Name: Sound

Gender: Female

Age: 15

Race: European-American

Height: 5"5

Description: Shoulder-length chestnut hair, blue eyes, slender. A disarming smile. A known drifter, doesn't stay in one place too long. Prefers downtown districts. Pilots a Gundam.

Gundam: Goes by the name of 'Bullet'. Appearance unknown. Speed-type; moves faster than the eye can see. Doesn't leave trail of light behind it as other known Gundams do. Never used in mortal combat. Only destroys machines after pilots have left the cockpit. Said to make a high-pitched whistling which vanishes seconds before targeted machinery explodes. No person harmed in any attack. Said to be fast enough to circle the world in 80 minutes.

Heero glanced over the profile before passing it around to the other Gundam Pilots-turned-Preventors in the spartanly-furnished, grey room, watching them as they read for the mild entertainment of it. Trowa raised an eyebrow when he saw that the girl had no last name, Quatre frowned, Wufei passed it onto Duo, and Duo had the most entertaining response.

"Huh… Sound, huh… that's an interesting name… she's around our age…WHAT? No way! A gundam faster than the speed of sight?"

"It's 'speed of light', baka." Wufei said baldly, smacking the brunette, braided American on the back of the head as he passed by on his way to the coffee maker. "This one is going to be hard to catch, if she's as fast as they say."

"But do we really need to catch her?" Quatre said over Duo's quiet, dark mutterings as he massaged the back of his head, giving Wufei the evil eye. "She doesn't seem like a bad person."

"Whether she's a bad person or not doesn't matter in this mission." I said, and everyone's eyes generally came to rest on me-except for Wufei, who was adding cream to his coffee. "We were asked to find her and investigate about her gundam, and if she has one, confiscate it and destroy it. We have yet to see if she will be a threat or not."

"Her record's clean."

"Her Gundam is armed, Quatre." The mentioned blonde turned to look at Trowa as his friend spoke. "She is a threat until we find otherwise." Quatre frowned but said nothing. A moment of grim silence passed, and Duo decided to liven it up, jumping to his feet with a big, goofy grin.

"Well, this'll be fun! When do we leave?" I looked blandly at the over-excited idiot and was sorely tempted to roll my eyes.

"In an hour." The American's eyes widened in surprise and wheeled about, racing to the door. "Where do you think you're going?"

"To pack!" He yelped, and Trowa and Quatre rolled their eyes with amused smiles while I put a hand to my forehead while Wufei smirked.

"Just wait until he sees that Hilde's already packed everything for him."

Night had fallen over the city, and I had packed my bag once again. The stars were calling to me, and it made me restless, as clear starry nights like these always did, the full moon shining brilliantly in the deep, midnight blue sky I could stare at for years. I didn't have much to pack. I never really unpacked my bag anyways, and being a wanderer like I was, I tended not to carry too much with me anyways. I ran a hand through my newly-cropped, silky brown hair, which I had decided to have buzzed somewhat at the back, leaving it longer to hang in the front. It was low-maintenance this way, and I thought it made me look good. I glanced around, looking for anything I may have missed, and spotted a sock hanging off of the end of the dusty bed frame. I went to get it.

"Getting the fidgets again, Sound-chan?" I looked casually over my shoulder as I flapped the sock around, getting the dust off, before putting it with it's partner in my rucksack before zipping it up and turning. I nodded silently, smiling with my eyes. My old friend Mei, a sensuous, dark-haired woman sighed and turned to place her back against the doorframe, looking up and catching her long, black hair between her shoulders and the doorframe. "I should've known." She sighed, watching the little black spider as it scurried away along the top of the door frame. "You always fly away on nights like these." I smiled. She really knew me well.

"Thanks for putting me up last night, Mei." She flapped her hand at me and shook her head with a smile.

"How could I do anything else? You only come by so often. I'm just sorry that I only had the dirtiest room in the Inn left to put you up in." she said, wrinkling her nose at the sight of dust covering everything inside. I shrugged.

"It is in the attic." She sighed again.

"I suppose you're right. Where do you suppose you'll be going this time then?" I smiled, a mischievous twinkle in my eye.

"Where ever the stars lead me." We said in sync, and I grinned my face off before moving forward to hug my friend, bag already slung over my shoulder, an embrace she returned warmly. I said the same thing every time, so all of my friends knew the phrase by heart. As quickly as the hug began, it ended, and we pushed away from each other, and I looked slightly down into her brown eyes and gave her a slight, crooked grin.

"Stay safe, Mei-kun." I said, my usual parting words. She smiled up at me, her eyes tired.

"Sayounara." I slipped past her and out the door, putting my hand up so that she could see the back of my hand waving to her as I slipped into the darkness. I never did like goodbyes. Mei leaned her shoulder against the doorframe and sighed, searching the hood of her hoodie for something before she pulled out the soft, miniature, knitted brown teddy bear I had dropped in it. It was quite cute, and she sighed again as she held it in her hand and looked at the place where I had disappeared. "When is she going to stop coming through here?"

In the back parking lot of Mei's family's Inn, I strapped myself into the cockpit of my car and quietly drove out of town until I was a safe distance out before speeding up and going off-road. I waited until I hit the woods, and I glanced at my rear-view mirror. Nothing but trees. I looked to the sides of me and in front. Nothing but lots and lot of evergreens. I grinned wildly, the white of my teeth unseen in the darkness as my moon-bathed hair stuck out in the night. I pulled the lever, and everything changed. The car shifted, rose up and twisted, giving way to a 12-foot, slender machine that stood up on two, well-shaped, red and gold-painted metal legs that led to a slim body which bore equally slim, well-shaped and well-built metal arms upon the shoulders of which sat a round head, with two eyes glowing white, set into the face of the machine where the eyes of a human would be. The red and gold machine stood still in the middle of a clearing, wind rippling through the clearing at the sudden stop like a grassy sea. It was human-esque in appearance, slim and beautiful, and inside, Sound was tapping away, smiling to herself, a half-suppressed, excited smile on her lips. Then she stopped, and grabbed a lever on either side of her, looking up at the image of the star-strewn sky shown on the screen above her head and grinned almost ferally, her eyes glowing with anticipation.

"C'mon Bullet. Lets do this!" The machine nodded and bent it's knees, preparing to jump. The next second, it was gone, the sound of wild, elated whooping dying into the night.