Across the Ages by ChibiMercury
Part 2: The Appearance of the Enemy
Author's Note: Thank you all for your great reviews of this fic! I hope you'll enjoy this second chapter just as much! Thank you again, and enjoy! Oh yeah, I promise the Sailor Scouts will start making more appearances in the future!
Intro: Okay, here's the recap so you're all caught up. The Sailor Scouts are in the year AC 195 with the G-boys. Amy is at Heero and Duo's house with an injured Quatre. Serena, Mina, Lita, Raye, are with Neo-Queen Serenity and Rini in their palace. We don't know where Trowa and Wufei are at the moment. They have just heard the declaration of war against Crystal Tokyo by their enemy, Deisaki Starburst.
At the palace...
"What are we going to do?" asked Rini.
"It's all right. We'll figure out something," said Raye, trying to comfort the hysterical Rini.
"We've got to figure out how to beat this guy. Pluto said he had strange powers besides all of his military power," said Mina.
"Okay, we will, but can we get something to eat first?"
"SERENA!"
*******
"Great, just great. We get over with a one-year war, and just when we think we're gonna get a little break, this guy shows up," complained Duo.
"Calm down, Duo. This guy has to have a weakness. I mean, all he has are some of OZ's old bases, right?" said Heero.
"No. He has much more than that. That's why Sailor Pluto sent us to the future. If this was just a military battle, she would have left it to you guys," explained Amy.
"What else could he have?" asked Heero.
"He has dark powers. Magical powers that could destroy this entire city if left alone. Quatre, remember out in the battle, when you were fighting those other mobile suits, how many people do you think there were?"
"Um, I don't know, there were a lot of suits, why?"
"There were no pilots."
"What??" Duo and Quatre both stood up. "What do you mean, Amy? Those weren't
dolls, they were suits. They needed pilots," said Duo.
"No, Starburst controlled them with his power. He doesn't need any followers to carry out his plan. He can do it all himself. That's why he's so dangerous," said Amy.
"How do you know?" Duo asked.
"My sailor uniform comes with a VR visor that I can use to analyze enemies with. That's how I found out some information in Quatre's battle."
"Whoa, this is weird. Don't you think so, Heero?" asked Duo to the other pilot still seated on the couch.
"......" Heero didn't respond.
"Well, now that we've pulled off an all-nighter and it's morning, how about we find those friends of yours, miss?" suggested Duo.
"Good idea, but shouldn't we take the other two pilots you were talking about with us?" asked Amy.
"Yeah, I'm gonna try to find them. They should be nearby. I'll be back later," said the braided pilot, walking out the door.
"What were their names again?" asked Amy to the remaining two boys.
"Trowa Barton and Wufei Chang."
*******
Trowa sat in the hotel room on the bed, watching TV. Well, this certainly is boring, he thought. He looked over on the other bed and saw his comrade meditating. He's been sitting there for almost 4 hours, thought Trowa. I have to wake him up. He stood and walked over to the other bed.
"Wufei."
"Huh? What do you want? What time is it?"
"It's almost noon," said Trowa. "We should find the others."
"Ah, they're fine. Did you see that announcement on the TV last night?"
"Yes. I couldn't sleep either. Weird guy."
"Well, I'm going to go look for the others. We need to talk with them. Stay here in case they show up," said the Chinese pilot, standing.
"Okay."
Wufei walked out the door, and Trowa turned his attention back to the TV. After
discovering that all that was on were Jerry Springer episodes from who-knows-when and some PBS programming, he decided to take a nap.
Trowa later woke to the noise of a door shutting. "Wufei?" said Trowa drowsily. "Is that you?"
"No, angel. It's not Wufei."
Trowa didn't recognize the woman's voice. "Who are you?" The woman was still out of sight. "What do you want?"
"Only some information, darling. Tell me what I want to know and I won't hurt you."
"Yeah, right. I've heard that one before. Come on out and show yourself," said Trowa.
"Fine." The woman stepped into Trowa's sight. She was tall with long, light brown hair. She wore an everyday outfit, one that a business woman might wear. "I'm not armed," she said when she looked at the inquiring eyes of the pilot.
"So, what do you want?" Trowa asked.
"I want to know where those girls are. We know they're here in the future as well, and we need their location."
Trowa was confused. "What girls? Who's we?"
"Don't play dumb. It's useless. You know very well which girls I'm talking about. The five of them. Where are they?" The woman was getting angry.
"I'm telling you, I don't know. I don't know why I would know. Now, please leave my room," the pilot said sharply.
"Why you little..." The woman jumped at him, knocking Trowa to the ground. "Tell me!"
"I don't know!" yelled Trowa. He stood up, ready to defend himself.
The woman attacked him, landing numerous punches on Trowa's head and stomach. Trowa spun around and kicked the woman down.
Scrambling to her feet, she started to scream. "I'll kill you, then! If you won't tell me, I'll kill you!"
"Then go ahead. Try, because I don't know what you're talking about!"
The woman took a small can from her belt and sprayed it into the air, covering her nose. Trowa tried to cover up his face, but it was too late. He felt light-headed, and saw multiple images of the woman in front of him. She moved towards him, punching and kicking him, infuriated. Trowa couldn't react to block the blows. He fell to the floor.
"That's probably enough," the woman said, getting her emotions under control. "Hmmm, I didn't even tell him my name." The woman smiled evilly. She took a piece of paper from the hotel note pad and wrote her name, Aria Storme, on it. She let the paper float down onto the unconscious boy's body. She laughed and started toward the door. "I'll see you again, angel. The Storme's fury will continue."
*******
Duo walked along the city streets, looking for his other two comrades. Suddenly, about a block away, he saw Quatre, Heero, and Amy crossing the street.
"Hey! You guys! Wait up a second!" Duo yelled.
Heero and the others turned at the sound of his voice. Geez, he's annoying, thought Heero. He's not even trying to keep a low profile.
"What are you guys doing?" asked Duo.
"We decided to come help you look for Trowa and Wufei," said Quatre.
"Yeah, good idea. Okay, split up and search the city. Come back here in two hours if you haven't found anything," said Duo. "Let's go!"
One hour later, Quatre was still walking around. He stopped when he came to a hotel. The Club Royale. Sure doesn't look royal, thought Quatre, looking at the old shabby hotel. I wonder if Trowa and Wufei rented a room. He walked inside, stopping at the check-in desk. The clerk set down his ham and cheese sandwich.
"Yeah? What can I do for ya?" he asked.
"I'd like to know if a Trowa Barton and a Wufei Chang are staying here, please," asked Quatre.
After looking in a small book, the clerk nodded and said, "Yeah. They're in room 213."
"Thank you."
Quatre walked down the dimly lit corridor. "209, 211, here we go, 213. The door was slighty open. "Wufei? Trowa? Are you here?"
Upon hearing no response, Quatre opened the door and saw a sight he wasn't expecting. The room was trashed. Old magazines were scattered and torn all over the floor. The window was open, and the tattered curtains flailed around wildly. On the floor, sprawled on his stomach, lay his friend Trowa.
"Trowa! What happened? Wake up, Trowa!"
Quatre rolled Trowa onto his back, trying to ignore the pain in his left arm. The pilot's eyes were closed.
Could he be..no, he couldn't be..could he? thought Quatre. He stood and watched his fallen friend. Finally, he saw the pilot's chest slowly rising and falling. Relieved, he kept trying to wake him up.
"What the heck happened here?" Quatre wondered out loud. He searched around the
floor and found the answer he was looking for. A small, unlabeled can was laying on the floor. Quatre picked it up and discovered it was empty. I've got to find some of the others, he thought. Then, he noticed the small piece of paper laying next to his friend. He looked at it.
"Aria Storme," he read. "Is that the name of the person who did this?" He took the note pad and wrote a short message on it, in case Trowa woke up. He set it on Trowa's chest, so he'd be sure to see it. He then walked out of the room, leaving the door slightly open. He walked out onto the street, looking around. Finally, he saw Amy walking.
"Amy! Come over here! It's me!" he yelled.
Amy turned and saw Quatre. She waved and ran over. "Quatre! What's going on?"
"Come with me." Quatre dragged Amy back into the hotel, past the clerk, and to room 213. "Trowa's been beat up."
"What? By who?"
"I don't know. They drugged him with some kind of spray and left him on the floor."
They walked into the room and Amy saw the mess and the boy on the floor. He was still out.
"Is he all right?" Amy asked.
"I think so, somebody must have jumped him," said Quatre, taking the paper off Trowa's chest. "We need to wake him up. The others are expecting us in a half hour."
Quatre and Amy tried everything to get the Heavyarms pilot awake. Finally, after being splashed with cold water for about third time, Trowa groaned and moved a little.
"Trowa?"
Trowa's eyes opened and he saw two figures bent over him. One he knew was Quatre, but the other, the girl with blue hair, he didn't know. He sat up. "Who are you?" he asked to the girl.
"I'm Amy. Can you stand up?"
"I think so." He stood up shakily, still woozy from the drugs.
Quatre and Amy helped Trowa out the door and to the lobby. Quatre put some money on the counter. "Room 213 is checking out," he said.
"Okay," said the clerk. "Thanks for staying." The clerk seemed oblivious to the fact that Trowa had been beat up.
"We'd better get back to the meeting place, Quatre," said Amy.
*******
Duo stood impatiently on the corner. "Where in the heck are they? The God of Death doesn't like to be kept waiting!"
"Shut up, Duo. We're right here," said a familiar voice from behind him. Duo turned around to see Heero and Wufei.
"Hey, Wu-man! Nice to see ya! Where's Trowa?" asked the braided boy.
"I left him back at that cheap hotel. It got late last night on our way back from the supply base, so we got a room for the night," said Wufei.
"Well, let's go get him!" said Duo excitedly. "I want to find out what's going on here."
"Hold on, Duo. We need to wait for Quatre and Amy to get here," said Heero.
"Amy? Who's that?" asked Wufei.
"Oh, a girl who showed up last night and helped Quatre get to my place," answered Duo.
"WOMAN!"
*******
"Okay, you guys, I just talked to Amy on the communicator. She said that she's rounding up this group of guys, she said they're pilots, and they're coming here later," said Serena.
"Are they cute?" asked Lita, unable to withhold the question.
"I don't know, she didn't say. They couldn't be cuter than my Darien!" exclaimed the pig-tailed girl.
"I believe Amy was referring to the Gundam pilots, a group of five elite soldiers who pilot machines in battle," said Neo-Queen Serenity.
"The future sure is strange..." said Mina.
*******
As Wufei was yelling about the dishonor of being helped by a woman, Duo spotted Amy and Quatre helping Trowa reach the meeting place. "Hey, Q-man! Amy! Trowa! What the heck happened to you?"
Wufei turned to the trio walking towards them. "Trowa?"
As they reached the corner where Duo and the others where waiting, Quatre and Amy explained their part of the story. After they got done, Trowa told his half.
"I was taking a nap right after Wufei left, and when I woke up, I heard a door shut. A woman was there. She kept asking me for information about five girls who were "in the future", as she put it. I told her I didn't have the slightest clue what she was talking about, that she must have the wrong guy. She attacked me and sprayed something into the air. Then I blacked out until Quatre and Amy found me."
"Did you get her name, or a description?" asked Heero.
"Umm...she was pretty tall, she had brown hair," said Trowa, trying to remember.
"Her name was Aria Storme," Quatre pitched in. "She left her name on a piece of paper."
"So, is she on the side of this candy-fruit guy?" asked Duo.
"I would assume so, Duo," said Heero. "But right now, we need to get to that palace to find out what's going on."
"Trowa, will you be okay? Some of those cuts need bandages," said Amy.
"No, Trowa, don't let her near the Band-Aids!" yelled Quatre, in mock horror.
Amy walked over and gave Quatre a good slap across the face.
Later...
"Is this the place?" asked Duo. "It's huge!"
"I guess so. Knock on the door," said Amy.
The door opened, and a tall, slim, pink-haired girl greeted them. "Hi! You must be the pilots! Hey Amy!"
"Hi Rini! I haven't seen you for a while."
Duo turned to the others and said softly, "Do all the girls we're meeting have to have weird hair?"
"Look in a mirror sometime, Shinigami."
"Oh, look who's talking, Bang Boy!"
"Shut up, both of you. I'm the only one with normal hair here, so just drop it."
"If only you had a normal personality to match!"
"Omae o korasu."
"Hey, I think my hair is normal! Just because it's blonde and it makes me look 12 years old doesn't matter..."
"Hey, what about Mr. Ponytail over there? Doesn't he wanna join in this discussion?"
"Such dishonor."
"Hey, you guys, come on in!" yelled Amy from the doorway.
The G-boys walked through the doorway into the main entry hall. "Follow me," said Rini.
They followed her through a maze of corridors until, finally, they reached the throne room.
Neo-Queen Serenity stood to greet them. "Welcome, Gundam pilots. I'm so glad you could come and help us with our cause. You see, we need your help very badly."
"What do you mean?" asked Quatre.
"Well, this battle isn't exactly what the Sailor Scouts are used to handling. That's why we need you. You are used to military forces and strategies. Will you help us?"
The G-boys got into a circle. "I think we should," said Duo. "It couldn't hurt."
"I agree with Duo."
"Count me in too."
Heero and Wufei remained silent. "We're going to help a bunch of...women??" said Wufei in disbelief. "Chang Wufei does not help weak women!"
"Wufei, these women are anything BUT weak. They're strong, like us. Let's help them," said Quatre.
"Anyway, it's 3 against 2, so we win!" said Duo. "Okay, we'll help you girls, but can we have uniforms, too?
"Why?"
"Because girls say we look really cute when we're in uniform," said Duo.
"DUO!"
The queen smiled. "I'll see what I can do. Now, I need to explain the situation. This enemy is extremely powerful and skilled. He uses a combination of black magic and military force. I'd try to stop him myself, but my scepter has gone missing..."
"Don't worry, your majesty, we'll kick this guy's butt and find your scepter," said Lita.
"First, you should rest. I'll get you all a few rooms so you can rest up," said Rini from the door.
"Good idea, Rini. You should stay for a while, maybe a month to be safe," said the queen.
The Gundam pilots looked at each other. Then they looked at Quatre's broken arm and Trowa. "Yep, I think you're right," said Duo. "We'll stay."
One month later...
The G-boys and the scouts took off from the palace to the pilots' secret base. Quatre's arm had healed, and Trowa had recovered from his
encounter with Aria Storme.
"Wow! Are these your Gundams?" asked Mina.
"Yep. Going from left to right, that's Wing Zero, Altron, Heavyarms, Sandrock, and mine, I call it Shinigami."
"I've never seen machines this size in 2000. These Gundams are as big as the skyscrapers in Tokyo!"
"Let's go outside for a minute. We've got to get our Gundams fixed up later, so are you girls going back to the palace?" asked Duo.
"Maybe. We might walk around downtown for a while."
"Okay. We might as well take a walk while nothing's going on to catch up on the
situation," said Duo, even though it was obvious that he wanted to flirt with the scouts.
"We can get updated on the mission, but then we need to get to work," said Heero.
"Okay." Everyone agreed, except Wufei, he was still edgy about the girls, especially Raye.
They decided to walk through a wooded area near the base's location. As the scouts were introducing themselves and meeting the pilots, Heero felt like they were being watched. He looked around, but upon seeing no one, he turned his attention to his new allies. Suddenly, he felt a small, sharp pain in his back. He turned his head to see a woman smiling at him with a dart gun in her hand. He reached for his gun, which he always had handy, but the drug was already kicking in. He couldn't focus on the girl, but took several shots at
her anyway. The others turned around when they heard the shots and ran back. The gun dropped from Heero's hand and he fell into the dirt, unconscious or dead, they didn't know. As Duo grabbed his gun and tried to shoot the kidnapper, she vanished into the forest, taking the Zero pilot with her.
"Who in the heck..." wondered Duo out loud.
"That's her! That was the woman who jumped me!" said Trowa.
"Let's go back to the base," said Wufei. "She's too far away to catch."
The remaining four pilots and the scouts reentered the hidden base. "Great. Today just keeps getting better and better. What are we gonna do?" complained Duo.
Suddenly, Quatre spoke up. "Uh oh, bad news, enemy mobile suits and dolls, headed for the city!"
End of Part 2
Author's note: Hooray for me writing another part! I guess if you read the second chapter you must like the fanfic, huh? If not, please send comments, suggestions, flames, ideas, and winning lottery numbers to me via e-mail: bluechibimercury@hotmail.com
Part 2: The Appearance of the Enemy
Author's Note: Thank you all for your great reviews of this fic! I hope you'll enjoy this second chapter just as much! Thank you again, and enjoy! Oh yeah, I promise the Sailor Scouts will start making more appearances in the future!
Intro: Okay, here's the recap so you're all caught up. The Sailor Scouts are in the year AC 195 with the G-boys. Amy is at Heero and Duo's house with an injured Quatre. Serena, Mina, Lita, Raye, are with Neo-Queen Serenity and Rini in their palace. We don't know where Trowa and Wufei are at the moment. They have just heard the declaration of war against Crystal Tokyo by their enemy, Deisaki Starburst.
At the palace...
"What are we going to do?" asked Rini.
"It's all right. We'll figure out something," said Raye, trying to comfort the hysterical Rini.
"We've got to figure out how to beat this guy. Pluto said he had strange powers besides all of his military power," said Mina.
"Okay, we will, but can we get something to eat first?"
"SERENA!"
*******
"Great, just great. We get over with a one-year war, and just when we think we're gonna get a little break, this guy shows up," complained Duo.
"Calm down, Duo. This guy has to have a weakness. I mean, all he has are some of OZ's old bases, right?" said Heero.
"No. He has much more than that. That's why Sailor Pluto sent us to the future. If this was just a military battle, she would have left it to you guys," explained Amy.
"What else could he have?" asked Heero.
"He has dark powers. Magical powers that could destroy this entire city if left alone. Quatre, remember out in the battle, when you were fighting those other mobile suits, how many people do you think there were?"
"Um, I don't know, there were a lot of suits, why?"
"There were no pilots."
"What??" Duo and Quatre both stood up. "What do you mean, Amy? Those weren't
dolls, they were suits. They needed pilots," said Duo.
"No, Starburst controlled them with his power. He doesn't need any followers to carry out his plan. He can do it all himself. That's why he's so dangerous," said Amy.
"How do you know?" Duo asked.
"My sailor uniform comes with a VR visor that I can use to analyze enemies with. That's how I found out some information in Quatre's battle."
"Whoa, this is weird. Don't you think so, Heero?" asked Duo to the other pilot still seated on the couch.
"......" Heero didn't respond.
"Well, now that we've pulled off an all-nighter and it's morning, how about we find those friends of yours, miss?" suggested Duo.
"Good idea, but shouldn't we take the other two pilots you were talking about with us?" asked Amy.
"Yeah, I'm gonna try to find them. They should be nearby. I'll be back later," said the braided pilot, walking out the door.
"What were their names again?" asked Amy to the remaining two boys.
"Trowa Barton and Wufei Chang."
*******
Trowa sat in the hotel room on the bed, watching TV. Well, this certainly is boring, he thought. He looked over on the other bed and saw his comrade meditating. He's been sitting there for almost 4 hours, thought Trowa. I have to wake him up. He stood and walked over to the other bed.
"Wufei."
"Huh? What do you want? What time is it?"
"It's almost noon," said Trowa. "We should find the others."
"Ah, they're fine. Did you see that announcement on the TV last night?"
"Yes. I couldn't sleep either. Weird guy."
"Well, I'm going to go look for the others. We need to talk with them. Stay here in case they show up," said the Chinese pilot, standing.
"Okay."
Wufei walked out the door, and Trowa turned his attention back to the TV. After
discovering that all that was on were Jerry Springer episodes from who-knows-when and some PBS programming, he decided to take a nap.
Trowa later woke to the noise of a door shutting. "Wufei?" said Trowa drowsily. "Is that you?"
"No, angel. It's not Wufei."
Trowa didn't recognize the woman's voice. "Who are you?" The woman was still out of sight. "What do you want?"
"Only some information, darling. Tell me what I want to know and I won't hurt you."
"Yeah, right. I've heard that one before. Come on out and show yourself," said Trowa.
"Fine." The woman stepped into Trowa's sight. She was tall with long, light brown hair. She wore an everyday outfit, one that a business woman might wear. "I'm not armed," she said when she looked at the inquiring eyes of the pilot.
"So, what do you want?" Trowa asked.
"I want to know where those girls are. We know they're here in the future as well, and we need their location."
Trowa was confused. "What girls? Who's we?"
"Don't play dumb. It's useless. You know very well which girls I'm talking about. The five of them. Where are they?" The woman was getting angry.
"I'm telling you, I don't know. I don't know why I would know. Now, please leave my room," the pilot said sharply.
"Why you little..." The woman jumped at him, knocking Trowa to the ground. "Tell me!"
"I don't know!" yelled Trowa. He stood up, ready to defend himself.
The woman attacked him, landing numerous punches on Trowa's head and stomach. Trowa spun around and kicked the woman down.
Scrambling to her feet, she started to scream. "I'll kill you, then! If you won't tell me, I'll kill you!"
"Then go ahead. Try, because I don't know what you're talking about!"
The woman took a small can from her belt and sprayed it into the air, covering her nose. Trowa tried to cover up his face, but it was too late. He felt light-headed, and saw multiple images of the woman in front of him. She moved towards him, punching and kicking him, infuriated. Trowa couldn't react to block the blows. He fell to the floor.
"That's probably enough," the woman said, getting her emotions under control. "Hmmm, I didn't even tell him my name." The woman smiled evilly. She took a piece of paper from the hotel note pad and wrote her name, Aria Storme, on it. She let the paper float down onto the unconscious boy's body. She laughed and started toward the door. "I'll see you again, angel. The Storme's fury will continue."
*******
Duo walked along the city streets, looking for his other two comrades. Suddenly, about a block away, he saw Quatre, Heero, and Amy crossing the street.
"Hey! You guys! Wait up a second!" Duo yelled.
Heero and the others turned at the sound of his voice. Geez, he's annoying, thought Heero. He's not even trying to keep a low profile.
"What are you guys doing?" asked Duo.
"We decided to come help you look for Trowa and Wufei," said Quatre.
"Yeah, good idea. Okay, split up and search the city. Come back here in two hours if you haven't found anything," said Duo. "Let's go!"
One hour later, Quatre was still walking around. He stopped when he came to a hotel. The Club Royale. Sure doesn't look royal, thought Quatre, looking at the old shabby hotel. I wonder if Trowa and Wufei rented a room. He walked inside, stopping at the check-in desk. The clerk set down his ham and cheese sandwich.
"Yeah? What can I do for ya?" he asked.
"I'd like to know if a Trowa Barton and a Wufei Chang are staying here, please," asked Quatre.
After looking in a small book, the clerk nodded and said, "Yeah. They're in room 213."
"Thank you."
Quatre walked down the dimly lit corridor. "209, 211, here we go, 213. The door was slighty open. "Wufei? Trowa? Are you here?"
Upon hearing no response, Quatre opened the door and saw a sight he wasn't expecting. The room was trashed. Old magazines were scattered and torn all over the floor. The window was open, and the tattered curtains flailed around wildly. On the floor, sprawled on his stomach, lay his friend Trowa.
"Trowa! What happened? Wake up, Trowa!"
Quatre rolled Trowa onto his back, trying to ignore the pain in his left arm. The pilot's eyes were closed.
Could he be..no, he couldn't be..could he? thought Quatre. He stood and watched his fallen friend. Finally, he saw the pilot's chest slowly rising and falling. Relieved, he kept trying to wake him up.
"What the heck happened here?" Quatre wondered out loud. He searched around the
floor and found the answer he was looking for. A small, unlabeled can was laying on the floor. Quatre picked it up and discovered it was empty. I've got to find some of the others, he thought. Then, he noticed the small piece of paper laying next to his friend. He looked at it.
"Aria Storme," he read. "Is that the name of the person who did this?" He took the note pad and wrote a short message on it, in case Trowa woke up. He set it on Trowa's chest, so he'd be sure to see it. He then walked out of the room, leaving the door slightly open. He walked out onto the street, looking around. Finally, he saw Amy walking.
"Amy! Come over here! It's me!" he yelled.
Amy turned and saw Quatre. She waved and ran over. "Quatre! What's going on?"
"Come with me." Quatre dragged Amy back into the hotel, past the clerk, and to room 213. "Trowa's been beat up."
"What? By who?"
"I don't know. They drugged him with some kind of spray and left him on the floor."
They walked into the room and Amy saw the mess and the boy on the floor. He was still out.
"Is he all right?" Amy asked.
"I think so, somebody must have jumped him," said Quatre, taking the paper off Trowa's chest. "We need to wake him up. The others are expecting us in a half hour."
Quatre and Amy tried everything to get the Heavyarms pilot awake. Finally, after being splashed with cold water for about third time, Trowa groaned and moved a little.
"Trowa?"
Trowa's eyes opened and he saw two figures bent over him. One he knew was Quatre, but the other, the girl with blue hair, he didn't know. He sat up. "Who are you?" he asked to the girl.
"I'm Amy. Can you stand up?"
"I think so." He stood up shakily, still woozy from the drugs.
Quatre and Amy helped Trowa out the door and to the lobby. Quatre put some money on the counter. "Room 213 is checking out," he said.
"Okay," said the clerk. "Thanks for staying." The clerk seemed oblivious to the fact that Trowa had been beat up.
"We'd better get back to the meeting place, Quatre," said Amy.
*******
Duo stood impatiently on the corner. "Where in the heck are they? The God of Death doesn't like to be kept waiting!"
"Shut up, Duo. We're right here," said a familiar voice from behind him. Duo turned around to see Heero and Wufei.
"Hey, Wu-man! Nice to see ya! Where's Trowa?" asked the braided boy.
"I left him back at that cheap hotel. It got late last night on our way back from the supply base, so we got a room for the night," said Wufei.
"Well, let's go get him!" said Duo excitedly. "I want to find out what's going on here."
"Hold on, Duo. We need to wait for Quatre and Amy to get here," said Heero.
"Amy? Who's that?" asked Wufei.
"Oh, a girl who showed up last night and helped Quatre get to my place," answered Duo.
"WOMAN!"
*******
"Okay, you guys, I just talked to Amy on the communicator. She said that she's rounding up this group of guys, she said they're pilots, and they're coming here later," said Serena.
"Are they cute?" asked Lita, unable to withhold the question.
"I don't know, she didn't say. They couldn't be cuter than my Darien!" exclaimed the pig-tailed girl.
"I believe Amy was referring to the Gundam pilots, a group of five elite soldiers who pilot machines in battle," said Neo-Queen Serenity.
"The future sure is strange..." said Mina.
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As Wufei was yelling about the dishonor of being helped by a woman, Duo spotted Amy and Quatre helping Trowa reach the meeting place. "Hey, Q-man! Amy! Trowa! What the heck happened to you?"
Wufei turned to the trio walking towards them. "Trowa?"
As they reached the corner where Duo and the others where waiting, Quatre and Amy explained their part of the story. After they got done, Trowa told his half.
"I was taking a nap right after Wufei left, and when I woke up, I heard a door shut. A woman was there. She kept asking me for information about five girls who were "in the future", as she put it. I told her I didn't have the slightest clue what she was talking about, that she must have the wrong guy. She attacked me and sprayed something into the air. Then I blacked out until Quatre and Amy found me."
"Did you get her name, or a description?" asked Heero.
"Umm...she was pretty tall, she had brown hair," said Trowa, trying to remember.
"Her name was Aria Storme," Quatre pitched in. "She left her name on a piece of paper."
"So, is she on the side of this candy-fruit guy?" asked Duo.
"I would assume so, Duo," said Heero. "But right now, we need to get to that palace to find out what's going on."
"Trowa, will you be okay? Some of those cuts need bandages," said Amy.
"No, Trowa, don't let her near the Band-Aids!" yelled Quatre, in mock horror.
Amy walked over and gave Quatre a good slap across the face.
Later...
"Is this the place?" asked Duo. "It's huge!"
"I guess so. Knock on the door," said Amy.
The door opened, and a tall, slim, pink-haired girl greeted them. "Hi! You must be the pilots! Hey Amy!"
"Hi Rini! I haven't seen you for a while."
Duo turned to the others and said softly, "Do all the girls we're meeting have to have weird hair?"
"Look in a mirror sometime, Shinigami."
"Oh, look who's talking, Bang Boy!"
"Shut up, both of you. I'm the only one with normal hair here, so just drop it."
"If only you had a normal personality to match!"
"Omae o korasu."
"Hey, I think my hair is normal! Just because it's blonde and it makes me look 12 years old doesn't matter..."
"Hey, what about Mr. Ponytail over there? Doesn't he wanna join in this discussion?"
"Such dishonor."
"Hey, you guys, come on in!" yelled Amy from the doorway.
The G-boys walked through the doorway into the main entry hall. "Follow me," said Rini.
They followed her through a maze of corridors until, finally, they reached the throne room.
Neo-Queen Serenity stood to greet them. "Welcome, Gundam pilots. I'm so glad you could come and help us with our cause. You see, we need your help very badly."
"What do you mean?" asked Quatre.
"Well, this battle isn't exactly what the Sailor Scouts are used to handling. That's why we need you. You are used to military forces and strategies. Will you help us?"
The G-boys got into a circle. "I think we should," said Duo. "It couldn't hurt."
"I agree with Duo."
"Count me in too."
Heero and Wufei remained silent. "We're going to help a bunch of...women??" said Wufei in disbelief. "Chang Wufei does not help weak women!"
"Wufei, these women are anything BUT weak. They're strong, like us. Let's help them," said Quatre.
"Anyway, it's 3 against 2, so we win!" said Duo. "Okay, we'll help you girls, but can we have uniforms, too?
"Why?"
"Because girls say we look really cute when we're in uniform," said Duo.
"DUO!"
The queen smiled. "I'll see what I can do. Now, I need to explain the situation. This enemy is extremely powerful and skilled. He uses a combination of black magic and military force. I'd try to stop him myself, but my scepter has gone missing..."
"Don't worry, your majesty, we'll kick this guy's butt and find your scepter," said Lita.
"First, you should rest. I'll get you all a few rooms so you can rest up," said Rini from the door.
"Good idea, Rini. You should stay for a while, maybe a month to be safe," said the queen.
The Gundam pilots looked at each other. Then they looked at Quatre's broken arm and Trowa. "Yep, I think you're right," said Duo. "We'll stay."
One month later...
The G-boys and the scouts took off from the palace to the pilots' secret base. Quatre's arm had healed, and Trowa had recovered from his
encounter with Aria Storme.
"Wow! Are these your Gundams?" asked Mina.
"Yep. Going from left to right, that's Wing Zero, Altron, Heavyarms, Sandrock, and mine, I call it Shinigami."
"I've never seen machines this size in 2000. These Gundams are as big as the skyscrapers in Tokyo!"
"Let's go outside for a minute. We've got to get our Gundams fixed up later, so are you girls going back to the palace?" asked Duo.
"Maybe. We might walk around downtown for a while."
"Okay. We might as well take a walk while nothing's going on to catch up on the
situation," said Duo, even though it was obvious that he wanted to flirt with the scouts.
"We can get updated on the mission, but then we need to get to work," said Heero.
"Okay." Everyone agreed, except Wufei, he was still edgy about the girls, especially Raye.
They decided to walk through a wooded area near the base's location. As the scouts were introducing themselves and meeting the pilots, Heero felt like they were being watched. He looked around, but upon seeing no one, he turned his attention to his new allies. Suddenly, he felt a small, sharp pain in his back. He turned his head to see a woman smiling at him with a dart gun in her hand. He reached for his gun, which he always had handy, but the drug was already kicking in. He couldn't focus on the girl, but took several shots at
her anyway. The others turned around when they heard the shots and ran back. The gun dropped from Heero's hand and he fell into the dirt, unconscious or dead, they didn't know. As Duo grabbed his gun and tried to shoot the kidnapper, she vanished into the forest, taking the Zero pilot with her.
"Who in the heck..." wondered Duo out loud.
"That's her! That was the woman who jumped me!" said Trowa.
"Let's go back to the base," said Wufei. "She's too far away to catch."
The remaining four pilots and the scouts reentered the hidden base. "Great. Today just keeps getting better and better. What are we gonna do?" complained Duo.
Suddenly, Quatre spoke up. "Uh oh, bad news, enemy mobile suits and dolls, headed for the city!"
End of Part 2
Author's note: Hooray for me writing another part! I guess if you read the second chapter you must like the fanfic, huh? If not, please send comments, suggestions, flames, ideas, and winning lottery numbers to me via e-mail: bluechibimercury@hotmail.com