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I
can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord
I've been waiting for this moment, all my life, Oh Lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord, Oh Lord
Well, it you told me you were drowning
I would not lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
Well, I was there and I saw what you did
I saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off the grin, I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies
I can feel it coming in the air tonight...
Well I remember, I remember don't worry
How
could I ever forget, it's the first time, the last time we ever met
But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no you don't fool me
The
hurt doesn't show; but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you or me
I
can feel it coming in the air tonight...
--- Phil Collins. In the air tonight.
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Chapter II
by Tenshi no Tsuki
*Orion Academy was to say at least big. A big campus with great buildings in a circular shape conformed the Academy, there was even a large parking lot. Lucky for the entire students they were allowed to wear civilian clothing, instead of an uniform.
A black and red jeep parked over the lot, the owners two eighteen-year olds. Although they had been told to not attract attention, it was an impossible task, due to the fact that they were very much noticed by the students. They had tried to keep a low profile and so far their three months had been uneventful yet. The driver got out first, not bothering to use the door but hoping down over it instead.
Brushing the uneven bangs from her face the driver look at her companion and raised an eyebrow before her alluring eyes were covered by dark sunglasses. Her friend followed her example and hopped of the car, and proceed to cover her eyes.
The two young teens made their way to their classes, glad they had every single one together. Many of the male body and even some females. The girls were twins, as they had introduce themselves. Both 5'9 in height with fair flawless features, and slim figure. Their only different features were their eyes and hair color, while one of them had golden-blonde hair down to her shoulders and deep sky-blue eyes , the other had silvery-blonde hair down to mid-back and the deepest ocean-blue eyes in existence.
Apart form that they were totally alike. Cheerful, mischievous and smart-asses. They were the new topic all over the campus. The Cosmos Twins. Usagi and Minako.
Usagi adjusted the black strap of her back-pack over her shoulder, and glanced at Minako.
"What class is now?" Minako brushed her silk blonde hair over her shoulder and leaded her twin over the campus.
"Actually we have free period, it was supposed to be Socials but the teacher call in sick"
"Aa. Let's go to the cafeteria then. I missed breakfast" Minako shuddered and followed her.
Minutes later they were beneath a great cherry tree, having decided to stay away from the crowd, Minako was eating an apple while Usagi sipped her ice-tea, her eyes closed she could feel the cool air playing with the loose strands of hair.
"Ooi Jou-chan Mina-girl!"
Minako's eyes snapped to the young-man walking to them. He was 5'11 feet tall, dressed in blue flared pants a tight black shirt and a matching jacket. A silver cross around his neck. He had a light tan strong complexion and honey-brown hair in a long braid to his knees. And deep cobalt blue eyes.
Cocky-grin and mischievous eyes. Duo Maxwell. Minako's subconscious provided amusingly.
"Ooi Duo-kun. O-genki desu ka?"
She greeted, Duo shuddered and sat next to them. "Daijoubu Mina-chan"
"Ohayo Shini-kun"
Duo smiled at the silver-haired beauty. Since the first time he had called himself Shinegami, Usagi had taken to calling him Shini.
"Ohayo Jou-chan" he reach out and grabbed Usagi's unbitten apple and prepared to eat it . But Usagi having predicted it before batted his hand away and proceeded to eat it herself.
He sent her a mock-glare, while the bunny winked at him. He turned to the amused blonde.
"So where are the rest of the gumi?"
"Hee-man is around somewhere, Wu-man and Tro-kun had Economics. And Quatre is right… there. Hey Quatre!" he said waving the young-man over, Quatre spotted them and walked towards them.
Quatre Rhaberba Winner was the richest guy in Orion's Academy. 5'10 , short neat platinum-blonde hair and light-blue eyes made him, one of the cutest guy in school. He was dressed in tan brown pants and a baby-blue long-sleeved blouse with a high-collar.
He was polite and well-cultured, but he was also warm and funny. He was one of the first to befriend the twins once they've arrived.
"Ohayo de gozaru minna-san"
"Ohayo Aisoku" Minako's cheerful voice replied. Sitting sown next to Usagi, Quatre blushed. Minako and Usagi called him 'cute-boy' all the time, even when he told them he was embarrassed . Usagi just smiled at his behavior and greet him with a warm 'ohayo'.
The fist day of classes the Twins had attracted many unwanted attention, from the males particularly. But they were used to it by now and ignored it all the same. But as the week passed the twins became more, and more annoyed at this. The guys were in several of their classes and thankfully for the Twins they didn't acted like hormonal-driven teens, except for Duo. It turned out Usagi had been paired up with Heero and Trowa in Bio being lab-partners and Minako with Duo and Wufei, a bad combination.
They had meet Quatre in their first day and Duo had introduce himself later. The rest of the gang had proved to be more difficult with Wufei muttering about weak-women, in which Minako would either throw something at him or steal his kattana much to Wufei's displeasure. And lastly Heero and Trowa's silence.
After spending many sessions with Heero and Trowa, Usagi had learned their unspoken language, which in Duo's words was freaky. The seven of them could be seen walking together or sometimes in pairs but the twins were actually never alone.
Which brought many conflicts for the male-group, of course when Trigger-happy Yuy took out his trusty gun and threatened them to shoot if they bothered them again put an end to it.
For their part the boys had learned to never place the Twins with Duo, the infamy trio was terrible together.
"Ooi!"
The blonde trio looked at Duo questionably. Duo sweat-dropped at the attention and sheepishly grinned.
"Yo minna." He started. "There is gonna be a party here in campus are you gonna go?"
Usagi and Minako looked at each others and grinned.
"You bet."
***
Heero Yuy walked through the campus, lap-top in hand. They had received a mission the day before and he had just gaved the Doctors the info, they had retrieved. He continued to his next class Biology. As he did he tried to ignored the looks he received from the females around him.
Duo had told him his tall, dark and dangerous appeal attracted the females. He was tall he knew not as tall as Trowa but still standing six-foot, he had grown over the years, his skin was more tanned. He wore black pants, jacket and a red tight shirt that showed his
well-built complexion adding it to his appeal. His short chocolate brown hair was as unruly as ever falling into his dark cold prussian-blue eyes.
"Yuy-san, Yuy-san!"
From the corner of his eyes he saw two girls, two of the ones after him. Mentally he rolled his eyes in exasperation and keep walking. His hopes of them getting the hint, were crushed when the one of them caught up with him and blocked his path. He glared at her making the girl shrink.
"Y-Yuy-s-san I was hoping you--"
She shuttered. Kami-sama. Heero prayed silently.
"Hee-chan!" Heero recognized the voice and gaved a silent thank to whomever was listening. The girls and him turned to a silver-haired beauty. She was dressed in wash-out jeans a yellow tank-top and a crimson-red jacket, perfectly showing her figure. Her hair was down in layers at the side of her face giving her a sultry and at the same time angelic look.
Her
glossy-pink lips turned into a pout as she reach him.
"There you are, Hee-chan. I've been looking for you everywhere" she said in a sweet voice. Heero saw the girl fidget awkwardly and inwardly grinned.
"Oh. I'm sorry am I interrupting?" she asked faking concern. The girl shook her head and mumbled a good bye as she and her friend walked away.
"Thanks. I owe you one" he said in a monotone voice. Usagi Cosmos smiled and shook her head.
"Don't mention it soldier-boy." He smirked at her and the two walked to their class.
Heero and Usagi had an agreement, whenever one of them was being 'stalked' as Minako called it Heero or Usagi would appear and batted them away. Some of the student body though the two were dating and they never bother to correct them.
They entered the classroom and walked over their table, where Trowa was waiting for them. He raised an eyebrow at their tardiness and Usagi mouthed 'stalker' , he nodded. In front of them was Minako, then Duo and Wufei already bickering. Minako rolled her eyes and sat between them effectively stopping them.
As they mixed their elements, Usagi's wrist-watch beeped. Minako looked back at her, and Usagi raised her eyebrows. Heero and Trowa noticed the exchange and looked at each others.
Usagi grabbed her bag. "I've to go. Doctor's appointment." Heero nodded. Usagi smiled at them and slid off the chair, she whispered something to Minako and waved good-bye to the guys. Luckily for her the teacher had leaved them alone for their project.
Heero's eyes followed her out. "Where do you think she's going?" Trowa's low voice asked him. Heero glanced at him while pouring the metallic liquid over the empty vase.
"I don't know. But is not the doctor"
Trowa nodded. The twins, their nickname for the new beauties in campus , were mysterious and somewhat unusual. Since they had arrived Wufei, Heero and himself had been more loose as Duo said. Heero and him talked more, and had more fun than they had ever had. Duo was happy, not his cheery-loud-mouthed self, but really happy. He had, as the observer in the group, noticed that Duo seemed to hide his sadness over a mask of false happiness. But Usagi and Minako always managed to keep his spirits up.
Quatre was, with Minako's help, beginning to come out of his shy self, though he still blushed. Wufei, well Wufei was still his macho-self. But Usagi had managed to talk him out of calling them weak-onna. He chuckled mentally at the memory.
"Hn. Weak-onna."
The silver-haired beauty cocked her head, and raised her eyebrow at him.
"How do you even know I'm weak? You don't even know me" the fairy-girl conquered. Wufei snorted and crossed his arms.
"All onnas are weak."
"Isn't it honor-less to judge something by the way they look?" Wufei looked at the young-woman next to the rabbit in surprise.
"You pride yourself saying you value honor and justice above anything else, but still you judge us, only because we are women. Does this mean we should be ashamed of being who we are even when we never choused our gender? How can we prove ourselves when you already have this image of us? Tell us Wufei-san."
Wufei stared at Usagi with wide-eyes. Trowa, Heero, Quatre and Duo watched the exchange with astonishment. The rabbit looked at him serenely and smiled.
"You have honor Wufei-san and you're good. But your pride overshadows your ways. You n
must understand that strength comes in many ways and weakness is on those who deny they carry it"
With that the rabbit bowed low, a sing of respect. And walked away with her twin, leaving five boys in their awake.
That day Usagi and Minako had gained more than Wufei's respect. Though both of them acted somewhat ditzy, always cheerful , like they had no problems in the world. But they could be serious and very wise, like Usagi had proved that day, in some ways they resembled Duo. Serious when the time called for it.
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Winner Mansion-Colony L6
"Damn. Q-man when did you get so good?!"
"Minako-chan has an obsession with it"
Replied the calm boy. Duo cursed as Quatre won the race. The screen flashed ' winner: player 2', Duo pouted and let the control go. Quatre smiled.
They looked up as Trowa and Heero entered the room.
"We have a mission"
**
The night was a great camouflage, Duo thought. The mission required them to go into the base with out been see. They had to rescue five ministers who had been kidnapped earlier that day. And retrieve some information as well, after that they needed to report to the doctors and bring the ministers safely to their homes.
The base was heavily guarded, mobile suits surrounded the perimeter, trained security and high-level security alarms, as well as movement detectors and surviving cameras, they had to leave their Gundams a good distance away from the base.
Duo and Trowa would entered the base by the north side, Quatre and Wufei to the west side and Hiiro through the south wing. Careful to not attract attention Duo and Trowa, slipped through the dark corridors. Duo spotted a heavy guarded door and motioned to Trowa, with a movement of his head. Trowa nodded and grabbed his gun. Duo followed suit.
Wufei crunched behind a pillar, Quatre was placing the detonators besides him. Wufei pressed his back to the wall and motioned Quatre to do the same , Quatre nodded and hide the bag with the ammo.
Heero watched as the guard exited the room, he moved quickly under the shadows and placed his foot before the door could close. He glanced to both sides before he entered. He narrowed his eyes looking for someone else in the room. Finding no one he walked in, still in the shadows. He spotted a camera at the corner. He moved swiftly and stood under the it, he grabbed his gun, and placed a silencer over it.
Then pointed and shoot. The camera was out. Placing his gun in a reachable place, he sat over the computer and prepare to download the info.
Trowa and Duo knocked the guards out and opened the door. Inside the cell, were five figures, out cold it seemed. Duo looked for the keys inside the guard's pocket and took them out. He threw them at Trowa, he caught them and turned to the cell.
Quatre placed the last bomb in place and nodded to Wufei both turned.
Heero placed the disk inside his jacket, and grabbed his gun.
Neither one noticed the gas coming from the air-vents.
Trowa coughed and looked over at Duo, who was on the floor. Out cold, then everything went black.
Wufei slumped to the floor, followed by Quatre, the control devise slipping from his fingers.
Heero covered his nose and tried to get out of there, then he felt a sharp pain at the back of his head, he turned and fired, before he slumped to the floor.*