Better Summary: Ami, Usagi, Minako, Makoto, and Rei go on vacation to Ami's parents old summer home for a much needed rest. The Gundam Pilots are sent to the very same beach by a strange woman to find and eliminate the Sailor Scouts. As friendships are formed and suspicions arise, another story begins to unfold through the day to day happenings in the beach town. A story hidden, but nowhere near forgotten. What exactly did happen last year?
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing, so don't sue me.
I had the idea for this story over vacation, so I hope you like. All flashbacks will be in italics.
Last Year
Chapter 1
Ami stared at her room critically, eyeing every last detail. What was she forgetting?
"Do you have everything honey?" She turned to stare at her mother, who stood with a nervous smile at her face in the doorway.
"I believe so. I just feel like I'm leaving something important behind, and I'm not sure what," Ami said. Aiko smiled, and approached her daughter.
"Could it be this," she asked, pulling a picture from her pocket. Ami stared at her mothers hand for only one moment before snatching the picturing from her hand and staring ta the person in it a moment, before tucking it in her pocket.
"Where was it?"
"On the floor of the living room, it was lost in the ruckus of packing your suitcases."
"Thankyou mom," Ami said, lifting up her backpack and moving form the room, her mother trailing behind her.
"You're sure you don't need a ride to the airport?"
"Yes. Besides, you have work. I'll be fine," Ami responded, touching her mothers shoulder to ease her tension.
"Do you have enough spending money? Did I give you the key? You will be sure to call when you get there, hm? Ami? Answer!"
Ami laughed alightly, shaking her head at her worried mother.
"I have everything I will need, we'll be fine. My friends are much more reliable than they look mom," Ami said, realizing her mother had no idea, and never would have an idea, of just how much they were reliable.
Ami hugged her mother goodbye and departed, after her mother helped her iwth her suitcases. Her friends were waiting downstairs. Haruka and Mamoru had offered to drive Ami, Usagi, Minako, Makoto, and Rei to the airport. They were going to Maru Island, just off the shore of Japan where her parents used to own an old cabin. At first, when they divorced they hadn't known what to do with it, so her father agreed to keep paying on it so that Ami could one day put it to use. Which she was.
Ami and her friends were talking a nice long summer vacation away from home, to the beaches there. They would enjoy the sea and also relax from the hectic year. That was the plan, to relax, and Ami was dead set on following it.
They arrived at the airport and checked their bags, where they went through a lot of security. The plane boarded a half an hour later. They had bid the outers and Mamoru good bye. Mamoru was planning on following them down to Maru Island in about a week, once they were settled in and he was off work.
Makoto sat next to Ami on the plane, hands gripping tightly to the arm rest as she muttered some sort of a good luck for flight chant Rei had taught her.Minako was already getting comfy with her pillow and blanket, although the plane ride was not that long, andUsagi and Rei were fighting over the armrest, and the plane hadn't even taken off yet.
A woman with curly red hair tied in a low pony tail and a dark green bussiness suit stalked down the hallways of the preventers building. Her green eyes glimmered evilly as people paid her nods of respect for how professional she looked. She had a confidence like no others. Before she could knock on the door to the room she wanted, it was swung open by a mean looking man with dark hair and dark eyes. She recognized him instantly as Wufei Chang.
"We have been waiting all afternoon to see a stupid onna," he growled in disbelief, and she responded with a smirk.
"Hello Mr. Chang. I expected this of you. She entered without invitation to see the four others she wanted in the room.
"Let me clarify one thing," she said, and the other four gave her strange looks, "I am going to talk, and you will listen Pilots. I must be quick, and you must be quick to give me an answer when I am finished. Understood?"
She found a gun pointed at her head by a Mr. Heero Yuy immediately.
"Who are you?"
"M name is Mirvette Dimenton. I have a mission for you. close and lock teh door, close teh blinds on the windown. Nobody must see what I am about to show you."
Heero kept her gun pointed at her, but Quatre Winner stopped him.
"Let's see what she has to say first," he told Heero, gaining the agreeance of Duo Maxwell. Trowa Barton, Mirvette noticed, said nothing.
"I am part of a secret freedom fighting group in Japan," she began, "however, it is not the Japan that you all know. It is in a different dimension."
She heard snorts of annoyance and saw Trowa Barton reach up to the button that called security.
"Wait! Let me show you what I mean. But I must warn you, it's odd." She spread out her palms about a fott apart but facing each other, and something that seemed almost like a hologram appeared in between her hands. Trowa's hand fell away from the button in shock, as they all stared. In it was their gundams, fighting.
"In your demension, you fight with machines. In mine, we have learned other ways. The image became people throwing flames with their hands and other strange happenings.
"What is that," Quatre asked.
"Magic," she responded. "Now, there have been several attacks on Tokyo by monsters the last few years. There are fighters who have fought it. They are called the Sailor Scouts. Five women who use magic and claim to be defenders of justice."
Wufei laughed. "Women? Don't be ridiculous."
"Believe me when I say that I am telling the truth. However, even though these women do defend people against monsters and attacks, they have hidden motives. I work for the D Galaxy. We are a group of fighters that train our hidden potential, our magic, to it's highest peak. We havediscovered through the use of spys that the Sailor Scouts are not just fighting for the good of the people. They want to freeze the earth over in a few years, and then takeover as rulers of the free world. They claim that no one lese is capable. The other people of our demension would never believe such a tale, because they love and admire the Sailor Scouts. They are igmorant. My group wants to crush the Sailor Scouts, stop them before they become too powerful. You see, no matter what their hidden motives are, they will always defend people against monsters, which makes them loved by all. And their real identities are hidden, so some even believe them to be legend."
"What does this have to do with us," Duo asked impatiently.
"3 weeks ago, 30 of our best under cover agents were destroyed by the Sailor Scouts. We did learn one thing though before our agents died. The Sailor Scouts are leaving for the summer to Maru Island, where we fear that they will use the isolation to complete their plans for the freezing and takeover of Earth. Anone who does not cooperate will surely be killed. We also learned one other thing. The main five Sailor Scouts have ties with other senshi. One of them is the scout of time, and she halped them to set sight on their parallel demension, yours. Once they have taken over their world, yours will be next. We must crush them before it gets there! Our freedom is the most precious thing we have! Her voice was so passionate, the boys had to listen.
"I don't kill women," Wufei said from the side. She turned to him.
"Really? They'd kill you."
"WHat kind of a mission are we talking about here," Duo asked.
"You must cross demensions, and go to Maru Island undercover undercover as teenage boys there for summer fun. We belive the girls will play natural, as teenage girls, and so you'll have an easier time relating. Suspect everyone. Especially be suspicious if five girls live in the same house, because there are five scouts. Moon, mercury, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter. They draw power from their planets."
"This is ridiculous," Heero said.
"Is it?" Mirvette looked at him oddly. "Tell me, is ignorance worth losing lives over? Losing freedom over? Sometimes you just hav to believe in the impossible."
"So, we're crossing to a different demension, where we get to act like the teenagers we are, and look for psyco chicks?"
Mirvette smiled. "If you want to put it that way, then yes."
"I'm in for an adventure," Duo said, and looked around. Quatre nodded.
"Me too."
Trowa walked up next to them. Wufei sighed in resignation and nodded.
Heero looked at his friends, sighed, and nodded.
"Mission accepted."
"Good, and don't take this mission lightly, it's much tougher than it sounds."
Ami payed the taxi driver while the girls ran up the walkway to the cabin, Rei standing by her.
Ami pulled out her key and was about to open the cabin, before pausing.
"Girls, I warn you. It's old, and hasn't been touched infifteen years, not since I was three. We have some cleaning to do tonight before we can live in it. Usagi groaned but nodded. Ami opened the door and sneezed instantly from the dust.
They set their suitcases down.
"I bet when it's clean, it'll look really nice Ami," Rei said. Ami nodded, looking around the house.
"Well," Makoto said, rubbing her palms together, "let's get to work." The house had two bedrroms upstairs, one bathroom, a living room, a kitchen, another small sitting room, and the back door lead to a big wooden deck in the back, which was over sand, about 200 feet from the shore.
First they took the furniture from the house and carried it onto the big wooden deck in the back. They filled up old pails with water and got mops, in which they cleaned the wood floors. They dusted everything, and vacuumed all the carpeted rooms. They took apart the screens from the windows, they cleaned old picture frames, paintings, and old pottery and decoration. They beat all the matresses outside and cleaned up the bathrooms and the bedrooms. Usagi only complained once, and it was nightfall by the time they were finally settled in.
"Wow, it feels good to know that everything is clean and that we're all unpacked," Makoto said with a huff as she collapsed onto the sofa that night. She received agreement from only half of the tired group. That night they had sandwiches for dinner, and Ami promiced that they'd go grocery shopping the next morning.
They shared rooms. Ami and Rei shared a room, and Makoto, Minako and Usagi shared another. It was decided like this so Rei wouldn't kill Usagi.
The next morning Ami woke up very early. She washed up, and put on a white thick strapped tank top and the new knee length board shorts her mother had just bought her.
Grabbing her wallet and her cell phone, Ami headed out for a nice stroll into the town there. Since the cabin had not been in use for so long, the only form of communication they had with their parents was her cell phone. She was reminded to call her mother when she got back. After walking down a long street, which was bassically a road made of pebbles and dirt, she reached some pavement and wood boardwalk for the little town area. First she went to the small grocery store and brought what the girls had written down the day before, and then she headed to the little bakery and picked up a dozen donuts.
Needless to say Ami's hands were full as she pushed open the front door to be met by all of her friends, still in their PJ's, who took everything from her hands and headed for teh kitchen.
"Wow, Ames, you didn't have to go alone," Minako said, as they all unpacked groceries, Usagi lunging for the donuts.
"Well, I was up early, and figured that we shouldn't waste our timetoday with that. We'll relax today, take it easy and have fun."
"Cool Ames," Usagi said through a mouthful of powdered donut.
Ami grabbed a donut and at on the back deck. It had been so long since she had last been here, but she felt a strange familiarity with the place. It made her feel calm, watching the water splash against the shore. Almost made all of her past troubles melt away...
"Ames!" There was a small crash, and Usagi's scream. "The clutz Usagi broke something," hollered Rei.
Ami went running inside, thinking it was serious, only to see Usagi smiling sheepishly at her as she struggled to pick up the pieces of the glass frame she had broken.
"Sorry," she said sincerely.
"Think nothing of it," Ami responded, as they picked up the glass.
"Here Ami, the picture is still okay," Rei said, handing it to her. Ami turned the picture over and was met with a surprise. The frame she had quickly wiped yesterday had a wonderful picture in it. It was of her in her father's arms as maybe a two year old. Her mother was probably taking the picture. He was standing in front of the water.
"This is a nice picture," Ami said, "I'll find somewhere else for it." Ami put it upstairs on her mirror, and resturned to where Usagi was still sweeping up.
"Ames, we wanna go take a walk down the beach, care to join us," Minako said, as she and Makoto came running down the stairs.
"No, I'm gonna call my mom, you all can go ahead, look around," Ami said. Usagi, the only one in her pyjamas spoke up.
"Wait!" Everyone turned in alarm at Usagi's voice, sounding very serious and urgent.
"I have to get dressed first," Usagi said, taking off up the stairs.
"Odango, you're such a dummy," Rei called after her, slipping ona pair of flip flops.
"Sure you don't wanna come, Ami," Minako asked.
"I'm sure. You guys go ahead. My mom will probably already be worried I didn't call yet," Ami said, as Usagi came speeding down the stairs, dressed and ready.
The girls left and Ami sat on a wooden chair on the deck and called her mom, whom was full of questions and worry.Ami tried to get rid of her as quickly as possible, before leaning back in her chair to relax. A few minutes went by, and Ami was getting bored. Although she had come here to relax, she had feared that she wouldn't be able to sit still.
Ami went over to the old shed on the side of the house and looked inside to see what was still there. Her mother had mentioned an old volleyball net in the shed.
"It'll work, I think. That is, if it's not stolen Ami," Aiko said.
After moving aside some ruined life jackets and floatation toys, mostly for toddlers, she found what she was looking for. It wasn't too heavy, either. Ami got a wet cloth from inside and cleaned the dust off of the poles and net. Then she carried the first pole out and stuck it in the ground, returning for the second and then for the net.
Meanwhile...
The guys were walking towards the backdoor of their cabin.
"It's not a bad cabin," Quatre was telling Heero and Trowa as Duo whined.
"Wu-man, where are the chicks," whined Duo.
"The 'chicks' are on the public beach on the other side of the island. The ones we are looking for are in a cabin somewhere. And my name is Wufei, not Wu-man."
"And my name is Wufei, not Wu-man," Duo mocked, causing Wufei to growl.
"Wufei! Ha ha! You have a wierd name, Wu-man," Duo said, running out the back door of the cabin. Wufei followed at a normal face, only to be hit in the face with a handful of sand by a bored Duo, who began to laugh. Wufei gave a shout of rage, and Duo gulped and backed up, before running away, Wufei at his heels.
"Maxwell! You're dead!"
Ami stood on her tiptoes, putting up the last part of the net on the left side, the top one. She struggled a bit, being so short, and her hand shook every time she tryed to catch the hook.
Duo turned behind him to look at Wufei, never realizing he was passing into the neighbors part of the beach.
"Maxwell," Wufei suddenly called, "look in front of you oaf!"
Duo turned to look only to go crashing into a girl trying to put up a volleyball net so hard that he knocked the two of them flat on the floor, having crushed the net down as well, making the poles come crashing down around them, one landing on his back and the other one narrowly missing her head.
His friends had by now all run up behind them.
"Ouch," Duo groaned, getting to his feet an knocking the pole off of his back. The girl beneath him placed her hands on the ground and began to lift herself up, shaking her head as sand fell from her hair.
"I am so sorry," Duo said sincerely, a bit embarassed at knocking the girl down as he reached a hand to help her up, which she accepted.
"It's alright, that's not the first time something like that has happened to me," she said, looking at him. He had dark blue eyes and long brown hair in a braid. He all of a sudden had a slight smirk on his face as he looked her over. Ignoring him, Ami quickly scanned over his friends. Four of them. A blonde, two guys with brown hair and the one in front with black hair.
Duo looked at the girl in front of him, liking what he saw. Short, blue hair framing a seemingly flawless face, blue eyes, and a very slender but not too skinny body.
"Names Duo," he said, reaching to shake her hand, "these are my friends, Wufei, Quatre, Trowa, and Heero." They all gave her scrutinizing looks, except for the blonde one, he smiled and said hi.
"I'm Ami. You all live there," she said, pointing at the cabin next door. Duo nodded.
"I'm really sorry about the net, we'll help you put it back up Ami," Duo said, just as Wufei said, "who's we?" Quatre shushed him and they all began putting it up.
"AMES! Who are the hotties," Minako called from a few feet away. Her friends had returned, all smiling.
"These are my friends," Ami said, just as the boys were finishing and ignoring Minako. "Usagi, Minako, Rei, and Makoto. You guys these are Duo, Quatre, Wufei, Trowa, and Heero," she finisjed, pointing to each guy in turn.
All the guys took notice that there were five of them.
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