Gundam Moonshine
Chapter 4
AN: Hi! Not much in the talking mood, just go to the chapter! :
Summary Of Last Chapter In a Nutshell: Serena became a Gundam pilot. She and her friends went to Earth.
Summary of this chapter in a nutshell: Serena ends up in the Sanc
* * =Thought
--- =A short about of time elapsed
-------- = More time passed (usually goes the full page)
( ) = Authors notes
:: :: = some sort of action
~~ ~~ = dream
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The young girl of about 15 sat in her room staring in the mirror. She was wearing a long-sleeved turtleneck sweater with a full dark blue skirt on. She had shoulder length light sandy-blond hair that had two small braids coming from the hair at her temple and tied together on the back of her head. She sighed unhappily her blue eyes mirroring her sadness. *Am I going about everything the right way? Is pacifism possible or is it just a helpless dream? What would you do Papa?* She wondered looking at the picture of her father on her table. Next to the picture was a musical figure that when turned on would spin around in circles while a beautiful melody would play (The theme song of sailor moon:)) She turned it on and watched the beautiful figure spin around in circles. The girl in the figure is dressed in white with her beautiful golden hair tied up in two buns on either side of her head, with streams of golden hair flowing from each bun nearly reaching the ground. The girl had a look that shown not only beauty but innocence and love for all. Relena remembered when her father had given it to her for her 12th birthday.
::Flashback::
"This is the Moon Princess darling. One day it is said she will return and bring our universe to peace. She will be the Queen of everyone, space colonies and Earth alike."
"Wow," the young Relena said marveling at the figure in her hands. "When is she going to come?"
"I don't know honey, but I'm sure it will be soon."
::End Flashback::
Relena wiped a tear that was falling down her cheek at the thought of her father. No matter how much she tried to hide it she missed her father so much. And, lately with Dorothy around it wasn't and easier to try and make the loneliness go away. The girl was just insufferable! It took every bit of nerve Relena had just to put up with her more than an hour. She was a lost cause. No matter how much time Relena spent telling her the goods of pacifism, she'd gotten nowhere. *At least Heero is here now. He seems to have gotten her off my back. She's all over him!* Relena felt a twinge of jealousy. *He is a gundam pilot after all. Maybe he likes her better with her love of conflict. He has seemed especially distant ever since he came.* (surprise surprise)
::Ring!::
The bell rang for the fencing class. She felt like missing it today. She'd never been any good with violence anyway.
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"Mr. Heero! Would you like to fight me?" Dorothy said in her usual cocky tone.
Heero and Quatre turned to look at her. Heero felt like throwing up when he saw her eyebrows. *Why doesn't she ever pluck those?* "Sure," he said with a deep, uninterested tone of voice.
The floor was cleared for the two to fight. With a cocky smile Dorothy put on her helmet and stood in a ready position. Heero just stood in one spot and simply leaned to one side to doge her when she lunged at him. The same thing happened a few more times when she said angrily "Fight me! Or are you too wimpy to fight with a girl?"
Heero smirked behind his mask *if she insists...* With her next clumsy lunge in one movement Heero knocked the helmet off her head, hit the sword out of her hand and ended up with the sword inches away from her face. *Now, about those eyebrows...*
Instead of being angry Dorothy broke out in a smile of bliss. *he has to be a gundam pilot.* "Even better than I expected." She said not at all frightened with the sword so very close to her face.
Quatre looked nervously at the two, *That was close...*
Heero let his armrest at his side and started to leave when he heard a new challenge. "That was good, now let's see how good you can be."
*That voice, I know it.* He turned around and inspected the new challenger. She was tall and lean in her white padded suit, with long legs and a super tiny waist. From the back of her mask fell two long golden streams of hair. And behind her was four other girls wearing the same outfit and masks.
Heero stepped back into the middle, and Dorothy silently stepped back with respect and curiosity for the challenger.
The girl stepped into the ring as well. They bowed to each other and got in positions ready to fight. Heero didn't like to under estimate his opponents, and unlike Dorothy, this challenger had already seen him fight.
Quatre watched nervous again. *Heero please just go easy on her!*
The two just stood watching each other waiting to see who would make the first move. They saw it. One twitch from the other was all it took to send them lunging at each other. Both met each advance of the other with lightening speed. *She may be faster than me, but I'm stronger than she is.*
The girls hair whipped in every which direction when she moved. The two didn't falter one bit with the intensity of the battle. She felt him starting to increase his attacks with even more strength and force. *He knows I'm weaker than he, I can't slip up even the tiniest bit.* she thought.
He pushed her down with the force of his swing and she did a back summersault and landed back on one knee holding up the sword to block his next attack. The people in the audience, even her friends, were amazed as she pushed him off just enough to roll to the side and do a back flip up to her feet. On and on they went neither of them having the upper hand. That is, until Heero's right leg wrapped around hers sending her down on her backside.
The other kids in the room booed his dirty action, all claiming he cheated. But then they noticed that while his sword was pointed at her face, she was laying on the ground in a way so that she was twisted sideways with her sword pointing to his family jewels. (Hee hee! :P) The whole room burst out in laughter as Heero quickly dropped his sword hoping she would do the same. She dropped her sword as well and propped herself up by resting her elbows on the floor beneath her. Some how the people in the room could tell she was smiling behind the mask. The two just stood staring at each other through their masks breathing heavily with exhaustion from the battle.
Quatre stepped forward laughing with obvious relief written all over his face. During their fight he had been nearly dying of anxiety fearing Heero would hurt the girl in some way. He saw now that he never should have worried about her. "It looks like a tie! Who are you?" He asked with admiration in his voice.
"Yes, I think we all would like to know who she is!" Dorothy said with the same amount of admiration in her voice.
The girl reached up her arm and held her hand out waiting for Heero to help her up. Heero grabbed her hand and his eyes opened wide.
*What was that spark I felt when I touched her?*
Nobody could see the open surprise on his face when he touched her, he was glad of that. But then, the girl in his hand started to giggle. "This is when you pull me up," she whispered up to him quietly.
Quickly as if trying to get a hold of himself he pulled her to her feet. She kept a hold on his hand as she used her other hand to pull off her mask. Heero gasped, but only Serena was close enough to hear.
She looked up at him. She could see his eyes wide beneath the mesh of his mask. Letting go of his hand she reached up and pulled off his mask. She looked up into his eyes which had a new mask, the mask she'd never seen him without.
He wanted to break the trance she was putting him in, to look away from her but he couldn't. Her beautiful, innocent eyes swallowed him up threatening to keep him there forever. And he was scared of it.
They were both startled when Dorothy started clapping madly. "That was magnificent! Not only is she an excellent fighter but she's also a beautiful young lady!" Dorothy broke in between them and shook Serena's hand. "I have never seen so much grace and skill put into one fighter. You have my deepest admiration."
Serena blushed under the girl's attention.
"What's your name?" Dorothy asked her.
"Serena." Heero said still looking at her.
Serena turned even brighter red when he said her name.
"So I see you two have already met, this had turned out to be a very interesting day indeed," Dorothy said in her mysterious way.
::RING!::
The bell rang and Serena walked away from Dorothy and Heero without saying goodbye. She went over to her four friends who had also taken off their masks. (I'm sure you've all guessed who they are.)
Then the five girls walked out the door.
"She's hiding something," Dorothy concluded thinking out loud as she too left.
"Who's Serena?" Quatre asked Heero as he walked over to his friend.
"I'm not quite sure I know," Heero replied still watching the door. *She isn't who I thought she was on the moon.*
Quatre looked at Heero in surprise. *Heero isn't acting like himself.*
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"That was amazing! How on Earth did you do that?" Mina asked her friend as they were walking down the big steps of the Sanc Kingdome.
Serena shrugged and blushed. "Like I said before, ever since my memories started coming back to me the first time I saw my gundam again, I've been able to do so many things. And ever since I flew in her I've had abilities I haven't had since I was a kid on the moon. They seem to even be enhanced a bit."
"That's odd, I have heard of repressed memories before but not repressed abilities," the girls looked at Ami as if she was talking but they didn't understand. She sighed. "When Serena went through her traumatic occurrence with the Alliance destroying the moon, she forgot all about her past on the moon," the girls nodded to say they were following what she was saying, "That is completely normal for someone who had gone through such a horrible experience. It is also normal for people to regain their lost memories when they see something from the past they'd forgotten. But it isn't very normal for her to remember at such a fast rate. It is also odd that her body forgot it's past and now it is remembering...I just do not get it." Ami was obviously vexed with the situation. She hated things she couldn't understand.
"Ah, Ami?" Lita said with a sweat drop on the side of her face, "can't we just decide that it's something we'll never understand."
Ami seemed to think the proposition over, but before she'd finished she realized that they'd made it to their destination. Going into the average looking building the girls looked around them to make sure they hadn't been followed. They entered an average looking office and then took out the little key card they had been given this morning. Sliding it into a slot in the wall the bookcase slid open revealing a secret passageway. The girls herded into the door and it closed behind them.
Descending into the darkness they came into a large, poorly lighted, underground hanger. The girls looked around them with mild curiosity. "You'd never expect to find this when down here when you see the building outside." Raye said.
"That's the point," a female voice said from behind them. The girls turned to see Noin behind them, along with Quatre and Heero. The boys were looking at the girls with some suspicion. "The Sanc Kingdome is supposed to be pacifist. If the rest of the universe found out there was a hidden, no matter how small, army, then they wouldn't take anything Princess Relena said seriously."
The girls nodded seeing the wisdom in the secrecy. Earlier that morning while Heero and Quatre were in class, the girls had arrived and asked to join Noin in her mission to protect the pacifist nation.
"Serena I have your gundam in the other hanger, while your guy's Tauruses are right next to ours." The girls looked in the direction Noin pointed. "Sorry, we didn't have any white tauruses so you'll have to stick with these. Ami's is the blue one, Raye's is the red one, Lita's is the green one and Mina's is the orange one."
"That should be fine, thank you very much!" Serena said.
"Yeah thanks!" The rest of the girls peeped.
The two boys had been staring at the five girls with much confusion. Mina caught Quatre looking at her with his mouth open and she blew him a little kiss, which caused him to turn the deepest shade of red.
"What do you mean she has a gundam?" Heero asked with indifference.
Noin looked at Serena. "So you know about him but he doesn't know about you?"
Serena blushed and shrugged. She then looked at Heero and said, "Would you like to see her?"
Heero didn't look any less angry but nodded, still glaring at her.
Noin pointed to the door to the hanger where Moonshine was stored.
*I know they aren't going to except me. This is horrible!* Serena walked behind the group wringing her hands nervously.
"Serena was raised on the Moon colony before it was destroyed by the Alliance. When she was there not to long ago she found her gundam and joined the fight for peace," Noin informed them.
Heero glared at Serena. *Why did she think she needed to lie to us if she is a gundam pilot? Why did she have to act so fake? No gundam pilot could be as innocent as she pretended.*
Noin noticed his look and quickly continued, "She lost her memory when the Moon Colony was destroyed. She only remembered when she saw her gundam."
*Do I believe that? Yes, I guess I do.* Heero thought, relieved over having her reputation renewed ever so slightly in his eyes.
"There," Noin said pointing a door.
Serena inhaled deeply and held her breath as she opened the door for her fellow gundam pilots.
Serena gasped at what she saw inside. She forgot the people behind her and went running forward while screaming: "What do you think you're doing! Get away from my gundam!"
The old engineer working on the gundam, dropped the monkey wrench he was carrying and put up his hands as fast as his arthritic joints could, only for him to fall backwards. "I...I-"
"Stop Serena!" Noin said once she had made it through the doorway. "That's Mr. Bangui! I asked him to make any necessary repairs to your gundam."
"Ack! I'm sorry Mr. Bangui, sir!" Serena said quickly regaining her composure and bowing low, "I am just very protective of Moonshine."
"I quite understand, young lady, this machine is rather fascinating! Actually it wouldn't even let me inside the cockpit," He told Serena as she helped him up, from where he had fallen backwards.
"We didn't hear about her helping the others out after the lunar base bust because it seems no one saw her there, her gundam seems to be able to hide from radar."
Heero and Quatre walked up to the gundam and started to inspect it. I was rather small, they noticed, which meant it was fast. Also seemed to have the appearance of being a female. They had never thought of their gundams as male or female but comparatively, this gundam was definitely a female. Heero noticed the long scepter the gundam clutched in it's hand. He wondered how it worked.
"This is amazing!" Quatre exclaimed examining the workmanship on the gundam. "The same scientists that build our gundams built this one?"
"No, Dr P, from the Moon Colony did. Then after him his niece finished the job," Serena informed them trying to hide how uncomfortable she was. She noticed the direction both of the pilots were looking and she smiled. "Would you guys like to look inside her?" She asked. She led the way without waiting for an answer.
The five girls waiting, still by the door, laughed as even the mechanic followed her up. "Men and their machines," Ray commented, causing the other girls to laugh more.
The others weren't paying attention to what the girls below were saying. They were just taking it all in. Heero and Quatre felt longing for their own gundams as they saw the layout of the cockpit was much the same as their own. One thing caught their eyes almost at the same instant.
Heero voiced his feelings calmly, trying not to betray his disbelief, "You have a zero system?"
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I know that was sort of a boring chapter but too bad! :P That's why I got it out so soon. In the next chapter there will be more Heero, Serena scenes. Just wait and see. Also, Quatre and... ha! You'll just have to wait and see! No more no less, just Review and tell me what you think! Thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far. Thanks to everyone for reading...k, ba-bye!
Shi
Shigal5@aol.com
Chapter 4
AN: Hi! Not much in the talking mood, just go to the chapter! :
Summary Of Last Chapter In a Nutshell: Serena became a Gundam pilot. She and her friends went to Earth.
Summary of this chapter in a nutshell: Serena ends up in the Sanc
* * =Thought
--- =A short about of time elapsed
-------- = More time passed (usually goes the full page)
( ) = Authors notes
:: :: = some sort of action
~~ ~~ = dream
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The young girl of about 15 sat in her room staring in the mirror. She was wearing a long-sleeved turtleneck sweater with a full dark blue skirt on. She had shoulder length light sandy-blond hair that had two small braids coming from the hair at her temple and tied together on the back of her head. She sighed unhappily her blue eyes mirroring her sadness. *Am I going about everything the right way? Is pacifism possible or is it just a helpless dream? What would you do Papa?* She wondered looking at the picture of her father on her table. Next to the picture was a musical figure that when turned on would spin around in circles while a beautiful melody would play (The theme song of sailor moon:)) She turned it on and watched the beautiful figure spin around in circles. The girl in the figure is dressed in white with her beautiful golden hair tied up in two buns on either side of her head, with streams of golden hair flowing from each bun nearly reaching the ground. The girl had a look that shown not only beauty but innocence and love for all. Relena remembered when her father had given it to her for her 12th birthday.
::Flashback::
"This is the Moon Princess darling. One day it is said she will return and bring our universe to peace. She will be the Queen of everyone, space colonies and Earth alike."
"Wow," the young Relena said marveling at the figure in her hands. "When is she going to come?"
"I don't know honey, but I'm sure it will be soon."
::End Flashback::
Relena wiped a tear that was falling down her cheek at the thought of her father. No matter how much she tried to hide it she missed her father so much. And, lately with Dorothy around it wasn't and easier to try and make the loneliness go away. The girl was just insufferable! It took every bit of nerve Relena had just to put up with her more than an hour. She was a lost cause. No matter how much time Relena spent telling her the goods of pacifism, she'd gotten nowhere. *At least Heero is here now. He seems to have gotten her off my back. She's all over him!* Relena felt a twinge of jealousy. *He is a gundam pilot after all. Maybe he likes her better with her love of conflict. He has seemed especially distant ever since he came.* (surprise surprise)
::Ring!::
The bell rang for the fencing class. She felt like missing it today. She'd never been any good with violence anyway.
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"Mr. Heero! Would you like to fight me?" Dorothy said in her usual cocky tone.
Heero and Quatre turned to look at her. Heero felt like throwing up when he saw her eyebrows. *Why doesn't she ever pluck those?* "Sure," he said with a deep, uninterested tone of voice.
The floor was cleared for the two to fight. With a cocky smile Dorothy put on her helmet and stood in a ready position. Heero just stood in one spot and simply leaned to one side to doge her when she lunged at him. The same thing happened a few more times when she said angrily "Fight me! Or are you too wimpy to fight with a girl?"
Heero smirked behind his mask *if she insists...* With her next clumsy lunge in one movement Heero knocked the helmet off her head, hit the sword out of her hand and ended up with the sword inches away from her face. *Now, about those eyebrows...*
Instead of being angry Dorothy broke out in a smile of bliss. *he has to be a gundam pilot.* "Even better than I expected." She said not at all frightened with the sword so very close to her face.
Quatre looked nervously at the two, *That was close...*
Heero let his armrest at his side and started to leave when he heard a new challenge. "That was good, now let's see how good you can be."
*That voice, I know it.* He turned around and inspected the new challenger. She was tall and lean in her white padded suit, with long legs and a super tiny waist. From the back of her mask fell two long golden streams of hair. And behind her was four other girls wearing the same outfit and masks.
Heero stepped back into the middle, and Dorothy silently stepped back with respect and curiosity for the challenger.
The girl stepped into the ring as well. They bowed to each other and got in positions ready to fight. Heero didn't like to under estimate his opponents, and unlike Dorothy, this challenger had already seen him fight.
Quatre watched nervous again. *Heero please just go easy on her!*
The two just stood watching each other waiting to see who would make the first move. They saw it. One twitch from the other was all it took to send them lunging at each other. Both met each advance of the other with lightening speed. *She may be faster than me, but I'm stronger than she is.*
The girls hair whipped in every which direction when she moved. The two didn't falter one bit with the intensity of the battle. She felt him starting to increase his attacks with even more strength and force. *He knows I'm weaker than he, I can't slip up even the tiniest bit.* she thought.
He pushed her down with the force of his swing and she did a back summersault and landed back on one knee holding up the sword to block his next attack. The people in the audience, even her friends, were amazed as she pushed him off just enough to roll to the side and do a back flip up to her feet. On and on they went neither of them having the upper hand. That is, until Heero's right leg wrapped around hers sending her down on her backside.
The other kids in the room booed his dirty action, all claiming he cheated. But then they noticed that while his sword was pointed at her face, she was laying on the ground in a way so that she was twisted sideways with her sword pointing to his family jewels. (Hee hee! :P) The whole room burst out in laughter as Heero quickly dropped his sword hoping she would do the same. She dropped her sword as well and propped herself up by resting her elbows on the floor beneath her. Some how the people in the room could tell she was smiling behind the mask. The two just stood staring at each other through their masks breathing heavily with exhaustion from the battle.
Quatre stepped forward laughing with obvious relief written all over his face. During their fight he had been nearly dying of anxiety fearing Heero would hurt the girl in some way. He saw now that he never should have worried about her. "It looks like a tie! Who are you?" He asked with admiration in his voice.
"Yes, I think we all would like to know who she is!" Dorothy said with the same amount of admiration in her voice.
The girl reached up her arm and held her hand out waiting for Heero to help her up. Heero grabbed her hand and his eyes opened wide.
*What was that spark I felt when I touched her?*
Nobody could see the open surprise on his face when he touched her, he was glad of that. But then, the girl in his hand started to giggle. "This is when you pull me up," she whispered up to him quietly.
Quickly as if trying to get a hold of himself he pulled her to her feet. She kept a hold on his hand as she used her other hand to pull off her mask. Heero gasped, but only Serena was close enough to hear.
She looked up at him. She could see his eyes wide beneath the mesh of his mask. Letting go of his hand she reached up and pulled off his mask. She looked up into his eyes which had a new mask, the mask she'd never seen him without.
He wanted to break the trance she was putting him in, to look away from her but he couldn't. Her beautiful, innocent eyes swallowed him up threatening to keep him there forever. And he was scared of it.
They were both startled when Dorothy started clapping madly. "That was magnificent! Not only is she an excellent fighter but she's also a beautiful young lady!" Dorothy broke in between them and shook Serena's hand. "I have never seen so much grace and skill put into one fighter. You have my deepest admiration."
Serena blushed under the girl's attention.
"What's your name?" Dorothy asked her.
"Serena." Heero said still looking at her.
Serena turned even brighter red when he said her name.
"So I see you two have already met, this had turned out to be a very interesting day indeed," Dorothy said in her mysterious way.
::RING!::
The bell rang and Serena walked away from Dorothy and Heero without saying goodbye. She went over to her four friends who had also taken off their masks. (I'm sure you've all guessed who they are.)
Then the five girls walked out the door.
"She's hiding something," Dorothy concluded thinking out loud as she too left.
"Who's Serena?" Quatre asked Heero as he walked over to his friend.
"I'm not quite sure I know," Heero replied still watching the door. *She isn't who I thought she was on the moon.*
Quatre looked at Heero in surprise. *Heero isn't acting like himself.*
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"That was amazing! How on Earth did you do that?" Mina asked her friend as they were walking down the big steps of the Sanc Kingdome.
Serena shrugged and blushed. "Like I said before, ever since my memories started coming back to me the first time I saw my gundam again, I've been able to do so many things. And ever since I flew in her I've had abilities I haven't had since I was a kid on the moon. They seem to even be enhanced a bit."
"That's odd, I have heard of repressed memories before but not repressed abilities," the girls looked at Ami as if she was talking but they didn't understand. She sighed. "When Serena went through her traumatic occurrence with the Alliance destroying the moon, she forgot all about her past on the moon," the girls nodded to say they were following what she was saying, "That is completely normal for someone who had gone through such a horrible experience. It is also normal for people to regain their lost memories when they see something from the past they'd forgotten. But it isn't very normal for her to remember at such a fast rate. It is also odd that her body forgot it's past and now it is remembering...I just do not get it." Ami was obviously vexed with the situation. She hated things she couldn't understand.
"Ah, Ami?" Lita said with a sweat drop on the side of her face, "can't we just decide that it's something we'll never understand."
Ami seemed to think the proposition over, but before she'd finished she realized that they'd made it to their destination. Going into the average looking building the girls looked around them to make sure they hadn't been followed. They entered an average looking office and then took out the little key card they had been given this morning. Sliding it into a slot in the wall the bookcase slid open revealing a secret passageway. The girls herded into the door and it closed behind them.
Descending into the darkness they came into a large, poorly lighted, underground hanger. The girls looked around them with mild curiosity. "You'd never expect to find this when down here when you see the building outside." Raye said.
"That's the point," a female voice said from behind them. The girls turned to see Noin behind them, along with Quatre and Heero. The boys were looking at the girls with some suspicion. "The Sanc Kingdome is supposed to be pacifist. If the rest of the universe found out there was a hidden, no matter how small, army, then they wouldn't take anything Princess Relena said seriously."
The girls nodded seeing the wisdom in the secrecy. Earlier that morning while Heero and Quatre were in class, the girls had arrived and asked to join Noin in her mission to protect the pacifist nation.
"Serena I have your gundam in the other hanger, while your guy's Tauruses are right next to ours." The girls looked in the direction Noin pointed. "Sorry, we didn't have any white tauruses so you'll have to stick with these. Ami's is the blue one, Raye's is the red one, Lita's is the green one and Mina's is the orange one."
"That should be fine, thank you very much!" Serena said.
"Yeah thanks!" The rest of the girls peeped.
The two boys had been staring at the five girls with much confusion. Mina caught Quatre looking at her with his mouth open and she blew him a little kiss, which caused him to turn the deepest shade of red.
"What do you mean she has a gundam?" Heero asked with indifference.
Noin looked at Serena. "So you know about him but he doesn't know about you?"
Serena blushed and shrugged. She then looked at Heero and said, "Would you like to see her?"
Heero didn't look any less angry but nodded, still glaring at her.
Noin pointed to the door to the hanger where Moonshine was stored.
*I know they aren't going to except me. This is horrible!* Serena walked behind the group wringing her hands nervously.
"Serena was raised on the Moon colony before it was destroyed by the Alliance. When she was there not to long ago she found her gundam and joined the fight for peace," Noin informed them.
Heero glared at Serena. *Why did she think she needed to lie to us if she is a gundam pilot? Why did she have to act so fake? No gundam pilot could be as innocent as she pretended.*
Noin noticed his look and quickly continued, "She lost her memory when the Moon Colony was destroyed. She only remembered when she saw her gundam."
*Do I believe that? Yes, I guess I do.* Heero thought, relieved over having her reputation renewed ever so slightly in his eyes.
"There," Noin said pointing a door.
Serena inhaled deeply and held her breath as she opened the door for her fellow gundam pilots.
Serena gasped at what she saw inside. She forgot the people behind her and went running forward while screaming: "What do you think you're doing! Get away from my gundam!"
The old engineer working on the gundam, dropped the monkey wrench he was carrying and put up his hands as fast as his arthritic joints could, only for him to fall backwards. "I...I-"
"Stop Serena!" Noin said once she had made it through the doorway. "That's Mr. Bangui! I asked him to make any necessary repairs to your gundam."
"Ack! I'm sorry Mr. Bangui, sir!" Serena said quickly regaining her composure and bowing low, "I am just very protective of Moonshine."
"I quite understand, young lady, this machine is rather fascinating! Actually it wouldn't even let me inside the cockpit," He told Serena as she helped him up, from where he had fallen backwards.
"We didn't hear about her helping the others out after the lunar base bust because it seems no one saw her there, her gundam seems to be able to hide from radar."
Heero and Quatre walked up to the gundam and started to inspect it. I was rather small, they noticed, which meant it was fast. Also seemed to have the appearance of being a female. They had never thought of their gundams as male or female but comparatively, this gundam was definitely a female. Heero noticed the long scepter the gundam clutched in it's hand. He wondered how it worked.
"This is amazing!" Quatre exclaimed examining the workmanship on the gundam. "The same scientists that build our gundams built this one?"
"No, Dr P, from the Moon Colony did. Then after him his niece finished the job," Serena informed them trying to hide how uncomfortable she was. She noticed the direction both of the pilots were looking and she smiled. "Would you guys like to look inside her?" She asked. She led the way without waiting for an answer.
The five girls waiting, still by the door, laughed as even the mechanic followed her up. "Men and their machines," Ray commented, causing the other girls to laugh more.
The others weren't paying attention to what the girls below were saying. They were just taking it all in. Heero and Quatre felt longing for their own gundams as they saw the layout of the cockpit was much the same as their own. One thing caught their eyes almost at the same instant.
Heero voiced his feelings calmly, trying not to betray his disbelief, "You have a zero system?"
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I know that was sort of a boring chapter but too bad! :P That's why I got it out so soon. In the next chapter there will be more Heero, Serena scenes. Just wait and see. Also, Quatre and... ha! You'll just have to wait and see! No more no less, just Review and tell me what you think! Thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far. Thanks to everyone for reading...k, ba-bye!
Shi
Shigal5@aol.com