Battle Angel
Prologue
AN: Hello! You have just selected to read the very first fanfiction written by Shi ever! You should definitely feel special :) (j/k)
I was really debating weather or not to post it before writing more... Anyway, I'll just stop talking your heads off
Disclaimers: Please don't sue, I don't claim to own SM or GW, I'm so not that creative! Don't copy please!
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Serena looked at her friends lying on the floor next to her and she knew that she didn't want them to have to go through all this again.
She looked at her love next to her. He had remembered her in the end...she knew that. But, even if he had been brain washed the pain he had brought her was horrible, she had to practically kill him to make him remember her. It was too horrible for her.
*I can't let this happen again. I want to be friends with him, but I can't let my heart break like that again. I also want our lives to be different; I want to make my own destiny. No more meant to be this and that with this guy and that. Just as different as possible, I don't even want to be a sailor scout.*
The princess had defeated the evil queen Beryl with the help of her friends and now she collapsed to the floor due to the awesome power she had tapped into to win.
The silver imperial crystal started glowing brightly and a soft voice came from it "Alright my child, you still need to become the Queen of this world, I won't change that part of your fate...but you don't want Prince Darien to be your king, and you don't want to live the life that was planned for you? OK. This is a toughie but not impossible. Sailor Pluto might not like this change but pushing back the Crystal Millennium a few thousand years won't hurt anyone."
::Large Flash of white light::
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"Serena! Wake up! You're going to be late," Darien said walking into her small closet sized room.
Serena shot out of bed with a jolt. She covered herself with her covers as fast as possible with a gigantic blush on her face. "Darien!" *What is Darien doing in my room???* Serena looked around her and noticed something odd. *Wait...this isn't my room...* "Darien, where are we?"
Darien looked at her as if she had grown a second head. "What are you talking about Meatball head? You've been begging me to let you take your pilots exam for since I've know you!" he laughed when he figured she was just kidding, "Ok little sis, get dressed so you won't be late to meet the rest of the rookies by the training hanger." He walked out of the room with his long prominent stride, still laughing at her joke.
Serena wasn't laughing. As she got dressed, in the only outfit that was in the little room (a space suit), she asked herself *What in the world is going on here?*
"You've gotten your wish princess," an incredibly familiar soft voice said, it was the crystal on the girls broach started to glow.
"Ginzuishou?" Serena stared at her broach dumbfounded. The jewel had never talked to her before. "What's happening to me?"
"Sailor Pluto will come and explain a few things to you, as soon as she has figured them out," the kind crystal said.
"Sailor Pluto?" she asked her broach. When the broach didn't answer her back she said, "Ginzuishou? Please tell me what's happening!"
Darien walked back into the girls room and saw her talking to her chest. "Who's Ginzuishou?" he asked with a funny look on his face.
Serena looked up and blushed the deepest red she'd ever blushed in her life. *I can't believe Darien walked in on me looking like that!*
Darien laughed, "come on lets go."
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Serena sat in the back of the army vehicle that was taking her to where she was apparently going to learn to be a pilot. She looked visibly sick. *What am I going to do? I can't fly!* She silently pleaded to the Silver Imperial crystal. When she looked up at Darien in the front seat, talking to the driver, the look of confusion on her face grew deeper. *Why is Darien calling himself my brother? I can't be destined to marry my brother!*
The wind from the movement of the truck halted suddenly and Serena heard a voice from above her. "He isn't your brother Princess." Serena looked up in surprise to see a girl in one of the sailor scout uniforms hovering above her. She had long green hair; half of it was up in a bun and the rest flowing down her back. The girl had maroon eyes that shown on the princess with love.
Serena looked outside the truck and noticed that nothing was moving; people were frozen in mid step, one person was even stuck jumping in the air.
When Serena didn't say anything the green haired girl continued. "Your wish to the Ginzuishou changed your future. No longer are you destined to marry Prince Darien, but he is still your soul mate...wait, I guess I should start at the beginning, I can see you're confused." Serena managed to make herself nod. "When you defeated Queen Beryl you made a series of wishes: that Darien and you weren't destined to be, and that you and your friends weren't sailor scouts anymore. The crystal did it's best to grant your wish... This is what became of it's efforts. You have been sent a thousand years into the future to where many of the battles where the sailor scouts would've been needed are already passed. Your friends have been sent here as well, they are waiting at the hanger, but they don't have their memories like you do. You're the only one who can remember your past two lives. In this life your parents died as well as Darien's and you two have stayed together, he takes care of you and you take care of him. That's why he called you his sister, you're soul mates and you haven't been broken up. Darien and you moved to this colony a few days ago so that Darien could go to school to be a doctor, and you talked him into letting you join the army." Pluto smiled at the girls surprise, "it seems that even the crystal couldn't change your will to fight for peace, love and justice you won't be a sailor scout but you'll still be a warrior. I can't freeze time much longer so I'll just let you see the rest for yourself."
Sailor Pluto placed her hand over Serena's forehead. The moon symbol on her forehead started glowing and Serena had a flood of memories from her life on the colonies. She remembered being brought to an orphanage when she was seven. Then she remembered seeing Darien in the orphanage and they were the only ones who could comfort each other. They became inseparable. When Darien turned 18 he took her with him to the colony they were on now. She couldn't remember anything else before she woke up in the orphanage, just like Darien.
Sailor Pluto smiled at the young girl sitting in the truck. "I'd better go now. You should be fine."
Pluto was about to disappear when Serena yelled to her, "Wait Sailor Pluto! Will I ever see you again?"
"You can count on it," she said with a smile, "enjoy your new life Princess."
As Pluto disappeared Serena forgot her other lives and only remembered her present one. *Only for now* Pluto thought.
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"Good luck Meatball head!" Darien said giving her a hug.
"You can stop calling me that now! My hair isn't in meatballs anymore!" Serena had pulled her long hair into a large bun on the top of her head and tried to stuff it in her uniform cap.
"You're right, well good luck anyway," he chuckled. "I have to leave now but all you have to do is follow the crowd of pilots to the training hanger."
He looked down at her to see if she seemed ready. She kept fiddling with the papers she had to turn in to enter training. Her eyes carried a worried expression. "Serena what's wrong?" he asked with concern in his voice.
"Everyone else here is like five years older than me!" she said shakily.
"I think those people are the ones that already have their licenses and
are going out on a mission...I'm sure there will be people your age in the training course. Look over there. That guy looks near your age. Go fallow him," Darien pointed to a boy who looked around 14 or 15 walking steadily by himself. The boy had a long braid that went to the middle of his back. He was wearing a blue hat that hid his face in shadows.
Serena reached up and gave Darien a kiss on the cheek, "Thanks." She gave a little wave and ran off to catch up with the boy. "I'll see you for dinner!" she yelled as she ran away.
Darien watched her run off. He knew she would be one of the youngest there; she was just so smart for her age. When he had first met her she'd forgotten almost everything and was the laziest seven year old he had ever met. But he worked with her and she learned quickly when he just applied the right techniques. He looked a little sad when she vanished from his sight. He didn't know what he would do without his little meatball head. She had saved him seven years ago when she came into his life, a little girl lost and in pain just as he had been. Taking care of her made him forget his own troubles. *Oh well, time to go to school.* He thought as she turned around a corner out of sight.
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"Hey! Wait up!" Duo heard a girl yell behind him.
*Oh no! It might be that blue haired girl that I met at the colony the other day. She'll blow my cover for sure!*
Duo glanced over his shoulder ready to run at any sign of danger. His eyes widened in surprise when he saw a blond haired beauty running up behind him. He stopped and allowed her to catch up to him.
"Thanks," she said breathlessly, "my name's Serena. I think we're going to the same place and I really don't have a clue where to go." Serena blushed when she saw the way the boy was looking at her.
*Wow!* he thought. Duo recovered his composure and gave her the biggest grin and with his usual charm he said, "Hi, I'm Duo Maxwell, it's nice to meet you Serena."
:: HONK!::
A siren fired signaling that it was time for all the pilots to be in their moble suits. Without thinking Duo grabbed Serena's hand and yanked her toward the hanger. "Hurry we're late!"
They entered the hanger and handed their papers to a man who was signaling for them to hurry. The officer didn't even look at the papers as he pointed to a moble suit for the two to jump into. "We're doubling up for today's flight." (I know they don't have these during the show but it's a new model that wasn't very popular.)
Serena was about to object but Duo pulled her into the large machine.
Duo watched Serena with some humor; she acted like she had never been in a moble suit before. "Why don't you take the controls first," Duo told her. He pushed her down into the pilots seat and buckled her in. Duo then sat down in the chair right next to hers, put on his helmet, and slouched down in his chair letting out a sigh.
Serena just stared at the controls in front of her. She was frozen, she couldn't say anything or do anything. The screen to her left blinked on and a blue haired girl appeared.
As soon as Duo saw the girl's image he jumped under his seat. "Welcome to the advanced league pilots!" the girl said, "Today's mission is easy, patrol around the colony and report anything unusual. Don't forget to keep an eye out for the missing gundam pilots. Happy flying, remember to keep Oz the highest of your priorities."
With that said the moble suit's engine started up, and it started to go forward.
"Help!" Serena whispered to Duo, whom was still under his chair.
"No chance," Duo whispered back, "she can still see me! Just relax and concentrate on where you're going."
*I've never even been in a moble suit before!* she thought to herself, but she wouldn't dare say a word, knowing that if she did the Blue haired lady would hear.
Serena sighed and closed her eyes allowing her body to release tension. A weird sensation came over her. She opened her eyes with a strange look on her face, and unconsciously grabbed the remaining helmet on the ground. Without knowing how she did it, she pushed a bunch of buttons so fast that she didn't even see which ones she was pushing. The moble suit was skillfully maneuvered out of the hanger and out of the gates of the colony to outer space.
Duo had an ok view of the screen to outside and he was amazed at the skill by which the young pilot maneuvered. *Young? She is young! She has to be younger than I am!* Duo thought, as he first got a good look at her face. Duo took one last look at the girls determined face, it was as if a mask had covered over her features. She hardly seemed like the little innocent scared girl he had dragged into the moble suit. He shrugged it off and crawled over to the screen where the blue haired girl was still shown. She wasn't looking at the other pilots at the moment because she was busy pulling her own suit out of the hanger. He reached up and smashed the screen with his elbow, completely startling Serena from her trance.
"Moble suit B104 is everything ok? Visual communications are down, please respond," the lady said over the speaker.
Duo was about to elbow the speaker but Serena stopped him. "What are you doing?"
"I'm sorry Serena I wish I didn't have to do this to you but now that you've seen my face I can't let you live..." he almost smacked himself when a look of horror came over the girls face. "Now wait a minute don't look like that, I'm the GREAT DESTROYER! A Gundam pilot! I can't let you go tell the Oz troops what you've seen!"
Serena was over being scared of the kid *'Great Destroyer?!'* "If you hadn't dragged me in here I wouldn't have been here in the first place! I've never even flown a moble suite before!"
Duo didn't believer her. "I can't let a pilot like you help out Oz!"
"What do the Gundams have against Oz! And, why have they betrayed the colonists?"
Duo stared at the girl with his mouth wide open. "How can you say a thing like that? We've all put our lives on the line for the colonies! Oz doesn't have the good of the colonies as a motive; they want to rule the colonies. Oz is building a new moble suit model that is controlled by computers, a Moble Doll. They'll make these in bulk so that no one will be able to stand against them. Now if that isn't a good enough reason for fighting them I don't know what is."
Serena was shocked. She had never known that that was the way things were. The same mask came over her face and she turned to Duo and said, "Where are they making these Moble Dolls?"
It was now Duos Turn to be shocked. *How does she do that?* "On the moon, that's why I was steeling this Gundam..."
"Alright," Serena said determined, going to the moon seemed so right to her, as if that was the entire reason she had wanted to become a pilot. "Before you kill me lets get to the Moon." Serena turned the moble suite towards the moon and bolted for it.
Duo was knocked off his feet by the sudden move. "What are you crazy?" He demanded.
"Moble suit B104, stop right now or else we will be forced to fire at you," the lady's voice said angrily.
"Shoot!" Duo said. He shoved Serena aside knocking her out of her trance again. He took the controls and kept the flight towards the moon.
Serena rubbed her head where she had hit it when she fell. She shakily got up it and reached for the empty seat for balance. All of a sudden there was a loud crash and the moble suit shook back and forth as the attacks against them started. Serena was flung onto Duo.
"Not now honey," Duo said as he pushed her into the other suit, "buckle up, we're in for a ride!"
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The moble suit had crash landed on the moon near an army base. Serena had been trapped under some of the debris from the crash. Duo looked at the beautiful girl who had panic written all over her face. *I can't just leave her there...she'll die...Wait Duo! What are you thinking, she has to die, she'll just get in your way!* Then he looked into her deep ocean blue eyes. He was almost swallowed by the sadness inside them. Without thinking about it anymore he pulled off the piece of metal covering her legs. "Can you walk?" he asked cautiously pulling her to her feet.
Serena nodded over coming the pain, feeling like she was going to cry.
"Then let's go!" he said pulling her out of the wrecked moble suite.
They ran into a hanger on the base and surprisingly didn't get caught. Duo brought out his gun and ran out of a hiding place they had taken and ran down a hall. Shots rang in the air, hitting the wall next to them, signaling that they had been discovered.
Serena wouldn't dare turn around fearing she would faint if she did. Duo ran around a corner, peaked around it to shoot the soldiers following them.; he hit one of the targets and the man fell to the floor. The rest of the attackers hid be hind the wall. As they did this Duo led Serena down the hall and around another corner.
They kept on running for what seemed like for ever. Occasionally shots would nearly hit them and Duo would shoot back. When they reached a hall in the middle of the base Duo could tell they were surrounded. He heard people running toward them from both directions. Serena heard them coming as well. She saw a door that was slightly open behind her and pulled Duo into it. Duo locked the door behind them.
Together they ran down the smaller hall and into a large hanger like room. Serena was surprised to see two large moble suits: one red and one blue standing in the corner.
"Oh no!" Duo whined, "not you again." He pointed his gun at the people he was referring to. "So now your making gundams for the enemy?"
Serena had to peak around him to see who he was talking too. There were six scientist looking people. They were all old, crazy looking men except for one of them; she was tall and had long green hair and maroon eyes.
"Hello Duo, it's been a long time. Greetings Serena, we're glad to have you back," the shorter scientist with longer white hair and bottle cap glasses said. Duo looked at Serena with surprise written all over his face. Serena looked back at him even more surprise and confusion.
"Duo, before you get rid of us we wanted to show you something you may find interesting," said the man with the hair sticking out on the sides about two feet.
Duo still had his gun pointed at the men but he cautiously followed them into a hidden room. Serena followed as well, not wanting to be alone.
The hidden room was another large hanger. Serena's eyes were instantly drawn to more of the huge moble suits. She was awestruck at the design of them.
The scientist turned on the light over one in particular and Duo melted. "Deathsythe! My baby, you're alive!" Duo ran over and hugged part of its massive legs.
"This base is built over the old lab of Dr. P, the greatest scientists our universe has ever seen. He died when the moon colony was attacked by the alliance seven years ago. Oz hasn't found this room yet and we were able to rebuild Deathsythe as well as the other gundams. This young lady right here," the scientist pointed toward the green haired girl," is Dr. P's predecessor.
The lady who had been staring at Serena the entire time smile and bowed for the two.
The party was interrupted by knocking on the door from the other room.
"So what will it be Duo? Will you kill us or do you want to be the Great Destroyer once again?"
Duo took one last look at his gundam, sighed and gave his gun to one of the scientists. "Make it look real," Duo said preparing himself for something. "Wait, what about Serena?"
The bald and tallest of the scientists walked up to Duo and punched him in the stomach. "You know if you cried out it wouldn't hurt as much," the man informed him.
Duo coughed, "Can't look like a baby in front of the lady here. What's going to happen to her?"
After the man punched him again he said, "She'll have to be turned in with you, they saw her in the moble suit as well and are probably looking for her too."
The group had moved into the room where the red and blue suits were and one of the scientists let the guards in. The big scientist gave Duo one last big punch which made him fall to the floor in pain. Another grabbed Serena.
"They came in here trying to destroy the Mercurious and V-8 models, then they were planning on getting revenge against us."
The guards ran in and retrieved the prisoners. A lady in a pink space suit, with her hair in two braids curled above her ears, walked in the room after them. She looked at Duo and Serena suspiciously. She walked over to Duo, "You're a gundam pilot are you not, gundam 05?" When Duo refused to answer her she smirked, "I figured you wouldn't talk. Take him to the cell with the other gundam pilots we've captured. He can wait there until Traes tells us what to do with him."
The guards started to take him out when they asked "what about the girl, Lady Un?"
Lady Un looked at the blond with interest, *is she a gundam pilot too? She flies so well for one so young...* "Take her to my office for questioning."
Duo coughed again and looked up with fear (for the whole operation) and concern (for Serena) on his face, "But she doesn't know anything, let her go, I dragged her along!"
Lady Un laughed, "I don't think she would come all this way with you if there wasn't a reason for her being here."
Duo looked at Serena. She smiled slightly trying to tell him she would be ok and wouldn't give his secret away. Duo mouthed an 'I'm sorry' to her.
After Duo the guards dragged Serena out of the hanger. Serena looked back at the green haired scientist for help. She noticed that the lady looked worried and was being held back by one of the other scientists.
"Keep up the good work," Lady Un said as she left the room, following the guards taking Serena.
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When they had all left the scientists alone Dr. J asked the green haired woman: "Are you sure, Setsuna, that she's the one? We figured she died when the moon colony was destroyed. Can we trust her not to reveal us?"
"I have no doubt in my mind. I helped my uncle raise her, though she seems to have forgotten the years of her life that she was with us. Before the colony was destroyed, she was the female copy of Heero. She seems to have changed," Setsuna said.
"Which may be a huge problem in itself. We shall see if she still has what it takes to be a gundam pilot, her apparent flying skills are not enough to giver her what it takes," The doctor with the nose patch said.
"Yes, yes, we are all aware of that Dr."
The other scientists shrugged it off but Setsuna still watched the door where the young girl had disappeared through. *I know she will be the greatest pilot this world has ever seen, and an even better queen for that matter.*
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Thanks for reading my very first ever Fanfiction! Please tell me what you think... I want to know if enough people like my story for me to continue. Yes, well that is all I have to say I look forward to hearing from you! Ja!
Prologue
AN: Hello! You have just selected to read the very first fanfiction written by Shi ever! You should definitely feel special :) (j/k)
I was really debating weather or not to post it before writing more... Anyway, I'll just stop talking your heads off
Disclaimers: Please don't sue, I don't claim to own SM or GW, I'm so not that creative! Don't copy please!
* * =Thought
--- =A short about of time elapsed
-------- = More time passed (usually goes the full page)
( ) = Authors notes (I don't do too many :o)
:: :: = some sort of action
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Serena looked at her friends lying on the floor next to her and she knew that she didn't want them to have to go through all this again.
She looked at her love next to her. He had remembered her in the end...she knew that. But, even if he had been brain washed the pain he had brought her was horrible, she had to practically kill him to make him remember her. It was too horrible for her.
*I can't let this happen again. I want to be friends with him, but I can't let my heart break like that again. I also want our lives to be different; I want to make my own destiny. No more meant to be this and that with this guy and that. Just as different as possible, I don't even want to be a sailor scout.*
The princess had defeated the evil queen Beryl with the help of her friends and now she collapsed to the floor due to the awesome power she had tapped into to win.
The silver imperial crystal started glowing brightly and a soft voice came from it "Alright my child, you still need to become the Queen of this world, I won't change that part of your fate...but you don't want Prince Darien to be your king, and you don't want to live the life that was planned for you? OK. This is a toughie but not impossible. Sailor Pluto might not like this change but pushing back the Crystal Millennium a few thousand years won't hurt anyone."
::Large Flash of white light::
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"Serena! Wake up! You're going to be late," Darien said walking into her small closet sized room.
Serena shot out of bed with a jolt. She covered herself with her covers as fast as possible with a gigantic blush on her face. "Darien!" *What is Darien doing in my room???* Serena looked around her and noticed something odd. *Wait...this isn't my room...* "Darien, where are we?"
Darien looked at her as if she had grown a second head. "What are you talking about Meatball head? You've been begging me to let you take your pilots exam for since I've know you!" he laughed when he figured she was just kidding, "Ok little sis, get dressed so you won't be late to meet the rest of the rookies by the training hanger." He walked out of the room with his long prominent stride, still laughing at her joke.
Serena wasn't laughing. As she got dressed, in the only outfit that was in the little room (a space suit), she asked herself *What in the world is going on here?*
"You've gotten your wish princess," an incredibly familiar soft voice said, it was the crystal on the girls broach started to glow.
"Ginzuishou?" Serena stared at her broach dumbfounded. The jewel had never talked to her before. "What's happening to me?"
"Sailor Pluto will come and explain a few things to you, as soon as she has figured them out," the kind crystal said.
"Sailor Pluto?" she asked her broach. When the broach didn't answer her back she said, "Ginzuishou? Please tell me what's happening!"
Darien walked back into the girls room and saw her talking to her chest. "Who's Ginzuishou?" he asked with a funny look on his face.
Serena looked up and blushed the deepest red she'd ever blushed in her life. *I can't believe Darien walked in on me looking like that!*
Darien laughed, "come on lets go."
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Serena sat in the back of the army vehicle that was taking her to where she was apparently going to learn to be a pilot. She looked visibly sick. *What am I going to do? I can't fly!* She silently pleaded to the Silver Imperial crystal. When she looked up at Darien in the front seat, talking to the driver, the look of confusion on her face grew deeper. *Why is Darien calling himself my brother? I can't be destined to marry my brother!*
The wind from the movement of the truck halted suddenly and Serena heard a voice from above her. "He isn't your brother Princess." Serena looked up in surprise to see a girl in one of the sailor scout uniforms hovering above her. She had long green hair; half of it was up in a bun and the rest flowing down her back. The girl had maroon eyes that shown on the princess with love.
Serena looked outside the truck and noticed that nothing was moving; people were frozen in mid step, one person was even stuck jumping in the air.
When Serena didn't say anything the green haired girl continued. "Your wish to the Ginzuishou changed your future. No longer are you destined to marry Prince Darien, but he is still your soul mate...wait, I guess I should start at the beginning, I can see you're confused." Serena managed to make herself nod. "When you defeated Queen Beryl you made a series of wishes: that Darien and you weren't destined to be, and that you and your friends weren't sailor scouts anymore. The crystal did it's best to grant your wish... This is what became of it's efforts. You have been sent a thousand years into the future to where many of the battles where the sailor scouts would've been needed are already passed. Your friends have been sent here as well, they are waiting at the hanger, but they don't have their memories like you do. You're the only one who can remember your past two lives. In this life your parents died as well as Darien's and you two have stayed together, he takes care of you and you take care of him. That's why he called you his sister, you're soul mates and you haven't been broken up. Darien and you moved to this colony a few days ago so that Darien could go to school to be a doctor, and you talked him into letting you join the army." Pluto smiled at the girls surprise, "it seems that even the crystal couldn't change your will to fight for peace, love and justice you won't be a sailor scout but you'll still be a warrior. I can't freeze time much longer so I'll just let you see the rest for yourself."
Sailor Pluto placed her hand over Serena's forehead. The moon symbol on her forehead started glowing and Serena had a flood of memories from her life on the colonies. She remembered being brought to an orphanage when she was seven. Then she remembered seeing Darien in the orphanage and they were the only ones who could comfort each other. They became inseparable. When Darien turned 18 he took her with him to the colony they were on now. She couldn't remember anything else before she woke up in the orphanage, just like Darien.
Sailor Pluto smiled at the young girl sitting in the truck. "I'd better go now. You should be fine."
Pluto was about to disappear when Serena yelled to her, "Wait Sailor Pluto! Will I ever see you again?"
"You can count on it," she said with a smile, "enjoy your new life Princess."
As Pluto disappeared Serena forgot her other lives and only remembered her present one. *Only for now* Pluto thought.
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"Good luck Meatball head!" Darien said giving her a hug.
"You can stop calling me that now! My hair isn't in meatballs anymore!" Serena had pulled her long hair into a large bun on the top of her head and tried to stuff it in her uniform cap.
"You're right, well good luck anyway," he chuckled. "I have to leave now but all you have to do is follow the crowd of pilots to the training hanger."
He looked down at her to see if she seemed ready. She kept fiddling with the papers she had to turn in to enter training. Her eyes carried a worried expression. "Serena what's wrong?" he asked with concern in his voice.
"Everyone else here is like five years older than me!" she said shakily.
"I think those people are the ones that already have their licenses and
are going out on a mission...I'm sure there will be people your age in the training course. Look over there. That guy looks near your age. Go fallow him," Darien pointed to a boy who looked around 14 or 15 walking steadily by himself. The boy had a long braid that went to the middle of his back. He was wearing a blue hat that hid his face in shadows.
Serena reached up and gave Darien a kiss on the cheek, "Thanks." She gave a little wave and ran off to catch up with the boy. "I'll see you for dinner!" she yelled as she ran away.
Darien watched her run off. He knew she would be one of the youngest there; she was just so smart for her age. When he had first met her she'd forgotten almost everything and was the laziest seven year old he had ever met. But he worked with her and she learned quickly when he just applied the right techniques. He looked a little sad when she vanished from his sight. He didn't know what he would do without his little meatball head. She had saved him seven years ago when she came into his life, a little girl lost and in pain just as he had been. Taking care of her made him forget his own troubles. *Oh well, time to go to school.* He thought as she turned around a corner out of sight.
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"Hey! Wait up!" Duo heard a girl yell behind him.
*Oh no! It might be that blue haired girl that I met at the colony the other day. She'll blow my cover for sure!*
Duo glanced over his shoulder ready to run at any sign of danger. His eyes widened in surprise when he saw a blond haired beauty running up behind him. He stopped and allowed her to catch up to him.
"Thanks," she said breathlessly, "my name's Serena. I think we're going to the same place and I really don't have a clue where to go." Serena blushed when she saw the way the boy was looking at her.
*Wow!* he thought. Duo recovered his composure and gave her the biggest grin and with his usual charm he said, "Hi, I'm Duo Maxwell, it's nice to meet you Serena."
:: HONK!::
A siren fired signaling that it was time for all the pilots to be in their moble suits. Without thinking Duo grabbed Serena's hand and yanked her toward the hanger. "Hurry we're late!"
They entered the hanger and handed their papers to a man who was signaling for them to hurry. The officer didn't even look at the papers as he pointed to a moble suit for the two to jump into. "We're doubling up for today's flight." (I know they don't have these during the show but it's a new model that wasn't very popular.)
Serena was about to object but Duo pulled her into the large machine.
Duo watched Serena with some humor; she acted like she had never been in a moble suit before. "Why don't you take the controls first," Duo told her. He pushed her down into the pilots seat and buckled her in. Duo then sat down in the chair right next to hers, put on his helmet, and slouched down in his chair letting out a sigh.
Serena just stared at the controls in front of her. She was frozen, she couldn't say anything or do anything. The screen to her left blinked on and a blue haired girl appeared.
As soon as Duo saw the girl's image he jumped under his seat. "Welcome to the advanced league pilots!" the girl said, "Today's mission is easy, patrol around the colony and report anything unusual. Don't forget to keep an eye out for the missing gundam pilots. Happy flying, remember to keep Oz the highest of your priorities."
With that said the moble suit's engine started up, and it started to go forward.
"Help!" Serena whispered to Duo, whom was still under his chair.
"No chance," Duo whispered back, "she can still see me! Just relax and concentrate on where you're going."
*I've never even been in a moble suit before!* she thought to herself, but she wouldn't dare say a word, knowing that if she did the Blue haired lady would hear.
Serena sighed and closed her eyes allowing her body to release tension. A weird sensation came over her. She opened her eyes with a strange look on her face, and unconsciously grabbed the remaining helmet on the ground. Without knowing how she did it, she pushed a bunch of buttons so fast that she didn't even see which ones she was pushing. The moble suit was skillfully maneuvered out of the hanger and out of the gates of the colony to outer space.
Duo had an ok view of the screen to outside and he was amazed at the skill by which the young pilot maneuvered. *Young? She is young! She has to be younger than I am!* Duo thought, as he first got a good look at her face. Duo took one last look at the girls determined face, it was as if a mask had covered over her features. She hardly seemed like the little innocent scared girl he had dragged into the moble suit. He shrugged it off and crawled over to the screen where the blue haired girl was still shown. She wasn't looking at the other pilots at the moment because she was busy pulling her own suit out of the hanger. He reached up and smashed the screen with his elbow, completely startling Serena from her trance.
"Moble suit B104 is everything ok? Visual communications are down, please respond," the lady said over the speaker.
Duo was about to elbow the speaker but Serena stopped him. "What are you doing?"
"I'm sorry Serena I wish I didn't have to do this to you but now that you've seen my face I can't let you live..." he almost smacked himself when a look of horror came over the girls face. "Now wait a minute don't look like that, I'm the GREAT DESTROYER! A Gundam pilot! I can't let you go tell the Oz troops what you've seen!"
Serena was over being scared of the kid *'Great Destroyer?!'* "If you hadn't dragged me in here I wouldn't have been here in the first place! I've never even flown a moble suite before!"
Duo didn't believer her. "I can't let a pilot like you help out Oz!"
"What do the Gundams have against Oz! And, why have they betrayed the colonists?"
Duo stared at the girl with his mouth wide open. "How can you say a thing like that? We've all put our lives on the line for the colonies! Oz doesn't have the good of the colonies as a motive; they want to rule the colonies. Oz is building a new moble suit model that is controlled by computers, a Moble Doll. They'll make these in bulk so that no one will be able to stand against them. Now if that isn't a good enough reason for fighting them I don't know what is."
Serena was shocked. She had never known that that was the way things were. The same mask came over her face and she turned to Duo and said, "Where are they making these Moble Dolls?"
It was now Duos Turn to be shocked. *How does she do that?* "On the moon, that's why I was steeling this Gundam..."
"Alright," Serena said determined, going to the moon seemed so right to her, as if that was the entire reason she had wanted to become a pilot. "Before you kill me lets get to the Moon." Serena turned the moble suite towards the moon and bolted for it.
Duo was knocked off his feet by the sudden move. "What are you crazy?" He demanded.
"Moble suit B104, stop right now or else we will be forced to fire at you," the lady's voice said angrily.
"Shoot!" Duo said. He shoved Serena aside knocking her out of her trance again. He took the controls and kept the flight towards the moon.
Serena rubbed her head where she had hit it when she fell. She shakily got up it and reached for the empty seat for balance. All of a sudden there was a loud crash and the moble suit shook back and forth as the attacks against them started. Serena was flung onto Duo.
"Not now honey," Duo said as he pushed her into the other suit, "buckle up, we're in for a ride!"
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The moble suit had crash landed on the moon near an army base. Serena had been trapped under some of the debris from the crash. Duo looked at the beautiful girl who had panic written all over her face. *I can't just leave her there...she'll die...Wait Duo! What are you thinking, she has to die, she'll just get in your way!* Then he looked into her deep ocean blue eyes. He was almost swallowed by the sadness inside them. Without thinking about it anymore he pulled off the piece of metal covering her legs. "Can you walk?" he asked cautiously pulling her to her feet.
Serena nodded over coming the pain, feeling like she was going to cry.
"Then let's go!" he said pulling her out of the wrecked moble suite.
They ran into a hanger on the base and surprisingly didn't get caught. Duo brought out his gun and ran out of a hiding place they had taken and ran down a hall. Shots rang in the air, hitting the wall next to them, signaling that they had been discovered.
Serena wouldn't dare turn around fearing she would faint if she did. Duo ran around a corner, peaked around it to shoot the soldiers following them.; he hit one of the targets and the man fell to the floor. The rest of the attackers hid be hind the wall. As they did this Duo led Serena down the hall and around another corner.
They kept on running for what seemed like for ever. Occasionally shots would nearly hit them and Duo would shoot back. When they reached a hall in the middle of the base Duo could tell they were surrounded. He heard people running toward them from both directions. Serena heard them coming as well. She saw a door that was slightly open behind her and pulled Duo into it. Duo locked the door behind them.
Together they ran down the smaller hall and into a large hanger like room. Serena was surprised to see two large moble suits: one red and one blue standing in the corner.
"Oh no!" Duo whined, "not you again." He pointed his gun at the people he was referring to. "So now your making gundams for the enemy?"
Serena had to peak around him to see who he was talking too. There were six scientist looking people. They were all old, crazy looking men except for one of them; she was tall and had long green hair and maroon eyes.
"Hello Duo, it's been a long time. Greetings Serena, we're glad to have you back," the shorter scientist with longer white hair and bottle cap glasses said. Duo looked at Serena with surprise written all over his face. Serena looked back at him even more surprise and confusion.
"Duo, before you get rid of us we wanted to show you something you may find interesting," said the man with the hair sticking out on the sides about two feet.
Duo still had his gun pointed at the men but he cautiously followed them into a hidden room. Serena followed as well, not wanting to be alone.
The hidden room was another large hanger. Serena's eyes were instantly drawn to more of the huge moble suits. She was awestruck at the design of them.
The scientist turned on the light over one in particular and Duo melted. "Deathsythe! My baby, you're alive!" Duo ran over and hugged part of its massive legs.
"This base is built over the old lab of Dr. P, the greatest scientists our universe has ever seen. He died when the moon colony was attacked by the alliance seven years ago. Oz hasn't found this room yet and we were able to rebuild Deathsythe as well as the other gundams. This young lady right here," the scientist pointed toward the green haired girl," is Dr. P's predecessor.
The lady who had been staring at Serena the entire time smile and bowed for the two.
The party was interrupted by knocking on the door from the other room.
"So what will it be Duo? Will you kill us or do you want to be the Great Destroyer once again?"
Duo took one last look at his gundam, sighed and gave his gun to one of the scientists. "Make it look real," Duo said preparing himself for something. "Wait, what about Serena?"
The bald and tallest of the scientists walked up to Duo and punched him in the stomach. "You know if you cried out it wouldn't hurt as much," the man informed him.
Duo coughed, "Can't look like a baby in front of the lady here. What's going to happen to her?"
After the man punched him again he said, "She'll have to be turned in with you, they saw her in the moble suit as well and are probably looking for her too."
The group had moved into the room where the red and blue suits were and one of the scientists let the guards in. The big scientist gave Duo one last big punch which made him fall to the floor in pain. Another grabbed Serena.
"They came in here trying to destroy the Mercurious and V-8 models, then they were planning on getting revenge against us."
The guards ran in and retrieved the prisoners. A lady in a pink space suit, with her hair in two braids curled above her ears, walked in the room after them. She looked at Duo and Serena suspiciously. She walked over to Duo, "You're a gundam pilot are you not, gundam 05?" When Duo refused to answer her she smirked, "I figured you wouldn't talk. Take him to the cell with the other gundam pilots we've captured. He can wait there until Traes tells us what to do with him."
The guards started to take him out when they asked "what about the girl, Lady Un?"
Lady Un looked at the blond with interest, *is she a gundam pilot too? She flies so well for one so young...* "Take her to my office for questioning."
Duo coughed again and looked up with fear (for the whole operation) and concern (for Serena) on his face, "But she doesn't know anything, let her go, I dragged her along!"
Lady Un laughed, "I don't think she would come all this way with you if there wasn't a reason for her being here."
Duo looked at Serena. She smiled slightly trying to tell him she would be ok and wouldn't give his secret away. Duo mouthed an 'I'm sorry' to her.
After Duo the guards dragged Serena out of the hanger. Serena looked back at the green haired scientist for help. She noticed that the lady looked worried and was being held back by one of the other scientists.
"Keep up the good work," Lady Un said as she left the room, following the guards taking Serena.
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When they had all left the scientists alone Dr. J asked the green haired woman: "Are you sure, Setsuna, that she's the one? We figured she died when the moon colony was destroyed. Can we trust her not to reveal us?"
"I have no doubt in my mind. I helped my uncle raise her, though she seems to have forgotten the years of her life that she was with us. Before the colony was destroyed, she was the female copy of Heero. She seems to have changed," Setsuna said.
"Which may be a huge problem in itself. We shall see if she still has what it takes to be a gundam pilot, her apparent flying skills are not enough to giver her what it takes," The doctor with the nose patch said.
"Yes, yes, we are all aware of that Dr."
The other scientists shrugged it off but Setsuna still watched the door where the young girl had disappeared through. *I know she will be the greatest pilot this world has ever seen, and an even better queen for that matter.*
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Thanks for reading my very first ever Fanfiction! Please tell me what you think... I want to know if enough people like my story for me to continue. Yes, well that is all I have to say I look forward to hearing from you! Ja!