Disclaimer: I do not own the copyrights to Gundam Wing, Endless Waltz, Kim Possible, any movies, books, or any songs that are used in this story. All copyrights belong to their respective owners.

Notice to Readers: To understand certain parts of this story, you'll have to read the other stories before this one. It is recommended by not required.

Kim Possible & Gundam Wing:

Silent Wars

Chapter 02: Secrets Uncovered

000

The next day at Middleton High School, Kim was drifting in and out of sleep just like Ron after one of his late night horror shows. Except in this horror show, Kim was the star or perhaps the victim of it. Knowing who it was that piloted those enormous robots would be sitting right behind her. Her eyes were already showing some signs of fatigue and the fact that she couldn't sleep last night. Her eyes were wide open and bloodshot, though her friend Ron was sleeping soundly again in the next desk over. She couldn't help but feel a little paranoid about the person who would be sitting behind her.

Neither Duo nor Quatre showed up for class, they didn't show up, and when the bell rang there was no sign of them. Kim wondered if they knew that she knew about them. It was a very unnerving situation to be in, especially with the fact that those two boys can control such monstrous machines. Nothing that Kim had faced before had prepared her for this kind of villainy, if in fact those boys would be after her. In fact she did notice that both Duo and Quatre showed particular interest in her and Ron even before Quatre confessed to looking at her web site. The situation spun around Kim's head and had more twists in it than pencil shavings in a sharpener. It's the fact that she doesn't know who the others are or how their skills were. It's a very embarrassing situation, Kim Possible, a fearless young girl starting to go paranoid. The rest of that day she spent it thinking about those machines.

"Where could they be?" She asked herself. Then a stunning revelation came to Kim's sharp mind. Maybe the boys have gone out on a mission with their deadly machines.

As the class was about to begin, in dashed Duo and Quatre, quickly taking their seats. Thankfully, the teacher doesn't get to the room until a few minutes after the class starts. Duo and Quatre took their seats behind Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable.

"You're late." Kim whispered to Duo who sat behind her.

Duo whispered back, "Better late than never, huh?"

Kim couldn't agree more, even though this was the very boy she saw in that surveillance photo.

The rest of the day Kim was like a balloon with too much helium, on the fringe of either blowing up of blowing out. She couldn't help but keep looking over her shoulder to see if she was being followed. It's at times like this that she needed someone like Ron to bring her back.

"KP?" Ron asked

Kim turned her glance right at Ron as if he was the one who was stalking her in the first place. She grabbed her chest as if she was having a heart attack, but she exhaled quite joyfully knowing only one thing.

"It's only you, Ron." She exhaled

Ron smirked, "Of course it's me, I was here the whole time. KP, I really think that you're letting this get to you too much. If they really were going to make a move on you they would have done it by now. You're not their target."

"Uh-huh!" Rufus agreed.

Kim immediately grabbed Ron's shirt and held him against the locker. The look in her eyes sent chills all the way through Ron and into Rufus. That was something that Ron had never seen before, Kim was showing fear.

"How do we know that?" She asked.

Ron's logic wasn't exactly the sharpest of the teams but he did come to something sensible, "If you were the target, Wade, Rufus and myself would have been taken care of."

Kim loosened her grip on Ron's shirt, "You're right, but what are they after?" She cupped her chin and thought it over. As she did the Kimmunicator started to beep its six-tone ring. She picked it up.

"What's the stitch?" She asked

Wade had a very good smile on his face, "I've found out why our enemies were all attacked at once. From the remains that were found at the attack sights all of them had something in common. They were about to build giant robots, similar to the ones that attacked them. However, most of them were factory made. An example, Dr. Drakken and Shego were making their own types while the Senior family were trying to make their own types as well. Yet, all of them had the same goal in mind, to create these machines."

Kim's eyes narrowed as the pieces of the puzzle fell together, "So, they were attacked before we even knew about what they were up to."

"Exactly." Wade nodded, "Whoever these guys are, they're professionals. I even did some checking around and I found something very interesting. A group of private investors got together to make a project called Project Meteor. A whole lot of money was sunk into the project, however I couldn't break into the files, whatever kind of code they're using, its designed to keep people like me out."

"How long ago was the project made?" Kim asked

"It was started 15 years ago." Wade explained, "The names of the investors, where the money went and so on has all access blocked."

"Keep looking." Kim said as she turned off the Kimmunicator, "So, they got to our enemies before us. They must be professionals."

"KP." Ron said, "why don't we save ourselves the torture and ask them ourselves?"

Truth be told, Kim Possible never thought of such a simplistic tactic as that, yet it wouldn't hurt to ask since they already know about the kind of work that Kim does. So, why didn't Kim do it?

"Let's go ask them." Kim said as she led Ron and Rufus to wherever Duo and Quatre were.

000

Kim, Ron and Rufus found Duo and Quatre sitting at that same table in the cafeteria. The very same table they sat on the first day that they came to Middleton High School. The two were sitting their laughing and consorting. Then they saw Kim coming towards them.

"Hello, Kim." Quatre smiled, but it soon turned to concern, "are you alright? You don't seem so well. You look like you didn't get a good nights sleep."

"That's right." Kim said sternly, "you two know about the kind of work I do and now I know the kind of work you do."

Duo and Quatre looked at each other confused.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Kim." Quatre stated

"Don't play innocent with me, I know about the places you attacked. Especially you." She pointed right at Duo but she knew that they would try to cover-up, so she reached for her Kimmunicator and pulled up that surveillance photo of Duo and his machine. "Care to explain this?"

Duo slapped his forehead, "Damn it! I knew that I should have been harder on that base." He calmed down and looked at Quatre with a smile, "Well Quatre. It seems that we won't be having fun just beings students now."

Quatre shook his head, "I don't think so either." He held up his hands as if he was waiting for someone to throw handcuffs on them, "are you going to take us in, Kim Possible?"

"Now, I've really heard everything." Ron sighed as Rufus shook his head from his cargo pants pocket.

"I'm not here to take you in." Kim said with a smile as she sat down with Duo and Quatre, "I'm here to thank you. You and whoever the others are that worked with you have defeated my own enemies. Though I do have to tell you that your methods are a little over the top. You seem to blow up whatever you can and whoever is there."

"That's our job." Duo stated sitting back with his hands behind his head, "we're soldiers. We follow our orders."

Kim wanted to know a few things, "Since, they were my enemies, do you mind telling me what they were doing in the first place?"

Quatre looked over to Duo to find the conformation of to delve the facts to Kim Possible. The only sign that Quatre got form Duo was a simple shrug. It was his way of saying that it was perfectly all right to delve the facts. She had already found them out in the first place so, why not go further, otherwise Kim would have kept trying until they gave the details.

"You're enemies, Kim." Quatre began as he leaned over, "Dr. Drakken, Shego, the Senior family, and so on. All of them had obtained secrets to create mobile suits. Basically, the robots that we pilot, but how they got the secrets remains a mystery. Each of them was mass-producing mobile suits. Thankfully though we got the information before they could finish their armies. However, I'm not sure of how well your nemeses are, I have a feeling that most of them are dead."

"Or hospitalized." Kim stated

"How many are under hospital care?" Quatre asked his eyes speaking concern.

"The only one that we've confirmed is Shego, Dr. Drakken's assistant."

Quatre shook his head; "I remember saying to them that they had the option of surrendering so they wouldn't die. Still, they resisted. I told them that they should have surrendered."

Quatre's voice sounded deep with regret, as if he didn't want to kill those people in the first place. Kim had that same feeling, she may be fierce to a point but she doesn't want to kill people. Some might say it's an honor code but to Kim it's simply how she does her job. Though there were some instances in which the villains got away. Now in this case with the arrival of these robot pilots they managed to kill her enemies when she couldn't.

"What about those robots you guys pilot?" Ron asked as Rufus came out onto the table to listen with great intent.

"They're called, Gundams." Duo explained, "They're called that simply from the Gundanium alloy they're made out of."

"The only trouble with Gundanium," Quatre pointed out, "is that it can only be manufactured in space. So, our mobile suits were made in space."

"That's where all the money went." Kim realized, "those private investors sunk money into Project Meteor and made those mobile suits."

"Five of them to be exact." Quatre said as he sipped his drink like an Englishman, "the project was started 15 years ago and several pilots were chosen. However, due to the complexity of the suits the pilots have to be trained non-stop anywhere from two to at least six years."

"Six years?" Kim asked her eyes wide open, "how do you guys ever have a normal life."

"We don't." Duo said instantly, "to be a Gundam pilot means to sacrifice certain things about normal life."

Kim took all this in and felt very moved by what was said at this cafeteria table. Kim had been through many adventures, never coming out with as much as a scratch or a dent. She never knew what it was like to actually kill another human being. The people she had fought may have been scum, villainous or freaks of nature as Ron put it, but they were still living people. They did have a chance to change, yet each time they fought Kim they never took it. Now the retribution came in the form of five pilots and their machines called Gundams. Even with that weight coming down on Kim, she still had to know something.

"If you're doing all this, then why are you here in Middleton?" She asked

"Do you think anyone would look for us in a small town like this?" Duo asked

"He has a point KP," Ron said, "Middleton is pretty small potatoes compared to bigger cities. So it makes for a good hiding place."

Rufus on the other hand was already sleeping on the cafeteria table. So he couldn't exactly voice or rather squeak his opinion on the matter.

"So, what do you plan to do next?" Kim asked

Quatre shrugged, "We're not sure. We've destroyed most of the mobile suit plants that we've found. So all we can do is wait for any further developments."

"Why do you do this job?"

Duo instantly answered, "Cause the money's good, the scenery changes and they let us use explosives."

"What about this, Project Meteor?" Ron asked

"Sorry, dude." Duo smiled, "That's classified."
"Denied." Ron moaned

"Well, it seems that we both know each other secrets." Quatre acknowledged, "You know what we are and we know what you are. After I looked at your web site I knew that you'd catch onto us, otherwise it meant that we made a few mistakes."

"Well, you can't stop me." Kim smiled, "'cause I'm Kim Possible."

Suddenly there was a call coming in, it wasn't Kim's Kimmunicator, this time the tone was a monotone version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Kim watched as Quatre pulled out something that looked very much like a pager. He looked at its LCD screen.

"Duo," Quatre called, "we've got a call coming in from above. I'm sorry, Kim. This is our business. If we require your help we'll let you know."

"Call me or beep me" Kim smiled, "If you want to reach me."

With that, Quatre and Duo walked away from the cafeteria table.

"See, Kim." Ron pointed out, "That wasn't so hard was it? We didn't have to go through all that mental torture did we?"

"Guess not."

000

Far away from the town of Middleton, Quatre and Duo were making their way by motorbike up the slopes of Mt. Middleton. This is where their Gundams were hidden. Deep within the crevices of the mountain there they were. The Gundams DeathScythe and Sandrock, this was the place where they had to take care of some business.

The Gundams pilots were part of an elite group of fighters and protectors. The only elite group financed by private investors from Europe, Asia and North America. Built by Japanese and Chinese subcontractors. Most of all, controlled by the United Nations. The superiors to the Gundam pilots were Treize Kushrinada a high ranking noble who partially financed Project Meteor. Colonel or sometimes-called Lady Une, who managed the orders to the Gundam pilots. Finally there were the scientists who planned and built the Gundams.

Duo and Quatre climbed up into the cockpits of their Gundams and made the calls to their superiors. Inside the cockpits of their great machines they watched as their 30-inch screens began to split with each member that had joined in on the conversation. At first there was only Duo and Quatre. Soon, the perfect soldier Heero Yuy joined in, next was Trowa Barton and last of all there was Wufei. That took care of the Gundam team, their superiors Trieze Kushrinada and Lady Une joined in on the conversation. Lady Une wasn't like her military self back in her old days when she wore a uniform, her hair up in buns and round lens glasses. She had her hair hang out as it reached her lower back and she didn't have her glasses on. Without her glasses she seemed to be kind and gentle.

"Gundam team." Lady Une opened up the conversation, "You've all done very well in your attacks against the enemy. All activity from the mobile suit plants has been permanently shut down. The enemies have suffered severe casualties, there are only a small number that survived. One of them is this girl."

All of the Gundam pilots saw a picture of a young girl with black hair, pale skin, and green eyes.

"Yes, I've heard of her." Quatre stated, "she's Shego, Dr. Drakken's assistant."

"She survived Quatre." Lady Une reported, "that is the reason why I've called this meeting. Shego has escaped from her hospital, we have no clue of where she's heading or if she would even survive. Our sources have guessed that she may very well be on her way to Middleton, which is where you Duo and you Quatre are at currently, correct?"

"Yes, Lady Une." Quatre confirmed, "I also have something to add. There's a girl here who has fought these people before. Shego, Dr. Drakken and the Senior family."

"Yes, we know of her existence." Lady Une stated, "The young lady named Kim Possible. In light of what has happened I'm going to ask you Duo and Quatre to request on behalf of the UN and the office of Preventer to recruit Ms. Possible and her partner Mr. Ron Stoppable to join us."

"But why?" Quatre asked wondering, "If Shego was seriously injured then what threat can she be to us now."

"That leads me to the gravest news that we have." Lady Une said with a very heavy heart, "Mr. Trieze."

She gave the speaking baton to Trieze Kushrinada, who said in his calm Northern European demeanor, "Gundam Team. Recently I have been developing plans for another mobile suit that I had planned to use with you in this silent war. I had just finished the plans when I heard of the escape of Shego. I kept the plans safely locked in my mansion but the next day our surveillance cameras picked this up."

There they saw Shego going through the halls of Trieze's mansion and taking the plans for the mobile suit. Shego herself was moving around with the agility of an acrobat, much like Trowa, who was quite impressed with Shego's abilities, and he even joked with himself thinking that she could join his circus as an acrobat.

"I must warn all of you." Trieze foretold, "That if this suit is built and Shego uses it, it could turn her into the ultimate weapon."

"How bad of a weapon is this suit you made?" Duo asked

Trieze stared at Duo through his screen; "It may very well equal or even surpass the Wing Zero."

All of the Gundams were shaken to their foundations, to think that their leader Trieze Kushrinada could build a weapon that was like the mind warping Wing Zero. It is one of the most dangerous mobile suits known to those who use mobile suits. It is both dangerous to the pilot and to everyone else around it. According to Treize, the suit can allow the pilot to see his future, but according to the scientists the Wing Zero simply pushed the pilot so far that he won't fear his own death. Now there are two suits that can do this.

"Lady Une." Heero Yuy called, "how long will it take to make the Wing Zero and this stolen suit?"

The question took Lady Une by surprise, since she didn't have the exact figures on it. Plus she didn't know where Shego would go to build the suit that Trieze had designed. So, Lady Une had to make some estimation on this.

"To build the Wing Zero would take roughly a month or two with the equipment and manpower we have. But for Shego to build this stolen suit that Treize had designed it might take a little more time since we don't know what kind of equipment she has on hand or if she has enough manpower to do it."

"That gives the element of time on our side." Trowa observed, "just enough time to prepare as well as to find where Shego is."

"Lady Une." Quatre called, "I know that Instructor H, the one who built my Sandrock has plans for two mobile suits called the Mercurius and the Vayeate. Could you have them construct them?"

"Why do you request this, Quatre?" Lady Une asked.

"Kim Possible's experience might be an asset to us. If she and Ron Stoppable are going to join our ranks, then they should have mobile suits too. Though, I think that the cockpit system should be simplified for them."

"Why?" Duo asked

"It takes a long time to learn how to operate a mobile suit let alone use it in combat. If we simplify it then we won't have to train Kim Possible or Ron Stoppable for as long as we have to."

There was a great deal of resentment from the other Gundam pilots. Especially Wufei, who was a very chauvinistic boy, he particularly believed that women were very weak. This was one reason why Wufei wouldn't kill women in combat because it wouldn't be worth his effort. At least, that's what he claims.

However, from Lady Une and Trieze Kushrinada they felt that Quatre was making a very valid point. In a war like this far from the eyes of the public, they needed all the help that they could get.

"Very well." Lady Une stated, "I will send a request to Ms. Possible's and Mr. Stoppable's school allowing them to work for us for the remainder of this silent war. I will also ask the Gundam scientists to begin construction of the Vayeate, Mercurius and the Wing Zero. Quatre, Duo, both of you must brief them of our war and mission. That is all. This meeting is adjourned."

000

The next day at the Middleton High School, Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable would receive the biggest news of their lives. Duo and Quatre had reported to them what their superiors had decided. It was a lot for Kim to take in, Ron especially. For as long as he had been a sidekick of Kim's, or a partner as Duo and Quatre liked to call him, he had never had equal responsibilities. Now, his help as well as Kim's were needed.

Then came the news that Shego escaped from her hospital. Kim had already heard the news when Wade called her to tell the bad news. That was when the news turned worse when Quatre reported that Shego now had plans for a very dangerous suit. A suit that if in the wrong hands could turn the pilot into an ultimate weapon and that was when it really hit both Kim and Ron.

"Man, this is heavy." Ron said laying his hand over his brow with Rufus spinning round and round like a mad top on the cafeteria table.

"But what about my school stuff, the yearbook, cheerleading and all that?" Kim asked

"Our office," Quatre explained, "will inform the school as well as your families of what you will be doing. As far as details that will only be given on a need to know basis."

"And right now no one needs to know?" Kim asked sarcastically, she didn't like the idea of any this. She had a very distinct feeling of what it's like to be drafted. Except she could see in Quatre's eyes the very deep need that Preventer had for them.

"There is a bright side to this." Duo pointed out, "You'll be paid quite handsomely if you do this for us."

"How much?" Ron had to ask.

Quatre was the one who took out a piece of paper and a pen form the pocket of his vest. He began to scribble on the paper and gave it over to Kim and Ron. The two of them looked at the figure, which didn't even seem like a sum, with the kind of numbers that were on it, it could very well be a phone number and an area code.

"We'll do it!" Ron said standing up, "for the peace of the world!"

Kim reached up and pulled Ron back down into his seat, "So, what's the stitch to all this?" Kim asked, "You said that you were going to train us in mobile suit combat."

Quatre took out two pads that looked like Palm Pilots, he handed them to Kim and Ron, "These are the specs for your suits that are currently being built as we speak, they are called the Mercurius and the Vayeate. However, who will pilot which suit will be up to you. Both of you should know that its not which suit you have it's your skill that determines how great the suit is in battle."

"This is wicked!" Ron smiled looking at the specs, "I like this blue one, the one with the huge cannon."

Rufus looked at it from Ron's shoulder and was instantly smitten.

"Where do we go and when do we leave?" Kim asked

"As soon as the instructions from our offices come in."

Just as that was said a voice came in over the very poor intercom system. It was the gruff voice of the principle. He was one of these rough and tough types of men who because of their experience in a useless war they keep on their traditions of brute discipline. Along with that they also employ their crew cut haircuts that show more of the shape of the head than hairstyle.

"Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable, come to the front office immediately!" The gruff and unfriendly voice sounded.

000

Only ten minutes later, both Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable came back to the same cafeteria table where Duo and Quatre sat at. Neither one of them had a surprised look, it was more like the expected coming true.

"You were right." Kim smiled, "Our principle just got a notice from a government office called Preventer. We've been excuse for however long you need us, so were are we going for our training?"

Quatre stood up, "To outer space! Everyone of us!"

To be continued…