GRACE
by Chococat101

Chapter 3

"GunDam? Did you say GUNDAM? You mean A GUNDAM?" Duo stared at her wide-eyed.
Grace nodded.
Duo looked at her in awe, "That's amazing!"
"It is pretty cool isn't it," Grace smiled.
"But still, how old were you when... ya know... your colony was destroyed?" Duo asked.
"Twelve," Grace answered simply and looked down, "I tried to save them with Silence, but my GunDam was hit and then I lost my memory for a few days and was just drifting of into space when computer activated and woke me up."
"You lost your memory?" Duo looked at her sympathetically.
"Please don't look at me like that, I hate it so much," Grace looked away.
"Right sorry," Duo looked away then back at her, "But even so, how'd you keep it a secret? Did you fight? I never saw you or anything. That must be some pretty awesome GunDam if you did battle."
"Once I did get my full memory back of everything... the war was over... or at least until Marimaya stepped in. I was tempted to fight then too, but Computer insisted I stay away from war and only step in when there was no other choice."
"How'd you know about Marimaya?" Duo asked surprised.
"I dunno, stray frequencies I picked up in Silence and my Space Craft."
"That's amazing, then there's so many things I have to teach you and show you... and I have to see your GunDam!"
"Are you a GunDam fan too?" Grace asked.
"More than you can imagine," Duo grinned.
Grace didn't quite understand, but smiled faintly anyway.
"So... now that you know about me, um... what about you?" Grace asked with her cheeks turning pink, "I mean, how do you know my Uncle Howard?"
"I fought in the war," Duo said simply, "he helped me out."
"You... fought?" Grace looked at him surprised as they headed back to the garage.
"Yep," Duo nodded, "Deathscythe just happens to be my favorite GunDam too."
"Really?" Grace looked up at him with innocent excitement.
"Yeah, but the pilot is really the best," Duo started folding his arms behind his head, "He has real potential."
"I guess," Grace replied looking at the sky, then broke out into a wide smile, "but he'd never be able to beat Silence."
"How'dya figure that?" Duo looked at her from the corner of his eye a bit angry.
"Because," Grace started sticking her hands in her pocket as if she were bored, "Silence is not only made up of data I got on Deathscythe, but it has a Zero System and data from every other GunDam."
Duo looked at her interested, "How'dya get that?"
Grace smiled up at him, "That's for me to know and for you to find out."
Duo looked down at her then looked ahead putting his arms down, "So, what else do you think of Shinigami?"
"Shini..." She looked at him the nodded, "oh yeah, at first I thought he would be like this to good to be true good looking guy with a brilliant mind. I mean, it seemed only a super strong genius could handle that baby."
Duo grinned, but it suddenly faded, "At first?"
"Yeah, turns out he's short little long-haired boy. Five two, I was twelve at the time and five two," Grace replied then quickly added, "Not that long hair's bad or anything."
Hey, I've grown eight inches since they last took my height, Duo thought bitterly, I'm five foot ten now.
"Hey Duo, this was fun," Graceturned around and Duo realized they were back at the garage, "maybe we can..."
Grace stopped and began to blush as Duo looked at her, "never mind."
"Hey," Duo called as Grace went into her ship, "wanna go out on a date sometime? I mean a real one?"
Grace jumped down from the ramp and hugged Duo tight, "I'd thought you'd never ask!"
"Tomorrow then," Duo asked trying to breath.
"Okie Dokie," Grace let go of Duo and he fell. As she looked down at him she said, "Gosh Duo, that was one of the weakest hugs I've ever given! You need to work out more."
"Thanks for the advice," Duo wheezed.
"TTFN," Grace waved going back into her ship, "Tah Tah For Now."

Early the next morning, before the sun was up Grace was awaken by a clunking noise.
"Huh?" Grace rubbed her eyes and there was a big smash. She was wide awake now as she grabbed her laptop and plugged into the wall, "Computer, scan for intruders... Computer?"
No use, the ship had been shut down.
Grace got dressed and grabbed her black handgun. Then she quietly crept downstairs following the loud noises. They led her to the boiler room.
"Take this dirt bag!" Grace shouted as she shot into the dark.
"Wait a minute! I'm the good guy here!" A figure in the dark yelled.
"Duo?" Grace stopped as Duo same out of the shadows in clear view, she raised her gun again, "WHAT are you doing here?"
"Howard saw a guy run into your ship and was worried about you, I was too so I went in after him," Duo whispered.
"Is he the one making all the noise?"
"Yep," Duo nodded.
"Well, I really hate being waken from my BEAUTY SLEEP!" Grace shouted knocking down the door and shouting blankly into the darkness.
There was an eerie silence then a dark figure ran out and slapped Grace's chest as he ran past.
"Argh! BASTARD!!!" Grace shouted, covering her chest with one arm and shot her gun with the other free arm.
Duo flipped out his pistol and ran after the guy shooting.
Grace checked the room to make sure no one else was there, she noticed that parts were missing.
"THAT BASTARD'S GONNA FRY!!!" Grace yelled running after Duo and the intruder.
Duo was outside shooting at the figure, but it was no use, he was running in zig-zags.
"TAKE THIS SCUM!" Grace shouted after breaking a glass case next to her door and aiming a giant machine gun at the intruder.
BRRRRRRRRAT he was down.
Grace and Duo ran over to him and looked down at him. He was a built dishwater blonde with black camoflague on his cheaks, a black headband tied around his mushroom cut head, and black clothes.
"He stole my stuff the asshole," Grace grabbed the bag the intruder was holding, "and he touched my chest the dirty bastard."
"Well, it is pretty hard to miss," Duo joked in spite of everything.
Grace scowled at him viciously.
"But still," Duo cleared his throat, "it was wrong and he got what..."
That's when the intruder rolled to his feet, round house kicked Duo in the face grabbed the bag from Grace and then pulled her closer by wrapping his arm around her waste.
"Hey baby..." he grinned, but stopped when Grace put her handgun right at his forehead.
He dodged her bullets Matrix style, then unleashed a smoke bomb.
"*cough*, *cough*" Grace passed out on the ground, "gas... bomb..."

"Ah," Miliardo laid back in his hamick, "FINALLY! Some rest and relaxation. Little did he know someone was creeping behind him with a giant club and an equally huge sack.

"She's coming to," A voice said as Grace blinked to see Duo, Heero, Howard, and three other guys looking down at her.
"What... what happened?" She asked weakly.
"Stupid woman," One with slicked back black hair muttered and began swearing in Chinese.
"You were knocked out for quite a while," A young blonde said with a smile that made Grace feel a lot better.
"What's going on?" she asked and then again, "What's happened?"
"A man named Hawk stole parts from your ship--which Howard and I rapaired-- he's kinda a pervert bent on taking over the universe..."
"Kinda a pervert?" Grace mumbled.
"He's already captured Miliardo Peacecraft and is now in control of all the old Oz Mobile Suits that he highjacked from the history museums and repaired with the parts he took from you." Duo finished explaining.
"So he's got a few cheesy mobile dolls, Deathscythe can take out them like there's no tomorrow!" Grace sat up real quick in her bed.
"She dellusional," Heero said in undertone.
"Silence of Death can help too! And if you're a GunDam pilot, you must no where the others are!" Grace told Duo.
"Well, they shouldn't be too hard to find," Duo grinned at Heero, but then frowned, "There's just one little problem..."
Duo explained the fact that every GunDam had been destroyed except for Wing Zero and Nataku.
"You...you...destroyed them?" Grace's eyes filled with tears then she became angry, "You say it was to maintain the peace, you say it was because you wouldn't need'em anymore and yet there you go leaving out all those mobile dolls for that pervert to snatch!"
"And it's a good thing we didn't put them in a museum our else they would've got stolen as well," Trowa noted.
"Well..." Grace stopped and looked at them all, "you're all GunDam pilots?"
"How long did it take you to figure that out," Wufei crossed his arms.
Grace's eyes rolled back into her head as she passed out again.
"Maybe we should've told her," Quatre looked at her.
"Nah," Heero said, "she would've passed out sooner."

Miliardo had managed to get that nasty sweaty sock out of his mouth as he finally reached the light switch. "H...E...L...P..." He continued to flick in morse code, "H...E...L...P..."
I still have that disgusting taste of feet in my mouth, I can't wait to pund this guy, he thought angrily.

"In more recent news, Hawk Pevetee is still on the lose," the news said as Grace went into the living quarters with little gravity surrounding her due to the fact they had lifted into space.
Everyone looked at her as she pour her self a milk.
She turned around and looked at all of them, "What?"
"So..." Duo tried to think of something, "you have a GunDam?"
"Yeah," Grace raised her eyebrows looking at them all like they were mental.
"Okay, I've got a lock on our target," Heero said from the computer, "he's on the next colony."
"Cool! How'd you do that?" Grace stood beside Heero and bent down a little so she could see.
Heero turned red after "accidentally" taking a glance down her shirt, "Umm..."
"Well?" She stood up.
"I uh... did stuff..." he tried to eplain.
"Stuff?" Grace raised one brow puzzled.
"Yes... I took his face and..." Heero cleared his throat, "it's just all to hard to explain."
"Oh, well, okay then," Grace nodded. She looked over at Howard, "I'm gonna take a shower, then suit up, k Uncle H?"
"Sure Gracie," Howard nodded reading a newspaper.
She kissed him on the cheak and left.
Duo quite holding his breath, "God she's hot."
"I guess," Quatre shrugged.
"You're just saying that because you look both ways before crossing," Duo crossed.
Quatre turned red a bit angry.
"If Relena wasn't dogging me all the time I might just have a girl like her," Heero shut his laptop.
"Why do you waste your time idolizing those stupid women when we have more important things to worry about," Wufei slammed his fist on the table.
"Now you can't tell us you don't think she has the right curves Wufei," Duo smirked.
Wufei turned redder than any of them.
Howard put his paper down, "Now me and Grace might not be blood related, but she is still my Niece."
Duo turned red, "Oh sorry, forgot you were here Howard."
"I don't want you boys messing with her, you here me?" Howard started, "Gracie's a good girl, as you can see, she hasn't grown up with boys. She doesn't know... how we get."
Duo howled and began laughing then looked at Trowa, "Wassup wit u?"
"I was just wondering what she meant when she said she was going to suit up," Trowa replied and they all exchanged glances.

"H..." Miliardo clicked bored, "E...L...P...G...O...D...D...A...M...N...I...T... H...E...L...P...M...E...H...E...L...P...H...E...L...P..."

"I wonder why the lights of that house keep clicking on and off," Relena thought out loud after staring at the blinking lights for the past hour.
Sally, Noin, and the Hun Lady...I mean Un Lady... I mean Lady Un... looked up curiously.
Lady Un looked out the window, "H...E...L... it's a call for help!"
"Oh my!" Relena stood up.
"Now Relena, remember, your brother has been kidnapped, this could be a trap," Sally Poe stood in the way of the open door.
"Please, this has nothing to do with my brother, he doesn't know morse code." Relena crawled through Poe's legs and ran.
"But Relena! He does!" Noin shouted, "Come back Relena!"
All of them then ran after her, but Sally Poe lagged behind and peered through the window to suspect the mansion with the call for help. Then she saw four metal walls lift up from the ground and entrap Relena, Un, & Noin.
"Oh no! I've got to get help!" Sally Poe ran out the mansion.

"Hey! I found her!" Duo called as Grace stood infront of a plain metal wall right after her shower with a towel around her. Her hair was soaked and curly.
"MOBILE SUITE GEAR!" Grace shouted at the wall. Then before the GunDam pilots eyes Grace was entrapped in a metal liquid and sucked into the wall.
"AHHHHH!!!" Duo shouted, "The wall ate Grace!"
"Calm down Duo," Howard walked over to the wall as a little screen popped up with a pink side and blue side.
It had the shaded shape of Grace's outline in the pink side and on the blue side the skeleton of a GunDam spinning around. As little pointers pointed at certain parts of the GunDam skeleton parts of a grey suit that started from neck to ankle and the sleeves went right to the elbow on Grace's outline. Then the "flesh" of the GunDam showed up and wires ran over the grey suit, on her face, down her arms, legs, and feet. Then at last the shell of the GunDam showed up and a blue suit came up on Grace covering the whole gray suit with added blue tinted goggles. As Grace broke through the wall the screen disappeared.
All the GunDam pilots jaws dropped as they saw Grace.
"What?" She tilted her head making her now blow-dried long brown hair fall to the side, "Why are you always staring at me!?!"
"Blimey! I'm straight again!" Quatre exclaimed.
Him and Trowa exchanged glances and gained as much space from each other as they could.
"Whatever," Grace stuck her hand into the wall and pulled out her favorite outfit and slipped it on.
"W-why cover it up?" Duo came over and stroked her cheak as he placed his hand on the wall, "I love girls, even if they DO have wires going through them. Why I was saying just the other day, at this Mobile Suit..."
Before he could finish he was sucked up into the wall by the metal liquid.
"Tell me Uncle Howard," Grace looked over at Howard, "was he just acting like... how do you say it on Earth? A... pig?"
"Yep," Howard glared at the other GunDam pilots who quickly closed their mouths, "don't judge him by it though, some of the nicest guys on Earth are pigs, am I right boys?"
"Yessir," they slurred.
"Hormones, that's all Gracie," Howard smiled at Grace.
"Hey wow!" Grace looked at the screen that now had Duo and deathscythe on it, only now it was blinking in bold red letters that blinked "Mobile Suit Copying", "But that would mean..."
Grace ran excited to the end of the wall kickied it and out came a tube that looked like a clear version of the slides you see in McDonalds'.
The GunDam pilots took a look down it.
"Someone should go down there... you know... to make sure she's... okay..." Heero stuttered.
"Not me! It's dark!" Quatre looked down the tube.
Heero rubbed his hands together, "Dark, eh? Maybe I should go down there. Hope I haven't gotten rusty, what with being with that dumb blonde."
"Snap out of it man!" Trowa slapped Heero across the face several times.
"I love Relena...I love Relena...I love Relena...I love Relena..." Heero said paralyzed on the floor.
"Stupid weaklings, letting woman control their life," Wufei snorted.
"He goes," they all said in unison.
They all grabbed Wufei and flung him down the tube.
"INJUSTICE!" Wufei trailed as he slide down the tube.
"Maybe we shouldn't have done that you guys," Quatre looked down the pipe, "I mean, Wufei can get pretty violent when he's angry."
"Don't worry," Howard started, "Gracie will make sure he doesn't hurt himself."
"Will everyone just shut up and GET ME OUTTA HERE!" Duo shouted from the other side of the wall.