I'm back. This chapter is special because it contains chapters 8 - 10. I just got tired of posting it in little parts. Don't expect much out of me for the next little while, I'm not even done Chapter 15, and I've been working on that for a month. I also didn't reach my goal. Sorry!I've got a bad case of writer's block. Well now to what you've all been waiting for, the story. And remember, please READ & REVIEW, thanks. shanis
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Chapter 8
Meteor II : Putting the Past to Rest
Wufei looked at the gates to the small shrine, from outside it wasn't a very noteworthy building. Still the small, drab, building made Wufei's heart clench and unclench, and it made him sigh. That was the trouble with what he was about to do, he couldn't NOT do it, but he felt like he was betraying some part of himself by doing it. Wufei was finally going to put his past to rest.He needed to move on.
It had taken a war, a rebellion, and the threat of another, oh, also a very special girl to get him to do this, and he still wsn't sure about it. It had been made clear by their visitor that another fight was coming and Wufei knew he had to be ready for it. He could only hope Merian and the clan would forgive him. Ah, the girl, she was like Merian in many ways, a breath of fresh air, a ray of light, a reason to fight, and fight he would. Right after he had done this.
"I wish for just one moment in time that I could be worthy of her love, but I will remain unworthy because of my failure to my clan and my wife." Wufei's voice was so soft it could be called inaduible, not that anyone was aroung to hear what he had said, anyway.
Wufei gathered his courage and entered the shrine; he knelt. Carefully he lit the insense he had brought with him, and began to pray. He prayed for guidence, and courage, but above all he prayed for forgiveness from his clan for his waekness, his faliures and his mistakes. Finally he prayed to his young wife to forgive him for falling in love with some one else. He sincerely hoped his ancestors would grant his wishes.
For hours Wufei prayed and cleansed his soul, though he knew not how long he had been in the small, plain, drab, shrine when he finally left, he did know that he felt much better for it. He had been freed of the burdens he had been carrying since his colony had been destroyed. When he had rose from the floor of the shrine he had felt ...differnt. He didn't know it, but there was a new light in his eyes and he walked with his head held high and proud. His soul free of guilt and sorrow, for the first time since that dreadful event, Wufei walked out of the gate and back to his car. And, oh, yes, it was a new Chang, Wufei that had got in the car, and this one was vastly different from the old Chang, Wufei. Vastly different, indeed.
Back at Sally's...
Sally was working down in the basement, so it was understandable when she didn't hear Hilde come in. She was busy, trying to keep her new patient alive. Dou's sister of heart and soul called out to Sally from the top of the stairs and upon recieving no answer continued down crefully, worried that something had happened to her friend.
When she got to Sally's medical area she called out again, and this time she got an answer.
"Third door to the right." A voice that clearly belong to Sally called out.
So Hilde continued to the third door to the right to fing Sally working on putting stiches in a struggling young woman.
At the door, however, she heard a strange voice. The woman had her eyes closed and appeared to out cold. The only thing that showed she was awake was her movuing lips. The voice sounded again, saying the same thing.
" Let me go. I've got to leave, have you know sense, by shielding me your putting yourself in great danger. Let me go, I must leave."
"And how could you be putting us in danger?" Hilde questioned from the doorway.
"Me, my gundam, the dolls. Doesn't that spell danger?" came the retort from the strange girl.
"Sush, the dolls left hours ago. No one is in any danger." Sally soothed.
Hilde pulled Sally out of the and demaned to know, " Why are you humoring her?"
"Because, Hilde, when I found her she was fighting moblie dolls and she was piloting a gundam. Please do us both a favor and call Quatre's place. This information must get to the boys."
"Are you sure about that, Sally. I mean in her condidtion that might not be the best idea, think about what the boys might do to that girl." Hilde shuddered. "Besides, she may not even be a gundam pilot, just a modified Tarus or something like that."
"No, Hilde, I was up close to that thing, or what was left of it, it was a gundam and she was its pilot. Call Quatre's."
Hilde dutifully went upstairs to the phone and made the call to Quatre's. Heero answered the vid phone and as Hilde filled him in on what was happening at Sally's he started to frown.
"Wufei and I are the only pilots here, but we will be there im about 15 minutes to see this 'pilot'." The link was cut.
15 minutes later...
Wufei and Heero pulled up in front of Sally's. Hilde met them at the door.
Wufei snarled, he had just gotten back from the shrine and was beginning a kata,(sp?) he was rather irate. "Explain this, onna!" he demanded.
Hilde sighed, "When I got here today, Sally was in the basement When she didn't answer the door I let myself in and went down into the basement looking for her. Then I heard a strange voice. There's a girl in one of the rooms and Sally says she found in the desert, in a gundam. The girl is a mess, so take it easy on her."
Heero grunted, he had no intension of "taking it easy" on this so called gundam pilot. They needed answers and he was sure that this "girl" had them, he would do whatever it took to get them from her. Whatever it took.
Wufei sighed, he wanted to know how many of these female pilots they could expect, plus he had been practicing when Heero had interupted and told they were going to Sally's. "This has what to do with us?" he asked snidely.
Heero answered, seriously,"She my be a female gundam pilot. Sally thinks that she is. We at least have to verify the threat, we may have to eliminate it."
Wufei nodded. The mission was simple, it was dishonourable, but it was still simple.
The boys followed Hilde down the stairs and to right out side the room the girl was in. Hilde stuck her head in the door and signaled to Sally. Who quietly left the room. Heero and Sally went down the hall to talk, but Wufei could not take his eyes off the girl on the bed. He opened the door and settled himself in the chair in the corner. For a while they just stared at each other.
Finally the girl spoke, but it was in Chinese, so Hilde didn't know what was being said. "Wufei, I want to go home. Let me go home."
Wufei silently broke down, just when he thought he had left his past behind it came back, like the cat from the song. " Silence, what did you do to yourself, you look awful. How did you survive the explosion of the colony, and why are you on Earth?" he aked
The girl, Silence, took a deep breath, "I wasn't on the colony when it detonated. I came to earth because I was told to, beacuse I had to fight. As how I came to be here and in this condition, I took on a few to many Moblie dolls. I won't be able to get out of here any time soon and I have to get back to my safehouse."
"Alright, I'll see what I can do. No promises though." With that Wufei got and walked out the door to where Heero and Sally were speaking.Hilde was standing dumbstruck by the door to 'the girl's' room. Wufei's whole conversation with her had been in Chinese.
Half an hour later...
Silence looked at the doors to her temporary home as Una and Madeleine, the only pilots there ran out to help her.
"Come in," Madeleine called while running towards the jeep. When Wufei picked up Silence, she turned and ran back into the house, Wufei, carrying his precious burden, and Heero followed her inside. Una brought up the rear, when she reached the door she silently closed it.
Chapter 9
Meteor II : School
* - denotes thinking
Monday morning...
Silence got out of the jeep and shifted her school uniform. Tugging on the skirt, she wished it was longer. That or she had taken Deula's approach and had threatened the tailor until he agreed to fit her for the boys uniform. It helped that Deula had an army to back up those claims, an army that would start a war over something as simple as a school uniform. The loyalty that Deula commanded was impressive, her response to it was even more impressive. Except to threaten the tailor, she hadn't even mentioned the fact she was one of the most feared miltary commanders in the Earth Sphere. It had, however, been two days since her unforunate meeting with the male pilots, she was hoping those two days would act as a cooling off period. After all, they hadn't liked everything that they had been told. Shifting her bag on her shoulder, she walked towards the school's enterance, behind her fellow pilot, a girl called Madeleine.
Trowa sighed. The sigh was born from the fact that Quatre had insisted that they all go to one school. Trowa could see no reason to go to school at all, let alone this school. this school was a very posh affair. In Trowa's mind what all that boiled down to was that this school was very expensive. This gave the slight pilot an advantage over his friends, because he was the only one truly comfortable in surrondings and the people that came with them. Trowa was slightly lost in thought when a jeep pulled up. He watched with no real interest as two people got out. One was tugging on the hem of her skirt and the other was ... Madeleine. Madeleine headed towards the enterance and the girl followed her. Madeleine, however, stopped short when she saw Trowa sitting on a bench outside the school, in the uniform for it, looking as uncomfortable as Silence.
"Trowa," she called out, walking towards him. She sat down on the bench he occupied and continued, " I didn't know you came to this school."
It was this time the other male pilots chose to arrive. Heero looked at the girl standing to Madeleine's left. " You should not be able to walk." were the first, and only, words out of his mouth.
Silence didn't even bother to reply. It was that moment that Madeleine's team mates chose to arrive. Most of them fit, expect one young woman, she was wearing pants instead of a skirt, and it was she who answered Heero's statement.
"Yeah," she said, "but she can." The subject was left at that.
Introductions started, Madeleine introduced all the female pilots to all the male pilots, and vice versa, until there was only one introduction left, " Trowa, meet Silence. Silence, meet Trowa."
"..."
"..."
Madeleine grinned, " How did I know you two were going to say that?"
Dou smirked, " I know what you mean, the conversation sure is lively." This remark produced a chuckle out a great deal of the small group. All heads jerked up when the bell rang, and the newly assembled gundam pilots hurried of to class, all ten of them.
Two classes later...
Una was fumming, she had just gotten out of history class. A class that had focused on peace treaties. In her opinion, as an L1 native and a participant in the treaties, they had overestimated Relena's importance in the treaties of her home colony, L1.
Quatre looked at the woman who was the most recent addition to the mangacrops(sp?). At teh moment she was standing behind him, in a relaxed defense posture. There was one thing that was different about her, she was angry. Finally unable to stand her anger any longer he asked, " Why are you so angry?"
"Little prince, what they said in there isn't true. Ms. Peacecraft was important to the signing of the treaty, but she wasn't that important."
Quatre looked up, mystified.
"She was not the only one who worked out the terms. We sent our own representive to the talks. In the L1 cluster she is called The Red Lady. She is one of the major reasons we signed at all. Ms. Peacecraft was important, she was not vital. We wanted these peace as much as you did, but we would not allow ourselves to be walked on."
"That's why you're so angry, you feel the people of Earth are disrecepting your colony and people."
The mangacrop just nodded. She once again didappeared as Quatre moved off to have lunch with his friends. The meeting place for lunch out under the trees, on the grounds. When he got there the others were all there, already, it seemed to Quatre the Duo and Madeleine were carrying most of the conversation, like as in 99.9% of it.
"I know!" Madeleine exclaimed joyusly.
"Know what?" Duo asked in a state of confusion.
"I figured out what we have to do to become more comforable around each other. 'Cause we're obivously not."
"Why do say that?" Quatre asked, sitting down beside Heero and Trowa.
"The silence," Madeleine remarked, and then continued, " usually most of us are a little more vocal. Anyway, I figure that since everyone is here that we all go somewhere as a group somethime. It doesn't really matter where we go, it just matters that we do."
20 minutes later...
They had finally decided where to go. It had taken them twenty minutes, but the had offically decided where and when. The when had been easy, they would go on Saturday. The where was what had taken twenty minutes to decide. It had come out being an amusement park. it was the only choice even marginally acceptable to all parties. During the discussion everyone, even Silence and Trowa, had raised their voice in opinion of the suggestions voiced. That was what had taken twenty minutes
The bell rang, and everyone hurried back to their respective classes. Dragoness sighed, she was stuck in chem, she wasn't even very good at chemistry and that was making it worse. Come to think of it there was only one course she was worse at and that was Foods. * Isn't life great, my second worst class on my first day*
Settling into her seat, in about the middle of the room, she sighed. Looking back she saw Una and Heero near the back of the classroom. *Of course,* she thought, *both have the last name Yuy for this mission* Una had refused to change her surname to avoid conflicts at school. Looking back again, Dragoness manged a rueful smile, *No guns,* she thought, * what a good sign. The fact that nothing has happened is even a better one. I was sure there would be trouble over her surname, but she refused to change it.*
"Miss Sang, are you paying attention?" the teacher queired.(sp?)
Dragoness nodded absently and the teacher picked up his lecture from where he had left off.
At the back of the room a private contest of wills was going on. Una glanced at Heero to find hisface ab expressionless mask, as she knew hers was. It seemed that this contest was going to be a stalemate.
*Now,* she thought, *I am wishing that I agreed to change my name. But I was told my name for this mission would be Una Yuy, and god damnit it will be. He's not going to intimidate me, because I won't let be intimidated, not by the likes of him at least* The whole time she was thinking this she was also mindlessly making notes.
Meanwhile in Art...
"Deula, what are you drawing?" Madeleine asked.
"Well, you all want to know what Una looked like as kid."
Various heads nod.
"So," Deula continued, "I'm drawing her and the brat when she was around seven and he was around six." There was a momentary pause and then, "There it's done." she announced. Everyone, but Heero, Dragoness and Una (They're in chem class, remember), crowded around to see.
"Hey, that's Heero!" Dou said. Deula nodded, while the bell anounced the end of class. They all trooped off to the next class.
After school, they all met out in front of the school. Una was death-glaring Deula. Duo looked at the two and then looked at Heero. "Yeah," he saud after thinking a moment, "it does look just the same as when Heero does it." Quatre and Trowa just nodded their ascent to Duo's comment. Everyone else either nodded , shrugged, ar glared at Duo.
After a few moments of discussion they all spilt up to go home. The last thing the male pilots heard was Una muttering, "I can't believe she did that. How could she do that?"
Everyone laughed,
Chapter 10
For all of you who've never been to Galaxyland, in West Edmonton Mall, that is what this amusement park is based on.
Meteor II : Saturday
Duo looked, over his shoulder, at Heero and wufei, who were lingering outside the park. All of the others were already inside, Heero and Wufei were just putting off the inevaitable(sp?), and Duo wasn't having any fun waiting for them.
"Come on, Heero, Wufei, hurry up. We're gonna be late!" Duo shouted.
Finally, after much whinning, the three entered the park and headed off to the meeting place. Trowa and Quatre were sitting, with five other people at a pinic table.
"Hey, Duo, what took you so long?" Madeleine asked.
"These two," Duo said, pointing at Heero and Wufei, "wouldn't hurry up."
" Okay, okay." Madeleine said trying to stop giggling.
It took about ten minutes to divide everyone into groups and to get them to agree not to kill their partner.
Quatre noticed that, strangely enough, all the groups only had one boy and one girl. Groups of two and no one knew their partner. Finally, Quatre gathered his courage to ask his partner, and the organizer of the event, the reason why.
"'Cause, Quatre, everyone has to get used to the people they were trained to work with. You see sometimes you just connect with a person, Silence and Wufei, for example. But most of the time you have to work at connecting, kinda like Trowa and Deula. I think it's vital that we know a little about the person that we're suppose to be working with. That they're real, not just some faceless civilian we don't really care about."
Quatre couldn't have been more stunned, and his face showed it.
"Okay," Madeleine responed, "I'll shut up now."
"No, don't. Because you're right. We do need to know each other. If we know each other we can trust each other, and then we can work together as a team."
Quatre and Madeleine meander away, looking for something that catches their interest.
Meanwhile across the park...
Una looked at the huge rollercoaster, then at Heero. "I want to go on that," she said, pointing to th rollercoaster.
Heero looked at Una, the at the huge rollercoaster, then at Una again. "Mission accepted" he murmured, quietly as he could in the noisy park.
Deula and Trowa were walking around, aimlessly.
"Why are we here?" Trowa asked.
"We're here because the others decided that we had to come with them. Which reminds me...." She whipped out a cell phone, and began to rapidily dial.
"Who are you calling?" Trowa queired.
"Aren't we just a bundle of curiosity" Deula quipped. "If you simply must know a couple of friends, old friends."
"Hey, you," she waited for a response. "The amusement park." She listened for a moment. "Stup up and stop laughing, right now." The response was instantanous(sp?). "Why, why? Because in a few minutes you are going to be down here suffering with me," a pause, "yes, I'm quite serious. Well, catch you in a few. Ja ne!" she hung up and turned to Trowa.
"In a few minutes, I'm expecting two fellow sufferors. We should probably wait by the gate." So, they turned and headed for the enterance.
Wufei and Silence looked at each other, looked at the crowds, looked at all the laughing screaming people, and looked at each other again.
"I'm not going into all those people, I'll be deaf in olny a few moments." Silence said, bitterly. wufei nodded, and the two began to look for a quiet corner fro which they could watch the mayhem.
Dou looked at the bundle of energy standing, or more correctly jumping next to him. They were waiting in line for the "Swing of the Century". It took awhile, but they finally gat on, and Dragoness started yanking on Duo's braid.
"Hey, stop that. It hurts." Duo complained to her.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because, it's annoying, already." he stated.
"Cool, just like Professor G and ping pong."
"What?"
"I play ping pong with the vid screen in my cockpit. And, then, when he comes up on the screen and asks me to stop. But I don't, and it seems to annoy him, a lot. So I try to do that as much as possible. It's almost as much fun as blowing stuff up, or play truth or dare with the other female pilots. They're real fun, once you get to know them, of course, you have to survive gettin' to know them, first. Getting to know them is tricky and dangerous bussiness."
Duo stood by her looking schocked, and a little dizzy from the ride.
Meanwhile on the rollercoaster...
Heero closed his eyes and thought *How did I get talked into this. Oh, right, Una asked me to.* Una, was sitting beside him, and having the time of her life. When they got off the ride Una was smiling and Heero felt like puking.
"That was fun!" Una exclaimed happily. "What do you want to do now?" she asked.
"Sit down,"he replied.
Suddenly Heero's eyes widened. " Let's go find Deula, sis. I see trouble, and I think she's coming this way." He sounded desperate.
"Okay, Heero, we'll go find Deula nd her tag-a-long" she replied, faintly amused.
"His name is Trowa," Heero growled.
"Really, nice to know. Now let's go." She pushed Heero towards Deula's head, which she could see in the crowd.
Releena appeared before Una, she seemed intent on Heero's retreating form.
"Excuse me, miss?"
Releena looked at Una.
"Is there a reason you're following my brother around?"
"Heero doesn't mind, he loves me."
"Kuso. Are you always this delusional, little girl? He loves you not!" The communacator, around her wrist beeped. Una turned and spoke into it. " If she gets by me, don't let her near him." The communacator beeped again, "Affirmative," Deula's voice replied.
Una glared at Releena, "Child, I strongly suggest you turn around and leave, now!"
"I won't leave without Heero. I know your hiding him from me."
"You leave me no choice, Omae a korosu."
Releena stepped back, "You wouldn't."
"I would, because you annoy be and my family, now leave."
Releena turned and ran from the fearsome young woman.
Una turned and walked in the direction that her sister and brother were, with Trowa, of course.
When she got there she saw two strange people, one man and one woman.
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There it's done. Who are these strangers and what do they want? Who did Deula call? You're gonna have to read on to find out. And no I don't dislike Releena, I just don't agree with her ideals, nor do I believe she belongs with Heero, but that's just one person's opinion. Remember pleare READ & REVIEW. Thanx. shanis
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Chapter 8
Meteor II : Putting the Past to Rest
Wufei looked at the gates to the small shrine, from outside it wasn't a very noteworthy building. Still the small, drab, building made Wufei's heart clench and unclench, and it made him sigh. That was the trouble with what he was about to do, he couldn't NOT do it, but he felt like he was betraying some part of himself by doing it. Wufei was finally going to put his past to rest.He needed to move on.
It had taken a war, a rebellion, and the threat of another, oh, also a very special girl to get him to do this, and he still wsn't sure about it. It had been made clear by their visitor that another fight was coming and Wufei knew he had to be ready for it. He could only hope Merian and the clan would forgive him. Ah, the girl, she was like Merian in many ways, a breath of fresh air, a ray of light, a reason to fight, and fight he would. Right after he had done this.
"I wish for just one moment in time that I could be worthy of her love, but I will remain unworthy because of my failure to my clan and my wife." Wufei's voice was so soft it could be called inaduible, not that anyone was aroung to hear what he had said, anyway.
Wufei gathered his courage and entered the shrine; he knelt. Carefully he lit the insense he had brought with him, and began to pray. He prayed for guidence, and courage, but above all he prayed for forgiveness from his clan for his waekness, his faliures and his mistakes. Finally he prayed to his young wife to forgive him for falling in love with some one else. He sincerely hoped his ancestors would grant his wishes.
For hours Wufei prayed and cleansed his soul, though he knew not how long he had been in the small, plain, drab, shrine when he finally left, he did know that he felt much better for it. He had been freed of the burdens he had been carrying since his colony had been destroyed. When he had rose from the floor of the shrine he had felt ...differnt. He didn't know it, but there was a new light in his eyes and he walked with his head held high and proud. His soul free of guilt and sorrow, for the first time since that dreadful event, Wufei walked out of the gate and back to his car. And, oh, yes, it was a new Chang, Wufei that had got in the car, and this one was vastly different from the old Chang, Wufei. Vastly different, indeed.
Back at Sally's...
Sally was working down in the basement, so it was understandable when she didn't hear Hilde come in. She was busy, trying to keep her new patient alive. Dou's sister of heart and soul called out to Sally from the top of the stairs and upon recieving no answer continued down crefully, worried that something had happened to her friend.
When she got to Sally's medical area she called out again, and this time she got an answer.
"Third door to the right." A voice that clearly belong to Sally called out.
So Hilde continued to the third door to the right to fing Sally working on putting stiches in a struggling young woman.
At the door, however, she heard a strange voice. The woman had her eyes closed and appeared to out cold. The only thing that showed she was awake was her movuing lips. The voice sounded again, saying the same thing.
" Let me go. I've got to leave, have you know sense, by shielding me your putting yourself in great danger. Let me go, I must leave."
"And how could you be putting us in danger?" Hilde questioned from the doorway.
"Me, my gundam, the dolls. Doesn't that spell danger?" came the retort from the strange girl.
"Sush, the dolls left hours ago. No one is in any danger." Sally soothed.
Hilde pulled Sally out of the and demaned to know, " Why are you humoring her?"
"Because, Hilde, when I found her she was fighting moblie dolls and she was piloting a gundam. Please do us both a favor and call Quatre's place. This information must get to the boys."
"Are you sure about that, Sally. I mean in her condidtion that might not be the best idea, think about what the boys might do to that girl." Hilde shuddered. "Besides, she may not even be a gundam pilot, just a modified Tarus or something like that."
"No, Hilde, I was up close to that thing, or what was left of it, it was a gundam and she was its pilot. Call Quatre's."
Hilde dutifully went upstairs to the phone and made the call to Quatre's. Heero answered the vid phone and as Hilde filled him in on what was happening at Sally's he started to frown.
"Wufei and I are the only pilots here, but we will be there im about 15 minutes to see this 'pilot'." The link was cut.
15 minutes later...
Wufei and Heero pulled up in front of Sally's. Hilde met them at the door.
Wufei snarled, he had just gotten back from the shrine and was beginning a kata,(sp?) he was rather irate. "Explain this, onna!" he demanded.
Hilde sighed, "When I got here today, Sally was in the basement When she didn't answer the door I let myself in and went down into the basement looking for her. Then I heard a strange voice. There's a girl in one of the rooms and Sally says she found in the desert, in a gundam. The girl is a mess, so take it easy on her."
Heero grunted, he had no intension of "taking it easy" on this so called gundam pilot. They needed answers and he was sure that this "girl" had them, he would do whatever it took to get them from her. Whatever it took.
Wufei sighed, he wanted to know how many of these female pilots they could expect, plus he had been practicing when Heero had interupted and told they were going to Sally's. "This has what to do with us?" he asked snidely.
Heero answered, seriously,"She my be a female gundam pilot. Sally thinks that she is. We at least have to verify the threat, we may have to eliminate it."
Wufei nodded. The mission was simple, it was dishonourable, but it was still simple.
The boys followed Hilde down the stairs and to right out side the room the girl was in. Hilde stuck her head in the door and signaled to Sally. Who quietly left the room. Heero and Sally went down the hall to talk, but Wufei could not take his eyes off the girl on the bed. He opened the door and settled himself in the chair in the corner. For a while they just stared at each other.
Finally the girl spoke, but it was in Chinese, so Hilde didn't know what was being said. "Wufei, I want to go home. Let me go home."
Wufei silently broke down, just when he thought he had left his past behind it came back, like the cat from the song. " Silence, what did you do to yourself, you look awful. How did you survive the explosion of the colony, and why are you on Earth?" he aked
The girl, Silence, took a deep breath, "I wasn't on the colony when it detonated. I came to earth because I was told to, beacuse I had to fight. As how I came to be here and in this condition, I took on a few to many Moblie dolls. I won't be able to get out of here any time soon and I have to get back to my safehouse."
"Alright, I'll see what I can do. No promises though." With that Wufei got and walked out the door to where Heero and Sally were speaking.Hilde was standing dumbstruck by the door to 'the girl's' room. Wufei's whole conversation with her had been in Chinese.
Half an hour later...
Silence looked at the doors to her temporary home as Una and Madeleine, the only pilots there ran out to help her.
"Come in," Madeleine called while running towards the jeep. When Wufei picked up Silence, she turned and ran back into the house, Wufei, carrying his precious burden, and Heero followed her inside. Una brought up the rear, when she reached the door she silently closed it.
Chapter 9
Meteor II : School
* - denotes thinking
Monday morning...
Silence got out of the jeep and shifted her school uniform. Tugging on the skirt, she wished it was longer. That or she had taken Deula's approach and had threatened the tailor until he agreed to fit her for the boys uniform. It helped that Deula had an army to back up those claims, an army that would start a war over something as simple as a school uniform. The loyalty that Deula commanded was impressive, her response to it was even more impressive. Except to threaten the tailor, she hadn't even mentioned the fact she was one of the most feared miltary commanders in the Earth Sphere. It had, however, been two days since her unforunate meeting with the male pilots, she was hoping those two days would act as a cooling off period. After all, they hadn't liked everything that they had been told. Shifting her bag on her shoulder, she walked towards the school's enterance, behind her fellow pilot, a girl called Madeleine.
Trowa sighed. The sigh was born from the fact that Quatre had insisted that they all go to one school. Trowa could see no reason to go to school at all, let alone this school. this school was a very posh affair. In Trowa's mind what all that boiled down to was that this school was very expensive. This gave the slight pilot an advantage over his friends, because he was the only one truly comfortable in surrondings and the people that came with them. Trowa was slightly lost in thought when a jeep pulled up. He watched with no real interest as two people got out. One was tugging on the hem of her skirt and the other was ... Madeleine. Madeleine headed towards the enterance and the girl followed her. Madeleine, however, stopped short when she saw Trowa sitting on a bench outside the school, in the uniform for it, looking as uncomfortable as Silence.
"Trowa," she called out, walking towards him. She sat down on the bench he occupied and continued, " I didn't know you came to this school."
It was this time the other male pilots chose to arrive. Heero looked at the girl standing to Madeleine's left. " You should not be able to walk." were the first, and only, words out of his mouth.
Silence didn't even bother to reply. It was that moment that Madeleine's team mates chose to arrive. Most of them fit, expect one young woman, she was wearing pants instead of a skirt, and it was she who answered Heero's statement.
"Yeah," she said, "but she can." The subject was left at that.
Introductions started, Madeleine introduced all the female pilots to all the male pilots, and vice versa, until there was only one introduction left, " Trowa, meet Silence. Silence, meet Trowa."
"..."
"..."
Madeleine grinned, " How did I know you two were going to say that?"
Dou smirked, " I know what you mean, the conversation sure is lively." This remark produced a chuckle out a great deal of the small group. All heads jerked up when the bell rang, and the newly assembled gundam pilots hurried of to class, all ten of them.
Two classes later...
Una was fumming, she had just gotten out of history class. A class that had focused on peace treaties. In her opinion, as an L1 native and a participant in the treaties, they had overestimated Relena's importance in the treaties of her home colony, L1.
Quatre looked at the woman who was the most recent addition to the mangacrops(sp?). At teh moment she was standing behind him, in a relaxed defense posture. There was one thing that was different about her, she was angry. Finally unable to stand her anger any longer he asked, " Why are you so angry?"
"Little prince, what they said in there isn't true. Ms. Peacecraft was important to the signing of the treaty, but she wasn't that important."
Quatre looked up, mystified.
"She was not the only one who worked out the terms. We sent our own representive to the talks. In the L1 cluster she is called The Red Lady. She is one of the major reasons we signed at all. Ms. Peacecraft was important, she was not vital. We wanted these peace as much as you did, but we would not allow ourselves to be walked on."
"That's why you're so angry, you feel the people of Earth are disrecepting your colony and people."
The mangacrop just nodded. She once again didappeared as Quatre moved off to have lunch with his friends. The meeting place for lunch out under the trees, on the grounds. When he got there the others were all there, already, it seemed to Quatre the Duo and Madeleine were carrying most of the conversation, like as in 99.9% of it.
"I know!" Madeleine exclaimed joyusly.
"Know what?" Duo asked in a state of confusion.
"I figured out what we have to do to become more comforable around each other. 'Cause we're obivously not."
"Why do say that?" Quatre asked, sitting down beside Heero and Trowa.
"The silence," Madeleine remarked, and then continued, " usually most of us are a little more vocal. Anyway, I figure that since everyone is here that we all go somewhere as a group somethime. It doesn't really matter where we go, it just matters that we do."
20 minutes later...
They had finally decided where to go. It had taken them twenty minutes, but the had offically decided where and when. The when had been easy, they would go on Saturday. The where was what had taken twenty minutes to decide. It had come out being an amusement park. it was the only choice even marginally acceptable to all parties. During the discussion everyone, even Silence and Trowa, had raised their voice in opinion of the suggestions voiced. That was what had taken twenty minutes
The bell rang, and everyone hurried back to their respective classes. Dragoness sighed, she was stuck in chem, she wasn't even very good at chemistry and that was making it worse. Come to think of it there was only one course she was worse at and that was Foods. * Isn't life great, my second worst class on my first day*
Settling into her seat, in about the middle of the room, she sighed. Looking back she saw Una and Heero near the back of the classroom. *Of course,* she thought, *both have the last name Yuy for this mission* Una had refused to change her surname to avoid conflicts at school. Looking back again, Dragoness manged a rueful smile, *No guns,* she thought, * what a good sign. The fact that nothing has happened is even a better one. I was sure there would be trouble over her surname, but she refused to change it.*
"Miss Sang, are you paying attention?" the teacher queired.(sp?)
Dragoness nodded absently and the teacher picked up his lecture from where he had left off.
At the back of the room a private contest of wills was going on. Una glanced at Heero to find hisface ab expressionless mask, as she knew hers was. It seemed that this contest was going to be a stalemate.
*Now,* she thought, *I am wishing that I agreed to change my name. But I was told my name for this mission would be Una Yuy, and god damnit it will be. He's not going to intimidate me, because I won't let be intimidated, not by the likes of him at least* The whole time she was thinking this she was also mindlessly making notes.
Meanwhile in Art...
"Deula, what are you drawing?" Madeleine asked.
"Well, you all want to know what Una looked like as kid."
Various heads nod.
"So," Deula continued, "I'm drawing her and the brat when she was around seven and he was around six." There was a momentary pause and then, "There it's done." she announced. Everyone, but Heero, Dragoness and Una (They're in chem class, remember), crowded around to see.
"Hey, that's Heero!" Dou said. Deula nodded, while the bell anounced the end of class. They all trooped off to the next class.
After school, they all met out in front of the school. Una was death-glaring Deula. Duo looked at the two and then looked at Heero. "Yeah," he saud after thinking a moment, "it does look just the same as when Heero does it." Quatre and Trowa just nodded their ascent to Duo's comment. Everyone else either nodded , shrugged, ar glared at Duo.
After a few moments of discussion they all spilt up to go home. The last thing the male pilots heard was Una muttering, "I can't believe she did that. How could she do that?"
Everyone laughed,
Chapter 10
For all of you who've never been to Galaxyland, in West Edmonton Mall, that is what this amusement park is based on.
Meteor II : Saturday
Duo looked, over his shoulder, at Heero and wufei, who were lingering outside the park. All of the others were already inside, Heero and Wufei were just putting off the inevaitable(sp?), and Duo wasn't having any fun waiting for them.
"Come on, Heero, Wufei, hurry up. We're gonna be late!" Duo shouted.
Finally, after much whinning, the three entered the park and headed off to the meeting place. Trowa and Quatre were sitting, with five other people at a pinic table.
"Hey, Duo, what took you so long?" Madeleine asked.
"These two," Duo said, pointing at Heero and Wufei, "wouldn't hurry up."
" Okay, okay." Madeleine said trying to stop giggling.
It took about ten minutes to divide everyone into groups and to get them to agree not to kill their partner.
Quatre noticed that, strangely enough, all the groups only had one boy and one girl. Groups of two and no one knew their partner. Finally, Quatre gathered his courage to ask his partner, and the organizer of the event, the reason why.
"'Cause, Quatre, everyone has to get used to the people they were trained to work with. You see sometimes you just connect with a person, Silence and Wufei, for example. But most of the time you have to work at connecting, kinda like Trowa and Deula. I think it's vital that we know a little about the person that we're suppose to be working with. That they're real, not just some faceless civilian we don't really care about."
Quatre couldn't have been more stunned, and his face showed it.
"Okay," Madeleine responed, "I'll shut up now."
"No, don't. Because you're right. We do need to know each other. If we know each other we can trust each other, and then we can work together as a team."
Quatre and Madeleine meander away, looking for something that catches their interest.
Meanwhile across the park...
Una looked at the huge rollercoaster, then at Heero. "I want to go on that," she said, pointing to th rollercoaster.
Heero looked at Una, the at the huge rollercoaster, then at Una again. "Mission accepted" he murmured, quietly as he could in the noisy park.
Deula and Trowa were walking around, aimlessly.
"Why are we here?" Trowa asked.
"We're here because the others decided that we had to come with them. Which reminds me...." She whipped out a cell phone, and began to rapidily dial.
"Who are you calling?" Trowa queired.
"Aren't we just a bundle of curiosity" Deula quipped. "If you simply must know a couple of friends, old friends."
"Hey, you," she waited for a response. "The amusement park." She listened for a moment. "Stup up and stop laughing, right now." The response was instantanous(sp?). "Why, why? Because in a few minutes you are going to be down here suffering with me," a pause, "yes, I'm quite serious. Well, catch you in a few. Ja ne!" she hung up and turned to Trowa.
"In a few minutes, I'm expecting two fellow sufferors. We should probably wait by the gate." So, they turned and headed for the enterance.
Wufei and Silence looked at each other, looked at the crowds, looked at all the laughing screaming people, and looked at each other again.
"I'm not going into all those people, I'll be deaf in olny a few moments." Silence said, bitterly. wufei nodded, and the two began to look for a quiet corner fro which they could watch the mayhem.
Dou looked at the bundle of energy standing, or more correctly jumping next to him. They were waiting in line for the "Swing of the Century". It took awhile, but they finally gat on, and Dragoness started yanking on Duo's braid.
"Hey, stop that. It hurts." Duo complained to her.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because, it's annoying, already." he stated.
"Cool, just like Professor G and ping pong."
"What?"
"I play ping pong with the vid screen in my cockpit. And, then, when he comes up on the screen and asks me to stop. But I don't, and it seems to annoy him, a lot. So I try to do that as much as possible. It's almost as much fun as blowing stuff up, or play truth or dare with the other female pilots. They're real fun, once you get to know them, of course, you have to survive gettin' to know them, first. Getting to know them is tricky and dangerous bussiness."
Duo stood by her looking schocked, and a little dizzy from the ride.
Meanwhile on the rollercoaster...
Heero closed his eyes and thought *How did I get talked into this. Oh, right, Una asked me to.* Una, was sitting beside him, and having the time of her life. When they got off the ride Una was smiling and Heero felt like puking.
"That was fun!" Una exclaimed happily. "What do you want to do now?" she asked.
"Sit down,"he replied.
Suddenly Heero's eyes widened. " Let's go find Deula, sis. I see trouble, and I think she's coming this way." He sounded desperate.
"Okay, Heero, we'll go find Deula nd her tag-a-long" she replied, faintly amused.
"His name is Trowa," Heero growled.
"Really, nice to know. Now let's go." She pushed Heero towards Deula's head, which she could see in the crowd.
Releena appeared before Una, she seemed intent on Heero's retreating form.
"Excuse me, miss?"
Releena looked at Una.
"Is there a reason you're following my brother around?"
"Heero doesn't mind, he loves me."
"Kuso. Are you always this delusional, little girl? He loves you not!" The communacator, around her wrist beeped. Una turned and spoke into it. " If she gets by me, don't let her near him." The communacator beeped again, "Affirmative," Deula's voice replied.
Una glared at Releena, "Child, I strongly suggest you turn around and leave, now!"
"I won't leave without Heero. I know your hiding him from me."
"You leave me no choice, Omae a korosu."
Releena stepped back, "You wouldn't."
"I would, because you annoy be and my family, now leave."
Releena turned and ran from the fearsome young woman.
Una turned and walked in the direction that her sister and brother were, with Trowa, of course.
When she got there she saw two strange people, one man and one woman.
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There it's done. Who are these strangers and what do they want? Who did Deula call? You're gonna have to read on to find out. And no I don't dislike Releena, I just don't agree with her ideals, nor do I believe she belongs with Heero, but that's just one person's opinion. Remember pleare READ & REVIEW. Thanx. shanis