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I didn't expect to trip on the way through the door, but oh well, shit happens. I landed on my tail bone and cried out in pain.
"Woah, you okay?"
I looked up and saw Yohji starring down at me. He had a concerned look on his face and offered his hand to me. I grabbed it and gave a gracious little smile to him.
"I can't believe such a pretty girl could hit the ground so hard. Did you fall or something? I'm surprised God didn't send a heavenly cloud to catch one of his angels."
I stood in shock. I had just met him and already he was hitting on me. He raised his hand and brushed it against my cheek.
"So you're okay, right?"
"Uh…you're Yohji, right?"
He gave a startled look and his eyes narrowed. He grabbed my shirt and pulled me to him. I should have picked a less deadly character to start with. I had to find a way to get away from him. I gave him a sad, clouded look and leaned up and gave him a kiss. I was long gone by the time the shocked look appeared on his face. Aren't I a genius? Mentally I kicked myself. This is what you get when you travel to a world you know nothing about…Except that the guys are drop-dead gorgeous.
He's not the least deadly, but Omi may listen to me. He'd be in class now, so I started to search around for schools. Seven schools later, I saw him through a window on the second floor. I crashed through the front doors of the school and dashed upstairs. I pounded on the door of the classroom yelling, "I need to speak to OMI!!!!! It's an EMERGENCY!!!!!!" The door opened and an exasperated Omi was starring at me. I grabbed his arm and yanked him down the hall. After we got around the corner, we stopped and I looked him right in the eyes.
"Okay Omi, I'm gonna tell you something very important, and very unbelievable. This world is going to be wiped out and I have to save you, Yohji, Aya, and Ken. You guys have to come with me before it's too late!"
"I-I don't know these people. I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Now is not the time for playing dumb!!!! In fact, time is running out!!! The world is going to be demolished!!!! I'm TRYING to SAVE you!!!!"
After my little speech, I realized that he was the kind of guy who would have a lot of people trying to kill him. No wonder he didn't trust me.
"Okay, I know you'll find it hard to believe so I've got an idea. You go get the other guys, and call me when you're ready. You can pick the place and time to meet, this way, there is no possible way for me to rig this. I mean, what do you guys have to lose. I'm only trying to save your lives."
"All right, but if you try to double cross us, you'll regret it"
"Got it. Oh, and another thing…"
"What?"
"Well, it's around three now, so can you please phone me some time after five."
"Why?"
"Well…because I have to travel to other universes to gather other people. You're not the only ones I'm trying to save! Oh, and my name is Jennifer, okay? I'll see ya later!"
I decided to disappear in front of him to get the point across. Omi stared at the empty space I once occupied, a slightly shocked look on his face.…I guess I better go get the other guys.
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"BunnyBunnyGundamBunnies BunnyBunnyGundamBunnies" I sang to myself. I was going to meet the guys of my dreams…Well our dreams. I wasn't really too fond of Wufei…Actually, I hated him, but Jen liked him so he was on the list…I wasn't really all that upset…My train of thoughts ended rather abruptly when I suddenly appeared in front of Quatre's desert home.
So it really does work….wonder how Jenn's doing…Oh well. Time to get to work.
It was rather easy to decide who the best person to approach was…Quatre was the most likely to listen to me without pointing a gun at my head…I hoped.
There wasn't anything on the gate to ring, and when I tested it, it opened, so I walked through and headed towards the house. By the time I got to the front door I wished I had just appeared inside the house- I was soaked in sweat…Gotta remember that for next time…I knocked on the door, and peeled off the button up shirt I was wearing…then I realized that I had started out with only a tee-shirt when the PTB….had called. I took a quick glance at what I was wearing and smiled…nice black slacks, comfortable black running shoes, a simple, white silk top without any sleeves, and the now removed black shirt, which I realized had someone on it…It was one of those anime shirts that I adored, the ones that were made for guys and would never, ever fit me. This one had Kenshin on it…I smiled, and realized that I was an official Gundam Wing anime character now. Not only does Kevy have a thing for black, but has got quite the sense of humor too.
The door opened and I straightened up, looking into the face of a young, blond-haired, blue eyed boy. He's even more gorgeous in real life….well in person anyway…
"Excuse me, can I help you?" He smiled….Love that smile..
"I need to speak with you. It's very important."
"Of course, will you come in?"
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"…………And that's it in a nutshell…I've got to get all of you together, then I can open the portal and get you out of here…..I know it sounds crazy, but I can prove it, if I can get you all together I'll open the portal. Then you'll know I'm not lying."
Quatre sipped a cup of tea. I held mine but was too nervous to do anything else with it. What should I do if I can't get him to believe me, or to even get the others…I doubt I have time to search for them….
"I really don't know if I can believe you, or if I should, but if there's a chance that our lives are in as much danger as you say they are, it wouldn't hurt to try, would it?"
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"You're in luck, everyone is on Earth for the Peace Day Celebrations….I won't have much trouble getting everyone here. I'll get started right away, I get the feeling you're pressed for time…" He stood up. "Feel free to ask for anything, the maids will see to anything you need. You'll understand if I ask you to stay here?" I nodded if I don't leave, I'll have trouble setting a trap for them. "Good. And Amanda?"
"Yes?"
"Thanks."
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"……………..Trowa…..Yeah………..Can you get here quickly?………Thanks. Bye……………………Hello Duo?……………….Not bad, how are you and Hilde?……..That's good………….I need you here………Thanks, Bye…..Hello Sally? It's Quatre……Yes….Hello Wufei? We need you……Here….….Alright, bye……………………Hello Relena…….Thank you……Yes, is he in?……….Really? Ok……Thank you….."
Quatre closed the viewscreen. That's everyone…..I hope I'm not making a big mistake…..No…she's too adamant about this….and she just doesn't seem crazy…..Well, we'll find out soon enough..
Quatre headed back to the study where he had left the newest complication to their lives…..It seemed that everytime they had the slightest amount of peace, it was shattered by one thing or another…..He stopped at the room and reached for the door-handle, but paused. He could hear talking….
"…………………and I don't know what I'll do, if they don't come, this world will cease to exist! And what's worse is I can't blame them for not believing me…I'm coming here and sounding like I escaped from an asylum!….I have to open a portal?…..God….If this doesn't work………."
Quatre couldn't wait any longer, he opened the study door to find The girl, Amanda, talking to-
"A cat?" He looked at the tawny brown furball in her hands…It was Jasmine…the kitten he had adopted not long ago……
She looked up in surprise…."Yeah….She just appeared and I couldn't stop petting her….she's a beautiful cat….."
"Her name's Jasmine….she seems to like you a lot…"
"Yeah……..Did you call them?"
"Yes. They'll be here within the hour. I don't know if they'll agree, but I've got them all here."
"Quatre?"
"Yes?"
"Thank you."
Heero was the first to arrive …It seemed that he was heading for Quatre's to begin with, but the others followed soon after. Quatre led them to the library, he asked if he could speak with them first, and I agreed. It might help…..I couldn't stop worrying though…..Finally Quatre came to the study and asked me to meet the everyone. I walked into the library and into a group of very angry faces…Well not Trowa's….he never shows emotion…Duo was the first to speak.
"Ok, Quatre's explained it to me, but this I want to hear from you." He crossed his arms and managed to look intimidating….It worked, to an extent.
"It's hard to explain, but I'll try. There is going to be a huge catastrophe that will wipe out your entire universe, and many others. If I collect people who have held a part in shaping their universe, and keep them alive, then once this Apocalypse of sorts ends, I can return you and your universe will be restored….but only if I have people from the universe, alive. I need you five to come with me, through a doorway that crosses dimensions. I know I sound crazy, but I need you to believe me. And I can prove I'm telling the truth."
"I rest my case, she's a nut." Duo managed to look happy in his 'discovery'. Wufei walked up to me, scowling. " I think she knows too much. She's a spy sent from one of the factions." He pulled out his blade and pressed it against my throat in a lightning fast move. "Tell us who sent you, or you'll regret it."
I looked at Wufei and realized I was in way over my head…
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"What do you suggest we do with her?" That was Trowa…
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"Amannnndaaaaa……." What? Who? KEVY!
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Where there had been only space before, Kevy was leaning on seemingly thin air between two bookshelves, examining a wingtip.
I tried to turn towards him but found that there was still a particularly sharp blade at my throat. Kevy looked up and seemed to acknowledge everyone's presence. As though part of an unseen command, both Duo and Heero pulled out their guns, and trained them at Kevy.
Oh no…this will not end well… I couldn't help but groan mentally. Duo took a step towards Kevy.
"Look, I don't know who you are, or how you managed to get in here, but if you don't start talking, and I'd better like what I hear, then you'll have a short wait until you meet your maker."
Kevy's eyes narrowed…Man, he looks pissed….this is not good. I prayed he wouldn't do something I'd regret...Like kill Duo…
"My name is Kevin, and I am the official messenger of the Powers That Be and the greatest Mage to have ever practiced magic." At the word mage, Duo snorted. "Furthermore, I do not like being threatened" He made a small move with his hand and the guns, and Wufei's blade, were floating about ten feet above our heads. He twitched his hand and a huge gust of wind blew everyone into the walls. Books went flying and a shelf came loose, blowing across the room and grazed Duo's head.
"KEVY! Calm down!" I had to scream in order to be heard. The winds stopped.
"Damn it! Kevy. Why did you go and do that? Do you have any idea who you just blasted?! How the hell am I going to get them to listen to me and therefore save this UNIVERSE if you're bent on blasting them into OBLIVION?!" I realized that the room was silent and that I had been screaming. I also figured that Kevy probably didn't know who he was blasting…He wasn't omnipotent, at least I didn't think he was…
"Kevy?"
"What?"
"Are you omnipotent?"
"Huh?…oh…uh…No…Why?"
"Nevermind…" I bit my lip and thought for a minute. " Ok. Kevy, these five are the Gundam pilots, Heero, Quatre, Duo, Trowa and Wufei. Gundam pilots, this is Kevy."
"These are the guys you're trying to save? You've got to be kidding me!" Kevy snickered.
I walked over to Duo, who was still a little dazed from being slammed against the wall. I noticed his forehead was bleeding from being hit by that shelf. I glared at Kevy and started to rip strips from my shirt to bandage Duo's wound. "Yes, these are the guys I'm attempting to save, do you have a problem with that? And why did you have to go overboard with the wind bit, Duo's probably got a concussion, thanks to you." Duo glared at me but wasn't able to do much. I was willing to bet it hurt to move-I had only been hit lightly by the spell, it had been intended for the guys. I figured since none of them had gotten up yet, it must've been one Hell of a breeze.
"Yes I have a problem with it- if you hadn't noticed they were going to KILL you!-"
"I had everything under control-"
"Sure you did! And I'm willing to bet this was after you explained that you are trying to save them! If they're that stupid, then you shouldn't be wasting your time. I was worried about you! You hadn't checked anything off the list, and Jen's already on her second- I figured something was wrong! I'm SORRY!"
I looked at Kevy, who seemed at a loss for words. I don't think he's ever apologized for something before…Ok, I feel like an ass…I finished bandaging Duo's head and sat back on my heels. "Ok, we need to talk about this, and I'd rather do this when these guys are not sprawled all over the wall. Lets get them onto the couch and try this again…And Kevy?"
"Yes?"
"I'm sorry for spazzing out like that - I was really worried I'd end up with five dead pilots. Thanks for worrying about me."
Kevy blushed and headed towards Heero. "Let's get them on the couch."
I held out my hand to Duo. He glared at me for a second then raised his hand towards the bandage. His look softened and he took my hand. As I helped him up he groaned; "I guess I might have been wrong, maybe I'm the nutcase around here."
We helped them to the couch and Kevy produced drinks. I wish I could do that-Pull things out of thin air…
He offered a drink to everyone, and took one himself. "It's ambrosia." He smiled. "Contrary to popular belief, it won't give you eternal life, but it tastes great and it'll heal almost anything."
Heero, who seemed the least affected by the blast, which is to say that he could sit without leaning against something, glared at the drink. Realizing he was the only one who could speak in sentences at the moment, asked; "How do we know that this isn't poisoned? Why should we trust you?"
I sighed. While I loved him to death, he sometimes just didn't get it. "Heero, both myself and Kevy have had ample chance to kill you. If we had wanted it, you would be dead. Since you're not, I'm going out on a limb and guessing that maybe that's not what I came here to do. In which case, the least you could do is humor me."
"You
know, she's got a point." Duo groaned. "Besides, I'd take anything, even
poison, to get rid of this headache I've got." He grimaced at the glass and
downed it in one large, audible, gulp. The room seemed to hold it's breath for
a minute. Then Duo looked around. "Well, I'm not dead, so I'm going to bet it
isn't poison, but my headache's still- waitaminute! It's gone! My headache's
gone…. And I can move again!" He sat up and snatched off the makeshift bandage,
feeling his forehead for his wound. "It's gone! That damn cut, the pain, my
headache, everything's disappeared!"
Kevy smiled. "I told you so."
"Kevy!"
"What?! I did."
With that everyone took a sip. "Hey this is really good…. And it does work! All the pain's gone!"
"Quatre my man, that's just what I said…Guess we misjudged these two, eh Wufei?"
"I still think she's a spy."
Kevy cleared his throat. The glasses disappeared. "Now that you've all been restored…" He looked pointedly at me.
"Oh yeah…" I looked at everyone. Quatre and Duo were smiling, Wufei was glaring, (though it was hard to tell if it was at me or Kevy). Trowa looked as indifferent as always and Heero…Heero seemed to se looking through me…Like he could see everything about who I was and why I was here. I could help but think that he was judging me. " It's simple." I swallowed my pride and plunged in. "Everything that I've told you is true. I have to get you all out of this universe, so that it can be rebuilt once the disaster is over." I held my breath. Everything depended on them…After all they'd seen, would they still think that I was lying? Or crazy?
"All right. I believe you. We'll come with you."
"Heero!" Wufei looked like he'd swallowed his sword. "Are you crazy?! Have you any idea what you've just agreed to?!"
Heero looked at Wufei, then turned to me. "It's simple. By my count, she could've killed us three times in the last hour, and she didn't." I got the feeling that he was saying this for my sake as well as Wufei's. "This guy shows up, blasts us, almost kills us- By moving his hands, he took us all out in five seconds. No regular person could do that."
"Add to the fact he's got wings." Duo looked at his hands… "Mumble mumble…He's got wings……Mumble mumble…I'm Shinigami…I had black wings first…Mumble…not fair."
"Did you say something Duo?" I smiled.
"No! I mean no, I didn't."
"As I was saying," Heero continued "the entire time he's blasting us, and even after, she's screaming at him to stop because she's trying to save us. He's surprised, but not by the fact she's trying to save something, he seams to know about that, he's just surprised that it's us." Heero looked at Wufei, then to Quatre. "Besides, Quatre trusts her."
"What! You're agreeing to this because Quatre trusts her?!"
"Yes." Heero looked to Wufei. Quatre looked over. "If this universe is in danger, then we must protect it, just as we have the colonies and the Earth."
Wufei looked like he wanted to strangle something. "I have no intention of following a weak girl anywhere."
That hit a nerve. "So I'm weak am I? Fine, if that's the way you want it. Defeat me in battle."
Complete silence…I think I shocked them...Good.
"What?"
"It's simple. You believe that I am weak. I don't have the time to argue with you, I still have a large group of people I have to save. Therefore we'll fight. If I win, you'll come with me. If I lose, we'll leave and you'll never see us again. You choose the method and the rules. Do you agree?"
Wufei's eyes narrowed. A direct challenge. Even if it came from a girl, he couldn't turn it down. I'll win easily, then I can be rid of her.
"Accepted. We'll fence. Foil. Quatre will be the director." Wufei glared.
"Accepted"
"The what?" Kevy looked around for an explanation.
"He'll judge." Chorused six voices.
"…oh."
" I have a gymnasium that will do. It's downstairs."
"All right, lets go."
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