This is a DBZ/Trunks-Gundam Wing Crossover. Don't own any of the characters or rights of course. No money made, etc. etc. Just a fan of anime and enjoy Gundam Wing and DBZ… Relena does not come off very well in this, in fact she is used as comic relief, so if you are a Relena fan, you might not want to read. However, the DBZ ladies are pretty cool. In fact I also make a little fun of the pilots, Vegeta, Chibi Trunks and Goku, but this is going to get pretty serious too. Sci-fi overtones….
THE TWO PRINCES
By Katreve
Part I
CAPSULE CORPORATION – THE FUTURE
The woman stood with her son, looking at the device before them. She sighed, "Well, it's time. We must begin this if we are to save this reality as well as the others. I've done as much as I could and will help in the negotiations, but you know it's up to you really and to the other Prince."
Her son, a long-haired youth with blue eyes like his mother's, nodded. "I don't think father will like it though. After all he is the first prince in line…."
"Not for this he isn't….the prophecy and the K'tareen know what's best. Where is your little K'tarai anyway."
A soft chirrup/purr sounded nearby and a pretty white cat jumped up beside the youth. He put out his hand to her and she butted it gracefully and purred louder. "Where is your sister, K'tarai."
**She is getting anxious to meet her prince. She will commune with him as soon as you complete the first transportation. He will recognize her, but she'll have to fill him in on everything.***
The youth with the long lavender hair nodded understanding. He looked back at her mother.
"I am ready, the K'tareen are ready…let's begin mother."
She nodded and flashed her son a smile, then turned to the device before her and flipped three switches……
IN ANOTHER PLACE….
With a brilliant flash of white light, six figures found themselves unceremoniously dumped on the ground in a deserted landscape, filled with rocks and sand. The five boys and one girl lay where they were "dropped" stunned for several minutes. Then slowly, somewhat painfully four of the boys and the girl pulled themselves together and stood, brushing sand and grit from their clothes.
"Damnit, what happened," the boy with the long braid asked as he looked around, "Where the hell are we?"
The dark-haired Japanese boy turned to look at the girl who had a distasteful look on her face as she looked at her hands, "Eww, I'm all dirty, and just look at my delicate white hands, they're scratched and I think I've got sand in my ….huh…well never mind," she looked back at the Japanese boy simpering a little, looking for sympathy.
He coldly glanced at her hands and then shrugged, "You'll survive, Relena."
"Oh, Heero, who would ever treat a person of my station so?" pouted the prissy miss again.
Heero, the Japanese boy, ignored her and looked over to the fifth boy who had not gotten to his feet as the others had. He had pulled himself to a sitting position, and drawn his knees up to wrap his arms around them, but he seemed much more dazed than the rest of them. His usually bright eyes were glassy and he seemed unaware of his surroundings or company. The wind picked up and tossed his blond hair suddenly, but Heero noticed there was no wind around him or the others at all.
The braided pilot was grinning slightly, looking at Relena, who was still pouting because Heero was ignoring her.
"Oh Relena, you were saying you had sand somewhere…?"
The girl tossed her head, "You are so uncouth, Duo Maxwell, I do not know how Heero stands you. And how many times have I told you that you shouldn't curse in front of a lady."
Heero rolled his eyes and started walking over toward the blond boy still sitting on the ground, "What's with Quatre?" he asked.
Another boy, a black-haired, black-eyed Chinese, was jumping and twirling from one spot to the other, hands raised in the classic martial arts defensive position as if he expected unknown enemies to be attacking them at any moment, but he commented without looking at Heero, "He hasn't even gotten to his feet and prepared himself to meet our foes, he must be in his weakling mode."
"You're so full of it, Wufei," commented the brown haired, green-eyed boy, "I hope you trip…."
Just as he said that, Wufei's foot slipped on a loose rock and the stumbled to the ground.
Duo whooped with laughter, "Wu-Wu, can't seem to stay on his feet."
The boy with the one green eye (no one ever figured out why he wouldn't just cut his bangs so that you could see the other eye too, maybe it was a different color and the boy did not want to be accused of being "odd" eyed, who knew?), anyway this boy joined Heero as they approached the blond boy, still sitting on the ground. He still seemed to have a small storm surrounding him though no debris was flying anywhere, just his hair and clothes whipped in the swirling wind. About five feet before he reached Quatre, Heero ran into an invisible wall, literally. He stumbled back from the force of walking into the unseen wall and stepped on Trowa's (that is the one-green-eyed wonder) foot, causing them both to fall the ground.
"Ow, Ow, #%&** you Heero," cursed Trowa clutching his foot.
Heero was back on his feet in an instant glaring at Duo who was now doubled over with laughter so much that he finally collapsed to the ground.
Relena sniffed and tossed her head hurrying over to Heero, though every few steps, she shook her back end and pulled on her dress as if something uncomfortable was beneath her clothes. She placed her hand on Heero's arm, "Are you all right Heero. Did you hurt yourself?"
"Do you want me to kill you?" growled Heero at her.
"Oh, I thought we were past that, my dear Heero…" she pulled at her dress again and shook herself again.
"What are you twitching so much for, get away from me," snapped Heero.
Duo had climbed back to his feet, "Oh Heero, have mercy, she's got sand in her…."
"Shut up Maxwell, you bastard," screeched the lady-like Relena.
Heero raised his voice,
"Enough all of you. Let's get our acts together. We don't know how or why we're here and something really strange is going on with Quatre."
"Yeah," Duo said now looking at the figure still sitting on the ground. "Hey, Kat," he yelled quite loud as if Quatre might be hard of hearing, "What's with you. Not that you don't look kind of cute sitting there with the breeze running through your hair and all…."
One glare from Heero stopped Duo, for the moment anyway.
Trowa and Wufei were back on their feet and now stood next to Heero and Duo. No one seemed to want to approach the figure again, not after seeing what, or rather not seeing whatever it was that Heero had run into.
Suddenly, Quatre rose to his feet in one fluid motion and the glassy look in his eyes cleared up. The wind too seemed to settle down around him. He looked at the others who looked back at him nervously.
"Hey Quatre, you got some powers we didn't know about or something?" asked Duo.
"What?" Quatre looked at Duo innocently, confused by his question.
"Well you were just sitting there with this wind blowing and some sort of force field surrounding you? You even knocked Heero to the ground, not that it wasn't funny as hell…."
Another glare from Heero shut up Duo again.
Trowa spoke to Wufei out of the corner of his mouth, "Do you want to test his 'weakling' mode, Wufei?"
"Shutup." Growled Wufei.
"What are you all going on about?" Quatre walked toward them, then looked at Relena who was looking up into the air at nothing, arms crossed, tapping her foot.
"Relena if you want to go behind that rock and …huh…remove your ..huh….underthings and get the sand out, ….huh." Quatre blushed a little.
Relena's eyes focused on the blond boy who smiled reassuringly. "And I suppose no dirt or sand has touched you and you don't even have to brush it off your clothes….you …." Then she realized that actually Quatre looked very clean and that no dirt or sand did cling to him. Except for his hair which was mussed from the wind, he looked cool and collected, much tidier that she did. His clothes were pressed and neat, while the rest of them looked like they'd been dropped into this hell hole out of nowhere, which of course they had. Relena was jealous of the blond boy, he always looked better than she did. She didn't even know how he knew how uncomfortable she was with sand in her pants, what with him being in some sort of a trance and all.
"Aaah…" she screamed, threw her hands up and stalked off behind a nearby boulder, or rather stalked a few feet and then pulled on her dress and scratched at her backend, then continued on until out of sight.
Heero breathed a sigh of relief, "How come she has to be here? Wherever here is. Do you know Quatre?"
Quatre was looking off in another direction, as if listening to something the rest of them couldn't hear.
"Don't you go all mystic on us, Quatre Raberba Winner," Trowa warned.
But Quatre's eyes were getting a far away look again as he still stared off in that other direction.
"Uh oh…" Duo said backing off a little nervously, "is he getting kind of scary or what?"
"Pah…" Wufei spoke sneeringly, "He's just day dreaming, you are all afraid of your shadows. I'm especially surprised at you Heero."
Heero just raised an eyebrow at Wufei. Wufei was a little put out at his embarrassingly ungraceful fall a bit ago, and hadn't really been paying that much attention to all that had been going on with Quatre. He now reached out his hand towards Quatre's shoulder thinking to shake him a little to wake him from his "daydream."
"OW…." Wufei jumped back as if shocked. His hand hadn't even touched Quatre.
Duo started to chuckle again, and Wufei looked at him, "Maxwell, I swear I will…."
Quatre's eyes refocused on Wufei, "Sorry…I didn't know that would happen, really. But….we need to go….this way…." And he started to walk in the direction in which he had been gazing.
The others hesitated just briefly and then followed the blond pilot. Relena came out from behind the rock and saw them striding away, "Wait….wait, where are you all going."
"Oops, we forgot Relena," Duo snickered.
Relena ran to catch up and stopped to walk alongside Heero. "Where are we going now?"
"Don't know, Quatre does." Heero answered shortly.
"Why do you think so much of him? I have more royal blood than he does and I'm…"
Heero looked over at Relena and narrowed his eyes. She shut up.
After walking about fifteen minutes they circled a tall boulder to find a narrow canyon entrance ahead. Except that the canyon entrance was covered with some sort of opaque, shimmering curtain. It had no apparent means of support and rippled and sparkled almost like water. A small set of stone-like stairs rose up to this "curtain."
"What's that?" asked Relena with an annoyed tone. "I'm tired of walking and I don't know why we're here. I want to go home."
Everyone ignored her. (She used to be a much nicer girl, but she had been in danger and kidnapped and rescued so much, and then she was a Queen and then an important official…eventually all the attention had gone to her head and she now wanted to be the center of everything all the time, especially where Heero was concerned.)
Through the shimmering field of "water" they could make out another scene altogether. There were trees and a blue sky and clouds. Also there were two figures standing there as if waiting.
Heero moved up to stand beside Quatre. "What is this Quatre?"
"A gateway to another reality." The blond replied calmly.
Quatre started to go forward, when Duo, forgetting what had happened a short time before to Wufei, grabbed his arm stopping him. Amazingly enough, this time, Duo was not repelled back from touching the Arab boy, "Whoa, whoa, where do you think you are going. We don't know what this is all about."
One of the figures on the "other" side of the gateway now walked closer and the five pilots could make out a youth with a dark blue jacket, black tank and pants, and long lavender hair, the length tied back in a ponytail while the long bangs fell on each side of the his face.
"Whoo-oo, nice hair," commented Duo looking at the figure through the watery curtain, "but lavender, whoever heard of lavender hair except on your grandmother?"
Quatre laughed a little and gently disengaged his arm from Duo's hand. "You all are needed, as am I. Come on…you've never been afraid to face a battle before."
Quatre proceeded up the stone-like steps and as he did so, the figure on the other side raised his hand and placed it against the watery curtain on his side. Without hesitation, Quatre raised his hand also and placed it against the lavender-haired youth's hand.
The curtain rippled and disappeared and the Gundam pilots and Relena found themselves now on the "other" side standing in a group slightly away from the two who had dissolved the gateway barrier. Those two stood facing each other….
"Hello Trunks," said Quatre.
"Hey Quatre," the other figure smiled.
"Two princes then must meet…" said the the second figure from the "other" side as she now walked up. She was an older woman, though still very pretty and had short blue hair.
//Why is everyone's hair here, wherever here is, so weird?// thought Duo. //Oh well, I remember there was a rumor that Heero's hair was green once.//
Quatre turned to her and bowed slightly, "Madame…."
Bulma laughed slightly, "Please don't treat me so formerly, Quatre. I'm just glad you are here and your friends too."
She turned to look at the four other Gundam pilots and Relena with a welcoming smile.
At that moment two white cats came dancing through the grass, chirruping and calling. One cat ran to twine herself around Trunks' legs and the other launched herself at Quatre who caught her in his arms while laughing, "Hello, at last, K'tree."
//Weirder and weirder// thought Duo.
//No one is even paying attention to me, princes indeed, I was a Queen, don't know why I ever gave that up// thought Relena. When everyone still ignored her, she decided to take action…."I want to go home…." She wailed causing everyone to wince, even the white cats put their front paws over their ears and closed their copper eyes tight.
//I am really going to kill her this time// thought Heero and turned toward Relena with murder in his eyes.
End of Part I
Much more of Trunks and the other DBZ characters in Part II, also better treatment of the feminine gender, at least as far as the DBZ ladies are concerned. Unfortunately, Relena is still spoiled, but who knows, maybe there is hope for her yet.