What a shity life. If you will pardon the expression. You would think I would get used to it by now. You know, being the guardian of time and all. A lot of people assume that I sort of live forever. But not so. I don't really control time. Just like the other senshi really don't control the other elements. Just sort of manipulate it. But as far as other people go, they might as well control it.
Yep. I, Meiou Setsuna, Sailor Pluto and guardian of time, die. Just like the rest of them. And just like the other scouts, get reborn. Again and again. Like so many others. Would you believe that I was eighteen? Funny, isn't it. Still older than the others though. Not that it makes me feel any better. Getting reborn again, to the same life again, bound to the same duties again. What can I say? Time flows in circles.
You have no idea about how dreary of an existence it all is. I'd kill myself if I thought it would do any good. In fact, I did that in a few of my past lives. But wouldn't you know it? I got reborn. . .again. The irony of it ran off a long time ago.
Do you want to know what I spend most of my time doing now? Yep. You guessed it. Guarding the gates of time. But I have gained a new hobby recently. One that I acquired over the past few of my lives. I spend my free time (Which isn't much) watching other dimensions.
Why not? After watching the same time line again and again gets old rather quickly. For everyone. Reruns of my life again and again and again. . . Life is hell. But watching other dimensions, there were so many, the chances of my watching something that I already knew what would happen were slim. I'm not the guardian of time in those worlds. So I really didn't know. But for whatever weird and unknown reason, I found that I could watch them. It was better than T.V.
As a point of fact, everyone else had figured that out as well. Recently, they caught me watching a different world out of boredom. They too found it interesting. So now everyone came on periodic trips to see her. More like see if there was anything interesting playing on the dimensional channels.
Man! What I would give for a life! What I would do to live! Do you know how longI have wanted to be a clothing designer? 50 life times. 50 freaking lifetimes! But fate always showed her hand first. So long as there was someone needed to guard the gates of time,I would come to that first. She had no choice but to push those dreams aside.
She sighed and stopped flipping through the dimensional channels at a familiar station. One with giant robots called Gundams that protected the Earth and space. It was one of her favorites. More so a person in this world that caught her attention some years ago when she came across it.
A man her age. Perhaps a little older. He had the most curious blue eyes. Eyes that showed strength and wisdom beyond their years. Eyes that when you looked at them, said that they had seen too much. Done too much. Eyes that showed that no matter the consequences, their duties must always come first in life. And because of that they were forced to push their emotions aside. They were familiar somehow. Like her own. People had described her like that. Maybe that's why this guy caught her attention.
"Setsuna!" A voice cried out behind her.
Sailor Pluto was shaken from her thoughts, and her balance. She dropped her staff and wobbled back and forth on one foot. Before falling backward with a small yelp.
Serena walked up to the gate and looked about. She could have sworn she saw Setsuna here a moment ago. She scratched her blonde head curiously. Looking down, she saw the key shaped staff lying on the ground.
She picked it up and looked at it. She looked at the time gate. Then back at staff and to the time gate again. Until her thoughts finally formed into words. "Uh, oh."
Meiou sat up from the cold, hard, metal floor. Metal? She thought to herself. What happened? She looked around and saw that she was not at the time gate. For that matter, she wasn't wearing her sailor fuku. Nor did she have her staff. Crap. What happened? She remembered looking at the gate, a voice startled her, then she lost her balance and. . .shit. She didn't! She did! And without her staff she was stuck!
She stood up slowly and rubbed her rear end tenderly. What was it with the time gate and dropping people on their butts? For that matter, just when in time had it dropped her? She looked about curiously. Hard metal floor, darkness, giant metal foot. . .no way. She looked up. Sure enough it was, "Gundam?"
click
Heero looked at the woman in question. She was odd. As if how the heck she had managed to get into here in the first place wasn't odd enough. She had green hair. If it made it any odder, it looked almost natural. But she had the most curious crimson colored eyes. They seemed familiar. Like he had seen them somewhere before.
She spun around to see a figure in the darkness with a gun trained on her. Wasting no time, she kicked the gun out of the air and moved to make another kick into the person stomach.
The man back flipped in the air, having calculated her move and rolled over to where the gun landed. He picked it up in the roll and stood back up all in a single move.
Setsuna raised at eyebrow at her would be attacker. This guy's skill was admirable. Comparable to that of the scouts. He pointed the gun at her again, this time at a more respectable distance should she try something like that again.
"Who are you and who do you work for?" The man asked and took a cautious step in her direction.
He stepped close enough for her too see who it was. She was surprised, but she hadtoo good a grip on her emotions to show it. "Meiou Setsuna." He said with her normal emotionless and calm voice. "And I know who you are. Odin Lowell. Heero Yuy. Which ever you prefer to be called."
She watched his eyebrows rise slightly. And very noticeable if you knew how emotionless this guy was. She had definitely caught him off guard with that one. She didn't have time to think. When suddenly everything became black.
Heero watched as WuFei knocked the woman unconscious from behind. A good chop tothe cervical region of the neck. "Weak onna." He grumbled to himself. He began to pull out his Katana.
"Don't kill her." Hero motioned to him. "We need to find out how much she knows." He put his gun in his pocket and walked over to her with handcuffs.
"How much she knows?" WuFei repeated his statement. He was not there for the discussion the two obviously had. He watched at Heero hand cuffed the woman and pulled her up, throwing her over his shoulder.
"She knew who I was." He said in his monotone voice. If people only knew how much this really bothered him inside. More than anything else.
"She knew you were a Gundam pilot?" WuFei walked along side of him and re- sheathed his katana.
"No. I mean she knew who I WAS." Heero put direct emphasis on the last word. Getting WuFei to understand.
WuFei actually tripped at step when it came to picture. That was something nobody knew but Heero. If she knew that, God knew what else she might know. And where one person knew, there were bound to be others.
When she woke up, she found herself in a bed, in a furnished room. With a side splitting headache. Man. Who knew not knowing the outcome of the future could hurt so much? She groaned in spite of herself and sat up in bed.
Just then, she noticed someone else in the room sitting in a dark corner of the room. Violate eyes glowed at her from the dark. They stood up and made there way over to the bed. "Hey babe!" A familiar looking guy with long brown hair in a braid came into the light.
She tried to sit up, but found one of her arms handcuffed to the bed frame. She glared at him fiercely, making him pause in walking over to her. She smirked and broke her arm free from the handcuff. Not really. The cuff was still attached to her arm. But she tore the other cuff from the bed frame. Sending a lower upper cut at the guy.
Duo stumbled back in pain. His hands closed over his family jewels. He crumpled back toward the door. "Man. And here I thought only Heero could hit that hard." His voice actually squeaked.
"Don't refer to me as 'babe' ever again." She said emotionlessly. Sending chills down his spine. He shuddered and was openly relieved when the door to the room opened. His fear returned when he saw who it was. He would give him hell for him letting her escape from the cuffs.
Heero walked in followed by WuFei. He looked at the woman who was currently pulling the cuff from her hand. He looked down at his supposed trustworthy comrade. Frowning visibly. His frown turned into a smirk when he saw what Duo was holding with his hands.
"Weak baka." WuFei smirked at Duo and pulled him out of the room by his braid. His mind was too preoccupied about other things than to worry about his hair getting pulled right then. He locked the door behind him. Leaving the two alone in the room.
She looked at the stoic figure in the doorway. Not moving. Not speaking. Showing no emotion. It took a lot of will power to force yourself to stay that still. "So what should I call you?"
"Yuy." He said coldly.
"Setsuna." She answered his question. Even if she knew he would never ask it. Wait a minute, she didn't know it. "So are you going to ask me?"
"How do you know who I am?" He pierced his gaze on her. He was surprised that she seemed completely unfazed by it. Hn. This was a first. Usually his glare had some kind of effect on people. No matter how trivial. This woman was sitting as still on the bed as he was standing.
Setsuna thought briefly. It was unlikely that he would believe anything she told him. Any lie would be just as useless. "I guess you could call me someone who takes interest in history and its events throughout." She thought wryly. She wasn't lying. "It is in my nature to take special note of the more significant things that take place in it."
"In your nature?" He repeated skeptically. Did the woman think he was an idiot? Did she mistake him for Duo or something?
She shrugged her shoulders. "Call it fate if you will." Allowing a small smile to escape her lips. It was true. She just rounded the corners of the statements is all.
"Hn." He grunted and opened the door back up. Walking out and locking it back up again. This was puzzling. Very much so. It wasn't what she said that bothered him. It was how she said it.
He looked up to see Quatre, Trowa, WuFei, and Duo were standing by the door. Obviously listening to the conversation inside the room. He grunted at them. His way of acknowledging them.
"What is it that she knows about you Heero?" Quatre asked curiously. He shrank back slightly at the glare he received.
"Nothing of your concern." He said coldly. Getting the others to get the drift.
"What do you make of her?" Trowa looked at Heero with his one uncovered green eye.
"She was telling the truth."
"What? How could she be? I've never heard more cryptic answers form anyone else in my life!" Duo exclaimed without taking his hands from his sensitive area.
"The human body has a multiple of self evident lie detectors. She was calm. She didn't stutter. No change in breathing. She didn't blink. She didn't fidget. Her heart beat remained steady." He glared at the floor in question. He wondered just how much more this woman knew about him. The thought made him shutter inwardly. He didn't like the idea of people knowing who he was. Who he really was, inside.
"But how did she get in here? We, the ship, hasn't had contact with Earth or the Colonies in three months." Quatre wondered aloud.
"Its obvious she was here all along. In hiding since we first left. Waiting. Until chance came she came upon the Gundams." WuFei leaned up from the wall and was about to walk away when a voice spoke up.
"Negative." Heero glared at them.
They looked at him questioningly. Negative? What was he getting at? Whatever other possibility was there?
"I considered that possibility. I quadruple checked the systems logs. Even the slightest weight changes in the ship can affect the ships weight trajectory in space. No matter how small. There was a change during the time that I was in the hanger and I saw her. It was as if she just appeared out of thin air." The confusion was evident in Heero's voice.
The other four pilots looked at each other with question, fear, and wonder. No one doubted Heero's abilities. But was it possible?
Setsuna leaned up from the door and sat back down on the bed. After listening and picking up what she could through the door, it was obvious she was in space. Damn. She ran her fingers through her long hair. Getting the tangles out.
She could break the door down if she wanted to badly enough. But what would that accomplish? She was stuck on a ship. Without her staff. Unable to transform. With no idea of what this future held.
On a sadder note, no one else knew how to operate the time gates. Her face placed slightly at the idea of Serena trying to use the staff, getting annoyed with it, and banging it against the floor or something. She was going to be here a while.