Chapter 3: The Truth Hurts

A/N: I don't own Gundam Wing blah blah...

Kyo was shocked when Hunter came out of no where and threw herself into his arms. She was crying and muttering things about a dark night and a man. He got the gist of what she was talking about. It set his anger ablaze. But first he needed to calm her down and get his name so he could kill him later.
"Hunter, calm down."
"Kyo," she breathed.
He put his hand on her stomach and back only to have her gasp in pain.
"Hunter?"
"I hurt," she breathed.
He carefully pulled her shirt up to see the big bruise on her ribs. If he was just angry before he was now livid.
"Who did this?" he growled.
"I don't know," she whispered.
"Can't you go anywhere without being attacked?" he snapped.
Hurt resonated through her as she pulled away from him. Tears were forming in her eyes as she took off in the dark. He cursed himself a fool for yelling at her like that. When others hurt someone he cared about he tended to fly off the handle. When it came to her it was worse.
Hunter gasped as she darted through the moon lit garden. Movements from her left caught her attention. Stopping she heard voices. Crouching low she listened intently.
"Are you sure they're here?" a young voice whispered.
"Yes," the older voice growled.
"Geeze you don't have to be so grumpy," the young one snapped. "Always grumpy."
Harmony was interested in these strangers now. She snuck away.
Fierce Prussian blue eyes darted towards the other side of the bushes.
"What is it Heero?"
"Nothing."
He knew who ever it was heard them speaking. What made him curious was the person went strait towards Quatra's safe house. He shrugged it off he'd figure it out later.

Harmony dashed into her room and stood there leaning against the door breathing heavily. That was odd. Never before had anyone came to his house that wasn't a gundam pilot, a gundam pilot's child, or even Relena's children. Yes, she knew about the boys being gundam pilots. Sitting quickly down at her desk she flipped her laptop on. Searching through her reports that she had obtained from the database of the Preventers HQ it most stated reports of five gundam pilots.

Reports: Appearance of Gundams

8/15/ AC 195 18:00 hrs. Five Gundams are reported being sighted. They killed Marshal Noventa and several other diplomats seeking peace.

She brought up new photos for that attack. Quickly she scrolled through them. Each were labeled with a number of the gundam. Then she brought up quickly the reports on the men she knew. Some man named Heero Yuy piloted 01, Duo piloted 02, Trowa piloted 03, Quatra in 04, and last but not least 05 Wufei. Typing up something quickly she looked at the file for Heero. There wasn't a picture anywhere. She hacked into everything she could get to but all pictures of that pilot were gone. Something caught her attention. It was a picture of her mother and the other pilots and families. A stoic man stood towards the back near her mother. His eyes were a dispassionate blue some would say Prussian. The look in his eyes seemed familiar. Shaking it off she'd figure it out later. Getting up with her laptop under her arm she went to find Quatra.
(yes I know she got over it really quickly but a trait harmony has is bottling emotions like that up until she has a chance to vent. Most of the time on Poor Wufei. Can you imagine him yelling Injustice in my face for the crap I put him through?)
Hunter stopped outside Quatra's study. Zeero was standing there listening intently to the conversation.
"What are you doing here?" Quatra asked.
"What no warm welcome?" the kid asked.
"Its dangerous to be here Heero."
Hunter smirked so this was Heero. "We've been getting strange reports about what's going on."
"I noticed," his voice was emotionless like his eyes were in the picture. "So how is she?"
Quatra shook his head at the pilot.
"We haven't found her yet. Do you have any leads?"
"I have a few."
Heero turned towards the door seeing two sets of eyes watching them. Both jerked backwards barely missing the others chin and head. They scrambled away from the door and dashed down the hall. A smirk graced his features.
"That was Harmony and Serenity," Quatra said as a low chuckle escaped him.
The chuckle stopped when he remembered that Heero didn't know those two were his daughters. It scared him sometimes how much those two were like him in their own way. Hunter with her grace and hacking skills, and Zeero that look and a few other fighting skills. He would leave that little fact out for the time being.
"Who's kids are they? Duos'?"
"No."
He didn't want to answer the next question he knew that was coming.
"They're Relena's aren't they?"
Quatra turned away answering the question without saying anything.
"I didn't expect her to hang on that long."
"Then you're a fool then," Quatra growled.
"What makes you think..."
"Heero old buddy, old pal. How've you been?"
Duo draped his arm over Heero's shoulder.
"I'd be better if you got off of me."
"Geesh all that time away and you're sense of humor hasn't improved."
Wufei and Trowa walked in behind Duo. They all sat down and discussed what was going to happen now.

Harmony breathed a sigh of relief as she made it to her room. Zeero collapsed on her bed.
"So that's 01," Hunter murmured to herself.
"What are you talking about?'
"That guy talking with Quatra was the fifth gundam pilot. The infamous 01."
"Who cares?"
"Look at this."
She showed her sister the group picture.
"And this means what to me?"
"They're gathering again."
"You make this sound like Highlander."
Hunter sighed in annoyance. "Even if they were they don't have their gundams."
"I hacked into the Preventers HQ database and found this."
She held up a green floppy that said top secret on it.
"What is that?"
"Files."
"No kidding."
She popped the files disk in and opened up the one that said gundams. There were the blue prints for the original five gundams in their final stages. (basically the blueprints for the gundams in Endless Waltz the Custom versions) Zeero was enthralled by the blue prints her sister dug up.
"You mean the Anti-Preventers have these gundams already built again?"
"From what I can gather their still working on them."
She turned in her chair to stare at her computer screen and studied the blue prints of Wing Zero Custom.
"So this is the gundam that guy piloted?"
"I'd assume so. There are no records that any of the pilots were female."
"How about we get those gundams for ourselves and rescue mom on the way."
"You're serious aren't you?"
The hard look she had in her eyes told her everything she needed to know. "We need to wait though Zeero. We're not prepared to go into a full scale assault alone."
"I didn't say anything about a full scale assault. I just said stealing the gundams and getting mother out."
"I'll dig up what I can about the lay out of the building and we'll go from there."
"Good."
Zeero turned away and headed to her room to get some rest. Hunter stayed up for a bit longer to see what she could dig up before her eyes stared to blur. The words before her vanished before her eyes as she turned off the laptop after saving her work. Laying down she'd continue in the morning.