DISCLAIMER: Well, I'm sure that you must realize that I didn't create some
of the characters. Ok, here's the rundown on the guys, gals, and
miscellanies (funny word, ain't it, and it's a real word, that's the sad
part…) that I DIDN'T create:
|Mobile Suits: |People: | |Wing |Duo Maxwell | |Deathscythe |Heero Yuy | |Heavyarms |Chang Wufei | |Sandrock |Trowa Barton | |Shen-Long (AKA Nataku to Wufei)|Quatre Rabera Winner | | |Zechs Marquise | |Tallgeese |Lady Une | |Vayate |Lucrezia Noin | |Mercurios |Milliardo Peacecraft | |Wing Zero |Rellena Peacecraft | |Epyon |Hilde | |Leos | | |Taurus | | |Mobile Dolls | |
Now, alla the ones in the table are the ones created by the creators of Gundam Wing.
Ok, now on to the story!!!
Chapter three: The Eye of the Tiger
It was a week after the strange appearance of the young female pilot. She had healed amazingly fast, and was already helping out in the garage. She was a lot more help than any other girl Duo had worked with as a mechanic. In fact, she seemed faster and stronger than any girl Duo had ever seen. Even stronger than Noin. And she had incredible eyesight. She always wore her long reddish brown hair in a strange looking braid, a bit like a twisted rope. She had been unfortunate: the power surge of the proton shield HAD erased her hard drive. But she was good with computers. She had set up a network for her group, the Black Stars as Duo learned it was called. The information she needed to be allowed into the network had been erased, and she needed the software at the Black Star base in order to get the information back. but she thought it would take too long and decided to hack into the network from the internet. "Really must get this fixed, admittedly, did take me longer than should've, hmmmmmmmm, oh, who cares, I'm out of practice anyway. Well, I guess I can practice on Jenison's network before I destroy it…heh, heh, heh…" She had muttered this to herself about five minutes after she had accessed the cover site, an emulator gaming site, and hacked into the database, effectively retrieving all of her information from the network. And this was not the only thing she had done to prove her proficiency, there were so many others. Countless others…Duo felt as though his head was whirling as he thought of how quickly she had healed. How was it she had explained it? "Well, I just get tired of it, and when I get tired of it, I get out of it, and that's it for that."
For some reason, Duo did not doubt that she would be able to fix even a wreck like A Priori; she was good, very good, when it came to any type of machinery or electronics. But what surprised him the most was her amazing balance and reflexes. He thought back on something which had happened earlier that day. As they were sitting on a bench outside and talking about how best to go about fixing her mobile suit, some children had been playing soccer in the park. Duo had gotten up to illustrate a point when one of the boys accidentally kicked the ball too hard in the direction of the bench. Before he could even say anything, Eschaton had ducked the ball that was hurtling towards her head, reached up as it was passing over her, and grabbed the ball. He was the only one amazed that she had managed to do that. The boys came running up, apologizing profusely, until one of them, a small child of about eight, asked her if she could do that again. Laughing insanely, she said she would do better and volunteered to play for the other team; the boys were one team, and she was the other team. This delighted the soccer players to have someone who could dodge the ball better than any of them could, want to play with them. It was a rough game, there were about twenty boys playing her, but she showed such skill that she won. Nonetheless, the boys asked her if she could come and play again. She readily said, "Well, when I get some downtime, you can be sure I will!"
Duo shook his head and started to work on the mobile suit some more. They had brought the A Priori to the garage in order to repair it. She immediately set to work on it, managing to climb up and perch on the arm in amazing time. As she was working on one of the outlets for the proton beam, the mobile collapsed due to the damage it had received: one of the legs simply crumpled beneath it. Duo shouted in horror as he saw her begin to fall, back first, but with amazing litheness, she twisted around, managing to cling to the damaged head spikes on the A Priori. He began to sigh in relief, but caught his breath as the other leg crumpled beneath it.
Quickly pulling herself up, she was standing on the falling mobile suit's head. She leapt upwards, and as she was jumping, the smoke coming from the falling mobile suit completely cloaked Duo's vision. A few moments later, he saw something dark seeming to crawl along the ceiling through the smoke. He froze, gaping up at the creature. He didn't even realize it when a piece from the arm belonging to the rapidly falling-apart mobile suit came crashing towards him. In a lightning fast leap, the black shadow launched itself towards him, knocking him off his feet as it yelled, "LOOK OUT!" Less than a second later, the heavy piece of metal crashed to the floor, right where he had been standing. Duo had looked up when he heard the shout, and upon the sight of what seemed to him a black phantom pouncing on him, he closed his eyes as tightly as he could. He felt something strike him in the chest and fell to the ground. After he hit the ground, the weight stayed on his chest. He felt something nudge him sharply, and heard a scared voice. "Duo! Are you alright? Did I hurt you? Oh come on, open your eyes, please?????" He slowly opened his eyes, and found him looking into the extremely worried face of Eschaton.
When she saw him open his eyes, she couldn't help but give a gigantic, even if slightly lopsided, grin. "H-How did you do that???" spluttered Duo. "Well, it's a long story, but I think you have a right to know it all. But right now, I think we should try to clean up just a little bit." After she got off of his chest, she grabbed a broom and thrust it towards him…sighing. After marveling at the fact she could climb and leap like that, he realized that she was extremely light: she was the lightest person Duo could ever remember knowing, he slowly began to sweep half-heartedly at dust on the floor. She grabbed another broom and joined him, which is how Richard, now proving himself to be quite a nice guy and a friend of Eschaton, saw them when he walked in. He couldn't help it: he started laughing at the ridiculous site. Eschaton glared at him for a few minutes, but after a while, the corners of her mouth began twitching, and within moments, she burst out into laughter.
"Ok, I seem to think, for some strange reason, that this would take a bit more that ten minutes, and it should stay here and wait for us. Besides, I'm hungry!" All three of them erupted into laughter again. Smiling to himself, Duo thought that although she may be the lightest person he ever knew, she would eat almost anything, anytime, anywhere, as long as it was edible!
Later that night.
Duo was almost asleep on the couch when he was awakened by someone softly tapping him. He closed his eyes tighter and burrowed down under the blankets. Since her coming, he had decided to let her have his room while he slept on the couch. Besides, he was used to sleeping in places less than perfectly comfortable. The tapping persisted, a little harder. Grumbling, he opened his eyes to look at his watch. It was one in the morning! He closed his eyes, turned over, and hid his head under the pillow. Never one to rise early, he definitely was not getting up at one o'clock! The tapping stopped, but not for long. A few moments later, his pillow was yanked off of his head. Groggily, he tried to grab it without opening his eyes, but he heard a soft giggle. Oh, no… he thought. His eyes snapped open in enough time to see his pillow hurtle towards him, smacking him in the face. He fell off of the couch in surprise as Eschaton rolled on the floor with laughter at the look he had on his face seconds before being hit with the pillow. Grabbing the pillow, he shouted, "Death to people who wake up Gundams before lunchtime!" he brought the pillow crashing down on her. He missed as she quickly rolled to the side, grabbing the pillow and tossing it back up at him. He had not been expecting such a quick retaliation and was knocked off his feet into a sitting position on the floor, leaning against the couch. He gave her a comical look of rage. "St-stop it already! You'll wake everyone up! I want to tell you how I could climb the ceiling, remember? You're the one who asked me that question!" Grinning sheepishly, he got up. "Oh, uh, yeah, now I remember." She led him to a window.
"Why are we sneaking out of the house?" he asked as he yawned. "Maybe I don't want anyone else to know for a while." She said simply. She easily opened the window and climbed out. Before he knew it, her head disappeared from view. "No, stop, this is the second story!" he dashed to the window, expecting the worst, but she was sitting on the roof, waiting for him. "I know that, silly. That's why I waited, so I could help you down. Now hurry up!" he climbed out of the window and onto the roof. "Ok, follow me and do as I do." She got up. "But don't do anything until I tell you to. I want to make sure everything will support your weight." "Maybe I should…" "No, I'm lighter than you, and I have a talent when it comes to this." She grinned at him and winked. "What, do you think I'M actually going to fall?" Duo looked across the roof and noticed that a bit further out from where she was standing, a part of the house where a bay window was placed jutted out by two feet. She began walking towards this point, not nervous in the least. She even walked a bit quickly with a bounce in her step. When she reached the edge of the roof, she laid down on her stomach and poked her head down so she could see what to expect on the climb downwards. Nodding her head, she turned around so her feet were towards the edge and began to slide downwards, catching the gutter with her hands. Carefully inching her way over to where the drain spout was, she put one hand down to grab it, then slowly put the other down. She began climbing down. Duo could see that she was climbing down rapidly, but she suddenly stopped. She seemed to listen. "Duo," she whispered, "I don't think you'll be able to climb down. Hold on a minute while I go get something." Before he could even nod in assent, she had completely let go of the spout and was falling.
She landed softly and quietly on the ground, her knees bent and her fingertips brushing the ground. She listened some more. "I'll be back in a minute, I'm going to get my bag out of the bushes. I wanted to make sure I had everything I needed, so I took it out earlier today and put it outside." She dashed off to reappear a few moments later, holding her dusty old black backpack. Sitting on the ground and going through it, she began pulling out many different things. A dagger, a book, a small flat black zippered pack, and what looked like a thinly coiled snake. A snake??? Thought Duo, very confused. She smiled when she found the strange object and put everything else back into her bag. Swinging the object over her shoulder, she began to speedily climb up the side of the house and was quickly on the roof with Duo. While he was surprised at how quickly she had climbed up, he was even more surprised to see the coiled object was a long thin whip. "Ok, would you mind tying this around your chest? It would be faster and easier if you were lowered down." He looked at her incredulously. "Ok, I know you might think that I'm just a weak lil' girl," she grinned at the idea, "but I think I can prove that I'm not." "But around my chest? Isn't this usually around the waist?" She sighed, as though this was a foolish question. "Ok, first of all, your center of balance is at your waist. There is a good likelihood of you ending up being lowered down horizontally, and that would make it difficult for both of us. Second of all, if it is tied loosely but with a well made knot around your chest, you would be able to hang onto the whip, and when needed, could put out a hand to guide yourself down. Make sense to you?" He nodded quickly. "Ok then. I trust you're good at knots, right?" Duo quickly looped the end of the whip around his chest and began tying it tightly into a knot. "No! Never tie it that tightly! It could bruise your ribs!" she took the end of the whip and quickly untied the knot Duo had made. She loosened the whip and began tying a strong sturdy knot. "Alright now. Test it, see if its loose enough, but make sure the knot is strong enough." He pulled and yanked on the whip. She definitely knew how to make knots.
He couldn't believe that he was hanging from the roof, only being supported by a girl who was smaller and younger than him and who was holding a whip. Life sure turned out funny sometimes. He was also surprised that she wasn't having any problems. He made it to the ground easily enough. She tossed the other end of the whip down to him. "Ok, I think I'll come down a different way. In fact, I see a tree that's pretty close to the edge of the roof." Duo watched in amazement as she walked to the edge of the roof, stopped to judge the distance, and suddenly jumped off into space, grabbing onto the limb of a tree as she fell. She pulled herself up and stood on the branch, walking easily over towards the trunk, not even bothering to look down at where she was stepping. She made her descent easily, and quickly, enough, and was soon standing on the ground next to Duo, helping him to untie the whip from his chest. Coiling it up and putting it into her bag, she picked up the bag and began to walk away through the grove of trees that made the border to the house's back yard. Duo ran after her, asking where she was going. "I'm going to where the A Priori crashed. Before it was trucked over to the garage, I took something out of it and hid it. I'd like to show it to you." Mystified, Duo followed her.
Duo swung the flashlight around for about the tenth time within five minutes. It seemed that something was following them. The bushes to his right rustled ominously. He directed the light beam towards the bushes, but missed whatever had made the sound. Eschaton muttered in disgust. "I can't believe this, I can hardly see a thing like this. Hey, Duo, could you swing the light over here for a second, I need to take out my contacts." He swung the light over so she could look in her bag. She dug around a bit, then pulled out a small case for contact lenses. Putting her hands up to her eyes, she carefully took out her contacts. Duo was surprised; he hadn't even known she wore them. "Ok Duo. You can turn that light off now." "But it's so dark…" She turned towards him, the beam from the flashlight catching her eyes and causing them to give an eerie glow. Duo gasped. Her pupils were slits, just like a cat's eyes!
Hope you liked it! Chapter Four is going to be even more, er, well, it'll just be more!
|Mobile Suits: |People: | |Wing |Duo Maxwell | |Deathscythe |Heero Yuy | |Heavyarms |Chang Wufei | |Sandrock |Trowa Barton | |Shen-Long (AKA Nataku to Wufei)|Quatre Rabera Winner | | |Zechs Marquise | |Tallgeese |Lady Une | |Vayate |Lucrezia Noin | |Mercurios |Milliardo Peacecraft | |Wing Zero |Rellena Peacecraft | |Epyon |Hilde | |Leos | | |Taurus | | |Mobile Dolls | |
Now, alla the ones in the table are the ones created by the creators of Gundam Wing.
Ok, now on to the story!!!
Chapter three: The Eye of the Tiger
It was a week after the strange appearance of the young female pilot. She had healed amazingly fast, and was already helping out in the garage. She was a lot more help than any other girl Duo had worked with as a mechanic. In fact, she seemed faster and stronger than any girl Duo had ever seen. Even stronger than Noin. And she had incredible eyesight. She always wore her long reddish brown hair in a strange looking braid, a bit like a twisted rope. She had been unfortunate: the power surge of the proton shield HAD erased her hard drive. But she was good with computers. She had set up a network for her group, the Black Stars as Duo learned it was called. The information she needed to be allowed into the network had been erased, and she needed the software at the Black Star base in order to get the information back. but she thought it would take too long and decided to hack into the network from the internet. "Really must get this fixed, admittedly, did take me longer than should've, hmmmmmmmm, oh, who cares, I'm out of practice anyway. Well, I guess I can practice on Jenison's network before I destroy it…heh, heh, heh…" She had muttered this to herself about five minutes after she had accessed the cover site, an emulator gaming site, and hacked into the database, effectively retrieving all of her information from the network. And this was not the only thing she had done to prove her proficiency, there were so many others. Countless others…Duo felt as though his head was whirling as he thought of how quickly she had healed. How was it she had explained it? "Well, I just get tired of it, and when I get tired of it, I get out of it, and that's it for that."
For some reason, Duo did not doubt that she would be able to fix even a wreck like A Priori; she was good, very good, when it came to any type of machinery or electronics. But what surprised him the most was her amazing balance and reflexes. He thought back on something which had happened earlier that day. As they were sitting on a bench outside and talking about how best to go about fixing her mobile suit, some children had been playing soccer in the park. Duo had gotten up to illustrate a point when one of the boys accidentally kicked the ball too hard in the direction of the bench. Before he could even say anything, Eschaton had ducked the ball that was hurtling towards her head, reached up as it was passing over her, and grabbed the ball. He was the only one amazed that she had managed to do that. The boys came running up, apologizing profusely, until one of them, a small child of about eight, asked her if she could do that again. Laughing insanely, she said she would do better and volunteered to play for the other team; the boys were one team, and she was the other team. This delighted the soccer players to have someone who could dodge the ball better than any of them could, want to play with them. It was a rough game, there were about twenty boys playing her, but she showed such skill that she won. Nonetheless, the boys asked her if she could come and play again. She readily said, "Well, when I get some downtime, you can be sure I will!"
Duo shook his head and started to work on the mobile suit some more. They had brought the A Priori to the garage in order to repair it. She immediately set to work on it, managing to climb up and perch on the arm in amazing time. As she was working on one of the outlets for the proton beam, the mobile collapsed due to the damage it had received: one of the legs simply crumpled beneath it. Duo shouted in horror as he saw her begin to fall, back first, but with amazing litheness, she twisted around, managing to cling to the damaged head spikes on the A Priori. He began to sigh in relief, but caught his breath as the other leg crumpled beneath it.
Quickly pulling herself up, she was standing on the falling mobile suit's head. She leapt upwards, and as she was jumping, the smoke coming from the falling mobile suit completely cloaked Duo's vision. A few moments later, he saw something dark seeming to crawl along the ceiling through the smoke. He froze, gaping up at the creature. He didn't even realize it when a piece from the arm belonging to the rapidly falling-apart mobile suit came crashing towards him. In a lightning fast leap, the black shadow launched itself towards him, knocking him off his feet as it yelled, "LOOK OUT!" Less than a second later, the heavy piece of metal crashed to the floor, right where he had been standing. Duo had looked up when he heard the shout, and upon the sight of what seemed to him a black phantom pouncing on him, he closed his eyes as tightly as he could. He felt something strike him in the chest and fell to the ground. After he hit the ground, the weight stayed on his chest. He felt something nudge him sharply, and heard a scared voice. "Duo! Are you alright? Did I hurt you? Oh come on, open your eyes, please?????" He slowly opened his eyes, and found him looking into the extremely worried face of Eschaton.
When she saw him open his eyes, she couldn't help but give a gigantic, even if slightly lopsided, grin. "H-How did you do that???" spluttered Duo. "Well, it's a long story, but I think you have a right to know it all. But right now, I think we should try to clean up just a little bit." After she got off of his chest, she grabbed a broom and thrust it towards him…sighing. After marveling at the fact she could climb and leap like that, he realized that she was extremely light: she was the lightest person Duo could ever remember knowing, he slowly began to sweep half-heartedly at dust on the floor. She grabbed another broom and joined him, which is how Richard, now proving himself to be quite a nice guy and a friend of Eschaton, saw them when he walked in. He couldn't help it: he started laughing at the ridiculous site. Eschaton glared at him for a few minutes, but after a while, the corners of her mouth began twitching, and within moments, she burst out into laughter.
"Ok, I seem to think, for some strange reason, that this would take a bit more that ten minutes, and it should stay here and wait for us. Besides, I'm hungry!" All three of them erupted into laughter again. Smiling to himself, Duo thought that although she may be the lightest person he ever knew, she would eat almost anything, anytime, anywhere, as long as it was edible!
Later that night.
Duo was almost asleep on the couch when he was awakened by someone softly tapping him. He closed his eyes tighter and burrowed down under the blankets. Since her coming, he had decided to let her have his room while he slept on the couch. Besides, he was used to sleeping in places less than perfectly comfortable. The tapping persisted, a little harder. Grumbling, he opened his eyes to look at his watch. It was one in the morning! He closed his eyes, turned over, and hid his head under the pillow. Never one to rise early, he definitely was not getting up at one o'clock! The tapping stopped, but not for long. A few moments later, his pillow was yanked off of his head. Groggily, he tried to grab it without opening his eyes, but he heard a soft giggle. Oh, no… he thought. His eyes snapped open in enough time to see his pillow hurtle towards him, smacking him in the face. He fell off of the couch in surprise as Eschaton rolled on the floor with laughter at the look he had on his face seconds before being hit with the pillow. Grabbing the pillow, he shouted, "Death to people who wake up Gundams before lunchtime!" he brought the pillow crashing down on her. He missed as she quickly rolled to the side, grabbing the pillow and tossing it back up at him. He had not been expecting such a quick retaliation and was knocked off his feet into a sitting position on the floor, leaning against the couch. He gave her a comical look of rage. "St-stop it already! You'll wake everyone up! I want to tell you how I could climb the ceiling, remember? You're the one who asked me that question!" Grinning sheepishly, he got up. "Oh, uh, yeah, now I remember." She led him to a window.
"Why are we sneaking out of the house?" he asked as he yawned. "Maybe I don't want anyone else to know for a while." She said simply. She easily opened the window and climbed out. Before he knew it, her head disappeared from view. "No, stop, this is the second story!" he dashed to the window, expecting the worst, but she was sitting on the roof, waiting for him. "I know that, silly. That's why I waited, so I could help you down. Now hurry up!" he climbed out of the window and onto the roof. "Ok, follow me and do as I do." She got up. "But don't do anything until I tell you to. I want to make sure everything will support your weight." "Maybe I should…" "No, I'm lighter than you, and I have a talent when it comes to this." She grinned at him and winked. "What, do you think I'M actually going to fall?" Duo looked across the roof and noticed that a bit further out from where she was standing, a part of the house where a bay window was placed jutted out by two feet. She began walking towards this point, not nervous in the least. She even walked a bit quickly with a bounce in her step. When she reached the edge of the roof, she laid down on her stomach and poked her head down so she could see what to expect on the climb downwards. Nodding her head, she turned around so her feet were towards the edge and began to slide downwards, catching the gutter with her hands. Carefully inching her way over to where the drain spout was, she put one hand down to grab it, then slowly put the other down. She began climbing down. Duo could see that she was climbing down rapidly, but she suddenly stopped. She seemed to listen. "Duo," she whispered, "I don't think you'll be able to climb down. Hold on a minute while I go get something." Before he could even nod in assent, she had completely let go of the spout and was falling.
She landed softly and quietly on the ground, her knees bent and her fingertips brushing the ground. She listened some more. "I'll be back in a minute, I'm going to get my bag out of the bushes. I wanted to make sure I had everything I needed, so I took it out earlier today and put it outside." She dashed off to reappear a few moments later, holding her dusty old black backpack. Sitting on the ground and going through it, she began pulling out many different things. A dagger, a book, a small flat black zippered pack, and what looked like a thinly coiled snake. A snake??? Thought Duo, very confused. She smiled when she found the strange object and put everything else back into her bag. Swinging the object over her shoulder, she began to speedily climb up the side of the house and was quickly on the roof with Duo. While he was surprised at how quickly she had climbed up, he was even more surprised to see the coiled object was a long thin whip. "Ok, would you mind tying this around your chest? It would be faster and easier if you were lowered down." He looked at her incredulously. "Ok, I know you might think that I'm just a weak lil' girl," she grinned at the idea, "but I think I can prove that I'm not." "But around my chest? Isn't this usually around the waist?" She sighed, as though this was a foolish question. "Ok, first of all, your center of balance is at your waist. There is a good likelihood of you ending up being lowered down horizontally, and that would make it difficult for both of us. Second of all, if it is tied loosely but with a well made knot around your chest, you would be able to hang onto the whip, and when needed, could put out a hand to guide yourself down. Make sense to you?" He nodded quickly. "Ok then. I trust you're good at knots, right?" Duo quickly looped the end of the whip around his chest and began tying it tightly into a knot. "No! Never tie it that tightly! It could bruise your ribs!" she took the end of the whip and quickly untied the knot Duo had made. She loosened the whip and began tying a strong sturdy knot. "Alright now. Test it, see if its loose enough, but make sure the knot is strong enough." He pulled and yanked on the whip. She definitely knew how to make knots.
He couldn't believe that he was hanging from the roof, only being supported by a girl who was smaller and younger than him and who was holding a whip. Life sure turned out funny sometimes. He was also surprised that she wasn't having any problems. He made it to the ground easily enough. She tossed the other end of the whip down to him. "Ok, I think I'll come down a different way. In fact, I see a tree that's pretty close to the edge of the roof." Duo watched in amazement as she walked to the edge of the roof, stopped to judge the distance, and suddenly jumped off into space, grabbing onto the limb of a tree as she fell. She pulled herself up and stood on the branch, walking easily over towards the trunk, not even bothering to look down at where she was stepping. She made her descent easily, and quickly, enough, and was soon standing on the ground next to Duo, helping him to untie the whip from his chest. Coiling it up and putting it into her bag, she picked up the bag and began to walk away through the grove of trees that made the border to the house's back yard. Duo ran after her, asking where she was going. "I'm going to where the A Priori crashed. Before it was trucked over to the garage, I took something out of it and hid it. I'd like to show it to you." Mystified, Duo followed her.
Duo swung the flashlight around for about the tenth time within five minutes. It seemed that something was following them. The bushes to his right rustled ominously. He directed the light beam towards the bushes, but missed whatever had made the sound. Eschaton muttered in disgust. "I can't believe this, I can hardly see a thing like this. Hey, Duo, could you swing the light over here for a second, I need to take out my contacts." He swung the light over so she could look in her bag. She dug around a bit, then pulled out a small case for contact lenses. Putting her hands up to her eyes, she carefully took out her contacts. Duo was surprised; he hadn't even known she wore them. "Ok Duo. You can turn that light off now." "But it's so dark…" She turned towards him, the beam from the flashlight catching her eyes and causing them to give an eerie glow. Duo gasped. Her pupils were slits, just like a cat's eyes!
Hope you liked it! Chapter Four is going to be even more, er, well, it'll just be more!