Alice had eventually fallen asleep from all her crying while in Alex's arms. He had laid her down and laid her head in his thigh. He sat aginst the wall stroking her hair while staring off into space.

'How can Uncle Duo be dead? Obviously since he survived the wars he could survive almost everything. Right?' Alex looked down at Alice with worry on his face. 'Alice has been through so much already…she shouldn't have to deal with this. I should be able to more for her. She deserves someone who can do a lot for her. What can I do? I'm just a shoulder to cry on.

'I've always been the one she comes to when something is wrong. Yes I am her best friend, but it's obvious she doesn't return my feelings. Hell, she doesn't even know my feelings.'

Alex sat there staring at her for a long while before drifting off to sleep himself.

Days later…

"Get up both of you!"

"Can't you just leave us alone! Especially Alice!" He yelled back as he stood up abruptly after gently setting Alice's head on the ground.

"Don't question me boy!" The guard yelled as he hit Alex in the gut with the butt of his gun.

"Alex!" Alice cried out as she saw Alex struck as she awoke from her slumber.

Alex fell down to one knee clutching his stomach. Alice scrambled over to him and put her arm around his shoulder.

"Alex, are you alright?" She asked worriedly.

"I'm fine." He answered as he looked up and glared at the guard.

"Afraid we can't do that my dear Alie." A voice stated.

"Josh…" Alice growled. "What the hell do you want?"

"What? I'm not allowed to come see my lovely girlfriend?" Josh appeared in the cell from behind the guard.

"Bullshit! I haven't been your girlfriend for the past 5 months! The moment I found you with that trash I wasn't your girlfriend!" She snapped at him.

"I believe you are mistaken," Josh looked at her arrogantly. "We were never officially broken up, so that still makes us boyfriend and girlfriend."

"You don't get it do you Josh." Alex stood up carefully, "She doesn't want to be with you. She doesn't love you anymore."

"How would you know?"

"Are you that dense? Obviously she hates you. Besides, I'm her best friend; it is my duty to know these things."

"I'm not as dense as you think." Josh chuckled, "I know the feelings that you harbor deep inside."

Alex froze at his words. "What do you know?"

"You think I haven't noticed the way you look at her, the way you protect her, I saw it all from the beginning. You were always jealous of me. How I got her affection, her love, and her innocents."

"Just shut the hell up!" Alex yelled, revealing a little of his pain in his voice.

"You were jealous because I had what you wanted. I had Alice when you didn't." He smirked at Alex. "I even had her trust. She always believed me over you. The one person you cared the most about, gave you the least of her trust. Now how can you love someone like that?"

"It doesn't matter who she was then, it is who she is now and who she will always be. She will always be Alice Marie Maxwell! It doesn't matter to me whether she loves me back or not, she will always be my friend and I will support whatever makes her happy. She seemed happy and when I saw you doing those things, I didn't want her to see that. Yes I attempted to break you all up, but that was to save her from the pain that she ended up suffering!" He snapped at him. His emotional pain was eminent in his voice but he still defended her.

Alice stared at Alex in shock. He had felt this way for her for this long? And she hadn't seen it? It was all explained to her now, why Alex had acted the way he did when she was with Josh; he was trying to protect her. Just like he was doing now.

Alice stood up firmly and stood in front of Alex facing Josh. Alex looked at her back with a little shock. 'What is she doing?' He asked himself inwardly.

"Get out of here Josh." She said firmly. "Get out of here now."

"Who are you to give me orders bitch?" He glared at her.

"Move aside please Alice, so I can kick his ass properly." Alex cracked his knuckles and blinked when Alice held a hand up to stop him.

"I'll take care of it Alex." She stated in a monotone voice while never breaking eye contact with Josh. "Just do as I say Josh and there will be no trouble."

"Well see about that. You two there, restrain her and Winner."

The guards didn't move.

"That's an order!"

"We don't obey you Josh Maxwell." The female of the two spoke.

The two guards abruptly restrained Josh and managed to cuff him and render him unconscious.

"Man Li, did you have to hit that hard?" Alex groaned as he placed his hand on his stomach.

"Hey, had to make it believable." She giggled.

"Enough you two. We have to get Alice and you Alex out of here." The male spoke.

"You always ruin my fun Fei." She pouted.

"It's my job." Wufei grinned at her as he turned to Alex and Alice. "Now, we are going to have to cuff you to make us not looks suspicious so that we can get you out of here safely."

"Alright." They both nodded as Me Li and Wufei cuffed them.

Once everything was set, they lead the two teens out of the room and locked Josh in there in their stead. They made it most of the way without being questioned until they reached the docking bay.

"Where are you taking these two?" A guard demanded.

"To L4 like David ordered." Wufei stated.

"We received no such order."

"Shmita…" Me Li cursed under her breath and looked to Wufei whom nodded in return.

They both knocked Alice and Alex to the ground as they attacked the guards. The two teens watched as their rescuers beat up the guards. Once they were knocked out and pushed to the side, Me Li and Wufei went back to them and helped them up.

"Sorry about that guys." Li apologized.

"Understandable, but I thought for sure that Heero would have made an interception of orders by now." Wufei stated as he unlocked the bay.

"Unless there was some sort of complication…" Li stated. "And we got company, lets get going!"

The 4 filed onto the ship quickly and launched out of there as quickly as they could. While flying off, a set of mobile suits appeared from the other ship.

"We got 10 Space Leos on us." Li stated as she scanned the monitor.

"Damnit, where is Une!" Wufei hit the dashboard and accelerated as fast as the ship would take them.

"I don't know, but at least we know where those missing suits went to." Li stated as she went to the com system. "Preventers 3 to Home base, this is Lady Dragon, we have Alice and Alex, but we got 10 Space Leos on our tail. We need back up quick."

"Home base to Preventers 3, reinforcements are on their way. Hold on the best you can."

"Rodger that, we'll be waiting for you."

On the moon base…

"It should be right around here." David informed his men as they approached the hanger.

"Don't move a step farther David Maxwell." A woman's voice echoed.

"Show yourself!" A guard yelled.

A woman jumped directly in front of David and knocked his gun out of his hand and took it into her own.

"Long time no see David." Ashleigh glared and pointed the gun at him.

"Well well, if it isn't the lovely Ashleigh Berry."

"It's Maxwell now scumbag."

"Excuse me Ms. Maxwell." He laughed. "Put on some weight over the years?"

Ashleigh shot the left of him. "You are just as much of a jerk as you were years ago. And for your information, any woman would look like this after giving birth." She glared.

"And out of the hospital so soon? You're probably still weak!" He stated as he slid his leg around and knocked her off her feet. The gun fell out of her hand and he quickly picked it up and pointed it at her. "Tisk tisk, I expected more out of you Ashleigh. I mean, you have only 3 family members left and your are sacrificing yourself so soon? I didn't know that being a widow could do that to you."

"She's far from being a widow David." A male voice echoed around them. "Don't think you can kill me off that easily." Duo appeared out of the shadows and so did 30 other Preventers including Heero, Quatre, Trowa, and Trinity. "And don't you ever attack my wife or children again David." He held his own gun pointed at him. "Now order your men to drop their weapons and no one will be hurt."

"Don't think I'm gonna give up that easily." He sneered aimed his gun at Duo. "You took away all I had Duo Maxwell. You took my Gundam, my love, and my life away from me."

"You took that away from yourself." Duo stated flatly. "Your stuborness and crudeness took that away, I'm not to blame. The only one you could blame is yourself."

During his distraction, Ashleigh took the chance and pulled the same stunt David as pulled on her. She swung her leg under his and knocked him to the ground. He landed against 2 guards. The Preventers swarmed in at that, taking custody of David and his troops.

"You will all get your payback! You'll get what's coming to you!" He yelled as he was dragged away.

"You okay babe?" Duo asked as he helped Ashleigh up.

"I'm okay, It didn't hurt that much." She stated as she rubbed her butt.

"Guys we got a problem." Trinity stated. "Li and Wufei got the kids out, but they are under attack by Space Leos."

"How are they supposed to fight back against Space Leos?" Ashleigh looked at Duo worriedly.

Duo walked over to a key pad and punched in a code. A door lifted up revealing the 10 Gundams standing there. Everyone stood there their mouths agape.

"How are these still here?" Trowa looked at Duo.

"These are the reason why I was held hostage all this time." Duo explained. "I'm afraid that the only way we are going to save our family is taking a trip down memory lane." He looked at Ashleigh. "I don't expect you to fight babe. I don't want another incident like last time."

"I understand Duo, but I'm going to go protect my child and family." She stated as she walked towards her Gundam and put her hand on the giant foot. "I'm not going to be a coward this time." She turned and looked at them all.

The 5 of them nodded and all boarded their perspective suits.

"I can't out maneuver them! There are some good pilots in those suits!" Wufei yelled as his rear thruster was destroyed.

"Alice! Alex! Put these space suits on!" Li told them as she handed each one a suit.

"What about you two?" Alice looked at them.

"We'll be fine, there are some up here. We just need you prepared just incase we have to leave the ship." She explained. "Now quickly put them on."

The two nodded and did as their Aunt said. No sooner had they put them on, the ship was jolted and caused Alice and Alex to fall. Alex fell on top of Alice and they both blushed like mad.

"You two okay back there?"

"Yes Li." Alex stated as he got up and sat in one of the seats after helping Alice up. "Sorry Alie."

"It's alright." She nodded without looking at him, but rather looking out the window.

She saw two suits fly by the window that didn't look like the Space Leos. She furrowed her brows and ran to the front of the ship.

"I saw 2 things moving out there." She stated. "And they weren't those Space Leos."

"What?" Li looked at the radar. "They have cloaking devices." She looked at Wufei.

"For all we know….they could be surrounding us for all we know." He sighed.

"Look! A Leo was destroyed!" Alice pointed out the window.

All that remained in the explosion was a neon green scythe.

"It can't be." Li shook her head.

"Can't be what?" Alex asked as he came to the front of the ship.

"Deathscythe Hell…" Wufei's eyes got big as the suit came out of his cloaking mode.

"What is that?" Alex looked closely.

"The Gundam Deathscythe Hell….Duo's Gundam."

"Daddy's Gundam?" She looked at it as another suit appeared as well, destroying another Leo.

"Quickly Wufei. Get out of here." Ashleigh connected with him. "We got it covered."

"But how-"

"We'll explain later."

"You 4 okay?" Duo appeared on the screen.

"Yeah we are still alive Duo." Li nodded.

"Daddy?" Tears sprang to Alice's eyes. "You are alive?"

"And kicking baby. Now quickly get out of here Fei." He cut his communications as his and Ashleigh's suits disappeared again.

"You heard the man. Go sit down you two." Wufei told them as he made off with what engines were left.

"Well this is goodbye to them again isn't?" Quatre looked at the other 5 after they all gotten out of their Gundams.

They had destroyed the Space Leo's with ease. Heero had discovered that they were mobile dolls so they felt no remorse for taking a human life again in their life.

"That it is." Ashleigh nodded. "Atleast I get to say goodbye this time." She smiled up at Duo as he hugged her.

"Lets get out of here and get rid of these things once and for all." Trowa nodded his head towards the exit as he took Trinity's hand and they all followed them out.

After that time, Preventers made sure the moon base was destroyed. Alice and Alex were reunited with their parents with much joy and Alice was glad to see her new baby sister healthy. Their families were closer than ever after those long 2 weeks.

I know it's a crappy end of chapter, but I really can't think of anything else to say.