NOTE: Usagi and the Gundam Pilots are all 18. Trowa, however is 19. Also, Trowa and Quatre are a couple.

The Perfect Soldier's Toils

*Last Time: "By the way," she said as she turned back around and began reaching for her hood, "my name is Usagi Serenity Winner Tsukino and I take orders from no man." She dropped her hood as she spoke her name. Heero took a sharp intake of breath, she was breath taking (AN: he he). He was speechless at the goddess that stood before him. Before he could even blink she disappeared with the same blinding flash of light. She literally disappeared into thin air. Now, the Perfect Soldier, Heero Yui, was confused as hell.

This Time:

Click. Click. Click. That was the only sound coming from the dark room. The only source of light in the room was the glow from the laptop computer that was being furiously typed upon. Without the sound of typing, there was no way to prove that the only occupant of the room was alive, for he had not left the room for anything in the last three days.

Duo was worried. It's not like Heero had never worked himself this hard before, it's just that he's never gone three days straight without food, water, or rest to work on his laptop with no apparent reason. Whenever he did this, there was usually a mission of some sort going on. Heero had even stopped responding to his questions, not even his usual Hnn' was heard. The problem with his behavior today was that they hadn't had any missions for over two years, not since the Barton Foundation incident. There's peace now, what could have caused him to act like this? I hope we're not going to have to fight anymore.' With that, Duo sighed and walked away from Heero's door to go tell the other Gundam pilots about Heero's attitude.

Kuso!! Nothing. Where the hell is she?' Heero thought as he stared at the screen flashing the words Search brought back no results" like a taunt. Where are you?' He asked himself as he began the search for the mysterious woman again. So far, Heero's only two leads had turned nothing up. He had searched the name she gave him, Usagi Serenity Winner Tsukino, and it came up with only two results: Usagi Tsukino and Serenity Winner. When he clicked on the first, Usagi Tsukino, it showed what looked to be a short profile on the girl, no picture included. All he needed to read were the first two lines before he gave up on that one -

Name: Tsukino Usagi

Status: Deceased — June 30, 1994 — age 16' (if the Galaxia battle was 2 years after the beginning of Sailor Moon, and Sailor Moon started in 1992, and Usagi left after the Galaxia incident)

He closed that window and opened the next, Serenity Winner. Again, it seemed to be a dead end —

Name: Serenity Winner

Status: Deceased — June 30, AC 189 — age 10' (all will be explained)

Ever since then, all his searches had come up with nothing. It was like she had never even existed. Heero was getting frustrated. Either she lied to him, or she was better at covering her tracks then he could ever hope to be; he opted to believe the first since he was the Perfect Soldier and had been trained since childhood. I'm going to find you, don't worry. You can't escape me for much longer.' Heero thought to the computer (AN: it's like talking to it but cause it would look odd to do that he's thinking it) and began diligently typing away at the keyboard again.

Duo walked into the living room of Quatre's Sanc Kingdom mansion where the other Gundam pilots were sitting. Quatre looked up at Duo's entrance from the book he was reading. Wufei looked at the braided pilot who had just come down the stairs that lead to the bedrooms. Trowa slightly shifted his eyes away from the wall he was studying oh-so-intently (J ).

"He's still in there isn't he." Quatre spoke up, seeing the look of worry and distress on Duo's face. Duo just gave a small sigh and lightly shook his head.

"I can't believe he's been up there for three days. What's he doing up there?" Duo asked quietly, mostly to himself.

"You don't think there's another enemy, do you?" Quatre voiced the question that had been on all of the pilot's minds.

"I don't know. I just don't know. He doesn't even respond to me anymore. The only response I've gotten out of him in the past two days (AN: he was responding the first) was a gun to the face when I joked about accidentally' tripping over the cord to his computer and shutting it off. The thing is, he didn't pull the gun on me like he normally does. That time he had the safety off right away, didn't say anything, and it looked like his trigger finger was actually shaking in his restraint to kill me."

"Ha! You finally pushed him too far!" Wufei laughed at the braided one.

"Shut up Wufei! I'm serious. The guy is loosing it. I just don't know how to get him out of his mood and back to the no-emotions, monotonous, Perfect Soldier we all know and love. This shell of him is starting to scare me." Duo said. Amazingly, Wufei didn't say anything back and actually looked to be in agreement with Duo.

Before any of the boys could say anything, the sound of a door opening was heard from the second floor. The boys sat, holding their breaths, hoping to see Heero coming out of his room. That's just what they saw, and let out a collective sigh. However, their relief was short-lived as they heard the news Heero had left the room to bring them.

"We have a mission."*