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Readers Note: This is a re-post. Also this contains major spoilers for Trigun, so if you haven't seen the whole series I wouldn't recommend reading this.

Gundam Wing & Trigun

Trigundam

Episode 4: Dance and Duo's Punisher

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On colony X-18999, Id the Lion was preparing his Gundam Epyon for the oncoming battle over the horizon. Or rather that was coming through the depths of space, he felt the anxiety turn within his stomach. Though his instincts as a solider told him that he had to suppress these feelings otherwise they would cloud his thinking for the battle. He stood at the one of the legs of the Gundam Epyon but suddenly he felt something coming. He sidestepped and there beside him nearly at breathing distance was Dominique the Cyclops.

"You're good." She whispered, "If you were any other man you would have been killed at least six times over."

Id smiled as evil as Knives, "Though you're just a tad bit careless." He said as he looked at Dominique's brown eyes with his crimson iris eyes, "By now I could have grouped you at 7 times and copped a feel."

Suddenly Dominique looked down and saw the buttons fly off of her dress shits, her pants unzipped, and her bra unclipped at the front as he breasts were nearly about to burst out. Yet it didn't stop there, her coat and hat were pushed off and then her shirt seemed to be pulled off by an invisible man and her panties passed her unzipped pants were pushed down.

She was surprised by what had occurred, she dove for her coat and covered up. She knelt down to the ground with her coat covering her like some kind of refugee. She looked up at Id and he smiled while he bared his teeth that showed his K-9's. Yet Dominique smiled too and then relaxed under her coat and lay in a very sexy manner for Id.

"Don't you want to do that a little slower next time?" she asked as she winked

Id's face went straight and serious as a lawyer, "Not now." He said as he went back to looking at his Gundam again.

Dominique moaned very seductively, "You're not much fun. Why can't we have a little fun once and a while?" She asked as she got up.

She didn't cover herself, she stood, bra still clinging onto her and her pants still hugging her hips. She stepped over to Id and wrapped her arms around his waist as her breasts pushed against his back. Yet Id still kept working. The two of them knew each other for only a few days. Yet when Dominique laid eye upon this pilot, this mere human she fell in love with him at first sight. Even if she blinked twice and looked again she was still in love with him. Yet for the past few days, Id has been a nonstop working machine. Dominique only wished that he did that with her.

"Can't you take a break for a while. Everything is done, I think we can have time for each other."

Id gave up what he was working on, since the Epyon was still in good working order. It was definitely ready for battle, he was simply looking for an excuse to not get involved with Dominique. Still, he too was infected by love at first sight for this Gung-Ho Gun of a woman. He turned around and hugged her; her clothes still suffered the after effects of Id's incredible speed. The two of them looked into one another and they lay their lips upon each other's.

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Back on Peace Million, dinner was ready so Johan was gathering the guests to bring them to the dinning hall. He was walking down the hall with Haruka Tenou with their arms wrapped in each other while he carried a cross covered in a black cloth and Wolfwood was behind them finishing up the last of the Jack Daniels with his Cross-Punisher over his shoulder.

They came to the door of the Insurance girls (as Vash called them sometimes). He knocked and the door opened, there stood Millie Thompson.

"Oh it's you Mr. Johan." She smiled so well that it stretched from ear to ear

"I'm here to tell you that dinner's ready. Follow me to the dinning hall."

"Sure." Millie smiled and called, "Meryl. Dinner's ready."
Meryl's voice rang out as if it came from the bottom of a well, "I'm coming."

"I'll get Vash." Johan said as he walked over to Vash's room as Haruka and Wolfwood stood in waiting for Millie and Meryl.

Johan knocked, "Vash." He called, "Vash, dinners ready."

Suddenly he heard Vash shout and yelp as if he had been hit by hot water.

Johan opened the door, laid the black covered cross beside the door and walked in.
It was in that room that Johan saw something that would be in a category of his mind. It was the category of what are the worst things he had ever seen in his life. This moment in time was one of those events. He saw Vash, but he saw Vash in a different way. Vash wasn't wearing his coat; he looked as it he stepped out of the shower. But he wasn't naked; he was wearing a pair of gray pants almost like jogging pants. Though that wasn't what caught Johan's attention for this event to be put in the category of the worst things he seen.

He saw Vash's upper body; he saw it covered in scars. The scars were up and down all over his body. He had one in his right side that looked as if he had been nearly eaten alive by a shark. Another on his left peck that was covered by a metal grid that had nails driven into his body to hold this metal grid down, another scar on his right peck that looked like an irregular crater on his body. He had another scar that ran over his shoulder and towards the center of his chest that looked as if someone had tried to cut him with a dull knife. Up and down his right-arm were scars of various shapes and sizes but his left arm was metallic. It suddenly occurred to Johan that Vash's left arm was prosthetic, though when he first saw him that left arm of his was real enough to be as convincing as the real thing.

All of this observation only took a few seconds, yet Johan was acting calmly as if he was on his way to get a hair cut.

Vash and Johan looked at each other, eye to eye, for what must have been at least a half a minute.

"Dinner's ready Vash." Johan said trying not to flinch at the sight of all these scars across Vash's body. If his upper body is like this, he thought, then the rest of him must be like this.

"I'll be right out." Vash said

Johan walked out of the room in a slight daze.

"My god." He thought, "I feel sorry for the guy."

He walked out and leaned against the wall where the black cloth covered cross was laid. He thought to himself that the medical technology must have been pretty crude in his world. He thought to himself that if he took Vash to see the doctor on this ship they might be able to help him or at least remove whatever metal objects have been inserted into his body.

Minutes later, Vash came out and down the hall a little bit was Wolfwood, Meryl, Millie and Haruka.

"Let's eat." Vash smiled

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In the dinning hall the groups have met for this dinner that has been promised for 3 hours. The first ones to arrive were the Desbats senior staff who had made the rendezvous along with some of Quatre's support troops; the Maquanate Corps. Though the only ones from the Desbats were Kazuki Peacecraft (who has come to be known as Kazuki the Shark), Slayzer, and Laramie. Though the only reason Gandor wasn't there at this banquette was that the office of Preventer under the charge of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and kidnapping arrested Gandor. Though the rest of the Desbats merely got probation for Piracy since it was Gandor who was running the show.

Along with these few members of the Desbats was Vice Foreign Minister Relena Dorlin. She went to the Eldridge shortly after she had heard that there was another Peacecraft. She had to meet him for herself. She was just catching up with another family member though when she heard the news of another tear she wanted to come along with the Desbats main staff. Maybe she felt that she could meet the Sailor Senshi who came through a similar tear. Perhaps it's because of her duty as a Vice Foreign Minister to meet new people from different places.

These groups sat at the extra long table covered in plates, decorations, and candle sticks even though they weren't necessary since there was adequate lighting in the dinning hall. They sat waiting for the others to arrive as well as the hosts of this banquet.

The wait wasn't long, the Gundams as well as the Peace Guns entered the dinning hall. The Gundams entered in clumps of two or three through the wide doors of the dinning hall.

When Wolfwood and Johan entered they both laid their crosses on the wall, but Wolfwood was carrying a black bag to the table. And behind them the rest of the Gundams came in, Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton, Wufei Chang, Miliardo Peacecraft, Alexandria DeLarge, and Duo Maxwell. Though when Quatre entered the room, the Maquanate's stood and bowed in saying, "Master Quatre."

Meryl heard this and looked at Quatre who smiled at the ones who bowed, "Master Quatre?" She thought to herself, "How can that boy be their master?"

She decided to save this question for the table so she as well as the Peace Guns and the Gundams and took their seats except Relena she still stood.

"Allow me to introduce myself." She spoke to the Peace guns, "I am Vice Foreign Minister Relena Dorlin. I'd like to welcome you on behalf of the World Nation."

Vash smiled, "Thank you. I'll introduce myself", he stood tall and proud, "I am known as Vanantanese Alkanal Sushiro Hoherris Gan Bedovala Blue Starevary Antes Pere Anomitum Dustal Kaiser the Third. Don't hesitate to call me."

Relena looked at him surprised, either her ears never heard such a long name or she was in disbelief.

Millie laughed, "There you go again Mr. Vash the Stampede."

Vash made another odd face, "Why do you have to call me by my full name?!" he cried
"Vash the Stampede?" Relena asked, "That's a nice name."

"You really don't know what this man's been through." Meryl said to Relena

"What has this man been through, miss?"

"It's a long story, I'll explain later. But for now I'll introduce myself, I'm Meryl Strife from the Bernardelli Insurance Society, but I'm also known as Derringer Meryl." She gestured to Millie, "This is my partner Millie Thompson though she's known as Stun Gun Millie."

Relena smiled, "You really are…" She paused, "An interesting group."

Heero looked this over and thought to himself, "I'd like to see this group fight."

Wufei was thinking the same thing, though he wasn't thinking about Meryl or Millie, he was wondering about Vash and Wolfwood. Since he felt that the women he saw looked too weak to be gun fighters. But of course that's his typical attitude towards women.

Wolfwood introduced himself to the new people he saw around the table, "I'm Nicholas D. Wolfwood, at your service." He smiled

"What service do you do, Mr. Wolfwood?" Relena asked

"I'm a man of the cloth. I'm a priest, helping the lambs that have strayed off their path and a soldier of love."

Wufei scoffed, "Soldier of love."

Wolfwood heard this insult, in that instant he just wanted to run over to his Cross-Punisher and whip out one of his guns and hold it to this kids head and see how that attitude of his holds up under gun point. Though Wolfwood thought back to the children of the December Orphanage and the kid who insulted him was just that, a kid. So he simply calmed himself with that feeling of anger deep within him.

He sat down with the others at this little gathering, now the feast and talk would begin.

Vash looked over at Johan who was down a few seats from him and across the table from him was his wife, Haruka Tenou. The two of them looked at each other with some love for each other that it made Vash think of his best phrase, this world is made of love and peace. This was the best example of it.

"You're married." Vash stated to Johan

Vash's statement drew a few heads, but when Johan looked at him he knew that he was referring to him.

"Yes I am Vash." Johan stated holding up his ring hand

"How did you two meet?"

Johan smiled, "Well, that's a long story but I'll make it short. Back in the days of the oppressive organization known as OZ, I was on earth fighting the oppressive forces there. While on my home colony was my first fiancé, Amara Yuki. I made a promise to her that I'd come home alive. Though while I was away she was killed by Oz, I was heart broken."

"That's just awful." Vash said with tears in his eyes and that same mournful look

"Yes it was." Johan responded, "I was heartbroken, I fled."

"That's right." Duo backed up from a few seats over from Johan, "He didn't fight that well in the last battle he had before he fled. But I knew for some reason I'd see him again, because the guy's a Gundam pilot."

"True." Johan continued, "In this state of mourning I landed my mobile suit in the middle of somewhere. I sat thinking and I thought to myself that I couldn't fight anymore. I didn't have the reason to; Amara was the thing that kept me going. I knew that if I lived I could see her again. Now I couldn't, but that was when I met Haruka."

Johan looked over at the table at Haruka who smiled in the sexiest of ways.

"She took me in, a stranger with a Gundam mobile suit. Though she could see the sadness in my eyes but she gave me a reason to fight again. That is what helped me get back on my feet and fight once again. Sometime later I asked her to marry me."

Haruka finished, "And I said yes. There are a lot of things I like about Johan, he's wonderful, he's a great pilot like his friends, he's smart, funny." Then she whispered to the girls of the Peace Guns, "He's spectacular in bed."

"Haruka!" Johan exasperated

Haruka winked, "Well it's true. He was pretty good for his first time."

Meryl and Millie felt a little flustered at what they heard coming from a married woman.

"It's hard to believe," Wolfwood said, "that you two could be a married couple. Most couple's I've seen settle down a lot of the time. But you two seem to have kept going on with your lives as if you're not married."

"That is true." Haruka answered, "We both decided to work at Preventer but in different places. Because it has been proven that when married couples work in the same place and at the same time, there isn't a lot that's accomplished. So I head the engineering teams for the mobile suits and he flies them."

"Seems to be a pretty good life." Vash observed

"Yes." Quatre agreed, "But if there weren't people out there who would disturb our peace then we wouldn't be needed to stop it."

"It's a wonderful cause." Meryl complemented

The main course was served, stories between the Peace Guns, Gundams, Desbats, and the Maquanate's were shared about their pasts, old times and loves ones. The Peace Guns also shared their stories of how they got to where they are now and they were talking about their planet, a world with five moons and twin suns that scorch it's surface.

Suddenly something came up, and Haruka was the one to bring it up, "Wolfwood, you remember the proposition that was given a few hours ago?"

Wolfwood wiped his face from whatever he was eating, "Yeah. Johan here proposed to give us some of your technology to help make our world a better place to live."

Vash dropped his knife and fork onto his plate and smiled, "Really?"

"If you'd allow us." Johan explained, "We'd be willing to give you some of our knowledge on different things, agriculture, farming, etc. We have a policy at Preventer to not only put out small flames but help out those in need and I think you qualify."

"I think you're jumping to things a little too quickly." Meryl advised, "How do we know that your technology will work?"

"We've been working on a terra-forming project." Relena explained, "We're sure that what we know about it will help you a great deal, since you mentioned that your planet is such a harsh environment."

The Peace Guns looked at each other and each of them felt that this was an opportunity of a lifetime and they should use it.

"We appreciate your support." Vash explained, "We'll allow you to supply us with your technology."

Wolfwood looked over at Duo and saw something within the look of his eyes. His duty as a priest said that he should help.

"Duo." Wolfwood called

"Yeah?" He said

"I've noticed that there seems to be a sadness in your eyes. As a matter of fact I see it in the eyes of all you Gundam pilots. Each of you has a story of great woe; each of you lost something in that war you were talking about. Each of you are hurting like crazy on the inside though each of you bear it. At least that's this man's opinion. But I have something for this."

Wolfwood reached under the table and stood up with a black back in his hands. He set it down on the chair and opened it up. The first thing he pulled out was a black cat with yellowish eyes.

"How did that cat get in there?" Duo asked

"I don't know." Wolfwood said as he tossed the cat aside and pulled out a wooden church that looked like a model for some kind of model town. He walked over to Duo with it and laid the hollowed out wooden church on his head.

"What the hell is this?" Duo asked from within the wooden church on his head like a paper bag.

"It's a confessional." Wolfwood explained, "you know like those private rooms in churches. But this one's portable. You must have something to confess, go ahead, it's on the house."

Duo reached up and took off the portable confessional and handed it to Wolfwood, "No thanks father." He said, "I'd prefer to be the God of Death."

"Well, your no fun." Wolfwood moaned, "But hey, we've got a small present for you."

Duo looked at Wolfwood and had a puzzled look, "what do you mean?" He asked

"Look on that wall, you see that black covered cross?" Wolfwood asked, "that one will be yours, show him Johan."

Johan got up and went over to the wall and pulled up the black cloth cross. He brought it over to where Duo could see it in plain sight.

"This will be your Cross Punisher." Johan explained, "Very fitting for the God of Death."

"How does it work?" Duo asked getting up and looking at it.

"Like this." Johan demonstrated, he pulled off one strap and the belts came off and so did the cloth. It was revealed, the Cross-Punisher was like Wolfwood's except the metal had a black tinge to it as Johan held it by it's center trigger. As he did the long end opened to show a gattling.

"When you hold it like this, it's a gattling. Though you don't have to worry about bullets, it uses a system in which it shoots out bursts of energy like the buster rifle. But it'll need serious recharging when you run out of battery power. But that's not all."

He held up the cross as if he as going to plant it into the floor, but as he was about to, metal spikes and platforms extended from it's end almost like a tripod. Johan laid it down on the ground yet the Cross-Punisher didn't tip thanks to the tripod like struts coming from the long end of the cross. But as it sat there, the horizontal part opened up to show ten .45 millimeter handguns. Johan reached in and pulled one out and the gun itself was black except for the ivory handle that was screwed on. Johan showed it to Duo.

"It also holds these hand guns in it's horizontal bar. But wait there's one more thing."

He set the gun back into the horizontal bar and the compartments closed. Johan reached into the center control of the cross and the top end opened to reveal an oddly thin piece of metal sticking upward. The metal itself looked connected to the cross, how was still a mystery. Though it was about as thick as a TV remote control. Johan reached in and pulled it out like Arthur in The Sword in the Stone. As he did, the metal extended outward but one end of it looked like the blade emitter for DeathScythe beam scythe. And it was, from that emitter end came out a beam of green light in a curve like the curved blade. This was the part that Johan was working on, a hand held beam scythe for Duo Maxwell. Now Duo had the full package.

"You like it Duo?" Johan asked,

"Damn." Duo smiled, "I like it."

"I made it out of Gundanium so it would be light for you. Here try it out."

He placed the beam scythe back into the Cross-Punisher and the top closed up as Duo was about to take up his gift. He lifted it with a slight grunt though he did have it up to that position for the gattling.

Johan went onto explain something else, "The beam scythe runs on the same principle as our mobile suits. When it's in the Cross-Punisher it recharges its battery power. Though yours is a scythe mine's a little different."

"Yours?" Duo asked

Johan reached under his white trench coat and pulled out the same metal cylinder he was working on and pressed the red button. And from one end of it came a green beam, he watched the beam with content while those at the table looked at it with amazement.

"It's a brilliant design, Johan." Trowa complemented, "The Cross-Punisher is like a compact version of my Heavyarms, guns in each end of the cross with a beam scythe in the top. And you've constructed a beam saber for yourself."

"It just occurred to me that if our suits can have these weapons, why can't we?" Johan reasoned, "Well, how do you like it so far Duo?"

"This thing's a little heavy." Duo reported

Wolfwood walked over and placed his hand on Duo's shoulder, "Of course it's heavy. That's because it's so full of mercy."

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After the Cross-Punisher was given to Duo, the assembled parties adjourned to a little desert. As they were eating on the amounts of ice cream, delicate cakes and of course (Vash's favorite) doughnuts. Vash sat and ate the doughnuts like a "starved hog in heat" as Meryl once put it.

As they were eating a thought came to one of the Gundams, this thought happened to be Quatre he stood up and said.

"Who feels like dancing?" He asked

A few turned their heads, as well as Haruka and Johan, the two of them looked at each other then looked at Quatre, who then went over to the juke box. He flipped through the selections on the jukebox menu and suddenly a song title caught his eye. He looked at its number and then pushed in the selection. He watched impatiently as the curved arm reached for the CD and began to play the selected song. It started with an introduction of piano music.

Johan and Haruka recognized it immediately and smiled at each other and they knew what to do. They rose and took to the open space where the dance floor lay. They walked hand in hand until they came to the open floor; they wrapped each other's arms around each other and began to dance a waltz to the song as its lyrics began. The song was called "Everything I do, I do it for you" by Bryan Adams.

Look into my eyes, you will see

What you mean to me

Search your heart

Search your soul

And when you find me there,

You'll search no more

Don't tell me, it's not worth trying for

You can't tell me, it's worth dying for

You know it's true

Everything I do, I do it for you.

As the song progressed, other couples began to join in. The first one to approach was Alexandria DeLarge. She set her sights on the one that she had a great attraction for, and that was Duo Maxwell. She walked up and stepped up to him.

"Would you care to dance, Duo?" She asked

Duo looked up at her, he smiled and said, "sure."

The two of them walked to the floor and began to dance in each other's arms (even though Duo took a few missteps) as the next lyrics began.

Look into your heart

You will find, there's nothing there to hide

Take me as I am, take my life

I would give it all,

I would sacrifice

Don't tell me it's worth fighting for

I can't help it; there's nothing I want more

You know it's true, Everything I do

I do it for you.

The song continued, and the next one to go was Millie, she walked up to Wolfwood who was staring at the two couples dancing. She came up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. He looked at her with his dark eyes and stubble face.

"What is it, honey?" He asked smiling

"Would you like to dance, dear?" Millie asked with a smile that stretched from ear to ear.

"Sure."

The two walked arm in arm to the dance floor and joined in on this small dancing party. As each of them turned the caught a small glance of the other couples and each of them saw that the other was enjoying themselves. Well, in Duo's case he was trying to figure out how to dance in the first place. Though he just went with his instincts and just looked at Alexandria's smiling face.

At the same time the next couple to go up was Heero and Relena, to both of them it seemed like Déjà vu all over again. As they danced with each other, they couldn't help but feel that same memory come to both of them. That memory of them dancing like this at the Sank Gabriel institute just before Heero had to leave for another mission. Relena simply wanted to get one dance with him before he left, though now she was getting a dance but no one's in a hurry to go anywhere.

The song continued with unbridle passion, unlike any that the Peace Guns have ever heard before.

There's no love, like your love

And no other

Could give more love

There's no love, Unless your there

All the time

All the way, Yeah!

The song went into its guitar solo and the next one was Meryl. She looked over at Vash who watched the others on the dance floor while he munched on his doughnuts. She kept thinking of something to get enough courage and finally she thought of something. Someone once said that life is short so do whatever makes you happy. It sounded like something one of Millie's family members would say, but no matter. Meryl got up out of her seat and walked over to Vash and cleared her throat.

Vash looked at her and ate the piece of the doughnut that was in his mouth.

"What's up Meryl?" He asked

Meryl was having trouble trying to get the words out of her throat, "Would you…" she stammered, "I means, would you like to…"

Frustration was in her she couldn't stand it, the words were there in her mind, heart and throat but she couldn't get them out to Vash's ears.

"Would I like to dance with you?" Vash finished her thought

"No, that's not it." Meryl said hastily, then thought, Oh God, why did I say that?

"I was going to say," Vash explained, "Yes."

He stood up and held out his hand to Meryl, she reached out with her shaking hand and took it. The two of them went to the dance floor and began to dance in each other's arms very slowly as the song peaked in its passion.

Oh, you can't tell me

It's not worth trying for.

I can't help it!

There's nothing I want more

Yeah, I would fight for you.

I'd lie for you!
Walk the wire for you,

Yeah, I'd die for you!
You know it's true,

Everything I do…

I do it for you.

To be continued…

Author's Notes: As I said before that I wanted to make a smaller version of a beam saber for people, I thought that maybe the beam weapons might vary from person to person. So that's why I made the beam weapon for Duo's Cross-Punisher a Scythe like his mobile suit only a smaller version. I thought that if he could use it in his mobile suit then he could probably use it while he's out of a mobile suit. As for the rest of this chapter I wanted to have some romance blooming between the characters and I think I picked just the right for this occasion.

Come back soon for more chapters of Trigundam…