Title: Faltering Hand of Providence

Autors: MoonFox (Kay) and FireStarter

Rating: Um... this chapter would be PG-13 for the graphic details

Summery: When choices are made differently the consequences of
destiny change drastically. Time split and things are changed, the
original Gundam Wing Pilots are dead. Team 2 has been called in to
help in the fight against OZ. The war is concluding in an evil end.
When a new technology is discovered, will the time lines collide and
help our fearless hero's? or will Oz spread their influence to other
planes of existence?

Disclaimer: We don't own Gundam Wing. We do own our original
characters. Please ask before using or archiving. Plagiarism will be
dealt with in extreme.

Author babble:
Kay: WooHoo! Firestarter and I are co-authoring a story FINALLY!

Wufei: Oh no you're not!

Hannah: Not happening!

Heero: Damn Onnas

Meiran: Uh… NOT!

Duo: I'll use my magic and make Kay's Internet go down! *ZAP* OUCH!

Kimi: Oh no you don't. One, you don't have magic, two this will be
my first feature story. I will be the lead character, and nothing
can stop that. MUWHAHAHA

All the anime characters: *EVIL GLARE*

FS: Oh don't be such party poopers. The next fic after this will be
a 1x… *whispers to Kay* is he 3 or 4?

Kay: Um… Oh boy… *thinking* WAIT! They don't know about that yet.
Shhhh.

Trowa, Quatre, and Heero: *looking nervously at each other*

FS: OH! Hehe. So how are we gonna work this fic?

Kay: AU definitely AU. Probably some angst, humor, death, destruction,
and mayhem, sappy ending! We will be gods of our own fan fiction! I
mean we want to get you know who *wink, wink* you know where *nudge
nudge* with you know who.

Duo: Say no more, say no more, know what I mean.

All: *sweat drop*

Hannah: DOH!

Kay: Someone, gag her please.

FS: Alright fine. How about we put them through the Bermuda Triangle?

Hannah: Oh like that hasn't been done before! *roll eyes*

Wufei: *slaps hand over Hannah's mouth * Onna shut up! Let them do
it so they can get caught for plagiarism.

Kay: Hey, I already know its been done before. I like Christy and
Mel…I DO NOT want to get on their bad side.

FS: Who are they?

All: *GASP*

Kay: I'll send you the link. *wink, wink* , Duo shut up, but yes
they've done that. I like that story too a lot.

FS: How does it end?

Kay: They haven't finished it yet.

FS: Oh.

Janette: If you ladies are going to do this…

FS: YEAH!

Kay: Right! Good reading!

CHAPTER 1: SHADOW OF ANGUISH

A dark shadow covered the sun and stole the heat from the air. The
wind began to pick up and scatter leaves and debris into the sky.
Swirling bits were thrown into the trunk of a tree and on the other
side a figure crouched, hidden from the force. The branches above
swayed and creaked, threatening to break and fly to the ground. The
teenage girl pulled at her cloak, attempting to keep it from being
yanked away. Her shoulder length auburn tresses whipped at her face
in stinging repetition. Kimi squinted her hazel green eyes trying to
get a visual of her surroundings. Her Gundam was in the base just
over the hill, a stupid and hasty decision allowed OZ to find her
Gundam, now all she had to do was steal it back.

"Yeah, right, steal it back. No problem." She muttered sarcastically
against the gale. The storm would not let up any time soon, she knew
that now. So against better judgment, she took her chances and made
a run for the base. She ducked down, trying to keep low, but the
wind did not allow it. Pressing at her back, lifting her from under
the cloak and urging her forward. It took a great deal of her
strength to keep herself upright and her footing somewhat firm.

Just beyond the rise of the hill she caught her first bit of real
relief. The wind still howled above the crest, yet the protection
offered here was better than the sapling, enough to allow Kimi a few
moments to collect herself before the final assault. With Lana and
Janette dead, Meiran missing, and only two operating Gundums, the war
was coming to an evil and bloody end. The rebellion would suffer
another great loss if Kimi's Gundam, Heavy Arms, could not be
liberated from the holding facility. She could see the OZ base
about a mile away. It stretched out to the size of a small city.
Kimi found some bushes to hide in, pulled out her binoculars out and
settled in to wait for night.

The wind finally let up as darkness fell, Kimi was already out of her
bushes and heading to the menacing compound. The security was
tight. Not a single foot of fence around the base was weak or
unguarded, she felt a chill of fear as her mind pondered the
strategy. She felt the hand of Death creeping in closer, waiting for
her to make that one fatal mistake. She wondered if any of the other
pilots had felt the same as their time drew near.

*~*~*flashback* ~*~*
"OZ broadcasting reports that one of the terrorist Gundum pilots has
been destroyed. The terrorist known as 01, was killed in a suicidal
detonation of his Gundum after demolishing the plane carrying the
Earth Spheres finest representatives on a mission of peace. As of
yet, OBC has not gotten a number of the bystanders that were injured
or killed." After that Hannah was called in by the Doctors, and began
to pilot Wing Zero. The transition was a tough one, Kimi recalled,
especially for the four remaining guys. She remembered watching the
televised report with Doctor S wondering if her training would be
needed as Hannah's now was.
*~*~*end flashback*~*~*

Soon all five of the teenage boys were dead, Chang Wufei protecting
his home colony and shielding Meiran from death. Duo, in the OZ moon
base, along side the OZ defector Hilde. Quatre's mind was taken over
by the Zero system, he died in the cockpit from a brain aneurysm.
One by one, until Trowa Barton was the last of the original pilots.
On a mission, impersonating an OZ soldier, he was found out, and put
to death immediately. Kimi was thankful that she hadn't needed to go
in before. Now was her time though and she accepted her destiny
filled with sorrow, anger, and mortality.

Then things went from bad to worse. The resistance was failing,
Lana was charged with protecting Relena Peacecraft in the old Sank
Kingdom. The OZ troops hit so hard and fast that no one survived,
and after searching through the rubble, the on board recorder that
Sandrock carried was found severely damaged. The Doctors were still
working on pulling the information out of it, with no success. With
only four Gundums left, and the strongest voice of peace gone, the
rest carried on with a heavy spirit.

Janette was the next to succumb to the icy figure she portrayed. She
was with Sally Po and her group when OZ forces surrounded them.
Sally later escaped the prison she was held at and carried with her
the story of how Janette, sick of the fighting and disheartened with
all the death she caused in a machine built with the same name and
purpose, had just given up. She was the first of the prisoners to
die in some type of experimental test that the OZ scientists were
working on. It seemed as though ruling in one dimension wasn't
enough for them. Now they wanted to expand.

Soon, Treize publicly announced that he was taking his followers and
leaving the OZ empire. He, Une, Zechs, Noin, and a handful of others
came to the resistance pleading for sanctuary. Treize and Zechs
brought their Gundams with them. Unbeknownst to any of them a remote
tracker had been placed on Epions self-destruct mechanism. The
blast was near the likes of a small nuclear bomb, it took out
Tallgeese and Shenlong with it. Hannah was out on a mission with
Wing Zero, and Kimi arrived just prior to the explosion with Heavy
Arms, parking it away from the others out of her own paranoid need to
be cautious.

That day two weeks ago stood out in her mind clearly. Her sleep was
plagued with nightmares and visions. It replayed on her senses time
and again.