Gundam Wing: Dancing the WALTZ
Transmission Ten: Peace's Price
"Holy Hell!" Quatre stared dumfounded at the vast field of debris.
"They...I can't believe... Why'd they..." Dhirdre couldn't even put together a functioning sentence.
Jade was close to tears and Wufei, for the first time, was lost for anything to say.
Then a miracle seemed to happen, static came over a COM channel, "This is O2B and 05B requesting assistance."
Jade's tears turned happy when she heard their voices.
"We're coming guys! Hold on!" Dhirdre replied with a smile on her face.
"Do hurry, Mau's whining is getting on my nerves."
##
When Kirstain's pod landed on Earth she was greeted by the cloudy day. She had no clue where on Earth she was, and the landscape wasn't helping. At least it wasn't a desert. When she looked up she realized her situation just got worse. The Gundams were dropping to Earth and that meant they were looking for her. She jumped behind a bush and prayed she wouldn't be seen.
##
My heat sensors are picking up humanoid life forms," Jo enlightened the others as they touched down.
"Good, we'll kill them all if we have to," Heero grumbled.
"Isn't that a little drastic?" Duo asked.
"No."
"I'm sure," Trowa rolled his eyes.
When the four Gundams' cockpits opened the pilots exited. The four were meet by masses of unarmed WALTZ officers.
"What do you want?" a young officer asked.
"We're looking for your leader," Heero answered.
"No one has seen her since the evacuation of the spaceship," the same officer replied.
"But her pod is here," another added.
"Then we search for her," Heero said to Trowa, Duo and Jo. The officers seeing the four meant no harm to them left Heero and company up to their own devices.
The search didn't last long, Heero found Kirstain or rather Kirstain found Heero.
"Daddy!" Kirstain latched herself to Heero's waist.
"Daddy?" Jo asked, Heero momentarily caught of guard didn't do anything.
"I'm so glad you found me! They were doing all types of horrible things to me!"
"Funny how some people change their tunes when their lives are in danger," Heero muttered as he shoved Kirstain away from him.
"What are you talking about Daddy?"
"Don't you 'daddy' me! You're no daughter of mine!"
Duo looked over to Trowa and whispered, "I've never knew he like Relena that much..."
"They were making me do it! I never wanted to do any of that stuff! I swear it!" Kirstain tried tears, Heero's face only darkened.
"I'm sure they were, girl. Just like your mother you can't lie," Heero's gun rose to level with her head.
"Daddy?"
"Shut up!" Heero roared, for once he looked like he was torn. Torn between forgiving her and again saving the world. His voice fell to a low whisper, "How could you betray your mother?"
"I never..." Kirstain lied once again, her face contorted in fear.
"Of course you didn't," Heero's finger tightened on the trigger, "And I'll see to it that it never happens again."
Kirstain eyes widened, and before she could scream she fell over dead, her face being pooled in blood. Heero licked his lips and lowered his gun slowly.
"Heero?" Duo asked looking highly concerned. Heero's face suddenly pulled on a mask and he hid his pain. He turned to them and spoke, "Let's contact a base and let them know what we've done."
"Right," Trowa nodded and walked over to Heavyarms.
##
With the death of Kirstain Peacecraft, WALTZ was disbanded and the war ended. There was debate on whether or not to destroy the Earth Colony. It was decided to be left as a second moon for Earth, and was renamed as the Moon Colony.
And life was soon returned to a normal state of semi-normalcy.
##
Heero and Jo found work with the Preventers, they were often paired up for major missions. Heero found he talked to the blonde whether or not she wanted to hear it, maybe it was because he knew she'd never tell any one. They were doing paper work one day in the office and Heero seemed to space off.
"Heero," Jo snapped, some times he was as bad as the absented minded Duo.
"Hum?" he looked to her questioningly.
"Are you even going to do you're work?"
He chuckled and looked at the paper piled on his desk, "Maybe."
She rolled her eyes, "Okay what is it?"
"What do you mean?"
"What's got your attention today? I saw you day dreaming."
"I wasn't daydreaming!" he insisted.
"Sure..."
"I was thinking."
"Then what were you thinking about?" She asked, "I know you if you don't get it off your chest you won't work."
"Am I that bad?"
"Yes."
He chuckled and seemed to drift off again.
"Well?" she snapped once again. He looked to her and sighed, "Did you know would be Kirstain's birthday?"
Jo blinked in shock, she had always thought he'd forgotten about his forsaken daughter, "No, I didn't."
"Well it is. She'd be fifteen today. Relena would always send me one of her invitations, I'd make up an excuse not to go and just send a gift. It was a mistake to get mixed up with Relena."
"Well you can't possibly undo that."
"I know, but I can't help feeling, when I think about it, maybe I should have just toughened up and actually gotten to know my daughter."
"You regret killing her?"
"Kind of..."
"Kind of?"
Heero sighed, "Yeah, I do regret it."
Jo rose her eyebrow, "Why?"
Heero opened his mouth, and hesitated, "I don't know..."
Jo chewed on the end of her pen. Heero shrugged and gave Jo a small smile before he went back to the paper work. Jo on the other hand was quite puzzled and it was her turn to stare off into space thinking.
'I'll never understand him...' she thought to her self.
##
Duo was checking his innovatory, he'd moved back to his junkyard and car shop. He was living on a colony and Mau had joined him; they made a pretty good team. They'd opened up their own business and it was slowly growing to become something big. So far there were two other D&M's Junkyard and Automotive Services.
"Hey Duo!" Mau waved to her business partner.
"Hey Mau!" He smiled to her.
"What'cha doing?"
"Looking over the things that've come into the junk yard and what we've gotten rid of," He replied giving her a matching copy.
She sat down on worktable and sipped her can of Dr. Pepper, "How's the service room doing?"
"Great, considering how slow it is around winter, we're doing really good," Duo replied standing extremely close to a space heater.
Mau nodded and smiled, "Well that's good to hear. And the other locations?"
"Doing good. I haven't heard any complaints yet."
Both of them blinked at the sudden smell of burning hair. Mau jumped up and got a fire extinguisher faster than Duo could start panicking. She fired the white foam all over Duo. Duo blinked and glared at Mau.
"That was unnecessary..." he growled shaking the stuff off his hands. Mau bust out laughing, she was holding her stomach from laughing so hard. Finally Duo got a glimpse of himself in a hubcap and he too had to laugh. And when the laughter died down they started laughing again.
##
Trowa was waiting patiently for his trunk to be fixed, that was his given task for the day from the circus. They were in France and Trowa happened to know the owner of the local service room. Trowa looked at his watch and when he looked up Jade Roberts waved Trowa to her. She smiled and handed him the bill.
"I've done all you asked, rotated and balanced the tires, changed the oil, we even gave the trunk a complimentary wash and vacuum."
"Thanks Jade," Trowa smiled down at the petite girl, but his smile died down when he read the bill, "I thought you said you'd cut us a little slack with the prices."
"I did!" she blinked, "I'm not charging tax!"
Trowa sweat dropped, "Jade... there's no way I can pay this all in one sum."
"Why not?" she asked puzzled.
"I'm in a circus, Jade, think about it."
"I'm not following you."
"We don't make that much!"
"Listen, if you don't pay, you don't get your trunk back!" Jade said sternly.
"JADE!" Trowa yelled, "Please! You can trust me! I'll pay you back!"
"I don't make exceptions!" she crossed her arms stubbornly.
Trowa glared, "Jade... please?"
"Let me repeat, n. o. NO!"
They then had a stare off, both glaring fiercely. Trowa actually gave in and said, "Fine, I'll pay."
Jade smiled, "Good! You can have your trunk back!"
Trowa forked over the money, "And I'm never coming back to you."
"But you'll never find better service!" She claimed.
Trowa sighed, "I'm sure."
##
Dhirdre had just been escorted into one of the most fancy restaurants she'd ever seen, and Quatre the richest man she'd ever met was the one doing the escorting. She smiled brightly at him, as they were lead to a table. She'd been seeing Quatre on and off for the past year, and this was the first time he'd actually gone over board and taken her some where really nice.
When they arrived at the table, Quatre pulled a chair out for her. She sat with a small thank you.
Quatre then took his seat across from her and smiled, "So, enjoying yourself?"
"Oh! Very much! Thankyou!"
The waiter came quickly; Quatre ordered red wine and handed Dhirdre her menu. They sat in silence as they looked over their menu. Dhirdre was the first to decide and soon after Quatre put down his menu. The waiter came with the red wine and once they had ordered Quatre raised his glass. Dhirdre waited for his toast.
"To a glorious friend."
Dhirdre drank to that. With that they dwelled into what they loved to talk about, politics. Quatre could hardly wait till after dinner when they were taking a stroll in the moonlight, because tonight, he thought he'd pop the question.
##
Wufei threw a roundhouse kick right at Ling's head; she ducked and sent a spinning kick at his foot. Sweeping him off his feet she stood up and offered her hand to the beaten and bruised male. Wufei accepted and allowed her to pull him to his feet.
"You always do that!" she sighed, "And I always get you!"
He grinned, "I'm hoping I'll get lucky one day and actually get you."
"When the apocalypse comes," she replied wiping her face on a towel.
Wufei chuckled and patted her shoulder, "I'm sure. Now what'd you do with my towel?"
She looked around and realized she was using his, she offered the already used towel with a sheepish grin. He rose a silken brow and grabbed hers.
"I don't think so woman."
She popped him with the towel, "I thought you said you'd stop that!"
"Ow! Sorry!"
She rolled her eyes, "I'm sure."
They walked out of the gym to Wufei's new and much new motorcycle. Ling had actually been true to her word and paid for the damages of his old one. But instead he used the money to buy a new one. Wufei climbed on and Ling climbed on behind him.
"Don't forget you're helmet, onna."
She pinched his ear, "Will you quite already?"
He revved the thing up and it lurched forward before she had a chance to wrap her arms around his waist. She gave a little screech and grabbed a hold. He chuckled, this had been a weekly ritual for them, and even thou he would never admit it, he did enjoy the company.
'Sometimes I think he does it just to get under my skin,' she thought loosening her grip. Now they'd go for lunch and get into a verbal spar and then he'd take her home and he'd go off to his place. She smiled and looked up to the blue sky, life sure had changed. It was for the better and she liked it.
End Transmission...
Transmission Ten: Peace's Price
"Holy Hell!" Quatre stared dumfounded at the vast field of debris.
"They...I can't believe... Why'd they..." Dhirdre couldn't even put together a functioning sentence.
Jade was close to tears and Wufei, for the first time, was lost for anything to say.
Then a miracle seemed to happen, static came over a COM channel, "This is O2B and 05B requesting assistance."
Jade's tears turned happy when she heard their voices.
"We're coming guys! Hold on!" Dhirdre replied with a smile on her face.
"Do hurry, Mau's whining is getting on my nerves."
##
When Kirstain's pod landed on Earth she was greeted by the cloudy day. She had no clue where on Earth she was, and the landscape wasn't helping. At least it wasn't a desert. When she looked up she realized her situation just got worse. The Gundams were dropping to Earth and that meant they were looking for her. She jumped behind a bush and prayed she wouldn't be seen.
##
My heat sensors are picking up humanoid life forms," Jo enlightened the others as they touched down.
"Good, we'll kill them all if we have to," Heero grumbled.
"Isn't that a little drastic?" Duo asked.
"No."
"I'm sure," Trowa rolled his eyes.
When the four Gundams' cockpits opened the pilots exited. The four were meet by masses of unarmed WALTZ officers.
"What do you want?" a young officer asked.
"We're looking for your leader," Heero answered.
"No one has seen her since the evacuation of the spaceship," the same officer replied.
"But her pod is here," another added.
"Then we search for her," Heero said to Trowa, Duo and Jo. The officers seeing the four meant no harm to them left Heero and company up to their own devices.
The search didn't last long, Heero found Kirstain or rather Kirstain found Heero.
"Daddy!" Kirstain latched herself to Heero's waist.
"Daddy?" Jo asked, Heero momentarily caught of guard didn't do anything.
"I'm so glad you found me! They were doing all types of horrible things to me!"
"Funny how some people change their tunes when their lives are in danger," Heero muttered as he shoved Kirstain away from him.
"What are you talking about Daddy?"
"Don't you 'daddy' me! You're no daughter of mine!"
Duo looked over to Trowa and whispered, "I've never knew he like Relena that much..."
"They were making me do it! I never wanted to do any of that stuff! I swear it!" Kirstain tried tears, Heero's face only darkened.
"I'm sure they were, girl. Just like your mother you can't lie," Heero's gun rose to level with her head.
"Daddy?"
"Shut up!" Heero roared, for once he looked like he was torn. Torn between forgiving her and again saving the world. His voice fell to a low whisper, "How could you betray your mother?"
"I never..." Kirstain lied once again, her face contorted in fear.
"Of course you didn't," Heero's finger tightened on the trigger, "And I'll see to it that it never happens again."
Kirstain eyes widened, and before she could scream she fell over dead, her face being pooled in blood. Heero licked his lips and lowered his gun slowly.
"Heero?" Duo asked looking highly concerned. Heero's face suddenly pulled on a mask and he hid his pain. He turned to them and spoke, "Let's contact a base and let them know what we've done."
"Right," Trowa nodded and walked over to Heavyarms.
##
With the death of Kirstain Peacecraft, WALTZ was disbanded and the war ended. There was debate on whether or not to destroy the Earth Colony. It was decided to be left as a second moon for Earth, and was renamed as the Moon Colony.
And life was soon returned to a normal state of semi-normalcy.
##
Heero and Jo found work with the Preventers, they were often paired up for major missions. Heero found he talked to the blonde whether or not she wanted to hear it, maybe it was because he knew she'd never tell any one. They were doing paper work one day in the office and Heero seemed to space off.
"Heero," Jo snapped, some times he was as bad as the absented minded Duo.
"Hum?" he looked to her questioningly.
"Are you even going to do you're work?"
He chuckled and looked at the paper piled on his desk, "Maybe."
She rolled her eyes, "Okay what is it?"
"What do you mean?"
"What's got your attention today? I saw you day dreaming."
"I wasn't daydreaming!" he insisted.
"Sure..."
"I was thinking."
"Then what were you thinking about?" She asked, "I know you if you don't get it off your chest you won't work."
"Am I that bad?"
"Yes."
He chuckled and seemed to drift off again.
"Well?" she snapped once again. He looked to her and sighed, "Did you know would be Kirstain's birthday?"
Jo blinked in shock, she had always thought he'd forgotten about his forsaken daughter, "No, I didn't."
"Well it is. She'd be fifteen today. Relena would always send me one of her invitations, I'd make up an excuse not to go and just send a gift. It was a mistake to get mixed up with Relena."
"Well you can't possibly undo that."
"I know, but I can't help feeling, when I think about it, maybe I should have just toughened up and actually gotten to know my daughter."
"You regret killing her?"
"Kind of..."
"Kind of?"
Heero sighed, "Yeah, I do regret it."
Jo rose her eyebrow, "Why?"
Heero opened his mouth, and hesitated, "I don't know..."
Jo chewed on the end of her pen. Heero shrugged and gave Jo a small smile before he went back to the paper work. Jo on the other hand was quite puzzled and it was her turn to stare off into space thinking.
'I'll never understand him...' she thought to her self.
##
Duo was checking his innovatory, he'd moved back to his junkyard and car shop. He was living on a colony and Mau had joined him; they made a pretty good team. They'd opened up their own business and it was slowly growing to become something big. So far there were two other D&M's Junkyard and Automotive Services.
"Hey Duo!" Mau waved to her business partner.
"Hey Mau!" He smiled to her.
"What'cha doing?"
"Looking over the things that've come into the junk yard and what we've gotten rid of," He replied giving her a matching copy.
She sat down on worktable and sipped her can of Dr. Pepper, "How's the service room doing?"
"Great, considering how slow it is around winter, we're doing really good," Duo replied standing extremely close to a space heater.
Mau nodded and smiled, "Well that's good to hear. And the other locations?"
"Doing good. I haven't heard any complaints yet."
Both of them blinked at the sudden smell of burning hair. Mau jumped up and got a fire extinguisher faster than Duo could start panicking. She fired the white foam all over Duo. Duo blinked and glared at Mau.
"That was unnecessary..." he growled shaking the stuff off his hands. Mau bust out laughing, she was holding her stomach from laughing so hard. Finally Duo got a glimpse of himself in a hubcap and he too had to laugh. And when the laughter died down they started laughing again.
##
Trowa was waiting patiently for his trunk to be fixed, that was his given task for the day from the circus. They were in France and Trowa happened to know the owner of the local service room. Trowa looked at his watch and when he looked up Jade Roberts waved Trowa to her. She smiled and handed him the bill.
"I've done all you asked, rotated and balanced the tires, changed the oil, we even gave the trunk a complimentary wash and vacuum."
"Thanks Jade," Trowa smiled down at the petite girl, but his smile died down when he read the bill, "I thought you said you'd cut us a little slack with the prices."
"I did!" she blinked, "I'm not charging tax!"
Trowa sweat dropped, "Jade... there's no way I can pay this all in one sum."
"Why not?" she asked puzzled.
"I'm in a circus, Jade, think about it."
"I'm not following you."
"We don't make that much!"
"Listen, if you don't pay, you don't get your trunk back!" Jade said sternly.
"JADE!" Trowa yelled, "Please! You can trust me! I'll pay you back!"
"I don't make exceptions!" she crossed her arms stubbornly.
Trowa glared, "Jade... please?"
"Let me repeat, n. o. NO!"
They then had a stare off, both glaring fiercely. Trowa actually gave in and said, "Fine, I'll pay."
Jade smiled, "Good! You can have your trunk back!"
Trowa forked over the money, "And I'm never coming back to you."
"But you'll never find better service!" She claimed.
Trowa sighed, "I'm sure."
##
Dhirdre had just been escorted into one of the most fancy restaurants she'd ever seen, and Quatre the richest man she'd ever met was the one doing the escorting. She smiled brightly at him, as they were lead to a table. She'd been seeing Quatre on and off for the past year, and this was the first time he'd actually gone over board and taken her some where really nice.
When they arrived at the table, Quatre pulled a chair out for her. She sat with a small thank you.
Quatre then took his seat across from her and smiled, "So, enjoying yourself?"
"Oh! Very much! Thankyou!"
The waiter came quickly; Quatre ordered red wine and handed Dhirdre her menu. They sat in silence as they looked over their menu. Dhirdre was the first to decide and soon after Quatre put down his menu. The waiter came with the red wine and once they had ordered Quatre raised his glass. Dhirdre waited for his toast.
"To a glorious friend."
Dhirdre drank to that. With that they dwelled into what they loved to talk about, politics. Quatre could hardly wait till after dinner when they were taking a stroll in the moonlight, because tonight, he thought he'd pop the question.
##
Wufei threw a roundhouse kick right at Ling's head; she ducked and sent a spinning kick at his foot. Sweeping him off his feet she stood up and offered her hand to the beaten and bruised male. Wufei accepted and allowed her to pull him to his feet.
"You always do that!" she sighed, "And I always get you!"
He grinned, "I'm hoping I'll get lucky one day and actually get you."
"When the apocalypse comes," she replied wiping her face on a towel.
Wufei chuckled and patted her shoulder, "I'm sure. Now what'd you do with my towel?"
She looked around and realized she was using his, she offered the already used towel with a sheepish grin. He rose a silken brow and grabbed hers.
"I don't think so woman."
She popped him with the towel, "I thought you said you'd stop that!"
"Ow! Sorry!"
She rolled her eyes, "I'm sure."
They walked out of the gym to Wufei's new and much new motorcycle. Ling had actually been true to her word and paid for the damages of his old one. But instead he used the money to buy a new one. Wufei climbed on and Ling climbed on behind him.
"Don't forget you're helmet, onna."
She pinched his ear, "Will you quite already?"
He revved the thing up and it lurched forward before she had a chance to wrap her arms around his waist. She gave a little screech and grabbed a hold. He chuckled, this had been a weekly ritual for them, and even thou he would never admit it, he did enjoy the company.
'Sometimes I think he does it just to get under my skin,' she thought loosening her grip. Now they'd go for lunch and get into a verbal spar and then he'd take her home and he'd go off to his place. She smiled and looked up to the blue sky, life sure had changed. It was for the better and she liked it.
End Transmission...