ZT: Hey! I know, I'm torturing you people with these long periods of no updating. Sorry. Remember to tell me what you think of having a sequel. Well, on with the show! I don't own Gundam Wing. Enjoy!

Review Responses:

n/a: Sorry! School started up and my teachers are EVIL with the whole homework thing. (I thought Senior year was supposed to be easy...TT)

Gundam gurl: More than cheese? Girl, I think you'reoverexagerating with that one...They're in the same clothes...that's why Vanessa was surprised when Sai made the suggestion; it's what she usually wears when she goes on missions as Hell Fire. Yeah, Duo knows who Night Star is. I already have a sequel in mind...just a matter of how many people want the sequel.

aj: yeah, school can DIE! (Don't tell my englishteacher I said that...)

Dark Devotions: No you're not. And school's better, thanks. Here's theupdate.

Calli Maxwell: Yep, they were LAVA (Laury, Alex, Vanessa, Allison). I definitley have a sequel in mind, butI want a few more oppinions beforeI decide to write it ornot.

Fate Sucks

Chapter 36

For two teams that decided to work together, things weren't getting done any more smoothly then they had before. The guys had agreed to let LAVA work with them, however the whole thought of the girls being their biggest rivals this whole time still innerved them. Thus, the group had stayed too awkwardly quiet until they finally split back into their own teams. At the moment, Sai was playing messenger girl for the two teams and was over with LAVA.

"C'mon girls, at least TRY to work with them!" she pleaded.

"We tried, but it's just too…weird. I mean, they're the Gundam Pilots!" Alex pointed out.

Sai nodded, "Uh-huh, and last I checked, they were also called Heero, Duo, Trowa, Wufei, and Quatre. They're still the same guys that we've been hanging out with, just now we know what they do for a living. I mean, did them finding out who you girls were change you? I don't think it did, and I don't think it changed them either."

Vanessa let out a sigh and pulled a disk out of her laptop, "I can't make heads nor tails out of this, see what Heero can do with it."

Sai gave the girl an annoyed glare that asked if she had listened to anything she had just said before taking the disk and walking over to the guys.

The guys looked up as the blond messenger walked up to them. She tossed Heero the disk, "Your turn."

"I thought you were supposed to be the best hacker around," Wufei scoffed.

"Yeah, and I thought you were supposed to be working together with LAVA," she shot back.

Trowa raised an eyebrow, "Whoever said we weren't?"

Duo gave a weird look to the tall teen, "Please tell me you did not just seriously ask that."

Sai glanced at the braided haired pilot. She knew he had no problem with the girls. Shoot, he started flirting with Vanessa as soon as she walked through the door! She knew that if there was anyone more annoyed with the two teams right now for not working together, it was him.

As she sat pondering, a small disturbance from the girls' side of the room caught the guys' attention.

"Laury, where'd you get that from?" they heard Alex ask.

"That's a secret," the red head replied.

"Well, it's no secret where it's going! Give me that!" Laury jumped as Alex landed where she had once been sitting.

Laury held a bottle of champagne in the air and ran, "Oh no! You're not getting this one!"

Alex sprung in her direction, "Wanna bet? That'll be down the drain by the hour's end!"

The guys watched as Laury and Alex ran around their teammates a few times in their game of cat and mouse. Then, Laury broke from the circular path and headed towards the guys. She and Alex ran around that team for a while before running out the door.

Sai turned her head towards the door and sighed, "Fate sucks."

Duo blinked in surprise at the comment before what she said sank in. He let out a huff, "No kidding."

"What is it?" Quatre asked in confusion. Trowa, Wufei, and Heero had turned their attention towards the two as well.

"Think about it," Sai said, playing with a lock of her hair, "Had certain things in our past had not happened, things we had no control over, everything would be just fine. There would have been no Night Star, thus there would have been neither LAVA nor me, and you guys wouldn't have become Gundam Pilots who would later become enemies of LAVA."

"And then there's the whole irony of it all," Duo pointed out, "Our 'enemies' ended up being the only chicks we have ever actually fallen in love with! I mean, c'mon Q-man! You proposed to Desert Rose!"

Sai shook her head, "Well, Duo seems to have finished up my little rant for me… Like I said, Fate sucks."

"Fate's an illusion. It is something humans have made up as an excuse for their follies," Heero stated.

Sai gave him a challenging smirk, "Prove it."

Heero stood up, "Fine, I will." With that, he walked over to LAVA. The other pilots, save for Duo, shared a glance before following suit.

Duo and Sai looked at the two teams that now were working together quite well since Quatre coaxed Laury and Alex back. Sai smirked, "They're so predictable."

Duo grinned also, "So now that they're behaving, are ya gonna tell them you cracked the original disk on the first night?"

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