Disclaimer: Characters arent mine, yadda yadda....on with the story...
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Black. What an interesting color to be seeing before me when I know I have been sleeping for over 10 hours. I know our windows put light through, enough to at least see thin rays. That is how we find the light switch, or to see where the windows are so we can open them. Why am I seeing total blackness then? I began to feel around for anything familiar. I felt beside me and panicked. "Ryo?" I timidly whispered. I got no response. Now I really freak out. I feel around and nothing is familiar. No window, no dresser, no chemistry set…Wait! A door! I try to open it but it wont budge. I take a few steps back and have a running go at it. Before I reach the door it opens and a foot emerges from behind it to trip me. Again I get to meet the trusty, hard, ?metal?, gray, cold floor face-to-face. I cry out in pain and begin to rub the new knot forming beside the knot from yesterday. I glare at the cold floor with hatred. Then I remember that someone caused it. I looked back to see who the culprit was only to meet a very powerful looking gun. I cringe and hop up from the floor, narrowly missing the bullet fired from the powerful looking gun. I catch a glimpse of a psychotic-looking little boy wearing spandex shorts and a tank top. I caught only a glimpse though because he moved quickly to fire again. I ran full speed, dodging bullets as I went, to what looked like a way out. I threw open the door and shut it behind me, gasping for air. When I turned around I was not prepared to see people and I gasped in fright. There stood four more kids. Remembering the one chasing me, I began to slowly inch down the length of the wall. Spandex boy chose that moment to burst through the door. I leapt into the air, but did not miss the bullet. I felt it enter my leg mid-shin. I fell to the ground, writhing in pain. "Ha! Take that, filthy spy!" psycho-boy shouted at me. I glared at him through my pain. "What the hell are you talking about?" I shouted back at him. The blonde kid leapt in front of me, blocking psycho-boy from getting to me. "Heero wait! She looks frightened. I don't think she is a spy. Listen to her excuse at least." He shouted. I sighed and fell backwards. "I am not a spy. I don't know how I got here. I don't even know where HERE is." I shouted hysterically, the wound in my leg screaming at me. I scanned it and found that the bullet had traveled up my leg and was now resting around mid-thigh and had cracked my femur. I raised my hands above it and concentrated, screaming in pain as the bullet tore through my flesh and exited my leg. The pain was so intense I passed out.
"So, you are waking up?" a calm voice asked. I opened a wary eye and saw the blonde kid staring at me, kindness emanating from his eyes. "So it seems." I groaned, sitting up a bit. "Where am I?" I asked a bit hesitantly. "This looks like an institution in America or something." "Nope. I have never heard of this 'America' either. Take a peek. We are nearing a colony, so it should be quite a spectacular view." He said, pressing one of the many buttons near him. A window opened, showing me a magnificent view of space. My jaw dropped and my eyes opened wider than possible. I almost fainted again, but I struggled to remain conscious. "That is a, um, T.V. screen or something, right? I mean, we can't possibly be out in space? What year is this? We can not possibly be this technologically advanced in the 21st century!" I frantically muttered. He stared at me, confused. "You mean you don't even know what year this is? You are from the 21st century? Wow. We are in the After Colony years. The 21st century was, well, centuries ago." He breathily informed me. He checked over my wounds and helped me up. I glanced around at all the machinery and gadgets. The blonde boy held out a hand to me. "My name is Quatre. How about you?" he asked. I smiled. "Amber, twin sister of the great Anubis and comrade of the Ronin Warriors. I also happen to be a bearer." I happily informed. "You are joking, right? The Ronin Warriors? I have heard about these people before. They theoretically saved the earth from an evil being. I never thought them to be true." He breathed. I nodded. "I think, somehow, I was thrust into a different dimension-YOUR dimension. But the real question is how. I don't have any enemies in the spiritual world that I know about. I think it is just one of those freak things. Or maybe it is just my curse at work again. Damn." I said, hissing the last part. He glanced at me in confusion. "Curse?" he asked. I nodded. "Yup. My Ronin armor's 'kanji' or 'soul' is love. The bad thing is that I have never been allowed to experience love. Every time I get into a relationship, either they break up with me or something happens to separate us. It really sucks. Now, when I am supposed to be getting married FINALLY, I get catapulted into a different dimension, away from my fiancé who became immortal like me just so he could rescue me and we could live happily ever after!" I angrily explained. He had backed off quite a bit when my tone rose. I softened my expression and apologized. He nodded and said that he understands why I am so angry. He helped me into the main room where the other four kids, and now one adult, were waiting. Psycho-boy drew his gun again and Quatre signaled for him to put it away. "Guys, she is from another dimension. She doesn't even know where she is. Anyway, her name is Amber. Go on, you can go around and meet everyone." He directed his last statement to me. I hesitantly moved to a boy who had gravity-defying hair like Sage, except his was spiky and brown. "Hi. I'm Trowa." He muttered. I shook his hand and nodded. I moved to an American-looking boy with a long braid. He made a peace sign with one hand and lazily saluted me. "Duo Maxwell at your service. If you need anything just call my name and I will come runnin'." He stated, grinning. I shook his hand and smiled at him and said thank you. I moved on to a Chinese-looking boy with slicked-back hair and a short ponytail. "My name is Chang Wufei. You can just call me Wufei." He stated, stiffly shaking my hand. I nodded and moved on to the adult. Just beside him, another adult had entered the room. The woman introduced herself as Lieutenant Noin and the man would not tell me a name. "Just call me Professor." He said. I glanced around and the next person I was supposed to greet was Psycho-boy. I slowly inched my way toward him. He just glared at me. When I reached him he continued to stare. "Um. My name is Amber. What about you?" I asked in English. He did not respond. I repeated it in Japanese. "Heero," was all he said. I bowed to him and moved swiftly back to Quatre. He grinned and whispered that he was always like that. He asked the professor to accompany him in giving me a tour. The professor agreed and they both showed me around, enlightening me to how much technology had changed. We passed up one door and I asked what was in it. They were hesitant in showing it to me, but finally decided to. What I saw I was not prepared to see. Huge machines that looked somewhat like Transformers. They told me that they were mobile suits that were made to be occupied by a pilot. I lay my hand on one, learning how to operate it. I woke up on the floor looking into Duo's eyes. "She's ok." He concluded. "What happened?" Quatre asked. "I lay my hand on it to learn how to work it and I am guessing that the knowledge was too overwhelming considering that I have not yet fully learned the technology and I passed out." I stated. "Not before learning it though, thank goodness." They stared at me questioningly while Duo helped me to my feet. I explained to them that one of my talents was being able to absorb information through senses. I told them why and how I was able to do these and more of my talents. They didn't believe me, so I brought out my transformation crystal. I raised it into the air and my yellow and white sub-armor materialized around me. I raised my arms and posed for them. "Now do you believe me?" I asked. They nodded, mouths open. I de-materialized my sub-armor and stood before them in my civvies. The alarms chose just that moment to begin screaming at us. Lieutenant Noin's voice was heard over the speaker announcing that there were enemy mobile dolls approaching the ship. The children began hopping into some of the bigger, more equipped mobile suits. I watched as they were able to turn them on and exit the ship. I scratched my head as a giant sweat drop appeared. I turned to the professor. "Those kids are, what, 14 or 15 years old? How do they know how to do that?" I asked. "They are 15 to be exact. They were bred in the colonies how to run these. They are a form of a revolt." He informed me. I glanced back at the mobile suit I had learned about and then back to the professor. "Mind if I take her out for a spin?" I asked jokingly. He regarded me with some curiosity. "I guess so. Lets see how good your so-called talents are." He chided amusedly. I grinned hopped up into the zero gravity in the room and, pardon the use of wording, 'flew' to the entrance of the mobile suit. I pressed a button to open it and climbed into the 'cockpit'. I noticed that there was a suit and helmet off to the left. I slid into them and they adjusted to my form. I moved to the control seat and secured myself into it, making sure all the proper tubes and connections were in place. When I was sure, I typed the proper sequence into the controls keypad to start everything up. I grinned when the others became visible through the cameras in their cockpits on my screen. "Hi y'all. Having fun?" I shouted, waving a gloved hand at them. They rolled their eyes and continued battling. "Get out of that mobile suit Amber. You don't know what you are getting yourself into." Quatre warned. I smiled at the camera and began to exit the ship. I took a moment to marvel at the view and then I began my assault on the mobile dolls. It took me a moment to gather my wits, but I soon began to attack full force. I took down several of the mobile dolls before finding the others. "I ain't leaving all the fun to you guys! Yeeeeee-ha!" I shouted, taking out a couple more dolls. "What are you doing you stupid girl?" Heero shouted at me in anger. I just giggled and continued my assault. My suit began to beep hysterically. "Warning! Incoming un-identified enemy mobile suit." It shouted at me. "Guys…what does that mean?" I asked. All of their eyes widened. "Amber get out of here. That is another gundam. Gundams are the most powerful mobile suits. It is what we pilot. That is Zechs Marquis coming for us." Quatre shouted. My eyes widened and I started back for the ship. Suddenly a face appeared on my screen. He had an adult face, for what I could see, for a helmet-type mask covered the top part of his face. He obviously did not want his identity known. He also had long blonde hair and a military uniform. "Where do you think you are going, missy?" he hissed at me. All of a sudden his mobile suit was in front of mine. I tried to back away, but he maneuvered his suit's arm around to prevent me from moving. His other hand brought around a sword made of pure energy. "Amber, get out of there!" Quatre shouted. "Zechs let her go!" Duo shouted. The sword came down and entered my mobile suit, barely missing my head. I began to shake tremendously and slowly looked at the sword. The screen in front of me turned from fuzzy to Zechs' face. "What's the matter? Scared? You weren't too scared when you were demolishing my mobile dolls were you?" he said, cackling madly. I whimpered and, can you guess? Passed out of course. Why was such a powerful aura given such a weak body?
Well, I woke up with my limbs handcuffed to the posts of a bed. I tested them and everything was steel. I relaxed and stared at the ceiling. There was a mirror on the ceiling! "That conceited bastard." I muttered. "How do you know I don't use it to monitor people?" a voice asked. I looked to the right of the bed and there sat Zechs. I frowned at him and returned my gaze to the mirror. "Resistance is futile, little girl." He whispered. I growled at him. "How do you know I am a little girl? I am older than you, you fool!" I spat at him. "Really now, how do you know that?" he asked, rather amused. I looked at him, frowning. "I am over 500 years old, you fool. I am an immortal." I growled. "Really? Now that is an interesting bit of information. Perhaps I can stick you in a cage and put you on display on earth before I blow it to bits." He mused. I frowned and returned my gaze to the ceiling. Next thing I knew I had a hand on my arm. I looked back at him with disgust written on my face. "You are incredibly beautiful. Why must you keep a frown on your face?" he asked. I sniffed at him and turned my head away. "If you were captured by someone who tried to kill you, I don't think you would be asking that question." I retorted. He chuckled and shook his head. "Sorry, but I have been in that situation several times and I just try and joke about everything. It really pisses them off." He stated. "Really? How interesting." I replied sarcastically. "There! See! You've got the hang of it already!" he said with enthusiasm. I rolled my eyes at him and stared out a window. Beeping was heard from another room. A man dressed in some kind of military uniform entered the room and saluted Zechs. "Sorry sir. We are being attacked by the Gundams. We need you in the hangar immediately please." He said, quickly exiting. Zechs leaned over to kiss one of my cuffed hands and bowed. "Sorry ma'am, but I must go take care of some business." He said, taking a key and unlocking my cuffs. He then exited the room, leaving me alone in the room. I looked around and saw that the door he and the man exited through was the only door. I tested it and saw that it was unlocked. I frowned and exited the door. Just as I did that, a few more armed people in similar military uniforms came running up to me. "Ma'am! We have been sent here to take you to an escape pod. The station is under attack," one of the higher-ranking officers said. I looked at him sideways and shrugged, following them down the series of hallways. I passed by one room that was open and as I looked in I saw Zechs ordering people around. I stepped into it and watched for a bit. His eyes shot in my direction as he sensed my presence. He stormed up to me, grabbing me harshly. "You have to get out of here while you can, stupid girl. We are under attack!" he shouted. I looked at him sideways and shrugged. "How are you going to escape?" I asked calmly. "I have my Gundam, now go!" he urged, shoving me out the door. The officers took me to an escape pod and jettisoned me into the dark reaches of space. I watched the battle grow fiercer and saw the Gundams rushing in to battle also. I turned back to look to my destination and saw a swirly black hole. My ship was moving toward it at an increasing speed. I barely got a scream out before I was cut off, hurtled into a dimension portal and knocked totally unconscious once again…(*growls* so what ELSE is new?!?!)