Rose slowly sat down on her bed and then bent over and pulled a black box
from under the bed. She slowly lifted it up onto her bed and opened it.
Inside were five smaller boxes labelled with five initials. HY, DM, QW, TB
and CW were written on the black boxes in fancy gold writing. Rose took out
the box with CW on and then closed the big box and pushed it to the end of
her bed. "Hmmm." Rose said as she opened the small box, on top of it was a
picture of two kids. A guy with black hair that looked slightly green and
looked a bit serious and a girl with a purple braid that went down to her
shoulders. Rose smiled as she looked at the two "Man, he's the same as
ever, competitive and serious, but that's who he is." Rose said slowly as
she picked the picture up, under it there was a black outfit. Rose took the
outfit out and held it up "And I hate it how he was right, he said I should
of gotten a bigger one of these, so I did, he said I would want to fight
him again if we ever met up. " Rose said as the black cloths unravelled, it
was a black suit, something like Wufei wore but for girls and baggy. Rose
quickly stood up and jogged over to the bathroom and slammed the door. She
came back out in the black outfit, her normal cloths in her hand, she threw
them onto her bed. "Now, where could I find a pair of scissors?" Rose
asked herself quietly as she suddenly heard Duo's music turn on, she headed
back to the bathroom and walked into his room. "Hey Duo, so you have
anything sharp?" Rose asked Duo and he looked up at her, his mouth slightly
open when he saw what she was wearing. "What the heck are you wearing?" Duo
asked and his eye started to twitch slightly. "What do ya." Rose said as
she looked down at her cloths, she had forgotten no one had seen her in
this before. "You look like Wufei!" Duo said as he started to laugh and
Rose blushed and glared at him. "Do you have a knife or not?" Rose said
sternly and Duo stopped laughing. "Uh, no, but I have some scissors
somewhere." Duo said as he started to look through his bedside drawers. He
soon pulled out a pair of silver scissors and Rose snatched them from him
and looked at the blade. "Thanks!" Rose said quickly as she headed back to
her room, locking the bathroom door from Duo's room, she went outside onto
her balcony. Rose sighed as she put the scissors to the top of her braid
and cut it off. The braid flopped down and Rose dropped the scissors and
held her braid in both hands and sighed. Duo walked over to the window and
saw Rose standing on her balcony holding her old braid. "Ok then, nutcase."
Duo said as he shook his head and walked away from the window. Rose dropped
the braid on the balcony floor and went back inside, she then headed out of
her room and down the stairs, and her hair now went up to her ears. Duo
went to the bathroom door to find it was locked, he then walked around and
went through Rose's main door. And then quickly looked around for any booby
traps, nothing, and so he went inside. As he walked in, the boxes on Rose's
bed caught his eye, he walked over to them and picked up the small open box
to see the picture of the two kids. He picked it up with a raised eyebrow
and then turned it over to read on the back 'Rose and Wufei, age 7' and he
then quickly flipped it over. "Oh man! I've gotta show the others!" Duo
said quickly as he walked out of Rose's room laughing to himself and for
getting to unlock his bathroom door. Rose stood in the main hall, the maids
and Quatre's guards who were walking around stared at her strangely, her
being aware of this, she knew the G guys would arrive soon. The first to
arrive was Trowa, then Heero, then Quatre and then Duo. Rose just looked
out the open door until she heard "Rose." from a top of the stairs. "Wufei,
so nice of you to join us." Rose said as she turned around to see Wufei
standing at the top of the stairs in the same outfit as her, but white.
"What exactly is going on?" Trowa asked and Heero shrugged. "Hey, Rose, you
cut your hair." Duo said and Rose nodded slowly, everyone else then
noticed. "What are you two planning to do? Go out and pretend to be twins?"
Heero said as Rose and Wufei gave him the same glare, making him become
quiet. "If I'm correct Rose, your going to challenge me." Wufei said slowly
and Rose nodded slowly, a slight grin on her face. "And, the same bet as
always." Rose said as the grin on her face grew. "I'll go with green as
always" Wufei said and Rose nodded. "And, I'll go for purple as always."
Rose said and the two nodded. "Hey? Wha? I'm lost." Duo said as he
scratched his head in confusion. "We're going to have a fight dummy." Rose
said as Duo nodded. "But what I don't under stand is the colours." Quatre
said as Rose laughed and waved her hand up and down. "Well, if Duo over
here gave me back the picture he took from my room, I can show you!" Rose
said as she walked over to Duo with her hand out. Duo then handed her the
picture and she called everyone over. "Who on earth are they?" Heero asked
and Rose, Duo and Wufei looked up, Duo started to laugh a lot and Rose
chuckled slightly and Wufei shook his head. "Where did you get that
picture?" Wufei demanded and Rose smiled evilly. "Well. when I was gone for
two months, I met up with Doctor J. and Professor G. and they gave me this
big black box." Rose said slowly and Duo raised a finger. "Yeah, I saw that
box on the end of your bed." Duo said slowly and Rose nodded. "Well, inside
that box are separate boxes. That all have to do with you guys, one for
each of you, the picture Duo found was in the box that 'belongs' to Wufei."
Rose said and everyone nodded and Rose took in a deep breath. "Ok, so I'm
not sure you remember, but we all had our pictures taken together before I
left and stuff like that. So, the person that technically knew me the
longest was Quatre, because we wrote to each other after I left the colony
he was staying in, then it would be Duo, because I stayed with him for
about eight months" Rose said as she took another deep breath. "Then it
would be Wufei because I met him in a training course that I took for about
five months and we were put into the same class, then it would be Heero
probably because I like to annoy him I guess, but I knew Trowa for the
least amount of time, that was about two or three weeks, because he was the
first I met." Rose said and every slowly nodded to what she just said, they
understood what she had said, but were still confused about what she had
said. "So, when are we going to fight this time?" Wufei asked Rose who
scratched her nose. "Well, how about at sunset, your choice where" Rose
said and Wufei nodded. "I choose outside in the front." Wufei said and Rose
nodded and bowed then went back to her room with the picture. "Ok then, I'm
going to have to go see the picture of Heero!" Duo said as he ran after
Rose before Heero could pull out his gun. Quatre laughed slightly as Heero
walked away muttering something about Duo. Quatre then slowly headed to
Rose's room to see the other pictures, Wufei headed outside and Trowa just
stood there. He finally walked off somewhere into the house. Duo and Quatre
stood at Rose's bed as she put the picture of her and Wufei away back into
the small black bow and dragged the bigger one over to her and opened it.
She pulled out the rest of the boxes and then put Wufei's back in. "Ok,
who's first?" Rose asked and Duo smiled. "How about me!" Duo said and
Quatre and Rose nodded. Rose picked up the bow with DM on it and opened it.
There on the top was two kids, obviously Rose and Duo. Rose was laughing as
she did 'bunny ears' behind Duo's head and Duo had his arms crossed and had
a big cheesy grin on his face. "Nice job Rose." Quatre said as he saw the
picture, Duo scratched his head and laughed as Rose just snickered
slightly. "Ok, now Quatre." Rose said as she put the box to a side with the
picture and picked up the bow with QW on it. "Oh no." Quatre said slowly as
Rose opened the box. Rose slowly took out a picture with her with brown
hair, Quatre looked funny. His hair was all messy but his face was the
same. The two had their arms around each shoulders as they laughed. "Nice
hair Quatre." Duo said and Quatre sighed as Rose laughed. "Ok Duo, now, the
funny ones are coming up now, who first, Heero or Trowa?" Rose asked as
Quatre smiled. "How about Trowa" Quatre said as Rose nodded as she pushed
the second box away and picked up the bow that had TB on it. Rose shook her
head as she took out this picture. Trowa stood there with his arms crossed
and his back turned to Rose. He looked exactly the same as he did that day,
except he was taller and his hair was longer. Rose stood with her back to
Trowa, she had a raised eyebrow and looked slightly confused. "Ok, nice
face Rose." Duo said in a reassuring voice. "Well, I would have been
confused to know Trowa too at a young age" Quatre said and Rose nodded.
"Trowa was. weird and odd, he didn't speak much but, at least he wasn't
annoying like some people." Rose said as she glared at Duo who laughed
slightly. "How about we move onto Heero, Rose!" Duo said as he picked up
the last box and was about to open it when there was a yell of "STOP!" from
Rose. Duo stopped and Rose grabbed the box from him and sighed. "What's
wrong?" Quatre asked Rose and she shook her head. "I was going to warn you,
that Doctor J booby trapped them with traps I know how to disarm, because
he didn't want NOSY people, no names of course Duo, to go through my
personal stuff, ok?" Rose said and Duo slowly nodded. "Then how come the
others had no problems?" Duo asked Rose and she smiled. "Well, I already
got to disarm them before because they had easy ones that you we're all
taught separately." Rose said as Duo and Quatre nodded. "So with your box
Duo, I had to force it open, with yours Quatre, I had to find a transparent
wire that was holding the lock." Rose then took in a deep breath. "With
Trowa's I had to hum the correct music, with Wufei's I had to say his
'famous' phrase." Rose then stopped as she looked at Heero's box. "And for
Heero's, I'm going to need a laptop." Rose said slowly as she examined the
box. "Why do you need a laptop?" Duo asked as he raised an eyebrow. "Well,
can one of you name one thing Heero is really good at?" Rose asked the two
and they thought about it. "Grossing me out my relocating his knee and
fixing broken bones?" Duo said and Rose shook her head. "Uh, fighting?" Duo
suggested and Rose shook her head. "Heero's good at hacking into things,
isn't he." Quatre said and Rose smiled. "Bingo, I have to hack into the
darn box, because there's a code lock and there's a computer chip in the
lock, so, I can track it!" Rose said with a wink. "Ok, so when are you
planning to do this?" Duo asked Rose who shrugged. "Maybe after Wufei and
me finish our fight." Rose said as she slowly stood up off her bed. "But if
you excuse me, I'm going to go down to dinner, it should be ready by now."
Rose said as she looked at her alarm clock and nodded. "Uh, don't you think
you should change first?" Quatre said and Rose nodded. "Good point, I'll be
down in a bit, go ahead and start without me!" Rose said as she closed her
bedroom door on Duo and Quatre's faces. Duo and Quatre shrugged to each
other as they headed down to the dining room. Rose slowly walked over to
her cupboard and opened it. "What to wear, what to wear." Rose thought as
she smiled and took out the dark blue Japanese outfit Quatre had seen her
in before. Rose quickly got changed into the dark blue outfit and then
grabbed her hair brush and brushed her hair and put it into two pigtails,
her fringe and the back of her hair was down, while the top lair was up.
"How long does it take for a girl to change?" Duo asked Quatre who
shrugged. "I don't know Duo, but it's not very gentlemen like to start
while the lady is not here yet." Quatre said as Duo laughed. "Lady? She's
not much of a." Duo then stopped as the doors opened and Rose stood there,
she slowly walked in. "Lady." Duo finished as all of the guys stared at
her. "What? Do I have something on my face?" Rose asked as she pointed to
her face and the guys all shook their heads. "Then why are you staring at
me?" Rose asked them and they all quickly looked away. "Yeah, ok." Rose
thought as she sat down next to Heero, and faced Quatre. "Lets, uh. eat!"
Quatre said and Rose smiled as she started to help herself to food. The
guys then slowly started to eat, Duo was laughing and nearly choking
himself as he looked at what Rose was wearing again. Quatre ended up having
to hit his (Duo's) back and Rose started to laugh. The food was soon
cleared and everyone just sat there. "Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask
something." Rose said with a slight smile and Trowa nodded. "Uh, who did
cut off Dark Angel's wings?" Rose asked as she looked at all of the G guys.
"Uh, to tell you the truth Rose." Trowa started and he looked over to
Wufei. "To tell you the truth, you see, what happened was that." Wufei then
stopped and looked over to Heero. "Hn." Heero said as he looked at Duo who
sighed. "Ok, all we know is that I walked into the hanger and was checking
on all of the gundam's, but when I got to Dark Angel, I found the wings had
been cut off!" Duo said and Rose nodded. "Now, was that really that hard
you guys?" Rose asked and all that had spoken more than two words nodded.
Wufei looked out the window. "It's nearly time." he said as he stood up and
left the dining room.. "Yup, I guess I should get.." Rose was then cut off
by alarms going off. "Quatre, what's going on?" Duo asked Quatre who
shrugged and one of hid guards ran in. "Master Quatre, we're under attack!"
the guard said as the rest of them all stood up and yelled "What!" and the
guard nodded. "It's OZ, they've found our base!" the guard said and Quatre
nodded. They all quickly ran to the hanger, and as then ran to their
gundams Rose suddenly clutched her stomach. "Oww." Rose said as she came to
a stop, Quatre noticed her and ran back to her. "Rose what's wrong?" Quatre
asked Rose quickly. "Ah, I'm going to kill Wufei, he knew this was going to
happen, this attack, he had walked off to the computer after I challenged
him." Rose said as she went down onto one knee. "What do you mean?" Quatre
asked as Zero One, Deathscythe and Heavyarms slowly walked by. Rose
shrugged as she slowly stood up and started to walk towards Dark Angel. "He
must have caught their mobile suits coming this way on the raider." Rose
said slowly. "Rose!" Quatre said as he stopped her. "You can't do anything
anyway, Dark Angel hasn't been completely rebuilt yet." Quatre said as he
started to lead Rose back to the elevator. Outside, four of the six
gundam's stood ready to fight "Hey, where's Quatre and Rose?" Duo asked the
guys over a communication screen and Wufei laughed slightly. "They should
both be fine, we can take care of this on our own." Wufei said as Nataku
took out his staff and Deathscythe took out his scythe. "What's that
supposed to mean?" Duo asked Wufei who then looked serious. "No time to
explain, the fights about to begin!" Wufei said as Nataku glided into
battle. Zero One, Deathscythe and Heavyarms followed him. Quatre got Rose
to sit down as he went back upstairs for something for her stomach. When he
came back down, Rose was gone. "Where did Rose go?" Quatre asked himself as
he started to look around the hanger. He then ran to the sixth hanger where
Dark Angel stood in peace. "Rose?" Quatre yelled as Sandrock appeared
coming out of the hanger where it was. "Quatre, I'm borrowing this!" Rose
said over a speaker to him as Sandrock continued to walk out of the hanger,
leaving Quatre standing there, alone. Outside, the gundam's were barely
winning and hadn't even destroyed have the suits yet. "How are these guys
so good?" Trowa asked the others. "There aren't pilots, they're mobile
dolls." Heero said as he blew one up with his beam sword. "Ok, there's
about one hundred left, we take twenty-five each, ok?" Wufei said and
everyone nodded. As they fought, Trowa found he was out of ammo. "Damn."
Trowa said as he was surrounded by the mobile dolls he was fighting. Two
sickles suddenly flew through the air, blowing up two of the suits around
Heavyarms. Deathscythe and Heavyarms looked over to Sandrock. "Quatre what
took you?" Duo asked but got no reply. Duo shrugged as Heavyarms headed
towards Sandrock, Sandrock quickly made it's way over to the sickles and
picked them up. It then started to destroy the suits shooting at him. "Hmm,
Quatre's fighting skills are better than normal." Heero thought as he
watched Sandrock blow up the last suit it had to take care of. "Hey,
Quatre, a little help over here please!" Duo yelled as Deathscythe was
blasted backwards. Sandrock then jumped into the air and landed, slicing
the suit that had knocked Deathscythe down in half. "Those aren't Quatre
normal fighting skills, unless he was training, but he wouldn't have learnt
a move like that, it looks like something Duo would do." Heero thought
quickly as he blew up another suit with his beam sword. "Duo!" Quatre said
as his face appeared on the left screen in Deathscythe's cockpit. "Well,
took you long enough to reply, thanks for the help!" Duo said as Quatre
shook his head. "That's not me out there, that's Rose!" Quatre said and Duo
raised an eyebrow. "But how can she. be piloting. I'm confused!" Duo said
as he scratched his head and Quatre nodded. "I'll explain later, just get
her off of the battle field!" Quatre said and Duo nodded, Quatre's face
then disappeared. Deathscythe slowly stood up and walked over to Sandrock
that wasn't doing anything for the moment, Deathscythe then put his arms
under Sandrock's arms and started to carry him away. Rose's face appeared
on the screen, she was breathing hard as she glared at Duo. "Put me down
Duo." Rose said slowly and Duo shook his head. "Quatre told me to get you
off the battle field, and I'm doing as I'm told!" Duo said as Deathscythe
and Sandrock disappeared into the hanger. In the hanger, Quatre and Trowa
stood waiting for the two gundam's. "Here they are." Trowa said slowly as
he crossed his arms and the two gundam's stopped. Rose came out of the
cockpit of Sandrock, she had red marks under her eyes on her cheeks and it
looked like she was blushing. Deathscythe then headed back out to the
battlefield, Quatre waved "Thanks Duo!" he yelled and Deathscythe nodded as
he disappeared. "Uh, Rose are you feeling ok?" Trowa asked Rose as she
leant against his arm. "Oh yeah, I feel perfect, don't worry, I'm not sick,
promise me!" Rose said as she started to walk away, she was swaying. Quatre
looked at Trowa and he shrugged to him. "Uh, Rose!" Quatre yelled as he ran
up to her and she looked at him. "Yeah Quatre?" Rose said slowly. "I think,
uh, you and Wufei should have your fight another time, it's already past
sun set." Quatre said and Rose nodded. "Yeah, ok, well, I'm going to go to
my room." Rose said as she pressed the elevator button, the door opened and
she walked into the elevator. The door closed and Quatre sighed, Trowa had
gone to work on Heavyarms. The three gundams slowly came in and stopped in
their hangers. The guys all saw each other and nodded and headed for their
rooms.
