Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Torturous Chimera ❯ Congratulations! You’re a Dad ( Chapter 1 )

Torturous Chimera

By Chyna Rose

Disclaimer: While I don't own Gundum, I do own the Kids. E-mail me at Chynarose8@hotmail.com if you want to use them. Now for the number crunching: 2x1, 3x4, 5x6, 1-2, 4-3, 6-5-13, R-6, 1/R, 2/H, 3/C, 4/D, 5/S, 6/9, 13/11, 13/6. What does this all mean? Aside from being an algebraic nightmare, it means that there's yaoi, implied/perceived het, implied/perceived yaoi, and genetic contributions. I feel that it's only fair to warn you that this is one weird story. These kids (well most of them) scare me - and I'm the one who came up with them. But when you consider who's kids they are… If you find yourself getting squicked, back away from the computer, sit down with your head between your legs, take some nice deep breaths, and then hit the back button. Flames will be used in a psychology paper.

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Congratulations! You're a Dad

Preventer Headquarters, Earth AC 197

The five young former Gundum pilots sat quietly in the sterile meeting room. Well, quietly for the most part. Duo, being who he was, kept busy by entertaining himself - much to the displeasure of the other pilots. This was not all that unreasonable when you considered the fact that Duo's form of entertainment consisted of getting a 'rise' out of Heero. Personally, Wufei couldn't wait until the meeting got started or Heero and Duo got a room.

The meeting was running late. They had been waiting for nearly an hour. Duo had began his game after waiting only half that time. And given how intent Duo was in his sport, it wouldn't be much longer until Heero snapped. The fact that the meeting was running late was disturbing (even more so than the thought of Heero either strangling or fucking Duo right there on the conference table). It wasn't like Sally to run this late. It wasn't unusual for her to run five - ten - minutes late when she wasn't on a mission. She was a doctor after all. But her being over an hour late could only mean that something big had to have been going down.

Eventually, a very haggard Sally Po entered the room, preventing Heero from doing something violent. She acknowledged the five youths assembled, before making her way to the front of the room. Duo stopped teasing Heero as soon as he saw her, and sat down. The meeting started.

"Thank you all for coming," Sally said as she began, "I realize that you are probably wondering why I called this meeting. About a week ago, we received a tip about illegal and unethical genetic experiments. Two days ago, we preformed a raid on the laboratory. During the raid, we managed to retrieve five young children. After performing various tests, we were able to determine who their biological parents are."

"What's this got to do with us?" a confused Duo interrupted. Surely, with all the resources available to the Preventers, finding their parents or an orphanage that would take the kids in couldn't be that hard. And generally, all five ex-gundam pilots were called in when things got too hard for the Preventers to handle normally. Hell, it took a lot to get two of them assigned on the same mission.

"I was just getting to that Duo," Sally countered. She activated the viewing screen built into the room for such presentations; pointing out various bits of the data while she talked. "Unfortunately, we still have not been able to decode the original notes left by the scientist who created them. Most of what we were able to decipher had little to do with his experiments. In fact, most of it reads like a rather disjointed diary. Still, we were able to learn much through our own tests. As you can see, these are no ordinary children. They are the product of human gene splicing experimentation. Out of the five of them, we were able to determine eight separate DNA signatures. For the most part, these DNA signatures break down into combined pairs of two males. The exceptions being a partial brother/sister pair. They share the DNA signature of a biological father. The girl is the only one of the five to have a biological mother. The boy was created by splicing three separate male DNA signatures.

Another abnormality we found, was evidence of induced aging. Despite appearing to all be between two and four, none of the children are older than sixteen months. We are currently unable to determine exactly how that process was achieved. All we know is that this accelerated aging occurred during their incubation. It is too soon to tell if the induced aging will have an adverse effect on the children. As of now, the children are in relatively good health. They all show evidence of minor psychological damage, but that is to be expected given their unique circumstances. Yes Duo?"
"There's something about this that you're not telling us, and I want to know what it is," He demanded, pointing at Sally.

"Shut up Maxwell. Sally has no reason to hide information about a mission from us," Wufei rebuked.

"It's obvious that your girlfriend…" Duo sneered.

"She's not my girlfriend!" Wufei exploded, leaping out of his chair.

"Whatever you say Wu man. She's still hiding something. Hell, from the way she's talking, it's like the kids are ours and the CAPS is gonna interrogate us about it," Duo said with his hands thrown up in a 'no offence' manner.

"Actually Duo, I was just about to bring that up. Well, not the part about the Children and Animals Protection Service. It was thought best they didn't know about the children," Sally interrupted.

"No shit!" Duo nearly choked.

"Yes, and watch your language. As you know, before you can become an active Preventer, once accepted, you have to have your fingerprints, retinal scan, dental records, and a DNA sample entered into the agent database. This is done mainly for use in post-mortem identification. By cross-referencing Preventer files with the DNA samples we got from the children, we were able to determine that you are - for the most part at least - the biological fathers of these children."

The room fell silent as the ex-pilots took time to absorb what Sally had just said. They were fathers. Yet they had no conscious hand in it. They also had no idea which child was theirs, and who the other three 'DNA signatures' were. Sally waited for them to take her words in.

"Can we see them?" Quatre cautiously asked; breaking the silence. Sally gave a small sigh of relief. At least one of the ex-pilots was willing to accept the children.

"Of course," Sally replied. She had figured that the ex-pilots would want to see the children at some point. To that end, she had made arrangements with Zechs to bring them in when she asked.

After a brief pause, Zechs entered the conference room with the children in tow. The smallest one - a girl with long, white-blonde hair and searching eyes - was carried in Zech's arms. He also had a firm grip on a sullen little boy with messy chestnut hair and hard deep violet eyes. Another boy, this one with silky shoulder length black hair, stood stoically at Zech's side. Bring up the rear of the odd entourage (mostly hiding behind the former Lightning Count) was a pair of small girls. They had large, deep emerald eyes set in pale, cherubic faces that were framed by a mop of honey blonde hair. The clothing the children wore hung off their small frames.

"Injustice!" Wufei whispered harshly. He was the first to break the silence created by the entrance of the kids. He turned to face Sally with anger in his eyes, completely missing how tense Zechs got at the action. Zechs began to herd the kids out before Wufei could launch into his rant, which would most likely not be suitable for young kids.

"Who did this?" Wufei demanded of Sally, "Who is responsible for this… this… this travesty of justice?! They had no right - no right - to create children and then just neglect and mistreat them. Even that damnable, meddling Instructor H did not stoop so low as that! How dare they do such a heinous thing?! I swear on my honor that these cowardly curs will pay for what they did!"

"I assure you Wufei, that we are doing our best to locate those responsible. And when we find them, they will be appropriately punished for their crimes. But right now that's important. What is important, is figuring out what to do with the children. It wouldn't be fair to keep them locked up in a lab."

"I will not be so dishonorable as to abandon my child. I will take on the responsibility of caring for my child," Wufei grumbled as he sat back down.

"Same goes for me. I'm not about to let my kid get shunted off to some orphanage. Not while I'm still alive and kicking. And I'm sure Heero wouldn't let that happen either," Duo said; leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed.

"Hn," Heero said. Sally couldn't tell whether or not he agreed with Duo.

"I have to agree with the others. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I refused to take care of a child offered into my care. Even if they weren't related to me. And I know that Trowa couldn't turn his back on family. But I have one question. Which child is whose?" Quatre asked, bringing up the question that was on all of the ex-pilots' minds.