Title: Preventers' End

Author: Mirianne

Disclaimer: Gundam Wing does not belong to me. This is not written for profit.

Summary: "We built this place. We always knew we might have to destroy it."


Lady Une surveyed her office with a great deal of satisfaction. Preventers was doing very well, and she would be able to fulfill Treize's ideals after all. It was a pity the Gundam Pilots had vanished; the propaganda from having the five teenagers who'd ended the wars and saved the Earth as part of her organization had made her long-term goals much closer.

But—she glanced at the reports from agents investigating the kidnapping of four agents and a premier businessman, five heroes of the Earth Sphere—she'd turned even that to her advantage.

Suddenly, she realized she wasn't alone in her office. That shouldn't be possible; her door was locked, and most of the building was empty this late at night. She started to reach for her gun.

"Don't."

She looked up to face Heero Yuy's gun.

"Hello, Une."

Slowly, she returned both hands to her desk. She knew how good Heero Yuy was. No one could best him, and his gun was already pointed at her head. Instead, she surveyed her office, and her eyes widened in surprise when she saw Quatre Winner standing in the corner. He was the last pilot she'd have expected to see as Yuy's backup, the one she'd expected to find the easiest. After all, Winner was a businessman now, and she'd had no word he'd kept up with the training that had made him a pilot. The others might have been able to stay underground, but he had a business to run. She'd thought he would surface soon—but not like this.

Winner didn't look like a businessman, dressed in a pilot's suit with a gun in his hands. He'd never look as dangerous as Yuy, but he knew what to do with that gun.

"How did you get here?" she asked.

"You forgot," Yuy said.

"You trusted us," Winner added softly. "We built this place. We always knew we might have to destroy it."

He was right. Une wanted to curse. The pilots, who had infiltrated the best of OZ's bases, had designed the security, and Winner Enterprises had built Preventer HQ at cost. It seemed they'd had an ulterior motive.

"What did I forget?" she asked, glancing at Yuy briefly but focusing on Winner. If she was going to get out of this, he'd be the weak link. He was the pacifist.

"You forgot what we are," Winner answered. "You started to think of the others as soldiers. They could do that, and they did very well under your command. You thought of me as a businessman and a politician."

Winner was right again. "And what are you?" she asked, but she knew the answer. Winner had commanded three of the other pilots in the last stages of the war. And he had fought himself.

"We are terrorists," Winner said.

"And killers," Yuy added. "Goodbye, Une."