Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing but I own a few characters in here.
Note: Beware of spoilers here and there.

Five Pilots and a Girl
By catnipsph

PROLOGUE

The year was AC 196. Almost a year has passed since gundams descended on Earth and war broke out between Earth and the United Earth Sphere Alliance. Most people believed that the Gundams are enemies both of the colonies and Earth and that Oz is the supreme government that should rule the Universe. The Oz forces, under Treize Kushrenada's leadership, went to space to convince the colonies of their cause. Though the convincing part is mostly invading the colonies and making them surrender to Oz.

In a far-off region, the OZ army is currently invading colony L3098, famous for major technological advances. Their mission is to capture all living scientists. Reports have reached Oz that the rogue scientists who built the gundams grew up and finished their degree in colony L3098.

Amidst the fire and chaos that is currently spreading throughout the colony, a father and daughter strived to live.

"Hurry Dad! We must drink the potion. The Oz soldiers are coming!" a girl cried out to her father. She could hear doors banging nearing them.

"Very well," Mr. Torentio said looking skeptically at her 14-yr old daughter Lysa.

A few days ago, a message was sent to all colony inhabitants that Oz forces were coming to invade them. Being scholars and scientist, they knew what Oz was after. But they didn't expect it to happen so soon. On that day, her daughter volunteered to help him trash all valuable information he had invented for the past 3 decades funded by the university. Though they were mostly finished, he wasn't expecting Oz forces to invade them that day.

With a last look at his daughter who was holding a glass flask similar to his, he gulped down the contents of the potion. Instantly, he sensed a burning sensation at the pit of his stomach. His vision became hazy then he fainted.

Lysa quickly bent down and tried to get his father's pulse. There was none.

Good. The potion worked. Sorry dad, but I mustn't let you be caught by them.

As if on cue, Oz soldiers barged in. She raised her arms to surrender. One of the soldiers checked on her father and was surprised to find he was dead. "What happened to him?" he barked at Lysa.

"He, he d-died of a heart attack!" she stammered.

The soldier then grabbed her and headed out. She took one last look at her father and hoped he would understand that she needed to make sure the potion worked.

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All habitants of L3098 who were found alive were taken as prisoners and were rounded up in the center of the colony. The head of the invasion was surprised to find out that there were very few prisoners. Most of who were street beggars and homeless kids. The captain was furious. It means that most of the habitants have obviously escaped. L3098 was known as the capital of science. Most famous scientists and professors lived in the said colony. In fact the scientists who built the Gundams were said to have lived here. His orders were clear: to capture the scientists in L3098 and be taken back to Earth. At that time, they badly need to build a mobile suit that would counter the attacks of the Gundams.

Lysa glanced around as they were all taken to the base camp that was supposed to be the military camp of the colony. She could see so many bodies scattered around. She knew that some of them have taken the potion. That potion can render a man's heart to stop beating for three hours. She pities the others who were with her at that moment. She knew that these people didn't have enough money to buy the said potion. It was invented by one of her father's colleagues just recently. They have planned an evacuation but it seems Oz outwitted them this time.

"Your name?" one of the Oz soldier said.

Lysa knew that she needed to mask her identity. It doesn't help that she's the daughter of Marc Torentio, one of the famous inventors in the colony. "My name's Lara Perkins."

"Age?" the Oz soldier inquired as he typed in the information.

"Fourteen."

Lysa tried not to run away when she saw the soldier's brows furrowed. If he is tapping into the colony's central base then her name wouldn't show up, unless there is a person named Lara Perkins living the colony that doesn't match her age.

"Your parent's name?" he finally inquired looking at her.

Lysa stood her ground, trying hard not to be shaken by the man's stare and quickly answered, "No-none. I, I don't have any parents. None that I know of. I live in an orphanage."

The soldier sighed. Seeing the long queue behind her, he said, "Okay. You may go with the rest."

She suppressed a sigh of relief. She guessed that the soldier simply wanted to get the interrogations be over with, taking her answers at face value.

However, her happiness was short lived as she realized that they were boarding a space shuttle. She felt the first signs of panic. She doesn't know where they were heading.

Now she felt the true implications of her decisions. She should have taken the potion along with her dad. But no. She knew that the Oz soldiers would find something amiss if they found both of them dead. She has to build an excuse. She knew her father would realize it once he finds out that she's missing.

Marc Torentio is renowned as one the creator of the Zero system. Her father told her that other scientists have already fled ten years ago and decided to build the Gundams by taking some of her father's inventions which included the Zero system. Her father disagreed to use it at its current state back then because of it's destructive abilities on the pilot using it so he decided to stay behind to perfect the model.

As the shuttle lifted off, she realized that the central university was heavily damaged. She turned her head away and closed her eyes. She silently prayed that her father, her whole family and friends have safely reached the escape shuttle.

(TBC)

Author's Notes:

So what do you think? I'd appreciate comments very much. (",)