The Beginning of the End

The Beginning of the End!

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Have you ever gotten to a certain age, and then decided that nothing interesting or exiting would ever happen in your life? That's what happened to me when I was about fourteen, I decided that my life was over already. I was a genius compared to some of the other kids, but I got in trouble a lot, most of it because of my skill with computers and fighting.

The year was AC 196 and the world was in chaos. The five Gundam pilots by the names of Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Roberba Winner, and Wufei Chang had been captured by a new type of mobile doll, and were condemned to execution.

My grandfather admitted to me that he was building a Gundam, and that I would be the pilot. The Gundam's name: ShootingStarr. the pilots were set free, and the Earth was back to normal for awhile....but not forever.

As usual, trouble started up again, and I once more took to the cockpit of the Gundam. Now fighting alongside the Gundam pilots are me, and my five best friends, who turned out to be members of a secret force called Peace Legacy, employed because of their knowledge of mobile suits, and access to certain things in this city.

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((writer speaking here))

Since I haven't really made any introductions or explanations about Peace Legacy or Keli so far, I decided to do that now, along with making a small summery of the past events, which I just completed.

Peace Legacy agents are:

Kassy: who is the leader of the agents in the city, and probably the best person for the job, because she's pretty good with computers, and knows her way around mobile suits, which was the main reason she was picked for Peace Legacy as the top pilot. She's a little taller than Keli, with deeply tanned skin, brown eyes, and dark brown hair with a few streaks of a lighter color on top, which is cut short to her shoulders, and wavy.

John: who would have to be second in command, because of his fighting abilities in a mobile suit, and quick thinking. His father is Mayor of the city, and like all the other members' parents, he doesn't know about his son's involvement in the secret force. He's pretty much the tall person in the group, and has really short, black hair, and brown eyes, with dark skin.

Emily: who is third command. Fighting skills are average, as well as computer skills, but she can keep a cool head in a situation. Her mother is head of the city council, which means that Emily has access to certain files. She's the smallest of the group, and has light brown hair, emerald-blue eyes, and a tan.

Karen: fourth in command. Fighting skills are average, but when she gets angry, she can get carried away. Her computer skills are top-notch, and she's got a good ability to think. Her father works for the Military Base. She's got dark blonde hair halfway down her back, and blue eyes, and is the second shortest person in the group of five.

Angelina: last in command. Fighting skills are even with Emily's, and computer skills aren't too great, but she's level-headed; most of the time anyway. Father is chief of police in the city. She has short black hair, brown eyes, dark skin, and is almost taller than John is, which is funny because of their relations.

And then there's Keli: She doesn't really belong with Peace Legacy or with the other five Gundam pilots. The Gundam pilots respect her, but don't really think that she's on their level, and the PL agents think of her only as an ally. At the moment, Keli has really dark brown hair that falls almost to her knees, and dark blue eyes. She's taller than Emily and Karen, but shorter than everyone else, including the Gundam pilots.

The reason she was picked to be a pilot has a lot to do with the fact that she has great skills in almost everything, minus school and fashion. If it had not been for her grandfather, who refused her participation on Operation Meteor, she would have been a pilot a lot sooner, and her skills would have greatly surpassed the level she's on now.

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I don't think any of the five Gundam pilots need an introduction, so I'll begin the story now. Enjoy!*******************************************************

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Okay, first semester: over. Second semester: just begun. The school had just gotten back in from winter break, and now the group had different schedules ((My school is just fucked up that way)). So now Keli had the same homeroom--World History with Duo, Heero, Kassy, John, and Wufei. Computer Technology with Heero and Wufei, along with some of my friends that aren't agents or pilots. Advanced Chemistry with Angelina, Karen, Quatre, Trowa, and Emily, and weight-training with one of her friends who were normal for a change: Ann. The Gundams were almost complete. The point of Keli, Heero, and Wufei taking Computer Tech is to make use of their extra time, and the good computers to work on the software.

"Class, since today is the first day back to school for you all after that wonderful three-weeks vacation, I'll tell you a little about the trip to the History Museum that we will be taking near the end of the month," Keli's world history teacher began. Duo, who had been learning how to shoot rubber bands, started firing at Keli, while she was trying to sleep.

Keli grabbed the band out of the air an inch from her face and fired it back, hitting him on the side of the head. She laid her head back down as the teacher added, "Since we'll be studying the time period that the museum portrays, I thought it would be a good idea to go."

Keli yawned, and the teacher looked at her, then looked at her role book. "Ah, Miss Williams, is that correct?"

Keli looked up, "You mean me?"

She nodded, "Yes. Were you planning on sleeping your way through this class? Because that's what it looks like."

"No, I'm just usually tired. My job keeps me up."

"Then why don't you ask for better hours?"

"Cause I work as soon as I get done with my homework, and don't stop till midnight. That's the way it is."

The teacher looked appalled, "You can't work hours like that! It's illegal!"

Keli sighed, "I work for my grandfather. He's the old mobile suit technician that used to work at one of the bases in the Colonies. I'm helping him with some software for some new models expected out soon in space. He's in charge of the cockpit, so I decided to help out." Well, it's sorta true...

"You can't be serious," she muttered, "now I've heard them all."

Keli raised an eyebrow, "But I am."

She walked over to the girl, "You mean to tell me that a girl as young as you can design a software program for a mobile suit?"

She nodded, "Yeah. Just think; remember the Gundam pilots that were in the war just last year? They can pilot mobile suits three times the power of the one I'm helping out with. I just happen to be an ace with computers."

The teacher sighed, "I don't believe you at all, and you can't sleep in my class anyway. Try and stay awake, or else I'll be forced to give you detention."

Keli shrugged, and tried to stay awake for the rest of the class, which just wasn't happening. After class, they all went outside for break.

"Jeeze, she sure was riding up your ass," Duo commented.

"Yeah, but it kinda funny watchin her face when I said that. If only the stuff we were doing was as simple as software."

Heero began to speak, "You should have never told her that."

Keli sighed, "Relax. God! These idiots don't know shit okay? I know that already. If you told them the world will end in an hour, they'd go run for cover. Heero, just trust me on stuff like this."

Keli's communicator beeped, and so did the agents'. "Great, just what we need right now, trouble on the first day back," she mumbled.

She opened it up, and one of the new foot soldiers from Peace Legacy was standing there, "Anyone who can hear this message, but especially the G pilots and special troops; some base is going to secretly attack Northview High school in approximately one hour. All available units respond."

Kassy spoke into the watch, "Agent Long; Lieutenant reporting. All five PL specials are here, along with the six G pilots. We'll stop it."

He nodded, "Good. Lieutenant; your suits will be ready by the time you get to base."

She nodded, and turned off the watch, "Not how the hell would they be able to find us like this?'

"Well, they did," John mumbled.

"Not exactly," Keli told him slowly.

"She's right," Wufei said, "They may think that if a threat like this comes up, the Gundam pilots will try and stop it. So it may be a trap. But if the agents are used to back us up..."

"We'll get away," Quatre ended, getting the idea.

Keli nodded, "Wufei got it absolutely right. So, I guess it's safe to say school's second priority right now. So..." She began barking out instructions, and Kassy did the same to the PL agents.

"Okay, all of us need to get back to the house, ASAP." Keli instructed just as Kassy said

"Agents! Head to base! Karen, Emily, you're riding with me in my car; John, you take Angelina."

They all nodded, "Right."

Keli waved to them as they disappeared around the corner, "I'll be on comcall!" she yelled. She got on my motor cycle, and sped off, not caring if teachers saw her or not. It was business.

She arrived home and her grandfather came outside, "I already know about it. Your Gundams are all set to go."

She nodded, "Yeah, but maybe we should change clothes first. It would look strange if we got comcalled by someone at the school and looked like we did when we left."

He nodded, and she went up to change, just as the other five got home. School disturbances are beginning to feel natural, Keli thought to herself as she pulled on a pair of black baggy pants, a gold top, and a silver coat.

She ran back downstairs, and grabbed her heat sensor, which was back in the lab. She saw the other five come down into the lab, and grinned, "Its back to business."

They got onto the elevator, and Quatre said, "We'll have to be extra careful, so no students get hurt."

Duo nodded, "That wouldn't be good. And it would just make people madder at us all."

They reached the top, and Keli noticed ShootingStarr still had her old laptop in it, still hooked up. She unhooked it, and got inside, sliding the pendant through the access panel, and the suit was brought to life.

They blasted out into the sky, and Heero and Keli changed their suits into the jets, and the whole group flew towards the school. Keli connected to the other pilots' Gundams on communications.

"What do you think they'll do when they see six Gundams flying over the school?" Duo asked.

"Knowing how messed up it is, they'll probably make everyone evacuate the building," Keli answered.

"That wouldn't be the best option," Trowa stated.

"My school is messed up that way. You guys should have figured that out by now."

"Maybe one of us should contact the building and request that they stay inside the building?" Quatre suggested.

"No, won't work. They'll just send the kids outside anyway due to an attempted bomb threat, at least that's how they'll see it."

Kassy and John came on communications at that moment. "Should we stay out of the way?" John asked Heero.

"Yes. It would be best if we only use your services as backup. Otherwise, you five make sure no innocents get hurt."

"Hai," Kassy stated.

Keli blasted up higher into the air, and started scanning the area. "I've got thirty mobile suits on radar!" she yelled, "And more than ten carriers!"

"They really over-did it," Duo muttered. "This much for blowing up a school?"

"THEY SHOULDN'T BE TRYING TO BLOW UP A SCHOOL AT ALL!" Keli yelled at him.

She drew her beam saber, Heero drew his, Wufei drew his trident, Trowa held up the large gun on the arm of his Gundam, and Duo drew his scythe.

The suits were flying far below where they were, in plain view of the ground. The six Gundams descended quickly. Now they were in view of people on the ground as well. It didn't help too much that the first lunch period was starting, and people were heading outside.

Keli intercepted a communication which was apparently from the commander of the Military troops. "Okay men! The Gundam pilots are here! There's no way that they can beat over 100 troops in an area like this!"

"We'll just see about that," she mumbled, rushing forward. She heard Emily's voice ring out over the com system in her Gundam, "Everyone! Be careful as possible when you guys are taking down suits! We don't want any hitting the building or anywhere around it!"

Duo grinned, "Don't worry. They'll all be taken out before they hit the ground."

Wing Zero and ShootingStarr reached the front of the enemy troops first, and took down three each right away. Duo followed, hitting four in a 360 degree swipe of the scythe. Quatre used the two blades in the end of his Gundam's hands, and squeezed one so hard it exploded. Trowa hit one with his gun, and then swept out a small blade, and swept it past another one, making it explode. Wufei used his trident, and hit two at the same time.

"So far so good," Keli muttered, "but only about ten have been downed." She saw a bunch of students run outside, including a few of her friends. "Damnit! Be extra careful now!" She yelled out.

"Hai!" Duo replied. He flew lower, and hit a bunch more with his scythe. Heero fired his beam gattling once, hitting at least ten at the same time. "Well done, Heero," Quatre commented.

By this time, most of the suits had been destroyed, and only about fifteen remained. At that time, Keli and Duo were the only ones by the school, the rest of the pilots had been fighting further away, and across the street.

Ten of the fifteen went after the other four, and five of the suits flew up high into the air, all of them with beam cannons. They powered up, ready to shoot. ShootingStarr blasted up, but wasn't going to get within good range to shoot them down in time. Instead, Keli changed courses, and blasted towards DeathscytheHell. She grabbed the Gundam's shoulders.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Duo yelled at her when she grabbed the suit.

"I need a boost!" Keli yelled back.

He grabbed the waist of ShootingStarr, and shoved it up. "Arigato!" Keli said as she used the boost for extra momentum, and blasted up towards the suits. She still wouldn't get there in time, so she did the only thing she could at the moment. She held the controls that operated the wing cannon, and the large gold wings swept forward, ready to fire. "Hope this doesn't short out the Gundam again," she told herself as she hit the button that fired the weapon, sending a large beam at the suits.

They exploded into huge balls of flame, and fell towards the ground. Five shots sent at the same time prevented them from hitting the ground, and destroying the school.

"Arigato Agents!" Keli complemented as the colored suits came into view. They had been hiding, and only shooting at anything that threatened the school or the students. She looked over to where the others were fighting, and saw the last suit go down.

Keli sighed, "Wonder how they'll put this up in the news. More attacks from rebels? Well, at least it'll make us look good."

She saw a bunch of people run outside the building, even though lunch had been long gone. "Hey," Duo said, "maybe we're getting popular now that we just saved the school from destruction."

"C'mon," Kassy told everyone, "we should go now, before the news people get here." The agents were all in their PL uniforms.

"Right."

"Hey Kassy-chan," Karen yelled at her, "How 'bout we all meet at McDonald's as soon as we get our suits back to base? We all missed lunch!"

"Hey Starr!"

She turned around at the sound of her other name being called, "Oh, hey Annie." they were walking into the locker rooms to get dressed back in after class was over. Annie was a really nice person: she was short, had black hair and brown eyes, and was Vietnamese.

"Today was fun," she commented. They had all pretty much bet the boys that they could lift more than they could. Three of them owed the two girls money, and two of them had already given them ten each.

They got dressed again, "I don't wanna ride the stupid bus home," Annie moaned. From all the stories, Keli didn't want to ride it home either. "Can't you give me a ride?"

Keli shook her head, "Sorry, but for the last few days, I've been taking Duo to school, since the motor cycle he usually uses is in the shop cause it broke. He refuses to drive a car to school, claiming everyone'll ask him for a ride home."

It was true, and the other four all rode in the same car, which left the parking lot as soon as Heero got outside, which in the mind of Duo, was way too early. He'd been having detention for the last week; due to talking back.

"Then why don't you drive a car to school? I know that your grandfather's rich."

"Because I can't drive, and I didn't want to take Driver's Ed. That's why."

Keli grabbed her backpack, and walked out of the locker room. Coach Thompson was gathering up all the basketballs used for his period, and she had been in his class last semester. "Hey Coach!" she yelled at him.

He turned around, "Hey Starr. Are you waiting for that Maxwell kid again?"

She nodded, "Yeah. I'll just stay in here till his detention is over. Do you mind if I keep one of the balls out until he gets here? I'll put it back before I go."

"Sure, but you never played at all when you were in my class. You were always on that computer."

She grinned, "Well, maybe I'm thinking of joining the team."

"Really?"

"Hell no. I just wanna do something till he gets here."

He shrugged, and handed her one of the basketballs, "Here ya go. Take a shot."

Keli smiled, and shot at the basket parallel to her, watching as it swished through the net.

"You sure you don't wanna try out for the team?"

She grinned, and ran after the ball. He left her to the empty gym. She occupied herself with shooting, and didn't even notice when Duo walked into the gym.

"Hey. You can shoot that well?" he asked as she sunk another shot, this time from the center of the court.

Keli looked over at him, "Ah, gomen, didn't know you were done with detention. I just gotta go put this up."

She grabbed the ball and opened the door with the key Coach had kept hanging in the door to the equipment room, tossed the ball inside and took the key out. "I'll go take this back to Coach Thompson. You can wait outside if you want."

Keli walked into his office, and handed him back the key. He was in there on his computer. He looked up when she put the keys down on his desk. "Okay. Leaving now?"

She nodded, "Yup. See ya later."

He nodded, and she walked back into the parking lot beside the gym, where she had my motor cycle. "How much longer do you have detention?" she asked Duo.

"I think till Friday." It was Wednesday at the moment.

"How long till your cycle gets completely fixed? And you know I'm not gonna pay for that."

"About a week I think."

Keli shrugged, and got onto the bike. "Goody. I swear, why don't you just use one of the cars we have?"

"Cause I don't like any of the cars you have."

She turned around and stared at him, "That's not a reason."

Duo got on behind her, "Yeah it is."

She blasted off, "You know, I don't have to give you a ride home. I could make you ride the bus."

He laughed, "Yeah, but you're too nice to me to make me do that."

She grinned, "Try my patience and you'll see. Anyway, there's something fun about staying at school later than usual, and with no one around you. I need to go to the library tomorrow and see what I can do to mess them up."

"Try deleting the data on student IDs," he suggested.

Keli nodded, "Sounds good. I'm always up to a challenge."

"So I heard. John told me that when you were in seventh grade you were dared to hack into the school's computers and you winded up deleted a whole bunch of stuff. He said they couldn't use them for months."

She laughed, "That was fun, but the computers my middle school had were primitive. They hadn't gotten any new ones since year 2050. It was like figuring out a master password."

The two got home somewhere around four, and as soon as they did, Keli walked down into the lab and pulled on a white lab coat, because she didn't want to get her clothes messed up. Duo didn't follow her, and she was sure he was getting some food.

Heero, and Wufei were already working, while she was pretty sure Quatre and Trowa were in their rooms doing their homework. Part of the reason she wasn't doing that was because she never felt like bringing her books home.

Both of the boys were working on the last configurations to the pink suit at the far end, which was Angelina's. Hers was being sort of modeled like Altron, with flame throwers, and the same build, except for the fact that hers wouldn't have the odd scorpion tail thing that the Gundam had, and was smaller, like all the agents Gundam's. It also did not have the spear; instead they were making a beam saber for it.

The other four suits were also modeled from the five Gundams, but only because it was easier for us to build than if they had decided to build five Gundams completely different.

Kassy's was modeled after Wing Zero, but hers would be nowhere near as strong as Heero's Gundam. It was different shades of purple, and had some white on it as well. It wouldn't wings, and the beam gattling wouldn't be as big or as powerful, but it would be the strongest out of the new Gundams.

John's would be modeled after DeathscytheHell, but to a very small extent. His would be navy and black, and wouldn't have the wings of the original, and instead of a scythe, his would have a beam saber.

Karen's would be modeled after Heavyarms, with a smaller gun on the right arm, and the same guns positioned by the face. It would be different shades a blue, and would have some white in it as well.

Emily's is modeled after Sandrock, with the same blades over the hands, shoulders that weren't as broad, and the whole body of it was more compact, making it slightly more mobile. The colors would be similar shades of red, and then it will also have some gray on it.

Keli went over to the blue Gundam, and got to work, after she grabbed her laptop out of ShootingStarr. She was still only working on the cockpit systems, and Kassy's was complete totally, Karen's would be done by that night, John's was also complete, Emily's needed another two days or so, and Angelina's needed another week.

She jumped up into the cockpit of Karen's Gundam, and plugged her laptop into it. She started typing, trying to find where she had left off the last time she had worked on it.

Sometime after midnight, Keli finally wandered back up to her room, took a quick shower, and got in bed. Her small kitten, Iria, leapt onto her bed, followed closely by her other, and fatter, cat, Skittles. ((Those ARE the actual names of my cats, just don't ask, it's a REALLY long story.))

She laughed softly, and pulled Iria over onto the pillow to her left, and Skittles over to her right. They both started purring. "Well, I'm glad you two are happy," she muttered, closing her eyes. She knew if I moved, they'd both bite her in the face.

She woke up by two cats meowing like crazy around five AM. It was breakfast time for them both. "Okay, okay," Keli mumbled, rolling out of the bed.

She slipped on a bathrobe to hide her pajamas and walked downstairs, with the cats at her feet. "All right. Food's coming up. Just hold on," she mumbled, stumbling into the kitchen, getting out their food bowls, and laying both of them down.

She poured them some food and water, and sat down on top of the bar so she could watch them both eat, chowing down like there was no tomorrow.

Keli sighed, "At least the two of you don't have to worry about suspicious attacks at your school, and building five more Gundams."

Iria glanced up at her curiously, and the went back to eating. She heard noises coming from the stairs, and glanced in that direction to see Heero walking down the steps.

"Oh, sorry, did I wake you up?" she asked him, glancing down at the two cats.

He shook his head, "I always get up this early."

She stared at him, "But you go to bed later than I do. That gives you, what, maybe three hours of sleep a night?"

"I guess."

Keli raised an eyebrow, "I can barely get off with five hours and you're all peppy with three?" she knew he wasn't exactly peppy ever, and neither was she, but she always fell asleep in first period. Or was it second? Or third? Or all?

He shrugged, and got some food out of the cupboard. Keli yawned, "Well, now that the evil beings have been fed, I'm going to try and get a few extra minutes of sleep, if I can." It was already around six. She walked back upstairs while Heero took his breakfast down to the lab.

Keli couldn't go back to sleep, so she worked on something on her laptop. For now, she was working on a program that, when run on any chosen computer, it would wipe out everything on it, and make it useless.

At seven her alarm clock went off, and she stumbled out of bed for the second time that day. She walked over to her closet, and found out that none of her usual clothes were in there. (Most of them were strewn all over the floor, and some were in the laundry room)

"Damnit. This sucks," Keli muttered, grabbing the birthday present she had gotten from Kassy, Karen, Angelina, and Emily out of the closet. She put it on, pulled her hair up into a ponytail, and walked downstairs.

Everyone was downstairs, except for Duo, who was most likely still sleeping. Keli grabbed a Pop Tart, and went back upstairs, deciding to actually do something for her grades. At seven-thirty, and after finishing only half of her World History homework, she knocked on Duo's door.

"C'mon and wake up. You'll be late 'cause I ain't takin you to school today." She walked back downstairs and left on the cycle. She got to school just as the early bell rang, and walked to her locker.

"Starr! You look normal today." One of her other friends, Jessica, said, walking up to her locker, and looking at her while she put her History notebook in her backpack.

"I didn't have time to wash my clothes this week," Keli mumbled, "sorry, I gotta get to class now." She walked away from her locker, and into first period.

Kassy stared at Keli, then spoke, "You actually wore it! What happened; you run out of clothes?"

Keli was in a pair of black flares from Express, a dark gold shirt from the same place, and a dark platinum jacket. Her knee-high black boots were on her feet as well. She nodded reluctantly, "Maybe I should learn how to wash clothes. I feel like an idiot."

"But you look soo cute."

She rolled her eyes, "Just what I need, to look cute. You know I swore never to wear clothes like this. I'm rejecting my own code."

"But you did."

"Because I was out of other clothes!" Kassy smiled sweetly, "You have other clothes than that, I'm sure of it."

"Nothing I'll wear to school."

The teacher walked in, and stared at Keli too, "Starr, did you do something different to your appearance? Get a haircut?"

She sighed, and didn't bother to explain, because the late bell rang, and right after it finished ringing, Heero walked into the room.

"Why didn't you take Duo to school?" Heero asked Keli, not noticing the change.

"Because I didn't feel like being late. Where is he?"

"At his locker."

"Heero. Starr. Be quiet," the teacher instructed them. Keli nodded slowly, not really listening.

Duo paraded into the room, more than late, as always. He sat down without saying a word in his usual seat next to Keli, and behind Heero. Keli was sitting behind Kassy.

He glanced over at Keli to say something about her not taking him to school and almost fell out of his seat laughing. Keli almost punched him. But instead, she just looked up at the teacher, well, actually, she put her head on her desk and started sleeping.

After class Keli went out into the Commons' area like always, and eventually the whole group showed up.

"What, did you decide Nike shirts and jeans weren't cutting it?" Duo snickered as he walked up to Keli talking to John.

She stared at him with an evil look on her face, "I ran out of clean clothes, and this was the only thing in my closet I could wear to school."

Emily grinned, "But it looks kawaii on ya."

"No it doesn't. I'll trade a pair of Nikes and jeans for this thing any day." She turned to Duo, "And I didn't take you to school again because I wanted to be on time for once."

He shrugged, "Fine. Heero brought me." He started snickering again, after glancing at Keli one more time.

This time she didn't even bother to warn him, she just slammed her fist into his stomach.

He doubled over, and Keli started walking to second period just as the bell rang. Heero and Wufei walked beside her to class, which was over at DTC ((Dothan Technology Center)) "Why did you hit him?" Wufei asked her.

"Because I'm sick of him laughing at my outfit," she mumbled back.

"Why is he laughing about it?"

"I have no idea."

They reached the classroom just as the bell rang and sat in their usual seats, going by last name. Heero had the computer right behind Keli, and Wufei just sat in the back anyway, so that the three of them could finish the assignments quickly, and get to work looking for suspicious things going on at the school.

"Today, class," the teacher began, "you will begin to design plans for a mobile suit, as a part of this technology class. The project can be done alone, or you can do it in groups of up to three people. I will give the people who design the best suit an automatic A in this class, no matter what grade you will actually have at the end of the semester."

"Easy A," Keli whispered to Heero and Wufei.

"I have put in the simplest software I could into these computers, and unless you have the same software at home, this is specifically an at school only project. I know it sounds like a hard project, and it will be, but I'm sure that if you try, your results will amaze you."

After he looked at some papers, most likely forms that the students had had to fill out recently. He called Keli up to his desk, "Miss Williams, I see here that your grandfather, whom you are living with, did some mobile suit design for the military before he retired, is that correct?"

She nodded, "Yeah, but he's too busy to come talk to the class."

He laughed, "That's not what I mean. I just wanted to ask you if you also knew how to design suits, since it says on your papers that you're helping him with building one."

"Oh, yes, but I'm better with making hardware. But we only have to make plans for a mobile suit, right? We don't have to design any hardware."

"That's right. I just want the layout for one. Do you think you'll be working with anyone on this project?"

She nodded, "Most likely Heero Yuy and Wufei Chang."

He nodded, "They also seem to know more about technology than the rest of the class. I wish you luck, you could use the A."

"Thanks," she told him, walking back to her seat.

"What was that about? Does he suspect?" Heero asked.

"Nope. Just wished me luck on the project, I believe the three of us are gonna work together, am I right?"

"It might be best, so we can get into the school records as soon as we're finished," Wufei stated.

The teacher stood up again, "And I also want to say, no one in this class is going to design a rip-off of one of the military's suits. That means no Taurus, no Leos, no Aries, no Cancers, no Virgos, and especially, I don't want anyone designing a Gundam."

"Why not?" a short girl with black hair asked from her seat near the front.

"Because, those machines have no need to be ripped off. And if you do, you'll automatically fail the project. The Gundams are, in a way, perfect mobile suits, and I don't think any of your suits will be perfect, so just don't do it."

Keli grinned, and spoke softly to Heero, "Hear that? People are starting to understand about the Gundams. We're being recognized as the good guys."

"I guess we'll have to wait and see about that."

"What do you mean?"

"Wufei found some information about us."

"Us as students or us as pilots?"

"Both. He's attempting to break into them. He's almo-" He stopped talking.

"What is it?" She got up and looked at Wufei's screen. It read:

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Data accessed.

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6 transfer students from the first semester; Trowa B, Wufei C, Duo M, Starr W, Quatre W, and Heero Y, are suspected of being the 6 Gundam pilots.

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5 friends, also suspected: Karen B, John D, Kassy G, Angelina G, and Emily K.

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All 11 students were missing during the attack weeks ago, and were suspected to be the pilots of the mobile suits fighting the mobile dolls.

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All 11 considered to be enemies of the military, and police. The 11 students will be monitored, and if anything suspicious comes up, they will be arrested.

Keli's jaw dropped open, "This cannot be happening."

"It can, and will happen. Unless we do something to clear our names. We aren't trying to kill people, we're trying to help them. This is just going to get in our way," Heero stated, not really caring about the fact that they were most likely being monitored at the moment.

She nodded, and grabbed her backpack off of the floor, opened it up and took out her laptop, turned it on, and started typing rapidly. She plugged it into Wufei's computer and began to run the new program.

"What are you doing?" he asked her.

"Saving our asses," she replied. "this is a program I designed. It was made to eliminate all data on a computer, and make it inaccessible ever again. That way they can't track what I'm about to put in here. I guess I got lucky. I completed it this morning."

Heero glanced at the screen as she wrote, and nodded his approval.

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To all who can read this message:

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We are the Gundam pilots, and we don't like you tampering with our lives. If you wish to threaten us, we will be forced to take action.

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The six of us are protecting the city as best we can, what with all the attacks by the military on Northveiw High School, and on helpless other places. Our job is now to protect this city, and if you do not respect this, we will be forced to destroy all who oppose us.

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We are trying to lead peaceful lives, after all that we have been through. Please don't make us take action.

She posted the message onto all of the school system computers, along with anyone who had direct access to their computers, like the police, and political officials.

"Although the only thing that'll do will be to stir up trouble, I agree with what you wrote," Wufei stated.

Keli nodded, "They'll only go after us even more, but it had to be done. I really don't care what happens if they find out it's us, I just wish I could live in peace again. I feel sorry for you two, you've probably never even gotten to have a chance at a normal life."

Wufei nodded, "Yeah, but this is almost normal."

Keli laughed, and the teacher came over to her to ask why, just as the computer she had messed with shut down. "Did the computer crash?" he asked.

She nodded, "Yeah. It did just as Wufei said something about how crappy it was. I guess it was getting back at him."

He laughed, and spoke to Wufei, "You can just look on with Heero, since you'll be working on the same project anyway."

He nodded, and moved his chair over.

In chemistry, the class just worked on some worksheets, and in weight lifting, Keli and Annie basically just did nothing in there.

Home. Work. Sleep. Wake up. School. Repeat a bunch.

Keli waltzed into World History with Kassy, Heero, and Duo, as usual. As soon as they got into the classroom all of their communication watches started beeping.

Keli gulped, and glanced down at it, beginning to walk out of the room behind Heero and Duo, while Kassy was right behind her. The teacher stopped them.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Keli didn't have her ID on as usual, so she lied, "I need to go buy myself another ID. I lost mine."

She looked at the other three, "What about you?"

Kassy mumbled, "I don't feel so good..." She ran past the teacher.

Duo spoke up next. "I need to call my parents. I forgot my homework."

Heero pointed to his desk, "I accidentally brought the wrong book to class."

She sighed, and let the three remaining people past. Keli heard her mutter something about forgetful students, and then shut the door.

As they ran through the halls, Keli opened up the watch, "What's going on this time?" She asked as she saw Emily, Karen, and Trowa come running out of the hallway next to theirs, and Angelina, Wufei, and Quatre come out of the library in front of them.

Agent Long was standing there again on the screen. He saluted, "Miss Akutenshi, there have been threats coming from the base again. I'm afraid they may have found out about Peace Legacy, you Gundam pilots, or both."

She nodded, "Not surprising. Where are they heading?"

"East this time, going in the direction of Northview again."

Keli called out to the agents, "Drive to my place! Your new suits are done!"

They nodded, and ran out into the parking lot. Keli leapt onto her bike. She saw all the Gundam pilots except for Duo leap into a jeep and took off. Duo ran to his fixed bike and blasted off as well. Keli left right behind him.

They all got to Keli's place, and all of them went down to the lab except for her. She went up to her room, and pulled the silver duster on, and put her hair into a loose ponytail with a green bow at the middle of her back, then went back down.

Her grandfather was in there, ready to prep the PL agents on their new suits. Keli went ahead with the other Gundam pilots, telling the PL agents to meet them there as soon as they had better knowledge of the Gundams.

ShootingStarr transformed after they had blasted out, and so did Zero. They got to the school in about three minutes.

Keli's grandfather came on over the communications unit, "Keli, it's the military, as was suspected. They're planning to destroy the school along with all the students, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless you six show yourselves."

She grinned, "Then we'll just have to give them what they want."

This time there were at least fifty suits on the round around the school, and more than 100 above and around it. "Great, they outdo themselves every time," Duo mumbled, coming on-screen.

Keli nodded, "I don't think they wanna play around like last time."

ShootingStarr transformed, and so did Wing Zero, which was lower than she was. "Ready?"

They all said yes. Kassy came on-screen. "We're coming. Do you want us to back you up like last time?"

Heero shook his head, "There are more this time around, and they know we have backup, so there will be no reason to do that. And besides, you have better suits, so you don't need to be as careful."

"Hai." She got off the unit, and Keli saw her new purple suit from a distance. She was sure the suits on the ground saw us, because about half of them flew up into the air. The pilots all pulled out their close-range weapons and attacked.

Two of them flew at ShootingStarr at the same time, and Keli used the double-edged saber to hit both of them by waiting until they were both parallel and behind her, and then zooming backwards, cutting them both in half.

She saw Heero hit one with his beam saber, Wufei hit two with flame throwers, Quatre hit two with the blades on his hands, Duo swipe three in half, and Trowa busy blowing suits up with his gun.

Then the five other Gundams got there, which just confused the military. Kassy aimed her beam gattling and fired, hitting two suits. John used his beam saber to slice one in half. Karen was shooting at anything that moved. Emily used the blades she had to throw at two of the other suits, and Angelina used the flame throwers to blow up anything around her.

"Nice shooting," Keli commented to them all.

Someone used the communications unit on ShootingStarr, and it wasn't one of the other pilots. It was Ann, and another girl, Leigh calling from a pay phone. Keli didn't want to make it a video link, so she made it an audio connection, so they couldn't see her.

"Hello?" Leigh asked.

Keli changed her voice slightly, "Yes?"

Leigh smiled, "Good, we had to get in touch with one of you pilots."

Ann spoke up, "We're both in the gym lobby, at the pay phone. They're holding most of the students inside the gym!"

"How did you two get out, who is they, and where are the rest?"

"We both had gone to the bathroom, and they are the people from the military base! They haven't checked out here yet, so we're safe for now. The other people are scattered around here and there. Some are at DTC, some are in the fine arts building; the soldiers didn't exactly try and find every last person."

"Okay, if you want to be completely safe, go back through the back hallway, and go out the back gym door. Run over to the greenhouse, they won't be able to see you in there. Got it?"

"How do you know all that? You've never been in this school before."

Keli grinned slightly, "That's for me to know and for you to find out. Go now!"

They both nodded, and hung up. Keli knew that they would be safe, but just in case...

"Captain," she called Angelina.

"Hai?"

"I need you to watch something for me."

"What would that be, I'm kinda busy right now."

"Most of the students are being held captive in the gym. Leigh and Ann got out, and they called our Gundams somehow from the pay phone, and the call got through to me. I told them to go out the back door and to get to the greenhouse. I want you to make sure they get there safely."

Angelina nodded, "Got ya." Keli saw her suit fly in that direction.

She contacted the rest of the pilots, "Most of the students are being held in the gym. Help me think of something to do. I really want to go down there, but it's not logical."

"You're right," Duo stated. "But I have a good idea."

"What is it?" John asked him, "Whatever it is, we're all helping."

"A distraction."

"What kind of distraction?"

"Like having one of us aim at the gym, and threaten to blow it up, but it might not work too well. If they wanted to kill everyone in the first place, they might not mind them dying and us getting blamed for the murder of all the people," he explained.

"Or we could use our Gundams as an advantage," Kassy hinted.

"What are you thinking?" Heero asked her.

She grinned, "First we need to get all the people out of DTC and fine arts."

A mischievous grin formed on Keli's face as she kept fighting. "We'll need a few of us to stay behind and deal with anything else that comes our way, other than that, the mobile suits have been taken care of. Kassy, you come up with a plan or something?"

She smiled, "Yup. Now, we'll need the most influential people down on the ground, so I vote that Quatre, me, John, and Emily do that. But firepower might also be in order, so Duo, Heero, and Keli should also come. That leaves Trowa, Wufei, Angelina, John, and Karen to be our backup. Everyone got it?"

Karen looked confused, "I'm influential too ya know."

"Yeah, but you can also be extremely insane. Besides, we need the backup."

She nodded, "Right."

"Okay," Kassy continued, "we'll all fan out, and cover the areas where extra students are likely to be. Quatre, John, Heero, and Emily; you'll take the fine arts building, and the rest of us will cover DTC." They all nodded in understanding. "Good. We'll be in contact after we've completed this half."

The people who weren't going down flew up higher so they could watch the people that were going. The pilots going to the fine arts building landed over there and got out, while the other three flew back to the DTC area.

Keli jumped out of ShootingStarr, beam saber in hand, and landed on the ground, with the coat billowing around. Duo held up a large stick that looked like it was made of Gundanium. Kassy had at least three guns on her, and Keli had one as a backup.

"How are we gonna get into the buildings?" Kassy wondered, "they must all be locked."

Duo grinned, "Not a problem." The end of the staff glowed, and a green scythe like the one that was on his Gundam appeared. He sliced down the nearest door.

They heard screaming sound, probably because it had made a lot of noise. The room had about thirty students in it, and they were all huddled against the back. "It's okay," Kassy told them all, "we're here to help."

"We know that the military has almost everyone in the gym, and we came to rescue you all," Duo stated.

"Who are you?" a guy that looked like he was a senior asked us.

"Just think of us as friends," Keli commented. "You should come along with us. We'll get you out of this safely."

Room after room the small group broke into. Most of them were empty, but a few of them had classfuls of students. The last room was where the computer technology class was held. Unfortunately, it was second period.

Duo broke down that door as well, and sure enough, all the students were in there, along with the teacher.

The teacher was sitting down at a computer and typing slowly, at least to the pilots' standards. He looked up, thinking the soldiers had found this place. What he saw startled him. "Starr Williams?"

"Umm...we don't have time for this right now," she mumbled, "what matters is we're here to help."

He leapt out of his seat, "I knew it! I read that data on you, and now it just proves it! You're Keli Akutenshi, not Starr Williams!"

Duo looked stunned, "You never told us your last name was Akutenshi."

She glanced back at him, "Now isn't the time to be worried about who my mom is."

He shut up, and Kassy walked around, "Do you have a direct access link between here and the gym?"

He sat back down at the computer he had been in, "Yes, of course, but it's only for a security camera."

"No, I was thinking more along the lines of the automatic locks to the doors. The special titanium doors that they installed not too long ago. The doors that are unbreakable."

"Well, I don't see how you could reach the controls for that using this computer, since they're located in the office only."

Keli grinned, "You haven't seen me work when I want to. What computer has the best connection?"

He got up, "This one. Use it. Anything will be helpful."

Kassy walked over to a different one and hooked her communications watch up to it. "That way when the others call they'll know what's going on," she explained.

Duo watched Keli type, along with the teacher, and most of the students. After a few minutes, she hit the enter key, and the screen now was showing the controls for the doors throughout the whole school.

"You did it!" the teacher exclaimed. He looked concerned, "how come you never showed this much interest in class? You're most likely better than me, and all of the people in this city at a computer!"

Keli shrugged, "We're not out of the woods yet. And it comes with the territory, I have to be good at computers, how else would I have been to do everything I've done?" she turned to Kassy. "Contact Heero now. Let him know where we are, and I need to ask him something."

She nodded, and called him on the unit. "Heero, we're at the DTC computer lab, and Keli needs to ask you something."

"Turn your computer around. I need to see what she's doing to help her if it has to do with computers."

She turned the comp around, and now he could see her as she typed, still unable to access the controls. She could see them, but couldn't interact with them at all.

Keli didn't bother to turn around, "Heero, how do you access controls like this? I've never done it before. I can see the panels, but I can't do anything with them."

"Try to download the software onto the computer you're at. It should make a copy of the controls, that will act as a backup panel from the computer you're at."

"Got ya," she said, already typing again. The panel began to download. As soon as it was done, the controls came into view better. "HAHA! It worked! Arigato, Heero-kun."

He looked stunned she called him that, but nodded, "What were you trying to get to?"

"The gym door locks," she stated simply.

He nodded again, and disconnected.

"Well well well," Keli mumbled, speaking to herself. She shut off all the doors in the gym from the inside, then got up. "I did it."

The teacher put his hand on her shoulder, "Where do you want the students and other teachers? I'll take them there."

She nodded, "Two people are in the greenhouse, and that place is being guarded by one of my friends. Go there, you'll all be safe. Kassy, Duo, I've got a plan."

They all left the room, and the three were the only people left in there. "Okay, Akutenshi," Duo demanded, "what's this brilliant plan of yours?"

"Do you mind not calling me that? I'd rather be called by my first name. And the plan is to go in through the windows on top, kill how many ever soldiers are in there, and go home. Think you can handle it?"

"Hmph," he scoffed, "I can handle anything."

"Good. We'll have to get up to the windows in the gym though, but there is a way, if we can get to the top of DTC."

Kassy nodded, "I think I used to hear something about a ladder going to the top of DTC, but it's in the back."

They went outside, and found it. Keli used her watch to contact Emily.

"We're going on the roof of DTC. The doors to the gym have been locked on the inside so no one can get out by me. I need the three of you to send all of the people you found to the old greenhouse, and then come join us."

She nodded, and the saluted with her free hand, "Over and out."