Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ The Magicians of Gundam Wing ❯ Back to the Future ( Chapter 1 )

This story is a sequel to another story of mine: Gundam Wing and the Quest for the Holy Grail, which is itself a sequel to my story Gundam Wing and the Knights of the Round Table. Like before, if you read this story without reading the other stories first, it might not make a lot of sense. But of course, that's part of the fun!

Disclaimer: This is an original work of fiction, but the characters of Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Wu-Fei Chang, Trowa Barton, Quatre Reberba Winner and Zechs Merquise are borrowed from Gundam Wing AC by Hajime Yatate and Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Sunrise. Roku, on the other hand, is totally my creation. Other Gundam Wing characters, like Sally Po and Lucretzia Noin, who might appear or be mentioned are also borrowed from Gundam Wing by Yatate-sama and Tomino-sama.

Warnings: This is a comedy, but you'll have to watch out for implied yaoi, not-so-implied yaoi, sexual innuendo, adult situations, occasional swearing and a general lack of respect for “decent” behavior.

Quote of the Day: “I like my men young, cute and sexually ambiguous.”

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Chapter 1: Back to the Future

“Preventers! Report!”

Lady Une's voice cracked like a whip coming out of the communicator and everyone jumped.

“She sounds pissed,” Duo said.

“She sure does,” Wu-Fei agreed.

“Why is she even looking for us?” Quatre wondered. “We've been gone for over a year.”

“No we haven't,” Heero replied. He pointed at the console. “Look at the date.”

“What the fuck?!” Duo exclaimed. “That's impossible! That's, like, the day after we crashed.”

“Well,” said Trowa, “Quatre did perform a time-travel spell to bring us back to when we left.”

“So we've lived a whole year, doing all kinds of weird shit, and everyone thinks we've been missing for a day?”

“Yup.”

Duo grinned. “That is so cool! We could go off and do all kinds of stuff and still be able to keep the universe safe for mankind! I am so there!”

Wu-Fei shook his head. “Leave it to Duo to see the upside of being a year older with nothing to show for it.”

“What to do you mean `nothing to show for it'?!” Duo exclaimed. “We came back with all sorts of new abilities and cool stuff. And Roku!”

“So now you're happy you can hear people's thoughts?” Heero grated.

“I admit that sometimes it's a bit inconvenient, but I'm learning to live with it. So who wants to answer Lady Une?”

“I will,” Trowa said. He sat down at the console.

“Preventers HQ, this is Trowa Barton.”

“Trowa! Where the hell have you been? We've been trying to reach you for hours!”

“Sorry, ma'am. We had a little accident, but we're all right now. We should be underway shortly.”

“Good. Report to my office as soon as you reach Earth.”

“Yes, ma'am.”

“We better come up with a good story,” Duo said. “Or do we want to just go with the truth?”

“What's wrong with the truth?” Quatre asked.

“So you were planning to tell Une that you're a wizard and can turn enemy forces into chickens instead of blasting them out of the sky?”

“Well…”

Heero lifted an eyebrow. “We'll have to tell them something.” He nodded at Roku. “Someone may want to know where we acquired a shape-shifting tiger who calls Quatre Mama.”

“Good point.”

“Mama, who is Lady Une?” asked the aforementioned Roku.

“She's our boss, Roku. We all work for her.”

“Will I work for her, too?”

“You're a little young to be a Preventer, sweetheart.”

“What's a Preventer?”

“A Preventer is someone who protects people by preventing war and rebellion.”

“Oh.”

“But, we'll resolve that after we get back to Earth. Does this shuttle even work?”

“Let's see,” Duo said. He sat down in the pilot's seat and started the engines. The shuttle roared to life. He checked the gauges and grinned. “Ready to rock and roll! Good spell, Quatre! I like it when someone thinks of all the details. Everyone strap in. You'd better change, Roku. The seatbelts aren't designed for a tiger.”

Quatre showed the little boy how to fasten and adjust his seatbelt. Once everyone was settled, Duo took off.

Wu-Fei looked out the porthole as the airless moon dropped away. “Does anyone even remember what the hell we were doing out here?”

“We were looking for new resource satellites,” Heero replied with his eyes closed.

“Oh, yeah. Should we drop a marker on that moon?”

“It's a little big.”

“So what? Let the engineers worry about that. I don't want to go back empty-handed.”

“Why worry about it?” Duo said airily. “You can just singe the nose of anyone who gives you crap about it.”

Wu-Fei frowned. “I do not plan on breathing fire anymore. In fact, if I can figure out how to get these scales off my back, I will. They're starting to itch again.”

“Doesn't that mean they are coming off on their own, Papa Wu-Fei?”

Wu-Fei groaned. “Don't say that! Don't mention that word!”

“What word?” said Duo. “You mean shed?”

“Dammit!” Wu-Fei began shifting around in his seat, rubbing his back against the seatback. “You wretch, Duo!”

“I still have the oil, Papa Wu-Fei,” Roku offered helpfully.

“And I will be glad to sit in a hot bath with you and scratch off your scales, Fei,” Duo said with a grin. “And then we can spend a long leisurely afternoon massaging oil into all your itchy places.”

“Just fly faster,” Wu-Fei grumbled. “This sucks.”

“You guys may as well get some sleep,” Duo said. “I'll wake you up when we get there.”

“Heero's already asleep,” Trowa remarked.

“So is Mama.”

“You should sleep, too, Roku.”

“I'm not sleepy, Papa Trowa, and I want to look out the window. Everything's all black.”

“We're in outer space now; the empty space between the stars and planets. Papa Wu-Fei explained that to you, didn't he?”

“Yes. It's very interesting.” He craned his neck to look at what Duo was doing. “Can I fly the shuttle?”

Trowa chuckled. “I'm sure Mama Quatre will teach you.”

“Oh, goody!”

Several hours later, Trowa woke up to find Duo and Roku singing a drinking song.

“Roku, didn't you sleep?” Trowa asked.

“No. Papa Duo and I have been having fun.”

“Why does that worry me?”

“Hey! What do you mean by that?” Duo exclaimed. “Anyway, we're almost there. It's time for everyone to wake up.”

“All right.” Trowa got up and nudged the others awake.

Roku was looking out the window again. “Earth is pretty from here. Is that where I was born?”

“Yes, it is, sweetie,” Quatre said, “although it was a long time ago. I don't know that you'd recognize anything if we went back to the same part of Earth where you grew up.”

“Probably not,” Wu-Fei said. “Past wars have hit that island pretty hard.”

“After we check in, I'll take you to the desert to meet some of my friends,” Quatre said. “You'll like them.”

“Speaking of checking in,” Duo said. “How are we planning to explain Roku? If we're not careful, some damn scientist or other will want to whisk him off to a lab to study him.”

Quatre bristled. “Oh, I don't think so,” he growled.

“And if you're not careful,” Heero said calmly, “they'll park you in the lab right next to him.” He regarded Quatre sternly. “No transformations!”

“He's right!” Trowa echoed quickly. “You need to be careful about casting spells, Quatre.”

“Does his magic even still work?” Duo asked.

Quatre held up his hand. “Novi inlustris apparere!” he intoned. A ball of fire appeared above his hand.

“Ok, that's a yes.”

“No doubt we all still possess whatever powers and magical gifts we acquired in the past,” Wu-Fei said. “Since most of us have exhibited one or more of the traits we picked up, it's probably safe to assume nothing has changed.”

“So we all have something to hide,” said Duo, “but we can't hide Roku.”

“No, we can't,” Quatre agreed, “so we'll just tell the truth.” He looked innocent. “Roku can stay in human form while we're on Earth and we'll say he is the product of a recombinant DNA experiment I conducted on myself.”

Everyone stared at him.

Trowa drew in a deep breath. “During the one day we were missing, without a lab or any equipment. I'm not sure anyone will buy that.”

Quatre frowned. “So what do you suggest?”

“We can say we had an accident…” Trowa began.

“Which is true,” Duo interrupted.

“And that you were injured…” Trowa continued.

“Only me?” Quatre frowned suspiciously.

“And that you gave birth to Roku as a side-effect of our emergency medical care.”

Everyone stared at Trowa.

“You people are idiots!” Heero growled. “We don't have to tell them anything! Roku is Quatre's son, end of story. Nearly everyone in the Winner family was born out of a test tube. People will just assume the same of Roku. If he doesn't change shape in front of them, no one will have any reason to suspect anything.”

“Good point.”

“You don't mind staying in your human form when people are around, do you sweetie?” Quatre asked Roku.

“I will if you want me to, Mama.”

“You're such a good boy.”

“I'm glad that's settled,” Duo said. “It's time to land.”

Lady Une and Sally Po were waiting on the tarmac to greet them when they landed.

“I'm glad you're back, gentlemen,” Lady Une said. “I was very worried when we lost touch with you the other day.”

“Sorry about that, Commander,” Wu-Fei said. “We had an accident and were out of commission briefly.”

“No one was hurt?”

“Nothing serious.”

“Who is this?” Sally asked suddenly. She had noticed Roku hovering behind Quatre.

“This is my son, Roku,” Quatre said.

Une and Sally looked at each other with raised eyebrows.

“Your son?” Lady Une said. “I didn't know you had any children, Quatre.”

“We picked him up while we were away,” Quatre said.

“I see.” Une choose not to question his deliberately vague response.

“Say hello to Lady Une and Major Sally, Roku.”

Roku stepped forward and bowed politely. “I am honored to meet you, Lady Une. I am honored to meet you, Major Sally.”

Both women smiled.

“How polite!” Une exclaimed. “I am pleased to meet you, Roku. Welcome to Earth.”

“Thank you.”

“How old are you, Roku?” Sally asked.

Roku threw a quick glance at Quatre. “Um… nine?” he ventured.

“That's right!” Quatre said quickly. He stepped forward and put his hands on Roku's shoulders. “Roku just turned nine. Yup. He's nine.”

“You're babbling, Quatre,” Duo whispered.

Sally looked a little confused.

“Let's go inside,” Une said. “You can give me a quick report. By the way, Vice Minister Darlian is here. She was also very concerned when she heard your shuttle was missing. When I notified her that you had reported in, she asked to be informed when you arrived on Earth.”

A look of dismay crossed Heero's face and Duo started to laugh. Heero glared at him, but neither of them said anything.

Inside, Vice Minister Relena Darlian was waiting in Une's office.

“Heero!” Relena cried when she saw them. She jumped to her feet and started to rush toward him, but at the last moment, she stopped awkwardly and held out her hand. “I am glad you are all right.” Her gaze shifted to the rest of them. “I am glad everyone is all right.”

Duo leaned close to Wu-Fei. “She was so going to hug him just then,” he whispered. “And she ain't thinking about the rest of us at all.”

“I suspected that,” Wu-Fei whispered back.

Heero clasped Relena's hand and then quickly released it. “Vice Minister.”

Then Relena's eyes fell on Roku. “Who is this adorable little boy?” she exclaimed.

“This is Quatre's son, Roku,” Sally introduced him with a smile.

Relena's eyes widened. “Quatre's son? I was not aware you were, ah, that you had, uh, I mean… Who is his mother?”

“I wasn't sure she was gonna pull that one out,” Duo whispered to Wu-Fei.

“It was looking pretty bad for a second there,” Wu-Fei whispered back.

Quatre flushed slightly. “You might say I am his mother. Roku was conceived in a, ah, non-standard way…”

“Seemed pretty standard to me at the time,” Duo whispered.

“Me, too,” Wu-Fei echoed.

Quatre threw them a warning look.

Relena, however, still seemed rather confused. “But, then, who is his father? If you are his… mother?”

“Well, it's a little difficult to explain…” Quatre began, but Relena was looking back and forth between Heero and Roku. She began to frown.

“He looks quite a bit like Heero,” Relena remarked, a little too casually. “Just when did you do this? He seems awfully mature…”

“Well, you know, Miss Relena, we in the Winner family are always making advancements in the science of artificial reproduction,” Quatre said hastily.

Relena's eyes narrowed. “I see. Human reproduction, apparently without an ovum, resulting in accelerated growth. I shall have to look into that.”

“I think he looks a lot like Duo,” Sally remarked. Her eyes were twinkling. “It's the hair.”

“You don't think he looks more like Trowa?” Duo asked innocently.

Quatre began muttering under his breath.

“So tell me, Heero,” Relena said, “when did you contribute your, ah, genetic material to Quatre for his conception?” Her tone was quietly dangerous.

Duo's eyes went round and he shook his head warningly at Heero.

Heero didn't notice. “It was a while ago,” he said, without quite meeting her eyes.

“So you are his father!” she accused.

Heero flinched. “One of them,” he muttered.

“Excuse me?”

“I wasn't the only one!” Heero said a little louder.

Sally was grinning broadly. Une was wearing a bemused expression.

Relena looked around. Her face was flushed and her eyes were a little wild. “I think there's something you're not telling me!” she exclaimed angrily. She took a step toward Heero. “I thought we had an understanding.”

Duo clapped a hand over his mouth in a futile attempt to stifle his laughter.

“What is it?” Wu-Fei whispered.

Duo whispered into Wu-Fei's ear, “He's thinking that the understanding was that he had no intention of getting into her pants!”

Wu-Fei giggled.

Relena rounded on them. “What are you whispering about?! I will not be made a fool of!”

Duo and Wu-Fei tried to look innocent.

“Miss Relena,” Trowa interrupted soothingly, “I'm sure this all sounds very odd, but I can assure you it is all perfectly straightforward. We'll all be laughing about this later when you understand it all.”

Relena pointed an accusing finger at Duo and Wu-Fei. “They're laughing about it now! I want to understand it right now, not later.”

“It's really simple, Miss Relena,” Roku said. “Quatre is my Mama and everyone else is my Papa.”

Relena stared at him.

“See?” said Trowa. “Simple!” He rubbed his hands together briskly. “Now, don't we have a debriefing to finish, Commander?”

“Um, yes,” Une responded, a little flustered.

“Wait a minute…” Relena stammered.

“Why don't we step outside, Vice Minister, so the Preventers can make their report?” Sally said. She took Relena by the arm and guided her toward the door.

Relena reluctantly allowed herself to be ushered from the room, but not before she fixed sharp eyes on Heero and said, “We'll discuss this later.”

Once the door was closed behind her, Heero heaved a sigh of relief.

Une looked from one to the other expectantly. “Well? I don't care what you tell Vice Minister Darlian, but I want the straight story and I want it right now.”

“Yes ma'am,” said Trowa, “but maybe you should sit down.”

With a great deal of summarizing, hand-waving, back-tracking and glossing-over, they explained what they had been doing for the one day they were missing. They left out a lot of details; mostly the parts about sorcery, shape-shifting, talking dragons, fire-breathing, mind-reading, magical objects and sex.

Une looked really confused when they were finished and glad that she was sitting down. “But I still don't get where Roku came from,” she said.

“It was magic,” Quatre replied.

Une waited for more explanation, but when none was forthcoming, she sighed. “Very well. I guess I'll just have to accept that.” She smiled at Roku. “I suppose it's not that important. But I doubt the Vice Minister will see it that way. Maybe you should take some time off and visit your families. If you really have been gone for a year, you must miss them.”

“Thank you, Commander, that's very thoughtful,” Quatre said.

“You can have a few weeks, anyway,” Une continued. “But we really do need new resource satellites, so I'll expect you back to work after that.”

“Yes ma'am!” The five pilots saluted and Roku copied them.

Heero was relieved to find that Relena was not waiting for them outside the door.

“She had business,” Sally reported. “So, what's the plan?”

“We get time off,” Wu-Fei said.

“That's nice. What are you going to do?”

“Visit our families, except I would rather stay on Earth,” Wu-Fei replied.

“I could probably get some time off,” Sally said. “Want to do a little sightseeing?”

“Sure. What about the rest of you?”

“I want to take Roku to meet the Maganac Corps and then we'll go see my sisters.”

“I want to visit Catherine and see how the circus is doing.”

“I should check in on Hildy and the business.”

“I want to look around the Colonies. We should meet back here in two weeks.”

“It's a plan.”