The Ties That Bind Us, by Siren Alecto
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this, would I?
Author's note: This is my first fanfic so go easy on me please? Yes, I know that there are hundreds of GW fics where the boys meet conflict and fall in love with the girls they fight with, and that some of them are really great fics, so how could I possibly top those? Well..... there isn't a fic out there quite like this one, and the only reason I'm writing it is because it won't leave me alone. I guess you would really classify this as an Alternate Universe kind of fic, it mixes the TV series and the manga with some original characters added for confusion. I don't really think I'm a good author so please no flames? Constructive criticism I can handle so lots of that, and if you have any suggestions for making it better I'd love to hear them. Um..... so enjoy the fic.
The Ties That Bind Us, by Siren Alecto
Chapter 1 - Pasts Collide
June
AC 200
Preventer Headquarters
17:00
Lady Une looked up from her paperwork at the sound of her door being abruptly thrown open. Her surprised expression met the two women who came through the door of her office with determined expressions on their faces.
The first one through the door was 5'9 with silky black hair down to her thighs and purple eyes. The one that followed her was about the same height with waist length fiery red hair in a braid and minty green eyes. Both women had hard, angry looks on their faces and determination in the way they carried themselves.
The raven haired woman marched up to the Lady's desk and stood stiffly in front of it while her companion shut the door with considerably less force than it had been opened with. Then the red-haired woman quickly joined her partner at Lady Une's desk.
Lady Une's gaze flickered between the two women in confusion then settled on the raven haired one for a moment. "Is there anything wrong Destiny?" Then her eyes swung back to the red-haired woman, "Angel?"
Destiny was the first to speak, and she was as she always was. Blunt. "Faith is missing. We have evidence that she might have been abducted."
"We wanted to tell you that we're going to look through the computers for some things and then we're leaving." Angel continued firmly.
Lady Une's expression went vaguely Commander Une-ish as she reviewed the information she was given and then she nodded sharply. "Right. But I want you two to be cautious. If any information gives you even a hint that you'll be outnumbered, call me on the speaker from your office. Now, if you don't mind...." Lady Une said in a tone that was clearly dismissive as she picked up her paperwork off her desk and went back to her task.
Destiny immediately stalked out the door the way she had previously come in, loudly. Angel quickly followed, her determined expression unchanged except for a spark of amusement as she watched her partner stalk down the hallway, scaring everyone she came across.
Soon enough, the two women reached their office and Destiny treated their door with the same rough treatment as she had Lady Une's before she went into the room. Angel could only sigh and shake hear head at Destiny's behaviour as the other woman went around the room slamming cabinets. "You know, we'll get in trouble if you break things again."
Destiny sighed and ran her hands through her long hair, trying to calm herself down. When her body started to relax, she dropped into the computer chair and threw herself into looking for where Faith might have been taken.
~*~*~*~* 30 min later *~*~*~*~
"Destiny!" Angel exclaimed, exasperated with her partner, "No matter how many times we go through it, it won't work! It's just us against a whole shit load lot of them!"
Destiny growled and crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't like working with people I don't trust." she said in a low tone of voice. Angel knew that tone, that was the one that Destiny used before she hurt someone. Or, Angel glanced around the room, something.
The red haired woman sighed, "Give me a break will you? You know what Une will do to us if we try this ourselves! We need help, we're getting it. Enough said. Une will give us competent officers, I'm sure."
Destiny shot a little glare at Angel, "That doesn't mean I have to like it."
Angel paused, in the middle of reaching for the speaker and looked at Destiny. "Out of anyone else's mouth, that phrase would have sounded petulant."
The raven haired woman watched as Angel dialed Lady Une on the speaker and glared. Angel's attention wasn't on her however, so she turned her amethyst eyes to the ceiling and glared at that instead.
When Angel got off the speaker with Lady Une, she walked over to where Destiny sat, glaring ineffectually at the ceiling. "It's all set now, she's going to ask a couple of her officers who can do it. I think she's giving us about 3 or so, and we have to be changed and ready to meet them in the Conference Room in about 45 minutes."
Angel watched in amusement as Destiny grabbed her coat and almost ran to the door. Destiny did, however treat the door better on her way out than she had on her way in, testament to her better mood at finding Faith. Angel got her coat at a less rushed pace and serenely followed her scary partner down the hall, toward the parking lot.
The red haired woman was treated to a view of Destiny's motorcycle roaring away from the Preventer's office, kicking up dust behind it. Angel grinned and walked over to her black convertible, sliding behind the wheel. She revved the engine and took off after her friend, the lighting on the road playing with the flames she had hand painted onto the car.
Reaching the house quickly, Destiny unlocked the door and ran up the steps two at a time, not bothering to lock the door behind her. Angel would be there soon enough, so there was no danger of someone getting in the house that wasn't supposed to be there. She ran down the hallway toward her room and punished another innocent door. Quickly rifling through her closet, she grabbed a basket that she hadn't opened in... Well, she hadn't opened it in a long time. She pulled the basket out of the closet and sat it on the bed before lifting the lid.
Inside were skintight black cotton pants and matching shirt, which made no sound when you wore them. Almost reverently, Destiny took the clothes from the basket she hadn't expected to open again. Quietly slipping on the pants and shirt, she looked for her signature purple hair ties she always wore. Finding them, she quickly put her hair up in a high ponytail with the long ties criss-crossing over her hair, almost making it look like her hair was braided. Then, finding at the bottom of the basket, an old pair of worn black boots, she put those on and she was ready.
Destiny stood and walked over to the full length mirror behind her door and looked at her reflection. Immediately, her mind drew her back to the last time she had worn these clothes, in exactly the arrangement she had on now. Forcefully driving away those thoughts, she opened the door and walked down the hallway toward the staircase.
While she had been preoccupied, Angel had apparently come and locked the door behind her, so Destiny settled herself down for a short wait. Almost immediately after that, Angel appeared coming down the hallway in similar black clothes to Destiny's, but with her own little embellishments. Angel, who normally had her hair down, or in a braid was wearing her hair in a bun, mostly covered by a backwards, black hat. She also had a gun resting against the small of her back, as well as knives hidden in her sleeves and pants.
Angel gave Destiny a tight little smile, showing that the past was bothering her too and motioned for Destiny to take the lead. "We'll take my car back to headquarters, it'll be easier than taking it and the bike. Especially if one of us gets hurt."
Destiny just nodded her agreement, accidents could happen to them as well as anyone else, and headed out to the car. Once both of them were ready, Angel turned the key in the ignition and they were roaring back to headquarters.
As soon as the car pulled into the parking lot, the girls were walking toward the entrance. Angel glanced at her watch, they had 5 minutes to go. She decided that taking a detour to the water fountain, to get a quick drink, would use up some of her extra time quite nicely. As she was walking down the hall, her mind slipped off into thought of the last time she had done something like this. 'I didn't expect to feel like this when I wore the old gear again..... Hell, I didn't expect to wear this again! It's just that it brings back too many memories...'
Suddenly, she felt herself crash into someone and stepped backwards immediately, finding herself really embarrassed. She looked up at whoever it was and started apologizing. "I'm really very sorry about that, I should have been watching where I was going. I just..." Her voice stopped working as she stared into eyes a color violet she had never expected to see again. "Duo?"
She hugged him fiercely and stepped back, looking at him. "I didn't think.... I never knew if I would see you again..." Her voice trailed off and she shook her head, "What a way to meet."
Duo raised an eyebrow at this.... girl who acted as if she was a long lost relative or something. Mentally Duo snorted at the thought, the only people he could have called family were long dead. He decided to ask just what the hell was going on here. "Do I know you, or something?"
Angel's jaw dropped in surprise, and she stared at Duo incredulously. "Do you know me? Ok Duo, I'm sure that we haven't spent that much time apart. Have you forgotten your best friends so quickly? Why, Solo'd be ashamed of you! You've forgotten me, your friend since before the Church! Why-"
Angel was cut off when Duo grabbed her and swung her around, her feet coming off the floor because he was about 3 or 4 inches taller than her. When he finally put her down, she mock punched him in the arm, "Now that was the greeting I expected! Imagine, to have forgotten me! Jeez!" She looked up at him and grinned impishly.
Duo grinned back at her and hugged her hard again, then stepped back. "We have a lot to catch up on Cara. Gods, I thought you were dead! Now we can be together, and I'm never going to lose you again!"
Angel smiled slightly, "Yeah we do have a lot to catch up on. And the name's Angel now, at least for a little while anyway. But I have a feeling you were supposed to be meeting two officers for an assignment, am I right?"
Duo looked at her, surprised. "Yeah, how...." His gaze went over her outfit for the first time and he groaned. "All this time and you were here!"
"Like you said, we have a lot to catch up on. But if I know Lady Une, this isn't the last surprise she has in store for us. We should get to the Conference Room. C'mon!" Angel grabbed Duo's hand and started running down the hallway toward the room.
They reached the Conference Room and opened the door in time to catch sight of Destiny's first glimpse of Trowa.
"Nanashi?" Destiny gasped, her purple eyes wide with astonishment.
Trowa looked just as surprised as Destiny, which was enough to tell Duo that something big had just happened. "Midii? But..." Trowa took a good look at Destiny and compared it to the mental image of Midii. The only similarities he could find between the two was the slightness of build. "You've changed."
Destiny looked at him, the coolness she had developed over the years coming back to her quickly. "You haven't."
"So which is the real you?" Trowa asked, giving her a hard stare.
Destiny just calmly folded her hands, giving him a cool look in return. "A good spy changes appearances so they won't be easily found."
Trowa leaned over the desk, "So are you spying for the Preventers or are you spying on the Preventers for someone else?"
Destiny's cool mask broke and she glared at him. "It's none of your business, but I'm with the Preventers."
Slowly Trowa settled himself back into his seat, his gaze never leaving Destiny. Destiny decided that ignoring him would be the best thing and set that plan to motion.
Angel looked back and forth between the two, who hadn't registered her and Duo's presence. "I think the Lady's plan backfired." She muttered to herself quietly. Unfortunately that was enough to bring the attention of the two combatants to her and Duo. "Um... Would you believe me if I said I didn't hear anything?" She asked weakly.
A small grin twitched at the corner of Destiny's mouth. "No."
"Damn." Angel said without any real heat behind it. She turned to Trowa and held her hand out for him to shake, "Nice to meet you. You can call me Angel, and her Destiny."
Trowa shook her hand politely, and noted the new name that Midii had. "Trowa Barton. Pleasure."
Duo looked at Destiny, trying to guess whether she would ignore him the way she had Trowa, or not.
Destiny smiled fully when she saw Duo's indecision and held her hand out to him first. "As she said, you can call me Destiny. And you are?"
Duo grinned, "Duo Maxwell. I may run and hide but I never tell a lie."
Angel wandered over to where Destiny was sitting and pulled up a chair next to her. "So you don't lie, you just tell half-truths and change the subject, right?"
Melodramatically, Duo grabbed his heart and fell into a convenient chair. "You wound me! Why would you ever think such a thing about me?"
Angel just grinned and looked at Destiny. "That's Duo-talk for 'yes'. It's good to see you haven't changed. Even your speech is pretty much the same." She said, turning back to Duo. "So, does anyone know who we're waiting for?"
Everyone looked up as a man walked through the door, with black hair tied back in a ponytail and black eyes. Duo grinned from where he was sitting. "Your question answered, Angel. May I introduce Chang Wufei, resident martial artist and upholder of Justice."
Wufei sighed, "Maxwell, do grow up."
"But Wu-bear, I'm already taller than you! If I grow any more, you'll have to strain your eyes to see me. Like Trowa."
Trowa rolled his eyes at the exchange, "Thanks, Duo."
"Sorry, Tro-man."
Angel stood up and held out her hand for him to shake, "You can call me Angel. It's nice to meet you."
"You may call me Wufei." He said, taking her hand.
Destiny followed after Angel, exchanging names and greetings with Wufei and then seating herself. Angel took this as a sign that she was to begin the briefing and breathed deeply.
"I don't know how much Une told you about this mission so I'll go over everything. We're doing a rescue mission for a friend of ours who was kidnapped by people who have the same basic plot as everyone else. To take over the world. There are also some things we have to tell you that you won't believe. Destiny and I, as well as others, were operated on by your scientists. They... 'enhanced' us, sort of like your Heero. I'm not going into detail, but the end result is that we have some... Gifts, you could call them. I can play with anything involving the weather; wind, water, lightning. Destiny has what you call telekinesis, she can move things with her thoughts. Faith, the girl we're rescuing, is telepathic and could control any person's mind and not even have them know she's there. We need to rescue her, so she can't be used for her Gift."
Angel looked around and fought the urge to find somewhere to hide.
"If what you're saying is true," Wufei said slowly, "then you're all some sort of Witches?"
Destiny smiled at the statement, "That word is true enough. I guess we would be 'made' Witches, unnatural any way you look at it really."
Duo looked at Angel, confused. "But I've known you since we were like, 5. I would have noticed it before, wouldn't I?"
Angel nodded, "Yeah. The scientists brought me to the Compound right after the Church burned down. So you see, they weren't there before."
Trowa looked at Angel intently, "And there are more like you both?"
"Yes."
"Are their... Gifts all different?"
"Yes."
"Wait." Wufei held up a hand, "If you have these.... Gifts, then why do you need our help?"
"Because as 1st generation experiments, we're only good to deal with about 50 people by ourselves if we have offensive powers. Angel's Gifts help her keep in shadows and she could fry people with lightning but backup is always a good plan." Destiny said quietly.
"What about your, what was her name? Faith?" Duo asked.
"We have no guarantee that she's awake to help us. She could be drugged, or unconscious. Both are bad. You can't use your Gift when you're drugged." Angel replied. "And we really should get going now. Anyone have a car all of us can fit in?"
Siren Alecto: Happy now?
Eiryn: Yes.
Siren Alecto: WHY are you making me write this again?
Eiryn: I need a break from poetry.
Siren Alecto: It's YOUR fault that you wake me up at 3am because you want me to write something.
Eiryn: Yes, and maybe I'll do it again, with this!
Siren Alecto: I thought Muses were supposed to be nice!
Eiryn: I'm the only one that could handle the way you endlessly procrastinate.
Siren Alecto: -.-; I can't help it that I have a life you know
Eiryn: Life? What life? You spend all your time reading other people's fanfiction and watching anime.
Siren Alecto: Right. That's my life. I don't procrastinate, I'm busy.
Eiryn: *Sure*. Whatever you wanna call it, if you do it with this fic, I'll make you only get 2 hours of sleep, I swear!
Siren Alecto: Well, there you have it folks. You'll have to put up with this fic until my damn Muse will let me out of it. Though a little encouragement would help her job. And a lot of flames would end it. Unless she gets perverse again....
Eiryn: . I AM NOT PERVERSE! ::chases Siren Alecto with a very sharp sword::
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this, would I?
Author's note: This is my first fanfic so go easy on me please? Yes, I know that there are hundreds of GW fics where the boys meet conflict and fall in love with the girls they fight with, and that some of them are really great fics, so how could I possibly top those? Well..... there isn't a fic out there quite like this one, and the only reason I'm writing it is because it won't leave me alone. I guess you would really classify this as an Alternate Universe kind of fic, it mixes the TV series and the manga with some original characters added for confusion. I don't really think I'm a good author so please no flames? Constructive criticism I can handle so lots of that, and if you have any suggestions for making it better I'd love to hear them. Um..... so enjoy the fic.
The Ties That Bind Us, by Siren Alecto
Chapter 1 - Pasts Collide
June
AC 200
Preventer Headquarters
17:00
Lady Une looked up from her paperwork at the sound of her door being abruptly thrown open. Her surprised expression met the two women who came through the door of her office with determined expressions on their faces.
The first one through the door was 5'9 with silky black hair down to her thighs and purple eyes. The one that followed her was about the same height with waist length fiery red hair in a braid and minty green eyes. Both women had hard, angry looks on their faces and determination in the way they carried themselves.
The raven haired woman marched up to the Lady's desk and stood stiffly in front of it while her companion shut the door with considerably less force than it had been opened with. Then the red-haired woman quickly joined her partner at Lady Une's desk.
Lady Une's gaze flickered between the two women in confusion then settled on the raven haired one for a moment. "Is there anything wrong Destiny?" Then her eyes swung back to the red-haired woman, "Angel?"
Destiny was the first to speak, and she was as she always was. Blunt. "Faith is missing. We have evidence that she might have been abducted."
"We wanted to tell you that we're going to look through the computers for some things and then we're leaving." Angel continued firmly.
Lady Une's expression went vaguely Commander Une-ish as she reviewed the information she was given and then she nodded sharply. "Right. But I want you two to be cautious. If any information gives you even a hint that you'll be outnumbered, call me on the speaker from your office. Now, if you don't mind...." Lady Une said in a tone that was clearly dismissive as she picked up her paperwork off her desk and went back to her task.
Destiny immediately stalked out the door the way she had previously come in, loudly. Angel quickly followed, her determined expression unchanged except for a spark of amusement as she watched her partner stalk down the hallway, scaring everyone she came across.
Soon enough, the two women reached their office and Destiny treated their door with the same rough treatment as she had Lady Une's before she went into the room. Angel could only sigh and shake hear head at Destiny's behaviour as the other woman went around the room slamming cabinets. "You know, we'll get in trouble if you break things again."
Destiny sighed and ran her hands through her long hair, trying to calm herself down. When her body started to relax, she dropped into the computer chair and threw herself into looking for where Faith might have been taken.
~*~*~*~* 30 min later *~*~*~*~
"Destiny!" Angel exclaimed, exasperated with her partner, "No matter how many times we go through it, it won't work! It's just us against a whole shit load lot of them!"
Destiny growled and crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't like working with people I don't trust." she said in a low tone of voice. Angel knew that tone, that was the one that Destiny used before she hurt someone. Or, Angel glanced around the room, something.
The red haired woman sighed, "Give me a break will you? You know what Une will do to us if we try this ourselves! We need help, we're getting it. Enough said. Une will give us competent officers, I'm sure."
Destiny shot a little glare at Angel, "That doesn't mean I have to like it."
Angel paused, in the middle of reaching for the speaker and looked at Destiny. "Out of anyone else's mouth, that phrase would have sounded petulant."
The raven haired woman watched as Angel dialed Lady Une on the speaker and glared. Angel's attention wasn't on her however, so she turned her amethyst eyes to the ceiling and glared at that instead.
When Angel got off the speaker with Lady Une, she walked over to where Destiny sat, glaring ineffectually at the ceiling. "It's all set now, she's going to ask a couple of her officers who can do it. I think she's giving us about 3 or so, and we have to be changed and ready to meet them in the Conference Room in about 45 minutes."
Angel watched in amusement as Destiny grabbed her coat and almost ran to the door. Destiny did, however treat the door better on her way out than she had on her way in, testament to her better mood at finding Faith. Angel got her coat at a less rushed pace and serenely followed her scary partner down the hall, toward the parking lot.
The red haired woman was treated to a view of Destiny's motorcycle roaring away from the Preventer's office, kicking up dust behind it. Angel grinned and walked over to her black convertible, sliding behind the wheel. She revved the engine and took off after her friend, the lighting on the road playing with the flames she had hand painted onto the car.
Reaching the house quickly, Destiny unlocked the door and ran up the steps two at a time, not bothering to lock the door behind her. Angel would be there soon enough, so there was no danger of someone getting in the house that wasn't supposed to be there. She ran down the hallway toward her room and punished another innocent door. Quickly rifling through her closet, she grabbed a basket that she hadn't opened in... Well, she hadn't opened it in a long time. She pulled the basket out of the closet and sat it on the bed before lifting the lid.
Inside were skintight black cotton pants and matching shirt, which made no sound when you wore them. Almost reverently, Destiny took the clothes from the basket she hadn't expected to open again. Quietly slipping on the pants and shirt, she looked for her signature purple hair ties she always wore. Finding them, she quickly put her hair up in a high ponytail with the long ties criss-crossing over her hair, almost making it look like her hair was braided. Then, finding at the bottom of the basket, an old pair of worn black boots, she put those on and she was ready.
Destiny stood and walked over to the full length mirror behind her door and looked at her reflection. Immediately, her mind drew her back to the last time she had worn these clothes, in exactly the arrangement she had on now. Forcefully driving away those thoughts, she opened the door and walked down the hallway toward the staircase.
While she had been preoccupied, Angel had apparently come and locked the door behind her, so Destiny settled herself down for a short wait. Almost immediately after that, Angel appeared coming down the hallway in similar black clothes to Destiny's, but with her own little embellishments. Angel, who normally had her hair down, or in a braid was wearing her hair in a bun, mostly covered by a backwards, black hat. She also had a gun resting against the small of her back, as well as knives hidden in her sleeves and pants.
Angel gave Destiny a tight little smile, showing that the past was bothering her too and motioned for Destiny to take the lead. "We'll take my car back to headquarters, it'll be easier than taking it and the bike. Especially if one of us gets hurt."
Destiny just nodded her agreement, accidents could happen to them as well as anyone else, and headed out to the car. Once both of them were ready, Angel turned the key in the ignition and they were roaring back to headquarters.
As soon as the car pulled into the parking lot, the girls were walking toward the entrance. Angel glanced at her watch, they had 5 minutes to go. She decided that taking a detour to the water fountain, to get a quick drink, would use up some of her extra time quite nicely. As she was walking down the hall, her mind slipped off into thought of the last time she had done something like this. 'I didn't expect to feel like this when I wore the old gear again..... Hell, I didn't expect to wear this again! It's just that it brings back too many memories...'
Suddenly, she felt herself crash into someone and stepped backwards immediately, finding herself really embarrassed. She looked up at whoever it was and started apologizing. "I'm really very sorry about that, I should have been watching where I was going. I just..." Her voice stopped working as she stared into eyes a color violet she had never expected to see again. "Duo?"
She hugged him fiercely and stepped back, looking at him. "I didn't think.... I never knew if I would see you again..." Her voice trailed off and she shook her head, "What a way to meet."
Duo raised an eyebrow at this.... girl who acted as if she was a long lost relative or something. Mentally Duo snorted at the thought, the only people he could have called family were long dead. He decided to ask just what the hell was going on here. "Do I know you, or something?"
Angel's jaw dropped in surprise, and she stared at Duo incredulously. "Do you know me? Ok Duo, I'm sure that we haven't spent that much time apart. Have you forgotten your best friends so quickly? Why, Solo'd be ashamed of you! You've forgotten me, your friend since before the Church! Why-"
Angel was cut off when Duo grabbed her and swung her around, her feet coming off the floor because he was about 3 or 4 inches taller than her. When he finally put her down, she mock punched him in the arm, "Now that was the greeting I expected! Imagine, to have forgotten me! Jeez!" She looked up at him and grinned impishly.
Duo grinned back at her and hugged her hard again, then stepped back. "We have a lot to catch up on Cara. Gods, I thought you were dead! Now we can be together, and I'm never going to lose you again!"
Angel smiled slightly, "Yeah we do have a lot to catch up on. And the name's Angel now, at least for a little while anyway. But I have a feeling you were supposed to be meeting two officers for an assignment, am I right?"
Duo looked at her, surprised. "Yeah, how...." His gaze went over her outfit for the first time and he groaned. "All this time and you were here!"
"Like you said, we have a lot to catch up on. But if I know Lady Une, this isn't the last surprise she has in store for us. We should get to the Conference Room. C'mon!" Angel grabbed Duo's hand and started running down the hallway toward the room.
They reached the Conference Room and opened the door in time to catch sight of Destiny's first glimpse of Trowa.
"Nanashi?" Destiny gasped, her purple eyes wide with astonishment.
Trowa looked just as surprised as Destiny, which was enough to tell Duo that something big had just happened. "Midii? But..." Trowa took a good look at Destiny and compared it to the mental image of Midii. The only similarities he could find between the two was the slightness of build. "You've changed."
Destiny looked at him, the coolness she had developed over the years coming back to her quickly. "You haven't."
"So which is the real you?" Trowa asked, giving her a hard stare.
Destiny just calmly folded her hands, giving him a cool look in return. "A good spy changes appearances so they won't be easily found."
Trowa leaned over the desk, "So are you spying for the Preventers or are you spying on the Preventers for someone else?"
Destiny's cool mask broke and she glared at him. "It's none of your business, but I'm with the Preventers."
Slowly Trowa settled himself back into his seat, his gaze never leaving Destiny. Destiny decided that ignoring him would be the best thing and set that plan to motion.
Angel looked back and forth between the two, who hadn't registered her and Duo's presence. "I think the Lady's plan backfired." She muttered to herself quietly. Unfortunately that was enough to bring the attention of the two combatants to her and Duo. "Um... Would you believe me if I said I didn't hear anything?" She asked weakly.
A small grin twitched at the corner of Destiny's mouth. "No."
"Damn." Angel said without any real heat behind it. She turned to Trowa and held her hand out for him to shake, "Nice to meet you. You can call me Angel, and her Destiny."
Trowa shook her hand politely, and noted the new name that Midii had. "Trowa Barton. Pleasure."
Duo looked at Destiny, trying to guess whether she would ignore him the way she had Trowa, or not.
Destiny smiled fully when she saw Duo's indecision and held her hand out to him first. "As she said, you can call me Destiny. And you are?"
Duo grinned, "Duo Maxwell. I may run and hide but I never tell a lie."
Angel wandered over to where Destiny was sitting and pulled up a chair next to her. "So you don't lie, you just tell half-truths and change the subject, right?"
Melodramatically, Duo grabbed his heart and fell into a convenient chair. "You wound me! Why would you ever think such a thing about me?"
Angel just grinned and looked at Destiny. "That's Duo-talk for 'yes'. It's good to see you haven't changed. Even your speech is pretty much the same." She said, turning back to Duo. "So, does anyone know who we're waiting for?"
Everyone looked up as a man walked through the door, with black hair tied back in a ponytail and black eyes. Duo grinned from where he was sitting. "Your question answered, Angel. May I introduce Chang Wufei, resident martial artist and upholder of Justice."
Wufei sighed, "Maxwell, do grow up."
"But Wu-bear, I'm already taller than you! If I grow any more, you'll have to strain your eyes to see me. Like Trowa."
Trowa rolled his eyes at the exchange, "Thanks, Duo."
"Sorry, Tro-man."
Angel stood up and held out her hand for him to shake, "You can call me Angel. It's nice to meet you."
"You may call me Wufei." He said, taking her hand.
Destiny followed after Angel, exchanging names and greetings with Wufei and then seating herself. Angel took this as a sign that she was to begin the briefing and breathed deeply.
"I don't know how much Une told you about this mission so I'll go over everything. We're doing a rescue mission for a friend of ours who was kidnapped by people who have the same basic plot as everyone else. To take over the world. There are also some things we have to tell you that you won't believe. Destiny and I, as well as others, were operated on by your scientists. They... 'enhanced' us, sort of like your Heero. I'm not going into detail, but the end result is that we have some... Gifts, you could call them. I can play with anything involving the weather; wind, water, lightning. Destiny has what you call telekinesis, she can move things with her thoughts. Faith, the girl we're rescuing, is telepathic and could control any person's mind and not even have them know she's there. We need to rescue her, so she can't be used for her Gift."
Angel looked around and fought the urge to find somewhere to hide.
"If what you're saying is true," Wufei said slowly, "then you're all some sort of Witches?"
Destiny smiled at the statement, "That word is true enough. I guess we would be 'made' Witches, unnatural any way you look at it really."
Duo looked at Angel, confused. "But I've known you since we were like, 5. I would have noticed it before, wouldn't I?"
Angel nodded, "Yeah. The scientists brought me to the Compound right after the Church burned down. So you see, they weren't there before."
Trowa looked at Angel intently, "And there are more like you both?"
"Yes."
"Are their... Gifts all different?"
"Yes."
"Wait." Wufei held up a hand, "If you have these.... Gifts, then why do you need our help?"
"Because as 1st generation experiments, we're only good to deal with about 50 people by ourselves if we have offensive powers. Angel's Gifts help her keep in shadows and she could fry people with lightning but backup is always a good plan." Destiny said quietly.
"What about your, what was her name? Faith?" Duo asked.
"We have no guarantee that she's awake to help us. She could be drugged, or unconscious. Both are bad. You can't use your Gift when you're drugged." Angel replied. "And we really should get going now. Anyone have a car all of us can fit in?"
Siren Alecto: Happy now?
Eiryn: Yes.
Siren Alecto: WHY are you making me write this again?
Eiryn: I need a break from poetry.
Siren Alecto: It's YOUR fault that you wake me up at 3am because you want me to write something.
Eiryn: Yes, and maybe I'll do it again, with this!
Siren Alecto: I thought Muses were supposed to be nice!
Eiryn: I'm the only one that could handle the way you endlessly procrastinate.
Siren Alecto: -.-; I can't help it that I have a life you know
Eiryn: Life? What life? You spend all your time reading other people's fanfiction and watching anime.
Siren Alecto: Right. That's my life. I don't procrastinate, I'm busy.
Eiryn: *Sure*. Whatever you wanna call it, if you do it with this fic, I'll make you only get 2 hours of sleep, I swear!
Siren Alecto: Well, there you have it folks. You'll have to put up with this fic until my damn Muse will let me out of it. Though a little encouragement would help her job. And a lot of flames would end it. Unless she gets perverse again....
Eiryn: . I AM NOT PERVERSE! ::chases Siren Alecto with a very sharp sword::