Fall from Grace
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. I do own the original characters though.
MWZ: I got reviews and wow I love the reviews 3 3 Yeah I know the characters seem slightly OOC, but I figured after the war was over may be the boys would take a little break from the normal. Heero is probably the most OOC in this but hm, I can't really explain him haha, I guess just hanging around Duo would be enough after awhile right? Lol! Thx for the reviews agn all hugs kisses n extra pocky for all!
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Normal and Simple. Two strange words. What may be simple to one, maybe complex to the simple person. It is relative. Normal. Normal depends on you; how you grew up, maybe even where. It is relative.
Chapter 2: Normal and Simple...Relative
The Preventors had signed on many pilots. The five Gundam pilots, Zechs, Noin, Sally, Une, and many other pilots met every weekday. The Preventors were an anti-terrorist group and a disarming group. It was a normal business that ran regularly.
After the Mariemia incident, Zechs and Noin left to the Mars terra-forming project. However, Sally and Une talked Noin into returning to the Preventors. And where ever Noin was, Zechs wasn't too far. Zechs came with her to Preventors and helped them find all the other Gundam pilots. Wufei had easily found Quatre, and the blonde had no problem with balancing two jobs to join the Preventors. Quatre knew where Trowa was and asked Trowa to join with them. Although Catherine didn't agree with Trowa leaving again, he left but promised her, like always, that he'd be back. Quatre used his resources to find Duo, which wasn't too hard to find as the chatty pilot loved to keep in contact with the others. He left the scrap yard, it seemed almost without a second thought, to join the others. Heero was, by far, the hardest to find. After the Wing pilot gained consciousness after the destruction of the mansion Mariemia held out in, he had left the hospital, with no trace as to where he had gone. Duo was the only one of the pilots who really knew Heero the best, so they left it up to him to find Heero. Duo enlisted the help of Zechs saying that the two were more alike then the two of them would like.
During Duo's search however, the search had to be called off for an investigation. The remaining Gundanium alloy was being bought in large amounts by different people. Normally it wouldn't have been so strange, but the amount seemed enough to build plenty of Gundams; enough to bring about some worry in the Preventors office. But despite all attempts to find the buyers of the Gundanium, it seemed the people did not even exist, even though a thorough background check was necessary to buy such metals. After 3 months of investigation, and nothing being found, the investigation was called off. Five months after that, Heero was found when he suddenly walked into the Preventors headquarters. When asked where he had been the entire time he said nothing. This seemed odd to some, but Duo completely dismissed it and welcomed Heero back out from "the rock you were hiding under".
Heero drove his car. Heero and Duo rode together to work often. Duo had his own car, but found it more amusing to go with Heero, even if it meant he had to go to work 2 hours early. Heero glared at the car in front of him.
"If you don't move, then we won't go through the damn light." Heero muttered at the Nissan that was stopping him from going. Once you go through breakneck speeds with a vernier engine, a damn Acura certainly didn't feel amusing; even if you speed. Duo reclined in his seat.
"Some one has road rage." Duo said in a sing song voice. Heero glared.
"I don't have road rage. I'm not even angry. This moron just can't drive." Heero growled. Duo sat up.
"Uh huh. And that's why you're growling?" Heero noticed that the other guy was on his cell phone, oblivious to the green light.
"Fuck this!" Heero yelled and sharply turned around the car.
"Ack!" Duo slammed against his seat as Heero suddenly slammed the gas pedal down and the car zipped through the intersection. " Holy shit Heero! What the Hel...Oh dear God!"
Heero saw the diesel suddenly pull out in front of him on his right side. Heero glared and sharply turned to the left. His car lined up exactly parallel to the slow moving diesel. He peeled out again and took off down an alley. Duo noticed the Preventors building straight ahead.
"Heero! Intersection!" Duo yelled as Heero neared the crossing traffic. Heero slammed on the brakes and turned the car parallel to the curb. The car came to a complete stop. Duo turned to face Heero who looked slightly amused.
Zechs handed some papers to Noin. It was a pretty uneventful day so far. Quatre, Wufei and Trowa had just walked in. This was strange, usually Heero and Duo were here before them.
"Did Heero die or something?" Zechs asked.
"Zechs!" Noin said sharply. Sally giggled and Une shook her head.
"What is it with you men?" Une asked. Zechs just looked straight ahead.
"More like boys." Noin said.
"Do you have any idea how dangerous that was? I'm not saying it wasn't cool by the way, it was fun but seriously Heero. You are always tagging me along on your suicide runs." They heard Duo's voice say. Suddenly Heero came walking in with Duo following behind..
"You're alive aren't you?"
"Well yeah but-"
"Then stop complaining." Heero said and walked into his office. Everyone looked at Duo. Quatre chuckled.
"Heero do another 'excessive speeding' run?" Quatre asked. Duo looked at him.
"Excessive? Ha! Excessive is an understatement. The lunatic sped through an intersection, almost slammed into a diesel, and did the most dangerous, albeit coolest, parallel parking!" Duo yelled in one breath. Zechs raised an eyebrow.
"What? Did he mistake his car for Wing Zero or something?" Zechs asked, still staring at Duo.
"Old habits die hard." Wufei said. Duo fell into his chair and grabbed the bag of potato chips he had next to the computer monitor.
"With Heero, they'll never die." Duo muttered. "We'll die first."
The Wing pilot slammed his office door behind him. Why did Duo always have to ride with him if it freaked him out? Oh well, the Deathscythe pilot would get over it eventually. Heero looked at his computer. He never turned it on. The computer wasn't nearly as secure as he would prefer it, and until he made his own modifications to it, he wouldn't turn it on. He reached into the small backpack he had brought with him and pulled out a disk. It was one of the disks he had used in Zero, reformatted to work with the PC. That would boost the protective wall and the security of the computer to a decent level in Heero's view.
"Hey Heero, are you going to be busy around lunchtime? If not wanna come with me to that new diner they built on Haven? It's supposed to have awesome cheeseburgers." Duo asked, he had opened the door to Heero's office and was looking at Heero. Heero was turning on the computer and loading the disc's information into the computer.
"I should be done with this loading in a short while. And checking the files on the recent Gundanium shipments won't take all my time."
"So, is that a yes?" Duo asked.
"Yeah."
"Cool!" Duo said and left the room. Duo and Heero had become good friends over the course of time that they had known each other. Duo had really won Heero's trust out of persistence. Of course, after awhile, Heero enjoyed the company. He never really talked to Duo, but Duo enjoyed having someone to just listen to him. When Heero had left for those many months after the Mariemia uprising, Duo had actually became depressed and looked for Heero everyday. Heero had felt bad for cutting off all connections to them, but he had a matter to take care of. After returning, it seemed like Heero had never left as Duo went back to his normal self.
Lady Une walked into Heero's office. Heero looked up. "You know Relena's having a speech soon. She's requested you as her bodyguard."
"She doesn't need me. She has a bodyguard." Heero replied. He turned his glance back to the computer. Lady Une and Sally had tried to get Heero to open up to Relena, they figured he needed someone. Duo tried telling them that Heero obviously wasn't interested, but at that same moment he did, Hilde smacked him on the back of his head.
"Heero-" Lady Une was about to say his name again. Heero looked up sharply.
"I'm not her dog that should come now when there is no need. During the war was another matter, but now, she doesn't need me." Heero said.
Lady Une sighed and stepped out of the room. There had to be someone who could warm up to him. Or that's what she wanted to believe.
"I'd just let him be. I'm certain Heero is just fine alone." Trowa said as Lady Une had shut the door.
"But being by yourself is so lonely." Quatre said softly.
"And I think that's why Heero enjoys it so much." Duo said, munching on some chips. He brushed the crumbs off his hands.
"Aren't you going to lunch with Heero later?" Noin asked. Duo looked at her.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Lunch is 4 hours from now. I'm sure we can get Relena to meet him at whatever restaurant you're going to." Duo choked on a chip.
"Are you insane? You're going to let Relena after Heero in a place that has KNIVES in it?" Duo sputtered out after choking.
"Maxwell..." Zechs said threateningly. He heard that phrase 'let Relena after Heero'. "My sister is not an animal." Duo opened his mouth to say something, but Zechs glared at him with such intensity, that Duo decided to stick a chip in his mouth instead.
Heero walked out of his office. He walked over to Trowa's desk. "Here's the encoding's you wanted to use on the computer trace system you're using."
Trowa grabbed the disk. He looked at it. He placed it into the computer and saw a small screen flash by in under a second. It had various symbols on it before it vanished.
"Heero, why does this disk have Wing Zero's encoding screen on it?" Trowa asked. Heero kept staring as Quatre and Sally looked at him.
"Zero has the best encoding systems. I programmed these systems with the same systems." Heero said.
"HAD." Wufei replied. Heero looked at him.
"Hn?" Heero looked confused for a moment.
"Zero had the best encoding systems. It doesn't exist anymore." Wufei said, without looking up. Heero turned back to Trowa.
"Yes. You're right. Had." Heero said and started to head back to his office.
"Oh Heero! I have a favor I need to ask of you!" Lady Une said loudly to grab the Japanese pilot's attention.
"What is it?" Heero asked. Une handed him a bunch of letters and packages. "What is all of this?"
"Packages and letters that I meant to mail out yesterday but I didn't. I need you to go drop them off." Une said. Heero glared.
"Fine." He walked out the door. Duo glanced over and saw Heero leaving. He swallowed the chips in his mouth and wiped his mouth.
"Hey! Heero! Wait for me!" Duo yelled, jumping up after him. Une opened her mouth to speak.
"Duo, I didn't say you could-" She noticed Duo was already out of the room. She sighed. "..Leave..."
"Let it go Une, let it go." Quatre joked. Une shook her head and laughed softly.
Heero looked over at Duo. "I thought you didn't want to ride with me anymore." Heero stated, raising an eyebrow.
"Hey, I am not sticking around all the workaholics."
"Fine. But no complaining if I almost kill you this time!"
"Fine fine, hey Wait! Heero!" Duo yelled as he just got his seatbelt on. Heero laughed and pushed on the pedal as the car peeled out.
Zechs heard the car peel out and sighed.
"HEERO!" Everyone in the office stopped and looked up upon hearing Duo's scream. Zechs shook his head.
"It's NOT Wing Zero Yuy..." He muttered.
"I heard there's going to be a concert at Relena's speech. Is that true?" Quatre asked, as he typed more information onto the computer.
"Yes. She wanted to use the large auditorium in the city. But some singer had paid for it already." Noin said.
"A singer?" Quatre asked. He was always interested into music and concerts.
"Yes. I believe her name is Rika Owaii. Anyways, Miss Owaii decided to split the time at the auditorium so Miss Relena could have it by the evening." Noin continued.
"That's nice." Quatre said.
"Yes it is. She's supposed to be meeting Miss Relena today." Sally replied.
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A/N I know the chapters are short so far. Don't worry they'll get longer.
Mini-Wing: Yep. You need to write faster so the people will be happy.
Mission Wing Zero:grabs the Mini Wing 0 Custom: YOU'RE THE MUSE! Help me then!
Mini-Wing: Not part of my job description!
MWZ: IT'S YOUR JOB THAT'S WHY:notices people looking at her strangely: R&R minna!
And I'll get this thing to work so help me God!
Mini-Wing: Meep. T-T