Gundanium
Millennium 3
Where Is
Everyone?
I do not own either Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing
As Trowa was working on a computer, someone came in and started massaging his shoulders. "Raye?" he asked, looking up at her.
Raye's hands felt a little different and so did her eyes, "Hi, Trowa." Her voice did too. She said his name as if she never said it or heard it before.
"What's up?"
"I want to show you something," she said, pulling on his arm. "Come on, get up."
"I'm pretty busy right now," he began.
"Trust me, it's worth it!" she laughed and pulled him up. She wrapped her arms around his neck and started walking backwards to the door, "you'll be so surprised!"
"Well, okay," he sighed.
She turned around and pulled on his wrist. They passed Serena and Relena on the way.
"Hi, Raye! Hi Trowa!" Serena said.
"Oh, hi," Raye mumbled and nodded. She walked past them as if she forgot who they were.
Serena and Relena exchanged glance, "is she feeling okay?" Relena asked.
Serena shrugged, "well, we hardly get a long very well.
"So what's the surprise?" Trowa questioned impatiently.
"If I tell you it won't be a surprise, would it?" she teased as they came outside. She took him inside a pet store.
"Are we here to get a pet or something?" Trowa demanded.
"No, no!" she laughed.
Trowa looked at the animals. None of them looked happy at all. They almost looked like dolls, puppets even. The worker at the counter looked kind of dazed.
She opened a door that led to the backroom. It was pretty dark except one dim light hanging from the ceiling. She turned around, grinning as she looked up at him and slid her arms around his neck.
"Surprise, Trowa," and she kissed him deeply. When the kiss ended and he opened his eyes, he no longer saw Raye standing there. Instead he saw…
"Midii!" he shouted.
"Hi, No Name," she muttered nastily, "Did you miss me?"
"What is this? Some kind of sick trick?"
"I told you you'd be surprised!" she snarled as her face became a little fuzzy and round ears formed out of the top of her head. A lioness' tail sprouted behind her. She changed into a half-cat half-woman.
"What the hell?" then he realized how she had gotten in the circus without being noticed. She had changed herself into a lioness so no one could tell. Midii Une wasn't just any spy; she was a perfect one. She could be in any crowd and blend in just fine. She was a chameleon; a shape shifter and a two faced double crosser.
"Just like old times, isn't it?" she hissed through her new mouth of sharp teeth. She attacked him until he stopped moving. It was the first time ever that Trowa feared an animal.
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However, the real Raye looked around for Trowa and couldn't find him. "Where could he be?" she asked herself, sounding worried.
She passed Relena and Serena.
"Hey, have you two seen Trowa?" she asked.
"Where've you been, Raye?" Serena demanded, "You just left with him 10 minutes ago!"
"If I did, don't you think I'd remember that?" she questioned.
"Well, it's true," Relena said.
"Well, which way did I go?"
"Hey, has anyone seen Quatre?" Mina asked, running down the hall, "I can't find him anywhere!"
"He's missing too?" Relena inquired.
"Haven't you noticed that he's not playing the piano or anything?" Mina asked. "I just talked to him like an hour ago!"
"I can't find Wufei either," Lita said. "He's supposed to be sleeping! Do you have any idea how hard the Preventers make you work?"
"Where is everybody?" Serena demanded.
"I think where ever Duo is," Mina said, "The others are with him."
"I wish Ami was here!" Lita muttered, "We could probably find them!"
"I've got a bad feeling about this," Raye mumbled. "A very bad one. What if someone is after the gundam pilots?"
"Oh no," Serena muttered, "Heero!" she took off running to the Mobile Suit hanger, "Heero!" When she got there, it was empty as space. "Heero?" she turned around and checked his room. He wasn't there either. "Heero! Heero! He's not here!"
"Where could he be?" Relena asked wonderingly, "Whoever abducted him must be good. Heero's just too…"
"Yes, he's so strong, isn't he, Miss Relena?" Dorothy asked.
"You, you!" Mina marched up at her and almost clawed her eyes out had not Lita pulled her back.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Lita asked. "Can someone please explain to me what happened? And who are you?"
"I'm Dorothy," Dorothy said.
"Well, I'm Lita," Lita said.
"You are behind this, aren't you?" Mina demanded Dorothy, "you kidnapped Quatre, didn't you? People like you make me sick!"
"You kidnapped the others, didn't you?" Serena accused.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Dorothy sighed.
"Where are the gundam pilots?" Serena demanded, "answer me!"
"You came all this way to kidnap them, didn't you?" Relena inquired, starting to sound like the others, "tell me, was I next?"
"That's absurd!" Dorothy gasped, "Miss Relena, I'd never do such a thing!"
"I don't buy it, Dorothy!" Relena hissed, "I know what you are capable of. I don't need warmongers like you here in my kingdom or this world!" Now she started to sound like her brother Milliardo, "Go back to outer space!"
"But, Miss Rel--"
"Go, Dorothy!" Relena shouted, pointing down the hall to the exits, "I should've known the day I met you that you were nothing but trouble! Out Dorothy! Get out!"
Dorothy sighed, "Well, goodbye then." She bowed her head and when she raised it, she had the most evil smile on her face. "It was nice knowing you." She turned around and left the building.
"That girl is up to something," Raye said, "I can feel it."
"But how could she kidnap all five of the pilots by herself?" Lita asked, "She doesn't look like much of a fighter to me."
"Yeah, I don't think she's working alone," Raye agreed, "but who could she be working for?"
"And with?" Mina chimed in.
"Something isn't right here," Serena said. "We have to find them before something happens."
"Whoever did this must be pros," Lita said.
They heard sounds of stomping outside. "Hey, do you hear that?" Relena asked.
"Sounds like mobile suits!" Serena cried, coming to a window to look outside. "I hate it when I'm right. Let's suit up, Sailor Pilots!"
"Good luck," Relena called to them as they ran off.
"Be careful, Relena!" Serena ordered.
"I wish Ami was here," Raye grumbled, sitting in the cockpit of her Mars Gundam.
"Well, we're just going to have to do this without her," Lita said. "Let's hope she found Duo."
They went out to face off with the mobile suits, only to find out that they were not like any kind of mobile suit they have fought of the gundam pilots have fought before.
"These Mobile Suits look different," Mina noted as she counter attacked. "I can't get the pilot on transmission."
"Maybe they're mobile dolls," Lita said, "like what the guys told us about."
"No," Raye whispered, "That's not what they are."
"Well, whatever they are, they're pretty good!" Serena shouted. "There's probably 2 dozen of these things!"
"These mobile suits," Raye mumbled, "they're--they're…"
"Spit it out, Raye!" Serena hissed.
"They're not mobile dolls or mobile suits, these things, they're--they're alive!"
"The mobile suits are alive?" Lita asked.
All the alive mobile suits changed from robot form to an animal-monster like form, most of them on 4 legs. They roared ferociously and charged the four sailor pilots.
"Man I wish Ami was here," Raye mumbled.
"Hell, I even wish Quatre was here!" Mina cried, "We can't fight these things!"
"Looks like we'll have to," Serena said, "Steady now. Steady, wait for it….AAAATAAAAACK!" She used her buster rifle to blow away three of the mobile suits. Her new angel wings of her gundam flapped and she took off to attack them in the air and golden cresent moon wings above the angel wings made her soar higher.
You are going down!" Mina snarled, making her Venus Gundam swing the chain around her opponent's neck to pull it to the ground.
"I don't think the guys would have much luck fighting these monsters," Raye said as she grilled one of the enemies.
"What makes you say that?" Lita asked, taking her spear and running one of the enemies through. It made a sick death cry.
"Well, our gundams are different," Mina agreed.
"Our gundams are powered from our transformation items," Serena added. "They're magical compared to the other gundams."
"You're starting to sound like Ami," Lita laughed, "Let's just take care of these things so we can find the guys!"
Serena saw some scary things through the ZERO system. "Not now, ZERO," she muttered. But the images came anyway. She saw the five-gundam pilots in trouble and strapped down to 5 tables. They looked fine for one second and darkness went over them. When the darkness cleared, they didn't look the same. "Oh god," she moaned. Then she saw her and her friends, having to transform once again to save them, as the sailor soldiers and not the sailor pilots. The sailor pilots could do nothing. "NO! Noooo!" Two machine guns on the shoulders of her gundam popped out and started shooting as if her finger was stuck on the trigger. In a way, it was.
"Serena, are you okay?" Mina asked.
"Wow, careful, Serena!" Raye snarled. "You almost hit me!"
Serena reached for her energy sword and drew it out. She sliced the remaining live suits in half. They really were alive. They were made out of flesh, not metal. She stood in the midst of the massacre for about five minutes.
"Sailors," she announced, "we're going to have to transform once again."
"But how?" Raye asked, "what about our gundams?"
"Can we still do it?" Lita asked, "and keep our gundams? I don't know about you, but I love this thing!"
"So do I!" Mina agreed.
"It might be the only way to save the gundam pilots," Serena said. "We don't have to transform just yet, but we'll have to soon."
"Is that what ZERO showed you?" Raye asked.
"Yes," Serena said. "Something bad is going to happen to them if we don't get to them soon."
"We'd better tell Relena about this." Mina said. "And take her with us. It might be possible she'll be kidnapped too."
"Oh no, Relena!" Serena gasped and took flight
back to the mansion. When she got to
the hanger, she jumped out of the cockpit and began to call for Relena. "Relena, are you still here?
Relena!"
"I'm right here, Serena," Relena voiced from a room.
Serena walked in and found Relena with Noin and Milliardo.
"We'll have to take you with us when we look for the guys," Serena said. "If we leave you here then you might be abducted too."
"How will we find them?" Relena asked.
"ZERO showed me something," Serena whispered.
"Your gundam has the ZERO system?" Milliardo questioned.
She nodded, "Yeah. Don't worry, I can handle it."
"What did it show you?"
"The guys, they're in trouble." Serena sat down and rubbed her head. "I'm not sure where they are. It looked like some kind of lab and…the guys…they're being used as guinea pigs for some sick experiment."
"What?" Noin gasped, "That's terrible! Nothing like that ever happened!"
"Well, Miss Noin," Serena sighed, "Because the enemies you had were people like you. Mine weren't. They were different, like demons, mutants, and aliens. The enemy here is not for the gundam pilots, but for the sailor scouts and they're using the gundam pilots to get to us."
"Sailor Scouts?" Milliardo mumbled.
"Serena is Sailor Moon," Relena explained, "she's a fighter from another the past. She may be right. Whatever new enemy we have, it's nothing like we've fought before."
"I'm sorry, Relena," Serena sighed.
"For what?" Relena asked her cousin.
"I never should've came here," Serena said. "I've put you and the others in danger."
Relena smiled and wrapped her arm around Serena. "Don't be like that, Serena. What if this strange new enemy did come if you weren't here to stop it? The gundam pilots can't do anything. I'm glad you're here."
"But what do we do?" Serena asked. "We don't even know where they are!"
"We'll find them," Relena encouraged, "somehow or another, we will find them."
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Ami stopped at a pet store. "Hilde, come here."
"Um, Ami, we're looking for Duo," Hilde reminded, "not a puppy."
"There's something wrong with this pet store." Ami said, looking it over, "Have you ever noticed anything about it?"
"Well," Hilde said, "I don't recall a pet store being here."
"Come on," Ami commanded, "something tells me Duo is here."
"Right behind you," Hilde said.
The animals looked at Hilde and Ami with still faces. They weren't moving or making any noises.
"Aren't animals supposed to look happy?" Hilde asked. "This is weird. It's like they were drugged or something."
"There's no workers either," Ami said. She saw a door marked PRIVATE and opened it. "This way." They went through the door. The room led to a couple of hallways and had many doors.
"It's like a maze," Hilde said.
They began walking and on. The farther it went, the colder it got.
"Brr, it's freezing in here," Hilde said, rubbing her arms, "They probably never pay their heating bill."
"It's so dark," Ami mumbled.
They heard footsteps coming to them.
"Hey, do you hear that?" Ami asked, "Footsteps, coming toward us."
"Yeah," Hilde replied.
If Ami could change into Sailor Mercury right now, she could find out who the figure was with her visor and mini computer. But her transformation stick was inside her gundam and she couldn't transform with Hilde next to her.
Down the dark hall they saw a pair of glowing red eyes. It was getting closer to the girls. Closer. Closer.
Hilde took her gun and fired at the figure. The bullet seemed to go right through the him.
"What the?" Hilde mumbled.
The body came closer and they were able to see it. It was dressed in a black cloak, barefoot and his pants were all shredded. He wielded a scythe. It started laughing and pointed a bony finger to Hilde, "You cannot kill death!" it shouted in a raspy voice.
"Oh yeah?" Hilde demanded, raising her gun again.
"Wait, Hilde!" Ami pushed her arm away. It went off and hit a wall.
"Hey!" Hilde shouted, shocked that she was trying to prevent her from destroying it.
Ami didn't have to use her visor. She already knew who the figure was. "You can't!"
"Why not?" She questioned.
"Don't you see?" Ami asked, "It's Duo!"
"That's Duo?" Hilde gasped, "well, where's the rest of him?"
"Someone did this to him!" Ami shouted, feeling her anger rise. "Duo, can you hear me?"
Obviously he didn't because he swished his scythe across the girls. The jumped back in time.
"Now you die!" it screamed.
"Cut it out, Duo!" Hilde shouted.
"That wasn't funny, Hilde!" Ami snapped, referring that he almost cut them in half.
"It wasn't supposed to be!" Hilde groaned, "Come on, Duo, stop it!" she fired her gun at him even though she knew it was no use. "It's me, Hilde! Don't you recognize me?"
"They made him into what he believed he really is," Ami mumbled, "The God of Death!"
"That's interesting, Ami!" Hilde hissed, "Now how to we stop him?" Her gun ran out of ammunition so she threw it at his skull. It bounced off and didn't even seem to faze him.
"Do you fear death?" The God of Death demanded, "Do you?"
"Oh, Duo, shut up!" Hilde ran after him fearlessly and grabbed his scythe to try to push him away. "Listen to me, whatever they did you, forget it!" she pleaded as she fought with him. "Duo, please! Duo, can't you hear me?"
"I have to do something," Ami whispered, "before Hilde gets hurt." She had no choice. She had to at least try to change into Sailor Mercury.
"MERCURY CRYSTAL POWER!"
From inside the Mercury gundam, a blue crystal started to glow. It disappeared from there and appeared in Ami's hand. Fog and water consumed her and the first time in so long, she became Sailor Mercury once again.
"Oh, it feels so good to be a sailor scout again!" Sailor Mercury sighed. She pressed her earring and her visor went across her eyes. "Hilde!"
"Man, for a dead guy," Hilde gasped, "You're pretty good!"
Shinigami pushed her down. When she looked up, he pulled his scythe down to her face.
"No, Duo!" she screamed, scurrying back, "Don't!"
"MERCURY BUBBLES BLAST!"
A huge fog surrounded Duo and Hilde. The skeletal Duo stepped back, confused and started slicing the fog to deplete it. "Where are you?" he demanded.
"Hilde," Mercury grabbed her by the arms and pulled her back, "are you all right."
"You saved me," Hilde said, "Thank you…uh, Ami? You look different!"
"Call me Sailor Mercury," Mercury insisted. She used her visor to study Duo's body. Her indication square pinpointed the collar around his neck. "The collar! That's what's controlling him!"
"Since when does Duo wear collars?" Hilde asked, brushing herself off.
"MERCURY AQUA RAPSODY!" Mercury began to play a harp made out of water and many streams of water flowed to Duo and started to freeze his skeletal body. The collar froze and broke off into pieces, followed by the scythe. The ice melted around Duo and he started to choke as he fell to his knees.
What happened next wasn't so pretty. Disgusted, Hilde and Sailor Mercury could do nothing but watch. He ripped the cloak around his ribcage and a heart started to beat inside it and his lungs started to heave. Veins and other blood vessels appeared around the heart and grew to the rest of his body. His nerve system appeared, followed by his eyeballs in his sockets. His stomach, intestines and whole digestive system came into view. Through this metamorphosis, Duo screamed. It was just as painful changing back to 'life' as it was to 'death'. His scream started out raspy and then it sounded more like Duo the more he changed. Following his veins, were his muscles and tendons. Then his skin and nails and finally, his hair changed from white to brown. He changed from the god of death into Duo Maxwell. The screaming stopped and he fell down bare-chested on the stone cold floor, letting out a soft, tired groan.
"Oh, Duo!" Sailor Mercury shouted. She ran to him and cradled his head in her arms. She sobbed gently in happiness. "I'm so glad you're back to us! Duo, speak to me!"
First, all Duo could do was breathe. He opened his eyelids and searched around. Sailor Mercury looked deep inside his gorgeous cobalt blue eyes. She never noticed how beautiful they were.
Hilde stood behind them, shocked at what just took place. She couldn't even move. 'This is too weird,' she thought.
Sailor Mercury pressed her ear to his beating heart. It started to calm down and so did his breathing.
"Please, Duo, can you tell me what happened?" Sailor Mercury pleaded.
Duo looked at her, confused. "A-Ami?"
"Yeah, it's me." She said, "Are you all right? What happened? Who did this to you?"
"You look different," he groaned.
"M-Maybe we should take you to a hospital or something," Hilde suggested, finally able to find her voice.
"Hilde?" Duo whispered.
"Hi, Duo," Hilde said with a smile, "How do you feel?"
"Like death," he answered with a groan.
Hilde giggled, "Why am I not surprised?"
"You look like you need some rest," Sailor Mercury pulled his arm around her shoulder and attempted to pull him up.
Hilde came to his other side. "Yeah, listen to the doctor, Duo!"
"I can't leave," he mumbled. "I'm not cured yet."
"But the collar is gone," Hilde said, "and you're back to yourself."
"No, she injected me with something," he whispered, "That's what changed me. The collar only was a tool to keep me under her control. We can't leave without an antidote. I can still change any time without warning."
'Don't worry,' Sailor Mercury thought, stroking her hand down his braided hair, 'your ice angel will protect you.'
"And there are others." He added with a groan. "We can't leave without helping them too."
"Who did this to you, Duo?" Ami questioned, "tell me."
"Welcome to my house of misery!" Mistress18 said behind them. "I'm very disappointed in you! Some God of Death you are!"
"Mistress18," Duo said through clenched teeth.
"Mistress18?" Sailor Mercury whispered.
"She did this to me."
Mercury let go of a weak Duo and Hilde continued to hold him as Mercury turned and stepped to Mistress18.
"You did this to him, didn't you?" Mercury demanded.
Mistress18 saw the symbol of Mercury glow in her forehead. "Why, you're the child of Mercury, aren't you?" she grinned, "The sailor scout of water and ice."
"Well, La De Da," she hissed, "aren't you brilliant?"
"Ami, what are you doing?" Duo questioned, "I wouldn't talk to her like that if I were you. She's dangerous!"
"I am Sailor Mercury and I am going to wash you away like sin!" Sailor Mercury shouted. "SHINE AQUA ILLUSION!"
"You can't fight her, Ami!" Duo warned.
"What is Ami supposed to be anyway?" Hilde asked.
"A Sailor Soldier," he said.
"Sailor what?"
The water surrounded Mistress18. "Is that the best you can do?"
"I've only gotten started!" Mercury hissed, "MERCURY AQUA RAPSODY!" The water pushed her back about ten feet and froze her for a few seconds.
"Yeah, all right Sailor Mercury!" Hilde hooted.
The water fazed her for a little bit and she shook the cold water off her. "Not bad," she muttered. "But I'm still not very impressed. All this time of waiting for the sailor scouts and they're not even much of a challenge. Where are the others?"
"You leave my friends alone!" Sailor Mercury hissed.
"They'll be here," Mistress18 promised, "because I have something I want!"
"You have other four gundam pilots here, aren't you?" Sailor Mercury demanded.
"They are going under the transformation as we speak," Mistress18 confirmed.
"Why did you pick us?" Duo questioned, "How come we were the lucky lottery winners?"
"I wanted to change you simple humans into something more," she said, "you should be grateful." She held up a syringe willed with the black serum. "Inside this serum is the power to change a simple pathetic human like yourself into a supreme being. Fascinating substance." She looked at Hilde, "wouldn't you like to be next!"
"Stay away from her!" Sailor Mercury commanded, "MERCURY ICE BUBBLES FREEZE!"
The many ice bubbles developed a chilling fog, preventing Mistress18 from seeing anything. She felt someone snatch it from her hand.
"The serum!" she gasped.
"I have it," Sailor Mercury said, holding it in her hand.
"Give it to me!" she hissed.
"No," Sailor Mercury sneered.
"Give me the serum!" Mistress18 repeated.
"Give me the antidote," Sailor Mercury compromised.
"Fool, there is no antidote!" she snarled.
"No antidote?" Duo mumbled. "I'm stuck like this?"
"She has to be bluffing," Hilde said.
"Give me the serum." Mistress18 ordered. "Give it to me!" she stepped to her and there was only last thing for Sailor Mercury to do. She injected the serum into her own arm. She winced as she did it but it was the only way to keep Mistress18 from getting it.
"Ami, are you crazy?" Duo demanded, "Don't you know how much it hurts to change!?"
"Yeah, we heard you scream," Hilde said, wiggling her finger in her ear.
"The serum!" Mistress18 shouted. "You're wasting it!"
Sailor Mercury hunched forward, feeling her body become freezing cold. She took a deep breath and when she exhaled, she could see her breath. She groaned and the transformation began. Her skin became icy blue. Her hair turned into water and her sailor outfit changed into a deep blue gown. Wings of ice sprouted out of her back, creating a fog that hung around them. Sailor Mercury, the sailor scout of ice changed into the ice angel she saw when piloting Moon Zero.
"Wow," Duo breathed.
"Ami?" Hilde mumbled.
Sailor Mercury looked at her hands and smiled. She knew what she had become. She pulled her hands down and sneered at Mistress18.
"It's over now." She spoke, her voice icy and her breath a cloud of fog. "Mistress18, you are through!"
Next Chapter: I See Angels.