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Rika, Miryo, Pota, and Kenja.
Author's Notes: hi everyone! Been waiting to know where they are now? Lol, guess not…Yeah, they're in the GW dimension now, and it takes place after the Endless Waltz, so the GW boys are either 16 or 17, k?
Oh, and here are some of the pronunciations of the names, I felt like adding them since some are kinda hard…
Rika: Ree-kah
Miryo: Mere-e-o; Mere-yo or Mur-yo
Pota: Pot-tah
Kenja: Ken-ja
Now the usual…
[blah] telepathic speaking
'blah' thoughts
"blah" speaking
Dimensional Destiny
Chapter 9: Captured, Questioned and New Friends
Everyone hit the ground with a dull thud before they all blacked out, except for the Z-gang. They were separated from the four teens, and had no clue where the quartet was.
"Argh, where are they?!" Gohan yelled in fury as he punched the ground repeatedly. All of them had grown quite attached to each other already.
"Gohan, calm down, we're gonna find them," Krillen said as he put a hand on Gohan's shoulder.
"Yeah, hopefully," Gohan replied as he looked at the alien surroundings.
* * * *
"Ugh..." Rika groaned as she came out from unconsciousness. She was going to rub her sore head that was still bleeding, but she found out she was bound up with thick ropes very securely and handcuffed also. She quickly opened her eyes though it was a little foggy and looked at her surroundings. Once again, she was the first to be awake. Pota, Kenja, and Miryo were all tied up too and their backs were facing each other. The room was completely dark except for the dim lights overhead of them. They were quite bruised up from the fall too. No one else seemed to be present in the room. Rika then heard a groan from Pota.
"Argh, what a headache," Pota groaned and Rika heard him try to move his arms. "Hey! What happened here?"
"I don't know," Rika replied, looking around hoping to find some useful information about the room, her vision blurry since her head was still bleeding. "It appears that the blob of brown stuff sent us somewhere else again. I don't know anything else."
"Oww..." Rika heard Kenja whine as he slowly woke up, and as Pota did, he tried to move his arms. "What the heck?"
Rika explained to Kenja that the blob had sent them somewhere else.
"Oh, I see, but what's with the ropes and handcuffs?" Kenja asked, clueless.
"That we don't know," Pota answered.
A few minutes passed, and Miryo still hadn't woken up. The other 3 began to be worried.
"Oh, she's probably in la-la land dreaming about Trunks," Kenja joked.
"Kenja," Rika said sternly. "This isn't a good time for jokes."
"Alright, MOM." Kenja said, rolling his eyes. Rika was right beside him and noticed the eye rolling happening.
"Uh, guys, I think I know why Miryo's not waking up," Pota quietly said.
"Why?" Kenja asked. "Dreaming about Trunks?"
"No," Pota replied. He was sitting next to her, his back to Rika. "Look at her head..."
"Oh my God..." Rika stuttered as she tried her best to turn her head and look at Miryo.
"Holy chow mai fun!" Kenja gaped. There was a bad injury on Miryo's head, and it was bleeding pretty badly (worse than Rika's condition). It looked as if her skull might crack. Her whole body was limp and her head was on Pota's shoulder, blood-staining it.
"Okay, these people who are responsible about this better come here quickly!" and as soon as Rika finished her sentence, a door opened and closed. 5 boys about their age came in from the door.
"Who the hell are you?" Rika demanded, not able to see very well at the moment.
"Hn," A monotone voice answered her coldly.
"What? What kind of answer is "Hn"?" Rika replied back, almost as coldly as the voice that 'answered' her, feeling weaker.
"Sorry miss, he's always like that," A kind voice answered. The 3 teens that were awake saw the 5 men, the one that said "Hn", the kind teen that replied to Rika, a boy with a long braid, a boy with gravity-defying bangs, and a Chinese boy with black hair in a short, tight pony tail.
"Well whatever you're here for you better get a doctor," Pota said, indicating Miryo's injury.
"Whoa, how'd the lil lady get that bad of an injury?" The boy with the braid looked at Miryo. "Whoa, and why's your head bleeding angel?"
"Girl, get a doctor now, will you!" Kenja said, actually caring for Miryo and Rika.
"Girl? I'm not a girl," The boy with the braid pouted and looked hurt.
"Will you please introduce yourselves then so we can call you by your proper names instead of "boy" and things like that?" Rika asked patiently.
"Oh sure, I'm D-" The boy with the braid started.
"Baka (idiot)! We don't give our names to strangers!" The Chinese boy snapped, looking dangerously at the braid-boy.
[Pota, Rika, let's just break out of here. If we can beat the living crud out of each other, we could probably break through these ropes,] Kenja suggested, remembering their powers.
[Your call, Rika,] Pota said/thought, sitting up straight so he was ready for action.
[...let's not. We should get them to trust us,] Rika answered after thinking for a while. Kenja thought she would never answer.
[What?! Why?]Kenja asked.
[They seem to be protecting their identities, so they must be a secret organization of some sort, and I guess we should get as much help as we can while we're in this weird place.]
[Wow...you're such a brainiac,]
[No Kenja, you're just not as logical as the rest of us, that's all,] Pota tried to joke.
The whole time, the Chinese boy was lecturing braid-boy about not revealing their identities.
"Please get a doctor," Rika pleaded, feeling weaker by the second. She was loosing blood quickly. She could feel the warm liquid slowly running down her forehead.
"Hold on, I'll get - " The boy with platinum blond hair started. Clunk. Rika's eyes slowly closed and her head hit Kenja's shoulder with a small clunk.
"Ouch!" Kenja yelped.
"Alrighty then, questions later!" The braided-boy jumped around awhile before untying them and carrying Miryo on his shoulder and marching out the room.
"Braided-baka." The Chinese boy muttered.
The blond boy carried the fainted Rika out and followed the braided boy. The "Hn"-man walked out, followed by the guy with gravity-defying bangs, leaving the Chinese boy to push the two remaining boys out.
* * * *
One hour had passed, and the Z-gang flew around the alien area, still looking for the four teens. They had sensed their 3 of their ki's earlier, but now the they only felt 2 ki's, Pota's and Kenja's. It also seemed quite faint and far off. Plus, Vegeta wasn't helping at all.
"Damn it," Krillen muttered. "Where the hell are we?!"
Before anyone could answer his question, there was a loud rumble, and 5 robots flew in front of them from behind.
"Who are you and state your reasons of being here. This is a private area!" one of the robots yelled out.
"That is none of your business!" Vegeta snapped.
"State your business or we will have to destroy you!" another robot warned.
"Destroy us? Most likely it would be us who will tear your weak bodies apart!" Vegeta spat.
"We're warning you!" One of the robots said nervously.
"Don't say Vegeta didn't warn you!" Gohan muttered and formed a small ki blast in his hands.
One of the gigantic robots shot out of this enormous gun and shot out at Krillen. Krillen easily sidestepped it.
"You pitiful humans will die," Vegeta scoffed, as he blocked a gun shot with a simple wave of his hand.
"Uh, uh, retreat men!" The 1st robot ordered nervously, appearing to be their captain. None of them moved.
Gohan's ki blast, which had been steadily growing larger, shot out of Gohan's hands and blew up a portion of the ground. "Leave." Gohan said simply.
The robots quickly fled and Vegeta looked angered. "I pity you, brat. You should have destroyed them. Saiyajins do not show mercy!"
"Vegeta, that is only you. I do what I please," Gohan replied, then noticing one of the robots had stayed behind, apparently paralyzed. Vegeta noticed it too, and was about to destroy it before Gohan stopped him, or at least tried. Vegeta's ki blast ended up destroying another portion of the ground. "Brat, what the hell do you think you're doing?!"
"Leave him for questioning, we need to know where we are," Gohan said, flying up to the robot and knocking on what seemed like a door.
The door quickly opened and a man in his 20's came out with his hands up. "I surrender, don't hurt me!"
"We won't," Gohan promised. "Now tell us where we are."
"You are on earth," The man said slowly, thinking Gohan was a lunatic.
Trunks joined Gohan. "What is that?" Trunks asked, indicating the robot.
The man gave them both a strange look. "It's a mobile suit. There are bigger, fancier ones that are called gundams. I'm surprised you don't know all this."
"We're not from around here," Gohan quickly said.
The man raised an eyebrow. "Even if you were from the colonies, you still would have known. Are you saying you are from a completely different world? As in the 'aliens'?"
"Uh, you can say that," Trunks nodded. "What's your name?"
The man hesitated before answering. "That's classified information."
"Well it says "Black Hawks" here," Gohan pointed at a badge on the man's chest. "That's pretty stupid if it's classified information."
The man turned red and stayed silent.
"And it says here your name is Henry Buoy," Trunks pointed at another badge on him.
The man, "Henry", went even redder if possible.
"That's...I'm...I'm still not telling you anything else!" Henry yelled.
Then, Vegeta joined them.
* * * *
Rika woke up, feeling a bit better but still a little woozy. A clean white cloth had been wrapped around her head for the bleeding to stop. She turned and saw Miryo in the same state in other bed, still unconscious. Pota and Kenja weren't in sight. This was definitely not a hospital room either. Suddenly, she heard voices outside the room. She closed her eyes, pretending to sleep, and listened carefully.
"...Heero! I think I trust them! Don't kill them, they're about the same age as us!" Rika recalled the voice and recognized it as the braided-boy's voice.
"Hn." The monotone guy said. Apparently, his name was Heero. "We found them near our gundams. They must be terminated, they saw our gundams."
"Awww, c'mon! They were knocked out when we found them!" The braided-boy whined.
"Baka Maxwell, you only want to keep them alive because you took likings to the weak onnas (women)!" Rika recognized this as the Chinese boy's voice.
"Wu-man, I'm hurt!"
"Do not call me Wu-man! My name is Wufei!"
Rika heard a yelp and fast footsteps and someone opened the door, came in, and locked it.
"MAXWELL!" Wufei screamed from outside, trying to open up the locked door.
"Tee-hee," The braided-boy walked away from the door and Rika opened her eyes, thinking she could trust him. "Hey angel, you're awake!"
"Uh yeah...my name's Rika not angel," Rika said, sitting up on the bed.
"Alrighty Riki (Pronounced Ree-key)!" The boy said enthusiastically, already making up a name for Rika. "I'm Duo! I may run and I may hide but I never tell a lie!"
Rika couldn't help giggling. "How's Miryo doing? Is she okay?"
"Oh, you mean the lil lady over there?" Duo pointed over at Miryo. "She's doing pretty good, the medics fixed up her head and she should be waking up soon. No idea what happened to her though, she was like this when we found you four."
And right on cue, Miryo stirred.
"Hey Miri (Pronounced Mur-e or Mere-e)!" Duo hopped over to Miryo.
"W-Who are you?" Miryo asked, sitting up from her bed and rubbing her head.
"I'm Duo! I may run and I may hide but I never tell a lie!" Duo introduced himself.
Miryo smiled, a little tired to laugh. "Oh Rika, where are we?" Miryo noticed Rika smiling on her bed.
[Oh, do you like Duo now?] Rika teased.
[Rika!] Miryo fought back a blush and the urge to get up.
"Well we're on Earth!" Duo smiled.
[The blob of dirt sent us to another place again...another Earth,] Rika said to Miryo.
[Oh, not again! What happened to the others? And where are Pota and Kenja?] Miryo asked.
"Uh, where are Pota and Kenja?" Rika asked.
"You mean those two boys? They're somewhere else, probably with Q-ball or the others," Duo shrugged. "Wu-man is trying to get through the door though."
Cursing and shuffling were heard from the door.
Rika and Miryo both giggled.
"Q-ball and Wu-man? Are those really their names?" Rika asked jokingly.
"Nope! Q-ball is Quatre and Wu-man's Wufei!" Duo answered unhesitatingly. "Well...I'm not supposed to tell, but I trust you gals for some reason. Don't tell them I told you, alright?"
"We promise," Rika and Miryo promised, smiling.
"ARGH!" An angry voice shouted out as the door broke open. Standing there was Wufei. "Maxwell!
Duo gulped.
* * * *
Henry was pretty beaten up, almost near death after Vegeta dealt with him, with one punch. He was going to kill him but Gohan wouldn't let him. Then had more information about the new world now, but it didn't help a lot. They now knew what gundams, mobiles suits, and colonies were, but had no idea where they were. Henry's only answers were that they were on Earth.
"But this can't be Earth..." Krillen whispered to Gohan. Gohan looked around a bit.
"The environment is like Earth, but we never had mobile suits or colonies or any of that stuff."
"Um....help?" Henry rasped, holding his stomach where Vegeta had hit him.
"What now?" Trunks asked, turning to Gohan.
"Well...we need this guy alive..."
"Why? Just get the answers and get rid of him!!" Vegeta shouted, totally losing his temper.
Gohan ignored Vegeta. "Henry, what are the 'Black Hawks'?"
"It's...it's a secret organization..." Henry answered. "I can't say anymore, or else..."
"HUMAN WEAKLING, ANSWER US NOW!" Vegeta yelled, pushing the others out of the way and standing right in front of the frightened man.
"But...but...please...I can't..." he pleaded, shielding himself with his hands. Not that it did any good, because Vegeta quickly fired a ki blast before Gohan could react. Henry was no more.
"VEGETA!!" they all yelled at him. The proud saiyan smirked, satisfied now that he had gotten his way.
"Well, I guess we should start looking for the others..." Gohan suggested, slowly hovering off the ground.
"Hey! Miryo and Rika's ki's are back...Miryo's is kind of faint..." Trunks pointed out. Without further discussion, Trunks, Krillen, and a reluctant Vegeta followed Gohan to the faint ki's.
****
"MAXWELL!!" Wufei thundered.
"Wufei, chill..." Duo said nervously, backing away.
"Baka! We must get rid of them. They saw our gundams!"
"Gundams?" Rika repeated the strange word.
"You, stay quiet!" Wufei lunged at Duo.
"HEY!" Rika used her speed and blocked Duo from Wufei. "Let's get a few things straight. First of all, we haven't seen your gundams, we don't even know what they are. Second, you are not going to get rid of us!"
"Well, we have no reason to believe you. And give me one good reason why I'm not going to get rid of you four bakas."
[Should I show him a light ki blast?] Rika asked Miryo.
[Sure...a light one...and hit the wall or something...a ki blast could hurt him bad.]
Rika placed one hand in front of her, and charged a tiny ki blast.
"What the...?" Duo peeked over her shoulder. Wufei stared, amazed. Rika threw it at the ground away from them, and the blast exploded. Since it was near the ground, it didnt destroy anything (and this also told Rika they were either at ground level or underground).
The three other boys rushed in, followed by Pota and Kenja.
"What was that?" the boy with platinum blond hair asked.
"That's Quatre," Duo quickly whispered to Rika (who passed on the information to Miryo telepathically).
"That was a ki blast," Rika answered, not knowing what else to say.
"A 'ki blast'?" Duo repeated, staring at her.
"And that's one reason you won't be able to get rid of us. We're tougher than the average human" Miryo explained confidently.
"Don' t tell them that!" Kenja jumped out from behind Heero. "They'll think we're freaks!"
"...I think some explaining should be done," said the boy with gravity- defying hair. There was disagreement from Wufei and a little from Kenja.
"Who cares if we know each other's names and stuff? What does it matter?" Pota questioned boldly, looking directly at Wufei, but glancing at the others once in a while. There was a silence, in which everyone thought hard to find a solution to this mess.
"Well, if your secrets are so important to keep, we'll tell you about us," Rika offered. 'And hopefully you'll trust us then.'
"Fine," Heero answered.
Rika chose her words carefully as she explained. It wouldn't help if the five boys thought they were superhuman freaks.
"So you think some blob creature sent you to different versions of Earth?" Heero asked, emotionless.
"Uh...yeah."
"And..." Miryo jumped in before they could question them further. "You have to believe us. How else can you explain that ki blast?"
"We still have no reason to trust you." Wufei's cold, dark eyes stared into Miryo's. The still injured girl stared back defiantly, daring him to speak again. He remained silent.
[Pota! Try to read their minds!] Kenja commanded.
[But that seems so wrong...] Pota complained.
[You did it several times before, just do it again!]
Pota sighed, drawing everyone's attention to him. "It's okay if you don't wanna tell, but we're still gonna find out about you all."
"How?" Duo asked, not sure what to expect.
"Hold still and look right at me," Pota carefully instructed. The younger boy stared at Duo, and dived into his mind. There were many thoughts swirling around, such as "what is he trying to do?" and "how come Heero and Wufei are so reluctant to tell about us?". Pota closed his eyes to concentrate and pushed past those thoughts. He saw images of huge, towering robots; they were all fighting. The words "gundam", "mobile suit", and "Deathscythe" seemed to echo at him. Pota went deeper into Duo's mind and found out about the robots. He opened his eyes.
"There are robots known as mobile suits that are used as weapons. There are also gundams, which are pretty much stronger and more capable versions of mobile suits. You" (he pointed at Duo) "pilot the gundam known as Deathscythe, or 02."
The resounding gasp was satisfying, and it was only after that when Pota realized what a huge headache he got from doing that.
"How were you able to do that?" Quatre asked, surprised.
"I just can. It's a part of my powers from the previous version of Earth. Is that proof enough for you that our story is true?"
"Fine, we'll tell you about us, but that's only because i don't see another option. It's impossible to kill you since you have powers and ki blasts, and keeping you here would be foolish. You could easily break out," Heero answered and explained about the gundams, colonies, who they were, and everything else about this version of Earth.
"So, you guys are sort of breaking the law?" Kenja asked when Heero had finished.
"Sort of, but not really," Duo answered, still cheery.
"But where are we right now?" Rika questioned, still confused about their current location.
"This is our underground base. We keep the gundams here so no one can find them."
"Wait a sec...where did you find us?" Pota wondered.
"You were unconscious right beside our gundams. That's why we were so suspicious about you, we thought you were spies breaking in," Trowa answered.
"I see... hey! What happened to Gohan and the others?" Pota asked, suddenly remembering.
"Who?"
"Our friends...you know, the ones who help train us."
"Well, we only found you." Duo answered.
"Hey guys, what are we gonna do now?" Miryo quietly asked her pals. All of them turned to Rika. For once, the "leader" of their group had no answers.
"...you can stay here if you want..." Quatre suggested, glancing at Heero.
"You can stay as long as you don't get in our way," Heero agreed, and walked out the room. Wufei and Trowa followed, but Duo and Quatre stayed.
"Sorry, that wasn't much of a welcome," Quatre apologized.
"Whatever, it's alright," Rika answered and sat down on one of the beds, trying to think.
"You wanna take a tour of this place? We can show you the gundams too...if Heero and Wufei don't complain." Duo headed to the door.
"Sure!" all four answered in unison, drawing a funny look from Quatre and Duo.
"...we're best friends...and I mean best friends..." Miryo explained.
"And we're telepathically connected to each other!" Kenja blurted out on impulse. Pota, Miryo, and Rika slapped their foreheads, while Duo and Quatre looked at them strangely.
"…we'll discuss that later…" Miryo scratched her head nervously.
****
Gohan and the others were sitting down for a rest. They were in what seemed like a forest, and they had been flying for a very long time.
"They must be really far…like halfway across the world or something," Trunks said, finding that their ki was still very faint.
"Do you think they're okay? I mean, wouldn't they be looking for us?" Krillen wondered, a little concerned.
"Well, we didn't teach any of them to sense ki," Gohan pointed out. Vegeta stayed completely silent, and was staring into the distance. Gohan shuffled over to Trunks and whispered, "What's he doing?" Trunks observed his father for a moment, then answered in a whisper "I think he's deep in thought. Either that, or he hates being around us so much he can't even throw insults."
Gohan looked thoughtfully at Vegeta, whose back was turned to them. "He's a lot calmer when my dad's not around."
"Guys!" Krillen yelled. "I think there's more of those mobile suit things heading this way!"
They all turned to where he was pointing and saw the mobile suits flying right towards them. When they landed, Gohan counted a total of fifteen.
"What? A couple of measly civilians?" the first mobile suit said. "They couldn't be the ones who took down Henry's suit…"
"I'm telling you, it's them!" another said.
Gohan suddenly realized what they were talking about. The four mobile suits that were with Henry had gone back to their base. When they lost communications with him, they rounded up some more people in an attempt to find the ones responsible for it.
"What are you people doing here? This place belongs to the Black Hawks."
'So the "Black Hawks" is probably a secret organization of some sort. They seem to have quite some authority,' Gohan thought.
"Come on, answer us! What are you people doing here?" the leader of the group was getting annoyed.
Surprisingly enough, Vegeta did not lose his temper, and the others had no idea how to answer him.
"Okay then, open fire!" he commanded his troops.
"Uh oh!" They all flew into the air, dodging the gunfire.
"What the hell?!" the leader and the mobile suits aimed their guns into the air, where the Z-gang dodged everything.
"Gohan, what now? We've gotta stop them, but it seems wrong to hurt innocent people," Trunks asked, flying around.
"They hardly seem innocent to me…" Krillen muttered, confusing a pilot by holding onto the back of his mobile suit. Vegeta lost his patience and started firing ki blasts at the suits.
"WHOA!!" Three mobile suits went down.
"We really don't have much choice!" Gohan replied, and very reluctantly charged up a ki blast.
Within thirty seconds, all the mobile suits were destroyed.
****
Rika curled up on the bed. There were some beds in the medical room of the secret base, and the other gundam pilots had their own rooms. The rest of the day had gone well, after learning about the group and seeing a gundam for the first time. They also got to bond with Duo and Quatre. Thinking of friends, Rika remembered about Gohan and the others. 'Eventually, the others will find us. Until then, I guess we'll be staying here.'
A few things to explain…
1) We're extremely sorry if anyone in this chapter is OOC
2) We seem to remember that after Endless Waltz, the gundam pilots destroy the gundams…if that's true, then remember that this story is an a/u.
Author's Notes: hi everyone! Been waiting to know where they are now? Lol, guess not…Yeah, they're in the GW dimension now, and it takes place after the Endless Waltz, so the GW boys are either 16 or 17, k?
Oh, and here are some of the pronunciations of the names, I felt like adding them since some are kinda hard…
Rika: Ree-kah
Miryo: Mere-e-o; Mere-yo or Mur-yo
Pota: Pot-tah
Kenja: Ken-ja
Now the usual…
[blah] telepathic speaking
'blah' thoughts
"blah" speaking
Dimensional Destiny
Chapter 9: Captured, Questioned and New Friends
Everyone hit the ground with a dull thud before they all blacked out, except for the Z-gang. They were separated from the four teens, and had no clue where the quartet was.
"Argh, where are they?!" Gohan yelled in fury as he punched the ground repeatedly. All of them had grown quite attached to each other already.
"Gohan, calm down, we're gonna find them," Krillen said as he put a hand on Gohan's shoulder.
"Yeah, hopefully," Gohan replied as he looked at the alien surroundings.
* * * *
"Ugh..." Rika groaned as she came out from unconsciousness. She was going to rub her sore head that was still bleeding, but she found out she was bound up with thick ropes very securely and handcuffed also. She quickly opened her eyes though it was a little foggy and looked at her surroundings. Once again, she was the first to be awake. Pota, Kenja, and Miryo were all tied up too and their backs were facing each other. The room was completely dark except for the dim lights overhead of them. They were quite bruised up from the fall too. No one else seemed to be present in the room. Rika then heard a groan from Pota.
"Argh, what a headache," Pota groaned and Rika heard him try to move his arms. "Hey! What happened here?"
"I don't know," Rika replied, looking around hoping to find some useful information about the room, her vision blurry since her head was still bleeding. "It appears that the blob of brown stuff sent us somewhere else again. I don't know anything else."
"Oww..." Rika heard Kenja whine as he slowly woke up, and as Pota did, he tried to move his arms. "What the heck?"
Rika explained to Kenja that the blob had sent them somewhere else.
"Oh, I see, but what's with the ropes and handcuffs?" Kenja asked, clueless.
"That we don't know," Pota answered.
A few minutes passed, and Miryo still hadn't woken up. The other 3 began to be worried.
"Oh, she's probably in la-la land dreaming about Trunks," Kenja joked.
"Kenja," Rika said sternly. "This isn't a good time for jokes."
"Alright, MOM." Kenja said, rolling his eyes. Rika was right beside him and noticed the eye rolling happening.
"Uh, guys, I think I know why Miryo's not waking up," Pota quietly said.
"Why?" Kenja asked. "Dreaming about Trunks?"
"No," Pota replied. He was sitting next to her, his back to Rika. "Look at her head..."
"Oh my God..." Rika stuttered as she tried her best to turn her head and look at Miryo.
"Holy chow mai fun!" Kenja gaped. There was a bad injury on Miryo's head, and it was bleeding pretty badly (worse than Rika's condition). It looked as if her skull might crack. Her whole body was limp and her head was on Pota's shoulder, blood-staining it.
"Okay, these people who are responsible about this better come here quickly!" and as soon as Rika finished her sentence, a door opened and closed. 5 boys about their age came in from the door.
"Who the hell are you?" Rika demanded, not able to see very well at the moment.
"Hn," A monotone voice answered her coldly.
"What? What kind of answer is "Hn"?" Rika replied back, almost as coldly as the voice that 'answered' her, feeling weaker.
"Sorry miss, he's always like that," A kind voice answered. The 3 teens that were awake saw the 5 men, the one that said "Hn", the kind teen that replied to Rika, a boy with a long braid, a boy with gravity-defying bangs, and a Chinese boy with black hair in a short, tight pony tail.
"Well whatever you're here for you better get a doctor," Pota said, indicating Miryo's injury.
"Whoa, how'd the lil lady get that bad of an injury?" The boy with the braid looked at Miryo. "Whoa, and why's your head bleeding angel?"
"Girl, get a doctor now, will you!" Kenja said, actually caring for Miryo and Rika.
"Girl? I'm not a girl," The boy with the braid pouted and looked hurt.
"Will you please introduce yourselves then so we can call you by your proper names instead of "boy" and things like that?" Rika asked patiently.
"Oh sure, I'm D-" The boy with the braid started.
"Baka (idiot)! We don't give our names to strangers!" The Chinese boy snapped, looking dangerously at the braid-boy.
[Pota, Rika, let's just break out of here. If we can beat the living crud out of each other, we could probably break through these ropes,] Kenja suggested, remembering their powers.
[Your call, Rika,] Pota said/thought, sitting up straight so he was ready for action.
[...let's not. We should get them to trust us,] Rika answered after thinking for a while. Kenja thought she would never answer.
[What?! Why?]Kenja asked.
[They seem to be protecting their identities, so they must be a secret organization of some sort, and I guess we should get as much help as we can while we're in this weird place.]
[Wow...you're such a brainiac,]
[No Kenja, you're just not as logical as the rest of us, that's all,] Pota tried to joke.
The whole time, the Chinese boy was lecturing braid-boy about not revealing their identities.
"Please get a doctor," Rika pleaded, feeling weaker by the second. She was loosing blood quickly. She could feel the warm liquid slowly running down her forehead.
"Hold on, I'll get - " The boy with platinum blond hair started. Clunk. Rika's eyes slowly closed and her head hit Kenja's shoulder with a small clunk.
"Ouch!" Kenja yelped.
"Alrighty then, questions later!" The braided-boy jumped around awhile before untying them and carrying Miryo on his shoulder and marching out the room.
"Braided-baka." The Chinese boy muttered.
The blond boy carried the fainted Rika out and followed the braided boy. The "Hn"-man walked out, followed by the guy with gravity-defying bangs, leaving the Chinese boy to push the two remaining boys out.
* * * *
One hour had passed, and the Z-gang flew around the alien area, still looking for the four teens. They had sensed their 3 of their ki's earlier, but now the they only felt 2 ki's, Pota's and Kenja's. It also seemed quite faint and far off. Plus, Vegeta wasn't helping at all.
"Damn it," Krillen muttered. "Where the hell are we?!"
Before anyone could answer his question, there was a loud rumble, and 5 robots flew in front of them from behind.
"Who are you and state your reasons of being here. This is a private area!" one of the robots yelled out.
"That is none of your business!" Vegeta snapped.
"State your business or we will have to destroy you!" another robot warned.
"Destroy us? Most likely it would be us who will tear your weak bodies apart!" Vegeta spat.
"We're warning you!" One of the robots said nervously.
"Don't say Vegeta didn't warn you!" Gohan muttered and formed a small ki blast in his hands.
One of the gigantic robots shot out of this enormous gun and shot out at Krillen. Krillen easily sidestepped it.
"You pitiful humans will die," Vegeta scoffed, as he blocked a gun shot with a simple wave of his hand.
"Uh, uh, retreat men!" The 1st robot ordered nervously, appearing to be their captain. None of them moved.
Gohan's ki blast, which had been steadily growing larger, shot out of Gohan's hands and blew up a portion of the ground. "Leave." Gohan said simply.
The robots quickly fled and Vegeta looked angered. "I pity you, brat. You should have destroyed them. Saiyajins do not show mercy!"
"Vegeta, that is only you. I do what I please," Gohan replied, then noticing one of the robots had stayed behind, apparently paralyzed. Vegeta noticed it too, and was about to destroy it before Gohan stopped him, or at least tried. Vegeta's ki blast ended up destroying another portion of the ground. "Brat, what the hell do you think you're doing?!"
"Leave him for questioning, we need to know where we are," Gohan said, flying up to the robot and knocking on what seemed like a door.
The door quickly opened and a man in his 20's came out with his hands up. "I surrender, don't hurt me!"
"We won't," Gohan promised. "Now tell us where we are."
"You are on earth," The man said slowly, thinking Gohan was a lunatic.
Trunks joined Gohan. "What is that?" Trunks asked, indicating the robot.
The man gave them both a strange look. "It's a mobile suit. There are bigger, fancier ones that are called gundams. I'm surprised you don't know all this."
"We're not from around here," Gohan quickly said.
The man raised an eyebrow. "Even if you were from the colonies, you still would have known. Are you saying you are from a completely different world? As in the 'aliens'?"
"Uh, you can say that," Trunks nodded. "What's your name?"
The man hesitated before answering. "That's classified information."
"Well it says "Black Hawks" here," Gohan pointed at a badge on the man's chest. "That's pretty stupid if it's classified information."
The man turned red and stayed silent.
"And it says here your name is Henry Buoy," Trunks pointed at another badge on him.
The man, "Henry", went even redder if possible.
"That's...I'm...I'm still not telling you anything else!" Henry yelled.
Then, Vegeta joined them.
* * * *
Rika woke up, feeling a bit better but still a little woozy. A clean white cloth had been wrapped around her head for the bleeding to stop. She turned and saw Miryo in the same state in other bed, still unconscious. Pota and Kenja weren't in sight. This was definitely not a hospital room either. Suddenly, she heard voices outside the room. She closed her eyes, pretending to sleep, and listened carefully.
"...Heero! I think I trust them! Don't kill them, they're about the same age as us!" Rika recalled the voice and recognized it as the braided-boy's voice.
"Hn." The monotone guy said. Apparently, his name was Heero. "We found them near our gundams. They must be terminated, they saw our gundams."
"Awww, c'mon! They were knocked out when we found them!" The braided-boy whined.
"Baka Maxwell, you only want to keep them alive because you took likings to the weak onnas (women)!" Rika recognized this as the Chinese boy's voice.
"Wu-man, I'm hurt!"
"Do not call me Wu-man! My name is Wufei!"
Rika heard a yelp and fast footsteps and someone opened the door, came in, and locked it.
"MAXWELL!" Wufei screamed from outside, trying to open up the locked door.
"Tee-hee," The braided-boy walked away from the door and Rika opened her eyes, thinking she could trust him. "Hey angel, you're awake!"
"Uh yeah...my name's Rika not angel," Rika said, sitting up on the bed.
"Alrighty Riki (Pronounced Ree-key)!" The boy said enthusiastically, already making up a name for Rika. "I'm Duo! I may run and I may hide but I never tell a lie!"
Rika couldn't help giggling. "How's Miryo doing? Is she okay?"
"Oh, you mean the lil lady over there?" Duo pointed over at Miryo. "She's doing pretty good, the medics fixed up her head and she should be waking up soon. No idea what happened to her though, she was like this when we found you four."
And right on cue, Miryo stirred.
"Hey Miri (Pronounced Mur-e or Mere-e)!" Duo hopped over to Miryo.
"W-Who are you?" Miryo asked, sitting up from her bed and rubbing her head.
"I'm Duo! I may run and I may hide but I never tell a lie!" Duo introduced himself.
Miryo smiled, a little tired to laugh. "Oh Rika, where are we?" Miryo noticed Rika smiling on her bed.
[Oh, do you like Duo now?] Rika teased.
[Rika!] Miryo fought back a blush and the urge to get up.
"Well we're on Earth!" Duo smiled.
[The blob of dirt sent us to another place again...another Earth,] Rika said to Miryo.
[Oh, not again! What happened to the others? And where are Pota and Kenja?] Miryo asked.
"Uh, where are Pota and Kenja?" Rika asked.
"You mean those two boys? They're somewhere else, probably with Q-ball or the others," Duo shrugged. "Wu-man is trying to get through the door though."
Cursing and shuffling were heard from the door.
Rika and Miryo both giggled.
"Q-ball and Wu-man? Are those really their names?" Rika asked jokingly.
"Nope! Q-ball is Quatre and Wu-man's Wufei!" Duo answered unhesitatingly. "Well...I'm not supposed to tell, but I trust you gals for some reason. Don't tell them I told you, alright?"
"We promise," Rika and Miryo promised, smiling.
"ARGH!" An angry voice shouted out as the door broke open. Standing there was Wufei. "Maxwell!
Duo gulped.
* * * *
Henry was pretty beaten up, almost near death after Vegeta dealt with him, with one punch. He was going to kill him but Gohan wouldn't let him. Then had more information about the new world now, but it didn't help a lot. They now knew what gundams, mobiles suits, and colonies were, but had no idea where they were. Henry's only answers were that they were on Earth.
"But this can't be Earth..." Krillen whispered to Gohan. Gohan looked around a bit.
"The environment is like Earth, but we never had mobile suits or colonies or any of that stuff."
"Um....help?" Henry rasped, holding his stomach where Vegeta had hit him.
"What now?" Trunks asked, turning to Gohan.
"Well...we need this guy alive..."
"Why? Just get the answers and get rid of him!!" Vegeta shouted, totally losing his temper.
Gohan ignored Vegeta. "Henry, what are the 'Black Hawks'?"
"It's...it's a secret organization..." Henry answered. "I can't say anymore, or else..."
"HUMAN WEAKLING, ANSWER US NOW!" Vegeta yelled, pushing the others out of the way and standing right in front of the frightened man.
"But...but...please...I can't..." he pleaded, shielding himself with his hands. Not that it did any good, because Vegeta quickly fired a ki blast before Gohan could react. Henry was no more.
"VEGETA!!" they all yelled at him. The proud saiyan smirked, satisfied now that he had gotten his way.
"Well, I guess we should start looking for the others..." Gohan suggested, slowly hovering off the ground.
"Hey! Miryo and Rika's ki's are back...Miryo's is kind of faint..." Trunks pointed out. Without further discussion, Trunks, Krillen, and a reluctant Vegeta followed Gohan to the faint ki's.
****
"MAXWELL!!" Wufei thundered.
"Wufei, chill..." Duo said nervously, backing away.
"Baka! We must get rid of them. They saw our gundams!"
"Gundams?" Rika repeated the strange word.
"You, stay quiet!" Wufei lunged at Duo.
"HEY!" Rika used her speed and blocked Duo from Wufei. "Let's get a few things straight. First of all, we haven't seen your gundams, we don't even know what they are. Second, you are not going to get rid of us!"
"Well, we have no reason to believe you. And give me one good reason why I'm not going to get rid of you four bakas."
[Should I show him a light ki blast?] Rika asked Miryo.
[Sure...a light one...and hit the wall or something...a ki blast could hurt him bad.]
Rika placed one hand in front of her, and charged a tiny ki blast.
"What the...?" Duo peeked over her shoulder. Wufei stared, amazed. Rika threw it at the ground away from them, and the blast exploded. Since it was near the ground, it didnt destroy anything (and this also told Rika they were either at ground level or underground).
The three other boys rushed in, followed by Pota and Kenja.
"What was that?" the boy with platinum blond hair asked.
"That's Quatre," Duo quickly whispered to Rika (who passed on the information to Miryo telepathically).
"That was a ki blast," Rika answered, not knowing what else to say.
"A 'ki blast'?" Duo repeated, staring at her.
"And that's one reason you won't be able to get rid of us. We're tougher than the average human" Miryo explained confidently.
"Don' t tell them that!" Kenja jumped out from behind Heero. "They'll think we're freaks!"
"...I think some explaining should be done," said the boy with gravity- defying hair. There was disagreement from Wufei and a little from Kenja.
"Who cares if we know each other's names and stuff? What does it matter?" Pota questioned boldly, looking directly at Wufei, but glancing at the others once in a while. There was a silence, in which everyone thought hard to find a solution to this mess.
"Well, if your secrets are so important to keep, we'll tell you about us," Rika offered. 'And hopefully you'll trust us then.'
"Fine," Heero answered.
Rika chose her words carefully as she explained. It wouldn't help if the five boys thought they were superhuman freaks.
"So you think some blob creature sent you to different versions of Earth?" Heero asked, emotionless.
"Uh...yeah."
"And..." Miryo jumped in before they could question them further. "You have to believe us. How else can you explain that ki blast?"
"We still have no reason to trust you." Wufei's cold, dark eyes stared into Miryo's. The still injured girl stared back defiantly, daring him to speak again. He remained silent.
[Pota! Try to read their minds!] Kenja commanded.
[But that seems so wrong...] Pota complained.
[You did it several times before, just do it again!]
Pota sighed, drawing everyone's attention to him. "It's okay if you don't wanna tell, but we're still gonna find out about you all."
"How?" Duo asked, not sure what to expect.
"Hold still and look right at me," Pota carefully instructed. The younger boy stared at Duo, and dived into his mind. There were many thoughts swirling around, such as "what is he trying to do?" and "how come Heero and Wufei are so reluctant to tell about us?". Pota closed his eyes to concentrate and pushed past those thoughts. He saw images of huge, towering robots; they were all fighting. The words "gundam", "mobile suit", and "Deathscythe" seemed to echo at him. Pota went deeper into Duo's mind and found out about the robots. He opened his eyes.
"There are robots known as mobile suits that are used as weapons. There are also gundams, which are pretty much stronger and more capable versions of mobile suits. You" (he pointed at Duo) "pilot the gundam known as Deathscythe, or 02."
The resounding gasp was satisfying, and it was only after that when Pota realized what a huge headache he got from doing that.
"How were you able to do that?" Quatre asked, surprised.
"I just can. It's a part of my powers from the previous version of Earth. Is that proof enough for you that our story is true?"
"Fine, we'll tell you about us, but that's only because i don't see another option. It's impossible to kill you since you have powers and ki blasts, and keeping you here would be foolish. You could easily break out," Heero answered and explained about the gundams, colonies, who they were, and everything else about this version of Earth.
"So, you guys are sort of breaking the law?" Kenja asked when Heero had finished.
"Sort of, but not really," Duo answered, still cheery.
"But where are we right now?" Rika questioned, still confused about their current location.
"This is our underground base. We keep the gundams here so no one can find them."
"Wait a sec...where did you find us?" Pota wondered.
"You were unconscious right beside our gundams. That's why we were so suspicious about you, we thought you were spies breaking in," Trowa answered.
"I see... hey! What happened to Gohan and the others?" Pota asked, suddenly remembering.
"Who?"
"Our friends...you know, the ones who help train us."
"Well, we only found you." Duo answered.
"Hey guys, what are we gonna do now?" Miryo quietly asked her pals. All of them turned to Rika. For once, the "leader" of their group had no answers.
"...you can stay here if you want..." Quatre suggested, glancing at Heero.
"You can stay as long as you don't get in our way," Heero agreed, and walked out the room. Wufei and Trowa followed, but Duo and Quatre stayed.
"Sorry, that wasn't much of a welcome," Quatre apologized.
"Whatever, it's alright," Rika answered and sat down on one of the beds, trying to think.
"You wanna take a tour of this place? We can show you the gundams too...if Heero and Wufei don't complain." Duo headed to the door.
"Sure!" all four answered in unison, drawing a funny look from Quatre and Duo.
"...we're best friends...and I mean best friends..." Miryo explained.
"And we're telepathically connected to each other!" Kenja blurted out on impulse. Pota, Miryo, and Rika slapped their foreheads, while Duo and Quatre looked at them strangely.
"…we'll discuss that later…" Miryo scratched her head nervously.
****
Gohan and the others were sitting down for a rest. They were in what seemed like a forest, and they had been flying for a very long time.
"They must be really far…like halfway across the world or something," Trunks said, finding that their ki was still very faint.
"Do you think they're okay? I mean, wouldn't they be looking for us?" Krillen wondered, a little concerned.
"Well, we didn't teach any of them to sense ki," Gohan pointed out. Vegeta stayed completely silent, and was staring into the distance. Gohan shuffled over to Trunks and whispered, "What's he doing?" Trunks observed his father for a moment, then answered in a whisper "I think he's deep in thought. Either that, or he hates being around us so much he can't even throw insults."
Gohan looked thoughtfully at Vegeta, whose back was turned to them. "He's a lot calmer when my dad's not around."
"Guys!" Krillen yelled. "I think there's more of those mobile suit things heading this way!"
They all turned to where he was pointing and saw the mobile suits flying right towards them. When they landed, Gohan counted a total of fifteen.
"What? A couple of measly civilians?" the first mobile suit said. "They couldn't be the ones who took down Henry's suit…"
"I'm telling you, it's them!" another said.
Gohan suddenly realized what they were talking about. The four mobile suits that were with Henry had gone back to their base. When they lost communications with him, they rounded up some more people in an attempt to find the ones responsible for it.
"What are you people doing here? This place belongs to the Black Hawks."
'So the "Black Hawks" is probably a secret organization of some sort. They seem to have quite some authority,' Gohan thought.
"Come on, answer us! What are you people doing here?" the leader of the group was getting annoyed.
Surprisingly enough, Vegeta did not lose his temper, and the others had no idea how to answer him.
"Okay then, open fire!" he commanded his troops.
"Uh oh!" They all flew into the air, dodging the gunfire.
"What the hell?!" the leader and the mobile suits aimed their guns into the air, where the Z-gang dodged everything.
"Gohan, what now? We've gotta stop them, but it seems wrong to hurt innocent people," Trunks asked, flying around.
"They hardly seem innocent to me…" Krillen muttered, confusing a pilot by holding onto the back of his mobile suit. Vegeta lost his patience and started firing ki blasts at the suits.
"WHOA!!" Three mobile suits went down.
"We really don't have much choice!" Gohan replied, and very reluctantly charged up a ki blast.
Within thirty seconds, all the mobile suits were destroyed.
****
Rika curled up on the bed. There were some beds in the medical room of the secret base, and the other gundam pilots had their own rooms. The rest of the day had gone well, after learning about the group and seeing a gundam for the first time. They also got to bond with Duo and Quatre. Thinking of friends, Rika remembered about Gohan and the others. 'Eventually, the others will find us. Until then, I guess we'll be staying here.'
A few things to explain…
1) We're extremely sorry if anyone in this chapter is OOC
2) We seem to remember that after Endless Waltz, the gundam pilots destroy the gundams…if that's true, then remember that this story is an a/u.