Title: Alternate Choices

Author: Miishii

Category: Gundam Wing AC

Main Pairing: Solo x 02

Disclaimer: GW and characters are not mine. I tried to steal them once…but after an incident involving spaghetti and a flamingo suit I have never really been the same since….

Warning: Some swears in this chapters and I mention death and stuffs like that but nothing all too raunchy…

AN: I am kinda crazy and me thinks Duo ish an Uke, deal with it. If you want to flame or give a review there ish a little button bottom left that allows you to do that. If you do flame make it interesting and worth reading. Everyone who does leave me their words of wisdom I will mention you in the next Authors note good or bad all who click that little button down there get a mention.

Enough chatting you go read the story now. This takes place after both wars and I have been a little loose with the facts and what not. Bleh, it'll be fine….This ish just a prologue. It will be longer in the coming of later chapters so dun think I am lazy and what not.

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Half lidded, violet eyes stare lazily out at the endless expanse of space visible through the shuttle's large window. The owner of those eyes slouched down a bit lower in the pilot's seat and Duo Maxwell, ex-gundam pilot and one of the most feared men in the solar system, yawned kittenishly in sleepiness.

He had left Earth some hours ago without mention to anyone of his comrades, his job done and his soul weary of the peace bearing down on it with hidden claws. He was nothing once more. As a pilot he had been someone, he had been depended on, needed, and his fellow pilots had been his friends and family…But now that the wars were over and peace reined under the frilly pink hand of Relena and her galactic space alliance or whatever the tabloids where calling the new government now a days, Duo was once more left to fend for himself. He was once more a shadow, a street rat, a passing memory to be lost in time…

He was alone.

Heero had given up his more homicidal and suicidal tendencies and married the pink princess; a girl who would make anyone want to go psycho in Duo's opinion. But to be fair she was good for Heero and he smiled more now. He loved her and Duo would not fault him for dropping their friendship in his pursuit of such obvious happiness.

Since the end of the wars Duo had seen his friend all but three times and had to watch the wedding from his living room couch not receiving an invite to the event, something that nearly tore him apart to watch and know about without being there. Relena had feared Duo and Heero's close friendship and did all she could to keep them apart. It was easy for her with all her vast resources at hand to do that and she even went as far as to make him chose between them.

Duo sat up a little in the pilot's seat and clenched his jaw a little from the memory of their last meeting with each other. One that left Duo feeling hollow and hurt from the harsh and remorseless words his friend had spoken when he severed their friendship. Relena had stood behind Heero in a beautiful light blue dress, her hair and make up perfect and a smug look on her royal face as Heero turned his back on Duo and escorted his love out to their new life, a life without Duo in it.

The very memory of it still hurt like an interrogation session with crazy psycho Une only without her sweet disposition and sense of compassion for an enemy soldier. Please note the sarcasm drowning the room in that last thought.

Duo shivered in his seat suddenly feeling cold and started to type commands into the shuttle console in front of him running diagnostics of the ship for something to do. After readjusting his course for L2 into the computer he sighed heavily and put on a pair of headphones, music from many different decades listed under his fingers and he set the playlist to random. He leaned back in his chair once more, sitting sideways on it and curling himself inwards, wiggling until he was comfortable.

As an instrumental piece filtered into his head it brought forth another memory, one of Quatre and Trowa. After Heero's wedding Q-bean had noticed Duo's absence at the reception and pulled the entire story from the reluctant braided teen. Duo had found comfort in Quatre and Trowa even if it was not to last for very long. He had been dragged to Quatre's mansion and given the best anyone could ask for, but for all his compassion and love for his friends, Quatre was rather stingy with his personal time.

Over eleven times Duo found him self alone during a friendly dinner date and twice he had been ditched when they were hanging out together. The reason for his blonds friend abandonment was none other then Trowa who said blond was obviously infatuated with. Duo often found himself sitting on the floor outside of Quatre's large music room listening to them flirt with music and every night coming to the same conclusion. He had to leave.

So he left, once more on the road and no were to go. The last place he had gone was Wufei's and the memories of the brief period were bitter at best…

Duo shifted in his chair and looked out at the stars once more his eyes slowly slipping closed. He knew that after the last war Wufei had beaten himself up about his position and role in it. He had accepted an offer from Une to join the preventers, an offer all but Duo received due to his reckless behaviour and lack of respect for the woman who had tried to kill him in more ways then one during the war. Wufei had found his calling and had let Duo crash at his place while looking for a job.

Unknown to the Chinese pilot Duo had been looking for something the braided man could not name in the other youth but found himself instead under the taunts and vocalized displeasure for Duo's very being. It was with a heavy heart and a daunting loneliness gripping him, that Duo left with his entire life and everything he owned shoved into a single duffle bag and a small black back pack.

He left without word or notice. Bought a ship and took to space his destination being L2 where the memory of loved ones long dead haunted him daily. So here he was alone and cold curled up in a pilots chair and wallowing in his self pity. All this pity party needed was some snacks and he'd be all set. With music playing in his ear and weariness from previous days past bearing down on him, Duo let himself fall into a light doze, the images of a priest and kind nun filtering through his mind as he fell deeper into sleep and memories.

Soon he was back on L2's streets a child once more as memory took control of his unconscious mind. He was six again and the boy next to him, barely a teenager, ran beside him and leading him away from danger; various stolen goods wrapped in their arms. Green eyes looked down warmly at Dream Duo and the straggly blond hair hung about the others face in long, blond, shoulder length strands. The name was whispered from sleep and filled with longing that sang through the universe and called to forces most knew nothing of.

"Solo…"

Duo awoke with a start as the entire ship jolted from under him and threw him from his seat and onto the floor. He landed in a crouch not truly awake and blinking as sirens and flashing lights from the ships alarm systems interrupted his sleep and replaced his music.

"The fuck hit me?!" Duo cursed as he slid into the pilot's seat once more and strapped himself in, hands flying over the consol in a familiarity not just anyone was able to achieve. Hands nearly blurring with the speed of his movements he ran diagnostics and shifted gears trying to find out what had set off the alarms and threw him so off course in the little time that he had shut his eyes.

He got the answer in the form of swirling space dust, debris and rock as his eyes focused on the large gaping black hole in front of him that was sucking at his ship with a powerful gravitational field.

"Shit!" Duo's eyes widened and he raced to redirect his ship "shit shit shitty shit fuck!" He screamed out in his frustration as he strained at the controls and turned on the thrusters to their full capacity the ship groaning and metal rattling from the different forces at work. The ship moved like it was in a vat of molasses but held firm against the black hole's pull making Duo think that he might just make it out of this alive. Sweat formed on Duo's forehead and a single bead made its way down the side of his face as the ship slowly but surely pulled away from the black hole and towards open space.

Duo clicked on his communications vid and let it go out on open frequency not having any time to find the closest shipto get a secure link. He began screaming out a distress signal and warning to any who was near having to yell just to make himself heard over the various alarms and beeps coming from the ship. His voice was cut off mid plea however when a large meteorite slammed into the side of his ship tossing him against the harness of his seat and slamming his head into the controls. Something exploded near the thrusters and Duo only had time to mutter half a curse before it felt like all the air disappeared from his lungs as wide eyes looked up to witness the exact moment he was sucked into the black hole.

Out in space no sound was heard as a black hole sucked in a small shuttle like a gaping mouth consuming food and then folding in on itself. It left nothing behind save for the tail end of warped metal with a name lovingly painted upon it and a scream no one would hear as a young life was snuffed out from this plan and sent into another.

"Shit! This is shuttle number on-krss###hhhk- Re-…sistance immediately, I -Krshhhh####kkkk- ack hole FUCK! –Kr#####Shhhhhhhh- -elp! I repeat I need immidiaAAAAAAAAAAH!!! -kkkk########shhhkk- …………………"

It would be a week later before the broken distress signal would be received and several more days before the only thing left to prove the existence of one Duo Maxwell would be found in the form of painted metal the words 'lost soul' painted on it and Duo's signature underneath the elegant words.

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Yeah...That's the first one. I am new at this and will be working on the next part of the story and it will be up really soon. Remember all comments will be viewed and mentioned. I will not post the second half until I get at least one review...

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