Disclaimer: I do not own any of the original gundam wing characters, ideas, mobile suits, etc.

A/N: Ai is my character (there may be more I dunno hehe), if ya wanna feel free to use em as long as you let me know so I can read about them!

Chapter One: Home Coming Surprises

She stepped lightly out onto the deck of the ship, shoulder length curly red hair blowing across her face. Tall for a seventeen year old and slender to boot. "Finally I'm home." she smiled staring out across the shining cerulean ocean.

"Hey Red, we're approaching Preventers headquarters. The cap wants you at the bridge now!" came a voice through her ear piece.

She sighed stealing one last look at the beautiful water she walked back into the ship, "Julian how many times do I have to tell you my name before you use it?" she asked annoyed.

"Well..." he started, "Maybe just a few hundred more times if you're nice to me." she heard him smirk.

"Whatever I'm on my way." she sighed stepping into the elevator.

She reached the bridge and stepped through the automatic door, "What's up Captain?" she questioned, impatiently.

"Lady Une of The Preventers organization would like to meet with you personally as soon as we reach their headquarters. Something about your mobile suit..." he tried to mumble out the last part.

The girls temper flared, "If they even think of trying to take her away from me I'll...I'll..." she didn't finish.

"I know Ai just calm down!" she could hear fear in the man's voice.

She sighed, "I'm calm...But I'm going to head out ahead of you in Vita all right?"

"Sure Ai, we'll meet up with you later." he replied.

"Later Red." she heard Julian call, and she waved her hand in response.

She stormed through the hall way leading down the hanger, people practically leaping out of the way. She stepped into the huge room and floated up through the gravity free air to her beloved mobile suit. She opened the hatch and hoped into the pilot's seat. "Morning Vita." she said happily.

"Good Morning Ai," replied the robotic voice, "What are the plans?"

"We have to head towards the Preventers main headquarters."I'm to meet Lady Une there."

"Shall we proceed now?" asked Vita.

"Yes, but remember we're in earth now. You haven't had to deal with the gravity in the atmosphere in a long time." she cautioned.

"I will remember." replied the voice.

"Let's go!" smiled Ai, and the back thrusters lit up sending her out of the big docking hatch.

They were over the sea and Ai was entrapped again, "Isn't it beautiful?" she whispered.

"Beautiful?" questioned Vita.

Ai sighed, she had always saw Vita as her best friend, her only real friend but sometimes...she shook her head, "Emotion only leads to pain." she sighed regretfully.

"We have arrived at the facility." stated the voice.

Ai typed in the communication code and opened the link, "Hello this is Ai, pilot of the mobile suit Vita. I was asked to come and speak with Lady Une."

A harsh voice sounded through the link, "Yeah, the hanger's open." it growled.

"Geez you don't have to—" the link closed, "Bastard." she muttered.

She eased Vita into the large room and docked her carefully, "I'll be back as soon as I can," she told the voice.

"Be careful." it replied and she nodded.

She floated down to the floor and landed gracefully, moving towards the door. Which opened as she reached it admitting a blonde haired boy, he was typing furiously on the laptop supported by the left forearm. He looked up startled as he almost ran right into Ai, "Oh please forgive me, I was preoccupied. I didn't mean to..."

"Don't worry about it." she said briskly walking past the boy. She heard him sigh and turned around suddenly, "You got a problem?" she inquired roughly.

He looked up at her through crystal eyes as blue as the sea, "Whatever I did to offend you I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to almost run into you, so please don't be angry." the sincerity in his voice and features stunned her, and she felt slightly guilty.

"Look," she reasoned, "I didn't mean to be harsh; it's just been a long day. But I must get to Lady Une's office. Do you know where it is?" she asked.

"Yeah, I'll take you there. I need to talk to someone up there anyway." he said closing the laptop and holding it under his slim arm.

He walked up to her and continued on, smiling sweetly. She couldn't place an age on the boy, some times he looked like a small child when he smiled, but when he had spoken to her sincerely, he seemed like a mature man. She hated not knowing anything so she outright asked, "Hey how old are you?"

He looked at her and smiled again, what does he keep smiling at? She wondered but he interrupted her, "I'm seventeen," he answered her, still smiling.

"Why do you keep smiling?" she questioned.

He laughed, but she just looked at him confused, and he blushed a little, "My names Quatre Raberba Winner, and I smile so much because not enough people do in this universe." she saw a little sorrow enter his cerulean eyes.

She was amazed at the kindness in his voice, but that was soon replaced by anger realizing who he was. "Not all of us can live in a beautiful, perfect world. Not all of our families are as well off as yours, poor little prince of the famous Winner line." she almost snarled it.

He stopped where he was and she turned around glaring until her eyes met his where she saw a deep pain rooted there. She felt guilt in her again; I've never felt guilty about this kind of thing before she thought furiously, so why now? For this spoiled brat?

"Lady Une's room is the second one on the right down that hallway. You should be able to find it by yourself." he sighed, she thought she saw tears in his aqua eyes, "I hope everything works out with whatever you're doing." he smiled at her still, and then walked back towards the hanger.

She felt horrible, and hated the feeling. He hadn't done anything to deserve that, in fact he had done nothing but help me out. She thought regretfully to herself. But I have more important things to do. She thought continuing to the room he had said.

She reached it and opened the large door and stepped in. "Hello you must be Ai." spoke an elegant woman sitting behind a big desk.

Ai nodded slightly, "What did you need to talk to me for?"

"Ah right to the point," said Lady Une, "I like that. Well your moblie suit it..."

"You will not take her away from me!" growled the red haired girl.

The woman behind the desk was laughing at her, "I've been involved with the five gundam pilots for all their existence. If there's one thing I've learned is never try to separate a pilot from their suit. Even the kind hearted Quatre hated losing Sandrock." she smiled as if remembering.

"Quatre? You mean Quatre Winner?" asked Ai shocked.

Lady Une's brow furrowed, "I'm terribly sorry, you can't just forget what I said can you?"

"Quatre Winner was one of the gundam pilots? I knew about the others, Trowa Barton, Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, and Chang Wufei...but in all my training and research it never mentioned Quatre Winner." she stated, not believing what she had said.

"Quatre did everything within the power of his family to erase his name from all archives containing gundam information. He said he wanted to be able to help the universe without having the black scars on his record. If everyone knew about the gundam incidences they would accuse all his good deeds of having a hidden agenda." she sighed deeply, "What is the universe coming to when someone who's giving everything he has up for good has to worry about people's accusations."

Ai's heart twisted slightly, I should never have treated him like that, she thought silently to herself.

"Miss. Ai, the reason I wanted to talk to you was about your current career path," she paused, "You are working as a freelance mercenary at the present time are you not?"

Ai nodded, "I was employed by the captain of the Eternity as a bodyguard until they reached your base." she stated.

"Well as you probably know The Preventers organization is trying hard to stop anything threatening the current peace," Ai nodded, "I hate to have to say this to you, but your mobile suit working freelance is one such threat."

Anger jumped within Ai, but she tried to remain calm, "And what do you plan to do about it?" her voice almost dared the woman to answer.

"I would like to ask you to work for us. The president wants the suit destroyed but he does not always know what's best," she smiled a little, "But the problem can be solved were you to be employed under The Preventers."

She was shocked but she recovered quickly, "Would I be paid?" she asked.

"Of course, we pay all of our employees, excluding those that ask otherwise."

Who wouldn't want to get paid? She asked herself silently. "And you won't try to take Vita away from me?" she questioned, trying to find the catch.

"The main reason for us recruiting you is the mobile suit, so of course we won't take it away from you. I feel that you and your suit will help out our organization to a great extent. The boy's are amazing but they hate being stuck with the regular models after all their time spent with the gundams." she said regretfully.

"They won't touch Vita." stated Ai.

"No, no I know that, it's just some of them refuse to go on missions with the suits they have. So with you here you can take those, and at the same time force them to do missions to protect their pride." the woman smiled.

"So where do I stay?" asked Ai impatiently.

"So you'll join us?" Ai nodded, "Excellent, I'll get someone to take you to an empty room here in the building. Unless you have somewhere else to stay?"

Ai's eyes almost filled with tears but she shoved them back, "A room here will be fine."

"All right I'll—"

"Lady Une, our intelligence has picked up on a disturbance near the L2 colonies." interrupted a uniformed man at the door.

The woman behind the desk sighed, "Could you please take this woman to one of the empty rooms in the residential quarters? I'll assemble the boys and get right on this."

"Yes ma'am!" saluted the soldier.

"Lady Une I would like to get to work as soon as possible, may I stay for the mission briefing at least? I can get my room later."

"That would be fine, please excuse me while I contact the others." she said hitting the intercom button. "Heero, Trowa, Wufei, Duo and Quatre please report to the main office as soon as possible." she said through the radio, "There's a fire to be stopped."

Within five minutes the first arrived, it was the ex-pilot of the Shenlong gundam, Chang Wufei, he had black hair and eyes, and he looked hard as stone. The next to enter was who she thought was Trowa Barton, tall and lean, with wild hair, followed closely by a familiar platinum blonde. He looked at her and she saw shock in his eyes for a second but it changed to a haft hearted smile. I was so cruel to him...but he still smiles at me... she watched as the two remaining boys filed in. Heero Yuy, dark and mysterious, and she guessed Duo Maxwell was the one with the foolish grin on his face.

"Boys I'd like you to meet a new member to our team, this is Ai." introduced Lady Une.

Duo looked at her shocked and Wufei looked at her with what she thought was disgust. Both Trowa's and Heero's expressions didn't seem to change, and Quatre just nodded slightly.

"Nice to meet you Miss Ai welcome aboard." it was the boy with the long braid that spoke.

"Welcome to the organization." acknowledged Trowa.

Heero remained silent and Wufei muttered something under his breath, at which Quatre frowned. "Nice to meet you," he said to her the turned to the woman at the desk, "What's the problem?" he asked her.

"We're not really sure, all we were able to find out is something is going on in the L2 colony cluster. We need you to go and check it out." she replied.

"You don't need us for a job like this woman!" shouted the black haired boy.

Lady Une sighed heavily, but Ai was the one who spoke, "Hey get over yourself! The whole reason for this organization is to stop things from happening now why the hell would you be in it if you can't swallow your pride enough to just do something to help the universe?" she snapped.

"How dare you!" he lunged at her, but Quatre grabbed him by the arm a yanked him back.

"She's right Wufei! Some of us have been acting like children, not taking missions because they're not good enough for us." he whispered, "We're supposed to help the universe, it doesn't matter how big or small what we do is."

"Self-righteous little..." growled Wufei, raising a fist.

"Wufei!" the voice that yelled was Heero Yuy's, "Control your emotions!"

The harsh black haired boy backed down, but anger was deep in his eyes. "I won't go." he muttered.

"I'll go." stated Quatre.

"I will too, it's getting a little stuffy around here anyways." Duo's comment earned him a death glare from Wufei.

"I have business here I have to take care of first. I will not be accompanying you." said Trowa walking towards the door.

"Heero?" questioned the woman at the desk.

"I will go as well." he answered, blandly.

Lady Une nodded in approval, "Excellent the team will be Heero, Duo, and Quatre...Ai would you like to join them?" she asked.

"Yes, I'd like to get a feel of how things work around here."

"All right, meet at the hanger in ten minutes, and we'll have loaded your mobile suits onto a carrier shuttle by then, you are dismissed." she finished.

End Chapter One

A/N Review please! Criticism appreciated a lot! And I'm really REALLY sorry for any mistakes in spelling but I'm waiting to get something other than bloody word pad on my comp. -.- Well I'll have the next chappie up soon hopefully. 3 P.S. Do you want/care if the paragraphs are double spaced?