Gundam Wing: Raven's Story

Part 2: Trouble within

Raven awoke gently as usual. Remembering what had happened last night, she looked at her new comrades. Heero and Duo huddled together, while Trowa and Quatre slept together peacefully. Then her eyes rested on Wufei. She realized that he was defiantly awake, but was hiding for some reason. She jumped down from the branch, silently and walked over to Wufei. She could tell that he was crying, by the way his body shook. She gently laid a hand onto Wufei tender back. He jumped and turned to face that had dared to touch him. When he noticed who it was, his face went for pure anger to sheer terror.

"It's okay Wufei, this is not one of the times you pissed me off." She spoke tenderly, as a mother would do to a frightened child. "Wufei, what's wrong? Why were you crying?" He turned away from her and her eyes. No one could ever scare him, yet this impossible, fowl woman did. And now she was being quite motherly to him as she did to Heero.

"How is it that you are the only woman that I know who can bring out my emotions? Damn you, woman!" Wufei cursed. He didn't want her help, by that reason he accidentally offended her again. He looked up at her with harsh eyes. Her hand came down on his flesh hard. The sound didn't help the stinging sensation. Wufei sat there with his hand to his face, the tears pouring out of his eyes.

"I'm sorry!" Wufei sobbed for forgiveness. He never told anyone sorry, but this woman scared him into saying it. "Raven I didn't mean it like that." His sobs intensified as she walked away. By this time everyone was awake and knew what happened. Wufei noticed everyone's eyes and threw a blanket on top of him to hide. There he stuck what little bit of security he had into his mouth and sucked. Heero looked over to Trowa. Trowa just shrugged his shoulder knowing that Wufei set himself up. Duo sat up.

"She might end up a problem." Trowa spoke. Heero nodded in agreement.

"I have a feeling, a gut feeling mind you, that something happened to her and that she's been bottling it up this whole time." Duo spoke.

"Well she's open to you, so why don't you talk to her? Duo?" Heero asked.

"Where did she go?"

"Um…"

"Try the lake again." Quatre spoke.

"Thanks." Duo ran to find the woman that he fallen in love with. Unfortunately for him they all knew it. Quatre walked over to Wufei. He gently rubbed Wufei's back letting him know that he was right there.

"Wufei?" Trowa asked as he walked toward them. Wufei gently move out from under the blankets. His thumb still in his mouth, he glanced at Trowa and Quatre. "Are you okay?"

"No ... She scared me again." Luckily the slap didn't bruise his face. " I'm all wet now. From my tears ... and ... and," Wufei hiccuped trying to compose himself.

"Don't finish, we know." Trowa said gently. Wufei out stretched his arms to Trowa. Trowa embraced him softly.

Duo ran over to the lake that over looked the OZ base that they would soon have to take care of. Raven stood there throwing rocks as hard as she possibly could. He saw the tears that were being shed as she threw them.

"Raven!" Duo yelled. He wasn't exactly happy with what happened.

"Go away Duo! I don't want to talk. I'm obviously going to be kicked off the team." She spoke harsh. Duo looked at her, wondering what was with her.

"Raven why did you hit him? You know you caused him to cry. I never seen him cry like that before… Well I have, but that was a different situation." Duo wanted an explanation.

"Hate it! Growing up, being used and considered as a weakling. Fuck this. He's sexist and he reminds me of a family that I stayed with that used me as a sex toy. Do you know what that's like? Do you have any clue?" She snarled at him. He looked down. He might not have a good life, but it was better than that. Behind Duo stood Wufei and Trowa, surprised by what they heard. Raven chucked the rock into the lake and ran. She ran away, from the gundam pilots that adopted her.

"Oh, Gods. I made a big mistake. She didn't know that Wufei can't really change the way he is." Trowa spoke. Wufei looked down too upset to glance into anyone's eyes.

"It's all my fault. She tried to be nice to me and all I did is snap at her like I do to you guys." Wufei sounded guilt ridden.

"WELL ARE YOU HAPPY!!! SHE'S GONE!!!" Duo screamed. He ran to hide in his gundam, away from the one that made her leave.

"He never thinks rationally around women." Heero spoke up squinting at the OZ base.

"Heero, I really don't she's going to be back. She'll show up for the missions, yes, but she won't stick around though." Trowa quietly replied.

"We will see." He spoke in his normal monotone voice.

Treize watch the whole incident from a Leo that was hidden on the hill above.

"Hmmm ... This is going to prove rather helpful. We have a new guinea pig. I wonder how well she can fight. From what it looks like that she does do a decent job. In order to make my beloved Wufei cry, you would have to do a lot of damage." He told his thoughts out loud to himself. He smiled at the challenge that was presented to him.

Hell fury towered over Raven. She looked at her gundam who happened to be glancing at her. It almost looked as if it was concerned.

"Well big guy, I blew it this time. How can you handle me? Huh, Helly?" Her gundam drew its arm down to coax her to it. "Aw, Helly I ain't going to be doing stupid shit. You worry too much." She climbed onto Hell Fury's hand. Her gundam took her into it.

"I wanted to say something, but you have to be inside of me to hear." Helly spoke in a deep voice.

"We're going to have to fix that. I know you get lonely that I'm not around. What's up?"

"What did you do?"

"I hit Wufei. He was being sexist and I couldn't control it. Like I said I blew it."

"You know that their gundams can't speak to them do you?"

"Of course I know that. I created that voice box for you. That's why I'm skittish of being with you when we fight. I know that the guys will ask me about that. Has that been bugging you a bit, Helly?"

"Yes and no. I wished I could talk to Deathscythe, after all he's my brother, more than the others."

"We we'll see Helly. I might get a chance to enhance Duo's gundam so you can talk to him, but you know Dr. C don't even know that you have your own personality. Once that comes out we are so screwed. Then everyone will want you instead of Heero's Wing, or even Ep. Not like Epyon is any different." Just as she said that a massive explosion sounded.

"Helly, give me the quadrants where that came from."

"Downloading …. It looks as if the others decided to go after that OZ base. Want to go?"

"Let's get those bastards!" Hell fury jumped into action.

When they got there Deathscythe and Heavyarms were caught in a bad situation. Hell Fury dismantled the Leos that were attacking them.

"Raven! Boy am I glad to see you!" Duo yelled over the comm.

"Come on Duo. You're just saying that."

"No I mean it."

"Okay." Raven terminated the connection, so she could concentrate on the task that was in front of her. Wing Zero and Nakatu showed up to join in the battle. Then Sandrock finally showed up. The battle was fierce. Then out of the blue Epyon showed up.

"Raven! Ep!" Helly yelled. Unfortunately the comm. was open so all the other gundams heard Helly's voice.

"Zechs is that you?" Raven called glaring at Helly, knowing that it was in big trouble with Raven.

"It a shame that gundams have no control." A husky voice was on the comm.

"TREIZE!!! You son of a bitch!" Raven growled. All the gundams stood behind Hell Fury, ready to fight.

Helly decided to speak again, "Gundam pilots let Raven and I fight the monstrosity."

"My God Helly, you really want to die don't you!" Raven scorned.

"No …"

"Then SHUT THE HELL UP!" Raven yelled. Her anger startled the gundam into silence. The gundam behaved from there on.

"Raven …" Wufei voice was barely heard over the comm.

"Wufei?" Raven was defiantly surprised.

"I'm sorry that I did that to you, but please don't attack Treize. It's a trap. I want to be able to talk to you. I want you to come back." Wufei voice was really quiet, showing signs of embarrassment. Tears began to flood his eyes. He hoped that she wouldn't yell at him again.

"Okay." She turned to Treize. " Hey bitch boy! I'll be back for you. Helly don't say a damn thing."

"Raven I must say I'm rather impressed by your gundam in particular." Treize spoke to her as they left.

Raven returned with the group. They regrouped at their safe house. Duo wouldn't shut up about Helly's personality. Even Helly, itself, was getting annoyed by Duo. On the hanger the gundams stood where they stay for the night. Helly sat down on its butt so Raven could get out. She wore a head set so she could talk to it. Heero stood at Hell fury's feet.

"You never told us that you gundam could talk, let alone had its own personality." Heero said. Raven couldn't tell what he was feeling by looks, but being a telepath she could tell he was defiantly surprised.

"Yep, that's my boy. Helly knew he would be in big trouble if he spoke, but as usual, he don't listen to me." She glared at it. Helly dropped it head, showing signs of submit and being ashamed for what it did. "You better not start trying to cry on me." She looked at him. Heero knew it was talking to her through the headphones. "Okay I'll get it, just give me a little time. I need to do repairs on you anyway."

"Dinner is ready you two. Raven please join us." Trowa called as he stood at the top of the stairs. She has a special bond between her gundam that I think none of us will ever have, Trowa thought.

"Sure I'll join ya. I just need to get something for Helly." Raven answered back. Heero walked up to Trowa.

"She's amazing, and her gundam is just as amazing." He whispered to Trowa. Trowa just nodded. They walked into the living room, Wufei inquired Trowa by his looks.

"She's down stairs. You really should apologize before she gets up here."

"I know…" Wufei softly spoke. He walked down to where Hell Fury sat. Hell fury pointed to where Raven had disappeared. He whispered his thanks and walked over to there. She glanced at him and smiled.

"Can I talk to you?" Wufei asked.

"Yep. What's up?" Raven replied. Wufei pointed at the rather large blanket, confused. "Oh, that's not for me. It's for him." As she nodded at the gundam who looked at her expectantly.

"Oh… I wanted to apologize for the treatment I gave you."

"I should be the one apologizing. You acted like you always do, and so was I." She said as she handed her gundam its 'blankie'. "You see we act the way we stay true, like Helly here. I made him some equipment so he could talk to me. He added his personality. He stays true to himself as you and I do." Wufei took this as a teaching and took mental notes. He never thought this woman was that intelligent.

"Why does he need that?" Wufei asked curiously.

"The same reason you need that stuff toy you holding. He gets really uncomfortable when I'm not around. You see I made that for him after he got his personality. I was afraid that he put an emotion grid in there. Since I do a lousy job of comforting anything, I gave him that. I told him it was for nightmares, we all get them and so does he. Well he clings onto that when I'm not around for comfort. It kind of started to be a normal thing for him." Raven explained with a smile. Hell Fury laid its metal body against the wall clutching its blankie. Wufei clutched his stuffed dragon tighter. "Come on let's get out of here while he's asleep." Wufei followed. They left the room and walked into the dinning room where everyone was giving them weird glares.

"Neat way of putting your gundam to sleep." Duo remarked. Raven blushed.

"You guys were spying on us." Wufei growled. Everybody chuckled.

"Aww… Is Wufei afraid that his little stuffed dragon is going to disappear? You better watch it Treize might get it and do bad things to it." Duo mocked him. Wufei huffed. Everyone knew that Duo hurt his pride again. Wufei turned and tried to walk out. Tears of embarrassment flooded his eyes. Raven gently grabbed his arm and pulled him into an embrace. Wufei buried his face afraid to cry again. A slight whimper sounded out of Wufei. Raven glared at Duo in irritation. Quatre decided to change the mood.

"Let's eat. Then we'll worry with our gundams and sleeping arrangements." Quatre spoke happily.

To be continued …

Author's Note: If I end up with any reviews for this goofy story I may just keep up with it... But that is only if there is someone out there that would like a continuation to this story. - Crys Skywalker