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Readers Note: This contains some spoilers for Outlaw Star, so if you haven't seen the whole series I wouldn't recommend reading this.

Gundam Wing

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Outlaw Star

Gundam Outlaw

Chapter 1: The Bounty

Q

Preventer Report:

Date: July 30, AC 198

Name: Id Kushrinada

Code name: The Lion

Report: Nothing has happened since the departure of the pilots known as the Evangelions. However my senses and my own intuition tells me that there might be more. More trouble on the horizon for the office of Preventer.

However I won't be there to fight. I, Id Kushrinada, son of Treize Kushrinada and pilot of the Gundam Epyon, hereby retire from the office of Preventer. I've already destroyed my Gundam in accordance with the peace laws. As for me, I will retire to the home of Treize Kushrinada, to catch up on old times, make new memories and spend my remaining years.

I wish good luck to those who remain in the office of Preventer.

Q

Across space, time and dimension a hunt was about to take place.

In the Towards Star System, on a planet called Sentinel 3 and in the city known as Locus was the ship known as the Outlaw Star. It was the fastest and most advanced ship ever constructed. It was long and red like a torpedo except with four engines spread out in a cross like pattern with its ether drive in the center of it.

This ship belonged to a group of Outlaws. This group was centered around a small business called, "Starwind and Hawking Enterprises", s business that is said to fix anything that could breakdown from tractors to relationships. The office of this fix-it business was in a "hole-in-the-wall" space. It was a small two-story building with a walk-in door next to a garage door with a large yellow star painted above both doors. Across the bottom of the star writing in red were the names "Starwind and Hawking."

Inside this small business office were the crew of both the Outlaw Star and Starwind and Hawking Enterprises. They were all casually waiting for a job offer to come their way. It was the way of business, at least for this group.

Lounging on the couch was Gene Starwind, a young red-hair, scar covered Outlaw. He was lying on the couch as if he were sleeping the day away in his clothes and gun holsters that clung to his sides. This man was the captain of the Outlaw Star. One would say that he would be the most unlikely outlaw, but he is an outlaw.

Sitting across from him and sipping green tea was a young woman who was dressed like a Japanese Geisha. Except she didn't have the make-up, only a wooden sword was sitting next to her like a beloved. This woman is an assassin known as Twilight Sazuka.

Next to Twilight Sazuka and playing a noisy portable game that screamed, "I want you! I need you!" was a Ctarl-Ctarl named Asia Clan-Clan. Her race, the Ctarl-Ctarl was a noble savage race who lived under the principles of pride. That was evident in the observation that the Kitaru-Kitaru was like a cross between humans and Tigers. This race was renowned for having a nasty temper as well as unbounded strength. Asia on the other hand was almost child-like in her attitude, which showed as she smiled in playing her noisy game.

Across the room through the noise of Asia's game and the smell of sweat and motor oil was the kitchen. There in a wonderful cooking odor that was emanating like the smells of a body oil ship was the quite Melphina. This young beautiful woman was the Outlaw Star's navigator. The only one who can navigate such an advanced system like the Outlaw Star was she. She smiled as she cooked while back in the "family room" there was one more to this team.

At a nearby desk was a young blonde-hair boy named Jim Hawking who was typing away at a computer. He was Gene's partner, which doesn't mean that they hold hands and walk down the beach. It really means that Jim keeps Gene out of as much trouble that he gets into. That's Jim's nature, always the cautious one and usually the one that spots out profitable jobs, which is what Jim was doing in typing at his computer. He was looking for a profitable job. While Asia played her game, Melphina cooked, Sazuka drank and Gene slept, Jim worked.

Jim typed at the computer looking for anything that could offer money. He wasn't the kind to be picky, especially since Gene had a debt hanging over his head. The debt was to a broker named Fred Lowe, which totaled up to 1.6 million Wong. It was that number that made Jim desperate to make big bucks, as long as it wasn't anything illegal.

Just then, something came up on the screen. Just looking at what he saw made Jim's eyes bulge from their sockets. This was it, the break that the crew of the Outlaw Star was looking for. An opportunity to pay off all debts and live like kings just as Gene had always dreamed.

"Gene!" Jim shouted, "Hey Gene!"

Gene stumbled off the couch landing on the coffee table, which did make Asia loose concentration on her came as she lost. While Gene was on the floor Asia started yelling while Sazuka still calmly sipped her green tea.

"You made me loose, Gene!" Asia shouted, "It's all your fault!"

"Asia!" Gene called from the wreckage of the coffee table, "Shut up. Can't you see that I'm injured?"

"Don't tell me to shut up!"

Jim couldn't stand it anymore, "Both of you shut up!"

Asia stared blankly at Jim, so did Melphina from the kitchen and even Sazuka looked over to Jim.

"What is it, Jim?" Asia asked calmly

"I've been trying to tell you that!" Jim shouted, "I finally found our big break to pay off our debts!"

Gene got up from the coffee table wreckage. He rubbed his face that hit the solid wood surface.

"You don't have to keep shouting, Jim." Gene stated as he walked over to the exasperated Jim, "So what's the job and the pay?"

Jim calmed himself and explained, "It's not a job, it's a bounty."

Gene's interest was caught and pulled in, "Whose the bounty head?" He bent down and leaned towards Jim. Jim went back to his computer, while Asia came up behind them to look.

Jim brought up a picture, description and name. He summarized what he saw, "It's a Kei pirate named Hotana."

Sazuka's attention was grabbed immediately when she heard those words, Kei Pirate and Hotana. It caught Sazuka's attention because she has a lot of scores to settle with the Kei Pirates. She wanted in on the action.

"What's the bounty?" Gene asked

Jim looked down at the price on this mans head, but he couldn't get over the shock of the bounty. He had to read it twice to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him.

"The bounty," Jim read, "Is 100 million Wong."

Sazuka dropped her cup of green tea, it fell to the hard concrete floor with a crash of porcelain and hot tea.

Gene's thick eyebrows raised nearly to the beginning of his hairline, but his own bounty hunter reason kicked in.

"There has to be a catch to this," he said, "What are his crimes?"
Jim read off his crimes, "My god!" he gasped, "He has a felony list a mile long. Multiple counts of terrorism, theft, murder, arson, rape, kidnapping and nearly every crime that there's a law for. He's considered to be one of the most dangerous men alive."

Gene sneered, "A dangerous guy like that must be hard to find."

"Not really." Jim interrupted, "I have here his exact location but no one's gone after him."

"Why?" Asia asked impatiently

"Because it is said whoever goes after this guy winds up dead."

"So why should we go after him?" Gene asked

Jim simply answered by putting up a finger with each reason, "One bounty hunting is something we're good at. Two we can get back at the Kei Pirates. Three we can pay off our debt with the bounty and four we can live like kings for the rest of our lives like you've always said."
Gene shrugged, "I can't argue with that, so Jim let's go see Fred Lowe."

"Why are we going to see him again?" Jim asked warningly

"Because," Gene explained, "If were going up against this Kei Pirate, we're going to need some equipment and a lot of weapons."
"Alright fine." Jim exhaled

Sazuka spoke up about this situation, "You're being pretty confident that you can catch him."

Gene turned to look at Sazuka who looked calm again, even with the tea and cup fragments on the floor.

"Why do you say that?" Gene asked

"I've heard of Hotana, he is said to be an even more powerful Tao master than Hazanko."

Gene grinned, "In that case, I'm going to have to get a shit load of Caster Shells."

"I'm serious, Gene. This is a dangerous man, even the Kei pirates are afraid of him."

Asia dashed over to Sazuka's side and hugged her, "You still sound like a worry-wart, Suzu."

Sazuka was extremely annoyed by Asia calling her that nickname, but her frustration never showed.

She simply said, "Please stop calling me that."

Gene stretched his arms up and smiled, "it's settled, Jim get the car ready."

"Got it." Jim saluted smiling and dashed out the door to the street where the car was parked.

Gene walked over to where Melphina was cooking. The first thing he laid his eyes on was that the pots and pans were set off of the burners. He looked ahead and saw Melphina was fully dressed and ready to go.

The two didn't say a word to each other. They simply smiled and walked hand in hand to the door while Sazuka and Asia were already making their way out. Gene and Melphina walked over to the A-afro, a hot rod of a sports car. The crew of the Outlaw Star climbed in while Gene locked up the shop. They were heading to Huge, the city were Fred Lowe's business was set up. This was Gene's money source.

In the car ride a question came up from Jim.

"Hey, Gene?" He called with the wind whipping over the car.

"Yeah?" Gene asked

"You do know that Fred might not have Caster Shells."

"I know," Gene answered, his face was serious, he knew what they had to do, "If that happens then were going to have to head to Planet Tenrei again."

The thought of going back to Tenrei didn't appeal to Gene. There was a good reason for it. The last time he was there, he had fallen into several prank traps on the snow slopes of a mountain. Then to add to that, he was at that snow covered mountain in a T-shirt and a Speedo all because he wanted to speak to the wizards of Tenrei to get his caster shells. So he knew that he'd have to go back there to get some more.

"That's not what concerns me, Gene." Jim stated.

Of course, Jim wasn't concerned about going back to Tenrei, he did have a fun time while he was there.

"What then?" Gene asked

Jim formulated his concern, "What concerns me is what Fred's price will come to once we get the supplies and weapons we need."

"We'll find out when we get there."

Q

Hugo;

Fred Lowe's office had a collection of different weapons along the walls as well as in different display cases. Each display case was set up like church pews that lead up to Fred Lowe's golden desk. He sat behind his desk looking at the crew of the Outlaw Star. Particularly Gene and Jim.

"My, my." He smiled, "Gene and Jim. How much money did you come to ask for today?"

"We don't have time for that Fred." Gene stated, "We just found the biggest bounty we ever heard of. The total is extremely big and our loan to you will be paid off once we nab him."

"Oh?' Fred asked as he scratched his right ear behind a lock of his long black hair, "How big of a bounty?"

"100 million Wong." Jim answered

Fred smiled, "There's no need to be formal with me Gene. Have I ever turned you down? What do you need?"

"I've put a list together."

Gene handed the list over to Fred, which contained a good amount of ammunition, missiles, equipment and so on. Fred quickly got out his calculator and tallied up the amount for this list. He also added it to the 1.6 million Wong this bunch already owed him.

"The total comes to an even 5 million Wong." He stated

Gene smiled, "Will you give that stuff to us?"

"Of course I will, Gene, but keep in mind that if you don't bring back this huge bounty head of yours then you'll owe me even more money. So, I'll send the stuff over to the space dock within the hour, however the Caster shells I can't give."

"Suits me just fine." Gene answered, "I'll just go back to Tenrei and get some there."
"Very well Gene, Bon Voyage." Fred winked.

Q

It was all done within a matter of days. The supplies from Fred Lower were loaded into the Outlaw Star. It was fully loaded and armed to the teeth, so was Gene and his crew. Gene had belt loads of caster shells that the wizards of Tenrei gave to him. However they didn't forget his last visit, though Gene explained whom he was going after and the Wizards gave them over to him immediately. They told him that Hotana, the Kei Pirate had given them a lot of trouble a ways back but using their powers they did fight the pirate and escaped. However, Gene had other plans for this pirate. Now he was fighting for several and not just to pay off his own debts.

Now all that was left was to proceed to the place that the Kei Pirate Hotana was said to be. Inside the Outlaw Star cockpit, Gene sat in the pilots' seat while the others sat in their own seat around Gene. Except Melphina who was in a tube of red water, naked, that stood behind gene. This was how Melphina navigated the Outlaw Star.

All was calm, except Gene, he grew anxious.

"Gilliam." He c called

Gilliam was the ships computer and in a certain sense, he was also part of the Outlaw Star crew.

"Yes, Gene." Gilliam answered over the speakerphones

"How long till we get there?"

Jim spoke out, "you've asked that six times so quit it."

"It's alright, Jim." Gilliam said, "We will arrive in approximately one hour."

"Feels like an eternity." Gene moaned.

Q

In a remote part of space, a plan of a different type was being hatched.

Floating in space like a jewel in water was a ring. It was enormous, its diameter was the size of a football stadium. The rings thickness was the same a floor of an office building and this enormous ring floated in stationary thanks to the either pirate grappler ships. Each one held its edge in their grappler arms making sure that the ring didn't move in any direction. Though each grappler ship was unmanned. All of them were controlled from one ship that sat a few hundred miles away from the ring.

The ship that sat all that distance from the ring looked remarkably similar to the Outlaw Star. The only difference was that the ship had fins like a shark and its hull was painted a dark green like thick forest foliage. The ship name was the Ki and its captain and only passenger was the Kei Pirate Hotana.

Hotana was in his late forties with his gray streaked beard coming down his chest in a straight manner with no stray hairs going in any direction except straight down. His hairline had already receded to the back of his head with his hair reaching down to his shoulders. His deeply set brown eyes looked past the full-circle framed glasses at the controls. His uniform was a brown robe over his white clothes, with the pirate guild symbol so large over his chest that it covered nearly his entire chest.

This man was the most dangerous individual alive; a man with that 100 million Wong bounty on his head. Yet many would-be and veteran bounty hunters tried to catch him. None succeeded, they all died, thanks to Hotana's unique style of Shin-Jitsu, the super power of the Pirate guild. Even with such power, it had its side effects on his body. The stronger the power got the more drastic the aging effects. That was why he looked so old even though he was in his early forties.

He sat at the captains' chair of the Ki looking at the progress of the gate.

"Shin." He called to the ships computer, his voice sounding chilling to the kindest of ears, "Is it complete?"

Shin answered, "Yes, Master. You may begin."

"Good." Hotana said as he brought his hands together to begin use of his power.

"Pacowa Sumfa, Pacowa Sumfa." He chanted,

All around him and the ship, a glow of a bright blue hue began to emanate. As Hotana continued to chant the luminosity of the glow began to grow stronger and stronger.

Then the glow began to flow towards the nose of the Kit until only the nose was glowing. Then it shot out through the ring like a flashlight beam through a hole. But the beam didn't go through the ring entirely, it began to collect within the center of the ring. It pooled in the ring until the entire blue glow had left Hotana and the ship and nestled in center of the ring.

"Pacow Sumfa!" Hotana shouted keeping his hands together, and the gate opened.

The tear was now there, it sat in the middle of the right, centered perfectly with it diamond points touching the ring. Inside the tear, Hotana could see a planet, a blue-green planet that had no signs of pollution of any kind. This was a perfect world for him to come to.

"It's done." Hotana smiled with the look of evil in his eyes, "Now to loot and plunder this universe."

Beep! Beep!

"Master Hotana." Shin called, "A ship is coming out of Sub-Ether Space."

"Let's see it." Hotana commanded

On the screen he saw with his own eyes the ship that had been stolen from his guild. The XGP-15A2; The Outlaw Star. Hotana had heard of the outlaw who pilots that ship, a man who was said to have killed the Tao Master Hazanko. Hotana knew that he was much more powerful than the outlaw was, but his ship isn't as powerful as the Outlaw Star. To add to that, he had used up nearly all his strength in opening the tear. The only option was escape.

"Shin!" He called, "Let's go!"

"Understood." Shin concurred

Q

On the Outlaw Star, Gene and the others saw the Ki; the worker ships, the ring and the tear. Though their attention was drawn more towards the Ki, Gilliam was running his scans on the tear.

"That area within that ring is odd." He stated, "my sensors are picking up a planet."
Gene heard this but was puzzled, "A planet?" He asked, "All I see is just space."

The attention from the ring was brought back to the Ki when it began to move slowly into the ring.

Jim saw this, "Gene! That ship is getting away!"
"I'm on it!" Gene complied as he forced the engines of the Outlaw Star to their 100 percent in chasing the Ki. With each mile of space that they crossed the Ki was still getting away.

"You won't get away, you bastard!" Gene shouted as he pushed the engines even harder bringing their output to 140 percent.

As the Ki pushed through the tear, it vanished. It truly had worked as Hotana had hoped, he had opened the door to another world all for him to loot and plunder for the pirate guild.

Before the Outlaw Star or even Gene could think twice about where they were going, they too were heading for the tear. As the engine output was at its over maximum 140 percent the crew saw the planet.

"So." Gene thought, "That's the planet, but there are no planets in this part of space."
The sound of Jim's panicked voice broke Gene's line of thought.

"Gene!" He screamed, "We're going to crash!"
But Jim's attempts were only in vain, the Outlaw Star had made it to the tear, it shoved it's way through to the other side of the tear. As the last of the Outlaw Star had gone through, the tear had closed behind him leaving only the ring in empty space of the Toward Star System. Both ships had entered into a completely different universe.

To be continued…

Author's Notes: Originally I wanted to make an Outlaw Star fan fiction on its own, then I tried to write it and it never exactly got off the ground. Even before Outlaw Star was aired on Cartoon Network, I didn't know what to make of it. I had said that I might not write a fan fiction on it, but then I got more involved with it and I began to like it. So now here's what I've done with it. Though I did have to do some research here and there, such as on a cut episode that I heard about. It was an episode called, "Hot Springs Planet Tenrei", apparently Cartoon Network didn't want to show it. So I went to a few web sites to find out more about it and I found out that in that episode it talked about some of the crucial information about the Caster gun, Caster shells and how they are made. But enough of that in this one I decided to try to have it start out with a solution to the Outlaw Star crew that seems so good that it must be a fake. A solution that could solve all of their debts and help them live like kinds for the rest of their lives. But this solution might be more trouble than they think.

Come back soon for more chapters of Gundam Outlaw