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Chapter Four: Those Whom Drifted In The Darkness Of Space
Ichiru's POV
"Okay, we're here. Just don't make a lot of noise when we get in okay?" I asked Juan as I pulled into the parking lot. "Why am I here again?" He asked me for the fourth time since we left the café. "Because, you know some stuff that I need to know and vise versa and I don't want to get all of that info out in the cold!" I told him as we got out of the car and went into the house. Luckily, Tiyu left it unlocked, Unluckily, Tiyu was still awake and was waiting for me to return. "Uh, hi!" Juan said to Tiyu when he noticed her sitting in the corner of the room reading the daily newspaper, or so it looked like the daily newspaper. "What took so long?" She asked me as she continued to read the paper. I walked into the waiting room that she was in and dragged Juan along with me. "Tiyu, this is Juan. Juan this is Tiyu. I met him at that cyber cafe that we passed on our way here. "And?" She asked sounding slightly annoyed. "He has some information that I need. And I got us that cove
r." I told her as I started taking the stuff that I bought earlier out from the bag. "That's good. Where are my keys?" She asked as she folded the paper up neatly and placed on the table beside her. I took the keys out from my back pocket and threw them to her. "How long will this take?" Juan asked me. "I don't know. Depends on how much you know." I said and smile at him. He looked as if I just sent chills down his spine, and I probably did since that's what happens to everyone when I smile at them, innocently or not I just have that kind of a smile.
Tiyu left the room, taking the hair dye that I tossed to her as we began our conversation. "Now what else do you know about Mr. Walt?" I asked him. "I know he works with Oz. He's been trying to come up with some way to 'create the perfect soldier and weapon' by using a cloning technique. That basically sums up all that I know except that only one of his experiments have resulted in success but it turned on him, destroyed his lab while killing all his men at the same time, and then just disappeared. Mr. Walt survived of course and has been searching for her ever since." Juan said and sat down next to me on the sofa. "Her?" I asked him after going over all that I had just heard in my head. "Yes her. Mr. Walt started out creating only male clones, seeing as males have been proven to be the stronger gender physically. But none of the experiments survived. So he took a chance and tried a female. The first one barley made it but ended up dying three weeks later do to unknown reas
ons. Perhaps the training he was putting her threw was too harsh. So he made one even stronger and younger and she survived." Juan leaned back into the sofa, letting me know that he'd said his part and was know ready for mine. "Drink?" I asked him. "Yes, please." "Coffee?" He nodded. "Black? Decafe?.." I trailed off and waited for his answer. "Decafe." He said and I went to the kitchen after telling him to make himself comfortable since it would be a while. Strange that it's only us two girls in this huge house. It could be a mansion, but there are not enough rooms to make it one.
"Here you go." I said as I came into the room and handed Juan his drink and set my own on the table. "Thank you." He said and took a sip from his coffee, as did I from my coco. "So, you're saying that Mr. Walt has been trying to create a perfect soldier and a perfect weapon?" I asked, summarizing what he had just said. "Yes, to counter the pilot of Wing Gundam, Heero Yuy." He then took a sip from his drink again. "What I've found is that he has successfully created his perfect soldier and know all he needs is to get the weapon. And that it was the weapon that destroyed his lab and who he is looking for. The weapon can supposedly change forms to better suit the situation, if this is true then even under water battles might cause a problem to their enemies. The soldier however has never been seen by anyone except Mr. Walt and his son. Not even by the weapon." I took a sip from my drink and continued. "The soldier has the ability to increase it's speed, strength, and knowledge
at any given time. This was put in so that when fighting against stronger, faster, smarter enemies it would not be a problem. However, the soldier, unlike the weapon, cannot take more than one form nor change forms at all. It stays in the body it was given unless Mr. Walt switches it." I put my cup down as I have finally finished it and went on. "It is said that if the two fought each other then their special abilities would be stripped from them and they would be left at what ever form or strength, knowledge, agility level they were at before the power was taken away. So if the weapon were in an outer space form then it would remain that way forever. This was put in so that they would not go against each other and thus Mr. Walt would loose control over them. But as we know, he has already lost control over one, it is only a matter of time when he will loose control of the soldier. And when that happens they will kill their creator and then battle each other until the other
is dead for good. With out their purpose of serving Mr. Walt, they no nothing but to fight each other." I said, finally finishing my part and started to try and figure out which one of us had more or better information.
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Normal POV
"Hey, Ichiru! Why didn't you tell me what color this dye was!" Tiyu yelled as she came into the room. "Well I thought you would actually take a second to look at the box." Ichiru relied and stood up while taking Juan's cup from him. "Hello Juan." Tiyu said as she sat down. "I didn't think you'd still be here?" She asked. "Yes, it's taken longer then I thought it would." He said and looked at his wrist watched. It read 10:30 p.m. Tiyu than grabbed the remote and turned the television on. "All the major highways have been closed due to the sudden storm. We ask that you please stay in your houses or take shelter in a nearby area until this terrible storm has ended and please stay tuned to find out more information on the weather." A reported said and then the TV. switched back to its regular program. "Hhhmm.. That can't be good." Juan said and looked up at Ichiru as she reentered the room. "Well Tiyu, I barely recognized you!" She said with her smile back up on her face as if
she had never been serious in her entire life. "Ah, shut it! It's all you're fault!" She said and hid her face in one of the pillows lying on the sofa. "Oh! But that is where you are wrong my dear friend! You are the one your father will be looking for. Not me, I stayed in the shadows. So I have no need to change appearance!" She continued and took the boxes of contact lenses out from the grocery bag and tossed Tiyu the blue ones. "Put these in." She ordered and did the same herself with the black ones. "My brown hair, my pretty brown hair!" Tiyu cried into the pillow. "Oh for Christ sakes! Once they forget about him, you can turn you hair back to its original color. "Ya! In like twenty years!" Tiyu said as she opened the box. "Um.. Would you mind explaining this to me?" Juan asked nervously. Ichiru looked at Tiyu for permission and Tiyu nodded. "Well seeing as you too, have some one you want to kill, or so we think, we will let you in on this. But if you tell anyone, then I'
ll have to hunt you down for the rest of your life." Ichiru warned. Juan nodded not looking so sure if he wanted to know anymore. "Tiyu's father here is a supplier for Oz and has done some pretty bad things to her. So I'm helping her seek out her revenge!" Ichiru said cheerfully and stood up to look at her self in the mirror that hung over the small fire place.
"And now I had to dye my hair a different color and change my eye color too since my father knows that I'm after him now." Tiyu finished. "And she just so happened to choose the color silver, which so happens to be my least favorite color!" Tiyu continued to complain. "How can anyone not like silver?!" Ichiru asked and turned around to look at her friend who hadn't even finished opening the box. "Whoa! You look kind of scary with those contacts in." Juan commented. "Really?" Ichiru asked sounding very pleased that she looked scary. "I don't think that's a good thing." Tiyu said and handed her friend her box. "Can you open this for me?" She asked. Ichiru rolled her eyes and did as asked. "Here." Ichiru said and handed the know opened box to her friend and went to sit down next to Juan and Tiyu got up to put the contacts in. "I mean, who has silver hair?" Tiyu said, bringing the subject back up. "Heina." Ichiru replied. "And who's that?" Tiyu asked and turned around with only
one of the contacts in. Thus making her looks even scarier than Ichiru with one pale blue eye and a dark brown eye. "You're new identity, end of discussion, new topic please." Ichiru said. "So I guess this means that you're not for Oz." Juan said, answering his previous question. "Correct. Although Tiyu did have to join Oz in order to get to her father since he didn't know about her, she is now known as a traitor." Ichiru explained and then picked up the phone and gave it to Juan.
"What's this for?" He asked. "Don't you think your grandfather might be a little worried about you?" Ichiru asked reminding him that he did split up from him before leaving the café. Juan laughed and gave the phone back to her. "He's not really my grandfather. He's my instructor; I guess you could say. He gives me the orders on what to do and trains me. See I'm in a rebellion group that is against Oz of course. Grandpa is just his codename. But I call him Pops. We all treat him as our grandpa though. And he's our leader too." Juan explained.
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Ichiru's POV
* the next day * "If anyone has any tips on the whereabouts of this young girl, please call this number." An announcer said on the TV. and a number flashed under a picture of Tiyu. "Aren't you glad I told you to change your identity? And it's a good thing you almost have the same facial characteristics as Heina did." I said with my trademark smile. Juan joined forces with us last night. Now the three of us are on a private plane, thanks to Juan's grandfather, and are heading to the Sanq Kingdom. I had to cut my hair last night. Instead of it going all the ways down to my waist it barely passes my ears on the sides and in the back it's layered, the farthest strand going a little past my shoulders. And I put a few gold highlights in it. Juan knows about my ears now and Tiyu and I have found out that on every full moon I turn into a black panther! I didn't even know! I guess my memory is all erased when I transform back into a human. But that's just weird. We found out last wee
k when Tiyu went downstairs for a midnight snack. She said that I was in the form of a black panther and was sleeping on the floor next to the sofa! She even got a picture for proof! We haven't told Juan that part yet though.
Tiyu says she is able to control me when I'm in that form but I don't know, last time I turned into one I woke up in the back yard on top of the shed! Okay so it wasn't that bad, but it was freezing and when Tiyu came to get me she was in her bear costume from this show she watches called Serial Experiments Lain, that she made herself two days before. I thought I was dreaming! As for the cat ears, nothing new, but on crescent moons I get a black tail! I don't really keep track of when all this happens. Tiyu says that, "I must be affected by the moon". What is it with her and moons?
Anyways, the three of us are now off to the Sanq Kingdom. Why? I've found that Trowa and his circus are going to be performing there in three days. They are already there and I'm hopping that we can join them and use that as a cover, just like pilot 03 does. And at the same time we'll be able to inform the gundam pilots about Mr. Walt and Tiyu's father's plans. We only hope that we'll get there in time because last night Juan and I did a quick review over what I found at the café and if the information is correct than Mr. Walt plans to do something terrible very soon, like within this month!
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Normal POV
* space * A boy that looked to be no older than fifteen ran into the control room of one of Oz's ships and quickly closed the door behind himself. "I'll plant a bomb here, and here, and oh! You look like a good place too!" The boy said to himself cheerfully as if here were hiding Easter eggs and was out of the room as quick as he came in. The blonde haired boy put smaller time bombs here and there in the hallways and then went into the hangar and planted his biggest bombs that he carried in a huge duffle bag onto the mobile suits and put the rest of his bombs in the areas where Oz kept their spare weapons.
"Hey Mike! I'm all done here! How bout you?" The boy asked threw his little walky talky. "Hold on. Yeah, I'm done." Mike said. The boy reached into his duffle bag for a special suit and quickly slipped it on. "Are you close to a window, Clef?" Mike asked. "Yeah, I am and I'm all ready." Clef said and got a small bomb out which was the last thing in the bag and stuck it to the window. "Ready. 1..2..3!" Clef said into the walky talky and he ran for cover. Not a second later the small bomb went off, blowing a whole into the wall, not just the window. Clef smiled and let himself be sucked out from the whole. 'Five minutes left! Where are you guys?!' Clef thought as he slowly drifted away from the ship. As if his question could be heard miles away a small ship quickly pulled up to him. "Hurry up! They're sending out the mobile suits!" Clef heard in his suit and with that said he took out the detonator and pulled himself into the ship. "GO! GO! GO!" He yelled and waited a minute u
ntil he pushed the device. * KABOOM * 'There goes the control room.' Clef thought and pushed another device. 'There's the hallways.' "I get the next one!" A boy said that looked to be the same age as Clef but was a little taller and was more built. "Sure thing Mike!" Clef said cheerfully and Mike took out his own detonating device and started pulling the switches. By now The front of the Oz ship was completely gone and the ship that Clef and Mike were in was speeding away but was still close enough to see the explosions. Clef then detonated the bombs he put on the mobile suits and in the hangar.
"Job well done guys." A sixteen year-old girl with long black hair that had a few fire red streaks in it and the tips were purple, said. "Thanks Fiamma![1]" Clef said and Mike helped him up. "Okay people! We're changing routes. Now we're going to the Sanq Kingdom!" Said a seventeen year-old boy with short blood red hair. "Yes sir." Clef said and took over the controls of the ship and began to manually pilot the ship to the Sanq Kingdom. "Rez! Mobile suits! Behind us!" Fiamma yelled to the seventeen year-old. "We can't waste any ammunition! Clef, can you out run them?" "Yes siry bob I can!" Clef said and with that everyone sat down in his or her appropriate seat. "Fiamma, you take control over all the guns just in case. Mike! Get your sister in here we need a plan!" Rez ordered. With that Mike ran to out of the room and went to find Tori, his younger sister.
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Tiyu's POV
"Do you always have to prove me wrong? Man just get off of my case will ya?!" Ichiru shouted at Juan. "I have to prove you wrong because you are wrong, and you're the one that always has to have the last word! Honestly man, it's like you don't even care if you're right or not!" Juan yelled back. 'They've been at each other's throat's since we landed. I can't believe this they're acting like twelve year-olds! I should just kick them out of this car right.' "Hey! HEY! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!!" Juan yelled as he held onto the car door desperately. "Ichiru! What are you doing?! Get him back in here!" I yelled at her. She glared at the boy and then finally brought him back into the car and closed the door. "Do you know how dangerous that was?" I asked her. "Yeah whatever. Tell me when we get there will ya?" She said and sunk into her seat in the back next to Juan and pulled her cap over her eyes and went to sleep. Juan climbed over the seat and got into the one
next to me. "Man, you two! You've barely known each other for a day and you're already the worst enemies and you're on the same side!" I said and pushed down harder on the gas pedal. Juan has learned by know that when I am not calm then I'm speeding and when I'm speeding don't piss me off even more or else I'll whiplash you, thanks to Ichiru. "It's not me, it's her! Really, I don't know what's gotten into her! It's like it's 'her time of the month' already." After that thought said we looked at each other, then back at her, then each other, and then we went back to starring at the road in front of us. "I sure as hell hope not." He said, trying to lessen the tension that he had created. I smirked. "Yeah cause that means it'll only get worse. I actually think it's because she's starting to regret her plan. She's probably found a flaw and is mad at herself for even thinking of it!" I said while remembering what she did the last time she screwed up on something. She grabbed one
of her guns, which I have no idea where she got it probably from my dad's collection, and then nearly shot my dogs! Well my dad's dogs but I loved them all the same.
"Okay here we are. Do you want to wake her or.." I trailed off. "You." He said and started to play with his fingers knowing what was coming. "Ok. Ichiru, we're here." I said and poked her shoulder. "Ichiru?" I took off her hat. "Hey, we're here!" I whispered loudly into one of her cat ears. One of her eyes opened and then another, "Good, now, get out." She said. "What?" I asked. "You heard me, I need you to get out so I can drive, please?" I looked at Juan and he gave this look that I roughly translated to 'Hey at least she said please.' And then got out as requested. "Thanks." She said as I gave her the keys and hopped into the back seat and closed the door. Juan glared at Ichiru and Ichiru glared back threw the rear view mirror and then started the car and we started to drive off. "Where are we going?" Juan asked. "Do you always have to asked questions?" She countered. 'Shit, here we go again.' Juan didn't answer. "Sorry. We're going to the circus. To meet some old friend
s of mine." Ichiru said and sped off. "Damn, she's faster than you!" Juan said and quickly buckled up.
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"Now exiting Earth's atmosphere. Ship preparing for crash land. Landing area: one mile outside of the Sanq Kingdom, two miles off from original landing destination." A girl with long hair that was dark purple that turned a dark blue at the tips, read from the screen. "Rez, if we crash land there, we'll be lucky to even make it to the border let alone Sanq Kingdom before those soldiers come to investigate." Fiamma said.
"I know but there is nothing we can do about it now." Rez said, sighing in defeat. "Tori?" Mike asked his sister. Tori nodded and pulled up a map to the screen and started typing in different routes that could be taking. "Here." She said and pulled up on of the solutions that might just work. "It's slim but I'm sure we can make it if we land in this area. There's an old highway near by that we can use as a runway. This highway hasn't been used for a while so we're safe from hitting any cars." Tori explained her idea to the crew. "Well?" Mike asked Rez. "Sounds good to me, Clef were you listening?" Rez asked. "Yep, and I'm changing the destination right now." He said and typed a few stuff into the main computer of the ship. "Well land in five minutes." Tori read the new data aloud.
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Ichiru's POV
"Hold on, I'm going to take a short cut I know up ahead." I said and then took a sharp turn to the left. "Whoa!" Juan said and I heard his face slam against the window. "Sorry bout that." I said while trying hard not to laugh. 'Okay, there is the first tree. Now, one, two, three!' I took another sharp turn to the left and then took a less harsh turn to the right. After going straight for exactly one minute I took another right turn and we were there. "Hello old pal." I said aloud. "It's an old highway." Juan said in a dull voice. "Yes that is my friend." I said. "How is it your 'pal'?" He asked. "Me and this place go back a long ways." I said and remembered how many times I'd steal the J Partner's car and have them run after me up and down this high way. Actually, if I remember correctly, that was how I learned how to drive! I let a small smile creep up onto my face and sped up.
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Normal POV
"Where are we?" Tiyu asked whiling looking outside of the car window. "I have no idea. Hey, Ichiru, are you sure we're still going the right way?" Juan asked. "Just keep your shirt on, we'll be there in a sec!" Ichiru said and went even faster. "Hey, hey what is that thing?" Tiyu asked. "It's a spaceship, what are you bli.." Juan started and then leaned over to get a better look at the thing. "Holy shit! Ichiru, turn! Get off the highway!!" After that being said Ichiru caught sight of the aircraft and quickly did her best to get out of the way. In result turning into the nearby forest that surrounded the Sanq Kingdom, crashing into the biggest tree ever.
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Tiyu's POV
* the next day * "I can't believe you wrecked my dad's car!" I yelled at Ichiru for the hundredth time this morning. "Hey it was an accident! Why do you thing they call it accidents? Sides you hate your dad anyways, consider it as a way to get back at him." She said as the eight of us walked out of the woods. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that those people we nearly killed us in their crash landing stunt, is now 'escorting' us to the Sanq Kingdom! They nearly kill us, well never more it was actually Ichiru, and now they're 'escorting' us! And we have to walk because somebody here just had to speed. "Sides, it was an abandoned highway, how was I supposed to know these people were going to crash land there at that exact time!" She does have a point. I looked at her and then gave a sigh of defeat. "I'm sorry." I apologized. "It's ok, and I'm sorry for destroying the car. I loved it too." She said with a wacky smile. "So I'm Clef, who are you?" Clef asked Ichiru, since when the in
troductions were being made she was unconscious. "I'm Ichiru!" She said cheerfully and shook his had. The boy was just as cheerful looking as her with his huge smile.
"So what happened to you guys that you had to crash land?" I asked them. "Oz shot us down." The girl name Tori said. Rez glared at her but then returned to his unemotional self. "Really?" I said letter my interest show. "Yeah." Tori said. "So you guys are against Oz too, all the better." Juan said looking over the new group. Rez seems like the leader of this small group of five. Tori seems to be the brains of the group, her big brother, Mike, looks like the muscle of the gang. Fiamma looks like the bad ass but she seems to have a nice personality. And as for Clef, he is the happy-go- lucky one of the group, no doubt about that.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Fiamma asked. "He and a group of rebellions are looking to destroy Oz once and for all." Ichiru said flatly. "Straight through the bush?" Clef asked but he only received and threatening glare. Damn, she's back in her mood again. "Ichiru can I talk with you?" Juan asked and pulled her up ahead of us out of earshot. "What's that all about?" Mike asked. "She's just been,.. not herself lately. Juan's just had enough of it." I explained. "Oh." Mike muttered a few words but I could here it all.
"So where are we headed?" Clef asked. Last night, Rez and I got to talk and I found out that they had just got down destroying an Oz ship and were running from the survivors. Simply put, we decided to join forces. Rez is the leader of his group and as for ours, well, ya. Since we woke up this morning we've been following Tori, whom said she knew her way to the Sanq Kingdom from where we were.
"It's none of you business so just STAY OUT OF MY WAY!!!" Ichiru yelled and pushed Juan away and walked off in a different direction. "Hey what's going on?" I yelled and we caught up with them. "Nothing! Come on!" Ichiru yelled back and we followed. "What happened?" I whispered to Juan as the seven of us walked a little bit behind from Ichiru, for when she's mad you better stay a good distance and keep an eye on her or else. "I almost figure it out but then she just blew up. Something happened before we left your house. And I think it's really getting her." Juan explained to us. "Do you know where she's taking us?" Mike asked. We both shook our heads.
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Ichiru's POV
'Damn him always getting into my business!' I thought angrily as I walked out of the woods into a big clearing. For those of you who haven't already guessed I'm headed towards that circus that Trowa and Catherine work out. I just wish I didn't have to bring these people along too, but they seem to have some good information that the g-boys could use. I wish I could take my hat off my ears hurt so much! Speaking of my ears, that girl nearly killed me again. That girl with the same name as mine, well birth name that is. She told me some pretty useful information too. Juan is lying about everything! He's with Mr. Walt, not against him! She said that he works for her and is an assigned assassin. She said she'd do the job herself but doesn't really feel like it. "That bitch!" I aloud my self to say my thoughts out loud and quickly checked to see if they were still following me and the are. But then again why do I actually believe someone who's been trying to kill me? There's som
ething about her, like I know her somehow. Is it possible that we could be sisters? But then again why would our parents give us the same names? And if she was lying why does she want me to go against Juan? He seems like a nice guy, little on the annoying side when he gets into your business but hey not everyone is perfect, right? I don't know what to think and I . I hate this!
"Hey! It's the circus!" Clef shouted from behind as we neared the circus and ran on ahead of us to the ticket booth. "Tickets for eight, please?" Clef said. "No need, this is just practice but you can watch if you'd like." The man at the booth said and Clef nodded his head before going on in. "Hey, were supposed to me going to see Miss Peacecraft or the gundam pilots not the circus you baka!" Fiamma whispered harshly to him as we entered the main tent. "Actually I have some business to deal with here, wait for me after the practice I'll be right back." I said and left the tent.
Luckily no one asked me what kind of business I was up to so I quickly got into a good mood again. Now if only I can remember which tent is which. I wonder if they'll recognize me? "Here you are!" I said and went into the tent that looked very much like the one that I woke up in after being knocked out by Kent.
"We need more acts you guys!" I heard the ringmaster telling a group of the performers, which also included Catherine and Trowa. "Excuse me but I think I can help you." Fiamma said from behind me. I didn't even hear her following me! "Really?" The ringmaster asked as we entered the tent. "I'm a fire dancer, not very good, but I am looking for a place to work and I don't mind traveling." She said. "And what about you?" He asked. "Huh, what? Me? I can do some stuff with fire too, I'm no dancer but I know what to do, either that or I could work the animals." I stuttered being caught off guard. "Perfect! We've never had any fire performers before, and Trowa could use some help. You're both hired!" He said and left the tent in a better mood. Fiamma looked at me and smiled. "I never would have guessed." She said. "Me neither, you, a fire dancer! Fire I understand, but dancing to!" I said. "Anything for fire." She said with a strange glint in her eyes. Then Catherine came up to us.
"Hi! I'm Catherine, the knife thrower. And this is my brother Trowa, we do our performances together but he takes after the animals! It's nice to meet you and boy are we lucky that you two came along!" She said and extended her hand to shake ours. I shook hers first and then Fiamma. "I'm Fiamma." She said as she shook Catherine's hand. "I'm sorry I don't believe I got your name." Catherine said to me. Then all of a sudden Duo came bouncing in with Heero looking annoyed as ever. "Hi guys! What's up!" Catherine greeted them. "Oh nothing just came to watch you two practice and we need to talk to Trowa, official business." Duo said with a wink that earned a quick laugh from Catherine. "Okay." Catherine said. "And who are you two?" Duo asked us. "Oh these are our newest members, Fiamma and.." Catherine trailed off remembering that I hadn't told her my name yet. 'They really don't remember?' I smirked and extended my hand to shake Duo's. "Thanks for the hat." I said just to see ho
w good his memory was. "What?" Obviously it wasn't as good as I thought. "Ichiru." I said and gave a little pretend pout. "Oh it's you! Where have you been all this time! And your hair, you look so different!" Catherine said and gave me a quick hug. "That's the point, I'm afraid we've got some serious things to discuss with the gundam pilots." I said seriously when she released me. Heero then started to look interested but didn't make it very noticeable as the same with Trowa. "Oh well ok, Trowa just come on out when you're done alright?" She said and left the tent. "So what is it?" Heero asked. "Would you like to go first?" I asked Fiamma and took the hat of since I was finally out of public view. "Holy lord! Are those real?" She asked when she saw my ears. "Hey! They're still there!" Duo said with a grin. I nodded but kept serious. "I suppose I'll start then. Have you guys heard of a man named Mr. Walt? He's really old." I said putting in a small useless fact at the end jus
t for myself. "Yes, I have." Trowa spoke up. "Hn.. same here." Heero said. "Hey why don't I know about this guy then?" Duo asked. We ignored him. "So you guys know his importance to Oz but do you also know that he has been creating a secret weapon for Oz also?" I asked. "What are you talking about?" Wufei asked as he and Quatre entered. "Obviously not. He has been creating something over the past five years now, something big. One is a perfect soldier and the other is the perfect weapon, when they are together they are unstoppable." I paused and looked and Trowa and Heero in hopes to see if they have already learned of this so that I wouldn't have to waste their time but they hadn't. 'I suppose I could tell them what I found out from Arielle, but I'll leave out the parts that lead suspicion of Juan being the perfect weapon.' I thought and took a deep breath.
"He's created them with a cloning technique to genetically enhance certain parts. Example for the perfect soldier, it's thought process is kinda the same way the zero system works, and for the weapon, it has the ability to change its form to anything to better suit the situation. The soldier is faster, smarter, and stronger than normal humans and was basically designed to take out pilot 01 no matter what. The weapon will take out pilot 03 and then they will work together to wipe out the rest of you. But if Mr. Walt looses control of his new toys, then chaos will brake loose. They will either first carry out their mission and then destroy each other or go after their creator and then kill each other. I hope it's the second one since I personally hate the guy but as the fates have it we don't know what they're doing since that stupid guys has already lost control over one of them. We don't know which one, but which ever one it was it has destroyed Mr. Walt's lab and killed ev
eryone except for him and is now no where to be found. And an unknown source has told me that the one that is no long under control has been found by Mr. Walt and will either be destroyed or changed somehow and its mission will be carried out as if nothing had happened. I'm just here to warn you guys but lately I have been trying to find Mr. Walt for my own personal reasons,. he is no where to be found at this moment." I said. "But how could this have been going on with out our knowledge? And you said that he's been working on these,..things for the past five years. Operation Meteor barely commenced in the beginning of this year." Quatre began. I shook my head. "True but Heero has been in training all of his life, and as for this war, we all know how long it's been since it began, he was originally creating them to fight against the Colonies but when you guys came along all he had to do was write up a different mission and everything would all carry on the same." I said and l
ooked at them. Quatre looked worried about this new enemy and Duo was just plain stunned. As for the other three they were obviously trying to piece everything together to see if I was telling the truth. "And if you need proof here it is." I said and took the disk out from my jacket pocket. Heero then took the disk and took out his laptop and checked the disk. "I see you're still trying to track Mr. Walt down, but who are these other people." Heero asked after quickly skimming through the files. "Arielle Hika Kicharu she's the unknown source. The file labeled J Partners is just some information that I've collected, they work for Mr. Walt. And Kent is Mr. Walt's only child. He is with Oz and helped create the soldier." I said and then stepped aside to let Fiamma do some explaining.
"Trowa! Some one has destroyed an Oz ship! Was it you?" Catherine asked as she quickly entered the tent. "No it wasn't us. Where did you here this?" Trowa asked. "Hilde just got back, she looked a little freaked cause she was supposed to be stationed on that ship but luckily Duo asked her to do something else for him." Catherine said. "It me, well my friends too, we did it. That's what we're, my group, is here for. To inform some newly found information to Ms. Peacecraft or to one of the gundam pilots. We crashed landed last night and had to quickly get out of the area before Oz's soldiers caught up. We thought we destroyed everything and everyone but unfortunately we didn't and some of the soldiers were able to escape and came after us, shooting us down just as we exited Earth's atmosphere." Fiamma spoke up and bowed before leaving the tent. "That's all she really wanted to say for now, just that her and her crew are on your side and that they've found some valuable informa
tion which is also found in my disk. Now I too have to go and find my group. Oh yeah and Catherine, tell the boss that I think I know someone who might work here as well but he wont be working with me, he can.. Be a clown." I said, knowing very well what I was getting myself into but hey, how could I resist such an opportunity!
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A/N: Okay so there's chapter four! Hah! Finally, that took a long time! Anywho, on with the translation.
Only one word,..
[1] Flame (in Italian)
R&R please!
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Chapter Four: Those Whom Drifted In The Darkness Of Space
Ichiru's POV
"Okay, we're here. Just don't make a lot of noise when we get in okay?" I asked Juan as I pulled into the parking lot. "Why am I here again?" He asked me for the fourth time since we left the café. "Because, you know some stuff that I need to know and vise versa and I don't want to get all of that info out in the cold!" I told him as we got out of the car and went into the house. Luckily, Tiyu left it unlocked, Unluckily, Tiyu was still awake and was waiting for me to return. "Uh, hi!" Juan said to Tiyu when he noticed her sitting in the corner of the room reading the daily newspaper, or so it looked like the daily newspaper. "What took so long?" She asked me as she continued to read the paper. I walked into the waiting room that she was in and dragged Juan along with me. "Tiyu, this is Juan. Juan this is Tiyu. I met him at that cyber cafe that we passed on our way here. "And?" She asked sounding slightly annoyed. "He has some information that I need. And I got us that cove
r." I told her as I started taking the stuff that I bought earlier out from the bag. "That's good. Where are my keys?" She asked as she folded the paper up neatly and placed on the table beside her. I took the keys out from my back pocket and threw them to her. "How long will this take?" Juan asked me. "I don't know. Depends on how much you know." I said and smile at him. He looked as if I just sent chills down his spine, and I probably did since that's what happens to everyone when I smile at them, innocently or not I just have that kind of a smile.
Tiyu left the room, taking the hair dye that I tossed to her as we began our conversation. "Now what else do you know about Mr. Walt?" I asked him. "I know he works with Oz. He's been trying to come up with some way to 'create the perfect soldier and weapon' by using a cloning technique. That basically sums up all that I know except that only one of his experiments have resulted in success but it turned on him, destroyed his lab while killing all his men at the same time, and then just disappeared. Mr. Walt survived of course and has been searching for her ever since." Juan said and sat down next to me on the sofa. "Her?" I asked him after going over all that I had just heard in my head. "Yes her. Mr. Walt started out creating only male clones, seeing as males have been proven to be the stronger gender physically. But none of the experiments survived. So he took a chance and tried a female. The first one barley made it but ended up dying three weeks later do to unknown reas
ons. Perhaps the training he was putting her threw was too harsh. So he made one even stronger and younger and she survived." Juan leaned back into the sofa, letting me know that he'd said his part and was know ready for mine. "Drink?" I asked him. "Yes, please." "Coffee?" He nodded. "Black? Decafe?.." I trailed off and waited for his answer. "Decafe." He said and I went to the kitchen after telling him to make himself comfortable since it would be a while. Strange that it's only us two girls in this huge house. It could be a mansion, but there are not enough rooms to make it one.
"Here you go." I said as I came into the room and handed Juan his drink and set my own on the table. "Thank you." He said and took a sip from his coffee, as did I from my coco. "So, you're saying that Mr. Walt has been trying to create a perfect soldier and a perfect weapon?" I asked, summarizing what he had just said. "Yes, to counter the pilot of Wing Gundam, Heero Yuy." He then took a sip from his drink again. "What I've found is that he has successfully created his perfect soldier and know all he needs is to get the weapon. And that it was the weapon that destroyed his lab and who he is looking for. The weapon can supposedly change forms to better suit the situation, if this is true then even under water battles might cause a problem to their enemies. The soldier however has never been seen by anyone except Mr. Walt and his son. Not even by the weapon." I took a sip from my drink and continued. "The soldier has the ability to increase it's speed, strength, and knowledge
at any given time. This was put in so that when fighting against stronger, faster, smarter enemies it would not be a problem. However, the soldier, unlike the weapon, cannot take more than one form nor change forms at all. It stays in the body it was given unless Mr. Walt switches it." I put my cup down as I have finally finished it and went on. "It is said that if the two fought each other then their special abilities would be stripped from them and they would be left at what ever form or strength, knowledge, agility level they were at before the power was taken away. So if the weapon were in an outer space form then it would remain that way forever. This was put in so that they would not go against each other and thus Mr. Walt would loose control over them. But as we know, he has already lost control over one, it is only a matter of time when he will loose control of the soldier. And when that happens they will kill their creator and then battle each other until the other
is dead for good. With out their purpose of serving Mr. Walt, they no nothing but to fight each other." I said, finally finishing my part and started to try and figure out which one of us had more or better information.
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Normal POV
"Hey, Ichiru! Why didn't you tell me what color this dye was!" Tiyu yelled as she came into the room. "Well I thought you would actually take a second to look at the box." Ichiru relied and stood up while taking Juan's cup from him. "Hello Juan." Tiyu said as she sat down. "I didn't think you'd still be here?" She asked. "Yes, it's taken longer then I thought it would." He said and looked at his wrist watched. It read 10:30 p.m. Tiyu than grabbed the remote and turned the television on. "All the major highways have been closed due to the sudden storm. We ask that you please stay in your houses or take shelter in a nearby area until this terrible storm has ended and please stay tuned to find out more information on the weather." A reported said and then the TV. switched back to its regular program. "Hhhmm.. That can't be good." Juan said and looked up at Ichiru as she reentered the room. "Well Tiyu, I barely recognized you!" She said with her smile back up on her face as if
she had never been serious in her entire life. "Ah, shut it! It's all you're fault!" She said and hid her face in one of the pillows lying on the sofa. "Oh! But that is where you are wrong my dear friend! You are the one your father will be looking for. Not me, I stayed in the shadows. So I have no need to change appearance!" She continued and took the boxes of contact lenses out from the grocery bag and tossed Tiyu the blue ones. "Put these in." She ordered and did the same herself with the black ones. "My brown hair, my pretty brown hair!" Tiyu cried into the pillow. "Oh for Christ sakes! Once they forget about him, you can turn you hair back to its original color. "Ya! In like twenty years!" Tiyu said as she opened the box. "Um.. Would you mind explaining this to me?" Juan asked nervously. Ichiru looked at Tiyu for permission and Tiyu nodded. "Well seeing as you too, have some one you want to kill, or so we think, we will let you in on this. But if you tell anyone, then I'
ll have to hunt you down for the rest of your life." Ichiru warned. Juan nodded not looking so sure if he wanted to know anymore. "Tiyu's father here is a supplier for Oz and has done some pretty bad things to her. So I'm helping her seek out her revenge!" Ichiru said cheerfully and stood up to look at her self in the mirror that hung over the small fire place.
"And now I had to dye my hair a different color and change my eye color too since my father knows that I'm after him now." Tiyu finished. "And she just so happened to choose the color silver, which so happens to be my least favorite color!" Tiyu continued to complain. "How can anyone not like silver?!" Ichiru asked and turned around to look at her friend who hadn't even finished opening the box. "Whoa! You look kind of scary with those contacts in." Juan commented. "Really?" Ichiru asked sounding very pleased that she looked scary. "I don't think that's a good thing." Tiyu said and handed her friend her box. "Can you open this for me?" She asked. Ichiru rolled her eyes and did as asked. "Here." Ichiru said and handed the know opened box to her friend and went to sit down next to Juan and Tiyu got up to put the contacts in. "I mean, who has silver hair?" Tiyu said, bringing the subject back up. "Heina." Ichiru replied. "And who's that?" Tiyu asked and turned around with only
one of the contacts in. Thus making her looks even scarier than Ichiru with one pale blue eye and a dark brown eye. "You're new identity, end of discussion, new topic please." Ichiru said. "So I guess this means that you're not for Oz." Juan said, answering his previous question. "Correct. Although Tiyu did have to join Oz in order to get to her father since he didn't know about her, she is now known as a traitor." Ichiru explained and then picked up the phone and gave it to Juan.
"What's this for?" He asked. "Don't you think your grandfather might be a little worried about you?" Ichiru asked reminding him that he did split up from him before leaving the café. Juan laughed and gave the phone back to her. "He's not really my grandfather. He's my instructor; I guess you could say. He gives me the orders on what to do and trains me. See I'm in a rebellion group that is against Oz of course. Grandpa is just his codename. But I call him Pops. We all treat him as our grandpa though. And he's our leader too." Juan explained.
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Ichiru's POV
* the next day * "If anyone has any tips on the whereabouts of this young girl, please call this number." An announcer said on the TV. and a number flashed under a picture of Tiyu. "Aren't you glad I told you to change your identity? And it's a good thing you almost have the same facial characteristics as Heina did." I said with my trademark smile. Juan joined forces with us last night. Now the three of us are on a private plane, thanks to Juan's grandfather, and are heading to the Sanq Kingdom. I had to cut my hair last night. Instead of it going all the ways down to my waist it barely passes my ears on the sides and in the back it's layered, the farthest strand going a little past my shoulders. And I put a few gold highlights in it. Juan knows about my ears now and Tiyu and I have found out that on every full moon I turn into a black panther! I didn't even know! I guess my memory is all erased when I transform back into a human. But that's just weird. We found out last wee
k when Tiyu went downstairs for a midnight snack. She said that I was in the form of a black panther and was sleeping on the floor next to the sofa! She even got a picture for proof! We haven't told Juan that part yet though.
Tiyu says she is able to control me when I'm in that form but I don't know, last time I turned into one I woke up in the back yard on top of the shed! Okay so it wasn't that bad, but it was freezing and when Tiyu came to get me she was in her bear costume from this show she watches called Serial Experiments Lain, that she made herself two days before. I thought I was dreaming! As for the cat ears, nothing new, but on crescent moons I get a black tail! I don't really keep track of when all this happens. Tiyu says that, "I must be affected by the moon". What is it with her and moons?
Anyways, the three of us are now off to the Sanq Kingdom. Why? I've found that Trowa and his circus are going to be performing there in three days. They are already there and I'm hopping that we can join them and use that as a cover, just like pilot 03 does. And at the same time we'll be able to inform the gundam pilots about Mr. Walt and Tiyu's father's plans. We only hope that we'll get there in time because last night Juan and I did a quick review over what I found at the café and if the information is correct than Mr. Walt plans to do something terrible very soon, like within this month!
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Normal POV
* space * A boy that looked to be no older than fifteen ran into the control room of one of Oz's ships and quickly closed the door behind himself. "I'll plant a bomb here, and here, and oh! You look like a good place too!" The boy said to himself cheerfully as if here were hiding Easter eggs and was out of the room as quick as he came in. The blonde haired boy put smaller time bombs here and there in the hallways and then went into the hangar and planted his biggest bombs that he carried in a huge duffle bag onto the mobile suits and put the rest of his bombs in the areas where Oz kept their spare weapons.
"Hey Mike! I'm all done here! How bout you?" The boy asked threw his little walky talky. "Hold on. Yeah, I'm done." Mike said. The boy reached into his duffle bag for a special suit and quickly slipped it on. "Are you close to a window, Clef?" Mike asked. "Yeah, I am and I'm all ready." Clef said and got a small bomb out which was the last thing in the bag and stuck it to the window. "Ready. 1..2..3!" Clef said into the walky talky and he ran for cover. Not a second later the small bomb went off, blowing a whole into the wall, not just the window. Clef smiled and let himself be sucked out from the whole. 'Five minutes left! Where are you guys?!' Clef thought as he slowly drifted away from the ship. As if his question could be heard miles away a small ship quickly pulled up to him. "Hurry up! They're sending out the mobile suits!" Clef heard in his suit and with that said he took out the detonator and pulled himself into the ship. "GO! GO! GO!" He yelled and waited a minute u
ntil he pushed the device. * KABOOM * 'There goes the control room.' Clef thought and pushed another device. 'There's the hallways.' "I get the next one!" A boy said that looked to be the same age as Clef but was a little taller and was more built. "Sure thing Mike!" Clef said cheerfully and Mike took out his own detonating device and started pulling the switches. By now The front of the Oz ship was completely gone and the ship that Clef and Mike were in was speeding away but was still close enough to see the explosions. Clef then detonated the bombs he put on the mobile suits and in the hangar.
"Job well done guys." A sixteen year-old girl with long black hair that had a few fire red streaks in it and the tips were purple, said. "Thanks Fiamma![1]" Clef said and Mike helped him up. "Okay people! We're changing routes. Now we're going to the Sanq Kingdom!" Said a seventeen year-old boy with short blood red hair. "Yes sir." Clef said and took over the controls of the ship and began to manually pilot the ship to the Sanq Kingdom. "Rez! Mobile suits! Behind us!" Fiamma yelled to the seventeen year-old. "We can't waste any ammunition! Clef, can you out run them?" "Yes siry bob I can!" Clef said and with that everyone sat down in his or her appropriate seat. "Fiamma, you take control over all the guns just in case. Mike! Get your sister in here we need a plan!" Rez ordered. With that Mike ran to out of the room and went to find Tori, his younger sister.
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Tiyu's POV
"Do you always have to prove me wrong? Man just get off of my case will ya?!" Ichiru shouted at Juan. "I have to prove you wrong because you are wrong, and you're the one that always has to have the last word! Honestly man, it's like you don't even care if you're right or not!" Juan yelled back. 'They've been at each other's throat's since we landed. I can't believe this they're acting like twelve year-olds! I should just kick them out of this car right.' "Hey! HEY! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!!" Juan yelled as he held onto the car door desperately. "Ichiru! What are you doing?! Get him back in here!" I yelled at her. She glared at the boy and then finally brought him back into the car and closed the door. "Do you know how dangerous that was?" I asked her. "Yeah whatever. Tell me when we get there will ya?" She said and sunk into her seat in the back next to Juan and pulled her cap over her eyes and went to sleep. Juan climbed over the seat and got into the one
next to me. "Man, you two! You've barely known each other for a day and you're already the worst enemies and you're on the same side!" I said and pushed down harder on the gas pedal. Juan has learned by know that when I am not calm then I'm speeding and when I'm speeding don't piss me off even more or else I'll whiplash you, thanks to Ichiru. "It's not me, it's her! Really, I don't know what's gotten into her! It's like it's 'her time of the month' already." After that thought said we looked at each other, then back at her, then each other, and then we went back to starring at the road in front of us. "I sure as hell hope not." He said, trying to lessen the tension that he had created. I smirked. "Yeah cause that means it'll only get worse. I actually think it's because she's starting to regret her plan. She's probably found a flaw and is mad at herself for even thinking of it!" I said while remembering what she did the last time she screwed up on something. She grabbed one
of her guns, which I have no idea where she got it probably from my dad's collection, and then nearly shot my dogs! Well my dad's dogs but I loved them all the same.
"Okay here we are. Do you want to wake her or.." I trailed off. "You." He said and started to play with his fingers knowing what was coming. "Ok. Ichiru, we're here." I said and poked her shoulder. "Ichiru?" I took off her hat. "Hey, we're here!" I whispered loudly into one of her cat ears. One of her eyes opened and then another, "Good, now, get out." She said. "What?" I asked. "You heard me, I need you to get out so I can drive, please?" I looked at Juan and he gave this look that I roughly translated to 'Hey at least she said please.' And then got out as requested. "Thanks." She said as I gave her the keys and hopped into the back seat and closed the door. Juan glared at Ichiru and Ichiru glared back threw the rear view mirror and then started the car and we started to drive off. "Where are we going?" Juan asked. "Do you always have to asked questions?" She countered. 'Shit, here we go again.' Juan didn't answer. "Sorry. We're going to the circus. To meet some old friend
s of mine." Ichiru said and sped off. "Damn, she's faster than you!" Juan said and quickly buckled up.
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Normal POV
"Now exiting Earth's atmosphere. Ship preparing for crash land. Landing area: one mile outside of the Sanq Kingdom, two miles off from original landing destination." A girl with long hair that was dark purple that turned a dark blue at the tips, read from the screen. "Rez, if we crash land there, we'll be lucky to even make it to the border let alone Sanq Kingdom before those soldiers come to investigate." Fiamma said.
"I know but there is nothing we can do about it now." Rez said, sighing in defeat. "Tori?" Mike asked his sister. Tori nodded and pulled up a map to the screen and started typing in different routes that could be taking. "Here." She said and pulled up on of the solutions that might just work. "It's slim but I'm sure we can make it if we land in this area. There's an old highway near by that we can use as a runway. This highway hasn't been used for a while so we're safe from hitting any cars." Tori explained her idea to the crew. "Well?" Mike asked Rez. "Sounds good to me, Clef were you listening?" Rez asked. "Yep, and I'm changing the destination right now." He said and typed a few stuff into the main computer of the ship. "Well land in five minutes." Tori read the new data aloud.
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Ichiru's POV
"Hold on, I'm going to take a short cut I know up ahead." I said and then took a sharp turn to the left. "Whoa!" Juan said and I heard his face slam against the window. "Sorry bout that." I said while trying hard not to laugh. 'Okay, there is the first tree. Now, one, two, three!' I took another sharp turn to the left and then took a less harsh turn to the right. After going straight for exactly one minute I took another right turn and we were there. "Hello old pal." I said aloud. "It's an old highway." Juan said in a dull voice. "Yes that is my friend." I said. "How is it your 'pal'?" He asked. "Me and this place go back a long ways." I said and remembered how many times I'd steal the J Partner's car and have them run after me up and down this high way. Actually, if I remember correctly, that was how I learned how to drive! I let a small smile creep up onto my face and sped up.
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Normal POV
"Where are we?" Tiyu asked whiling looking outside of the car window. "I have no idea. Hey, Ichiru, are you sure we're still going the right way?" Juan asked. "Just keep your shirt on, we'll be there in a sec!" Ichiru said and went even faster. "Hey, hey what is that thing?" Tiyu asked. "It's a spaceship, what are you bli.." Juan started and then leaned over to get a better look at the thing. "Holy shit! Ichiru, turn! Get off the highway!!" After that being said Ichiru caught sight of the aircraft and quickly did her best to get out of the way. In result turning into the nearby forest that surrounded the Sanq Kingdom, crashing into the biggest tree ever.
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Tiyu's POV
* the next day * "I can't believe you wrecked my dad's car!" I yelled at Ichiru for the hundredth time this morning. "Hey it was an accident! Why do you thing they call it accidents? Sides you hate your dad anyways, consider it as a way to get back at him." She said as the eight of us walked out of the woods. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that those people we nearly killed us in their crash landing stunt, is now 'escorting' us to the Sanq Kingdom! They nearly kill us, well never more it was actually Ichiru, and now they're 'escorting' us! And we have to walk because somebody here just had to speed. "Sides, it was an abandoned highway, how was I supposed to know these people were going to crash land there at that exact time!" She does have a point. I looked at her and then gave a sigh of defeat. "I'm sorry." I apologized. "It's ok, and I'm sorry for destroying the car. I loved it too." She said with a wacky smile. "So I'm Clef, who are you?" Clef asked Ichiru, since when the in
troductions were being made she was unconscious. "I'm Ichiru!" She said cheerfully and shook his had. The boy was just as cheerful looking as her with his huge smile.
"So what happened to you guys that you had to crash land?" I asked them. "Oz shot us down." The girl name Tori said. Rez glared at her but then returned to his unemotional self. "Really?" I said letter my interest show. "Yeah." Tori said. "So you guys are against Oz too, all the better." Juan said looking over the new group. Rez seems like the leader of this small group of five. Tori seems to be the brains of the group, her big brother, Mike, looks like the muscle of the gang. Fiamma looks like the bad ass but she seems to have a nice personality. And as for Clef, he is the happy-go- lucky one of the group, no doubt about that.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Fiamma asked. "He and a group of rebellions are looking to destroy Oz once and for all." Ichiru said flatly. "Straight through the bush?" Clef asked but he only received and threatening glare. Damn, she's back in her mood again. "Ichiru can I talk with you?" Juan asked and pulled her up ahead of us out of earshot. "What's that all about?" Mike asked. "She's just been,.. not herself lately. Juan's just had enough of it." I explained. "Oh." Mike muttered a few words but I could here it all.
"So where are we headed?" Clef asked. Last night, Rez and I got to talk and I found out that they had just got down destroying an Oz ship and were running from the survivors. Simply put, we decided to join forces. Rez is the leader of his group and as for ours, well, ya. Since we woke up this morning we've been following Tori, whom said she knew her way to the Sanq Kingdom from where we were.
"It's none of you business so just STAY OUT OF MY WAY!!!" Ichiru yelled and pushed Juan away and walked off in a different direction. "Hey what's going on?" I yelled and we caught up with them. "Nothing! Come on!" Ichiru yelled back and we followed. "What happened?" I whispered to Juan as the seven of us walked a little bit behind from Ichiru, for when she's mad you better stay a good distance and keep an eye on her or else. "I almost figure it out but then she just blew up. Something happened before we left your house. And I think it's really getting her." Juan explained to us. "Do you know where she's taking us?" Mike asked. We both shook our heads.
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Ichiru's POV
'Damn him always getting into my business!' I thought angrily as I walked out of the woods into a big clearing. For those of you who haven't already guessed I'm headed towards that circus that Trowa and Catherine work out. I just wish I didn't have to bring these people along too, but they seem to have some good information that the g-boys could use. I wish I could take my hat off my ears hurt so much! Speaking of my ears, that girl nearly killed me again. That girl with the same name as mine, well birth name that is. She told me some pretty useful information too. Juan is lying about everything! He's with Mr. Walt, not against him! She said that he works for her and is an assigned assassin. She said she'd do the job herself but doesn't really feel like it. "That bitch!" I aloud my self to say my thoughts out loud and quickly checked to see if they were still following me and the are. But then again why do I actually believe someone who's been trying to kill me? There's som
ething about her, like I know her somehow. Is it possible that we could be sisters? But then again why would our parents give us the same names? And if she was lying why does she want me to go against Juan? He seems like a nice guy, little on the annoying side when he gets into your business but hey not everyone is perfect, right? I don't know what to think and I . I hate this!
"Hey! It's the circus!" Clef shouted from behind as we neared the circus and ran on ahead of us to the ticket booth. "Tickets for eight, please?" Clef said. "No need, this is just practice but you can watch if you'd like." The man at the booth said and Clef nodded his head before going on in. "Hey, were supposed to me going to see Miss Peacecraft or the gundam pilots not the circus you baka!" Fiamma whispered harshly to him as we entered the main tent. "Actually I have some business to deal with here, wait for me after the practice I'll be right back." I said and left the tent.
Luckily no one asked me what kind of business I was up to so I quickly got into a good mood again. Now if only I can remember which tent is which. I wonder if they'll recognize me? "Here you are!" I said and went into the tent that looked very much like the one that I woke up in after being knocked out by Kent.
"We need more acts you guys!" I heard the ringmaster telling a group of the performers, which also included Catherine and Trowa. "Excuse me but I think I can help you." Fiamma said from behind me. I didn't even hear her following me! "Really?" The ringmaster asked as we entered the tent. "I'm a fire dancer, not very good, but I am looking for a place to work and I don't mind traveling." She said. "And what about you?" He asked. "Huh, what? Me? I can do some stuff with fire too, I'm no dancer but I know what to do, either that or I could work the animals." I stuttered being caught off guard. "Perfect! We've never had any fire performers before, and Trowa could use some help. You're both hired!" He said and left the tent in a better mood. Fiamma looked at me and smiled. "I never would have guessed." She said. "Me neither, you, a fire dancer! Fire I understand, but dancing to!" I said. "Anything for fire." She said with a strange glint in her eyes. Then Catherine came up to us.
"Hi! I'm Catherine, the knife thrower. And this is my brother Trowa, we do our performances together but he takes after the animals! It's nice to meet you and boy are we lucky that you two came along!" She said and extended her hand to shake ours. I shook hers first and then Fiamma. "I'm Fiamma." She said as she shook Catherine's hand. "I'm sorry I don't believe I got your name." Catherine said to me. Then all of a sudden Duo came bouncing in with Heero looking annoyed as ever. "Hi guys! What's up!" Catherine greeted them. "Oh nothing just came to watch you two practice and we need to talk to Trowa, official business." Duo said with a wink that earned a quick laugh from Catherine. "Okay." Catherine said. "And who are you two?" Duo asked us. "Oh these are our newest members, Fiamma and.." Catherine trailed off remembering that I hadn't told her my name yet. 'They really don't remember?' I smirked and extended my hand to shake Duo's. "Thanks for the hat." I said just to see ho
w good his memory was. "What?" Obviously it wasn't as good as I thought. "Ichiru." I said and gave a little pretend pout. "Oh it's you! Where have you been all this time! And your hair, you look so different!" Catherine said and gave me a quick hug. "That's the point, I'm afraid we've got some serious things to discuss with the gundam pilots." I said seriously when she released me. Heero then started to look interested but didn't make it very noticeable as the same with Trowa. "Oh well ok, Trowa just come on out when you're done alright?" She said and left the tent. "So what is it?" Heero asked. "Would you like to go first?" I asked Fiamma and took the hat of since I was finally out of public view. "Holy lord! Are those real?" She asked when she saw my ears. "Hey! They're still there!" Duo said with a grin. I nodded but kept serious. "I suppose I'll start then. Have you guys heard of a man named Mr. Walt? He's really old." I said putting in a small useless fact at the end jus
t for myself. "Yes, I have." Trowa spoke up. "Hn.. same here." Heero said. "Hey why don't I know about this guy then?" Duo asked. We ignored him. "So you guys know his importance to Oz but do you also know that he has been creating a secret weapon for Oz also?" I asked. "What are you talking about?" Wufei asked as he and Quatre entered. "Obviously not. He has been creating something over the past five years now, something big. One is a perfect soldier and the other is the perfect weapon, when they are together they are unstoppable." I paused and looked and Trowa and Heero in hopes to see if they have already learned of this so that I wouldn't have to waste their time but they hadn't. 'I suppose I could tell them what I found out from Arielle, but I'll leave out the parts that lead suspicion of Juan being the perfect weapon.' I thought and took a deep breath.
"He's created them with a cloning technique to genetically enhance certain parts. Example for the perfect soldier, it's thought process is kinda the same way the zero system works, and for the weapon, it has the ability to change its form to anything to better suit the situation. The soldier is faster, smarter, and stronger than normal humans and was basically designed to take out pilot 01 no matter what. The weapon will take out pilot 03 and then they will work together to wipe out the rest of you. But if Mr. Walt looses control of his new toys, then chaos will brake loose. They will either first carry out their mission and then destroy each other or go after their creator and then kill each other. I hope it's the second one since I personally hate the guy but as the fates have it we don't know what they're doing since that stupid guys has already lost control over one of them. We don't know which one, but which ever one it was it has destroyed Mr. Walt's lab and killed ev
eryone except for him and is now no where to be found. And an unknown source has told me that the one that is no long under control has been found by Mr. Walt and will either be destroyed or changed somehow and its mission will be carried out as if nothing had happened. I'm just here to warn you guys but lately I have been trying to find Mr. Walt for my own personal reasons,. he is no where to be found at this moment." I said. "But how could this have been going on with out our knowledge? And you said that he's been working on these,..things for the past five years. Operation Meteor barely commenced in the beginning of this year." Quatre began. I shook my head. "True but Heero has been in training all of his life, and as for this war, we all know how long it's been since it began, he was originally creating them to fight against the Colonies but when you guys came along all he had to do was write up a different mission and everything would all carry on the same." I said and l
ooked at them. Quatre looked worried about this new enemy and Duo was just plain stunned. As for the other three they were obviously trying to piece everything together to see if I was telling the truth. "And if you need proof here it is." I said and took the disk out from my jacket pocket. Heero then took the disk and took out his laptop and checked the disk. "I see you're still trying to track Mr. Walt down, but who are these other people." Heero asked after quickly skimming through the files. "Arielle Hika Kicharu she's the unknown source. The file labeled J Partners is just some information that I've collected, they work for Mr. Walt. And Kent is Mr. Walt's only child. He is with Oz and helped create the soldier." I said and then stepped aside to let Fiamma do some explaining.
"Trowa! Some one has destroyed an Oz ship! Was it you?" Catherine asked as she quickly entered the tent. "No it wasn't us. Where did you here this?" Trowa asked. "Hilde just got back, she looked a little freaked cause she was supposed to be stationed on that ship but luckily Duo asked her to do something else for him." Catherine said. "It me, well my friends too, we did it. That's what we're, my group, is here for. To inform some newly found information to Ms. Peacecraft or to one of the gundam pilots. We crashed landed last night and had to quickly get out of the area before Oz's soldiers caught up. We thought we destroyed everything and everyone but unfortunately we didn't and some of the soldiers were able to escape and came after us, shooting us down just as we exited Earth's atmosphere." Fiamma spoke up and bowed before leaving the tent. "That's all she really wanted to say for now, just that her and her crew are on your side and that they've found some valuable informa
tion which is also found in my disk. Now I too have to go and find my group. Oh yeah and Catherine, tell the boss that I think I know someone who might work here as well but he wont be working with me, he can.. Be a clown." I said, knowing very well what I was getting myself into but hey, how could I resist such an opportunity!
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A/N: Okay so there's chapter four! Hah! Finally, that took a long time! Anywho, on with the translation.
Only one word,..
[1] Flame (in Italian)
R&R please!