One evening D was staying up late to review what she had learnt that day on tactics, when an alarm from the control room wailed waking Instructor Si-ming bringing him to the bridge.
"Instructor, what's going on?!" A small view screen popped up on the panel.
"D where are you.." Instructor Si-ming asked.
"I'm in the tactical training room. Why? What's wrong?" She asked sounding more worried by the second.
"No, do not get emotional on me D. It's trouble. I'm sending the files to a colleague of mine for safekeeping. Make your way to shuttle bay 3…" the image was starting to break up on D's side of the line. "No, get away for me…" a flash of white and a blood-curdling scream filled the room she was in. The screen went black.
"NO!!!" she shouted running out of the room towards the control room, 'to shuttle bay 3' echoed in her head as she ran. She stopped abruptly and ran towards the shuttle bay. She got into a shuttle and shot off through space.
"oh gawd… where do I go from here? My Instructor is dead, I have no defensive equipment on me.." She plunked into the computer a rough course. "this should fare me well for now." She closed her eyes and sat back letting the shuttle take her towards another colony.
"that's it." Said a voice on an interceptor shuttle. "that's the one which left the colony where that, psychopath was planning to attack the alliance."
"What should we do to it?" a soldier asked.
"We'll intercept it of course.
"And if it veers off, as a counter measure?" the soldier asked again.
"Well it's flying close to earth, it wont because it'll burn up."
"Yes sir! Intercepting the threatening craft!" the soldier said turning towards the craft D sat in.
"What's that?!" she asked as she was woken by the computers beeping. "another craft?! Unreal!" she laughed smiling she looked down to the screen and screamed. "AN INTERCEPTOR?! NOT GOOD!" she clicked into the computer. "I don't give a damm if Earth is there. Burning up is better than getting caught by them!" She turned the controls towards earth.
"Sir the craft has moved towards the Earth's atmosphere! It's burning up!" the soldier shouted.
"hmm, that pilot of that craft doesn't want to get caught by us. Move in to follow, and enter the atmosphere Zech's."
"Yes sir." Zechs said, "Noin, speed 120, keep it steady."
"Sure thing Zechs." Noin said
"Later!" D laughed, sending that one word over to the interceptor, as she closed her eyes. "I hope burning up doesn't hurt much.." The ship sped into the atmosphere and started to burn up. It became a burning fireball and it crashed on earth somewhere in the land, which was known as North America.
"Sir the ship has crashed in sector 145, 237." Noin said to the captain of the ship.
"that's by the Nahkato base sir." Zechs said, "Should I send a message to them to pick it up?"
The captain shook his head. "that pilot is dead. No one could survive that."
Later that evening a lumberjack was walking home from work and he noticed a small girl lying unconscious, and badly burnt. He picked her up and carried her gently to his house where his wife stood waiting at the door for him to arrive.
"Hun…" The man called, she ran forwards, "call for an ambulance, this poor girl's badly banged up." The woman ran into the house and called for an ambulance. The girl woke for a few minutes to see the lumberjacks worried face, "kiddo, you'll be fine.." he said as she lot consciousness.
A week later she woke lying in a hospital bed. She lay there trying to figure out who she was, and why she was here.
"Sir, mam, your daughter's awake," A nurse said to the lumberjack and his wife. The two stood up and walked up to see her.
"Hey kiddo, ya gave us a scare there." He smiled down to her, his face full of a whiskery beard.
"I'm glad that you're alive, do you know what happened to you?" his wife said, she was slightly plump with flyaway black brown hair.
"mmm…" the girl looked up at the two seeing them clearly, "who are you… where am I.." she looked closely at the two, "Are you my parents?"
The woman looked at her slightly shocked, "Sure honey, we are."
The man nodded, "I'm you're ol man. Get better quickly and we'll take you home." The girl nodded.
"what's my name? Mom? Dad?"
Her parents looked at each other confused,
"Your name is, Dorothy" the woman said and at the same time the lumberjack said "Juliett." They looked at each other, then the woman looked down at her, "but we call you Duette, for short."
"Duette." Duette said. "my name is Duette"
A few years passed as Duette grew up in the forest with her foster parents. They never told her that she wasn't who they and she said she was. She went to school and learnt about the colonies and earth. When the Gundams arrived she feared them for the destructive powers but she felt oddly connected to them.
"mama?" She asked one day, he mother turned from baking a pie,
"yes honey? What's up?" she looked down at her foster daughter who was readying herself for going to boarding school in a distant country.
"why was I in the hospital a few years back?"
"You had a nasty accident in the forest dear, that was a few years ago, why do you bring it up?" she looked at her looking worried.
"It just feels that I've had another life, a sad and solitary life." She looked at the clothes she was packing. "How old am I?"
"Honey, honey, honey…" she walked over to her daughter, "Last time we checked, you are sixteen, look at you, you look sixteen, you act sixteen, how could you be anything other than sixteen?" She hugged her lightly, "Dinner will be ready soon."
Duette looked out the window at the darkening sky, she saw a large fighter jet fly low over the house. She sighed, "Something about this doesn't seem right." She shook her head and continued packing.
A month passed and Duette had made her way to school where Relina Peace-craft, had started it only a few months earlier. She settled in quickly, but made few friends. The school was evacuated and classes were stopped until the gundam fights had stopped.
