Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam wing!!! Although I wish I did own Quatre and Heero.:) (author's eyes turn into big dreamy hearts.) Okay on with the fic. Okay people in this part some sections may get a little limey or Intense for some readers so if you can't handle it don't read it or if someone doesn't like the way I wrote the characters thats okay I have a flame retardant shield for you guys. Oh yeah Quatre may seem a little OOC, but hey people do grow up! NOW ON TO THE FIC!!!!!


Valkyrie
by Animefreek

Part Four: Who The Hell Are You Calling Weak?


*****Eight A.M. Preventer HQ.*******


Valerie Storm strolled confidently into Preventor HQ, ready to start her new life as Preventor Valkyrie. She was smiling brightly and felt like a giant weight had been lifted from her shoulders. Telling her good friend Quatre had definately been the right thing to do. She knew that he would keep her secret indefinatly unless it was absolutely necessary for someone or everyone to know. And speak of a blonde devil and there he was. "Quatre. Longtime no see." Valkyrie said as she hugged her friend. Quatre blushed and Duo who was standing nearby shouted "Hey good looking!" Valerie decided to give Duo a show. She slinked upclose to Quatre and whispered in his ear. "Do ya want to make Duo jealous?" Quatre nodded a yes. In one swift move Valkyrie pinned Quatre to the wall and kissed him hard, unfortunately she wasn't prepared as "sweet little" Quatre to turn the tables and make her knees go weak. **Wow!!! He's a good Kisser!** A few moments later Duo could be seen running toward the men's washroom with a bloody nose.


"Miss Storm the next time you decide to be evil make sure we have a bigger audience." Quatre said a little out of breath. "Kinky Quatre." Valkyrie said as the both broke out laughing at the braided pilot turned preventor. "Its been very nice playing with you Valerie, but I have a lot of paper work to do before the briefing this afternoon." Quatre said. "And I have a training session with Mr. Chang in a couple of hours. Plus a meeting with Yuy." Valkyrie said with a bit of annoyance and dread in her voice. "Don't worry, you're a new person. Go in there and show them what you can really do. Afterall you did show me last night on the dance floor." Quatre said with a smirk. Valkyrie smiled and looked at Quatre. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you were flirting." Valkyrie said. Quatre simply smiled sweetly and walked down the hall. *Hmmmm, that Quatre is full of surprises that I never noticed before, I wonder if any of the others have ever noticed that devilish streak in him?** Valkyrie thought as she headed toward Heero's office.


The meeting with Heero was anything but pleasent, far from it.

"You're late." Heero said coldly.
"Sorry. I..." Valkyrie half got out.
"Don't be sorry, be on time."
"Are you always this pleasent in the morning?"
" "
"Okay, the silent treatment. That's mature."
Heero walks over toward his window.
"You should be more discreet. This a government office not a dating service."
"What I do in or out of the office is my business Mr. Yuy and for now the only business we have to discuss is preventor business."
"Hn"
"Piss off Yuy."

And thus ended the "meeting" nothing done and a lot of tension. **What in the hell did I ever see in that guy? Besides good looks and his exciting life.** Valkyrie thought to herself as she barged down the hall. She was so upset that she didn't even see Wufei when he stepped out of his office and she walked straight into him.

"Baka onna watch where you are going." Wufei growled.
"Great another fabulous morning person." Valkyrie said through clenched teeth.
"What was that woman?!" Wufei yelled.
"I said and I quote, "GREAT ANOTHER FABULOUS MORNING PERSON!!!" Valkyrie yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Do not raise your voice at me woman, you are merely a bankroll here and a figure head. You wouldn't last a day out in the field. You are weak." Wufei said smugly.
"Really Chang? What do you say we move that "training session" up a little? Lets say high noon. I promise you won't be disappointed "dragon boy"." Valkyrie said in a voice loud enough for the whole office to hear. There was muffled laughing all around especially from a certain honey-blonde named Sally Po. Valkyrie knew that Wufei's pride wouldn't let him back down from a challenge.

"Alright onna, but you will regret it. I will not go easy on you." Wufei said in a growl.
"I wouldn't have it any other way Chang. I look foreward to wiping the floor with you." Valkyrie said with a grin. She knew that she was more than a match for Chang and when fully concentrating she was Heero's equal when it came to hand-to-hand combat or weapons. Afterall her mentor Artemis (Pagan) spent many midnight hours during her childhood training her in many forms of martial arts and weaponry. She enjoyed those nights, it was the mornings that she dreaded. In the mornings she was helpless little Relena again. The gentle princess who always needed her white knight of a brother or her mysterious stranger to save her from the big bad world.

"That was brave of you to challenge my partner. I hope you know what you are getting into." Sally said knocking Valkyrie out of her thoughts for the moment. "By the way I'm Sally Po." "Valerie Storm or Preventor Valkyrie if you prefer." "Oh I know exactly what I'm doing. By the time I'm through with Mr. Chang he'll be a pile of putty. Hmmm its 10:30 now and I have nothing to do till noon how about we go out to any early lunch and I'll fill you in on my strategy." Valkyrie offered. Sally grinned evilly. "Wouldn't miss it for the world, can I bring my friend Noin?" "Sure the more the merrier, I'd love to meet her I've heard so much about her." Valkyrie said as walked toward the elevator. "Hi, I'm Noin." A tall woman with short black hair with blue highlights said. Valkyrie smiled. "Valerie. Shall we get going? I like to tear pigs down on a full stomach." Sally and Noin Laughed.


*******High Noon Preventor Gym********

Wufei waited in the gym smugly for his foolish apponent. **HN! If that onna thinks that I am gonna go easy on her she can think again.** Many other preventors had gathered in the gym to watch the fight, because of all the rumors about the new recruit who went straight into the preventor elite. One rumor said that she used to be an OZ assasian, another said she was a bored aristocrat who bought her way into the preventors. Still others said she was a spy for hire during the war. "Where is that onna!? I don't like being kept waiting." Wufei said aloud. "Right here Chang! Miss me?" Valkyrie yelled from across the gym.

The male and female preventors could not believe their eyes. There stood Valkyrie on the other side of the gym, but she wasn't wearing the standard sweats. Valkyrie decided to opt for a pair of black leather shorts, a sports bra, and her black leather preventer combat boots. Her blood red hair was now up in a braided ponytail, which made her eyes and features look more extreme, and in her hand was what seemed to be a small metal pipe. Even Wufei had to admit she looked pretty dangerous and sexy.

"Onna you have no honor. You dress like a strumpet." Wufei said purposely trying to make her loose her temper. Valkyrie knew this and just smiled and seductively swayed toward her opponent. This gained her some major popularity points with the male preventors in the gym as well a lot of cat calls. "Whats that in your hand woman? Are going to fight me with that little piece of pipe?" Wufei smirked. "No I'm going to kick your ass with my quarter staff." Valkyrie calmly stated. With that said she pressed an invisible button on the staff with her index finger and the staff extended to six feet in length. The crowd ooohed and awed at the weapon. "Cute toy onna but that is no match for a katana." Wufei said in his I'm-way-more-superior-to-you voice. Valkyrie smiled. "You going to fight me or stand there and talk about how big my staff is? Didn't anybody ever tell you its not the weapon that wins the fight, its the warrior behind the weapon." The crowd oooohed again. "Prepare to be defeated onnna." Wufei said in a monotone that could rival Heero's. By this time Valkyrie had moved into position and stance. "Shut and fight Dragon-boy." Valkyrie spat.


In the doorway of the gym all of the elite preventors had gathered. Heero Yuy, Zechs Marquise, Sally Po, Lucrasia Noin, Quatre Winner, Lady Une, Hilde Schibecker, Duo Maxwell, and Trowa Barton. "What's going on Une?" Zechs asked. He had just gotten back from a diplomatic meeting in the Cinq Kindom and had wanted to brief Une on a possible threat to the peace. Unfortunately he hadn't realized that everyone would be so distracted when he got there. He'd heard rumors about a new preventor that Lady Une had personally recruited and had wanted to meet her. He never realized that he'd see first had what the young lady could do. "Mr. Chang accepted a challenge from Miss Storm, an error on his part." Une said with a look of pure laughter. "Why do you say that Lady?" Zechs questioned. "He doesn't know how I first met her." Une said grinning evilly.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Two months ago

Lady Une couldn't sleep one night so she decided to take a walk in the park. Everyone was just starting to go on with their lives after Miss Relena's death, even Heero was starting to come out of his depression much to ther relief of his fellow gundam pilots. Lately Une had her own frustrations. The Preventors were losing support and funding from both government and private backers, she feared that her agency would soon be disbanded, and if that happened heaven help the Earth and colonies.

Une was so preoccupied with her thoughts that she never took notice of three figures lurking in the shadows behind her or that she had managed to wander into a very dark and secluded area of the park. Until one of them grabbed her arm. "Hey there beautiful, where you going all by yourself?" Thug number one asked. He was obviously a common street thug and also somewhat drunk. Une tried to snatch her arm back, but he was stronger than her. "Nowhere with you." Une said coldly. "Oh she's a feisty one, maybe we should try to tame her mates." Thug number two said with a gutter trash British accent. "Sounds good to me." Said thug number three as he grabbed Une's free arm and helped number one to force her off the trail and behind some nearby bushes.

Une was at a loss for words, like words would help in that situation, out muscled and out numbered. To make things worse she'd left her gun at home, since she hadn't entended on walking this far. Thug number three was crouched over her while thugs number one and two were holding her down to the ground and covering her mouth. "Now little lady lets see how fiesty you really are." Thug three said as he positioned himself so that he was between her legs. He then gave a silent signal to thug two to uncover Une's mouth and go stand as a lookout. Within seconds his mouth was crushing hers and Une was screaming into his throat as he forced his tongue into her mouth. Thug three's hands seemed to be all over her and Une could feel tears welling in her eyes. She had never felt so helpless in her life. Then there was a new voice in the mix.

"LET. HER. GO." A cold monotone female voice said. The thugs stopped and looked around to a young woman around twenty-one or so sitting on the branch of a nearby oak tree. She had blood read hair and piercingly dark green eyes. If they had been the superstitous types they would have sworn she was a demon the way the light from the moon hit her hair and face. "LET. HER. GO." The woman said again and jumped down from the tree in front of the thug lookout. "Piss off bitch! Can't cha see we're busy or do you wanna be next. We can make that happen, me friends and I have a thing for red-heads." Thug three spat.

It was dark so they didn't see the slight grin that lit up her face. "I'll give you two options, the woman said, One, you leave her alone and leave here in one piece or Two, you can persist and leave here in several broken pieces." The thugs began to laugh. "This is gonna be a good night mates, two for the price of one." Thug number two said as he made his way toward the young woman. Staring her straight in the eyes he started to move his hand up toward her breasts and to his and the others surprise she gently took it and placed it on her breast and he gave it a hard squeeze. "Looks like we got a kinky one here boys." The thug laughed. "Did you like the way that felt?" She asked in a husky voice as she skillfully plied the man's hand from her chest and caressed it. "Oh yeah baby." He said. "Good, its the last thing you'll ever feel with this hand." She said sweetly as she kissed it. There was a second of questioning in his eyes and thats all she needed. Using her superior strength she quickly snapped the thug's hand in two.

Prior to this Une, and the two other thugs just watched the beautiful and entrancing young woman. Defenseless and still pinned down she watched the woman go from threatening to warm and enviting in an instant and back again into threatening. She could've used the distraction the woman caused to try and run, but she was too frightened to move.

The thug screamed, "The Bitch broke my hand!", and fell to his knees. Seeing her opening the woman brought her knee up to his chin and sent him flying backward into a lump of pain. Then with lightening fast speed her boot went into his ribcage and there were several loud cracks as he began to spit up blood and rocked in the fetal position. She smiled and there was a look of wild ferocity in her eyes and movements as the other two thugs charged her. Again Une couldn't move, this time it was more out of curiosity and amazement than of fear.

"You're gonna pay for that red!" Said an enraged thug three. "Come and get me." She said in an excited sort of monotone. As the two grabbed at her she somersaulted backward and pulled something from behind her back. "Oh look the pretty is going to hit us with a pipe. Oh I'm so scared." Thug three said as thug one tried to grab her again. "You should be." She said. With a flick of her wrist the "pipe" extended into a pole that met with the thug's left eye leaving a bloody gash. She then quickly swung herself and the around managing to hit both men in the head and ribcages sending then down for the count. "I gave you a choice, should've taken it." She said with a grin a satisfaction. Then walked over to Une extending her hand.

"Are you alright?" She asked Une. "Yes, I think so." Une said a little shakily as she stood up. "I have a cellphone in my car, you can call the police from there and then I can drive you home if you like." She said. Une nodded. These guys aren't going anywhere for a while." She said now looking at the three unconcious men on the ground. While walking back to the mysterious young lady's car Une regained her faculties enough to thank her and ask her name. "You're welcome, but before I give you my cellphone and name you have to promise to leave me out of this completely. Tell the police that you don't know who that woman was. Are we agreed?" She stated. "Agreed. I owe you that much if not more." Une said. "That'll be quite enough. The Name is Valerie Storm." She said as she handed over the cell phone.

Over the next month the two struck up a quick friendship and Une managed to gleam a few facts from her friend about her past and present. The present wasn't too hard, Valerie happened to be one of wealthiest female entrepreneurs on the colonies and the earth. Her past included some very top secret spy work under the name Valkyrie. It was a name Une knew well, during the war it seemed that Valkyrie was always a step ahead of OZ and Romefellar, constantly suppling information to rebel forces and the gundams. It took some persuading but the next month Lady Une had convinced her new friend to put her skills and funds to good use and become a Preventor, and an elite one at that.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

By now all the elite Preventors save Heero and Trowa were standing around Lady Une with their mouths agape listening to her story. They had all heard about the attack on Une, but never would they have guessed that it was Valerie/Valkyrie that saved her. Even Milliardo was impressed. Lady Une smiled and turned back to the fight in gym. It was a fight that she knew Valkyrie would win easily. "Man if I had known that I wouldn't have bet on Wufei to win!" Duo said out of the blue. Hilde smacked him on the back of the head. "You grinning baka, what have I told you about those stupid betting pools?" Hilde asked glaring. "Don't." He said sheepishly. "Well its nice to know you listen to me part of the time, and its nice that I bet on the new girl." Hilde said with a grin. This caused everyone to hide numerous grins and chuckles with coughs. Duo just grinned and said, "Hey thats why we're so perfect together."

Back inside the gym Wufie and Valkyrie were stroke for stroke. Staff against sword and amazingly to the other preventors that had assembled staff was winning. Valkyrie moved with grace and deadly percision simply blocking the Chinese man's blows and not taking any of her own. This highly annoyed Wufei, much to Valkyrie's satisfaction. One of the first strategies she was ever taught was to never loose your temper in a fight and if you felt anger to channel it into your movements and let it fuel you. Wufei lost his temper and the fight before the match even began.

Lady Une shouted from the crowd, "Valerie stop playing with him we have work to do." Valerie smiled sweetly at her opponent and Lady Une. "If you say so Lady." She said in a tone that resembled a small child's. Using her staff she spun it under Wufei's feet and sent him flying across the matt. With another flick of her writs she separated her staff into two equal pieces and charged at Wufei who had only resently regained his footing. With the right hand she knocked his katana away and with the other she bent down and brought it up behind his knees sending him to the floor again, pinning him with the right hand short staff. "Now Mr. Chang, am I still a weak onna?" She asked in a serious tone that didn't match the smile that was plastered on her face. "You are worthy onna. Now let me up." Wufei said in a sneer. "Of course Mr. Chang." she said. "You may call me Wufei, Preventor Valkyrie." He said only slightly less peeved. "ONLY if you call me Valerie, off of work." "Agreed." Wufei said as he got up and headed to the showers after bowing to his worthy opponent.

The other preventors were in shock. Wufei never openly admitted that anyone was his equal. Duo look like he was about to faint. Then there was a rumble of cheering and clapping for Valkyrie, which included Lady Une. Valkyrie gave her most regal bow and headed toward the showers herself.

"You owe me a hundred bucks Duo cough it up!" Hilde said with glee. "Aw come on babe! How was I susposed to know she was that good?" Duo whined. "Because Maxwell, if she wasn't I would have never asked her to join personally." lady Une said to the surprise of everyone. Now it was time for everyone to laugh. Even Trowa and Heero sputtered a little.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Ah Valerie, glad you could join us so soon." Une said. "I'm a business woman also, punctuality is a must even after a workout." Valkyrie said smiling at Wufei and the others. "Preventor Valkyrie, I'd like you to meet Preventor Wind." Une said. Valkyrie leaned over the table to shake her ex-brother's hand. She knew it had been a year since her new life started, but she was still feeling apprehensive about possibly meeting Milliardo again. "A pleasure to meet you, Zechs Marquise AKA Milliardo Peacecraft, your reputation as a diplomat and warrior proceed you." Valkyrie said. She could tell her words had taken him by surprise. Outside of the elite preventors everyone thought Zech Marquise was dead. "I like to know who I will be working with Mr. Peacecraft, you'll find that I can be very thourough when I want to know something." Valkyrie said almost smugly. She had to cover her tracks and that seemed to be the best way out. She caught Heero giving her a strange look and wondered did he suspect anything. "Shall we get down to business Preventor Wind? Lady Une tells me there may be a new threat to peace." Valkyrie said going into soldier mode. There was almost a chill in the air as her smiling demeanor changed.

"Yes lets." Zechs said. "My people have informed me a covert group calling themselves "The Tiger's Claw". Apparently they've been laying in wait for years to make there move and apparently they plan to make there move soon. There leader is thus far unknown us but we have reason to believe that this person has powerful allies in both the colonies and on Earth. Their main objective is to start another war resulting in world domination. With their leading sitting at the helm for both the colonies and earth." Milliardo stated.

"Is there any idea where there home base is located? What kind of weaponry do they have?" Valkyrie asked in monotone. Everyone flinched.

"No, and we believe they may have manufactured mobile dolls on the colonies." Milliardo said. "How can that be? The United Earth Sphere Alliance and the colonies completely disarmed themselves year ago after Relena..." Quatre let his sentence hang there as he saw Milliardo flinch at the mention of his sister. Quatre also let his eyes rest on Valkyrie for a second.

"Its alright Quatre, you can say her name. My people tell me that some of the newer colonies sheltered them and hid the production of the suits." Milliardo said.

"Come to think of it that wouldn't be that hard to do. Newer colonies have so many manufacturing and construction costs that it'd be pretty simple to ship in a few extra parts here and there." Duo said. Everyone stared for a second. "What! I can have an intelligent thought now and then, I'm not just a handsome face you know."

"So what do we do now?" Valkyrie asked. Heero answered her question for her. "We wait." He said in his usual monotone. As if on cue a junior preventor rushed into Une's conference. "Lady Une, Mam. There's something you should see. He then punched a few keys on the table and a 3-D vidscreen flashed up with the face of a woman showing. She said, "I am Tigress, leader of the "Tiger's Claw" faction. My faction along with colonies X1986 and X1987 are officially declaring war on earth and those colonies who do not join us within three hours of this broadcast. The earth has dictated the lives of the people of the colonies long enough it is time for us to take our lives back. Do not scoff at us earth we have the necessary armorments to back up our decision and as a demonstration we will now destroy colony X1988." The screen then flickered over to the blackness of space and the outside of colony X1988. What the preventors say next sickened them. It was a Gundam with its beam cannon pointed at the colony. A split screen was then shown, on it were people calmly going about their daily business and playing with their children. Then there was nothing. The gundam destroyed the colony. Tigress' image flooded the screen again this time she had an appalling smile. "We are not bluffing surrender colonies and earth and a new and better age of peace will begin. You have three hours, after that it is war." The screen went black.

"Did you trace the signal private?" Une ordered. "We couldn't Mam. Its encrypted and bounced off of too many satelites to get a fix." the junior preventor stated. Une slumped in her seat. "If only Relena were here, she could talk to the people." Une said. "Well she isn't here. And there is no talking with that mad woman Tigress. Milliardo will have to talk to the people of both earth and the colonies as a representative of the Cinq Kingdom. The rest of us will have to prepare for the worst." Valkyrie said as she stood to leave.

"Preventor Valkyrie were are you going? Heero asked coldly and harshly. Valkyrie turned with an intense look in her eyes. "To prepare and train do you really think she'll stop at one colony? That colony was highly developed and a threat to her if it didn't join her forces. I can already tell by her actions that any kind of threat no matter how small will be destroyed and you better believe the preventors are a threat even without gundams to back us up." Valkyrie spat and stomped out the door. "I suggest that you make arrangements for a press conference immediately Milliardo." Valkyrie said over her shoulder. For one split second Milliardo thought he heard Relena.


Okay as i promised. Relena kicked some ass, Met Milliardo again, and WE have a new enemy!! And its a girl this time. I got tired of the guys having all the evil fun! There just aren't enough stories with truly evil women in them, especially ones that lead entire armies. As always read and Review and maybe if i Like what you say I'll put the next chapter out faster. Oh and Nim thanks for the review! It made me feel so loved and if anyone wants to send me some stuff for my website (HINT HINT) e-mail me!