Gundam Reborn By Kimmi
Ann
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing; if I did I wouldn't
need financial aid for college now would I? This fic. Is purely for
my own entertainment, I am not making any money off of it so please
don't sue cause I really want to stay in school.
Key: "blah"
talking, 'blah' thinking, /blah voice over the phone
-Chapter 2, Quatre and
the mysterious girl-
Trowa walked into Quatre's room, "Hey
Kat its good to see you awake. The way Athanasia spoke, I though you
might me asleep."
"Nope, I keep getting told to but,
I didn't feel right sleeping knowing everyone's here to see me,"
Quatre said with a small smile. "You look upset, what's
wrong?"
"Nothing your pretty little head should be
worried about," replied Trowa, he hoped his love would take the
hint and leave it be for the time being.
"Aw, but this
pretty little head is going to worry about that handsome one unless
you talk to me," said Quatre with a pout.
"Now
that's not fair," cried Trowa in disgust, "no one can
resist your pout." Seeing that Kat smiled, Trowa sighed and
said, "Fine. But you can't get too worked about this okay."
When Quatre nodded Trowa continued to tell him what happened before,
during and after Athanasia visited him.
"Thanatos? She is
taking this a lot harder then I realized," said Quatre softly.
"Trowa, I'm not blaming you but maybe you should have told them
more then you did."
Trowa nodded, "I know. I just
didn't want to speak out of turn."
With that Quatre
laughed, it was only in the past few years that Trowa had opened up
and spoke freely but even then he never said much, unless they where
alone. "I know, and there is no since on dwelling on what ifs,
what's done is done. Now we just have to support her and hope she
doesn't self- destruct."
Trowa nodded and asked, "What
about the others?"
"Let me two-step their questions
and hope she approves." Said Quatre mildly, he knew that this
would prove to be challenging but the others would be demanding
answers and even though Trowa and Kat didn't have them all they
couldn't afford to make a slip. 'She's promised me that she'll tell
all soon. But when is soon?'
"Okay, I'll lay down some
rules for them and then send them back one at a time. I'll come back
tomorrow." And with that Trowa kissed Kat lightly on the
forehead and left his room.
When he reentered the waiting room
the other three pilots stood. Trowa raised his hand before they could
question him and said, "Kat will answer your questions
concerning Thanatos. You each have three questions. That does not
include how are you?, can I get you anything?, so on and so forth.
You can ask him more tomorrow but for today only three each."
They
all nodded, and Duo asked, "Can I go see him now?"
With
a nod form Trowa Duo left for Quatre's room. When he walked in his
heart fell seeing his friend hooked up to so many machines. "Hey
Kat, how ya doing?"
Quatre looked at the Deathscythe
pilot and gave him a soft smile. He could tell Duo had to work on his
cheerful tone and that it was hurting his friend to see him in such
bad shape. "I'm doing pretty good considering. Please sit down
Duo." Kat motioned to the chair next to the bed. After Duo sat
down there was a moment of silence before Quatre said, "So what
do you want to know?"
Duo just looked a Quatre for a
moment, 'I'm glad he asked because I had no idea how to start.'
"Well, how did you two meet?"
Quatre laid his head
back into his pillow and closed his eyes for a moment before
speaking. "It was five years ago, Trowa and I had a mission from
Une to clean out some pockets of OZ resistances. They had stayed
under the radar till recently and she didn't want another Marie-maia
incident. So we went in with a fairly large team, and arrested the
heads and sent the rest home with a large warning. It just so
happened that one of them asked about their prisoner. I told Trowa
and most of the team to leave and I would follow after I checked out
this alleged prisoner. Well, they really did have a prisoner, and it
was apparent that they tortured her recently. Heavy bruising, dried
blood on the little bit of clothing she wore, and open sores on her
body. It was awful. She was unconscious so I picked her up in the
hope that I wasn't causing any more damage and brought her to the
local hospital."
"So when the doctor wouldn't allow
you to see her after they examined her you claimed to be her
fiancée?" asked Duo shocked that this girl had gone
through so much.
Quatre nodded, "Yes."
"And
you two have been friends ever since?"
"Yes, we are
quite close too." Quatre said with a smile. "She's a great
girl; I hope she will open up to you guys."
Duo smiled,
"That would be nice, but there can only be one Shinigami."
They both laughed at this and then Duo said, "Well, I'll let one
of the others in. I used my three questions."
"Okay,
thanks for coming Duo," smiled Quatre sadly.
"Any
time, just lets not make this a habit ok?" said Duo with a grin
as he walked out the door. When he got back into the waiting room he
chimed, "Next."
Wufei just rolled his eyes and
walked past Duo towards Quatre's room. "Quatre, how are you
feeling? Can I get you anything?"
"Not bad, and no
thank you Wufei. Please sit, stay a wail." Quatre said with a
grin.
Wufei nodded, and sat in the chair that was vacated by
Duo not long ago. "So, Thanatos, she has a temper."
Quatre
nodded, "Yes, yes she does. I think its part of her fighting
spirit."
"So she's a worrier?" questions Wufei
with a raised brow.
"Yes, very much so. I think you would
find her quite a match. No one at the mansion can take her. I'm not
sure what she's trained in, but from what I can tell there isn't much
that she's not trained in." Quatre replied.
"Can she
pilot a mobile suit?"
"Yes, but if you're implying
that she might be the pilot of the alleged Red Wing Gundam that I can
not confirm or deny. I still can't prove if there was ever a sixth
Gundam." Quatre said firmly.
"Do you think she could
take me?"
Quatre looked at his friend for a moment, "I'm
not sure who would be the victor in such a match, but it would be
invigorating."
Wufei nodded, knowing that his friend was
not trying to save face but really thought it would be a good match.
"Then I hope she will honor me in such a match. Now I have
exhausted my questions, so I will leave you to Heero and then
rest."
"Alright, sounds like a plan, thank you for
visiting Wufei." Quatre said with a slight nod of his
head.
Wufei walk out of the room with a wave over his shoulder
and walked back to the waiting room, "Heero, you can see him
now."
Heero nodded as he walked past the Chinese pilot
and towards Quatre's room.
"Ah, Heero come in. Please sit
down." Quatre said as soon as the Wing pilot walked
in.
"Quatre..." started Heero but Quatre held up his
hand to stop him.
"I'm fine thank you for asking, and I
am doing well at the moment and do not need anything." Quatre
said killing all pleasantries. "Now what do you want to ask of
me?"
"Quatre? Why..." started Heero but again
Quatre held up his hand to stop him.
"I know, but I
didn't want to be asked one more time."
Heero nodded, "I
understand. Very well then, Thanatos was her nickname during the war
wasn't? Much like Duo calling himself Shinigami, correct?"
"Yes,
from what she has told us she didn't have a name before the war.
She's two years younger then us, but I am not going to say that she
came through as an innocent. Just knowing that OZ held her prisoner
for five years after the war is testament to that. I would be
surprised if she didn't have blood on her hands." Quatre said
sadly.
"But we do not know her part in the war."
stated Heero.
"She has assured me that she will tell all
of us soon, but soon has not been defined."
"What
are your thoughts about her perhaps being a sixth gundam
pilot?"
"Highly possible, even with her age. She is
a highly skilled fighter, and a great stagiest. I think she might be
even better then I am." Quatre said with such truth that it
surprised Heero.
"But we have no evidence of another
pilot." Heero stated.
"Not unless you have found
something and haven't clued the rest of us in." Quatre chuckled,
he saw that Heero's statements where just well phrased
questions.
Heero raised an eyebrow, he realized that Quatre
knew what he was doing but wasn't going to call him on it. "So
if she is the elusive sixth pilot she had cleared her tracks well.
Which lead me to believe that she must also be a hacker."
Quatre
nodded, "Yes I've had more then one call from Une about a hacker
in the system but she couldn't find them, but she also couldn't
explain why her calls ended up at the mansion when she was trying to
call Duo or you to tail the hacker. Thanatos was there for the last
call I received about the matter and after Une had ended the
transmission she told me that she was the mysterious hacker and that
she was only detected because she wanted to be. Two weeks later she
installed the new security on the system that Duo has yet to hack
into. How about you?"
Heero frowned, "Every time I
get close to finding the smallest of cracks the system boots me out
and I can't find it again. It's impenetrable as of yet. But I'm not
going to give up."
Quatre smiled, "Good, I'd like to
see her get beat. So far she is an undefeatable fighter, and
undetectable hacker, and a genius when it comes to strategy. It's
almost like she could have been pulling our strings during the war
and we wouldn't have even known. Maybe even the doctors too."
"You
really think that's possible?" questions Heero
intrigued.
"Possible yes, probable I'm not sure. Her age
playing the major questioning role, how could five adult men in good
consciousness persist a thirteen- year-old girl's orders? Unless they
by chance created a super human, but that seems unlikely. There are
people who have the brain power to do anything but if she is one she
would still be only thirteen years old and by no mean prepared for
war."
Heero nodded, "Thank you Quatre, now get some
rest. I want you back on you feet ASAP."
"Yes sir."
said Quatre with a grin. And with that Quatre was left to his
wandering mind and his pillow.
