Disclaimer: Well, I don't own Sailor Moon or Gundam Wing. I'm not sure how many times minna-chan has heard that coming from people's mouths, but you hear it coming from mine :-). Now, for chapter three.... Sorry it's taken sooooo long to post up, but I've been a sick Achicagoil... *coughs* Gomen nasai *sheepish grin*

Simply Pawns in a Game of Life chapter 3 rated: PG-13... you know... the language in these fics can be violent at times

I may run and hide but I will never tell a lie. That's me in a nutshell. ~ Duo Maxwell... who else? :-)

Milliardo, Heero, Quatre, Sally, Hilde, Dorothy, and Relena's ears all perked up as a soldier walked into the conference room. "Sir, Lieutenant Maxwell has just arrived from some other part of Japan in a Mobile Suit carrier. We almost shot him down from the sky, but he seems to have brought somebody with him," the soldier commented. Milliardo inwardly grinned. An excuse to get out of the stupid conference. He bolted up from his chair and nodded at the soldier. "In the hanger?" he asked to get a nod back. The whole crew minus a clueless Quatre and an outraged Une bolted out of the room, glad to be free of the meeting. All ran towards the hanger to be greeted by Duo who was wearing an enemy uniform and a woman, who seemed to be within her twenties, in his arms. The girl's forest green hair was matted to an extent of utter extreme. Her stylish white tank top was cut on her side, revealing a greenish wound, freshly bleeding and oozing puss while she had bruises up an down her arms. Milliardo's jow dropped when he saw the girl. Of course, she would have been stunning had there been no wound and her hair had been rightly managed, but the wound on her side was atrocious. "Did the guerilla group do that all to her?" Trowa asked, horrified. Milliardo asked inwardly the same question. Duo shook his head. "She was found outside the base on the beech. She already had the wound, or at least most of it. Her guard added to it. Akutenshi added to it. Yemon added to it. She seemed to be an important key figure in their mission to take over the world. Something about her being the mystical key to power. I figured because she was so important, I'd just take her," Duo added, smiling at the last comment. Heero nodded. "Right now, the best thing to do for her would to help with that wound," Sally retorted, wincing at the cut. Duo smiled as he handed the female off to Trowa. "Off to the hospital wing!" he cried out, holding one finger up in the air and imitating Groucho Marx. Hilde smiled dimly and chased after the proceding group, a confused Quatre in toll. *********** The world around her was dark. There was only shades of black and white, little gray. Shadows. She was staring at the world from the shadows. "Be strong, my dear, dear child. It has never been easy for those with the guardianship to follow the five taboos. You must never stop time. You must never change or erase time. You must never allow anyone to see their futures. You must be a strong guardian. Those are the only four taboos you need to know to begin your job. I pass it on to you, in hopes that you will protect it better than I have," a soft, melodic voice rang out. Setsuna whirled around to see a shadow of Queen Charon of Pluto, holding a small child in her hands. Slowly, the queen put down the child and faded away. A small child of five ran after the figure. She had long green hair and bright, crimson eyes. "Okaa-san! Wait! Please, don't leave me! I need your help!" she echoed out into the blackness. A man in white with violet eyes and a dark, up-turned crescent moon put his hand on the child. Yet, the girl was now a teenager. She turned to face the man and shrugged his hand off. He meerly glared at her, retreating as yet another man proceded to make his way to her shadow. Setsuna couldn't see his features, yet shocking blue struck out of the mere colorless sight. The blue of his deep eyes locked her motionless as the man walked pass the shadow who now had her arms outstretched to him and cautiously sauntered up to the real Setsuna. Slowly, Blue-eyes wrapped his arms around her waist, leaving her speechless. Mocking tones blared into her ears from away. "Weak onna," "Omae o korosu," "Onnabaka," and "Jikan senshi no hitori hagashii megumi*," filled her ears as she attempted to block out the voices. Sound made its way through her voice as she screeched out, "IIE! I am not the jikan senshi no hitori hagashii megumi! I am the... hitori no jikan senshi," she admitted finally, tears streaming down her face as coldness washed over her body. "Setsuna, my dear, I ask you not to break the fifth taboo. Please, under the god of Pluto, do not let yourself fall in love. It will only lead to your downfall as it did to your sister and myself," the final voices called out to her as the shadows intermixxed with each other and Blue-eyes disappeared, her eyes snapping open. Setsuna screamed. ******** Milliardo rubbed his sore and red eyes. He had not slept well the night before and the one before that. Business was all it seemed to be for him now. There was always some sort of work to be done or there was always some situation that involved him that he had to worry about until last minute. "Relena-imouto has been pestering me to take that stupid vacation for the last month now to Hawaii. I'm thinking that right about now it sounds pretty good," he admitted to himself, banging his head down on the table, nearly upsetting his cup of specially-brewed extra caffinated coffee. A person behind him snickered. "Milliardo-san, you seem tired, ne?" the voice of the one and only Chang Wufei called out. Milliardo cursed for not having locked the door before hand. "What do you want, Chang?" Milliardo's curt and tired voice called out over the static of silence. The Chinese snorted as well, grinning to himself that Milliardo was not in the mood. "The girl's fever dropped. The blood has stopped bleeding. Relena's got most of her hair tamed. And her condition is improving. As for Maxwell, well... it's safe to say that he won't be seen alive for the next few days. Each of us has signed up for a different time to beat him up. Right now Yuy's up to get some blows in, then it's me followed by Noin and Une, and perhaps Dorothy. You care to join in the fun?" Wufei asked, leaning against the door frame and letting the light reflect off of his katana. "No, I would prefer to keep my group members alive at the moment, but thanks for the offe-" Milliardo was cut off suddenly by a shrill and deafening scream coming from the hospital room. Immidietly he jumped up from his table, his coffee falling to the cloor forgotten, and dashing out of the room to the hospital wing, his weariness erased. ******** Frantic crimson eyes searched across the room. Setsuna was clearly in some sort of hospital. An IV was next to her bed and a bathroom door was connected. She was wearing a blue hospital gown an was sitting in a white-downed bed. Quickly, Setsuna pulled the IV out of her arm, wincing slightly at the pain. There were no persons in her room at the moment, and her escape would have been perfect if she hadn't screamed. She would have to make this fast before anyone entered the room to check on her. With all of her strength, Setsuna swung both of her legs to the right side of her bed, wincing while doing so. The task of getting out of the room would be hard, but as soon as she was able to henshin, she would teleport to another dimension where she could get help. Using her bed as a post, Setsuna heaved her way into an upright position, nearly fainting from the effort. The poison from the cut on her side had made it's way into her blood stream, making her weak. Without her immortality as a time guardress, she probably would have died already. Moving her left foot foreward a bit, Setsuna took a step. Slowly, one by one, Setsuna moved foreward. Suddenly, a wave of un-expected dizzyness overcame her and Setsuna crumpled to the floor. At least she would have except for the pair of strong arms that now held her waist into an upright position. Not having the energy to struggle, Setsuna twirled around to gaze into the most brilliant pair of blue eyes in the world. They were the same eyes from her dream. For a second time that day, Setsuna screamed and struggled to escape the man's strong hold. ******** Eyes snapped open as a yell was heard throughout the base. "SHE WHAT?" Akutenshi screamed, awakening others from her yell. "General Akutenshi, please, calm down. The hostage we were watching after some how escaped, taking one of our soldiers hostage," a female soldier commented, glaring at her companion. "How could she have escaped with one of our soldiers in her condition? It's almost impossible!" Akutenshi yelled, outraged. She stood pacing her quarters where Yemon too was sitting, angry. "Then go and get her back. How hard is that?" Yemon asked, trembling with anger. His raven-black hair shone blue in the light. "Well, your excellency, it's harder than it seems. It appears that the carrier the girl hijacked has landed within the Preventor's grasps. We need a well thought-out sequence or stragedy to get both the prisoner and the soldier back," the male soldier commented. Yemon glared at both of them. "Fuck the soldier. I. Want. The. Girl. And. I. Want. Her. Here. Within. The. Next. Week. Understood?" he spat, leaning against the wall in the shadows. The two soldiers nodded, dumb-founded, and hurried off. "You both know that this has lowered my expectations of both of you, correct?" a mysterious voice called out from the shadows. Akutenshi and Yemon both nodded, keeping silent. "You musn't let the girl escape, or it's good bye to this organization. You want the Akanesasusora Ashi Alliance kept alive, ne?" another figure added, also in the shadows but her violet eyes and long dark hair showing. The two nodded again. "Then capture her and bring her to us," The first replied, turning her back on the two, but not without her sea-green tresses showing. "We shall not fail either of you, Megumi-samas. Nor shall we fail Chaos," Akutenshi added, her eyes clouding over. Yemon simply nodded in agreement. ************* Milliardo breathed a sigh of relief. The girl had been calmed down with a drug that Heero had just happened to have on hand and was now silently sleeping, slightly wheezing from deep within her rest. "How is she doing?" Sally asked from the doorway, curious on how their strange visitor was doing. Milliardo smiled tiredly and turned to the light-haired brunette. "I'd be more concerned at the moment over the fact of where Heero got the stuff we gave her and WHY he had it in the first place. I can almost guarantee you that he slips the stuff to Relena when she gets annoying enough," Milliardo grinned, making Sally laugh. "At least we know that the stupid meeting is over for now. Now we have to keep our guards up. If this girl is as important as Duo says she is, the AAA alliance is going to be after her," Sally added. Milliardo gave her a confused look. "AAA alliance? What's that supposed to stand for?" he asked, turning his gaze back to Setsuna. "You remember that one guerilla group in Japan? The powerful one that took her captive? They are called the Akanesasusora Ashi Alliance, or the AAA. Powerful group founded by a young girl named Giheno Akutenshi and founded by Harino Yemon. They are a group we must watch out for," Sally remarked before walking off into her own room. Milliardo nodded into the silence and darkness. 'Who is this mysterious girl that the AAA alliance wanted so badly? And why is she so important?' he asked himself in thought. 'Koibito, is there something about you that can't be told from the human eye?' he thought in question, smiling at the refference he had given her. Slowly, Milliardo stood up and left the room, deep in thought. ********* "They have already started. Is there any way we can stop them as it is?" Aphrodite asked the council of people. Charon shook her head no. "Our only chance of hope for our daughters-" Serenity began before getting a glare from Gaia, "and our sons is the fact that Setsuna can withhold the power Chaos has on her fellow senshi. We must pray to Selene that she may be able to over-come this powerful surge of strength." Charon nodded. "And we must hope that Setsuna first may be able to outlive that wound on her side. She put up a good fight with the youma, but I have to admit, Chaos sent a pretty powerful one to attack my dear daughter." Minerva grinned brightly. "My senshi can overpower anything. They are the most powerful beings in the universe right after the Serenity-hime," Minerva added, grinning. Aphrodite and Ares both whirled around to glare at Minerva. "Are you saying that your senshi are more powerful than our senshi? I do believe many times they have outpowered the outers to an extreme," Ares spat. Minerva snorted. "Oh really? Please, do us all a favour and recall one of these times because I don't seem to have the memory of such a battle," Minerva retorted with an air. "What about the time the senshi defeated Beryl? Or how about that Doom Phantom?" Hermes asked, grinning brightly. "Pshaw," Posiedon added, moving his triton a bit. "If I'm reminded correctly, 'our' senshi weren't even there for the stupid battle. I believe they were still getting things straight. Except for Setsuna, of course. And any of the inner senshi probably would have given up the job of guarding the gates within five minutes of inheriting them," Posiedon snorted. Ares burst up from his seat to be pushed back down by Queen Serenity. "Ladies and gentlemen, you are surely not making this situation any better so please, will you stop fighting this instant!" Serenity yelled, eyeing Charon nervously. 'Please, let Setsuna succeed in bringing the senshi back. It's dire that they do come back to our side,' Serenity thought, worry clear on her face.



Well, chapter three is finished! I'm so proud of myself. Erm... I do have a few meanings of Japanese names for you... I got a little go-happy with my list of "Japanese Names" I got from my Sailor Moon message board... Jikan senshi no hitori hagashii megumi- Time soldier and alone, violent goddess hitori no jikan senshi- Alone and time soldier Akanesasusora Ashi Alliance- Morning sky Evil Alliance Giheno Akutenshi- Evil angel of Deception Harino Yemon- Gate guardian of crystal

I love Akutenshi's name because it fits her personality. And I love stageing the outer royalty VS inner royalty fights. I love messing with Minerva and Ares's attitudes... It's always fun. I'm sorry this chapter took so long to get out but I've been sick and all... stay tuned for chapter four... I'm thinking out FINALLY making Setsuna presentable to be introduced to the Preventors and the Gundam pilots... YAYAY!!!! ~ Achicagoil