Gundam Moonshine
Chapter 6
AN: If you just want to read the story I completely understand, this has absolutely nothing to do with it ;-P. It was SNOWING at my house last night!!!! It was so exciting. For those of you who are stuck in ten feet of snow let me explain. I live in the deserts of California at like 2 thousand feet above sea level. The last time snow actually fell and stayed on the ground was like 1987. So, yes, I was excited. Oh and then this morning I was getting in the car to go to school and the news van came and interviewed me on how I liked the snow (it was still all over the ground.). But then they only showed my house on the news and not me but that was ok. I didn't look my best anyway.
Summary of last chapter in a nutshell: Serena and the girls go to the Sanc Kingdom.
Summary of this chapter in a nutshell: Two battles, and a crazy outcome. Ok, there is some romance on the way but that is all I'll say!
Disclaimers: I don't own SM/GW
Key:
* * =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 onslaught began only three days after Serena spied on Romefeller. Heero had made no objection to Serena following him when he went to fight Romefeller's mobile dolls. She tired her best stay close to him the entire time, but she also made sure to stay out of his way. She didn't want to make him angry with her for any reason. She was just happy that she was able to be included in the gundam business. As she watched him fight in his taurus suit she was truly amazed by his skill as a pilot.
Serena had made the decision to keep her zero system off so she didn't lose control of her own actions, she didn't want to do something she would later regret. After Heero and Quatre had explained to her what the zero system was capable of doing to her she decided to try her luck without it.
As soon as they arrived they knew it was a lost cause. Heero informed her over the radio that they should try to destroy as many dolls as possible. She had no problem with that. Serena just couldn't help herself; she went crazy destroying as many dolls as she could. In fact she destroyed so many that she couldn't even keep count on how many. It was like she was playing a video game at an arcade; she just kept screaming, "Die! Die! Evil villains! " (Remember they're the dolls so she wasn't really killing anyone, otherwise she wouldn't have been acting like that.)
It was inevitable that she would lose sight of Heero. When she noticed he was gone she wasn't worried though, she knew he was capable of taking care of himself.
After she had severely dented their forces by doing a few Moonbeam Spiral Scepter Attacks the enemies retreated. Their operators decided they had already won the battle so they didn't need to waste the rest of their dolls, though they were very confused by where this gundam came from.
After Serena had finished hugging and kissing the controls of her gundam she decided she'd better go figure out where Heero went. She hadn't seen him for a while and there was no reason for him to be gone now that all the dolls left. "He better not have left me!" Serena growled as she turned on all her wonderful tracking devices to see if she could locate him in his taurus suit. "He'll regret it if he did." Serena noticed a strange energy coming from the large mansion in the center of the battlefield. As she flew over it she saw a very odd scene in a courtyard below her.
Heero was standing outside of a large purple gundam that had a scorpion's tail on it, pointing a gun at none other than Treize Khushrenada. Serena gasped. She had seen Treize many times on TV, he had to be one of the most powerful people in the universe, and here Heero is pointing a gun at his head!
Heero was breathing heavily as if he had just been through a strenuous battle. Serena didn't know why but she immediately had a sick feeling in her stomach as if something bad had happened to him.
Serena landed her gundam as fast as she could and as far away as she could from the two men in the small courtyard. She jumped out of her gundam and jogged over to the two, who were still in the same position as she saw them from the air. They were both ignoring her, something she was getting use to when it came to Heero. She stood a few feet away watching them trying not to show any emotions even though her heart was wrenching. *He can't! Its murder...Heero please don't do it. Just walk away! It doesn't matter what he did!* She thought in regard to Heero pointing his gun at Treize.
Finally Treize broke the silence. Without blinking, or moving in any way, he said in determined and inviting voice, "You saw your future. Do it."
Heero didn't flinch nor did his face show any hint of his thoughts. Then, surprising both Serena and Treize, he dropped his arms and closed his eyes. "I don't deserve it, I'm not worthy. I won't kill you."
Serena stood amazed. Treize had asked him to kill him and Heero didn't do it? What was she missing exactly?
*You leave the boy alone one minute...*
She then noticed the expression of complete confusion on Heero's face. With a feeling of pity she didn't understand, she looked up at the evil-looking gundam he was standing in front of. Her eyes narrowed angrily *It has to be something with that gundam...he saw his future...it's got to have a zero system.*
Serena remembered with a shiver when she used the zero system in space as she helped Wufei and Duo. She saw what she had guessed was a glimpse of her own future. It had scared her so much that as soon as she was out of the trance the system had put on her she'd fainted from the thought alone. She hadn't thought of the vision again until now. Was her future really to be a...?
Treize looked away from Heero to Serena. He seemed to have noticed her for the first time. "You were the other pilot out there, in the gundam. I am most impressed that it's pilot is a female. I appreciate the effort you made, even if you were there only to fight against Romefeller," he said in a very courteous manner.
Serena looked up at the very tall and aristocratic man with a sick feeling in her gut. She felt small and unimportant compared to him, but she tried to shake off the feeling. *He's just some person who has a lot of power, remember, you have power now as well,* she reasoned to herself. With that thought she looked up at him with an air of superiority.
"There is a carrier in a hanger at the corner of the base. You may use it to transport Epyon and your gundam wherever you need."
Serena nodded to him, trying to appear as if she wasn't as confused and intimidated as she really was.
He gave her a bow, saluted Heero, and then walked into the mansion. *They may not know it but they are the same...* he thought of the two young people standing alone in the courtyard.
Serena and Heero turned to regard each other. Then, without saying a word, each went to move their gundams to the carrier.
Heero couldn't think clearly. His mind was going over the images Epyon had just showed him: *I either killed him or went with her... That was what it told me. Why am I so weak that I chose her?* He glanced at her retreating form. *Such beauty, and she's not some little wimpy girl that sits and drinks tea all day...she's perfect. How she stays so innocent I can't tell...SHUT UP! This is really getting bad Yuy! No more! ... Even if you have to make her hate you, you need to stay focused on the mission...But I don't want her to hate me...It's better this way though, I know.*
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Serena was driving the carrier back to the Sanc Kingdom and Heero was seated next to her in the co-pilot's chair. Serena kept on stealing glances at him but he just sat staring out the window into the darkness of night.
He sat with one knee up on his chair, with the other leg straight out resting on the dashboard. One of his arms was on the armrest with his head leaning on it. He seemed to be thinking and not aware of his surroundings.
Serena hadn't spoken at all, knowing that if he was ready to trust her and see her as an equal he would speak to her. Otherwise, she would at least be there if he did decide to talk.
She didn't have to wait long, but she never would have expected him to ask her what he did: "What did you see in your future when you used Moonshine's zero system?"
Serena bit her lip and continued focusing on the open sky in front of her. She thought about it. *Should I tell him? He'll think I'm completely crazy!* After much thought, she decided to try and tell him what she'd seen, even if she didn't believe it herself.
"If you're worried about what you saw, I say don't be," she began, trying to sound casual. "When I was being controlled by the system I thought I saw...it's really weird, I don't think it would ever happen, that's why you shouldn't worry about it."
Heero turned to regard her now thoroughly interested in finding out what she'd seen, "Just tell me," he said in a demanding, matter of fact tone.
Serena sighed, bit her lip again, and kept looking in front of her. She definitely didn't want to see his face when she told him what she'd seen. "Well, I saw me as...as some sort of queen...I was wearing this beautiful white dress, and I had a half moon symbol on my forehead, kind of like Moonshine's," Serena let out a nervous giggle. "Crazy huh?" she paused hoping he wouldn't think she was crazy. "Well, what did you see?" she asked curiously.
When he didn't answer she glanced at him. He appeared to be sleeping, with a confused look on his face. Serena decided to let him off the hook for the time being. *It must have really been something for him to be so exhausted.* Serena was worried. Even though she hadn't known him very long she knew that this wasn't like him.
She relaxed. He wasn't so intimidating when he was asleep. She just didn't understand the boy. She tried to be nice to him but all he did was ignore her. Whenever she tried to talk to him he would just look at her and say nothing, most of the time, others he just ignored her. She'd thought now that they were both gundam pilots they would have something to talk about, something in common...but she was wrong.
She glanced at him again. He was so cute the way he laid there looking so confused, he almost seemed helpless. *At least confused is an emotion.* She wondered if she would ever see him with anymore then that. *Well Heero Yuy, if no emotions is your game, then I can get you yet.*
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The boy sleeping in the uncomfortable chair, dreamed about a tall and beautiful, golden haired queen with her brave, handsome king. It was this future he had unwontedly chosen.
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Not more than a few days after Luxembourg the attack Serena had predicted came. Serena, Heero, Noin, Quatre, Minako, Matako, Raye, and Ami were waiting for Romefeller to make some move against the Sanc Kingdom. Unfortunately, they couldn't have done anything, no matter how long they had know in advance, to stop the mass amount of dolls
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Now that Relena had surrendered her country, rather then let it get destroyed, Serena watched in vain as Heero seemed to go mad. No matter what Quatre and her said to try and calm him down he wouldn't listen, he had even turned off the communications between them.
"What do we do Quatre?" Serena asked in some desperation.
"I don't know what we can do, his Epyon is more powerful than my taurus. And, without your zero system on, I truly don't think you have what it takes to stop him."
Serena knew what he was saying was true but she didn't listen. She followed Heero, at a safe distance, as he went on his killing rampage.
"Serena, don't try anything," she heard her friend Minako say over the radio.
"Don't worry guys, I'm just making sure he's ok," she said as she thought, *how much more of this can he take?* She watched as Epyon ripped into all the dolls mercilessly.
As she was watching him she saw a doll that was different from all the others, right behind Heero. It had a rather large cannon and as the other mobile dolls were surrounding Heero to distract him, this new doll was charging up its weapon to hit Heero. Serena didn't think that in his rage he had noticed the clever trap the dolls had set for him, and by the size of the cannon she didn't think he would come out of the blast too well.
*Heero! Oh why did you turn off your radio?* Making good of the dolls around her she zipped in Moonshine over to the doll with the huge cannon. She jumped in front of it with a smile on her face and smashed the thing to smithereens with her glowing scepter. It didn't even know what hit it.
And all of a sudden, before she knew what hit her she felt a large blow to her back. The lights on the gears of her gundam flickered for a second then flashed back on. *Was there another doll with a big cannon I was an idiot not to see?* she questioned herself as she checked out the monitors to discover there was only minute damage to a few systems.
Without panicking she turned around with lightening speed to counter attack the back stabber, only to be faced with Epyon. The gundam looked frightfully alive glared at her with evil. It seemed to be taunting her with its lifelike movement of its scorpion's tail. Her eyes grew wide as she halted her counter attack; and in a panicked tone gasped, "Heero?"
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Heero stopped attacking when he seemed to hear the mental plea of the girl in the other gundam, the girl he cared about. Within the haze of his confused thoughts that one thing was what made him halt from his massacre.
"Serena...No! She isn't the enemy!"
He turned immediately away from Moonshine and became focused on the other, real threats. In his trance, brought on by Epyon, he didn't have time to stop and think over what he had just done.
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Serena let out a sigh of relief as Epyon turned away from her. Not that she had been afraid she couldn't have held her own against him, she was just worried about him. She did not have any desire to test her skill against Heero.
Still, she decided it would be best to follow him, even farther away this time, to make sure he didn't hurt anyone else he shouldn't. She wasn't planning to help him if there were anymore surprise attacks planned against him either. He could probably use a few good hits in the back, she thought bitterly.
She gave her scepter a break and turned her left gundam's hand into a gun. She shot the dolls around her trying to keep out of the attention of Heero as she followed him.
As they neared the edge of the battlefield Serena was shocked when she saw another gundam fly out of the sky. It was fast, not as fast as her smaller sized gundam but fast. It was also colored similarly to hers, with white, blue and red, but in a different pattern. It also had two wings on it's back.
Serena tried to contact the others and find out what was happening. If it was a gundam, then it should be on their side right? She tried contacting Quatre first but she couldn't get a hold of him. All she heard was static. Then she realized that her communicator antenna happened to be right where Epyon had hit her in her back. With a frustrated sigh, she sat back and watched.
All she could do was watch when Heero and the new gundam started fighting head on. The battle was long and looked really rough. The two pilots seemed to meet every advance the other made. Neither of them had the upper hand. Serena watched anxiously as they fought, wishing she could help Heero, but knowing she shouldn't dare.
As she watched the battle a large buster rifle in the hands of the new gundam caught her eye. For some reason the rifle stirred something in her memory. Where had she heard of a gundam with a very powerful rifle?
*Quatre! The first time I heard of him, he was destroying colonies using a huge, powerful rifle. It must be the Wing Zero! But, who is it's pilot?*
Serena didn't need to wrack her brain much longer as the two gundam all of a sudden stopped fighting. Both of the gundams fell backwards on the ground. Serena stared in surprise, wondering what she should do. *What?* Both of the gundams opened up and the two pilots jumped out, or rather fell out, to the ground. Serena sighed in relief. *It's a draw.*
She walked her gundam near the place where they were, so she was close enough to see who the other pilot was. She couldn't believe her eyes. *Zechs!* Quatre had told her once before how Heero hand Zechs had fought, then Heero had self-destructed; and then another time Zechs and Heero had fought in Antarctica or something, but that battle was interrupted by OZ. That was what this pointless fight was about then. Even though she knew it was pointless she was glad she didn't interrupt. She knew it was important to Heero.
Zechs turned to her with some expectancy but then decided she was honorable enough that she wouldn't try anything.
She waited for them to decide what to do, and after awhile they got into each other's gundams and Zechs flew away.
Heero, now in Wing Zero, turned to regard her and her gundam, then turning on his radio he said, "Let's go."
Serena didn't wait for him. She started her engines and sped off as fast as she could get Moonshine to go. Along the way she battled the dolls in her path making quick business of it. They never saw exactly what hit them. She could see Heero behind her the whole time but she tried not to pay attention, she was so angry with him. With him in his right mind now she wasn't sympathetic for what he had done.
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later that night...
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As the two pilots returned to the still intact secret hanger under the former Sanc Kingdom, they were greeted with many worried faces. The four girls welcomed Serena with relieved smiles and all hugged her. They all flooded her with questions on what had happened. She laughed at them and told them they had no reason to be worried about her. Besides, didn't they have any faith in her piloting skills?
Quatre and Noin had noticed right away the huge gash in the back of Moonshine. Serena said it was just her being careless and it wasn't much to worry about. But she did ask if the old mechanic wouldn't fix it for her. The entire time Serena wouldn't make eye contact with Heero. She just couldn't face him with what he did. She knew he was under the control of the zero system when he attacked her. But, he then continued to fight Zechs, which in her eyes, no matter what their history was, was stupid and dangerous.
"What's the news of Relena?" Serena asked concerned, trying to get her mind off the battle.
"Well, after she surrendered, Dorothy escorted Miss Relena to Romefeller. We haven't heard from her since," Quatre informed her.
"I'm sure she's ok," Serena thought out loud.
"Yes, I'm sure she is. She is much too respected by many people in the world, they wouldn't dare harm her," Noin agreed.
As she finished her sentence the large TV screen in the control room of the hanger turned on revealing none other then Relena.
The room went silent as she started to address the universe.
"I am Relena Peacecraft. As you may all know by now, earlier today my country joined the ranks of the Romefeller foundation. I saw it best to join them so that now, as a whole nation, we can settle down and work for the peace and justice of all mankind. They have anointed me the Queen of the new Worlds Nation. As Queen, I will strive for an enlightened coexistence between Earth and the space colonies. Thank you."
Long after Relena's face disappeared from the screen the room was silent. No one dared say anything because they were so surprised.
Matako finally broke the silence, "So what does that mean?"
"I don't know," Ami said, "It seems now that Romefeller has complete power, they wish to try and make a peaceful nation using Relena as a figure head to make people feel ok with it."
"Or to make people think they're changed," Raye said.
"That's what it seems like," Noin agreed.
"So what do we do now?" Serena asked, feeling as if their existence as gundam pilots had just become pointless.
"People of the space colonies aren't going to accept Relena as their leader," Heero said speaking mostly to Serena and Quatre.
Quatre nodded getting the jest of what Heero was saying, "Then we go to outer space."
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That night all the fighters retired into the hangers. The girls all went into the taurus hanger while Quatre and Heero went into the hanger containing Wing Zero and Moonshine.
Serena just couldn't sleep. The battle just kept on replaying in her head. The abuse of technology that turned her thought to be friend against her, and the stupid pride contest that could have lost him his life, was all she could think about.
*What is it with men that make them so thick headed? Well, not all men,* she thought, thinking of Quatre in particular. She knew by the way he had looked at her that he knew something was up. When he saw Wing Zero come in shortly after Serena, he could obviously tell what it was. She knew he would ask Heero about it.
*Ugrr!* She thought frustrated. *If only I could at least go and work on Moonshine, then I could at least get my head off this stupid, annoying, crappy stuff!*
As she thought that she heard a small sound of the door opening from the other hanger. It was such a small sound that someone without her keen senses wouldn't have been able to hear it. She held very still, making sure that she had really heard it. She didn't move and kept her eyes partway open, so that she could see, but to anyone looking it looked like she was asleep.
That was when she saw him. His figure lingered above her, watching her. She didn't dare move. She still wasn't sure if she wanted to talk to him.
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Heero stood above the sleeping girl, just watching her sleep. Just the innocent look on her beautiful sleeping features made his heart wrench in pain.
What had he done? How could he have lost control of himself like that? Even if she was capable of defending herself, even during his psychopathic rampage, he couldn't forgive himself for putting her in danger like that.
*So innocent...* He saw a picture of her that day in the park. She looked so beautiful and angelic in her yellow sundress. So serious when she told them her views of war and peace, so passionate about her feelings. Then when she ran and played with her friends, hide and seek. He would watch her as she climbed up into a tree where no one could find her. She'd giggle adorably when the others would pass her, searching for her, until she jumped down on them after they had given up and sat down on underneath the tree, unsuspecting. Then he saw her picking flowers. How she would hold them up to her nose and inhale deeply the sweet fragrance. Then she had shyly handed one to...to him, giggling sweetly.
*I'm sorry, Serena, Angel...* he said, wishing she could just hear him. *For you I will master the zero system.*
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As she watched him walk quietly back into the other hanger, her heart was also wrenching. She had seen it in his dark, Prussian blue eyes. It was all she needed. All the anger she felt towards him fell away and shattered to the floor. For what she had seen there was...love?
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Yay! Ok...was that too much romance? What do you guys think? Too sappy? Oh well, tough! :D Tell me if you want more or less of anything, I don't bite! I'll try to do what ever you want. I think it was the Valentines Day spirit all around me that made me write the last part...
Oh! I want to thank Sailor Silver Moon! If it weren't for her you wouldn't be able to understand anything I wrote! She puts up with so much... :)
Yes, well, until next time!
Shi
Chapter 6
AN: If you just want to read the story I completely understand, this has absolutely nothing to do with it ;-P. It was SNOWING at my house last night!!!! It was so exciting. For those of you who are stuck in ten feet of snow let me explain. I live in the deserts of California at like 2 thousand feet above sea level. The last time snow actually fell and stayed on the ground was like 1987. So, yes, I was excited. Oh and then this morning I was getting in the car to go to school and the news van came and interviewed me on how I liked the snow (it was still all over the ground.). But then they only showed my house on the news and not me but that was ok. I didn't look my best anyway.
Summary of last chapter in a nutshell: Serena and the girls go to the Sanc Kingdom.
Summary of this chapter in a nutshell: Two battles, and a crazy outcome. Ok, there is some romance on the way but that is all I'll say!
Disclaimers: I don't own SM/GW
Key:
* * =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 onslaught began only three days after Serena spied on Romefeller. Heero had made no objection to Serena following him when he went to fight Romefeller's mobile dolls. She tired her best stay close to him the entire time, but she also made sure to stay out of his way. She didn't want to make him angry with her for any reason. She was just happy that she was able to be included in the gundam business. As she watched him fight in his taurus suit she was truly amazed by his skill as a pilot.
Serena had made the decision to keep her zero system off so she didn't lose control of her own actions, she didn't want to do something she would later regret. After Heero and Quatre had explained to her what the zero system was capable of doing to her she decided to try her luck without it.
As soon as they arrived they knew it was a lost cause. Heero informed her over the radio that they should try to destroy as many dolls as possible. She had no problem with that. Serena just couldn't help herself; she went crazy destroying as many dolls as she could. In fact she destroyed so many that she couldn't even keep count on how many. It was like she was playing a video game at an arcade; she just kept screaming, "Die! Die! Evil villains! " (Remember they're the dolls so she wasn't really killing anyone, otherwise she wouldn't have been acting like that.)
It was inevitable that she would lose sight of Heero. When she noticed he was gone she wasn't worried though, she knew he was capable of taking care of himself.
After she had severely dented their forces by doing a few Moonbeam Spiral Scepter Attacks the enemies retreated. Their operators decided they had already won the battle so they didn't need to waste the rest of their dolls, though they were very confused by where this gundam came from.
After Serena had finished hugging and kissing the controls of her gundam she decided she'd better go figure out where Heero went. She hadn't seen him for a while and there was no reason for him to be gone now that all the dolls left. "He better not have left me!" Serena growled as she turned on all her wonderful tracking devices to see if she could locate him in his taurus suit. "He'll regret it if he did." Serena noticed a strange energy coming from the large mansion in the center of the battlefield. As she flew over it she saw a very odd scene in a courtyard below her.
Heero was standing outside of a large purple gundam that had a scorpion's tail on it, pointing a gun at none other than Treize Khushrenada. Serena gasped. She had seen Treize many times on TV, he had to be one of the most powerful people in the universe, and here Heero is pointing a gun at his head!
Heero was breathing heavily as if he had just been through a strenuous battle. Serena didn't know why but she immediately had a sick feeling in her stomach as if something bad had happened to him.
Serena landed her gundam as fast as she could and as far away as she could from the two men in the small courtyard. She jumped out of her gundam and jogged over to the two, who were still in the same position as she saw them from the air. They were both ignoring her, something she was getting use to when it came to Heero. She stood a few feet away watching them trying not to show any emotions even though her heart was wrenching. *He can't! Its murder...Heero please don't do it. Just walk away! It doesn't matter what he did!* She thought in regard to Heero pointing his gun at Treize.
Finally Treize broke the silence. Without blinking, or moving in any way, he said in determined and inviting voice, "You saw your future. Do it."
Heero didn't flinch nor did his face show any hint of his thoughts. Then, surprising both Serena and Treize, he dropped his arms and closed his eyes. "I don't deserve it, I'm not worthy. I won't kill you."
Serena stood amazed. Treize had asked him to kill him and Heero didn't do it? What was she missing exactly?
*You leave the boy alone one minute...*
She then noticed the expression of complete confusion on Heero's face. With a feeling of pity she didn't understand, she looked up at the evil-looking gundam he was standing in front of. Her eyes narrowed angrily *It has to be something with that gundam...he saw his future...it's got to have a zero system.*
Serena remembered with a shiver when she used the zero system in space as she helped Wufei and Duo. She saw what she had guessed was a glimpse of her own future. It had scared her so much that as soon as she was out of the trance the system had put on her she'd fainted from the thought alone. She hadn't thought of the vision again until now. Was her future really to be a...?
Treize looked away from Heero to Serena. He seemed to have noticed her for the first time. "You were the other pilot out there, in the gundam. I am most impressed that it's pilot is a female. I appreciate the effort you made, even if you were there only to fight against Romefeller," he said in a very courteous manner.
Serena looked up at the very tall and aristocratic man with a sick feeling in her gut. She felt small and unimportant compared to him, but she tried to shake off the feeling. *He's just some person who has a lot of power, remember, you have power now as well,* she reasoned to herself. With that thought she looked up at him with an air of superiority.
"There is a carrier in a hanger at the corner of the base. You may use it to transport Epyon and your gundam wherever you need."
Serena nodded to him, trying to appear as if she wasn't as confused and intimidated as she really was.
He gave her a bow, saluted Heero, and then walked into the mansion. *They may not know it but they are the same...* he thought of the two young people standing alone in the courtyard.
Serena and Heero turned to regard each other. Then, without saying a word, each went to move their gundams to the carrier.
Heero couldn't think clearly. His mind was going over the images Epyon had just showed him: *I either killed him or went with her... That was what it told me. Why am I so weak that I chose her?* He glanced at her retreating form. *Such beauty, and she's not some little wimpy girl that sits and drinks tea all day...she's perfect. How she stays so innocent I can't tell...SHUT UP! This is really getting bad Yuy! No more! ... Even if you have to make her hate you, you need to stay focused on the mission...But I don't want her to hate me...It's better this way though, I know.*
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Serena was driving the carrier back to the Sanc Kingdom and Heero was seated next to her in the co-pilot's chair. Serena kept on stealing glances at him but he just sat staring out the window into the darkness of night.
He sat with one knee up on his chair, with the other leg straight out resting on the dashboard. One of his arms was on the armrest with his head leaning on it. He seemed to be thinking and not aware of his surroundings.
Serena hadn't spoken at all, knowing that if he was ready to trust her and see her as an equal he would speak to her. Otherwise, she would at least be there if he did decide to talk.
She didn't have to wait long, but she never would have expected him to ask her what he did: "What did you see in your future when you used Moonshine's zero system?"
Serena bit her lip and continued focusing on the open sky in front of her. She thought about it. *Should I tell him? He'll think I'm completely crazy!* After much thought, she decided to try and tell him what she'd seen, even if she didn't believe it herself.
"If you're worried about what you saw, I say don't be," she began, trying to sound casual. "When I was being controlled by the system I thought I saw...it's really weird, I don't think it would ever happen, that's why you shouldn't worry about it."
Heero turned to regard her now thoroughly interested in finding out what she'd seen, "Just tell me," he said in a demanding, matter of fact tone.
Serena sighed, bit her lip again, and kept looking in front of her. She definitely didn't want to see his face when she told him what she'd seen. "Well, I saw me as...as some sort of queen...I was wearing this beautiful white dress, and I had a half moon symbol on my forehead, kind of like Moonshine's," Serena let out a nervous giggle. "Crazy huh?" she paused hoping he wouldn't think she was crazy. "Well, what did you see?" she asked curiously.
When he didn't answer she glanced at him. He appeared to be sleeping, with a confused look on his face. Serena decided to let him off the hook for the time being. *It must have really been something for him to be so exhausted.* Serena was worried. Even though she hadn't known him very long she knew that this wasn't like him.
She relaxed. He wasn't so intimidating when he was asleep. She just didn't understand the boy. She tried to be nice to him but all he did was ignore her. Whenever she tried to talk to him he would just look at her and say nothing, most of the time, others he just ignored her. She'd thought now that they were both gundam pilots they would have something to talk about, something in common...but she was wrong.
She glanced at him again. He was so cute the way he laid there looking so confused, he almost seemed helpless. *At least confused is an emotion.* She wondered if she would ever see him with anymore then that. *Well Heero Yuy, if no emotions is your game, then I can get you yet.*
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The boy sleeping in the uncomfortable chair, dreamed about a tall and beautiful, golden haired queen with her brave, handsome king. It was this future he had unwontedly chosen.
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Not more than a few days after Luxembourg the attack Serena had predicted came. Serena, Heero, Noin, Quatre, Minako, Matako, Raye, and Ami were waiting for Romefeller to make some move against the Sanc Kingdom. Unfortunately, they couldn't have done anything, no matter how long they had know in advance, to stop the mass amount of dolls
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Now that Relena had surrendered her country, rather then let it get destroyed, Serena watched in vain as Heero seemed to go mad. No matter what Quatre and her said to try and calm him down he wouldn't listen, he had even turned off the communications between them.
"What do we do Quatre?" Serena asked in some desperation.
"I don't know what we can do, his Epyon is more powerful than my taurus. And, without your zero system on, I truly don't think you have what it takes to stop him."
Serena knew what he was saying was true but she didn't listen. She followed Heero, at a safe distance, as he went on his killing rampage.
"Serena, don't try anything," she heard her friend Minako say over the radio.
"Don't worry guys, I'm just making sure he's ok," she said as she thought, *how much more of this can he take?* She watched as Epyon ripped into all the dolls mercilessly.
As she was watching him she saw a doll that was different from all the others, right behind Heero. It had a rather large cannon and as the other mobile dolls were surrounding Heero to distract him, this new doll was charging up its weapon to hit Heero. Serena didn't think that in his rage he had noticed the clever trap the dolls had set for him, and by the size of the cannon she didn't think he would come out of the blast too well.
*Heero! Oh why did you turn off your radio?* Making good of the dolls around her she zipped in Moonshine over to the doll with the huge cannon. She jumped in front of it with a smile on her face and smashed the thing to smithereens with her glowing scepter. It didn't even know what hit it.
And all of a sudden, before she knew what hit her she felt a large blow to her back. The lights on the gears of her gundam flickered for a second then flashed back on. *Was there another doll with a big cannon I was an idiot not to see?* she questioned herself as she checked out the monitors to discover there was only minute damage to a few systems.
Without panicking she turned around with lightening speed to counter attack the back stabber, only to be faced with Epyon. The gundam looked frightfully alive glared at her with evil. It seemed to be taunting her with its lifelike movement of its scorpion's tail. Her eyes grew wide as she halted her counter attack; and in a panicked tone gasped, "Heero?"
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Heero stopped attacking when he seemed to hear the mental plea of the girl in the other gundam, the girl he cared about. Within the haze of his confused thoughts that one thing was what made him halt from his massacre.
"Serena...No! She isn't the enemy!"
He turned immediately away from Moonshine and became focused on the other, real threats. In his trance, brought on by Epyon, he didn't have time to stop and think over what he had just done.
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Serena let out a sigh of relief as Epyon turned away from her. Not that she had been afraid she couldn't have held her own against him, she was just worried about him. She did not have any desire to test her skill against Heero.
Still, she decided it would be best to follow him, even farther away this time, to make sure he didn't hurt anyone else he shouldn't. She wasn't planning to help him if there were anymore surprise attacks planned against him either. He could probably use a few good hits in the back, she thought bitterly.
She gave her scepter a break and turned her left gundam's hand into a gun. She shot the dolls around her trying to keep out of the attention of Heero as she followed him.
As they neared the edge of the battlefield Serena was shocked when she saw another gundam fly out of the sky. It was fast, not as fast as her smaller sized gundam but fast. It was also colored similarly to hers, with white, blue and red, but in a different pattern. It also had two wings on it's back.
Serena tried to contact the others and find out what was happening. If it was a gundam, then it should be on their side right? She tried contacting Quatre first but she couldn't get a hold of him. All she heard was static. Then she realized that her communicator antenna happened to be right where Epyon had hit her in her back. With a frustrated sigh, she sat back and watched.
All she could do was watch when Heero and the new gundam started fighting head on. The battle was long and looked really rough. The two pilots seemed to meet every advance the other made. Neither of them had the upper hand. Serena watched anxiously as they fought, wishing she could help Heero, but knowing she shouldn't dare.
As she watched the battle a large buster rifle in the hands of the new gundam caught her eye. For some reason the rifle stirred something in her memory. Where had she heard of a gundam with a very powerful rifle?
*Quatre! The first time I heard of him, he was destroying colonies using a huge, powerful rifle. It must be the Wing Zero! But, who is it's pilot?*
Serena didn't need to wrack her brain much longer as the two gundam all of a sudden stopped fighting. Both of the gundams fell backwards on the ground. Serena stared in surprise, wondering what she should do. *What?* Both of the gundams opened up and the two pilots jumped out, or rather fell out, to the ground. Serena sighed in relief. *It's a draw.*
She walked her gundam near the place where they were, so she was close enough to see who the other pilot was. She couldn't believe her eyes. *Zechs!* Quatre had told her once before how Heero hand Zechs had fought, then Heero had self-destructed; and then another time Zechs and Heero had fought in Antarctica or something, but that battle was interrupted by OZ. That was what this pointless fight was about then. Even though she knew it was pointless she was glad she didn't interrupt. She knew it was important to Heero.
Zechs turned to her with some expectancy but then decided she was honorable enough that she wouldn't try anything.
She waited for them to decide what to do, and after awhile they got into each other's gundams and Zechs flew away.
Heero, now in Wing Zero, turned to regard her and her gundam, then turning on his radio he said, "Let's go."
Serena didn't wait for him. She started her engines and sped off as fast as she could get Moonshine to go. Along the way she battled the dolls in her path making quick business of it. They never saw exactly what hit them. She could see Heero behind her the whole time but she tried not to pay attention, she was so angry with him. With him in his right mind now she wasn't sympathetic for what he had done.
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As the two pilots returned to the still intact secret hanger under the former Sanc Kingdom, they were greeted with many worried faces. The four girls welcomed Serena with relieved smiles and all hugged her. They all flooded her with questions on what had happened. She laughed at them and told them they had no reason to be worried about her. Besides, didn't they have any faith in her piloting skills?
Quatre and Noin had noticed right away the huge gash in the back of Moonshine. Serena said it was just her being careless and it wasn't much to worry about. But she did ask if the old mechanic wouldn't fix it for her. The entire time Serena wouldn't make eye contact with Heero. She just couldn't face him with what he did. She knew he was under the control of the zero system when he attacked her. But, he then continued to fight Zechs, which in her eyes, no matter what their history was, was stupid and dangerous.
"What's the news of Relena?" Serena asked concerned, trying to get her mind off the battle.
"Well, after she surrendered, Dorothy escorted Miss Relena to Romefeller. We haven't heard from her since," Quatre informed her.
"I'm sure she's ok," Serena thought out loud.
"Yes, I'm sure she is. She is much too respected by many people in the world, they wouldn't dare harm her," Noin agreed.
As she finished her sentence the large TV screen in the control room of the hanger turned on revealing none other then Relena.
The room went silent as she started to address the universe.
"I am Relena Peacecraft. As you may all know by now, earlier today my country joined the ranks of the Romefeller foundation. I saw it best to join them so that now, as a whole nation, we can settle down and work for the peace and justice of all mankind. They have anointed me the Queen of the new Worlds Nation. As Queen, I will strive for an enlightened coexistence between Earth and the space colonies. Thank you."
Long after Relena's face disappeared from the screen the room was silent. No one dared say anything because they were so surprised.
Matako finally broke the silence, "So what does that mean?"
"I don't know," Ami said, "It seems now that Romefeller has complete power, they wish to try and make a peaceful nation using Relena as a figure head to make people feel ok with it."
"Or to make people think they're changed," Raye said.
"That's what it seems like," Noin agreed.
"So what do we do now?" Serena asked, feeling as if their existence as gundam pilots had just become pointless.
"People of the space colonies aren't going to accept Relena as their leader," Heero said speaking mostly to Serena and Quatre.
Quatre nodded getting the jest of what Heero was saying, "Then we go to outer space."
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That night all the fighters retired into the hangers. The girls all went into the taurus hanger while Quatre and Heero went into the hanger containing Wing Zero and Moonshine.
Serena just couldn't sleep. The battle just kept on replaying in her head. The abuse of technology that turned her thought to be friend against her, and the stupid pride contest that could have lost him his life, was all she could think about.
*What is it with men that make them so thick headed? Well, not all men,* she thought, thinking of Quatre in particular. She knew by the way he had looked at her that he knew something was up. When he saw Wing Zero come in shortly after Serena, he could obviously tell what it was. She knew he would ask Heero about it.
*Ugrr!* She thought frustrated. *If only I could at least go and work on Moonshine, then I could at least get my head off this stupid, annoying, crappy stuff!*
As she thought that she heard a small sound of the door opening from the other hanger. It was such a small sound that someone without her keen senses wouldn't have been able to hear it. She held very still, making sure that she had really heard it. She didn't move and kept her eyes partway open, so that she could see, but to anyone looking it looked like she was asleep.
That was when she saw him. His figure lingered above her, watching her. She didn't dare move. She still wasn't sure if she wanted to talk to him.
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Heero stood above the sleeping girl, just watching her sleep. Just the innocent look on her beautiful sleeping features made his heart wrench in pain.
What had he done? How could he have lost control of himself like that? Even if she was capable of defending herself, even during his psychopathic rampage, he couldn't forgive himself for putting her in danger like that.
*So innocent...* He saw a picture of her that day in the park. She looked so beautiful and angelic in her yellow sundress. So serious when she told them her views of war and peace, so passionate about her feelings. Then when she ran and played with her friends, hide and seek. He would watch her as she climbed up into a tree where no one could find her. She'd giggle adorably when the others would pass her, searching for her, until she jumped down on them after they had given up and sat down on underneath the tree, unsuspecting. Then he saw her picking flowers. How she would hold them up to her nose and inhale deeply the sweet fragrance. Then she had shyly handed one to...to him, giggling sweetly.
*I'm sorry, Serena, Angel...* he said, wishing she could just hear him. *For you I will master the zero system.*
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As she watched him walk quietly back into the other hanger, her heart was also wrenching. She had seen it in his dark, Prussian blue eyes. It was all she needed. All the anger she felt towards him fell away and shattered to the floor. For what she had seen there was...love?
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Yay! Ok...was that too much romance? What do you guys think? Too sappy? Oh well, tough! :D Tell me if you want more or less of anything, I don't bite! I'll try to do what ever you want. I think it was the Valentines Day spirit all around me that made me write the last part...
Oh! I want to thank Sailor Silver Moon! If it weren't for her you wouldn't be able to understand anything I wrote! She puts up with so much... :)
Yes, well, until next time!
Shi