Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing…I just worship it. I also do not own the ending and theme song. Theme song "Time After Time" From Detective Conan, Ending Theme "Like The Moon" From Love Hina or "Come To Myself" By ZONE (The insert song).
"Time After Time"
Moshi mo kimi ni meguriaetara
Aika's standing on a platform looking out at the sea and the sunset
Nido to kimi no te o hanasanai
Close up of Aika clutching her fist to her chest, something glints blue
Haru no owari o tsugeru hana midou
Close up of Aika's face, her head is tilted back with her eyes closed
Kasumu hana hitohira
A strong gust of wind blows Aika's hair to the left and Sakura petals float past her in the wind
Yomigaeru omoide no uta
Relena is sitting at a table in the garden of the mansion
Kono mune ni ima mo yasashiku
Relena puts her hair behind her ear and sakura petals float by
Time After Time Kimi to deatta kiseki
Relena is giving a speech on a podium
Yuruyakana kaze fuku machi de
Heero is leaning against the wall and watching his wife, the image fades
Sotto te o tsunagi aruita sakamichi
Aika is watching Relena from the corner of the room
Ima mo wasurenai yakusoku
Aika turns and walks out
Kaze ni kimi no koe ga kikoeru
A room comes into view, a close up of a crib with a worn panda bear
Usurai sae kaeru tooi kioku
Heero and Relena stand in front of a door with a sakura tree on it
Kizutsuku kowasa oshirazu chikatta
Reina is sitting in her room looking out the window
Itsuka mata kono basho de
Aika is floating face up on the calm ocean waters by the platform
Meguriaou usu beniiro no
Heero, Milliardo, Trowa, Duo, Wufei, Quatre and their families are on a picnic
Kisetsu ga kuru hi ni egao de
Rikku is sitting in a tree laughing
Time After Time
Aika is walking down a sidewalk
Hitori hana mau machi de
View of a bustling city
Chirazaru toki wa modoranai kedo
Aika walks by and sees kids playing in a park
Ano hi to onaji kawaranai keshiki ni
Aika stops and watches, putting her hand on the fence post
Namida hirari matte ita yo
Aika closes her eyes and walks, cherry blossoms fly after her
Kaze mau hanabira ga minamo o naderu you ni
Relena, Heero and Reina are sitting under a sakura tree reading and relaxing
Taisetsu ni omou hodo setsunaku...
Aika is laying on the beach, staring at the waves
Hito wa mina kodoku to iu keredo
A girl is laying on the ground with a gash on her side, blood pooling around her
Sagasazu ni wa irarenai dare ka o
A bunch of men stand around the girl and jot things down on clipboards
Hakanaku koware yasui mono bakari
The little girl opens her eyes and lifts her head
Oimotomete shimau
She slowly lifts her self, her face squinting at the pain, and stands in front of the men, staring blankly
Time After Time
A large explosion, a gundam is seen
Kimi to irozuku machi de
Heero and Relena and the others stand in front of a window and watch the gundam battle
Deaetara mou yakusoku wa iranai
Aika sits up suddenly on the beach and holds her forehead in her hand
Dare yorimo zutto kizutsuki yasui kimi no
She stares out at the ocean again
Soba ni itai kondo wa kitto
She gets up and walks away, blood trailing along on the beach sand, the back of her shirt soaked in blood
Chapter 7: Come To Myself
Aika was laying on the floor later that night. She was on the floor next to the bed that the VFM currently occupied. She had both hands under her head watching the ceiling.
"You're a monster!" Those words kept replaying in her mind. Aika sat up from the makeshift bed and watched the slumbering woman. She stood up slowly and walked to the door, she opened the door and stopped before leaving. Soft light from the hallway filtered into the room, slightly illuminating the dark space.
"I know…" Aika closed the door behind her, the room becoming dark again. Relena turned to the doorway and opened her eyes. She stared at the doorway for a couple of minutes, the words that the girl uttered replayed in her head, before she realized the meaning.
"You're a monster…I know…she said…" Relena sat up in bed.
"I know." Relena whispered. She shook her head, leaning back into the bed.
"There's a deeper meaning there…"
The Laboratory
Aika walked into the laboratory. Dr. J was standing in front of a group of vials with substances inside them. The Laboratory was huge, the only bad thing about it was that it was filthy, overturned desks, chairs and papers where strewn around the floor. Aika glanced around, encompassed in her thoughts.
"You're up still?" Dr. J turned to Aika and grinned. Aika nodded her head. Dr. J turned back around and motioned for her to come over.
"Come over here I want to make sure your body is in top condition, you haven't had an examination in two weeks." Dr. J walked over to a large table with straps attached to it. Aika went to him and sat on the table. She silently laid down on it, and Dr. J Strapped her arm's and leg's down to the table. He slid an I.V into each of her wrists and placed several sensors on her body. He than sat down on a chair and turned on a small computer next to her head. Dr. J typed in a few things before the machine beeped.
"I'll test your reflexes first." He pressed a couple of buttons and Aika flexed her arm. Dr. J smiled.
"Perfect, you reacted before the jolt even started to course through the blood stream. That should do it for today, now I'll just test your blood loss count." He smiled before pressing a few more buttons.
"I'm now putting the pressure up to 950." Aika tensed as the sensors pushed into her body broke some of her bones, she started to lose blood through the wounds that the sensors inflicted. Dr. J stood up from the chair.
"I'll leave you in here until morning, say around, 0600 hours. If you move around too much the wounds should deepen, try to lose as much blood as possible, you're last count was around 7 liters, that's your best so far, you were still conscious by morning. Let's aim for, 8 liters." Dr. J nodded to her and left the room. Aika laid there, blood pouring out of her wounds. She closed her eye's and sighed inwardly.
"0600 hours…"
"AIKA?" Aika jerked her head to the side. Relena Yuy stood behind one of the overturned desks. Aika shot her a death glare.
"What the HELL are you doing in here?" Relena ran over to the girl and tried to untie the straps holding her down. She clawed at the straps with her nails, but it was no use, she couldn't get them loose.
"I'm getting you out of here, the man is trying to kill you!" Aika growled and glared at her again.
"He's not killing me, trust me it would take a lot more than this to kill me." Relena eyed her.
"What's wrong with you? The man just inflicted wounds on you with a machine and you day he's not trying to kill you?" Aika sighed and closed her eye's again.
"It's called a blood loss count. He's trying to see how much blood I can lose with out losing conscious. It's a standard test that he performs every week to make sure my blood cell count is in check, though it always is, he's always persistent about it. Anyway, you should not be down here! If he comes back and sees you here forget living for another couple of days, he'll kill you on the spot for seeing this!" Relena gaped at the girl.
"Why is he doing this to you?" Aika clenched her fist.
"GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" Aika turned her head and shouted at Relena. Relena stepped back.
"I'm doing this for your own good so go! NOW!" Relena nodded her head. Aika turned to the other side. Relena glanced back at her before running to the hallway.
"She was…tearing…?" Relena ran back down the corridor and into Aika's room. She shut the door behind her and slid down the hard wood door.
"I don't understand any of this, what's going on?" Relena shook her head.
"I'm doing this for your own good so go! NOW!" Relena sighed. She stood up from her slumped position and sat down on the bed.
"The peace will shatter, I just know it will." Relena quietly sobbed into her hands, tears running down her face. The silent room echoed the frustrated sob's of the woman.
Laboratory
Aika watched the ceiling.
"I've been doing a lot of that lately…" She tried to get comfortable on the cold metal table by twisting her body under the straps. Aika turned her head to the side. She looked at the exit where Relena had just run out of. Aika's bangs slowly covered her eyes.
"After this war…I'll end it all. I wouldn't mind sleeping silently in my grave."
Peacecraft/Yuy Mansion
Heero sat on the couch silently. He gazed at the T.V watching the reporters from earlier inform that the Vice Foreign Minister had been kidnapped. Heero reached for the remote and turned the T.V off with a click.
"We'll find her." Heero turned around to see Zechs in the doorway.
"I didn't protect her well enough." Zechs shook his head before heading over to the couch.
"We all didn't protect her well enough. It was our fault." Heero stood up from the couch and turned his icy glare on Zechs.
"SHE'S MY WIFE! I SHOULD ALWAYS PROTECT HER! BUT I WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH!" Heero yelled. Zechs lowered his head. He reached out a comforting hand on his shoulder. Heero eyed his hand.
"Why are you comforting me? I thought you hated me?" Zechs smiled slightly.
"Those feelings of hatred died a long time ago." Heero watched his form, looking for some hidden lie, but he saw none. Heero nodded his head, looking the other way.
"Yea, me too." Zechs grinned.
"We're going to find her, no matter what."
"Thanks." Heero croaked out. Zechs looked up surprised. Heero was crying. Zechs smiled sadly.
"Without her, I was lost for so long. Now that she's gone again, that cold feeling is back. It just keeps gnawing at me, like when we lost Sakura." Heero's voice broke off. Zechs nodded.
"Heero, just remember that you also have to be strong for Reina, just imagine how she feels." Heero nodded and looked up at Zechs.
"I'm going to see how she's doing." Heero walked away and headed to the staircase. Zechs rubbed his temples. Noin peeked in from the hallway. She had hard the conversation between the two. She was happy that they would finally get along, she was just sad that the truth had to come out from such a tragic event.
"Milliardo." Zechs turned around to see Noin. She smiled and held out her arms for him. Zechs walked to her and hugged her tightly in his embrace. Noin stoked his hair soothingly before speaking to him.
"It'll all work out, you'll see." Zechs pulled away and smiled at her.
"Thank you Noin. I'm going to check and see how the search is going with Une." Noin nodded. Zechs left the room and Noin sat down on the couch. She clutched her head in her hands.
"Relena…"
With Heero and Reina
Reina sat on her bed clutching the teddy bear her mother and father had given her for her ninth birthday.
"Mom." Reina snuggled her head and cried into "Chubbs."
"Knock knock." Reina looked up from her bear and wiped her eyes.
"A-ahem…come in." Heero opened the door. Reina smiled at him.
"Hi daddy." Reina put Chubbs down and slide over to the edge of the bed.
"What did you need?" Heero walked over and sat down next to her on the bed.
"Are you O.K?" Reina smiled and looked at him.
"Yea, I'm okay, are you?" Heero shook his head.
"No…" Reina lowered her head.
"I'm not either." Heero smiled.
"I could tell you were crying." Reina laughed lightly.
"You always know everything." Heero smiled.
"Of course I do! I'm your Father." Reina laughed. Heero pulled her into his arms.
"It's okay to cry, when you need to. Your emotions aren't like a switch that you can just turn on and off. It's what makes you human. I learned that the hard way." Reina nodded her head and sobbed lightly. Heero pulled Reina into a hug and rocked her back and forth.
"It'll be okay, I promise you." Reina nodded her head.
The Living Room
Noin turned the T.V back on waiting to see if they had anything on Relena's Kidnapper. Thankfully when the reporters had gotten there earlier Zechs didn't say that she was kidnapped by a high school student, that would have sounded horrible. Instead he just said they shot out the lights, which was true, and they hadn't been able to see what gender the person was or what he or she looked like. Noin sighed and ran a hand through her hair.
"This just in!" Noin looked up at the screen. The reporter was frantically listening into her ear piece.
"The L1 delegates have seceded and declared war on the Earth!" Noin dropped the remote.
"We have just received a video recording." The screen went blank to reveal four men sitting at a conference table.
"The L1 Colony is declaring war on the rest of the Union. We have the Vice Foreign Minister held captive here on L1.The Union ha 24 hours to reply, you will either surrender or face annihilation. Either way we will take control of the Earth and the Colonies!" A man stepped out from the shadow's of the room.
"I'm Dr. Jack Odin Lowe, We have over 100,000 Gundams, and a special weapon to use against the ESUN. I know for a fact that the ESUN is hiding the last remaining Gundams somewhere on Earth. We want the Gundam Pilots in exchange for Relena Yuy, if you fail to comply we will commence attack before the day is over. Delegate Richard Moore was killed because he knew this information, unfortunately he never made it back to the Earth in time to warn you." The video blanked out and the News room reappeared on the television screen. Noin just sat there awestruck.
"No…" Heero had been watching from behind the couch.
"I have no choice but to go." Noin jumped, startled to see Heero there.
"No! You can't go!" Heero walked away from the room. Noin jumped from the couch and tried to catch Heero before he left the Mansion. Noin quickly pulled out her cell phone and dialed Milliardo's number.
"Milliardo!" Noin cried into the phone.
"I know Lucrezia, We've all decided to go." Noin shook her head on the verge of tears.
"Let me go with you!" She heard Milliardo sigh over the voice piece.
"No, Noin, stay home." Noin heard a click, and she was separated from the line.
"Milliardo." Noin slumped to the floor.
At The Base On L1
Dr. J walked down the hallway of the destroyed base with four people in tow.
"Is she ready for battle?" Dr. J nodded his head.
"She always is, I'm currently giving her a blood loss test. It's 8:00, I was supposed to have checked on her at 6. Let's see how well she's doing." Dr. J opened the door to the Laboratory. Aika was standing, blood pouring out of her body. The metal table was flipped, the straps still tied but torn apart. She gazed at them coldly.
"Aika, you always look beautiful soaked in blood." The men laughed. Aika spit at him.
"I'm in no mood you sick bastard." The man looked flabbergasted. Dr. J turned to the man.
"I haven't installed the zero system yet, she's been without it for 3 weeks. The man smiled knowingly, he walked over to her and stroked her cheek.
"You're the most brilliant creation ever since the Gundams were created. You aren't human, you're a goddess of death." Aika glared at him. The man smiled manically. Dr. J turned to see the damage caused to the machine that was now overturned.
"We've declared war. Prepare for battle." Dr. J knelt down to the meter on the floor.
"You lost 14 liters of blood, still conscious, and have strength to rip off a special alloy in that strap, you are my greatest creation, I will enjoy using you." Aika threw a piece of glass that she had clutched in her hand. Dr. J just barley managed to dodge.
"A human can't make 14 liters of blood, it's impossible." Dr. J grinned.
"Who said you were human?" Aika's eyes widened.
"Come, I'll prepare your Gundam." Aika hesitated before following Dr. J.
"The VFM is currently residing in Aika's room, you may go speak to her, but don't kill her, I have a surprise once the Gundma Pilot's arrive." Dr. J held up his hand as he walked out of the Lab with Aika following behind.
Preventer H.Q.
"THEY DECLARED WAR! WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO GO TO WAR!" Une screamed at the Pilots standing in her office. Heero was sitting on a soft plush chair consumed in his own thoughts.
"We have to get Relena back no matter what." Duo cracked his knuckles.
"This isn't going to be easy with out the Gundams." Une shook her head.
"The ESUN didn't destroy all of the Gundams. The kept a couple hundred of them in a hidden location on Earth. We have Taurus Model's but we don't have the original five." Trowa nodded.
"Than have them grant us access to five of them, we'll go and get Relena." Une shook her head.
"It won't be that easy. All systems pertaining to the Gundam models were destroyed, we would have to re-calibrate them, and we don't know how long that would take." Quatre stood up.
"We could set up a team and have them start ASAP, I know I could get Rashid and the others to help no problem." Une nodded her head.
"It just might work. Okay lets split into teams." Heero, Trowa, Wufei, Duo and Quatre nodded.
"We're going to have to draft men, correct?" Une sighed and turned to Trowa.
"You know how war works." Trowa nodded.
At The Base On L1
Aika stood on a platform surrounded by a man made ocean. She looked out into the artificial sunset.
"WING ZERO!" Aika pressed the button on the side of her wrist watch. The platform shook and slowly opened from the middle. Wing Zero slowly rose from the depth's of the colony.
"Oi, Zero, dekiagari tame faito…?" Aika walked up to the gundam and touched the huge leg of the machine. She tapped the metal lightly.
"Gomen nasai, ikimasu." Aika climbed up the Gundam's side and jumped into the cockpit.
Yuugure doki no machi
Yukikau hito no uzu ni
Sakarai arukitsudzukete ita
Sorezore no kao ni
Kakusareta jikan wa
Totemo nagakute fukai iro de
Aika quickly tapped the controls and the cock pit closed. The controls became bright illuminating the cockpit.
Furikaeri kidzuku
Jibun mo sono hitotsu to
Totan ni sekai ni hito wa kie
Sakende mitemo
Nani mo kikoenai shi
Hashittemo mae ni susumanai
Aika leaned back in the seat and pulled a helmet over her head.
Sora
Kara ochiteku
Taiyou
Boku wa
Tatta hitori no
Machi ni
Tsubusareta...
"Commence Zero System Calibration. Inserting data files." Aika repeated to the A.I.
Konna ni mo hito ga afurete
Kokoro wa takusan aru hazu to
Dakedo boku no koe wa dare ni mo
Todokazu surechigai kieteku
Kidzukeba narete shimatte
Atarimae no you ni ikiteru
Hito no uzu ni nagasarenagara
Michi no owari mezashite susumu
Four body sensors dropped from the top of the control system. Aika put them onto each of her major pressure points. Her body flinched for a minute before her muscles tightened and adjusted to the pressure.
Ima made no boku ga
Kokoro wo hadaka ni shita
Hito wa dare mo inai to omou
Kekkyoku dokoka sukoshi
Kikazatte misete wa
Jibun wo tsukuru koto wo tsudzuketa
Aika took the helmet off, her eyes a dark cobalt.
Tooku
De naite iru
Koe ga
Boku wa
Tatta hitori no
Sora ni
Obieteru...
She quickly punched in a command and the Gundam's arm moved. Aika than pushed a lever on the right and moved the Gundam.
Ai suru hito ga itara kitto
Subete ga raku ni nareru no kana
Dakedo tabun dokoka fukaku de
Hadaka ni narenai boku ga iru
Hitori ga iya na wake ja nakute
Hitori ga tsurai wake ja nakute
Tada jibun ni uso wo tsuiteru
Boku ga sabishii dake na no kamo
Aika opened the cockpit of the Gudam.
"Calibration check complete."
Yume
Kara sametara
Soko wa
Boku no
Heya datta kedo
Miekata ga
Kawatte ita...
Aika climbed down the Gundam. She walked back to the base and into the Laboratory. Dr. J was there holding her clean clothes.
"Change, and take a quick shower, I don't want you to get blood all over the Gundam." Aika nodded.
"Understood."
Yuugure doki no machi mezashite
Tada hitasura hashiritsudzuketa
Kitto soko ni kotae ga aru to
Shinjiteru utagai wa shinakatta
Atarimae ja nakute jibun de
Nanika hajimereba ii n da
Owari nanka ki ni shinakutemo
Hashireru dake hashire wa wakaru
Aika took the clothes and went to her room. She opened the door to see Relena pacing around the room. Relena noticed Aika and ran over to her.
"You're fighting in this war aren't you?" Relena placed a hand on her shoulder. Aika shrugged it off.
"Do not interfere, I am a solider, I am to complete my mission and follow all parameters, there is no other way for a solider to live." Relena stepped back in shock.
"This isn't the same girl from before…she's…different." Relena watched as the girl went to the bathroom and shut the door.
"Heero…please stop this war." Relena prayed.
"Tsuki No Gotoku" (Like The Moon)
Arashi, kakenukeru kouya wo fumishimete
Aika is standing on a bridge as snow falls around her
Kiyoki shinzan no chi de ware wo mitsumeru
Aika holds her hand up attempting to catch snowflakes
Subete uketomeru mi to kokoro motomete
She closes her eyes and the picture fades to
Kodoku, zetsubou mo mu no sekai e toujiru. . .
Reina is standing in front of her window watching the snow fall, her hand on the glass
Zutto koushite ikite kita
A man shoots a little girl
Akaki chishio nagare
A puddle of blood forms on the ground
Motto sochi tsuyoki kenshi ni
The little girl opens her eyes and lifts her head
Nare yo to sakenda kotodama
She starts to stand up
Haru mo shiranu mama fuyu ni ikiru tamashii
The snow keeps falling and people are shopping around a city
Akaneiro wo shita ware tsubomi saka sou
The city lights glow under the moon
Kitto aoki tsuki no gotoku
Aika stares up at the moon
Awaku hikaru de arou
Stars twinkle in the night sky
Sotto tabibito terasu yo na
The water beneath the bridge flows silently and glitters
Yasashiki ougi mo tsuyosa yo
Aika walks over the rest of the bridge
Kedakaki ken wa toki ni tooku kanjiru
Heero and his family are maing snowmen
Yureru kokoro, uchikesu yo ni
Relena stares at the mansion, her gaze distant
Zutto koushite ikite kita
Everyone gathers around a huge christmas tree
Akaki chishio nagare
Aika is walking down an empty street
Motto sochi tsuyoki kenshi ni
Natalie and Nikki grab each others shoulder and sway back and forth singing
Nare yo to sakenda kotodama
People are dancing at a ball and having fun
Kitto aoki tsuki no gotoku
Aika is watching everyone
Awaku hikaru de arou
She slowly starts to steps towards them
Sotto tabibito terasu yo na
She stops abruptly in midstride
Yasashiki ougi mo tsuyosa yo
She turns around and gazes back at them before leaving
A/n: Stay Tuned!