Across the Universe.
Summary: Tired of their current lives, three Gundam Pilots go on a quest to find themselves across the universe but instead they found life beyond Earth and the Colonies and it's something they really didn't wanted to find out. 1x2, 3x4, 5xS.
Declaimers: I don't own anything, not even the chair I'm sitting nor the computer I'm writing on, neither the roof over my head. So don't sue me.
Prologue.
Freedom is such an interesting concept. It was something they fought for, something they safeguarded for many years, and ironically the thing they never really had since the war.
They used to flight and blow up stuff across the universe and that is not necessarily a good thing, but they were terrorist, kid soldiers with ideals so great that they won the war even if the odds were against them. They got blood on their hands but all because of the greater good. That made them real heroes, proud of bridging peace in every corner of the universe. But all the good stuff, the legendary stuff gets an ending.
Somehow they ended with so many responsibilities, so many burdens and chores that came with living normal boring lives, that Freedom was actually the thing they lost when the war ended.
This may sound subversive, because they were the famously know Gundam Pilots, and they couldn't be saying that peace was boring as shit and not so valuable after all. But they kind of did think that at some point of their various boring lives.
Of course Preventers took it the wrong way after they got wind of these thoughts that may or may not been confessed drunk on a party. For all we know, it could be a just a rumor gone wild, but they knew, they knew that there was a very good chance it did happen. It could be that time Heero was drunk on the preventer's annual party or maybe Trowa in that Pub after work. Duo did say something like that on his son's birthday and he wasn't drunk. So maybe it was all of these times, or just the one. We don't know.
They got fired anyway.
Four years ago.
Now you may think this was for the best, if they hated the work they did so much. But now, they had nothing at all, maybe except their wife's. And that was not good either.
You see, Heero married Relene as was expected, but as it turns out; they weren't really cut for each other. He had way too many demons in his past, and she was a tight society bitch. You have to born in this aristocratic life to really want it, and he was a soldier and nothing more. They had an only son.
Duo instead married a soldier like him, Hilde was all he thought he needed, Howard actually said to him that been a good husband makes up for any sin. So he got married with hope and love and stupidity. This story is sort of complicated, once she left him, then he left her and so on for years, they had a son at some point too. Maybe they were too much alike.
Trowa on the other hand, well…, he never married, or had a girlfriend, or meet a real woman for the matter. Almost like he was waiting patiently for someone.
That someone never did make up his mind and instead married his work, his company and his thousand nephews. But Quatre Winner was a mystery to them at that point. To him, nothing was wrong on his friend's lives; he was blind to his sufferings and always got good nights of sleep.
Wufei married Sally, had a daughter whom he named Nataku and a son she named John, he's still married, still a great father and now a Commander in Preventers. Out of the five, he was the best adapted to civilian life. Figures. Nobody would have believed that if you'd said it in 196 AC.
So actually our story began with these three losers. They got evicted and ended living together in an old house. Trowa's by the way, a gift from Quatre once upon a time. But he never fixed anything so it was a fucking hole. Had an amazing hangar though.
They had Relena's money; because she thought her responsibility to give Heero a pension, because to her, money could mend everything. They had some of the money Preventers gave them after their dismissal. Money and too much spare time it never is a good idea.
Freedom. Yes that why we began this talk. Well….
They thought that Freedom could be constructed. They had Gundams in the past, weapons' I give you that. But weapons' that could move around space with such liberty, it was almost like a Waltz between the stars. Machines so big and so heavy on gravity but so beautiful and carefree wandering up there.
They had the knowledge passed by their mentors; they actually had degrees in physics by Preventers. They had PhDs by universities and other amazing titles. (None of that got them working again).
Liberty, how to construct one's liberty?. Well they had everything they needed. Time, money and knowledge. Why the fuck not?.
It was a Sunday while listening to rock and roll on the radio; it was an autumn's bright and orange day, leaves keep dancing in the air conducted by the roaring wind that got out of the motors heart. Silence as their main companion because it was an understament that Trowa and Heero were quiet by nature.
"It's done" said Duo while nodding to their creation. "The Liberty is finished"
"Hn" said Heero with his intense stare to the ship.
And it was. The Liberty 1, deep space ship, was finally done. And it had three stupid and brave pilots waiting to board and lost themselves forever in Freedom.
See ya next chapter.