A Different Side
By SariaSubi-kun
SariaSubi: Man, updating Gundam Wing fics is so much fun these days! Whoo! Okay, I don't do this much, but I wanna give a shoutout to ViktoriaLockheart and Lessthanjakepunk710! You guys rock! Oh, BTW, Lessthanjakepunk710 has this really funny YuYuHakusho story called Hiei's Anger Management. Check it out!
Now, I've stopped the interruptions, so this should be chapter 5, but it says 8, so...?
Chapter 5? 8? Whatever! It's the next chapter!
Munich was a mess, but she really didn't care. She growled as she walked down the streets of Nurnberg, slouching in an annoyed way. The weakling didn't do her job, she thought in her head. She was SUPPOSED to destroy Phuket in Thailand. "But," she muttered as she pushed people out of her way, "She had to go stop Naomi," she whined in her quiet imitation of Marissa. "Weakling. I don't get what's so important about Pilot 04 anyways."
She was too caught up in her inner complaints. But her thoughts were shattered when one of the pedestrians she thoughtlessly pushed aside yelled, "Hey! Watch it!"
"What do you want?" she turned in annoyance to the victim of her pushing. But her eyes went wide.
He was alive?! Wasn't he in Munich? He was in Nurnberg the whole time! Shiori gave her the wrong instructions!
"Just watch where you're going, man. You pushed a whole herd of people down." He turned and walked down the rest of the street before meeting up with a small, blue-haired girl whose color reminded her of Naomi's.
She grit her teeth as she watched the braided boy and the German he was supposedly with, Hilde Schbeiker, was it? walked away. "Okay, Shiori, you're gettin' it big time."
~~~~~~~
"Naomi!" Marissa screamed from the Red Gemini, "You have to stop this! You've done enough damage!"
Naomi growled as she fired another missile. "Out of my way, Natchios!" Blasts bombarded the opposite Gemini as it held up its arms to deflect the blasts as Marissa screamed, but they did no damage. Enraged at this, Naomi fired again, but Marissa was ready, and the Red Gemini put up one of its special abilities: a magnetic field strong enough to repel any blast.
"Damn!"
From the ground, Quatre, Wufei, and all the other survivors of the Maganacs and Preventers watched in awe as the new MSs fought a deadly battle, destroying all the other remains of San Francisco.
"They'll destroy each other!" one Maganac called out.
Wufei shook his head. "No, it doesn't look that way. That black one is just blowing off steam. Whatever the reason is, it's just trying to repel the red suit."
"So then, could this go on for hours?" Quatre inquired.
"Maybe," Rashid stood, "but that gives us enough time to temporarily recover."
"I think we can go in and stop this now."
Quatre and Rashid both looked at Wufei. "What do you mean?"
"Seriously," he looked down at Quatre, "you're acting like you forgot we were Gundam pilots."
~~~~~~~
"Naomi!" she yelled through the blast, "look, you already failed the mission," Naomi stopped pushing the Gemini forward, "so why can't we get back home? Arielle already destroyed Munich, and London's in ruins. Let's just go home!"
She.failed? She failed?! "Marissa," she pleaded frantically into the intercom, "how did I fail?"
She heard the other girl sigh. "Well, this mission WAS meant for you to kill Quatre as well, wasn't it?"
Naomi gasped. As much as she refused to believe it, she could see outside and tell it was true. But her anger soon grew. If Marissa hadn't stopped her, Quatre would have died in that blast.
But there was this nagging of relief deep down in forgotten depths of kindness inside of her that he didn't.
~~~~~~~
"Naomi," Marissa started, but then her voice switched to panic, "look behind you! Quatre and Wufei are-"
But it was too late for Naomi to turn around and do anything. The two smaller Mobile Suits caught her off guard and knocked the Black Gemini off balance.
She groaned as the MS skidded across the concrete. That wasn't the end of the barrage. Of course, the Gundam pilots in regular MSs were still Gundam pilots. Their skill was precise and well thought out, and Naomi couldn't get up.
The Gemini suit was getting banged up on the inside. Marissa's outcries of concern were getting choppier and choppier with each direct hit. Naomi was starting to scratch herself on the mechanisms she constantly was thrust into. She could picture with her eyes two Gundams coming in for the kill. She winced as she was hit again.
Marissa thought frantically of what to do. If Naomi were in her shoes, she would leap out of them and attack and destroy those two suits, but she just..she just COULDN'T! She grabbed her forehead and struggled with the thoughts racing around in her head. She had no idea what to do.
"No," she gasped, "this isn't like a regular suit. The cockpit.it's in the BACK of the Gemini, not the front! She could be gravely injured in there! Or worse-"
But Marissa's worries were made reality as the two MSs rammed into the machine one more time, ejecting Naomi from the Black Gemini.
~~~~~~~
Quatre and Wufei stopped dead in their tracks as the girl rolled on the ground with blood emitting from her scratches. "So," Quatre said breathlessly, "she's just like us."
"Or WAS like us. She's just a kid," was his response.
"Hey, that was us two years ago. What do you think.?"
"I think we should kill her," he sighed as he looked down at the controls. "She's caused enough damage here."
"But do you think," he looked confused, "we should ask her her purpose?"
Naomi stirred on the ground and looked up. She gasped as she looked around and realized that she was no longer in the safety of her black MS. The girl jumped up and faced the MSs in front of her. Damn, she thought, if I don't do something, the whole fucking game is blown through. If it's still here..She moved her hand up her white sleeve. After looking for the black strap on her arm that usually held her army knife and small metal bar that was as big as her foot, she pulled the bar out and pressed a button.
"Well, I'm not inside the Gemini, but I can still control it from the outside." The Gemini started to mobilized and march towards her. Wufei and Quatre gave a start.
"Quatre! The MS is moving, but no one's inside!"
'Wufei, I think she's using that small baton she's holding to control it from the outside."
"Well, then," he growled, "we'll have to crush her before the MS gets to her. Crap!" he cursed as Naomi jumped out of the way of the MS's foot.
The dust whipped her navy hair in her face as she ran away from the two MSs approaching her. Sweat beat down her back and her chest, and she was breathing heavy. She winced as memories flowed back to her. It was just like that night..
Running from the guards that had been chasing her. She thought she had done everything right. She had stolen the plans from Oz and, so now one could take them from her, put them down her shirt. She had been running out of breath. She remembered the thought.
Just one breath, she had pleaded with herself, just for a moment.
She grabbed her head and continued to run. Please, she screamed inside her head, not now!
But the memory tortured her as if she was on its wire, pulling her purposely forgotten memories and put them back into the front of her mind. As she had left the hangar, the guards fired their shots. The bullets had ripped through her like she was a target for practice. The pain burned inside of her as she gasped. She managed to limp to the edge the woods; the strength she had to do it, she never found out where it came from. Her body started heaving uncontrollably, a river of dark blood pouring out of her mouth as she threw up. She let a few tears roll down her cheeks as she sobbed her best friend's name, thinking she might join him soon. She looked up with the last of her strength and saw the plain coming closer and closer to the ground.
Death. She was about to pull the handle to its door, then. It hurt so much. She had started crying like she had when Julius had died. Would she ever get revenge for the killer?
The plane had crashed, but she had already "died." A distant cry was the last thing she heard before she closed her eyes for what she, and the world, had thought was the last time.
The next thing she knew, she woke up in a small med center run a small girl named Marissa Natchios. According to newspapers, Naomi Alex Atsui, the daughter of the famous Yossonan had died in a "forest fire." No, she had frowned darkly, I had died of torture.
And the torture was coming back to her. She was running away from those who could kill her. She could just imagine the rip of bullets through her slim form.
Naomi stopped still. "No," she gasped as tears ran down her cheeks and her hair fell into her face. Her feet hurt horribly, but for the past ten minutes, that had seemed numb. But she wasn't stopping because she thought she might die. This was a different reason.
Defiance.
~~~~~~~
Quatre and Wufei stopped their MSs immediately. What was this strange girl doing? She had stopped completely and was now facing them.
Quatre looked closely at her. She stood upright and proud, if not limping just a little. She lifted her hand to brush a strand of hair out of her eyes. He could see her clearly now. Her blue hair bordered a face crossed with defiance, serious to the bitter end. But angry tears ran down her lightly scratched face. She faced them with a brave front and stared directly at Quatre as if she saw his eyes through the Leo.
He gasped. Although the hair was blue, not brown, and the eyes were blue, not green, it still...
"Gundam pilots" she spoke softly to the two MSs, "I failed here, but mark my words..this is not over."
"What?!" Wufei leaned forward, trying to yell at her. If he could prevent anything, he had to destroy her now!
She bowed her head then looked up again at the MSs. She lifted her arm in front of her, showing off a detonation switch. Looking quickly at the Black Gemini that was still approaching by her control, she turned her gaze back to Wufei and Quatre.
"My name's Naomi," she said to them and only them. Somehow they heard her. How was she reaching them? "Remember that."
"Quatre!" Wufei yelled into the intercom, "She has a detonation switch!"
"Wufei! Look to your right!" As Wufei turned his head, and MS, Naomi was it the perfect time. She pushed the button, and BOOM! The right arm of the Black Gemini exploded. It sent Wufei's MS hurtling into debris lying on the ground. By the time he looked up, the Black Gemini and the Red Gemini were flying off.
~~~~~~~
"Well, I'm not that physically injured. Still capable to fly this to the base," she pressed a control. "Black to system base. Gemini's right arm damaged, pilot, minor injuries, mission.." She took a deep breath and sighed.
"Mission failed."
By SariaSubi-kun
SariaSubi: Man, updating Gundam Wing fics is so much fun these days! Whoo! Okay, I don't do this much, but I wanna give a shoutout to ViktoriaLockheart and Lessthanjakepunk710! You guys rock! Oh, BTW, Lessthanjakepunk710 has this really funny YuYuHakusho story called Hiei's Anger Management. Check it out!
Now, I've stopped the interruptions, so this should be chapter 5, but it says 8, so...?
Chapter 5? 8? Whatever! It's the next chapter!
Munich was a mess, but she really didn't care. She growled as she walked down the streets of Nurnberg, slouching in an annoyed way. The weakling didn't do her job, she thought in her head. She was SUPPOSED to destroy Phuket in Thailand. "But," she muttered as she pushed people out of her way, "She had to go stop Naomi," she whined in her quiet imitation of Marissa. "Weakling. I don't get what's so important about Pilot 04 anyways."
She was too caught up in her inner complaints. But her thoughts were shattered when one of the pedestrians she thoughtlessly pushed aside yelled, "Hey! Watch it!"
"What do you want?" she turned in annoyance to the victim of her pushing. But her eyes went wide.
He was alive?! Wasn't he in Munich? He was in Nurnberg the whole time! Shiori gave her the wrong instructions!
"Just watch where you're going, man. You pushed a whole herd of people down." He turned and walked down the rest of the street before meeting up with a small, blue-haired girl whose color reminded her of Naomi's.
She grit her teeth as she watched the braided boy and the German he was supposedly with, Hilde Schbeiker, was it? walked away. "Okay, Shiori, you're gettin' it big time."
~~~~~~~
"Naomi!" Marissa screamed from the Red Gemini, "You have to stop this! You've done enough damage!"
Naomi growled as she fired another missile. "Out of my way, Natchios!" Blasts bombarded the opposite Gemini as it held up its arms to deflect the blasts as Marissa screamed, but they did no damage. Enraged at this, Naomi fired again, but Marissa was ready, and the Red Gemini put up one of its special abilities: a magnetic field strong enough to repel any blast.
"Damn!"
From the ground, Quatre, Wufei, and all the other survivors of the Maganacs and Preventers watched in awe as the new MSs fought a deadly battle, destroying all the other remains of San Francisco.
"They'll destroy each other!" one Maganac called out.
Wufei shook his head. "No, it doesn't look that way. That black one is just blowing off steam. Whatever the reason is, it's just trying to repel the red suit."
"So then, could this go on for hours?" Quatre inquired.
"Maybe," Rashid stood, "but that gives us enough time to temporarily recover."
"I think we can go in and stop this now."
Quatre and Rashid both looked at Wufei. "What do you mean?"
"Seriously," he looked down at Quatre, "you're acting like you forgot we were Gundam pilots."
~~~~~~~
"Naomi!" she yelled through the blast, "look, you already failed the mission," Naomi stopped pushing the Gemini forward, "so why can't we get back home? Arielle already destroyed Munich, and London's in ruins. Let's just go home!"
She.failed? She failed?! "Marissa," she pleaded frantically into the intercom, "how did I fail?"
She heard the other girl sigh. "Well, this mission WAS meant for you to kill Quatre as well, wasn't it?"
Naomi gasped. As much as she refused to believe it, she could see outside and tell it was true. But her anger soon grew. If Marissa hadn't stopped her, Quatre would have died in that blast.
But there was this nagging of relief deep down in forgotten depths of kindness inside of her that he didn't.
~~~~~~~
"Naomi," Marissa started, but then her voice switched to panic, "look behind you! Quatre and Wufei are-"
But it was too late for Naomi to turn around and do anything. The two smaller Mobile Suits caught her off guard and knocked the Black Gemini off balance.
She groaned as the MS skidded across the concrete. That wasn't the end of the barrage. Of course, the Gundam pilots in regular MSs were still Gundam pilots. Their skill was precise and well thought out, and Naomi couldn't get up.
The Gemini suit was getting banged up on the inside. Marissa's outcries of concern were getting choppier and choppier with each direct hit. Naomi was starting to scratch herself on the mechanisms she constantly was thrust into. She could picture with her eyes two Gundams coming in for the kill. She winced as she was hit again.
Marissa thought frantically of what to do. If Naomi were in her shoes, she would leap out of them and attack and destroy those two suits, but she just..she just COULDN'T! She grabbed her forehead and struggled with the thoughts racing around in her head. She had no idea what to do.
"No," she gasped, "this isn't like a regular suit. The cockpit.it's in the BACK of the Gemini, not the front! She could be gravely injured in there! Or worse-"
But Marissa's worries were made reality as the two MSs rammed into the machine one more time, ejecting Naomi from the Black Gemini.
~~~~~~~
Quatre and Wufei stopped dead in their tracks as the girl rolled on the ground with blood emitting from her scratches. "So," Quatre said breathlessly, "she's just like us."
"Or WAS like us. She's just a kid," was his response.
"Hey, that was us two years ago. What do you think.?"
"I think we should kill her," he sighed as he looked down at the controls. "She's caused enough damage here."
"But do you think," he looked confused, "we should ask her her purpose?"
Naomi stirred on the ground and looked up. She gasped as she looked around and realized that she was no longer in the safety of her black MS. The girl jumped up and faced the MSs in front of her. Damn, she thought, if I don't do something, the whole fucking game is blown through. If it's still here..She moved her hand up her white sleeve. After looking for the black strap on her arm that usually held her army knife and small metal bar that was as big as her foot, she pulled the bar out and pressed a button.
"Well, I'm not inside the Gemini, but I can still control it from the outside." The Gemini started to mobilized and march towards her. Wufei and Quatre gave a start.
"Quatre! The MS is moving, but no one's inside!"
'Wufei, I think she's using that small baton she's holding to control it from the outside."
"Well, then," he growled, "we'll have to crush her before the MS gets to her. Crap!" he cursed as Naomi jumped out of the way of the MS's foot.
The dust whipped her navy hair in her face as she ran away from the two MSs approaching her. Sweat beat down her back and her chest, and she was breathing heavy. She winced as memories flowed back to her. It was just like that night..
Running from the guards that had been chasing her. She thought she had done everything right. She had stolen the plans from Oz and, so now one could take them from her, put them down her shirt. She had been running out of breath. She remembered the thought.
Just one breath, she had pleaded with herself, just for a moment.
She grabbed her head and continued to run. Please, she screamed inside her head, not now!
But the memory tortured her as if she was on its wire, pulling her purposely forgotten memories and put them back into the front of her mind. As she had left the hangar, the guards fired their shots. The bullets had ripped through her like she was a target for practice. The pain burned inside of her as she gasped. She managed to limp to the edge the woods; the strength she had to do it, she never found out where it came from. Her body started heaving uncontrollably, a river of dark blood pouring out of her mouth as she threw up. She let a few tears roll down her cheeks as she sobbed her best friend's name, thinking she might join him soon. She looked up with the last of her strength and saw the plain coming closer and closer to the ground.
Death. She was about to pull the handle to its door, then. It hurt so much. She had started crying like she had when Julius had died. Would she ever get revenge for the killer?
The plane had crashed, but she had already "died." A distant cry was the last thing she heard before she closed her eyes for what she, and the world, had thought was the last time.
The next thing she knew, she woke up in a small med center run a small girl named Marissa Natchios. According to newspapers, Naomi Alex Atsui, the daughter of the famous Yossonan had died in a "forest fire." No, she had frowned darkly, I had died of torture.
And the torture was coming back to her. She was running away from those who could kill her. She could just imagine the rip of bullets through her slim form.
Naomi stopped still. "No," she gasped as tears ran down her cheeks and her hair fell into her face. Her feet hurt horribly, but for the past ten minutes, that had seemed numb. But she wasn't stopping because she thought she might die. This was a different reason.
Defiance.
~~~~~~~
Quatre and Wufei stopped their MSs immediately. What was this strange girl doing? She had stopped completely and was now facing them.
Quatre looked closely at her. She stood upright and proud, if not limping just a little. She lifted her hand to brush a strand of hair out of her eyes. He could see her clearly now. Her blue hair bordered a face crossed with defiance, serious to the bitter end. But angry tears ran down her lightly scratched face. She faced them with a brave front and stared directly at Quatre as if she saw his eyes through the Leo.
He gasped. Although the hair was blue, not brown, and the eyes were blue, not green, it still...
"Gundam pilots" she spoke softly to the two MSs, "I failed here, but mark my words..this is not over."
"What?!" Wufei leaned forward, trying to yell at her. If he could prevent anything, he had to destroy her now!
She bowed her head then looked up again at the MSs. She lifted her arm in front of her, showing off a detonation switch. Looking quickly at the Black Gemini that was still approaching by her control, she turned her gaze back to Wufei and Quatre.
"My name's Naomi," she said to them and only them. Somehow they heard her. How was she reaching them? "Remember that."
"Quatre!" Wufei yelled into the intercom, "She has a detonation switch!"
"Wufei! Look to your right!" As Wufei turned his head, and MS, Naomi was it the perfect time. She pushed the button, and BOOM! The right arm of the Black Gemini exploded. It sent Wufei's MS hurtling into debris lying on the ground. By the time he looked up, the Black Gemini and the Red Gemini were flying off.
~~~~~~~
"Well, I'm not that physically injured. Still capable to fly this to the base," she pressed a control. "Black to system base. Gemini's right arm damaged, pilot, minor injuries, mission.." She took a deep breath and sighed.
"Mission failed."