Gundam Moonshine
Chapter 8
Shi
AN: I'm so sorry everybody! I'll try and get these out faster! You've all probably forgotten what this story was about with how long it took me to get it out! Sorry to let you down.
Summary of the last chapter in a nutshell: Duo showed up again!
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Trowa stood in the tent waiting until it was his turn to take his place in the big top with his sister to do the knife throwing show.
He had no wish to go there, no wish to be anywhere. It seemed his life was missing something...he couldn't remember what it was but he knew that this thing he was missing was something important. Now what was he? A clown? No, he cared for his sister but the circus was her thing. Whatever he was forgetting, it was what made who he was, and he just couldn't stand standing around here.
Nothing had meaning to him. How could he live his life when he had no reason to want to live? He had no past, he couldn't remember any of it, and he couldn't see any future for himself. It was as if he was trapped and there was nothing he could do, not that he cared anyway.
The circus animals were the only things that made him slightly happy, if you could call it happy...it was more as if it just calmed the fire inside him down slightly.
His thoughts returned to a few days ago. A boy in a minister's outfit came to him and acted as if he knew him. Trowa had seriously never seen this guy in his life but a part of him deep inside was telling him that this person was a key figure in what he had once been.
The guy called himself, Duo. The name had seemed familiar. Duo had been confused as to why Trowa hadn't recognized him, and what Trowa was doing at this circus when so much was going on. Trowa had asked him what was going on that concerned him but his sister had jumped in and had told the guy to go away.
She made Trowa leave this man. Of course he had listened to his sister, his sister who had only loved him and taken care of him his entire known life; but it was that moment that the fire had been turned on inside of him making him restless with where he was and who he was.
He heard the clapping from the last show and turned quietly to join his sister for the knife throwing act...just another thing to make the time go by.
(depressing...)
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"Oh, oh! Can we do this next? Oh! We have to do this! Come on people we're moving too slow!" the energetic Serena and Mina squealed, in awe of the circus around them. (Yes, even with her past 'Heeroness'(when she was raised with Dr. P she was the female copy of Heero until she lost her memory again) remembered, her past 'Usaginess' is still in her :P)
Quatre sighed, trying to keep control of his usually undaunted patience. It had been like this non-stop since they had gotten there, "You guys have to remember why we are here! We have to see if Trowa is ok."
The two girls stopped immediately. Minako never really knew Trowa, sure she had thought he was cute on the Lunar Base, but she had really never gotten to know him. She knew finding him and seeing he was ok was really important to Quatre, which made it important to her. ( :D )
Serena wanted to find Trowa just as much; he had saved her life after all. Now she felt guilty that she had allowed herself to get distracted so easily. She walked staring at the ground for a while, until she thought of something.
"Maybe we should split up? We could find him a lot faster that way, this is a huge place," she said to the group.
Quatre smiled and relaxed slightly. "That's a great idea, Serena. How about Mina and I pair up and Rei and Serena?"
"Sounds good," Minako said with a huge smile on her face.
"Then we can contact each other with these communicator watches Ami made for us," Rei added.
"That's good, let's go. We'll contact you as soon as we find something," Serena said as she started pulling Rei in one direction.
The communicators Ami had made were really neat and very helpful. Serena was glad they had someone so smart to help them on their mission.
Ami had decided to stay behind, with much persistence from Duo when he found out she was a mechanic, and help him fix his gundam. Lita had stayed behind, saying she wanted to cook something, but of course the girls knew it was to protect her friend from the gundam pilot. Lita had a tendency to be over protective.
As Serena and Rei walked along they came near the animal cages. Serena said how sad it was that these adorable animals had to be locked up in such small cages. After thinking about it awhile she shrugged it off and continued on her search for Trowa.
Rei stopped, however. She walked up to a large lions cage and looked at the large beast. The lion seemed to check her out curiously and slightly threateningly. Raye cautiously, yet showing know fear, stuck her hand into the cage palm down and fingers curled and held it up to the lion to inspect. The lion just as cautiously smelled the hand. When it realized the hand did not have food, nor was a threat it relaxed. Rei smiled and patted the lion on its wild mane.
*You're just a big kitty, not any different than any other animal. You just want to be happy.*
Rei's thoughts were interrupted by Serena calling her. Raye said goodbye to the kitty, turned, and walked toward her friend.
"We can't get separated, Raye. This is a huge place!" Serena scolded.
The tone in her friends voice made Rei laugh. It was usually her job to make Serena focus, not the other way around.
She just couldn't help it though. As soon as she heard she was going to find Trowa she felt strange. When she had seen him on the Lunar Base, she had been amazed by his skill as a pilot. She had always felt strange vibes coming from him, as if he wasn't who he said he was, or he was hiding something. So, she hadn't been surprised to find out when Duo said Trowa was here that Trowa was a gundam pilot. That was what all the mystery was for.
As Serena and Rei were walking along, Rei had an idea to use her psychic powers to locate him. She paused in the middle of the busy traffic of the circus and closed her eyes. She placed her palms together and raised them up calling upon the power of the all-knowing fire to help her find the missing gundam pilot.
Slowly she opened her eyes thinking nothing was happening, when she saw across the mass of people in the crowd, Trowa staring back at her. *It worked!* He was more then a fifty yards away, yet she could make out his proud, stiff figure.
The two stood staring at each other for a few minutes until Serena came storming back to Rei.
"I thought I told you not to stop like that without telling me first! I walked like a mile until I noticed you weren't behind me!!!!" Serena fumed. She stopped yelling at her friend when she noticed Rei's attention elsewhere.
Serena's eyes grew wide when she saw what Rei was looking at. Without hesitating Serena pushed the button on her communicator watch and told Quatre and Mina they had found the needle.
"That's great!" Quatre said in response. "We're near there now, we'll be right there. Don't let him leave."
Serena pulled Rei out of her trance by yanking her over to Trowa.
Serena didn't know how to react to him. Here was a man she considered one of her dearest friends, a man who had saved her life, that didn't remember who she was. She wanted to hug him and tell him how much she missed him, but she didn't want to scare him away.
She shyly walked up to him and said, "Hello, Trowa... long time no see."
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*Who is this person? I've seen her before...I've seen them both before...I know them!* Trowa inwardly kicked himself, *What is wrong with me? Why can't I remember who they are? They too are important, just like the minister boy.*
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Serena and Rei were at a loss for words, and Trowa wasn't contributing much to the reunion. The three just stared at each other.
Luckily, very soon Quatre and Minako came to the rescue of their uncomfortable situation.
Noticing Quatre's signal, the three girls separated themselves from the two boys and watched from a distance.
They could see Quatre speaking very earnestly to Trowa and Trowa looking as if he was very unsure and slightly in mental pain.
No too soon after they had started talking an angry girl with a green outfit and a green feather sticking out of her curly, red hair, came up and demanded Quatre leave Trowa alone.
Fearing the worse Serena, Minako, and Rei hurried back to the three arguing people, only for the girl to lead Trowa away.
"It's hopeless! But I do think I got to him in some small way... I just didn't have enough time with him," Quatre said sadly as he watched them walk away.
Rei also watched them walk away, but the look on her face was one of determination as she left her friends and ran toward Trowa.
She ignored the red haired girls protests when she stood right in front of Trowa and said, "What you're looking for will soon be revealed, and you will find the meaning to your life you have lost."
She stared into his strong, yet confused eyes a little bit longer, then nodded and ran back to join her friends.
Trowa watched her go with regret, but was soon carefully led away by his doting sister.
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The girls had led the depressed Quatre back to their carrier and were met with one more surprise.
There were some new faces aboard the carrier, as well as a new ship right next to it. Duo had been contacted by one of his old friends, Howard. Howard had helped out Duo a few times in the past.
Not only had Howard agreed to help the gundam pilots, and let them use his fully manned ship, Peacemillion, but he also agreed to upgrade Sandrock for a very happy Quatre.
With this new force, the team now had a better chance against the White Fang Organization and World Nation.
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Trowa was having one of his more uneventful days where all he could do was sit around and think. Of course all his thoughts revolved around the people he had seen the day before.
The young man, Quatre, had spoken so earnestly about how he was sorry about causing this to happen, and how they needed Trowa to help them fight. To help fight...fight... it seemed so right to Trowa. It was the only thing that had felt right for him in such a long time.
*Maybe that's what I've been missing...*
His thoughts were interrupted by a large crash coming from the main tent. He jumped immediately to his feet and ran to investigate the crash. He heard screams and saw people running out of the tent. Even the Fritz, the strongest man in the world, was running for his life.
Trowa immediately ran to where he saw his sister huddling with the ringmaster underneath a giant mobile suit. He took her in his arms and prepared to protect her with his life.
"ALL CIRCUS EMPLOYEES ARE TO MEET IN THE CENTER OF THE COLONY IMMEDIATELY!" A man's voice came over the loud speaker from the Romefeller mobile suit.
"We have a right to live our lives!" Catherine yelled up to them.
Trowa calmed her down and did what the big machine told them to do. Once the few mobile suits had gathered everyone from the colony into the middle, they told the people that it was only for their own protection that they were seizing the colony.
Catherine was outraged. She yelled at the guards that they should leave the people alone. She walked right up to one of their faces and yelled at them. The army man looked from her to his friend then raised his rifle. The ringmaster jumped in front of him as the guard threw his rifle towards her. The force of the blow caused him to fall to the floor. Trowa's sister screamed and reached down to help him up.
Trowa had had about enough of this. He took one look into her eyes and knew what he had to do. Stealthily, he ran to one of the mobile suits one of the guards had vacated. He jumped in and turned it on. He didn't remember ever flying a mobile suit before but he knew exactly what to do. As he pulled the suit out of where it was parked he saw all the little people scurrying below him. The guards were running into the rest of the mobile suits to stop him.
Trowa took one last look at the only people who were not running but looking up at him. It was his sister and the ringmaster. They weren't trying to stop him but were looking at him with all the confidence in the world, as if telling him to end the madness.
That was all he needed to send him into action. He sped the mobile suit away from all the people, causing the rest of the enemy mobiles to chase after him. Once he was far enough away he made quick business of the closest three behind him. Then he led the rest out of the colony out to space.
He had planned to destroy them once he had gotten them safely away from the colony but he didn't expect help. As he was fighting them off three huge mobile suits came and started to help him. One was black and white with a huge ax type weapon in its hand, which chopped through the enemy mobile suits without any problem at all.
The second was a smaller mobile suit that had a huge scepter in its hand. It was blue red and white. Then the last was black and white, but less white then the others.
All of these Trowa knew he should know. He knew they were important. What were they? *Gundams...*
With the three gundams and Trowa fighting, the enemy mobile dolls were quickly gone.
"Trowa, it's nice to have you back," the voice of Quatre said over Trowa's radio.
"Yeah man, great to see you again," Duo's voice said.
"Lets get back to Peacemillion," a girls voice said.
Trowa recognized the girl's voice but something deep inside him told him that this was not the role it should have. (cause he didn't know Serena was a pilot before he lost his memory.
Trowa automatically followed the three gundams back to a huge space ship where they docked. He had found the place where he belonged.
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I figured out how to get rid of writers bock! You just read the entire story over again and it goes away!!! I forgot just how long this story was... :P
Shi
Review here ---
Chapter 8
Shi
AN: I'm so sorry everybody! I'll try and get these out faster! You've all probably forgotten what this story was about with how long it took me to get it out! Sorry to let you down.
Summary of the last chapter in a nutshell: Duo showed up again!
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Trowa stood in the tent waiting until it was his turn to take his place in the big top with his sister to do the knife throwing show.
He had no wish to go there, no wish to be anywhere. It seemed his life was missing something...he couldn't remember what it was but he knew that this thing he was missing was something important. Now what was he? A clown? No, he cared for his sister but the circus was her thing. Whatever he was forgetting, it was what made who he was, and he just couldn't stand standing around here.
Nothing had meaning to him. How could he live his life when he had no reason to want to live? He had no past, he couldn't remember any of it, and he couldn't see any future for himself. It was as if he was trapped and there was nothing he could do, not that he cared anyway.
The circus animals were the only things that made him slightly happy, if you could call it happy...it was more as if it just calmed the fire inside him down slightly.
His thoughts returned to a few days ago. A boy in a minister's outfit came to him and acted as if he knew him. Trowa had seriously never seen this guy in his life but a part of him deep inside was telling him that this person was a key figure in what he had once been.
The guy called himself, Duo. The name had seemed familiar. Duo had been confused as to why Trowa hadn't recognized him, and what Trowa was doing at this circus when so much was going on. Trowa had asked him what was going on that concerned him but his sister had jumped in and had told the guy to go away.
She made Trowa leave this man. Of course he had listened to his sister, his sister who had only loved him and taken care of him his entire known life; but it was that moment that the fire had been turned on inside of him making him restless with where he was and who he was.
He heard the clapping from the last show and turned quietly to join his sister for the knife throwing act...just another thing to make the time go by.
(depressing...)
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"Oh, oh! Can we do this next? Oh! We have to do this! Come on people we're moving too slow!" the energetic Serena and Mina squealed, in awe of the circus around them. (Yes, even with her past 'Heeroness'(when she was raised with Dr. P she was the female copy of Heero until she lost her memory again) remembered, her past 'Usaginess' is still in her :P)
Quatre sighed, trying to keep control of his usually undaunted patience. It had been like this non-stop since they had gotten there, "You guys have to remember why we are here! We have to see if Trowa is ok."
The two girls stopped immediately. Minako never really knew Trowa, sure she had thought he was cute on the Lunar Base, but she had really never gotten to know him. She knew finding him and seeing he was ok was really important to Quatre, which made it important to her. ( :D )
Serena wanted to find Trowa just as much; he had saved her life after all. Now she felt guilty that she had allowed herself to get distracted so easily. She walked staring at the ground for a while, until she thought of something.
"Maybe we should split up? We could find him a lot faster that way, this is a huge place," she said to the group.
Quatre smiled and relaxed slightly. "That's a great idea, Serena. How about Mina and I pair up and Rei and Serena?"
"Sounds good," Minako said with a huge smile on her face.
"Then we can contact each other with these communicator watches Ami made for us," Rei added.
"That's good, let's go. We'll contact you as soon as we find something," Serena said as she started pulling Rei in one direction.
The communicators Ami had made were really neat and very helpful. Serena was glad they had someone so smart to help them on their mission.
Ami had decided to stay behind, with much persistence from Duo when he found out she was a mechanic, and help him fix his gundam. Lita had stayed behind, saying she wanted to cook something, but of course the girls knew it was to protect her friend from the gundam pilot. Lita had a tendency to be over protective.
As Serena and Rei walked along they came near the animal cages. Serena said how sad it was that these adorable animals had to be locked up in such small cages. After thinking about it awhile she shrugged it off and continued on her search for Trowa.
Rei stopped, however. She walked up to a large lions cage and looked at the large beast. The lion seemed to check her out curiously and slightly threateningly. Raye cautiously, yet showing know fear, stuck her hand into the cage palm down and fingers curled and held it up to the lion to inspect. The lion just as cautiously smelled the hand. When it realized the hand did not have food, nor was a threat it relaxed. Rei smiled and patted the lion on its wild mane.
*You're just a big kitty, not any different than any other animal. You just want to be happy.*
Rei's thoughts were interrupted by Serena calling her. Raye said goodbye to the kitty, turned, and walked toward her friend.
"We can't get separated, Raye. This is a huge place!" Serena scolded.
The tone in her friends voice made Rei laugh. It was usually her job to make Serena focus, not the other way around.
She just couldn't help it though. As soon as she heard she was going to find Trowa she felt strange. When she had seen him on the Lunar Base, she had been amazed by his skill as a pilot. She had always felt strange vibes coming from him, as if he wasn't who he said he was, or he was hiding something. So, she hadn't been surprised to find out when Duo said Trowa was here that Trowa was a gundam pilot. That was what all the mystery was for.
As Serena and Rei were walking along, Rei had an idea to use her psychic powers to locate him. She paused in the middle of the busy traffic of the circus and closed her eyes. She placed her palms together and raised them up calling upon the power of the all-knowing fire to help her find the missing gundam pilot.
Slowly she opened her eyes thinking nothing was happening, when she saw across the mass of people in the crowd, Trowa staring back at her. *It worked!* He was more then a fifty yards away, yet she could make out his proud, stiff figure.
The two stood staring at each other for a few minutes until Serena came storming back to Rei.
"I thought I told you not to stop like that without telling me first! I walked like a mile until I noticed you weren't behind me!!!!" Serena fumed. She stopped yelling at her friend when she noticed Rei's attention elsewhere.
Serena's eyes grew wide when she saw what Rei was looking at. Without hesitating Serena pushed the button on her communicator watch and told Quatre and Mina they had found the needle.
"That's great!" Quatre said in response. "We're near there now, we'll be right there. Don't let him leave."
Serena pulled Rei out of her trance by yanking her over to Trowa.
Serena didn't know how to react to him. Here was a man she considered one of her dearest friends, a man who had saved her life, that didn't remember who she was. She wanted to hug him and tell him how much she missed him, but she didn't want to scare him away.
She shyly walked up to him and said, "Hello, Trowa... long time no see."
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*Who is this person? I've seen her before...I've seen them both before...I know them!* Trowa inwardly kicked himself, *What is wrong with me? Why can't I remember who they are? They too are important, just like the minister boy.*
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Serena and Rei were at a loss for words, and Trowa wasn't contributing much to the reunion. The three just stared at each other.
Luckily, very soon Quatre and Minako came to the rescue of their uncomfortable situation.
Noticing Quatre's signal, the three girls separated themselves from the two boys and watched from a distance.
They could see Quatre speaking very earnestly to Trowa and Trowa looking as if he was very unsure and slightly in mental pain.
No too soon after they had started talking an angry girl with a green outfit and a green feather sticking out of her curly, red hair, came up and demanded Quatre leave Trowa alone.
Fearing the worse Serena, Minako, and Rei hurried back to the three arguing people, only for the girl to lead Trowa away.
"It's hopeless! But I do think I got to him in some small way... I just didn't have enough time with him," Quatre said sadly as he watched them walk away.
Rei also watched them walk away, but the look on her face was one of determination as she left her friends and ran toward Trowa.
She ignored the red haired girls protests when she stood right in front of Trowa and said, "What you're looking for will soon be revealed, and you will find the meaning to your life you have lost."
She stared into his strong, yet confused eyes a little bit longer, then nodded and ran back to join her friends.
Trowa watched her go with regret, but was soon carefully led away by his doting sister.
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The girls had led the depressed Quatre back to their carrier and were met with one more surprise.
There were some new faces aboard the carrier, as well as a new ship right next to it. Duo had been contacted by one of his old friends, Howard. Howard had helped out Duo a few times in the past.
Not only had Howard agreed to help the gundam pilots, and let them use his fully manned ship, Peacemillion, but he also agreed to upgrade Sandrock for a very happy Quatre.
With this new force, the team now had a better chance against the White Fang Organization and World Nation.
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Trowa was having one of his more uneventful days where all he could do was sit around and think. Of course all his thoughts revolved around the people he had seen the day before.
The young man, Quatre, had spoken so earnestly about how he was sorry about causing this to happen, and how they needed Trowa to help them fight. To help fight...fight... it seemed so right to Trowa. It was the only thing that had felt right for him in such a long time.
*Maybe that's what I've been missing...*
His thoughts were interrupted by a large crash coming from the main tent. He jumped immediately to his feet and ran to investigate the crash. He heard screams and saw people running out of the tent. Even the Fritz, the strongest man in the world, was running for his life.
Trowa immediately ran to where he saw his sister huddling with the ringmaster underneath a giant mobile suit. He took her in his arms and prepared to protect her with his life.
"ALL CIRCUS EMPLOYEES ARE TO MEET IN THE CENTER OF THE COLONY IMMEDIATELY!" A man's voice came over the loud speaker from the Romefeller mobile suit.
"We have a right to live our lives!" Catherine yelled up to them.
Trowa calmed her down and did what the big machine told them to do. Once the few mobile suits had gathered everyone from the colony into the middle, they told the people that it was only for their own protection that they were seizing the colony.
Catherine was outraged. She yelled at the guards that they should leave the people alone. She walked right up to one of their faces and yelled at them. The army man looked from her to his friend then raised his rifle. The ringmaster jumped in front of him as the guard threw his rifle towards her. The force of the blow caused him to fall to the floor. Trowa's sister screamed and reached down to help him up.
Trowa had had about enough of this. He took one look into her eyes and knew what he had to do. Stealthily, he ran to one of the mobile suits one of the guards had vacated. He jumped in and turned it on. He didn't remember ever flying a mobile suit before but he knew exactly what to do. As he pulled the suit out of where it was parked he saw all the little people scurrying below him. The guards were running into the rest of the mobile suits to stop him.
Trowa took one last look at the only people who were not running but looking up at him. It was his sister and the ringmaster. They weren't trying to stop him but were looking at him with all the confidence in the world, as if telling him to end the madness.
That was all he needed to send him into action. He sped the mobile suit away from all the people, causing the rest of the enemy mobiles to chase after him. Once he was far enough away he made quick business of the closest three behind him. Then he led the rest out of the colony out to space.
He had planned to destroy them once he had gotten them safely away from the colony but he didn't expect help. As he was fighting them off three huge mobile suits came and started to help him. One was black and white with a huge ax type weapon in its hand, which chopped through the enemy mobile suits without any problem at all.
The second was a smaller mobile suit that had a huge scepter in its hand. It was blue red and white. Then the last was black and white, but less white then the others.
All of these Trowa knew he should know. He knew they were important. What were they? *Gundams...*
With the three gundams and Trowa fighting, the enemy mobile dolls were quickly gone.
"Trowa, it's nice to have you back," the voice of Quatre said over Trowa's radio.
"Yeah man, great to see you again," Duo's voice said.
"Lets get back to Peacemillion," a girls voice said.
Trowa recognized the girl's voice but something deep inside him told him that this was not the role it should have. (cause he didn't know Serena was a pilot before he lost his memory.
Trowa automatically followed the three gundams back to a huge space ship where they docked. He had found the place where he belonged.
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I figured out how to get rid of writers bock! You just read the entire story over again and it goes away!!! I forgot just how long this story was... :P
Shi
Review here ---