Gundam Moonshine
Chapter 9
Shi
AN: Hello. I know, I know. It's taken me forever to get this out. I've been busy. What a wonderful excuse, ne? Ok to explain this chapter...I forgot a lot of the way things happen in GW so it won't go too well with the story, and I wanted to get on to the end...not because I don't enjoy writing this, but because I've had a killer ending in mind since I started writing this and I can't seem to concentrate on details because I want to do the end so much. ;P
Disclaimers: I don't own GW or SM. :(
Summery of last chapter in a nutshell: I'm sure you all forgot because its been so long but: Trowa's back! Whoa...I'm sort of forgetting what happened myself...that has to show lack of commitment...look at me I'm rambling.
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Everyone was overjoyed to have Trowa back. Unfortunately, he didn't remember his past as a gundam pilot, but strangely, he did remember how to fly. He knew how to fly very well.
The four gundam pilots fought many space battles against the likes of White Fang And OZ. With Zechs Marquise as their leader and Libra as their weapon, White Fang was getting stronger by the day. They weren't the only ones getting stronger however; Serena and her friends were becoming better pilots too.
But, no matter how good she got and how close she came to all the other pilots, she couldn't get rid of the feeling of emptiness she'd had since she'd left earth. No matter how much she tried to deny it, she knew she was lonely because of Heero. Why had he left? What was he doing now? Was he thinking about her? Would he ever come back? These were the questions that plagued her mind, but most of all she wondered: Why did she care so much?
She tried everything to get her mind off of him. She tried helping Howard soup up Moonshine, she tried fighting the other pilots, she tried talking girl talk with her friends...she tried almost everything but all she could think of was Heero.
When he did return she almost wished he didn't.
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The four gundam pilots as well as the four girls had just gotten out of a mini battle with Romefeller, and frankly, they were exhausted. The others were flopped out in the lounge of Peacemillion nearly asleep, while Serena, who was too restless to relax, went to the hanger to work on Moonshine.
She was really disappointed with how she had fought. She had made two too many mistakes...and they were stupid mistakes too, nothing a gundam pilot should be worried about.
*What would Heero think if he saw what a sloppy job I did today? Oh! Serena! Worrying about such stupid things isn't going to help you get any better; this is a war you're fighting! In order to be victorious you need to stop letting stupid things get to you...*
The stupid things that were getting to her were that some of the suits today they fought against were manned suits. Now that Treize had taken over Romefeller again in place of Relena, the use of mobile dolls was down by Romefeller. No matter how much she talked herself into it, she couldn't destroy the manned suits. She just destroyed the weapons, or hit the suits so they couldn't move...not what a gundam pilot should do. A gundam pilot should over look those little things with the bigger goal in mind...but to Serena those weren't little things, no matter how much she tried she couldn't over look a human life.
*Heero wouldn't let me fight. He said I was too weak. Am I...because, I value human life? Those people are no different then the ones we are fighting for, except they're on the opposite side.*
Serena shrugged the matter off for the time being, she was getting a headache thinking so much anyway. She finished patching up a few scratches and scrapes on Moonshine, gave her gundam an affectionate pat, and then started to make her way towards her room.
As she walked past the control room of Peacemillion, she heard excited voices speaking rather loudly. Fearing the worst she ran into the room to find out what was happening.
Then clearly over the radio all her friends were piled around, she heard his voice.
"We'll dock right away then," he said calmly sending shivers down Serena's spine.
*What am I going to do?* she wondered ashamed.
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So Heero was back. He had brought with him Sally Po and Heavy Arms, Trowa's gundam. Howard had talked eagerly with a confused Trowa about how he was going to fix it up so it would be fit for space. Trowa couldn't remember ever being to Earth, which still made everyone sad.
Heero hadn't spoken one word to Serena. When they had docked on Peacemillion, he walked right past her without even looking at her. The cold treatment she was receiving bothered her more then she let on. She didn't want him to see it affected her any. Still it made her wake up to the fact that she had been worried about him for the past month or so and he hadn't even thought about her. He was probably still hung on Relena. That hurt her more than words.
A few days after he had come back Serena was once again fixing Moonshine. Howard and her had made a new secret weapon and she wanted to get it finished as soon as possible, plus she was trying to stay away from Heero. She had gotten a few subtle hints whenever she tried to talk to him that he wasn't interested in talking to her back.
As she was engrossed in fixing her gundam, she didn't hear the footsteps of the person coming up behind her.
"Serena."
Serena was so startled that she jumped up and hit her head on the door to the back of her gundam.
"Ouch!" She said grabbing the bump that was already forming on her head. She turned to regard the person addressing her. It was Heero.
She looked at him but she didn't say anything, nor did she let on that she was intimidated; she just acted as if she didn't care. He stood there looking at her with an expressionless look in his eyes.
*Why doesn't he just say something? I'm not going to let him win! I can stand up to a staring contest any day! Usually at least... I normally just start laughing but this time I won't!*
Without any warning, Heero reached up and brushed her cheek with the back of his hand. The action surprised her to say the least, but she held her cool. His touch sent a shiver down her entire body. *How does he do that?*
"Things are going to get rough," he said calmly, "are you sure you have what it takes?"
Serena silently stared at him without saying anything, not moving. Just as he was moving his hand away she grabbed it. "I wouldn't miss it for anything!" she said firmly, fully aware she hadn't completely answered his question.
He nodded, "Good. We're going to need all the help we can get."
Serena wasn't expecting this. She stared at him with her mouth open. Suddenly she lost her composure and hugged him wildly.
"You won't regret this!" she giggled with glee. "I'll show--"
::RING RING::
A loud siren and a red flashing light cut off Serena. "Hey everyone," Howard's voice said over the loud speaker, "Our friend is trying his luck with Libra and I don't think he has a chance in hell! Why don't we go give him a hand?"
Serena immediately dropped her hands from around Heero's neck. She forgot about him as she closed the compartment to Moonshine and floated up to the cockpit, putting on her helmet at the same time. She didn't even notice the look of surprise on the face of the boy she had just jumped on. Quickly, he shook off the feeling and floated to Wing Zero as the other pilots started flooding into the hanger.
Wufei, blind with rage from the destruction of his home colony, appeared suicidal in his manner of single handedly attacking Libra.
"He's gone nuts!" Duo said as they all pulled their mobile suits out of the hanger.
"Yes, we must make it clear that we're here to help him," Quatre insisted.
The five gundams, and four other mobile suites flew to aid the already out numbered Shenlong gundam.
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So now Wufei joined the party as well. After the other gundam pilots had convinced him to come back to Peacemillion to repair his gundam, Heero had wisely allowed Wufei to use Wing Zero in another battle. The use of the gundam's zero program helped set his confused sole at rest. He found it best to stick around Peacemillion and help them out for a while. Of course, Makoto would claim it was her cooking that got him to stay.
What more, Trowa, having flown Heavy Arms again, remembered everything, much to the relief to all his friends.
On Wufei's first night, when they were all having dinner to celebrate Trowa's memory being back and Wufei's joint them, Makoto had gotten Wufei into a huge fight over one of his favorite subjects: weak woman. Serena and the other people in the room had all been trying to get Makoto to shut her big mouth and not get him so angry that he left, but he actually seemed to be enjoying himself fighting with her. Go figure.
With all the battles that had been going on lately Serena felt like she hadn't gotten any rest. She was going insane waiting near Libra for Zechs to make his move. Not only that, the cannon gave her the creeps.
As Serena looked out the small window of her room at Libra contemplating these things later that night, she saw a flash of light shooting out of the huge space fortress. She woke out of her stupor and tried to concentrate on what was going on.
*Are they going to attack us?* she wondered.
There had been a few mobile doll battles between them since they had been anchored so close.
*No...it's only a small carrier...It sure is going fast for such a small thing...What's going on?*
As Serena watched the little carrier flee from the huge fortress, she saw mobile dolls chase after it. They fired at the carrier that it now appeared was fleeing to Peacemillion.
*They'll never make it!* She thought anxiously as she saw some of the attacks by the dolls hit their marks.
As Serena sat, staring horrified at the scene she had a vision of her friend, Setsuna. The one who had raised her, and trained her to save the world.
"Oh no, Setsuna, I'm coming!" Serena said as she bolted out of her vision and ran full speed towards the mobile suit hanger. She didn't even stop when she ran point blank into Duo and Heero. She just got back up and started running. *I have to make it on time...*
The two boys looked at each other and got up hurriedly to follow her.
Before she could think she was in her gundam speeding towards the carrier that was in danger. Close behind her was Wing Zero and Deathscythe Hell.
"Serena what are you doing? Are you nuts?" Duo inquired over their radio.
"I have to help them!" was her hurried answer.
"Ok..." Duo said as he and his gundam hurried to keep up with the smaller, faster gundam.
"You're going to fast, you can't handle that kind of pressure," Heero said calmly to her, as he too was being left in her dust.
"I may be too late!"
As Serena finally reached where the fight was going on she saw that the carrier wouldn't last much longer. With out hesitating she plunged her scepter into one of the mobile dolls following and shooting at the tiny carrier. She raised her scepter and did a half Moon Scepter Spiral Beam Attack and disposed of many of the dolls behind the carrier.
With their new target, more dolls flooded from the gates of Libra, intent on getting the Gundam. But nothing could stop her defense of the carrier.
Duo and Heero fought along side her. "She's like a machine!" Duo said amazed as he watched her fight.
"She can't handle this, there are too many of them," Heero thought out loud.
"Serena stop," Duo yelled, "The carrier is almost to Peacemillion. Stop before it's too late!"
Serena saw what they were yelling to her was true; the carrier was almost to the safety of Peacemillion. "Alright I'm coming," Serena panted, "you lead the way."
Heero waited to make sure she had turned around before he himself made his getaway. Duo did the same. They took off when they saw her coming, but as she was turning she had an idea.
*My new weapon! It could help get rid of many of these enemies!* She thought as she remembered the new weapon Howard had helped her add on to Moonshine.
Despite her exhaustion, Serena turned back towards to the dolls. *Heero would do this if he had the same weapon...*
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"What's she thinking, man?" Howard asked nearly pulling his hair out.
The rest of the team had only just noticed what was going on. They had all been resting when Serena, Duo, and Heero had gone out to save the carrier. Mina and Lita had been in charge of monitoring Libra's activities and had fallen asleep. By the time the trio had made it to the carrier they woke up and sounded the alarm...much too late send more help.
So, everyone was crowed around the huge window of the control room watching the scene outside.
"What do you mean? What is she doing?" Sally Po asked confused.
"Her and I were working on a new weapon for Moonshine but...it's not finished yet... It may be operational but I don't know if the gundam is ready to handle all the energy it takes."
"Oh no!" The four girls said putting their hands over face in worried expressions.
"Stupid!" Wufei said.
"Serena wouldn't do it if she didn't think Moonshine could handle it..." Quatre said trying to bring hope to the situation.
"Moonshine may be able to, but I'm not sure about her...she's already used a lot of energy on the battle.
As he said this, a white light so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes, emitted from Moonshine.
"Did she detonate?!?" Raye cried.
"No! Look I see her!" Ami screamed, with relief evident in her voice.
As the smoke of battle cleared, Moonshine could be seen with two huge, feathery wings flowing from its back. And behind the gundam was Libra...but nothing else, all the mobile dolls were space dust.
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"Damn!" Duo said as the white light nearly blinded him.
"What is that?" Heero asked covering his eyes.
As the light went away they too saw Moonshine, equipped with wings.
"Hey! Where'd she get wings? I thought only Zero had wings." Duo said stunned by the beauty of the wings. They were different from Heero's gundams wings, but wings nonetheless. "Did they destroy all those dolls?"
Heero let out a breath in a huff. *Wings fit her better, Angel...* He snapped himself out of his thoughts and said over the radio: "Are you ok?"
Without answering, Moonshine turned toward Peacemillion and bolted towards it.
"I guess so..." Duo said as he made his way back as well.
When they docked in the hanger everyone was waiting eagerly. Duo and Heero got out of their gundams first and hurried over to where everyone else was, below Moonshine.
The gundam appeared in excellent shape for the beating it had given. And, as the door opened they were surprised to see Serena in apparently perfect shape hop out.
"Are you ok, Serena?" Lita asked concerned.
"I'm A-OK," Serena said sort of tipsy like, as she toppled over to the floor.
Heero was the first at her side to inspect her. "She just fainted, she's ok." Everyone was relieved.
"She shouldn't have used that attack, it wasn't completely ready yet," Howard said in an 'I told you so' tone of voice.
"That's the way our princess is," a deep voice said from behind them.
The group around Moonshine turned around to face the forgotten trio that had been on the carrier Serena had been so intent on saving. They didn't see the elbow the tall blond received from the beautiful, wavy aquamarine haired girl as the blond had his arm affectionately around her waist.
"Err...Serena's always been like that," the tall sandy haired man corrected.
"Who are you?" Heero asked suspiciously.
Setsuna stepped forward. "Sorry for not introducing ourselves earlier but you all seemed busy... My name is Setsuna. I helped raise Serena and I also helped build Moonshine. These are my friends Haruka and Michriu."
They all gave a small bow. "We have some information you may find interesting," Michriu said holding out a small disk.
"It's the information from Libra's main computer. It has all you need to know to defeat it."
Howard greedily reached for the disc and it was obvious he wanted to go and examine it right away.
"One more thing," Haruka said, "Relena Peacecraft is on Libra." Haruka narrowed her eyes at Heero.
"We have to go help her," the now not- unconscious Serena said as she tried to get up, but failed.
"You're too weak," Heero said, "I'll go."
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Gomen everyone. This is just horrible, how long I took. I've already started on the last chapter, it'll be really long and there will probably be an epilogue...which I guess I the same as two more chapters but you get what I mean, right? I'll try my hardest to get it out soon! Ja!
Chapter 9
Shi
AN: Hello. I know, I know. It's taken me forever to get this out. I've been busy. What a wonderful excuse, ne? Ok to explain this chapter...I forgot a lot of the way things happen in GW so it won't go too well with the story, and I wanted to get on to the end...not because I don't enjoy writing this, but because I've had a killer ending in mind since I started writing this and I can't seem to concentrate on details because I want to do the end so much. ;P
Disclaimers: I don't own GW or SM. :(
Summery of last chapter in a nutshell: I'm sure you all forgot because its been so long but: Trowa's back! Whoa...I'm sort of forgetting what happened myself...that has to show lack of commitment...look at me I'm rambling.
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Everyone was overjoyed to have Trowa back. Unfortunately, he didn't remember his past as a gundam pilot, but strangely, he did remember how to fly. He knew how to fly very well.
The four gundam pilots fought many space battles against the likes of White Fang And OZ. With Zechs Marquise as their leader and Libra as their weapon, White Fang was getting stronger by the day. They weren't the only ones getting stronger however; Serena and her friends were becoming better pilots too.
But, no matter how good she got and how close she came to all the other pilots, she couldn't get rid of the feeling of emptiness she'd had since she'd left earth. No matter how much she tried to deny it, she knew she was lonely because of Heero. Why had he left? What was he doing now? Was he thinking about her? Would he ever come back? These were the questions that plagued her mind, but most of all she wondered: Why did she care so much?
She tried everything to get her mind off of him. She tried helping Howard soup up Moonshine, she tried fighting the other pilots, she tried talking girl talk with her friends...she tried almost everything but all she could think of was Heero.
When he did return she almost wished he didn't.
---
The four gundam pilots as well as the four girls had just gotten out of a mini battle with Romefeller, and frankly, they were exhausted. The others were flopped out in the lounge of Peacemillion nearly asleep, while Serena, who was too restless to relax, went to the hanger to work on Moonshine.
She was really disappointed with how she had fought. She had made two too many mistakes...and they were stupid mistakes too, nothing a gundam pilot should be worried about.
*What would Heero think if he saw what a sloppy job I did today? Oh! Serena! Worrying about such stupid things isn't going to help you get any better; this is a war you're fighting! In order to be victorious you need to stop letting stupid things get to you...*
The stupid things that were getting to her were that some of the suits today they fought against were manned suits. Now that Treize had taken over Romefeller again in place of Relena, the use of mobile dolls was down by Romefeller. No matter how much she talked herself into it, she couldn't destroy the manned suits. She just destroyed the weapons, or hit the suits so they couldn't move...not what a gundam pilot should do. A gundam pilot should over look those little things with the bigger goal in mind...but to Serena those weren't little things, no matter how much she tried she couldn't over look a human life.
*Heero wouldn't let me fight. He said I was too weak. Am I...because, I value human life? Those people are no different then the ones we are fighting for, except they're on the opposite side.*
Serena shrugged the matter off for the time being, she was getting a headache thinking so much anyway. She finished patching up a few scratches and scrapes on Moonshine, gave her gundam an affectionate pat, and then started to make her way towards her room.
As she walked past the control room of Peacemillion, she heard excited voices speaking rather loudly. Fearing the worst she ran into the room to find out what was happening.
Then clearly over the radio all her friends were piled around, she heard his voice.
"We'll dock right away then," he said calmly sending shivers down Serena's spine.
*What am I going to do?* she wondered ashamed.
---
So Heero was back. He had brought with him Sally Po and Heavy Arms, Trowa's gundam. Howard had talked eagerly with a confused Trowa about how he was going to fix it up so it would be fit for space. Trowa couldn't remember ever being to Earth, which still made everyone sad.
Heero hadn't spoken one word to Serena. When they had docked on Peacemillion, he walked right past her without even looking at her. The cold treatment she was receiving bothered her more then she let on. She didn't want him to see it affected her any. Still it made her wake up to the fact that she had been worried about him for the past month or so and he hadn't even thought about her. He was probably still hung on Relena. That hurt her more than words.
A few days after he had come back Serena was once again fixing Moonshine. Howard and her had made a new secret weapon and she wanted to get it finished as soon as possible, plus she was trying to stay away from Heero. She had gotten a few subtle hints whenever she tried to talk to him that he wasn't interested in talking to her back.
As she was engrossed in fixing her gundam, she didn't hear the footsteps of the person coming up behind her.
"Serena."
Serena was so startled that she jumped up and hit her head on the door to the back of her gundam.
"Ouch!" She said grabbing the bump that was already forming on her head. She turned to regard the person addressing her. It was Heero.
She looked at him but she didn't say anything, nor did she let on that she was intimidated; she just acted as if she didn't care. He stood there looking at her with an expressionless look in his eyes.
*Why doesn't he just say something? I'm not going to let him win! I can stand up to a staring contest any day! Usually at least... I normally just start laughing but this time I won't!*
Without any warning, Heero reached up and brushed her cheek with the back of his hand. The action surprised her to say the least, but she held her cool. His touch sent a shiver down her entire body. *How does he do that?*
"Things are going to get rough," he said calmly, "are you sure you have what it takes?"
Serena silently stared at him without saying anything, not moving. Just as he was moving his hand away she grabbed it. "I wouldn't miss it for anything!" she said firmly, fully aware she hadn't completely answered his question.
He nodded, "Good. We're going to need all the help we can get."
Serena wasn't expecting this. She stared at him with her mouth open. Suddenly she lost her composure and hugged him wildly.
"You won't regret this!" she giggled with glee. "I'll show--"
::RING RING::
A loud siren and a red flashing light cut off Serena. "Hey everyone," Howard's voice said over the loud speaker, "Our friend is trying his luck with Libra and I don't think he has a chance in hell! Why don't we go give him a hand?"
Serena immediately dropped her hands from around Heero's neck. She forgot about him as she closed the compartment to Moonshine and floated up to the cockpit, putting on her helmet at the same time. She didn't even notice the look of surprise on the face of the boy she had just jumped on. Quickly, he shook off the feeling and floated to Wing Zero as the other pilots started flooding into the hanger.
Wufei, blind with rage from the destruction of his home colony, appeared suicidal in his manner of single handedly attacking Libra.
"He's gone nuts!" Duo said as they all pulled their mobile suits out of the hanger.
"Yes, we must make it clear that we're here to help him," Quatre insisted.
The five gundams, and four other mobile suites flew to aid the already out numbered Shenlong gundam.
---
So now Wufei joined the party as well. After the other gundam pilots had convinced him to come back to Peacemillion to repair his gundam, Heero had wisely allowed Wufei to use Wing Zero in another battle. The use of the gundam's zero program helped set his confused sole at rest. He found it best to stick around Peacemillion and help them out for a while. Of course, Makoto would claim it was her cooking that got him to stay.
What more, Trowa, having flown Heavy Arms again, remembered everything, much to the relief to all his friends.
On Wufei's first night, when they were all having dinner to celebrate Trowa's memory being back and Wufei's joint them, Makoto had gotten Wufei into a huge fight over one of his favorite subjects: weak woman. Serena and the other people in the room had all been trying to get Makoto to shut her big mouth and not get him so angry that he left, but he actually seemed to be enjoying himself fighting with her. Go figure.
With all the battles that had been going on lately Serena felt like she hadn't gotten any rest. She was going insane waiting near Libra for Zechs to make his move. Not only that, the cannon gave her the creeps.
As Serena looked out the small window of her room at Libra contemplating these things later that night, she saw a flash of light shooting out of the huge space fortress. She woke out of her stupor and tried to concentrate on what was going on.
*Are they going to attack us?* she wondered.
There had been a few mobile doll battles between them since they had been anchored so close.
*No...it's only a small carrier...It sure is going fast for such a small thing...What's going on?*
As Serena watched the little carrier flee from the huge fortress, she saw mobile dolls chase after it. They fired at the carrier that it now appeared was fleeing to Peacemillion.
*They'll never make it!* She thought anxiously as she saw some of the attacks by the dolls hit their marks.
As Serena sat, staring horrified at the scene she had a vision of her friend, Setsuna. The one who had raised her, and trained her to save the world.
"Oh no, Setsuna, I'm coming!" Serena said as she bolted out of her vision and ran full speed towards the mobile suit hanger. She didn't even stop when she ran point blank into Duo and Heero. She just got back up and started running. *I have to make it on time...*
The two boys looked at each other and got up hurriedly to follow her.
Before she could think she was in her gundam speeding towards the carrier that was in danger. Close behind her was Wing Zero and Deathscythe Hell.
"Serena what are you doing? Are you nuts?" Duo inquired over their radio.
"I have to help them!" was her hurried answer.
"Ok..." Duo said as he and his gundam hurried to keep up with the smaller, faster gundam.
"You're going to fast, you can't handle that kind of pressure," Heero said calmly to her, as he too was being left in her dust.
"I may be too late!"
As Serena finally reached where the fight was going on she saw that the carrier wouldn't last much longer. With out hesitating she plunged her scepter into one of the mobile dolls following and shooting at the tiny carrier. She raised her scepter and did a half Moon Scepter Spiral Beam Attack and disposed of many of the dolls behind the carrier.
With their new target, more dolls flooded from the gates of Libra, intent on getting the Gundam. But nothing could stop her defense of the carrier.
Duo and Heero fought along side her. "She's like a machine!" Duo said amazed as he watched her fight.
"She can't handle this, there are too many of them," Heero thought out loud.
"Serena stop," Duo yelled, "The carrier is almost to Peacemillion. Stop before it's too late!"
Serena saw what they were yelling to her was true; the carrier was almost to the safety of Peacemillion. "Alright I'm coming," Serena panted, "you lead the way."
Heero waited to make sure she had turned around before he himself made his getaway. Duo did the same. They took off when they saw her coming, but as she was turning she had an idea.
*My new weapon! It could help get rid of many of these enemies!* She thought as she remembered the new weapon Howard had helped her add on to Moonshine.
Despite her exhaustion, Serena turned back towards to the dolls. *Heero would do this if he had the same weapon...*
---
"What's she thinking, man?" Howard asked nearly pulling his hair out.
The rest of the team had only just noticed what was going on. They had all been resting when Serena, Duo, and Heero had gone out to save the carrier. Mina and Lita had been in charge of monitoring Libra's activities and had fallen asleep. By the time the trio had made it to the carrier they woke up and sounded the alarm...much too late send more help.
So, everyone was crowed around the huge window of the control room watching the scene outside.
"What do you mean? What is she doing?" Sally Po asked confused.
"Her and I were working on a new weapon for Moonshine but...it's not finished yet... It may be operational but I don't know if the gundam is ready to handle all the energy it takes."
"Oh no!" The four girls said putting their hands over face in worried expressions.
"Stupid!" Wufei said.
"Serena wouldn't do it if she didn't think Moonshine could handle it..." Quatre said trying to bring hope to the situation.
"Moonshine may be able to, but I'm not sure about her...she's already used a lot of energy on the battle.
As he said this, a white light so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes, emitted from Moonshine.
"Did she detonate?!?" Raye cried.
"No! Look I see her!" Ami screamed, with relief evident in her voice.
As the smoke of battle cleared, Moonshine could be seen with two huge, feathery wings flowing from its back. And behind the gundam was Libra...but nothing else, all the mobile dolls were space dust.
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"Damn!" Duo said as the white light nearly blinded him.
"What is that?" Heero asked covering his eyes.
As the light went away they too saw Moonshine, equipped with wings.
"Hey! Where'd she get wings? I thought only Zero had wings." Duo said stunned by the beauty of the wings. They were different from Heero's gundams wings, but wings nonetheless. "Did they destroy all those dolls?"
Heero let out a breath in a huff. *Wings fit her better, Angel...* He snapped himself out of his thoughts and said over the radio: "Are you ok?"
Without answering, Moonshine turned toward Peacemillion and bolted towards it.
"I guess so..." Duo said as he made his way back as well.
When they docked in the hanger everyone was waiting eagerly. Duo and Heero got out of their gundams first and hurried over to where everyone else was, below Moonshine.
The gundam appeared in excellent shape for the beating it had given. And, as the door opened they were surprised to see Serena in apparently perfect shape hop out.
"Are you ok, Serena?" Lita asked concerned.
"I'm A-OK," Serena said sort of tipsy like, as she toppled over to the floor.
Heero was the first at her side to inspect her. "She just fainted, she's ok." Everyone was relieved.
"She shouldn't have used that attack, it wasn't completely ready yet," Howard said in an 'I told you so' tone of voice.
"That's the way our princess is," a deep voice said from behind them.
The group around Moonshine turned around to face the forgotten trio that had been on the carrier Serena had been so intent on saving. They didn't see the elbow the tall blond received from the beautiful, wavy aquamarine haired girl as the blond had his arm affectionately around her waist.
"Err...Serena's always been like that," the tall sandy haired man corrected.
"Who are you?" Heero asked suspiciously.
Setsuna stepped forward. "Sorry for not introducing ourselves earlier but you all seemed busy... My name is Setsuna. I helped raise Serena and I also helped build Moonshine. These are my friends Haruka and Michriu."
They all gave a small bow. "We have some information you may find interesting," Michriu said holding out a small disk.
"It's the information from Libra's main computer. It has all you need to know to defeat it."
Howard greedily reached for the disc and it was obvious he wanted to go and examine it right away.
"One more thing," Haruka said, "Relena Peacecraft is on Libra." Haruka narrowed her eyes at Heero.
"We have to go help her," the now not- unconscious Serena said as she tried to get up, but failed.
"You're too weak," Heero said, "I'll go."
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Gomen everyone. This is just horrible, how long I took. I've already started on the last chapter, it'll be really long and there will probably be an epilogue...which I guess I the same as two more chapters but you get what I mean, right? I'll try my hardest to get it out soon! Ja!