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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:

Children of the Gundam

Chapter 4: The Gundam Smiths

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On Mars in the capital city called Red Sky, one of the few cities that were built since the colonization of Mars. It truly was amazing to see the cities of Mars and how much progress had been completed in only 15 short years. It seemed that the population problem that was sweeping across the Earth, Colonies, as well as the Moon would soon be solved. And it was in that city where the Preventer Teens would find Kazuki Peacecraft and Id "the Lion" Kushrinada. However, all of them had come on their own, Relena decided to stay behind on Colony L-1 in case Heero's or the other Preventers conditions had changed. On the other hand the bigger problem for the Preventer Teens is meeting these two men.

The Preventer Teens had met Kazuki on several occasions but not very often. In both the literal and metaphorical sense Kazuki was to the Preventer Teens, like an Uncle that doesn't visit that often. As far as Id "the Lion" Kushrinada, the Preventer Teens knew that he was related to Lady Une, Treize, and Mariemea. Beyond that they weren't exactly sure about anything else except what they heard in stories about him. Come to think about it, they haven't met Id at all. Then again, from the stories they've heard about him, it'd be quite an event to meet him.

On the streets of Red Sky, it was incredibly busy like New York City under the pink Martian sky. They didn't exactly pack a lot, they only packed what they needed and changed out of their prom clothes before setting out to Mars. With the five of them sitting in a cab they tried to give the directions to the cab driver.

"The address is a small bar on the corner of Bradbury and Wells." Hikaru repeated from what Relena told her about Kazuki Peacecraft and Id "the Lion" Kushrinada.

In the cramped environment of the cab, the old driver looked back at his young passengers and asked very curiously, "What are you fine young kids want at that place?" He asked the question as if the shop was in a very bad part of town.

"We're going there to meet family." Paul Marquise explained.

"Have you seen them recently?" The driver asked

"We…" Hikaru picked up, "haven't seen them in a while. We're going to see them, 'cause we need help."

"Ah." The driver said stretching the wrinkles on his face, "Family problems."

"Something like that." Hikaru said rather grimly as she watched the city blocks pass by. She, like the others were deep in their own thoughts about what's happened in the past few days. So much has changed. Just a few days ago they were all wondering whom to take to the prom and now the near death of their parents has knocked their senses into a new perspective. Each had his or her own petty concerns until that moment, all of it then seemed so small in retrospect. The next big question was how to deal with it.

"We're here." The driver said, "That'll be 10."

Hikaru reached into her pocket and gave the money to the cab driver. All of the Preventer Teens got out of the cab, gathered their bags, and looked at the place where they were dropped off at. As the cab sped off to its next pick up point, the Preventer Teens were rather unnerved by the place that they came to. It was just a simple corner bar in the middle of the city that had a sign on the beveled corner in neon, "La Quinta".

"Are you sure that this is the right place?" William Maxwell asked Hikaru

Hikaru looked at the note that her mother, Relena, gave to her. It was there in her beautiful penmanship, "La Quinta, on the corner of Wells and Bradbury." Hikaru looked up at the street sign that towered over her head; it read those exact names that were on the paper. Then she looked at the red neon sign that blazed in the side of the building.

She shrugged, "This must be the place."

"Alright then." Leto said as he walked up to the rotted wooden door. He knocked, "Hello? Is anyone there?"

"Come in please." A very kind voice answered

Leto reached down for the doorknob and opened it. As the door opened, Leto as well as the other Preventer teens was greeted with a great stench. It smelled just like alcohol, that sour sweet smell that was so thick that several members of the group had to flay their hand across their face in order to fend off the smell. The first things that greeted their eyes as they entered the bar were two men. The bar itself was typical of any, with a pattern tiled floors, the glass windows that looked out onto the streets, several round tables, chairs, stool chairs at the bar, and the bar itself. Yet the strange thing was there was no one in there, just the two men that stood behind the bar.

The first man looked to be in his thirties, then again it was hard to tell his age or even if he was sprouting any gray hair with his beautiful silvery blonde hair. It came down to his chest in a very thick pony tail braid. He looked at the Preventer Teens with a smile and one eye while a black patch covered his other. The man looked like some kind of pirate that was thrown from his old time and was living in this age of colonies in space and cities on Mars.

The man standing to his left looked much younger roughly in his late 20's. He appeared frightening at first when he looked at the Preventer Teens with his deep red eyes from under his long shaggy and equally red hair.

"What can we do for you, today?" The silver hair man asked

"Are you Kazuki Peacecraft?" Hikaru stepped forward

The silver hair man smiled "That I am, and the man at my left is Id "the Lion" Kushrinada."

Id smiled and bowed his head to the Preventer Teens.

"I'm afraid all of you have us at a disadvantage." Kazuki smiled, "All of you seem to know who we are but I have no idea who all of you are."

"My name is Hikaru Yuy."

"Yuy?" Kazuki raise an eyebrow, "Is it you? Hikaru? Heero's daughter?"

"Yes." Hikaru answered

Kazuki's face had light up in such a light that Id had never seen before. It was as if a friend had just died and then come back to life a few months later. It looked like Kazuki was going to leap up and start screaming and singing "Hallelujah". He got up from the bar stool and walked over to Hikaru and began to laugh.

"It has been a very long time." Kazuki chuckled, "All of you have grown up quite a lot since the last time I saw you."

"Which was when?" Leto Rodriguez asked

"Oh, I think it was about 7 or 8 years ago. Wasn't it, Id?" He turned to his friend

Id cupped his chin, "I think it was."

"Was it really that long ago?" Julia Rodriguez asked

"Must have been." Kazuki continued to smile, "Last time we saw you, all of you were this high." He held his hand as close to the floor as his estimations would allow him. His hand was at the level of the Preventer Teens waists; seeing that all of them looked at each other knowing that it must have been that long ago.

"So, what brings you kids to Mars?" Kazuki asked he leaned against the bar like a bartender waiting for his patron to order his drink.

"It's about our parents." Hikaru offered the explanation, but she did it in such a grim fashion that Kazuki had soon lost his smile.

"What's happened to them?" He asked

"They were in a terrible battle." Hikaru's voice began to crack as she began to loose her own composure. Yet, surprisingly enough she never shed one tear, it seemed to Kazuki and Id that Hikaru was trying her hardest to stay together, that she didn't want to appear weak.

"It's alright, Hikaru." Kazuki said as he reached out his hand to touch her shoulder, "We're family here."

"Our parents were in battle." Hikaru repeated, "They weren't…killed. They've been badly injured…dad told me to bring this to you." She reached into her pocket and with a shaking hand she brought the disk up to Kazuki. "He said, to give this to you. The password on it is Relena."

Kazuki took the disk, "Relena? My little sister." He looked at it and back at the Preventer Teens, "Come with us."

Kazuki and Id came out from behind the bar and went to a door that was adjacent to the bar. The group of them went through the door and into what was obviously a small pantry with shelves of different goods like tomato juice for Bloody Mary's and a few spare bottles just in case they ran short. There were shelves on both sides of the door that they came through, but there were no shelves on the wall on the opposite end of the door they came through.

As they crammed themselves inside this small pantry, some could see Kazuki reach under one of the shelves. His hand panned around as if his fingertips were searching for something. Then it stopped and made one last move as if he was pressing a button that was hidden under that shelf. Then on that wall opposite of the door they came though, it began to move. It moved like the sliding doors of an elevator…it was an elevator! The Preventer Teens saw into an elevator that Kazuki and Id walked into.

"Come in." Kazuki said as the Preventer Teens walked in, the elevator doors closed. Then they felt that sudden jerk downwards, the very same feeling as if they were going one floor down. The situation to them had taken the great leap from tragic seeing their parents beaten so badly, to strange in meeting someone they hadn't seen in years, and then to bizarre being in that elevator going down.

"Where are we going?" William Maxwell asked

"You'll see." Kazuki answered

"That doesn't answer my question."

Kazuki chuckled, "You know your just like your father, you know that? He was just as impatient and impulsive. I'll tell you this much, we never retired out of Preventer. We just took different positions. Such as in the Terra-forming project, after that was over we went elsewhere. Which doesn't necessarily mean that we're out of Preventer entirely."

The elevator stopped with that sudden jerk upward and the doors opened, and the Preventer Teens were greeted with an amazing sight. They saw a hangar, a hangar that looked just like the one back on the Preventer Ship Tabris when they were allowed to see it on those once a month visits. They were met with the very putrid stale and grimy stench of motor oil, just like in a garage. It was enormous, the place looked tall enough to house mobile suits. They looked around and found parts lying on the floor, enormous parts that looked like they belonged…in Gundams. At the very end of the hangar there was something that was covered in a great tarp. But there was more than one, there were several, each covered by a great tarp concealing a great secret underneath it.

Already the Preventer Teens were suspicious about what was going on, but before they could ask Kazuki had taken the disk and went to a nearby computer that was near the elevator door.

He placed the disk into it and typed in the password. He heard the heartfelt message from Heero Yuy to the kids.

"Very touching." Kazuki said with the greatest sincerity, "Especially coming from him."

"What do you mean?" Hikaru asked

"Let me tell you." Kazuki said like a truly grown up person, "Before you were born, Heero was about the most emotionally absent person I could meet. The most you could get out of him were a few words. So let's see." Kazuki browsed through the disk and found plans, schematics; design patterns, and even plans for a new type of cockpit system.

"Hmm." He said with high eyebrows, "Very exceptional work. I think we can make this, don't you think Id?"

Kazuki looked back and saw that Id was preoccupied, he looked just like as he always did when he was deep in thought. His red eyes looking down to the floor and his hearing shut off to the rest of the world. At least, until a moment later when he looked at one of the Preventer Teens and it happened to be that the one closest to him was Paul Marquise

"My mother." He said, "And my father, Lady Une and Treize Kushrinada. Are they alright?"

Paul, being the honest boy that he was, could never lie. It was a trait that was both inherited and taught by his mother and father. He looked at Id's red eyes very grimly; "They were on board the Tabris when it was attacked. They are in the hospital now on Colony L-1. Their condition is stable."

Id's face looked like it was sinking just like his heart, "Kazuki." He said and then looked up to his friend and co-worker, "I have to go."

"Go where, old friend?" Kazuki asked

"To Colony L-1."

Kazuki didn't say a word; he only nodded to him and Id the Lion stepped into the elevator and went along his way to Colony L-1. The atmosphere around the Preventer Teens was very confused in the very least. There they were meeting people they hadn't seen in years and there was so much that they couldn't understand. They felt like ships caught in a violent storm being tossed from side to side, not knowing where they are, where they were, or where they were going.

"What was that all about?" Leto asked

Kazuki shook his head; "It's his mother, Lady Une. I think he still has a few things that aren't solved between himself and her."

"So, Lady Une is his mother?" Hikaru asked

"Yup." Kazuki answered, "He's her son, unfortunately back in the day, Lady Une had spilt personalities. So with that he was abandoned but he was then raised and trained in a laboratory to be a perfect soldier. Unfortunately like many projects that made way for the Mobile Dolls, it was scrapped, and Id was to be destroyed. So he ran away. He sought refuge in the company of Treize Kushrinada, so Id is Treize's adopted son and Lady Une's biological son."

"That's one really screwed up family, you know that?" William commented

"It is." Kazuki said, "But he has to resolve this on his own."

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On Colony L-1, in the hospital, Id had arrived to see his mother. He came onto the floor where she was being cared for. He saw her and Treize lying side by side like husband and wife lying in bed together. Still, he couldn't see past the bandages that were wrapped around them. He couldn't help but pity them as they lie asleep from the medication. Yet, at the same time he was so wrapped with the feelings that consumed him that he couldn't help it any longer. He knelt down by the bed where Lady Une lie; he took her hand and cried into the bed sheets.

"Mother." He cried, "I'm so sorry…" his voice cracked, "I never did forgive you to your face for what you did to me. I know you can hear me, mother. I forgive you, I truly do forgive you."

As he cried he heard a very sweet seductive voice call out to him

"That's very sweet, Id."

Id looked up from where he was crying; his corneas were just as red as his iris'. Standing there in the doorway was his sister, Mariemea Kushrinada. She truly had grown up to the age of 23. She had grown both up and out, the very womanly curves of her hips and bust weren't hidden that well from behind the dress that she wore. It was a long red silky dress that hugged her body and was cut in such a way that it showed off her leg and quite a bit of her thigh. It was also cut in a low fashion that accented the fullness of her bosom. Her red hair flowed gracefully down to her shoulders and shimmered in the harsh fluorescent lights. It was so much that Id had to remind himself that it was his sister in that doorway.

"You heard the news." Id said as he turned his vision back to his mother and father.

Mariemea walked over, pulled up a chair and sat next to Id, "Yes, I heard." She said, "I don't know who could have done such a thing."

"Bastards." Id growled, "That's what they are, bastards." He looked at his mother and father, "I swear on my honor and my blood that I will avenge both of you. Those bastards will know nothing but pain and suffering for the grievous sin of harming my family."

He got up and walked right out the door.

"Good luck, Id." Mariemea whispered

* * *

Back on Mars, in the hangar below the La Quinta bar, Kazuki had printed out the plans for the Gundams on the disk that Heero had made. While that was going on he also made a few phone calls to a few people that he knew, as to the identity of who they were, he only told the Preventer Teens that they were "his friends".

As the last of the plans had printed out he kept looking at them and giving praise, "Its absolutely fantastic work that was done on these."

"So, can they be built?" William asked

"I'm sure they can," Kazuki answered, "but the design specs call for a few things that require a little more."

"Like what?"

"Well, that'll require another call on my part to a guy I know who delves into this sort of thing. Just don't ask too many questions." He gave a surreptitious wink to William, that made him think of the kind of devious acts that Kazuki was going to do within the next few days.

"How long do you think you can make them?" William asked

"That's going to be the tricky part." Kazuki shrugged

William narrowed one eye, "Why is that?"

"We have limited man power, so it might take us…about a month."

"A MONTH!?" William shouted, his voice echoing and carrying through the hangar.

"Calm down. I said it might, I didn't say that it would. I do have a back-up plan for this."

"Which is?"

"That will be a surprise." Kazuki smiled like a charming devil and then he looked at his watch, "My friends should be arriving soon."

DING

"That might be them now." Kazuki announced

The elevator doors opened and out from the elevator came three people. One of them was a woman, she seemed about the same age as Kazuki, but she didn't exactly hide her body under a lot of clothes. Quite the opposite, she wore a tank tope with very scruffy, almost masculine, pants and boots.

"Kazuki, honey!" She exclaimed as she threw her arms around Kazuki Peacecraft.

"Hon." Kazuki cooed smoothly as he wrapped his arms around her.

"Ahem!" The impulsive William Maxwell stepped in

"Oh, excuse me." Kazuki said as he broke the embrace, "May I introduce you to my team, the Desbats. This is my wife, Laramee."

"Hi!" Laramee Smiled, as she brushed away her relatively short brown hair from her deep blue eyes.

"And behind her is her brother, Slayzer."

The family resemblance between Slayzer and Laramee could clearly be seen with their brown hair and deep sapphire eyes.

"And last, but definitely not least, Valos."

Valos looked quite a bit older than the others did. The small network of wrinkles defined his age across his face and the small gray hairs that were showing up in his dirty shade of blonde hair. Yet his hair was carefully combed unlike Slayzer who let his hair hang over his face like a wild and wooly man, or more accurately a "hippie".

"We've heard the news about the Preventers." Valos reported to Kazuki, "What's the emergency?" His posture slightly slouching and his hands were behind his back like a stout soldier.

"We need to build Gundams for these kids." Kazuki pointed his thumb to the Preventer Teens.

The Desbats all looked at the Preventer Teens from head to toe in unison as if signaled and looked back at Kazuki and asked,

"You're joking, right?"

"I'm afraid not." Kazuki said

"Well why can't we fight?" Slayzer suggested

"We haven't piloted, much less fought in a mobile suit in years." Valos said in his very well educated opinion, "So, we're going to have to place our hops in these kids."

"Have any of you ever pilots mobile suits?" Slayzer asked the Preventer teens.

From the Preventer Teens there was a muffled conformation that none of them had ever set foot inside a mobile suit cockpit.

"But my dad told me that we wouldn't need to know how to pilot a mobile suit." Hikaru spoke up.

"Oh?" Slayzer asked very sarcastically, "And why is that? Why did dear dad say that?"

"It's because of a new cockpit system." Kazuki explained, "A system called MTS, or Mobile Trace System in which the pilot synchronizes with the mobile suit. Thus the pilot and suit become one."

"That's impossible." Slayzer sneered

"It isn't." Leo Rodriguez refuted, "I've seen it myself and it works."

"And if none of you mind," Hikaru added. "We don't have time to argue."

"I agree." A new voice entered the room

All eyes turned their attention to the elevator doors. In that doorway was Id "the Lion" Kushrinada. His face was stern and serious with a fire in his eyes like never before. He was determined, he was ready to fight, and perhaps ready to die.

"We must hurry." Id reiterated, "There is no telling when the ones who attacked Preventer will strike again."

To be continued…