GUNDAM WING: ANGEL OF MERCY " Heero! Heero, wait up!" Heero Yuy walked quicker. He knew that voice well, it was his friend. Heero had many friends but not one as mad as Duo Maxwell. After hearing his name being shouted for sometime, he stopped & turned round. Duo ran full throttle & just managed to stop in time.

" Don't you ever respond to your name? I was calling for ages." Duo asked. Heero looked around. Usually Duo's girlfriend was with him. Her name was sapphire scarlet & had one nickname: the angel of mercy. She was nowhere in sight. Heero caught a glimpse of another girl. It was kasumi, the girl who was in his I.T class. Before Heero could say anything, the bell for lessons went.

Sitting by the window, Trowa Barton looked at the long hair of Sapphire. " She should have been Ruby. Her hair is amazing." Trowa judged. He was brought back to earth, when Quatre Winner poked him in the ribs. " What you staring at?" Quatre enquired. Trowa shook his head.

Sapphire idly tapped down a few words on her laptop. She searched her work to see anything wrong & sighed. " Lets face it, Life's much happier & exciting with Duo around!" Sapphire thought. Suddenly two hands went over her eyes. " Guess who?" came a familiar voice. Sapphire smiled. " Well, lets guess. You wouldn't happen to be Duo Maxwell." Sapphire replied. The hands were removed & Duo's smiling face appeared. " Correct! 100 points for you." Was his reply. The last of the group was a guy called Crang Wufei, or Wufei to his friends.

" Right everyone, there's no point doing work. Most of you can't keep your minds on the work, but the last day before the 6 weeks holidays. Do what you want." The teacher instructed. Sapphire giggled & turned her attention to the boys. Ayane watched the boys play round. " That girl! She's a tomboy for sure!" Ayane thought. Sapphire caught a glimpse of Ayane & smiled, a stupid, cheeky grin. Ayane scowled & returned her attention to, her half- sister Kasumi. " Get a load of that!" she whispered. Kasumi looked over & saw Duo kiss Sapphire on the cheek. " Sick, isn't it!" Ayane said, pretending to puck. " I find it sweet. Remember they could be the Gundam pilots who we will meet!" Kasumi responded. " Don't remind me!" sighed Ayane shaking her head.

Heero walked slower. Part of him didn't want to meet Relena, but part of him did. Someone tapped him on the shoulder. Turning round, he came face to face with Quatre. " Hey! Do you know those two new girls? I heard they came from the moon colonies." Quatre said. Heero shrugged his shoulders. " Beats me." He replied. " Hey! Give it back!" came a shout. Heero turned round to see Duo holding something black. Quatre laughed. It was Sapphire's laptop. Sapphire's long fire-red hair whipped round her face as she skated up to, Duo. " You dished the braid. You know what I'm like." Duo replied, holding the laptop at arms length. " Okay, I'm sorry. Forgive me?" Sapphire questioned. She gave him huge blue puppy eyes. Duo looked away, but handed back the laptop. Sapphire grabbed it & planted a huge kiss on Dou's lips. " Oh boy! He's going to be even more hyper now!" mumbled Heero.

Trowa placed the last box outside & straighten up. The echoing of typing filled the room. Duo was in the kitchen stuffing his face. Trowa sighed. Since Sapphire gave him that kiss, he went from mad, to just plain hyper. Trowa went back inside & stood against the wall. Sapphire was sitting on the floor, typing an e-mail to a friend. Her friend lived right in the middle of the OZ wars. Heero sat on the sofa, also typing up plans & charts. Suddenly the bell rung. Duo appeared, a half-eaten sandwich in his hand, & opened the door. " This a surprise! I didn't know you was a gundam pilot, you're too hyper." Came a voice. Waltzing in was Ayane & Kasumi. Duo followed but returned to the kitchen. " Well, I told you, not some much as a hello!" snorted Ayane. Sapphire waved, but didn't look up from her work. " Don't mind them. Heero sorting more charts out, Sapphire's doing an e- mail & Duo stuffing his face like a starving dog." Replied Trowa. " I heard that!" Duo yelled.

The next day, the gang was at the Gundam compound. " Come on! You couldn't hit a fly!" stated Sapphire. Duo pretended to be hurt. " Nice back-up, I must say!" he replied. Sapphire winked at him & stuck her tongue out. Quatre was fixing a white Gundam with huge wings. " Nice Gundam, whose is it?" Kasumi asked wiping a hand over the paint-job. Sapphire giggled. "It's mine. My father gave it to me, before he died." She stated. " Hey Duo, I could have some help here." Quatre shouted. Duo nodded his head & kneed down to Quatre. Suddenly Heero's Laptop bleeped into life. " Hey guys! I think this is a mission." Heero said, typing his password into the laptop. Everyone crowed round & looked at the screen. The words plain stated something that made Sapphire smile. " Assassinate the maker of the mobile dolls. He will be leaving the moon on a white spaceship, bearing the OZ logo! Assassinating him, will be your choice!" the words read.

Relena looked round her street, hoping to see Heero. Unknown to her, or anyone else, he was in space. " Miss, your plane is ready!" Relena's servant said. Relena's plane was black & bared the Peacecraft logo. Out in space, Relena saw the mobile doll maker's plane. Suddenly, there was a crash & a beam of light. Appearing was Heero's Gundam. " Right, let's take this guy out!" stated Heero. 7 other gundams appeared. " I'll take this one!" replied Ayane, & flew forward. Her Gundam pulled out a rifle & started shooting at the plane. Relena held her breathe. " I'm lucky I didn't have a white Plane. Who ever owns that, must be dead by now!" she thought. " Stop firing Ayane! Let Duo do the rest!" said Kasumi, on the screen. Ayane stopped firing & sighed. Duo was excited & got his weapon ready. Two red scythes made the plane explode & they reappeared to Duo's gundam. Hot ambers shot down from the plane & hit Sapphire's Gundam.

" Yo guys! I'm kind of losing control here!" sapphire yelled. She suddenly crashed to the moon, right in an OZ base. " Sapphire! Come on guys, we've got to save her!" yelled Duo. Before he could go anywhere, Ayane's & Heero's Gundam blocked his path. " Duo, we can't save her. Look! She's already in enemy camp!" stated Ayane. Duo turned away.

When Sapphire woke up, she didn't know what hit her. Looking around, she realised she had fallen out of her gundam. Lucky for her they landed in a wood. " No OZ person would dare go in the wood. Good thing too!" Sapphire thought, as she grabbed her sniper. Suddenly she heard something. Sapphire looked over a bush to two OZ officers. " You hear that?" asked one. The other nodded his head. The first had his back to Sapphire. " Would I risk it!" she thought. The cards weren't stack in sapphire's honour, so she jumped on the first officer. Sapphire suddenly got hit over the head by the second officer's rifle. " Well I think Lady unes going to like this!" said the first officer straightening his collar. His friend agreed.

Duo paced the compound. Heero had promised he would find a weakness of the base. Ayane stood against the wall with Trowa, & Kasumi was watching nervously. " Calm down Duo!" Kasumi said. She was brushing her long blond hair. Ayane scowled. There weren't many things Ayane hated about her half- sister; But Ayane envied Kasumi's long hair. Ayane had short amber hair. She blew some out of her eyes & looked at Trowa. " Doesn't stay much. I kind of like him!" she thought. Heero busily typed up the lunar base & finally got an answer. " Hey Duo! I found her!" Heero gleefully stated. When Trowa looked, he gasped. " What is it?" Ayane questioned. " That's where my travelling circus is going. I'm not part of anything at the moment, the ring-leader said I come have time off." Trowa replied. A cheeky grin spread across Kasumi's face. Before she could say anything, the T.V blinked into life. " News just in. A Gundam pilot crashed landed in an OZ base. She will executed along with, if they can find her Gundam!" the reporter said. An image of Sapphire appeared. " Hang Sapphire, I'm coming!" Duo thought.

Sapphire woke up to an aching & dizzy head. " Ouch! Man what hit it?" Sapphire thought. Getting up, she suddenly noticed blood on the floor. " This is that fresh?" Sapphire wondered. Looking at her top, Sapphire soon realised she got shot, in the shoulder. " More to the point what happened?" She said to herself. Sapphire looked round. The cell was Disgusting. There was mould on the ceiling & not an air-vent in sight. " Don't want to take chances." Sapphire said aloud. She felt the floor for her sniper. Unfortunately the officer, who was standing at the door outside, had it. Sapphire kicked the door. Suddenly there was a crash & the cell door opened. Sapphire got ready. She was just about to punch the officer, when someone shot him, in the back. Sapphire looked to see who it was. " Trowa! You won't believe it, but I'm glad to see you!" she said. Trowa didn't force a smile, but pulled Sapphire out the cell & down a corridor, to Duo & Kasumi.

" What's going on?" Sapphire asked. Kasumi told her to shh. Trowa pointed down to a huge hall, where his friend was showing off. His friend was called Catherine. " She's good!" whispered Sapphire. Trowa nodded his head & Catherine finished her act. " Duo, go tell Heero we've got her!" whispered Trowa. Duo nodded his head. " Duo, be careful!" Sapphire said. Duo grinned. " Hey, it's me!" he replied. The others rolled their eyes. " That's what I'm afraid of!" whispered Sapphire in reply. Duo disappeared down a corridor. Catherine joined Trowa & smiled. " Hi! I see you got your friend out!" she said. Kasumi clamped her hand over Catherine's mouth. " Shut up, we're not out the woods yet!" Kasumi warned.