A/N: I really don't know what to say, but I just woke up so thanks for the reviews for the past 2 chapters, hope you enjoy the 3rd.
Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, or the characters, or the gundams. But the Styx Gundam is mine, and so is the pilot of it.
Styx Gundam
Ch. Three- The Styx Gundam
The gundam pilots were in Quatre's private meeting room in the Winner Corporation building. Phones were disconnected, and blinds were closed. When they all took ltheir seats, eyes turned to Duo for the explaination.Duo took a deep breath, and tried to decide how to start. He knows hwere, b ut he couldn't decide how. The anixious looks from the other pilots told him he better hurry up, and start talking. Duo took one more deep breath, and began his story. "I guess I should start with saying that, yes there is one more gundam. The gundam is known as the Styx Gundam. It's named after the river that leads the dead to hell, so that tells you it was inspired by the Deathscythe. As the pilot, I was terrified of losing Deathscythe, so I agreed on helping the creation lof Styx. On the exterior, it looks exactly like Deathscythe, but the scythe for the Styx is different. The scythe for the Styx has a gundanium blade, with a thermal sheild making it extremely powerful, and able to work in unusual atmopheres. It's exterior is also stronger than the Deathscythe's, so it's able to handle more force, and impacts. And, if you haven't figured it out yet, the reason it's named after the river Styx is because it specializes in underwater combat. When being designed it was suppose to have all of Deathscythe's abilities, and more. We also planned to do this for all of the gundams, but as you can see things didn't go as planned.
"For confidentiality only two people really designed the gundam. Me and a scientist named Kenney. Sara Kenney. She was a genius at computer science, mobile suit layouts including gundams, engineering, and unfortunatly piloting. We worked so hard on Styx, but it was actually easy since most information come from Deathscythe."
Quatre stood up and made eye contact with Duo. "Getting the information from Deathscythe or not, shouldn't it still take years to design it?"
Duo shook his head. "When I say Sara's a genuis, I'm not kidding. She was able to make all calculations and adjustments in a few weeks. Probably 3 to 4 weeks at the most."
Heero also stood up. "Duo, you say Prof. Kenney's name as if you know her."
Duo gave alittle somewhat hidden smile. "That's because I do. No need to call her Prof. Kenney. She's a year younger than you. But, before the Father and the Sister took me in, when I was a theif. Well, Sara was one the orphans I was with. Shecame up with the operation plans and things. She was able to make the best escape routes, and everything. She was a prodigies of prodigies. Even with all her smarts, she wasn't cocky about any of it. She had this air around her that made her seem so innocent, and beautiful. Almost angelic.
"Well, when colony L2 came down with the sickness, or to be more specifi when Solo came down with the sickness, she spent hours trying to findthe cure, and she did. We were running to the closet hospital, sick ward, and home arrested family with the sickness, but she was abducted by two huge men. Or they just seemed huge since I was so small, I don't know. I chased after tehm as best as I coud, but when they stopped, one of the guys took ahold of me, and pinned me to the ally wall. A man stepped out of the shadows, and took the cure. He told them to get rid of us, and how… he didn't care. The guy holding me pulled out a pocket knife, while the one holding Sara started to undress her. Out of desperation to save one of us, she kicked a near by bottle hitting the hand that held me down. She told me to run, and get help. I was young and in panic, so I didn't know what else to do. I just knew that the smartest one in our gang is telling me to run, so I figured if I did everything she said everything would turn out okay like always. But… when I returned, there was blood where she once was, and her shirt slashed to bits. We all thought she was dead, but when I was introduced to the scientist I'd be working with, it waws her. She said they figured out that she was the one who created the cure, and thought she'd be useful to them. She escaped about 2 months before hand."
Wufei just kinda shrugged everything he just heard off. "So, she was your shildhood girlfriend who you worked with later on. What does this have to do with the Styx?"
Trowa turned to Duo with a question of his own. "Why was it her that worked with you on this gundam? To me, it seems really farfetched that anybody would have a unknown scientist work on a top secret machine as a gundam."
"Because it was all her idea. She came with rough sketches of how the Styx should be made, and when proposed to me, I fully agreed with it. And why I'm telling you all this about her is because Sara was the one who stole the Styx gundam. Being as intelligent as she was, the men who kidnapped her trained her to be able to steal mobile suits, and Deathscysthe."
Heero slammed his hands on the table. "So, she didn't really escape! She was on a mission!"
"Heero, if she was wouldn't the men who sent her, have used the gundam by now? This was over a year ago."
"Well, Duo. Why would she steal a gundam that was alike to the one she was trained to steal?"
"She's not like that. If you knew her, you'd know that!"
"But I don't, si it's not clouding my judgement about her. I bet she's as pretty as ever, and you have a crush on her, so you can't picture her doing anything wrong."
"Heero! You're wrong! She's not like that! She'd never do that to…"
"Me? Duo, snap out of it. She may have been different when you were younger, but people change." Quatre inputed, unable to see him and Heero fight. "Duo… I'm sorry, but…"
Duo raised his hands, signaling Quatre to stop. "Let's continue our discussion about Styx." No one know what Duo was thinking, but they all agreed with him. "Well, I bet you're wondering about stuff on the Styx rather than my love life, so ask."
Trowa cleared his throut turning all eyes to him. "Why didn't you replace Deathscythe with the Styx if it was so much more advanced?"
"Because it was stolen by her when it became operational right?" asked Wufei.
Duo shook his head. "No. We decided not to make it operational. It was too heavy in weight making it very difficult to pilot. But with the right pilot, it would be great with all it's strength. I could pilot it, but not like Sara was able too. So we decided she would be the official pilot, but she didn't want to be a pilot, so we just made it passive.
"Well, then how do you know she stole it?"
"Well, because she was the only one who could enter the deck. She was the pilot, so she was the only one. Even I couldn't enter. I called her up when we were going to send our gundams to the sun, so I could include it. She told me to meet her at the door to the deck, but when I arrived the door was opened and the Styx was gone."
Heero shrugged his shoulder. "That doesn't mean a thing. You have no proof that she stole it. You're just accusing her because she's the most likely person."
"Now look who's protecting her. And who else could've taken it? A gundam that I could barely pilot. And break into a room, I would have trouble hacking into. Not to mention she just disappeared."
"Well, all I can see from your story, Duo is that there's a gundam and a pilot missing. We have people trying to kill us, but mostly Duo. We should protect him at all costs, and figure out where the gundam is." Trowa said standing, ready to conclude this meeting.
Everyone nodded their heads and agreed. Leaving with just one mission for the next up coming days: locate the Styx gundam and destroy it.
