungry."

Heero narrowed his eyes, "No."

"Hm…." Leslie said under her breath, "Hey Wufei Nataku's here!" She yelled through the door figuring that maybe he or one of the other pilots might be easier to convince.

Wufei walked into the room as Heero quickly shut the door, "That's not funny Yuy." He growled, "And stop imitating girls' voices." He added leaving the room.

Heero opened the door again and was about to once again aim his gun at them when he realized that he no longer had it. Instead there was a stress ball in his hand, looking up he saw the girl claiming to be Wing-zero holding his gun.

"Funny, how things tend to turn around on you like this." She commented mockingly.

Heero squeezed the stress ball in his hand, "Wow that was considerate." Ariel commented.
"Hmm, I thought." Leslie replied, "So are you going to let us in or what?"

"No." Heero said and tried to close the door again.

"Wait, Heero we're serious. We really are here to protect you guys," Ariel said reaching forward to stop the door from closing.

"Nice one Ariel now he's going to really think we're lying." Ally interjected. "I knew we should have gone with my plan."

"You never told us about any plan." Leslie said turning to Ally.

"Well I had one and it was better than yours."

"I didn't come up with it, J told me what to say and I did, so now Heero probably thinks we're all crazy."

"How do you know about J?" Heero asked.

"Well he's the scientist that sent me here." Leslie answered.

"This is taking to long and I'm hungry. You can continue to battle that brick wall you refer to as your pilot but I'm getting Duo so I can complete my mission." Ariel said to Leslie as she managed to stick her head in the door, "DUO!!"

Duo who had been coming down the stairs missed the last step and tripped in surprise of hearing his name being called. "Someone calling me?" He asked as Heero quickly shut the door again. "Heero? I didn't know you sounded like such a girl when you yelled."

"No one was calling you." Heero stated flatly and Duo shrugged and left.

"Ok, fine I'm calling J." Leslie said, losing her patience when Heero once again opened the door.

Heero raised an eyebrow as she dialed a number. "What, can't handle a little mission Wing?" Ally asked mockingly.

"Shut up." Leslie said as the line was picked up, she punched in an access code and Dr. J answered.

"What's the problem?" They heard J's voice ask over the vid- phone.

"Your perfect solider," Leslie stated, "won't let me in."

"I thought he would have recognized you." They heard J's voice say, "Let me speak to him."

Leslie handed her phone to Heero, "He wants to speak to you."

"Yuy, let the girl in, she is not a threat nor are the others with her, assuming she didn't leave them."

"They say they're gundams." Heero replied.

"That's because they are and they will be able to explain just about everything once the first part of their mission is complete."

By this point the rest of the guys had gotten curious why Heero had been gone to answer the door for the last ten minutes and decided they should probably go see what was up.

"If they really are gundams then where's their model numbers?" Heero asked jokingly.

"Tell them hold up their right wrists." J told him, "Yuy this is not a joke and if you attempt to disobey my orders I'll have Wing bring you back for retraining."

"Hn, fine." Heero said reluctantly not wanting to believe what was said.

"Good, I'll be in touch in two weeks." J said and hung up. Heero handed the phone back to Leslie, "He said he'd be in touch in two weeks."

"So you believe us now?" Ally asked now also becoming impatient.

"First show me your model numbers." He ordered and they all held up their right wrists showing bracelets resembling medical bracelets and made up of what he recognized immediately as gundanium. He blinked in surprise and looked at Leslie's bracelet, reading the number followed by some very highly classified information. It was true enough that she worked for J and the other two worked for O and G he clarified as he also read their information.

All the guys made their way to the door to see Heero speaking with three girls who were at that moment asking if they could come in. "What's going on?" Quatre asked as he and the others approached the door and Heero handed a vid-phone back to a girl with short blonde hair.

"Hey Heero who are they?" Duo asked, swinging an arm around Heero's neck.

Heero didn't respond and only moved out of the way of the door to let the girls in. "Here you go Heero, but keep the stress ball, you might need it." Leslie said handing Heero his gun, which now had no bullets in it.

"So who are you?" Quatre asked.

"Oh, I'll give you my formal int-" Ariel began to say before Ally clamped a hand over her mouth, "First before we tell you anything," Ally said, "you have to hear us out and let us explain before you start thinking that the scientists have just gone completely whack-o."

The four ex-pilots nodded and waited for them to continue. Ariel approached Duo, "Hello Deathscythe at your service," She said while shaking a rather dumbfounded Duo's hand. "Also I go by Ariel."

"Uhh…." Seemed to be the only response Duo was capable of.

"Shenlong, or Altron, whichever you prefer, here to protect you….unfortunately." Ally said whilst shaking Wufei's hand. "I also go by Ally."

Wufei frowned, "I suppose there is no need for my introduction."

"Wing-zero." Leslie said offering her hand once again to Heero. "But most call me Leslie now."

"Hn." He said as they shook hands he felt something he thought and hoped never to feel again-like the feeling of someone standing behind him who wasn't really there and the slightest pressure on his temples, "Zero-system." Heero stated under his breath.

"The one and only, that is with the exception of that cheap knock off Epyon."

A little later they were all in the living room of the house, "So….you're supposed to be my gundam?" Duo asked, attempting to get a closer look at Ariel, "I thought my gundam was a guy."

"I'm not your gundam for the third time, I said I'm you gundam's system, you know the part that makes it operate?"

"Oh." Duo said finally seeming to understand.

"So are you an android or something?" Wufei asked.

"Nope, we're people." Ally answered not looking at Wufei but rather glaring at Ariel who had Duo sitting very close to her. "Ariel has a paper cut to prove it."

"Then how are you a system? Are you bio androids?" Quatre asked Ally.

"You know that's really something you should ask one of the scientists `cause we don't really know all the details, but we're pretty sure we're not androids of any kind." Leslie answered.

"So they sent you three here?" Trowa asked moving on to a slightly different subject.

"Yea, do you think we could continue talking over some food maybe?" Ariel asked.

"But if you're a bio android do you need to eat?" Duo asked.

"We aren't bio androids we're humans." Ariel answered frustrated by the fact that she had to repeat herself so many times to get an answer through Duo's thick head. They all headed for the kitchen.

"So if you three are supposed to be Heero, Duo, and Wufei's gundams then where are Trowa and mine?" Quatre asked while opening the fridge and pulling some leftovers out.

"Um…they probably won't be here for a few weeks." Leslie answered. "And we're the systems not the gundams." She added, reminding them.

"Why were you sent here?" Heero asked.

"To protect you." Leslie answered.

"We're not all here to protect Heero though; I'm here to protect Duo and Ally's here to protect Wufei." Ariel added.

"I don't need a weak onna to protect me." Wufei mumbled.

"Well if it makes you feel any better I didn't want to protect you." Ally grumbled as Quatre sat three plates of food in front of the girls.

"Yeah she'd much rather be protecting Duo." Leslie interjected.

"I do not like Duo!" Ally yelled rounding on Leslie.

"I didn't say that." Leslie replied.

"You were implying it." Ally said with a partial growl.

"Well would you like to challenge my implication?" Leslie asked and started to pull a laptop out of the bag that had been on her shoulder.

"….. Later…" Ally grumbled, sitting back down in her seat and they all started eating.

"So what were you sent here to protect us from?" Duo asked after a few minutes of silence.

"There are some people who are going to try to kill you all." Ariel responded in between bites of food.

"All the rebel factions have realized they all share the same views and goals so have united into an organization bigger than OZ once was." Leslie stated.

"What are they called?" Quatre asked.

"Unknown as of now we didn't get much information before J's spy got caught and was killed." Leslie answered for the others who hadn't gotten the whole story yet.

"So are the gundams going to be rebuilt?" Quatre asked.

"Not unless the rebels make the first move and attempt to kill either one of you, some important politician or, threaten either a colony or some highly populated area of earth." Leslie listed.

They all nodded somewhat reluctantly and let the supposed gundam systems continue to eat.

A little later they were still sitting in the kitchen, "I don't understand how you all can even be alive if we blew you up. And Heero totally destroyed Wing here so how did you get in this form?" Duo asked.

"It's the form we take after the gundam is destroyed; it's kinda weird to explain I guess cause I don't really know how it happens." Ariel answered.

"But Trowa, Duo and I stood around after we destroyed our gundams and we never saw you." Quatre said.

"Well it took us like an hour to get out from under all that wreckage." Ariel answered.

"Yeah I had to climb all the way back up a freaking cliff." Ally interjected, eyeing Wufei who was frowning at her.

"Well at least you didn't have to listen to whining the whole time." Ariel countered as Leslie's phone started ringing.

Leslie pulled the vid-phone out of her pocket and answered it, and the screen came on. An extremely whiny voice could be heard, "Wwwiiinnnggg." The voice obviously female said, "We're lost can you come get us?"

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Leslie asked glaring at the phone in her hand.

"It's me Wing I'm serious we're lost please come get us." The whining voice answered.

"I'm sorry Wing is currently unavailable please leave a message after the tone." Leslie said flatly and hung up.

"That was a little mean." Ariel commented, "Not that I want you to go get them." She added.

"Good cause I wasn't going to anyway. Those idiots, why do they always call me first when they need help?"

"Dunno." Ariel replied as she turned her phone off and Ally followed suit, to avoid getting any calls from them.

"Who was that?" Duo asked.

"Sandrock and Heavyarms- Jenna and Helen-"Leslie replied, "The one that was just talking was Jenna."

"Oh, she sounded so distressed." Quatre said looking concerned.

"It's probably not as bad as it sounds." Ally commented and took a sip of her soda.

"So what are they like?" Trowa asked.

"Hm…Helen is kinda quiet when she wants to be, and she's pretty obsessed with gymnastics-" Ariel began.

"And that damn shiv." Leslie grumbled. (a/n: a shiv is a slang word for switch blade)

"- yeah, and her and Jenna are friends." Ariel finished.

"What about Jenna?" Quatre asked.

Ally, Ariel, and Leslie all looked as if it were a topic they'd rather not discuss. "She's an annoying litt-" Leslie began to say before Ariel slapped a hand over her mouth.

"She's sensitive…." Ally grumbled.

"You'll see if they get here." Ariel added.

"Why weren't they with you three?" Quatre asked.

"Um well, when we all met at the space port-" Ariel began.

"-Ally decided to pick a fight with me-" Leslie interrupted.

"- You sent a freaking virus to my laptop! I can't get rid of it and it's damaging it!" Ally added and stood up along with Leslie.

"How do you know one of your own didn't just backfire on you?" Leslie asked.

"It didn't because it's nothing like anything I've ever made. That virus is messing up my computer and my system backup is on there." Ally growled.

"Hn and I'm also gaining access to your computer." Leslie offered.

"What!?" Ally yelled.

"….So where are you three staying?" Quatre asked Ariel who was for the moment leaving Ally and Leslie to argue.

"No where as of now, but we figured we'd either find a place around here or just go back to space and of course we'd have to take Wufei, Duo and Heero with us. Then we have to find jobs and stuff." Ariel answered and watched as Leslie held up a hand to keep Ally and arms length away from her.

"Oh, well you could all stay with us if you'd like." Quatre offered, "How long would you five be planning to protect us?"

"Either until the threat is over or until the gundams are built then we'd have to leave so you all could pilot us." Ariel answered.

"Yeah, how exactly are you supposed to be a system?" Duo asked while trying to get a better look at Ariel.

"We have a chip." Ariel answered whilst tapping her temple.

"A series of chips, Scythe." Leslie corrected, "Ow! What the hell? Did you just bite me?" She asked looking back at Ally who was smirking evilly.

"So you all have computer chips in your brains?" Duo asked looking closely at Ariel's head.

"Yup, I'm sure the scientists could fill you all in about the finer details of how exactly we ended up being systems or humans….. I don't really know which." Ariel answered and sort of pushed Duo away from her.

"So would you like to stay here?" Quatre offered again.

"Sure, if it's not to much trouble." Ariel accepted.

"Not at all." Quatre replied cheerily and left the room.

"Don't you think you should break them up?" Wufei asked Ariel, referring to Ally and Leslie who had apparently left the room.

"You damn pyro! Get back here!" They could hear Leslie yell followed by a thump.

Everyone got up to go see what had happened.

"Come on, you want to fight me so bad why are you running?" Leslie continued.

Heero was the first to catch up to the two gundam systems and grabbed Leslie just as she was about to catch Ally.

(a/n: So how's that for a first chapter? I even have a cliff hanger….sort of…. Btw- ahem 1- I don't own gundam wing only a few way awesome manga's that I bought at the mall. 2- Any kind of opinions given by OC's about OC's does not reflect this authors feeling or opinion towards or about those people….well now that that's outta the way and now hopefully I won't get bitten or speared I think I can leave! ^^v)