Chapter 2

Many Reunions and First Hostilities

Relena was in the middle of talking with the representative from Eurasia when Heero burst into the room. Heero went straight to Relena, who knew something was wrong immediately when she saw the look in Heero's eyes.

"Heero? What is it? What's wrong?" asked Relena.

"You need to leave, and you need to call an emergency meeting with the Preventors. I need to leave for a few days, but I'll be back as soon as I can. Do this now." said Heero, who then turned on his heel and ran out of the room, to where? No-one knew.

Relena took his advice, and after apologizing to the people, told them that the party would have to be cut short do to some urgent matters. The people there were curious, but Relena wouldn't answer any more questions.

Relena walked back to the car, where she saw the computer screen still on and glowing. She took a look at what was being shown. It was the letter that Heero had read. Relena read the letter, and then realized why Heero had been in such a rush. She told her driver to head as fast as he could to the hotel, and while they were speeding down the streets, Relena picked up her phone, and dialed the number of the Preventors.

"Preventors here, how can we help you?" came Sally's voice when she picked up.

"Sally! It's Relena! We need a meeting now! I'm heading for my hotel, and so there I'll make a video connection to your ship. Keep a line open for me, this is an emergency!"

"Right away!" said Sally, who knew that it must've been very important if Relena had sounded so scared.

When she arrived at the hotel, Relena jumped out of the car, and ran for her room. When there, she went to the computer that was provided by the hotel, and she quickly opened a video link between her and the Preventors mother ship, the White Fang, named after the group of colonists lead by Miliardo Peacecraft. The line was made secure, so that no-one would know what went on during the conversation.

"Relena, what is it?" asked Sally, who had been waiting for the connection since she hung up with Relena.

"I'm sending you an e-mail that I received after making my speech earlier today. Take a look at it."

"Oh my god, this is almost a declaration of war!" said Sally after reading the letter. "The only thing is that they don't really say who they are, and they don't tell us whether they have any weapons. This could be a hoax for all we know."

"It could, but Heero was taking this very seriously. He's gone somewhere, and I don't know when he'll be back."

"Well knowing Heero, what he's doing is for the best. I'd trust him. Alright, if you think that this is so serious, then we'll prepare for something. I'll get Noin and your brother on the phone and tell them what's up. Until we contact you again, stay there, unless Heero tells you otherwise. Until then just hang tight. We'll see what we can do about finding out who sent this letter."

With that, Relena thanked Sally, and then ended the connection. She went to bed, and tried to sleep, but her mind was on too many things at once. Most of all she wondered where Heero was, and whether he would be back soon. She missed him greatly right now. She fell asleep late that night, thinking of her Heero, who didn't know how greatly she felt about him.

Duo was shocked when Heero showed up at his door.

"Heero! Long time no see! How's everything going? How's Relena? Wanna cup of Joe? You want anything to drink at all?"

Duo was silenced by Heero's hand.

"Duo, I need to talk with you privately, but first we need to get the others. And yes, I would love a cup of coffee."

After their cup of coffee, Duo and Heero went to the spaceport, got tickets for a shuttle headed for Earth. There they met up with Quatre. After getting him, they got tickets for Trowa's show, which happened to be in Colony X-18999. While there they tried to track down Wufei, but no-one could find him. The four former Gundam pilots headed back for X-16824.

When they got there, and they arrived at the hotel room, they found Relena passed out on some papers that were stacked higher than her head.

"Relena!" yelled Heero, running towards her and shaking her awake.

"What's happening?!" yelled Relena as she awoke from her sleep. "Is Heero back?"

"Yes, I'm back." said Heero, relieved that nothing had happened to her.

"Did you make everything better?" asked Relena, still half asleep.

"Not yet, but I will. I brought a few friends, they want to help."

Relena looked over towards the doorway. There were the three other pilots, all leaning against the wall, smiling at Relena, their old friend. Relena sighed with relief. For the moment, things were looking up. The pilots decided to rest for that day, and then the next day, they would get ready for whatever.

The next day, Relena told them all about the situation at the moment. Sally had sent word from the White Fang that they had found out that the letter came from Colony X-00041, the oldest and most technologically un-advanced colony that still orbited the Earth. Noin had been sent there on the battle cruiser Aries (named after the Aries light speed mobile suit model). Noin was assigned to orbit the colony, and to make sure that nothing leaves or enters there without her certified permission. Miliardo was off to the other colonies, recruiting more people for the Preventors in case something did happen. Relena had been meeting with members of her staff the whole time that Heero was gone. For the moment they were trying to make contact with the people, who sent the letter, but no connection had been made, and so Relena was, at the moment, trying to make a speech to the colony, trying to prevent any hostilities from them.

After she was done briefing them, the pilots talked things over. They decided that it would be best to go to the White Fang, and that they should help the Preventors in any way possible. Relena and the four pilots got on the first shuttle that headed for Colony X-15432, where the Fang was currently in orbit. They were met at the spaceport by Sally and Miliardo, who had arrived with some 30 new recruits, most of whom were old soldiers of the Alliance, Oz, The White Fang, and the army of Mariemaia.

"Relena, good to see you again!" exclaimed Sally. "I see you brought the whole gang."

"Hello baby sister." said Miliardo. "Good to see the rest of you, but I wonder, where's Wufei?"

"We can't find him. But I see that you did well with your new army." said Heero, shaking Miliardo's hand. "But I wonder how you will be able to make this army an effective one without guns or mobile suits."

"Well at the moment we're trying to get the Earth Sphere Unified Nations to grant us special permission, and they say that they'll get back to us. Hopefully they'll make their decision in time before anything big happens."

After their greetings, Sally, Miliardo, Relena, Heero, Duo, Trowa, and Quatre all headed for White Fang, so that they could begin plans for a defensive against an attack.

The six of them headed White Fang towards Colony X-15432, which would be a two week long journey. On the way, they got to plans, negotiation tactics, and the Gundam pilots and Miliardo trained the new recruits in the art of war. When they arrived in orbit of the colony, they met up with Aries, which then docked on White Fang. Nion then gave her full report, after reuniting with all her old friends. Over the two weeks that White Fang had been traveling, nothing had really happened. There was a cargo ship that had come, that she had checked, but it was so big that they could've easily been able to slip something past her. She was on high alert for an attack, which she said was going to inevitably happen.

Well Noin was right, because only two days after White Fang reached the colony, much to everybody's surprise, four Torus space suits came from the colony, and attacked the White Fang. The Gundam pilots needed to find something to fight them with, and were delighted when they learned that the White Fang had six Space Leo suits on board, fueled and loaded. The pilots said that they could handle it, so the recruits and Miliardo stayed behind in White Fang, but they were ready in case something was to happen.

The pilots in the Torus suits were better than the Gundam pilots expected. They knew how to handle their suits, and the Gundam pilots nearly lost Quatre towards the beginning of the battle. The battle was an easy victory for the Gundam pilots, though it was a little too close for comfort. Quatre only just barely dodged two missiles that would've blown the head off his mobile suit. Trowa was about to be killed by another Torus, but then Duo rammed his Leo into the other suit, knocking the head clear off, and killing the pilot. Trowa blushed when this happened, but it was because he was happy that Duo had saved his life.

The battle was over within 10 minutes, but it left more damage than expected. Everyone was so shaken up that there was an actual attack. A few minutes after that, Relena went on television, declaring war on the Colony X-15432. It was when she finished her speech that something else happened. Another letter appeared in her mail box, with another slight ding.

This is the end of the second chapter. I hope you liked it. R/R. The next chapter will come out soon (this one was actually out sooner than I planned). By the way, did you catch that Bandit Gurl? Anyway, next one will come soon.