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Dream Maker: Okay, you know I don't own anything…. That said I'm not going to do my usual disclaimer because I have to get this posted.

Christa: Okay, if you hadn't noticed Gally is a character from Battle Angel… but we just took the name and (halfway) the plot from a very short story we read out of a book. Just the world thing anyway…. Please r&r and enjoy the fic.

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The g-boys had been living with me for a year now. Ben had finally learned to trust them and they were working wonderfully at their jobs. Heero was the least liked by any means but everyone knew that there was no way you would ever find a better teacher. Duo had worked on every car in town at least once when another mechanic had thought it impossible to fix. Trowa had actually become a daycare person instead of a musician, and Quatre of course taught the kids to play. Wufei wasn't thrilled to give lessons so somehow he became a cop. I still didn't know how that one happened.

Well, one day we were all sitting in the living room watching TV when Duo started complaining again.

"Man, can we please get a bigger TV? This thing is so tiny you can hardly see anything!"

"Duo, it's a twelve inch TV, what do you expect?"

"Better reception at least!"

"Yeah, right. Can't you be happy with your motorcycle? Its not like we're really going to get that way up here in the mountains."

"Well, I could hook up a cable antenna and Heero could hack in and get us some satellite."

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"Are you Ready to go Zechs?"

"Of course I am. What makes you think I'm not?" Zechs demanded of Dr. J.

"I was just remembering what happened to the boys." Dr. J said sadly.

"They all knew the risks involved, its not like they didn't have a clue what they were getting themselves into. Besides, you have a tracker on me this time."

"I know but I could have sworn I put one on them too."

"You never know Dr. J. Now, can we please get this over with?"

"Sure thing." Dr. J pressed the button that would send Zechs to L-4 but at the same time Muffin jumped up on the machine and knocked his coffee cup over. The machine sizzled and smoked and Zechs was gone in a blinding flash of light.

"MUFFIN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Dr. J shouted at his cat as he rushed to see if the tracking device had worked. Zechs had indeed made it to L-4 by Dr. J's calculations. He quickly called the phone to the other end of the inter- colony transport but the person who answered said that Zechs had never come through.

"This is definitely not good." Dr. J muttered as he sat down at t he computer and started plunking away on the keys.

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"Well, I could hook up a cable antenna and Heero could hack in and get us some satellite." I ceased to hear the argument that Duo was putting up as my eyes glossed over and all the sound faded out of hearing. All of the sounds but the once conversation that only I could hear. Quatre, who was sitting next to me, shook my shoulder, jarring me back to reality.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." I lied. I looked around and all of the guys were looking at me funny. "Duo, you need to move now."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I mean stand up and move off the couch. It would be a good idea if all of you did."

"What do you mean?" he asked again, obviously confused. He understood what I was asking but he didn't understand why.

"Just pretend I have gone completely crazy, and am holding a gun, would you do what I just asked you?"

"Absolutely. You're a better shot then me!"

"Thanks, Ben taught me. Now, just make believe that and do what I said." No one said a word but Heero, Trowa, Duo, and Wufei all moved off the couch and sat in the kitchen. I knew they thought I had gone crazy. Even I thought I had and I voiced that. None of them looked happy about that possibility but they dealt with it.

We all sat in the kitchen for over half an hour before Duo decided I had gone totally crazy and decided that it would be best if I slept for a while. I didn't argue as he steered me away from the others towards my room. Just as we were going into the next room a loud noise startled us all and we all stared at the blinding light that opened up in the air and deposited a very ruffled looking Zechs on the couch.

"Well, that rules out the possibility that I've gone insane." I said cheerily as Duo looked open mouthed from me to Zechs and back again.

When he finally found his voice he said, "You are really starting to scare me. How did you know about that?"

"When you first got here I told you I wasn't a normal girl." I said simply as I took a glass of water over to Zechs, who was very pale, as if he had seen a ghost. Or, five ghosts would be more exact.

"Am I dead?" He managed to ask as he held the shoulder that he had jarred when he landed.

"No, you wouldn't hurt if you were dead." I assured him.

"Then I've gone crazy."

"Actually, to make it simple, you've been thrown into a parallel universe. Where were you headed for?" Quatre asked.

"L-4. Same place you were headed."

"Huh, looks like you were right Trowa, Her couch is exactly the same spot as the landing pad." Duo joked.

"Will someone please explain to me what in the world is going on?"

"Zechs, let me guess. Dr. J's cat jumped up on the machine and knocked his coffee over just as you were getting ready to transport?"

"Yes, now, how did you know that? And further more just who are you?"

"All I can say to how I knew that is I'm not an ordinary girl, and as to who I am…. My name is…. Is…."

"Spit it out little girl."

"Don't call me a little girl." I growled at him.

"Her name is Natakue, Zechs."

"At least Heero could answer me. Does she not know her own name or something?"

"No, that's just not my real name."

"Then what is?"

"That's something I don't know if I'd be safe telling you."

"I am a Preventer and I want to know your name. So tell it to me."

"If you're trying to intimidate me, it's not going to work. Wufei has been teaching me for the last year, and even if you tried I'm very sure my…. Brothers would help me."

"Brothers? Now I'm very confused." Zechs said as he ran his hands through his hair. "But I still want to know your name."

"Listen Zechs, if she doesn't feel like giving it to us what makes you—"

I laid a hand on Duo's arm. "Its fine. My name is Gally." I waited for screaming and yelling but none came. I looked at all of them and I didn't see any surprise or fear from them at all.

I guess I must have looked baffled because Duo said, "What's so bad about telling someone that name?"

"If I told you you'd laugh at me."

"Okay, Natakue, Gally, whoever you are, just what is going on here?"

"Guys, I think its time to explain things to him." It took more than three hours for us to relate even just the vaguest outline of what had happened in the past year but by the end of it Zechs wasn't confused anymore. He was downright dumbfounded.

Then it was time for me to tell them everything. I told them about what I was running from. For the past year they had only guessed at why I didn't talk about my past. Now they looked as if they understood completely. I had been running from myself. I was one of the mythological beings who could cross the barriers between worlds. Only one in three billion of them were ever born but they always knew one when they met another.

That's how I had known that Zechs was coming. And why I had been so freaked when the g-boys showed up. (Besides the fact that they were cartoon characters.) Everywhere I went, I went because someone needed help. If I got into trouble or got killed I was automatically thrown into another world.

"Okay, this is kinda deep. Why did you tell us?"

"Because you are beings of the same kind as me. You would have been thrown out into space but the thing is, you can't die. Not unless you have no other task to perform. And believe me, you do. Heero, you and Relena are suppose to get married and—" Heero silenced me.

"I don't believe in fate, but I do believe that I don't want to know what it holds for me if it really exists."

"I think that goes for all of us." Duo said.

"Then I guess its time you went home."

"How?"

"Dr. J has just discovered that you're in a parallel universe. Within the hour you'll be home."

"What about you?"

"I go onto my next world. I think my job here is done. I saved Ben and Martha from financial ruin, and I helped you guys stay out of trouble long enough for DJ to find you."

"DJ? That's one that he's not going to like."

"Oh well." Just then another circle of light opened up and Dr. J's a face appeared on the other end.

"Go on." I urged as they looked at me. When they stepped into the portal I ran from the room to make sure they didn't see my tears. They were the only humans I had ever trusted with my name. They were people like me. But I knew I had to go to my next world so I packed what I needed, and I left the house and went to the stream with the deep pool. It was about a mile away but it was still worth the walk.

I set my things on a rock just outside the water and made sure I held onto it. (It did have everything important that I owned.) Then I submerged myself in the water and called out three sharp words in an ancient tong that was not of this world. A blinding light engulfed me and I was gone.

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I fell to the floor with a crash and my bag tumbled after me, hitting me on the head hard. The metal tin inside it clanged against my skull and made me see stars.

"That looks like it hurt."

"Ugh, it did Duo." I said as I rubbed my head. "Wait a minute! DUO?! HEERO?! Quatre?! WUFEI?! TROWA?!"

"Who did you expect? The Ghost Busters?"

"But I thought…"

"Yup. We're home."

"But what am I doing here?"

"I guess this is just another part of your grand adventure."

"You know this girl?" Dr. J asked.

"She's the one that we've been staying with for the past year."

"What's her name?"

"Gally."

"DUO!" I shouted as I realized that Dr. J knew that name.

"She…. She… She's one of the mystics?!"

"Hey, I resemble that remark." I snapped sarcastically at him. "And don't event think about putting me in a glass tank to study because I'll just teleport outa here."

"I wouldn't dream of it. I'm just surprised. I haven't seen one of your people since Quatre's sister Irea had her Natakue."

"What was her full name?" I managed to squeak.

"Natakue Gally Winner." My eyes widened as it dawned on me that I had never known my mother or where I had come from.

"Well I guess I should have exclaimed Uncle Quatre!" I said and everyone looked at me. Then we all burst out laughing because we knew that now I had a true home to call my own. Yes, I knew my mother was dead, but I also knew that all of the g-boys would take care of me.

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Dream Maker: Okay, its done….. that's all there is.

Christa: hope you liked it! R&r please. Chow!

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