Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ When Worlds Collide ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

When Worlds Collide

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. I am only doing this for the fun of it and am not making any money off it. Please don't sue me as I have nothing but my few meager possessions and I don't think that you will like them.

A.N - sorry that it has taken me so long to update but I think that you will all find that it was well worth the wait.

Chapter 2

Earth

It was Saturday morning. Just as Catherine rolled out of bed the phone rang. Catherine reached up on her desk and grabbed the phone.

"Hello?" she mumbled groggily.

"Cathy?"

"Yeah. Who is this?" Cathy asked.

"It's Dorothy."

"Oh, hi. What are you doing?"

"Wondering where you are. Do you have any idea what time it is?" Dorothy asked.

"No, I just woke up. Hang on," Cathy said as she turned around so that she could see her clock on her headboard, which said 11:00 am. "Oh shit! The mall! I forgot all about it!"

"Obviously. You were supposed to be here an hour ago. Everyone is here."

"I'll be there in half an hour." Cathy said.

"We'll be waiting in the food court." Dorothy said.

"Right." Cathy replied as she hung up. Then she started to scramble around her room trying to get ready for the mall.

Dorothy hung up the pay phone and turned to the rest of her friends. They made a rather odd group. There is Duo Maxwell with his long chestnut hair - which he forever wore in a braid - and violet eyes. He is the joker of the group, but also the most trust worthy.

Sally Po was there, also. She has dark blonde hair that was out of its usual cones, and bright blue eyes. She is the oldest of our group, but she can be as fun as Duo, when she wants to of course.

Then there is Heero Yuy. He seems to really stick out in our group. With his unruly dark brown hair and cold cobalt blue eyes, he seems very unapproachable. And he is until he gets to know you and he feels that he can trust you. He is also the most serious one of the group and the most silent.

Myself, Dorothy Catalonia, with my platinum blonde hair and pale blue eyes. I, too, look very unapproachable, because I am. I don't make friends that easily. You could say that I am similar to Heero, only I am not so quiet.

Last of all our missing member, Catherine (or Cathy) Bloom. She has light green eyes with fire red hair, with the temper that goes with it. No one would want to get her mad. She always has daggers on her and she can use them. Really well.

"Well what did she say?" Duo wanted to know.

"She said that she would be here in half an hour. I told her that we would meet her in the food court." Dorothy told everyone.

"So what are we going to do until then?" Sally wanted to know.

"I'm all for going to get something to eat." Duo said.

"Of course you are, Duo. You always want to eat." Dorothy said rolling her eyes. "Does anyone else have a suggestion?"

"We could wander through the mall for a while, but then that would be defeating the whole purpose of us coming here as a group." Sally said.

"I think that we should just go wait in the food court. If Duo wants to eat, let him." Heero said. "The rest of us don't have to."

"That's two against one. And I'm sorry to say it, Sally, but I have to side with them. Going to the food court is a hell of a lot better then walking around with out our entire group here." Dorothy told her friend.

"No problem, Dorothy," Sally assured her. "I wasn't to thrilled by my suggestion either."

"Now that that is settled, let's head over to the food court." Duo said enthusiastically.

Duo's friends rolled their eyes as the four of them walked over towards the food court. Dorothy and Sally talked about the things that they wanted to get while they were at the mall. Duo chattered endlessly about nothing really, while Heero just looked like he was actually paying attention and listening to his braided friend.

"Why don't you guys find a table?" Duo suggested when they got to the food court. "I'm going to get something to eat."

With that he took off for the Dairy Queen outlet. Shaking their heads everyone else carried on looking for a place to sit. They found a table near the window so that they could watch for Cathy to arrive.

Not long after they had sat down, Duo came walking up carrying a large blizzard.

"Does anyone want an orange Julius? My treat." Sally offered.

"Sure I'll have a strawberry one though, please." Dorothy said.

"I'll just have an orange one, please," Heero said.

"No thanks. If I get through this that may be enough. For now of course." Duo said.

"All right then. I'll be right back." Sally told them as she stood up.

"I'll come with you too." Dorothy said as she walked after her friend.

"So you think that it is a good idea to leave the two of them alone?" Sally asked

"Why not? They're big boys. They can take care of themselves." Dorothy replied. "And besides, if Duo gets too out of hand, Heero will put him back where he belongs."

This caused both of the girls to start giggling as they walked away. Back at the table, Duo looked wearily at his two female friends.

"They had to have been talking about us. That is the only time that they giggle like that." Duo informed his companion.

"They giggle a lot of the time." Heero said shrugging. "How can you tell the difference?"

"They change the pitch and giggle a bit faster when they talk about us." Duo said. "It's really freaky. . . "

"What's freaky is the fact that you pay enough attention to them when they are laughing that you can tell what they are talking about by their laugh."

"They aren't laughing. They're giggling." Duo protested.

"Just eat your ice cream." Heero told him looking out the window.

"Humph." was the only thing that Duo said before he started on his ice cream.

"See I told you that Heero would put Duo back in his place." Dorothy said as they turned back to the table and she noticed that Duo was pouting.

"Yeah, I guess so. I wonder what Duo said." Sally replied.

"I don't know. Maybe we could ask him." Dorothy suggested.

"Good idea." Sally said. As they reached the table Sally continued by asking, "What's wrong Duo?"

"Nothing. Why do you ask?" Duo replied.

"You just looked so forlorn, that's all. Like your best friend just died." Dorothy told him sitting down.

"Well Heero is still sitting here so my best friend couldn't have died. Yet." Duo said.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Heero questioned.

"Never mind." Duo told him.

"So your best friend didn't die. What else could make you look so down?" Sally wanted to know.

"It's nothing that you need to worry about. Heero just said something and I got mad. OK." Duo said sounding defeated.

"Fine. We just wanted to know." Sally said.

"I suppose that you want to know what he said too, don't you?"

"No, we can do without. A guy has to keep some secrets to himself." Dorothy told him.

"Thanks."

The four sat in silence with their own thoughts. The girls still wondering about the finer points to what had happened while they were gone. Duo was wondering what Sally and Dorothy would think if they knew that he could more a less tell what they had been talking about by their laugh. And Heero was wondering how the hell he ever became friends with this group.

"Silence. Why am I not surprised." a voice said.

Everyone looked. Cathy was standing a couple feet away looking very smug.

"You got here in good time." Dorothy told her after a quick glance at her watch.

"Yeah I know." Cathy said as she pulled up a chair from a near by table. "When I was on my way out the door, so was my mom. She offered to give me a ride."

"Cool." Duo said. "Now we can get our stuff done and then we can do something else."

"Like what?" Sally wanted to know.

"I don't know. Something outside." Duo said.

"We can decide that later." Cathy said. "If you are all done, why don't we get out stuff done, then we can decide."

The suggestion seemed to go over rather well, as they all got up and left the table. After throwing their cups into the trash can, they made their way down the mall walk going into different stores. Sometimes buying things sometimes just looking at things and goofing around. Well Duo and Cathy mainly. Heero, Sally and Dorothy just stood apart from them acting like they didn't know the pair.

Before anyone knew it two hours had past and they found themselves back in the food court getting a bite to eat.

"Is there any other store that you girls need to go to?" Duo asked.

"Like we haven't been to them all yet." Heero muttered.

"I've gotten all that I had to get plus a little extra." Cathy said.

"Same goes for me." Sally and Dorothy said simultaneously.

"Good then we ca think up something else to do." Duo said cheerfully.

"Why don't we go to the park?" Cathy suggested.

"We're not a bunch of little kids anymore." Heero retorted and then looked at Duo and added, "Most of us anyway."

"I resent that." Duo told him loudly. "I also resemble it." This made everyone laugh.

"I wasn't suggesting that we go there and play on the equipment." Cathy explained. "I noticed that dagger you bought and thought that you might want to try it out."

"What are you saying? You want to be a target?" Heero asked in a monotone voice.

"I was thinking more along the lines of sparing." Cathy told him, making everyone look at her.

"You know how to fight with daggers?" Duo asking in an unbelieving voice.

"A bit. I need a lot of practice." Cathy said simply. "I know how to fence as well."

"What else do you do that we don't know about?" Sally asked. "Fighting wise."

"Not much. I know how to use a gun damn well, but we can all do that." Cathy said, after a minute of thought she continued, "That's about it."

"Yeah but still how much more could you do?" Heero asked truly shocked.

"Lots. The various martial arts, by themselves are lots, but there is archery as well. Wrestling and boxing are sports but you can use them in a fight." Cathy told him. "Do you want me to continue?"

"Point taken." Heero said hurriedly. "So there's a lot that you don't know. But it's not like anyone else knows any of them."

"Sally know karate and a bit of kin-do." Cathy told him.

"And Duo is a good archer." Dorothy spoke up. "Pretty good with a sword as well."

"You're not to shabby with a blade yourself." Duo shot back.

"We all know how to use guns." Sally said putting her own two cents in.

"All right. All right." Heero told them raising his hands in defeat. "I get the picture."

"So what do you say?" Cathy asked.

"Sure, we'll go see just how good you 'think' you are." Heero said.

"Good. And I don't claim to be good at all." Cathy said.

Heero didn't answer her. He just gathered up his trash and his bags. Knowing almost instinctively that Heero was not going to say any more, the rest of them followed his lead. As soon as they had thrown out their trash, the group made their way out of the food court and out of the mall.

"So where are we going to go?" Dorothy asked.

"There's a lake a couple blocks from here that has a nice open area." Duo told them.

"We don't want to be some where in plane view of the public, Duo. Someone might think that we are really fighting and call the cops." Cathy told him.

"I know that. The place I'm talking about is a little clearing where I go to practice archery and my sword work. No one can see you there." Duo explained.

A glance was exchanged between the rest of the group. Duo wasn't always mature but he never lied. It was one of his best qualities. Finally with a shrug Cathy said ok and everyone followed Duo.

It only took them about ten minutes to get to the lake. It was only about medium sized but it had a nice park around it. There were groups of kids and teenagers scattered here and there. As well as a few couples who walked along the paths holding hands. Cathy stood for a moment watching on couple walking slowly by them. One of her favorite daydreams was that she and Andrew Philips, the hottest guy on the school volleyball team, where walking along paths in a garden at dusk.

"What are you thinking about, Cathy?" a voice came through the fog.

"Nothing." Cathy replied in a wistful voice.

"Yeah right." The voice came again. This time she was able to identify it as Duo's. "You're probably thinking about Philips."

"I am not!" Cathy cried as a slight flush stole over her face.

"Yeah, right." Duo said very disbelieveingly. "Then why are you blushing?"

"It's hot out here." Cathy told him with a shrug of her shoulders. "Anyway, where is this place?"

"Follow me." Duo said as he started on a path along the lake.

After about five minutes of following the lakeshore Duo started away from the lake towards a bunch of trees. Everyone expected to go into the trees right away but Duo led them around the tree line again for about five minutes. Everyone was concentrating more on following Duo then watching what was going on around them. They were rounding the trees and disappearing from view of the lake. Duo stopped a minute and looked around.

"What are you doing, Maxwell?" Heero asked slightly annoyed.

"Just checking to make sure no body is around." Duo said. "Don't worry, we're almost there."

"Well hurry up." Heero told him.

"Let's go then." Duo said as he set off into the trees.

There was no path to speak of to follow, but Duo seemed to know exactly where he was going. He walked as though he had grown up in the woods and not in the city. He had a confidence that not many others would have in even a small group of trees.

As they walked farther into the trees they noticed that the trees were gradually starting to thin out. Before too long, they all walked out into a natural clearing. It was about 15 meters in diameter with tuffs of grass coming up here and there.

"Welcome to my hideaway." Duo told them as he walked into the center of the clearing. "I don't really care if you use it just be careful not to get lost on the way in or out and don't let anyone see you come in."

"You don't seriously think that you're the only one, who knows where this place is, do you?" Dorothy asked walking to one side of the clearing and sat down.

"I don't really know." Duo said walking back towards them. "I've never seen anyone here or evidence that anyone might have been here."

"At any rate, it is the perfect place to spar." Cathy spoke up as she placed her bags down by Dorothy and began to stretch. Cathy looked at Heero who was also beginning to stretch.

"Are you sure that you should be sparing out here? What happens if one of you get hurt?" Sally asked.

"That's what you're here for Sal." Cathy said looking up at her from her crouched position. "We all know that you have your first aid and that you learnt a lot of herb lore from your grandmother."

"My limited skills might not be enough it you get hurt badly." Sally told them.

"You should be worried if we were having an all out fight." Cathy chided. "All we're going to do is test each other's skill. Don't worry as soon as one of us gets hurt-if one of us gets hurt-we'll stop right away. Right Heero?"

"Hnn," was the only response that Cathy got.

"Fine." Sally said accepting their terms but clearly not liking them.

"Ready Heero?" Cathy asked standing up and making two daggers appear as if out of thin air.

"Sure but only one dagger." Heero replied gesturing at her daggers.

"You're kidding, right?" Cathy asked stunned.

"No. I only have one, it's only fair." Heero told her calmly. Cathy looked at Heero for a quick moment before the dagger in her left-hand disappeared. "Not good enough. Give all the daggers you're not using to Dorothy. That way you won't be able to get them during our match."

"Like I would do that." Cathy growled as she gave four daggers to Dorothy.

"How can you find places to carry so many daggers?" Duo asked astonished.

"That's my little secret." Cathy smirked. "Let's go, Heero."

Heero didn't answer, he just strode towards the middle of the clearing with Cathy a few steps behind him. Once he had gone a good distance away from the others Heero stopped and turned so that he was facing Cathy. Cathy also stopped. Now that they were facing each other, they saluted each other with their dagger, got into a fighting stance and started to circle each other.

Cathy watched Heero really closely. She had never really fought anyone with daggers before. She had only gone through numerous drills in her bedroom. But she knew from her fencing lessons that any move Heero was going to make would show in his chest. Not that that trick helped her. Heero was a good enough fighter that hardly any muscles moved before he attacked. In fencing at least, maybe fighting with daggers would be different.

As Heero circled Cathy, he noticed that she was looking for any sign that might betray a move he might make. If this were a duel he would be very confident that he wouldn't be giving her any hints, but it wasn't a duel. Heero mentally shook the thoughts out of his head and concentrated on his opponent's chest. In a duel she gave few hints away but who know when she spared.

Not wanting to give her any early advantage, Heero lunged in and to the right. Cathy jumped out of the way nimbly and was ready for Heero's next attack, which came in the form of a back slash. Once again, Cathy jumped out of the way. But this time she went to her right and lunged in towards Heero.

Heero, not really expecting the attack so soon, was a little slow in getting out of the way. The result being that his shirt got cut by the tip of Cathy's dagger.

"Not bad." Heero grinned then attacked again before she had a chance to respond.

The two kept going relentlessly for about fifteen minutes, both holding their own and not giving an inch. Both were starting to get tiered but both were too stubborn to give up without a victor. It would have continued on like that, but after jumping back to avoid Heero's blade, Cathy stepped on something that was laying on the forest floor and fell on her back, dagger going flying.

Seeing this, Heero hurried over sure that he was going to win. But Cathy wasn't about to hand him that easy of a victory. When he was even with her knee, Cathy swung out her leg catching him behind his knees. Not expecting her to retaliate, Heero was unprepared for her attack. His under sight sent him sprawling to the ground, his dagger flying out of his hand.

Both combatants rolled to their feet and faced each other. Loud cheering was heard from one side of the clearing. Everyone was happy that Cathy had been able to nock Heero off his feet.

Cathy and Heero stood trying to catch their breath and trying to guess what the other was thinking. At the beginning they said it was a dagger fight. Now they were both unarmed and not really sure what to do now.

The answer came when Heero rushed at and tackled Cathy. Cathy, not expecting this, was a bit slow to react. She was able to move out of the path of his body, but he through out his arm and sent both of them sprawling.

Cathy lay there for a moment trying to regain the breath that had been knocked out of her. As she did, she thought that she saw the sky start to move in a circle. That's stupid, Cathy thought shaking her head, the sky doesn't move in a circle unless you're dizzy. Cathy looked at the sky again. Sure enough the sky was moving in a circle. Cathy's eyes went wide. She felt Heero shift his weight beside her and grabbed his arm that was still draped across her body.

Heero felt Cathy grab his arm and he was ready to fight her hold, until he realized that her grip didn't feel much like a fighters. He glanced down at Cathy and saw a person who was shocked and scared.

"Cathy, what's wrong?" Heero asked softly as not to alarm the rest of their friends who were sitting a ways away.

"Lo…look at the sky and tell me what you see." Cathy stammered.

Heero, a little confused by the request, did as she asked, and his face fell. "Please tell me that I didn't see the sky moving in a big circle when there isn't a cloud in the sky." Cathy pleaded.

"I really wish that I could, Cathy." Heero said regretfully.

"What's going on?" Duo called from where he was sitting. Heero's back was to them so they hadn't seen anything.

"Are one of you hurt?" Sally asked immediately going into healer mode.

"No, we're both fine." Cathy said sitting up. "Should we tell them?" she asked Heero softly.

"I think that we should." Heero told her. "I don't think that it means anything good and it would be wrong not to."

"You're right." Cathy agreed then paused for a moment. "Call the match a draw?"

"Yeah, now go get your dagger." Heero told her as he got to his feet, he had already composed his facial features by this time.

Cathy nodded and got casually to her own feet, walked the short distance to her dagger and picked it up. Its firm weight in her hand did a lot to calm her racing nerves. She knew that it wouldn't do her any good against the sky, but it gave her more confidence just the same. With her firm now out look, Cathy made her way over to where her friends sat. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw that Heero was also making his way over there.

"What's going on you two?" Duo asked. There had been no clear winner so why were they both walking over to them.

"We decided we would settle on a draw. Can I have my daggers back?" Cathy told them.

"Why did you call it a draw?" Dorothy wondered as she handed over the four daggers that Cathy had given her and they disappeared so fast that no one could see where they went.

"If we tell you, you wouldn't believe us." Cathy began then hurried on when Duo opened his mouth. "So I'm just going to tell you to look up. Don't look at me like I lost my mind. Just do it."

Dorothy, Duo, and Sally looked up at the sky. Not only did their faces fall, but they also all went really pale. Seeing this Cathy and Heero looked up again. The sky was still circling but not it looked as though it was going down the drain, just like water. And the tip of the funnel seemed to be coming down right over top of the clearing that they were in.

"Does anyone else get the feeling that . . . thing is headed this way?" Cathy asked in a timid voice.

"It only looks like it is coming this way." Duo said with more confidence then he felt.

"If you say so, Duo." Sally replied, her voice filled with shaky sarcasm.

The five friends stood watching the funnel descended from the sky. They stood not really because they wanted to but their feet wouldn't move from where they were planted. After five minutes none of them doubted that the funnel was indeed headed for the clearing that they were in.

"Shouldn't we be running away by now?" Sally asked.

"I wouldn't run if my bloody feet would move." Duo shouted over the sound of the wind that just picked up.

The others didn't get a chance to reply. The funnel from the sky reached the clearing now. The funnel itself stayed above the tree line, but the wind was strong enough to sweep the group off their feet and carry them up to the funnel.

As soon as the funnel had the five people within its grasp it began to retreat back into the sky.

People everywhere had watched the phenomenon and were glad when it was gone, though no one knew that it had spirited away five teenagers.

To Be Continued . . . . .

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