[Guess who's BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!! Yep...I've finally got chapter 6 done though I warn you...the beginning is somewhat boring. Writer's block can do that to you. Now...disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, though I do wish I owned Duo and Zechs...*wink*. Sadly though, I don't. I do own Jenni, Lilith, Silver Cat, and Red Dragon, everything, and one associated with Red Dragon. Reviews are greatly appreciated.
Also, thanx to my bud Joey Maxwell. Go read her fic Desperate. It's really good. And to all the people to reviewed chapter 5...I'm not able to see who you are at the moment but you know who you are.]
Summary: Two years after Endless Waltz. Just when the Gundam pilots thought they could finally get some rest, the Earth and Colonies are again in trouble. There's also a new Gundam, and the pilot is Quatre's twin sister. What other new surprises await them? Rating may go up.
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Jenni sat in Silver Cat alone, hatch open. In her lap was an old tattered notebook. She sighed quietly to herself as she scribbled words carelessly across the page.
"What are you doing up there?" A voice called up to her.
Jenni looked to see Heero down at the foot of Silver Cat. "Oh, hey." Was all she said and went back to her notebook.
Heero raised an eyebrow and slowly started climbing up the Gundam to her. Jenni didn't look over as he sat next to her.
"Yes?" She said as she continued writing in her notebook.
"Are you ok?" Heero asked, making Jenni look over at him and raise an eyebrow. "You've been very quiet since Darcy left."
Jenni shrugged and went back to writing in her notebook. I just miss her. That's all." She said.
"What are you writing? That notebook looks rather old." Heero said after a few moments.
Jenni nodded. "I've had it since I was ten. I don't always write in it."
Heero nodded. "What's in it, if you don't mind me asking?"
Jenni shrugged again. "Just stuff. Thoughts, wishes, dreams...a few poems." She said. "Personal stuff."
"I see." Heero said with a nod.
There were a few moments of silence before Jenni closed her notebook and sighed.
"Did you come up here just to ask me about my notebook, or was there something you actually wanted."
Heero thought about it a moment and shrugged. "Not really. I've just noticed that out of the five of us guys, the only ones you actually converse with outside of meetings were Duo and Quatre. Well, Wufei too, but so far none of those conversations have been very civil."
Jenni laughed a little and shook her head. "I dunno why, something about him just rubs me the wrong way for some reason. It's obvious that he hasn't liked me from day one either."
Heero nodded. "Wufei isn't really used to changes like this."
"Yeah well, it isn't easy being the only girl in a group full of guys." Jenni muttered.
Heero shrugged. "It's been hard for us having a girl in the group after it's only been us five for so long."
"I guess." Jenni said as she stretched her arms and legs.
There was silence between them for a few minutes in which Jenni opened her notebook again and resumed writing.
Heero cleared his throat. "The five of us had a meeting. We've decided..."
Jenni looked over at him. "You had a meeting without me?" she asked.
Heero nodded slowly. "We looked for you for almost half an hour. When we didn't find you we decided to just have the meeting and tell you everything afterwards. It wasn't till the meeting was finished that Quatre thought to look out here."
Jenni nodded as she looked down. "Yeah. I guess that's a good reason. So what did you come up with?"
"Well, we talked about Wufei's idea of splitting up and going to look for the Red Dragon base ourselves. The others seem to think it's a good idea, but they wanted to see what you thought..."
"Find." Jenni interrupted. "I really don't care whether we look for them or not. If you five want to do it then fine. You've got the majority of votes so it doesn't matter what I think."
"Ok then..." Heero said. "Well, if you're ok with it then we're leaving at 0500 tomorrow."
"Jenni nodded. "Yep. Whatever floats your boat."
Heero silently nodded as he watched her. "Are you sure you're ok?"
Jenni groaned lightly as she looked at him. "Yes. I'm fine. Please stop asking."
Heero nodded. "Ok then."
"Why do you care anyway?" Jenni asked. "I mean, this is the first time you've talked to me by myself since I joined you guys. That was like what, six or seven months ago?"
Heero shrugged slightly. "I just want to make sure you'll be able to keep focused on our missions." He watched as Jenni nodded silently. "And I guess I just wanted to make you feel a little more welcome."
Jenni looked at him and smiled a little. "Thanks Heero." she said.
"It's no problem really." Heero replied. "You kind of have to build a trust with the people you work with when you do what we do. Wufei said he'd sooner join Red Dragon than trust you, but that's always kind of been his mentality."
Jenni laughed when he said that. "Does Wufei hate girls in general, or is it just me?" She asked.
"I think it's just you, and a few other select women. There are a few members of the female population that he does get along with." Heero said.
Jenni nodded. "I should meet them. Maybe they can tell me their secrets."
"You'll meet them eventually. A few of them have been rather helpful to us, sending information and so forth."
Jenni laughed a little. "That's a good thing. At least I'm not the only girl fighting the good battle."
"Yeah, I guess." Heero said. "I've got thing that I gotta work on right now. I should get on that."
Jenni nodded. "Yeah, I guess you should. I'm gonna head to the kitchen. I'm getting kinda hungry."
"Ok then." Heero said.
Just as the two got to the floor, everything went dark. Moments later the back up generators started. The two of them were bathed in red.
"What the..." Jenni started, but before she could finish the ground shook violently. Sirens started screaming. Another violent shake followed by a deafening crash.
Quick as lightning Jenni climbed back up to Silver Cat's controls. Flick of a switch, push of a button, the Gundam hummed to life. A monitor flashed on. Images from the outside appeared.
"Oh shit!" Jenni cursed as she started to strap herself in.
"What is it?" Heero called up.
"Red Dragon." Jenni yelled back. "You go get the others. I'll head out to distract them."
"But..."
"Just do it Heero."
Without another word Heero ran. He stopped only once to look back at the Gundam Silver Cat. He watched in amazement as it transformed from cat into humanoid form.
The head of the cat, where Jenni sat, moved tot he chest. A head much like the heads of the other Gundams rose from between the shoulders. There wasn't a single angle on the machine. It was composed entirely out of curves.
Once the transformation was done, the hatch to the hanger was opened, and Jenni flew out.
Not wasting anymore time, Heero ran down the hall. Just as he reached the elevator, the door opened and the other four pilots ran out.
"What's going on?" Duo asked as they headed down to the hanger.
"Red Dragon." Heero replied.
"How the hell did they find our location?" Wufei yelled.
Heero just shrugged.
"Where's Jenni?" Quatre asked.
"She's already out fighting them." Heero said.
"What?!?" Quatre yelled as he stopped running.
The others stopped and looked back at him.
"Why the hell did you let her go alone?"
"She was already in her Gundam. I couldn't stop her." Heero said.
Fuming, Quatre glared at Heero. "I swear Heero, if anything happens to her..."
"Nothing is going to happen to her Quatre. She's trained to fight. So stop treating her like she's a baby."
Trowa stepped between them all. "This is not the time to bicker amongst ourselves." He said as he looked at each of them. "We have a battle to get to, and if we don't get out there now, Jenni just might get killed."
They nodded and ran down the hall to their Gundams.
"Guys, I could really use some help out here." Jenni's voice called from the intercoms.
"We're coming Jenni." Quatre yelled as the five of them sped out to the battlefield.
Heero, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei were greeted to about fifty mobile suits blasting at anything in sight. To the left was Silver Cat fighting hand to hand with six more suits.
"We're here Jenni." Quatre said as the four guys attacked the closest suits to them.
"It's about fucking time." Jenni's voice screamed from the coms, making the guys wince. "What the fuck were you doing? Playing poker?"
Duo chuckled a little as he sliced a mobile suit in half with his double-ended scythe. "At least we're here babe. Be happy for that."
"Oh shut up Duo." Jenni snapped before turning off her intercom.
The battle continued, each of the Gundams destroying at least six suits to each of them. There were only twenty suits left when the leader sounded retreat.
"Get back here and fight you babies." Jenni yelled as she shot at the fleeing suits.
"Jenni, calm down." Quatre said with slight amusement. "We won this one."
"Woohoo." Jenni's whoop was heard causing the guys, even Wufei, to laugh. "So, how's about a victory celebration."
"Good idea. Count me in." Duo said. "Bring on the champagne."
The other four reluctantly agreed.
"As long as it's non-alcoholic." Quatre said.
Jenni snorted. "Don't be a baby Quatre."
"We're gonna have to move base though." Quatre said, ignoring Jenni. "I'll get a hold of Rashid. I'm sure he'll help us.
"What I'm wondering though, is how they found the location of this base." Trowa said.
Though the never voiced their opinions, the others agreed with Trowa.
"Can we get something to eat now?" Jenni asked. "I'm still hungry."
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Andrèas stared at the report in his hand before angrily ripping it in two. "The Gundams." He screamed to his agent. "The fucking Gundams. You said they had been destroyed Agent D."
Agent D stared solemnly at her feet. She remained silent.
"Well?" Andréas yelled.
Agent D flinched. "They were..."
Andréas stormed over to the girl, grabbed her hair, and shoved part of the report into her face. "You see that word there? Do you see it Agent D? It says GUNDAM!" He finished with a yell. Andréas threw the girl to the ground. "MY troops were fighting Gundams when they were sent to kill Gundam pilots who DON'T have Gundams."
"Don't blame me." Agent D yelled as she stood up. "How the hell was I supposed to know they still had the Gundams? All the reports I read said the pilots had destroyed the Gundams. There was even secret footage of them blowing up. The Gundams no longer exist."
"Then why, pray tell, were almost three-quarters of the mobile suit troops I sent demolished by them.
"I have no idea Andréas." Agent D snapped.
"How?" Andréas raged. "How can you not have an idea? I sent you to follow that girl to get info on the pilots. You got a lot of great into, really, you did. But how the hell could you miss five fucking huge Gundams? You have seriously fucked up this time D."
"Six." Agent D said, ignoring the last remark.
Andréas turned back to her. "Excuse me?"
Agent D cleared her throat. "Six." She repeated. "If you tape the report back together and re-read it, you will find that it says there are six Gundams."
Andréas stared at her a moment before scrambling to get the other half of the report. His eyes scanned over to papers before he let out a yell. "SIX?!? Why are there six fucking Gundams?"
Agent D shrugged. "I dunno. Maybe the scientists are still alive. Maybe they re-built the Gundams and made a new one for Jenni."
Andréas's eyes opened wide. "Of course!" He cried. "Why didn't I think of that? The Gundam scientists didn't die when Libra exploded two years ago. Which means that even though the original Gundams were destroyed, the scientists would still be able to make new ones should the earth and/or colonies ever be in danger."
"That does sound plausible." Agent D said with a nod.
"Then that just leaves two small details I need to know. One, the Gundams seem to be fully functional if this report is correct. That means they knew that we were gathering forces to take action. I want to know how the fuck they figured it out." Andréas said.
"I'll get right on that." Agent D said. "What's number two?"
"How on earth could the Gundam scientists survive something as big as the Libra explosion without there being any documentation of it?"
Agent D stood silent as Andréas stared at her. "What?"
Andréas groaned as he grabbed fistfuls of red hair. "Will you get out there and figure all this out?" He shouted as he walked over and grabbed her by the arm and led her to the door. "You're always bragging about all the 'contacts' you have. Why don't you use them?"
With that, he threw the agent out, slamming the door behind her.
"Must I be surrounded by morons?" Andréas sighed as he fell back into a couch.
"You shouldn't be so tough on her André." A female voice called out. "She is your sister after all."
Andréas turned to see a woman with short black hair and blue eyes take a seat next to him. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders as she snuggles into his chest.
"I know." He said with a sigh. "But I have to. I can't give her special treatment just because she's my sister."
The woman sighed and shook her head. "Whatever you say André dear. Now," the woman grinned and winked, "how about a little fun with Hilde?"
Andréas smirked as he leaned down to kiss Hilde. 'It sure is great to be the top guy.' he thought as his hand slid up under her shirt.
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[There's chapter 6. Sorry it took so long to get out, and sorry the beginning was so utterly boring...lol. Anywho...how did you all like Andréas's little part? Hee hee...I was having such BAD writers block, then I thought of that and squeed. I hope the chapter was to your liking. Chapter 7 is written out, so I'll type that out soon, and I've just started chapter 8. Review if you like the chapter please. ^_~]
Also, thanx to my bud Joey Maxwell. Go read her fic Desperate. It's really good. And to all the people to reviewed chapter 5...I'm not able to see who you are at the moment but you know who you are.]
Summary: Two years after Endless Waltz. Just when the Gundam pilots thought they could finally get some rest, the Earth and Colonies are again in trouble. There's also a new Gundam, and the pilot is Quatre's twin sister. What other new surprises await them? Rating may go up.
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Jenni sat in Silver Cat alone, hatch open. In her lap was an old tattered notebook. She sighed quietly to herself as she scribbled words carelessly across the page.
"What are you doing up there?" A voice called up to her.
Jenni looked to see Heero down at the foot of Silver Cat. "Oh, hey." Was all she said and went back to her notebook.
Heero raised an eyebrow and slowly started climbing up the Gundam to her. Jenni didn't look over as he sat next to her.
"Yes?" She said as she continued writing in her notebook.
"Are you ok?" Heero asked, making Jenni look over at him and raise an eyebrow. "You've been very quiet since Darcy left."
Jenni shrugged and went back to writing in her notebook. I just miss her. That's all." She said.
"What are you writing? That notebook looks rather old." Heero said after a few moments.
Jenni nodded. "I've had it since I was ten. I don't always write in it."
Heero nodded. "What's in it, if you don't mind me asking?"
Jenni shrugged again. "Just stuff. Thoughts, wishes, dreams...a few poems." She said. "Personal stuff."
"I see." Heero said with a nod.
There were a few moments of silence before Jenni closed her notebook and sighed.
"Did you come up here just to ask me about my notebook, or was there something you actually wanted."
Heero thought about it a moment and shrugged. "Not really. I've just noticed that out of the five of us guys, the only ones you actually converse with outside of meetings were Duo and Quatre. Well, Wufei too, but so far none of those conversations have been very civil."
Jenni laughed a little and shook her head. "I dunno why, something about him just rubs me the wrong way for some reason. It's obvious that he hasn't liked me from day one either."
Heero nodded. "Wufei isn't really used to changes like this."
"Yeah well, it isn't easy being the only girl in a group full of guys." Jenni muttered.
Heero shrugged. "It's been hard for us having a girl in the group after it's only been us five for so long."
"I guess." Jenni said as she stretched her arms and legs.
There was silence between them for a few minutes in which Jenni opened her notebook again and resumed writing.
Heero cleared his throat. "The five of us had a meeting. We've decided..."
Jenni looked over at him. "You had a meeting without me?" she asked.
Heero nodded slowly. "We looked for you for almost half an hour. When we didn't find you we decided to just have the meeting and tell you everything afterwards. It wasn't till the meeting was finished that Quatre thought to look out here."
Jenni nodded as she looked down. "Yeah. I guess that's a good reason. So what did you come up with?"
"Well, we talked about Wufei's idea of splitting up and going to look for the Red Dragon base ourselves. The others seem to think it's a good idea, but they wanted to see what you thought..."
"Find." Jenni interrupted. "I really don't care whether we look for them or not. If you five want to do it then fine. You've got the majority of votes so it doesn't matter what I think."
"Ok then..." Heero said. "Well, if you're ok with it then we're leaving at 0500 tomorrow."
"Jenni nodded. "Yep. Whatever floats your boat."
Heero silently nodded as he watched her. "Are you sure you're ok?"
Jenni groaned lightly as she looked at him. "Yes. I'm fine. Please stop asking."
Heero nodded. "Ok then."
"Why do you care anyway?" Jenni asked. "I mean, this is the first time you've talked to me by myself since I joined you guys. That was like what, six or seven months ago?"
Heero shrugged slightly. "I just want to make sure you'll be able to keep focused on our missions." He watched as Jenni nodded silently. "And I guess I just wanted to make you feel a little more welcome."
Jenni looked at him and smiled a little. "Thanks Heero." she said.
"It's no problem really." Heero replied. "You kind of have to build a trust with the people you work with when you do what we do. Wufei said he'd sooner join Red Dragon than trust you, but that's always kind of been his mentality."
Jenni laughed when he said that. "Does Wufei hate girls in general, or is it just me?" She asked.
"I think it's just you, and a few other select women. There are a few members of the female population that he does get along with." Heero said.
Jenni nodded. "I should meet them. Maybe they can tell me their secrets."
"You'll meet them eventually. A few of them have been rather helpful to us, sending information and so forth."
Jenni laughed a little. "That's a good thing. At least I'm not the only girl fighting the good battle."
"Yeah, I guess." Heero said. "I've got thing that I gotta work on right now. I should get on that."
Jenni nodded. "Yeah, I guess you should. I'm gonna head to the kitchen. I'm getting kinda hungry."
"Ok then." Heero said.
Just as the two got to the floor, everything went dark. Moments later the back up generators started. The two of them were bathed in red.
"What the..." Jenni started, but before she could finish the ground shook violently. Sirens started screaming. Another violent shake followed by a deafening crash.
Quick as lightning Jenni climbed back up to Silver Cat's controls. Flick of a switch, push of a button, the Gundam hummed to life. A monitor flashed on. Images from the outside appeared.
"Oh shit!" Jenni cursed as she started to strap herself in.
"What is it?" Heero called up.
"Red Dragon." Jenni yelled back. "You go get the others. I'll head out to distract them."
"But..."
"Just do it Heero."
Without another word Heero ran. He stopped only once to look back at the Gundam Silver Cat. He watched in amazement as it transformed from cat into humanoid form.
The head of the cat, where Jenni sat, moved tot he chest. A head much like the heads of the other Gundams rose from between the shoulders. There wasn't a single angle on the machine. It was composed entirely out of curves.
Once the transformation was done, the hatch to the hanger was opened, and Jenni flew out.
Not wasting anymore time, Heero ran down the hall. Just as he reached the elevator, the door opened and the other four pilots ran out.
"What's going on?" Duo asked as they headed down to the hanger.
"Red Dragon." Heero replied.
"How the hell did they find our location?" Wufei yelled.
Heero just shrugged.
"Where's Jenni?" Quatre asked.
"She's already out fighting them." Heero said.
"What?!?" Quatre yelled as he stopped running.
The others stopped and looked back at him.
"Why the hell did you let her go alone?"
"She was already in her Gundam. I couldn't stop her." Heero said.
Fuming, Quatre glared at Heero. "I swear Heero, if anything happens to her..."
"Nothing is going to happen to her Quatre. She's trained to fight. So stop treating her like she's a baby."
Trowa stepped between them all. "This is not the time to bicker amongst ourselves." He said as he looked at each of them. "We have a battle to get to, and if we don't get out there now, Jenni just might get killed."
They nodded and ran down the hall to their Gundams.
"Guys, I could really use some help out here." Jenni's voice called from the intercoms.
"We're coming Jenni." Quatre yelled as the five of them sped out to the battlefield.
Heero, Duo, Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei were greeted to about fifty mobile suits blasting at anything in sight. To the left was Silver Cat fighting hand to hand with six more suits.
"We're here Jenni." Quatre said as the four guys attacked the closest suits to them.
"It's about fucking time." Jenni's voice screamed from the coms, making the guys wince. "What the fuck were you doing? Playing poker?"
Duo chuckled a little as he sliced a mobile suit in half with his double-ended scythe. "At least we're here babe. Be happy for that."
"Oh shut up Duo." Jenni snapped before turning off her intercom.
The battle continued, each of the Gundams destroying at least six suits to each of them. There were only twenty suits left when the leader sounded retreat.
"Get back here and fight you babies." Jenni yelled as she shot at the fleeing suits.
"Jenni, calm down." Quatre said with slight amusement. "We won this one."
"Woohoo." Jenni's whoop was heard causing the guys, even Wufei, to laugh. "So, how's about a victory celebration."
"Good idea. Count me in." Duo said. "Bring on the champagne."
The other four reluctantly agreed.
"As long as it's non-alcoholic." Quatre said.
Jenni snorted. "Don't be a baby Quatre."
"We're gonna have to move base though." Quatre said, ignoring Jenni. "I'll get a hold of Rashid. I'm sure he'll help us.
"What I'm wondering though, is how they found the location of this base." Trowa said.
Though the never voiced their opinions, the others agreed with Trowa.
"Can we get something to eat now?" Jenni asked. "I'm still hungry."
*~*
Andrèas stared at the report in his hand before angrily ripping it in two. "The Gundams." He screamed to his agent. "The fucking Gundams. You said they had been destroyed Agent D."
Agent D stared solemnly at her feet. She remained silent.
"Well?" Andréas yelled.
Agent D flinched. "They were..."
Andréas stormed over to the girl, grabbed her hair, and shoved part of the report into her face. "You see that word there? Do you see it Agent D? It says GUNDAM!" He finished with a yell. Andréas threw the girl to the ground. "MY troops were fighting Gundams when they were sent to kill Gundam pilots who DON'T have Gundams."
"Don't blame me." Agent D yelled as she stood up. "How the hell was I supposed to know they still had the Gundams? All the reports I read said the pilots had destroyed the Gundams. There was even secret footage of them blowing up. The Gundams no longer exist."
"Then why, pray tell, were almost three-quarters of the mobile suit troops I sent demolished by them.
"I have no idea Andréas." Agent D snapped.
"How?" Andréas raged. "How can you not have an idea? I sent you to follow that girl to get info on the pilots. You got a lot of great into, really, you did. But how the hell could you miss five fucking huge Gundams? You have seriously fucked up this time D."
"Six." Agent D said, ignoring the last remark.
Andréas turned back to her. "Excuse me?"
Agent D cleared her throat. "Six." She repeated. "If you tape the report back together and re-read it, you will find that it says there are six Gundams."
Andréas stared at her a moment before scrambling to get the other half of the report. His eyes scanned over to papers before he let out a yell. "SIX?!? Why are there six fucking Gundams?"
Agent D shrugged. "I dunno. Maybe the scientists are still alive. Maybe they re-built the Gundams and made a new one for Jenni."
Andréas's eyes opened wide. "Of course!" He cried. "Why didn't I think of that? The Gundam scientists didn't die when Libra exploded two years ago. Which means that even though the original Gundams were destroyed, the scientists would still be able to make new ones should the earth and/or colonies ever be in danger."
"That does sound plausible." Agent D said with a nod.
"Then that just leaves two small details I need to know. One, the Gundams seem to be fully functional if this report is correct. That means they knew that we were gathering forces to take action. I want to know how the fuck they figured it out." Andréas said.
"I'll get right on that." Agent D said. "What's number two?"
"How on earth could the Gundam scientists survive something as big as the Libra explosion without there being any documentation of it?"
Agent D stood silent as Andréas stared at her. "What?"
Andréas groaned as he grabbed fistfuls of red hair. "Will you get out there and figure all this out?" He shouted as he walked over and grabbed her by the arm and led her to the door. "You're always bragging about all the 'contacts' you have. Why don't you use them?"
With that, he threw the agent out, slamming the door behind her.
"Must I be surrounded by morons?" Andréas sighed as he fell back into a couch.
"You shouldn't be so tough on her André." A female voice called out. "She is your sister after all."
Andréas turned to see a woman with short black hair and blue eyes take a seat next to him. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders as she snuggles into his chest.
"I know." He said with a sigh. "But I have to. I can't give her special treatment just because she's my sister."
The woman sighed and shook her head. "Whatever you say André dear. Now," the woman grinned and winked, "how about a little fun with Hilde?"
Andréas smirked as he leaned down to kiss Hilde. 'It sure is great to be the top guy.' he thought as his hand slid up under her shirt.
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[There's chapter 6. Sorry it took so long to get out, and sorry the beginning was so utterly boring...lol. Anywho...how did you all like Andréas's little part? Hee hee...I was having such BAD writers block, then I thought of that and squeed. I hope the chapter was to your liking. Chapter 7 is written out, so I'll type that out soon, and I've just started chapter 8. Review if you like the chapter please. ^_~]