Gundam Wing: Desecration
By Mystical Star
A Kitty-Chan Production
Disclaimer: I own none of GW, characters or otherwise. However, I do own Kat, Severina, Tom, Li and their Gundams. The idea for Severina's name was Zero's. Zechs' little speech that he's going to make was spun off of one of my reviews, thanks so much to Vegetto SS5!
Author's Note: If you're really looking for some good background music, I suggest Real Folk Blues from Cowboy Bebop. It fits with most anything in this story, with the exception of battle. And please pardon my poor spelling of Wufei; I didn't realize it until Chevira Lowe pointed it out to me, thanks so much!!
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Part III~Intertwining Pasts
Marquis Residence--9:47 AM
"Noin?" Zechs asked, looking up from the television, which was reporting on the Gudams' attack on the White Fang Lunar Base. Zechs still called his wife by her maiden name, and she'd never really paid it any mind. That was the way it had always been.
"Yes, Zechs?" Lucrezia answered as she buttoned up her Preventer uniform shirt. "Do you think that Relena wants us to fight?"
Noin thought for a minute, noticing how her husband used the present tense, as if to suggest his sister was actually alive somewhere. Figuring it was just a slip up on his part, she answered,
"I believe that she would want us to fight for what's right. Peace is the outcome of war, I'm sure that Miss Relena would have known that and wanted us to join in the battle to achieve that outcome." Lucrezia said casually. Zechs was silent for a moment. Then he spoke.
"Do you suppose they're back yet?" He asked, nodding to the television. Noin looked at the TV and then back to the buttons on her shirt. "Yes, probably,"
"I have an announcement to make to them, I'll meet you at the building in an hour,"
Preventer Housing Facility-10:14 AM
Heero Yuy, Trowa Barton, Thomas Parks, and Chang Wufei sat at a table in the lounge; Tom and Wufei playing a game of Chess when the door opened and the five pilots came strolling in.
"Hey! When did you guys decide to go and cause havoc without letting us in on the fun?" Tom questioned the newcomers.
"This morning, while you were still sleeping," Severina taunted.
Wufei looked up at the young Asian newcomer and his eyes narrowed. "You!" He exclaimed as he pointed to Li.
"Uh, hello--" Li was interrupted.
"A White Lion!" Wufei broke in. Li looked a little more than astounded and confused.
"Yes--"
"Sworn enemies of my clan, the Dragons!" Chang finally cut to the chase.
"How d'you know he's a White Lion or whatever you called 'im, eh?" Thomas asked as he stole one of Wufei's pawns and moved one of his own forward.
"The symbol on his headband, and put my pawn back Parks," Wufei stated. Tom looked at Chang with an astounded look on his face; Wufei had his back to him. Severina and Kat giggled.
"How could I be your sworn enemy? I brought you your Nataku, and plus, I've never even met you!" Li exclaimed.
"Lions have always been the enemy of the Dragons! You should know that if you were a true Lion," Wufei snapped.
"Good God, why should I hold a grudge over a dispute my ancestor had?" Li shot back, crossing his arms. Apparently, this had been an argument he'd had earlier in life.
"Did I miss something--?" Duo asked, scratching his head.
"Yes, as usual, Maxwell," Chang Wufei sighed. "And may I ask why you guys are supposed to hate each other?" Severina wondered.
"It has been the way of our clans ever since the beginning." Was Wufei's simple answer. "Man, you are a moron, you don't even have a straight answer! How are you supposed to hate each other if you don't even know why you hate each other?!" Duo asked. Li ground his teeth.
"But I DON'T hate him!!!" He exclaimed, waving his arms in the air.
Trowa and Heero, who were silently watching the scene, unfold, stared from Wufei to Li without much change in their expression. Each was taking in the differences in personalities. Li was a lot more laid back than Wufei, even a joker, it seemed.
The arguing was stopped by the sound of the door opening. Zechs and Noin stepped in.
All of the pilots looked at Zechs, surprised to see him there. The room was silent for a minute. Zechs nodded in a gesture of greeting. Heero stared at his one time enemy, and Zechs stared back at Heero. Then, still staring into Heero's face, he began to speak.
"Friends," He said,
"It is ridiculous to try to solve a war with more fighting. Unfortunately, the human race is not as forgiving as we'd like to think, so fighting for peace is necessary. If we truly are Preventers, then we shall continue to prevent the loss of lives and fight until the end for what we believe in." He stated as he looked at each pilot.
"Gundam pilots, will you fight with me?" Zechs asked.
Heero Yuy stood from his chair and looked Zechs straight in the eye for what seemed like hours and then said,
"Mission accepted,"
Preventer Office Building-5:00 PM
It had been an extremely long day. All of the pilots had set to work hacking all of White Fang's computers, gathering information and plans. Heero was researching the plans for mobile suits, Tom and Li looked for information on bases, Quatre, Duo, Kat, and Severina busied themselves with ordering tons of mobile suit parts and sending out advertisements to underground peace organizations to recruit a small army, and Trowa and Wufei drew up plans for security of the Preventer officials and bases.
Katsumi sighed as she pushed one last key to send out an order for mobile suit parts and put her hands behind her head. "Man, we've been workin' since afternoon. We need a break," She said. Duo nodded as he finished sending another large forwarded email. "I need to unwind," He added.
"Maybe we should all go somewhere," Quatre noted offhandedly. Severina's eyes lit up. "Great idea, Quatre," She said, getting an idea. Kat looked at her compatriot.
"I know that look," she said.
"We're going to a club tonight!" Severina declared.
"AWESOME!" Duo cried as he jumped from his seat.
"I don't think--" Quatre was interrupted.
"You're going, whether I have to hold a gun to your head to get you to go or not," Severina shook her finger at the blonde.
"But where will we go?" He asked.
"Found a place," Kat rang out as she typed something into her computer. She wrote down an address on her clipboard and then changed her screen to an email window. She typed out a message, filled in the receivers, and then sent it.
"Check your inboxes, we're going out tonight!" She declared as she stood and left the room.
In another room, same time...
"Great, more junk mail," Li sighed as he opened his inbox. "Huh?" He asked as he looked at the subject heading.
"You got it too?" Tom asked as he too opened his mail. "Hm," Li nodded his head as the message opened. The young Asian boy's eyes lit up as he read the message,
Everybody-
We've all been working way to hard today; we're all going out tonight. And I mean ALL of us, so find Wufei and Heero and stick a gun to their head if they refuse. See you at Jinku Jinku on 4th street at 7 tonight.
Kat, Severina, Quatre, and Duo
"I'll get Wufei, you get Heero?" Tom suggested with a mischievous smirk on his face. Li smiled and nodded as he closed down his computer.
Jinku Jinku Dance Club-7:00 PM
Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and Heero walked into the club promptly at seven, Heero and Trowa tagging along for no other reason than they had anything better to do. The bass was so loud that it felt like their hearts were skipping beats and the treble was amplified enough so one had to shout just to be heard from not even a foot away.
"Where do you suppose the others are?" Quatre practically yelled. Duo shrugged. "On the floor, I guess," He shouted back, pointing to the crowd of dancing people on the wooden floor below them.
Heero crossed his arms and went and stood against a pillar to watch the crowd dance as the four young men walked further into the room. Suddenly, a hand on their shoulders stopped them.
"Hey guys!" It was Tom. Duo turned to face him. "Hey, where are Li and everybody else?" He asked.
"Don't know where the girls are, but there's Li and Wufei," The Australian boy pointed at the door. There was Li, trying to pry Wufei from the doorframe, to which he hand clamped onto with his hands.
"I WILL NOT BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THIS PLACE!" Gundam pilot zero-five roared as he held onto the doorframe.
"That can be arranged!" Li shot back as he pulled with all of his might at Wufei's arm. Duo rolled on the floor with laughter as Tom went to help Li. As the two strained to break the stubborn pilot off the wall, a woman walked through the door and swiped her foot under Wufei's feet, knocking him from the doorframe into a heap on the floor on top of Li and Tom.
"Looks like I got here just in time!" She giggled.
"Sally?" Quatre gasped.
Sure enough, there stood Sally Po looking down on the floored Wufei.
"Damn women," The Chinese boy grumbled as he pushed himself off the floor and walked into the club. Sally followed him.
Duo picked himself up off the floor and went to join his friends, who were heading farther into the crowd of people. He and Quatre found themselves a table on the platform that was about three feet off the dance floor so they could observe for a while.
"Hey, Duo, isn't that...." Quatre pointed to a familiar head of hair in the crowd.
"ZECHS?" Shinigami shrieked. Their suspicions were confirmed as the Lightning Count turned to reveal that he was dancing with Lucrezia. Duo watched the couple for a minute with his mouth hanging open, and then began to laugh.
Some "Ooo's" and "Aah's" drifted out of the crowd accompanied by some clapping. Duo and Quatre peeked over the mass of people to notice some people creating a wide circle around two dancing women. They both wore all black.
One of the girls had a rusty tint to her shoulder-length hair. Her pants were made of a glittery material with slits on the outsides of the ankles with a gold chain of stars hanging around her waist. Her top was a collared, sleeveless shirt that had an open back. The girl wore black shoes with stars on the toes.
The other woman had dusty blonde hair that went to her back. She wore a black spaghetti-strap top and a fairly short black skirt and black boots that made her a few inches taller than she actually was. She also sported a black hat on her head.
"Da-a-mn," Duo whooped. Quatre blushed. "They can really dance," the blonde male added.
"Have we seen those girls before?" Shinigami asked, looking more closely at the girls.
"That couldn't be..." Before Quatre had a chance to say more, the girls turned around to reveal their identities.
"Well I'll be damned!" Duo exclaimed, laughing.
Minutes later...
"Woo-whoo!" People cheered as Kat and Severina danced to the beat.
Kat threw her arms in the air as she moved her body all around. Suddenly the music slowed and a new song came on, it was a slow dancing song. Somebody grabbed her hand and swung her around.
"Can I have this dance?"
It was Duo.
"Alright, but only because you're cute,"
Severina stopped dancing as the music slowed. I hate slow dances, she thought to herself. Just before she began to push herself out of the crowd, a familiar face popped out.
"Would you uh...like to dance?" Quatre asked in a nervous fashion. Severina giggled at his clumsiness.
"Sure,"
At the tables...
"And these are the kids who'wre supposed to be saving the world," Sally Po chuckled to herself as she swished the ice around in her glace and looked down at Severina, Kat, Duo, and Quatre.
"Humph," Wufei crossed his arms and shut his eyes, holding his nose in the air. Sally took an ice cube out of her drink and chucked it at him in jest. The cube bounced off his face and down his shirt, causing him to squirm.
"SALLY!" He shrieked, trying to dislodge the frozen water from his green Preventer shirt. Wufei's partner laughed
"I fail to see the humor!" The Asian young man said gruffly as he took the half-melted ice cube out of his shirt and tossed it back on the table. He plopped back down in his seat and stared angrily at Sally, who smiled back. Wufei growled in defeat. He hated her cute-face looks.
Meanwhile...
The slow dance ended. "Well, you're a pretty fine dancer," Duo stated as he and Katsumi began to move away from each other.
"Thanks, you're not so bad yourself,"
Duo's heart stopped. Those words had been spoken to him a long time ago, the night after the war when he and Hilde had gone out and danced.
"Uh, excuse me," Duo turned around clumsily and pushed his way out of the crowd. Kat watched him leave with sad eyes.
"Poor guy," She sighed.
11:30 PM-Outside Jinku Jinku
"Awe, c'mon! I want to stay longer!" Tom whined as Wufei pushed him and Li out of the club. The Nataku pilot glared at Thomas.
"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man--"
"Stupid, boring, and exactly like Wufei," The Aussie muttered under his breath.
"What was that, Parks?!" Wufei snapped, taking a hold of Tom's shirt collar.
"Healthy, wealthy, and wise!" The sandy-haired young man improvised quickly.
"I suppose we should get going anyway. We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow," Katsumi sighed as she shrugged her shoulders and walked out accompanied by Severina, Quatre, Trowa, Duo, and Heero.
"Yup, darn," Severina sighed as she looked longingly at the neon sign above the club. Duo was silent. Li walked over to Kat and whispered in her ear.
"Geeze, wha'dya do to him, he looks like he's been hit by a truck,"
"What did I do to him?! He's been like that ever since we danced tonight! I probably said something that reminded him of his girlfriend, what was her name? Hilda? No, that's not it," Katsumi replied softly hoping Duo would not hear.
"Hilde," Duo interjected.
"Duo, I," Before Kat could give an apology of any sort; the familiar sound of a gun going off rang through their ears.
Tom felt something rush past his arm, taking some flesh with it. "Damn!" He cried, grabbing his upper arm as blood began to seep through the wound. Everybody looked in the direction of which the shot came. There was a young man standing across the street, pointing a gun. He had shaggy dark brown hair and wore a black turtleneck and black pants. His eyes were a stunning cobalt blue with the same vapidness as Heero's.
"Trowa Barton?" The young man's deep voice called. Trowa looked up as the brown-haired boy walked across the street.
"I am Miyabi Kenji, I have your Heavyarms for you,"
"What the hell did you shoot me for?" Tom demanded as he looked at Kenji with a glare.
"To get your attention," Kenji said as he stared down at Tom with an expressionless look. Tom, along with everybody, stared back at the newcomer with disgusted awe for a few seconds.
"You bastard!" Tom shouted as he lunged at Kenji, throwing a punch. Kenji reacted immediately, blocking the punch and hitting Parks right in the gut with one of his own power shots.
"Ow," Tom moaned as he sank to the ground.
As some of the pilots fawned over Tom on the ground, Heero stared at the newcomer. He looks so familiar, He thought.
Preventer Housing Facility-12:12 AM
Only a half an hour after the pilots had returned, Quatre, Trowa, and Severina were up watching the news channel, watching the latest updates on the war and contemplating the arrival of the newest Gundam pilot, Miyabi Kenji. Severina, who had been dancing all night, was dozing off.
"The Earth's taken up arms," Trowa stated blankly. Quatre said nothing; he just looked worriedly at the screen. Severina rolled over in her chair, asleep. A small moan escaped her lips, probably response to a dream.
Dream~
Severina was on a cold, metal, medical table in a white room. She was strapped down with her arms spread at full span and her legs a half a foot apart. This all seemed so familiar to her, she didn't quite know why. All she knew was that she didn't want to be there, something she didn't want to happen was going to.
A man with slicked back black hair and a pointy mustache appeared looking down on her with a syringe in his hand. There was a purple liquid in it.
"No..." Severina gasped.
~Meanwhile...
"Don't...." Severina moaned in her sleep. Quatre and Trowa looked at the young woman as she began to toss and turn in her dream.
"Severina?" Quatre asked as he watched his compatriot curiously.
"No more injections!" She cried.
"I want..." She groaned a little louder. The platinum blonde young man stood and walked over to her. Severina's face was twisted in a painful look and her fists were clenched tightly.
"I want to...." Severina began to toss more violently.
"Severina, wake up, it's a dream," Quatre took a hold of Severina's shoulders and tried to shake her. She pushed him away, as if pushing away some sort of enemy in her dreams.
"I WANT TO REMEMBER!" She cried, finally throwing herself off of the chair and into Quatre's arms.
"Severina, it's a dream, wake up!" Quatre pleaded. Severina's eyes flew open and buried her face in Quatre's chest.
"Why can't I remember?" She cried.
Quatre looked up at Trowa as he held Severina as if to ask for an answer to her problem. Trowa merely stood and stared, pondering.
Did they do it to her as well? A fate that horrible shouldn't be wished on anybody, The brown-haired circus clown thought to himself as he looked on Severina with pity.
To be continued...
Next Time: Quatre, Severina, Kenji, and Li head off to a major battle while Tom struggles with dreams much like Severina's. What's up with the new pilots anyway? What in the world are these strange dreams and visions? Are they visions of their life? But why don't they remember? And what does Trowa know about this? Find out in Chapter Four: Painful Visions