Combination Plate
prologue
by Sailor Scully

Scully: hello all! Shin's being very stubborn today, so he's not coming out.

Shin: *from behind another wall* STOP TALKING ABOUT ME!!

Scully: He must have stayed up too late getting drunk last night. oops, did I say that outloud?

Doggett: yes, you did.

Shin: *melts wall with glare*

Scully: woa, you're mad. OK, I'll stop now.

Shin: just start the stupid story already dangit!!!

Scully: ok. *drags Duo out of subspace* Du-sama, can you read the disclaimer for me?

Duo: anything, sweetie.

Scully: *faints with happiness*

Duo: *picks disclaimer paper out of Scully's hand and reads* DISCLAMIER: Scully-chan does not own Gundam Wing, or any of the characters from GW. However, she would pay any price to own them, especially Duo. *looks at Scully* how sweet! *continues reading* please do not sue her, because she's trying to save her money for a scanner so she can scan in all her wonderful fanart! *whispers* she's actually pretty good at that fanart stuff... *continues* anyways, the story takes place as if Endless Waltz had never happened, and the pilots still have their Gundams hidden away somewhere. and thats all. On with the story!!

Scully: *wakes up briefly* he called me...sweetie?! *faints again*
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It was the year AC 197. OZ had been defeated a year ago, and their Lunar Base had been abandoned. But now, someone was back. Back to find something that had been left there two years ago.
Two figures walked into the darkened control room and turned on the lights. It was a short man with grey hair dressed in a labcoat, and his partner was a tall, burly man with black hair pulled into a small ponytail dressed in black from head to foot. Labcoat scanned the room, obviously looking for something specific.
"Hey Doctor Lombardo, what exactly are we here for again?" Tall Guy asked. Dr. Lombardo glared at him.
"We're here for DNA samples to create a clone of those damned Gundam pilots, you buffoon. The boss thinks that if we create a clone, it will have the same basic capabilities as the originals. Now help me find the cell block area!"
"OK, sir." The pair continued searching until the doctor found what he was looking for. "Aaaah, here we go...oh wow! It's still labeled: Gundam Pilots, Scientists, other civilians....OZ was really organized."
"Just like we'll be, right sir?"
"Shut up, William."
"yes sir."
The two left the control room and headed for the cell block. They arrived at the cell block, and Dr. L turned on a floodlight. He handed William a pair of tweezers and a ziploc bag. Then the two began scouring the floor, looking for small pieces of anything they could find. Suddenly William gave a shout. "Dr L! Dr L! I found something!" He quickly put his findings in the baggie. "Good job William, so did I. Let's head back to the lab." The 'lab' was in fact a small storage bay in the shuttle they had taken to the Lunar Base that Dr. L had converted to a laboratory with his own equipment.
When they arrived at the lab, Dr. L took William's Ziploc bag, in which he found a perfectly preserved piece of hair. "Wonderful job William! That's even better than my specimen!" Dr. L held up his bag, there was a smaller piece of hair and a few flakes of skin in it.
"Alright, lets begin the cloning process." He placed the items carefully on a dish and scanned them with his computer. The screen showed a picture of two beat-up looking double-helix DNA models. "Allright then, I just have to combine this one with this one and add this piece here and that piece there...." he mumbled on. William watched in fascination as his boss reconstructed a perfect DNA molecule from the two models, combining attributes and adding stuff here and there. William didn't understand any of, but it looked really cool.
About an hour later, Dr. L stood up and streched. He turned to William. "William, it's done! The DNA is complete! Now we must only insert it into the cloning capsule I created and set the pilot's age. Hmmmm, age. How old should he be, William?"
"Well, uh, uhm, oh I know! How old were the Gundam Pilots when they were at their best?"
"15 or 16. Why?"
"Then make our pilot 16! Cuz then he'll be just like the pilots themselves..."
"William, I'm surprised. You're very intelligent! Good idea!" Dr. L inserted the DNA into the capsule, then filled the chamber with liquid. Then he punched in his codenumber, XXX13E, and the number 16. There was a brilliant flash of light, and when their eyes had recovered, the organic material and DNA in the chamber had begun to form into a body.
"Yes! William! It's working! Do you realize how much we're gonna accomplish with this one? We'll be able to have him pilot that Gundam that we forced those imbecile scientists to create for us!"
William nodded.
"Alraight then, I'm going to head to the cockpit and set a course for Earth. We're gonna go slow, so that we won't damage our precious clone's development. So we'll be there in a few weeks. I'm going to go into biofreeze. Will you join me William?"
"No thanks, Doctor. I'll keep an eye on the ship while you sleep."
"Good man, Willian. See you when we get to Earth."
"Good night, Doctor."

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Scully: Well, that was the prologue. Who's the clone? What are these two guys gonna do? How did they get a Gundam? Why did I name this story so idiotically? Hope you keep reading and find out!