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This is my first GW fanfic so please be kind!

Gundam Wing: The Space Between…(Version 2.0)

Surprises (1/2)

Location: Preventers World Head Quarters.  Brussels, Belgium

Time: 22:45 Zulu; 23:45 Local

Date: Tuesday, April 17 A.C. 200

            A lone figure walked the near deserted halls of Preventer HQ (PHQ), casually observing the night shift, or 'Dog Watch' as its called, going about their business; returning the salutes given her, and just letting her mind as well as her feet wander.  With the bomb that was just dropped on her lap by a committee informant she needed to think.  Her aimless meandering apparently wasn't so aimless for she found herself at the open outer office door of one Captain Heero Yuy.  Peering inside she found that his secretary had gone home lone ago and his office door was open, spilling light into the darkened outer office.  Stepping up his doorframe and looking in she sees that he's typing at his (take a wild guess) laptop; she took time to get a good look at her former adversary, whom she now considered a good friend.  Clad in the summer office whites, his once unruly hair, now somewhat tamed, stands out in stark contrast; he's grown in the last four years to a respectable height of 5'11" and he's filled out to around 195 lb.  But the most remarkable changes were in his personality, he was still a bit standoffish around people he didn't know that well, but people that knew him (i.e. the other pilots and their allies) he was more open.  The only exception was Relena…

Heero:  [still typing] You going to stand there all night staring or come in and tell me what you want...[stops typing turns toward door] Admiral Une? [Added almost as an after thought]

[The sound of his voice snaps her out of her reverie.  His voice is harsh but his Prussian blue eyes and features dance with barely hidden amusement.]

Une (VO): Straight and to the point. Glad some things never change. [Out loud]  Watch yourself Yuy, or I'll have you up on insubordination charges.

Heero:  And run the risk of having Duo as your chief of staff?  [Can't keep the grin off his face]  I think not!

Une: [shudders.] Point taken.

Heero: So, besides my sharp wit and good looks what brings you to my humble office?

Une moves to sit down in one of the two chairs in front of Heero's desk.  She looks a bit distressed.

Heero seeing this moves around his desk and sits in the other chair.

Une: I don't know how to tell you this but I have just received word that the Foreign Minister is going to put forth legislation outlining educational standards for the military and the Preventers being a quasi-military force….

Heero: We'll be subject to it. (Beat, shakes head) She is really beginning to grate my nerves.

Une: It's also retroactive, which means that any one that doesn't meet the standards, one of which is a high school diploma, will be discharged from their respective service.

Heero: There is some leeway in that? [Pause] What if said officers were going to school would they be discharged?

 Une: To answer your first question; there is, and the second, if they are going to school they would be put on inactive reserve status until the requirements are met. Oh but it gets better; she is offering to allow any officers, NCOs and commissioned, entry to the Sanq Academy free of charge. [Has an 'isn't that special' look on her face] 

Heero: Let me get this straight: she is backing legislation, that is clearly aimed at getting myself, the other gundam pilots and various other people under our command kicked out of the Preventers.  Sent to her hippie-tree-hugging-give-peace-a-chance-chanting frilly pink-wearing-I-love-you-you-love-me Academy, so she can try to brainwash us with her pacifism crap? {All in one breath}

Une: That's about it in a nutshell.

Heero: Like hell (reaches across desk, picks up phone dials a number) Wake up Grey, this is Heero…yeah I know what time it is (winces, holds phone away from ear) …….you kiss Hilde with that mouth… (looks at Une, winks continue talking) anyway I've got a job for ya……….

{Fade to Black}

{Title sequence, teasers for upcoming episodes (not in order) along with opening credits}

{BGM The Space Between by Dave Matthews Band}ßplays through

Panning view of the interior of the Operations Center with Catherine Bloom, in Summer Whites, sitting in the command chair.

Heero, at home, sitting on his couch typing on his laptop as Cathy comes up behind him and wraps her arms around his shoulders.

Heero, Cathy and the gang, clad in black, in a firefight, all with matching feral grins

Duo storming out of Heero's office, after he leaves Heero turns to a shadowed corner and raises an eyebrow in a silent question at the figure that steps out.

The President of the ESUN speaking at a press conference with Heero, Lady Une and Relena sitting next to each other in the background, all with varying degrees of boredom on their faces

 

Wide shot of all the primary Preventers gathered around Lady Une's office desk: Lady Une seated in the center, Heero perched on her side of the desk to her right with Cathy at his elbow; Grey and Wufei, standing at parade rest, to her right.   Duo standing to Une's left. Trowa and Quatre are both seated in the chairs in front of her desk but are turned to face the camera.

Face shot of Heero that zooms in on one of his eyes and then transitions to a star field.

Were the title of the fic is superimposed into the shot.

Heero: (VO) Surprises (part 1)

{Cut to Heero's office}

Location: Preventers World Head Quarters.  Brussels, Belgium

              17th Floor, Office of Captain Heero Yuy

Time:      09:25 Zulu; 10:25 Local

Date:      Wednesday, April 18 A.C. 200

            Captain Yuy sat at his desk completely engrossed in the report in front of him. Within it held the unabridged version of the legislation that Relena was going to present to Congress within days.  Seated bonelessly in one of the chairs in front of the desk is Commander Jon 'Grey' Greyson, a tall African-American with gray eyes that's about the same age as Heero and commander of the Intelligence Division, a sub-department of the Intelligence/Security Division which Heero heads up, 

Heero: Are you sure that this is the only other copy?

Grey (tiredly): Yeah, [yawns, removes glasses, rubs eyes, and replaces glasses] I searched both her offices in the Admin. building and the one in her house including her computers and backups, hell I even tossed her room while she was sleeping.  That my friend, [pointing to the thick folder on Heero's desk] is it.  Not a bad six hours work, if I say so myself, considering I had little prep time, no prior warning and about three hours sleep.

Hearing Grey's voice Heero glances up at him closing the file.

Heero: Sorry I had to drag you outta bed last night, but I can barely go anywhere without one or more of  'her' spies following me. And that would have tipped her off that we were on to 'her'.

Grey: I know, remember that one Op in Rio?

Heero: [groan] Hey, I didn't know he was one of  'hers', I thought that he was one of them.

Grey: And if you did know he was one of 'hers'?

Heero: [evil grin] I would have still aimed for his head.  Anyway, [looks at watch] we have the mid-week briefing to get to.

Location: Preventers World Head Quarters.  Brussels, Belgium

              17th Floor, Conference Room #1

Time:      09:30 Zulu; 10:30 Local

Date:      Wednesday, April 18 A.C. 200

On average there are three staff meetings per week at the Preventers; one on Monday, to bring them up to speed on events that happened over the weekend, another on Wednesday, a progress report of sorts and the Friday meeting was more of an end-of-week wrap-up.  At this meeting, however, the subject was not only how combat the latest terrorist threat, but also how to get over on the Minister's latest scheme.

This conference room is one of six on this floor but it's the only one that over looks the Operations Center.

Seated at the head of the conference table is the Director of the Preventers, Vice Admiral Rebekah Une seated to her right, the Intelligence/Security Division (ISD) Division Chief, Captain Heero Yuy. The next two on his right, Commanders Wufei Chang and Jon 'Grey' Greyson, Section Chiefs for the Security and Intelligence Sections respectively.  To Greyson's right a space for his wife Lieutenant Commander Hilde Schbeiker, head of R&D, who was late as usual. (SM5: I'll explain later) To Une's left Captain Quatre R. Winner head of the Violent Crimes Unit (VCU) followed by Captain Duo Maxwell, Division Chief for the Preventer Drug Enforcement Directorate  (PDED) and Captain Trowa Barton, Counter-Terrorism Division (CTD) Division Chief.

Une: Okay people before we begin I'm sure that by now you've heard the scuttlebutt.  The Minster apparently has a new hair up her ass and is again trying to get you.

Duo: [grinning] I'm tellin' ya Heero all you have to do it beat it up one good time and she'll never bother us again.

Quatre: [shuddering] I've heard of taking one for the team but that's going a bit too far.

Heero (dryly): [raises eyebrows] I'd rather slam it in a car door than subject it to that type of torture. (Under his breath) Again.

Une:[slightly wide eyed at that last comment] Anyway, Instead of boring you with the details I'll give you the Heero Yuy version: she is backing legislation, that is clearly aimed at getting yourselves and various other people under my command kicked out of the Preventers.  Sent to her hippie-tree-hugging-give-peace-a-chance-chanting -I-love-you-you-love-me Academy, where she will try to brainwash you with her pacifism crap. [to Heero] Did I miss anything?

Heero: You forgot the frilly pink wearing part, but other than that that s'about it.  What? [At the looks he was getting] I was working late last night and she came by my office and told me about the bomb that was dropped on her lap and proceeded to drop it on mine, luckily, I'm used to defusing bombs. 

Duo: So fearless leader, are you going to tell us about your master plan or are you gonna leave us hanging?

Heero: Its simple: we go to school.

All: [except Heero, Grey and Une] WHAT? [Followed by colorful profanity ranging from his 'obvious' insanity to the Minister's questionable sexual orientation and her choice in …accessories]

Grey: (with mock disgust) Duo that was uncalled for! The minister does not use a vibrator with a weed-eater engine!

Quatre: He's right; it's a big block Chevy V-8…did I just say that?

Trowa:...

Duo:….

Wufei:….

Une: …

Grey: …

Heero: [recovering](chuckling) You've been hanging around us for far too long, at any rate, before I was so rudely interrupted I was about to say we go to school elsewhere.

Trowa: Where?

Heero: There are some prospects but I need to do a little more digging before I present y'all with anything concrete.

Trowa: [to Duo]: translation: he's gonna get his 'phantom aide' to do it.

Duo: Yeah, how come we never see this aide of his?

Une: Now that we've gotten that out of the way on to…

At that moment Hilde decided to enter.  Her hover chair not making a sound as she glided across the floor to her usual space. (AN: I'll explain that later also just go with it!)

Grey: You're late.

Hilde: Hey! It's not like HQ is real handicap friendly! [There was a momentary pause as her chair shifted from it's 'standing' position to the 'sitting' position] Besides, I like to make an entrance.

Une: You're just in time, we were about to go over 'Operation Fox-Hunt'. Heero?

Heero: Right.

[Heero gets out of his seat and moves to a control panel on the wall behind Lady Une and punches in a code. Then turns as the four wall sections behind Grey, Wufei, and Hilde slide into the floor revealing a railing and four panels of angled glass separating the conference room and the Operations Center or just Op Cent.  There are three tiers in Op Cent. On the uppermost tier, just below conference room one, behind a row of computers is where the mission specialists are stationed; three from each division. Behind them and on a raised dais, sits the Mission Commander. There are steps on either side of the row of computers that lead to the next tier, which is occupied mainly by COSCOM (Corp Support Command, logistics). This tier has three sets of stairs two on opposite sides of the room leading to the lowest level and a center one that halves the COSCOM tier that leads to the communications platform. On the lower level, on either side of the comm platform, are the Ops technician stations. At the front of this massive room there are three huge monitors, one large monitor flanked on either side by two smaller ones. All three are currently displaying a rotating 3D image of the Preventers seal.]

Heero: As you all are painfully aware, there is a new administration and they want to make an impression during their fist few months in office. So they have tasked us to and I quote 'Identify and remove the major threats to the ESUN'

Grey: Translation: we made a ton of promises to get here and now we're screwed coz now we have to make good on em, could ya bail our nuts out the fire?

Heero: Basically, Yeah. However we can use this to our advantage.

Quatre: How?

 Heero: Well, the former administration, for whatever reasons, would not allow us to actively go after certain individuals or groups that have made life (bt) difficult. Now we have free reign to do so. That means…

Duo: We can finally take down a few of those drug lords and their cartels… permanently.

Trowa: As well as some of the more violent and extreme terrorist cells.

Grey: Not to mention a few individuals that has made life in the intel world miserable. Eh Chang? (Evil grin)

Wufei: (matching grin) I could think of a few.

Heero: Since we are all in agreement, let's go through the targets..

Duo: hey! How do you know which ones we want?

Heero: Well for one, I'm the ISD chief it's my job to know and for two I've been listening to you guys moan about them for past three months. 

Duo: Oh

Heero: My 'phantom aid' as Trowa put it, has complied the profiles for the three drug cartels, five terrorist cells and four individuals on our hit list into a presentation and is down in Op Cent waiting to run it.

Turning to a console attached to the railing and presses a button presumably an intercom.

Heero: Cathy, proceed when ready.

Cathy: Aye, sir.

End Part 1

I feel I need to explain some stuff. In my little world the Preventers are sort of a combination of the FBI, CIA, BATF, NSA (for those that don't know that's the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the National Security Agency) and the US Marshals. They are also organized as such. However, they retain the Navy ranking system for officers i.e. Captain, Admiral, Commander and so forth and the Navy standard rating system for Enlisted personnel [The use of the word "rank" for Navy enlisted personnel is incorrect. The term is "rate." The rating badge is a combination of rate (pay grade as indicated by the chevrons) and rating (occupational specialty as indicated by the symbol just above the chevrons] i.e. Master Chief Petty Officer, Petty Officer, you get the picture. I will be mixing and matching them for example: Heero is a Captain; Division Chief, and Chief Deputy Director (he's the second in command of the whole Preventers outfit.) So his title could be Division Chief Yuy, Chief Deputy Director Yuy, or just Captain Yuy.

Also this will be mainly dialogue driven, oh there will be action, a little humor but mostly dialogue.

Thanx for reading now review! And please if you don't like it tell me why, don't just say it sucks tell me why it sucks. 

SM5