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The boy known as Trowa Barton was waiting at the nearest spaceport. He was waiting for the shuttle that would bring him to a landing spot in Europe, then he would have to board a plane and travel about 15 hours to the states and then finally take the bus to the small quaint town of Stars Hollow. Trowa leaned up against the wall with one hand in his pocket and the other holding the bag that was over his shoulder. This was the bag that he carried whenever he had somewhere to be, except this time he had some extra weight in his bag. The extra weight were passports, fake identifications, tickets, credit cards, keys for the house he would be staying in and the car, a special computer that he could use to contact the Preventers, and his school uniform. Each of those items were "gifts" from the Preventers to help him.
Trowa started to watch different people at the spaceport. He took notice of all the little kids running around while their mothers yelled at them telling them to behave. In a way he almost envied those kids, because they had something Trowa never really had, a childhood and a family. Almost. He was too busy watching the children having fun that he almost didn't realize that a certain brunette was walking towards him.
"Catherine?" said Trowa.
Catherine was in her civvies clothes and also wore a face of concern and worry. "Trowa! When I saw that all your stuff was missing that you would be going off again somewhere. The Ringmaster is furious even though he too understands."
Trowa tilted his head slightly in a gesture of curiosity. "Understand what?"
"We understand that you're leaving to fight again. To fight for this time of peace. And we understand that you'll come back to usbut," stammered Catherine. "Trowa you must take me with you. I worry about you Trowa, and I want to come with you to make sure for myself that you'll come back to us."
"No Catherine," said Trowa bluntly.
"I see. But I'm coming with you whether you like it or not," Catherine said. "A Preventer came by to make sure that you had left or not and when I ran into them he told me of your mission and I insisted that they let me go with you and he gave me these tickets."
Catherine held up her tickets for the plane ride and the airplane ride. Trowa looked upon the tickets and he could have easily swiped the tickets from her hand and rip them to shreds, but he thought better of it. The news that the Preventers told Catherine about the mission and got her to come with Trowa was shocking to Trowa and for once showed signs of concern.
Catherine winked at Trowa. "Don't worry about me Trowa, I'm a woman that can take care of myself."
Trowa was still concerned. "Which Preventer came to see you? What was their name?"
Catherine seemed to be thinking and remembering who was that who talked to her. "He was a pale thing man. I think his name wasTakeshi or Takashi," she said.
"Hmm," Trowa pondered.
"What's wrong Trowa? Are you suspicious of that man?" she asked cautiously.
"Yes. I am. And also of the other Preventers too. I did a check up on the officers and their story checks out including Takashi's." Trowa explained. "I tried to contact Wufei but Ms. Une said he was on a mission with Sally Po. I then asked Ms. Une about officers Zanith, Lei, and Takashi and their stories checks out.
"But you still don't trust this man, do you?" asked Catherine.
"No. He is not to be trusted," Trowa said solemnly.
Catherine started to observe Trowa's face and body language. He was expressionless again but Catherine could still somehow read what he was thinking. "You have history with this man, don't you?" Catherine said observantly.
Trowa nodded silently. "I first met the man called Takashi three years ago when I was nameless. It was the time when I had had first started helping build Heavyarms and Takashi was one of the mechanics. Soon after my arrival it was announced that someone had been unsuccessfully trying to contact the Alliance and tip off the Alliance out Operation Meteor."
"They believed that the informer was you didn't they?" Catherine asked.
"Yes, many believed it was I who had been trying to contact the Alliance because the problems were starting when I had arrived. I decided to take action and investigate for myself who was the traitor. I caught Takashi right in the middle of him tipping off that the colonies were planning a rebellion known as Operation Meteor. I stopped him from telling more but I did not kill him, because it was no longer my job to. I had showed them that Takashi was the traitor and sentenced him to death," said Trowa emotionlessly.
Catherine looked saddened and felt sorry for Trowa as he continued his story.
"They could not shoot him because the Barton family would be angry that they had shot down a talented mechanic. So the others working with put him on a rigged spaceship and when it went for takeoff the ship would explode with him in it making it look like an accident so neither the Alliance or the Barton family would be suspicious. I thought he was dead all this time, but apparently I was wrong."
"Aren't you worried he might come after you and kill
you?" asked Catherine still in shock that the man she had
talked to this morning was nothing but a traitor.
"I am not worried if he comes to kill me, I am now worried that he'll come to kill you," said Trowa.
Catherine smiled at Trowa's sudden display of emotion. "Like I told you before I'm a woman that can take care of myself, and besides with you around I'll be safe for sure. You're the brother I've always wanted Trowa but never got to see grow up."
Trowa closed his eyes and started to concentrate on the task at hand. Catherine just smiled and was happy that she would be going with Trowa.
Then the speaker went on. "Attention. Flight 213 is ready for boarding. Attention. Flight 213 to Earth is ready for boarding. Thank you."
"C'mon Trowa! Looks like our flight is here!"
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"Come on!"
"No"
"You know you want to!"
"No I don't"
"You said you'd help if I was in a mess like this"
"No I didn't"
"Be a nice guy for once!"
"Tried that, didn't work. Now move along I have other customers"
"Look! Here's 50 cents that's like30 dollars in Canada!"
"Oh Good, you can now go buy your Coffee at a diner in Canada."
"Or you could make a coin collection starting with these coins!"
"Please go away. You're gonna scare the customers away. NEXT!"
The next person in the line moved up and started to order his coffee. Lorelei grumbled. She had been rushing to get some coffee this morning with Rory that she forgot her purse at home and was too lazy to go back and get it.
"Mom, I need to get to school today you know," said Rory.
"Yes I know, but I need my coffee and I like my coffee here, at the diner which I like, just not the man who runs it," Lorelei said just a little bit loud.
"I heard that," Luke said behind the counter while serving someone.
"Good! You were supposed to," Lorelei countered.
Lorelei then got into the way of the next person who was in line.
"Luke, you know I'll pay you back"
"Sorry, we don't give discounts to anyone. Company policy."
"But you're the one who owns this diner."
"Exactly. My company. My diner. My rules. Next!"
Lorelei finally defeated decided to leave. "Rory, see that man over there, he's pure evil and the incarnation of the devil. Let's go!"
"Yeah, and Rory Your mother is insane," cat called from the counter.
"Hello? It's a mother/daughter moment here!" responded Lorelei and she and Rory started to walk out of the diner.
"Bye Luke!" yelled Rory as Lorelei pulled her daughter away.
Lorelei and Rory stepped out of the diner and onto the sidewalk. Both were cranky that they did not get their coffee.
"I can't believe we didn't get our coffee!" Lorelei scoffed.
"You know mom it would've been easier to go back home and get your purse instead of argue with Luke," Rory said.
"But I need energy to go and get my purse, and I get my energy from the coffee, but I didn't get any today andugh!" stammered Lorelei. "I'm gonna get that guy"
"Stop complaining, I didn't get my coffee either"
"I wonder if he's allergic to something," said Lorelei lost in her own thoughts.
"I better leave to get to school," said Rory.
"I hope it's something edible," wondered Lorelei.
"I'm gonna go now mom," started Rory.
"Maybe I can bake it into a pie or something"said Lorelei obviously not paying attention.
"You do that mom, Bye!"
Rory left to walk towards the bus stop. Her mom had kept them at the diner for longer than usual and Rory felt she might be late so she her old digital watch that her mom gave her a few weeks ago because she said that she didn't need it and also that the batteries were dead and she was too lazy to buy new ones. [Hmmthere's at least 10 minutes left I don't have to walk so fast anymore] Rory thought.
Rory knew that she wouldn't have time to read her book even if she got to the bus stop, so on the way to the bus stop she started to think about what to do about The Franklin incidents. She had recently joined the highly dignified school newspaper that made careers out of many journalists, and Rory wanted to become one of them or at least be on CNN. The only problem with The Franklin is that the editor Paris Geller has always hated Rory for some reason since the first day of school and had been giving Rory the worst newspaper assignments ever. Instead of dwelling too much on The Franklin her thoughts started to think about Dean.
It had only been a month ago that Dean's dad had found a new job up into the colonies and so Dean had to leave up to space. Dean's leaving was hard for her and she couldn't help but feel lonely when thinking about him but then at the same time she felt jealous. Rory felt jealous that Dean got to be able to go into space where the stars looked more beautiful. Rory had always wanted to go into space but her mother though immature but very caring discouraged it because of all the conflict that space tended to have. Her mother still wasn't very sure how long the peace would last. Even though OZ, the Alliance, and White Fang had been gone for a year now, and the Maremaia incident that happened 4 months ago was resolved in a new peace pact with the colonies and the earth. All of those incidents had been resolved thanks to the part of the Gundams and their mysterious pilots.
The Gundam Pilots
She had always wanted to meet them ever since the first time the television had announced of their appearance. [Warriors of peaceHow romantic] Rory thought. [Though the odds were stacked against them, they still prevailed]. Rory pictured the Gundam pilots as huge strong muscle men in their mid-twenties. She started to think better of it in a more logical way. [Those pilots are probably just old fat men, because the only the best pilots I've seen were older than Grandpa. It was a nice thought though.] thought Rory. [I'd still would like to meet them even though they haven't been seen since the Maremaia incident]
WHOOSH!!!
Something big and fast flew went past her. [What the?]. Suddenly she noticed the familiar colour pattern of the travelling object. It was the bus! She struggled to run after the bus. It wasn't that she didn't have any energy it was just that her amulet stringing around her neck kept bouncing up as she ran hitting her in the face a few times. The amulet was a gift from her Grandfather on her last outing with him when she went golfing on the weekend. She hoped that both her amulet and her face wouldn't be damaged.
Finally she caught up to the bus and slipped in her fair and got on. When she sat down she mentally berated herself from getting lost in thoughts about Gundams and space and did a mental note not to do it ever again if she was walking to the bus stop even though it was nice to think about.
Author's Notes:
And so the Gilmore Girls Gundam Wing style universe has been introduced. We tried not to make too many changes. I know we shipped off Dean but he would just mess up the story if he were here. Luke's nephew is not here either because he would just be troublesome to us as well. We tried to stay faithful in the Gilmore Girls saga and the Gundam Wing. That means we want our characters to be portrayed as you see them on television. As you can see we've kept Trowa not that much of a talker excluding the huge talk he had here, and we try to keep the humour of the Gilmore Girls show in it as well.
We'd also like to note that the ages of Trowa and Rory are 17. I'm hoping that both Trowa and Rory have birthdays before March. And we know that a newspaper shouldn't start in April but that's just something you shouldn't mind about or keep you from reading the story.
Thanks for reading and we'll see you the next chapter!
- X-treme Goku
