AN- Well this is chapter two. You get a much better feel for the story in this chapter.
Disclaimer- We do not own Gundam Wing or any of the Gundam Wing characters. We do own the plot and all that happens in it.
Quatre looked around the small classroom. His four companions all looked very different. Most notably the teen sitting beside him with long hair that has been braided up. He also seemed to be the most relaxed out of the others. They all seemed to be so tense and he had to admit he was feeling very tense at the moment as well. The professor standing in front of the five teens had long white hair with these strange glasses on. After he introduced himself he called for four other professors to come into the classroom. Once those other professors and made their way into the class each looking more strange after the other the first one started talking again. "Welcome to the Meteor program where each one of us have hand selected one of you to be apart of this very hard and intense program. Mostly all of your classes will be with just you five. Not to have to feel too distant from the rest of the school you will be attending Physical Education, An elective of your choice and an ethics class with the other students in your grade. Since you are going to be spending a lot of time together why don't you introduce yourselves, starting with you Heero,"
"I am Heero Yuy, I come from L1," and that was all he said. Quatre thought it was very brief but at least now he knew who that guy was though Heero did ring a bell when it came to some of the fights that took place there.
The next one to stand up was the teen with the long braided hair. "Hello all my name is the God of Death, I mean, Duo Maxwell. I come from L2 and was known for my brains and my braids," He then sat down.
Quatre then got up from his seat. "Um my name is Quatre Raberba Winner. From L4, It is a pleasure," he then quickly sat back down. Looked from side to side, and it barely even looked like anyone paid any attention to what he had just said.
Next up was a teen who had very large bangs that covered more than half of his face. "I am Trowa Barton, I come from L3"
Finally it was a more Chinese looking student. "Wu Fei Chang, L5" and he sat down. Quatre had to admit these were not the most colorful personalities he had ever met, well with the exception of Duo.
The teacher who had asked them to introduce themselves sighed loudly for the five of them to hear. It was quite obvious that he was expecting a little more then that. The other four teachers then left the room and the first one started their lesson.
After a while the class finally finished and the five of them left. They all walked out of the classroom and walked across the hall where their next class was to be held. They stood there silently for five minutes and not one of them said anything. Eventually Duo walked off saying something about exploring. Quatre waited in two more minutes of silence before he finally decided to abandon this train wreck.
He walked down the halls until he heard someone calling his name. He turned around quickly to see a large group of guys run at him. It was the Maguanacs, the only people he actually knew who went to Earth. They were kind of a gang, but they generally just did nothing.
"Hey Quatre! What's up man? We've been looking for you," Rashid said to Quatre. They then all said they're hello's and such soon after. Quatre was technically the leader of them and they never did hang out very much. Although now that they went to the same school, Quatre expected to never be able to lose them.
The bell rang out then and they parted ways. Quatre asked them where most of their classes were going to be. He was hinting that it was because he wanted to hang out with them, while truthfully he just wanted to know where to go to avoid them. He didn't feel like talking with them.
When he got back to his next class Wu Fei, Trowa and Heero hadn't seemed to have move. He wondered if they had at all. He doubted it though. The main difference though was a bunch of girls had come up and talked to them. But since the bell went they all headed off. The three of them did not seem that pleased though that they were granted the girls company. "If I'd have known this school was full of overly hyper thickheaded girls I'd never would have signed up," Heero said randomly when Quatre was first approaching.
"Ah come on they just wanted to say hello, remember we are the new kids and everyone wants to know who we are," Trowa said in response to what Heero had said.
Wu Fei wasn't that pleased though and just let out a "Weaklings," From that moment on Quatre new that it was going to be hard to befriend anyone one these guys since they looked like the most unsocial bunch of guys he had ever met.
The teacher then finally showed up and let the students in. This classroom looked almost exactly like the one they were just in, It was a small class with 5 desks in a semi circle surrounding the main desk which this time was occupied by a man with a very strange looking nose. After the four of them were settled down Duo finally came into the classroom and sat down saying something about how nice most people are. The class went on for quite a while until it was finally done. The bell rang once again and it appeared to be some kind of lunch period. The five teens made their way out of the class and looked how crowded the hallway had become. Before any of them could go anywhere they were greeted by a senior female.
"Hello you must be the five students of the Meteor program. I am Une, I represent OZ the student council and would like to welcome you to our school Earth. Oh there is someone outside who said he wanted to speak to you five," She then walked away. Quatre looked at her, she did not seem like a member of OZ. OZ is the student council of the school Earth, They were originally a group of students who wanted to make the school the best it could be. One of those ways was to remove all the bad things. Sometimes it the involved force. They had refused to let people from the L schools go on property of Earth during school hours, they got rid of all matters of things like drug dealers. They did as much extra curricular activities as possible, until they practically ran all teams and clubs. Eventually OZ took total control of the student council and most dealings of the school. After there numbers grew, they started to want even more control. When they felt that a student from Earth was not "performing" well in OZ's eyes, then OZ would give them a good talking too. They even would send out teams to certain L school's to show certain groups of the dominance of OZ and Earth. Since they had the backing of the Romefeller Family who donated a lot of money too Earth and certain staff members, they seemed to have enough control to bend the rules whenever necessary. The Five of them knew who OZ was.
After a few seconds the five of them started to make their way out of the hallway and towards outside. Quatre wanted to know who would be asking for them, but since it was OZ who informed them he knew it couldn't be good and it appeared his companions all felt somewhat the same way as they all exited the school. Once outside they could see about 5 or six students there waiting for them, each had a black wrist band on which meant they were from OZ. Once they got close enough Quatre and the rest stopped. Quatre did not like what he was seeing. At that moment Wu Fei and Heero both looked ready for a fight.
Then one of them came forward before Wu Fei and Heero had time to react. "Woah woah woah hey we don't want trouble. I am Otto, I am here to just inform you that just because you are part of some very high course that you do not own this school and you still got to answer to OZ just like everyone else."
"If Treize sent you to just tell us that why did he send five other guys with you. How about you prove your superiority because words are for weaklings," Wu Fei says.
That of course hit hurt the pride of one of the OZ people and he started rushing towards Wu Fei when Otto said "Stop Nichol you fool!" but it was to late for he threw one punch at Wu Fei that was the caught right away by Wu Fei who then kneed him in the chest. The other 4 then headed straight to the five teens. Otto being the only intelligent one made sure he stayed out of the fight. Quatre knew now that he had to get his hands dirty if he wants to or not. After then finally clashed with the five teens Trowa could be seen jumping right over the bunch. One approached Quatre, he swung at Quatre. He was able to dodge it when he got hit in the back by another. Quatre went to the ground for a second and saw the two looking at him when Wu Fei sucker punched one of them. Quatre still on the ground then looked for a second. He say Duo get a hit right in the face, Heero was blocking some punches from this one guy, Wu Fei got another good punch on that one guy. And Trowa dodging everything that came his way. Quatre's attention then got up and was able to get a good swing on the guy Wu Fei was dealing with this time sending him to the ground. The fighting lasted another thirty seconds or so and in the end most of the OZ guys were either on the ground or had run away leaving the five students standing there with some brushes but nothing serious.
The five of the stared at each other silently, Duo looked at each of them and smiled, "I got one," he said in glory. Heero then also smiled, which was the first time Quatre had seen him show any form of emotion. "I got two," Heero bragged. Then the silence stayed for another minute, before all of them parted ways. They knew that they were probably in a bad place all together. If a teacher found them here surrounded by some guys on the ground, would not be a good way to make a good first impression on the school.
Quatre walked around the halls alone for a bit before running into the Maguanacs again. They talked about all kinds of things, mostly that they were having trouble finding him and that they should have given better instructions on where they were going to be since Quatre didn't know his way around the school.
They continued talking to Quatre, who really was not saying anything back. Eventually Quatre mentioned how he hadn't eaten yet and that he should probably grab something before class started. They agreed and pointed Quatre towards the cafeteria. They were also about to follow Quatre but he convinced them that they didn't need to and that he would catch up to them later.
Quatre walked slowly towards the cafeteria and was surprised to find that when he got there that there was no line up for food. After he grabbed the stuff to eat he left the cafeteria quickly. After walking down a hall or two he ran into the other four of them who were sitting against a wall, and surprisingly, they weren't talking. Quatre sat next to them and thenb started to eat his lunch. A minute or two of silence followed until Duo finally broke the ice and started to say something.
"So what are you guys planning on taking for your elective?" He said standing up. He didn't really move, but he seemed more focused when he did that.
"Well I was thinking of music," Quatre said, jumping at the opportunity to actually talk with the other guys. Unluckily though, this was in vain as Wu Fei just grunted, Heero didn't say anything and Trowa shrugged.
Duo looked around hoping that someone else was going to answer until finally saying "Well I was thinking of taking up shop." Again though, no real reply and the conversation died once more.
Or at least it seemed until about five minutes later it was quite a shock when out of no where Trowa said "Performance Arts," And then a few minutes later again out of no where Heero said
"Horse back riding," Quatre then had to look at Heero for a second. Horse back riding? This was the second most serious up tight quite person he had ever met, the first being Wu Fei. Why in the world would he chose Horse back riding. Then almost all of their eyes went on Wu Fei who had kept his eyes closed in some kind of a sleep but more of a meditation.
Then he finally let out "Fencing," which seemed pretty apropriate Quatre thought. For almost the rest of the time no one had said anything. It most have been another ten minutes until the bell rang once again. Quatre then looked at his schedule and saw that the place he was sitting under was his next class. So he just waited there with the other four stone figures. An almost endless amount of fellow students walking by staring at them Quatre did find it kind of rude but he just let it slide. He then headed into class where they would stay for the rest of the day until finally school ended.
Quatre exited the school and looked at all the teens leaving the property. Because of its location almost all the students came here by car since there was no public transit to this part of the city. Since this place was so expensive if you were able to send your kid here you can pay for a vehicle. Quatre walked over to his old crummy looking hatchback car. He got in and looked to see if it was clear to go when Trowa on a motorcycle zoomed by him. The bike barely seemed to be functioning. He also saw Heero leave the parking lot in his large old pickup truck. Quatre then looked at all the other kids who had sports cars and new model cars. He started to see how much them a bunch of public folk were just so different than all these rich private kids. He then rode about a block when he saw Duo walking. He pulled over to Duo, "Hey Duo don't you have a vehicle you can take?"
Duo then turned and walked up to Quatre. "Na I am still working on mine to get it to work, it will take another month at least before I will be able to finish it. But thanks for the lift," without Quatre said anything Duo jumped into his car. "I was actually trying to keep up with Wu Fei but man that dude is fast, he is probably about 10 blocks by here by now," Without really saying anything Quatre started the car up again and then started to move. Quatre would not have been pleased with Duo just jumping into his car like that but he was going to offer him a ride anyway. Since Quatre wasn't saying anything and Duo was probably starting to get tired of all the silence he started to go on "So you are from the Winner family, didn't they put a lot of money into L4. Also has a very good shipping company going,"
"Yeah my father put a lot of money into L4, I have a lot of sisters who have all went there. He always wanted to give us the best education and he really believed in that school well he really believes in that neighborhood he has lived there since he was young. So of course he was so angry with me when I applied for this program and got accepted. But I just had to get away from that place and this was my way out, so where do you live?" Quatre asked.
"I live on Scythe Avenue it is right next to the auto district right near the scrap heap. You still live with your father right now. The dock area is quite a ways?" Duo said as he pointed at what appeared to be Wu Fei running along the road.
Quatre was silent for a second as they passed Wu Fei. He would have stopped to find out if he wanted a lift two but he already knew what the answer would be. "Na I am not living with my father right now. I am living with one of my sisters who has a small apartment near here, I basically got a hammock which I sleep on in a hallway. It is pretty crammed but it is fine." Well it was fine enough.
He wasn't too happy about how everything had been going. His father had totally overacted in Quatre's opinion and he barely was able to do this. It was what Quatre wanted though, and he was a little stubborn when it came to those things so he just went along with it.
"So do you live with your parents?" Quatre asked Duo. There was a silence that followed afterwards that Quatre hadn't planned on. Knowing that he had struck a tough place he was quickly going to change the subject but Duo answered before he could.
"I guess, well with my father. Although I was adopted a couple of years ago," he breathed deeply. Quatre quickly figured that this was not something that he should look into more.
They drove down towards L2, when they passed by it the concrete field was filled with kids. A few, Quatre guessed that Duo knew. The walls of the place were covered in graffiti and some windows seemed broken. L2 was not the best of the L schools, in fact most viewed it as the worst. Quatre wondered how a guy like Duo could survive there. L4 used to be that bad, or at least close too but when his first sister was going through it Quatre's father put a lot of money into getting the building repaired and starting programs to clean it up. This continued for many years as Quatre had many sisters. Quatre believed that that was one of the main reasons his father was so angry at Quatre not doing that. He was breaking tradition, and if there was anything that Quatre's father liked, was peace and tradition.
When they turned onto Scythe Avenue, Quatre was quite amazed by the place. The place was covered by some industrial plants and a lot of small houses which seemed to have their yards full of scrap metal. Duo lived in the end of the street in a house that looked pretty much like all the others. It had one floor and did not look too inviting. They drove into Duo's driveway and Duo got out. Quatre was about to drive away before Duo said loudly, "Now I get to show you my wheels!"
He walked over to the garage and opened the door to expose what had to be, in Quatre's opinion, the ugliest car ever made. It was missing essential parts, and every part seemed to have a different paint colour. "I am building up from scratch, I did it once before and sold it to a friend but this time I think I am going to use it myself."
"Yeah, it is a pretty long walk from here to the school, probably much farther then Wu Fei's," Quatre said looking over the partly finished car.
Duo smiled and rubbed a part of the roof. "I don't mind I like walking, clears my head. This thing is just going to make it one hell of a lot easier."
"So wait, you walked all the way there this morning then? You must have had to wake up extremely early," Quatre said. They both left the garage and Duo pulled down the door of it.
"I usually do" Duo said as Quatre walked to his car. "Thanks for the ride, now I got more then enough minutes to do my homework before I go to work."
"No problem" Quatre said as he got in his car and drove away. He drove through the whole area looking it seemed that everyone on the block would go over to the scrap heap and find anything they liked and put it in their backyard. After he turned the corner the second building on the left was this large gothic looking church. Out of this whole industrial area it stood out like a swore thumb. After a while he left the area and drove off to where he lived. Once he finally got to his place, or more his sister's place he walked in and noticed no one was home. Man he thought, and to think that was only the first day.
AN- Alright, next chapter is going to be even bigger. We are trying to make this not be a Gundam Wing set in a highschool but a Gundam Wing type story set in a High School. Please R&R
