Gundam Wing
We Are Forever the Children of War
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1.
A/N: WoW!!! I'm so glad you're liking this!!!! Thank you to everyone who reviewed!!! Thank you a million bazillion(my English teacher would kill me for saying that) times!!! * hugs * Well here for your reading pleasure…Chapter 3!! Enjoy! ~Ducky~
Chapter 3
The woman stood in the door way with a slight smile on her face. She wore a light purple button up tank top with cargo shorts and wore sandals on her feet. "Yes it's me. Who else would you suspect?" Eve said entering the room to take a seat.
"Wait a minute Quatre…you know who this is." Trowa said turning to his friend.
"Yes…but how do you know that we all fought in the war of AC 195 and the Marimeia War?" He questioned referring to the letters they had each received. Hilde rejoined him and Duo on the couch.
"I believe Heero already knows the answer to that." She said glancing at Heero who's face was without any emotion.
"You've met her too Heero?" Quatre asked. "But how?"
Heero grunted. "As quiet as ever. I can see that nothing has changed these last few years with you Heero." Eve said. "Well since our good friend as nothing to input, I have something to show all of you, but first allow me to introduce myself…I am Eve Noventa, new Representative of the North American Continent."
Eve was about to continue when the door to the room opened and in ran a little girl around the age of five with green eyes and shoulder length auburn hair that was worn in a pigtail. She wore a school uniform that was blue and red with a white skirt. The butler pleaded with her to stop, but still, the small girl entered.
"Mommy!!! Your back!!!" The little girl yelled as she jumped onto her mother's lap. Everyone watched as Eve hugged the small girl that was almost identical to her. "Thomas told me that you were back a few days ago…why didn't you call?"
"Gwen, we have guests…we will be able to talk about this later. Now be polite and introduce yourself." Eve said with a stern gaze. The small girl now known as Gwen jumped off of Eve's lap and turned back to her just as she was about to say something to Thomas.
"Mommy, don't get angry at Thomas…I would have still found a way in here anyway." Gwen said with a wink. Eve's stern gaze softened as Gwen stood in the middle of the room. "Um…mommy." She said walking back to Eve and whispering in her ear. "What are their names?"
"Well, that is Mr. Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton, Wufei Chang, Duo Maxwell, Master Quatre and Miss Hilde Schviker." She said whispering back.
Gwen turned to make sure she knew which was which. Wufei looked annoyed. She then noticed Quatre and gasped. She turned back to her mother. "Mommy…"
"I know, now say hi." Eve said breaking out of the whisper. Gwen nodded and turned back to the group.
"I am Gwendolyn Alexandra Katalina Noventa and I am pleased to meet all of you." She said in a small voice while curtseying.
"Well, we are very pleased to meet you as well, Miss Gwendolyn Noventa." Hilde said as she got up and shook that little girl's hand. Gwen smiled.
"Thomas will you please take Gwen to the kitchen for her afternoon snack." Eve asked the butler politely.
"Yes madam, come along young miss." He said as Gwen turned and walked over to the door. Eve nodded and the two left shutting the door behind them.
"I'm sorry for the little interruption." Eve said.
"I had no idea you had a daughter?" Quatre said. "I think you've done a wonderful job with her."
"Yes, thank you…" Eve said uncomfortably. "Now if we can get down to business gentlemen and lady." Eve said as she stood up.
"What business?" Wufei asked annoyed.
Eve glared at the Chinese pilot."Please follow me, I'll explain on the way." She said as she walked over to the corner of the room where a statue stood. She pulled the head forward and inputted a code on the key pad underneath and a door opened. "Come on." She said as she entered an elevator. Everyone obeyed and followed her almost reluctantly into the elevator. Just as they entered the door closed and lights came on.
"Now…As I was saying. I know that all of you are Gundam pilots, with the exception of Hilde, of course." She said as the elevator descended.
"Now what makes you think we're the Gundam Pilots?" Duo asked.
Eve turned to face them. "My mission was to come here and survey what you Gundam pilots would be up against with OZ. I also had to get passed them in order to destroy their tracking systems so that all five of you could make a safe entry without being detected." She said flatly. Everyone stood speechless for a few moments.
"Well one problem sister…You're plan sucked. We were all tracked coming to this planet." Duo said sarcastically.
Eve smiled sardonically. "You know, sarcasm is the recourse of a weak mind." Duo's grin immediately faded. "And who said it was my plan anyway…I had orders like the rest of you pilots. Besides…I was captured shortly after."
"But how did you find out who we were?" Trowa asked.
"Oh, that was the other part of my mission. The Doctor who trained me wanted to see for himself what Doctor J and the others deemed a perfect soldier…" She said glaring at Heero.
"So they sent you to spy on us." Quatre said flatly. Eve nodded.
"Well then tell me this…I know that you are the new Representative for the North American continent…tell me, did you kill someone to get your position?" Wufei spat.
"No! I gained this on my own…just like the rest of you went off to live your lives, so did I." She retorted. "Now the reason I brought you down here is because of this." She said more calmly as she pushed a button. The door flew open and they all stepped inside. All of them, even Heero gasped at what they saw.
"But how?" Quatre said breathlessly.
"Oh I have my ways." She said as she walked deeper into the room. Lined up on the opposite side of the room were the Gundams. Wing Zero, Deathscythe, Sandrock, Heavy Arms and the Shenlong. There were also three other Gundams that they had never seen before.
"You'll notice that I made some upgrades to your Gundams. Heero, yours still has the Zero system programmed into it. I felt that yours was good enough, but we gave you a little extra fire power in your beam cannon. Duo, you now have an extra scythe incase the first is destroyed hidden in the right forearm and extra bullets in the head cannons. Quatre, you now have two extra beam sabers, each hidden in each of the arms. Trowa, your Gundam now has extra bullets as well as grenades and a beam sword. Wufei, your Gundam as well, was not as upgraded as the others, but you still have excessive fire power. All of your Gundams have been upgrade to transform into a jet like Wing Gundam and have beam shields...much like the Vayeate and the Mercurius."
"You're telling me you knew about those too?" Trowa asked.
Eve nodded. "I found the plans to all of these Gundams as well as the other two when I hacked into a colony's mainframe computer a few years ago."
"This is very impressive." Hilde stated as she observed the other three Gundams lined up on the wall beside the original five. "But what does this have to do with me?"
"Well that was something else I decided to look up. You see, if another war were to happen we would need more than five Gundams to do the work. I looked up the best pilots, with most outstanding backgrounds, that's when I came across your information." She said and then turned to her and shook her hand. "I commend you Hilde Schviker. You're the reason these pilots were able to win the War of AC 195."
"It was nothing. I had to help some how." Hilde said as Eve released her hand. She knew Eve knew about the time she brought that information from Libra to the pilots. The other five Gundams watched as Eve praised the woman before her.
"You have extreme bravery for an ordinary pilot.You also have excellent combat and flying skills…that's why I chose you to pilot the Black Widow."
"The what?!" Hilde and Duo said at the same time.
"The Black Widow Gundam." She said pointing to the second last Gundam. It looked almost like the Deathscythe and Wing Gundam put together. For the most part it was black, but there were also purple parts on it as well. It had a scythe with one blade and a beam cannon. On each side of the head were two small cannons, which were loaded with bullets.
"You mean you want me to pilot that!!" Hilde said, almost yelling.
"Women are to weak to fight in wars." Wufei said coldly. "Let alone be given a Gundam to pilot."
"Oh, you think woman are still weak don't you Wufei…that is so pathetic." Eve retorted. "Let me ask you this, who gave birth to you and cared for you for the short time you had with her until you were taken away?"
Wufei glared at her. "Are you contradicting me!"
"Absolutely…let's say we settle this later, hmm?" Eve asked, with a slight smile on her face. "Then we will see who is week." Wufei nodded, still glaring at her.
"When did you install the Zero system into your Gundam?" Heero asked. He walked over to the green, white and black Gundam with arms folded.
"Wait a minute…you're a pilot too?!" Quatre said.
"I thought you would have figured that out by now," Eve started then continued. She decided to humor them. "I didn't install it. It's the first model of the Zero system and was installed into my Gundam, The Chameleon, before my mission to Earth in AC 192, when the Gundam was half complete."
"Well if it was an earlier model and wasn't tested before you had it…" Trowa stated, pondering about the new Gundam, Chameleon.
"I was the Guinea pig. Believe me, this system is more advanced then the Wing Zero."
"What about that Gundam over there?" Duo asked, pointing to a blue, black and yellow Gundam. It had two beam cannons, wings, a beam sword and the head cannons.
"That my new found friend is reserved. It's the Azteca and I need to find the perfect pilot for it first…now enough of the chit chat, let's get down to the real business." She said opening a small door to a conference room. Everyone took a seat as Eve continued. "I have received data about a new base on Mars, and they are definitely out for blood and control."
"Wait a minute…weren't you supposed to report these findings to Miss Relena?" Quatre asked.
"Yes, but I have given her false information as to not worry her or the rest of the E.S.U.N." She stated then continued. "Now Heero would you like to enlighten us, since you were the one to blow up the mobile suit hangar."
"This base is extremely large and runs about a four hundred feet beneath the surface of the planet, which means they've been building this for awhile. The top layer is heavily shielded against any tracking, and is heavily guarded on the interior. The mobile suits, are newer and more powerful models of the Vayeate and Mercurius. I think whoever is running this base sees that mobile dolls are useless and will use live pilots." Heero stated calmly to his comrades.
"Are you trying to say that they plan on starting another war?" Hilde asked, her voice sounding urgent.
"It looks that way." Eve said as she slipped a disk into a lap top that was seated in front of her. Wires ran from the lap top to a much large screen, where the images or blue prints from the disk would be relayed to it. "Now, I used my time wisely while I was on that base and discovered this." She said as she typed a few keys. Blue prints of the base came up.
"Look at it…it's huge. But how could they have built something like this without anyone knowing?" Trowa said looking at the blue prints of the major base in front of him. "I don't recognize any of the security systems."
"That's because they didn't want anyone to get in…or out. Now these are the new mobile suits. They are the reason why I decided to upgrade all of yours, as well as mine and to build two new ones." Eve said as she typed. Blue prints of the newer mobile suits appeared. "Compare these to that of the Vayeate and Mercurius." She said typing again. Blue prints of the two Gundams came up on the screen.
"They look almost identical." Quatre stated.
"Yes, but with one exception. These newer suits all have the Zero system inputted in them, as well as the same abilities as the Vayeate and Mercurius, which is gonna make this battle a whole lot tougher."
"So what do you propose?" Wufei asked nonchalantly.
"I say we wait until they make a first move." Eve said. "Now you are all free to come and go as you please but I do have one condition if you decide to stay."
"And what would that be?" Heero asked.
"Do not talk about this anywhere near my daughter. She only thinks that I work for the government. I never want her to know who or what I really am, or what I do for that matter. I am a trained killer and she will never know. Is that understood. By telling her what we do we could very well endanger her life."
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"Catherine…" A tall man with dark brown hair said. He wore long red jacket and white pants. "Trowa's run off again!" The Ring Master said almost shouting.
"Well what do you expect? He usually doesn't stay in one place for long. Besides, he had to go and meet someone." The famous knife thrower said as she cleaned the many knives placed in front of her.
"Do you know where he went?"
"No, he wouldn't say. Not even when I bugged him to take me with him."
"Well tell him to see me when he gets back." The Ring Master said walking out of the trailer.
Catherine closed her eyes. "Oh Trowa. I wish you weren't so secretive. The war has been over for seven years. Just let your past go." She quickly looked up when there was a knock on the door. "Come in."
"Come on Catherine, your on in about five. Oh and just to let you know, Kenny still doesn't trust you with those knives." One of her fellow circus mates said.
Catherine stifled a small giggle before replying. " Well it's gonna be kinda hard to throw all these knives at him then."
"Yeah, but it was his turn to be a substitute this time….where is Trowa anyway?"
"I have no clue." She said collecting her knives and walking out of the trailer with her friend.
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On a field near the Preventer's base two mobile suits were battling. Both were Taurus's and were armed with a beam cannon, shield and beam saber. The two beam sabers clashed as the two mobile suits continued to fight and deliver blows back and forth.
In the base near by several Preventers watched from a view screen as both of the suits continued to lash out at each other. The one on the right was gaining much ground even though one of its arms was slightly damaged.
"I say she's getting much stronger." A woman with shoulder length light brown hair commented on the pilot in the Taurus on the right.
"You're right, she will definitely be prepared for another battle if there ever is one." Another woman with extremely long blonde hair said.
"What are you doing here anyway Miss Une? I thought you had your hands tied back at ESUN Headquarters." Dorothy said. "I trust Marimeia is doing well."
"Let's just say I decided to take sometime off, besides Sally contacted me about what was going on." Lady Une said watching the view screen. "And yes, Marimeia is fine."
"And what do you think?"
"I think that both Zechs and Noin are going to kill her." Lady Une said with a worried look on her face. "I think we should call those two in." She said as Dorothy nodded. Lady Une then pushed a button on the control panel in front of her. The screen came up again, but this time the faces of the two pilots were featured on it.
"What's the matter Lady Une?" The first pilot asked.
"We think that you two have trained enough for today, why don't you to come in and relax a bit." She said trying to reason somewhat with the two heaving pilots.
"You know I think she's right Relena, I am getting kinda tired." Sally said to her sparing partner.
"Besides," Dorothy began. "We have to think of a way to explain this to Mr. Miliardo and Miss. Noin."
"That's true. I wonder what he would say. He'll mostly likely kill me." Relena said while deep in thought.
"I find that highly unlikely because, a) he's your brother and b) you two are equally matched now in your combat skills." Sally commented.
"Are you serious Sally. I've improved that much?"
"You sure have Miss Relena. Why if there was another war, I bet you that you would lead your troupes to a glorious victory." Dorothy said clasping her hands together as if to say a prayer. Everyone looked at her and sighed.
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The lone figure sat watching surveillance tapes on the monitor in front of him. He looked like he was looking for something…or someone. He looked incredibly angry as he watched the mobile suit hangar blow up. He waited, then commanded the computer to replay the tape again.
"Pause and zoom in on bottom right." He said as the computer followed his instructions. "Zoom in again." He commanded. Suddenly a smile crossed his face when he found who he was looking for. "So you are here, perfect. Everything will go as planned." He said and then let out an evil laugh. "You will be mine."
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tbc….
So what do ya think so far…sorry it took so long….lots of time going into my new webpage…so much work…oh well…only the best for the viewers..hehe. Anyway reviews are greatly accepted and thanks again to everyone who did review last time! ~Ducky~