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Readers Note: This contains some spoilers for Outlaw Star, so if you haven't seen the whole series I wouldn't recommend reading this.

Gundam Wing

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Outlaw Star

Gundam Outlaw

Chapter 4: Colony l-9

Q

Johan and Haruka were watching from the catwalk, Howard and the other technicians working furiously. They watched them paint the red Gundam Fire into the white Nemesis. Though when the first coat of white paint was covered the suit looked pink. So another thicker coat was needed. The parts of the Vindicator were already melted down to make the heat rod and shield. The gun that the Fire had was kept, but needed to be remolded for the Nemesis Bird mode of flight. Since Nemesis was very much like Epyon, changes to its lower and upper cavity as well as the head needed to be made. That was only for starters, a new cockpit system was needed.

Thankfully, Gilliam in the Outlaw Star offered to make a new cockpit system for the Gundam. So a cable data system was set between the cockpit of the Gundam Nemesis and the Outlaw Star, which was obstructing the view of Haruka and Johan down to the workers of the Nemesis. The way that this new cockpit system is going to work, as Gilliam explained, is that it'll be a combination of his own program as well as the normal operating cockpit system and the Zero system. Making a cockpit system of that caliber would take a considerable amount of time, and the mobile suit it self might be done before the operating system would even be working.

This was when they decided to take a small break.

"Hey, you two!" A voice called,

Johan and Haruka looked over to the left to find Duo Maxwell standing in the doorway waving his hand at them. He was beckoning them to come with him.

"We've arrived!"

Q

Colony L-9, one of the colonies and Earth's favorite tourist attractions, next to the moon, so much that a historian once called it a "Las Vegas in space". This statement had hit the mark straight into the bulls-eye. The people who work within the colony don't necessarily live there, at least within its city limits. Within the city limits, all sides of the streets were strewn with signs, lights and neon of casinos, hotels, and secluded resorts. Even the spaceport and grocery stores had slot machines in them.

Duo had joked that people might have a tough time deciding. That is making a decision between buying eggs or playing the slots. Eggs, slots, eggs or slots?

The Preventers and the Outlaw Six stepped out of the spaceport and saw the entire Colony L-9 in its neon lit glory. All the light bulbs blinked in sequence that capture the eyes of all the Preventers and Outlaws. Event the anti-social Heero and Trowa couldn't' help but look at all of it.

Johan held Haruka close, "Marvelous isn't it? AN entire colony devoted to tourism."

"It's not even a city." Haruka smiled, "It's an ongoing celebration."

Gene simply shrugged, "Very profound, but…" A cat-like smile stretched across his face, "I'm gonna go out and party!"

Duo raised his arms in excitement, "That's just what we're here to do!"

Sazuka on the other hand simply surveyed the scene, "There's nothing that I find appealing about this."

Wufei smiled, "Funny, I thought a woman would enjoy this sort of thing."

"For the last time," Sazuka demanded, "quit being so sexist."

"Can't change the nature of the beast." Johan interrupted, "Well, there's a nice health spa located near here. What do you say Haruka? It has a couple's bath."

Haruka winked

"A couples bath?" Gene asked

"You'll see." Duo explained.

Q

The health spa that Johan was talking about was one of the prize resorts of Colony L-9. The spa was called The Lotus. It was an enormous complex, about as large as one city block. All the accommodations for its guests, sport courts, workout equipment, restaurant, juice bar, pools, and it's more prominent feature it's artificial hot springs. The hot springs are divided into a different method than the old fashioned type with the strict men's and woman's bath. This hot spring was divided into men's, women's, and couple's bath.

Before the Preventers and the Outlaw Six could go to them, they first had to undress for it. Even with the baths divided into men's and women's. Inside the women's locker room, the women of Preventer and the Outlaw Six were having their own "girl talk".

Sazuka, Melphina, Asia, Lady Une, Alexandria, and Haruka all sat in one isle of the women's locker room. They sat along the wooden bench removing one article of clothing after the other. Never once did they look at each other in their becoming nude state. In this steaming atmosphere there was only the sound of the running water and wet feet walking along the tiled floor. Someone had to break the ice and it was Melphina. She wanted to talk to Haruka but she felt an embarrassment about the question. She wanted to know and she asked.

"Haruka?" She asked

"Yes?" Haruka answered looking at Melphina.

"Could you tell me about your husband?"

Melphina had asked the question loud enough for the others to hear her, and they wanted to know too.

Asia leaned over to Melphina, she was already stark naked with her breasts pressing against Melphina's shoulder.

"Why are you asking that now, Melphina?" She asked

Melphina's chin came down to her chest and her shoulders came in with embarrassment, "I didn't want to embarrass her husband."

"It's alright." Haruka smiled, "Johan is a very loving man, though there was a point where I felt too protected, but that's how he is."

"What's he like in bed?" Melphina asked curiously

Haruka's eyes were wide, but she smiled, "That's a funny question to ask a married couple, but I'll say this, the way we make love is like it could be our last. Meaning each time is filled with so much passion that it blows me away."

Asia simply crossed her arms arrogantly, "I don't believe that a mere human being could have that much passion. Even if he does, it'll make him a weak warrior."

Haruka shook her head, "I was the very reason he kept fighting, Asia Clan-Clan."

Q

The Preventers and the Outlaw Six came out of the Locker rooms with towels wrapped around their waists or around their chest for the women. The men went to the men's bath, the women went to the women's bath, but Johan and Haruka went to the couples' bath.

They walked through the bamboo doors to the steaming artificial hot spring. Yet in plain site it looked as natural as if it was on Earth. The waters steam was rising like fog over the crystal clear water. Around the waters edge were carefully placed rocks, all of them as smooth as river rock. Back away from the edge were the 9-foot high bamboo walls to protect the privacy of couples within. Above there was no ceiling except that of the colony itself. There wasn't anyone else in the spring except for Haruka and Johan along with the sounds of running water.

The two removed their towels and stepped in. They felt the warm smoothing water relaxing every fiber of muscle in their body. Inch by slow inch, the water came up to their waist and they could feel complete and total relaxation as they set their bodies all the way into the water.

"Ah." Johan moaned, "This is my idea of heaven."

"With me in it, I hope." Haruka called

She walked through the spring to where there was water pouring into the spring from a bamboo shower. The water poured over her body as she let got of the towel revealing all that Johan knew from head to toe in glistening liquid against soft skin. He watched as Haruka allowed all of the water to run over her body. While Johan watched her he thought to himself about a memory he had. It was back when the Evangelions had visited this Universe. He had told Asuka Langely Sohryuu that he was a lucky man, he had a job that was great, good friends, and a wonderful wife. Life is good, he thought, it just doesn't get better than this.

Q

Meanwhile, in the men's bath, the men were enjoying the warmth of the spring, at least those who showed it. The one who was truly showing his enjoyment was Gene, he sat in the spring with the water coming up to his chest yet he was lying back with his arms against the edge and a smile across his face.

"Now I know what I was missing out on Tenrei." He commented

"Gene." Quatre called

Gene turned to Quatre who looked like he didn't want to talk about anything important, but rather wanted to just talk. The content of the conversation didn't matter.

"Yes." He answered

"How do you like this universe, so far?"

The question that Quatre asked seemed both easy and difficult at the same time. He had only been in this place for a short time but for an odd reason he knew the answer already.

"I'm comfortable." He said, "But there's something that I'd like to do."

Quatre could see his cheeks begin to flush as if he was either embarrassed or had a devilishly clever idea in mind. What the plan was, that was to be determined.

Gene got up out of the spring with the towel wrapped around his waist like a makeshift pair of shorts. He walked over to the wall that was adjacent to the women's bath. Gene knew this from the small floor plan he found in the men's locker room. He wanted to get a good view, even though the last time he was in a place like this on Tenrei he didn't want the view, just caster shells. But this time he was going to get a good view. He crouched down, he was going to jump up to the top of the eight-foot tall bamboo wall.

"Uh-oh." Jim moaned

Jim was sitting next to Quatre as he leaned over to him, "What's he going to do?"

Jim whispered, "Gene's a pervert, he's going to try to get a free show."

Quatre knew exactly what Jim was talking about and Quatre wanted to warn Gene about something on this colony. The fear of what might happen made Quatre act quickly, his brain sent the message to his voice box but something was wrong when it reached his throat. It was too late for him.

Gene had already made the jump, and what a jump it was. Gene went straight up into the air of 20 vertical feet. Gene was already struggling to try to get back down. He looked like a puppet on strings as he tried to scramble his way back down. He did come back down but not into the Men's bath but into the women's bath.

"Quatre." Jim called, "What were going to warn him about?"
"I was going to warn him not to jump so hard in a colony." Quatre explained, "Otherwise you go straight up."

The men heard the voices of screaming women from the women's bath. Though listening to the voices of the exasperated women form the bath sounded more interesting than anything else.

Q

Gene came down with a great big splash into the women's bath, like a cannon ball dive into a pool. The splash went every direction that the blast would allow, but what happened next made most of the women in the bath feel uncomfortable at the very least. Gene game up from the epicenter of the splash taking in as much as he could. He felt as if he had run the mile after what had just happened with him jumping over 20 vertical feet into the air. He wanted to ask, what the hell happened, but the first question came from the women in the bath.

"What's the meaning of this?" Sazuka asked as she covered herself up with the nearby towel.

Gene looked around at all the women who had covered themselves up. Sazuka, Melphina, Lady Une, and Alexandria were covering themselves up. He didn't want to tell the truth that he wanted to get a free show, so he thought of a great excuse.

"I just jumped out of the spring," Gene had explained making sure that he didn't stammer to give away his cover-up, "I got high up into the air and now I'm here. I'm not here for the view!"

Alexandria smirked, "Likely story, you filthy pervert."

"It's the truth!" Gene shouted as he laid his hands at his side.

The next thing that happened was he saw a figure quickly rise out of the water. He couldn't tell who it was until he saw a long white pony tail with a golden ring at the end of it. The figure turned around and it was Asia in her complete nakedness, her nipples standing out in erect as if she were in a cold room.

"This isn't hot!" She screamed as she held her eyes shut, so she failed to notice Gene Starwind right in front of her, "Isn't there a spring that's hotter than what these humans can stand?!"

Then she opened her eyes and found the gawking face of Gene Starwind who was looking at pure Ctarl-Ctarl nudity.

"I see." Asia smirked, "You came here again to see Asia in her birthday suit."

"I did not!" Gene defended, then he had one good look at all the ladies where were naked and half-naked around him. Then he saw Sazuka dashing across the water at him with the towel over her front and her wooden sword in the other hand.

"Get out, you pervert!" She screamed as she slammed the sword against Gene's face, which sent him over the wall like a baseball in a home run back into the men's bath. The force that Sazuka put into that blow was just enough to lift him the same amount of vertical feet over the wall. He came back down into the men's bath with that same enormous splash. He came back up gasping for air. The others around him looked at him as well as the enormous mark on his face that was left by Sazuka. Gene stood up rubbing his face and still with the towel around his waist.

"Was it worth it?" Duo asked from one end of the spring.

"Sure it was, I saw naked women." Gene smiled rubbing his face; "I think that's enough."

Q

For the rest of the day that was spent on Colony L-9, the Preventers as well as the Outlaw Six, enjoyed every aspect that the colony had to offer them. At least some of them, there were a few that decided to go back to the ship and monitor re-supply. The ones that went back were Heero, Miliardo, Kazuki, Jim Hawking, and Lady Une.

The rest stayed on the Colony until they were needed. Such as on one side of the city limits, Trowa Barton, Sazuka and Wufei Chang were in a small weapons shop simply called The Juggernaught. Inside the place smelt of steel, gun grease, gunpowder with the walls strewn with all kinds of weapons, handguns, shotguns, automatic weapons, semi-automatic weapons, knives and swords. Even though this was a time of peace, it wasn't exactly a perfect peace, there may be peace between Earth and Space, but there was still the instinctual need for defense.

The clerk of this shop was a man named Randall, a tall blond lanky 20-something year old. He took out a small handgun and gave it to Trowa Barton to sample.

"We call this piece," He explained, "the Fecilator. One look at it, then the target shits him or herself."

Trowa simply looked at the puny gun, "How am I supposed to strike terror into anyone with this?"

Wufei brought up his own opinion on the matter, "Why use the gun? We all have beam sabers ever since they became standard issue."

It was true; a couple weeks after Johan had used the beam saber it became a joint decision that all Preventer officers should carry a side arm as well as a beam saber. However the color of the blade varies from officer to officer. Some had red, others had blue, and a few had green.

"The beam saber is useless for long distance fighting." Trowa pointed out

"Any idiot can fire a gun, using a sword takes skill." Wufei refuted

"I agree with Wufei on this matter." Sazuka added

While this argument over the gun verses the sword was going on, in a different part of town Asia, Duo and Alexandria were grabbing a bite to eat. This proved to be a little more than what Duo and Alexandria had bargained for. It was a good thing that Duo and Alexandria were well paid as officers of Preventer.

The three of them were eating at a Chinese restaurant that served "all you can eat". Alexandria and Duo watched as Asia ate. She gobbled down food like no other man or beast the two had laid eyes on. Their eyes were wide open and their chopsticks/forks were loose and limp in their hands while they watched. Asia had eaten dinner platters that would have fed at least 8 people. Then she looked over at Duo with her blue starving orphan eyes.

"May I?" She asked

"What?" Duo asked

Asia held up her bowl, "I'm ready for seconds!"
Duo had dropped his chopsticks into his bowl with that sentence. Seconds? How can she have seconds after eating all that? Still, she is a guest of Preventer, so it's hard to refuse her.

"Go ahead." Duo moaned

"Give me another! Give me another!" Asia called to the waiter

"Horrorshow Bog!" Alexandria exclaimed, "What kind of devotchka can eat like that?"

"Beats hell out of me." Duo answered

They continued to watch as Asia downed another dinner plate for 8 people. As she finished the last of it all with dinner plats stacked up on the table. She sat back in pure satisfaction with that cat like smile. She rubbed her belly that was already bulging through her Ctarl-Ctarl uniform.

"I'm so stuffed," She said, "I couldn't eat another bite."

Duo and Alexandria turned and looked at each other.

"I thought she'd have room for desert." Duo whispered

Asia's long ears picked this up, she pointed over to Duo with her finger nail at point blank range from his face.

"I heard that." She said, "A child like you shouldn't' be insulting a woman who's mature and worldly."

"I agree, Duo." Alexandria nodded, "I thought that the sunka would have had more room in her guts."

"What the hell did she just say?" Asia asked Duo puzzled.

Duo simply shrugged.

In a different part of town around the slew of stores, hotels and casinos, Gene, Johan, Melphina and Haruka were having their own fun. Gene and Johan were waiting for Haruka and Melphina as they tried on their own choice of lingerie from Victoria Secret. Though Gene had told Johan that he didn't know the first thing about clothes shopping, but when Johan told him that it was a lingerie shop, Gene jumped on the opportunity.

Gene's heart was already racing when he was amongst all the different styles of women's underwear, bras, panties; all of it made his eyes bulge and waited for Melphina to come out in one of them.

Gene's hopes were fulfilled when Melphina came out in a red teddy. It came down to a quarter way down her thigh as the rest of it conformed to the shapes and curves of her body with ruffles around the edges. It made Gene think of all the whores that he slept with but he knew that the woman under that teddy was a woman he loved. Just seeing Melphina in that kind of outfit made every part of Gene scream with excitement except his voice box, otherwise he would have caused quite a scene.

"How do you like it, Gene?" Melphina asked as she posed in different positions to get the full effect of this teddy.

"I'm liking it even more." Gene smiled with his cheeks flushing

The next woman to come out of the dressing room was Haruka. She was dressed in ivory colored lingerie set that consisted of a bra that cradled her breasts close to her chest. A bustier that conformed to all of her body down to the waistline, her panties the same ivory shade as the rest in it's V-shape coming from her sides to her crotch. Around her waist there was the ivory garter belt that reached down to connect to the long black nylon stockings.

"Do you like it, Johan?" She asked posing seductively

"Parts of me are already applauding." Johan smiled

The two of them headed back into the dressing room to change back into their casual clothes. When the two of them arrived in the changing room, Melphina was talking to Haruka through the wall.

"Do you really think that Gene liked what I was wearing?" She asked Haruka

"If he loves you that much, then anything you wear will look good." Haruka answered, "I know Johan was really excited by what I was wearing."

"How could you tell?"

"I'll tell you later."

Back outside where Johan and Gene sat in waiting they were talking about what they had just witnessed before their very eyes.

"And here I thought that I had seen everything." Gene smiled

"Yeah," Johan agreed, "I think that both of them looked great, better than those models in the magazines."

Then both Haruka and Melphina came out with the outfits they chose. They came to the cash register when there was a call on Johan's cell phone. He picked it up and pressed receive.

"Johan Rodriguez, Preventer, speaking." He said

"Johan, its Lady Une." He heard, "The re-supplying is done. Return to the ship."

"Roger that."

He hung up the phone and placed it back into his white trench coat pocket.

"Who was it Johan?" Haruka asked as she paid for the outfits.

"It was Lady Une." Johan reported, "She said we should return to the ship."

To be continued . . .

Author's Notes: This is a favorite chapter of mine, mostly because its fun and it deals in a place that's like Tenrei and Las Vegas. This is the part of the story where I wanted to have the characters from both series interacted with each other on an individual or maybe small group basis. Such as the scene with Duo, Alexandria, and Asia, then there was that scene with Gene, Melphina, Johan and Haruka in a Victoria Secret. Just like how that one episode of Outlaw Star (the one that was cut out) was fun and hilarious, this one I wanted to make that same kind of charm.

Come back soon for more chapters of Gundam Outlaw