Kuro-Boshi: Well well.... Look what I dragged in... myself! Sorry for the delay and all... but Eagle, my lovely demonic computer who probably runs off the D chip as a processor decided to go nitsy and delete all my lovely files! I've also had school and exams to worry about. Not to mention I moved house and lost the Internet for a while...

Now.. on with the show!

------- indication of story / real time switch

"W...wait...!" Isis blinked, "the... spirit of Lili?" her lip quivered "she's not... dead... is she?"

"Er, Ic-y, I'd be more worried if she was alive... and anywhere near us...." Mathew gulped, "She's been trained by scientists... she's got a strange computer chip in her head... and she can do this?!"

"True man.. true..." Solo 'shivered' "1st class hackers can work from a distance of the target, though havin our parents being our parents.."

"Hey, we're not that bad.." Duo pouted,

"..." Solo shook his head slightly, "Anyone trying to hack us would have to know the strange layout of the wiring, outlets, power sources, and.. waiit..."

Nana looked up, "Did something dawn on Duo Jr.?" she chuckled lightly.

"None of our electrical are networked... or in that matter connected to anything other than electricity..."

"She must have set things previously..." Alexander concluded.

"Dude, no." Solo shook his head, "Unless she's been here when this house was made the only way she could get in was if she..."

"... died...." Dorothy gripped onto her father, "daaddyy!!! I don't like ghosts!"

Nana sipped at her new cup of tea watching the shadows play off the faces of the newly frightened youngsters, and the faces of the fathers, who weren't afraid, but looked more concerned with their present situation. She couldn't help but smile, the power cut aided to her story, showing the power of the D-chip, and fear.

"waiit..."

Nana's smirk was paused when her two-toned eyes fell upon Wei. The one with the most common sense out of the next generation of 'gundam guys (and girls!)'

"what-o Wei-wei?" she blinked.

"Did I hear wrong... or did Mrs. Barton say something along the lines of 'doppelganger out'?"

"Ah." She nodded, "You most likely did hear her say that. It was a name given to her long ago..." The group fell silent. "... she was quite the copy cat and mimicked very well, you would think that she was a 3D shadow of someone." The pre-teens blinked looking at her, she smiled into her mug and then looked at them again, "How about we continue..."

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"Destroying evidence my dear girl.." He pressed the plunger and the door which Lili had hacked into to open, snapped shut, within the colony though, Professor Si-ming's laboratory, underneath his estate house suddenly imploded, destroying the entire secret floor, along with anything inside it. Including the possibility of Niiro.

"Sir, what... do we do now." Cesia looked up to the man hopefully as he walked towards Lili.

"Lili, I believe you wanted to see the other colonies, correct?" He was answered with a nod as the little girl looked up at him, "Choose a colony then dear."

"Uhm..." she paused thinking for a second remembering what John-'nee-chan told her on her birthday not too long ago, "Our sister colony..."

"L2?" Si-ming frowned slightly and shrugged, "Sure. Put it into the computer and the ship will auto pilot us there."

With the co-ordinates pre programmed into the ship, it turned around full and sped off towards the colony.

At the very same time of their arrival in the colony, a group of thieves were the annoyance of all the market vendors. It just happened to be the same group Lili was destined to meet.

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"Now, doesn't this remind me of someone." Duo chuckled lightly.

The rest of the room looked at him and hushed him.

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"I'll be staying here?!" Lili looked up to the large looming building in front of her.

"Yes Lili, for the time being." Cesia nodded, "Mr. Si-ming has some business to complete and it would be in your best interest to gain some 'out of family' people skills.

Lili looked up, her nose wrinkled, "but... why a church?"

Si-ming walked out of the front doors with a young looking woman, who was a nun. "Lili, this is the woman who will be looking after you, her name is Sister Helen."

"Hello." Lili smiled lightly up towards the older female.

"Well, you know our situation Sister, so we will be leaving my dear girl with you for a little while." Si-ming nodded gratefully and pat Lili on the head, "Behave nicely, and..." he lent closer, "Try not to tell much about yourself."

"ok..." The girl nodded and took the outreaching hand of Sister Helen. At the top of the stairs, she turned seeing her only family walk off leaving her once more in the hands of an orphanage.

"Sister Helen?"

The sister looked up, and replied, "Father?".

"Ah there you are my dear," he smiled coming around the corner, "Young Du... is..." he blinked seeing Lili, he then turned around and looked in the direction he arrived from, "Sister, how, may I ask, did the lad..."

"Ah!" Helen gasped her hand rising to her mouth, "Oh, forgive me father, this is young Lili, she looks remarkably like Duo, doesn't she."

"Incredibly like Duo." He chuckled lightly, "Well now, another orphan I see? My, my, with this war there sure are quite a few homeless young ones..."

"Sister Helleeeennn!!!" the pitter-patter of feet hitting the marble floor came closer and closer to the group. "Sister!! Duo hit me!"

"Oh my..." She sighed.

"He started it!" a messy brown haired child ran around the corner and skidded to a stop, "He made me do it!"

Lili blinked looking at the boy, the one she believed named Duo. "Sister...?" She tugged at the woman's sleeve, "why does that boy look like me?"

Sister Helen smiled lightly and touched her shoulder, then attended to the child, which 'Duo' had punched in the face. After the child went home, after all he was taking bible lessons from the Father of Maxwell church, she turned towards the young trouble maker as she redid his hair into a braid, "Duo, what did that child do for you to hit him so?"

Pouting Duo clenched his fists, "He said that I'd never find a home, that the reason why I'm always sent back is because I'm a demon."

"Oh my..." she sighed and hugged him lightly. Lili looked through a crack in the door at Duo and Sister Helen, pushing the door open so that she could slip in.

"A girl at my old orphanage said that too." she sat on the bench next to Duo, who looked at her. "But I found Mr. Si-ming. And he kept me." She blinked as Sister Helen began brushing out her messy ponytail, "Its not much of a family though..."

"So." Duo blinked playing with his braid, "You're 'a demon' too?"

"No." she looked at him as Sister Helen began fixing her hair, "I was called the little hell raiser, and crazy." She snorted, "but I showed them..." her eyes became darker, "I'll show everybody."

"Alright!" Sister Helen smiled finishing the two braids. "Now we will be able to tell you two apart! Duo with one braid, and Lili with two!"

Later on that evening, the two new friends, Duo and Lili were getting ready for bed, when...

"Lili?"

"Hmm mmh?" She looked up brushing her teeth, at Duo.

"If Mr. Si-ming adopted you... why are you here then?" He rinsed his toothbrush and put it back in its spot.

"Well..." she blinked washing off her brush as well, "Mr. Si-ming needs some time to work things out... so he placed me here for a while.."

"Oh." He blinked as he crawled into bed, "Well, goodnight Lili."

"Pleasant Dreams...Duo." Lili crawled out of her bed and crossed over to the window. Sitting on the window ledge, she sat watching the lights, until she too fell asleep.

Lili had only stayed there for less than a month, when Cesia showed up again at the doors of the church.

"Do come again Lili!" Sister Helen waved at the doors.

Lili smiled sadly, for the entire day, she had not seen Duo. He had overheard the conversation of the phone between Sister Helen and Cesia the pervious night, and was gone in the morning.

"Why so glum Lili?" Cesia looked down at her 'little sister' as she was guiding her away from the Church.

"I didn't get to say goodbye to Duo..." She frowned, "It hurts to say goodbye."

Cesia nodded, "It does hurt to say goodbye, that's why you say 'see you again', or 'until next time'"

"But...I'll never see him again..."

"Never see who again?!" A scruffy boy with a long braid slid around a corner, "me?"

"Duo!" She smiled dropping Cesia's hand and hugged the boy, "Sister Helen had a fit when you weren't in your bed!"

"Well..." Duo sniffed, "I had to get something."

"Oh?" she blinked stepping back as Duo pulled out a little box from his pocket.

"Here."

"For me?" She picked up the little box from his open hand. "Really?"

"Yup." He nodded. "Open it!" he smiled.

Lili smiled brightly and opened the box; inside there was a silver cross, "wow... pretty." She picked up the chain.

"Yeah, I picked it out myself. Sister Helen gave me the money for it."

Putting it around her neck she hugged Duo, "thanks! I'll remember you and the church always!"

Duo smiled, "See ya around Lili."

"Yeah." She smiled, "See ya around."

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"Wow. You actually met Lili when she was younger Mr. Maxwell?"

"Yeah. Though I didn't remember her. I had a lot on my mind a few months later..." Duo nodded.

"Did you ever actually see her again dad?"

"Oh, I'm sure I did, though, she was never the same little girl I met in the past. Her name changed many times... Lili, Dorothy-J..." Trowa nudged him quite sharply with his elbow stopping his memories.

Nana looked at Duo, "Now who's telling the story, Duo. Hm?"

".... You... ma'am." Duo mumbled slightly.

"Now, years had passed since Lili stayed at the Church...."

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"Doppelganger, where are you going." Si-ming looked up as the 'Doppelganger' flipped out of her pod.

"Its 4.25 pm, Wednesday afternoon, official training end, allowing me five minutes to ready myself for my run." She turned looking at Si-ming though her specially designed helmet.

"Alright." He nodded. "Make sure you bring the weights this time. You may be as quick as a rabbit, but I need you to be as strong as a dragon too."

"Sure." She nodded and walked quickly towards her room, her double braids swinging behind her.

"Sir, you do know that it's the sixth year since the Maxwell Church Tragedy..." A black haired woman walked out of another room and closed the door. "What if she decides to..."

"Cesia, if she decides to do anything it will go against her precise schedule which she keeps to as if her life depended on it. She hasn't done anything in the last five years, I'm sure she wont do anything now."

"I'm ready to go." The proud owner of the only functional D chip stood at the open door wearing her favourite running clothes, black pants and a grey ratty t-shirt, with of course, her 'lucky charm' the necklace given to her from an orphan, whom she had forgotten the name of because of her training. "I will be back in a few hours." With that she was gone with a light breeze.

"That girl has gotten fast over the years." Cesia shook her head slightly as she closed the door after her.

"Yes, she has a faster reaction and movement time than John's. Though she never picked up your ability to read people as well as you do." Si-ming chuckled still plugging away at the computer. "Would you be a good girl and fetch me a quick snack, I'm afraid I wont be able to make it to dinner tonight."

"Yes sir." She nodded and left the man to his work.

"From the calculations I've gathered from the other distinguished people this should suit the D chips purpose quite well." Si-ming sat back watching his calculations take the form of a humanoid figure, "My fellow mad scientists from university would be amazed at the beauty of this masterpiece." He continued working plugging in more equations each time, the figure edited itself to maintain a perfect balance. "Though...." He stopped once more in his design of the mobile suit. "Her favourite suit is a flight type... this one has enough thrust to maintain flight... but its body does not account for it..." he pulled out a rather large roll, and rolled it out onto the long table beside him. Getting up he ran his fingers along the blueprint until he reached the crucial point. "This suit will need wings..."

"Wings sir? Cesia appeared with his snack like dinner and a coffee, "Why not reduce its mass by getting rid of the armour here," she pointed to the arms, "and here," she pointed towards the legs. "Since this has enough speed, it will be able to dodge most attacks, and the reduced weight, can be added to a wing like thrusters system on the back."

"Excellent idea."

"Though, if you made the wings solid, you could somehow make this suit transform into something like a fighter jet."

"I'll think about that, Cesia. Thank you." He nodded and returned to his computer.

Meanwhile, Lili had run quarter the length of the distance between the 'new house' and the ruins of the Maxwell church. As she was nearing it, she passed by a circus; she paused to look at the tigers.

"What are you doing!" A young woman came up shouting at her, "Get away from them!"

Taking this as a hostile situation, Lili took off like the wind and continued her run.

"What a strange girl..." the young brown haired circus girl watched the girl disappear before returning to perfecting her act of knife throwing.

"Six years..." she finally stopped running when she reached the old gates of the church. "Six years since I've stayed here, six years since I received this, six years since I last saw everyone..." She stood holding her cross.

"You, uh, came here often?"

"No, I only visited for a little while..." She let go of her cross. "It's a shame it burnt down."

"It wasn't burnt down, it was attacked by a bunch of idiots."

She shook her head, "Why attack a Church." She gripped her fists, and her eyes flickered green. "I'll show them... I'll show everyone..." With that she bent down and created a little shrine out of the rubble, picking up two sticks she bound them together in the shape of a cross, planting it in the rubble she then turned her heal and left.

The other person looked at the mound. "Wow, one mound for every year." He noted the several piles. The last formed the final part of a large cross. The last of the ones made, he bent down and looked at it. "What's this..?" he picked up the wooden stick cross. "She... used a silver necklace..." he ran his finger along it, "looks like she broke something off it" he rubbed his finger against the tip of the metal, standing up, he looked towards where the girl ran, "See ya. Lili." He tipped his cap, and the older Duo turned and walked off the other way.

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"So, Si-ming, is creating some sort of mobile suit." Alexander nodded, "judging from what he and Cesia were talking about, it sounds like something dad would pilot."

"Indeed it does Alex." Nana nodded.

"Hey dad, do you still have the chain and part of the necklace you gave her?"

"Nope." Duo shook his head, "Gave it away."

"Aww man...." Matthew sighed, "That would have been soo cool..."

"Hey now. I didn't say I gave it away to someone I'd never see again." Duo laughed.

"So... who has it?!" Solo jumped up.

"Nana, care to show them your 'collection'...?" He smirked slightly as the old woman got up and crossed over to a cupboard.

"You mean this collection?" she smirked and opened the double doors. Inside was like a mini shrine to Lili, among other people. The kids got up and shuffled over.

"Woah.. Nana, you're like... obsessed." Dorothy and Isis blinked looking at all the items.

"Can... we say stalker?" Solo chuckled.

"What was in that jar." Wei pointed to an empty glass canister in the centre of a shelf.

"Ah." She blinked looking at it, "that would be the case for the prototype D-chip."

"Well... where is it?!" Isis put her hands on her hips.

"I never found out where it went."

"Nana... why is there a shirt...?" Solo blinked poking it.

"That was John's."

"Aww cutie! This jacket is adorable!" Dorothy cooed at the small bomber jacket, "this was Lili's birthday gift... right?"

"It was." A voice said from behind them. "I'm surprised you kept all that stuff.... Cesia."

Duo sunk into the couch muttering, "Saints preserve marmalade... they're at it again!"(1). Trowa too shifted slightly, the other pilots decided to sit as still as possible... maybe she wouldn't see them

The children turned to see the door burst open and a bright light flood in, only for it to be blocked out by a single silhouette, with two long braids. The hall light behind the braided one flickered then popped, the room once again drowning in darkness, apart from one thing, a bright green glow.

"...Cesia..?!" Matt blinked, then looked up at Nana. "You... you really are her...?" At that time he looked at her eyes, one was glowing purple. He and the others quickly backed away,

Solo managed to mutter one thing, "Eep."

Isis shuddered, as Dorothy squealed, "ghost!"

"No." Nana shook her head, "she's no ghost, that's the real deal. The perfect experiment. The only ruler of the D-chip."

"You kept a lot of things there." Doppelganger glared at her.

"A story like this must be passed on." Nana/Cesia returned.

"Oh? As well as this technology?" she pointed towards her head, "I would have thought you among anyone would be against this story since you were part of this whole monstrosity.'

"The future will only make the same mistakes as the past, if the past is unlearnt."

"But why focus on me!" Her voice was straining, as she smashed the door with her fist.

"Doppelganger, it looks like you need a check up on that chip of yours. You're becoming unstable just like N.."

"Don't." Her voice became venomous, "say." Her eyes flared brighter, "his." She stood to her full height, "name!"

"Fear of the name will only add to his power.." Wei looked up at the being known as Doppelganger.

"Y..Yeah."

"Yuup."

"Last time I checked, you were no where near this house."

"Its amazing what happens when you have the right amount of motivation." The voice laughed. "I told you I didn't want my story known. Especially to these... children."

"Hey! We're not that bad!" Solo retorted.

"These children, are children of the greatest soldiers during the AC 195 and 196 battles. I will not risk these kids lives for their feelings of hate directed towards, him."

"Something tells me..." Duo muttered to the other pilots, "that the D gal knows more about something than we do."

"You see kiddos," Nana looked at them, "Lili here has still not taken revenge for what has happened because of Niiro." She looked up at the shadow, "Though she possesses the greatest technology anyone could ever attain, it has not allowed her true satisfaction of killing her own kind," she looked darkly at her, "Right now, since I've been telling you this story, her anger for Niiro has tripled, and I haven't even gotten to when Mr. Si-ming met with an..."

"My priorities are straight. You must either stop this 'story' of yours and never speak of it again and destroy all these things, or I must," she reached back with her arms and drew out two bladed tonfas, "stop you."

"You see," Nana stood strong, looking and sounding more like Cesia in the story by the second, "Si-ming had designed several suits. One for each of the clone groups. A dragon, a tiger, a turtle and a phoenix. Though these designs were incomplete, Niiro need only attain them and the solar system would fall into his unstable hands." Doppelganger was now warming up her arms readying to 'stop' the story at all costs.

"Oh heck." Duo gulped, and jumped towards the kids followed by Quatre who scuttled over, then led them over to the rest of the pilots.

"Uh, Trowa... could you... possibly deal with her?" Quatre looked at him pleading. "I rather not have a bloody battle and let the kids witness a murder."

Heero stood and drew his gun aiming at the threat.

Nana against everything continued the story, a little rushed, but to the point.

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But as all things, time passes... Lili grew to become a great and fearsome warrior, fitting for the Dragon Gundam, as it was called. During AC195 and 196, the Doppelganger struck, working in the shadows of the five Gundam pilots, working on the inside to bring the outside down... though she didn't account for one thing. Niiro.

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Duo looked at Heero and heard him cock his gun then looked at Trowa, "God, Trowa I think he means it this time." He hovered closer, "Unless you want to explain to Matt and the kids what happened to his mom... I'd suggest you use your animal charming magic of yours, and cool her down."

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The battles finished and she herself breathed easily. She began the life of a civilian, her Gundam suit never too far from her, as it follows the chip in her mind. But once again a year or so after beginning to settle down into a sleepy comfortable life, the red eyed phantom once again reared his head.

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"God dammit Nana... Cesia! Stop!" Wufei shouted at her, "D'll kill you for sure!"

Wei looked up, having the sharpest ears of the kids he heard Duo's frantic hiss, then his own father's reference of 'D'. That's Matt's mother?! He studied the shadowy woman with the green eyes. "It fits her... only.."

"Wei.. what ya muttering?" Solo popped beside him.

"that woman. From that stance, height and everything you see apart from the eyes, who does it remind you of?"

The children were silent watching the woman.

"..Mom..?" Matt blinked.

Doppelganger's fluid movements hitched hearing Matt speak.

"Who is the only one who can sneak around this house unheard and undetected." Wei asked again,

"Dad.." Matt answered,

"My dad," Solo answered,

"an', Due-, err, Mrs. Barton. " Isis answered.

"Who helped design the house." Wei asked now counting the times the name 'Duette' appeared in the answer.

"My dad." Isis replied,

"Her dad's helper people..." Dorothy answered.

"Duette." Alex answered.

"Right. She knows every piece of the house, the only one who can sneak around, and fits that physical description." Wei concluded. "the only thing wrong is her eyes. They're blue not ..."

"Her eyes do change colour." Matt said quietly. "When she's really happy or sad, they turn to a greenish colour..."

Doppelganger twitched and lunged forwards, using her advanced speed, she became a human whirlwind, wildly slashing at anything around her. Nana Cesia having a non active chip, could barely manage to dodge the attacks, but even then she was hit several times, but continued the story.

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Though after all these years of having the Gundam by her side, and having once again a close call with Niiro several times, she was never able to destroy her darkness. Niiro wanted to be unique, he bent his mind and soul searching and planning for the day he would meet up with us. Still she never learnt of a secret Si-ming had planted, my reason for still existing on this plane....

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Matt stepped forward and looked at Trowa, "Dad, don't tell me that... that's mom."

Trowa looked down at him in the darkness. He didn't have to say a word.

"That's..." Matt's breathing hitched, "my mom?! .... Lili's... my Mom?!.... THAT PSYCHO'S... MY MOM?!"

Cesia blinked, the pattern of attack had changed and every time Matt said something, the attack hitched. She also noted that they were becoming less powerful, slower, and even the wild glow of her eyes was burning out. But though she was no longer using inhuman strength and speed, her aim, and natural strength and speed was a force to contend with.

He pointed towards Doppelganger. "All this time.." tears began to form in his eyes, "Mom has a computer chip in her head... all this time... I've been looked after by mom's 'older sister'... all this time and I didn't know my mom could be something like.. like this!?"

(1) thank you Dr. Megalomaniac! That quote was used in her story 'Gundammit' if you want a good read, a good laugh, and don't mind a little shonen-ai, and a Gundam Wing setting, I recommend this.