Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The 6th Pilot ❯ A New Beginning ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: *poke poke* WHAT?! *Poke poke* Fine fine… *poke* Ok ok already. I don't own Gundam Wing or its characters; I never will, why is this world so unfair?! *Slap* OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR DUO!? Duo: I just wanted to do what that guy was going to do *points to a lawyer* Raichuu: EEP! *The goofy suit lawyer comes up to her with a mallet, and Rai runs* I said I don't own it! Not mine, now go away! Lawyer with the goofy suit: Thank you, I'll be going on to the next author now. *Sweat-drop*

The 6th Pilot

A New Beginning

Jen was walking down the hall talking with Quatre when one of the technicians walked out in front of the pair. Jen just stared at the guy waiting for him to tell them what he wanted, but Quatre had a look of surprise on his face.

"Mr. Winner," the man started, "you gundam is fixed. And Mr. Yuy said he wants to see you alone."

That was strange. When Heero wanted to talk to someone he normally looked for them, he didn't get somebody to do it for him.

"Thank you. Where can I find him?" Quatre asked.

"He's in the hanger, working on his gundam. I better get going. Good day, Mr. Winner." The man said and left.

"I better go and see what Heero wants. Help your self to anything in the kitchen." Quatre smiled at her and walked towards the hanger.

Jen blushed slightly and pushed it down. She started walking back the way she came. She was going to take Quatre up on his offer. She was a bit hungry. She hoped she didn't run into pilots. She hasn't even forgiven Quatre completely yet for not telling her sooner that he was a pilot. But no such luck. She ran into a braided baka, raiding the refrigerator. She tried to sneak back out the way she came, but Duo heard her and popping his head up, he called to her before she made it to the door.

"Hey Jen! Hungry? I was just going to make myself a sandwich. Want me to make you one too?" He gave her a lopsided grin.

She turned around and she was about to say no when her stomach told him otherwise. She tried to make it look like that she didn't here the noise coming from her stomach. Duo just laughed and got out 2 more pieces of whole wheat bread. When he was finished he grabbed 2 small bags of chips and motioned for her to sit in a chair at the table with him. When she sat down he placed the sandwich and a bag of chips in front of her.

"So, you don't like us, huh?" He said while stuffing his face with the food.

"I never said that." Jen took a bite of the sandwich and opened the bag of chips. "I was just surprised is all."

"Could have fooled me. I still have to get you back." He finished off his sandwich and stared at Jen, waiting for her to finish.

"Pay me back? For what?" She finished her chips, and was now eating her ham sandwich, which tasted very good at the moment.

"Well, do you remember a little can of red paint?" Her head shot up. And she almost choked on her food.

"That was you?!"

"It took me hours to get all of that stuff out of my hair! And will you stop laughing. It wasn't funny!"

"I'm sorry Duo. I would be mad too if all that paint got dumped into my hair. But it serves you right. Don't touch what isn't yours."

Duo was just staring at her.

"I've got a way to pay you back!"

"I told you it wasn't…" She was cut off when Duo grabbed her hand and pulled her with him towards the hanger. This got the attention of Wufei and Trowa, who could hear her screaming at Duo, at the top of her lungs to let her go.

"Humph…" Wufei commented dryly to Trowa. Trowa just shook his head.

"Come on. We should upgrade our gundams with the new data Doktor S (1) gave us."

Wufei nodded and walked towards the hanger with Trowa in tow.

----/***\----

"Sir, I tried to get her alone, but the pilots are everywhere." The technician told the voice on the other end of the line.

"Try again, Jordan. I want her alive. Injure her only if you must." John screamed into the phone.

"Yes sir." Jordan hung up the phone. "Angel, I'll get you one way or another."

----/***\----

"HA!" Duo screamed.

"You think you got me braid boy? Think again!" Jen yelled back, taking a slice at his suit.

This has been going on for hours. They'd been in the simulator battling each other. They caught the attention of the other pilots who ended up stopping what they were doing to see who would win.

"She's got skill," Trowa commented.

"Yea, but Duo's got more energy. She's working to hard. Notice how she's breathing." Only Heero would notice this. But he did have a point she was getting tired.

"Yeah baby!" Jen screamed as she got another good hit at Duo.

"Do you think they'll stop soon? They've been at it for 4 hours already." Quatre pointed out.

"Knowing Duo, he's not going to give up." Trowa said, with some humor in his voice.

Duo and Jen continued battling for another hour, the technicians started placing bets on who would win. It was even, half of them said Duo would win, half said Jen would win. The end finally came with loud cursing, and Jen smiling; Duo lost big time. Groans were heard around the hanger at Duo's loss.

"Better luck next time, braid boy." Jen said smiling and walked away with a small limp. Sitting in one position for 5 hours made her leg hurt. 'Ok, so maybe taking on Duo was a bad idea.' Jen thought to herself.

"Ok, now that you two are done…" Heero started out but was cut off by Duo.

"We're no where near finished!"

"Duo, give it a rest." She turned on him. "We're both tired, and I'll just kick your ass again."

"Prove it!"

"I don't have to!"

"Ok you two, knock it off! We have a lot of work to do. Jen, I want someone to look at your leg and Duo, go and hack into the OZ database. They have a new type of suit, and we need to know more about it." Everyone blinked, and turned to the voice.

"Jeez Quatre, we were only having fun." Duo said and Jen nodded. Quatre just stared right back. Heero, Wufei and Trowa stayed out of it, and went back to what they were doing before the fight.

Quatre walked away with a still limping Jen next to him. Duo just stared at them, and smirked. He had the best way to get Jen back, but thought it was way to mean even for him. But he smiled nonetheless; they did make a cute couple. He saw them walking back from the beach this morning. He didn't know what happened between them, but Jen looked more relaxed then she's been since she's got here. Playing matchmaker was going to be fun!

----/***\----

Jen looked over at Quatre to see if he was still mad. His face was still a little hardened.

"Quatre, I'm sorry if I made you mad," She was starting to like these pilot's. Sure they had their problems, but they were nice guys and very cute.

Quatre stopped and looked at her.

"I'm not mad, a little upset that Duo did that. He knows you're still injured." He said pointing to her leg that still had a small, but healing cut.

"It's not that big a deal. I'm always getting some kind of broken bone, or cut. You name any injury and I probably had it." She said with a small smile. Quatre didn't return the smile, but he continued walking towards the make shift hospital room in his house. Everyone was getting hurt, in some way or another, like Jen said, so they decided to make one of the rooms a first aid room. They didn't trust the hospitals. So they put everything they would need in there. It had everything from band-aides to a surgical table. Quatre opened the door and motioned for her to sit in one of the 2 chairs in the room.

She went over to the chair in the corner of the room, and dragged the chair next to it in front of her, and put her leg up on it. She rubbed her palms over her shin, trying to easy the pain she was feeling but didn't show on her face. Quatre walked over to the freezer and took out an ice pack, and handed it to her, then walked over to the table and jumped up.

"One question." He said. She looked at him with a confused looked. "What was with the red paint?"

She smiled, and then she started what sounded like a laugh.

"Because," she started, "Someone's been touching my gundam, and I wanted to catch them red handed." Quatre smiled, and couldn't help but laugh a little. "I know it wasn't any of you guys, Duo was just at the wrong place, at the wrong time." She shrugged.

She sighed, and held the ice pack on her leg when there was a knock at the door. Quatre got up and answered it. It was Wufei, carrying Jen's laptop.

"This thing has been buzzing for the last 10 minutes." He threw it at her, and she caught it. She blinked at him and looked at the miniature computer in her hands.

She opened it up and saw she had a message waiting for her. It was just e-mail, but by the way it was beeping it was important. She opened it, and saw it was from Katie, her friend in the colonies. Jen quickly opened the e-mail and read every word:

Jen,

Your 'mom' told me how to contact you. I hope you don't

mind, but OZ is getting close to this area. And the information

I'm holding for you might not be safe here. You might want to

come back or should I send the information to you?

WBS,

Your best friend *wink*,

Katie

Jen looked up at the clock. It was sent 20 minutes ago. So why did it start beeping 10 minutes ago? She wasn't going to figure it out.

"Quatre, I have a favor to ask…"

----/***\----

Jen's been pacing in front of the door for a couple of hours. Everyone's long since ignored her, except for one tech and a blonde. She stopped when she felt a pair of eyes on her back, she turned around and saw a figure in the shadows, watching her ever move. She put her hands on her hips and sighed.

"Just ask." She called to it.

"Excuse me?" The figured called out.

"You've been standing there, watching me so just ask me why, Quatre."

Quatre smiled sheepishly and walked out of the darkened corner.

"Why are you so nervous? I thought you said a friend just needed a place to crash for a while."

This time Jen smiled sheepishly. "Well, it's true, to a point. Katie's been my only friend for a long time. But I also put her in a bad position, and I feel really bad about it." Jen sighed and walked over to a chair that was sitting by the door.

Quatre knew when not to pry, so he accepted her answer, he walked over to the chair next to her and sat down.

She was about to talk to him when the doorbell rang. She raced over to the door and threw it open. She ran out to the person standing in front of her, and hugged her.

"Katie! Your ok! Come in, come in!"

In walked a girl, about the same age as Jen, but with short black hair, and brown eyes. She was wearing a navy blue top, with cut off jeans. She wasn't that tall, only a couple inches shorter then Jen.

"Hey! Yea, I'm fine. Nice place, who's is it?" Jen smiled and looked over at Quatre. "Your place? It's very nice. Hi, my names Katie Haines. Thanks for letting me come here."

Quatre stood up and walked over to her and held out his hand and smiled,

"I'm Quatre Raberba Winner. It's nice to meet you too, Ms. Katie." Katie shook his hand, and smiled back.

"Please, call me Katie." She then turned back to Jen and whispered, so only she could hear. "Are the other's as nice as he is?" Jen just shook her head.

----/***\----

"And this is your room." Quatre pointed out at the end of the tour of his house/mansion.

"Jeez! I could get lost if I'm not careful." Katie laughed, and walked into the room. "This isn't a room, it's a house!"

Quatre laughed.

"I should go and check on the others, I'll see you later. And Jen, please, be careful."

"Yea.. yea.." Jen walked over to the door and shoed Quatre out, and closed it behind him.

"So.." Katie cut her off. "What did he mean by 'Please be careful'?" Katie asked and glared at her friend.

Jen grinned, "I've been getting on the guys bad side here." She shrugged. "Oh well."

Katie just sighed, and dropped the subject.

"Speaking of guys, we didn't run into any on the tour. Can I meet them?" Katie gave her, her best puppy-dog look she could give. Jen gave up.

"You and men... Fine, lets go and find the others." Jen opened the door and walked down the hall, Katie following close behind. "What are you doing?!"

"I told you! I could get lost if I'm not careful!"

Jen laughed and headed towards the living room, where she thought she saw Duo, annoying Wufei. She was right.

"Come on Wufei!"

"No, Maxwell! Go away!"

"PLEASE!!!!"

"MAXWELL!"

"Hi!" Jen called out to get their attention.

Wufei gave her a thank you, but don't let it go to head look, and Duo grinned at her.

"Hey Jen. Who's that?" Duo pointed behind her.

"This is…" Jen grabbed Katie's arm and pulled her in front of her, "Katie. She'll be staying here awhile."

Katie gave them a shy smile.

"Hi." She said, and Duo grinned, now was his chance to try out his new joke, Wufei knew what was coming and groaned.

"Are you?" Duo asked. (2)

"Excused me?" Katie asked puzzled.

"Are you?"

"Am I what?"

"Are you high?"

Katie gave him a confused look, then laughed.

"No, are you?"

"No one can seem to answer that."

"She didn't ask you Wufei!" Duo spun around and yelled at him.

Jen and Katie laughed. And Jen pointed them out.

"The goof ball there is Duo Maxwell, the grumpy one is Chang Wufei."

"Who you calling grumpy onna?!"

Katie laughed. "Nice to meet you two. My name's Katie Haines," she said with a smile.

"Alright, you meet these to, lets fine the other 2 now." Jen turned to Duo. "Do you know where Trowa or Heero are?"

Duo shook his head, "No, but you could try the kitchen for Trowa."

Jen left the room, and Duo frowned, and Wufei spoke up.

"I don't trust her."

"Which one?"

"Either one."

"I think we can trust Jen, but I don't know about Katie."

Wufei grunted, and walked out of the living room, towards the hanger.

----/***\----

Trowa was walking down the hall looking for Quatre. He needed to ask him about a tech that's been sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. He was walking down the quiet hall when all of a sudden he heard a girl scream. He started running down the hall till he saw her, a strange girl was lying on the floor laughing.

She has short black hair that went up to her chin; he couldn't see her eyes because she was laughing to hard. She was wearing a navy blue t-shirt that hugged her chest, with short cut-off jean shorts, and sneaker's with out socks. She was so skinny it looked like the smallest breeze would blow her away.

Trowa made himself snap out of it when he felt a pair of eyes on him. He looked over to his left and saw Jen's ice blue eyes studying him. She was wearing a pair of pink shorts, and a small white top, much different from her normal outfit. She was giving Trowa a funny look, like he'd gone crazy.

"Trowa you ok?" She asked which got the attention of the other girl rolling around on the floor. She stood up and looked at him and blushed a bright red. She was shorter then he was, about 5'6, and her eyes were brown. Jen saw the look Trowa was giving her friend and smirked.

"Trowa Barton, meet Katie Haines. She'll be staying here a while." Jen introduced them.

Trowa nodded to Katie and walked past the now 2 giggling girls.

"I'm sure he now thinks I'm a geek." Katie said in between giggles. "And you look very funny in that outfit!"

"So? I know for a fact he doesn't like me." Jen took a deep breath to calm herself. "Is that why you screamed when I walked out like this? No more sugar for you. Alright, you met everybody, now we done?"

"I thought you said there are five pilots?"

"Yeah… but Heero isn't much for meeting people, and I don't--" She was cut off when Heero walked down the hall and threw her a manila envelop. Jen blinked at his retreating backside, then turned to Katie. "Told ya," Jen said and started walking towards her room.

"That's Heero? He looks so familiar…" Katie trailed off.

"You've met him before?"

"I don't think so. Maybe I just saw his picture somewhere before."

Jen shrugged. "I don't think so, he's not a people person. May be you saw his picture on a wanted poster." Jen giggled.

Katie was too lost in thought to hear what Jen had said. She was trying to remember where she saw him before. The next thing she knew she walked into something solid. Katie looked up and saw Jen looking at her with an eyebrow raised. Katie smiled and walked past her into the room.

Jen just shook her head and closed the bedroom door behind her.

----/***\----

Jordan wasn't ever a very tall man, but his looks made up for that. He has beady green eyes; his hair was a curled mess of brown locks. Girls would swoon over his looks; which is one of the reasons he replaced the man originally on this project, Robert - the one who found Jen was hiding out here.

Jordan's long fingers typed at the keyboard in the darkened room. He had to work fast so he wasn't caught. He was looking through some files on a young woman that wouldn't question killing him if she found out what he was doing.

The computer started to talk to him, so he had to turn the volume down:

<<File Name 06JW… File command OPEN>>

Jordan smirked and looked over the file. He saw a picture of a young, beautiful, girl who looked about the age of 15. It was an old picture, but it was the only picture that they had of her. She wasn't smiling in the picture, which only added to the mystery about her. Her blue eyes seemed dead; her blonde hair almost white in color ran loosely down her back. Jordan was almost sad that he had to bring her in for her crimes… almost.

----/***\----

Jordan walked out of the tiny room and heard a click from behind him; he didn't have to turn around to know someone was holding a gun to his head, and he knew who that somebody was.

"Can I help you, miss?" He said quietly.

"What do you want from me?" She asked him, and he just smirked and turned around. She held a gun firm in her right hand, showing him she was no rookie with a gun.

"I'm not stupid, good sir," she mocking him "I'll ask you again, why were you looking up my file?" The girl played with the gun a bit, moving it around.

"What are you going to do if I don't tell you? Shoot me?" Jordan took a step forward.

The girl smirked, "I could shoot you in that pretty face of yours, but I have other plans, and cleaning up a bloody mess isn't one of them."

"So do I…" he muttered to himself and moved his hand to the gun at his side quickly, and aimed it at the girl standing before him.

BANG!

To be continued…

Muh ha ha ha ha!

1. It is Doktor, its French I think.

2. I got this from someone in one of my RP (Roll Playing) rooms. She keeps saying this when someone says "Hi."

Well everyone… That's part 4! What do you think? Want me to keep going? Give me some feed back… *sighs* yes, even flames are welcome. Thanks to everyone who reviewed this fic! It means so much ^_^