Gundam Wing: Remastered, Expanded & Annotated
Author: Cyn Finnegan
Beta: None yet
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or any of the characters. I only like to play with them.
Archive: , MediaMiner, AO3, DeviantArt, PaperDemon, Gundam Wing Fans
Rating: M (see warning)
Status: Work in progress.
Eventual Pairings: 01 x RP, 02 x HS, 03 x 04, 05 x SP, 06 x 09, 11 x 13
Warnings: canon-typical violence & language, moments of inappropriate humor, angst, bondage, mentions of past sexual assault (Trowa, in chapter eight), long-ass chapters and all the good stuff.
Part of the "Heroes of the Future" time line.
Gundam Wing © Sunrise/Sotsu. Used without permission and not for profit.
Prologue: April 6th, After Colony 195
For nearly twenty years, the United Earth Sphere Alliance held the colonies in their iron grip.
After the assassination of pacifist Hiiro Yui, the President of the Colonies, the Alliance cut off any and all communications between colonies. Later, they began cracking down on the rest of Yui's colonial followers, causing the collapse of the coalition and forced many of them underground. During these sweeps, several prominent followers, including the head of the Winner Family of from the L4 cluster, made trade deals with the Alliance, hoping to be left alone. Others, like Dekim Barton, the chief representative of L3's Barton Foundation, dropped his veneer of pacifism entirely and began manufacturing weapons and munitions.
In AC 182, the Alliance followed up their actions in space with the eradication of Yui's allies on Earth, including Martin and Katrina Peacecraft, rulers of the pacifistic Cinq Kingdom. While the King and Queen were executed by then-Colonel Diego Onegel, their seven-year-old son, Milliardo, and two-year-old daughter Relena survived the massacre and fire.
Though there were a few revolts over the years, the most recent ones on Colony V-08744 in the L2 cluster and X-18999 in L3 seven years earlier, things remained peaceful for the most part, and the ruling councils of each colony began to rely on the Alliance's military power to keep the now-fragile peace. It had all worked out cleverly, too, just as the higher-ups of the Alliance had planned...
Until today.
Today saw the departure of several capsules to Earth, disguised as meteors. Each was launched from a different colony, or in one case, a mining operations satellite, in each cluster. There were five different transport ships in all, and all raced towards Mother Earth at top speed. The young pilots within the capsules were as unaware of each other as they were the fact that they were all on the same mission and after the same goals, though for different reasons: one to fulfill a mission, one to gain revenge for lost loved ones, one to prevent a massacre, one to protect his family, and one to define justice.
Author's Notes: I'm taking a cue from the novelization with this prologue, mainly because even without it, the first chapter (which is almost finished) is already pushing 10,000 words. That's the most I've ever written in one go.
Next Chapter: The story begins.