Kuro-Boshi: Lo lo! Sorry about that folks! I kinda... mis-placed my fic! Baadd me… *slaps hand* Well, here's the next chapter.
Gundam Wing – The living program Chapter 3 : Memory lane
Professor G sat in his room looking over the files he was sent in the last moments of Instructors Si-ming's life. "Interesting… he had a beam scythe, for a main weapon, but there is another port for another weapon, what could it be…" He looked at a screen and watched the Gundams fighting in space against the Gundam Epyon. "Hmm, that could work," he looked at Epyon's Heat rod. "Easy to design..." he chuckled to himself and started programming it into the computer. After working on the Gundam for a week, it was finally finished as was being checked over by the computer for any programming or construction faults. The computer beeped when the check was finished. "Good, now if the pilot is alive, I would build it for them..." He saved the program into the computer and locked it. Within the next hours all the professors met up and in a freak accident, their ship, which they were traveling in, blew up. A note was left on the computer for Duo to find.
It was Easter break and Duette was back at her house, for a week. She was walking through the forest alone one afternoon when she met up with a large crater, and all the trees were burnt to a crisp. She gasped and walked towards the crater's rim. Flashes of her past life came before her, training simulations, tactical plans, the skeletal design for her Gundam. She fell to her knees and looked at the remains of the shuttle. It was still fairly intact, just black and covered in greenery. She pulled up the nerve to go into the pit and enter the craft. She found the cockpit and turned it on. On the broken screen the last few seconds of Instructor Si-ming's life was recorded there. The mouth moved and followed by sound a second later.
"D, my lovely girl, the reason why I have sent you to the shuttle is because Oz had found the base. It seems that there were spies that were following you and me whenever we left the building, they bugged all the lines on the house above the base in which we lived in. I have sent all the information on you and the Gundam to a college of mine, Professor G. I never told you this, but the reason you were given the name Doppelganger, was because of your purpose in life. You are a fill in for another Gundam pilot, incase they died…" the image started breaking up more. "Farewell…" the screen went blank. A tear rolled from her eye.
"This is my life, my real life..." She turned crying more and ran out of the shuttle towards the house. She banged down the door of the cabin. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME!!" she shouted to her two parents who were sitting at the kitchen table shocked. "Why didn't you tell me that I crashed down to Earth from the colonies?! Why didn't you tell me that, that, I, crashed down on that pile of scrap metal in the forest?!" She glared at them, fire in her eyes.
"Now, now, honey… we were going to tell you…" Her mother said.
"Ya kiddo, we were just not sure when to tell you…" her father said.
"Well now's a good time I think. Considering that I've already figured out that I'm a specially trained pilot."
"You're what?!" Her parents looked at her shocked.
"I'm a pilot, also trained in hand to hand combat, and I have been trained so that I can pilot one of those." She pointed towards the TV where it showed the Gundams and mobile dolls fighting.
School started again after the war was finally over, which was just after Easter break. Duette, as she had legally changed her name to, was back at school and she stayed very distant from everyone else. She even got a single room to herself where she had the best pictures, blown up, of all the Gundams hanging on the walls. She was going to be celebrating her seventeenth birthday alone in the security of her room. From her foster parents she received a computer with full Internet abilities, and it gave her a link to the colonies news and she hacked into the old Oz files and looked at the information on the Gundams, which they collected over the year.
"Hey, Heero!" Duo called, "Someone's checking out the old Oz information on us!" He sat in the control room of the old Oz base on the moon, which the Gundam Pilots had claimed for themselves.
"Hn," was his reply as he walked into the control room sipping from a mug of Coffee. "It seems that we also have more trouble." He loaded up news broadcast. "The Doctors are dead."
Duo looked up from the screen to the broadcast. "No way… Who would have done that?!" he asked standing up as the other pilots appeared through various doors.
"They did it to themselves." Wufei said, Trowa nodded.
"Their job if finished, they created the best mobile suits known to the entire world and colonies, they completed their purpose in life." Trowa said turning to leave through the main door.
Quatre stood there looking sadly at the screen, he bowed his head and left.
"Eh, I have to go get a few things from his place, I'll be back in a few days." Duo stood up and left walking towards the shuttle bay. "Sorry Deathscythe, it's civilian travel this time." He sighed and patted his Gundam on the leg as he walked by. Duo jumped into the shuttle and took off to the colony where Professor G's lab was based.
He arrived within the day and walked into the control room. He saw one computer screen flickering in the corner. He walked up to it and read the message left for him.
'Duo, as you most likely have now known I as well as the rest of the doctors are dead. What I have never told you is that you had a replacement lined up for you since you started your training.'
"What? A replacement for the god of death?!"
'A replacement incase your over excited ness got you killed in battle.'
"Oh, that.." he muttered sheepishly
'Since you never died, or got badly hurt, there was no need for the pilot, but before operation meteor started, the base in which my colleague Instructor Si-ming, was training the pilot, it was attacked and the pilot was lost, presumed dead by burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. I also received a few files of the instructor, but they are of no importance since the pilot is dead. Enjoy the rest of your life. – G'
"Wow, what a great message." Duo laughed, "But what are those files he was talking about..." He clicked onto the computer and cracked his knuckles, "Lets get to work Duo." He started hacking into the computer, trying to find the files he was talking about. "Common, common... where are you..." he said as he saw a small glitch in the background of the screen. "Aha! There ya are my beauty!" he moved over to the waver on the screen and clicked it.
"Woah." Was all he could say as the Gundam's full design appeared on the screen, and then jumped out on the holo-projector. "Heck of a design, love that scythe!" he said chuckling slightly when he saw the list of weapons. "It seems that he was just finished being designed, eh.." he saved the file onto a disk. "Having a spare Gundam around wouldn't be too bad now would it…" he moved over to the image and it became fully colored and animated, shoeing it attacking an invisible foe. "Odd, the only time it does that is when…" he stood up, "It's been built! But where's it being kept?!" He took the disk and walked down to the manufacturing floor. "The ol' prof's been busy, if he's built another Gundam. But all I see is scrap metal down here. A well." He shrugged and walked back to the shuttle.
"Gundam Deathscythe…" Duette read off the page, "uses a scythe as a main weapon, like my Gundam design." She read on. "This has been tampered with.." she sighed, and read on out loud, "pilot: Duo Maxwell the best person in the entire universe. Hmm… it seems that a fan of this Duo Maxwell, hacked into this sight and changed it." She shook her head and moved to another, "Gundam Nataku, main weapon dragon on arm… oh no.. Not again.. Pilot: Wufei, the strangest little bugger in the universe. Geeze! This person seems to have a pilot name for each Gundam!" she flicked through the Oz mainframe, "what?! A new page has just been built?! That means someone is on this!" She looked around wildly, she opened the page, "Gundam?!" she looked at it in more detail, "That's mine on there! But it looks complete!" She hacked onto it a bit more and put a name for it. "Lady D." she nodded and laughed to herself lightly smiling. "A wonderful name for my Gundam don't you think Draco?!" she tapped her lizard's glass terrarium. She turned back to the computer. "Uh oh, I think I've been hacked.." on the screen there was on word written in bright Green. 'Hello!' She gasped and quickly shut down the computer turning the lamp by her computer off.
"Gawd… who could have hacked a hacker?!" she slumped down on the floor by her bed, it's probably one of them, those pilots." She shook her head sitting in the dark.
Meanwhile…
"Hey?! What's up with that?!" Duo looked at the page of the new Gundam's information. 'Lady D'? Who named it?!" he looked though the records, "Oh, our little friend the hacker did that. They're always on it seems, lets see where they are…" he ran a check on the location of the hacker by hacking into their computer via the Internet. "No way, it's in the Cinq kingdom? And even better, in The Relina Peace-craft's school! HEEEY HEEERO!" He called. Hero looked up to where Duo sat.
"What now Duo, Martians?"
Duo shook his head, "that hacker which I've told ya about, they're in the Cinq Kingdom."
"Relina?" He asked looking up to him with more interest.
"Not unless she's really god at hacking, but they're in that school." He said smiling, "And they're in room 204, a private room. Single lodgings, it's in the West wing of the boarding block."
"Hmm. I wonder why they would be hacking into Oz's files?" He asked loading up the same page.
"I don't know but they sure seem interested in that new Gundam's information which I've found." He then looked up surprised, "woops my bad.." he said quickly.
"New Gundam?" Quatre said as he entered the room, Followed by Wufei and Trowa.
"Err, forget that I said that.." Duo was waving his hand about, trying to cover up what he said.
"'Lady D…' Interesting name you gave it Duo." Heero looked at him.
"I didn't give it to it! That hacker did!" He protested. "I was just gonna use it for a spare suit!"
"You speak as if it's been built." Trowa turned to him looking down at the franticly thinking Duo.
"Uh, ya.." he scratched the back of his head, "I guess I did didn't I…"
"It's been built hasn't it Duo." Heero asked looking at him.
"Ya…" he said hanging his head. "I want it for myself. Cause I found the files didn't I"
"But it seems," Quarter said looking at the page, "that you're hacker seems to want it themselves."
They all looked at him, "What?!" they all said surprised.
"Look at the page." He pointed to it on it written in a silver blue was " 'GIVE ME LADY D.'"
"Wow, they speak back!" Duo chuckled, as another message appeared, 'Oh, and Hello. The Names D.' "I think we're gonna be going to Earth. Right Heero?" Duo chuckled.
"Dammit, I knew that I shouldn't have said that." Duette shook her head as she read the message which flashed over her screen 'See you Soon D…~G-Guys'
Another week passed and the five pilots had arrived at the school, not as students, just visiting looking at the school. They stopped at Relina's office and she welcomed them happily.
"Hello again, what can I do for you today gentlemen" she asked looking at them from her desk.
"We're here on a mission." Heero said quickly.
"Not another mission! Every time I see you it's mission this mission that!" She shouted, Duo snickered lightly.
"We're here to look for someone actually." Quatre said politely, "Who is the occupant of room 204, of the west wing."
Relina nodded and looked through her computer, "the occupant is…" she checked the page, "Well, it seems that the current occupant is a Miss D. There are no other names stated."
"That's the one." Duo laughed, "D, he's a she?!"
Relina nodded, "that's what my information said, and why are you looking for her?"
"Official Gundam business," Heero said quickly.
"What he means is," Duo said,
"This D is a hacker," Wufei said "changed my pilot information."
"No, that was Duo.." Trowa said, Wufei glared at him and Duo managed to nervously laugh.
"We think that she is a pilot, for a new Gundam which Duo found." Quatre said
Relina looked over at the five, Trowa standing quite calmly in-between a raging Wufei and a semi cowering Duo. Heero was looking off towards the window and Quatre was standing there looking quite respectable. "I see." She said. "Will you be needing lodgings? I have an upstairs apartment, which you may borrow for the time you are here,
"thank you Miss Relina." Quatre bowed, followed by the rest in a short (and slightly clumsy) bow.
They moved into the apartment and made the small dining room their control room for the time being.
"Ok, we should get surveillance by the room, so we know the face of D." Trowa said pointing to a blueprint of the building.
"And how bout one in the room?!" Duo asked, everyone looked at him. "what?!"
Everyone shook their heads in disbelief,
"Duo… you have a strange mind.." someone said, Wufei nodded in agreement, obviously still mad at Duo for what he did to his Gundam information.
"We'll put it up tonight." Heero said. Everyone nodded.
Nightfall came within a few hours, Duo and Quatre were chosen to go for Duo's skills in stealth and Quatre's ability to talk anyone out of doing anything stupid. Duo snuck along the passage way followed closely by Quatre.
"here! #204." Quatre whispered and pointed it out to Duo.
"Nice place!" Duo laughed and stood up. Quatre started to fix the small camera onto the wall. "Hey Quatre?" He asked turning towards him.
"what Duo?" He asked turning slightly around.
"I think we're being watched…" He pointed towards a small red light on top of the door. "It seems that Miss. D was expecting us." He turned fully towards the small video camera. "Hey there! Just checking the window frames!" He chuckled and turned to Quatre. "We gotta go!"
Quatre nodded and they walked off, the camera following them, they stopped at every window frame, making it look like they were checking it."
Duette sat there watching the computer screen she then turned her attention to the video surveillance she recorded earlier from Relina's office, from the actual security cameras. "So those are the five," she looked at their back of their blurry and soundless image. "Welcome…"
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Well, that was fun… Chapter 3 is done! * Hops around * awell, I'll get the rest up too…
