(I do NOT own GW I never will all characters belong to the respected owners with the exception of Serenity, Hanna, and Kim!!!!!)
Serenity sat in the room with headphones on listening to the hard rock music from her cd player. Serenity swiveled her chair around and looked around the room. It was a nice room; it was larger enough for a board members conference room. The furnishings were comfortable with a large oak desk in the back of the room two matching plush couches in opposite sides of the room and cushioned chairs in from of the desk. Bay windows overlooked the colony bellow she herself had financed. Avalon was her colony, hidden by resource satellites and made in the same area as the original N2 had sat in junction with the asteroid belt.
The N colonies were the colonies between Mars and the asteroid belt or the none planetary space colonies. The original N colonies from N1 to N4 were no longer existed in space. The reason that the original N colonies are not in their places is because of a new threat. A threat that should not have existence after the horrors that had been done to the people of both earth and space during eve wars. This threat is New Zion, the original founding family of the Romafelier foundation has risen back into an influential status with several industry colonies beyond those of were the N colonies would be.
Avalon was a new colony created from the ashes of the productive and prosperous colonies destroyed in the N area of the solar system in particularly one colony specifically. N2, the colony had made a trade in rare spices and was completely self-sufficient while it lasted from after the one-year war till three years ago. Unfortunately for the occupants of the colony's unknown disaster was to occur three months after the last eve war. It has been three years ago at the Marie Maya uprising, three years of useless battle unknown to the world sphere and preventers. The official report is that stray asteroids from the belt destroyed the original colony of N2, but the real cause was a direct beam cannon hit from a New Zion battle ship. All the residents of colony were presumed dead, except Serenity Mia Ray. Serenity M Ray has not been heard from for two years now and is also officially dead.
Serenity presses her back into the chair and closes her eyes trying in vain to close out the memories and doubt. Despite all the good she has done, all the damage control unknown to the rest of the world and space she still cannot stop the voice of doubt and accusation. The ifs of "if she had been there" and "what if she had just left them alone" haunted her.
Serenity remembered why she had come home and what had made her leave it in the first place. She had wanted to help the people that lived in space that depended on the earth for life so they could win freedom. She had gone with her father's blessing, her mother's respect, and her brother's bittersweet goodbye. She had been a spy, backup Gundam pilot, and assassin for the colonies during the first Eve war working for the scientists. Still more than that she had become a living genetic experiment for the one scientists never mentioned by anyone, Dr. Neo or Dr. X. The only bright spot when it came to the days of her training in stealth, the injections, and Mobile Suite piloting was Dr. X assistant Mercy Valentine. After the war Serenity had returned home scared and almost completely broken in spirit. It had taken her almost a year to recover from the war but eventually she had become herself again.
Serenity smiled,
"You can come in Hanna; I'm not doing anything important."
A young burnet looked at her friend with worried gray eyes. Pushing back a long waist length lock of mahogany hair from her heart shaped face Hanna Yulee regarded her friend's chair pushing her full lips into a frown.
"You need to get out of this attitude Tear or should I say Serenity?"
Serenity slowly turned her chair around to glare at her stubborn friend with ice blue eyes.
"You have the most annoying habit of changing to my real name when you have bad news so say it and quite the "I'm worried about your health speech."
Hanna met Serenity's glare and returned it for a brief second before delivering the bad news to her friend and employer.
"They did not take the warning that the vice foreign minister's life will be in direct danger if she attend the World Sphere Meeting seriously. Her people disregarded the notion that she should not attend the meeting but instead do the meeting via vid screen. And also the meeting will be in eight hours time from now."
Serenity rubbed the bridge of her nose and began to give orders.
"Prepare for damage control ASAP. I'll need my red dress, the leather corset, the light bulletproof gundanium plate, black studded opera gloves, and the black wig with the black and red makeup. Have Kim prepare the Eclipse and then you and Kim will go on that date you keep delaying."
Hanna had been relaying everything to Kim with the vid screen and automatically said the last part before it had taken root what she had just said. Hanna turned red and whirled to look at the half smile on Serenity's face.
"But…how could you…. we haven't… how?"
Serenity smiled fondly at Hanna and told her.
"It doesn't take much to see it with the look you and him are both giving each other all the time. Plus it will keep your mind off what I'm doing at each moment I'm gone my dear friend. So go have fun and don't worry about me for once!"
Hanna bite her lip and thought it over while she pulled the items that had been requested by her friend and employer. Serenity undressed and then pulled on the leather corset made to hide her generous curves and to restrict them into the slimmer flatter appearance so favorable with high society. Next came the body armor, a flexible plate of plastic coated in a gundanium alloy that went all the way down to her waist that made it ten times as useable as and safer than the old bulletproof vests used by the police.
The red dress was one of Serenity's favorites, the dress was a high neck sleeveless that molded to her hips and then flared to her ankles with slits on either side of it that came just below her thighs. A single black dragon graced the wine red dress by curling along the neckline. Serenity pulled the black wig out of its case and brushed it to a glossy jet color before adjusting it into place over her fine copper-gold hair. Pulling out two black pearl clips she arranges her hair into a fashionable half twist on the right side of her head.
Color contacts turn her icy blue eyes to a honey brown. Next she uses her make up to turn her eyebrows, which are the same color as her hair and eyelashes to a black. Next black mascara, dusty rose blush, and wine color lipstick finish the affect. Where lady Tear had stood now stands a young woman that might have some oriental or European background ready to escort one of the ambassadors from space.
Lastly came the studded gloves her only weapon, the gloves had small but with thin and flexible metal plates under the fabric that came to hard caps over the knuckle areas. The gloves where her own invention, seemingly harmful in appearance till you where hit with them, in which case they would cause they deeply bruise the target if the hit did not have enough momentum. Unfortunately for the person you were fighting against if you had enough force behind the blow you could break bone.
Walking briskly Serenity goes to the private elevator that will take her right to the hanger under the colony. The elevator descends to the hanger and Serenity and Hanna walk out into the expansive hanger with various vehicles in states of repair. But her destination is towards the back hanger where only certain mechanics are allowed. Inside the hanger sits two gundams. The first one a silver and violet color is the Eclipse a space flight special. While the other it's heavier twin of ivory and midnight blue is the Starfall earth land special.
Climbing into the Eclipse Serenity waves to both Kim and Hanna before strapping herself into the Gundam and taking off for the long trip to earth to stop the assassination of Vice Foreign Minister Relena Darlian.
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Relena sat on the comfortable sofa in her first class room at a hotel in America waiting for the conference time. Relena couldn't sit still any longer she had been sitting here after the tip from a reliable source that had tipped them off on several other attempts on her life.
The informant tip had come in the same way as always, a message that had a little red angel icon on the e-mail tab in her inbox. So when she had opened it she expected the usual shot of a red haired angel bowed head and bound in chains to appear as a header with elegant script under it telling the time and place of the occurrence or attempt on her life. What she was not prepared for was that this time the angel was alone without the usual message but more startling was the fact that the angel was the messenger. The angel had cocked her head and had recited the message to Relena on screen.
The message had been disturbing with the information that the contact had given but what had shaken her the most was what the angel had said in monotone voice before begging her not to attend the conference. The herald for lack of any other word to describe her digital messenger had then looked up from her bowed head position and had told her that what she had heard was the actual voice of her unknown contact.
Relena sat down again and her mind instantly went to what had happened after the message had played. The angel had smiled and then bowed her head again. What Relena had not expected was for the message to delete itself after relaying its message. What she then noticed was a second unopened letter from the same person. This new email had contained the message from before devoid of the angel's vocal information.
Sighing brokenly Relena slump forward in her seat for all she could comprehend and despite the reassurance she kept getting from Hero, Duo, and Trowa she just didn't feel easy about going to the conference. She hadn't wanted to come in the first place after she had found she would be the main speaker at the event and that it was a lunch affair with escorts and such. Muttering under her breath Relena decided to get ready after the entire event would start in an hour's time.
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Serenity sat forward in the limo impatient to get to the meeting and prevent a national disaster. After she had been picked up by one of the outside members of her prevention group they had headed for a high priced hotel and had picked up her "date" for the meeting. Not they had pulled up to the large building that was rented out for such meetings and other important events. After getting inside they where stopped to walk through a body scanner that looked for items that might have any destructive possibilities. Serenity approved of this precaution but knew that the assassin was using a new organic alloy weapon that would not show up on the scanner.
Moving with the crowd she made her way to the meeting hall and then made an excuse to her date and began to search for the hit man. It didn't take her long to spot him; he was dressed like a server with the standard uniform and discreet brown hair and eyes and to top it off was acting like one to perfection. If Serenity hadn't known what to look for specifically she would never have spotted him in the crowd. And then it had been close if she had not noticed the stance he had taken while adjusting the tray he carried.
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Relena stood before her full-length mirror and put on the last adjustment to her outfit. Fixing a serene expression on her face Relena made her way down the hall to the behind stage area. Giving a timid smile to Dou she walked out after the announcer's introduction. Walking out on stage Relena greeted the gathering and began with the formal introduction to her speech.
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Up in the balcony Hero began to have an uneasy feeling about the meeting. With a fluid motion he pulled out a headset and radioed Duo to make sure everything was going smooth behind stage. When he got a confirmation that everything was ok Hero began to scan the crowd again thinking to himself that something didn't feel right.
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Serenity saw the movement before she saw the weapon; the gun was a sleek, coal black, custom job that did not reflect light at all, add to that fact that it had a sight and laser targeting system to top off its deadly efficiency. Swearing under her breath Serenity moved into the line of fire already knowing the bullets would be armor piercing from the custom job that gun had. As the assassin began to pull the triggered Serenity jerked the gun down from the intended angle to level with the area below her rib cage praying the whole time that it would not hit something that was vital to her survival.
The sound of a high power gun rang out in the building and the force of the impact nearly knocked Serenity off her feet and out cold if the burning pain had not hit her at the same time. Blood misted and splattered over those behind her as the bullet passed through her body to imbed itself in the floor behind her. The crowd around her panicked and ran while the shooter reloaded and was about to take another shot at the stunned young woman on stage.
That shot never left the gun because just as the hit man raised his gun to fire Serenity had been midway into a punch in the guy's face. As it would happen the room was nearly empty when the astonished man had a fist planted square on the bridge of him nose which followed with a dry cracking sound as the bone there shattered at the impact.
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The man reeled back and clutched at his face fighting for consciousness before he pulled out a blade from somewhere in his coat. Hero watched as the assassin lunged for the Asian girl only to have her duck with almost unreal speed to deliver a punch to the man's exposed gut making him double over. Whipping out the headset Hero gave orders to Dou and Trowa to get Relena down and out of sight. Then changing frequencies he told Wufie to get himself and Sally in here to take care of the assassin and young would be heroine.
Shoving the headset back into his jeans pocket he sprinted down the stairs hoping that the girl despite her wound could hold off her attacker a little longer. Running as fast as he could down the hallway Wufie and Sally joined Hero in the last turn towards the hallway leading into the meeting hall.
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Quatre was the only guest left in the meeting hall after the others had panicked and ran. The only reason for staying was the possibility that his good friends might need his help if things got out of hand. Quatre made his way towards the fight from the man's back in hopes that he might knock the assassin unconscious with a well placed blow to the back of the head.
What Quatre or Hero, Wufie, and Sally did not expect was just as they were getting ready to neutralize the problem before the young woman was further hurt, was for the woman in question to solve the problem of how to approach the situation for them.
With a twist of her wrists Serenity got off the offensive and let her training take over. A deadly calm descended over her facial features causing her opponent to back up slightly. Adjusting her stance she swung out her arm but faked it at the last second and swung upwards to hit him square in his gut instead. As her foe doubled over in pain Serenity kneed him in the face before viciously jerking him back upright by his hair and punching him in his kidneys before letting the man crumple into a heap at her feet.
Serenity felt her muscles tremble from the strain and shock that was beginning to set in. looking up at the four people in front of her she couldn't help the cold smile that touched her pale face. Taking on an uncaring stance she tilted her head to the side slightly and mockingly said the words that she had written in her message.
"The assassin is a trained professional with a new type of weapon that can not be detected with the usual methods. It would be wise if the minister does not present her speech in person but from a secure location outside of the city and be monitored for the next 48 hours."
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Hero clenched his fists and glared at the woman in front of him. The only two reasons he did not slap the ice coated smile from her face was the facts that she was a woman and that she was apparently the informant that has helped them all those other times. Hero glared harder almost wishing looks could kill a person. Serenity merely raised an eyebrow at this and then clasped her hands in front of her before smiling a little too broadly.
Sally was beginning to worry about the disturbing behavior the girl was displaying. Sally could see that at least half of her actions where due to the fact she was going into shock. Pulling on the sleeve of Wufie's jacket Sally whispered what she thought was happening into his ear. Wufie glared at the girl but agreed with his partner on this.
Without any warning Wufie lunged at the girl and wrestled her to the ground after Sally had told him that she probably didn't realize how bad the wound was and would try to leave. Unfortunately for Wufie Serenity did not take to being pined to the ground with favor and kneed him in the groin. Hero and Quatre both winched at her actions before helping the gasping and cursing Wufie pin her down.
Serenity arced her back but stopped when pain shoot through her so intensely that it left her gasping and shaking. Sally took advantage of this to pull interments from her backpack and begin to check her patient over. Frowning Sally glared at the girl still being held down so she couldn't do further damage to herself.
"Your lucky you haven't fainted from blood loss child."
Sally stated tensely as the girl renewed her struggle to get up by arcing her back once more and growling at the boys. Sally having enough of the aggressive display pulled a mild sedative from her bag and administered it to the girl.
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