In a dark part of the Neverland woods, a dark woman with dark intentions waited. She leaned against a tree with her arms crossed. She arched her excessively pointy eyebrows, as she checked her watch, and she looked up when she heard a rustling. A chibi wandered into the clearing.

"You're late."

"I was delayed."

"Don't make excuses, have some pride, and take some responsibility for your actions."

"Do you want to hear my information or would you like to continue your soapbox rhetoric for a while longer?"

"Let's hear it!"

"Peter wont come for Relena."

"What? Why the hell not?"

"Apparently they'd been trying to get rid of her.. Now they're actually celebrating with the Clan about it."

"The Captain is going to have our heads! You realize this!"

"Sort of amusing.. Really you did Pan a favor."

"Shut up. There's nothing funny about years of research wasted. God...He always comes to rescue the mother! We've studied his behavior… we've analyzed his motives… THIS is his mode of operations…"

"Dorothy, please. You're getting too emotional for my taste."

Dorothy regarded the ugly little gremlin of a chibi suspiciously, "You're holding out on me aren't you!"

"Yes."

"..Do not toy with me…"

"But it makes me so happy…"

"…Dr. J… do I look very happy to you?"

"Heh, You're plans will still work. Pan has brought a new mother for his boys."

"Eeexcellent"

"There's some gender confus- Shh! Someone's coming.."

Dorothy and Dr. J pulled out some playing cards and tried to look innocent (it wasn't very believable).

Chibi Duo stumbled into the clearing, "Oh, hey Dr. J, Dorothy, sorry to disturb- waaait…what the fuck are you guys doing here?"

"Hey, Duo." Dr. J raised his claw in greeting.

Duo rushed to J's side, "Holy shit! You know me!"

"yes…"

"Oh thank god! But you're you chibi! Why are you chibi? Did a fairy bite you? too?"

"Ah yes. Right. I have retained my memory because I was bitten by a fairy."

Dorothy scoffed, "named Dr. G"

Duo Sweatdropped for a moment, "Ah! Dr. G! Dorothy! You remember the war!"

"Yeah,"

"So you were bitten?"

"No. I never forgot. As you can see I'm not chibi."

"How'd you two get here? With Pan?"

"I took a ship," Dorothy explained, "J was here when I got here. Scoping out the Island to set up a secret lab…right Dr.?"

Dr J smiled, "something like that.."

"No." Duo interrupted, "I don't even want to know Dr. J. You're crazy, and I can accept that. Don't get me all riled with your lack of faith in humanity's ability to keep the peace."

J shrugged, "Okay. I wont."

"Moving on!" Duo rubbed his hands together with excitement, "A Ship! Nice! You guys gotta help me get the rest of the gundam pilots home. Peter Pans' got'em all fucked up. That arrogant, insensitive, tights wearing, messy haired, spawn of the devil! Damnit! I could shoot him twice in the leg."

"Uh," Dr. J interrupted, "Are we talking about Heero or Pan?"

"Pan."

"Ha! Duo you have finally run into the right people. We too hate Pan!" Dorothy said smugly.
Dr. J smiled, as if he was thinking about how easy manipulating an emotional Duo would be, "Pan is my mortal enemy"

"No shit?"

"My thirst for vengeance has been unquenchable, ever since he cut off my hand and fed it to the crocodile."

"Hold up," Duo glared at J, "Dr. J, you're telling me Peter Pan cut off your hand?"

""Uh yeah. How did you think I lost it?"

"Dunno… never occurred to me to ask…"

"Well, Jesus! Who, other than Pan, would cut off a hand in the year AC?"

"I guess I thought you were born with it.."

"C'mon Duo, we don't even have handicapped people in the series!"

"What series?"

"Yeah," Dorothy folded her arms, "What series?"

"Uh…" Dr. J discreetly snapped his fingers, and two giant trout fell out of the sky. One hit Duo, one hit Dorothy, and the Jane kow-towed to her favorite authoress.

"Hey Duo, " Dorothy got back on her feet, and rubbed her head, "Are you doing something different with your hair?"

As he climbed to his feet, Duo looked over his shoulder as if he was trying to get a better look at his hair and frowned, "No…"

Dorothy picked up the end of the braid as if it were something offensive to her and showed Duo the red ribbons that were tied in the end of his braid and hung like a big silky tassel.

"Oh.." Duo blushed in a chibi way, "The other kids thought I was a girl."

Dorothy's eye's lit up, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Dr. J?"

Dr. J Shrugged, "That I'm surprised he let them live?"

"no…"

"Guess not then.."

"Duo" Dorothy tried to use her most soothing voice, "Sweet Duo, come back to the ship with me, and lets get some of my friends to help us get the rest of the pilots from Pan's clutches."

Dorothy tried to smile, but it sorta looked like a twitch.

"…Unless" Dr. J snickered, "unless you have some other plan, Duo."

Duo was apprehensive, "What exactly are you suggesting?"

"A regime change. In so many words." Dorothy did manage to smile sweetly around these words.

"meh… but the lost boys love Peter. I just want to go home and have friends with memories again.."

"Please," Dorothy scoffed, "Correct me if' I'm wrong, but your fellow pilots are currently blindly following Pan?"

"Well, yeah."

"And you were thinking," Dorothy continued, "that you, who are a stranger to them, can just approach them and tell them they need to leave with you, and you expect that they'll just walk away from Pan?"

"Uh. Yeah. I guess."

"Oh Duo, Do you really think you can charm away from youth incarnate five chibi's , who prolly wouldn't want to remember you and their pasts even if they could?"

"Uh… well.."

"Better leave the thinking to us," Dorothy tussled Duo's bangs (keep in mind he was chibi height), "You just sit and look pretty, Maxwell."

Chibi Dr. J nodded and addressed Duo, "They'll just thinking you're trying to trick them into being adult… because that's what Pan preaches to them… the evil and treacherous motives of adults…"

Dorothy shook her fist at the sky, "We're so misunderstood!"

"Dorothy you're not really an adult.." Duo gently pointed out.

"I'm not chibi though—and that's pretty much the criteria."

"Ah. I see.."

"Shh! Someone's coming!" Dr. J announced.

A chibi slipped stealthily into the clearing.

Duo whispered to Dorothy, "How did he hear that?"

"No idea. He's very creepy,"

"Hey! You're the troll in the bathrobe who's always spying on us!"

J groaned, "And you're Heero, Pan's lil pet."

"Yeah. Hi Duo. And you're a PIRATE" Heero pointed an accusing finger at Dorothy, "DUO! SHE"S THE ENEMY!"

"Heero- I thought you went back to the party."

"Well yeah, I did! …but… then I waited! And you didn't come! And I thought you might be lost! So I came to save you! I mean hunt you!"

"er?" Duo looked slightly disturbed.

"AWWW! He LIKES you!" Dorothy teased, giving Duo a wink.

"See!" J pointed excitedly at Heero, "Look! Look how thorough his training was- IT KICKS IN EVEN WHEN HE CANNOT REMEMBER ANYTHING ELSE! MWH-HA-HA! I have done it! I have spawned a killing instinct! The ultimate soldier! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"

"Yeah. Great." Duo sneered.

Heero looked soooo confused, "Do I know you, Forest Troll?"

"Heh. No."

Heero glared around at everyone. After a few minutes he spoke, "Duo, pirates suck. Let's go back to play with Peter now.

Duo ran his hand through his hair, "heh…nah, Heero, I don't think that's going to happen."

Matter-of-factly, chibi Heero took chibi Duo by the chibi hand, "Duo, c'mon."

Dorothy arched a point eyebrow, "Duo? Don't you want to go back to play with Peter? Or don't you want to go with us?"

Heero stepped between Duo and Dorothy, looked Duo square in the eye and hissed, "She's a Pirate…. she's the enemy…if you go with her you'll never be able to come back!"

Heero gave Duo's hand a squeeze, and Duo felt every fiber of his being shudder, as he listened to Heero whispering. GAH! Duo wanted to grab Heero and shake him! Shake him so hard he would remember all the things they'd experienced together. He desperately sought some evidence of the existence of that boy who was so precious to him in the face of this stranger; Duo felt tears of frustration welling in his throat.

Duo glared, and jerked his hand from Heero's grasp. Heero instinctively snatched for it back with lightning reflexes while he whined, "She's the enemy!", but Duo wasn't listening. Deathsychthe's pilot had stepped closer and taken Heero's face in both hands. Heero was startled to feel Duo's fingers brush his ears, push though his hair, and hold up his head. Heero was aware of only the firm planting of three succinct Duo-kisses on his forehead, and Duo's shirt clutched in his hand (had Duo caused this inaccuracy?). Heero felt his breath painfully catch like a feather in his throat, and Duo hitched up his faltering smile and explained, "My friends have become strangers, I feel surrounded by enemies."

He felt that Duo was suffering. Heero was suddenly seized with an ache to do anything and everything in his power to kill Duo's worries, to make Duo laugh, to keep Duo safe. Heero was frantic to know what was wrong with Duo. If Duo would just come back, Pan would explain (and it was very simple!) Lost boys/ Indians good. Pirates bad…

Duo tugged his shirt from Heero's stunned grip and left. Dorothy smiled, giving chibi Duo a pat on the head. Chibi Dr. J waved goodbye as they left Heero alone in the clearing. Heero absent-mindedly waved back, feeling overwhelmed with shame. Heero didn't pretend to know why, or even who that braided boy was, but he was sure from the empty feeling in his gut that it had been crucial to keep that boy near him. He had failed. Heero headed back to the party, sad and bewildered. He needed answers, and he knew Pan had some of them, and the braided boy had the rest.

Back at the party…

"Ha! I win again!"

"See Nataku, you're not weak!"

"Are you sure you're not letting me win Peter?"

"Why would I do that?"

A lost boy named Curly, Quatre, Trowa and Wufei watched as Nataku and Peter Pan arm-wrestled. A cheered up Nataku grinned at Peter before giving him a quick peck on the nose. Wufei flinched. Pan beamed and gently rubbed his nose with hers.

"…" Trowa shot Quatre a mischievous smile.

Quatre innocently smiled back.

When Pan kissed Nataku softly on the cheek, chibi Wufei started yelling. No one could understand what exactly he was yelling, but he was pointing and drawing a lot of attention to himself. Curly gasped in horror and began yelling as well. Unlike Wufei, Curly pointed beyond Pan and Nataku to where Trowa and Quatre were cuddling. The other lost boys began shouting in a similar manner, suggesting that such behavior was generally not regarded as okay.

Quatre and Trowa froze like deer in headlights when they realized all the fussing was over them! It hadn't felt like they were doing anything terribly wrong, Chibi Quatre gave Chibi Trowa a worried look, "I think we've made some mistake, but I'm not sure WHAT exactly…"

Trowa mumbled, "I'm confused too."

"PAN!" Someone shouted. Quatre and Trowa were grateful for the distraction.

"WHAT? Oh, hey Heero."

"What is that you're not telling me!"

"What?"

"There's something you're keeping secret from me, and I want you to spill it, now."

"Chill, Heero. C'mere… what's gotten into you?"

"Where do I know Duo from?"

"Nowhere."

"No. I know him."

"Why do you think I know these things?"

"Uh.. I'm not sure.."

"I thought so. You're talking crazy. You're prolly just tired."

"But.."

"Heero, if you wanna know what I think: you prolly dreamed Duo. It's just your head playing tricks on you."

"No-"

"OKAY SLIGHTLY! HERE I COME! Gotta run Heero" Pan ran off…

Heero dropped dejectedly into the closest clump of hay and assumed the fetal position.

"Hi. I'm Wufei."

"Hey."

"I heard you talking to Peter."

"Oh." Heero closed his eyes, turns out he really was sort of tired…

"I think I know that girl Nataku, but I can't remember anything about her to prove I've met her before tonight.. It's confusing.. because watching her ignore me makes me so- "

"So sad?" Heero sleepily supplied.

"Yeah exactly, and there's no explaining it…"

"Does it feel like she's been living inside you?"

"Right, and no one can see her there…"

"But sometimes you can.. you catch sight of her.."

Wufei nodded.

As he lay in the pile of hay, something in Heero's heart stirred. As he drifted off to sleep, slowly Heero found he could recall everything.

Both boys were silent for a long time.

A few hours later….

"Sup Tootles?"

"uh, Peter, I think there's something wrong with the Gboys."

"Eh?"

"All four of 'em just… stopped talking about 2 hours ago… it's sorta creepy now.."

"Four? There are five!"

"No…"

"What?"

Pan be-lined toward Quatre and Trowa, "sup Kids?"

The boys shrugged in reply, "Where are the others?"

They each shook their heads that they didn't know.

"k….Hey Heero-" Pan wandered away.

"He's asleep." Wufei growled at Pan.

"Where's Duo?"

"Dunno."

"Heero.." Pan dropped to his knees and shook Heero awake, "…wake up."

"I'm up… I'm up…" Heero groaned.

"Heero…c'mon, this is important!"

A sleepy Heero scratched his head before surging into a bolt upright position, snatching Pan by the collar of his tunic and with a groggy morning voice demanding to know where Duo was.

"That's what I was gonna ask you!" Pan looked annoyed, pulling his tunic back from a very disoriented Gundam pilot's grasp.

"And who the hell are you suppose to be?"

"Uh..Peter Pan.."

"What? Oh right.." Heero scrambled to stand while groaning, "Goddamnnit, Duo!"

Without any further explanation, in all of his barefooted glory, Heero Yuy abruptly set off to do some rectifying.

"Wait for me!" Pan called, as he dashed after Heero.