az: Man... I was long due on this one. Man!

Disclamer: I don't own Gundam Wing... except all the GW mangas that I've collected and the Endless Waltz vcd that I owned. Gundam Wing characters and original excerpt from the fic are copyrights of Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yadate, Koichi Tokita and various other ppl involved in this Gundam legacy. No copyright infringement are intended. So don't send over armies, gundams, MS or MDs if there are any similarities on this fics with other written works...

Chapter 5

Written by Azzie/Az alias Izumi Ishtar

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The former OZ officer nodded fervently as all the plans were unravelled before her. 'That's it then is it? You want me to round up several teenagers to pose as Preventers cadets--?', asked Sally as Quatre nodded.

'Yes and make it more than ten so that should five person were later be missing, we won't be found out. Also, find a person to pose as Relena.', he said pressingly.

Noin nodded as Lady Une kept quiet. 'Hmm, okay. Even if our Preventer group isn't that strong yet, outsiders won't suspect if we brought along our cadets.', she mused as Lady Une turned towards Relena to talk to her.

'Umm, Lady Une...', Quatre said as Lady Une paused in the middle of her conversation, 'Yes..?'

'Can I ask your help to watch over the people on the conference...? I suspected some of their people will be in that conference hall--', he asked as Lady Une shrugged. 'That should be expected. It was my duty after all to ensure nothing deter our plans for peace...'

'Thanks--', Quatre said halfheartedly. Dorothy pat his shoulder, 'Don't worry. Noin and Sally will be there also to monitor the proceed. I too will help on this. I'll stay with the fake Relena and do the talking...', she said and winked. Quatre smiled, 'So all that's left is to train Relena...', he said as Noin hurriedly walked beside Relena.

'Did you really want to do this, Miss Relena? Are you sure--?', she asked out of concern as Relena held her hand to assure her. 'Don't worry, Noin. Just this once, I'm willing to take the risk for Heero...and I won't spill any blood. If my brother was here, I'm sure he'll understand--'

Noin tried hard to convince herself that Relena was right. 'Okay, but be careful!', she said again as Relena nodded. With that, they continued their discussion.

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CLASH--!

Heero was thrown to the side. Blood trickled from the side of his mouth. Heero spat some blood.

'Just kill me! Nothing you can do to me will make me talk!', he shouted in retailation as he fought the painful sensation on his body. Briggs continued to kick him. His eyes were burning with rage and madness.

'Tell me--! Wait! You certainly must know the whereabouts of the Gundam scientists! They would also of value to me. If you won't give up your gundams, then... give up THEIR locations instead so that you will be freed!', he shouted. Heero spat in disgust.

'Like hell I would! Not only you want the five Gundams, you want to make more of it! Hah, too bad because they're no longer on this world! They're DEAD!'

Suddenly the leader almost sneer at the statement. 'A pity then but who cares? I still have you. Soon you will give me the information I want and I will achieve my vision! No one will be able to stop us again!', he cried as the man laughed maniacally.

'Hmph, you're crazy--! Tthere's no way you'll win! We will stop you regardless of the aftermath!', Heero exclaimed as he suddenly tackled Briggs. Briggs fell backwards and hit the pipes nearby. Heero in other hand, fell to the floor. The effort of tackling the enemy while being tied up and injured drained much of his energy. He passed out. Briggs rose from his fall and angrily kicked Heero's limp body. His injured forehead was bleeding profusely.

'Damn you! How I yearn the day when I can kill you with my bare hands!', shouted the man.

XXX

Meanwhile, at the Darlian's estate, everyone was very busy. The most, was Relena, who one minute, busily discussing ESUN and the rescue plans with Quatre, battle and infiltration skill with Trowa and other minute and finally, some extra super necessary skills from Duo and Wu Fei. Well, this last training, had encountered quite a lot of argument especially between Relena and Wu Fei, with Duo being the referee. As in the middle of their session... the main issue of the argument came about!

Relena glared unbelievingly towards Duo, 'Hey, does that mean I had to learn how to fight?', she said. Duo nodded vigorously, 'Yeah, you'll need to defend yourself. And no complaining! You're part of the team!'

'But is teaching me to pilot a jetplane's necessary?', Relena added sarcastically. Wu Fei said coldly, 'We'd never know what would happen later. Better get ready for any kind of unsuspected incidents...'

'Aaah, Relena--? It's just this time? Please...', Duo asked sweetly. Relena eventually smiled at her good friend as she relented. Somehow it felt that being their was not dreadfull either! 'Ok... But if Heero asked about this, I'll tell him you talked me into piloting jetplanes...'

Duo grinned, 'Ok...', he said as he crossed his hands.

Alas, everything worked fine during those ten days, with some rather amusing happenings throughout. Certainly, everyone was tense as what future outcome will befall them the next day.

XXX

Ten days later...

Quatre checked his gun and artillery as the other also prepared themselves for the conference. As they waited for their fellow Preventers to arrive, Trowa called them together. He gave all four of them a communicator device.

Trowa smiled, 'These are the devices which we'll used to communicate with each other. It has two functions; one as a walkie talkie and another as a beeper. And also with these, we can easily communicate with Lady Une and the others freely. I had adjusted them to their commnication frequencies. Got that?'

Everyone nodded as Trowa turned towards Relena, 'There was actually five of these devices at first since I had planned to have all five of us have it, but I had made another one for you Relena...', he said as he got another device from his pocket, 'and this was Heero's... you'll keep it for him, will you?'

Relena took it and put it in her pocket, 'I will...'

Then Duo approached Relena, 'Hey, Relena. How about braiding your hair? It'll be easier to move around...', he said as he started to braid Relena's hair. She pulled away, 'All right already... I'll do it myself! You don't have to do it for me...', she said grinning as she started to untie her hair.

But Duo insisted and did it anyway much to her disapprovement. ' I have to make sure it looked right or else Heero will kill me...', Duo argued as Trowa chuckled. 'Duo, since when had you become Relena's personal stylist?', he said and laughed.

Duo grinned mischievously. 'Ooh? Do you want me to braid your hair too? But since your hair is extra longer in front, how about I braided it?', he snickered back as Trowa was taken aback, looking horrified. Seeing the look on his face, Relena, Quatre, Duo and Wu Fei laughed. Relena and Quatre snorted aloud as they started to imagine how Trowa would look with a braid in front. It was so hilarious that they can't stop laughing. 'I wonder how Heero would react if he's here too...', she said and giggled.

Trowa started to protest at this display of mirth at his expense but Duo stopped him, 'Let them laugh. I never seen them so lively like this since the end of the war...' Trowa agreed. Then the five of them were taken by surprise as someone knocked the door suddenly. All of them turned towards the entrance; and saw the young lady called Dorothy Catalonia, leaning by the door.

'Are you done yet? We're waiting outside...', she said as she sauntered out, '..and I'd suggest all of you to wear shades, the others wear it too...'

'Right...!', said Duo excitedly. The others grinned at him.

Outside, Sally waited for them in the car. Pargan was also there with another car. 'Hurry up, our air craft is over the hill...' she said as she urged them into the first car.

Quatre stayed behind. 'Go on, I'll catch up with you later. I'm gonna take Wing Zero!', he said as he gestured towards the others. Trowa closed the door, understood and lowered down the window to speak to him.

'Are you sure? Do you think it was overestimating--', he started to say as Quatre reasoned, 'The enemy probably have mobile suit with them. We can't afford not to bring it. Remember that place was an old OZ base! There maybe some MS still functioning over there! And anyway, Zero's the only one that had flight mode...', he said as he went after the second car, 'Heero told me where he hid it, not long ago. I already made it to look like an ordinary air freighter! Sorry for not telling!', he shouted as he jumped into the car. Both cars started to move. Trowa showed a thumbs up to Quatre as they departed...

az: I'm dying... XP. No... Just that I had nomood to do my assignments. XD