This is chapter 17! I don't think i've had the chance to, so i'll do it now. I thank all my reviewers (all 5; lol...my story's not popular obviously...)

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"Sorry guys; couldn't wait"Katia grinned.

"We'll all kill Ryo together" Duo said.

"Uh…" Viper said, "Am I missing something here?"

"Yes, Katia turns out to be out for revenge on Nathan so…" Quatre trailed off.

"She's one of us…kinda…in a way…" Duo continued.

"If you say so…" Blade said, but still sounded suspicious of the girl.

"Ok…" Katia took a deep breath, "It's unlocked…" she pushed the door open. There stood Ryo and Nathan, looking surprised and then angry.

"What is the meaning of this Katia? You brought the wretched pilots to my office?!"

"Have you not figured out who I am by now Nathan?" Katia asked.

"No, if I did, I wouldn't be asking you, would I?" Nathan said, "Great, now my illegitimate niece is rubbing off on me"

"Recognize the name; Kaitlin Rose?" Katia asked.

"Kaitlin Rose? Oh yes, I remember…the famous scientist; she wouldn't help me with this little project so I killed her"

"Glad you know; now, face the wrath of Katia Rose!" she yelled and lunged for Nathan. They began a battle, matching each other move for move though it was obvious that Nathan was playing with her. It was hard to tell if Katia was actually giving it her all right now but she was still doing some moves that were very impressive.

A clatter took their attention away from the fighting pair. Unnoticed by them, Ryo had called for security and now they had about thirty guards to take out, plus Ryo.

"I'm going for Ryo" Viper said. The others nodded in understanding and began to take down the guards.

"Nice to see you again Viper" Ryo smirked.

"Save the small talk; I'm here for once thing and one thing only; and that's to kill you"

"So hurtful" Ryo said, dodging her punch.

"Shut up!" she said, hitting him across the face. He smiled again, "How 'bout we make things a bit more interesting?" he asked.

"How?" she glared at him suspiciously. Ryo took out two small black rods that looked like the hilt of a sword. He tossed her one and she looked at it questionably.

"Beam saber" he said, "Downsized from the ones that mobiles suits have"

"Interesting…" Viper said, examining it. She pressed the button and the familiar red glow came out, "But now you've just given me the very weapon to kill you with"

"Or perhaps…I can finally do away with you!" he lunged at her.

"Never…the angel of destruction will never be destroyed!" she said in a determined voice.

"We'll see, won't we?" Ryo laughed.

"Burn in hell!" Viper yelled, lunging at him, which he blocked. Then he dropped his weapon.

"What are you waiting for? Why aren't you attacking?" she asked, "What's with the defense?"

"Glad you asked; you see, I am not deaf"

"I know that!"

"But then maybe you would've realized that I overheard your friends talking about your…condition"

"What condition?"

"Your…need for IHD" he said and Viper gasped, realizing what he meant, "The IHD will soon be gone and you'll be left powerless"

"And it should be happening…" he started counting down, dodging her desperate attempts to kill him first.

Katia growled as she missed hitting Nathan again. Then something caught her eye; something glowing green with a black hilt. She grabbed the beam saber and stabbed Nathan with it. He howled in pain and cursed at Katia; his last words before all life left his body.

"Nice weapon…" Katia said, examining the weapon, "Needs some adjustments though" she began to plan the adjustments when she realized that Viper and Ryo were still fighting and she had heard Ryo's words.

"Damn it" she said, realizing that they couldn't help at all this time.

"No…" Viper said, the feeling coming over her.

"Time for your doom" Ryo smirked.

"I will never…" she said, before falling on her knees.

"Viper!" Blade yelled.

"The IHD!" Kiyo shouted.

"Oh shit!" Kitty swore.

"We have to help her!" Paine yelled, starting to run over.

"No!" Viper yelled, "This is my fight; stay out of it!"

"Why is she so determined to fight him until death?" Sakura asked.

"She has a score to settle with him" Heero said.

"Oh, and you know why; I suppose?"

"Yeah, but she's the one who has to tell you"

"Tell me!" Kitty said.

"No"

"Tell me!"

"No!"

"Heero, just tell her so she'llshut up; you guys are really wrecking my concentration!"

And as Heero began to tell the other, Viper listened to every word. She could feel her anger growing.

"Oh god…" Sakura said after Heero finished.

"Save me the pity trip!" Viper yelled, but the anger was evident in her voice. Surprising everybody, she tried to get up.

"Stop trying" Ryo laughed.

"I will…kill you"

"Not likely"

"I will kill you!"

He just laughed and started taunting her. Her anger boiled over.

"I will destroy you!" she yelled, stabbing him in the chest. He yelled out in pain and then stepped backwards, his hand pushing the building's emergency self-destruct button and then fell to the floor, dead. Viper felt tired. So tired. She knelt on the ground and blacked out.

"We have to get out of here!" Kitty yelled. Heero picked up Viper and they all ran out.

"10…9…8…" the automatic voice said.

"C'mon; hurry!" Wufei yelled. Heero carried Viper into his own gundam while Katia took control of Viper's and they got out of the base just in time.

"1…0…" BOOM. The whole base exploded. None of the gundam pilots would know who got out safely until they got back to base…

"Look, she's waking up" she heard someone's voice say. She opened her eyes and saw the whiteness of a hospital wall; she hated hospitals. She bolted up and felt a humongous jolt of pain.

"Hey, relax" Katia told the girl.

"What happened?"

"Well, you blacked out and we had to get out of the base but it turns out that we should never let Heero have an extra passenger in his gundam while he's flying at full speed on his gundam"

"…ok"

"Where's everybody else?"

"Heero's waiting…um…impatiently in the waiting room, Kitty's being treated for burns, Wufei has a few deadly injuries from while we were escaping and everybody else is fine"

"Should I let Heero in?" Katia asked. Viper gave her a look that clearly said, 'I-just-survived-from-a-life-threatening-experience-what-the-hell-do-you-think?'

Heero came in soon, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah…just remind me to never ride in your gundam when I'm unconscious"

"Sorry about that" Heero said, almost sheepishly.

"Yeah, well…I forgive you"

"Good" Heero said, leaning over and kissed her soundly on the lips. He pulled away soon after, remembering something.

"What's wrong?" Viper asked, worried.

"I'm your boyfriend and I don't even know your real name…" he realized, "You said a long time ago that Viper wasn't your real name and only a few people knew…am I important enough to you to be told?"

"Yeah; I thought it was something bigger; don't scare me like that" she hit him over the head with a pillow and received a scowl from him, "My real name is Nekura"

"That's a nice name for you...darkness; why did you change it?"

"Thought that if I took a different name, I could kinda...start over"

"You have plenty of reason to..." Heero stated.

"Sodo you and I don't see you complaining"

"Yeah, but you remember your painful childhood…I don't"

Viper shrugged.

"You know what, I swear, I won't make your life harder. I promise to never leave you"

"Ya better keep that promise, Yuy"

"Onna…" Wufei groaned, seeing Blade sitting tearfully by his bedside.

"Wufei, you're awake! Thank god!" she flung her arms around him.

"Are you alright?"

"Am I alright? Am I alright? You're sitting there practically dead and you're asking if I'm okay?!" Blade asked loudly, "God, you really do need to get your priorities straight!" she laughed.

Wufei couldn't help but grin but it dropped when he looked into her eyes. The laughter didn't reach her eyes, which looked fearful and sad. He reached for her hand, ignoring the obvious pain, "What's wrong?"

"Wufei…" she said, then burst into tears which he supposed had happened already before he woke up. He brushed away the tears, "Tell me what's wrong" he said as calmly as he could manage.

"I lost the baby" Blade said, "I'm sorry; I let you down…I know you're probably disappointed in me and I understand if you want to yell at me"

"Why would I yell at you?"

"For being careless! If I hadn't gone to fight or was more careful, the baby would still be here and you wouldn't be in that hospital bed right now!"

"Onna, it's not your fault and I'm not angry or disappointed; you did your best and that's what matters" Wufei said, "I care about now and that love won't go away because of one loss"

"Thank you Wufei" Blade said.

"Never forget that, Blade"

Duo looked worriedly at his girlfriend. Paine had been quiet and unlike herself the whole time. He had assumed that she had just been worried about Viper but after they had all seen her and was assured she was fine, she was still acting like this. Something was up and he was going to find out what.

"Duo…" she started to say.

"Paine" he said at the same time.

"You talk first" he said quickly.

She slid a bit closer to him so that she could rest her head on his shoulder. They sat like that for a while and then she spoke and the next few words would be one of those moments which world take a great impact on his life.

"I was pregnant…but I lost the baby" she whispered into his ear.

"What?!" he couldn't help shouting. Paine winced as if it was a slap to the face.

"I thought you'd say that"

"When did you know?"

"A few weeks ago; the baby couldn't survive that explosion…"

"Why didn't you tell me before?" Duo asked.

"I didn't know how you would react...I'm sorry!" Paine said, bursting into tears.

Duo felt like he was going to cry, seeing her cry, "It'll be alright Paine; we've been through too much...not even this will keep us apart"

"Thanks Duo" Paine smiled.

With UOC gone, the gundam pilots were finally able to live a fairly normal life, normal as they could anyways. Most of the gundam pilots joined the Preventers; with the exception of Quatre. He took over his family's business and made a great head of his father's company. Trowa sometimes went back to the circus to visit Cathy and help her with her act. Kitty went with him sometimes but when they weren't at the circus, they were Preventers and living together. Viper and Heero had a quick and private wedding; well, as private as it could get with the news of two gundam pilots getting married and with both of them knowing the biggest unprofessional publicist: Relena, who was later to have been revealed as UOC planting a mind control chip in her brain leading to why she was trying to seperate the gundam pilots in the first place. Sakura lived with Quatre in his giant mansion and loved every moment of helping him with his business. She was also a preventer, though she did more of the breifing as one of the in-commands more than the actually field work. Blade and Wufei also married and were both Preventers aswith Paine and Duo. The pilots' version of a normal life would count as exciting for most people.

And that was the last chapter........but there will be a sequel......i think..............................................................................yes, there will be...........oh yeah; i'll put an epilogue up too..........please review?!