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Chapter Five: Small Demands of Preparation

A woman with dark blonde hair stood on a balcony overlooking a beautiful garden full of flowers. She played with a baby that had dark brown hair. The baby giggled as the woman lifted it up to the sun.

"Look. The flowers are all in bloom today." The woman said as she held the child still. "They're so beautiful, but I'm sure their beauty will increase as you grow. This will be your home one day, and you will own all this."

The baby cooed. Then it saw a white butterfly on the railing. It reached out for it.

"No, no sweetie. You can't have it." The young life started to pout. "There are many things in life you can't have. Even I can't get everything I want."

Sam woke up with a start and bumped her head. "Ouch! Oh yeah. It was just a dream." She was in the cockpit of the mobile suit that she had taken from the soldiers in the colony. Still the vision of that woman stuck in Sam's mind. "She was so familiar. I don't remember her. Dad would have mentioned her before now." Then an idea lit up in the teen's mind. "Mom!"

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Deon and her brothers slept on the shuttle off the colony. Her mother and Terraen were too content on the white suit that just went to Earth an hour ago.

"Mrs. Maxwell? Do you know what that suit was? Was it a Gundam?" Terraen asked.

Mrs. Maxwell sighed. They would have been told eventually. "Yes. Yes is was a Gundam. The most dangerous Gundam that was built."

That aroused the interest of two certain someones in the seats across the aisle.

"Which one? And why is it the most dangerous?"

"It was Wing Zero. The system it has is what makes it so dangerous. I'm not sure if Sam can handle it once it activates."

"What's wrong with the system? Some sort of flaw?"

"You could call it that." Mrs. Maxwell said.

"It calculates all battle data and sends it directly to the pilot's brain." Said a man with long bleach blonde hair.

"How's that a bad thing?"

A woman next to him with black hair like Deon's mom's hair said, "There's too many calculations and it overrides the mind causing the pilot's to lose consciousness. He then does as the suit says without question, if he doesn't have a strong enough will."

"Who are you?"

Mrs. Maxwell's eyes lit up. "Hey, Miss Noin. Zechs."

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Heero, in the meantime, was at home on a vidscreen with someone he knew. "It's in the S. G. R. area of southeast US? Can you tell what city?"

"From the signal it's on Miami Beach. Since Samantha hangs out with Duo's kids a lot, she might get the impression of some vacation on Earth. Did you ever take her there, even once?" asked the blue-eyed face on the screen. Namely the kindest character ever Quatre Rababer Winner.

"No. All of her activities interfered." Heero's arm muscles tensed.

"I won't ask why you don't want Sam to met her. All I can say is that you better find Sam soon, or she might go on the move." Quatre chuckled. "She is your daughter after all. There's a slim chance she'll stay put from what happened."

"Huh. That's right. She might be able to stumble onto the Sanc Kingdom. Contact the Magnac Corps. They'll be helpful."

"Will do." The screen blinked off. Then came a beep to let Heero know that he had new mail. Two new e-mails were on screen. One was from WuFei and the other was from VFMRD/P@esun.org. He opened the one from WuFei first.

Sally and I saw the report of Wing Zero on the news a while ago. We'll keep track of it for you. I know that you'll want to meet the pilot and destroy Zero yourself. Let us know if we can do more.

WuFei

Heero hit the reply button and sent a thank you to WuFei, he also told him about Sam. Then he opened the other e-mail.

Heero, I saw the news. If you know anything about this I want to know everything. Don't keep any secrets from me this time.

"Relena." Heero drew on another of his recognizable faces. He sent Relena everything but the info. about Sam being the pilot. Instead he lied and said that he was gonna have her stay with Trowa.

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Sam went into town to see about her surroundings. She saw a lot of people on the streets, which was more than she was used to on her quiet colony. Sam came across a small shop that sold guns and bombs on a ghetto street.

"Hope Earth isn't that expensive." Sam said as she dug in her pocket for her lunch money and the money she was gonna use on errands after school. In total she had $165. "Mr. Maxwell did say that he had to pay more for parts that came from Earth."

Sam took the chance and walked in. Despite the outside the place was really clean. All the rifles and snipers were in neat rows. Sam wasn't amazed though. She was used to being around guns 'cause her father was the one who taught her how to use one. He was smart enough not to get her one of her own.

"Sorry, but I don't sell to minors." Came a gruff voice from behind the counter. Sam snapped around to a round sweaty gross looking guy who would pass for a typical trucker. "Unless you're short you better run on home and go play with them dolls of yours."

"Buddy I've got news for you." Sam said as she marched up to the counter. "You can give me what's best for unwanted pest following me around or I can break all your merchandise."

"Get outta here!" He pointed to the door. Sam just smirked and picked up a hunting rifle. Then she broke it clean across her knee!

"Well?" The teenage super soldier showed the two halves off.

The guy gave her a sniper with laser tracking and a modern six- shooter for free. Sam just walked out with a thank you leaving the trembling man cowering under the counter.

"Now that that's outta the way, I need to think of how to get a job."

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"That was Wing Zero?" Deon was astonished. The shuttle had landed on colony E7251B. Zechs and Noin---excuse me Mrs. Merquise---just finished telling the kids about the current situation.

"Yes. The system will be extremely dangerous if it activates while Sam is piloting it. She's younger than her father was when he was exposed to it." Lucrazia Merquise said as cooly as ever.

"If the Zero System is as cruel as you say then we better get to Earth and find her." Terraen told them. Zechs shook his head. "Why not? Sam's in real trouble!"

"I trust that with time she'll conquer the system as well. She is the daughter of the pilot who used the suit to save the Earth twice."

"Sam's dad was the pilot? He piloted the suit?" Deon's eyes widened a bit.

"Duo didn't tell her that. He never told her anything about Wing Zero except what it was used for." Mrs. Maxwell said.

"He should have. He swallowed the isolation the colonies gave him and the other pilots, and it was expected."

"Mommy, I'm hungry. Can we eat?" asked an eight year old with hair like Zechs's holding Lucrazia's hand. "Please?"

"Sure. What about the rest of you? Duo always said it was better to worry on a full stomach."

"Food!" The Maxwell twins, Steve and Kyle, cheered.

"Why not? Just don't pig out again." Deon scolded playfully. In response she got a double raspberry. "Grrr!! You little---come back here!" She ran off after her brothers.

Mrs. Maxwell sighed. "Never mind them. They're always like that to her."

"That's putting it mildly." Terraen chuckled as Deon managed to catch Kyle and Steve gave her another raspberry.

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"Sure thing. I'll see ya tomorrow Mr. Ventra!" Sam waved to her new boss. "Now for some tuition. How do you find a school in this place?" Sam bought a map of the city and looked for the closest school. It wasn't far from where her mobile suit landed. 'Okay. Before I enroll I'll need to hide the suit. Maybe if I sunk it in the ocean. Seems possible.'

As our main character headed to the beach, some shadows followed closely. When they saw the Gundam their jaws dropped and they whispered a plan amongst themselves.

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A/N: Let's skip ahead and say that Sam's doing pretty well. Don't wanna bore you with useless stuff. Those so-called spies haven't done anything yet. Sorry it took me a bit to get this up. Remember flamers and suggestions would be helpful in your reviews.