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Chapter 1:
The beginning
"Duo! Are you even listening to me?!" Sally Poe slammed her hands down on the table in front of him. He looked up at her lazily.
"Sure." He yawned and sat back in his chair, "You were telling us that we need to be careful on this mission and that you weren't going to make us do it, and that it is totally on a voluntary basis…" He babbled on, repeating what she always told them.
The four Gundam pilots had been called to the headquarters by Sally. She had told them that there was an emergency that needed taking care of. All of them had come, of course. Hiiro was the only one that had chosen not to attend. It had been seven years since the war, and they were all beginning to doubt that he was even still alive. He was more like a legend to them than anything else.
"Thank you, Duo. I'm glad that you were listening." Sally said, turning back to the charts on the wall that she was showing them. A 22 year old Chang Wufei glared at the grinning Duo. He knew what was going on, even if Sally getting too old to catch it. Wufei was wearing a dark blue suit, like the suit that Treize Kushrenada wore. He still had a Treize complex after all this time. Even after the fact that he had been the one to kill him. He had finally given up and cut his shiny black hair to a reasonable length, after he had lice a year ago. He was trying to grow it out again, but it hadn't grown much in the time.
Duo laid back in his seat, pulling his cap over his eyes. He flopped his feet on the table, crossing his legs and yawning loudly. Sally continued her lecture. Sally was starting to get gray hair, showing her age of forty. She was still very active in the Peacekeeping Corps, and the stress was showing on her face. She was starting to get fine wrinkles around her mouth and eyes. However, her green eyes still shone with kindness and strength.
Next to Duo was Quatre Raberba Winner. He was dressed up in a fine white suit, as you would expect from one of the richest families on the colony. He had his wavy blond hair neatly styled and wore jewels at many points on his outfit. Duo would have thought he had gone soft, if he didn't know that Quatre used a lot of his spare time to train, just in case he needed to use his skills ever again.
Across from Quatre was Trowa Barton. He was wearing a gray business suit and had his hair the way that he always did, in his face. He was now the owner of a circus that specialized in lion performances. He had a few workers, but mainly trained the lions by himself.
Sally was just turning off the lights to start the image projector when Relena Peacecraft walked in. All the men stood politely as she came in and sat down on the other side of Duo.
"Sorry for being late." Relena apologized to Sally. Sally smiled and continued with her lecture.
"What kept you?" Duo whispered to Relena. Wufei glared at Duo again, but didn't say anything. At the moment, the other pilots were still sore at Duo for marrying Hiiro's girlfriend. They all thought that she shouldn't be married, in tribute to the legend, but they all knew that someone had to take care of her after all this time.
"The business meeting went for longer than I had expected." Relena whispered back, "Fill me in?" Duo grinned and put his arm around his wife, whispering to her all the things that Sally had told them so far, which wasn't much.