***Author's note: Warning.... warning! This is a cross-over of SailorMoon and Gundam Wing. (If you hadn't watched any of these series you're missing some, in my opinion, very good anime!) Don't worry... the Sailor Senshis are NOT going to pilot the Gundams... I'll still leave that job to the original Gundam Pilots (::drools:: ^_~). Frankly,... I simply couldn't resist mixing these two anime, I mean Heero ( ::drools::) doesn't seem to be your normal everyday human ( ^_^; but then again your normal every human doesn't go around in a mobile suit made of gundanium). So as you probably already guess..this fanfic is going to evolve around Heero's mysterious past...well at least I'll try to make it so... ^_^; .. This storyline takes place A.C. (After Colony) 198 Gundam time and the second year of Crystal Tokyo (most likely A.D. 2901, assuming that Crystal Tokyo is established 30th century on the dot) SailorMoon time. Now here's the most important part of this note: PLEASE! PleasepleasepleasepleasePLEASE...give me feed backs... any feed back! ^_^
Once and for all.. I thank you for bearing with me through my ramblings and my story!
And now.. I wish you "Happy Reading!"
***DISCLAIMER***: ::sighs:: this part always make me feel bad ;_;... I DO NOT OWN Sailormoon or Gundam Wing ::sniffles:: never had... never will. They belong to those ingenious people who created them, so please don't sue me! I'm only venting my fantasies... ^_~*
**p.s.: I kept everyone young! Well... young enough... ^_^; All pilots and Inner Senshis are 18 years old... the Pilots work (do the math)... and the Senshis'll work too... 'cause of the "Great Sleep" (the era of time in SailorMoon were the world freezes over and all living things remain asleep for a long time but maintains the same appearance). Since no definite date was ever given of when the "Great Sleep" starts or how long it lasted...I took the liberty to manipulate it to make my story work. =)
Alright... End of all ramblings for real now... Happy Reading! ^_^
Prologue
Crystal Tokyo, A.D. 2901...
"I don't understand," cried out a frustrated black cat, " why would the Sunarians attack us? Queen Serenity had ruled the Sun Kingdom as a constitutional monarch during the Silver Millennium, why would they reject Usagi now? She is Queen Serenity's daughter for crying out loud!"
"Now, now Luna. There have been a period of 1000 years between the Silver Millennium and the newly established Crystal Millennium,... maybe they're just nervous." the white cat tried to calm his wife.
"I'm not so sure Artemis," sighed Luna, "I think there's more to this than meets the eye."
At this moment, the exhausted Sailor Senshis all filed into the room. Their haggard faces revealed the hard day of battle that was just coming to a close.
"How's the battle?" asked Luna in concern.
"Most of the Sunarians have fled,...it's safe to say that we are winning this one." replied SailorMars as she slumped into a nearby chair.
"How's Usagi-chan?" asked a worried SailorVenus.
"We don't know." replied Artemis, "Mamoru-san's in there with her ever since she collapsed in battle."
"If anything happens to her, the Sunarians are dead meat!" SailorJupiter growled out while slamming her fist into the palm of her other hand.
"Now's not the time to think of revenge," SailorNeptune chided gently and glance purposefully at the silently brooding SailorUranus.
"I'm going in to check on Usagi-chan and Mamoru-san." declared SailorMercury.
"I'm going in with you," Luna said with a tone of finality that indicated no arguments.
"Setsuna-mama," ventured SailorSaturn, "I know that you are not allowed to reveal any of the possible futures,...but this battle is no longer a future."
"What are you trying to ask Hotaru?" questioned SailorPluto.
"Well,...I was wondering if you remembered wether or not this battle was supposed to happen."
"....."
"Why are you asking this, Hotaru?" SailorUranus asked, frowning, "Are you keeping something from us?"
Looking at everyone in the eye, SailorSaturn said, "I have this feeling that this battle was not supposed to be." Turning to Pluto, "I'm hoping I'm wrong."
"Frankly, I don't remember having any type of trouble until after Small Lady's birth, but then again,...I may be wrong since my memories are so jumbled."
Just as Pluto finished, a very weary Endymion stepped out with Mercury and Luna.
"How is she, Mamoru-san?" Neptune asked tentatively.
"I transferred enough power from the Golden Crystal to her to sustain life," Endymion answered.
"Why didn't you transfer more energy to her and heal her?!" demanded Uranus.
Neptune placed a hand on Uranus' shoulder to calm her down, understanding how Usagi had grown on her despite their initial differences.
"I wish I could!" Endymion retorted angrily. "Somehow she just wouldn't take in anymore of my power than what was needed to sustain her life! Damn all of this!" he finished as he slammed his fist into the wall.
The sudden outburst of emotion from the usually calm and collected King Endymion stunned the room into silence until a weak but firm voice broke it. "Mamo-chan," the voice scolded gently, "you shouldn't weaken our defenses more by destroying our palace!"
"Usako! What are you doing up!" Endymion exclaimed while rushing to her side.
"Your Majesty, you need your rest!" Pluto seconded.
"Setsuna-san, you know better than to address me by 'your majesty' and such." Usagi smiled weakly.
By then, Uranus couldn't contain her frustration anymore and shouted at her queen, "Why didn't you take in more energy to heal yourself?" She brushed off Neptune's restraining hand harshly and continued her tirade. "If you're worried about weakening Mamoru-san ----"
"Course not! Who would worry about Baka-Mamoru. " Usagi joked while jabbing Endymion's arm in a gesture of affectionate playfulness. Seeing her friends' grave expressions, she quickly straightened her face and continued in a serious manner, "It's not me."
"What are you talking about Odango?" Mars asked kindly.
Usagi heaved a loud sigh and continued with her eyes down cast, "It's not me, I would have had no problem absorbing more energy from Mamo-chan to aid myself in initiating the healing process. I know that little extra wouldn't hurt him." She paused as if trying to form her thoughts into the proper wordings before voicing them.
Uranus, impatient to find out the problem, interrupted her train of thoughts with an abrupt "But??"
"The Silver Crystal is blocking me from taking in more energy than was needed to sustain my life."
At that, gasps and words of surprise arose simultaneously in the room. Luna gasped out in utter confusion, "IMPOSSIBLE!"
Mercury, trying to put logic into the situation, voiced the question that was running rampant in everyone's mind, "Why?"
Suddenly, Neo-Queen Serenity's expression change to one of wistful longing, "It's longing for the Star Crystal." While everyone in the room was trying to digest this new piece of information, she turned to look out the window, past the battlefield and the charred horizon, half-whispering to herself, "I miss you."
The year is A.C. 198, two years after the conclusion of the crisis at X-18999. The government's Preventer intelligence agency, established to keep the peace, decides to secretly rebuild the five Gundams: Wing Zero, Deathscythe Hell, Altron, Heavy Arms, and Sandrock, should a new crisis like that of X-18999 arise. But only trusting those Gundams to their respective pilots, these mobile suits can only be activated with the pilots' fingerprints and eye scans. The Zero system was only introduced into the new Wing Zero. The knowledge belongs to our original heroes only....
Earth, A.C. 198...
"Lady Une," Relena greeted politely, "it's been a long time since we last met on unofficial terms."
Taking the offered hand in a firm handshake, Lady Une said in amusement, "Actually, isn't this the *first* time we met on unofficial terms?"
Relena smiled at the comment and shook her head in agreement. "Then we should do this more often," and sat down at the offered seat.
Relena took the time to admire the beautiful scenery of the large estate that Treize Khushrenada had left to Lady Une in his will. 'This place is beautiful when not used as a structure of confinement,' she thought. An attendant pouring her a cup of tea brought her out of her reflection.
Lady Une dismissed the attendants with a wave of her hand. "A little privacy never hurts anyone," Lady Une remarked at Relena's questioning look. Relena raises an eyebrow as if to challenge the degree of truth of that statement. Lady Une sighed in defeat. "Okay,"she confessed, "this little 'tea party' may not be all unofficial."
Relena remained silent but leaned forward to indicate encouragement.
"It's about the Gundam pilots..."
"..."
"The War is over and...well... they're 18, I think it's about time they get some real education."
"That's all?" Relena asked in a tone of disbelieve. "Getting the Gundam pilots back into the education area of life overlaps onto the 'official' side of things?" Amusement clearly written over her face.
"Well,... you tell me." Lady Une said with a quirky smile while reclining into a comfortable position in her seat.
Slowly, Relena's thoughts worked her into a fit of giggles. "Quatre will not be a problem," she finally managed out, "but the others..." She trailed of into another fit of giggles.
"My thoughts exactly."
Noting Lady Une's secretive smile, Relena asked, "So what do you have in mind?"
Colony L2...
"What?!" exclaimed Duo Maxwell. "What do you mean there's an order to destroy my Gundam?!"
"That what I was ordered to do by Lady Une and Vice-foreign minister Darlian." the officer patiently explained.
"Lady Une *AND* RELENA?? No Way! There's gotta be some mistake!"
A voice over the loud speaker announcing an incoming transmission from Earth interrupted Duo's complains. The main screen flashed on and Lady Une appeared on screen.
"Well, Duo, glad you're here already." Lady Une smiled and pushed back her hair.
"Hey! What's the big idea, why do you want to destroy my Gundam?! And why'd you use Relena's name?"
Lady Une chuckled pleasantly at Duo's outburst, which further infuriated him. Lady Une stepped aside a little and Relena came into view. "Hello, Duo."
"Relena?"
Relena smiled and nodded.
"You didn't..." Duo trailed off.
Her smile remained unchanged, but a mischievous twinkle flashed in her eyes. "I did.
This order was given with my full knowledge and consent." She somehow managed to stifle her laughter at seeing Duo's shocked face and continued in an even tone of voice, "Of course we can always change the order..."
Duo sighed. "Okay, what's the catch."
"You're going back to 'school'."
Duo was about to answer when he suddenly stopped, blinked, and blurted, "That's it!?"
"Yep!" Relena confirmed.
"Alright. Just tell me when to start and where to go." 'Who's there to say if I stayed the whole time,' Duo thought.
"You're going to the Space Academic Institute in Colony L1, the choice of your major is, of course, yours. Get ready as soon as this little chat of ours is over, your shuttle leaves at 7:00 p.m." Lady Une informed.
"7:00? You can't get a mobile suit ready and loaded on a carrier in a half an hour!"
"Who said Deathscythe is leaving with you?" Lady Une asked mockingly. "Don't worry," she added, "we'll take good care of Deathscythe,... as long as you finish college without too many unreasonable absences." With that, Lady Une ended transmission.
"Damn!" Duo muttered under his breath and ran off in a hurry to get ready for the flight.
Colony L1...
Duo heaved a sigh as he threw his duffle bag over his right shoulder. Walking out of the terminal beside him was Hirde, chattering away while Duo gave terse replies when necessary.
"That's it Duo. What wrong?" Hirde demanded, hands on her hips.
"Huh? What? Nothing." came Duo's simple reply.
"Don't B.S. me, Duo. 'Huh? What? Nothing' is *not* you. What happened to your usual talkative-self?"
He mumble inaudibly, hoping to brush off Hirde's interrogations with that. Bad idea. Duo's uncooperative attitude only served to further irritate her. "Duo..." she grounded out, her tone threatening. His silence during the two-hour flight worried her, now his reluctance to discuss his problems infuriated her. He had shared his troubles with her the during the War, why stop now? "Duo, talk to me!" she all but yelled at him, and then stomped ahead of him.
"Hirde! Hey! Wait a sec!" Duo frantically called after her.
"Don't bother!" she snapped.
"Look, I'm sorry," Duo said as he caught up to her. "I just don't want to go back to school."
"Why not? Think of it as an opportunity to make friends."
"Why bother? I already have you and the guys. 'Sides, I don't want to lose my freedom: being responsible to no one and nothing but myself. Now I'll have to be bossed around by some old guy that haven't made half the contribution to the Colonies like I had."
Hirde sighed as she and Duo finally made their way out of the crowded space-port. "Duo, you need to stop thinking like this." Hirde said after a short pause. "You're only eighteen, you have a life ahead of you...and in order to survive in life, you need a decent job, which would require a certificate telling the world that you've had a higher level of education. You should consider yourself lucky to have had all your tuition, books, etc. all paid in full by the government, *I* have to work to support myself through college."
Duo sighed and lowered his head in defeat.
"Excuse me," a man in officer's uniform interrupted, "Are you Duo Maxwell and Hirde Schbeiker?"
"Yeah, what do you want?" Duo asked in an irritated tone.
"Your ride has been waiting."
"Our ride?" Hirde asked.
"Yes, ma'am," turning to Duo, the man continued, "please hurry, the others have been waiting."
"Others?" Duo inquired as they approached the black limousine where the driver already had the door opened for Duo and Hirde. Taking a quick glance inside, he saw his soon-to-be fellow passengers and said a simple "Oh" of understanding.
"So you guys are the tardy ones." said a blonde boy pleasantly.
"Tardy? We never knew we were gonna have an escort, Quatre." Duo replied.
Another boy, clearly Chinese, snickered and muttered, "An escort? You mean more like surveillance."
"Wufei, don't be so harsh." Quatre said in response to the former's remark. "I'm sure they meant well." he continued to plead.
Wufei only responded with another snicker. Trowa, the only boy left that haven't spoken leaned forward to help Hirde into the car, "Nice to see you again."
"Thanks." Hirde said as she got in the car.
With Duo finally settled in the car and the last of the luggage secured in the trunk, the driver started the engine and drove towards the university. The car exhaust left a raven-haired girl of eighteen coughing and cursing after the limousine, her violet eyes flashing with anger. Beside her, a girl with shoulder length blue hair patted her and nodded towards the opposite direction where a tall brunette and a petite blond waited somewhat impatiently.
"Where are those two?" the girl with raven-colored tresses asked with a concerned tone that belied her scowling expression.
"You know her conditions," the tall brunette answered, "this flight was a bit on the stressful side for her, so he's on the way to the hotel with her already."
"Why did we have to take a shuttle to the Colonies anyway?" her violet eyes flashed with renewed anger.
"We cannot allow anything to arise suspicion." the blue haired girl explained, as she has done so many times before. Her persevering patience was made possible only because she understood her friend's protectiveness of the absent girl.
"What about the university?," the blond girl asked.
"I'm going to hack into their computer system tonight." the blue haired girl replied confidently as she took off her glasses.
