Many thanks to the two people who actually have been reading these! This is the last of these stories that I wrote. As I said previously, I tried to make this one more about the Gundam 00 characters. Not that the Gundam Wing episodes weren't fun, but I feel like they got way offtrack. This isn't exactly an ending to the whole series, but I don't have any real plans to continue this. I hesitate to say this because I don't want to get anyone's hopes up, but I do have one more idea for a story. There's no saying when or if I'll write it though, so please consider this the end for now. If you notice any grammar or spelling errors, let me know. I kind of rushed on typing this out.

The Celestial Being Foster Home: A Gundam 00 School Sitcom

Episode 6: The End of Gundam

"As you know, Ribbons, there have been a disturbing number of incidents at the school lately," Principal Corner announced.

A bored Ribbons stared at his fingernails. "Yes, sir."

"Well, I've been investigating them, and I've come to a realization."

Ribbons stiffened up. A bead of sweat appeared on his brow as he began to wonder if Corner had found out about his plan. Cautiously, he asked, "Er… And what did you find out, sir?"

"I've found the root cause of all the school's problem, Ribbons! It's this SD Gundam show! I overheard multiple students, all troublemakers, talking about it at lunch, and there have been multiple cases of students bringing in Gundam toys. And no doubt it's also the cause for this ridiculous influx of transfer students. It cannot be allowed to continue. Call a school assembly for third and fourth periods immediately!"

"Yes sir!" Ribbons said, breathing a sigh of relief. But something gave him pause. "Third and fourth periods… But wait… That's when most of the math classes take place."

"This is more important, Ribbons! Besides, we can't very well interrupt the classes for teaching national test-taking skills!"

So Ribbons called the school to the assembly, much to the chagrin of Mr. Bushido, whose final lecture on mega hyper particle canons was postponed once more. The students filed into the gymnasium and crammed into the bleachers. Bored looks were all around; even math class was better than one of Principal Corner's assemblies.

Tieria, sitting with his classmates, eyed the A-Laws with a smirk. He'd been studying up on their favorite television show, SD Gundam, and had no doubts he would infiltrate their little group in no time and ascend to popularity. At that very moment, Saji Crossroad and Louise Halevy were chatting away about the show. The school was in for a shock.

"Listen up, students!" Alejandro Corner shouted. "This SD Gundam show has been causing a lot of problems in my school: bringing hazardous plastic toys into these once safe halls, inspiring violence and troublemaking, not to mention the ridiculous influx of transfer students. Well, there'll be no more of it. SD Gundam is banned from these hallowed halls of indoctri- of learning. If I so much as hear Gundam, you're out! Expelled!"

Setsuna's eyes went wide and in shock he exclaimed, "Gund-", but fortunately Lockon was there to clamp a hand over his foster sibling's mouth.

"Oh no!" Christina thought. "I mean, I do want to see Setsuna get in trouble, but getting expelled is just excessive!"

Tieria, shocked, slid out from his bleacher seat and fell to his knees. "No… My plan is ruined…"

Setsuna, seeing Tieria in front of him, reached out to touch his back, and consoling said, "Gund-", but was interrupted again.

"Setsuna, shhhh!" Christina said.

Mr. Bushido, at the head of his class, which just so happened to be to Christina's left, smacked Christina in the back of the head. "Pay attention to the assembly," he said.

"Ow!" Christina rubbed her head, and then looked back toward the center of the gymnasium. "But the principal's just standing there looking at his watch," she grumbled.

"Uh, are you going to dismiss the students?" Ribbons asked.

"I'm just letting the message sink in," Principal Corner said. "Besides, assemblies legally have to take up at least a whole class period, and I only had the one announcement."

"Unbelievable." Ribbons slid his hand across his eye. As he reflected on the principal's incompetence, he glared at Alejandro from behind.

Once the principal fell silent, the students all murmured in outrage at the announcement, which prompted Ribbons to yell at them to shut up and to remind them that an assembly was in progress. The students waited an agonizing two minutes in total silence before starting up again, and this time Ribbons, seeing that Principal Alejandro was still just watching his watch, just gave up.

"Darn it!" swore Tieria internally. "I have to get to Veda right away to reconfigure the plan, but that principal is holding us here for no good reason!" He looked to the doorway at the end of the bleachers, and at the crowd of students between him and it. There was no way to slip away without getting caught, and if he was caught, not only would Tieria get in trouble, but he'd be the laughing stock of the whole school.

In the meantime, Lockon was scratching his head, a concerned look on his face. "This is bad. We have to find a way to keep Setsuna out of trouble." He looked to Christina and Feldt, sitting in front of him. "You two will have to watch over him and make sure he doesn't do anything too stupid since you're in his class. Once this assembly ends, I'll get Allelujah to help me empty out his locker of you-know-whats."

"Okay." Feldt gave a nod of her head.

"We'll do our best!" Christina said. She didn't feel up to the task, but didn't want to let Lockon down.

Setsuna looked up at Lockon with a pitiable mien. "Lockon Stratos?" he asked in a worried tone.

Lockon grinned and tousled Setsuna's hair. "Don't worry, little guy. Everything is going to be okay."

"Ten…Nine…" Principal Corner began counting off aloud the last few ticks of his watch. "Three…Two…One… Alright, Ribbons, get these students back to class." The Principal immediately headed off to his office so he could gloat about being such an effective ruler of the school, leaving an annoyed Ribbons to methodically dismiss the students row by row.

Before heading back to class, the A-Laws stopped to complain to Ribbons. "It really isn't fair!" Louise said. "SD Gundam hasn't caused any problems at our school! It's just a really cool show!" Soma Piers, Andrei Smirnov, and Saji Crossroad all agreed with her.

"Don't worry about it too much," the Vice Principal said, donning a dark expression. "Go along with it for a few days. After that… Well, you'll see."

The A-Laws were much relieved by the Vice Principal's reassurances, and went back to class with good cheer.

The Trinities, on the other hand, were extremely jealous to see the Vice Principal talking to the A-Laws. "Those guys should just die!" Nena said.

"Yeah, acting like they're so great just because the Vice Principal talks to them. Well, we're the Principal's favorites!" said her brother.

Tieria, as soon as his row was dismissed, bolted out past everyone, heading to the computer lab. "The plan is the most important thing right now! Getting back to class can wait!"

Next Mr. Bushido's class was dismissed. Setsuna, Feldt, and Christina went back to their classroom under the watchful eyes of their substitute teacher. The whole while they walked, Christina kept worrying Setsuna would let "Gundam" slip out of his mouth, but he kept quiet the whole time. When they got back to class without any incidents, Christina exhaled. "Setsuna knows he can't get up to his usual antics. Maybe keeping him out of trouble won't be so hard." Christina relaxed and listened to Mr. Bushido's lecture. Then a few minutes after class started back up, Feldt poked her and the other girl pointed at Setsuna.

"Waaah!" Christina cried out in alarm. Setsuna had all of his SD Gundam two inch figures on his desk and was having a mock battle that involved figures colliding and then being thrown high up into the air, nearly hitting the ceiling.

"Christina, don't interrupt!" Mr. Bushido yelled out from the front of the classroom.

"I'm sorry, sir!" Christina said as she threw her body over Setsuna's desk to hide all the toys.

Mr. Bushido looked annoyed (though it was kind of tough to tell since he was wearing a mask) "Christina, please stop harassing Setsuna. He's a hard-working student who always listens to my lectures." Shaking his head, he returned to his lecture.

Class was dismissed without any further incident.

Meanwhile, Tieria had finished his recalculations in Veda. He stared at the output with a look of disbelief. "No, this can't be right. The surest way to popularity is… but I'll get expelled with ninety-nine percent certainty!" Tieria closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Very well, Veda: I'll do it."

"Who do you think he's talking to, Mr. Gilboa?" Banagher said to an empty seat in the computer lab.

After getting Veda to print him out a hall pass, Tieria strutted onward out into the hallway with a confident stride.

At the same time, Lockon and Allelujah were clearing out Setsuna's locker and stuffing everything into a gym bag. "Ah, it's no use," Lockon said as he put down his cellphone after his twelfth time trying to call their foster mother, Miss Sumeragi. "She must have gone out for a drink or something. I'll just have to take the stuff with me when we go home."

"Maybe Marie and her friends could help," Allelujah suggested. "To keep Setsuna out of trouble, I mean. They like SD Gundam, too."

"Yeah. We'll ask them at lunchtime."

Through a series of miracles, Christina managed to keep Setsuna out of trouble until lunchtime. Setsuna headed over to the usual table, but soon after he had sat down, Allelujah summoned the A-Laws over.

"Hey, Setsuna! Long time no see!" said Saji Crossroad.

"Gundam," Setsuna said.

"How adorable," Louise said when she saw Setsuna playing with his Gundam toys. She pet Setsuna's head.

"I asked Marie and her friends to help us out, Setsuna," Allelujah said.

Soma Piers crossed her arms. "I'm only doing this out of consideration for my fellow foster siblings, not for you!" she obstinately declared to Allelujah.

"Marie!" Allelujah cried out in dismay.

"Thanks, guys. I owe you a bunch!" said Lockon.

The A-Laws dragged Setsuna off to their table. They chatted about SD Gundam while Setsuna continued playing with his toys. "Gundam?" he asked warily when he saw Marita Cruz patrolling the lunch rows.

"Oh, don't worry. The Vice Principal assured us nobody is going to enforce the Principal's new rule," Soma told him.

"Gundam…" Setsuna murmured. He started tossing his figures up at the ceiling again. When Christina saw this, she gasped, but Lockon assured her that it was out of her hands.

After having made preparations for his plan, Tieria arrived late to the lunchroom. When he saw Setsuna at the A-Laws table, he was furious with jealousy. He slammed his fist down onto the table, causing Christina to yelp.

"Never mind," Tieria thought with a smirk. "My plan is foolproof." He stood up and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Gundam!" Students stared, but the teachers ignored him. Tieria ended up looking like a fool. "No!" he cried. He dashed to the computer lab so he could hide from his shame and embarrassment until the end of time.

After a week, everybody forgot about the Gundam ban and things went back to normal. The students also forgot about Tieria's outburst, but Tieria didn't believe Lockon when he said so, so he continued to hide in the computer lab. Though he never lost his open invitation, Setsuna left the A-Laws table and returned to sit with his usual crew. Lockon was often busy with sports and with hanging out with his teammates Lichty and Lasse, but he always made time for his foster siblings. Feldt kept her vigil of silence, only occasionally breaking it to say a word to Christina. And on many days afterwards, the lunchroom was graced with Allelujah chasing Soma Piers around, screaming, "Marie!" As for Vice Principal Ribbons, his plan to usurp the position of principal was entering its final stage.

Vice Principal Ribbons stood in front of the Principal's office with an evil grin. "Excellent!" Ribbons cackled at his brilliance at having gotten the whole school to disobey Corner's edict. "How does it feel to have your orders undermined and your power eroded? It's only a matter of time now!"

Behind the Principal's door, Principal Alejandro Corner leaned back in his chair and hummed. He was completely unaware his orders weren't being followed and, in fact, he was quite pleased with himself for having fixed the school. The Principal, also oblivious to the fact that the Vice Principal had handled all the discipline problems for the past few weeks without reporting any of them, thought that no new trouble had occurred since his assembly.