Gundam Wing: La Femmes

A Fanfic by Lady Lye

(c)2001

Battle Chapter: The Perfect Heart (Part One)
aka Chp 41

Rated for strong language on behalf of the characters. Remember- it's not the author w/ the potty mouth-it's her potty-mouthed characters.

Disclaimer: I do not own the whole GW thing... If I did I sure as h*ll wouldn't be here wasting my time writing fanfics about them- I'd be using them as my you-know-what slaves per my latest obsession. So don't try to sue me- it ain't worth it.

Note: rough translation for my rough use of Spanish can be found at the bottom of the chapter. This will include all previous phrases.

Here 'tis, what you've all been waiting for... ________________________________

Gundame: (pronunciation varies between gun-dum-eh and gun-dam-ay, but never gun-dame.) The mobile suits used by the five new girls. They are made of gundanium alloy but are coated with a newly developed substance making their shell even tougher than the gundams. Their pilots are known as the Dames.

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Andria woke to the familiar sounds of insects and the warm breeze blowing off the plains. She sighed and stretched, not wanting to open her eyes. She felt like a child again. It was the stretching that made her realize she was certainly NOT a child any longer. Reluctantly, she opened her eyes and sat up, brushing away her tangled copper hair. "Mmm… Sunshine…" She smiled out the window of her hotel room at the city and beyond it, the 'wild'. She grinned and jumped out of bed to get dressed. She paused only to open her laptop and send off a quick email before packing it and heading downstairs to the dining room for breakfast.

Heero looked up at her mildly as she entered. "'Catch you later, alligator'?" he swung his laptop around to show the email she had sent not five minutes ago.

"You got a problem with that?" she tried to keep it light, taking a seat halfway around the table.

"Did you really think you could leave here without me?" he took a sip from the mug by his plate.

"I can take care of myself," she bantered. "Have some orange juice, it's good for you."

"Hn."

"The world's greatest conversationalist, ladies and gentlemen."

"Hn."

They ate in silence for several minutes, Heero tapping away at his laptop. "What are you doing?"

"Getting the layout of the first base you were planning to hit."

"How do you know which one I was planning to hit first?"

"It was in the attachment with your email. I read the entire objective- I take it you thought a crocodile waving at me was amusing?"

Andria's cheeks turned pink. "Well it would have if you'd gotten up a little later… I was going to time the mission to when I heard your yell of frustration…"

He gave her a skeptical glare. She was like the dawn. Golden and bright, but with darkness delicately cloaking her to give her a mysterious air. No wonder he had gotten involved with her. "Ready to go?"

"What makes you think you're coming?!"

Heero held up her purse.

Andria gasped. "How did you-" she quickly picked up her bag and riffled through it. "How the hell did you get that?!"

"Experience," he gave it back to her. He sent up silent thanks to Duo for teaching him everything he knew. "I have experience penetrating bases like that. You'll need my help."

"Heero," Andria kept her eyes down, busying herself by putting away her purse. "How did you meet those other boys? How do you know Relena?"

Heero took a long time to answer. "War destroys things, but it also brings people together," he said carefully. "Come on. I'm going to need time to plant the bombs."

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All clear… She snuck the last five feet into the office and went immediately to the computer console there. Within moments she had bypassed the firewall and was in. "Let's see… Training regime… Food delivery… Ah, here we go." She copied over files containing data on the new MS to her disk. She surfed some more. "Jackpot…" she copied over their plans for the next six months.

Something in the hallway caught her attention. She stood, hand going to the gun at the small of her back. If she had to, she would kill.

"Whoever you are, you better say your prayers right now," a boy's voice came from the shadows of the hall. He stepped into the room and Andria frowned. He couldn't be more than thirteen. "Because in a few minutes, you won't be here anymore."

He wasn't in uniform. She could afford the risk. "What do you want?"

"Just to hack into the network over there. This base is going up in pieces in a few minutes anyway," the kid shrugged.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Andria neatly flipped out her disk. "I'm doing the same thing- see? Something tells me we aren't enemies."

The boy looked unimpressed. "How do I know you're an ally?"

"Luke? Luke what are you-?" a man's voice came from the hallway.

"Found us another rebel, just like us," the kid replied.

"What are you-" the man came into the room and froze.

Andria nearly dropped the disk. She backed up, banging into the table, eyes wide with shock. "Dagan?!"

"Andria?!"

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Heero turned to take a last look at the base. It was running so smoothly- soon it would be in chaos and flames. De ja vu swept over him. With it came the mask he had worn for so long… He shook his head to shake it off. Where was Andria?

"Heero!" She ran towards him, followed by two others- a man and a boy. Heero frowned. "Heero, you can't set it off yet! There are others inside there!"

"Andria, what's going on?" he caught her arm and she came panting to his side.

"Other rebels… still inside… my- my-"

"Andria, what is it?" he demanded.

"You can't blow it up yet," she said defiantly, looking him in the eye. "The Princess is in there."

For a moment, an image of Relena flashed through his mind. But shouts from the base, caught their attention. Several people ran for all they were worth from the base. MS were already mobilizing to give chase.

"I don't know where your bombs are placed," the man spoke for the first time. Heero had forgotten his presence. "But it's all clear with me to blow it up." He held up a detonation device.

Heero studied the man's face. "Likewise." They pushed the buttons at the same time. The base erupted in patches- then all at once was engulfed in flames. The people fleeing the base came to join the two who had followed Andria.

"Heero," she said quietly.

"Who are they?"

Andria swallowed. "I want you to meet my brother- Dagan Ntengi. Dagan," she called the man's attention away from his comrades. "This is my- friend- Heero Yuy."

"It's good to meet you- Heero," Dagan held out his hand. Both men sized each other up.

Heero could see the similarities. The same jaw line and those green eyes. He wondered briefly if those eyes also spit fire the way Andria's did. The hair was darker and duller than Andria's flamey locks. "Good to meet you as well."

Andria bit her lip, looking from one to the other. Finally she turned to Dagan. "What are you doing here? I thought you were dead."

"That's what we thought about you," tears filled the tall man's eyes and he wrapped her into a large hug. "I thought I'd never see you again…"

Andria found herself crying as well. "Dagan…"

"Dagan?" A woman's voice said. Heero turned to find a tall woman who appeared to be a cross of Indian and African bloods. "Who is this?"

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