Author Notes: This is the first fanfiction that I have written so any and all feedback is welcome. Also this is the revised version of the prologue for this story so the spelling should be better. I also fixed the time line mistakes that I had made.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing

Prologue

I am Duo Maxwell, former pilot of the Gundam Deathsythe, and an orphan from the colony L2. The war is over now and the Gundam's have been destroyed. I was offered a job with the Preventers, just like all of the other Gundam pilots, but I declined. I didn't feel like I belonged with the others. To be completely truthful, I had never felt that I belonged with the others, not really any way. I mean sure, we all had our own reasons for fighting, and we worked well together; but the others all had family or friends that would miss them, I on the other hand was alone.

I was raised on the streets as an urchin until a virus broke out on L2. Solo, the leader of the gang that I was in fell ill. I tried to steal the vaccine to save him but I was too late. I named myself in honor of my dead friend. Eventually I was adopted by the Maxwell Church.

Father Maxwell and Sister Helen took care of me and I started to think of them as my family, just as I had with Solo before he died. By this time I was seven years old. I was only at the Maxwell church for a year before a group of rebels took the Church and everyone in it as hostages. I volunteered myself to go steal a Leo for them, under the conditions that Father Maxwell and Sister Helen be unharmed. However, once again I was too late. The Alliance destroyed the church to defeat the rebels.

Four years after the church was destroyed I snuck onto a really large space ship that I later learned was called Peacemillion. I was discovered by professor G, who allowed me to stay on board the ship because he was impressed with my ability to crack his security.

When I was fifteen, Professor G 'handed' me the Gundam Deathsythe and sent me to earth to complete Operation Meteor, it was at this point in time that I started calling myself Shinigami. He gave me secret missions that I was to complete. At the time that I took the Gundam I didn't know that there were other Gundam pilots also going to be traveling to the Earth to fight in the war.

Heero's POV

It's been four years since the wars and I have taken the job offered to me by the Preventers. I still see Wufei and Trowa on a daily basis and Quatre at least twice a week when he takes us all out to lunch just because he can. None of us have heard from Duo since he left Hilde, shortly after the war ended, claiming that he needed some time on his own. That was almost three years ago now, and I'm starting to wonder where he went and why he never came back. I know he is still alive because Quatre, with that space heart of his, can still feel him.